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EXHIBIT 99(bb)
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TEXAS UTILITIES COMPANY
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COMPETITIVE ADVANCE AND
REVOLVING CREDIT FACILITY AGREEMENT
Dated as of November 22, 1995
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TEXAS COMMERCE BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Administrative Agent
and
CHEMICAL BANK,
as Competitive Advance Facility Agent
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I
Definition
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SECTION 1.01. Defined Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
SECTION 1.02. Terms Generally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
ARTICLE II
The Credits
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SECTION 2.01. Commitments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
SECTION 2.02. Loans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
SECTION 2.03. Competitive Bid Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
SECTION 2.04. Standby Borrowing Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
SECTION 2.05. Fees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
SECTION 2.06. Repayment of Loans; Evidence of Indebtedness . . . . . 24
SECTION 2.07. Interest on Loans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
SECTION 2.08. Default Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
SECTION 2.09. Alternate Rate of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
SECTION 2.10. Termination and Reduction of Commitments . . . . . . . 27
SECTION 2.11. Prepayment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
SECTION 2.12. Reserve Requirements; Change in Circumstances . . . . . 28
SECTION 2.13. Change in Legality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
SECTION 2.14. Pro Rata Treatment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
SECTION 2.15. Sharing of Setoffs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
SECTION 2.16. Payments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
SECTION 2.17. Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
SECTION 2.18. Assignment of Commitments Under Certain Circumstances . 37
ARTICLE III
Representations and Warranties
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SECTION 3.01. Organization; Xxxxxx . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
SECTION 3.02. Authorization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
SECTION 3.03. Enforceability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
SECTION 3.04. Governmental Approvals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
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SECTION 3.05. Financial Statements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
SECTION 3.06. Litigation; Compliance with Laws . . . . . . . . . . . 39
SECTION 3.07. Federal Reserve Regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
SECTION 3.08. Investment Company Act; Public Utility Holding Company
Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
SECTION 3.09. No Material Misstatements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
SECTION 3.10. Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
SECTION 3.11. Employee Benefit Plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
SECTION 3.12. Significant Subsidiaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
SECTION 3.13. Environmental Matters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
ARTICLE IV
Conditions of Lending
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SECTION 4.01. All Borrowings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
SECTION 4.02. Effective Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
ARTICLE V
Covenants
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SECTION 5.01. Existence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
SECTION 5.02. Business and Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
SECTION 5.03. Financial Statements, Reports, Etc. . . . . . . . . . . 45
SECTION 5.04. Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
SECTION 5.05. Taxes, Etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
SECTION 5.06. Maintaining Records; Access to Properties and
Inspections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
SECTION 5.07. ERISA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
SECTION 5.08. Use of Proceeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
SECTION 5.09. Consolidations, Mergers, and Sales of Assets . . . . . 48
SECTION 5.10. Limitations on Liens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
SECTION 5.11. Fixed Charge Coverage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
SECTION 5.12. Equity Capitalization Ratio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
ARTICLE VI
Events of Default . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
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ARTICLE VII
The Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
ARTICLE VIII
Miscellaneous
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SECTION 8.01. Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
SECTION 8.02. Survival of Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
SECTION 8.03. Binding Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
SECTION 8.04. Successors and Assigns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
SECTION 8.05. Expenses; Indemnity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
SECTION 8.06. Right of Setoff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
SECTION 8.07. Applicable Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
SECTION 8.08. Waivers; Amendment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
SECTION 8.09. Entire Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
SECTION 8.10. Severability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
SECTION 8.11. Counterparts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
SECTION 8.12. Headings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
SECTION 8.13. Interest Rate Limitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
SECTION 8.14. Jurisdiction; Venue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
SECTION 8.15. Confidentiality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
EXHIBITS AND SCHEDULES
Exhibit A-1 Form of Competitive Bid Request
Exhibit A-2 Form of Notice of Competitive Bid Request
Exhibit A-3 Form of Competitive Bid
Exhibit A-4 Form of Competitive Bid Accept/Reject
Exhibit A-5 Form of Standby Borrowing Request
Exhibit B Administrative Questionnaire
Exhibit C Form of Assignment and Acceptance
Exhibit D-1 Form of Opinion of Xxxx & Priest LLP, of counsel to Texas
Utilities Company
Exhibit D-2 Form of Opinion of Worsham, Forsythe, & Xxxxxxxxxx, L.L.P.,
general counsel for Texas Utilities Company
Schedule 2.01 Commitments
Schedule 3.06 Litigation
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COMPETITIVE ADVANCE AND REVOLVING CREDIT
FACILITY AGREEMENT (the "Agreement") dated as of
November 22, 1995, and effective as of the Effective
Date, among TEXAS UTILITIES COMPANY, a Texas
corporation ("TU" or the "Borrower"); the lenders
listed in Schedule 2.01 (the "Lenders"); CHEMICAL
BANK, a New York banking corporation ("Chemical"), as
Competitive Advance Facility Agent (in such capacity,
the "CAF Agent"); and TEXAS COMMERCE BANK NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION, a national banking association ("TCB"),
as administrative agent for the Lenders (in such
capacity, the "Administrative Agent"; and, together
with the CAF Agent, the "Agents").
The Lenders have been requested to extend credit to the
Borrower to enable it, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth
herein, to borrow on a standby revolving credit basis on and after the
Effective Date and at any time prior to the Maturity Date (as hereinafter
defined) an aggregate principal amount not in excess of $200,000,000 at any
time outstanding. The Lenders have also been requested to provide a procedure
pursuant to which the Borrower may invite the Lenders to bid on an uncommitted
basis on short-term borrowings by the Borrower. The proceeds of any such
borrowings are to be used for working capital and other corporate purposes,
including commercial paper back- up. The Lenders are willing to extend such
credit on the terms and subject to the conditions herein set forth.
Accordingly, the parties hereto agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
Definitions
SECTION 1.01. Defined Terms. As used in this Agreement, the
following terms shall have the meanings specified below:
"ABR Borrowing" shall mean a Borrowing comprised of ABR Loans.
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"ABR Loan" shall mean any Standby Loan bearing interest at a
rate determined by reference to the Alternate Base Rate in accordance with the
provisions of Article II.
"Acquisition Date" shall mean the date as of which a person or
group of related persons first acquires more than 30% of the outstanding Voting
Shares of TU (within the meaning of Section 13(d) or 14(d) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the applicable rules and regulations
thereunder).
"Administrative Questionnaire" shall mean an Administrative
Questionnaire in the form of Exhibit B hereto.
"Affiliate" shall mean, when used with respect to a specified
person, another person that directly or indirectly controls or is controlled by
or is under common control with the person specified.
"Agent Fees" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 2.05(b).
"Alternate Base Rate" shall mean, for any day, a rate per
annum (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/16 of 1%) equal to the
greatest of (a) the Federal Funds Effective Rate in effect on such day plus 1/2
of 1%, (b) the Base CD Rate in effect on such day plus 1% and (c) the Prime
Rate in effect on such day. For purposes hereof, "Prime Rate" shall mean the
rate of interest per annum publicly announced from time to time by Chemical
Bank as its prime rate in effect at its principal office in New York City; each
change in the Prime Rate shall be effective on the date such change is publicly
announced as effective. "Base CD- Rate" shall mean the sum of (a) the product
of (i) the Three-Month Secondary CD Rate and (ii) Statutory Reserves and (b)
the Assessment Rate. "Three-Month Secondary CD- Rate" shall mean, for any day,
the secondary market rate for three-month certificates of deposit reported as
being in effect on such day (or, if such day shall not be a Business Day, the
next preceding Business Day) by the Board through the public information
telephone line of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (which rate will, under
the current practices of the Board, be published in Federal Reserve Statistical
Release H.15(519) during the week following such day), or, if such rate shall
not be so reported on such day or such next preceding Business Day, the average
of the secondary market quotations for three-month certificates of
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deposit of major money center banks in New York City received at approximately
10:00 a.m., New York City time, on such day (or, if such day shall not be a
Business Day, on the next preceding Business Day) by Chemical from three New
York City negotiable certificate of deposit dealers of recognized standing
selected by it. "Federal Funds Effective Rate" shall mean, for any day, the
weighted average of the rates on overnight Federal funds transactions with
members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by Federal funds brokers, as
released on the next succeeding Business Day by the Federal Reserve Bank of New
York, or, if such rate is not so released for any day which is a Business Day,
the arithmetic average (rounded upwards to the next 1/100th of 1%), as
determined by Chemical Bank, of the quotations for the day of such transactions
received by Chemical Bank from three Federal funds brokers of recognized
standing selected by it. If for any reason Chemical Bank shall have determined
(which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error; provided that
Chemical Bank, shall, upon request, provide to the Borrower a certificate
setting forth in reasonable detail the basis for such determination) that it is
unable to ascertain the Federal Funds Effective Rate for any reason, including
the inability of Chemical Bank to obtain sufficient quotations in accordance
with the terms thereof, the Alternate Base Rate shall be determined without
regard to clause (a) of the first sentence of this definition until the
circumstances giving rise to such inability no longer exist. Any change in the
Alternate Base Rate due to a change in the Prime Rate or the Federal Funds
Effective Rate shall be effective on the effective date of such change in the
Prime Rate or the Federal Funds Effective Rate, respectively.
"Applicable Margin" shall mean .275% per annum.
"Assignment and Acceptance" shall mean an assignment and
acceptance entered into by a Lender and an assignee in the form of Exhibit C.
"Auction Fees" shall mean the competitive advance auction fees
provided for in the Letter Agreement dated April 29, 1994, between the
Borrower, TU Electric and the CAF Agent (with references to the Credit
Agreements and provisions referred to therein being deemed to be references to
this Credit Agreement and the analogous provisions herein), payable to the CAF
Agent by the Borrower at the time of each competitive advance auction request
made by the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.03.
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"Board" shall mean the Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System of the United States.
"Board of Directors" shall mean the Board of Directors of the
Borrower or any duly authorized committee thereof.
"Borrower" shall have the meaning given such term in the
preamble hereto.
"Borrowing" shall mean a group of Loans of a single Type made
by the Lenders (or, in the case of a Competitive Borrowing, by the Lender or
Lenders whose Competitive Bids have been accepted pursuant to Section 2.03) on
a single date and as to which a single Interest Period is in effect.
"Business Day" shall mean any day (other than a day which is a
Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday in the State of New York or the State of
Texas) on which banks are open for business in New York City and Houston;
provided, however, that, when used in connection with a Eurodollar Loan, the
term "Business Day" shall also exclude any day on which banks are not open for
dealings in dollar deposits in the London interbank market.
A "Change in Control" shall be deemed to have occurred if (a)
any person or group of related persons (other than TU, any Subsidiary of TU, or
any pension, savings or other employee benefit plan for the benefit of
employees of TU and/or any Subsidiary of TU) shall have acquired beneficial
ownership of more than 30% of the outstanding Voting Shares of TU (within the
meaning of Section 13(d) or 14(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended, and the applicable rules and regulations thereunder); provided that a
Change in Control shall not be deemed to have occurred if such acquisition has
been approved, prior to the Acquisition Date and the date on which any tender
offer for Voting Shares of TU was commenced, by a majority of the Disinterested
Directors of TU, or (b) during any period of 12 consecutive months, commencing
before or after the date of this Agreement, individuals who on the first day of
such period were directors of TU (together with any replacement or additional
directors who were nominated or elected by a majority of directors then in
office) cease to constitute a majority of the Board of Directors of TU.
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"Code" shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as the
same may be amended from time to time.
"Commission" shall mean the Public Utility Commission of the
State of Texas.
"Commitment" shall mean, with respect to each Lender, the
Commitment of such Lender set forth in Schedule 2.01 hereto, as such Commitment
may be permanently terminated or reduced from time to time pursuant to Section
2.10. The Commitment of each Lender shall automatically and permanently
terminate on the Maturity Date if not terminated earlier pursuant to the terms
hereof.
"Commitment Letter" shall mean the letter between the
Borrower, Chemical and TCB dated November 13, 1995.
"Competitive Bid" shall mean an offer by a Lender to make a
Competitive Loan pursuant to Section 2.03.
"Competitive Bid Accept/Reject Letter" shall mean a
notification made by the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.03(d) in the form of
Exhibit A-4.
"Competitive Bid Margin" shall mean, as to any Eurodollar
Competitive Loan, the margin (expressed as a percentage rate per annum in the
form of a decimal to no more than four decimal places) to be added to or
subtracted from the LIBO Rate in order to determine the interest rate
applicable to such Loan, as specified in the Competitive Bid relating to such
Loan.
"Competitive Bid Rate" shall mean, as to any Competitive Bid,
(i) in the case of a Eurodollar Loan, the Competitive Bid Margin, and (ii) in
the case of a Fixed Rate Loan, the fixed rate of interest offered by the Lender
making such Competitive Bid.
"Competitive Bid Request" shall mean a request made pursuant
to Section 2.03 in the form of Exhibit A- 1.
"Competitive Borrowing" shall mean a Borrowing consisting of a
Competitive Loan or concurrent Competitive Loans from the Lender or Lenders
whose Competitive Bids for such Borrowing have been accepted under the bidding
procedure described in Section 2.03.
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"Competitive Loan" shall mean a Loan made pursuant to the
bidding procedure described in Section 2.03. Each Competitive Loan shall be a
Eurodollar Competitive Loan or a Fixed Rate Loan.
"Consolidated Earnings Available for Fixed Charges" for any
12-month period means (i) consolidated net income, calculated after deducting
preferred stock dividends of Subsidiaries, but before any extraordinary items
and before the effect in such 12-month period of any change in accounting
principles promulgated by the Financial Accounting Standards Board becoming
effective after December 31, 1994, less (ii) allowances for equity funds used
during construction to the extent that such allowances, taken as a whole,
increased such consolidated net income, plus (iii) provisions for Federal
income taxes, to the extent that such provisions, taken as a whole, decreased
such consolidated net income, plus (iv) Consolidated Fixed Charges, all
determined for such 12-month period with respect to TU and its Consolidated
Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis; provided, however, that in computing
Consolidated Earnings Available for Fixed Charges for any 12-month period (i)
the effect of any regulatory disallowances incurred in connection with the
settlement agreement resolving fuel and prudency issues in Docket 11735 of the
Commission and (ii) the aggregate amount of any noncash book losses during such
12-month period relating to assets which as of the date of this Agreement and
as of the date of any sale or writedown thereof were nonoperating, nonearning
assets, shall be excluded.
"Consolidated Fixed Charges" for any 12-month period means the
sum of (i) interest on mortgage bonds, (ii) interest on other long-term debt,
(iii) other interest expense and (iv) preferred stock dividends of Subsidiaries
all determined for such 12-month period with respect to TU and its Consolidated
Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis.
"Consolidated Shareholders' Equity" means the sum of (i) total
common stock equity plus (ii) preferred stock not subject to mandatory
redemption, both determined with respect to TU and its Consolidated
Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis.
"Consolidated Subsidiary" means at any date any Subsidiary or
other entity the accounts of which would be consolidated with those of TU in
its consolidated financial statements as of such date.
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"Consolidated Total Capitalization" means the sum of (i) total
common stock equity, (ii) preferred stock and (iii) long-term debt (less
amounts due currently), all determined with respect to TU and its Consolidated
Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, but without giving effect to any
acceleration or potential acceleration of any long-term debt.
"Controlled Group" shall mean all members of a controlled
group of corporations and all trades or businesses (whether or not
incorporated) under common control which, together with TU, are treated as a
single employer under Section 414(b) or 414(c) of the Code.
"Default" shall mean any event or condition which upon notice,
lapse of time or both would constitute an Event of Default.
"Disinterested Director" shall mean any member of the Board of
Directors of TU who is not affiliated, directly or indirectly, with, or
appointed by, a person or group of related persons (other than TU, any
Subsidiary of TU, or any pension, savings or other employee benefit plan for
the benefit of employees of TU and/or any Subsidiary of TU) acquiring the
beneficial ownership of more than 30% of the outstanding Voting Shares of TU
(within the meaning of Section 13(d) or 14(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended, and the applicable rules and regulations thereunder) and who
either was a member of the Board of Directors of TU prior to the Acquisition
Date or was recommended for election by a majority of the Disinterested
Directors in office prior to the Acquisition Date.
"dollars" or "$" shall mean lawful money of the United States
of America.
"Effective Date" shall mean the date on which each condition
set forth in Section 4.02 has been satisfied.
"ERISA" shall mean the Employee Retirement Income Security Act
of 1974, as the same may be amended from time to time.
"ERISA Affiliate" shall mean any trade or business (whether or
not incorporated) that is a member of a group of (i) organizations described in
Section 414(b) or (c) of the Code and (ii) solely for purposes of potential
liability under Section 412(c)(ii) of the Code and the Lien created
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under Section 412(n) of the Code, organizations described in Section 414(m) or
(o) of the Code of which the Borrower is a member.
