EXHIBIT 4.4
FORM OF TRUST AGREEMENT
Between
Bond Securitization, L.L.C.,
as Company,
and
[-----------------]
as Owner Trustee
Dated as of ______________
ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS.........................................................1
SECTION 1.01. Defined Terms................................................1
SECTION 1.02. Other Definitional Provisions................................3
ARTICLE II ORGANIZATION........................................................4
SECTION 2.01. Name.........................................................4
SECTION 2.02. Office.......................................................4
SECTION 2.03. Purposes and Powers..........................................4
SECTION 2.04. Appointment of Owner Trustee.................................5
SECTION 2.05. Initial Capital Contribution of Owner Trust Estate...........5
SECTION 2.06. Declaration of Trust.........................................5
SECTION 2.07. Liability of the Owners......................................5
SECTION 2.08. Title to Trust Property......................................6
SECTION 2.09. Situs of Trust...............................................6
SECTION 2.10. Representations and Warranties of the Company................6
SECTION 2.11. Maintenance of the Demand Note...............................7
SECTION 2.12. Federal Income Tax Allocations...............................7
ARTICLE III TRUST CERTIFICATES AND TRANSFER OF INTERESTS........................8
SECTION 3.01. Initial Ownership............................................8
SECTION 3.02. The Trust Certificates.......................................8
SECTION 3.03. Authentication of Trust Certificates.........................8
SECTION 3.04. Registration of Transfer and Exchange of
Trust Certificates.........................................9
SECTION 3.05. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Trust Certificates......9
SECTION 3.06. Persons Deemed Owners.......................................10
SECTION 3.07. Access to List of Certificateholders'
Names and Addresses.......................................10
SECTION 3.08. Maintenance of Office or Agency.............................10
SECTION 3.09. Appointment of Paying Agent.................................10
SECTION 3.10. Ownership by Company of Trust Certificates..................11
SECTION 3.11. Book-Entry Trust Certificates...............................11
SECTION 3.12. Notices to Clearing Agency..................................12
SECTION 3.13. Definitive Trust Certificates...............................12
ARTICLE IV ACTIONS BY OWNER TRUSTEE...........................................13
SECTION 4.01. Prior Notice to Owners with Respect to Certain Matters......13
SECTION 4.02. Action by Owners with Respect to Certain Matters............13
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SECTION 4.03. Action by Owners with Respect to Bankruptcy.................13
SECTION 4.04. Restrictions on Owners' Power...............................13
SECTION 4.05. Majority Control............................................14
ARTICLE V APPLICATION OF TRUST FUNDS; CERTAIN DUTIES.........................14
SECTION 5.01. Establishment of Trust Account..............................14
SECTION 5.02. Application of Trust Funds..................................14
SECTION 5.03. Method of Payment...........................................15
SECTION 5.04. No Segregation of Moneys; No Interest.......................15
SECTION 5.05. Accounting and Reports to the Noteholders,
Owners, the Internal Revenue Service and Others...........15
SECTION 5.06. Signature on Returns; Tax Matters Partner...................15
ARTICLE VI AUTHORITY AND DUTIES OF OWNER TRUSTEE..............................16
SECTION 6.01. General Authority...........................................16
SECTION 6.02. General Duties..............................................16
SECTION 6.03. Action upon Instruction.....................................16
SECTION 6.04. No Duties Except as Specified in
this Agreement or in Instructions.........................17
SECTION 6.05. No Action Except Under Specified
Documents or Instructions.................................17
SECTION 6.06. Restrictions................................................17
ARTICLE VII CONCERNING THE OWNER TRUSTEE.......................................17
SECTION 7.01. Acceptance of Trust and Duties..............................17
SECTION 7.02. Furnishing of Documents.....................................19
SECTION 7.03. Representations and Warranties..............................19
SECTION 7.04. Reliance; Advice of Counsel.................................19
SECTION 7.05. Not Acting in Individual Capacity...........................20
SECTION 7.06. Owner Trustee Not Liable for Trust
Certificates or Receivables...............................20
SECTION 7.07. Owner Trustee May Own Trust Certificates and Notes..........20
ARTICLE VIII COMPENSATION OF OWNER TRUSTEE......................................20
SECTION 8.01. Owner Trustee's Fees and Expenses...........................20
SECTION 8.02. Indemnification.............................................21
SECTION 8.03. Payments to the Owner Trustee...............................21
ARTICLE IX TERMINATION OF TRUST AGREEMENT.....................................21
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SECTION 9.01. Termination of Trust Agreement..............................21
SECTION 9.02. Dissolution upon Bankruptcy of the Company..................22
ARTICLE X SUCCESSOR OWNER TRUSTEES AND ADDITIONAL OWNER TRUSTEES.............23
SECTION 10.01. Eligibility Requirements for Owner Trustee..................23
SECTION 10.02. Resignation or Removal of Owner Trustee.....................23
SECTION 10.03. Successor Owner Trustee.....................................23
SECTION 10.04. Merger or Consolidation of Owner Trustee....................24
SECTION 10.05. Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee...............24
ARTICLE XI MISCELLANEOUS......................................................25
SECTION 11.01. Supplements and Amendments..................................25
SECTION 11.02. No Legal Title to Owner Trust Estate in Owners..............26
SECTION 11.03. Limitations on Rights of Others.............................27
SECTION 11.04. Notices.....................................................27
SECTION 11.05. Severability................................................27
SECTION 11.06. Separate Counterparts.......................................27
SECTION 11.07. Successors and Assigns......................................27
SECTION 11.08. Covenants of the Company....................................28
SECTION 11.09. No Petition.................................................28
SECTION 11.10. No Recourse.................................................28
SECTION 11.11. Headings....................................................28
SECTION 11.12. GOVERNING LAW...............................................28
SECTION 11.13. Trust Certificate Transfer Restrictions.....................28
EXHIBIT A - FORM OF TRUST CERTIFICATE.............................................A-1
EXHIBIT B - CERTIFICATE OF TRUST OF [ ] AUTO OWNER TRUST 200__-__. ...............B-1
EXHIBIT C - FORM OF CERTIFICATE DEPOSITORY AGREEMENT..............................C-1
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TRUST AGREEMENT dated as of _______________________, between Bond
Securitization, L.L.C. , a Delaware limited liability company (the "Company"),
and ________________, a [ ] banking corporation, as owner trustee (the "Owner
Trustee").
ARTICLE I
Definitions
SECTION 1.01. Defined Terms. Whenever used in this Agreement, the
following terms, unless the context requires otherwise, shall have the meanings
set forth below:
"Agreement" shall mean this Trust Agreement, as the same may be
amended and supplemented from time to time.
"Basic Documents" shall mean the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the
Indenture, the Note Depository Agreement, the Certificate Depository Agreement
and the other documents and certificates delivered in connection therewith.
"Benefit Plan" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 11.13.
"Book-Entry Trust Certificate" shall mean a beneficial interest in
the Trust Certificates, ownership and transfers of which shall be made through
book entries by a Clearing Agency as described in Section 3.11.
"Business Trust Statute" shall mean Chapter 38 of Title 12 of the [
] Code, 12 Del. Code (S) 3801 et seq., as the same may be amended from time to
time.
"Certificate Depository Agreement" shall mean the agreement dated
____________________, among the Trust, the Owner Trustee and The Depository
Trust Company, as the initial Clearing Agency, substantially in the form
attached hereto as Exhibit C, relating to the Trust Certificates, as the same
may be amended and supplemented from time to time.
"Certificate Distribution Account" shall have the meaning assigned
to such term in Section 5.01.
"Certificate of Trust" shall mean the Certificate of Trust,
substantially in the form of Exhibit B, filed for the Trust pursuant to Section
3810(a) of the Business Trust Statute.
"Certificate Owner" shall mean, with respect to a Book-Entry Trust
Certificate, the Person who is the beneficial owner of such Book-Entry Trust
Certificate, as reflected on the books of the Clearing Agency or on the books of
a Person maintaining an account with such Clearing Agency (directly as a
Clearing Agency Participant or as an indirect participant, in each case in
accordance with the rules of such Clearing Agency).
"Certificate Register" and "Certificate Registrar" shall mean the
register mentioned in and the registrar appointed pursuant to Section 3.04.
"Certificateholder" or "Holder" shall mean a Person in whose name a
Trust Certificate is registered.
"Clearing Agency" shall mean an organization registered as a
"clearing agency" pursuant to Section 17A of the Exchange Act.
"Clearing Agency Participant" shall mean a broker, dealer, bank,
other financial institution or other Person for whom from time to time a
Clearing Agency effects book-entry transfers and pledges of securities deposited
with the Clearing Agency.
"Code" shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and
Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder.
"Company" shall mean Bond Securitization, L.L.C. , a Delaware
limited liability company, and any successor in interest.
"Corporate Trust Office" shall mean, with respect to the Owner
Trustee, the principal corporate trust office of the Owner Trustee located at
_____________________, or at such other address as the Owner Trustee may
designate by notice to the Owners and the Company, or the principal corporate
trust office of any successor Owner Trustee at the address designated by such
successor Owner Trustee by notice to the Owners and the Company.
"Definitive Trust Certificates" shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 3.11.
"Demand Note" shall mean, in the case of _____________, the Demand
Note dated __________, from [_______________] to ________________.
"ERISA" shall have the meaning assigned thereto in Section 11.13.
"Exchange Act" shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended.
"Expenses" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section
8.02.
"Indemnified Parties" shall have the meaning assigned to such term
in Section 8.02.
"Indenture" shall mean the Indenture dated as of _______________
between the Trust and ___________, as Indenture Trustee.
"Initial Certificate Balance" shall mean $________________.
"Note Depository Agreement" shall mean the agreement dated
________________, among the Trust, the Indenture Trustee and The Depository
Trust Company, as the initial Clearing Agency, relating to the Notes, as the
same may be amended and supplemented from time to time. "Owner" shall mean each
Holder of a Trust Certificate.
"Owner Trust Estate" shall mean all right, title and interest of the
Trust in and to the property and rights assigned to the Trust pursuant to
Article II of the Sale and Servicing
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Agreement, all funds on deposit from time to time in the Trust Accounts and the
Certificate Distribution Account and all other property of the Trust from time
to time, including any rights of the Owner Trustee and the Trust pursuant to the
Sale and Servicing Agreement.
"Owner Trustee" shall mean _______________, a [ ] banking
corporation, not in its individual capacity but solely as owner trustee under
this Agreement, and any successor Owner Trustee hereunder.
"Paying Agent" shall mean any paying agent or co-paying agent
appointed pursuant to Section 3.09, which initially shall be ________________.
"Record Date" shall mean, with respect to any Distribution Date, the
close of business on the day immediately preceding such Distribution Date.
"Sale and Servicing Agreement" shall mean the Sale and Servicing
Agreement dated as of ________________, among the Trust, as issuer, [ ], as
seller, and ____________, as servicer, as the same may be amended or
supplemented from time to time.
"Secretary of State" shall mean the Secretary of State of the State
of [ ].
"Treasury Regulations" shall mean regulations, including proposed or
temporary regulations, promulgated under the Code. References herein to specific
provisions of proposed or temporary regulations shall include analogous
provisions of final Treasury Regulations or other successor Treasury
Regulations.
"Trust" shall mean the trust established by this Agreement.
"Trust Certificate" shall mean a certificate evidencing the
beneficial interest of a Certificate Owner in the Trust, substantially in the
form attached hereto as Exhibit A.
"Underwriter" shall mean that underwriter named in and a party to
the Certificate Underwriting Agreement dated _______________, with the Company,
pursuant to which the Trust Certificates will be offered publicly.
SECTION 1.02. Other Definitional Provisions. (a) Capitalized terms
used and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to them
in the Sale and Servicing Agreement or, if not defined therein, in the
Indenture.
(b) All terms defined in this Agreement shall have the defined
meanings when used in any certificate or other document made or delivered
pursuant hereto unless otherwise defined therein.
(c) As used in this Agreement and in any certificate or other
document made or delivered pursuant hereto or thereto, accounting terms not
defined in this Agreement or in any such certificate or other document, and
accounting terms partly defined in this Agreement or in any such certificate or
other document to the extent not defined herein or therein, shall have the
respective meanings given to them under generally accepted accounting
principles. To the extent that the definitions of accounting terms in this
Agreement or in any such certificate or other
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document are inconsistent with the meanings of such terms under generally
accepted accounting principles, the definitions contained in this Agreement or
in any such certificate or other document shall control.
(d) The words "hereof", "herein", "hereunder" and words of similar
import when used in this Agreement shall refer to this Agreement as a whole and
not to any particular provision of this Agreement; Section and Exhibit
references contained in this Agreement are references to Sections and Exhibits
in or to this Agreement unless otherwise specified; and the term "including"
shall mean "including without limitation".
(e) The definitions contained in this Agreement are applicable to
the singular as well as the plural forms of such terms and to the masculine as
well as to the feminine and neuter genders of such terms.
(f) Any agreement, instrument or statute defined or referred to
herein or in any instrument or certificate delivered in connection herewith
means such agreement, instrument or statute as from time to time amended,
modified or supplemented and includes (in the case of agreements or instruments)
references to all attachments thereto and instruments incorporated therein;
references to a Person are also to its permitted successors and assigns.
ARTICLE II
Organization
SECTION 2.01. Name. The Trust created hereby shall be known as "[ ]
Auto Owner Trust 200_-_", in which name the Owner Trustee may conduct the
business of the Trust, make and execute contracts and other instruments on
behalf of the Trust and xxx and be sued.
SECTION 2.02. Office. The office of the Trust shall be in care of
the Owner Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office or at such other address in [ ]
as the Owner Trustee may designate by written notice to the Owners and the
Company.
SECTION 2.03. Purposes and Powers. (a) The purpose of the Trust is
to engage in the following activities:
(i) to issue the Notes pursuant to the Indenture and the Trust
Certificates pursuant to this Agreement and to sell the Notes and the Trust
Certificates;
(ii) with the proceeds of the sale of the Notes and the Trust
Certificates, to purchase the Receivables, to fund the Reserve Account and to
pay the organizational, start-up and transactional expenses of the Trust and to
pay the balance to the Company pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement;
(iii) to assign, grant, transfer, pledge, mortgage and convey the
Trust Estate pursuant to the Indenture and to hold, manage and distribute to the
Owners pursuant to the terms of the Sale and Servicing Agreement any portion of
the Owner Trust Estate released from the Lien of, and remitted to the Trust
pursuant to, the Indenture;
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(iv) to enter into and perform its obligations under the Basic
Documents to which it is to be a party;
(v) to engage in those activities, including entering into
agreements, that are necessary, suitable or convenient to accomplish the
foregoing or are incidental thereto or connected therewith; and
(vi) subject to compliance with the Basic Documents, to engage in
such other activities as may be required in connection with conservation of the
Owner Trust Estate and the making of distributions to the Owners and the
Noteholders.
