GTE FLORIDA INCORPORATED AND NATIONSBANK OF GEORGIA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS TRUSTEE INDENTURE Dated as of November 1, 1993 Securities CROSS-REFERENCE TABLE
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GTE FLORIDA INCORPORATED
AND
NATIONSBANK OF GEORGIA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
AS TRUSTEE
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Dated as of November 1, 1993
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Securities
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CROSS-REFERENCE TABLE
Section of
Trust Indenture Act Section of
of 1939, as amended Indenture
310(a)............................. 7.09
310(b)............................. 7.08
7.10
310(c)............................. Inapplicable
311(a)............................. 7.13(a)
311(b)............................. 7.13(b)
311(c)............................. Inapplicable
312(a)............................. 5.01
5.02(a)
312(b)............................. 5.02(b)
312(c)............................. 5.02(c)
313(a)............................. 5.04(a)
313(b)............................. 5.04(b)
313(c)............................. 5.04(a)
5.04(b)
313(d)............................. 5.04(c)
314(a)............................. 5.03
314(b)............................. Inapplicable
314(c)............................. 13.06
314(d)............................. Inapplicable
314(e)............................. 13.06
314(f)............................. Inapplicable
315(a)............................. 7.01(a)
7.02
315(b)............................. 6.07
315(c)............................. 7.01
315(d)............................. 7.01(b)
7.01(c)
315(e)............................. 6.08
316(a)............................. 6.06
8.04
316(b)............................. 6.04
316(c)............................. 8.01
317(a)............................. 6.02
317(b)............................. 4.04
318(a)............................. 13.08
TABLE OF CONTENTS*
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PARTIES..................................................... 1
RECITALS:
Purpose of Indenture........................................ 1
Compliance with legal requirements.......................... 1
Purpose of and consideration for Indenture.................. 1
ARTICLE ONE
DEFINITIONS
SECTION 1.01. Certain terms defined; other terms defined in
Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended or by
reference therein in Securities Act of 1933,
as amended, to have meanings therein
assigned...................................... 2
Affiliate............................................... 2
Authenticating Agent.................................... 2
Board of Directors...................................... 2
Board Resolution........................................ 2
Business day............................................ 2
Certificate............................................. 3
Corporate Trust Office.................................. 3
Company................................................. 3
Default................................................. 3
Event of Default........................................ 3
First Mortgage Bonds.................................... 3
Governmental Obligations................................ 3
Indenture............................................... 4
Interest payment date................................... 4
Officers' Certificate................................... 4
Opinion of Counsel...................................... 4
Outstanding............................................. 4
Predecessor Security.................................... 4
Responsible officer..................................... 5
Security or Securities.................................. 5
Securityholder.......................................... 5
Subsidiary.............................................. 5
Trustee................................................. 5
Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended................. 5
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* This Table of Contents does not constitute part of the
Indenture and should not have any bearing upon the
interpretation of any of its terms or provisions.
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ARTICLE TWO
ISSUE, DESCRIPTION, TERMS, EXECUTION, REGISTRATION
AND EXCHANGE OF SECURITIES
Page
SECTION 2.01. Designation, terms, amount, authentication
and delivery of Securities.......................
6
SECTION 2.02. Form of Securities and Trustee's
certificate..... 7
SECTION 2.03. Date and denominations of Securities, and
provisions for payment of principal, premium
and interest.....................................
7
SECTION 2.04.Execution of
Securities..........................9
SECTION 0.00.Xxxxxxxx of
Securities...........................10
(a) Registration and transfer of Securities...
10
(b) Securities to be accompanied by proper
instruments of transfer.......................
10
(c) Charges upon exchange, transfer or
registration of Securities....................
10
(d) Restrictions on transfer or exchange at
time of redemption............................
10
SECTION 2.06.Temporary
Securities.............................11
SECTION 2.07. Mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen
Securities.......................................
11
SECTION 2.08. Cancellation of surrendered
Securities........... 12
SECTION 2.09. Provisions of Indenture and Securities for
sole benefit of parties and Securityholders......
12
SECTION 2.10.Appointment of Authenticating
Agent..............12
ARTICLE THREE
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES AND SINKING FUND PROVISIONS
SECTION 3.01.Redemption of
Securities.........................13
SECTION 3.02. (a) Notice of redemption......................
13
(b) Selection of Securities in case less than
all Securities to be redeemed.................
13
SECTION 3.03. (a) When Securities called for redemption
become due and payable........................
14
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(b) Receipt of new Security upon partial
payment.......................................
14
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SECTION 3.04. Sinking Fund for
Securities...................... 14
SECTION 3.05. Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with
Securities.......................................
15
SECTION 3.06.Redemption of Securities for Sinking
Fund........15
ARTICLE FOUR
PARTICULAR COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY
SECTION 4.01.Payment of principal of (and premium, if any)
and interest on Securities.......................
15
SECTION 4.02.Maintenance of office or agency for payment
of Securities; designation of office or agency
for payment, registration, transfer-and
exchange of Securities...........................
15
SECTION 4.03. (a) Duties of paying agent....................
16
(b) Company as paying agent...................
16
(c) Holding sums in trust.....................
16
SECTION 4.04. Appointment to fill vacancy in office
of Trustee.......................................
17
SECTION 4.05. Covenant against certain prior
liens.............17
SECTION 4.06. Restriction on consolidation,
merger or sale...................................
18
ARTICLE FIVE
SECURITYHOLDERS' LISTS, AND REPORTS BY THE COMPANY
AND THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 0.00.Xxxxxxx to furnish Trustee information as to
names and addresses of Securityholders...........
18
SECTION 5.02. (a) Trustee to preserve information as to
names and addresses of Securityholders
received by it in capacity of paying agent....
18
(b) Trustee may destroy list of
Securityholders on certain conditions.........
19
(c) Trustee to make information as to names
and addresses of Securityholders available
to "applicants" or mail communications to
Securityholders in certain circumstances......
19
(d) Procedure if Trustee elects not to make
information available to applicants...........
19
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(e) Company and Trustee not accountable for
disclosure of information.....................
20
SECTION 5.03. (a) Annual and other reports to be filed by
Company with Trustee..........................
20
(b) Additional information and reports to be
filed with Trustee and Securities and
Exchange Commission...........................
20
(c) Summaries of information and reports to
be transmitted by Company to Securityholders..
20
(d) Annual Certificate to be furnished to
the Trust.....................................
20
SECTION 5.04. (a) Trustee to transmit annual report to
Securityholders...............................
21
(b) Trustee to transmit certain further
reports to Securityholders....................
21
(c) Copies of reports to be filed with stock
exchanges and Securities and Exchange
Commission....................................
22
ARTICLE SIX
REMEDIES OF THE TRUSTEE AND SECURITYHOLDERS
UPON EVENT OF DEFAULT
SECTION 6.01. (a) Events of Default defined.................
22
(b) Acceleration of maturity upon Event of
Default.......................................
23
(c) Waiver of default and rescission of
declaration of maturity.......................
23
(d) Restoration of former position and rights
upon curing default...........................
24
SECTION 6.02. (a) Covenant of Company to pay to Trustee
whole amount due on Securities on default in
payment of interest or principal (and
premium, if any)..............................
24
(b) Trustee may recover judgment for whole
amount due on Securities on failure of
Company to pay................................
24
(c) Filing of proof of claim by Trustee in
bankruptcy, reorganization or receivership
proceedings...................................
24
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(d) Rights of action and of asserting claims
may be enforced by Trustee without possession
of Securities.................................
25
SECTION 6.03. Application of moneys collected by
Trustee....... 25
SECTION 6.04. Limitation on suits by holders of
Securities..... 25
SECTION 6.05. (a) Remedies cumulative.......................
26
(b) Delay or omission in exercise of rights
not waiver of default.........................
26
SECTION 6.06. Rights of holders of majority in principal
amount of Securities to direct Trustee and to
waive defaults...................................
26
SECTION 6.07. Trustee to give notice of defaults known to
it, but may withhold in certain
circumstances....................................
27
SECTION 6.08. Requirements of an undertaking to pay costs
in certain suits under Indenture or against
Trustee..........................................
27
ARTICLE SEVEN
CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 7.01. (a) Upon Event of Default occurring and
continuing, Trustee shall exercise powers
vested in it, and use same degree of care and
skill in their exercise, as prudent
individual would use..........................
28
(b) Trustee not relieved from liability for
negligence or willful misconduct except as
provided in this section......................
28
(1) Prior to Event of Default and after the
curing of all Events of Default which may
have occurred.................................
28
(i) Trustee not liable except for performance
of duties specifically set forth..............
28
(ii) In absence of bad faith, Trustee may
conclusively rely on certificates or opinions
furnished it hereunder, subject to duty to
examine the same if specifically required to
be furnished to it............................
28
(2) Trustee not liable for error of judgment
made in good faith by responsible officer
unless Trustee negligent......................
28
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(3) Trustee not liable for action or
non-action in accordance with direction of
holders of majority in principal amount of
Securities....................................
28
(4) Trustee need not expend own funds without
adequate indemnity............................
29
SECTION 7.02. Subject to provisions of Section 7.01:
(a) Trustee may rely on documents believed
genuine and properly signed or presented......
29
(b) Sufficient evidence by certain
instruments provided for......................
29
(c) Trustee may consult with counsel and act
on advice or Opinion of Counsel...............
29
(d) Trustee may require indemnity from
Securityholders...............................
29
(e) Trustee not liable for actions in good
faith believed to be authorized...............
29
(f) Prior to Event of Default Trustee not
bound to investigate facts or matters stated
in certificates, etc., unless requested in
writing by Securityholders....................
29
(g) Trustee may perform duties directly or
through agents or attorneys...................
30
SECTION 7.03. (a) Trustee not liable for recitals in
Indenture or in Securities....................
30
(b) No representations by Trustee as to
validity or Indenture or of Securities........
30
(c) Trustee not accountable for use of
Securities or proceeds........................
30
SECTION 7.04. Trustee, paying agent or Security Registrar
may own Securities...............................
30
SECTION 7.05. Moneys received by Trustee to be held in
trust without interest...........................
30
SECTION 7.06. (a) Trustee entitled to compensation,
reimbursement and indemnity...................
30
(b) Obligations to Trustee to be secured by
lien prior to Securities......................
30
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SECTION 7.07. Right of Trustee to rely on certificate of
officers of Company where no other evidence
specifically prescribed..........................
31
SECTION 7.08. (a) Trustee acquiring conflicting interest
to eliminate conflict or resign...............
31
(b) Notice to Securityholders in case of
failure to comply with subsection (a).........
31
(c) Definition of conflicting interest........
31
(d) Definition of certain terms...............
34
(e) Calculation of percentages of Securities..
35
(f) Trustee resignation not required under
certain circumstances.........................
36
SECTION 7.09. Requirements for eligibility of
Trustee.......... 36
SECTION 7.10. (a) Resignation of Trustee and appointment
of successor..................................
37
(b) Removal of Trustee by Company or by court
on Securityholders' application...............
37
(c) Removal of Trustee by holders of majority
in principal amount of Securities.............
37
(d) Time when resignation or removal of
Trustee effective.............................
38
(e) One Trustee for each series...............
38
SECTION 7.11. (a) Acceptance by successor to Trustee........
38
(b) Trustee with respect to less than all
series........................................
38
(c) Company to confirm Trustee's rights.......
39
(d) Successor Trustee to be qualified.........
39
(e) Notice of succession......................
39
SECTION 7.12. Successor to Trustee by merger, consolidation
or succession to business........................
39
SECTION 7.13. (a) Limitations on rights of Trustee as a
creditor to obtain payment of certain claims
within four months prior to default or during
default, or to realize on property as such
creditor thereafter..........................
39
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(b) Certain creditor relationships excluded...
41
(c) Definition of certain terms...............
42
ARTICLE EIGHT
CONCERNING THE SECURITYHOLDERS
SECTION 8.01. Evidence of action by
Securityholders............ 43
SECTION 8.02. Proof of execution of instruments and of
holding of Securities............................
43
SECTION 8.03. Who may be deemed owners of
Securities........... 43
SECTION 8.04. Securities owned by Company or controlled or
controlling companies disregarded for certain
purposes.........................................
44
SECTION 8.05. Instruments executed by Securityholders
bind future holders..............................
44
ARTICLE NINE
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
SECTION 9.01. Purposes for which supplemental indenture may
be entered into without consent of
Securityholders..................................
44
SECTION 9.02. Modification of Indenture with consent of
Securityholders..................................
45
SECTION 9.03. Effect of supplemental
indentures................ 46
SECTION 9.04. Securities may bear notation of changes by
supplemental indentures..........................
46
SECTION 9.05. Opinion of
Counsel............................... 46
ARTICLE TEN
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER AND SALE
SECTION 10.01. Consolidations or mergers of Company and
sales or conveyances of property of
Company permitted...............................
47
SECTION 10.02. (a) Rights and duties of successor
company.... 47
(b) Appropriate changes may be made in
phraseology and form of Securities............
48
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(c) Company may consolidate or merge into
itself or acquire properties of other
corporations..................................
48
SECTION 10.03. Opinion of
Counsel.............................. 48
ARTICLE ELEVEN
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE;
UNCLAIMED MONEYS
SECTION 11.01. Satisfaction and discharge of
Indenture......... 48
SECTION 11.02. Discharge of Company's
Obligations.............. 49
SECTION 11.03. Application by Trustee of funds deposited
for payment of Securities.......................
49
SECTION 11.04. Repayment of moneys held by paying
agent........ 49
SECTION 11.05. Repayment of moneys held by
Trustee............. 49
ARTICLE TWELVE
IMMUNITY OF INCORPORATORS, STOCKHOLDERS,
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS
SECTION 12.01. Incorporators, stockholders, officers and
directors of Company exempt from individual
liability.......................................
49
ARTICLE THIRTEEN
SUNDRY PROVISIONS
SECTION 13.01. Successors and assigns of Company bound by
Indenture.......................................
50
SECTION 13.02. Acts of board, committee or officer of
successor company valid.........................
50
SECTION 13.03. Surrender of powers by
Company.................. 50
SECTION 13.04. Required notices or demands may be served
by mail.........................................
50
SECTION 13.05. Indenture and Securities to be construed in
accordance with laws of the State of
New York........................................
50
SECTION 13.06. (a) Officers' Certificate and Opinion of
Counsel to be furnished upon applications or
demands by Company............................
51
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(b) Statements to be included in each
certificate or opinion with respect to
compliance with condition or covenant.........
51
SECTION 13.07. Payments due on Sundays or
holidays............. 51
SECTION 13.08. Provisions required by Trust Indenture Act of
1939 to control...............................
51
SECTION 13.09. Indenture may be executed in
counterparts....... 51
SECTION 13.10. Separability of Indenture
provisions............ 51
ACCEPTANCE OF TRUST BY
TRUSTEE.................................. 52
TESTIMONIUM....................................................
. 52
SIGNATURES AND
SEALS............................................ 52
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS................................................
. 53
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THIS INDENTURE, dated as of the 1st day of November, 1993,
between GTE FLORIDA INCORPORATED, a corporation duly organized
and existing under the laws of the State of Florida
(hereinafter sometimes referred to as the "Company"), and
NATIONSBANK OF GEORGIA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a national
banking association organized and existing under the laws of
the United States of America, as trustee (hereinafter sometimes
referred to as the "Trustee"):
WHEREAS, for its lawful corporate purposes, the Company
has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this
Indenture to provide for the issuance of unsecured securities,
debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness
(hereinafter referred to as the "Securities"), in an unlimited
aggregate principal amount to be issued from time to time in
one or more series as in this Indenture provided as registered
Securities without coupons, to be authenticated by the
certificate of the Trustee;
WHEREAS, to provide the terms and conditions upon which
the Securities are to be authenticated, issued and delivered,
the Company has duly authorized the execution of this
Indenture;
WHEREAS, the Securities and the certificate of
authentication to be borne by the Securities (the "Certificate
of Authentication") are to be substantially in such forms as
may be approved by the Board of Directors (as defined below) or
set forth in any indenture supplemental to this Indenture;
AND WHEREAS, all acts and things necessary to make the
Securities issued pursuant hereto, when executed by the Company
and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee as in this
Indenture provided, the valid, binding and legal obligations of
the Company, and to constitute these presents a valid indenture
and agreement according to its terms, have been done and
performed or will be done and performed prior to the issuance
of such Securities, and the execution of this Indenture and the
issuance hereunder of the Securities have been or will be prior
to issuance in all respects duly authorized, and the Company,
in the exercise of the legal right and power in it vested,
executes this Indenture and proposes to make, execute, issue
and deliver the Securities;
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
That in order to declare the terms and conditions upon
which the Securities are and are to be authenticated, issued
and delivered, and in consideration of the premises, of the
purchase and acceptance of the Securities by the holders
thereof and of the sum of one dollar ($1.00) to it duly paid by
the Trustee at the execution of these presents, the receipt
whereof is hereby acknowledged, the Company covenants and
agrees with the Trustee, for the equal and proportionate
benefit (subject to the provisions of this Indenture) of the
respective holders from time to time of the Securities, without
any discrimination, preference or priority of any one Security
over any other by reason of priority in the time of issue, sale
or negotiation thereof, or otherwise, except as provided
herein, as follows:
ARTICLE ONE
Definitions
SECTION 1.01. The terms defined in this Section (except as
in this Indenture otherwise expressly provided or unless the
context otherwise requires) for all purposes of this Indenture,
any resolution of the Board of Directors of the Company and of
any indenture supplemental hereto shall have the respective
meanings specified in this Section. All other terms used in
this Indenture which are defined in the Trust Indenture Act of
1939, as amended, or which are by reference in such Act defined
in the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (except as herein
otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise
requires), shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in
said Trust Indenture Act and in said Securities Act as in force
at the date of the execution of this instrument.
Affiliate:
The term "Affiliate" of the Company shall mean any company at
least a majority of whose outstanding voting stock shall at the
time be owned by GTE Corporation, a New York corporation, or by
one or more direct or indirect subsidiaries of GTE Corporation
or by GTE Corporation and one or more direct or indirect
subsidiaries of GTE Corporation. For the purposes only of this
definition of the term "Affiliate", the term "voting stock", as
applied to the stock of any company, shall mean stock of any
class or classes having ordinary voting power for the election
of a majority of the directors of such company, other than
stock having such power only by reason of the occurrence of a
contingency.
