ADVISORY AGREEMENT
ALLIANCEBERNSTEIN MUNICIPAL INCOME FUND, INC.
0000 Xxxxxx xx xxx Xxxxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
July 22, 1992, as amended
September 7, 2004
Alliance Capital Management L.P.
0000 Xxxxxx xx xxx Xxxxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Dear Sirs:
We herewith confirm our agreement with you as follows:
1. We are an open-end, diversified management investment
company registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the
"Act"). We are currently authorized to issue five classes of
shares and our Directors are authorized to reclassify and issue
any unissued shares to any number of additional classes or series
(Portfolios) each having its own investment objective, policies
and restrictions, all as more fully described in the Prospectus
and the Statement of Additional Information constituting parts of
the Registration Statement filed on our behalf under the
Securities Act of 1933 and the Act. We are engaged in the
business of investing and reinvesting our assets in securities of
the type and in accordance with the limitations specified in our
Articles of Incorporation, By-Laws, Registration Statement filed
with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities
Act of 1933 and the Act, and any representations made in our
Prospectus and Statement of Additional Information, all in such
manner and to such extent as may from time to time be authorized
by our Directors. We enclose copies of the documents listed above
and will from time to time furnish you with any amendments
thereof.
2. (a) We hereby employ you to manage the investment and
reinvestment of the assets in each of our Portfolios as above
specified, and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing,
to provide management and other services specified below.
(b) You will make decisions with respect to all
purchases and sales of securities in each of our Portfolios. To
carry out such decisions, you are hereby authorized, as our agent
and attorney-in-fact, for our account and at our risk and in our
name, to place orders for the investment and reinvestment of our
assets. In all purchases, sales and other transactions in
securities in each of our Portfolios you are authorized to
exercise full discretion and act for us in the same manner and
with the same force and effect as we might or could do with
respect to such purchases, sales or other transactions, as well
as with respect to all other things necessary or incidental to
the furtherance or conduct of such purchases, sales or other
transactions.
(c) You will report to our Directors at each meeting
thereof all changes in each Portfolio since the prior report, and
will also keep us in touch with important developments affecting
any Portfolio and on your own initiative will furnish us from
time to time with such information as you may believe appropriate
for this purpose, whether concerning the individual companies
whose securities are included in our Portfolios, the industries
in which they engage, or the conditions prevailing in the economy
generally. You will also furnish us with such statistical and
analytical information with respect to securities in each of our
Portfolios as you may believe appropriate or as we reasonably may
request. In making such purchases and sales of securities, you
will bear in mind the policies set from time to time by our
Directors as well as the limitations imposed by our Articles of
Incorporation and our Registration Statement under the Act and
the Securities Act of 1933, the limitations in the Act and of the
Internal Revenue Code in respect of regulated investment
companies and the investment objective, policies and restrictions
for each, of our Portfolios.
(d) It is understood that you will from time to time
employ or associate with yourselves such persons as you believe
to be particularly fitted to assist you in the execution of your
duties hereunder, the cost of performance of such duties to be
borne and paid by you. No obligation may be incurred on our
behalf in any such respect. During the continuance of this
agreement and at our request you will provide to us persons
satisfactory to our Directors to serve as our officers. You or
your affiliates will also provide persons, who may be our
officers, to render such clerical, accounting and other services
to us as we may from time to time request of you. Such personnel
may be employees of you or your affiliates. We will pay to you or
your affiliates the cost of such personnel for rendering such
services to us at such rates as shall from time to time be agreed
upon between us, provided that all time devoted to the investment
or reinvestment of securities in each of our Portfolios shall be
for your account. Nothing contained herein shall be construed to
restrict our right to hire our own employees or to contract for
services to be performed by third parties. Furthermore, you or
your affiliates (other than us) shall furnish us without charge
with such management supervision and assistance and such office
facilities as you may believe appropriate or as we may reasonably
request subject to the requirements of any regulatory authority
to which you may be subject. You or your affiliates (other than
us) shall also be responsible for the payment of any expenses
incurred in promoting the sale of our shares (other than the
portion of the promotional expenses to be borne by us in
accordance with an effective plan pursuant to Rule 12b-1 under
the Act and the costs of printing our prospectuses and other
reports to shareholders and fees related to registration with the
Securities and Exchange Commission and with state regulatory
authorities).
