EXHIBIT 4.37
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REGENT BROADCASTING, INC.
AND
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TRUSTEE
FORM OF SENIOR DEBT INDENTURE
GUARANTEED TO THE EXTENT SET FORTH HEREIN
BY THE GUARANTORS NAMED HEREIN
DATED AS OF ____________, 200_
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REGENT BROADCASTING, INC.
Reconciliation and tie between Trust Indenture Act of 1939
and Indenture, dated as of ______________, 200_
TRUST INDENTURE ACT SECTION INDENTURE SECTION
310(a)(1) 6.09
(a)(2) 6.09
(a)(3) Not Applicable
(a)(4) Not Applicable
(b) 6.08, 6.10
311(a) 6.13
(b) 6.13
(b)(2) 7.03(a), 7.03(b)
312(a) 7.01, 7.02(a)
(b) 7.02(b)
(c) 7.02(c)
313(a) 7.03(a)
(b) 7.03(a)
(c) 7.03(a), 7.03(b)
(d) 7.03(b)
314(a) 7.04
(b) Not Applicable
(c)(1) 1.02
(c)(2) 1.02
(c)(3) Not Applicable
(d) Not Applicable
(e) 1.02
315(a) 6.01(a)
(b) 6.02, 7.03(a)
(c) 6.01(b)
(d) 6.01(c)
(d)(1) 6.01(a), 6.01(c)
(d)(2) 6.01(c)
(d)(3) 6.01(c)
(e) 5.14
316(a)(1)(A) 5.12
(a)(1)(B) 5.02, 5.13
(a)(2) Not Applicable
(b) 5.08
(c) 1.04(e)
317(a)(1) 5.03
(a)(2) 5.04
(b) 10.05
318(a) 1.07
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE 1 DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION............................................1
Section 1.01 Definitions...................................................................................1
Section 1.02 Compliance Certificates and Opinions..........................................................8
Section 1.03 Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee........................................................8
Section 1.04 Acts of Holders...............................................................................9
Section 1.05 Notices, Etc., to Trustee and Company........................................................11
Section 1.06 Notice to Holders; Waiver....................................................................11
Section 1.07 Conflict with Trust Indenture Act............................................................11
Section 1.08 Effect of Headings and Table of Contents.....................................................12
Section 1.09 Successors and Assigns.......................................................................12
Section 1.10 Separability Clause..........................................................................12
Section 1.11 Benefits of Indenture........................................................................12
Section 1.12 Governing Law................................................................................12
Section 1.13 Legal Holidays...............................................................................12
Section 1.14 No Recourse Against Others...................................................................12
Section 1.15 Judgment Currency............................................................................13
Section 1.16 Counterparts.................................................................................13
ARTICLE 2 SECURITY FORMS....................................................................................13
Section 2.01 Forms Generally..............................................................................13
Section 2.02 Form of Face of Security.....................................................................14
Section 2.03 Form of Reverse of Security..................................................................16
Section 2.04 Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication..............................................20
Section 2.05 Securities in Global Form....................................................................21
Section 2.06 Form of Legend for the Securities in Global Form.............................................21
ARTICLE 3 THE SECURITIES....................................................................................22
Section 3.01 Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series.........................................................22
Section 3.02 Denominations................................................................................25
Section 3.03 Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating...............................................25
Section 3.04 Temporary Securities.........................................................................27
Section 3.05 Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange..........................................27
Section 3.06 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities.............................................30
Section 3.07 Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved...............................................30
Section 3.08 Persons Deemed Owners........................................................................31
Section 3.09 Cancellation.................................................................................32
Section 3.10 Computation of Interest......................................................................32
Section 3.11 CUSIP Number.................................................................................32
Section 3.12 Wire Transfers...............................................................................32
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ARTICLE 4 SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE........................................................................33
Section 4.01 Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture......................................................33
Section 4.02 Application of Trust Money...................................................................33
Section 4.03 Application to a Specific Series of Securities...............................................34
ARTICLE 5 REMEDIES..........................................................................................34
Section 5.01 Events of Default............................................................................34
Section 5.02 Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment...........................................36
Section 5.03 Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by......................................36
Section 5.04 Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.............................................................37
Section 5.05 Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities..................................38
Section 5.06 Application of Money Collected...............................................................38
Section 5.07 Limitation on Suits..........................................................................39
Section 5.08 Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and Interest....................39
Section 5.09 Restoration of Rights and Remedies...........................................................39
Section 5.10 Rights and Remedies Cumulative...............................................................40
Section 5.11 Delay or Omission Not Waiver.................................................................40
Section 5.12 Control by Holders...........................................................................40
Section 5.13 Waiver of Past Defaults......................................................................40
Section 5.14 Undertaking for Costs........................................................................41
ARTICLE 6 THE TRUSTEE.......................................................................................41
Section 6.01 Certain Duties and Responsibilities of the Trustee...........................................41
Section 6.02 Notice of Defaults...........................................................................41
Section 6.03 Certain Rights of Trustee....................................................................42
Section 6.04 Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities.......................................43
Section 6.05 May Hold Securities..........................................................................43
Section 6.06 Money Held in Trust..........................................................................43
Section 6.07 Compensation and Reimbursement...............................................................43
Section 6.08 Disqualification; Conflicting Interests......................................................44
Section 6.09 Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility......................................................44
Section 6.10 Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor............................................44
Section 6.11 Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.......................................................46
Section 6.12 Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business..................................47
Section 6.13 Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company............................................47
Section 6.14 Appointment of Authenticating Agent..........................................................47
Section 6.15 Compliance with Tax Laws.....................................................................49
ARTICLE 7 HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY.................................................49
Section 7.01 Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders....................................49
Section 7.02 Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders.......................................49
Section 7.03 Reports by Trustee...........................................................................50
Section 7.04 Reports by Company...........................................................................51
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ARTICLE 8 CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, LEASE, SALE OR TRANSFER....................................................52
Section 8.01 When Company May Merge, Etc..................................................................52
Section 8.02 Opinion of Counsel...........................................................................52
Section 8.03 Successor Corporation Substituted............................................................52
ARTICLE 9 SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES...........................................................................53
Section 9.01 Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders...........................................53
Section 9.02 Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders..............................................54
Section 9.03 Execution of Supplemental Indentures.........................................................55
Section 9.04 Effect of Supplemental Indentures............................................................55
Section 9.05 Conformity with Trust Indenture Act..........................................................55
Section 9.06 Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures...........................................55
ARTICLE 10 COVENANTS......................................................................................56
Section 10.01 Payments of Securities.......................................................................56
Section 10.02 Maintenance of Office or Agency..............................................................56
Section 10.03 Compliance Certificates......................................................................56
Section 10.04 Waiver of Stay, Extension or Usury Laws......................................................57
Section 10.05 Money for Securities Payments to Be Held in Trust............................................57
Section 10.06 Waiver of Certain Covenants..................................................................58
ARTICLE 11 REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES.......................................................................58
Section 11.01 Applicability of Article.....................................................................58
Section 11.02 Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee........................................................59
Section 11.03 Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed............................................59
Section 11.04 Notice of Redemption.........................................................................59
Section 11.05 Deposit of Redemption Price..................................................................60
Section 11.06 Securities Payable on Redemption Date........................................................60
Section 11.07 Securities Redeemed in Part..................................................................61
ARTICLE 12 SINKING FUNDS..................................................................................61
Section 12.01 Applicability of Article.....................................................................61
Section 12.02 Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities........................................61
Section 12.03 Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund....................................................61
ARTICLE 13 DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE.............................................................62
Section 13.01 Applicability of Article; Company's Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance ......62
Section 13.02 Defeasance and Discharge.....................................................................62
Section 13.03 Covenant Defeasance..........................................................................63
Section 13.04 Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance..............................................63
Section 13.05 Deposited Money and Government Obligations To Be Held in Trust...............................64
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Section 13.06 Reinstatement................................................................................65
ARTICLE 14 GUARANTEES.....................................................................................65
Section 14.01 Guarantee....................................................................................65
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INDENTURE, dated as of ________________, 200_, between REGENT
BROADCASTING, INC., a Delaware corporation (herein called the "COMPANY"), the
GUARANTORS listed on Schedule 1 hereto (herein called the "GUARANTORS") and
________________, a ______________ trust company, as Trustee (herein called the
"TRUSTEE").
RECITALS OF THE COMPANY
The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this
Indenture to provide for the issuance from time to time of its senior unsecured
debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness (herein called the
"SECURITIES"), to be issued in one or more series as in this Indenture provided.
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 ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities, as follows:
ARTICLE 1
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION
Section 1.01 DEFINITIONS. For all purposes of this Indenture,
except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) the terms defined in this Article have the meanings
assigned to them in this Article and include the plural as well as the singular;
(2) all other terms used herein which are defined in the
Trust Indenture Act, either directly or by reference therein, or defined by
Commission rule and not otherwise defined herein, have the meanings assigned to
them therein;
(3) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the
meanings assigned to them in accordance with GAAP;
(4) the word "INCLUDING" (and with correlative meaning
"INCLUDE") means including, without limiting the generality of, any description
preceding such term; and
(5) the words "HEREIN," "HEREOF" and "HEREUNDER" and
other words of similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any
particular Article, Section or other subdivision.
"ACT" when used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning specified
in Section 1.04.
"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 purposes of this definition, "CONTROL"
(including, with correlative meanings, the terms "CONTROLLING," "CONTROLLED BY"
and "UNDER COMMON CONTROL WITH"), as used with respect to any Person, shall mean
the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the
direction of the management or policies of such Person, whether through the
ownership of voting securities, by agreement or otherwise. For purposes of this
definition, the terms "controlling," "controlled by" and "under common control
with" shall have correlative meanings.
"AUTHENTICATING AGENT" means any Person authorized by the Trustee to
act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Securities.
"BANKRUPTCY LAW" means Title 11, U.S. Code or any similar federal or
state law for the relief of debtors.
"BOARD OF DIRECTORS" means the board of directors of the Company;
provided, however, that when the context refers to actions or resolutions of the
Board of Directors, then the term "BOARD OF DIRECTORS" shall also mean any duly
authorized committee of the Board of Directors of the Company authorized to act
with respect to any particular matter to exercise the power of the Board of
Directors of the Company.
"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 of
any series, means each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday which is
not a day on which banking institutions in that Place of Payment are authorized
or obligated by law or regulation to close.
"CAPITAL STOCK" means, with respect to any Person, any and all shares,
interests, participations, warrants, rights, options or other equivalents
(however designated) of capital stock or any other equity interest of such
Person, including each class of common stock and preferred stock.
"COMMISSION" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from time
to time constituted, created under the Exchange Act, or, if at any time after
the execution of this instrument such Commission is not existing and performing
the duties now assigned to it under the Trust Indenture Act, then the body
performing such duties at such time.
"COMPANY" means the Person named as the "Company" in the first
paragraph of this Indenture until a successor corporation or other entity shall
have become such pursuant to the
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applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter "Company" shall mean
such successor corporation.
"COMPANY REQUEST" or "COMPANY ORDER" means a written request or order
signed in the name of the Company by any two Officers, at least one of whom must
be its Chairman of the Board, its Chief Executive Officer, its President, its
Chief Financial Officer, its Chief Accounting Officer, its Treasurer, an
Assistant Treasurer or its Controller, and delivered to the Trustee.
"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 ___________________.
"COVENANT DEFEASANCE" has the meaning specified in Section 13.03.
"CURRENCY UNIT" or "CURRENCY UNITS" shall mean any composite currency.
"CUSTODIAN" means any receiver, custodian, trustee, assignee,
liquidator, sequestrator or similar official under any Bankruptcy Law.
"DEFAULT" means any event which is, or after notice or passage of time
or both would be, an Event of Default.
"DEFAULTED INTEREST" has the meaning specified in Section 3.07.
"DEFEASANCE" has the meaning specified in Section 13.02.
"DEPOSITARY" means, with respect to the Securities of any series
issuable or issued in whole or in part in the form of one or more global
Securities, the Person designated as Depositary by the Company pursuant to
Section 3.01 until a successor Depositary shall have become such pursuant to the
applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter "Depositary" shall mean
or include each Person who is then a Depositary hereunder, and if at any time
there is more than one such Person, "Depositary" shall mean the Depositary with
respect to the Securities of that series.
"DOLLARS" and "$" means lawful money of the United States of America.
"EVENT OF DEFAULT" has the meaning specified in Section 5.01.
"EXCHANGE ACT" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended
from time to time, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
"GAAP" means such accounting principles as are generally accepted in
the United States of America which are in effect on the date hereof.
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"GUARANTEE" means the guarantee by any Guarantor of the obligations
under this Indenture.
"HOLDER" or "SECURITYHOLDER" means a Person in whose name a Security is
registered in the Security Register.
"INDEBTEDNESS" means, with respect to any Person (without duplication
for indebtedness or other obligations of such Person), any indebtedness of such
Person for money borrowed, whether incurred, assumed or guaranteed, and
including obligations under capitalized leases.
"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 hereunder.
"INTEREST" when used with respect to an Original Issue Discount
Security which by its terms bears interest only after Maturity, means interest
payable after Maturity.
"INTEREST PAYMENT DATE" when used with respect to any Security, means
the Stated Maturity of an installment of interest on such Security.
"JUDGMENT CURRENCY" has the meaning specified in Section 1.15.
"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, call for redemption or otherwise.
"__________ BANKING DAY" has the meaning specified in Section 1.15.
"OFFICER" means, with respect to any Person, the Chairman of the Board,
the Chief Executive Officer, the President, the Chief Operating Officer, any
Vice President, the Chief Financial Officer, the Chief Accounting Officer, the
Treasurer, any Assistant Treasurer, the Controller, any Assistant Controller,
the Secretary or any Assistant Secretary of such Person.
"OFFICERS' CERTIFICATE" means a certificate signed by any two Officers
of the Company, at least one of whom must be its Chief Executive Officer, its
President, its Chief Financial Officer, its Chief Accounting Officer, its
Treasurer or its Controller, and delivered to the Trustee.
"OPINION OF COUNSEL" means a written opinion of counsel, who may be an
employee of or counsel for the Company, and who shall be reasonably acceptable
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 5.02.
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"OUTSTANDING" when used with respect to Securities or Securities of any
series, means, as of the date of determination, all such Securities theretofore
authenticated and delivered under this Indenture, except:
(i) Securities theretofore canceled by the Trustee or
delivered to the Trustee for cancellation;
(ii) Securities, or portions thereof, for whose payment or
redemption money in the necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the
Trustee or any Paying Agent (other than the Company) in trust or set aside and
segregated in trust by the Company (if the Company shall act as its own Paying
Agent) for the Holders of such Securities; provided that, if such Securities are
to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly given pursuant to this
Indenture or provision therefor reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee has been
made;
(iii) Securities which have been paid as provided herein 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 reasonably
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
(iv) Securities which have been defeased pursuant to Section
13.02;
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 whether
sufficient funds are available for redemption or for any other purpose and for
the purpose of making the calculations required by Section 313 of the Trust
Indenture Act, (a) the principal amount of any Original Issue Discount Security
that shall be deemed to be Outstanding for such purposes shall be that portion
of the principal amount thereof that could be declared to be due and payable
upon the occurrence of an Event of Default and the continuation thereof pursuant
to the terms of such Original Issue Discount Security as of the date of such
determination, (b) the principal amount of a Security denominated in one or more
foreign currencies or currency units shall be the dollar equivalent, determined
in the manner provided as contemplated by Section 3.01 on the date of original
issuance of such Security, of the principal amount (or, in the case of an
Original Issue Discount Security, the dollar equivalent on the date of original
issuance of such Security of the amount determined as provided in (a) above) of
such Security, and (c) Securities owned by the Company or any other obligor upon
the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor shall be
disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining
whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent 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.
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"PAYING AGENT" means any Person authorized by the Company to pay the
principal of, premium, if any, or interest on any Securities on behalf of the
Company. The Company may act as Paying Agent with respect to any Securities
issued hereunder.