Authenticating Agent:
The term "Authenticating Agent" means an authenticating agent
with respect to all or any of the series of Securities, as the
case may be, appointed with respect to all or any series of the
Securities, as the case may be, by the Trustee pursuant to
Section 2.10.
Board of Directors:
The term "Board of Directors" shall mean the Board of Directors
of the Company, or an Executive or Special Committee of such
Board.
Board Resolution:
The term "Board Resolution" shall mean a copy of a resolution
certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the
Company to have been duly adopted by the Board of Directors and
to be in full force and effect on the date of such
certification.
Business day:
The term "business day", with respect to any series of
securities, shall mean any day other than a day on which
banking institutions in the City of Atlanta, County of Xxxxxx,
State of Georgia or the Borough of Manhattan, the City and
State of New York, as the case may be (depending on whether an
office or agency of the Company is being maintained in either
such city with respect to any such series), are authorized or
obligated by law or executive order to close.
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Certificate:
The term "Certificate" shall mean a certificate signed by the
principal executive officer, the principal financial officer or
the principal accounting officer of the Company. The
Certificate need not comply with the provisions of Section
13.06.
Corporate Trust Office:
The term "Corporate Trust Office" shall mean the office of the
Trustee at which at any particular time its corporate trust
business shall be principally administered, which office at the
date of the execution of this Indenture is located at 000
Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 000, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx 00000.
Company:
The term "Company" shall mean GTE Florida Incorporated, a
corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the
State of Florida, and, subject to the provisions of Article
Ten, shall also include its successors and assigns.
Default:
The term "Default" shall mean any event, act or condition which
with notice or lapse of time, or both, would constitute an
Event of Default.
Event of Default:
The term "Event of Default" with respect to Securities of a
particular series shall mean any event specified in Section
6.01, continued for the period of time, if any, therein
designated.
First Mortgage Bonds:
The term "First Mortgage Bonds" shall mean the bonds
outstanding from time to time issued by the Company under and
secured by an Indenture dated as of November 1, 1950, between
Peninsular Telephone Company (now the Company) and Chemical
Bank (formerly known as Chemical Bank & Trust Company, Chemical
Corn Exchange Bank and Chemical Bank of New York Trust Company)
and NationsBank of Florida, National Association (formerly
known as NCNB National Bank of Florida, Exchange Bank and Trust
Company of Florida and The Exchange National Bank of Tampa), as
trustees, as amended and supplemented, and (b) the mortgage
notes on warehouse facilities entered into by the Company on
November 30, 1982 which expire by their terms on July 1, 1994
and January 1, 1999.
Governmental Obligations:
The term, "Governmental Obligations" shall mean securities that
are (i) direct obligations of the United States of America for
the payment of which its full faith and credit is pledged or
(ii) obligations of a person controlled or supervised by and
acting as an agency or instrumentality of the United States of
America, the payment of which is unconditionally guaranteed as
a full faith and credit obligation by the United States of
America, which, in either case, are not callable or redeemable
at the option of the issuer thereof, and shall also include a
depository receipt issued by a bank (as defined in Section
3(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended) as custodian
with respect to any such Governmental Obligation or a specific
payment of principal of or interest on any such Governmental
Obligation held by such custodian for the account of the holder
of such depository receipt; provided that (except as required
by law) such custodian is not authorized to make any deduction
from the amount payable to the holder of such depository
receipt from any amount received by the custodian in respect of
the Governmental Obligation or the specific payment of
principal of or interest on the Governmental Obligation
evidenced by such depository receipt.
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Indenture:
The term "Indenture" shall mean this instrument as originally
executed, or, if amended or supplemented as herein provided, as
so amended or supplemented.
Interest payment date:
The term "interest payment date" when used with respect to any
installment of interest on a Security of a particular series
shall mean the date specified in such Security or in a Board
Resolution or in an indenture supplemental hereto with respect
to such series as the fixed date on which an installment of
interest with respect to Securities of that series is due and
payable.
Officers' Certificate:
The term "Officers' Certificate" shall mean a certificate
signed by the President or a Vice President and by the
Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer or the Controller or an
Assistant Controller or the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary
of the Company. Each such certificate shall include the
statements provided for in Section 13.06, if and to the extent
required by the provisions thereof.
Opinion of Counsel:
The term "Opinion of Counsel" shall mean an opinion in writing
signed by legal counsel, who shall be satisfactory to the
Trustee and who may be an employee of or counsel for the
Company. Each such opinion shall include the statements
provided for in Section 13.06, if and to the extent required by
the provisions thereof.
Outstanding:
The term "outstanding", when used with reference to Securities
of any series, shall, subject to the provisions of Section
8.04, mean, as of any particular time, all Securities of that
series theretofore authenticated and delivered by the Trustee
under this Indenture, except (a) Securities theretofore
cancelled by the Trustee or any paying agent, or delivered to
the Trustee or any paying agent for cancellation or which have
previously been cancelled; (b) Securities or portions thereof
for the payment or redemption of which moneys or Governmental
Obligations in the necessary amount shall have been deposited
in trust with the Trustee or with any paying agent (other than
the Company) or shall have been set aside and segregated in
trust by the Company (if the Company shall act as its own
paying agent); provided, however, that if such Securities or
portions of such Securities are to be redeemed prior to the
maturity thereof, notice of such redemption shall have been
given as in Article Three provided, or provision satisfactory
to the Trustee shall have been made for giving such notice; and
(c) Securities in lieu of or in substitution for which other
Securities shall have been authenticated and delivered pursuant
to the terms of Section 2.07.
Predecessor Security:
The term "Predecessor Security" of any particular Security
shall mean every previous Security evidencing all or a portion
of the same debt as that evidenced by such particular Security;
and, for the purposes of this definition, any Security
authenticated and delivered under Section 2.07 in lieu of a
lost, destroyed or stolen Security shall be deemed to evidence
the same debt as the lost, destroyed or stolen Security.
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Responsible officer:
The term "responsible officer" when used with respect to the
Trustee shall mean the chairman of the board of directors, the
president, any vice president, the secretary, the treasurer,
any trust officer, any corporate trust officer or any other
officer or assistant officer of the Trustee customarily
performing functions similar to those performed by the persons
who at the time shall be such officers, respectively, or to
whom any corporate trust matter is referred because of his or
her knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject.
Security or Securities:
The term "Security" or "Securities" shall mean any Security or
Securities, as the case may be, authenticated and delivered
under this Indenture.
Securityholder:
The term "Securityholder", "holder of Securities", "registered
holder", or other similar term, shall mean the person or
persons in whose name or names a particular Security shall be
registered on the books of the Company kept for that purpose in
accordance with the terms of this Indenture.
Subsidiary:
The term "Subsidiary" shall mean any corporation at least a
majority of whose outstanding voting stock shall at the time be
owned by the Company or by one or more Subsidiaries or by the
Company and one or more Subsidiaries. For the purposes only of
this definition of the term "Subsidiary", the term "voting
stock", as applied to the stock of any corporation, shall mean
stock of any class or classes having ordinary voting power for
the election of a majority of the directors of such
corporation, other than stock having such power only by reason
of the occurrence of a contingency.
Trustee:
The term "Trustee" shall mean NationsBank of Georgia, National
Association and, subject to the provisions of Article Seven,
shall also include its successors and assigns, and, if at any
time there is more than one person acting in such capacity
hereunder, "Trustee" shall mean each such person. The term
"Trustee" as used with respect to a particular series of the
Securities shall mean the trustee with respect to that series.
Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended:
The term "Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended," subject to
the provisions of Sections 9.01, 9.02, and 10.01, shall mean
the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended and in effect at
the date of execution of this Indenture.
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ARTICLE TWO
Issue, Description, Terms, Execution,
Registration and Exchange of Securities
SECTION 2.01. The aggregate principal amount of Securities
which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture
is unlimited.
The Securities may be issued in one or more series up to
the aggregate principal amount of Securities of that series
from time to time authorized by or pursuant to a Board
Resolution or pursuant to one or more indentures supplemental
hereto, prior to the initial issuance of Securities of a
particular series. Prior to the initial issuance of Securities
of any series, there shall be established in or pursuant to a
Board Resolution, and set forth in an Officers' Certificate, or
established in one or more indentures supplemental hereto:
(1) the title of the Securities of the series (which
shall distinguish the Securities of the series from all
other Securities);
(2) any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of
the Securities of that series which may be authenticated
and delivered under this Indenture (except for Securities
authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer
of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Securities of
that series);
(3) the date or dates on which the principal of the
Securities of the series is payable;
(4) the rate or rates at which the Securities of the
series shall bear interest or the manner of calculation of
such rate or rates, if any, the date or dates from which
such interest shall accrue, the interest payment dates on
which such interest shall be payable or the manner of
determination of such interest payment dates;
(5) the period or periods within which, the price or
prices at which and the terms and conditions upon which,
Securities of the series may be redeemed, in whole or in
part, at the option of the Company;
(6) the obligation, if any, of the Company to redeem
or purchase Securities of the series pursuant to any
sinking fund or analogous provisions (including payments
made in cash in anticipation of future sinking fund
obligations) or at the option of a holder thereof and the
period or periods within which, the price or prices at
which, and the terms and conditions upon which, Securities
of the series shall be redeemed or purchased, in whole or
in part, pursuant to such obligation;
(7) the form of the Securities of the series
including the form of the Certificate of Authentication
for such series;
(8) if other than denominations of $1,000 or any
integral multiple thereof, the denominations in which the
Securities of the series shall be issuable; and
(9) any and all other terms with respect to such
series (which terms shall not be inconsistent with the
terms of this Indenture).
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All Securities of any one series shall be substantially
identical except as to denomination and except as may otherwise
be provided in or pursuant to any such Board Resolution or in
any indentures supplemental hereto.
If any of the terms of the series are established by
action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution, a copy of an
appropriate record of such action shall be certified by the
Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company and
delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the
Officers' Certificate setting forth the terms of the series.
SECTION 2.02. The Securities of any series and the
Trustee's Certificate of Authentication to be borne by such
Securities shall be substantially of the tenor and purport as
set forth in one or more indentures supplemental hereto or as
provided in a Board Resolution and as set forth in an Officers'
Certificate, and may have such letters, numbers or other marks
of identification or designation and such legends or
endorsements printed, lithographed or engraved thereon as the
Company may deem appropriate and as are not inconsistent with
the provisions of this Indenture, or as may be required to
comply with any law or with any rule or regulation made
pursuant thereto or with any rule or regulation of any stock
exchange on which Securities of that series may be listed, or
to conform to usage.
SECTION 2.03. The Securities shall be issuable as
registered Securities and in the denominations of $1,000 or any
multiple thereof, subject to Section 2.01(8). The Securities of
a particular series shall bear interest payable on the dates
and at the rate specified with respect to that series. The
principal of and the interest on the Securities of any series,
as well as any premium thereon in case of redemption thereof
prior to maturity, shall be payable in the coin or currency of
the United States of America which at the time is legal tender
for public and private debt, at the office or agency of the
Company maintained for that purpose in either the City of
Atlanta, County of Xxxxxx, State of Georgia or the Borough of
Manhattan, the City and State of New York. Each Security shall
be dated the date of its authentication. Interest on the
Securities shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year
composed of twelve 30-day months; provided that interest on
Securities bearing interest of a floating rate shall be
computed on the basis of a year of 365 or 366 days, as
appropriate, for the actual number of days elapsed.
The interest installment on any Security which is payable,
and is punctually paid or duly provided for, on any interest
payment date for Securities of that series shall be paid to the
person in whose name said Security (or one or more Predecessor
Securities) is registered at the close of business on the
regular record date for such interest installment. In the event
that any Security of a particular series or portion thereof is
called for redemption and the redemption date is subsequent to
a regular record date with respect to any interest payment date
and prior to such interest payment date, interest on such
Security will be paid upon presentation and surrender of such
Security as provided in Section 3.03.
Any interest on any Security which is payable, but is not
punctually paid or duly provided for, on any interest payment
date for Securities of the same series (herein called
"Defaulted Interest") shall forthwith cease to be payable to
the registered holder on the relevant regular record date by
virtue of having been such holder; and such Defaulted Interest
shall be paid by the Company, at its election, as provided in
clause (1) or clause (2) below:
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(1) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted
Interest on Securities to the persons in whose names such
Securities (or their respective Predecessor Securities)
are registered at the close of business on a special
record date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest,
which shall be fixed in the following manner: the Company
shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of
Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each such
Security and the date of the proposed payment, and at the
same time the Company shall deposit with the Trustee an
amount of money equal to the aggregate amount proposed to
be paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest or shall
make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for such
deposit prior to the date of the proposed payment, such
money when deposited to be held in trust for the benefit
of the persons entitled to such Defaulted Interest as in
this clause provided. Thereupon the Trustee shall fix a
special record date for the payment of such Defaulted
Interest which shall not be more than 15 or less than 10
days prior to the date of the proposed payment and not
less than 10 days after the receipt by the Trustee of the
notice of the proposed payment. The Trustee shall promptly
notify the Company of such special record date and, in the
name and at the expense of the Company, shall cause notice
of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the
special record date therefor to be mailed, first class
postage prepaid, to each Securityholder at his or her
address as it appears in the Security Register (as
hereinafter defined), not less than 10 days prior to such
special record date. Notice of the proposed payment of
such Defaulted Interest and the special record date
therefor having been mailed as aforesaid, such Defaulted
Interest shall be paid to the persons in whose names such
Securities (or their respective Predecessor Securities)
are registered on such special record date and shall be no
longer payable pursuant to the following clause (2).
(2) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted
Interest on any Securities in any other lawful manner not
inconsistent with the requirements of any securities
exchange on which such Securities may be listed, and upon
such notice as may be required by such exchange, if, after
notice given by the Company to the Trustee of the proposed
payment pursuant to this clause, such manner of payment
shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.
The term "regular record date" as used in this Section
with respect to a series of Securities with respect to any
interest payment date for such series shall mean either the
fifteenth day of the month immediately preceding the month in
which an interest payment date established for such series
pursuant to Section 2.01 hereof shall occur, if such interest
payment date is the first day of a month, or the last day of
the month immediately preceding the month in which an interest
payment date established for such series pursuant to Section
2.01 hereof shall occur, if such interest payment date is the
fifteenth day of a month, whether or not such date is a
business day.
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section, each
Security of a series delivered under this Indenture upon
transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of any other Security
of such series shall carry the rights to interest accrued and
unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other
Security.
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SECTION 2.04. The Securities shall, subject to the
provisions of Section 2.06, be printed on steel engraved
borders or fully or partially engraved, or legibly typed, as
the proper officers of the Company may determine, and shall be
signed on behalf of the Company by its President or one of its
Vice Presidents, under its corporate seal attested by its
Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries. The signature
of the President or a Vice President and/or the signature of
the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary in attestation of the
corporate seal, upon the Securities, may be in the form of a
facsimile signature of a present or any future President or
Vice President and of a present or any future Secretary or
Assistant Secretary and may be imprinted or otherwise
reproduced on the Securities and for that purpose the Company
may use the facsimile signature of any person who shall have
been a President or Vice President, or of any person who shall
have been a Secretary or Assistant Secretary, notwithstanding
the fact that at the time the Securities shall be authenticated
and delivered or disposed of such person shall have ceased to
be the President or a Vice President, or the Secretary or an
Assistant Secretary, of the Company, as the case may be. The
seal of the Company may be in the form of a facsimile of the
seal of the Company and may be impressed, affixed, imprinted or
otherwise reproduced on the Securities.
Only such Securities as shall bear thereon a certificate
of authentication substantially in the form established for
such Securities, executed manually by an authorized signatory
of the Trustee, or by any Authenticating Agent with respect to
such Securities, shall be entitled to the benefits of this
Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose. Such
certificate executed by the Trustee, or by any Authenticating
Agent appointed by the Trustee with respect to such Securities,
upon any Security executed by the Company shall be conclusive
evidence that the Security so authenticated has been duly
authenticated and delivered hereunder and that the holder is
entitled to the benefits of this Indenture.
At any time and from time to time after the execution and
delivery of this Indenture, the Company may deliver Securities
of any series executed by the Company to the Trustee for
authentication, together with a written order of the Company
for the authentication and delivery of such Securities, signed
by its President or any Vice President and its Treasurer or any
Assistant Treasurer, and the Trustee in accordance with such
written order shall authenticate and deliver such Securities.
In authenticating such Securities and accepting the
additional responsibilities under this Indenture in relation to
such Securities, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and
(subject to Section 7.01) shall be fully protected in relying
upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating that the form and terms
thereof have been established in conformity with the provisions
of this Indenture and that such Securities, when authenticated
and delivered by the Trustee, will be duly authorized, executed
and delivered and will constitute the legal, valid and binding
obligations of the Company, enforceable against it in
accordance with their terms.
The Trustee shall not be required to authenticate such
Securities if the issue of such Securities pursuant to this
Indenture will affect the Trustee's own rights, duties or
immunities under the Securities and this Indenture or otherwise
in a manner which is not reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.
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SECTION 2.05. (a) Securities of any series may be
exchanged upon presentation thereof at the office or agency of
the Company designated for such purpose in either the City of
Atlanta, County of Xxxxxx, State of Georgia, or the Borough of
Manhattan, the City and State of New York, for other Securities
of such series of authorized denominations, and for a like
aggregate principal amount, upon payment of a sum sufficient to
cover any tax or other governmental charge in relation thereto,
all as provided in this Section. In respect of any Securities
so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute, the
Trustee shall authenticate and such office or agency shall
deliver in exchange therefor the Security or Securities of the
same series which the Securityholder making the exchange shall
be entitled to receive, bearing numbers not contemporaneously
outstanding.
(b) The Company shall keep, or cause to be kept, at its
office or agency designated for such purpose in either the City
of Atlanta, County of Xxxxxx, State of Georgia, or the Borough
of Manhattan, the City and State of New York, or such other
location designated by the Company a register or registers
(herein referred to as the "Security Register") in which,
subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the
Company shall register the Securities and the transfers of
Securities as in this Article provided and which at all
reasonable times shall be open for inspection by the Trustee.
