GMACM HOME EQUITY LOAN TRUST 2004-HE4,
Issuer,
and
XXXXX FARGO BANK, N.A.,
Indenture Trustee
________________________
INDENTURE
________________________
Dated as of October 28, 2004
GMACM HOME EQUITY LOAN-BACKED TERM NOTES
GMACM HOME EQUITY LOAN-BACKED VARIABLE PAY REVOLVING NOTES
ARTICLE I Definitions.......................................................................2
Section 1.01 Definitions....................................................................2
Section 1.02 Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act..............................2
Section 1.03 Rules of Construction..........................................................2
ARTICLE II Original Issuance of Notes.......................................................3
Section 2.01 Form 3
Section 2.02 Execution, Authentication and Delivery.........................................3
Section 2.03 Advance or Additional Variable Pay Revolving Notes.............................4
ARTICLE III Covenants.......................................................................5
Section 3.01 Collection of Payments with Respect to the Mortgage Loans......................5
Section 3.02 Maintenance of Office or Agency................................................6
Section 3.03 Money for Payments to Be Held in Trust; Paying Agent...........................6
Section 3.04 Existence......................................................................7
Section 3.05 Priority of Distributions; Defaulted Interest..................................7
Section 3.06 Protection of Trust Estate....................................................11
Section 3.07 Opinions as to Trust Estate...................................................12
Section 3.08 Performance of Obligations; Servicing Agreement...............................12
Section 3.09 Negative Covenants............................................................13
Section 3.10 Annual Statement as to Compliance.............................................13
Section 3.11 Recordation of Assignments....................................................14
Section 3.12 Representations and Warranties Concerning the Mortgage Loans..................14
Section 3.13 Assignee of Record of the Mortgage Loans......................................14
Section 3.14 Servicer as Agent and Bailee of the Indenture Trustee.........................14
Section 3.15 Investment Company Act........................................................15
Section 3.16 Issuer May Consolidate, etc...................................................15
Section 3.17 Successor or Transferee.......................................................16
Section 3.18 No Other Business.............................................................17
Section 3.19 No Borrowing..................................................................17
Section 3.20 Guarantees, Loans, Advances and Other Liabilities.............................17
Section 3.21 Capital Expenditures..........................................................17
Section 3.22 Owner Trustee Not Liable for Certificates or Related Documents................17
Section 3.23 Restricted Payments...........................................................17
Section 3.24 Notice of Events of Default...................................................18
Section 3.25 Further Instruments and Acts..................................................18
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Section 3.26 Statements to Noteholders.....................................................18
Section 3.27 Determination of Note Rate....................................................18
Section 3.28 Payments under the Policy.....................................................19
Section 3.29 Replacement/Additional Enhancement............................................20
Section 3.30 Additional Representations of Issuer..........................................20
ARTICLE IV The Notes; Satisfaction And Discharge Of Indenture..............................21
Section 4.01 The Notes; Variable Pay Revolving Notes.......................................21
Section 4.02 Registration of and Limitations on Transfer and Exchange of Notes; Appointment of
Certificate Registrar....................................................22
Section 4.03 Mutilated, Xxxxxxxxx, Lost or Stolen Notes....................................24
Section 4.04 Persons Deemed Owners.........................................................25
Section 4.05 Cancellation..................................................................25
Section 4.06 Book-Entry Notes..............................................................26
Section 4.07 Notices to Depository.........................................................26
Section 4.08 Definitive Notes..............................................................27
Section 4.09 Tax Treatment.................................................................27
Section 4.10 Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture.......................................27
Section 4.11 Application of Trust Money....................................................28
Section 4.12 Subrogation and Cooperation...................................................29
Section 4.13 Repayment of Monies Held by Paying Agent......................................30
Section 4.14 Temporary Notes...............................................................30
ARTICLE V Default And Remedies.............................................................30
Section 5.01 Events of Default.............................................................30
Section 5.02 Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment............................30
Section 5.03 Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Indenture Trustee.....31
Section 5.04 Remedies; Priorities..........................................................33
Section 5.05 Optional Preservation of the Trust Estate.....................................35
Section 5.06 Limitation of Suits...........................................................36
Section 5.07 Unconditional Rights of Noteholders to Receive Principal and Interest.........36
Section 5.08 Restoration of Rights and Remedies............................................37
Section 5.09 Rights and Remedies Cumulative................................................37
Section 5.10 Delay or Omission Not a Waiver................................................37
Section 5.11 Control by Enhancer or Noteholders............................................37
Section 5.12 Waiver of Past Defaults.......................................................38
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Section 5.13 Undertaking for Costs.........................................................38
Section 5.14 Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws..............................................39
Section 5.15 Sale of Trust Estate..........................................................39
Section 5.16 Action on Notes...............................................................41
Section 5.17 Performance and Enforcement of Certain Obligations............................41
ARTICLE VI The Indenture Trustee...........................................................42
Section 6.01 Duties of Indenture Trustee...................................................42
Section 6.02 Rights of Indenture Trustee...................................................43
Section 6.03 Individual Rights of Indenture Trustee........................................45
Section 6.04 Indenture Trustee's Disclaimer................................................45
Section 6.05 Notice of Event of Default....................................................45
Section 6.06 Reports by Indenture Trustee to Noteholders...................................45
Section 6.07 Compensation and Indemnity....................................................45
Section 6.08 Replacement of Indenture Trustee..............................................46
Section 6.09 Successor Indenture Trustee by Xxxxxx.........................................47
Section 6.10 Appointment of Co-Indenture Trustee or Separate Indenture Trustee.............47
Section 6.11 Eligibility; Disqualification.................................................48
Section 6.12 Preferential Collection of Claims Against Issuer..............................49
Section 6.13 Representations and Warranties................................................49
Section 6.14 Directions to Indenture Trustee...............................................49
Section 6.15 Indenture Trustee May Own Securities..........................................50
ARTICLE VII Noteholders' Lists and Reports.................................................50
Section 7.01 Issuer to Furnish Indenture Trustee Names and Addresses of Noteholders........50
Section 7.02 Preservation of Information; Communications to Noteholders....................50
Section 7.03 Reports by Issuer.............................................................50
Section 7.04 Reports by Indenture Trustee..................................................51
ARTICLE VIII Accounts, Disbursements and Releases..........................................51
Section 8.01 Collection of Money...........................................................51
Section 8.02 Trust Accounts................................................................51
Section 8.03 Officer's Certificate.........................................................52
Section 8.04 Termination Upon Distribution to Noteholders..................................52
Section 8.05 Release of Trust Estate.......................................................52
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Section 8.06 Surrender of Notes Upon Final Payment.........................................53
ARTICLE IX Supplemental Indentures.........................................................53
Section 9.01 Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Noteholders........................53
Section 9.02 Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Noteholders...........................55
Section 9.03 Execution of Supplemental Indentures..........................................56
Section 9.04 Effect of Supplemental Indenture..............................................56
Section 9.05 Conformity with Trust Indenture Act...........................................56
Section 9.06 Reference in Notes to Supplemental Indentures.................................56
ARTICLE X Miscellaneous....................................................................57
Section 10.01 Compliance Certificates and Opinions, etc....................................57
Section 10.02 Form of Documents Delivered to Indenture Trustee.............................59
Section 10.03 Acts of Noteholders..........................................................59
Section 10.04 Notices, etc., to Indenture Trustee, Issuer, Enhancer and Rating Agencies....60
Section 10.05 Notices to Noteholders; Waiver...............................................61
Section 10.06 Alternate Payment and Notice Provisions......................................61
Section 10.07 Conflict with Trust Indenture Act............................................61
Section 10.08 Effect of Headings...........................................................62
Section 10.09 Successors and Assigns.......................................................62
Section 10.10 Severability.................................................................62
Section 10.11 Benefits of Indenture........................................................62
Section 10.12 Legal Holidays...............................................................62
Section 10.13 GOVERNING LAW................................................................62
Section 10.14 Counterparts.................................................................62
Section 10.15 Recording of Indenture.......................................................62
Section 10.16 Issuer Obligation............................................................63
Section 10.17 No Petition..................................................................63
Section 10.18 Inspection...................................................................63
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EXHIBITS
Exhibit A-1.... Form of Term Notes
Exhibit A-2.... Form of Variable Pay Revolving Notes
Exhibit B...... Form of 144A Investment Representation
Exhibit C...... Form of Advance Request
Exhibit D...... Form of Investor Representation Letter
Exhibit E...... Form of Transferor Letter
Appendix A..... Definitions
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RECONCILIATION AND TIE BETWEEN TRUST INDENTURE
ACT OF 1939 AND INDENTURE PROVISIONS*
Trust Indenture
Act Section Indenture Section
310(a)(1)..........................................6.11
(a)(2).............................................6.11
(a)(3).............................................6.10
(a)(4)...................................Not Applicable
(a)(5).............................................6.11
(b)..........................................6.08, 6.11
(c)......................................Not Applicable
311(a).............................................6.12
(b)................................................6.12
(c)......................................Not Applicable
312(a)....................................7.01, 7.02(a)
(b).............................................7.02(b)
(c).............................................7.02(c)
313(a).............................................7.04
(b)................................................7.04
(c)..................................7.03(a)(iii), 7.04
(d)................................................7.04
314(a)....................................3.10, 7.03(a)
(b)................................................3.07
(c)(1)................................8.05(c), 10.01(a)
(c)(2)................................8.05(c), 10.01(a)
(c)(3)..................................Not Applicable
(d)(1)................................8.05(c), 10.01(b)
(d)(2)................................8.05(c), 10.01(b)
(d)(3)................................8.05(c), 10.01(b)
(e)............................................10.01(a)
315(a)..........................................6.01(b)
(b)................................................6.05
(c).............................................6.01(a)
(d).............................................6.01(c)
(d)(1)..........................................6.01(c)
(d)(2)..........................................6.01(c)
(d)(3)..........................................6.01(c)
(e)................................................5.13
316(a)(1)(A).......................................5.11
316(a)(1)(B).......................................5.12
316(a)(2)................................Not Applicable
316(b).............................................5.07
317(a)(1)..........................................5.04
317(a)(2).......................................5.03(d)
317(b)..........................................3.03(a)
318(a)............................................10.07
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*This reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be
part of the within indenture.
This Indenture, dated as of October 28, 2004, is between GMACM Home
Equity Loan Trust 2004-HE4, a Delaware statutory trust, as issuer (the
"Issuer"), and Xxxxx Fargo Bank, N.A., as indenture trustee (the "Indenture
Trustee").
WITNESSETH:
Each party hereto agrees as follows for the benefit of the other party
and for the equal and ratable benefit of the Noteholders of the Issuer's Series
2004-HE4 GMACM Home Equity Loan-Backed Term Notes and GMACM Home Equity
Loan-Backed Variable Pay Revolving Notes (together, the "Notes").
GRANTING CLAUSE:
The Issuer hereby Grants to the Indenture Trustee on the Closing Date,
as trustee for the benefit of the Noteholders and the Enhancer, all of the
Issuer's right, title and interest in and to all accounts, chattel paper,
general intangibles, contract rights, payment intangibles, certificates of
deposit, deposit accounts, instruments, documents, letters of credit, money,
advices of credit, investment property, goods and other property consisting of,
arising under or related to whether now existing or hereafter created in any of
the following: (a) the Initial Mortgage Loans and any Subsequent Mortgage Loans
(together with the Cut-Off Date Principal Balances and any Additional Balances
arising thereafter to and including the date immediately preceding the
commencement of the Rapid Amortization Period), and all monies due or to become
due thereunder; (b) the Custodial Account, Note Payment Account, Pre-Funding
Account, Capitalized Interest Account, Funding Account and Reserve Sub-Account,
and all funds on deposit or credited thereto from time to time; (c) the Policy
and all hazard insurance policies; and (d) all present and future claims,
demands, causes and choses in action in respect of any or all of the foregoing
and all payments on or under, and all proceeds of every kind and nature
whatsoever in respect of, any or all of the foregoing and all payments on or
under, and all proceeds of every kind and nature whatsoever in the conversion
thereof, voluntary or involuntary, into cash or other liquid property, all cash
proceeds, accounts, accounts receivable, notes, drafts, acceptances, checks,
deposit accounts, rights to payment of any and every kind, and other forms of
obligations and receivables, instruments and other property which at any time
constitute all or part of or are included in the proceeds of any of the
foregoing (collectively, the "Trust Estate" or the "Collateral").
The foregoing Grant is made in trust to secure the payment of principal
of and interest on, and any other amounts owing in respect of, the Notes,
equally and ratably without prejudice, priority or distinction, and to secure
compliance with the provisions of this Indenture, all as provided in this
Indenture.
The foregoing Grant shall inure to the benefit of the Enhancer in
respect of draws made on the Policy and amounts owing from time to time pursuant
to the Insurance Agreement (regardless of whether such amounts relate to the
Notes or the Certificates), and such Grant shall continue in full force and
effect for the benefit of the Enhancer until all such amounts owing to it have
been repaid in full.
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The Indenture Trustee, as trustee on behalf of the Noteholders,
acknowledges such Xxxxx, accepts the trust under this Indenture in accordance
with the provisions hereof and agrees to perform its duties as Indenture Trustee
as required herein.
ARTICLE I
Definitions
Section 1.01 Definitions. For all purposes of this Indenture, except as
otherwise expressly provided herein or unless the context otherwise requires,
capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned
to such terms in the Definitions attached hereto as Appendix A, which is
incorporated by reference herein. All other capitalized terms used herein shall
have the meanings specified herein.
Section 1.02 Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act. Whenever
this Indenture refers to a provision of the Trust Indenture Act (the "TIA"),
such provision is incorporated by reference in and made a part of this
Indenture. The following TIA terms used in this Indenture have the following
meanings:
"Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission.
"indenture securities" means the Notes.
"indenture security holder" means a Noteholder.
"indenture to be qualified" means this Indenture.
"indenture trustee" or "institutional trustee" means the Indenture
Trustee.
"obligor" on the indenture securities means the Issuer and any other
obligor on the indenture securities.
All other TIA terms used in this Indenture that are defined by
XXX, defined by TIA reference to another statute or defined by Commission rule
have the meaning assigned to them by such definitions.
Section 1.03 Rules of Construction. Unless the context otherwise requires:
(a)a term has the meaning assigned to it;
(b)an accounting term not otherwise defined has the meaning
assigned to it in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles as in
effect from time to time;
(c)"or" includes "and/or";
(d)"including" means "including without limitation";
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(e)words in the singular include the plural and words in the
plural include the singular;
(f)the term "proceeds" has the meaning ascribed thereto in the
UCC; and
(g)any agreement, instrument or statute defined or referred to
herein or in any instrument or certificate delivered in connection herewith
means such agreement, instrument or statute as from time to time amended,
modified or supplemented and includes (in the case of agreements or instruments)
references to all attachments thereto and instruments incorporated therein;
references to a Person are also to its permitted successors and assigns.
ARTICLE II
Original Issuance of Notes
Section 2.01 Form. The Term Notes and the Variable Pay Revolving Notes,
in each case together with the Indenture Trustee's certificate of
authentication, shall be in substantially the forms set forth in Exhibits A-1
and A-2, respectively, 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, consistently herewith,
be determined by the officers executing the Notes, as evidenced by their
execution thereof. Any portion of the text of any Note may be set forth on the
reverse thereof, with an appropriate reference thereto on the face of such Note.
The Notes shall be typewritten, printed, lithographed or engraved or
produced by any combination of these methods, all as determined by the
Authorized Officers executing such Notes, as evidenced by their execution of
such Notes.
The terms of the Notes set forth in Exhibits A-1 and A-2 are part of the
terms of this Indenture.
Any additional Variable Pay Revolving Notes issued by the Issuer (in
accordance with the instruction of the Depositor) after the Closing Date
pursuant to Section 2.03 shall be issued in accordance with the provisions of
this Indenture and shall be in substantially the form of Exhibit A-2 and shall
have the same Note Rate (which may be adjusted as described in Section 2.03),
Final Payment Date and priority for payment as the Variable Pay Revolving Notes
issued on the Closing Date.
Section 2.02 Execution, Authentication and Delivery. The Notes shall be
executed on behalf of the Issuer by any of its Authorized Officers. The
signature of any such Authorized Officer on the Notes may be manual or
facsimile.
Notes bearing the manual or facsimile signature of individuals who were
at any time Authorized Officers of the Issuer shall bind the Issuer,
notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such
offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Notes or did not hold
such offices at the date of such Notes.
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The Indenture Trustee shall upon Issuer Request authenticate and deliver
Term Notes for original issue in an aggregate initial principal amount of
$992,000,000 and Variable Pay Revolving Notes for original issue in an aggregate
initial principal amount of $26,000,000. The Class A-1 Notes, Class A-2 Notes,
Class A-3 Notes, Class A-1 Variable Pay Revolving Notes, Class A-2 Variable Pay
Revolving Notes and Class A-3 Variable Pay Revolving Notes, shall have an
initial principal amount equal to the Initial Class A-1 Note Balance, Initial
Class A-2 Note Balance, Initial Class A-3 Note Balance, Initial Class A-1
Variable Pay Revolving Note Balance, Initial Class A-2 Variable Pay Revolving
Note Balance and Initial Class A-3 Variable Pay Revolving Note Balance,
respectively.
Each Note shall be dated the date of its authentication. The Term Notes
shall be issuable as registered Book-Entry Notes in minimum denominations of
$25,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof and the Variable Pay
Revolving Notes shall be issued as Definitive Notes in minimum denominations of
$250,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. Each Class of
Variable Pay Revolving Notes issued pursuant to Section 2.03 shall be issued
with an initial Note Balance equal to the outstanding Note Balance of the
related Class of Term Notes as of the related Targeted Final Payment Date, plus,
in the case of a substitute Variable Pay Revolving Note issued in connection
with an Advance by an existing Holder, the remaining Note Balance of the
Variable Pay Revolving Note being so substituted.
No Note shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be
valid or obligatory for any purpose, unless there appears on such Note a
certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein
executed by the Indenture Trustee by the manual signature of one of its
authorized signatories, and such certificate upon any Note shall be conclusive
evidence, and the only evidence, that such Note has been duly authenticated and
delivered hereunder.
Section 2.03 Advance or Additional Variable Pay Revolving Notes.
Not later than sixty (60) days prior to a Targeted Final Payment Date, the
Indenture Trustee, on behalf of the Issuer, will request an Advance (in
substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit C) from the Holder(s) of the
related Class of Variable Pay Revolving Notes in an aggregate amount equal to
the outstanding Note Balance of the related Class of Term Notes, to be paid on
the Business Day prior to such Targeted Final Payment Date. Within thirty (30)
days thereafter, each Holder of that Class of Variable Pay Revolving Notes shall
notify the Indenture Trustee in writing (as set forth in Exhibit C) whether it
will make such Advance, subject to the continued satisfaction of the conditions
precedent specified in the Note Purchase Agreement.
If the Holder of such Class of Variable Pay Revolving Notes
indicates that it will make an Advance, the Issuer shall issue and, upon receipt
of an Issuer Order, the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate, a substitute
Variable Pay Revolving Note for such Holder in a principal amount equal to the
remaining Note Balance of such Holder's existing Variable Pay Revolving Note
plus the amount of the Advance to be made by such Holder. The Indenture Trustee
shall register such substitute Variable Pay Revolving Note to such Holder on or
prior to the date such Advance is to be made in exchange for the Advance and the
existing Variable Pay Revolving Note of such Holder.
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If the Holders of such Class of Variable Pay Revolving Notes
indicate to the Indenture Trustee that they will not make an Advance in an
aggregate amount equal to the outstanding Note Balance of the related Class of
Term Notes, the Indenture Trustee will notify the Depositor by close of business
on the next Business Day. If insufficient Advances will be made, the Depositor
may direct the Issuer to issue additional Variable Pay Revolving Notes in an
aggregate amount equal to the related outstanding Class of Term Notes or such
insufficiency, if less. Upon receipt of such direction and the related Advance,
the Issuer shall issue and, upon receipt of an Issuer Order, the Indenture
Trustee shall authenticate, such additional Variable Pay Revolving Notes in
accordance with Sections 2.01 and 2.02 and Article IV. If such additional
Variable Pay Revolving Notes are issued, the Indenture Trustee shall register
such Variable Pay Revolving Notes in accordance with Article IV of this
Indenture and deliver such Variable Pay Revolving Notes in accordance with the
instructions of the Depositor. In addition, in connection with the issuance of
the additional Variable Pay Revolving Notes, at the direction of, and pursuant
to the procedures provided by, the Depositor, the Indenture Trustee shall
contact the broker-dealers identified by the Depositor in order to solicit bids
for the aggregate principal amount of Variable Pay Revolving Notes for which the
Indenture Trustee has received notice that Advances will not be made. Within a
reasonable time after receipt of the bids, the Indenture Trustee, in
consultation with the Depositor, shall determine the lowest margin over LIBOR at
which Variable Pay Revolving Notes in an aggregate amount equal to the amount of
requested Advances which the Indenture Trustee has received notice will not be
made, can be sold, and such margin shall become the new margin in effect for all
the Variable Pay Revolving Notes, as of the related Targeted Final Payment Date;
provided that such margin shall in no event exceed 0.50%; and provided further
that, if any Holder of a Variable Pay Revolving Note agrees to make an Advance
on the related Targeted Final Payment Date, such margin shall not be lower than
the margin on the Variable Pay Revolving Notes immediately prior to such
Targeted Final Payment Date. In addition, if there exists an unreimbursed Draw
on the Policy, or a Servicing Default has occurred and is continuing, the margin
on the Variable Pay Revolving Notes may not be increased without the consent of
the Enhancer. All further actions of the Indenture Trustee necessary to effect
the issuance and sale of such additional Variable Pay Revolving Notes shall be
at the direction of the Depositor and in conformity with this Indenture.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if an Early Amortization Event has
occurred, an Insolvency Event with respect to the Enhancer has occurred and is
continuing or a Default has occurred and is continuing, the Indenture Trustee
will not request an Advance and the Issuer will not issue any additional
Variable Pay Revolving Notes.
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ARTICLE III
Covenants
Section 3.01 Collection of Payments with Respect to the Mortgage Loans.
The Indenture Trustee shall establish and maintain with itself the Note Payment
Account in which the Indenture Trustee shall, subject to the terms of this
paragraph, deposit, on the same day as it is received from the Servicer, each
remittance received by the Indenture Trustee with respect to the Mortgage Loans.
The Indenture Trustee shall make all payments of principal of and interest on
the Notes, subject to Section 3.03 as provided in Section 3.05 herein from
monies on deposit in the Note Payment Account.
Section 3.02 Maintenance of Office or Agency. The Issuer will maintain
in the City of Minneapolis, Minnesota, an office or agency where, subject to
satisfaction of conditions set forth herein, Notes may be surrendered for
registration of transfer or exchange, and where notices and demands to or upon
the Issuer in respect of the Notes and this Indenture may be served. The Issuer
hereby initially appoints the Indenture Trustee to serve as its agent for the
foregoing purposes. If at any time the Issuer shall fail to maintain any such
office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Indenture Trustee with the address
thereof, such surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the
Corporate Trust Office, and the Issuer hereby appoints the Indenture Trustee as
its agent to receive all such surrenders, notices and demands.
Section 3.03 Money for Payments to Be Held in Trust; Paying Agent. As
provided in Section 3.01, all payments of amounts due and payable with respect
to any Notes that are to be made from amounts withdrawn from the Note Payment
Account pursuant to Section 3.01 shall be made on behalf of the Issuer by the
Indenture Trustee or by the Paying Agent, and no amounts so withdrawn from the
Note Payment Account for payments of Notes shall be paid over to the Issuer
except as provided in this Section 3.03. The Issuer hereby appoints the
Indenture Trustee to act as initial Paying Agent hereunder. The Issuer will
cause each Paying Agent other than the Indenture Trustee to execute and deliver
to the Indenture Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree
with the Indenture Trustee (and if the Indenture Trustee acts as Paying Agent,
it hereby so agrees), subject to the provisions of this Section 3.03, that such
Paying Agent will:
(a) hold all sums held by it for the payment of amounts due with
respect to the Notes 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 and pay such sums to such Persons as herein provided;
(b) give the Indenture Trustee and the Enhancer written notice of
any default by the Issuer of which it has actual knowledge in the making of any
payment required to be made with respect to the Notes;
(c) at any time during the continuance of any such default, upon
the written request of the Indenture Trustee, forthwith pay to the Indenture
Trustee all sums so held in trust by such Paying Agent;
(d) immediately resign as Paying Agent and forthwith pay to the
Indenture Trustee all sums held by it in trust for the payment of Notes, if at
any time it ceases to meet the standards required to be met by a Paying Agent at
the time of its appointment;
(e) comply with all requirements of the Code with respect to the
withholding from any payments made by it on any Notes of any applicable
withholding taxes imposed thereon and with respect to any applicable reporting
requirements in connection therewith; and
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(f) deliver to the Indenture Trustee a copy of the statement to
Noteholders prepared with respect to each Payment Date by the Servicer pursuant
to Section 4.01 of the Servicing Agreement.
The Issuer may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, by Issuer
Request direct any Paying Agent to pay to the Indenture Trustee all sums held in
trust by such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the Indenture Trustee upon
the same trusts as those upon which the sums were held by such Paying Agent; and
upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the Indenture Trustee, such Paying
Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such money.
Subject to applicable laws with respect to escheat of funds, any money
held by the Indenture Trustee or any Paying Agent in trust for the payment of
any amount due with respect to any Note and remaining unclaimed for one year
after such amount has become due and payable shall be discharged from such trust
and be paid to the Issuer on Issuer Request; and the Noteholder of such Note
shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Issuer for
payment thereof (but only to the extent of the amounts so paid to the Issuer),
and all liability of the Indenture Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to
such trust money shall thereupon cease; provided, however, that the Indenture
Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment,
shall at the expense and direction of the Issuer cause to be published once, in
an Authorized Newspaper, 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 Issuer. The Indenture Trustee may also adopt and employ,
at the expense and direction of the Issuer, any other reasonable means of
notification of such repayment (including, but not limited to, mailing notice of
such repayment to Noteholders the Notes which have been called but have not been
surrendered for redemption or whose right to or interest in monies due and
payable but not claimed is determinable from the records of the Indenture
Trustee or of any Paying Agent, at the last address of record for each such
Noteholder).
Section 3.04 Existence. The Issuer will keep in full effect its
existence, rights and franchises as a statutory trust under the laws of the
State of Delaware (unless it becomes, or any successor Issuer hereunder is or
becomes, organized under the laws of any other state or of the United States of
America, in which case the Issuer will keep in full effect its existence, rights
and franchises under the laws of such other jurisdiction) and will obtain and
preserve its qualification to do business in each jurisdiction in which such
qualification is or shall be necessary to protect the validity and
enforceability of this Indenture, the Notes, the Mortgage Loans and each other
instrument or agreement included in the Trust Estate.
Section 3.05 Priority of Distributions; Defaulted Interest.
(a) In accordance with Section 3.03(a) of the Servicing Agreement, the priority
of distributions on each Payment Date from Principal Collections and Interest
Collections with respect to the Mortgage Loans, any optional advance of
delinquent principal or interest on the Mortgage Loans made by the Servicer in
respect of the related Collection Period, any Policy Draw Amount deposited into
the Note Payment Account (to be applied solely with respect to the payment of
amounts described in clauses (i) and (vi) under this Section 3.05(a), and any
amounts transferred to the Note Payment Account or Funding Account from the
Pre-Funding Account, Capitalized Interest Account, Funding Account or Reserve
Sub-Account pursuant to Sections 3.16, 3.17, 3.18 and 3.19 of the Servicing
Agreement, is as follows:
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(i) from Interest Collections, any Capitalized Interest
Requirement pursuant to Section 3.19(b) of the Servicing Agreement and
any Policy Draw Amount with respect to the Notes deposited into the Note
Payment Account on such Payment Date pursuant to Section 3.28(a)(ii), to
the Note Payment Account, for payment by the Paying Agent to the
Noteholders of each Class of Term Notes and Variable Pay Revolving
Notes, pari passu, interest for the related Interest Period at the
related Note Rate on the related Note Balance immediately prior to such
Payment Date, excluding any Relief Act Shortfalls allocated thereto
pursuant to Section 3.05(f), plus any such amount remaining unpaid from
prior Payment Dates;
(ii) from Net Principal Collections, to the extent not
paid pursuant to clause (i) above, to the Note Payment Account, for
payment by the Paying Agent to the Noteholders of each Class of Term
Notes and Variable Pay Revolving Notes, pari passu, interest for the
related Interest Period at the related Note Rate on the related Note
Balance immediately prior to such Payment Date, excluding any Relief Act
Shortfalls allocated thereto pursuant to Section 3.05(f), plus any such
amount remaining unpaid from prior Payment Dates;
(iii) during the Revolving Period, to the Funding Account,
Principal Collections to the extent not previously applied to purchase
Additional Balances or Subsequent Mortgage Loans;
(iv) from Interest Collections, to the Enhancer, the
amount of the premium for the Policy and any unpaid premium for the
Policy, with interest thereon as provided in the Insurance Agreement;
(v) at the request of the holders of the Certificates,
from Excess Spread, to the Distribution Account, for distribution to the
holders of the Certificates, an amount equal to the Additional Balance
Increase Amount;
(vi) during the Revolving Period and the Amortization
Periods, to the Note Payment Account, the Principal Distribution Amount
for payment by the Paying Agent to the Noteholders for each Class of
Variable Pay Revolving Notes, pro rata, based on their respective Note
Balances, including any Policy Draw Amount with respect to the Notes
deposited into the Note Payment Account on such Payment Date pursuant to
Section 3.28(a)(iii); provided that any Liquidation Loss Amounts for any
Payment Date during the Revolving Period shall be deposited in the
Funding Account; provided further, that any amounts transferred from the
Pre-Funding Account pursuant to Section 3.18(b) of the Servicing
Agreement after the aggregate Note Balance of the Variable Pay Revolving
Notes has been reduced to zero shall be deposited into the Funding
Account;
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(vii) to the Enhancer, to reimburse it for prior draws
made on the Policy, with interest thereon as provided in the Insurance
Agreement;
(viii) on or prior to the Payment Date occurring in
January 2005, any remaining Excess Spread, to the Distribution Account,
for distribution to the holders of the Certificates;
(ix) from any remaining Excess Spread during the Revolving
Period, but only after the Payment Date occurring in January 2005,
first, to the Note Payment Account for payment to each Class of Variable
Pay Revolving Notes, pro rata, based on their respective Note Balances,
until the Note Balance thereof has been reduced to zero and then as a
deposit to the Funding Account, the amount necessary to be applied on
that Payment Date so that the Overcollateralization Amount, after giving
effect to the application of funds pursuant to clause (vi) above, is not
less than the Overcollateralization Target Amount;
(x) from any remaining Excess Spread during the
Amortization Periods, to the Note Payment Account, the amount necessary
to be applied on such Payment Date for payment by the Paying Agent to
the Noteholders, which amount will be paid to each Class of Variable Pay
Revolving Notes, pro rata, based on their respective Note Balances, so
that the Overcollateralization Amount, after giving effect to the
application of funds pursuant to clause (vi) above, is not less than the
Overcollateralization Target Amount;
(xi) from any remaining Excess Spread during the
Amortization Periods, to the Note Payment Account, any Liquidation Loss
Amounts not otherwise covered by payments pursuant to clauses (vi), (ix)
or (x) above on such Payment Date or prior Payment Dates, for payment by
the Paying Agent to the Noteholders of each Class of Variable Pay
Revolving Notes, pro rata, based on their respective Note Balances;
(xii) to the Enhancer, any amounts owed to the Enhancer
pursuant to the Insurance Agreement other than amounts specified in
clauses (iv) or (vii) above;
(xiii) to the Note Payment Account from the remaining
Excess Spread, for payment by the Paying Agent to the Noteholders, any
Interest Shortfalls on the Notes for such Payment Date and for any
Payment Date not previously paid, pro rata, in accordance with Interest
Shortfalls previously allocated thereto and remaining unpaid;
(xiv) during the Amortization Periods, to the Indenture
Trustee, any amounts owing to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section
6.07 to the extent remaining unpaid;
(xv) to the Reserve Sub-Account, the amount (if any)
required pursuant to Section 3.05(c); and
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(xvi) any remaining amount, to the Distribution Account,
for distribution to the holders of the Certificates by the Certificate
Paying Agent in accordance with the Trust Agreement;
provided, that on the Final Payment Date, the amount that is required to be paid
pursuant to clause (vi) above shall be equal to the Note Balance immediately
prior to such Payment Date and shall include any amount on deposit in the Note
Payment Account on such Payment Date in accordance with Section 3.28(a)(iii).