"PERSON" means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture,
association, limited liability company, joint-stock company, trust,
unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political subdivision
thereof.
"PLACE OF PAYMENT" when used with respect to the Securities of any
series, means the place or places where the principal of (and premium, if any)
and interest on the Securities of that series are payable as specified as
contemplated by Section 3.01.
"PREDECESSOR SECURITY" of any particular Security means every previous
Security evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such
particular Security and, for the purposes of this definition, any Security
authenticated and delivered under Section 3.06 in exchange for or in lieu of a
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be deemed to evidence the
same debt as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security.
"REDEMPTION DATE" when used with respect to any Security of any series
to be redeemed, means the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this
Indenture.
"REDEMPTION PRICE" when used with respect to any Security of any series
to be redeemed, means the price at which it is to be redeemed pursuant to this
Indenture.
"REGISTERED SECURITY" means any Security issued hereunder and
registered in the Security Register.
"REGULAR RECORD DATE" for the interest payable on any Interest Payment
Date on the Securities of any series means the date specified for that purpose
as contemplated by Section 3.01.
"REQUIRED CURRENCY" has the meaning specified in Section 1.15.
"RESPONSIBLE OFFICER" when used with respect to the Trustee, means any
officer of the Trustee assigned to administer corporate trust matters and also
means, with respect to a particular corporate trust matter, any other officer to
whom such matter is referred because of his or her knowledge of and familiarity
with the particular subject.
"SECURITIES" has the meaning stated in the first recital of this
Indenture and more particularly means any Securities authenticated and delivered
under this Indenture.
"SECURITY REGISTER" and "SECURITY REGISTRAR" have the respective
meanings specified in Section 3.05.
"SIGNIFICANT SUBSIDIARY" of a Person has the meaning ascribed to such
term in Rule 1.02(w) of Regulation S-X under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended.
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"SPECIAL RECORD DATE" for the payment of any Defaulted Interest means a
date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 3.07.
"STATED MATURITY" when used with respect to any Security or any
installment of principal thereof or interest thereon, means the date specified
in such Security as the fixed date on which the principal of such Security or
such installment of principal or interest is due and payable.
"SUBSIDIARY" means, with respect to any Person:
(1) any corporation, association or other business entity
of which more than 50% of the total voting power of shares of Capital Stock
entitled (without regard to the occurrence of any contingency) to vote in the
election of directors, managers or trustees thereof is at the time owned or
controlled, directly or indirectly, by such Person or one or more of the other
Subsidiaries of that Person (or a combination thereof); and
(2) any partnership (a) the sole general partner or the
managing general partner of which is such Person or a Subsidiary of such Person
or (b) the only general partners of which are such Person or one or more
Subsidiaries of such Person (or any combination thereof).
"TRUSTEE" means the Person named as the "Trustee" in the first
paragraph of this instrument until a successor Trustee shall have become such
pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter
"Trustee" shall mean or include each Person who is then a Trustee hereunder, and
if at any time there is more than one such Person, "Trustee" as used with
respect to the Securities of any series shall mean the Trustee with respect to
Securities of that series.
"TRUST INDENTURE ACT" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as
amended, as in force at the date as of which this Indenture was executed;
provided, however, that in the event that such Act is amended after such date,
"Trust Indenture Act" means, to the extent required by any such amendment, the
Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as so amended.
"U.S. GOVERNMENT OBLIGATIONS" means securities which are (i) direct
obligations of the United States of America 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 the timely payment of which is unconditionally guaranteed by the full
faith and credit of the United States of America which, in either case, are not
callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof or otherwise subject
to prepayment, and shall also include a depository receipt issued by a _________
Clearing House bank or trust company as custodian with respect to any such U.S.
Government Obligation, or a specific payment of interest on or principal of any
such U.S. 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 held by the custodian in
respect of the U.S. Government Obligation or
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the specific payment of interest on or principal of the U.S. Government
Obligation evidenced by such depository receipt.
"VICE PRESIDENT" when used with respect to the Company or the Trustee,
means any vice president, whether or not designated by a number or a word or
words added before or after the title "VICE PRESIDENT."
"VOTING STOCK" of any Person as of any date means the Capital Stock of
such Person that is at the time entitled to vote in the election of the Board of
Directors of such Person.
Section 1.02 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 shall include:
(a) a statement that each individual signing such
certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition and the definitions
herein relating thereto;
(b) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the
examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in
such certificate or opinion are based;
(c) a statement that, in the opinion of 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 covenant or
condition has been complied with; and
(d) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each
such individual, such condition or covenant has been complied with.
Section 1.03 FORM OF DOCUMENTS DELIVERED TO TRUSTEE. In any case
where several matters are required to be certified by, or covered by an opinion
of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all such matters be certified
by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such Person, or that they be so
certified or covered by only one document, but one such Person may certify or
give an opinion with respect to some matters and one or more other such Persons
as to other matters, and any such Person may certify or give an opinion as to
such matters in one or several documents.
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Any certificate or opinion of an Officer may be based, insofar as it relates to
legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, counsel,
unless such Officer actually knows that the certificate or opinion or
representations with respect to the matters upon which his certificate or
opinion is based are erroneous. Any such certificate or Opinion of Counsel may
be based, insofar as it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or
opinion of, or representations by, an Officer or Officers of the Company stating
that the information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession
of the Company, unless such counsel actually knows that the certificate or
opinion or representations with respect to such matters are erroneous.
Any certificate, statement or opinion of an Officer of the Company or of counsel
may be based, insofar as it relates to accounting matters, upon a certificate or
opinion of or representations by an accountant or firm of accountants in the
employ of the Company, unless such Officer or counsel, as the case may be,
actually knows that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect
to the accounting matters upon which his or her certificate, statement or
opinion is based are erroneous.
Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more applications,
requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other instruments
under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated and form one
instrument.
Section 1.04 ACTS OF HOLDERS.
(a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction,
notice, consent, waiver or other action provided by this Indenture to be given
or taken by Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments
of substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by agents
duly appointed in writing; and, except as herein otherwise expressly provided,
such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are
delivered to the Trustee and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the
Company. Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and
evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the "ACT" of the Holders
signing such instrument or instruments. Proof of execution of any such
instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any
purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Section 6.01) conclusive in favor of
the Trustee and the Company, if made in the manner provided in this Section.
(b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of
any such instrument or writing may be proved by the affidavit of a witness of
such execution or by a certificate of a notary public or other officer
authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the
individual signing such instrument or writing acknowledged to him the execution
thereof. Where such execution is by a signer acting in a capacity other than his
individual capacity, such certificate or affidavit shall also constitute
sufficient proof of his authority. The fact and date of the execution of any
such instrument or writing, or the authority of the Person executing the same,
may also be proved in any other manner which the Trustee deems sufficient.
(c) The ownership of Registered Securities shall be
proved by the Security Register.
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(d) Any request, demand, authorization, direction,
notice, consent, waiver or other Act of the Holder of any Security shall bind
every future Holder of the same Security and the Holder of every Security issued
upon the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu
thereof in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the
Trustee or the Company in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such
action is made upon such Security.
(e) If the Company shall solicit from the Holders any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act,
the Company may, at its option, by 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, provided that the Company may
not set a record date for, and the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply
with respect to, the giving or making of any notice, declaration, request or
direction referred to in the immediately following paragraph. 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 six months
after the record date.
(f) The Trustee shall set a record date, which shall not
be more than 15 days prior to the date of commencement of solicitation of such
action contemplated by this section 1.04(f), for the purpose of determining the
Holders of Securities of any series entitled to join in the giving or making of
(i) any Notice of Default, (ii) any declaration of acceleration referred to in
Section 5.02, (iii) any direction referred to in Section 5.12, (iv) any request
to institute proceedings referred to in Section 5.07(2) or (v) any waiver of
past defaults pursuant to Section 5.13, in each case with respect to Securities
of such series. If such a record date is fixed pursuant to this paragraph, the
relevant action may be taken or 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 of Securities of a series for the purpose of determining
whether Holders of the requisite proportion of Outstanding Securities of such
series have authorized or agreed or consented to such action, and for that
purpose the Outstanding Securities of such series shall be computed as of such
record date; provided that no such action by Holders on such record date shall
be deemed effective unless it shall become effective pursuant to the provisions
of this Indenture not later than six months after the record date. Nothing in
this paragraph shall be construed to prevent the Trustee from setting a new
record date for any action for which a record date has been set pursuant to this
paragraph (whereupon the record date previously set shall automatically and with
no action by any Person be canceled and of no effect), and nothing in this
paragraph shall be construed to render ineffective any action taken by Holders
of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities of the relevant
series on the date such action is taken. Promptly after any record date is set
pursuant to this paragraph, the Trustee, at the Company's reasonable
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expense, shall cause notice of such record date and the proposed action by
Holders to be given to the Company in writing and to each Holder of Securities
of the relevant series in the manner set forth in Section 1.06.
Section 1.05 NOTICES, ETC., TO TRUSTEE AND COMPANY. Any request,
demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of Holders or
other document provided or permitted by this Indenture to be made upon, given or
furnished to, or filed with,
(a) the Trustee by any Holder or by the Company shall be
sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed in
writing and mailed first-class postage prepaid, to or with the Trustee at
______________________________________________; or
(b) 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 Regent Broadcasting, Inc., Attention: Chief Financial
Officer, or at any other address previously furnished in writing to the Trustee
by the Company.
Section 1.06 NOTICE TO HOLDERS; WAIVER. Where this Indenture or
any Security provides for notice to Holders of any event, such notice shall be
deemed sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein or in such Security expressly
provided) if in writing and mailed, first- class postage prepaid, to each 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 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 or the validity of the proceedings to which
such notice relates.
In case by reason of the suspension of regular mail service or by reason of any
other cause it shall be impracticable to give such notice by mail, then such
notification as shall be made with the approval of the Trustee shall constitute
a sufficient notification for every purpose hereunder.
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 or any Security provides for notice in any manner, such
notice may be waived in writing by the Person entitled to receive such notice,
either before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of
such notice. Waivers of notice by Holders shall be filed with the Trustee, but
such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action
taken in reliance upon such waiver.
Section 1.07 CONFLICT WITH TRUST INDENTURE ACT. If any provision
hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with another provision hereof which is
required to be included or deemed included in this Indenture by any of the
provisions of the Trust Indenture Act, such required provision shall control. If
any provision of this Indenture modifies or excludes any provision of the Trust
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Indenture Act that may be so modified or excluded, such provision of the Trust
Indenture Act shall be deemed to apply to this Indenture as so modified or shall
be excluded, as the case may be.
Section 1.08 EFFECT OF HEADINGS AND TABLE OF CONTENTS. The Article
and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are for convenience only
and shall not affect the construction hereof.
Section 1.09 SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS. All covenants and agreements
in this Indenture by the Company shall bind its successors and assigns, whether
so expressed or not.
Section 1.10 SEPARABILITY CLAUSE. In case any provision in this
Indenture or in the Securities shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the
validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in
any way be affected or impaired thereby.
Section 1.11 BENEFITS OF INDENTURE. Nothing in this Indenture or
in the Securities, express or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the
parties hereto and their successors hereunder and the Holders, any benefit or
any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.
Section 1.12 GOVERNING LAW. This Indenture and the Securities shall be
governed by and construed in accordance with the laws (other than the choice of
law provisions) of the State of _________________.
Section 1.13 LEGAL HOLIDAYS. In any case where any Interest
Payment Date, Redemption 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 of the Securities
other than a provision in the Securities of any series which specifically states
that such provision shall apply in lieu of this Section) payment of interest or
principal (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 or on such other
day as may be set out in the Officers' Certificate pursuant to Section 3.01 at
such Place of Payment with the same force and effect as if made on the Interest
Payment Date, Redemption Date, sinking fund payment date, Stated Maturity or
Maturity, as the case may be, provided that no interest shall accrue on the
amount so payable for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date,
Redemption Date, sinking fund payment date, Stated Maturity or Maturity, as the
case may be, if payment is made on such next succeeding Business Day or other
day set out in such Officers' Certificate.
Section 1.14 NO RECOURSE AGAINST OTHERS. A director, officer,
employee or stockholder, as such, of the Company or any Guarantor (other than a
stockholder which itself is the Company or a Guarantor of the Securities) shall
not have any liability for any obligations of the Company or any Guarantor under
the Securities or this Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of or by
reason of such obligations or their creation. Each Securityholder, by accepting
a Security, waives and releases all such liability. Such waivers and releases
are part of the consideration for the issuance of the Securities.
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Section 1.15 JUDGMENT CURRENCY. The Company agrees, to the fullest
extent that it may effectively do so under applicable law, that (a) if for the
purpose of obtaining judgment in any court it is necessary to convert the sum
due in respect of the principal of, or premium or interest, if any, on the
Securities of any series (the "REQUIRED CURRENCY") into a currency in which a
judgment will be rendered (the "JUDGMENT CURRENCY"), the rate of exchange used
shall be the rate at which in accordance with normal banking procedures the
Trustee could purchase in __________________ the Required Currency with the
Judgment Currency on the ___________ Banking Day preceding that on which a final
unappealable judgment is given and (b) its obligations under this Indenture to
make payments in the Required Currency (i) shall not be discharged or satisfied
by any tender, or any recovery pursuant to any judgment (whether or not entered
in accordance with subsection (a)), in any currency other than the Required
Currency, except to the extent that such tender or recovery shall result in the
actual receipt, by the payee, of the full amount of the Required Currency
expressed to be payable in respect of such payments, (ii) shall be enforceable
as an alternative or additional cause of action for the purpose of recovering in
the Required Currency the amount, if any, by which such actual receipt shall
fall short of the full amount of the Required Currency so expressed to be
payable and (iii) shall not be affected by judgment being obtained for any other
sum due under this Indenture. For purposes of the foregoing, " _______ BANKING
DAY" means any day except a Saturday, Sunday or a legal holiday in __________or
a day on which banking institutions in _____________ are authorized or required
by law or executive order to close.
Section 1.16 COUNTERPARTS. This instrument may be executed in any
number of counterparts, each of which so executed shall be deemed to be an
original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the
same instrument.
ARTICLE 2
SECURITY FORMS
Section 2.01 FORMS GENERALLY. The Securities of each series shall
be in substantially the form set forth in this Article, or in such other form as
shall be established by or pursuant to a Board Resolution or in one or more
indentures supplemental hereto, in each case with such appropriate insertions,
omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by
this Indenture, and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of
identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may be
required to comply with the rules of any securities exchange or as may,
consistently herewith, be determined by the Officers executing such Securities,
as evidenced by their execution of the Securities. If the form of Securities of
any series is established by action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution, a copy
of an appropriate record of such action shall be certified by the Secretary or
an Assistant Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior
to the delivery of the Company Order contemplated by Section 3.03 for the
authentication and delivery of such Securities.
The definitive Securities shall be printed, lithographed or engraved on
steel engraved borders or may be produced in any other manner, all as determined
by the officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution of
such Securities.
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Section 2.02 FORM OF FACE OF SECURITY.
REGENT BROADCASTING , INC.
-----------------------
No. _______ [$]________
Regent Broadcasting, Inc., a corporation duly organized and existing under the
laws of Delaware (herein called the "COMPANY," which term includes any successor
corporation under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received,
hereby promises to pay to _______________, or registered assigns, the principal
sum of _______________ [Dollars] on _______________ [if the Security is to bear
interest prior to Maturity, insert-- and to pay interest thereon from
_______________ or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest
has been paid or duly provided for, semi-annually on _______________ and
_______________ in each year [if other than semi-annual payments, insert
frequency of payments and payment dates], commencing _____________________, at
[if the Security is to bear interest at a fixed rate, insert -- the rate of
_____% per annum], [if the Security is to bear interest at a variable or
floating rate and if determined with reference to an index, refer to description
of index below] until the principal hereof is paid or made available for payment
[if applicable insert--, and (to the extent that the payment of such interest
shall be legally enforceable) at the rate of _____% per annum on any overdue
principal and premium and on any overdue installment of interest]. The interest
so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment
Date will, as provided in such Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name
this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close
of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be the
__________ or __________ (whether or not a Business Day), as the case may be,
next preceding such Interest Payment Date. Any such interest not so punctually
paid or duly provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on
such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this
Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of
business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to
be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities
of this series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be
paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the
requirements of any securities exchange on which the Securities of this series
may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as
more fully provided in said Indenture].
