EXECUTION COPY
SOLA INTERNATIONAL INC., as Issuer
and
State Street Bank and Trust Company of California, N.A., as Trustee
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INDENTURE
Dated as of March 19, 1998
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SOLA INTERNATIONAL INC.
Reconciliation and tie between Trust Indenture Act of 1939 and
the Indenture, dated as of March 19, 1998:
Trust Indenture Act Section Indenture Section
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ss. 310(a)(1)............................................................... 609
(a)(2)............................................................... 609
(a)(3)............................................................... Not Applicable
(a)(4)............................................................... Not Applicable
(a)(5)............................................................... 609
(b).................................................................. 608, 610
ss. 311(a).................................................................. 610, 613
(b).................................................................. 613
(c).................................................................. Not Applicable
ss. 312(a).................................................................. 701, 702(a)
(b).................................................................. 702(b)
(c).................................................................. 702(c)
ss. 313(a).................................................................. 703(a)
(b).................................................................. 703(a)
(c).................................................................. 703(a), 602
(d).................................................................. 703(b)
ss. 314(a).................................................................. 704
(a)(4)............................................................... 101,1005
(b).................................................................. Not Applicable
(c)(1)............................................................... 102
(c)(2)............................................................... 102
(c)(3)............................................................... Not Applicable
(d).................................................................. Not Applicable
(e).................................................................. 102
ss. 315(a).................................................................. 601
(b).................................................................. 602
(c).................................................................. 601
(d).................................................................. 601, 603
(e).................................................................. 514
ss. 316(a)(last sentence)................................................... 101
(a)(1)(A)............................................................ 502, 512
(a)(1)(B)............................................................ 513
(a)(2)............................................................... Not Applicable
Trust Indenture Act Section Indenture Section
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(b).................................................................. 508
(c).................................................................. 104(c)
ss. 317(a)(1)............................................................... 503
(a)(2)............................................................... 504
(b).................................................................. 1003
ss. 318(a).................................................................. 107
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Note: This reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a part of the
Indenture.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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PARTIES........................................................................1
RECITALS OF THE COMPANY........................................................1
ARTICLE ONE
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION
Section 101. Definitions......................................................2
"Act".......................................................................2
"Additional Amounts"........................................................2
"Affiliate".................................................................2
"Authenticating Agent"......................................................3
"Authorized Newspaper"......................................................3
"Bearer Security"...........................................................3
"Board of Directors"........................................................3
"Board Resolution"..........................................................3
"Book-Entry Security".......................................................3
"Business Day"..............................................................3
"Commission"................................................................3
"Common Stock"..............................................................4
"Company"...................................................................4
"Company Request" or "Company Order"........................................4
"Conversion Event"..........................................................4
"Corporate Trust Office"....................................................4
"corporation"...............................................................4
"Coupon"....................................................................4
"Currency"..................................................................5
"CUSIP number"..............................................................5
"Defaulted Interest"........................................................5
"Depositary"................................................................5
"Dollars" or "$"............................................................5
"ECU".......................................................................5
"Event of Default"..........................................................5
"Exchange Act"..............................................................5
"Foreign Currency"..........................................................5
"GAAP"......................................................................5
"Government Obligations"....................................................5
"Holder"....................................................................6
"Indenture".................................................................6
"Indexed Security"..........................................................6
"interest"..................................................................6
"Interest Payment Date".....................................................6
"Maturity"..................................................................6
"Office or Agency"..........................................................7
"Officers' Certificate".....................................................7
"Opinion of Counsel"........................................................7
"Original Issue Discount Security"..........................................7
"Outstanding"...............................................................7
"Paying Agent"..............................................................8
"Person"....................................................................9
"Place of Payment"..........................................................9
"Predecessor Security"......................................................9
"Preferred Stock"...........................................................9
"Repayment Date"............................................................9
"Repayment Price"...........................................................9
"Redemption Date"...........................................................9
"Redemption Price"..........................................................9
"Registered Security".......................................................9
"Regular Record Date".......................................................9
"Responsible Officer"......................................................10
"Security".................................................................10
"Security Register"........................................................10
"Senior Indebtedness"......................................................10
"Significant Subsidiary"...................................................10
"Special Record Date"......................................................10
"Stated Maturity"..........................................................10
"Subordinated Securities"..................................................10
"Subsidiary"...............................................................10
"Trustee"..................................................................11
"Trust Indenture Act"......................................................11
"United States"............................................................11
"United States Person".....................................................11
"Voting Stock".............................................................11
Section 102. Compliance Certificates and Opinions............................11
Section 103. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee..........................12
Section 104. Acts of Holders; Record Dates...................................13
Section 105. Notices, Etc., to Trustee and Company...........................15
Section 106. Notice to Holders; Waiver.......................................15
Section 107. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act...............................16
Section 108. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents........................16
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Section 109. Successors and Assigns..........................................17
Section 110. Separability Clause.............................................17
Section 111. Benefits of Indenture...........................................17
Section 112. Governing Law...................................................17
Section 113. Legal Holidays..................................................17
Section 114. Immunity of Stockholders, Directors, Officers and Agents
of the Company................................................18
ARTICLE TWO
SECURITY FORMS
Section 201. Forms of Securities.............................................19
Section 202. Securities in Book-Entry Form...................................19
Section 203. Form of Legend for Book-Entry Securities........................20
Section 204. Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication.................21
ARTICLE THREE
THE SECURITIES
Section 301. Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series............................22
Section 302. Currency; Denominations.........................................26
Section 303. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating..................27
Section 304. Temporary Securities............................................29
Section 305. Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange.............30
Section 306. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities................34
Section 307. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved..................35
Section 308. Persons Deemed Owners...........................................37
Section 309. Cancellation....................................................38
Section 310. Computation of Interest.........................................39
ARTICLE FOUR
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
Section 401. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture.........................40
Section 402. Application of Trust Money......................................42
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ARTICLE FIVE
REMEDIES
Section 501. Events of Default...............................................43
Section 502. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment..............44
Section 503. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee.46
Section 504. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim................................47
Section 505. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities.....47
Section 506. Application of Money Collected..................................48
Section 507. Limitation on Suits.............................................48
Section 508. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal,
Premium, if any, and Interest and Additional Amounts, if any..49
Section 509. Restoration of Rights and Remedies..............................49
Section 510. Rights and Remedies Cumulative..................................50
Section 511. Delay or Omission Not Waiver....................................50
Section 512. Control by Holders..............................................50
Section 513. Waiver of Past Defaults.........................................50
Section 514. Undertaking for Costs...........................................51
Section 515. Waiver of Usury, Stay or Extension Laws.........................51
ARTICLE SIX
THE TRUSTEE
Section 601. Certain Duties and Responsibilities.............................53
Section 602. Notice of Defaults..............................................53
Section 603. Certain Rights of Trustee.......................................54
Section 604. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities..........56
Section 605. May Hold Securities.............................................56
Section 606. Money Held in Trust.............................................56
Section 607. Compensation and Reimbursement..................................56
Section 608. Disqualification; Conflicting Interests.........................57
Section 609. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility.........................57
Section 610. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor...............58
Section 611. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor..........................59
Section 612. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.....61
Section 613. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company...............61
Section 614. Appointment of Authenticating Agent.............................61
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ARTICLE SEVEN
HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY
Section 701. Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders.......64
Section 702. Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders..........64
Section 703. Reports by Trustee..............................................65
Section 704. Reports by Company..............................................65
ARTICLE EIGHT
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE
Section 801. Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms............66
Section 802. Rights and Duties of Successor Corporation......................66
Section 803. Officers' Certificate and Opinion of Counsel....................67
ARTICLE NINE
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
Section 901. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders..............68
Section 902. Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders.................70
Section 903. Execution of Supplemental Indentures............................71
Section 904. Effect of Supplemental Indentures...............................71
Section 905. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act.............................72
Section 906. Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures..............72
ARTICLE TEN
COVENANTS
Section 1001. Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest.....................73
Section 1002. Maintenance of Office or Agency................................73
Section 1003. Money for Securities Payments to Be Held in Trust..............74
Section 1004. Corporate Existence............................................76
Section 1005. Statement as to Compliance.....................................76
Section 1006. Waiver of Certain Covenants....................................76
Section 1007. Additional Amounts.............................................77
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ARTICLE ELEVEN
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
Section 1101. Applicability of Article.......................................79
Section 1102. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee..........................79
Section 1103. Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed..............79
Section 1104. Notice of Redemption...........................................80
Section 1105. Deposit of Redemption Price....................................82
Section 1106. Securities Payable on Redemption Date..........................82
Section 1107. Securities Redeemed in Part....................................83
ARTICLE TWELVE
SINKING FUNDS
Section 1201. Applicability of Article.......................................84
Section 1202. Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities..........84
Section 1203. Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund......................84
ARTICLE THIRTEEN
REPAYMENT AT THE OPTION OF HOLDERS
Section 1301. Applicability of Article.......................................86
ARTICLE FOURTEEN
DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE
Section 1401. Applicability of the Article; Company's Obligation to Effect
Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance............................87
Section 1402. Defeasance and Discharge.......................................87
Section 1403. Covenant Defeasance............................................88
Section 1404. Applicability of the Article; Company's Obligation to Effect
Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance............................88
Section 1405. Deposited Money and Government Obligations to Be Held in
Trust; Other Miscellaneous Provisions........................90
Section 1406. Reinstatement..................................................92
Section 1407. Effect on Subordination Provisions.............................92
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ARTICLE FIFTEEN
MEETINGS OF HOLDERS OF SECURITIES
Section 1501. Purposes for Which Meetings May Be Called......................93
Section 1502. Call, Notice and Place of Meetings.............................93
Section 1503. Persons Entitled to Vote at Meetings...........................93
Section 1504. Quorum; Action.................................................94
Section 1505. Determination of Voting Rights; Conduct and Adjournment of
Meetings.....................................................95
Section 1506. Counting Votes and Recording Action of Meetings................96
ARTICLE SIXTEEN
SUBORDINATION OF SECURITIES
Section 1601. Securities Subordinate to Senior Indebtedness..................97
ARTICLE SEVENTEEN
SECURITIES IN FOREIGN CURRENCIES
Section 1701. Applicability of Article.......................................98
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INDENTURE, dated as of March 19, 1998, between SOLA INTERNATIONAL INC.,
a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), having its principal office at 0000 Xxxx
Xxxx Xxxx, Xxxxx 000, Xxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000, and State Street Bank and
Trust Company of California, N.A., as Trustee hereunder (the "Trustee"), having
a Corporate Trust Office at 000 Xxxx 0xx Xxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxxxx 00000.
RECITALS OF THE COMPANY
The Company deems it advisable to issue from time to time for its
lawful purposes its unsecured debentures, notes or other evidences of
indebtedness (hereinafter called the "Securities") in one or more series as in
this Indenture provided, and has duly authorized the execution and delivery of
this Indenture to provide for the issuance from time to time of the Securities,
unlimited as to principal amount, to bear interest at the rates or formulas, to
mature at such times and to have such other provisions as shall be fixed as
hereinafter provided.
This Indenture is subject to, and shall be governed by, the provisions
of the Trust Indenture Act that are required to be part of and to govern
indentures qualified under the Trust Indenture Act.
All things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement of the
Company, in accordance with its terms, have been done.
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the
Securities by the Holders thereof, it is mutually covenanted and agreed, for the
equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Securities or of series
thereof, as follows:
ARTICLE ONE
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION
Section 101. Definitions.
For all purposes of this Indenture, except as otherwise expressly
provided or unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) the terms defined in this Article have, when capitalized, the
meanings assigned to them in this Article, and include the plural as well as the
singular;
(b) all other terms used herein that are defined in the Trust Indenture
Act, either directly or by reference therein, have the meanings assigned to them
therein;
(c) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings
assigned to them in accordance with GAAP;
(d) the words "herein", "hereof" and "hereunder" and other words of
similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular
Article, Section or other subdivision;
(e) all references to "dollars", "$", "U.S. dollars", "United States
dollars" or "cash" shall refer to the lawful currency of the United States of
America; and
(f) the definitions included herein may be modified, expanded, deleted
or otherwise amended in a supplemental indenture after the date hereof or
pursuant to Section 301 hereof.
Certain terms used principally in certain Articles hereof are defined
in those Articles.
"Act", when used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning specified
in Section 104.
"Additional Amounts" means any additional amounts which are required
hereby or by any Security or pursuant to a Board Resolution, under circumstances
specified herein or therein, to be paid by the Company in respect of certain
taxes, assessments or other governmental charges imposed on Holders specified
therein and which are owing to such Holders.
"Affiliate" means, with respect to any specified Person, any other
Person which, directly or indirectly, is in control of, is controlled by or is
under common control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this
definition, "control" when used with
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respect to any specified Person means the power, direct or indirect, to direct
or cause the direction of the management and policies of such Person, whether
through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the
terms "controlling" and "controlled" have meanings correlative to the foregoing.
"Authenticating Agent" means any authenticating agent appointed by the
Trustee pursuant to Section 614.
"Authorized Newspaper" means a newspaper, in an official language of
the place of publication or in the English language, customarily published on
each day that is a Business Day in the place of publication, whether or not
published on days that are Legal Holidays in the place of publication, and of
general circulation in each place in connection with which the term is used or
in the financial community of each such place. Where successive publications are
required to be made in Authorized Newspapers, the successive publications may be
made in the same or in different newspapers in the same city meeting the
foregoing requirements and in each case on a day that is a Business Day in the
place of publication.
"Bearer Security" , means any Security in the form established pursuant
to Section 201 which is payable to bearer.
"Board of Directors" means either the board of directors of the Company
or any duly authorized committee of that board.
"Board Resolution" means a copy of a resolution certified by the
Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted or
consented to by the Board of Directors and to be in full force and effect on the
date of such certification, and delivered to the Trustee.
"Book-Entry Security" means a Security bearing the legend specified in
Section 203 evidencing all or part of a series of Securities, authenticated and
delivered to the Depositary for such series or its nominee, and registered in
the name of such Depositary or nominee.
"Business Day" when used with respect to any Place of Payment means,
unless otherwise specified with respect to any Securities pursuant to Section
301, each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday which is not a day on
which banking institutions in the Place of Payment are authorized or obligated
by law or executive order to close.
"Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from time
to time constituted, created under the Exchange Act, or if at any time after the
execution of the Indenture such Commission is not existing and performing the
duties now assigned to it under the Trust Indenture Act, then the body
performing such duties at such time.
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"Common Stock" means, with respect to any Person, capital stock issued
by such Person other than Preferred Stock.
"Company" means the Person named as the "Company" in the first
paragraph of this Indenture until a successor Person shall have become such
pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter
"Company" shall mean such successor Person.
"Company Request" or "Company Order" means a written request or order
signed in the name of the Company by any one of its Chairman of the Board, its
Vice Chairman, its Chief Executive Officer, its President, its Chief Financial
Officer or a Vice President (whether or not designated by a number or words
added before or after the title "Vice President"), and by any one of its
Treasurer, Assistant Treasurer, Secretary or Assistant Secretary and delivered
to the Trustee.
"Conversion Event" means the cessation of use of (i) a Foreign Currency
both by the government of the country or the confederation which issued such
Foreign Currency and for the settlement of transactions by a central bank or
other public institutions of or within the international banking community, (ii)
the ECU both within the European Monetary System and for the settlement of
transactions by public institutions of or within the European Union or (iii) any
currency unit or composite currency other than the ECU for the purposes for
which it was established.
"Corporate Trust Office" means either (A) the principal corporate trust
office of the Trustee at which at any particular time its corporate trust
business shall be administered, which office at the date of original execution
of this Indenture is located at 000 Xxxx 0xx Xxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxxxx 00000, Attention: Corporate Trust Department, or (B) for purposes of
Sections 105, 305 and 1002, "Corporate Trust Office" also means the office of an
affiliate of the Trustee in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York at
which at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be administered
in The City of New York, which office at the date of original execution of this
Indenture is located at x/x Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxx and Trust Co., 00 Xxxxxxxx, 00xx
Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, Attention: Corporate Trust Department; provided
that, for purposes of any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or Act of Holders or other document or notice provided or
permitted by this Indenture to be made upon, given or furnished to, or filed
with, the Trustee, whether pursuant to Section 105 or otherwise, "Corporate
Trust Office" means any office referred to in clause (A) or (B) of this
paragraph.
"corporation" means a corporation, association, limited liability
company, joint-stock company or business trust, except that, as used in the
definition of the terms "Subsidiary" and "Voting Stock," the term "corporation"
means solely a corporation.
"Coupon" means any interest coupon appertaining to a Bearer Security.
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"Currency", with respect to any payment, deposit or other transfer in
respect of the principal of or any premium or interest on or any Additional
Amounts with respect to any Security, means Dollars or the Foreign Currency, as
the case may be, in which such payment, deposit or other transfer is required to
be made by or pursuant to the terms hereof or such Security and, with respect to
any other payment, deposit or transfer pursuant to or contemplated by the terms
hereof or such Security, means Dollars.
"CUSIP number" means the alphanumeric designation assigned to a
Security by Standard & Poor's Corporation, CUSIP Service Bureau.
"Defaulted Interest" has the meaning specified in Section 307.
"Depositary" means, with respect to the Securities of any series
issuable or issued in whole or in part in the form of one or more Book-Entry
Securities, The Depository Trust Company and its successors, or another Person
designated as Depositary by the Company pursuant to Section 301, which must be a
clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act, and if at any time there is
more than one such Person, "Depositary" shall mean the Depositary with respect
to the Securities of that series.
"Dollars" or "$" means a dollar or other equivalent unit of legal
tender for payment of public or private debts in the United States of America.
"ECU" means the European Currency Unit as defined and revised from time
to time by the Council of the European Community.
"Event of Default" has the meaning specified in Section 501.
"Exchange Act" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended
from time to time, and any statute successor thereto.
"Foreign Currency" means any currency, currency unit or composite
currency, including, without limitation, the ECU, issued by the government of
one or more countries other than the United States of America or by any
recognized confederation or association of such governments.
"GAAP" means generally accepted accounting principles in the United
States as in effect on the date of application thereof.
"Government Obligations" means securities which are (i) direct
obligations of the United States of America or the other government or
governments in the confederation which issued the Foreign Currency in which the
principal of or any premium or interest on the relevant Security or any
Additional Amounts in respect thereof shall be payable, in each case where the
payment or payments thereunder are supported by the full faith and credit of the
United States of America or such other government or governments, as the case
may be, or (ii) obligations of a Person controlled or supervised by and acting
as an agency or instrumentality of the United States of America or such other
government or governments, in each case where the timely payment or payments
thereunder are unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation
by the United States of America or such other government or governments, as the
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case may be, and which, in the case of (i) or (ii), are not callable or
redeemable at the option of the issuer or issuers thereof, and shall also
include a depository receipt issued by a bank or trust company as custodian with
respect to any such Government Obligation or a specific payment of interest on
or principal of or other amount with respect to any such Government Obligation
held by such custodian for the account of the holder of a 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 Government
Obligation or the specific payment of interest on or principal of or other
amount with respect to the Government Obligation evidenced by such depository
receipt.
"Holder" means in the case of any Registered Security, the Person in
whose name such Security is registered in the Security Register and, in the case
of any Bearer Security, the bearer thereof and, in the case of any Coupon, the
bearer thereof.
"Indenture" means this instrument as originally executed or as it may
from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more indentures
supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof,
and shall include the terms of particular series of Securities established as
contemplated by Section 301; provided, however, that, if at any time more than
one Person is acting as Trustee under this instrument, "Indenture" shall mean,
with respect to any one or more series of Securities for which such Person is
Trustee, this instrument as originally executed or as it may from time to time
be supplemented or amended by one or more indentures supplemental hereto entered
into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof and shall include the terms of
those particular series of Securities for which such Person is Trustee
established as contemplated by Section 301, exclusive, however, of any
provisions or terms which relate solely to other series of Securities for which
such Person is not Trustee, regardless of when such terms or provisions were
adopted.
"Indexed Security" has the meaning specified in Section 301(11).
"interest", when used with respect to an Original Issue Discount
Security which by its terms bears interest only after Maturity, shall mean
interest payable after Maturity.
"Interest Payment Date", when used with respect to any Security, means
the Stated Maturity of an installment of interest on such Security.
"Maturity", when used with respect to any Security, means the date on
which the principal of such Security or an installment of principal becomes due
and payable as
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therein or herein provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by declaration of
acceleration, notice of redemption, repayment at the option of the Holder or
otherwise.
"Office or Agency" with respect to any Securities, means an office or
agency of the Company maintained or designated as a Place of Payment for such
Securities pursuant to Section 1002 or any other office or agency of the Company
maintained or designated for such Securities pursuant to Section 1002 or, to the
extent designated or required by Section 1002 in lieu of such office or agency,
the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee.