"Eurodollar Borrowing" shall mean a Borrowing comprised of
Eurodollar Loans.
"Eurodollar Competitive Loan" shall mean any Competitive Loan
bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to the LIBO Rate in
accordance with the provisions of Article II.
"Eurodollar Loan" shall mean any Eurodollar Competitive Loan
or Eurodollar Standby Loan.
"Eurodollar Standby Loan" shall mean any Standby Loan bearing
interest at a rate determined by reference to the LIBO Rate in accordance with
the provisions of Article II.
"Event of Default" shall have the meaning assigned to such
term in Article VI.
"Exchange Act" shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
as amended.
"Facility Fee" shall have the meaning assigned to such term
in Section 2.05(a).
"Facility Fee Percentage" shall mean .125% per annum.
"Fees" shall mean the Facility Fee, the Auction Fees and the
Agent Fees.
"Financial Officer" of any corporation shall mean the chief
financial officer, principal accounting officer, treasurer, associate or
assistant treasurer, or any responsible officer designated by one of the
foregoing persons, of such corporation.
"First Mortgage" shall mean (i) the TU Electric Mortgage and
(ii) any Mortgage and Deed of Trust of TU Electric issued to refund, to replace
or in substitution for the TU Electric Mortgage.
"Fixed Rate Borrowing" shall mean a Borrowing comprised of
Fixed Rate Loans.
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"Fixed Rate Loan" shall mean any Competitive Loan bearing
interest at a fixed percentage rate per annum (the "Fixed Rate") (expressed in
the form of a decimal to no more than four decimal places) specified by the
Lender making such Loan in its Competitive Bid.
"Fuel Company" shall mean Texas Utilities Fuel Company, a
Texas corporation, and its successors.
"GAAP" shall mean generally accepted accounting principles,
applied on a consistent basis.
"Governmental Authority" shall mean any Federal, state, local
or foreign court or governmental agency, authority, instrumentality or
regulatory body.
"Indebtedness" of any corporation shall mean all indebtedness
representing money borrowed which is created, assumed, incurred or guaranteed
in any manner by such corporation or for which such corporation is responsible
or liable (whether by agreement to purchase indebtedness of, or to supply funds
to or invest in, others or otherwise).
"Interest Payment Date" shall mean, with respect to any Loan,
the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto and, in the case of a
Eurodollar Loan with an Interest Period of more than 3 months' duration or a
Fixed Rate Loan with an Interest Period of more than 90 days' duration, each
day that would have been an Interest Payment Date for such Loan had successive
Interest Periods of 3 months' duration or 90 days' duration, as the case may
be, been applicable to such Loan and, in addition, the date of any prepayment
of each Loan.
"Interest Period" shall mean (a) as to any Eurodollar
Borrowing at any time, the period commencing on the date of such Borrowing and
ending on the numerically corresponding day (or, if there is no numerically
corresponding day, on the last day) in the calendar month that is 1, 2, 3 or 6
months thereafter, or, in addition, in the case of any Eurodollar Borrowing (i)
made during the 18 day period following the Effective Date, the period
commencing on the date of such Borrowing and ending on the seventh day
thereafter or (ii) made at any time on or prior to November 28, 1995, the
period commencing on the date of such Borrowing and ending on the fourteenth
day thereafter, as the Borrower may elect, (b) as to any ABR Borrowing, the
period commencing on the date of such Borrowing and ending
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on the earliest of (i) the next succeeding March 31, June 30, September 30 or
December 31, (ii) the Maturity Date, and (iii) the date such Borrowing is
repaid or prepaid in accordance with Section 2.06 or Section 2.11 and (c) as to
any Fixed Rate Borrowing, the period commencing on the date of such Borrowing
and ending on the date specified in the Competitive Bids in which the offers to
make the Fixed Rate Loans comprising such Borrowing were extended, which shall
not be earlier than 7 days after the date of such Borrowing or later than 360
days after the date of such Borrowing; provided, however, that if any Interest
Period would end on a day other than a Business Day, such Interest Period shall
be extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless, in the case of
Eurodollar Loans only, such next succeeding Business Day would fall in the next
calendar month, in which case such Interest Period shall end on the next
preceding Business Day. Interest shall accrue from and including the first day
of an Interest Period to but excluding the last day of such Interest Period.
"LIBO Rate" shall mean, with respect to any Eurodollar
Borrowing for any Interest Period, an interest rate per annum (rounded upwards,
if necessary, to the next 1/16 of 1%) equal to the rate at which dollar
deposits approximately equal in principal amount to (i) in the case of a
Standby Borrowing, the Administrative Agent's portion of such Eurodollar
Borrowing and (ii) in the case of a Competitive Borrowing, a principal amount
that would have been the Administrative Agent's portion of such Competitive
Borrowing had such Competitive Borrowing been a Standby Borrowing, and for a
maturity comparable to such Interest Period are offered to the principal London
offices of Chemical Bank in immediately available funds in the London interbank
market at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two Business Days prior to the
commencement of such Interest Period.
"Lien" shall mean, with respect to any asset, any mortgage,
lien, pledge, charge, security interest or encumbrance of any kind in respect
of such asset. For the purposes of this Agreement, any person shall be deemed
to own subject to a Lien any asset which it has acquired or holds subject to
the interest of a vendor or lessor under any conditional sale agreement,
capital lease or other title retention agreement relating to such asset.
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"Loan" shall mean a Competitive Loan or a Standby Loan,
whether made as a Eurodollar Loan, an ABR Loan or a Fixed Rate Loan, as
permitted hereby.
"Margin Regulations" shall mean Regulations G, T, U and X of
the Board as from time to time in effect, and all official rulings and
interpretations thereunder or thereof.
"Margin Stock" shall have the meaning given such term under
Regulation U of the Board.
"Material Adverse Change" shall mean a materially adverse
change in the business, assets, operations or financial condition of the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole.
"Maturity Date" shall mean April 26, 1996.
"Mining Company" shall mean Texas Utilities Mining Company, a
Texas corporation, and its successors.
"Moody's" shall mean Xxxxx'x Investors Service, Inc.
"Multiemployer Plan" shall mean a multiemployer plan as
defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA to which the Borrower or any ERISA
Affiliate is making or accruing an obligation to make contributions, or has
within any of the preceding five plan years made or accrued an obligation to
make contributions.
"Notice of Competitive Bid Request" shall mean a notification
made pursuant to Section 2.03 in the form of Exhibit A-2.
"Operating Agreements" shall mean the (i) Operating Agreement
dated April 28, 1978, between Mining Company and Dallas Power & Light Company,
Texas Electric Service Company and Texas Power & Light Company, as amended by
the Modification of Operating Agreement dated April 20, 1979, between the same
parties and (ii) the Operating Agreement dated December 15, 1976, between Fuel
Company and Dallas Power & Light Company, Texas Electric Service Company and
Texas Power & Light Company.
"PBGC" shall mean the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation or
any entity succeeding to any or all of its functions under ERISA.
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"Permitted Encumbrances" means, as to any person at any date,
any of the following:
(a) Liens for taxes, assessments or governmental charges not
then delinquent and Liens for workers' compensation awards and similar
obligations not then delinquent and undetermined Liens or charges
incidental to construction, Liens for taxes, assessments or
governmental charges then delinquent but the validity of which is
being contested at the time by such person in good faith, Liens
incurred or created in connection with or to secure the performance of
bids, tenders, contracts (other than for the payment of money),
leases, statutory obligations, surety bonds or appeal bonds, and other
Liens of like nature incurred or created in the ordinary course of
business;
(b) Liens securing indebtedness, neither assumed nor
guaranteed by such person nor on which it customarily pays interest,
existing upon real estate or rights in or relating to real estate
acquired by such person for any substation, transmission line,
transportation line, distribution line, right of way or similar
purpose;
(c) rights reserved to or vested in any municipality or public
authority by the terms of any right, power, franchise, grant, license
or permit, or by any provision of law, to terminate such right, power,
franchise, grant, license or permit or to purchase or recapture or to
designate a purchaser of any of the property of such person;
(d) rights reserved to or vested in others to take or receive
any part of the power, gas, oil, coal, lignite or other minerals or
timber generated, developed, manufactured or produced by, or grown on,
or acquired with, any property of such person;
(e) easements, restrictions, exceptions or reservations in any
property and/or rights of way of such person for the purpose of roads,
pipe lines, substations, transmission lines, transportation lines,
distribution lines, removal of oil, gas, lignite, coal or other
minerals or timber, and other like purposes, or for the joint or
common use of real property, rights of way, facilities and/or
equipment, and defects, irregularities and deficiencies in titles of
any
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property and/or rights of way, which do not materially impair the use
of such property and/or rights of way for the purposes for which such
property and/or rights of way are held by such person;
(f) rights reserved to or vested in any municipality or public
authority to use, control or regulate any property of such person;
(g) any obligations or duties, affecting the property of such
person, to any municipality or public authority with respect to any
franchise, grant, license or permit;
(h) as of any particular time any controls, Liens,
restrictions, regulations, easements, exceptions or reservations of
any municipality or public authority applying particularly to space
satellites or nuclear fuel;
(i) any judgment Lien against such person securing a judgment
for an amount not exceeding 25% of Consolidated Shareholders' Equity,
so long as the finality of such judgment is being contested by
appropriate proceedings conducted in good faith and execution xxxxxxx
is stayed; or
(j) any Lien arising by reason of deposits with or giving of
any form of security to any Federal, state, municipal or other
governmental department, commission, board, bureau, agency or
instrumentality, domestic or foreign, for any purpose at any time as
required by law or governmental regulation as a condition to the
transaction of any business or the exercise of any privilege or
license, or to enable such person to maintain self-insurance or to
participate in any fund for liability on any insurance risks or in
connection with workers' compensation, unemployment insurance, old age
pensions or other social security or to share in the privileges or
benefits required for companies participating in such arrangements.
"person" shall mean any natural person, corporation, business
trust, joint venture, association, company, partnership or government, or any
agency or political subdivision thereof.
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"Plan" shall mean any employee pension benefit plan (other
than a Multiemployer Plan) subject to the provisions of Title IV of ERISA that
is maintained for current or former employees, or any beneficiary thereof, of
the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate.
"Register" shall have the meaning given such term in Section
8.04(d).
"Reportable Event" shall mean any reportable event as defined
in Section 4043(b) of ERISA or the regulations issued thereunder with respect
to a Plan (other than a Plan maintained by an ERISA Affiliate that is
considered an ERISA Affiliate only pursuant to subsection (m) or (o) of Code
Section 414).
"Required Lenders" shall mean, at any time, Lenders having
Commitments representing at least 66-2/3% of the Total Commitment or, for
purposes of acceleration pursuant to clause (ii) of Article VI, Lenders holding
Loans representing at least 66-2/3% of the aggregate principal amount of the
Loans outstanding.
"Responsible Officer" of any corporation shall mean any
executive officer or Financial Officer of such corporation and any other
officer or similar official thereof responsible for the administration of the
obligations of such corporation in respect of this Agreement.
"S&P" shall mean Standard and Poor's Corporation.
"SEC" shall mean the Securities and Exchange Commission.
"Significant Subsidiary" shall mean at any time a Subsidiary
of TU which as of such time satisfies the definition of a "significant
subsidiary" contained as of the date hereof in Regulation S-X of the SEC;
provided that TU Electric shall at all times be considered a Significant
Subsidiary.
"Standby Borrowing" shall mean a Borrowing consisting of
simultaneous Standby Loans from each of the Lenders.
"Standby Borrowing Request" shall mean a request made pursuant
to Section 2.04 in the form of Exhibit A-5.
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"Standby Loans" shall mean the revolving loans made pursuant
to Section 2.04. Each Standby Loan shall be a Eurodollar Standby Loan or an
ABR Loan.
"Statutory Reserves" shall mean a fraction (expressed as a
decimal), the numerator of which is the number one and the denominator of which
is the number one minus the aggregate (without duplication) of the maximum
reserve percentages (including any marginal, special, emergency or supplemental
reserves) expressed as a decimal established by the Board and any other banking
authority to which the Administrative Agent is subject for new negotiable
nonpersonal time deposits in dollars of over $100,000 with maturities
approximately equal to three months. Statutory Reserves shall be adjusted
automatically on and as of the effective date of any change in any reserve
percentage.
"Subsidiary" shall mean, with respect to any person (the
"parent"), any corporation or other entity of which securities or other
ownership interests having ordinary voting power to elect a majority of the
board of directors or other persons performing similar functions are at the
time directly or indirectly owned by such parent.
"Substantial" shall mean an amount in excess of 10% of the
consolidated assets of TU and its Consolidated Subsidiaries taken as a whole.
"Total Commitment" shall mean, at any time, the aggregate
amount of Commitments of all the Lenders, as in effect at such time.
"Transactions" shall have the meaning assigned to such term
in Section 3.02.
"TU Electric" shall mean Texas Utilities Electric Company, a
Texas corporation and a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of TU.
"TU Electric Mortgage" shall mean the Mortgage and Deed of
Trust dated as of December 1, 1983, from TU Electric to Irving Trust Company
(now The Bank of New York), Trustee, as amended or supplemented from time to
time.
"Type", when used in respect of any Loan or Borrowing, shall
refer to the Rate by reference to which interest on such Loan or on the Loans
comprising such Borrowing is determined. For purposes hereof, "Rate" shall
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include the LIBO Rate, the Alternate Base Rate and the Fixed Rate.
"Voting Shares" shall mean, as to shares of a particular
corporation, outstanding shares of stock of any class of such corporation
entitled to vote in the election of directors, excluding shares entitled so to
vote only upon the happening of some contingency.
"Wholly-Owned Subsidiary" shall mean any Consolidated
Subsidiary all the shares of common stock and other voting capital stock or
other voting ownership interests having ordinary voting power to vote in the
election of the board of directors or other governing body performing similar
functions (except directors' qualifying shares) of which are at the time
directly or indirectly owned by TU.
"Withdrawal Liability" shall mean liability to a Multiemployer
Plan as a result of a complete or partial withdrawal from such Multiemployer
Plan, as such terms are defined in Part I of Subtitle E of Title IV of ERISA.
SECTION 1.02. Terms Generally. The definitions in Section
1.01 shall apply equally to both the singular and plural forms of the terms
defined. Whenever the context may require, any pronoun shall include the
corresponding masculine, feminine and neuter forms. The words "include",
"includes" and "including" shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase
"without limitation". All references herein to Articles, Sections, Exhibits
and Schedules shall be deemed references to Articles and Sections of, and
Exhibits and Schedules to, this Agreement unless the context shall otherwise
require. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, all terms of an
accounting or financial nature shall be construed in accordance with GAAP, as
in effect from time to time; provided, however, that for purposes of
determining compliance with any covenant set forth in Article V, such terms
shall be construed in accordance with GAAP as in effect on the date hereof
applied on a basis consistent with the application used in preparing the
Borrower's audited financial statements referred to in Section 3.05.
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ARTICLE II
The Credits
SECTION 2.01. Commitments. Subject to the terms and
conditions and relying upon the representations and warranties herein set
forth, each Lender agrees, severally and not jointly, to make Standby Loans to
the Borrower, at any time and from time to time on and after the date hereof
and until the earlier of the Maturity Date and the termination of the
Commitment of such Lender, in an aggregate principal amount at any time
outstanding not to exceed such Xxxxxx's Commitment minus the amount by which
the Competitive Loans made to the Borrower and outstanding at such time shall
be deemed to have used such Commitment pursuant to Section 2.14, subject,
however, to the conditions that (i) at no time shall (A) the sum of (x) the
outstanding aggregate principal amount of all Standby Loans plus (y) the
outstanding aggregate principal amount of all Competitive Loans exceed (B) the
Total Commitment, (ii) at no time shall the outstanding aggregate principal
amount of all Standby Loans made by any Lender exceed the amount of such
Xxxxxx's Commitment and (iii) at all times, the outstanding aggregate principal
amount of all Standby Loans made by each Lender to the Borrower shall equal the
product of (A) the percentage which such Xxxxxx's Commitment represents of the
Total Commitment times (B) the outstanding aggregate principal amount of all
Standby Loans made to the Borrower.
Within the foregoing limits, the Borrower may borrow, pay or
prepay and reborrow Standby Loans hereunder, on and after the Effective Date
and prior to the Maturity Date, subject to the terms, conditions and
limitations set forth herein.