The Trust is hereby authorized to engage in the foregoing
activities. The Trust shall not engage in any activity other than in connection
with the foregoing or other than as required or authorized by the terms of this
Agreement or the Basic Documents.
SECTION 2.04. Appointment of Owner Trustee. The Company hereby
appoints the Owner Trustee as trustee of the Trust effective as of the date
hereof, to have all the rights, powers and duties set forth herein.
SECTION 2.05. Initial Capital Contribution of Owner Trust Estate.
The Company hereby sells, assigns, transfers, conveys and sets over to the Owner
Trustee, as of the date hereof, the sum of $1. The Owner Trustee hereby
acknowledges receipt in trust from the Company, as of the date hereof, of the
foregoing contribution, which shall constitute the initial Owner Trust Estate
and shall be deposited in the Certificate Distribution Account. The Company
shall pay organizational expenses of the Trust as they may arise or shall, upon
the request of the Owner Trustee, promptly reimburse the Owner Trustee for any
such expenses paid by the Owner Trustee.
SECTION 2.06. Declaration of Trust. The Owner Trustee hereby
declares that it will hold the Owner Trust Estate in trust upon and subject to
the conditions set forth herein for the use and benefit of the Owners, subject
to the obligations of the Trust under the Basic Documents. It is the intention
of the parties hereto that the Trust constitute a business trust under the
Business Trust Statute and that this Agreement constitute the governing
instrument of such business trust. It is the intention of the parties hereto
that, solely for income and franchise tax purposes, the Trust shall be treated
as a partnership, with the assets of the partnership being the Receivables and
other assets held by the Trust, the partners of the partnership being the
Certificateholders, and the Notes being debt of the partnership. The parties
agree that, unless otherwise required by appropriate tax authorities, the Trust
will file or cause to be filed annual or other necessary returns, reports and
other forms consistent with the characterization of the Trust as a partnership
for such tax purposes. Effective as of the date hereof, the Owner Trustee shall
have all rights, powers and duties set forth herein and in the Business Trust
Statute with respect to accomplishing the purposes of the Trust.
SECTION 2.07. Liability of the Owners. (a) The Company shall be
liable directly to and will indemnify any injured party for all losses, claims,
damages, liabilities and expenses of the Trust (including Expenses, to the
extent not paid out of the Owner Trust Estate) to the extent that the Company
would be liable if the Trust were a partnership under the [ ]
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Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act in which the Company were a general
partner; provided, however, that the Company shall not be liable for any losses
incurred by a Certificateholder in the capacity of an investor in the Trust
Certificates or by a Noteholder in the capacity of an investor in the Notes. In
addition, any third party creditors of the Trust (other than in connection with
the obligations described in the preceding sentence for which the Company shall
not be liable) shall be deemed third party beneficiaries of this paragraph. The
obligations of the Company under this paragraph shall be evidenced by the Trust
Certificates described in Section 3.10, which for purposes of the Business Trust
Statute shall be deemed to be a separate class of Trust Certificates from all
other Trust Certificates issued by the Trust; provided that the rights and
obligations evidenced by all Trust Certificates, regardless of class, shall,
except as provided in this Section, be identical.
(b) No Owner, other than to the extent set forth in paragraph (a)
above, shall have any personal liability for any liability or obligation of the
Trust.
SECTION 2.08. Title to Trust Property. Legal title to all the Owner
Trust Estate shall be vested at all times in the Trust as a separate legal
entity except where applicable law in any jurisdiction requires title to any
part of the Owner Trust Estate to be vested in a trustee or trustees, in which
case title shall be deemed to be vested in the Owner Trustee, a co-trustee
and/or a separate trustee, as the case may be.
SECTION 2.09. Situs of Trust. The Trust will be located and
administered in the State of [ ]. All bank accounts maintained by the Owner
Trustee on behalf of the Trust shall be located in the State of [ ] or the State
of [ ]. The Trust shall not have any employees in any state other than [ ];
provided, however, that nothing herein shall restrict or prohibit the Owner
Trustee from having employees within or without the State of [ ]. Payments will
be received by the Trust only in [ ] or [ ], and payments will be made by the
Trust only from [ ] or [ ]. The only office of the Trust will be at the
Corporate Trust Office in [ ].
SECTION 2.10. Representations and Warranties of the Company. The
Company hereby represents and warrants to the Owner Trustee that:
(i) The Company has been duly organized and is validly existing as a
limited liability company in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of
its organization, with the power and authority to own its properties and to
conduct its business as such properties are currently owned and such business is
presently conducted.
(ii) The Company is duly qualified to do business as a foreign
limited liability company in good standing and has obtained all necessary
licenses and approvals in all jurisdictions in which the ownership or lease of
its property or the conduct of its business shall require such qualifications.
(iii) The Company has the power and authority to execute and deliver
this Agreement and to carry out its terms; the Company has full power and
authority to sell and assign the property to be sold and assigned to and
deposited with the Trust, and the Company has duly authorized such sale and
assignment and deposit to the Trust by all necessary corporate
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action; and the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement have been
duly authorized by the Company by all necessary corporate action.
(iv) The Company has the full power and authority to purchase the
Trust Certificates that the Company has agreed to purchase pursuant to Section
3.10.
(v) The consummation of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement and the fulfillment of the terms hereof do not conflict with, result
in any breach of any of the terms and provisions of, or constitute (with or
without notice or lapse of time) a default under, the limited liability company
agreement of the Company, or any indenture, agreement or other instrument to
which the Company is a party or by which it is bound; nor result in the creation
or imposition of any Lien upon any of its properties pursuant to the terms of
any such indenture, agreement or other instrument (other than pursuant to the
Basic Documents); nor violate any law or, to the best of the Company's
knowledge, any order, rule or regulation applicable to the Company of any court
or of any federal or state regulatory body, administrative agency or other
governmental instrumentality having jurisdiction over the Company or its
properties.
(vi) There are no proceedings or investigations pending or, to the
Company's best knowledge, threatened before any court, regulatory body,
administrative agency or other governmental instrumentality having jurisdiction
over the Company or its properties: (A) asserting the invalidity of this
Agreement, (B) seeking to prevent the consummation of any of the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement or (C) seeking any determination or ruling that
might materially and adversely affect the performance by the Company of its
obligations under, or the validity or enforceability of, this Agreement.
SECTION 2.11. Maintenance of the Demand Note. To the fullest extent
permitted by applicable law, the Company agrees that it shall not sell, convey,
pledge, transfer or otherwise dispose of the Demand Note.
SECTION 2.12. Federal Income Tax Allocations. Net income of the
Trust for any month as determined for federal income tax purposes (and each item
of income, gain, loss and deduction entering into the computation thereof) shall
be allocated:
(a) among the Certificate Owners as of the first day following the
end of such month, in proportion to their ownership of principal amount of Trust
Certificates on such date, net income in an amount up to the sum of: (i) the
Certificateholders' Monthly Interest Distributable Amount for such month, (ii)
interest on the excess, if any, of the Certificateholders' Interest
Distributable Amount for the preceding Distribution Date over the amount in
respect of interest that is actually deposited in the Certificate Distribution
Account on such preceding Distribution Date, to the extent permitted by law, at
the Pass-Through Rate from such preceding Distribution Date through the current
Distribution Date, (iii) the portion of the market discount on the Receivables
accrued during such month that is allocable to the excess, if any, of the
initial aggregate principal amount of the Trust Certificates over their initial
aggregate issue price, (iv) any amount expected to be distributed to the
Certificateholders pursuant to Section 5.07(g) of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement (to the extent not previously allocated pursuant to this clause), and
(v) any other amounts of income payable to the Certificateholders for such
month; such sum
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to be reduced by any amortization by the Trust of premium on Receivables that
corresponds to any excess of the issue price of Certificates over their
principal amount; and
(b) to the Company, to the extent of any remaining net income.
If the net income of the Trust for any month is insufficient for the
allocations described in clause (a) above, subsequent net income shall first be
allocated to make up such shortfall before being allocated as provided in the
preceding sentence. Net losses of the Trust, if any, for any month as determined
for federal income tax purposes (and each item of income, gain, loss and
deduction entering into the computation thereof) shall be allocated to the
Company to the extent the Company is reasonably expected to bear the economic
burden of such net losses, and any remaining net losses shall be allocated among
the Certificate Owners as of the first Record Date following the end of such
month in proportion to their ownership of principal amount of Trust Certificates
on such Record Date. The Company is authorized to modify the allocations in this
paragraph if necessary or appropriate, in its sole discretion, for the
allocations to fairly reflect the economic income, gain or loss to the Company
or to the Certificate Owners, or as otherwise required by the Code.
ARTICLE III
Trust Certificates and Transfer of Interests
SECTION 3.01. Initial Ownership. Upon the formation of the Trust by
the contribution by the Company pursuant to Section 2.05 and until the issuance
of the Trust Certificates, the Company shall be the sole beneficiary of the
Trust.
SECTION 3.02. The Trust Certificates. The Trust Certificates shall
be issued in minimum denominations of $20,000 and in integral multiples of $1 in
excess thereof; provided, however, that the Trust Certificates issued to the
Company pursuant to Section 3.10 may be issued in such denomination as required
to include any residual amount. The Trust Certificates shall be executed on
behalf of the Trust by manual or facsimile signature of an authorized officer of
the Owner Trustee. Trust Certificates bearing the manual or facsimile signatures
of individuals who were, at the time when such signatures shall have been
affixed, authorized to sign on behalf of the Trust, shall be validly issued and
entitled to the benefit of this Agreement, notwithstanding that such individuals
or any of them shall have ceased to be so authorized prior to the authentication
and delivery of such Trust Certificates or did not hold such offices at the date
of authentication and delivery of such Trust Certificates.
A transferee of a Trust Certificate shall become a Certificateholder
and shall be entitled to the rights and subject to the obligations of a
Certificateholder hereunder upon such transferee's acceptance of a Trust
Certificate duly registered in such transferee's name pursuant to Section 3.04.
SECTION 3.03. Authentication of Trust Certificates. On the Closing
Date, the Owner Trustee shall cause the Trust Certificates in an aggregate
principal amount equal to the Initial Certificate Balance to be executed on
behalf of the Trust, authenticated and delivered to or upon the written order of
the Company, signed by its chairman of the board, its president, any vice
president, secretary or any assistant treasurer, without further limited
liability company
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action by the Company, in authorized denominations. No Trust Certificate shall
entitle its Holder to any benefit under this Agreement or be valid for any
purpose unless there shall appear on such Trust Certificate a certificate of
authentication substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit A, executed by the
Owner Trustee by manual signature; such authentication shall constitute
conclusive evidence that such Trust Certificate shall have been duly
authenticated and delivered hereunder. All Trust Certificates shall be dated the
date of their authentication.
SECTION 3.04. Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust
Certificates. The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the
office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a Certificate Register in
which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Owner
Trustee shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of
transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided.
_______________ shall be the initial Certificate Registrar.
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate
at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, the Owner Trustee
shall execute, authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated
transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized
denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the
Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Trust
Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized
denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust
Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to
Section 3.08.
Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of
transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in
form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly
executed by the Holder or such Holder's attorney duly authorized in writing.
Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange
shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee in
accordance with its customary practice.
No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or
exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate
Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or
governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or
exchange of Trust Certificates.
The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner
Trustee shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register
transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding
the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
SECTION 3.05. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Trust
Certificates. If: (a) any mutilated Trust Certificate shall be surrendered to
the Certificate Registrar, or if the Certificate Registrar shall receive
evidence to its satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Trust
Certificate and (b) there shall be delivered to the Certificate Registrar and
the Owner Trustee such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save
each of them harmless, then in the absence of notice that such Trust Certificate
has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the
Trust shall execute, authenticate and deliver, in
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exchange for or in lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Trust
Certificate, a new Trust Certificate of like tenor and denomination. In
connection with the issuance of any new Trust Certificate under this Section,
the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require the payment of a sum
sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in
connection therewith. Any duplicate Trust Certificate issued pursuant to this
Section shall constitute conclusive evidence of ownership in the Trust, as if
originally issued, whether or not the lost, stolen or destroyed Trust
Certificate shall be found at any time.
SECTION 3.06. Persons Deemed Owners. Prior to due presentation of a
Trust Certificate for registration of transfer, the Owner Trustee, the
Certificate Registrar or any Paying Agent may treat the Person in whose name any
Trust Certificate is registered in the Certificate Register as the owner of such
Trust Certificate for the purpose of receiving distributions pursuant to Section
5.02 and for all other purposes whatsoever, and none of the Owner Trustee, the
Certificate Registrar or any Paying Agent shall be bound by any notice to the
contrary.
SECTION 3.07. Access to List of Certificateholders' Names and
Addresses. The Owner Trustee shall furnish or cause to be furnished to the
Servicer and the Company, within 15 days after receipt by the Owner Trustee of a
written request therefor from the Servicer or the Company, a list, in such form
as the Servicer or the Company may reasonably require, of the names and
addresses of the Certificateholders as of the most recent Record Date. If three
or more Certificateholders or one or more Holders of Trust Certificates
evidencing not less than 25% of the Certificate Balance apply in writing to the
Owner Trustee, and such application states that the applicants desire to
communicate with other Certificateholders with respect to their rights under
this Agreement or under the Trust Certificates and such application is
accompanied by a copy of the communication that such applicants propose to
transmit, then the Owner Trustee shall, within five Business Days after the
receipt of such application, afford such applicants access during normal
business hours to the current list of Certificateholders. Each Holder, by
receiving and holding a Trust Certificate, shall be deemed to have agreed not to
hold any of the Company, the Company, the Certificate Registrar or the Owner
Trustee accountable by reason of the disclosure of its name and address,
regardless of the source from which such information is derived.
SECTION 3.08. Maintenance of Office or Agency. The Owner Trustee
shall maintain in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, an office or
offices or agency or agencies where Trust Certificates may be surrendered for
registration of transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon
the Owner Trustee in respect of the Trust Certificates and the Basic Documents
may be served. The Owner Trustee initially designates ______________ as its
office for such purposes. The Owner Trustee shall give prompt written notice to
the Company and to the Certificateholders of any change in the location of the
Certificate Register or any such office or agency.
