EXHIBIT 4.5
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SUNAMERICA INC.
AND
THE BANK OF NEW YORK, Trustee
Prepaid Security Indenture
Dated as of November 1, 1996
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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PARTIES.................................................................. 1
RECITALS................................................................. 1
Authorization of Indenture...................................... 1
Compliance with Legal Requirements.............................. 1
Purpose of and Consideration for Indenture...................... 1
ARTICLE ONE
DEFINITIONS
SECTION 1.1 Certain Terms Defined............................... 1
ARTICLE TWO
SECURITIES
SECTION 2.1 Forms Generally...................................... 8
SECTION 2.2 Form of Trustee's Certificate of
Authentication...................................... 8
SECTION 2.3 Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series................. 9
SECTION 2.4 Authentication and Delivery of
Securities......................................... 12
SECTION 2.5 Execution of Securities............................. 16
SECTION 2.6 Certificate of Authentication....................... 17
SECTION 2.7 Denomination and Date of Securities;
Payments of Interest............................... 17
SECTION 2.8 Registration, Transfer and Exchange................. 19
SECTION 2.9 Mutilated, Defaced, Destroyed, Lost
and Stolen Securities............................. 23
SECTION 2.10 Cancellation of Securities; Destruction
Thereof............................................ 25
SECTION 2.11 Temporary Securities................................ 25
SECTION 2.12 CUSIP Numbers....................................... 26
ARTICLE THREE
COVENANTS OF THE ISSUER
SECTION 3.1 Payment of Principal and Interest................... 26
SECTION 3.2 Offices for Payments, etc........................... 27
SECTION 3.3 Appointment to Fill a Vacancy in Office
of Trustee......................................... 29
SECTION 3.4 Paying Agents....................................... 29
SECTION 3.5 Written Statement to Trustee.........................30
SECTION 3.6 Luxembourg Publications............................. 30
SECTION 3.7 SEC Reports......................................... 30
SECTION 3.8 Applicability of Article............................ 31
ARTICLE FOUR
SECURITYHOLDERS LISTS AND REPORTS
BY THE ISSUER AND THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 4.1 Issuer to Furnish Trustee Information
as to Names and Addresses of
Securityholders.................................... 31
SECTION 4.2 Preservation and Disclosure of Securityholders
Lists.............................................. 31
SECTION 4.3 Reports by the Issuer............................... 31
SECTION 4.4 Reports by the Trustee.............................. 32
ARTICLE FIVE
REMEDIES OF THE TRUSTEE AND
SECURITYHOLDERS ON EVENT OF DEFAULT
SECTION 5.1 Event of Default Defined; Acceleration
of Maturity; Waiver of Default..................... 30
SECTION 5.2 Collection of Indebtedness by Trustee;
Trustee May Prove Debt............................. 35
SECTION 5.3 Application of Proceeds............................. 38
SECTION 5.4 Suits for Enforcement............................... 39
SECTION 5.5 Restoration of Rights on Abandonment of
Proceedings........................................ 39
SECTION 5.6 Limitations on Suits by
Securityholders.................................... 40
SECTION 5.7 Unconditional Right of Securityholders
to Institute Certain Suits......................... 41
SECTION 5.8 Powers and Remedies Cumulative; Delay
or Omission Not Waiver of Default.................. 41
SECTION 5.9 Control by Holders of Securities.................... 41
SECTION 5.10 Waiver of Past Defaults............................. 42
SECTION 5.11 Trustee to Give Notice of Default,
But May Withhold in Certain
Circumstances...................................... 43
SECTION 5.12 Right of Court to Require Filing of Undertaking to Pay
Costs.............................................. 43
SECTION 5.13 Applicability of Article............................ 44
ARTICLE SIX
CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 6.1 Duties and Responsibilities of the
Trustee; During Default; Prior
to Default......................................... 44
SECTION 6.2 Certain Rights of the Trustee....................... 46
SECTION 6.3 Trustee Not Responsible for
Recitals, Disposition of Securities
or Application of Proceeds Thereof................. 47
SECTION 6.4 Trustee and Agents May Hold Securities or Coupons;
Collections, etc................................... 48
SECTION 6.5 Moneys Held by Trustee.............................. 48
SECTION 6.6 Compensation and Indemnification of
Trustee and Its Prior Claim........................ 48
SECTION 6.7 Right of Trustee to Rely on Officer's Certificate,
etc................................................ 49
SECTION 6.8 Indentures Not Creating Potential
Conflicting Interests for the
Trustee............................................ 49
SECTION 6.9 Persons Eligible for Appointment
as Trustee......................................... 49
SECTION 6.10 Resignation and Removal; Appointment
of Successor Trustee................................50
SECTION 6.11 Acceptance of Appointment by Successor
Trustee............................................ 52
SECTION 6.12 Merger, Conversion, Consolidation
or Succession to Business of Trustee............... 54
SECTION 6.13 This Section intentionally left blank............... 55
SECTION 6.14 Appointment of Authenticating Agent................. 55
SECTION 6.15 Preferential Collection of Claims....................56
ARTICLE SEVEN
CONCERNING THE SECURITYHOLDERS
SECTION 7.1 Evidence of Action Taken by
Securityholders.................................... 56
SECTION 7.2 Proof of Execution of Instruments and of Holding of
Securities......................................... 57
SECTION 7.3 Holders to be Treated as Owners..................... 58
SECTION 7.4 Securities Owned by Issuer Deemed Not Outstanding... 59
SECTION 7.5 Right of Revocation of Action Taken................. 59
ARTICLE EIGHT
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
SECTION 8.1 Supplemental Indentures Without Consent
of Securityholders................................. 60
SECTION 8.2 Supplemental Indentures With Consent of
Securityholders.................................... 62
SECTION 8.3 Effect of Supplemental Indenture.................... 64
SECTION 8.4 Documents to Be Given to Trustee.................... 64
SECTION 8.5 Notation on Securities in Respect of Supplemental
Indentures......................................... 64
ARTICLE NINE
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE OR CONVEYANCE
SECTION 9.1 Issuer May Consolidate, Etc., Only on
Certain Terms...................................... 65
SECTION 9.2 Successor Corporation Substituted................... 66
ARTICLE TEN
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE;
UNCLAIMED MONEYS
SECTION 10.1 Satisfaction and Discharge of
Indenture.......................................... 66
SECTION 10.2 Application by Trustee of Funds
Deposited for Payment of Securities................ 71
SECTION 10.3 Repayment of Moneys Held by
Paying Agent....................................... 71
SECTION 10.4 Return of Moneys Held by Trustee and
Paying Agent Unclaimed for Two Years............... 71
SECTION 10.5 Indemnity for U.S. Government
Obligations........................................ 72
ARTICLE ELEVEN
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
SECTION 11.1 Incorporators, Stockholders, Officers
and Directors of Issuer Exempt from
Individual Liability............................... 72
SECTION 11.2 Provisions of Indenture for the Sole
Benefit of Parties and Holders of
Securities and Coupons............................. 73
SECTION 11.3 Successors and Assigns of Issuer Bound
by Indenture....................................... 73
SECTION 11.4 Notices and Demands on Issuer, Trustee
and Holders of Securities and Coupons.............. 73
SECTION 11.5 Officer's Certificates and Opinions of Counsel;
Statements to Be Contained Therein................. 74
SECTION 11.6 Payments Due on Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays..... 75
SECTION 11.7 Conflict of Any Provision of Indenture
with Trust Indenture Act of 1939................... 00
XXXXXXX 00.0 Xxx Xxxx Law to Govern.............................. 76
SECTION 11.9 Counterparts........................................ 76
SECTION 11.10 Effect of Headings.................................. 76
SECTION 11.11 Securities in a Foreign Currency
or in ECU.......................................... 76
SECTION 11.12 Judgment Currency................................... 77
ARTICLE TWELVE
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES AND SINKING FUNDS
SECTION 12.1 Applicability of Article............................ 78
SECTION 12.2 Notice of Redemption; Partial
Redemptions........................................ 78
SECTION 12.3 Payment of Securities Called for
Redemption......................................... 81
SECTION 12.4 Exclusion of Certain Securities from Eligibility for
Selection for
Redemption......................................... 82
SECTION 12.5 Mandatory and Optional Sinking Funds................ 82
TESTIMONIUM
SIGNATURES
THIS INDENTURE, dated as of November 1, 1996 between SUNAMERICA
INC., a Maryland corporation (the "Issuer") THE BANK OF NEW YORK, a New York
banking corporation, as trustee (the "Trustee"),
W I T N E S S E T H :
WHEREAS, the Issuer has duly authorized the issue from time to
time of its unsecured debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness to
be issued in one or more series (the "Securities") up to such principal amount
or amounts as may from time to time be authorized in accordance with the terms
of this Indenture;
WHEREAS, the Issuer has duly authorized the execution and
delivery of this Indenture to provide, among other things, for the
authentication, delivery and administration of the Securities; and
WHEREAS, all things necessary to make this Indenture a valid
indenture and agreement according to its terms have been done;
NOW, THEREFORE:
In consideration of the premises and the purchases of the
Securities by the holders thereof, the Issuer and the Trustee mutually
covenant and agree for the equal and proportionate benefit of the respective
holders from time to time of the Securities and of the coupons, if any,
appertaining thereto as follows:
ARTICLE ONE
DEFINITIONS
SECTION 1.1 Certain Terms Defined. The following terms
(except as otherwise expressly provided herein or in any supplemental
indenture or form of Security for a particular series or unless the context
otherwise clearly requires) for all purposes of this Indenture and of any
indenture supplemental hereto shall have the respective meanings specified in
this Section. All other terms used in this Indenture that are defined in the
Trust Indenture Act of 1939 or the definitions of which in the Securities Act
of 1933 are referred to in the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, including terms
defined therein by reference to the Securities Act of 1933 (except as herein
otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires), shall
have the meanings assigned to such terms in said Trust Indenture Act and in
said Securities Act as in force at the date of this Indenture. All accounting
terms used herein and not expressly defined shall have the meanings assigned
to such terms in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and
the term "generally accepted accounting principles" means such accounting
principles as are generally accepted at the time of any computation. The
words "herein", "hereof" and "hereunder" and other words of similar import
refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section
or other subdivision. The terms defined in this Article have the meanings
assigned to them in this Article and include the plural as well as the
singular.
"Authenticating Agent" shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 6.14.
"Authorized Newspaper" means a newspaper (which, in the case of
The City of New York, will, if practicable, be The Wall Street Journal
(Eastern Edition), in the case of the United Kingdom, will, if practicable, be
the Financial Times (London Edition) and, in the case of Luxembourg, will, if
practicable, be the Luxembourger Wort) published in an official language of
the country of publication customarily published at least once a day for at
least five days in each calendar week and of general circulation in The City
of New York, the United Kingdom or in Luxembourg, as applicable.
"Board of Directors" means either the Board of Directors of the
Issuer or any committee of such Board duly authorized to act on its behalf.
"Board Resolution" means a copy of one or more resolutions,
certified by the secretary or an assistant secretary of the Issuer to have
been duly adopted or consented to by the Board of Directors and to be in full
force and effect, and delivered to the Trustee.
"Business Day" means any day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or
a day on which the NYSE or banking institutions or trust companies in the City
of New York are authorized or obligated by law or executive order to be
closed.
"Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as
from time to time constituted, created under the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, or if at any time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture
such Commission is not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it
under the Trust Indenture Act, then the body performing such duties on such
date.
"Corporate Trust Office" means the office of the Trustee at
which the corporate trust business of the Trustee shall, at any particular
time, be principally administered, which office is, at the date as of which
this Indenture is dated, located in the City of New York, State of New York.
"Coupon" means any interest coupon appertaining to an
Unregistered Security.
"Covenant Defeasance" shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 10.1(C).
"Depositary" means, with respect to the Securities of any
series issuable or issued in the form of one or more Registered Global
Securities, the Person designated as Depositary by the Company pursuant to
Section 2.3 until a successor Depositary shall have become such pursuant to the
applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter "Depositary" shall
mean or include each Person who is then a Depositary hereunder, and if at any
time there is more than one such Person, "Depositary" as used with respect to
the Securities of any such series shall mean the Depositary with respect to
the Registered Global Securities of that series.
"Dollar" means the coin or currency of the United States of
America as at the time of payment is legal tender for the payment of public
and private debts.
"ECU" means the European Currency Unit as defined and revised
from time to time by the Council of European Communities.
"Event of Default" means any event or condition specified as
such in Section 5.1.
"Foreign Currency" means a currency issued by the government of
a country other than the United States.
"Holder", "Holder of Securities", "Securityholder" or other
similar terms mean (a) in the case of any Registered Security, the person in
whose name such Security is registered in the security register kept by the
Issuer for that purpose in accordance with the terms hereof, and (b) in the
case of any Unregistered Security, the bearer of such Security, or any Coupon
appertaining thereto, as the case may be.
"Indenture" means this instrument as originally executed and
delivered or, if amended or supplemented as herein provided, as so amended or
supplemented or both, and shall include the forms and terms of particular
series of Securities established as contemplated hereunder.
"Issuer" means (except as otherwise provided in Article Six)
SunAmerica Inc., a Maryland corporation and, subject to Article Nine, its
successors and assigns.
"Issuer Order" means a written statement, request or order of
the Issuer signed in its name by the chairman or vice chairman of the Board of
Directors, the president, any executive, senior or other vice president or the
treasurer of the Issuer.
"Judgment Currency" shall have the meaning set forth in Section
11.12.
"Officer's Certificate" means a certificate signed by the
chairman or vice chairman of the Board of Directors, the president or any
executive, senior or other vice president or the treasurer of the Issuer and
delivered to the Trustee. Each such certificate shall comply with Section 314
of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 and include the statements provided for in
Section 11.5.
"Opinion of Counsel" means an opinion in writing signed by the
General Counsel of the Issuer or by such other legal counsel who may be an
employee of or counsel to the Issuer and who shall be satisfactory to the
Trustee. Each such opinion shall comply with Section 314 of the Trust
Indenture Act of 1939 and include the statements provided for in Section 11.5.
"Original Issue Date" of any Security (or portion thereof)
means the earlier of (a) the date of such Security or (b) the date of any
Security (or portion thereof) for which such Security was issued (directly or
indirectly) on registration of transfer, exchange or substitution.
"Original Issue Discount Security" means any Security that
provides for an amount less than the principal amount thereof to be due and
payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the maturity thereof pursuant to
Section 5.1.
"Outstanding" when used with reference to Securities, shall,
subject to the provisions of Section 7.4, mean, as of any particular time, all
Securities authenticated and delivered by the Trustee under this Indenture,
except
(a) Securities theretofore canceled by the Trustee or
delivered to the Trustee for cancellation;
(b) Securities, or portions thereof, for the payment or
redemption of which moneys or U.S. Government Obligations (as
provided for in Section 10.1(A) and (B)) in the necessary amount
shall have been deposited in trust with the Trustee or with any
paying agent (other than the Issuer) or shall have been set aside,
segregated and held in trust by the Issuer for the Holders of such
Securities (if the Issuer shall act as its own paying agent),
provided that if such Securities, or portions thereof, are to be
redeemed prior to the maturity thereof, notice of such redemption
shall have been given as herein provided, or provision satisfactory
to the Trustee shall have been made for giving such notice; and
(c) Securities that shall have been paid or in substitution
for which other Securities shall have been authenticated and
delivered pursuant to the terms of Section 2.9 (except with respect
to any such Security as to which proof satisfactory to the Trustee is
presented that such Security is held by a person in whose hands such
Security is a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Issuer) or
Securities converted pursuant hereto or Securities not deemed
outstanding pursuant to Section 00.0.Xx determining whether the
Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities
of any or all series have given any request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, the principal amount
of an Original Issue Discount Security that shall be deemed to be
Outstanding for such purposes shall be the amount of the principal
thereof that would be due and payable as of the date of such
determination upon a declaration of acceleration of the maturity
thereof pursuant to Section 5.1.
"Periodic Offering" means an offering of Securities of a series
from time to time, the specific terms of which Securities, including, without
limitation, the rate or rates of interest, if any, thereon, the stated
maturity or maturities thereof and the redemption provisions, if any, with
respect thereto, are to be determined by the Company or its agents upon the
issuance of such Securities.
"Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint
venture, association, joint stock company, trust, unincorporated organization
or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.
"Principal" whenever used with reference to the Securities or
any Security or any portion thereof, shall be deemed to include "and premium,
if any".
"Record Date" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.7.
"Registered Global Security", means a Security evidencing all
or a part of a series of Registered Securities, issued to the Depositary for
such series in accordance with Section 2.4, and bearing the legend prescribed
in Section 2.4.
"Registered Security" means any Security registered on the
Security register of the Issuer.
"Required Currency" shall have the meaning set forth in Section
11.12.
"Responsible Officer" when used with respect to the Trustee
means the chairman of the board of directors, any vice chairman of the board
of directors, the chairman of the trust committee, the chairman of the
executive committee, any vice chairman of the executive committee, the
president, any vice president, (whether or not designated by numbers or words
added before or after the title "vice president") the cashier, the secretary,
the treasurer, any trust officer, any assistant trust officer, any assistant
vice president, any assistant cashier, any assistant secretary, any assistant
treasurer, or any other officer or assistant officer of the Trustee
customarily performing functions similar to those performed by the persons who
at the time shall be such officers, respectively, or to whom any corporate
trust matter is referred because of his knowledge of and familiarity with the
particular subject.
"Security" or "Securities" (except as otherwise provided in
Section 7.4) has the meaning stated in the first recital of this Indenture,
or, as the case may be, Securities that have been authenticated and delivered
under this Indenture.
"Trust Indenture Act of 1939" (except as otherwise provided in
Sections 8.1 and 8.2) means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in force at the
date as of which this Indenture was originally executed.
"Trustee" means the Person identified as "Trustee" in the first
paragraph hereof and, subject to the provisions of Article Six, shall also
include any successor trustee. "Trustee" shall also mean or include each
Person who is then a trustee hereunder and if at any time there is more than
one such Person, "Trustee" as used with respect to the Securities of any
series shall mean the trustee with respect to the Securities of such series.
"Unregistered Security" means any Security other than a
Registered Security.
"U.S. Government Obligations" shall have the meaning set forth
in Section 10.1(A).
"Yield to Maturity" means the yield to maturity on a series of
securities, calculated at the time of issuance of such series, or, if
applicable, at the most recent redetermination of interest on such series, and
calculated in accordance with accepted financial practice.
ARTICLE TWO
SECURITIES
SECTION 2.1 Forms Generally. The Securities of each series
and the Coupons, if any, to be attached thereto shall be substantially in such
form (not inconsistent with this Indenture) as shall be established by or
pursuant to one or more Board Resolutions (as set forth in a Board Resolution
or, to the extent established pursuant to rather than set forth in a Board
Resolution, an Officer's Certificate detailing such establishment) or in one
or more indentures supplemental hereto, in each case with such appropriate
insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or
permitted by this Indenture and may have imprinted or otherwise reproduced
thereon such legend or legends or endorsements, not inconsistent with the
provisions of this Indenture, as may be required to comply with any law or
with any rules or regulations pursuant thereto, or with any rules of any
securities exchange or to conform to general usage, all as may be determined
by the officers executing such Securities and Coupons, if any, as evidenced by
their execution of such Securities and Coupons.