SECTION 2.02. Loans. (a) Each Standby Loan shall be made as
part of a Borrowing consisting of Loans made by the Lenders ratably in
accordance with their respective Commitments; provided, however, that the
failure of any Lender to make any Standby Loan shall not in itself relieve any
other Lender of its obligation to lend hereunder (it being understood, however,
that no Lender shall be responsible for the failure of any other Lender to make
any Loan required to be made by such other Lender). Each Competitive Loan
shall be made in accordance with the procedures set forth in Section 2.03. The
Standby Loans or Competitive Loans comprising any Borrowing shall be (i) in
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the case of Competitive Loans, in an aggregate principal amount which is an
integral multiple of $1,000,000 and not less than $5,000,000 and (ii) in the
case of Standby Loans, in an aggregate principal amount which is an integral
multiple of $5,000,000 and not less than $10,000,000 (or an aggregate principal
amount equal to the remaining balance of the available Commitments).
(b) Each Competitive Borrowing shall be comprised entirely of
Eurodollar Competitive Loans or Fixed Rate Loans, and each Standby Borrowing
shall be comprised entirely of Eurodollar Standby Loans or ABR Loans, as the
Borrower may request pursuant to Section 2.03 or 2.04, as applicable. Each
Lender may at its option make any Eurodollar Loan by causing any domestic or
foreign branch or Affiliate of such Lender to make such Loan; provided that any
exercise of such option shall not affect the obligation of the Borrower to
repay such Loan in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. Borrowings of
more than one Type may be outstanding at the same time.
(c) Subject to paragraph (d) below, each Lender shall make
each Loan to be made by it hereunder on the proposed date thereof by wire
transfer of immediately available funds to the Administrative Agent in Houston,
Texas, not later than 11:00 a.m., Houston time, and the Administrative Agent
shall by 2:00 p.m., Houston time, credit the amounts so received to the account
or accounts specified from time to time in one or more notices delivered by the
Borrower to the Administrative Agent or, if a Borrowing shall not occur on such
date because any condition precedent herein specified shall not have been met,
return the amounts so received to the respective Lenders. Competitive Loans
shall be made by the Lender or Lenders whose Competitive Bids therefor are
accepted pursuant to Section 2.03 in the amounts so accepted. Standby Loans
shall be made by the Lenders pro rata in accordance with Section 2.14. Unless
the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from a Lender prior to the
date of any Borrowing that such Lender will not make available to the
Administrative Agent such Xxxxxx's portion of such Borrowing, the
Administrative Agent may assume that such Xxxxxx has made such portion
available to the Administrative Agent on the date of such Borrowing in
accordance with this paragraph (c) and the Administrative Agent may, in
reliance upon such assumption, make available to the Borrower on such date a
corresponding amount. If and to the extent that such Lender shall not have
made such portion available to the
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Administrative Agent, such Lender and the Borrower (without waiving any claim
against such Lender for such Lender's failure to make such portion available)
severally agree to repay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such
corresponding amount together with interest thereon, for each day from the date
such amount is made available to the Borrower until the date such amount is
repaid to the Administrative Agent at (i) in the case of the Borrower, the
interest rate applicable at the time to the Loans comprising such Borrowing and
(ii) in the case of such Lender, the Federal Funds Effective Rate. If such
Lender shall repay to the Administrative Agent such corresponding amount, such
amount shall constitute such Lender's Loan as part of such Borrowing for
purposes of this Agreement.
(d) The Borrower may refinance all or any part of any Standby
Borrowing with a Standby Borrowing of the same or a different Type, subject to
the conditions and limitations set forth in this Agreement. Any Standby
Borrowing or part thereof so refinanced shall be deemed to be repaid or prepaid
in accordance with Section 2.06 or 2.11, as applicable, with the proceeds of a
new Standby Borrowing, and the proceeds of the new Standby Borrowing, to the
extent they do not exceed the principal amount of the Standby Borrowing being
refinanced, shall not be paid by the Lenders to the Administrative Agent or by
the Administrative Agent to the Borrower pursuant to paragraph (c) above.
SECTION 2.03. Competitive Bid Procedure. (a) In order to
request Competitive Bids, the Borrower shall hand deliver or telecopy to the
CAF Agent a duly completed Competitive Bid Request in the form of Exhibit A-1
hereto, to be received by the CAF Agent (i) in the case of a Eurodollar
Competitive Borrowing, not later than 11:00 a.m., New York City time, four
Business Days before a proposed Competitive Borrowing and (ii) in the case of a
Fixed Rate Borrowing, not later than 11:00 a.m., New York City time, one
Business Day before a proposed Competitive Borrowing. No ABR Loan shall be
requested in, or made pursuant to, a Competitive Bid Request. A Competitive
Bid Request that does not conform substantially to the format of Exhibit A-1
may be rejected in the CAF Agent's sole discretion, and the CAF Agent shall
promptly notify the Borrower of such rejection by telecopy. Each Competitive
Bid Request shall refer to this Agreement and specify (w) whether the Borrowing
then being requested is to be a Eurodollar Borrowing or a Fixed Rate Borrowing,
(x) the date of such Borrowing (which shall be a Business Day) and the
aggregate
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principal amount thereof which shall be in a minimum principal amount of
$5,000,000 and in an integral multiple of $1,000,000, and (y) the Interest
Period with respect thereto (which may not end after the Maturity Date).
Promptly after its receipt of a Competitive Bid Request that is not rejected as
aforesaid, the CAF Agent shall telecopy to each Lender a Notice of Competitive
Bid Request inviting the Lenders to bid, on the terms and conditions of this
Agreement, to make Competitive Loans.
(b) Each Lender invited to bid may, in its sole discretion,
make one or more Competitive Bids to the Borrower responsive to the Borrower's
Competitive Bid Request. Each Competitive Bid by a Lender must be received by
the CAF Agent by telecopy, in the form of Exhibit A-3 hereto, (i) in the case
of a Eurodollar Competitive Borrowing, not later than 9:30 a.m., New York City
time, three Business Days before a proposed Competitive Borrowing and (ii) in
the case of a Fixed Rate Borrowing, not later than 9:30 a.m., New York City
time, on the day of a proposed Competitive Borrowing. Multiple bids will be
accepted by the CAF Agent. Competitive Bids that do not conform substantially
to the format of Exhibit A-3 may be rejected by the CAF Agent, and the CAF
Agent shall notify the Lender making such nonconforming bid of such rejection
as soon as practicable. Each Competitive Bid shall refer to this Agreement and
specify (x) the principal amount (which shall be in a minimum principal amount
of $5,000,000 and in an integral multiple of $1,000,000 and which may equal the
entire principal amount of the Competitive Borrowing requested by the Borrower)
of the Competitive Loan or Loans that the Lender is willing to make to the
Borrower, (y) the Competitive Bid Rate or Rates at which the Lender is prepared
to make the Competitive Loan or Loans and (z) the Interest Period and the last
day thereof. If any Lender invited to bid shall elect not to make a
Competitive Bid, such Lender shall so notify the CAF Agent by telecopy (I) in
the case of Eurodollar Competitive Loans, not later than 9:30 a.m., New York
City time, three Business Days before a proposed Competitive Borrowing, and
(II) in the case of Fixed Rate Loans, not later than 9:30 a.m., New York City
time, on the day of a proposed Competitive Borrowing; provided, however, that
failure by any Lender to give such notice shall not cause such Lender to be
obligated to make any Competitive Loan as part of such Competitive Borrowing.
A Competitive Bid submitted by a Lender pursuant to this paragraph (b) shall be
irrevocable.
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(c) The CAF Agent shall notify the Borrower by telecopy, of
all the Competitive Bids made, the Competitive Bid Rate and the principal
amount of each Competitive Loan in respect of which such Competitive Bid was
made and the identity of the Lender that made each such bid by (i) in the case
of a Eurodollar Competitive Borrowing, not later than 10:00 a.m., New York City
time, three Business Days before a proposed Competitive Borrowing and (ii) in
the case of a Fixed Rate Borrowing, not later than 10:00 a.m., New York City
time, on the day of a proposed Competitive Borrowing. The CAF Agent shall send
a copy of all Competitive Bids to the Borrower for its records as soon as
practicable after the completion of the bidding process set forth in this
Section 2.03.
(d) The Borrower may in its sole and absolute discretion,
subject only to the provisions of this paragraph (d), accept or reject any or
all Competitive Bids referred to in paragraph (c) above. The Borrower shall
notify the CAF Agent by telephone, confirmed by telecopy in the form of a
Competitive Bid Accept/Reject Letter, whether and to what extent it has decided
to accept or reject any of or all the bids referred to in paragraph (c) above
by (i) in the case of a Eurodollar Competitive Borrowing, not later than 10:30
a.m., New York City time, three Business Days before a proposed Competitive
Borrowing and (ii) in the case of a Fixed Rate Borrowing, not later than 10:30
a.m., New York City time, on the day of a proposed Competitive Borrowing;
provided, however, that (i) the failure by the Borrower to give such notice
shall be deemed to be a rejection of all the bids referred to in paragraph (c)
above, (ii) the Borrower shall not accept a bid made at a particular
Competitive Bid Rate if it has decided to reject a bid made at a lower
Competitive Bid Rate, (iii) the aggregate amount of the Competitive Bids
accepted by the Borrower shall not exceed the principal amount specified in the
Competitive Bid Request, (iv) if the Borrower shall accept a bid or bids made
at a particular Competitive Bid Rate but the amount of such bid or bids shall
cause the total amount of bids to be accepted by the Borrower to exceed the
amount specified in the Competitive Bid Request, then the Borrower shall accept
a portion of such bid or bids in an amount equal to the amount specified in the
Competitive Bid Request less the amount of all other Competitive Bids accepted
with respect to such Competitive Bid Request, which acceptance, in the case of
multiple bids at such Competitive Bid Rate, shall be made pro rata in
accordance with the amount of each such bid at such
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Competitive Bid Rate, and (v) except pursuant to clause (iv) above, no bid
shall be accepted for a Competitive Loan unless such Competitive Loan is in a
minimum principal amount of $5,000,000 and an integral multiple of $1,000,000;
provided further, however, that if a Competitive Loan must be in an amount less
than $5,000,000 because of the provisions of clause (iv) above, such
Competitive Loan may be for a minimum of $1,000,000 or any integral multiple
thereof, and in calculating the pro rata allocation of acceptances of portions
of multiple bids at a particular Competitive Bid Rate pursuant to clause (iv)
the amounts shall be rounded to integral multiples of $1,000,000 in a manner
which shall be in the discretion of the Borrower. A notice given by the
Borrower pursuant to this paragraph (d) shall be irrevocable.
(e) The CAF Agent shall promptly notify each bidding Lender
(and the Administrative Agent) by telecopy whether or not its Competitive Bid
has been accepted (and if so, in what amount and at what Competitive Bid Rate),
and each successful bidder will thereupon become bound, subject to the other
applicable conditions hereof, to make the Competitive Loan in respect of which
its bid has been accepted.
(f) No Competitive Borrowing shall be requested or made
hereunder if after giving effect thereto any of the conditions set forth in
paragraph (i) or (ii) of Section 2.01 would not be met.
(g) If either the Administrative Agent or CAF Agent shall
elect to submit a Competitive Bid in its capacity as a Lender, such party shall
submit such bid directly to the Borrower one quarter of an hour earlier than
the latest time at which the other Lenders are required to submit their bids to
the CAF Agent pursuant to paragraph (b) above.
(h) The Borrower and the CAF Agent shall deliver to the
Administrative Agent by telecopy copies of all notices delivered by it pursuant
to this Section 2.03 at the same times such notices are delivered hereunder.
All notices required by this Section 2.03 shall be given in accordance with
Section 8.01.
(i) A Competitive Bid Request shall not be made within five
Business Days after the date of any previous
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Competitive Bid which was accepted by the Borrower pursuant to paragraph (d)
above.
SECTION 2.04. Standby Borrowing Procedure. In order to
request a Standby Borrowing, the Borrower shall hand deliver or telecopy to the
Administrative Agent a duly completed Standby Borrowing Request in the form of
Exhibit A-5 (a) in the case of a Eurodollar Standby Borrowing, not later than
10:00 a.m., Houston time, three Business Days before such Borrowing, and (b) in
the case of an ABR Borrowing, not later than 10:00 a.m., Houston time, on the
day of such Borrowing. No Fixed Rate Loan shall be requested in or made
pursuant to a Standby Borrowing Request. Such notice shall be irrevocable and
shall in each case specify (i) whether the Borrowing then being requested is to
be a Eurodollar Standby Borrowing or an ABR Borrowing; (ii) the date of such
Standby Borrowing (which shall be a Business Day) and the amount thereof; and
(iii) if such Borrowing is to be a Eurodollar Standby Borrowing, the Interest
Period with respect thereto, which shall not end after the Maturity Date. If
no election as to the Type of Standby Borrowing is specified in any such
notice, then the requested Standby Borrowing shall be an ABR Borrowing. If no
Interest Period with respect to any Eurodollar Standby Borrowing is specified
in any such notice, then the Borrower shall be deemed to have selected an
Interest Period of one month's duration. If the Borrower shall not have given
notice in accordance with this Section 2.04 of its election to refinance a
Standby Borrowing prior to the end of the Interest Period in effect for such
Borrowing, then the Borrower shall (unless such Borrowing is repaid at the end
of such Interest Period) be deemed to have given notice of an election to
refinance such Borrowing with an ABR Borrowing. Notwithstanding any other
provision of this Agreement to the contrary, no Standby Borrowing shall be
requested if the Interest Period with respect thereto would end after the
Maturity Date. The Administrative Agent shall promptly advise the Lenders of
any notice given pursuant to this Section 2.04 and of each Lender's portion of
the requested Borrowing.
SECTION 2.05. Fees. (a) TU agrees to pay to each Lender,
through the Administrative Agent, on each March 31, June 30, September 30 and
December 31 (with the first payment being due on December 31, 1995) and on each
date on which the Commitment of such Lender shall be terminated as provided
herein, a facility fee (a "Facility Fee"), at a rate per annum equal to the
Facility Fee
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Percentage from time to time in effect on the amount of the Commitment of such
Lender, whether used or unused, during the preceding quarter (or other period
commencing on the Effective Date or ending with the Maturity Date or any date
on which the Commitment of such Lender shall be terminated). All Facility Fees
shall be computed on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed in a year
of 365 or 366 days, as the case may be. The Facility Fee due to each Lender
shall commence to accrue on the Effective Date, and shall cease to accrue on
the earlier of the Maturity Date and the termination of the Commitment of such
Lender as provided herein.
(b) TU agrees to pay the Administrative Agent, for its own
account, the fees provided for in the Commitment Letter (the "Agent Fees").
(c) The Borrower agrees to pay the CAF Agent, for its own
account, the Auction Fees applicable to the Borrower.
(d) All Fees shall be paid on the dates due, in immediately
available funds, to the Administrative Agent for distribution, if and as
appropriate, among the Lenders or to the CAF Agent. Once paid, none of the
Fees shall be refundable under any circumstances.
SECTION 2.06. Repayment of Loans; Evidence of Indebtedness.
(a) The outstanding principal balance of each Loan shall be due and payable on
the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto and on the Maturity
Date.
(b) Each Lender shall maintain in accordance with its usual
practice an account or accounts evidencing the indebtedness to such Lender
resulting from each Loan made by such Lender from time to time, including the
amounts of principal and interest payable and paid to such Lender from time to
time under this Agreement.
(c) The Administrative Agent shall maintain accounts in which
it will record (i) the amount of each Loan made hereunder, the Type of each
Loan made and the Interest Period applicable thereto, (ii) the amount of any
principal or interest due and payable or to become due and payable from the
Borrower to each Lender hereunder and (iii) the amount of any sum received by
the Administrative Agent hereunder from the Borrower and each Lender's share
thereof.
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(d) The entries made in the accounts maintained pursuant to
paragraphs (b) and (c) of this Section 2.06 shall, to the extent permitted by
applicable law, be prima facie evidence of the existence and amounts of the
obligations therein recorded; provided, however, that the failure of any Lender
or the Administrative Agent to maintain such accounts or any error therein
shall not in any manner affect the obligations of the Borrower to repay the
Loans in accordance with their terms.
SECTION 2.07. Interest on Loans. (a) Subject to the
provisions of Section 2.08, the Loans comprising each Eurodollar Borrowing
shall bear interest (computed on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed
over a year of 360 days) at a rate per annum equal to (i) in the case of each
Eurodollar Standby Loan, the LIBO Rate for the Interest Period in effect for
such Borrowing plus the Applicable Margin from time to time in effect and (ii)
in the case of each Eurodollar Competitive Loan, the LIBO Rate for the Interest
Period in effect for such Borrowing plus the Competitive Bid Margin offered by
the Lender making such Loan and accepted by the Borrower pursuant to Section
2.03.