The registrar for the purpose of registering Securities and
transfer of Securities as herein provided shall be appointed by
the Board of Directors by Board Resolution (the "Security
Registrar").
Upon surrender for transfer of any Security at the office
or agency of the Company designated for such purpose in either
the City of Atlanta, County of Xxxxxx, State of Georgia, or the
Borough of Manhattan, the City and State of New York, the
Company shall execute, the Trustee shall authenticate and such
office or agency shall deliver in the name of the transferee or
transferees a new Security or Securities of the same series as
the Security presented for a like aggregate principal amount.
All Securities presented or surrendered for exchange or
registration of transfer, as provided in this Section, shall be
accompanied (if so required by the Company or the Security
Registrar) by a written instrument or instruments of transfer,
in form satisfactory to the Company or the Security Registrar,
duly executed by the registered holder or by his duly
authorized attorney in writing.
(c) No service charge shall be made for any exchange or
registration of transfer of Securities, or issue of new
Securities in case of partial redemption of any series, but the
Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any
tax or other governmental charge in relation thereto, other
than exchanges pursuant to Section 2.06, the second paragraph
of Section 3.03 and Section 9.04 not involving any transfer.
(d) The Company shall not be required (a) to issue,
exchange or register the transfer of any Securities during a
period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before the
day of the mailing of a notice of redemption of less than all
the outstanding Securities of the same series and ending at the
close of business on the day of such mailing, nor (b) to
register the transfer of or exchange any Securities of any
series or portions thereof called for redemption.
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SECTION 2.06. Pending the preparation of definitive
Securities of any series, the Company may execute, and the
Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, temporary Securities
(printed, lithographed or typewritten) of any authorized
denomination, and substantially in the form of the definitive
Securities in lieu of which they are issued, but with such
omissions, insertions and variations as may be appropriate for
temporary Securities, all as may be determined by the Company.
Every temporary Security of any series shall be executed by the
Company and be authenticated by the Trustee upon the same
conditions and in substantially the same manner, and with like
effect, as the definitive Securities of such series. Without
unnecessary delay the Company will execute and will furnish
definitive Securities of such series and thereupon any or all
temporary Securities of such series may be surrendered in
exchange therefor (without charge to the holders), at the
office or agency of the Company designated for the purpose in
either the City of Atlanta, County of Xxxxxx, State of Georgia,
or the Borough of Manhattan, the City and State of New York,
and the Trustee shall authenticate and such office or agency
shall deliver in exchange for such temporary Securities an
equal aggregate principal amount of definitive Securities of
such series. Until so exchanged, the temporary Securities of
such series shall be entitled to the same benefits under this
Indenture as definitive Securities of such series authenticated
and delivered hereunder.
SECTION 2.07. In case any temporary or definitive Security
shall become mutilated or be destroyed, lost or stolen, the
Company (subject to the next succeeding sentence) shall
execute, and upon its request the Trustee (subject as
aforesaid) shall authenticate and deliver, a new Security of
the same series bearing a number not contemporaneously
outstanding, in exchange and substitution for the mutilated
Security, or in lieu of and in substitution for the Security so
destroyed, lost or stolen. In every case the applicant for a
substituted Security shall furnish to the Company and to the
Trustee such security or indemnity as may be required by them
to save each of them harmless, and, in every case of
destruction, loss or theft, the applicant shall also furnish to
the Company and to the Trustee evidence to their satisfaction
of the destruction, loss or theft of the applicant's Security
and of the ownership thereof. The Trustee may authenticate any
such substituted Security and deliver the same upon the written
request or authorization of any officer of the Company. Upon
the issue of any substituted Security, the Company may require
the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and
any other expenses (including the fees and expenses of the
Trustee) connected therewith. In case any Security which has
matured or is about to mature shall become mutilated or be
destroyed, lost or stolen, the Company may, instead of issuing
a substitute Security, pay or authorize the payment of the same
(without surrender thereof except in the case of a mutilated
Security) if the applicant for such payment shall furnish to
the Company and to the Trustee such security or indemnity as
they may require to save them harmless, and, in case of
destruction, loss or theft, evidence to the satisfaction of the
Company and the Trustee of the destruction, loss or theft of
such Security and of the ownership thereof.
Every Security issued pursuant to the provisions of this
Section in substitution for any Security which is mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen shall constitute an additional
contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be found at
any time, or be enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to
all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately
with any and all other Securities of the same series duly
issued hereunder. All Securities shall be
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held and owned upon the express condition that the foregoing
provisions are
exclusive with respect to the replacement or payment of
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities, and shall
preclude (to the extent lawful) any and all other rights or
remedies, notwithstanding any law or statute existing or
hereafter enacted to the contrary with respect to the
replacement or payment of negotiable instruments or other
securities without their surrender.
SECTION 2.08. All Securities surrendered for the purpose
of payment, redemption, exchange or registration of transfer
shall, if surrendered to the Company or any paying agent, be
delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, or, if surrendered
to the Trustee, shall be cancelled by it, and no Securities
shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly required or
permitted by any of the provisions of this Indenture. On
request of the Company, the Trustee shall deliver to the
Company cancelled Securities held by the Trustee. In the
absence of such request the Trustee may dispose of cancelled
Securities in accordance with its standard procedures and
deliver a certificate of disposition to the Company. If the
Company shall otherwise acquire any of the Securities, however,
such acquisition shall not operate as a redemption or
satisfaction of the indebtedness represented by such Securities
unless and until the same are delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation.
SECTION 2.09. Nothing in this Indenture or in the
Securities, express or implied, shall give or be construed to
give to any person, firm or corporation, other than the parties
hereto and the holders of the Securities, any legal or
equitable right, remedy or claim under or in respect of this
Indenture, or under any covenant, condition or provision herein
contained; all such covenants, conditions and provisions being
for the sole benefit of the parties hereto and of the holders
of the Securities.
SECTION 2.10. So long as any of the Securities of any
series remain outstanding there may be an Authenticating Agent
for any or all such series of Securities which the Trustee
shall have the right to appoint. Said Authenticating Agent
shall be authorized to act on behalf of the Trustee to
authenticate Securities of such series issued upon exchange,
transfer or partial redemption thereof, and Securities so
authenticated shall be entitled to the benefits of this
Indenture and shall be valid and obligatory for all purposes as
if authenticated by the Trustee hereunder. All references in
this Indenture to the authentication of Securities by the
Trustee shall be deemed to include authentication by an
Authenticating Agent for such series except for authentication
upon original issuance or pursuant to Section 2.07 hereof. Each
Authenticating Agent shall be acceptable to the Company and
shall be a corporation which has a combined capital and
surplus, as most recently reported or determined by it,
sufficient under the laws of any jurisdiction under which it is
organized or in which it is doing business to conduct a trust
business, and which is otherwise authorized under such laws to
conduct such business and is subject to supervision or
examination by Federal or State authorities. If at any time any
Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance
with these provisions, it shall resign immediately.
Any Authenticating Agent may at any time resign by giving
written notice of resignation to the Trustee and to the
Company. The Trustee may at any time (and upon request by the
Company shall) terminate the agency of any Authenticating Agent
by giving written notice of termination to such Authenticating
Agent and to the Company. Upon resignation, termination or
cessation of eligibility of any Authenticating Agent, the
Trustee may appoint an eligible successor Authenticating Agent
acceptable to the Company. Any
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successor Authenticating Agent, upon acceptance of its
appointment hereunder, shall become vested with all the rights,
powers and duties of its predecessor hereunder as if originally
named as an Authenticating Agent pursuant hereto.
ARTICLE THREE
Redemption of Securities and Sinking Fund Provisions
SECTION 3.01. The Company may redeem the Securities of any
series issued hereunder on and after the dates and in
accordance with the terms established for such series pursuant
to Section 2.01 hereof.
SECTION 3.02. (a) In case the Company shall desire to
exercise such right to redeem all or, as the case may be, a
portion of the Securities of any series in accordance with the
right reserved so to do, it shall give notice of such
redemption to holders of the Securities of such series to be
redeemed by mailing, first class postage prepaid, a notice of
such redemption not less than 30 days and not more than 60 days
before the date fixed for redemption of that series to such
holders at their last addresses as they shall appear upon the
Security Register. Any notice which is mailed in the manner
herein provided shall be conclusively presumed to have been
duly given, whether or not the registered holder receives the
notice. In any case, failure duly to give such notice to the
holder of any Security of any series designated for redemption
in whole or in part, or any defect in the notice, shall not
affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption of
any other Securities of such series or any other series. In the
case of any redemption of Securities prior to the expiration of
any restriction on such redemption provided in the terms of
such Securities or elsewhere in this Indenture, the Company
shall furnish the Trustee with an Officers' Certificate
evidencing compliance with any such restriction.
Each such notice of redemption shall specify the date
fixed for redemption and the redemption price at which
Securities of that series are to be redeemed, and shall state
that payment of the redemption price of such Securities to be
redeemed will be made at the office or agency of the Company in
either the City of Atlanta, County of Xxxxxx, State of Georgia,
or the Borough of Manhattan, the City and State of New York,
upon presentation and surrender of such Securities, that
interest accrued to the date fixed for redemption will be paid
as specified in said notice, that from and after said date
interest will cease to accrue and that the redemption is for a
sinking fund, if such is the case. If less than all the
Securities of a series are to be redeemed, the notice to the
holders of Securities of that series to be redeemed in whole or
in part shall specify the particular Securities to be so
redeemed. In case any Security is to be redeemed in part only,
the notice which relates to such Security shall state the
portion of the principal amount thereof to be redeemed, and
shall state that on and after the redemption date, upon
surrender of such Security, a new Security or Securities of
such series in principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion
thereof will be issued.
(b) If less than all the Securities of a series are to be
redeemed, the Company shall give the Trustee at least 45 days'
notice in advance of the date fixed for redemption as to the
aggregate principal amount of Securities of the series to be
redeemed, and thereupon the Trustee shall select, by lot or in
such other manner as it shall deem appropriate and fair in its
discretion and which may provide for the selection of a portion
or portions (equal to $1,000 or any multiple thereof) of the
principal amount of such Securities of a denomination larger
than $1,000, the Securities to be redeemed and shall thereafter
promptly notify the Company in writing of the numbers of the
Securities to be redeemed, in whole or in part.
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The Company may, if and whenever it shall so elect, by
delivery of instructions signed on its behalf by its President
or any Vice President, instruct the Trustee or any paying agent
to call all or any part of the Securities of a particular
series for redemption and to give notice of redemption in the
manner set forth in this Section, such notice to be in the name
of the Company or its own name as the Trustee or such paying
agent may deem advisable. In any case in which notice of
redemption is to be given by the Trustee or any such paying
agent, the Company shall deliver or cause to be delivered to,
or permit to remain with, the Trustee or such paying agent, as
the case may be, such Security Register, transfer books or
other records, or suitable copies or extracts therefrom,
sufficient to enable the Trustee or such paying agent to give
any notice by mail that may be required under the provisions of
this Section.
SECTION 3.03. (a) If the giving of notice of redemption
shall have been completed as above provided, the Securities or
portions of Securities of the series to be redeemed specified
in such notice shall become due and payable on the date and at
the place stated in such notice at the applicable redemption
price, together with interest accrued to the date fixed for
redemption and interest on such Securities or portions of
Securities shall cease to accrue on and after the date fixed
for redemption, unless the Company shall default in the payment
of such redemption price and accrued interest with respect to
any such Security or portion thereof. On presentation and
surrender of such Securities on or after the date fixed for
redemption at the place of payment specified in the notice,
said Securities shall be paid and redeemed at the applicable
redemption price for such series, together with interest
accrued thereon to the date fixed for redemption (but if the
date fixed for redemption is an interest payment date, the
interest installment payable on such date shall be payable to
the registered holder at the close of business on the
applicable record date pursuant to Section 2.03).
(b) Upon presentation of any Security of such series which
is to be redeemed in part only, the Company shall execute and
the Trustee shall authenticate and the office or agency where
the Security is presented shall deliver to the holder thereof,
at the expense of the Company, a new Security or Securities of
the same series, of authorized denominations in principal
amount equal to the unredeemed portion of the Security so
presented.
SECTION 3.04. The provisions of Sections 3.04, 3.05 and
3.06 shall be applicable to any sinking fund for the retirement
of Securities of a series, except as otherwise specified as
contemplated by Section 2.01 for Securities of such series.
The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided
for by the terms of Securities of any series is herein referred
to as a "mandatory sinking fund payment", and any payment in
excess of such minimum amount provided for by the terms of
Securities of any series is herein referred to as an "optional
sinking fund payment". If provided for by the terms of
Securities of any series, the cash amount of any sinking fund
payment may be subject to reduction as provided in Section
3.05. Each sinking fund payment shall be applied to the
redemption of Securities of any series as provided for by the
terms of Securities of such series.
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SECTION 3.05. The Company (1) may deliver Outstanding
Securities of a series (other than any previously called for
redemption) and (2) may apply as a credit Securities of a
series which have been redeemed either at the election of the
Company pursuant to the terms of such Securities or through the
application of permitted optional sinking fund payments
pursuant to the terms of such Securities, in each case in
satisfaction of all or any part of any sinking fund payment
with respect to the Securities of such series required to be
made pursuant to the terms of such Securities as provided for
by the terms of such series; provided that such Securities have
not been previously so credited. Such Securities shall be
received and credited for such purpose by the Trustee at the
redemption price specified in such Securities for redemption
through operation of the sinking fund and the amount of such
sinking fund payment shall be reduced accordingly.
SECTION 3.06. Not less than 45 days prior to each sinking
fund payment date for any series of Securities, the Company
will deliver to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate specifying
the amount of the next ensuing sinking fund payment for that
series pursuant to the terms of that series, the portion
thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by delivering and
crediting Securities of that series pursuant to Section 3.05
and the basis for such credit and will also deliver to the
Trustee any Securities to be so delivered. Not less than 30
days before each such sinking fund payment date the Trustee
shall select the Securities to be redeemed upon such sinking
fund payment date in the manner specified in Section 3.02 and
cause notice of the redemption thereof to be given in the name
of and at the expense of the Company in the manner provided in
Section 3.02. Such notice having been duly given, the
redemption of such Securities shall be made upon the terms and
in the manner stated in Section 3.03.
ARTICLE FOUR
Particular Covenants of the Company
The Company covenants and agrees for each series of the
Securities as follows:
SECTION 4.01. The Company will duly and punctually pay or
cause to be paid the principal of (and premium, if any) and
interest on the Securities of that series at the time and place
and in the manner provided herein and established with respect
to such Securities.
SECTION 4.02. So long as any series of the Securities
remain outstanding, the Company agrees to maintain an office or
agency in either the City of Atlanta, County of Xxxxxx, State
of Georgia, or the Borough of Manhattan, the City and State of
New York, with respect to each such series and at such other
location or locations as may be designated as provided in this
Section 4.02, where (i) Securities of that series may be
presented for payment, (ii) Securities of that series may be
presented as hereinabove authorized for registration of
transfer and exchange, and (iii) notices and demands to or upon
the Company in respect of the Securities of that series and
this Indenture may be given or served. As to such office or
agency in either the City of Atlanta, County of Xxxxxx, State
of Georgia, or the Borough of Manhattan, the City and State of
New York, the Company shall, designate the required office or
agency to be located in either the City of Atlanta, County of
Xxxxxx, State of Georgia, or the Borough of Manhattan, the City
and State of New York, for each Series of Securities, such
designation to continue with respect to such office or agency
until the Company shall, by written notice signed by its
President or a Vice President and delivered to
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the Trustee, designate some other office or agency for such
purposes or any of them. If at any time the Company shall fail
to maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to
furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such
presentations, notices and demands may be made or served at the
Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and the Company hereby
appoints the Trustee as its agent to receive all such
presentations, notices and demands.
SECTION 4.03. (a) If the Company shall appoint one or more
paying agents for all or any series of the Securities, other
than the Trustee, the Company will cause each such paying agent
to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which
such agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the
provisions of this Section,
(1) that it will hold all sums held by it as such agent
for the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any)
or interest on the Securities of that series (whether such
sums have been paid to it by the Company or by any other
obligor on such securities) in trust for the benefit of
the persons entitled thereto;
(2) that it will give the Trustee notice of any failure by
the Company (or by any other obligor on such Securities)
to make any payment of the principal of (and premium, if
any) or interest on the Securities of that series when the
same shall be due and payable;
(3) that it will, at any time during the continuance of
any failure referred to in the preceding paragraph (a)(2)
above, upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith
pay to the Trustee all sums so held in trust by such
paying agent; and
(4) that it will perform all other duties of paying agent
as set forth in this Indenture.
(b) If the Company shall act as its own paying agent with
respect to any series of the Securities, it will on or before
each due date of the principal of (and premium, if any) or
interest on Securities of that series, set aside, segregate and
hold in trust for the benefit of the persons entitled thereto a
sum sufficient to pay such principal (and premium, if any) or
interest so becoming due on Securities of that series until
such sums shall be paid to such persons or otherwise disposed
of as herein provided and will promptly notify the Trustee of
such action, or any failure (by it or any other obligor on such
Securities) to take such action. Whenever the Company shall
have one or more paying agents for any series of Securities, it
will, prior to each due date of the principal of (and premium,
if any) or interest on any Securities of that series, deposit
with a paying agent a sum sufficient to pay the principal (and
premium, if any) or interest so becoming due, such sum to be
held in trust for the benefit of the persons entitled to such
principal, premium or interest, and (unless such paying agent
is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee of
its action or failure so to act.
(c) Anything in this Section to the contrary
notwithstanding, (i) the agreement to hold sums in trust as
provided in this Section is subject to the provisions of
Section 11.05, and (ii) the Company may at any time, for the
purpose of obtaining the satisfaction and discharge of this
Indenture or for any other purpose, pay, or direct any paying
agent to pay, to the Trustee all sums held in trust by the
Company or such paying agent, such sums to be held by the
Trustee upon the same terms as those upon which such sums were
held by the Company or such paying agent; and, upon such
payment by any paying agent to the Trustee, such paying agent
shall be released from all further liability with respect to
such money.
