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THE PEP BOYS - MANNY, MOE & XXXX
TO
Trustee
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Indenture
Dated as of June _, 1997
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Subordinated Debt Securities
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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PARTIES.......................................................................1
RECITALS......................................................................1
ARTICLE ONE
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION
SECTION 101. Definitions......................................................1
Act..................................................................2
Additional Amounts...................................................2
Affiliate............................................................2
Authenticating Agent.................................................2
Authorized Newspaper.................................................2
Bearer Security......................................................2
Board of Directors...................................................3
Board Resolution.....................................................3
Business Day.........................................................3
CEDEL................................................................3
Commission...........................................................3
Common Stock.........................................................3
Company..............................................................3
Company Request and Company Order....................................3
Conversion Date......................................................4
Conversion Event.....................................................4
Corporate Trust Office...............................................4
corporation..........................................................4
coupon...............................................................4
Currency Indexed Note................................................4
Defaulted Interest...................................................4
Dollar or $..........................................................4
ECU..................................................................4
Election Date........................................................4
Euroclear............................................................4
European Communities.................................................4
European Monetary System.............................................4
Event of Default.....................................................5
Exchange Rate Agent..................................................5
Exchange Rate Officer's Certificate..................................5
Excess Proceeds......................................................5
Foreign Currency.....................................................5
Government Obligations...............................................5
Holder...............................................................6
Indenture............................................................6
Indexed Security.....................................................6
interest.............................................................6
Interest Payment Date................................................6
Market Exchange Rate.................................................6
Maturity.............................................................7
Officers' Certificate................................................7
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Opinion of Counsel...................................................7
Original Issue Discount Security.....................................7
Outstanding..........................................................7
Paying Agent.........................................................9
Person...............................................................9
Place of Payment.....................................................9
Predecessor Security.................................................9
Preferred Stock......................................................9
Redemption Date......................................................10
Redemption Price.....................................................10
Registered Security..................................................10
Regular Record Date..................................................10
Repayment Date.......................................................10
Repayment Price......................................................10
Responsible Officer..................................................10
Security.............................................................10
Security Register and Security Registrar.............................11
Senior Indebtedness..................................................11
Significant Subsidiary...............................................11
Special Record Date..................................................11
Stated Maturity......................................................11
Subsidiary...........................................................11
Trust Indenture Act or TIA...........................................11
Trustee..............................................................11
United States........................................................12
United States person.................................................12
Valuation Date.......................................................12
Yield to Maturity....................................................12
SECTION 102. Compliance Certificates and Opinions.............................12
SECTION 103. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee...........................13
SECTION 104. Acts of Holders..................................................13
SECTION 105. Notices, etc., to Trustee and Company............................15
SECTION 106. Notice to Holders; Waiver........................................16
SECTION 107. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents.........................17
SECTION 108. Successors and Assigns...........................................17
SECTION 109. Separability Clause..............................................17
SECTION 110. Benefits of Indenture............................................17
SECTION 111. Governing Law....................................................17
SECTION 112. Legal Holidays...................................................17
ARTICLE TWO
SECURITIES FORMS
SECTION 201. Forms of Securities..............................................18
SECTION 202. Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication..................18
SECTION 203. Securities Issuable in Global Form...............................19
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ARTICLE THREE
THE SECURITIES
SECTION 301. Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series............................20
SECTION 302. Denominations...................................................24
SECTION 303. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating..................24
SECTION 304. Temporary Securities............................................27
SECTION 305. Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange.............30
SECTION 306. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities................34
SECTION 307. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights
Preserved; Optional Interest Reset..............................35
SECTION 308. Extension of Maturity...........................................39
SECTION 309. Persons Deemed Owners...........................................41
SECTION 310. Cancellation....................................................42
SECTION 311. Computation of Interest.........................................42
SECTION 312. Currency and Manner of Payments in
Respect of Securities...........................................42
SECTION 313. Appointment and Resignation of
Successor Exchange Rate Agent...................................47
ARTICLE FOUR
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
SECTION 401. Satisfaction and Discharge of
Indenture........................................................48
SECTION 402. Application of Trust Funds.......................................49
ARTICLE FIVE
REMEDIES
SECTION 501. Events of Default................................................50
SECTION 502. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission
and Annulment....................................................52
SECTION 504. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits
for Enforcement by Trustee.......................................53
SECTION 504. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.................................54
SECTION 505. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without
Possession of Securities or Coupons..............................55
SECTION 506. Application of Money Collected...................................55
SECTION 507. Limitation on Suits..............................................56
SECTION 508. Unconditional Right of Holders to
Receive Principal, Premium, if any,
and Interest and Additional Amounts..............................56
SECTION 509. Restoration of Rights and Remedies...............................57
SECTION 510. Rights and Remedies Cumulative...................................57
SECTION 511. Delay or Omission Not Waiver.....................................57
SECTION 512. Control by Holders of Securities.................................57
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SECTION 513. Waiver of Past Defaults..........................................58
SECTION 514. Waiver of Usury, Stay or Extension
Laws.............................................................58
SECTION 515. Undertaking for Costs............................................58
ARTICLE SIX
THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 601. Notice of Defaults...............................................59
SECTION 602. Certain Rights of Trustee........................................59
SECTION 603. Not Responsible for Recitals or
Issuance of Securities...........................................61
SECTION 604. May Hold Securities..............................................61
SECTION 605. Money Held in Trust..............................................61
SECTION 606. Compensation and Reimbursement...................................61
SECTION 607. Corporate Trustee Required;
Eligibility; Conflicting Interests...............................62
SECTION 608. Resignation and Removal; Appointment
of Successor.....................................................62
SECTION 609. Acceptance of Appointment by
Successor........................................................64
SECTION 610. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or
Succession to Business...........................................65
SECTION 611. Appointment of Authenticating Agent..............................66
ARTICLE SEVEN
HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY
SECTION 701. Disclosure of Names and Addresses of
Holders..........................................................68
SECTION 702. Reports by Trustee...............................................68
SECTION 703. Reports by Company...............................................68
SECTION 704. Company to Furnish Trustee Names and
Addresses of Holders.............................................69
ARTICLE EIGHT
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE, LEASE OR CONVEYANCE
SECTION 801. Consolidations and Mergers of Company
and Sales, Leases and Conveyances
Permitted Subject to Certain Conditions..........................69
SECTION 802. Rights and Duties of Successor
Corporation......................................................70
SECTION 803. Officers' Certificate and Opinion of
Counsel..........................................................70
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ARTICLE NINE
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
SECTION 901. Supplemental Indentures Without
Consent of Holders...............................................71
SECTION 902. Supplemental Indentures with Consent
of Holders.......................................................72
SECTION 903. Execution of Supplemental Indentures.............................74
SECTION 904. Effect of Supplemental Indentures................................74
SECTION 905. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act..............................74
SECTION 906. Reference in Securities to
Supplemental Indentures..........................................74
ARTICLE TEN
COVENANTS
SECTION 1001. Payment of Principal, Premium, if
any, and Interest and Additional
Amounts.........................................................75
SECTION 1002. Maintenance of Office or Agency.................................75
SECTION 1003. Money for Securities Payments to Be
Held in Trust...................................................77
SECTION 1004. Statement as to Compliance......................................79
SECTION 1005. Additional Amounts..............................................79
ARTICLE ELEVEN
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 1101. Applicability of Article........................................80
SECTION 1102. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee...........................80
SECTION 1103. Selection by Trustee of Securities to
Be Redeemed.....................................................80
SECTION 1104. Notice of Redemption............................................81
SECTION 1105. Deposit of Redemption Price.....................................82
SECTION 1106. Securities Payable on Redemption Date...........................83
SECTION 1107. Securities Redeemed in Part.....................................84
SECTION 1108. Conversion Arrangement on Call for
Redemption......................................................84
ARTICLE TWELVE
SINKING FUNDS
SECTION 1201. Applicability of Article........................................85
SECTION 1202. Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments
with Securities.................................................85
SECTION 1203. Redemption of Securities for Sinking
Fund............................................................86
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ARTICLE THIRTEEN
REPAYMENT AT THE OPTION OF HOLDERS
SECTION 1301. Applicability of Article.......................................86
SECTION 1302. Repayment of Securities........................................86
SECTION 1303. Exercise of Option.............................................87
SECTION 1304. When Securities Presented for
Repayment Become Due and Payable...............................88
SECTION 1305. Securities Repaid in Part......................................89
ARTICLE FOURTEEN
DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE
SECTION 1401. Applicability of Article; Company's
Option to Effect Defeasance or
Covenant Defeasance............................................89
SECTION 1402. Defeasance and Discharge.......................................89
SECTION 1403. Covenant Defeasance............................................90
SECTION 1404. Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant
Defeasance.....................................................91
SECTION 1405. Deposited Money and Government
Obligations to Be Held in Trust;
Other Miscellaneous Provisions.................................93
ARTICLE FIFTEEN
MEETINGS OF HOLDERS OF SECURITIES
SECTION 1501. Purposes for Which Meetings May Be
Called.........................................................94
SECTION 1502. Call, Notice and Place of Meetings.............................94
SECTION 1503. Persons Entitled to Vote at Meetings...........................95
SECTION 1504. Quorum; Action.................................................95
SECTION 1505. Determination of Voting Rights;
Conduct and Adjournment of Meetings............................96
SECTION 1506. Counting Votes and Recording Action
of Meetings....................................................97
ARTICLE SIXTEEN
CONVERSION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 1601. Applicability of Article.......................................98
SECTION 1602. Right of Holders to Convert
Securities into Common Stock...................................98
SECTION 1603. Issuance of Shares of Common Stock on
Conversions....................................................99
SECTION 1604. No Payment or Adjustment for Interest
or Dividends...................................................100
SECTION 1605. Adjustment of Conversion Price.................................100
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SECTION 1606. No Fractional Shares to be Issued..............................105
SECTION 1607. Preservation of Conversion Rights
upon Consolidation, Merger, Sale or
Conveyance.....................................................105
SECTION 1608. Notice to Holders of the Securities
of a Series Prior to Taking Certain
Types of Action................................................106
SECTION 1609. Covenants to Reserve Shares for
Issuance on Conversion of Securities...........................107
SECTION 1610. Compliance with Governmental
Requirements...................................................107
SECTION 1611. Payment of Taxes upon Certificates
for Shares Issued upon Conversion..............................107
SECTION 1612. Trustee's Duties with Respect to
Conversion Provisions..........................................108
SECTION 1613. Conversion of Securities Into
Preferred Stock................................................108
ARTICLE SEVENTEEN
SUBORDINATION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 1701. Securities Subordinated to Senior
Indebtedness...................................................109
SECTION 1702. Subrogation....................................................110
SECTION 1703. Obligation of the Company
Unconditional..................................................111
SECTION 1704. Payments on Securities Permitted...............................111
SECTION 1705. Effectuation of Subordination by
Trustee........................................................112
SECTION 1706. Knowledge of Trustee...........................................112
SECTION 1707. Trustee May Hold Senior Indebtedness...........................112
SECTION 1708. Rights of Holders of Senior
Indebtedness Not Impaired......................................112
TESTIMONIUM
SIGNATURES AND SEALS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
EXHIBIT A - FORMS OF CERTIFICATION
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THE PEP BOYS - MANNY, MOE & XXXX
Reconciliation and tie between Trust Indenture Act of
1939 and Indenture, dated as of October 1, 1993
Trust Indenture Act Section Indenture Section
Section 310(a)(1)............................................607
(a)(2)............................................607
(b)...............................................607, 608
Section 312(c) ..............................................701
Section 313(a) ..............................................702
(c)...............................................702
Section 314(a) ..............................................703
(a)(4)............................................1006
(c)(1)............................................102
(c)(2)............................................102
(e)...............................................102
Section 315(b) ..............................................601
Section 316(a) (last sentence)...............................101 ("Outstanding")
(a)(1)(A).........................................502, 512
(a)(1)(B).........................................513
(b)...............................................508
Section 317(a)(1)............................................503
(a)(2)............................................504
Section 318(a) ..............................................111
(c)...............................................111
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NOTE: This reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to
be a part of the Indenture.
Reference is also made to Section 318(c) of the Trust Indenture Act of
1939, which provides that the provisions of Section 310 to and including Section
317 of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 are a part of and govern every qualified
indenture, whether or not physically contained therein.
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WF&G DRAFT
6/30/97
INDENTURE, dated as of June __, 1997, between PARTIES THE PEP
BOYS - MANNY, MOE & XXXX, a Pennsylvania corporation (hereinafter called the
"Company"), having its principal office at 0000 Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxxx 00000 and _______________________________, a
corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of ________,
as Trustee hereunder (hereinafter called the "Trustee"), having its Corporate
Trust Office at _________________________.
RECITALS OF THE COMPANY
The Company deems it necessary to issue from time to time for
its lawful purposes senior debt securities (hereinafter called the "Securities")
evidencing its unsecured and subordinated indebtedness, and has duly authorized
the execution and delivery of this Indenture to provide for the issuance from
time to time of the Securities, unlimited as to principal amount, to bear
interest at the rate or pursuant to the formula, to mature at such times and to
have such other provisions as shall be fixed as hereinafter provided.
This Indenture is subject to the provisions of the Trust
Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, that are deemed to be incorporated into this
Indenture and shall, to the extent applicable, be governed by such provisions.
All things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement
of the Company, in accordance with its terms, have been done.
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of
the Securities by the Holders thereof, it is mutually covenanted and agreed, for
the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Securities, as
follows:
ARTICLE ONE
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS
OF GENERAL APPLICATION
SECTION 101. Definitions. For all purposes of this Indenture,
except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) the terms defined in this Article have the meanings
assigned to them in this Article, and include the plural as well as the
singular;
(2) all other terms used herein which are defined in the TIA,
either directly or by reference therein, have the
meanings assigned to them therein, and the terms "cash transaction" and
"self-liquidating paper", as used in TIA Section 311, shall have the
meanings assigned to them in the rules of the Commission adopted under the
TIA;
(3) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the
meanings assigned to them in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles; and
(4) the words "herein", "hereof" and "hereunder" and other
words of similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any
particular Article, Section or other subdivision.
Certain terms, used principally in Article Three, Article
Five, Article Six and Article Ten, are defined in those Articles.
"Act", when used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning
specified in Section 104.
"Additional Amounts" means any additional amounts which are
required by a Security or by or pursuant to a Board Resolution, under
circumstances specified therein, to be paid by the Company in respect of certain
taxes imposed on certain Holders and which are owing to such Holders.
"Affiliate" of any specified Person means any other Person
directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect
common control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition,
"control" when used with respect to any specified Person means the power to
direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly,
whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise;
and the terms "controlling" and "controlled" have meanings correlative to the
foregoing.
"Authenticating Agent" means any authenticating agent
appointed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 611.
"Authorized Newspaper" means a newspaper, printed in the
English language or in an official language of the country of publication,
customarily published on each Business Day, whether or not published on
Saturdays, Sundays or holidays, and of general circulation in each place in
connection with which the term is used or in the financial community of each
such place. Whenever successive publications are required to be made in
Authorized Newspapers, the successive publications may be made in the same or in
different Authorized Newspapers in the same city meeting the foregoing
requirements and in each case on any Business Day.
"Bearer Security" means any Security established pursuant to
Section 201 which is payable to bearer
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"Board of Directors" means the board of directors of the
Company, the executive committee or any committee of that board duly authorized
to act hereunder.
"Board Resolution" means a copy of a resolution certified by
the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted
by the Board of Directors and to be in full force and effect on the date of such
certification, and delivered to the Trustee.
"Business Day", when used with respect to any Place of Payment
or any other particular location referred to in this Indenture or in the
Securities, means, unless otherwise specified with respect to any Securities
pursuant to Section 301, any day, other than a Saturday or Sunday, that is
neither a legal holiday nor a day on which banking institutions in that Place of
Payment or particular location are authorized or required by law, regulation or
executive order to close.
"CEDEL" means Centrale de Livraison de Valeurs Mobilieres,
S.A., or its successor.
"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 execution of this instrument such Commission is
not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under the Trust
Indenture Act, then the body performing such duties on such date.
"Common Stock" means, with respect to the Company, its common
stock, $1.00 par value, and with respect to any Significant Subsidiary, stock of
any class, however designated, except stock which is non-participating beyond
fixed dividend and liquidation preferences and the holders of which have either
no voting rights or limited voting rights entitling them, only in the case of
certain contingencies, to elect less than a majority of the directors (or
persons performing similar functions) of such Significant Subsidiary, and shall
include securities of any class, however designated, which are convertible into
such Common Stock.
"Company" means the Person named as the "Company" in the first
paragraph of this Indenture until a successor corporation shall have become such
pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter
"Company" shall mean such successor corporation.
"Company Request and Company Order" mean, respectively, a
written request or order signed in the name of the Company by its Chairman of
the Board, the President or a Vice President, and by its Treasurer, an Assistant
Treasurer, the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, of the Company, and
delivered to the Trustee.
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"Conversion Date" has the meaning specified in Section 312(d).
"Conversion Event" means the cessation of use of (i) a Foreign
Currency both by the government of the country which issued such currency and
for the settlement of transactions by a central bank or other public
institutions of or within the international banking community, (ii) the ECU both
within the European Monetary System and for the settlement of transactions by
public institutions of or within the European Communities or (iii) any currency
unit (or composite currency) other than the ECU for the purposes for which it
was established.
"Corporate Trust Office" means the office of the Trustee at
which, at any particular time, its corporate trust business shall be principally
administered, which office at the date hereof is located at ___________________.
"corporation" includes corporations, associations, companies
and business trusts.
"coupon" means any interest coupon appertaining to a Bearer
Security.
"Currency Indexed Note" means any Security with the amount of
principal payments determined by reference to an index currency.
"Defaulted Interest" has the meaning specified in Section 307.
"Dollar" or "$" means a dollar or other equivalent unit in
such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time shall be
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 the European Communities.
"Election Date" has the meaning specified in Section 312(h).
"Euroclear" means Xxxxxx Guaranty Trust Company of New York,
Brussels Office, or its successor as operator of the Euroclear System.
"European Communities" means the European Economic Community,
the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Atomic Energy Community.
"European Monetary System" means the European Monetary System
established by the Resolution of December 5, 1978 of the Council of the European
Communities.
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"Event of Default" has the meaning specified in Article Five.
"Exchange Rate Agent", with respect to Securities of or within
any series, means, unless otherwise specified with respect to any Securities
pursuant to Section 301, a New York Clearing House bank designated pursuant to
Section 301 or Section 313.
"Exchange Rate Officer's Certificate" means a certificate
setting forth (i) the applicable Market Exchange Rate or the applicable bid
quotation and (ii) the Dollar or Foreign Currency amounts of principal (and
premium, if any) and interest, if any (on an aggregate basis and on the basis of
a Security having the lowest denomination principal amount determined in
accordance with Section 302 in the relevant currency or currency unit), payable
with respect to a Security of any series on the basis of such Market Exchange
Rate or the applicable bid quotation, signed by the Treasurer, any Vice
President or any Assistant Treasurer of the Company.
"Excess Proceeds" has the meaning specified in Section 1609.
"Foreign Currency" means any currency, currency unit or
composite currency, including, without limitation, the ECU issued by the
government of one or more countries other than the United States of America or
by any recognized confederation or association of such governments.
"Government Obligations" means securities which are (i) direct
obligations of the United States of America or the government which issued the
Foreign Currency in which the Securities of a particular series are payable, for
the payment of which its full faith and credit is pledged or (ii) obligations of
a Person controlled or supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality
of the United States of America or such government which issued the foreign
currency in which the Securities of such series are payable, the payment of
which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation by the
United States of America or such other government, which, in either case, are
not callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof, and shall also
include a depository receipt issued by a bank or trust company as custodian with
respect to any such Government Obligation or a specific payment of interest on
or principal of any such Government Obligation held by such custodian for the
account of the holder of a depository receipt, provided that (except as required
by law) such custodian is not authorized to make any deduction from the amount
payable to the holder of such depository receipt from any amount received by the
custodian in respect of the Government Obligation or the specific payment of
interest on or principal of the Government Obligation evidenced by such
depository receipt.
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"Holder" means, in the case of a Registered Security, the
Person in whose name a Security is registered in the Security Register and, in
the case of a Bearer Security, the bearer thereof and, when used with respect to
any coupon, shall mean the bearer thereof.
"Indenture" means this instrument as originally executed or as
it may from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more indentures
supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof,
and shall include the terms of particular series of Securities established as
contemplated by Section 301; provided, however, that, if at any time more than
one Person is acting as Trustee under this instrument, "Indenture" shall mean,
with respect to any one or more series of Securities for which such Person is
Trustee, this instrument as originally executed or as it may from time to time
be supplemented or amended by one or more indentures supplemental hereto entered
into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof and shall include the terms of
the or those particular series of Securities for which such Person is Trustee
established as contemplated by Section 301, exclusive, however, of any
provisions or terms which relate solely to other series of Securities for which
such Person is Trustee, regardless of when such terms or provisions were
adopted, and exclusive of any provisions or terms adopted by means of one or
more indentures supplemental hereto executed and delivered after such Person had
become such Trustee but to which such Person, as such Trustee, was not a party.
"Indexed Security" means a Security the terms of which provide
that the principal amount thereof payable at Stated Maturity may be more or less
than the principal face amount thereof at original issuance.
"interest", when used with respect to an Original Issue
Discount Security which by its terms bears interest only after Maturity, shall
mean interest payable after Maturity, and, when used with respect to a Security
which provides for the payment of Additional Amounts pursuant to Section 1005,
includes such Additional Amounts.
"Interest Payment Date", when used with respect to any
Security, means the Stated Maturity of an installment of interest on such
Security.
"Market Exchange Rate" means, unless otherwise specified with
respect to any Securities pursuant to Section 301, (i) for any conversion
involving a currency unit on the one hand and Dollars or any Foreign Currency on
the other, the exchange rate between the relevant currency unit and Dollars or
such Foreign Currency calculated by the method specified pursuant to Section 301
for the Securities of the relevant series, (ii) for any conversion of Dollars
into any Foreign Currency, the noon buying rate for such Foreign Currency for
cable transfers quoted
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in New York City as certified for customs purposes by the Federal Reserve Bank
of New York and (iii) for any conversion of one Foreign Currency into Dollars or
another Foreign Currency, the spot rate at noon local time in the relevant
market at which, in accordance with normal banking procedures, the Dollars or
Foreign Currency into which conversion is being made could be purchased with the
Foreign Currency from which conversion is being made from major banks located in
either New York City, London or any other principal market for Dollars or such
purchased Foreign Currency, in each case determined by the Exchange Rate Agent.
Unless otherwise specified with respect to any Securities pursuant to Section
301, in the event of the unavailability of any of the exchange rates provided
for in the foregoing clauses (i), (ii) and (iii), the Exchange Rate Agent shall
use, in its sole discretion and without liability on its part, such quotation of
the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as of the most recent available date, or
quotations from one or more major banks in New York City, London or other
principal market for such currency or currency unit in question, or such other
quotations as the Exchange Rate Agent shall deem appropriate. Unless otherwise
specified by the Exchange Rate Agent, if there is more than one market for
dealing in any currency or currency unit by reason of foreign exchange
regulations or otherwise, the market to be used in respect of such currency or
currency unit shall be that upon which a nonresident issuer of securities
designated in such currency or currency unit would purchase such currency or
currency unit in order to make payments in respect of such securities.
"Maturity", when used with respect to any Security, means the
date on which the principal of such Security or an installment of principal
becomes due and payable as therein or herein provided, whether at the Stated
Maturity or by declaration of acceleration, notice of redemption, notice of
option to elect repayment or otherwise.
"Officers' Certificate" means a certificate signed by the
Chairman of the Board of Directors, the President or a Vice President and by the
Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, of
the Company, and delivered to the Trustee.
"Opinion of Counsel" means a written opinion of counsel, who
may be counsel for the Company or who may be an employee of or other counsel for
the Company and who shall be satisfactory to the Trustee.
"Original Issue Discount Security" means any Security which
provides for an amount less than the principal amount thereof to be due and
payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to
Section 502.
"Outstanding", when used with respect to
Securities, means, as of the date of determination, all Securities
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theretofore authenticated and delivered under this Indenture, except:
(i) Securities theretofore cancelled by the Trustee or
delivered to the Trustee for cancellation;
(ii) Securities, or portions thereof, for whose payment or
redemption or repayment at the option of the Holder money in the necessary
amount has been theretofore deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent
(other than the Company) in trust or set aside and segregated in trust by the
Company (if the Company shall act as its own Paying Agent) for the Holders of
such Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto, provided that, if such
Securities are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly given
pursuant to this Indenture or provision therefor satisfactory to the Trustee has
been made;
(iii) Securities, except to the extent provided in Sections
1402 and 1403, with respect to which the Company has effected defeasance and/or
covenant defeasance as provided in Article Fourteen;
(iv) Securities which have been paid pursuant to Section 306
or in exchange for or in lieu of which other Securities have been authenticated
and delivered pursuant to this Indenture, other than any such Securities in
respect of which there shall have been presented to the Trustee proof
satisfactory to it that such Securities are held by a bona fide purchaser in
whose hands such Securities are valid obligations of the Company; and
(v) Securities converted into Common Stock or Preferred Stock
in accordance with or as contemplated by this Indenture, if the terms of such
Securities provide for convertibility pursuant to Section 301;
provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities have given any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder or are present at
a meeting of Holders for quorum purposes, and for the purpose of making the
calculations required by TIA Section 313, (i) the principal amount of an
Original Issue Discount Security that may be counted in making such
determination or calculation and that shall be deemed to be Outstanding for such
purpose shall be equal to the amount of principal thereof that would be (or
shall have been declared to be) due and payable, at the time of such
determination, upon a declaration of acceleration of the maturity thereof
pursuant to Section 502, (ii) the principal amount of any Security denominated
in a Foreign Currency that may be counted in making such determination or
calculation and that shall be deemed Outstanding for such purpose shall be equal
to the Dollar equivalent, determined as of the date such Security is originally
issued by the Company as set forth in an Exchange Rate Officer's
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Certificate delivered to the Trustee, of the principal amount (or, in the case
of an Original Issue Discount Security, the Dollar equivalent as of such date of
original issuance of the amount determined as provided in clause (i) above) of
such Security, (iii) the principal amount of any Indexed Security that may be
counted in making such determination or calculation and that shall be deemed
outstanding for such purpose shall be equal to the principal face amount of such
Indexed Security at original issuance, unless otherwise provided with respect to
such Security pursuant to Section 301, and (iv) Securities owned by the Company
or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of
such other obligor shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except
that, in determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in making such
calculation or in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Securities which the Trustee knows to
be so owned shall be so disregarded. Securities so owned which have been pledged
in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the
satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee's right so to act with respect to such
Securities and that the pledgee is not the Company or any other obligor upon the
Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor.
"Paying Agent" means any Person authorized by the Company to
pay the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on any Securities or
coupons on behalf of the Company.
"Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint
venture, association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization or
government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.
"Place of Payment", when used with respect to the Securities
of or within any series, means the place or places where the principal of (and
premium, if any) and interest on such Securities are payable as specified as
contemplated by Sections 301 and 1002.
"Predecessor Security" of any particular Security means every
previous Security evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced
by such particular Security; and, for the purposes of this definition, any
Security authenticated and delivered under Section 306 in exchange for or in
lieu of a mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security or a Security to which a
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen coupon appertains shall be deemed to
evidence the same debt as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security or
the Security to which the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen coupon
appertains.
"Preferred Stock" means, with respect to the
Company, stock of any class or classes (however designated) which is preferred
over shares of stock of any other class as to the
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distribution of assets of any voluntary or involuntary liquidation or
dissolution or as to dividends.
"Redemption Date", when used with respect to any Security to
be redeemed, in whole or in part, means the date fixed for such redemption by or
pursuant to this Indenture.
"Redemption Price", when used with respect to any Security to
be redeemed, means the price at which it is to be redeemed pursuant to this
Indenture.
"Registered Security" shall mean any Security which is
registered in the Security Register.
"Regular Record Date" for the interest payable on any Interest
Payment Date on the Registered Securities of or within any series means the date
specified for that purpose as contemplated by Section 301, whether or not a
Business Day.
"Repayment Date" means, when used with respect to any Security
to be repaid at the option of the Holder, the date fixed for such repayment by
or pursuant to this Indenture.
"Responsible Officer", when used with respect to the Trustee,
means the chairman or vice-chairman of the board of directors, the chairman or
vice-chairman of the executive committee of the board of directors, the
president, any vice president (whether or not designated by a number or a word
or words added before or after the title "vice president"), the secretary, any
assistant secretary, the treasurer, any assistant treasurer, the cashier, any
assistant cashier, any trust officer or assistant trust officer, the controller
or any other officer of the Trustee customarily performing functions similar to
those performed by any of the above designated officers and also means, with
respect to a particular corporate trust matter, any other officer to whom such
matter is referred because of such officer's knowledge and familiarity with the
particular subject.
"Security" has the meaning stated in the first recital of this
Indenture and, more particularly, means any Security or Securities authenticated
and delivered under this Indenture; provided, however, that, if at any time
there is more than one Person acting as Trustee under this Indenture,
"Securities" with respect to the Indenture as to which such Person is Trustee
shall have the meaning stated in the first recital of this Indenture and shall
more particularly mean Securities authenticated and delivered under this
Indenture, exclusive, however, of Securities of any series as to which such
Person is not Trustee.