The definitive Securities and Coupons, if any, shall be
printed, lithographed or engraved on steel engraved borders or may be produced
in any other manner, all as determined by the officers executing such
Securities and Coupons, if any, as evidenced by their execution of such
Securities and Coupons, if any.
SECTION 2.2 Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication.
The Trustee's certificate of authentication on all Securities shall be in
substantially the following form:
"This is one of the Securities referred to in the
within-mentioned Subordinated Indenture.
______________________,
as Trustee
By_____________________
Authorized Signatory"
If at any time there shall be an Authenticating Agent appointed
with respect to any series of Securities, then the Trustee's Certificate of
Authentication to be borne by the Securities of each such series shall be
substantially as follows:
"This is one of the Securities referred to in the
within-mentioned Subordinated Indenture.
_________________________,
as Authenticating Agent
By_____________________
Authorized Signatory"
SECTION 2.3 Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series. The
aggregate principal amount of Securities that may be authenticated and
delivered under this Indenture is unlimited.
The Securities may be issued in one or more series and each
such series shall rank equally and pari passu with the Securities of each
other series and all other senior and unsubordinated debt of the Issuer.
There shall be established in or pursuant to one or more Board Resolutions
(and to the extent established pursuant to rather than set forth in a Board
Resolution, in an Officer's Certificate detailing such establishment) or
established in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, prior to the initial
issuance of Securities of any series,
(1) the designation of the Securities of the series, which
shall distinguish the Securities of the Series from the Securities of
all other series;
(2) any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the
Securities of the series that may be authenticated and delivered
under this Indenture (except for Securities authenticated and
delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in
lieu of, other Securities of the series pursuant to Section 2.8, 2.9,
2.11, 8.5 or 12.3);
(3) if other than Dollars, the coin or currency in which the
Securities of that series are denominated (including, but not limited
to, any Foreign Currency or ECU);
(4) the date or dates on which the principal of the Securities
of the series is payable;
(5) the rate or rates at which the Securities of the series
shall bear interest, if any, the date or dates from which such
interest shall accrue, on which such interest shall be payable and
(in the case of Registered Securities) on which a record shall be
taken for the determination of Holders to whom interest is payable
and/or the method by which such rate or rates or date or dates shall
be determined, and any provisions for the deferral of interest
payments;
(6) the place or places where the principal of and any
interest on Securities of the series shall be payable (if other than
as provided in Section 3.2);
(7) the right, if any, of the Issuer to redeem Securities, in
whole or in part, at its option and the period or periods within
which, the price or prices at which and any terms and conditions upon
which Securities of the series may be so redeemed, pursuant to any
sinking fund or otherwise;
(8) the obligation, if any, of the Issuer to redeem, purchase
or repay Securities of the series pursuant to any mandatory
redemption, sinking fund or analogous provisions or at the option of
a Holder thereof and the price or prices at which and the period or
periods within which and any terms and conditions upon which
Securities of the series shall be redeemed, purchased or repaid, in
whole or in part, pursuant to such obligation;
(9) if other than denominations of $1,000 and any integral
multiple thereof in the case of Registered Securities, or $1,000 and
$5,000 in the case of Unregistered Securities, the denominations in
which Securities of the series shall be issuable;
(10) if other than the principal amount thereof, the portion of
the principal amount of Securities of the series that shall be
payable upon declaration of acceleration of the maturity thereof;
(11) if other than the coin or currency in which the Securities
of that series are denominated, the coin or currency in which payment
of the principal of or interest on the Securities of such series
shall be payable;
(12) if the principal of or interest on the Securities of such
series are to be payable, at the election of the Issuer or a Holder
thereof, in a coin or currency other than that in which the
Securities are denominated, the period or periods within which, and
the terms and conditions upon which, such election may be made;
(13) if the amount of payments of principal of and interest on
the Securities of the series may be determined with reference to an
index based on a coin or currency other than that in which the
Securities of the series are denominated, the manner in which such
amounts shall be determined;
(14) whether the Securities of the series will be issuable as
Registered Securities (and if so, whether such Securities will be
issuable as Registered Global Securities) or Unregistered Securities
(with or without Coupons), or any combination of the foregoing, any
restrictions applicable to the offer, sale or delivery of
Unregistered Securities or the payment of interest thereon and, if
other than as provided in Section 2.8, the terms upon which
Unregistered Securities of any series may be exchanged for Registered
Securities of such series and vice versa;
(15) whether and under what circumstances the Issuer will pay
additional amounts on the Securities of the series held by a person
who is not a U.S. person in respect of any tax, assessment or
governmental charge withheld or deducted and, if so, whether the
Issuer will have the option to redeem such Securities rather than pay
such additional amounts;
(16) if the Securities of such series are to be issuable in
definitive form (whether upon original issue or upon exchange of a
temporary Security of such series) only upon receipt of certain
certificates or other documents or satisfaction of other conditions,
the form and terms of such certificates, documents or conditions;
(17) any trustees, depositaries, authenticating or paying
agents, transfer agents or registrars or any other agents with
respect to the Securities of such series;
(18) any additional terms relating to events of default or
covenants (or the defeasance thereof) with respect to the Securities
of such series, including without limitation any terms inconsistent
with the provisions of this Indenture relating to events of default
or covenants (or the defeasance thereof);
(19) if the Securities of such series are to be convertible or
exchangeable into any cash, securities or property, at the option of
the Holder or the Issuer or upon the happening of some event or
otherwise, all terms relating to such convertibility, including
without limitation any term inconsistent with the provisions of this
Indenture relating to conversion or exchange;
(20) any additional definitions with respect to the Securities of
such series, including without limitation any definitions
inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture; and
(21) any other terms of the series (which terms shall not be
inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture).
All Securities of any one series and Coupons, if any,
appertaining thereto, shall be substantially identical, except in the case of
Registered Securities as to denomination and except as may otherwise be
provided by or pursuant to the Board Resolution or Officer's Certificate
referred to above or as set forth in any such indenture supplemental hereto.
All Securities of any one series need not be issued at the same time and may
be issued from time to time, consistent with the terms of this Indenture, if so
provided by or pursuant to such Board Resolution, such Officer's Certificate
or in any such indenture supplemental hereto.
SECTION 2.4 Authentication and Delivery of Securities. The
Issuer may deliver Securities of any series having attached thereto
appropriate Coupons, if any, executed by the Issuer to the Trustee for
authentication together with the applicable documents referred to below in
this Section, and the Trustee shall thereupon authenticate and make available
for delivery such Securities to or upon the order of the Issuer (contained in
the Issuer Order referred to below in this Section) or pursuant to such
procedures acceptable to the Trustee and to such recipients as may be
specified from time to time by an Issuer Order. The maturity date, original
issue date, interest rate and any other terms of the Securities of such series
and Coupons, if any, appertaining thereto shall be determined by or pursuant
to such Issuer Order and procedures. If provided for in such procedures, such
Issuer Order may authorize authentication and delivery pursuant to oral
instructions from the Issuer or its duly authorized agent, which instructions
shall be promptly confirmed in writing. In authenticating such Securities and
accepting the additional responsibilities under this Indenture in relation to
such Securities, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive (in the case of
subparagraphs 2, 3 and 4 below only at or before the time of the first request
of the Issuer to the Trustee to authenticate Securities of such series) and
(subject to Section 6.1) shall be fully protected in relying upon, unless and
until such documents have been superseded or revoked:
(1) an Issuer Order requesting such authentication and setting
forth delivery instructions if the Securities and Coupons, if any,
are not to be delivered to the Issuer, provided that, with respect to
Securities of a series subject to a Periodic Offering, (a) such
Issuer Order may be delivered by the Issuer to the Trustee prior to
the delivery to the Trustee of such Securities for authentication and
delivery, (b) the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for
delivery Securities of such series for original issue from time to
time, in an aggregate principal amount not exceeding the aggregate
principal amount established for such series, pursuant to an Issuer
Order or pursuant to procedures acceptable to the Trustee as may be
specified from time to time by an Issuer Order, (c) the maturity date
or dates, original issue date or dates, interest rate or rates and
any other terms of Securities of such series shall be determined by an
Issuer Order or pursuant to such procedures and (d) if provided for
in such procedures, such Issuer Order may authorize authentication
and delivery pursuant to oral or electronic instructions from the
Issuer or its duly authorized agent or agents, which oral instructions
shall be promptly confirmed in writing;
(2) any Board Resolution, Officer's Certificate and/or
executed supplemental indenture referred to in Sections 2.1 and 2.3
by or pursuant to which the forms and terms of the Securities and
Coupons, if any, were established;
(3) an Officer's Certificate setting forth the form or forms
and terms of the Securities and Coupons, if any, stating that the
form or forms and terms of the Securities and Coupons, if any, have
been established pursuant to Sections 2.1 and 2.3 and comply with this
Indenture, and covering such other matters as the Trustee may
reasonably request; and
(4) At the option of the Issuer, either one or more Opinions
of Counsel, or a letter addressed to the Trustee permitting it to
rely on one or more Opinions of Counsel, substantially to the effect
that:
(a) the forms of the Securities and Coupons, if any,
have been duly authorized and established in conformity with
the provisions of this Indenture;
(b) in the case of an underwritten offering, the terms
of the Securities have been duly authorized and established in
conformity with the provisions of this Indenture, and, in the
case of an offering that is not underwritten, certain terms of
the Securities have been established pursuant to a Board
Resolution, an Officer's Certificate or a supplemental
indenture in accordance with this Indenture, and when such
other terms as are to be established pursuant to procedures set
forth in an Issuer Order shall have been established, all such
terms will have been duly authorized by the Issuer and will
have been established in conformity with the provisions of this
Indenture;
(c) when the Securities and Coupons, if any, have been
executed by the Issuer and authenticated by the Trustee in
accordance with the provisions of this Indenture and delivered
to and duly paid for by the purchasers thereof, they will have
been duly issued under this Indenture, will be entitled to the
benefits of this Indenture, and will be valid and binding
obligations of the Issuer, enforceable in accordance with their
respective terms except as (i) the enforceability thereof may
be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency or similar laws affecting
creditors' rights generally and (ii) rights of acceleration, if
any, and the availability of equitable remedies may be limited
by equitable principles of general applicability; and
(d) the execution and delivery by the Issuer of, and the
performance by the Issuer of its obligations under, the
Securities and Coupons, if any, will not contravene any
provision of any material applicable law or the certificate of
incorporation or by-laws of the Issuer or any agreement or
other instrument binding upon the Issuer or any of its
"significant subsidiaries" (as defined in Article 1 of
Regulation S-X under the Securities Act of 1933) that is
material to the Issuer and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole,
or, to the best of such counsel's knowledge, any judgment,
order or decree of any governmental body, agency or court
having jurisdiction over the Issuer or any "significant
subsidiary" (as defined above), and no consent, approval,
authorization or order of or qualification with any governmental
body or agency is required for the performance by the Issuer of
its obligations under the Securities and Coupons, if any,
except such as are specified and have been obtained and such as
may be required by the securities or blue sky laws of the
various states in connection with the offer and sale of the
Securities and Coupons, if any.
In rendering such opinions, any counsel may qualify any
opinions as to enforceability by stating that such enforceability may be
limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, liquidation, moratorium and
other similar laws affecting the rights and remedies of creditors and is
subject to general principles of equity (regardless of whether such
enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law). Such
counsel may rely upon opinions of other counsel (copies of which shall be
delivered to the Trustee), who shall be counsel reasonably satisfactory to the
Trustee, in which case the opinion shall state that such counsel believes he
and the Trustee are entitled so to rely. Such counsel may also state that,
insofar as such opinion involves factual matters, he has relied, to the extent
he deems proper, upon certificates of officers of the Issuer and its
subsidiaries and certificates of public officials.
The Trustee shall have the right to decline to authenticate and
make available for delivery any Securities under this Section if the Trustee,
being advised by counsel, determines that such action may not lawfully be
taken by the Issuer or if the Trustee in good faith by its board of directors
or board of trustees, executive committee, or a trust committee of directors
or trustees or Responsible Officers shall determine that such action would
expose the Trustee to personal liability to existing Holders or would affect
the Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under the Securities, this
Indenture or otherwise.
If the Issuer shall establish pursuant to Section 2.3 that the
Securities of a series are to be issued in the form of one or more Registered
Global Securities, then the Issuer shall execute and the Trustee shall, in
accordance with this Section and the Issuer Order with respect to such series,
authenticate and make available for delivery one or more Registered Global
Securities that (i) shall represent and shall be denominated in an amount
equal to the aggregate principal amount of all of the Securities of such series
issued and not yet cancelled, (ii) shall be registered in the name of the
Depositary for such Registered Global Security or Securities or the nominee of
such Depositary, (iii) shall be delivered by the Trustee to such Depositary
or pursuant to such Depositary's instructions and (iv) shall bear a legend
substantially to the following effect: "Unless and until it is exchanged in
whole or in part for Securities in definitive registered form, this Security
may not be transferred except as a whole by the Depositary to the nominee of
the Depositary or by a nominee of the Depositary to the Depositary or another
nominee of the Depositary or by the Depositary or any such nominee to a
successor Depositary or a nominee of such successor Depositary."
Each Depositary designated pursuant to Section 2.3 must, at the
time of its designation and at all times while it serves as Depositary, be a
clearing agency registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and any
other applicable statute or regulation.
SECTION 2.5 Execution of Securities. The Securities and, if
applicable, each Coupon appertaining thereto shall be signed on behalf of the
Issuer by the chairman or vice chairman of its Board of Directors or its
president or any executive, senior or other vice president or its treasurer,
under its corporate seal (except in the case of Coupons), which may, but need
not, be attested. Such signatures may be the manual or facsimile signatures
of the present or any future such officers. The seal of the Issuer may be in
the form of a facsimile thereof and may be impressed, affixed, imprinted or
otherwise reproduced on the Securities. Typographical and other minor errors
or defects in any such reproduction of the seal or any such signature shall not
affect the validity or enforceability of any Security that has been duly
authenticated and delivered by the Trustee.
In case any officer of the Issuer who shall have signed any of
the Securities or Coupons, if any, shall cease to be such officer before the
Security or Coupon so signed (or the Security to which the Coupon so signed
appertains) shall be authenticated and delivered by the Trustee or disposed of
by the Issuer, such Security or Coupon nevertheless may be authenticated and
delivered or disposed of as though the person who signed such Security or
Coupon had not ceased to be such officer of the Issuer; and any Security or
Coupon may be signed on behalf of the Issuer by such persons as, at the actual
date of the execution of such Security or Coupon, shall be the proper officers
of the Issuer, although at the date of the execution and delivery of this
Indenture any such person was not such an officer.
SECTION 2.6 Certificate of Authentication. Only such
Securities as shall bear thereon a certificate of authentication substantially
in the form hereinbefore recited, executed by the Trustee by the manual
signature of one of its authorized signatories, shall be entitled to the
benefits of this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose. No
Coupon shall be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture or shall be valid
and obligatory for any purpose until the certificate of authentication on the
Security to which such Coupon appertains shall have been duly executed by the
Trustee. The execution of such certificate by the Trustee upon any Security
executed by the Issuer shall be conclusive evidence that the Security so
authenticated has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder and that the
Holder is entitled to the benefits of this Indenture.
SECTION 2.7 Denomination and Date of Securities; Payments of
Interest. The Securities of each series shall be issuable as Registered
Securities or Unregistered Securities in denominations established as
contemplated by Section 2.3 or, with respect to the Registered Securities of
any series, if not so established, in denominations of $1,000 and any integral
multiple thereof. If denominations of Unregistered Securities of any series
are not so established, such Securities shall be issuable in denominations of
$1,000 and $5,000. The Securities of each series shall be numbered, lettered
or otherwise distinguished in such manner or in accordance with such plan as
the officers of the Issuer executing the same may determine with the approval
of the Trustee, as evidenced by the execution and authentication thereof.
Each Registered Security shall be dated the date of its
authentication. Each Unregistered Security shall be dated as provided in the
resolution or resolutions of the Board of Directors of the Issuer referred to
in Section 2.3. The Securities of each series shall bear interest, if any,
from the date, and such interest shall be payable on the dates, established as
contemplated by Section 2.3.
The person in whose name any Registered Security of any series
is registered at the close of business on any record date applicable to a
particular series with respect to any interest payment date for such series
shall be entitled to receive the interest, if any, payable on such interest
payment date notwithstanding any transfer or exchange of such Registered
Security subsequent to the record date and prior to such interest payment
date, except if and to the extent the Issuer shall default in the payment of
the interest due on such interest payment date for such series, in which case
such defaulted interest shall be paid to the persons in whose names
Outstanding Registered Securities for such series are registered at the close
of business on a subsequent record date (which shall be not less than five
Business Days prior to the date of payment of such defaulted interest)
established by notice given by mail by or on behalf of the Issuer to the
Holders of Registered Securities not less than 15 days preceding such
subsequent record date. The term "record date" as used with respect to any
interest payment date (except a date for payment of defaulted interest) for
the Securities of any series shall mean the date specified as such in the
terms of the Registered Securities of such series established as contemplated
by Section 2.3, or, if no such date is so established, if such interest
payment date is the first day of a calendar month, the fifteenth day of the
next preceding calendar month or, if such interest payment date is the
fifteenth day of a calendar month, the first day of such calendar month,
whether or not such record date is a Business Day.
SECTION 2.8 Registration, Transfer and Exchange. The Issuer
will keep at each office or agency to be maintained for the purpose as
provided in Section 3.2 for each series of Securities a register or registers
in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it will
provide for the registration of Registered Securities of such series and the
registration of transfer of Registered Securities of such series. Such
register shall be in written form in the English language or in any other form
capable of being converted into such form within a reasonable time. At all
reasonable times such register or registers shall be open for inspection by
the Trustee.
Upon due presentation for registration of transfer of any
Registered Security of any series at any such office or agency to be
maintained for the purpose as provided in Section 3.2, the Issuer shall
execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery in
the name of the transferee or transferees a new Registered Security or
Registered Securities of the same series, maturity date, interest rate and
original issue date in authorized denominations for a like aggregate principal
amount.
Unregistered Securities (except for any temporary global
Unregistered Securities) and Coupons (except for Coupons attached to any
temporary global Unregistered Securities) shall be transferable by delivery.
