AMENDED AND RESTATED
TRUST AGREEMENT
between
FIRST MERCHANTS AUTO RECEIVABLES CORPORATION II,
as Depositor,
and
CHASE MANHATTAN BANK DELAWARE,
as Owner Trustee
Dated as of December 1, 1996
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLE I
Definitions
SECTION 1.01.Capitalized Terms 1
SECTION 1.02.Other Definitional Provisions 4
ARTICLE II
Organization
SECTION 0.00.Xxxx 4
SECTION 0.00.Xxxxxx 4
SECTION 2.03.Purposes and Powers 4
SECTION 2.04.Appointment of Owner Trustee 5
SECTION 2.05.Initial Capital Contribution of Owner Trust Estate 5
SECTION 2.06.Declaration of Trust 5
SECTION 2.07.Liability of the Owners 6
SECTION 2.08.Title to Trust Property 6
SECTION 2.09.Situs of Trust 6
SECTION 2.10.Representations and Warranties of the Depositor 6
SECTION 2.11.Maintenance of the Demand Note 7
SECTION 2.12.Federal Income Tax Allocations 7
SECTION 2.13.Check-The-Box Regulations. 8
ARTICLE III
Trust Certificates and Transfer of Interests
SECTION 3.01.Initial Ownership 8
SECTION 3.02.The Trust Certificates 8
SECTION 3.03.Authentication of Trust Certificates 8
SECTION 3.04.Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates 8
SECTION 3.05.Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Trust Certificates 9
SECTION 3.06.Persons Deemed Owners 9
SECTION 3.07.Access to List of Certificateholders' Names and Addresses 9
SECTION 3.08.Maintenance of Office or Agency 10
SECTION 3.09.Appointment of Paying Agent 10
SECTION 3.10.Ownership by Depositor of Trust Certificates 10
SECTION 3.11.Book-Entry Trust Certificates 10
SECTION 3.12.Notices to Clearing Agency 11
SECTION 3.13.Definitive Trust Certificates 11
ARTICLE IV
Actions by Owner Trustee
SECTION 4.01.Prior Notice with Respect to Certain Matters 12
SECTION 4.02.Action by Owners with Respect to Certain Matters 12
SECTION 4.03.Action by Owners with Respect to Bankruptcy 12
SECTION 4.04.Restrictions on Owners' Power 13
SECTION 4.05.Majority Control 13
ARTICLE V
Application of Trust Funds; Certain Duties
SECTION 5.01.Establishment of Trust Account 13
SECTION 5.02.Application of Trust Funds 13
SECTION 5.03.Method of Payment 14
SECTION 0.00.Xx Segregation of Moneys; No Interest. 14
SECTION 5.05.Accounting and Reports to the Noteholders, Owners, the Internal
Revenue Service and Others 14
SECTION 5.06.Signature on Returns; Tax Matters Partner 14
ARTICLE VI
SECTION 6.01.General Authority 14
SECTION 6.02.General Duties 15
SECTION 6.03.Action upon Instruction 15
SECTION 0.00.Xx Duties Except as Specified in this Agreement or in
Instructions 15
SECTION 0.00.Xx Action Except Under Specified Documents or Instructions 16
SECTION 6.06.Restrictions 16
ARTICLE VII
Concerning the Owner Trustee
SECTION 7.01.Acceptance of Trusts and Duties 16
SECTION 7.02.Furnishing of Documents 17
SECTION 7.03.Representations and Warranties 17
SECTION 0.00.Xxxxxxxx; Advice of Counsel 17
SECTION 7.05.Not Acting in Individual Capacity 18
SECTION 7.06.Owner Trustee Not Liable for Trust Certificates or for
Receivables 18
SECTION 7.07.Owner Trustee May Own Trust Certificates and Notes 18
SECTION 7.08.Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Sales Finance Act Licenses 18
ARTICLE VIII
Compensation of Owner Trustee
SECTION 8.01.Owner Trustee's Fees and Expenses 19
SECTION 8.02.Indemnification 19
SECTION 8.03.Payments to the Owner Trustee 19
ARTICLE IX
Termination of Trust Agreement
SECTION 9.01.Termination of Trust Agreement 19
SECTION 9.02.Dissolution upon Bankruptcy of the Depositor 20
ARTICLE X
Successor Owner Trustees and Additional Owner Trustees
SECTION 10.01.Eligibility Requirements for Owner Trustee 21
SECTION 10.02.Resignation or Removal of Owner Trustee 21
SECTION 10.03.Successor Owner Trustee 21
SECTION 10.04.Merger or Consolidation of Owner Trustee 22
SECTION 10.05.Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee 22
ARTICLE XI
Miscellaneous
SECTION 11.01.Supplements and Amendments 23
SECTION 00.00.Xx Legal Title to Owner Trust Estate in Owners 24
SECTION 11.03.Limitations on Rights of Others 24
SECTION 11.04.Notices 24
SECTION 11.05.Severability 24
SECTION 11.06.Separate Counterparts 25
SECTION 11.07.Successors and Assigns 25
SECTION 11.08.Covenants of the Depositor 25
SECTION 00.00.Xx Petition 25
SECTION 00.00.Xx Recourse 25
SECTION 11.11.Headings 25
SECTION 11.12.GOVERNING LAW 25
SECTION 00.00.Xxxxx Certificate Transfer Restrictions 25
AMENDED AND RESTATED TRUST AGREEMENT dated as of December 1, 1996,
between
FIRST MERCHANTS AUTO RECEIVABLES CORPORATION II, a Delaware corporation, as
depositor (the "Depositor"), and CHASE MANHATTAN BANK DELAWARE, a Delaware
banking corporation, as owner trustee (the "Owner Trustee").
WHEREAS, the Depositor and the Owner Trustee entered into a Trust
Agreement dated as of December 5, 1996 (the "Trust Agreement");
WHEREAS, the Trust Agreement is being amended and restated as of
December 1, 1996;
NOW, THEREFORE, the Depositor and the Owner Trustee hereby agree as
follows:
ARTICLE I
Definitions
SECTION 1.01. Capitalized Terms. For all purposes of this
Agreement, the following terms shall have the meanings set forth below:
"Administration Agreement" shall mean the Administration Agreement dated
as of December 1, 1996, among the Trust, the Indenture Trustee and First
Merchants Acceptance Corporation, as Administrator.
"Agreement" shall mean this Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, as the
same may be amended and supplemented from time to time.
"Benefit Plan" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section
11.13.
"Book-Entry Trust Certificate" shall mean a beneficial interest in the
Trust Certificates, the ownership and transfer of which shall be made through
book-entries by a Clearing Agency as described in Section 3.11.
"Business Trust Statute" shall mean Chapter 38 of Title 12 of the
Delaware Code, 12 Del. Code § 3801 et seq., as the same may be amended
from time to time.
"Certificate Balance" shall mean the Initial Certificate Balance reduced
by all amounts allocable to principal previously distributed to
Certificateholders.
"Certificate Depository Agreement" shall mean the agreement dated
December 18, 1996, among the Trust, the Owner Trustee, the Administrator and
The Depository Trust Company, as the initial Clearing Agency, substantially
in the form attached hereto as Exhibit C, relating to the Trust Certificates,
as the same may be amended and supplemented from time to time.
"Certificate Distribution Account" shall have the meaning assigned to
such term in Section 5.01.
"Certificates Policy" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in
the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
"Certificate of Trust" shall mean the Certificate of Trust in the form
of Exhibit B filed for the Trust pursuant to Section 3810(a) of the Business
Trust Statute.
"Certificate Owner" shall mean, with respect to a Book-Entry Trust
Certificate, a Person who is the beneficial owner of such Book-Entry Trust
Certificate, as reflected on the books of the Clearing Agency or on the books
of a Person maintaining an account with such Clearing Agency (directly as a
Clearing Agency Participant or as an indirect participant, in each case in
accordance with the rules of such Clearing Agency).
"Certificate Register" and "Certificate Registrar" shall mean the
register mentioned in and the registrar appointed pursuant to Section 3.04.
"Certificateholder" or "Holder" shall mean a Person in whose name a
Trust Certificate is registered.
"Class A-1 Notes" shall mean the Floating Rate Asset Backed Notes, Class
A-1 issued pursuant to the Indenture.
"Class A-2 Notes" shall mean the 6.15% Asset Backed Notes, Class A-2
issued pursuant to the Indenture.
"Clearing Agency" shall mean an organization registered as a "clearing
agency" pursuant to Section 17A of the Exchange Act.
"Clearing Agency Participant" shall mean a broker, dealer, bank, other
financial institution or other Person for whom from time to time a Clearing
Agency effects book-entry transfers and pledges of securities deposited with
the Clearing Agency.
"Code" shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and
Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder.
"Corporate Trust Office" shall mean, with respect to the Owner Trustee,
the principal corporate trust office of the Owner Trustee located at 0000
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000, or at such other address in the
State of Delaware as the Owner Trustee may designate by notice to the Owners
and the Depositor, or the principal corporate trust office of any successor
Owner Trustee at the address designated by such successor Owner Trustee by
notice to the Owners and the Depositor.
"Definitive Trust Certificates" shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 3.11.
"Demand Note" shall mean the Demand Note dated May 20, 1996 from First
Merchants Acceptance Corporation to the Depositor.
"Depositor" shall mean First Merchants Auto Receivables Corporation II
in its capacity as depositor hereunder.
"ERISA" shall mean the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974,
as amended.
"Exchange Act" shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended.
"Expenses" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 8.02.
"Indemnified Parties" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 8.02.
"Indenture" shall mean the Indenture dated as of December 1, 1996
between
the Trust and Xxxxxx Trust and Savings Bank, as Indenture Trustee.
"Initial Certificate Balance" shall mean $5,787,000.
"Indemnification Agreement" shall mean the Indemnification Agreement
dated as of December 1, 1996 among the Security Insurer, the Issuer and
Salomon Brothers Inc.
"Insurance Documents" shall mean the Insurance Agreement, the
Indemnification Agreement and the Premium Letter.
"Note Depository Agreement" shall mean the agreement dated December 18,
1996 among the Trust, the Indenture Trustee, the Administrator and The
Depository Trust Company, as the initial Clearing Agency, relating to the
Class A-1 Notes and the Class A-2 Notes, as the same may be amended and
supplemented from time to time.
"Owner" shall mean each Holder of a Trust Certificate.
"Owner Trust Estate" shall mean all right, title and interest of the
Trust in and to the property and rights assigned to the Trust pursuant to
Article II of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, all funds on deposit from
time to time in the Trust Accounts and the Certificate Distribution Account and
all other property of the Trust from time to time, including any rights of the
Owner Trustee and the Trust pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement and
the Administration Agreement.
"Owner Trustee" shall mean Chase Manhattan Bank Delaware, a Delaware
banking corporation, not in its individual capacity but solely as owner
trustee under this Agreement, and any successor Owner Trustee hereunder.
"Paying Agent" shall mean any paying agent or co-paying agent appointed
pursuant to Section 3.09 and shall initially be The Chase Manhattan Bank.
"Person" shall mean any individual, corporation, estate, partnership,
joint venture, association, joint stock company, limited liability company,
trust (including any beneficiary thereof), unincorporated organization, or
government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.
"Premium Letter" shall mean the letter agreement dated December 18, 1996
among the Security Insurer, First Merchants Acceptance Corporation, the
Depositor and the Issuer.
"Record Date" shall mean, with respect to any Distribution Date, the day
immediately preceding such Distribution Date or, if Definitive Trust
Certificates are issued pursuant to Section 3.13, the last day of the month
preceding such Distribution Date.
"Sale and Servicing Agreement" shall mean the Sale and Servicing
Agreement dated as of December 1, 1996, among the Trust, as issuer, the
Depositor, as seller, First Merchants Acceptance Corporation, as servicer,
and Xxxxxx Trust and Savings Bank, as Indenture Trustee, Collateral Agent and
Backup Servicer, as the same may be amended or supplemented from time to time.
"Secretary of State" shall mean the Secretary of State of the State of
Delaware.
"Treasury Regulations" shall mean regulations, including proposed or
temporary Regulations, promulgated under the Code. References herein to
specific provisions of proposed or temporary regulations shall include
analogous provisions of final Treasury Regulations or other successor
Treasury
Regulations.
"Trust" shall mean the trust established by this Agreement.
"Trust Certificate" shall mean a certificate evidencing the beneficial
interest of an Owner in the Trust, substantially in the form attached hereto
as Exhibit A.
"Underwriter" shall mean each underwriter named in and party to the
Underwriting Agreement dated December 10, 1996 with the Depositor, pursuant
to which the Trust Certificates will be offered publicly.