"Officers' Certificate" means a certificate signed by the Chairman of
the Board, Vice Chairman, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, Chief
Financial Officer or a Vice President (whether or not designated by a number or
word or words added before or after the title "Vice President"), and by the
Treasurer, Assistant Treasurer, Secretary or Assistant Secretary of the Company,
and delivered to the Trustee.
"Opinion of Counsel" means a written opinion of counsel, who may be an
employee of or counsel for the Company or the Trustee, and who shall be
reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.
"Original Issue Discount Security" means any Security which provides
for an amount less than the principal amount thereof to be due and payable upon
a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502.
"Outstanding", when used with respect to any Securities means, as of
the date of determination, all such Securities theretofore authenticated and
delivered under this Indenture, except:
(i) Securities theretofore canceled by the Trustee or delivered to
the Trustee for cancellation;
(ii) Securities, or portions thereof, for whose payment or
redemption or repayment at the option of the Holder money in the
necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the Trustee or any
Paying Agent (other than the Company) in trust or set aside and
segregated in trust by the Company (if the Company shall act as its own
Paying Agent) for the Holders of such Securities and any Coupons
appertaining thereto except, in the case of Securities as to which the
Company had effected satisfaction and discharge pursuant to Article
Four, to the extent provided in Article Four; provided, that if such
Securities are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly
given pursuant to this Indenture or provision therefor reasonably
satisfactory to the Trustee has been made; and Securities, except to
the extent provided in Section 1402 and 1403, with respect to which the
Company has effected defeasance and/or covenant defeasance, as provided
in Article Fourteen;
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(iii) Securities which have been paid pursuant to Section 306 or
in exchange for or in lieu of which other Securities have been
authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture, other than any
such Securities in respect of which there shall have been presented to
the Trustee proof reasonably satisfactory to it that such Securities
are held by a bona fide purchaser in whose hands such Securities are
valid obligations of the Company; and
(iv) Securities converted or exchanged into Common Stock or other
securities pursuant to or in accordance with this Indenture if the
terms of such Securities provide for convertibility pursuant to Section
301;
provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities have given any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder or are present at
a meeting of Holders for quorum purposes, and for the purpose of making the
calculations required by Section 313 of the Trust Indenture Act, (i) the
principal amount of an Original Issue Discount Security that shall be deemed to
be Outstanding shall be the amount of the principal thereof that would be due
and payable as of the date of such determination upon acceleration of the
Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502, (ii) the principal amount of any
Indexed Security of any series that may be counted in making such determination
or calculation and that shall be deemed outstanding for such purpose shall be
equal to the principal face amount of such Indexed Security at original
issuance, unless otherwise established as contemplated by Section 301 with
respect to such Security, (iii) the principal amount of a Security denominated
in Foreign Currency that shall be deemed outstanding for such purpose shall be
the Dollar equivalent, determined on the date of original issuance of such
Security, of the principal amount (or, in the case of an Original Issue Discount
Security, the Dollar equivalent on the date of original issuance of such
Security of the amount determined as provided in (i) above) of such Security,
and (iv) Securities owned by the Company or any other obligor upon the
Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor shall be
disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining
whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Securities which the
Trustee knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded. Securities so owned which
have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee
establishes to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee's right so to act
with respect to such Securities and that the pledgee is not the Company or any
other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of such
other obligor.
"Paying Agent" means any Person authorized by the Company to pay the
principal of or any premium or interest on any Securities on behalf of the
Company.
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"Person" means any individual, corporation, business trust,
partnership, joint venture, joint-stock company, limited liability company,
association, company, trust, unincorporated organization or government or any
agency or political subdivision thereof.
"Place of Payment", when used with respect to the Securities of any
series, means the place or places where the principal of and any premium and
interest on the Securities of that series are payable as established as
contemplated by Section 301.
"Predecessor Security" of any particular Security means 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 306 in exchange for or in lieu of a
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security or a Security to which a
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Coupon appertains shall be deemed to
evidence the same debt as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security or
the Security to which the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Coupon
appertains.
"Preferred Stock" means, with respect to any Person, capital stock
issued by such Person that is entitled to a preference or priority over any
other capital stock issued by such Person upon any distribution of such Person's
assets, whether by dividend or upon liquidation.
"Repayment Date" when used with respect to any Security to be repaid at
the option of the Holder, means the date fixed for such repayment by or pursuant
to this Indenture.
"Repayment Price" when used with respect to any Security to be repaid
at the option of the Holder, means the price at which it is to be repaid by or
pursuant to this Indenture.
"Redemption Date", when used with respect to any Security to be
redeemed, in whole or in part, means the date fixed for such redemption by or
pursuant to this Indenture.
"Redemption Price", when used with respect to any Security to be
redeemed, means the price at which it is to be redeemed pursuant to this
Indenture.
"Registered Security" shall mean any Security established pursuant to
Section 201 which is registered in the Security Register.
"Regular Record Date" for the interest payable on any Interest Payment
Date on any Registered Security of any series means the date, if any, specified
in or pursuant to this Indenture or such Security as the "Regular Record Date."
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"Responsible Officer", when used with respect to the Trustee, means any
officer within the Corporate Trust Department (or any successor department)
including, without limitation, any vice president (whether or not designated by
a number or a word or words added before or after the title "vice president"),
any trust officer, any assistant secretary, the controller or any other officer
of the Trustee customarily performing functions similar to those performed by
any of the above designated officers and also means, with respect to a
particular corporate trust matter, any other officer or employee to whom such
matter is referred because of such officer's or employee's knowledge of and
familiarity with the particular subject.
"Security" has the meaning stated in the first recital of this
Indenture and, more particularly, means any Security or Securities authenticated
and delivered under this Indenture; provided, however, that, if at any time
there is more than one Person acting as Trustee under this Indenture,
"Securities" with respect to such Person shall mean Securities authenticated and
delivered under this Indenture, exclusive, however, of Securities of any series
as to which such Person is not Trustee.
"Security Register" and "Security Registrar" have the respective
meanings specified in Section 305.
"Senior Indebtedness" has the meaning determined pursuant to Section
301(21).
"Significant Subsidiary" means, with respect to any Person, any
Subsidiary of such Person which is a "significant subsidiary" as defined in Rule
1-02(w) of Regulation S-X promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended (as in effect on the date of the Indenture).
"Special Record Date" for the payment of any Defaulted Interest on the
Securities of any series means a date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section
307.
"Stated Maturity", when used with respect to any Security or any
installment of principal thereof or interest thereon, means the date specified
in such Security or a Coupon representing such installment of interest as the
fixed date on which the principal of such Security or such installment of
principal or interest is, or such Additional Amounts are, due and payable.
"Subordinated Securities" means any Securities which, pursuant to
Section 301, are by their terms expressly subordinated in right of payment to
Senior Indebtedness.
"Subsidiary" means (i) any corporation at least a majority of the total
voting power of whose outstanding Voting Stock is owned, directly or indirectly,
at the date of determination by the Company and/or one or more other
Subsidiaries of the Company, (ii) any partnership in which the Company and/or
one or more other Subsidiaries of the Company owns, directly or indirectly, at
the date of determination at least a majority
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interest in the equity capital or profits of such partnership, or (iii) any
other Person in which the Company and/or one or more other Subsidiaries of the
Company, directly or indirectly, at the date of determination, (x) owns at least
a majority ownership interest or (y) has the power to elect or direct the
election of at least a majority of the directors or other governing body of such
Person.
"Trustee" means the Person named as the "Trustee" in the first
paragraph of this instrument until a successor Trustee shall have become such
pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter
"Trustee" shall mean or include each Person who is then a Trustee hereunder, and
if at any time there is more than one such Person, "Trustee" as used with
respect to the Securities of any series shall mean the Trustee with respect to
Securities of that series.
"Trust Indenture Act" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in force
at the date as of which this instrument was executed; provided, however, that in
the event the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 is amended after such date, "Trust
Indenture Act" means, to the extent required by any such amendment, the Trust
Indenture Act of 1939 as so amended.
"United States", except as otherwise provided in or pursuant to this
Indenture or any Security, means the United States of America (including the
states thereof and the District of Columbia), its territories, its possessions
and other areas subject to its jurisdiction.
"United States Person" means, unless otherwise specified with respect
to any Debt Securities pursuant to Section 301, any citizen or resident of the
United States, any corporation, partnership or other entity created or organized
in or under the laws of the United States, any estate the income of which is
subject to United States federal income taxation regardless of its source, or
any trust whose administration is subject to the primary supervision of a United
States court and which has one or more United States fiduciaries who have the
authority to control all substantial decisions of the trust.
"Voting Stock" means, with respect to any corporation, securities of
any class or series of such corporation, the holders of which are ordinarily, in
the absence of contingencies, entitled to vote for the election of directors of
the corporation.
Section 102. Compliance Certificates and Opinions.
Upon any application or request by the Company to the Trustee to take
any action under any provision of this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to
the Trustee such certificates and opinions as may be required under the Trust
Indenture Act, except that in the case of any such application or request as to
which the furnishing of such documents is specifically required by any provision
of this Indenture relating to such particular application or request, no
additional certificate or opinion need be furnished. Each such
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certificate or opinion shall be given in the form of an Officers' Certificate,
if to be given by an officer of the Company, or an Opinion of Counsel, if to be
given by counsel, and shall comply with the requirements of the Trust Indenture
Act and any other requirements set forth in this Indenture.
Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a
condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture (other than pursuant to
Section 1005) shall include:
(1) a statement that each individual signing such certificate or
opinion has read such covenant or condition and the definitions herein
relating thereto;
(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 each such individual, 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, in the opinion of each such
individual, such condition or covenant has been complied with.
Section 103. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee.
In any case where several matters are required to be certified by, or
covered by an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all
such matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such
Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one
such Person may certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one
or more other such Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify
or give an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents.
Any certificate or opinion of an officer of the Company may be based,
insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or
representations by, counsel, unless such officer knows, or in the exercise of
reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations
with respect to the matters upon which his certificate or opinion is based are
erroneous. Any such certificate or opinion of counsel may be based, insofar as
it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or
representations by, an officer or officers of the Company.
Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more
applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other
instruments under this
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Indenture or any Security, they may, but need not, be consolidated and form one
instrument.
Section 104. Acts of Holders; Record Dates.
(a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other action provided in or pursuant to this Indenture to be given or
taken by Holders of the Outstanding Securities of all series or one or more
series, as the case may be, may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more
instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or
by agents duly appointed in writing. If, but only if, Securities of a series are
issuable as Bearer Securities, any request, demand, authorization, direction,
notice, consent, waiver or other action provided in or pursuant to this
Indenture to be made, given or taken by Holders of Securities of such series
may, alternatively, be embodied in and evidenced by the record of Holders of
Securities of such series voting in favor thereof, either in person or by
proxies duly appointed in writing, at any meeting of Holders of Securities of
such series duly called and held in accordance with the provisions of Article
Fifteen, or a combination of such instruments and any such record. Except as
herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall become effective when
such instrument or instruments are delivered to the Trustee and, where it is
hereby expressly required, to the Company. Such instrument or instruments (and
the action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred
to as the "Act" of the Holders signing such instrument or instruments. Proof of
execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent, or
of the holding by any Person of a Security, shall be sufficient for any purpose
of this Indenture and (subject to Section 601) conclusive in favor of the
Trustee and the Company, if made in the manner provided in this Section. The
record of any meeting of Holders of Securities shall be proved in the manner
provided in Section 1506.
(b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such
instrument or writing may be proved by the affidavit of a witness of such
execution or by a certificate of a notary public or other officer authorized by
law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the individual signing
such instrument or writing acknowledged to him the execution thereof. Where such
execution is by a signer acting in a capacity other than his individual
capacity, such certificate or affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof
of his authority. The fact and date of the execution of any such instrument or
writing, or the authority of the Person executing the same, may also be proved
in any other manner which the Trustee deems sufficient.
(c) The Company may, in the circumstances permitted by the Trust
Indenture Act, fix any date not more than 60 days nor less than 5 days prior to
the date of any of the following actions as the record date for the purpose of
determining the Holders of Registered Securities of any series entitled to give
or take any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver
or other action, or to vote on any action,
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authorized or permitted to be given or taken by Holders of Registered Securities
of such series. If not set by the Company prior to the first solicitation of a
Holder of Registered Securities of such series made by any Person in respect of
any such action, or, in the case of any such vote, prior to such vote, the
record date for any such action or vote shall be the 30th day (or, if later, the
date of the most recent list of Holders required to be provided pursuant to
Section 701) prior to such first solicitation or vote, as the case may be. With
regard to any record date for action to be taken by the Holders of one or more
series of Registered Securities, only the Holders of Registered Securities of
such series on such date (or their duly designated proxies) shall be entitled to
give or take, or vote on, the relevant action.
(d) The ownership, principal amount and serial numbers of Registered
Securities held by any Person, and the date of commencement and the date of
termination of holding the same, shall be proved by the Security Register.
(e) The ownership, principal amount and serial numbers of Bearer
Securities held by any Person, and the date of commencement and the date of
termination of holding the same, may be proved by the production of such Bearer
Securities or by a certificate executed, as depositary, by any trust company,
bank, banker or other depositary reasonably acceptable to the Company, wherever
situated, if such certificate shall be deemed by the Company and the Trustee to
be satisfactory, showing that at the date therein mentioned such Person had on
deposit with such depositary, or exhibited to it, the Bearer Securities therein
described; or such facts may be proved by the certificate or affidavit of the
Person holding such Bearer Securities, if such certificate or affidavit is
deemed by the Company and the Trustee to be satisfactory. The Trustee and the
Company may assume that such ownership of any Bearer Security continues until
(1) another certificate or affidavit bearing a later date issued in respect of
the same Bearer Security is produced, or (2) such Bearer Security is provided to
the Trustee by some other Person, or (3) such Bearer Security is no longer
Outstanding. The ownership, principal amount and serial numbers of Bearer
Securities held by the Person so executing such instrument or writing and the
date of the commencement and the date of the termination of holding the same may
also be proved in any other manner which the Company and the Trustee deem
sufficient.
(f) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other Act of the Holder of any Security shall bind every future Holder
of the same Security and the Holder of every Security issued upon the
registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in
respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Trustee, any
Security Registrar, any Paying Agent, any Authenticating Agent or the Company in
reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such
Security.
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(g) For purposes of this Indenture, any action by the Holders which may
be taken in writing may be taken by electronic means or as otherwise reasonably
acceptable to the Trustee.
Section 105. Notices, Etc., to Trustee and Company.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver
or Act of Holders or other document provided or permitted by this Indenture to
be made upon, given or furnished to, or filed with,
(1) the Trustee by any Holder or by the Company shall be
sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or
filed in writing to or with the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office,
or at any other address previously furnished in writing by the Trustee
to the Holders or the Company or any other obligor on the Securities,
or
(2) the Company by the Trustee or by any Holder shall be
sufficient for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein
expressly provided) if made, given, furnished or filed in writing to or
with the Company addressed to it at the address of its principal office
specified in the first paragraph of this instrument to the Attention of
the Treasurer with a copy to the Company's Chief Financial Officer or
at any other address previously furnished in writing to the Trustee by
the Company. Any such communication shall be effective upon receipt.
Section 106. Notice to Holders; Waiver.
Except as otherwise expressly provided in or pursuant to this
Indenture, where this Indenture provides for notice to Holders of any event,
(1) such notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise
herein expressly provided) to each Holder of Registered Securities affected by
such event if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, , at his
address as it appears in the Security Register, not later than the latest date
(if any), and not earlier than the earliest date (if any), prescribed for the
giving of such notice.
(2) such notice shall be sufficiently given to Holders of Bearer
Securities, if any, affected by such event if published in an Authorized
Newspaper in The City of New York and in such other city or cities as may be
specified in such Securities on a Business Day, such publication to be not
earlier than the earliest date and not later than the latest date prescribed for
the giving of such notice. Any such notice shall be deemed to have been given on
the date of such publication or, if published more than once, on the date of the
first such publication.
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In any case where notice to Holders of Registered Securities is given
by mail, neither the failure to mail such notice, nor any defect in any notice
so mailed, to any particular Holder of Registered Securities shall affect the
sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Holders of Registered
Securities. Any notice which is mailed in the manner herein provided shall be
conclusively presumed to have been received by such Holder of Registered
Securities, whether or not such Holder of Registered Securities actually
receives such notice. In case by reason of the suspension of regular mail
service or by reason of any other cause it shall be impracticable to give such
notice by mail, then such notification as shall be made with the approval of the
Trustee shall constitute a sufficient notification for every purpose hereunder.
In case by reason of the suspension of publication of any Authorized
Newspaper or Authorized Newspapers or by reason of any other cause it shall be
impracticable to publish any notice to Holders of Bearer Securities as provided
above, then such notification to Holders of Bearer Securities as shall be given
with the approval of the Trustee shall constitute sufficient notice to such
Holders for every purpose hereunder. Neither the failure to give notice by
publication to Holders of Bearer Securities as provided above, nor any defect in
any notice so published, shall affect the sufficiency of any notice mailed to
Holders of Registered Securities as provided above.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or
waiver required or permitted under this Indenture shall be in the English
language, except that any published notice may be in an official language of the
country of publication.
Where this Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice may
be waived in writing by the Person entitled to receive such notice, either
before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of such
notice. Waivers of notice by Holders shall be filed with the Trustee, but such
filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action taken in
reliance upon such waiver.
Section 107. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.
If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with a provision
of the Trust Indenture Act that is required under such Act to be a part of and
govern this Indenture, the Trust Indenture Act provision shall control. If any
provision of this Indenture modifies or excludes any provision of the Trust
Indenture Act that may be so modified or excluded, the latter provision shall be
deemed to apply to this Indenture as so modified or excluded, as the case may
be.
Section 108. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents.
The Article and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are
for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.
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Section 109. Successors and Assigns.
All covenants and agreements in this Indenture by the Company shall
bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.
Section 110. Separability Clause.
In case any provision in this Indenture, any Security or any Coupon
shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and
enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or
impaired thereby.
Section 111. Benefits of Indenture.
Nothing in this Indenture, any Security or any Coupon, express or
implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto, any Security
Registrar, any Paying Agent, any Authenticating Agent and their successors
hereunder and the Holders of Securities or Coupons, and, solely in the case of
Securities which, pursuant to Section 301, are by their terms expressly
subordinated in right of payment to Senior Indebtedness, the holders of such
Senior Indebtedness, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or
claim under this Indenture.
Section 112. Governing Law.
This Indenture, the Securities and any Coupons shall be deemed to be a
contract under the laws of the State of New York, and for all purposes shall be
governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of such state, without
regard to principles of conflicts of laws. This Indenture is subject to the
provisions of the Trust Indenture Act that are required to be part of this
Indenture and shall, to the extent applicable, be governed by such provisions.
Section 113. Legal Holidays.
In any case where any Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date, Repayment
Date, sinking fund payment date, Stated Maturity or Maturity, as the case may
be, of any Security shall not be a Business Day at any Place of Payment for such
Security, then notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, any
Security or any Coupon (other than a provision of any Security or any Coupon
established as contemplated by Section 301 and which specifically states that
such provision shall apply in lieu of this Section 113), payment of interest or
principal (and premium, if any) need not be made at such Place of Payment on
such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day at such Place of
Payment with the same force and effect as if made on the Interest Payment
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Date, Redemption Date, Repayment Date, sinking fund payment date or at the
Stated Maturity or Maturity, as the case may be, and no interest shall accrue on
such payment for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date,
Redemption Date, Repayment Date, sinking fund payment date, Stated Maturity or
Maturity, as the case may be, to the next succeeding Business Day. For purposes
of this Section 113, the sole Place of Payment with respect to any Book-Entry
Securities for which the Depositary is The Depository Trust Company or its
successor shall be deemed to be the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York.
Section 114. Immunity of Stockholders, Directors, Officers and Agents of the
Company.
No recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement
contained in this Indenture, or in any Security, or because of any indebtedness
evidenced thereby, shall be had against any past, present or future stockholder,
employee, officer or director, as such, of the Company or of any predecessor or
successor, either directly or through the Company or any predecessor or
successor, under any rule of law, statute or constitutional provision or by the
enforcement of any assessment or by any legal or equitable proceeding or
otherwise, all such liability being expressly waived and released by the
acceptance of the Securities by the Holders and as part of the consideration for
the issue of the Securities.
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ARTICLE TWO
SECURITY FORMS
Section 201. Forms of Securities.