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"Security Register and Security Registrar" have the respective
meanings specified in Section 305.
"Senior Indebtedness" means (i) the principal of and premium,
if any, and unpaid interest on indebtedness for money borrowed, (ii) purchase
money and similar obligations, (iii) obligations under capital leases, (iv)
guarantees, assumptions or purchase commitments relating to, or other
transactions as a result of which the Company is responsible for the payment of,
such indebtedness of others, (v) renewals, extensions and refunding of any such
indebtedness, (vi) interest or obligations in respect of any such indebtedness
accruing after the commencement of any insolvency or bankruptcy proceedings; and
(vii) obligations associated with derivative products such as interest rate and
currency exchange contracts, foreign exchange contracts, commodity contracts,
and similar arrangements, unless, in each case, the instrument by which the
Company incurred, assumed or guaranteed the indebtedness or obligations
described in clauses (i) through (vii) hereof expressly provides that such
indebtedness or obligation is subordinate or junior in right of payment to any
other indebtedness or obligations of the Company.
"Significant Subsidiary", with respect to Company, has the
meaning set forth in Rule 1-02 under Regulation S-X promulgated by the
Commission.
"Special Record Date" for the payment of any Defaulted
Interest on the Registered Securities of or within any series means a date fixed
by the Trustee pursuant to Section 307.
"Stated Maturity", when used with respect to any Security or
any installment of principal thereof or interest thereon, means the date
specified in such Security or a coupon representing such installment of interest
as the fixed date on which the principal of such Security or such installment of
principal or interest is due and payable, as such date may be extended pursuant
to the provisions of Section 308.
"Subsidiary" means a corporation a majority of the outstanding
voting stock of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company or by one
or more other Subsidiaries of the Company. For the purposes of this definition,
"voting stock" means stock having voting power for the election of directors,
whether at all times or only so long as no senior class of stock has such voting
power by reason of any contingency.
"Trust Indenture Act or TIA" means the Trust Indenture Act of
1939, as amended and as in force at the date as of which this Indenture was
executed, except as provided in Section 905.
"Trustee" means the Person named as the "Trustee" in the first
paragraph of this Indenture until a successor Trustee
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shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture,
and thereafter "Trustee" shall mean or include each Person who is then a Trustee
hereunder; provided, however, that if at any time there is more than one such
Person, "Trustee" as used with respect to the Securities of any series shall
mean only the Trustee with respect to Securities of that series.
"United States" means, unless otherwise specified with respect
to any Securities pursuant to Xxxxxxx 000, xxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx xx Xxxxxxx
(including the states and the District of Columbia), its territories, its
possessions and other areas subject to its jurisdiction.
"United States person" means, unless otherwise specified with
respect to any Securities pursuant to Section 301, an individual who is a
citizen or resident of the United States, a corporation, partnership or other
entity created or organized in or under the laws of the United States or an
estate or trust the income of which is subject to United States federal income
taxation regardless of its source.
"Valuation Date" has the meaning specified in Section 312(c).
"Yield to Maturity" means the yield to maturity, computed at
the time of issuance of a Security (or, if applicable, at the most recent
redetermination of interest on such Security) and as set forth in such Security
in accordance with generally accepted United States bond yield computation
principles.
SECTION 102. Compliance Certificates and Opinions. Upon any
application or request by the Company to the Trustee to take any action under
any provision of this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee an
Officers' Certificate stating that all conditions precedent, if any, provided
for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with
and an Opinion of Counsel stating that in the opinion of such counsel all such
conditions precedent, if any, have been complied with, except that in the case
of any such application or request as to which the furnishing of such documents
is specifically required by any provision of this Indenture relating to such
particular application or request, no additional certificate or opinion need be
furnished.
Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a
condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture (other than pursuant to
Section 1004) shall include:
(1) a statement that each individual signing such certificate
or opinion has read such condition or covenant and the definitions
herein relating thereto;
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(2) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the
examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions
contained in such certificate or opinion are based;
(3) a statement that, in the opinion of each such individual,
he has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable
him to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such condition
or covenant has been complied with; and
(4) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such
individual, such condition or covenant has been complied with.
SECTION 103. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee. In any
case where several matters are required to be certified by, or covered by an
opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all such matters be
certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such Person, or that they
be so certified or covered by only one document, but one such Person may certify
or give an opinion as to some matters and one or more other such Persons as to
other matters, and any such Person may certify or give an opinion as to such
matters in one or several documents.
Any certificate or opinion of an officer of the Company may be
based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon an Opinion of Counsel, or a
certificate or representations by counsel, unless such officer knows, or in the
exercise of reasonable care should know, that the opinion, certificate or
representations with respect to the matters upon which his certificate or
opinion is based are erroneous. Any such Opinion of Counsel or certificate or
representations may be based, insofar as it relates to factual matters, upon a
certificate or opinion of, or representations by, an officer or officers of the
Company stating that the information as to such factual matters is in the
possession of the Company, unless such counsel knows, or in the exercise of
reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations
as to such matters are erroneous.
Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or
more applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or
other instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated
and form one instrument.
SECTION 104. Acts of Holders. (a) Any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided by
this Indenture to be given or taken by Holders of the Outstanding Securities of
all series or one or more series, as the case may be, may be embodied in and
evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by
such Holders in person or by agents duly appointed in writing.
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If Securities of a series are issuable as Bearer Securities, any request,
demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action
provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by Holders of Securities of such
series may, alternatively, be embodied in and evidenced by the record of Holders
of Securities of such series voting in favor thereof, either in person or by
proxies duly appointed in writing, at any meeting of Holders of Securities of
such series duly called and held in accordance with the provisions of Article
Fifteen, or a combination of such instruments and any such record. Except as
herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall become effective when
such instrument or instruments or record or both are delivered to the Trustee
and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the Company. Such instrument or
instruments and any such record (and the action embodied therein and evidenced
thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the "Act" of the Holders signing
such instrument or instruments or so voting at any such meeting. Proof of
execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent, or
of the holding by any Person of a Security, shall be sufficient for any purpose
of this Indenture and conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the Company and any
agent of the Trustee or the Company, if made in the manner provided in this
Section. The record of any meeting of Holders of Securities shall be proved in
the manner provided in Section 1506.
(b) The fact and date of the execution of any instrument or
writing, or the authority of the Person executing the same, may also be proved
in any reasonable manner which the Trustee deems sufficient.
(c) The ownership of Registered Securities shall be proved by
the Security Register.
(d) The ownership of Bearer Securities may be proved by the
production of such Bearer Securities or by a certificate executed, as
depositary, by any trust company, bank, banker or other depositary, wherever
situated, if such certificate shall be deemed by the Trustee to be satisfactory,
showing that at the date therein mentioned such Person had on deposit with such
depositary, or exhibited to it, the Bearer Securities therein described; or such
facts may be proved by the certificate or affidavit of the Person holding such
Bearer Securities, if such certificate or affidavit is deemed by the Trustee to
be satisfactory. The Trustee and the Company may assume that such ownership of
any Bearer Security continues until (1) another certificate or affidavit bearing
a later date issued in respect of the same Bearer Security is produced, or (2)
such Bearer Security is produced to the Trustee by some other Person, or (3)
such Bearer Security is surrendered in exchange for a Registered Security, or
(4) such Bearer Security is no longer Outstanding. The ownership of Bearer
Securities may also be proved in any other manner which the Trustee deems
sufficient.
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(e) If the Company shall solicit from the Holders of
Registered Securities any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or other Act, the Company may, at its option, in or pursuant to
a Board Resolution, fix in advance a record date for the determination of
Holders entitled to give such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or other act, but the Company shall have no obligation to do so.
Notwithstanding TIA Section 316(c), such record date shall be the record date
specified in or pursuant to such Board Resolution, which shall be a date not
earlier than the date 30 days prior to the first solicitation of Holders
generally in connection therewith and not later than the date such solicitation
is completed. If such a record date is fixed, such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act may be given
before or after such record date, but only the Holders of record at the close of
business on such record date shall be deemed to be Holders for the purposes of
determining whether Holders of the requisite proportion of Outstanding
Securities have authorized or agreed or consented to such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act, and for that
purpose the Outstanding Securities shall be computed as of such record date;
provided that no such authorization, agreement or consent by the Holders on such
record date shall be deemed effective unless it shall become effective pursuant
to the provisions of this Indenture not later than eleven months after the
record date.
(f) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or other Act of the Holder of any Security shall bind every
future Holder of the same Security and the Holder of every Security issued upon
the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof
in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Trustee, any
Security Registrar, any Paying Agent, any Authenticating Agent or the Company in
reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such
Security.
SECTION 105. Notices, etc., to Trustee and Company. Any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of
Holders or other document provided or permitted by this Indenture to be made
upon, given or furnished to, or filed with,
(1) the Trustee by any Holder or by the Company shall be
sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or
filed in writing to or with the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office,
Attention: Corporate Trust Administration, or
(2) the Company by the Trustee or by any Holder shall be
sufficient for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein
expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first class postage
prepaid, to the Company addressed to it at the address of its principal
office specified in the first
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paragraph of this Indenture or at any other address previously
furnished in writing to the Trustee by the Company.
SECTION 106. Notice to Holders; Waiver. Where this Indenture
provides for notice of any event to Holders of Registered Securities by the
Company or the Trustee, such notice shall be sufficiently given (unless
otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class
postage prepaid, to each such Holder affected by such event, at his address as
it appears in the Security Register, not later than the latest date, and not
earlier than the earliest date, prescribed for the giving of such notice. In any
case where notice to Holders of Registered Securities 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 of Registered Securities or the sufficiency of any notice to
Holders of Bearer Securities given as provided herein. Any notice mailed to a
Holder in the manner herein prescribed shall be conclusively deemed to have been
received by such Holder, whether or not such Holder actually receives such
notice.
If by reason of the suspension of or irregularities in regular
mail service or by reason of any other cause it shall be impracticable to give
such notice by mail, then such notification to Holders of Registered Securities
as shall be made with the approval of the Trustee shall constitute a sufficient
notification to such Holders for every purpose hereunder.
Except as otherwise expressly provided herein or otherwise
specified with respect to any Securities pursuant to Section 301, where this
Indenture provides for notice to Holders of Bearer Securities of any event, such
notice shall be sufficiently given if published in an Authorized Newspaper in
The City of New York and in such other city or cities as may be specified in
such Securities on a Business Day, such publication to be not later than the
latest date, and not earlier than the earliest date, prescribed for the giving
of such notice. Any such notice shall be deemed to have been given on the date
of such publication or, if published more than once, on the date of the first
such publication.
If by reason of the suspension of publication of any
Authorized Newspaper or Authorized Newspapers or by reason of any other cause it
shall be impracticable to publish any notice to Holders of Bearer Securities as
provided above, then such notification to Holders of Bearer Securities as shall
be given with the approval of the Trustee shall constitute sufficient notice to
such Holders for every purpose hereunder. Neither the failure to give notice by
publication to any particular Holder of Bearer Securities as provided above, nor
any defect in any notice so published, shall affect the sufficiency of such
notice with respect to other Holders of Bearer Securities or the sufficiency
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of any notice to Holders of Registered Securities given as provided herein.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent
or waiver required or permitted under this Indenture shall be in the English
language, except that any published notice may be in an official language of the
country of publication.
Where this Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such
notice may be waived in writing by the Person entitled to receive such notice,
either before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of
such notice. Waivers of notice by Holders shall be filed with the Trustee, but
such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action
taken in reliance upon such waiver.
SECTION 107. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents. The
Article and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are for
convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.
SECTION 108. Successors and Assigns. All covenants and
agreements in this Indenture by the Company shall bind its successors and
assigns, whether so expressed or not.
SECTION 109. Separability Clause. In case any provision in
this Indenture or in any Security or coupon shall be invalid, illegal or
unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining
provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
SECTION 110. Benefits of Indenture. Nothing in this Indenture
or in the Securities or coupons, express or implied, shall give to any Person,
other than the parties hereto, any Security Registrar, any Paying Agent, any
Authenticating Agent and their successors hereunder and the Holders any benefit
or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.
SECTION 111. Governing Law. This Indenture and the Securities
and coupons shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of the
State of New York. This Indenture is subject to the provisions of the TIA that
are required to be part of this Indenture and shall, to the extent applicable,
be governed by such provisions.
SECTION 112. Legal Holidays. In any case where any Interest
Payment Date, Redemption Date, Repayment Date, sinking fund payment date, Stated
Maturity or Maturity of any Security shall not be a Business Day at any Place of
Payment, then (notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or any
Security or coupon other than a provision in the Securities of any series which
specifically states that such provision shall apply in lieu hereof), payment of
interest or any Additional
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Amounts or principal (and premium, if any) need not be made at such Place of
Payment on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day at
such Place of Payment with the same force and effect as if made on the Interest
Payment Date, Redemption Date, Repayment Date or sinking fund payment date, or
at the Stated Maturity or Maturity, provided that no interest shall accrue on
the amount so payable for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date,
Redemption Date, Repayment Date, sinking fund payment date, Stated Maturity or
Maturity, as the case may be.
ARTICLE TWO
SECURITIES FORMS
SECTION 201. Forms of Securities. The Registered Securities,
if any, of each series and the Bearer Securities, if any, of each series and
related coupons shall be in substantially the forms as shall be established in
one or more indentures supplemental hereto or approved from time to time by or
pursuant to a Board Resolution in accordance with Section 301, shall have such
appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are
required or permitted by this Indenture or any indenture supplemental hereto,
and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification or
designation and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as the Company may
deem appropriate and as are not inconsistent with the provisions of this
Indenture, or as may be required to comply with any law or with any rule or
regulation made pursuant thereto or with any rule or regulation of any stock
exchange on which the Securities may be listed, or to conform to usage.
Unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301,
Bearer Securities shall have interest coupons attached.
The definitive Securities and coupons shall be printed,
lithographed or engraved or produced by any combination of these methods on a
steel engraved border or steel engraved borders or may be produced in any other
manner, all as determined by the officers executing such Securities or coupons,
as evidenced by their execution of such Securities or coupons.
SECTION 202. Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication.
Subject to Section 611, the Trustee's certificate of authentication shall be in
substantially the following form:
This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein
referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
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_________________,
as Trustee
By ______________________________
Authorized Officer
SECTION 203. Securities Issuable in Global Form. If Securities
of or within a series are issuable in global form, as specified as contemplated
by Section 301, then, notwithstanding clause (8) of Section 301 and the
provisions of Section 302, any such Security shall represent such of the
Outstanding Securities of such series as shall be specified therein and may
provide that it shall represent the aggregate amount of Outstanding Securities
of such series from time to time endorsed thereon and that the aggregate amount
of Outstanding Securities of such series represented thereby may from time to
time be increased or decreased to reflect exchanges. Any endorsement of a
Security in global form to reflect the amount, or any increase or decrease in
the amount, of Outstanding Securities represented thereby shall be made by the
Trustee in such manner and upon instructions given by such Person or Persons as
shall be specified therein or in the Company Order to be delivered to the
Trustee pursuant to Section 303 or 304. Subject to the provisions of Section 303
and, if applicable, Section 304, the Trustee shall deliver and redeliver any
Security in permanent global form in the manner and upon instructions given by
the Person or Persons specified therein or in the applicable Company Order. If a
Company Order pursuant to Section 303 or 304 has been, or simultaneously is,
delivered, any instructions by the Company with respect to endorsement or
delivery or redelivery of a Security in global form shall be in writing but need
not comply with Section 102 and need not be accompanied by an Opinion of
Counsel.
The provisions of the last sentence of Section 303 shall apply
to any Security represented by a Security in global form if such Security was
never issued and sold by the Company and the Company delivers to the Trustee the
Security in global form together with written instructions (which need not
comply with Section 102 and need not be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel)
with regard to the reduction in the principal amount of Securities represented
thereby, together with the written statement contemplated by the last sentence
of Section 303.
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 307, unless
otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301, payment of principal of and
any premium and interest on any Security in permanent global form shall be made
to the Person or Persons specified therein.
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 309 and except as
provided in the preceding paragraph, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of
the Company and the Trustee shall treat as the Holder of such principal amount
of Outstanding Securities represented by a permanent global Security (i) in the
case of a
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permanent global Security in registered form, the Holder of such permanent
global Security in registered form, or (ii) in the case of a permanent global
Security in bearer form, Euroclear or CEDEL.
ARTICLE THREE
THE SECURITIES
SECTION 301. Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series. The
aggregate principal amount of Securities which may be authenticated and
delivered under this Indenture is unlimited.
The Securities may be issued in one or more series. There
shall be established in one or more Board Resolutions or pursuant to authority
granted by one or more Board Resolutions and, subject to Section 303, set forth,
or determined in the manner provided, in an Officers' Certificate, or
established in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, prior to the issuance
of Securities of any series, any or all of the following, as applicable (each of
which (except for the matters set forth in clauses (1), (2) and (15) below), if
so provided, may be determined from time to time by the Company with respect to
unissued Securities of the series when issued from time to time):
(1) the title of the Securities of the series (which
shall distinguish the Securities of such series from all other series
of Securities);
(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 304, 305, 306, 906,
1107 or 1305);
(3) the date or dates, or the method by which such
date or dates will be determined or extended, on which the principal of
the Securities of the series shall be payable;
(4) the rate or rates at which the Securities of the
series shall bear interest, if any, or the method by which such rate or
rates shall be determined, the date or dates from which such interest
shall accrue or the method by which such date or dates shall be
determined, the Interest Payment Dates on which such interest will be
payable and the Regular Record Date, if any, for the interest payable
on any Registered Security on any Interest Payment Date, or the method
by which such date shall be determined, and the basis upon which
interest shall be calculated if other than that of a 360-day year of
twelve 30-day months;
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(5) the place or places, if any, other than or in
addition to the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, where the
principal of (and premium, if any), interest, if any, on, and
Additional Amounts, if any, payable in respect of, Securities of the
series shall be payable, any Registered Securities of the series may be
surrendered for registration of transfer, Securities of the series may
be surrendered for exchange or conversion and notices or demands to or
upon the Company in respect of the Securities of the series and this
Indenture may be served;
(6) the period or periods within which, the price or
prices at which, the currency or currencies, currency unit or units or
composite currency or currencies in which, and other terms and
conditions upon which Securities of the series may be redeemed, in
whole or in part, at the option of the Company, if the Company is to
have the option;
(7) the obligation, if any, of the Company to redeem,
repay or purchase Securities of the series pursuant to any sinking fund
or analogous provision or at the option of a Holder thereof, and the
period or periods within which or the date or dates on which, the price
or prices at which, the currency or currencies, currency unit or units
or composite currency or currencies in which, and other terms and
conditions upon which Securities of the series shall be redeemed,
repaid or purchased, in whole or in part, pursuant to such obligation;
(8) if other than denominations of $1,000 and any
integral multiple thereof, the denominations in which any Registered
Securities of the series shall be issuable and, if other than the
denomination of $5,000, the denomination or denominations in which any
Bearer Securities of the series shall be issuable;
(9) if other than the Trustee, the identity of each
Security Registrar and/or Paying Agent;
(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
pursuant to Section 502 or, if applicable, the portion of the principal
amount of Securities of the series that is convertible in accordance
with the provisions of this Indenture or the method by which such
portion shall be determined;
(11) if other than Dollars, the Foreign Currency in
which payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest or
Additional Amounts, if any, on the Securities of the series shall be
payable or in which the Securities of the series shall be denominated
and the particular provisions applicable thereto in accordance with,
in
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addition to or in lieu of any of the provisions of Section 312;
(12) whether the amount of payments of principal of
(and premium, if any) or interest, if any, on the Securities of the
series may be determined with reference to an index, formula or other
method (which index, formula or method may be based, without
limitation, on one or more currencies, currency units, composite
currencies, commodities, equity indices or other indices), and the
manner in which such amounts shall be determined;
(13) whether the principal of (and premium, if any)
or interest or Additional Amounts, if any, on the Securities of the
series are to be payable, at the election of the Company or a Holder
thereof, in a currency or currencies, currency unit or units or
composite currency or currencies other than that in which such
Securities are denominated or stated to be payable, the period or
periods within which (including the Election Date), and the terms and
conditions upon which, such election may be made, and the time and
manner of determining the exchange rate between the currency or
currencies, currency unit or units or composite currency or currencies
in which such Securities are denominated or stated to be payable and
the currency or currencies, currency unit or units or composite
currency or currencies in which such Securities are to be so payable,
in each case in accordance with, in addition to or in lieu of any of
the provisions of Section 312;
(14) provisions, if any, granting special rights to
the Holders of Securities of the series upon the occurrence of such
events as may be specified;
(15) any deletions from, modifications of or
additions to the Events of Default or covenants of the Company with
respect to Securities of the series, whether or not such Events of
Default or covenants are consistent with the Events of Default or
covenants set forth herein;
(16) whether Securities of the series are to be
issuable as Registered Securities, Bearer Securities (with or without
coupons) or both, any restrictions applicable to the offer, sale or
delivery of Bearer Securities and the terms upon which Bearer
Securities of the series may be exchanged for Registered Securities of
the series and vice versa (if permitted by applicable laws and
regulations), whether any Securities of the series are to be issuable
initially in temporary global form and whether any Securities of the
series are to be issuable in permanent global form with or without
coupons and, if so, whether beneficial owners of interests in any such
permanent global Security may exchange such interests for Securities of
such series and of like tenor of any authorized form and
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denomination and the circumstances under which any such exchanges may
occur, if other than in the manner provided in Section 305, and, if
Registered Securities of the series are to be issuable as a global
Security, the identity of the depositary for such series;
(17) the date as of which any Bearer Securities of
the series and any temporary global Security representing Outstanding
Securities of the series shall be dated if other than the date of
original issuance of the first Security of the series to be issued;
(18) the Person to whom any interest on any
Registered Security of the series shall be payable, if other than the
Person in whose name that Security (or one or more Predecessor
Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular
Record Date for such interest, the manner in which, or the Person to
whom, any interest on any Bearer Security of the series shall be
payable, if otherwise than upon presentation and surrender of the
coupons appertaining thereto as they severally mature, and the extent
to which, or the manner in which, any interest payable on a temporary
global Security on an Interest Payment Date will be paid if other than
in the manner provided in Section 304;
(19) the applicability, if any, of Sections 1402
and/or 1403 to the Securities of the series and any provisions in
modification of, in addition to or in lieu of any of the provisions of
Article Fourteen;
(20) 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, then the form and/or terms of such certificates, documents
or conditions;
(21) if the Securities of the series are to be issued
upon the exercise of warrants, the time, manner and place for such
Securities to be authenticated and delivered;
(22) whether and under what circumstances the Company
will pay Additional Amounts as contemplated by Section 1005 on the
Securities of the series to any Holder who is not a United States
person (including any modification to the definition of such term) in
respect of any tax, assessment or governmental charge and, if so,
whether the Company will have the option to redeem such Securities
rather than pay such Additional Amounts (and the terms of any such
option);
(23) the designation of the initial Exchange Rate
Agent, if any;
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(24) the obligation, if any, of the Company to permit
the conversion of the Securities of such series into the Company's
Common Stock or Preferred Stock, as the case may be, and the terms and
conditions upon which such conversion shall be effected (including,
without limitation, the initial conversion price or rate, the
conversion period, any adjustment of the applicable conversion price,
any requirements relative to reservation of shares for purposes of
conversion and any other provision in addition to or in lieu of those
set forth in this Indenture or any indenture supplemental hereto
relative to such obligation); and
(25) 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 the coupons appertaining
to any Bearer Securities of such series shall be substantially identical except,
in the case of Registered Securities, as to denomination and except as may
otherwise be provided in or pursuant to such Board Resolution (subject to
Section 303) and set forth in such Officers' Certificate or in any such
indenture supplemental hereto. All Securities of any one series need not be
issued at the same time and, unless otherwise provided, a series may be
reopened, without the consent of the Holders, for issuances of additional
Securities of such series.
If any of the terms of the Securities of any series are
established by action taken pursuant to one or more Board Resolutions, a copy of
an appropriate record of such action(s) shall be certified by the Secretary or
an Assistant Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior
to the delivery of the Officers' Certificate setting forth the terms of the
Securities of such series.
SECTION 302. Denominations. The Securities of each series
shall be issuable in such denominations as shall be specified as contemplated by
Section 301. With respect to Securities of any series denominated in Dollars, in
the absence of any such provisions with respect to the Securities of any series,
the Registered Securities of such series, other than Registered Securities
issued in global form (which may be of any denomination), shall be issuable in
denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof and the Bearer
Securities of such series, other than Bearer Securities issued in global form
(which may be of any denomination), shall be issuable in a denomination of
$5,000.
SECTION 303. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating.
The Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto shall be executed on behalf
of the Company by its Chairman of the Board, its President or one of its Vice
Presidents, under its corporate seal reproduced thereon, and attested by its
Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries. The signature of any of
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these officers on the Securities and coupons may be manual or facsimile
signatures of the present or any future such authorized officer and may be
imprinted or otherwise reproduced on the Securities.
Securities or coupons bearing the manual or facsimile
signatures of individuals who were at any time the proper officers of the
Company shall bind the Company, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of
them have ceased to hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery
of such Securities or did not hold such offices at the date of such Securities
or coupons.
At any time and from time to time after the execution and
delivery of this Indenture, the Company may deliver Securities of any series,
together with any coupon appertaining thereto, executed by the Company to the
Trustee for authentication, together with a Company Order for the authentication
and delivery of such Securities, and the Trustee in accordance with the Company
Order shall authenticate and deliver such Securities; provided, however, that,
in connection with its original issuance, no Bearer Security shall be mailed or
otherwise delivered to any location in the United States; and provided further
that, unless otherwise specified with respect to any series of Securities
pursuant to Section 301, a Bearer Security may be delivered in connection with
its original issuance only if the Person entitled to receive such Bearer
Security shall have furnished a certificate to Euroclear or CEDEL, as the case
may be, in the form set forth in Exhibit A-1 to this Indenture or such other
certificate as may be specified with respect to any series of Securities
pursuant to Section 301, dated no earlier than 15 days prior to the earlier of
the date on which such Bearer Security is delivered and the date on which any
temporary Security first becomes exchangeable for such Bearer Security in
accordance with the terms of such temporary Security and this Indenture. If any
Security shall be represented by a permanent global Bearer Security, then, for
purposes of this Section and Section 304, the notation of a beneficial owner's
interest therein upon original issuance of such Security or upon exchange of a
portion of a temporary global Security shall be deemed to be delivery in
connection with its original issuance of such beneficial owner's interest in
such permanent global Security. Except as permitted by Section 306, the Trustee
shall not authenticate and deliver any Bearer Security unless all appurtenant
coupons for interest then matured have been detached and cancelled.
If all the Securities of any series are not to be issued at
one time and if the Board Resolution or supplemental indenture establishing such
series shall so permit, such Company Order may set forth procedures acceptable
to the Trustee for the issuance of such Securities and determining the terms of
particular Securities of such series, such as interest rate or formula, maturity
date, date of issuance and date from which
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interest shall accrue. In authenticating such Securities, and accepting the
additional responsibilities under this Indenture in relation to such Securities,
the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to TIA Section 315(a)
through 315(d)) shall be fully protected in relying upon,
(i) an Opinion of Counsel stating that,
(a) the form or forms of such Securities and any
coupons have been established in conformity with the
provisions of this Indenture;
(b) the terms of such Securities and any coupons have
been established in conformity with the provisions of this
Indenture; and
(c) such Securities, together with any coupons
appertaining thereto, when completed by appropriate insertions
and executed and delivered by the Company to the Trustee for
authentication in accordance with this Indenture,
authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in accordance with
this Indenture and issued by the Company in the manner and
subject to any conditions specified in such Opinion of
Counsel, will constitute legal, valid and binding obligations
of the Company, enforceable in accordance with their terms,
subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization
and other similar laws of general applicability relating to or
affecting the enforcement of creditors' rights, to general
equitable principles and to such other qualifications as such
counsel shall conclude do not materially affect the rights of
Holders of such Securities and any coupons; and
(ii) an Officer's Certificate stating that all conditions
precedent provided for in this Indenture relating to the issuance of
the Securities have been complied with and that, to the best of the
knowledge of the signers of such certificate, that no Event of Default
with respect to any of the Securities shall have occurred and be
continuing.
If such form or terms have been so established, the Trustee shall not be
required to authenticate such Securities if the issue of such Securities
pursuant to this Indenture will affect the Trustee's own rights, duties,
obligations or immunities under the Securities and this Indenture or otherwise
in a manner which is not reasonably acceptable to the Trustee. Notwithstanding
the generality of the foregoing, the Trustee will not be required to
authenticate Securities denominated in a Foreign Currency if the Trustee
reasonably believes that it would be unable to perform its duties with respect
to such Securities.
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 301 and of the
preceding paragraph, if all the Securities of any series are
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not to be issued at one time, it shall not be necessary to deliver an Officers'
Certificate otherwise required pursuant to Section 301 or a Company Order, or an
Opinion of Counsel or an Officers' Certificate otherwise required pursuant to
the preceding paragraph at the time of issuance of each Security of such series,
but such order, opinion and certificates, with appropriate modifications to
cover such future issuances, shall be delivered at or before the time of
issuance of the first Security of such series.