[If the Securities are floating or adjustable rate securities with respect to
which the principal of or any premium or interest may be determined with
reference to an index, insert the text of the floating or adjustable rate
provision.]
[If the Security is not to bear interest prior to Maturity, insert-- The
principal of this Security shall not bear interest except in the case of a
default in payment of principal upon acceleration, upon redemption or at Stated
Maturity and in such case the overdue principal of this Security shall bear
interest at the rate of _____% per annum (to the extent that the payment of such
interest shall be legally enforceable), which shall accrue from the date of such
default in payment to the date payment of such principal has been made or duly
provided for. Interest on any
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overdue principal shall be payable on demand. Any such interest on any overdue
principal that is not so paid on demand shall bear interest at the rate of
_____% per annum (to the extent that the payment of such interest shall be
legally enforceable), which shall accrue from the date of such demand for
payment to the date payment of such interest has been made or duly provided for,
and such interest shall also be payable on demand.]
Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and [if applicable,
insert--any such] interest on this Security will be made at the office or agency
of the Company maintained for that purpose in _______________, in dollars [if
applicable, insert--; provided, however, that at the option of the Company,
payment of interest may be made by check mailed to the address of the Person
entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security Register].
[If applicable, insert-- So long as all of the Securities of this series are
represented by Securities in global form, the principal of, premium, if any, and
interest, if any, on this global Security shall be paid in same day funds to the
Depositary, or to such name or entity as is requested by an authorized
representative of the Depositary. If at any time the Securities of this series
are no longer represented by global Securities and are issued in definitive
certificated form, then the principal of, premium, if any, and interest, if any,
on each certificated Security at Maturity shall be paid in same day funds to the
Holder upon surrender of such certificated Security at the Corporate Trust
Office of the Trustee, or at such other place or places as may be designated in
or pursuant to the Indenture, provided that such certificated Security is
surrendered to the Trustee, or at such other place or places as may be
designated in or pursuant to the Indenture, provided that such certificated
Security is surrendered to the Trustee, acting as Paying Agent, in time for the
Paying Agent to make such payments in such funds in accordance with its normal
procedures. Payments of interest with respect to such certificated Securities
other than at Maturity may, at the option of the Company, be made by check
mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as it appears on the
Security Register on the relevant Regular or Special Record Date or by wire
transfer in same day funds to such account as may have been appropriately
designated to the Paying Agent by such Person in writing not later than such
relevant Regular or Special Record Date.]
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Security set forth on
the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the
same effect as if set forth at this place.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee
referred to on the reverse hereof by manual signature, this Security shall not
be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any
purpose.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly
executed under its corporate seal.
REGENT BROADCASTING, INC.
By: _________________________________________
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Attest:
__________________ [SEAL]
200_
Section 2.03 FORM OF REVERSE OF SECURITY.
This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company
(herein called the "SECURITIES"), issued and to be issued in one or more series
under an Indenture, dated as of _______________, 200_ (herein called the
"INDENTURE"), between the Company and ____________________, as Trustee (herein
called the "TRUSTEE," which term includes any successor trustee under the
Indenture), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference
is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights,
duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of
the Securities and of the terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be,
authenticated and delivered. This Security is one of the series designated on
the face hereof [, limited in aggregate principal amount to $_________].
[If applicable, insert-- The Securities of this series are subject to redemption
upon not less than 30 nor more than 60 days' notice by first class mail, [if
applicable, insert-- (1) on __________ in any year commencing with the year
__________ and ending with the year __________ through operation of the sinking
fund for this series at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of the principal
amount, and (2)] at any time [on or after __________, _____], as a whole or in
part, at the election of the Company, at the following Redemption Prices
(expressed as percentages of the principal amount):
If redeemed [on or before _______________, _____%, and if redeemed]
during the 12-month period beginning _______________ of the years indicated,
REDEMPTION
YEAR PRICE
---- ----------
and thereafter at a Redemption Price equal to _____% of the principal amount,
together in the case of any such redemption [if applicable, insert-- (whether
through operation of the sinking fund or otherwise)] with accrued and unpaid
interest to the Redemption Date, but interest installments whose Stated Maturity
is on or prior to such Redemption Date will be payable to the Holders of such
Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities, of record at the close of
business on the relevant Record Dates referred to on the face hereof, all as
provided in the Indenture.]
[If applicable, insert-- The Securities of this series are subject to redemption
upon not less than 30 nor more than 60 days' notice by first class mail, (1) on
_______________ in any year commencing with the year __________ and ending with
the year __________ through operation of the sinking fund for this series at the
Redemption Prices for redemption through operation of
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the sinking fund (expressed as percentages of the principal amount) set forth in
the table below, and (2) at any time [on or after __________], as a whole or in
part, at the election of the Company, at the Redemption Prices for redemption
otherwise than through operation of the sinking fund (expressed as percentages
of the principal amount) set forth in the table below:
If redeemed during a 12-month period beginning _________________ of the
years indicated,
REDEMPTION PRICE REDEMPTION PRICE FOR
FOR REDEMPTION REDEMPTION OTHERWISE
THROUGH OPERATION OF THAN THROUGH OPERATION
THE SINKING FUND OF THE SINKING FUND YEAR
-------------------- ----------------------- ----
and thereafter at a Redemption Price equal to _____% of the principal amount,
together in the case of any such redemption (whether through operation of the
sinking fund or otherwise) with accrued and unpaid interest to the Redemption
Date, but interest installments whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to such
Redemption Date will be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or
more Predecessor Securities, of record at the close of business on the relevant
Record Dates referred to on the face hereof, all as provided in the Indenture.]
[Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may not, prior to __________, redeem
any Securities of this series as contemplated by [clause (2) of] the preceding
paragraph as a part of, or in anticipation of, any refunding operation by the
application, directly or indirectly, of moneys borrowed having an interest cost
to the Company (calculated in accordance with generally accepted financial
practice) of less than _____% per annum.]
[The sinking fund for this series provides for the redemption on ___________ in
each year beginning with the year _____ and ending with the year _____ of [not
less than] $_______________ [("MANDATORY SINKING FUND") and not more than
$____________] aggregate principal amount of Securities of this series.]
[Securities of this series acquired or redeemed by the Company otherwise than
through [mandatory] sinking fund payments may be credited against subsequent
[mandatory] sinking fund payments otherwise required to be made--in the inverse
order in which they become due.]
[In the event of redemption of this Security in part only, a new Security or
Securities of this series for the unredeemed portion hereof will be issued in
the name of the Holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof.]
[If the Security is not an Original Issue Discount Security, insert-- If any
Event of Default with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and be
continuing, the principal of the Securities of this series may be declared due
and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.]
[If the Security is an Original Issue Discount Security, insert-- If an Event of
Default with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and be continuing,
an amount of principal of the
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Securities of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with
the effect provided in the Indenture. Such amount shall be equal --insert
formula for determining the amount. Upon payment (i) of the amount of principal
so declared due and payable and (ii) of interest on any overdue principal and
overdue interest (in each case to the extent that the payment of such interest
shall be legally enforceable), all of the Company's obligations in respect of
the payment of the principal of and interest, if any, on the Securities of this
series shall terminate.]
[This Security is subject to defeasance and covenant defeasance as described in
the Indenture [if applicable, insert -- and the supplemental indenture].]
[This Security is subject to satisfaction and discharge as provided in the
Indenture [if applicable, insert -- and the supplemental indenture].]
The Indenture may be modified by the Company and the Trustee without consent of
any Holder with respect to certain matters as described in the Indenture. In
addition, the Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided,
the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the
Company and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be
affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the
consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities at
the time Outstanding of each series to be affected. The Indenture also contains
provisions permitting the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the
Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of
all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company with certain
provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and
their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security
shall bind such Holder and all future Holders of this Security and of any
Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof
or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made
upon this Security.
No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security or of the
Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute
and unconditional, to pay the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on
this Security at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein
prescribed.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set
forth, the transfer of this Security is registrable in the Security Register,
upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the office or
agency of the Company in any place where the principal of (and premium, if any)
and interest on this Security are payable, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a
written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the
Security Registrar duly executed by the Holder hereof or his attorney duly
authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities of this series,
of authorized denominations and for the same Stated Maturity and aggregate
principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.
The Securities of this series are issuable only in registered form without
coupons in denominations of [$1,000] and any integral multiple thereof. As
provided in the Indenture and
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subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Securities of this series are
exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Securities of this series
of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering
the same.
No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or
exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any
tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.
Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of transfer, the
Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the
Person in whose name this Security is registered as the owner hereof for all
purposes, whether or not this Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the
Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
The Indenture imposes certain limitations on the ability of the Company to,
among other things, merge or consolidate with any other Person or sell, assign,
transfer or lease all or substantially all of its properties or assets [If other
covenants are applicable pursuant to the provisions of Section 3.01, insert
here]. All such covenants and limitations are subject to a number of important
qualifications and exceptions. The Company must report periodically to the
Trustee on compliance with the covenants in the Indenture.
A director, officer, employee or stockholder, as such, of the Company shall not
have any liability for any obligations of the Company under this Security or the
Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of or by reason of, such
obligations or their creation. Each Holder, by accepting a Security, waives and
releases all such liability. The waiver and release are part of the
consideration for the issuance of this Security.
[If applicable, insert -- A director, officer, employee or stockholder, as such,
of the Guarantor shall not have any liability for any obligations of the Company
or such Guarantor under this Security or the Indenture [if applicable, insert --
or the supplemental indenture] or for any claim based on, in respect of or by
reason of, such obligations or their creation. Each Holder, by accepting a
Security, waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and release are
part of the consideration for the issuance of this Security.]
[If applicable, insert -- This Security will be entitled to the benefits of
certain Guarantees made for the benefit of the Holders. Reference is hereby made
to the Indenture and the supplemental indenture for a statement of the
respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and obligations thereunder of
the Guarantors, if any, the Trustee and the Holders.]
[If applicable, insert-- Pursuant to a recommendation promulgated by the
Committee on Uniform Security Identification Procedures ("CUSIP"), the Company
has caused CUSIP numbers to be printed on the Securities of this series as a
convenience to the Holders of the Securities of this series. No representation
is made as to the correctness or accuracy of such numbers as printed on the
Securities of this series and reliance may be placed only on the other
identification numbers printed hereon.]
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All terms used in this Security which are defined in the Indenture
shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.
ASSIGNMENT FORM
To assign this Security, fill in the form below: (I) or (we) assign and
transfer this Security to
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(Insert assignee's social security or tax I.D. number)
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(Print or type assignee's name, address and zip code)
and irrevocably appoint ___________________________________ agent to transfer
this Security on the books of the Company. The agent may substitute another to
act for him.
Dated: __________ Your Signature:_____________________________
(Sign exactly as your name appears on
the other side of this Security)
Signature Guaranty: ________________________________________________
[Signatures must be guaranteed by an
"eligible guarantor institution" meeting the
requirements of the Transfer Agent, which
requirements will include membership or
participation in STAMP or such other
"signature guarantee program" as may be
determined by the Transfer Agent in addition
to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in
accordance with the Exchange Act.]
Social Security Number or
Taxpayer Identification Number: _______________________________________
Section 2.04 FORM OF TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION. The
Trustee's Certificate of authentication shall be in substantially the following
form:
Dated: _______________
This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred
to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
________________________
As Trustee
By _____________________
Authorized Signatory
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Section 2.05 SECURITIES IN GLOBAL FORM. If Securities of or within
a series are issuable in whole or in part in global form, then any such Security
of such series may provide that it shall represent the aggregate or a specified
amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series from time to time endorsed
thereon and may also provide that the aggregate amount of Outstanding Securities
of such series represented thereby may from time to time be reduced or increased
to reflect exchanges. Any endorsement of a Security in global form to reflect
the amount, or any increase or decrease in the amount, or changes in the rights
of Holders, of Outstanding Securities represented thereby shall be made 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 3.03 or Section 3.04. Subject to the provisions of Section
3.03 and, if applicable, Section 3.04, 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 3.03 or 3.04 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 1.02 and need not be accompanied by an Opinion of
Counsel.
The provisions of the last paragraph of Section 3.03 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 1.02 and need not be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel) with regard
to the reduction in the principal amount of Securities represented thereby.
Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 2.01 and 3.07, unless otherwise
specified as contemplated by Section 3.01, payment of principal of and premium,
if any, and interest on any Security in permanent global form shall be made to
the Person or Persons specified therein.
Section 2.06 FORM OF LEGEND FOR THE SECURITIES IN GLOBAL FORM. Any
Security in global form authenticated and delivered hereunder shall bear a
legend in substantially the following form, or in such other form as may be
necessary or appropriate to reflect the arrangements with or to comply with the
requirements of any Depositary:
"THIS SECURITY IS IN GLOBAL FORM WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE
INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE
NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITARY. UNLESS AND
UNTIL IT IS EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR SECURITIES IN
CERTIFICATED FORM IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN
THE INDENTURE, THIS SECURITY MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS
A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY
A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER
NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY THE
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DEPOSITARY OR ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY OR A
NOMINEE OF SUCH SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY."
ARTICLE 3
THE SECURITIES
Section 3.01 AMOUNT UNLIMITED; ISSUABLE IN SERIES. The aggregate
principal amount of Securities which may be authenticated and delivered under
this Indenture is unlimited.
The Securities may be issued from time to time in one or more series.