Each Registered Security, Bearer Security, Coupon and temporary or
permanent Book-Entry Security issued pursuant to this Indenture shall be in
substantially the forms as shall be established by or pursuant to one or more
Board Resolutions (as set forth in a Board Resolution or, to the extent
established pursuant to rather than as set forth in a Board Resolution, an
Officer's Certificate detailing such establishment) or in one or more indentures
supplemental hereto, shall have such appropriate insertions, omissions,
substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by this
Indenture or any indenture supplemental hereto, and may have such letters,
numbers or other marks of identification or designation and such legends or
endorsements placed 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 the Securities may be
listed, or to conform to usage.
Unless otherwise provided in or pursuant to this Indenture or any
Securities, the Securities shall be issuable in registered form without Coupons.
The definitive Securities and definitive Coupons, if any, shall be
printed, lithographed or engraved or produced by any combination of these
methods on steel engraved borders or may be produced in any other manner, all as
determined by the officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their
execution of such Securities or Coupons.
Section 202. Securities in Book-Entry Form.
If Securities of or within a series are issuable in book-entry form, as
specified as contemplated by Section 301, then, notwithstanding clause (9) of
Section 301 and the provisions of Section 302, any such Security shall represent
such of the Outstanding Securities of such series as shall be specified therein
and may provide that it shall represent the aggregate amount of Outstanding
Securities of such series from time to time endorsed thereon and that the
aggregate amount of Outstanding Securities of such series represented thereby
may from time to time be increased or decreased to reflect exchanges. Any
endorsement of a Security in book-entry form to reflect the amount, or any
increase or decrease in the amount, of Outstanding Securities represented
thereby shall be made by the Trustee in such manner and upon instructions given
by such Person or Persons as shall be specified in such Security or in the
Company Order to be delivered
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to the Trustee pursuant to Section 303 or 304. Subject to the provisions of
Section 303 and, if applicable, Section 304, the Trustee shall deliver and
redeliver any Security in permanent book-entry form in the manner and upon
instructions given by the Person or Persons specified in such Security or in the
applicable Company Order. If a Company Order pursuant to Section 303 or 304 has
been, or simultaneously is, delivered, any instruction by the Company with
respect to endorsement, delivery or redelivery of a Security in book-entry form
shall be in writing but need not comply with Section 102 and need not be
accompanied by Opinion of Counsel.
The provisions of the last sentence of Section 303 shall apply to any
Security represented by a Security in book-entry form if such Security was never
issued and sold by the Company and the Company delivers to the Trustee the
Security in book-entry form together with written instructions (which need not
comply with Section 102 and need not be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel)
with regard to the reduction in the principal amount of Securities represented
thereby, together with the written statement contemplated by the last sentence
of Section 303.
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 307, unless otherwise
specified as contemplated by Section 301, payment of principal of (and premium,
if any), any interest on, and any Additional Amounts in respect of any Security
in temporary or permanent book-entry form shall be made to the Person or Persons
specified therein.
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 308 and except as provided in
the preceding paragraph, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company
and the Trustee shall treat as the Holder of such principal amount of
Outstanding Securities represented by a permanent Book-Entry Security (i) in the
case of a permanent Book-Entry Security in registered form, the Holder of such
permanent Book-Entry Security in registered form or (ii) in the case of a
Book-Entry Security in bearer form, the Persons or Persons specified pursuant to
Section 301.
Section 203. Form of Legend for Book-Entry Securities.
Any Book-Entry Security authenticated and delivered hereunder shall
bear a legend in substantially the following form and such other legends as may
be required by the applicable Depositary or as shall be deemed necessary or
desirable by the Company:
"This Security is a Book-Entry Security within the meaning of
the Indenture hereinafter referred to and is registered in the name of
a Depositary or a nominee of a Depositary. This Security is not
exchangeable for Securities registered in the name of a Person other
than the Depositary or its nominee except in the limited circumstances
described in the Indenture, and unless and until it is exchanged in
whole or in part for Securities in definitive certificated form, this
Security may not be
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transferred except as a whole by the Depositary to a nominee of the
Depositary or by a nominee of the Depositary to the Depositary or
another nominee of the Depositary or by the Depositary or any such
nominee to a successor Depositary or nominee of such successor
Depositary."
Section 204. Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication.
The Trustee's certificates of authentication shall be in substantially
the following form:
TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
Dated:
This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred
to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
State Street Bank and Trust Company of
California, N.A., as Trustee
By: __________________________________
Authorized Signatory
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ARTICLE THREE
THE SECURITIES
Section 301. Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series.
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. With respect to any
series of Securities which may be designated and authenticated and delivered
under this Indenture, there shall be established in or pursuant to one or more
Board Resolutions (and to the extent established pursuant to rather than as set
forth in a Board Resolution, in an Officers' Certificate detailing such
establishment) or established in one or more indentures supplemental hereto,
prior to the issuance of Securities of any such series (except as provided in
the last paragraph of this Section 301), any or all of the following, as
applicable, each of which (except for the matters set forth in clauses (1), (2)
(with respect to any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the Securities
which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture), (18) and (21)
below), if so provided, may be determined from time to time by the Company with
respect to unissued Securities of the series when issued from time to time:
(1) the title of the Securities (which shall distinguish the
Securities of the series from Securities of any other series) or series
of which they are a part;
(2) the aggregate principal amount of the Securities and any
limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of the
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 the
series pursuant to Section 304, 305, 306, 906 or 1107, upon repayment
in part of any Security of such series pursuant to Article Thirteen or
upon surrender in part of any Security for conversion or exchange into
Common Stock or other securities pursuant to its terms, and except for
any Securities which, pursuant to Section 303, are deemed never to have
been authenticated and delivered hereunder), which limit, unless
otherwise expressly established, may be changed from time to time by or
pursuant to Board Resolution, Officers' Certificate or indentures
supplemental hereto without the consent of any Holders; in the event
that such series of Securities may be reopened from time to time for
issuances of additional Securities of such series, the terms thereof
shall indicate whether any such additional Securities shall have the
same terms as the prior Securities of such series or whether the
Company shall be
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entitled to establish additional or different terms with respect to
such additional Securities;
(3) the Person to whom any interest on a Registered Security of
the series shall be payable, if other than the Person in whose name
that Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at
the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such series;
(4) the date or dates, or the method or methods, if any, by
which such date or dates shall be determined, on which the principal of
(and premium, if any, on) such Securities will be payable;
(5) the rate or rates (which may be fixed, floating or
adjustable) or the method of determination thereof, at which the
Securities of the series will bear interest, if any, the date or dates
from which such interest shall accrue or method by which such date or
dates shall be determined, the Interest Payment Dates on which any such
interest shall be payable, the Regular Record Date, if any, for any
such interest payable on any Interest Payment Date, or the method by
which such date or dates shall be determined, whether and under what
circumstances Additional Amounts on such Securities or any of them
shall be payable and the basis upon which interest shall be calculated
if other than that of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months;
(6) the place or places where the principal of and any premium
and interest on Securities of the series shall be payable, any
Registered Securities of the series may be surrendered for registration
of transfer and exchange, where Securities of that series that are
convertible or exchangeable may be surrendered for conversion or
exchange, as applicable, and where notices or demands to or upon the
Company in respect of the Securities of the series and the Indenture
may be served;
(7) the period or periods within which, the price or prices at
which, the Currencies, currency units or composite currencies in which,
and the other terms and conditions upon which Securities of the series
may be redeemed, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company;
(8) the obligation, if any, of the Company to redeem, repay or
purchase any of such Securities of the series pursuant to any sinking
fund or analogous provisions or at the option of a Holder thereof, and
the period or periods within which, the price or prices at which and
the other terms and conditions upon which Securities of the series will
be redeemed, repaid or purchased, in whole or in part, pursuant to any
such obligation;
(9) if other than denominations of $1,000 and any integral
multiple thereof the denominations in which any Registered Securities
of the series shall be
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issuable, and if other than the denominations of $5,000 and any
integral multiple thereof, the denominations in which Securities of the
series that are Bearer Securities shall be issuable;
(10) if other than the Currency of the United States of America,
the Foreign Currency in which the principal of or any premium or
interest on such Securities will be payable (and the manner in which
the equivalent of the principal amount thereof in the Currency of the
United States of America is to be determined for any purpose, including
for the purpose of determining the principal amount deemed to be
outstanding at any time);
(11) if the amount of payments of principal of or any premium or
interest on any Securities of the series ("Indexed Securities") may be
determined with reference to an index, pursuant to a formula, or
pursuant to other methods (which index, formula or method may be based,
without limitation, on one or more currencies, currency units,
composite currencies, commodities, equity indices or other indices),
the manner in which such amounts will be determined;
(12) if the principal of or any premium or interest on such
Securities of the series is to be payable, at the election of the
Company or a Holder thereof, in one or more Currencies, currency units
or composite currencies other than those in which the Securities are
stated to be payable, the currencies, currency units or composite
currencies in which payment of any such amount as to which such
election is made will be payable, and the periods within which and the
terms and conditions upon which such election is to be made;
(13) if other than the entire principal amount thereof, the
portion of the principal amount of Securities of the series which shall
be payable upon declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof
pursuant to this Indenture or, if applicable, the portion of the
principal amount of Securities of the series that is convertible into
or exchangeable for other securities or the method by which such
portion shall be determined;
(14) the application, if any, of Section 1402 and/or 1403 to the
Securities of the series (and, in the case of Section 1403, if
applicable, any additional covenants subject to covenant defeasance)
and any provisions in modification of, in addition to or in lieu of any
of the provisions in Sections 1402 and 1403; and, if either Section
1402 or 1403 is made applicable with respect to the Securities of the
series, whether such defeasance or covenant defeasance must be effected
with respect to all Outstanding Securities of the series or whether
such defeasance or covenant defeasance may be effected with respect to
Securities within the series;
(15) the obligation, if any, of the Company to permit the
conversion of the Securities of the series into the Company's Common
Stock or other securities, as
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the case may be, and the terms and conditions upon which such
conversion shall be effected (including, without limitation, the
initial conversion price or rate, the conversion period, the conversion
agent, if any adjustment of the applicable conversion price or rate and
any requirements relative to the reservation of such shares or
securities for purposes of conversion);
(16) whether any of the Securities of the series will be issued
in whole or in part in book-entry form and, in such case, the initial
Depositary with respect to such Book-Entry Security or Securities and
the circumstances under which any such Securities may be registered in
the name of a Person other than such Depositary or its nominee, if
other than as set forth in Section 305;
(17) whether Securities of the series are to be issuable as
Registered Securities, as Bearer Securities or alternatively as Bearer
Securities and Registered Securities, and whether the Bearer Securities
are to be issuable with Coupons, without Coupons or both, and any
restrictions applicable to the offer, sale or delivery of the Bearer
Securities and the terms, if any, upon which Bearer Securities of the
series may be exchanged for Registered Securities of the series and
vice versa;
(18) if any of the Securities of the series are to be issuable as
Bearer Securities, the date as of which any such Bearer Security shall
be dated, if other than the date of original issuance of the first of
such Securities to be issued;
(19) provisions, if any, granting special rights to the Holders
of Securities of the series upon the occurrence of such events as may
be specified;
(20) any deletions from, modifications of or additions to the
Events of Default or covenants of the Company provided for with respect
to Securities of the series (whether or not such Events of Default or
covenants are consistent with the Events of Default or covenants set
forth herein) and, if Section 1006 is not to be applicable to any
additional covenants established with respect to the Securities, those
covenants;
(21) the terms, if any, pursuant to which the Securities of the
series will be made subordinate in right of payment to all Senior
Indebtedness of the Company, and the definition of any such Senior
Indebtedness (in the absence of an express statement that the
Securities of such series are subordinate in right of payment to all
Senior Indebtedness, the Securities of such series shall not be
subordinate to Senior Indebtedness);
(22) whether the payment of principal, premium and interest, if
any, Additional Amounts, if any, and other amounts due hereunder, and
performance of
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the Company's other obligations hereunder, will be guaranteed by one or
more guarantors, including subsidiaries of the Company; and
(23) any other terms of the series, whether or not consistent
with the provisions of this Indenture.
All Securities of any one series and all Coupons, if any, appertaining
to Bearer Securities of such series shall be substantially identical except, in
the case of Registered Securities, as to denomination and except as may
otherwise be provided by the Company in the Board Resolution, or pursuant to the
Board Resolution and set forth in the Officers' Certificate, or in any indenture
or indentures supplemental hereto pertaining to such series of Securities. The
terms of the Securities may provide, without limitation, that the Securities
shall be authenticated and delivered by the Trustee on original issue from time
to time upon telephonic or written order of persons designated in the Board
Resolution, Officers' Certificate or supplemental indenture (telephonic
instructions to be promptly confirmed in writing by such person) and that such
persons are authorized to determine, consistent with such Board Resolution,
Officers' Certificate or supplemental indenture, such terms as are specified in
such Board Resolution, Officers' Certificate or supplemental indenture. All
Securities of any one series need not be issued at the same time and, unless
otherwise so provided by the Company as contemplated by this Section 301, a
series may be reopened without consent of any Holder from time to time for
issuances of additional Securities of such series or to establish additional
terms of such series of Securities (which additional term shall only be
applicable with respect to unissued or additional Securities of such series).
The terms of any Security may be established prior to the issuance thereof but
after the issuance of other Securities of the same series.
Section 302. Currency; Denominations.
In the absence of any such provisions with respect to the Securities of
any series, the principal of, any premium and interest on and any Additional
Amounts with respect to the Securities shall be payable in Dollars. In the
absence of any such provisions with respect to the Securities of any series, the
Registered Securities denominated in Dollars shall be issuable in registered
form without Coupons, other than Registered Securities issued in book-entry form
(which may be of any denomination), and shall be issuable in denominations of
$1,000 and any integral multiple thereof. Bearer Securities denominated in
Dollars shall be issuable in registered form without Coupons, other than Bearer
Securities issued in book-entry form (which may be of any denomination) and
shall be issuable in denominations of $5,000 and any integral multiple thereof.
Securities not denominated in Dollars shall be issuable in such denominations as
are established with respect to such Securities in or pursuant to this
Indenture.
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Section 303. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating.
The Securities and Coupons, if any, shall be executed on behalf of the
Company by its Chairman of the Board, its Vice Chairman of the Board, its Chief
Executive Officer, its President, its Chief Financial Officer or one of its Vice
Presidents, under its corporate seal or a facsimile thereof which may, but need
not, be attested by one of its Vice Presidents, its Treasurer, one of its
Assistant Treasurers, its Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries. The
signature of any of these officers on the Securities or Coupons, if any, may be
manual or facsimile signatures of the present or any future such authorized
officer and may be imprinted or otherwise reproduced on the Securities or
Coupons.
Securities and any Coupons bearing the manual or facsimile signatures
of individuals who were at any time the proper officers of the Company shall
bind the Company, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have
ceased to hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such
Securities or did not hold such offices at the date of such Securities or
Coupons.
At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of
this Indenture, the Company may deliver Securities of any series, together with
any Coupons appertaining thereto, executed by the Company, to the Trustee for
authentication, together with a Company Order for the authentication and
delivery of such Securities, and the Trustee in accordance with the Company
Order shall authenticate and deliver such Securities to or upon the order of the
Company or pursuant to such procedures acceptable to the Trustee and to such
recipients as the case may be as specified from time to time by a Company Order.
If all the Securities of any series are not to be issued at one time and if the
terms of such Securities established as contemplated by Section 301 so permit,
such Company Order may set forth procedures acceptable to the Trustee for the
completion and authentication of such Securities from time to time. In
authenticating Securities of any series and any Coupons appertaining thereto,
and accepting the additional responsibilities under this Indenture in relation
to such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto, the Trustee shall be
entitled to receive, and (subject to Section 601) shall be fully protected in
relying upon,
(i) any Board Resolution, Officers' Certificate and/or indenture
supplemental hereto by or pursuant to which the forms and terms of such
Securities are established as contemplated by Sections 201 and 301;
(ii) an Officers' Certificate stating that the forms and terms of
such Securities and Coupons, if any, have been established pursuant to
Sections 201 and 301 and comply with this Indenture; and
(iii) an Opinion of Counsel substantially to the effect that:
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(a) the forms and the terms of such Securities and Coupons,
if any, have been duly authorized and established in conformity
with the provisions of this Indenture,
(b) all conditions precedent provided for in this Indenture
relating to the Trustee's authentication of such Securities and
Coupons, if any, have been complied with, and
(c) such Securities and Coupons, if any, when authenticated
and delivered by the Trustee and issued by the Company in the
manner and subject to any conditions specified in such Opinion of
Counsel, will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of
the Company enforceable in accordance with their terms, subject to
bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization,
moratorium and similar laws of general applicability relating to
or affecting creditors' rights and to general equity principles
and to such other matters as such counsel may specify.
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.
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 301 and of the preceding
paragraph, if all Securities of a series are not to be originally issued at one
time, it shall not be necessary to deliver the Company Order, Board Resolution,
indentures supplemental hereto, Officers' Certificate and Opinion of Counsel
otherwise required pursuant to such preceding paragraph at or prior to the time
of authentication of each Security of such series if such documents (with such
modifications as may be appropriate) are delivered at or prior to the
authentication upon original issuance of the first Security of such series to be
issued and reasonably contemplate such authentication of each such Security.
Each Registered Security shall be dated the date of its authentication
unless otherwise established therefor as contemplated by Section 301. Each
Bearer Security shall be dated as of the date specified in or pursuant to this
Indenture.
No Security or Coupon appertaining thereto, if any, shall be entitled
to any benefit under this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose
unless there appears on such Security a certificate of authentication
substantially in the form provided for herein executed by the Trustee or an
Authenticating Agent by manual signature, and such certificate upon any Security
shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Security has been
duly authenticated and delivered hereunder and is entitled to the benefits of
this Indenture. Except as permitted by Section 306 or 307 or as may otherwise be
provided in or pursuant to this Indenture, the Trustee shall not authenticate
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any Bearer Security unless all Coupons appertaining thereto then matured have
been detached and canceled. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any Security shall
have been authenticated and delivered hereunder but never issued and sold by the
Company, and the Company shall deliver such Security to the Trustee for
cancellation as provided in Section 309 together with a written statement (which
need not comply with Section 102 and need not be accompanied by an opinion of
counsel) stating that such Security has never been issued and sold by the
Company, for all purposes of this Indenture such Security shall be deemed never
to have been authenticated and delivered hereunder and shall never be entitled
to the benefits of this Indenture.
Section 304. Temporary Securities.
Pending the preparation of definitive Securities of any series, the
Company may execute, and upon Company Order the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver, temporary Securities of such series which are printed, lithographed,
typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise produced, in any authorized denomination,
substantially of the tenor of the definitive Securities in lieu of which they
are issued, in registered form or, if authorized in or pursuant to this
Indenture, in bearer form with one or more Coupons or without Coupons and with
such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as
the officers executing such Securities may determine, as conclusively evidenced
by their execution of such Securities. In the case of Securities of any series,
such temporary Securities may be in book-entry form.
Except in the case of temporary Securities in book-entry form, which
shall be exchanged in accordance with the provisions thereof, if temporary
Securities of any series are issued, the Company will cause definitive
Securities of that series to be prepared without unreasonable delay. After the
preparation of definitive Securities of such series, the temporary Securities of
such series shall be exchangeable for definitive Securities of such series upon
surrender of the temporary Securities of such series at the Office or Agency of
the Company in a Place of Payment for that series, without charge to the Holder.
Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Securities of any
series (accompanied by any unmatured Coupons appertaining thereto), the Company
shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange
therefor, one or more definitive Securities of the same series, of any
authorized denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount and tenor;
provided, however, that no definitive Bearer Security, except as provided in or
pursuant to this Indenture, shall be delivered in exchange for a temporary
Registered Security; and provided, further, that a definitive Bearer Security
shall be delivered in exchange for a temporary Bearer Security only in
compliance with the conditions set forth in or pursuant to this Indenture. Until
so exchanged, the temporary Securities of any series shall in all respects be
entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as definitive Securities of
such series and tenor.
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Section 305. Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange.
With respect to the Registered Securities of each series, the Company
shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee or in any
Office or Agency of the Company in a Place of Payment a register (the register
maintained in such office and in any other Office or Agency of the Company in a
Place of Payment being herein sometimes collectively referred to as the
"Security Register") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may
prescribe, the Company shall provide for the registration of the Registered
Securities and of transfers of the Registered Securities. The Security Register
shall be in written form or any other form capable of being converted into
written form within a reasonable time. The Trustee, at its Corporate Trust
Office, is hereby appointed "Security Registrar" for the purpose of registering
the Securities and transfers of the Securities as herein provided.
The Company shall have the right to remove and replace from time to
time the Security Registrar for any series of Securities; provided that no such
removal or replacement shall be effective until a successor Security Registrar
with respect to such series of Securities shall have been appointed by the
Company and shall have accepted such appointment. In the event the Trustee shall
not be or shall cease to be Security Registrar with respect to a series of
Securities, it shall have the right to examine the Security Register for such
series at all reasonable times. There shall be only one Security Register for
each series of Securities.