Each Registered Security shall be dated the date of its
authentication and each Bearer Security shall be dated as of the date specified
as contemplated by Section 301.
No Security or coupon shall be entitled to any benefit under
this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on
such Security or Security to which such coupon appertains a certificate of
authentication substantially in the form provided for herein duly executed by
the Trustee by manual signature of an authorized officer, and such certificate
upon any Security shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such
Security has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder and is entitled to
the benefits of this Indenture. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any Security
shall have been authenticated and delivered hereunder but never issued and sold
by the Company, and the Company shall deliver such Security to the Trustee for
cancellation as provided in Section 310 together with a written statement (which
need not comply with Section 102 and need not be accompanied by an Opinion of
Counsel) stating that such Security has never been issued and sold by the
Company, for all purposes of this Indenture such Security shall be deemed never
to have been authenticated and delivered hereunder and shall never be entitled
to the benefits of this Indenture.
SECTION 304. Temporary Securities. (a) Pending the preparation
of definitive Securities of any series, the Company may execute, and upon
Company Order the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, temporary Securities
which are printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise
produced, in any authorized denomination, substantially of the tenor of the
definitive Securities in lieu of which they are issued, in registered form, or,
if authorized, in bearer form with one or more coupons or without coupons, and
with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations
as the officers executing such Securities may determine, as conclusively
evidenced by their execution of such Securities. In the case of Securities of
any series, such temporary Securities may be in global form.
Except in the case of temporary Securities in global form
(which shall be exchanged in accordance with Section 304(b) or as otherwise
provided in or pursuant to a Board Resolution), if temporary Securities of any
series are issued, the Company
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will cause definitive Securities of that series to be prepared without
unreasonable delay. After the preparation of definitive Securities of such
series, the temporary Securities of such series shall be exchangeable for
definitive Securities of such series upon surrender of the temporary Securities
of such series at the office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment for
that series, without charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of
any one or more temporary Securities of any series (accompanied by any
non-matured coupons appertaining thereto), the Company shall execute and the
Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a like principal
amount of definitive Securities of the same series of authorized denominations;
provided, however, that no definitive Bearer Security shall be delivered in
exchange for a temporary Registered Security; and provided further that a
definitive Bearer Security shall be delivered in exchange for a temporary Bearer
Security only in compliance with the conditions set forth in Section 303. Until
so exchanged, the temporary Securities of any series shall in all respects be
entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as definitive Securities of
such series.
(b) Unless otherwise provided in or pursuant to a Board
Resolution, this Section 304(b) shall govern the exchange of temporary
Securities issued in global form other than through the facilities of The
Depository Trust Company. If any such temporary Security is issued in global
form, then such temporary global Security shall, unless otherwise provided
therein, be delivered to the London office of a depositary or common depositary
(the "Common Depositary"), for the benefit of Euroclear and CEDEL, for credit to
the respective accounts of the beneficial owners of such Securities (or to such
other accounts as they may direct).
Without unnecessary delay but in any event not later than the
date specified in, or determined pursuant to the terms of, any such temporary
global Security (the "Exchange Date"), the Company shall deliver to the Trustee
definitive Securities, in aggregate principal amount equal to the principal
amount of such temporary global Security, executed by the Company. On or after
the Exchange Date, such temporary global Security shall be surrendered by the
Common Depositary to the Trustee, as the Company's agent for such purpose, to be
exchanged, in whole or from time to time in part, for definitive Securities
without charge, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange for
each portion of such temporary global Security, an equal aggregate principal
amount of definitive Securities of the same series of authorized denominations
and of like tenor as the portion of such temporary global Security to be
exchanged. The definitive Securities to be delivered in exchange for any such
temporary global Security shall be in bearer form, registered form, permanent
global bearer form or permanent global registered form, or any combination
thereof, as specified as contemplated by Section 301, and, if any combination
thereof is so specified, as requested by the beneficial owner thereof; provided,
however,
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that, unless otherwise specified in such temporary global Security, upon such
presentation by the Common Depositary, such temporary global Security is
accompanied by a certificate dated the Exchange Date or a subsequent date and
signed by Euroclear as to the portion of such temporary global Security held for
its account then to be exchanged and a certificate dated the Exchange Date or a
subsequent date and signed by CEDEL as to the portion of such temporary global
Security held for its account then to be exchanged, each in the form set forth
in Exhibit A-2 to this Indenture or in such other form as may be established
pursuant to Section 301; and provided further that definitive Bearer Securities
shall be delivered in exchange for a portion of a temporary global Security only
in compliance with the requirements of Section 303.
Unless otherwise specified in such temporary global Security,
the interest of a beneficial owner of Securities of a series in a temporary
global Security shall be exchanged for definitive Securities of the same series
and of like tenor following the Exchange Date when the account holder instructs
Euroclear or CEDEL, as the case may be, to request such exchange on his behalf
and delivers to Euroclear or CEDEL, as the case may be, a certificate in the
form set forth in Exhibit A-1 to this Indenture (or in such other form as may be
established pursuant to Section 301), dated no earlier than 15 days prior to the
Exchange Date, copies of which certificate shall be available from the offices
of Euroclear and CEDEL, the Trustee, any Authenticating Agent appointed for such
series of Securities and each Paying Agent. Unless otherwise specified in such
temporary global Security, any such exchange shall be made free of charge to the
beneficial owners of such temporary global Security, except that a Person
receiving definitive Securities must bear the cost of insurance, postage,
transportation and the like unless such Person takes delivery of such definitive
Securities in person at the offices of Euroclear or CEDEL. Definitive Securities
in bearer form to be delivered in exchange for any portion of a temporary global
Security shall be delivered only outside the United States.
Until exchanged in full as hereinabove provided, the temporary
Securities of any series shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits
under this Indenture as definitive Securities of the same series and of like
tenor authenticated and delivered hereunder, except that, unless otherwise
specified as contemplated by Section 301, interest payable on a temporary global
Security on an Interest Payment Date for Securities of such series occurring
prior to the applicable Exchange Date shall be payable to Euroclear and CEDEL on
such Interest Payment Date upon delivery by Euroclear and CEDEL to the Trustee
of a certificate or certificates in the form set forth in Exhibit A-2 to this
Indenture (or in such other forms as may be established pursuant to Section
301), for credit without further interest on or after such Interest Payment Date
to the respective accounts of Persons who are the beneficial owners of such
temporary global
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Security on such Interest Payment Date and who have each delivered to Euroclear
or CEDEL, as the case may be, a certificate dated no earlier than 15 days prior
to the Interest Payment Date occurring prior to such Exchange Date in the form
set forth as Exhibit A-1 to this Indenture (or in such other forms as may be
established pursuant to Section 301). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
herein contained, the certifications made pursuant to this paragraph shall
satisfy the certification requirements of the preceding two paragraphs of this
Section 304(b) and of the third paragraph of Section 303 of this Indenture and
the interests of the Persons who are the beneficial owners of the temporary
global Security with respect to which such certification was made will be
exchanged for definitive Securities of the same series and of like tenor on the
Exchange Date or the date of certification if such date occurs after the
Exchange Date, without further act or deed by such beneficial owners. Except as
otherwise provided in this paragraph, no payments of principal or interest owing
with respect to a beneficial interest in a temporary global Security will be
made unless and until such interest in such temporary global Security shall have
been exchanged for an interest in a definitive Security. Any interest so
received by Euroclear and CEDEL and not paid as herein provided shall be
returned to the Trustee prior to the expiration of two years after such Interest
Payment Date in order to be repaid to the Company.
SECTION 305. Registration, Registration of Transfer and
Exchange. The Company shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office of
the Trustee or in any office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment a
register for each series of Securities (the registers maintained in such office
or in any such office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment being
herein sometimes referred to collectively as the "Security Register") in which,
subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company shall
provide for the registration of Registered Securities and of transfers of
Registered Securities. The Security Register shall be in written form or any
other form capable of being converted into written form within a reasonable
time. The Trustee, at its Corporate Trust Office, is hereby initially appointed
"Security Registrar" for the purpose of registering Registered Securities and
transfers of Registered Securities on such Security Register as herein provided.
In the event that the Trustee shall cease to be Security Registrar, it shall
have the right to examine the Security Register at all reasonable times.
Subject to the provisions of this Section 305, upon surrender
for registration of transfer of any Registered Security of any series at any
office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment for that series, the
Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the
name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Registered
Securities of the same series, of any authorized denominations and of a like
aggregate principal amount, bearing a number not
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contemporaneously outstanding, and containing identical terms and provisions.
Subject to the provisions of this Section 305, at the option
of the Holder, Registered Securities of any series may be exchanged for other
Registered Securities of the same series, of any authorized denomination or
denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount, containing identical
terms and provisions, upon surrender of the Registered Securities to be
exchanged at any such office or agency. Whenever any such Registered Securities
are so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver, the Registered Securities which the Holder
making the exchange is entitled to receive. Unless otherwise specified with
respect to any series of Securities as contemplated by Section 301, Bearer
Securities may not be issued in exchange for Registered Securities.
If (but only if) permitted by the applicable Board Resolution
and (subject to Section 303) set forth in the applicable Officers' Certificate,
or in any indenture supplemental hereto, delivered as contemplated by Section
301, at the option of the Holder, Bearer Securities of any series may be
exchanged for Registered Securities of the same series of any authorized
denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount and tenor, upon surrender
of the Bearer Securities to be exchanged at any such office or agency, with all
unmatured coupons and all matured coupons in default thereto appertaining. If
the Holder of a Bearer Security is unable to produce any such unmatured coupon
or coupons or matured coupon or coupons in default, any such permitted exchange
may be effected if the Bearer Securities are accompanied by payment in funds
acceptable to the Company in an amount equal to the face amount of such missing
coupon or coupons, or the surrender of such missing coupon or coupons may be
waived by the Company and the Trustee if there is furnished to them such
security or indemnity as they may require to save each of them and any Paying
Agent harmless. If thereafter the Holder of such Security shall surrender to any
Paying Agent any such missing coupon in respect of which such a payment shall
have been made, such Holder shall be entitled to receive the amount of such
payment; provided, however, that, except as otherwise provided in Section 1002,
interest represented by coupons shall be payable only upon presentation and
surrender of those coupons at an office or agency located outside the United
States. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in case a Bearer Security of any series
is surrendered at any such office or agency in a permitted exchange for a
Registered Security of the same series and like tenor after the close of
business at such office or agency on (i) any Regular Record Date and before the
opening of business at such office or agency on the relevant Interest Payment
Date, or (ii) any Special Record Date and before the opening of business at such
office or agency on the related proposed date for payment of Defaulted Interest,
such Bearer Security shall be surrendered without the coupon
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relating to such Interest Payment Date or proposed date for payment, as the case
may be, and interest or Defaulted Interest, as the case may be, will not be
payable on such Interest Payment Date or proposed date for payment, as the case
may be, in respect of the Registered Security issued in exchange for such Bearer
Security, but will be payable only to the Holder of such coupon when due in
accordance with the provisions of this Indenture. Whenever any Securities are so
surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver, the Securities which the Holder making the exchange is
entitled to receive.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, except as otherwise specified
as contemplated by Section 301, any permanent global Security shall be
exchangeable only as provided in this paragraph. If the depositary for any
permanent global Security is The Depository Trust Company ("DTC"), then, unless
the terms of such global Security expressly permit such global Security to be
exchanged in whole or in part for definitive Securities, a global Security may
be transferred, in whole but not in part, only to a nominee of DTC, or by a
nominee of DTC to DTC, or to a successor DTC for such global Security selected
or approved by the Company or to a nominee of such successor to DTC. If at any
time DTC notifies the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as
depositary for the applicable global Security or Securities or if at any time
DTC ceases to be a clearing agency registered under the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934 if so required by applicable law or regulation, the Company shall
appoint a successor depositary with respect to such global Security or
Securities. If (x) a successor depositary for such global Security or Securities
is not appointed by the Company within 90 days after the Company receives such
notice or becomes aware of such unwillingness, inability or ineligibility, (y)
an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and the beneficial owners
representing a majority in principal amount of the applicable series of
Securities represented by such global Security or Securities advise DTC to cease
acting as depositary for such global Security or Securities or (z) the Company,
in its sole discretion, determines at any time that all Outstanding Securities
(but not less than all) of any series issued or issuable in the form of one or
more global Securities shall no longer be represented by such global Security or
Securities, then the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate
and deliver definitive Securities of like series, rank, tenor and terms in
definitive form in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount
of such global Security or Securities. If any beneficial owner of an interest in
a permanent global Security is otherwise entitled to exchange such interest for
Securities of such series and of like tenor and principal amount of another
authorized form and denomination, as specified as contemplated by Section 301
and provided that any applicable notice provided in the permanent global
Security shall have been given, then without unnecessary delay but in any event
not later than the earliest date on which such interest may be so
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exchanged, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver, definitive Securities in aggregate principal amount equal to the
principal amount of such beneficial owner's interest in such permanent global
Security. On or after the earliest date on which such interests may be so
exchanged, such permanent global Security shall be surrendered by DTC or such
other depositary as shall be specified in the Company Order with respect thereto
to the Trustee, as the Company's agent for such purpose; provided, however, that
no such exchanges may occur during a period beginning at the opening of business
15 days before any selection of Securities to be redeemed and ending on the
relevant Redemption Date if the Security for which exchange is requested may be
among those selected for redemption; and provided further that no Bearer
Security delivered in exchange for a portion of a permanent global Security
shall be mailed or otherwise delivered to any location in the United States. If
a Registered Security is issued in exchange for any portion of a permanent
global Security after the close of business at the office or agency where such
exchange occurs on (i) any Regular Record Date and before the opening of
business at such office or agency on the relevant Interest Payment Date, or (ii)
any Special Record Date and the opening of business at such office or agency on
the related proposed date for payment of Defaulted Interest, interest or
Defaulted Interest, as the case may be, will not be payable on such Interest
Payment Date or proposed date for payment, as the case may be, in respect of
such Registered Security, but will be payable on such Interest Payment Date or
proposed date for payment, as the case may be, only to the Person to whom
interest in respect of such portion of such permanent global Security is payable
in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.
All Securities issued upon any registration of transfer or
exchange of Securities shall be the valid obligations of the Company, evidencing
the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the
Securities surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.
Every Registered Security presented or surrendered for
registration of transfer or for exchange or redemption shall (if so required by
the Company or the Security Registrar) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a
written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the
Security Registrar, duly executed by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly
authorized in writing.
No service charge shall be made for any registration of
transfer or exchange of Securities, but the Company may require payment of a sum
sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in
connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, other
than exchanges pursuant to Section 304, 906, 1107 or 1305 not involving any
transfer.
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The Company or the Trustee, as applicable, shall not be
required (i) to issue, register the transfer of or exchange any Security if such
Security may be among those selected for redemption during a period beginning at
the opening of business 15 days before selection of the Securities to be
redeemed under Section 1103 and ending at the close of business on (A) if such
Securities are issuable only as Registered Securities, the day of the mailing of
the relevant notice of redemption and (B) if such Securities are issuable as
Bearer Securities, the day of the first publication of the relevant notice of
redemption or, if such Securities are also issuable as Registered Securities and
there is no publication, the mailing of the relevant notice of redemption, or
(ii) to register the transfer of or exchange any Registered Security so selected
for redemption in whole or in part, except, in the case of any Registered
Security to be redeemed in part, the portion thereof not to be redeemed, or
(iii) to exchange any Bearer Security so selected for redemption except that
such a Bearer Security may be exchanged for a Registered Security of that series
and like tenor, provided that such Registered Security shall be simultaneously
surrendered for redemption, or (iv) to issue, register the transfer of or
exchange any Security which has been surrendered for repayment at the option of
the Holder, except the portion, if any, of such Security not to be so repaid.
SECTION 306. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities.
If any mutilated Security or a Security with a mutilated coupon appertaining to
it is surrendered to the Trustee or the Company, together with, in proper cases,
such security or indemnity as may be required by the Company or the Trustee to
save each of them or any agent of either of them harmless, the Company shall
execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a
new Security of the same series and principal amount, containing identical terms
and provisions and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding, with
coupons corresponding to the coupons, if any, appertaining to the surrendered
Security.
If there shall be delivered to the Company and to the Trustee
(i) evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any
Security or coupon, and (ii) such security or indemnity as may be required by
them to save each of them and any agent of either of them harmless, then, in the
absence of notice to the Company or the Trustee that such Security or coupon has
been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Company shall execute and upon its
request the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in lieu of any such
destroyed, lost or stolen Security or in exchange for the Security to which a
destroyed, lost or stolen coupon appertains (with all appurtenant coupons not
destroyed, lost or stolen), a new Security of the same series and principal
amount, containing identical terms and provisions and bearing a number not
contemporaneously outstanding, with coupons corresponding to the coupons, if
any, appertaining to such
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destroyed, lost or stolen Security or to the Security to which such destroyed,
lost or stolen coupon appertains.
Notwithstanding the provisions of the previous two paragraphs,
in case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security or coupon has
become or is about to become due and payable, the Company in its discretion may,
instead of issuing a new Security, with coupons corresponding to the coupons, if
any, appertaining to such destroyed, lost or stolen Security or to the Security
to which such destroyed, lost or stolen coupon appertains, pay such Security or
coupon; provided, however, that payment of principal of (and premium, if any),
any interest on and any Additional Amounts with respect to, Bearer Securities
shall, except as otherwise provided in Section 1002, be payable only at an
office or agency located outside the United States and, unless otherwise
specified as contemplated by Section 301, any interest on Bearer Securities
shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of the coupons
appertaining thereto.
Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section, the
Company may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other
expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith.
Every new Security of any series with its coupons, if any,
issued pursuant to this Section in lieu of any destroyed, lost or stolen
Security, or in exchange for a Security to which a destroyed, lost or stolen
coupon appertains, shall constitute an original additional contractual
obligation of the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Security
and its coupons, if any, or the destroyed, lost or stolen coupon shall be at any
time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this
Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Securities of that
series and their coupons, if any, duly issued hereunder.
The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall
preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to
the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities or
coupons.
SECTION 307. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved;
Optional Interest Reset. (a) Except as otherwise specified with respect to a
series of Securities in accordance with the provisions of Section 301 or as
provided in Article XVI with respect to Securities convertible into Common Stock
or Preferred Stock, interest on any Registered Security that is payable, and is
punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall be paid
to the Person in whose name that Security (or one or more Predecessor
Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date
for such interest at the office or agency of the Company maintained for such
purpose pursuant to Section 1002; provided,
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however, that each installment of interest on any Registered Security may at the
Company's option be paid by (i) mailing a check for such interest, payable to or
upon the written order of the Person entitled thereto pursuant to Section 309,
to the address of such Person as it appears on the Security Register or (ii)
transfer to an account maintained by the payee located inside the United States.
Unless otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 301 with
respect to the Securities of any series, payment of interest may be made, in the
case of a Bearer Security, by transfer to an account maintained by the payee
with a bank located outside the United States.
Unless otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 301,
every permanent global Security will provide that interest, if any, payable on
any Interest Payment Date will be paid to DTC, Euroclear and/or CEDEL, as the
case may be, with respect to that portion of such permanent global Security held
for its account by Cede & Co. or the Common Depositary, as the case may be, for
the purpose of permitting such party to credit the interest received by it in
respect of such permanent global Security to the accounts of the beneficial
owners thereof.
In case a Bearer Security of any series is surrendered in
exchange for a Registered Security of such series after the close of business
(at an office or agency in a Place of Payment for such series) on any Regular
Record Date and before the opening of business (at such office or agency) on the
next succeeding Interest Payment Date, such Bearer Security shall be surrendered
without the coupon relating to such Interest Payment Date and interest will not
be payable on such Interest Payment Date in respect of the Registered Security
issued in exchange for such Bearer Security, but will be payable only to the
Holder of such coupon when due in accordance with the provisions of this
Indenture.
Except as otherwise specified with respect to a series of
Securities in accordance with the provisions of Section 301, any interest on any
Registered Security of any series that is payable, but is not punctually paid or
duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date (herein called "Defaulted
Interest") shall forthwith cease to be payable to the registered Holder thereof
on the relevant Regular Record Date by virtue of having been such Holder, and
such Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Company, at its election in each
case, as provided in clause (1) or (2) below:
(1) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted
Interest to the Persons in whose names the Registered Securities of
such series (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered
at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of
such Defaulted Interest, which shall be fixed in the following
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manner. The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount
of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each Registered Security
of such series and the date of the proposed payment (which shall not be
less than 20 days after such notice is received by the Trustee), and at
the same time the Company shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of
money in the currency or currencies, currency unit or units or
composite currency or currencies in which the Securities of such series
are payable (except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301 for
the Securities of such series and except, if applicable, as provided in
Sections 312(b), 312(d) and 312(e)) equal to the aggregate amount
proposed to be paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest or shall make
arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit on or prior
to the date of the proposed payment, such money when deposited to be
held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted
Interest as in this clause provided. Thereupon the Trustee shall fix a
Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest which
shall be not more than 15 days and not less than 10 days prior to the
date of the proposed payment and not less than 10 days after the
receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the proposed payment. The
Trustee shall promptly notify the Company of such Special Record Date
and, in the name and at the expense of the Company, shall cause notice
of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special
Record Date therefor to be mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each
Holder of Registered Securities of such series at his address as it
appears in the Security Register not less than 10 days prior to such
Special Record Date. The Trustee may, in its discretion, in the name
and at the expense of the Company, cause a similar notice to be
published at least once in an Authorized Newspaper in each place of
payment, but such publications shall not be a condition precedent to
the establishment of such Special Record Date. Notice of the proposed
payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor
having been mailed as aforesaid, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid
to the Persons in whose names the Registered Securities of such series
(or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the
close of business on such Special Record Date and shall no longer be
payable pursuant to the following clause (2). In case a Bearer Security
of any series is surrendered at the office or agency in a Place of
Payment for such series in exchange for a Registered Security of such
series after the close of business at such office or agency on any
Special Record Date and before the opening of business at such office
or agency on the related proposed date for payment of Defaulted
Interest, such Bearer Security shall be surrendered without the coupon
relating to such proposed date of payment and Defaulted Interest will
not be payable on such proposed date of payment in respect of the
Registered Security issued in exchange for such Bearer Security, but
will be payable only to the Holder of
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such coupon when due in accordance with the provisions of this
Indenture.
(2) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest on
the Registered Securities of any series in any other lawful manner not
inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which
such Securities may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required
by such exchange, if, after notice given by the Company to the Trustee
of the proposed payment pursuant to this clause, such manner of payment
shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.
(b) The provisions of this Section 307(b) may be made
applicable to any series of Securities pursuant to Section 301 (with such
modifications, additions or substitutions as may be specified pursuant to such
Section 301). The interest rate (or the spread or spread multiplier used to
calculate such interest rate, if applicable) on any Security of such series may
be reset by the Company on the date or dates specified on the face of such
Security (each an "Optional Reset Date"). The Company may exercise such option
with respect to such Security by notifying the Trustee of such exercise and the
related information referred to below at least 50 but not more than 60 days
prior to an Optional Reset Date for such Note. Not later than 40 days prior to
each Optional Reset Date, the Trustee shall transmit, in the manner provided for
in Section 106, to the Holder of any such Security a notice (the "Reset Notice")
indicating whether the Company has elected to reset the interest rate (or the
spread or spread multiplier used to calculate such interest rate, if
applicable), and if so, upon receipt of such information (i) such new interest
rate (or such new spread or spread multiplier, if applicable) and (ii) the
provisions, if any, for redemption during the period from such Optional Reset
Date to the next Optional Reset Date or if there is no such next Optional Reset
Date, to the Stated Maturity Date of such Security (each such period a
"Subsequent Interest Period"), including the date or dates on which or the
period or periods during which and the price or prices at which such redemption
may occur during the Subsequent Interest Period.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, not later than 20 days prior to
the Optional Reset Date, the Company may, at its option, revoke the interest
rate (or the spread or spread multiplier used to calculate such interest rate,
if applicable) provided for in the Reset Notice and establish an interest rate
(or a spread or spread multiplier used to calculate such interest rate, if
applicable) that is higher than the interest rate (or the spread or spread
multiplier, if applicable) provided for in the Reset Notice, for the Subsequent
Interest Period by causing the Trustee to transmit, in the manner provided for
in Section 106, notice of such higher interest rate (or such higher spread or
spread multiplier, if applicable) to the Holder of such Security. Such notice
shall be irrevocable. All Securities with respect to
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which the interest rate (or the spread or spread multiplier used to calculate
such interest rate, if applicable) is reset on an Optional Reset Date, and with
respect to which the Holders of such Securities have not tendered such
Securities for repayment (or have validly revoked any such tender) pursuant to
the next succeeding paragraph, will bear such higher interest rate (or such
higher spread or spread multiplier, if applicable).
The Holder of any such Security will have the option to elect
repayment by the Company of the principal of such Security on each Optional
Reset Date at a price equal to the principal amount thereof plus interest
accrued to such Optional Reset Date. In order to obtain repayment on an Optional
Reset Date, the Holder must follow the procedures set forth in Article Thirteen
for repayment at the option of Holders except that the period for delivery or
notification to the Trustee shall be at least 25 but not more than 35 days prior
to such Optional Reset Date and except that, if the Holder has tendered any
Security for repayment pursuant to the Reset Notice, the Holder may, by written
notice to the Trustee, revoke such tender or repayment until the close of
business on the tenth day before such Optional Reset Date.
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section and
Section 305, each Security delivered under this Indenture upon registration of
transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of any other Security shall carry the
rights to interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such
other Security.
SECTION 308. Extension of Maturity. The provisions of this
Section 308 may be made applicable to any series of Securities pursuant to
Section 301 (with such modifications, additions or substitutions as may be
specified pursuant to such Section 301) (any series of Securities to which the
provisions of this Section 308 are made applicable are hereinafter referred to
as the "Renewable Securities"). The Renewable Securities shall mature on the
initial Stated Maturity thereof unless the maturity of all or any portion of the
principal amount thereof is extended pursuant to the procedures described below.
On the Interest Payment Dates in each year, the maturity of the Renewable
Securities will be extended to the Interest Payment Date occurring twelve months
after such Interest Payment Date, unless the Holder thereof elects to terminate
the automatic extension of the maturity of the Renewable Securities or of any
portion thereof having a principal amount of $100,000 or any multiple of $1,000
in excess thereof by delivering a notice to such effect to the Security
Registrar for the Renewable Securities not less than 25 nor more than 35 days
prior to such Interest Payment Date. Such notice shall be provided in the manner
described in the last paragraph of this Section 308. Such option may be
exercised by a Holder with respect to less than the entire principal amount of
such Holder's Renewable Securities, provided that the principal amount for which
such option is not exercised is at least $100,000 or any larger amount that is
an integral multiple of
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$1,000. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the maturity of the Renewable Securities
may not be extended beyond the date set forth on the face of such Security as
the final maturity date (the "Final Maturity Date"). If the Holder elects to
terminate the automatic extension of the maturity of any portion of the
principal amount of the Renewable Securities, such portion will become due and
payable on the Interest Payment Date falling six months after the Interest
Payment Date prior to which the Holder made such election.
An election to terminate the automatic extension of maturity
may be revoked as to any portion of the Renewable Securities having a principal
amount of $100,000 or any multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof by delivering a
notice to such effect to the Security Registrar on any day following the
effective date of the election to terminate the automatic extension of maturity
and prior to the date 10 days before the date on which such portion would
otherwise mature. Such notice shall be provided in the manner described in the
last paragraph of this Section 308. Such a revocation may be made for less than
the entire principal amount of the Renewable Securities for which the automatic
extension of maturity has been terminated; provided that the principal amount of
the Renewable Securities for which the automatic extension of maturity has been
terminated and for which such a revocation has not been made is at least
$100,000 or any larger amount that is an integral multiple of $1,000.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, a revocation may not be made during the period
from and including a Regular Record Date to but excluding the immediately
succeeding Interest Payment Date.
An election to terminate the automatic extension of the
maturity of the Renewable Securities, if not revoked as described above by the
Holder making the election or any subsequent Holder, will be binding upon such
subsequent Holder.
The Renewable Securities may be redeemed in whole or in part
at the option of the Company on the Interest Payment Dates in each year at a
redemption price of 100% of the principal amount of the Renewable Securities to
be redeemed, together with interest accrued and unpaid thereon to the date of
redemption. Notice of redemption will be provided by mailing a notice of such
redemption to each Holder by first class mail, postage prepaid, at least 30 days
and not more than 60 days prior to the date fixed for redemption to the
respective address of each Holder as that address appears upon the books
maintained by the Registrar.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, not later than 20 days before
the original Stated Maturity of such Security, the Company may, at its option,
revoke the interest rate provided for in the Extension Notice and establish a
higher interest rate for the Extension Period by causing the Trustee to
transmit, in the manner provided for in Section 106, notice of such higher
interest rate to the Holder of such Security. Such notice shall
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be irrevocable. All Securities with respect to which the Stated Maturity is
extended will bear such higher interest rate.