SECTION 3.09. Appointment of Paying Agent. The Paying Agent shall
make distributions to Certificateholders from the Certificate Distribution
Account pursuant to Section 5.02 and shall report the amounts of such
distributions to the Owner Trustee. Any Paying Agent shall have the revocable
power to withdraw funds from the Certificate Distribution Account for the
purpose of making the distributions referred to above. The Owner Trustee may
revoke such power and remove the Paying Agent if the Owner Trustee determines in
its sole discretion that
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the Paying Agent shall have failed to perform its obligations under this
Agreement in any material respect. The Paying Agent initially shall be
_______________, and any co-paying agent chosen by _____________ and acceptable
to the Owner Trustee. _______________ shall be permitted to resign as Paying
Agent upon 30 days' written notice to the Owner Trustee. In the event that
_______________ shall no longer be the Paying Agent, the Owner Trustee shall
appoint a successor to act as Paying Agent (which shall be a bank or trust
company). The Owner Trustee shall cause such successor Paying Agent or any
additional Paying Agent appointed by the Owner Trustee to execute and deliver to
the Owner Trustee an instrument in which such successor Paying Agent or
additional Paying Agent shall agree with the Owner Trustee that, as Paying
Agent, such successor Paying Agent or additional Paying Agent will hold all
sums, if any, held by it for payment to the Certificateholders in trust for the
benefit of the Certificateholders entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid
to such Certificateholders. The Paying Agent shall return all unclaimed funds to
the Owner Trustee and upon removal of a Paying Agent such Paying Agent shall
also return all funds in its possession to the Owner Trustee. The provisions of
Sections 7.01, 7.03, 7.04 and 8.01 shall apply to the Owner Trustee also in its
role as Paying Agent for so long as the Owner Trustee shall act as Paying Agent
and, to the extent applicable, to any other paying agent appointed hereunder.
Any reference in this Agreement to the Paying Agent shall include any co-paying
agent unless the context requires otherwise.
SECTION 3.10. Ownership by Company of Trust Certificates. The
Company shall on the Closing Date purchase from the Underwriter Trust
Certificates representing at least 1% of the Initial Certificate Balance and
shall thereafter retain beneficial and record ownership of Trust Certificates
representing at least 1% of the Certificate Balance. Any attempted transfer of
any Trust Certificate that would reduce such interest of the Company below 1% of
the Certificate Balance shall be void. The Owner Trustee shall cause any Trust
Certificate issued to the Company to contain a legend stating "THIS CERTIFICATE
IS NON-TRANSFERABLE AS DESCRIBED IN SECTION 3.10 OF THE TRUST AGREEMENT".
SECTION 3.11. Book-Entry Trust Certificates. The Trust Certificates,
upon original issuance, will be issued in the form of a typewritten Trust
Certificate or Trust Certificates representing Book-Entry Trust Certificates, to
be delivered to The Depository Trust Company, the initial Clearing Agency, by,
or on behalf of, the Trust; provided, however, that one Definitive Trust
Certificate may be issued to the Company pursuant to Section 3.10. Such Trust
Certificate or Trust Certificates shall initially be registered on the
Certificate Register in the name of Cede & Co., the nominee of the initial
Clearing Agency, and no Certificate Owner will receive a definitive Trust
Certificate representing such Certificate Owner's interest in such Trust
Certificate, except as provided in Section 3.13. Unless and until definitive,
fully registered Trust Certificates (the "Definitive Trust Certificates") have
been issued to Certificate Owners pursuant to Section 3.13:
(a) The provisions of this Section shall be in full force and
effect;
(b) The Certificate Registrar and the Owner Trustee shall be
entitled to deal with the Clearing Agency for all purposes of this Agreement
(including the payment of principal of and interest on the Trust Certificates
and the giving of instructions or directions hereunder) as the sole Holder of
the Trust Certificates and shall have no obligation to the Certificate Owners;
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(c) To the extent that the provisions of this Section conflict with
any other provisions of this Agreement, the provisions of this Section shall
control;
(d) The rights of Certificate Owners shall be exercised only through
the Clearing Agency and shall be limited to those established by law and
agreements between such Certificate Owners and the Clearing Agency and/or the
Clearing Agency Participants. Pursuant to the Certificate Depository Agreement,
unless and until Definitive Trust Certificates are issued pursuant to Section
3.13, the initial Clearing Agency will make book- entry transfers among the
Clearing Agency Participants and receive and transmit payments of principal of
and interest on the Trust Certificates to such Clearing Agency Participants; and
(e) Whenever this Agreement requires or permits actions to be taken
based upon instructions or directions of Holders of Trust Certificates
evidencing a specified percentage of the Certificate Balance, the Clearing
Agency shall be deemed to represent such percentage only to the extent that it
has received instructions to such effect from Certificate Owners and/or Clearing
Agency Participants owning or representing, respectively, such required
percentage of the beneficial interest in the Trust Certificates and has
delivered such instructions to the Owner Trustee.
SECTION 3.12. Notices to Clearing Agency. Whenever a notice or other
communication to the Certificateholders is required under this Agreement, unless
and until Definitive Trust Certificates shall have been issued to Certificate
Owners pursuant to Section 3.13, the Owner Trustee shall give all such notices
and communications specified herein to be given to Certificateholders to the
Clearing Agency, and shall have no obligations to the Certificate Owners.
SECTION 3.13. Definitive Trust Certificates. If: (i) the Company
advises the Owner Trustee in writing that the Clearing Agency is no longer
willing or able to properly discharge its responsibilities with respect to the
Trust Certificates and the Company is unable to locate a qualified successor,
(ii) the Company at its option advises the Owner Trustee in writing that it
elects to terminate the book-entry system through the Clearing Agency or (iii)
after the occurrence of an Event of Default or a Servicer Default, Certificate
Owners representing beneficial interests aggregating at least a majority of the
Certificate Balance advise the Clearing Agency in writing that the continuation
of a book-entry system through the Clearing Agency is no longer in the best
interest of the Certificate Owners, then the Clearing Agency shall notify all
Certificate Owners and the Owner Trustee of the occurrence of such event and of
the availability of the Definitive Trust Certificates to Certificate Owners
requesting the same. Upon surrender to the Owner Trustee of the typewritten
Trust Certificate or Trust Certificates representing the Book-Entry Trust
Certificates by the Clearing Agency, accompanied by registration instructions,
the Owner Trustee shall execute and authenticate the Definitive Trust
Certificates in accordance with the instructions of the Clearing Agency. Neither
the Certificate Registrar nor the Owner Trustee shall be liable for any delay in
delivery of such instructions and may conclusively rely on, and shall be
protected in relying on, such instructions. Upon the issuance of Definitive
Trust Certificates, the Owner Trustee shall recognize the Holders of the
Definitive Trust Certificates as Certificateholders. The Definitive Trust
Certificates shall be printed, lithographed or engraved or may be produced in
any other manner that is reasonably acceptable to the Owner Trustee, as
evidenced by its execution thereof.
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ARTICLE IV
Actions by Owner Trustee
SECTION 4.01. Prior Notice to Owners with Respect to Certain
Matters. With respect to the following matters, the Owner Trustee shall not take
action unless at least 30 days before the taking of such action, the Owner
Trustee shall have notified the Certificateholders in writing of the proposed
action and the Owners shall not have notified the Owner Trustee in writing prior
to the 30th day after such notice is given that such Owners have withheld
consent or provided alternative direction:
(a) the initiation of any claim or lawsuit by the Trust (except
claims or lawsuits brought in connection with the collection of the Receivables)
and the compromise of any action, claim or lawsuit brought by or against the
Trust (except with respect to the aforementioned claims or lawsuits for
collection of the Receivables);
(b) the election by the Trust to file an amendment to the
Certificate of Trust (unless such amendment is required to be filed under the
Business Trust Statute);
(c) the amendment of the Indenture by a supplemental indenture in
circumstances where the consent of any Noteholder is required;
(d) the amendment of the Indenture by a supplemental indenture in
circumstances where the consent of any Noteholder is not required and such
amendment materially adversely affects the interests of the Owners; or
(e) the appointment pursuant to the Indenture of a successor Note
Registrar, Paying Agent or Indenture Trustee or pursuant to this Agreement of a
successor Certificate Registrar, or the consent to the assignment by the Note
Registrar, Paying Agent or Indenture Trustee or Certificate Registrar of its
obligations under the Indenture or this Agreement, as applicable.
SECTION 4.02. Action by Owners with Respect to Certain Matters. The
Owner Trustee shall not have the power, except upon the direction of the Owners,
to: (a) remove the Servicer under the Sale and Servicing Agreement pursuant to
Section 8.01 thereof or (b) except as expressly provided in the Basic Documents,
sell the Receivables after the termination of the Indenture. The Owner Trustee
shall take the actions referred to in the preceding sentence only upon written
instructions signed by the Owners.
SECTION 4.03. Action by Owners with Respect to Bankruptcy. The Owner
Trustee shall not have the power to commence a voluntary proceeding in
bankruptcy relating to the Trust without the unanimous prior approval of all
Owners and the delivery to the Owner Trustee by each such Owner of a certificate
certifying that such Owner reasonably believes that the Trust is insolvent.
SECTION 4.04. Restrictions on Owners' Power. The Owners shall not
direct the Owner Trustee to take or to refrain from taking any action if such
action or inaction would be contrary to any obligation of the Trust or the Owner
Trustee under this Agreement or any of the
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Basic Documents or would be contrary to Section 2.03, nor shall the Owner
Trustee be obligated to follow any such direction, if given.
SECTION 4.05. Majority Control. Except as expressly provided herein,
any action that may be taken by the Owners under this Agreement may be taken by
the Holders of Trust Certificates evidencing not less than a majority of the
Certificate Balance. Except as expressly provided herein, any written notice to
the Owners delivered pursuant to this Agreement shall be effective if signed by
Holders of Trust Certificates evidencing not less than a majority of the
Certificate Balance at the time of the delivery of such notice.
ARTICLE V
Application of Trust Funds; Certain Duties
SECTION 5.01. Establishment of Trust Account. The Owner Trustee, for
the benefit of the Certificateholders, shall establish and maintain in the name
of the Trust an Eligible Deposit Account (the "Certificate Distribution
Account"), bearing a designation clearly indicating that the funds deposited
therein are held for the benefit of the Certificateholders.
The Owner Trustee shall possess all right, title and interest in all
funds on deposit from time to time in the Certificate Distribution Account and
in all proceeds thereof. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, the
Certificate Distribution Account shall be under the sole dominion and control of
the Owner Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders. If, at any time,
the Certificate Distribution Account ceases to be an Eligible Deposit Account,
the Owner Trustee (or the Company on behalf of the Owner Trustee, if the
Certificate Distribution Account is not then held by the Owner Trustee or an
affiliate thereof) shall within 10 Business Days (or such longer period not to
exceed 30 calendar days, as to which each Rating Agency may consent) establish a
new Certificate Distribution Account as an Eligible Deposit Account and shall
transfer any cash and/or any investments to such new Certificate Distribution
Account.
SECTION 5.02. Application of Trust Funds. (a) On each Distribution
Date, the Owner Trustee will distribute to Certificateholders, on a pro rata
basis, amounts deposited in the Certificate Distribution Account pursuant to
Sections 5.06 and 5.07 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement with respect to such
Distribution Date.
(b) On each Distribution Date, the Owner Trustee shall send to each
Certificateholder the statement or statements provided to the Owner Trustee by
the Servicer pursuant to Section 5.08 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement with
respect to such Distribution Date.
(c) In the event that any withholding tax is imposed on the Trust's
payment (or allocations of income) to an Owner, such tax shall reduce the amount
otherwise distributable to the Owner in accordance with this Section. The Owner
Trustee is hereby authorized and directed to retain from amounts otherwise
distributable to the Owners sufficient funds for the payment of any tax that is
legally owed by the Trust (but such authorization shall not prevent the Owner
Trustee from contesting any such tax in appropriate proceedings and withholding
payment of such tax, if permitted by law, pending the outcome of such
proceedings). The amount of any withholding tax imposed with respect to an Owner
shall be treated as cash distributed to such
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Owner at the time it is withheld by the Trust and remitted to the appropriate
taxing authority. If there is a possibility that withholding tax is payable with
respect to a distribution (such as a distribution to a non-U.S. Owner), the
Owner Trustee may in its sole discretion withhold such amounts in accordance
with this paragraph (c).
SECTION 5.03. Method of Payment. Subject to Section 9.01(c),
distributions required to be made to Certificateholders on any Distribution Date
shall be made to each Certificateholder of record on the preceding Record Date
either by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the account of such
Holder at a bank or other entity having appropriate facilities therefor, if such
Certificateholder shall have provided to the Certificate Registrar appropriate
written instructions at least five Business Days prior to such Distribution Date
and such Holder's Trust Certificates in the aggregate evidence a denomination of
not less than $____________, or, if not, by check mailed to such
Certificateholder at the address of such holder appearing in the Certificate
Register.
SECTION 5.04. No Segregation of Moneys; No Interest. Subject to
Sections 5.01 and 5.02, moneys received by the Owner Trustee hereunder need not
be segregated in any manner except to the extent required by law or the Sale and
Servicing Agreement and may be deposited under such general conditions as may be
prescribed by law, and the Owner Trustee shall not be liable for any interest
thereon.
SECTION 5.05. Accounting and Reports to the Noteholders, Owners, the
Internal Revenue Service and Others. The Owner Trustee shall: (a) maintain (or
cause to be maintained) the books of the Trust on a calendar year basis and the
accrual method of accounting, (b) deliver to each Owner, as may be required by
the Code and applicable Treasury Regulations, such information as may be
required (including Schedule K-1) to enable each Owner to prepare its federal
and state income tax returns, (c) file such tax returns relating to the Trust
(including a partnership information return, IRS Form 1065) and make such
elections as from time to time may be required or appropriate under any
applicable state or federal statute or any rule or regulation thereunder so as
to maintain the Trust's characterization as a partnership for federal income tax
purposes, (d) cause such tax returns to be signed in the manner required by law
and (e) collect or cause to be collected any withholding tax as described in and
in accordance with Section 5.02(c) with respect to income or distributions to
Owners. The Owner Trustee shall elect under Section 1278 of the Code to include
in income currently any market discount that accrues with respect to the
Receivables. The Owner Trustee shall not make the election provided under
Section 754 of the Code.
SECTION 5.06. Signature on Returns; Tax Matters Partner. (a) The
Owner Trustee shall sign on behalf of the Trust the tax returns of the Trust
unless applicable law requires an Owner to sign such documents, in which case
such documents shall be signed by the Company.