For purposes of the foregoing, the Note Balance of each Class of Notes
on each Payment Date during the Amortization Periods for such Class of Notes
will be reduced (any such reduction, an "Unpaid Principal Amount") by the pro
rata portion allocable to such Notes of all Liquidation Loss Amounts for such
Payment Date, but only to the extent that such Liquidation Loss Amounts are not
otherwise covered by payments made pursuant to clauses (vi), (ix), (x) or (xi)
above, or by a draw on the Policy, and the Overcollateralization Amount is zero.
(b) Notwithstanding the allocation of payments described in Section 3.05(a),
unless an Early Amortization Event has occurred, all Collections on the Mortgage
Loans payable as principal distributions on the Variable Pay Revolving Notes
during the Amortization Periods will be so paid until the aggregate Note Balance
of the Variable Pay Revolving Notes has been reduced to zero and thereafter,
will be deposited into the Reserve Sub-Account. On the first Payment Date
following the next Targeted Final Payment Date, amounts in the Reserve
Sub-Account will be deposited into the Note Payment Account and applied as
principal payments, pro rata, on the Variable Pay Revolving Notes based on their
respective Note Balances.
Notwithstanding the allocation of payments described in clause
Section 3.05(a), if an Early Amortization Event has occurred, all amounts in the
Reserve Sub-Account and all Collections on the Mortgage Loans payable as
principal distributions on the Variable Pay Revolving Notes pursuant to Section
3.05(a) will be paid on each Payment Date to the Holders of the Variable Pay
Revolving Notes and the Term Notes, pro rata, based on their respective Note
Balances.
(c) Within sixty (60) Business Days of each Targeted Final Payment Date, the
Indenture Trustee, on behalf of the Issuer, will request an Advance (under the
circumstances and in the manner set forth in Section 2.03 hereof) from the
Holder of the related Class of Variable Pay Revolving Notes, the proceeds of
which shall be applied by the Indenture Trustee to make principal payments in an
amount equal to the outstanding Note Balance on the related Class of Term Notes
on such Targeted Final Payment Date or, if received within 10 days following
such Targeted Final Payment Date (but not later than 1:00 p.m. New York time on
the 10th day or, if such 10th day is not a Business Day, the immediately
preceding Business Day), not later than the 10th day following the related
Targeted Final Payment Date or, if such 10th day is not a Business Day, the
immediately preceding Business Day. If no Advance is received, the Issuer shall,
at the direction of the Depositor, issue additional Variable Pay Revolving
Notes. Neither the Advance, nor proceeds from the sale of additional Variable
Pay Revolving Notes issued with respect to a Targeted Final Payment Date, will
exceed or be less than the amount necessary to pay the outstanding Note Balance
on the related Class of Term Notes on such Targeted Final Payment Date. Advances
may be made and additional Variable Pay Revolving Notes may be issued only in
connection with a Targeted Final Payment Date and in accordance with this
Indenture and the Trust Agreement. If no Advance is received, and the Trust
fails to issue additional Variable Pay Revolving Notes on a Targeted Final
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Payment Date, an amount equal to 10 days interest on the related Class of Term
Notes shall be deposited into the Reserve Sub-Account pursuant to Section
3.05(a)(xv) from amounts otherwise payable to Certificateholders. Upon the
issuance and sale by the Trust of additional Variable Pay Revolving Notes within
10 days after the related Targeted Final Payment Date, the amount of interest
deposited into the Reserve Sub-Account pursuant to Section 3.05(a)(xv) shall be
paid to the Holders of the related Class of Term Notes, together with the Note
Balance of such Class, in an amount equal to the interest accrued on such Class
of Term Notes through the date of payment.
(d) On each Payment Date, the Paying Agent shall apply, from amounts on deposit
in the Note Payment Account, and in accordance with the Servicing Certificate,
the amounts set forth above in the order of priority set forth in Section
3.05(a).
Amounts paid to Noteholders shall be paid in respect of the Notes
in accordance with the applicable percentage as set forth in Section 3.05(e).
Interest on the Notes will be computed on the basis of the actual number of days
in each Interest Period and a 360-day year. Any installment of interest or
principal payable on any Note that is punctually paid or duly provided for by
the Issuer on the applicable Payment Date shall be paid to the Noteholder of
record thereof on the immediately preceding Record Date by wire transfer to an
account specified in writing by such Noteholder reasonably satisfactory to the
Indenture Trustee, or by check or money order mailed to such Noteholder at such
Noteholder's address appearing in the Note Register, the amount required to be
distributed to such Noteholder on such Payment Date pursuant to such
Noteholder's Notes; provided, that the Indenture Trustee shall not pay to any
such Noteholder any amounts required to be withheld from a payment to such
Noteholder by the Code.
(e) Principal of each Note shall be due and payable in full on the Final Payment
Date as provided in the applicable form of Note set forth in Exhibits A-1 and
A-2. All principal payments on the Term Notes and Variable Pay Revolving Notes
of each Class shall be made in accordance with the priorities set forth in
Sections 3.05(a), 3.05(b) and 3.05(c) to the Noteholders entitled thereto in
accordance with the related Percentage Interests represented thereby. Upon
written notice to the Indenture Trustee by the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee
shall notify the Person in the name of which a Note is registered at the close
of business on the Record Date preceding the applicable Targeted Final Payment
Date, the Final Payment Date or other final Payment Date, as applicable. Such
notice shall be mailed no later than five Business Days prior to the Final
Payment Date or such other final Payment Date and, unless such Note is then a
Book-Entry Note, shall specify that payment of the principal amount and any
interest due with respect to such Note at the Final Payment Date or such other
final Payment Date will be payable only upon presentation and surrender of such
Note, and shall specify the place where such Note may be presented and
surrendered for such final payment.
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(f) With respect to any Payment Date, interest payments on the Notes will be
reduced by any Relief Act Shortfalls for the related Collection Period on a pro
rata basis in accordance with the amount of interest payable on the Notes on
such Payment Date, absent such reduction.
Section 3.06 Protection of Trust Estate.
(a) The Issuer shall from time to time execute and deliver all
such supplements and amendments hereto and all such financing statements,
continuation statements, instruments of further assurance and other instruments,
and will take such other action necessary or advisable to:
(i) maintain or preserve the lien and security interest
(and the priority thereof) of this Indenture or carry out more
effectively the purposes hereof;
(ii) perfect, publish notice of or protect the validity of
any Grant made or to be made by this Indenture;
(iii) cause the Trust to enforce any of the Mortgage
Loans; or
(iv) preserve and defend title to the Trust Estate and the
rights of the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders in such Trust Estate
against the claims of all persons and parties.
(b) Except as otherwise provided in this Indenture, the Indenture
Trustee shall not remove any portion of the Trust Estate that consists of money
or is evidenced by an instrument, certificate or other writing from the
jurisdiction in which it was held at the date of the most recent Opinion of
Counsel delivered pursuant to Section 3.07 (or from the jurisdiction in which it
was held as described in the Opinion of Counsel delivered at the Closing Date
pursuant to Section 3.07, if no Opinion of Counsel has yet been delivered
pursuant to Section 3.07) unless the Indenture Trustee shall have first received
an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the lien and security interest created
by this Indenture with respect to such property will continue to be maintained
after giving effect to such action or actions.
The Issuer hereby designates the Indenture Trustee its agent and
attorney-in-fact to execute any financing statement, continuation statement or
other instrument required to be executed pursuant to this Section 3.06.
Section 3.07 Opinions as to Trust Estate.
On the Closing Date, the Issuer shall furnish to the Indenture Trustee
and the Owner Trustee an Opinion of Counsel at the expense of the Issuer stating
that, upon delivery of the Loan Agreements relating to the Initial Mortgage
Loans to the Indenture Trustee or the Custodian in the State of Pennsylvania,
the Indenture Trustee will have a perfected, first priority security interest in
such Mortgage Loans.
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On or before December 31st in each calendar year, beginning in 2004, the
Issuer shall furnish to the Indenture Trustee an Opinion of Counsel at the
expense of the Issuer either stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, no
further action is necessary to maintain a perfected, first priority security
interest in the Mortgage Loans until December 31 in the following calendar year
or, if any such action is required to maintain such security interest in the
Mortgage Loans, such Opinion of Counsel shall also describe the recording,
filing, re-recording and refiling of this Indenture, any indentures supplemental
hereto and any other requisite documents and the execution and filing of any
financing statements and continuation statements that will, in the opinion of
such counsel, be required to maintain the security interest in the Mortgage
Loans until December 31 in the following calendar year.
Section 3.08 Performance of Obligations; Servicing Agreement.
(a) The Issuer shall punctually perform and observe all of its
obligations and agreements contained in this Indenture, the Basic Documents and
in the instruments and agreements included in the Trust Estate.
(b) The Issuer may contract with other Persons to assist it in
performing its duties under this Indenture, and any performance of such duties
by a Person identified to the Indenture Trustee in an Officer's Certificate of
the Issuer shall be deemed to be action taken by the Issuer.
(c) The Issuer shall not take any action or permit any action to
be taken by others that would release any Person from any of such Person's
covenants or obligations under any of the documents relating to the Mortgage
Loans or under any instrument included in the Trust Estate, or that would result
in the amendment, hypothecation, subordination, termination or discharge of, or
impair the validity or effectiveness of, any of the documents relating to the
Mortgage Loans or any such instrument, except such actions as the Servicer is
expressly permitted to take in the Servicing Agreement.
(d) The Issuer may retain an administrator and may enter into
contracts with other Persons for the performance of the Issuer's obligations
hereunder, and performance of such obligations by such Persons shall be deemed
to be performance of such obligations by the Issuer.
Section 3.09 Negative Covenants. So long as any Notes are Outstanding,
the Issuer shall not:
(a) except as expressly permitted by this Indenture, sell,
transfer, exchange or otherwise dispose of the Trust Estate, unless directed to
do so by the Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section 5.04 hereof;
(b) claim any credit on, or make any deduction from the principal
or interest payable in respect of, the Notes (other than amounts properly
withheld from such payments under the Code) or assert any claim against any
present or former Noteholder by reason of the payment of the taxes levied or
assessed upon any part of the Trust Estate;
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(c) (i) permit the validity or effectiveness of this Indenture to
be impaired, or permit the lien of this Indenture to be amended, hypothecated,
subordinated, terminated or discharged, or permit any Person to be released from
any covenants or obligations with respect to the Notes under this Indenture
except as may be expressly permitted hereby, (ii) permit any lien, charge,
excise, claim, security interest, mortgage or other encumbrance (other than the
lien of this Indenture) to be created on or extend to or otherwise arise upon or
burden the Trust Estate or any part thereof or any interest therein or the
proceeds thereof or (iii) permit the lien of this Indenture not to constitute a
valid first priority security interest in the Trust Estate; or
(d) impair or cause to be impaired the Issuer's interest in the
Mortgage Loans, the Purchase Agreement or in any other Basic Document, if any
such action would materially and adversely affect the interests of the
Noteholders.
Section 3.10 Annual Statement as to Compliance. The Issuer shall deliver
to the Indenture Trustee, within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of
the Issuer (commencing with the fiscal year ending on December 31, 2004), an
Officer's Certificate stating, as to the Authorized Officer signing such
Officer's Certificate, that:
(a) a review of the activities of the Issuer during such year and
of its performance under this Indenture and the Trust Agreement has been made
under such Authorized Officer's supervision; and
(b) to the best of such Authorized Officer's knowledge, based on
such review, the Issuer has complied with all conditions and covenants under
this Indenture and the provisions of the Trust Agreement throughout such year,
or, if there has been a default in its compliance with any such condition or
covenant, specifying each such default known to such Authorized Officer and the
nature and status thereof.
Section 3.11 Recordation of Assignments. The Issuer shall enforce the
obligation, if any, of the Sellers under the Purchase Agreement to submit or
cause to be submitted for recordation all Assignments of Mortgages within 60
days of receipt of recording information by the Servicer.
Section 3.12 Representations and Warranties Concerning the Mortgage
Loans. The Indenture Trustee, as pledgee of the Mortgage Loans, shall have the
benefit of (i) the representations and warranties made by GMACM in Section
3.1(a) and Section 3.1(b) of the Purchase Agreement and (ii) the benefit of the
representations and warranties made by WG Trust 2003 in Section 3.1(d) of the
Purchase Agreement, in each case, concerning the Mortgage Loans and the right to
enforce the remedies against GMACM or WG Trust 2003 provided in Section 3.1(e)
of the Purchase Agreement, as applicable, to the same extent as though such
representations and warranties were made directly to the Indenture Trustee.
Section 3.13 Assignee of Record of the Mortgage Loans. As pledgee of the
Mortgage Loans, the Indenture Trustee shall hold title to the Mortgage Loans by
being named as payee in the endorsements or assignments of the Loan Agreements
and assignee in the Assignments of Mortgage to be delivered under Section 2.1 of
the Purchase Agreement. Except as expressly provided in the Purchase Agreement
or in the Servicing Agreement with respect to any specific Mortgage Loan, the
Indenture Trustee shall not execute any endorsement or assignment or otherwise
release or transfer such title to any of the Mortgage Loans until such time as
the remaining Trust Estate may be released pursuant to Section 8.05(b). The
Indenture Trustee's holding of such title shall in all respects be subject to
its fiduciary obligations to the Noteholders hereunder.
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Section 3.14 Servicer as Agent and Bailee of the Indenture Trustee.
Solely for purposes of perfection under Section 9-313 or 9-314 of the UCC or
other similar applicable law, rule or regulation of the state in which such
property is held by the Servicer, the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee hereby
acknowledge that the Servicer is acting as agent and bailee of the Indenture
Trustee in holding amounts on deposit in the Custodial Account pursuant to
Section 3.02 of the Servicing Agreement that are allocable to the Mortgage
Loans, as well as the agent and bailee of the Indenture Trustee in holding any
Related Documents released to the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.06(c) of the
Servicing Agreement, and any other items constituting a part of the Trust Estate
which from time to time come into the possession of the Servicer. It is intended
that, by the Servicer's acceptance of such agency pursuant to Section 3.02 of
the Servicing Agreement, the Indenture Trustee, as a pledgee of the Mortgage
Loans, will be deemed to have possession of such Related Documents, such monies
and such other items for purposes of Section 9-313 or 9-314 of the UCC of the
state in which such property is held by the Servicer.
Section 3.15 Investment Company Act. The Issuer shall not become an
"investment company" or under the "control" of an "investment company" as such
terms are defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (or any
successor or amendatory statute), and the rules and regulations thereunder
(taking into account not only the general definition of the term "investment
company" but also any available exceptions to such general definition);
provided, however, that the Issuer shall be in compliance with this Section 3.15
if it shall have obtained an order exempting it from regulation as an
"investment company" so long as it is in compliance with the conditions imposed
in such order.
Section 3.16 Issuer May Consolidate, etc.
(a) The Issuer shall not consolidate or merge with or into any
other Person, unless:
(i) the Person (if other than the Issuer) formed by or
surviving such consolidation or merger shall be a Person organized and
existing under the laws of the United States of America or any state or
the District of Columbia and shall expressly assume, by an indenture
supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the Indenture Trustee, in
form reasonably satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, the due and
punctual payment of the principal of and interest on all Notes and to
the Certificate Paying Agent, on behalf of the Certificateholders and
the performance or observance of every agreement and covenant of this
Indenture on the part of the Issuer to be performed or observed, all as
provided herein;
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(ii) immediately after giving effect to such transaction,
no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing;
(iii) the Enhancer shall have consented thereto and each
Rating Agency shall have notified the Issuer that such transaction will
not cause a Rating Event, without taking into account the Policy;
(iv) the Issuer shall have received an Opinion of Counsel
(and shall have delivered copies thereof to the Indenture Trustee and
the Enhancer) to the effect that such transaction will not have any
material adverse tax consequence to the Issuer, any Noteholder or any
Certificateholder;
(v) any action that is necessary to maintain the lien and
security interest created by this Indenture shall have been taken; and
(vi) the Issuer shall have delivered to the Indenture
Trustee an Officer's Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each stating
that such consolidation or merger and such supplemental indenture comply
with this Article III and that all conditions precedent herein provided
for relating to such transaction have been complied with (including any
filing required by the Exchange Act).
(b) The Issuer shall not convey or transfer any of its properties
or assets, including those included in the Trust Estate, to any Person, unless:
(i) the Person that acquires by conveyance or transfer the
properties and assets of the Issuer the conveyance or transfer of which
is hereby restricted shall (A) be a United States citizen or a Person
organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America or
any state, (B) expressly assumes, by an indenture supplemental hereto,
executed and delivered to the Indenture Trustee, in form satisfactory to
the Indenture Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the principal of
and interest on all Notes and the performance or observance of every
agreement and covenant of this Indenture on the part of the Issuer to be
performed or observed, all as provided herein, (C) expressly agrees by
means of such supplemental indenture that all right, title and interest
so conveyed or transferred shall be subject and subordinate to the
rights of Noteholders of the Notes, (D) unless otherwise provided in
such supplemental indenture, expressly agrees to indemnify, defend and
hold harmless the Issuer against and from any loss, liability or expense
arising under or related to this Indenture and the Notes and (E)
expressly agrees by means of such supplemental indenture that such
Person (or if a group of Persons, then one specified Person) shall make
all filings with the Commission (and any other appropriate Person)
required by the Exchange Act in connection with the Notes;
(ii) immediately after giving effect to such transaction,
no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing;
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(iii) the Enhancer shall have consented thereto, and each
Rating Agency shall have notified the Issuer that such transaction will
not cause a Rating Event, if determined without regard to the Policy;
(iv) the Issuer shall have received an Opinion of Counsel
(and shall have delivered copies thereof to the Indenture Trustee) to
the effect that such transaction will not have any material adverse tax
consequence to the Issuer or any Noteholder;
(v) any action that is necessary to maintain the lien and
security interest created by this Indenture shall have been taken; and
(vi) the Issuer shall have delivered to the Indenture
Trustee an Officer's Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each stating
that such conveyance or transfer and such supplemental indenture comply
with this Article III and that all conditions precedent herein provided
for relating to such transaction have been complied with (including any
filing required by the Exchange Act).
Section 3.17 Successor or Transferee.
(a)Upon any consolidation or merger of the Issuer in accordance
with Section 3.16(a), the Person formed by or surviving such consolidation or
merger (if other than the Issuer) shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and
may exercise every right and power of, the Issuer under this Indenture with the
same effect as if such Person had been named as the Issuer herein.
(b)Upon a conveyance or transfer of all the assets and properties
of the Issuer pursuant to Section 3.16(b), the Issuer shall be released from
every covenant and agreement of this Indenture to be observed or performed on
the part of the Issuer with respect to the Notes immediately upon the delivery
of written notice to the Indenture Trustee of such conveyance or transfer.
Section 3.18 No Other Business. The Issuer shall not engage in any
business other than financing, purchasing, owning and selling and managing the
Mortgage Loans and the issuance of the Notes and Certificates in the manner
contemplated by this Indenture and the Basic Documents and all activities
incidental thereto.
Section 3.19 No Borrowing. The Issuer shall not issue, incur, assume,
guarantee or otherwise become liable, directly or indirectly, for any
indebtedness except for the Notes.
Section 3.20 Guarantees, Loans, Advances and Other Liabilities. Except
as contemplated by this Indenture or the other Basic Documents, the Issuer shall
not make any loan or advance or credit to, or guarantee (directly or indirectly
or by an instrument having the effect of assuring another's payment or
performance on any obligation or capability of so doing or otherwise), endorse
or otherwise become contingently liable, directly or indirectly, in connection
with the obligations, stocks or dividends of, or own, purchase, repurchase or
acquire (or agree contingently to do so) any stock, obligations, assets or
securities of, or any other interest in, or make any capital contribution to,
any other Person.
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Section 3.21 Capital Expenditures. The Issuer shall not make any
expenditure (by long-term or operating lease or otherwise) for capital assets
(either realty or personalty).
Section 3.22 Owner Trustee Not Liable for Certificates or Related
Documents. The recitals contained herein shall be taken as the statements of the
Issuer, and the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee assume no responsibility
for the correctness of the recitals contained herein. The Owner Trustee and the
Indenture Trustee make no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of
this Indenture or any other Basic Document, of the Certificates (other than the
signatures of the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee on the Certificates) or
the Notes, or of any Related Documents. The Owner Trustee and the Indenture
Trustee shall at no time have any responsibility or liability with respect to
the sufficiency of the Trust Estate or its ability to generate the payments to
be distributed to Certificateholders under the Trust Agreement or the
Noteholders under this Indenture, including, the compliance by the Depositor or
the Sellers with any warranty or representation made under any Basic Document or
in any related document or the accuracy of any such warranty or representation,
or any action of the Certificate Paying Agent, the Certificate Registrar or any
other person taken in the name of the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee.
Section 3.23 Restricted Payments. The Issuer shall not, directly or
indirectly, (i) pay any dividend or make any distribution (by reduction of
capital or otherwise), whether in cash, property, securities or a combination
thereof, to the Owner Trustee or any owner of a beneficial interest in the
Issuer or otherwise with respect to any ownership or equity interest or security
in or of the Issuer, (ii) redeem, purchase, retire or otherwise acquire for
value any such ownership or equity interest or security or (iii) set aside or
otherwise segregate any amounts for any such purpose; provided, however, that
the Issuer may make, or cause to be made, (x) distributions to the Owner Trustee
and the Certificateholders as contemplated by, and to the extent funds are
available for such purpose under, the Trust Agreement and (y) payments to the
Servicer pursuant to the terms of the Servicing Agreement. The Issuer will not,
directly or indirectly, make payments to or distributions from the Custodial
Account except in accordance with this Indenture and the other Basic Documents.
Section 3.24 Notice of Events of Default. The Issuer shall give the
Indenture Trustee, the Enhancer and the Rating Agencies prompt written notice of
each Event of Default hereunder and under the Trust Agreement.
Section 3.25 Further Instruments and Acts. Upon request of the Indenture
Trustee, the Issuer shall execute and deliver such further instruments and do
such further acts as may be reasonably necessary or proper to carry out more
effectively the purposes of this Indenture.
Section 3.26 Statements to Noteholders. On each Payment Date, each of
the Indenture Trustee and the Certificate Registrar shall make available to the
Depositor, the Owner Trustee, each Rating Agency, each Noteholder and each
Certificateholder, with a copy to the Enhancer, the Servicing Certificate
provided to the Indenture Trustee by the Servicer relating to such Payment Date
and delivered pursuant to Section 4.01 of the Servicing Agreement.
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The Indenture Trustee will make the Servicing Certificate (and, at its
option, any additional files containing the same information in an alternative
format) available each month to Securityholders and the Enhancer, and other
parties to this Indenture via the Indenture Trustee's internet website. The
Indenture Trustee's internet website shall initially be located at
"xxx.xxxxxxx.xxx." Assistance in using the website can be obtained by calling
the Indenture Trustee's customer service desk at (000) 000-0000. Parties that
are unable to use the above distribution options are entitled to have a paper
copy mailed to them via first class mail by calling the customer service desk
and indicating such. The Indenture Trustee shall have the right to change the
way the statement to Securityholders are distributed in order to make such
distribution more convenient or more accessible to the above parties and the
Indenture Trustee shall provide timely and adequate notification to all above
parties regarding any such changes. The Indenture Trustee may require
registration and acceptance of a disclaimer in connection with providing access
to its website.
Section 3.27 Determination of Note Rate. On the second LIBOR Business
Day immediately preceding (i) the Closing Date in the case of the first Interest
Period and (ii) the first day of each succeeding Interest Period, the Indenture
Trustee shall determine LIBOR and the applicable Note Rate for such Interest
Period and shall inform the Issuer, the Servicer and the Depositor by means of
the Indenture Trustee's online service.
Section 3.28 Payments under the Policy.
(a)(i) If the Servicing Certificate specifies a Policy Draw
Amount for any Payment Date, the Indenture Trustee shall make a draw on the
Policy in an amount specified in the Servicing Certificate for such Payment Date
or, if no amount is specified, the Indenture Trustee shall make a draw on the
Policy in the amount by which the amount on deposit in the Note Payment Account
is less than interest due on the Notes on such Payment Date.
(ii) The Indenture Trustee shall deposit or cause to be deposited
such Policy Draw Amount into the Note Payment Account on such Payment Date to
the extent such amount relates to clause (a) of the definition of "Deficiency
Amount" or clause (b) of the definition of "Insured Amount".
(iii) To the extent such amount relates to clause (b) of the
definition of "Deficiency Amount", the Indenture Trustee shall (i) during the
Revolving Period, deposit such amount into the Funding Account as Principal
Collections and (ii) during the Amortization Periods, deposit such amount into
the Note Payment Account.
(b)The Indenture Trustee shall submit, if a Policy Draw Amount is
specified in any statement to Securityholders prepared pursuant to Section 4.01
of the Servicing Agreement, the Notice (in the form attached as Exhibit A to the
Policy) to the Enhancer no later than 12:00 noon, New York City time, on the
second (2nd) Business Day prior to the applicable Payment Date.
Section 3.29 Replacement/Additional Enhancement. The Issuer (or the
Servicer on its behalf) may, at its expense, in accordance with and upon
satisfaction of the conditions set forth herein, but shall not be required to,
obtain a surety bond, letter of credit, guaranty or reserve account as a
Permitted Investment for amounts on deposit in the Capitalized Interest Account,
or may arrange for any other form of additional credit enhancement; provided,
that after prior notice thereto, no Rating Agency shall have informed the Issuer
that a Rating Event would occur as a result thereof (without taking the Policy
into account); and provided further, that the issuer of any such instrument or
facility and the timing and mechanism for drawing on such additional enhancement
shall be acceptable to the Indenture Trustee and the Enhancer. It shall be a
condition to procurement of any such additional credit enhancement that there be
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delivered to the Indenture Trustee and the Enhancer (a) an Opinion of Counsel,
acceptable in form to the Indenture Trustee and the Enhancer, from counsel to
the provider of such additional credit enhancement with respect to the
enforceability thereof and such other matters as the Indenture Trustee or the
Enhancer may require and (b) an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the
procurement of such additional enhancement would not (i) adversely affect in any
material respect the tax status of the Notes or the Certificates or (ii) cause
the Issuer to be taxable as an association (or a publicly traded partnership)
for federal income tax purposes or to be classified as a taxable mortgage pool
within the meaning of Section 7701(i) of the Code.
Section 3.30 Additional Representations of Issuer.
The Issuer hereby represents and warrants to the Indenture Trustee that
as of the Closing Date:
(a) This Indenture creates a valid and continuing security interest (as
defined in the applicable UCC) in the Loan Agreements in favor of the
Indenture Trustee, which security interest is prior to all other
Liens (except as expressly permitted otherwise in this Indenture),
and is enforceable as such as against creditors of and purchasers
from the Issuer.
(b) The Loan Agreements constitute "instruments" within the meaning of
the applicable UCC.
(c) The Issuer owns and has good and marketable title to the Loan
Agreements free and clear of any Lien of any Person.
(d) The original executed copy of each Loan Agreement (except for any
Loan Agreement with respect to which a Lost Note Affidavit has been
delivered to the Custodian) has been delivered to the Custodian.
(e) The Issuer has received a written acknowledgment from the Custodian
that the Custodian is acting solely as agent of the Indenture Trustee
for the benefit of the Noteholders.