(b) Subject to the provisions of Section 2.08, the Loans
comprising each ABR Borrowing shall bear interest (computed on the basis of the
actual number of days elapsed over a year of 365 or 366 days, as the case may
be, for periods during which the Alternate Base Rate is determined by reference
to the Prime Rate and 360 days for other periods) at a rate per annum equal to
the Alternate Base Rate.
(c) Subject to the provisions of Section 2.08, each Fixed
Rate Loan shall bear interest at a rate per annum (computed on the basis of the
actual number of days elapsed over a year of 360 days) equal to the fixed rate
of interest offered by the Lender making such Loan and accepted by the Borrower
pursuant to Section 2.03.
(d) Interest on each Loan shall be payable on each Interest
Payment Date applicable to such Loan except as otherwise provided in this
Agreement. The applicable LIBO Rate or Alternate Base Rate for each Interest
Period or day within an Interest Period, as the case may be, shall be
determined by Chemical Bank, and such determination shall be conclusive absent
manifest error; provided that Chemical Bank, shall, upon request, provide to
the Borrower a
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certificate setting forth in reasonable detail the basis for such
determination.
SECTION 2.08. Default Interest. If the Borrower shall
default in the payment of the principal of or interest on any Loan or any other
amount becoming due hereunder, whether by scheduled maturity, notice of
prepayment, acceleration or otherwise, the Borrower shall on demand from time
to time from the Administrative Agents pay interest, to the extent permitted by
law, on such defaulted amount up to (but not including) the date of actual
payment (after as well as before judgment) at a rate per annum (computed as
provided in Section 2.07(b)) equal to the Alternate Base Rate plus 1%.
SECTION 2.09. Alternate Rate of Interest. In the event, and
on each occasion, that on the day two Business Days prior to the commencement
of any Interest Period for a Eurodollar Borrowing the Administrative Agent
shall have determined (i) that dollar deposits in the principal amounts of the
Eurodollar Loans comprising such Borrowing are not generally available in the
London interbank market or (ii) that reasonable means do not exist for
ascertaining the LIBO Rate, the Administrative Agent shall, as soon as
practicable thereafter, give telecopy notice of such determination to the
Borrower and the Lenders. In the event of any such determination under clauses
(i) or (ii) above, until the Administrative Agent shall have advised the
Borrower and the Lenders that the circumstances giving rise to such notice no
longer exist, (x) any request by the Borrower for a Eurodollar Competitive
Borrowing pursuant to Section 2.03 shall be of no force and effect and shall be
denied by the Administrative Agent and (y) any request by the Borrower for a
Eurodollar Standby Borrowing pursuant to Section 2.04 shall be deemed to be a
request for an ABR Borrowing. In the event the Required Lenders notify the
Administrative Agent that the rates at which dollar deposits are being offered
will not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders of making or
maintaining Eurodollar Loans during such Interest Period, the Administrative
Agent shall notify the Borrower of such notice and until the Required Lenders
shall have advised the Administrative Agent that the circumstances giving rise
to such notice no longer exist, any request by the Borrower for a Eurodollar
Standby Borrowing shall be deemed a request for an ABR Borrowing. Each
determination by the Administrative Agent hereunder shall be made in good faith
and shall be conclusive absent manifest error; provided that the Administrative
Agent,
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shall, upon request, provide to the Borrower a certificate setting forth in
reasonable detail the basis for such determination.
SECTION 2.10. Termination and Reduction of Commitments. (a)
The Commitments shall be automatically terminated on the Maturity Date.
(b) Upon at least three Business Days' prior irrevocable
written notice to the Administrative Agent, the Borrower, may at any time in
whole permanently terminate, or from time to time in part permanently reduce,
the Total Commitment; provided, however, that (i) each partial reduction of the
Total Commitment shall be in an integral multiple of $5,000,000 and in a
minimum principal amount of $5,000,000 and (ii) no such termination or
reduction shall be made which would reduce the Total Commitment to an amount
(A) less than the aggregate outstanding principal amount of all Competitive
Loans or (B) less than $50,000,000, unless the result of such termination or
reduction referred to in this clause (B) is to reduce the Total Commitment to
$0.
(c) Each reduction in the Total Commitment hereunder shall be
made ratably among the Lenders in accordance with their respective Commitments.
The Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of the
Lenders, on the date of each termination or reduction of the Total Commitment,
the Facility Fees on the amount of the Commitments so terminated or reduced
accrued through the date of such termination or reduction.
SECTION 2.11. Prepayment. (a) The Borrower shall have the
right at any time and from time to time to prepay any Standby Borrowing, in
whole or in part, upon giving telecopy notice (or telephone notice promptly
confirmed by telecopy) to the Administrative Agent: (i) before 10:00 a.m.,
Houston time, three Business Days prior to prepayment, in the case of
Eurodollar Loans, and (ii) before 10:00 a.m., Houston time, one Business Day
prior to prepayment, in the case of ABR Loans; provided, however, that each
partial prepayment shall be in an amount which is an integral multiple of
$5,000,000 and not less than $5,000,000. No prepayment may be made in respect
of any Competitive Borrowing.
(b) On the date of any termination or reduction of the
Commitments pursuant to Section 2.10, the Borrower shall pay or prepay so much
of the Standby Borrowings as
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shall be necessary in order that the aggregate principal amount of the
Competitive Loans and Standby Loans outstanding will not exceed the Total
Commitment, after giving effect to such termination or reduction.
(c) Each notice of prepayment shall specify the prepayment
date and the principal amount of each Borrowing (or portion thereof) to be
prepaid, shall be irrevocable and shall commit the Borrower to prepay such
Borrowing (or portion thereof) by the amount stated therein on the date stated
therein. All prepayments under this Section 2.11 shall be subject to Section
8.05 but otherwise without premium or penalty. All prepayments under this
Section 2.11 shall be accompanied by accrued interest on the principal amount
being prepaid to the date of payment.
SECTION 2.12. Reserve Requirements; Change in Circumstances.
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision herein, if after the date of this
Agreement any change in applicable law or regulation or in the interpretation
or administration thereof by any Governmental Authority charged with the
interpretation or administration thereof (whether or not having the force of
law) shall change the basis of taxation of payments to any Lender hereunder
(except for changes in respect of taxes on the overall net income of such
Lender or its lending office imposed by the jurisdiction in which such Lender's
principal executive office or lending office is located), or shall result in
the imposition, modification or applicability of any reserve, special deposit
or similar requirement against assets of, deposits with or for the account of
or credit extended by any Lender, or shall result in the imposition on any
Lender or the London interbank market of any other condition affecting this
Agreement, such Lender Commitment or any Eurodollar Loan or Fixed Rate Loan
made by such Lender, and the result of any of the foregoing shall be to
increase the cost to such Lender of making or maintaining any Eurodollar Loan
or Fixed Rate Loan or to reduce the amount of any sum received or receivable by
such Lender hereunder (whether of principal, interest or otherwise) by an
amount deemed by such Lender to be material, then the Borrower shall, upon
receipt of the notice and certificate provided for in Section 2.12(c), promptly
pay to such Lender such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such
Lender for such additional costs incurred or reduction suffered.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Lender shall be entitled to request
compensation under this paragraph with respect to any Competitive Loan if the
change giving rise to such
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request was applicable to such Lender at the time of submission of the
Competitive Bid pursuant to which such Competitive Loan was made.
(b) If any Lender shall have determined that the adoption of
any law, rule, regulation or guideline arising out of the July 1988 report of
the Basle Committee on Banking Regulations and Supervisory Practices entitled
"International Convergence of Capital Measurement and Capital Standards", or
the adoption after the date hereof of any other law, rule, regulation or
guideline regarding capital adequacy, or any change in any of the foregoing or
in the interpretation or administration of any of the foregoing by any
Governmental Authority, central bank or comparable agency charged with the
interpretation or administration thereof, or compliance by any Lender (or any
lending office of such Lender) or any lender holding company with any request
or directive regarding capital adequacy (whether or not having the force of
law) of any such authority, central bank or comparable agency, has or would
have the effect of reducing the rate of return on such Lender's capital or on
the capital of such Lender's holding company, if any, as a consequence of this
Agreement, such Xxxxxx's Commitment or the Loans made by such Lender pursuant
hereto to a level below that which such Lender or such Lender's holding company
could have achieved but for such adoption, change or compliance (taking into
consideration such Xxxxxx's policies and the policies of such Xxxxxx's holding
company with respect to capital adequacy) by an amount deemed by such Lender to
be material, then from time to time such additional amount or amounts as will
compensate such Lender for any such reduction suffered will be paid by the
Borrower to such Lender. It is acknowledged that this Agreement is being
entered into by the Lenders on the understanding that the Lenders will not be
required to maintain capital against their Commitments under currently
applicable laws, regulations and regulatory guidelines. In the event the
Lenders shall otherwise determine that such understanding is incorrect, it is
agreed that the Lenders will be entitled to make claims under this paragraph
(b) based upon market requirements prevailing on the date hereof for
commitments under comparable credit facilities against which capital is
required to be maintained.
(c) A certificate of each Lender setting forth such amount or
amounts as shall be necessary to compensate such Lender or its holding company
as specified in paragraph (a) or (b) above, as the case may be, and
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containing an explanation in reasonable detail of the manner in which such
amount or amounts shall have been determined, shall be delivered to the
Borrower and shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The Borrower shall pay
each Lender the amount shown as due on any such certificate delivered by it
within 10 days after its receipt of the same. Each Lender shall give prompt
notice to the Borrower of any event of which it has knowledge, occurring after
the date hereof, that it has determined will require compensation by the
Borrower pursuant to this Section; provided, however, that failure by such
Lender to give such notice shall not constitute a waiver of such Xxxxxx's right
to demand compensation hereunder.
(d) Failure on the part of any Lender to demand compensation
for any increased costs or reduction in amounts received or receivable or
reduction in return on capital with respect to any period shall not constitute
a waiver of such Lender's right to demand compensation with respect to such
period or any other period; provided, however, that no Lender shall be entitled
to compensation under this Section 2.12 for any costs incurred or reductions
suffered with respect to any date unless it shall have notified the Borrower
that it will demand compensation for such costs or reductions under paragraph
(c) above not more than 90 days after the later of (i) such date and (ii) the
date on which it shall have become aware of such costs or reductions. The
protection of this Section shall be available to each Lender regardless of any
possible contention of the invalidity or inapplicability of the law, rule,
regulation, guideline or other change or condition which shall have occurred or
been imposed.
(e) Each Lender agrees that it will designate a different
lending office if such designation will avoid the need for, or reduce the
amount of, such compensation and will not, in the reasonable judgment of such
Lender, be disadvantageous to such Lender.
SECTION 2.13. Change in Legality. (a) Notwithstanding any
other provision herein, if any change in any law or regulation or in the
interpretation thereof by any Governmental Authority charged with the
administration or interpretation thereof shall make it unlawful for any Lender
to make or maintain any, Eurodollar Loan or to give effect to its obligations
as contemplated hereby with
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respect to any Eurodollar Loan, then, by written notice to the Borrower and to
the Agents, such Lender may:
(i) declare that Eurodollar Loans will not thereafter be made
by such Lender hereunder, whereupon such Lender shall not submit a
Competitive Bid in response to a request for Eurodollar Competitive
Loans and any request for a Eurodollar Standby Borrowing shall, as to
such Lender only, be deemed a request for an ABR Loan unless such
declaration shall be subsequently withdrawn (any Lender delivering
such a declaration hereby agreeing to withdraw such declaration
promptly upon determining that such event of illegality no longer
exists); and
(ii) require that all outstanding Eurodollar Loans made by it
be converted to ABR Loans, in which event all such Eurodollar Loans
shall be automatically converted to ABR Loans as of the effective date
of such notice as provided in paragraph (b) below.
In the event any Lender shall exercise its rights under (i) or (ii) above, all
payments and prepayments of principal which would otherwise have been applied
to repay the Eurodollar Loans that would have been made by such Lender or the
converted Eurodollar Loans of such Lender shall instead be applied to repay the
ABR Loans made by such Lender in lieu of, or resulting from the conversion of,
such Eurodollar Loans.
(b) For purposes of this Section 2.13, a notice by any Lender
shall be effective as to each Eurodollar Loan, if lawful, on the last day of
the Interest Period currently applicable to such Eurodollar Loan; in all other
cases such notice shall be effective on the date of receipt.
SECTION 2.14. Pro Rata Treatment. Except as required under
Sections 2.13 and 2.18, each Standby Borrowing, each payment or prepayment of
principal of any Standby Borrowing, each payment of interest on the Standby
Loans, each payment of the Facility Fees, each reduction of the Commitments and
each refinancing or conversion of any Borrowing with a Standby Borrowing of any
Type, shall be allocated pro rata among the Lenders in accordance with their
respective Commitments (or, if such Commitments shall have expired or been
terminated, in accordance with the respective principal amounts of their
outstanding Standby Loans). Each payment of principal of any Competitive
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Borrowing shall be allocated pro rata among the Lenders participating in such
Borrowing in accordance with the respective principal amounts of their
outstanding Competitive Loans comprising such Borrowing. Each payment of
interest on any Competitive Borrowing shall be allocated pro rata among the
Lenders participating in such Borrowing in accordance with the respective
amounts of accrued and unpaid interest on their outstanding Competitive Loans
comprising such Borrowing. For purposes of determining the available
Commitments of the Lenders at any time, each outstanding Competitive Borrowing
shall be deemed to have utilized the Commitments of the Lenders (including
those Lenders which shall not have made Loans as part of such Competitive
Borrowing) pro rata in accordance with such respective Commitments. Each
Lender agrees that in computing such Xxxxxx's portion of any Borrowing to be
made hereunder, the Administrative Agent may, in its discretion, round each
Lender's percentage of such Borrowing to the next higher or lower whole dollar
amount.
SECTION 2.15. Sharing of Setoffs. Each Lender agrees that if
it shall, through the exercise of a right of banker's lien, setoff or
counterclaim, or pursuant to a secured claim under Section 506 of Title 11 of
the United States Code or other security or interest arising from, or in lieu
of, such secured claim, received by such Lender under any applicable
bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law or otherwise, or by any other
means, obtain payment (voluntary or involuntary) in respect of any Standby Loan
or Loans as a result of which the unpaid principal portion of its Standby Loans
shall be proportionately less than the unpaid principal portion of the Standby
Loans of any other Lender, it shall be deemed simultaneously to have purchased
from such other Lender at face value, and shall promptly pay to such other
Lender the purchase price for, a participation in the Standby Loans of such
other Lender, so that the aggregate unpaid principal amount of the Standby
Loans and participations in the Standby Loans held by each Lender shall be in
the same proportion to the aggregate unpaid principal amount of all Standby
Loans then outstanding as the principal amount of its Standby Loans prior to
such exercise of banker's lien, setoff or counterclaim or other event was to
the principal amount of all Standby Loans outstanding prior to such exercise of
banker's lien, setoff or counterclaim or other event; provided, however, that,
if any such purchase or purchases or adjustments shall be made pursuant to this
Section 2.15 and the payment giving rise thereto shall thereafter be recovered,
such purchase or
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purchases or adjustments shall be rescinded to the extent of such recovery and
the purchase price or prices or adjustment restored without interest. The
Borrower expressly consents to the foregoing arrangements and agrees that any
Lender holding a participation in a Standby Loan deemed to have been so
purchased may exercise any and all rights of banker's lien, setoff or
counterclaim with respect to any and all moneys owing by the Borrower to such
Lender by reason thereof as fully as if such Xxxxxx had made a Standby Loan in
the amount of such participation.
SECTION 2.16. Payments. (a) The Borrower shall make each
payment (including principal of or interest on any Borrowing or any Fees or
other amounts) hereunder from an account in the United States not later than
10:00 a.m., Houston time, on the date when due in dollars to the Administrative
Agent at its offices at 0000 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, 0xx xxxxx, XX 00, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxx
00000, in immediately available funds.
(b) Whenever any payment (including principal of or interest
on any Borrowing or any Fees or other amounts) hereunder shall become due, or
otherwise would occur, on a day that is not a Business Day, such payment may be
made on the next succeeding Business Day, and such extension of time shall in
such case be included in the computation of interest or Fees, if applicable.