Prior to the issuance of Securities of any series, there shall be established in
or pursuant to (i) a Board Resolution, (ii) action taken pursuant to a Board
Resolution and (subject to Section 3.03) set forth, or determined in the manner
provided, in an Officers' Certificate, or (iii) one or more indentures
supplemental hereto:
(1) the title of the Securities of the series (which shall
distinguish the Securities of the series from all other Securities);
(2) the purchase price, denomination and any limit upon
the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of the series which may be
authenticated and delivered under this Indenture (except for Securities
authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange
for, or in lieu of, other Securities of the series pursuant to Sections 3.04,
3.05, 3.06, 9.06 or 11.07);
(3) the date or dates on which the principal of and premium,
if any, on the Securities of the series is payable or the method of
determination thereof;
(4) the rate or rates at which the Securities of the
series shall bear interest, if any, or the method of calculating such rate or
rates of interest, 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 any such interest shall be payable and the Regular Record Date,
if any, for the interest payable on any Interest Payment Date;
(5) the place or places where the principal of, premium, if
any, and interest, if any, on Securities of the series shall be payable;
(6) the place or places where the Securities may be exchanged
or transferred;
(7) the period or periods within which, the price or prices
at which, the currency or currencies (including currency unit or units) in
which, and the other terms and conditions upon which Securities of the series
may be redeemed, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company, and, if
other than as provided in Section 11.03, the manner in which the particular
Securities of such series (if less than all Securities of such series are to be
redeemed) are to be selected for redemption;
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(8) the obligation, if any, of the Company to redeem or
purchase Securities of the series in whole or in part pursuant to any sinking
fund or analogous provisions or upon the happening of a specified event or at
the option of a Holder thereof and the period or periods within which, the price
or prices at which, and the other terms and conditions upon which Securities of
the series shall be redeemed or purchased, in whole or in part, pursuant to such
obligation;
(9) if other than denominations of $1,000 and any
integral multiple thereof, the denominations in which Securities of the series
shall be issuable;
(10) if other than U.S. dollars, the currency or
currencies (including currency unit or units) in which payments of principal of,
premium, if any, and interest on the Securities of the series shall or may by
payable, or in which the Securities of the series shall be denominated, and the
particular provisions applicable thereto;
(11) if the payments of principal of, premium, if any, or
interest on the Securities of the series are to be made, at the election of the
Company or a Holder, in a currency or currencies (including currency unit or
units) other than that in which such Securities are denominated or designated to
be payable, the currency or currencies (including currency unit or units) in
which such payments are to be made, the terms and conditions of such payments
and the manner in which the exchange rate with respect to such payments shall be
determined, and the particular provisions applicable thereto;
(12) if the amount of payments of principal of, premium,
if any, and interest on the Securities of the series shall be determined with
reference to an index, formula or other method (which index, formula or method
may be based, without limitation, on a currency or currencies (including
currency unit or units) other than that in which the Securities of the series
are denominated or designated to be payable), the index, formula or other method
by which such amounts shall be determined;
(13) if other than the principal amount thereof, the
portion of the principal amount of Securities of the series which shall be
payable upon declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to
Section 5.02 or the method by which such portion shall be determined;
(14) any modifications of or additions to the Events of
Default or the covenants of the Company set forth herein with respect to
Securities of the series; and whether and the conditions under which the Holders
of the Securities of the series may waive any such Event of Default or
compliance with any such covenant relating to the Securities of such series;
(15) if either or both of Section 13.02 and Section 13.03
shall be inapplicable, in whole or in part, to the Securities of the series
(provided that if no such inapplicability shall be specified, then both Section
13.02 and Section 13.03 shall be applicable to the Securities of the series);
and any modification to either such section as it relates to such series of
Securities;
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(16) if other than the Trustee, the identity of the Registrar
and any Paying Agent;
(17) if the Securities of the series shall be issued in
whole or in part in global form, (i) the Depositary for such global Securities,
(ii) the form of any legend in addition to or in lieu of that in Section 2.06
which shall be borne by such global Security, (iii) whether beneficial owners of
interests in any Securities of the series in global form may exchange such
interests for certificated Securities of such series and of like tenor of any
authorized form and denomination, and (iv) if other than as provided in Section
3.05, the circumstances under which any such exchange may occur;
(18) if the Holders of the Securities of the series may
convert or exchange the Securities of the series into or for securities of the
Company or of other entities or other property (or the cash value thereof), the
specific terms of and period during which such conversion or exchange may be
made;
(19) if the Securities of the series shall have the
benefits of any Guarantee and, if so, the identity of the Guarantor or
Guarantors and the terms and provisions applicable to any such Guarantee;
(20) any provisions for the satisfaction and discharge of
the Securities of the series, including provisions in addition to or modifying
the provisions of Article 4 as they pertain to Securities of the series;
(21) any addition to or change in the covenants set forth in
Article 10 which applies to Securities of the series; and
(22) any other terms of the series, including any terms
which may be required by or advisable under the laws of the United States of
America or regulations thereunder or advisable (as determined by the Company) in
connection with the marketing of Securities of the series.
All Securities of any one series shall be substantially identical except as to
denomination and except as may otherwise be provided (i) by a Board Resolution,
(ii) by action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution and (subject to Section
3.03) set forth, or determined in the manner provided, in an Officers'
Certificate or (iii) 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 a Board Resolution, a copy of an appropriate record of such
action shall be certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the
Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the
Officers' Certificate setting forth, or providing the manner for determining,
the terms of the Securities of such series, and an appropriate record of any
action taken pursuant
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thereto in connection with the issuance of any Securities of such series shall
be delivered to the Trustee prior to the authentication and delivery thereof.
Section 3.02 DENOMINATIONS. The Securities of each series shall be
issuable in registered form without coupons in such denominations as shall be
specified as contemplated by Section 3.01. In the absence of any such provisions
with respect to the Securities of any series, the Securities of such series
shall be issuable in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof.
Section 3.03 EXECUTION, AUTHENTICATION, DELIVERY AND DATING. The
Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its Chairman of the
Board, its Chief Executive Officer, its President, its Chief Financial Officer,
or its Chief Accounting Officer attested by its Secretary or one of its
Assistant Secretaries. The signature of any of these officers on the Securities
may be manual or facsimile. Typographical and other minor errors or defects in
any such reproduction of the seal or any such signature shall not affect the
validity or enforceability of any Security that has been duly authenticated and
delivered by the Trustee.
Securities bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were at
any time the proper officers of the Company shall bind the Company,
notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such
offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Securities or did not
hold such offices at the date of such Securities.
At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this
Indenture, the Company may deliver Securities of any series executed by the
Company to the Trustee for authentication, together with a Company Order for the
authentication and delivery of such Securities, and the Trustee in accordance
with the Company Order shall authenticate and make such Securities available for
delivery. If the form or terms of the Securities of the series have been
established in or pursuant to one or more Board Resolutions as permitted by
Sections 2.01 and 3.01, in authenticating such Securities, and accepting the
additional responsibilities under this Indenture in relation to such Securities,
the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to Sections 315(a)
through (d) of the Trust Indenture Act) shall be fully protected in relying
upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating (subject to customary assumptions,
conditions and exceptions):
(a) if the terms of such Securities have been established
by or pursuant to Board Resolution as permitted by Section 3.01, that such terms
have been established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture; and
(b) that such Securities, when authenticated and
delivered by the Trustee and issued by the Company in the manner and subject to
any conditions specified in such Opinion of Counsel, will constitute valid and
legally binding obligations of the Company, enforceable in accordance with their
terms, except to the extent enforceability may be limited by applicable
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance and
other similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors' rights generally and
by the effect of general principles of equity (regardless of whether
enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law).
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If such 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 or immunities under the
Securities and this Indenture or otherwise in a manner which is not reasonably
acceptable to the Trustee, or in the written opinion of counsel to the Trustee
(which counsel may be an employee of the Trustee) such authentication may not
lawfully be made or would involve the Trustee in personal liability.
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 3.01 and of the immediately preceding
paragraph, if all Securities of a series are not to be originally issued at one
time, it shall not be necessary to deliver the Board Resolution and the
Officers' Certificate otherwise required pursuant to Section 3.01 or the Company
Order and Opinion of Counsel otherwise required pursuant to the second preceding
paragraph at or prior to the time of authentication of each Security of such
series if such documents are delivered at or prior to the authentication upon
original issuance of the first Security of such series to be issued.
If the Company shall establish pursuant to Section 3.01 that the Securities of a
series are to be issued in whole or in part in the form of one or more global
Securities, then the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall, in accordance
with this Section and the Company Order with respect to the authentication and
delivery of such series, authenticate and deliver one or more Securities of such
series in global form that (i) shall be in an aggregate amount equal to the
aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series to be
represented by such Security or Securities in global form, (ii) shall be
registered in the name of the Depositary for such Security or Securities in
global form or its nominee, and (iii) shall be made available for delivery by
the Trustee to such Depositary or pursuant to such Depositary's instruction.
The Trustee shall have no responsibility to determine if the Depositary is so
registered. Each Depositary shall enter into an agreement with the Trustee and
the Company governing the respective duties and rights of such Depositary, the
Company and the Trustee with regard to Securities issued in global form.
Unless otherwise provided for in the form of Security, each Security shall be
dated the date of its authentication.
No Security shall be entitled to any benefits under this Indenture or be valid
or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on such Security a
certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein
executed by the Trustee or an Authenticating Agent by manual signature, 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 3.09 together with a written statement (which need not comply with
Section 1.02 and need not be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel) stating that
such Security has never been issued and sold by the Company,
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for all purposes of this Indenture such Security shall be deemed never to have
been authenticated and delivered hereunder and shall not be entitled to the
benefits of this Indenture.
Section 3.04 TEMPORARY SECURITIES. Pending the preparation of
definitive Securities of any series, the Company may execute, and upon Company
Order the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery, temporary
Securities of such series 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 and with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and
other variations as the officers executing such Securities may determine, as
evidenced by their execution of such Securities.
In the case of Securities of any series, such temporary Securities may be in
global form, representing all or a portion of the Outstanding Securities of such
series.
Except in the case of temporary Securities in global form (which shall be
exchanged in accordance with the provisions thereof), if temporary Securities of
any series are issued, the Company will cause definitive Securities of that
series to be prepared without unreasonable delay. After the preparation of
definitive Securities of such series, the temporary Securities of such series
shall be exchangeable for definitive Securities of such series upon surrender of
the temporary Securities of such series at the office or agency of the Company
in a Place of Payment for that series, without charge to the Holder. Upon
surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Securities of any
series, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and make
available for delivery in exchange therefor a like principal amount of
definitive Securities of the same series of authorized denominations and of like
tenor. 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.
Section 3.05 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 to be maintained by the Company in accordance with
Section 10.02 in a Place of Payment a register (the register maintained in such
office and in any other office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment
being herein sometimes collectively referred to as the "SECURITY REGISTER") in
which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company
shall provide for the registration of Securities and of registration of
transfers of Securities. The Trustee is hereby appointed "SECURITY REGISTRAR"
for the purpose of registering Securities and transfers of Securities as herein
provided.
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Security of any series at the
office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment for that series, the
Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for
delivery, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more
new Securities of the same series, of any authorized denominations and of a like
aggregate principal amount and Stated Maturity.
At the option of the Holder, Securities of any series (except a Security in
global form) may be exchanged for other Securities of the same series, of any
authorized denominations and of a like
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aggregate principal amount and Stated Maturity, upon surrender of the Securities
to be exchanged at such office or agency. Whenever any Securities are so
surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall
authenticate and make available for delivery, the Securities which the Holder
making the exchange is entitled to receive.
Each Security issued in global form authenticated under this Indenture shall be
registered in the name of the Depositary designated for such series or a nominee
thereof and delivered to such Depositary or a nominee thereof or custodian
therefor, and each such Security issued in global form shall constitute a single
Security for all purposes of this Indenture.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section, unless and until it is
exchanged in whole or in part for Securities in certificated form in the
circumstances described below, a Security in global form representing all or a
portion of the Securities of a series may not be transferred except as a whole
by the Depositary for such series to a nominee of such Depositary or by a
nominee of such Depositary to such Depositary or another nominee of such
Depositary or by such Depositary or any such nominee to a successor Depositary
for such series or a nominee of such successor Depositary.
If at any time the Depositary for the Securities of a series notifies the
Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for the
Securities of such series or defaults in the performance of its duties as
Depositary or it at any time the Depositary for the Securities of such series
shall no longer be eligible to perform such duties, the Company shall appoint a
successor Depositary with respect to the Securities of such series. If a
successor Depositary for the Securities of such series is not appointed by the
Company within 90 days after the Company receives such notice or becomes aware
of such ineligibility, the Company's selection pursuant to Section 3.01(b)(17)
shall no longer be effective with respect to the Securities of such series and
the Company shall execute, and the Trustee, upon receipt of a Company Order for
the authentication and delivery of certificated Securities of such series of
like tenor, shall authenticate and deliver Securities of such series of like
tenor in certificated form, in authorized denominations and in an aggregate
principal amount equal to the principal amount of the Security or Securities of
such series of like tenor in global form in exchange for such Security or
Securities in global form.
The Company may at any time in its sole discretion determine that Securities
issued in global form shall no longer be represented by such a Security or
Securities in global form. In such event the Company shall execute, and the
Trustee, upon receipt of a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of
certificated Securities of such series of like tenor, shall authenticate and
deliver, Securities of such series of like tenor in certificated form, in
authorized denominations and in an aggregate principal amount equal to the
principal amount of the Security or Securities of such series of like tenor in
global form in exchange for such Security or Securities in global form.
If specified by the Company pursuant to Section 3.01 with respect to a series of
Securities, the Depositary for such series may surrender a Security in global
form of such series in exchange in whole or in part for Securities of such
series in certificated form on such terms as are acceptable
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to the Company and such Depositary. Thereupon, the Company shall execute, and
the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, without service charge,
(i) to each Person specified by such Depositary a new
certified Security or Securities of the same series of like tenor, of any
authorized denomination as requested by such Person in aggregate principal
amount equal to and in exchange for such Person's beneficial interest in the
Security in global form; and
(ii) to such Depositary a new Security in global form of
like tenor in a denomination equal to the difference, if any, between the
principal amount of the surrendered Security in global form and the aggregate
principal amount of certificated Securities delivered to Holders thereof.
Upon the exchange of a Security in global form for Securities in certificated
form, such Security in global form shall be canceled by the Trustee. Securities
issued in exchange for a Security in global form pursuant to this Section shall
be registered in such names and in such authorized denominations as the
Depositary for such Security in global form, pursuant to instructions from its
direct or indirect participants or otherwise, shall instruct the Trustee. The
Trustee shall deliver such Securities to the Persons in whose names such
Securities are so registered.
Whenever any Securities are surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute,
and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Securities which the Holder
making the exchange is entitled to receive.
All Securities issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of
Securities shall be the valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same
debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Securities
surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.
Every Security presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or for
exchange shall (if so required by the Company or the Trustee) be duly endorsed,
or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to
the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed by the Holder thereof or
his attorney duly authorized in writing.
Unless otherwise provided in the Securities to be transferred or exchanged, no
service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of
Securities, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any
tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any
registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, other than exchanges
pursuant to Section 3.04, 9.06 or 11.07 not involving any transfer.
If the Securities of any series (or of any series and specified tenor) are to be
redeemed in part, the Company shall not be required (i) to issue, register the
transfer of or exchange Securities of such series during a period beginning at
the opening of business 15 days before the day of the mailing of a notice of
redemption of Securities of that series selected for redemption under Section
11.03 and ending at the close of business on the day of such mailing, or (ii) to
register the transfer of or exchange any Security so selected for redemption, in
whole or in part, except the unredeemed portion of any Security being redeemed
in part.
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The foregoing provisions relating to registration, transfer and exchange may be
modified, supplemented or superseded with respect to any series of Securities by
a Board Resolution or in one or more indentures supplemental hereto.
Section 3.06 MUTILATED, DESTROYED, LOST AND STOLEN SECURITIES. If
any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee, the Company shall execute
and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a new
Security of the same series and of like tenor and principal amount and bearing a
number not contemporaneously outstanding.
If there shall be delivered to the Company and the Trustee (i) evidence to their
satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Security and (ii) such
security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them and any
agent of either of them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Company
or the Trustee that such Security has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser,
the Company shall execute and upon its request the Trustee shall authenticate
and deliver, in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen Security, a new
Security of the same series and of like tenor and principal amount and bearing a
number not contemporaneously outstanding.
In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security has become or is
about to become due and payable, the Company in its discretion may, instead of
issuing a new Security, pay such Security.
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 issued pursuant to this Section in lieu of any
destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall constitute an original additional
contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or
stolen Security shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be
entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with
any and all other Securities of that series duly issued hereunder.
The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent
lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement or payment
of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities.
Section 3.07 PAYMENT OF INTEREST; INTEREST RIGHTS PRESERVED.
Interest on any Security which is payable, and is punctually paid or duly
provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the Person in whose
name that Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the
close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest.
Any interest on any Security of any series which is payable, but is not
punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date (herein
called "DEFAULTED INTEREST") shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder
on the relevant Regular Record Date by virtue of having been
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such Holder, and such Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Company, at its
election in each case, as provided in Clause (1) or (2) below:
(1) The Company may elect to make payment of any
Defaulted Interest to the Persons in whose names the Securities of such series
(or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of
business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest,
which shall be fixed in the following manner. The Company shall notify the
Trustee in writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on
each Security of such series and the date of the proposed payment (which shall
be not less than 25 days after the receipt by the Trustee of such notice, unless
such Trustee shall consent to an earlier date), and at the same time the Company
shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount
proposed to be paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest or shall make
arrangements reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit prior to
the date of the proposed payment, such money when deposited to be held in trust
for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted Interest as in this
Clause provided. Thereupon the Trustee shall fix a Special Record Date for the
payment of such Defaulted Interest which shall be not more than 15 days and not
less than 10 days prior to the date of the proposed payment and not less than 10
days after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the proposed payment. The
Trustee shall promptly notify the Company of such Special Record Date and, in
the name and at the reasonable expense of the Company, shall cause notice of the
proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor
to be mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder of Securities of such
series at his address as it appears in the Security Register, not less than 10
days prior to such Special Record Date. Notice of the proposed payment of such
Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor having been so mailed,
such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Persons in whose names the
Securities 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).