In order to deliver notice to the Security Registrar for
purposes of terminating (with respect to all or a portion of a Renewable
Security) an automatic extension of maturity, the Holder must follow the
procedures set forth in Article Thirteen for repayment at the option of Holders,
except that the period for delivery of notification to the Trustee shall be at
least 25 but not more than 35 days prior to the Original Stated Maturity and
except that, if the Holder has so elected to tender any Renewable Security for
repayment, the Holder may by written notice to the Trustee revoke such tender
for repayment until the close of business on the tenth day before the Original
Stated Maturity.
SECTION 309. Persons Deemed Owners. Prior to due presentment
of a Registered Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee
and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name
such Registered Security is registered as the owner of such Security for the
purpose of receiving payment of principal of (and premium, if any), and (subject
to Sections 305 and 307) interest on, such Registered Security and for all other
purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Registered Security be overdue, and
neither the Company, the Trustee nor any agent of the Company or the Trustee
shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
Title to any Bearer Security and any coupons appertaining
thereto shall pass by delivery. The Company, the Trustee and any agent of the
Company or the Trustee may treat the Holder of any Bearer Security and the
Holder of any coupon as the absolute owner of such Security or coupon for the
purpose of receiving payment thereof or on account thereof and for all other
purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Security or coupon be overdue, and
neither the Company, the Trustee nor any agent of the Company or the Trustee
shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
None of the Company, the Trustee, any Paying Agent or the
Security Registrar will have any responsibility or liability for any aspect of
the records relating to or payments made on account of beneficial ownership
interests of a Security in global form or for maintaining, supervising or
reviewing any records relating to such beneficial ownership interests.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to any global
Security, nothing herein shall prevent the Company, the Trustee, or any agent of
the Company or the Trustee, from giving effect to any written certification,
proxy or other authorization furnished by any depositary, as a Holder, with
respect to such global Security or impair, as between such depositary and owners
of beneficial interests in such global Security, the operation of
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customary practices governing the exercise of the rights of such depositary (or
its nominee) as Holder of such global Security.
SECTION 310. Cancellation. All Securities and coupons
surrendered for payment, redemption, repayment at the option of the Holder,
registration of transfer or exchange or for credit against any sinking fund
payment shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee, be delivered
to the Trustee, and any such Securities and coupons and Securities and coupons
surrendered directly to the Trustee for any such purpose shall be promptly
cancelled by it. The Company may at any time deliver to the Trustee for
cancellation any Securities previously authenticated and delivered hereunder
which the Company may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and may deliver to
the Trustee (or to any other Person for delivery to the Trustee) for
cancellation any Securities previously authenticated hereunder which the Company
has not issued and sold, and all Securities so delivered shall be promptly
cancelled by the Trustee. If the Company shall so acquire any of the Securities,
however, such acquisition shall not operate as a redemption or satisfaction of
the indebtedness represented by such Securities unless and until the same are
surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation. No Securities shall be
authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Securities cancelled as provided
in this Section, except as expressly permitted by this Indenture. Cancelled
Securities and coupons held by the Trustee shall be destroyed by the Trustee and
the Trustee shall deliver a certificate of such destruction to the Company,
unless by a Company Order the Company directs their return to it.
SECTION 311. Computation of Interest. Except as otherwise
specified as contemplated by Section 301 with respect to Securities of any
series, interest on the Securities of each series shall be computed on the basis
of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months.
SECTION 312. Currency and Manner of Payments in Respect of
Securities. (a) Unless otherwise specified with respect to any Securities
pursuant to Section 301, with respect to Registered Securities of any series not
permitting the election provided for in paragraph (b) below or the Holders of
which have not made the election provided for in paragraph (b) below, and with
respect to Bearer Securities of any series, except as provided in paragraph (d)
below, payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest, if any,
on, and Additional Amounts, if any, in respect of any Registered or Bearer
Security of such series will be made in the currency or currencies, currency
unit or units or composite currency or currencies in which such Registered
Security or Bearer Security, as the case may be, is payable. The provisions of
this Section 312 may be modified or superseded with respect to any Securities
pursuant to Section 301.
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(b) It may be provided pursuant to Section 301 with respect to
Registered Securities of any series that Holders shall have the option, subject
to paragraphs (d) and (e) below, to receive payments of principal of (and
premium, if any) or interest, if any, on and Additional Amounts, if any, in
respect of such Registered Securities in any of the currencies, currency units
or composite currencies which may be designated for such election by delivering
to the Trustee for such series of Registered Securities a written election with
signature guarantees and in the applicable form established pursuant to Section
301, not later than the close of business on the Election Date immediately
preceding the applicable payment date. If a Holder so elects to receive such
payments in any such currency, currency unit or composite currency, such
election will remain in effect for such Holder or any transferee of such Holder
until changed by such Holder or such transferee by written notice to the Trustee
for such series of Registered Securities (but any such change must be made not
later than the close of business on the Election Date immediately preceding the
next payment date to be effective for the payment to be made on such payment
date and no such change of election may be made with respect to payments to be
made on any Registered Security of such series with respect to which an Event of
Default has occurred or with respect to which the Company has deposited funds
pursuant to Article Four or Fourteen or with respect to which a notice of
redemption has been given by the Company or a notice of option to elect
repayment has been sent by such Holder or such transferee). Any Holder of any
such Registered Security who shall not have delivered any such election to the
Trustee of such series of Registered Securities not later than the close of
business on the applicable Election Date will be paid the amount due on the
applicable payment date in the relevant currency or currencies, currency unit or
units or composite currency or currencies as provided in Section 312(a). The
Trustee for each such series of Registered Securities shall notify the Exchange
Rate Agent as soon as practicable after the Election Date of the aggregate
principal amount of Registered Securities for which Holders have made such
written election.
(c) Unless otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301, if the
election referred to in paragraph (b) above has been provided for pursuant to
Section 301, then, unless otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301, not later
than the fourth Business Day after the Election Date for each payment date for
Registered Securities of any series, the Exchange Rate Agent will deliver to the
Company a written notice specifying, in the currency or currencies, currency
unit or units or composite currency or currencies in which Registered Securities
of such series are payable, the respective aggregate amounts of principal of
(and premium, if any) and interest, if any, on, and Additional Amounts, if any,
in respect of the Registered Securities to be paid on such payment date,
specifying the amounts in such currency or currencies, currency unit or units or
composite currency or currencies so payable in respect of the Registered
Securities as to which the Holders of Registered Securities
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denominated in any currency or currencies, currency unit or units or composite
currency or currencies shall have elected to be paid in another currency,
currency unit or composite currency as provided in paragraph (b) above. If the
election referred to in paragraph (b) above has been provided for pursuant to
Section 301 and if at least one Holder has made such election, then, unless
otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301, on the second Business Day
preceding such payment date the Company will deliver to the Trustee for such
series of Registered Securities an Exchange Rate Officer's Certificate in
respect of the Dollar, Foreign Currency or currencies, ECU or currency unit
payments to be made on such payment date. Unless otherwise specified pursuant to
Section 301, the Dollar, Foreign Currency or currencies, ECU or currency unit
amount receivable by Holders of Registered Securities who have elected payment
in a currency or currency unit as provided in paragraph (b) above shall be
determined by the Exchange Rate Agent based on the highest bid quotation in The
City of New York received at approximately 11:00 A.M., New York City time, on
the second Business Day (the "Valuation Date") preceding the applicable payment
date from three recognized foreign exchange dealers for the purchase by the
quoting dealer of the currency, currency unit or composite currency in which
such payment would otherwise be made for the currency, currency unit or
composite currency in which Holders have elected payment for settlement on such
payment date in the aggregate amount of the currency, currency unit or composite
currency in which such payment would otherwise be made to such Holders and at
which the applicable dealer commits to execute a contract, and such
determination shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest
error. If such bid quotations are not available, payments will be made in the
currencies, currency units or composite currencies in which the Registered
Securities are payable as if no election under paragraph (b) above was made. All
currency exchange costs will be borne by the Holders making the election
provided for in paragraph (b) above by deductions from payments to such Holders.
(d) If a Conversion Event occurs with respect to a Foreign
Currency, the ECU or any other currency unit in which any of the Securities are
denominated or payable other than pursuant to an election provided for pursuant
to paragraph (b) above, then with respect to each date for the payment of
principal of (and premium, if any) and interest, if any, on, and Additional
Amounts, if any, in respect of, the applicable Securities denominated or payable
in such Foreign Currency, the ECU or such other currency unit occurring after
the last date on which such Foreign Currency, the ECU or such other currency
unit was used (the "Conversion Date"), the Dollar shall be the currency of
payment for use on each such payment date. Unless otherwise specified pursuant
to Section 301, the Dollar amount to be paid by the Company to the Trustee of
each such series of Securities and by such Trustee or any Paying Agent to the
Holders of such Securities with respect to such payment date shall be, in the
case of a Foreign Currency other than a currency unit, the Dollar
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Equivalent of the Foreign Currency or, in the case of a currency unit, the
Dollar Equivalent of the Currency Unit, in each case as determined by the
Exchange Rate Agent in the manner provided in paragraph (f) or (g) below.
(e) Unless otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301, if the
Holder of a Registered Security denominated in any currency or currencies,
currency unit or units or composite currency or currencies shall have elected to
be paid in another currency or currencies, currency unit or units or composite
currency or currencies as provided in paragraph (b) above, and a Conversion
Event occurs with respect to such elected currency or currencies, currency unit
or units or composite currency or currencies, such Holder shall receive payment
in the currency or currencies, currency unit or units or composite currency or
currencies in which payment would have been made in the absence of such
election; and if a Conversion Event occurs with respect to the currency or
currencies, currency unit or units or composite currency or currencies in which
payment would have been made in the absence of such election, such Holder shall
receive payment in Dollars as provided in paragraph (d) of this Section 312.
(f) The "Dollar Equivalent of the Foreign Currency" shall be
determined by the Exchange Rate Agent and shall be obtained for each subsequent
payment date by converting the specified Foreign Currency into Dollars at the
Market Exchange Rate on the Conversion Date.
(g) The "Dollar Equivalent of the Currency Unit" shall be
determined by the Exchange Rate Agent and subject to the provisions of paragraph
(h) below shall be the sum of each amount obtained by converting the Specified
Amount of each Component Currency into Dollars at the Market Exchange Rate for
such Component Currency on the Valuation Date with respect to each payment.
(h) For purposes of this Section 312, the following terms
shall have the following meanings:
A "Component Currency" shall mean any currency which, on the
Conversion Date, was a component currency of the relevant currency unit
or composite currency, including, but not limited to, the ECU.
A "Specified Amount" of a Component Currency shall mean the
number of units of such Component Currency or fractions thereof which
were represented in the relevant currency unit or composite currency,
including, but not limited to, the ECU, on the Conversion Date. If
after the Conversion Date the official unit of any Component Currency
is altered by way of combination or subdivision, the Specified Amount
of such Component Currency shall be divided or multiplied in the same
proportion. If after the Conversion Date two or
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more Component Currencies are consolidated into a single currency, the
respective Specified Amounts of such Component Currencies shall be
replaced by an amount in such single currency equal to the sum of the
respective Specified Amounts of such consolidated Component Currencies
expressed in such single currency, and such amount shall thereafter be
a Specified Amount and such single currency shall thereafter be a
Component Currency. If after the Conversion Date any Component Currency
shall be divided into two or more currencies, the Specified Amount of
such Component Currency shall be replaced by amounts of such two or
more currencies, having an aggregate Dollar Equivalent value at the
Market Exchange Rate on the date of such replacement equal to the
Dollar Equivalent of the Specified Amount of such former Component
Currency at the Market Exchange Rate immediately before such division,
and such amounts shall thereafter be Specified Amounts and such
currencies shall thereafter be Component Currencies. If, after the
Conversion Date of the relevant currency unit, including, but not
limited to, the ECU, a Conversion Event (other than any event referred
to above in this definition of "Specified Amount") occurs with respect
to any Component Currency of such currency unit and is continuing on
the applicable Valuation Date, the Specified Amount of such Component
Currency shall, for purposes of calculating the Dollar Equivalent of
the Currency Unit, be converted into Dollars at the Market Exchange
Rate in effect on the Conversion Date of such Component Currency.
"Election Date" shall mean the Regular Record Date for the
applicable series of Registered Securities or at least 16 days prior to
Maturity, as the case may be, or such other prior date for any series
of Registered Securities as specified pursuant to clause 13 of Section
301 by which the written election referred to in Section 312(b) may be
made.
All decisions and determinations of the Exchange Rate Agent
regarding the Dollar Equivalent of the Foreign Currency, the Dollar Equivalent
of the Currency Unit, the Market Exchange Rate and changes in the Specified
Amounts as specified above shall be in its sole discretion and shall, in the
absence of manifest error, be conclusive for all purposes and irrevocably
binding upon the Company, the Trustee for the appropriate series of Securities
and all Holders of such Securities denominated or payable in the relevant
currency or currencies, currency unit or units or composite currency or
currencies. The Exchange Rate Agent shall promptly give written notice to the
Company and the Trustee for the appropriate series of Securities of any such
decision or determination.
In the event that the Company determines in good faith that a
Conversion Event has occurred with respect to a Foreign Currency, the Company
will immediately give written notice thereof to the Trustee of the appropriate
series of Securities
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and to the Exchange Rate Agent (and such Trustee will promptly thereafter give
notice in the manner provided in Section 106 to the affected Holders) specifying
the Conversion Date. In the event the Company so determines that a Conversion
Event has occurred with respect to the ECU or any other currency unit in which
Securities are denominated or payable, the Company will immediately give written
notice thereof to the Trustee of the appropriate series of Securities and to the
Exchange Rate Agent (and such Trustee will promptly thereafter give notice in
the manner provided in Section 106 to the affected Holders) specifying the
Conversion Date and the Specified Amount of each Component Currency on the
Conversion Date. In the event the Company determines in good faith that any
subsequent change in any Component Currency as set forth in the definition of
Specified Amount above has occurred, the Company will similarly give written
notice to the Trustee of the appropriate series of Securities and to the
Exchange Rate Agent.
The Trustee of the appropriate series of Securities shall be
fully justified and protected in relying and acting upon information received by
it from the Company and the Exchange Rate Agent and shall not otherwise have any
duty or obligation to determine the accuracy or validity of such information
independent of the Company or the Exchange Rate Agent.
SECTION 313. Appointment and Resignation of Successor Exchange
Rate Agent. (a) Unless otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301, if and so
long as the Securities of any series (i) are denominated in a currency other
than Dollars or (ii) may be payable in a currency other than Dollars, or so long
as it is required under any other provision of this Indenture, then the Company
will maintain with respect to each such series of Securities, or as so required,
at least one Exchange Rate Agent. The Company will cause the Exchange Rate Agent
to make the necessary foreign exchange determinations at the time and in the
manner specified pursuant to Section 301 for the purpose of determining the
applicable rate of exchange and, if applicable, for the purpose of converting
the issued currency or currencies, currency unit or units or composite currency
or currencies into the applicable payment currency or currency unit for the
payment of principal (and premium, if any) and interest, if any, and Additional
Amounts, if any, pursuant to Section 312.
(b) No resignation of the Exchange Rate Agent and no
appointment of a successor Exchange Rate Agent pursuant to this Section shall
become effective until the acceptance of appointment by the successor Exchange
Rate Agent as evidenced by a written instrument delivered to the Company and the
Trustee of the appropriate series of Securities accepting such appointment
executed by the successor Exchange Rate Agent.
(c) If the Exchange Rate Agent shall resign, be removed or
become incapable of acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of the
Exchange Rate Agent for any cause,
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with respect to the Securities of one or more series, the Company, by or
pursuant to a Board Resolution, shall promptly appoint a successor Exchange Rate
Agent or Exchange Rate Agents with respect to the Securities of that or those
series (it being understood that any such successor Exchange Rate Agent may be
appointed with respect to the Securities of one or more or all of such series
and that, unless otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301, at any time there
shall only be one Exchange Rate Agent with respect to the Securities of any
particular series that are originally issued by the Company on the same date and
that are initially denominated and/or payable in the same currency or
currencies, currency unit or units or composite currency or currencies.
ARTICLE FOUR
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
SECTION 401. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture. This
Indenture shall upon Company Request cease to be of further effect with respect
to any series of Securities specified in such Company Request (except as to any
surviving rights of registration of transfer or exchange of Securities of such
series herein expressly provided for and any right to receive Additional
Amounts, as provided in Section 1005), and the Trustee, upon receipt of a
Company Order, and at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper
instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture as to
such series when
(1) either
(A) all Securities of such series theretofore
authenticated and delivered and all coupons, if any,
appertaining thereto (other than (i) coupons appertaining to
Bearer Securities surrendered for exchange for Registered
Securities and maturing after such exchange, whose surrender
is not required or has been waived as provided in Xxxxxxx 000,
(xx) Securities and coupons of such series which have been
destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced or paid
as provided in Xxxxxxx 000, (xxx) coupons appertaining to
Securities called for redemption and maturing after the
relevant Redemption Date, whose surrender has been waived as
provided in Section 1106, and (iv) Securities and coupons of
such series for whose payment money has theretofore been
deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust by the
Company and thereafter repaid to the Company or discharged
from such trust, as provided in Section 1003) have been
delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or
(B) all Securities of such series and, in the case of
(i) or (ii) below, any coupons appertaining
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thereto not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation
(i) have become due and payable, or
(ii) will become due and payable at their
Stated Maturity within one year, or
(iii) if redeemable at the option of the Company,
are to be called for redemption within one
year under arrangements satisfactory to the
Trustee for the giving of notice of
redemption by the Trustee in the name, and
at the expense, of the Company,
and the Company, in the case of (i), (ii) or (iii) above, has
irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited with the
Trustee as trust funds in trust for the purpose an amount in
the currency or currencies, currency unit or units or
composite currency or currencies in which the Securities of
such series are payable, sufficient to pay and discharge the
entire indebtedness on such Securities and such coupons not
theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, for
principal (and premium, if any) and interest, and any
Additional Amounts with respect thereto, to the date of such
deposit (in the case of Securities which have become due and
payable) or to the Stated Maturity or Redemption Date, as the
case may be;
(2) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums
payable hereunder by the Company; and
(3) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions
precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and
discharge of this Indenture as to such series have been complied with.
Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the
obligations of the Company to the Trustee and any predecessor Trustee under
Section 606, the obligations of the Company to any Authenticating Agent under
Section 611 and, if money shall have been deposited with and held by the Trustee
pursuant to subclause (B) of clause (1) of this Section, the obligations of the
Trustee under Section 402 and the last paragraph of Section 1003 shall survive.
SECTION 402. Application of Trust Funds. Subject to the
provisions of the last paragraph of Section 1003, all money deposited with the
Trustee pursuant to Section 401 shall be held in trust and applied by it, in
accordance with the provisions of the Securities, the coupons and this
Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent
(including the
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Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the
Persons entitled thereto, of the principal (and premium, if any), and any
interest and Additional Amounts for whose payment such money has been deposited
with or received by the Trustee, but such money need not be segregated from
other funds except to the extent required by law.
ARTICLE FIVE
REMEDIES
SECTION 501. Events of Default. "Event of Default", wherever
used herein with respect to any particular series of Securities, means any one
of the following events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and
whether or not it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation
of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order,
rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body):
(1) default in the payment of any interest upon or any
Additional Amounts payable in respect of any Security of that series or
of any coupon appertaining thereto, when such interest, Additional
Amounts or coupon becomes due and payable, and continuance of such
default for a period of 30 days; or
(2) default in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if
any, on) any Security of that series when it becomes due and payable at
its Maturity; or
(3) default in the deposit of any sinking fund payment, when
and as due by the terms of any Security of that series; or
(4) default in the performance, or breach, of any covenant or
warranty of the Company in this Indenture with respect to any Security
of that series (other than a covenant or warranty a default in whose
performance or whose breach is elsewhere in this Section specifically
dealt with), and continuance of such default or breach for a period of
60 days after there has been given, by registered or certified mail, to
the Company by the Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by the
Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of that series a written notice specifying such default or
breach and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is
a "Notice of Default" hereunder; or
(5) a default under any bond, debenture, note or other
evidence of indebtedness of the Company (including a default with
respect to Securities of any series other than that series) or under
any mortgage, indenture or instrument under
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which there may be issued or by which there may be secured or evidenced
any indebtedness of the Company (including this Indenture), whether
such indebtedness now exists or shall hereafter be created, which
default shall constitute a failure to pay an aggregate principal amount
exceeding $10,000,000 of such indebtedness when due and payable after
the expiration of any applicable grace period with respect thereto and
shall have resulted in such indebtedness in an aggregate principal
amount exceeding $10,000,000 becoming or being declared due and payable
prior to the date on which it would otherwise have become due and
payable, without such indebtedness having been discharged, or such
acceleration having been rescinded or annulled, within a period of 10
days after there shall have been given, by registered or certified
mail, to the Company by the Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee
by the Holders of at least 10% in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of that series a written notice specifying such default and
requiring the Company to cause such indebtedness to be discharged or
cause such acceleration to be rescinded or annulled and stating that
such notice is a "Notice of Default" hereunder; provided, however, that
if such default under such bond, debenture, note, mortgage, indenture
or other instrument or evidence of indebtedness shall be remedied or
cured by the Company or waived pursuant to such agreement or
instrument, then, unless the Stated Maturity of the Securities shall
have been accelerated as provided herein, the Event of Default
hereunder by reason thereof shall be deemed likewise to have been
thereupon remedied, cured or waived without further action upon the
part of either the Trustee or the Holders. Subject to the provisions of
Section 601, the Trustee shall not be deemed to have knowledge of such
default unless either (A) a Responsible Officer of the Trustee shall
have actual knowledge of such default or (B) the Trustee shall have
received written notice thereof from the Company, from any Holder, from
the holder of any such indebtedness or from the trustee under any such
mortgage, indenture or other instrument; or
(6) the Company pursuant to or within the meaning of any
Bankruptcy Law:
(A) commences a voluntary case,
(B) consents to the entry of an order for relief
against it in an involuntary case,
(C) consents to the appointment of a Custodian
of it or for all or substantially all of its property, or
(D) makes a general assignment for the benefit
of its creditors; or
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(7) a court of competent jurisdiction enters an order or
decree under any Bankruptcy Law that:
(A) is for relief against the Company in an
involuntary case,
(B) appoints a Custodian of the Company or for
all or substantially all of its property, or
(C) orders the liquidation of the Company,
and the order or decree remains unstayed and in effect for 90 days; or
(8) any other Event of Default provided with respect to
Securities of that series.
The term "Bankruptcy Law" means title 11, U.S. Code or any similar Federal or
State law for the relief of debtors. The term "Custodian" means any receiver,
trustee, assignee, liquidator or other similar official under any Bankruptcy
Law.
SECTION 502. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and
Annulment. If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series at
the time Outstanding occurs and is continuing, then and in every such case the
Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of that series may declare the principal (or, if any
Securities are Original Issue Discount Securities or Indexed Securities, such
portion of the principal as may be specified in the terms thereof) of all the
Securities of that series to be due and payable immediately, by a notice in
writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by the Holders), and upon
any such declaration such principal or specified portion thereof shall become
immediately due and payable.
At any time after such a declaration of acceleration with
respect to Securities of any series has been made and before a judgment or
decree for payment of the money due has been obtained by the Trustee as
hereinafter in this Article provided, the Holders of a majority in principal
amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series, by written notice to the
Company and the Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its
consequences if:
(1) the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum
sufficient to pay in the currency, currency unit or composite currency
in which the Securities of such series are payable (except as otherwise
specified pursuant to Section 301 for the Securities of such series and
except, if applicable, as provided in Sections 312(b), 312(d) and
312(e)):
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(A) all overdue installments of interest on and any
Additional Amounts payable in respect of all Outstanding
Securities of that series and any related coupons,
(B) the principal of (and premium, if any, on) any
Outstanding Securities of that series which have become due
otherwise than by such declaration of acceleration and
interest thereon at the rate or rates borne by or provided for
in such Securities,
(C) to the extent that payment of such interest is
lawful, interest upon overdue installments of interest and any
Additional Amounts at the rate or rates borne by or provided
for in such Securities, and
(D) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee
hereunder and the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and
counsel; and
(2) all Events of Default with respect to Securities of that
series, other than the nonpayment of the principal of (or premium, if
any) or interest on Securities of that series which have become due
solely by such declaration of acceleration, have been cured or waived
as provided in Section 513.
No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right
consequent thereon.
SECTION 504. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for
Enforcement by Trustee. The Company covenants that if:
(1) default is made in the payment of any installment of
interest or Additional Amounts, if any, on any Security of any series
and any related coupon when such interest or Additional Amount becomes
due and payable and such default continues for a period of 30 days, or
(2) default is made in the payment of the principal of (or
premium, if any, on) any Security of any series at its Maturity,
then the Company will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to the Trustee, for the
benefit of the Holders of such Securities of such series and coupons, the whole
amount then due and payable on such Securities and coupons for principal (and
premium, if any) and interest and Additional Amount, with interest upon any
overdue principal (and premium, if any) and, to the extent that payment of such
interest shall be legally enforceable, upon any overdue installments of interest
or Additional Amounts, if any, at the rate or rates borne by or provided for in
such Securities,
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and, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover
the costs and expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation,
expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel.
If the Company fails to pay such amounts forthwith upon such
demand, the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, may
institute a judicial proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and
unpaid, and may prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree, and may
enforce the same against the Company or any other obligor upon such Securities
of such series and collect the moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable in the
manner provided by law out of the property of the Company or any other obligor
upon such Securities of such series, wherever situated.
If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any
series occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to
protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the Holders of Securities of
such series and any related coupons by such appropriate judicial proceedings as
the Trustee shall deem most effectual to protect and enforce any such rights,
whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this
Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce
any other proper remedy.
SECTION 504. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim. In case of the
pendency of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy,
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other judicial
proceeding relative to the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or
the property of the Company or of such other obligor or their creditors, the
Trustee (irrespective of whether the principal of the Securities of any series
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 on
the Company for the payment of overdue principal, premium, if any, or interest)
shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or
otherwise:
(i) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount, or such
lesser amount as may be provided for in the Securities of such series,
of principal (and premium, if any) and interest and Additional Amounts,
if any, owing and unpaid in respect of the Securities 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 the reasonable
compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its
agents and counsel) and of the Holders allowed in such judicial
proceeding, and
(ii) to collect and receive any moneys or other property
payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same;
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and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator (or
other similar official) in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by
each Holder of Securities of such series and coupons to make such payments to
the Trustee, and in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of
such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due to
it for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the
Trustee and any predecessor Trustee, their agents and counsel, and any other
amounts due the Trustee or any predecessor Trustee under Section 606.
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the
Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder of
a Security or coupon any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or
composition affecting the Securities or coupons or the rights of any Holder
thereof, or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any
Holder of a Security or coupon in any such proceeding.
SECTION 505. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of
Securities or Coupons. All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or
any of the Securities or coupons may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee
without the possession of any of the Securities or coupons or the production
thereof in any proceeding relating thereto, and any such proceeding instituted
by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust,
and any recovery of judgment shall, after provision for the payment of the
reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee,
its agents and counsel, be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the
Securities and coupons in respect of which such judgment has been recovered.
SECTION 506. Application of Money Collected. Any money
collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article shall be applied in the
following order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee and, in case of the
distribution of such money on account of principal (or premium, if any) or
interest and any Additional Amounts, upon presentation of the Securities or
coupons, or both, as the case may be, and the notation thereon of the payment if
only partially paid and upon surrender thereof if fully paid:
FIRST: To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee and any
predecessor Trustee under Section 606;
SECOND: To the payment of amounts then due and unpaid to the
holders of Senior Indebtedness, to the extent required by Article XVII;
THIRD: To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid upon
the Securities and coupons for principal (and premium, if any) and
interest and any Additional Amounts payable, in respect of which or for
the benefit of which such money has been collected, ratably, without
preference
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or priority of any kind, according to the aggregate amounts due and
payable on such Securities and coupons for principal (and premium, if
any), interest and Additional Amounts, respectively; and
FOURTH: To the payment of the remainder, if any, to the
Company.
SECTION 507. Limitation on Suits. No Holder of any Security of
any series or any related coupon shall have any right to institute any
proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this Indenture, or for the
appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy hereunder, unless:
(1) such Holder has previously given written notice to the
Trustee of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities
of that series;
(2) the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of
the Outstanding Securities of that series shall have made written
request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such
Event of Default in its own name as Trustee hereunder;
(3) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee
reasonable indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be
incurred in compliance with such request;
(4) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice,
request and offer of indemnity has failed to institute any such
proceeding; and
(5) no direction inconsistent with such written request has
been given to the Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders of a
majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that
series;
it being understood and intended that no one or more of such Holders shall have
any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision
of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other of
such Holders, or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any
other of such Holders or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in
the manner herein provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all such
Holders.
