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SALE AND SERVICING AGREEMENT
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WORLD OMNI AUTO RECEIVABLES TRUST 2003-A
Issuer,
WORLD OMNI AUTO RECEIVABLES LLC,
Seller,
and
WORLD OMNI FINANCIAL CORP.,
Servicer
Series 2003-A
Dated as of March 11, 2003
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS..................................................................................... 1
Section 1.01 Definitions.......................................................................... 1
Section 1.02 Other Definitional Provisions........................................................ 15
ARTICLE II CONVEYANCE OF RECEIVABLES...................................................................... 16
Section 2.01 Conveyance of Receivables............................................................ 16
Section 2.02 Intention of Parties................................................................. 16
ARTICLE III THE RECEIVABLES............................................................................... 17
Section 3.01 Representations and Warranties of World Omni with Respect to the Receivables......... 17
Section 3.02 Repurchase upon Breach............................................................... 20
Section 3.03 Custody of Receivable Files.......................................................... 20
Section 3.04 Duties of Servicer as Custodian...................................................... 21
Section 3.05 Instructions; Authority To Act....................................................... 22
Section 3.06 Custodian's Indemnification.......................................................... 22
Section 3.07 Effective Period and Termination..................................................... 22
ARTICLE IV ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF RECEIVABLES.................................................... 22
Section 4.01 Duties of Servicer................................................................... 22
Section 4.02 Collection and Allocation of Receivable Payments..................................... 23
Section 4.03 Realization upon Receivables......................................................... 23
Section 4.04 Physical Damage Insurance............................................................ 24
Section 4.05 Maintenance of Security Interests in Financed Vehicles............................... 24
Section 4.06 Covenants of Servicer................................................................ 24
Section 4.07 Purchase of Receivables upon Breach.................................................. 24
Section 4.08 Servicing Fee........................................................................ 24
Section 4.09 Servicer's Certificate............................................................... 25
Section 4.10 Annual Statement as to Compliance; Notice of Default................................. 25
Section 4.11 Annual Independent Certified Public Accountants' Report.............................. 25
Section 4.12 Access to Certain Documentation and Information Regarding Receivables................ 26
Section 4.13 Servicer Expenses.................................................................... 26
Section 4.14 Appointment of Subservicer........................................................... 26
Section 4.15 Annual Transfer...................................................................... 26
Section 4.16 Exchange Act Certifications.......................................................... 27
ARTICLE V DISTRIBUTIONS; RESERVE ACCOUNT; STATEMENTS TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS AND NOTEHOLDERS................ 27
Section 5.01 Establishment of Trust Accounts...................................................... 27
Section 5.02 Collections.......................................................................... 29
Section 5.03 Application of Collections........................................................... 30
Section 5.04 Advances............................................................................. 30
Section 5.05 Additional Deposits.................................................................. 30
Section 5.06 Distributions........................................................................ 30
Section 5.07 Reserve Account...................................................................... 32
Section 5.08 Statements to Noteholders and Certificateholders..................................... 33
Section 5.09 Net Deposits......................................................................... 34
Section 5.10 Transfer of Certificates............................................................. 34
ARTICLE VI THE SELLER..................................................................................... 34
Section 6.01 Representations of Seller............................................................ 34
Section 6.02 Corporate Existence.................................................................. 36
Section 6.03 Liability of Seller; Indemnities..................................................... 36
Section 6.04 Merger or Consolidation of, or Assumption of Obligations of Seller................... 38
Section 6.05 Limitation on Liability of Seller and Others......................................... 38
Section 6.06 Seller May Own Notes................................................................. 38
Section 6.07 Security Interest.................................................................... 38
ARTICLE VII THE SERVICER.................................................................................. 39
Section 7.01 Representations of Servicer.......................................................... 39
Section 7.02 Indemnities of Servicer.............................................................. 40
Section 7.03 Merger or Consolidation of, or Assumption of Obligations of, Servicer................ 41
Section 7.04 Limitation on Liability of Servicer and Others....................................... 41
Section 7.05 World Omni Not To Resign as Servicer................................................. 42
ARTICLE VIII DEFAULT...................................................................................... 42
Section 8.01 Servicer Default..................................................................... 42
Section 8.02 Appointment of Successor............................................................. 43
Section 8.03 Notification to Noteholders and Certificateholders................................... 44
Section 8.04 Waiver of Past Defaults.............................................................. 44
Section 8.05 Payment of Servicing Fees; Repayment of Advances..................................... 44
ARTICLE IX TERMINATION.................................................................................... 45
Section 9.01 Optional Purchase of All Receivables................................................. 45
ARTICLE X MISCELLANEOUS................................................................................... 45
Section 10.01 Amendment............................................................................ 45
Section 10.02 Protection of Title to Trust......................................................... 46
Section 10.03 Notices.............................................................................. 48
Section 10.04 Assignment by the Seller or the Servicer............................................. 48
Section 10.05 Limitations on Rights of Others...................................................... 48
Section 10.06 Severability......................................................................... 48
Section 10.07 Separate Counterparts................................................................ 49
Section 10.08 Headings............................................................................. 49
Section 10.09 Governing Law........................................................................ 49
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Section 10.10 Assignment by Issuer................................................................. 49
Section 10.11 Nonpetition Covenants................................................................ 49
Section 10.12 Limitation of Liability of Owner Trustee and Indenture Trustee....................... 49
SCHEDULE A Schedule of Receivables
SCHEDULE B Location of Receivable Files
EXHIBIT A Form of Distribution Statement to Noteholders........................................... A-1
EXHIBIT B Form of Servicers Certificate........................................................... B-1
APPENDIX A Additional Representations and Warranties
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SALE AND SERVICING AGREEMENT
This SALE AND SERVICING AGREEMENT is dated as of March 11,
2003, among WORLD OMNI AUTO RECEIVABLES TRUST 2003-A, a Delaware statutory
trust, WORLD OMNI AUTO RECEIVABLES LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as
seller and WORLD OMNI FINANCIAL CORP., a Florida corporation.
WHEREAS, the Issuer desires to purchase a portfolio of
receivables arising in connection with motor vehicle retail installment sale
contracts purchased by the Seller and originated or acquired by the Servicer in
the ordinary course of business;
WHEREAS, the Seller is willing to transfer such Receivables to
the Issuer; and
WHEREAS, the Servicer is willing to service, to make
representations and warranties and to make certain repurchase representations
with respect to such Receivables;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the
mutual covenants herein contained, the parties hereto agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
Section 1.01 Definitions. Whenever used in this Agreement, the
following words and phrases, unless the context otherwise requires, shall have
the following meanings:
"Advance" means, with respect to any Payment Date, the amount of
interest, if any, determined as of the close of business on the last day of the
related Collection Period, which the Servicer is required to advance on
Receivables more than 30 days past due determined as set forth in Section 5.04.
"Agreement" means this Sale and Servicing Agreement, as the same may be
amended and supplemented from time to time.
"Amount Financed" means, with respect to a Receivable, the amount
advanced under the Receivable toward the purchase price of the Financed Vehicle,
warranty or insurance premium and any related costs.
"Annual Percentage Rate" or "APR" of a Receivable means the annual rate
of finance charges stated in the related Contract.
"Available Funds" means, with respect to any Payment Date, (1) the sum
of the following amounts, without duplication, with respect to the Receivables
in respect of the Collection Period preceding such Payment Date: (a) all
collections on Receivables, (b) Advances, (c) all Liquidation Proceeds
attributable to the Receivables that became Liquidated Receivables during such
Collection Period in accordance with the Servicer's customary servicing
procedures and all Recoveries, (d) the Purchase Amount of each Receivable that
became a Purchased Receivable as of the last day of the related Collection
Period, (e) partial prepayments relating to refunds of
warranty or insurance financed by the respective Obligor thereon as part of the
original contract and only to the extent not included under clause (a) above,
(f) amounts on deposit in the Reserve Account after giving effect to all other
deposits and withdrawals thereto or therefrom on the Payment Date relating to
such Collection Period in excess of the Required Reserve Amount, (g) Investment
Earnings for the related Payment Date, (h) any Collection Account Redeposits for
the related Payment Date and (i) all amounts received from the Indenture Trustee
pursuant to Section 5.04 of the Indenture minus (2) the Servicing Fee (unless
the Servicer elects to defer part or all of such fee), reimbursements for
Advances and other amounts payable to the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.08
hereof for the related Payment Date; provided, however, that in calculating
Available Funds all payments and proceeds (including Liquidation Proceeds) of
any Purchased Receivables the Purchased Amount of which has been included in
Available Funds in a prior Collection Period shall be excluded.
"Basic Documents" has the meaning assigned in the Indenture.
"Business Day" means any day other than (i) a Saturday or a Sunday or
(ii) a day on which banking institutions or trust companies in the State of
Florida, the State of New York, the State of Delaware, the states in which the
servicing offices of the Servicer are located or the state in which the
Corporate Trust Office is located are required or authorized by law, regulation
or executive order to be closed.
"Certificateholders" has the meaning assigned to such term in the Trust
Agreement.
"Certificates" means the Trust Certificates (as defined in the Trust
Agreement).
"Class" means any one of the classes of Notes.
"Class A-1 Final Scheduled Payment Date" means the March 2004 Payment
Date.
"Class A-1 Noteholder" means the Person in whose name a Class A-1 Note
is registered in the Note Register.
"Class A-2 Final Scheduled Payment Date" means the August 2005 Payment
Date.
"Class A-2 Noteholder" means the Person in whose name a Class A-2 Note
is registered in the Note Register.
"Class A-3 Final Scheduled Payment Date" means the May 2007 Payment
Date.
"Class A-3 Noteholder" means the Person in whose name a Class A-3 Note
is registered in the Note Register.
"Class A-4 Final Scheduled Payment Date" means the September 2009
Payment Date.
"Class A-4 Noteholder" means the Person in whose name a Class A-4 Note
is registered in the Note Register.
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"Class A Noteholders' Interest Carryover Shortfall" means, with respect
to any Payment Date, the excess of the Class A Noteholders' Interest
Distributable Amount for the preceding Payment Date, over the amount in respect
of interest that was actually paid on the Class A Notes on such preceding
Payment Date, plus interest on the amount of interest due but not paid to
holders of the Class A Notes on the preceding Payment Date, to the extent
permitted by law, at the respective interest rates borne by each Class of the
Class A Notes for the related Interest Accrual Period.
"Class A Noteholders' Interest Distributable Amount" means, with
respect to any Payment Date, the sum of the Class A Noteholders' Monthly
Interest Distributable Amount for such Payment Date and the Class A Noteholders'
Interest Carryover Shortfall for such Payment Date.
"Class A Noteholders' Monthly Interest Distributable Amount" means,
with respect to any Payment Date, interest accrued for the related Interest
Accrual Period on each class of Class A Notes at the respective interest rate
for such Class on the Outstanding Amount of the Notes of such Class on the
immediately preceding Payment Date (or, in the case of the first Payment Date,
on the Closing Date), after giving effect to all payments of principal to the
Noteholders of such Class on or prior to such preceding Payment Date. For all
purposes of this Agreement and the Basic Documents, interest with respect to all
Classes of Class A Notes (other than the Class A-1 Notes) shall be computed on
the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months. Interest with
respect to the Class A-1 Notes shall be computed on the basis of the actual
number of days in the related Interest Accrual Period and a 360-day year.
"Class B Final Scheduled Payment Date" means the September 2009 Payment
Date.
"Class B Noteholder" means the Person in whose name a Class B Note is
registered in the Note Register.
"Class B Noteholders' Interest Carryover Shortfall" means, with respect
to any Payment Date, the excess of the Class B Noteholders' Interest
Distributable Amount for the preceding Payment Date, over the amount in respect
of interest that was actually paid on the Class B Notes on such preceding
Payment Date, plus interest on the amount of interest due but not paid to
holders of the Class B Notes on the preceding Payment Date, to the extent
permitted by law, at the respective interest rates borne by such Class of the
Notes for the related Interest Accrual Period.
"Class B Noteholders' Interest Distributable Amount" means, with
respect to any Payment Date, the sum of the Class B Noteholders' Monthly
Interest Distributable Amount for such Payment Date and the Class B Noteholders'
Interest Carryover Shortfall for such Payment Date.
"Class B Noteholders' Monthly Interest Distributable Amount" means,
with respect to any Payment Date, interest accrued for the related Interest
Accrual Period on the Class B Notes at the interest rate for such Class on the
Outstanding Amount of the Notes of such Class on the immediately preceding
Payment Date (or, in the case of the first Payment Date, on the Closing Date),
after giving effect to all payments of principal to the Noteholders of such
Class on or prior
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to such preceding Payment Date. For all purposes of this Agreement and the Basic
Documents, interest with respect to all Class B Notes shall be computed on the
basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months.
"Collection Account" means the account designated as such, established
and maintained pursuant to Section 5.01(a)(i).
"Collection Account Redeposits" means, with respect to any Payment
Date, amounts that would have been distributed to the Certificateholders on the
prior Payment Date but for the direction of the Certificateholders causing such
amounts to remain on deposit in the Collection Account.
"Collection Period" means, with respect to any Payment Date, the period
from and including the first day of the calendar month immediately preceding the
calendar month in which such Payment Date occurs (or with respect to the first
Payment Date, from but excluding the Cutoff Date) to and including the last day
of the calendar month immediately preceding the calendar month in which such
Payment Date occurs. Any amount stated as of the last day of a Collection Period
shall give effect to the following applications as determined as of the close of
business on such last day: (1) all applications of collections and (2) all
distributions to be made on the related Payment Date.
"Contract" means a motor vehicle retail installment sale contract.
"Controlling Securities" means the Class A-1, Class A-2, Class A-3 and
Class A-4 Notes so long as any Class A Notes are outstanding, and the Class B
Notes thereafter.
"Corporate Trust Office" means the principal office of the Indenture
Trustee at which at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be
administered, which office at the date of the execution of this Agreement is
located at 000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, 0 Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, Attn: Xxxx
Xxxxx; or at such other address as the Indenture Trustee may designate from time
to time by notice to the Noteholders and the Seller, or the principal corporate
trust office of any successor Indenture Trustee (of which address such successor
Indenture Trustee will notify the Noteholders and the Seller).
"Cutoff Date" means the close of business on February 28, 2003.
"Dealer" means the dealer who sold a Financed Vehicle and who
originated and assigned the related Receivable to World Omni under an existing
agreement between such dealer and World Omni.
"Defaulted Receivable" means a Receivable as to which (a) all or any
part of a monthly payment is 120 or more days past due and the Servicer has not
repossessed the related Financed Vehicle or (b) the Servicer has, in accordance
with its customary servicing procedures, determined that eventual payment in
full is unlikely and has either repossessed and liquidated the related Financed
Vehicle or repossessed and held the related Financed Vehicle in its repossession
inventory for 45 days, whichever occurs first. The Principal Balance of any
Receivable that becomes a Defaulted Receivable will be deemed to be zero as of
the date it becomes a Defaulted Receivable.
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"Delivery" when used with respect to Trust Account Property means:
(a) with respect to bankers' acceptances, commercial paper,
negotiable certificates of deposit and other obligations that constitute
"instruments" within the meaning of Section 9-102(a)(47) of the UCC and are
susceptible of physical delivery, transfer thereof to the Indenture Trustee or
its nominee or custodian by physical delivery to the Indenture Trustee or its
nominee or custodian endorsed to, or registered in the name of, the Indenture
Trustee or its nominee or custodian or endorsed in blank, and, with respect to a
certificated security (as defined in Section 8-102 of the UCC) transfer thereof
(i) by delivery of such certificated security endorsed to, or registered in the
name of, the Indenture Trustee or its nominee or custodian or endorsed in blank
to a financial intermediary (as defined in Section 8-313 of the UCC) and the
making by such financial intermediary of entries on its books and records
identifying such certificated securities as belonging to the Indenture Trustee
or its nominee or custodian and the sending by such financial intermediary of a
confirmation of the purchase of such certificated security by the Indenture
Trustee or its nominee or custodian, or (ii) by delivery thereof to a "clearing
corporation" (as defined in Section 8-102(3) of the UCC) and the making by such
clearing corporation of appropriate entries on its books reducing the
appropriate securities account of the transferor and increasing the appropriate
securities account of a financial intermediary by the amount of such
certificated security, the identification by the clearing corporation of the
certificated securities for the sole and exclusive account of the financial
intermediary, the maintenance of such certificated securities by such clearing
corporation or a "custodian bank" (as defined in Section 8-102(4) of the UCC) or
the nominee of either subject to the clearing corporation's exclusive control,
the sending of a confirmation by the financial intermediary of the purchase by
the Indenture Trustee or its nominee or custodian of such securities and the
making by such financial intermediary of entries on its books and records
identifying such certificated securities as belonging to the Indenture Trustee
or its nominee or custodian (all of the foregoing, "Physical Property"), and, in
any event, any such Physical Property in registered form shall be in the name of
the Indenture Trustee or its nominee or custodian; and such additional or
alternative procedures as may hereafter become appropriate to effect the
complete transfer of ownership of any such Trust Account Property (as defined
herein) to the Indenture Trustee or its nominee or custodian, consistent with
changes in applicable law or regulations or the interpretation thereof;
(b) with respect to any securities issued by the U.S. Treasury,
the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation or by the Federal National Mortgage
Association that are book-entry securities held through the Federal Reserve
System pursuant to Federal book-entry regulations, the following procedures, all
in accordance with applicable law, including applicable Federal regulations and
Articles 8 and 9 of the UCC: book-entry registration of such Trust Account
Property to an appropriate book-entry account maintained with a Federal Reserve
Bank by a financial intermediary which is also a "depository" pursuant to
applicable Federal regulations and issuance by such financial intermediary of a
deposit advice or other written confirmation of such book-entry registration to
the Indenture Trustee or its nominee or custodian of the purchase by the
Indenture Trustee or its nominee or custodian of such book-entry securities; the
identification by the Federal Reserve Bank of such book-entry securities on its
record being credited to the financial intermediary's Participant's securities
account; the making by such financial intermediary of entries in its books and
records identifying such book-entry security held through the Federal Reserve
System pursuant to Federal book-entry regulations as
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being credited to the Indenture Trustee's securities account or custodian's
securities account and indicating that such custodian holds such Trust Account
Property solely as agent for the Indenture Trustee or its nominee or custodian;
and such additional or alternative procedures as may hereafter become
appropriate to effect complete transfer of ownership of any such Trust Account
Property to the Indenture Trustee or its nominee or custodian, consistent with
changes in applicable law or regulations or the interpretation thereof; and
(c) with respect to any item of Trust Account Property that is
an uncertificated security under Article 8 of the UCC and that is not governed
by clause (b) above, registration on the books and records of the issuer thereof
in the name of the financial intermediary, the sending of a confirmation by the
financial intermediary of the purchase by the Indenture Trustee or its nominee
or custodian of such uncertificated security, the making by such financial
intermediary of entries on its books and records identifying such uncertificated
certificates as belonging to the Indenture Trustee or its nominee or custodian.