(2) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted
Interest on the 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 (2), such manner of payment shall be deemed
practicable by the Trustee.
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section, each Security delivered
under this Indenture upon registration of transfer of or in exchange for or in
lieu of any other Security shall carry the rights to interest accrued and
unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other Security.
Section 3.08 PERSONS DEEMED OWNERS. Prior to due presentment of a
Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of
the Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name such Security is
registered as the owner of such Security for the purpose of receiving payment of
principal of, premium, if any, and (subject to Sections 3.05 and 3.07) interest
on such Security and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such
Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any agent of the
Company or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
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None of the Company, the Trustee or any agent of the Company or the Trustee
shall have any responsibility or liability for any aspect of the records
relating to or payments made on account of beneficial ownership interest of a
Security in global form, or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any
records relating to such beneficial ownership interest. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, with respect to any Security in global form, nothing herein shall
prevent the Company or 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 (or its nominee), as a Holder, with respect to such
Security in global form or impair, as between such Depositary and owners of
beneficial interests in such Security in global form, the operation of customary
practices governing the exercise of the right of such Depositary (or its
nominee) as holder of such Security in global form.
Section 3.09 CANCELLATION. All Securities surrendered for payment,
redemption, registration of transfer or exchange or for credit against any
sinking fund payment shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee,
be delivered to the Trustee and shall be promptly canceled by it. The Company
may at any time deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any Securities
previously authenticated and delivered hereunder which the Company may have
acquired in any manner whatsoever, and all Securities so delivered shall be
promptly canceled by the Trustee. No Securities shall be authenticated in lieu
of or in exchange for any Securities canceled as provided in this Section,
except as expressly permitted by this Indenture. All canceled Securities shall
be held by the Trustee and may be destroyed (and, if so destroyed, certification
of their destruction shall be delivered to the Company, unless, by a Company
Order, the Company shall direct that canceled Securities be returned to it).
Section 3.10 COMPUTATION OF INTEREST. Except as otherwise
specified as contemplated by Section 3.01 for Securities of any series, interest
on the Securities of each series shall be computed on the basis of a year of
twelve 30-day months.
Section 3.11 CUSIP NUMBER. The Company in issuing Securities of
any series may use a "CUSIP" number, and if so, the Trustee may use the CUSIP
number in notices of redemption or exchange as a convenience to Holders of such
series; provided, that any such notice may state that no representation is made
as to the correctness or accuracy of the CUSIP number printed on the notice or
on the Securities of such series, and that reliance may be placed only on the
other identification numbers printed on the Securities, and any such redemption
shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of such numbers. The Company
will promptly notify the Trustee of any change in the CUSIP number of any series
of Securities.
Section 3.12 WIRE TRANSFERS. Notwithstanding any other provision
to the contrary in this Indenture, the Company may make any payment of moneys
required to be deposited with the Trustee on account of principal of, or
premium, if any, or interest on the Securities (whether pursuant to optional or
mandatory redemption payments, interest payments or otherwise) by wire transfer
of immediately available funds to an account designated by the Trustee on or
before the date and time such moneys are to be paid to the Holders of the
Securities in accordance with the terms hereof.
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ARTICLE 4
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
Section 4.01 SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE. This
Indenture shall cease to be of further effect (except as to any surviving rights
of registration of transfer or exchange of Securities and replacement of such
Securities which may have been lost, stolen or mutilated as herein expressly
provided for or in the form of Security for such series), when the Trustee, upon
Company Request and at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper
instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, when
(1) either (a) all Securities theretofore authenticated
and delivered (other than (i) Securities which have been destroyed, lost or
stolen and which have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 3.06 and (ii)
Securities for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust or
segregated and held in trust by the Company and thereafter repaid to the Company
or discharged from such trust, as provided in Section 10.05) have been delivered
to the Trustee for cancellation; or (b) all such Securities not theretofore
delivered to the Trustee for cancellation (i) have become due and payable, or
(ii) will become due and payable at their Stated Maturity within one year, or
(iii) are to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements
reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption by
the Trustee in the name, and at the reasonable expense, of the Company, and the
Company, in the case of (b)(i), (ii) or (iii) above, has deposited with the
Trustee as trust funds in trust for the purpose an amount, in the currency or
currencies or currency unit or units in which the Securities of such series are
payable, sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on such
Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, for
principal, premium, if any, and interest to the date of such deposit (in the
case of Securities which have become due and payable) or 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 provided for herein relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this
Indenture have been complied with.
Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the
obligations of the Company to the Trustee under Section 6.07, the obligations of
the Company to any Authenticating Agent under Section 6.14 and, if money shall
have been deposited with the Trustee pursuant to subclause (b) of clause (1) of
this Section, the obligations of the Trustee under Section 4.02 and the last
paragraph of Section 10.05 shall survive.
Section 4.02 APPLICATION OF TRUST MONEY. Subject to the provisions
of the last paragraph of Section 10.05, all money deposited with the Trustee
pursuant to Section 4.01 shall be held in trust and applied by it, in accordance
with the provisions of the Securities and this Indenture, to the payment, either
directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own
Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Persons entitled thereto, of
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the principal (and premium, if any) and interest 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.
Section 4.03 APPLICATION TO A SPECIFIC SERIES OF SECURITIES. The
Company may elect to satisfy and discharge its obligations with respect to a
specific series of Securities under the Indenture by complying with the terms of
Article 4. If the Company makes such election, (a) the terms of Section 4.01 and
4.02 shall apply only to the specific series of Securities and the terms of the
Indenture as it relates to such series of Securities and (b) the other
Securities issued hereunder and the Indenture as it relates to such other
Securities shall remain in full force and effect.
ARTICLE 5
REMEDIES
Section 5.01 EVENTS OF DEFAULT. Except as otherwise specified as
contemplated by Section 3.01 for Securities of a series, "EVENT OF DEFAULT,"
wherever used herein with respect to Securities of any series, means any one of
the following events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether
it shall be voluntary or involuntary or to 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) the Company defaults in the payment of interest on
any Security of that series when such interest becomes due and payable and the
default continues for a period of 30 days; or
(2) the Company defaults in the payment of the principal
of, or premium, if any, on any Security of that series when the same becomes due
and payable at Maturity or on redemption or otherwise; or
(3) the Company fails to deposit any sinking fund
payment, for five days after it becomes due by the terms of a Security of that
series; or
(4) the Company fails to observe or perform in any
material respect any of its other covenants, agreements or warranties in the
Securities of that series or this Indenture (other than a covenant, agreement or
warranty a default in whose performance or whose breach is elsewhere in this
Section specifically dealt with or which has expressly been included in this
Indenture solely for the benefit of series of Securities other than that
series), and the failure to observe or perform continues for the period and
after the notice specified in the last paragraph of this Section; or
(5) an event of default, as defined in any mortgage,
indenture, or instrument under which there may be issued, or by which there may
be secured or evidenced, any Indebtedness of the Company (including Securities
of another series) (other than the Securities of such series) (whether such
Indebtedness now exists or shall hereafter be created or incurred)
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shall occur, which event of default (i) is caused by a failure to pay principal
of or premium, if any, or interest on such Indebtedness at final maturity after
the expiration of the grace period provided in such Indebtedness on the date of
such event of default, and (ii) results in Indebtedness becoming or being
declared due and payable prior to the date on which it would otherwise become
due and payable, and such default in payment is not cured or such acceleration
shall not be rescinded or annulled within 30 days after written notice to the
Company from the Trustee or to the Company and to the Trustee from the Holders
of at least twenty-five percent in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of that series specifying such event of default and requiring the
Company to cure such default in payment or cause such acceleration to be
rescinded or annulled and stating that such notice is a "NOTICE OF DEFAULT"
hereunder; provided, however, that it shall not be an Event of Default if the
principal amount of Indebtedness which is not paid at maturity or the maturity
of which is accelerated is equal to or less than $20,000,000; provided further
that if, prior to a declaration of acceleration of the maturity of the
Securities of that series or the entry of judgment in favor of the Trustee in a
suit pursuant to Section 5.03, such default shall be remedied or cured by the
Company or waived by the holders of such Indebtedness, then 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 any of the Holders of the Securities of that series; or
(6) the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries
pursuant to or within the meaning of any Bankruptcy Law (a) commences a
voluntary case or proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law with respect to itself,
(b) consents to the entry of a judgment, decree or order for relief against it
in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law, (c) consents to
or acquiesces in the institution of bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings against
it, (d) applies for, consents to or acquiesces in the appointment of or taking
possession by a Custodian of it or for all or substantially all of its property,
(e) makes a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors or (f) takes any
corporate action in furtherance of or to facilitate, conditionally or otherwise,
any of the foregoing; or
(7) (i) a court of competent jurisdiction enters a
judgment, decree or order for relief in an involuntary case or proceeding under
any Bankruptcy Law which shall (a) approve as properly filed a petition seeking
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition in respect of the Company
or any of its Significant Subsidiaries, (b) appoint a Custodian of the Company
or any of its Significant Subsidiaries or for all or substantially all of its
property or (c) order the winding-up or liquidation of affairs of the Company or
any of its Significant Subsidiaries, and such judgment, decree or order shall
remain unstayed and in effect for a period of 90 consecutive days; or (ii) any
bankruptcy or insolvency petition or application is filed, or any bankruptcy or
insolvency proceeding is commenced, against the Company or any of its
Significant Subsidiaries and such petition, application or proceeding is not
dismissed within 60 days; or (iii) a warrant of attachment is issued against any
material portion of the property of the Company or any of its Significant
Subsidiaries which is not released within 60 days of service; or
(8) any other Event of Default provided with respect to
Securities of that series.
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A Default under clause (4) above is not an Event of Default until the Trustee or
the Holders of at least twenty-five percent in aggregate principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of that series notify the Company of the Default and the
Company does not cure the Default within 60 days after receipt of the notice.
The notice must specify the Default, demand that it be remedied and state that
the notice is a "NOTICE OF DEFAULT." When a Default under clause (4) above is
cured within such 60-day period, it ceases to be a Default.
Section 5.02 ACCELERATION OF MATURITY; RESCISSION AND ANNULMENT.
If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series (other than an
Event of Default specified in clause (6) or (7) of Section 5.01) occurs and is
continuing, the Trustee by notice in writing to the Company, or the Holders of
at least twenty-five percent in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of that series by notice in writing to the Company and the Trustee,
may declare the unpaid principal of and accrued interest to the date of
acceleration (or, if the Securities of that series are Original Issue Discount
Securities, such portion of the principal amount as may be specified in the
terms of that series) on all the Outstanding Securities of that series to be due
and payable immediately and, upon any such declaration, the Outstanding
Securities of that series (or specified principal amount) shall become and be
immediately due and payable.
If an Event of Default specified in clause (6) or (7) of Section 5.01 occurs,
all unpaid principal of and accrued interest on the Outstanding Securities of
that series (or specified principal amount) shall ipso facto become and be
immediately due and payable without any declaration or other act on the part of
the Trustee or any Holder of any Security of that series.
Upon payment of all such principal and interest, all of the Company's
obligations under the Securities of that series and (upon payment of the
Securities of all series) this Indenture shall terminate, except obligations
under Section 6.07.
At any time after a declaration of acceleration of Maturity 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 notice to the Trustee may rescind an
acceleration and its consequences if (i) all existing Events of Default, other
than the nonpayment of the principal of and interest on the Securities of that
series that has become due solely by such declaration of acceleration, have been
cured or waived, (ii) to the extent the payment of such interest is lawful,
interest on overdue installments of interest and overdue principal that has
become due otherwise than by such declaration of acceleration have been paid,
(iii) the rescission would not conflict with any judgment or decree of a court
of competent jurisdiction and (iv) all payments due to the Trustee and any
predecessor Trustee under Section 6.07 have been made.
Section 5.03 COLLECTION OF INDEBTEDNESS AND SUITS FOR ENFORCEMENT
BY TRUSTEE. The Company covenants that if:
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(1) default is made in the payment of any interest on any
Security of any series when such interest becomes due and payable and such
default continues for a period of 30 days, or
(2) default is made in the payment of the principal of (or
premium, if any, on) any Security of any series at the Maturity thereof, or
(3) default is made in the payment of any sinking or
analogous obligation when the same becomes due by the terms of the Securities of
any series, and any such default continues for any period of grace provided with
respect to the Securities of such series,
the Company will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the
Holders of such Securities, the whole amount then due and payable on such
Securities for principal (and premium, if any) and interest and, to the extent
that payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable, interest on any
overdue principal (and premium, if any) and on any overdue interest, at the rate
or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities, and, in addition thereto, such
further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses 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, may
prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree and may enforce the same
against the Company or any other obligor upon such Securities and collect the
moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable in the manner provided by law out of
the property of the Company or any other obligor upon such Securities, 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 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 secure any other proper remedy.
Section 5.04 TRUSTEE MAY FILE PROOFS OF CLAIM. In case of the
pendency of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy,
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other judicial
proceeding relative to the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or
the property of the Company or of such other obligor or their creditors, the
Trustee (irrespective of whether the principal of the Securities shall then be
due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and
irrespective of whether the Trustee shall have made any demand on the Company
for the payment of overdue principal 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 of
principal (and premium, if any) and interest 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
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any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances
of the Trustee, its agent and counsel) and of the Holders allowed in such
judicial proceedings, and
(ii) to collect and receive any moneys or other property
payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same; and any
custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other
similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each
Holder to make such payments to the Trustee and, in the event that the Trustee
shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to
the Trustee any amount due it for the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other
amounts due the Trustee under Section 6.07.
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize
or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Securities
or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the Trustee to vote in
respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding.
Section 5.05 TRUSTEE MAY ENFORCE CLAIMS WITHOUT POSSESSION OF
SECURITIES. All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the
Securities may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the possession
of any of the Securities or the production thereof in any proceeding relating
thereto, and any such proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in
its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall,
after provision for the payment of the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, be for the
ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities in respect of which such
judgment has been recovered.
Section 5.06 APPLICATION OF MONEY COLLECTED. Any money collected
by the Trustee pursuant to this Article in respect of the Securities of any
series 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, premium, if any, or interest, upon presentation of the Securities in
respect of which moneys have been collected and the notation thereon of the
payment if only partially paid and upon surrender thereof if fully paid:
First: To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee under Section 6.07
applicable to such series;
Second: To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid for principal
of, and premium, if any, and interest on the Securities of such series in
respect of which or for the benefit of which such money has been collected,
ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to the amounts
due and payable on such Securities of such series for principal, and premium, if
any, and interest, respectively; and
Third: To the Company.
The Trustee may fix a record date and payment date for any payment to Holders
pursuant to this Section 5.06. At least ten (10) days before such record date,
the Trustee shall mail to each
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Holder and the Company a notice that states the record date, the payment date
and the amount to be paid.
Section 5.07 LIMITATION ON SUITS. No Holder of any Security of any
series shall have any right to institute any proceeding, judicial or otherwise,
with respect to this Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee,
or for any other remedy hereunder, unless:
(1) such 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 at least twenty-five percent 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 shall 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 Holders of Securities of
any series 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 Holders of Securities of the affected series.
Section 5.08 UNCONDITIONAL RIGHT OF HOLDERS TO RECEIVE PRINCIPAL,
PREMIUM AND INTEREST. Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the
Holder of any Security shall have the right, which is absolute and
unconditional, to receive payment of the principal of, premium, if any, and
(subject to Section 3.07) interest on such Security on the Stated Maturity or
Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption, on the
Redemption Date) 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 5.09 RESTORATION OF RIGHTS AND REMEDIES. If the Trustee or
any Holder has instituted any proceeding to enforce any right or remedy under
this Indenture and such proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any
reason, or has been determined adversely to the Trustee or to such Holder, then
and in every such case, subject to any determination in such proceeding, the
Company, the Trustee and the Holders shall be restored severally and
respectively to their former positions hereunder and thereafter all rights and
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remedies of the Trustee and the Holders shall continue as though no such
proceeding has been instituted.