3. It is further agreed that you shall be responsible for
the portion of the net expenses of each of our Portfolios (except
interest, taxes, brokerage, distribution services fees paid in
accordance with an effective plan pursuant to Rule 12b-1 under
the Act, and extraordinary expenses, all to the extent permitted
by applicable state law and regulation) incurred by us during
each of our fiscal years or portion thereof that this agreement
is in effect between us which, as to a Portfolio, in any such
year exceeds the limits applicable to such Portfolio under the
laws or regulations of any state in which our shares are
qualified for sale (reduced pro rata for any portion of less than
one year). We hereby confirm that, subject to the foregoing, we
shall be responsible and hereby assume the obligation for payment
of all our other expenses including: (a) payment of the fee
payable to you under paragraph (5) hereof; (b) custody, transfer
and dividend disbursing expenses; (c) fees of trustees who are
not your affiliated persons; (d) legal and auditing expenses; (e)
clerical, accounting and other office costs; (f) the cost of
personnel providing services to us, as provided in subparagraph
(d) of paragraph 2 above; (g) costs of printing our prospectuses
and shareholder reports; (h) cost of maintenance of our existence
as a trust; (i) interest charges, taxes, brokerage fees and
commissions; (j) costs of stationery and supplies; (k) expenses
and fees related to registration and filing with the Securities
and Exchange Commission and with state regulatory authorities;
and (1) such promotional expenses as may be contemplated by an
effective plan pursuant to Rule 12b-1 under the Act provided,
however, that our payment of such promotional expenses shall be
in the amount, and in accordance with the procedures, set forth
in such plan.
4. We shall expect of you, and you will give us the benefit
of, your best judgment and efforts in rendering these services to
us, and we agree as an inducement to your undertaking these
services that you shall not be liable hereunder for any mistake
of judgment or in any event whatsoever, except for lack of good
faith, provided that nothing herein shall be deemed to protect,
or purport to protect, you against any liability to us or to our
security holders to which you would otherwise be subject by
reason of willful misfeasance, bad faith or gross negligence in
the performance of your duties hereunder, or by reason of your
reckless disregard or your obligations and duties hereunder.
5. In consideration of the foregoing we will pay you at the
Applicable Annual Rate next described. The Applicable Annual Rate
shall be .45 of 1.00% of the first $2.5 billion, .40 of 1.00% of
the excess over $2.5 billion up to $5 billion and .35 of 1.00% of
the excess over $5 billion of the average daily value of the net
assets of each Portfolio. Such fee shall be accrued by us daily
and shall be payable in arrears on the last day of each calendar
month for services performed hereunder during such month. Your
reimbursement, if any, of our expenses as provided in paragraph 3
hereof, shall be estimated and paid to us monthly in arrears, at
the same time as our payment to you for such month. Payment of
the advisory fee will be reduced or postponed, if necessary, with
any adjustments made after the end of the year.
6. This agreement shall become effective on the date hereof
and shall remain in effect with respect to each Portfolio for
successive twelve-month periods (computed from each October 1)
with respect to each such Portfolio provided that such
continuance is specifically approved at least annually by our
Directors or by a majority vote of the holders of the outstanding
voting securities (as defined in the Act) of such Portfolio, and,
in either case, by a majority of our Directors who are not
parties to this agreement or interested persons, as defined in
the Act, of any such party (other than as directors of the Fund)
provided further, however, that if the continuation of this
agreement is not approved as to a Portfolio, you may continue to
render to such Portfolio the services described herein in the
manner and to the extent permitted by the Act and the rules and
regulations thereunder. Upon the effectiveness of this agreement,
it shall supersede all previous agreements between us covering
the subject matter hereof. This agreement may be terminated with
respect to any Portfolio at any time, without the payment of any
penalty, by vote of a majority of the outstanding voting
securities (as so defined) of such Portfolio, or by a vote of a
majority of our Directors on sixty days' written notice to you,
or by you with respect to any Portfolio on sixty days' written
notice to us.
7. This agreement may not be transferred, assigned, sold or
in any manner hypothecated or pledged by you and this agreement
shall terminate automatically in the event of any such transfer,
assignment, sale, hypothecation or pledge by you. The terms
"transfer", "assignment" and "sale" as used in this paragraph
shall have the meanings ascribed thereto by governing law and any
interpretation thereof contained in rules or regulations
promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission thereunder.
8. (a) Except to the extent necessary to perform your
obligations hereunder, nothing herein shall be deemed to limit or
restrict your right, or the right of any of your employees, or
any of the Directors of Alliance Capital Management Corporation,
general partner, who may also be a director, officer or employee
of ours, or persons otherwise affiliated with us (within the
meaning of the Act) to engage in any other business or to devote
time and attention to the management or other aspects of any
other business, whether of a similar or dissimilar nature, or to
render services of any kind to any other trust, corporation,
firm, individual or association.
(b) You will notify us of any change in the general
partners of your partnership within a reasonable time after such
change.
If the foregoing is in accordance with your
understanding, will you kindly so indicate by signing and
returning to us the enclosed copy hereof.
Very truly yours,
AllianceBernstein Municipal
Income Fund, Inc.
By: /s/ Xxxx X. Xxxxxx
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Name: Xxxx X. Xxxxxx
Title: Secretary
Accepted: As of July 22, 1992, as amended September 7, 2004
Alliance Capital Management L.P.
By: Alliance Capital Management Corporation,
general partner
By: /s/ Xxxx X. Xxxxx
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Name: Xxxx X. Xxxxx
Title: Executive Vice President
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