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SECTION 4.04. The Company, whenever necessary to avoid or
fill a vacancy in the office of Trustee, will appoint, in the
manner provided in Section 7.10, a Trustee, so that there shall
at all times be a Trustee hereunder.
SECTION 4.05. The Company will not, while any of the
Securities remain outstanding, create, or suffer to be created
or to exist, any mortgage, lien, pledge, security interest or
other encumbrance of any kind upon any property of any
character of the Company whether now owned or hereafter
acquired or upon any of the income or profits therefrom unless
it shall make effective provision whereby the Securities then
outstanding shall be secured by such mortgage, lien, pledge,
security interest or other encumbrance equally and ratably with
any and all obligations and indebtedness thereby secured so
long as any such obligations and indebtedness shall be so
secured; provided, however, that nothing in this Section shall
be construed to prevent the Company from creating, or from
suffering to be created or to exist, any mortgages, liens,
pledges, security interests or other encumbrances, or any
agreements, with respect to:
(1) Purchase money mortgages, or other purchase money
liens, pledges or encumbrances of any kind upon property
hereafter acquired by the Company, or mortgages, liens,
pledges, security interests or other encumbrances of any
kind existing on such property at the time of the
acquisition thereof, or conditional sales agreements or
other title retention agreements with respect to any
property hereafter acquired; provided, however, that no
such mortgage, lien, pledge, security interest or other
encumbrance, and no such agreement, shall extend to or
cover any other property of the Company;
(2) The replacement, extension or renewal of any such
mortgage, lien, pledge, security interest or other
encumbrance, or of any such agreement, permitted by the
foregoing clause (1), or the replacement or renewal
(without increase in principal amount or extension of
final maturity date) of the indebtedness secured thereby;
(3) Liens for taxes or assessments or governmental charges
or levies; pledges or deposits to secure obligations under
worker's compensation laws or similar legislation; pledges
or deposits to secure performance in connection with bids,
tenders, contracts (other than contracts for the payment
of money) or leases to which the Company is a party;
deposits to secure public or statutory obligations of the
Company; materialmen's, mechanics', carriers', workers',
repairmen's or other like liens in the ordinary course of
business, or deposits to obtain the release of such liens;
deposits to secure surety and appeal bonds to which the
Company is a party; other pledges or deposits for similar
purposes in the ordinary course of business; liens created
by or resulting from any litigation or legal proceeding
which at the time is currently being contested in good
faith by appropriate proceedings; leases made, or existing
on property acquired, in the ordinary course of business;
landlord's liens under leases to which the Company is a
party; zoning restrictions, easements, licenses,
restrictions on the use of real property or minor
irregularities in title thereto, which do not materially
impair the use of such property in the operation of the
business of the Company or the value of such property for
the purpose of such business; or the lien of the Trustee
described in Section 7.06 hereof;
(4) First Mortgage Bonds outstanding on the date hereof
and any replacement or renewal (without increase in
principal amount or extension of final maturity date) of
such outstanding First Mortgage Bonds;
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(5) First Mortgage Bonds which may be issued by the
Company in connection with a consolidation or merger of
the Company with or into any Affiliate in exchange for or
otherwise in substitution for long-term senior
indebtedness of such Affiliate ("Affiliate Debt") which by
its terms (i) is secured by a mortgage on all or a portion
of the property of such Affiliate, (ii) prohibits
long-term senior secured indebtedness from being incurred
by such Affiliate, or a successor thereto, unless the
Affiliate Debt shall be secured equally and ratably with
such long-term senior secured indebtedness or (iii)
prohibits long-term senior secured indebtedness from being
incurred by such Affiliate; or
(6) Indebtedness assumed by the Company of the character
specified in clause (a) of the second paragraph of Section
4.06 hereof.
SECTION 4.06. The Company will not, while any of the
Securities remain outstanding, consolidate with, or merge into,
or merge into itself, or sell or convey all or substantially
all of its property to, any other company unless the provisions
of Article Ten hereof are complied with.
If upon any such consolidation or merger, or sale or
conveyance, any of the property of the Company owned by the
Company prior thereto would thereupon become subject to any
mortgage, security interest, pledge or lien, the Company, prior
to such consolidation, merger, sale or conveyance, will secure
the outstanding Securities, or cause the same to be secured,
equally and ratably with the other indebtedness or obligations
secured by such mortgage, security interest, pledge or lien so
long as such other indebtedness or obligations shall be so
secured; provided, however, that (a) the subjection of the
property of the Company to any mortgage, security interest,
pledge or lien securing indebtedness of an Affiliate which is
required to be assumed by the Company in connection with any
merger or consolidation of such Affiliate shall be deemed
excluded from the operation of this Section and shall not
require that any of the Securities be secured; and (b) the
subjection of property of the Company to any mortgage, security
interest, pledge or lien of the character referred to in
clauses (1), (2), (3), (4) and (5) of Section 4.05 shall be
deemed excluded from the operation of this Section and shall
not require that any of the Securities be secured.
ARTICLE FIVE
Securityholders' Lists and Reports by the Company
and the Trustee
SECTION 5.01. The Company will furnish or cause to be
furnished to the Trustee (a) semi-annually, not more than 15
days after each regular record date (as defined in Section
2.03) a list, in such form as the Trustee may reasonably
require, of the names and addresses of the holders of each
series of Securities as of such regular record date and (b) at
such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, within
30 days after the receipt by the Company of any such request, a
list of similar form and content as of a date not more than 15
days prior to the time such list is furnished; provided,
however, no such list need be furnished for any series for
which the Trustee shall be the Security Registrar.
SECTION 5.02. (a) The Trustee shall preserve, in as
current a form as is reasonably practicable, all information as
to the names and addresses of the holders of Securities
contained in the most recent list furnished to it
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as provided in Section 5.01 and as to the names and addresses
of holders of Securities received by the Trustee in its
capacity as Security Registrar (if acting in such capacity).
(b) The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as
provided in Section 5.01 upon receipt of a new list so
furnished.
(c) In case three or more holders of Securities of a
series (hereinafter referred to as "applicants") apply in
writing to the Trustee, and furnish to the Trustee reasonable
proof that each such applicant has owned a Security for a
period of at least six months preceding the date of such
application, and such application states that the applicants
desire to communicate with other holders of Securities of such
series or holders of all Securities with respect to their
rights under this Indenture or under such Securities, and is
accompanied by a copy of the form of proxy or other
communication which such applicants propose to transmit, then
the Trustee shall, within five business days after the receipt
of such application, at its election, either
(1) afford to such applicants access to the information
preserved at the time by the Trustee in accordance with
the provisions of subsection (a) of this Section, or
(2) inform such applicants as to the approximate number of
holders of Securities of such series or of all Securities,
as the case may be, whose names and addresses appear in
the information preserved at the time by the Trustee, in
accordance with the provisions of subsection (a) of this
Section, and as to the approximate cost of mailing to such
Securityholders the form of proxy or other communication,
if any, specified in such application.
(d) If the Trustee shall elect not to afford such
applicants access to such information, the Trustee shall, upon
the written request of such applicants, mail to each holder of
such series or of all Securities, as the case may be, whose
name and address appears in the information preserved at the
time by the Trustee in accordance with the provisions of
subsection (a) of this Section, a copy of the form of proxy or
other communication which is specified in such request, with
reasonable promptness after a tender to the Trustee of the
material to be mailed and of payment, or provision for the
payment, of the reasonable expenses of mailing, unless within
five days after such tender, the Trustee shall mail to such
applicants and file with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, together with a copy of the material to be mailed,
a written statement to the effect that, in the opinion of the
Trustee, such mailing would be contrary to the best interests
of the holders of Securities of such series or of all
Securities, as the case may be, or would be in violation of
applicable law. Such written statement shall specify the basis
of such opinion. If said Commission, after opportunity for a
hearing upon the objections specified in the written statement
so filed, shall enter an order refusing to sustain any of such
objections or if, after the entry of an order sustaining one or
more of such objections, said Commission shall find, after
notice and opportunity for hearing, that all the objections so
sustained have been met and shall enter an order so declaring,
the Trustee shall mail copies of such material to all such
Securityholders with reasonable promptness after the entry of
such order and the renewal of such tender; otherwise the
Trustee shall be relieved of any obligation or duty to such
applicants respecting their application.
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(e) Each and every holder of the Securities, by receiving
and holding the same, agrees with the Company and the Trustee
that neither the Company nor the Trustee nor any paying agent
nor any Security Registrar shall be held accountable by reason
of the disclosure of any such information as to the names and
addresses of the holders of Securities in accordance with the
provisions of subsection (b) of this Section, regardless of the
source from which such information was derived, and that the
Trustee shall not be held accountable by reason of mailing any
material pursuant to a request made under said subsection (b).
SECTION 5.03. (a) The Company covenants and agrees to file
with the Trustee, within 15 days after the Company is required
to file the same with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
copies of the annual reports and of the information, documents
and other reports (or copies of such portions of any of the
foregoing as said Commission may from time to time by rules and
regulations prescribe) which the Company may be required to
file with said Commission pursuant to Section 13 or Section
15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended; or,
if the Company is not required to file information, documents
or reports pursuant to either of such sections, then to file
with the Trustee and said Commission, in accordance with the
rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by said
Commission, such of the supplementary and periodic information,
documents and reports which may be required pursuant to Section
13 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, in
respect of a security listed and registered on a national
securities exchange as may be prescribed from time to time in
such rules and regulations.
(b) The Company covenants and agrees to file with the
Trustee and the Securities and Exchange Commission, in
accordance with the rules and regulations prescribed from time
to time by said Commission, such additional information,
documents and reports with respect to compliance by the Company
with the conditions and covenants provided for in this
Indenture as may be required from time to time by such rules
and regulations.
(c) The Company covenants and agrees to transmit by mail,
first class postage prepaid, or reputable over-night delivery
service which provides for evidence of receipt, to the
Securityholders, as their names and addresses appear upon the
Security Register, within 30 days after the filing thereof with
the Trustee, such summaries of any information, documents and
reports required to be filed by the Company pursuant to
subsections (a) and (b) of this Section as may be required by
rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the
Securities and Exchange Commission.
(d) The Company covenants and agrees to furnish to the
Trustee, on or before May 15 in each calendar year in which any
of the Securities are outstanding, or on or before such other
day in each calendar year as the Company and the Trustee may
from time to time agree upon, a certificate from the principal
executive officer, principal financial officer or principal
accounting officer as to his or her knowledge of the Company's
compliance with all conditions and covenants under this
Indenture. For purposes of this subsection (d), such compliance
shall be determined without regard to any period of grace or
requirement of notice provided under this Indenture.
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SECTION 5.04. (a) On or before July 15 in each year in
which any Securities are outstanding hereunder, the Trustee
shall transmit by mail, first class postage prepaid, to the
Securityholders, as their names and addresses appear upon the
Security Register, a brief report dated as of the preceding May
15, with respect to any of the following events which may have
occurred within the previous twelve months (but if no such
event has occurred within such period no report need be
transmitted):
(1) any change to its eligibility under Section 7.09, and
its qualifications under Section 7.08;
(2) the creation of or any material change to a
relationship specified in paragraphs (1) through (10) of
subsection (c) of Section 7.08;
(3) the character and amount of any advances (and if the
Trustee elects so to state, the circumstances surrounding
the making thereof) made by the Trustee (as such) which
remain unpaid on the date of such report, and for the
reimbursement of which it claims or may claim a lien or
charge, prior to that of the Securities, on any property
or funds held or collected by it as Trustee if such
advances so remaining unpaid aggregate more than 1/2 of 1%
of the principal amount of the Securities outstanding on
the date of such report;
(4) any change to the amount, interest rate, and maturity
date of all other indebtedness owing by the Company, or by
any other obligor on the Securities, to the Trustee in its
individual capacity, on the date of such report, with a
brief description of any property held as collateral
security therefor, except any indebtedness based upon a
creditor relationship arising in any manner described in
paragraphs (2), (3), (4), or (6) of subsection (b) of
Section 7.13;
(5) any change to the property and funds, if any,
physically in the possession of the Trustee as such on the
date of such report;
(6) any release, or release and substitution, of property
subject to the lien of this Indenture (and the
consideration thereof, if any) which it has not previously
reported;
(7) any additional issue of Securities which the Trustee
has not previously reported; and
(8) any action taken by the Trustee in the performance of
its duties under this Indenture which it has not
previously reported and which in its opinion materially
affects the Securities or the Securities of any series,
except any action in respect of a default, notice of which
has been or is to be withheld by it in accordance with the
provisions of Section 6.07.
(b) The Trustee shall transmit by mail, first class
postage prepaid, to the Securityholders, as their names and
addresses appear upon the Security Register, a brief report
with respect to the character and amount of any advances (and
if the Trustee elects so to state, the circumstances
surrounding the making thereof) made by the Trustee as such
since the date of the last report transmitted pursuant to the
provisions of subsection (a) of
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this Section (or if no such report has yet been so transmitted,
since the date of execution of this Indenture), for the
reimbursement of which it claims or may claim a lien or charge
prior to that of the Securities of any series on property or
funds held or collected by it as Trustee, and which it has not
previously reported pursuant to this subsection if such
advances remaining unpaid at any time aggregate more than 10%
of the principal amount of Securities of such series
outstanding at such time, such report to be transmitted within
90 days after such time.
(c) A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such
transmission to Securityholders, be filed by the Trustee with
the Company, with each stock exchange upon which any Securities
are listed (if so listed) and also with the Securities and
Exchange Commission. The Company agrees to notify the Trustee
when any Securities become listed on any stock exchange.
ARTICLE SIX
Remedies of the Trustee and Securityholders
on Event of Default
SECTION 6.01. (a) Whenever used herein with respect to
Securities of a particular series, "Event of Default" means any
one or more of the following events which has occurred and is
continuing:
(1) default in the payment of any installment of interest
upon any of the Securities of that series, as and when the
same shall become due and payable, and continuance of such
default for a period of 30 business days;
(2) default in the payment of the principal of (or
premium, if any, on) any of the Securities of that series
as and when the same shall become due and payable whether
at maturity, upon redemption, by declaration or otherwise,
or in any payment required by any sinking or analogous
fund established with respect to that series;
(3) failure on the part of the Company duly to observe or
perform any other of the covenants or agreements on the
part of the Company with respect to that series contained
in such Securities or otherwise established with respect
to that series of Securities pursuant to Section 2.01
hereof or contained in this Indenture (other than a
covenant or agreement which has been expressly included in
this Indenture solely for the benefit of one or more
series of Securities other than such series) for a period
of 90 days after the date on which written notice of such
failure, requiring the same to be remedied and stating
that such notice is a "Notice of Default" hereunder, shall
have been given to the Company by the Trustee, by
registered or certified mail, or to the Company and the
Trustee by the holders of at least 25% in principal amount
of the Securities of that series at the time outstanding;
(4) a decree or order by a court having jurisdiction in
the premises shall have been entered adjudging the Company
a bankrupt or insolvent, or approving as properly filed a
petition seeking liquidation or reorganization of the
Company under the Federal Bankruptcy Code or any
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other similar applicable Federal or State law, and such
decree or order shall have continued unvacated and
unstayed for a period of 90 days; or an involuntary case
shall be commenced under such Code in respect of the
Company and shall continue undismissed for a period of 90
days or an order for relief in such case shall have been
entered; or a decree or order of a court having
jurisdiction in the premises shall have been entered for
the appointment on the ground of insolvency or bankruptcy
of a receiver or custodian or liquidator or trustee or
assignee in bankruptcy or insolvency of the Company or of
its property, or for the winding up or liquidation of its
affairs, and such decree or order shall have remained in
force unvacated and unstayed for a period of 90 days; or
(5) the Company shall institute proceedings to be
adjudicated a voluntary bankrupt, or shall consent to the
filing of a bankruptcy proceeding against it, or shall
file a petition or answer or consent seeking liquidation
or reorganization under the Federal Bankruptcy Code or any
other similar applicable Federal or State law, or shall
consent to the filing of any such petition, or shall
consent to the appointment on the ground of insolvency or
bankruptcy of a receiver or custodian or liquidator or
trustee or assignee in bankruptcy or insolvency of it or
of its property, or shall make an assignment for the
benefit of creditors.
(b) In each and every such case, unless the principal of
all the Securities of that series shall have already become due
and payable, either the Trustee or the holders of not less than
25% in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of that
series then outstanding hereunder, by notice in writing to the
Company (and to the Trustee if given by such Securityholders),
may declare the principal of all the Securities of that series
to be due and payable immediately, and upon any such
declaration the same shall become and shall be immediately due
and payable, anything contained in this Indenture or in the
Securities of that series or established with respect to that
series pursuant to Section 2.01 hereof to the contrary
notwithstanding.
(c) This provision, however, is subject to the condition
that if, at any time after the principal of the Securities of
that series shall have been so declared due and payable, and
before any judgment or decree for the payment of the moneys due
shall have been obtained or entered as hereinafter provided,
the Company shall pay or shall deposit with the Trustee a sum
sufficient to pay all matured installments of interest upon all
the Securities of that series and the principal of (and
premium, if any, on) any and all Securities of that series
which shall have become due otherwise than by acceleration
(with interest upon such principal and premium, if any, and, to
the extent that such payment is enforceable under applicable
law, upon overdue installments of interest, at the rate per
annum expressed in the Securities of that series to the date of
such payment or deposit) and the amount payable to the Trustee
under Section 7.06, and any and all defaults under the
Indenture, other than the nonpayment of principal on Securities
of that series which shall not have become due by their terms,
shall have been remedied or waived as provided in Section 6.06
then and in every such case the holders of a majority in
aggregate principal amount of the Securities of that series
then outstanding, by written notice to the Company and to the
Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its
consequences; but no such rescission and annulment shall extend
to or shall affect any subsequent default, or shall impair any
right consequent thereon.
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(d) In case the Trustee shall have proceeded to enforce
any right with respect to Securities of that series under this
Indenture and such proceedings shall have been discontinued or
abandoned because of such rescission or annulment or for any
other reason or shall have been determined adversely to the
Trustee, then and in every such case the Company and the
Trustee shall be restored respectively to their former
positions and rights hereunder, and all rights, remedies and
powers of the Company and the Trustee shall continue as though
no such proceedings had been taken.