At the option of the Holder thereof, Registered Securities of
any series (other than a Registered Global Security, except as set forth
below) may be exchanged for a Registered Security or Registered Securities of
such series having authorized denominations and an equal aggregate principal
amount, upon surrender of such Registered Securities to be exchanged at the
agency of the Issuer that shall be maintained for such purpose in accordance
with Section 3.2 and upon payment, if the Issuer shall so require, of the
charges hereinafter provided. If the Securities of any series are issued in
both registered and unregistered form, except as otherwise specified pursuant
to Section 2.3, at the option of the Holder thereof, Unregistered Securities
of any series may be exchanged for Registered Securities of such series having
authorized denominations and an equal aggregate principal amount, upon
surrender of such Unregistered Securities to be exchanged at the agency of the
Issuer that shall be maintained for such purpose in accordance with Section
3.2, with, in the case of Unregistered Securities that have Coupons attached,
all unmatured Coupons and all matured Coupons in default thereto appertaining,
and upon payment, if the Issuer shall so require, of the charges hereinafter
provided. At the option of the Holder thereof, if Unregistered Securities of
any series, maturity date, interest rate and original issue date are issued in
more than one authorized denomination, except as otherwise specified pursuant
to Section 2.3, such Unregistered Securities may be exchanged for Unregistered
Securities of such series having authorized denominations and an equal
aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of such Unregistered Securities to
be exchanged at the agency of the Issuer that shall be maintained for such
purpose in accordance with Section 3.2 or as specified pursuant to Section
2.3, with, in the case of Unregistered Securities that have Coupons attached,
all unmatured Coupons and all matured Coupons in default thereto appertaining,
and upon payment, if the Issuer shall so require, of the charges hereinafter
provided. Registered Securities of any series may not be exchanged for
Unregistered Securities of such series unless (1) otherwise specified pursuant
to Section 2.3 and (2) the Issuer has delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of
Counsel that (x) the Issuer has received from the Internal Revenue Service a
ruling or (y) since the date hereof, there has been a change in the applicable
Federal income tax law, in either case to the effect that the inclusion of
terms permitting Registered Securities to be exchanged for Unregistered
Securities would result in no adverse Federal income tax effect to the Issuer
or to any Holder. Whenever any Securities are so surrendered for exchange,
the Issuer shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the
Securities that the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive. All
Securities and Coupons surrendered upon any exchange or transfer provided for
in this Indenture shall be promptly canceled by the Trustee and the Trustee
will return the canceled Securities to the Issuer.
All Registered Securities presented for registration of
transfer, exchange, redemption or payment shall (if so required by the Issuer
or the Trustee) be duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument
or instruments of transfer in form satisfactory to the Issuer and the Trustee
duly executed by the Holder or his attorney duly authorized in writing.
The Issuer may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any
tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any
exchange or registration of transfer of Securities. No service charge shall
be made for any such transaction.
The Issuer shall not be required to exchange or register a
transfer of (a) any Securities of any series for a period of 15 days next
preceding the first mailing of notice of redemption of Securities of such
series to be redeemed or (b) any Securities selected, called or being called
for redemption, in whole or in part, except, in the case of any Security to be
redeemed in part, the portion thereof not so to be redeemed.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 2.8, unless
and until it is exchanged in whole or in part for Securities in definitive
registered form, a Registered Global Security representing all or a portion of
the Securities of a series may not be transferred except as a whole by the
Depositary for such series to a nominee of such Depositary or by a nominee of
such Depositary to such Depositary or another nominee of such Depositary or by
such Depositary or any such nominee to a successor Depositary for such series
or a nominee of such successor Depositary.
If at any time the Depositary for any Registered Securities of
a series represented by one or more Registered Global Securities notifies the
Issuer that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for such
Registered Securities or if at any time the Depositary for such Registered
Securities shall no longer be eligible under Section 2.4, the Issuer shall
appoint a successor Depositary eligible under Section 2.4 with respect to such
Registered Securities. If a successor Depositary eligible under Section 2.4
for such Registered Securities is not appointed by the Issuer within 90 days
after the Issuer receives such notice or becomes aware of such ineligibility,
the Issuer's election pursuant to Section 2.3 that such Registered Securities
be represented by one or more Registered Global Securities shall no longer be
effective and the Issuer will execute, and the Trustee, upon receipt of an
Officer's Certificate for the authentication and delivery of definitive
Securities of such series, will authenticate and make available for delivery,
Securities of such series in definitive registered form without coupons, in any
authorized denominations, in an aggregate principal amount equal to the
principal amount of the Registered Global Security or Securities representing
such Registered Securities in exchange for such Registered Global Security or
Securities.
The Issuer may at any time and in its sole discretion determine
that the Registered Securities of any series issued in the form of one or more
Registered Global Securities shall no longer be represented by a Registered
Global Security or Securities. In such event the Issuer will execute, and the
Trustee, upon receipt of an Officer's Certificate for the authentication and
delivery of definitive Securities of such series, will authenticate and make
available for delivery, Securities of such series in definitive registered
form without coupons, in any authorized denominations, in an aggregate
principal amount equal to the principal amount of the Registered Global
Security or Securities representing such Registered Securities, in exchange
for such Registered Global Security or Securities.
If specified by the Issuer pursuant to Section 2.3 with respect
to Securities represented by a Registered Global Security, the Depositary for
such Registered Global Security may surrender such Registered Global Security
in exchange in whole or in part for Securities of the same series in
definitive registered form on such terms as are acceptable to the Issuer and
such Depositary. Thereupon, the Issuer shall execute, and the Trustee shall
authenticate and make available for delivery, without service charge,
(i) to the Person specified by such Depositary a new
Registered Security or Securities of the same series, of any
authorized denominations as requested by such Person, in an aggregate
principal amount equal to and in exchange for such Person's
beneficial interest in the Registered Global Security; and
(ii) to such Depositary a new Registered Global Security in a
denomination equal to the difference, if any, between the principal
amount of the surrendered Registered Global Security and the
aggregate principal amount of Registered Securities authenticated and
delivered pursuant to clause (i) above.
Upon the exchange of a Registered Global Security for
Securities in definitive registered form without coupons, in authorized
denominations, such Registered Global Security shall be canceled by the
Trustee or an agent of the Issuer or the Trustee. Securities in definitive
registered form without coupons issued in exchange for a Registered Global
Security pursuant to this Section 2.8 shall be registered in such names and in
such authorized denominations as the Depositary for such Registered Global
Security, pursuant to instructions from its direct or indirect participants or
otherwise, shall instruct the Trustee or an agent of the Issuer or the
Trustee. The Trustee or such agent shall deliver such Securities to or as
directed by the Persons in whose names such Securities are so registered.
All Securities issued upon any transfer or exchange of
Securities shall be valid obligations of the Issuer, evidencing the same debt,
and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Securities
surrendered upon such transfer or exchange.
Notwithstanding anything herein or in the terms of any series
of Securities to the contrary, none of the Issuer, the Trustee or any agent of
the Issuer or the Trustee (any of which, other than the Issuer, shall rely on
an Officer's Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel) shall be required to
exchange any Unregistered Security for a Registered Security if such exchange
would result in adverse Federal income tax consequences to the Issuer (such
as, for example, the inability of the Issuer to deduct from its income, as
computed for Federal income tax purposes, the interest payable on the
Unregistered Securities) under then applicable United States Federal income
tax laws.
SECTION 2.9 Mutilated, Defaced, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen
Securities. In case any temporary or definitive Security or any Coupon
appertaining to any Security shall become mutilated, defaced or be destroyed,
lost or stolen, the Issuer in its discretion may execute, and upon the request
of any officer of the Issuer, the Trustee shall authenticate and make
available for delivery a new Security of the same series, maturity date,
interest rate and original issue date, bearing a number or other
distinguishing symbol not contemporaneously outstanding, in exchange and
substitution for the mutilated or defaced Security, or in lieu of and in
substitution for the Security so destroyed, lost or stolen with Coupons
corresponding to the Coupons appertaining to the Securities so mutilated,
defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen, or in exchange or substitution for the
Security to which such mutilated, defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen Coupon
appertained, with Coupons appertaining thereto corresponding to the Coupons so
mutilated, defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen. In every case the applicant
for a substitute Security or Coupon shall furnish to the Issuer and to the
Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee such security or indemnity
as may be required by them to indemnify and defend and to save each of them
harmless and, in every case of destruction, loss or theft, evidence to their
satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of such Security or Coupon and
of the ownership thereof and in the case of mutilation or defacement shall
surrender the Security and related Coupons to the Trustee or such agent.
Upon the issuance of any substitute Security or Coupon, the
Issuer may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other
expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee) or its agent
connected therewith. In case any Security or Coupon that has matured or is
about to mature, has been called for redemption in full or is being converted
in full shall become mutilated or defaced or be destroyed, lost or stolen, the
Issuer may instead of issuing a substitute Security, pay or authorize the
payment or conversion of the same or the payment of the relevant Coupon
(without surrender thereof except in the case of a mutilated or defaced
Security or Coupon), if the applicant for such payment shall furnish to the
Issuer and to the Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee such
security or indemnity as any of them may require to save each of them
harmless, and, in every case of destruction, loss or theft, the applicant
shall also furnish to the Issuer and the Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or
the Trustee evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft
of such Security or Coupon and of the ownership thereof.
Every substitute Security or Coupon of any series issued
pursuant to the provisions of this Section by virtue of the fact that any such
Security or Coupon is destroyed, lost or stolen shall constitute an additional
contractual obligation of the Issuer, whether or not the destroyed, lost or
stolen Security or Coupon shall be at any time enforceable by anyone and shall
be entitled to all the benefits of (but shall be subject to all the
limitations of rights set forth in) this Indenture equally and proportionately
with any and all other Securities or Coupons of such series duly authenticated
and delivered hereunder. All Securities and Coupons shall be held and owned
upon the express condition that, to the extent permitted by law, the foregoing
provisions are exclusive with respect to the replacement or payment of
mutilated, defaced or destroyed, lost or stolen Securities and Coupons and
shall preclude any and all other rights or remedies notwithstanding any law or
statute existing or hereafter enacted to the contrary with respect to the
replacement or payment of negotiable instruments or other securities without
their surrender.
SECTION 2.10 Cancellation of Securities; Destruction Thereof.
All Securities and Coupons surrendered for payment, redemption, registration
of transfer or exchange, conversion or for credit against any payment in
respect of a sinking or analogous fund, if surrendered to the Issuer or any
agent of the Issuer or the Trustee or any agent of the Trustee, shall be
delivered to the Trustee or its agent for cancellation or, if surrendered to
the Trustee, shall be canceled by it; and no Securities or Coupons shall be
issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions
of this Indenture. The Trustee or its agent shall return canceled Securities
and Coupons to the Issuer. If the Issuer or its agent shall acquire any of the
Securities or Coupons, such acquisition shall not operate as a redemption or
satisfaction of the indebtedness represented by such Securities or Coupons
unless and until the same are delivered to the Trustee or its agent for
cancellation.
SECTION 2.11 Temporary Securities. Pending the preparation of
definitive Securities for any series, the Issuer may execute and the Trustee
shall authenticate and make available for delivery temporary Securities for
such series (printed, lithographed, typewritten or otherwise reproduced, in
each case in form satisfactory to the Trustee). Temporary Securities of any
series shall be issuable as Registered Securities without coupons, or as
Unregistered Securities with or without coupons attached thereto, of any
authorized denomination, and substantially in the form of the definitive
Securities of such series but with such omissions, insertions and variations
as may be appropriate for temporary Securities, all as may be determined by
the Issuer with the concurrence of the Trustee as evidenced by the execution
and authentication thereof. Temporary Securities may contain such references
to any provisions of this Indenture as may be appropriate. Every temporary
Security shall be executed by the Issuer and be authenticated by the Trustee
upon the same conditions and in substantially the same manner, and with like
effect, as the definitive Securities. Without unreasonable delay the Issuer
shall execute and shall furnish definitive Securities of such series and
thereupon temporary Registered Securities of such series may be surrendered in
exchange therefor without charge at each office or agency to be maintained by
the Issuer for that purpose pursuant to Section 3.2 and, in the case of
Unregistered Securities, at any agency maintained by the Issuer for such
purpose as specified pursuant to Section 2.3, and the Trustee shall
authenticate and make available for delivery in exchange for such temporary
Securities of such series an equal aggregate principal amount of definitive
Securities of the same series having authorized denominations and, in the case
of Unregistered Securities, having attached thereto any appropriate Coupons.
Until so exchanged, the temporary Securities of any series shall be entitled
to the same benefits under this Indenture as definitive Securities of such
series, unless otherwise established pursuant to Section 2.3. The provisions
of this Section are subject to any restrictions or limitations on the issue
and delivery of temporary Unregistered Securities of any series that may be
established pursuant to Section 2.3 (including any provision that Unregistered
Securities of such series initially be issued in the form of a single global
Unregistered Security to be delivered to a depositary or agency located outside
the United States and the procedures pursuant to which definitive or global
Unregistered Securities of such series would be issued in exchange for such
temporary global Unregistered Security).
SECTION 2.12 CUSIP Numbers. The Issuer in issuing the
Securities may use "CUSIP" numbers (if then generally in use), and, if so, the
Trustee shall use "CUSIP" numbers in notices of redemption as a convenience to
Holders; provided that any such notice may state that no representation is
made as to the correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Securities
or as contained in any notice of a redemption and that reliance may be placed
only on the other identification numbers printed on the Securities, and any
such redemption shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of such
numbers. The Issuer will promptly notify the Trustee of any change in the
CUSIP numbers.
ARTICLE THREE
COVENANTS OF THE ISSUER
SECTION 3.1 Payment of Principal and Interest. The Issuer
covenants and agrees for the benefit of each series of Securities that it will
duly and punctually pay or cause to be paid the principal of, and interest on,
each of the Securities of such series (together with any additional amounts
payable pursuant to the terms of such Securities) at the place or places, at
the respective times and in the manner provided in such Securities and in the
Coupons, if any, appertaining thereto and in this Indenture. The interest on
Securities with Coupons attached (together with any additional amounts payable
pursuant to the terms of such Securities) shall be payable only upon
presentation and surrender of the several Coupons for such interest
installments as are evidenced thereby as they severally mature. If any
temporary Unregistered Security provides that interest thereon may be paid
while such Security is in temporary form, the interest on any such temporary
Unregistered Security (together with any additional amounts payable pursuant
to the terms of such Security) shall be paid, as to the installments of
interest evidenced by Coupons attached thereto, if any, only upon presentation
and surrender thereof, and, as to the other installments of interest, if any,
only upon presentation of such Securities for notation thereon of the payment
of such interest, in each case subject to any restrictions that may be
established pursuant to Section 2.3. The interest on Registered Securities
(together with any additional amounts payable pursuant to the terms of such
Securities) shall be payable only to or upon the written order of the Holders
thereof and, at the option of the Issuer, may be paid by wire transfer or by
mailing checks for such interest payable to or upon the written order of such
Holders at their last addresses as they appear on the registry books of the
Issuer.
SECTION 3.2 Offices for Payments, etc. So long as any
Registered Securities are authorized for issuance pursuant to this Indenture
or are outstanding hereunder, the Issuer will maintain in the Borough of
Manhattan, The City of New York, an office or agency where the Registered
Securities of each series may be presented for payment, where the Securities
of each series may be presented for exchange or conversion as is provided in
this Indenture and, if applicable, pursuant to Section 2.3 and where the
Registered Securities of each series may be presented for registration of
transfer as in this Indenture provided.
The Issuer will maintain one or more offices or agencies in a
city or cities located outside the United States (including any city in which
such an agency is required to be maintained under the rules of any stock
exchange on which the Securities of such series are listed) where the
Unregistered Securities, if any, of each series and Coupons, if any,
appertaining thereto may be presented for payment. No payment on any
Unregistered Security or Coupon will be made upon presentation of such
Unregistered Security or Coupon at an agency of the Issuer within the United
States nor will any payment be made by transfer to an account in, or by mail
to an address in, the United States unless pursuant to applicable United
States laws and regulations then in effect such payment can be made without
adverse tax consequences to the Issuer. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
payments in Dollars of Unregistered Securities of any series and Coupons
appertaining thereto that are payable in Dollars may be made at an agency of
the Issuer maintained in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York if such
payment in Dollars at each agency maintained by the Issuer outside the United
States for payment on such Unregistered Securities is illegal or effectively
precluded by exchange controls or other similar restrictions.
The Issuer will maintain in the Borough of Manhattan, The City
of New York, an office or agency where notices and demands to or upon the
Issuer in respect of the Securities of any series, the Coupons appertaining
thereto or this Indenture may be served.
The Issuer will give to the Trustee written notice of the
location of each such office or agency and of any change of location thereof.
In case the Issuer shall fail to maintain any agency required by this Section
to be located in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, or shall fail
to give such notice of the location or of any change in the location of any of
the above agencies, presentations and demands may be made and notices may be
served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee.
The Issuer may from time to time designate one or more
additional offices or agencies where the Securities of a series and any
Coupons appertaining thereto may be presented for payment, where the
Securities of that series may be presented for exchange as provided in this
Indenture and pursuant to Section 2.3 and where the Registered Securities of
that series may be presented for registration of transfer as in this Indenture
provided, and the Issuer may from time to time rescind any such designation,
as the Issuer may deem desirable or expedient; provided, however, that no such
designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the Issuer of its
obligation to maintain the agencies provided for in this Section. The Issuer
will give to the Trustee prompt written notice of any such designation or
rescission thereof.
SECTION 3.3 Appointment to Fill a Vacancy in Office of
Trustee. The Issuer, whenever necessary to avoid or fill a vacancy in the
office of Trustee, will appoint, in the manner provided in Section 6.10, a
Trustee, so that there shall at all times be a Trustee with respect to each
series of Securities hereunder.
SECTION 3.4 Paying Agents. Whenever the Issuer shall appoint
a paying agent other than the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any
series, it will cause such paying agent to execute and deliver to the Trustee
an instrument in which such agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the
provisions of this Section,
(a) that it will hold all sums received by it as such agent
for the payment of the principal of or interest on the Securities of
such series (whether such sums have been paid to it by the Issuer or
by any other obligor on the Securities of such series) in trust for
the benefit of the Holders of the Securities of such series, or
Coupons appertaining thereto, if any, or of the Trustee,
(b) that it will give the Trustee notice of any failure by the
Issuer (or by any other obligor on the Securities of such series) to
make any payment of the principal of or interest on the Securities of
such series when the same shall be due and payable, and
(c) that it will pay any such sums so held in trust by it to
the Trustee upon the Trustee's written request at any time during the
continuance of the failure referred to in clause (b) above.
The Issuer will, on or prior to each due date of the principal
of or interest on the Securities of such series, deposit with the paying agent
a sum sufficient to pay such principal or interest so becoming due, and
(unless such paying agent is the Trustee) the Issuer will promptly notify the
Trustee of any failure to take such action.
If the Issuer shall act as its own paying agent with respect to
the Securities of any series, it will, on or before each due date of the
principal of or interest on the Securities of such series, set aside,
segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Holders of the Securities of
such series or the Coupons appertaining thereto a sum sufficient to pay such
principal or interest so becoming due. The Issuer will promptly notify the
Trustee of any failure to take such action.
Anything in this Section to the contrary notwithstanding, but
subject to Section 10.1, the Issuer may at any time, for the purpose of
obtaining a satisfaction and discharge with respect to one or more or all
series of Securities hereunder, or for any other reason, pay or cause to be
paid to the Trustee all sums held in trust for any such series by the Issuer
or any paying agent hereunder, as required by this Section, such sums to be
held by the Trustee upon the trusts herein contained.
Anything in this Section to the contrary notwithstanding, the
agreement to hold sums in trust as provided in this Section is subject to the
provisions of Sections 10.3 and 10.4.
SECTION 3.5 Written Statement to Trustee. The Issuer will
furnish to the Trustee on or before January 31 in each year (beginning with
January 31, 1997) a brief certificate (which need not comply with Section
11.5) from the principal executive, financial or accounting officer of the
Issuer stating that in the course of the performance by the signer of his
duties as an officer of the Issuer he would normally have knowledge of any
default or non-compliance by the Issuer in the performance of any covenants or
conditions contained in this Indenture, stating whether or not he has
knowledge of any such default or non-compliance and, if so, describing each
such default or non-compliance of which the signer has knowledge and the
nature thereof.
