Exhibit 99.1
SALE AND SERVICING AGREEMENT
by and among
FORD CREDIT AUTO OWNER TRUST 2000-E,
as Issuer,
FORD CREDIT AUTO RECEIVABLES TWO L.P.,
as Seller,
and
FORD MOTOR CREDIT COMPANY,
as Servicer
Dated as of September 1, 2000
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND USAGE...............................................................................1
ARTICLE II
TRUST PROPERTY......................................................................................1
SECTION 2.1 Conveyance of Trust Property............................................................1
SECTION 2.2 Representations and Warranties of the
Seller as to the Receivables.......................................................2
SECTION 2.3 Repurchase upon Breach..................................................................7
SECTION 2.4 Custody of Receivable Files.............................................................8
SECTION 2.5 Duties of Servicer as Custodian.........................................................9
SECTION 2.6 Instructions; Authority to Act.........................................................10
SECTION 2.7 Custodian's Indemnification............................................................10
SECTION 2.8 Effective Period and Termination.......................................................11
ARTICLE III
ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF
RECEIVABLES AND TRUST PROPERTY.....................................................................11
SECTION 3.1 Duties of Servicer.....................................................................12
SECTION 3.2 Collection of Receivable Payments......................................................13
SECTION 3.3 Realization Upon Receivables...........................................................13
SECTION 3.4 Allocations of Collections.............................................................13
SECTION 3.5 Maintenance of Security Interests in
Financed Vehicles..................................................................14
SECTION 3.6 Covenants of Servicer..................................................................14
SECTION 3.7 Purchase of Receivables Upon Breach....................................................14
SECTION 3.8 Servicer Fee...........................................................................15
SECTION 3.9 Servicer's Certificate.................................................................15
SECTION 3.10 Annual Statement as to Compliance;
Notice of Event of Servicing
Termination.......................................................................16
SECTION 3.11 Annual Independent Certified Public
Accountant's Report...............................................................17
SECTION 3.12 Access to Certain Documentation and
Information Regarding Receivables.................................................18
SECTION 3.13 Servicer Expenses.....................................................................18
ARTICLE IV
DISTRIBUTIONS; RESERVE ACCOUNT;
STATEMENTS TO NOTEHOLDERS AND CERTIFICATEHOLDERS...................................................18
SECTION 4.1 Accounts...............................................................................18
SECTION 4.2 Collections............................................................................22
SECTION 4.3 Application of Collections.............................................................23
SECTION 4.4 Advances...............................................................................24
SECTION 4.5 Additional Deposits to Collection
Account and Withdrawals from
Reserve Account....................................................................26
SECTION 4.6 Distributions..........................................................................26
SECTION 4.7 Reserve Account........................................................................32
SECTION 4.8 Net Deposits...........................................................................35
SECTION 4.9 Statements to Noteholders and
Certificateholders.................................................................36
ARTICLE V
[Intentionally Omitted]............................................................................38
ARTICLE VI
THE SELLER.........................................................................................38
SECTION 6.1 Representations and Warranties of
Seller.............................................................................38
SECTION 6.2 Liability of Seller; Indemnities.......................................................40
SECTION 6.3 Merger or Consolidation of, or
Assumption of the Obligations of,
Seller.............................................................................42
SECTION 6.4 Limitation on Liability of Seller and
Others.............................................................................42
SECTION 6.5 Seller May Own Notes or Certificates...................................................43
ARTICLE VII
THE SERVICER.......................................................................................43
SECTION 7.1 Representations of Servicer............................................................43
SECTION 7.2 Indemnities of Servicer................................................................45
SECTION 7.3 Merger or Consolidation of, or
Assumption of the Obligations of,
Servicer...........................................................................47
SECTION 7.4 Limitation on Liability of Servicer and Others.........................................48
SECTION 7.5 Delegation of Duties...................................................................49
SECTION 7.6 Ford Credit Not to Resign as
Servicer...............................................................................49
SECTION 7.7 Servicer May Own Notes or Certificates.................................................50
ARTICLE VIII
SERVICING TERMINATION..............................................................................50
SECTION 8.1 Events of Servicing Termination........................................................50
SECTION 8.2 Appointment of Successor Servicer......................................................52
SECTION 8.3 Repayment of Advances..................................................................53
SECTION 8.4 Notification to Noteholders and
Certificateholders..................................................................54
SECTION 8.5 Waiver of Past Events of Servicing Termination.........................................54
ARTICLE IX
TERMINATION........................................................................................54
SECTION 9.1 Optional Purchase of All Receivables...................................................54
SECTION 9.2 Succession Upon Satisfaction
and Discharge of Indenture.........................................................55
ARTICLE X
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS...........................................................................55
SECTION 10.1 Amendment.............................................................................55
SECTION 10.2 Protection of Title to Trust
Property...........................................................................58
SECTION 10.3 Governing Law.........................................................................61
SECTION 10.4 Notices...............................................................................61
SECTION 10.5 Severability of Provisions............................................................61
SECTION 10.6 Assignment............................................................................62
SECTION 10.7 Further Assurances....................................................................62
SECTION 10.8 No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies........................................................62
SECTION 10.9 Third-Party Beneficiaries.............................................................62
SECTION 10.10 Actions by Noteholders or
Certificateholders................................................................63
SECTION 10.11 Agent for Service....................................................................63
SECTION 10.12 No Bankruptcy Petition...............................................................63
SECTION 10.13 Limitation of Liability of Owner
Trustee and Indenture Trustee.....................................................64
SECTION 10.14 Savings Clause.......................................................................64
Schedule A Schedule of Receivables...............................................................SA-1
Schedule B-1 Location of Receivable Files........................................................SB-1
Schedule B-2 Custodians for Receivable Files......................................................B-1
Appendix A Definitions and Usage.................................................................AA-1
SALE AND SERVICING AGREEMENT, dated as of September 1, 2000 (as from time
to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified and in effect, this
"Agreement"), by and among FORD CREDIT AUTO OWNER TRUST 2000-E (the "Issuer"), a
Delaware business trust, FORD CREDIT AUTO RECEIVABLES TWO L.P., a Delaware
limited partnership, as seller (the "Seller"), and FORD MOTOR CREDIT COMPANY, a
Delaware corporation, as servicer (the "Servicer").
WHEREAS, the Issuer desires to purchase a portfolio of receivables and
related property consisting of motor vehicle retail installment sale contracts
generated by Ford Motor Credit Company and PRIMUS in the ordinary course of
their business and conveyed to the Seller;
WHEREAS, the Seller is willing to sell such portfolio of receivables and
related property to the Issuer; and
WHEREAS, Ford Motor Credit Company is willing to service such receivables
on behalf of the Issuer;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the mutual covenants
herein contained, and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and
sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto, intending to be
legally bound, agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND USAGE
Except as otherwise specified herein or as the context may otherwise
require, capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein are defined in
Appendix A hereto, which also contains rules as to usage that shall be
applicable herein.
ARTICLE II
TRUST PROPERTYARTICLE
SECTION 2.1 Conveyance of Trust Property. In consideration of the
Issuer's delivery to, or upon the order of, the Seller of the Notes and the
Certificates in an aggregate principal amount equal to 97.23% of the Initial
Pool Balance, the Seller does hereby irrevocably transfer, assign and otherwise
convey to the Issuer without recourse (subject to the obligations herein) all
right, title and interest of the Seller, whether now owned or hereafter
acquired, in and to the Trust Property. The transfer, assignment and
conveyance made hereunder shall not constitute and is not intended to
result in an assumption by the Issuer of any obligation of the
Seller to the Obligors, the Dealers or any other Person in connection with the
Receivables and the other Trust Property or any agreement, document or
instrument related thereto.
SECTION 2.2 Representations and Warranties of the Seller as to the
Receivables. The Seller makes the following representations and warranties as to
the Receivables on which the Issuer shall be deemed to have relied in accepting
the Receivables. Such representations and warranties speak as of the Closing
Date, but shall survive the transfer, assignment and conveyance of the
Receivables to the Issuer and the pledge thereof to the Indenture Trustee
pursuant to the Indenture.
(i) Characteristics of Receivables. Each Receivable (a) shall have
been 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, shall
have been fully and properly executed by the parties thereto, shall have been
purchased either (X) by the Seller from Ford Credit, which in turn shall have
purchased such Receivable from a Dealer under an existing dealer agreement with
Ford Credit, and which shall have been validly assigned by such Dealer to Ford
Credit and which in turn shall have been validly assigned by Ford Credit to the
Seller in accordance with its terms, or (Y) by the Seller from Ford Credit,
which shall have been assigned such Receivable by PRIMUS, which in turn shall
have purchased such Receivable from a Dealer or other finance source (provided
that such purchase relates to an individual Receivable and not a bulk purchase)
under an existing agreement with PRIMUS, and which shall have been validly
assigned by such Dealer or other finance source to PRIMUS and shall have been
validly assigned by PRIMUS to Ford Credit in the ordinary course of business and
which in turn shall have been validly assigned by Ford Credit to the Seller in
accordance with its terms, (b) shall have created or shall create a valid,
subsisting, and enforceable first priority security interest in favor of Ford
Credit in the Financed Vehicle, which security interest has been assigned by
Ford Credit to the Seller, which in turn shall be assignable by the Seller to
the Issuer, (c) shall contain customary and enforceable provisions such that the
rights and remedies of the holder thereof shall be adequate for realization
against the collateral of the benefits of the security, (d) shall provide 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 payment)
that fully amortize the Amount Financed by maturity and yield interest at the
Annual Percentage Rate, (e) shall provide for, in the event that such contract
is prepaid, a prepayment that fully pays the Principal Balance, and (f) is an
Actuarial Receivable or a Simple Interest Receivable.
(ii) Schedule of Receivables. The information set forth in the
Schedule of Receivables shall be true and correct in all material respects as of
the opening of business on the Cutoff Date, and no selection procedures believed
to be adverse to the Noteholders or the Certificateholders shall have been
utilized in selecting the Receivables from those receivables which meet the
criteria contained herein. 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.
(iii) Compliance with Law. Each Receivable and the sale of the
Financed Vehicle shall have complied at the time it was originated or made and
at the execution of this Agreement shall comply in all material respects with
all requirements of applicable federal, State, and local laws, and regulations
thereunder, including, without limitation, 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.
(iv) Binding Obligation. Each Receivable shall represent the
genuine, legal, valid, and binding payment obligation of the Obligor,
enforceable by the holder thereof in accordance with its terms subject to the
effect of bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, or other similar laws
affecting the enforcement of creditors' rights generally.
(v) No Government Obligor. None of the Receivables shall be due from
the United States of America or any State or from any agency, department, or
instrumentality of the United States of America, any State or political
subdivision of either thereof.
(vi) Security Interest in Financed Vehicle. Immediately prior to the
transfer, assignment and conveyance thereof, each Receivable shall be secured by
a first priority, validly perfected security interest in the Financed Vehicle in
favor of Ford Credit as secured party or all necessary and appropriate actions
shall have been commenced that would result in a first priority, validly
perfected security interest in the Financed Vehicle in favor of Ford Credit as
secured party.
(vii) Receivables in Force. No Receivable shall have been satisfied,
subordinated, or rescinded, nor shall any Financed Vehicle have been released
from the lien granted by the related Receivable in whole or in part.
(viii) No Waiver. No provision of a Receivable shall have been
waived.
(ix) No Defenses. No right of rescission, setoff, counterclaim, or
defense shall have been asserted or threatened with respect to any Receivable.
(x) No Liens. To the best of the Seller's knowledge, no liens or
claims shall have been filed for work, labor, or materials relating to a
Financed Vehicle that shall be liens prior to, or equal with, the security
interest in the Financed Vehicle granted by the Receivable.
(xi) No Default. Except for payment defaults continuing for a period
of not more than thirty (30) days as of the Cutoff Date, no default, breach,
violation, or event permitting acceleration under the terms of any Receivable
shall have 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 shall have arisen; and Ford
Credit shall not waive any of the foregoing.
(xii) Insurance. Ford Credit, in accordance with its customary
standards, policies and procedures, shall have determined that, as of the date
of origination of each Receivable, the Obligor had obtained or agreed to obtain
physical damage insurance covering the Financed Vehicle.
(xiii) Title. It is the intention of the Seller that the transfer
and assignment herein contemplated constitute an absolute sale, transfer,
assignment and conveyance 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
Seller'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, conveyed 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, participations 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, participations and rights of others; and the
transfer has been perfected under the UCC.
(xiv) Valid Assignment. No Receivable shall have been originated in,
or shall be subject to the laws of, any jurisdiction under which the sale,
transfer, assignment and conveyance of such Receivable under this Agreement or
pursuant to transfers of the Notes or the Certificates shall be unlawful, void,
or voidable. The Seller has not entered into any agreement with any account
debtor that prohibits, restricts or conditions the assignment of any portion of
the Receivables.
(xv) All Filings Made. All filings (including, without limitation,
UCC filings) necessary in any jurisdiction to give the Issuer a first
priority, validly perfected ownership interest in the Receivables, and to
give the Indenture Trustee a first perfected security interest therein,
shall have been made.
(xvi) Chattel Paper. Each Receivable constitutes "chattel paper"
as defined in the UCC.
(xvii) One Original. There shall be only one original executed
copy of each Receivable. The Seller, or its custodian, has possession of such
original with respect to each Receivable.
(xviii) New and Used Vehicles. 70.00% of the aggregate Principal
Balance of the Receivables, constituting 63.02% of the number of Receivables as
of the Cutoff Date, represent vehicles financed at new vehicle rates, and the
remainder of the Receivables represent vehicles financed at used vehicle rates.
(xix) Amortization Type. By aggregate Principal Balance as of the
Cutoff Date, 0.03% of the Receivables constitute Actuarial Receivables and
99.97% of the Receivables constitute Simple Interest Receivables.
(xx) Origination. Each Receivable shall have an origination date
on or after September 1, 1998.
(xxi) PRIMUS. 12.16% of the aggregate Principal Balance of the
Receivables as of the Cutoff Date, represent Receivables originated through
PRIMUS and assigned to Ford Credit, and the remainder of the Receivables were
originated through Ford Credit (excluding PRIMUS).
(xxii) Maturity of Receivables. Each Receivable shall have an
original maturity of not greater than sixty (60) months.
(xxiii) Annual Percentage Rate. The Annual Percentage Rate of each
Receivable shall be not less than 1.90% and not greater than 20.00%.