SECTION 6.02. (a) The Company covenants that (1) in case
default shall be made in the payment of any installment of
interest on any of the Securities of a series, or any payment
required by any sinking or analogous fund established with
respect to that series as and when the same shall become due
and payable, and such default shall have continued for a period
of 30 business days, or (2) in case default shall be made in
the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any, on) any of
the Securities of a series when the same shall have become due
and payable, whether upon maturity of the Securities of a
series or upon redemption or upon declaration or otherwise--
then, upon demand of the Trustee, the Company will pay to the
Trustee, for the benefit of the holders of the Securities of
that series, the whole amount that then shall have become due
and payable on all such Securities for principal (and premium,
if any) or interest, or both, as the case may be, with interest
upon the overdue principal (and premium, if any) and (to the
extent that payment of such interest is enforceable under
applicable law) upon overdue installments of interest at the
rate per annum expressed in the Securities of that series; and,
in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient
to cover the costs and expenses of collection, and the amount
payable to the Trustee under Section 7.06.
(b) In case the Company shall fail forthwith to pay such
amounts upon such demand, the Trustee, in its own name and as
trustee of an express trust, shall be entitled and empowered to
institute any action or proceedings at law or in equity for the
collection of the sums so due and unpaid, and may prosecute any
such action or proceeding to judgment or final decree, and may
enforce any such judgment or final decree against the Company
or other obligor upon the Securities of that series and collect
in the manner provided by law out of the property of the
Company or other obligor upon the Securities of that series
wherever situated the moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable.
(c) In case of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation,
bankruptcy, reorganization, readjustment, arrangement,
composition or other judicial proceedings affecting the
Company, any other obligor on such Securities, or the creditors
or property of either, the Trustee shall have power to
intervene in such proceedings and take any action therein that
may be permitted by the court and shall (except as may be
otherwise provided by law) be entitled to file such proofs of
claim and other papers and documents as may be necessary or
advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee and of the
holders of Securities of such series allowed for the entire
amount due and payable by the Company or such other obligor
under the Indenture at the date of institution of such
proceedings and for any additional amount which may become due
and payable by the Company or such other obligor after such
date, and to collect and receive any moneys or other property
payable or deliverable on any such claim, and to distribute the
same after the deduction of the amount payable to the Trustee
under Section 7.06; and any receiver, assignee or trustee in
bankruptcy or reorganization is hereby authorized by each of
the holders of Securities of such series to make such payments
to the Trustee, and, in the event that the Trustee shall
consent to the making of such payments directly to such
Securityholders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due it under
Section 7.06.
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(d) All rights of action and of asserting claims under
this Indenture, or under any of the terms established with
respect to Securities of that series, may be enforced by the
Trustee without the possession of any of such Securities, or
the production thereof at any trial or other proceeding
relative thereto, and any such suit or proceeding instituted by
the Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an
express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall, after
provision for payment to the Trustee of any amounts due under
Section 7.06, be for the ratable benefit of the holders of the
Securities of such series.
In case of an Event of Default hereunder the Trustee may
in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce the rights
vested in it by this Indenture by such appropriate judicial
proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most effectual to protect
and enforce any of such rights, either at law or in equity or
in bankruptcy or otherwise, whether for the specific
enforcement of any covenant or agreement contained in the
Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted in
this Indenture, or to enforce any other legal or equitable
right vested in the Trustee by this Indenture or by law.
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the
Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf
of any Securityholder any plan of reorganization, arrangement,
adjustment or composition affecting the Securities of that
series or the rights of any holder thereof or to authorize the
Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Securityholder
in any such proceeding.
SECTION 6.03. Any moneys collected by the Trustee pursuant
to Section 6.02 with respect to a particular series of
Securities shall be applied in the order following, at the date
or dates fixed by the Trustee and, in case of the distribution
of such moneys on account of principal (or premium, if any) or
interest, upon presentation of the several Securities of that
series, and stamping thereon the payment, if only partially
paid, and upon surrender thereof if fully paid:
FIRST: To the payment of costs and expenses of collection
and of all amounts payable to the Trustee under Section
7.06;
SECOND: To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid
upon Securities of such series for principal (and premium,
if any) and interest, in respect of which or for the
benefit of which such money has been collected, ratably,
without preference or priority of any kind, according to
the amounts due and payable on such Securities for
principal (and premium, if any) and interest,
respectively.
SECTION 6.04. No holder of any Security of any series
shall have any right by virtue or by availing of any provision
of this Indenture to institute any suit, action or proceeding
in equity or at law upon or under or with respect to this
Indenture or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or
for any other remedy hereunder, unless such holder previously
shall have given to the Trustee written notice of an Event of
Default and of the continuance thereof with respect to
Securities of such series specifying such Event of Default, as
hereinbefore provided, and unless also the holders of not less
than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of
such series then outstanding shall have made written request
upon the Trustee to institute such action, suit or proceeding
in its own name as trustee hereunder and shall have offered to
the Trustee such reasonable indemnity as it may require against
the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred therein or
thereby, and the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such
notice, request and offer of indemnity, shall have failed to
institute any
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such action, suit or proceeding; it being understood and
intended, and being expressly covenanted by the taker and
holder of every Security of such series with every other such
taker and holder and the Trustee, that no one or more holders
of Securities of such series shall have any right in any manner
whatsoever by virtue or by availing of any provision of this
Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of the
holders of any other of such Securities, or to obtain or seek
to obtain priority over or preference to any other such holder,
or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the
manner herein provided and for the equal, ratable and common
benefit of all holders of Securities of such series. For the
protection and enforcement of the provisions of this Section,
each and every Securityholder and the Trustee shall be entitled
to such relief as can be given either at law or in equity.
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture,
however, the right of any holder of any Security to receive
payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest
on such Security, as therein provided, on or after the
respective due dates expressed in such Security (or in the case
of redemption, on the redemption date), or to institute suit
for the enforcement of any such payment on or after such
respective dates or redemption date, shall not be impaired or
affected without the consent of such holder.
SECTION 6.05. (a) All powers and remedies given by this
Article to the Trustee or to the Securityholders shall, to the
extent permitted by law, be deemed cumulative and not exclusive
of any others thereof or of any other powers and remedies
available to the Trustee or the holders of the Securities, by
judicial proceedings or otherwise, to enforce the performance
or observance of the covenants and agreements contained in this
Indenture or otherwise established with respect to such
Securities.
(b) No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any holder
of any of the Securities to exercise any right or power
accruing upon any Event of Default occurring and continuing as
aforesaid shall impair any such right or power, or shall be
construed to be a waiver of any such default or an acquiescence
therein; and, subject to the provisions of Section 6.04, every
power and remedy given by this Article or by law to the Trustee
or to the Securityholders may be exercised from time to time,
and as often as shall be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by
the Securityholders.
SECTION 6.06. The holders of a majority in aggregate
principal amount of the Securities of any series at the time
outstanding, determined in accordance with Section 8.04, shall
have the right to direct the time, method and place of
conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the
Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred on the
Trustee with respect to such series; provided, however, that
such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or
with this Indenture or unduly prejudicial to the rights of
holders of Securities of any other series at the time
outstanding determined in accordance with Section 8.04, not
parties thereto. Subject to the provisions of Section 7.01, the
Trustee shall have the right to decline to follow any such
direction if the Trustee in good faith shall, by a responsible
officer or officers of the Trustee, determine that the
proceeding so directed would involve the Trustee in personal
liability. The holders of a majority in aggregate principal
amount of the Securities of any series at the time outstanding,
determined in accordance with Section 8.04, may on behalf of
the holders of all of the Securities of that series waive any
past default in the performance of any of the covenants
contained herein
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or established pursuant to Section 2.01 with respect to such
series and its consequences, except a default in the payment of
the principal of, or premium, if any, or interest on, any of
the Securities of that series as and when the same shall become
due by the terms of such Securities or a call for redemption of
Securities of that series. Upon any such waiver, the default
covered thereby shall be deemed to be cured for all purposes of
this Indenture and the Company, the Trustee and the holders of
the Securities of that series shall be restored to their former
positions and rights hereunder, respectively; but no such
waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other default or
impair any right consequent thereon.
SECTION 6.07. The Trustee shall, within 90 days after the
occurrence of a default with respect to a particular series,
transmit by mail, first class postage prepaid, to the holders
of Securities of that series, as their names and addresses
appear upon the Security Register, notice of all defaults with
respect to that series known to the Trustee, unless such
defaults shall have been cured before the giving of such notice
(the term "defaults" for the purposes of this Section being
hereby defined to be the events specified in subsections (a),
(b), (c), (d) and (e) of Section 6.01, not including any
periods of grace provided for therein and irrespective of the
giving of notice provided for by subsection (c) of Section
6.01); provided, that, except in the case of default in the
payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on
any of the Securities of that series or in the payment of any
sinking fund installment established with respect to that
series, the Trustee shall be protected in withholding such
notice if and so long as the board of directors, the executive
committee, or a trust committee of directors and/or responsible
officers, of the Trustee in good faith determine that the
withholding of such notice is in the interests of the
Securityholders of Securities of that series; provided further,
that in the case of any default of the character specified in
Section 6.01(c) with respect to Securities of such series no
such notice to the holders of the Securities of that series
shall be given until at least 30 days after the occurrence
thereof.
The Trustee shall not be deemed to have knowledge of any
default, except (i) a default under subsections (a)(1) or
(a)(2) of Section 6.01 as long as the Trustee is acting as
paying agent for such series of Securities or (ii) any default
as to which the Trustee shall have received written notice or a
responsible officer charged with the administration of this
Indenture shall have obtained actual knowledge.
SECTION 6.08. All parties to this Indenture agree, and
each holder of any Securities by his or her acceptance thereof
shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in its
discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement of any
right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against
the Trustee for any action taken or omitted by it as Trustee,
the filing by any party litigant in such suit of an undertaking
to pay the costs of such suit, and that such court may in its
discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable
attorneys' fees, against any party litigant in such suit,
having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or
defenses made by such party litigant; but the provisions of
this Section shall not apply to any suit instituted by the
Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Securityholder, or group
of Securityholders, holding more than 10% in aggregate
principal amount of the outstanding Securities of any series,
or to any suit instituted by any Securityholder for the
enforcement of the payment of the principal of (or premium, if
any) or interest on any Security of such series, on or after
the respective due dates expressed in such Security or
established pursuant to this Indenture.
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ARTICLE SEVEN
Concerning the Trustee
SECTION 7.01. (a) The Trustee, prior to the occurrence of
an Event of Default with respect to Securities of a series and
after the curing of all Events of Default with respect to
Securities of that series which may have occurred, shall
undertake to perform with respect to Securities of such series
such duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth
in this Indenture, and no implied covenants shall be read into
this Indenture against the Trustee. In case an Event of Default
with respect to Securities of a series has occurred (which has
not been cured or waived), the Trustee shall exercise with
respect to Securities of that series such of the rights and
powers vested in it by this Indenture, and use the same degree
of care and skill in their exercise, as a prudent man would
exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his
own affairs.
(b) No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to
relieve the Trustee from liability for its own negligent
action, its own negligent failure to act, or its own willful
misconduct, except that
(1) prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default with
respect to Securities of a series and after the curing or
waiving of all such Events of Default with respect to that
series which may have occurred:
(i) the duties and obligations of the Trustee shall with
respect to Securities of such series be determined solely
by the express provisions of this Indenture, and the
Trustee shall not be liable with respect to Securities of
such series except for the performance of such duties and
obligations as are specifically set forth in this
Indenture, and no implied covenants or obligations shall
be read into this Indenture against the Trustee; and
(ii) in the absence of bad faith on the part of the
Trustee, the Trustee may with respect to Securities of
such series conclusively rely, as to the truth of the
statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed
therein, upon any certificates or opinions furnished to
the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this
Indenture; but in the case of any such certificates or
opinions which by any provision hereof are specifically
required to be furnished to the Trustee, the Trustee shall
be under a duty to examine the same to determine whether
or not they conform to the requirements of this Indenture;
(2) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of
judgment made in good faith by a responsible officer or
responsible officers of the Trustee, unless it shall be
proved that the Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the
pertinent facts;
(3) the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any
action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in
accordance with the direction of the holders of not less
than a majority in principal amount of the Securities of
any series at the time outstanding relating to the time,
method and place of conducting any proceeding for any
remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust
or power conferred upon the Trustee under this Indenture
with respect to the Securities of that series; and
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(4) None of the provisions contained in this Indenture
shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds
or otherwise incur personal financial liability in the
performance of any of its duties or in the exercise of any
of its rights or powers, if there is reasonable ground for
believing that the repayment of such funds or liability is
not reasonably assured to it under the terms of this
Indenture or adequate indemnity against such risk is not
reasonably assured to it.
SECTION 7.02. Except as otherwise provided in Section
7.01:
(a) The Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting
or refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate,
statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request,
consent, order, approval, bond, security or other paper or
document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed
or presented by the proper party or parties;
(b) Any request, direction, order or demand of the Company
mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Board
Resolution or an instrument signed in the name of the Company
by the President or any Vice President and by the Secretary or
an Assistant Secretary or the Treasurer or an Assistant
Treasurer (unless other evidence in respect thereof is
specifically prescribed herein);
(c) The Trustee may consult with counsel and the written
advice of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full
and complete authorization and protection in respect of any
action taken or suffered or omitted hereunder in good faith and
in reliance thereon;
(d) The Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise
any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at
the request, order or direction of any of the Securityholders,
pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture, unless such
Securityholders shall have offered to the Trustee reasonable
security or indemnity against the costs, expenses and
liabilities which may be incurred therein or thereby; nothing
herein contained shall, however, relieve the Trustee of the
obligation, upon the occurrence of an Event of Default with
respect to a series of the Securities (which has not been cured
or waived) to exercise with respect to Securities of that
series such of the rights and powers vested in it by this
Indenture, and to use the same degree of care and skill in
their exercise, as a prudent man would exercise or use under
the circumstances in the conduct of his own affairs;
(e) The Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken
or omitted to be taken by it in good faith and believed by it
to be authorized or within the discretion or rights or powers
conferred upon it by this Indenture;
(f) The Trustee shall not be bound to make any
investigation into the facts or matters stated in any
resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion,
report, notice, request, consent, order, approval, bond,
security, or other papers or documents, unless requested in
writing so to do by the holders of not less than a majority in
principal amount of the outstanding Securities of the
particular series affected thereby (determined as provided in
Section 8.04); provided, however, that if the payment within a
reasonable time to the Trustee of the costs, expenses or
liabilities likely to be incurred by it in the making of such
investigation is, in the opinion of the Trustee, not reasonably
assured to the Trustee by the security afforded to it by the
terms of this Indenture, the Trustee may require reasonable
indemnity against such costs, expenses or liabilities as a
condition to so proceeding. The reasonable expense of every
such examination shall be paid by the Company or, if paid by
the Trustee, shall be repaid by the Company upon demand; and
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(g) The Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers
hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by
or through agents or attorneys and the Trustee shall not be
responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any
agent or attorney appointed with due care by it hereunder.
SECTION 7.03. (a) The recitals contained herein and in the
Securities (other than the Certificate of Authentication on the
Securities) shall be taken as the statements of the Company,
and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for the correctness
of the same.
(b) The Trustee makes no representations as to the
validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Securities.
(c) The Trustee shall not be accountable for the use or
application by the Company of any of the Securities or of the
proceeds of such Securities, or for the use or application of
any moneys paid over by the Trustee in accordance with any
provision of this Indenture or established pursuant to Section
2.01, or for the use or application of any moneys received by
any paying agent other than the Trustee.
SECTION 7.04. The Trustee or any paying agent or Security
Registrar, in its individual or any other capacity, may become
the owner or pledgee of Securities with the same rights it
would have if it were not Trustee, paying agent or Security
Registrar.
SECTION 7.05. Subject to the provisions of Section 11.05,
all moneys received by the Trustee shall, until used or applied
as herein provided, be held in trust for the purposes for which
they were received, but need not be segregated from other funds
except to the extent required by law. The Trustee shall be
under no liability for interest on any moneys received by it
hereunder except such as it may agree with the Company to pay
thereon.
SECTION 7.06. (a) The Company covenants and agrees to pay
to the Trustee from time to time, and the Trustee shall be
entitled to, reasonable compensation (which shall not be
limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation
of a trustee of an express trust) for all services rendered by
it in the execution of the trusts hereby created and in the
exercise and performance of any of the powers and duties
hereunder of the Trustee, and the Company will pay or reimburse
the Trustee upon its request for all reasonable expenses,
disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Trustee in
accordance with any of the provisions of this Indenture
(including the reasonable compensation and the expenses and
disbursements of its counsel (including in-house counsel) and
of all persons not regularly in its employ) except any such
expense, disbursement or advance as may arise from its
negligence or bad faith. The Company also covenants to
indemnify the Trustee (and its officers, agents, directors and
employees) for, and to hold it harmless against, any loss,
liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith
on the part of the Trustee and arising out of or in connection
with the acceptance or administration of this trust, including
the costs and expenses of defending itself against any claim of
liability in the premises.
(b) The obligations of the Company under this Section to
compensate and indemnify the Trustee and to pay or reimburse
the Trustee for expenses, disbursements and advances shall
constitute additional indebtedness hereunder. Such additional
indebtedness shall be secured by a lien prior to that of the
Securities upon all property and funds held or collected by the
Trustee as such, except funds held in trust for the benefit of
the holders of particular Securities.
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SECTION 7.07. Except as otherwise provided in Section
7.01, whenever in the administration of the provisions of this
Indenture the Trustee shall deem it necessary or desirable that
a matter be proved or established prior to taking or suffering
or omitting to take any action hereunder, such matter (unless
other evidence in respect thereof be herein specifically
prescribed) may, in the absence of negligence or bad faith on
the part of the Trustee, be deemed to be conclusively proved
and established by an Officers' Certificate delivered to the
Trustee and such certificate, in the absence of negligence or
bad faith on the part of the Trustee, shall be full warrant to
the Trustee for any action taken, suffered or omitted to be
taken by it under the provisions of this Indenture upon the
faith thereof.