(f) Other than the security interest granted to the Indenture Trustee
pursuant to this Indenture, the Issuer has not pledged, assigned,
sold, granted a security interest in, or otherwise conveyed any of
the Loan Agreements. The Issuer has not authorized the filing of and
is not aware of any financing statements against the Issuer that
include a description of collateral covering the Loan Agreements
other than any financing statement relating to the security interest
granted to the Indenture Trustee hereunder or any security interest
that has been terminated. The Issuer is not aware of any judgment or
tax lien filings against the Issuer.
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(g) None of the Loan Agreements has any marks or notations indicating
that they have been pledged, assigned or otherwise conveyed to any
Person other than the Indenture Trustee, except for (i) any
endorsements that are part of a complete chain of endorsements from
the originator of the Loan Agreement to the Indenture Trustee, and
(ii) any marks or notations pertaining to Liens that have been
terminated or released.
(h) None of the provisions of this Section 3.30 shall be waived without
the prior written confirmation from Standard & Poor's that such
waiver shall not result in a reduction or withdrawal of the
then-current rating of the Notes.
ARTICLE IV
The Notes; Satisfaction And Discharge Of Indenture
Section 4.01 The Notes; Variable Pay Revolving Notes
(a) The Term Notes shall be registered in the name of a nominee
designated by the Depository. Beneficial Owners will hold interests in the Term
Notes through the book-entry facilities of the Depository in minimum initial
Term Note Balances of $25,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess
thereof.
The Indenture Trustee may for all purposes (including the making of
payments due on the Notes) deal with the Depository as the authorized
representative of the Beneficial Owners with respect to the Term Notes for the
purposes of exercising the rights of Noteholders of Term Notes hereunder. Except
as provided in the next succeeding paragraph of this Section 4.01, the rights of
Beneficial Owners with respect to the Term Notes shall be limited to those
established by law and agreements between such Beneficial Owners and the
Depository and Depository Participants. Except as provided in Section 4.08,
Beneficial Owners shall not be entitled to definitive certificates for the Term
Notes as to which they are the Beneficial Owners. Requests and directions from,
and votes of, the Depository as Noteholder of the Term Notes shall not be deemed
inconsistent if they are made with respect to different Beneficial Owners. The
Indenture Trustee may establish a reasonable record date in connection with
solicitations of consents from or voting by Noteholders and give notice to the
Depository of such record date. Without the consent of the Issuer and the
Indenture Trustee, no Term Note may be transferred by the Depository except to a
successor Depository that agrees to hold such Note for the account of the
Beneficial Owners.
In the event the Depository Trust Company resigns or is removed as
Depository, the Indenture Trustee, at the request of the Servicer and with the
approval of the Issuer may appoint a successor Depository. If no successor
Depository has been appointed within 30 days of the effective date of the
Depository's resignation or removal, each Beneficial Owner shall be entitled to
certificates representing the Notes it beneficially owns in the manner
prescribed in Section 4.08.
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The Notes shall, on original issue, be executed on behalf of the Issuer
by the Owner Trustee, not in its individual capacity but solely as Owner Trustee
and upon Issuer Order, authenticated by the Note Registrar and delivered by the
Indenture Trustee to or upon the order of the Issuer.
(b) The Variable Pay Revolving Notes issued on the Closing Date
shall be issued in definitive form and shall bear the designation "Class A-1
VPRN-1," "Class A-2 VPRN-1" and "Class A-3 VPRN-1," as applicable, and each new
Class of Variable Pay Revolving Notes will be issued in definitive form and
shall bear sequential numerical designations in the order of their issuance.
Section 4.02 Registration of and Limitations on Transfer and Exchange of
Notes; Appointment of Certificate Registrar. The Issuer shall cause to be kept
at the Indenture Trustee's Corporate Trust Office a Note Register in which,
subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Note Registrar
shall provide for the registration of Notes and of transfers and exchanges of
Notes as herein provided. The Issuer hereby appoints the Indenture Trustee as
the initial Note Registrar.
Subject to the restrictions and limitations set forth below, upon
surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the Corporate Trust
Office, the Issuer shall execute, and the Note Registrar shall authenticate and
deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more
new Notes in authorized initial Note Balances evidencing the same aggregate
Percentage Interests.
No transfer, sale, pledge or other disposition of a Variable Pay
Revolving Note shall be made unless such transfer, sale, pledge or other
disposition is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act,
and any applicable state securities laws or is made in accordance with said Act
and laws. In the event of any such transfer, the Indenture Trustee or the Issuer
shall require the transferee to either (i) execute an investment letter in
substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit B (or in such form and
substance reasonably satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee and the Issuer) which
investment letters shall not be an expense of the Owner Trustee, the Indenture
Trustee, the Servicer, the Depositor or the Issuer and which investment letter
states that, among other things, such transferee (a) is a "qualified
institutional buyer" as defined under Rule 144A, acting for its own account or
the accounts of other "qualified institutional buyers" as defined under Rule
144A, and (b) is aware that the proposed transferor intends to rely on the
exemption from registration requirements under the Securities Act, provided by
Rule 144A or (ii) deliver to the Indenture Trustee and the Issuer (a) an
investment letter executed by the transferee in substantially the form of
Exhibit D, (b) a representation letter executed by the transferor in
substantially the form of Exhibit E and (c) an opinion of counsel to the effect
that such transfer is not required to be registered under the Securities Act and
the facts surrounding the transfer do not create a security that is required to
be registered under the Securities Act, in each case, acceptable to and in form
and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee,
which opinion and letters shall not be an expense of the Owner Trustee, the
Indenture Trustee, the Servicer, the Depositor or the Issuer. The Noteholder of
a Variable Pay Revolving Note desiring to effect such transfer shall, and does
hereby agree to, indemnify the Indenture Trustee, the Enhancer and the Issuer
against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not
made in accordance with such federal and state laws. In addition, no transfer of
any Variable Pay Revolving Note or any interest therein shall be made to any
employee benefit plan or certain other retirement plans and arrangements,
including individual retirement accounts and annuities, Xxxxx plans and bank
collective investment funds and insurance company general or separate accounts
in which such plans, accounts or arrangements are invested, that are subject to
ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (collectively, a "Plan"), any Person acting,
directly or indirectly, on behalf of any such Plan or any Person acquiring such
Variable Pay Revolving Note with "plan assets" of a Plan within the meaning of
the Department of Labor Regulations Section 2510.3-101 ("Plan Assets") unless
the Indenture Trustee and the Servicer are provided with an Opinion of Counsel
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that establishes to the satisfaction of the Indenture Trustee and the Servicer
that the purchase of such Variable Pay Revolving Note is permissible under
applicable law, will not constitute or result in any prohibited transaction
under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code and will not subject the Indenture
Trustee or the Servicer to any obligation or liability (including obligations or
liabilities under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code) in addition to those
undertaken in this Indenture, which Opinion of Counsel shall not be an expense
of the Indenture Trustee or the Servicer. In lieu of such Opinion of Counsel,
any Person acquiring such Variable Pay Revolving Note shall provide a
certification in the form of Exhibit G to the Trust Agreement, which the
Indenture Trustee and the Servicer may rely upon without further inquiry or
investigation. Neither an Opinion of Counsel nor a certification will be
required in connection with the initial transfer of any such Variable Pay
Revolving Note by the Owner Trust to the Depositor or any transfer from the
Depositor to an Affiliate of the Depositor (in which case, the Depositor or any
such Affiliate shall be deemed to have represented that the Depositor or such
Affiliate, as applicable, is not a Plan or a Person investing Plan Assets of any
Plan) and the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to conclusively rely upon a
representation (which shall be a written representation) from the Depositor of
the status of such transferee as an Affiliate of the Depositor.
Until the earlier of (i) 10 days after the Targeted Final Payment Date
for the related Class of Term Notes or (ii) the occurrence of an Early
Amortization Event, no Variable Pay Revolving Note issued after the Closing
Date, either at issuance or upon sale transfer, pledge or other disposition,
will be registered in the name of any Holder unless such Holder shall have
established, to the satisfaction of the Indenture Trustee and the Depositor,
that such Holder has the Required Ratings (or its obligations are guaranteed by
an entity that has the Required Ratings) or such Holder shall have been approved
by Noteholders representing 51% of the aggregate Note Balance of each Class of
Term Notes and the Enhancer (provided that no Enhancer Default or Insolvency
Event with respect to the Enhancer has occurred and is continuing), which
approval of the Enhancer shall not be unreasonably withheld; provided, that if
the Enhancer shall not have notified the Depositor or the Indenture Trustee
within five (5) days of receiving notice of a proposed transferee, that the
Enhancer does not approve such Holder, such approval shall be deemed to have
been made.
Subject to the foregoing, at the option of the Noteholders, Notes may be
exchanged for other Notes of like tenor, in each case in authorized initial Note
Balances evidencing the same aggregate Percentage Interests, upon surrender of
the Notes to be exchanged at the Corporate Trust Office of the Note Registrar.
Whenever any Notes are so surrendered for exchange, the Issuer shall execute and
the Note Registrar shall authenticate and deliver the Notes which the Noteholder
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making the exchange is entitled to receive. Each Note presented or surrendered
for registration of transfer or exchange shall (if so required by the Note
Registrar) be duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of
transfer in form reasonably satisfactory to the Note Registrar duly executed by,
the Noteholder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing with such
signature guaranteed by a commercial bank or trust company located or having a
correspondent located in The City of New York. Notes delivered upon any such
transfer or exchange will evidence the same obligations, and will be entitled to
the same rights and privileges, as the Notes surrendered.
No service charge shall be imposed for any registration of transfer or
exchange of Notes, but the Note Registrar shall require payment of a sum
sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in
connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes.
All Notes surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be
cancelled by the Note Registrar and delivered to the Indenture Trustee for
subsequent destruction without liability on the part of either.
The Issuer hereby appoints the Indenture Trustee as Certificate
Registrar to keep at its Corporate Trust Office a Certificate Register pursuant
to Section 3.09 of the Trust Agreement in which, subject to such reasonable
regulations as it may prescribe, the Certificate Registrar shall provide for the
registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges thereof pursuant to
Section 3.05 of the Trust Agreement. The Indenture Trustee hereby accepts such
appointment.
Each purchaser of a Note, by its acceptance of the Note, shall be deemed
to have represented that the acquisition of such Note by the purchaser does not
constitute or give rise to a prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA
or Section 4975 of the Code, for which no statutory, regulatory or
administrative exemption is available.
Section 4.03 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes. If (i) any
mutilated Note is surrendered to the Indenture Trustee, or the Indenture Trustee
receives evidence to its satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any
Note, and (ii) there is delivered to the Indenture Trustee such security or
indemnity as may be required by it to hold the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee
harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Issuer, the Note Registrar or
the Indenture Trustee that such Note has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser,
and provided that the requirements of Section 8 405 of the UCC are met, the
Issuer shall execute, and upon its request the Indenture Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver, in exchange for or in lieu of any such mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Note, a replacement Note of the same class; provided,
however, that if any such destroyed, lost or stolen Note, but not a mutilated
Note, shall have become or within seven days shall be due and payable, instead
of issuing a replacement Note, the Issuer may pay such destroyed, lost or stolen
Note when so due or payable without surrender thereof. If, after the delivery of
such replacement Note or payment of a destroyed, lost or stolen Note pursuant to
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the proviso to the preceding sentence, a bona fide purchaser of the original
Note in lieu of which such replacement Note was issued presents for payment such
original Note, the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to recover
such replacement Note (or such payment) from the Person to whom it was delivered
or any Person taking such replacement Note from such Person to whom such
replacement Note was delivered or any assignee of such Person, except a bona
fide purchaser, and shall be entitled to recover upon the security or indemnity
provided therefor to the extent of any loss, damage, cost or expense incurred by
the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee in connection therewith.
Upon the issuance of any replacement Note under this Section 4.03, the
Issuer may require the payment by the Noteholder of such Note of a sum
sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in
relation thereto and any other reasonable expenses (including the fees and
expenses of the Indenture Trustee) connected therewith.
Every replacement Note issued pursuant to this Section 4.03 in
replacement of any mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall constitute an
original additional contractual obligation of the Issuer, whether or not the
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note 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 Notes duly issued hereunder.
The provisions of this Section 4.03 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 Notes.
Section 4.04 Persons Deemed Owners. Prior to due presentment for
registration of transfer of any Note, the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and any
agent of the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in whose name
any Note is registered (as of the day of determination) as the owner of such
Note for the purpose of receiving payments of principal of and interest, if any,
on such Note and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Note be
overdue, and none of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee or any agent of the
Issuer or the Indenture Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
Section 4.05 Cancellation. All Notes surrendered for payment,
registration of transfer, exchange or redemption shall, if surrendered to any
Person other than the Indenture Trustee, be delivered to the Indenture Trustee
and shall be promptly cancelled by the Indenture Trustee. The Issuer may at any
time deliver to the Indenture Trustee for cancellation any Notes previously
authenticated and delivered hereunder which the Issuer may have acquired in any
manner whatsoever, and all Notes so delivered shall be promptly cancelled by the
Indenture Trustee. No Notes shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for
any Notes cancelled as provided in this Section 4.05, except as expressly
permitted by this Indenture. All cancelled Notes may be held or disposed of by
the Indenture Trustee in accordance with its standard retention or disposal
policy as in effect at the time unless the Issuer shall direct by an Issuer
Request that they be destroyed or returned to it; provided, however, that such
Issuer Request is timely and the Notes have not been previously disposed of by
the Indenture Trustee.
Section 4.06 Book-Entry Notes. Each Class of Term Notes, upon original
issuance, shall be issued in the form of typewritten Notes representing the
Book-Entry Notes, to be delivered to The Depository Trust Company, the initial
Depository, by, or on behalf of, the Issuer. Such Term Notes shall initially be
registered on the Note Register in the name of Cede & Co., the nominee of the
initial Depository, and no Beneficial Owner shall receive a Definitive Note
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representing such Beneficial Owner's interest in such Note, except as provided
in Section 4.08. Unless and until definitive, fully registered Term Notes (such
Term Notes, together with the Variable Pay Revolving Notes, the "Definitive
Notes") have been issued to Beneficial Owners pursuant to Section 4.08:
(a)the provisions of this Section 4.06 shall be in full force
and effect;
(b)the Note Registrar and the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled
to deal with the Depository for all purposes of this Indenture (including the
payment of principal of and interest on the Notes and the giving of instructions
or directions hereunder) as the sole holder of the Term Notes, and shall have no
obligation to the Beneficial Owners;
(c)to the extent that the provisions of this Section 4.06
conflict with any other provisions of this Indenture, the provisions of this
Section 4.06 shall control;
(d)the rights of Beneficial Owners shall be exercised only
through the Depository and shall be limited to those established by law and
agreements between such Owners of Term Notes and the Depository or the
Depository Participants. Unless and until Definitive Notes are issued pursuant
to Section 4.08, the initial Depository will make book-entry transfers among the
Depository Participants and receive and transmit payments of principal of and
interest on the Notes to such Depository Participants; and
(e)whenever this Indenture requires or permits actions to be
taken based upon instructions or directions of Noteholders of Term Notes
evidencing a specified percentage of the Note Balances of the Term Notes, the
Depository shall be deemed to represent such percentage only to the extent that
it has received instructions to such effect from Beneficial Owners or Depository
Participants owning or representing, respectively, such required percentage of
the beneficial interest in the Term Notes and has delivered such instructions to
the Indenture Trustee.
Section 4.07 Notices to Depository. Whenever a notice or other
communication to the Noteholders of the Term Notes is required under this
Indenture, unless and until Definitive Term Notes shall have been issued to
Beneficial Owners pursuant to Section 4.08, the Indenture Trustee shall give all
such notices and communications specified herein to be given to Noteholders of
the Term Notes to the Depository, and shall have no obligation to the Beneficial
Owners.
Section 4.08 Definitive Notes. Each Variable Pay Revolving Note shall be
issued as a Definitive Note. If (i) the Indenture Trustee determines that the
Depository is no longer willing or able to properly discharge its
responsibilities with respect to the Term Notes and the Indenture Trustee is
unable to locate a qualified successor, (ii) the Indenture Trustee elects to
terminate the book-entry system through the Depository, (iii) the Indenture
Trustee receives actual knowledge of a proposed transfer of a Term Note to an
"accredited investor" in accordance with Section 4.02 and Exhibit C hereof, or
(iv) after the occurrence of an Event of Default, Beneficial Owners of Term
Notes representing beneficial interests aggregating at least a majority of the
aggregate Term Note Balance of the Term Notes advise the Depository in writing
that the continuation of a book-entry system through the Depository is no longer
in the best interests of the Beneficial Owners, then the Depository shall notify
all Beneficial Owners and the Indenture Trustee of the occurrence of any such
event and of the availability of Definitive Notes to Beneficial Owners
requesting the same. Upon surrender to the Indenture Trustee of the typewritten
Term Notes representing the Book-Entry Notes by the Depository (or Percentage
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Interest of the Book-Entry Notes being transferred pursuant to clause (iii)
above), accompanied by registration instructions, the Issuer shall execute and
the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate the Definitive Notes in accordance with
the instructions of the Depository. None of the Issuer, the Note Registrar or
the Indenture Trustee shall be liable for any delay in delivery of such
instructions, and each may conclusively rely on, and shall be protected in
relying on, such instructions. Upon the issuance of Definitive Notes, the
Indenture Trustee shall recognize the Noteholders of the Definitive Notes as
Noteholders.
Section 4.09 Tax Treatment. The Issuer has entered into this Indenture,
and the Notes will be issued, with the intention that, for federal, state and
local income, single business and franchise tax purposes, the Notes will be
treated as indebtedness for purposes of such taxes. The Issuer, by entering into
this Indenture, and each Noteholder, by its acceptance of its Note (and each
Beneficial Owner by its acceptance of an interest in the applicable Book-Entry
Note), agree to treat the Notes for federal, state and local income, single
business and franchise tax purposes as indebtedness for purposes of such taxes.
Section 4.10 Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture. This Indenture
shall cease to be of further effect with respect to the Notes except as to (i)
rights of registration of transfer and exchange, (ii) substitution of mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Notes, (iii) rights of Noteholders to receive payments
of principal thereof and interest thereon, (iv) Sections 3.03, 3.04, 3.06, 3.09,
3.16, 3.18 and 3.19, (v) the rights, obligations and immunities of the Indenture
Trustee hereunder (including the rights of the Indenture Trustee under Section
6.07 and the obligations of the Indenture Trustee under Section 4.11) and (vi)
the rights of Noteholders as beneficiaries hereof with respect to the property
so deposited with the Indenture Trustee payable to all or any of them, and the
Indenture Trustee, on demand of and at the expense of the Issuer, shall execute
proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture
with respect to the Notes, when:
(A) either:
(1) all Notes theretofore authenticated and
delivered (other than (i) Notes that have been destroyed,
lost or stolen and that have been replaced or paid as
provided in Section 4.03 and (ii) Notes for whose payment
money has theretofore been deposited in trust or
segregated and held in trust by the Issuer and thereafter
repaid to the Issuer or discharged from such trust, as
provided in Section 3.03) have been delivered to the
Indenture Trustee for cancellation; or
(2) all Notes not theretofore delivered to the
Indenture Trustee for cancellation:
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a) have become due and payable;
b) will become due and payable at the Final
Payment Date within one year; or
c) have been declared immediately due and
payable pursuant to Section 5.02.
and the Issuer has irrevocably deposited or caused to be irrevocably
deposited with the Indenture Trustee cash or direct obligations of or
obligations guaranteed by the United States of America (which will
mature prior to the date such amounts are payable), in trust for such
purpose, in an amount sufficient to pay and discharge the entire
indebtedness on such Notes and Certificates then outstanding not
theretofore delivered to the Indenture Trustee for cancellation when due
on the Final Payment Date, as evidenced to the Indenture Trustee by an
accountant's letter or an Officer's Certificate of the Issuer;
(B) the Issuer has paid or caused to be paid all other
sums payable hereunder and under the Insurance Agreement by the
Issuer; and
(C) the Issuer has delivered to the Indenture Trustee and
the Enhancer an Officer's Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel,
each meeting the applicable requirements of Section 10.01 and
each stating that all conditions precedent herein provided for
relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have
been complied with and, if the Opinion of Counsel relates to a
deposit made in connection with Section 4.10(A)(2)b. above, such
opinion shall further be to the effect that such deposit will not
have any material adverse tax consequences to the Issuer, any
Noteholders or any Certificateholders.
Section 4.11 Application of Trust Money. All monies deposited with the
Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section 4.10 hereof shall be held in trust and
applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the Notes and this
Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent or
Certificate Paying Agent, as the Indenture Trustee may determine, to the
Securityholders of Securities, of all sums due and to become due thereon for
principal and interest; but such monies need not be segregated from other funds
except to the extent required herein or required by law.
Section 4.12 Subrogation and Cooperation. The Issuer and the Indenture
Trustee acknowledge that (i) to the extent the Enhancer makes payments under the
Policy on account of principal of or interest on the Notes, the Enhancer will be
fully subrogated to the rights the Noteholders to receive such principal and
interest, and (ii) the Enhancer shall be paid such principal and interest only
from the sources and in the manner provided herein and in the Insurance
Agreement for the payment of such principal and interest.
The Indenture Trustee shall cooperate in all respects with any
reasonable request by the Enhancer for action to preserve or enforce the
Enhancer's rights or interest under this Indenture or the Insurance Agreement,
consistent with this Indenture and without limiting the rights of the
Noteholders as otherwise set forth in the Indenture, including upon the
occurrence and continuance of a default under the Insurance Agreement, a request
(which request shall be in writing) to take any one or more of the following
actions:
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(i) institute Proceedings for the collection of all
amounts then payable on the Notes or under this Indenture in respect to
the Notes and all amounts payable under the Insurance Agreement and to
enforce any judgment obtained and collect from the Issuer monies
adjudged due;
(ii) sell the Trust Estate or any portion thereof or
rights or interest therein, at one or more public or private Sales (as
defined in Section 5.15 hereof) called and conducted in any manner
permitted by law;
(iii) file or record all assignments that have not
previously been recorded;
(iv) institute Proceedings from time to time for the
complete or partial foreclosure of this Indenture; and
(v) exercise any remedies of a secured party under the UCC
and take any other appropriate action to protect and enforce the rights
and remedies of the Enhancer hereunder.
Following the payment in full of the Notes, the Enhancer shall continue
to have all rights and privileges provided to it under this Section and in all
other provisions of this Indenture, until all amounts owing to the Enhancer have
been paid in full.
Section 4.13 Repayment of Monies Held by Paying Agent. In connection
with the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect to the Notes,
all monies then held by any Paying Agent (other than the Indenture Trustee)
under the provisions of this Indenture with respect to such Notes shall, upon
demand of the Issuer, be paid to the Indenture Trustee to be held and applied
according to Section 3.05; and thereupon, such Paying Agent shall be released
from all further liability with respect to such monies.
Section 4.14 Temporary Notes. Pending the preparation of any Definitive
Notes, the Issuer may execute and upon its written direction, the Indenture
Trustee may authenticate and make available for delivery, temporary Notes that
are printed, lithographed, typewritten, photocopied or otherwise produced, in
any denomination, substantially of the tenor of the Definitive Notes in lieu of
which they are issued and with such appropriate insertions, omissions,
substitutions and other variations as the officers executing such Notes may
determine, as evidenced by their execution of such Notes.
If temporary Notes are issued, the Issuer will cause Definitive Notes to
be prepared without unreasonable delay. After the preparation of the Definitive
Notes, the temporary Notes shall be exchangeable for Definitive Notes upon
surrender of the temporary Notes at the office or agency of the Indenture
Trustee, without charge to the Noteholder. Upon surrender for cancellation of
any one or more temporary Notes, the Issuer shall execute and the Indenture
Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery, in exchange
therefor, Definitive Notes of authorized denominations and of like tenor and
aggregate principal amount. Until so exchanged, such temporary Notes shall in
all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as Definitive
Notes.
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ARTICLE V
Default And Remedies
Section 5.01 Events of Default. The Issuer shall deliver to the
Indenture Trustee and the Enhancer, within five days after learning of the
occurrence of any event that with the giving of notice and the lapse of time
would become an Event of Default under clause (c) of the definition of "Event of
Default" written notice in the form of an Officer's Certificate of its status
and what action the Issuer is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto.
Section 5.02 Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment. If an
Event of Default shall occur and be continuing, then and in every such case the
Indenture Trustee, acting at the direction of the Enhancer or the Noteholders of
Notes representing not less than a majority of the aggregate Note Balance of the
Notes, with the written consent of the Enhancer (so long as no Enhancer Default
exists), may declare the Notes to be immediately due and payable by a notice in
writing to the Issuer (and to the Indenture Trustee if given by Noteholders);
and upon any such declaration, the unpaid principal amount of the Notes,
together with accrued and unpaid interest thereon through the date of
acceleration, shall become immediately due and payable.
At any time after such declaration of acceleration of maturity with
respect to an Event of Default has been made and before a judgment or decree for
payment of the money due has been obtained by the Indenture Trustee as
hereinafter provided in this Article V, the Enhancer or the Noteholders of Notes
representing a majority of the aggregate Note Balance of the Notes, with the
written consent of the Enhancer, by written notice to the Issuer and the
Indenture Trustee, may in writing waive the related Event of Default and rescind
and annul such declaration and its consequences if:
(a)the Issuer has paid or deposited with the Indenture Trustee a
sum sufficient to pay:
(i) all payments of principal of and interest on the Notes
and all other amounts that would then be due hereunder or upon the Notes
if the Event of Default giving rise to such acceleration had not
occurred;
(ii) all sums paid or advanced by the Indenture Trustee
hereunder and the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and
advances of the Indenture Trustee and its agents and counsel; and
(iii) all Events of Default, other than the nonpayment of
the principal of the Notes that has become due solely by such
acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in Section 5.12;
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provided that no such waiver shall be effective following an Early Amortization
Event if the requisite consents of the Noteholders and the Enhancer have been
obtained with respect to a sale or other liquidation of the Trust Estate
pursuant to Section 5.04(a).
No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any
right consequent thereto.
Section 5.03 Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by
Indenture Trustee.
(a)The Issuer covenants that if default in the payment of (i) any
interest on any Note when the same becomes due and payable, and such default
continues for a period of five days, or (ii) the principal of or any installment
of the principal of any Note when the same becomes due and payable, the Issuer
shall, upon demand of the Indenture Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the
Noteholders, the entire amount then due and payable on the Notes for principal
and interest, with interest on the overdue principal, 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 Indenture Trustee and its agents and counsel.
(b)In case the Issuer shall fail forthwith to pay such amounts
upon such demand, the Indenture Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an
express trust, subject to the provisions of Section 10.17 hereof, may institute
a Proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, and may prosecute
such Proceeding to judgment or final decree, and may enforce the same against
the Issuer or other obligor on the Notes and collect in the manner provided by
law out of the property of the Issuer or other obligor on the Notes, wherever
situated, the monies adjudged or decreed to be payable.
(c)If an Event of Default shall occur and be continuing, the
Indenture Trustee, subject to the provisions of Section 10.17 hereof, may, as
more particularly provided in Section 5.04, in its discretion proceed to protect
and enforce its rights and the rights of the Noteholders by such appropriate
Proceedings as the Indenture Trustee shall deem most effective to protect and
enforce any such rights, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or
agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted
herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy or legal or equitable right vested
in the Indenture Trustee by this Indenture or by law.
(d)If there shall be pending, relative to the Issuer or any other
obligor on the Notes or any Person having or claiming an ownership interest in
the Trust Estate, Proceedings under Title 11 of the United States Code or any
other applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law,
or if a receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or reorganization,
liquidator, sequestrator or similar official shall have been appointed for or
taken possession of the Issuer or its property or such other obligor or Person,
or if there shall be any other comparable judicial Proceedings relative to the
Issuer or other any other obligor on the Notes, or relative to the creditors or
property of the Issuer or such other obligor, then the Indenture Trustee,
irrespective of whether the principal of any Notes shall then be due and payable
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as therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise, and irrespective of whether
the Indenture Trustee shall have made any demand pursuant to the provisions of
this Section, shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such
Proceedings or otherwise:
(i) to file and prove a claim or claims for the entire
amount of principal and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the
Notes and to file such other papers or documents as may be necessary or
advisable in order to have the claims of the Indenture Trustee
(including any claim for reasonable compensation to the Indenture
Trustee and each predecessor Indenture Trustee, and their respective
agents, attorneys and counsel, and for reimbursement of all expenses and
liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Indenture Trustee
and each predecessor Indenture Trustee, except as a result of
negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith) and of the Noteholders
allowed in such Proceedings;
(ii) unless prohibited by applicable law and regulations,
to vote on behalf of the Noteholders in any election of a trustee, a
standby trustee or Person performing similar functions in any such
Proceedings;
(iii) to collect and receive any monies or other property
payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute all amounts
received with respect to the claims of the Noteholders and of the
Indenture Trustee on their behalf; and
(iv) to file such proofs of claim and other papers or
documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims
of the Indenture Trustee or the Noteholders allowed in any judicial
proceedings relative to the Issuer, its creditors and its property;
and any trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official in
any such Proceeding is hereby authorized by each of such Noteholders to make
payments to the Indenture Trustee, and, in the event the Indenture Trustee shall
consent to the making of payments directly to such Noteholders, to pay to the
Indenture Trustee such amounts as shall be sufficient to cover reasonable
compensation to the Indenture Trustee, each predecessor Indenture Trustee and
their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and all other expenses and
liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Indenture Trustee and each
predecessor Indenture Trustee, except as a result of negligence, willful
misconduct or bad faith.
(e)Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the
Indenture Trustee to authorize or consent to or vote for or accept or adopt on
behalf of any Noteholder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or
composition affecting the Notes or the rights of any Noteholder thereof or to
authorize the Indenture Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any
Noteholder in any such proceeding except, as aforesaid, to vote for the election
of a trustee in bankruptcy or similar Person.