(xxiv) Scheduled Payments. Each Receivable shall have a first
Scheduled Payment due, in the case of Actuarial Receivables, or a first
scheduled due date, in the case of Simple Interest Receivables, on or prior to
September 1, 2000 and no Receivable shall have a payment that is more than
thirty (30) days overdue as of the Cutoff Date.
(xxv) Location of Receivable Files. The Receivable Files shall be
kept at one or more of the locations listed in Schedule B-1 hereto or the
offices of one of the custodians specified in Schedule B-2 hereto.
(xxvi) No Extensions. The number of Scheduled Payments, in the
case of Actuarial Receivables, and the number of scheduled due dates, in the
case of Simple Interest Receivables, shall not have been extended on or
before the Cutoff Date on any Receivable.
(xxvii) Rating Agencies. The rating agencies rating the Notes and
the Class C Certificates are Xxxxx'x, Standard & Poor's and Fitch and the
rating agencies rating the Class D Certificates are Standard & Poor's and Fitch.
(xxviii) Agreement. The representations and warranties of the
Seller in Section 6.1 are true and correct.
(xxix) No Receivables Originated in Alabama or Pennsylvania. No
Receivable shall have been originated in Alabama or Pennsylvania.
SECTION 2.3 Repurchase upon Breach. The Seller, the Servicer, the
Issuer or the Owner Trustee, as the case may be, shall inform the other parties
to this Agreement, the Indenture Trustee and Ford Credit promptly, in
writing, upon the discovery of any breach of the Seller's representations and
warranties made by the Seller pursuant to Section 2.2. Unless the breach
shall have been cured by the last day of the second Collection Period following
the discovery, the Indenture Trustee shall enforce the obligation of the
Seller under this Section 2.3, and, if necessary, the Seller or the Indenture
Trustee shall enforce the obligation of Ford Credit under the Purchase
Agreement, to repurchase any Receivable materially and adversely affected
by the breach as of such last day (or, at the Seller's option, the last day of
the first Collection Period following the discovery). In consideration of the
purchase of the Receivable, the Seller shall remit the Purchase Amount, in
the manner specified in Section 4.5. The sole remedy of the Issuer, the Owner
Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Noteholders or the Certificateholders with
respect to a breach of the Seller's representations and warranties pursuant to
Section 2.2 shall be to require the Seller to repurchase such Receivables
pursuant to this Section 2.3 or to enforce the obligation of Ford Credit to the
Seller to repurchase such Receivables pursuant to the Purchase Agreement.
Neither the Owner Trustee nor the Indenture Trustee shall have any duty to
conduct an affirmative investigation as to the occurrence of any condition
requiring the repurchase of any Receivable pursuant to this Section 2.3 or the
eligibility of any Receivable for purposes of this Agreement.
SECTION 2.4 Custody of Receivable Files. To assure uniform
quality in servicing the Receivables and to reduce administrative costs,
the Issuer, upon the execution and delivery of this Agreement, hereby
revocably appoints the Servicer, and the Servicer hereby accepts such
appointment, to act as the agent of the Issuer and the Indenture
Trustee as custodian of the following documents or instruments, which are hereby
constructively delivered to the Indenture Trustee, as pledgee of the Issuer
pursuant to the Indenture, with respect to each Receivable:
(i) The original Receivable.
(ii) The original credit application fully executed
by the Obligor or a photocopy thereof or a record thereof on a computer
file, diskette or on microfiche.
(iii) The original certificate of title or such
documents that the Servicer or Ford Credit shall keep on file, in
accordance with its customary standards, policies and procedures,
evidencing the security interest of Ford Credit in the Financed
Vehicle.
(iv) Any and all other documents (including any
computer file, diskette or microfiche) 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.
The Servicer shall provide an Officer's Certificate to the Issuer and
the Indenture Trustee confirming that the Servicer has received on behalf of the
Issuer and the Indenture Trustee all the documents and instruments necessary for
the Servicer to act as the agent of the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee for the
purposes set forth in this Section 2.4, including the documents referred to
herein, and the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee are hereby authorized to rely
on such Officer's Certificate.
SECTION 2.5 Duties of Servicer as Custodian Custodian.
(a) Safekeeping. The Servicer shall hold the Receivable Files for
the benefit of the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee and maintain such accurate
and complete accounts, records, and computer systems pertaining to each
Receivable File as shall enable the Servicer and the Issuer to comply with
the terms and conditions of this Agreement, and the Indenture Trustee to comply
with the terms and conditions of the Indenture. 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 or others and, consistent with such
reasonable care, the Servicer may utilize the services of third parties to act
as custodian of physical Receivable Files, subject to Section 7.5. In
accordance with its customary standards, policies and procedures with respect
to its retail installment sale contracts, the Servicer shall conduct,
or cause to be conducted, periodic audits of the Receivable Files held by it
under this Agreement, and of the related accounts, records, and computer
systems, in such a manner as shall enable the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee
to verify the accuracy of the Servicer's record keeping. 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 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, the Owner Trustee 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-1 to this Agreement or the offices of one of its custodians specified in
Schedule B-2 of this Agreement, or at such other office as shall be specified
to the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee by written notice not later than
ninety (90) days after any change in location. The Servicer shall make
available to the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee or their duly authorized
representatives, attorneys, or auditors a list of locations of the Receivable
Files, the Receivable Files, and the related accounts, records, and computer
systems maintained by the Servicer at such times as the Issuer or the Indenture
Trustee shall instruct, but only upon reasonable notice and during the
normal business hours at the respective offices of the Servicer.
(c) Release of Documents. Upon written instructions from the
Indenture Trustee, the Servicer shall release or cause to be released any
document in the Receivable Files to the Indenture Trustee, the Indenture
Trustee's agent or the Indenture Trustee's designee, as the case may be, at
such place or places as the Indenture Trustee may designate, as soon
thereafter as is practicable. Any document so released shall be handled by the
Indenture Trustee with due care and returned to the Servicer for safekeeping as
soon as the Indenture Trustee or its agent or designee, as the case may be,
shall have no further need therefor.
SECTION 2.6 Instructions; Authority to Act. All instructions
from the Indenture Trustee shall be in writing and signed by an Authorized
Officer of the Indenture Trustee, and the Servicer shall be deemed to have
received proper instructions with respect to the Receivable Files upon its
receipt of such written instructions.
SECTION 2.7 Custodian's Indemnification. The Servicer as custodian
shall indemnify the Issuer, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee for
any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, compensatory damages,
payments, costs, or expenses of any kind whatsoever that may be imposed
on, incurred, or asserted against the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the
Indenture Trustee 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
(i) to the Issuer for any portion of any such amount resulting from the
willful misfeasance, bad faith, or negligence of the Indenture Trustee,
the Owner Trustee or the Issuer, (ii) to the Owner Trustee for any portion of
any such amount resulting from the willful misfeasance, bad faith, or negligence
of the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee or the Issuer and (iii) to the
Indenture Trustee for any portion of any such amount resulting from the willful
misfeasance, bad faith, or negligence of the Indenture Trustee, the Owner
Trustee or the Issuer.
SECTION 2.8 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 2.8. If Ford Credit shall resign as Servicer in accordance with the
provisions of this Agreement or if all of the rights and obligations of the
Servicer shall have been terminated under Section 8.1, the appointment of
the Servicer as custodian hereunder may be terminated by the Indenture
Trustee, or by the Noteholders of Notes evidencing not less than 25% of the
Note Balance of the Notes Outstanding or, with the consent of Noteholders
of Notes evidencing not less than 25% of the Note Balance of the Notes
Outstanding, by the Owner Trustee or by Certificateholders of Certificates
evidencing not less than 25% of the Aggregate Certificate Balance, in the same
manner as the Indenture Trustee or such Securityholders may terminate the rights
and obligations of the Servicer under Section 8.1. As soon as practicable after
any termination of such appointment, the Servicer shall deliver to the Indenture
Trustee or the Indenture Trustee's agent the Receivable Files and the related
accounts and records maintained by the Servicer at such place or places as the
Indenture Trustee may reasonably designate.
ARTICLE III
ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF
RECEIVABLES AND TRUST PROPERTY
SECTION 3.1 Duties of Servicer. The Servicer shall manage,
service, administer, and make collections on the 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, responding to inquiries of Obligors on
such Receivables, investigating delinquencies, sending payment coupons to
Obligors, reporting tax information to Obligors, accounting for collections,
furnishing monthly and annual statements to the Owner Trustee and the Indenture
Trustee with respect to distributions, and making Advances pursuant to Section
4.4. The Servicer shall follow its customary standards, policies and procedures
in performing its duties as Servicer. Without limiting the generality of the
foregoing, the Servicer is hereby authorized and empowered to execute and
deliver, on behalf of itself, the Issuer, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture
Trustee, the Noteholders, the Certificateholders, 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 Owner
Trustee (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 the Receivable, the Owner Trustee shall, at the Servicer's expense and
direction, take steps to enforce the Receivable, including bringing suit in its
name or the names of the Indenture Trustee, the Noteholders, the
Certificateholders, or any of them. The Owner Trustee shall 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. The Servicer, at its expense, shall obtain on behalf of the
Issuer or the Owner Trustee all licenses, if any, required by the laws of any
jurisdiction to be held by the Issuer or the Owner Trustee in connection with
ownership of the Receivables, and shall make all filings and pay all fees as may
be required in connection therewith during the term hereof.
SECTION 3.2 Collection 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
receivables that it services for itself or others. Subject to
Sections 3.6(iii) and (iv), the Servicer may grant extensions, rebates, or
adjustments on a Receivable; provided, however, that if the Servicer extends
the date for final payment by the Obligor of any Receivable beyond 6 months
past the Final Scheduled Maturity Date, it shall promptly purchase the
Receivable in the manner provided in Section 3.7. 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.
SECTION 3.3 Realization Upon Receivables. On behalf of the Issuer,
the Servicer shall use reasonable efforts, consistent with its customary
standards, policies and 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 standards, policies and procedures
as it shall deem necessary or advisable in its servicing of comparable
receivables, which may include reasonable efforts to realize upon any Dealer
Recourse and selling the Financed Vehicle at public or private sale. The
foregoing shall be subject to the provision that, in any case in which the
Financed Vehicle shall have suffered damage, the Servicer shall not be required
to expend funds in connection with the repair or the repossession of such
Financed Vehicle unless it shall determine in its discretion that such repair
and/or repossession will increase the Liquidation Proceeds by an amount greater
than the amount of such expenses.
SECTION 3.4 Allocations of Collections. If an Obligor is obligated
under one or more Receivables and also under one or more other assets owned
by Ford Credit or assigned by Ford Credit to third parties, then any payment
on any such asset received from or on behalf of such Obligor shall, if
identified as being made with respect to a particular item or asset, be applied
to such item, and otherwise shall be allocated by Ford Credit in accordance with
its customary standards, policies and procedures.
SECTION 3.5 Maintenance of Security Interests in Financed Vehicles.
The Servicer shall, in accordance with its customary standards, policies
and procedures, take such steps as are necessary to maintain perfection
of the security interest created by each Receivable in the related Financed
Vehicle. The Issuer hereby authorizes the Servicer 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 3.6 Covenants of Servicer. The Servicer shall not
(i) release the Financed Vehicle securing each such Receivable from the
security interest granted by such Receivable in whole or in part except in the
event of payment in full by or on behalf of the Obligor thereunder or
repossession, (ii) impair the rights of the Noteholders or the
Certificateholders in the Receivables, (iii) change the Annual Percentage Rate
with respect to any Receivable, or (iv) modify the Amount Financed or the total
number of Scheduled Payments (in the case of an Actuarial Receivable) or the
total number of originally scheduled due dates (in the case of a Simple Interest
Receivable).
SECTION 3.7 Purchase of Receivables Upon Breach. (a) The Seller,
the Servicer or the Owner Trustee, as the case may be, promptly shall inform
the other parties to this Agreement, in writing, upon the discovery of any
breach pursuant to Section 3.2, 3.5 or 3.6. Unless the breach shall have been
cured by the last day of the second Collection Period following such discovery
(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 determined by the Indenture Trustee
(which shall include any Receivable as to which a breach of Section 3.6 has
occurred) at the Purchase Amount. In consideration of the purchase of such
Receivable, the Servicer shall remit the Purchase Amount in the manner
specified in Section 4.5. For purposes of this Section 3.7, the Purchase
Amount shall consist in part of a release by the Servicer of all rights of
reimbursement with respect to Outstanding Advances on the Receivable. The sole
remedy of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Noteholders
or the Certificateholders with respect to a breach pursuant to Section 3.2, 3.5
or 3.6 shall be to require the Servicer to purchase Receivables pursuant to this
Section 3.7.
(b) The Seller, the Servicer or the Owner Trustee, as the case may
be, promptly shall inform the other parties to this Agreement in writing,
upon the discovery of any breach of the representations and warranties of Ford
Credit, as seller, set forth in Section 3.2(b) of the Purchase Agreement.
Unless the breach shall have been cured by the last day of the second
Collection Period following the discovery, the Servicer shall enforce the
obligation of Ford Credit under the Purchase Agreement to repurchase any
Receivable materially and adversely affected by the breach as of such last day
(or, at Ford Credit's option, the last day of the first Collection
Period following the discovery). In consideration of the purchase of the
Receivable, Ford Credit shall remit, pursuant to Section 6.2 of the Purchase
Agreement, the Purchase Amount to the Servicer and the Servicer shall remain
the Purchase Amount to the Collection Account as specified in Section 4.5
hereof.
(c) With respect to all Receivables purchased pursuant to this
Section 3.7, the Issuer shall assign to the Servicer or the Seller, as
applicable, without recourse, representation or warranty, all of the Issuer's
right, title and interest in and to such Receivables and all security and
documents relating thereto.
SECTION 3.8 Servicer Fee. The Servicer shall be entitled to any
interest earned on the amounts deposited in the Collection Account and the
Payahead Account during each Collection Period plus all late fees,
prepayment charges and other administrative fees and expenses or similar
charges allowed by applicable law with respect to Receivables during each
Collection Period (the "Supplemental Servicing Fee"). The Servicer also shall be
entitled to the Servicing Fee, as provided herein.