SECTION 1.02. Other Definitional Provisions. (a) Capitalized
terms used and not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them
in the Sale and Servicing Agreement or, if not defined therein, in the
Indenture.
(b) All terms defined in this Agreement shall have the defined
meanings when used in any certificate or other document made or delivered
pursuant hereto unless otherwise defined therein.
(c) As used in this Agreement and in any certificate or other
document made or delivered pursuant hereto or thereto, accounting terms not
defined in this Agreement or in any such certificate or other document, and
accounting terms partly defined in this Agreement or in any such certificate
or other document to the extent not defined, shall have the respective
meanings given to them under generally accepted accounting principles. To
the extent that the definitions of accounting terms in this Agreement or in any
such certificate or other document are inconsistent with the meanings of such
terms under generally accepted accounting principles, the definitions
contained in this Agreement or in any such certificate or other document
shall control.
(d) The words "hereof," "herein," "hereunder" and words of similar
import when used in this Agreement shall refer to this Agreement as a whole
and not to any particular provision of this Agreement; Section and Exhibit
references contained in this Agreement are references to Sections and
Exhibits in or to this Agreement unless otherwise specified; and the term
"including" shall mean "including without limitation".
(e) The definitions contained in this Agreement are applicable to
the singular and plural forms of such terms and to the masculine, feminine and
neuter genders of such terms.
(f) Any agreement, instrument or statute defined or referred to
herein or in any instrument or certificate delivered in connection herewith
means such agreement, instrument or statute as from time to time amended,
modified or supplemented and includes (in the case of agreements or
instruments) references to all attachments thereto and instruments
incorporated therein; references to a Person are also to its permitted
successors and assigns.
ARTICLE II
Organization
SECTION 2.01. Name. The Trust created hereby shall be known as
"First Merchants Auto Trust 1996-C," in which name the Owner Trustee may
conduct the business of the Trust, make and execute contracts and other
instruments on behalf of the Trust and xxx and be sued.
SECTION 2.02. Office. The office of the Trust shall be in care of
the Owner Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office or at such other address in
Delaware as the Owner Trustee may designate by written notice to the Owners
and the Depositor.
SECTION 2.03. Purposes and Powers. (a) The purpose of the Trust
is to engage in the following activities:
(i) to issue the Notes pursuant to the Indenture and the Trust
Certificates pursuant to this Agreement and to sell the Notes and the Trust
Certificates;
(ii) with the proceeds of the sale of the Notes and the Trust
Certificates, to purchase the Receivables, to fund the Pre-Funding Account
and the Capitalized Interest Account, to pay the organizational, start-up and
transactional expenses of the Trust and to pay the balance of the proceeds to
the Depositor pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement;
(iii) to assign, grant, transfer, pledge, mortgage and convey the
Trust Estate pursuant to the Indenture and to hold, manage and distribute to
the Owners pursuant to the terms of the Sale and Servicing Agreement any
portion of the Trust Estate released from the Lien of, and remitted to the
Trust pursuant to, the Indenture;
(iv) to hold the Certificates Policy, to make claims thereunder and
to appoint the Indenture Trustee as its agent with respect to payments made
thereunder.
(v) to enter into and perform its obligations under the Basic
Documents to which it is to be a party;
(vi) to engage in those activities, including entering into
agreements, that are necessary, suitable or convenient to accomplish the
foregoing or are incidental thereto or connected therewith; and
(vii) subject to compliance with the Basic Documents, to engage in
such other activities as may be required in connection with conservation of
the Owner Trust Estate and the making of distributions to the Owners and the
Noteholders.
The Trust is hereby authorized to engage in the foregoing activities. The
Trust shall not engage in any activity other than in connection with the
foregoing or other than as required or authorized by the terms of this
Agreement or the Basic Documents.
SECTION 2.04. Appointment of Owner Trustee. The Depositor hereby
appoints the Owner Trustee as trustee of the Trust effective as of the date
hereof, to have all the rights, powers and duties set forth herein.
SECTION 2.05. Initial Capital Contribution of Owner Trust Estate.
The Depositor hereby sells, assigns, transfers, conveys and sets over to the
Owner Trustee, as of the date hereof, the sum of $1. The Owner Trustee
hereby acknowledges receipt in trust from the Depositor, as of the date hereof,
of the foregoing contribution, which shall constitute the initial Owner Trust
Estate and shall be deposited in the Certificate Distribution Account. The
Depositor shall pay organizational expenses of the Trust as they may arise or
shall, upon the request of the Owner Trustee, promptly reimburse the Owner
Trustee for any such expenses paid by the Owner Trustee.
SECTION 2.06. Declaration of Trust. The Owner Trustee hereby
declares that it will hold the Owner Trust Estate in trust upon and subject
to the conditions set forth herein for the use and benefit of the Owners,
subject to the obligations of the Trust under the Basic Documents. It is the
intention of the parties hereto that the Trust constitute a business trust
under the Business Trust Statute and that this Agreement constitute the
governing instrument of such business trust. It is the intention of the
parties hereto that, solely for income and franchise tax purposes, the Trust
shall be treated as a partnership, with the assets of the partnership being
the Receivables, the Eligible Investment Receivables and other assets held by
the Trust, the partners of the partnership being the Certificateholders
(including the Depositor), and the Notes being debt of the partnership. The
parties agree that, unless otherwise required by appropriate tax authorities,
the Trust will file or cause to be filed annual or other necessary returns,
reports and other forms consistent with the characterization of the Trust as
a partnership for such tax purposes. Effective as of the date hereof, the
Owner Trustee shall have all rights, powers and duties set forth herein and in
the Business Trust Statute with respect to accomplishing the purposes of the
Trust.
SECTION 2.07. Liability of the Owners. (a) The Depositor shall be
liable directly to and will indemnify any injured party for all losses,
claims, damages, liabilities and expenses of the Trust (including Expenses,
to the extent not paid out of the Owner Trust Estate) to the extent that the
Depositor would be liable if the Trust were a partnership under the Delaware
Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act in which the Depositor were a general
partner; provided, however, that the Depositor shall not be liable for any
losses incurred by a Certificateholder in the capacity of an investor in the
Trust Certificates, or by a Noteholder in the capacity of an investor in the
Notes. In addition, any third party creditors of the Trust (other than in
connection with the obligations described in the preceding sentence for which
the Depositor shall not be liable) shall be deemed third party beneficiaries
of this paragraph and paragraph (c) below. The obligations of the Depositor
under this paragraph and paragraph (c) below shall be evidenced by the Trust
Certificates described in Section 3.10, which for purposes of the Business
Trust Statute shall be deemed to be a separate class of Trust Certificates
from all other Trust Certificates issued by the Trust; provided that the
rights and obligations evidenced by all Trust Certificates, regardless of
class, shall, except as provided in this Section, be identical.
(b) No Owner, other than to the extent set forth in paragraph (a),
shall have any personal liability for any liability or obligation of the
Trust.
SECTION 2.08. Title to Trust Property. Legal title to all the
Owner Trust Estate shall be vested at all times in the Trust as a separate
legal entity except where applicable law in any jurisdiction requires title to
any part of the Owner Trust Estate to be vested in a trustee or trustees, in
which case title shall be deemed to be vested in the Owner Trustee, a co-
trustee and/or a separate trustee, as the case may be.
SECTION 2.09. Situs of Trust. The Trust will be located and
administered in the State of Delaware. All bank accounts maintained by the
Owner Trustee on behalf of the Trust shall be located in the State of
Delaware or the State of New York. The Trust shall not have any employees in
any state other than Delaware; provided, however, that nothing herein shall
restrict or prohibit the Owner Trustee from having employees within or without
the State of Delaware. Payments will be received by the Trust only in Delaware
or New York, and payments will be made by the Trust only from Delaware or New
York. The only office of the Trust will be at the Corporate Trust Office in
Delaware.
SECTION 2.10. Representations and Warranties of the Depositor.
The Depositor hereby represents and warrants to the Owner Trustee that:
(a) The Depositor is duly organized and validly existing as a
corporation 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 are currently owned and such business is presently conducted.
(b) The Depositor is duly qualified to do business as a foreign
corporation in good standing and has obtained all necessary licenses and
approvals in all jurisdictions in which the ownership or lease of its
property
or the conduct of its business shall require such qualifications.
(c) The Depositor has the power and authority to execute and deliver
this Agreement and to carry out its terms; the Depositor has full power and
authority to sell and assign the property to be sold and assigned to and
deposited with the Trust and the Depositor has duly authorized such sale and
assignment and deposit to the Trust by all necessary corporate action; and
the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement have been duly
authorized by the Depositor by all necessary corporate action.
(d) The consummation of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement and the fulfillment of the terms hereof do not conflict with,
result in any breach of any of the terms and provisions of, or constitute
(with or without notice or lapse of time) a default under, the certificate of
incorporation or bylaws of the Depositor, or any indenture, agreement or
other instrument to which the Depositor is a party or by which it is bound; nor
result in the creation or imposition of any Lien upon any of its properties
pursuant to the terms of any such indenture, agreement or other instrument
(other than pursuant to the Basic Documents); nor violate any law or, to the
best of the Depositor's knowledge, any order, rule or regulation applicable
to the Depositor of any court or of any federal or state regulatory body,
administrative agency or other governmental instrumentality having
jurisdiction over the Depositor or its properties.
(e) There are no proceedings or investigations pending or threatened
before any court, regulatory body, administrative agency or other
governmental instrumentality having jurisdiction over the Depositor or its
properties: (A) asserting the invalidity of this Agreement, (B) seeking to
prevent the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement or (C) seeking any determination or ruling that might materially and
adversely affect the performance by the Depositor of its obligations under, or
the validity or enforceability of, this Agreement.
SECTION 2.11. Maintenance of the Demand Note. To the fullest
extent permitted by applicable law, the Depositor agrees that it shall not
sell, convey, pledge, transfer or otherwise dispose of the Demand Note.
SECTION 2.12. Federal Income Tax Allocations. Net income of the
Trust for any month as determined for federal income tax purposes (and each
item of income, gain, loss and deduction entering into the computation
thereof) shall be allocated:
(a) among the Certificate Owners as of the first day following the
end of such month, in proportion to their ownership of principal amount of
Trust Certificates on such date, net income in an amount up to the sum of (i)
the Certificateholders' Monthly Interest Distributable Amount for such month,
(ii) interest on the excess, if any, of the Certificateholders' Interest
Distributable Amount for the preceding Distribution Date over the amount in
respect of interest that is actually deposited in the Certificate
Distribution Account on such preceding Distribution Date, to the extent
permitted by law, at the Pass-Through Rate from such preceding Distribution Date
through the current Distribution Date, (iii) the portion of the market discount
on the Receivables accrued during such month that is allocable to the excess,
if any, of the initial aggregate principal amount of the Trust Certificates
over their initial aggregate issue price, and (iv) any other amounts of income
payable to the Certificateholders for such month; such sum to be reduced by any
amortization by the Trust of premium on Receivables that corresponds to any
excess of the issue price of Certificates over their principal amount; and
(b) to the Depositor, to the extent of any remaining net income.
If the net income of the Trust for any month is insufficient for the
allocations described in clause (a) above, subsequent net income shall first
be allocated to make up such shortfall before being allocated as provided in
the preceding sentence. Net losses of the Trust, if any, for any month as
determined for federal income tax purposes (and each item of income, gain,
loss and deduction entering into the computation thereof) shall be allocated
to the Depositor to the extent the Depositor is reasonably expected to bear
the economic burden of such net losses, and any remaining net losses shall be
allocated among the Certificate Owners as of the first Record Date following
the end of such month in proportion to their ownership of principal amount of
Trust Certificates on such Record Date. The Depositor is authorized to
modify the allocations in this paragraph if necessary or appropriate, in its
sole discretion, for the allocations to fairly reflect the economic income,
gain or loss to the Depositor or to the Certificate Owners, or as otherwise
required by the Code.
SECTION 2.13. Check-The-Box Regulations. If Treasury Regulations
§ 301.7701-1 through § 301.7701-3 are amended such that the Trust
would not be classified as an association taxable as a corporation if the
requirements of Sections 2.07(a), 2.11 and 9.02 hereof (collectively, the
"Partnership Qualification Provisions") were no longer applicable (such an
amendment, a "Tax Characterization Amendment"), the Partnership Qualification
Provisions shall no longer be applicable or part of this Agreement; provided,
however, that the Partnership Qualification Provisions shall no longer be
applicable or part of this Agreement only if the Owner Trustee first obtains
an Opinion of Counsel stating that (i) a Tax Characterization Amendment has
been adopted and (ii) the deletion of the Partnership Qualification
Provisions will not cause the Trust to be classified as an association taxable
as a corporation.