(f)All rights of action and of asserting claims under this
Indenture, or under any of the Notes, may be enforced by the Indenture Trustee
without the possession of any of the Notes or the production thereof in any
trial or other Proceedings relative thereto, and any such action or proceedings
instituted by the Indenture Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee
of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment, subject to the payment of the
expenses, disbursements and compensation of the Indenture Trustee, each
predecessor Indenture Trustee and their respective agents and attorneys, shall
be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the Term Notes and the Variable Pay
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Revolving Notes, as applicable.
(g)In any Proceedings to which the Indenture Trustee shall be a
party (including any Proceedings involving the interpretation of any provision
of this Indenture), the Indenture Trustee shall be held to represent all
Noteholders, and it shall not be necessary to make any Noteholder a party to any
such Proceedings.
Section 5.04 Remedies; Priorities.
(a)If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing,
then the Indenture Trustee, subject to the provisions of Section 10.17 hereof,
with the written consent of the Enhancer may, or, at the written direction of
the Enhancer, shall, do one or more of the following, in each case subject to
Section 5.05:
(i) institute Proceedings in its own name and as trustee
of an express trust for the collection of all amounts then payable on
the Notes or under this Indenture with respect thereto, whether by
declaration or otherwise, and all amounts payable under the Insurance
Agreement, enforce any judgment obtained, and collect from the Issuer
and any other obligor on the Notes monies adjudged due;
(ii) institute Proceedings from time to time for the
complete or partial foreclosure of this Indenture with respect to the
Trust Estate;
(iii) exercise any remedies of a secured party under the
UCC and take any other appropriate action to protect and enforce the
rights and remedies of the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders; and
(iv) sell the Trust Estate or any portion thereof or
rights or interest therein, at one or more public or private sales
called and conducted in any manner permitted by law;
provided, however, that the Indenture Trustee may not sell or otherwise
liquidate the Trust Estate following an Event of Default, unless (A) the
Indenture Trustee obtains the consent of the Enhancer, which consent will not be
unreasonably withheld, and the Noteholders of 100% of the aggregate Note Balance
of the Notes, (B) the proceeds of such sale or liquidation distributable to
Noteholders are sufficient to discharge in full all amounts then due and unpaid
upon the Notes for principal and interest and to reimburse the Enhancer for any
amounts drawn under the Policy and any other amounts due the Enhancer under the
Insurance Agreement or (C) the Indenture Trustee determines that the Mortgage
Loans will not continue to provide sufficient funds for the payment of principal
of and interest on the Notes as they would have become due if the Notes had not
been declared due and payable, and the Indenture Trustee obtains the consent of
the Enhancer, which consent will not be unreasonably withheld, and the
Noteholders of 66 2/3% of the aggregate Note Balance of the Notes. In
determining such sufficiency or insufficiency with respect to clause (B) and (C)
above, the Indenture Trustee may, but need not, obtain and rely, and shall be
protected in relying in good faith, upon an opinion of an Independent investment
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banking or accounting firm of national reputation as to the feasibility of such
proposed action and as to the sufficiency of the Trust Estate for such purpose.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, provided that a Servicing Default shall not have
occurred, any Sale (as defined in Section 5.15 hereof) of the Trust Estate shall
be made subject to the continued servicing of the Mortgage Loans by the Servicer
as provided in the Servicing Agreement. Notwithstanding any sale of the Mortgage
Loans pursuant to this Section 5.04(a), the Indenture Trustee shall, for so long
as any principal or accrued interest on the Notes remains unpaid, continue to
act as Indenture Trustee hereunder and to draw amounts payable under the Policy
in accordance with its terms.
(b)If the Indenture Trustee collects any money or property
pursuant to this Article V, it shall pay out such money or property in the
following order:
FIRST:to the Indenture Trustee for amounts due under Section6.07;
SECOND:to the Noteholders for amounts due and unpaid on the
related Notes for interest, including accrued and unpaid interest
on the Notes for any prior Payment Date, ratably, without
preference or priority of any kind, according to the amounts due
and payable on such Notes for interest from amounts available in
the Trust Estate for such Noteholders, but excluding any Interest
Shortfalls;
THIRD: to the Noteholders for amounts due and unpaid on the
related Notes for principal, ratably, without preference or
priority of any kind, according to the amounts due and payable on
such Notes for principal, from amounts available in the Trust
Estate for such Noteholders, until the respective Note Balances
of such Notes have been reduced to zero;
FOURTH:to the payment of all amounts due and owing the Enhancer
under the Insurance Agreement;
FIFTH: to the Noteholders for amounts due and unpaid on the
related Notes for Interest Shortfalls, if any, including any
unpaid Interest Shortfalls on the Notes for any prior Payment
Date, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind,
according to such amounts due and payable from amounts available
in the Trust Estate for such Noteholders;
SIXTH: to the Certificate Paying Agent for amounts due under
Article VIII of the Trust Agreement; and
SEVENTH: to the payment of the remainder, if any, to the Issuer
or any other person legally entitled thereto.
The Indenture Trustee may fix a record date and payment date for any
payment to Noteholders pursuant to this Section 5.04. At least 15 days before
such record date, the Indenture Trustee shall mail to each Noteholder a notice
that states the record date, the payment date and the amount to be paid.
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Section 5.05 Optional Preservation of the Trust Estate. If the Notes
have been declared due and payable under Section 5.02 following an Event of
Default and such declaration and its consequences have not been rescinded and
annulled, the Indenture Trustee may, but need not (but shall at the written
direction of the Enhancer), elect to take and maintain possession of the Trust
Estate; provided that no such waiver shall be effective following an Early
Amortization Event if the requisite consents of the Noteholders and the Enhancer
have been obtained with respect to a sale or other liquidation of the Trust
Estate pursuant to Section 5.04(a). It is the desire of the parties hereto and
the Noteholders that there be at all times sufficient funds for the payment of
principal of and interest on the Notes and other obligations of the Issuer
including payment to the Enhancer, and the Indenture Trustee shall take such
desire into account when determining whether or not to take and maintain
possession of the Trust Estate. In determining whether to take and maintain
possession of the Trust Estate, the Indenture Trustee may, but need not, obtain
and rely, and shall be protected in relying in good faith, upon an opinion of an
Independent investment banking or accounting firm of national reputation as to
the feasibility of such proposed action and as to the sufficiency of the Trust
Estate for such purpose.
Section 5.06 Limitation of Suits. No Noteholder 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 and subject to the provisions of Section 10.17 hereof:
(a)such Noteholder shall have previously given written notice to
the Indenture Trustee of a continuing Event of Default;
(b)the Noteholders of not less than 25% of the aggregate Note
Balance of the Notes shall have made written request to the Indenture Trustee to
institute such Proceeding in respect of such Event of Default in its own name as
Indenture Trustee hereunder;
(c)such Noteholder or Noteholders shall have offered the
Indenture Trustee reasonable indemnity against the costs, expenses and
liabilities to be incurred by it in complying with such request;
(d)the Indenture Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such
notice, request and offer of indemnity shall have failed to institute such
Proceedings; and
(e)no direction inconsistent with such written request shall have
been given to the Indenture Trustee during such 60-day period by the Noteholders
of a majority of the aggregate Note Balance of the Notes or by the Enhancer.
It is understood and intended that no Noteholder 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 Noteholders or
to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other Noteholders
or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein
provided.
In the event the Indenture Trustee shall receive conflicting or
inconsistent requests and indemnity from two or more groups of Noteholders, each
representing less than a majority of the aggregate Note Balance of the Notes,
the Indenture Trustee shall act at the direction of the group of Noteholders
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with the greater Note Balance. In the event that the Indenture Trustee shall
receive conflicting or inconsistent requests and indemnity from two or more
groups of Noteholders representing the same Note Balance, then the Indenture
Trustee in its sole discretion may determine what action, if any, shall be
taken, notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture.
Section 5.07 Unconditional Rights of Noteholders to Receive Principal
and Interest. Subject to the provisions of this Indenture, the Noteholder of any
Note shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive
payment of the principal of and interest, if any, on such Note on or after the
respective due dates thereof expressed in such Note or in this Indenture and to
institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, and such right shall not
be impaired without the consent of such Noteholder.
Section 5.08 Restoration of Rights and Remedies. If the Indenture
Trustee or any Noteholder 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 Indenture
Trustee or to such Noteholder, then and in every such case the Issuer, the
Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders shall, subject to any determination in
such Proceeding, be restored severally and respectively to their former
positions hereunder, and thereafter all rights and remedies of the Indenture
Trustee and the Noteholders shall continue as though no such Proceeding had been
instituted.
Section 5.09 Rights and Remedies Cumulative. No right or remedy herein
conferred upon or reserved to the Indenture Trustee, the Enhancer or the
Noteholders 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, 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 5.10 Delay or Omission Not a Waiver. No delay or omission of the
Indenture Trustee, the Enhancer or any Noteholder 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 V or by law to the Indenture
Trustee or to the Noteholders may be exercised from time to time, and as often
as may be deemed expedient, by the Indenture Trustee or by the Noteholders, as
the case may be.
Section 5.11 Control by Enhancer or Noteholders. The Enhancer (so long
as no Enhancer Default exists) or the Noteholders of a majority of the aggregate
Note Balance of Notes with the consent of the Enhancer, shall have the right to
direct the time, method and place of conducting any Proceeding for any remedy
available to the Indenture Trustee with respect to the Notes or exercising any
trust or power conferred on the Indenture Trustee, provided that:
(a)such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law
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or with this Indenture;
(b)subject to the express terms of Section 5.04, any direction to
the Indenture Trustee to sell or liquidate the Trust Estate shall be by the
Enhancer (so long as no Enhancer Default exists) or by the Noteholders of Notes
representing not less than 100% of the aggregate Note Balance of the Notes with
the consent of the Enhancer;
(c)if the conditions set forth in Section 5.05 shall have been
satisfied and the Indenture Trustee elects to retain the Trust Estate pursuant
to such Section, then any direction to the Indenture Trustee by Noteholders of
Notes representing less than 100% of the aggregate Note Balance of the Notes to
sell or liquidate the Trust Estate shall be of no force and effect; and
(d)the Indenture Trustee may take any other action deemed proper
by the Indenture Trustee that is not inconsistent with such direction.
Notwithstanding the rights of Noteholders set forth in this Section, subject to
Section 6.01, the Indenture Trustee need not take any action that it determines
(in its sole discretion) might involve it in liability or might materially
adversely affect the rights of any Noteholders not consenting to such action,
unless the Trustee has received satisfactory indemnity from the Enhancer or a
Noteholder.
Section 5.12 Waiver of Past Defaults. Prior to the declaration of the
acceleration of the maturity of the Notes as provided in Section 5.02, the
Enhancer (so long as no Enhancer Default exists) or the Noteholders of not less
than a majority of the aggregate Note Balance of the Notes, with the consent of
the Enhancer, may waive any past Event of Default and its consequences, except
an Event of Default (a) with respect to payment of principal of or interest on
any of the Notes or (b) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof that cannot
be modified or amended without the consent of the Noteholder of each Note. In
the case of any such waiver, the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the
Noteholders shall be restored to their respective former positions and rights
hereunder; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Event of
Default or impair any right consequent thereto.
Upon any such waiver, any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be
deemed to have been cured and not to have occurred, for every purpose of this
Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Event of
Default or impair any right consequent thereto.
Section 5.13 Undertaking for Costs. All parties to this Indenture agree,
and each Noteholder by such Noteholder's acceptance of the related Note shall be
deemed to have agreed, that any court may in its discretion require, in any
Proceeding for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or
in any Proceeding against the Indenture Trustee for any action taken, suffered
or omitted by it as Indenture Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such
Proceeding of an undertaking to pay the costs of such Proceeding, and that such
court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable
attorneys' fees, against any party litigant in such Proceeding, 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 5.13 shall not apply to (a) any
Proceeding instituted by the Indenture Trustee, (b) any Proceeding instituted by
any Noteholder, or group of Noteholders, in each case holding in the aggregate
more than 10% of the aggregate Note Balance of the Notes or (c) any Proceeding
instituted by any Noteholder for the enforcement of the payment of principal of
or interest on any Note on or after the respective due dates expressed in such
Note and in this Indenture.
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Section 5.14 Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws. The Issuer covenants (to
the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will not at any time insist upon,
or plead or in any manner whatsoever, claim or take the benefit or advantage of,
any stay or extension law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in
force, that may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and
the Issuer (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives
all benefit or advantage of any such law, and covenants that it shall not
hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the
Indenture Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such power
as though no such law had been enacted.
Section 5.15 Sale of Trust Estate.
(a)The power to effect any sale or other disposition (a "Sale")
of any portion of the Trust Estate pursuant to Section 5.04 is expressly subject
to the provisions of Section 5.05 and this Section 5.15. The power to effect any
such Sale shall not be exhausted by any one or more Sales as to any portion of
the Trust Estate remaining unsold, but shall continue unimpaired until the
entire Trust Estate shall have been sold or all amounts payable on the Notes and
under this Indenture and under the Insurance Agreement shall have been paid. The
Indenture Trustee may from time to time postpone any public Sale by public
announcement made at the time and place of such Sale. The Indenture Trustee
hereby expressly waives its right to any amount fixed by law as compensation for
any Sale.
(b)The Indenture Trustee shall not in any private Sale sell the
Trust Estate, or any portion thereof, unless:
(i) the Noteholders of all Notes and the Enhancer direct
the Indenture Trustee to make such Sale in accordance with the
provisions of Section 5.04,
(ii) the proceeds of such Sale would be not less than the
entire amount that would be payable to the Noteholders under the Notes,
the Certificateholders under the Certificates and the Enhancer in
respect of amounts drawn under the Policy and any other amounts due the
Enhancer under the Insurance Agreement, in full payment thereof in
accordance with Section 5.02, on the Payment Date next succeeding the
date of such Sale, or
(iii) the Indenture Trustee determines, in its sole
discretion, that the conditions for retention of the Trust Estate set
forth in Section 5.05 cannot be satisfied (in making any such
determination, the Indenture Trustee may rely and shall be protected in
relying in good faith upon an opinion of an Independent investment
banking firm obtained and delivered as provided in Section 5.05), and
the Enhancer consents to such Sale (which consent shall not be
unreasonably withheld), and the Noteholders of Notes representing at
least 66 2/3% of the aggregate Note Balance of the Notes consent to such
Sale.
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The purchase by the Indenture Trustee of all or any portion of the Trust Estate
at a private Sale shall not be deemed a Sale or other disposition thereof for
purposes of this Section 5.15(b).
(c)Unless the Noteholders and the Enhancer shall have otherwise
consented or directed the Indenture Trustee, at any public Sale of all or any
portion of the Trust Estate at which a minimum bid equal to or greater than the
amount described in paragraph (ii) of Section 5.15(b) has not been established
by the Indenture Trustee and no Person bids an amount equal to or greater than
such amount, then the Indenture Trustee shall bid an amount at least $1.00 more
than the highest other bid, which bid shall be subject to the provisions of
Section 5.15(d)(ii) herein.
(d)In connection with a Sale of all or any portion of the Trust
Estate:
(i) any Noteholder may bid for and, with the consent of
the Enhancer, purchase the property offered for sale, and upon
compliance with the terms of sale may hold, retain and possess and
dispose of such property, without further accountability, and may, in
paying the purchase money therefor, deliver any Notes or claims for
interest thereon in lieu of cash up to the amount which shall, upon
distribution of the net proceeds of such sale, be payable thereon, and
such Notes, in case the amounts so payable thereon shall be less than
the amount due thereon, shall be returned to the Noteholders thereof
after being appropriately stamped to show such partial payment;
(ii) the Indenture Trustee may bid for and acquire the
property offered for Sale in connection with any Sale thereof and,
subject to any requirements of, and to the extent permitted by,
applicable law in connection therewith, may purchase all or any portion
of the Trust Estate in a private sale. In lieu of paying cash therefor,
the Indenture Trustee may make settlement for the purchase price by
crediting the gross Sale price against the sum of (A) the amount that
would be distributable to the Noteholders and the Certificateholders and
amounts owing to the Enhancer as a result of such Sale in accordance
with Section 5.04(b) on the Payment Date next succeeding the date of
such Sale and (B) the expenses of the Sale and of any Proceedings in
connection therewith that are reimbursable to it, without being required
to produce the Notes in order to complete any such Sale or in order for
the net Sale price to be credited against such Notes, and any property
so acquired by the Indenture Trustee shall be held and dealt with by it
in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture;
(iii) the Indenture Trustee shall execute and deliver an
appropriate instrument of conveyance transferring its interest in any
portion of the Trust Estate in connection with a Sale thereof;
(iv) the Indenture Trustee is hereby irrevocably appointed
the agent and attorney-in-fact of the Issuer to transfer and convey its
interest in any portion of the Trust Estate in connection with a Sale
thereof, and to take all action necessary to effect such Sale; and
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(v) no purchaser or transferee at such a Sale shall be
bound to ascertain the Indenture Trustee's authority, inquire into the
satisfaction of any conditions precedent or see to the application of
any monies.
Section 5.16 Action on Notes. The Indenture Trustee's right to seek and
recover judgment on the Notes or under this Indenture shall not be affected by
the seeking, obtaining or application of any other relief under or with respect
to this Indenture. Neither the lien of this Indenture nor any rights or remedies
of the Indenture Trustee or the Noteholders shall be impaired by the recovery of
any judgment by the Indenture Trustee against the Issuer or by the levy of any
execution under such judgment upon any portion of the Trust Estate or upon any
of the assets of the Issuer. Any money or property collected by the Indenture
Trustee shall be applied in accordance with Section 5.04(b).
Section 5.17 Performance and Enforcement of Certain Obligations.
(a)Promptly following a written request from the Enhancer or the
Indenture Trustee (with the written consent of the Enhancer), the Issuer, in its
capacity as owner of the Mortgage Loans, shall, with the written consent of the
Enhancer, take all such lawful action as the Indenture Trustee may request to
cause the Issuer to compel or secure the performance and observance by the
Sellers and the Servicer, as applicable, of each of their obligations to the
Issuer under or in connection with the Purchase Agreement and the Servicing
Agreement, and to exercise any and all rights, remedies, powers and privileges
lawfully available to the Issuer under or in connection with the Purchase
Agreement and the Servicing Agreement to the extent and in the manner directed
by the Indenture Trustee, as pledgee of the Mortgage Loans, including the
transmission of notices of default on the part of the Sellers or the Servicer
thereunder and the institution of legal or administrative actions or proceedings
to compel or secure performance by the Sellers or the Servicer of each of their
obligations under the Purchase Agreement and the Servicing Agreement.
(b)If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing,
the Indenture Trustee, as pledgee of the Mortgage Loans, subject to the rights
of the Enhancer under the Servicing Agreement, may, and at the direction (which
direction shall be in writing or by telephone (confirmed in writing promptly
thereafter)) of the Noteholders of 66 2/3% of the aggregate Note Balance of the
Notes, shall, exercise all rights, remedies, powers, privileges and claims of
the Issuer against the Sellers or the Servicer under or in connection with the
Purchase Agreement and the Servicing Agreement, including the right or power to
take any action to compel or secure performance or observance by the Sellers or
the Servicer, as the case may be, of each of their obligations to the Issuer
thereunder and to give any consent, request, notice, direction, approval,
extension or waiver under the Purchase Agreement and the Servicing Agreement, as
the case may be, and any right of the Issuer to take such action shall not be
suspended. In connection therewith, as determined by the Indenture Trustee, the
Issuer shall take all actions necessary to effect the transfer of the Mortgage
Loans to the Indenture Trustee.
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ARTICLE VI
The Indenture Trustee
Section 6.01 Duties of Indenture Trustee.
(a)If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing,
the Indenture Trustee shall exercise the rights and powers vested in it by this
Indenture and use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise as a
prudent Person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of
such Person's own affairs.
(b)Except during the continuance of an Event of Default:
(i) the Indenture Trustee undertakes to perform such
duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth in this
Indenture and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into
this Indenture against the Indenture Trustee; and
(ii) in the absence of bad faith on its part, the
Indenture Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the
statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon
certificates, reports or opinions furnished to the Indenture Trustee and
conforming to the requirements of this Indenture; provided, however,
that the Indenture Trustee shall examine the certificates, reports and
opinions to determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of
this Indenture.
(c)The Indenture Trustee may not be relieved from liability for
its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act or its own willful
misconduct, except that:
(i) this paragraph does not limit the effect of Section
6.01(a);
(ii) the Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for any
error of judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer unless it
is proved that the Indenture Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the
pertinent facts; and
(iii) the Indenture Trustee shall not be liable with
respect to any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in
accordance with a direction received by it pursuant to Section 5.11 or
any direction from the Enhancer that the Enhancer is entitled to give
under any of the Basic Documents.
(d)The Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for interest on any
money received by it except as the Indenture Trustee may agree in writing with
the Issuer.
(e)Money held in trust by the Indenture Trustee need not be
segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law or the terms of
this Indenture or the Trust Agreement.
(f)No provision of this Indenture shall require the Indenture
Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur financial liability
in the performance of any of its duties hereunder or in the exercise of any of
its rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds to believe that
repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is
not reasonably assured to it.
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(g)Every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct or
affecting the liability of or affording protection to the Indenture Trustee
shall be subject to the provisions of this Section and to the provisions of TIA.
(h)With respect to each Payment Date, on the Business Day
following the related Determination Date, the Indenture Trustee shall forward or
cause to be forwarded by mail, or other mutually agreed-upon method, to the
Enhancer and the Servicer, a statement setting forth, to the extent applicable,
(i) during the Pre-Funding Period, the Pre-Funded Amount as of such Payment Date
and any transfers of funds in connection therewith, and (ii) during the
Revolving Period, the amount of Principal Collections to be deposited into the
Funding Account (including the Reserve Sub-Account) in respect of such Payment
Date, and the amount on deposit in the Funding Account (including the Reserve
Sub-Account) as of such Payment Date, after giving effect to any amounts so
deposited therein.
(i)The Indenture Trustee hereby accepts appointment as
Certificate Paying Agent under the Trust Agreement and agrees to be bound by the
provisions of the Trust Agreement relating to the Certificate Paying Agent. The
Indenture Trustee hereby agrees to be bound by the provisions of Article IX of
the Trust Agreement.
(j)The Indenture Trustee shall not be required to take notice or
be deemed to have notice or knowledge of any Event of Default (except for an
Event of Default specified in clause (a) of the definition thereof) unless a
Responsible Officer of the Indenture Trustee shall have received written notice
or have actual knowledge thereof. In the absence of receipt of such notice or
such knowledge, the Indenture Trustee may conclusively assume that there is no
default or Event of Default.
(k)The Indenture Trustee shall have no duty to see to any
recording or filing of any financing statement or continuation statement
evidencing a security interest or to see to the maintenance of any such
recording or filing or to any rerecording or refiling of any thereof.
Section 6.02 Rights of Indenture Trustee.
(a)The Indenture Trustee may rely and shall be protected in
acting or refraining from acting in good faith upon any resolution, Officer's
Certificate, opinion of counsel, certificate of auditors, or any other
certificate, statement, instrument, report, notice, consent or other document
believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper
person. The Indenture Trustee need not investigate any fact or matter stated in
any such document.
(b)Before the Indenture Trustee acts or refrains from acting, it
may require an Officer's Certificate or an Opinion of Counsel. The Indenture
Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good
faith in reliance on any such Officer's Certificate or Opinion of Counsel.
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(c)The Indenture Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers
hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through
agents or attorneys or a custodian or nominee, and the Indenture Trustee shall
not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of, or for the
supervision of, any such agent, attorney, custodian or nominee appointed with
due care by it hereunder.
(d)The Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for any action it
takes or omits to take in good faith which it believes to be authorized or
within its rights or powers; provided, however, that the Indenture Trustee's
conduct does not constitute willful misconduct, negligence or bad faith.
(e)The Indenture Trustee may consult with counsel, and the advice
or opinion of counsel with respect to legal matters relating to this Indenture
and the Notes shall be full and complete authorization and protection from
liability in respect to any action taken, omitted or suffered by it hereunder in
good faith and in accordance with the advice or opinion of such counsel.
(f)The Indenture Trustee shall not be personally liable for any
action taken, suffered or omitted by it in good faith and believed by it to be
authorized or within the discretion or rights or powers conferred upon it by
this Indenture, unless it shall be proved that the Indenture Trustee was
negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts.
(g)Prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default hereunder, and
after the curing or waiver of all Events of Default that may have occurred, the
Indenture Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or
matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion,
report, notice, request, consent, order, approval, bond or other paper or
document, unless requested in writing to do so by the Enhancer or the
Noteholders representing a majority of the aggregate Note Balance; provided,
however, that if the payment within a reasonable time to the Indenture Trustee
of the costs, expenses or liabilities likely to be incurred by it in the making
of such investigation is, in the opinion of the Indenture Trustee, not assured
to the Indenture Trustee by the security afforded to it by the terms of this
Indenture, the Indenture Trustee may require indemnity satisfactory to the
Indenture Trustee against such cost, expense or liability as a condition to
taking any such action.
(h)The Indenture Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise
any of the trusts or powers vested in it by this Indenture or to institute,
conduct or defend any litigation hereunder or in relation hereto at the request,
order or direction of any of the Enhancer or the Noteholders, pursuant to the
provisions of this Indenture, unless the Enhancer or the Noteholders shall have
offered to the Indenture Trustee reasonable security or indemnity against the
costs, expenses and liabilities which may be incurred therein or thereby;
nothing contained herein shall, however, relieve the Indenture Trustee of the
obligation, upon the occurrence of an Event of Default (which has not been cured
or waived), to exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this
Indenture, and to use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise as a
prudent investor would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of
such investor's own affairs.
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Section 6.03 Individual Rights of Indenture Trustee. The Indenture
Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee
of Notes and may otherwise deal with the Issuer or its Affiliates with the same
rights it would have if it were not Indenture Trustee. Any Note Registrar,
co-registrar or co-paying agent may do the same with like rights. However, the
Indenture Trustee must comply with Sections 6.11 and 6.12.
Section 6.04 Indenture Trustee's Disclaimer. The Indenture Trustee shall
not be (i) responsible for and makes no representation as to the validity or
adequacy of this Indenture or the Notes, (ii) accountable for the Issuer's use
of the proceeds from the Notes or (iii) responsible for any statement of the
Issuer in this Indenture or in any document issued in connection with the sale
of the Notes or in the Notes, other than the Indenture Trustee's certificate of
authentication thereon.
Section 6.05 Notice of Event of Default. If an Event of Default shall
occur and be continuing, and if such Event of Default is known to a Responsible
Officer of the Indenture Trustee, then the Indenture Trustee shall give prompt
notice thereof to the Enhancer. The Indenture Trustee shall mail to each
Noteholder notice of such Event of Default within 90 days after it occurs.
Except in the case of an Event of Default with respect to the payment of
principal of or interest on any Note, the Indenture Trustee may withhold such
notice if and so long as a committee of its Responsible Officers in good faith
determines that withholding such notice is in the interests of the Noteholders.
Section 6.06 Reports by Indenture Trustee to Noteholders. The Indenture
Trustee shall deliver to each Noteholder such information as may be required to
enable such Noteholder to prepare its federal and state income tax returns. In
addition, upon Issuer Request, the Indenture Trustee shall promptly furnish such
information reasonably requested by the Issuer that is reasonably available to
the Indenture Trustee to enable the Issuer to perform its federal and state
income tax reporting obligations.
Section 6.07 Compensation and Indemnity. The Indenture Trustee shall be
compensated and indemnified by the Servicer in accordance with Section 6.06 of
the Servicing Agreement. All amounts owing the Indenture Trustee hereunder in
excess of such amount, as well as any amount owed to the Indenture Trustee in
accordance with Section 6.06 of the Servicing Agreement, to the extent the
Servicer has failed to pay such amount, shall be paid solely as provided in
Section 3.05 hereof (subject to the priorities set forth therein). The Indenture
Trustee's compensation shall not be limited by any law on compensation of a
trustee of an express trust. The Issuer shall reimburse the Indenture Trustee
for all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred or made by it, including
costs of collection, in addition to the compensation for its services. Such
expenses shall include the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and
advances of the Indenture Trustee's agents, counsel, accountants and experts.
The Issuer shall indemnify the Indenture Trustee against any and all loss,
liability or expense (including attorneys' fees) incurred by it in connection
with the administration of this trust and the performance of its duties
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hereunder. The Indenture Trustee shall notify the Issuer promptly of any claim
for which it may seek indemnity. Failure by the Indenture Trustee to so notify
the Issuer shall not relieve the Issuer of its obligations hereunder. The Issuer
shall defend any such claim, and the Indenture Trustee may have separate counsel
and the Issuer shall pay the fees and expenses of such counsel. The Issuer is
not obligated to reimburse any expense or indemnify against any loss, liability
or expense incurred by the Indenture Trustee through the Indenture Trustee's own
willful misconduct, negligence or bad faith.
The Issuer's payment obligations to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to
this Section 6.07 shall survive the discharge of this Indenture. When the
Indenture Trustee incurs expenses after the occurrence of an Event of Default
specified in clause (c) or (d) of the definition thereof with respect to the
Issuer, such expenses are intended to constitute expenses of administration
under Title 11 of the United States Code or any other applicable federal or
state bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law.
Section 6.08 Replacement of Indenture Trustee. No resignation or removal
of the Indenture Trustee and no appointment of a successor Indenture Trustee
shall become effective until the acceptance of appointment by the successor
Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Section 6.08. The Indenture Trustee may
resign at any time by so notifying the Issuer and the Enhancer. The Enhancer or
the Noteholders of a majority of the aggregate Note Balance of the Notes may
remove the Indenture Trustee by so notifying the Indenture Trustee and the
Enhancer (if given by such Noteholders) and may appoint a successor Indenture
Trustee. Unless a Servicer Default has occurred and is continuing, the
appointment of any successor Indenture Trustee shall be subject to the prior
written approval of the Servicer. The Issuer shall remove the Indenture Trustee
if:
(a)the Indenture Trustee fails to comply with Section 6.11;
(b)the Indenture Trustee is adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent;
(c)a receiver or other public officer takes charge of the Indenture
Trustee or its property; or
(d)the Indenture Trustee otherwise becomes incapable of fulfilling its
duties under the Basic Documents.