SECTION 3.9 Servicer's Certificate. (a) On or about the tenth day
of each calendar month, the Servicer shall deliver to the Owner Trustee, each
Note Paying Agent and Certificate Paying Agent, the Indenture Trustee and
the Seller, with a copy to the Rating Agencies, a Servicer's Certificate
containing all information (including all specific dollar amounts) necessary to
make the transfers and distributions pursuant to Sections 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6
and 4.7 for the Collection Period preceding the date of such Servicer's
Certificate, together with the written statements to be furnished by
the Owner Trustee to Certificateholders pursuant to Section 4.9 and by the
Indenture Trustee to the Noteholders pursuant to Section 4.9 hereof and Section
6.6 of the Indenture. Receivables purchased or to be purchased by the Servicer
or the Seller shall be identified by the Servicer by the Seller's account number
with respect to such Receivable (as specified in the Schedule of Receivables).
(b) On or about the fifth (but in no event later than the tenth)
calendar day of each calendar month, the Servicer shall deliver to the
respective underwriters of the Notes the Note Pool Factor for each Class of
Notes as of the close of business on the Distribution Date occurring in that
month.
SECTION 3.10 Annual Statement as to Compliance; Notice of Event of
Servicing Termination. (a) The Servicer shall deliver to the Owner Trustee,
the Indenture Trustee and each Rating Agency on or before April 30 of each year
beginning April 30, 2001, an Officer's Certificate, dated as of December 31 of
the preceding calendar year, stating that (i) a review of the activities of the
Servicer during the preceding 12-month (or shorter) period and of its
performance under this Agreement has been made under such officer's supervision
and (ii) to the best of such officer's 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 officer and the nature and status
thereof. A copy of such Officer's Certificate and the report referred to in
Section 3.11 may be obtained by any Certificateholder by a request in writing to
the Owner Trustee, or by any Noteholder or Person certifying that it is a Note
Owner by a request in writing to the Indenture Trustee, in either case addressed
to the applicable Corporate Trust Office. Upon the telephone request of the
Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee shall 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 each Rating Agency promptly after having obtained
knowledge thereof, but in no event later than five (5) Business Days thereafter,
written notice in an Officer's Certificate of any event which with the giving of
notice or lapse of time, or both, would become an Event of Servicing Termination
under Section 8.1. The Seller shall deliver to the Owner Trustee, the Indenture
Trustee and each Rating Agency promptly after having obtained knowledge thereof,
but in no event later than five (5) Business Days thereafter, written notice in
an Officer's Certificate of any event which with the giving of notice or lapse
of time, or both, would become an Event of Servicing Termination under clause
(a)(ii) of Section 8.1.
SECTION 3.11 Annual Independent Certified Public Accountant's
Report. The Servicer shall cause a firm of independent certified public
accountants, who may also render other services to the Servicer or to the
Seller or to Ford Credit, to deliver to the Owner Trustee and the Indenture
Trustee on or before April 30 of each year beginning April 30, 2001 with
respect to the prior calendar year a report addressed to the board of
directors of the Servicer and to the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee,
to the effect that such firm has audited the financial statements of the
Servicer and issued its report thereon and that such audit (1) was made in
accordance with generally accepted auditing standards, (2) included tests
relating to automotive loans serviced for others in accordance with the
requirements of the Uniform Single Attestation Program for Mortgage
Bankers (the "Program"), to the extent the procedures in such Program are
applicable to the servicing obligations set forth in this Agreement, and (3)
except as described in the report, disclosed no exceptions or errors in the
records relating to automobile and light truck loans serviced for others that
such firm is required to report under the Program.
The report will also indicate that the firm is independent of the
Servicer within the meaning of the Code of Professional Ethics of the American
Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
SECTION 3.12 Access to Certain Documentation and Information
Regarding Receivables. The Servicer shall provide to the Certificateholders,
the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders access to the Receivable Files in
such cases where the Certificateholders, the Indenture Trustee or the
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
respective offices of the Servicer. Nothing in this Section 3.12 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 3.12. The Servicer
shall provide such information with respect to the Receivables as the Rating
Agencies may reasonably request, including as soon as practicable a
periodic report of the aggregate principal balance of Receivables which become
Liquidated Receivables during each Collection Period.
SECTION 3.13 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 the Owner Trustee and the Indenture
Trustee, independent accountants, taxes imposed on the Servicer and
expenses incurred in connection with distributions and reports to
Noteholders and Certificateholders.
ARTICLE IV
DISTRIBUTIONS; RESERVE ACCOUNT;
STATEMENTS TO NOTEHOLDERS AND CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
SECTION 4.1 Accounts. (a) The Servicer shall, prior to the Closing
Date, establish and maintain a segregated trust account in the name "The
Chase Manhattan Bank as Indenture Trustee, as secured party from Ford Credit
Auto Owner Trust 2000-E", at a Qualified Institution or Qualified Trust
Institution (which shall initially be the corporate trust department of The
Chase Manhattan Bank), which shall be designated as the "Collection Account".
Initially, the Collection Account shall be account number C-70897 and shall
include any successor or replacement accounts thereto. The Collection Account
shall be under the sole dominion and control of the Indenture Trustee; provided,
that the Servicer may make deposits to and direct the Indenture Trustee in
writing to make withdrawals from the Collection Account in accordance with the
terms of the Basic Documents. The Collection Account will be established and
maintained pursuant to an account agreement which specifies New York law as the
governing law. In addition, the Collection Account shall be established and
maintained at a Qualified Institution or Qualified Trust Institution which
agrees in writing that for so long as the Notes are outstanding it will comply
with entitlement orders (as defined in Article 8 of the UCC) originated by the
Indenture Trustee without further consent of the Issuer. All monies deposited
from time to time in the Collection Account shall be held by the Indenture
Trustee as secured party for the benefit of the Noteholders and, after payment
in full of the Notes, as agent of the Owner Trustee and as part of the Trust
Property. All deposits to and withdrawals from the Collection Account shall be
made only upon the terms and conditions of the Basic Documents.
If the Servicer is required to remit collections pursuant to the
first sentence of Section 4.2, all amounts held in the Collection Account
shall, to the extent permitted by applicable law, rules and regulations, be
invested, as directed in writing by the Servicer, by the bank or trust
company then maintaining the Collection Account in Permitted Investments
that mature not later than the Business Day immediately prior to the
Distribution Date for the Collection Period to which such amounts relate and
such Permitted Investments shall be held to maturity. All interest and
other income (net of losses and investment expenses) on funds on deposit in
the Collection Account shall be withdrawn from the Collection Account at the
written direction of the Servicer and shall be paid to the Servicer. In the
event that the Collection Account is no longer to be maintained at the
corporate trust department of The Chase Manhattan Bank, the Servicer
shall, with the Indenture Trustee's or Owner Trustee's assistance as
necessary, cause the Collection Account to be moved to a Qualified Institution
or a Qualified Trust Institution within ten (10) Business Days (or such longer
period not to exceed thirty (30) calendar days as to which each Rating Agency
may consent).
(b) The Servicer shall, prior to the Closing Date, establish
and maintain an administrative subaccount within the Collection Account at the
bank or trust company then maintaining the Collection Account, which subaccount
shall be designated as the "Principal Distribution Account". The Principal
Distribution Account is established and maintained solely for administrative
purposes.
(c) The Servicer shall, prior to the Closing Date, establish
and maintain two segregated trust accounts, each in the name "The Bank of New
York as Owner Trustee" at a Qualified Institution or Qualified Trust Institution
(which shall initially be the corporate trust department of The Bank of New
York), which shall be designated as the "Certificate Interest Distribution
Account" and the "Certificate Principal Distribution Account", respectively.
Each Certificate Distribution Account shall be under the sole dominion and
control of the Owner Trustee. All monies deposited from time to time in each
Certificate Distribution Account pursuant to this Agreement and the Indenture
shall be held by the Owner Trustee as part of the Trust Property and shall be
applied as provided in the Basic Documents. In the event that either Certificate
Distribution Account is no longer to be maintained at the corporate trust
department of The Bank of New York the Servicer shall, with the Owner Trustee's
assistance as necessary, cause such Certificate Distribution Account to be moved
to a Qualified Institution or a Qualified Trust Institution within ten (10)
Business Days (or such longer period not to exceed thirty (30) calendar days as
to which each Rating Agency may consent). Each Certificate Distribution Account
will be established and maintained pursuant to an account agreement which
specifies New York law as the governing law.
(d) The Servicer shall, prior to the Closing Date, establish
and maintain a segregated trust account in the name of "The Chase Manhattan Bank
as Indenture Trustee" at a Qualified Institution or Qualified Trust Institution
(which shall initially be the corporate trust department of The Chase Manhattan
Bank), which shall be designated as the "Payahead Account". The Payahead Account
shall be held in trust for the benefit of the Obligors. The Payahead Account
shall be under the sole dominion and control of the Indenture Trustee; provided
that the Servicer may make deposits to and direct the Indenture Trustee in
writing to make withdrawals from the Payahead Account in accordance with the
Basic Documents. The Payahead Account shall not be a part of the Trust Property.
All deposits to and withdrawals from the Payahead Account shall be made only
upon the terms and conditions of the Basic Documents.
If the Servicer is required to remit collections pursuant to the
first sentence of Section 4.2, all amounts held in the Payahead Account shall,
to the extent permitted by applicable law, rules and regulations, be
invested, as directed in writing by the Servicer, by the bank or trust
company then maintaining the Payahead Account in Permitted Investments that
mature not later than the Business Day immediately prior to the
Distribution Date for the Collection Period to which such amounts relate and
such Permitted Investments shall be held to maturity. All interest and
other income (net of losses and investment expenses) on funds on deposit
in the Payahead Account shall be withdrawn from the Payahead Account at
the direction of the Servicer and shall be paid to the Servicer. In the event
that the Payahead Account is no longer to be maintained at the corporate trust
department of The Chase Manhattan Bank, the Servicer shall, with the Indenture
Trustee's or Owner Trustee's assistance as necessary, cause the Payahead
Account to be moved to a Qualified Institution or a Qualified Trust
Institution within ten (10) Business Days (or such longer period not to
exceed thirty (30) calendar days as to which each Rating Agency may consent).
(e) Notwithstanding the provisions of clause (d) above and of
Section 4.6(a)(ii), for so long as (i) Ford Credit is the Servicer, (ii) the
rating of Ford Credit's short-term unsecured debt is at least P-1 by Xxxxx'x, is
at least A-1 by Standard & Poor's and is at least F-1 by Fitch and (iii) no
Event of Servicing Termination shall have occurred (each, a "Monthly Remittance
Condition"), Payaheads need not be remitted to and deposited in the Payahead
Account but instead may be remitted to and held by the Servicer. So long as each
Monthly Remittance Condition is satisfied, the Servicer shall not be required to
segregate or otherwise hold separate any Payaheads remitted to the Servicer as
aforesaid but shall be required to remit Payaheads to the Collection Account in
accordance with Section 4.6(a)(i). At any time that any Monthly Remittance
Condition is not satisfied, the Servicer shall deposit in the Payahead Account
the amount of any Payaheads then held or received by it (which amount shall be
at least equal to the Payahead Balance as of the close of business on the last
day of the immediately preceding Collection Period). Notwithstanding the
foregoing, if a Monthly Remittance Condition is not satisfied the Servicer may
utilize, with respect to Payaheads, an alternative remittance schedule (which
may include the remittance schedule utilized by the Servicer before the Monthly
Remittance Condition became unsatisfied), if the Servicer provides to the Owner
Trustee and the Indenture Trustee written confirmation from each Rating Agency
that such alternative remittance schedule will not result in the downgrading or
withdrawal by such Rating Agency of the ratings then assigned to the Notes and
the Certificates. The Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee shall not be
deemed to have knowledge of any event or circumstance under clause (iii) of the
first sentence of this Section 4.1(e) that would require remittance of the
Payaheads to the Payahead Account unless the Owner Trustee or the Indenture
Trustee has received notice of such event or circumstance from the Seller or the
Servicer in an Officer's Certificate or from the Noteholders of Notes evidencing
not less than 25% of the Note Balance of the Notes Outstanding or from the
Certificateholders of Certificates evidencing not less than 25% of the Aggregate
Certificate Balance or unless a Trustee Officer in the Corporate Trust Office
with knowledge hereof and familiarity herewith has actual knowledge of such
event or circumstance.
SECTION 4.2 Collections. The Servicer shall remit to the Collection
Account within two (2) Business Days of the receipt thereof (i) all payments
by or on behalf of the Obligors (including Payaheads on the Receivables,
but excluding Purchased Receivables) and (ii) all Liquidation Proceeds,
both as collected during the Collection Period. Ford Credit, so long as it is
acting as the Servicer, may make remittances of collections on a less
frequent basis than that specified in the immediately preceding sentence. It is
understood that such less frequent remittances may be made only on the specific
terms and conditions set forth below in this Section 4.2 and only for so long as
such terms and conditions are fulfilled. Accordingly, notwithstanding the
provisions of the first sentence of this Section 4.2, the Servicer shall remit
collections received during a Collection Period to the Collection Account in
immediately available funds on the Business Day preceding the related
Distribution Date (or, with the prior consent of the Rating Agencies, on the
related Distribution Date) but only for so long as each Monthly Remittance
Condition is satisfied. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if a Monthly Remittance
Condition is not satisfied the Servicer may utilize an alternative remittance
schedule (which may include the remittance schedule utilized by the Servicer
before the Monthly Remittance Condition became unsatisfied), if the Servicer
provides to the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee written confirmation
from each Rating Agency that such alternative remittance schedule will not
result in the downgrading or withdrawal by such Rating Agency of the ratings
then assigned to the Notes and the Certificates. The Owner Trustee or the
Indenture Trustee shall not be deemed to have knowledge of any event or
circumstance under clause (iii) of the definition of Monthly Remittance
Condition that would require remittance by the Servicer to the Collection
Account within two Business Days of receipt as aforesaid unless the Owner
Trustee or the Indenture Trustee has received notice of such event or
circumstance from the Seller or the Servicer in an Officer's Certificate or from
the Noteholders of Notes evidencing not less than 25% of the Note Balance of the
Notes Outstanding or from the Certificateholders of Certificates evidencing not
less than 25% of the Aggregate Certificate Balance or a Trustee Officer in the
Corporate Trust Office with knowledge hereof or familiarity herewith has actual
knowledge of such event or circumstance. For purposes of this Article IV the
phrase "payments by or on behalf of Obligors" shall mean payments made by
Persons other than the Servicer or by other means.