(b) The Company shall be designated the "tax matters partner" of the
Trust pursuant to Section 6231(a)(7)(A) of the Code and applicable Treasury
Regulations.
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ARTICLE VI
Authority and Duties of Owner Trustee
SECTION 6.01. General Authority. The Owner Trustee is authorized and
directed to execute and deliver the Basic Documents to which the Trust is to be
a party and each certificate or other document attached as an exhibit to or
contemplated by the Basic Documents to which the Trust is to be a party, in each
case, in such form as the Company shall approve, as evidenced conclusively by
the Owner Trustee's execution thereof. In addition to the foregoing, the Owner
Trustee is authorized, but shall not be obligated, to take all actions required
of the Trust pursuant to the Basic Documents. The Owner Trustee is further
authorized from time to time to take such action as the Company recommends with
respect to the Basic Documents.
SECTION 6.02. General Duties. It shall be the duty of the Owner
Trustee to discharge (or cause to be discharged) all of its responsibilities
pursuant to the terms of this Agreement and the Basic Documents to which the
Trust is a party and to administer the Trust in the interest of the Owners,
subject to the Basic Documents and in accordance with the provisions of this
Agreement.
SECTION 6.03. Action upon Instruction. (a) Subject to Article IV and
in accordance with the terms of the Basic Documents, the Owners may by written
instruction direct the Owner Trustee in the management of the Trust. Such
direction may be exercised at any time by written instruction of the Owners
pursuant to Article IV.
(b) The Owner Trustee shall not be required to take any action
hereunder or under any Basic Document if the Owner Trustee shall have reasonably
determined, or shall have been advised by counsel, that such action is likely to
result in liability on the part of the Owner Trustee or is contrary to the terms
hereof or of any Basic Document or is otherwise contrary to law.
(c) Whenever the Owner Trustee is unable to decide between
alternative courses of action permitted or required by the terms of this
Agreement or under any Basic Document, the Owner Trustee shall promptly give
notice (in such form as shall be appropriate under the circumstances) to the
Owners requesting instructions as to the course of action to be adopted, and to
the extent the Owner Trustee acts in good faith in accordance with any written
instruction received from the Owners, the Owner Trustee shall not be liable on
account of such action to any Person. If the Owner Trustee shall not have
received appropriate instruction within 10 days of such notice (or within such
shorter period of time as reasonably may be specified in such notice or may be
necessary under the circumstances) it may, but shall be under no duty to, take
or refrain from taking such action not inconsistent with this Agreement or the
Basic Documents as it shall deem to be in the best interests of the Owners, and
shall have no liability to any Person for such action or inaction.
(d) In the event that the Owner Trustee is unsure as to the
application of any provision of this Agreement or any Basic Document, or any
such provision is ambiguous as to its application or is, or appears to be, in
conflict with any other applicable provision, or in the event that this
Agreement permits any determination by the Owner Trustee or is silent or is
incomplete as to the course of action that the Owner Trustee is required to take
with respect to a particular
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set of facts, the Owner Trustee may give notice (in such form as shall be
appropriate under the circumstances) to the Owners requesting instruction and,
to the extent that the Owner Trustee acts or refrains from acting in good faith
in accordance with any such instruction received, the Owner Trustee shall not be
liable with respect to any such action or inaction to any Person. If the Owner
Trustee shall not have received appropriate instruction within 10 days of such
notice (or within such shorter period of time as reasonably may be specified in
such notice or may be necessary under the circumstances) it may, but shall be
under no duty to, take or refrain from taking such action not inconsistent with
this Agreement or the Basic Documents as it shall deem to be in the best
interests of the Owners, and shall have no liability to any Person for such
action or inaction.
SECTION 6.04. No Duties Except as Specified in this Agreement or in
Instructions. The Owner Trustee shall not have any duty or obligation to manage,
make any payment with respect to, register, record, sell, dispose of, or
otherwise deal with the Owner Trust Estate, or to otherwise take or refrain from
taking any action under, or in connection with, any document contemplated hereby
to which the Owner Trustee is a party, except as expressly provided by the terms
of this Agreement or in any document or written instruction received by the
Owner Trustee pursuant to Section 6.03; and no implied duties or obligations
shall be read into this Agreement or any Basic Document against the Owner
Trustee. The Owner Trustee shall have no responsibility for filing any financing
or continuation statement in any public office at any time or to otherwise
perfect or maintain the perfection of any security interest or lien granted to
it hereunder or to prepare or file any Securities and Exchange Commission filing
for the Trust or to record this Agreement or any Basic Document. The Owner
Trustee nevertheless agrees that it will, at its own cost and expense, promptly
take all action that may be necessary to discharge any liens on any part of the
Owner Trust Estate that result from actions by, or claims against, the Owner
Trustee that are not related to the ownership or the administration of the Owner
Trust Estate.
SECTION 6.05. No Action Except Under Specified Documents or
Instructions. The Owner Trustee shall not manage, control, use, sell, dispose of
or otherwise deal with any part of the Owner Trust Estate except: (i) in
accordance with the powers granted to and the authority conferred upon the Owner
Trustee pursuant to this Agreement, (ii) in accordance with the Basic Documents
and (iii) in accordance with any document or instruction delivered to the Owner
Trustee pursuant to Section 6.03.
SECTION 6.06. Restrictions. The Owner Trustee shall not take any
action: (a) that is inconsistent with the purposes of the Trust set forth in
Section 2.03 or (b) that, to the actual knowledge of the Owner Trustee, would
result in the Trust's becoming taxable as a corporation for federal income tax
purposes. The Owners shall not direct the Owner Trustee to take action that
would violate the provisions of this Section.
ARTICLE VII
Concerning the Owner Trustee
SECTION 7.01. Acceptance of Trust and Duties. The Owner Trustee
accepts the trusts hereby created and agrees to perform its duties hereunder
with respect to such trusts, but only upon the terms of this Agreement. The
Owner Trustee also agrees to disburse all moneys
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actually received by it constituting part of the Owner Trust Estate upon the
terms of the Basic Documents and this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall not be
answerable or accountable hereunder or under any Basic Document under any
circumstances, except: (i) for its own willful misconduct or negligence or (ii)
in the case of the inaccuracy of any representation or warranty contained in
Section 7.03 expressly made by the Owner Trustee. In particular, but not by way
of limitation (and subject to the exceptions set forth in the preceding
sentence):
(a) The Owner Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment
made by a Trust Officer of the Owner Trustee;
(b) The Owner Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action
taken or omitted to be taken by it in accordance with the instructions of any
Owner transmitted pursuant to the terms hereof;
(c) No provision of this Agreement or any Basic Document shall
require the Owner Trustee to expend or risk funds or otherwise incur any
financial liability in the performance of its rights or powers hereunder or
under any Basic Document if the Owner Trustee shall have reasonable grounds for
believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk
or liability is not reasonably assured or provided to it;
(d) Under no circumstances shall the Owner Trustee be liable for
indebtedness evidenced by or arising under any of the Basic Documents, including
the principal of and interest on the Notes;
(e) The Owner Trustee shall not be responsible for or in respect of
the validity or sufficiency of this Agreement or for the due execution hereof by
the Company, or for the form, character, genuineness, sufficiency, value or
validity of any of the Owner Trust Estate, or for or in respect of the validity
or sufficiency of the Basic Documents, other than the certificate of
authentication on the Trust Certificates, and the Owner Trustee shall in no
event assume or incur any liability, duty or obligation to any Noteholder or to
any Owner, other than as expressly provided for herein or expressly agreed to in
the Basic Documents;
(f) The Owner Trustee shall not be liable for the default or
misconduct of the Company, the Indenture Trustee or the Servicer under any of
the Basic Documents or otherwise, and the Owner Trustee shall have no obligation
or liability to perform the obligations of the Trust under this Agreement or the
Basic Documents that are required to be performed by the Indenture Trustee under
the Indenture or the Servicer or the Company under the Sale and Servicing
Agreement; and
(g) The Owner Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any
of the rights or powers vested in it by this Agreement, or to institute, conduct
or defend any litigation under this Agreement or otherwise or in relation to
this Agreement or any Basic Document, at the request, order or direction of any
of the Owners, unless such Owners have offered to the Owner Trustee security or
indemnity satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities that
may be incurred by the Owner Trustee therein or thereby. The right of the Owner
Trustee to perform any discretionary act enumerated in this Agreement or in any
Basic Document shall not be
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construed as a duty, and the Owner Trustee shall not be answerable for other
than its negligence or willful misconduct in the performance of any such act.
SECTION 7.02. Furnishing of Documents. The Owner Trustee shall
furnish to the Owners promptly upon receipt of a written request therefor,
duplicates or copies of all reports, notices, requests, demands, certificates,
financial statements and any other instruments furnished to the Owner Trustee
under the Basic Documents.
SECTION 7.03. Representations and Warranties. The Owner Trustee
hereby represents and warrants to the Company, for the benefit of the Owners,
that:
(a) It is a banking corporation duly organized and validly existing
in good standing under the laws of the State of [ ]. It has all requisite
corporate power and authority to execute, deliver and perform its obligations
under this Agreement.
(b) It has taken all corporate action necessary to authorize the
execution and delivery by it of this Agreement, and this Agreement will be
executed and delivered by one of its officers who is duly authorized to execute
and deliver this Agreement on its behalf.
(c) None of the execution and delivery by it of this Agreement, the
consummation by it of the transactions contemplated hereby or compliance by it
with any of the terms or provisions hereof will contravene any federal or [ ]
law, governmental rule or regulation governing the banking or trust powers of
the Owner Trustee or any judgment or order binding on it, or constitute any
default under its charter documents or bylaws or any indenture, mortgage,
contract, agreement or instrument to which it is a party or by which any of its
properties may be bound.
SECTION 7.04. Reliance; Advice of Counsel. (a) The Owner Trustee
shall incur no liability to anyone in acting upon any signature, instrument,
notice, resolution, request, consent, order, certificate, report, opinion, bond,
or other document or paper believed by it to be genuine and believed by it to be
signed by the proper party or parties. The Owner Trustee may accept a certified
copy of a resolution of the board of directors or other governing body of any
corporate party as conclusive evidence that such resolution has been duly
adopted by such body and that the same is in full force and effect. As to any
fact or matter the method of determination of which is not specifically
prescribed herein, the Owner Trustee may for all purposes hereof rely on a
certificate, signed by the president or any vice president or by the treasurer
or other authorized officers of the relevant party, as to such fact or matter,
and such certificate shall constitute full protection to the Owner Trustee for
any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in reliance thereon.
(b) In the exercise or administration of the trusts hereunder and in
the performance of its duties and obligations under this Agreement or the Basic
Documents, the Owner Trustee: (i) may act directly or through its agents or
attorneys pursuant to agreements entered into with any of them, and the Owner
Trustee shall not be liable for the conduct or misconduct of such agents or
attorneys if such agents or attorneys shall have been selected by the Owner
Trustee with reasonable care, and (ii) may consult with counsel, accountants and
other skilled Persons to be selected with reasonable care and employed by it.
The Owner Trustee shall
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not be liable for anything done, suffered or omitted in good faith by it in
accordance with the written opinion or advice of any such counsel, accountants
or other such Persons and not contrary to this Agreement or any Basic Document.
SECTION 7.05. Not Acting in Individual Capacity. Except as provided
in this Article VII, in accepting the trusts hereby created ____________________
acts solely as Owner Trustee hereunder and not in its individual capacity, and
all Persons having any claim against the Owner Trustee by reason of the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any Basic Document shall look
only to the Owner Trust Estate for payment or satisfaction thereof.
SECTION 7.06. Owner Trustee Not Liable for Trust Certificates or
Receivables. The recitals contained herein and in the Trust Certificates (other
than the signature and countersignature of the Owner Trustee on the Trust
Certificates) shall be taken as the statements of the Company, and the Owner
Trustee assumes no responsibility for the correctness thereof. The Owner Trustee
makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Agreement, of
any Basic Document or of the Trust Certificates (other than the signature and
countersignature of the Owner Trustee on the Trust Certificates) or the Notes,
or of any Receivable or any related documents. The Owner Trustee shall at no
time have any responsibility or liability for or with respect to the legality,
validity and enforceability of any Receivable, or the perfection and priority of
any security interest created by any Receivable in any Financed Vehicle or the
maintenance of any such perfection and priority, or for or with respect to the
sufficiency of the Owner Trust Estate or its ability to generate the payments to
be distributed to Certificateholders under this Agreement or to Noteholders
under the Indenture, including, without limitation: the existence, condition and
ownership of any Financed Vehicle; the existence and enforceability of any
insurance thereon; the existence and contents of any Receivable on any computer
or other record thereof; the validity of the assignment of any Receivable to the
Trust or of any intervening assignment; the completeness of any Receivable; the
performance or enforcement of any Receivable; the compliance by the Company or
the Servicer with any warranty or representation made under any Basic Document
or in any related document or the accuracy of any such warranty or
representation, or any action of the Indenture Trustee or the Servicer or any
subservicer taken in the name of the Owner Trustee.
SECTION 7.07. Owner Trustee May Own Trust Certificates and Notes.
The Owner Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner
or pledgee of Trust Certificates or Notes and may deal with the Company, the
Indenture Trustee and the Servicer in banking transactions with the same rights
it would have if it were not Owner Trustee.
ARTICLE VIII
Compensation of Owner Trustee
SECTION 8.01. Owner Trustee's Fees and Expenses. The Owner Trustee
shall receive as compensation for its services hereunder such fees as have been
separately agreed upon before the date hereof between the Company and the Owner
Trustee, and the Owner Trustee shall be entitled to be reimbursed by the Company
for its other reasonable expenses hereunder, including the reasonable
compensation, expenses and disbursements of such agents, representatives,
experts and counsel as the Owner Trustee may employ in connection with the
exercise and performance of its rights and its duties hereunder.
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SECTION 8.02. Indemnification. The Company shall be liable as
primary obligor for, and shall indemnify the Owner Trustee and its successors,
assigns, agents and servants (collectively, the "Indemnified Parties") from and
against, any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, taxes, claims,
actions and suits, and any and all reasonable costs, expenses and disbursements
(including reasonable legal fees and expenses) of any kind and nature whatsoever
(collectively, "Expenses") which may at any time be imposed on, incurred by or
asserted against the Owner Trustee or any Indemnified Party in any way relating
to or arising out of this Agreement, the Basic Documents, the Owner Trust
Estate, the administration of the Owner Trust Estate or the action or inaction
of the Owner Trustee hereunder, except only that the Company shall not be liable
for or required to indemnify an Indemnified Party from and against Expenses
arising or resulting from any of the matters described in the third sentence of
Section 7.01. The indemnities contained in this Section shall survive the
resignation or termination of the Owner Trustee or the termination of this
Agreement. In the event of any claim, action or proceeding for which indemnity
will be sought pursuant to this Section, the Owner Trustee's choice of legal
counsel shall be subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall
not be unreasonably withheld.