If the Indenture Trustee resigns or is removed or if a vacancy exists in
the office of the Indenture Trustee for any reason (the Indenture Trustee in
such event being referred to herein as the retiring Indenture Trustee), the
Issuer shall promptly appoint a successor Indenture Trustee with the consent of
the Enhancer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. In addition, the
Indenture Trustee shall resign to avoid being directly or indirectly controlled
by the Issuer.
A successor Indenture Trustee shall deliver a written acceptance of its
appointment to the retiring Indenture Trustee and to the Issuer. Thereupon, the
resignation or removal of the retiring Indenture Trustee shall become effective,
and the successor Indenture Trustee shall have all the rights, powers and duties
of the Indenture Trustee under this Indenture. The successor Indenture Trustee
shall mail a notice of its succession to the Noteholders. The retiring Indenture
Trustee shall promptly transfer all property held by it as Indenture Trustee to
the successor Indenture Trustee.
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If a successor Indenture Trustee does not take office within 60 days
after the retiring Indenture Trustee resigns or is removed, then the retiring
Indenture Trustee, the Issuer or the Noteholders of a majority of aggregate Note
Balance of the Notes may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the
appointment of a successor Indenture Trustee.
If the Indenture Trustee fails to comply with Section 6.11, any
Noteholder may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of
the Indenture Trustee and the appointment of a successor Indenture Trustee.
Notwithstanding the replacement of the Indenture Trustee pursuant to
this Section, the Issuer's obligations under Section 6.07 shall continue for the
benefit of the retiring Indenture Trustee.
Section 6.09 Successor Indenture Trustee by Xxxxxx. If the Indenture
Trustee consolidates with, merges or converts into, or transfers all or
substantially all its corporate trust business or assets to, another corporation
or banking association, then the resulting, surviving or transferee corporation
without any further act shall be the successor Indenture Trustee; provided, that
such corporation or banking association shall be otherwise qualified and
eligible under Section 6.11. The Indenture Trustee shall provide the Rating
Agencies with written notice of any such transaction occurring after the Closing
Date.
If at the time of any such succession by merger, conversion or
consolidation, any of the Notes shall have been authenticated but not delivered,
then any such successor to the Indenture Trustee may adopt the certificate of
authentication of any predecessor trustee, and deliver such Notes so
authenticated. If at such time any of the Notes shall not have been
authenticated, any successor to the Indenture Trustee may authenticate such
Notes either in the name of any predecessor hereunder or in the name of the
successor to the Indenture Trustee; and in all such cases, such certificates
shall have the full force that it is anywhere in the Notes or in this Indenture
provided that the certificate of the Indenture Trustee shall have.
Section 6.10 Appointment of Co-Indenture Trustee or Separate Indenture
Trustee.
(a)Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture, at any
time, for the purpose of meeting any legal requirement of any jurisdiction in
which any part of the Trust Estate may at such time be located, the Indenture
Trustee shall have the power and may execute and deliver all instruments to
appoint one or more Persons to act as a co-trustee or co-trustees, or separate
trustee or separate trustees, of all or any part of the Issuer, and to vest in
such Person or Persons, in such capacity and for the benefit of the Noteholders,
such title to the Trust Estate, or any part thereof, and, subject to the other
provisions of this Section, such powers, duties, obligations, rights and trusts
as the Indenture Trustee may consider necessary or desirable. No co trustee or
separate trustee hereunder shall be required to meet the terms of eligibility as
a successor trustee under Section 6.11, and no notice to Noteholders of the
appointment of any co trustee or separate trustee shall be required under
Section 6.08 hereof.
(b)Every separate trustee and co-trustee shall, to the extent
permitted by law, be appointed and act subject to the following provisions and
conditions:
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(i) all rights, powers, duties and obligations conferred
or imposed upon the Indenture Trustee shall be conferred or imposed upon
and exercised or performed by the Indenture Trustee and such separate
trustee or co-trustee jointly (it being understood that such separate
trustee or co-trustee is not authorized to act separately without the
Indenture Trustee joining in such act), except to the extent that under
any law of any jurisdiction in which any particular act or acts are to
be performed the Indenture Trustee shall be incompetent or unqualified
to perform such act or acts, in which event such rights, powers, duties
and obligations (including the holding of title to the Trust Estate or
any portion thereof in any such jurisdiction) shall be exercised and
performed singly by such separate trustee or co-trustee, but solely at
the direction of the Indenture Trustee;
(ii) no trustee hereunder shall be personally liable by
reason of any act or omission of any other trustee hereunder; and
(iii) the Indenture Trustee may at any time accept the
resignation of or remove any separate trustee or co-trustee.
(c)Any notice, request or other writing given to the Indenture
Trustee shall be deemed to have been given to each of the then separate trustees
and co-trustees, as effectively as if given to each of them. Every instrument
appointing any separate trustee or co-trustee shall refer to this Indenture and
the conditions of this Article VI. Each separate trustee and co-trustee, upon
its acceptance of the trusts conferred, shall be vested with the estates or
property specified in its instrument of appointment, either jointly with the
Indenture Trustee or separately, as may be provided therein, subject to all the
provisions of this Indenture, specifically including every provision of this
Indenture relating to the conduct of, affecting the liability of, or affording
protection to, the Indenture Trustee. Every such instrument shall be filed with
the Indenture Trustee.
(d)Any separate trustee or co-trustee may at any time constitute
the Indenture Trustee, its agent or attorney-in-fact with full power and
authority, to the extent not prohibited by law, to do any lawful act under or in
respect of this Indenture on its behalf and in its name. If any separate trustee
or co-trustee shall die, become incapable of acting, resign or be removed, all
of its estates, properties, rights, remedies and trusts shall vest in and be
exercised by the Indenture Trustee, to the extent permitted by law, without the
appointment of a new or successor trustee.
Section 6.11 Eligibility; Disqualification. The Indenture Trustee shall
at all times satisfy the requirements of TIA ss. 310(a). The Indenture Trustee
shall have a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 as set forth
in its most recent published annual report of condition and it or its parent
shall have a long-term debt rating of "A" or better by Xxxxx'x. The Indenture
Trustee shall comply with TIA ss. 310(b), including the optional provision
permitted by the second sentence of TIA ss. 310(b)(9); provided, however, that
there shall be excluded from the operation of TIA ss. 310(b)(1) any indenture or
indentures under which other securities of the Issuer are outstanding if the
requirements for such exclusion set forth in TIA ss. 310(b)(1) are met.
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Section 6.12 Preferential Collection of Claims Against Issuer. The
Indenture Trustee shall comply with TIA ss. 311(a), excluding any creditor
relationship listed in TIA ss. 311(b). An Indenture Trustee that has resigned or
been removed shall be subject to TIA ss. 311(a) to the extent indicated.
Section 6.13 Representations and Warranties. The Indenture Trustee
hereby represents and warrants that:
(a)The Indenture Trustee is duly organized, validly existing and
in good standing as a national banking association with power and authority to
own its properties and to conduct its business as such properties are currently
owned and such business is currently conducted.
(b)The Indenture Trustee has the power and authority to execute
and deliver this Indenture and to carry out its terms; and the execution,
delivery and performance of this Indenture have been duly authorized by the
Indenture Trustee by all necessary corporate action.
(c)The consummation of the transactions contemplated by this
Indenture and the fulfillment of the terms hereof do not conflict with, result
in any breach of any of the terms and provisions of, or constitute (with or
without notice or lapse of time) a default under, the articles of organization
or bylaws of the Indenture Trustee or any agreement or other instrument to which
the Indenture Trustee is a party or by which it is bound.
(d)To the Indenture Trustee's best knowledge, there are no
Proceedings or investigations pending or threatened before any court, regulatory
body, administrative agency or other governmental instrumentality having
jurisdiction over the Indenture Trustee or its properties (A) asserting the
invalidity of this Indenture, (B) seeking to prevent the consummation of any of
the transactions contemplated by this Indenture or (C) seeking any determination
or ruling that might materially and adversely affect the performance by the
Indenture Trustee of its obligations under, or the validity or enforceability
of, this Indenture.
(e)The Indenture Trustee does not have notice of any adverse
claim (as such terms are used in Section 8-302 of the UCC in effect in the State
of Delaware) with respect to the Mortgage Loans.
Section 6.14 Directions to Indenture Trustee. The Indenture Trustee is
hereby directed:
(a)to accept the pledge of the Mortgage Loans and hold the assets of the
Trust in trust for the Noteholders and the Enhancer;
(b)to authenticate and deliver the Notes substantially in the form
prescribed by Exhibit A in accordance with the terms of this Indenture; and
(c)to take all other actions as shall be required to be taken by
the terms of this Indenture.
Section 6.15 Indenture Trustee May Own Securities. The Indenture
Trustee, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or
pledgee of Securities with the same rights it would have if it were not
Indenture Trustee.
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ARTICLE VII
Noteholders' Lists and Reports
Section 7.01 Issuer to Furnish Indenture Trustee Names and Addresses of
Noteholders. The Issuer shall furnish or cause to be furnished to the Indenture
Trustee (a) not more than five days after each Record Date, a list, in such form
as the Indenture Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of
the Noteholders as of such Record Date, and (b) at such other times as the
Indenture Trustee and the Enhancer may request in writing, within 30 days after
receipt by the Issuer of any such request, a list of similar form and content as
of a date not more than 10 days prior to the time such list is furnished;
provided, however, that for so long as the Indenture Trustee is the Note
Registrar, no such list need be furnished.
Section 7.02 Preservation of Information; Communications to Noteholders.
(a)The Indenture Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as
is reasonably practicable, the names and addresses of the Noteholders contained
in the most recent list furnished to the Indenture Trustee as provided in
Section 7.01 and the names and addresses of the Noteholders received by the
Indenture Trustee in its capacity as Note Registrar. The Indenture Trustee may
destroy any list furnished to it as provided in such Section 7.01 upon receipt
of a new list so furnished.
(b)Noteholders may communicate pursuant to TIA ss. 312(b) with
other Noteholders with respect to their rights under this Indenture or under the
Notes.
(c)The Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Note Registrar shall
have the protection of TIA ss. 312(c).
Section 7.03 Reports by Issuer.
(a)The Issuer shall:
(i) file with the Indenture Trustee, within 15 days after
the Issuer is required to file the same with the Commission, copies of
the annual reports and 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) that the Issuer
may be required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or
15(d) of the Exchange Act;
(ii) file with the Indenture 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 Issuer with the conditions and covenants of
this Indenture as may be required from time to time by such rules and
regulations; and
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(iii) supply to the Indenture Trustee (and the Indenture
Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Noteholders described in TIA ss.
313(c)) such summaries of any information, documents and reports
required to be filed by the Issuer pursuant to clauses (i) and (ii) of
this Section 7.03(a) and by rules and regulations prescribed from time
to time by the Commission.
(b)Unless the Issuer otherwise determines, the fiscal year of the
Issuer shall end on December 31 of each year.
Section 7.04 Reports by Indenture Trustee. If required by TIA ss.
313(a), within 60 days after each January 1, beginning with January 1, 2005, the
Indenture Trustee shall make available to each Noteholder as required by TIA ss.
313(c) and to the Enhancer a brief report dated as of such date that complies
with TIA ss. 313(a). The Indenture Trustee also shall comply with TIA ss.
313(b).
A copy of each report at the time of its distribution to Noteholders
shall be filed by the Indenture Trustee with the Commission, if required, and
each stock exchange, if any, on which the Term Notes are listed. The Issuer
shall notify the Indenture Trustee if and when the Term Notes are listed on any
stock exchange.
ARTICLE VIII
Accounts, Disbursements and Releases
Section 8.01 Collection of Money. Except as otherwise expressly provided
herein, the Indenture Trustee may demand payment or delivery of, and shall
receive and collect, directly and without intervention or assistance of any
fiscal agent or other intermediary, all money and other property payable to or
receivable by the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Indenture. The Indenture
Trustee shall apply all such money received by it as provided in this Indenture.
Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Indenture, if any default occurs
in the making of any payment or performance under any agreement or instrument
that is part of the Trust Estate, the Indenture Trustee may take such action as
may be appropriate to enforce such payment or performance, including the
institution and prosecution of appropriate Proceedings. Any such action shall be
without prejudice to any right to claim a Default or Event of Default under this
Indenture and any right to proceed thereafter as provided in Article V.
Section 8.02 Trust Accounts.
(a)On or prior to the Closing Date, the Issuer shall cause the
Indenture Trustee to establish and maintain, in the name of the Indenture
Trustee, for the benefit of the Noteholders, the Certificate Paying Agent, on
behalf of the Certificateholders, and the Enhancer, the Note Payment Account as
provided in Section 3.01 of this Indenture and the Reserve Sub-Account.
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(b)All monies deposited from time to time in the Note Payment
Account pursuant to the Servicing Agreement and all deposits therein pursuant to
this Indenture are for the benefit of the Noteholders and the Certificate Paying
Agent, on behalf of the Certificateholders, and all investments made with such
monies, including all income or other gain from such investments, are for the
benefit of the Servicer as provided in Section 5.01 of the Servicing Agreement.
On each Payment Date, the Indenture Trustee shall distribute all amounts
on deposit in the Note Payment Account to the Noteholders in respect of the
Notes and, in its capacity as Certificate Paying Agent, to the
Certificateholders from the Distribution Account in the order of priority set
forth in Section 3.05 (except as otherwise provided in Section 5.04(b)) and in
accordance with the Servicing Certificate.
All monies deposited from time to time in the Reserve Sub-Account
pursuant to this Indenture are for the benefit of the Noteholders and the
Enhancer, and all investments made with such monies, including all income or
other gain from such investments, are for the benefit of the Noteholders.
The Indenture Trustee shall invest any funds in the Note Payment Account
and the Reserve Sub-Account in Permitted Investments selected in writing by the
Servicer maturing no later than the Business Day preceding the next succeeding
Payment Date (except that any investment in the institution with which the Note
Payment Account is maintained may mature on such Payment Date) and shall not be
sold or disposed of prior to the maturity. In addition, such Permitted
Investments shall not be purchased at a price in excess of par. The Indenture
Trustee shall have no liability whatsoever for investment losses on Permitted
Investments, if such investments are made in accordance with the provisions of
this Indenture and the Indenture Trustee is not the obligor under the Permitted
Investment.
Section 8.03 Officer's Certificate. The Indenture Trustee shall receive
at least seven days' notice when requested by the Issuer to take any action
pursuant to Section 8.05(a), accompanied by copies of any instruments to be
executed, and the Indenture Trustee shall also require, as a condition to such
action, an Officer's Certificate, in form and substance satisfactory to the
Indenture Trustee, stating the legal effect of any such action, outlining the
steps required to complete the same, and concluding that all conditions
precedent to the taking of such action have been complied with.
Section 8.04 Termination Upon Distribution to Noteholders. This
Indenture and the respective obligations and responsibilities of the Issuer and
the Indenture Trustee created hereby shall terminate upon the distribution to
the Noteholders, the Certificate Paying Agent on behalf of the
Certificateholders and the Indenture Trustee of all amounts required to be
distributed pursuant to Article III; provided, however, that in no event shall
the trust created hereby continue beyond the expiration of 21 years from the
death of the survivor of the descendants of Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx, the late
ambassador of the United States to the Court of St. James's, living on the date
hereof.
Section 8.05 Release of Trust Estate.
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(a)Subject to the payment of its fees, expenses and
indemnification, the Indenture Trustee may, and when required by the provisions
of this Indenture or the Servicing Agreement, shall, execute instruments to
release property from the lien of this Indenture, or convey the Indenture
Trustee's interest in the same, in a manner and under circumstances that are not
inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture. No Person relying upon an
instrument executed by the Indenture Trustee as provided in Article VIII
hereunder shall be bound to ascertain the Indenture Trustee's authority, inquire
into the satisfaction of any conditions precedent, or see to the application of
any monies.
(b)The Indenture Trustee shall, at such time as (i) there are no
Notes Outstanding, (ii) all sums due the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this
Indenture have been paid and (iii) all sums due the Enhancer have been paid,
release any remaining portion of the Trust Estate that secured the Notes from
the lien of this Indenture.
(c)The Indenture Trustee shall release property from the lien of
this Indenture pursuant to this Section 8.05 only upon receipt of an Issuer
Request accompanied by an Officers' Certificate and a letter from the Enhancer
stating that the Enhancer has no objection to such request from the Issuer.
(d)The Indenture Trustee shall, at the request of the Issuer or
the Depositor, surrender the Policy to the Enhancer for cancellation, upon final
payment of principal of and interest on the Notes.
Section 8.06 Surrender of Notes Upon Final Payment. By acceptance of any
Note, the Noteholder thereof agrees to surrender such Note to the Indenture
Trustee promptly, prior to such Noteholder's receipt of the final payment
thereon.
ARTICLE IX
Supplemental Indentures
Section 9.01 Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Noteholders.
(a)Without the consent of the Noteholders of any Notes, but with
prior notice to the Rating Agencies and the prior written consent of the
Enhancer (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld and so long as no
Enhancer Default exists), the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee, when authorized
by an Issuer Request, at any time and from time to time, may enter into one or
more indentures supplemental hereto (which shall conform to the provisions of
the Trust Indenture Act as in force at the date of the execution thereof), in
form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, for any of the following purposes:
(i) to correct or amplify the description of any property
at any time subject to the lien of this Indenture, or better to assure,
convey and confirm unto the Indenture Trustee any property subject or
required to be subjected to the lien of this Indenture, or to subject to
the lien of this Indenture additional property;
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(ii) to evidence the succession, in compliance with the
applicable provisions hereof, of another Person to the Issuer, and the
assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the Issuer herein
and in the Notes contained;
(iii) to add to the covenants of the Issuer, for the
benefit of the Noteholders or the Enhancer, or to surrender any right or
power herein conferred upon the Issuer;
(iv) to convey, transfer, assign, mortgage or pledge any
property to or with the Indenture Trustee;
(v) to cure any ambiguity, to correct any error or to
correct or supplement any provision herein or in any supplemental
indenture that may be inconsistent with any other provision herein or in
any supplemental indenture;
(vi) to make any other provisions with respect to matters
or questions arising under this Indenture or in any supplemental
indenture; provided, that such action shall not materially and adversely
affect the interests of the Noteholders or the Enhancer (as evidenced by
an Opinion of Counsel);
(vii) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of the
appointment hereunder by a successor trustee with respect to the Notes
and to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall
be necessary to facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by
more than one trustee, pursuant to the requirements of Article VI; or
(viii) to modify, eliminate or add to the provisions of
this Indenture to such extent as shall be necessary to effect the
qualification of this Indenture under TIA or under any similar federal
statute hereafter enacted and to add to this Indenture such other
provisions as may be expressly required by TIA;
provided, however, that no such supplemental indenture shall be entered into
unless the Indenture Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the
effect that the execution of such supplemental indenture will not give rise to
any material adverse tax consequence to the Noteholders.
The Indenture Trustee is hereby authorized to join in the execution of
any such supplemental indenture and to make any further appropriate agreements
and stipulations that may be therein contained.
(b)The Issuer and the Indenture Trustee, when authorized by an
Issuer Request, may, without the consent of any Noteholder but with prior notice
to the Rating Agencies and the Enhancer, 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 Noteholders under this Indenture;
provided, however, that such action shall not, as evidenced by an Opinion of
Counsel, (i) adversely affect in any material respect the interests of any
Noteholder or the Enhancer or (ii) cause the Issuer to be subject to an entity
level tax.
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Section 9.02 Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Noteholders. The
Issuer and the Indenture Trustee, when authorized by an Issuer Request, may,
with prior notice to the Rating Agencies and with the consent of the Enhancer
and the Noteholders of not less than a majority of the Note Balances of each
Class of Notes affected thereby, by Act (as defined in Section 10.03 hereof) of
such Noteholders delivered to the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee, 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 Noteholders
under this Indenture; provided, however, that no such supplemental indenture
shall, without the consent of the Noteholder of each Note affected thereby:
(a)change the date of payment of any installment of principal of
or interest on any Note, or reduce the principal amount thereof or the Note Rate
thereon, change the provisions of this Indenture relating to the application of
collections on, or the proceeds of the sale of, the Trust Estate to payment of
principal of or interest on the Notes, or change any place of payment where, or
the coin or currency in which, any Note or the interest thereon is payable, or
impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of the provisions of this
Indenture requiring the application of funds available therefor, as provided in
Article V, to the payment of any such amount due on the Notes on or after the
respective due dates thereof;
(b)reduce the percentage of the Note Balances of any Class of
Notes, the consent of the Noteholders of which is required for any such
supplemental indenture, or the consent of the Noteholders of which is required
for any waiver of compliance with certain provisions of this Indenture or
certain defaults hereunder and their consequences provided for in this
Indenture;
(c)modify or alter the provisions of the proviso to the
definition of the term "Outstanding" or modify or alter the exception in the
definition of the term "Noteholder";
(d)reduce the percentage of the aggregate Note Balance of the
Notes required to direct the Indenture Trustee to direct the Issuer to sell or
liquidate the Trust Estate pursuant to Section 5.04;
(e)modify any provision of this Section 9.02 except to increase
any percentage specified herein or to provide that certain additional provisions
of this Indenture or the other Basic Documents cannot be modified or waived
without the consent of the Noteholder of each Note affected thereby;
(f)modify any of the provisions of this Indenture in such manner
as to affect the calculation of the amount of any payment of interest or
principal due on any Note on any Payment Date (including the calculation of any
of the individual components of such calculation); or
(g)permit the creation of any lien ranking prior to or on a
parity with the lien of this Indenture with respect to any part of the Trust
Estate or, except as otherwise permitted or contemplated herein, terminate the
lien of this Indenture on any property at any time subject hereto or deprive the
Noteholder of any Note of the security provided by the lien of this Indenture;
and provided further, that such action shall not, as evidenced by an Opinion of
Counsel, cause the Issuer to be subject to an entity level tax.
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The Indenture Trustee may in its discretion determine whether or not any
Notes would be affected by any supplemental indenture and any such determination
shall be conclusive upon the Noteholders of all Notes, whether theretofore or
thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder. The Indenture Trustee shall
not be liable for any such determination made in good faith.
It shall not be necessary for any Act (as defined in Section 10.03
hereof) of Noteholders under this Section 9.02 to approve the particular form of
any proposed supplemental indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such Act
shall approve the substance thereof.
Promptly after the execution by the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee of
any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Section 9.02, the Indenture Trustee
shall mail to the Noteholders of the Notes to which such amendment or
supplemental indenture relates a notice setting forth in general terms the
substance of such supplemental indenture. Any failure of the Indenture Trustee
to mail such notice, or any defect therein, shall not, however, in any way
impair or affect the validity of any such supplemental indenture.
Section 9.03 Execution of Supplemental Indentures. In executing, or
permitting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental indenture
permitted by this Article IX or the modification thereby of the trusts created
by this Indenture, the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to receive and,
subject to Sections 6.01 and 6.02, shall be fully protected in relying upon, an
Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture is
authorized or permitted by this Indenture. The Indenture Trustee may, but shall
not be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture that affects the
Indenture Trustee's own rights, duties, liabilities or immunities under this
Indenture or otherwise.
Section 9.04 Effect of Supplemental Indenture. Upon the execution of any
supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions hereof, this Indenture shall
be and shall be deemed to be modified and amended in accordance therewith with
respect to the Notes affected thereby, and the respective rights, limitations of
rights, obligations, duties, liabilities and immunities under this Indenture of
the Indenture Trustee, the Issuer and the Noteholders shall thereafter be
determined, exercised and enforced hereunder subject in all respects to such
modifications and amendments, and all the terms and conditions of any such
supplemental indenture shall be and be deemed to be part of the terms and
conditions of this Indenture for any and all purposes.
Section 9.05 Conformity with Trust Indenture Act. Every amendment of
this Indenture and every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this
Article IX shall conform to the requirements of TIA as in effect at the time of
such amendment or supplement so long as this Indenture shall then be qualified
under TIA.
Section 9.06 Reference in Notes to Supplemental Indentures. Notes
authenticated and delivered after the execution of any supplemental indenture
pursuant to this Article IX may, and if required by the Indenture Trustee,
shall, bear a notation in form approved by the Indenture Trustee as to any
matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Issuer or the
Indenture Trustee shall so determine, new Notes so modified as to conform, in
the opinion of the Indenture Trustee and the Issuer, to any such supplemental
indenture may be prepared and executed by the Issuer and authenticated and
delivered by the Indenture Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Notes.
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ARTICLE X
Miscellaneous
Section 10.01 Compliance Certificates and Opinions, etc.
(a)Upon any application or request by the Issuer to the Indenture
Trustee to take any action under any provision of this Indenture, the Issuer
shall furnish to the Indenture Trustee and to the Enhancer (i) an Officer's
Certificate stating that all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this
Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with and (ii) 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, 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:
(i) a statement that each signatory of such certificate or
opinion has read or has caused to be read such covenant or condition and
the definitions herein relating thereto;
(ii) 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;
(iii) a statement that, in the opinion of each such
signatory, such signatory has made such examination or investigation as
is necessary to enable such signatory to express an informed opinion as
to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with;
(iv) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each
such signatory, such condition or covenant has been complied with; and
(v) if the signer of such certificate or opinion is
required to be Independent, the statement required by the definition of
the term "Independent."
(b)(i) Prior to the deposit of any Collateral or other property
or securities with the Indenture Trustee that is to be made the basis for the
release of any property or securities subject to the lien of this Indenture, the
Issuer shall, in addition to any obligation imposed in Section 10.01(a) or
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elsewhere in this Indenture, furnish to the Indenture Trustee an Officer's
Certificate certifying or stating the opinion of each person signing such
certificate as to the fair value (within 90 days of such deposit) to the Issuer
of the Collateral or other property or securities to be so deposited.
(ii) Whenever the Issuer is required to furnish to the
Indenture Trustee an Officer's Certificate certifying or stating the
opinion of any signer thereof as to the matters described in clause (i)
above, the Issuer shall also deliver to the Indenture Trustee an
Independent Certificate as to the same matters, if the fair value to the
Issuer of the securities to be so deposited and of all other such
securities made the basis of any such withdrawal or release since the
commencement of the then-current fiscal year of the Issuer, as set forth
in the certificates delivered pursuant to clause (i) above and this
clause (ii), is 10% or more of the aggregate Note Balance of the Notes,
but such a certificate need not be furnished with respect to any
securities so deposited, if the fair value thereof to the Issuer as set
forth in the related Officer's Certificate is less than $25,000 or less
than one percent of the aggregate Note Balance of the Notes.
(iii) Whenever any property or securities are to be
released from the lien of this Indenture, the Issuer shall furnish to
the Indenture Trustee an Officer's Certificate certifying or stating the
opinion of each person signing such certificate as to the fair value
(within 90 days of such release) of the property or securities proposed
to be released and stating that in the opinion of such person the
proposed release will not impair the security under this Indenture in
contravention of the provisions hereof.
(iv) Whenever the Issuer is required to furnish to the
Indenture Trustee an Officer's Certificate certifying or stating the
opinion of any signer thereof as to the matters described in clause
(iii) above, the Issuer shall also furnish to the Indenture Trustee an
Independent Certificate as to the same matters if the fair value of the
property or securities and of all other property, other than property as
contemplated by clause (v) below or securities released from the lien of
this Indenture since the commencement of the then-current calendar year,
as set forth in the certificates required by clause (iii) above and this
clause (iv), equals 10% or more of the aggregate Note Balance of the
Notes, but such certificate need not be furnished in the case of any
release of property or securities if the fair value thereof as set forth
in the related Officer's Certificate is less than $25,000 or less than
one percent of the aggregate Note Balance of the Notes.
(v) Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Section 10.01(b)
shall not apply to (A) collection upon, sales or other dispositions of
the Mortgage Loans as and to the extent permitted or required by the
Basic Documents or (B) the making of cash payments out of the Note
Payment Account as and to the extent permitted or required by the Basic
Documents, so long as the Issuer shall deliver to the Indenture Trustee
every six months, commencing December 31, 2004, an Officer's Certificate
of the Issuer stating that all the dispositions of Collateral described
in clauses (A) or (B) above that occurred during the preceding six
calendar months (or such longer period, in the case of the first such
Officer's Certificate) were permitted or required by the Basic Documents
and that the proceeds thereof were applied in accordance with the Basic
Documents.
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Section 10.02 Form of Documents Delivered to Indenture 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.
Any certificate or opinion of an Authorized Officer of the Issuer may be
based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of,
or representations by, counsel, unless such officer knows, or in the exercise of
reasonable care should know, 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 of an Authorized Officer 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 any Seller or the
Issuer, stating that the information with respect to such factual matters is in
the possession of any Seller or the Issuer, unless such counsel knows, or in the
exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or
representations with respect to such matters 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.
Whenever in this Indenture, in connection with any application or
certificate or report to the Indenture Trustee, it is provided that the Issuer
shall deliver any document as a condition of the granting of such application,
or as evidence of the Issuer's compliance with any term hereof, it is intended
that the truth and accuracy, at the time of the granting of such application or
at the effective date of such certificate or report (as the case may be), of the
facts and opinions stated in such document shall in such case be conditions
precedent to the right of the Issuer to have such application granted or to the
sufficiency of such certificate or report. The foregoing shall not, however, be
construed to affect the Indenture Trustee's right to rely upon the truth and
accuracy of any statement or opinion contained in any such document as provided
in Article VI.
Section 10.03 Acts of Noteholders.
(a)Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or other action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken
by Noteholders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of
substantially similar tenor signed by such Noteholders 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 Indenture Trustee, and, where it is hereby expressly required,
to the Issuer. Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein
and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the "Act" of the
Noteholders 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 Indenture Trustee and the Issuer, if made in the manner provided in
this Section 10.03.