SECTION 4.3 Application of Collections. For the purposes of this
Agreement, as of the close of business on the last day of each Collection
Period, all collections for the Collection Period with respect to each
Receivable (other than a Purchased Receivable) shall be applied by the Servicer
as follows:
Payments by or on behalf of the Obligor which are not late fees,
prepayment charges, or other administrative fees and expenses, or
similar charges which constitute the Supplemental Servicing Fee shall
be applied first to reduce Outstanding Advances made with respect to
such Receivable, as described in Sections 4.4(a) and (b) below. Next,
any excess shall be applied (i) in the case of Simple Interest
Receivables, to interest and principal on the Receivable in accordance
with the Simple Interest Method and (ii) in the case of Actuarial
Receivables, to the Scheduled Payment with respect to such Receivable
and any remaining excess (except for partial prepayments which cause a
reduction in the Obligor's periodic payment to below the Scheduled
Payment as of the Cutoff Date) shall be added to the Payahead Balance,
and shall be applied to prepay the Actuarial Receivable but only if the
sum of such excess and the previous Payahead Balance shall be
sufficient to prepay the Actuarial Receivable in full, otherwise such
excess shall constitute a Payahead, and shall increase the Payahead
Balance.
SECTION 4.4 Advances. (a) As of the close of business on the last
day of each Collection Period, if the payments by or on behalf of the
Obligor on an Actuarial Receivable (other than a Purchased Receivable)
after application under Section 4.3 shall be less than the Scheduled Payment,
whether as a result of any extension granted to the Obligor or
otherwise, the Payahead Balance, if any, with respect to such Receivables shall
be applied by the Indenture Trustee to the extent of the shortfall, and such
Payahead Balance shall be reduced accordingly. Next, subject to the following
sentence, the Servicer shall make an advance of any remaining shortfall (such
amount, an "Actuarial Advance"). The Servicer will be obligated to make an
Actuarial Advance in respect of an Actuarial Receivable only to the extent that
the Servicer, in its sole discretion, shall determine that the Actuarial Advance
shall be recoverable from subsequent collections or recoveries on any Actuarial
Receivable. With respect to each Actuarial Receivable, the Actuarial Advance
shall increase Outstanding Actuarial Advances. Outstanding Actuarial Advances
shall be reduced by subsequent payments by or on behalf of the Obligor,
collections of Liquidation Proceeds and payments of the Purchase Amount.
If the Servicer shall determine that an Outstanding Actuarial Advance
with respect to any Actuarial Receivable shall not be recoverable, the Servicer
shall be reimbursed from any collections made on other Receivables in the Trust,
and Outstanding Actuarial Advances with respect to such Actuarial Receivable
shall be reduced accordingly.
(b) As of the close of business on the last day of each Collection
Period, the Servicer shall advance an amount equal to the amount of interest due
on the Simple Interest Receivables at their respective APRs for the related
Collection Period (assuming the Simple Interest Receivables pay on their
respective due dates) minus the amount of interest actually received on the
Simple Interest Receivables during the related Collection Period (such amount, a
"Simple Interest Advance"). With respect to each Simple Interest Receivable, the
Simple Interest Advance shall increase Outstanding Simple Interest Advances. If
such calculation results in a negative number, an amount equal to such negative
number shall be paid to the Servicer and the amount of Outstanding Simple
Interest Advances shall be reduced by such amount. In addition, in the event
that a Simple Interest Receivable becomes a Liquidated Receivable, Liquidation
Proceeds with respect to a Simple Interest Receivable attributable to accrued
and unpaid interest thereon (but not including interest for the then current
Collection Period) shall be paid to the Servicer to reduce Outstanding Simple
Interest Advances, but only to the extent of any Outstanding Simple Interest
Advances. The Servicer shall not make any advance in respect of principal of
Simple Interest Receivables.
If the Servicer shall determine that an Outstanding Simple Interest
Advance with respect to any Simple Interest Receivable shall not be recoverable,
the Servicer shall be reimbursed from any collections made on other Receivables
in the Trust, but only to the extent that such Outstanding Simple Interest
Advance represents accrued and unpaid interest on such Simple Interest
Receivable. Outstanding Simple Interest Advances with respect to such Simple
Interest Receivable shall be reduced by the amount of such reimbursement.
(c) In the event that an Obligor shall prepay a Receivable in full,
if the related contract did not require such Obligor to pay a full
month's interest, for the month of prepayment, at the APR, the Servicer
shall make an unreimbursable advance of the amount of such interest.
SECTION 4.5 Additional Deposits to Collection Account and
Withdrawals from Reserve Account. (a) The Servicer shall
deposit in the Collection Account the aggregate Advances pursuant to
Sections 4.4(a) and (b) and the aggregate advances pursuant to Section
4.4(c). The Servicer and the Seller shall deposit in the Collection Account
the aggregate Purchase Amounts with respect to Purchased Receivables and the
Servicer shall deposit therein all amounts to be paid under Section 9.1.
All such deposits with respect to a Collection Period shall be made, in
immediately available funds, on the Business Day preceding the Distribution
Date (or, with the prior consent of the Rating Agencies, on the Distribution
Date) related to such Collection Period.
(b) The Indenture Trustee shall, on the Distribution Date relating
to each Collection Period, make withdrawals from the Reserve Account (i) first,
in an amount equal to the Reserve Account Release Amount, (ii) second, in an
amount equal to the amount (if positive) calculated by the Servicer pursuant
to the second sentence of Section 4.6(b), (iii) third, in an amount equal to the
amount (if positive) calculated by the Servicer pursuant to the third
sentence of Section 4.6(b) and (iv) fourth, in an amount equal to the amount
(if positive) calculated by the Servicer pursuant to the fourth sentence of
Section 4.6(b), and, in each case, shall deposit such funds into the Collection
Account.
SECTION 4.6 Distributions. (a) On each Distribution Date, the
Indenture Trustee shall cause to be made the following transfers and
distributions in the amounts set forth in the Servicer's Certificate
for such Distribution Date:
(i) From the Payahead Account, or from the Servicer in the
event the provisions of Section 4.1(e) above are applicable, to
the Collection Account, in immediately available funds, (x) the portion
of Payaheads constituting Scheduled Payments or prepayments in full,
required by Sections 4.3 and 4.4(a), and (y) the Payahead Balance, if
any, relating to any Purchased Receivable.
(ii) From the Collection Account to the Payahead Account,
or to the Servicer in the event the provisions of Section 4.1(e)
above are applicable, in immediately available funds, the
aggregate Payaheads required by Section 4.3 for the Collection Period
related to such Distribution Date.
(iii) From the Collection Account to the Servicer, in
immediately available funds, repayment of Outstanding Advances pursuant
to Sections 4.4(a) and (b).
(b) Prior to each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall on or before
each Determination Date calculate the Available Collections, the Reserve Account
Release Amount, the Available Funds, the Servicing Fee and all unpaid Servicing
Fees from prior Collection Periods, if any, the Accrued Class A Note Interest,
the First Priority Principal Distribution Amount, the Accrued Class B Note
Interest, the Second Priority Principal Distribution Amount, the Accrued Class C
Certificate Interest, the Accrued Class D Certificate Interest and the Regular
Principal Distribution Amount. In addition, the Servicer shall calculate on or
before each Determination Date the difference, if any, between the Total
Required Payment and the Available Funds and, pursuant to Section 4.5(b), the
Indenture Trustee shall withdraw funds from the Reserve Account in an amount
equal to the lesser of such difference (if positive) or the balance of such
Reserve Account. On or before the Determination Date immediately preceding the
Final Scheduled Distribution Date with respect to any Class of Notes or either
Class of Certificates, the Servicer shall calculate the difference, if any,
between (i) the amount required to pay such Class of Notes or such Class of
Certificates in full in accordance with the priorities set forth in Sections
4.6(c) and (d), and (ii) the sum of the Available Funds plus the amount
withdrawn from the Reserve Account in accordance with the preceding sentence,
and pursuant to Section 4.5(b), the Indenture Trustee shall withdraw funds from
the Reserve Account in the amount of such difference (if positive). The Servicer
also shall calculate, on or before each Determination Date, (i) the sum of the
Available Funds plus the amounts withdrawn from the Reserve Account in
accordance with the two immediately preceding sentences plus the amount
remaining on deposit in the Reserve Account after the withdrawal of such
amounts, and (ii) the amount required to pay the Servicing Fee and principal and
interest of each Class of Notes and Certificates in full in accordance with the
priorities set forth in Sections 4.6(c) and (d), and, if the amount determined
pursuant to clause (i) of this sentence is greater than the amount determined
pursuant to clause (ii) of this sentence, the Indenture Trustee, pursuant to
Section 4.5(b), shall withdraw funds from the Reserve Account in an amount which
is, together with Available Funds and the amounts withdrawn from the Reserve
Account in accordance with the two immediately preceding sentences, sufficient
to pay the amount specified in clause (ii) of this sentence.
(c) On each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall instruct the
Indenture Trustee (based on the information contained in the Servicer's
Certificate delivered on or before the related Determination Date pursuant to
Section 3.9), to make the following withdrawals from the Collection Account and
make deposits, distributions and payments, to the extent of funds on deposit in
the Collection Account with respect to the Collection Period preceding such
Distribution Date (including funds, if any, deposited therein from the Reserve
Account pursuant to Section 4.5(b) and from the Payahead Account pursuant to
this Section 4.6), in the following order of priority:
(i) first, to the Servicer, the Servicing Fee and all unpaid
Servicing Fees from prior Collection Periods;
(ii) second, to the Noteholders of Class A Notes, the Accrued
Class A Note Interest; provided that if there are not
sufficient funds available to pay the entire amount of the Accrued
Class A Note Interest, the amounts available shall be applied to the
payment of such interest on the Class A Notes on a pro rata basis;
(iii) third, to the Principal Distribution Account, the First
Priority Principal Distribution Amount;
(iv) fourth, to the Noteholders of Class B Notes, the Accrued
Class B Note Interest; provided that if there are not sufficient
funds available to pay the entire amount of the Accrued Class B
Note Interest, the amounts available shall be applied to the
payment of such interest on the Class B Notes on a pro rata basis;
(v) fifth, to the Principal Distribution Account, the Second
Priority Principal Distribution Amount;
(vi) sixth, to the Certificate Interest Distribution Account, the
Accrued Class C Certificate Interest;
(vii) seventh, to the Certificate Interest Distribution Account,
the Accrued Class D Certificate Interest;
(viii) eighth, to the Reserve Account, the amount, if any,
required to reinstate the amount in the Reserve Account up to the
Specified Reserve Balance;
(ix) ninth, to the Principal Distribution Account, the Regular
Principal Distribution Amount; and
(x) tenth, to the Seller, any funds remaining on deposit in
the Collection Account with respect to the Collection Period preceding
such Distribution Date.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, (A) following the occurrence and during the
continuation of an Event of Default specified in Section 5.1(i), 5.1(ii),
5.1(iv) or 5.1(v) of the Indenture which has resulted in an acceleration of the
Notes (or following the occurrence of any such event after an Event of Default
specified in Section 5.1(iii) of the Indenture has occurred and the Notes have
been accelerated), the Servicer shall instruct the Indenture Trustee to transfer
the funds on deposit in the Collection Account remaining after the application
of clauses (i) and (ii) above to the Principal Distribution Account to the
extent necessary to reduce the principal amount of all the Class A Notes to
zero, (B) following the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of
Default specified in Section 5.1(iii) of the Indenture, which has resulted in an
acceleration of the Notes, the Servicer shall instruct the Indenture Trustee to
transfer the funds on deposit in the Collection Account remaining after the
application of clauses (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) above to the Principal
Distribution Account to the extent necessary to reduce the principal amount of
all the Notes to zero, and (C) in the case of an event described in clause (A)
or (B), the Certificateholders will not receive any distributions of principal
or interest until the principal amount and accrued interest on all the Notes has
been paid in full.
(d) On each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall instruct the
Indenture Trustee (based on the information contained in the Servicer's
Certificate delivered on or before the related Determination Date pursuant to
Section 3.9), to withdraw the funds on deposit in the Principal Distribution
Account with respect to the Collection Period preceding such Distribution Date
and make distributions and payments in the following order of priority:
(i) first, to the Noteholders of the Class A-1 Notes in
reduction of principal until the principal amount of the Outstanding
Class A-1 Notes has been paid in full; provided that if there are not
sufficient funds available to pay the principal amount of the
Outstanding Class A-1 Notes in full, the amounts available shall be
applied to the payment of principal on the Class A-1 Notes on a pro
rata basis;
(ii) second, to the Noteholders of the Class A-2 Notes in
reduction of principal until the principal amount of the
Outstanding Class A-2 Notes has been paid in full; provided that if
there are not sufficient funds available to pay the principal amount of
the Outstanding Class A-2 Notes in full, the amounts available shall be
applied to the payment of principal on the Class A-2 Notes on a pro
rata basis;
(iii) third, to the Noteholders of the Class A-3 Notes in
reduction of principal until the principal amount of the
Outstanding Class A-3 Notes has been paid in full; provided that if
there are not sufficient funds available to pay the principal amount of
the Outstanding Class A-3 Notes in full, the amounts available shall be
applied to the payment of principal on the Class A-3 Notes on a pro
rata basis;
(iv) fourth, to the Noteholders of the Class A-4 Notes in
reduction of principal until the principal amount of the
Outstanding Class A-4 Notes has been paid in full; provided that if
there are not sufficient funds available to pay the principal amount of
the Outstanding Class A-4 Notes in full, the amounts available shall be
applied to the payment of principal on the Class A-4 Notes on a pro
rata basis;
(v) fifth, to the Noteholders of the Class A-5 Notes in
reduction of principal until the principal amount of the Outstanding
Class A-5 Notes has been paid in full; provided that if there are not
sufficient funds available to pay the principal amount of the
Outstanding Class A-5 Notes in full, the amounts available shall be
applied to the payment of principal on the Class A-5 Notes on a pro
rata basis;
(vi) sixth, to the Noteholders of the Class B Notes in
reduction of principal until the principal amount of the Outstanding
Class B Notes has been paid in full; provided that if there are not
sufficient funds available to pay the principal amount of the
Outstanding Class B Notes in full, the amounts available shall be
applied to the payment of principal on the Class B Notes on a pro rata
basis;
(vii) seventh, to the Certificate Principal
Distribution Account, in reduction of the Certificate Balance of the
Class C Certificates, until the Certificate Balance of the Class C
Certificates has been reduced to zero;
(viii) eighth, to the Certificate Principal
Distribution Account, in reduction of the Certificate Balance of the
Class D Certificates, until the Certificate Balance of the Class D
Certificates has been reduced to zero; and
(ix) ninth, to the Seller, any funds remaining on deposit in
the Principal Distribution Account.
