GENERAL DISTRIBUTOR'S AGREEMENT
BETWEEN
XXXXXXXXXXX RISING DIVIDENDS FUND, INC.
AND
OPPENHEIMERFUNDS DISTRIBUTOR, INC.
Date: August 1, 2007
OPPENHEIMERFUNDS DISTRIBUTOR, INC.
Two World Financial Center
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000
Dear Sirs:
Xxxxxxxxxxx Rising Dividends Fund, Inc., a Maryland corporation (the "Fund"), is registered as an
investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the "1940 Act"), and an indefinite number of one or
more classes of its shares of beneficial interest ("Shares") have been registered under the Securities Act of
1933 (the "1933 Act") to be offered for sale to the public in a continuous public offering in accordance with the
terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus and Statement of Additional Information ("SAI") included in the
Fund's Registration Statement as it may be amended from time to time (the "current Prospectus and/or SAI").
In this connection, the Fund desires that your firm (the "General Distributor") act in a principal
capacity as General Distributor for the sale and distribution of Shares which have been registered as described
above and of any additional Shares which may become registered during the term of this Agreement. You have
advised the Fund that you are willing to act as such General Distributor, and it is accordingly agreed by and
between us as follows:
1. Appointment of the Distributor. The Fund hereby appoints you as the sole General Distributor,
pursuant to the aforesaid continuous public offering of its Shares, and the Fund further agrees from and after
the date of this Agreement, that it will not, without your consent, sell or agree to sell any Shares otherwise
than through you, except (a) the Fund may itself sell shares without sales charge as an investment to the
officers, trustees or directors and bona fide present and former full-time employees of the Fund, the Fund's
Investment Adviser and affiliates thereof, and to other investors who are identified in the current Prospectus
and/or SAI as having the privilege to buy Shares at net asset value; (b) the Fund may issue shares in connection
with a merger, consolidation or acquisition of assets on such basis as may be authorized or permitted under the
1940 Act; (c) the Fund may issue shares for the reinvestment of dividends and other distributions of the Fund or
of any other Fund if permitted by the current Prospectus and/or SAI; and (d) the Fund may issue shares as
underlying securities of a unit investment trust if such unit investment trust has elected to use Shares as an
underlying investment; provided that in no event as to any of the foregoing exceptions shall Shares be issued and
sold at less than the then-existing net asset value.
2. Sale of Shares. You hereby accept such appointment and agree to use your best efforts to sell
Shares, provided, however, that when requested by the Fund at any time because of market or other economic
considerations or abnormal circumstances of any kind, or when agreed to by mutual consent of the Fund and the
General Distributor, you will suspend such efforts. The Fund may also withdraw the offering of Shares at any
time when required by the provisions of any statute, order, rule or regulation of any governmental body having
jurisdiction. It is understood that you do not undertake to sell all or any specific number of Shares.
3. Sales Charge. Shares shall be sold by you at net asset value plus a front-end sales charge not
in excess of 8.5% of the offering price, but which front-end sales charge shall be proportionately reduced or
eliminated for larger sales and under other circumstances, in each case on the basis set forth in the Fund's
current Prospectus and/or SAI. The redemption proceeds of shares offered and sold at net asset value with or
without a front-end sales charge may be subject to a contingent deferred sales charge ("CDSC") under the
circumstances described in the current Prospectus and/or SAI. You may reallow such portion of the front-end
sales charge to dealers or cause payment (which may exceed the front-end sales charge, if any) of commissions to
brokers through which sales are made, as you may determine, and you may pay such amounts to dealers and brokers
on sales of shares from your own resources (such dealers and brokers shall collectively include all domestic or
foreign institutions eligible to offer and sell the Shares), and in the event the Fund has more than one class of
Shares outstanding, then you may impose a front-end sales charge and/or a CDSC on Shares of one class that is
different from the charges imposed on Shares of the Fund's other class(es), in each case as set forth in the
current Prospectus and/or SAI, provided the front-end sales charge and CDSC to the ultimate purchaser do not
exceed the respective levels set forth for such category of purchaser in the Fund's current Prospectus and/or SAI.
4. Purchase of Shares.
(a) As General Distributor, you shall have the right to accept or reject orders for the
purchase of Shares at your discretion. Any consideration which you may receive in
connection with a rejected purchase order will be returned promptly.
(b) You agree promptly to issue or to cause the duly appointed transfer or shareholder
servicing agent of the Fund to issue as your agent confirmations of all accepted
purchase orders and to transmit a copy of such confirmations to the Fund. The net
asset value of all Shares which are the subject of such confirmations, computed in
accordance with the applicable rules under the 1940 Act, shall be a liability of the
General Distributor to the Fund to be paid promptly after receipt of payment from the
originating dealer or broker (or investor, in the case of direct purchases) and not
later than eleven business days after such confirmation even if you have not actually
received payment from the originating dealer or broker or investor. In no event shall
the General Distributor make payment to the Fund later than permitted by applicable
rules of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.