SECTION 508. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive
Principal, Premium, if any, and Interest and AdditSECTION 508. Unconditional
Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium, if any, and Interest and
Additional Amounts. Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the
Holder of any Security or coupon shall have the right which is absolute and
unconditional to receive payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and
(subject to Sections 305 and 307) interest on, and any Additional Amounts in
respect of, such Security or payment of such coupon on the respective due dates
expressed in
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such Security or coupon (or, in the case of redemption, on the Redemption Date)
and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, and such rights
shall not be impaired without the consent of such Holder.
SECTION 509. Restoration of Rights and Remedies. If the
Trustee or any Holder of a Security or coupon has instituted any proceeding to
enforce any right or remedy under this Indenture and such proceeding has been
discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or has been determined adversely to
the Trustee or to such Holder, then and in every such case the Company, the
Trustee and the Holders of Securities and coupons shall, subject to any
determination in such proceeding, be restored severally and respectively to
their former positions hereunder and thereafter all rights and remedies of the
Trustee and the Holders shall continue as though no such proceeding had been
instituted.
SECTION 510. Rights and Remedies Cumulative. Except as
otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Securities or coupons in the last paragraph of Section
306, 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.
SECTION 511. Delay or Omission Not Waiver. No delay or
omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any Security or coupon to exercise
any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default shall impair any such
right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default or an
acquiescence therein. Every right and remedy given by this Article or by law to
the Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as often
as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders of Securities or
coupons, as the case may be.
SECTION 512. Control by Holders of Securities. The Holders of
not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of
any series shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of
conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee or exercising
any trust or power conferred on the Trustee with respect to the Securities of
such series, provided that
(1) such direction shall not be in conflict with any
rule of law or with this Indenture,
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(2) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the
Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction, and
(3) the Trustee need not take any action which might involve
it in personal liability or be unduly prejudicial to the Holders of
Securities of such series not joining therein.
SECTION 513. Waiver of Past DefaultsSECTION 513. Waiver of
Past Defaults. The Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of
the Outstanding Securities of any series may on behalf of the Holders of all the
Securities of such series and any related coupons waive any past default
hereunder with respect to such series and its consequences, except a default
(1) in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or
interest on or Additional Amounts payable in respect of any Security of
such series or any related coupons, or
(2) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under
Article Nine cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the
Holder of each Outstanding Security of such series affected.
Upon any such waiver, such default shall cease to exist, and
any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for
every purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver extend to any subsequent or
other default or Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereon.
SECTION 514. Waiver of Usury, Stay or Extension Laws. The
Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will not at
any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the
benefit or advantage of, any usury, stay or extension law wherever enacted, now
or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the covenants or the
performance of this Indenture; and the Company (to the extent that it may
lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such
law, and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or impede the execution of any
power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of
every such power as though no such law had been enacted.
SECTION 515. Undertaking for Costs. All parties to this
Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Security by his acceptance thereof shall
be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in its discretion require, in any
suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any
suit against the Trustee for any action taken or omitted by it as Trustee, the
filing by any party litigant in such suit of any 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
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due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such
party litigant; but the provisions of this Section shall not apply to any suit
instituted by the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Holder, or group of
Holders, holding in the aggregate more than 10% in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities, or to any suit instituted by any Holder for the
enforcement of the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest
on any Security on or after the respective Stated Maturities expressed in such
Security (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date).
ARTICLE SIX
THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 601. Notice of Defaults. Within 90 days after the
occurrence of any default hereunder with respect to the Securities of any
series, the Trustee shall transmit in the manner and to the extent provided in
TIA Section 313(c), notice of such default hereunder known to the Trustee,
unless such default shall have been cured or waived; provided, however, that,
except in the case of a default in the payment of the principal of (or premium,
if any) or interest on or any Additional Amounts with respect to any Security of
such series, or in the payment of any sinking or purchase fund installment with
respect to the Securities of such series, the Trustee shall be protected in
withholding such notice if and so long as Responsible Officers of the Trustee in
good faith determine that the withholding of such notice is in the interests of
the Holders of the Securities and coupons of such series; and provided further
that in the case of any default or breach of the character specified in Section
501(4) with respect to the Securities and coupons of such series, no such notice
to Holders shall be given until at least 60 days after the occurrence thereof.
For the purpose of this Section, the term "default" means any event which is, or
after notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default with
respect to the Securities of such series.
SECTION 602. Certain Rights of Trustee. Subject to the
provisions of TIA Section 315(a) through 315(d):
(1) the Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or
refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement,
instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent,
order, bond, debenture, note, coupon or other paper or document
believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by
the proper party or parties;
(2) any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein
shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Company Request or Company Order
(other than delivery of any Security, together with any coupons
appertaining thereto, to the
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Trustee for authentication and delivery pursuant to Section 303 which
shall be sufficiently evidenced as provided therein) and any resolution
of the Board of Directors may be sufficiently evidenced by a Board
Resolution;
(3) whenever in the administration of this Indenture the
Trustee shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established
prior to taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the
Trustee (unless other evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may,
in the absence of bad faith on its part, rely upon an Officers'
Certificate;
(4) the Trustee may consult with counsel and the advice of
such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete
authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered
or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon;
(5) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any
of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request
or direction of any of the Holders of Securities of any series or any
related coupons pursuant to this Indenture, unless such Holders shall
have offered to the Trustee reasonable security or indemnity against
the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it in
compliance with such request or direction;
(6) the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation
into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate,
statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction,
consent, order, bond, debenture, note, coupon or other paper or
document, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further
inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit,
and, if the Trustee shall determine to make such further inquiry or
investigation, it shall be entitled to examine the books, records and
premises of the Company, personally or by agent or attorney;
(7) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers
hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or
through agents or attorneys and the Trustee shall not be responsible
for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent or attorney
appointed with due care by it hereunder; and
(8) the Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken,
suffered or omitted by it in good faith and believed by it to be
authorized or within the discretion or rights or powers conferred upon
it by this Indenture.
The Trustee shall not be required to expend or risk its own
funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of
its duties hereunder or in the exercise of
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any of its rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds for believing
that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or
liability is not reasonably assured to it.
SECTION 603. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of
Securities. The recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except the
Trustee's certificate of authentication, and in any coupons shall be taken as
the statements of the Company, and neither the Trustee nor any Authenticating
Agent assumes any responsibility for their correctness. The Trustee makes no
representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the
Securities or coupons, except that the Trustee represents that it is duly
authorized to execute and deliver this Indenture, authenticate the Securities
and perform its obligations hereunder. Neither the Trustee nor any
Authenticating Agent shall be accountable for the use or application by the
Company of Securities or the proceeds thereof.
SECTION 604. May Hold Securities. The Trustee, any Paying
Agent, Security Registrar, Authenticating Agent or any other agent of the
Company, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or
pledgee of Securities and coupons and, subject to TIA Sections 310(b) and 311,
may otherwise deal with the Company with the same rights it would have if it
were not Trustee, Paying Agent, Security Registrar, Authenticating Agent or such
other agent.
SECTION 605. Money Held in Trust. Money held by the Trustee in
trust hereunder need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent
required by law. The Trustee shall be under no liability for interest on any
money received by it hereunder except as otherwise agreed in writing with the
Company.
SECTION 606. Compensation and Reimbursement. The Company
agrees:
(1) to pay to the Trustee from time to time reasonable
compensation for all services rendered by it hereunder (which
compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to
the compensation of a trustee of an express trust);
(2) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to
reimburse each of the Trustee and any predecessor Trustee upon its
request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances
incurred or made by the Trustee in accordance with any provision of
this Indenture (including the reasonable compensation and the expenses
and disbursements of its agents and counsel), except any such expense,
disbursement or advance as may be attributable to its negligence or bad
faith; and
(3) to indemnify each of the Trustee and any predecessor
Trustee for, and to hold it harmless against,
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any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith
on its own part, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or
administration of the trust or trusts hereunder, including the costs
and expenses of defending itself against any claim or liability in
connection with the exercise or performance of any of its powers or
duties hereunder.
When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services in
connection with an Event of Default specified in Section 501(5) or Section
501(6), 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.
As security for the performance of the obligations of the
Company under this Section, the Trustee shall have a lien prior to the
Securities upon all property and funds held or collected by the Trustee as such,
except funds held in trust for the payment of principal of (or premium, if any)
or interest on particular Securities or any coupons.
The provisions of this Section shall survive the termination
of this Indenture.
SECTION 607. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility;
Conflicting Interests. (a) There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder which
shall be eligible to act as Trustee under TIA Section 310(a)(1) and shall have a
combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000. If such corporation
publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or the
requirements of Federal, State, Territorial or District of Columbia 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. If at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance
with the provisions of this Section, it shall resign immediately in the manner
and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article.
(b) The following indentures shall be deemed to be
specifically described herein for the purposes of clause (i) of the first
proviso contained in TIA Section 310(b): (1) Indenture, dated as of September
20, 1996, between the Company and First Union National Bank, (2) Indenture,
dated as of June 12, 1995, between the Company and First Fidelity Bank, National
Association, and (3) Indenture, dated as of August 31, 1994, between the Company
and First Fidelity Bank, National Association.
SECTION 608. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of
Successor. (a) No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no
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appointment of a successor Trustee pursuant to this Article shall become
effective until the acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee in
accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 609.
(b) The Trustee may resign at any time with respect to the
Securities of one or more series by giving written notice thereof to the
Company. If an instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee shall not have
been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such notice of
resignation, the resigning Trustee may petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee.
(c) The Trustee may be removed at any time with respect to the
Securities of any series by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount
of the Outstanding Securities of such series delivered to the Trustee and to the
Company.
(d) If at any time:
(1) the Trustee shall fail to comply with the provisions of
TIA Section 310(b) after written request therefor by the Company or by
any Holder of a Security who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security
for at least six months, or
(2) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section
607(a) and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the
Company or by any Holder of a Security who has been a bona fide Holder
of a Security for at least six months, or
(3) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be
adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the Trustee or of its
property shall be appointed or any public officer shall take charge or
control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of
rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation,
then, in any such case, (i) the Company by or pursuant to a Board Resolution
may remove the Trustee and appoint a successor Trustee with respect to all
Securities, or (ii) subject to TIA Section 315(e), any Holder of a Security
who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months may, on
behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of
competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee with respect to all
Securities and the appointment of a successor Trustee or Trustees.
(e) If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become
incapable of acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee for
any cause with respect to the Securities of one or more series, the Company,
by or pursuant to a Board Resolution, shall promptly appoint a successor
Trustee or
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Trustees with respect to the Securities of that or those series (it being
understood that any such successor Trustee may be appointed with respect to the
Securities of one or more or all of such series and that at any time there shall
be only one Trustee with respect to the Securities of any particular series).
If, within one year after such resignation, removal or incapability, or the
occurrence of such vacancy, a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities
of any series shall be appointed by Act of the Holders of a majority in
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series delivered to the
Company and the retiring Trustee, the successor Trustee so appointed shall,
forthwith upon its acceptance of such appointment, become the successor Trustee
with respect to the Securities of such series and to that extent supersede the
successor Trustee appointed by the Company. If no successor Trustee with respect
to the Securities of any series shall have been so appointed by the Company or
the Holders of Securities and accepted appointment in the manner hereinafter
provided, any Holder of a Security who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security
of such series for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all others
similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the
appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to Securities of such series.
(f) The Company shall give notice of each resignation and each
removal of the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series and each
appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series
in the manner provided for notices to the Holders of Securities in Section 106.
Each notice shall include the name of the successor Trustee with respect to the
Securities of such series and the address of its Corporate Trust Office.
SECTION 609. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor. (a) In
case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to all
Securities, every such successor Trustee shall execute, acknowledge and deliver
to the Company and to the retiring Trustee an instrument accepting such
appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee
shall become effective and such successor Trustee, without any further act, deed
or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and
duties of the retiring Trustee; but, on request of the Company or the successor
Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall, upon payment of its charges, execute and
deliver an instrument transferring to such successor Trustee all the rights,
powers and trusts of the retiring Trustee, and shall duly assign, transfer and
deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money held by such retiring
Trustee hereunder, subject nevertheless to its lien and claim, if any, provided
for in Section 606.
(b) In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor
Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more (but not all) series, the
Company, the retiring Trustee and each
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successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more series shall
execute and deliver an indenture supplemental hereto, pursuant to Article Nine
hereof, wherein each successor Trustee shall accept such appointment and which
(1) shall contain such provisions as shall be necessary or desirable to transfer
and confirm to, and to vest in, each successor Trustee all the rights, powers,
trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that
or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates, (2)
if the retiring Trustee is not retiring with respect to all Securities, shall
contain such provisions as shall be deemed necessary or desirable to confirm
that all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with
respect to the Securities of that or those series as to which the retiring
Trustee is not retiring shall continue to be vested in the retiring Trustee, and
(3) shall add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be
necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts
hereunder by more than one Trustee, it being understood that nothing herein or
in such supplemental indenture shall constitute such Trustees co-trustees of the
same trust and that each such Trustee shall be trustee of a trust or trusts
hereunder separate and apart from any trust or trusts hereunder administered by
any other such Trustee; and upon the execution and delivery of such supplemental
indenture the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become
effective to the extent provided therein and each such successor Trustee,
without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the
rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the
Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor
Trustee relates; but, on request of the Company or any successor Trustee, such
retiring Trustee shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor
Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder with
respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of
such successor Trustee relates.
(c) Upon request of any such successor Trustee, the Company
shall execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in
and confirming to such successor Trustee all such rights, powers and trusts
referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section, as the case may be.
(d) No successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless
at the time of such acceptance such successor Trustee shall be qualified and
eligible under this Article.
SECTION 610. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession
to Business. Any corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or converted
or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any
merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or
any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust
business of the Trustee, shall be the successor
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of the Trustee hereunder, provided such corporation shall be otherwise qualified
and eligible under this Article, without the execution or filing of any paper or
any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto. In case any Securities
or coupons shall have been authenticated, but not delivered, by the Trustee then
in office, any successor by merger, conversion or consolidation to such
authenticating Trustee may adopt such authentication and deliver the Securities
or coupons so authenticated with the same effect as if such successor Trustee
had itself authenticated such Securities or coupons. In case any Securities or
coupons shall not have been authenticated by such predecessor Trustee, any such
successor Trustee may authenticate and deliver such Securities or coupons, in
either its own name or that of its predecessor Trustee, with the full force and
effect which this Indenture provides for the certificate of authentication of
the Trustee.
SECTION 611. Appointment of Authenticating Agent. At any time
when any of the Securities remain Outstanding, the Trustee may appoint an
Authenticating Agent or Agents with respect to one or more series of Securities
which shall be authorized to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate
Securities of such series issued upon exchange, registration of transfer or
partial redemption or repayment thereof, and Securities so authenticated shall
be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture and shall be valid and obligatory
for all purposes as if authenticated by the Trustee hereunder. Any such
appointment shall be evidenced by an instrument in writing signed by a
Responsible Officer of the Trustee, a copy of which instrument shall be promptly
furnished to the Company. Wherever reference is made in this Indenture to the
authentication and delivery of Securities by the Trustee or the Trustee's
certificate of authentication, such reference shall be deemed to include
authentication and delivery on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent
and a certificate of authentication executed on behalf of the Trustee by an
Authenticating Agent. Each Authenticating Agent shall be acceptable to the
Company and, except as may otherwise be provided pursuant to Section 301, shall
at all times be a bank or trust company or corporation organized and doing
business and in good standing under the laws of the United States of America or
of any State or the District of Columbia, authorized under such laws to act as
Authenticating Agent, having a combined capital and surplus of not less than
$5,000,000 and subject to supervision or examination by Federal or State
authorities. If such Authenticating Agent publishes reports of condition at
least annually, pursuant to law or the requirements of the aforesaid supervising
or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section, the combined
capital and surplus of such Authenticating Agent shall be deemed to be its
combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition
so published. In case at any time an Authenticating Agent shall cease to be
eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, such Authenticating
Agent
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shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in this
Section.
Any corporation into which an Authenticating Agent may be
merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation
resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which such
Authenticating Agent shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to the
corporate agency or corporate trust business of an Authenticating Agent, shall
continue to be an Authenticating Agent, provided such corporation shall be
otherwise eligible under this Section, without the execution or filing of any
paper or further act on the part of the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent.
An Authenticating Agent for any series of Securities may at
any time resign by giving written notice of resignation to the Trustee for
such series and to the Company. The Trustee for any series of Securities may
at any time terminate the agency of an Authenticating Agent by giving written
notice of termination to such Authenticating Agent and to the Company. Upon
receiving such a notice of resignation or upon such a termination, or in case
at any time such Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance
with the provisions of this Section, the Trustee for such series may appoint a
successor Authenticating Agent which shall be acceptable to the Company and
shall give notice of such appointment to all Holders of Securities of the
series with respect to which such Authenticating Agent will serve in the
manner set forth in Section 106. Any successor Authenticating Agent upon
acceptance of its appointment hereunder shall become vested with all the
rights, powers and duties of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if
originally named as an Authenticating Agent herein. No successor
Authenticating Agent shall be appointed unless eligible under the provisions
of this Section.
The Company agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from
time to time reasonable compensation including reimbursement of its reasonable
expenses for its services under this Section.
If an appointment with respect to one or more series is made
pursuant to this Section, the Securities of such series may have endorsed
thereon, in addition to or in lieu of the Trustee's certificate of
authentication, an alternate certificate of authentication substantially in
the following form:
This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein
referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
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________________, as Trustee
By _________________________
as Authenticating Agent
By _________________________
Authorized Signatory
ARTICLE SEVEN
HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY
SECTION 701. Disclosure of Names and Addresses of Holders.
Every Holder of Securities or coupons, by receiving and holding the same, agrees
with the Company and the Trustee that neither the Company nor the Trustee nor
any Authenticating Agent nor any Paying Agent nor any Security Registrar shall
be held accountable by reason of the disclosure of any information as to the
names and addresses of the Holders of Securities in accordance with TIA Section
312, regardless of the source from which such information was derived, and that
the Trustee shall not be held accountable by reason of mailing any material
pursuant to a request made under TIA Section 312(b).
SECTION 702. Reports by Trustee. Within 60 days after May 15
of each year commencing with the first May 15 after the first issuance of
Securities pursuant to this Indenture, the Trustee shall transmit by mail to all
Holders of Securities if and as required in TIA Section 313(c) a brief report
dated as of such May 15 if required by TIA Section 313(a).
SECTION 703. Reports by Company. The Company will:
(1) file with the Trustee, within 15 days after the Company is
required to file the same with the Commission, copies of the annual
reports and of the information, documents, and other reports (or copies
of such portions of any of the foregoing as the Commission may from
time to time by rules and regulations prescribe) which the Company may
be required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or
Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; or, if the
Company is not required to file information, documents or reports
pursuant to either of such Sections, then it will file with the Trustee
and the Commission, in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed
from time to time by the Commission, such of the supplementary and
periodic information, documents and reports which may be required
pursuant to Section 13 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 in
respect of a security listed and registered on a national securities
exchange as may be prescribed from time to time in such rules and
regulations;
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(2) file with the Trustee and the Commission, in accordance
with rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the
Commission, such additional information, documents and reports with
respect to compliance by the Company with the conditions and covenants
of this Indenture as may be required from time to time by such rules
and regulations; and
(3) transmit by mail to the Holders of Securities, within 30
days after the filing thereof with the Trustee, in the manner and to
the extent provided in TIA Section 313(c), such summaries of any
information, documents and reports required to be filed by the Company
pursuant to paragraphs (1) and (2) of this Section as may be required
by rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the
Commission.
SECTION 704. Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses
of Holders. The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee:
(a) semi-annually, not later than 15 days after the Regular
Record Date for interest for each series of Securities, a list, in such form
as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the
Holders of Registered Securities of such series as of such Regular Record
Date, or if there is no Regular Record Date for interest for such series of
Securities, semi-annually, upon such dates as are set forth in the Board
Resolution or indenture supplemental hereto authorizing such series, and
(b) at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing,
within 30 days after the receipt by the Company of any such request, a list of
similar form and content as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the time
such list is furnished,
provided, however, that, so long as the Trustee is the Security Registrar, no
such list shall be required to be furnished.
ARTICLE EIGHT
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE, LEASE OR CONVEYANCE
SECTION 801. Consolidations and Mergers of Company and Sales,
Leases and Conveyances Permitted Subject to CertainSECTION 801. Consolidations
and Mergers of Company and Sales, Leases and Conveyances Permitted Subject to
Certain Conditions. The Company may consolidate with, or sell, lease or convey
all or substantially all of its assets to, or merge with or into any other
corporation, provided that in any such case, (1) either the Company shall be the
continuing corporation, or the successor corporation shall be a corporation
organized and existing under the laws of the United States or a State thereof
and such successor corporation shall expressly assume the due and punctual
payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and any interest (including
all Additional Amounts, if any, payable
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pursuant to Section 1005) on all the Securities, according to their tenor, and
the due and punctual performance and observance of all of the covenants and
conditions of this Indenture to be performed by the Company by supplemental
indenture, complying with Article Nine hereof, satisfactory to the Trustee,
executed and delivered to the Trustee by such corporation, and (ii) the Company
or such successor corporation, as the case may be, shall not, immediately after
such merger or consolidation, or such sale, lease or conveyance, be in default
in the performance of any such covenant or condition.
SECTION 802. Rights and Duties of Successor Corporation. In
case of any such consolidation, merger, sale, lease or conveyance and upon any
such assumption by the successor corporation, such successor corporation shall
succeed to and be substituted for the Company, with the same effect as if it had
been named herein as the party of the first part, and the predecessor
corporation, except in the event of a lease, shall be relieved of any further
obligation under this Indenture and the Securities. Such successor corporation
thereupon may cause to be signed, and may issue either in its own name or in the
name of the Company, any or all of the Securities issuable hereunder which
theretofore shall not have been signed by the Company and delivered to the
Trustee; and, upon the order of such successor corporation, instead of the
Company, and subject to all the terms, conditions and limitations in this
Indenture prescribed, the Trustee shall authenticate and shall deliver any
Securities which previously shall have been signed and delivered by the officers
of the Company to the Trustee for authentication, and any Securities which such
successor corporation thereafter shall cause to be signed and delivered to the
Trustee for that purpose. All the Securities so issued shall in all respects
have the same legal rank and benefit under this Indenture as the Securities
theretofore or thereafter issued in accordance with the terms of this Indenture
as though all of such Securities had been issued at the date of the execution
hereof.
In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale, lease or
conveyance, such changes in phraseology and form (but not in substance) may be
made in the Securities thereafter to be issued as may be appropriate.
SECTION 803. Officers' Certificate and Opinion of Counsel. The
Trustee shall receive and shall be entitled to rely upon an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel as conclusive evidence that any such
consolidation, merger, sale, lease or conveyance, and any such assumption,
complies with the provisions of this Article and that all conditions precedent
herein provided for relating to such transaction have been complied with.
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ARTICLE NINE
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
SECTION 901. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of
Holders. Without the consent of any Holders of Securities or coupons, the
Company, when authorized by or pursuant to a Board Resolution, and the Trustee,
at any time and from time to time, may enter into one or more indentures
supplemental hereto, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, for any of the
following purposes:
(1) to evidence the succession of another Person to the
Company and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of
the Company herein and in the Securities contained; or
(2) to add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit of
the Holders of all or any series of Securities (and if such covenants
are to be for the benefit of less than all series of Securities,
stating that such covenants are expressly being included solely for the
benefit of such series) or to surrender any right or power herein
conferred upon the Company; or
(3) to add any additional Events of Default for the benefit of
the Holders of all or any series of Securities (and if such Events of
Default are to be for the benefit of less than all series of
Securities, stating that such Events of Default are expressly being
included solely for the benefit of such series); provided, however,
that in respect of any such additional Events of Default such
supplemental indenture may provide for a particular period of grace
after default (which period may be shorter or longer than that allowed
in the case of other defaults) or may provide for an immediate
enforcement upon such default or may limit the remedies available to
the Trustee upon such default or may limit the right of the Holders of
a majority in aggregate principal amount of that or those series of
Securities to which such additional Events of Default apply to waive
such default; or
(4) to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture
to provide that Bearer Securities may be registrable as to principal,
to change or eliminate any restrictions on the payment of principal of
or any premium or interest on Bearer Securities, to permit Bearer
Securities to be issued in exchange for Registered Securities, to
permit Bearer Securities to be issued in exchange for Bearer Securities
of other authorized denominations or to permit or facilitate the
issuance of Securities in uncertificated form, provided that any such
action shall not adversely affect the interests of the
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Holders of Securities of any series or any related coupons in any
material respect; or
(5) to change or eliminate any of the provisions of this
Indenture, provided that any such change or elimination shall become
effective only when there is no Security Outstanding of any series
created prior to the execution of such supplemental indenture which is
entitled to the benefit of such provision; or
(6) to secure the Securities; or
(7) to establish the form or terms of Securities of any series
and any related coupons as permitted by Sections 201 and 301, including
the provisions and procedures providing for the adjustment of
conversion rights pursuant to Section 1607 with respect to Securities
convertible into Common Stock and as otherwise contemplated by Section
1613 with respect to Securities convertible into Preferred Stock; or
(8) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment
hereunder by a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one
or more series and to add to or change any of the provisions of this
Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the
administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee; or
(9) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any
provision herein which may be defective or inconsistent with any other
provision herein, or to make any other provisions with respect to
matters or questions arising under this Indenture which shall not be
inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture, provided such
provisions shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of
Securities of any series or any related coupons in any material
respect; or
(10) to supplement any of the provisions of this Indenture to
such extent as shall be necessary to permit or facilitate the
defeasance and discharge of any series of Securities pursuant to
Sections 401, 1402 and 1403; provided that any such action shall not
adversely affect the interests of the Holders of Securities of such
series and any related coupons or any other series of Securities in any
material respect.
SECTION 902. Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders.
With the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount
of all Outstanding Securities affected by such supplemental indenture, by Act of
said Holders delivered to the Company and the Trustee, the Company, when
authorized by or pursuant to a Board Resolution, and the Trustee may enter into
an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for
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the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating
any of the provisions of this Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights
of the Holders of Securities and any related coupons under this Indenture;
provided, however, that no such supplemental indenture shall, without the
consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby:
(1) change the Stated Maturity of the principal of
(or premium, if any, on) or any installment of principal of or interest
on, any Security; or reduce the principal amount thereof or the rate or
amount of interest thereon or any Additional Amounts payable in respect
thereof, or any premium payable upon the redemption thereof, or change
any obligation of the Company to pay Additional Amounts pursuant to
Section 1005 (except as contemplated by Section 801(1) and permitted by
Section 901(1)), or reduce the amount of the principal of an Original
Issue Discount Security that would be due and payable upon a
declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section
502 or the amount thereof provable in bankruptcy pursuant to Section
504, or adversely affect any right of repayment at the option of the
Holder of any Security, or change any Place of Payment where, or the
currency or currencies, currency unit or units or composite currency or
currencies in which, any Security or any premium or the interest
thereon is payable, or impair the right to institute suit for the
enforcement of any such payment on or after the Stated Maturity thereof
(or, in the case of redemption or repayment at the option of the
Holder, on or after the Redemption Date or the Repayment Date, as the
case may be), or
(2) reduce the percentage in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of any series, the consent of whose Holders is
required for any such supplemental indenture, or the consent of whose
Holders is required for any waiver with respect to such series (or
compliance with certain provisions of this Indenture or certain
defaults hereunder and their consequences) provided for in this
Indenture, or reduce the requirements of Section 1504 for quorum or
voting, or
(3) modify any of the provisions of this Section,
Section 513, except to increase any such percentage or to provide that
certain other provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified or waived
without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected
thereby, or
(4) impair the right of Holders to convert their
Securities, if convertible, upon the terms established pursuant to or
in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture, or
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(5) subordinate the indebtedness evidenced by the
Securities to any indebtedness of the Company other than Senior
Indebtedness.
It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this
Section to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture,
but it shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.
A supplemental indenture which changes or eliminates any
covenant or other provision of this Indenture which has expressly been included
solely for the benefit of one or more particular series of Securities, or which
modifies the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series with respect to
such covenant or other provision, shall be deemed not to affect the rights under
this Indenture of the Holders of Securities of any other series.
SECTION 903. Execution of Supplemental Indentures. In
executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental
indenture permitted by this Article or the modification thereby of the trusts
created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and shall
be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating that the
execution of such supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this
Indenture. The Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such
supplemental indenture which affects the Trustee's own rights, duties or
immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.
SECTION 904. Effect of Supplemental Indentures. Upon the
execution of any supplemental indenture under this Article, this Indenture shall
be modified in accordance therewith, and such supplemental indenture shall form
a part of this Indenture for all purposes; and every Holder of Securities
theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder and of any
coupon appertaining thereto shall be bound thereby.
SECTION 905. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act. Every
supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article shall conform to the
requirements of the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect.
SECTION 906. Reference in Securities to Supplemental
Indentures. Securities of any series authenticated and delivered after the
execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article may, and shall,
if required by the Trustee, bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee as
to any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Company shall
so determine, new Securities of any series so modified as to conform, in the
opinion of the Trustee and the Company, to any such supplemental indenture may
be prepared and executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the
Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Securities of such series.