SECTION 4.7 Reserve Account. (a) (i) The Seller shall, prior to
the Closing Date, establish and maintain an account in the name "The Chase
Manhattan Bank as Indenture Trustee, as secured party from Ford Credit Auto
Owner Trust 2000-E" at a Qualified Institution or Qualified Trust
Institution, which shall be designated as the "Reserve Account"
(the Reserve Account, together with the Collection Account (including the
Principal Distribution Account), the "Trust Accounts"). The Reserve Account
shall be under the sole dominion and control of the Indenture Trustee;
provided, that the Servicer may make deposits to the Reserve Account in
accordance with the Basic Documents and so long as no Default or Event of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing all or a portion of the funds in
the Reserve Account shall be invested by the applicable Qualified
Institution or Qualified Trust Institution maintaining such account at the
direction of the Seller in Permitted Investments without requiring any action
from the Indenture Trustee. The Seller shall not direct the Qualified
Institution or Qualified Trust Institution maintaining the Reserve Account to
make any investment of any funds or to sell any investment held in the Reserve
Account unless the security interest Granted and perfected in such account in
favor of the Indenture Trustee will continue to be perfected in such
investment or the proceeds of such sale, in either case without any further
action by any Person, and, in connection with any direction by the
Seller to make any such investment or sale, if requested by the applicable
Qualified Institution or Qualified Trust Institution, the Seller shall deliver
to such Qualified Institution or Qualified Trust Institution an Opinion of
Counsel, acceptable to such Qualified Institution or Qualified Trust
Institution, to such effect. If (i) the Seller shall have failed to give
investment directions for any funds on deposit in the Reserve Account to the
Qualified Institution or Qualified Trust Institution maintaining such account by
11:00 a.m. New York Time (or such other time as may be agreed by the Issuer and
such Qualified Institution or Qualified Trust Institution) on the Business Day
preceding each Distribution Date, (ii) a Default or Event of Default shall have
occurred and be continuing with respect to the Notes but the Notes shall not
have been declared due and payable pursuant to Section 5.2 of the Indenture or
(iii) the Notes shall have been declared due and payable following an Event of
Default, amounts collected or receivable from the Indenture Trust Estate are
being applied in accordance with Section 5.4 of the Indenture as if there had
not been such a declaration, then the Qualified Institution or Qualified Trust
Institution shall, to the fullest extent practicable, invest and reinvest funds
in the Reserve Account in one or more Permitted Investments described in clause
(b) of the definition thereof. The Reserve Account will be established and
maintained pursuant to an account agreement which specifies New York law as the
governing law. In addition, the Reserve Account shall be established and
maintained at a Qualified Institution or Qualified Trust Institution which
agrees in writing that for so long as the Notes are outstanding it will comply
with entitlement orders (as defined in Article 8 of the UCC) originated by the
Indenture Trustee without further consent of the Issuer. On the Closing Date,
the Seller shall deposit the Reserve Initial Deposit into the Reserve Account
from the net proceeds of the sale of the Notes and the Certificates. The Reserve
Account and all amounts, securities, investments, financial assets and other
property deposited in or credited to the Reserve Account (such amounts, the
"Reserve Account Property") shall be held by the Indenture Trustee as secured
party for the benefit of the Noteholders and, after payment in full of the
Notes, as agent of the Owner Trustee and as part of the Trust Property, and all
deposits to and withdrawals from therefrom shall be made only upon the terms and
conditions of the Basic Documents.
The Reserve Account Property shall, to the extent permitted by
applicable law, rules and regulations, be invested, as directed in writing by
the Seller, by the bank or trust company then maintaining the Reserve Account in
Permitted Investments that mature not later than the Business Day preceding the
next Distribution Date, and such Permitted Investments shall be held to
maturity; provided, however, that upon satisfaction of the Rating Agency
Condition, funds in the Reserve Account may be invested in Permitted Investments
that will not mature prior to the next Distribution Date and will not be
required to be sold or liquidated to meet any shortfalls that may occur. All
interest and other income (net of losses and investment expenses) on funds on
deposit in the Reserve Account shall be deposited therein. In the event the
Reserve Account is no longer to be maintained at the corporate trust department
of The Chase Manhattan Bank, the Seller shall, with the Indenture Trustee's or
Owner Trustee's assistance as necessary, cause the Reserve Account to be moved
to a Qualified Institution or a Qualified Trust Institution within ten (10)
Business Days (or such longer period not to exceed thirty (30) calendar days as
to which each Rating Agency may consent).
(ii) With respect to Reserve Account Property:
(A) any Reserve Account Property
that is a "financial asset" as defined in Section
8-102(a)(9) of the UCC shall be physically delivered
to, or credited to an account in the name of, the
Qualified Institution or Qualified Trust Institution
maintaining the Reserve Account in accordance with
such institution's customary procedures such that
such institution establishes a "securities
entitlement" in favor of the Indenture Trustee with
respect thereto; and
(B) any Reserve Account Property
that is held in deposit accounts shall be held solely
in the name of the Indenture Trustee at one or more
depository institutions having the Required Rating
and each such deposit account shall be subject to the
exclusive custody and control of the Indenture
Trustee and the Indenture Trustee shall have sole
signature authority with respect thereto.
(iii) Except for any deposit accounts specified in clause
(ii)(B) above, the Reserve Account shall only be invested in securities
or in other assets which the Qualified Institution or Qualified Trust
Institution maintaining the Reserve Account agrees to treat as
"financial assets" as defined in Section 8-102(a)(9) of the UCC.
(b) If the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.4 determines on or
before any Determination Date that it is required to make an Advance and does
not do so from its own funds, the Servicer shall promptly instruct the Indenture
Trustee in writing to withdraw funds, in an amount specified by the Servicer,
from the Reserve Account and deposit them in the Collection Account to cover any
shortfall. Such payment shall be deemed to have been made by the Servicer
pursuant to Section 4.4 for purposes of making distributions pursuant to this
Agreement, but shall not otherwise satisfy the Servicer's obligation to deliver
the amount of the Advances to the Indenture Trustee, and the Servicer shall
within two Business Days replace any funds in the Reserve Account so used.
(c) Following the payment in full of the aggregate principal
amount of the Notes and the Aggregate Certificate Balance and of all other
amounts owing or to be distributed hereunder or under the Indenture or the Trust
Agreement to Noteholders and Certificateholders and the termination of the
Trust, any remaining Reserve Account Property shall be distributed to the
Seller.
(d) The Seller shall be permitted to sell, transfer, convey
or assign in any manner its rights in the Reserve Account under this Section
4.7(c), together with its rights to receive amounts under Section 4.5(c)(x) of
this Agreement and Sections 5.4(b)(xii) and 8.2(c)(x) of the Indenture, provided
that each of the following:
(i) the Rating Agency Condition is satisfied with respect
such action;
(ii) such action shall not, as evidenced by an
Opinion of Counsel, cause the Issuer to be characterized for federal or
any then Applicable Tax State income tax purposes as an association
taxable as a corporation; and
(iii) the transferee or assignee agrees in writing to
take positions for federal and any Applicable Tax State income tax
purposes consistent with the tax positions taken previously by the
Seller.
SECTION 4.8 Net Deposits. For so long as (i) Ford Credit shall
be the Servicer, (ii) the Servicer shall be entitled pursuant to Section 4.2 to
remit collections on a monthly basis rather than within two Business Days of
receipt, and (iii) the Servicer shall be entitled pursuant to Section 4.1(e)
to retain Payaheads rather than deposit them in the Payahead Account, Ford
Credit may make the remittances pursuant to Sections 4.2 and 4.5 above, net of
amounts to be distributed to Ford Credit pursuant to Section 4.6(c).
Nonetheless, the Servicer shall account for all of the above described
remittances and distributions except for the Supplemental Servicing Fee in the
Servicer's Certificate as if the amounts were deposited and/or transferred
separately.
SECTION 4.9 Statements to Noteholders and Certificateholders. On
each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall provide to the Indenture Trustee
(with copies to the Rating Agencies and each Note Paying Agent) for the
Indenture Trustee to forward to each Noteholder of record as of the most
recent Record Date and to the Owner Trustee (with copies to the Rating
Agencies and to each Certificate Paying Agent) for the Owner Trustee to
forward to each Certificateholder of record as of the most recent Record
Date a statement based on information in the Servicer's Certificate
furnished pursuant to Section 3.9, setting forth for the Collection Period
relating to such Distribution Date the following information as to the Notes
and the Certificates to the extent applicable:
(i) the amount of such distribution allocable to principal allocable to the
Notes and to the Certificate Balance;
(ii) the amount of such distribution allocable to interest allocable to the
Notes and the Certificates;
(iii) the amount of such distribution allocable to draws from the Reserve
Account, if any;
(iv) the Pool Balance as of the close of business on the last day of the
preceding Collection Period;
(v) the Specified Overcollateralization Amount and the Specified Credit
Enhancement Amount as of such Distribution Date;
(vi) the amount of the Servicing Fee paid to the Servicer with respect to
the related Collection Period and the amount of any unpaid Servicing Fees and
the change in such amount from that of the prior Distribution Date;
(vii) the amounts of the Noteholders' Interest Carryover Shortfall and the
Certificateholders' Interest Carryover Shortfall, if any, on such Distribution
Date and the change in such amounts from the preceding Distribution Date;
(viii) the aggregate outstanding principal amount of each Class of Notes,
the Note Pool Factor for each Class of Notes, the Certificate Balance of each
Class of Certificates and the Certificate Pool Factor for each Class of
Certificates as of such Distribution Date;
(ix) the amount of any previously due and unpaid payment of principal of
the Notes or of the Certificate Balance, as applicable, and the change in such
amount from that of the prior Distribution Date;
(x) the balance of the Reserve Account on such Distribution Date, after
giving effect to distributions made on such Distribution Date and the change in
such balance from the preceding Distribution Date;
(xi) the amount of the aggregate Realized Losses, if any, with respect to
the related Collection Period;
(xii) the aggregate Purchase Amount of Receivables repurchased by the
Seller or purchased by the Servicer, if any, with respect to the related
Collection Period; and
(xiii) the amount of Advances, if any, on such Distribution Date (stating
separately the amount of Actuarial Advances and Simple Interest Advances).
Each amount set forth on the Distribution Date statement pursuant to
clauses (i), (ii), (vi), (vii) and (ix) above shall be expressed as a dollar
amount per $1,000 of original principal amount or original Certificate Balance
of a Note or a Certificate, as applicable.
ARTICLE V
[Intentionally Omitted]
ARTICLE VI
THE SELLER
SECTION 6.1 Representations and Warranties of Seller. The Seller
makes the following representations and warranties on which the Issuer is
deemed to have relied in acquiring the Trust Property. The representations and
warranties speak as of the execution and delivery of this Agreement and shall
survive the conveyance of the Trust Property to the Issuer and the pledge
thereof by the Issuer to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to the Indenture:
(a) Organization and Good Standing. The Seller shall have been
duly organized and shall be validly existing as a limited partnership
in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware, with power and
authority to own its properties and to conduct its business as such
properties shall be currently owned and such business is presently
conducted, and had at all relevant times, and shall have, power, authority
and legal right to acquire and own the Receivables.
(b) Due Qualification. The Seller shall be duly qualified to do
business as a foreign limited partnership in good standing, and shall have
obtained all necessary licenses and approvals in all jurisdictions in which the
ownership or lease of property or the conduct of its business shall require such
qualifications.
(c) Power and Authority. The Seller shall have the power and
authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and the other Basic Documents
to which it is a party and to carry out their terms. The Seller shall have
full power and authority to convey and assign the property to be conveyed and
assigned to and deposited with the Issuer and has duly authorized such
conveyance and assignment to the Issuer by all necessary action; and the
execution, delivery, and performance of this Agreement and the other Basic
Documents to which it is a party shall have been duly authorized, executed and
delivered by the Seller by all necessary action.
(d) Valid Conveyance; Binding Obligation. This Agreement shall
evidence a valid transfer, assignment and conveyance of the Receivables and
the other Trust Property conveyed by the Seller to the Issuer hereunder,
enforceable against creditors of and purchasers from the Seller; and this
Agreement and the other Basic Documents to which the Seller is a party
constitute legal, valid, and binding obligations of the Seller,
enforceable against the Seller in accordance with their terms, subject,
as to enforceability, to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, conservatorship, receivership, liquidation and other
similar laws and to general equitable principles.
(e) No Violation. The consummation of the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement and the other Basic Documents to which the
Seller is a party and the fulfillment of the terms hereof and thereof will not
conflict with, result in any breach of any of the terms and provisions of,
nor constitute (with or without notice or lapse of time or both) a default
under the Certificate of Limited Partnership or Limited Partnership
Agreement, any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement,
guarantee, lease financing agreement or similar agreement or instrument to
which the Seller is a party or by which the Seller is bound; nor result
in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon
any of its properties pursuant to the terms of any such indenture,
mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement, guarantee, lease financing agreement
or similar agreement or instrument; nor violate any law or, to the best of
the Seller's knowledge, any order, rule, or regulation applicable to the
Seller of any federal or State regulatory body, administrative agency, or other
governmental instrumentality having jurisdiction over the Seller or its
properties.
(f) No Proceedings. There are no proceedings or investigations
pending, or, to the Seller's best knowledge, 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, 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 might 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) relating to the Seller and
which might adversely affect the federal or Applicable Tax State income, excise,
franchise or similar tax attributes of the Notes or the Certificates.
SECTION 6.2 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, and hereby agrees
to the following:
(a) The Seller shall indemnify, defend, and hold harmless 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, and
as of the date of, the conveyance of the Receivables to the Issuer or the
issuance and original sale of the Notes and the Certificates, 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 ownership of the Receivables or federal or
other Applicable Tax State income taxes arising out of the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement and the other Basic Documents) 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 Noteholders and the
Certificateholders from and against any loss, liability or expense incurred by
reason of (i) the Seller's willful misfeasance, bad faith, or negligence (other
than 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 and (ii) the Seller's violation of federal or State securities laws in
connection with the registration or the sale of the Notes or the Certificates.
(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 costs, expenses, losses, claims,
damages and liabilities arising out of or incurred in connection with the
acceptance or performance of the trusts and duties contained 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 7.3 of the Trust Agreement or (iii) in the
case of the Indenture Trustee shall arise from the breach by the Indenture
Trustee of any of its representations and warranties set forth in the Indenture.
(d) The Seller shall pay any and all taxes levied or assessed upon
all or any part of the Owner Trust Estate.