(c) If the originating dealer or broker shall fail to make timely settlement of its
purchase order in accordance with applicable rules of the National Association of
Securities Dealers, Inc., or if a direct purchaser shall fail to make good payment for
shares in a timely manner, you shall have the right to cancel such purchase order and,
at your account and risk, to hold responsible the originating dealer or broker, or
investor. You agree promptly to reimburse the Fund for losses suffered by it that are
attributable to any such cancellation, or to errors on your part in relation to the
effective date of accepted purchase orders, limited to the amount that such losses
exceed contemporaneous gains realized by the Fund for either of such reasons with
respect to other purchase orders.
(d) In the case of a canceled purchase for the account of a directly purchasing
shareholder, the Fund agrees that if such investor fails to make you whole for any
loss you pay to the Fund on such canceled purchase order, the Fund will reimburse you
for such loss to the extent of the aggregate redemption proceeds of any other shares
of the Fund owned by such investor, on your demand that the Fund exercise its right to
claim such redemption proceeds. The Fund shall register or cause to be registered all
Shares sold to you pursuant to the provisions hereof in such names and amounts as you
may request from time to time and the Fund shall issue or cause to be issued
certificates evidencing such Shares for delivery to you or pursuant to your direction
if and to the extent that the shareholder account in question contemplates the
issuance of such certificates. All Shares when so issued and paid for, shall be fully
paid and non-assessable by the Fund (which shall not prevent the imposition of any
CDSC that may apply) to the extent set forth in the current Prospectus and/or SAI.
5. Repurchase of Shares.
(a) In connection with the repurchase of Shares, you are appointed and shall act as Agent
of the Fund. You are authorized, for so long as you act as General Distributor of the
Fund, to repurchase, from authorized dealers, certificated or uncertificated shares of
the Fund ("Shares") on the basis of orders received from each dealer ("authorized
dealer") with which you have a dealer agreement for the sale of Shares and permitting
resales of Shares to you, provided that such authorized dealer, at the time of placing
such resale order, shall represent (i) if such Shares are represented by
certificate(s), that certificate(s) for the Shares to be repurchased have been
delivered to it by the registered owner with a request for the redemption of such
Shares executed in the manner and with the signature guarantee required by the
then-currently effective prospectus of the Fund, or (ii) if such Shares are
uncertificated, that the registered owner(s) has delivered to the dealer a request for
the redemption of such Shares executed in the manner and with the signature guarantee
required by the then-currently effective prospectus of the Fund.
(b) You shall (a) have the right in your discretion to accept or reject orders for the
repurchase of Shares; (b) promptly transmit confirmations of all accepted repurchase
orders; and (c) transmit a copy of such confirmation to the Fund, or, if so directed,
to any duly appointed transfer or shareholder servicing agent of the Fund. In your
discretion, you may accept repurchase requests made by a financially responsible
dealer which provides you with indemnification in form satisfactory to you in
consideration of your acceptance of such dealer's request in lieu of the written
redemption request of the owner of the account; you agree that the Fund shall be a
third party beneficiary of such indemnification.
(c) Upon receipt by the Fund or its duly appointed transfer or shareholder servicing agent
of any certificate(s) (if any has been issued) for repurchased Shares and a written
redemption request of the registered owner(s) of such Shares executed in the manner
and bearing the signature guarantee required by the then-currently effective
Prospectus or SAI of the Fund, the Fund will pay or cause its duly appointed transfer
or shareholder servicing agent promptly to pay to the originating authorized dealer
the redemption price of the repurchased Shares (other than repurchased Shares subject
to the provisions of part (d) of Section 5 of this Agreement) next determined after
your receipt of the dealer's repurchase order.
(d) Notwithstanding the provisions of part (c) of Section 5 of this Agreement, repurchase
orders received from an authorized dealer after the determination of the Fund's
redemption price on a regular business day will receive that day's redemption price if
the request to the dealer by its customer to arrange such repurchase prior to the
determination of the Fund's redemption price that day complies with the requirements
governing such requests as stated in the current Prospectus and/or SAI.
(e) You will make every reasonable effort and take all reasonably available measures to
assure the accurate performance of all services to be performed by you hereunder
within the requirements of any statute, rule or regulation pertaining to the
redemption of shares of a regulated investment company and any requirements set forth
in the then-current Prospectus and/or SAI of the Fund. You shall correct any error or
omission made by you in the performance of your duties hereunder of which you shall
have received notice in writing and any necessary substantiating data; and you shall
hold the Fund harmless from the effect of any errors or omissions which might cause an
over- or under-redemption of the Fund's Shares and/or an excess or non-payment of
dividends, capital gains distributions, or other distributions.
(f) In the event an authorized dealer initiating a repurchase order shall fail to make
delivery or otherwise settle such order in accordance with the rules of the National
Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., you shall have the right to cancel such
repurchase order and, at your account and risk, to hold responsible the originating
dealer. In the event that any cancellation of a Share repurchase order or any error
in the timing of the acceptance of a Share repurchase order shall result in a gain or
loss to the Fund, you agree promptly to reimburse the Fund for any amount by which any
loss shall exceed then-existing gains so arising.
6. 1933 Act Registration. The Fund has delivered to you a copy of its current Prospectus and
SAI. The Fund agrees that it will use its best efforts to continue the effectiveness of the Registration
Statement under the 1933 Act. The Fund further agrees to prepare and file any amendments to its Registration
Statement as may be necessary and any supplemental data in order to comply with the 1933 Act. The Fund will
furnish you at your expense with a reasonable number of copies of the Prospectus and SAI and any amendments
thereto for use in connection with the sale of Shares.
7. 1940 Act Registration. The Fund has already registered under the 1940 Act as an investment
company, and it will use its best efforts to maintain such registration and to comply with the requirements of
the 1940 Act.
8. State Blue Sky Qualification. At your request, the Fund will take such steps as may be
necessary and feasible to qualify Shares for sale in states, territories or dependencies of the United States,
the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and in foreign countries, in accordance with the laws
thereof, and to renew or extend any such qualification; provided, however, that the Fund shall not be required to
qualify shares or to maintain the qualification of shares in any jurisdiction where it shall deem such
qualification disadvantageous to the Fund.
9. Duties of Distributor. You agree that:
(a) Neither you nor any of your officers will take any long or short position in the
Shares, but this provision shall not prevent you or your officers from acquiring
Shares for investment purposes only; and
(b) You shall furnish to the Fund any pertinent information required to be inserted with
respect to you as General Distributor within the purview of the Securities Act of 1933
in any reports or registration required to be filed with any governmental authority;
and
(c) You will not make any representations inconsistent with the information contained in
the current Prospectus and/or SAI; and
(d) You shall maintain such records as may be reasonably required for the Fund or its
transfer or shareholder servicing agent to respond to shareholder requests or
complaints, and to permit the Fund to maintain proper accounting records, and you
shall make such records available to the Fund and its transfer agent or shareholder
servicing agent upon request; and
(e) In performing under this Agreement, you shall comply with all requirements of the
Fund's current Prospectus and/or SAI and all applicable laws, rules and regulations
with respect to the purchase, sale and distribution of Shares.
10. Allocation of Costs. The Fund shall pay the cost of composition and printing of sufficient
copies of its Prospectus and SAI as shall be required for periodic distribution to its shareholders and the
expense of registering Shares for sale under federal securities laws. You shall pay the expenses normally
attributable to the sale of Shares, other than as paid under the Fund's Distribution Plan under Rule 12b-1 of the
1940 Act, including the cost of printing and mailing of the Prospectus (other than those furnished to existing
shareholders) and any sales literature used by you in the public sale of the Shares and for registering such
shares under state blue sky laws pursuant to paragraph 8.
11. Duration. This Agreement shall take effect on the date first written above, and shall
supersede any and all prior General Distributor's Agreements by and among the Fund and you. Unless earlier
terminated pursuant to paragraph 12 hereof, this Agreement shall remain in effect until two years from the date
of execution hereof, and hereinafter will continue in effect from year to year thereafter, provided that such
continuance shall be specifically approved at least annually: (a) by the Fund's Board of Trustees or by vote of a
majority of the voting securities of the Fund; and (b) by the vote of a majority of the Trustees, who are not
parties to this Agreement or "interested persons" (as defined the 0000 Xxx) of any such person, cast in person at
a meeting called for the purpose of voting on such approval.
12. Termination. This Agreement may be terminated (a) by the General Distributor at any time
without penalty by giving sixty days' written notice (which notice may be waived by the Fund); (b) by the Fund at
any time without penalty upon sixty days' written notice to the General Distributor (which notice may be waived
by the General Distributor); or (c) by mutual consent of the Fund and the General Distributor, provided that such
termination by the Fund shall be directed or approved by the Board of Trustees of the Fund or by the vote of the
holders of a "majority" of the outstanding voting securities of the Fund. In the event this Agreement is
terminated by the Fund, the General Distributor shall be entitled to be paid the CDSC under paragraph 3 hereof on
the redemption proceeds of Shares sold prior to the effective date of such termination.
13. Assignment. This Agreement may not be amended or changed except in writing and shall be
binding upon and shall enure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors; however, this
Agreement shall not be assigned by either party and shall automatically terminate upon assignment.
14. Disclaimer of Shareholder Liability. The General Distributor understands and agrees that the
obligations of the Fund under this Agreement are not binding upon any Trustee or shareholder of the Fund
personally, but bind only the Fund and the Fund's property; the General Distributor represents that it has notice
of the provisions of the Declaration of Trust, as may be amended or restated from time to time, of the Fund
disclaiming Trustee and shareholder liability for acts or obligations of the Fund.
15. Section Headings. The heading of each section is for descriptive purposes only, and such
headings are not to be construed or interpreted as part of this Agreement.
If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding, so indicate by signing in the space provided
below.
Xxxxxxxxxxx Rising Dividends Fund, Inc.
By: /s/ Xxxxxx X. Zack_____________
Xxxxxx X. Xxxx, Vice President & Secretary
Accepted:
OPPENHEIMERFUNDS DISTRIBUTOR, INC.
By: /s/ Xxxxxx Grill ___________
Xxxxxx Grill, Senior Vice President