ARTICLE III
Trust Certificates and Transfer of Interests
SECTION 3.01. Initial Ownership. Upon the formation of the Trust
by the contribution by the Depositor pursuant to Section 2.05 and until the
issuance of the Trust Certificates, the Depositor shall be the sole
beneficiary of the Trust.
SECTION 3.02. The Trust Certificates. The Trust Certificates shall
be issued in minimum denominations of $20,000 and in integral multiples of
$1,000 in excess thereof; provided, however, that the Trust Certificates
issued to the Depositor pursuant to Section 3.10 may be issued in such
denomination as required to include any residual amount. The Trust
Certificates shall be executed on behalf of the Trust by manual or facsimile
signature of an authorized officer of the Owner Trustee. Trust Certificates
bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were, at the
time when such signatures shall have been affixed, authorized to sign on
behalf of the Trust, shall be validly issued and entitled to the benefit of
this Agreement, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them shall
have ceased to be so authorized prior to the authentication and delivery of
such Trust Certificates or did not hold such offices at the date of
authentication and delivery of such Trust Certificates.
A transferee of a Trust Certificate shall become a Certificateholder and
shall be entitled to the rights and subject to the obligations of a
Certificateholder hereunder upon such transferee's acceptance of a Trust
Certificate duly registered in such transferee's name pursuant to Section
3.04.
SECTION 3.03. Authentication of Trust Certificates. On the Closing
Date, the Owner Trustee shall cause the Trust Certificates in an aggregate
principal amount equal to the Initial Certificate Balance to be executed on
behalf of the Trust, authenticated and delivered to or upon the written order
of the Depositor, signed by its chairman of the board, its president, any
vice president, secretary or any assistant treasurer, without further corporate
action by the Depositor, in authorized denominations. No Trust Certificate
shall entitle its Holder to any benefit under this Agreement or be valid for
any purpose unless there shall appear on such Trust Certificate a certificate
of authentication substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit A, executed
by the Owner Trustee or The Chase Manhattan Bank, as the Owner Trustee's
authenticating agent, by manual signature; such authentication shall
constitute conclusive evidence that such Trust Certificate shall have been
duly authenticated and delivered hereunder. All Trust Certificates shall be
dated the date of their authentication.
SECTION 3.04. Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust
Certificates. The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at
the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a Certificate
Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may
prescribe, the Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Trust
Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein
provided. The Chase Manhattan Bank shall be the initial Certificate Registrar.
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at
the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, the Owner Trustee
shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause The Chase Manhattan
Bank as its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of
the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates
in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of
authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the
option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other
Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount
upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or
agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of
transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer
in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly
executed by the Certificateholder or such Certificateholder's attorney duly
authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration
of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the
Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice.
No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or
exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate
Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or
governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or
exchange of Trust Certificates.
The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner
Trustee shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register
transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days
preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
SECTION 3.05. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Trust
Certificates. If (a) any mutilated Trust Certificate shall be surrendered to
the Certificate Registrar, or if the Certificate Registrar shall receive
evidence to its satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Trust
Certificate and (b) there shall be delivered to the Certificate Registrar and
the Owner Trustee such security or indemnity as may be required by them to
save each of them harmless, then in the absence of notice that such Trust
Certificate has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Owner Trustee on
behalf of the Trust shall execute and the Owner Trustee or The Chase
Manhattan Bank, as the Owner Trustee's authenticating agent, shall authenticate
and deliver, in exchange for or in lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost
or stolen Trust Certificate, a new Trust Certificate of like tenor and
denomination. In connection with the issuance of any new Trust Certificate
under this Section, the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may
require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental
charge that may be imposed in connection therewith. Any duplicate Trust
Certificate issued pursuant to this Section shall constitute conclusive evidence
of ownership in the Trust, as if originally issued, whether or not the lost,
stolen or destroyed Trust Certificate shall be found at any time.
SECTION 3.06. Persons Deemed Owners. Prior to due presentation of
a Trust Certificate for registration of transfer, the Owner Trustee, the
Certificate Registrar or any Paying Agent may treat the Person in whose name
any Trust Certificate is registered in the Certificate Register as the owner
of such Trust Certificate for the purpose of receiving distributions pursuant
to Section 5.02 and for all other purposes whatsoever, and none of the Owner
Trustee, the Certificate Registrar or any Paying Agent shall be bound by any
notice to the contrary.
SECTION 3.07. Access to List of Certificateholders' Names and
Addresses. The Owner Trustee shall furnish or cause to be furnished to the
Servicer and the Depositor, within 15 days after receipt by the Owner Trustee
of a written request therefor from the Servicer or the Depositor, a list, in
such form as the Servicer or the Depositor may reasonably require, of the
names and addresses of the Certificateholders as of the most recent Record
Date. If (i) three or more Certificateholders or (ii) one or more Holders of
Trust Certificates evidencing not less than 25% of the Certificate Balance
apply in writing to the Owner Trustee, and such application states that the
applicants desire to communicate with other Certificateholders with respect
to their rights under this Agreement or under the Trust Certificates and such
application is accompanied by a copy of the communication that such
applicants propose to transmit, then the Owner Trustee shall, within five
Business Days after the receipt of such application, afford such applicants
access during normal business hours to the current list of Certificateholders.
Each Certificateholder, by receiving and holding a Trust Certificate, shall be
deemed to have agreed not to hold any of the Depositor, the Certificate
Registrar or the Owner Trustee accountable by reason of the disclosure of its
name and address, regardless of the source from which such information was
derived.
SECTION 3.08. Maintenance of Office or Agency. The Owner Trustee
shall maintain in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York, an office
or offices or agency or agencies where Trust Certificates may be surrendered
for registration of transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or
upon the Owner Trustee in respect of the Trust Certificates and the Basic
Documents may be served. The Owner Trustee initially designates The Chase
Manhattan Bank, 00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000 as its office for
such purposes. The Owner Trustee shall give prompt written notice to the
Depositor and to the Certificateholders of any change in the location of the
Certificate Register or any such office or agency.
SECTION 3.09. Appointment of Paying Agent. The Paying Agent shall
make distributions to Certificateholders from the Certificate Distribution
Account pursuant to Section 5.02 and shall report the amounts of such
distributions to the Owner Trustee. Any Paying Agent shall have the
revocable power to withdraw funds from the Certificate Distribution Account for
the purpose of making the distributions referred to above. The Owner Trustee
may revoke such power and remove the Paying Agent if the Owner Trustee
determines in its sole discretion that the Paying Agent shall have failed to
perform its obligations under this Agreement in any material respect. The
Paying Agent initially shall be The Chase Manhattan Bank, and any co-paying
agent chosen by The Chase Manhattan Bank and acceptable to the Owner Trustee.
The Chase Manhattan Bank shall be permitted to resign as Paying Agent upon 30
days' written notice to the Owner Trustee. In the event that The Chase
Manhattan Bank shall no longer be the Paying Agent, the Owner Trustee shall
appoint a successor to act as Paying Agent (which shall be a bank or trust
company). The Owner Trustee shall cause such successor Paying Agent or any
additional Paying Agent appointed by the Owner Trustee to execute and deliver to
the Owner Trustee an instrument in which such successor Paying Agent or
additional Paying Agent shall agree with the Owner Trustee that, as Paying
Agent, such successor Paying Agent or additional Paying Agent will hold all
sums, if any, held by it for payment to the Certificateholders in trust for the
benefit of the Certificateholders entitled thereto until such sums shall be
paid to such Certificateholders. The Paying Agent shall return all unclaimed
funds to the Owner Trustee and upon removal of a Paying Agent such Paying Agent
shall also return all funds in its possession to the Owner Trustee. The
provisions of Sections 7.01, 7.03, 7.04 and 8.01 shall apply to the Owner
Trustee also in its role as Paying Agent, for so long as the Owner Trustee shall
act as Paying Agent and, to the extent applicable, to any other paying agent
appointed hereunder. Any reference in this Agreement to the Paying Agent shall
include any co-paying agent unless the context requires otherwise.
SECTION 3.10. Ownership by Depositor of Trust Certificates. The
Depositor shall on the Closing Date purchase from the Underwriter Trust
Certificates representing at least 1% of the Initial Certificate Balance and
shall thereafter retain beneficial and record ownership of Trust Certificates
representing at least 1% of the Certificate Balance. Any attempted transfer
of any Trust Certificate that would reduce such interest of the Depositor
below 1% of the Certificate Balance shall be void. The Owner Trustee shall
cause any Trust Certificate issued to the Depositor in respect of 1% of the
Certificate Balance to contain a legend stating "THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE IS
NON-TRANSFERABLE".
SECTION 3.11. Book-Entry Trust Certificates. The Trust
Certificates, upon original issuance, will be issued in the form of a
typewritten Trust Certificate or Trust Certificates representing Book-Entry
Trust Certificates, to be delivered to The Depository Trust Company, the
initial Clearing Agency, by, or on behalf of, the Trust; provided, however,
that one Definitive Trust Certificate may be issued to the Depositor pursuant
to Section 3.10. Such Trust Certificate or Trust Certificates shall
initially be registered on the Certificate Register in the name of Cede & Co.,
the nominee of the initial Clearing Agency, and no Certificate Owner will
receive a definitive Trust Certificate representing such Certificate Owner's
interest in such Trust Certificate, except as provided in Section 3.13.
Unless and until definitive, fully registered Trust Certificates (the
"Definitive Trust Certificates") have been issued to Certificate Owners pursuant
to Section 3.13:
(a) The provisions of this Section shall be in full force and effect;
(b) The Certificate Registrar and the Owner Trustee shall be
entitled to deal with the Clearing Agency for all purposes of this Agreement
(including the payment of principal of and interest on the Trust Certificates
and the giving of instructions or directions hereunder) as the sole Holder of
the Trust Certificates and shall have no obligation to the Certificate Owners;
(c) To the extent that the provisions of this Section conflict with
any other provisions of this Agreement, the provisions of this Section shall
control;
(d) The rights of Certificate Owners shall be exercised only through
the Clearing Agency and shall be limited to those established by law and
agreements between such Certificate Owners and the Clearing Agency and/or the
Clearing Agency Participants. Pursuant to the Certificate Depository
Agreement, unless and until Definitive Trust Certificates are issued pursuant
to Section 3.13, the initial Clearing Agency will make book-entry transfers
among the Clearing Agency Participants and receive and transmit payments of
principal of and interest on the Trust Certificates to such Clearing Agency
Participants; and
(e) Whenever this Agreement requires or permits actions to be taken
based upon instructions or directions of Holders of Trust Certificates
evidencing a specified percentage of the Certificate Balance, the Clearing
Agency shall be deemed to represent such percentage only to the extent that
it has received instructions to such effect from Certificate Owners and/or
Clearing Agency Participants owning or representing, respectively, such
required percentage of the beneficial interest in the Trust Certificates and
has delivered such instructions to the Owner Trustee.
SECTION 3.12. Notices to Clearing Agency. Whenever a notice or
other communication to the Certificateholders is required under this
Agreement, unless and until Definitive Trust Certificates shall have been
issued to Certificate Owners pursuant to Section 3.13, the Owner Trustee
shall give all such notices and communications specified herein to be given to
Certificateholders to the Clearing Agency, and shall have no obligations to
the Certificate Owners.
SECTION 3.13. Definitive Trust Certificates. If (i) the
Administrator advises the Owner Trustee in writing that the Clearing Agency
is
no longer willing or able to properly discharge its responsibilities with
respect to the Book-Entry Trust Certificates and the Administrator is unable
to locate a qualified successor, (ii) the Administrator at its option advises
the Owner Trustee in writing that it elects to terminate the book-entry
system through the Clearing Agency or (iii) after the occurrence of an Event of
Default or a Servicer Default, Certificate Owners representing beneficial
interests aggregating at least a majority of the Certificate Balance advise
the Clearing Agency in writing that the continuation of a book-entry system
through the Clearing Agency is no longer in the best interest of the
Certificate Owners, then the Clearing Agency shall notify all Certificate
Owners and the Owner Trustee of the occurrence of any such event and of the
availability of Definitive Trust Certificates to Certificate Owners
requesting the same. Upon surrender to the Owner Trustee of the typewritten
Trust Certificate or Trust Certificates representing the Book-Entry Trust
Certificates by the Clearing Agency, accompanied by registration
instructions, the Trust shall execute and the Owner Trustee shall authenticate
the Definitive Trust Certificates in accordance with the written instructions of
the Clearing Agency. None of the Trust, the Certificate Registrar or the
Owner Trustee shall be liable for any delay in delivery of such instructions
and may conclusively rely on, and shall be protected in relying on, such
instructions. Upon the issuance of Definitive Trust Certificates, the Owner
Trustee shall recognize the Holders of the Definitive Trust Certificates as
Certificateholders. The Definitive Trust Certificates shall be printed,
lithographed or engraved or may be produced in any other manner as is
reasonably acceptable to the Owner Trustee, as evidenced by its execution
thereof.