(e) Indemnification under this Section 6.2 shall survive the
resignation or removal of the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee and the
termination of this Agreement and shall include, without limitation, reasonable
fees and expenses of counsel and expenses of litigation. If the Seller shall
have made any indemnity payments pursuant to this Section 6.2 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.
SECTION 6.3 Merger or Consolidation of, or Assumption of the
Obligations of, Seller. Any Person (i) into which the Seller may be merged or
consolidated, (ii) resulting from any merger, conversion, or consolidation to
which the Seller shall be a party, (iii) succeeding to the business of the
Seller, or (iv) more than 50% of the voting stock of which is owned directly or
indirectly by Ford Motor Company, which Person in any of the foregoing cases
executes an agreement of assumption to perform every obligation of the Seller
under this Agreement, will be the successor to the Seller under this Agreement
without the execution or filing of any document or any further act on the part
of any of the parties to this Agreement; provided, however, that (x) the Seller
shall have delivered to the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee an Officer's
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each stating that such merger, conversion,
consolidation or succession and such agreement of assumption comply with this
Section 6.3 and that all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this
Agreement relating to such transaction have been complied with and (y) 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 executed and filed that are necessary fully to preserve and protect the
interest of the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee, respectively, in the
Receivables and the other Trust Property, 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 interest. The Seller shall
provide notice of any merger, conversion, consolidation, or succession pursuant
to this Section 6.3 to the Rating Agencies. Notwithstanding anything herein to
the contrary, the execution of the foregoing agreement of assumption and
compliance with clauses (x) and (y) above shall be conditions to the
consummation of the transactions referred to in clauses (i), (ii) or (iii)
above.
SECTION 6.4 Limitation on Liability of Seller and Others. The
Seller and any officer or 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 6.5 Seller May Own Notes or Certificates. The Seller,
and any Affiliate of the Seller, may in its individual or any other capacity
become the owner or pledgee of Notes or Certificates with the same rights as it
would have if it were not the Seller or an Affiliate thereof, except as
otherwise expressly provided herein or in the other Basic Documents. Except
as set forth herein or in the other Basic Documents, Notes and
Certificates so owned by or pledged to the Seller or any such Affiliate shall
have an equal and proportionate benefit under the provisions of this
Agreement and the other Basic Documents, without preference, priority, or
distinction as among all of the Notes and Certificates.
ARTICLE VII
THE SERVICER
SECTION 7.1 Representations of Servicer. The Servicer makes the
following representations on which the Issuer is deemed to have relied in
acquiring the Trust Property. The representations speak as of the execution
and delivery of this Agreement and shall survive the conveyance of the Trust
Property to the Issuer and the pledge thereof by the Issuer pursuant to the
Indenture:
(a) Organization and Good Standing. The Servicer shall have been
duly organized and shall be validly existing as a corporation in good standing
under the laws of the State of its incorporation, with power and authority to
own its properties and to conduct its business as such properties shall be
currently owned and such business is presently conducted, and had at all
relevant times, and shall have, power, authority, and legal right to acquire,
own, sell and service the Receivables and to hold the Receivable Files as
custodian on behalf of the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee.
(b) Due Qualification. The Servicer shall be duly qualified to do
business as a foreign corporation in good standing, and shall have obtained all
necessary 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.
(c) Power and Authority. The Servicer shall have the power and
authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and the other Basic Documents to
which it is a party and to carry out their terms, and the execution, delivery
and performance of this Agreement and the other Basic Documents to which it is a
party shall have been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Servicer by
all necessary corporate action.
(d) Binding Obligation. This Agreement and the other Basic
Documents to which the Servicer is a party constitute legal, valid,
and binding obligations of the Servicer, enforceable against the Servicer in
accordance with their terms, subject, as to enforceability, to
applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, conservatorship,
receivership, liquidation and other similar laws and to general equitable
principles.
(e) No Violation. The consummation of the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement and the other Basic Documents to which the
Servicer is a party and the fulfillment of the terms hereof and thereof
shall not conflict with, result in any breach of any of the terms and
provisions of, nor constitute (with or without notice or lapse of time or
both) a default under (in each case material to the Servicer and its
subsidiaries considered as a whole), the articles of incorporation or
by-laws of the Servicer, or any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan
agreement, guarantee, lease financing agreement or similar agreement or
instrument to which the Servicer is a party or by which it shall be bound,
nor result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance
(in each case material to the Servicer and its subsidiaries considered
as a whole) upon any of its properties pursuant to the terms of any such
indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement, guarantee, lease
financing agreement or similar agreement or instrument (other than this
Agreement); nor violate any law or, to the best of the Servicer's knowledge, any
order, rule, or regulation applicable to the Servicer of any court or any
federal or State regulatory body, administrative agency, or other governmental
instrumentality having jurisdiction over the Servicer or its properties.
(f) No Proceedings. There are no proceedings or investigations
pending, or, to the Servicer's best knowledge, 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 might 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 might adversely affect the federal or Applicable Tax State income, excise,
franchise or similar tax attributes of the Notes or the Certificates.
SECTION 7.2 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, and
hereby agrees to the following:
(a) The Servicer shall defend, indemnify and hold harmless the
Issuer, the Owner Trustee, the Delaware Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the
Noteholders, the Certificateholders and the Seller from and against any
and all costs, expenses, 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 Delaware 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 or in the other
Basic Documents, if any, including, without limitation, 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 conveyance of the Receivables to
the Issuer or the issuance and original sale of the Notes and the Certificates,
or asserted with respect to ownership of the Receivables, or federal or other
Applicable Tax State income taxes arising out of the transactions contemplated
by this Agreement and the other Basic Documents) and costs and expenses in
defending against the same.
(c) The Servicer shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless the
Issuer, the Owner Trustee, the Delaware Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the
Noteholders, the Certificateholders and the Seller 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 negligence, willful misfeasance, or
bad faith (other than errors in judgment) of the Servicer in the performance of
its duties under this Agreement or any other Basic Document to which it is a
party, or by reason of reckless disregard of its obligations and duties under
this Agreement or any other Basic Document to which it is a party.
(d) The Servicer shall indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the
Owner Trustee, the Delaware Trustee and the Indenture Trustee, as applicable,
from and against all costs, expenses, losses, claims, damages, and liabilities
arising out of or incurred in connection with the acceptance or performance of
the trusts and duties contained herein and in the other Basic Documents, if any,
except to the extent that such cost, expense, loss, claim, damage, or liability:
(i) shall be due to the willful misfeasance, bad faith, or negligence (except
for errors in judgment) of the Owner Trustee, the Delaware Trustee or the
Indenture Trustee, as applicable; (ii) in the case of the Owner Trustee, shall
arise from the Owner Trustee's breach of any of its representations or
warranties set forth in Section 7.3 of the Trust Agreement or, in the case of
the Indenture Trustee, from the Indenture Trustee's breach of any of its
representations or warranties set forth in the Indenture; or (iii) in the case
of the Indenture Trustee, shall arise out of or be incurred in connection with
the performance by the Indenture Trustee of the duties of a Successor Servicer
hereunder.
For purposes of this Section 7.2, in the event of the termination
of the rights and obligations of Ford Credit (or any successor thereto
pursuant to Section 8.2) as Servicer pursuant to Section 8.1, or a
resignation by such Servicer pursuant to this Agreement, such Servicer shall
be deemed to continue to be the Servicer pending appointment of a Successor
Servicer (other than the Indenture Trustee) pursuant to Section 8.2.
(e) Indemnification under this Section 7.2 by Ford Credit (or any
successor thereto pursuant to Section 8.2) as Servicer, with respect to the
period such Person was (or was deemed to be) the Servicer, shall survive the
termination of such Person as Servicer or a resignation by such Person as
Servicer as well as the termination of this Agreement or the resignation or
removal of the Owner Trustee, the Delaware Trustee or the Indenture Trustee 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 7.2 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 Servicer, without interest.
SECTION 7.3 Merger or Consolidation of, or Assumption of the
Obligations of, Servicer. Any Person (i) into which the Servicer may be merged
or consolidated, (ii) resulting from any merger, conversion, or consolidation to
which the Servicer shall be a party, (iii) succeeding to the business of the
Servicer, or (iv) so long as Ford Credit acts as Servicer, any corporation more
than 50% of the voting stock of which is owned directly or indirectly by Ford
Motor Company, which Person in any of the foregoing cases executes an agreement
of assumption to perform every obligation of the Servicer under this Agreement,
will be the successor to the Servicer under this Agreement without the execution
or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties to
this Agreement; provided, however, that (x) the Servicer shall have delivered to
the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee an Officer's Certificate and an
Opinion of Counsel each stating that such merger, conversion, consolidation, or
succession and such agreement of assumption comply with this Section 7.3 and
that all conditions precedent provided for in this Agreement relating to such
transaction have been complied with and (y) the Servicer 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 executed and filed that
are necessary fully to preserve and protect the interest of the Issuer and the
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. The Servicer
shall provide notice of any merger, conversion, consolidation or succession
pursuant to this Section 7.3 to the Rating Agencies. Notwithstanding anything
herein to the contrary, the execution of the foregoing agreement or assumption
and compliance with clauses (x) and (y) above shall be conditions to the
consummation of the transactions referred to in clauses (i), (ii), or (iii)
above.
SECTION 7.4 Limitation on Liability of Servicer and Others.
(a) Neither the Servicer nor any of the directors or officers or 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
or bad faith in the performance of duties or by reason of reckless disregard of
obligations and duties under this Agreement, or by reason of negligence in the
performance of its duties under this Agreement (except for errors in
judgment). The Servicer and any director, officer or employee or agent of
the Servicer may rely in good faith on any Opinion of Counsel or on any
Officer's Certificate of the Seller or certificate of auditors believed to be
genuine and to have been signed by the proper party in respect of any matters
arising under this Agreement.
(b) 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 reasonable
action that it may deem necessary or desirable in respect of this Agreement and
the rights and duties of the parties to this Agreement and the interests of the
Noteholders and Certificateholders under this Agreement. In such event, the
legal expenses and costs of such action and any liability resulting therefrom
shall be expenses, costs and liabilities of the Servicer.
SECTION 7.5 SECTION Delegation of Duties. So long as Ford Credit
acts as Servicer, the Servicer may at any time without notice or consent
delegate some of or substantially all of its duties under this Agreement to any
corporation more than 50% of the voting stock of which is owned, directly or
indirectly, by Ford Motor Company. The Servicer may at any time perform specific
duties as servicer under the Agreement through sub-contractors; provided that no
such delegation or subcontracting shall relieve the Servicer of its
responsibilities with respect to such duties as to which the Servicer shall
remain primarily responsible with respect thereto and the Servicer shall be
solely responsible for the fees of any such sub-contractors.
SECTION 7.6 Ford Credit Not to Resign as Servicer. Subject to the
provisions of Section 7.3, Ford Credit shall not resign from the obligations and
duties hereby imposed on it as Servicer under this Agreement except upon
determination that the performance of its duties under this Agreement shall no
longer be permissible under applicable law. Notice of any such determination
permitting the resignation of Ford Credit 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
(i) taken the actions required by Section 8.1(b), (ii) assumed the
responsibilities and obligations of Ford Credit in accordance with Section 8.2
and (iii) become the Administrator under the Administration Agreement pursuant
to Section 9 thereof.
SECTION 7.7 Servicer May Own Notes or Certificates. The Servicer,
and any Affiliate of the Servicer, may, in its individual or any other
capacity, become the owner or pledgee of Notes or Certificates with the same
rights as it would have if it were not the Servicer or an Affiliate thereof,
except as otherwise expressly provided herein or in the other Basic Documents.
Except as set forth herein or in the other Basic Documents, Notes and
Certificates so owned by or pledged to the Servicer or such Affiliate shall have
an equal and proportionate benefit under the provisions of this Agreement,
without preference, priority or distinction as among all of the Notes and
Certificates.
ARTICLE VIII
SERVICING TERMINATION
SECTION 8.1 Events of Servicing Termination. (a) If any one of the
following events ("Events of Servicing Termination") occur and be continuing:
(i) Any failure by the Servicer or the Seller to deliver to the
Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee any proceeds or payment required
to be so delivered under the terms of the Notes and the Certificates
and this Agreement that shall continue unremedied for a period of
three (3) Business Days after written notice of such failure is
received by the Servicer or the Seller, as the case may be, from the
Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee or after discovery
of such failure by an officer of the Servicer or the Seller, as the
case may be; or
(ii) Failure on the part of the Servicer or the Seller 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 the Notes, the Certificates or in this Agreement, which
failure shall (a) materially and adversely affect the rights of
Noteholders or Certificateholders and (b) continue unremedied for a
period of ninety (90) days after the date on which written notice of
such failure, requiring the same to be remedied, shall have been given
(1) to the Servicer or the Seller, as the case may be, by the Owner
Trustee or the Indenture Trustee, or (2) to the Owner Trustee, the
Indenture Trustee, the Seller and the Servicer by the Noteholders of
Notes evidencing not less than 25% of the Note Balance of the
Controlling Note Class or, if no Notes are outstanding, by
Certificateholders of Certificates evidencing not less than 25% of the
Certificate Balance of the Controlling Certificate Class; or
(iii) The entry of a decree or order by a court or agency or
supervisory authority having jurisdiction in the premises for the
appointment of a conservator, receiver, or liquidator for the
Servicer or the Seller in any insolvency, readjustment of debt,
marshalling of assets and liabilities, or similar proceedings, or for
the winding up or liquidation of its respective affairs, and the
continuance of any such decree or order unstayed and in effect for a
period of sixty (60) consecutive days; or
(iv) The consent by the Servicer or the Seller to the appointment
of a conservator or receiver or liquidator in any insolvency,
readjustment of debt, marshalling of assets and liabilities,
or similar proceedings of or relating to the Servicer of or relating
to substantially all of its property; or the Servicer shall admit in
writing its inability to pay its debts generally as they become
due, file a petition to take advantage of any applicable
insolvency or reorganization statute, make an assignment for the
benefit of its creditors, or voluntary suspend payment of its
obligations or become insolvent;
then the Indenture Trustee shall promptly notify each Rating Agency, and in each
and every case, so long as an Event of Servicing Termination shall not have been
remedied, either the Indenture Trustee or the Noteholders of Notes evidencing
not less than a majority of the Note Balance of the Controlling Note Class (or,
if no Notes are outstanding, the Owner Trustee or Certificates evidencing not
less than a majority of the Certificate Balance of the Controlling Certificate
Class), by notice then given in writing to the Servicer (and to the Indenture
Trustee and the Owner Trustee if given by the Noteholders and to the Owner
Trustee if given by the Certificateholders) (with a copy to the Rating Agencies)
may terminate all of the rights and obligations 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 Trust Property or otherwise, shall pass to
and be vested in the Indenture Trustee or such Successor Servicer as may be
appointed under Section 8.2; and, without limitation, the Indenture Trustee and
the Owner Trustee are hereby authorized and empowered to execute and deliver, on
behalf 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.