SECTION 8.03. Payments to the Owner Trustee. Any amounts paid to the
Owner Trustee pursuant to this Article VIII shall be deemed not to be a part of
the Owner Trust Estate immediately after such payment.
ARTICLE IX
Termination of Trust Agreement
SECTION 9.01. Termination of Trust Agreement. (a) This Agreement
(other than Article VIII) and the Trust shall terminate and be of no further
force or effect: (i) upon the final distribution by the Owner Trustee of all
moneys or other property or proceeds of the Owner Trust Estate in accordance
with the terms of the Indenture, the Sale and Servicing Agreement and Article V
or (ii) at the time provided in Section 9.02. The bankruptcy, liquidation,
dissolution, death or incapacity of any Owner, other than the Company as
described in Section 9.02, shall not (x) operate to terminate this Agreement or
the Trust or (y) entitle such Owner's legal representatives or heirs to claim an
accounting or to take any action or proceeding in any court for a partition or
winding up of all or any part of the Trust or Owner Trust Estate or (z)
otherwise affect the rights, obligations and liabilities of the parties hereto.
(b) Except as provided in Section 9.01(a), none of the Company or
any Owner shall be entitled to revoke or terminate the Trust.
(c) Notice of any termination of the Trust, specifying the
Distribution Date upon which Certificateholders shall surrender their Trust
Certificates to the Paying Agent for payment of the final distribution and
cancellation, shall be given by the Owner Trustee by letter to Certificate
holders mailed within five Business Days of receipt of notice of such
termination from the Servicer given pursuant to Section 9.01(c) of the Sale and
Servicing Agreement, stating: (i) the Distribution Date upon or with respect to
which final payment of the Trust Certificates shall be made upon presentation
and surrender of the Trust Certificates at the office of the Paying Agent
therein designated, (ii) the amount of any such final payment and (iii) that the
Record Date otherwise applicable to such Distribution Date is not applicable,
payments being made only
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upon presentation and surrender of the Trust Certificates at the office of the
Paying Agent therein specified. The Owner Trustee shall give such notice to the
Certificate Registrar (if other than the Owner Trustee) and the Paying Agent at
the time such notice is given to Certificateholders. Upon presentation and
surrender of the Trust Certificates, the Paying Agent shall cause to be
distributed to Certificateholders amounts distributable on such Distribution
Date pursuant to Section 5.02.
In the event that all of the Certificateholders shall not surrender
their Trust Certificates for cancellation within six months after the date
specified in the above mentioned written notice, the Owner Trustee shall give a
second written notice to the remaining Certificateholders to surrender their
Trust Certificates for cancellation and receive the final distribution with
respect thereto. If within one year after the second notice all the Trust
Certificates shall not have been surrendered for cancellation, the Owner Trustee
may take appropriate steps, or may appoint an agent to take appropriate steps,
to contact the remaining Certificateholders concerning surrender of their Trust
Certificates, and the cost thereof shall be paid out of the funds and other
assets that shall remain subject to this Agreement. Any funds remaining in the
Trust after exhaustion of such remedies shall be distributed by the Owner
Trustee to the Company, subject to applicable laws with respect to escheat of
funds.
Upon the winding up of the Trust and its termination, the Owner
Trustee shall cause the Certificate of Trust to be cancelled by filing a
certificate of cancellation with the Secretary of State in accordance with the
provisions of Section 3810 of the Business Trust Statute.
SECTION 9.02. Dissolution upon Bankruptcy of the Company. In the
event that an Insolvency Event shall occur with respect to the Company, this
Agreement shall be terminated in accordance with Section 9.01, 90 days after the
date of such Insolvency Event, unless, before the end of such 90-day period, the
Owner Trustee shall have received written instructions from: (a) Holders of
Certificates (other than the Company) representing more than 50% of the
Certificate Balance (not including the Certificate Balance of the Trust
Certificates held by the Company) and (b) Holders (as defined in the Indenture)
of the Notes representing more than 50% of the Outstanding Amount thereof, to
the effect that each such party disapproves of the liquidation of the
Receivables and termination of the Trust. Promptly after the occurrence of any
Insolvency Event with respect to the Company, (A) the Company shall give the
Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee written notice of such Insolvency Event,
(B) the Owner Trustee shall, upon receipt of such written notice from the
Company, give prompt written notice to the Certificateholders and the Indenture
Trustee of the occurrence of such event and (C) the Indenture Trustee shall,
upon receipt of written notice of such Insolvency Event from the Owner Trustee
or the Company, give prompt written notice to the Noteholders of the occurrence
of such event; provided, however, that any failure to give a notice required by
this sentence shall not prevent or delay, in any manner, the termination of the
Trust pursuant to the first sentence of this Section 9.02. Upon termination
pursuant to this Section, the Owner Trustee shall direct the Indenture Trustee
promptly to sell the assets of the Trust (other than the Trust Accounts and the
Certificate Distribution Account) in a commercially reasonable manner and on
commercially reasonable terms. The proceeds of such a sale of the assets of the
Trust shall be treated as collections made under the Sale and Servicing
Agreement.
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ARTICLE X
Successor Owner Trustees and Additional Owner Trustees
SECTION 10.01. Eligibility Requirements for Owner Trustee. The Owner
Trustee shall at all times be a corporation satisfying the provisions of Section
3807(a) of the Business Trust Statute; authorized to exercise corporate trust
powers; having a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 and
subject to supervision or examination by federal or state authorities; and
having (or having a parent that has) a rating of at least Baa3 by Xxxxx'x. If
such corporation shall publish reports of condition at least annually pursuant
to law or to the requirements of the aforesaid supervising or examining
authority, then for the purpose of this Section, the combined capital and
surplus of such corporation shall be deemed to be its combined capital and
surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at
any time the Owner Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the
provisions of this Section, the Owner Trustee shall resign immediately in the
manner and with the effect specified in Section 10.02.
SECTION 10.02. Resignation or Removal of Owner Trustee. The Owner
Trustee may at any time resign and be discharged from the trusts hereby created
by giving written notice thereof to the Company. Upon receiving such notice of
resignation, the Company shall promptly appoint a successor Owner Trustee by
written instrument, in duplicate, one copy of which instrument shall be
delivered to the resigning Owner Trustee and one copy to the successor Owner
Trustee. If no successor Owner Trustee shall have been so appointed and have
accepted appointment within 30 days after the giving of such notice of
resignation, the resigning Owner Trustee may petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Owner Trustee.
If at any time the Owner Trustee shall cease to be eligible in
accordance with the provisions of Section 10.01 and shall fail to resign after
written request therefor by the Company, or if at any time the Owner Trustee
shall be legally unable to act, or shall be adjudged bankrupt or insolvent, or a
receiver of the Owner Trustee or of its property shall be appointed, or any
public officer shall take charge or control of the Owner Trustee or its property
or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation, then
the Company may remove the Owner Trustee. If the Company shall remove the Owner
Trustee under the authority of the immediately preceding sentence, the Company
shall promptly appoint a successor Owner Trustee by written instrument, in
duplicate, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the outgoing Owner
Trustee so removed and one copy to the successor Owner Trustee, and shall pay
all fees owed to the outgoing Owner Trustee.
Any resignation or removal of the Owner Trustee and appointment of a
successor Owner Trustee pursuant to any of the provisions of this Section shall
not become effective until acceptance of appointment by the successor Owner
Trustee pursuant to Section 10.03 and payment of all fees and expenses owed to
the outgoing Owner Trustee. The Company shall provide notice of such resignation
or removal of the Owner Trustee to each of the Rating Agencies.
SECTION 10.03. Successor Owner Trustee. Any successor Owner Trustee
appointed pursuant to Section 10.02 shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to
the Company and
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to its predecessor Owner Trustee an instrument accepting such appointment under
this Agreement, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the predecessor
Owner Trustee shall become effective and such successor Owner Trustee, without
any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become fully vested with all the
rights, powers, duties and obligations of its predecessor under this Agreement,
with like effect as if originally named as Owner Trustee. The predecessor Owner
Trustee shall upon payment of its fees and expenses deliver to the successor
Owner Trustee all documents, statements and monies held by it under this
Agreement; and the Company and the predecessor Owner Trustee shall execute and
deliver such instruments and do such other things as may reasonably be required
for fully and certainly vesting and confirming in the successor Owner Trustee
all such rights, powers, duties and obligations.
No successor Owner Trustee shall accept appointment as provided in
this Section unless at the time of such acceptance such successor Owner Trustee
shall be eligible pursuant to Section 10.01.
Upon acceptance of appointment by a successor Owner Trustee pursuant
to this Section, the Company shall mail notice thereof to all
Certificateholders, the Indenture Trustee, the Noteholders and the Rating
Agencies. If the Company shall fail to mail such notice within 10 days after
acceptance of such appointment by the successor Owner Trustee, the successor
Owner Trustee shall cause such notice to be mailed at the expense of the
Company.
SECTION 10.04. Merger or Consolidation of Owner Trustee. Any
corporation into which the Owner Trustee may be merged or converted or with
which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger,
conversion or consolidation to which the Owner Trustee shall be a party, or any
corporation succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust
business of the Owner Trustee, shall be the successor of the Owner Trustee
hereunder, without the execution or filing of any instrument or any further act
on the part of any of the parties hereto, anything herein to the contrary
notwithstanding; provided, that such corporation shall be eligible pursuant to
Section 10.01 and, provided, further, that the Owner Trustee shall mail notice
of such merger or consolidation to the Rating Agencies.
SECTION 10.05. Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee.
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement, at any time, for the
purpose of meeting any legal requirements of any jurisdiction in which any part
of the Owner Trust Estate or any Financed Vehicle may at the time be located,
the Company and the Owner Trustee acting jointly shall have the power and shall
execute and deliver all instruments to appoint one or more Persons approved by
the Company and Owner Trustee to act as co-trustee, jointly with the Owner
Trustee, or as separate trustee or separate trustees, of all or any part of the
Owner Trust Estate, and to vest in such Person, in such capacity, such title to
the Trust or any part thereof and, subject to the other provisions of this
Section, such powers, duties, obligations, rights and trusts as the Company and
the Owner Trustee may consider necessary or desirable. If the Company shall not
have joined in such appointment within 15 days after the receipt by it of a
request to do so, the Owner Trustee alone shall have the power to make such
appointment. No co-trustee or separate trustee under this Agreement shall be
required to meet the terms of eligibility as successor Owner Trustee under
Section 10.01 and no notice of the appointment of any co-trustee or separate
trustee shall be required under Section 10.03.
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Each separate trustee and co-trustee shall, to the extent permitted
by law, be appointed and act subject to the following provisions and conditions:
(a) All rights, powers, duties and obligations conferred or imposed
upon the Owner Trustee shall be conferred upon and exercised or performed by the
Owner Trustee and such separate trustee or co-trustee jointly (it being
understood that such separate trustee or co-trustee is not authorized to act
separately without the Owner Trustee joining in such act), except to the extent
that under any law of any jurisdiction in which any particular act or acts are
to be performed, the Owner Trustee shall be incompetent or unqualified to
perform such act or acts, in which event such rights, powers, duties and
obligations (including the holding of title to the Owner Trust Estate or any
portion thereof in any such jurisdiction) shall be exercised and performed
singly by such separate trustee or co-trustee, but solely at the direction of
the Owner Trustee;
(b) No trustee under this Agreement shall be personally liable by
reason of any act or omission of any other trustee under this Agreement; and
(c) The Company and the Owner Trustee acting jointly may at any time
accept the resignation of or remove any separate trustee or co-trustee.
Any notice, request or other writing given to the Owner Trustee
shall be deemed to have been given to each of the then separate trustees and
co-trustees, as effectively as if given to each of them. Every instrument
appointing any separate trustee or co-trustee shall refer to this Agreement and
the conditions of this Article. Each separate trustee and co-trustee, upon its
acceptance of the trusts conferred, shall be vested with the estates or property
specified in its instrument of appointment, either jointly with the Owner
Trustee or separately, as may be provided therein, subject to all the provisions
of this Agreement, specifically including every provision of this Agreement
relating to the conduct of, affecting the liability of, or affording protection
to, the Owner Trustee. Each such instrument shall be filed with the Owner
Trustee and a copy thereof given to the Company.
(d) Any separate trustee or co-trustee may at any time appoint the
Owner Trustee as its agent or attorney-in-fact with full power and authority, to
the extent not prohibited by law, to do any lawful act under or in respect of
this Agreement on its behalf and in its name. If any separate trustee or
co-trustee shall die, become incapable of acting, resign or be removed, all of
its estates, properties, rights, remedies and trusts shall vest in and be
exercised by the Owner Trustee, to the extent permitted by law, without the
appointment of a new or successor co-trustee or separate trustee.
ARTICLE XI
Miscellaneous
SECTION 11.01. Supplements and Amendments. This Agreement may be
amended by the Company and the Owner Trustee, with prior written notice to the
Rating Agencies, without the consent of any of the Noteholders or the
Certificateholders, to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any
provisions in this Agreement or for the purpose of adding any provisions to or
changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions in this
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Agreement or modifying in any manner the rights of the Noteholders or the
Certificateholders; provided, however, that such action shall not, as evidenced
by an Opinion of Counsel, adversely affect in any material respect the interest
of any Noteholder or Certificateholder.
This Agreement may also be amended from time to time by the Company
and the Owner Trustee, with prior written notice to the Rating Agencies, with
the consent of the Holders (as defined in the Indenture) of Notes evidencing not
less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes and the consent of
the Holders of Certificates evidencing not less than a majority of the
Certificate Balance, for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in
any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Agreement or of
modifying in any manner the rights of the Noteholders or the Certificateholders;
provided, however, that no such amendment shall: (a) increase or reduce in any
manner the amount of, or accelerate or delay the timing of, collections of
payments on Receivables or distributions that shall be required to be made for
the benefit of the Noteholders or the Certificateholders or (b) reduce the
aforesaid percentage of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes and the Certificate
Balance required to consent to any such amendment, without the consent of the
holders of all the outstanding Notes and Certificates.