SECTION 3.6 Luxembourg Publications. In the event of the
publication of any notice pursuant to Section 5.11, 6.10(a), 6.11, 8.2, 10.4
or 12.2, the party making such publication in the Borough of Manhattan, The
City of New York and London shall also, to the extent that notice is required
to be given to Holders of Securities of any series by applicable Luxembourg
law or stock exchange regulation, as evidenced by an Officer's Certificate
delivered to such party, make a similar publication in Luxembourg.
SECTION 3.7 SEC Reports. The Issuer shall file with the
Trustee, within 15 days after it files such annual and quarterly reports,
information, documents and other reports with the Commission, copies of its
annual report and of the information, documents and other reports (or copies
of such portions of any of the foregoing as the Commission may by rules and
regulations prescribe) that the Issuer is required to file with the Commission
pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
SECTION 3.8 Applicability of Article. The provisions of this
Article shall be applicable to the Securities of any series except as
otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 2.3 for Securities of such
series.
ARTICLE FOUR
SECURITYHOLDERS LISTS AND REPORTS BY THE
ISSUER AND THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 4.1 Issuer to Furnish Trustee Information as to Names
and Addresses of Securityholders. If and so long as the Trustee shall not be
the Security registrar for the Securities of any series, the Issuer and any
other obligor on the Securities will furnish or cause to be furnished to the
Trustee a list in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require of the names
and addresses of the Holders of the Registered Securities of such series
pursuant to Section 312 of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (a) semi-annually
not more than 5 days after each record date for the payment of interest on
such Registered Securities, as hereinabove specified, as of such record date
and on dates to be determined pursuant to Section 2.3 for non-interest bearing
Registered Securities in each year, and (b) at such other times as the Trustee
may request in writing, within thirty days after receipt by the Issuer of any
such request as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the time such
information is furnished.
SECTION 4.2 Preservation and Disclosure of Securityholders
Lists.
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SECTION 4.3 Reports by the Issuer. The Issuer covenants to
file with the Trustee, within 15 days after the Issuer is required to file the
same with the Commission, copies of the annual reports and of the information,
documents, and other reports that the Issuer may be required to file with the
Commission pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934 or pursuant to Section 314 of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939.
Delivery of such reports, information and documents to the
Trustee is for informational purposes only and the Trustee's receipt of such
shall not constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein
or determinable from information contained therein, including the Company's
compliance with any of its covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is
entitled to rely exclusively on Officers' Certificates).
SECTION 4.4 Reports by the Trustee. Any Trustee's report
required under Section 313(a) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 shall be
transmitted on or before July 15 in each year beginning July 15, 1997, as
provided in Section 313(c) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, so long as any
Securities are Outstanding hereunder, and shall be dated as of a date
convenient to the Trustee no more than 60 days prior thereto.
A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such
transmission to Holders, be filed by the Trustee with each stock exchange, if
any, upon which the Securities are listed, with the Commission and with the
Issuer. The Issuer will promptly notify the Trustee when the Securities are
listed on any stock exchange.
ARTICLE FIVE
REMEDIES OF THE TRUSTEE AND SECURITYHOLDERS
ON EVENT OF DEFAULT
SECTION 5.1 Event of Default Defined; Acceleration of
Maturity; Waiver of Default. "Event of Default" with respect to Securities of
any series wherever used herein, means each one of the following events that
shall have occurred and be continuing (whatever the reason for such Event of
Default and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by
operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or
any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body):
(a) a court having jurisdiction in the premises shall enter a
decree or order for relief in respect of the Issuer in an involuntary
case under any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law
now or hereafter in effect, or appointing a receiver, liquidator,
assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator (or similar official) of
the Issuer or any substantial part of its property or ordering the
winding up or liquidation of its affairs, and such decree or order
shall remain unstayed and in effect for a period of 60 consecutive
days; or
(b) the Issuer shall commence a voluntary case under any
applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or
hereafter in effect, or consent to the entry of an order for relief
in an involuntary case under any such law, or consent to the
appointment or taking possession by a receiver, liquidator, assignee,
custodian, trustee, sequestrator (or similar official) of the Issuer
or for any substantial part of its property, or make any general
assignment for the benefit of creditors; or
(c) any other Event of Default provided in the supplemental
indenture under which such series of Securities is issued or in the
form of Security for such series.
If an Event of Default described in clause (a), (b) or (c)
(unless, in the case of an Event of Default described in clause (c), otherwise
provided in the relevant supplemental indenture or form of Security with
respect to such series) occurs and is continuing, then, and in each and every
such case, except for any series of Securities the principal of which shall
have already become due and payable, the entire principal amount (or, if the
Securities of any such affected series are Original Issue Discount Securities,
such portion of the principal amount as may be specified in the terms of such
series) of all Securities of all series, and the interest accrued thereon, if
any, shall automatically become immediately due and payable, without any
demand or other notice or act on behalf of the Trustee, the Holders or any
other Person.
The foregoing provisions, however, are subject to the condition
that if, at any time after the principal (or, if the Securities are Original
Issue Discount Securities, such portion of the principal as may be specified
in the terms thereof) of the Securities of any series (or of all the
Securities, as the case may be) shall have been so declared due and payable,
and before any judgment or decree for the payment of the moneys due shall have
been obtained or entered as hereinafter provided, the Issuer shall pay or
shall deposit with the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay all matured
installments of interest upon all the Securities of such series (or of all the
Securities, as the case may be) and the principal of any and all Securities of
each such series (or of all the Securities, as the case may be) that shall
have become due otherwise than by acceleration (with interest upon such
principal and, to the extent that payment of such interest is enforceable
under applicable law, on overdue installments of interest, at the same rate as
the rate of interest or Yield to Maturity (in the case of Original Issue
Discount Securities) specified in the Securities of each such series (or at
the respective rates of interest or Yields to Maturity of all the Securities,
as the case may be) to the date of such payment or deposit) and such amount as
shall be sufficient to cover reasonable compensation to the Trustee and each
predecessor Trustee, its agents, attorneys and counsel, and all other expenses
and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Trustee and each
predecessor Trustee, its agents, attorneys and counsel except as a result of
negligence or bad faith, and if any and all Events of Default under the
Indenture, other than the non-payment of the principal of Securities that
shall have become due by acceleration, shall have been cured, waived or
otherwise remedied as provided herein -- then and in every such case the
Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of all the Securities of
each such series, or of all the Securities, in each case voting as a single
class, then Outstanding, by written notice to the Issuer and to the Trustee,
may waive all defaults with respect to each such series (or with respect to
all the Securities, as the case may be), but no such waiver or rescission and
annulment shall extend to or shall affect any subsequent default or shall
impair any right consequent thereon.
For all purposes under this Indenture, if a portion of the
principal of any Original Issue Discount Securities shall have been
accelerated and declared due and payable pursuant to the provisions hereof,
then, from and after such declaration, unless such declaration has been
rescinded and annulled, the principal amount of such Original Issue Discount
Securities shall be deemed, for all purposes hereunder, to be such portion of
the principal thereof as shall be due and payable as a result of such
acceleration, and payment of such portion of the principal thereof as shall be
due and payable as a result of such acceleration, together with interest, if
any, thereon and all other amounts owing thereunder, shall constitute payment
in full of such Original Issue Discount Securities.
SECTION 5.2 Collection of Indebtedness by Trustee; Trustee May
Prove Debt. The Issuer covenants that (a) in case default shall be made in
the payment of any installment of interest on any of the Securities of any
series when such interest shall have become due and payable, and such default
shall have continued for a period of 30 days or (b) in case default shall be
made in the payment of all or any part of the principal of any of the
Securities of any series when the same shall have become due and payable,
whether upon maturity of the Securities of such series or upon any redemption
or by declaration or otherwise -- then upon demand of the Trustee, the Issuer
will pay to the Trustee for the benefit of the Holders of the Securities of
such series the whole amount that then shall have become due and payable on
all Securities of such series, and such Coupons, for principal or interest, as
the case may be (with interest to the date of such payment upon the overdue
principal and, to the extent that payment of such interest is enforceable
under applicable law, on overdue installments of interest at the same rate as
the rate of interest or Yield to Maturity (in the case of Original Issue
Discount Securities) specified in the Securities of such series); and in
addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the
costs and expenses of collection, including reasonable compensation to the
Trustee and each predecessor Trustee, their respective agents, attorneys and
counsel, and any expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by
the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee, its agents, attorneys and counsel
except as a result of its negligence or bad faith.
Until such demand is made by the Trustee, the Issuer may pay
the principal of and interest on the Securities of any series to the
registered holders, whether or not the Securities of such Series be overdue.
In case the Issuer shall fail forthwith to pay such amounts
upon such demand, the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express
trust, shall be entitled and empowered to institute any action or proceedings
at law or in equity for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, and may
prosecute any such action or proceedings to judgment or final decree, and may
enforce any such judgment or final decree against the Issuer or other obligor
upon the Securities and collect in the manner provided by law out of the
property of the Issuer or other obligor upon the Securities, wherever situated
the moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable.
In case there shall be pending proceedings relative to the
Issuer or any other obligor upon the Securities under Title 11 of the United
States Code or any other applicable Federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or
other similar law, or in case a receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or
reorganization, liquidator, sequestrator or similar official shall have been
appointed for or taken possession of the Issuer or its property or such other
obligor, or in case of any other comparable judicial proceedings relative to
the Issuer or other obligor upon the Securities, or to the creditors or
property of the Issuer or such other obligor, the Trustee, irrespective of
whether the principal of the Securities shall then be due and payable as
therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether
the Trustee shall have made any demand pursuant to the provisions of this
Section, shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceedings
or otherwise:
(a) to file and prove a claim or claims for the whole amount
of principal and interest (or, if the Securities of any series are
Original Issue Discount Securities, such portion of the principal
amount as may be specified in the terms of such series) owing and
unpaid in respect of the Securities of any series, and to file such
other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order
to have the claims of the Trustee (including any claim for reasonable
compensation to the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee, and their
respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and for reimbursement of
all expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the
Trustee and each predecessor Trustee, except as a result of
negligence or bad faith) and of the Securityholders allowed in any
judicial proceedings relative to the Issuer or other obligor upon the
Securities, or to the creditors or property of the Issuer or such
other obligor,
(b) unless prohibited by applicable law and regulations, to
vote on behalf of the holders of the Securities of any series in any
election of a trustee or a standby trustee in arrangement,
reorganization, liquidation or other bankruptcy or insolvency
proceedings or person performing similar functions in comparable
proceedings, and
(c) to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable
or deliverable on any such claims, and to distribute all amounts
received with respect to the claims of the Securityholders and of the
Trustee on their behalf; and any trustee, receiver, or liquidator,
custodian or other similar official is hereby authorized by each of
the Securityholders to make payments to the Trustee, and, in the
event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of payments
directly to the Securityholders, to pay to the Trustee such amounts
as shall be sufficient to cover reasonable compensation to the
Trustee, each predecessor Trustee and their respective agents,
attorneys and counsel, and all other expenses and liabilities
incurred, and all advances made, by the Trustee and each predecessor
Trustee except as a result of negligence or bad faith.
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the
Trustee to authorize or consent to or vote for or accept or adopt on behalf of
any Securityholder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or
composition affecting the Securities of any series or the rights of any Holder
thereof, or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any
Securityholder in any such proceeding except, as aforesaid, to vote for the
election of a trustee in bankruptcy or similar person.
All rights of action and of asserting claims under this
Indenture, or under any of the Securities of any series or Coupons
appertaining to such Securities, may be enforced by the Trustee without the
possession of any of the Securities of such series or Coupons appertaining to
such Securities or the production thereof in any trial or other proceedings
relative thereto, and any such action or proceedings instituted by the Trustee
shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any
recovery of judgment, subject to the payment of the expenses, disbursements
and compensation of the Trustee, each predecessor Trustee and their respective
agents and attorneys, shall be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the
Securities or Coupons appertaining to such Securities in respect of which such
action was taken.
In any proceedings brought by the Trustee (and also any
proceedings involving the interpretation of any provision of this Indenture to
which the Trustee shall be a party) the Trustee shall be held to represent all
the Holders of the Securities or Coupons appertaining to such Securities in
respect to which such action was taken, and it shall not be necessary to make
any Holders of such Securities or Coupons appertaining to such Securities
parties to any such proceedings.
SECTION 5.3 Application of Proceeds. Any moneys collected by
the Trustee pursuant to this Article in respect of any series shall, subject
to the subordination provisions hereof, be applied in the following order at
the date or dates fixed by the Trustee and, in case of the distribution of
such moneys on account of principal or interest, upon presentation of the
several Securities and Coupons appertaining to such Securities in respect of
which monies have been collected and stamping (or otherwise noting) thereon
the payment, or issuing Securities of such series in reduced principal amounts
in exchange for the presented Securities of like series if only partially
paid, or upon surrender thereof if fully paid:
FIRST: To the payment of costs and expenses applicable to such
series in respect of which monies have been collected, including
reasonable compensation to the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee
and their respective agents and attorneys and of all expenses and
liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Trustee and each
predecessor Trustee, its agents and attorneys except as a result of
negligence or bad faith;
SECOND: In case the principal of the Securities of such series
in respect of which moneys have been collected shall not have become
and be then due and payable, to the payment of interest on the
Securities of such series in default in the order of the maturity of
the installments of such interest, with interest (to the extent that
such interest has been collected by the Trustee) upon the overdue
installments of interest at the same rate as the rate of interest or
Yield to Maturity (in the case of Original Issue Discount Securities)
specified in such Securities, such payments to be made ratably to the
persons entitled thereto, without discrimination or preference;
THIRD: In case the principal of the Securities of such series
in respect of which moneys have been collected shall have become and
shall be then due and payable, to the payment of the whole amount
then owing and unpaid upon all the Securities of such series for
principal and interest, with interest upon the overdue principal, and
(to the extent that such interest has been collected by the Trustee)
upon overdue installments of interest at the same rate as the rate
of interest or Yield to Maturity (in the case of Original Issue
Discount Securities) specified in the Securities of such series; and
in case such moneys shall be insufficient to pay in full the whole
amount so due and unpaid upon the Securities of such series, then to
the payment of such principal and interest or Yield to Maturity,
without preference or priority of principal over interest or Yield to
Maturity, or of interest or Yield to Maturity over principal, or of
any installment of interest over any other installment of interest,
or of any Security of such series over any other Security of such
series, ratably to the aggregate of such principal and accrued and
unpaid interest or Yield to Maturity; and
FOURTH: To the payment of the remainder, if any, to the Issuer
or any other person lawfully entitled thereto.
SECTION 5.4 Suits for Enforcement. In case an Event of
Default has occurred, has not been waived and is continuing, the Trustee may
in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce the rights vested in it by
this Indenture by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall
deem most effectual to protect and enforce any of such rights, either at law
or in equity or in bankruptcy or otherwise, whether for the specific
enforcement of any covenant or agreement contained in this Indenture or in aid
of the exercise of any power granted in this Indenture or to enforce any other
legal or equitable right vested in the Trustee by this Indenture or by law.
SECTION 5.5 Restoration of Rights on Abandonment of
Proceedings. In case the Trustee shall have proceeded to enforce any right
under this Indenture and such proceedings shall have been discontinued or
abandoned for any reason, or shall have been determined adversely to the
Trustee, then and in every such case the Issuer and the Trustee shall be
restored respectively to their former positions and rights hereunder, and all
rights, remedies and powers of the Issuer, the Trustee and the Securityholders
shall continue as though no such proceedings had been taken.
SECTION 5.6 Limitations on Suits by Securityholders. No
Holder of any Security of any series or of any Coupon appertaining thereto
shall have any right by virtue or by availing of any provision of this
Indenture to institute any action or proceeding at law or in equity or in
bankruptcy or otherwise upon or under or with respect to this Indenture, or
for the appointment of a trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other
similar official or for any other remedy hereunder, unless such Holder
previously shall have given to the Trustee written notice of default and of
the continuance thereof, as hereinbefore provided, and unless also the Holders
of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of each
affected series then Outstanding (treated as a single class) shall have made
written request upon the Trustee to institute such action or proceedings in
its own name as trustee hereunder and shall have offered to the Trustee such
reasonable indemnity as it may require against the costs, expenses and
liabilities to be incurred therein or thereby and the Trustee for 60 days
after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity shall have
failed to institute any such action or proceeding and no direction
inconsistent with such written request shall have been given to the Trustee
pursuant to Section 5.9; it being understood and intended, and being expressly
covenanted by the taker and Holder of every Security or Coupon with every
other taker and Holder and the Trustee, that no one or more Holders of
Securities of any series or Coupons appertaining to such Securities shall have
any right in any manner whatever by virtue or by availing of any provision of
this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other such
Holder of Securities or Coupons appertaining to such Securities, or to obtain
or seek to obtain priority over or preference to any other such Holder or to
enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided
and for the equal, ratable and common benefit of all Holders of Securities of
the applicable series and Coupons appertaining to such Securities. For the
protection and enforcement of the provisions of this Section, each and every
Securityholder and the Trustee shall be entitled to such relief as can be
given either at law or in equity.
SECTION 5.7 Unconditional Right of Securityholders to
Institute Certain Suits. Notwithstanding any other provision in this
Indenture and any provision of any Security, the right of any Holder of any
Security or Coupon to receive payment of the principal of and interest on such
Security or Coupon on or after the respective due dates expressed in such
Security or Coupon, or to institute suit for the enforcement of any such
payment on or after such respective dates, or the right to convert such
Security, if any, or to institute suit therefor shall not be impaired or
affected without the consent of such Holder.
SECTION 5.8 Powers and Remedies Cumulative; Delay or Omission
Not Waiver of Default. Except as provided in Section 5.6, no right or remedy
herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders of
Securities or Coupons is intended to be exclusive of any other right or
remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be
cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or
now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or
employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent
the concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or
remedy.
No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of
Securities or Coupons to exercise any right or power accruing upon any Event
of Default occurring and continuing as aforesaid shall impair any such right
or power or shall be construed to be a waiver of any such Event of Default or
an acquiescence therein; and, subject to Section 5.6, every power and remedy
given by this Indenture or by law to the Trustee or to the Holders of
Securities or Coupons may be exercised from time to time, and as often as
shall be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders of Securities or
Coupons.
SECTION 5.9 Control by Holders of Securities. The Holders of
a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of each series
affected (with all such series voting as a single class) at the time
Outstanding shall have the right to direct the time, method, and place of
conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or
exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee with respect to the
Securities of such series by this Indenture; provided that such direction
shall not be otherwise than in accordance with law and the provisions of this
Indenture and provided further that (subject to the provisions of Section 6.1)
the Trustee shall have the right to decline to follow any such direction if
the Trustee, being advised by counsel, shall determine that the action or
proceeding so directed may not lawfully be taken or if the Trustee in good
faith by its board of directors, the executive committee, or a trust committee
of directors or Responsible Officers of the Trustee shall determine that the
action or proceedings so directed would involve the Trustee in personal
liability or if the Trustee in good faith shall so determine that the actions
or forbearances specified in or pursuant to such direction would be unduly
prejudicial to the interests of Holders of the Securities of all series so
affected not joining in the giving of said direction, it being understood that
(subject to Section 6.1) the Trustee shall have no duty to ascertain whether
or not such actions or forbearances are unduly prejudicial to such Holders.
Nothing in this Indenture shall impair the right of the
Trustee in its discretion to take any action deemed proper by the Trustee and
that is not inconsistent with such direction or directions by Securityholders.