(b) Upon termination of the Servicer under Section 8.1(a), the
predecessor Servicer shall cooperate with the Indenture Trustee, the Owner
Trustee and such Successor Servicer in effecting the termination of the
responsibilities and rights of the predecessor Servicer under this Agreement,
including the transfer to the Indenture Trustee or such Successor Servicer for
administration of all cash amounts that shall at the time be held by the
predecessor Servicer for deposit, or shall thereafter be received with respect
to a Receivable and the delivery of the Receivable Files and the related
accounts and records maintained by the Servicer. All reasonable 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 8.1 shall be paid
by the predecessor Servicer upon presentation of reasonable documentation of
such costs and expenses.
SECTION 8.2 Appointment of Successor Servicer. (a) Upon the
Servicer's receipt of notice of termination pursuant to Section 8.1 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 (x) the date 45 days from the delivery to the Indenture Trustee and
the Owner Trustee of written notice of such resignation (or written confirmation
of such notice) in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and (y) 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 resignation or termination hereunder, the Issuer
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 (with a copy to each Rating Agency). 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 8.2, the
Indenture Trustee without further action shall automatically be appointed the
Successor Servicer. Notwithstanding the above, the Indenture Trustee, if it
shall be legally unable so to act, shall 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 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, by the terms and provisions of this
Agreement.
(c) In connection with such appointment, the Indenture
Trustee may make such arrangements for the compensation of such Successor
Servicer out of payments on Receivables as it and such Successor Servicer shall
agree; provided, however, that no such compensation shall be in excess of that
permitted the predecessor Servicer under this Agreement. The Indenture Trustee
and such Successor Servicer shall take such action, consistent with this
Agreement, as shall be necessary to effectuate any such succession.
SECTION 8.3 Repayment of Advances. If the identity of the Servicer
shall change, the predecessor Servicer shall be entitled to receive to the
extent of available funds reimbursement for Outstanding Advances pursuant to
Section 4.3 and 4.4, in the manner specified in Section 4.6, with respect to all
Advances made by the predecessor Servicer.
SECTION 8.4 Notification to Noteholders and Certificateholders
Upon any termination of, or appointment of a successor to, the Servicer pursuant
to this Article VIII, the Indenture Trustee shall give prompt written notice
thereof to Noteholders, and the Owner Trustee shall give prompt written notice
thereof to Certificateholders at their respective addresses of record and to
each Rating Agency.
SECTION 8.5 Waiver of Past Events of Servicing Termination. The
Noteholders of Notes evidencing not less than a majority of the Note Balance of
the Controlling Note Class (or, if no Notes are outstanding, the Owner Trustee
or Certificates evidencing not less than a majority of the Certificate Balance
of the Controlling Certificate Class) may, on behalf of all Noteholders and
Certificateholders, waive any Event of Servicing Termination hereunder and its
consequences, except an event resulting from the failure to make any required
deposits to or payments from any of the Trust Accounts, either Certificate
Distribution Account or the Payahead Account in accordance with this Agreement.
Upon any such waiver of a past Event of Servicing Termination, such Event of
Servicing Termination shall cease to exist, and shall be deemed to have been
remedied for every purpose of this Agreement. No such waiver shall extend to any
subsequent or other event or impair any right consequent thereon. The Issuer
shall provide written notice of any such waiver to the Rating Agencies.
ARTICLE IX
TERMINATION
SECTION 9.1 Optional Purchase of All Receivables. On the last day
of any Collection Period as of which the Pool Factor shall be less than the
Optional Purchase Percentage, the Servicer shall have the option to purchase the
corpus of the Trust. To exercise such option, the Servicer shall deposit
pursuant to Section 4.5 in the Collection Account an amount equal to the
aggregate Purchase Amount for the Receivables, plus the appraised value of any
other property held by the Trust, such value to be determined by an appraiser
mutually agreed upon by the Servicer, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture
Trustee, 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
principal amount of the Notes and the Aggregate Certificate Balance and all
accrued but unpaid interest (including any overdue interest) thereon. The amount
deposited in the Collection Account pursuant to this Section 9.1 shall be used
on the next Distribution Date to make payments in full to Noteholders and
Certificateholders in the manner set forth in Article IV.
SECTION 9.2 Succession Upon Satisfaction and Discharge of
Indenture. Following the satisfaction and discharge of the Indenture and
the payment in full of the principal of and interest on the Notes, to the extent
permitted by applicable law, the Indenture Trustee will continue to carry out
its obligations hereunder as agent for the Owner Trustee, including without
limitation making distributions from the Payahead Account and the Collection
Account in accordance with Section 4.6 and making withdrawals from the Reserve
Account in accordance with Section 4.5(b) and Section 4.7.
ARTICLE X
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
SECTION 10.1 Amendment. (a) This Agreement may be amended by the
Seller, the Servicer and the Issuer, with the consent of the Indenture
Trustee and the Owner Trustee to the extent that their respective rights or
obligations may be affected thereby (which consent may not be unreasonably
withheld), but without the consent of any of the Noteholders or the
Certificateholders, to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any
provisions in this Agreement, or to add any provisions to or change or eliminate
any provisions or to modify the rights of the Noteholders or Certificateholders;
provided, however, that such action shall not, as evidenced by an Opinion of
Counsel delivered to the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee, materially and
adversely affect the interests of any Noteholder or Certificateholder; and
provided further that such action shall not, as evidenced by an Opinion of
Counsel, cause the Issuer to be characterized for federal or any then Applicable
Tax State income tax purposes as an association taxable as a corporation.
(b) 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
and the Owner Trustee to the extent that their respective rights or obligations
may be affected thereby (which consent may not be unreasonably withheld) and
with the consent of (i) the Indenture Trustee, to the extent that its rights or
obligations would be affected by such amendment, (ii) the Noteholders of Notes
evidencing not less than a majority of the Note Balance of each Class of the
Notes and (iii) the Certificateholders of Certificates evidencing not less than
a majority of the Aggregate Certificate Balance (which consent of any Noteholder
of a Note or Certificateholder of a Certificate given pursuant to this Section
10.1 or pursuant to any other provision of this Agreement shall be conclusive
and binding on such Note or Certificate, as the case may be, and on all future
Noteholders of such Note or Certificateholders of such Certificate, as the case
may be, and of any Note or Certificate, as applicable, issued upon the transfer
thereof or in exchange thereof or in lieu thereof whether or not notation of
such consent is made upon such Note or the Certificate), 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, or change the allocation or priority of, collections of payments
on Receivables or distributions that shall be required to be made on any Note or
Certificate or change any Note Interest Rate or any Certificate Rate or, without
satisfaction of the Rating Agency Condition, the Specified Reserve Balance,
without the consent of all adversely affected Noteholders or Certificateholders
or (B) reduce the aforesaid percentage required to consent to any such
amendment, without the consent of the Noteholders of all Notes and
Certificateholders of all Certificates affected thereby; and provided further
that such action shall not, as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel, cause the
Issuer to be characterized for federal or any then Applicable Tax State income
tax purposes as an association taxable as a corporation.
(c) Prior to the execution of any such amendment or consent the
Servicer will provide, and the Owner Trustee shall distribute, written
notification of the substance of such amendment or consent to each Rating
Agency.
(d) Promptly after the execution of any such amendment or consent,
the Owner Trustee shall furnish written notification of the substance of such
amendment or consent to each Certificateholder, the Indenture Trustee and each
Rating Agency and the Indenture Trustee will provide notification of the
substance of such amendment or consent to each Noteholder. It shall not be
necessary for the consent of Noteholders or the Certificateholders pursuant to
this Section 10.1 to approve the particular form of any proposed amendment or
consent, but it shall be sufficient if such consent shall approve the substance
thereof. The manner of obtaining such consents (and any other consents of
Noteholders and Certificateholders provided for in this Agreement) and of
evidencing the authorization of the execution thereof by Noteholders and
Certificateholders shall be subject to such reasonable requirements as the Owner
Trustee and the Indenture Trustee may prescribe, including the establishment of
record dates pursuant to paragraph number 2 of the Note Depository Agreement.
(e) Prior to the execution of any amendment to this Agreement, the
Owner Trustee 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 10.2(i)(1). The Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee may, but shall
not be obligated to, enter into any such amendment which affects such Owner
Trustee's or Indenture Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under this
Agreement or otherwise.
SECTION 10.2 Protection of Title to Trust Property. (a) The Seller
shall execute and file such financing statements and cause to be executed and
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 the Indenture Trustee for the benefit of the Noteholders in the
Receivables and in the proceeds thereof. 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 would, could, or might make
any financing statement or continuation statement filed by the Seller in
accordance with paragraph (a) above seriously misleading within the meaning of
ss. 9-402(7) of the UCC, unless it shall have given the Owner Trustee and the
Indenture Trustee at least five (5) days' prior written notice thereof, with a
copy to the Rating Agencies, and shall have promptly filed appropriate
amendments to all previously filed financing statements or continuation
statements.
(c) The Seller and the Servicer shall give the Owner Trustee and
the Indenture Trustee at least sixty (60) days' prior written notice of
any relocation of its principal executive office 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.
(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, the Payahead Account and the Reserve Account in respect of such
Receivable.
(e) The Servicer shall maintain its computer systems so that, from
and after the time of conveyance under this Agreement of the Receivables to
the Issuer, the Servicer's master computer records (including any back-up
archives) that refer to a Receivable shall indicate clearly the interest of the
Issuer and the Indenture Trustee in such Receivable and that such Receivable is
owned by the Issuer and has been pledged to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to
the Indenture. Indication of the Issuer's and the Indenture Trustee's interest
in a Receivable shall not be deleted from or modified on the Servicer's computer
systems until, and only until, the Receivable shall have been paid in full or
repurchased.
(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 print-outs (including any restored
from back-up archives) that, if they shall refer in any manner whatsoever to any
Receivable, shall indicate clearly that such Receivable has been conveyed to and
is owned by the Issuer and has been pledged to the Indenture Trustee.
(g) The Servicer, upon receipt of reasonable prior notice, shall
permit the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee and their respective agents at
any time during normal business hours to inspect, audit, and make copies of and
to obtain abstracts from the Servicer's records regarding any Receivable.
(h) Upon request, the Servicer shall furnish to the Owner Trustee
and the Indenture Trustee, within twenty (20) Business Days, a list
of all Receivables (by contract number and name of Obligor) then held as part of
the Trust, together with a reconciliation of such list to the Schedule of
Receivables and to each of the Servicer's Certificates furnished before such
request indicating removal of Receivables from the Trust.
(i) The Servicer shall deliver to the Owner Trustee and the
Indenture Trustee:
(1) promptly after the execution and delivery of this Agreement
and of each amendment thereto, an Opinion of Counsel either (A)
stating that, in the opinion of such Counsel, all financing
statements and continuation statements have been executed and filed
that are necessary fully to preserve and protect the interest of the
Issuer 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 (B) stating that, in the opinion of
such Counsel, no such action shall be necessary to preserve and protect
such interest; and
(2) within 120 days after the beginning of each calendar
year beginning with the first calendar year beginning more than
three months after the Cutoff Date, an Opinion of Counsel, dated
as of a date during such 120-day period, either (A) stating that, in
the opinion of such counsel, all financing statements and continuation
statements have been executed and filed that are necessary fully to
preserve and protect the interest of the Issuer 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 (B) stating that, in the opinion of such Counsel, no such action
shall be necessary to preserve and protect such interest.
Each Opinion of Counsel referred to in clause (i)(1) or (i)(2)
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.
(j) The Seller shall, to the extent required by applicable law,
cause the Notes and the Certificates to be registered with the Securities and
Exchange Commission pursuant to Section 12(b) or Section 12(g) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 within the time periods specified in such sections.
(k) For the purpose of facilitating the execution of this
Agreement and for other purposes, this Agreement may be executed in
any number of counterparts, each of which counterparts shall be deemed to be
an original, and all of which counterparts shall constitute but one and the
same instrument.
SECTION 10.3 Governing Law. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS,
AND REMEDIES OF THE PARTIES UNDER THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE DETERMINED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.
SECTION 10.4 Notices. All demands, notices, and communications
under this Agreement shall be in writing, personally delivered, sent by
telecopier, overnight courier 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 or the Servicer, to the agent for service as specified in
Section 10.11 hereof, or at such other address as shall be designated by the
Seller or the Servicer in a written notice to the Owner Trustee and the
Indenture Trustee, (b) in the case of the Owner Trustee, at the Corporate Trust
Office of the Owner Trustee, (c) in the case of the Indenture Trustee, at the
Corporate Trust Office of the Indenture Trustee, (d) in the case of Xxxxx'x
Investors Service, Inc., at the following address: Xxxxx'x Investors Service,
Inc., ABS Monitoring Department, 00 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, (e)
in the case of Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, at the following address:
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, 00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx
Xxxx 00000, Attention: Asset Backed Surveillance Department and (f) in the case
of Fitch, Inc., at the following address: Fitch, Inc., 0 Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxx
Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, Attention: Asset Backed Surveillance. Any notice required
or permitted to be mailed to a Noteholder or Certificateholder shall be given by
first class mail, postage prepaid, at the address of such Person as shown in the
Note Register or the Certificate Register, as applicable. Any notice so mailed
within the time prescribed in this Agreement shall be conclusively presumed to
have been duly given, whether or not the Noteholder or Certificateholder shall
receive such notice.
SECTION 10.5 Severability of Provisions. If any one or more of the
covenants, agreements, provisions, or terms of this Agreement shall be for any
reason whatsoever held invalid, then such covenants, agreements, provisions, or
terms shall be deemed severable from the remaining covenants, agreements,
provisions, or terms of this Agreement and shall in no way affect the validity
or enforceability of the other provisions of this Agreement or of the Notes, the
Certificates or the rights of the holders thereof.
SECTION 10.6 Assignment. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
contained herein, except as provided in Sections 7.3 and 8.2 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 without the
prior written consent of the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the
Noteholders of Notes evidencing not less than 662/3% of the Note Balance of the
Notes Outstanding and the Certificateholders of Certificates evidencing not less
than 662/3% of the Aggregate Certificate Balance.