Promptly after the execution of any such amendment or consent, the
Owner Trustee shall furnish written notification of the substance of such
amendment or consent to each Certificateholder, the Indenture Trustee and each
of the Rating Agencies.
It shall not be necessary for the consent of Certificateholders,
Noteholders or the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Section to approve the
particular form of any proposed amendment or consent, but it shall be sufficient
if such consent shall approve the substance thereof. The manner of obtaining
such consents (and any other consents of Certificateholders provided for in this
Agreement or in any other Basic Document) and of evidencing the authorization of
the execution thereof by Certificateholders shall be subject to such reasonable
requirements as the Owner Trustee may prescribe.
Promptly after the execution of any amendment to the Certificate of
Trust, the Owner Trustee shall cause the filing of such amendment with the
Secretary of State. Prior to the execution of any amendment to this Agreement or
the Certificate of Trust, the Owner Trustee shall be entitled to receive and
rely upon an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such amendment is
authorized or permitted by this Agreement. The Owner Trustee may, but shall not
be obligated to, enter into any such amendment that affects the Owner Trustee's
own rights, duties or immunities under this Agreement or otherwise.
In connection with the execution of any amendment to this Trust
Agreement or any amendment of any other agreement to which the Issuer is a
party, the Owner Trustee shall be entitled to receive and conclusively rely upon
an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such amendment is authorized or
permitted by the Basic Documents and that all conditions precedent in the Basic
Documents for the execution and delivery thereof by the Issuer or the Owner
Trustee, as the case may be, have been satisfied.
SECTION 11.02. No Legal Title to Owner Trust Estate in Owners. The
Owners shall not have legal title to any part of the Owner Trust Estate. The
Owners shall be entitled to
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receive distributions with respect to their undivided ownership interest therein
only in accordance with Articles V and IX. No transfer, by operation of law or
otherwise, of any right, title or interest of the Owners to and in their
ownership interest in the Owner Trust Estate shall operate to terminate this
Agreement or the trusts hereunder or entitle any transferee to an accounting or
to the transfer to it of legal title to any part of the Owner Trust Estate.
SECTION 11.03. Limitations on Rights of Others. Except for Section
2.07, the provisions of this Agreement are solely for the benefit of the Owner
Trustee, the Company, the Owners, and, to the extent expressly provided herein,
the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders, and nothing in this Agreement (other
than Section 2.07 hereof), whether express or implied, shall be construed to
give to any other Person any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim in the
Owner Trust Estate or under or in respect of this Agreement or any covenants,
conditions or provisions contained herein.
SECTION 11.04. Notices. (a) Unless otherwise expressly specified or
permitted by the terms hereof, all notices shall be in writing and shall be
deemed given upon receipt by the intended recipient or three Business Days after
mailing if mailed by certified mail, postage prepaid (except that notice to the
Owner Trustee shall be deemed given only upon actual receipt by the Owner
Trustee), if to the Owner Trustee, addressed to the Corporate Trust Office; and
if to the Company, addressed to _______________, Attention _______________; or,
as to each party, at such other address as shall be designated by such party in
a written notice to each other party.
(b) Any notice required or permitted to be given to a
Certificateholder shall be given by first-class mail, postage prepaid, at the
address of such Holder listed in the Certificate Register. Any notice so mailed
within the time prescribed in this Agreement shall be conclusively presumed to
have been duly given, whether or not the Certificateholder receives such notice.
SECTION 11.05. Severability. Any provision of this Agreement that is
prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction,
be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or unenforceability without
invalidating the remaining provisions hereof, and any such prohibition or
unenforceability in any jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render
unenforceable such provisions in any other jurisdiction.
SECTION 11.06. Separate Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed
by the parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed
and delivered shall be an original, but all such counterparts shall together
constitute but one and the same instrument.
SECTION 11.07. Successors and Assigns. All covenants and agreements
contained herein shall be binding upon, and inure to the benefit of, each of the
Company and its permitted assignees, the Owner Trustee and its successors and
each Owner and its successors and permitted assigns, all as herein provided. Any
request, notice, direction, consent, waiver or other instrument or action by an
Owner shall bind the successors and assigns of such Owner.
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SECTION 11.08. Covenants of the Company. In the event that: (a) the
Certificate Balance shall be reduced by Realized Losses and (b) any litigation
with claims in excess of $1,000,000 to which the Company is a party which shall
be reasonably likely to result in a material judgment against the Company that
the Company will not be able to satisfy shall be commenced by an Owner, during
the period beginning nine months following the commencement of such litigation
and continuing until such litigation is dismissed or otherwise terminated (and,
if such litigation has resulted in a final judgment against the Company, such
judgment has been satisfied), the Company shall not pay any dividend to [ ], or
make any distribution on or in respect of its capital stock to [ ], or repay the
principal amount of any indebtedness of the Company held by [ ], unless: (i)
after giving effect to such payment, distribution or repayment, the Company's
liquid assets shall not be less than the amount of actual damages claimed in
such litigation or (ii) the Rating Agency Condition shall have been satisfied
with respect to any such payment, distribution or repayment. The Company will
not at any time institute against the Trust any bankruptcy proceedings under any
United States federal or state bankruptcy or similar law in connection with any
obligations relating to the Trust Certificates, the Notes, the Trust Agreement
or any of the Basic Documents.
SECTION 11.09. No Petition. The Owner Trustee, by entering into this
Agreement, each Owner, by accepting a Trust Certificate or a beneficial interest
therein, and the Indenture Trustee and each Noteholder, by accepting the
benefits of this Agreement, hereby covenant and agree that they will not at any
time institute against the Company or the Trust, or join in any institution
against the Company or the Trust of, any bankruptcy proceedings under any United
States federal or state bankruptcy or similar law in connection with any
obligations relating to the Trust Certificates, the Notes, this Agreement or any
of the Basic Documents.
SECTION 11.10. No Recourse. Each Owner, by accepting a Trust
Certificate or a beneficial interest therein, acknowledges that such Owner's
Trust Certificates represent beneficial interests in the Trust only and do not
represent interests in or obligations of the Servicer, the Company, the Owner
Trustee, the Indenture Trustee or any of their respective Affiliates and no
recourse may be had against such parties or their assets, except as may be
expressly set forth or contemplated in this Agreement, the Trust Certificates or
the Basic Documents.
SECTION 11.11. Headings. The headings of the various Articles and
Sections herein are for convenience of reference only and shall not define or
limit any of the terms or provisions hereof.
SECTION 11.12. GOVERNING LAW. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF [ ], WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS CONFLICT
OF LAW PROVISIONS, AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE PARTIES
HEREUNDER SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.
SECTION 11.13. Trust Certificate Transfer Restrictions. The Trust
Certificates may not be acquired by or for the account of: (i) an employee
benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income
Security Act of 1974, as amended ("ERISA")) that is subject to the provisions of
Title I of ERISA, (ii) a plan described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the
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Code or (iii) any entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason
of a plan's investment in the entity (each, a "Benefit Plan"). By accepting and
holding a Trust Certificate, the Holder thereof shall be deemed to have
represented and warranted that it is not a Benefit Plan.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Amended and
Restated Trust Agreement to be duly executed by their respective officers
hereunto duly authorized, as of the day and year first above written.
Bond Securitization, L.L.C.
as Company,
By ____________________________________
Name:
Title:
not in its individual capacity
but solely as Owner Trustee,
By ____________________________________
Name:
Title:
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EXHIBIT A
FORM OF TRUST CERTIFICATE
UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION ("DTC"), TO THE ISSUER OR ITS
AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE
ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS
REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO
CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED
REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR
OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER
HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.
NUMBER $__________ R
CUSIP NO. ________
[ ] AUTO OWNER TRUST 200__-__
_______% ASSET BACKED CERTIFICATE
evidencing a fractional undivided interest in the Trust, as defined below, the
property of which consists of a pool of motor vehicle installment loan contracts
and motor vehicle retail installment sale contracts (collectively, "Motor
Vehicle Installment Contracts") secured by new and used automobiles, vans and
light-duty trucks. (This Trust Certificate does not represent an interest in or
an obligation of [ ] Corporation or any of its affiliates, except to the extent
described below.)
THIS CERTIFIES THAT ___________________ is the registered owner of
______________ DOLLARS nonassessable, fully-paid, fractional undivided interest
in [ ] Auto Owner Trust 200__-__ (the "Trust"), formed pursuant to a Trust
Agreement dated as of _________________ (the "Trust Agreement"), between [ ], a
[ ] (the "Company") and ___________________, as owner trustee (the "Owner
Trustee").
OWNER TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION This is one of the
Trust Certificates referred to in the within-mentioned Trust Agreement.
_______________________________________
as Owner Trustee
By:_____________________________________
Authorized Signatory
The Trust was created pursuant to the Trust Agreement, a summary of
certain of the pertinent provisions of which is set forth below. To the extent
not otherwise defined herein, the capitalized terms used herein have the
meanings assigned to them in the Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing
Agreement dated as of ___________________ (as amended and
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supplemented from time to time, the "Sale and Servicing Agreement"), among the
Trust, the Company, and ________________, as servicer (the "Servicer"), as
applicable.
This Certificate is one of the duly authorized Certificates
designated as the _______% Asset Backed Certificates (herein called the "Trust
Certificates") issued by the Trust. Also issued under an Indenture dated as of
___________________ (the "Indenture"), between the Trust and
____________________, as indenture trustee, are the two classes of Notes
designated as "Class A-1 _______% Asset Backed Notes" and the "Class A-2 ______%
Asset Backed Notes," (collectively, the "Notes"). This Trust Certificate is
issued under and is subject to the terms, provisions and conditions of the Trust
Agreement, to which Trust Agreement the Holder of this Trust Certificate by
virtue of its acceptance hereof assents and by which such Holder is bound. The
property of the Trust consists of a pool of Motor Vehicle Installment Contracts
secured by new and used automobiles, vans and light-duty trucks, all monies due
under such Receivables on or after the Cutoff Date, in the case of Precomputed
Receivables, or received on or after the Cutoff Date, in the case of Simple
Interest Receivables, security interests in the vehicles financed thereby,
certain bank accounts and the proceeds thereof, proceeds from claims on certain
insurance policies and certain other rights under the Trust Agreement and the
Sale and Servicing Agreement, and all proceeds of the foregoing. The rights of
the Holders of the Trust Certificates are subordinated to the rights of the
Holders of the Notes, as set forth in the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
Under the Trust Agreement, there will be distributed on the
___________ day of each month or, if such _________ day is not a Business Day,
the next Business Day (each, a "Distribution Date"), commencing on
__________________, to the Person in whose name this Trust Certificate is
registered at the close of business on the day immediately preceding such
Distribution Date (the "Record Date"), such Certificateholder's fractional
undivided interest in the amount to be distributed to Certificateholders on such
Distribution Date. No distributions of principal will be made on any Certificate
until all of the Notes have paid in full.
The Holder of this Trust Certificate acknowledges and agrees that
its rights to receive distributions in respect of this Trust Certificate are
subordinated to the rights of the Noteholders as described in the Sale and
Servicing Agreement and the Indenture.
It is the intent of the Company, the Servicer and the
Certificateholders that, for purposes of federal income, state and local income
and single business tax and any other income taxes, the Trust will be treated as
a partnership and the Certificateholders (including the Company) will be treated
as partners in that partnership. The Company and the other Certificateholders,
by acceptance of a Trust Certificate, agree to treat, and to take no action
inconsistent with the treatment of, the Trust Certificates for such tax purposes
as partnership interests in the Trust.
Each Certificateholder or Certificate Owner, by its acceptance of a
Trust Certificate or, in the case of a Certificate Owner, a beneficial interest
in a Trust Certificate, covenants and agrees that such Certificateholder or
Certificate Owner, as the case may be, will not at any time institute against
the Company, or join in any institution against the Company of, any bankruptcy,
reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceeding, or other
proceedings under any United States federal or state bankruptcy or similar law
in connection
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with any obligations relating to the Trust Certificates, the Notes, the Trust
Agreement or any of the Basic Documents.
Distributions on this Trust Certificate will be made as provided in
the Trust Agreement by the Owner Trustee by wire transfer or check mailed to the
Certificateholder of record in the Certificate Register without the presentation
or surrender of this Trust Certificate or the making of any notation hereon,
except that with respect to Trust Certificates registered on the Record Date in
the name of the nominee of the Clearing Agency (initially, such nominee to be
Cede & Co.), payments will be made by wire transfer in immediately available
funds to the account designated by such nominee. Except as otherwise provided in
the Trust Agreement and notwithstanding the above, the final distribution on
this Trust Certificate will made after due notice by the Owner Trustee of the
pendency of such distribution and only upon presentation and surrender of this
Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained for that purpose by the
Owner Trustee in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York. Reference is
hereby made to the further provisions of this Trust Certificate set forth on the
reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same
effect as if set forth at this place.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon shall have been
executed by an authorized officer of the Owner Trustee, by manual signature,
this Trust Certificate shall not entitle the Holder hereof to any benefit under
the Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement or be valid for any
purpose.
THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE
LAWS OF THE STATE OF [ ], WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISIONS,
AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE
DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Owner Trustee, on behalf of the Trust and
not in its individual capacity, has caused this Trust Certificate to be duly
executed.
[____________________] By: AUTO OWNER
TRUST 200__-___ not in its individual
capacity but solely as Owner Trustee
Dated: __________ By:
________________________________________
Authorized Signatory
[REVERSE OF TRUST CERTIFICATE]]
The Trust Certificates do not represent an obligation of, or an
interest in, the Servicer, the Company, the Owner Trustee or any of their
respective Affiliates, and no recourse may be had against such parties or their
assets except as expressly set forth or contemplated herein or in the Trust
Agreement or the Basic Documents. In addition, this Trust Certificate is not
guaranteed by any governmental agency or instrumentality and is limited in right
of payment to certain collections and recoveries with respect to the Receivables
(and certain other amounts), all as more specifically set forth herein and in
the Sale and Servicing Agreement. A copy of
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each of the Sale and Servicing Agreement and the Trust Agreement may be examined
by any Certificateholder upon written request during normal business hours at
the principal office of the Company and at such other places, if any, designated
by the Company.
The Trust Agreement permits, with certain exceptions therein
provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and
obligations of the Company and the rights of the Certificateholders under the
Trust Agreement at any time by the Company and the Owner Trustee with the
consent of Holders of the Trust Certificates and of each class of the Notes,
voting as a class, evidencing not less than a majority of the Certificate
Balance and the outstanding principal balance of the Notes of each such class.