SECTION 5.10 Waiver of Past Defaults. Prior to the
acceleration of the maturity of any Securities as provided in Section 5.1, the
Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of all
series at the time Outstanding with respect to which an event of default shall
have occurred and be continuing (voting as a single class) may on behalf of
the Holders of all such Securities waive any past default or Event of Default
described in Section 5.1 and its consequences, except a default in respect of a
covenant or provision hereof that cannot be modified or amended without the
consent of the Holder of each Security affected. In the case of any such
waiver, the Issuer, the Trustee and the Holders of all such Securities shall be
restored to their former positions and rights hereunder, respectively; but no
such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other default or impair any
right consequent thereon.
Upon any such waiver, such default shall cease to exist and be
deemed to have been cured and not to have occurred, and any Event of Default
arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, and not to have occurred
for every purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any
subsequent or other default or Event of Default or impair any right consequent
thereon.
SECTION 5.11 Trustee to Give Notice of Default, But May
Withhold in Certain Circumstances. The Trustee shall, within ninety days
after the occurrence of a default with respect to the Securities of any
series, give notice of all defaults with respect to that series known to the
Trustee (i) if any Unregistered Securities of that series are then
Outstanding, to the Holders thereof, by publication at least once in an
Authorized Newspaper in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York and at
least once in an Authorized Newspaper in London (and, if required by Section
3.6, at least once in an Authorized Newspaper in Luxembourg) and (ii) to all
Holders of Securities of such series in the manner and to the extent provided
in Section 313(c) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, unless in each case such
defaults shall have been cured before the mailing or publication of such
notice (the term "defaults" for the purpose of this Section being hereby
defined to mean any event or condition that is, or with notice or lapse of time
or both would become, an Event of Default); provided that, except in the case
of default in the payment of the principal of or interest on any of the
Securities of such series, or in the payment of any sinking fund installment on
such series, the Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice if and
so long as the board of directors, the executive committee, or a trust
committee of directors or trustees and/or Responsible Officers of the Trustee
in good faith determines that the withholding of such notice is in the
interests of the Securityholders of such series.
SECTION 5.12 Right of Court to Require Filing of Undertaking
to Pay Costs. All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any
Security or Coupon by his acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed,
that any court may in its discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement
of any right or remedy under this Indenture or in any suit against the Trustee
for any action taken, suffered or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any
party litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit,
and that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including
reasonable attorneys' fees, against any party litigant in such suit, having
due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such
party litigant; but the provisions of this Section shall not apply to any suit
instituted by the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Securityholder or
group of Securityholders of any series holding in the aggregate more than 10%
in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of such series, or, in the
case of any suit relating to or arising under clause (d) or (h) of Section 5.1
(if the suit relates to Securities of more than one but less than all series),
l0% in aggregate principal amount of Securities then Outstanding and affected
thereby or 10% in aggregate principal amount of all Securities then
Outstanding, or to any suit instituted by any Securityholder for the
enforcement of the payment of the principal of or interest on any Security on
or after the due date expressed in such Security or any date fixed for
redemption.
SECTION 5.13 Applicability of Article. The provisions of this
Article shall be applicable to the Securities of any series except as
otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 2.3 for Securities of such
series.
ARTICLE SIX
CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 6.1 Duties and Responsibilities of the Trustee; During
Default; Prior to Default. With respect to the Holders of any series of
Securities issued hereunder, the Trustee, prior to the occurrence of an Event
of Default with respect to the Securities of a particular series and after the
curing or waiving of all Events of Default that may have occurred with respect
to such series, undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are
specifically set forth in this Indenture. In case an Event of Default with
respect to the Securities of a series has occurred (which has not been cured
or waived) the Trustee shall exercise with respect to such series of
Securities such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture, and
use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise, as a prudent man
would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his own
affairs.
No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to relieve
the Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent
failure to act or its own wilful misconduct, except that
(a) prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default with
respect to the Securities of any series and after the curing or
waiving of all such Events of Default with respect to such series
that may have occurred:
(i) the duties and obligations of the Trustee with
respect to the Securities of any series shall be determined
solely by the express provisions of this Indenture, and the
Trustee shall not be liable except for the performance of such
duties and obligations as are specifically set forth in this
Indenture, and no implied covenants or obligations shall be
read into this Indenture against the Trustee; and
(ii) in the absence of bad faith on the part of the
Trustee, the Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of
the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed
therein, upon any statements, certificates or opinions
furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of
this Indenture; but in the case of any such statements,
certificates or opinions that by any provision hereof are
specifically required to be furnished to the Trustee, the
Trustee shall be under a duty to examine the same to determine
whether or not they conform to the requirements of this
Indenture;
(b) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment
made in good faith by a Responsible Officer or Responsible Officers
of the Trustee, unless it shall be proved that the Trustee was
negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts; and
(c) the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action
taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with
the direction of the Holders pursuant to Section 5.9 relating to the
time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy
available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred
upon the Trustee, under this Indenture.
None of the provisions contained in this Indenture shall
require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur
personal financial liability in the performance of any of its duties or in the
exercise of any of its rights or powers, if there shall be reasonable ground
for believing that the repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against
such liability is not reasonably assured to it.
The provisions of this Section 6.1 are in furtherance of and
subject to Section 315 of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939.
SECTION 6.2 Certain Rights of the Trustee. In furtherance of
and subject to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, and subject to Section 6.1:
(a) the Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or
refraining from acting upon any resolution, Officer's Certificate or
any other certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report,
notice, request, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, coupon,
security or other paper or document believed by it to be genuine and
to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties;
(b) any request, direction, order or demand of the Issuer
mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by an Officer's
Certificate (unless other evidence in respect thereof be herein
specifically prescribed); and any resolution of the Board of
Directors may be evidenced to the Trustee by a copy thereof certified
by the secretary or an assistant secretary of the Issuer;
(c) the Trustee may consult with counsel of its choice and any
written advice or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete
authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered
or omitted to be taken by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance
thereon in accordance with such advice or Opinion of Counsel;
(d) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any
of the trusts or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the
request, order or direction of any of the Securityholders pursuant to
the provisions of this Indenture, unless such Securityholders shall
have offered to the Trustee reasonable security or indemnity against
the costs, expenses and liabilities that might be incurred therein or
thereby;
(e) the Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken or
omitted by it in good faith and believed by it to be authorized or
within the discretion, rights or powers conferred upon it by this
Indenture;
(f) prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default hereunder
and after the curing or waiving of all Events of Default, the Trustee
shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters
stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument,
opinion, report, notice, request, consent, order, approval,
appraisal, bond, debenture, note, coupon, security, or other paper or
document unless requested in writing so to do by the Holders of not
less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities
of all series affected then Outstanding; provided that, if the
payment within a reasonable time to the Trustee of the costs,
expenses or liabilities likely to be incurred by it in the making of
such investigation is, in the opinion of the Trustee, not reasonably
assured to the Trustee by the security afforded to it by the terms of
this Indenture, the Trustee may require reasonable indemnity against
such expenses or liabilities as a condition to proceeding; the
reasonable expenses of every such investigation shall be paid by the
Issuer or, if paid by the Trustee or any predecessor Trustee, shall
be repaid by the Issuer upon demand. The Trustee shall incur no
liability or additional liability of any kind by reason of such
inquiry or investigation; and
(g) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers
hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or
through agents or attorneys not regularly in its employ and the
Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on
the part of any such agent or attorney appointed with due care by it
hereunder.
SECTION 6.3 Trustee Not Responsible for Recitals, Disposition
of Securities or Application of Proceeds Thereof. The recitals contained
herein and in the Securities, except the Trustee's certificates of
authentication, shall be taken as the statements of the Issuer, and the
Trustee assumes no responsibility for the correctness of the same. The
Trustee makes no representation as to the validity or sufficiency of this
Indenture or of the Securities or Coupons. The Trustee shall not be
accountable for the use or application by the Issuer of any of the Securities
or of the proceeds thereof.
SECTION 6.4 Trustee and Agents May Hold Securities or Coupons;
Collections, etc. The Trustee or any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee, in
its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of
Securities or Coupons with the same rights it would have if it were not the
Trustee or such agent and may otherwise deal with the Issuer and receive,
collect, hold and retain collections from the Issuer with the same rights it
would have if it were not the Trustee or such agent.
SECTION 6.5 Moneys Held by Trustee. Subject to the provisions
of Section 10.4 hereof, all moneys received by the Trustee shall, until used
or applied as herein provided, be held in trust for the purposes for which
they were received, but need not be segregated from other funds except to the
extent required by mandatory provisions of law. Neither the Trustee nor any
agent of the Issuer or the Trustee shall be under any liability for interest
on any moneys received by it hereunder.
SECTION 6.6 Compensation and Indemnification of Trustee and
Its Prior Claim. The Issuer covenants and agrees to pay to the Trustee from
time to time, and the Trustee shall be entitled to, reasonable compensation
(which shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the
compensation of a trustee of an express trust) and the Issuer covenants and
agrees to pay or reimburse the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee upon its
request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or
made by or on behalf of it in accordance with any of the provisions of this
Indenture (including the reasonable compensation and the expenses and
disbursements of its counsel and of all agents and other persons not regularly
in its employ) except any such expense, disbursement or advance as may arise
from its negligence or bad faith. The Issuer also covenants to indemnify the
Trustee and each predecessor Trustee for, and to hold it harmless against, any
loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on its
part, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of
this Indenture or the trusts hereunder and its duties hereunder, including the
costs and expenses of defending itself against or investigating any claim of
liability in the premises. The obligations of the Issuer under this Section
to compensate and indemnify the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee and to
pay or reimburse the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee for expenses,
disbursements and advances shall constitute additional indebtedness hereunder
and shall survive the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture. Such
additional indebtedness shall be a senior claim to that of the Securities upon
all property and funds held or collected by the Trustee as such, except funds
held in trust for the benefit of the Holders of particular Securities or
Coupons, and the Securities are hereby subordinated to such senior claim.
When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services in
connection with an Event of Default specified in Section 5.1(a) or Section
5.1(b), the expenses (including the reasonable charges and expenses of its
counsel) and the compensation for the services are intended to constitute
expenses of administration under any applicable Federal or state bankruptcy,
insolvency or other similar law.
The provisions of this Section shall survive the termination of
this Indenture.
SECTION 6.7 Right of Trustee to Rely on Officer's Certificate,
etc. Subject to Sections 6.1 and 6.2, whenever in the administration of the
trusts of this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it necessary or desirable that
a matter be proved or established prior to taking or suffering or omitting any
action hereunder, such matter (unless other evidence in respect thereof be
herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of negligence or bad faith
on the part of the Trustee, be deemed to be conclusively proved and
established by an Officer's Certificate delivered to the Trustee, and such
certificate, in the absence of negligence or bad faith on the part of the
Trustee, shall be full warrant to the Trustee for any action taken, suffered
or omitted by it under the provisions of this Indenture upon the faith
thereof.
SECTION 6.8 Indentures Not Creating Potential Conflicting
Interests for the Trustee. The following indentures are hereby specifically
described for the purposes of Section 310(b)(1) of the Trust Indenture Act of
1939: this Indenture with respect to the Securities of any other series.
SECTION 6.9 Persons Eligible for Appointment as Trustee. The
Trustee for each series of Securities hereunder shall at all times be a
corporation or banking association organized and doing business under the laws
of the United States of America or of any State or the District of Columbia
having a combined capital and surplus of at least $5,000,000, and that is
authorized under such laws to exercise corporate trust powers and is subject to
supervision or examination by Federal, State or District of Columbia
authority. Such corporation or banking association shall have a place of
business in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York if there be such a
corporation in such location willing to act upon reasonable and customary terms
and conditions. If such corporation publishes reports of condition at least
annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of the aforesaid supervising
or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section, the combined
capital and surplus of such corporation shall be deemed to be its combined
capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so
published. In case at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in
accordance with the provisions of this Section, the Trustee shall resign
immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in Section 6.10.
The provisions of this Section 6.9 are in furtherance of and
subject to Section 310(a) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939.
SECTION 6.10 Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor
Trustee. (a) The Trustee, or any trustee or trustees hereafter appointed,
may at any time resign with respect to one or more or all series of Securities
by giving written notice of resignation to the Issuer and (i) if any
Unregistered Securities of a series affected are then Outstanding, by giving
notice of such resignation to the Holders thereof, by publication at least
once in an Authorized Newspaper in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New
York, and at least once in an Authorized Newspaper in London (and, if required
by Section 3.6, at least once in an Authorized Newspaper in Luxembourg), (ii)
if any Unregistered Securities of a series affected are then Outstanding, by
mailing notice of such resignation to the Holders thereof who have filed their
names and addresses with the Trustee pursuant to Section 313(c)(2) of the Trust
Indenture Act of 1939 at such addresses as were so furnished to the Trustee
and (iii) by mailing notice of such resignation to the Holders of then
Outstanding Registered Securities of each series affected at their addresses as
they shall appear on the registry books. Upon receiving such notice of
resignation, the Issuer shall promptly appoint a successor trustee or trustees
with respect to the applicable series by written instrument in duplicate,
executed by authority of the Board of Directors, one copy of which instrument
shall be delivered to the resigning Trustee and one copy to the successor
trustee or trustees. If no successor trustee shall have been so appointed
with respect to any series and have accepted appointment within 30 days after
the mailing of such notice of resignation, the resigning trustee may petition
any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor
trustee, or any Securityholder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security
or Securities of the applicable series for at least six months may, subject to
the provisions of Section 5.12, on behalf of himself and all others similarly
situated, petition any such court for the appointment of a successor trustee.
Such court may thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it may deem proper and
prescribe, appoint a successor trustee.
(b) In case at any time any of the following shall occur:
(i) the Trustee shall fail to comply with the provisions of
Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 with respect to any
series of Securities after written request therefor by the Issuer or
by any Securityholder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security
or Securities of such series for at least six months; or
(ii) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with
the provisions of Section 6.9 and Section 310(a) of the Trust
Indenture Act of 1939 and shall fail to resign after written request
therefor by the Issuer or by any Securityholder; or
(iii) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting with respect
to any series of Securities, or shall be adjudged a bankrupt or
insolvent, or a receiver or liquidator of the Trustee or of its
property shall be appointed, or any public officer shall take charge
or control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the
purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation;
then, in any such case, the Issuer may remove the Trustee with respect to the
applicable series of Securities and appoint a successor trustee for such
series by written instrument, in duplicate, executed by order of the Board of
Directors of the Issuer, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to
the Trustee so removed and one copy to the successor trustee, or, subject to
the provisions of Section 315(e) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, any
Securityholder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security or Securities of
such series for at least six months may on behalf of himself and all others
similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the
removal of the Trustee and the appointment of a successor trustee with respect
to such series. Such court may thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it
may deem proper and prescribe, remove the Trustee and appoint a successor
trustee. (c) The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of
the Securities of each series at the time outstanding may at any time remove
the Trustee with respect to Securities of such series and appoint a successor
trustee with respect to the Securities of such series by delivering to the
Trustee so removed, to the successor trustee so appointed and to the Issuer
the evidence provided for in Section 7.1 of the action in that regard taken by
the Securityholders.
(d) Any resignation or removal of the Trustee with respect to
any series and any appointment of a successor trustee with respect to such
series pursuant to any of the provisions of this Section 6.10 shall become
effective upon acceptance of appointment by the successor trustee as provided
in Section 6.11.
SECTION 6.11 Acceptance of Appointment by Successor Trustee.
Any successor trustee appointed as provided in Section 6.10 shall execute and
deliver to the Issuer and to its predecessor trustee an instrument accepting
such appointment hereunder, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the
predecessor trustee with respect to all or any applicable series shall become
effective and such successor trustee, without any further act, deed or
conveyance, shall become vested with all rights, powers, duties and
obligations with respect to such series of its predecessor hereunder, with
like effect as if originally named as trustee for such series hereunder; but,
nevertheless, on the written request of the Issuer or of the successor
trustee, upon payment of its charges then unpaid, the trustee ceasing to act
shall, subject to Section 10.4, pay over to the successor trustee all moneys
at the time held by it hereunder and shall execute and deliver an instrument
transferring to such successor trustee all such rights, powers, duties and
obligations. Upon request of any such successor trustee, the Issuer shall
execute any and all instruments in writing for more fully and certainly vesting
in and confirming to such successor trustee all such rights and powers. Any
trustee ceasing to act shall, nevertheless, retain a prior claim upon all
property or funds held or collected by such trustee to secure any amounts then
due it pursuant to the provisions of Section 6.6.
If a successor trustee is appointed with respect to the
Securities of one or more (but not all) series, the Issuer, the predecessor
Trustee and each successor trustee with respect to the Securities of any
applicable series shall execute and deliver an indenture supplemental hereto,
which shall contain such provisions as shall be deemed necessary or desirable
to confirm that all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the predecessor
Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series as to which the
predecessor Trustee is not retiring shall continue to be vested in the
predecessor Trustee, and shall add to or change any of the provisions of this
Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the
administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one trustee, it being
understood that nothing herein or in such supplemental indenture shall
constitute such trustees co-trustees of the same trust and that each such
trustee shall be trustee of a trust or trusts under separate indentures.
No successor trustee with respect to any series of Securities
shall accept appointment as provided in this Section 6.11 unless at the time
of such acceptance such successor trustee shall be qualified under Section
310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 and eligible under the provisions of
Section 6.9.
Upon acceptance of appointment by any successor trustee as
provided in this Section 6.11, the Issuer shall give notice thereof (a) if any
Unregistered Securities of a series affected are then Outstanding, to the
Holders thereof, by publication of such notice at least once in an Authorized
Newspaper in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York and at least once
in an Authorized Newspaper in London (and, if required by Section 3.9, at
least once in an Authorized Newspaper in Luxembourg), (b) if any Unregistered
Securities of a series affected are then Outstanding, to the Holders thereof
who have filed their names and addresses with the Trustee pursuant to Section
313(c)(2) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, by mailing such notice to such
Holders at such addresses as were so furnished to the Trustee (and the Trustee
shall make such information available to the Issuer for such purpose) and (c)
to the Holders of Registered Securities of each series affected, by mailing
such notice to such Holders at their addresses as they shall appear on the
registry books. If the acceptance of appointment is substantially
contemporaneous with the resignation, then the notice called for by the
preceding sentence may be combined with the notice called for by Section 6.10.
If the Issuer fails to give such notice within ten days after acceptance of
appointment by the successor trustee, the successor trustee shall cause such
notice to be given at the expense of the Issuer.
SECTION 6.12 Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession
to Business of Trustee. Any corporation into which the Trustee may be merged
or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation
resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee
shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to the corporate trust
business of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder,
provided that such corporation shall be qualified under Section 310(b) of the
Trust Indenture Act of 1939 and eligible under the provisions of Section 6.9,
without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of
any of the parties hereto, anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding.
In case at the time such successor to the Trustee shall succeed
to the trusts created by this Indenture any of the Securities of any series
shall have been authenticated but not delivered, any such successor to the
Trustee may adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor Trustee
and deliver such Securities so authenticated; and, in case at that time any of
the Securities of any series shall not have been authenticated, any successor
to the Trustee may authenticate such Securities either in the name of any
predecessor hereunder or in the name of the successor Trustee; and in all such
cases such certificate shall have the full force that it is anywhere in the
Securities of such series or in this Indenture provided that the certificate of
the Trustee shall have; provided, that the right to adopt the certificate of
authentication of any predecessor Trustee or to authenticate Securities of any
series in the name of any predecessor Trustee shall apply only to its
successor or successors by merger, conversion or consolidation.