Section 5.10 RIGHTS AND REMEDIES CUMULATIVE. Except as otherwise
provided with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed,
lost or stolen Securities in the last paragraph of Section 3.06, no right or
remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders is
intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and
remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to
every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law
or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy
hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or
employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.
Section 5.11 DELAY OR OMISSION NOT WAIVER. No delay or omission of
the Trustee or of any Holder of any Securities to exercise any right or remedy
accruing upon any Event of Default shall impair any such right or remedy or
constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default or an acquiescence therein.
Every right and remedy given by this Article or by law to the Trustee or to the
Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed
expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders, as the case may be.
Section 5.12 CONTROL BY HOLDERS. The Holders of a majority in
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series shall have the
right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any
remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred on
the Trustee, with respect to the Securities of such series, provided that:
(1) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of
law or with this Indenture;
(2) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the
Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction; and
(3) subject to Section 6.01, the Trustee need not take
any action which might involve the Trustee in personal liability or be unduly
prejudicial to the Holders not joining therein.
Section 5.13 WAIVER OF PAST DEFAULTS. The Holders of not less than
a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series may
by written notice to the Trustee on behalf of the Holders of all the Securities
of such series waive any Default or Event of Default with respect to such series
and its consequences, except a Default or Event of Default:
(1) in respect of the payment of the principal of or premium,
if any, or interest on any Security of such series, or
(2) in respect of a covenant or other 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.
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Upon any such waiver, such Default or Event of Default shall cease to exist and
shall be deemed to have been cured, for every purpose of this Indenture and the
Securities of such series; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or
other Default or Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereon.
Section 5.14 UNDERTAKING FOR COSTS. All parties to this Indenture
agree, and each Holder of any Security by his acceptance thereof shall be deemed
to have agreed, that any court may in its discretion require, in any suit for
the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit
against the Trustee for any action taken, suffered or omitted by it as Trustee,
the filing by any party litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs
of such suit, and that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs,
including reasonable attorneys' fees, against any party litigant in such suit,
having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by
such party litigant; but the provisions of this Section shall not apply to any
suit instituted by the Company, to any suit instituted by the Trustee, to any
suit instituted by any Holder, or group of Holders, holding in the aggregate
more than ten percent in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any
series, or to any suit instituted by any Holder for the enforcement of the
payment of the principal of or premium, if any, or interest on any Security on
or after the Stated Maturity or Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in
the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date).
ARTICLE 6
THE TRUSTEE
Section 6.01 CERTAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE TRUSTEE.
(a) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default,
the Trustee's duties and responsibilities under this Indenture shall be governed
by Section 315(a) of the Trust Indenture Act.
(b) In case an Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing, and is known to the Trustee, the Trustee shall exercise the rights
and powers vested in it by this Indenture, and shall use the same degree of care
and skill in their exercise, as a prudent man would exercise or use under the
circumstances in the conduct of his own affairs.
(c) None of the provisions of Section 315(d) of the Trust
Indenture Act shall be excluded from this Indenture.
(d) Every provision of this Indenture which pertains to
the Trustee shall be subject to this Section 6.01.
Section 6.02 NOTICE OF DEFAULTS. Within 90 days after the
occurrence of any Default or Event of Default with respect to the Securities of
any series, the Trustee shall give to all Holders of Securities of such series,
as their names and addresses appear in the Security Register, notice of such
Default or Event of Default known to the Trustee, unless such Default or Event
of Default shall have been cured or waived; provided, however, that, except in
the case of a Default
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or Event of Default in the payment of the principal of or premium, if any, or
interest on any Security of such series, the Trustee shall be protected in
withholding such notice if and so long as the board of directors, the executive
committee or a trust committee of directors and/or Responsible Officers of the
Trustee in good faith determine that the withholding of such notice is in the
interest of the Holders of Securities of such series.
Section 6.03 CERTAIN RIGHTS OF TRUSTEE. Subject to the provisions of
the Trust Indenture Act:
(a) 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, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document
believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper
party or parties;
(b) any request or direction of the Company mentioned
herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Company Request or Company Order and
any resolution of the Board of Directors may be sufficiently evidenced by a
Board Resolution;
(c) whenever in the administration of this Indenture the
Trustee shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to
taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Trustee (unless other
evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on
its part, rely upon an Officers' Certificate;
(d) the Trustee may consult with counsel and the written
advice of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete
authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted
by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon;
(e) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise
any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or
direction of any of the Holders pursuant to this Indenture, unless such Holders
shall have offered to the Trustee reasonable security or indemnity against the
costs, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance with
such request or direction;
(f) prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default with
respect to the Securities of any series and after the curing or waiving of all
such Events of Default which may have occurred, 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, approval or other paper or document, or the books and records of
the Company, unless requested in writing to do so by the Holders of a majority
in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series; provided,
however, that if the payment within a reasonable time to the Trustee of the
costs, expenses or liabilities likely to be incurred by it in the making of such
investigation is not, in the opinion of the Trustee, reasonably assured to the
Trustee by the security afforded to it by the terms of this Indenture, the
Trustee may require reasonable indemnity against such costs, expenses or
liabilities as a condition to so proceeding;
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the reasonable expense of every such investigation shall be paid by the Company
or, if paid by the Trustee, shall be repaid by the Company upon demand;
(g) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers
hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through
agents or attorneys and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct
or negligence on the part of any agent or attorney appointed with due care by it
hereunder; and
(h) 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 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 6.04 NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR RECITALS OR ISSUANCE OF
SECURITIES. The recitals herein and in the Securities, except the Trustee's
certificates of authentication, shall be taken as the statements of the Company,
and neither the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent assumes any responsibility
for their correctness. The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity
or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Securities, except that the Trustee
represents that it is duly authorized to execute and deliver this Indenture,
authenticate the Securities and perform its obligations hereunder, and that the
statements made by it or to be made by it in a Statement of Eligibility and
Qualification on Form T-1 supplied to the Company are true and accurate. Neither
the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent shall be accountable for the use or
application by the Company of Securities or the proceeds thereof.
Section 6.05 MAY HOLD SECURITIES. The Trustee, any Authenticating
Agent, any Paying Agent, any Security Registrar or any other agent of the
Company, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or
pledgee of Securities and, subject to Sections 6.08 and 6.13, may otherwise deal
with the Company with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee,
Authenticating Agent, Paying Agent, Security Registrar or such other agent.
Section 6.06 MONEY HELD IN TRUST. Money held by the Trustee in
trust hereunder (including amounts held by the Trustee as Paying Agent) 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 upon in writing with the Company.
Section 6.07 COMPENSATION AND REIMBURSEMENT. The Company agrees:
(1) to pay to the Trustee from time to time reasonable
compensation as negotiated between the Company and the Trustee 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 the Trustee upon its request for all reasonable expenses,
disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Trustee in accordance with
any provision of this Indenture (including the reasonable
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compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its agents and counsel),
except any such expense, disbursement or advance as may be attributable to its
negligence or bad faith; and
(3) to indemnify the Trustee for, and to hold it harmless
against, any loss, liability, damage, claim or expense, including taxes (other
than taxes based upon or determined or measured by the income of the Trustee),
incurred without negligence or bad faith on its 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 5.01(6) or Section 5.01(7), 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 Bankruptcy Law.
The provisions of this Section 6.07 shall survive this
Indenture and the resignation or removal of the Trustee.
Section 6.08 DISQUALIFICATION; CONFLICTING INTERESTS. The Trustee
shall be disqualified only where such disqualification is required by Section
310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act. Nothing shall prevent the Trustee from filing
with the Commission the application referred to in the second to last paragraph
of Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act.
Section 6.09 CORPORATE TRUSTEE REQUIRED; ELIGIBILITY. There shall
at all times be a Trustee hereunder which shall be eligible to act as Trustee
under Section 310(a)(1) of the Trust Indenture Act having a combined capital and
surplus (together with its parent) of at least $100,000,000 and subject to
supervision or examination by federal or State authority. If such corporation
publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the
requirements of said supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes
of this Section, the combined capital and surplus of such corporation shall be
deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent
report of condition so published. Neither the Company nor any Person directly or
indirectly controlling, controlled by, or under common control with the Company
may serve as Trustee. 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.
Section 6.10 RESIGNATION AND REMOVAL; APPOINTMENT OF SUCCESSOR.
(a) No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no
appointment of a successor Trustee pursuant to this Article shall become
effective until the acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee in
accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 6.11.
(b) The Trustee may resign at any time with respect to
the Securities of one or more series by giving written notice thereof to the
Company. If the instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee required by
Section 6.11 shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30
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days after the giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee may
petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor
Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series.
(c) The Trustee may be removed at any time with respect
to the Securities of any series by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal
amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series, delivered to the Trustee
and to the Company.
(d) If at any time:
(i) the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section
310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act after written request therefor by the Company
or by any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six
months; or
(ii) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under
Section 6.09 and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the
Company or by any such Holder of a Security who has been a bona fide Holder of a
Security for at least six months; or
(iii) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or
shall be adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the Trustee or of its
property shall be appointed or any public officer shall take charge or control
of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation,
conservation or liquidation;
then, in any such case, (i) the Company by a Board Resolution
may remove the Trustee with respect to all Securities, or (ii) subject to
Section 315(e) of the Trust Indenture Act, any Holder who has been a bona fide
Holder of a Security for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all
others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the
removal of the Trustee with respect to all Securities and the appointment of a
successor Trustee or Trustees.
(e) If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become
incapable of acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee for
any cause, with respect to the Securities of one or more series, the Company, by
a Board Resolution, shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee or Trustees with
respect to the Securities of that or those series (it being understood that any
such successor Trustee may be appointed with respect to the Securities of one or
more or all of such series and that at any time there shall be only one Trustee
with respect to the Securities of any particular series) and shall comply with
the applicable requirements of Section 6.11. If, within one year after such
resignation, removal or incapability, or the occurrence of such vacancy, a
successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall be
appointed by Act of the Holders of a majority in 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 in accordance with the applicable requirements of Section
6.11, become the successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series
and to that extent supersede the successor Trustee appointed by the Company with
respect to such Securities. If no successor Trustee with respect to the
Securities of any series shall have been so appointed by the Company or the
Holders and accepted appointment in the manner required by Section 6.11, any
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Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security of such series for at least
six months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition
any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee
with respect to the Securities of such series.
(f) The Company shall give notice of each resignation and
each removal of the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series and
each appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any
series by mailing written notice of such event by first-class mail, postage
prepaid, to all Holders of Securities of such series as their names and
addresses appear in the Security Register. Each notice shall include the name of
the successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series and the
address of its Corporate Trust Office.
Section 6.11 ACCEPTANCE OF APPOINTMENT BY SUCCESSOR.
(a) In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor
Trustee with respect to all Securities, every such successor Trustee so
appointed shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Company and to the
retiring Trustee an instrument accepting such appointment, and thereupon the
resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective and such
successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become
vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee;
but, on the request of the Company or the successor Trustee, such retiring
Trustee shall, upon payment of its charges, execute and deliver an instrument
transferring to such successor Trustee all the rights, powers and trusts of the
retiring Trustee and shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor
Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder.
(b) In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor
Trustee with respect to the Securities of some (but not all) series, the
Company, the retiring Trustee and each successor Trustee with respect to the
Securities of such series shall execute and deliver an indenture supplemental
hereto wherein each successor Trustee shall accept such appointment and which
(1) shall contain such provisions as shall be necessary or desirable to transfer
and confirm to, and to vest in, each successor Trustee all the rights, powers,
trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that
or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates, (2)
if the retiring Trustee is not retiring with respect to all Securities, shall
contain such provisions as shall be deemed necessary or desirable to confirm
that all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with
respect to the Securities of that or those series as to which the retiring
Trustee is not retiring shall continue to be vested in the retiring Trustee, and
(3) shall add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be
necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts
hereunder by more than one Trustee, it being understood that nothing herein or
in such 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,
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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 the Trust Indenture Act.
Section 6.12 MERGER, CONVERSION, CONSOLIDATION OR SUCCESSION TO
BUSINESS. Any corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or
with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger,
conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any
corporation succeeding to all or substantially all the corporate trust business
of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder, provided such
corporation shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article,
without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of
any of the parties hereto. In case any Securities shall have been authenticated,
but not delivered, by the Trustee then in office, any successor (by merger,
conversion, consolidation or otherwise as permitted hereunder) to such
authenticating Trustee may adopt such authentication and deliver the Securities
so authenticated with the same effect as if such successor Trustee had itself
authenticated such Securities.
Section 6.13 PREFERENTIAL COLLECTION OF CLAIMS AGAINST COMPANY.
The Trustee shall comply with Section 311(a) of the Trust Indenture Act,
excluding any creditor relationship listed in Section 311(b) of the Trust
Indenture Act. A Trustee who has resigned or been removed shall be subject to
Section 311(a) of the Trust Indenture Act to the extent indicated therein.
Section 6.14 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, and subject to the direction of,
the Trustee to authenticate Securities of such series issued upon exchange,
registration of transfer or partial redemption thereof or pursuant to Section
3.06, and Securities so authenticated shall be entitled to the benefits of this
Indenture and shall be valid and obligatory for all purposes as if authenticated
by the Trustee hereunder. Wherever reference is made in this Indenture to the
authentication and delivery of Securities by the Trustee or the Trustee's
certificate of authentication, such reference shall be deemed to include
authentication and delivery on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent
and a certificate of authentication executed on behalf of the Trustee by an
Authenticating Agent. Each Authenticating Agent shall be acceptable to the
Company and shall at all times be a corporation organized and doing business
under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the
District of Columbia, authorized under such laws to act as Authenticating Agent,
having a combined capital and surplus (together with its parent) of not less
than $100,000,000 and subject to supervision or examination by federal or State
authority. If such Authenticating Agent
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publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the
requirements of said supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes
of this Section, the combined capital and surplus of such Authenticating Agent
shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most
recent report of condition so published. If at any time an Authenticating Agent
shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section,
such Authenticating Agent shall resign immediately in the manner and with the
effect specified in this Section.
Any corporation into which an Authenticating Agent may be merged or converted or
with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger,
conversion or consolidation to which such Authenticating Agent shall be a party,
or any corporation succeeding to the corporate agency or corporate trust
business of an Authenticating Agent, shall continue to be an Authenticating
Agent, provided such corporation shall be otherwise eligible under this Section,
without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of
the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent.
An Authenticating Agent may resign at any time by giving written notice thereof
to the Trustee and to the Company. The Trustee may at any time terminate the
agency of an Authenticating Agent by giving written notice thereof to such
Authenticating Agent and to the Company. Upon receiving such a notice of
resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at any time such
Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the
provisions of this Section, the Trustee may appoint a successor Authenticating
Agent which shall be acceptable to the Company and shall mail written notice of
such appointment by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to all Holders of
Securities of the series with respect to which such Authenticating Agent will
serve, as their names and addresses appear in the Security Register. Any
successor Authenticating Agent upon acceptance of its appointment hereunder
shall become vested with all the rights, powers and duties of its predecessor
hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as an Authenticating Agent.
No successor Authenticating Agent shall be appointed unless eligible under the
provisions of this Section.
The Company agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from time to time
reasonable compensation as negotiated between the Company and such
Authenticating Agent for its services under this Section.
If an appointment with respect to one or more series is made pursuant to this
Section, the Securities of such series may have endorsed thereon, in addition to
the Trustee's certificate of authentication, an alternate certificate of
authentication in the following form:
Form of Authenticating Agent's
Certificate of Authentication
Dated:_________________
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
Section 6.15 COMPLIANCE WITH TAX LAWS. The Trustee hereby agrees
to comply with all U.S. Federal income tax information reporting and withholding
requirements applicable to it with respect to payments of premium (if any) and
interest on the Securities of any series, whether acting as Trustee, Security
Registrar, Paying Agent or otherwise with respect to the Securities of any
series.