ARTICLE IV
Actions by Owner Trustee
SECTION 4.01. Prior Notice with Respect to Certain Matters. With
respect to the following matters, the Owner Trustee shall not take action
unless at least 30 days before the taking of such action, the Owner Trustee
shall have notified the Certificateholders and the Security Insurer (so long
as no Security Insurer Default shall have occurred and be continuing) in
writing of the proposed action and neither the Security Insurer (so long as
no
Security Insurer Default shall have occurred and be continuing) nor the
Owners shall have notified the Owner Trustee in writing prior to the 30th day
after such notice is given that such Owners or the Security Insurer (so long as
no Security Insurer Default shall have occurred and be continuing) have
withheld consent or provided alternative direction:
(a) the initiation of any claim or lawsuit by the Trust (except
claims or lawsuits brought in connection with the collection of the
Receivables) and the compromise of any action, claim or lawsuit brought by or
against the Trust (except with respect to the aforementioned claims or
lawsuits for collection of the Receivables);
(b) the election by the Trust to file an amendment to the
Certificate of Trust (unless such amendment is required to be filed under the
Business Trust Statute);
(c) the amendment of the Indenture by a supplemental indenture in
circumstances where the consent of any Noteholder is required;
(d) the amendment of the Indenture by a supplemental indenture in
circumstances where the consent of any Noteholder is not required and such
amendment would materially adversely affect the interests of the Owners;
(e) the amendment, change or modification of the Administration
Agreement, except to cure any ambiguity or to amend or supplement any
provision in a manner or add any provision that would not materially
adversely affect the interests of the Owners; or
(f) the appointment pursuant to the Indenture of a successor Note
Registrar, Paying Agent or Indenture Trustee or pursuant to this Agreement of
a successor Certificate Registrar, or the consent to the assignment by the
Note Registrar, Paying Agent or Indenture Trustee or Certificate Registrar of
its obligations under the Indenture or this Agreement, as applicable.
SECTION 4.02. Action by Owners with Respect to Certain Matters.
The Owner Trustee shall not have the power, except upon the written direction of
the Owners (with the consent of the Security Insurer (so long as no Security
Insurer Default shall have occurred and be continuing)), to (a) remove the
Administrator under the Administration Agreement pursuant to Section 8
thereof, (b) appoint a successor Administrator pursuant to Section 8 of the
Administration Agreement, (c) remove the Servicer under the Sale and
Servicing Agreement pursuant to Section 8.02 thereof, (d) amend the Sale and
Servicing Agreement pursuant to Section 10.01(b) of such document, or (e)
except as expressly provided in the Basic Documents, sell the Receivables after
the termination of the Indenture. The Owner Trustee shall take the actions
referred to in the preceding sentence only upon written instructions signed
by the Owners.
SECTION 4.03. Action by Owners with Respect to Bankruptcy. The
Owner Trustee shall not have the power to commence a voluntary proceeding in
bankruptcy relating to the Trust without the unanimous prior approval of all
Owners and the Security Insurer (so long as no Security Insurer Default shall
have occurred and be continuing) and the delivery to the Owner Trustee by
each such Owner of a certificate certifying that such Owner reasonably believes
that the Trust is insolvent.
SECTION 4.04. Restrictions on Owners' Power. The Owners shall not
direct the Owner Trustee to take or to refrain from taking any action if such
action or inaction would be contrary to any obligation of the Trust or the
Owner Trustee under this Agreement or any of the Basic Documents or would be
contrary to Section 2.03; nor shall the Owner Trustee be obligated to follow
any such direction, if given.
SECTION 4.05. Majority Control. Except as expressly provided
herein, any action that may be taken by the Owners under this Agreement may
be taken by the Holders of Trust Certificates evidencing not less than a
majority of the Certificate Balance. Except as expressly provided herein, any
written notice of the Owners delivered pursuant to this Agreement shall be
effective if signed by Holders of Trust Certificates evidencing not less than a
majority of the Certificate Balance at the time of the delivery of such notice.
ARTICLE V
Application of Trust Funds; Certain Duties
SECTION 5.01. Establishment of Trust Account. The Owner Trustee,
for the benefit of the Certificateholders, shall establish and maintain in
the name of the Trust an Eligible Deposit Account (the "Certificate
Distribution Account"), bearing a designation clearly indicating that the funds
deposited therein are held for the benefit of the Certificateholders.
The Owner Trustee shall possess all right, title and interest in all
funds on deposit from time to time in the Certificate Distribution Account
and in all proceeds thereof. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein,
the Certificate Distribution Account shall be under the sole dominion and
control of the Owner Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders. If, at
any time, the Certificate Distribution Account ceases to be an Eligible Deposit
Account, the Owner Trustee (or the Depositor on behalf of the Owner Trustee,
if the Certificate Distribution Account is not then held by the Owner Trustee
or an affiliate thereof) shall within 10 Business Days (or such longer
period, not to exceed 30 calendar days, as to which each Rating Agency may
consent) establish a new Certificate Distribution Account as an Eligible
Deposit Account and shall transfer any cash and/or any investments to such new
Certificate Distribution Account.
SECTION 5.02. Application of Trust Funds. (a) On each
Distribution Date, the Owner Trustee will distribute to Certificateholders, on a
pro rata basis, amounts deposited in the Certificate Distribution Account
pursuant to Section 5.06 and 5.12(b) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement with
respect to such Distribution Date.
(b) On each Distribution Date, the Owner Trustee shall send to each
Certificateholder the statement or statements provided to the Owner Trustee
by the Servicer pursuant to Section 5.11 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement
with respect to such Distribution Date.
(c) In the event that any withholding tax is imposed on the Trust's
payment (or allocations of income) to an Owner, such tax shall reduce the
amount otherwise distributable to the Owner in accordance with this Section.
The Owner Trustee is hereby authorized and directed to retain from amounts
otherwise distributable to the Owners sufficient funds for the payment of any
tax that is legally owed by the Trust (but such authorization shall not
prevent the Owner Trustee from contesting any such tax in appropriate
proceedings and withholding payment of such tax, if permitted by law, pending
the outcome of such proceedings). The amount of any withholding tax imposed
with respect to an Owner shall be treated as cash distributed to such Owner
at the time it is withheld by the Trust and remitted to the appropriate taxing
authority. If there is a possibility that withholding tax is payable with
respect to a distribution (such as a distribution to a non-U.S. Owner), the
Owner Trustee may in its sole discretion withhold such amounts in accordance
with this paragraph (c).
SECTION 5.03. Method of Payment. Subject to Section 9.01(c),
distributions required to be made to Certificateholders on any Distribution
Date shall be made to each Certificateholder of record on the preceding
Record Date either by wire transfer, in immediately available funds, to the
account of such Certificateholder at a bank or other entity having appropriate
facilities therefor, if such Certificateholder shall have provided to the
Certificate Registrar appropriate written instructions at least five Business
Days prior to such Distribution Date and such Holder's Trust Certificates in
the aggregate evidence a denomination of not less than $1,000,000, or, if
not, by check mailed to such Certificateholder at the address of such
Certificateholder appearing in the Certificate Register.
SECTION 5.04. No Segregation of Moneys; No Interest. Subject to
Sections 5.01 and 5.02, moneys received by the Owner Trustee hereunder need
not be segregated in any manner except to the extent required by law or the
Sale and Servicing Agreement and may be deposited under such general
conditions as may be prescribed by law, and the Owner Trustee shall not be
liable for any interest thereon.
SECTION 5.05. Accounting and Reports to the Noteholders, Owners,
the Internal Revenue Service and Others. The Owner Trustee shall (a) maintain
(or cause to be maintained) the books of the Trust on a calendar year basis and
the accrual method of accounting, (b) deliver to each Owner, as may be
required by the Code and applicable Treasury Regulations, such information as
may be required (including Schedule K-1) to enable each Owner to prepare its
federal and state income tax returns, (c) file such tax returns relating to
the Trust (including a partnership information return, IRS Form 1065) and
make such elections as from time to time may be required or appropriate under
any applicable state or federal statute or any rule or regulation thereunder so
as to maintain the Trust's characterization as a partnership for federal income
tax purposes, (d) cause such tax returns to be signed in the manner required
by law and (e) collect or cause to be collected any withholding tax as
described in and in accordance with Section 5.02(c) with respect to income or
distributions to Owners. The Owner Trustee shall elect under Section 1278 of
the Code to include in income currently any market discount that accrues with
respect to the Receivables. The Owner Trustee shall not make the election
provided under Section 754 of the Code.
SECTION 5.06. Signature on Returns; Tax Matters Partner. (a) The
Owner Trustee shall sign on behalf of the Trust the tax returns of the Trust,
unless applicable law requires an Owner to sign such documents, in which case
such documents shall be signed by the Depositor.
(b) The Depositor shall be designated the "tax matters partner" of
the Trust pursuant to Section 6231(a)(7)(A) of the Code and applicable
Treasury Regulations.
ARTICLE VI
Authority and Duties of Owner Trustee
SECTION 6.01. General Authority. The Owner Trustee is authorized
and directed to execute and deliver the Basic Documents to which the Trust is
to be a party and each certificate or other document attached as an exhibit
to or contemplated by the Basic Documents to which the Trust is to be a party,
in each case, in such form as the Depositor shall approve, as evidenced
conclusively by the Owner Trustee's execution thereof. In addition to the
foregoing, the Owner Trustee is authorized, but shall not be obligated, to
take all actions required of the Trust pursuant to the Basic Documents. The
Owner Trustee is further authorized from time to time to take such action as
the Administrator recommends with respect to the Basic Documents.
SECTION 6.02. General Duties. It shall be the duty of the Owner
Trustee to discharge (or cause to be discharged) all of its responsibilities
pursuant to the terms of this Agreement and the Basic Documents to which the
Trust is a party and to administer the Trust in the interest of the Owners,
subject to the Basic Documents and in accordance with the provisions of this
Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Owner Trustee shall be deemed
to have discharged its duties and responsibilities hereunder and under the
Basic Documents to the extent the Administrator has agreed in the
Administration Agreement to perform any act or to discharge any duty of the
Owner Trustee hereunder or under any Basic Document, and the Owner Trustee
shall not be held liable for the default or failure of the Administrator to
carry out its obligations under the Administration Agreement.
SECTION 6.03. Action upon Instruction. (a) Subject to Article IV
and in accordance with the terms of the Basic Documents, the Owners may by
written instruction direct the Owner Trustee in the management of the Trust.
Such direction may be exercised at any time by written instruction of the
Owners pursuant to Article IV.
(b) The Owner Trustee shall not be required to take any action
hereunder or under any Basic Document if the Owner Trustee shall have
reasonably determined, or shall have been advised by counsel, that such
action is likely to result in liability on the part of the Owner Trustee or is
contrary to the terms hereof or of any Basic Document or is otherwise
contrary to law.
(c) Whenever the Owner Trustee is unable to decide between
alternative courses of action permitted or required by the terms of this
Agreement or under any Basic Document, the Owner Trustee shall promptly give
notice (in such form as shall be appropriate under the circumstances) to the
Owners requesting instruction as to the course of action to be adopted, and
to the extent the Owner Trustee acts in good faith in accordance with any
written instruction of the Owners received, the Owner Trustee shall not be
liable on account of such action to any Person. If the Owner Trustee shall
not have received appropriate instruction within 10 days of such notice (or
within such shorter period of time as reasonably may be specified in such notice
or may be necessary under the circumstances) it may, but shall be under no duty
to, take or refrain from taking such action not inconsistent with this Agreement
or the Basic Documents, as it shall deem to be in the best interests of the
Owners, and shall have no liability to any Person for such action or inaction.
(d) In the event that the Owner Trustee is unsure as to the
application of any provision of this Agreement or any Basic Document or any
such provision is ambiguous as to its application, or is, or appears to be,
in conflict with any other applicable provision, or in the event that this
Agreement permits any determination by the Owner Trustee or is silent or is
incomplete as to the course of action that the Owner Trustee is required to
take with respect to a particular set of facts, the Owner Trustee may give
notice (in such form as shall be appropriate under the circumstances) to the
Owners requesting instruction and, to the extent that the Owner Trustee acts
or refrains from acting in good faith in accordance with any such instruction
received, the Owner Trustee shall not be liable, on account of such action or
inaction, to any Person. If the Owner Trustee shall not have received
appropriate instruction within 10 days of such notice (or within such shorter
period of time as reasonably may be specified in such notice or may be
necessary under the circumstances) it may, but shall be under no duty to,
take or refrain from taking such action not inconsistent with this Agreement or
the Basic Documents, as it shall deem to be in the best interests of the
Owners, and shall have no liability to any Person for such action or inaction.