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Registered Security
of any series at the Office or Agency of the Company in a Place of Payment for
Securities of that series, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or
transferees, one or more new Registered Securities of the same series, of any
authorized denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount and tenor,
containing identical terms and provisions, bearing a number not
contemporaneously outstanding.
At the option of the Holder, Registered Securities of any series may be
exchanged for other Registered Securities of the same series, any authorized
denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount and tenor, containing
identical terms and provisions, upon surrender of the Securities to be exchanged
at such Office or Agency. Whenever any Registered Securities are so surrendered
for exchange, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver, the Registered Securities which the Holder making the exchange is
entitled to receive.
If (but only if) permitted by the applicable Board Resolution and set
forth in the applicable Officers' Certificate, or in any indenture supplemental
hereto, with respect to Securities of any series, at the option of the Holder,
Bearer Securities of such series may be exchanged for Registered Securities of
such series containing identical terms,
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denominated as authorized in or pursuant to this Indenture and in the same
aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Bearer Securities to be
exchanged at any Office or Agency for such series, with all unmatured Coupons
and all matured Coupons in default thereto appertaining. If the Holder of a
Bearer Security is unable to produce any such unmatured Coupon or Coupons or
matured Coupon or Coupons in default, such exchange may be effected if the
Bearer Securities are accompanied by payment in funds acceptable to the Company
and the Trustee in an amount equal to the face amount of such missing Coupon or
Coupons, or the surrender of such missing Coupon or Coupons may be waived by the
Company and the Trustee if there is furnished to them such security or indemnity
as they may require to save each of them and any Paying Agent harmless. If
thereafter the Holder of such Bearer Security shall surrender to any Paying
Agent any such missing Coupon in respect of which such a payment shall have been
made, such Holder shall be entitled to receive the amount of such payment;
provided, however, that, except as otherwise provided in Section 1002, interest
represented by Coupons shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of
those Coupons at an Office or Agency for such series located outside the United
States. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in case a Bearer Security of any series
is surrendered at any such Office or Agency for such series in exchange for a
Registered Security of such series and like tenor after the close of business at
such Office or Agency on (i) any Regular Record Date and before the opening of
business at such Office or Agency on the relevant Interest Payment Date, or (ii)
any Special Record Date and before the opening of business at such Office or
Agency on the related date for payment of Defaulted Interest, such Bearer
Security shall be surrendered without the Coupon relating to such Interest
Payment Date or proposed date of payment, as the case may be (or, if such Coupon
is so surrendered with such Bearer Security, such Coupon shall be returned to
the Person so surrendering the Bearer Security), and interest or Defaulted
Interest, as the case may be, shall not be payable on such Interest Payment Date
or proposed date for payment, as the case may be, in respect of the Registered
Security issued in exchange for such Bearer Security, but shall be payable only
to the Holder of such Coupon when due in accordance with the provisions of this
Indenture.
If provided in or pursuant to this Indenture with respect to Securities
of any series, at the option of the Holder, Registered Securities of such series
may be exchanged for Bearer Securities upon such terms and conditions as may be
provided in or pursuant to this Indenture with respect to such series.
Whenever any Securities are surrendered for exchange as contemplated by
the immediately preceding two paragraphs, the Company shall execute, and the
Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Securities which the Holder making
the exchange is entitled to receive.
All Securities issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of
Securities shall be the valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same
debt, and entitled to
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the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Securities surrendered upon such
registration of transfer or exchange.
Every Registered Security presented or surrendered for registration of
transfer or for exchange or redemption shall (if so required by the Company or
the Security Registrar for such Security) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by
a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the
Security Registrar duly executed, by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly
authorized in writing.
No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or
exchange of Securities, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient
to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection
with any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, other than
exchanges pursuant to Section 304, 906 or 1107 not involving any transfer and
other than exchanges of interests in Book-Entry Securities for definitive
Securities pursuant to the second succeeding paragraph.
Except as otherwise provided in or pursuant to this Indenture, neither
the Company nor the Trustee shall be required (i) to issue, register the
transfer of or exchange Securities of any series, if such Security may be among
those selected for redemption, during a period beginning at the opening of
business 15 days before selection of the Securities of that series to be
redeemed under Section 1103 and ending at the close of business on (A) if such
Securities are issuable only as Registered Securities, the day of the mailing of
the relevant notice of redemption and (B) if such Securities are issuable as
Bearer Securities, the day of the first publication of the relevant notice of
redemption or, if such Securities are also issuable as Registered Securities and
there is no publication, the mailing of the relevant notice of redemption, or
(ii) to register the transfer of or exchange any Registered Security, or portion
thereof, so selected for redemption in whole or in part, except in the case of
any Registered Security to be redeemed in part, the portion thereof not to be
redeemed, or (iii) to exchange any Bearer Security so selected for redemption
except, to the extent provided with respect to such Bearer Security, that such
Bearer Security shall be simultaneously surrendered for redemption with written
instruction for payment consistent with the provisions of this Indenture or (iv)
to issue, register the transfer of or exchange any Security which, in accordance
with its terms, has been surrendered for repayment at the option of the Holder,
except the portion, if any, of such Security not be so repaid.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Book-Entry Security shall be
registered for transfer or exchange, or authenticated and delivered, whether
pursuant to this Section, Sections 304, 306, 906 or 1107 or otherwise, in the
name of a Person other than the Depositary for such Book-Entry Security or its
nominee until (i) the Depositary with respect to a Book-Entry Security notifies
the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for such
Book-Entry Security or the Depositary ceases to be a clearing agency registered
under the Exchange Act and no successor Depositary for such
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Securities shall have been appointed within 90 days of such notification or of
the Company becoming aware of the Depositary ceasing to be so registered, as the
case may be, (ii) the Company, in its sole discretion, executes and delivers to
the Trustee a Company Order that all Book-Entry Securities of such series shall
be so transferable and exchangeable or (iii) there shall have occurred and be
continuing an Event of Default with respect to the Securities of such series.
Upon the occurrence in respect of any Book-Entry Security of any series of any
one or more of the conditions specified in clauses (i), (ii) or (iii) of the
preceding sentence or such other conditions as may be established as
contemplated by Section 301 for Securities of such series, the Company shall
without unnecessary delay deliver to the Trustee certificated Securities of such
series in such form and denominations as are required by or pursuant to this
Indenture, containing identical terms and in aggregate principal amount equal to
the aggregate principal amount of such Book-Entry Securities and shall cause the
Trustee to authenticate and deliver such certificated Securities to such Persons
and registered in such names as the Depositary with respect to such series shall
direct.
Except as provided in the preceding paragraph, any Security
authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange
for, or in lieu of, any Book-Entry Security, whether pursuant to this Section,
Section 304, 306, 906 or 1107 or otherwise, shall also be a Book-Entry Security
and bear the legend specified in Section 203.
Subject to the second preceding paragraph, if the Securities are
Book-Entry Securities, the Depositary or its nominee, as registered owner of a
Book-Entry Security, shall be the Holder of such Book-Entry Security for all
purposes under this Indenture, and owners of beneficial interests in a
Book-Entry Security shall hold such interests pursuant to the applicable
procedures of the Depositary. Accordingly, any such owner's beneficial interest
in a Book-Entry Security will be shown only on, and the transfer of such
interest shall be effected only through, records maintained by the Depositary or
its nominee.
If any beneficial owner of an interest in a Book-Entry Security is
entitled to exchange such interest for Securities of such series of like tenor,
terms and principal amount and which are not Book-Entry Securities, whether
pursuant to the third preceding paragraph or as otherwise specified as
contemplated by Section 301, and provided that any applicable notice provided in
the Book-Entry Security shall have been given, then without unnecessary delay
but in any event not later than the earliest date on which such interest may be
so exchanged, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee definitive Securities in
aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of such beneficial
owner's interest in such Book-Entry Security, executed by the Company. On or
after the earliest date on which such interests may be so exchanged, such
Book-Entry Security shall be surrendered by the Depository or such depository as
shall be specified in the Company Order with respect thereto to the Trustee, as
the Company's agent for such purpose, to be exchanged, in whole or from time to
time in part, for definitive Securities
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without charge and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange for
each portion of such Book-Entry Security, an equal aggregate principal amount of
definitive Securities of the same series of authorized denominations and of like
tenor and terms as the portion of such Book-Entry Security to be exchanged
which, unless the Securities of the series are not issuable both as Bearer
Securities and as Registered Securities, as specified as contemplated by Section
301, shall be in the form of Bearer Securities or Registered Securities, or any
combination thereof; provided, however, that no Bearer Security delivered in
exchange for a portion of a Book-Entry Security shall be mailed or otherwise
delivered to any location in the United States. If a Registered Security is
issued in exchange for any portion of a Book-Entry Security after the close of
business at the Office or Agency where such exchange occurs on (i) any Regular
Record Date and before the opening of business at such Office or Agency on the
relevant Interest Payment Date or (ii) any Special Record Date and before the
opening of business at such Office or Agency on the related proposed date for
payment of Defaulted Interest, interest or Defaulted Interest, as the case may
be, will not be payable on such Interest Payment Date or proposed date for
payment, as the case may be, in respect of such Registered Security, but will be
payable on such Interest Payment Date or proposed date for payment, as the case
may be, only to the Person to whom interest in respect of such portion of such
Book-Entry Security is payable in accordance with the provisions of this
Indenture.
Section 306. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities.
If any mutilated Security or a Security with a mutilated Coupon
appertaining to it is surrendered to the Trustee or the Company, together with,
in proper cases, such security or indemnity as may be required by the Company or
the Trustee to save each of them or any agent of each of them harmless, the
Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange
therefor a new Security, with Coupons appertaining thereto corresponding to the
Coupons, if any, of the same series and of like tenor, terms and principal
amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding, with Coupons
corresponding to the Coupons, if any, appertaining to the surrendered Security.
If there shall be delivered to the Company and the Trustee (i) evidence
to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Security or
Coupon and (ii) such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save
each of them and any agent of either of them harmless, then, in the absence of
notice to the Company or the Trustee that such Security or Coupon has been
acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Company shall execute and, upon the
Company's request, the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in lieu of any
such destroyed, lost or stolen Security or in exchange for the Security to which
a destroyed, lost or stolen Coupon appertains (with all appurtenant Coupons not
destroyed, lost or stolen), a new Security of the same series and of like tenor
and principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding,
with
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Coupons corresponding to the Coupons, if any, appertaining to such destroyed,
lost or stolen Security or to the Security to which such destroyed, lost or
stolen Coupon appertains.
Notwithstanding the provisions of the previous two paragraphs, in case
any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security or Coupon has become or
is about to become due and payable, the Company in its discretion may, instead
of issuing a new Security, pay such Security or Coupon; provided, however, that
payment of principal of, any premium or interest on or any Additional Amounts
with respect to any Bearer Securities shall, except as otherwise provided in
Section 1002, be payable only at an Office or Agency for such Securities located
outside the United States and, unless otherwise provided in or pursuant to this
Indenture, any interest on Bearer Securities and any Additional Amounts with
respect to such interest shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender
of the Coupons appertaining thereto.
Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section, 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.
Every new Security of any series, together with any Coupons
appertaining thereto, issued pursuant to this Section in lieu of any destroyed,
lost or stolen Security, or in exchange for the Security to which a destroyed,
lost or stolen Coupon appertains, shall constitute an original additional
contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or
stolen Security and Coupons appertaining thereto or the destroyed, lost or
stolen Coupon shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled
to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and
all other Securities of that series and Coupons, if any, duly issued hereunder.
The provisions of this Section, as amended or supplemented pursuant to
this Indenture with respect to particular Securities or generally, are exclusive
and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with
respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen
Securities or Coupons.
Section 307. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved.
Except as otherwise established as contemplated by Section 301 with
respect to any Securities of any series, interest on any Registered Security
which is payable, and is punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest
Payment Date shall be paid to the Person in whose name that Security (or one or
more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the
Regular Record Date for such interest; provided, however, that each installment
of interest on any Registered Security may at the Company's option be paid by
(i) mailing a check for such interest, payable to or upon the written order of
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the Person entitled thereto pursuant to Section 308, to the address of such
Person as its appears on the Security Register, or (ii) wire transfer to an
account located inside the United States maintained by the payee.
Unless otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 301 with respect
to the Securities of any series, payment of interest may be made, in the case of
a Bearer Security, by transfer to an account maintained by the payee with a bank
located outside the United States. Unless otherwise provided in or pursuant to
this Indenture, in case a Bearer Security of any series is surrendered in
exchange for a Registered Security of such series after the close of business at
an Office or Agency for such Security on any Regular Record Date therefor and
before the opening of business at such Office or Agency on the next succeeding
Interest Payment Date therefor, such Bearer Security shall be surrendered
without the Coupon relating to such Interest Payment Date and interest shall not
be payable on such Interest Payment Date in respect of the Registered Security
issued in exchange for such Bearer Security, but shall be payable only to the
Holder of such Coupon when due in accordance with the provisions of this
Indenture.
Except as otherwise established as contemplated by Section 301 with
respect to Securities of any series, any interest on any Registered Security
which is payable, but is not punctually paid or duly provided for, on any
Interest Payment Date (herein called "Defaulted Interest") shall forthwith cease
to be payable to the Holder on the relevant Regular Record Date by virtue of
having been such Holder, and such Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Company,
at its election in each case, as provided in paragraph (1) or (2) below:
(1) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted
Interest to the Persons in whose names the Registered 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 Registered Security and the date of the
proposed payment, and at the same time the Company shall deposit with
the Trustee an amount of money in cash 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 provided in this clause. Thereupon the Trustee shall fix a
Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest which
shall not be more than 15 days and not 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
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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 Holder of such Securities at his address as it appears in the
Security Register, not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record
Date. The Trustee may, in its discretion, in the name and at the
expense of the Company cause a similar notice to be published at least
once in an Authorized Newspaper of general circulation in the Borough
of Manhattan, The City of New York, but such publication shall not be a
condition precedent to the establishment of such Special Record Date.
Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the
Special Record Date therefor having been so mailed, such Defaulted
Interest shall be paid to the Persons in whose names such Securities
(or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the
close of business on such Special Record Date and shall no longer be
payable pursuant to the following clause (2). In case a Bearer Security
is surrendered at the Office or Agency for such Security in exchange
for a Registered Security after the close of business at such Office or
Agency on any Special Record Date and before the opening of business at
such Office or Agency on the related proposed date for payment of
Defaulted Interest, such Bearer Security shall be surrendered without
the Coupon relating to such Defaulted Interest and Defaulted Interest
shall not be payable on such proposed date of payment in respect of the
Registered Security issued in exchange for such Bearer Security, but
shall be payable only to the Holder of such Coupon when due in
accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.
(2) The Company may pay any Defaulted Interest on the
Securities of any series 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.
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section, each Security
delivered under this Indenture upon registration of transfer of or in exchange
for or in lieu of any other Security shall carry the rights to interest accrued
and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other Security.
Section 308. Persons Deemed Owners.
Prior to due presentment of a Registered Security for registration of
transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee
may treat the Person in whose name such Registered Security is registered as the
owner of such Security for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of and
any premium and (subject to Section 305 and 307) any interest on such Registered
Security and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not any payment with
respect to such Registered Security shall be
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overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any agent of the Company or
the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
The Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee
may treat the bearer of any Bearer Security or the bearer of any Coupon as the
absolute owner of such Security or Coupon for the purpose of receiving payment
thereof or on account thereof and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or
not any payment with respect to such Security or Coupon shall be overdue, and
neither the Company, the Trustee or any agent of the Company or the Trustee
shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
No holder of any beneficial interest in any Book-Entry Security held on
its behalf by a Depositary shall have any rights under this Indenture with
respect to such Book-Entry Security, and such Depositary may be treated by the
Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee as owner of
such Book-Entry Security for all purposes whatsoever. None of the Company, the
Trustee, any Paying Agent or the Security Registrar will have any responsibility
or liability for any aspect of the records relating to or payments made on
account of beneficial ownership interests of a Book-Entry Security or for
maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records relating to such beneficial
ownership interests.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to any Book-Entry Security,
nothing herein shall prevent the Company, the Trustee, or any agent of the
Company or the Trustee, from giving effect to any written certification, proxy
or other authorization furnished by any Depositary, as a Holder, with respect to
such Book-Entry Security or impair, as between such Depositary and owners of
beneficial interests in such Book-Entry Security, the operation of customary
practices governing the exercise of the rights of such Depositary (or its
nominee) as Holder of such Book-Entry Security.
Section 309. Cancellation.
All Securities and Coupons surrendered for payment, redemption,
repayment at the option of the Holder, registration of transfer or exchange,
conversion, or for credit against any sinking fund payment shall, if surrendered
to any Person other than the Trustee, be delivered to the Trustee and shall be
promptly canceled by it. The Company may at any time deliver to the Trustee for
cancellation any Securities previously authenticated and delivered hereunder
which the Company may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and may deliver to
the Trustee (or to any other Person for delivery to the Trustee) for
cancellation any Securities previously authenticated hereunder which the Company
has not issued and sold, and all Securities and any Coupons so delivered shall
be promptly canceled by the Trustee. If the Company shall so 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 surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation. No Securities shall be
authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any
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Securities canceled as provided in this Section, except as expressly permitted
by this Indenture. All canceled Securities held by the Trustee shall be disposed
of as directed by a Company Order.
Section 310. Computation of Interest.
Except as otherwise established as contemplated by Section 301 in
respect of Securities of any series, interest on the Securities of each series
shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.
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ARTICLE FOUR
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
Section 401. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture.
This Indenture shall upon Company Order cease to be of further effect
with respect to Securities of any series specified in such Company Order and any
Coupons appertaining thereto (except as to any surviving rights as provided in
the last paragraph of this Section 401 and rights to receive the principal,
premium, if any, and interest, if any, on and Additional Amounts, if any, with
respect to Securities of such series), and the Trustee, upon receipt of Company
Order, and at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments
acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture as to such series,
when
(1) either
(A) all Securities of such series theretofore
authenticated and delivered and all Coupons appertaining thereto (other
than (i) Coupons appertaining to Bearer Securities of such series
surrendered in exchange for Registered Securities of such series and
maturing after such exchange whose surrender is not required or has
been waived as provided in Xxxxxxx 000, (xx) Securities and Coupons of
such series which have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which have
been replaced or paid as provided in Xxxxxxx 000, (xxx) Coupons
appertaining to Securities of such series called for redemption and
maturing after the relevant Redemption Date whose surrender has been
waived as provided in Section 1106, and (iv) Securities and Coupons of
such series for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in
trust or segregated and held in trust by the Company and thereafter
repaid to the Company or discharged from such trust, as provided in
Section 1003) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or
(B) all Securities of such series and, in the case of (i)
or (ii) below, if applicable, any Coupons appertaining thereto not
theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation
(i) have become due and payable, or
(ii) will become due and payable at their Stated
Maturity within one year, or
(iii) if redeemable at the option of the Company, are
to be called for redemption within one year under
arrangements satisfactory to the
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Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption by the
Trustee in the name, and at the expense, of the Company,
and the Company, in the case of (i), (ii) or (iii) above, has
irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as
trust funds in trust for such purpose money in the Currency in which
such Securities are payable in an amount sufficient to pay and
discharge the entire indebtedness on such Securities and any Coupons
appertaining thereto not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation, including the principal of, any premium and interest on,
and any Additional Amounts with respect to, such Securities and any
Coupons appertaining thereto, to the date of such deposit (in the case
of Securities which have become due and payable) or to the Stated
Maturity or Redemption Date thereof, as the case may be;
(2) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums
payable hereunder by the Company with respect to the Outstanding
Securities of such series and any Coupons appertaining thereto; and
(3) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions
precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and
discharge of this Indenture with respect to such series have been
complied with.
In the event there are Securities of two or more series hereunder, the
Trustee shall be required to execute an instrument acknowledging satisfaction
and discharge of this Indenture only if requested to do so with respect to
Securities of such series as to which it is Trustee and if the other conditions
thereto are met.
Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with
respect to Securities of any series pursuant to this Section 401, (i) the
obligations of the Company to the Trustee under Section 607, (ii) the
obligations of the Company to any Authenticating Agent under Section 614, (iii)
if money shall have been deposited with the Trustee pursuant to subclause (B) of
clause (1) of this Section, the obligations of the Trustee under Section 402 and
the last paragraph of Section 1003, in each case with respect to such Securities
and (iv) the obligations of the Company and the Trustee with respect to the
Securities of such series under Sections 305, 306, 402, 1002 and 1003, with
respect to the payment of Additional Amounts, if any, with respect to such
Securities as contemplated by Section 1007, with respect to any rights of the
Holders of such Securities to require the Company to repay such Securities as
contemplated by Section 1301, and with respect to any rights of the Holders to
convert or exchange such Securities into Common Stock or other securities, shall
survive.