Any such consent by the Holder of this Trust Certificate shall be conclusive and
binding on such Holder and on all future Holders of this Trust Certificate and
of any Trust Certificate issued upon the transfer hereof or in exchange herefor
or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent is made upon this
Trust Certificate. The Trust Agreement also permits the amendment thereof, in
certain limited circumstances, without the consent of the Holders of any of the
Trust Certificates.
As provided in the Trust Agreement and subject to certain
limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Trust Certificate is
registerable in the Certificate Register upon surrender of this Trust
Certificate for registration of transfer at the offices or agencies of the
Certificate Registrar maintained by the Owner Trustee in the Borough of
Manhattan, The City of New York, accompanied by a written instrument of transfer
in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar, duly
executed by the Holder hereof or such Holder's attorney duly authorized in
writing, and thereupon one or more new Trust Certificates of authorized
denominations evidencing the same aggregate interest in the Trust will be issued
to the designated transferee. The initial Certificate Registrar appointed under
the Trust Agreement is _________.
Except as provided in the Trust Agreement, the Trust Certificates
are issuable only as registered Trust Certificates without coupons in
denominations of $20,000 and in integral multiples of $1 in excess thereof. As
provided in the Trust Agreement and subject to certain limitations therein set
forth, Trust Certificates are exchangeable for new Trust Certificates of
authorized denominations evidencing the same aggregate denomination, as
requested by the Holder surrendering the same. No service charge will be made
for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Owner Trustee or the
Certificate Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax
or governmental charge payable in connection therewith.
The Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and any agent of the
Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may treat the Person in whose name
this Certificate is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, and none of
the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar or any such agent shall be affected
by any notice to the contrary.
The obligations and responsibilities created by the Trust Agreement
and the Trust created thereby shall terminate upon the payment to
Certificateholders of all amounts required to be paid to them pursuant to the
Trust Agreement and the Sale and Servicing Agreement and the disposition of all
property held as part of the Owner Trust Estate. The Servicer of the Receivables
may at its option purchase the Owner Trust Estate at the price specified in the
Sale and Servicing Agreement, and such purchase of the Receivables and other
property of the Trust
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will effect an early retirement of the Trust Certificates; however, such right
of purchase is exercisable only as of the last day of any Collection Period as
of which the Pool Balance is less than or equal to 10% of the Cutoff Date Pool
Balance. The Trust Certificates may not be acquired by (a) an employee benefit
plan (as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) that is subject to the provisions of
Title I of ERISA, (b) a plan described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code or (c)
any entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan's
investment in the entity or which uses plan assets to acquire Trust Certificates
(each, a "Benefit Plan"). By accepting and holding this Trust Certificate, the
Holder hereof shall be deemed to have represented and warranted that it is not a
Benefit Plan.
ASSIGNMENT
FOR VALUE RECEIVED the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto
PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE
___________________________________________________________________________
(Please print or type name and address, including postal zip code, of assignee)
the within Trust Certificate, and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably
constitutes and appoints _____________________ attorney to transfer said Trust
Certificate on the books of the Certificate Registrar, with full power of
substitution in the premises.
Dated: ________________________/*/
Signature Guaranteed:
________________________/*/
Signature Guaranteed
NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the
name as it appears upon the face of the within Trust Certificate in
every particular, without alteration, enlargement or any change
whatever. Such signature must be guaranteed by a member firm of the
New York Stock Exchange or a commercial bank or trust company.
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EXHIBIT B
CERTIFICATE OF TRUST OF
[ ] AUTO OWNER TRUST 200__-__ THIS Certificate of Trust of [ ] AUTO
OWNER TRUST 200__- __ (the "Trust"), dated ____________________, is being duly
executed and filed by ___________________, a [ ] banking corporation, as
trustee, to form a business trust under the [ ] Business Trust Act (12 Del.
Code. (S) 3801 et seq.).
1. Name: The name of the business trust formed hereby is [ ] AUTO
OWNER TRUST 200__-__.
2. [ ] Trustee. The name and business address of the trustee of the
Trust in the State of [ ] is _______________________. Attention:
_________________.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, being the sole trustee of the
Trust, has executed this Certificate of Trust as of the date first above
written.
_________________________________, not
in its individual capacity but solely as
owner trustee under a Trust Agreement
dated as of ___________.
By: ____________________________________
Name:
Title:
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EXHIBIT C
[Form of Certificate Depository Agreement]
Letter of Representations
[To be Completed by Issuer and Trustee]
[Name of Issuer]
Name of Trustee]
(Date)
Attention: General Counsel's Office
The Depository Trust Company
00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx; 00xx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000-0000
Re: ______________________________
(Issue Description)
Ladies and Gentlemen:
This letter sets forth our understanding with respect to certain
matters relating to the above-referenced issue (the "Securities"). Trustee will
act as trustee with respect to the Securities pursuant to a trust indenture
dated ____________________ (the "Document").
______________________ (the "Underwriter") is distributing the
Securities through the Depository Trust Company ("DTC").
To induce DTC to accept the Securities as eligible for deposit at
DTC, and to act in accordance with its Rules with respect to the Securities,
Issuer and Trustee make the following representations to DTC:
1. Prior to closing on the Securities on ____________________ there
shall be deposited with DTC one or more Security certificates registered in the
name of DTC's nominee, Cede & Co., for each stated maturity of the Securities in
the face amounts set forth on Schedule A hereto, the total of which represents
100% of the principal amount of such Securities. If, however, the aggregate
principal amount of any maturity exceeds $400 million, one certificate shall be
issued with respect to each $400 million of principal amount and an additional
certificate shall be issued with respect to any remaining principal amount. Each
Security certificate shall bear the following legend:
Unless this certificate is presented by an authorized representative
of The Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation ("DTC"), to Issuer or
its agent for registration of transfer, exchange, or payment, and any
certificate issued is registered in the name of Cede & Co. or in such other name
as is requested by an authorized representative of DTC (and any payment is made
to Cede & Co. or to such other entity as is requested by an authorized
representative of DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE, OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR
OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL inasmuch as the
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registered owner hereof, Cede & Co., has an interest herein. Issuer represents:
[Note: Issuer must represent one of the following, and shall cross out the
other.]
[The Security certificate(s) shall remain in Agent's custody as a
"Balance Certificate" subject to the provisions of the Balance Certificate
Agreement between Agent and DTC currently in effect.
On each day on which Agent is open for business and on which it
receives an instruction originated by a DTC participant ("Participant") through
DTC's Deposit/Withdrawal at Custodian ("DWAC") system to increase the
Participant's account by a specified number of Securities (a "Deposit
Instruction"), Agent shall, no later than 6:30 p.m. (Eastern Time) that day,
either approve or cancel the Deposit Instruction through the DWAC system.
On each day on which Agent is open for business and on which it
receives an instruction originated by Participant through the DWAC system to
decrease the Participant's account by a specified number of Securities (a
"Withdrawal Instruction"), Agent shall, no later than 6:30 p.m. (Eastern Time)
that day, either approve or cancel he Withdrawal Instruction through the DWAC
system.
Agent agrees that its approval of a Deposit or Withdrawal
Instruction shall be deemed to be the receipt by DTC of a new reissued or
reregistered certificated Security on registration of transfer to the name of
Cede & Co. for the quantity of Securities evidenced by the Balance Certificate
after the Deposit or Withdrawal Instruction is effected.]
[The Security certificate(s) shall be custodied with DTC.]
2. Issuer: (a) understands that DTC has no obligation to, and will
not, communicate to its Participants or to any person having an interest in the
Securities any information contained in the Security certificate(s); and (b)
acknowledges that neither DTC's Participants nor any person having an interest
in the Securities shall be deemed to have notice of the provisions of the
Security certificates by virtue of submission of such certificate(s) to DTC.
3. In the event of any solicitation of consents from or voting by
holders of the Securities, Issuer or Agent shall establish a record date for
such purposes (with no provision for revocation of consents or votes by
subsequent holders) and shall send notice of such record date to DTC no fewer
than 15 calendar days in advance of such record date. Notices to DTC pursuant to
this Paragraph by telecopy shall be directed to DTC's Reorganization Department,
Proxy Unit at (000) 000-0000 or (000) 000-0000. If the party sending the notice
does not receive a telecopy receipt from DTC confirming that the notice has been
received, such party shall telephone (000) 000-0000. Notices to DTC pursuant to
this Paragraph, by mail or by any other means, shall be sent to: Supervisor,
Proxy Unit, Reorganization Department, The Depository Trust Company, 00 Xxxxx
Xxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000-0000
4. In the event of a full or partial redemption, Issuer or Agent
shall send a notice to DTC specifying: (a) the amount of the redemption or
refunding; (b) in the case of a refunding, the maturity date(s) established
under the refunding; and (c) the date such notice is to be distributed to
Security holders (the "Publication Date"). Such notice shall be sent to DTC by a
secure means (e.g., legible telecopy, registered or certified mail, overnight
delivery) in a timely
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manner designed to assure that such notice is in DTC's possession no later than
the close of business on the business day before or, if possible, two business
days before the Publication Date. Issuer or Agent shall forward such notice
either in a separate secure transmission for each CUSIP number or in a secure
transmission for multiple CUSIP numbers (if applicable) which includes a
manifest or list of each CUSIP number submitted in that transmission. (The party
sending such notice shall have a method to verify subsequently the use of such
means and the timeliness of such notice.) The Publication Date shall be no fewer
than 30 days nor more than 60 days prior to the redemption date or, in the case
of an advance refunding, the date that the proceeds are deposited in escrow.
Notices to DTC pursuant to this Paragraph by telecopy shall be directed to DTC's
Call Notification Department at (516) 227- 4164 or (000) 000-0000. If the party
sending the notice does not receive a telecopy receipt from DTC confirming that
the notice has been received, such party shall telephone (000) 000-0000. Notices
to DTC pursuant to this Paragraph, by mail or by any other means, shall be sent
to: Manager, Call Notification Department, The Depository Trust Company, 000
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx Xxxx, XX 00000-0000.
5. In the event of an invitation to tender the Securities (including
mandatory tenders, exchanges, and capital changes), notice by Issuer or Agent to
Security holders shall be sent to DTC specifying the terms of the tender and the
Publication Date of such notice. Such notice shall be sent to DTC by a secure
means (e.g., legible telecopy, registered or certified mail, overnight delivery)
in a timely manner designed to assure that such notice is in DTC's possession no
later than the close of business on the business day before or, if possible, two
business days before the Publication Date. Issuer or Agent shall forward such
notice either in a separate secure transmission for each CUSIP number or in a
secure transmission for multiple CUSIP numbers (if applicable) which includes a
manifest or list of each CUSIP number submitted in that transmission. (The party
sending such notice shall have a method to verify subsequently the use and
timeliness of such notice.) Notices to DTC pursuant to this Paragraph and
notices of other corporate actions by telecopy shall be directed to DTC's
Reorganization Department at (000) 000-0000. If the party sending the notice
does not receive a telecopy receipt from DTC confirming that the notice has been
received, such party shall telephone (000) 000-0000. Notices to DTC pursuant to
this Paragraph, by mail or by any other means, shall be sent to: Manager,
Reorganization Department, Reorganization Window, The Depository Trust Company,
00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000-0000
6. It is understood that if the Security holders shall at any time
have the right to tender the Securities to Issuer and require that Issuer
repurchase such holders' Securities pursuant to the Document and Cede & Co., as
nominee of DTC, or its registered assigns, as the record owner, is entitled to
tender the Securities, such tenders will be effected by means of DTC's Repayment
Option Procedures. Under the Repayment Option Procedures, DTC shall receive,
during the applicable tender period, instructions from its Participants to
tender Securities for purchase. Issuer and Agent agree that such tender for
purchase may be made by DTC by means of a book-entry credit of such Securities
to the account of Agent, provided that such credit is made on or before the
final day of the applicable tender period. DTC agrees that promptly after the
recording of any such book-entry credit, it will provide to Agent an Agent
Receipt and Confirmation or the equivalent, in accordance with the Repayment
Option Procedures, identifying the Securities and the aggregate principal amount
thereof as to which such tender for purchase has been made.
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Agent shall send DTC notice regarding such optional tender by hand
or by a secure means (e.g., legible facsimile transmission, registered or
certified mail, overnight delivery) in a timely manner designed to assure that
such notice is in DTC's possession no later than the close of business two
business days before the Publication Date. The Publication Date shall be no
fewer than 15 days prior to the expiration date of the applicable tender period.
Such notice shall state whether any partial redemption of the Securities is
scheduled to occur during the applicable optional tender period. Notices to DTC
pursuant to this Paragraph by telecopy shall be directed to DTC's Put Bond Unit
at (000) 000-0000. If the party sending the notice does not receive a telecopy
receipt from DTC confirming that the notice has been received, such party shall
telephone (000) 000-0000. Notices to DTC pursuant to this Paragraph, by mail or
by any other means, shall be sent to: Supervisor, Put Bond Unit, Reorganization
Department, The Depository Trust Company, 00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxx,
XX 00000-0000.
7. All notices and payment advices sent to DTC shall contain the
CUSIP number of the Securities.
8. Issuer or Agent shall send DTC written notice with respect to the
dollar amount per $1,000 original face value (or other minimum authorized
denomination if less than $1,000 face value) payable on each payment date
allocated as to the interest and principal portions thereof preferably five, but
no fewer than two, business days prior to such payment date. Such notices, which
shall also contain the current pool factor, any special adjustments to
principal/interest rates (e.g., adjustments due to deferred interest or
shortfall), and Agent contact's name and telephone number, shall be sent by
telecopy to DTC's Dividend Department at (000) 000-0000, and receipt of such
notices shall be confirmed by telephoning (000) 000-0000. Notices to DTC,
pursuant to this Paragraph, by mail or by any other means, shall be sent to:
Manager, Announcements, Dividend Department, The Depository Trust Company, 00
Xxxxx Xxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000-0000.
9. Issuer represents: [Note: Issuer must represent one of the
following, and shall cross out the other.] [The interest accrual period is
record date to record date.] [The interest accrual period is payment date to
payment date.]
10. Issuer or Agent shall provide a written notice of interest
payment information, including the stated coupon rate information, to DTC as
soon as the information is available. Issuer or Agent shall provide such notice
directly to DTC electronically, as previously arranged by Issuer or Agent and
DTC. If electronic transmission has not been arranged, absent any other
arrangements between Issuer or Agent and DTC, such information shall be sent by
telecopy to DTC's Dividend Department at (000) 000-0000 or (000) 000-0000. If
the party sending the notice does not receive a telecopy receipt from DTC
confirming that the notice has been received, such party shall telephone (212)
000-0000. Notices to DTC pursuant to this Paragraph, by mail or by any other
means, shall be sent to DTC's Dividend Department as indicated in Paragraph 8.