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ARTICLE TEN
COVENANTS
SECTION 1001. Payment of Principal, Premium, if any, and
Interest and Additional Amounts. The Company covenants and agrees for the
benefit of the Holders of each series of Securities that it will duly and
punctually pay the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on and any
Additional Amounts payable in respect of the Securities of that series in
accordance with the terms of such series of Securities, any coupons appertaining
thereto and this Indenture. Unless otherwise specified as contemplated by
Section 301 with respect to any series of Securities, any interest due on and
any Additional Amounts payable in respect of Bearer Securities on or before
Maturity, other than Additional Amounts, if any, payable as provided in Section
1005 in respect of principal of (or premium, if any, on) such a Security, shall
be payable only upon presentation and surrender of the several coupons for such
interest installments as are evidenced thereby as they severally mature. Unless
otherwise specified with respect to Securities of any series pursuant to Section
301, at the option of the Company, all payments of principal may be paid by
check to the registered Holder of the Registered Security or other person
entitled thereto against surrender of such Security.
SECTION 1002. Maintenance of Office or Agency. If Securities
of a series are issuable only as Registered Securities, the Company shall
maintain in each Place of Payment for any series of Securities an office or
agency where Securities of that series may be presented or surrendered for
payment or conversion, where Securities of that series may be surrendered for
registration of transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon
the Company in respect of the Securities of that series and this Indenture may
be served. If Securities of a series are issuable as Bearer Securities, the
Company will maintain: (A) in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, an
office or agency where any Registered Securities of that series may be presented
or surrendered for payment or conversion, where any Registered Securities of
that series may be surrendered for registration of transfer, where Securities of
that series may be surrendered for exchange, where notices and demands to or
upon the Company in respect of the Securities of that series and this Indenture
may be served and where Bearer Securities of that series and related coupons may
be presented or surrendered for payment in the circumstances described in the
following paragraph (and not otherwise); (B) subject to any laws or regulations
applicable thereto, in a Place of Payment for that series which is located
outside the United States, an office or agency where Securities of that series
and related coupons may be presented and surrendered for payment (including
payment of any Additional Amounts payable on Securities of that series pursuant
to Section 1005) or conversion; provided, however, that if the Securities of
that series are listed on any stock exchange located outside the
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United States and such stock exchange shall so require, the Company will
maintain a Paying Agent for the Securities of that series in any required city
located outside the United States, as the case may be, so long as the Securities
of that series are listed on such exchange; and (C) subject to any laws or
regulations applicable thereto, in a Place of Payment for that series located
outside the United States an office or agency where any Registered Securities of
that series may be surrendered for registration of transfer, where Securities of
that series may be surrendered for exchange and where notices and demands to or
upon the Company in respect of the Securities of that series and this Indenture
may be served. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the
location, and any change in the location, of each such office or agency. If at
any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency
or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such
presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the
Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, except that Bearer Securities of that
series and the related coupons may be presented and surrendered for payment
(including payment of any Additional Amounts payable on Bearer Securities of
that series pursuant to Section 1005) at the offices specified in the Security,
in London, England, and the Company hereby appoints the same as its agent to
receive such respective presentations, surrenders, notices and demands, and the
Company hereby appoints the Trustee its agent to receive all such presentations,
surrenders, notices and demands.
Unless otherwise specified with respect to any Securities
pursuant to Section 301, no payment of principal, premium or interest on or
Additional Amounts in respect of Bearer Securities shall be made at any office
or agency of the Company in the United States or by check mailed to any address
in the United States or by transfer to an account maintained with a bank located
in the United States; provided, however, that, if the Securities of a series are
payable in Dollars, payment of principal of and any premium and interest on any
Bearer Security (including any Additional Amounts payable on Securities of such
series pursuant to Section 1005) shall be made at the office of the Company's
Paying Agent in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, if (but only if)
payment in Dollars of the full amount of such principal, premium, interest or
Additional Amounts, as the case may be, at all offices or agencies outside the
United States maintained for the purpose by the Company in accordance with this
Indenture, is illegal or effectively precluded by exchange controls or other
similar restrictions.
The Company may from time to time designate one or more other
offices or agencies where the Securities of one or more series may be presented
or surrendered for any or all of such purposes, and may from time to time
rescind such designations; provided, however, that no such designation or
rescission shall in any manner relieve the Company of its obligation to maintain
an office or agency in accordance with the requirements set forth
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above for Securities of any series for such purposes. The Company will give
prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and
of any change in the location of any such other office or agency. Unless
otherwise specified with respect to any Securities pursuant to Section 301 with
respect to a series of Securities, the Company hereby designates as a Place of
Payment for each series of Securities the office or agency of the Company in the
Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, and initially appoints the Trustee
at its Corporate Trust Office as Paying Agent in such city and as its agent to
receive all such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands.
Unless otherwise specified with respect to any Securities
pursuant to Section 301, if and so long as the Securities of any series (i) are
denominated in a Foreign Currency or (ii) may be payable in a Foreign Currency,
or so long as it is required under any other provision of the Indenture, then
the Company will maintain with respect to each such series of Securities, or as
so required, at least one Exchange Rate Agent.
SECTION 1003. Money for Securities Payments to Be Held in
Trust. If the Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent with respect
to any series of any Securities and any related coupons, it will, on or before
each due date of the principal of (and premium, if any), or interest on or
Additional Amounts in respect of, any of the Securities of that series,
segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto a
sum in the currency or currencies, currency unit or units or composite currency
or currencies in which the Securities of such series are payable (except as
otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301 for the Securities of such series
and except, if applicable, as provided in Sections 312(b), 312(d) and 312(e))
sufficient to pay the principal (and premium, if any) or interest or Additional
Amounts so becoming due until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or
otherwise disposed of as herein provided, and will promptly notify the Trustee
of its action or failure so to act.
Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents for
any series of Securities and any related coupons, it will, on or before each due
date of the principal of (and premium, if any), or interest on or Additional
Amounts in respect of, any Securities of that series, deposit with a Paying
Agent a sum (in the currency or currencies, currency unit or units or composite
currency or currencies described in the preceding paragraph) sufficient to pay
the principal (and premium, if any) or interest or Additional Amounts, so
becoming due, such sum to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons
entitled to such principal, premium or interest or Additional Amounts and
(unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the
Trustee of its action or failure so to act.
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The Company will cause each Paying Agent other than the
Trustee to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such Paying
Agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section,
that such Paying Agent will
(1) hold all sums held by it for the payment of principal of
(and premium, if any) or interest on Securities in trust for the
benefit of the Persons entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid
to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided;
(2) give the Trustee notice of any default by the Company (or
any other obligor upon the Securities) in the making of any such
payment of principal (and premium, if any) or interest; and
(3) at any time during the continuance of any such default
upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee
all sums so held in trust by such Paying Agent.
The Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay, or
by Company Order direct any Paying Agent to pay, to the Trustee all sums held in
trust by the Company or such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the Trustee
upon the same trusts as those upon which such sums were held by the Company or
such Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the Trustee,
such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to
such sums.
Except as otherwise provided in the Securities of any series,
any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then held by the
Company, in trust for the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) or
interest on, or any Additional Amounts in respect of, any Security of any series
and remaining unclaimed for two years after such principal (and premium, if
any), interest or Additional Amounts has become due and payable shall be paid to
the Company upon Company Request or (if then held by the Company) shall be
discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Security shall thereafter, as
an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Company for payment of such
principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on, or any Additional Amounts in
respect of, any Security, without interest thereon, and all liability of the
Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money, and all liability
of the Company as trustee thereof, shall thereupon cease; provided, however,
that the Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such
repayment, may at the expense of the Company cause notice to be mailed to the
Holders or published once in an Authorized Newspaper to the effect that such
money remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified therein, which shall
not be less than 30 days from the date of such mailing or
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publication, any unclaimed balance of such money then remaining will be repaid
to the Company.
SECTION 1004. Statement as to Compliance. The Company will
deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year (which
as of the date hereof is December 31), a brief certificate from the principal
executive officer, principal financial officer or principal accounting officer
as to his or her knowledge of the Company's compliance with all conditions and
covenants under this Indenture and, in the event of any noncompliance,
specifying such noncompliance and the nature and status thereof. For purposes of
this Section 1006, such compliance shall be determined without regard to any
period of grace or requirement of notice under this Indenture.
SECTION 1005. Additional Amounts. If any Securities of a
series provide for the payment of Additional Amounts, the Company will pay to
the Holder of any Security of such series or any coupon appertaining thereto
Additional Amounts as may be specified as contemplated by Section 301. Whenever
in this Indenture there is mentioned, in any context except in the case of
Section 502(1), the payment of the principal of or any premium or interest on,
or in respect of, any Security of any series or payment of any related coupon or
the net proceeds received on the sale or exchange of any Security of any series,
such mention shall be deemed to include mention of the payment of Additional
Amounts provided by the terms of such series established pursuant to Section 301
to the extent that, in such context, Additional Amounts are, were or would be
payable in respect thereof pursuant to such terms and express mention of the
payment of Additional Amounts (if applicable) in any provisions hereof shall not
be construed as excluding Additional Amounts in those provisions hereof where
such express mention is not made.
Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301,
if the Securities of a series provide for the payment of Additional Amounts, at
least 10 days prior to the first Interest Payment Date with respect to that
series of Securities (or if the Securities of that series will not bear interest
prior to Maturity, the first day on which a payment of principal and any premium
is made), and at least 10 days prior to each date of payment of principal and
any premium or interest if there has been any change with respect to the matters
set forth in the below-mentioned Officers' Certificate, the Company will furnish
the Trustee and the Company's principal Paying Agent or Paying Agents, if other
than the Trustee, with an Officers' Certificate instructing the Trustee and such
Paying Agent or Paying Agents whether such payment of principal of and any
premium or interest on the Securities of that series shall be made to Holders of
Securities of that series or any related coupons who are not United States
persons without withholding for or on account of any tax, assessment or other
governmental charge described in the Securities of the series. If any such
withholding shall be required, then such Officers' Certificate
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shall specify by country the amount, if any, required to be withheld on such
payments to such Holders of Securities of that series or related coupons and the
Company will pay to the Trustee or such Paying Agent the Additional Amounts
required by the terms of such Securities. In the event that the Trustee or any
Paying Agent, as the case may be, shall not so receive the above-mentioned
certificate, then the Trustee or such Paying Agent shall be entitled (i) to
assume that no such withholding or deduction is required with respect to any
payment of principal or interest with respect to any Securities of a series or
related coupons until it shall have received a certificate advising otherwise
and (ii) to make all payments of principal and interest with respect to the
Securities of a series or related coupons without withholding or deductions
until otherwise advised. The Company covenants to indemnify the Trustee and any
Paying Agent for, and to hold them harmless against, any loss, liability or
expense reasonably incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part
arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by any of them or
in reliance on any Officers' Certificate furnished pursuant to this Section or
in reliance on the Company's not furnishing such an Officers' Certificate.
ARTICLE ELEVEN
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 1101. Applicability of Article. Securities of any
series which are redeemable before their Stated Maturity shall be redeemable in
accordance with their terms and (except as otherwise specified as contemplated
by Section 301 for Securities of any series) in accordance with this Article.
SECTION 1102. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee. The
election of the Company to redeem any Securities shall be evidenced by or
pursuant to a Board Resolution. In case of any redemption at the election of the
Company of less than all of the Securities of any series, the Company shall, at
least 60 days prior to the Redemption Date fixed by the Company (unless a
shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the Trustee), notify the Trustee of such
Redemption Date and of the principal amount of Securities of such series to be
redeemed. In the case of any redemption of Securities prior to the expiration of
any restriction on such redemption provided in the terms of such Securities or
elsewhere in this Indenture, the Company shall furnish the Trustee with an
Officers' Certificate evidencing compliance with such restriction.
SECTION 1103. Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be
Redeemed. If less than all the Securities of any series issued on the same day
with the same terms are to be redeemed, the particular Securities to be redeemed
shall be selected not more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date by the
Trustee, from the Outstanding Securities of such series issued on such date
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with the same terms not previously called for redemption, by such method as the
Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate and which may provide for the selection
for redemption of portions (equal to the minimum authorized denomination for
Securities of that series or any integral multiple thereof) of the principal
amount of Securities of such series of a denomination larger than the minimum
authorized denomination for Securities of that series.
The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company and the Security
Registrar (if other than itself) in writing of the Securities selected for
redemption and, in the case of any Securities 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
shall relate, in the case of any Security redeemed or to be redeemed only in
part, to the portion of the principal amount of such Security which has been or
is to be redeemed.
SECTION 1104. Notice of Redemption. Notice of redemption shall
be given in the manner provided in Section 106, not less than 30 days nor more
than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date, unless a shorter period is specified
by the terms of such series established pursuant to Section 301, to each Holder
of Securities to be redeemed, but failure to give such notice in the manner
herein provided to the Holder of any Security designated for redemption as a
whole or in part, or any defect in the notice to any such Holder, shall not
affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption of any other such
Security or portion thereof.
Any notice that is mailed to the Holders of Registered
Securities in the manner herein provided shall be conclusively presumed to have
been duly given, whether or not the Holder receives the notice.
All notices of redemption shall state:
(1) the Redemption Date,
(2) the Redemption Price, accrued interest to the Redemption
Date payable as provided in Section 1106, if any, and Additional
Amounts, if any,
(3) if less than all Outstanding Securities of any series are
to be redeemed, the identification (and, in the case of partial
redemption, the principal amount) of the particular Security or
Securities to be redeemed,
(4) in case any Security is to be redeemed in part only, the
notice which relates to such Security shall state that on and after the
Redemption Date, upon surrender of such Security, the holder will
receive, without a charge, a
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new Security or Securities of authorized denominations for the
principal amount thereof remaining unredeemed,
(5) that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price and
accrued interest to the Redemption Date payable as provided in Section
1106, if any, will become due and payable upon each such Security, or
the portion thereof, to be redeemed and, if applicable, that interest
thereon shall cease to accrue on and after said date,
(6) the Place or Places of Payment where such Securities,
together in the case of Bearer Securities with all coupons appertaining
thereto, if any, maturing after the Redemption Date, are to be
surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price and accrued interest,
if any, or for conversion,
(7) that the redemption is for a sinking fund, if such is
the case,
(8) that, unless otherwise specified in such notice, Bearer
Securities of any series, if any, surrendered for redemption must be
accompanied by all coupons maturing subsequent to the date fixed for
redemption or the amount of any such missing coupon or coupons will be
deducted from the Redemption Price, unless security or indemnity
satisfactory to the Company, the Trustee for such series and any Paying
Agent is furnished,
(9) if Bearer Securities of any series are to be redeemed and
any Registered Securities of such series are not to be redeemed, and if
such Bearer Securities may be exchanged for Registered Securities not
subject to redemption on this Redemption Date pursuant to Section 305
or otherwise, the last date, as determined by the Company, on which
such exchanges may be made,
(10) the CUSIP number of such Security, if any, and
(11) if applicable, that a Holder of Securities who desires to
convert Securities for redemption must satisfy the requirements for
conversion contained in such Securities, the then existing conversion
price or rate, and the date and time when the option to convert shall
expire.
Notice of redemption of Securities to be redeemed shall be
given by the Company or, at the Company's request, by the Trustee in the name
and at the expense of the Company.
SECTION 1105. Deposit of Redemption Price2. On or prior to any
Redemption Date, the Company shall deposit with the Trustee or with a Paying
Agent (or, if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, which it may not do
in the case of a sinking fund payment under Article Twelve, segregate and hold
in
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trust as provided in Section 1003) an amount of money in the currency or
currencies, currency unit or units or composite currency or currencies in which
the Securities of such series are payable (except as otherwise specified
pursuant to Section 301 for the Securities of such series and except, if
applicable, as provided in Sections 312(b), 312(d) and 312(e)) sufficient to pay
on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price of, and (except if the Redemption
Date shall be an Interest Payment Date) accrued interest on, all the Securities
or portions thereof which are to be redeemed on that date.
SECTION 1106. Securities Payable on Redemption Date. Notice of
redemption having been given as aforesaid, the Securities so to be redeemed
shall, on the Redemption Date, become due and payable at the Redemption Price
therein specified in the currency or currencies, currency unit or units or
composite currency or currencies in which the Securities of such series are
payable (except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301 for the
Securities of such series and except, if applicable, as provided in Sections
312(b), 312(d) and 312(e)) (together with accrued interest, if any, to the
Redemption Date), and from and after such date (unless the Company shall default
in the payment of the Redemption Price and accrued interest) such Securities
shall, if the same were interest-bearing, cease to bear interest and the coupons
for such interest appertaining to any Bearer Securities so to be redeemed,
except to the extent provided below, shall be void. Upon surrender of any such
Security for redemption in accordance with said notice, together with all
coupons, if any, appertaining thereto maturing after the Redemption Date, such
Security shall be paid by the Company at the Redemption Price, together with
accrued interest, if any, to the Redemption Date; provided, however, that
installments of interest on Bearer Securities whose Stated Maturity is on or
prior to the Redemption Date shall be payable only at an office or agency
located outside the United States (except as otherwise provided in Section 1002)
and, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301, only upon
presentation and surrender of coupons for such interest; and provided further
that, except as otherwise provided with respect to Securities convertible into
Common Stock or Preferred Stock, installments of interest on Registered
Securities whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption Date shall be
payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor
Securities, registered as such at the close of business on the relevant Record
Dates according to their terms and the provisions of Section 307.
If any Bearer Security surrendered for redemption shall not be
accompanied by all appurtenant coupons maturing after the Redemption Date, such
Security may be paid after deducting from the Redemption Price an amount equal
to the face amount of all such missing coupons, or the surrender of such missing
coupon or coupons may be waived by the Company and the Trustee if there be
furnished to them such security or indemnity as they may require to save each of
them and any Paying Agent harmless. If
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thereafter the Holder of such Security shall surrender to the Trustee or any
Paying Agent any such missing coupon in respect of which a deduction shall have
been made from the Redemption Price, such Holder shall be entitled to receive
the amount so deducted; provided, however, that interest represented by coupons
shall be payable only at an office or agency located outside the United States
(except as otherwise provided in Section 1002) and, unless otherwise specified
as contemplated by Section 301, only upon presentation and surrender of those
coupons.
If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid
upon surrender thereof for redemption, the principal (and premium, if any)
shall, until paid, bear interest from the Redemption Date at the rate borne by
the Security.
SECTION 1107. Securities Redeemed in Part2. Any Registered
Security which is to be redeemed only in part (pursuant to the provisions of
this Article or of Article Twelve) shall be surrendered at a Place of Payment
therefor (with, if the Company or the Trustee so requires, due endorsement by,
or a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the
Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in
writing) and the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver to the Holder of such Security without service charge a new Security or
Securities of the same series, of any authorized denomination as requested by
such Holder in aggregate principal amount equal to and in exchange for the
unredeemed portion of the principal of the Security so surrendered.
SECTION 1108. Conversion Arrangement on Call for Redemption.
In connection with any redemption of Securities, the Company may arrange for the
purchase and conversion of any Securities called for redemption by an agreement
with one or more investment bankers or other purchasers to purchase such
Securities by paying to the Trustee or the Paying Agent in trust for the Holders
of Securities, on or before 10:00 a.m. New York time on the Redemption Date, an
amount not less than the Redemption Price, together with interest, if any,
accrued to the Redemption Date of such Securities, in immediately available
funds. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Article
Eleven, the obligation of the Company to pay the Redemption Price of such
Securities, including all accrued interest, if any, shall be deemed to be
satisfied and discharged to the extent such amount is so paid by such
purchasers. If such an agreement is entered into, any Securities not duly
surrendered for conversion by the Holders thereof may, at the option of the
Company, be deemed, to the fullest extent permitted by law, acquired by such
purchasers from such Holders and surrendered by such purchasers for conversion,
all as of immediately prior to the close of business on the last day on which
Securities of such series called for redemption may be converted in accordance
with this Indenture and the terms of such Securities, subject to payment to the
Trustee or Paying Agent of the above-described
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amount. The Trustee or the Paying Agent shall hold and pay to the Holders whose
Securities are selected for redemption any such amount paid to it in the same
manner as it would pay moneys deposited with it by the Company for the
redemption of Securities. Without the Trustee's and the Paying Agent's prior
written consent, no arrangement between the Company and such purchasers for the
purchase and conversion of any Securities shall increase or otherwise affect any
of the powers, duties, responsibilities or obligations of the Trustee and the
Paying Agent as set forth in this Indenture, and the Company agrees to indemnify
the Trustee and the Paying Agent from, and hold them harmless against, any loss,
liability or expense arising out of or in connection with any such arrangement
for the purpose and conversion of any Securities between the Company and such
purchasers, including the costs and expenses incurred by the Trustee and the
Paying Agent (including the fees and expenses of their agents and counsel) in
the defense of any claim or liability arising out of or in connection with the
exercise or performance of any of their powers, duties, responsibilities or
obligations under this Indenture.
ARTICLE TWELVE
SINKING FUNDS
SECTION 1201. Applicability of Article. The provisions of this
Article shall be applicable to any sinking fund for the retirement of Securities
of a series except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for
Securities of such series.
The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by
the terms of Securities of any series is herein referred to as a "mandatory
sinking fund payment", and any payment in excess of such minimum amount provided
for by the terms of such Securities of any series is herein referred to as an
"optional sinking fund payment". If provided for by the terms of any Securities
of any series, the cash amount of any mandatory sinking fund payment may be
subject to reduction as provided in Section 1202. Each sinking fund payment
shall be applied to the redemption of Securities of any series as provided for
by the terms of Securities of such series.
SECTION 1202. Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with
Securities. The Company may, in satisfaction of all or any part of any mandatory
sinking fund payment with respect to the Securities of a series, (1) deliver
Outstanding Securities of such series (other than any previously called for
redemption) together in the case of any Bearer Securities of such series with
all unmatured coupons appertaining thereto and (2) apply as a credit Securities
of such series which have been redeemed either at the election of the Company
pursuant to the terms of such Securities or through the application of permitted
optional
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sinking fund payments pursuant to the terms of such Securities, as provided for
by the terms of such Securities; provided that such Securities so delivered or
applied as a credit have not been previously so credited. Such Securities shall
be received and credited for such purpose by the Trustee at the applicable
Redemption Price specified in such Securities for redemption through operation
of the sinking fund and the amount of such mandatory sinking fund payment shall
be reduced accordingly.
SECTION 1203. Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund. Not
less than 60 days prior to each sinking fund payment date for Securities of any
series, the Company will deliver to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate
specifying the amount of the next ensuing mandatory sinking fund payment for
that series pursuant to the terms of that series, the portion thereof, if any,
which is to be satisfied by payment of cash in the currency or currencies,
currency unit or units or composite currency or currencies in which the
Securities of such series are payable (except as otherwise specified pursuant to
Section 301 for the Securities of such series and except, if applicable, as
provided in Sections 312(b), 312(d) and 312(e)) and the portion thereof, if any,
which is to be satisfied by delivering and crediting Securities of that series
pursuant to Section 1202, and the optional amount, if any, to be added in cash
to the next ensuing mandatory sinking fund payment, and will also deliver to the
Trustee any Securities to be so delivered and credited. If such Officers'
Certificate shall specify an optional amount to be added in cash to the next
ensuing mandatory sinking fund payment, the Company shall thereupon be obligated
to pay the amount therein specified. Not less than 30 days before each such
sinking fund payment date the Trustee shall select the Securities to be redeemed
upon such sinking fund payment date in the manner specified in Section 1103 and
cause notice of the redemption thereof to be given in the name of and at the
expense of the Company in the manner provided in Section 1104. Such notice
having been duly given, the redemption of such Securities shall be made upon the
terms and in the manner stated in Sections 1106 and 1107.
ARTICLE THIRTEEN
REPAYMENT AT THE OPTION OF HOLDERS
SECTION 1301. Applicability of Article. Repayment of
Securities of any series before their Stated Maturity at the option of Holders
thereof shall be made in accordance with the terms of such Securities and
(except as otherwise specified by the terms of such series established pursuant
to Section 301) in accordance with this Article.
SECTION 1302. Repayment of Securities. Securities of any
series subject to repayment in whole or in part at the option of the Holders
thereof will, unless otherwise provided in the
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terms of such Securities, be repaid at a price equal to the principal amount
thereof, together with interest, if any, thereon accrued to the Repayment Date
specified in or pursuant to the terms of such Securities. The Company covenants
that on or before the Repayment Date it will deposit with the Trustee or with a
Paying Agent (or, if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregate
and hold in trust as provided in Section 1003) an amount of money in the
currency or currencies, currency unit or units or composite currency or
currencies in which the Securities of such series are payable (except as
otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301 for the Securities of such series
and except, if applicable, as provided in Sections 312(b), 312(d) and 312(e))
sufficient to pay the principal (or, if so provided by the terms of the
Securities of any series, a percentage of the principal) of, and (except if the
Repayment Date shall be an Interest Payment Date) accrued interest on, all the
Securities or portions thereof, as the case may be, to be repaid on such date.
SECTION 1303. Exercise of Option. Securities of any series
subject to repayment at the option of the Holders thereof will contain an
"Option to Elect Repayment" form on the reverse of such Securities. In order for
any Security to be repaid at the option of the Holder, the Trustee must receive
at the Place of Payment therefor specified in the terms of such Security (or at
such other place or places of which the Company shall from time to time notify
the Holders of such Securities) not earlier than 60 days nor later than 30 days
prior to the Repayment Date (1) the Security so providing for such repayment
together with the "Option to Elect Repayment" form on the reverse thereof duly
completed by the Holder (or by the Holder's attorney duly authorized in writing)
or (2) a telegram, facsimile transmission or a letter from a member of a
national securities exchange, or the National Association of Securities Dealers,
Inc. ("NASD"), or a commercial bank or trust company in the United States
setting forth the name of the Holder of the Security, the principal amount of
the Security, the principal amount of the Security to be repaid, the certificate
number or a description of the tenor and terms of the Security, a statement that
the option to elect repayment is being exercised thereby and a guarantee that
the Security to be repaid, together with the duly completed form entitled
"Option to Elect Repayment" on the reverse of the Security, will be received by
the Trustee not later than the fifth Business Day after the date of such
telegram, facsimile transmission or letter; provided, however, that such
telegram, facsimile transmission or letter shall only be effective if such
Security and form duly completed are received by the Trustee by such fifth
Business Day. If less than the entire principal amount of such Security is to be
repaid in accordance with the terms of such Security, the principal amount of
such Security to be repaid, in increments of the minimum denomination for
Securities of such series, and the denomination or denominations of the Security
or Securities to be issued to the Holder for the portion of the principal amount
of such Security surrendered that
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is not to be repaid, must be specified. The principal amount of any Security
providing for repayment at the option of the Holder thereof may not be repaid in
part if, following such repayment, the unpaid principal amount of such Security
would be less than the minimum authorized denomination of Securities of the
series of which such Security to be repaid is a part. Except as otherwise may be
provided by the terms of any Security providing for repayment at the option of
the Holder thereof, exercise of the repayment option by the Holder shall be
irrevocable unless waived by the Company.
SECTION 1304. When Securities Presented for Repayment Become
Due and Payable. If Securities of any series providing for repayment at the
option of the Holders thereof shall have been surrendered as provided in this
Article and as provided by or pursuant to the terms of such Securities, such
Securities or the portions thereof, as the case may be, to be repaid shall
become due and payable and shall be paid by the Company on the Repayment Date
therein specified, and on and after such Repayment Date (unless the Company
shall default in the payment of such Securities on such Repayment Date) such
Securities shall, if the same were interest-bearing, cease to bear interest and
the coupons for such interest appertaining to any Bearer Securities so to be
repaid, except to the extent provided below, shall be void. Upon surrender of
any such Security for repayment in accordance with such provisions, together
with all coupons, if any, appertaining thereto maturing after the Repayment
Date, the principal amount of such Security so to be repaid shall be paid by the
Company, together with accrued interest, if any, to the Repayment Date;
provided, however, that coupons whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the
Repayment Date shall be payable only at an office or agency located outside the
United States (except as otherwise provided in Section 1002) and, unless
otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301, only upon presentation and
surrender of such coupons; and provided further that, in the case of Registered
Securities, installments of interest, if any, whose Stated Maturity is on or
prior to the Repayment Date shall be payable (but without interest thereon,
unless the Company shall default in the payment thereof) to the Holders of such
Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities, registered as such at the
close of business on the relevant Record Dates according to their terms and the
provisions of Section 307.
If any Bearer Security surrendered for repayment shall not be
accompanied by all appurtenant coupons maturing after the Repayment Date, such
Security may be paid after deducting from the amount payable therefor as
provided in Section 1302 an amount equal to the face amount of all such missing
coupons, or the surrender of such missing coupon or coupons may be waived by the
Company and the Trustee if there be furnished to them such security or indemnity
as they may require to save each of them and any Paying Agent harmless. If
thereafter the Holder of such Security shall surrender to the Trustee or any
Paying Agent any
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such missing coupon in respect of which a deduction shall have been made as
provided in the preceding sentence, such Holder shall be entitled to receive the
amount so deducted; provided, however, that interest represented by coupons
shall be payable only at an office or agency located outside the United States
(except as otherwise provided in Section 1002) and, unless otherwise specified
as contemplated by Section 301, only upon presentation and surrender of those
coupons.