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SECTION 6.14 Appointment of Authenticating Agent. As long as
any Securities of a series remain Outstanding, the Trustee may, by an
instrument in writing, appoint with the approval of the Issuer an
authenticating agent (the "Authenticating Agent"), which shall be authorized
to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Securities, including
Securities issued upon exchange, registration of transfer, partial redemption
or pursuant to Section 2.9. Securities of each such series authenticated by
such Authenticating Agent shall be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture
and shall be valid and obligatory for all purposes as if authenticated by the
Trustee. Whenever reference is made in this Indenture to the authentication
and delivery of Securities of any series by the Trustee or to the Trustee's
Certificate of Authentication, such reference shall be deemed to include
authentication and delivery on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating
Agent for such series and a Certificate of Authentication executed on behalf
of the Trustee by such Authenticating Agent. Such Authenticating Agent shall
at all times be a corporation organized and doing business under the laws of
the United States of America or of any State, authorized under such laws to
exercise corporate trust powers, having a combined capital and surplus of at
least $5,000,000 (determined as provided in Section 6.9 with respect to the
Trustee) and subject to supervision or examination by Federal or State
authority.
Any corporation into which any Authenticating Agent may be
merged or converted, or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation
resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which any
Authenticating Agent shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to the
corporate agency business of any Authenticating Agent, shall continue to be
the Authenticating Agent with respect to all series of Securities for which it
served as Authenticating Agent without the execution or filing of any paper or
any further act on the part of the Trustee or such Authenticating Agent. Any
Authenticating Agent may at any time, and if it shall cease to be eligible
shall, resign by giving written notice of resignation to the Trustee and to
the Issuer.
Upon receiving such a notice of resignation or upon such a
termination, or in case at any time any Authenticating Agent shall cease to be
eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section 6.14 with respect
to one or more series of Securities, the Trustee shall upon receipt of an
Issuer Order appoint a successor Authenticating Agent and the Issuer shall
provide notice of such appointment to all Holders of Securities of such series
in the manner and to the extent provided in Section 11.4. Any successor
Authenticating Agent upon acceptance of its appointment hereunder shall become
vested with all rights, powers, duties and responsibilities of its predecessor
hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as Authenticating Agent.
The Issuer agrees to pay to the Authenticating Agent for such series from time
to time reasonable compensation. The Authenticating Agent for the Securities
of any series shall have no responsibility or liability for any action taken
by it as such at the direction of the Trustee.
Sections 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.6 and 7.3 shall be applicable to any
Authenticating Agent.
SECTION 6.15 Preferential Collection of Claims. If and
when the Trustee shall be or become a creditor of the Issuer (or any other
obligor upon the Securities), the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions
of the Trust Indenture Act regarding the collection of claims against the
Issuer (or any such other obligor).
ARTICLE SEVEN
CONCERNING THE SECURITYHOLDERS
SECTION 7.1 Evidence of Action Taken by Securityholders. Any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other
action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by a specified
percentage in principal amount of the Securityholders of any or all series may
be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially
similar tenor signed by such specified percentage of Securityholders in person
or by agent duly appointed in writing; and, except as herein otherwise
expressly provided, such action shall become effective when such instrument or
instruments are delivered to the Trustee. Proof of execution of any
instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for
any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Sections 6.1 and 6.2) conclusive
in favor of the Trustee and the Issuer, if made in the manner provided in this
Article.
SECTION 7.2 Proof of Execution of Instruments and of Holding
of Securities. Subject to Sections 6.1 and 6.2, the execution of any
instrument by a Securityholder or his agent or proxy may be proved in the
following manner:
(a) The fact and date of the execution by any Holder of any
instrument may be proved by the certificate of any notary public or
other officer of any jurisdiction authorized to take acknowledgments
of deeds or administer oaths that the person executing such
instruments acknowledged to him the execution thereof, or by an
affidavit of a witness to such execution sworn to before any such
notary or other such officer. Where such execution is by or on
behalf of any legal entity other than an individual, such certificate
or affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof of the authority
of the person executing the same. The fact of the holding by any
Holder of an Unregistered Security of any series, and the identifying
number of such Security and the date of his holding the same, may be
proved by the production of such Security or by a certificate
executed by any trust company, bank, banker or recognized securities
dealer wherever situated satisfactory to the Trustee, if such
certificate shall be deemed by the Trustee to be satisfactory. Each
such certificate shall be dated and shall state that on the date
thereof a Security of such series bearing a specified identifying
number was deposited with or exhibited to such trust company, bank,
banker or recognized securities dealer by the person named in such
certificate. Any such certificate may be issued in respect of one or
more Unregistered Securities of one or more series specified therein.
The holding by the person named in any such certificate of any
Unregistered Securities of any series specified therein shall be
presumed to continue for a period of one year from the date of such
certificate unless at the time of any determination of such holding
(1) another certificate bearing a later date issued in respect of the
same Securities shall be produced, or (2) the Security of such series
specified in such certificate shall be produced by some other person,
or (3) the Security of such series specified in such certificate
shall have ceased to be Outstanding. Subject to Sections 6.1 and
6.2, the fact and date of the execution of any such instrument and
the amount and numbers of Securities of any series held by the person
so executing such instrument and the amount and numbers of any
Security or Securities for such series may also be proven in
accordance with such reasonable rules and regulations as may be
prescribed by the Trustee for such series or in any other manner that
the Trustee for such series may deem sufficient.
(b) In the case of Registered Securities, the ownership of
such Securities shall be proved by the Security register or by a
certificate of the Security registrar.
The Issuer may set a record date for purposes of determining
the identity of Holders of Registered Securities of any series entitled to
vote or consent to any action referred to in Section 7.1, which record date
may be set at any time or from time to time by notice to the Trustee, for any
date or dates (in the case of any adjournment or reconsideration) not more
than 60 days nor less than five days prior to the proposed date of such vote
or consent, and thereafter, notwithstanding any other provisions hereof, with
respect to Registered Securities of any series, only Holders of Registered
Securities of such series of record on such record date shall be entitled to
so vote or give such consent or revoke such vote or consent.
SECTION 7.3 Holders to be Treated as Owners. The Issuer, the
Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee may deem and treat the
person in whose name any Security shall be registered upon the Security
register for such series as the absolute owner of such Security (whether or
not such Security shall be overdue and notwithstanding any notation of
ownership or other writing thereon) for the purpose of receiving payment of or
on account of the principal of and, subject to the provisions of this
Indenture, interest on such Security and for all other purposes; and neither
the Issuer nor the Trustee nor any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee shall be
affected by any notice to the contrary. The Issuer, the Trustee and any agent
of the Issuer or the Trustee may treat the Holder of any Unregistered Security
and the Holder of any Coupon as the absolute owner of such Unregistered
Security or Coupon (whether or not such Unregistered Security or Coupon shall
be overdue) for the purpose of receiving payment thereof or on account thereof
and for all other purposes and neither the Issuer, the Trustee, nor any agent
of the Issuer or the Trustee shall be affected by any notice to the contrary.
All such payments so made to any such person, or upon his order, shall be
valid, and, to the extent of the sum or sums so paid, effectual to satisfy and
discharge the liability for moneys payable upon any such Unregistered Security
or Coupon.
SECTION 7.4 Securities Owned by Issuer Deemed Not Outstanding.
In determining whether the Holders of the requisite aggregate principal amount
of Outstanding Securities of any or all series have concurred in any
direction, consent or waiver under this Indenture, Securities that are owned
by the Issuer or any other obligor on the Securities with respect to which
such determination is being made or by any person directly or indirectly
controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with
the Issuer or any other obligor on the Securities with respect to which such
determination is being made shall be disregarded and deemed not to be
Outstanding for the purpose of any such determination, except that for the
purpose of determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying on
any such direction, consent or waiver only Securities that the Trustee knows
are so owned shall be so disregarded. Securities so owned that have been
pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee
establishes to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee's right so to act
with respect to such Securities and that the pledgee is not the Issuer or any
other obligor upon the Securities or any person directly or indirectly
controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with
the Issuer or any other obligor on the Securities. In case of a dispute as to
such right, the advice of counsel shall be full protection in respect of any
decision made by the Trustee in accordance with such advice. Upon request of
the Trustee, the Issuer shall furnish to the Trustee promptly an Officer's
Certificate listing and identifying all Securities, if any, known by the
Issuer to be owned or held by or for the account of any of the above-described
persons; and, subject to Sections 6.1 and 6.2, the Trustee shall be entitled
to accept such Officer's Certificate as conclusive evidence of the facts
therein set forth and of the fact that all Securities not listed therein are
Outstanding for the purpose of any such determination.
SECTION 7.5 Right of Revocation of Action Taken. At any time
prior to (but not after) the evidencing to the Trustee, as provided in Section
7.1, of the taking of any action by the Holders of the percentage in aggregate
principal amount of the Securities of any or all series, as the case may be,
specified in this Indenture in connection with such action, any Holder of a
Security the serial number of which is shown by the evidence to be included
among the serial numbers of the Securities the Holders of which have consented
to such action may, by filing written notice at the Corporate Trust Office and
upon proof of holding as provided in this Article, revoke such action so far as
concerns such Security. Except as aforesaid any such action taken by the
Holder of any Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and
upon all future Holders and owners of such Security and of any Securities
issued in exchange or substitution therefor or on registration of transfer
thereof, irrespective of whether or not any notation in regard thereto is made
upon any such Security. Any action taken by the Holders of the percentage in
aggregate principal amount of the Securities of any or all series, as the case
may be, specified in this Indenture in connection with such action shall be
conclusively binding upon the Issuer, the Trustee and the Holders of all the
Securities affected by such action.
ARTICLE EIGHT
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
SECTION 8.1 Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of
Securityholders. The Issuer, when authorized by a resolution of its Board of
Directors (which resolution may provide general terms or parameters for such
action and may provide that the specific terms of such action may be
determined in accordance with or pursuant to an Issuer Order), and the Trustee
may from time to time and at any time enter into an indenture or indentures
supplemental hereto, which comply with the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as
then in effect, for one or more of the following purposes:
(a) to add to the covenants of the Issuer for the benefit of
the Holders, and to make the occurrence, or the occurrence and the
continuance, of a default in any such additional covenants an Event
of Default, or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon
the Issuer; or
(b) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment
hereunder by a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of
one or more series and to add to or change any of the provisions of
this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the
administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one trustee,
pursuant to the requirements of Section 6.11; or
(c) to establish the forms or terms of Securities of any
series or of the Coupons appertaining to such Securities as permitted
by Sections 2.1 and 2.3; or
(d) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any
provisions herein which may be inconsistent with any other provisions
herein, or to make any other provisions with respect to such matters
or questions arising under this Indenture, provided such action shall
not adversely affect the interests of the Holders.
(e) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment
hereunder by a successor trustee with respect to the Securities of
one or more series and to add to or change any of the provisions of
this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the
administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one trustee,
pursuant to the requirements of Section 6.11; and
(f) to make any changes to the terms of this Indenture to
clarify inconsistencies with the provisions of the prospectus
supplement dated October 31, 1996 (which prospectus supplement
relates to the Company's Premium Equity Redemption Cumulative Security
Units--PERCS Units), including, without limitation, to insert
additional provisions inconsistent with any existing provisions
hereof.
The Trustee is hereby authorized to join with the Issuer in the
execution of any such supplemental indenture, to make any further appropriate
agreements and stipulations that may be therein contained and to accept the
conveyance, transfer, assignment, mortgage or pledge of any property
thereunder, but the Trustee shall not be obligated to enter into any such
supplemental indenture that affects the Trustee's own rights, duties or
immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.
Any supplemental indenture authorized by the provisions of this
Section may be executed without the consent of the Holders of any of the
Securities at the time outstanding, notwithstanding any of the provisions of
Section 8.2.
SECTION 8.2 Supplemental Indentures With Consent of
Securityholders. With the consent (evidenced as provided in Article Seven) of
the Holders of not less than 66 2/3% in aggregate principal amount of the
Securities at the time Outstanding of all series affected by such supplemental
indenture (voting as one class), the Issuer, when authorized by a resolution
of its Board of Directors (which resolution may provide general terms or
parameters for such action and may provide that the specific terms of such
action may be determined in accordance with or pursuant to an Issuer Order),
and the Trustee may, from time to time and at any time, enter into an
indenture or indentures supplemental hereto, which comply with the Trust
Indenture Act of 1939, as then in effect, for the purpose of adding any
provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions
of this Indenture or of any supplemental indenture or of modifying in any
manner the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each such series or of
the Coupons appertaining to such Securities, except that no such supplemental
indenture shall (a) extend the final maturity of any Security, or reduce the
principal amount thereof, or reduce the rate or extend the time of payment of
interest thereon, or reduce any amount payable on redemption thereof, or make
the principal thereof (including any amount in respect of original issue
discount), or interest thereon payable in any coin or currency other than that
provided in the Securities and Coupons or in accordance with the terms
thereof, or reduce the amount of the principal of an Original Issue Discount
Security that would be due and payable upon an acceleration of the maturity
thereof pursuant to Section 5.1 or the amount thereof provable in bankruptcy
pursuant to Section 5.2, or alter the provisions of Section 11.11 or 11.12 or
impair or affect the right of any Securityholder to institute suit for the
payment or conversion (if applicable) thereof or, if the Securities provide
therefor, any right of repayment at the option of the Securityholder and any
right to convert, in each case without the consent of the Holder of each
Security so affected, or (b) reduce the aforesaid percentage of Securities of
any series, the consent of the Holders of which is required for any such
supplemental indenture, without the consent of the Holders of each Security so
affected.
A supplemental indenture that changes or eliminates any
covenant or other provision of this Indenture that has expressly been included
solely for the benefit of one or more particular series of Securities, or that
modifies the rights of Holders of Securities of such series, or of Coupons
appertaining to such Securities, with respect to such covenant or provision,
shall be deemed not to affect the rights under this Indenture of the Holders
of Securities of any other series or of the Coupons appertaining to such
Securities.
Upon the request of the Issuer, accompanied by a copy of a
resolution of the Board of Directors (which resolution may provide general
terms or parameters for such action and may provide that the specific terms of
such action may be determined in accordance with or pursuant to an Issuer
Order) certified by the secretary or an assistant secretary of the Issuer
authorizing the execution of any such supplemental indenture, and upon the
filing with the Trustee of evidence of the consent of the Holders of the
Securities as aforesaid and other documents, if any, required by Section 7.1,
the Trustee shall join with the Issuer in the execution of such supplemental
indenture unless such supplemental indenture affects the Trustee's own rights,
duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise, in which case the
Trustee may in its discretion, but shall not be obligated to, enter into such
supplemental indenture.
It shall not be necessary for the consent of the
Securityholders under this Section to approve the particular form of any
proposed supplemental indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such consent
shall approve the substance thereof.
Promptly after the execution by the Issuer and the Trustee of
any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions of this Section, the
Trustee shall give notice thereof (i) to the Holders of then Outstanding
Registered Securities of each series affected thereby, by mailing a notice
thereof by first-class mail to such Holders at their addresses as they shall
appear on the Security register, (ii) if any Unregistered Securities of a
series affected thereby are then Outstanding, to the Holders thereof who have
filed their names and addresses with the Trustee pursuant to Section 313(c)(2)
of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, by mailing a notice thereof by first-class
mail to such Holders at such addresses as were so furnished to the Trustee and
(iii) if any Unregistered Securities of a series affected thereby are then
Outstanding, to all Holders thereof, by publication of a notice thereof at
least once in an Authorized Newspaper in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of
New York and at least once in an Authorized Newspaper in London (and, if
required by Section 3.6, at least once in an Authorized Newspaper in
Luxembourg), and in each case such notice shall set forth in general terms the
substance of such supplemental indenture. Any failure of the Issuer to give
such notice, or any defect therein, shall not, however, in any way impair or
affect the validity of any such supplemental indenture.
SECTION 8.3 Effect of Supplemental Indenture. Upon the
execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions hereof,
this Indenture shall be and be deemed to be modified and amended in accordance
therewith and the respective rights, limitations of rights, obligations,
duties and immunities under this Indenture of the Trustee, the Issuer and the
Holders of Securities of each series affected thereby shall thereafter be
determined, exercised and enforced hereunder subject in all respects to such
modifications and amendments, and all the terms and conditions of any such
supplemental indenture shall be and be deemed to be part of the terms and
conditions of this Indenture for any and all purposes.
SECTION 8.4 Documents to Be Given to Trustee. The Trustee,
subject to the provisions of Sections 6.1 and 6.2, may receive an Officer's
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel as conclusive evidence that any
supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article 8 complies with the
applicable provisions of this Indenture.
SECTION 8.5 Notation on Securities in Respect of Supplemental
Indentures. Securities of any series authenticated and delivered after the
execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions of this
Article may bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee for such series as
to any matter provided for by such supplemental indenture or as to any action
taken by Securityholders. If the Issuer or the Trustee shall so determine,
new Securities of any series so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the
Trustee and the Board of Directors, to any modification of this Indenture
contained in any such supplemental indenture may be prepared by the Issuer,
authenticated by the Trustee and made available for delivery in exchange for
the Securities of such series then Outstanding.
ARTICLE NINE
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE OR CONVEYANCE
SECTION 9.1 Issuer May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain
Terms. The Issuer shall not consolidate with or merge into any other Person
or transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to
any Person, and the Issuer shall not permit any other Person to consolidate
with or merge into the Issuer, unless:
(a) either the Issuer shall be the continuing corporation, or
the corporation (if other than the Issuer) formed by such
consolidation or into which the Issuer is merged or to which the
properties and assets of the Issuer substantially as an entity are
transferred or leased shall be a corporation organized and existing
under the laws of the United States of America or any State thereof
or the District of Columbia and shall expressly assume, by an
indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the Trustee,
in form satisfactory to the Trustee, all the obligations of the
Issuer under the Securities and this Indenture);
(b) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no
Event of Default, and no event that, after notice or lapse of time or
both, would become an Event of Default, shall have happened and be
continuing; and
(c) the Issuer has delivered to the Trustee an Officer's
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such
consolidation, merger, transfer or lease and any such supplemental
indenture comply with this Article and that all conditions precedent
provided for herein relating to such transaction have been complied
with.
SECTION 9.2 Successor Corporation Substituted. The successor
corporation formed by such consolidation or into which the Issuer is merged or
to which such transfer or lease is made shall succeed to and be substituted
for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Issuer under this
Indenture with the same effect as if such successor corporation had been named
as the Issuer herein, and thereafter (except in the case of a lease to another
Person) the predecessor corporation shall be relieved of all obligations and
covenants under the Indenture and the Securities and, in the event of such
conveyance or transfer, any such predecessor corporation may be dissolved and
liquidated.