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Section 402. Application of Trust Money.
Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 1003, all
cash deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 401, shall be held in trust
and applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the Securities of the
relevant series, the Coupons, if any, appertaining thereto, and this Indenture,
to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (other than the
Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the
Persons entitled thereto, of the principal (and premium, if any), interest and
Additional Amounts for whose payment such cash has been deposited with or
received by the Trustee, but such cash need not be segregated from other funds
except to the extent required by law.
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ARTICLE FIVE
REMEDIES
Section 501. Events of Default.
"Event of Default", wherever used herein with respect to Securities of
any series, means any one of the following events (whatever the reason for such
Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected
by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or
any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body),
unless such event is specifically deleted or modified in or pursuant to the
supplemental Indenture, Board Resolution or Officers' Certificate establishing
the terms of such series pursuant to Section 301 of this Indenture:
(1) default in the payment of principal of or premium, if any,
on any Security of that series when due (whether at Stated Maturity, on
any Redemption Date or Repayment Date or otherwise); or
(2) default in the payment of any interest on, or any
Additional Amounts payable in respect of, any Security of that series
or any Coupon appertaining thereto as and when the same shall become
due and payable, and continuance of such default for a period of 30
days; or
(3) default in the deposit of any sinking fund payment, when
and as due by the terms of a Security of that series; or
(4) default in the performance or breach of any covenant or
agreement of the Company in this Indenture (other than any such default
or breach which is elsewhere in this Section specifically dealt with or
which is included herein solely for the benefit of a series of
Securities other than that series) or in the Securities of such series,
and continuance of such default or breach for a period of 60 days after
there has been given, by registered or certified mail, to the Company
by the Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of at
least 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that
series a written notice specifying such default or breach and requiring
it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a "Notice of Default"
hereunder; or
(5) default under any bond, debenture, note, mortgage,
indenture or other instrument under which there may be issued or by
which there may be secured or evidenced any indebtedness for money
borrowed by the Company (or by a Significant Subsidiary of the Company,
the repayment of which the Company has guaranteed or for which the
Company is directly responsible or liable as obligor or
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guarantor) having an aggregate principal amount outstanding of at least
$20,000,000, whether such indebtedness exists at the date of this
Indenture or shall thereafter be created, which default shall have
resulted in such indebtedness being declared due and payable prior to
the date on which it would otherwise have become due and payable,
without such indebtedness being discharged or such acceleration having
been rescinded or annulled within 30 days after there has been given,
by registered or certified mail, to the Company by the Trustee or to
the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in principal
amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series a written notice
specifying such default and requiring it to be remedied and stating
that such notice is a "Notice of Default" hereunder; or
(6) the entry by a court having jurisdiction in the premises
of (A) a decree or order for relief in respect of the Company in an
involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or (B) a decree or
order adjudging the Company a bankrupt or insolvent, or appointing a
custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or
other similar official of the Company or of any substantial part of its
property, or ordering the winding up or liquidation of its affairs, and
the continuance of any such decree or order for relief or any such
other decree or order unstayed and in effect for a period of 60
consecutive days; or
(7) the commencement by the Company of a voluntary case or
proceeding under any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization
or other similar law or of any other case or proceeding to be
adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent, or the written consent by it to
the entry of a decree or order for relief in respect of the Company in
an involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization or other similar law, or the written consent
by it to the filing or commencement of any case or proceeding in
respect of the Company under any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization or other similar law, or the appointment of or taking
possession by a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee,
sequestrator or other similar official of the Company or of any
substantial part of its property, or the making by it of an assignment
for the benefit of creditors, or the admission by it in writing of its
inability to pay its debts generally as they become due; or
(8) any other Event of Default established as contemplated by
Section 301 with respect to Securities of that series.
Section 502. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment.
If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series occurs
and is continuing, the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate
principal amount of
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the Outstanding Securities of that series may declare the principal of (or, if
any of the Securities of that series are Original Issue Discount Securities or
Indexed Securities, such portion of the principal amount of such Securities as
may be specified in the terms thereof) and accrued interest on all of the
Securities of that series to be immediately due and payable by a notice in
writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by Holders), and upon any
such declaration such principal amount (or specified amount) and interest shall
become immediately due and payable.
At any time after such a declaration of acceleration with respect to
Securities of any series has been made and before a judgment or decree for
payment of the money due has been obtained by the Trustee as hereinafter in this
Article provided, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of that series, by written notice to the Company and the
Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if
(1) the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum
sufficient in cash to pay:
(A) all interest on the Securities of that series and any
Coupons appertaining thereto which has become due otherwise
than by such declaration of acceleration and any Additional
Amounts with respect thereto,
(B) the principal of (and premium, if any, on) the
Securities of that series which has become due otherwise than
by such declaration of acceleration,
(C) to the extent that payment of such interest is lawful,
interest upon overdue principal of, premium and interest (if
any) on and Additional Amounts (if any) with respect to the
Securities of such series at the rate or rates prescribed
therefor in such Securities or this Indenture (it being
understood that, if no rate of interest on overdue amounts is
specifically provided, then any such overdue principal,
premium, interest and Additional Amounts shall, to the extent
lawful, bear interest at the rate of interest borne by such
Securities), and
(D) all amounts owing the Trustee pursuant to Section 607
in respect of Securities of that series; and
(2) all Events of Default with respect to Securities of that
series, other than the non-payment of the principal and interest, if
any, of Securities of that series which have become due solely by such
declaration of acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in
Section 513.
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No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any
right consequent thereon.
Section 503. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee.
The Company covenants that if
(1) default is made in the payment of any interest on, or any
Additional Amounts payable in respect of, any Security or any Coupon
appertaining thereto when such interest or Additional Amounts, as the
case may be, becomes due and payable and such default continues for a
period of 30 days, or
(2) default is made in the payment of the principal of or
premium, if any, on any Security when due (whether at Stated Maturity,
on any Redemption Date or Repayment Date or otherwise),
the Company will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the
Holders of such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto, the whole
amount then due and payable on such Securities and any Coupons appertaining
thereto for principal and any premium and interest and Additional Amounts and,
to the extent that payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable,
interest on any overdue principal, premium, interest and Additional Amounts at
the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities (it being understood,
that if no rate of interest on overdue amounts is specifically provided, then
any such overdue principal, premium, interest and Additional Amounts shall, to
the extent lawful, bear interest at the rate of interest borne by such
Securities), and, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be
sufficient to cover the amounts due the Trustee pursuant to Section 607 in
respect of such Securities.
If the Company fails to pay such amounts forthwith upon such demand,
the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, may institute a
judicial proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, may
prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree and may enforce the same
against the Company or any other obligor upon such Securities and Coupons and
collect the moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable in the manner provided by
law out of the property of the Company or any other obligor upon such Securities
and any Coupons appertaining thereto, wherever situated.
If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series occurs
and is continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and
enforce its rights and the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series
and any Coupons appertaining thereto by such appropriate judicial proceedings as
the Trustee shall deem most effectual to protect and enforce any such rights,
whether for the specific enforcement of any
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covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power
granted herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy.
Section 504. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.
In case of the pendency of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation,
bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other
judicial proceeding relative to the Company or any other obligor upon the
Securities or the property of the Company or of such other obligor or their
creditors, the Trustee (irrespective of whether the principal of any Securities
shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or
otherwise and irrespective of whether the Trustee shall have made any demand on
the Company for the payment of overdue principal or interest) shall be entitled
and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise,
(1) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount, or such
lesser amount as may be provided for in the Securities of any series,
of principal, and premium, if any, interest and Additional Amounts
owing and unpaid in respect of such Securities and any Coupons and to
file such other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in
order to have the claims of the Trustee pursuant to Section 607 and of
the Holders allowed in such judicial proceeding, and
(2) to collect and receive any moneys or other property
payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same;
and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator (or
other similar official), in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by
each Holder to make such payments to the Trustee and, in the event that the
Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to
pay the Trustee any amount due it pursuant to Section 607.
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to
authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Securities
or the rights of any Holder thereof, or to authorize the Trustee to vote in
respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding.
Section 505. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities.
All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or any of the
Securities or Coupons may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the
possession of any of the Securities or Coupons or the production thereof in any
proceeding relating thereto, and any such 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 the
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payment of the amounts due the Trustee pursuant to Section 607, be for the
ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities or Coupons in respect of which
such judgment has been recovered.
Section 506. Application of Money Collected.
Any money collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article or
otherwise on behalf of the Holders or the Trustee pursuant to this Article or
through any proceeding or any arrangement or restructuring in anticipation or in
lieu of any proceeding contemplated by this Article shall be applied, subject to
applicable law, in the following order, at the date or dates fixed by the
Trustee and, in the case of the distribution of such money on account of
principal or any premium, interest or Additional Amounts, upon presentation of
the Securities or Coupons, or both, as the case may be, and the notation thereon
of the payment if only partially paid and upon surrender thereof if fully paid:
FIRST: To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee and any
predecessor Trustee under Section 607;
SECOND: Solely in the case of any money collected in respect of
Subordinated Securities, to the payment of amounts then due and unpaid to the
holders of the applicable Senior Indebtedness to the extent required pursuant to
the subordination provisions relating to such Subordinated Securities;
THIRD: To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid for principal
of and any premium, interest and Additional Amounts payable on the Securities
and any Coupons appertaining thereto 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 and
Coupons for principal and any premium, interest and Additional Amounts,
respectively; and
FOURTH: To the payment of the remainder, if any, to the Company.
Section 507. Limitation on Suits.
No Holder of any Security of any series or any Coupons appertaining
thereto shall have any right to institute any proceeding, judicial or otherwise,
with respect to this Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee,
or for any other remedy hereunder, unless
(1) such Holder has previously given written notice to the
Trustee of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities
of that series;
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(2) the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of
the Outstanding Securities of that series shall have made written
request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such
Event of Default in its own name as Trustee hereunder;
(3) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee
reasonable indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be
incurred in compliance with such request;
(4) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice,
request and offer of indemnity has failed to institute any such
proceeding; and
(5) no direction inconsistent with such written request has
been given to the Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders of a
majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that
series;
it being understood and intended that no one or more of such Holders shall have
any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision
of this Indenture or any Security to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of
any other of such Holders, or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or
preference over any other of such Holders of Securities of another series or to
enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and
for the equal and ratable benefit of all of such Holders.
Section 508. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal,
Premium, if any, and Interest and Additional Amounts, if any.
Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the Holder of
any Security or Coupon shall have the right, which is absolute and
unconditional, to receive payment of the principal of and any premium and
(subject to Section 305 and 307) any interest on or any Additional Amounts with
respect to such Security or such Coupon, as the case may be, on the respective
Maturity or Maturities thereof and to institute suit for the enforcement of any
such payment, and such rights shall not be impaired without the consent of such
Holder.
Section 509. Restoration of Rights and Remedies.
If the Trustee or any Holder has instituted any proceeding to enforce
any right or remedy under this Indenture and such proceeding has been
discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or has been determined adversely to
the Trustee or to such Holder, then and in every such case, subject to any
determination in such proceeding, the Company, the Trustee and the Holders shall
be restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder and
thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee and the Holders shall continue
as though no such proceeding had been instituted.
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Section 510. Rights and Remedies Cumulative.
To the extent permitted by applicable law, except as otherwise provided
with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or
stolen Securities or Coupons in the last paragraph of Section 306, no right or
remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders is
intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and
remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to
every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law
or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy
hereunder, or otherwise, shall not, to the extent permitted by law, prevent the
concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.
Section 511. Delay or Omission Not Waiver.
No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any Securities
or Coupons appertaining thereto to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon
any Event of Default shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a
waiver of any such Event of Default or an acquiescence therein. Every right and
remedy given by this Article or by law to the Trustee or to the Holders may be
exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the
Trustee or by the Holders, as the case may be.
Section 512. Control by Holders.
The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of any series 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 the
Securities of such series, provided that
(1) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of
law or with this Indenture or with the Securities of any series or be
unduly prejudicial to Holders of Securities of such series not joining
therein, and
(2) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the
Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction.
Section 513. Waiver of Past Defaults.
The Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of any series may on behalf of the Holders of all the
Securities of such series and any Coupons appertaining thereto waive any past
default hereunder with respect to such series and its consequences, except a
default
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(1) in the payment of the principal of or any premium or
interest on, or any Additional Amounts with respect to, any Security of
such series, or
(2) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under
Article Nine cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the
Holder of each Outstanding Security of such series affected.
Upon any such waiver, such default shall cease to exist, and any Event
of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every
purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or
other default or impair any right consequent thereon.
Section 514. Undertaking for Costs.
All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Security of
any series by his 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, suffered or omitted by it as Trustee in respect of the Securities
of such series, 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 Company or the Trustee, to
any suit instituted by any Holder, or group of Holders, holding in the aggregate
more than 10% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series,
or to any suit instituted by any Holder for the enforcement of the payment of
the principal of, premium, if any, or interest on, or Additional Amounts, if
any, with respect to any Security on or after the respective Stated Maturities
expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the
Redemption Date and, in the case of repayment, on or after the Repayment Date)
or for the enforcement of the right, if any, to convert or exchange any Security
into Common Stock or other securities in accordance with its terms.
Section 515. Waiver of Usury, Stay or Extension Laws.
The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that
it will not at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim
or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law or any usury or
other law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, which may
affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and the Company (to
the extent that it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or
advantage of any such law, and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or
impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will
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suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had
been enacted.
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ARTICLE SIX
THE TRUSTEE
Section 601. Certain Duties and Responsibilities.
The duties and responsibilities of the Trustee shall be as provided by
the Trust Indenture Act and this Indenture. The Trustee shall be under no
obligation, subject to the duty of the Trustee during a default to act with the
required standard of care, to exercise any of its rights or powers under the
Indenture at the request or direction of any of the Holders of Securities of any
series, unless such Holders shall have offered the Trustee reasonable security
or indemnity against costs, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by
it in compliance with such request. Whether or not therein expressly so
provided, every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting
the liability of or affording protection to the Trustee shall be subject to the
provisions of this Section.
Section 602. Notice of Defaults.
Within 90 days after the occurrence of any default hereunder with
respect to the Securities of any series, the Trustee shall transmit to all
Holders of Securities of such series, in the manner and to the extent provided
in Trust Indenture Act Section 313(c), notice of such default hereunder, unless
such default shall have been cured or waived; provided, however, that, except in
the case of a default in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or
interest on or any Additional Amounts with respect to any Security of such
series, or in the payment of any sinking fund installment with respect to the
Securities of such series, the Trustee shall be protected in withholding such
notice if and so long as the board of directors, the executive committee or a
committee of Responsible Officers of the Trustee in good faith determine that
the withholding of such notice is in the interests of the Holders of the
Securities and Coupons of such series; and provided, further, that in the case
of any default of the character specified in Section 501(4) with respect to
Securities of such series, no notice to Holders shall be given until at least 60
days after the occurrence thereof. For the purpose of this Section, the term
"default" means any event which is, or after notice or lapse of time or both
would become, an Event of Default with respect to the Securities of such series.
Subject to Trust Indenture Act Section 315(b), the Trustee shall not be deemed
to have, or be required to take, notice of any default or Event of Default
(other than a default described in paragraph (1), (2), or (3) of Section 501)
except upon (A) written notification from the Company or (B) written
notification from a Holder and, in the absence of such notice, the Trustee may
conclusively presume that there is no default or Event of Default except as
aforesaid. Subject to Section 601 of this Indenture, such notification shall not
be deemed
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to include receipt of information obtained in any report or other documents
furnished under Section 704 of this Indenture, which reports and documents the
Trustee shall have no duty to examine.
Section 603. Certain Rights of Trustee.
Subject to the provisions of Section 601 hereof and to the provisions
of Sections 315(a) through 315(d) of the Trust Indenture Act:
(a) the Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or refraining
from acting upon receipt by it of any resolution, certificate, statement,
instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond,
debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness 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 or direction of the Company mentioned herein shall be
sufficiently evidenced by a Company Request or Company Order (other than
delivery of any Security, together with any Coupons appertaining thereto, to the
Trustee for authentication and delivery pursuant to Section 303 which shall be
evidenced as provided therein) and any resolution of the Board of Directors may
be sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution;
(c) whenever in the administration of this Indenture the Trustee shall
deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking,
suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Trustee (unless other evidence
be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part,
rely upon a Board Resolution, an Opinion of Counsel or an Officers' Certificate;
(d) 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, suffered or omitted by it hereunder
in good faith and in reliance thereon;
(e) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the
rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or direction of
any of the Holders of any series or any Coupons appertaining thereto pursuant to
this Indenture, unless such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee reasonable
security or indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be
incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction;
(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, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture,
note, coupon, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document, but the
Trustee, in its discretion, may make
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such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see
fit, and, if the Trustee shall determine to make such further inquiry or
investigation, it shall be entitled to examine the books, records and premises
of the Company, personally or by agent or attorney;
(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;
(h) the Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken or omitted by
it in good faith and believed by it to be authorized or within the discretion,
rights or powers conferred upon it by this Indenture other than any liabilities
arising out of the negligence of the Trustee;
(i) no provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend
or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the
performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the exercise of any of its
rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds for believing that
repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is
not reasonably assured to it;
(j) in the absence of bad faith on its part, the Trustee may
conclusively rely on the statements in certificates and opinions furnished to it
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;
(k) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in
good faith by a Responsible Officer, unless it shall be proved that the Trustee
was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts;
(l) 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 a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any
series, 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 such
series; and
(m) no provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to
determine the maximum interest rate permissible under applicable law.
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Section 604. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities.
The recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except the
Trustee's certificates of authentication, and in any Coupons shall be taken as
the statements of the Company, and neither the Trustee nor any Authenticating
Agent assumes any responsibility for their correctness. The Trustee makes no
representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the
Securities or Coupons, except that the Trustee represents that it is duly
authorized to execute and deliver this Indenture, authenticate the Securities
and perform its obligations hereunder and that the statements made by it in a
Statement of Eligibility and Qualification on Form T-1 supplied to the Company
are true and accurate subject to the qualifications set forth therein. The
Trustee or any Authenticating Agent shall not be accountable for the use or
application by the Company of Securities or the proceeds thereof.
Section 605. May Hold Securities.
The Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, any Paying Agent, any Security
Registrar or any other Person that may be an agent of the Trustee or of the
Company, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or
pledgee of Securities or Coupons and, subject to Sections 608 and 613, may
otherwise deal with the Company with the same rights it would have if it were
not Trustee, Authenticating Agent, Paying Agent, Security Registrar or such
other Person.
Section 606. Money Held in Trust.
Money held by the Trustee in trust hereunder 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 money received by it hereunder except as
otherwise agreed with the Company.
Section 607. Compensation and Reimbursement.
The Company agrees
(1) to pay to the Trustee from time to time reasonable
compensation for all services rendered by it hereunder (which
compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to
the compensation of a trustee of an express trust);
(2) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to
reimburse the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee upon its request for
all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by
it in accordance with any provision of this Indenture (including the
reasonable compensation and the
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expenses and disbursements of its agents and counsel), except any such
expense, disbursement or advance as may be attributable to its
negligence or bad faith; and
(3) to indemnify the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee and
the officers, directors, employees and agents of the Trustee (the
Trustee, each predecessor Trustee and such officers, directors,
employees and agents being hereinafter referred to in this Section
collectively as the "Indemnified Parties" and individually as an
"Indemnified Party") for, and to hold each Indemnified Party harmless
against, any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or
bad faith on its part, arising out of or in connection with the
acceptance or administration of the trust or trusts hereunder,
including the costs and expenses of defending itself against any claim
or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of
its powers or duties hereunder; provided that any Indemnified Party
shall promptly notify the Company of the commencement of any action, or
proceeding for which it intends to seek indemnity hereunder, will
permit the Company to conduct the defense thereof on its behalf and
will not compromise or settle any such action, suit or proceeding
without the prior approval of the Company.
The Company's payment obligations pursuant to this Section 607 shall
survive the discharge of this Indenture. When the Trustee renders services or
incurs expenses or makes disbursements or advances after the occurrence of an
Event of Default specified in Section 501(6) or (7), the compensation for such
services and such expenses, disbursements and advances are intended to
constitute expenses of administration under any bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization or other similar law.
Section 608. Disqualification; Conflicting Interests.
If the Trustee has or shall acquire a conflicting interest within the
meaning of the Trust Indenture Act, the Trustee shall either eliminate such
interest or resign, to the extent and in the manner provided by, and subject to
the provisions of, the Trust Indenture Act and this Indenture.
Section 609. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility.
There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder which shall be a Person
that is eligible pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act to act as such and has (or
if such Trustee is a Subsidiary of a bank holding company, its parent bank
holding company has) a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000. If
such Person publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or
to the requirements of federal, state, territorial or District of Columbia
supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section, the
combined capital and surplus of such Person shall be deemed to be its
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combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition
so published. If at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in
accordance with the provisions of this Section, it shall resign immediately in
the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article.
Section 610. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.
(a) No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a
successor Trustee pursuant to this Article shall become effective until the
acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee in accordance with the
applicable requirements of Section 611.
(b) The Trustee may resign at any time with respect to the Securities
of one or more series by giving written notice thereof to the Company. If the
instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee required by Section 611 shall
not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such
notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee may, or any Holder who has been a
bona fide Holder of a Security of the applicable series for at least six months
may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court
of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with
respect to the Securities of such series.
(c) The Trustee may be removed at any time with respect to the
Securities of any series by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount
of the Outstanding Securities of such series, delivered to the Trustee and to
the Company.
(d) If at any time:
(1) the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section 608 after
written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder of a Security
who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months,
or
(2) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 609
and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company
or by any Holder of a Security who has been a bona fide Holder of a
Security for at least six months, 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, (i) the Company by or pursuant to Board Resolution may
remove the Trustee with respect to all Securities or the Securities of any
series, or (ii) subject to Section 514, any Holder who has been a bona fide
Holder of a Security of any series for at least six months may, on behalf of
himself and all others similarly situated, petition any
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court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee with respect to
the Securities of such series and the appointment of a successor Trustee or
Trustees with respect thereto.
(e) If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of
acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee for any cause, with
respect to the Securities of one or more series, the Company, by or pursuant to
a Company Request, Company Order or Board Resolution, shall promptly appoint a
successor Trustee or Trustees with respect to the Securities of that or those
series (it being understood that any such successor Trustee may be appointed
with respect to the Securities of one or more or all of such series and that at
any time there shall be only one Trustee with respect to the Securities of any
particular series) and shall comply with the applicable requirements of Section
611. If, within one year after such resignation, removal or incapability, or the
occurrence of such vacancy, a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities
of any series shall be appointed by Act of the Holders of a majority in
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series delivered to the
Company and the retiring Trustee, the successor Trustee so appointed shall,
forthwith upon its acceptance of such appointment in accordance with the
applicable requirements of Section 611, become the successor Trustee with
respect to the Securities of such series and to that extent supersede the
successor Trustee appointed by the Company. If no successor Trustee with respect
to the Securities of any series shall have been so appointed by the Company or
the Holders and accepted appointment in the manner required by Section 611, any
Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security of such series for at least
six months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition
any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee
with respect to the Securities of such series.
(f) The Company shall give notice of each resignation and each removal
of the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series and each appointment
of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series to all
Holders of Securities of such series in the manner provided in Section 106. Each
notice of such appointment shall include the name of the successor Trustee with
respect to the Securities of such series and the address of its Corporate Trust
Office. Notices of resignation, removal and appointment may be combined into a
single notice.
Section 611. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.
(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
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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, subject to Section 1003, 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
such 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)
if the retiring Trustee is not retiring with respect to all Securities, 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 and 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 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 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
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 all 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 paragraphs (a) and (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.
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Section 612. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.
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 all or substantially all the corporate trust business
of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder, provided such
corporation shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article,
without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of
any of the parties hereto. 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. In case
any Securities shall not have been authenticated by such predecessor Trustee,
any such successor Trustee may authenticate and deliver such Securities, in
either its own name or that of its predecessor Trustee, with the full force and
effect which this Indenture provides for the certificate of authentication of
the Trustee.
Section 613. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company.
If and when the Trustee shall be or become a creditor of the Company
(or any other obligor upon the Securities), the Trustee shall be subject to the
provisions of the Trust Indenture Act regarding the collection of claims against
the Company (or any such other obligor).
Section 614. Appointment of Authenticating Agent.
The Trustee may appoint an Authenticating Agent or Agents with respect
to one or more series of Securities which shall be authorized to act on behalf
of the Trustee to authenticate Securities of such series issued upon original
issue and upon exchange, registration of transfer or partial redemption or
repayment thereof or pursuant to Section 306, 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. Any
such appointment shall be evidenced by an instrument in writing signed by a
Responsible Officer of the Trustee, a copy of which instrument shall be promptly
furnished to the Company. Wherever reference is made in this Indenture to the
authentication and delivery of Securities by the Trustee or the Trustee's
certificate of authentication, such reference shall be deemed to include
authentication and delivery on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent
and a certificate of authentication executed on behalf of the Trustee by an
Authenticating Agent. Each Authenticating Agent shall be acceptable to the
Company and shall at all times be a bank or trust company or corporation
organized and doing business under the laws of the United States
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of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia, authorized under such
laws to act as Authenticating Agent, having (or if such entity is a Subsidiary
of a bank holding company, its parent bank holding company has) a combined
capital and surplus of not less than $50,000,000 and subject to supervision or
examination by Federal or State authority. If such Authenticating Agent
publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the
requirements of said supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes
of this Section, the combined capital and surplus of such Authenticating Agent
shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most
recent report of condition so published. If at any time an Authenticating Agent
shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section,
such Authenticating Agent shall resign immediately in the manner and with the
effect specified in this Section.
Any corporation into which an Authenticating Agent may be merged or
converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting
from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which such Authenticating Agent
shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to the corporate agency or
corporate trust business of an Authenticating Agent, shall continue to be an
Authenticating Agent, provided such corporation shall be otherwise eligible
under this Section, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further
act on the part of the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent.
An Authenticating Agent may resign at any time by giving written notice
thereof to the Trustee for such series and to the Company. The Trustee for any
series of Securities may at any time terminate the agency of an Authenticating
Agent by giving written notice thereof to such Authenticating Agent and to the
Company. Upon receiving such a notice of resignation or upon such a termination,
or in case at any time such Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in
accordance with the provisions of this Section, the Trustee for such series may
appoint a successor Authenticating Agent which shall be acceptable to the
Company and shall (i) mail written notice of such appointment by first-class
mail, postage prepaid, to all Holders of Registered Securities, if any, of the
series with respect to which such Authenticating Agent will serve, as their
names and addresses appear in the Security Register, and (ii) if Securities of
that series are issued as Bearer Securities, publish notice of such appointment
at least once in an Authorized Newspaper in the place where such successor
Authenticating Agent has its principal office if such office is located outside
the United States. Any successor Authenticating Agent upon acceptance of its
appointment hereunder shall become vested with all the rights, powers and duties
of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as an
Authenticating Agent. No successor Authenticating Agent shall be appointed
unless eligible under the provisions of this Section.
If at any time there shall be an Authenticating Agent appointed with
respect to one or more series of Securities, then in lieu of the Trustee's
certificate of authentication, an alternative certificate of authentication
shall be borne by such Securities substantially in the following form:
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TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
Dated:
This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred
to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
By: __________________________________,
as Trustee
By: __________________________________,
as Authenticating Agent
By: __________________________________,
Authorized Signatory
The Company agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from time to
time reasonable compensation for its services under this Section.
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ARTICLE SEVEN
HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY
Section 701. Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders.
The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee
(a) semi-annually, not later than 15 days after each Regular Record
Date for Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, a list, in such form
as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Holders
of Registered Securities as of such Regular Record Date, or if there is no
Regular Record Date for interest for such series of Securities, semi-annually,
upon such dates as are set forth in the Board Resolution, Officers' Certificates
indenture supplemental hereto authorizing such series, 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, that so long as the Trustee is the Security Registrar, no
such list shall be required to be furnished.
Section 702. Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders.
(a) The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably
practicable, the names and addresses of Holders contained in the most recent
list furnished to the Trustee as provided in Section 701 and the names and
addresses of Holders received by the Trustee in its capacity as Security
Registrar. The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in
Section 701 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.
(b) The rights of the Holders to communicate with other Holders with
respect to their rights under this Indenture or under the Securities, and the
corresponding rights and privileges of the Trustee, shall be as provided by the
Trust Indenture Act.
(c) Every Holder of Securities or Coupons, by receiving and holding the
same, agrees with the Company and the Trustee that neither the Company nor the
Trustee nor any agent of either of them shall be held accountable by reason of
any disclosure of information as to names and addresses of Holders made pursuant
to the Trust Indenture Act, 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 the Trust Indenture Act.
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Section 703. Reports by Trustee.
(a) Within 60 days after each May 15, commencing with the first May 15
after the first issuance of Securities pursuant to this Indenture, the Trustee
shall transmit to the Holders such reports concerning the Trustee and its
actions under this Indenture as may be required pursuant to Trust Indenture Act
Section 313(a) in the manner provided pursuant thereto, and such other reports
as may be required under such Act in the manner and at the times provided
pursuant thereto.
(b) A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such transmission
to the Holders, be filed by the Trustee with the Company and, to the extent
required, with each stock exchange upon which any Securities are listed and with
the Commission. The Company will notify the Trustee when any Securities are
listed on any stock exchange.
Section 704. Reports by Company.
The Company shall file with the Trustee and the Commission, and
transmit to Holders, such information, documents and other reports, and such
summaries thereof, as may be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act at the
times and in the manner provided pursuant to such Act; provided that any such
information, documents or reports required to be filed with the Commission
pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act shall be filed with the
Trustee within 15 days after the same is so required to be filed with the
Commission.
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ARTICLE EIGHT
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE
Section 801. Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms.
The Company shall not consolidate with or merge with or into any other
Person, and the Company shall not sell, lease, assign, transfer or otherwise
convey all or substantially all of its assets to another Person, unless:
(1) (a) in the case of a merger, the Company shall be the surviving
corporation or (b) the Person (if other than the Company) surviving the merger,
formed by such consolidation or which acquires such assets shall be an entity
organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state
thereof or the District of Columbia and shall expressly assume the due and
punctual payment of the principal of and any premium and interest on and any
Additional Amounts with respect to all of the Securities, according to their
tenor, and the due and punctual performance and observance of all of the other
covenants and conditions of this Indenture and the Securities to be performed or
observed by the Company by an indenture supplemental hereto, complying with
Article Nine hereof, satisfactory to the Trustee, executed and delivered to the
Trustee by such Person; and
(2) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Event of
Default, and no event which, after notice or the lapse of time, or both, would
become an Event of Default, shall have occurred and be continuing.
Section 802. Rights and Duties of Successor Corporation.
In case of any such merger in which the Company is not the surviving
corporation or any such consolidation, sale, lease, assignment, transfer or
conveyance and upon any such assumption by the successor entity, such successor
entity shall succeed to and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and
power of, the Company under this Indenture and the Securities, with the same
effect as if it had been named herein as the party of the first part, and the
predecessor Person, except in the event of a lease, shall be relieved of any
further obligation under this Indenture and the Securities. Such successor
entity thereupon may cause to be signed, and may issue either in its own name or
in the name of the Company, 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 entity, 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
Company to the Trustee for authentication, and any Securities which such
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successor entity thereafter shall cause to be signed and delivered to the
Trustee for that purpose. All the Securities of any series so issued shall in
all respects have the same legal rank and benefit under this Indenture as the
Securities of such series 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.
In case of any such merger in which the Company is not the surviving
corporation or any such consolidation, sale, lease, assignment, transfer or
conveyance, such changes in phraseology and form (but not in substance) may be
made in the Securities thereafter to be issued as may be appropriate.
Section 803. Officers' Certificate and Opinion of Counsel.
Any consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance, assignment, transfer or
lease permitted under Section 801 is also subject to the condition that the
Trustee shall have received an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel
to the effect that any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance, transfer,
assignment or lease, and the assumption by any successor Person and any such
supplemental indenture, comply with the provisions of this Article and that all
conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction have been
complied with.
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ARTICLE NINE
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
Section 901. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders.
Without the consent of any Holders, the Company, when authorized by a
Board Resolution (which Board Resolution may provide general terms for such
action and may provide that the specific terms of such action may be determined
in accordance with or pursuant to a Company Order), and the Trustee, at any time
and from time to time, may enter into one or more indentures supplemental
hereto, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, for any of the following purposes:
(1) to evidence the succession of another Person to the
Company and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of
the Company herein and in the Securities as obligor under this
Indenture; or
(2) to add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit of
the Holders of the Securities of all or any series (and if such
covenants are to be for the benefit of the Securities of less than all
series, stating that such covenants are expressly being included solely
for the benefit of the Securities of such series) or to surrender any
right or power herein conferred upon the Company; or
(3) to add any additional Events of Default (and if such
Events of Default are to be for the benefit of less than all series of
Securities, stating that such Events of Default are expressly being
included solely for the benefit of the Securities of such series);
provided, however, that in respect of any such additional Events of
Default 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 rights of Holders of a
majority in aggregate principal amount of that or those series of
Securities to which such additional Events of Default apply to waive
such default; or
(4) to add to or change any of the provisions of this
Indenture to such extent as shall be necessary to permit or facilitate
the issuance of Securities in bearer form, registrable or not
registrable as to principal, and with or without Coupons, to change or
eliminate any restrictions on the payment of principal of, any premium
or interest on or any Additional Amounts with respect to Bearer
Securities, to permit Bearer Securities to be issued in exchange for
Registered Securities, to permit Bearer Securities to be exchanged for
Bearer Securities of
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other authorized denominations or to permit or facilitate the issuance
of Securities in uncertificated form, provided that any such action
shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of Securities
of any series or any Coupons appertaining thereto in any material
respect; or
(5) to add to, change or eliminate any of the provisions of
this Indenture in respect of one or more series of Securities, provided
that any such addition, change or elimination (i) shall neither (A)
apply to any Security of any series created prior to the execution of
such supplemental indenture and entitled to the benefit of such
provision nor (B) modify the rights of the Holder of any such Security
with respect to such provision or (ii) shall become effective only when
there is no such Security Outstanding; or
(6) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment
hereunder by a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one
or more series and to 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; or
(7) to secure the Securities; or
(8) to supplement any of the provisions of this Indenture to
such extent as shall be necessary to permit or facilitate the
defeasance, covenant defeasance or satisfaction and discharge of the
Securities of any series pursuant to this Indenture; provided that any
such action shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of
Securities of such series or any other series or any Coupons
appertaining thereto in any material respect; or
(9) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any
provision herein which may be inconsistent with any other provision
herein, or to make any other provisions with respect to matters or
questions arising under this Indenture, provided that such action
pursuant to this clause (9) shall not adversely affect the interests of
the Holders of Securities of any series or any Coupons appertaining
thereto in any material respect;
(10) to add a guarantor or guarantors for any series or all
series of the Securities;
(11) to comply with the requirements of the Commission in order
to effect or maintain the qualification of this Indenture under the
Trust Indenture Act; or
(12) to establish the form or terms of Securities of any series
and any related Coupons as contemplated by Sections 201 and 301,
including the
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provisions and procedures relating to Securities convertible into or
exchangeable for Common Stock or other securities, as the case may be.
Section 902. Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders.
With the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of each series affected by such
supplemental indenture, by Act of said Holders delivered to the Company and the
Trustee, the Company, when authorized by Board Resolution (which Board
Resolution may provide general terms or parameters for such action and may
provide that the specific terms of such action may be determined in accordance
with or pursuant to a Company Order), and the Trustee may enter into an
indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any
provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of
this Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of
Securities of such series and any related Coupons under this Indenture;
provided, however, that no such supplemental indenture shall, without the
consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby,
(1) change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or
premium, if any, or any installment of principal of or interest on any
Security, or the date, if any, on which any Security is subject to
repayment at the option of the Holder, or reduce the principal amount
thereof or the rate (or modify the calculation of such rate) of
interest thereon or any Additional Amounts with respect thereto or any
premium payable thereon, or change the obligation of the Company to pay
Additional Amounts pursuant to Section 1007 (except as contemplated by
Section 801(1) and permitted by Section 901(1)), or reduce the amount
of the principal of an Original Issue Discount Security or other
Security that would be due and payable upon a declaration of
acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502 or the
amount provable in bankruptcy pursuant to Section 504, or change any
Place of Payment where or Currency in which any Security or any premium
or interest on, or any Additional Amounts with respect to any Security
is payable, or impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement
of any such payment on or after the Maturity thereof (as such Maturity
may be extended, if applicable, in accordance with the terms of such
Security or Coupon appertaining thereto), or
(2) reduce the percentage in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of any series, the consent of whose Holders is
required for any such supplemental indenture, or the consent of whose
Holders is required for any waiver with respect to such series (of
compliance with certain provisions of this Indenture or certain
defaults hereunder and their consequences) provided for in this
Indenture, or reduce the requirements of Section 1504 for quorum or
voting, or
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(3) modify any of the provisions of this Section, Section 513
or Section 1006, except to increase any such percentage or to provide
that certain other provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified or
waived without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security
affected thereby or, in the case of Subordinated Securities, modify any
of the provisions relating to subordination or the related definition
of "Senior Indebtedness" in a manner adverse to the holders of such
Subordinated Securities.
It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this Section to
approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it shall
be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.
A supplemental indenture which changes or eliminates any covenant or
other provision of this Indenture which has expressly been included solely for
the benefit of the Securities of one or more particular series, or which
modifies the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series with respect to
such covenant or other provision, shall be deemed not to affect the rights under
this Indenture of the Holders of Securities of any other series.
The Company may, but shall not be obligated to, fix a record date for
the purpose of determining the Persons entitled to consent to any indenture
supplement hereto. If a record date is fixed, the Holders at the close of
business on such record date, or their duly designated proxies, and only such
Persons, shall be entitled to consent to such supplemental indenture, whether or
not such Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided, that unless
such consent shall have become effective by virtue of the requisite percentage
having been obtained prior to the date which is 90 days after such record date,
any such consent previously given shall automatically and without further action
by any Holder be canceled and of no further effect.
Section 903. Execution of Supplemental Indentures.
In executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by, any
supplemental indenture permitted by this Article or the modifications thereby of
the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive,
and (subject to Section 601) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an
Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture is
authorized or permitted by this Indenture. The Trustee may, but 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.
Section 904. Effect of Supplemental Indentures.
Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture under this Article,
this Indenture shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such supplemental
indenture
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shall form a part of this Indenture for all purposes; and every Holder of
Securities theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder and
of any Coupon appertaining thereto shall be bound thereby.
Section 905. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act.
Every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article shall
conform to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act, as then in effect at the
time of execution thereof.
Section 906. Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures.
Securities of any series authenticated and delivered after the
execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article may, and shall
if required by the Trustee, bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee as
to any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Company shall
so determine, new Securities of any series so modified as to conform, in the
opinion of the Trustee and the Company, to any such supplemental indenture may
be prepared and executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the
Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Securities of such series.
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ARTICLE TEN
COVENANTS
Section 1001. Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest.
The Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of the Holders of
Securities of each series that it will duly and punctually pay the principal of
(and premium, if any) and interest on and any Additional Amounts payable in
respect or the Securities of that series in accordance with the terms of the
Securities of that series, any Coupons appertaining thereto and this Indenture.
Unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 with respect to any
series of Securities, any interest due on and any Additional Amounts payable in
respect of Bearer Securities on or before Maturity, other than Additional
Amounts, if any, payable in respect of principal of (or premium, if any, on)
such a Security, shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of the
several Coupons for such interest installments as are evidenced thereby as they
severally mature. Unless otherwise specified with respect to Securities of any
series pursuant to Section 301, at the option of the Company, all payments of
principal may be paid by (i) check to the registered Holder of the Registered
Security or other person entitled thereto or (ii) wire transfer to an account
located inside the United States maintained by the payee, in each case, against
surrender of such Security.
Section 1002. Maintenance of Office or Agency.
If Securities of a series are issuable only as Registered Securities,
the Company will maintain in each Place of Payment for the Securities of that
series of Securities an Office or Agency where Securities of that series may be
presented or surrendered for payment or, if applicable, conversion, where
Securities of that series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or
exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the
Securities of that series and this Indenture may be served. If Securities of a
series are issuable as Bearer Securities, the Company shall maintain, subject to
any laws or regulations applicable thereto, an Office or Agency in a Place of
Payment for such series which is located outside the United States where
Securities of such series and any Coupons appertaining thereto may be presented
and surrendered for payment or, if applicable, conversion; provided, however,
that if the Securities of such series are listed on the London Stock Exchange or
the Luxembourg Stock Exchange or any other stock exchange located outside the
United States and such stock exchange shall so require, the Company shall
maintain a Paying Agent in London, Luxembourg or any other required city located
outside the United States, as the case may be, so long as the Securities of such
series are listed on such exchange. The Company will give prompt written notice
to the Trustee of the location, and any change in the location, of such
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Office or Agency. 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, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or
served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, except that Bearer
Securities or such series and any Coupons appertaining thereto may be presented
and surrendered for payment at the place specified for the purpose with respect
to such Securities as provided in or pursuant to this Indenture, and the Company
hereby appoints the Trustee as its agent to receive all such presentations,
surrenders, notices and demands.
Except as otherwise provided in or pursuant to this Indenture, no
payment of principal, premium, interest or Additional Amounts with respect to
Bearer Securities shall be made at any Office or Agency in the United States or
by check mailed to any address in the United States or by transfer to an account
maintained with a bank located in the United States; provided, however, if
amounts owing with respect to any Bearer Securities shall be payable in Dollars,
payment of principal of, any premium or interest on and any Additional Amounts
with respect to any such Securities may be made at the Corporate Trust Office of
the Trustee in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, or any Office or
Agency designated by the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New
York, if (but only if) payment of the full amount of such principal, premium,
interest or Additional Amounts at all offices outside the United States
maintained for such purpose by the Company in accordance with this Indenture is
illegal or effectively precluded by exchange controls or other similar
restrictions.
The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other
offices or agencies where the Securities of one or more series may be presented
or surrendered for any or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind
such designations; provided, however, that no such designation or rescission
shall in any manner relieve the Company of its obligation to maintain an Office
or Agency in each Place of Payment for Securities of any series for such
purposes. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such
designation or rescission and of any change in the location of any such other
Office or Agency. Unless otherwise provided in or pursuant to this Indenture,
the Company hereby designates as the Place for Payment of each series of
Securities the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, and initially
appoints the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee in the Borough of Manhattan,
The City of New York, as the Company's Office or Agency in the Borough of
Manhattan, The City of New York for such purpose and as Security Registrar. The
Company may subsequently appoint a different Office or Agency in the Borough of
Manhattan, The City of New York and a different Security Registrar for the
Securities of any series.
Section 1003. Money for Securities Payments to Be Held in Trust.
If the Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent with
respect to the Securities of any series, it will, on or before each due date of
the principal of or any
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premium or interest on, or any Additional Amounts with respect to, any of the
Securities of that series, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the
Persons entitled thereto a sum in the Currency or Currencies in which the
Securities of such series are payable (except as otherwise specified pursuant to
Section 301 for the Securities of such series) sufficient to pay the principal
and any premium and interest and Additional Amounts so becoming due until such
sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided
and will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act.
Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents for the
Securities of any series and any related Coupons, it will, on or prior to each
due date of the principal of or any premium or interest on, or any Additional
Amounts with respect to, any Securities of that series, deposit with a Paying
Agent a sum (in the Currency or Currencies in which the Securities of such
series are payable (except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301 for
the Securities of such series)) sufficient to pay such amount, such sum to be
held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto, and (unless such
Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee of its
action or failure so to act.
The Company will cause each Paying Agent for the Securities of any
series, other than the Trustee, to execute and deliver to the Trustee an
instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to
the provisions of this Section, that such Paying Agent will (i) comply with the
provisions of the Trust Indenture Act applicable to it as a Paying Agent, (ii)
during the continuance of any default by the Company (or any other obligor upon
the Securities of that series) in the making of any payment in respect of the
Securities of that series, and upon the written request of the Trustee,
forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums held in trust by such Paying Agent for
payment in respect of the Securities of that series, and (iii) hold all sums
held by it for the payment of the principal of, any premium or interest on or
any Additional Amounts with respect to Securities of such series in trust for
the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to
such Persons or otherwise disposed of as provided in or pursuant to this
Indenture.
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
by Company Order 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 trusts 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.
Any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then held
by the Company, in trust for the payment of the principal of or any premium or
interest on or any Additional Amounts with respect to any Security of any series
or any Coupon
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appertaining thereto and remaining unclaimed for two years after such principal,
premium or interest or Additional Amount has become due and payable shall be
paid to the Company upon Company Request, or (if then held by the Company) shall
be discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Security shall thereafter,
as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Company for payment thereof,
and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust
money, and all liability of the Company as trustee thereof, shall thereupon
cease; provided, however, that the Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being
required to make any such repayment, may at the expense of the Company cause to
be published once in an Authorized Newspaper in each Place of Payment for such
series or mailed to Holders of Registered Securities entitled to such money
notice that such money remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified
therein, which shall not be less than 30 days from the date of such publication
or mailing, any unclaimed balance of such money then remaining will be repaid to
the Company.
Section 1004. Corporate Existence.
Subject to Article Eight, the Company shall do or cause to be done all
things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate
existence and related rights and franchises (charter and statutory); provided,
however, that the Company shall not be required to preserve any such right or
franchise if the Board of Directors of the Company shall determine that the
preservation thereof is no longer necessary or desirable in the conduct of the
business of the Company; and provided, further, however, that the foregoing
shall not prohibit a sale, transfer or conveyance of a Subsidiary or any of its
assets in compliance with the terms of the Indenture.
Section 1005. Statement as to Compliance.
The Company will deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after the end
of each fiscal year of the Company ending after the date hereof, a written
statement (which need not be contained in or accompanied by an Officer's
Certificate) signed by the principal executive officer, the principal financial
officer or the principal accounting officer of the Company, stating whether or
not, to the best of his or her knowledge, the Company is in default in the
performance or observance of any of the terms, provisions and conditions of this
Indenture and if the Company shall be in default, specifying all such defaults
and the nature and status thereof of which he or she may have knowledge.
Section 1006. Waiver of Certain Covenants.
The Company may omit in any particular instance to comply with any
term, provision or condition set forth in Sections 1004 and 1005 with respect to
the Securities of any series or with the covenants established as contemplated
by Section 301 with respect to the Securities of any series, except to the
extent the terms of such Securities
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established as contemplated by Section 301 make this Section 1006 inapplicable
to any such term, provision or condition of any such covenant, if before or
after the time for such compliance the Holders of at least a majority in
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series shall, by Act of
such Holders, either waive such compliance in such instance or generally waive
compliance with such term, provision or condition, but no such waiver shall
extend to or affect such term, provision or condition except to the extent so
expressly waived, and, until such waiver shall become effective, the obligations
of the Company and the duties of the Trustee in respect of any such term,
provision or condition shall remain in full force and effect.
Section 1007. Additional Amounts.
If any Securities of a series provide for the payment of Additional
Amounts, the Company agrees to pay to the Holder of any such Security or any
Coupon appertaining thereto Additional Amounts as provided in or pursuant to
this Indenture or such Securities. Whenever in this Indenture there is
mentioned, in any context, the payment of the principal of or any premium or
interest on, or in respect of, any Security of any series or any Coupon or the
net proceeds received on the sale or exchange of any Security of any series,
such mention shall be deemed to include mention of the payment of Additional
Amounts provided by the terms of such series established hereby or pursuant
hereto to the extent that, in such context, Additional Amounts are, were or
would be payable in respect thereof pursuant to such terms, and express mention
of the payment of Additional Amounts (if applicable) in any provision hereof
shall not be construed as excluding Additional Amounts in those provisions
hereof where such express mention is not made.
Except as otherwise provided in or pursuant to this Indenture or the
Securities of any series, if the Securities of a series provide for the payment
of Additional Amounts, at least 10 days prior to the first Interest Payment Date
with respect to such series of Securities (or if the Securities of such series
shall not bear interest prior to Maturity, the first day on which a payment of
principal or premium is made), and at least 10 days prior to each date of
payment of principal or premium or interest if there has been any change with
respect to the matters set forth in the below-mentioned Officers' Certificate,
the Company shall furnish to the Trustee and the principal Paying Agent or
Paying Agents, if other than the Trustee, an Officers' Certificate instructing
the Trustee and such Paying Agent or Paying agents whether such payment of
principal of and premium, if any, or interest, if any, on the Securities of such
series shall be made to Holders of Securities of such series or the Coupons
appertaining thereto who are not United States persons without withholding for
or on account of any tax, assessment or other governmental charge described in
the Securities of such series. If any such withholding shall be required, then
such Officers' Certificate shall specify by country the amount, if any, required
to be withheld on such payments to such Holders of Securities or Coupons, and
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the Company agrees to pay to the Trustee or such Paying Agent the Additional
Amounts required by the terms of such Securities. The Company covenants to
indemnify the Trustee and any Paying Agent for, and to hold them harmless
against, any loss, liability or expense reasonably incurred without negligence
or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or
omitted by any of them in reliance on any Officers' Certificate furnished
pursuant to this Section.
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ARTICLE ELEVEN
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
Section 1101. Applicability of Article.
Securities of any series which are redeemable before their Stated
Maturity shall be redeemable in accordance with their terms established as
contemplated by Section 301 and (except as otherwise expressly established as
contemplated by Section 301 in respect of Securities of such series) in
accordance with this Article.
Section 1102. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee.
The election of the Company to redeem any Securities shall be evidenced
by a Board Resolution or by action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution. In case
of any redemption at the election of the Company of less than all the Securities
of any series, the Company shall, at least 45 days prior to the Redemption Date
fixed by the Company (unless a shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the
Trustee), notify the Trustee of such Redemption Date, of the principal amount of
Securities of such series to be redeemed and, if applicable, of the tenor of the
Securities to be redeemed. 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 such
restriction.
Section 1103. Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed.
If less than all the Securities of any series are to be redeemed
(unless all of the Securities of such series of a specified tenor and with
identical terms are to be redeemed), the particular Securities to be redeemed
shall be selected not more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date by the
Trustee, from the Outstanding Securities of such series not previously called
for redemption, pro rata among Securities of such series with the same Stated
Maturity and within a Stated Maturity by lot or by such method as the Trustee
shall deem fair and appropriate and which may provide for the selection for
redemption of portions (equal to the minimum authorized denomination for
Securities of that series or any integral multiple thereof) of the principal
amount of Securities of such series of a denomination larger than the minimum
authorized denomination for Securities of that series.
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The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the
Securities selected for redemption and, in the case of any Securities selected
for partial redemption, the principal amount thereof to be redeemed.
For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise
requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of Securities shall relate,
in the case of any Securities redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the
portion of the principal amount of such Securities which has been or is to be
redeemed.
Unless otherwise specified in or pursuant to this Indenture or the
Securities of any series, if any Security selected for partial redemption is
converted or exchanged for Common Stock or other securities in part before
termination of the conversion or exchange right with respect to the portion of
the Security so selected, the converted or exchanged portion of such Security
shall be deemed (so far as may be) to be the portion selected for redemption.
Securities which have been converted or exchanged during a selection of
Securities to be redeemed shall be treated by the Trustee as Outstanding for the
purpose of such selection.
Section 1104. Notice of Redemption.
Notice of redemption shall be given by first-class mail, postage
prepaid, mailed not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the Redemption
Date, unless a shorter period is specified in the Securities to be redeemed, to
each Holder of Securities to be redeemed, at his address appearing in the
Security Register. Failure to give notice by mailing in the manner herein
provided to the Holder of any Registered Securities designated for redemption as
a whole or in part, or any defect in the notice to any such Holder, shall not
affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption of any other
Securities or portion thereof.
Any notice that is mailed to the Holder of any Registered Securities in the
manner herein provided shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given,
whether or not such Holder receives the notice
All notices of redemption shall state:
(1) the Redemption Date,
(2) the Redemption Price,
(3) if less than all the Outstanding Securities of any series
are to be redeemed, the identification (and, in the case of partial
redemption of any Securities, the principal amounts) of the particular
Securities to be redeemed,
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(4) in the case of a Security to be redeemed in part, the
principal amount of such Security to be redeemed and that after the
Redemption Date upon surrender of such Security, the holder will
receive, without a charge, a new Security or Securities in the
aggregate principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion thereof.
(5) that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price will
become due and payable upon each such Security to be redeemed and, if
applicable, that interest thereon will cease to accrue on and after
said date,
(6) the place or places where such Securities, together (in
the case of Bearer Securities) with all Coupons appertaining thereto,
if any, maturing after the Redemption Date, are to be surrendered for
payment of the Redemption Price and, if applicable, any accrued
interest and Additional Amounts pertaining thereto,
(7) that the redemption is for a sinking fund, if such is the
case,
(8) that, unless otherwise specified in such notice, Bearer
Securities of any series, if any, surrendered for redemption must be
accompanied by all Coupons maturing subsequent to the date fixed for
redemption or the amount of any such missing Coupon or Coupons will be
deducted from the Redemption Price, unless security or indemnity
satisfactory to the Company, the Trustee and any Paying Agent is
furnished,
(9) if Bearer Securities of any series are to be redeemed and
any Registered Securities of such series are not to be redeemed, and if
such Bearer Securities may be exchanged for Registered Securities not
subject to redemption on the Redemption Date pursuant to Section 305 or
otherwise, the last date, as determined by the Company, on which such
exchanges may be made,
(10) in the case of Securities of any series that are
convertible or exchangeable into Common Stock or other securities, the
conversion or exchange price or rate, the date or dates on which the
right to convert or exchange the principal of the Securities of such
series to be redeemed will commence or terminate, as applicable, and
the place or places where such Securities may be surrendered for
conversion or exchange, and
(11) the CUSIP number of such Securities, if any (or any other
numbers used by a Depository to identify such Securities.
A notice of redemption published as contemplated by Section 106 need
not identify particular Registered Securities to be redeemed.
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Notice of redemption of Securities to be redeemed at the election of
the Company shall be given by the Company or, at the Company's request, by the
Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company.
Section 1105. Deposit of Redemption Price.
On or prior to any Redemption Date, the Company shall deposit with the
Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if the Company is acting as its own Paying
Agent, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 1003) an amount of
money, in the Currency or Currencies in which the Securities of such series are
payable, sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of, and (except if the
Redemption Date shall be an Interest Payment Date) accrued interest on all the
Securities which are to be redeemed on that date.
Section 1106. Securities Payable on Redemption Date.
Notice of redemption having been given as aforesaid, the Securities so
to be redeemed shall, on the Redemption Date, become due and payable at the
Redemption Price therein specified, and from and after such date (unless the
Company shall default in the payment of the Redemption Price and accrued
interest, if any) such Securities shall, if the same were interest-bearing,
cease to bear interest and the Coupons for such interest appertaining to any
Bearer Securities so to be redeemed, except to the extent provided below, shall
be void. Upon surrender of any such Security and any Coupons appertaining
thereto for redemption in accordance with said notice, such Security shall be
paid by the Company at the Redemption Price, together with, unless otherwise
provided in or pursuant to the Indenture, any accrued and unpaid interest to the
Redemption Date; provided, however, that, except as otherwise provided in or
pursuant to this Indenture or the Bearer Securities of such series, installments
of interest on Bearer Securities whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the
Redemption Date shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of Coupons
for such interest (at an Office or Agency located outside the United States
except as provided in Section 1002), and provided, further, that, except as
otherwise provided in or pursuant to this Indenture or the Registered Securities
of any series, installments of interest whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to
the Redemption Date shall be payable to the Holders of such Registered
Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities, registered as such at the
close of business on the relevant Regular Record Dates according to their terms
and the provisions of Section 307.
If any Bearer Security surrendered for redemption shall not be
accompanied by all appurtenant Coupons maturing after the Redemption Date, such
Security may be paid after deducting from the Redemption Price, or, at the
option of the Company, after payment to the Trustee for the benefit of the
Company of, an amount equal to the face amount of all such missing Coupons, or
the surrender of such missing Coupon or Coupons may be waived by the Company and
the Trustee if there be furnished to them
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such security or indemnity as they may require to save each of them and any
Paying Agent harmless. If thereafter the Holder of such Security shall surrender
to the Trustee or any Paying Agent any such missing Coupon in respect of which a
deduction shall have been made from the Redemption Price, such Holder shall be
entitled to receive the amount so deducted; provided, however, that any interest
or Additional Amounts represented by Coupons shall be payable only upon
presentation and surrender of those Coupons at an Office or Agency for such
Security located outside of the United States except as otherwise provide in
Section 1002.
If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon
surrender thereof for redemption, the principal and any premium shall, until
paid, bear interest from the Redemption Date at the rate prescribed therefor in
the Security or, if no rate of interest on overdue amounts is prescribed in such
Security, at the rate of interest borne by such Security.
Section 1107. Securities Redeemed in Part.
Any Registered Security which is to be redeemed only in part shall be
surrendered at any Office or Agency for such Security (with, if the Company or
the Trustee so requires, due endorsement by, or a written instrument of transfer
in form satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder
thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing), and the Company shall
execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such
Security without service charge, a new Registered Security or Registered
Securities of the same series and of like tenor, of any authorized denomination
as requested by such Holder, in aggregate principal amount equal to and in
exchange for the unredeemed portion of the principal of the Security so
surrendered.
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ARTICLE TWELVE
SINKING FUNDS
Section 1201. Applicability of Article.
The provisions of this Article shall be applicable to any sinking fund
for the retirement of Securities of a series except as otherwise specified as
contemplated by Section 301 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 1202. 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 and this Indenture.
Section 1202. Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities.
The Company may, in satisfaction of all or any part of any mandatory
sinking fund payment with respect to the Securities of a series (1) deliver
Outstanding Securities of a series (other than any previously called for
redemption or which have been surrendered for repayment at the option of the
Holders), together in the case of any Bearer Securities of such series with all
unmatured Coupons appertaining thereto and (2) apply as a credit Securities of
such 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, as
provided for by the terms of such series; provided that such Securities so
delivered or applied as a credit 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 so delivered or applied as a
credit for redemption through operation of the sinking fund and the amount of
such sinking fund payment shall be reduced accordingly.
Section 1203. Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund.
Not less than 60 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 payment of cash in the
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Currency or Currencies in which the Securities of such series are payable
(except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301 for the Securities of
such series) and the portion thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by
delivering and crediting Securities of that series pursuant to Section 1202 ,
and the optional amount, if any, to be added in cash to the next ensuing
mandatory sinking fund payment, and will also deliver to the Trustee any
Securities to be so delivered and credited. If such Officers' Certificate shall
specify an optional amount to be added in cash to the next ensuing mandatory
sinking fund payment, the Company shall thereupon be obligated to pay the amount
therein specified. Not less than 30 and not more than 60 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 1103 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 1104. Such notice
having been duly given, the redemption of such Securities shall be made upon the
terms and in the manner stated in Sections 1105, 1106 and 1107.
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ARTICLE THIRTEEN
REPAYMENT AT THE OPTION OF HOLDERS
Section 1301. Applicability of Article.
Securities of any series which are repayable at the option of
the Holders thereof before their Stated Maturity shall be repaid in accordance
with the terms of the Securities of such series. The repayment of any principal
amount of Securities pursuant to such option of the Holder, to require repayment
of Securities before their Stated Maturity, for purposes of Section 309, shall
not operate as a payment, redemption or satisfaction of the indebtedness
represented by such Securities unless and until the Company, at its option,
shall deliver or surrender the same to the Trustee with a directive that such
Securities be canceled. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in
this Section 1301, in connection with any repayment of Securities, the Company
may arrange for the purchase of any Securities by an agreement with one or more
investment bankers or other purchasers to purchase such Securities by paying to
the Holders of such Securities on or before the close of business on the
Repayment Date an amount not less than the Repayment Price payable by the
Company on repayment of such Securities, together with, if applicable, accrued
interest thereon, and the obligation of the Company to pay the Repayment Price
of such Securities shall be satisfied and discharged to the extent such payment
is so paid by such purchasers.
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ARTICLE FOURTEEN
DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE
Section 1401. Applicability of the Article; Company's Obligation to Effect
Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.
If pursuant to Section 301 provision is made for either or both of (a)
defeasance of the Securities of or within a series under Section 1402 or (ii)
covenant defeasance of the Securities of or within a series under Section 1403,
then the provision of the Section or Sections, as the case may be, together with
other provisions of this Article (with such modifications thereto as may be
specified pursuant to Section 301 with respect to any Securities), shall be
applicable to such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto, and the
Company may at its option by Board Resolution, at any time, with respect to such
Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto, elect to have Section 1402 (if
applicable) or Section 1403 (if applicable) be applied to such Outstanding
Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto upon compliance with the
conditions set forth below in this Article.
Section 1402. Defeasance and Discharge.
Upon the Company's exercise of the above option applicable to this
Section with respect to any Securities of or within a series, the Company shall
be deemed to have been discharged from its obligations with respect to such
Outstanding Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto on the date the
conditions set forth Section 1404 are satisfied (hereinafter, "defeasance"). For
this purpose, such defeasance means that the Company shall be deemed to have
paid and discharged the entire indebtedness represented by such Outstanding
Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto, which shall thereafter be
deemed to be "Outstanding" only for the purpose of Section 1405 and other
Sections of this Indenture referred to in clauses (A) through (D), inclusive, of
this Section, and to have satisfied all its other obligations under such
Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto and this Indenture insofar as
such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto are concerned (and the
Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments
acknowledging the same), except for the following which shall survive until
otherwise terminated or discharged herein: (A) the rights of Holders of such
Outstanding Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto to receive, solely
from the trust funds described in Section 1404 and as more fully set forth in
such Section, payments in respect of the principal of (and premium, if any) and
interest, if any, on and Additional Amounts, if any, with respect to such
Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto when such payments are due, (B)
the Company's and the Trustee's obligations with respect to such Securities
under Sections 305, 306, 1002 and 1003, with respect to payments of Additional
Amounts, if any, on such Securities as
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contemplated by Section 1007, with respect to the rights, if any, of the holders
of such Securities to require the Company to repay such Securities as
contemplated by Section 1301 and with respect to the rights, if any, of Holders
to convert or exchange such Securities into Common Stock or other securities,
(C) the rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the Trustee hereunder
and (D) this Article. Subject to compliance with this Article Fourteen, the
Company may exercise its option under this Section notwithstanding the prior
exercise of its option under Section 1403 with respect to such Securities and
any Coupons appertaining thereto.
Section 1403. Covenant Defeasance.
Upon the Company's exercise of the option applicable to this Section
with respect to any Securities of or within a series, the Company shall be
released from its obligations under Section 1004 (other than the Company's
obligation under Section 1004 to preserve and keep in full force and effect its
corporate existence, subject to Article Eight) and 1005, and, if specified
pursuant to Section 301, its obligations under any other covenant, with respect
to such Outstanding Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto on and after
the date the conditions set forth in Section 1404 are satisfied (hereinafter
"covenant defeasance"), and such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto
shall thereafter be deemed to be not "Outstanding" for the purpose of any
direction, waiver, consent or declaration or Act of Holders (and the
consequences of any thereof) in connection with Sections 1004 (other than the
Company's obligation under Section 1004 to preserve and keep in full force and
effect its corporate existence, subject to Article Eight) and 1005, or such
other covenant, but shall continue to be deemed "Outstanding" for all other
purposes hereunder. For this purpose, such covenant defeasance means that, with
respect to such Outstanding Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto, the
Company may omit to comply with and shall have no liability in respect of any
term, condition or limitation set forth in any such Section or such other
covenant, whether directly or indirectly, by reason of any reference elsewhere
herein to any such Section (other than the Company's obligation under Section
1004 to preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence,
subject to Article Eight) or other such covenant or by reason of reference in
any such Section or such other covenant to any other provision herein or in any
other document and such omission to comply shall not constitute a Default or an
Event of Default under Section 501(4) or 501(8) or otherwise, as the case may
be, but, except as specified above, the remainder of this Indenture and such
Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto shall be unaffected thereby.
Section 1404. Applicability of the Article; Company's Obligation to Effect
Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.
The following shall be the conditions to application of Section 1402 or
1403 to any Outstanding Securities of or within a series and any Coupons
appertaining thereto:
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(a) the Company shall have deposited or caused to be
irrevocably deposited with the Trustee (or another trustee satisfying
the requirements of Section 609 who shall agree to comply with the
provisions of this Article Fourteen) as trust funds in trust for the
purpose of making the following payments, specifically pledged as
security for, and dedicated solely to, the benefit of the Holders of
such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto, (1) an amount
sufficient (in such Currency or Currencies in which such Securities and
any Coupons appertaining thereto, and installments of principal, if
any, thereof and interest, if any, thereon, are then specified as
payable at Stated Maturity), or (2) Government Obligations applicable
to such Securities and Coupons appertaining thereto (determined on the
basis of the Currency or Currencies in which such Securities and
Coupons appertaining thereto, and installments of principal, if any,
thereof and interest, if any, thereon, are then specified as payable at
Stated Maturity) which through the scheduled payment of principal and
interest in respect thereof in accordance with their terms will provide
not later than one day before the due date of any payment of principal
of (and premium, if any) and interest, if any, on, and Additional
Amounts, if any, with respect to such Securities and any Coupons
appertaining thereto, money in an amount, or (3) a combination thereof,
in each case in an amount sufficient in the opinion of a nationally
recognized firm of independent public accountants or a nationally
recognized independent investment banking firm expressed in a written
certification thereof delivered to the Trustee to pay and discharge,
and which shall be applied by the Trustee (or other qualifying trustee)
to pay and discharge (i) the principal of (and premium, if any, on),
interest, if any, on, and Additional Amounts, if any, with respect to
such Outstanding Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto on the
Stated Maturity of such principal or installment of principal or
interest and (ii) any mandatory sinking fund payments or analogous
payments applicable to such Outstanding Securities and any Coupons
appertaining thereto on the day on which such payments are due and
payable in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and of such
Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto;
(b) Such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall not result in
a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, this Indenture
or any other material agreement or instrument to which the Company is a
party or by which it is bound;
(c) No Event of Default or event which with notice or lapse of
time or both would become an Event of Default with respect to such
Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto shall have occurred and
be containing on the date of such deposit or, insofar as Section 501(6)
or (7) are concerned, at any time during the period ending on the 91st
day after the date of such deposit (it being understood that this
condition shall not be deemed satisfied until the expiration of such
period);
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(d) In the case of an election under Section 1402, the Company
shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel from
independent legal counsel of nationally recognized standing stating
that (i) the Company has received from, or there has been published by,
the Internal Revenue Service a ruling or (ii) since the date of this
Indenture, there has been a change in the applicable United States
federal income tax law or the judicial interpretation thereof by a U.S.
federal court of competent jurisdiction, in either case to the effect
that, and based thereon such opinion shall confirm that, Holders of the
Securities of that series and any Coupons appertaining thereto will not
recognize income, gain or loss for federal income tax purposes as a
result of such defeasance and will be subject to federal income tax on
the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would
have been the case if such defeasance had not occurred;
(e) In the case of an election under Section 1403, the Company
shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel from
independent legal counsel of nationally recognized standing to the
effect that Holders of such Securities and any Coupons appertaining
thereto will not recognize income, gain or loss for federal income tax
purposes as a result of such covenant defeasance and will be subject to
federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the
same times as would have been the case if such covenant defeasance had
not occurred;
(f) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an
Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all
conditions precedent to the defeasance under Section 1402 or the
covenant defeasance under Section 1403 (as the case may be) have been
complied with and an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that, as a result
of a deposit pursuant to subsection (a) above and the related exercise
of the Company's option under Section 1402 or Section 1403 (as the case
may be), registration is not required under the Investment Company Act
of 1940, as amended, by the Company, with respect to the trust funds
representing such deposit or by the Trustee for such trust funds; and
(g) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Section, such
defeasance or covenant defeasance shall be effected in compliance with
any additional or substitute terms, conditions or limitations which may
be established as contemplated by Section 301 in respect of the
Securities of that series.
Section 1405. Deposited Money and Government Obligations to Be Held in Trust;
Other Miscellaneous Provisions.
Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 1003, all
money and Government Obligations (or other property as may be provided pursuant
to Section 301) (including the proceeds thereof) deposited with the Trustee (or
other qualifying trustee, collectively for purposes of this Section 1405, the
"Trustee") pursuant to Section 1404 in
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respect of any Outstanding Securities of any series and any Coupons appertaining
thereto shall be held in trust and applied by the Trustee, in accordance with
the provisions of such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto and this
Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (other
than the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine,
to the Holders of such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto of all
sums due and to become due thereon in respect of principal (and premium, if any)
and interest and Additional Amounts, if any, but such money need not be
segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.
Unless otherwise specified in or pursuant to this Indenture or any
Securities pursuant to Section 301, if, after a deposit referred to in Section
1404(a) has been made, (a) the Holder of a Security in respect of which such
deposit was made is entitled to, and does, elect pursuant to Section 301 or the
terms of such Security to receive payment in a Currency other than that in which
the deposit pursuant to Section 1404(a) has been made in respect of such
Security, or (b) a Conversion Event occurs in respect of the Foreign Currency in
which the deposit pursuant to Section 1404(a) has been made, the indebtedness
represented by such Security and any Coupons appertaining thereto shall be
deemed to have been, and will be, fully discharged and satisfied through the
payment of the principal of (and premium, if any), and interest, if any, on ,
and Additional Amounts, if any, with respect to such Security as the same
becomes due out of the proceeds yielded by converting (from time to time as
specified below in the case of any such election ) the monies, proceeds from
Government Obligations or other property deposited in respect of such Security
into the Currency in which such Security becomes payable as a result of such
election or Conversion Event based on (x) in the case of payments made pursuant
to clause (a) above, the applicable market exchange rate for such Currency in
effect on the second Business Day prior to each payment date, or (y) with
respect to a Conversion Event, the applicable market exchange rate for such
Foreign Currency in effect (as nearly as feasible) at the time of the Conversion
Event.
The Company shall pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or
other charge, imposed on or assessed against the Government Obligations
deposited pursuant to this Section 1404 or the principal or interest received in
respect thereof other than any such tax, fee or other charge which by law is for
the account of the Holders of such Outstanding Securities and any Coupons
appertaining thereto.
Anything in this Article to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee
shall deliver or pay to the Company from time to time upon Company Request any
money or Government Obligations (or other property and any proceeds therefrom)
held by it as provided in Section 1404 which, in the opinion of a nationally
recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written
certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, are in excess of the amount
thereof which would then be required to be deposited to effect a defeasance or
covenant defeasance, as applicable, in accordance with this Article
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Section 1406. Reinstatement.
If the Trustee or any Paying Agent is unable to apply any cash or
Government Obligations deposited pursuant to Section 1404 in accordance with
this Indenture or the Securities of or within the applicable series by reason of
any legal proceedings or by reason of any order or judgment of any court or
governmental authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such
application, then the Company's obligations under this Indenture and such
Securities shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred
pursuant to Section 1404 until such time as the Trustee or Paying Agent is
permitted to apply such money in accordance with this Indenture and such
Securities; provided, however, that if the Company makes any payment of
principal of, premium, if any or interest on, any such Security following the
reinstatement of its obligations, the Company shall be subrogated to the rights
of the Holders of such Securities to receive such payment from the cash and
Government Obligations held by the Trustee or Paying Agent.
Section 1407. Effect on Subordination Provisions.
Unless otherwise expressly provided pursuant to Section 301 with
respect to any series of Subordinated Securities, the provisions for
subordination of such Subordinated Securities contemplated by Article Sixteen
hereof are hereby expressly made subject to the provisions for satisfaction and
discharge set forth in Article Four hereof and the provisions for defeasance and
covenant defeasance set forth in this Article Fourteen and, anything herein to
the contrary notwithstanding, upon the effectiveness of such satisfaction and
discharge pursuant to Article Four or any such defeasance or covenant defeasance
pursuant to this Article Fourteen with respect to any Securities, such
Securities shall thereupon cease to be so subordinated and shall no longer be
subject to the subordination provisions applicable thereto and, without
limitation to the foregoing, all monies, Government Obligations and other
securities or property deposited with the Trustee (or other qualifying trustee)
in trust in connection with such satisfaction and discharge, defeasance or
covenant defeasance, as the case may be, and all proceeds therefrom may be
applied to pay the principal of, premium, if any, and interest, if any, on, and
Additional Amounts, if any, with respect to such Securities as and when the same
shall become due and payable notwithstanding the provisions contemplated by
Article Sixteen hereof.
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ARTICLE FIFTEEN
MEETINGS OF HOLDERS OF SECURITIES
Section 1501. Purposes for Which Meetings May Be Called.
A meeting of Holders of Securities of any series may be called at any
time and from time to time pursuant to this Article to make, give or take any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act
provided by this Indenture to be made, given or taken by Holders of Securities
of such series.
Section 1502. Call, Notice and Place of Meetings.
(1) The Trustee may at any time call a meeting of Holders of Securities
of any series for any purpose specified in Section 1501, to be held at such time
and at such place in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, or, if
Securities of such series have been issued in whole or in part as Bearer
Securities, in London or in such place outside the United States as the Trustee
shall determine. Notice of every meeting of Holders of Securities of any series,
setting forth the time and the place of such meeting and in general terms the
action proposed to be taken at such meeting, shall be given, in the manner
provided in Section 106, not less than 21 nor more than 180 days prior to the
date fixed for the meeting.
(2) In case at any time the Company (by or pursuant to a Board
Resolution) or the Holders of at least 10% in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of any series shall have requested the Trustee to call a
meeting of the Holders of Securities of such series for any purpose specified in
Section 1501, by written request setting forth in reasonable detail the action
proposed to be taken at the meeting, and the Trustee shall not have mailed
notice of or made the first publication of the notice of such meeting within 21
days after receipt of such request (whichever shall be required pursuant to
Section 106) or shall not thereafter proceed to cause the meeting to be held as
provided herein, then the company or the Holders of Securities of such series in
the amount above specified, as the case may be, may determine the time and the
place in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, or, if Securities of
such series are to be issued as Bearer Securities, in London for such meeting
and may call such meeting for such purposes by giving notice thereof as provided
in clause (1) of this Section.
Section 1503. Persons Entitled to Vote at Meetings.
To be entitled to vote at any meeting of Holders of Securities of any
series, a Person shall be (1) a Holder of one or more Outstanding Securities of
such series, or (2) a
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Person appointed by an instrument in writing as proxy for a Holder or Holders of
one or more Outstanding Securities of such series by such Holder or Holders. The
only Persons who shall be entitled to be present or to speak at any meeting of
Holders of Securities of any series shall be the Persons entitled to vote at
such meeting and their counsel, any representatives of the Trustee and its
counsel and any representatives of the Company and its counsel.
Section 1504. Quorum; Action.
The Persons entitled to vote a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of a series shall constitute a quorum for a meeting of
Holders of Securities of such series; provided, however, that if any action is
to be taken at such meeting with respect to a consent or waiver which this
Indenture expressly provides may be given by the Holders of not less than a
specified percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of a
series, the Persons entitled to vote such specified percentage in principal
amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series shall constitute a quorum.
In the absence of a quorum within 30 minutes after the time appointed for any
such meeting, the meeting shall, if convened at the request of Holders of
Securities of such series, be dissolved. In any other case the meeting may be
adjourned for a period of not less than 10 days as determined by the chairman of
the meeting prior to the adjournment of such meeting. In the absence of a quorum
at any such adjourned meeting, such adjourned meeting may be further adjourned
for a period of not less than 10 days as determined by the chairman of the
meeting prior to the adjournment of such adjourned meeting. Notice of the
reconvening of any adjourned meeting shall be given as provided in Section
1502(l), except that such notice need be given only once not less than five days
prior to the date on which the meeting is scheduled to be reconvened. Notice of
the reconvening of an adjourned meeting shall state expressly the percentage, as
provided above, of the principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such
series which shall constitute a quorum.
Except as limited by the proviso to Section 902, any resolution
presented to a meeting or adjourned meeting duly reconvened at which a quorum is
present as aforesaid may be adopted only by the affirmative vote of the Holders
of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series;
provided, however, that, except as limited by the proviso to Section 902, any
resolution with respect to any consent or waiver which this Indenture expressly
provides may be given by the Holders of not less than a specified percentage,
which is less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities
of a series may be adopted at a meeting or an adjourned meeting duly convened
and at which a quorum is present as aforesaid only by the affirmative vote of
the Holders of at least such specified percentage in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of that series.
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Any resolution passed or decision taken at any meeting of Holders of
Securities of any series duly held in accordance with this Section shall be
binding on all the Holders of Securities of such series and the Coupons
appertaining thereto, whether or not such Holders were present or represented at
the meeting.
Section 1505. Determination of Voting Rights; Conduct and Adjournment of
Meetings.
(1) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture, the Trustee
may make such reasonable regulations as it may deem advisable for any meeting of
Holders of Securities of such series in regard to proof of the holding of
Securities of such series and of the appointment of proxies and in regard to the
appointment and duties of inspectors of votes, the submission and examination of
proxies, certificates and other evidence of the right to vote, and such other
matters concerning the conduct of the meeting as it shall deem appropriate.
Except as otherwise permitted or required by any such regulations, the holding
of Securities shall be proved in the manner specified in Section 104 and the
appointment of any proxy shall be proved in the manner specified in Section 104
or by having the signature of the person executing the proxy witnessed or
guaranteed by any trust company, bank or banker authorized by Section 104 to
certify to the holding of Bearer Securities. Such regulations may provide that
written instruments appointing proxies, regular on their face, may be presumed
valid and genuine without the proof specified in Section 104 or other proof.
(2) The Trustee shall, by an instrument in writing, appoint a temporary
chairman of the meeting, unless the meeting shall have been called by the
Company or by Holders of Securities as provided in Section 1502(2), in which
case the Company or the Holders of Securities of the series calling the meeting,
as the case may be, shall in like manner appoint a temporary chairman. A
permanent chairman and a permanent secretary of the meeting shall be elected by
vote of the Persons entitled to vote a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of such series represented at the meeting.
(3) At any meeting, each Holder of a Security of such series or proxy
shall be entitled to one vote for each $1,000 principal amount of Securities of
such series held or represented by him; provided, however, that no vote shall be
cast or counted at any meeting in respect of any Security challenged as not
Outstanding and ruled by the chairman of the meeting to be not Outstanding. If
the Securities of such series are issuable in minimum denominations of less than
$1,000, then a Holder of such a Security in a principal amount of less than
$1,000 shall be entitled to a fraction of one vote which is equal to the
fraction that the principal amount of such Security bears to $1,000. The
chairman of the meeting shall have no right to vote, except as a Holder of a
Security of such series or proxy.
(4) Any meeting of Holders of Securities of any series duly called
pursuant to Section 1502 at which a quorum is present may be adjourned from time
to time by
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Persons entitled to vote a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of such series represented at the meeting; and the meeting may be
held as so adjourned without further notice.
Section 1506. Counting Votes and Recording Action of Meetings.
The vote upon any resolution submitted to any meeting of Holders of
Securities of any series shall be by written ballots on which shall be
subscribed the signatures of the Holders of Securities of such series or of
their representatives by proxy and the principal amounts and serial numbers of
the Outstanding Securities of such series held or represented by them. The
permanent chairman of the meeting shall appoint two inspectors of votes who
shall count all votes cast at the meeting for or against any resolution and who
shall make and file with the secretary of the meeting their verified written
reports in triplicate of all votes cast at the meeting. A record, at least in
triplicate, of the proceedings of each meeting of Holders of Securities of any
series shall be prepared by the secretary of the meeting and there shall be
attached to said record the original reports of the inspectors of votes on any
vote by ballot taken thereat and affidavits by one or more persons having
knowledge of the facts setting forth a copy of the notice of the meeting and
showing that said notice was given as provided in Section 1502 and, if
applicable, Section 1504. Each copy shall be signed and verified by the
affidavits of the permanent chairman and secretary of the meeting and one such
copy shall be delivered to the Company, and another to the Trustee to be
preserved by the Trustee, the latter to have attached thereto the ballots voted
at the meeting. Any record so signed and verified shall be conclusive evidence
of the matters therein stated.
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ARTICLE SIXTEEN
SUBORDINATION OF SECURITIES
Section 1601. Securities Subordinate to Senior Indebtedness.
The Company covenants and agrees, and each Holder of a Security of any
series, by his acceptance thereof, likewise covenants and agrees, that solely to
the extent and in the manner set forth in an indenture supplemental hereto
pursuant to Section 301(21) hereof, the indebtedness represented by the
Securities of such series and the payment of principal of (and premium, if any)
and interest on each or all of the Securities of such series will be expressly
made subordinate and subject in right of payment to the prior payment in full of
all Senior Indebtedness.
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ARTICLE SEVENTEEN
SECURITIES IN FOREIGN CURRENCIES
Section 1701. Applicability of Article.
Whenever this Indenture provides for any distribution to
Holders of Securities of any series in which not all of such Securities are
denominated in the same Currency, in the absence of any provision to the
contrary in or pursuant to this Indenture or the Securities of such series, any
amount in respect of any Security denominated in a Currency other than Dollars
shall be treated for any such distribution as that amount of Dollars that could
be obtained for such amount on such reasonable basis of exchange and as of the
record date with respect to Registered Securities of such series (if any) for
such distribution (or, if there shall be no applicable record date, such other
date reasonably proximate to the date of such distribution) as the Company may
specify in a written notice to the Trustee or, in the absence of such written
notice, as the Trustee may determine.
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This instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of
which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts
shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be
duly executed, as of the day and year first above written.
SOLA INTERNATIONAL INC.
By: /s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxx
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Xxxxxx X. Xxxx
Executive Vice President, Chief
Financial Officer, Treasurer
and Secretary
[CORPORATE SEAL]
Attest:
By: /s/ Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx
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Vice President
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST
COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA, N.A., Trustee
By: /s/ Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx
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Authorized Signatory
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