SECTION 2.17. Taxes. (a) Any and all payments of principal
and interest on any Borrowings, or of any Fees or indemnity or expense
reimbursements by the Borrower hereunder shall be made, in accordance with
Section 2.16, free and clear of and without deduction for any and all current
or future United States Federal, state and local taxes, levies, imposts,
deductions, charges or withholdings, and all liabilities with respect thereto,
excluding (i) income taxes imposed on the net income of the Administrative
Agent, the CAF Agent or any Lender (or any transferee or assignee thereof,
including a participation holder (any such entity a "Transferee")) and (ii)
franchise taxes imposed on the net income of the Administrative Agent, the CAF
Agent or any Lender (or Transferee), in each case by the jurisdiction under the
laws of which the Administrative Agent, the CAF Agent or such Lender (or
Transferee) is organized or doing business, or any political subdivision
thereof (all such nonexcluded taxes, levies, imposts, deductions, charges,
withholdings and liabilities, collectively or individually, "Taxes"). If the
Borrower
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shall be required to deduct any Taxes from or in respect of any sum payable
hereunder to any Lender (or any Transferee) or the Agents, (i) the sum payable
shall be increased by the amount (an "additional amount") necessary so that
after taking all required deductions (including deductions applicable to
additional sums payable under this Section 2.17) such Lender (or Transferee) or
Agent (as the case may be) shall receive an amount equal to the sum it would
have received had no such deductions been made, (ii) the Borrower shall make
such deductions and (iii) the Borrower shall pay the full amount deducted to
the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law.
(b) In addition, the Borrower shall pay to the relevant
United States Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law any
current or future stamp or documentary taxes or any other excise or property
taxes, charges or similar levies that arise from any payment made hereunder or
from the execution, delivery or registration of, or otherwise with respect to,
this Agreement or the Commitment Letter ("Other Taxes").
(c) The Borrower shall indemnify each Lender (or Transferee
thereof) and each Agent for the full amount of Taxes and Other Taxes paid by
such Lender (or Transferee) or such Agent, as the case may be, and any
liability (including penalties, interest and expenses (including reasonable
attorneys fees and expenses)) arising therefrom or with respect thereto,
whether or not such Taxes or Other Taxes were correctly or legally asserted by
the relevant United States Governmental Authority. A certificate setting forth
and containing an explanation in reasonable detail of the manner in which such
amount shall have been determined and the amount of such payment or liability
prepared by a Lender, the CAF Agent, or the Administrative Agent on their
behalf, absent manifest error, shall be final, conclusive and binding for all
purposes. Such indemnification shall be made within 30 days after the date the
Lender (or Transferee) or any Agent, as the case may be, makes written demand
therefor.
(d) If a Lender (or Transferee) or any Agent shall become
aware that it is entitled to claim a refund from a United States Governmental
Authority in respect of Taxes or Other Taxes as to which it has been
indemnified by the Borrower, or with respect to which the Borrower has paid
additional amounts, pursuant to this Section 2.17, it shall promptly notify the
Borrower of the availability of such
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refund claim and shall, within 30 days after receipt of a request by the
Borrower, make a claim to such United States Governmental Authority for such
refund at the Borrower's expense. If a Lender (or Transferee) or any Agent
receives a refund (including pursuant to a claim for refund made pursuant to
the preceding sentence) in respect of any Taxes or Other Taxes as to which it
has been indemnified by the Borrower or with respect to which the Borrower had
paid additional amounts pursuant to this Section 2.17, it shall within 30 days
from the date of such receipt pay over such refund to the Borrower (but only to
the extent of indemnity payments made, or additional amounts paid, by the
Borrower under this Section 2.17 with respect to the Taxes or Other Taxes
giving rise to such refund), net of all out-of-pocket expenses of such Lender
(or Transferee) or such Agent and without interest (other than interest paid by
the relevant United States Governmental Authority with respect to such refund);
provided, however, that the Borrower, upon the request of such Lender (or
Transferee) or such Agent, agrees to repay the amount paid over to the Borrower
(plus penalties, interest or other charges) to such Lender (or Transferee) or
such Agent in the event such Lender (or Transferee) or such Agent is required
to repay such refund to such United States Governmental Authority.
(e) As soon as practicable, but in any event within 30 days,
after the date of any payment of Taxes or Other Taxes by the Borrower to the
relevant United States Governmental Authority, the Borrower will deliver to the
Administrative Agent, at its address referred to in Section 8.01, the original
or a certified copy of a receipt issued by such United States Governmental
Authority evidencing payment thereof.
(f) Without prejudice to the survival of any other agreement
contained herein, the agreements and obligations contained in this Section 2.17
shall survive the payment in full of the principal of and interest on all Loans
made hereunder.
(g) Each Lender or Agent (or Transferee) that is organized
under the laws of a jurisdiction other than the United States, any state
thereof or the District of Columbia (a "Non-U.S. Lender" or "Non-U.S. Agent",
as applicable) shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent two
copies of either United States Internal Revenue Service Form 1001 or Form 4224,
properly completed and duly executed by such Non-U.S. Lender claiming complete
exemption from, or
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reduced rate of, United States Federal withholding tax on payments by the
Borrower under this Agreement. Such forms shall be delivered by each Non-U.S.
Lender on or before the date it becomes a party to this Agreement (or, in the
case of a Transferee that is a participation holder, on or before the date such
participation holder becomes a Transferee hereunder) and on or before the date,
if any, such Non-U.S. Lender changes its applicable lending office by
designating a different lending office (a "New Lending Office"). In addition,
each Non-U.S. Lender shall deliver such forms promptly upon the obsolescence or
invalidity of any form previously delivered by such Non-U.S. Lender.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 2.17(g), a Non-U.S. Lender
shall not be required to deliver any form pursuant to this Section 2.17(g) that
such Non-U.S. Lender is not legally able to deliver.
(h) The Borrower shall not be required to indemnify any
Non-U.S. Lender or Non-U.S. Agent (including any Transferee), or to pay any
additional amounts to any Non-U.S. Lender or Non-U.S. Agent (including any
Transferee), in respect of United States Federal, state or local withholding
tax pursuant to paragraph (a) or (c) above to the extent that (i) the
obligation to withhold amounts with respect to United States Federal, state or
local withholding tax existed on the date such Non-U.S. Lender became a party
to this Agreement (or, in the case of a Transferee that is a participation
holder, on the date such participation holder became a Transferee hereunder)
or, with respect to payments to a New Lending Office, the date such Non-U.S.
Lender designated such New Lending Office with respect to a Loan; provided,
however, that this clause (i) shall not apply to any Transferee or New Lending
Office that becomes a Transferee or New Lending Office as a result of an
assignment, participation, transfer or designation made at the request of the
Borrower; and provided further, however, that this clause (i) shall not apply
to the extent the indemnity payment or additional amounts any Transferee, or
Lender (or Transferee) through a New Lending Office, would be entitled to
receive (without regard to this clause (i)) do not exceed the indemnity payment
or additional amounts that the person making the assignment, participation or
transfer to such Transferee, or Lender (or Transferee) making the designation
of such New Lending office, would have been entitled to receive in the absence
of such assignment, participation, transfer or designation or (ii) the
obligation to pay such additional amounts or such indemnity payments would not
have arisen but
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for a failure by such Non-U.S. Lender (including any Transferee) to comply with
the provisions of paragraph (g) above and (i) below.
(i) Any Lender (or Transferee) claiming any indemnity payment
or additional amounts payable pursuant to this Section 2.17 shall use
reasonable efforts (consistent with legal and regulatory restrictions) to file
any certificate or document reasonably requested in writing by the Borrower or
to change the jurisdiction of its applicable lending office if the making of
such a filing or change would avoid the need for or reduce the amount of any
such indemnity payment or additional amounts that may thereafter accrue and
would not, in the good faith determination of such Lender (or Transferee), be
otherwise disadvantageous to such Lender (or Transferee).
(j) Nothing contained in this Section 2.17 shall require any
Lender (or Transferee) or any Agent to make available to the Borrower any of
its tax returns (or any other information) that it deems to be confidential or
proprietary.
SECTION 2.18. Assignment of Commitments Under Certain
Circumstances. In the event that any Lender shall have delivered a notice or
certificate pursuant to Section 2.12 or 2.13, or the Borrower shall be required
to make additional payments to any Lender under Section 2.17, the Borrower
shall have the right, at its own expense, upon notice to such Lender and the
Agents, to require such Lender to transfer and assign without recourse (in
accordance with and subject to the restrictions contained in Section 8.04) all
such Lender's interests, rights and obligations contained hereunder to another
financial institution approved by the Agents and the Borrower (which approval
shall not be unreasonably withheld) which shall assume such obligations;
provided that (i) no such assignment shall conflict with any law, rule or
regulation or order of any Governmental Authority and (ii) the assignee or the
Borrower, as the case may be, shall pay to the affected Lender in immediately
available funds on the date of such assignment the principal of and interest
accrued to the date of payment on the Loans made by it hereunder and all other
amounts accrued for its account or owed to it hereunder.
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ARTICLE III
Representations and Warranties
The Borrower represents and warrants to each of the Lenders as
follows :
SECTION 3.01. Organization; Powers. The Borrower (a) is a
corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the
laws of the jurisdiction of its organization, (b) has all requisite power and
authority to own its property and assets and to carry on its business as now
conducted and as proposed to be conducted, (c) is qualified to do business in
every jurisdiction where such qualification is required, except where the
failure so to qualify would not result in a Material Adverse Change, and (d)
has the corporate power and authority to execute, deliver and perform its
obligations under this Agreement and to borrow hereunder.
SECTION 3.02. Authorization. The execution, delivery and
performance by the Borrower of this Agreement and the Borrowings hereunder
(collectively, the "Transactions") (a) have been duly authorized by all
requisite corporate action and (b) will not (i) violate (A) any provision of
any law, statute, rule or regulation (including, without limitation, the Margin
Regulations) or of the certificate of incorporation or other constitutive
documents or by-laws of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries to which the
Borrower is subject, (B) any order of any Governmental Authority or (C) any
provision of any indenture, agreement or other instrument to which the Borrower
or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or by which it or any of its property is
or may be bound, (ii) be in conflict with, result in a breach of or constitute
(alone or with notice or lapse of time or both) a default under any such
indenture, agreement or other instrument or (iii) result in the creation or
imposition of any Lien upon any property or assets of the Borrower.
SECTION 3.03. Enforceability. This Agreement constitutes a
legal, valid and binding obligation of the Borrower enforceable in accordance
with its terms.
SECTION 3.04. Governmental Approvals. No action, consent or
approval of, registration or filing with or other action by any Governmental
Authority is or will be required
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in connection with the Transactions, to the extent they relate to the Borrower.
SECTION 3.05. Financial Statements. (a) The consolidated
balance sheets of TU and its Consolidated Subsidiaries as of December 31, 1994,
and September 30, 1995, and the related consolidated statements of income,
retained earnings and cash flows for the fiscal year and period then ended,
reported on and reviewed, respectively, by Deloitte & Touche L.L.P. and set
forth in the TU 1994 Form 10-K and the TU Form 10-Q for the quarterly period
ended September 30, 1995, copies of which have been delivered to each of the
Lenders, fairly present, in conformity with GAAP, the consolidated financial
position of TU and its Consolidated Subsidiaries as of such date and their
consolidated results of operations and cash flows for such fiscal year and
period, respectively.
(b) Since September 30, 1995, there has been no Material
Adverse Change with respect to the Borrower.
SECTION 3.06. Litigation; Compliance with Laws. Except as set
forth in the financial statements or other reports of the type referred to in
Section 5.03 hereof and which have been delivered to the Lenders on or prior to
the date hereof, including the Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended
September 30, 1995, or as set forth on Schedule 3.06, there is no action, suit
or proceeding pending against, or to the knowledge of the Borrower threatened
against or affecting, TU or any of its Subsidiaries before any court or
arbitrator or any governmental body, agency or official in which there is a
reasonable possibility of an adverse decision which could materially adversely
affect the ability of the Borrower to pay its obligations hereunder or which in
any manner draws into question the validity of this Agreement.
SECTION 3.07. Federal Reserve Regulations. (a) Neither the
Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries is engaged principally, or as one of its
important activities, in the business of extending credit for the purpose of
purchasing or carrying Margin Stock.
(b) No part of the proceeds of any Loan will be used by the
Borrower, whether directly or indirectly, and whether immediately, incidentally
or ultimately, to purchase or carry Margin Stock or to refund indebtedness
originally incurred for such purpose, or for any other purpose which
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entails a violation of, or which is inconsistent with, the provisions of the
Margin Regulations.
SECTION 3.08. Investment Company Act; Public Utility Holding
Company Act. (a) Neither the Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries is an
"investment company" as defined in, or subject to regulation under, the
Investment Company Act of 1940 (the "1940 Act").
(b) The Borrower and each of its Subsidiaries is exempt from
all provisions of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 and rules
thereunder, except for Section 9(a)(2) of such Act, and the execution, delivery
and performance by the Borrower of this Agreement and its obligations hereunder
do not violate any provision of such Act or any rule or regulation thereunder.
SECTION 3.09. No Material Misstatements. No report,
financial statement or other information furnished by or on behalf of the
Borrower to the Agents or any Lender pursuant to or in connection with this
Agreement contains or will contain any material misstatement of fact or omits
or will omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements
therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were or will be
made, not misleading.
SECTION 3.10. Taxes. The Borrower and its Subsidiaries have
filed or caused to be filed within three days of the date on which due, all
Federal, state and material local tax returns which to their knowledge are
required to be filed by them, and have paid or caused to be paid all taxes
shown to be due and payable on such returns or on any assessments received by
them, other than any taxes or assessments the validity of which is being
contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and with respect to which
appropriate accounting reserves have to the extent required by GAAP been set
aside.
SECTION 3.11. Employee Benefit Plans. The Borrower and its
ERISA Affiliates are in compliance in all material respects with the applicable
provisions of ERISA and the Code and the regulations and published
interpretations thereunder. No Reportable Event has occurred in respect of any
Plan of the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate that alone or together with any
other Reportable Event has resulted or could reasonably be expected to result
in a Material Adverse Change. The present value of all benefit liabilities
under each of its Plans (based on those
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assumptions used to fund such Plans) did not, as of the last annual valuation
date applicable thereto, exceed by more than 5% of the amount of such
liabilities the value of the assets of such Plan, and the present value of all
benefit liabilities of all underfunded Plans (based on those assumptions used
to fund each such Plan) did not, as of the last annual valuation dates
applicable thereto, exceed by more than the lesser of (i) 5% of the amount of
all such liabilities and (ii) $100,000,000, the value of the assets of all such
underfunded Plans. Neither the Borrower nor any ERISA Affiliate has incurred
any Withdrawal Liability that could result in a Material Adverse Change.
Neither the Borrower nor any ERISA Affiliate has received any notification that
any Multiemployer Plan is in reorganization or has been terminated within the
meaning of Title IV of ERISA, and no Multiemployer Plan is reasonably expected
to be in reorganization or to be terminated where such reorganization or
termination has resulted or can reasonably be expected to result, through an
increase in the contributions required to be made to such Plan or otherwise, in
a Material Adverse Change.
SECTION 3.12. Significant Subsidiaries. Each of TU's
corporate Significant Subsidiaries is a corporation duly incorporated, validly
existing and in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of
incorporation and has all corporate powers necessary to carry on its business
substantially as now conducted. TU's corporate Significant Subsidiaries have
all material governmental licenses, authorizations, consents and approvals
recruited to carry on the business of the corporate Significant Subsidiaries
substantially as now conducted.
SECTION 3.13. Environmental Matters. Except as set forth in
or contemplated by the financial statements or other reports of the type
referred to in Section 5.03 hereof and which have been delivered to the Lenders
on or prior to the date hereof, the Borrower and each of its Subsidiaries has
complied in all material respects with all Federal, state, local and other
statutes, ordinances, orders, judgments, rulings and regulations relating to
environmental pollution or to environmental or nuclear regulation or control,
except to the extent that failure to so comply could not reasonably be expected
to result in a Material Adverse Change. Except as set forth in or contemplated
by such financial statements or other reports, neither the Borrower nor any of
its Subsidiaries has received notice of any material failure so to comply,
except where such failure
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could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change.
Except as set forth in or contemplated by such financial statements or other
reports, the facilities of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, as the case
may be, are not used to manage any hazardous wastes, hazardous substances,
hazardous materials, toxic substances, toxic pollutants or substances similarly
denominated, as those terms or similar terms are used in the Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act, the Comprehensive Environmental Response
Compensation and Liability Act, the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act, the
Toxic Substance Control Act, the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act or any
other applicable law relating to environmental pollution, or any nuclear fuel
or other radioactive materials, in violation in any material respect of any law
or any regulations promulgated pursuant thereto, except to the extent that such
violations could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse
Change. Except as set forth in or contemplated by such financial statements or
other reports, the Borrower is aware of no events, conditions or circumstances
involving environmental pollution or contamination that could reasonably be
expected to result in a Material Adverse Change.
ARTICLE IV
Conditions of Lending
The obligations of the Lenders to make Loans hereunder are
subject to the satisfaction of the following conditions:
SECTION 4.01. All Borrowings. On the date of each Borrowing:
(a) The Agents shall have received a notice of such Borrowing
as required by Section 2.03 or Section 2.04, as applicable.