SECTION 7.08. (a) If the Trustee has or shall acquire any
conflicting interest, as defined in this Section, with respect
to the Securities of any series and if the Default to which
such conflicting interest relates has not been cured, duly
waived or otherwise eliminated, within 90 days after
ascertaining that it has such conflicting interest, it shall
either eliminate such conflicting interest, except as otherwise
provided herein, or resign with respect to the Securities of
that series in the manner and with the effect specified in
Section 7.10 and the Company shall promptly appoint a successor
Trustee in the manner provided herein.
(b) In the event that the Trustee shall fail to comply
with the provisions of subsection (a) of this Section, with
respect to the Securities of any series the Trustee shall,
within ten days after the expiration of such 90-day period,
transmit notice of such failure by mail, first class postage
prepaid, to the Securityholders of that series as their names
and addresses appear upon the registration books.
(c) For the purposes of this Section the Trustee shall be
deemed to have a conflicting interest with respect to the
Securities of any series if a Default has occurred and is
continuing and:
(1) the Trustee is trustee under this Indenture with
respect to the outstanding Securities of any series other
than that series, or is trustee under another indenture
under which any other securities, or certificates of
interest or participation in any other securities, of the
Company are outstanding, unless such other indenture is a
collateral trust indenture under which the only collateral
consists of Securities issued under this Indenture;
provided that there shall be excluded from the operation
of this paragraph the Securities of any series other than
that series and any other indenture or indentures under
which other securities, or certificates of interest or
participation in other securities, of the Company are
outstanding if (i) this Indenture and such other indenture
or indentures and all series of securities issuable
thereunder are wholly unsecured and rank equally and such
other indenture or indentures (and such series) are
hereafter qualified under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939,
as amended, unless the Securities and Exchange Commission
shall have found and declared by order pursuant to
subsection (b) of Section 305 or subsection (c) of Section
307 of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, that
differences exist between (A) the provisions of this
Indenture with respect to Securities of that series and
with respect to one or more other series or (B) the
provisions of this Indenture and the provisions of such
other indenture or indentures (or such series), which are
so likely to involve a material conflict of interest as to
make it necessary in the public interest or for the
protection of
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investors to disqualify the Trustee from acting as such
under this Indenture with respect to the Securities of
that series and such other series or such other indenture
or indentures, or (ii) the Company shall have sustained
the burden of proving, on application to the Securities
and Exchange Commission and after opportunity for hearing
thereon, that the trusteeship under this Indenture with
respect to Securities of that series and such other series
or such other indenture or indentures is not so likely to
involve a material conflict of interest as to make it
necessary in the public interest or for the protection of
investors to disqualify the Trustee from acting as such
under this Indenture with respect to Securities of that
series and such other series or under such other
indentures;
(2) the Trustee or any of its directors or executive
officers is an underwriter for the Company;
(3) the Trustee directly or indirectly controls or is
directly or indirectly controlled by or is under direct or
indirect common control with or an underwriter for the
Company;
(4) the Trustee or any of its directors or executive
officers is a director, officer, partner, employee,
appointee or representative of the Company, or of an
underwriter (other than the Trustee itself) for the
Company who is currently engaged in the business of
underwriting, except that (A) one individual may be a
director and/or an executive officer of the Trustee and a
director and/or an executive officer of the Company, but
may not be at the same time an executive officer of both
the Trustee and the Company; (B) if and so long as the
number of directors of the Trustee in office is more than
nine, one additional individual may be a director and/or
an executive officer of the Trustee and a director of the
Company; and (C) the Trustee may be designated by the
Company or by an underwriter for the Company to act in the
capacity of transfer agent, registrar, custodian, paying
agent, fiscal agent, escrow agent, or depository, or in
any other similar capacity, or, subject to the provisions
of paragraph (1) of this subsection (c), to act as trustee
whether under an indenture or otherwise;
(5) 10% or more of the voting securities of the Trustee is
beneficially owned either by the Company or by any
director, partner, or executive officer thereof, or 20% or
more of such voting securities is beneficially owned,
collectively, by any two or more of such persons; or 10%
or more of the voting securities of the Trustee is
beneficially owned either by an underwriter for the
Company or by any director, partner, or executive officer
thereof, or is beneficially owned, collectively, by any
two or more such persons;
(6) the Trustee is the beneficial owner of, or holds as
collateral security for an obligation which is in default
(as hereinafter in this subsection (c) defined), (A) 5% or
more of the voting securities, or 10% or more of any other
class of security, of the Company, not including the
Securities issued under this Indenture and securities
issued under any other indenture under which the Trustee
is also trustee, or (B) 10% or more of any class of
security of an underwriter for the Company;
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(7) the Trustee is the beneficial owner of, or holds as
collateral security for an obligation which is in default
(as hereinafter in this subsection (c) defined), 5% or
more of the voting securities of any person who, to the
knowledge of the Trustee, owns 10% or more of the voting
securities of, or controls directly or indirectly or is
under direct or indirect common control with, the Company;
(8) the Trustee is the beneficial owner of, or holds as
collateral security for an obligation which is in default
(as hereinafter in this subsection (c) defined), 10% or
more of any class of security of any person who, to the
knowledge of the Trustee, owns 50% or more of the voting
securities of the Company;
(9) the Trustee owns, on the date of Default upon the
Securities of any series or any anniversary of such
Default while such Default upon the Securities issued
under this Indenture remains outstanding, in the capacity
of executor, administrator, testamentary or inter vivos
trustee, guardian, committee or conservator, or in any
other similar capacity, an aggregate of 25% or more of the
voting securities, or of any class of security, of any
person, the beneficial ownership of a specified percentage
of which would have constituted a conflicting interest
under paragraph (6), (7), or (8) of this subsection (d).
As to any such securities of which the Trustee acquired
ownership through becoming executor, administrator or
testamentary trustee of an estate which include them, the
provisions of the preceding sentence shall not apply, for
a period of two years from the date of such acquisition,
to the extent that such securities included in such estate
do not exceed 25% of such voting securities or 25% of any
such class of security. Promptly after the dates of any
such Default upon the Securities issued under this
Indenture and annually in each succeeding year that the
Securities issued under this Indenture remain in Default,
the Trustee shall make a check of its holding of such
securities in any of the above-mentioned capacities as of
such dates. If the Company fails to make payment in full
of principal of or interest on any of the Securities when
and as the same becomes due and payable, and such failure
continues for 30 days thereafter, the Trustee shall make a
prompt check of its holding of such securities in any of
the above-mentioned capacities as of the date of the
expiration of such 30-day period, and after such date,
notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this paragraph
(9), all such securities so held by the Trustee, with sole
or joint control over such securities vested in it, shall,
but only so long as such failure shall continue, be
considered as though beneficially owned by the Trustee for
the purposes of paragraphs (6), (7) and (8) of this
subsection (c); or (10) except under the circumstances
described in paragraphs (1), (3), (4), (5) or (6) of
subsection (b) of Section 7.13 the Trustee shall be or
shall become a creditor of the Company.
For purposes of paragraph (1) of this subsection (c), and
of Section 6.06, the term "series of Securities" or "series"
means a series, class or group of securities issuable under an
indenture pursuant to whose terms holders of one such series
may vote to direct the indenture trustee, or otherwise take
action pursuant to a vote of such holders, separately from
holders of another such series; provided, that "series of
securities" or "series" shall not include any series of
securities issuable under an indenture if all such series rank
equally and are wholly unsecured.
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The specification of percentages in paragraphs (5) to (9),
inclusive, of this subsection (c) shall not be construed as
indicating that the ownership of such percentages of the
securities of a person is or is not necessary or sufficient to
constitute direct or indirect control for the purposes of
paragraph (3) or (7) of this subsection (c).
For the purposes of paragraphs (6), (7), (8) and (9) of
this subsection (c) only, (A) the terms "security" and
"securities" shall include only such securities as are
generally known as corporate securities, but shall not include
any note or other evidence of indebtedness issued to evidence
an obligation to repay moneys lent to a person by one or more
banks, trust companies or banking firms, or any certificate of
interest or participation in any such note or evidence of
indebtedness; (B) an obligation shall be deemed to be in
"default" when a default in payment of principal shall have
continued for 30 days or more and shall not have been cured;
and (C) the Trustee shall not be deemed to be the owner or
holder of (i) any security which it holds as collateral
security (as trustee or otherwise) for any obligation which is
not in default as defined in clause (B) above, or (ii) any
security which it holds as collateral security under this
Indenture, irrespective of any Default hereunder, or (iii) any
security which it holds as agent for collection, or as
custodian, escrow agent or depositary, or in any similar
representative capacity.
Except as above provided, the word "security" or
"securities" as used in this Indenture shall mean any note,
stock, treasury stock, bond, debenture, evidence of
indebtedness, certificate of interest or participation in any
profit-sharing agreement, collateral-trust certificate, pre-
organization certificate or subscription, transferable share,
investment contract, voting-trust certificate, certificate of
deposit for a security, fractional undivided interest in oil,
gas, or other mineral rights, or, in general, any interest or
instrument commonly known as a "security", or any certificate
of interest or participation in, temporary or interim
certificate for, receipt for, guarantee of, or warrant or right
to subscribe to or purchase, any of the foregoing.
(d) For the purposes of this Section:
(1) The term "underwriter" when used with reference
to the Company shall mean every person, who, within one
year prior to the time as of which the determination is
made, has purchased from the Company with a view to, or
has offered or sold for the Company in connection with,
the distribution of any security of the Company
outstanding at such time, or has participated or has had a
direct or indirect participation in any such undertaking,
or has participated or has had a participation in the
direct or indirect underwriting of any such undertaking,
but such term shall not include a person whose interest
was limited to a commission from an underwriter or dealer
not in excess of the usual and customary distributors' or
sellers' commission.
(2) The term "director" shall mean any member of the
board of directors of a corporation or any individual
performing similar functions with respect to any
organization whether incorporated or unincorporated.
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(3) The term "person" shall mean an individual, a
corporation, a partnership, an association, a joint-stock
company, a trust, an unincorporated organization or a
government or political subdivision thereof. As used in
this paragraph, the term "trust" shall include only a
trust where the interest or interests of the beneficiary
or beneficiaries are evidenced by a security.
(4) The term "voting security" shall mean any
security presently entitling the owner or holder thereof
to vote in the direction or management of the affairs of a
person, or any security issued under or pursuant to any
trust, agreement or arrangement whereby a trustee or
trustees or agent or agents for the owner or holder of
such security are presently entitled to vote in the
direction or management of the affairs of a person.
(5) The term "Company" shall mean any obligor upon
the Securities.
(6) The term "executive officer" shall mean the
president, every vice president, every assistant vice
president, every trust officer, the cashier, the
secretary, and the treasurer of a corporation, and any
individual customarily performing similar functions with
respect to any organization whether incorporated or
unincorporated, but shall not include the chairman of the
board of directors.
(e) The percentages of voting securities and other
securities specified in this Section shall be calculated in
accordance with the following provisions:
(1) A specified percentage of the voting securities
of the Trustee, the Company or any other person referred
to in this Section (each of whom is referred to as a
"person" in this paragraph) means such amount of the
outstanding voting securities of such person as entitles
the holder or holders thereof to cast such specified
percentage of the aggregate votes which the holders of all
the outstanding voting securities of such person are
entitled to cast in the direction or management of the
affairs of such person.
(2) A specified percentage of a class of securities
of a person means such percentage of the aggregate amount
of securities of the class outstanding.
(3) The term "amount", when used in regard to
securities, means the principal amount if relating to
evidences of indebtedness, the number of shares if
relating to capital shares, and the number of units if
relating to any other kind of security.
(4) The term "outstanding" means issued and not held
by or for the account of the issuer. The following
securities shall not be deemed outstanding within the
meaning of this definition:
(i) securities of an issuer held in a sinking fund
relating to securities of the issuer of the same class,
(ii) securities of an issuer held in a sinking fund
relating to another class of securities of the issuer,
if the obligation evidenced by such other class of
securities is not in default as to principal or interest
or otherwise,
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(iii) securities pledged by the issuer thereof as
security for an obligation of the issuer not in default
as to principal or interest or otherwise,
(iv) securities held in escrow if placed in escrow by
the issuer thereof.
Provided, however, that any voting securities of an issuer
shall be deemed outstanding if any person other than the issuer
is entitled to exercise the voting rights thereof.
(5) A security shall be deemed to be of the same
class as another security if both securities confer upon
the holder or holders thereof substantially the same
rights and privileges; provided, however, that, in the
case of secured evidences of indebtedness, all of which
are issued under a single indenture, differences in the
interest rates or maturity dates of various series thereof
shall not be deemed sufficient to constitute such series
different classes; and provided, further, that, in the
case of unsecured evidences of indebtedness, differences
in the interest rates or maturity dates thereof shall not
be deemed sufficient to constitute them securities of
different classes, whether or not they are issued under a
single indenture.
(f) Except in the case of a default in the payment of the
principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on any Securities
issued under this Indenture, or in the payment of any sinking
or analogous fund installment, the Trustee shall not be
required to resign as provided by this Section 7.08 if such
Trustee shall have sustained the burden of proving, on
application to the Securities and Exchange Commission and after
opportunity for hearing thereon, that (i) the default under the
Indenture may be cured or waived during a reasonable period and
under the procedures described in such application and (ii) a
stay of the Trustee's duty to resign will not be inconsistent
with the interests of Securityholders. The filing of such an
application shall automatically stay the performance of the
duty to resign until the Securities and Exchange Commission
orders otherwise.
Any resignation of the Trustee shall become effective only
upon the appointment of a successor trustee and such
successor's acceptance of such an appointment.
SECTION 7.09. There shall at all times be a Trustee with
respect to the Securities issued hereunder which shall at all
times be a corporation organized and doing business under the
laws of the United States of America or any State or Territory
thereof or of the District of Columbia, or a corporation or
other person permitted to act as trustee by the Securities and
Exchange Commission, authorized under such laws to exercise
corporate trust powers, having a combined capital and surplus
of at least 50 million dollars, and subject to supervision or
examination by Federal, State, Territorial, or District of
Columbia authority. If such corporation publishes reports of
condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the
requirements of the aforesaid supervising or examining
authority, then for the purposes 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. The Company may not,
nor may any person directly or indirectly controlling,
controlled by, or under common control with the Company, serve
as Trustee. In case at any time the Trustee shall cease to be
eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, the
Trustee shall resign immediately in the manner and with the
effect specified in Section 7.10.
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SECTION 7.10. (a) The Trustee or any successor hereafter
appointed, may at any time resign with respect to the
Securities of one or more series by giving written notice
thereof to the Company and by transmitting notice of
resignation by mail, first class postage prepaid, to the
Securityholders of such series, as their names and addresses
appear upon the Security Register. Upon receiving such notice
of resignation, the Company shall promptly appoint a successor
trustee with respect to Securities of such series by written
instrument, in duplicate, executed by order of the Board of
Directors, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to
the resigning Trustee and one copy to the successor trustee. If
no successor trustee shall have been so appointed and have
accepted appointment within 30 days after the mailing of such
notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee may petition any
court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a
successor trustee with respect to Securities of such series, or
any Securityholder of that series who has been a bona fide
holder of a Security or Securities for at least six months may,
subject to the provisions of Section 6.08, on behalf of himself
and all others similarly situated, petition any such court for
the appointment of a successor trustee. Such court may
thereupon after such notice, if any, as it may deem proper and
prescribe, appoint a successor trustee.
(b) In case at any time any of the following shall occur--
(1) the Trustee shall fail to comply with the
provisions of subsection (a) of Section 7.08 after written
request therefor by the Company or by any Securityholder
who has been a bona fide holder of a Security or
Securities for at least six months, or
(2) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in
accordance with the provisions of Section 7.09 and shall
fail to resign after written request therefor by the
Company or by any such Securityholder of Securities, or
(3) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting, or
shall be adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent, or a receiver
of the Trustee or of its property shall be appointed, or
any public officer shall take charge or control of the
Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of
rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation,
then, in any such case, the Company may remove the Trustee with
respect to all Securities and appoint a successor trustee by
written instrument, in duplicate, executed by order of the
Board of Directors, one copy of which instrument shall be
delivered to the Trustee so removed and one copy to the
successor trustee, or, subject to the provisions of Section
6.08, unless the Trustee's duty to resign is stayed as provided
herein, any Securityholder who has been a bona fide holder of a
Security or Securities for at least six months may, on behalf
of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any
court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee
and the appointment of a successor trustee. Such court may
thereupon after such notice, if any, as it may deem proper and
prescribe, remove the Trustee and appoint a successor trustee.
(c) The holders of a majority in aggregate principal
amount of the Securities of any series at the time outstanding
may at any time remove the Trustee with respect to such series
and appoint a successor trustee.
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(d) Any resignation or removal of the Trustee and
appointment of a successor trustee with respect to the
Securities of a series pursuant to any of the provisions of
this Section shall become effective upon acceptance of
appointment by the successor trustee as provided in Section
7.11.
(e) Any successor trustee appointed pursuant to this
Section may be appointed with respect to the Securities of one
or more series or all of such series, and at any time there
shall be only one Trustee with respect to the Securities of any
particular series.
SECTION 7.11. (a) In case of the appointment hereunder of
a successor trustee with respect to all Securities, every such
successor trustee so appointed shall execute, acknowledge and
deliver to the Company and to the retiring Trustee an
instrument accepting such appointment, and thereupon the
resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become
effective and such successor trustee, without any further act,
deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights,
powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee; but, on the
request of the Company or the successor trustee, such retiring
Trustee shall, upon payment of its charges, execute and deliver
an instrument transferring to such successor trustee all the
rights, powers, and trusts of the retiring Trustee and shall
duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor trustee all
property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder.