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(b)The fact and date of the execution by any person of any such
instrument or writing may be proved in any manner that the Indenture Trustee
deems sufficient.
(c)The ownership of Notes shall be proved by the Note Register.
(d)Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or other action by the Noteholder of any Note shall bind the
Noteholder of every Note issued upon the registration thereof or in exchange
therefor or in lieu thereof, in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to
be done by the Indenture Trustee or the Issuer in reliance thereon, whether or
not notation of such action is made upon such Note.
Section 10.04 Notices, etc., to Indenture Trustee, Issuer, Enhancer and
Rating Agencies. Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or Act of Noteholders or other documents provided or permitted by this
Indenture shall be in writing and if such request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of Noteholders is to be made upon,
given or furnished to or filed with:
(a)the Indenture Trustee by any Noteholder or by the Issuer shall
be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed in
writing to or with the Indenture Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office with a
copy to Xxxxx Fargo Bank, N.A., 0000 Xxx Xxxxxxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx
00000-0000, Attention: Corporate Trust Services -- GMACM -- 2004-HE4. The
Indenture Trustee shall promptly transmit any notice received by it from the
Noteholders to the Issuer,
(b)the Issuer by the Indenture Trustee or by any Noteholder shall
be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if in writing and mailed first-class,
postage prepaid to the Issuer addressed to: GMACM Home Equity Loan Trust
2004-HE4, in care of the Owner Trustee, or at any other address previously
furnished in writing to the Indenture Trustee by the Issuer. The Issuer shall
promptly transmit any notice received by it from the Noteholders to the
Indenture Trustee, or
(c)the Enhancer by the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee or by any
Noteholders shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder to in writing and
mailed, first-class postage pre-paid, or personally delivered or telecopied to:
MBIA Insurance Corporation, 000 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, Attention:
Insured Portfolio Management - Structured Finance (GMACM Home Equity Loan Trust
2004-HE4), telecopier number (000) 000-0000. The Enhancer shall promptly
transmit any notice received by it from the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee or the
Noteholders to the Issuer or Indenture Trustee, as the case may be.
Notices required to be given to the Rating Agencies by the Issuer, the
Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee shall be in writing, personally delivered
or mailed by certified mail, return receipt requested, to (i) in the case of
Moody's, at the following address: Xxxxx'x Investors Service, Inc., ABS
Monitoring Department, 00 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000 and (ii) in
the case of Standard & Poor's, at the following address: Standard & Poor's, 00
Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000-0003, Attention: Asset Backed
Surveillance Department; or, as to each of the foregoing Persons, at such other
address as shall be designated by written notice to the other foregoing Persons.
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Section 10.05 Notices to Noteholders; Waiver. Where this Indenture
provides for notice to Noteholders of any event, such notice shall be
sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing
and mailed, first-class, postage prepaid to each Noteholder affected by such
event, at such Person's address as it appears on the Note 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 Noteholders is given by mail,
neither the failure to mail such notice nor any defect in any notice so mailed
to any particular Noteholder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with
respect to other Noteholders, and any notice that is mailed in the manner herein
provided shall conclusively be presumed to have been duly given regardless of
whether such notice is in fact actually received.
Where this Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice may
be waived in writing by any 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 Noteholders shall be filed with the Indenture
Trustee, but such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of
any action taken in reliance upon such a waiver.
In case, by reason of the suspension of regular mail service as a result
of a strike, work stoppage or similar activity, it shall be impractical to mail
notice of any event to Noteholders when such notice is required to be given
pursuant to any provision of this Indenture, then any manner of giving such
notice as shall be satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee shall be deemed to be a
sufficient giving of such notice.
Where this Indenture provides for notice to the Rating Agencies, failure
to give such notice shall not affect any other rights or obligations created
hereunder, and shall not under any circumstance constitute an Event of Default.
Section 10.06 Alternate Payment and Notice Provisions. Notwithstanding
any provision of this Indenture or any of the Notes to the contrary, the Issuer
may enter into any agreement with any Noteholder providing for a method of
payment, or notice by the Indenture Trustee to such Noteholder, that is
different from the methods provided for in this Indenture for such payments or
notices. The Issuer shall furnish to the Indenture Trustee a copy of each such
agreement and the Indenture Trustee shall cause payments to be made and notices
to be given in accordance with such agreements.
Section 10.07 Conflict with Trust Indenture Act. If any provision hereof
limits, qualifies or conflicts with another provision hereof that is required to
be included in this Indenture by any of the provisions of TIA, such required
provision shall control.
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The provisions of TIA xx.xx. 310 through 317 that impose duties on any
Person (including the provisions automatically deemed included herein unless
expressly excluded by this Indenture) are a part of and govern this Indenture,
whether or not physically contained herein.
Section 10.08 Effect of Headings. The Article and Section headings
herein are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.
Section 10.09 Successors and Assigns. All covenants and agreements in
this Indenture and the Notes by the Issuer shall bind its successors and
assigns, whether so expressed or not. All agreements of the Indenture Trustee in
this Indenture shall bind its successors, co-trustees and agents.
Section 10.10 Severability. In case any provision in this Indenture or
in the Notes shall be held invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity,
legality, and enforceability of the remaining provisions hereof shall not in any
way be affected or impaired thereby.
Section 10.11 Benefits of Indenture. Nothing in this Indenture or in the
Notes, express or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties
hereto and their successors hereunder, and the Noteholders, the Enhancer, and
any other party secured hereunder, and any other Person with an ownership
interest in any part of the Trust Estate, any benefit or any legal or equitable
right, remedy or claim under this Indenture. The Enhancer shall be a third party
beneficiary of this Indenture.
Section 10.12 Legal Holidays. In any case where the date on which any
payment is due shall not be a Business Day, then (notwithstanding any other
provision of the Notes or this Indenture) payment need not be made on such date,
but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and
effect as if made on the date on which nominally due, and no interest shall
accrue for the period from and after any such nominal date.
Section 10.13 GOVERNING LAW. THIS INDENTURE SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS
CONFLICTS OF LAW PROVISIONS, AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE
PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.
Section 10.14 Counterparts. This Indenture may be executed in any number
of counterparts, each of which so executed shall be deemed to be an original,
but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same
instrument.
Section 10.15 Recording of Indenture. If this Indenture is subject to
recording in any appropriate public recording offices, such recording is to be
effected by the Issuer and at its expense accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel
(which counsel shall be reasonably acceptable to the Indenture Trustee) to the
effect that such recording is necessary either for the protection of the
Noteholders or any other Person secured hereunder or for the enforcement of any
right or remedy granted to the Indenture Trustee under this Indenture.
Section 10.16 Issuer Obligation. No recourse may be taken, directly or
indirectly, with respect to the obligations of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or
the Indenture Trustee on the Notes or under this Indenture or any certificate or
other writing delivered in connection herewith or therewith, against (i) the
Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity, (ii) any
owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer or (iii) any partner, owner,
beneficiary, agent, officer, director, employee or agent of the Indenture
Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity, any holder of a
beneficial interest in the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee or
of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its
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individual capacity, except as any such Person may have expressly agreed (it
being understood that the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee have no such
obligations in their respective individual capacities), and except that any such
partner, owner or beneficiary shall be fully liable, to the extent provided by
applicable law, for any unpaid consideration for stock, unpaid capital
contribution or failure to pay any installment or call owing to such entity. For
all purposes of this Indenture, in the performance of any duties or obligations
of the Issuer hereunder, the Owner Trustee shall be subject to, and entitled to
the benefits of, the terms and provisions of Articles VI, VII and VIII of the
Trust Agreement.
Section 10.17 No Petition. The Indenture Trustee, by entering into this
Indenture, and each Noteholder, by its acceptance of a Note, hereby covenant and
agree that they will not at any time institute against the Depositor or the
Issuer, or join in any institution against the Depositor or the Issuer of, any
bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings,
or other proceedings under any United States federal or state bankruptcy or
similar law in connection with any obligations relating to the Notes, this
Indenture or any of the other Basic Documents.
Section 10.18 Inspection. The Issuer agrees that, on reasonable prior
notice, it shall permit any representative of the Indenture Trustee, during the
Issuer's normal business hours, to examine all the books of account, records,
reports and other papers of the Issuer, to make copies and extracts therefrom,
to cause such books to be audited by Independent certified public accountants,
and to discuss the Issuer's affairs, finances and accounts with the Issuer's
officers, employees, and Independent certified public accountants, all at such
reasonable times and as often as may be reasonably requested. The Indenture
Trustee shall and shall cause its representatives to hold in confidence all such
information except to the extent disclosure may be required by law (and all
reasonable applications for confidential treatment are unavailing) and except to
the extent that the Indenture Trustee may reasonably determine that such
disclosure is consistent with its obligations hereunder.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee have caused
their names to be signed hereto by their respective officers thereunto duly
authorized, all as of the day and year first above written.
GMACM HOME EQUITY LOAN TRUST 2004-HE4, as Issuer
By: WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, not in its individual
capacity but solely as Owner Trustee
By:__________________________________
Name:
Title:
XXXXX FARGO BANK, N.A., as Indenture Trustee
By:___________________________________
Name:
Title:
XXXXX FARGO BANK, N.A.
xxxxxx accepts the appointment as Paying
Agent pursuant to Section 3.03 hereof
and as Note Registrar pursuant to Section
4.02 hereof.
By:_________________________________________
Name:
Title:
Signatures and Seals
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STATE OF _______________ )
) ss.:
COUNTY OF _____________ )
On this ___ day of October, 2004, before me personally appeared
____________, to me known, who being by me duly sworn, did depose and say, that
he/she resides at _____________, that he/she is the ____________ of Wilmington
Trust Company, the Owner Trustee, one of the corporations described in and which
executed the above instrument; that he/she knows the seal of said corporation;
that the seal affixed to said instrument is such corporate seal; that it was so
affixed by order of the Board of Directors of said corporation; and that he/she
signed his/her name thereto by like order.
Notary Public
Acknowledgements
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STATE OF )
) ss.:
COUNTY OF )
On this ___ day of October, 2004, before me personally appeared
__________, to me known, who being by me duly sworn, did depose and say, that
he/she resides at _____________; that he/she is the ___________ of Xxxxx Fargo
Bank, N.A., as Indenture Trustee, one of the corporations described in and which
executed the above instrument; that he/she knows the seal of said corporation;
that the seal affixed to said instrument is such corporate seal; that it was so
affixed by order of the Board of Directors of said corporation; and that he/she
signed his/her name thereto by like order.
Notary Public
NOTORIAL SEAL
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APPENDIX A
DEFINITIONS
Addition Notice: With respect to the transfer of Subsequent Mortgage
Loans to the Issuer by a Seller pursuant to Section 2.2 of the Purchase
Agreement (in substantially the form set forth in Exhibit 3 to such agreement),
a notice given by the respective Seller to the Rating Agencies, the Indenture
Trustee, the Enhancer and the Owner Trustee, which shall be given not later than
seven Business Days prior to the related Subsequent Transfer Date, of (i) the
Seller's designation of Subsequent Mortgage Loans to be sold to the Issuer and
(ii) the aggregate principal balance as of the Subsequent Cut-Off Date of such
Subsequent Mortgage Loans.
Additional Balance: With respect to any Mortgage Loan, any future Draw
made by the related Mortgagor pursuant to the related Loan Agreement after the
Cut-Off Date or Subsequent Cut-Off Date, together with all money due or to
become due in respect of such Draw; provided, however, that any Draw during the
Rapid Amortization Period shall be an Excluded Amount, shall not be acquired by
the Trust and shall not be an Additional Balance.
Additional Balance Increase Amount: Shall mean (a) the excess, if any,
of (i) the aggregate principal amount of Additional Balances conveyed to the
Trust Estate, over (ii) Principal Collections and Excess Spread applied to
purchase those Additional Balances from the Funding Account and/or the Custodial
Account minus (b) amounts paid on previous Payment Dates to the holders of the
Certificates as an Additional Balance Increase Amount.
Advance: An advance of funds made by a Holder of Variable Pay Revolving
Notes in connection with the related Targeted Final Payment Date.
Affiliate: With respect to any Person, any other Person controlling,
controlled by or under common control with such Person. For purposes of this
definition, "control" means the power to direct the management and policies of a
Person, directly or indirectly, whether through ownership of voting securities,
by contract or otherwise and "controlling" and "controlled" shall have meanings
correlative to the foregoing.
Amortization Periods: Collectively, the Managed Amortization Period and the
Rapid Amortization Period.
Appraised Value: With respect to any Mortgaged Property, either (x) the
value as generally set forth in an appraisal of such Mortgaged Property used to
establish compliance with the underwriting criteria then in effect in connection
with the later of the application for the Mortgage Loan secured by such
Mortgaged Property or any subsequent increase or decrease in the related Credit
Limit, or to reduce or eliminate the amount of any primary mortgage insurance,
or (y) if the sales price of such Mortgaged Property is considered in accordance
with the underwriting criteria applicable to the related Mortgage Loan, the
lesser of (i) the appraised value referred to in (x) above and (ii) the sales
price of such Mortgaged Property.
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Assignment of Mortgage: With respect to any Mortgage, an assignment,
notice of transfer or equivalent instrument, in recordable form, sufficient
under the laws of the jurisdiction in which the related Mortgaged Property is
located to reflect the conveyance of such Mortgage, which assignment, notice of
transfer or equivalent instrument may be in the form of one or more blanket
assignments covering Mortgages secured by Mortgaged Properties located in the
same jurisdiction.
Authorized Newspaper: A newspaper of general circulation in the Borough
of Manhattan, The City of New York, printed in the English language and
customarily published on each Business Day, whether or not published on
Saturdays, Sundays or holidays.
Authorized Officer: With respect to the Issuer, any officer of the Owner
Trustee who is authorized to act for the Owner Trustee in matters relating to
the Issuer and who is identified on the list of Authorized Officers delivered by
the Owner Trustee to the Indenture Trustee on the Closing Date (as such list may
be modified or supplemented from time to time thereafter).
Bankruptcy Code: The Bankruptcy Code of 1978, as amended.
Base Specified Overcollateralization Amount: Shall mean 0.80% of the
Initial Aggregate Note Balance.
Basic Documents: The Trust Agreement, the Indenture, the Purchase
Agreement, the Insurance Agreement, the Policy, the Servicing Agreement, the
Custodial Agreement, any Subsequent Transfer Agreement and the other documents
and certificates delivered in connection with any of the above.
Beneficial Owner: With respect to any Note, the Person who is the
beneficial owner of such Note as reflected on the books of the Depository or on
the books of a Person maintaining an account with such Depository (directly as a
Depository Participant or indirectly through a Depository Participant, in
accordance with the rules of such Depository).
Billing Cycle: With respect to any Mortgage Loan and Due Date, the
calendar month preceding such Due Date.
Book-Entry Notes: Beneficial interests in the Notes, ownership and
transfers of which shall be made through book entries by the Depository as
described in Section 4.06 of the Indenture.
Business Day: Any day other than (i) a Saturday or a Sunday or (ii) a
day on which banking institutions in the States of New York, Pennsylvania,
Delaware or the State in which the Corporate Trust Office are required or
authorized by law to be closed.
Capitalized Interest Account: The account established and maintained
pursuant to Section 3.19 of the Servicing Agreement.
Capitalized Interest Requirement: With respect to each Payment Date
during the Pre-Funding Period and on the Payment Date immediately after the end
of the Pre-Funding Period, the lesser of (a) the excess, if any, of (i) the
aggregate amount due to the Noteholders pursuant to Section 3.05(a)(i) of the
Indenture for such Payment Date and (ii) the aggregate amount of Interest
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Collections available to pay the amount described in clause (i) above (excluding
any related Policy Payment and any amounts on deposit in the Capitalized
Interest Account) and (b) the excess, if any of (i) the sum of (A) the amount of
interest that would accrue at the weighted average Note Rate based on the
respective Note Balances of the Notes for the related Interest Period on the
amount on deposit in the Pre-Funding Account as of the close of business on the
preceding Payment Date (or as of the Closing Date, in the case of the first
Payment Date) and (B) the amount of any fees paid to the Enhancer for the
Policy, over (ii) the amount of reinvestment earnings since the preceding
Payment Date (or the Closing Date, in the case of the first Payment Date) in the
Pre-Funding Account.
Certificate Balance: The excess, if any, of the Principal Balance of the
Mortgage Loans over the aggregate outstanding principal balance of the Notes.
Certificate Distribution Amount: For any Payment Date, the amount, if
any, distributable on the Certificates for such Payment Date pursuant to
Sections 3.05(a)(v) and (xv) of the Indenture.
Certificate of Trust: The Certificate of Trust filed for the Trust
pursuant to Section 3810(a) of the Statutory Trust Statute.
Certificate Paying Agent: The Certificate Paying Agent appointed
pursuant to Section 3.10 of the Trust Agreement. Initially the Indenture Trustee
has been appointed as the Certificate Paying Agent.
Certificate Percentage Interest: With respect to any Payment Date and
any Certificate, the Percentage Interest for such Certificate.
Certificate Register: The register maintained by the Certificate
Registrar in which the Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration
of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates.
Certificate Registrar: The Certificate Registrar appointed pursuant to
Section 3.05 of the Trust Agreement. Initially the Indenture Trustee has been
appointed as the Certificate Registrar.
Certificateholder: The Person in whose name a Certificate is registered
in the Certificate Register except that, any Certificate registered in the name
of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee or any Affiliate of
the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee shall be deemed not to be outstanding
and the registered holder will not be considered a Certificateholder for
purposes of giving any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent or waiver under the Indenture or the Trust Agreement; provided that, in
determining whether the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee shall be
protected in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction,
notice, consent or waiver, only Certificates that the Indenture Trustee or the
Owner Trustee knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded. Owners of
Certificates that have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as
Certificateholders if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the
Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee, as the case may be, the pledgee's right
so to act with respect to such Certificates and that the pledgee is not the
Issuer, any other obligor upon the Certificates or any Affiliate of the Owner
Trustee or the Indenture Trustee.
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Certificates: The Certificates issued pursuant to the Trust Agreement.
Class: With respect to any Note, all Notes that bear the same class
designation, (i.e., the Class A-1 Notes as a group, the Class A-2 Notes as a
group, the Class A-3 Notes as a group, the Class A-1 Variable Pay Revolving
Notes as a group, the Class A-2 Variable Pay Revolving Notes as a group or the
Class A-3 Variable Pay Revolving Notes as a group).
Class A-1 Notes: The Class A-1 GMACM Home Equity Loan-Backed Term Notes,
Series 2004-HE4, in substantially the form set forth in Exhibit A-1 to the
Indenture.
Class A-1 Variable Pay Revolving Notes: The Class A-1 GMACM Home Equity
Loan-Backed Variable Pay Revolving Notes, Series 2004-HE4, in substantially the
form set forth in Exhibit A-2 to the Indenture, which will relate to, and
provide for the option to make an Advance in connection with the Targeted Final
Payment Date of, the Class A-1 Notes.
Class A-2 Notes: The Class A-2 GMACM Home Equity Loan-Backed Term Notes,
Series 2004-HE4, in substantially the form set forth in Exhibit A-1 to the
Indenture.
Class A-2 Variable Pay Revolving Notes: The Class A-2 GMACM Home Equity
Loan-Backed Variable Pay Revolving Notes, Series 2004-HE4, in substantially the
form set forth in Exhibit A-2 to the Indenture, which will relate to, and
provide for the option to make an Advance in connection with the Targeted Final
Payment Date of, the Class A-2 Notes.
Class A-3 Notes: The Class A-3 GMACM Home Equity Loan-Backed Term Notes,
Series 2004-HE4, in substantially the form set forth in Exhibit A-1 to the
Indenture.
Class A-3 Variable Pay Revolving Notes: The Class A-3 GMACM Home Equity
Loan-Backed Variable Pay Revolving Notes, Series 2004-HE4, in substantially the
form set forth in Exhibit A-2 to the Indenture, which will relate to, and
provide for the option to make an Advance in connection with the Targeted Final
Payment Date of, the Class A-3 Notes.
Closing Date: October 28, 2004.
Code: The Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the rules and
regulations promulgated thereunder.
Collateral: The meaning specified in the Granting Clause of the
Indenture.
Collection Period: With respect to any Mortgage Loan and Payment Date,
the calendar month preceding any such Payment Date.
Collections: With respect to any Collection Period, all Interest
Collections and Principal Collections during such Collection Period.
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Combined Loan-to-Value Ratio or CLTV: With respect to each Mortgage
Loan, the ratio, expressed as a percentage, of the sum of (i) the Credit Limit
and (ii) any outstanding principal balance, at origination of such Mortgage
Loan, of all other mortgage loans, if any, secured by senior or subordinate
liens on the related Mortgaged Property, to the Appraised Value, or, when not
available, the Stated Value.
Commission: The Securities and Exchange Commission.
Corporate Trust Office: With respect to the Indenture Trustee,
Certificate Registrar, Certificate Paying Agent and Paying Agent, the principal
corporate trust office of the Indenture Trustee and Note Registrar at which at
any particular time its corporate trust business shall be administered, which
office at the date of the execution of this instrument is located at (i) for
Note and Certificate transfer purposes: Xxxxx Fargo Center, Sixth and Marquette,
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55479-0070, Attention: Corporate Trust Services-GMACM
Series 2004-HE4 and (ii) for all other purposes, such office shall be located at
0000 Xxx Xxxxxxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000-0000, Attention: Corporate
Trust Services-GMACM Series 2004-HE4. With respect to the Owner Trustee, the
principal corporate trust office of the Owner Trustee at which at any particular
time its corporate trust business shall be administered, which office at the
date of the execution of this Trust Agreement is located at Xxxxxx Square North,
0000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000, Attention: Corporate Trust
Administration.
Credit Limit: With respect to any Mortgage Loan, the maximum Principal
Balance permitted under the terms of the related Loan Agreement.
Custodial Account: The account or accounts created and maintained by the
Servicer pursuant to Section 3.02(b) of the Servicing Agreement, in which the
Servicer shall deposit or cause to be deposited certain amounts in respect of
the Mortgage Loans.
Custodial Agreement: The Custodial Agreement, dated the Closing Date,
among the Custodian, the Indenture Trustee, the Issuer and the Servicer relating
to the custody of the Mortgage Loans and the Related Documents.
Custodian: GMAC Bank and its successors and assigns, as applicable
pursuant to the Custodial Agreement, or any other successor custodian of the
Mortgage Files appointed by the Indenture Trustee and reasonably acceptable to
the Enhancer and the Servicer.
Cut-Off Date: October 1, 2004.
Cut-Off Date Principal Balance: With respect to any Initial Mortgage
Loan or Subsequent Mortgage Loan, the unpaid principal balance thereof as of the
close of business on the last day of the Billing Cycle immediately prior to the
Cut-Off Date or Subsequent Cut-Off Date, as the case may be.
Default: Any occurrence which is or with notice or the lapse of time or
both would become an Event of Default.
Deficiency Amount: With respect to any Payment Date and the Notes, an
amount equal to the sum of (a) the amount by which the aggregate amount of
accrued interest on the Notes (excluding any Relief Act Shortfalls for such
Payment Date) at the respective Note Rates on such Payment Date exceeds the
amount on deposit in the Note Payment Account available for interest
distributions on the Notes on such Payment Date and (b)(i) with respect to any
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Payment Date that is not the Final Payment Date, any Liquidation Loss Amount
with respect to the Mortgage Loans for such Payment Date, to the extent not
distributed as part of the Principal Distribution Amount to the Holders of the
Notes on such Payment Date or deposited into the Funding Account as part of the
Principal Distribution Amount for such Payment Date or applied to reduce the
Overcollateralization Amount on such Payment Date or (ii) on the Final Payment
Date, the aggregate outstanding principal balance of the Notes to the extent
otherwise not paid on such date.
Definitive Notes: Any definitive, fully registered Note, as described in
Section 4.06 of the Indenture.
Deleted Loan: A Mortgage Loan replaced or to be replaced with an
Eligible Substitute Loan.
Depositor: Residential Asset Mortgage Products, Inc., a Delaware
corporation, or its successor in interest.
Depository: The Depository Trust Company or a successor appointed by the
Indenture Trustee with the approval of the Issuer. Any successor to the
Depository shall be an organization registered as a "clearing agency" pursuant
to Section 17A of the Exchange Act and the regulations of the Commission
thereunder.
Depository Participant: A Person for whom, from time to time, the
Depository effects book-entry transfers and pledges of securities deposited with
the Depository.
Determination Date: With respect to any Payment Date, the 18th day of
the month in which such Payment Date occurs or if such day is not a Business
Day, the next succeeding Business Day.
Distribution Account: The account or accounts created and maintained by
the Certificate Paying Agent pursuant to Section 3.10(c) of the Trust Agreement.
The Certificate Paying Agent will make all distributions on the Certificates
from money on deposit in the Distribution Account.
Draw: With respect to any Mortgage Loan, a borrowing by the related
Mortgagor under the related Loan Agreement.
Draw Period: With respect to each Mortgage Loan, the period consisting
of either the first five, ten or fifteen years after the date of origination of
such Mortgage Loan, during which the related Mortgagor is permitted to make
Draws.
Due Date: With respect to each Mortgage Loan, the date on which monthly
payments on such Mortgage Loan are due.
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Early Amortization Event: The occurrence of any one of the following
events: (i) the Term Notes are downgraded below "AAA" by Standard & Poor's
Ratings Services or "Aaa" by Xxxxx'x Investors Service, Inc. and, within 60 days
of the downgrade, the ratings have not been restored to the original ratings;
(ii) within 10 days after a Targeted Final Payment Date, the Trust fails to
receive an Advance and fails to issue and sell additional Variable Pay Revolving
Notes; (iii) an Event of Default under the Indenture or an Enhancer Default has
occurred; or (iv) if, beginning in January 2005 (a) for three consecutive
months, the average amount in the Funding Account which has not been used during
a month to purchase Additional Balances or Subsequent Mortgage Loans is greater
than 30% of such amount plus the amount which had been used during that month to
purchase Additional Balances and Subsequent Mortgage Loans, or (b) for six
consecutive months, the average amount in the Funding Account which has not been
used during a month to purchase Additional Balances or Subsequent Mortgage Loans
is greater than 20% of such amount plus the amount which had been used during
that month to purchase Additional Balances and Subsequent Mortgage Loans.
Eligible Account: An account that is any of the following: (i)
maintained with a depository institution the short-term debt obligations of
which have been rated by each Rating Agency in its highest rating category
available, or (ii) an account or accounts in a depository institution in which
such accounts are fully insured to the limits established by the FDIC, provided
that any deposits not so insured shall, to the extent acceptable to each Rating
Agency, as evidenced in writing, be maintained such that (as evidenced by an
Opinion of Counsel delivered to the Indenture Trustee and each Rating Agency)
the Indenture Trustee have a claim with respect to the funds in such account or
a perfected first security interest against any collateral (which shall be
limited to Permitted Investments) securing such funds that is superior to claims
of any other depositors or creditors of the depository institution with which
such account is maintained, or (iii) an account or accounts maintained with a
depository institution or trust company, as long as its short-term debt
obligations are rated P-1 by Moody's, and A-1+ by Standard & Poor's (or the
equivalent) or better by each Rating Agency, and its long term debt obligations
are rated A2 by Moody's and AA- by Standard & Poor's (or the equivalent) or
better by each Rating Agency, or (iv) a segregated trust account or accounts
maintained in the corporate trust division of a depository institution or trust
company, acting in its fiduciary capacity, or (v) an account or accounts of a
depository institution acceptable to each Rating Agency (as evidenced in writing
by each Rating Agency that use of any such account will not cause a Rating Event
(if determined without regard to the Policy).
Eligible Substitute Loan: A Mortgage Loan substituted by either Seller
for a Deleted Loan, which must, on the date of such substitution, as confirmed
in an Officers' Certificate delivered to the Indenture Trustee, (i) have an
outstanding principal balance, after deduction of the principal portion of the
monthly payment due in the month of substitution (or in the case of a
substitution of more than one Mortgage Loan for a Deleted Mortgage Loan, an
aggregate outstanding principal balance, after such deduction), not in excess of
the outstanding principal balance of the Deleted Loan (the amount of any
shortfall to be deposited by the Seller in the Custodial Account in the month of
substitution) and a Credit Limit not in excess of $550,000; (ii) comply with
each representation and warranty made by GMACM and set forth in Section 3.1(b)
of the Purchase Agreement, other than clauses (viii), (xiii), (xxiv), (xxv)(B),
(xxvi) and (xxvii) thereof, and comply with each of the representations and
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warranties made by WG Trust 2003 set forth in Section 3.1(d)(II) of the Purchase
Agreement, as of the date of substitution; (iii) have a Loan Rate, Net Loan Rate
and Gross Margin no lower than and not more than 1% per annum higher than the
Loan Rate, Net Loan Rate and Gross Margin, respectively, of the Deleted Loan as
of the date of substitution; (iv) have a CLTV at the time of substitution no
higher than that of the Deleted Loan at the time of substitution; (v) have a
remaining term to stated maturity not greater than (and not more than one year
less than) that of the Deleted Loan; and (vi) not be 30 days or more delinquent.
Enhancer: MBIA Insurance Corporation, or any successor thereto.
Enhancer Default: Any failure by the Enhancer to make a payment required
under the Policy in accordance with its terms.
Enhancer Optional Deposit: Amounts deposited by or on behalf of the
Enhancer in the Note Payment Account, other than Insured Amounts, to be applied
to the Notes.
ERISA: The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended.