(b) The representations and warranties set forth in Article
III hereof (except, in the case of a refinancing of a Standby Borrowing with a
new Standby Borrowing that does not increase the aggregate principal amount of
the Loans of any Lender outstanding, the representations set forth in Sections
3.05(b), 3.06, 3.11 and 3.13) shall be true and correct in all material
respects on and as of the date of such Borrowing with the same effect as though
made
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on and as of such date, except to the extent such representations and
warranties expressly relate to an earlier date.
(c) At the time of and immediately after such Borrowing no
Event of Default or Default shall have occurred and be continuing.
Each Borrowing shall be deemed to constitute a representation and warranty by
the Borrower on the date of such Borrowing as to the matters specified in
paragraphs (b) and (c) of this Section 4.01.
SECTION 4.02. Effective Date. On the Effective Date:
(a) The Agents shall have received favorable written opinions
of Xxxx & Priest LLP and Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx & Xxxxxxxxxx, L.L.P., dated the
Effective Date and addressed to the Lenders and satisfactory to Xxxxxxx, Swaine
& Xxxxx, counsel for the Agents, to the effect set forth in Exhibits D-1 and
D-2 hereto.
(b) The Agents shall have received (i) a copy of the
certificate of incorporation, including all amendments thereto, of the
Borrower, certified as of a recent date by the Secretary of State of its state
of incorporation, and a certificate as to the good standing of the Borrower as
of a recent date from such Secretary of State; (ii) a certificate of the
Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Borrower dated the Effective Date
and certifying (A) that attached thereto is a true and complete copy of the
by-laws of the Borrower as in effect on the Effective Date and at all times
since a date prior to the date of the resolutions described in clause (B)
below, (B) that attached thereto is a true and complete copy of resolutions
duly adopted by the Board of Directors of the Borrower authorizing the
execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the Borrowings
hereunder, and that such resolutions have not been modified, rescinded or
amended and are in full force and effect, (C) that the certificate of
incorporation referred to in clause (i) above has not been amended since the
date of the last amendment thereto shown on the certificate of good standing
furnished pursuant to such clause (i) and (D) as to the incumbency and specimen
signature of each officer executing this Agreement or any other document
delivered in connection herewith on behalf of the Borrower; (iii) a certificate
of another officer of the
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Xxxxxxxx as to the incumbency and specimen signature of the Secretary or
Assistant Secretary executing the certificate pursuant to (ii) above; (iv)
evidence satisfactory to the Agents that the requisite approvals referred to in
Section 3.04 hereof have been obtained; and (v) such other documents as the
Lenders or Xxxxxxx, Swaine & Xxxxx, counsel for the Agents, shall reasonably
request.
(c) The Agents shall have received a certificate, dated the
Effective Date and signed by a Financial Officer of the Borrower, confirming
compliance with the conditions precedent set forth in paragraphs (b) and (c) of
Section 4.01.
(d) The Agents shall have received all Fees and other amounts
due and payable on or prior to the Effective Date.
ARTICLE V
Covenants
The Borrower agrees that, so long as any Lender has any
Commitment hereunder or any amount payable hereunder remains unpaid:
SECTION 5.01. Existence. It will, and will cause each of its
Significant Subsidiaries to, do or cause to be done all things necessary to
preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence and all
rights, licenses, permits, franchises and authorizations necessary or desirable
in the normal conduct of its business except as otherwise permitted pursuant to
Section 5.09.
SECTION 5.02. Business and Properties. It will, and will
cause each of its Subsidiaries to, comply with all applicable material laws,
rules, regulations and orders of any Governmental Authority, whether now in
effect or hereafter enacted, except where the validity or applicability of such
laws, rules, regulations or orders is being contested by appropriate
proceedings in good faith; and at all times maintain and preserve all property
material to the conduct of its business and keep such property in good repair,
working order and condition and from time to time make, or cause to be made,
all needful and proper repairs, renewals, additions, improvements and
replacements
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thereto necessary in order that the business carried on in connection therewith
may be properly conducted at all times.
SECTION 5.03. Financial Statements, Reports, Etc. TU will
furnish to the Agents and each Lender:
(a) as soon as available and in any event within 100 days
after the end of each fiscal year of TU, a consolidated balance sheet
of TU and its Consolidated Subsidiaries as of the end of such fiscal
year and the related consolidated statements of income, retained
earnings and cash flows for such fiscal year, setting forth in each
case in comparative form the figures for the previous fiscal year, all
reported on in a manner reasonably acceptable to the Securities and
Exchange Commission by Deloitte & Touche L.L.P. or other independent
public accountants of nationally recognized standing;
(b) as soon as available and in any event within 55 days after
the end of each of the first three quarters of each fiscal year of TU,
a consolidated balance sheet of TU and its Consolidated Subsidiaries
as of the end of such quarter and the related consolidated statements
of income for such quarter, for the portion of TU's fiscal year ended
at the end of such quarter, and for the 12 months ended at the end of
such quarter, and the related consolidated statement of cash flows for
the portion of TU's fiscal year ended at the end of such quarter,
setting forth comparative figures for previous dates and periods to
the extent required in Form 10-Q, all certified (subject to normal
year-end adjustments) as to fairness of presentation, GAAP and
consistency by a Financial Officer of TU;
(c) simultaneously with any delivery of each set of financial
statements referred to in paragraph (a) and (b) above, a certificate
of a Financial Officer of TU (i) setting forth in reasonable detail
the calculations required to establish whether TU was in compliance
with the requirements of Sections 5.11 and 5.12 on the date of such
financial statements, and (ii) stating whether any Default exists on
the date of such certificate and, if any Default then exists, setting
forth the details thereof and the action which TU is taking or
proposes to take with respect thereto;
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(d) simultaneously with the delivery of each set of financial
statements referred to in paragraph (a) above, a statement of the firm
of independent public accountants which reported on such statements
(i) stating whether anything has come to their attention to cause them
to believe that any Default existed on the date of such statements and
(ii) confirming the calculations set forth in the Financial Officer's
certificate delivered simultaneously therewith pursuant to paragraph
(c) above;
(e) forthwith upon the occurrence of any Default, a
certificate of a Financial Officer of TU setting forth the details
thereof and the action which TU is taking or proposes to take with
respect thereto;
(f) promptly upon the mailing thereof to the shareholders of
TU generally, copies of all financial statements, reports and proxy
statements so mailed;
(g) promptly upon the filing thereof, copies of each final
prospectus (other than a prospectus included in any registration
statement on Form S-8 or its equivalent or with respect to a dividend
reinvestment plan) and all reports on Forms 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K and
similar reports which TU or TU Electric shall have filed with the SEC,
or any Governmental Authority succeeding to any of or all the
functions of the SEC;
(h) if and when any member of the Controlled Group (i) gives
or is required to give notice to the PBGC of any Reportable Event with
respect to any Plan which might constitute grounds for a termination
of such Plan under Title IV of ERISA, or knows that the plan
administrator of any Plan has given or is required to give notice of
any such Reportable Event, a copy of the notice of such Reportable
Event given or required to be given to the PBGC; (ii) receives notice
of complete or partial withdrawal liability under Title IV of ERISA, a
copy of such notice; or (iii) receives notice from the PBGC under
Title IV of ERISA of an intent to terminate or appoint a trustee to
administer any Plan, a copy of such notice; and
(i) promptly, from time to time, such additional information
regarding the financial position or
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business of TU and its Subsidiaries as the Agents, at the request of
any Lender, may reasonably request.
As promptly as practicable after delivering each set of financial statements as
required in paragraph (a) of this Section, TU shall make available a copy of
the consolidating workpapers used by TU in preparing such consolidated
statements to each Lender that shall have requested such consolidating
workpapers. Each Lender that receives such consolidating workpapers shall hold
them in confidence as required by Section 8.15; provided that no Lender may
disclose such consolidating workpapers to any other person pursuant to clause
(iv) of Section 8.15.
SECTION 5.04. Insurance. It will, and will cause each of its
Subsidiaries to, maintain such insurance or self-insurance, to such extent and
against such risks, including fire and other risks insured against by extended
coverage, as is customary with companies similarly situated and in the same or
similar businesses.
SECTION 5.05. Taxes, Etc. It will, and will cause each of
its Subsidiaries to, pay and discharge promptly when due all material taxes,
assessments and governmental charges imposed upon it or upon its income or
profits or in respect of its property, as well as all other material
liabilities, in each case before the same shall become delinquent or in default
and before penalties accrue thereon, unless and to the extent that the same are
being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and adequate reserves
with respect thereto shall, to the extent required by GAAP, have been set
aside.
SECTION 5.06. Maintaining Records; Access to Properties and
Inspections. It will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, maintain
financial records in accordance with GAAP and, upon reasonable notice and at
reasonable times, permit authorized representatives designated by any Lender to
visit and inspect its properties and to discuss its affairs, finances and
condition with its officers.
SECTION 5.07. ERISA. (a) It will, and will cause each of its
Subsidiaries to, comply in all material respects with the applicable provisions
of ERISA and the Code and (b) furnish to the Agents (i) as soon as possible
after, and in any event within 30 days after any Responsible Officer of the
Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate knows or has reason to
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know that, any Reportable Event has occurred that alone or together with any
other Reportable Event could reasonably be expected to result in liability of
the Borrower to the PBGC in an aggregate amount exceeding $40,000,000, a
statement of a Financial Officer setting forth details as to such Reportable
Event and the action that the Borrower proposes to take with respect thereto,
together with a copy of the notice, if any, of such Reportable Event given to
the PBGC, (ii) promptly after receipt thereof, a copy of any notice that the
Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate may receive from the PBGC relating to the
intention of the PBGC to terminate any Plan or Plans (other than a Plan
maintained by an ERISA Affiliate that is considered an ERISA Affiliate only
pursuant to subsection (m) or (o) of Code Section 414) or to appoint a trustee
to administer any such Plan (iii) within 10 days after the due date for filing
with the PBGC pursuant to Section 412(n) of the Code a notice of failure to
make a required installment or other payment with respect to a Plan, a
statement of a Financial Officer setting forth details as to such failure and
the action that the Borrower proposes to take with respect thereto, together
with a copy of any such notice given to the PBGC and (iv) promptly and in any
event within 30 days after receipt thereof by the Borrower or any ERISA
Affiliate from the sponsor of a Multiemployer Plan, a copy of each notice
received by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate concerning (A) the imposition
of Withdrawal Liability or (B) a determination that a Multiemployer Plan is, or
is expected to be, terminated or in reorganization, both within the meaning of
Title IV of ERISA.
SECTION 5.08. Use of Proceeds. It will not, and will not
cause or permit any of its Subsidiaries to, use the proceeds of the Loans for
purposes other than those set forth in the recitals hereto.
SECTION 5.09. Consolidations, Mergers, and Sales of Assets.
TU will not (a) consolidate or merge with or into any person unless (i) the
surviving corporation is incorporated under the laws of a State of the United
States of America and assumes or is responsible by operation of law for all the
obligations of TU hereunder and (ii) no Default or Event of Default shall have
occurred or be continuing at the time of or after giving effect to such
consolidation or merger or (b) sell, lease or otherwise transfer, in a single
transaction or in a series of transactions, all or any Substantial part of its
assets to any person or persons other than a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary. TU will
not permit
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any Significant Subsidiary to consolidate or merge with or into, or sell, lease
or otherwise transfer all or any Substantial part of its assets to, any person
other than TU or a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary (or a person which as a result of
such transaction becomes a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary); provided that the Borrower
will in no event permit any such consolidation, merger, sale, lease or transfer
if any Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the
time of or after giving effect to any such transaction. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, (a) TU and its Subsidiaries will not engage to a Substantial extent
in businesses other than those currently conducted by them and other businesses
reasonably related thereto and (b) nothing in this Section shall prohibit (i)
any sales of assets permitted by Section 5.10(d) or (ii) any sales of assets
referred to in clause (ii) of the proviso in the definition of "Consolidated
Earnings Available for Fixed Charges".
SECTION 5.10. Limitations on Liens. Neither TU nor any
Significant Subsidiary will create or assume or permit to exist any Lien in
respect of any property or assets of any kind (real or personal, tangible or
intangible) of TU or any Significant Subsidiary, or sell any such property or
assets subject to an understanding or agreement, contingent or otherwise, to
repurchase such property or assets, or sell, or permit any Significant
Subsidiary to sell, any accounts receivable; provided that the provisions of
this Section shall not prevent or restrict the creation, assumption or
existence of:
(a) any Lien in respect of any such property or assets of any
Significant Subsidiary to secure indebtedness owing by it to TU or to
any Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of TU; or
(b) purchase money Liens (including capital leases) in respect
of property acquired by TU or any Significant Subsidiary, to secure
the purchase price of such property (or to secure indebtedness
incurred prior to, at the time of, or within 90 days after the
acquisition solely for the purpose of financing the acquisition of
such property), or Liens existing on any such property at the time of
acquisition of such property by TU or by such Significant Subsidiary,
whether or not assumed, or any Lien in respect of property of a
corporation existing at the time such corporation becomes a Subsidiary
of TU; or agreements to acquire any property or assets under
conditional
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sale agreements or other title retention agreements, or capital leases
in respect of any other property; provided that
(i) the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness
secured by all Liens in respect of any such property shall not
exceed the cost or fair market value (both as determined by
the board of directors of TU or such Significant Subsidiary,
as the case (may be), whichever shall be lower, of such
property at the time of acquisition thereof (or (x) in the
case of property covered by a capital lease, the fair market
value, as so determined, of such property at the time of such
transaction, or (y) in the case of a Lien in respect of
property existing at the time such corporation becomes a
Subsidiary of TU, the fair market value, as so determined of
such property at such time), and
(ii) at the time of the acquisition of the property
by TU or by such Subsidiary, or at the time such corporation
becomes a Subsidiary of TU, as the case may be, every such
Lien shall apply and attach only to the property originally
subject thereto and fixed improvements constructed thereon; or
(c) refundings or extensions of any Lien permitted in the
foregoing paragraph (b) for amounts not exceeding the principal amount
of the Indebtedness so refunded or extended or the fair market value
(as determined by the board of directors of TU or such Significant
Subsidiary, as the case may be) of the property theretofore subject to
such Lien, whichever shall be lower, in each case at the time of such
refunding or extension; provided that such Lien shall apply only to
the same property theretofore subject to the same and fixed
improvements constructed thereon; or
(d) sales subject to understandings or agreements to
repurchase; provided that the aggregate sales price for all such sales
(other than sales to any governmental instrumentality in connection
with such instrumentality's issuance of indebtedness, including
without limitation industrial development bonds and pollution control
bonds, on behalf of TU or any
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Significant Subsidiary) made in any one calendar year shall not exceed
$50,000,000; or
(e) any production payment or similar interest which is
dischargeable solely out of natural gas, coal, lignite, oil or other
mineral to be produced from the property subject thereto and to be
sold or delivered by TU or any Significant Subsidiary; or
(f) any Lien including in connection with saleleaseback
transactions created or assumed by any Significant Subsidiary on
natural gas, coal, lignite, oil or other mineral properties or nuclear
fuel owned or leased by such Subsidiary, to secure loans to such
Subsidiary in an aggregate amount not to exceed $400,000,000; provided
that neither TU nor any other Subsidiary shall assume or guarantee
such financings; or
(g) leases (other than capital leases) now or hereafter
existing and any renewals and extensions thereof under which TU or any
Significant Subsidiary may acquire or dispose of any of its property,
subject, however, to the terms of Section 5.09; or
(h) any Lien created or to be created by the First Mortgage
of TU Electric; or
(i) any Lien on the rights of the Mining Company or Fuel
Company existing under their respective Operating Agreements; or
(j) sales by TU Electric of its accounts receivable; or
(k) Permitted Encumbrances.
SECTION 5.11. Fixed Charge Coverage. TU will not, as of the
end of each quarter of each fiscal year of TU, permit Consolidated Earnings
Available for Fixed Charges for the 12 months then ended to be less than or
equal to 150% of Consolidated Fixed Charges for the 12 months then ended.
SECTION 5.12. Equity Capitalization Ratio. TU will not
permit Consolidated Shareholders' Equity to be less than 35% of Consolidated
Total Capitalization.