11. Interest payments and principal payments that are part of
periodic principal-and-interest payments shall be received by Cede & Co., as
nominee of DTC, or its registered assigns, in same-day funds no later than 2:30
p.m. (Eastern Time) on each payment date. Issuer shall remit by 1:00 p.m.
(Eastern Time) on the payment date all such interest payments due
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Agent, or at such earlier time as may be required by Agent to guarantee that DTC
shall receive payment in same-day funds no later than 2:30 p.m. (Eastern Time)
on the payment date. Absent any other arrangements between Issuer or Agent and
DTC, such funds shall be wired to the Dividend Deposit Account number that will
be stamped on the signature page hereof at the time DTC executes this Letter of
Representations.
12. Issuer or Agent shall provide DTC's Dividend Department, no
later than 12:00 noon (Eastern Time) on the payment date, automated notification
of CUSIP-level detail. If the circumstances prevent the funds paid to DTC from
equaling the dollar amount associated with the detail payments by 12:00 noon
(Eastern Time), Issuer or Agent must provide CUSIP-level reconciliation to DTC
no later than 2:30 p.m. (Eastern Time). Reconciliation must be provided by
either automated means or written format. Such reconciliation notice, if sent by
telecopy, shall be directed to DTC Dividend Department at (000) 000-0000 and
receipt of such reconciliation notice shall be confirmed by telephoning (212)
855-4430.
13. Maturity and redemption payments allocated with respect to each
CUSIP number shall be received by Cede & Co., as nominee of DTC, or its
registered assigns, in same-day funds no later than 2:30 p.m. (Eastern Time) on
the payment date. Issuer shall remit by 1:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) on the payment
date all such maturity and redemption payments due Agent, or at such earlier
time as required by Agent to guarantee that DTC shall receive payment in
same-day funds no later than 2:30 p.m. (Eastern Time) on the payment date.
Absent any other arrangements between Issuer or Agent and DTC, such funds shall
be wired to the Redemption Deposit Account number that will be stamped on the
signature page hereof at the time DTC executes this Letter of Representations.
14. Principal payments (plus accrued interest, if any) as the result
of optional tenders for purchase effected by means of DTC's Repayment Option
Procedures shall be received by Cede & Co., as nominee of DTC, or its registered
assigns, in same-day funds no later than 2:30 p.m. (Eastern Time) on the payment
date. Issuer shall remit by 1:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) on the payment date all
such reorganization payments due Agent, or at such earlier time as required by
Agent to guarantee that DTC shall receive payment in same-day funds no later
than 2:30 p.m. (Eastern Time) on the payment date. Absent any other arrangements
between Issuer or Agent and DTC, such funds shall be wired to the Reorganization
Deposit Account number that will be stamped on the signature page hereof at the
time DTC executes this Letter of Representations.
15. Agent shall send DTC all periodic certificate holders remittance
reports with respect to the Securities. If sent by facsimile transmission, such
reports shall be sent to (212) 855- 4777. If the party sending the report does
not receive a telecopy receipt from DTC confirming that the notice has been
received, such party shall telephone (000) 000-0000.
16. DTC may direct Issuer or Agent to use any other number or
address as the number or address to which notices or payments of interest or
principal may be sent.
17. In the event of a redemption, acceleration, or any other similar
transaction (e.g., tender made and accepted in response to Issuer's or Agent's
invitation) necessitating a reduction in the aggregate principal amount of
Securities outstanding or an advance refunding of
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part of the Securities outstanding, DTC, in its discretion: (a) may request
Issuer or Agent to issue and authenticate a new Security certificate; or (b) may
make an appropriate notation on the Security certificate indicating the date and
amount of such reduction in principal except in the case of final maturity, in
which case the certificate will be presented to Issuer or Agent prior to
payment, if required.
18. In the event that Issuer determines that beneficial owners of
Securities shall be able to obtain certificated Securities, Issuer or Agent
shall notify DTC of the availability of certificates. In such event, Issuer or
Agent shall issue, transfer, and exchange certificates in appropriate amounts,
as required by DTC and others.
19. DTC may discontinue providing its services as securities
depository with respect to the Securities at any time by giving reasonable
notice to Issuer or Agent (at which time DTC will confirm with Issuer or Agent
the aggregate principal amount of Securities outstanding). Under such
circumstances, at DTC's request Issuer and Agent shall cooperate fully with DTC
by taking appropriate action to make available one or more separate certificates
evidencing Securities to any Participant having Securities credited to its DTC
accounts.
20. Nothing herein shall be deemed to require Agent to advance funds
on behalf of Issuer.
21. This Letter of Representations may be executed in any number of
counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed to be an original,
but all such counterparts together shall constitute but one and the same
instrument.
22. This Letter of Representations shall be governed by, and
construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York, without giving
effect to principles of conflicts of law.
23. The sender of each notice delivered to DTC pursuant to this
Letter of Representations is responsible for confirming that such notice was
properly received by DTC.
24. Issuer recognizes that DTC does not in any way undertake to, and
shall not have any responsibility to, monitor or ascertain the compliance of any
transactions in the Securities with the following, as amended from time to time:
(a) any exemptions from registration under the Securities Act of 1933; (b) the
Investment Company Act of 1940; (c) the Employee Retirement Income Security Act
of 1974; (d) the Internal Revenue Code of 1986; (e) any rules of any
self-regulatory organizations (as defined under the Securities Exchange Act of
1934); or (f) any other local, state, or federal laws or regulations thereunder.
25. Issuer hereby authorizes DTC to provide to Agent listings of Participants'
holdings, known as Securities Position Listings ("SPLs") with respect to the
Securities from time to time at the request of the Agent. DTC charges a fee for
such SPLs. This authorization, unless revoked by Issuer, shall continue with
respect to the Securities while any Securities are on deposit at DTC, until and
unless Agent shall no longer be acting. In such event, Issuer shall provide DTC
with similar evidence, satisfactory to DTC, of the authorization of any
successor thereto so to act. Requests for SPLs shall be sent by telecopy to the
Proxy Unit of DTC's Reorganization Department at (000) 000-0000 or (212)
855-5182. Receipt of such requests shall be confirmed by telephoning
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(000) 000-0000. Requests for SPLs, sent by mail or by any other means, shall be
directed to the address indicated in Paragraph 3.
26. Issuer and Agent shall comply with the applicable requirements
stated in DTC's Operational Arrangements, as they may be amended from time to
time. DTC's Operational Arrangements are posted on DTC's website at xxx.XXX.xxx.
27. The following rider(s), attached hereto, are hereby incorporated
into this Letter of Representations:
Notes: Very truly yours
A. If there is an Agent (as defined _______________________________________
in this Letter of Representations), (Issuer)
Agent as well as (Issuer) Issuer
must sign this Letter. If there is By: ___________________________________
no Agent, in signing this Letter
Issuer itself (Authorized Officer's (Authorized Officer's Signature
Signature) undertakes to perform
all of the obligations set forth
herein.
B. Schedule B contains statements
that DTC believes accurately
describe DTC, the method of _______________________________________
(Trustee) effecting book-entry (Issuer)
transfers of securities distributed
through DTC, and certain related By: ___________________________________
(Authorized Officer's Signature) (Authorized Officer's Signature
matters.
Received and Accepted:
THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY
By:________________________________
cc: Underwriter/Placement Agent
Underwriter's/Placement Agent's Counsel
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SCHEDULE A
_______________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________
[Describe Issue, Including Issuer's Name]
CUSIP Number Principal Amount Maturity Date Interest Rate
---------------- -------------------- ------------------- -------------------
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SCHEDULE B
SAMPLE OFFERING DOCUMENT LANGUAGE
DESCRIBING BOOK-ENTRY-ONLY ISSUANCE
(Prepared by DTC--bracketed material may be applicable only to certain issues)
1. The Depository Trust Company ("DTC"), New York, NY, will act as
securities depository for the securities (the "Securities"). The Securities will
be issued as fully-registered securities registered in the name of Cede & Co.
(DTC's partnership nominee) or such other name as may be requested by an
authorized representative of DTC. One fully-registered Security certificate will
be issued for [each issue of] the Securities, [each] in the aggregate principal
amount of such issue, and will be deposited with DTC. [If, however, the
aggregate principal amount of [any] issue exceeds $400 million, one certificate
will be issued with respect to each $400 million of principal amount and an
additional certificate will be issued with respect to any remaining principal
amount of such issue.]
2. DTC is a limited-purpose trust company organized under the New
York Banking Law, a "banking organization" within the meaning of the New York
Banking Law, a member of the Federal Reserve System, a "clearing corporation"
within the meaning of the New York Uniform Commercial Code, and a "clearing
agency" registered pursuant to the provisions of Section 17A of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934. DTC holds securities that its participants ("Direct
Participants") deposit with DTC. DTC also facilitates the settlement among
Direct Participants of securities transactions, such as transfers and pledges,
in deposited securities through electronic computerized book-entry changes in
Direct Participants' accounts, thereby eliminating the need for physical
movement of securities certificates. Direct Participants include securities
brokers and dealers, banks, trust companies, clearing corporations, and certain
other organizations. DTC is owned by a number of its Direct Participants and by
the New York Stock Exchange, Inc., the American Stock Exchange LLC, and the
National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. Access to the DTC system is
also available to others such as securities brokers and dealers, banks, and
trust companies that clear through or maintain a custodial relationship with a
Direct Participant, either directly or indirectly ("Indirect Participants"). The
Rules applicable to DTC and its Direct and Indirect Participants are on file
with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
3. Purchases of Securities under the DTC system must be made by or
through Direct Participants, which will receive a credit for the Securities on
DTC's records. The ownership interest of each actual purchaser of each Security
("Beneficial Owner") is in turn to be recorded on the Direct and Indirect
Participants' records. Beneficial Owners will not receive written confirmation
from DTC of their purchase, but Beneficial Owners are expected to receive
written confirmations providing details of the transaction, as well as periodic
statements of their holdings, from the Direct or Indirect Participant through
which the Beneficial Owner entered into the transaction. Transfers of ownership
interests in the Securities are to be accomplished by entries made on the books
of Direct and Indirect Participants acting on behalf of Beneficial Owners.
Beneficial Owners will not receive certificates representing their ownership
interests in Securities, except in the event that use of the book-entry system
for the Securities is discontinued.
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4. To facilitate subsequent transfers, all Securities deposited by
Direct Participants with DTC are registered in the name of DTC's partnership
nominee, Cede & Co. or such other name as may be requested by an authorized
representative of DTC. The deposit of Securities with DTC and their registration
in the name of Cede & Co. or such other nominee do not effect any change in
beneficial ownership. DTC has no knowledge of the actual Beneficial Owners of
the Securities; DTC's records reflect only the identity of the Direct
Participants to whose accounts such Securities are credited, which may or may
not be the Beneficial Owners. The Direct and Indirect Participants will remain
responsible for keeping account of their holdings on behalf of their customers.
5. Conveyance of notices and other communications by DTC to Direct
Participants, by Direct Participants to Indirect Participants, and by Direct
Participants and Indirect Participants to Beneficial Owners will be governed by
arrangements among them, subject to any statutory or regulatory requirements as
may be in effect from time to time. [Beneficial Owners of Securities may wish to
take certain steps to augment transmission to them of notices of significant
events with respect to the Securities, such as redemptions, tenders, defaults,
and proposed amendments to the security documents. Beneficial Owners of
Securities may wish to ascertain that the nominee holding the Securities for
their benefit has agreed to obtain and transmit notices to Beneficial Owners, or
in the alternative, Beneficial Owners may wish to provide their names and
addresses to the registrar and request that copies of the notices be provided
directly to them.]
[6. Redemption notices shall be sent to DTC. If less than all of the
Securities within an issue are being redeemed, DTC's practice is to determine by
lot the amount of the interest of each Direct Participant in such issue to be
redeemed.]
7. Neither DTC nor Cede & Co. (nor such other DTC nominee) will
consent or vote with respect to the Securities. Under its usual procedures, DTC
mails an Omnibus Proxy to Issuer as soon as possible after the record date. The
Omnibus Proxy assigns Cede & Co.'s consenting or voting rights to those Direct
Participants to whose accounts the Securities are credited on the record date
(identified in a listing attached to the Omnibus Proxy).
8. Redemption proceeds, distributions, and dividend payments on the
Securities will be made to Cede & Co., or such other nominee as may be requested
by an authorized representative of DTC. DTC's practice is to credit Direct
Participants' accounts, upon DTC's receipt of funds and corresponding detail
information from Issuer or Agent on payable date in accordance with their
respective holdings shown on DTC's records. Payments by Participants to
Beneficial Owners will be governed by standing instructions and customary
practices, as is the case with securities held for the accounts of customers in
bearer form or registered in "street name," and will be the responsibility of
such Participant and not of DTC, Agent, or Issuer, subject to any statutory or
regulatory requirements as may be in effect from time to time. Payment of
redemption proceeds, distributions, and dividends to Cede & Co. (or such other
nominee as may be requested by an authorized representative of DTC) is the
responsibility of Issuer or Agent, disbursement of such payments to Direct
Participants shall be the responsibility of DTC, and disbursement of such
payments to the Beneficial Owners shall be the responsibility of Direct and
Indirect Participants.
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[9. A Beneficial Owner shall give notice to elect to have its
Securities purchased or tendered, through its Participant, to
[Tender/Remarketing] Agent, and shall effect delivery of such Securities by
causing the Direct Participant to transfer the Participant's interest in the
Securities, on DTC's records, to [Tender/Remarketing] Agent. The requirement for
physical delivery of Securities in connection with an optional tender or a
mandatory purchase will be deemed satisfied when the ownership rights in the
Securities are transferred by Direct Participants on DTC's records and followed
by a book-entry credit of tendered Securities to [Tender/Remarketing] Agent's
DTC account.]
10. DTC may discontinue providing its services as securities
depository with respect to the Securities at any time by giving reasonable
notice to Issuer or Agent. Under such circumstances, in the event that a
successor securities depository is not obtained, Security certificates are
required to be printed and delivered.
11. Issuer may decide to discontinue use of the system of book-entry
transfers through DTC (or a successor securities depository). In that event,
Security certificates will be printed and delivered.
12. The information in this section concerning DTC and DTC's
book-entry system has been obtained from sources that Issuer believes to be
reliable, but Issuer takes no responsibility for the accuracy thereof.
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