Event of Default: With respect to the Indenture, any one of the
following events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it
shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant
to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation
of any administrative or governmental body):
(a) a default in the payment of the principal of, any installment of the
principal of or interest on any Note when the same becomes due and payable, and
such default shall continue for a period of five days;
(b) there occurs a default in the observance or performance in any material
respect of any covenant or agreement of the Issuer made in the Indenture, or any
representation or warranty of the Issuer made in the Indenture or in any
certificate delivered pursuant hereto or in connection herewith proving to have
been incorrect in any material respect as of the time when the same shall have
been made that has a material adverse effect on the Noteholders or the Enhancer,
and such default shall continue or not be cured, or the circumstance or
condition in respect of which such representation or warranty was incorrect
shall not have been eliminated or otherwise cured, for a period of 30 days after
there shall have been given, by registered or certified mail, to the Issuer by
the Indenture Trustee or to the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee by the Enhancer
or the Noteholders of at least 25% of the aggregate Note Balance of the Notes, a
written notice specifying such default or incorrect representation or warranty
and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a notice of
default hereunder;
(c) there occurs the filing of a decree or order for relief by a court having
jurisdiction in the premises in respect of the Issuer or any substantial part of
the Trust Estate in an involuntary case under any applicable federal or state
bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect, or
appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator or
similar official of the Issuer or for any substantial part of the Trust Estate,
or ordering the winding-up or liquidation of the Issuer's affairs, and such
decree or order shall remain unstayed and in effect for a period of 60
consecutive days;
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(d) there occurs the commencement by the Issuer of a voluntary case under any
applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or
hereafter in effect, or the consent by the Issuer to the entry of an order for
relief in an involuntary case under any such law, or the consent by the Issuer
to the appointment or taking possession by a receiver, liquidator, assignee,
custodian, trustee, sequestrator or similar official of the Issuer or for any
substantial part of the assets of the Trust Estate, or the making by the Issuer
of any general assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the failure by the
Issuer generally to pay its debts as such debts become due, or the taking of any
action by the Issuer in furtherance of any of the foregoing; or
(e) the occurrence of an Early Amortization Event.
Exchange Act: The Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the
rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
Excess Spread: With respect to any Payment Date and without taking into
account any Insured Amount, if any, paid by the Enhancer under the Policy for
such Payment Date, the excess, if any, of (i) Interest Collections for the
related Collection Period over (ii) the sum of (x) the sum of (A) the premium
allocable to such Payment Date and (B) any unpaid premium for the Policy, with
interest thereon as provided in the Insurance Agreement and (y) the aggregate
amount distributed to the Noteholders as interest on such Payment Date pursuant
to Section 3.05(a)(i) of the Indenture.
Excess Spread Test: As to any Payment Date, a test that will be
satisfied if the product of (x) (i) the amount of Excess Spread (reduced by the
aggregate Liquidation Loss Amounts with respect to such Payment Date) on such
Payment Date divided by (ii) the Pool Balance as of the beginning of the related
Collection Period and (y) 12, expressed as a percentage, is greater than or
equal to 2.00%.
Excluded Amount: For any Payment Date during the Rapid Amortization
Period, all Draws made to an obligor under any Mortgage Loan during the Rapid
Amortization Period which shall not be transferred to the Trust Estate, and the
portion of the Principal Collections and Interest Collections for each
Collection Period allocated to such Excluded Amount based on a pro rata
allocation between the related Excluded Amount and the Principal Balance of such
Mortgage Loan in proportion to the respective amounts outstanding as of the end
of the calendar month preceding such Collection Period.
Expenses: The meaning specified in Section 7.02 of the Trust Agreement.
Xxxxxx Xxx: Xxxxxx Xxx, formerly the Federal National Mortgage
Association, or any successor thereto.
FDIC: The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any successor
thereto.
Final Payment Date: The Payment Date in March 2035.
Fiscal Year: The fiscal year of the Trust, which shall end on December
31 of each year.
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Foreclosure Profit: With respect to a Liquidated Mortgage Loan, the
amount, if any, by which (i) the aggregate of Liquidation Proceeds net of
Liquidation Expenses exceeds (ii) the Principal Balance of such Liquidated
Mortgage Loan (plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon at the applicable Loan
Rate from the date interest was last paid through the date of receipt of the
final Liquidation Proceeds) immediately prior to the final recovery of the
related Liquidation Proceeds.
Freddie Mac: Freddie Mac, formerly the Federal Home Loan Mortgage
Corporation, or any successor thereto.
Funding Account: The account established and maintained pursuant to
Section 3.16 of the Servicing Agreement.
Funding Event: Shall mean that, during the Managed Amortization Period,
the aggregate Note Balance of the Variable Pay Revolving Notes has been reduced
to zero and the Overcollateralization Amount is at least equal to the
Overcollateralization Target Amount.
GAAP: Generally accepted accounting principles.
Xxxxx: Pledge, bargain, sell, warrant, alienate, remise, release,
convey, assign, transfer, create, and xxxxx x xxxx upon and a security interest
in and right of set-off against, deposit, set over and confirm pursuant to the
Indenture. A Grant of the Collateral or of any other agreement or instrument
shall include all rights, powers and options (but none of the obligations) of
the granting party thereunder, including the immediate and continuing right to
claim for, collect, receive and give receipt for principal and interest payments
in respect of such collateral or other agreement or instrument and all other
moneys payable thereunder, to give and receive notices and other communications,
to make waivers or other agreements, to exercise all rights and options, to
bring proceedings in the name of the granting party or otherwise, and generally
to do and receive anything that the granting party is or may be entitled to do
or receive thereunder or with respect thereto.
Gross Margin: With respect to any Mortgage Loan, the percentage set
forth as the "Margin" for such Mortgage Loan on the Mortgage Loan Schedule.
GMAC: General Motors Acceptance Corporation, and its successors and
assigns.
GMACM: GMAC Mortgage Corporation, and its successors and assigns.
Indemnified Party: The meaning specified in Section 7.02 of the Trust
Agreement.
Indenture: The indenture dated as of the Closing Date between the Issuer
and the Indenture Trustee.
Indenture Trustee: Xxxxx Fargo Bank, N.A., a national banking
association, and its successors and assigns or any successor indenture trustee
appointed pursuant to the terms of the Indenture.
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Independent: When used with respect to any specified Person, such Person
(i) is in fact independent of the Issuer, any other obligor on the Notes, the
Sellers, the Depositor and any Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons, (ii)
does not have any direct financial interest or any material indirect financial
interest in the Issuer, any such other obligor, the Sellers, the Depositor or
any Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons and (iii) is not connected with
the Issuer, any such other obligor, the Sellers, the Depositor or any Affiliate
of any of the foregoing Persons as an officer, employee, promoter, underwriter,
trustee, partner, director or person performing similar functions.
Independent Certificate: A certificate or opinion to be delivered to the
Indenture Trustee under the circumstances described in, and otherwise complying
with, the applicable requirements of Section 10.01 of the Indenture, made by an
Independent appraiser or other expert appointed by an Issuer Order and approved
by the Indenture Trustee in the exercise of reasonable care, and such opinion or
certificate shall state that the signer has read the definition of "Independent"
in this Indenture and that the signer is Independent within the meaning thereof.
Index: With respect to any Mortgage Loan, the prime rate from time to
time for the adjustment of the Loan Rate set forth as such on the related Loan
Agreement.
Initial Aggregate Note Balance: $1,018,000,000.
Initial Aggregate Term Note Balance: $992,000,000.
Initial Certificate Balance: $0.
Initial Class A-1 Note Balance: $447,917,000.
Initial Class A-1 Variable Pay Revolving Note Balance: $25,999,998.
Initial Class A-2 Note Balance: $296,875,000.
Initial Class A-2 Variable Pay Revolving Note Balance: $1.
Initial Class A-3 Note Balance: $247,208,000.
Initial Class A-3 Variable Pay Revolving Note Balance: $1.
Initial Mortgage Loans: The adjustable rate home equity revolving lines
of credit initially transferred by the Depositor to the Issuer on the Closing
Date, which are listed on the Mortgage Loan Schedule on such date.
Initial Pool Balance: The sum of (a) the aggregate Principal Balances of
the Initial Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-off Date and (b) the Original
Pre-Funded Amount.
Insolvency Event: With respect to a specified Person, (a) the filing of
a decree or order for relief by a court having jurisdiction in the premises in
respect of such Person or any substantial part of its property in an involuntary
case under any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or
hereafter in effect, or appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian,
trustee, sequestrator or similar official for such Person or for any substantial
part of its property, or ordering the winding-up or liquidation of such Person's
affairs, and such decree or order shall remain unstayed and in effect for a
period of 60 consecutive days; or (b) the commencement by such Person of a
voluntary case under any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law
now or hereafter in effect, or the consent by such Person to the entry of an
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order for relief in an involuntary case under any such law, or the consent by
such Person to the appointment of or taking possession by a receiver,
liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator or similar official for
such Person or for any substantial part of its property, or the making by such
Person of any general assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the failure by
such Person generally to pay its debts as such debts become due or the admission
by such Person in writing (as to which the Indenture Trustee shall have notice)
of its inability to pay its debts generally, or the adoption by the Board of
Directors or managing member of such Person of a resolution which authorizes
action by such Person in furtherance of any of the foregoing.
Insurance Agreement: The Insurance Agreement dated as of the Closing
Date, among the Servicer, the Sellers, the Depositor, the Issuer, the Indenture
Trustee, the Owner Trustee and the Enhancer, including any amendments and
supplements thereto.
Insurance Proceeds: Proceeds paid by any insurer (other than the
Enhancer) pursuant to any insurance policy covering a Mortgage Loan which are
required to be remitted to the Servicer, or amounts required to be paid by the
Servicer pursuant to the next to last sentence of Section 3.04 of the Servicing
Agreement, net of any component thereof (i) covering any expenses incurred by or
on behalf of the Servicer in connection with obtaining such proceeds, (ii) that
is applied to the restoration or repair of the related Mortgaged Property, (iii)
released to the related Mortgagor in accordance with the Servicer's normal
servicing procedures or (iv) required to be paid to any holder of a mortgage
senior to such Mortgage Loan.
Insured Amount: As defined in the Policy.
Interest Collections: With respect to any Payment Date, the sum of all
payments by or on behalf of Mortgagors and any other amounts constituting
interest (including without limitation such portion of Insurance Proceeds, Net
Liquidation Proceeds and Repurchase Prices as is allocable to interest on the
applicable Mortgage Loan) as is paid by the Sellers or the Servicer (including
any optional servicing advance) or is collected and applied by the Servicer
under the Mortgage Loans during the related Collection Period, exclusive of the
pro rata portion thereof attributable to any Excluded Amounts, and reduced by
the Servicing Fee for the related Collection Period and by any fees (including
annual fees) or late charges or similar administrative fees paid by Mortgagors
during the related Collection Period. The terms of the related Loan Agreement
shall determine the portion of each payment in respect of such Mortgage Loan
that constitutes principal or interest.
Interest Coverage Amount: The amount to be paid from proceeds from the
sale of the Notes for deposit into the Capitalized Interest Account pursuant to
Section 3.19 of the Servicing Agreement on the Closing Date, which amount
initially shall be $628,639.56, and thereafter, shall be the amount computed in
accordance with Section 3.19 of the Servicing Agreement.
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Interest Period: With respect to the Notes and any Payment Date (other
than the first Payment Date), the period beginning on the preceding Payment Date
and ending on the day preceding such Payment Date, and in the case of the first
Payment Date, the period beginning on the Closing Date and ending on the day
preceding the first Payment Date.
Interest Rate Adjustment Date: With respect to each Mortgage Loan, the
date or dates on which the Loan Rate is adjusted in accordance with the related
Loan Agreement.
Interest Shortfall: (I) With respect to the Class A-1 Notes and the
Class A-2 Notes and any Payment Date, the sum of:
(A) an amount of interest on such Class of Notes calculated at a rate
equal to the excess of (i) the lesser of (a) LIBOR plus the related margin and
(b) 14.00% over (ii) the Net WAC Rate, plus
(B) interest on such amount calculated at a rate equal to the related
Note Rate; and
(II) With respect to the Class A-3 Notes and the Variable Pay Revolving
Notes and any Payment Date, the sum of:
(A) an amount of interest on such Class of Notes calculated at a rate
equal to the excess of (i) LIBOR plus the related margin over (ii) the Net WAC
Rate, plus
(B) interest on such amount calculated at a rate equal to the related
Note Rate.
Interest Shortfalls will not be included as interest payments on the
Notes for such Payment Date and such amount will accrue interest at the related
Note Rate (as adjusted from time to time) and will be paid on future Payment
Dates only to the extent funds are available therefor as set forth in Section
3.05(a) of the Indenture.
Issuer or Trust: The GMACM Home Equity Loan Trust 2004-HE4, a Delaware
statutory trust, or its successor in interest.
Issuer Order or Issuer Request: A written order or request signed in the
name of the Issuer by any one of its Authorized Officers and delivered to the
Indenture Trustee.
LIBOR: As to any Interest Period, (a) for any Interest Period other than
the first Interest Period, the rate for United States dollar deposits for one
month that appears on the Telerate Screen Page 3750 as of 11:00 a.m., London,
England time, on the second LIBOR Business Day prior to the first day of that
Interest Period or (b) with respect to the first Interest Period, the rate for
United States dollar deposits for one month that appears on the Telerate Screen
Page 3750 as of 11:00 a.m., London, England time, two LIBOR Business Days prior
to the Closing Date. If such rate does not appear on such page (or other page as
may replace that page on that service, or if such service is no longer offered,
such other service for displaying LIBOR or comparable rates as may be reasonably
selected by the Indenture Trustee after consultation with the Servicer), the
rate will be the Reference Bank Rate. If no Reference Bank Rate is available,
LIBOR will be LIBOR applicable to the preceding Payment Date.
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LIBOR Business Day: Any day other than (i) a Saturday or a Sunday or
(ii) a day on which banking institutions in the city of London, England are
required or authorized by law to be closed.
Lien: Any mortgage, deed of trust, pledge, conveyance, hypothecation,
assignment, participation, deposit arrangement, encumbrance, lien (statutory or
other), preference, priority right or interest or other security agreement or
preferential arrangement of any kind or nature whatsoever, including, without
limitation, any conditional sale or other title retention agreement, any
financing lease having substantially the same economic effect as any of the
foregoing and the filing of any financing statement under the UCC (other than
any such financing statement filed for informational purposes only) or
comparable law of any jurisdiction to evidence any of the foregoing; provided,
however, that any assignment pursuant to Section 6.02 of the Servicing Agreement
shall not be deemed to constitute a Lien.
Liquidated Mortgage Loan: With respect to any Payment Date, any Mortgage
Loan in respect of which the Servicer has determined, in accordance with the
servicing procedures specified in the Servicing Agreement, as of the end of the
related Collection Period that substantially all Liquidation Proceeds which it
reasonably expects to recover, if any, with respect to the disposition of the
related REO Property have been recovered.
Liquidation Expenses: All out-of-pocket expenses (exclusive of overhead)
incurred by or on behalf of the Servicer in connection with the liquidation of
any Mortgage Loan and not recovered under any insurance policy, including legal
fees and expenses, any unreimbursed amount expended (including, without
limitation, amounts advanced to correct defaults on any mortgage loan which is
senior to such Mortgage Loan and amounts advanced to keep current or pay off a
mortgage loan that is senior to such Mortgage Loan) respecting such Mortgage
Loan and any related and unreimbursed expenditures for real estate property
taxes or for property restoration, preservation or insurance against casualty
loss or damage.
Liquidation Loss Amount: With respect to any Payment Date and any
Mortgage Loan that became a Liquidated Mortgage Loan during the related
Collection Period, the unrecovered portion of the Principal Balance of such
Mortgage Loan and any unpaid accrued interest thereon at the end of such
Collection Period, after giving effect to the Net Liquidation Proceeds applied
in reduction of such Principal Balance.
Liquidation Proceeds: Proceeds (including Insurance Proceeds but not
including amounts drawn under the Policy) if any received in connection with the
liquidation of any Mortgage Loan or related REO Property, whether through
trustee's sale, foreclosure sale or otherwise.
Loan Agreement: With respect to each Mortgage Loan, the credit line
agreement, pursuant to which the related Xxxxxxxxx agrees to pay the
indebtedness evidenced thereby and secured by the related Mortgage as modified
or amended.
Loan Rate: With respect to any Mortgage Loan and any day, the per annum
rate of interest applicable under the related Loan Agreement.
Lost Note Affidavit: With respect to any Mortgage Loan as to which the
original Loan Agreement has been permanently lost or destroyed and has not been
replaced, an affidavit from the related Seller certifying that the original Loan
Agreement has been lost, misplaced or destroyed (together with a copy of the
related Loan Agreement, if available).
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Managed Amortization Period: The period beginning on the first day
following the end of the related Revolving Period and ending on the earlier of
(i) the Payment Date occurring in October 2009 and (ii) the occurrence of a
Rapid Amortization Event.
Maximum Loan Rate: With respect to each Mortgage Loan, the maximum loan
rate thereon specified in the related Loan Agreement.
MERS: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., a corporation
organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware, or any successor
thereto.
MERS(R) System: The system of recording transfers of Mortgages
electronically maintained by MERS.
MIN: The Mortgage Identification Number for Mortgage Loans registered
with MERS on the MERS(R) System.
Minimum Monthly Payment: With respect to any Mortgage Loan and any
month, the minimum amount required to be paid by the related Mortgagor in such
month.
MOM Loan: With respect to any Mortgage Loan, MERS acting as the
mortgagee of such Mortgage Loan, solely as nominee for the originator of such
Mortgage Loan and its successors and assigns, at the origination thereof.
Moody's: Xxxxx'x Investors Service, Inc., or its successor in interest.
Mortgage: The mortgage, deed of trust or other instrument creating a
first or second lien on an estate in fee simple interest in real property
securing a Mortgage Loan.
Mortgage File: With respect to each Mortgage Loan:
(i) the original Loan Agreement endorsed or assigned without recourse in blank
(which endorsement shall contain either an original signature or a facsimile
signature of an authorized officer of GMACM) or, with respect to any Mortgage
Loan as to which the original Loan Agreement has been permanently lost or
destroyed and has not been replaced, a Lost Note Affidavit;
(ii) the original Mortgage, noting the presence of the MIN of the Mortgage Loan,
if the Mortgage is registered on the MERS(R) System, and language indicating
that the Mortgage Loan is a MOM Loan if the Mortgage Loan is a MOM Loan, with
evidence of recording thereon, or, if the original Mortgage has not yet been
returned from the public recording office, a copy of the original Mortgage
certified by GMACM that such Mortgage has been sent for recording, or a county
certified copy of such Mortgage in the event the recording office keeps the
original or if the original is lost;
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(iii) unless the Mortgage Loan is registered on the MERS(R) System, original
assignments (which may be included in one or more blanket assignments if
permitted by applicable law) of the Mortgage in recordable form from GMACM to
"Xxxxx Fargo Bank, N.A., as Indenture Trustee under that certain Indenture dated
as of October 28, 2004, for GMACM Home Equity Loan Trust 2004-HE4, Mortgage
Loan-Backed Term Notes" c/o the Servicer at an address specified by the
Servicer;
(iv) originals of any intervening assignments of the Mortgage from the
originator to GMACM (or to MERS, if the Mortgage Loan is registered on the
MERS(R) System, and which notes the presence of a MIN), with evidence of
recording thereon, or, if the original of any such intervening assignment has
not yet been returned from the public recording office, a copy of such original
intervening assignment certified by GMACM that such original intervening
assignment has been sent for recording; and
(v) a true and correct copy of each assumption, modification, consolidation or
substitution agreement, if any, relating to such Mortgage Loan; and
(vi) any documents required to be added to such documents pursuant to the
Purchase Agreement, the Trust Agreement or the Servicing Agreement.
It is understood that the Mortgage File (other than item (i) above) may
be retained in microfilm, microfiche, optical storage or magnetic media in lieu
of hard copy; provided, that with respect to any Mortgage Loan not registered on
the MERS(R) System, the original assignment of Mortgage described in clause
(iii) above shall be retained in the Mortgage File.
Mortgage Loan Schedule: The initial schedule of Initial Mortgage Loans
as of the Cut-Off Date set forth in Exhibit A of the Servicing Agreement, and as
of each Subsequent Cut-Off Date, any Subsequent Mortgage Loans, which schedule
sets forth as to each Mortgage Loan (i) the Cut-Off Date Principal Balance, (ii)
the Credit Limit and Gross Margin, (iii) the Maximum Loan Rate, if any, (iv) the
loan number and (v) the lien position of the related Mortgage.
Mortgage Loans: At any time, all Initial Mortgage Loans and Subsequent
Mortgage Loans, including Additional Balances, if any, that have been sold to
the Issuer pursuant to, in the case of Initial Mortgage Loans, the Trust
Agreement, or, in the case of Subsequent Mortgage Loans, a Subsequent Transfer
Agreement, together with all monies due or become due thereunder or the Related
Documents, and that remain subject to the terms thereof.
Mortgaged Property: The underlying property, including real property and
improvements thereon, securing a Mortgage Loan.
Mortgagor: The obligor or obligors under a Loan Agreement.
Net Liquidation Proceeds: With respect to any Liquidated Mortgage Loan,
Liquidation Proceeds net of Liquidation Expenses minus the pro rata portion of
such amount that is attributable to any Excluded Amount (but not including the
portion, if any, of such amount that exceeds the Principal Balance of, plus
accrued and unpaid interest on, such Mortgage Loan at the end of the Collection
Period immediately preceding the Collection Period in which such Mortgage Loan
became a Liquidated Mortgage Loan) and including any Recovery Amounts.
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Net Loan Rate: With respect to any Payment Date and any Mortgage Loan,
the Loan Rate of that Mortgage Loan applicable to the Due Date in the related
Collection Period, net of the Servicing Fee Rate and, beginning on the
thirteenth Payment Date and thereafter, 0.50% (50 basis points), adjusted to an
effective rate reflecting the methods by which interest is calculated on the
related Classes of Notes during such Interest Period.
Net Principal Collections: With respect to any Payment Date, the excess,
if any, of Principal Collections for such Payment Date over the aggregate amount
of Additional Balances created during the related Collection Period, conveyed to
the Issuer.
Net WAC Rate: With respect to any Payment Date, (i) a per annum rate
equal to the weighted average of the Net Loan Rates of the Mortgage Loans as of
the first day of the month preceding the month in which such Payment Date
occurs, and weighted on the basis of the respective Principal Balances of such
Mortgage Loans as of the first day of the related Collection Period, minus (ii)
the premium rate on the Policy multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which
is the sum of the Note Balances for each Class of Notes and the denominator of
which is the Pool Balance.
Net Worth: As of any date of determination, the net worth of GMACM and
its consolidated subsidiaries, as determined in accordance with GAAP.
Note Balance: With respect to any Payment Date and any Class of Notes,
the Initial Note Balance of such Class reduced by all payments of principal on
such Class prior to such Payment Date and increased, in the case of any Class of
Variable Pay Revolving Notes, by each Advance paid by the holder of such Class
of Variable Pay Revolving Notes or, in the case of any additional Variable Pay
Revolving Notes, by each Advance made by one or more of the "Purchasers" under
and as defined in the Note Purchase Agreement.
Note Owner or Owner: The Beneficial Owner of a Note.
Note Payment Account: The account established by the Indenture Trustee
pursuant to Sections 3.01 and 8.02 of the Indenture and Section 5.01 of the
Servicing Agreement. Amounts deposited in the Note Payment Account will be
distributed by the Indenture Trustee in accordance with Section 3.05 of the
Indenture.
Note Purchase Agreement: The note purchase agreement dated as of the
Closing Date, among the Issuer, the Depositor, GMACM, Bear, Xxxxxxx & Co. Inc.
for itself and as representative of Xxxxxx Brothers, Inc. and Greenwich Capital
Markets, Inc. or any similar agreement entered into by the Depositor and any
other Holder of a Variable Pay Revolving Note.
Note Rate: As to the Notes, the following rates:
Class A-1 Notes: a floating rate equal to the least of (i) LIBOR
plus 0.11% per annum (or, for any Interest Period commencing after the
first Payment Date on which the aggregate Note Balance of the Notes is
less than 10% of the Note Balance as of the Closing Date, LIBOR plus
0.50% per annum), (ii) the related Net WAC Rate and (iii) 14.00% per
annum;
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Class A-2 Notes: a floating rate equal to the least of (i) LIBOR
plus 0.19% per annum (or, for any Interest Period commencing after the
first Payment Date on which the aggregate Note Balance is less than 10%
of the Note Balance of the Notes as of the Closing Date, LIBOR plus
0.50% per annum), (ii) the related Net WAC Rate and (iii) 14.00% per
annum.
Class A-3 Notes: a floating rate equal to the lesser of (i) LIBOR
plus 0.27% per annum (or, for any Interest Period commencing after the
first Payment Date on which the aggregate Note Balance is less than 10%
of the Note Balance of the Notes as of the Closing Date, LIBOR plus
0.50% per annum), and (ii) the related Net WAC Rate.
Variable Pay Revolving Notes: a floating rate equal to the lesser
of (i) LIBOR plus 0.28% per annum (or, for any Interest Period
commencing after the first Payment Date on which the aggregate Note
Balance is less than 10% of the Note Balance of the Notes as of the
Closing Date, LIBOR plus 0.50% per annum), and (ii) the related Net WAC
Rate.
The margin on the Variable Pay Revolving Notes may be adjusted in
accordance with Section 2.03 of the Indenture. The margin for the Class
A-1 Notes and the Class A-2 Notes will increase to 0.27% per annum, for
each Interest Period beginning after the date on which a Early
Amortization Event has occurred.
Note Register: The register maintained by the Note Registrar in which
the Note Registrar shall provide for the registration of Notes and of transfers
and exchanges of Notes.
Note Registrar: The Indenture Trustee, in its capacity as Note
Registrar.
Noteholder or Holder: The Person in whose name a Note is registered in
the Note Register, except that, any Note registered in the name of the
Depositor, the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee or any Affiliate of any of them
shall be deemed not to be outstanding and the registered holder will not be
considered a Noteholder for purposes of giving any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver under the Indenture or the
Trust Agreement; provided, that in determining whether the Indenture Trustee
shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Notes that the Indenture Trustee or
the Owner Trustee knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded. Owners of Notes
that have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Noteholders if the
pledgee thereof establishes to the satisfaction of the Indenture Trustee or the
Owner Trustee such pledgee's right so to act with respect to such Notes and that
such pledgee is not the Issuer, any other obligor on the Notes or any Affiliate
of any of the foregoing Persons.
Notes: The Variable Pay Revolving Notes and the Term Notes.
Officer's Certificate: With respect to the Servicer, a certificate
signed by the President, Managing Director, a Director, a Vice President or an
Assistant Vice President, of the Servicer and delivered to the Indenture
Trustee. With respect to the Issuer, a certificate signed by any Authorized
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Officer of the Issuer, under the circumstances described in, and otherwise
complying with, the applicable requirements of Section 10.01 of the Indenture,
and delivered to the Indenture Trustee. Unless otherwise specified, any
reference in the Indenture to an Officer's Certificate shall be to an Officer's
Certificate of any Authorized Officer of the Issuer.
Opinion of Counsel: A written opinion of counsel of a law firm
reasonably acceptable to the recipient thereof. Any Opinion of Counsel for the
Servicer may be provided by in-house counsel for the Servicer if reasonably
acceptable.
Original Pre-Funded Amount: The amount deposited from the proceeds of
the sale of the Securities into the Pre-Funding Account on the Closing Date,
which amount is $99,971,471.64.
Outstanding: With respect to the Notes, as of the date of determination,
all Notes theretofore executed, authenticated and delivered under this Indenture
except:
(i) Notes theretofore cancelled by the Note Registrar or
delivered to the Indenture Trustee for cancellation; and
(ii) Notes in exchange for or in lieu of which other Notes have
been executed, authenticated and delivered pursuant to the Indenture
unless proof satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee is presented that any
such Notes are held by a holder in due course;
provided, however, that for purposes of effectuating the Enhancer's right of
subrogation as set forth in Section 4.12 of the Indenture only, all Notes that
have been paid with funds provided under the Policy shall be deemed to be
Outstanding until the Enhancer has been reimbursed with respect thereto.
Overcollateralization Amount: With respect to any Payment Date, the
amount (but not less than zero), if any, by which (a) the aggregate outstanding
Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans as of the close of business on the last
day of the related Collection Period, plus amounts on deposit in the Pre-Funding
Account and the Funding Account (excluding any investment earnings thereon)
exceeds (b) the aggregate Note Balance of the Notes.
Overcollateralization Target Amount: Shall mean, with respect to each
Payment Date (I) prior to the Stepdown Date, an amount equal to the sum of (i)
the Base Specified Overcollateralization Amount and (ii) 100% of the aggregate
Principal Balance of Mortgage Loans that are 180 days or more contractually
delinquent, as of the last day of the related Collection Period or (II) on or
after the Stepdown Date, an amount equal to the greater of (i) the sum of (a)
1.60% of the Pool Balance as of the last day of the related Collection Period
and (b) 100% of the aggregate Principal Balance of Mortgage Loans that are 180
days or more contractually delinquent, as of the last day of the related
Collection Period, and (ii) the sum of (a) 0.25% of the Initial Aggregate Note
Balance and (b) 100% of the aggregate Principal Balance of Mortgage Loans that
are 180 days or more contractually delinquent, as of the last day of the related
Collection Period; provided, however, if the Excess Spread Test is not
satisfied, the Overcollateralization Target Amount shall be no less than the
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Overcollateralization Target Amount as of the previous Payment Date. The
Overcollateralization Target Amount may be reduced from time to time with the
consent of the Enhancer and written notice from each Rating Agency that the
rating will not be reduced or withdrawn as a result of the change in the
Overcollateralization Target Amount.
Owner Trust: GMACM Home Equity Loan Trust 2004-HE4, created by the
Certificate of Trust pursuant to the Trust Agreement.
Owner Trustee: Wilmington Trust Company, not in its individual capacity
but solely as owner trustee, and its successors and assigns or any successor
Owner Trustee appointed pursuant to the terms of the Trust Agreement.
Ownership Interest: As to any Certificate, any ownership or security
interest in such Certificate, including any interest in such Certificate as the
Certificateholder thereof and any other interest therein, whether direct or
indirect, legal or beneficial, as owner or as pledgee.