SECTION 6.04. No Duties Except as Specified in this Agreement or in
Instructions. The Owner Trustee shall not have any duty or obligation to
manage, make any payment with respect to, register, record, sell, dispose of,
or otherwise deal with the Owner Trust Estate, or to otherwise take or
refrain from taking any action under, or in connection with, any document
contemplated hereby to which the Owner Trustee is a party, except as expressly
provided by the terms of this Agreement or in any document or written
instruction received by the Owner Trustee pursuant to Section 6.03; and no
implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or any Basic
Document against the Owner Trustee. The Owner Trustee shall have no
responsibility for filing any financing or continuation statement in any public
office at any time or to otherwise perfect or maintain the perfection of any
security interest or lien granted to it hereunder or to prepare or file any
Securities and Exchange Commission filing for the Trust or to record this
Agreement or any Basic Document. The Owner Trustee nevertheless agrees that it
will, at its own cost and expense, promptly take all action as may be necessary
to discharge any liens on any part of the Owner Trust Estate that result from
actions by, or claims against, the Owner Trustee that are not related to the
ownership or the administration of the Owner Trust Estate.
SECTION 6.05. No Action Except Under Specified Documents or
Instructions. The Owner Trustee shall not manage, control, use, sell,
dispose of or otherwise deal with any part of the Owner Trust Estate except (i)
in accordance with the powers granted to and the authority conferred upon the
Owner Trustee pursuant to this Agreement, (ii) in accordance with the Basic
Documents and (iii) in accordance with any document or instruction delivered
to the Owner Trustee pursuant to Section 6.03.
SECTION 6.06. Restrictions. The Owner Trustee shall not take any
action (a) that is inconsistent with the purposes of the Trust set forth in
Section 2.03 or (b) that, to the actual knowledge of the Owner Trustee, would
result in the Trust's becoming taxable as a corporation for federal income
tax purposes. The Owners shall not direct the Owner Trustee to take action
that would violate the provisions of this Section.
ARTICLE VII
Concerning the Owner Trustee
SECTION 7.01. Acceptance of Trusts and Duties. The Owner Trustee
accepts the trusts hereby created and agrees to perform its duties hereunder
with respect to such trusts, but only upon the terms of this Agreement. The
Owner Trustee also agrees to disburse all moneys actually received by it
constituting part of the Owner Trust Estate upon the terms of the Basic
Documents and this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall not be answerable or
accountable hereunder or under any Basic Document under any circumstances,
except (i) for its own willful misconduct or negligence or (ii) in the case
of the inaccuracy of any representation or warranty contained in Section 7.03
expressly made by the Owner Trustee. In particular, but not by way of
limitation (and subject to the exceptions set forth in the preceding
sentence):
(a) The Owner Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment
made by a Trust Officer of the Owner Trustee;
(b) The Owner Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action
taken or omitted to be taken by it in accordance with the instructions of the
Administrator or any Owner;
(c) No provision of this Agreement or any Basic Document shall
require the Owner Trustee to expend or risk funds or otherwise incur any
financial liability in the performance of any of its rights or powers
hereunder or under any Basic Document if the Owner Trustee shall have
reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate
indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured or
provided to it;
(d) Under no circumstances shall the Owner Trustee be liable for
indebtedness evidenced by or arising under any of the Basic Documents,
including the principal of and interest on the Notes;
(e) The Owner Trustee shall not be responsible for or in respect of
the validity or sufficiency of this Agreement or for the due execution hereof
by the Depositor or for the form, character, genuineness, sufficiency, value
or validity of any of the Owner Trust Estate, or for or in respect of the
validity or sufficiency of the Basic Documents, other than the certificate of
authentication on the Trust Certificates, and the Owner Trustee shall in no
event assume or incur any liability, duty or obligation to any Noteholder or
to any Owner, other than as expressly provided for herein or expressly agreed
to in the Basic Documents;
(f) The Owner Trustee shall not be liable for the default or
misconduct of the Administrator, the Depositor, the Servicer, the Indenture
Trustee or the Backup Servicer under any of the Basic Documents or otherwise,
and the Owner Trustee shall have no obligation or liability to perform the
obligations of the Trust under this Agreement or the Basic Documents that are
required to be performed by the Administrator under the Administration
Agreement, the Indenture Trustee under the Indenture or the Depositor, the
Servicer or the Backup Servicer under the Sale and Servicing Agreement; and
(g) The Owner Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any
of the rights or powers vested in it by this Agreement, or to institute,
conduct or defend any litigation under this Agreement or otherwise or in
relation to this Agreement or any Basic Document, at the request, order or
direction of any of the Owners, unless such Owners have offered to the Owner
Trustee security or indemnity satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses
and liabilities that may be incurred by the Owner Trustee therein or thereby.
The right of the Owner Trustee to perform any discretionary act enumerated in
this Agreement or in any Basic Document shall not be construed as a duty, and
the Owner Trustee shall not be answerable for other than its negligence or
willful misconduct in the performance of any such act.
SECTION 7.02. Furnishing of Documents. The Owner Trustee shall
furnish to the Owners, promptly upon receipt of a written request therefor,
duplicates or copies of all reports, notices, requests, demands,
certificates, financial statements and any other instruments furnished to the
Owner Trustee under the Basic Documents.
SECTION 7.03. Representations and Warranties. The Owner Trustee
hereby represents and warrants to the Depositor, for the benefit of the
Owners, that:
(a) It is a banking corporation duly organized and validly existing
in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware. It has all
requisite corporate power and authority to execute, deliver and perform its
obligations under this Agreement.
(b) It has taken all corporate action necessary to authorize the
execution and delivery by it of this Agreement, and this Agreement will be
executed and delivered by one of its officers who is duly authorized to
execute and deliver this Agreement on its behalf.
(c) Neither the execution or the delivery by it of this Agreement,
nor the consummation by it of the transactions contemplated hereby, nor
compliance by it with any of the terms or provisions hereof will contravene
any federal or Delaware law, governmental rule or regulation governing the
banking or trust powers of the Owner Trustee or any judgment or order binding
on it, or constitute any default under its charter documents or bylaws or any
indenture, mortgage, contract, agreement or instrument to which it is a party
or by which any of its properties may be bound.
(d) It is a corporation satisfying the provisions of Section 3807(a)
of the Business Trust Statute; authorized to exercise corporate trust powers;
having a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 and subject to
supervision or examination by federal or state authorities; and having (or
having a parent that has) time deposits that are rated at least A-1 by
Standard & Poor's and P-1 by Moody's.
SECTION 7.04. Reliance; Advice of Counsel. (a) The Owner Trustee
shall incur no liability to anyone in acting upon any signature, instrument,
notice, resolution, request, consent, order, certificate, report, opinion,
bond, or other document or paper believed by it to be genuine and believed by
it to be signed by the proper party or parties. The Owner Trustee may accept
a certified copy of a resolution of the board of directors or other governing
body of any corporate party as conclusive evidence that such resolution has
been duly adopted by such body and that the same is in full force and
effect. As to any fact or matter the method of determination of which is not
specifically prescribed herein, the Owner Trustee may for all purposes hereof
rely on a certificate, signed by the president or any vice president or by
the treasurer or other authorized officers of the relevant party, as to such
fact or matter, and such certificate shall constitute full protection to the
Owner Trustee for any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in
reliance thereon.
(b) In the exercise or administration of the trusts hereunder and in
the performance of its duties and obligations under this Agreement or the
Basic Documents, the Owner Trustee (i) may act directly or through its agents
or attorneys pursuant to agreements entered into with any of them, and the
Owner Trustee shall not be liable for the conduct or misconduct of such
agents or attorneys if such agents or attorneys shall have been selected by the
Owner Trustee with reasonable care, and (ii) may consult with counsel,
accountants and other skilled Persons to be selected with reasonable care and
employed by it. The Owner Trustee shall not be liable for anything done,
suffered or omitted in good faith by it in accordance with the written opinion
or advice of any such counsel, accountants or other such Persons and not
contrary to this Agreement or any Basic Document.
SECTION 7.05. Not Acting in Individual Capacity. Except as
provided in this Article VII, in accepting the trusts hereby created, Chase
Manhattan Bank Delaware acts solely as Owner Trustee hereunder and not in its
individual capacity, and all Persons having any claim against the Owner Trustee
by reason of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any Basic
Document shall look only to the Owner Trust Estate for payment or satisfaction
thereof.
SECTION 7.06. Owner Trustee Not Liable for Trust Certificates or
for Receivables. The recitals contained herein and in the Trust Certificates
(other than the signature and countersignature of the Owner Trustee on the
Trust Certificates) shall be taken as the statements of the Depositor, and
the Owner Trustee assumes no responsibility for the correctness thereof.
Except as set forth in Section 7.03, the Owner Trustee makes no representations
as to the validity or sufficiency of this Agreement, of any Basic Document or of
the Trust Certificates (other than the signature and countersignature of the
Owner Trustee on the Trust Certificates) or the Notes, or of any Receivable or
related documents. The Owner Trustee shall at no time have any
responsibility or liability for or with respect to the legality, validity and
enforceability of any Receivable or the perfection and priority of any security
interest created by any Receivable in any Financed Vehicle or the maintenance of
any such perfection and priority, or for or with respect to the sufficiency of
the Owner Trust Estate or its ability to generate the payments to be
distributed to Certificateholders under this Agreement or the Noteholders under
the Indenture, including, without limitation: the existence, condition and
ownership of any Financed Vehicle; the existence and enforceability of any
insurance thereon; the existence and contents of any Receivable on any
computer or other record thereof; the validity of the assignment of any
Receivable to the Trust or of any intervening assignment; the completeness of
any Receivable; the performance or enforcement of any Receivable; the
compliance by the Depositor, the Servicer or the Backup Servicer with any
warranty or representation made under any Basic Document or in any related
document or the accuracy of any such warranty or representation, or any
action of the Administrator, the Indenture Trustee, the Servicer or the Backup
Servicer or any subservicer taken in the name of the Owner Trustee.
SECTION 7.07. Owner Trustee May Own Trust Certificates and Notes.
The Owner Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the
owner or pledgee of Trust Certificates or Notes and may deal with the
Depositor, the Administrator, the Indenture Trustee and the Servicer in banking
transactions with the same rights as it would have if it were not Owner Trustee.
SECTION 7.08. Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Sales Finance Act
Licenses. The Owner Trustee, in its individual capacity, shall use its best
efforts to maintain, and the Owner Trustee, as Owner Trustee, shall cause the
Trust to use its best efforts to maintain, the effectiveness of all licenses
required under the Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Sales Finance Act in connection
with this Agreement and the Basic Documents and the transactions contemplated
hereby and thereby until such time as the Trust shall terminate in accordance
with the terms hereof.
ARTICLE VIII
Compensation of Owner Trustee
SECTION 8.01. Owner Trustee's Fees and Expenses. The Administrator
shall pay to the Owner Trustee as compensation for its services hereunder
such fees as have been separately agreed upon before the date hereof between
the Servicer and the Owner Trustee, and the Administrator shall reimburse the
Owner Trustee for its other reasonable expenses hereunder, including the
reasonable compensation, expenses and disbursements of such agents,
representatives, experts and counsel as the Owner Trustee may employ in
connection with the exercise and performance of its rights and its duties
hereunder.
SECTION 8.02. Indemnification. The Administrator shall be liable
as primary obligor for, and shall indemnify the Owner Trustee and its
successors, assigns, agents and servants (collectively, the "Indemnified
Parties") from and against, any and all liabilities, obligations, losses,
damages, taxes, claims, actions and suits, and any and all reasonable costs,
expenses and disbursements (including reasonable legal fees and expenses) of
any kind and nature whatsoever (collectively, "Expenses") which may at any time
be imposed on, incurred by, or asserted against the Owner Trustee or any
Indemnified Party in any way relating to or arising out of this Agreement, the
Basic Documents, the Owner Trust Estate, the administration of the Owner Trust
Estate or the action or inaction of the Owner Trustee hereunder, except only
that the Administrator shall not be liable for or required to indemnify an
Indemnified Party from and against Expenses arising or resulting from any of
the matters described in the third sentence of Section 7.01. The indemnities
contained in this Section shall survive the resignation or termination of the
Owner Trustee or the termination of this Agreement. In any event of any
claim, action or proceeding for which indemnity will be sought pursuant to
this Section, the Owner Trustee's choice of legal counsel shall be subject to
the approval of the Administrator, which approval shall not be unreasonably
withheld.