ARTICLE TEN
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE;
UNCLAIMED MONEYS
SECTION 10.1 Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture. (A) If
at any time (a) the Issuer shall have paid or caused to be paid the principal
of and interest on all the Securities of any series Outstanding hereunder and
all unmatured Coupons appertaining thereto (other than Securities of such
series and Coupons appertaining thereto that have been destroyed, lost or
stolen and that have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 2.9) as and
when the same shall have become due and payable, or (b) the Issuer shall have
delivered to the Trustee for cancellation all Securities of any series
theretofore authenticated and all unmatured Coupons appertaining thereto
(other than any Securities of such series and Coupons appertaining thereto
that shall have been destroyed, lost or stolen and that shall have been
replaced or paid as provided in Section 2.9) or (c) in the case of any series
of Securities where the exact amount (including the currency of payment) of
principal of and interest due on which can be determined at the time of making
the deposit referred to in clause (ii) below, (i) all the Securities of such
series and all unmatured Coupons appertaining thereto not theretofore
delivered to the Trustee for cancellation shall have become due and payable,
or are by their terms to become due and payable within one year or are to be
called for redemption within one year under arrangements satisfactory to the
Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption, and (ii) the Issuer shall have
irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust
funds the entire amount in cash (other than moneys repaid by the Trustee or any
paying agent to the Issuer in accordance with Section 10.4) or, in the case of
any series of Securities the payments on which may only be made in Dollars,
direct obligations of the United States of America, backed by its full faith
and credit ("U.S. Government Obligations"), maturing as to principal and
interest at such times and in such amounts as will insure the availability of
cash, or a combination thereof, sufficient in the opinion of a nationally
recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written
certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay (A) the principal and
interest on all Securities of such series and Coupons appertaining thereto on
each date that such principal or interest is due and payable and (B) any
mandatory sinking fund payments on the dates on which such payments are due
and payable in accordance with the terms of the Indenture and the Securities
of such series; and if, in any such case, the Issuer shall also pay or cause
to be paid all other sums payable hereunder by the Issuer, then this Indenture
shall cease to be of further effect (except as to (i) rights of registration
of transfer and exchange of Securities of such Series and of Coupons
appertaining thereto and the Issuer's right of optional redemption, if any,
(ii) substitution of mutilated, defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities
or Coupons, (iii) rights of holders of Securities and Coupons appertaining
thereto to receive payments of principal thereof and interest thereon, upon
the original stated due dates therefor (but not upon acceleration), and
remaining rights of the Holders to receive mandatory sinking fund payments,
if any, (iv) the rights, obligations, duties and immunities of the Trustee
hereunder, (v) the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series and
Coupons appertaining thereto as beneficiaries hereof with respect to the
property so deposited with the Trustee payable to all or any of them, and (vi)
the obligations of the Issuer under Section 3.2) and the Trustee, on demand of
the Issuer accompanied by an Officer's Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel
and at the cost and expense of the Issuer, shall execute proper instruments
acknowledging such satisfaction of and discharging this Indenture; provided,
that the rights of Holders of the Securities and Coupons to receive amounts in
respect of principal of and interest on the Securities and Coupons held by
them shall not be delayed longer than required by then-applicable mandatory
rules or policies of any securities exchange upon which the Securities are
listed. The Issuer agrees to reimburse the Trustee for any costs or expenses
thereafter reasonably and properly incurred and to compensate the Trustee for
any services thereafter reasonably and properly rendered by the Trustee in
connection with this Indenture or the Securities of such series.
(B) The following provisions shall apply to the Securities of
each series unless specifically otherwise provided in a Board Resolution,
Officer's Certificate or indenture supplemental hereto provided pursuant to
Section 2.3. In addition to discharge of the Indenture pursuant to the next
preceding paragraph, in the case of any series of Securities the exact amounts
(including the currency of payment) of principal of and interest due on which
can be determined at the time of making the deposit referred to in clause (a)
below, the Issuer shall be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire
indebtedness on all the Securities of such a series and the Coupons
appertaining thereto on the date of the deposit referred to in subparagraph
(a) below, and the provisions of this Indenture with respect to the Securities
of such series and Coupons appertaining thereto shall no longer be in effect
(except as to (i) rights of registration of transfer and exchange of
Securities of such series and of Coupons appertaining thereto and the Issuer's
right of optional redemption, if any, (ii) substitution of mutilated, defaced,
destroyed, lost or stolen Securities or Coupons, (iii) rights of Holders of
Securities and Coupons appertaining thereto to receive payments of principal
thereof and interest thereon, upon the original stated due dates therefor (but
not upon acceleration), and remaining rights of the Holders to receive
mandatory sinking fund payments, if any, (iv) the rights, obligations, duties
and immunities of the Trustee hereunder, (v) the rights of the Holders of
Securities of such series and Coupons appertaining thereto as beneficiaries
hereof with respect to the property so deposited with the Trustee payable to
all or any of them and (vi) the obligations of the Issuer under Section 3.2)
and the Trustee, at the expense of the Issuer, shall at the Issuer's request,
execute proper instruments acknowledging the same, if
(a) with reference to this provision the Issuer has
irrevocably deposited or caused to be irrevocably deposited with the
Trustee as trust funds in trust, specifically pledged as security
for, and dedicated solely to, the benefit of the Holders of the
Securities of such series and Coupons appertaining thereto (i) cash
in an amount, or (ii) in the case of any series of Securities the
payments on which may only be made in Dollars, U.S. Government
Obligations, maturing as to principal and interest at such times and
in such amounts as will insure the availability of cash or (iii) a
combination thereof, sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally
recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a
written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay (A) the
principal and interest on all Securities of such series and Coupons
appertaining thereto on each date that such principal or interest is
due and payable and (B) any mandatory sinking fund payments on the
dates on which such payments are due and payable in accordance with
the terms of the Indenture and the Securities of such series;
(b) such deposit will not result in a breach or violation of,
or constitute a default under, any agreement or instrument to which
the Issuer is a party or by which it is bound;
(c) the Issuer has delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of
Counsel based on the fact that (x) the Issuer has received from, or
there has been published by, the Internal Revenue Service a ruling or
(y) since the date hereof, there has been a change in the applicable
Federal income tax law, in either case to the effect that, and such
opinion shall confirm that, the Holders of the Securities of such
series and Coupons appertaining thereto will not recognize income,
gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result of such
deposit, defeasance and discharge and will be subject to Federal
income tax on the same amount and in the same manner and at the same
times, as would have been the case if such deposit, defeasance and
discharge had not occurred; and
(d) the Issuer has delivered to the Trustee an Officer's
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all
conditions precedent provided for relating to the defeasance
contemplated by this provision have been complied with.
(C) The Issuer shall be released from its obligations under
Section 9.1 with respect to the Securities of any series, and any Coupons
appertaining thereto, Outstanding on and after the date the conditions set
forth below are satisfied (hereinafter, "covenant defeasance"). For this
purpose, such covenant defeasance means that, with respect to the Outstanding
Securities of any series, the Issuer may omit to comply with and shall have no
liability in respect of any term, condition or limitation set forth in such
Section, whether directly or indirectly by reason of any reference elsewhere
herein to such Section or by reason of any reference in such Section to any
other provision herein or in any other document and such omission to comply
shall not constitute an Event of Default under Section 5.1, but the remainder
of this Indenture and such Securities and Coupons shall be unaffected thereby.
The following shall be the conditions to application of this subsection (C) of
this Section 10.1:
(a) The Issuer has irrevocably deposited or caused to be
deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust for the purpose of
making the following payments, specifically pledged as security for,
and dedicated solely to, the benefit of the holders of the Securities
of such series and coupons appertaining thereto, (i) cash in an
amount, or (ii) in the case of any series of Securities the payments
on which may only be made in Dollars, U.S. Government Obligations
maturing as to principal and interest at such times and in such
amounts as will insure the availability of cash or (iii) a
combination thereof, sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally
recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a
written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay (A) the
principal and interest on all Securities of such series and Coupons
appertaining thereto and (B) any mandatory sinking fund payments on
the day on which such payments are due and payable in accordance with
the terms of the Indenture and the Securities of such series;
(b) No Event of Default or event that with notice or lapse of
time or both would become an Event of Default with respect to the
Securities shall have occurred and be continuing on the date of such
deposit;
(c) Such covenant defeasance shall not cause the Trustee to
have a conflicting interest as defined in Section 6.8 and for
purposes of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 with respect to any
securities of the Issuer;
(d) Such covenant defeasance shall not result in a breach or
violation of, or constitute a default under, this Indenture or any
other agreement or instrument to which the Issuer is a party or by
which it is bound;
(e) Such covenant defeasance shall not cause any Securities
then listed on any registered national securities exchange under the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, to be delisted;
(f) The Issuer shall have delivered to the Trustee an
Officer's Certificate and Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the
Holders of the Securities of such series and Coupons appertaining
thereto will not recognize income, gain or loss for Federal income tax
purposes as a result of such covenant defeasance and will be subject
to Federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at
the same times as would have been the case if such covenant defeasance
had not occurred; and
(g) The Issuer shall have delivered to the Trustee an
Officer's Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that
all conditions precedent provided for relating to the covenant
defeasance contemplated by this provision have been complied with.
SECTION 10.2 Application by Trustee of Funds Deposited for
Payment of Securities. Subject to Section 10.4, all moneys deposited with the
Trustee (or other trustee) pursuant to Section 10.1 shall be held in trust and
applied by it to the payment, either directly or through any paying agent
(including the Issuer acting as its own paying agent), to the Holders of the
particular Securities of such series and of Coupons appertaining thereto for
the payment or redemption of which such moneys have been deposited with the
Trustee, of all sums due and to become due thereon for principal and interest;
but such money need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent
required by law.
SECTION 10.3 Repayment of Moneys Held by Paying Agent. In
connection with the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect
to Securities of any series, all moneys then held by any paying agent under
the provisions of this Indenture with respect to such series of Securities
shall, upon demand of the Issuer, be repaid to it or paid to the Trustee and
thereupon such paying agent shall be released from all further liability with
respect to such moneys.
SECTION 10.4 Return of Moneys Held by Trustee and Paying Agent
Unclaimed for Two Years. Any moneys deposited with or paid to the Trustee or
any paying agent for the payment of the principal of or interest on any
Security of any series or Coupons attached thereto and not applied but
remaining unclaimed for two years after the date upon which such principal or
interest shall have become due and payable, shall, upon the written request of
the Issuer and unless otherwise required by mandatory provisions of applicable
escheat or abandoned or unclaimed property law, be repaid to the Issuer by the
Trustee for such series or such paying agent, and the Holder of the Securities
of such series and of any Coupons appertaining thereto shall, unless otherwise
required by mandatory provisions of applicable escheat or abandoned or
unclaimed property laws, thereafter look only to the Issuer for any payment
that such Holder may be entitled to collect, and all liability of the Trustee
or any paying agent with respect to such moneys shall thereupon cease;
provided, however, that the Trustee or such paying agent, before being
required to make any such repayment with respect to moneys deposited with it
for any payment (a) in respect of Registered Securities of any series, shall
at the expense of the Issuer, mail by first-class mail to Holders of such
Securities at their addresses as they shall appear on the Security register,
and (b) in respect of Unregistered Securities of any series, shall at the
expense of the Issuer cause to be published once, in an Authorized Newspaper in
the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York and once in an Authorized
Newspaper in London (and if required by Section 3.6, once in an Authorized
Newspaper in Luxembourg), notice, that such moneys remain and that, after a
date specified therein, which shall not be less than thirty days from the date
of such mailing or publication, any unclaimed balance of such money then
remaining will be repaid to the Issuer.
SECTION 10.5 Indemnity for U.S. Government Obligations. The
Issuer shall pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or other
charge imposed on or assessed against the U.S. Government Obligations
deposited pursuant to Section 10.1 or the principal or interest received in
respect of such obligations.
ARTICLE ELEVEN
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
SECTION 11.1 Incorporators, Stockholders, Officers and
Directors of Issuer Exempt from Individual Liability. No recourse under or
upon any obligation, covenant or agreement contained in this Indenture, or in
any Security, or because of any indebtedness evidenced thereby, shall be had
against any incorporator, as such or against any past, present or future
stockholder, officer or director, as such, of the Issuer or of any successor,
either directly or through the Issuer or any successor, under any rule of law,
statute or constitutional provision or by the enforcement of any assessment or
by any legal or equitable proceeding or otherwise, all such liability being
expressly waived and released by the acceptance of the Securities and the
Coupons appertaining thereto by the Holders thereof and as part of the
consideration for the issue of the Securities and the Coupons appertaining
thereto.
SECTION 11.2 Provisions of Indenture for the Sole Benefit of
Parties and Holders of Securities and Coupons. Nothing in this Indenture, in
the Securities or in the Coupons appertaining thereto, expressed or implied,
shall give or be construed to give to any person, firm or corporation, other
than the parties hereto and their successors and the holders of Senior
Indebtedness and the Holders of the Securities or Coupons, if any, any legal or
equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture or under any covenant or
provision herein contained, all such covenants and provisions being for the
sole benefit of the parties hereto and their successors, the holders of the
Senior Indebtedness and the Holders of the Securities or Coupons, if any.
SECTION 11.3 Successors and Assigns of Issuer Bound by
Indenture. All the covenants, stipulations, promises and agreements in this
Indenture contained by or in behalf of the Issuer shall bind its successors
and assigns, whether so expressed or not.
SECTION 11.4 Notices and Demands on Issuer, Trustee and
Holders of Securities and Coupons. Any notice or demand that by any provision
of this Indenture is required or permitted to be given or served by the
Trustee or by the Holders of Securities or Coupons to or on the Issuer may be
given or served by being deposited postage prepaid, first-class mail (except
as otherwise specifically provided herein) addressed (until another address of
the Issuer is filed by the Issuer with the Trustee) to SunAmerica Inc., 00000
Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx, Xxx Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000-0000, Attention: Secretary.
Any notice, direction, request or demand by the Issuer or any Holder of
Securities or Coupons to or upon the Trustee shall be deemed to have been
sufficiently given or served by being deposited postage prepaid, first-class
mail (except as otherwise specifically provided herein) addressed (until
another address of the Trustee is filed by the Trustee with the Issuer) to The
Bank of New York, 000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 00X, Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000,
Attention: Corporate Trust Administration.
Where this Indenture provides for notice to Holders of
Registered Securities, such notice shall be sufficiently given (unless
otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class
postage prepaid, to each Holder entitled thereto, at his last address as it
appears in the Security register. In any case where notice to such Holders is
given by mail, neither the failure to mail such notice, nor any defect in any
notice so mailed, to any particular Holder shall affect the sufficiency of such
notice with respect to other Holders. Where this Indenture provides for
notice in any manner, such notice may be waived in writing by the person
entitled to receive such notice, either before or after the event, and such
waiver shall be the equivalent of such notice. Waivers of notice by Holders
shall be filed with the Trustee, but such filing shall not be a condition
precedent to the validity of any action taken in reliance upon such waiver.
In case, by reason of the suspension of or irregularities in
regular mail service, it shall be impracticable to mail notice to the Issuer
when such notice is required to be given pursuant to any provision of this
Indenture, then any manner of giving such notice as shall be reasonably
satisfactory to the Trustee shall be deemed to be a sufficient giving of such
notice.
SECTION 11.5 Officer's Certificates and Opinions of Counsel;
Statements to Be Contained Therein. Upon any application or demand by the
Issuer to the Trustee to take any action under any of the provisions of this
Indenture, the Issuer shall furnish to the Trustee an Officer's Certificate
stating that all conditions precedent provided for in this Indenture relating
to the proposed action have been complied with and an Opinion of Counsel
stating that in the opinion of such counsel all such conditions precedent have
been complied with, except that in the case of any such application or demand
as to which the furnishing of such documents is specifically required by any
provision of this Indenture relating to such particular application or demand,
no additional certificate or opinion need be furnished.
Each certificate or opinion provided for in this Indenture and
delivered to the Trustee with respect to compliance with a condition or
covenant provided for in this Indenture shall include (a) a statement that the
person making such certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition,
(b) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or
investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in such
certificate or opinion are based, (c) a statement that, in the opinion of such
person, he has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to
enable him to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant
or condition has been complied with and (d) a statement as to whether or not,
in the opinion of such person, such condition or covenant has been complied
with.
Any certificate, statement or opinion of an officer of the
Issuer may be based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a
certificate or opinion of or representations by counsel, unless such officer
knows that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to the
matters upon which his certificate, statement or opinion may be based as
aforesaid are erroneous, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know
that the same are erroneous. Any certificate, statement or opinion of counsel
may be based, insofar as it relates to factual matters, information with
respect to which is in the possession of the Issuer, upon the certificate,
statement or opinion of or representations by an officer or officers of the
Issuer, unless such counsel knows that the certificate, statement or opinion
or representations with respect to the matters upon which his certificate,
statement or opinion may be based as aforesaid are erroneous, or in the
exercise of reasonable care should know that the same are erroneous.
Any certificate, statement or opinion of an officer of the
Issuer or of counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to accounting
matters, upon a certificate or opinion of or representations by an accountant
or firm of accountants in the employ of the Issuer, unless such officer or
counsel, as the case may be, knows that the certificate or opinion or
representations with respect to the accounting matters upon which his
certificate, statement or opinion may be based as aforesaid are erroneous, or
in the exercise of reasonable care should know that the same are erroneous.
Any certificate or opinion of any independent firm of public
accountants filed with and directed to the Trustee shall contain a statement
that such firm is independent.
SECTION 11.6 Payments Due on Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays.
If the date of maturity of interest on or principal of the Securities of any
series or any Coupons appertaining thereto or the date fixed for redemption or
repayment of any such Security or Coupon shall not be a Business Day, then
payment of interest or principal need not be made on such date, but may be
made on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if
made on the date of maturity or the date fixed for redemption, and no interest
shall accrue for the period after such date.
SECTION 11.7 Conflict of Any Provision of Indenture with Trust
Indenture Act of 1939. If and to the extent that any provision of this
Indenture limits, qualifies or conflicts with the duties imposed by, or with
another provision (an "incorporated provision") included in this Indenture by
operation of, Sections 310 to 318, inclusive, of the Trust Indenture Act of
1939, such imposed duties or incorporated provision shall control.
SECTION 11.8 New York Law to Govern. This Indenture and each
Security and Coupon shall be deemed to be a contract under the laws of the
State of New York without regard to the conflicts of law principles thereof,
and for all purposes shall be construed in accordance with the laws of such
State, except as may otherwise be required by mandatory provisions of law.
SECTION 11.9 Counterparts. This Indenture may be executed in
any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original; but such
counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.
SECTION 11.10 Effect of Headings. The Article and Section
headings herein and the Table of Contents are for convenience only and shall
not affect the construction hereof.
SECTION 11.11 Securities in a Foreign Currency or in ECU.
Unless otherwise specified in an Officer's Certificate delivered pursuant to
Section 2.3 of this Indenture with respect to a particular series of
Securities, whenever for purposes of this Indenture any action may be taken by
the Holders of a specified percentage in aggregate principal amount of
Securities of all series or all series affected by a particular action at the
time Outstanding and, at such time, there are Outstanding Securities of any
series that are denominated in a coin or currency other than Dollars
(including ECUs), then the principal amount of Securities of such series that
shall be deemed to be Outstanding for the purpose of taking such action shall
be that amount of Dollars that could be obtained for such amount at the Market
Exchange Rate. For purposes of this Section 11.11, Market Exchange Rate shall
mean the noon Dollar buying rate in New York City for cable transfers of that
currency as published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; provided,
however, in the case of ECUs, Market Exchange Rate shall mean the rate of
exchange determined by the Commission of the European Communities (or any
successor thereto) as published in the Official Journal of the European
Communities (such publication or any successor publication, the "Journal").