(b) In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor
trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more (but not
all) series, the Company, the retiring Trustee and each
successor trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more
series shall execute and deliver an indenture supplemental
hereto wherein each successor trustee shall accept such
appointment and which (1) shall contain such provisions as
shall be necessary or desirable to transfer and confirm to, and
to vest in, each successor trustee all the rights, powers,
trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the
Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of
such successor trustee relates, (2) shall contain such
provisions as shall be deemed necessary or desirable to confirm
that all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring
Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series
as to which the retiring Trustee is not retiring shall continue
to be vested in the retiring Trustee, and (3) shall add to or
change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be
necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of
the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, it being
understood that nothing herein or in such supplemental
indenture shall constitute such Trustees co-trustees of the
same trust, that each such Trustee shall be trustee of a trust
or trusts hereunder separate and apart from any trust or trusts
hereunder administered by any other such Trustee and that no
Trustee shall be responsible for any act or failure to act on
the part of any other Trustee hereunder; and upon the execution
and delivery of such supplemental indenture the resignation or
removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective to the
extent provided therein, such retiring Trustee shall with
respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the
appointment of such successor trustee relates have no further
responsibility for the exercise of rights and powers or for the
performance of the duties and obligations vested in the Trustee
under this Indenture, and each such successor trustee, without
any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with
all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring
Trustee with respect to the
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Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of
such successor trustee relates; but, on request of the Company
or any successor trustee, such retiring Trustee shall duly
assign, transfer and deliver to such successor trustee, to the
extent contemplated by such supplemental indenture, the
property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder with
respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the
appointment of such successor trustee relates.
(c) Upon request of any such successor trustee, the
Company shall execute any and all instruments for more fully
and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor
trustee all such rights, powers and trusts referred to in
paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section, as the case may be.
(d) No successor trustee shall accept its appointment
unless at the time of such acceptance such successor trustee
shall be qualified and eligible under this Article.
(e) Upon acceptance of appointment by a successor trustee
as provided in this Section, the Company shall transmit notice
of the succession of such trustee hereunder by mail, first
class postage prepaid, to the Securityholders, as their names
and addresses appear upon the Security Register. If the Company
fails to transmit such notice within ten days after acceptance
of appointment by the successor trustee, the successor trustee
shall cause such notice to be transmitted at the expense of the
Company.
SECTION 7.12. Any corporation into which the 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 Trustee shall be a party, or any
corporation succeeding to the corporate trust business of the
Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder,
provided such corporation shall be qualified under the
provisions of Section 7.08 and eligible under the provisions of
Section 7.09, without the execution or filing of any paper or
any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto,
anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding. In case any
Securities shall have been authenticated, but not delivered, by
the Trustee then in office, any successor by merger, conversion
or consolidation to such authenticating Trustee may adopt such
authentication and deliver the Securities so authenticated with
the same effect as if such successor Trustee had itself
authenticated such Securities.
SECTION 7.13. (a) Subject to the provisions of subsection
(b) of this Section, if the Trustee shall be or shall become a
creditor, directly or indirectly, secured or unsecured, of the
Company within three months prior to a default, as defined in
subsection (c) of this Section, or subsequent to such a
default, then, unless and until such default shall be cured,
the Trustee shall set apart and hold in a special account for
the benefit of the Trustee individually, the holders of the
Securities and the holders of other indenture securities (as
defined in subsection (c) of this Section)
(1) an amount equal to any and all reductions in the
amount due and owing upon any claim as such creditor in
respect of principal or interest, effected after the
beginning of such three months' period and valid as
against the Company and its other creditors, except any
such reduction resulting from the receipt or disposition
of any property described in paragraph (2) of this
subsection, or from the exercise of any right of set-off
which the Trustee could have exercised if a petition in
bankruptcy had been filed by or against the Company upon
the date of such default; and
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(2) all property received by the Trustee in respect
of any claim as such creditor, either as security
therefor, or in satisfaction or composition thereof, or
otherwise, after the beginning of such three months'
period, or an amount equal to the proceeds of any such
property, if disposed of, subject, however, to the rights,
if any, of the Company and its other creditors in such
property or such proceeds.
Nothing herein contained, however, shall affect the right
of the Trustee
(A) to retain for its own account (i) payments made
on account of any such claim by any person (other than the
Company) who is liable thereon, and (ii) the proceeds of
the bona fide sale of any such claim by the Trustee to a
third person, and (iii) distributions made in cash,
securities, or other property in respect of claims filed
against the Company in bankruptcy or receivership or in a
case for reorganization pursuant to the Federal Bankruptcy
Code or applicable State law;
(B) to realize, for its own account, upon any
property held by it as security for any such claim, if
such property was so held prior to the beginning of such
three months' period;
(C) to realize, for its own account, but only to the
extent of the claim hereinafter mentioned, upon any
property held by it as security for any such claim, if
such claim was created after the beginning of such three
months' period and such property was received as security
therefor simultaneously with the creation thereof, and if
the Trustee shall sustain the burden of proving that at
the time such property was so received the Trustee had no
reasonable cause to believe that a default, as defined in
subsection (c) of this Section, would occur within three
months; or
(D) to receive payment on any claim referred to in
paragraph (B) or (C), against the release of any property
held as security for such claim as provided in such
paragraph (B) or (C), as the case may be, to the extent of
the fair value of such property.
For the purposes of paragraphs (B), (C) and (D), property
substituted after the beginning of such three months' period
for property held as security at the time of such substitution
shall, to the extent of the fair value of the property
released, have the same status as the property released, and,
to the extent that any claim referred to in any of such
paragraphs is created in renewal of or in substitution for or
for the purpose of repaying or refunding any pre-existing claim
of the Trustee as such creditor, such claim shall have the same
status as such pre-existing claim.
If the Trustee shall be required to account, the funds and
property held in such special account and the proceeds thereof
shall be apportioned between the Trustee, the Securityholders
and the holders of other indenture securities in such manner
that the Trustee, the Securityholders and the holders of other
indenture securities realize, as a result of payments from such
special account and payments of dividends on claims filed
against the Company in bankruptcy or receivership or in a case
for reorganization pursuant to the Federal Bankruptcy Code or
applicable State law, the same percentage of their respective
claims, figured before crediting to the claim of the Trustee
anything on account of the receipt by it from the Company of
the funds and property in such special account and before
crediting to the respective claims of the Trustee, the
Securityholders and the holders of other indenture securities
dividends on claims filed against the Company in
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bankruptcy or receivership or in a case for reorganization
pursuant to the Federal Bankruptcy Code or applicable State
law, but after crediting thereon receipts on account of the
indebtedness represented by their respective claims from all
sources other than from such dividends and from the funds and
property so held in such special account. As used in this
paragraph, with respect to any claim, the term "dividends"
shall include any distribution with respect to such claim, in
bankruptcy or receivership or in a case for reorganization
pursuant to the Federal Bankruptcy Code or applicable State
law, whether such distribution is made in cash, securities, or
other property, but shall not include any such distribution
with respect to the secured portion, if any, of such claim. The
court in which such bankruptcy, receivership or a case for
reorganization is pending shall have jurisdiction (i) to
apportion between the Trustee, the Securityholders and the
holders of other indenture securities, in accordance with the
provisions of this paragraph, the funds and property held in
such special account and the proceeds thereof, or (ii) in lieu
of such apportionment, in whole or in part, to give to the
provisions of this paragraph due consideration in determining
the fairness of the distributions to be made to the Trustee,
the Securityholders and the holders of other indenture
securities with respect to their respective claims, in which
event it shall not be necessary to liquidate or to appraise the
value of any securities or other property held in such special
account or as security for any such claim, or to make a
specific allocation of such distributions as between the
secured and unsecured portions of such claims, or otherwise to
apply the provisions of this paragraph as a mathematical
formula.
Any Trustee who has resigned or been removed after the
beginning of such three months' period shall be subject to the
provisions of this subsection (a) as though such resignation or
removal had not occurred. If any Trustee has resigned or been
removed prior to the beginning of such three months' period, it
shall be subject to the provisions of this subsection (a) if
and only if the following conditions exist:
(i) the receipt of property or reduction of claim
which would have given rise to the obligation to account,
if such Trustee had continued as trustee, occurred after
the beginning of such three months' period; and
(ii) such receipt of property or reduction of claim
occurred within three months after such resignation or
removal.
(b) There shall be excluded from the operation of
subsection (a) of this Section a creditor relationship arising
from
(1) the ownership or acquisition of securities issued
under any indenture, or any security or securities having
a maturity of one year or more at the time of acquisition
by the Trustee;
(2) advances authorized by a receivership or
bankruptcy court of competent jurisdiction, or by this
Indenture, for the purpose of preserving any property
other than cash which shall at any time be subject to the
lien, if any, of this Indenture or of discharging tax
liens or other prior liens or encumbrances thereon, if
notice of such advance and of the circumstances
surrounding the making thereof is given to the
Securityholders at the time and in the manner provided in
this Indenture;
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(3) disbursements made in the ordinary course of
business in the capacity of trustee under an indenture,
transfer agent, registrar, custodian, paying agent,
subscription agent, fiscal agent or depositary, or other
similar capacity;
(4) an indebtedness created as a result of services
rendered or premises rented; or an indebtedness created as
a result of goods or securities sold in a cash transaction
as defined in subsection (c) of this Section;
(5) the ownership of stock or of other securities of
a Company organized under the provisions of Section 25(a)
of the Federal Reserve Act, as amended, which is directly
or indirectly a creditor of the Company; or
(6) the acquisition, ownership, acceptance or
negotiation of any drafts, bills of exchange, acceptances
or obligations which fall within the classification of
self-liquidating paper as defined in subsection (c) of
this Section.
(c) As used in this Section:
(1) The term "default" shall mean any failure to make
payment in full of the principal of (or premium, if any)
or interest upon any of the Securities or upon the other
indenture securities when and as such principal (or
premium, if any) or interest becomes due and payable.
(2) The term "other indenture securities" shall mean
securities upon which the Company is an obligor (as
defined in the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended)
outstanding under any other indenture (A) under which the
Trustee is also trustee, (B) which contains provisions
substantially similar to the provisions of subsection (a)
of this Section and (C) under which a default exists at
the time of the apportionment of the funds and property
held in said special account.
(3) The term "cash transaction" shall mean any
transaction in which full payment for goods or securities
sold is made within seven days after delivery of the goods
or securities in currency or in checks or other orders
drawn upon banks or bankers and payable upon demand.
(4) The term "self-liquidating paper" shall mean any
draft, xxxx of exchange, acceptance or obligation which is
made, drawn, negotiated or incurred by the Company for the
purpose of financing the purchase, processing,
manufacture, shipment, storage or sale of goods, wares or
merchandise and which is secured by documents evidencing
title to, possession of, or a lien upon, the goods, wares
or merchandise or the receivables or proceeds arising from
the sale of the goods, wares or merchandise previously
constituting the security, provided the security is
received by the Trustee simultaneously with the creation
of the creditor relationship with the Company arising from
the making, drawing, negotiating or incurring of the
draft, xxxx of exchange, acceptance or obligation.
(5) The term "Company" shall mean any obligor upon
any of the Securities.
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ARTICLE EIGHT
Concerning the Securityholders
SECTION 8.01. Whenever in this Indenture it is provided
that the holders of a majority or specified percentage in
aggregate principal amount of the Securities of a particular
series may take any action (including the making of any demand
or request, the giving of any notice, consent or waiver or the
taking of any other action), the fact that at the time of
taking any such action the holders of such majority or
specified percentage of that series have joined therein may be
evidenced by any instrument or any number of instruments of
similar tenor executed by such holders of Securities of that
series in person or by agent or proxy appointed in writing.
If the Company shall solicit from the Securityholders of
any series any request, demand, authorization, direction,
notice, consent, waiver or other action, the Company may, at
its option, as evidenced by an Officers' Certificate, fix in
advance a record date for such series for the determination of
Securityholders entitled to give such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other
action, but the Company shall have no obligation to do so. If
such a record date is fixed, such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other
action may be given before or after the record date, but only
the Securityholders of record at the close of business on the
record date shall be deemed to be Securityholders for the
purposes of determining whether Securityholders of the
requisite proportion of outstanding Securities of that series
have authorized or agreed or consented to such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other
action, and for that purpose the outstanding Securities of that
series shall be computed as of the record date; provided that
no such authorization, agreement or consent by such
Securityholders on the record date shall be deemed effective
unless it shall become effective pursuant to the provisions of
this Indenture not later than six months after the record date.
SECTION 8.02. Subject to the provisions of Section 7.01,
proof of the execution of any instrument by a Securityholder
(such proof will not require notarization) or his agent or
proxy and proof of the holding by any person of any of the
Securities shall be sufficient if made in the following manner:
(a) The fact and date of the execution by any such person
of any instrument may be proved in any reasonable manner
acceptable to the Trustee.
(b) The ownership of Securities shall be proved by the
Security Register of such Securities or by a certificate of the
Security Registrar thereof.
(c) The Trustee may require such additional proof of any
matter referred to in this Section as it shall deem necessary.
SECTION 8.03. Prior to the due presentment for
registration of transfer of any Security, the Company, the
Trustee, any paying agent and any Security Registrar may deem
and treat the person in whose name such Security shall be
registered upon the books of the Company as the absolute owner
of such Security (whether or not such Security shall be overdue
and notwithstanding any notice of ownership or writing thereon
made by anyone other than the Security Registrar) for the
purpose of receiving payment of or on account of the principal
of, premium, if any, and (subject to Section 2.03) interest on
such Security and for all other purposes; and neither the
Company nor the Trustee nor any paying agent nor any Security
Registrar shall be affected by any notice to the contrary.
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SECTION 8.04. In determining whether the holders of the
requisite aggregate principal amount of Securities of a
particular series have concurred in any direction, consent or
waiver under this Indenture, Securities of that series which
are owned by the Company or any other obligor on the Securities
of that series or by any person directly or indirectly
controlling or controlled by or under common control with the
Company or any other obligor on the Securities of that series
shall be disregarded and deemed not to be outstanding for the
purpose of any such determination, except that for the purpose
of determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in
relying on any such direction, consent or waiver only
Securities of such series which the Trustee actually knows are
so owned shall be so disregarded. Securities so owned which
have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as outstanding
for the purposes of this Section, if the pledgee shall
establish to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee's
right so to act with respect to such Securities and that the
pledgee is not a person directly or indirectly controlling or
controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with
the Company or any such other obligor. In case of a dispute as
to such right, any decision by the Trustee taken upon the
advice of counsel shall be full protection to the Trustee.
SECTION 8.05. At any time prior to (but not after) the
evidencing to the Trustee, as provided in Section 8.01, of the
taking of any action by the holders of the majority or
percentage in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of a
particular series specified in this Indenture in connection
with such action, any holder of a Security of that series which
is shown by the evidence to be included in the Securities the
holders of which have consented to such action may, by filing
written notice with the Trustee, and upon proof of holding as
provided in Section 8.02, revoke such action so far as concerns
such Security. Except as aforesaid any such action taken by the
holder of any Security shall be conclusive and binding upon
such holder and upon all future holders and owners of such
Security, and of any Security issued in exchange therefor, on
registration of transfer thereof or in place thereof,
irrespective of whether or not any notation in regard thereto
is made upon such Security. Any action taken by the holders of
the majority or percentage in aggregate principal amount of the
Securities of a particular series specified in this Indenture
in connection with such action shall be conclusively binding
upon the Company, the Trustee and the holders of all the
Securities of that series.
ARTICLE NINE
Supplemental Indentures
SECTION 9.01. In addition to any supplemental indenture
otherwise authorized by this Indenture, the Company, when
authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee may from time
to time and at any time enter into an indenture or indentures
supplemental hereto (which shall conform to the provisions of
the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as then in effect), without the
consent of the Securityholders, for one or more of the
following purposes:
(a) to evidence the succession of another corporation to
the Company, and the assumption by any such successor of the
covenants of the Company contained herein or otherwise
established with respect to the Securities; or
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(b) to add to the covenants of the Company such further
covenants, restrictions, conditions or provisions for the
protection of the holders of the Securities of all or any
series as the Board of Directors and the Trustee shall consider
to be for the protection of the holders of Securities of all or
any series, and to make the occurrence, or the occurrence and
continuance, of a default in any of such additional covenants,
restrictions, conditions or provisions a default or an Event of
Default with respect to such series permitting the enforcement
of all or any of the several remedies provided in this
Indenture as herein set forth; provided, however, that in
respect of any such additional covenant, restriction, condition
or provision such supplemental indenture may provide for a
particular period of grace after default (which period may be
shorter or longer than that allowed in the case of other
defaults) or may provide for an immediate enforcement upon such
default or may limit the remedies available to the Trustee upon
such default or may limit the right of the holders of a
majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of
such series to waive such default; or
(c) to cure any ambiguity or to correct or supplement any
provision contained herein or in any supplemental indenture
which may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision
contained herein or in any supplemental indenture, or to make
such other provisions in regard to matters or questions arising
under this Indenture as shall not be inconsistent with the
provisions of this Indenture and shall not adversely affect the
interests of the holders of the Securities of any series; or
(d) to change or eliminate any of the provisions of this
Indenture, provided that any such change or elimination shall
become effective only when there is no Security outstanding of
any series created prior to the execution of such supplemental
indenture which is entitled to the benefit of such provision.
The Trustee is hereby authorized to join with the Company
in the execution of any such supplemental indenture, and to
make any further appropriate agreements and stipulations which
may be therein contained, but the Trustee shall not be
obligated to enter into any such supplemental indenture which
affects the Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under
this Indenture or otherwise.
Any supplemental indenture authorized by the provisions of
this Section may be executed by the Company and the Trustee
without the consent of the holders of any of the Securities at
the time outstanding, notwithstanding any of the provisions of
Section 9.02.
SECTION 9.02. With the consent (evidenced as provided in
Section 8.01) of the holders of not less than a majority in
aggregate principal amount of the Securities of each series
affected by such supplemental indenture or indentures at the
time outstanding, the Company, when authorized by a Board
Resolution, and the Trustee may from time to time and at any
time enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto
(which shall conform to the provisions of the Trust Indenture
Act of 1939 as then in effect) for the purpose of adding any
provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of
the provisions of this Indenture or of any supplemental
indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the
holders of the Securities of such series under this Indenture;
provided, however, that no such supplemental indenture shall
(i) extend the fixed maturity of any Securities of any series,
or reduce the principal amount thereof, or reduce the rate or
extend the time of payment of interest thereon, or reduce any
premium payable upon the redemption thereof, without the
consent of the holder of
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each Security so affected, or (ii) reduce the aforesaid
percentage of Securities, the holders of which are required to
consent to any such supplemental indenture, without the consent
of the holders of each Security then outstanding and affected
thereby.