SECTION 8.03. Payments to the Owner Trustee. Any amounts paid to
the Owner Trustee pursuant to this Article VIII shall be deemed not to be a
part of the Owner Trust Estate immediately after such payment.
ARTICLE IX
Termination of Trust Agreement
SECTION 9.01. Termination of Trust Agreement. (a) This Agreement
(other than Article VIII) and the Trust shall terminate and be of no further
force or effect (i) upon the final distribution by the Owner Trustee of all
moneys or other property or proceeds of the Owner Trust Estate in accordance
with the terms of the Indenture, the Sale and Servicing Agreement and Article
V or (ii) at the time provided in Section 9.02. The bankruptcy, liquidation,
dissolution, death or incapacity of any Owner, other than the Depositor as
described in Section 9.02, shall not (x) operate to terminate this Agreement
or the Trust or (y) entitle such Owner's legal representatives or heirs to
claim an accounting or to take any action or proceeding in any court for a
partition or winding up of all or any part of the Trust or Owner Trust Estate
or (z) otherwise affect the rights, obligations and liabilities of the
parties hereto.
(b) Except as provided in Section 9.01(a), neither the Depositor nor
any Owner shall be entitled to revoke or terminate the Trust.
(c) Notice of any termination of the Trust, specifying the
Distribution Date upon which Certificateholders shall surrender their Trust
Certificates to the Paying Agent for payment of the final distribution and
cancellation, shall be given by the Owner Trustee by letter to
Certificateholders mailed within five Business Days of receipt of notice of
such termination from the Servicer given pursuant to Section 9.01(c) of the
Sale and Servicing Agreement, stating (i) the Distribution Date upon or with
respect to which final payment of the Trust Certificates shall be made upon
presentation and surrender of the Trust Certificates at the office of the
Paying Agent therein designated, (ii) the amount of any such final payment
and (iii) that the Record Date otherwise applicable to such Distribution Date is
not applicable, payments being made only upon presentation and surrender of
the Trust Certificates at the office of the Paying Agent therein specified.
The Owner Trustee shall give such notice to the Certificate Registrar (if
other than the Owner Trustee) and the Paying Agent at the time such notice is
given to Certificateholders. Upon presentation and surrender of the Trust
Certificates, the Paying Agent shall cause to be distributed to
Certificateholders amounts distributable on such Distribution Date pursuant
to Section 5.02.
In the event that all of the Certificateholders shall not surrender
their Trust Certificates for cancellation within six months after the date
specified in the above mentioned written notice, the Owner Trustee shall give a
second written notice to the remaining Certificateholders to surrender their
Trust Certificates for cancellation and receive the final distribution with
respect thereto. If within one year after the second notice all the Trust
Certificates shall not have been surrendered for cancellation, the Owner
Trustee may take appropriate steps, or may appoint an agent to take
appropriate steps, to contact the remaining Certificateholders concerning
surrender of their Trust Certificates, and the cost thereof shall be paid out
of the funds and other assets that shall remain subject to this Agreement.
Any funds remaining in the Trust after exhaustion of such remedies shall be
distributed by the Owner Trustee to the Depositor, subject to applicable
escheat laws.
(d) Upon the winding up of the Trust and its termination, the Owner
Trustee shall cause the Certificate of Trust to be cancelled by filing a
certificate of cancellation with the Secretary of State in accordance with
the provisions of Section 3810 of the Business Trust Statute.
SECTION 9.02. Dissolution upon Bankruptcy of the Depositor. In the
event that an Insolvency Event shall occur with respect to the Depositor,
this Agreement shall be terminated in accordance with Section 9.01 90 days
after the date of such Insolvency Event, unless, before the end of such 90-day
period, the Owner Trustee shall have received written instructions from (a)
Holders (other than the Depositor) of Certificates representing more than 50%
of the Certificate Balance (not including the Certificate Balance of the
Trust Certificates held by the Depositor) and (b) each of the (i) Holders (as
defined in the Indenture) of Class A-1 Notes representing more than 50% of
the Outstanding Amount of the Class A-1 Notes, (ii) Holders (as defined in the
Indenture) of Class A-2 Notes representing more than 50% of the Outstanding
Amount of the Class A-2 Notes and (iii) the Security Insurer (so long as no
Security Insurer Default shall have occurred and be continuing), to the
effect that each such party disapproves of the termination of the Trust.
Promptly after the occurrence of any Insolvency Event with respect to the
Depositor, (A) the Depositor shall give the Indenture Trustee and the Owner
Trustee written notice of such Insolvency Event, (B) the Owner Trustee shall,
upon the receipt of such written notice from the Depositor, give prompt written
notice to the Certificateholders and the Indenture Trustee, of the occurrence of
such event and (C) the Indenture Trustee shall, upon receipt of written notice
of such Insolvency Event from the Owner Trustee or the Depositor, give prompt
written notice to the Noteholders of the occurrence of such event; provided,
however, that any failure to give a notice required by this sentence shall
not prevent or delay, in any manner, a termination of the Trust pursuant to the
first sentence of this Section 9.02. Upon a termination pursuant to this
Section, the Owner Trustee shall direct the Indenture Trustee promptly to
sell the assets of the Trust (other than the Trust Accounts and the Certificate
Distribution Account) in a commercially reasonable manner and on commercially
reasonable terms. The proceeds of such a sale of the assets of the Trust
shall be treated as collections under the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
ARTICLE X
Successor Owner Trustees and Additional Owner Trustees
SECTION 10.01. Eligibility Requirements for Owner Trustee. The
Owner Trustee shall at all times be a corporation satisfying the provisions
of Section 3807(a) of the Business Trust Statute; authorized to exercise
corporate trust powers; having a combined capital and surplus of at least
$50,000,000 and subject to supervision or examination by federal or state
authorities; and having (or having a parent that has) time deposits that are
rated at least A-1 by Standard & Poor's and P-1 by Moody's. If such
corporation shall publish reports of condition at least annually pursuant to
law or to the requirements of the aforesaid supervising or examining
authority, then for the purpose of this Section, the combined capital and
surplus of such corporation shall be deemed to be its combined capital and
surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. In
case at any time the Owner Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance
with the provisions of this Section, the Owner Trustee shall resign
immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in Section 10.02.
SECTION 10.02. Resignation or Removal of Owner Trustee. The Owner
Trustee may at any time resign and be discharged from the trusts hereby
created by giving written notice thereof to the Administrator. Upon
receiving such notice of resignation, the Administrator shall promptly appoint
a successor Owner Trustee by written instrument, in duplicate, one copy of
which instrument shall be delivered to the resigning Owner Trustee and one copy
to the successor Owner Trustee. If no successor Owner Trustee shall have been
so appointed and have accepted appointment within 30 days after the giving of
such notice of resignation, the resigning Owner Trustee may petition any
court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Owner
Trustee.
If at any time the Owner Trustee shall cease to be eligible in
accordance with the provisions of Section 10.01 and shall fail to resign after
written request therefor by the Administrator, or if at any time the Owner
Trustee shall be legally unable to act, or shall be adjudged bankrupt or
insolvent, or a receiver of the Owner Trustee or of its property shall be
appointed, or any public officer shall take charge or control of the Owner
Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation,
conservation or liquidation, then the Administrator may remove the Owner
Trustee. If the Administrator shall remove the Owner Trustee under the
authority of the immediately preceding sentence, the Administrator shall
promptly appoint a successor Owner Trustee by written instrument, in duplicate,
one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the outgoing Owner Trustee so
removed and one copy to the successor Owner Trustee, and shall pay all fees owed
to the outgoing Owner Trustee.
Any resignation or removal of the Owner Trustee and appointment of a
successor Owner Trustee pursuant to any of the provisions of this Section
shall not become effective until acceptance of appointment by the successor
Owner Trustee pursuant to Section 10.03 and payment of all fees and expenses
owed to the outgoing Owner Trustee. The Administrator shall provide notice
of such resignation or removal of the Owner Trustee to each Rating Agency and
the Security Insurer (so long as no Security Insurer Default shall have
occurred and be continuing).
SECTION 10.03. Successor Owner Trustee. Any successor Owner
Trustee appointed pursuant to Section 10.01 or 10.02 shall execute, acknowledge
and deliver to the Administrator and to its predecessor Owner Trustee an
instrument accepting such appointment under this Agreement, and thereupon the
resignation or removal of the predecessor Owner Trustee shall become
effective, and such successor Owner Trustee, without any further act, deed or
conveyance, shall become fully vested with all the rights, powers, duties and
obligations of its predecessor under this Agreement, with like effect as if
originally named as Owner Trustee. The predecessor Owner Trustee shall upon
payment of its fees and expenses deliver to the successor Owner Trustee all
documents and statements and monies held by it under this Agreement; and the
Administrator and the predecessor Owner Trustee shall execute and deliver
such instruments and do such other things as may reasonably be required for
fully and certainly vesting and confirming in the successor Owner Trustee all
such rights, powers, duties and obligations.
No successor Owner Trustee shall accept appointment as provided in this
Section unless at the time of such acceptance such successor Owner Trustee
shall be eligible pursuant to Section 10.01.
Upon acceptance of appointment by a successor Owner Trustee pursuant to
this Section, the Administrator shall mail notice thereof to all
Certificateholders, the Indenture Trustee, the Noteholders, the Security
Insurer (so long as no Security Insurer Default shall have occurred and be
continuing) and the Rating Agencies. If the Administrator shall fail to mail
such notice within 10 days after acceptance of such appointment by the
successor Owner Trustee, the successor Owner Trustee shall cause such notice
to be mailed at the expense of the Administrator.
SECTION 10.04. Merger or Consolidation of Owner Trustee. Any
corporation into which the Owner Trustee may be merged or converted or with
which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger,
conversion or consolidation to which the Owner Trustee shall be a party, or
any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust
business of the Owner Trustee, shall be the successor of the Owner Trustee
hereunder, without the execution or filing of any instrument or any further
act on the part of any of the parties hereto, anything herein to the contrary
notwithstanding; provided, that such corporation shall be eligible pursuant
to Section 10.01 and, provided, further, that the Owner Trustee shall mail
notice of such merger or consolidation to each Rating Agency and the Security
Insurer (so long as no Security Insurer Default shall have occurred and be
continuing).
SECTION 10.05. Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee.
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement, at any time, for the
purpose of meeting any legal requirements of any jurisdiction in which any
part of the Owner Trust Estate or any Financed Vehicle may at the time be
located, the Administrator and the Owner Trustee acting jointly shall have
the power and shall execute and deliver all instruments to appoint one or more
Persons approved by the Administrator and Owner Trustee to act as co-trustee,
jointly with the Owner Trustee, or as separate trustee or separate trustees,
of all or any part of the Owner Trust Estate, and to vest in such Person, in
such capacity, such title to the Trust or any part thereof and, subject to
the other provisions of this Section, such powers, duties, obligations, rights
and trusts as the Administrator and the Owner Trustee may consider necessary or
desirable. If the Administrator shall not have joined in such appointment
within 15 days after the receipt by it of a request so to do, the Owner
Trustee alone shall have the power to make such appointment. No co-trustee
or separate trustee under this Agreement shall be required to meet the terms of
eligibility as a successor Owner Trustee pursuant to Section 10.01 and no
notice of the appointment of any co-trustee or separate trustee shall be
required pursuant to Section 10.03.
Each separate trustee and co-trustee shall, to the extent permitted by
law, be appointed and act subject to the following provisions and conditions:
(a) All rights, powers, duties and obligations conferred or imposed
upon the Owner Trustee shall be conferred upon and exercised or performed by
the Owner Trustee and such separate trustee or co-trustee jointly (it being
understood that such separate trustee or co-trustee is not authorized to act
separately without the Owner Trustee joining in such act), except to the
extent that under any law of any jurisdiction in which any particular act or
acts are to be performed, the Owner Trustee shall be incompetent or
unqualified to perform such act or acts, in which event such rights, powers,
duties and obligations (including the holding of title to the Owner Trust
Estate or any portion thereof in any such jurisdiction) shall be exercised
and performed singly by such separate trustee or co-trustee, but solely at the
direction of the Owner Trustee;
(b) No trustee under this Agreement shall be personally liable by
reason of any act or omission of any other trustee under this Agreement; and
(c) The Administrator and the Owner Trustee acting jointly may at
any time accept the resignation of or remove any separate trustee or co-trustee.