ARTICLE 7
HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY
Section 7.01 COMPANY TO FURNISH TRUSTEE NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF
HOLDERS. The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee:
(a) semi-annually, not later than 15 days after the
Regular Record Date 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
Securities as of such Regular Record Date (unless the Trustee has such
information), 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.
Section 7.02 PRESERVATION OF INFORMATION; COMMUNICATIONS TO HOLDERS.
(a) The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as
is reasonably practicable, the names and addresses of Holders contained in the
most recent list furnished to the Trustee as provided in Section 7.01 and the
names and addresses of Holders received by the Trustee in its capacity as
Security Registrar. The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided
in Section 7.01 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.
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(b) If three or more Holders (herein referred to as
"APPLICANTS") apply in writing to the Trustee, and furnish to the Trustee
reasonable proof that each such applicant has owned a Security for a period of
at least six months preceding the date of such application, and such application
states that the applicants desire to communicate with other Holders with respect
to their rights under this Indenture or under the Securities and is accompanied
by a copy of the form of proxy or other communication which such applicants
propose to transmit, then the Trustee shall, within five Business Days after the
receipt of such application, at its election, either:
(i) afford such applicants access to the information
preserved at the time by the Trustee in accordance with Section 7.02(a); or
(ii) inform such applicants as to the approximate
number of Holders whose names and addresses appear in the information preserved
at the time by the Trustee in accordance with Section 7.02(a), and as to the
approximate cost of mailing to such Holders the form of proxy or other
communication, if any, specified in such application.
If the Trustee shall elect not to afford such applicants access to such
information, the Trustee shall, upon the written request of such applicants,
mail to each Holder whose name and address appears in the information preserved
at the time by the Trustee in accordance with Section 7.02(a) a copy of the form
of proxy or other communication which is specified in such request, with
reasonable promptness after a tender to the Trustee of the material to be mailed
and of payment, or provision for the payment, of the reasonable expenses of
mailing, unless within five days after such tender the Trustee shall mail to
such applicants and file with the Commission, together with a copy of the
material to be mailed, a written statement to the effect that, in the opinion of
the Trustee, such mailing would be contrary to the best interests of the Holders
or would be in violation of applicable law. Such written statement shall specify
the basis of such opinion. If the Commission, after opportunity for a hearing
upon the objections specified in the written statement so filed, shall enter an
order refusing to sustain any of such objections or if, after the entry of an
order sustaining one or more of such objections, the Commission shall find,
after notice and opportunity for hearing, that all objections so sustained have
been met and shall enter an order so declaring, the Trustee shall mail copies of
such material to all such Holders with reasonable promptness after the entry of
such order and the renewal of such tender; otherwise the Trustee shall be
relieved of any obligation or duty to such applicants respecting their
application.
(c) Every Holder of Securities, by receiving and holding
the same, agrees with the Company and the Trustee that neither the Company nor
the Trustee nor any agent of either of them shall be held accountable by reason
of the disclosure of any such information as to the names and addresses of the
Holders in accordance with Section 7.02(b), 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 Section
7.02(b).
Section 7.03 REPORTS BY TRUSTEE.
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(a) Within 60 days after ______ of each year commencing
with the year 200_, the Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Holders of
Securities as provided in Section 313(c) of the Trust Indenture Act, a brief
report dated as of ______, if required by and in compliance with Section 313(a)
of the Trust Indenture Act. The Trustee shall also comply with Section 313(b) of
the Trust Indenture Act.
(b) A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such
transmission to Holders, be filed by the Trustee with each stock exchange or
inter-dealer quotation system upon which any Securities are listed, with the
Commission and with the Company. The Company will notify the Trustee when any
Securities are listed on any stock exchange or any inter-dealer quotation
system.
Section 7.04 REPORTS BY COMPANY. The Company shall:
(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 Exchange Act; or,
if the Company is not required to file information, documents or reports
pursuant to either of said Sections, then it shall 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
Exchange Act 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;
(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;
(3) transmit or cause to be transmitted by mail to all
Holders, as their names and addresses appear in the Security Register, (a) as
promptly as reasonably practicable following the furnishing of the same to its
stockholders, the Company's annual report to stockholders, containing certified
financial statements, and any other financial reports which the Company
generally furnishes to its stockholders, and (b) within 30 days after the filing
thereof with the Trustee, such summaries of any other 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; and
(4) furnish to the Trustee, on ___________ of each year,
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. For
purposes of this paragraph, such compliance shall be determined without regard
to any period of grace or requirement of notice provided under this Indenture.
Such certificate need not comply with Section 1.02.
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ARTICLE 8
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, LEASE, SALE OR TRANSFER
Section 8.01 WHEN COMPANY MAY MERGE, ETC. Except as may be
otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 3.01 relating to Securities of a
series, the Company shall not consolidate with, or merge with or into, any other
Person (whether or not the Company shall be the surviving corporation or
entity), or convey, transfer or lease all or substantially all of its properties
and assets as an entirety or substantially as an entirety to any Person or group
of affiliated Persons, in one transaction or a series of related transactions,
unless:
(1) either the Company shall be the continuing Person or
the Person (if other than the Company) formed by such consolidation or with
which or into which the Company is merged or the Person (or group of affiliated
Persons) to which all or substantially all the properties and assets of the
Company as an entirety or substantially as an entirety are conveyed, transferred
or leased shall be a corporation or other entity (group of affiliated
corporations or entities) organized and existing under the laws of the United
States of America or any State thereof or the District of Columbia and shall
expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to
the Trustee, in form reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, all the obligations
of the Company under the Securities and this Indenture; and
(2) immediately after giving effect to such transaction
or series of related transactions, no Event of Default, and no Default, shall
have occurred and be continuing.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may (a) consolidate with, or merge
with or into, an Affiliate incorporated for the purpose incorporating the
Company in another jurisdiction and/or (b) convey, transfer or lease all or
substantially all of its properties and assets as an entirety or substantially
as an entirety to any Subsidiary or Subsidiaries, in one transaction or a series
of related transactions.
Section 8.02 OPINION OF COUNSEL. The Company shall deliver to the
Trustee prior to the proposed transaction(s) covered by Section 8.01 an
Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel stating that the transaction(s)
and such supplemental indenture comply with this Indenture and that all
conditions precedent to the consummation of the transaction(s) under this
Indenture have been met.
Section 8.03 SUCCESSOR CORPORATION SUBSTITUTED. Upon any
consolidation by the Company with or merger by the Company into any other
corporation or other entity or any conveyance, transfer or lease all or
substantially all of the property and assets of the Company in accordance with
Section 8.01, the successor corporation or other entity formed by such
consolidation or into which the Company is merged or the successor corporation
or entity or affiliated group of corporations or entities to which such lease,
sale, assignment or transfer is made shall succeed to, and be substituted for,
and may exercise every right and power of, the Company under this Indenture with
the same effect as if such successor corporation or corporations or entity or
entities had been named as the Company herein, and thereafter, except
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in the case of a lease, the predecessor corporation or corporations or entity or
entities shall be relieved of all obligations and covenants under this Indenture
and the Securities and in the event of such conveyance or transfer, except in
the case of a lease, any such predecessor corporation may be dissolved and
liquidated.
ARTICLE 9
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
Section 9.01 SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES WITHOUT CONSENT OF HOLDERS.
Without notice to or the consent of any Holders, the Company, when authorized by
a Board Resolution, and the Trustee, at any time and from time to time, may
enter into one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in form reasonably
satisfactory to the Trustee, for any of the following purposes:
(1) to evidence the succession of another corporation to the
Company and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the Company
herein and in the Securities; or
(2) to add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit of
the Holders of all or any series of Securities (and if such covenants are to be
for the benefit of less than all series of Securities, stating that such
covenants are expressly being included solely for the benefit of such series) or
to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the Company; or
(3) to add any additional Events of Default with respect to
all or any series of Securities; or
(4) to add or change any of the provisions of this Indenture
to such extent as shall be necessary to permit or facilitate the issuance of
Securities in bearer form, registrable or not registrable as to principal, and
with or without interest coupons; or
(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
as permitted by Sections 2.01 and 3.01; 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, pursuant to the requirements of Section
6.11(b); or
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(9) to cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency or to
correct or supplement any provision herein which may be inconsistent with any
other provision herein; or
(10) to make any change that does not materially adversely
affect the interests of the Holders of Securities of any series then
Outstanding; or
(11) to add Guarantees with respect to any or all of the
Securities; or
(12) to provide for uncertificated Securities in addition
to or in place of certificated Securities (provided that the uncertificated
Securities are issued in registered form for purposes of Section 163(f) of the
Internal Revenue Code or in a manner such that the uncertificated Securities are
described in Section 163(f)(2)(B) of such Code).
Upon request of the Company, accompanied by a Board Resolution authorizing the
execution of any such supplemental indenture, and upon receipt by the Trustee of
the documents described in (and subject to the last sentence of) Section 9.03,
the Trustee shall join with the Company in the execution of any supplemental
indenture authorized or permitted by the terms of this Indenture.
Section 9.02 SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES WITH CONSENT OF HOLDERS. With
the written consent of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount
of the Outstanding Securities of each series affected by such supplemental
indenture (with the Securities of each series voting as a class), by Act of said
Holders delivered to the Company and the Trustee, the Company, when authorized
by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee shall, subject to Section 9.03, enter
into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding
any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions
of this Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of
Securities of such series under this Indenture; provided, however, that no such
supplemental indenture shall, without the consent of the Holder of each
Outstanding Security affected thereby,
(1) change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or
premium, if any, or any installment of principal of or premium, if any, or
interest on, any Security, or reduce the principal amount thereof or the rate of
interest thereon or any premium payable upon the redemption, repurchase or
repayment thereof, or change the manner in which the amount of any principal
thereof or premium, if any, or interest thereon is determined, or reduce the
amount of the principal of any Original Issue Discount Security that would be
due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof
pursuant to Section 5.02, or change any Place of Payment where, or the coin or
currency or currency unit in which, any Security or any premium or interest
thereon is payable, or impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of
any such payment on or after the Stated Maturity thereof (or, in the case of
redemption, on or after the Redemption Date);
(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 of compliance with certain provisions of this Indenture or
Defaults or Events of Default hereunder and their consequences provided for in
this Indenture; or
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(3) modify any of the provisions of this Section, Section
5.13 or Section 10.06, except to increase any such percentage or to provide that
certain other provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified or waived without
the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby;
provided, however, that this clause shall not be deemed to require the consent
of any Holder with respect to changes in the references to "the Trustee" and
concomitant changes in this Section and Section 10.06, or the deletion of this
proviso, in accordance with the requirements of Sections 6.11(b) and 9.01(8).
A supplemental indenture which changes or eliminates any covenant or other
provisions of this Indenture which has expressly been included solely for the
benefit of one or more particular series of Securities, or which modifies the
rights of the Holders of Securities of such series with respect to such covenant
or other provision, shall be deemed not to affect the rights under this
Indenture of the Holders of Securities of any other series.
It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this Section to approve
the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it shall be
sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.
Section 9.03 EXECUTION OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES. The Trustee
shall sign any supplemental indenture authorized pursuant to this Article,
subject to the last sentence of this Section 9.03. In executing, or accepting
the additional trusts created by, any supplemental indenture permitted by this
Article or the modifications thereby of the trusts created by this Indenture,
the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to Section 6.01) shall be
fully protected in relying upon, an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of
Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture is authorized
or permitted by this Indenture. The Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to,
enter into any such supplemental indenture which affects the Trustee's own
rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.
Section 9.04 EFFECT OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES. Upon the execution
of any supplemental indenture under this Article, this Indenture shall be
modified in accordance therewith, and such supplemental indenture shall form a
part of this Indenture for all purposes; and every Holder of Securities
theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder shall be bound
thereby.
Section 9.05 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 9.06 REFERENCE IN SECURITIES TO SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES.
Securities of any series authenticated and delivered after the execution of any
supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article may, and shall if required by
the Trustee, bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee as to any matter
provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Company shall so determine,
new Securities of any series so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the
Trustee and the Company, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and
executed by the
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Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in exchange for
Outstanding Securities of such series.
ARTICLE 10
COVENANTS
Section 10.01 PAYMENTS OF SECURITIES. With respect to each series
of Securities, the Company will duly and punctually pay the principal of (and
premium, if any) and interest on such Securities in accordance with their terms
and this Indenture, and will duly comply with all the other terms, agreements
and conditions contained in, or made in the Indenture for the benefit of, the
Securities of such series.
Section 10.02 MAINTENANCE OF OFFICE OR AGENCY. The Company will
maintain an office or agency in each Place of Payment where Securities may be
surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange or for presentation for
payment, where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the
Securities and this Indenture may be served. The Company will give prompt
written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any change in location, of
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 address of the Trustee as set forth in Section 1.05 hereof.
The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other offices or
agencies where the Securities may be presented or surrendered for any or all
such purposes and may from time to time rescind such designations. The Company
will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or
rescission and of any change in the location of any such other office or agency.
Section 10.03 COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATES.
(a) The Company shall deliver to the Trustee within 90
days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company (which fiscal year
currently ends on December 31, an Officers' Certificate stating whether or not
the signer knows of any Default or Event of Default by the Company that occurred
prior to the end of the fiscal year and is then continuing. If the signer does
know of such a Default or Event of Default, the certificate shall describe each
such Default or Event of Default and its status and the specific section or
sections of this Indenture in connection with which such Default or Event of
Default has occurred. The Company shall also promptly notify the Trustee in
writing should the Company's fiscal year be changed so that the end thereof is
on any date other than the date on which the Company's fiscal year currently
ends. The certificate need not comply with Section 1.02 hereof, but shall comply
with Section 314(a)(4) of the Trust Indenture Act.
(b) The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, within 10
days after the occurrence thereof, notice of any acceleration which with the
giving of notice and the lapse of time would be an Event of Default within the
meaning of Section 5.01(5) hereof.
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(c) The Company shall deliver to the Trustee forthwith
upon becoming aware of a Default or Event of Default (but in no event later than
10 days after the occurrence of each Default or Event of Default that is
continuing), an Officers' Certificate setting forth the details of such Default
or Event of Default and the action that the Company proposes to take with
respect thereto and the specific section or sections of this Indenture in
connection with which such Default or Event of Default has occurred.
Section 10.04 WAIVER OF STAY, EXTENSION OR USURY 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, and will actively
resist any and all efforts to be compelled to take the benefit or advantage of,
any stay or extension law or any usury law or other law, which would prohibit or
forgive the Company from paying all or any portion of the principal of and/or
interest on the Securities as contemplated herein, wherever enacted, now or at
any time hereafter in force, or which may affect the covenants or the
performance of this Indenture; and (to the extent that it may lawfully do so)
the Company 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 10.05 MONEY FOR SECURITIES PAYMENTS TO BE HELD IN TRUST. If
the Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent with respect to any
series of Securities, it will, on or before each due date of the principal of
(and premium, if any) or interest on any of the Securities of that series,
segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto a
sum sufficient to pay the principal (and premium, if any) or interest so
becoming due until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed
of as herein provided and will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or
failure so to act.
Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents for any series of
Securities, it will, on or prior to each due date of the principal of (and
premium, if any) or interest on any Securities of that series, deposit with a
Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay the principal (and premium, if any) or
interest so becoming due, such sum to be held in trust for the benefit of the
Persons entitled to such principal, premium or interest, and (unless such Paying
Agent is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee of its action
or failure to so act.
The Company will cause each Paying Agent for any series of Securities (other
than the Trustee) to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which
such Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of
this Section, that such Paying Agent will:
(1) hold all sums held by it for the payment of the
principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on Securities of that series 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 of that series) in the making of any
payment of principal (and premium, if any) or interest on the Securities of that
series; and
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(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 money.