"Depositor" means the Seller in its capacity as Depositor under the
Trust Agreement.
"Eligible Deposit Account" means either (a) a segregated account with
an Eligible Institution or (b) a segregated trust account with the corporate
trust department of a depository institution organized under the laws of the
United States of America or any one of the states thereof or the District of
Columbia (or any domestic branch of a foreign bank), having corporate trust
powers and acting as trustee for funds deposited in such account, so long as any
of the securities of such depository institution shall have a credit rating from
each Rating Agency in one of its generic rating categories that signifies
investment grade.
"Eligible Institution" means (a) the corporate trust department of the
Indenture Trustee or (b) a depository institution or trust company organized
under the laws of the United States of America or any one of the states thereof,
or the District of Columbia (or any domestic branch of a foreign bank), which at
all times (i) has either (A) a long-term unsecured debt rating of Aa2 or better
by Xxxxx'x, XX or better by Standard & Poor's and, if rated by Fitch and so long
as Fitch is a Rating Agency, AA or better by Fitch, or such other rating that is
acceptable to each Rating Agency, as evidenced by a letter from such Rating
Agency to the Indenture Trustee or (B) a certificate of deposit rating of
Prime-1 by Xxxxx'x, A-1+ by Standard & Poor's and, if rated by Fitch and so long
as Fitch is a Rating Agency, F1 by Fitch, or such other rating that is
acceptable to each Rating Agency, as evidenced by a letter from such Rating
Agency to the Indenture Trustee and (ii) whose deposits are insured by the FDIC.
"Eligible Investments" shall mean any of the following in each case
with a remaining term of no more than one year:
(a) (i) direct obligations of, and obligations guaranteed as to
full and timely payment of principal and interest by, the United States or any
agency or instrumentality of the United States the obligations of which are
backed by the full faith and credit of the United States (other than the
Government National Mortgage Association), and (ii) direct obligations of, or
obligations fully guaranteed by, Xxxxxx Xxx or any State then rated with the
highest available credit rating of Xxxxx'x, Standard & Poor's and, if rated by
Fitch and so long as Fitch is a Rating Agency, Fitch, or such obligations, which
obligations are, at the time of investment,
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otherwise acceptable to each Rating Agency for securities having a rating at
least equivalent to the rating of the Notes;
(b) certificates of deposit, demand or time deposits of,
bankers' acceptances issued by, or federal funds sold by any depository
institution or trust company (including the Indenture Trustee or the Owner
Trustee or their successors) incorporated under the laws of the United States or
any State and subject to supervision and examination by federal and/or State
banking authorities and the deposits of which are fully insured by the FDIC; so
long as at the time of such investment or contractual commitment providing for
such investment either such depository institution or trust company has the
Required Rating or the Rating Agency Condition has been satisfied;
(c) repurchase obligations held by the Indenture Trustee that
are acceptable to the Indenture Trustee with respect to (i) any security
described in clause (a) above or (e) below, or (ii) any other security issued or
guaranteed by any agency or instrumentality of the United States, in either case
entered into with a federal agency or depository institution or trust company
(including the Indenture Trustee) acting as principal, whose obligations having
the same maturity as that of the repurchase agreement would be Eligible
Investments under clause (b) above; provided, however, that repurchase
obligations entered into with any particular depository institution or trust
company (including the Indenture Trustee or Owner Trustee) will not be Eligible
Investments to the extent that the aggregate principal amount of such repurchase
obligations with such depository institution or trust company held by the
Indenture Trustee on behalf of the Trust shall exceed 10% of either the Pool
Balance or the aggregate unpaid balance or face amount, as the case may be, of
all Eligible Investments held by the Indenture Trustee on behalf of the Trust;
(d) securities bearing interest or sold at a discount issued by
any corporation incorporated under the laws of the United States or any State so
long as at the time of such investment or contractual commitment providing for
such investment, either the long-term, unsecured debt of such corporation has
the highest available credit rating from Moody's, Standard & Poor's and, if
rated by Fitch and so long as Fitch is a Rating Agency, Fitch, or the Rating
Agency Condition has been satisfied, or commercial paper or other short-term
debt having the Required Rating; provided, however, that any such commercial
paper or other short-term debt may have a remaining term to maturity of no
longer than 30 days after the date of such investment or contractual commitment
providing for such investment, and that the securities issued by any particular
corporation will not be Eligible Investments to the extent that investment
therein will cause the then outstanding principal amount or face amount, as the
case may be, of securities issued by such corporation and held by the Indenture
Trustee on behalf of the Trust to exceed 10% of either the Pool Balance or the
aggregate unpaid principal balance or face amount, as the case may be, of all
Eligible Investments held by the Indenture Trustee on behalf of the Trust;
(e) interest in any open-end or closed-end management type
investment company or investment trust (i) registered under the Investment
Company Act of 1940, as amended, the portfolio of which is limited to the
obligations of, or guaranteed by, the United States and to agreements to
repurchase such obligations, which agreements, with respect to principal and
interest, are at least 100% collateralized by such obligations marked to market
on a
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daily basis and the investment company or investment trust shall take delivery
of such obligations either directly or through an independent custodian
designated in accordance with the Investment Company Act and (ii) acceptable to
each Rating Agency (as approved in writing by each Rating Agency) as collateral
for securities having ratings equivalent to the ratings of the Notes;
(f) guaranteed reinvestment agreements issued by any bank,
insurance company or other corporation for which the Rating Agency Condition has
been satisfied;
(g) investments in Eligible Investments maintained in "sweep
accounts," short-term asset management accounts and the like utilized for the
investment, on an overnight basis, of residual balances in investment accounts
maintained at the Indenture Trustee or any other depository institution or trust
company organized under the laws of the United States or any state that is a
member of the FDIC, the short-term debt of which has the highest available
credit rating of Moody's, Standard & Poor's and, if rated by Fitch and so long
as Fitch is a Rating Agency, Fitch;
(h) guaranteed investment contracts entered into with any
financial institution having a final maturity of not more than one month from
the date of acquisition, the short-term debt securities of which institution
have the Required Rating;
(i) funds classified as money market funds; provided, however,
that the fund shall be rated with the highest available credit rating of
Moody's, Standard & Poor's and, if rated by Fitch and so long as Fitch is a
Rating Agency, Fitch, and redemptions shall be permitted on a daily or next
business day basis;
(j) auction rate securities issued with a rate reset mechanism
and a maximum term of 30 days; provided that investment will be limited to those
issuers having the highest available credit rating of Moody's, Standard & Poor's
and if rated by Fitch and so long as Fitch is a Rating Agency, Fitch; and
(k) such other investments for which the Rating Agency
Condition has been satisfied.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in the foregoing
definition:
(a) no Eligible Investment may be repurchased at a premium;
(b) any of the foregoing which constitutes a certificated
security shall not be considered an Eligible Investment unless:
(i) in the case of a certificated security that is in
bearer form, (A) the Indenture Trustee acquires physical possession of
such certificated security, or (B) a person, other than a securities
intermediary, acquires possession of such certificated security on
behalf of the Indenture Trustee; and
(ii) in the case of a certificated security that is in
registered form (A)(1) the Indenture Trustee acquires physical
possession of such certificated
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security, (2) a person, other than a securities intermediary, acquires
possession of such certificated security on behalf of the Indenture
Trustee, or (3) a securities intermediary acting on behalf of the
Indenture Trustee acquires possession of such certificated security and
such certificated security has been specially endorsed to the Indenture
Trustee, and (B) (1) such certificated security is endorsed to the
Indenture Trustee or in blank by an effective endorsement, or (2) such
certificated security is registered in the name of the Indenture
Trustee;
(c) any of the foregoing that constitutes an uncertificated
security shall not be considered an Eligible Investment unless (A) the Indenture
Trustee is registered by the issuer as the owner thereof, (B) a person, other
than a securities intermediary, becomes the registered owner of such
uncertificated security on behalf of the Indenture Trustee, or (C) the issuer of
such uncertificated security agrees that it will comply with the instructions
originated by the Indenture Trustee without further consent by any registered
owner of such uncertificated security;
(d) any of the foregoing that constitutes a security
entitlement shall not be considered an Eligible Investment unless (A) the
Indenture Trustee becomes the entitlement holder thereof, or (B) the securities
intermediary has agreed to comply with the entitlement orders originated by the
Indenture Trustee without further consent by the entitlement holder;
(e) any of the foregoing shall not constitute an Eligible
Investment unless the Indenture Trustee (A) has given value, and (B) does not
have notice of an adverse claim; and
(f) for the purposes of funds held in the Collection Account
only, investments which would otherwise qualify as Eligible Investments but for
the fact that such investments are rated A-1 by Standard & Poor's or F1 by Fitch
shall be Eligible Investments, so long as the aggregate amount of such
investments does not exceed 10% of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes.
"Event of Default" has the meaning assigned to such term in the
Indenture.
"FDIC" means the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
"Final Scheduled Maturity Date" means September 15, 2009.
"Financial Asset" has the meaning given such term in Revised Article 8.
As used herein, the Financial Asset "related to" a security entitlement is the
Financial Asset in which the entitlement holder (as defined in the New York UCC)
holding such Security Entitlement has the rights and property interest specified
in the New York UCC.
"Financed Vehicle" means an automobile or light-duty truck, together
with all accessions thereto, securing an Obligor's indebtedness under the
respective Receivable.
"Fitch" means Fitch Ratings or its successor.
"Indenture" means the Indenture, dated as of the date hereof, between
the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee (that provides for the issuance of the
Issuer's Asset-Backed Notes, Series 2003-A), as it may be amended and
supplemented from time to time.
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"Indenture Trustee" means the Person acting as Indenture Trustee under
the Indenture, its successors in interest and any successor trustee under the
Indenture.
"Insolvency Event" means, with respect to a specified Person, (a) the
filing of a decree or order for relief by a court having jurisdiction in the
premises in respect of such Person or any substantial part of its property in an
involuntary case under any applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or
other similar law now or hereafter in effect, or appointing a receiver,
liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator or similar official for
such Person or for any substantial part of its property, or ordering the
winding-up or liquidation of such Person's affairs, and such decree or order
shall remain unstayed and in effect for a period of 60 consecutive days; or (b)
the commencement by such Person of a voluntary case under any applicable federal
or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect,
or the consent by such Person to the entry of an order for relief in an
involuntary case under any such law, or the consent by such Person to the
appointment of or taking possession by a receiver, liquidator, assignee,
custodian, trustee, sequestrator or similar official for such Person or for any
substantial part of its property, or the making by such Person of any general
assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the failure by such Person generally
to pay its debts as such debts become due, or the taking of action by such
Person in furtherance of any of the foregoing.
"Interest Accrual Period" has the meaning assigned to such term in the
Indenture.
"Investment Earnings" means, with respect to any Payment Date, the
investment earnings (net of losses and investment expenses) on amounts on
deposit in the Trust Accounts to be deposited into the Collection Account on
such Payment Date pursuant to Section 5.01(b).
"Issuer" means World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2003-A.
"Lien" means a security interest, lien, charge, pledge, equity or
encumbrance of any kind, other than tax liens, mechanics' liens and any liens
that attach to the respective Receivable by operation of law as a result of any
act or omission by the related Obligor.
"Liquidated Receivable" means any Receivable liquidated by the Servicer
through the sale of a Financed Vehicle or otherwise.
"Liquidation Proceeds" means, with respect to any Liquidated
Receivable, the monies collected in respect thereof, from whatever source on a
Liquidated Receivable during the Collection Period in which such Receivable
became a Liquidated Receivable, net of the sum of any amounts expended by the
Servicer in connection with such liquidation and any amounts required by law to
be remitted to the Obligor on such Liquidated Receivable.
"Moody's" means Xxxxx'x Investors Service, or its successor.
"Non-Recoverable Advance Receivable" means a Receivable for which the
Servicer has determined on or prior to the related Payment Date that an Advance
thereon would not be recoverable or that prior Advances thereon are not
recoverable.
"Notes" means the Class A-1 Notes, Class A-2 Notes, Class A-3 Notes,
Class A-4 Notes and Class B Notes.
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"Note Distribution Account" means the account designated as such,
established and maintained pursuant to Section 5.01.
"Note Pool Factor" means, with respect to each Class of Notes as of the
close of business on the last day of a Collection Period, a seven-digit decimal
figure equal to the Outstanding Amount of such Class of Notes (after giving
effect to any reductions thereof to be made on the immediately following Payment
Date) divided by the original Outstanding Amount of such Class of Notes. The
Note Pool Factor will be 1.0000000 as of the Closing Date; thereafter, the Note
Pool Factor will decline to reflect reductions in the Outstanding Amount of such
Class of Notes.
"Noteholders' Distributable Amount" means, with respect to any Payment
Date, the sum of the Noteholders' Interest Distributable Amount and the
Noteholders' Principal Distributable Amount for such Payment Date.
"Noteholders' First Priority Principal Distributable Amount" means,
with respect to any Payment Date, an amount equal to the excess, if any, of (a)
the Outstanding Amount of the Class A Notes as of the day immediately preceding
such Payment Date over (b) the Pool Balance for that Payment Date.
"Noteholders' Interest Distributable Amount" means, with respect to any
Payment Date, the sum of the Class A Noteholders' Interest Distributable Amount
for such Payment Date and the Class B Noteholders' Interest Distributable Amount
for such Payment Date.
"Noteholders' Principal Distributable Amount" means, with respect to
any Payment Date, the excess, if any, of (a) the sum of the Outstanding Amount
of the Notes as of the day immediately preceding that Payment Date and the
Overcollateralization Target Amount for that Payment Date over (b) the Pool
Balance for that Payment Date.
"Obligor" on a Receivable means the purchaser or co-purchasers of the
Financed Vehicle and any other Person who owes payments under the Receivable.
"Officers' Certificate" means a certificate signed by the president, a
vice president, a treasurer, assistant treasurer, secretary or assistant
secretary of the Seller, World Omni or the Servicer, as appropriate.
"Opinion of Counsel" means one or more written opinions of counsel, who
may be an employee of or counsel to the Seller or the Servicer, which counsel
shall be acceptable to the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee or the Rating
Agencies, as applicable.
"Original Pool Balance" means $795,000,000.
"Outstanding Advances" means all Advances by the Servicer minus all
reimbursements of Advances to the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.08 and Section
5.04.
"Outstanding Amount" has the meaning assigned to such term in the
Indenture.
"Overcollateralization Target Amount" means, with respect to any
Payment Date, an amount equal to 3.00% of the Pool Balance for that Payment Date
but not less than $7,950,000.
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"Owner Trust Estate" has the meaning assigned to such term in the Trust
Agreement.
"Owner Trustee" means the Person acting as Owner Trustee under the
Trust Agreement, its successors in interest and any successor owner trustee
under the Trust Agreement.
"Payment Date" means, with respect to each Collection Period, the
fifteenth day of the following month or, if such day is not a Business Day, the
immediately following Business Day. The first Payment Date will be April 15,
2003.
"Payment Determination Date" means, with respect to any Payment Date,
the Business Day immediately preceding such Payment Date.
"Payment Extension Program" means a program where one month's payment
of principal is deferred in return for the payment of an extension fee
calculated generally at the APR of the contract for the month in which such
payment is deferred.
"Physical Property" has the meaning assigned to such term in the
definition of "Delivery" above.