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ARTICLE VI
Events of Default
In case of the happening of any of the following events (each
an "Event of Default"):
(a) any representation or warranty made or deemed made by the
Borrower in or in connection with the execution and delivery of this
Agreement or the Borrowings hereunder shall prove to have been false
or misleading in any material respect when so made, deemed made or
furnished;
(b) default shall be made by the Borrower in the payment of
any principal of any Loan when and as the same shall become due and
payable, whether at the due date thereof or at a date fixed for
prepayment thereof or by acceleration thereof or otherwise;
(c) default shall be made by the Borrower in the payment of
any interest on any Loan or any Fee or any other amount (other than an
amount referred to in paragraph (b) above) due hereunder, when and as
the same shall become due and payable, and such default shall continue
unremedied for a period of five days;
(d) default shall be made by the Borrower in the due
observance or performance of any covenant, condition or agreement
contained in Section 5.01, 5.09, 5.10, 5.11 or 5.12;
(e) default shall be made by the Borrower in the due
observance or performance of any covenant, condition or agreement
contained herein (other than those specified in (b), (c) or (d)
above) and such default shall continue unremedied for a period of 30
days after notice thereof from the Administrative Agent at the request
of any Lender to the Borrower;
(f) TU shall no longer own, directly or indirectly, all the
outstanding common stock of TU Electric (or any successor);
(g) the Borrower or any Subsidiary shall (i) fail to pay any
principal or interest, regardless of amount, due in respect of any
Indebtedness in a principal amount in excess of $40,000,000, when and
as the same
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shall become due and payable, subject to any applicable grace periods,
or (ii) fail to observe or perform any other term, covenant, condition
or agreement contained in any agreement or instrument evidencing or
governing any such Indebtedness if the effect of any failure referred
to in this clause (ii) is to cause, or to permit the holder or holders
of such Indebtedness or a trustee on its or their behalf to cause,
such Indebtedness to become due prior to its stated maturity;
(h) an involuntary proceeding shall be commenced or an
involuntary petition shall be filed in a court of competent
jurisdiction seeking (i) relief in respect of TU or any Significant
Subsidiary, or of a substantial part of the property or assets of TU
or any Significant Subsidiary, under Title 11 of the United States
Code, as now constituted or hereafter amended, or any other Federal or
state bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or similar law, (ii) the
appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian, sequestrator,
conservator or similar official for TU or any Significant Subsidiary
or for a substantial part of the property or assets of TU or any
Significant Subsidiary or (iii) the winding up or liquidation of TU or
any Significant Subsidiary; and such proceeding or petition shall
continue undismissed for 60 days or an order or decree approving or
ordering any of the foregoing shall be entered;
(i) TU or any Significant Subsidiary shall (i) voluntarily
commence any proceeding or file any petition seeking relief under
Title 11 of the United States Code, as now constituted or hereafter
amended, or any other Federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency,
receivership or similar law, (ii) consent to the institution of, or
fail to contest in a timely and appropriate manner, any proceeding or
the filing of any petition described in (h) above, (iii) apply for or
consent to the appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian,
sequestrator, conservator or similar official for TU or any
Significant Subsidiary or for a substantial part of the property or
assets of it or such Significant Subsidiary, (iv) file an answer
admitting the material allegations of a petition filed against it in
any such proceeding, (v) make a general assignment for the benefit of
creditors, (vi) become unable, admit in writing its inability or fail
generally to pay its debts as they become due or
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(vii) take any action for the purpose of effecting any of the
foregoing;
(j) a Change in Control shall occur;
(k) one or more judgments or orders for the payment of money
in an aggregate amount in excess of $40,000,000 shall be rendered
against TU or any Subsidiary thereof or any combination thereof and
such judgment or order shall remain undischarged or unstayed for a
period of 30 days, or any action shall be legally taken by a judgment
creditor to levy upon assets or properties of TU or any Subsidiary to
enforce any such judgment or order;
(1) a Reportable Event or Reportable Events, or a failure to
make a required installment or other payment (within the meaning of
Section 412(n)(1) of the Code), shall have occurred with respect to
any Plan or Plans that reasonably could be expected to result in
liability of the Borrower to the PBGC or to such Plan or Plans in an
aggregate amount exceeding $40,000,000 and, within 30 days after the
reporting of any such Reportable Event to the Administrative Agent or
after the receipt by the Administrative Agent of the statement
required pursuant to Section 5.05, the Administrative Agent shall have
notified the Borrower in writing that (i) the Required Lenders have
made a determination that, on the basis of such Reportable Event or
Reportable Events or the failure to make a required payment, there are
reasonable grounds (A) for the termination of such Plan and Plans by
the PBGC, (B) for the appointment by the appropriate United States
District Court of a trustee to administer such Plan or Plans or (C)
for the imposition of a lien in favor of a Plan and (ii) as a result
thereof an Event of Default exists hereunder; or a trustee shall be
appointed by a United States District Court to administer any such
Plan or Plans; or the PBGC shall institute proceedings (including
giving notice of intent thereof) to terminate any Plan or Plans;
(m) (i) the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate shall have been
notified by the sponsor of a Multiemployer Plan that it has incurred
Withdrawal Liability to such Multiemployer Plan, (ii) the Borrower or
such ERISA Affiliate does not have reasonable grounds for contesting
such Withdrawal Liability or is not in fact
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contesting such Withdrawal Liability in a timely and appropriate
manner and (iii) the amount of the Withdrawal Liability specified in
such notice, when aggregated with all other amounts required to be
paid to Multiemployer Plans in connection with Withdrawal Liabilities
(determined as of the date or dates of such notification), either (A)
exceeds $40,000,000 or requires payments exceeding $40,000,000 in any
year or (B) is less than $40,000,000 but any Withdrawal Liability
payment remains unpaid 30 days after such payment is due;
(n) the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate shall have been
notified by the sponsor of a Multiemployer Plan that such
Multiemployer Plan is in reorganization or is being terminated, within
the meaning of Title IV of ERISA, if solely as a result of such
reorganization or termination the aggregate annual contributions of
the Borrower and its ERISA Affiliates to all Multiemployer Plans that
are then in reorganization or have been or are being terminated have
been or will be increased over the amounts required to be contributed
to such Multiemployer Plans for their most recently completed plan
years by an amount exceeding $40,000,000;
then, and in every such event, and at any time thereafter during the
continuance of such event, the Administrative Agent, at the request of the
Required Lenders shall, by notice to the Borrower, take either or both of the
following actions, at the same or different times: (i) terminate forthwith the
right of the Borrower to borrow pursuant to the Commitments and (ii) declare
the Loans then outstanding to be forthwith due and payable in whole or in part,
whereupon the principal of the Loans so declared to be due and payable,
together with accrued interest thereon and any unpaid accrued Fees and all
other liabilities of the Borrower accrued hereunder, shall become forthwith due
and payable, without presentment, demand, protest or any other notice of any
kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived, anything contained herein to
the contrary notwithstanding; provided that in the case of any event described
in paragraph (h) or (i) above the Commitments of the Lenders shall
automatically terminate and the principal of the Loans then outstanding,
together with accrued interest thereon and any unpaid accrued Fees and all
other liabilities of the Borrower accrued hereunder shall automatically become
due and payable, without presentment, demand, protest or any other notice of
any kind, all of
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which are hereby expressly waived by the Borrower, anything contained herein to
the contrary notwithstanding.
ARTICLE VII
The Agents
In order to expedite the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement, Texas Commerce Bank National Association is hereby appointed to act
as Administrative Agent, and Chemical Bank is hereby appointed to act as CAF
Agent, on behalf of the Lenders. Each of the Lenders hereby irrevocably
authorizes the Agents to take such actions on behalf of such Lender or holder
and to exercise such powers as are specifically delegated to the Agents by the
terms and provisions hereof, together with such actions and powers as are
reasonably incidental thereto. The Administrative Agent is hereby expressly
authorized by the Lenders and the CAF Agent, without hereby limiting any
implied authority, (a) to receive on behalf of the Lenders and the CAF Agent
all payments of principal of and interest on the Loans and all other amounts
due to the Lenders and the CAF Agent hereunder, and promptly to distribute to
each Lender and the CAF Agent its proper share of each payment so received; (b)
to give notice on behalf of each of the Lenders to the Borrower of any Event of
Default of which the Administrative Agent has actual knowledge acquired in
connection with its agency hereunder; and (c) to distribute to each Lender
copies of all notices, financial statements and other materials delivered by
the Borrower pursuant to this Agreement as received by the Administrative
Agent.
No Agent or any of its directors, officers, employees or
agents shall be liable as such for any action taken or omitted by any of then
except for its or his or her own gross negligence or wilful misconduct, or be
responsible for any statement, warranty or representation herein or the
contents of any document delivered in connection herewith, or be required to
ascertain or to make any inquiry concerning the performance or observance by
the Borrower of any of the terms, conditions, covenants or agreements contained
in this Agreement. The Agents shall not be responsible to the Lenders for the
due execution, genuineness, validity, enforceability or effectiveness of this
Agreement or other instruments or agreements. The Agents may deem and treat
the Lender which makes any Loan as the holder of the indebtedness resulting
therefrom for all
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purposes hereof until it shall have received notice from such Lender, given as
provided herein, of the transfer thereof. The Agents shall in all cases be
fully protected in acting, or refraining from acting, in accordance with
written instructions signed by the Required Lenders and, except as otherwise
specifically provided herein, such instructions and any action or inaction
pursuant thereto shall be binding on all the Lenders. Each of the Agents
shall, in the absence of knowledge to the contrary, be entitled to rely on any
instrument or document believed by it in good faith to be genuine and correct
and to have been signed or sent by the proper person or persons. No Agent or
any of its directors, officers, employees or agents shall have any
responsibility to the Borrower on account of the failure of or delay in
performance or breach by the other Agent or any Lender of any of its
obligations hereunder or to the other Agent or any Lender on account of the
failure of or delay in performance or breach by any other Lender, the other
Agent or the Borrower of any of their respective obligations hereunder or in
connection herewith. Each of the Agents may execute any and all duties
hereunder by or through agents or employees and shall be entitled to rely upon
the advice of legal counsel selected by it with respect to all matters arising
hereunder and shall not be liable for any action taken or suffered in good
faith by it in accordance with the advice of such counsel.
The Lenders hereby acknowledge that the Agents shall be under
no duty to take any discretionary action permitted to be taken by it pursuant
to the provisions of this Agreement unless it shall be requested in writing to
do so by the Required Lenders.
Subject to the appointment and acceptance of a successor Agent
as provided below, either Agent may resign at any time by notifying the Lenders
and the Borrower. Upon any such resignation, the Required Lenders shall have
the right to appoint a successor Agent acceptable to the Borrower. If no
successor shall have been so appointed by the Required Lenders and shall have
accepted such appointment within 30 days after the retiring Agent gives notice
of its resignation, then the retiring Agent may, on behalf of the Lenders,
appoint a successor Agent, having a combined capital and surplus of at least
$500,000,000 or an Affiliate of any such bank. Upon the acceptance of any
appointment as Agent hereunder by a successor bank, such successor shall
succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties
of the retiring Agent
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and the retiring Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations
hereunder. After any Agent's resignation hereunder, the provisions of this
Article and Section 8.05 shall continue in effect for its benefit in respect of
any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it while it was acting as Agent.
With respect to the Loans made by it hereunder, each of the
Agents, in its individual capacity and not as an Agent shall have the same
rights and powers as any other Lender and may exercise the same as though it
were not an Agent, and each of the Agents and their Affiliates may accept
deposits from, lend money to and generally engage in any kind of business with
the Borrower or any Subsidiary or other Affiliate thereof as if it were not an
Agent.
Each Lender agrees (i) to reimburse the Agents, on demand, in
the amount of its pro rata share (based on its Commitment hereunder or, if the
Commitments shall have been terminated, the amount of its outstanding Loans) of
any expenses incurred for the benefit of the Lenders in its role as Agent,
including counsel fees and compensation of agents and employees paid for
services rendered on behalf of the Lenders, which shall not have been
reimbursed by the Borrower and (ii) to indemnify and hold harmless each of the
Agents and any of its directors, officers, employees or agents, on demand, in
the amount of such pro rata share, from and against any and all liabilities,
taxes, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits,
costs, expenses or disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever which may be
imposed on, incurred by or asserted against it in any way relating to or
arising out of this Agreement or any action taken or omitted by it under this
Agreement to the extent the same shall not have been reimbursed by the
Borrower; provided that no Lender shall be liable to any Agent for any portion
of such liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions,
judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements resulting from the gross
negligence or wilful misconduct of such Agent or any of its directors,
officers, employees or agents.
Each Lender acknowledges that it has, independently and
without reliance upon the Agents or any other Lender and based on such
documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit
analysis and decision to enter into this Agreement. Each Lender also
acknowledges that it will, independently and without reliance upon the Agents
or any other Lender and based on such documents and
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information as it shall from time to time deem appropriate, continue to make
its own decisions in taking or not taking action under or based upon this
Agreement or any related agreement or any document furnished hereunder or
thereunder.
ARTICLE VIII
Miscellaneous
SECTION 8.01. Notices. Notices and other communications
provided for herein shall be in writing and shall be delivered by hand or
overnight courier service, mailed or sent by telecopy, as follows:
(a) if to the Borrower, to Texas Utilities Company, Energy
Plaza, 0000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx, Xxxxxx, XX 00000, Attention of
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Manager of Treasury Operations, (Telecopy No.
214-812-2488);
(b) if to the CAF Agent, to Chemical Bank Agency Services
Corp., 000 Xxxx 00xx Xxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000,
Attention of Xxxxx Xxxxxx, (Telecopy No. 212-622-0002), with a copy to
Chemical Bank at 000 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, Attention
of Xxxxxx Xxxxx (Telecopy No. 212-270-1354);
(c) if to the Administrative Agent, to Texas Commerce Bank
National Association, 0000 Xxxx Xxxxxx, 0xx Xxxxx, Xxxxxx, XX 00000,
Attention of Xxxxx Xxxx, Telecopy No. 000-000-0000, with a copy to
Texas Commerce Bank National Association, Loan Syndications Services,
0000 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, 0xx Xxxxx, XX 00, Xxxxxxx, XX 00000; and
(d) if to a Lender, to it at its address (or telecopy number)
set forth in Schedule 2.01 or in the Assignment and Acceptance
pursuant to which such Lender became a party hereto.
All notices and other communications given to any party hereto in accordance
with the provisions of this Agreement shall be deemed to have been given on the
date of receipt if delivered by hand or overnight courier service or sent by
telecopy to such party as provided in this Section or in accordance with the
latest unrevoked direction from such party given in accordance with this
Section.
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SECTION 8.02. Survival of Agreement. All covenants,
agreements, representations and warranties made by the Borrower herein and in
the certificates or other instruments prepared or delivered in connection with
or pursuant to this Agreement shall be considered to have been relied upon by
the Lenders and shall survive the making by the Lenders of the Loans regardless
of any investigation the Lenders of the Loans regardless of any investigation
made by the Lenders or on their behalf, and shall continue in full force and
effect as long as the principal of or any accrued interest on any Loan or any
Fee or any other amount payable under this Agreement is outstanding and unpaid
or the Commitments have not been terminated.
SECTION 8.03. Binding Effect. This Agreement shall become
effective when it shall have been executed by the Borrower and each Agent and
when the Administrative Agent shall have received copies hereof (telecopied or
otherwise) which, when taken together, bear the signature of each Lender, and
thereafter shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto
and their respective successors and assigns, except that the Borrower shall not
have the right to assign any rights hereunder or any interest herein without
the prior consent of all the Lenders.
SECTION 8.04. Successors and Assigns. (a) Whenever in this
Agreement any of the parties hereto is referred to, such reference shall be
deemed to include the successors and assigns of such party; and all covenants,
promises and agreements by or on behalf of any party that are contained in this
Agreement shall bind and inure to the benefit of its successors and assigns.
(b) Each Lender may assign to one or more assignees all or a
portion of its interests, rights and obligations under this Agreement
(including all or a portion of its Commitment and the Loans at the time owing
to it); provided, however, that (i) except in the case of an assignment to a
Lender or an Affiliate of such Lender or an assignment to a Federal Reserve
Bank, the Borrower and the Agents must give their prior written consent to such
assignment (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld), (ii) the amount
of the Commitment of the assigning Lender subject to each such assignment
(determined as of the date the Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such
assignment is delivered to the Administrative Agent) shall not be less than
$10,000,000, (iii) the parties to
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each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent an
Assignment and Acceptance, and a processing and recordation fee of $3,000 and
(iv) the assignee, if it shall not be a Lender, shall deliver to the
Administrative Agent an Administrative Questionnaire. Upon acceptance and
recording pursuant to Section 8.04(e), from and after the effective date
specified in each Assignment and Acceptance, which effective date shall be at
least five Business Days after the execution thereof unless otherwise agreed by
the Administrative Agent, (A) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto
and, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Acceptance,
have the rights and obligations of a Lender under this Agreement and (B) the
assigning Lender thereunder shall, to the extent of the interest assigned by
such Assignment and Acceptance, be released from its obligations under this
Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance covering all or the
remaining portion of an assigning Lender's rights and obligations under this
Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto (but shall continue to
be entitled to the benefits of Sections 2.12, 2.17 and 8.05 afforded to such
Lender prior to its assignment as well as to any Fees accrued for its account
hereunder and not yet paid)). Notwithstanding the foregoing, any Lender
assigning its rights and obligations under this Agreement may retain any
Competitive Loans made by it outstanding at such time, and in such case shall
retain its rights hereunder in respect of any Loans so retained until such
Loans have been repaid in full in accordance with this Agreement.