Any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then held by the
Company, in trust for the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) or
interest on any Security of any series and remaining unclaimed for one year
after such principal (and premium, if any) or interest has become due and
payable shall, subject to any applicable escheat laws, be paid to the Company on
Company Request, or (if then held by the Company) shall be discharged from such
trust; and the Holder of such Security shall thereafter, as an unsecured general
creditor, look only to the Company for payment thereof, and all liability of the
Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money, and all liability
of the Company as trustee thereof, shall thereupon cease; provided, however,
that the Trustee of such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such
repayment, may at the expense of the Company cause to be published once, in a
newspaper published in the English language, customarily published on each
Business Day and of general circulation in _________________, notice that such
money remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified therein, which shall
not be less than 30 days from the date of such publication, any unclaimed
balance of such money then remaining will be repaid to the Company.
Section 10.06 WAIVER OF CERTAIN COVENANTS. The Company may omit in
any particular instance to comply with any term, provision or condition set
forth in Article 8, Article 10 (other than Sections __ or __) or any covenant
specified as contemplated under Section 3.01 with respect to the Securities of
any series if before the time for such compliance the Holders of not less than a
majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series shall,
by Act of such Holders, either waive such compliance in such instance or
generally waive compliance with such term, provision or condition, but no such
waiver shall extend to or affect such term, provision or condition except to the
extent so expressly waived, and, until such waiver shall become effective, the
obligations of the Company and the duties of the Trustee in respect of any such
term, provision or condition shall remain in full force and effect.
ARTICLE 11
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
Section 11.01 APPLICABILITY OF ARTICLE. Securities of any series
which are redeemable before their Stated Maturity shall be redeemable in
accordance with their terms and (except as
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otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.01 for Securities of any
series) in accordance with this Article.
Section 11.02 ELECTION TO REDEEM; NOTICE TO TRUSTEE. The election
of the Company to redeem any Securities shall be evidenced by a Board
Resolution. In case of any redemption at the election of the Company of less
than all the Securities of any series, the Company shall, at least 30 and not
more than 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 11.03 SELECTION BY TRUSTEE OF SECURITIES TO BE REDEEMED. If
less than all the Securities of any series are to be redeemed, the particular
Securities to be redeemed shall be selected prior to the giving of the
applicable notice of redemption to Holders by the Trustee, from the Outstanding
Securities of such series not previously called for redemption, substantially
pro rata, by lot or by any other method as the Trustee considers fair and
appropriate and that complies with the requirements of the principal national
securities exchange, if any, on which such Securities are listed, 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;
provided that in case the Securities of such series have different terms and
maturities, the Securities to be redeemed shall be selected by the Company and
the Company shall give notice thereof to the Trustee.
The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company 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 the Securities shall relate, in the
case of any Securities redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the portion
of the principal amount of such Securities which has been or is to be redeemed.
Section 11.04 NOTICE OF REDEMPTION. Notice of redemption shall be
given by first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not less than 30 nor more
than 45 days prior to the Redemption Date, to each Holder of Securities to be
redeemed, at his address appearing in the Security Register.
All notices of redemption shall state:
(1) the Redemption Date;
(2) the Redemption Price;
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(3) if less than all the Outstanding Securities of any
series are to be redeemed, the identification (and, in the case of partial
redemption, the principal amounts) of the particular Securities to be redeemed;
(4) that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price will
become due and payable upon each such Security to be redeemed and, if
applicable, that interest thereon will cease to accrue on and after said date;
(5) the place or places where such Securities are to be
surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price;
(6) that the redemption is for a sinking fund, if such is the
case; and
(7) the CUSIP number, if any, of the Securities to be
redeemed.
Notice of redemption of Securities to be redeemed at the election of the Company
shall be given by the Company or, at the Company's request, by the Trustee in
the name and at the expense of the Company.
Section 11.05 DEPOSIT OF REDEMPTION PRICE. 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, segregate and hold
in trust as provided in Section 10.05) an amount of money sufficient to pay the
Redemption Price of, and (except if the Redemption Date shall be an Interest
Payment Date) accrued interest on, all the Securities which are to be redeemed
on that date.
Unless any Security by its terms prohibits any sinking fund payment obligation
from being satisfied by delivering and crediting Securities (including
Securities redeemed otherwise than through a sinking fund), the Company may
deliver such Securities to the Trustee for crediting against such payment
obligation in accordance with the terms of such Securities and this Indenture.
Section 11.06 SECURITIES PAYABLE ON REDEMPTION DATE. Notice of
redemption having been given as aforesaid, the Securities so to be redeemed
shall, on the Redemption Date, become due and payable at the Redemption Price
therein specified, and from and after such date (unless the Company shall
default in the payment of the Redemption Price and accrued interest) such
Securities shall cease to bear interest. Upon surrender of any such Security for
redemption in accordance with said notice, such Security shall be paid by the
Company at the Redemption Price, together with accrued interest to the
Redemption Date; provided, however, that installments of interest 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 Regular or Special Record Dates according
to their terms and the provisions of Section 3.07.
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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 prescribed therefor in the
Security.
Section 11.07 SECURITIES REDEEMED IN PART. Any Security which is to
be redeemed only in part shall be surrendered at an office or agency of the
Company 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 and
Stated Maturity, 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.
ARTICLE 12
SINKING FUNDS
Section 12.01 APPLICABILITY OF ARTICLE. The provisions of this
Article shall be applicable to any sinking fund for the retirement of Securities
of a series, except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.01 for
Securities of such series.
The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by the terms of
Securities of any series is herein referred to as a "MANDATORY SINKING FUND
PAYMENT," and any payment in excess of such minimum amount provided for by the
terms of Securities of any series is herein referred to as an "OPTIONAL SINKING
FUND PAYMENT." If provided for by the terms of Securities of any series, the
cash amount of any sinking fund payment may be subject to reduction as provided
in Section 12.02. Each sinking fund payment shall be applied to the redemption
of Securities of any series as provided for by the terms of Securities of such
series.
Section 12.02 SATISFACTION OF SINKING FUND PAYMENTS WITH SECURITIES.
The Company (1) may deliver Securities of a series (other than any Securities
previously called for redemption) and (2) may apply as a credit Securities of a
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
sinking fund payments pursuant to the terms of such Securities, in each case in
satisfaction of all or any part of any sinking fund payment with respect to the
Securities of such series required to be made pursuant to the terms of such
Securities as provided for by the terms of such series; provided that such
Securities have not been previously so credited. Such Securities shall be
received and credited for such purpose by the Trustee at the Redemption Price
specified in such Securities for redemption through operation of the sinking
fund and the amount of such sinking fund payment shall be reduced accordingly.
Section 12.03 REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES FOR SINKING FUND. Not less
than 45 days (or such shorter period reasonably acceptable to the Trustee) prior
to each sinking fund payment date for any series of Securities, the Company will
deliver to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate specifying the amount of the
next ensuing sinking fund payment for that series pursuant to the
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terms of that series, the portion thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by
payment of cash and the portion thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by
delivering and crediting Securities of that series pursuant to Section 12.02 and
will also deliver to the Trustee any Securities to be so delivered (which have
not been previously delivered). Not less than 30 days before each such sinking
fund payment date the Trustee shall select the Securities to be redeemed upon
such sinking fund payment date in the manner specified in Section 11.03 and
cause notice of the redemption thereof to be given in the name of and at the
expense of the Company in the manner provided in Section 11.04. Such notice
having been duly given, the redemption of such Securities shall be made upon the
terms and in the manner stated in Sections 11.06 and 11.07.
ARTICLE 13
DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE
Section 13.01 APPLICABILITY OF ARTICLE; COMPANY'S OPTION TO EFFECT
DEFEASANCE OR COVENANT DEFEASANCE. Unless as otherwise specified as contemplated
by Section 3.01 for Securities of such series, provision is made for the
inapplicability of, in whole or in part, or any modification to, either or both
of (a) defeasance of the Securities of a series under Section 13.02 or (b)
covenant defeasance of the Securities of a series under Section 13.03, then the
provisions of such Section or Sections, as the case may be, together with the
other provisions of this Article, shall be applicable to the Securities of such
series and the Company may at its option by Board Resolution, at any time, with
respect to the Securities of such series elect to have either Section 13.02
(unless inapplicable) or Section 13.03 (unless inapplicable) be applied to the
Outstanding Securities of such series upon compliance with the applicable
conditions set forth below in this Article.
Section 13.02 DEFEASANCE AND DISCHARGE. Upon the Company's exercise
of the option provided in Section 13.01 to defease the Outstanding Securities of
a particular series, the Company shall be discharged from its obligations with
respect to the Outstanding Securities of such series on the date the applicable
conditions set forth in Section 13.04 are satisfied (hereinafter, "DEFEASANCE").
Defeasance shall mean that the Company shall be deemed to have paid and
discharged the entire indebtedness represented by the Outstanding Securities of
such series and to have satisfied all its other obligations under such
Securities and this Indenture insofar as such Securities are concerned (and the
Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments
acknowledging the same); provided, however, that the following rights,
obligations, powers, trusts, duties and immunities shall survive until otherwise
terminated or discharged hereunder: (A) the rights of Holders of Outstanding
Securities of such series to receive, solely from the trust fund provided for in
Section 13.04, payments in respect of the principal of (and premium, if any) and
interest on such Securities when such payments are due, (B) the Company's
obligations with respect to such Securities under Sections 3.04, 3.05, 3.06,
10.02 and 10.05, (C) the rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the
Trustee hereunder and (D) this Article. Subject to compliance with this Article,
the Company may exercise its option with respect to defeasance under this
Section 13.02 notwithstanding the prior exercise of its option with respect to
covenant defeasance under Section 13.03 in regard to the Securities of such
series.
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Section 13.03 COVENANT DEFEASANCE. Upon the Company's exercise of
the option provided in Section 13.01 to obtain a covenant defeasance with
respect to the Outstanding Securities of a particular series, the Company shall
be released from its obligations under this Indenture and any applicable
supplemental indenture (except its obligations under Sections 3.04, 3.05, 3.06,
5.06, 5.09, 6.10, 10.01, 10.02, 10.03, 10.04 and 10.05) with respect to the
Outstanding Securities of such series on and after the date the applicable
conditions set forth in Section 13.04 are satisfied (hereinafter, "COVENANT
DEFEASANCE"). Covenant defeasance shall mean that, with respect to the
Outstanding Securities of such series, the Company may omit to comply with and
shall have no liability in respect of any term, condition or limitation set
forth in this Indenture and any applicable supplemental indenture (except its
obligations under Sections 3.04, 3.05, 3.06, 5.06, 5.09, 6.10, 10.01, 10.02,
10.03, 10.04 and 10.05), whether directly or indirectly by reason of any
reference elsewhere herein or by reason of any reference to any other provision
herein or in any other document, and such omission to comply shall not
constitute an Event of Default under Section 5.01(4) or any such supplemental
indenture with respect to Outstanding Securities of such series, and the
remainder of this Indenture and of the Securities of such series shall be
unaffected thereby.
Section 13.04 CONDITIONS TO DEFEASANCE OR COVENANT DEFEASANCE. The
following shall be the conditions to defeasance under Section 13.02 and covenant
defeasance under Section 13.03 with respect to the Outstanding Securities of a
particular series:
(1) The Company shall irrevocably have deposited or
caused to be deposited with the Trustee (or another trustee satisfying the
requirements of Section 6.09 who shall agree to comply with the provisions of
this Article applicable to it), under the terms of an irrevocable trust
agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to such Trustee, as
trust funds in trust for the purpose of making the following payments,
specifically pledged as security for, and dedicated solely to, the benefit of
the Holders of such Securities, (A) money in an amount, or (B) U.S. Government
Obligations which through the scheduled payment of principal and interest in
respect thereof in accordance with their terms will provide, not later than the
due date of any payment, money in an amount, or (C) a combination thereof, in
each case sufficient, after payment of all federal, state and local taxes or
other charges or assessments in respect thereof payable by the Trustee, 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, on)
and each installment of principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the
Outstanding Securities of such series 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 the Outstanding Securities of such
series on the day on which such payments are due and payable in accordance with
the terms of this Indenture and of such Securities.
(2) No Default or Event of Default with respect to the
Securities of such series shall have occurred and be continuing on the date of
such deposit or shall occur as a result of such deposit.
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(3) Such deposit, defeasance or covenant defeasance shall
not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, any other
material debt agreement or instrument to which the Company is a party or by
which it is bound.
(4) In the case of an election with respect to Section
13.02, the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee either (a) a ruling
directed to the Trustee received from the Internal Revenue Service to the effect
that the Holders of the Outstanding Securities of such series 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 or (B) an Opinion of Counsel, based on such ruling or on a
change in the applicable federal income tax law since the date of this
Indenture, in either case to the effect that, and based thereon such opinion
shall confirm that, the Holders of the Outstanding Securities of such series
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.
(5) In the case of an election with respect to Section
13.03, the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel or
a ruling directed to the Trustee received from the Internal Revenue Service to
the effect that the Holders of the Outstanding Securities of such series 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.
(6) Such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall be
effected in compliance with any additional terms, conditions or limitations
which may be imposed on the Company in connection therewith pursuant to Section
3.01.
(7) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an
Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all
conditions precedent provided for relating to either the defeasance under
Section 13.02 or the covenant defeasance under Section 13.03 (as the case may
be) have been complied with.
Section 13.05 DEPOSITED MONEY AND GOVERNMENT OBLIGATIONS TO BE HELD
IN TRUST. Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 10.05, all
money and Government Obligations (including the proceeds thereof) deposited with
the Trustee (or other qualifying trustee, collectively for purposes of this
Section 13.05, the "TRUSTEE") pursuant to Section 13.04 in respect of the
Outstanding Securities of a particular series shall be held in trust and applied
by the Trustee, in accordance with the provisions of such Securities and this
Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent
(including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may
determine, to the Holders of such Securities of all sums due and to become due
thereon in respect of principal (and premium, if any) and interest, but such
money need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by
law.
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The Company shall pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or other
charge imposed on or assessed against the U.S. Government Obligations deposited
pursuant to Section 13.04 or the principal and interest received in respect
thereof, other than any such tax, fee or other charge which by law is for the
account of the Holders of the Outstanding Securities of such series.
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 held by it as provided in Section 13.04 with respect
to Securities of any series 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 for the purpose for which such money or
Government Obligations were deposited.
Section 13.06 REINSTATEMENT. If the Trustee or the Paying Agent is
unable to apply any money or U.S. Government Obligations, as the case may be, in
accordance with this Article with respect to any Securities by reason of any
order or judgment of court or governmental authority enjoining, restraining or
otherwise prohibiting such application, then the obligations under this
Indenture and such Securities from which the Company has been discharged or
released pursuant to Section 13.02 or 13.03 shall be revived and reinstated as
though no deposit had occurred pursuant to this Article with respect to such
Securities, until such time as the Trustee or Paying Agent is permitted to apply
all money or U.S. Government Obligations, as the case may be, held in trust
pursuant to Section 13.05 with respect to such Securities in accordance with
this Article; provided, however, that if the Company makes any payment of
principal of or any premium or interest on any such Security following such
reinstatement of its obligations, the Company shall be subrogated to the rights
(if any) of the Holders of such Securities to receive such payment from the
money or U.S. Government Obligations, as the case may be, so held in trust.
ARTICLE 14
GUARANTEES
Section 14.01 GUARANTEE. Any series of Securities may be guaranteed
by one or more of the Guarantors. The terms and the form of any such Guarantee
will be established in the manner contemplated by Section 3.01 for that
particular series of Securities.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be
duly executed, all as of the day and year first above written.
REGENT BROADCASTING, INC.
By: _______________________________________
Name: _________________________________
Title:___________________________________
Attest:
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Name:_________________
Title:__________________
[-------------------]
as Trustee
By: ________________________________________
Name: __________________________________
Title:____________________________________
Attest:
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Name: __________________
Title: ____________________
[GUARANTOR]
By: __________________________________
Name: ________________________________
Title: _________________________________
Attest: ______________________
Name: ______________________
Title: _______________________
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