Upon the request of the Company, accompanied by a Board
Resolution authorizing the execution of any such supplemental
indenture, and upon the filing with the Trustee of evidence of
the consent of Securityholders required to consent thereto as
aforesaid, the Trustee shall join with the Company in the
execution of such supplemental indenture unless such
supplemental indenture affects the Trustee's own rights, duties
or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise, in which case
the Trustee may in its discretion but shall not be obligated to
enter into such supplemental indenture.
It shall not be necessary for the consent of the
Securityholders of any series affected thereby under this
Section to approve the particular form of any proposed
supplemental indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such
consent shall approve the substance thereof.
Promptly after the execution by the Company and the
Trustee of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the
provisions of this Section, the Trustee shall transmit by mail,
first class postage prepaid, a notice, setting forth in general
terms the substance of such supplemental indenture, to the
Securityholders of all series affected thereby as their names
and addresses appear upon the Security Register. Any failure of
the Trustee to mail such notice, or any defect therein, shall
not, however, in any way impair or affect the validity of any
such supplemental indenture.
SECTION 9.03. Upon the execution of any supplemental
indenture pursuant to the provisions of this Article or of
Section 10.01, this Indenture shall, with respect to such
series, be and be deemed to be modified and amended in
accordance therewith and the respective rights, limitations of
rights, obligations, duties and immunities under this Indenture
of the Trustee, the Company and the holders of Securities of
the series affected thereby shall thereafter be determined,
exercised and enforced hereunder subject in all respects to
such modifications and amendments, and all the terms and
conditions of any such supplemental indenture shall be and be
deemed to be part of the terms and conditions of this Indenture
for any and all purposes.
SECTION 9.04. Securities of any series, affected by a
supplemental indenture, authenticated and delivered after the
execution of such supplemental indenture pursuant to the
provisions of this Article or of Section 10.01, may bear a
notation in form approved by the Trustee, provided such form
meets the requirements of any exchange upon which such series
may be listed, as to any matter provided for in such
supplemental indenture. If the Company or the Trustee shall so
determine, new Securities of that series so modified as to
conform, in the opinion of the Trustee and the Board of
Directors, to any modification of this Indenture contained in
any such supplemental indenture may be prepared by the Company,
authenticated by the Trustee and delivered in exchange for the
Securities of that series then outstanding.
SECTION 9.05. The Trustee, subject to the provisions of
Section 7.01, may receive an Opinion of Counsel as conclusive
evidence that any supplemental indenture executed pursuant to
this Article is authorized or permitted by, and conforms to,
the terms of this Article and that it is proper for the Trustee
under the provisions of this Article to join in the execution
thereof.
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ARTICLE TEN
Consolidation, Merger and Sale
SECTION 10.01. Nothing contained in this Indenture or in
any of the Securities shall prevent any consolidation or merger
of the Company with or into any other corporation or
corporations (whether or not affiliated with the Company), or
successive consolidations or mergers in which the Company or
its successor or successors shall be a party or parties, or
shall prevent any sale, conveyance, transfer or other
disposition of the property of the Company or its successor or
successors as an entirety, or substantially as an entirety, to
any other corporation (whether or not affiliated with the
Company or its successor or successors) authorized to acquire
and operate the same; provided, however, the Company hereby
covenants and agrees that, upon any such consolidation, merger,
sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition, the due and
punctual payment of the principal of (premium, if any) and
interest on all of the Securities of all series in accordance
with the terms of each series, according to their tenor, and
the due and punctual performance and observance of all the
covenants and conditions of this Indenture with respect to each
series or established with respect to such series pursuant to
Section 2.01 to be kept or performed by the Company, shall be
expressly assumed, by supplemental indenture (which shall
conform to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as
then in effect) satisfactory in form to the Trustee executed
and delivered to the Trustee by the Company formed by such
consolidation, or into which the Company shall have been
merged, or by the corporation which shall have acquired such
property.
SECTION 10.02. (a) In case of any such consolidation,
merger, sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition and
upon the assumption by the successor corporation, by
supplemental indenture, executed and delivered to the Trustee
and satisfactory in form to the Trustee, of the due and
punctual payment of the principal of, premium, if any, and
interest on all of the Securities of all series outstanding and
the due and punctual performance of all of the covenants and
conditions of this Indenture or established with respect to
each series of the Securities pursuant to Section 2.01 to be
performed by the Company with respect to each series, such
successor corporation shall succeed to and be substituted for
the Company, with the same effect as if it had been named
herein as the party of the first part, and thereupon the
predecessor corporation shall be relieved of all obligations
and covenants under this Indenture and the Securities. Such
successor corporation thereupon may cause to be signed, and may
issue either in its own name or in the name of the Company or
any other predecessor obligor on the Securities, any or all of
the Securities issuable hereunder which theretofore shall not
have been signed by the Company and delivered to the Trustee;
and, upon the order of such successor company, instead of the
Company, and subject to all the terms, conditions and
limitations in this Indenture prescribed, the Trustee shall
authenticate and shall deliver any Securities which previously
shall have been signed and delivered by the officers of the
predecessor Company to the Trustee for authentication, and any
Securities which such successor corporation thereafter shall
cause to be signed and delivered to the Trustee for that
purpose. All the Securities so issued shall in all respects
have the same legal rank and benefit under this Indenture as
the Securities theretofore or thereafter issued in accordance
with the terms of this Indenture as though all of such
Securities had been issued at the date of the execution hereof.
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(b) In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale,
conveyance, transfer or other disposition such changes in
phraseology and form (but not in substance) may be made in the
Securities thereafter to be issued as may be appropriate.
(c) Nothing contained in this Indenture or in any of the
Securities shall prevent the Company from merging into itself
or acquiring by purchase or otherwise all or any part of the
property of any other corporation (whether or not affiliated
with the Company).
SECTION 10.03. The Trustee, subject to the provisions of
Section 7.01, may receive an Opinion of Counsel as conclusive
evidence that any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance,
transfer or other disposition, and any such assumption, comply
with the provisions of this Article.
ARTICLE ELEVEN
Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture;
Unclaimed Moneys
SECTION 11.01. If at any time: (a) the Company shall have
delivered to the Trustee for cancellation all Securities of a
series theretofore authenticated (other than any Securities
which shall have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which shall
have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 2.07) and
Securities for whose payment money or Governmental Obligations
has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and held
in trust by the Company (and thereupon repaid to the Company or
discharged from such trust, as provided in Section 11.05); (b)
all such Securities of a particular series not theretofore
delivered to the Trustee for cancellation shall have become due
and payable, or are by their terms to become due and payable
within one year or are to be called for redemption within one
year under arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the
giving of notice of redemption, and the Company shall deposit
or cause to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds the
entire amount in moneys or Governmental Obligations sufficient;
or (c) a combination thereof, sufficient, without reinvestment,
in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent
public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof
delivered to the Trustee, to pay at maturity or upon redemption
all Securities of that series not theretofore delivered to the
Trustee for cancellation, including principal (and premium, if
any) and interest due or to become due to such date of maturity
or date fixed for redemption, as the case may be, and if the
Company shall also pay or cause to be paid all other sums
payable hereunder with respect to such series by the Company,
then this Indenture shall thereupon cease to be of further
effect with respect to such series except for the provisions of
Sections 2.05, 2.07, 4.02 and 7.10, which shall survive until
the date of maturity or redemption date, as the case may be,
and Sections 7.06 and 11.05 which shall survive to such date
and thereafter, and the Trustee, on demand of the Company and
at the cost and expense of the Company, shall execute proper
instruments acknowledging satisfaction of and discharging this
Indenture with respect to such series.
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SECTION 11.02. If at any time all such Securities of a
particular series not heretofore delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation or which have not become due and payable as
described in Section 11.01 shall have been paid by the Company
by depositing irrevocably with the Trustee as trust funds
moneys or an amount of Governmental Obligations sufficient to
pay at maturity or upon redemption all such Securities of that
series not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation, including principal (and premium, if any) and
interest due or to become due to such date of maturity or date
fixed for redemption, as the case may be, and if the Company
shall also pay or cause to be paid all other sums payable
hereunder by the Company with respect to such series, then
after the date such moneys or Governmental Obligations, as the
case may be, are deposited with the Trustee the obligations of
the Company under this Indenture with respect to such series
shall cease to be of further effect except for the provisions
of Sections 2.05, 2.07, 4.02, 7.06, 7.10 and 11.05 hereof which
shall survive until such Securities shall mature and be paid.
Thereafter, Sections 7.06 and 11.05 shall survive.
SECTION 11.03. All moneys or Governmental Obligations
deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Sections 11.01 or 11.02
shall be held in trust and shall be available for payment as
due, either directly or through any paying agent (including the
Company acting as its own paying agent), to the holders of the
particular series of Securities for the payment or redemption
of which such moneys or Governmental Obligations have been
deposited with the Trustee.
SECTION 11.04. In connection with the satisfaction and
discharge of this Indenture all moneys or Governmental
Obligations then held by any paying agent under the provisions
of this Indenture shall, upon demand of the Company, be paid to
the Trustee and thereupon such paying agent shall be released
from all further liability with respect to such moneys or
Governmental Obligations.
SECTION 11.05. Any moneys or Governmental Obligations
deposited with any paying agent or the Trustee, or then held by
the Company, in trust for payment of principal of or premium or
interest on the Securities of a particular series that are not
applied but remain unclaimed by the holders of such Securities
for at least two years after the date upon which the principal
of (and premium, if any) or interest on such Securities shall
have respectively become due and payable, shall be repaid to
the Company on May 31 of each year or (if then held by the
Company) shall be discharged from such trust; and thereupon the
paying agent and the Trustee shall be released from all further
liability with respect to such moneys or Governmental
Obligations, and the holder of any of the Securities entitled
to receive such payment shall thereafter, as an unsecured
general creditor, look only to the Company for the payment
thereof.
ARTICLE TWELVE
Immunity of Incorporators, Stockholders, Officers
and Directors
SECTION 12.01. No recourse under or upon any obligation,
covenant or agreement of this Indenture, or of any Security, or
for any claim based thereon or otherwise in respect thereof,
shall be had against any incorporator, stockholder, officer or
director, past, present or future as such, of the Company or of
any predecessor or successor corporation, either directly or
through the Company or any such predecessor or successor
corporation, whether by virtue of any constitution, statute or
rule of law,
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or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or
otherwise; it being expressly understood that this Indenture
and the obligations issued hereunder are solely corporate
obligations, and that no such personal liability whatever shall
attach to, or is or shall be incurred by, the incorporators,
stockholders, officers or directors as such, of the Company or
of any predecessor or successor corporation, or any of them,
because of the creation of the indebtedness hereby authorized,
or under or by reason of the obligations, covenants or
agreements contained in this Indenture or in any of the
Securities or implied therefrom; and that any and all such
personal liability of every name and nature, either at common
law or in equity or by constitution or statute, of, and any and
all such rights and claims against, every such incorporator,
stockholder, officer or director as such, because of the
creation of the indebtedness hereby authorized, or under or by
reason of the obligations, covenants or agreements contained in
this Indenture or in any of the Securities or implied
therefrom, are hereby expressly waived and released as a
condition of, and as a consideration for, the execution of this
Indenture and the issuance of such Securities.
ARTICLE THIRTEEN
Sundry Provisions
SECTION 13.01. All the covenants, stipulations, promises
and agreements in this Indenture contained by or on behalf of
the Company shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so
expressed or not.
SECTION 13.02. Any act or proceeding by any provision of
this Indenture authorized or required to be done or performed
by any board, committee or officer of the Company shall and may
be done and performed with like force and effect by the
corresponding board, committee or officer of any corporation
that shall at the time be the lawful sole successor of the
Company.
SECTION 13.03. The Company by instrument in writing
executed by authority of two-thirds of its Board of Directors
and delivered to the Trustee may surrender any of the powers
reserved to the Company and thereupon such power so surrendered
shall terminate both as to the Company and as to any successor
corporation.
SECTION 13.04. Except as otherwise expressly provided
herein any notice or demand which by any provision of this
Indenture is required or permitted to be given or served by the
Trustee or by the holders of Securities to or on the Company
may be given or served by being deposited first class postage
prepaid in a post-office letterbox addressed (until another
address is filed in writing by the Company with the Trustee),
as follows: GTE Florida Incorporated, One Tampa City Center,
000 X. Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx, Xxxxxxx 00000, Attention:
Secretary. Any notice, election, request or demand by the
Company or any Securityholder to or upon the Trustee shall be
deemed to have been sufficiently given or made, for all
purposes, if given or made in writing at the Corporate Trust
Office of the Trustee, Attention: Corporate Trust
Administration.
SECTION 13.05. This Indenture and each Security shall be
deemed to be a contract made under the laws of the State of New
York, and for all purposes shall be construed in accordance
with the laws of said State.
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SECTION 13.06. (a) Upon any application or demand by the
Company to the Trustee to take any action under any of the
provisions of this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the
Trustee an Officers' Certificate stating that all conditions
precedent provided for in this Indenture relating to the
proposed action have been complied with and an Opinion of
Counsel stating that in the opinion of such counsel all such
conditions precedent have been complied with, except that in
the case of any such application or demand as to which the
furnishing of such documents is specifically required by any
provision of this Indenture relating to such particular
application or demand, no additional certificate or opinion
need be furnished.
(b) Each certificate or opinion provided for in this
Indenture and delivered to the Trustee with respect to
compliance with a condition or covenant in this Indenture
(other than the certificate provided pursuant to Section
5.03(d) of this Indenture) shall include (1) a statement that
the person making such certificate or opinion has read such
covenant or condition; (2) a brief statement as to the nature
and scope of the examination or investigation upon which the
statements or opinions contained in such certificate or opinion
are based; (3) a statement that, in the opinion of such person,
he has made such examination or investigation as is necessary
to enable him to express an informed opinion as to whether or
not such covenant or condition has been complied with; and (4)
a statement as to whether or not, in the opinion of such
person, such condition or covenant has been complied with.
SECTION 13.07. In any case where the date of maturity of
interest or principal of any Security or the date of redemption
of any Security shall not be a business day then payment of
interest or principal (and premium, if any) may be made on the
next succeeding business day with the same force and effect as
if made on the nominal date of maturity or redemption, and no
interest shall accrue for the period after such nominal date.
SECTION 13.08. If and to the extent that any provision of
this Indenture limits, qualifies or conflicts with the duties
imposed by Sections 310 to 317, inclusive, of the Trust
Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, such imposed duties shall
control.
SECTION 13.09. This Indenture may be executed in any
number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original; but
such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the
same instrument.
SECTION 13.10. In case any one or more of the provisions
contained in this Indenture or in the Securities of any series
shall for any reason be held to be invalid, illegal or
unenforceable in any respect, such invalidity, illegality or
unenforceability shall not affect any other provisions of this
Indenture or of such Securities, but this Indenture and such
Securities shall be construed as if such invalid or illegal or
unenforceable provision had never been contained herein or
therein.
NATIONSBANK OF GEORGIA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION hereby
accepts the trusts in this Indenture declared and provided,
upon the terms and conditions hereinabove set forth.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this
Indenture to be duly executed, and their respective corporate
seals to be hereunto affixed and attested, all as of the day
and year first above written.
GTE FLORIDA INCORPORATED
By ___________________________
Vice President
Attest:
By _____________________________
Secretary
NATIONSBANK OF GEORGIA,
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
as Trustee
By ___________________________
Attest:
By _____________________________
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STATE OF FLORIDA )
ss:
COUNTY OF HILLSBOROUGH)
I, the undersigned, a Notary Public in and for the County
of Hillsborough, State of Florida, do hereby certify that on
the day of November, 1993, before me personally came
XXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXX and XXXXX X. XXXXXX, both to me known and
known to me to be Vice President and Assistant Secretary,
respectively, of GTE Florida Incorporated, one of the
corporations described in and which executed the foregoing
instrument, and to be the persons who executed the said
instrument for and on behalf of said GTE Florida Incorporated
as Vice President and Assistant Secretary, respectively, who,
being by me severally duly sworn, did depose and say that the
said XXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXX resides at 0000 Xxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx,
Xxxxx, Xxxxxxx 00000 and that he is a Vice President of said
GTE South Incorporated, and the said XXXXX X. XXXXXX resides at
00000 Xxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxx, Xxxxxxx 00000, and that he is
Assistant Secretary of said GTE Florida Incorporated; and that
they know the seal of said corporation; that one of the seals
affixed to said instrument is such corporate seal and is the
true and genuine corporate seal of said corporation; that it
was so affixed by order of the board of directors of said
corporation and that they signed their names thereto by like
order; and they severally further acknowledged that they
signed, sealed and delivered the said instrument for and on
behalf of the said corporation as by the board of directors of
said corporation directed as the free and voluntary act and
deed of the said corporation and for all the uses and purposes
therein expressed.
In WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my official
signature and affixed my notarial seal this day of
November, 1993.
_____________________________________
Notary Public, Florida State at
Large
My Commission Expires
_______________
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COUNTY OF XXXXXX )
ss.:
STATE OF GEORGIA )
I, the undersigned, a Notary Public in and for the County
of Xxxxxx and State of Georgia, do hereby certify that on the
____ day of _________, 1993, before me personally came
________________ and ______________, both to me known and known
to me to be a ________________ and ________________,
respectively, of NationsBank of Georgia, National Association,
one of the corporations described in and which executed the
foregoing instrument, and to be the persons who executed the
said instrument for and on behalf of said NationsBank of
Georgia, National Association as a ________________ and
________________ respectively, who, being by me severally duly
sworn, did depose and say that the said _____________________
is a ________________ of said NationsBank of Georgia, National
Association, and the said _______________ is an
________________ of said NationsBank of Georgia, National
Association; and that they know the seal of said corporation;
that one of the seals affixed to said instrument is such
corporate seal and is the true and genuine corporate seal of
said corporation; that is was so affixed by the authority of
the board of directors of said corporation and that they signed
their names thereto by like authority; and they severally
further acknowledged that they signed, sealed and delivered the
said instrument for and on behalf of the said corporation as by
the board of directors of said corporation authorized as the
free and voluntary act and deed of the said corporation and for
all the uses and purposes therein expressed.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my official
signature and affixed my notarial seal this _____ day of
_________, 1993.
_____________________________________
Commission Expires __________________
[NOTARIAL SEAL]
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