If such Market Exchange Rate is not available for any reason with respect to
such currency, the Trustee shall use, in its sole discretion and without
liability on its part, such quotation of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
or, in the case of ECUs, the rate of exchange as published in the Journal, as
of the most recent available date, or quotations or, in the case of ECUs,
rates of exchange from one or more major banks in The City of New York or in
the country of issue of the currency in question, which for purposes of the
ECU shall be Brussels, Belgium, or such other quotations or, in the case of
ECU, rates of exchange as the Trustee shall deem appropriate. The provisions
of this paragraph shall apply in determining the equivalent principal amount in
respect of Securities of a series denominated in a currency other than Dollars
in connection with any action taken by Holders of Securities pursuant to the
terms of this Indenture.
All decisions and determinations of the Trustee regarding the
Market Exchange Rate or any alternative determination provided for in the
preceding paragraph shall be in its sole discretion and shall, in the absence
of manifest error, be conclusive to the extent permitted by law for all
purposes and irrevocably binding upon the Issuer and all Holders.
SECTION 11.12 Judgment Currency. The Issuer agrees, to the
fullest extent that it may effectively do so under applicable law, that (a) if
for the purpose of obtaining judgment in any court it is necessary to convert
the sum due in respect of the principal of or interest on the Securities of
any series (the "Required Currency") into a currency in which a judgment will
be rendered (the "Judgment Currency"), the rate of exchange used shall be the
rate at which in accordance with normal banking procedures the Trustee could
purchase in The City of New York the Required Currency with the Judgment
Currency on the day on which final unappealable judgment is entered, unless
such day is not a New York Banking Day, then, to the extent permitted by
applicable law, the rate of exchange used shall be the rate at which in
accordance with normal banking procedures the Trustee could purchase in The
City of New York the Required Currency with the Judgment Currency on the New
York Banking Day preceding the day on which final unappealable judgment is
entered and (b) its obligations under this Indenture to make payments in the
Required Currency (i) shall not be discharged or satisfied by any tender, or
any recovery pursuant to any judgment (whether or not entered in accordance
with subsection (a)), in any currency other than the Required Currency, except
to the extent that such tender or recovery shall result in the actual receipt,
by the payee, of the full amount of the Required Currency expressed to be
payable in respect of such payments, (ii) shall be enforceable as an
alternative or additional cause of action for the purpose of recovering in the
Required Currency the amount, if any, by which such actual receipt shall fall
short of the full amount of the Required Currency so expressed to be payable
and (iii) shall not be affected by judgment being obtained for any other sum
due under this Indenture. For purposes of the foregoing, "New York Banking
Day" means any day except a Saturday, Sunday or a legal holiday in The City of
New York or a day on which banking institutions in The City of New York are
authorized or required by law or executive order to close.
ARTICLE TWELVE
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES AND SINKING FUNDS
SECTION 12.1 Applicability of Article. The provisions of this
Article shall be applicable to the Securities of any series that are
redeemable before their maturity or to any sinking fund for the retirement of
Securities of a series except as otherwise specified as contemplated by
Section 2.3 for Securities of such series.
SECTION 12.2 Notice of Redemption; Partial Redemptions.
Notice of redemption to the Holders of Registered Securities of any series to
be redeemed as a whole or in part at the option of the Issuer shall be given
by mailing notice of such redemption by first class mail, postage prepaid, at
least 30 days and not more than 60 days prior to the date fixed for redemption
to such Holders of Securities of such series at their last addresses as they
shall appear upon the registry books. Notice of redemption to the Holders of
Unregistered Securities to be redeemed as a whole or in part, who have filed
their names and addresses with the Trustee pursuant to Section 313(c)(2) of
the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 shall be given by mailing notice of such
redemption, by first class mail, postage prepaid, at least 30 days and not
more than 60 prior to the date fixed for redemption, to such Holders at such
addresses as were so furnished to the Trustee (and, in the case of any such
notice given by the Issuer, the Trustee shall make such information available
to the Issuer for such purpose). Notice of redemption to all other Holders of
Unregistered Securities shall be published in an Authorized Newspaper in the
Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York and in an Authorized Newspaper in
London (and, if required by Section 3.6, in an Authorized Newspaper in
Luxembourg), in each case, once in each of three successive calendar weeks, the
first publication to be not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the
date fixed for redemption. Any notice that is mailed in the manner herein
provided shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether or
not the Holder receives the notice. Failure to give notice by mail, or any
defect in the notice to the Holder of any Security of a series designated for
redemption as a whole or in part shall not affect the validity of the
proceedings for the redemption of any other Security of such series.
The notice of redemption to each such Holder shall specify, the
principal amount and CUSIP numbers of each Security of such series held by
such Holder to be redeemed, the date fixed for redemption, the redemption
price, the place or places of payment, that payment will be made upon
presentation and surrender of such Securities and, in the case of Securities
with Coupons attached thereto, of all Coupons appertaining thereto maturing
after the date fixed for redemption, that such redemption is pursuant to the
mandatory or optional sinking fund, or both, if such be the case, that
interest accrued to the date fixed for redemption will be paid as specified in
such notice and that on and after said date interest thereon or on the
portions thereof to be redeemed will cease to accrue and will specify any
conversion price then in effect and when any right to convert such Security on
part thereof to be redeemed will expire. In case any Security of a series is
to be redeemed in part only the notice of redemption shall state the portion
of the principal amount thereof to be redeemed and shall state that on and
after the date fixed for redemption, upon surrender of such Security, a new
Security or Securities of such series in principal amount equal to the
unredeemed portion thereof will be issued.
The notice of redemption of Securities of any series to be
redeemed at the option of the Issuer shall be given by the Issuer or, at the
Issuer's request, by the Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Issuer.
On or before the redemption date specified in the notice of
redemption given as provided in this Section, the Issuer will deposit with the
Trustee or with one or more paying agents (or, if the Issuer is acting as its
own paying agent, set aside, segregate and hold in trust as provided in
Section 3.4) an amount of money sufficient to redeem on the redemption date
all the Securities of such series so called for redemption (other than those,
if any, theretofore surrendered for conversion) at the appropriate redemption
price, together with accrued interest to the date fixed for redemption. If
any Security called for redemption is converted pursuant hereto, any money
deposited with the Trustee or any paying agent or so segregated and held in
trust for the redemption of such Security shall be paid to the Issuer upon the
Issuer's request, or, if then held by the Issuer, shall be discharged from
such trust. The Issuer will deliver to the Trustee at least 70 days prior to
the date fixed for redemption an Officer's Certificate stating the aggregate
principal amount and CUSIP numbers of Securities to be redeemed and the date
fixed for redemption. In case of a redemption at the election of the Issuer
prior to the expiration of any restriction on such redemption, the Issuer
shall deliver to the Trustee, prior to the giving of any notice of redemption
to Holders pursuant to this Section, an Officer's Certificate stating that such
restriction has been complied with.
If less than all the Securities of a series are to be redeemed,
the Trustee shall select, in such manner as it shall deem appropriate and
fair, Securities of such Series to be redeemed in whole or in part.
Securities may be redeemed in part in multiples equal to the minimum
authorized denomination for Securities of such series or any multiple thereof.
The Trustee shall promptly notify the Issuer in writing of the Securities of
such series selected for redemption and, in the case of any Securities of such
series selected for partial redemption, the principal amount thereof to be
redeemed. For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise
requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of Securities of any
series shall relate, in the case of any Security redeemed or to be redeemed
only in part, to the portion of the principal amount of such Security that has
been or is to be redeemed. If any Security selected for partial redemption is
surrendered for conversion after such selection, the converted portion of such
Security shall be deemed (so far as may be) to be the portion selected for
redemption. Upon any redemption of less than all the Securities of any
series, the Issuer and the Trustee may treat as outstanding any Securities of
such series surrendered for conversion during the period of 15 days next
preceding the mailing of a notice of redemption, and need not treat as
outstanding any Security authenticated and delivered during such period in
exchange for the unconverted portion of any Security of such series converted
in part during such period.
SECTION 12.3 Payment of Securities Called for Redemption. If
notice of redemption has been given as above provided, the Securities or
portions of Securities specified in such notice shall become due and payable
on the date and at the place stated in such notice at the applicable
redemption price, together with interest accrued to the date fixed for
redemption, and on and after said date (unless the Issuer shall default in the
payment of such Securities at the redemption price, together with interest
accrued to said date) interest on the Securities or portions of Securities so
called for redemption shall cease to accrue, and the unmatured Coupons, if
any, appertaining thereto shall be void, and, except as provided in Sections
6.5 and 10.4, such Securities shall cease from and after the date fixed for
redemption to be convertible or entitled to any other benefit or security
under this Indenture, and the Holders thereof shall have no right in respect
of such Securities except the right to receive the redemption price thereof and
unpaid interest to the date fixed for redemption. On presentation and
surrender of such Securities at a place of payment specified in said notice,
together with all Coupons, if any, appertaining thereto maturing after the
date fixed for redemption, said Securities or the specified portions thereof
shall be paid and redeemed by the Issuer at the applicable redemption price,
together with interest accrued thereon to the date fixed for redemption;
provided that payment of interest becoming due on or prior to the date fixed
for redemption shall be payable in the case of Securities with Coupons
attached thereto, to the Holders of the Coupons for such interest upon
surrender thereof, and in the case of Registered Securities, to the Holders of
such Registered Securities registered as such on the relevant record date
subject to the terms and provisions of Sections 2.3 and 2.7 hereof.
If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon
surrender thereof for redemption, the principal shall, until paid or duly
provided for, bear interest from the date fixed for redemption at the rate of
interest or Yield to Maturity (in the case of an Original Issue Discount
Security) borne by such Security and such Security shall remain convertible in
accordance with its terms until paid or duly provided for.
If any Security with Coupons attached thereto is surrendered
for redemption and is not accompanied by all appurtenant Coupons maturing
after the date fixed for redemption, the surrender of such missing Coupon or
Coupons may be waived by the Issuer and the Trustee, if there be furnished to
each of them such security or indemnity as they may require to save each of
them harmless.
Upon presentation of any Security redeemed in part only, the
Issuer shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for
delivery to or on the order of the Holder thereof, at the expense of the
Issuer, a new Security or Securities of such series, of authorized
denominations, in principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion of the
Security so presented.
SECTION 12.4 Exclusion of Certain Securities from Eligibility
for Selection for Redemption. Securities shall be excluded from eligibility
for selection for redemption if they are identified by registration and
certificate number in an Officer's Certificate delivered to the Trustee at
least 40 days prior to the last date on which notice of redemption may be
given as being owned of record and beneficially by, and not pledged or
hypothecated by either (a) the Issuer or (b) an entity specifically identified
in such written statement as directly or indirectly controlling or controlled
by or under direct or indirect common control with the Issuer.
SECTION 12.5 Mandatory and Optional Sinking Funds. The
minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by the terms of the
Securities of any series is herein referred to as a "mandatory sinking fund
payment", and any payment in excess of such minimum amount provided for by the
terms of the Securities of any series is herein referred to as an "optional
sinking fund payment". The date on which a sinking fund payment is to be made
is herein referred to as the "sinking fund payment date".
In lieu of making all or any part of any mandatory sinking fund
payment with respect to any series of Securities in cash, the Issuer may at
its option (a) deliver to the Trustee Securities of such series theretofore
purchased or otherwise acquired (except upon redemption pursuant to the
mandatory sinking fund) by the Issuer or receive credit for Securities of such
series (not previously so credited) theretofore purchased or otherwise acquired
(except as aforesaid) by the Issuer or converted and delivered to the Trustee
for cancellation pursuant to Section 2.10, (b) receive credit for optional
sinking fund payments (not previously so credited) made pursuant to this
Section, or (c) receive credit for Securities of such series (not previously
so credited) redeemed by the Issuer through any optional redemption provision
contained in the terms of such series. Securities so delivered or credited
shall be received or credited by the Trustee at the sinking fund redemption
price specified in such Securities.
On or before the 60th day next preceding each sinking fund
payment date for any series, the Issuer will deliver to the Trustee an
Officer's Certificate (which need not contain the statements required by
Section 11.5) (a) specifying the portion of the mandatory sinking fund payment
to be satisfied by payment of cash and the portion to be satisfied by credit
of Securities of such series and the basis for such credit, (b) stating that
none of the Securities of such series has theretofore been so credited, (c)
stating that no defaults in the payment of interest or Events of Default with
respect to such series have occurred (which have not been waived or cured) and
are continuing and (d) stating whether or not the Issuer intends to exercise
its right to make an optional sinking fund payment with respect to such series
and, if so, specifying the amount of such optional sinking fund payment that
the Issuer intends to pay on or before the next succeeding sinking fund
payment date. Any Securities of such series to be credited and required to be
delivered to the Trustee in order for the Issuer to be entitled to credit
therefor as aforesaid that have not theretofore been delivered to the Trustee
shall be delivered for cancellation pursuant to Section 2.10 to the Trustee
with such Officer's Certificate (or reasonably promptly thereafter if
acceptable to the Trustee). Such Officer's Certificate shall be irrevocable
and upon its receipt by the Trustee the Issuer shall become unconditionally
obligated to make all the cash payments or payments therein referred to, if
any, on or before the next succeeding sinking fund payment date. Failure of
the Issuer, on or before any such 60th day, to deliver such Officer's
Certificate and Securities specified in this paragraph, if any, shall not
constitute a default but shall constitute, on and as of such date, the
irrevocable election of the Issuer (i) that the mandatory sinking fund payment
for such series due on the next succeeding sinking fund payment date shall be
paid entirely in cash without the option to deliver or credit Securities of
such series in respect thereof and (ii) that the Issuer will make no optional
sinking fund payment with respect to such series as provided in this Section.
If the sinking fund payment or payments (mandatory or optional
or both) to be made in cash on the next succeeding sinking fund payment date
plus any unused balance of any preceding sinking fund payments made in cash
shall exceed $50,000 (or the equivalent thereof in any Foreign Currency or
ECU) or a lesser sum in Dollars (or the equivalent thereof in any Foreign
Currency or ECU) if the Issuer shall so request with respect to the Securities
of any particular series, such cash shall be applied on the next succeeding
sinking fund payment date to the redemption of Securities of such series at
the sinking fund redemption price together with accrued interest to the date
fixed for redemption. If such amount shall be $50,000 (or the equivalent
thereof in any Foreign Currency or ECU) or less and the Issuer makes no such
request then it shall be carried over until a sum in excess of $50,000 (or the
equivalent thereof in any Foreign Currency or ECU) is available. The Trustee
shall select, in the manner provided in Section 12.2, for redemption on such
sinking fund payment date a sufficient principal amount of Securities of such
series to absorb said cash, as nearly as may be, and shall (if requested in
writing by the Issuer) inform the Issuer of the serial numbers of the
Securities of such series (or portions thereof) so selected. Securities shall
be excluded from eligibility for redemption under this Section if they are
identified by registration and certificate number in an Officer's Certificate
delivered to the Trustee at least 60 days prior to the sinking fund payment
date as being owned of record and beneficially by, and not pledged or
hypothecated by either (a) the Issuer or (b) an entity specifically identified
in such Officer's Certificate as directly or indirectly controlling or
controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with the Issuer. The
Trustee, in the name and at the expense of the Issuer (or the Issuer, if it
shall so request the Trustee in writing) shall cause notice of redemption of
the Securities of such series to be given in substantially the manner provided
in Section 12.2 (and with the effect provided in Section 12.3) for the
redemption of Securities of such series in part at the option of the Issuer.
The amount of any sinking fund payments not so applied or allocated to the
redemption of Securities of such series shall be added to the next cash
sinking fund payment for such series and, together with such payment, shall be
applied in accordance with the provisions of this Section. Any and all
sinking fund moneys held on the stated maturity date of the Securities of any
particular series (or earlier, if such maturity is accelerated), which are not
held for the payment or redemption of particular Securities of such series
shall be applied, together with other moneys, if necessary, sufficient for the
purpose, to the payment of the principal of, and interest on, the Securities
of such series at maturity. The Issuer's obligation to make a mandatory or
optional sinking fund payment shall automatically be reduced by an amount
equal to the sinking fund redemption price allocable to any Securities or
portions thereof called for redemption pursuant to the preceding paragraph on
any sinking fund payment date and converted; provided, that if the Trustee is
not the conversion agent for the Securities, the Issuer or such conversion
agent shall give the Trustee written notice prior to the date fixed for
redemption of the principal amount of Securities or portions thereof so
converted.
On or before each sinking fund payment date, the Issuer shall
pay to the Trustee in cash or shall otherwise provide for the payment of all
interest accrued to the date fixed for redemption on Securities to be redeemed
on the next following sinking fund payment date.
The Trustee shall not redeem or cause to be redeemed any
Securities of a series with sinking fund moneys or give any notice of
redemption of Securities for such series by operation of the sinking fund
during the continuance of a default in payment of interest on such Securities
or of any Event of Default except that, where the giving of notice of
redemption of any Securities shall theretofore have been made, the Trustee
shall redeem or cause to be redeemed such Securities, provided that it shall
have received from the Issuer a sum sufficient for such redemption. Except as
aforesaid, any moneys in the sinking fund for such series at the time when any
such default or Event of Default shall occur, and any moneys thereafter paid
into the sinking fund, shall, during the continuance of such default or Event
of Default, be deemed to have been collected under Article Five and held for
the payment of all such Securities. In case such Event of Default shall have
been waived as provided in Section 5.10 or the default cured on or before the
sixtieth day preceding the sinking fund payment date in any year, such moneys
shall thereafter be applied on the next succeeding sinking fund payment date
in accordance with this Section to the redemption of such Securities.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this
Indenture to be duly executed, and their respective corporate seals to be
hereunto affixed and attested, all as of November 1, 1996.
SUNAMERICA INC.
By _______________________
Name: Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Title:Executive Vice
President
[CORPORATE SEAL]
Attest:
By _______________________
Name:
Title:
THE BANK OF NEW YORK,
as Trustee
By _____________________
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx
Title: Assistant Vice
President
[CORPORATE SEAL]
Attest:
By _______________________
Name:
Title:
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
) ss.:
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES )
On this 1st day of November, 1996 before me personally came Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx,
to me personally known, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that
he resides at 0000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx
00000, that he is the Executive Vice President of SunAmerica Inc., one of the
corporations described in and that executed the above instrument; that he
knows the corporate seal of said corporation; that the seal affixed to said
instrument is such corporate seal; that it was so affixed by authority of the
Board of Directors of said corporation, and that he signed his name thereto by
like authority.
[NOTARIAL SEAL]
_______________________
Notary Public
STATE OF ILLINOIS )
) ss.:
COUNTY OF XXXX )
On this 1st day of November, 1996 before me personally came Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx, to
me personally known, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that she
resides at 000 Xxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx, Xxx Xxxxxx, that she is an
Assistant Vice President of THE BANK OF NEW YORK, one of the corporations
described in and that executed the above instrument; that he knows the
corporate seal of said corporation; that the seal affixed to said instrument is
such corporate seal; that it was so affixed by authority of the Board of
Directors of said corporation, and that he signed his name thereto by like
authority.
[NOTARIAL SEAL]
_____________________
Notary Public