If the principal amount of any Security surrendered for
repayment shall not be so repaid upon surrender thereof, such principal amount
(together with interest, if any, thereon accrued to such Repayment Date) shall,
until paid, bear interest from the Repayment Date at the rate of interest or
Yield to Maturity (in the case of Original Issue Discount Securities) set forth
in such Security.
SECTION 1305. Securities Repaid in Part. Upon surrender of any
Registered Security which is to be repaid in part only, the Company shall
execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such
Security, without service charge and at the expense of the Company, a new
Registered Security or Securities of the same series, of any authorized
denomination specified by the Holder, in an aggregate principal amount equal to
and in exchange for the portion of the principal of such Security so surrendered
which is not to be repaid.
ARTICLE FOURTEEN
DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE
SECTION 1401. Applicability of Article; Company's Option to
Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance SECTION 1401. Applicability of Article;
Company's Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance. If, pursuant to
Section 301, provision is made for either or both of (a) defeasance of the
Securities of or within a series under Section 1402 or (b) covenant defeasance
of the Securities of or within a series under Section 1403, then the provisions
of such Section or Sections, as the case may be, together with the other
provisions of this Article (with such modifications thereto as may be specified
pursuant to Section 301 with respect to any Securities), shall be applicable to
such Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto, and the Company may at its
option by Board Resolution, at any time, with respect to such Securities and any
coupons appertaining thereto, elect to have Section 1402 (if applicable) or
Section 1403 (if applicable) be applied to such Outstanding Securities and any
coupons appertaining thereto upon compliance with the conditions set forth below
in this Article.
SECTION 1402. Defeasance and Discharge. Upon the Company's
exercise of the above option applicable to this Section with respect to any
Securities of or within a series, the Company
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shall be deemed to have been discharged from its obligations with respect to
such Outstanding Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto on the date the
conditions set forth in Section 1404 are satisfied (hereinafter, "defeasance").
For this purpose, such defeasance means that the Company shall be deemed to have
paid and discharged the entire indebtedness represented by such Outstanding
Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto, which shall thereafter be
deemed to be "Outstanding" only for the purposes of Section 1405 and the other
Sections of this Indenture referred to in clauses (A) and (B) of this Section,
and to have satisfied all its other obligations under such Securities and any
coupons appertaining thereto and this Indenture insofar as such Securities and
any coupons appertaining thereto are concerned (and the Trustee, at the expense
of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the same), except
for the following which shall survive until otherwise terminated or discharged
hereunder: (A) the rights of Holders of such Outstanding Securities and any
coupons appertaining thereto to receive, solely from the trust fund described in
Section 1404 and as more fully set forth in such Section, payments in respect of
the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest, if any, on such Securities
and any coupons appertaining thereto when such payments are due, (B) the
Company's obligations with respect to such Securities under Sections 305, 306,
1002 and 1003 and with respect to the payment of Additional Amounts, if any, on
such Securities as contemplated by Section 1005, (C) the rights, powers, trusts,
duties and immunities of the Trustee hereunder and (D) this Article. Subject to
compliance with this Article Fourteen, the Company may exercise its option under
this Section notwithstanding the prior exercise of its option under Section 1403
with respect to such Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto.
SECTION 1403. Covenant Defeasance. If specified pursuant to
Section 301, upon the Company's exercise of the above option applicable to this
Section with respect to any Securities of or within a series, the Company shall
be released from its obligations under any covenant contained herein with
respect to such Outstanding Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto on
and after the date the conditions set forth in Section 1404 are satisfied
(hereinafter, "covenant defeasance"), and such Securities and any coupons
appertaining thereto shall thereafter be deemed to be not "Outstanding" for the
purposes of any direction, waiver, consent or declaration or Act of Holders (and
the consequences of any thereof) in connection with any such other covenant, but
shall continue to be deemed "Outstanding" for all other purposes hereunder. For
this purpose, such covenant defeasance means that, with respect to such
Outstanding Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto, the Company may
omit to comply with and shall have no liability in respect of any term,
condition or limitation set forth in any such covenant, whether directly or
indirectly, by reason of any reference elsewhere herein to any such Section or
such other covenant or by reason of reference in any such Section or such other
covenant to
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any other provision herein or in any other document and such omission to comply
shall not constitute a default or an Event of Default under Section 501(4) or
501(8) or otherwise, as the case may be, but, except as specified above, the
remainder of this Indenture and such Securities and any coupons appertaining
thereto shall be unaffected thereby.
SECTION 1404. Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.
The following shall be the conditions to application of Section 1402 or Section
1403 to any Outstanding Securities of or within a series and any coupons
appertaining thereto:
(a) The Company shall irrevocably have deposited or caused to
be deposited with the Trustee (or another trustee satisfying the
requirements of Section 607 who shall agree to comply with the
provisions of this Article Fourteen applicable to it) as trust funds in
trust for the purpose of making the following payments, specifically
pledged as security for, and dedicated solely to, the benefit of the
Holders of such Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto, (1) an
amount (in such currency, currencies or currency unit in which such
Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto are then specified as
payable at Stated Maturity), or (2) Government Obligations applicable
to such Securities and coupons appertaining thereto (determined on the
basis of the currency, currencies or currency unit in which such
Securities and coupons appertaining thereto are then specified as
payable at Stated Maturity) which through the scheduled payment of
principal and interest in respect thereof in accordance with their
terms will provide, not later than one day before the due date of any
payment of principal of (and premium, if any) and interest, if any, on
such Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto, money in an
amount, or (3) a combination thereof, in any case, in an amount,
sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of
independent public accountants expressed in a written certification
thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay and discharge, and which shall
be applied by the Trustee (or other qualifying trustee) to pay and
discharge, (i) the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest, if
any, on such Outstanding Securities and any coupons appertaining
thereto on the Stated Maturity of such principal or installment of
principal or interest and (ii) any mandatory sinking fund payments or
analogous payments applicable to such Outstanding Securities and any
coupons appertaining thereto on the day on which such payments are due
and payable in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and of such
Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto.
(b) Such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall not result in
a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, this Indenture
or any other material agreement or
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instrument to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound.
(c) No Event of Default or event which with notice or lapse of
time or both would become an Event of Default with respect to such
Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto shall have occurred and
be continuing on the date of such deposit or, insofar as Sections
501(6) and 501(7) are concerned, at any time during the period ending
on the 91st day after the date of such deposit (it being understood
that this condition shall not be deemed satisfied until the expiration
of such period).
(d) In the case of an election under Section 1402, the Company
shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel stating that
(i) the Company has received from, or there has been published by, the
Internal Revenue Service a ruling, or (ii) since the date of execution
of this Indenture, there has been a change in the applicable Federal
income tax law, in either case to the effect that, and based thereon
such opinion shall confirm that, the Holders of such Outstanding
Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto will not recognize
income, gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result of
such 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 defeasance had not occurred.
(e) In the case of an election under Section 1403, the Company
shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect
that the Holders of such Outstanding Securities and any 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.
(f) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an
Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all
conditions precedent to the defeasance under Section 1402 or the
covenant defeasance under Section 1403 (as the case may be) have been
complied with and an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that either (i)
as a result of a deposit pursuant to subsection (a) above and the
related exercise of the Company's option under Section 1402 or Section
1403 (as the case may be), registration is not required under the
Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, by the Company, with
respect to the trust funds representing such deposit or by the Trustee
for such trust funds or (ii) all necessary registrations under said Act
have been effected.
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(g) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Section, such
defeasance or covenant defeasance shall be effected in compliance with
any additional or substitute terms, conditions or limitations which may
be imposed on the Company in connection therewith pursuant to Section
301.
SECTION 1405. Deposited Money and Government Obligations to Be
Held in Trust; Other Miscellaneous ProvSECTION 1405. Deposited Money and
Government Obligations to Be Held in Trust; Other Miscellaneous Provisions.
Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 1003, all money and
Government Obligations (or other property as may be provided pursuant to Section
301) (including the proceeds thereof) deposited with the Trustee (or other
qualifying trustee, collectively for purposes of this Section 1405, the
"Trustee") pursuant to Section 1404 in respect of any Outstanding Securities of
any series and any coupons appertaining thereto shall be held in trust and
applied by the Trustee, in accordance with the provisions of such Securities and
any coupons appertaining thereto and this Indenture, to the payment, either
directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own
Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Holders of such Securities
and any coupons appertaining thereto of all sums due and to become due thereon
in respect of principal (and premium, if any) and interest and Additional
Amounts, if any, but such money need not be segregated from other funds except
to the extent required by law.
Unless otherwise specified with respect to any Security
pursuant to Section 301, if, after a deposit referred to in Section 1404(a) has
been made, (a) the Holder of a Security in respect of which such deposit was
made is entitled to, and does, elect pursuant to Section 312(b) or the terms of
such Security to receive payment in a currency or currency unit other than that
in which the deposit pursuant to Section 1404(a) has been made in respect of
such Security, or (b) a Conversion Event occurs as contemplated in Section
312(d) or 312(e) or by the terms of any Security in respect of which the deposit
pursuant to Section 1404(a) has been made, the indebtedness represented by such
Security and any coupons appertaining thereto shall be deemed to have been, and
will be, fully discharged and satisfied through the payment of the principal of
(and premium, if any), and interest, if any, on such Security as the same
becomes due out of the proceeds yielded by converting (from time to time as
specified below in the case of any such election) the amount or other property
deposited in respect of such Security into the currency or currency unit in
which such Security becomes payable as a result of such election or Conversion
Event based on the applicable Market Exchange Rate for such currency or currency
unit in effect on the second Business Day prior to each payment date, except,
with respect to a Conversion Event, for such currency or currency unit in effect
(as nearly as feasible) at the time of the Conversion Event.
The Company shall pay and indemnify the Trustee against any
tax, fee or other charge imposed on or assessed against the
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Government Obligations deposited pursuant to Section 1404 or the principal and
interest received in respect thereof other than any such tax, fee or other
charge which by law is for the account of the Holders of such Outstanding
Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto.
Anything in this Article to the contrary notwithstanding, the
Trustee shall deliver or pay to the Company from time to time upon Company
Request any money or Government Obligations (or other property and any proceeds
therefrom) held by it as provided in Section 1404 which, in the opinion of a
nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a
written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, are in excess of the
amount thereof which would then be required to be deposited to effect a
defeasance or covenant defeasance, as applicable, in accordance with this
Article.
ARTICLE FIFTEEN
MEETINGS OF HOLDERS OF SECURITIES
SECTION 1501. Purposes for Which Meetings May Be Called. A
meeting of Holders of Securities of any series may be called at any time and
from time to time pursuant to this Article to make, give or take any request,
demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action
provided by this Indenture to be made, given or taken by Holders of Securities
of such series.
SECTION 1502. Call, Notice and Place of Meetings. (a) The
Trustee may at any time call a meeting of Holders of Securities of any series
for any purpose specified in Section 1501, to be held at such time and at such
place in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, or in London as the
Trustee shall determine. Notice of every meeting of Holders of Securities of any
series, setting forth the time and the place of such meeting and in general
terms the action proposed to be taken at such meeting, shall be given, in the
manner provided in Section 106, not less than 21 nor more than 180 days prior to
the date fixed for the meeting.
(b) In case at any time the Company, pursuant to a Board
Resolution, or the Holders of at least 10% in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of any series shall have requested the Trustee to call a
meeting of the Holders of Securities of such series for any purpose specified in
Section 1501, by written request setting forth in reasonable detail the action
proposed to be taken at the meeting, and the Trustee shall not have made the
first publication of the notice of such meeting within 21 days after receipt of
such request or shall not thereafter proceed to cause the meeting to be held as
provided herein, then the Company or the Holders of Securities of such series in
the amount above specified, as the case may be, may
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determine the time and the place in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New
York, or in London for such meeting and may call such meeting for such purposes
by giving notice thereof as provided in subsection (a) of this Section.
SECTION 1503. Persons Entitled to Vote at Meetings. To be
entitled to vote at any meeting of Holders of Securities of any series, a Person
shall be (1) a Holder of one or more Outstanding Securities of such series, or
(2) a Person appointed by an instrument in writing as proxy for a Holder or
Holders of one or more Outstanding Securities of such series by such Holder or
Holders. The only Persons who shall be entitled to be present or to speak at any
meeting of Holders of Securities of any series shall be the Persons entitled to
vote at such meeting and their counsel, any representatives of the Trustee and
its counsel and any representatives of the Company and its counsel.
SECTION 1504. Quorum; Action. The Persons entitled to vote a
majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of a series shall
constitute a quorum for a meeting of Holders of Securities of such series;
provided, however, that if any action is to be taken at such meeting with
respect to a consent or waiver which this Indenture expressly provides may be
given by the Holders of not less than a specified percentage in principal amount
of the Outstanding Securities of a series, the Persons entitled to vote such
specified percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such
series shall constitute a quorum. In the absence of a quorum within 30 minutes
after the time appointed for any such meeting, the meeting shall, if convened at
the request of Holders of Securities of such series, be dissolved. In any other
case the meeting may be adjourned for a period of not less than 10 days as
determined by the chairman of the meeting prior to the adjournment of such
meeting. In the absence of a quorum at any such adjourned meeting, such
adjourned meeting may be further adjourned for a period of not less than 10 days
as determined by the chairman of the meeting prior to the adjournment of such
adjourned meeting. Notice of the reconvening of any adjourned meeting shall be
given as provided in Section 1502(a), except that such notice need be given only
once not less than five days prior to the date on which the meeting is scheduled
to be reconvened. Notice of the reconvening of any adjourned meeting shall state
expressly the percentage, as provided above, of the principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of such series which shall constitute a quorum.
Except as limited by the proviso to Section 902, any
resolution presented to a meeting or adjourned meeting duly reconvened at which
quorum is present as aforesaid may be adopted by the affirmative vote of the
Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that
series; provided, however, that, except as limited by the proviso to Section
902, any resolution with respect to any request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action which this Indenture
expressly provides may be made, given or
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taken by the Holders of a specified percentage, which is less than a majority,
in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of a series may be adopted at
a meeting or an adjourned meeting duly reconvened and at which a quorum is
present as aforesaid by the affirmative vote of the Holders of such specified
percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series.
Any resolution passed or decision taken at any meeting of
Holders of Securities of any series duly held in accordance with this Section
shall be binding on all the Holders of Securities of such series and the related
coupons, whether or not present or represented at the meeting.
Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 1504,
if any action is to be taken at a meeting of Holders of Securities of any series
with respect to any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other action that this Indenture expressly provides may be made, given
or taken by the Holders of a specified percentage in principal amount of all
Outstanding Securities affected thereby, or of the Holders of such series and
one or more additional series:
(i) there shall be no minimum quorum requirement for such
meeting; and
(ii) the principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of
such series that vote in favor of such request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action shall be taken into
account in determining whether such request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action has been made, given
or taken under this Indenture.
SECTION 1505. Determination of Voting Rights; Conduct and
Adjournment of Meetings. (a) Notwithstanding any provisions of this Indenture,
the Trustee may make such reasonable regulations as it may deem advisable for
any meeting of Holders of Securities of a series in regard to proof of the
holding of Securities of such series and of the appointment of proxies and in
regard to the appointment and duties of inspectors of votes, the submission and
examination of proxies, certificates and other evidence of the right to vote,
and such other matters concerning the conduct of the meeting as it shall deem
appropriate. Except as otherwise permitted or required by any such regulations,
the holding of Securities shall be proved in the manner specified in Section 104
and the appointment of any proxy shall be proved in the manner specified in
Section 104 or by having the signature of the Person executing the proxy
witnessed or guaranteed by any trust company, bank or banker authorized by
Section 104 to certify to the holding of Bearer Securities. Such regulations may
provide that written instruments appointing proxies, regular
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on their face, may be presumed valid and genuine without the proof specified in
Section 104 or other proof.
(b) The Trustee shall, by an instrument in writing appoint a
temporary chairman of the meeting, unless the meeting shall have been called by
the Company or by Holders of Securities as provided in Section 1502(b), in which
case the Company or the Holders of Securities of the series calling the meeting,
as the case may be, shall in like manner appoint a temporary chairman. A
permanent chairman and a permanent secretary of the meeting shall be elected by
vote of the Persons entitled to vote a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of such series represented at the meeting.
(c) At any meeting each Holder of a Security of such series or
proxy shall be entitled to one vote for each $1,000 principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of such series held or represented by him; provided,
however, that no vote shall be cast or counted at any meeting in respect of any
Security challenged as not Outstanding and ruled by the chairman of the meeting
to be not Outstanding. The chairman of the meeting shall have no right to vote,
except as a Holder of a Security of such series or proxy.
(d) Any meeting of Holders of Securities of any series duly
called pursuant to Section 1502 at which a quorum is present may be adjourned
from time to time by Persons entitled to vote a majority in principal amount of
the Outstanding Securities of such series represented at the meeting, and the
meeting may be held as so adjourned without further notice.
SECTION 1506. Counting Votes and Recording Action of Meetings.
The vote upon any resolution submitted to any meeting of Holders of Securities
of any series shall be by written ballots on which shall be subscribed the
signatures of the Holders of Securities of such series or of their
representatives by proxy and the principal amounts and serial numbers of the
Outstanding Securities of such series held or represented by them. The permanent
chairman of the meeting shall appoint two inspectors of votes who shall count
all votes cast at the meeting for or against any resolution and who shall make
and file with the secretary of the meeting their verified written reports in
duplicate of all votes cast at the meeting. A record, at least in duplicate, of
the proceedings of each meeting of Holders of Securities of any Series shall be
prepared by the secretary of the meeting and there shall be attached to said
record the original reports of the inspectors of votes on any vote by ballot
taken thereat and affidavits by one or more persons having knowledge of the
fact, setting forth a copy of the notice of the meeting and showing that said
notice was given as provided in Section 1502 and, if applicable, Section 1504.
Each copy shall be signed and verified by the affidavits of the permanent
chairman and secretary of the meeting and one such copy shall be delivered to
the Company and another to the Trustee to be
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preserved by the Trustee, the latter to have attached thereto the ballots voted
at the meeting. Any record so signed and verified shall be conclusive evidence
of the matters therein stated.
ARTICLE SIXTEEN
CONVERSION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 1601. Applicability of Article. Securities of any
series which are convertible into Common Stock at the option of the Holder of
such Securities shall be convertible in accordance with their terms and (unless
otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for the Securities of any
series) in accordance with this Article. Each reference in this Article Sixteen
to "a Security" or "the Securities" refers to the Securities of the particular
series that is convertible into Common Stock. If more than one series of
Securities with conversion privileges are Outstanding at any time, the
provisions of this Article Sixteen shall be applied separately to each such
series.
SECTION 1602. Right of Holders to Convert Securities into
Common Stock. Subject to and upon compliance with the terms of the Securities
and the provisions of Section 1108 and this Article Sixteen, at the option of
the Holder thereof, any Security of any series of any authorized denomination
which is convertible into Common Stock, or any portion of the principal amount
thereof which is $1,000 or any integral multiple of $1,000, may, at any time
during the period specified in the Securities of such series, or in case such
Security of portion thereof shall have been called for redemption, then in
respect of such Security or portion thereof until and including, but not after
(unless the Company shall default in payment due upon the redemption thereof)
the close of business on the Redemption Date (except that in the case of
repayment at the option of the Holder, if specified in the terms of the relevant
Security, such right shall terminate upon the Company's receipt of written
notice of the exercise of such option), be converted into duly authorized,
validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable shares of Common Stock, as
specified in such Security, at the conversion price or conversion rate for each
$1,000 principal amount of Securities (such initial conversion rate reflecting
an initial conversion price specified in such Security) in effect on the
conversion date, or, in case an adjustment in the conversion price has taken
place pursuant to the provisions of this Article Sixteen, then at the applicable
conversion price as so adjusted, upon surrender of the Security or Securities,
the principal amount of which is so to be converted, to the Company at any time
during usual business hours at the office or agency to be maintained by it in
accordance with the provisions of Section 1002, accompanied by a written notice
of election to convert as provided in Section 1603 and, if so required by the
Company and/or the Trustee, by a written instrument or instruments of
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transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and/or the Trustee, as applicable,
duly executed by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing.
All Securities surrendered for conversion shall, if surrendered to the Company
or any conversion agent, be delivered to the Trustee for cancellation and
cancelled by it, or shall, if surrendered to the Trustee, be cancelled by it, as
provided in Section 310.
The initial conversion price or conversion rate in respect of
a series of Securities shall be as specified in the Securities of such series.
The conversion price or conversion rate will be subject to adjustment on the
terms set forth in Section 1605 or such other or different terms, if any, as may
be specified by Section 301 for Securities of such series. Provisions of this
Indenture that apply to conversion of all of a Security also apply to conversion
of any portion of it.
SECTION 1603. Issuance of Shares of Common Stock on
Conversions. As promptly as practicable after the surrender, as herein provided,
of any Security or Securities for conversion into Common Stock, the Company
shall deliver or cause to be delivered at its said office or agency to or upon
the written order of the Holder of the Security or Securities so surrendered a
certificate or certificates representing the number of duly authorized, validly
issued, fully paid and nonassessable shares of Common Stock into which such
Security or Securities may be converted in accordance with the terms thereof and
the provisions of this Article Sixteen. Prior to delivery of such certificate or
certificates, the Company shall require written notice at its said office or
agency from the Holder of the Security or Securities so surrendered stating that
the Holder irrevocably elects to convert such Security or Securities, or, if
less than the entire principal amount thereof is to be converted, stating the
portion thereof to be converted. Such notice shall also state the name or names
(with address and social security or other taxpayer identification number) in
which said certificate or certificates are to be issued. Such conversion shall
be deemed to have been made at the time that such Security or Securities shall
have been surrendered for conversion and such notice shall have been received by
the Company or the Trustee, the rights of the Holder of such Security or
Securities as a Holder shall cease at such time, the Person or Persons entitled
to receive the shares of Common Stock upon conversion of such Security or
Securities shall be treated for all purposes as having become either record
holder or holders of such shares of Common Stock at such time and such
conversion shall be at the conversion price in effect at such time. In the case
of any Security of any series which is converted in part only, upon such
conversion, the Company shall execute and, upon the Company's request and at the
Company's expense, the Trustee or an Authenticating Agent shall authenticate and
deliver to the Holder thereof, as requested by such Holder, a new Security or
Securities of such series of authorized denominations in
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aggregate principal amount equal to the unconverted portion of such Security.
If the last day on which such Security may be converted is not
a Business Day in a place where the conversion agent for that Security is
located, such Security may be surrendered to that conversion agent on the next
succeeding day that is a Business Day.
The Company shall not be required to deliver certificates for
shares of Common Stock upon conversion while its stock transfer books are closed
for a meeting of shareholders or for the payment of dividends or for any other
purpose, but certificates for shares of Common Stock shall be delivered as soon
as the stock transfer books shall again be opened.
SECTION 1604. No Payment or Adjustment for Interest or
Dividends. Unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for
Securities of such series, Securities surrendered for conversion into Common
Stock during the period from the close of business on any Regular Record Date
(or Special Record Date) next preceding any Interest Payment Date to the opening
of business on such Interest Payment Date (except Securities called for
redemption on a Redemption Date within such period) when surrendered for
conversion must be accompanied by payment (by certified or official bank check
to the order of the Company payable in clearing house funds at the location
where the Securities are surrendered) of an amount equal to the interest thereon
which the Holder is entitled to receive on such Interest Payment Date. Payment
of interest shall be made, on such Interest Payment Date or such other payment
date (as set forth in Section 307), as the case may be, to the Holder of the
Securities as of such Regular Record Date or Special Record Date, as applicable.
Except where Securities surrendered for conversion must be accompanied by
payment as described above, no interest on converted Securities will be payable
by the Company on any Interest Payment Date subsequent to the date of
conversion. No other payment or adjustment for interest or dividends is to be
made upon conversion. Notwithstanding the foregoing, upon conversion of any
Original Issue Discount Security, the fixed number of shares of Common Stock
into which such Security is convertible delivered by the Company to the Holder
thereof shall be applied, first, to the portion attributable to the accrued
original issue discount relating to the period from the date of issuance to the
date of conversion of such Security, and, second, to the portion attributable to
the balance of the principal amount of such Security.
SECTION 1605. Adjustment of Conversion Price. Unless otherwise
specified as contemplated by Section 301 for Securities of such series, the
conversion price for Securities convertible into Common Stock shall be adjusted
from time to time as follows:
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(a) In case the Company shall (x) pay a dividend or make a
distribution on Common Stock in shares of Common Stock, (y) subdivide
the outstanding Common Stock into a greater number of shares or (z)
combine the outstanding Common Stock into a smaller number of shares,
the conversion price for the Securities of such series shall be
adjusted so that the Holder of any such Security thereafter surrendered
for conversion shall be entitled to receive the number of shares of
Common Stock which he would have owned or have been entitled to receive
after the happening of any of the events described above had such
Security been converted immediately prior to the record date in the
case of a dividend or the effective date in the case of subdivision or
combination. An adjustment made pursuant to this subsection (a) shall
become effective immediately after the record date in the case of a
dividend, except as provided in subsection (h) below, and shall become
effective immediately after the effective date in the case of a
subdivision or combination.
(b) In case the Company shall issue rights or warrants to all
holders of Common Stock entitling them (for a period expiring within 45
days after the record date mentioned below) to subscribe for or
purchase shares of Common Stock at a price per share less than the
current market price per share of Common Stock (as defined for purposes
of this subsection (b) in subsection (e) below), at the record date for
the determination of stockholders entitled to receive such rights or
warrants, the conversion price in effect immediately prior thereto
shall be adjusted so that the same shall equal the price determined by
multiplying the conversion price in effect immediately prior to the
date of issuance of such rights or warrants by a fraction, the
numerator of which shall be the number of shares of Common Stock
outstanding on the date of issuance of such rights or warrants plus the
number of shares of Common Stock which the aggregate offering price of
the total number of shares of Common Stock so offered would purchase at
such current market price, and the denominator of which shall be the
number of shares of Common Stock outstanding on the date of issuance of
such rights or warrants plus the number of additional shares of Common
Stock receivable upon exercise of such rights or warrants. Such
adjustment shall be made successively whenever any such rights or
warrants are issued, and shall become effective immediately, except as
provided in subsection (h) below, after such record date. In
determining whether any rights or warrants entitle the Holders of the
Securities of such series to subscribe for or purchase shares of Common
Stock at less than such current market price, and in determining the
aggregate offering price of such shares of Common Stock, there shall be
taken into account any consideration received by the Company for such
rights or warrants plus the exercise price thereof, the value of such
consideration or exercise price, as the case
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may be, if other than cash, to be determined by the Board of Directors.
(c) In case the Company shall distribute to all holders of
Common Stock any shares of Capital Stock of the Company (other than
Common Stock) or evidences of its indebtedness or assets (excluding
cash dividends or distributions paid from retained earnings of the
Company) or rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase any of its
securities (excluding those rights or warrants referred to in
subsection (b) above) (any of the foregoing being herein in this
subsection (c) called the "Special Securities"), then, in each such
case, unless the Company elects to reserve such Special Securities for
distribution to the Holders of Securities of such series upon the
conversion so that any such Holder converting such Securities will
receive upon such conversion, in addition to the shares of Common Stock
to which such Holder is entitled, the amount and kind of Special
Securities which such Holder would have received if such Holder had,
immediately prior to the record date for the distribution of the
Special Securities, converted Securities into Common Stock, the
conversion price shall be adjusted so that the same shall equal the
price determined by multiplying the conversion price in effect
immediately prior to the date of such distribution by a fraction the
numerator of which shall be the current market price per share (as
defined for purposes of this subsection (c) in subsection (e) below) of
Common Stock on the record date mentioned above less the then fair
market value (as determined by the Board of Directors, whose
determination shall, if made in good faith, be conclusive) of the
portion of the Special Securities so distributed applicable to one
share of Common Stock, and the denominator of which shall be the
current market price per share (as defined in subsection (e) below) of
Common Stock; provided, however, that in the event the then fair market
value (as so determined) of the portion of the Special Securities so
distributed applicable to one share of Common Stock is equal to or
greater than the current market price per share (as defined in
subsection (e) below) of Common Stock on the record date mentioned
above, in lieu of the foregoing adjustment, adequate provision shall be
made so that each Holder of Securities of such series shall have the
right to receive the amount and kind of Special Securities such holder
would have received had he converted such Securities immediately prior
to the record date for the distribution of the Special Securities. Such
adjustment shall become effective immediately, except as provided in
subsection (h) below, after the record date for the determination of
stockholders entitled to receive such distribution.
(d) If, pursuant to subsection (b) or (c) above, the number of
shares of Common Stock shall have been adjusted because the Company has
declared a dividend, or made a
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distribution, on the outstanding shares of Common Stock in the form of
any right or warrant to purchase securities of the Company, or the
Company has issued any such right or warrant, then, upon the expiration
of any such unexercised right or unexercised warrant, the conversion
price shall forthwith be adjusted to equal the conversion price that
would have applied had such right or warrant never been declared,
distributed or issued.
