THIS AGREEMENT IS SUBJECT TO ARBITRATION PURSUANT TO THE FEDERAL ARBITRATION ACT AND IF THE FEDERAL ARBITRATION ACT IS INAPPLICABLE, THE SOUTH CAROLINA UNIFORM ARBITRATION ACT, § 15-48-10, ET. SEQ., CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA (1976), AS AMENDED.
Exhibit
10.3
THIS
AGREEMENT IS SUBJECT TO ARBITRATION PURSUANT TO THE FEDERAL ARBITRATION ACT
AND
IF THE FEDERAL ARBITRATION ACT IS INAPPLICABLE, THE SOUTH CAROLINA UNIFORM
ARBITRATION ACT, § 15-48-10, ET. SEQ., CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA (1976), AS
AMENDED.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA | ) | |
COUNTY OF GREENVILLE | ) | NEGATIVE PLEDGE AGREEMENT |
THIS
NEGATIVE PLEDGE AGREEMENT (“Negative
Pledge”)
is
entered into this 5th
day of
June, 2007, by Span-America
Medical Systems, Inc.
(“Borrower”)
to
Carolina First Bank ("Bank").
Statement
of Purpose.
Simultaneously with the execution of this Negative Pledge, Borrower and Bank
have entered into a Loan Agreement (“Loan
Agreement”)
to
provide, inter alia,
to the
Borrower a revolving line of credit loan in the amount of Ten Million and no/100
Dollars ($10,000,000.00) (the "Loan")
upon
the terms and conditions more particularly described therein. As a condition
precedent to the making of the Loan, the Bank has required Borrower to provide
the pledge, promises, and assurances more particularly set forth
hereinbelow.
Agreement.
In
consideration of the foregoing premises, and for other good and valuable
consideration, the legal sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, Borrower
hereby (i) represents and warrants to the Bank that, as of the date hereof,
it
has not pledged, granted any security interests in, transferred, leased,
mortgaged, assigned, abandoned or otherwise disposed of any material part of
its
assets (including promissory notes and mortgages), whether consensual or
otherwise, whether real or personal, except those in favor of lenders on a
purchase money security interest basis or those previously released or otherwise
disclosed to Bank in writing prior to the date hereof; (ii) covenants and agrees
with the Bank that it shall not (A) pledge, grant any security interest in,
or
mortgage (except for granting Permitted Liens as defined in the Loan Agreement),
or (B) except in the transfer of inventory in the ordinary course of business,
transfer, lease, assign, abandon or otherwise dispose of, any of its right,
title, and interest in and to any material part of its assets (including
promissory notes and mortgages), whether real, personal or otherwise, whether
now owned or hereafter acquired to any other party, for so long as any
obligations are owed to the Bank in connection with the Loan or any commitment
to lend shall exist under the Loan, without the prior written consent of Bank,
and (iii) covenants and agrees with Bank that, upon the occurrence of an Event
of Default (as defined in the Loan Agreement) under the Loan and the request
of
Bank, Borrower shall grant to Bank a first-priority, perfected security interest
in and to all of Borrower's Accounts, Instruments, and Chattel Paper (as defined
in the South Carolina Uniform Commercial Code), or if such security interest
has
already been granted take such steps as are commercially reasonable to perfect
it in a manner senior to all other creditors other than creditors holding
Permitted Liens as defined in the Loan Agreement.
Arbitration.
This
Negative Pledge shall be subject to arbitration under the terms and conditions
provided in the Loan Agreement.
This
Negative Pledge is executed to be effective as of the date first written
above.
WITNESSES: | SPAN-AMERICA MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC. | ||
/s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxx | By: | /s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx (Seal) | |
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Its: Chief Financial Officer |
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/s/ Xxxxxx X. X. Xxxxxxx | |||
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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA | ) | |
ACKNOWLEDGMENT | ||
COUNTY OF GREENVILLE | ) |
I,
the
undersigned, a Notary Public, do hereby certify that Span-America
Medical Systems, Inc. by
Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxx its
duly authorized CFO, personally
appeared before me this day and acknowledged the due execution of the foregoing
instrument.
Witness
my hand and seal, this 5th
day
of
June, 2007.
/s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxxx | ||
(Seal)
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Notary
Public for South Carolina
My Commission Expires: 01-05-2014
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