(c) By executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptance,
the assigning Lender thereunder and the assignee thereunder shall be deemed to
confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties hereto as follows:
(i) such assigning Lender warrants that it is the legal and beneficial owner of
the interest being assigned thereby free and clear of any adverse claim, (ii)
except as set forth in (i) above, such assigning Lender makes no representation
or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements,
warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement, or
the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or
value of this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant
hereto or the financial condition of the Borrower or the performance or
observance by the Borrower of any obligations under this Agreement or any other
instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (iii) such assignee
represents and warrants that it is legally authorized to enter into such
Assignment and Acceptance; (iv) such
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assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this Agreement, together with
copies of the most recent financial statements delivered pursuant to Section
5.03 and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to
make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and
Acceptance; (v) such assignee will independently and without reliance upon the
Agents, such assigning Lender or any other Lender and based on such documents
and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its
own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement; (vi)
such assignee appoints and authorizes each Agent to take such action as agent
on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement as are delegated
to such Agent by the terms hereof, together with such powers as are reasonably
incidental thereto; and (vii) such assignee agrees that it will perform in
accordance with their terms all the obligations which by the terms of this
Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lender.
(d) The Administrative Agent shall maintain at one of its
offices in the City of Houston a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance
delivered to it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses
of the Lenders, and the Commitment of, and the principal amount of the Loans
owing to, each Lender pursuant to the terms hereof from time to time (the
"Register"). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive in the absence of
manifest error and the Borrower, the Agents and the Lenders may treat each
person whose name is recorded in the Register pursuant to the terms hereof as a
Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be
available for inspection by each party hereto, at any reasonable time and from
time to time upon reasonable prior notice.
(e) Upon its receipt of a duly completed Assignment and
Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee together with an
Administrative Questionnaire completed in respect of the assignee (unless the
assignee shall already be a Lender hereunder), the processing and recordation
fee referred to in paragraph (b) above and, if required, the written consent of
the Borrower and the Agents to such assignment, the Administrative Agent shall
(i) accept such Assignment and Acceptance and (ii) record the information
contained therein in the Register.
(f) Each Lender may without the consent of the Borrower or
the Agents sell participations to one or more
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banks or other entities in all or a portion of its rights and obligations under
this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitment and the Loans
owing to it); provided, however, that (i) such Lender's obligations under this
Agreement shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely
responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such
obligations, (iii) each participating bank or other entity shall be entitled to
the benefit of the cost protection provisions contained in Sections 2.12, 2.17
and 8.05 to the same extent as if it were the selling Lender (and limited to
the amount that could have been claimed by the selling Lender had it continued
to hold the interest of such participating bank or other entity), except that
all claims made pursuant to such Sections shall be made through such selling
Lender, and (iv) the Borrower, the Agents and the other Lenders shall continue
to deal solely and directly with such selling Lender in connection with such
Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement.
(g) Any Lender or participant may, in connection with any
assignment or participation or proposed assignment or participation pursuant to
this Section, disclose to the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or
participant any information relating to the Borrower furnished to such Lender
by or on behalf of the Borrower; provided that, prior to any such disclosure,
each such assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant shall
execute an agreement whereby such assignee or participant shall agree (subject
to customary exceptions) to preserve the confidentiality of any such
information.
(h) The Borrower shall not assign or delegate any rights and
duties hereunder without the prior written consent of all Lenders, and any
attempted assignment or delegation (except as a consequence of a transaction
expressly permitted under Section 5.09) by the Borrower without such consent
shall be void.
(i) Any Lender may at any time pledge all or any portion of
its rights under this Agreement to a Federal Reserve Bank; provided that no
such pledge shall release any Lender from its obligations hereunder or
substitute any such Bank for such Lender as a party hereto. In order to
facilitate such an assignment to a Federal Reserve Bank, the Borrower shall, at
the request of the assigning Lender, duly execute and deliver to the assigning
Lender a promissory
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note or notes evidencing the Loans made to the Borrower by the assigning Lender
hereunder.
SECTION 8.05. Expenses; Indemnity. (a) The Borrower agrees
to pay all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Agents in
connection with entering into this Agreement or in connection with any
amendments, modifications or waivers of the provisions hereof (whether or not
the transactions hereby contemplated are consummated), or incurred by the
Agents or any Lender in connection with the enforcement of their rights in
connection with this Agreement or in connection with the Loans made hereunder,
including the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel for the Agents or,
in the case of enforcement following an Event of Default, the Lenders.
(b) The Borrower agrees to indemnify each Lender against any
loss, calculated in accordance with the next sentence, or reasonable expense
which such Lender may sustain or incur as a consequence of (a) any failure by
the Borrower to borrow or to refinance, convert or continue any Loan hereunder
(including as a result of the Borrower's failure to fulfill any of the
applicable conditions set forth in Article IV) after irrevocable notice of such
borrowing, refinancing, conversion or continuation has been given pursuant to
Section 2.03 or 2.04, (b) any payment, prepayment or conversion, or assignment
of a Eurodollar Loan or Fixed Rate Loan of the Borrower required by any other
provision of this Agreement or otherwise made or deemed made on a date other
than the last day of the Interest Period, if any, applicable thereto, (c) any
default in payment or prepayment of the principal amount of any Loan or any
part thereof or interest accrued thereon, as and when due and payable (at the
due date thereof, whether by scheduled maturity, acceleration, irrevocable
notice of prepayment or otherwise) or (d) the occurrence of any Event of
Default, including, in each such case, any loss or reasonable expense sustained
or incurred or to be sustained or incurred by such Lender in liquidating or
employing deposits from third parties, or with respect to commitments made or
obligations undertaken with third parties, to effect or maintain any Loan
hereunder or any part thereof as a Eurodollar Loan or a Fixed Rate Loan. Such
loss shall include an amount equal to the excess, if any, as reasonably
determined by such Lender, of (i) its cost of obtaining the funds for the Loan
being paid, prepaid, refinanced, converted or not borrowed (assumed to be the
LIBO Rate or, in the case of a Fixed Rate Loan, the fixed rate of interest
applicable thereto) for the
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period from the date of such payment, prepayment, refinancing or failure to
borrow or refinance to the last day of the Interest Period for such Loan (or,
in the case of a failure to borrow or refinance the Interest Period for such
Loan which would have commenced on the date of such failure) over (ii) the
amount of interest (as reasonably determined by such Lender) that would be
realized by such Lender in reemploying the funds so paid, prepaid or not
borrowed or refinanced for such period or Interest Period, as the case may be.
(c) The Borrower agrees to indemnify the Agents, each Lender,
each of their Affiliates and the directors, officers, employees and agents of
the foregoing (each such person being called an "Indemnitee") against, and to
hold each Indemnitee harmless from, any and all losses, claims, damages,
liabilities and related expenses, including reasonable counsel fees and
expenses, incurred by or asserted against any Indemnitee arising out of (i) the
consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, (ii) the use
of the proceeds of the Loans or (iii) any claim, litigation, investigation or
proceeding relating to any of the foregoing, whether or not any Indemnitee is a
party thereto; provided that such indemnity shall not, as to any Indemnitee, be
available to the extent that such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or
related expenses (i) are determined by a final judgment of a court of competent
jurisdiction to have resulted from the gross negligence or wilful misconduct of
such Indemnitee or (ii) result from any litigation brought by such Indemnitee
against the Borrower or by the Borrower against such Indemnitee, in which a
final, nonappealable judgment has been rendered against such Indemnitee.
(d) The provisions of this Section shall remain operative and
in full force and effect regardless of the expiration of the term of this
Agreement, the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, the
repayment of any of the Loans, the invalidity or unenforceability of any term
or provision of this Agreement or any investigation made by or on behalf of any
Agent or any Lender. All amounts due under this Section shall be payable on
written demand therefor.
(e) A certificate of any Lender or Agent setting forth any
amount or amounts which such Lender or Agent is entitled to receive pursuant to
paragraph (b) of this Section and containing an explanation in reasonable
detail
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of the manner in which such amount or amounts shall have been determined shall
be delivered to the Borrower and shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
SECTION 8.06. Right of Setoff. If an Event of Default shall
have occurred and be continuing, each Lender is hereby authorized at any time
and from time to time, to the fullest extent permitted by law, to set off and
apply any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or
final) at any time held and other indebtedness at any time owing by such Lender
to or for the credit or the account of the Borrower against any of and all the
obligations of the Borrower now or hereafter existing under this Agreement held
by such Lender, irrespective of whether or not such Lender shall have made any
demand under this Agreement and although such obligations may be unmatured.
The rights or each Lender under this Section are in addition to other rights
and remedies (including other rights or setoff) which such Lender may have.
SECTION 8.07. Applicable Law. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE
CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
SECTION 8.08. Waivers; Amendment. (a) No failure or delay
of either Agent or any Lender in exercising any power or right hereunder shall
operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any
such right or power, or any abandonment or discontinuance of steps to enforce
such a right or power, preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the
exercise of any other right or power. The rights and remedies of the Agents
and the Lenders hereunder are cumulative and are not exclusive of any rights or
remedies which they would otherwise have. No waiver of any provision of this
Agreement or consent to any departure therefrom shall in any event be effective
unless the same shall be permitted by paragraph (b) below, and then such waiver
or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the purpose
for which given. No notice or demand on the Borrower or any Subsidiary in any
case shall entitle such party to any other or further notice or demand in
similar or other circumstances.
(b) Neither this Agreement nor any provision hereof may be
waived, amended or modified except pursuant to an agreement or agreements in
writing entered into by the Borrower and the Required Lenders; provided,
however, that no such agreement shall (i) decrease the principal amount
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of, or extend the maturity of or any scheduled principal payment date or date
for the payment of any interest on any Loan, or waive or excuse any such
payment or any part thereof, or decrease the rate of interest on any Loan,
without the prior written consent of each Lender affected thereby, (ii)
increase the Commitment or decrease the Facility Fee of any Lender without the
prior written consent of such Lender, or (iii) amend or modify the provisions
of Section 2.14 or Section 8.04(h), the provisions of this Section or the
definition of the "Required Lenders", without the prior written consent of each
Lender; provided further, however, that no such agreement shall amend, modify
or otherwise affect the rights or duties of the Administrative Agent or the CAF
Agent hereunder without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent
or the CAF Agent, as the case may be. Each Lender shall be bound by any
waiver, amendment or modification authorized by this Section and any consent by
any Lender pursuant to this Section shall bind any assignee of its rights and
interests hereunder.
SECTION 8.09. Entire Agreement. This Agreement (including
the schedules and exhibits hereto) and the Commitment Letter constitute a "Loan
Agreement" as defined in Section 26.03(a) of the Texas Business and Commerce
Code, and represent the entire contract among the parties relative to the
subject matter hereof and thereof. Any previous agreement among the parties
with respect to the subject matter hereof is superseded by this Agreement and
the Commitment Letter. There are no unwritten oral agreements between the
parties. Nothing in this Agreement, expressed or implied, is intended to
confer upon any party other than the parties hereto any rights, remedies,
obligations or liabilities under or by reason of this Agreement.
SECTION 8.10. Severability. In the event any one or more of
the provisions contained in this Agreement should be held invalid, illegal or
unenforceable in any respect, the validity, legality and enforceability of the
remaining provisions contained herein shall not in any way be affected or
impaired thereby. The parties shall endeavor in good-faith negotiations to
replace the invalid, illegal or unenforceable provisions with valid provisions
the economic effect of which comes as close as possible to that of the invalid,
illegal or unenforceable provisions.
SECTION 8.11. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed
in two or more counterparts, each of which shall constitute an original but all
of which when taken together
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shall constitute but one contract, and shall become effective as provided in
Section 8.03.
SECTION 8.12. Headings. Article and Section headings and the
Table of Contents used herein are for convenience of reference only, are not
part of this Agreement and are not to affect the construction of, or to be
taken into consideration in interpreting, this Agreement.
SECTION 8.13. Interest Rate Limitation. (a) Notwithstanding
anything herein to the contrary, if at any time the applicable interest rate,
together with all fees and charges which are treated as interest under
applicable law (collectively the "Charges"), as provided for herein or in any
other document executed in connection herewith, or otherwise contracted for,
charged, received, taken or reserved by any Lender, shall exceed the maximum
lawful rate (the "Maximum Rate") which may be contracted for, charged, taken,
received or reserved by such Lender in accordance with applicable law, the rate
of interest payable on the Loans of such Lender, together with all Charges
payable to such Lender, shall be limited to the Maximum Rate.
(b) If the amount of interest, together with all Charges,
payable for the account of any Lender in respect of any interest computation
period is reduced pursuant to paragraph (a) of this Section and the amount of
interest, together with all Charges, payable for such Xxxxxx's account in
respect of any subsequent interest computation period, computed pursuant to
Section 2.07, would be less than the Maximum Rate, then the amount of interest,
together with all Charges, payable for such Xxxxxx's account in respect of such
subsequent interest computation period shall, to the extent permitted by
applicable law, be automatically increased to such Maximum Rate; provided that
at no time shall the aggregate amount by which interest paid for the account of
any Lender has been increased pursuant to this paragraph (b) exceed the
aggregate amount by which interest, together with all Charges, paid for its
account has theretofore been reduced pursuant to paragraph (a) of this Section.
SECTION 8.14. Jurisdiction; Venue. (a) The Borrower hereby
irrevocably and unconditionally submits, for itself and its property, to the
nonexclusive jurisdiction of any New York State court or Federal court of the
United States of America sitting in New York City, and any
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appellate court from any thereof, in any action or proceeding arising out of or
relating to this Agreement, or for recognition or enforcement of any judgment,
and each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees
that all claims in respect of any such action or proceeding may be heard and
determined in such New York State or, to the extent permitted by law, in such
Federal court. Each of the parties hereto agrees that a final judgment in any
such action or proceeding shall be conclusive and may be enforced in other
jurisdictions by suit on the judgment or in any other manner provided by law.
Subject to the foregoing and to paragraph (b) below, nothing in this Agreement
shall affect any right that any party hereto may otherwise have to bring any
action or proceeding relating to this Agreement against any other party hereto
in the courts of any jurisdiction.
(b) The Borrower hereby irrevocably and unconditionally
waives, to the fullest extent it may legally and effectively do so, any
objection which it may now or thereafter have to the laying of venue of any
suit, action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement in any
New York State or Federal court. Each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably
waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the defense of an inconvenient
forum to the maintenance of such action or proceeding in any such court.
SECTION 8.15. Confidentiality. Each Lender shall use its
best efforts to hold in confidence all information, memoranda, or extracts
furnished to such Lender (directly or through the Agents) by the Borrower
hereunder or in connection with the negotiation hereof; provided that such
Lender may disclose any such information, memoranda or extracts (i) to its
accountants or counsel, (ii) to any regulatory agency having authority to
examine such Lender,
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(iii) as required by any legal or governmental process or otherwise by law,
(iv) except as provided in the last sentence of Section 5.03, to any person to
which such Xxxxxx sells or proposes to sell a participation in its Loans
hereunder, if such other person agrees for the benefit of the Borrower to
comply with the provisions of this Section and (v) to the extent that such
information, memoranda or extracts shall be publicly available or shall have
become known to such Lender independently of any disclosure by the Borrower
hereunder or in connection with the negotiation hereof. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, any Lender may disclose the provisions of this Agreement and the
amounts, maturities and interest rates of its Loans to any purchaser or
potential purchaser of such Lender's interest in any Loan.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this
Agreement to be duly executed by their respective authorized officers as of the
day and year first above written.
TEXAS UTILITIES COMPANY, as
Borrower,
by /s/ X. XXXXXXX XXXXX
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Name: X. Xxxxxxx Xxxxx
Title: Vice President
TEXAS COMMERCE BANK NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION, individually and
as Administrative Agent,
by /s/ XXXXX XXXX
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Name: Xxxxx Xxxx
Title: Vice President
CHEMICAL BANK, individually
and as CAF Agent,
by /s/ XXXX XXXXXXX
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Name: XXXX XXXXXXX
Title: VICE PRESIDENT