Paying Agent: Any paying agent or co-paying agent appointed pursuant to
Section 3.03 of the Indenture, which initially shall be the Indenture Trustee.
Payment Date: The 25th day of each month, or if such day is not a
Business Day, then the next Business Day.
Percentage Interest: With respect to any Note and Payment Date, the
percentage obtained by dividing the Note Balance of such Note by the aggregate
Note Balance of all Notes prior to such Payment Date. With respect to any
Certificate and any Payment Date, the Percentage Interest stated on the face of
such Certificate.
Permitted Investments: One or more of the following:
(i) obligations of or guaranteed as to principal and interest by the
United States or any agency or instrumentality thereof when such obligations are
backed by the full faith and credit of the United States;
(ii) repurchase agreements on obligations specified in clause (i) above
maturing not more than one month from the date of acquisition thereof; provided,
that the unsecured short-term debt obligations of the party agreeing to
repurchase such obligations are at the time rated by each Rating Agency in its
highest short-term rating category available;
(iii) federal funds, certificates of deposit, demand deposits, time
deposits and bankers' acceptances (which shall each have an original maturity of
not more than 90 days and, in the case of bankers' acceptances, shall in no
event have an original maturity of more than 365 days or a remaining maturity of
more than 30 days) denominated in United States dollars of any U.S. depository
institution or trust company incorporated under the laws of the United States or
any state thereof or of any domestic branch of a foreign depository institution
or trust company; provided, that the short-term debt obligations of such
depository institution or trust company (or, if the only Rating Agency is
Standard & Poor's, in the case of the principal depository institution in a
depository institution holding company, debt obligations of the depository
institution holding company) at the date of acquisition thereof have been rated
by each Rating Agency in its highest short-term rating category available; and
provided further, that if the only Rating Agency is Standard & Poor's and if the
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depository or trust company is a principal subsidiary of a bank holding company
and the debt obligations of such subsidiary are not separately rated, the
applicable rating shall be that of the bank holding company; and provided
further, that if the only Rating Agency is Standard & Poor's and the original
maturity of such short-term debt obligations of a domestic branch of a foreign
depository institution or trust company shall exceed 30 days, the short-term
rating of such institution shall be A-1+;
(iv) commercial paper (having original maturities of not more than 365
days) of any corporation incorporated under the laws of the United States or any
state thereof which on the date of acquisition has been rated by each Rating
Agency in its highest short-term rating category available; provided, that such
commercial paper shall have a remaining maturity of not more than 30 days;
(v) a money market fund or a qualified investment fund (including
without limitation, any such fund for which the Indenture Trustee or an
Affiliate of the Indenture Trustee acts as an advisor or a manager) rated by
each Rating Agency in one of its two highest long-term rating categories
available (if so rated by such Rating Agency); and
(vi) other obligations or securities that are acceptable to each Rating
Agency as a Permitted Investment hereunder and will not cause a Rating Event,
and which are acceptable to the Enhancer, as evidenced in writing;
provided, however, that no instrument shall be a Permitted Investment if it
represents, either (1) the right to receive only interest payments with respect
to the underlying debt instrument or (2) the right to receive both principal and
interest payments derived from obligations underlying such instrument and the
principal and interest payments with respect to such instrument provide a yield
to maturity greater than 120% of the yield to maturity at par of such underlying
obligations. References herein to the highest long-term rating category
available debt shall mean AAA in the case of Standard & Poor's and Aaa in the
case of Xxxxx'x, and references herein to the highest short-term rating category
available shall mean A-1 in the case of Standard & Poor's and P-1 in the case of
Xxxxx'x.
Person: Any legal individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture,
association, joint-stock company, limited liability company, trust,
unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political subdivision
thereof.
Plan: Any employee benefit plan or certain other retirement plans and
arrangements, including individual retirement accounts and annuities, Xxxxx
plans and bank collective investment funds and insurance company general or
separate accounts in which such plans, accounts or arrangements are invested,
that are subject to ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, as described in Section
3.05 of the Trust Agreement.
Plan Assets: The meaning specified in Section 2510.3-101 of the
Department of Labor Regulations and as described in Section 3.05 of the Trust
Agreement.
Policy: The Note Guaranty Insurance Policy 45174, dated as of the
Closing Date, issued by the Enhancer.
Policy Draw Amount: With respect to any Payment Date, the Insured
Amount.
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Pool Balance: With respect to any date, the aggregate Principal Balance
of all Mortgage Loans as of such date plus, during the Pre-Funding Period, the
Pre-Funded Amount.
Predecessor Note: With respect to any Note, every previous Note
evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such Note;
and, for the purpose of this definition, any Note authenticated and delivered
under Section 4.03 of the Indenture in lieu of a mutilated, lost, destroyed or
stolen Note shall be deemed to evidence the same debt as such mutilated, lost,
destroyed or stolen Note.
Pre-Funded Amount: With respect to any date of determination during the
Pre-Funding Period, the amount on deposit in the Pre-Funding Account.
Pre-Funding Account: The account established and maintained pursuant to
Section 3.18 of the Servicing Agreement.
Pre-Funding Period: The period commencing on the Closing Date until the
earliest of (i) the date on which the amount on deposit in the Pre-Funding
Account is less than $100,000, (ii) January 26, 2005 or (iii) the occurrence of
a Servicing Default.
Principal Balance: With respect to any Mortgage Loan, other than a
Liquidated Mortgage Loan, and as of any day, the related Cut-Off Date Principal
Balance, plus (i) any Additional Balances in respect of such Mortgage Loan
conveyed to the Trust, minus (ii) all collections credited as principal in
respect of any such Mortgage Loan in accordance with the related Loan Agreement
(except any such collections that are allocable to any Excluded Amount) and
applied in reduction of the Principal Balance thereof. For purposes of this
definition, a Liquidated Mortgage Loan shall be deemed to have a Principal
Balance equal to the Principal Balance of the related Mortgage Loan immediately
prior to the final recovery of substantially all related Liquidation Proceeds
and a Principal Balance of zero thereafter.
Principal Collections: With respect to any Payment Date, the aggregate
of the following amounts:
(i) the total amount of payments made by or on behalf of the related
Mortgagor, received and applied as payments of principal on such Mortgage Loan
during the related Collection Period, as reported by the Servicer or the related
Subservicer;
(ii) any Liquidation Proceeds allocable as a recovery of principal
received in connection with such Mortgage Loan during the related Collection
Period and any Recovery Amounts;
(iii) if such Mortgage Loan was repurchased by a Seller pursuant to the
Purchase Agreement during the related Collection Period, 100% of the Principal
Balance thereof as of the date of such purchase and if any Eligible Substitute
Loan is substituted for a Deleted Loan, the Substitution Adjustment Amount;
(iv) any other amounts received as payments on or proceeds of such
Mortgage Loan during the Collection Period, to the extent applied in reduction
of the Principal Balance thereof; and
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(v) on the Payment Date immediately following the end of the Pre-Funding
Period, any amount transferred from the Pre-Funding Account to the Note Payment
Account in accordance with Section 3.18 of the Servicing Agreement;
provided, that Principal Collections shall be reduced by any amounts withdrawn
from the Custodial Account pursuant to clauses (c), (g), (h), (j) and (k) of
Section 3.03 of the Servicing Agreement, and shall not include any portion of
such amounts attributable to any Excluded Amount in respect of any Mortgage Loan
that are allocable to principal of such Mortgage Loan and not otherwise excluded
from the amounts specified in (i) through (iv) above.
Principal Distribution Amount: For any Payment Date (i) during the
Revolving Period, the amount, if any, transferred from the Pre-Funding Account
to the Note Payment Account pursuant to Section 3.18(b) of the Servicing
Agreement, and the amount, if any, transferred from the Funding Account to the
Note Payment Amount pursuant to Section 3.16(c)(ii) of the Servicing Agreement,
(ii) during the Managed Amortization Period, Net Principal Collections for the
Mortgage Loans, (iii) during the Rapid Amortization Period, Principal
Collections for the Mortgage Loans, (iv) after an Early Amortization Event, any
amount in the Reserve Sub-Account, and (v) on any Payment Date, from the Excess
Spread, to the extent available or, to the extent not available, from a draw on
the Policy (but only to the extent the Overcollateralization Amount is zero), an
amount equal to the aggregate of the Liquidation Loss Amounts, if any, for such
Payment Date.
Proceeding: Any suit in equity, action at law or other judicial or
administrative proceeding.
Program Guide: The GMACM Home Equity Servicing Guidelines, as in effect
from time to time.
Purchase Agreement: The mortgage loan purchase agreement dated as of the
Closing Date, among the Sellers, the Purchaser, the Issuer and the Indenture
Trustee.
Purchase Price: The amounts specified in Section 2.3(a) of the Purchase
Agreement.
Purchaser: Residential Asset Mortgage Products, Inc., as purchaser under
the Purchase Agreement.
Rapid Amortization Event: Any one of the following events:
(a) the failure on the part of a Seller (i) to make any payment or deposit
required to be made under the Purchase Agreement within five Business Days after
the date such payment or deposit is required to be made; or (ii) to observe or
perform in any material respect any other covenants or agreements of the Seller
set forth in the Purchase Agreement, which failure continues unremedied for a
period of 60 days after written notice and such failure materially and adversely
affects the interests of the Securityholders or the Enhancer; provided, however,
that a Rapid Amortization Event shall not be deemed to have occurred if such
Seller has repurchased or caused to be repurchased or substituted for the
affected Mortgage Loan during such period (or within an additional 60 days with
the consent of the Indenture Trustee and the Enhancer) in accordance with the
provisions of the Indenture;
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(b) if any representation or warranty made by a Seller in the Purchase Agreement
proves to have been incorrect in any material respect when made and which
continues to be incorrect in any material respect for a period of 45 days with
respect to any representation or warranty of the Seller made in Section 3.1(a)
or 3.1(d)(I), as applicable, of the Purchase Agreement or 90 days with respect
to any representation or warranty made in Section 3.1(b) or 3.1(d)(II), as
applicable, of the Purchase Agreement after written notice and as a result of
which the interests of the Securityholders or the Enhancer are materially and
adversely affected; provided, however, that a Rapid Amortization Event shall not
be deemed to have occurred if the Seller has repurchased or caused to be
repurchased or substituted for the affected Mortgage Loan during such period (or
within an additional 60 days with the consent of the Indenture Trustee and the
Enhancer) in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture;
(c) the entry against a Seller of a decree or order by a court or agency or
supervisory authority having jurisdiction under Title 11 of the United States
Code or any other applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other
similar law, or if a receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or
reorganization, liquidator, sequestrator or similar official shall have been
appointed for or taken possession of the Servicer or its property, and the
continuance of any such decree or order unstayed and in effect for a period of
60 consecutive days;
(d) either Seller shall voluntarily submit to Proceedings under Title 11 of the
United States Code or any other applicable federal or state bankruptcy,
insolvency or other similar law relating to the Seller or the Issuer or of or
relating to all or substantially all of its property; or the Seller or the
Issuer shall admit in writing its inability to pay its debts generally as they
become due, file a petition to take advantage of any applicable insolvency or
reorganization statute, make an assignment for the benefit of its creditors or
voluntarily suspend payment of its obligations;
(e) the Issuer shall become subject to regulation by the Commission as an
investment company within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as
amended;
(f) a Servicing Default shall occur and be unremedied under the Servicing
Agreement and a qualified successor Servicer shall not have been appointed;
(g) the occurrence of a draw on the Policy and the failure by the Servicer to
reimburse the Enhancer for any amount owed to the Enhancer pursuant to the
Insurance Agreement on account of the draw, which failure continues unremedied
for a period of 90 days after written notice to the Servicer;
(h) the Issuer (or a portion thereof) is determined to be a taxable mortgage
pool or an association (or a publicly-traded partnership) taxable as a
corporation or a taxable mortgage pool for federal income tax purposes; or
(i) an event of default under the Insurance Agreement (except for a default by
the Enhancer, unless such Enhancer cannot be replaced without additional
expense).
In the case of any event described in (a), (b), (f), (g) or (i), a Rapid
Amortization Event shall be deemed to have occurred only if, after any
applicable grace period described in such clauses, any of the Indenture Trustee,
the Enhancer or, with the consent of the Enhancer (so long as no Enhancer
Default exists), Securityholders evidencing not less than 51% of the aggregate
Securities Balance, by written notice to the Sellers, the Servicer, the
Depositor and the Owner Trustee (and to the Indenture Trustee, if given by the
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Enhancer or the Securityholders), declare that a Rapid Amortization Event has
occurred as of the date of such notice. In the case of any event described in
clauses (c), (d), (e) or (h), a Rapid Amortization Event shall be deemed to have
occurred without any notice or other action on the part of the Indenture
Trustee, the Securityholders or the Enhancer immediately upon the occurrence of
such event; provided, that any Rapid Amortization Event may be waived and deemed
of no effect with the written consent of the Enhancer and each Rating Agency,
subject to the satisfaction of any conditions to such waiver.
Rapid Amortization Period: The period beginning on the earlier of (i)
the first day following the end of the Managed Amortization Period and (ii) the
occurrence of a Rapid Amortization Event, and ending upon the termination of the
Issuer.
Rating Agency: Each of Xxxxx'x and Standard & Poor's or, if any such
organization or a successor thereto is no longer in existence, such nationally
recognized statistical rating organization, or other comparable Person,
designated by the Depositor, notice of which designation shall be given to the
Indenture Trustee. References herein to the highest short term unsecured rating
category of a Rating Agency shall mean A-1 or better in the case of Standard &
Poor's and P-1 or better in the case of Xxxxx'x; and in the case of any other
Rating Agency, shall mean such equivalent ratings. References herein to the
highest long-term rating category of a Rating Agency shall mean "AAA" in the
case of Standard & Poor's and "Aaa" in the case of Xxxxx'x; and in the case of
any other Rating Agency, shall mean such equivalent rating.
Rating Event: The qualification, reduction or withdrawal by a Rating
Agency of its then-current rating of the Notes.
Record Date: With respect to the Notes and any Payment Date, unless
Notes are no longer held in book-entry form, the close of business on the
Business Day immediately preceding such Payment Date and if the Notes are no
longer held in book-entry form, the last Business Day of the calendar month
preceding the month of such Payment Date.
Recovery Amount: Amounts collected on a Mortgage Loan after the Mortgage
Loan becomes a Liquidated Mortgage Loan, net of any Servicing Fee, Recovery Fee
and any reimbursement for advances and expenses of the Servicer.
Recovery Fee: A customary fee calculated based on additional recovery
amounts charged for the collection of such additional recovery amounts on any
Mortgage Loan after the date that such Mortgage Loan became a Liquidated
Mortgage Loan.
Reference Bank Rate: With respect to any Interest Period, as follows:
the arithmetic mean (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the nearest one sixteenth
of one percent) of the offered rates for United States dollar deposits for one
month which are offered by the Reference Banks as of 11:00 a.m., London, England
time, on the second LIBOR Business Day prior to the first day of such Interest
Period to prime banks in the London interbank market in amounts approximately
equal to the sum of the outstanding Note Balance of the Notes; provided, that at
least two Reference Banks provide such rate. If fewer than two such rates are
provided, the Reference Bank Rate will be the arithmetic mean of the rates
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quoted by one or more major banks in New York City, selected by the Indenture
Trustee after consultation with the Servicer and the Enhancer, as of 11:00 a.m.,
New York time, on such date for loans in U.S. Dollars to leading European banks
for a period of one month in amounts approximately equal to the aggregate Note
Balance of the Notes. If no quotations can be obtained, the Reference Bank Rate
will be the Reference Bank Rate applicable to the preceding Interest Period.
Reference Banks: Shall mean three major banks in the London interbank
market selected by the Indenture Trustee after consultation with the Servicer.
Related Documents: With respect to each Mortgage Loan, the documents
contained in the Mortgage File.
Relief Act Shortfalls: With respect to any Payment Date, for any
Mortgage Loan as to which there has been a reduction in the amount of interest
collectible thereon for the related Collection Period as a result of the
application of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, formerly known as the
Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940, as amended, or any similar
state legislation or regulations, the shortfall, if any, equal to (i) one
month's interest on the Principal Balance of such Mortgage Loan at the
applicable Loan Rate, over (ii) the interest collectible on such Mortgage Loan
during such Collection Period.
Repurchase Event: With respect to any Mortgage Loan, either (i) a
discovery that, as of the Closing Date with respect to an Initial Mortgage Loan
or the related Subsequent Transfer Date with respect to any Subsequent Mortgage
Loan, the related Mortgage was not a valid lien on the related Mortgaged
Property subject only to (A) the lien of any prior mortgage indicated on the
Mortgage Loan Schedule, (B) the lien of real property taxes and assessments not
yet due and payable, (C) covenants, conditions, and restrictions, rights of way,
easements and other matters of public record as of the date of recording of such
Mortgage and such other permissible title exceptions as are customarily accepted
for similar loans and (D) other matters to which like properties are commonly
subject that do not materially adversely affect the value, use, enjoyment or
marketability of the related Mortgaged Property or (ii) with respect to any
Mortgage Loan as to which either Seller delivers an affidavit certifying that
the original Loan Agreement has been lost or destroyed, a subsequent default on
such Mortgage Loan if the enforcement thereof or of the related Mortgage is
materially and adversely affected by the absence of such original Loan
Agreement.
Repurchase Price: With respect to any Mortgage Loan required to be
repurchased on any date pursuant to the Purchase Agreement or purchased by the
Servicer pursuant to the Servicing Agreement, an amount equal to the sum of (i)
100% of the Principal Balance thereof (without reduction for any amounts charged
off), (ii) unpaid accrued interest at the Loan Rate (or with respect to the last
day of the month in the month of repurchase, the Loan Rate will be the Loan Rate
in effect as of the second to last day in such month) on the outstanding
Principal Balance thereof from the Due Date to which interest was last paid by
the related Mortgagor to the first day of the month following the month of
purchase and (iii) in connection with any Mortgage Loan required to be
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repurchased pursuant to Sections 2.1 or 3.1 of the Purchase Agreement, any costs
and damages incurred by the Trust Fund with respect to such Mortgage Loan in
connection with a breach of Section 3.1(b)(x) of the Purchase Agreement. No
portion of any Repurchase Price shall be included in any Excluded Amount for any
Payment Date during the Rapid Amortization Period.
Required Insurance Policy: With respect to any Mortgage Loan, any
insurance policy which is required to be maintained from time to time under the
Servicing Agreement or the related Subservicing Agreement in respect of such
Mortgage Loan.
Required Ratings: Shall mean, at any time with respect to any Person,
that either (a) the short-term unsecured debt of such Person is rated at least
two of the following ratings: "A-1" or better by Standard & Poor's and "P-1" by
Xxxxx'x or (b) the long-term unsecured debt of such Person is rated at least two
of the following ratings: "A" by Standard & Poor's and "A2" by Xxxxx'x.
Reserve Sub-Account: A sub-account within the Funding Account
established and maintained pursuant to Section 3.17 of the Servicing Agreement.
Responsible Officer: With respect to the Indenture Trustee, any officer
of the Indenture Trustee with direct responsibility for the administration of
the Trust Agreement and also, with respect to a particular matter, any other
officer to whom such matter is referred because of such officer's knowledge of
and familiarity with the particular subject.
Revolving Period: The period beginning on the Closing Date and ending on
the earlier of (i) the Payment Date occurring in April 2006, (ii) the occurrence
of an event described in clause (iv) of the definition of Early Amortization
Event and (iii) the occurrence of a Rapid Amortization Event.
Rolling Six-Month Annualized Liquidation Loss Amounts: With respect to
any Determination Date, the product (expressed as a percentage) of (i) the
aggregate Liquidation Loss Amounts as of the end of each of the six Collection
Periods (reduced by the aggregate Subsequent Net Recovery Amounts for such
Collection Periods) immediately preceding such Determination Date divided by the
Initial Pool Balance and (ii) two (2).
Secretary of State: The Secretary of State of the State of Delaware.
Securities Act: The Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules
and regulations promulgated thereunder.
Securities Balance: The Note Balance or Certificate Balance, as the
context may require.
Security: Any Certificate or a Note, as the context may require.
Securityholder: Any Noteholder or Certificateholder.
Seller or Sellers: GMAC Mortgage Corporation, a Pennsylvania
corporation, and its successors and assigns, and Walnut Grove Mortgage Loan
Trust 2003-A, a Delaware statutory trust, and its successors and assigns.
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Servicer: GMAC Mortgage Corporation, a Pennsylvania corporation, and its
successors and assigns.
Servicer Advances: Any advances the Servicer may make with respect to
the Mortgage Loans, whether or not required, in respect of principal, interest,
taxes, insurance or otherwise.
Servicing Agreement: The servicing agreement dated as of the Closing
Date among the Servicer, the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee.
Servicing Certificate: A certificate completed and executed by a
Servicing Officer on behalf of the Servicer in accordance with Section 4.01 of
the Servicing Agreement.
Servicing Default: Any one of the following events:
(i) any failure by the Servicer to deposit in the Custodial Account, the Funding
Account, the Reserve Sub-Account, the Note Payment Account or the Distribution
Account any deposit required to be made under the terms of the Servicing
Agreement that continues unremedied for a period of five Business Days after the
date upon which written notice of such failure shall have been given to the
Servicer by the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee, or to the Servicer, the Issuer
and the Indenture Trustee by the Enhancer;
(ii) any failure on the part of the Servicer duly to observe or perform in any
material respect any other covenants or agreements of the Servicer set forth in
the Securities or in the Servicing Agreement, which failure, in each case,
materially and adversely affects the interests of the Securityholders or the
Enhancer, and which failure continues unremedied for a period of 45 days after
the date on which written notice of such failure, requiring the same to be
remedied, and stating that such notice is a "Notice of Default" under the
Servicing Agreement, shall have been given to the Servicer by the Issuer or the
Indenture Trustee, or to the Servicer, the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee by
the Enhancer;
(iii) the entry against the Servicer of a decree or order by a court or agency
or supervisory authority having jurisdiction under Title 11 of the United States
Code or any other applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other
similar law, or if a receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or
reorganization, liquidator, sequestrator or similar official shall have been
appointed for or taken possession of the Servicer or its property, and the
continuance of any such decree or order unstayed and in effect for a period of
60 consecutive days;
(iv) the Servicer shall voluntarily submit to Proceedings under Title 11 of the
United States Code or any other applicable federal or state bankruptcy,
insolvency or other similar law relating to the Servicer or of or relating to
all or substantially all of its property; or the Servicer shall admit in writing
its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due, file a petition to
take advantage of any applicable insolvency or reorganization statute, make an
assignment for the benefit of its creditors or voluntarily suspend payment of
its obligations;
(v) a Rapid Amortization Event occurs on account of the circumstances specified
in clause (g) of the definition of Rapid Amortization Event, which event
continues beyond the 90 day grace period set forth in such clause (g);
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(vi) the Servicer's Tangible Net Worth at any time is less than $100,000,000 and
GMAC fails to own, directly or indirectly, at least 51% of the common stock of
the Servicer; or
(vii) the Rolling Six-Month Annualized Liquidation Loss Amount with respect to
the Mortgage Loans exceeds 1.50%.
Servicing Fee: With respect to any Mortgage Loan and any Collection
Period, the product of (i) the Servicing Fee Rate divided by 12 and (ii) the
related Principal Balance as of the first day of such Collection Period.
Servicing Fee Rate: 0.50% per annum.
Servicing Officer: Any officer of the Servicer involved in, or
responsible for, the administration and servicing of the Mortgage Loans whose
name and specimen signature appear on a list of servicing officers furnished to
the Indenture Trustee (with a copy to the Enhancer) by the Servicer, as such
list may be amended from time to time.
Standard & Poor's: Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, a division of The
XxXxxx-Xxxx Companies, Inc. or its successor in interest.
Stated Value: With respect to any Mortgage Loan, the stated value of the
related Mortgaged Property determined in accordance with the Program Guide and
given by the related Mortgagor in his or her application.
Statutory Trust Statute: Chapter 38 of Title 12 of the Delaware Code, 12
Del. Code ss.ss.3801 et seq., as the same may be amended from time to time.
Stepdown Date: The later of (i) the Payment Date in April 2007 and (ii)
the Payment Date on which the Pool Balance (after applying payments received in
the related Collection Period) as of such Payment Date is less than 50% of the
Initial Pool Balance.
Subsequent Cut-Off Date: With respect to any Subsequent Mortgage Loan,
the date specified in the related Subsequent Transfer Agreement.
Subsequent Cut-Off Date Principal Balance: With respect to any
Subsequent Mortgage Loan, the Principal Balance thereof as of the close of
business on the last day of the Collection Period immediately prior to the
related Subsequent Cut-Off Date.
Subsequent Mortgage Loan: An adjustable rate home equity revolving line
of credit sold by a Seller to the Issuer pursuant to Section 2.2 of the Purchase
Agreement, such Mortgage Loan being identified on the Mortgage Loan Schedule
attached to the related Subsequent Transfer Agreement, as set forth in such
Subsequent Transfer Agreement.
Subsequent Net Recovery Amounts: Recovery Amounts collected on a
Mortgage Loan after the Mortgage Loan becomes a Liquidated Mortgage Loan, net of
any Recovery Fee.
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Subsequent Transfer Agreement: Each Subsequent Transfer Agreement dated
as of a Subsequent Transfer Date executed by the respective Seller and the
Issuer substantially in the form of Exhibit 2 to the Purchase Agreement, by
which the related Subsequent Mortgage Loans are sold to the Issuer.
Subsequent Transfer Date: With respect to each Subsequent Transfer
Agreement, the date on which the related Subsequent Mortgage Loans are sold to
the Issuer.
Subservicer: Each Person that enters into a Subservicing Agreement as a
subservicer of Mortgage Loans.
Subservicing Agreement: The written contract between the Servicer and
any Subservicer relating to servicing and administration of certain Mortgage
Loans as provided in Section 3.01(b) of the Servicing Agreement.
Substitution Adjustment Amount: With respect to any Eligible Substitute
Loan and any Deleted Loan, the amount, if any, as determined by the Servicer, by
which the aggregate principal balance of all such Eligible Substitute Loans as
of the date of substitution is less than the aggregate Principal Balance of all
such Deleted Loans (after application of the principal portion of the Monthly
Payments due in the month of substitution that are to be distributed to the
Securityholders in the month of substitution).
Tangible Net Worth: Net Worth, less the sum of the following (without
duplication): (a) any other assets of GMACM and its consolidated subsidiaries
that would be treated as intangibles under GAAP including, without limitation,
any write-up of assets (other than adjustments to market value to the extent
required under GAAP with respect to excess servicing, residual interests in
offerings of asset-backed securities and asset-backed securities that are
interest-only securities), good-will, research and development costs,
trade-marks, trade names, copyrights, patents and unamortized debt discount and
expenses and (b) loans or other extensions of credit to officers of GMACM or its
consolidated subsidiaries other than mortgage loans made to such Persons in the
ordinary course of business.
Targeted Final Payment Date: Shall mean (i) for the Class A-1 Notes, the
Payment Date occurring in April 2006, (ii) for the Class A-2 Notes, the Payment
Date occurring in October 2007 and for the Class A-3 Notes, the Payment Date
occurring in October 2009.
Target Percentage: Shall mean 1.60%.
Tax Matters Partner: GMACM, as the Servicer, for so long as the Servicer
holds all or any portion of the Certificates; if any other Person holds 100% of
the Certificates, such Person; and otherwise as provided in the Code.
Telerate Screen Page 3750: The display page so designated on the
Telerate Capital Markets Report (or such other page as may replace page 3750 on
such service for the purpose of displaying London interbank offered rates of
major banks, or, if such service is no longer offered, such other service for
displaying London interbank offered rates or comparable rates as may be selected
by the Indenture Trustee after consultation with the Servicer.
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Term Notes: The Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes and the Class A-3
Notes.
Transfer: Any direct or indirect transfer, sale, pledge, hypothecation
or other form of assignment of any Ownership Interest in a Certificate.
Transfer Date: The Payment Date on which the Servicer, upon receipt of
written notice and direction from the Issuer, shall cause the retransfer of
Mortgage Loans from the Trust Estate to the Issuer, pursuant to Section 3.15(c)
of the Servicing Agreement.
Transfer Notice Date: The fifth Business Day prior to the Transfer Date
for which the Servicer shall give the Indenture Trustee, the Rating Agencies and
the Enhancer a notice of the proposed retransfer of Mortgage Loans, pursuant to
Section 3.15(c) of the Servicing Agreement.
Transferee: Any Person who is acquiring by Transfer any Ownership
Interest in a Certificate.
Transferor: Any Person who is disposing by Transfer of any Ownership
Interest in a Certificate.
Treasury Regulations: Regulations, including proposed or temporary
Regulations, promulgated under the Code. References herein to specific
provisions of proposed or temporary regulations shall include analogous
provisions of final Treasury Regulations or other successor Treasury
Regulations.
Trust Agreement: The trust agreement dated as of the Closing Date,
between the Owner Trustee and the Depositor.
Trust Estate: The meaning specified in the Granting Clause of the
Indenture.
Trust Indenture Act or TIA: The Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended
from time to time, as in effect on any relevant date.
UCC: The Uniform Commercial Code, as in effect from time to time, as in
effect in any specified jurisdiction.
Uniform Single Attestation Program for Mortgage Bankers: The Uniform
Single Attestation Program for Mortgage Bankers, as published by the Mortgage
Bankers Association of America and effective with respect to fiscal periods
ending on or after December 15, 1995.
Unpaid Principal Amount: As defined in Section 3.05(a) of the Indenture.
Variable Pay Revolving Notes: Collectively, the Class A-1 Variable Pay
Revolving Notes, the Class A-2 Variable Pay Revolving Notes and the Class A-3
Variable Pay Revolving Notes.
WG Trust 2003: Walnut Grove Mortgage Loan Trust 2003-A, a Delaware
statutory trust.
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