"Pool Balance" means, as of any Payment Date, the aggregate Principal
Balance of the Receivables as of the last day of the related Collection Period
after giving effect to all payments of principal received from obligors and
Purchase Amounts to be remitted by the Servicer or the Seller, as the case may
be, for such Collection Period, and after reduction to zero of the aggregate
outstanding Principal Balance of any Receivable that became a Defaulted
Receivable during the related Collection Period.
"Principal Balance" of a Receivable, as of the close of business on the
last day of a Collection Period, means the Amount Financed minus the sum of (i)
the portion of all payments made by or on behalf of the related Obligor on or
prior to such day and allocable to principal using the Simple Interest Method;
(ii) refunds of any warranty or insurance financed on the original Contract; and
(iii) any payment of the Purchase Amount with respect to the Receivable
allocable to principal.
"Principal Distribution Amount" means, with respect to any Payment
Date, the sum of the following amounts, without duplication, with respect to the
Receivables with respect to the related Collection Period: (a) that portion of
all collections on Receivables allocable to principal, (b) the principal amount
of Receivables that became Defaulted Receivables during such Collection Period,
(c) to the extent attributable to principal, the Purchase Amount of each
Receivable that became a Purchased Receivable during such Collection Period, and
(d) partial prepayments received by the Servicer relating to refunds of any
warranty or insurance, but only if such amounts were financed by the respective
Obligors thereon as of the date of the original contract and only to the extent
not included under clause (a) above; provided, however, that in calculating the
Principal Distribution Amount all payments on and proceeds (including
Liquidation Proceeds) of any Purchased Receivables the Purchase Amount of which
has been included in the Principal Distribution Amount in a prior Collection
Period will be excluded.
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"Purchase Amount" means the amount, as of the close of business on the
last day of a Collection Period, required to prepay in full a Receivable under
the terms thereof including accrued and unpaid interest and interest to such
last day.
"Purchased Receivable" means a Receivable purchased as of the close of
business on the last day of a Collection Period by the Servicer pursuant to
Section 4.07 or by World Omni pursuant to Section 3.02.
"Rating Agencies" means Xxxxx'x, Standard & Poor's and Fitch or, if
none of such organizations or successors is any longer in existence, a
nationally recognized statistical rating organization or other comparable Person
designated by the Seller, notice of which designation shall be given to the
Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer.
"Rating Agency Condition" means, with respect to any action, that each
Rating Agency (other than Moody's) shall have given its written approval that
the contemplated action will not result in a reduction or withdrawal of the
rating of the then current rating of the Notes and, with respect to Moody's,
prior written notice to Moody's and Moody's shall not have notified the Seller
that such action will result in a downgrade of the then current rating on any
Notes.
"Receivable" means any Contract listed on Schedule A (which Schedule
may be in the form of microfiche), as such Schedule may be amended from time to
time, which Schedule is hereby incorporated into, and made a part of, this
Agreement.
"Receivables Purchase Agreement" shall mean the Receivables Purchase
Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, between World Omni, as seller and World
Omni Auto Receivables LLC, as purchaser, as amended from time to time.
"Receivable Files" means the documents specified in Section 3.03.
"Recoveries" means, with respect to any Receivable that becomes a
Liquidated Receivable, monies collected in respect thereof, from whatever
source, during any Collection Period following the Collection Period in which
such Receivable became a Liquidated Receivable, net of any expenses of the
Servicer in connection with such Receivable for which the Servicer has not been
previously reimbursed and any amounts required by law to be remitted to the
Obligor.
"Required Rating" means a rating on commercial paper or other short
term unsecured debt obligations of Prime-1 by Moody's so long as Xxxxx'x is a
Rating Agency, A-1+ by Standard & Poor's so long as Standard & Poor's is a
Rating Agency and F1+ by Fitch so long as Fitch is a Rating Agency; and any
requirement that deposits or debt obligations have the "Required Rating" shall
mean that such deposits or debt obligations have the foregoing required ratings
from Moody's, Standard & Poor's and Fitch.
"Required Reserve Amount" means, with respect to any Payment Date, the
lesser of (1) the Reserve Account Initial Deposit and (2) the Outstanding Amount
of the Notes.
"Reserve Account" means the account designated as such, established and
maintained pursuant to Section 5.01.
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"Reserve Account Initial Deposit" means the initial deposit of cash or
Eligible Investments in the amount of $3,975,000 into the Reserve Account on the
Closing Date.
"Seller" means World Omni Auto Receivables LLC and its successors in
interest to the extent permitted hereunder.
"Servicer" means World Omni, as the servicer of the Receivables, and
each successor to World Omni (in the same capacity) pursuant to Section 7.03 or
8.02.
"Servicer Default" means an event specified in Section 8.01.
"Servicer's Certificate" means a certificate of the Servicer delivered
pursuant to Sections 4.09, substantially in the form of Exhibit B.
"Servicing Fee" means the fee payable to the Servicer for services
rendered during each Collection Period, determined pursuant to Section 4.08.
"Servicing Fee Rate" means 1% per annum.
"Simple Interest Method" means the method of allocating a fixed level
payment to principal and interest, pursuant to which the portion of such payment
that is allocated to interest is equal to the product of the fixed rate of
interest multiplied by the unpaid principal balance multiplied by the period of
time elapsed since the preceding payment of interest was made and the remainder
of such payment is allocable to principal.
"Simple Interest Receivable" means any Receivable under which the
portion of a payment allocable to interest and the portion allocable to
principal is determined in accordance with the Simple Interest Method.
"Standard & Poor's" means Standard & Poor's, a division of The
XxXxxx-Xxxx Companies, Inc., or its successor.
"Total Required Advances" means, with respect to any Payment Date for
each Receivable (other than a Non-Recoverable Advance Receivable) that is more
than 30 days delinquent (determined as of the close of business on the last day
of the related Collection Period), an amount equal to the product of (A)
one-twelfth, (B) the APR of such Receivable, (C) the Principal Balance of such
Receivable and (D) the number of payments (minus one) that such Receivable is
delinquent as of the last day of the related Collection Period.
"Trust" means the Issuer.
"Trust Account Property" means the Trust Accounts, all amounts and
investments held from time to time in any Trust Account (whether in the form of
deposit accounts, Physical Property, book-entry securities, uncertificated
securities or otherwise), including the Reserve Account, and all proceeds of the
foregoing.
"Trust Accounts" has the meaning assigned thereto in Section 5.01.
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"Trust Agreement" means the Trust Agreement, dated as of the date
hereof, between the Purchaser and U.S. Bank Trust National Association, as the
owner trustee (the "Owner Trustee"), as the same may be amended and supplemented
from time to time; such agreement being the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement
contemplated by the Trust Agreement dated February 5, 2003 between the Purchaser
and the Owner Trustee.
"Trust Officer" means, in the case of the Indenture Trustee, any
Officer within the Corporate Trust Office of the Indenture Trustee, including
any Vice President, Assistant Vice President, Secretary, Assistant Secretary or
any other officer of the Indenture Trustee customarily performing functions
similar to those performed by any of the above designated officers and also,
with respect to a particular matter, any other officer to whom such matter is
referred because of such officer's knowledge of and familiarity with the
particular subject and, with respect to the Owner Trustee, any officer in the
Corporate Trust Administration Department of the Owner Trustee with direct
responsibility for the administration of the Trust Agreement and the Basic
Documents on behalf of the Owner Trustee.
"World Omni" means World Omni Financial Corp., a Florida corporation,
or its successors.
Section 1.02 Other Definitional Provisions. (a) Capitalized terms used
herein and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to them
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, 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 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; Article, Section,
Schedule and Exhibit references contained in this Agreement are references to
Articles, Sections, Schedules 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
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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
CONVEYANCE OF RECEIVABLES
Section 2.01 Conveyance of Receivables. In consideration of the
Issuer's delivery to or upon the order of the Seller of the Notes and the
Certificates, the Seller does hereby sell, transfer, assign, set over and
otherwise convey to the Issuer, without recourse (subject to the obligations of
the Seller set forth herein), all right, title and interest of the Seller
whether now or hereafter acquired, and wherever located, in and to the
following:
(a) the Receivables (all of which are identified in World
Omni's computer files by a code indicating the Receivables are owned by the
Trust and pledged to the Indenture Trustee) and all monies received thereon and
in respect thereof after the Cutoff Date;
(b) the security interests in, and the liens on, the Financed
Vehicles granted by Obligors in connection with the Receivables and any other
interest of the Seller in the Financed Vehicles;
(c) any proceeds with respect to the Receivables from claims on
any physical damage, credit life or disability insurance policies covering the
Financed Vehicles or Obligors;
(d) any Financed Vehicle that shall have secured a Receivable
and shall have been acquired by or on behalf of the Seller, the Servicer or the
Trust;
(e) all right, title and interest in all funds on deposit in,
and "financial assets" (as such term is defined in the Uniform Commercial Code
as from time to time in effect) credited to, the Trust Accounts from time to
time, including the Reserve Account Initial Deposit, and in all investments and
proceeds thereof (including all income thereon);
(f) all right, title and interest of World Omni Auto
Receivables LLC under the Receivables Purchase Agreement;
(g) all "accounts," "chattel paper," "general intangibles" and
"promissory notes" (as such terms are defined in the Uniform Commercial Code as
from time to time in effect) constituting or relating to the foregoing; and
(h) the proceeds of any and all of the foregoing; provided,
however, that the foregoing items (a) through (h) shall not include the Notes
and Certificates.
Section 2.02 Intention of Parties. It is the intention of the Seller
and the Issuer that the assignment and transfer contemplated herein constitute
(and shall be construed and treated for all purposes as) a true and complete
sale of the Receivables and the other property of the Seller specified in
Section 2.01 hereof, conveying good title thereto free and clear of any liens
and encumbrances, from the Seller to the Issuer. However, in the event that such
conveyance is deemed to be a pledge to secure a loan (in spite of the express
intent of the parties hereto that this
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conveyance constitutes, and shall be construed and treated for all purposes, as
a true and complete sale), the Seller hereby grants to the Issuer, for the
benefit of the Noteholders, a first priority perfected security interest in all
of the Seller's right, title and interest in, to and under the Receivables and
the other property of the Seller specified in Section 2.01 hereof whether now
existing or hereafter created and all proceeds of the foregoing to secure the
loan deemed to be made in connection with such pledge and, in such event, this
Agreement shall constitute a security agreement under applicable law.
ARTICLE III
THE RECEIVABLES
Section 3.01 Representations and Warranties of World Omni with Respect
to the Receivables. World Omni, which sold the related Receivables, hereby makes
the representations and warranties set forth in Appendix A hereto and hereby
represents and warrants to the other parties hereto and to the Noteholders, with
respect to such Receivables as of the Cutoff Date:
(a) Characteristics of Receivables. Each Receivable (1) (A) was
originated in the United States of America by a Dealer for the retail sale of a
Financed Vehicle in the ordinary course of such Dealer's business, was fully and
properly executed by the parties thereto, was purchased by World Omni from such
Dealer under an existing dealer agreement, or (B) was originated by World Omni,
(2) contains customary and enforceable provisions such that the rights and
remedies of the holder thereof are adequate for realization against the
collateral of the benefits of the security, and (3) provides for level monthly
payments (provided, that the payment in the first or last month in the life of
the Receivable may be minimally different from the level payments and that
certain of the Receivables did not require a payment to be made for up to six
months from the date of execution of the contract) that fully amortize the
Amount Financed by maturity and yield interest at the Annual Percentage Rate.
(b) Schedule of Receivables. The information set forth in
Schedule A to this Agreement is true and correct in all material respects as of
the close of business on the Cutoff Date, and no selection procedures believed
by World Omni to be adverse to the Noteholders were utilized in selecting the
Receivables. The computer tape or other listing regarding the Receivables made
available to the Issuer and its assigns (which computer tape or other listing is
required to be delivered as specified herein) is true and correct in all
material respects.
(c) Compliance with Law. To the best of World Omni's knowledge,
each Receivable, the sale of the Financed Vehicle and the sale of any related
insurance policies thereon financed by the Receivables complied at the time it
was originated or made and, at the execution of this Agreement, complies in all
material respects with all requirements of applicable federal, state and local
laws and regulations thereunder, including usury laws, the federal
Truth-in-Lending Act, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, the Fair Credit
Reporting Act, the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, the Federal Trade
Commission Act, the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxx Warranty Act, the Federal Reserve Board's
Regulations B and Z, and State adaptations of the National Consumer Act and of
the Uniform Consumer Credit Code, and other consumer credit laws and equal
credit opportunity and disclosure laws.
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(d) Binding Obligation. Each Receivable represents the genuine,
legal, valid and binding payment obligation in writing of the Obligor,
enforceable by the holder thereof in accordance with its terms, except as such
enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws, now or hereafter in effect,
affecting the enforcement of creditors' rights in general, and except as such
enforceability may be limited by general principles of equity (whether
considered in a suit at law or in equity).
(e) No Government Obligor. None of the Receivables are due from
the United States of America or any State or from any agency, department or
instrumentality of the United States of America or any State.
(f) Security Interest in Financed Vehicle. Immediately prior to
the sale, assignment and transfer thereof, each Receivable shall be secured by a
validly perfected first priority security interest in the Financed Vehicle in
favor of World Omni as secured party or all necessary and appropriate actions
have been commenced that would result in the valid perfection of a first
priority security interest in the Financed Vehicle in favor of the Seller as
secured party and is assignable by World Omni to the Seller, by the Seller to
the Issuer and by the Issuer to the Indenture Trustee.
(g) Receivables in Force. No Receivable has been satisfied,
subordinated or rescinded, nor has any Financed Vehicle been released from the
lien granted by the related Receivable in whole or in part.
(h) No Amendments. No Receivable has been amended such that the
amount of the Obligor's scheduled payments has been increased.
(i) No Waiver. No provision of a Receivable has been waived,
other than a discretionary waiver of a late payment charge or any other fees
that may be collected in the ordinary course of servicing a Receivable or in
connection with any extension which is reflected in the Servicer's computer
system.
(j) No Defenses. No right of rescission, setoff, counterclaim
or defense has been asserted or, to World Omni's knowledge, threatened with
respect to any Receivable.
(k) No Liens. To the best of World Omni's knowledge, no liens
or claims have been filed for work, labor or materials relating to a Financed
Vehicle that are liens prior to, or equal to or coordinate with, the security
interest in the Financed Vehicle granted by any Receivable.
(l) No Default. No Receivable has a payment that is more than
30 days overdue as of the Cutoff Date, and, except as permitted in this
paragraph, to the best of World Omni's knowledge, no default, breach, violation
or event permitting acceleration under the terms of any Receivable has occurred
and no continuing condition that with notice or the lapse of time would
constitute a default, breach, violation or event permitting acceleration under
the terms of any Receivable has arisen; and World Omni has not waived and,
except as permitted hereby, shall not waive any of the foregoing.
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(m) Insurance. World Omni, in accordance with its customary
servicing procedures, has determined that, at the origination of the Receivable,
the Obligor had obtained physical damage insurance covering the Financed
Vehicle. Under the terms of the Receivable the Obligor is required to maintain
physical damage insurance covering the Financed Vehicle and having World Omni
named as the loss payee.
(n) Title. It is the intention of World Omni that the transfer
and assignment contemplated in the Receivables Purchase Agreement constitute a
sale of the Receivables from World Omni to World Omni Auto Receivables LLC and
that the beneficial interest in and title to the Receivables not be part of the
debtor's estate in the event of the filing of a bankruptcy petition by or
against World Omni under any bankruptcy law. No Receivable has been sold,
transferred, assigned or pledged by World Omni to any Person other than the
Seller. Immediately prior to the transfer and assignment contemplated in the
Receivables Purchase Agreement, World Omni had good and marketable title to each
Receivable free and clear of all Liens, encumbrances, security interests and
rights of others and, immediately upon the transfer thereof, the Seller shall
have good and marketable title to each Receivable, free and clear of all Liens,
encumbrances, security interests and rights of others; and the transfer has been
perfected under the UCC except, in each case, for liens and encumbrances that
will be released concurrent with the transfer of Receivables pursuant to the
Receivables Purchase Agreement. It is the intention of the Seller that the
transfer and assignment herein contemplated constitute a sale of the Receivables
from the Seller to the Issuer and that the beneficial interest in and title to
the Receivables not be part of the debtor's estate in the event of the filing of
a bankruptcy petition by or against the Seller under any bankruptcy law. No
Receivable has been sold, transferred, assigned or pledged by the Seller to any
Person other than the Issuer. Immediately prior to the transfer and assignment
herein contemplated, the Seller had good and marketable title to each Receivable
free and clear of all Liens, encumbrances, security interests and rights of
others and, immediately upon the transfer thereof, the Issuer shall have good
and marketable title to each Receivable, free and clear of all Liens,
encumbrances, security interests and rights of others; and the transfer has been
perfected under the UCC.
(o) Lawful Assignment. No Receivable has been originated in, or
is subject to the laws of, any jurisdiction under which the sale, transfer and
assignment of such Receivable under this Agreement or the Indenture is unlawful,
void or voidable.
(p) All Filings Made. All filings (including UCC filings)
necessary in any jurisdiction to give the Issuer a first perfected ownership
interest in the Receivables, and to give the Indenture Trustee a first perfected
security interest therein, shall have been made.
(q) One Original. There is only one executed original of each
Receivable.
(r) Maturity of Receivables. Each Receivable has a final
maturity date not later than March 15, 2009.
(s) Scheduled Payments. Each Receivable has a first scheduled
due date on or prior to the end of the third month immediately following the
Cutoff Date.
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(t) Location of Receivable Files. The Receivable Files are kept
at the location listed in Schedule B.
(u) Outstanding Principal Balance. Each Receivable has an
outstanding principal balance of at least $500.
(v) No Bankruptcies. No Obligor on any Receivable was noted in
the Servicer's computer system as having filed for bankruptcy.
(w) No Repossessions. No Receivable was secured by a Financed
Vehicle that had been repossessed without reinstatement of the related contract.
(x) Chattel Paper. Each Receivable constitutes "tangible
chattel paper" as defined in the UCC.
(y) Computer Records. World Omni and the Seller will cause
their accounting and computer records to be marked to indicate the sale and
assignment of the Receivables from World Omni to the Seller and from the Seller
to the Trust.
(z) Code. Each of the Receivables is identified on World Omni's
computer files by a code indicating the Receivables are owned by the Trust and
pledged to the Indenture Trustee. The Receivables are the only Contracts listed
on Schedule A to this Agreement, are the only Contracts identified on World
Omni's computer files by such code, and are not identified on World Omni's
computer files by any other code.
Section 3.02 Repurchase upon Breach. The Seller, the Servicer or the
Owner Trustee (on behalf of the Trust), as the case may be, shall inform the
other parties to this Agreement and the Indenture Trustee promptly, in writing,
upon the discovery of any breach of World Omni's representations and warranties
made pursuant to Section 3.01. Unless any such breach shall have been cured by
the last day of the second Collection Period following the discovery thereof by
the Owner Trustee or receipt by the Owner Trustee of written notice from the
Seller or the Servicer of such breach, World Omni shall be obligated to
repurchase any Receivable materially and adversely affected by any such breach
as of such last day (or, at World Omni's option, the last day of the first
Collection Period following the discovery) and World Omni shall deliver a
revised Schedule A to the Seller and the Trust which shall reflect the
repurchase of such Receivables). In consideration of the repurchase of any such
Receivable, World Omni shall remit the Purchase Amount, in the manner specified
in Section 5.05. Subject to the provisions of Section 6.03, the sole remedy of
the Issuer, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Noteholders or the
Certificateholders with respect to a breach of representations and warranties
pursuant to Section 3.01 and the agreement contained in this Section shall be to
require World Omni to repurchase Receivables pursuant to this Section, subject
to the conditions contained herein.
Section 3.03 Custody of Receivable Files. To assure uniform quality in
servicing the Receivables and to reduce administrative costs, the Issuer hereby
revocably appoints the Servicer, and the Servicer hereby accepts such
appointment, to act for the benefit of the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee as
custodian of the following documents or instruments which are
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hereby or will hereby be constructively delivered to the Indenture Trustee, as
pledgee of the Issuer, as of the Closing Date with respect to each Receivable:
(a) the fully executed original of the Receivable;
(b) the original credit application fully executed by the
Obligor or such other information as the Servicer may keep on file in accordance
with its customary servicing procedures;
(c) the original certificate of title or such documents that
the Servicer or the Seller shall keep on file, in accordance with its customary
procedures, evidencing the security interest of World Omni in the Financed
Vehicle; and
(d) any and all other documents that the Servicer or the Seller
shall keep on file, in accordance with its customary procedures, relating to a
Receivable, an Obligor or a Financed Vehicle.
Section 3.04 Duties of Servicer as Custodian. (a) Safekeeping. The
Servicer shall hold the Receivable Files as custodian for the benefit of the
Issuer and maintain such accurate and complete accounts, records and computer
systems pertaining to each Receivable File as shall enable the Issuer to comply
with this Agreement. In performing its duties as custodian the Servicer shall
act with reasonable care, using that degree of skill and attention that the
Servicer exercises with respect to the receivable files relating to all
comparable automotive receivables that the Servicer services for itself. The
Servicer shall promptly report to the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee any
failure on its part to hold the Receivable Files and maintain its accounts,
records and computer systems as herein provided and shall promptly take
appropriate action to remedy any such failure. Nothing herein shall be deemed to
require an initial review or any periodic review by the Issuer or the Indenture
Trustee of the Receivable Files.
(b) Maintenance of and Access to Records. The Servicer shall
maintain each Receivable File at one of its offices specified in Schedule B or
at such other office as shall be specified to the Issuer and the Indenture
Trustee by written notice prior to any change in location together with the
Opinion of Counsel required by Section 10.02(j).
The Servicer shall provide to the Indenture Trustee access to any
and all documentation regarding the Receivables in such cases where the
Indenture Trustee is required in connection with the enforcement of the rights
of the Noteholders, or by applicable statutes or regulations to review such
documentation, such access being afforded without charge but only (a) upon
reasonable request, (b) during normal business hours, (c) subject to the
Servicer's normal security and confidentiality procedures and (d) at offices
designated by the Servicer. Nothing in this Section 3.04(b) shall derogate from
the obligation of the Servicer or the Indenture Trustee to observe any
applicable law prohibiting disclosure of information regarding the Obligors and
the failure of the Servicer to provide access as provided in this Section
3.04(b) as a result of such obligation shall not constitute a breach of this
Section 3.04(b).
(c) Release of Documents. Upon instruction from the Indenture
Trustee, the Servicer shall release any Receivable File to the Indenture
Trustee, the Indenture Trustee's agent
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or the Indenture Trustee's designee, as the case may be, at such place or places
as the Indenture Trustee may designate, as soon as practicable.
Section 3.05 Instructions; Authority To Act. The Servicer shall be
deemed to have received proper instructions with respect to the Receivable Files
upon its receipt of written instructions signed by a Trust Officer of the
Indenture Trustee.
Section 3.06 Custodian's Indemnification. The Servicer as custodian
shall indemnify the Trust, the Owner Trustee, and the Indenture Trustee and each
of their respective officers, directors, employees and agents for any and all
liabilities, obligations, losses, compensatory damages, payments, costs or
expenses of any kind whatsoever that may be imposed on, incurred by or asserted
against the Trust, the Owner Trustee, or the Indenture Trustee or any of their
respective officers, directors, employees and agents as the result of any
improper act or omission in any way relating to the maintenance and custody by
the Servicer as custodian of the Receivable Files; provided, however, that the
Servicer shall not be liable to the Owner Trustee for any portion of any such
amount resulting from the willful misfeasance, bad faith or negligence of the
Owner Trustee, and the Servicer shall not be liable to the Indenture Trustee for
any portion of any such amount resulting from the willful misfeasance, bad faith
or negligence of the Indenture Trustee.
Section 3.07 Effective Period and Termination. The Servicer's
appointment as custodian shall become effective as of the Cutoff Date and shall
continue in full force and effect until terminated pursuant to this Section. If
World Omni shall resign as Servicer in accordance with the provisions of this
Agreement or if all of the rights and obligations of any Servicer shall have
been terminated under Section 8.01, the appointment of such Servicer as
custodian may be terminated by the Indenture Trustee or by the Holders of the
Controlling Securities evidencing not less than 25% of the Outstanding Amount of
the Controlling Securities or, with the consent of Holders of the Controlling
Securities evidencing not less than 25% of the Outstanding Amount of the
Controlling Securities, by the Owner Trustee, in the same manner as the
Indenture Trustee or such Holders may terminate the rights and obligations of
the Servicer under Section 8.01. As soon as practicable after any termination of
such appointment, the Servicer shall deliver the Receivable Files to the
Indenture Trustee or the Indenture Trustee's agent at such place or places as
the Indenture Trustee may reasonably designate.
ARTICLE IV
ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF RECEIVABLES
Section 4.01 Duties of Servicer. The Servicer, for the benefit of the
Issuer (to the extent provided herein), shall manage, service, administer and
receive collections on the Receivables (other than Purchased Receivables) with
reasonable care, using that degree of skill and attention that the Servicer
exercises with respect to all comparable automotive receivables that it services
for itself or others. The Servicer's duties shall include collection and posting
of all payments, making Advances, responding to inquiries of Obligors on such
Receivables, investigating delinquencies, sending payment coupons to Obligors,
reporting tax information to Obligors, accounting for collections, paying the
fee of the Administrator out of its own funds pursuant to Section 1.03 of the
Administration Agreement and furnishing a Servicer's Certificate to the
Indenture Trustee. Subject to the provisions of Section 4.02, the Servicer shall
follow its
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customary standards, policies and procedures in performing its duties as
Servicer. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Servicer is
authorized and empowered to execute and deliver, on behalf of itself, the
Issuer, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Certificateholders and the
Noteholders or any of them, any and all instruments of satisfaction or
cancellation, or partial or full release or discharge, and all other comparable
instruments, with respect to such Receivables or to the Financed Vehicles
securing such Receivables. If the Servicer shall commence a legal proceeding to
enforce a Receivable, the Issuer (in the case of a Receivable other than a
Purchased Receivable) shall thereupon be deemed to have automatically assigned,
solely for the purpose of collection, such Receivable to the Servicer. If in any
enforcement suit or legal proceeding it shall be held that the Servicer may not
enforce a Receivable on the ground that it shall not be a real party in interest
or a holder entitled to enforce such Receivable, the Owner Trustee shall, at the
Servicer's expense and direction, take steps to enforce such Receivable,
including bringing suit in its name or the name of the Owner Trustee, the
Indenture Trustee, the Certificateholders or the Noteholders. The Owner Trustee
shall upon the written request of the Servicer furnish the Servicer with any
powers of attorney and other documents reasonably necessary or appropriate to
enable the Servicer to carry out its servicing and administrative duties
hereunder.
Section 4.02 Collection and Allocation of Receivable Payments. The
Servicer shall make reasonable efforts to collect all payments called for under
the terms and provisions of the Receivables as and when the same shall become
due and shall follow such collection procedures as it follows with respect to
all comparable automotive receivables that it services for itself or others. The
Servicer shall allocate collections as set forth in Section 5.03. The Servicer
may grant extensions (although not more than six for the life of any Receivable
(excluding the Servicer's Payment Extension Program)), rebates or adjustments on
a Receivable, which shall not, for the purposes of this Agreement, modify the
day of the month on which payment is due (except in connection with a limited
number of accommodations for Obligors of occasional requests in accordance with
the Servicer's customary servicing procedures) or change the method under which
scheduled payments of interest are computed on such Receivable (other than with
respect to the Servicer's Payment Extension Program); provided, however, that if
the Servicer extends the date for final payment by the Obligor of any Receivable
beyond the Final Scheduled Maturity Date, it shall promptly repurchase the
Receivable from the Issuer in accordance with the terms of Section 4.07. The
Servicer shall not retain any fees in connection with any extension of a
Receivable but shall instead deposit such fees into the Collection Account
within two Business Days of receipt. The Servicer may in its discretion waive
any late payment charge or any other fees that may be collected in the ordinary
course of servicing a Receivable. The Servicer shall not agree to any alteration
of the interest rate or the originally scheduled payments on any Receivable,
other than as provided herein or as required by law.
Section 4.03 Realization upon Receivables. On behalf of the Issuer,
the Servicer shall use commercially reasonable efforts, consistent with its
customary servicing procedures, to repossess or otherwise convert the ownership
of the Financed Vehicle securing any Receivable as to which the Servicer shall
have determined eventual payment in full is unlikely. The Servicer shall follow
such customary and usual practices and procedures as it shall deem necessary or
advisable in its servicing of automotive receivables, which may include selling
the Financed Vehicle at public or private sale. The Servicer is hereby
authorized to exercise its discretion, consistent with its customary servicing
procedures and the terms of this Agreement, in servicing
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Defaulted Receivables so as to maximize the realization of those Defaulted
Receivables, including the discretion to choose to sell or not to sell any of
the Defaulted Receivables. The Servicer shall not be liable for any such
exercise of its discretion made in good faith.
Section 4.04 Physical Damage Insurance. To the extent applicable, the
Servicer shall not take any action that would result in noncoverage under such
physical damage insurance policy which, but for the actions of the Servicer,
would have been covered thereunder. Any amounts collected by the Servicer under
any physical damage insurance policy shall be deposited in the Collection
Account pursuant to Section 5.02. The parties hereto acknowledge that the
Servicer shall not force place any insurance coverage.
Section 4.05 Maintenance of Security Interests in Financed Vehicles.
The Servicer shall, in accordance with its customary servicing procedures, take
such steps as are necessary to maintain perfection of the security interest
created by each Receivable in the related Financed Vehicle. The Servicer is
hereby authorized to take such steps as are necessary to re-perfect such
security interest on behalf of the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee in the event
of the relocation of a Financed Vehicle or for any other reason.
Section 4.06 Covenants of Servicer. The Servicer shall not release the
Financed Vehicle securing any Receivable from the security interest granted by
such Receivable in whole or in part except in the event of (i) payment by the
Obligor (a) in full or (b) in part with a remaining total payment shortage
amount which, according to the Servicer's customary procedures, does not exceed
the amount of total payment shortage that would permit the Servicer to release
the related Financed Vehicle from the security interest or (ii) repossession,
nor shall the Servicer impair the rights of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee,
the Certificateholders or the Noteholders in such Receivable.
Section 4.07 Purchase of Receivables upon Breach. The Servicer or the
Owner Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, shall inform the other party and the
Indenture Trustee and the Seller promptly, in writing, upon the discovery of any
breach pursuant to Section 4.02, 4.05, 4.06 or 7.01. Unless the breach shall
have been cured by the last day of the second Collection Period following such
discovery or written notice (or, at the Servicer's election, the last day of the
first following Collection Period), the Servicer shall purchase any Receivable
materially and adversely affected by such breach as of such last day and the
Servicer shall deliver a revised Schedule A to the Seller and the Trust, which
shall reflect the repurchase of such Receivables. In consideration of the
purchase of any such Receivable pursuant to the preceding sentence, the Servicer
shall remit the Purchase Amount in the manner specified in Section 5.05. Subject
to Section 7.02, the sole remedy of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture
Trustee, the Certificateholders or the Noteholders with respect to a breach
pursuant to Section 4.02, 4.05, 4.06 or 7.01 shall be to require the Servicer to
purchase Receivables pursuant to this Section. The Owner Trustee shall have no
duty to conduct any affirmative investigation as to the occurrence of any
condition requiring the repurchase of any Receivable pursuant to this Section.
Section 4.08 Servicing Fee. The Servicing Fee for a Payment Date shall
equal the product of (a) one-twelfth, (b) the Servicing Fee Rate and (c) the
Pool Balance as of the first day of the related Collection Period. The Servicer
shall also be entitled to all reimbursements for Advances as set forth in
Section 5.04, late fees, any prepayment charges, and other
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administrative fees or similar charges allowed by applicable law with respect to
the Receivables, collected (from whatever source) on the Receivables, plus any
reimbursement pursuant to the last paragraph of Section 7.02. The Servicer may,
as long as it believes that sufficient collections will be available from
interest collections on one or more future Payment Dates to pay the Servicing
Fee, by notice to the Indenture Trustee on or before a Payment Date, elect to
defer all or a portion of the Servicing Fee with respect to the related
Collection Period, without interest. If the Servicer defers all of the Servicing
Fee, the Servicing Fee for such related Collection Period will be deemed to
equal zero.
Section 4.09 Servicer's Certificate. Not later than 11:00 A.M. (New
York time) on each Payment Determination Date, the Servicer shall deliver a
Servicer's Certificate pursuant to Section 5.08. Receivables to be purchased by
the Servicer or to be repurchased by World Omni or the Seller shall be
identified by the Servicer by account number with respect to such Receivable (as
specified in Schedule A).
Section 4.10 Annual Statement as to Compliance; Notice of Default. (a)
The Servicer shall deliver to the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee, on or
before April 30 of each year beginning April 30, 2004, an Officers' Certificate,
dated as of December 31 of the preceding year, stating that (i) a review of the
activities of the Servicer during the preceding 12-month period (or such shorter
period as shall have elapsed since the Closing Date) and of its performance
under this Agreement has been made under such officers' supervision and (ii) to
the best of such officers' knowledge, based on such review, the Servicer has
fulfilled all its obligations under this Agreement throughout such year or, if
there has been a default in the fulfillment of any such obligation, specifying
each such default known to such officers and the nature and status thereof. The
Indenture Trustee shall send a copy of such certificate and the report referred
to in Section 4.11 to the Rating Agencies. A copy of such certificate and the
report referred to in Section 4.11 may be obtained by any Certificateholder or
Noteholder by a request in writing to the Owner Trustee addressed to the
Corporate Trust Office. Upon the telephone request of the Owner Trustee, the
Indenture Trustee will promptly furnish the Owner Trustee a list of Noteholders
as of the date specified by the Owner Trustee.
(b) The Servicer shall deliver to the Owner Trustee, the
Indenture Trustee and the Rating Agencies, promptly after having obtained
knowledge thereof, but in no event later than five (5) Business Days thereafter,
written notice in an Officers' Certificate of any event which with the giving of
notice or lapse of time, or both, would become a Servicer Default under Section
8.01(a) or (b).
Section 4.11 Annual Independent Certified Public Accountants' Report.
Within 120 days after December 31 of each year, beginning in 2004, the Servicer
shall deliver to the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee a report, prepared
by the independent accountants of the Servicer, stating that such independent
accountants have audited the annual financial statements of the Servicer in
accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States and
nothing came to such independent accountants' attention that caused them to
believe that the Servicer was not in compliance with the provisions of this
Agreement, except for (a) such exceptions as such firm shall believe to be
immaterial, and (b) such other exceptions as shall be set forth in such
statement.
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Section 4.12 Access to Certain Documentation and Information Regarding
Receivables. The Servicer shall provide to the Certificateholders and
Noteholders access to the Receivable Files in such cases where the
Certificateholders or Noteholders shall be required by applicable statutes or
regulations to review such documentation. Access shall be afforded without
charge, but only upon reasonable request and during the normal business hours at
the offices of the Servicer. Nothing in this Section shall affect the obligation
of the Servicer to observe any applicable law prohibiting disclosure of
information regarding the Obligors and the failure of the Servicer to provide
access to information as a result of such obligation shall not constitute a
breach of this Section.
Section 4.13 Servicer Expenses. The Servicer shall be required to pay
all expenses incurred by it in connection with its activities hereunder,
including fees and disbursements of independent accountants, taxes imposed on
the Servicer and expenses incurred in connection with distributions and reports
to Certificateholders and Noteholders.
Section 4.14 Appointment of Subservicer. The Servicer may at any time
appoint a subservicer to perform all or any portion of its obligations as
Servicer hereunder; provided, however, that the Rating Agency Condition shall
have been satisfied in connection therewith; and provided, further, that the
Servicer shall remain obligated and be liable to the Issuer, the Owner Trustee,
the Indenture Trustee, the Certificateholders and the Noteholders for the
servicing and administering of the Receivables in accordance with the provisions
hereof without diminution of such obligation and liability by virtue of the
appointment of such subservicer and to the same extent and under the same terms
and conditions as if the Servicer alone were servicing and administering the
Receivables. The fees and expenses of the subservicer shall be as agreed between
the Servicer and its subservicer from time to time, and none of the Issuer, the
Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Certificateholders or the Noteholders
shall have any responsibility therefor. The Servicer shall give the Indenture
Trustee written notice of any subservicer appointed hereunder,
Section 4.15 Annual Transfer. The State of Florida imposes a
value-based intangibles tax on January 1 of each year on certain intangibles
owned, managed or controlled by Florida domiciliaries or intangibles having a
business situs in Florida. On the last business day of each year, in an effort
to minimize the impact of this intangibles tax, the Seller may transfer 99% of
its right, title and interest in, to and under the Certificates owned by it as
of such day, together with all of its duties, rights and obligations under this
Agreement and the Administration Agreement to a special-purpose entity that is a
wholly-owned subsidiary of World Omni (the "Transferee"), located and managed
outside the State of Florida (such transfer, the "Annual Transfer"). In
connection with such Annual Transfer, World Omni will transfer all of its
rights, obligations and duties under this Agreement and the Administration
Agreement to the Transferee. The Trust will continue to maintain its first
priority perfected security interest in the Receivables. Only 99% of the
Seller's interest in the Receivables evidenced by the Certificates and its
duties, rights and obligations under this Agreement and the Administration
Agreement, together with World Omni's management and control authority and
obligations, will be transferred to the Transferee, to be held in escrow and
returned to the Seller and World Omni, respectively, on the first business day
of the following year. World Omni shall indemnify the Trust with respect to any
liability for this intangibles tax. World Omni will not conduct any servicing
activities during the period of the Annual Transfer.
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Section 4.16 Exchange Act Certifications.
To the extent permitted by Exchange Act Rules, the Servicer shall
prepare, execute, file and deliver on behalf of the Issuer any certification or
other instrument as required by Exchange Act Rules 13a-14 and 15d-14.
ARTICLE V
DISTRIBUTIONS; RESERVE ACCOUNT;
STATEMENTS TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS AND NOTEHOLDERS
Section 5.01 Establishment of Trust Accounts. (a)(i) The Servicer, for
the benefit of the Noteholders and the Certificateholders, shall cause to be
established and maintained with and in the name of the Indenture Trustee an
Eligible Deposit Account (the "Collection Account"), bearing a designation
clearly indicating that the funds deposited therein are held for the benefit of
the Noteholders and the Certificateholders.
(ii) The Servicer, for the benefit of the Noteholders,
shall cause to be established and maintained with and in the name of
the Indenture Trustee an Eligible Deposit Account (the "Note
Distribution Account"), bearing a designation clearly indicating that
the funds deposited therein are held for the benefit of the
Noteholders.
(iii) The Servicer, for the benefit of the Noteholders and
the Certificateholders, shall cause to be established and maintained
with and in the name of the Indenture Trustee an Eligible Deposit
Account (the "Reserve Account"), bearing a designation clearly
indicating that the funds deposited therein are held for the benefit
of the Noteholders and the Certificateholders.
(b) Funds on deposit in the Collection Account, the Note
Distribution Account and the Reserve Account (collectively the "Trust Accounts")
shall be invested by the Indenture Trustee in Eligible Investments selected by
the Servicer. In absence of written direction from the Servicer, such funds
shall be invested in Eligible Investments specified in clause (i) of the
definition thereof. All such Eligible Investments shall be held by the Indenture
Trustee for the benefit of the Noteholders and the Certificateholders or the
Noteholders, as applicable; provided, that on each Payment Determination Date
all interest and other Investment Earnings on funds on deposit in the Trust
Accounts shall be deposited into the Collection Account and shall be deemed to
constitute a portion of the Available Funds for the related Payment Date. Other
than as permitted by the Rating Agencies, funds on deposit in the Collection
Account, the Reserve Account and the Note Distribution Account shall be invested
in Eligible Investments that will mature (A) not later than the Business Day
immediately preceding the next Payment Date or (B) on or before 10:00 a.m. on
such next Payment Date if such investment is held in the corporate trust
department of the institution with which the Collection Account, the Reserve
Account or the Note Distribution Account, as applicable, is then maintained and
is invested either (i) in a time deposit of the Indenture Trustee rated at least
A-1 by Standard & Poor's, F1 by Fitch and Prime-1 by Xxxxx'x (such account being
maintained within the corporate trust department of the Indenture Trustee), (ii)
in the Indenture Trustee's common trust fund so long as such fund is rated in
the highest applicable rating category by Standard & Poor's, Xxxxx'x and Fitch
or (iii) in Eligible Investments specified in clauses (g) or
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(i) of the definition thereof. In no event shall the Indenture Trustee be held
liable for investment losses in Eligible Investments pursuant to this Section
5.01, except in its capacity as obligor thereunder.
(c) (i) The Indenture Trustee shall possess all right, title and
interest in all funds on deposit from time to time in the Trust Accounts and in
all proceeds thereof (including all income thereon) and all such funds,
investments, proceeds and income shall be part of the Trust Estate. The Trust
Accounts shall be under the sole dominion and control of the Indenture Trustee
for the benefit of the Noteholders or the Noteholders and the
Certificateholders, as the case may be. If, at any time, any of the Trust
Accounts ceases to be an Eligible Deposit Account, the Indenture Trustee (or the
Servicer on its behalf) 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 Trust Account as an Eligible Deposit Account and shall transfer
any cash and/or any investments to such new Trust Account. The Indenture Trustee
or the other Person holding the Trust Accounts as provided in this Section
5.01(c)(i) shall be the "Securities Intermediary." If the Securities
Intermediary shall be a Person other than the Indenture Trustee, the Servicer
shall obtain the express agreement of such Person to the obligations of the
Securities Intermediary set forth in this Section 5.01.
(ii) With respect to the Trust Account Property, the
Securities Intermediary agrees, by its acceptance hereof, that:
(A) The Trust Accounts are accounts to which Financial
Assets will be credited.
(B) All securities or other property underlying any
Financial Assets credited to the Trust Accounts shall be
registered in the name of the Securities Intermediary, indorsed
to the Securities Intermediary or in blank or credited to another
securities account maintained in the name of the Securities
Intermediary and in no case will any Financial Asset credited to
any of the Trust Accounts be registered in the name of the Trust,
the Servicer or the Seller, payable to the order of the Trust,
the Servicer or the Seller or specially indorsed to the Owner
Trustee, the Servicer or the Seller except to the extent the
foregoing have been specially indorsed to the Securities
Intermediary or in blank.
(C) All property delivered to the Securities Intermediary
pursuant to this Agreement will be promptly credited to the
appropriate Trust Account.
(D) Each item of property (whether investment property,
Financial Asset, security, instrument of cash) credited to a
Trust Account shall be treated as a "financial asset" within the
meaning of Section 8-102(a)(9) of the New York UCC.
(E) If at any time the Securities Intermediary shall
receive any order from the Indenture Trustee directing transfer
or redemption of any Financial Asset relating to the Trust
Accounts, the Securities Intermediary shall comply with such
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entitlement order without further consent by the Trust, the
Servicer, the Seller or any other Person.
(F) The Trust Accounts shall be governed by the laws of
the State of New York, regardless of any provision in any other
agreement. For purposes of the UCC, New York shall be deemed to
be the Securities Intermediary's jurisdiction and the Trust
Accounts (as well as the securities entitlements (as defined in
Section 8-102(a)(17) of the UCC) related thereto) shall be
governed by the laws of the State of New York.
(G) The Securities Intermediary has not entered into, and
until the termination of this Agreement will not enter into, any
agreement with any other person relating to the Trust Accounts
and/or any Financial Assets credited thereto pursuant to which it
has agreed to comply with entitlement orders (as defined in
Section 8-102(a)(8) of the New York UCC) of such other person and
the Securities Intermediary has not entered into, and until the
termination of this Agreement will not enter into, any agreement
with the Trust, the Seller, the Servicer or the Indenture Trustee
purporting to limit or condition the obligation of the Securities
Intermediary to comply with entitlement orders as set forth in
Section 5.01(c)(ii)(E) hereof.
(H) Except for the claims and interest of the Indenture
Trustee and of the Trust in the Trust Accounts, the Securities
Intermediary knows of no claim to, or interest in, the Trust
Accounts or in any Financial Asset credited thereto. If any other
person asserts any lien, encumbrance or adverse claim (including
any writ, garnishment, judgment, warrant of attachment, execution
or similar process) against the Trust Accounts or in any
Financial Asset carried therein, the Securities Intermediary will
promptly notify the Indenture Trustee, the Servicer and the Trust
thereof.
(I) The Securities Intermediary will promptly send copies
of all statements, confirmations and other correspondence
concerning the Trust Accounts and/or any Trust Account Property
simultaneously to each of the Servicer and the Indenture Trustee.
(iii) The Servicer shall have the power, revocable by the
Indenture Trustee or by the Owner Trustee with the consent of the
Indenture Trustee, to instruct the Indenture Trustee to make
withdrawals and payments from the Trust Accounts for the purpose of
permitting the Servicer or the Owner Trustee to carry out its
respective duties hereunder or permitting the Indenture Trustee to
carry out its duties under the Indenture.
Section 5.02 Collections. The Servicer shall remit to the Collection
Account within two Business Days of receipt of payment (including proper
instructions where to allocate such payment) all payments by or on behalf of the
Obligors with respect to the Receivables (other than Purchased Receivables) and
all Liquidation Proceeds, both as collected during the Collection Period.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, for so long as (i) World Omni remains the
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Servicer (other than in connection with the annual transfer), (ii) no Servicer
Default shall have occurred and be continuing, (iii) the Rating Agency Condition
is met and (iv) World Omni either (a) maintains a short-term debt rating of at
least A-1 by Standard & Poor's, Prime-1 by Xxxxx'x and F1 by Fitch (b) arranges
for and maintains a letter of credit or other form of enhancement for the
Servicer's obligations to make deposits of collections on the Receivables in the
Collection Account that is acceptable in form and substance to each Rating
Agency or (c) otherwise satisfies the Rating Agency Condition, the Servicer
shall remit such collections with respect to the preceding calendar month to the
Collection Account on the Payment Determination Date immediately preceding the
related Payment Date. For purposes of this Article V the phrase "payments by or
on behalf of Obligors" shall mean payments made with respect to the Receivables
by Persons other than the Servicer or the Seller.
Section 5.03 Application of Collections. With respect to each
Receivable (other than a Purchased Receivable), payments by or on behalf of the
Obligor shall be applied to interest and principal in accordance with the Simple
Interest Method.
Section 5.04 Advances. On each Payment Date, the Servicer shall
deposit into the Collection Account an amount (such amount, an "Advance"), if
positive, equal to (1) the Total Required Advances with respect to such Payment
Date minus (2) the Outstanding Advance immediately following the preceding
Payment Date. On each Payment Date, the Servicer shall be reimbursed for
Outstanding Advances in an amount, if positive, equal to (1) the Outstanding
Advances immediately following the preceding Payment Date minus (2) the Total
Required Advances with respect to such Payment Date. The Servicer shall not make
any advance in respect of principal on the Receivables.
Section 5.05 Additional Deposits. The Servicer and the Seller shall
deposit or cause to be deposited in the Collection Account the aggregate
Purchase Amount with respect to Purchased Receivables and the Servicer shall
deposit therein all amounts to be paid under Section 9.01. The Servicer will
deposit the aggregate Purchase Amount with respect to Purchased Receivables when
such obligations are due. The Servicer shall, if necessary, deposit all Advances
required to be made pursuant to Section 5.04 in the Collection Account on each
Payment Date. All such other deposits shall be made on the Payment Determination
Date for the related Collection Period.
Section 5.06 Distributions. (i) On or before each Payment
Determination Date, the Servicer shall calculate (A) all amounts required to be
deposited in the Note Distribution Account and (B) all amounts required to be
distributed to the Certificateholders.
(ii) Except as otherwise provided in clauses (iii) or
(iv) below, on each Payment Date, the Servicer shall instruct the
Indenture Trustee (based on the information contained in the
Servicer's Certificate delivered on the related Payment
Determination Date pursuant to Section 4.09) to make the following
deposits and distributions to the extent of the Available Funds, in
the following order of priority:
(A) to the Note Distribution Account, from Available
Funds, the Class A Noteholders' Interest Distributable Amount;
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(B) to the Note Distribution Account, from the
Available Funds remaining after the application of clause (A)
above, if any, the Noteholders' First Priority Principal
Distributable Amount;
(C) to the Note Distribution Account, from the
Available Funds remaining after the application of clauses (A)
and (B) above, if any, the Class B Noteholders' Interest
Distributable Amount;
(D) to the Reserve Account, from the Available Funds
remaining after the application of clauses (A) through (C) above,
the amount, if any, necessary to reinstate the balance in the
Reserve Account up to the Required Reserve Amount;
(E) to the Note Distribution Account, from the
Available Funds remaining after the application of clauses (A)
through (D) above, if any, an amount equal to the Noteholders'
Principal Distribution Amount minus any amounts allocated to the
Note Distribution Account pursuant to clause (B) above; and
(F) to the Certificateholders, the portion, if any, of
the Available Funds remaining after the application of clauses
(A) through (E) above; provided the Indenture Trustee has not
received written instruction from the Certificateholders of 100%
percentage interest in the Certificates to redeposit all or a
portion of such Available Funds into the Collection Account.
The Holders of 100% Percentage Interest of the Certificates will have the right,
but not the obligation, in their sole discretion, to instruct the Indenture
Trustee in writing to retain in the Collection Account all or a portion of
distributions otherwise payable to them pursuant to (F) above. If the
Certificateholders make this election, these amounts will be treated as
collections during the then current Collection Period and the Certificateholders
will have no claim to such amounts (unless distributed on a subsequent Payment
Date pursuant to (F) above).
(iii) In the event the Notes are declared to be due and
payable following the occurrence of an Event of Default pursuant to
Section 5.01(i) and (ii) of the Indenture, the Servicer shall
instruct the Indenture Trustee (based on the information contained
in the Servicer's Certificate delivered on the related Payment
Determination Date pursuant to section 4.09) to make the following
deposits and distributions to the extent of Available Funds, in the
following order of priority: (A) to the Note Distribution Account,
from Available Funds, an amount equal to the accrued and unpaid
interest on each Class of Class A Notes; (B) to the Note
Distribution Account, from the Available Funds remaining after the
application of clause (A) above, if any, an amount equal to the
Outstanding Amount of each class of Class A Notes; (C) to the Note
Distribution Account, from Available Funds remaining after the
application of clauses (A) and (B) above, if any, an amount equal to
the accrued and unpaid interest on the Class B Notes; (D) to the
Note Distribution Account, from Available Funds remaining after the
application of clauses (A), (B) and (C) above, if any, an amount
equal to the Outstanding Amount of the Class B
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Notes; and (E) to the Certificateholders, the portion, if any, of
the Available Funds remaining after application of clauses (A), (B),
(C) and (D), above.
(iv) In the event the Notes are declared to be due and
payable following the occurrence of an Event of Default pursuant to
Section 5.01(iii), (iv) or (v) of the Indenture, the Servicer shall
instruct the Indenture Trustee (based on the information contained
in the Servicer's Certificate delivered on the related Payment
Determination Date pursuant to section 4.09) to make the following
deposits and distributions to the extent of Available Funds, in the
following order of priority: (A) to the Note Distribution Account,
from Available Funds, an amount equal to the accrued and unpaid
interest on each Class of Class A Notes; (B) to the Note
Distribution Account, from Available Funds remaining after the
application of clause (A) above, if any, an amount equal to the
accrued and unpaid interest on the Class B Notes; (C) to the Note
Distribution Account, from the Available Funds remaining after the
application of clauses (A) and (B) above, if any, an amount equal to
the Outstanding Amount of each class of Class A Notes; (D) to the
Note Distribution Account, from Available Funds remaining after the
application of clauses (A), (B) and (C) above, if any, an amount
equal to the Outstanding Amount of the Class B Notes; and (E) to the
Certificateholders, the portion, if any, of the Available Funds
remaining after application of clauses (A), (B), (C) and (D), above.
Section 5.07 Reserve Account.
(a) On the Closing Date, the Indenture Trustee will deposit, on
behalf of the Seller, the Reserve Account Initial Deposit into the Reserve
Account.
(b) If the amount on deposit in the Reserve Account on any
Payment Date (after giving effect to all deposits thereto or withdrawals
therefrom on such Payment Date) is greater than the Required Reserve Amount for
such Payment Date, the Servicer shall instruct the Indenture Trustee to withdraw
such amount from the Reserve Account and apply it as Available Funds for such
Payment Date.
(c) In the event that the Available Funds for a Payment Date are
not sufficient to make the full amount of the deposits into the Note
Distribution Account required pursuant to Sections 5.06(ii)(A), (B) and (C) on
such Payment Date, the Servicer shall instruct the Indenture Trustee to withdraw
from the Reserve Account on such Payment Date an amount equal to such shortfall,
to the extent of funds available therein, and deposit such amount into the Note
Distribution Account; provided that such amount shall be applied according to
the priorities set forth in Section 5.06(ii). In addition, amounts will be
withdrawn from the Reserve Account as provided in Section 8.2(c) and (d) of the
Indenture.
(d) Subject to Section 9.01, amounts will continue to be applied
pursuant to Section 5.06 following payment in full of the Outstanding Amount of
the Notes until the Pool Balance is reduced to zero. Following the payment in
full of the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Notes and of all other amounts
owing or to be distributed hereunder or under the Indenture or the Trust
Agreement to Noteholders, any amount remaining on deposit in the Reserve Account
shall be distributed to the Certificateholders.
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Section 5.08 Statements to Noteholders and Certificateholders. On each
Payment Determination Date, the Servicer shall provide to the Indenture Trustee
(with a copy to the Rating Agencies) for the Indenture Trustee to forward to The
Depository Trust Company (which shall supply such statement to Noteholders in
accordance with its procedures), a statement substantially in the form of
Exhibit B, setting forth at least the following information as to the Notes, to
the extent applicable:
(a) the amount of such distribution allocable to principal
allocable to each Class of Notes;
(b) the amount of such distribution allocable to interest
allocable to each Class of Notes;
(c) the Outstanding Amount of each Class of Notes and the Note
Pool Factor for each such Class as of the close of business on the last day of
the preceding Collection Period;
(d) the amount of the Servicing Fee paid to the Servicer with
respect to the related Collection Period, the amount of any unpaid Servicing Fee
and the change in such amount from the prior Payment Date;
(e) the balance of the Reserve Account on such Payment
Determination Date after giving effect to deposits and withdrawals to be made on
the immediate following Payment Date, if any;
(f) the Pool Balance as of the close of business on the last day
of the related Collection Period, after giving effect to payments allocated to
principal reported under clause (a) above;
(g) the Class A Noteholders' Interest Carryover Shortfall;
(h) the Class B Noteholders' Interest Carryover Shortfall;
(i) the number of Receivables purchased by, and the aggregate
Purchase Amount paid by, World Omni or the Servicer with respect to the related
Collection Period;
(j) delinquency information relating to the Receivables which
are more than 30, 60 or 90 days delinquent;
(k) the aggregate amount of Receivables which have become
Defaulted Receivables during the preceding Collection Period;
(l) the amount, if any, distributed to the Certificateholders;
(m) the Noteholders' First Priority Principal Distributable
Amount;
(n) the Noteholders' Principal Distributable Amount; and
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(o) the Overcollateralization Target Amount for the immediately
following Payment Date.
Each amount set forth on the Payment Date statement under clauses
(a), (b), (g) and (h) above shall be expressed as a dollar amount per $1,000 of
original principal amount of a Note.
Section 5.09 Net Deposits. As an administrative convenience, the
Servicer will be permitted to make the deposit of collections on the
Receivables, Advances and Purchase Amounts for or with respect to the Collection
Period net of distributions (including without limitation the Servicing Fee) to
be made to the Servicer with respect to the Collection Period. The Servicer,
however, will account to the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the
Noteholders and the Certificateholders as if all deposits, distributions and
transfers were made individually.
Section 5.10 Transfer of Certificates. In the event any Holder of a
Certificate shall wish to transfer such Certificate, the Seller shall provide to
such Holder and any prospective transferee designated by such Holder information
regarding the Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as
shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule
144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Certificate without registration thereof
under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, pursuant to the exemption from
registration provided by Rule 144A.
ARTICLE VI
THE SELLER
Section 6.01 Representations of Seller. The Seller makes the following
representations on which the Issuer is deemed to have relied in acquiring the
Receivables. The representations speak as of the Closing Date, and shall survive
the sale of the Receivables to the Issuer and the pledge thereof to the
Indenture Trustee pursuant to the Indenture.
(a) Organization and Good Standing. The Seller is duly organized
and validly existing as a limited liability company in good standing under the
laws of the State of Delaware, with the requisite power and authority to own its
properties and to conduct its business as such properties are currently owned
and such business is presently conducted, and had at all relevant times, and
has, the requisite power, authority and legal right to acquire and own the
Receivables.
(b) Due Qualification. The Seller is duly qualified to do
business as a foreign limited liability company in good standing, and has
obtained all necessary material licenses and approvals, in all jurisdictions in
which the ownership or lease of property or the conduct of its business shall
require such qualifications, except where the failure to be so qualified or to
have obtained such licenses or approvals would not have a material adverse
effect on the Seller's earnings, business affairs or business prospects.
(c) Power and Authority. The Seller has the requisite power and
authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and to carry out its terms; the
Seller has full power and authority to sell and assign the property to be sold
and assigned to and deposited with the Issuer, and the Seller shall have duly
authorized such sale and assignment to the Issuer by all necessary
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action; and the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement has been
duly authorized by the Seller by all necessary action.
(d) Binding Obligation. This Agreement constitutes a legal,
valid and binding obligation of the Seller enforceable against the Seller in
accordance with its terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by
applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar
laws, now or hereafter in effect, affecting the enforcement of creditors' rights
in general, and except as such enforceability may be limited by general
principles of equity (whether considered in a suit at law or in equity).
(e) No Violation. The consummation of the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement and the fulfillment of the terms hereof do not
(i) 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 or bylaws of the Seller; (ii) breach,
conflict with or violate any of the material terms or provisions of, or
constitute (with or without notice or lapse of time) a default under, any
indenture, agreement or other instrument to which the Seller is a party or by
which it is bound; (iii) 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 this Agreement and the Basic
Documents); or, (iv) to the best of the Seller's knowledge, violate any order,
rule or regulation applicable to the Seller of any court or of any federal or
state regulatory body, administrative agency or other governmental
instrumentality having jurisdiction over the Seller or its properties except, in
the case of clauses (ii), (iii) and (iv), for such breaches, defaults,
conflicts, liens or violations that would not have a material adverse effect on
the Seller's earnings, business affairs or business prospects.
(f) No Proceedings. To the Seller's best knowledge, there are no
proceedings or investigations pending or threatened before any court, regulatory
body, administrative agency or other governmental instrumentality having
jurisdiction over the Seller or its properties: (i) asserting the invalidity of
this Agreement, the Indenture or any of the other Basic Documents, the Notes or
the Certificates, (ii) seeking to prevent the issuance of the Notes or the
Certificates or the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement, the Indenture or any of the other Basic Documents, (iii) seeking any
determination or ruling that could reasonably be expected to materially and
adversely affect the performance by the Seller of its obligations under, or the
validity or enforceability of, this Agreement, the Indenture, any of the other
Basic Documents, the Notes or the Certificates or (iv) which could reasonably be
expected to adversely affect the federal or state income tax attributes of the
Notes or the Certificates.
(g) All Consents. All authorizations, licenses, consents, orders
or approvals of, or registrations or declarations with, any court, regulatory
body, administrative agency or other government instrumentality required to be
obtained, effected or given by the Seller in connection with the execution and
delivery by the Seller of this Agreement or any of the Basic Documents to which
it is a party and the performance by the Seller of the transactions contemplated
by this Agreement or any of the Basic Documents to which it is a party, have
been duly obtained, effected or given and are in full force and effect, except
where failure to obtain the same would not have a material adverse effect upon
the rights of the Trust, the Noteholders or the Certificateholders.
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Section 6.02 Corporate Existence. (a) During the term of this
Agreement, the Seller will keep in full force and effect its existence, rights
and franchises as a limited liability company under the laws of the jurisdiction
of its formation and will obtain and preserve its qualification to do business
in each jurisdiction in which such qualification is or shall be necessary to
protect the validity and enforceability of this Agreement, the Basic Documents
and each other instrument or agreement necessary or appropriate to the proper
administration of this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby. In
addition, all transactions and dealings between the Seller and its Affiliates
will be conducted on an arm's-length basis.
(b) During the term of this Agreement, the Seller shall observe
the applicable legal requirements for the recognition of the Seller as a legal
entity separate and apart from its affiliates, including the following:
(i) the Seller shall maintain corporate records and books
of account separate from those of its affiliates;
(ii) Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, the
Seller shall not commingle its assets and funds with those of its
affiliates;
(iii) the Seller shall hold such appropriate meetings of its
Board of Directors as are necessary to authorize all the Seller's
corporate actions required by law to be authorized by the Board of
Directors, shall keep minutes of such meetings and observe all
other customary corporate formalities (and any successor Seller not
a limited liability company shall observe similar procedures in
accordance with its governing documents and applicable law); and
(iv) the Seller shall at all times hold itself out to the
public under the Seller's own name as a legal entity separate and
distinct from its affiliates.
Section 6.03 Liability of Seller; Indemnities. The Seller shall be
liable in accordance herewith only to the extent of the obligations specifically
undertaken by the Seller under this Agreement:
(a) The Seller shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless the
Issuer, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee and the Servicer and any of the
officers, directors, employees and agents of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee and
the Indenture Trustee from and against any taxes that may at any time be
asserted against any such Person with respect to the transactions contemplated
herein and in the Basic Documents, including any sales, gross receipts, general
corporation, tangible personal property, privilege or license taxes (but, in the
case of the Issuer, not including any taxes asserted with respect to, and as of
the date of, the sale of the Receivables to the Issuer or the issuance and
original sale of the Certificates and the Notes, or asserted with respect to
ownership of the Receivables, or federal or other income taxes arising out of
distributions on the Certificates or the Notes) and costs and expenses in
defending against the same.
(b) The Seller shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless the
Issuer, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Certificateholders and the
Noteholders and any of the officers, directors, employees and agents of the
Issuer, the Owner Trustee, and the Indenture
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Trustee from and against any loss, liability or reasonable and documented
expense incurred by reason of the Seller's willful misfeasance, bad faith or
negligence (except for errors in judgment) in the performance of its duties
under this Agreement, or by reason of reckless disregard of its obligations and
duties under this Agreement.
(c) The Seller shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless the
Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee and their respective officers,
directors, employees and agents from and against all reasonable and documented
cost and expense, and all other losses, claims, damages and liabilities arising
out of or incurred in connection with the acceptance or performance of the
trusts and duties herein and in the Trust Agreement, in the case of the Owner
Trustee, and in the Indenture, in the case of the Indenture Trustee, except to
the extent that such cost, expense, loss, claim, damage or liability: (i) in the
case of the Owner Trustee, shall be due to the willful misfeasance, bad faith or
negligence (except for errors in judgment) of the Owner Trustee or, in the case
of the Indenture Trustee, shall be due to the willful misfeasance, bad faith or
negligence (except for errors in judgment) of the Indenture Trustee or (ii) in
the case of the Owner Trustee, shall arise from the breach by the Owner Trustee
of any of its representations or warranties set forth in Section 7.03 of the
Trust Agreement.
(d) The Seller shall pay any and all taxes levied or assessed
upon all or any part of the Owner Trust Estate.
Indemnification under this Section shall survive the resignation
or removal of the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee and the termination of
this Agreement and shall include reasonable and documented fees and expenses of
counsel and expenses of litigation. If the Seller shall have made any indemnity
payments pursuant to this Section and the Person to or on behalf of whom such
payments are made thereafter shall collect any of such amounts from others, such
Person shall promptly repay such amounts to the Seller, without interest.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this
Agreement or any other document, the obligations of the Seller under this
Section 6.03 and Section 7.5 of the Seller's Limited Liability Company Agreement
are solely the corporate obligations of the Seller and shall be payable by it
(x) solely from funds distributed to it in its capacity as Certificateholder
available pursuant to, and in accordance with, the payment priorities set forth
in Section 5.06 of this Agreement and (z) only to the extent that it receives
additional funds designated for such purposes or to the extent it has additional
funds available (other than funds described in preceding clause (x)). In
addition, no amount owing by the Seller hereunder or under Section 7.5 of its
Limited Liability Company Agreement in excess of the liabilities that it is
required to pay in accordance with the preceding sentence shall constitute a
"claim" (as defined in Section 101(5) of the Bankruptcy Code) against it. No
recourse shall be had for the payment of any amount owing hereunder or under
Section 7.5 of the Seller's Limited Liability Company Agreement or any other
obligation of, or claim against, the Seller, arising out of or based upon this
Section 6.03 or under Section 7.5 of its Limited Liability Company Agreement
against any employee, officer, agent, directed or authorized person of the
Seller; provided, however, that the foregoing shall not relieve any such person
or entity of any liability they might otherwise have as a result of fraudulent
actions or omissions taken by them.
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Section 6.04 Merger or Consolidation of, or Assumption of Obligations
of Seller. Any Person (a) into which the Seller may be merged or consolidated,
(b) which may result from any merger or consolidation to which the Seller shall
be a party or (c) which may succeed to the properties and assets of the Seller
substantially as a whole, which person in any of the foregoing cases executes an
agreement of assumption to perform every obligation of the Seller under this
Agreement, shall be the successor to the Seller hereunder without the execution
or filing of any document or any further act by any of the parties to this
Agreement; provided, however, that (i) immediately after giving effect to such
transaction, no representation or warranty made pursuant to Section 3.01 shall
have been breached and no Servicer Default in respect of the Seller under
Section 8.01(b) or (c) shall have occurred and be continuing, and no event that,
after notice or lapse of time, or both, would become a Servicer Default in
respect of the Seller under Section 8.01(b) or (c) shall have occurred and be
continuing, (ii) the Seller shall have delivered to the Owner Trustee and the
Indenture Trustee an Officers' Certificate stating that such consolidation,
merger or succession and such agreement of assumption comply with this Section
and that all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Agreement
relating to such transaction have been complied with, (iii) the Rating Agency
Condition shall have been satisfied with respect to such transaction and (iv)
the Seller shall have delivered to the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee
an Opinion of Counsel either (A) stating that, in the opinion of such counsel,
all financing statements and continuation statements and amendments thereto have
been filed that are necessary fully to preserve and protect the interest of the
Owner Trustee and Indenture Trustee, respectively, in the Receivables and
reciting the details of such filings, or (B) stating that, in the opinion of
such counsel, no such action shall be necessary to preserve and protect such
interests. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (a) the execution of
the foregoing agreement of assumption and compliance with clauses (i), (ii),
(iii) and (iv) above shall be conditions to the consummation of the transactions
referred to in clause (a), (b) or (c) above and (b) the Seller may transfer its
rights under this Agreement in accordance with Section 4.15 hereof.
Section 6.05 Limitation on Liability of Seller and Others. The Seller
and any director, officer, employee or agent of the Seller may rely in good
faith on the advice of counsel or on any document of any kind, prima facie
properly executed and submitted by any Person respecting any matters arising
hereunder. The Seller shall not be under any obligation to appear in, prosecute
or defend any legal action that shall not be incidental to its obligations under
this Agreement, and that in its opinion may involve it in any expense or
liability.
Section 6.06 Seller May Own Notes. The Seller and any Affiliate
thereof may in its individual or any other capacity become the owner or pledgee
of Notes with the same rights as it would have if it were not the Seller or an
Affiliate thereof, except as expressly provided herein or in any Basic Document.
Section 6.07 Security Interest. During the term of this Agreement, the
Seller will not take any action to assign the security interest in any Financed
Vehicle other than pursuant to the Basic Documents.
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ARTICLE VII
THE SERVICER
Section 7.01 Representations of Servicer. The Servicer makes the
following representations on which the Issuer is deemed to have relied in
acquiring the Receivables. The representations speak as of the Closing Date, and
shall survive the sale of the Receivables to the Issuer and the pledge thereof
to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to the Indenture.
(a) Organization and Good Standing. The Servicer is duly
organized and validly existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws
of the state of its incorporation, with the corporate power and authority to own
its properties and to conduct its business as such properties are currently
owned and such business is presently conducted, and had at all relevant times,
and has, the corporate power, authority and legal right to acquire, own, sell
and service the Receivables and to hold the Receivable Files as custodian.
(b) Due Qualification. The Servicer is duly qualified to do
business as a foreign corporation in good standing, and has obtained all
necessary material licenses and approvals, in all jurisdictions in which the
ownership or lease of property or the conduct of its business (including the
servicing of the Receivables as required by this Agreement) shall require such
qualifications, except where the failure to be so qualified or to have obtained
such licenses or approvals would not have a material adverse effect on the
Servicer's earnings, business affairs or business prospects.
(c) Power and Authority. The Servicer has the corporate power
and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and to carry out its terms;
and the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement have been duly
authorized by the Servicer by all necessary corporate action.
(d) Binding Obligation. This Agreement constitutes a legal,
valid and binding obligation of the Servicer enforceable against the Servicer in
accordance with its terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by
applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar
laws, now or hereafter in effect, affecting the enforcement of creditors' rights
in general, and except as such enforceability may be limited by general
principles of equity (whether considered in a suit at law or in equity).
(e) No Violation. The consummation of the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement and the fulfillment of the terms hereof do not
(i) conflict with, result in any breach of any of the terms and provisions of,
or constitute (with or without notice or lapse of time) a default under, the
articles of incorporation or bylaws of the Servicer; (ii) breach, conflict with
or violate any of the material terms or provisions of, or constitute (with or
without notice or lapse of time) a default under, any indenture, agreement or
other instrument to which the Servicer is a party or by which it is bound; (iii)
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 this Agreement and the Basic Documents); or, (iv) to the
best of the Servicer's knowledge, violate any order, rule or regulation
applicable to the Servicer of any court or of any federal or state regulatory
body, administrative agency or other governmental instrumentality having
jurisdiction over the Servicer or its properties except, in the case of clauses
(ii), (iii) and
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(iv), for such breaches, defaults, conflicts, liens or violations that would not
have a material adverse effect on the Servicer's earnings, business affairs or
business prospects.
(f) No Proceedings. To the Servicer's best knowledge, there are
no proceedings or investigations pending or threatened before any court,
regulatory body, administrative agency or other governmental instrumentality
having jurisdiction over the Servicer or its properties: (i) asserting the
invalidity of this Agreement, the Indenture, any of the other Basic Documents,
the Notes or the Certificates, (ii) seeking to prevent the issuance of the Notes
or the Certificates or the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated
by this Agreement, the Indenture or any of the other Basic Documents, (iii)
seeking any determination or ruling that could reasonably be expected to
materially and adversely affect the performance by the Servicer of its
obligations under, or the validity or enforceability of, this Agreement, the
Indenture, any of the other Basic Documents, the Notes or the Certificates or
(iv) relating to the Servicer and which could reasonably be expected to
adversely affect the federal or state income tax attributes of the Notes or the
Certificates.
(g) Approvals. All approvals, licenses, authorizations,
consents, orders or other actions of any person, corporation or other
organization, or of any court, governmental agency or body or official, required
in connection with the execution and delivery of this Agreement have been or
will be taken or obtained on or prior to the Closing Date, except where failure
to obtain the same would not have a material adverse effect upon the rights of
the Seller, the Trust, the Noteholders or the Certificateholders.
Section 7.02 Indemnities of Servicer. The Servicer shall be liable in
accordance herewith only to the extent of the obligations specifically
undertaken by the Servicer under this Agreement:
(a) The Servicer shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless the
Issuer, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Noteholders, the
Certificateholders and the Seller and any of the officers, directors, employees
and agents of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee from and
against any and all reasonable and documented costs and expenses, and all other
losses, damages, claims and liabilities arising out of or resulting from the
use, ownership or operation by the Servicer or any Affiliate thereof of a
Financed Vehicle.
(b) The Servicer shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless the
Issuer, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Seller, the
Certificateholders and the Noteholders and any of the officers, directors,
employees and agents of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee
from and against any and all costs, expenses, losses, claims, damages and
liabilities to the extent that such cost, expense, loss, claim, damage or
liability arose out of, or was imposed upon any such Person through, the willful
misfeasance, bad faith or negligence (except for errors in judgment) of the
Servicer in the performance of its duties under this Agreement or by reason of
reckless disregard of its obligations and duties under this Agreement.
For purposes of this Section, in the event of the termination of
the rights and obligations of World Omni (or any successor thereto pursuant to
Section 7.03) as Servicer pursuant to Section 8.01, or a resignation by such
Servicer pursuant to this Agreement, such
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Servicer shall be deemed to be the Servicer pending appointment of a successor
Servicer (other than the Indenture Trustee) pursuant to Section 8.02.
Indemnification under this Section shall survive the resignation
or removal of the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee or the termination of
this Agreement and shall include reasonable fees and expenses of counsel and
expenses of litigation. If the Servicer shall have made any indemnity payments
pursuant to this Section and the Person to or on behalf of whom such payments
are made thereafter collects any of such amounts from others, such Person shall
promptly repay such amounts to the Servicer, without interest.
Section 7.03 Merger or Consolidation of, or Assumption of Obligations
of, Servicer. The Servicer shall not consolidate with or merge into any other
corporation or convey or transfer its properties and assets substantially as an
entirety to any Person, unless:
(a) the corporation formed by such consolidation or into which
the Servicer is merged or the Person which acquires by conveyance or transfer
the properties and assets of the Servicer substantially as an entirety shall be
a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the United State of
America or the District of Columbia and, if the Servicer is not the surviving
entity, such corporation shall assume, without the execution or filing of any
paper or further act on the part of any of the parties hereto, the performance
of every covenant and obligation of the Servicer hereunder; and
(b) the Servicer has delivered to the Owner Trustee and the
Indenture Trustee and Officer's Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each
stating that such consolidation, merger, conveyance or transfer will comply with
this Section 7.03 and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating
to such transaction have been complied with.
The Servicer shall provide notice of any merger, consolidation or
succession pursuant to this Section 7.03 to the Rating Agencies, the Owner
Trustee and the Indenture Trustee.
Section 7.04 Limitation on Liability of Servicer and Others. Neither
the Servicer nor any of the directors, officers, employees or agents of the
Servicer shall be under any liability to the Issuer, the Noteholders or the
Certificateholders, except as provided under this Agreement, for any action
taken or for refraining from the taking of any action pursuant to this Agreement
or for errors in judgment; provided, however, that this provision shall not
protect the Servicer or any such person against any liability that would
otherwise be imposed by reason of willful misfeasance, bad faith or negligence
in the performance of duties or by reason of reckless disregard of obligations
and duties under this Agreement. The Servicer and any director, officer,
employee or agent of the Servicer may rely in good faith on any document of any
kind prima facie properly executed and submitted by any person respecting any
matters arising under this Agreement.
Except as provided in this Agreement, the Servicer shall not be
under any obligation to appear in, prosecute or defend any legal action that
shall not be incidental to its duties to service the Receivables in accordance
with this Agreement and that in its opinion may involve it in any expense or
liability; provided, however, that the Servicer may undertake any
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reasonable action that it may deem necessary or desirable in respect of this
Agreement and the Basic Documents and the rights and duties of the parties to
this Agreement and the Basic Documents and the interests of the
Certificateholders under this Agreement and the Noteholders under the Indenture.
Section 7.05 World Omni Not To Resign as Servicer. Subject to the
provisions of Section 7.03, World Omni shall not resign from the obligations and
duties hereby imposed on it as Servicer under this Agreement except upon a
determination that the performance of its duties under this Agreement shall no
longer be permissible under applicable law and cannot be cured. Notice of any
such determination permitting the resignation of World Omni shall be
communicated to the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee at the earliest
practicable time (and, if such communication is not in writing, shall be
confirmed in writing at the earliest practicable time) and any such
determination shall be evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel to such effect
delivered to the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee concurrently with or
promptly after such notice. No such resignation shall become effective until the
Indenture Trustee or a successor Servicer shall have assumed the
responsibilities and obligations of World Omni in accordance with Section 8.02.
ARTICLE VIII
DEFAULT
Section 8.01 Servicer Default. Any one of the following events shall
constitute a default by the Servicer (a "Servicer Default"):
(a) any failure by the Servicer to deliver to the Indenture
Trustee for deposit in any of the Trust Accounts or distribution to the
Certificateholders any required payment or to direct the Indenture Trustee to
make any required distributions therefrom, which failure continues unremedied
for a period of five Business Days after written notice of such failure is
received by the Servicer from the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee or
after discovery of such failure by an officer of the Servicer; or
(b) failure by the Servicer or, if the Servicer is an affiliate
of the Seller, the Seller, as the case may be, duly to observe or to perform in
any material respect any other covenants or agreements of the Servicer or the
Seller (as the case may be) set forth in this Agreement or any other Basic
Document, which failure shall (i) materially and adversely affect the rights of
Certificateholders or Noteholders and (ii) continue unremedied for a period of
60 days after the date on which written notice of such failure, requiring the
same to be remedied, shall have been given (A) to the Servicer or the Seller (as
the case may be) by the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee or (B) to the
Servicer or the Seller (as the case may be), and to the Owner Trustee and the
Indenture Trustee by the Holders of the Notes evidencing not less than 50% of
the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Securities and the Holders (as defined
in the Trust Agreement) of Certificates evidencing not less than 50% of the
percentage interest of the Certificates; or
(c) the occurrence of an Insolvency Event with respect to the
Servicer or, if the Servicer is an affiliate of the Seller, the Seller.
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Notwithstanding the foregoing, a delay in or failure of performance
referred to under clause (a) above for a period of ten Business Days or referred
to under clause (b) for a period of 90 Business Days, shall not constitute a
Servicer Default if such delay or failure could not be prevented by the exercise
of reasonable diligence by the Servicer and was caused by an act of God or other
similar occurrence. Upon the occurrence of any such event, the Servicer shall
not be relieved from using its best efforts to perform its obligations in a
timely manner in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the Servicer
shall provide the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee, the Noteholders and the
Certificateholders prompt notice of such failure or delay by it, together with a
description of its efforts to so perform its obligations.
So long as the Servicer Default shall not have been remedied or stayed
by the application of the above paragraph, either the Indenture Trustee or the
Holders of the Notes evidencing not less than 50% of the Outstanding Amount of
the Controlling Securities, by notice then given in writing to the Servicer (and
to the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee if given by the Noteholders) may
terminate all the rights and obligations (other than the obligations set forth
in Section 7.02 hereof) of the Servicer under this Agreement. On or after the
receipt by the Servicer of such written notice, all authority and power of the
Servicer under this Agreement, whether with respect to the Notes, the
Certificates or the Receivables or otherwise, shall, without further action,
pass to and be vested in the Indenture Trustee or such successor Servicer as may
be appointed under Section 8.02; and, without limitation, the Indenture Trustee
and the Owner Trustee are hereby authorized and empowered to execute and
deliver, for the benefit of the predecessor Servicer, as attorney-in-fact or
otherwise, any and all documents and other instruments, and to do or accomplish
all other acts or things necessary or appropriate to effect the purposes of such
notice of termination, whether to complete the transfer and endorsement of the
Receivables and related documents, or otherwise. The predecessor Servicer shall
cooperate with the successor Servicer, the Indenture Trustee and the Owner
Trustee in effecting the termination of the responsibilities and rights of the
predecessor Servicer under this Agreement, including the transfer to the
successor Servicer for administration by it of all cash amounts that shall at
the time be held by the predecessor Servicer for deposit, or shall thereafter be
received by it with respect to any Receivable. Further, in such event, the
Servicer shall use commercially reasonable efforts to effect the orderly and
efficient transfer of the servicing of the Receivables to the successor
Servicer, and as promptly as practicable, the Servicer shall provide to the
successor Servicer a current computer tape containing all information from the
Receivables Files required for the proper servicing of the Receivables, together
with the documentation containing any and all information necessary for the use
of the tape. All reasonable and documented costs and expenses (including
attorneys' fees) incurred in connection with transferring the Receivable Files
to the successor Servicer and amending this Agreement to reflect such succession
as Servicer pursuant to this section shall be paid by the predecessor Servicer
upon presentation of reasonable documentation of such costs and expenses. Upon
receipt of notice of the occurrence of a Servicer Default, the Owner Trustee
shall give notice thereof to the Rating Agencies.
Section 8.02 Appointment of Successor. (a) Upon the Servicer's receipt of
notice of termination pursuant to Section 8.01 or the Servicer's resignation in
accordance with the terms of this Agreement, the predecessor Servicer shall
continue to perform its functions as Servicer under this Agreement, in the case
of termination, only until the date specified in such termination notice or, if
no such date is specified in a notice of termination, until receipt of such
notice and, in the case of resignation, until the later of (i) the date 45 days
from the delivery to the Owner
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Trustee and the Indenture Trustee of written notice of such resignation (or
written confirmation of such notice) in accordance with the terms of this
Agreement and (ii) the date upon which the predecessor Servicer shall become
unable to act as Servicer, as specified in the notice of resignation and
accompanying Opinion of Counsel. In the event of the Servicer's termination
hereunder, the Indenture Trustee shall appoint a successor Servicer, and the
successor Servicer shall accept its appointment by a written assumption in form
acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee. In the event that a
successor Servicer has not been appointed at the time when the predecessor
Servicer has ceased to act as Servicer in accordance with this Section, the
Indenture Trustee without further action shall automatically be appointed the
successor Servicer and the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to the Servicing
Fee. Notwithstanding the above, the Indenture Trustee shall, if it shall be
legally unable so to act, appoint or petition a court of competent jurisdiction
to appoint any established institution, having a net worth of not less than
$100,000,000 and whose regular business shall include the servicing of
automotive receivables, as the successor to the Servicer under this Agreement.
(b) Upon appointment, the successor Servicer (including the Indenture
Trustee acting as successor Servicer) shall be the successor in all respects to
the predecessor Servicer and shall be subject to all the responsibilities,
duties and liabilities arising thereafter relating thereto placed on the
predecessor Servicer and shall be entitled to the Servicing Fee and all the
rights granted to the predecessor Servicer by the terms and provisions of this
Agreement.
(c) The successor Servicer may not resign unless it is prohibited from
serving as such by law.
Section 8.03 Notification to Noteholders and Certificateholders. Upon any
termination of, or appointment of a successor to, the Servicer pursuant to this
Article VIII, the Owner Trustee shall give prompt written notice thereof to
Certificateholders, and the Indenture Trustee shall give prompt written notice
thereof to Noteholders and the Rating Agencies.
Section 8.04 Waiver of Past Defaults. The Holders of Notes evidencing not
less than 50% of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Securities may, on
behalf of all Noteholders, waive in writing any default by the Servicer in the
performance of its obligations hereunder and its consequences, except a default
in making any required deposits to or payments from any of the Trust Accounts or
to the Certificateholders in accordance with this Agreement. Upon any such
waiver of a past default, such default shall cease to exist, and any Servicer
Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been remedied for every
purpose of this Agreement. No such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or
other default or impair any right consequent thereto.
Section 8.05 Payment of Servicing Fees; Repayment of Advances. If the
Servicer shall change, the predecessor Servicer shall be entitled to (i) receive
any accrued and unpaid Servicing Fees through the date of such Successor
Servicer's acceptance hereunder in accordance with Section 4.08 and (ii)
reimbursement for Outstanding Advances pursuant to Section 5.08 with respect to
all Advances made by the predecessor Servicer.
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ARTICLE IX
TERMINATION
Section 9.01 Optional Purchase of All Receivables. (a) As of the last day
of any Collection Period immediately preceding a Payment Date as of which the
then outstanding Pool Balance is 10% or less of the Original Pool Balance, the
Servicer shall have the option to purchase the Owner Trust Estate, other than
the Trust Accounts. To exercise such option, the Servicer shall deposit pursuant
to Section 5.05 in the Collection Account an amount equal to the aggregate
Purchase Amount for the Receivables (including Defaulted Receivables), and shall
succeed to all interests in and to the Trust. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the
Servicer shall not be permitted to exercise such option unless the amount to be
deposited in the Collection Account pursuant to the preceding sentence is
greater than or equal to the sum of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes and all
accrued but unpaid interest (including any overdue interest and premium)
thereon.
(b) As described in Article IX of the Trust Agreement, notice of any
termination of the Trust shall be given by the Servicer to the Owner Trustee and
the Indenture Trustee as soon as practicable after the Servicer has received
notice thereof.
(c) Following the satisfaction and discharge of the Indenture and the
payment in full of the principal of and interest on the Notes, the
Certificateholders will succeed to the rights of the Noteholders hereunder other
than Section 5.07(b) and the Owner Trustee will succeed to the rights of, and
assume the obligations of, the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Agreement.
ARTICLE X
MISCELLANEOUS
Section 10.01 Amendment. This Agreement may be amended by the Seller, the
Servicer and the Issuer, with the consent of the Indenture Trustee, but without
the consent of any of the Noteholders or the Certificateholders, to cure any
ambiguity or 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 of this Agreement or of modifying in any manner the rights
of the Noteholders or the Certificateholders; provided that such amendments
require: (i) satisfaction of the Rating Agency Condition and (ii) an officer's
certificate of the Servicer stating that the amendment will not materially and
adversely affect the interest of any Noteholder or Certificateholder.
This Agreement may also be amended from time to time by the Seller,
the Servicer and the Issuer, with the consent of the Indenture Trustee, the
consent of the Holders of the Notes evidencing not less than 50% of the
Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Securities and the consent of the Holders
(as defined in the Trust Agreement) of Certificates evidencing not less than 50%
of the percentage interest of the Certificates 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
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shall be required to be made for the benefit of the Noteholders or the
Certificateholders or (b) reduce the consent percentages in this sentence,
without the consent of the Holders of all the outstanding Notes and the Holders
(as defined in the Trust Agreement) of all the outstanding Certificates affected
thereby.
Promptly after the execution of any such amendment or consent, the
Owner Trustee shall furnish written notification provided by the Servicer, 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 or
Noteholders 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.
Prior to the execution of any amendment to this Agreement, the Owner
Trustee, on behalf of the Issuer, and the Indenture 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 and the Opinion of
Counsel referred to in Section 10.02(h)(A). The Owner Trustee and the Indenture
Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such amendment which
affects the Owner Trustee's or the Indenture Trustee's, as applicable, own
rights, duties or immunities under this Agreement or otherwise.
Section 10.02 Protection of Title to Trust. (a) The Seller shall file such
financing statements and cause to be filed such continuation statements, all in
such manner and in such places as may be required by law fully to preserve,
maintain and protect the interest of the Issuer and of the Indenture Trustee in
the Receivables and in the proceeds thereof. The Seller hereby authorizes the
filing of such financing statements and hereby ratifies any such financing
statements filed prior to the date hereof. The Seller shall deliver (or cause to
be delivered) to the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee file-stamped copies
of, or filing receipts for, any document filed as provided above, as soon as
available following such filing.
(b) Neither the Seller nor the Servicer shall change its name,
identity or corporate structure in any manner that could reasonably be expected
to make any financing statement or continuation statement filed in accordance
with paragraph (a) above seriously misleading within the meaning of Section
9-506 of the UCC, unless it shall have given the Owner Trustee and the Indenture
Trustee at least five days' prior written notice thereof and shall have promptly
filed appropriate amendments to all previously filed financing statements or
continuation statements.
(c) Each of the Seller and the Servicer shall have an obligation to
give the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee at least 60 days' prior written
notice of any relocation of its principal executive office or jurisdiction of
organization if, as a result of such relocation, the applicable provisions of
the UCC would require the filing of any amendment of any previously filed
financing or continuation statement or of any new financing statement and shall
promptly file any such amendment or new financing statement. The Servicer shall
at all times maintain each office from which it shall service Receivables, and
its principal executive office, within the United States of America.
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(d) The Servicer shall maintain accounts and records as to each
Receivable accurately and in sufficient detail to permit (i) the reader thereof
to know at any time the status of such Receivable, including payments and
recoveries made and payments owing (and the nature of each) and (ii)
reconciliation between payments or recoveries on (or with respect to) each
Receivable and the amounts from time to time deposited in the Collection Account
in respect of such Receivable.
(e) The Servicer shall maintain its computer systems so that, within
five (5) Business Days from and after the time of sale under this Agreement of
the Receivables, the Servicer's master computer records (including any backup
archives) that refer to a Receivable shall indicate clearly that such Receivable
has been sold to the Issuer.
(f) If at any time the Seller or the Servicer shall propose to sell,
grant a security interest in, or otherwise transfer any interest in automotive
receivables to any prospective purchaser, lender or other transferee, the
Servicer shall give to such prospective purchaser, lender or other transferee
computer tapes, records or printouts (including any restored from backup
archives) that, if they shall refer in any manner whatsoever to any Receivable,
shall indicate clearly that such Receivable has been sold and is owned by the
Issuer and has been pledged to the Indenture Trustee.
(g) Upon request, the Servicer shall furnish to the Owner Trustee or
to the Indenture Trustee, within five Business Days, a list of all Receivables
(by contract number and name of Obligor) then held as part of the Trust.
(h) The Servicer shall deliver to the Owner Trustee and the Indenture
Trustee:
(A) promptly after the execution and delivery of this Agreement,
an Opinion of Counsel stating that, in the opinion of such counsel,
either (1) all financing statements and continuation statements have
been filed that are necessary fully to preserve and protect the
interest of the Trust and the Indenture Trustee in the Receivables,
and reciting the details of such filings or referring to prior
Opinions of Counsel in which such details are given, or (2) no such
action shall be necessary to preserve and protect such interest; and
(B) on or before March 31, in each calendar year, beginning in
2004, an Opinion of Counsel, dated as of a date during such 90-day
period, stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, either (1) all
financing statements and continuation statements have been filed that
are necessary fully to preserve and protect the interest of the Trust
and the Indenture Trustee in the Receivables, and reciting the details
of such filings or referring to prior Opinions of Counsel in which
such details are given, or (2) no such action shall be necessary to
preserve and protect such interest.
Each Opinion of Counsel referred to in clause (A) or (B) above shall
specify any action necessary (as of the date of such opinion) to be taken in the
following year to preserve and protect such interest.
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(i) The Seller shall, to the extent required by applicable law, cause
the Notes to be registered with the Commission pursuant to Section 12(b) or
Section 12(g) of the Exchange Act within the time periods specified in such
sections.
(j) The Servicer shall deliver to the Owner Trustee and the Indenture
Trustee, prior to any change in the location of the Receivable Files, an Opinion
of Counsel stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, either (i) all
financing statements and continuation statements have been filed that are
necessary fully to preserve and protect the interest of the Trust and the
Indenture Trustee in the Receivables, and reciting the details of such filings
or referring to prior Opinions of Counsel in which such details are given, or
(ii) no such action shall be necessary to preserve and protect such interest.
Section 10.03 Notices. All demands, notices, communications and
instructions upon or to the Seller, the Servicer, the Owner Trustee, the
Indenture Trustee or the Rating Agencies under this Agreement shall be by
facsimile or in writing, personally delivered or mailed by certified mail,
return receipt requested, and shall be deemed to have been duly given upon
receipt (a) in the case of the Seller, to World Omni Auto Receivables LLC, 000
Xxx Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxx 00000, (000) 000-0000, Attention:
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx, (b) in the case of the Servicer, World Omni Financial
Corp., 000 Xxx Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxx 00000, (000) 000-0000,
Attention: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx, (c) in the case of the Issuer or the Owner
Trustee, at its Corporate Trust Office (as defined in the Trust Agreement), (d)
in the case of the Indenture Trustee, at its Corporate Trust Office, (e) in the
case of Moody's, to Xxxxx'x Investors Service, ABS Monitoring Department, 00
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, (f) in the case of Standard & Poor's,
to Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, a division of The XxXxxx-Xxxx Companies,
Inc., 00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, Attention of Asset Backed
Surveillance Department, and (g) in the case of Fitch, to Fitch Ratings, Xxx
Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, X.X. 00000, Attention of Asset Backed
Surveillance; or, as to each of the foregoing, at such other address as shall be
designated by written notice to the other parties.
Section 10.04 Assignment by the Seller or the Servicer. Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary contained herein, except as provided in the remainder
of this Section, as provided in Sections 6.04 and 7.03 herein and as provided in
the provisions of this Agreement concerning the resignation of the Servicer,
this Agreement may not be assigned by the Seller or the Servicer.
Section 10.05 Limitations on Rights of Others. The provisions of this
Agreement are solely for the benefit of the Seller, the Servicer, the Issuer,
the Owner Trustee, the Certificateholders, the Indenture Trustee and the
Noteholders, and nothing in this Agreement, 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 10.06 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 provision in any other jurisdiction.
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Section 10.07 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 10.08 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 10.09 Governing Law. This Agreement shall be construed in
accordance with the laws of the State of New York, without regard to any
otherwise applicable conflict of law provisions, and the obligations, rights and
remedies of the parties hereunder shall be determined in accordance with such
laws.
Section 10.10 Assignment by Issuer. Each of World Omni and the Seller
hereby acknowledges and consents to any mortgage, pledge, assignment and grant
of a security interest by the Issuer to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to the
Indenture for the benefit of the Noteholders of all right, title and interest of
the Issuer in, to and under the Receivables and/or the assignment of any or all
of the Issuer's rights and obligations hereunder to the Indenture Trustee.
Section 10.11 Nonpetition Covenants. (a) Notwithstanding any prior
termination of this Agreement, the Servicer and the Seller shall not, prior to
the date which is one year and one day after the termination of this Agreement
with respect to the Issuer, acquiesce, petition or otherwise invoke or cause the
Issuer to invoke the process of any court or government authority for the
purpose of commencing or sustaining a case against the Issuer under any federal
or state bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law, or appointing a receiver,
liquidator, assignee, trustee, custodian, sequestrator or other similar official
of the Issuer or any substantial part of their property, or ordering the winding
up or liquidation of the affairs of the Issuer.
(b) Notwithstanding any prior termination of this Agreement, the
Servicer, solely in its capacity as a creditor of the Seller, shall not, prior
to the date which is one year and one day after the termination of this
Agreement with respect to the Seller, acquiesce, petition or otherwise invoke
the process of any court or government authority for the purpose of commencing
or sustaining an involuntary case against the Seller under any federal or state
bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law, or appointing a receiver, liquidator,
assignee, trustee, custodian, sequestrator or other similar official of the
Seller or any substantial part of its property, or ordering the winding up or
liquidation of the affairs of the Seller.
Section 10.12 Limitation of Liability of Owner Trustee and Indenture
Trustee. (a) Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, this
Agreement has been countersigned by U.S. Bank Trust National Association not in
its individual capacity but solely in its capacity as Owner Trustee of the
Issuer and in no event shall U.S. Bank Trust National Association in its
individual capacity or, except as expressly provided in the Trust Agreement, as
beneficial owner of the Issuer have any liability for the representations,
warranties, covenants, agreements or other obligations of the Issuer hereunder
or in any of the certificates, notices or agreements delivered pursuant hereto,
as to all of which recourse shall be had solely to the assets of the Issuer. For
all purposes of this Agreement, in the performance of its duties or obligations
hereunder or in the performance of any duties or obligations of the Issuer
hereunder, the Owner
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Trustee shall be subject to, and entitled to the benefits of, the terms and
provisions of Articles VI, VII and VIII of the Trust Agreement.
(b) Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, this
Agreement has been accepted by The Bank of New York, not in its individual
capacity but solely as Indenture Trustee and in no event shall The Bank of New
York have any liability for the representations, warranties, covenants,
agreements or other obligations of the Issuer hereunder or in any of the
certificates, notices or agreements delivered pursuant hereto, as to all of
which recourse shall be had solely to the assets of the Issuer.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this
Agreement to be duly executed by their respective officers as of the day and
year first above written.
WORLD OMNI AUTO RECEIVABLES
TRUST 2003-A
by: U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
not in its individual capacity
but solely as Owner Trustee,
By: /s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx
Title: Vice President
WORLD OMNI AUTO RECEIVABLES LLC,
Seller
By: /s/ Xxxx Xxxxxxxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxx Xxxxxxxxxxxx
Title: Assistant Treasurer
WORLD OMNI FINANCIAL CORP.
By: /s/ Xxxx Xxxxxxxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxx Xxxxxxxxxxxx
Title: Assistant Treasurer
Acknowledged and accepted as of the day
and year first above written:
THE BANK OF NEW YORK,
not in its individual capacity but solely as
Indenture Trustee
By: /s/ Xxxx Xxxxx
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Name: Xxxx Xxxxx
Title: Assistant Vice President
Sale and Servicing Agreement
SCHEDULE A
Schedule of Receivables
Bank Pool Elig. Cat. Elig. St. Type Account Number APR Orig. Term Rem.
Term Sched Rem. Term Mthly. Pmt. Inv. Bal. Dealer Res.
[Delivered to the Owner Trustee and Indenture Trustee at Closing]
SCHEDULE B
Location of Receivable Files
World Omni Financial Corp.
0000 Xxxx Xxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxx 00000
EXHIBIT A
Form of Distribution Statement to Noteholders
World Omni Financial Corp.
World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2003-A Payment Date Statement to Noteholders
Available Funds
Class A-1 Notes: ($_______ per $1,000 original principal amount)
Class A-2 Notes: ($_______ per $1,000 original principal amount)
Class A-3 Notes: ($_______ per $1,000 original principal amount)
Class A-4 Notes: ($_______ per $1,000 original principal amount)
Class B Notes: ($_______ per $1,000 original principal amount)
Outstanding Amount
Class A-1 Notes
Class A-2 Notes
Class A-3 Notes
Class A-4 Notes
Class B Notes
Note Pool Factor
Class A-1 Notes
Class A-2 Notes
Class A-3 Notes
Class A-4 Notes
Class B Notes
Servicing Fee
Servicing Fee Per $1,000 Note
Reserve Account Balance
A-1
EXHIBIT B
Form of Servicer's Certificate
World Omni Financial Corp.
World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2003-A Monthly Servicer's Certificate
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Period
Payment Date
Dates Covered From & Incl. To & Incl.
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Collections
Accrual
30/360 Days
Actual/360 Days
Receivables Balances Beginning Ending
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Pool Balance
Simple Interest
Original Pool Balance
Noteholders' First Priority Principal
Distributable Amount
Noteholders' Principal Distributable Amount
Collections - Simple Interest Contracts
+ Investment Earnings
Available Funds
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Loss & Delinquency
Account Activity
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Interest
Beginning Ending Interest/ Servicing
Balance Balance Change Factor Shortfall
Initial Pool
Principal Paydown
Reserve
Notes
Class A-1
Class A-2
Class A-3
Class A-4
B-1
Class B
Total Principal
Principal Shortfall
Notes
Class A-1
Class A-2
Class A-3
Class A-4
Class B
Total
Miscellaneous
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Amounts released to the Certificateholders
Required Reserve Amount
Servicing Fee to Servicer
Collection Account Redeposits
Overcollaterlization Target Amount
Allocation of Funds
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Sources Principal Distribution
Amount Interest Distribution
Amount Redemption/Prepay Amount
Total Sources
B-2
APPENDIX A
Additional Representations and Warranties
1. This Agreement, the Receivables Purchase Agreement and the Indenture
create a valid and continuing security interest (as defined in the
applicable UCC) in the Receivables in favor of the Indenture Trustee,
which security interest is prior to all other Liens, and is enforceable as
such as against creditors of and purchasers from World Omni, the Seller
and the Trust, respectively.
2. World Omni has taken all steps necessary to perfect its security interest
against each Obligor in the property securing the Receivables.
3. The Receivables constitute "tangible chattel paper" within the meaning of
the applicable UCC.
4. World Omni owns and has good and marketable title to the Receivables and
will transfer the Receivables free and clear of any Lien, claim or
encumbrance of any Person.
5. World Omni has caused or will have caused, within ten days, the filing of
all appropriate financing statements in the proper filing office in the
appropriate jurisdictions under applicable law in order to perfect the
security interest in the Receivables granted to the Seller under the
Receivables Purchase Agreement, to the Issuer hereunder and to the
Indenture Trustee under the Indenture.
6. Other than (a) any security interests which have been released prior to or
in connection with the execution of the Basic Documents and (b) the
security interests granted to the Seller, the Issuer, and the Indenture
Trustee pursuant to the Basic Documents, none of World Omni, the Seller or
the Issuer has pledged, assigned, sold, granted a security interest in, or
otherwise conveyed any of the Receivables. None of World Omni, the Seller
or the Issuer has authorized the filing of, and is not aware of, any
financing statements against World Omni, the Seller or the Issuer that
include a description of collateral covering the Receivables other than
any financing statement relating to the security interests granted to the
Seller, the Issuer, and the Indenture Trustee under the Basic Documents or
a financing statement that has been terminated with respect to the
Receivables. None of World Omni, the Seller or the Issuer is aware of any
judgment or tax lien filings against World Omni, the Seller or the Issuer.
7. World Omni, as Servicer, has in its possession all original copies of the
Receivable Files that constitute or evidence the Receivables. The
Receivables Files that constitute or evidence the Receivables do not have
any marks or notations indicating that they have been pledged, assigned or
otherwise conveyed to any Person other than the Seller, the Issuer or the
Indenture Trustee. All financing statements filed or to be filed against
World Omni, the Seller or the Issuer in favor of the Seller, the Issuer or
the Indenture Trustee, respectively, in connection herewith describing the
Receivables contain a statement to the following effect: "A purchase of or
security interest in any collateral described in this financing statement
will violate the rights of the Noteholders."