(e) For the purpose of any computation under subsection (b)
above, the current market price per share of Common Stock on any date
shall be deemed to be the average of the reported last sales prices for
the thirty consecutive Trading Days (as defined below) commencing
forty-five Trading Days before the date in question. For the purpose of
any computation under subsection (c) above, the current market price
per share of Common Stock on any date shall be deemed to be the average
of the reported last sales prices for the ten consecutive Trading Days
before the date in question. The reported last sales price for each day
(whether for purposes of subsection (b) or subsection (c)) shall be the
reported last sales price, regular way, or, in case no sale takes place
on such day, the average of the reported closing bid and asked prices,
regular way, in either case as reported on the New York Stock Exchange
Composite Tape or, if the Common Stock is not listed or admitted to
trading on the New York Stock Exchange, on the principal national
securities exchange on which the Common Stock is listed or admitted to
trading or, if not listed or admitted to trading on any national
securities exchange, on the National Market System of the National
Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. Automated Quotations System
("NASDAQ") or, if the Common Stock is not quoted on such National
Market System, the average of the closing bid and asked prices on such
day in the over-the-counter market as reported by NASDAQ or, if bid and
asked prices for the Common Stock on each such day shall not have been
reported through NASDAQ, the average of the bid and asked prices for
such day as furnished by any New York Stock Exchange member firm
regularly making a market in the Common Stock selected for such purpose
by the Board of Directors or a committee thereof or, if no such
quotations are available, the fair market value of the Common Stock as
determined by a New York Stock Exchange Member firm regularly making a
market in the Common Stock selected for such purpose by the Board of
Directors or a committee thereof or, if no such quotations are
available, the fair market value of the Common Stock as determined by a
New York Stock Exchange member firm regularly making a market in the
Common Stock selected for such purpose by the Board of Directors or a
committee thereof. As used herein, the term "Trading Day" with respect
to the Common Stock means (x) if the Common Stock is listed or admitted
for trading on the New York Stock Exchange or another national
securities exchange, a day on
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which the New York Stock Exchange or such other national securities
exchange is open for business or (y) if the Common Stock is quoted on
the National Market System of the NASDAQ, a day on which trades may be
made on such National Market System or (z) otherwise, any day other
than a Saturday or Sunday or a day on which banking institutions in the
State of New York are authorized or obligated by law or executive order
to close.
(f) No adjustment in the conversion price shall be required
unless such adjustment would require an increase or decrease of at
least 1% in such price; provided, however, that any adjustments which
by reason of this subsection (f) are not required to be made shall be
carried forward and taken into account in any subsequent adjustment;
and, provided, further, that adjustment shall be required and made in
accordance with the provisions of this Article Sixteen (other than this
subsection (f)) not later than such time as may be required in order to
preserve the tax free nature of a distribution to the holders of Common
Stock. All calculations under this Article Sixteen shall be made to the
nearest cent or to the nearest 1/100 of a share, as the case may be,
with one-half cent and 1/200 of a share, respectively, being rounded
upward. Anything in this Section 1605 to the contrary notwithstanding,
the Company shall be entitled to make such reductions in the conversion
price, in addition to those required by this Section 1605, as it in its
discretion shall determine to be advisable in order that any stock
dividend, subdivision of shares, distribution of rights or warrants to
purchase stock or securities, or distribution of other assets (other
than cash dividends) hereafter made by the Company to its stockholders
shall not be taxable.
(g) Whenever the conversion price is adjusted, as herein
provided, the Company shall promptly file with the Trustee, at the
corporate trust office of the Trustee, and with the office or agency
maintained by the Company for the conversion of Securities of such
series pursuant to Section 1002, an Officers' Certificate, setting
forth the conversion price after such adjustment and setting forth a
brief statement of the facts requiring such adjustment, which
certificate shall be conclusive evidence of the correctness of such
adjustment. Neither the Trustee nor any conversion agent shall be under
any duty or responsibility with respect to any such certificate or any
facts or computations set forth therein, except to exhibit said
certificate from time to time to any Holder of a Security of such
series desiring to inspect the same. The Company shall promptly cause a
notice setting forth the adjusted conversion price to be mailed to the
Holders of Securities of such series, as their names and addresses
appear upon the Security Register of the Company.
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(h) In any case in which this Section 1605 provides that an
adjustment shall become effective immediately after a record date for
an event, the Company may defer until the occurrence of such event (y)
issuing to the Holder of any Security of such series converted after
such record date and before the occurrence of such event the additional
shares of the Common Stock issuable upon such conversion by reason of
the adjustment required by such event over and above the Common Stock
issuable upon such conversion before giving effect to such adjustment
and (z) paying to such holder any amount in cash in lieu of any
fractional share of Common Stock pursuant to Section 1606 hereof.
SECTION 1606. No Fractional Shares to be Issued. No fractional
shares of Common Stock shall be issued upon any conversion of Securities. If
more than one Security of any series shall be surrendered for conversion at one
time by the same Holder, the number of full shares which shall be issuable upon
conversion thereof shall be computed on the basis of the aggregate principal
amount of the Securities of such series (or specified portions thereof to the
extent permitted hereby) so surrendered. Instead of a fraction of a share of
Common Stock which would otherwise be issuable upon conversion of any Security
or Securities (or specified portions thereof), the Company shall pay a cash
adjustment (computed to the nearest cent, with one-half cent being rounded
upward) in respect of such fraction of a share in an amount equal to the same
fractional interest of the reported last sales price (as defined in Section
1605(e)) of the Common Stock on the Trading Day (as defined in Section 1605(e))
next preceding the day of conversion.
SECTION 1607. Preservation of Conversion Rights upon
Consolidation, Merger, Sale or Conveyance. In case of any consolidation of the
Company with, or merger of the Company into, any other corporation (other than a
consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing corporation), or
in the case of any sale or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of
the Company, the corporation formed by such consolidation or the corporation
into which the Company shall have been merged or the corporation which shall
have acquired such assets, as the case may be, shall execute and deliver to the
Trustee, a supplemental indenture, in accordance with the provisions of Articles
Eight and Nine as they relate to supplemental indentures, providing that the
Holder of each Security then Outstanding of a series which was convertible into
Common Stock shall have the right thereafter to convert such Security into the
kind and amount of shares of stock and other securities and property, including
cash, receivable upon such consolidation, merger, sale or transfer by a holder
of the number of shares of Common Stock of the Company into which such
Securities might have been converted immediately prior to such consolidation,
merger, sale or transfer. Such supplemental indenture shall conform to the
provisions of the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect and shall provide for
adjustments which shall be as nearly equivalent
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as may be practicable to the adjustments provided for in this Article Sixteen.
Neither the Trustee nor any conversion agent shall have any liability or
responsibility for determining the correctness of any provision contained in any
such supplemental indenture relating either to the kind or amount of shares of
stock or other securities or property receivable by Holders of the Securities
upon the conversion of their Securities after any such consolidation, merger,
sale or transfer, or to any adjustment to be made with respect thereto and,
subject to the provisions of Section 313 of the Trust Indenture Act, may accept
as conclusive evidence of the correctness of any such provisions, and shall be
protected in relying upon, an Officers' Certificate with respect thereto and an
Opinion of Counsel with respect to legal matters related thereto. If in the case
of any such consolidation, merger, sale or transfer, the stock or other
securities and property receivable by a Holder of the Securities includes stock
or other securities and property of a corporation other than the successor or
purchasing corporation, then such supplemental indenture shall also be executed
by such other corporation and shall contain such additional provisions to
protect the interests of the Holders of the Securities as the Board of Directors
shall reasonably consider necessary. The above provisions of this Section 1607
shall similarly apply to successive consolidations, mergers, sales or transfers.
SECTION 1608. Notice to Holders of the Securities of a Series
Prior to Taking Certain Types of Action SECTION 1608. Notice to Holders of the
Securities of a Series Prior to Taking Certain Types of Action. With respect to
the Securities of any series, in case:
(a) the Company shall authorize the issuance to all holders of
Common Stock of rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase shares
of its Capital Stock or of any other right;
(b) the Company shall authorize the distribution to all holders
of Common Stock of evidences of indebtedness or assets (except for cash
dividends or distributions paid from retained earnings of the Company);
(c) of any subdivision or combination of Common Stock or of any
consolidation or merger to which the Company is a party and for which
approval by the shareholders of the Company is required, or of the sale
or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company;
or
(d) of the voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation
or winding up of the Company;
then the Company shall cause to be filed with the Trustee and at the office or
agency maintained for the purpose of conversion of Securities of such series
pursuant to Section 1002, and shall cause to be mailed to the Holders of
Securities of such series, at their last addresses as they shall appear on the
Security Register of the Company, at least ten days prior to the
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applicable record date hereinafter specified, a notice stating (i) the date as
of which the holders of Common Stock to be entitled to receive any such rights,
warrants or distribution are to be determined, or (ii) the date on which any
such subdivision, combination, consolidation, merger, sale, transfer,
dissolution, liquidation, winding up or other action is expected to become
effective, and the date as of which it is expected that holders of record of
Common Stock shall be entitled to exchange their Common Stock for securities or
other property, if any, deliverable upon such subdivision, combination,
consolidation, merger, sale, transfer, dissolution, liquidation, winding up or
other action. The failure to give the notice required by this Section 1608 or
any defect therein shall not affect the legality or validity of any
distribution, right, warrant, subdivision, combination, consolidation, merger,
sale, transfer, dissolution, liquidation, winding up or other action, or the
vote upon any of the foregoing. Such notice shall also be published by and at
the expense of the Company not later than the aforesaid filing date at least
once in an Authorized Newspaper.
SECTION 1609. Covenants to Reserve Shares for Issuance on
Conversion of Securities. The Company covenants that at all times it will
reserve and keep available out of each class of its authorized Common Stock,
free from preemptive rights, solely for the purpose of issue upon conversation
of Securities of any series as herein provided, such number of shares of Common
Stock as shall then be issuable upon the conversion of all Outstanding
Securities of such series. The Company covenants that all shares of Common Stock
which shall be so issuable shall, when issued or delivered, be duly and validly
issued shares of Common Stock into which Securities of such series are
convertible, and shall be fully paid and nonassessable, free of all liens and
charges and not subject to preemptive rights and that, upon conversion, the
appropriate capital stock accounts of the Company will be duly credited.
SECTION 1610. Compliance with Governmental Requirements. The
Company covenants that if any shares of Common Stock required to be reserved for
purposes of conversion of Securities hereunder require registration or listing
with or approval of any governmental authority under any Federal or State law,
pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended, or any national or regional securities exchange on
which Common Stock is listed at the time of delivery of any shares of Common
Stock, before such shares may be issued upon conversion, the Company will use
its best efforts to cause such shares to be duly registered, listed or approved,
as the case may be.
SECTION 1611. Payment of Taxes upon Certificates for Shares
Issued upon Conversion. The issuance of certificates for shares of Common Stock
upon the conversion of Securities shall be made without charge to the converting
Holders for any tax (including, without limitation, all documentary and stamp
taxes)
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in respect of the issuance and delivery of such certificates, and such
certificates shall be issued in the respective names of, or in such names as may
be directed by, the holders of the Securities converted; provided, however, that
the Company shall not be required to pay any tax which may be payable in respect
of any transfer involved in the issuance and delivery of any such certificate in
a name other than that of the Holder of the Security converted, and the Company
shall not be required to issue or deliver such certificate unless or until the
Person or Persons requesting the issuance thereof shall have paid to the Company
the amount of such tax or shall have established to the satisfaction of the
Company that such tax has been paid.
SECTION 1612. Trustee's Duties with Respect to Conversion
Provisions. The Trustee and any conversion agent shall have no duty,
responsibility or liability to any Holder to determine whether any facts exist
which may require any adjustment of the conversion rate, or with respect to the
nature or extent of any such adjustment when made, or with respect to the method
employed, or herein or in any supplemental indenture provided to be employed, in
making the same. Neither the Trustee nor any conversion agent shall be
accountable with respect to the registration under securities laws, listing,
validity or value (or the kind or amount) of any shares of Common Stock, or of
any other securities or property, which may at any time be issued or delivered
upon the conversion of any Security, and neither the Trustee nor any conversion
agent makes any representation with respect thereto. Neither the Trustee nor any
conversion agent shall be responsible for any failure of the Company to make any
cash payment or to issue, transfer or deliver any shares of stock or stock
certificates or other securities or property upon the surrender of any Security
for the purpose of conversion; and the Trustee and any conversion agent, subject
to the provisions of Section 313 of the Trust Indenture Act, shall not be
responsible for any failure of the Company to comply with any of the covenants
of the Company contained in this Article Sixteen.
SECTION 1613. Conversion of Securities Into Preferred Stock.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Article Sixteen, the Company
may issue Securities that are convertible into shares of Preferred Stock,
including Preferred Stock convertible into Common Stock, in which case all terms
and conditions relating to the conversion of Securities into Preferred Stock,
including any terms similar to those provided in Sections 1601 through 1612
shall be as provided in or pursuant to an appropriate Board Resolution or in any
indenture supplemental hereto or as otherwise contemplated by Section 301.
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ARTICLE SEVENTEEN
SUBORDINATION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 1701. Securities Subordinated to Senior Indebtedness.
The Company covenants and agrees, and each Holder of Securities, by his
acceptance thereof, likewise covenants and agrees, that the indebtedness
represented by the Securities and the payment of the principal of (and premium,
if any) and interest and any Additional Amounts payable in respect of each and
all of the Securities is hereby expressly subordinated, to the extent and in the
manner hereinafter set forth, in right of payment to the prior payment in full
of Senior Indebtedness.
In the event (a) of any distribution of assets of the Company
upon any dissolution, winding up, liquidation or reorganization of the Company
whether in bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or receivership proceeding or
upon an assignment for the benefit of creditors or any other marshalling of the
assets and liabilities of the Company or otherwise, except a distribution in
connection with a merger or consolidation or a conveyance or transfer of all or
substantially all of the properties of the Company which complies with the
requirements of Article Eight, or (b) that a default shall have occurred and be
continuing with respect to the payment of principal of (or premium, if any) or
interest on or any Additional Amounts payable in respect of any Senior
Indebtedness, or (c) that the principal of the Securities of any series (or in
the case of Original Issue Discount Securities, the portion of the principal
amount thereof referred to in Section 502) shall have been declared due and
payable pursuant to Section 502 and such declaration shall not have been
rescinded and annulled as provided in Section 502, then:
(1) in a circumstance described in the foregoing clause (a) or
(b) the holders of all Senior Indebtedness, and in the circumstance
described in the foregoing clause (c) the holders of all Senior
Indebtedness (other than Other Obligations) outstanding at the time the
principal of such Securities (or in the case of Original Issue Discount
Securities, such portion of the principal amount) shall have been so
declared due and payable, shall first be entitled to receive payment of
the full amount due thereon in respect of principal, premium (if any),
Interest and Additional Amounts, or provision shall be made for such
payment in money or money's worth, before the Holders of any of the
Securities are entitled to receive any payment on account of the
principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on or any Additional
Amounts in respect of the indebtedness evidenced by the Securities;
(2) any payment by, or distribution of assets of, the Company
of any kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities
(other than securities of the Company as
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reorganized or readjusted or securities of the Company or any other
corporation provided for by a plan of reorganization or readjustment
the payment of which is subordinate, at least to the extent provided in
this Article with respect to the securities, to the payment of all
Senior Indebtedness, provided that the rights of the holders of the
Senior Indebtedness are not altered by such reorganization or
readjustment), to which the Holders of any of the Securities would be
entitled except for the provisions of this Article shall be paid or
delivered by the person making such payment or distribution, whether a
trustee in bankruptcy, a receiver or liquidating trustee or otherwise,
directly to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness or their
representative or representatives or to the trustee or trustees under
any indenture under which any instrument evidencing any of such Senior
Indebtedness may have been issued, ratably according to the aggregate
amounts remaining unpaid on account of such Senior Indebtedness held or
represented by each, to the extent necessary to make payment in full of
all Senior Indebtedness remaining unpaid after giving effect to any
concurrent payment or distribution (or provision therefor) to the
holders of such Senior Indebtedness, before any payment or distribution
is made to the Holders of the indebtedness evidenced by the Securities
under this Indenture; and
(3) in the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing, any
payment by, or distribution of assets of, the Company of any kind or
character, whether in cash, property or securities (other than
securities of the Company as reorganized or readjusted or securities of
the Company or any other corporation provided for by a plan of
reorganization or readjustment the payment of which is subordinate, at
least to the extent provided in this Article with respect to the
Securities, to the payment of all Senior Indebtedness, provided that
the rights of the holders of Senior Indebtedness are not altered by
such reorganization or readjustment), shall be received by the Holders
of any of the Securities before all Senior Indebtedness is paid in
full, such payment or distribution shall be paid over to the holders of
such Senior Indebtedness or their representative or representatives or
to the trustee or trustees under any indenture under which any
instruments evidencing any of such Senior Indebtedness may have been
issued, ratably as aforesaid, for application to the payment of all
Senior Indebtedness remaining unpaid until all such Senior Indebtedness
shall have been paid in full, after giving effect to any concurrent
payment or distribution (or provision therefor) to the holders of such
Senior Indebtedness.
SECTION 1702. Subrogation. Subject to the payment in full of
all Senior Indebtedness to which the indebtedness evidenced by the Securities is
in the circumstances subordinated
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as provided in Section 1701, the Holders of the Securities shall be subrogated
to the rights of the holders of such Senior Indebtedness to receive payments or
distributions of cash, property or securities of the Company applicable to such
Senior Indebtedness until all amounts owing on the Securities shall be paid in
full, and, as between the Company, its creditors other than holders of such
Senior Indebtedness, and the Holders of the Securities, no such payment or
distribution made to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness by virtue of this
Article which otherwise would have been made to the Holders of the Securities
shall be deemed to be a payment by the Company on account of such Senior
Indebtedness, it being understood that the provisions of this Article are and
are intended solely for the purpose of defining the relative rights of the
Holders of the Securities, on the one hand, and the holders of Senior
Indebtedness.
SECTION 1703. Obligation of the Company Unconditional. Nothing
contained in this Article or elsewhere in this Indenture or in the Securities is
intended to or shall impair, as between the Company, its creditors other than
the holders of Senior Indebtedness, and the Holders of the Securities, the
obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay to the
Holders of the Securities the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on
and any Additional Amounts in respect of the Securities as and when the same
shall become due and payable in accordance with their terms, or is intended to
or shall affect the relative rights of the Holders of the Securities and
creditors of the Company other than the holders of Senior Indebtedness nor shall
anything herein or therein prevent the Trustee or the Holder of any Security
from exercising all remedies otherwise permitted by applicable law upon default
under this Indenture, subject to the rights, if any, under this Article of the
holders of Senior Indebtedness in respect of cash, property or securities of the
Company received upon the exercise of any such remedy.
Upon any payment or distribution of assets of the Company
referred to in this Article, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities shall
be entitled to rely upon any order or decree made by any court of competent
jurisdiction in which any such dissolution, winding up, liquidation or
reorganization proceeding affecting the affairs of the Company is pending or
upon a certificate of the trustee in bankruptcy, receiver, assignee for the
benefit of creditors, liquidating trustee or agent or other person making any
payment or distribution, delivered to the Trustee or to the Holders of the
Securities, for the purpose of ascertaining the persons entitled to participate
in such payment or distribution, the holders of the Senior Indebtedness and
other indebtedness of the Company, the amount thereof or payable thereon, the
amount paid or distributed thereon and all other facts pertinent thereto or to
this Article.
SECTION 1704. Payments on Securities Permitted. Nothing
contained in this Article or elsewhere in this Indenture,
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or in any of the Securities, shall affect the obligation of the Company to make,
or prevent the Company from making, payment of the principal of (or premium, if
any) or interest on or any Additional Amounts in respect of the Securities in
accordance with the provisions hereof and thereof, except as otherwise provided
in this Article.
SECTION 1705. Effectuation of Subordination by Trustee. Each
Holder of the Securities, by his acceptance thereof, authorizes and directs the
Trustee in his behalf to take such action as may be necessary or appropriate to
effectuate the subordination provided in this Article and appoints the Trustee
his attorney-in-fact for any and all such purposes.
SECTION 1706. Knowledge of Trustee. Notwithstanding the
provisions of this Article or any other provisions of this Indenture, the
Trustee shall not be deemed to owe any fiduciary duty to the holders of Senior
Indebtedness and shall not be charged with knowledge of the existence of any
facts which would prohibit the making of any payment or moneys to or by the
Trustee, or the taking of any other action by the Trustee, unless and until the
Trustee shall have received written notice thereof from the Company, any Holder
of Securities, any paying or conversion agent of the Company or the holder or
representative of any class of Senior Indebtedness; provided, however, that if
the Trustee shall not have received the notice provided for in this Section at
least 3 Business Days prior to the date upon which, by the terms hereof, any
money may become payable for any purpose (including, without limitation, the
payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on, or Additional
Amounts in respect of, any Security) then, anything herein contained to the
contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall have all power and authority to
receive such money and to apply the same to the purpose for which such money was
received and shall not be affected by any notice to the contrary which may be
received by it during or after such 3 Business Day period.
SECTION 1707. Trustee May Hold Senior Indebtedness. The
Trustee in its individual capacity shall be entitled to all the rights set forth
in this Article with respect to any Senior Indebtedness at the time held by it,
to the same extent as any other holder of Senior Indebtedness, and nothing in
Section 313 of the Trust Indenture Act or elsewhere in this Indenture shall
deprive the Trustee of any of its rights as such holder.
Nothing in this Article shall subordinate any claims of, or
payments to, the Trustee (under or pursuant to Section 606) to Senior
Indebtedness.
SECTION 1708. Rights of Holders of Senior Indebtedness Not
Impaired. No right of any present or future holder of any Senior Indebtedness to
enforce the subordination herein shall at any time or in any way be prejudiced
or impaired by any act or failure to act on the part of the Company or by any
non-
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compliance by the Company with the terms, provisions and covenants of this
Indenture, regardless or any knowledge thereof any such holder may have or be
otherwise charged with.
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* * * * *
This Indenture may be executed in any number of counterparts,
each of which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such
counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same Indenture.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this
Indenture to be duly executed, and their respective corporate seals to be
hereunto affixed and attested, all as of the day and year first above written.
THE PEP BOYS - MANNY, MOE & XXXX
By:____________________________
Name:
Title:
[SEAL]
Attest:
By:____________________________
Name:
Title:
______________________________,
as Trustee
By:____________________________
Name:
Title:
[SEAL]
Attest:
By:____________________________
Name:
Title:
000
XXXXXXXXXXXX XX XXXXXXXXXXXX )
) ss:
COUNTY OF [ ] )
On the ____ day of __________, 1997, before me personally came
______________, to me known, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say
that he resides at _______________________, that he is ____________ of
______________________, one of the corporations described in and which executed
the foregoing instrument; that he knows the 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
COMMISSION EXPIRES
STATE OF NEW YORK )
) ss:
COUNTY OF NEW YORK )
On the ____ day of ______________, 1997, before me personally came , to
me known, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that he resides at
_______________________, that he is a ______________ of _______________________,
one of the corporations described in and which executed the foregoing
instrument; that he knows the 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
COMMISSION EXPIRES
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EXHIBIT A
FORMS OF CERTIFICATION
EXHIBIT A-1
FORM OF CERTIFICATE TO BE GIVEN BY PERSON ENTITLED
TO RECEIVE BEARER SECURITY OR TO OBTAIN INTEREST
PAYABLE PRIOR TO THE EXCHANGE DATE
CERTIFICATE
[Insert title or sufficient description of Securities to be delivered]
This is to certify that, as of the date hereof, and except as
set forth below, the above-captioned Securities held by you for our account (i)
are owned by person(s) that are not citizens or residents of the United States,
domestic partnerships, domestic corporations or any estate or trust the income
of which is subject to United States federal income taxation regardless of its
source ("United States person(s)"), (ii) are owned by United States person(s)
that are (a) foreign branches of United States financial institutions (financial
institutions, as defined in United States Treasury Regulations Section
2.165-12(c)(1)(v) are herein referred to as "financial institutions") purchasing
for their own account or for resale, or (b) United States person(s) who acquired
the Securities through foreign branches of United States financial institutions
and who hold the Securities through such United States financial institutions on
the date hereof (and in either case (a) or (b), each such United States
financial institution hereby agrees, on its own behalf or through its agent,
that you may advise X.X. Xxxxxxx Corporation or its agent that such financial
institution will comply with the requirements of Section 165(j)(3)(A), (B) or
(C) of the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the
regulations thereunder), or (iii) are owned by United States or foreign
financial institution(s) for purposes of resale during the restricted period (as
defined in United States Treasury Regulations Section 1.163-5(c)(2)(i)(D)(7)),
and, in addition, if the owner is a United States or foreign financial
institution described in clause (iii) above (whether or not also described in
clause (i) or (ii)), this is to further certify that such financial institution
has not acquired the Securities for purposes of resale directly or indirectly to
a United States person or to a person within the United States or its
possessions.
As used herein, "United States" means the United States of
America (including the States and the District of Columbia); and its
"possessions" include Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin
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Islands, Guam, American Samoa, Wake Island and the Northern Mariana Islands.
We undertake to advise you promptly by tested telex on or
prior to the date on which you intend to submit your certification relating to
the above-captioned Securities held by you for our account in accordance with
your Operating Procedures if any applicable statement herein is not correct on
such date, and in the absence of any such notification it may be assumed that
this certification applies as of such date.
This certificate excepts and does not relate to [U.S.$]
_________________ of such interest in the above-captioned Securities in respect
of which we are not able to certify and as to which we understand an exchange
for an interest in a Permanent Global Security or an exchange for and delivery
of definitive Securities (or, if relevant, collection of any interest) cannot be
made until we do so certify.
We understand that this certificate may be required in
connection with certain tax legislation in the United States. If administrative
or legal proceedings are commenced or threatened in connection with which this
certificate is or would be relevant, we irrevocably authorize you to produce
this certificate or a copy thereof to any interested party in such proceedings.
Dated: ___________________, 19__
[To be dated no earlier than the
15th day prior to (i) the Exchange
Date or (ii) the relevant Interest
Payment Date occurring prior to the
Exchange Date, as applicable]
[Name of Person Making
Certification]
---------------------------------------
(Authorized Signator)
Name:
Title:
X-0
XXXXXXX X-0
FORM OF CERTIFICATE TO BE GIVEN BY EUROCLEAR
AND CEDEL S.A. IN CONNECTION WITH THE EXCHANGE OF
A PORTION OF A TEMPORARY GLOBAL SECURITY OR TO
OBTAIN INTEREST PAYABLE PRIOR TO THE EXCHANGE DATE
CERTIFICATE
[Insert title or sufficient description of Securities to be delivered]
This is to certify that, based solely on written
certifications that we have received in writing, by tested telex or by
electronic transmission from each of the persons appearing in our records as
persons entitled to a portion of the principal amount set forth below (our
"Member Organizations") substantially in the form attached hereto, as of the
date hereof, [U.S.$] _____________ principal amount of the above-captioned
Securities (i) is owned by person(s) that are not citizens or residents of the
United States, domestic partnerships, domestic corporations or any estate or
trust the income of which is subject to United States Federal income taxation
regardless of its source ("United States persons(s)"), (ii) is owned by United
States persons(s) that are (a) foreign branches of United States financial
institutions (financial institutions, as defined in U.S. Treasury Regulations
Section 1.165-12(c)(1)(v) are herein referred to as "financial institutions")
purchasing for their own account or for resale, or (b) United States person(s)
who acquired the Securities through foreign branches of United States financial
institutions and who hold the Securities through such United States financial
institutions on the date hereof (and in either case (a) or (b), each such
financial institution has agreed, on its own behalf or through its agent, that
we may advise X.X. Xxxxxxx Corporation or its agent that such financial
institution will comply with the requirements of Section 165(j)(3)(A), (B) or
(C) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the regulations
thereunder), or (iii) is owned by United States or foreign financial
institution(s) for purposes of resale during the restricted period (as defined
in United States Treasury Regulations Section 1.163-5(c)(2)(i)(D)(7)), and, to
the further effect, that financial institutions described in clause (iii) above
(whether or not also described in clause (i) or (ii)) have certified that they
have not acquired the Securities for purposes of resale directly or indirectly
to a United States person or to a person within the United States or its
possessions.
As used herein, "United States" means the United States of
America (including the States and the District of Columbia); and its
"possessions" include Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American
Samoa, Wake Island and the Northern Mariana Islands.
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We further certify that (i) we are not making available
herewith for exchange (or, if relevant, collection of any interest) any portion
of the temporary global Security representing the above-captioned Securities
excepted in the above-referenced certificates of Member Organizations and (ii)
as of the date hereof we have not received any notification from any of our
Member Organizations to the effect that the statements made by such Member
Organizations with respect to any portion of the part submitted herewith for
exchange (or, if relevant, collection of any interest) are no longer true and
cannot be relied upon as of the date hereof.
We understand that this certification is required in
connection with certain tax legislation in the United States. If administrative
or legal proceedings are commenced or threatened in connection with which this
certificate is or would be relevant, we irrevocably authorize you to produce
this certificate or a copy thereof to any interested party in such proceedings.
Dated: _______________, 19__
[To be dated no earlier than
the Exchange Date or the
relevant Interest Payment Date
occurring prior to the
Exchange Date, as applicable]
[Xxxxxx Guaranty Trust Company
of New York, Brussels
Office,] as Operator of the
Euroclear System [Cedel
S.A.]
By_______________________________
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