SECTION 10.7 Further Assurances. The Seller and the Servicer agree
to do and perform, from time to time, any and all acts and to execute any and
all further instruments required or reasonably requested by the Owner Trustee or
the Indenture Trustee more fully to effect the purposes of this Agreement,
including, without limitation, the execution of any financing statements or
continuation statements relating to the Receivables for filing under the
provisions of the UCC of any applicable jurisdiction.
SECTION 10.8 No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies. No failure to
exercise and no delay in exercising, on the part of the Owner Trustee, the
Indenture Trustee, the Noteholders or the Certificateholders, any right, remedy,
power or privilege hereunder, shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any
single or partial exercise of any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder
preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other
right, remedy, power or privilege. The rights, remedies, powers and privileges
therein provided are cumulative and not exhaustive of any rights, remedies,
powers and privileges provided by law.
SECTION 10.9 Third-Party Beneficiaries. This Agreement will inure
to the benefit of and be binding upon the parties hereto, the Noteholders, the
Certificateholders, the Indenture Trustee, the Delaware Trustee and the Owner
Trustee and their respective successors and permitted assigns and each of the
Indenture Trustee, the Delaware Trustee and the Owner Trustee may enforce the
provisions hereof as if they were parties thereto. Except as otherwise provided
in this Article X, no other Person will have any right or obligation hereunder.
The parties hereto hereby acknowledge and consent to the pledge of this
Agreement by the Issuer to the Indenture Trustee for the benefit of the
Noteholders pursuant to the Indenture.
SECTION 10.10 Actions by Noteholders or Certificateholders.
(a) Wherever in this Agreement a provision is made that an action may be
taken or a notice, demand, or instruction given by Noteholders or
Certificateholders, such action, notice, or instruction may be taken or given by
any Noteholder or Certificateholder, as applicable, unless such provision
requires a specific percentage of Noteholders or Certificateholders.
(b) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver, or other act by a Noteholder or Certificateholder shall bind such
Noteholder or Certificateholder and every subsequent holder of such Note or
Certificate issued upon the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange
therefor or in lieu thereof in respect of anything done or omitted to be done by
the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee or the Servicer in reliance thereon,
whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Note or Certificate.
SECTION 10.11 Agent for Service. The agent for service of the
Seller and the Servicer in respect of this Agreement shall be Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx,
Secretary, Ford Motor Credit Company, Xxx Xxxxxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx
00000.
SECTION 10.12 No Bankruptcy Petition. The Owner Trustee, the
Indenture Trustee, the Issuer and the Servicer each covenants and agrees
that, prior to the date which is one year and one day after the payment in
full of all securities issued by the Seller or by a trust for which the Seller
was the depositor which securities were rated by any nationally recognized
statistical rating organization it will not institute against, or join any other
Person in instituting against, the Seller or the General Partner any bankruptcy,
reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings, or other
proceedings under any federal or State bankruptcy or similar law. This Section
10.12 shall survive the resignation or removal of the Owner Trustee under the
Trust Agreement or the Indenture Trustee under the Indenture or the termination
of this Agreement.
SECTION 10.13 Limitation of Liability of Owner Trustee and
Indenture Trustee. (a) Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the
contrary, this Agreement has been countersigned by The Bank of New York not in
its individual capacity but solely in its capacity as Owner Trustee of the
Issuer and in no event shall The Bank of New York in its individual capacity or,
except as expressly provided in the Trust Agreement, as Owner Trustee 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 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 Chase Manhattan Bank, not in its individual
capacity but solely as Indenture Trustee, and in no event shall The Chase
Manhattan Bank 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.
SECTION 10.14 Savings Clause. It is the intention of the Seller
and the Issuer that the transfer of the Trust Property contemplated herein
constitute an absolute transfer of the Trust Property, conveying good title to
the Trust Property from the Seller to the Issuer. However, in the event that
such transfer is deemed to be a pledge, the Seller hereby grants to the Issuer a
first priority security interest in all of the Seller's right, title and
interest in, to and under the Trust Property, and all proceeds thereof, to
secure a loan in an amount equal to all amounts payable under the Notes and the
Certificates, and in such event, this Agreement shall constitute a security
agreement under applicable law.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have caused this Sale and Servicing
Agreement to be duly executed by their respective officers thereunto duly
authorized as of the day and year first above written.
FORD CREDIT AUTO RECEIVABLES TWO
L.P.,
as Seller
By: FORD CREDIT AUTO RECEIVABLES
TWO, INC.,
as General Partner
By:
Name:
Title:
FORD CREDIT AUTO OWNER TRUST 2000-E,
as Issuer
By: THE BANK OF NEW YORK,
not in its individual capacity
but solely as Owner Trustee
By:
Name:
Title:
FORD MOTOR CREDIT COMPANY,
as Servicer
By:
Name:
Title:
Accepted and agreed:
THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK,
not in its individual capacity
but solely as Indenture Trustee
By:
Name:
Title:
THE BANK OF NEW YORK,
not in its individual capacity
but solely as Owner Trustee
By:
Name:
Title:
SCHEDULE A
[SCHEDULE OF RECEIVABLES]
Delivered to Indenture Trustee at Closing
SCHEDULE B-1
Location of Receivable Files
at Ford Credit Branch Offices
Akron
175 Montrose Xxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxx, XX 00000
Albany
0 Xxxx Xxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxxx, XX 00000
Albuquerque
0000 Xxxxxx Xxxx., X.X.
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Amarillo
0000 X. Xxxxxxxx
Xxxx. X, Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Anchorage
0000 X Xxxxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Appleton
00 Xxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxx, XX 00000-0000
Athens
0000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxx, XX 00000
Atlanta-North
North Park Town Center
Xxxx. 000, Xxxxx 000
0000 Xxxxxxxxx Xx. X.X.
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
Atlanta-South 0000 Xxxxxxx Xxxx.
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
Atlanta/CL
0000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxx. X
Xxxxx 000 Xxxx
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
Atlantic Region District Xxxxxx
00000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Austin
0000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxx.
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxx, XX 00000
Baltimore
Xxxxxxxx Corporate
Center One
0000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxx.
Suite 000
Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Baltimore Service Center
0000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx Xx.
Xxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Beaumont
0000 Xxxxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Billings
0000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Birmingham
0000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Boston-North
Xxx Xxxx Xxxxx
0xx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000-0000
Boston-South
Southboro Place
0xx Xxxxx
000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Bristol
Landmark Center-
Suite A
000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
Buffalo
00 Xxxx Xxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
Cape Girardeau
0000-X X. Xx. Xxxxxx Xx.
Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Charleston
Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxx 000
0000 XxXxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Charlotte
0000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Charlotte/CL
0000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Chattanooga
0 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Cheyenne
0000 Xxxxxxxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Chicago-East
Xxx Xxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxx X
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
Chicago-North
0000 Xxxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Chicago-West
0000 X. Xxxxxxx Xx.
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
Chicago/CL
000 XxXxxxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxx Xxxxx, XX 00000
Cincinnati
0000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxx Xx.
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Cleveland
0000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxx Xxxxx, XX 00000-0000
Colorado Springs
0000 Xxxx Xxxxxx Xx.
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
Columbia
000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Columbus
Metro V, Suite 470
000 Xxxxx Xxxxx X
Xxxxxx, XX 00000
Coral Springs
0000 X. Xxxxxxxxxx Xx.
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxx Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
Corpus Christi
0000 Xxxxx Xxxxxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx Forum
Suite 600
000 X. Xxxxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Dallas/XX
Xxxxxxxx Forum
Suite 650
000 X. Xxxxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Davenport
0000 Xxxxx Xxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Decatur
000 Xxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
Denver
0000 X. Xxxxxxxx Xxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Des Moines
0000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxx 000
X. Xxx Xxxxxx, XX 00000
Detroit-North
0000 X. Xxxx Xxxx Xxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxx, XX 00000
Detroit-West
0000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxx Xxxx, XX 00000
Detroit/CL
Xxx Xxxxxxxx Xxxx.
Xxxxx 000X
Xxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Dothan
000 Xxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxxx, XX 00000
El Paso
0000 Xxxxxx Xxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xx Xxxx, XX 00000
Eugene
0000 Xxxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxx, XX 00000
Falls Church
0000 Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxx 000
XxXxxx, XX 00000
Fargo
0000 00xx Xxx. Xxxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxx, XX 00000
Fayetteville
0000 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Findlay
0000 Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000-0000
Ft. Xxxxx
00000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxx Xx.
Xxxx Xxxxx, XX 00000
Ft. Xxxxx
Xxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxx 000
0000 Xxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxx.
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
Grand Junction
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Grand Rapids
0000 Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxx XX
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxx Xxxxxx, XX 00000
Greensboro
0000 Xxxxxxxxx Xx.
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Greenville Service Center
0000 Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxx.
Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Harlingen
0000 Xxxx Xxxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Harrisburg
0000 Xxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Henderson
000 Xxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Honolulu
Ala Moano Pacific Center
Xxxxx 000
0000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxx.
Xxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Houston-North
000 X. Xxx Xxxxxxx Xxxx. X.
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
Houston-West
000 Xxxxxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
Huntington
0000 X.X. Xxxxx 00 *
Xxx, XX 00000
Indianapolis
0000 Xxxxxx Xxxxx Xxxx.
Xxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Irving Service Center
0000 Xxxxxx Xxxx.
Xxxxxx, XX 00000
Jackson
000 Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx
Xxxxx X
Xxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Jacksonville
Suite 310
0000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Jefferson City
000 Xxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx Xxxx, XX 00000
Kansas City
0000 Xxxx 000xx Xxxxxx
Xxxx. #00, Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxxx Xxxx, XX 00000
Knoxville
0000 Xxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Xxxxxxxxx
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxx 000
000 Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Lansing
0000 Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxxx, XX 00000
Las Vegas
000 X Xxxxxxx Xxxx.
Xxxxx 000
Xxx Xxxxx, XX 00000
Little Rock
0000 Xxxxxxxxxx Xx.
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxx Xxxx, XX 00000
Long Island
Xxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxx
0xx Xxxxx Xxxx X
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
Louisville
000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Lubbock
0000 00xx Xxxxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
Macon
0000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxx, XX 00000
Manchester
0 Xxxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
Memphis
0000 Xxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
Miami
0000 Xxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxx, XX 00000
Midland
00 Xxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxx 0000
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
Milwaukee
00000 X. Xxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Minneapolis
One Southwest Crossing
Suite 308
00000 Xxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxx Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
Mobile
0000 Xxxxxxxxx Xx.
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxx, XX 00000-0000
Nashville
Highland Ridge
Xxxxx 000
000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Nashville Service Center
0000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx, XX 00000
National Recovery Center
0000 X. Xxxxxxxxx
Xxxx, XX 00000
New Haven
00 Xxxxxx Xxx.
Xxxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
New Jersey-Central
000 Xxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxx, XX 00000
New Jersey-North
00 Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxx
0xx Xxxxx
Xxxx Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
New Jersey-South
00000 XxxXxxxxxxx Xx.
Xxxxx 000 Xxxx
Xx. Xxxxxx, XX 00000
New Orleans
Lakeway III
0000 X. Xxxxxxxx Xxxx.
Xxxxx 0000
Xxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Norfolk
Greenbrier Pointe
Suite 350
0000 Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxx.
Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Oklahoma City
Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxx 000
0000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxx Xx.
Xxxxxxxx Xxxx, XX 00000
Omaha
00000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxx, XX 00000-0000
Omaha Customer Service Center
00000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxx, XX 00000
Nashville Customer Service Center
0000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Orange
000 Xxx Xxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxx, XX 00000
Orange/CL
000 Xxx Xxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxx, XX 00000
Orlando
0000 Xxxxxxxx Xxx Xxxxxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Pasadena
000 X. Xxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxx 0000
Xxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Pensacola
00 X. Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxxxx, Xx 00000
Philadelphia
Bay Colony Executive Park
Suite 100
000 X. Xxxxxxxxxx Xx.
Xxxxx, XX 00000
Philadelphia/CL
000 X. Xxxxx Xx.
Xxxxx 000
Xxxx xx Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
Phoenix
0000 Xxxxx 00xx Xxxxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
Pittsburgh
Xxxxxx Xxxxx 0
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxx
0xx Xxxxx, Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Portland, ME
0000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Portland, OR
00000 X.X. Xxxxxxxxx Xxxx.
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Raleigh
0000 Xxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
Richmond
000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Roanoke
0000 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxx.
Xxxxx 0
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
Sacramento
0000 Xxxxxxx Xxxx Xx.
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Saginaw
0000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xx.
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
Salt Lake City
000 X. 0000 X.
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxx, XX 00000
Santa Xxx Central Collections
000 Xxx Xxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxx, XX 00000
San Antonio
000 X.X. Xxxx 000
Xxxxx 000
Xxx Xxxxxxx, XX 00000-0000
San Bernardino
0000 Xxxxxx Xxxx Xxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxxx, XX 00000
San Diego
0000 Xxxxxx Xxx Xxx X.
Xxxxx 0000
Xxx Xxxxx, XX 00000
San Francisco
0000 Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxx Xx.
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
San Francisco/CL
0000 Xxxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxxxxx XX 00000
San Xxxx
0000 XxXxxxxx Xxxx.
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Savannah
0000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Seattle
00000 X.X. 00xx Xxxxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxxx, XX 00000-0000
Shreveport
Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxx 000
0000 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
South Bay
000 X. Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx
Xxxxx 0000
Xxxx Xxxxx, XX 00000
South Bend
0000 Xxxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Spokane
000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xx.
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000-0000
Springfield
0000 X. Xxxxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
St. Louis
0000 Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxxxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxx Xxxx, XX 00000
St. Xxxx
0000 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Syracuse
0000 Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxx.
XxXxxx, XX 00000
Tampa
Lincoln Pointe, Suite 800
0000 Xxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxx, XX 00000
Tampa Service Center
0000 Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxx, XX 00000
Terre Haute
0000 X. Xxxxxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxx Xxxxx, XX 00000
Tulsa
0000 Xxxx 00xx Xx.
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxx, XX 00000
Tyler
000 Xxxx XX Xxxx 000
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxx, XX 00000
Ventura
000 Xxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
Washington, D.C.
0000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxx.
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Westchester
000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Western Carolina
000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Wichita
0000 Xxxx 00xx
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
Schedule B-2
Location of Receivable Files
at Third Party Custodians for Ford Credit
Security Archives
0000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
IKON Business Imaging Services
00000 Xxxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
APPENDIX A
Definitions and Usage