Any notice, request or other writing given to the Owner Trustee shall be
deemed to have been given to each of the then separate trustees and
co-trustees, as effectively as if given to each of them. Every instrument
appointing any separate trustee or co-trustee shall refer to this Agreement
and the conditions of this Article. Each separate trustee and co-trustee,
upon its acceptance of the trusts conferred, shall be vested with the estates
or property specified in its instrument of appointment, either jointly with
the Owner Trustee or separately, as may be provided therein, subject to all
the provisions of this Agreement, specifically including every provision of
this Agreement relating to the conduct of, affecting the liability of, or
affording protection to, the Owner Trustee. Each such instrument shall be
filed with the Owner Trustee and a copy thereof given to the Administrator.
Any separate trustee or co-trustee may at any time appoint the Owner
Trustee as its agent or attorney-in-fact with full power and authority, to
the extent not prohibited by law, to do any lawful act under or in respect of
this Agreement on its behalf and in its name. If any separate trustee or
co-trustee shall die, become incapable of acting, resign or be removed, all
of its estates, properties, rights, remedies and trusts shall vest in and be
exercised by the Owner Trustee, to the extent permitted by law, without the
appointment of a new or successor co-trustee or separate trustee.
ARTICLE XI
Miscellaneous
SECTION 11.01. Supplements and Amendments. This Agreement may be
amended by the Depositor and the Owner Trustee, with the consent of the
Security Insurer (so long as no Security Insurer Default shall have occurred
and be continuing) and with prior written notice to each Rating Agency,
without the consent of any of the Noteholders or the Certificateholders, to
cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provisions in this Agreement
or for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or
eliminating any of the provisions in this Agreement or of modifying in any
manner the rights of the Noteholders or the Certificateholders; provided,
however, that such action shall not, as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel,
adversely affect in any material respect the interests of any Noteholder or
Certificateholder.
This Agreement may also be amended from time to time by the Depositor
and the Owner Trustee, with the consent of the Security Insurer (so long as no
Security Insurer Default shall have occurred and be continuing) and with
prior written notice to each Rating Agency, with the consent of the Holders (as
defined in the Indenture) of Notes evidencing not less than a majority of the
Outstanding Amount of the Notes and the consent of the Holders of
Certificates evidencing not less than a majority of the Certificate Balance, for
the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or
eliminating any of the provisions of this Agreement or of modifying in any
manner the rights of the Noteholders or the Certificateholders; provided,
however, that no such amendment shall (a) increase or reduce in any manner the
amount of, or accelerate or delay the timing of, collections of payments on
Receivables or distributions that shall be required to be made for the
benefit of the Noteholders or the Certificateholders or (b) reduce the aforesaid
percentage of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes and the Certificate Balance
required to consent to any such amendment, without the consent of Holders of
all the outstanding Notes and Certificates.
Promptly after the execution of any such amendment or consent, the Owner
Trustee shall furnish written notification of the substance of such amendment
or consent to each Certificateholder, the Indenture Trustee and each Rating
Agency.
It shall not be necessary for the consent of Certificateholders,
Noteholders or the Security Insurer pursuant to this Section to approve the
particular form of any proposed amendment or consent, but it shall be
sufficient if such consent shall approve the substance thereof. The manner
of obtaining such consents (and any other consents of Certificateholders
provided for in this Agreement or in any other Basic Document) and of evidencing
the authorization of the execution thereof by Certificateholders shall be
subject to such reasonable requirements as the Owner Trustee may prescribe.
Promptly after the execution of any amendment to the Certificate of
Trust, the Owner Trustee shall cause the filing of such amendment with the
Secretary of State.
Prior to the execution of any amendment to this Agreement or the
Certificate of Trust, the Owner Trustee shall be entitled to receive and rely
upon an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such amendment is
authorized or permitted by this Agreement. The Owner Trustee may, but shall
not be obligated to, enter into any such amendment that affects the Owner
Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under this Agreement or otherwise.
In connection with the execution of any amendment to this Trust
Agreement or any amendment of any other agreement to which the Issuer is a
party, the Owner Trustee shall be entitled to receive and conclusively rely
upon an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such amendment is authorized or
permitted by the Basic Documents and that all conditions precedent in the
Basic Documents for the execution and delivery thereof by the Issuer or the
Owner Trustee, as the case may be, have been satisfied.
SECTION 11.02. No Legal Title to Owner Trust Estate in Owners.
Neither the Depositor nor the Owners shall have legal title to any part of
the Owner Trust Estate. The Owners shall be entitled to receive distributions
with respect to their undivided ownership interest therein only in accordance
with Articles V and IX. No transfer, by operation of law or otherwise, of
any right, title or interest of the Owners to and in their ownership interest in
the Owner Trust Estate shall operate to terminate this Agreement or the
trusts hereunder or entitle any transferee to an accounting or to the transfer
to it of legal title to any part of the Owner Trust Estate.
SECTION 11.03. Limitations on Rights of Others. Except for Section
2.07, the provisions of this Agreement are solely for the benefit of the
Owner Trustee, the Depositor, the Owners, the Administrator, the Security
Insurer and, to the extent expressly provided herein, the Indenture Trustee and
the Noteholders, and nothing in this Agreement (other than Section 2.07
hereof), whether express or implied, shall be construed to give to any other
Person any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim in the Owner Trust Estate
or under or in respect of this Agreement or any covenants, conditions or
provisions contained herein.
SECTION 11.04. Notices. (a) Unless otherwise expressly specified
or permitted by the terms hereof, all notices shall be in writing and shall
be deemed given upon receipt by the intended recipient or three Business Days
after mailing if mailed by certified mail, postage prepaid (except that
notice to the Owner Trustee shall be deemed given only upon actual receipt by
the Owner Trustee), if to the Owner Trustee, addressed to the Corporate Trust
Office; if to the Depositor, addressed to First Merchants Auto Receivables
Corporation II, 000 Xxxx Xxxx Xxxx, Xxxxx 000X, Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000,
Attention: Secretary; or, as to each party, at such other address as shall
be designated by such party in a written notice to each other party.
(b) Any notice required or permitted to be given to a
Certificateholder shall be given by first-class mail, postage prepaid, at the
address of such Certificateholder as shown in the Certificate Register. Any
notice so mailed within the time prescribed in this Agreement shall be
conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether or not the
Certificateholder receives such notice.
SECTION 11.05. Severability. Any provision of this Agreement that
is prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such
jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or
unenforceability without invalidating the remaining provisions hereof, and
any such prohibition or unenforceability in any jurisdiction shall not
invalidate or render unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction.
SECTION 11.06. Separate Counterparts. This Agreement may be
executed by the parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when
so executed and delivered shall be an original, but all such counterparts shall
together constitute but one and the same instrument.
SECTION 11.07. Successors and Assigns. All covenants and
agreements contained herein shall be binding upon, and inure to the benefit of,
each of the Depositor and its permitted assignees, the Owner Trustee and its
successors and each Owner and its successors and permitted assigns, all as
herein provided. Any request, notice, direction, consent, waiver or other
instrument or action by an Owner shall bind the successors and assigns of
such Owner.
SECTION 11.08. Covenants of the Depositor. In the event that (a)
the Certificate Balance shall be reduced by Realized Losses and (b) any
litigation with claims in excess of $1,000,000 to which the Depositor is a
party which shall be reasonably likely to result in a material judgment
against the Depositor that the Depositor will not be able to satisfy shall be
commenced, during the period beginning immediately following the commencement
of such litigation and continuing until such litigation is dismissed or
otherwise terminated (and, if such litigation has resulted in a final
judgment against the Depositor, such judgment has been satisfied), the Depositor
shall not pay any dividend to First Merchants Acceptance Corporation, or make
any distribution on or in respect of its capital stock to First Merchants
Acceptance Corporation, or repay the principal amount of any indebtedness of
the Depositor held by First Merchants Acceptance Corporation, unless (i)
after giving effect to such payment, distribution or repayment, the Depositor's
liquid assets shall not be less than the amount of actual damages claimed in
such litigation or (ii) the Rating Agency Condition shall have been satisfied
with respect to any such payment, distribution or repayment. The Depositor
will not at any time institute against the Trust any bankruptcy proceedings
under any United States federal or state bankruptcy or similar law in
connection with any obligations relating to the Trust Certificates, the
Notes, the Trust Agreement or any of the Basic Documents.
SECTION 11.09. No Petition. The Owner Trustee, by entering into
this Agreement, each Certificateholder, by accepting a Trust Certificate, and
the Indenture Trustee and each Noteholder, by accepting the benefits of this
Agreement, hereby covenant and agree that they will not at any time institute
against the Depositor or the Trust, or join in any institution against the
Depositor or the Trust of, any bankruptcy proceedings under any United States
federal or state bankruptcy or similar law in connection with any obligations
relating to the Trust Certificates, the Notes, this Agreement or any of the
Basic Documents.
SECTION 11.10. No Recourse. Each Certificateholder by accepting a
Trust Certificate acknowledges that such Trust Certificate represents a
beneficial interest in the Trust only and does not represent an interest in
or an obligation of the Depositor, the Servicer, the Administrator, the Owner
Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Backup Servicer or any Affiliate thereof
and no recourse may be had against such parties or their assets, except as
may be expressly set forth or contemplated in this Agreement, the Trust
Certificates or the Basic Documents.
SECTION 11.11. Headings. The headings of the various Articles and
Sections herein are for convenience of reference only and shall not define or
limit any of the terms or provisions hereof.
SECTION 11.12. GOVERNING LAW. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS
CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISIONS, AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE
PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.
SECTION 11.13. Trust Certificate Transfer Restrictions. The Trust
Certificates may not be acquired by or for the account of (i) an employee
benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) that is subject to the
provisions of Title I of ERISA, (ii) a plan described in Section 4975(e)(1)
of the Code or (iii) any entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by
reason of a plan's investment in the entity (each, a "Benefit Plan"). By
accepting and holding a Trust Certificate, the Holder thereof shall be deemed
to have represented and warranted that it is not a Benefit Plan.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Amended and
Restated Trust Agreement to be duly executed by their respective officers
hereunto duly authorized, as of the day and year first above written.
FIRST MERCHANTS AUTO RECEIVABLES CORPORATION II, as Depositor
by:
Name:
Title:
CHASE MANHATTAN BANK DELAWARE,
not in its individual capacity but solely as Owner Trustee
by:
Name:
Title:
EXHIBIT A
FORM OF TRUST CERTIFICATE
THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE IS SUBORDINATE TO THE NOTES, AS SET FORTH IN THE SALE
AND SERVICING AGREEMENT.
UNLESS THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF
THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION ("DTC"), TO THE ISSUER
OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY TRUST
CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER
NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT
IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR
VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED
OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.
THE TRUST CERTIFICATES MAY NOT BE ACQUIRED BY OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF (I) AN
EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN (AS DEFINED IN SECTION 3(3) OF THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT
INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED ("ERISA")) THAT IS SUBJECT TO THE
PROVISIONS OF TITLE I OF ERISA, (II) A PLAN DESCRIBED IN SECTION 4975(E)(1)
OF THE CODE OR (III) ANY ENTITY WHOSE UNDERLYING ASSETS INCLUDE PLAN ASSETS BY
REASON OF A PLAN'S INVESTMENT IN THE ENTITY (EACH, A "BENEFIT PLAN"). BY
ACCEPTING AND HOLDING A TRUST CERTIFICATE, THE HOLDER THEREOF SHALL BE DEEMED
TO HAVE REPRESENTED AND WARRANTED THAT IT IS NOT A BENEFIT PLAN.
[THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE IS NONTRANSFERABLE.]
NUMBER$_________
R-CUSIP NO. 32081Y AK6
FIRST MERCHANTS AUTO TRUST 1996-C
6.35% ASSET BACKED CERTIFICATE
evidencing a fractional undivided interest in the Trust, as defined below,
the property of which consists of (a) the Receivables and all moneys received
thereon on or after the Cutoff Date; (b) the security interests in the
Financed Vehicles and any accessions thereto granted by Obligors pursuant to
the Receivables and any other interest of the Depositor in such Financed
Vehicles; (c) any Liquidation Proceeds and any other proceeds with respect to
the Receivables from claims on any physical damage, credit life or disability
insurance policies covering Financed Vehicles or Obligors, including any
vendor's single interest or other collateral protection insurance policy; (d)
any property that shall have secured a Receivable and shall have been
acquired by or on behalf of the Depositor, the Servicer or the Trust; (e) all
documents and other items contained in the Receivables Files; (f) all of the
Depositor's rights (but not its obligations) under the Receivables Purchase
Agreement and the Subsequent Purchase Agreements; (g) all right, title and
interest in all funds on deposit from time to time in the Trust Accounts and the
Certificate Distribution Account, and in all investments and proceeds thereof
(including all income thereon); and (h) the proceeds of any and all of the
foregoing.
THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE DOES NOT REPRESENT AN INTEREST IN OR AN OBLIGATION OF
FIRST MERCHANTS AUTO RECEIVABLES CORPORATION II, FIRST MERCHANTS ACCEPTANCE
To be included only on the Trust Certificates representing the 1% minimum
required to be purchased by the Depositor from the Underwriter and any Trust
Certificates issued in exchange therefor.
CORPORATION OR ANY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE AFFILIATES.
THIS CERTIFIES THAT ________________ is the registered owner of
____________________________________________ DOLLARS nonassessable, fully
paid, fractional undivided interest in FIRST MERCHANTS AUTO TRUST 1996-C (the
"Trust"), formed by FIRST MERCHANTS AUTO RECEIVABLES CORPORATION II, a
Delaware corporation (the "Depositor").
The Trust was created pursuant to a Trust Agreement dated as of
December 18, 1996, as amended and restated by an Amended and Restated Trust
Agreement dated as of December 1, 1996 (as so amended and restated and
further amended or supplemented from time to time, the "Trust Agreement"),
between the Depositor and Chase Manhattan Bank Delaware, as owner trustee
(the "Owner Trustee"), a summary of certain of the pertinent provisions of
which is set forth below. To the extent not otherwise defined herein, the
capitalized terms used herein have the meanings assigned to them in the Trust
Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement dated as of December 1, 1996
(as amended and supplemented from time to time, the "Sale and Servicing
Agreement"), among the Trust, the Depositor, as seller, First Merchants
Acceptance Corporation, as Servicer, and Xxxxxx Trust and Savings Bank, as
Indenture Trustee, Collateral Agent and Backup Servicer, as applicable.
This Trust Certificate is one of the duly authorized Trust
Certificates designated as "6.35% Asset Backed Certificates" (herein called
the "Trust Certificates"). Also issued under an Indenture dated as of
December 1, 1996 (the "Indenture"), between the Trust and Xxxxxx Trust and
Savings Bank, as indenture trustee, are the two classes of Notes designated
as "Floating Rate Asset Backed Notes, Class A-1" and 6.15% Asset Backed Notes,
Class A-2" (collectively, the "Notes"). This Trust Certificate is issued
under and is subject to the terms, provisions and conditions of the Trust
Agreement, to which Trust Agreement the Holder of this Trust Certificate by
virtue of its acceptance hereof assents and by which such Certificateholder
is bound. The property of the Trust consists of the Initial Receivables and
the Subsequent Receivables (together, the "Receivables") and all monies
received thereon on or after November 14, 1996 and each of the Subsequent
Cutoff Dates, respectively, security interests in the vehicles financed
thereby, certain bank accounts and the proceeds thereof, proceeds from claims on
certain insurance policies and certain other rights under the Trust Agreement
and the Sale and Servicing Agreement and all proceeds of the foregoing. The
rights of the Certificateholders are subordinate to the rights of the
Noteholders, as set forth in the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
Under the Trust Agreement, there will be distributed on the 15th
day of each month or, if such 15th day is not a Business Day, the next Business
Day (each, a "Distribution Date"), commencing on January 15, 1997, to the
Person in whose name this Trust Certificate is registered at the close of
business on the day immediately preceding such Distribution Date, or if
Definitive Certificates are issued, the last day of the immediately preceding
month (the "Record Date"), such Certificateholder's fractional undivided
interest in the amount to be distributed to Certificateholders on such
Distribution Date. No distributions of principal will be made on any Trust
Certificate until all of the Notes have been paid in full.
The Holder of this Trust Certificate acknowledges and agrees that
its rights to receive distributions in respect of this Trust Certificate are
subordinate to the rights of the Noteholders as described in the Sale and
Servicing Agreement and the Indenture.
It is the intent of the Depositor, the Servicer and the
Certificateholders that, for purposes of federal income, state and local
income and single business tax and any other income taxes, the Trust will be
treated as a partnership and the Certificateholders (including the Depositor)
will be treated as partners in that partnership. The Depositor and the other
Certificateholders, by acceptance of a Trust Certificate, agree to treat, and
to take no action inconsistent with the treatment of, the Trust Certificates
for such tax purposes as partnership interests in the Trust.
Each Certificateholder, by its acceptance of a Trust Certificate,
agrees to treat, and to take no action inconsistent with the treatment of,
the Trust Certificates for such tax purposes as partnership interests in the
Trust.
Each Certificateholder or Certificate Owner, by its acceptance of a
Trust Certificate or, in the case of a Certificate Owner, a beneficial
interest in a Trust Certificate, covenants and agrees that such
Certificateholder or Certificate Owner, as the case may be, will not at any
time institute against the Depositor or the Trust, or join in any institution
against the Depositor or the Trust of, any bankruptcy, reorganization,
arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings, or other proceedings
under any United States federal or state bankruptcy or similar law in
connection with any obligations relating to the Trust Certificates, the Notes,
the Trust Agreement or any of the Basic Documents.
Distributions on this Trust Certificate will be made as provided in
the Trust Agreement by the Owner Trustee by wire transfer or check mailed to
the Certificateholder of record in the Certificate Register without the
presentation or surrender of this Trust Certificate or the making of any
notation hereon, except that with respect to Trust Certificates registered on
the Record Date in the name of the nominee of the Clearing Agency (initially,
such nominee to be Cede & Co.), payments will be made by wire transfer in
immediately available funds to the account designated by such nominee.
Except as otherwise provided in the Trust Agreement and notwithstanding the
above, the final distribution on this Trust Certificate will be made after due
notice by the Owner Trustee of the pendency of such distribution and only upon
presentation and surrender of this Trust Certificate at the office or agency
maintained for that purpose by the Owner Trustee in the Borough of Manhattan,
The City of New York.
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Trust
Certificate set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall
for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon shall have been
executed by an authorized officer of the Owner Trustee, by manual signature,
this Trust Certificate shall not entitle the Holder hereof to any benefit
under the Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement or be valid for
any purpose.
THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE
LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS CONFLICT OF LAW
PROVISIONS, AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER
SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Owner Trustee, on behalf of the Trust and
not in its individual capacity, has caused this Trust Certificate to be duly
executed.
FIRST MERCHANTS AUTO TRUST 1996-C
by:CHASE MANHATTAN BANK DELAWARE, not in
its individual capacity but solely as Owner Trustee
Dated:
by:
Authorized Signatory
OWNER TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Trust Certificates referred to in the within-mentioned
Trust Agreement.
CHASE MANHATTAN BANK DELAWARE, CHASE MANHATTAN BANK DELAWARE,
as Owner Trustee or as Owner Trustee
by:THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK, as
Authenticating Agent
by:
Authorized Signatory
by:
Authorized Signatory
[REVERSE OF TRUST CERTIFICATE]
The Trust Certificates do not represent an obligation of, or an
interest in, the Depositor, the Servicer, the Owner Trustee or any affiliates
of any of them and no recourse may be had against such parties or their
assets, except as expressly set forth or contemplated herein or in the Trust
Agreement or the Basic Documents. In addition, this Trust Certificate is not
guaranteed by any governmental agency or instrumentality and is limited in
right of payment to certain collections and recoveries with respect to the
Receivables (and certain other amounts), all as more specifically set forth
herein and in the Sale and Servicing Agreement. A copy of each of the Sale
and Servicing Agreement and the Trust Agreement may be examined by any
Certificateholder upon written request during normal business hours at the
principal office of the Depositor and at such other places, if any,
designated by the Depositor.
The Trust Agreement permits, with certain exceptions therein provided,
the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of
the Depositor and the rights of the Certificateholders under the Trust
Agreement at any time by the Depositor and the Owner Trustee with the consent
of the Holders of the Trust Certificates and the Notes, each voting as a
class, evidencing not less than a majority of the Certificate Balance and the
outstanding principal balance of the Notes of each class. Any such consent
by the Holder of this Trust Certificate shall be conclusive and binding on such
Holder and on all future Holders of this Trust Certificate and of any Trust
Certificate issued upon the transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu
hereof, whether or not notation of such consent is made upon this Trust
Certificate. The Trust Agreement also permits the amendment thereof, in
certain limited circumstances, without the consent of the Holders of any of
the Trust Certificates.
As provided in the Trust Agreement and subject to certain
limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Trust Certificate is
registerable in the Certificate Register upon surrender of this Trust
Certificate for registration of transfer at the offices or agencies of the
Certificate Registrar maintained by the Owner Trustee in the Borough of
Manhattan, The City of New York, accompanied by a written instrument of
transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate
Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder hereof or such
Certificateholder's attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or
more new Trust Certificates of authorized denominations evidencing the same
aggregate interest in the Trust will be issued to the designated transferee.
The initial Certificate Registrar appointed under the Trust Agreement is The
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, New York.
Except as provided in the Trust Agreement, the Trust Certificates
are issuable only as registered Trust Certificates without coupons in
denominations of $20,000 and in integral multiples of $1,000 in excess
thereof provided, however, that the Trust Certificates issued to the Depositor
pursuant to Section 3.10 of the Trust Agreement may be issued in such
denomination as required to include any residual amount. As provided in the
Trust Agreement and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Trust
Certificates are exchangeable for new Trust Certificates of authorized
denominations evidencing the same aggregate denomination, as requested by the
Certificateholder surrendering the same. No service charge will be made for
any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Owner Trustee or the
Certificate Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any
tax or governmental charge payable in connection therewith.
The Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and any agent of the
Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may treat the Person in whose name
this Trust Certificate is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes,
and none of the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar or any such agent
shall be affected by any notice to the contrary.
The obligations and responsibilities created by the Trust Agreement
and the Trust created thereby shall terminate upon the payment to
Certificateholders of all amounts required to be paid to them pursuant to the
Trust Agreement and the Sale and Servicing Agreement and the disposition of
all property held as part of the Owner Trust Estate. The Servicer of the
Receivables may at its option purchase the Owner Trust Estate at a price
specified in the Sale and Servicing Agreement, and such purchase of the
Receivables and other property of the Trust will effect early retirement of
the Trust Certificates; provided, however, such right of purchase is
exercisable only as of the last day of any Collection Period as of which the
Pool Balance is less than or equal to 10% of the Original Pool Balance. In
addition, in the event that there is any remaining Pre-Funded Amount at the
end of the Funding Period after giving effect to the purchase of all
Subsequent Receivables, including any such purchase on such date, the
Certificates may be subject to partial prepayment on the Mandatory Redemption
Date in the manner and to the extent described in the Sale and Servicing
Agreement.
The Trust Certificates may not be acquired by (a) an employee
benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) that is subject to the
provisions of Title I of ERISA, (b) a plan described in Section 4975(e)(1) of
the Code or (c) any entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by
reason of a plan's investment in the entity or which uses plan assets to
acquire Trust Certificates (each, a "Benefit Plan"). By accepting and
holding this Trust Certificate, the Holder hereof shall be deemed to have
represented and warranted that it is not a Benefit Plan.
ASSIGNMENT
FOR VALUE RECEIVED the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and
transfers unto
PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR
OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE
(Please print or type name and address, including postal zip code, of
assignee)
the within Trust Certificate, and all rights thereunder, and hereby
irrevocably constitutes and appoints , attorney,
to transfer said Trust Certificate on the books of the Certificate Registrar,
with full power of substitution in the premises.
Dated:
___________________________________________*/
Signature Guaranteed:
____________________________*/
_________________
*/NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name
of
the registered owner as it appears on the face of the within Trust
Certificate
in every particular, without alteration, enlargement or any change whatever.
Such signature must be guaranteed by an "eligible guarantor institution"
meeting the requirements of the Certificate Registrar, which requirements
include membership or participation in STAMP or such other "signature
guarantee program" as may be determined by the Certificate Registrar in
addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.EXHIBIT B
Form of Certificate of Trust of First Merchants Auto Trust 1996-C
THIS Certificate of Trust of FIRST MERCHANTS AUTO TRUST 1996-C (the
"Trust"), dated [ ], 1996, is being duly executed and filed by Chase
Manhattan Bank Delaware, a Delaware banking corporation, as trustee, to form a
business trust under the Delaware Business Trust Act (12 Del. Code, §
3801 et seq.).
1. Name. The name of the business trust formed hereby is FIRST
MERCHANTS AUTO TRUST 1996-C.
2. Delaware Trustee. The name and business address of the trustee
of the Trust in the State of Delaware is Chase Manhattan Bank Delaware, 0000
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000, Attention: Corporate Trustee
Administration Department.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, being the sole trustee of the
Trust, has executed this Certificate of Trust as of the date first above
written.
CHASE MANHATTAN BANK DELAWARE,
not in its individual capacity but solely as owner trustee under a Trust
Agreement dated as of [ ], 1996
By:
Name:
Title:
