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Exhibit 4.1
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Capital One Financial Corporation,
Issuer
to
Xxxxxx Trust and Savings Bank,
Trustee
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SENIOR INDENTURE
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Dated as of November 1, 1996
Senior Debt Securities
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Reconciliation and tie between
Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (the "Trust Indenture Act")
and Indenture
Trust Indenture
Act Section Indenture Section
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Section 310(a)(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606
(a)(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606
(a)(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607
Section 312(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 701
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 702
(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 702
Section 313(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703
(b)(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703
(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703
(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703
Section 314(a)(1)-(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 704
(a)(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101, 1009
(c)(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
(c)(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
(e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
(f) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Section 315(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501
(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601
(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601
Section 316(a)(last sentence) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
(a)(1)(A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502, 512
(a)(1)(B) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508
(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Section 317(a)(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503
(a)(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1003
Section 318(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
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Note: This reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to
be part of the Indenture.
Attention should also be directed to Section 318(c) of the Trust
Indenture Act, which provides that the provisions of Sections 310 to
and including 317 are a part of and govern every qualified indenture,
whether or not physically contained herein.
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RECITALS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
ARTICLE ONE
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION
Section 101. Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Additional Amounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Affiliate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Authenticating Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Authorized Newspaper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Bearer Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Board of Directors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Board Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Business Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Commission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Common Stock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Company Request and Company Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Consolidated Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Controlled Subsidiary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Conversion Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Convertible Security or Convertible Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Corporate Trust Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Coupon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Currency or Money . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Currency Indexed Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Date of Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Defaulted Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Depository or U.S. Depository . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Dollars or $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Event of Default . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Government Obligations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Holder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Indenture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Independent Public Accountants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Indexed Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Interest Payment Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
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Legal Holiday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Maturity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Office or Agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Officers' Certificate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Opinion of Counsel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Original Issue Discount Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Outstanding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Paying Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Place of Payment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Predecessor Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Redemption Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Redemption Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Registered Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Regular Record Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Responsible Officer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Security or Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Security Register and Security Registrar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Significant Subsidiary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Special Record Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Stated Maturity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Subsidiary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Trust Indenture Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
United States Alien . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Vice President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Voting Stock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Section 102. Compliance Certificates and Opinions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Section 103. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Section 104. Acts of Holders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Section 105. Notices, etc. to Trustee and Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Section 106. Notice to Holders of Securities; Waiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Section 107. Language of Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Section 108. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Section 109. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Section 110. Successors and Assigns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Section 111. Separability Clause . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Section 112. Benefits of Indenture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Section 113. Governing Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Section 114. Legal Holidays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
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ARTICLE TWO
SECURITIES FORMS
Section 201. Forms Generally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Section 202. Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Section 203. Securities in Global Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
ARTICLE THREE
THE SECURITIES
Section 301. Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Section 302. Currency; Denominations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Section 303. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Section 304. Temporary Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Section 305. Registration, Transfer and Exchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Section 306. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Section 307. Payment of Interest and Certain Additional Amounts; Rights to Interest and
Certain Additional Amounts Preserved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Section 308. Persons Deemed Owners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Section 310. Computation of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
ARTICLE FOUR
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
Section 401. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Section 402. Satisfaction, Discharge and Defeasance of Securities of any Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Section 403. Application of Trust Money . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
ARTICLE FIVE
REMEDIES
Section 501. Events of Default . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Section 502. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Section 503. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Section 504. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Section 505. Trustee May Enforce Claims without Possession of Securities or Coupons . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Section 506. Application of Money Collected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Section 507. Limitations on Suits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Section 508. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal and any Premium, Interest and
Additional Amounts and to Convert any Convertible Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Section 509. Restoration of Rights and Remedies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
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Section 510. Rights and Remedies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Section 511. Delay or Omission Not Waiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Section 512. Control by Holders of Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Section 513. Waiver of Past Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Section 514. Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
ARTICLE SIX
THE TRUSTEE
Section 601. Certain Rights of Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Section 602. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Section 603. May Hold Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Section 604. Money Held in Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Section 605. Compensation and Reimbursement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Section 606. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Section 607. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Section 608. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Section 609. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Section 610. Appointment of Authenticating Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
ARTICLE SEVEN
HOLDER'S LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY
Section 701. Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Section 702. Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Section 703. Reports by Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Section 704. Reports by Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
ARTICLE EIGHT
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER AND SALES
Section 801. Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Section 802. Successor Person Substituted for Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
ARTICLE NINE
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
Section 901. Supplemental Indentures without Consent of Holders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Section 902. Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Section 903. Execution of Supplemental Indentures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Section 904. Effect of Supplemental Indentures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Section 905. Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Section 906. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
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ARTICLE TEN
COVENANTS
Section 1001. Payment of Principal and any Premium, Interest and Additional Amounts . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Section 1002. Maintenance of Office or Agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Section 1003. Money for Securities Payments to Be Held in Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Section 1004. Additional Amounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Section 1005. Limitation Upon Disposition of Voting Stock of Significant Subsidiaries . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Section 1006. Limitation on Creation of Liens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Section 1007. Corporate Existence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Section 1008. Waiver of Certain Covenants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Section 1009. Company Statement as to Compliance; Notice of Certain Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
ARTICLE ELEVEN
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
Section 1101. Applicability of Article . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Section 1102. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Section 1103. Selection by Trustee of Securities to be Redeemed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Section 1104. Notice of Redemption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Section 1105. Deposit of Redemption Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Section 1106. Securities Payable on Redemption Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Section 1107. Securities Redeemed in Part . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Section 1108. Conversion Arrangements on Call for Redemption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
ARTICLE TWELVE
SINKING FUNDS
Section 1201. Applicability of Article . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Section 1202. Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Section 1203. Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
ARTICLE THIRTEEN
REPAYMENT AT THE OPTION OF HOLDERS
Section 1301. Applicability of Article . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
ARTICLE FOURTEEN
SECURITIES IN FOREIGN CURRENCIES
Section 1401. Applicability of Article . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
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ARTICLE FIFTEEN
MEETINGS OF HOLDERS OF SECURITIES
Section 1501. Purposes for Which Meetings May Be Called . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Section 1502. Call, Notice and Place of Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Section 1503. Persons Entitled to Vote at Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Section 1504. Quorum; Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Section 1505. Determination of Voting Rights; Conduct and Adjournment of Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Section 1506. Counting Votes and Recording Action of Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
ARTICLE SIXTEEN
CONVERSION
Section 1601. Conversion Privilege . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Section 1602. Manner of Exercise of Conversion Privilege . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Section 1603. Cash Adjustment Upon Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Section 1604. Conversion Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Section 1605. Adjustment of Conversion Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Section 1606. Effect of Reclassifications, Consolidations, Mergers or Sales on Conversion Privilege . . . . 78
Section 1607. Taxes on Conversions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Section 1608. Company to Reserve Common Stock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Section 1609. Disclaimer by Trustee of Responsibility for Certain Matters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Section 1610. Company to Give Notice of Certain Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
ARTICLE SEVENTEEN
MMUNITY OF INCORPORATORS, STOCKHOLDERS, OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS
Section 1701. Indenture and Securities Solely Corporate Obligations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
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SENIOR INDENTURE, dated as of November 1, 1996 (the
"Indenture"), between Capital One Financial Corporation, a corporation duly
organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (hereinafter
called the "Company"), having its corporate office located at 0000 Xxxxxxxx
Xxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000, and Xxxxxx Trust and Savings Bank, a
banking corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of
Illinois (hereinafter called the "Trustee"), having its Corporate Trust Office
located at 000 Xxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000.
RECITALS
The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of
this Indenture to provide for the issuance from time to time of its unsecured
senior debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness (hereinafter called
the "Securities"), unlimited as to principal amount, to bear such rates of
interest, to mature at such time or times, to be issued in one or more series
and to have such other provisions as shall be fixed as hereinafter provided.
The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of
this Indenture. All things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement
of the Company, in accordance with its terms, have been done.
This Indenture is subject to the provisions of the Trust
Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the
Securities and Exchange Commission promulgated thereunder that are required to
be part of this Indenture and, to the extent applicable, shall be governed by
such provisions.
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 and
any Coupons (as hereinafter defined) as follows:
ARTICLE ONE
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION
Section 101. Definitions.
Except as otherwise expressly provided in or pursuant to this
Indenture or unless the context otherwise requires, for all purposes of this
Indenture:
(1) the terms defined in this Article have the meanings
assigned to them in this Article, and include the plural as well as
the singular;
(2) all other terms used herein which are defined in the
Trust Indenture Act, either directly or by reference therein, have the
meanings assigned to them therein;
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(3) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have
the meanings assigned to them in accordance with generally accepted
accounting principles and, except as otherwise herein expressly
provided, the term "generally accepted accounting principles" with
respect to any computation required or permitted hereunder shall mean
such accounting principles as are generally accepted at the date of
such computation; and
(4) the words "herein", "hereof", "hereto" 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.
Certain terms used principally in certain Articles hereof are
defined in those Articles.
"Act", when used with respect to any Holders, has the meaning
specified in Section 104.
"Additional Amounts" means any additional amounts which are
required hereby or by any Security, under circumstances specified herein or
therein, to be paid by the Company in respect of certain taxes imposed on
Holders specified therein and which are owing to such Holders.
"Affiliate" of any specified Person means any other Person
directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect
common control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this
definition, "control", when used with respect to any specified Person means the
power to direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or
indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or
otherwise; and the terms "controlling" and "controlled" have the meanings
correlative to the foregoing.
"Authenticating Agent" means any Person authorized by the
Trustee pursuant to Section 610 to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate
Securities of one or more series.
"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 any 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 the board of directors of the
Company or any committee of that board duly authorized to act generally or in
any particular respect for the Company hereunder.
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"Board Resolution" means a copy of one or more resolutions,
certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company to have
been duly adopted by the Board of Directors or any duly authorized committee
thereof and to be in full force and effect on the date of such certification,
delivered to the Trustee.
"Business Day", with respect to any Place of Payment or other
location, means each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday that is
not a Legal Holiday in such Place of Payment or other location.
"Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as
from time to time constituted, created under the Securities Exchange Act of
1934 or, if at any time after the execution of this 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.
"Common Stock" means all shares now or hereafter authorized of
any class of common stock of the Company presently authorized and stock of any
other class into which such shares may hereafter have been changed.
"Company" means the Person named as the "Company" in the first
paragraph of this instrument until a successor Person shall have become such
pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter
"Company" shall mean such successor Person, and any other obligor upon the
Securities.
"Company Request" and "Company Order" mean, respectively, a
written request or order, as the case may be, signed in the name of the Company
by the Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer, a Vice
Chairman, the President and Chief Operating Officer, a Senior Vice President,
the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary,
of the Company, and delivered to the Trustee.
"Consolidated Assets" means all assets owned directly by the
Company or indirectly by the Company through any Subsidiary and reflected on
the Company's consolidated balance sheet prepared in accordance with generally
accepted accounting principles.
"Controlled Subsidiary" means each Significant Subsidiary if
at least 80% of the outstanding shares of its Voting Stock is at the time owned
by the Company or by one or more Controlled Subsidiaries of the Company or by
the Company and one or more Controlled Subsidiaries.
"Conversion Price" means the price per share of Common Stock
from time to time in effect at which any Convertible Security may be converted
into Common Stock as determined by or pursuant to the terms of this Indenture.
"Convertible Security" or "Convertible Securities" means any
Security or Securities, as the case may be, which are by their terms
convertible into Common Stock.
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"Corporate Trust Office" means the principal 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 the address specified in the first paragraph of this instrument.
"Corporation" includes corporations and, except for purposes
of Article Eight, associations, companies and business trusts.
"Coupon" means any interest coupon appertaining to a Bearer
Security.
"Currency" or "Money", 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 the unit or units of
legal tender for the payment of public and private debts (or any composite
thereof) in which such payment, deposit or other transfer is required to be
made by or pursuant to the terms hereof and, with respect to any other payment,
deposit or transfer pursuant to or contemplated by the terms hereof, means
Dollars.
"Currency Indexed Note" means any Security with the amount of
principal payments determined by reference to an index Currency.
"Date of Conversion" with respect to any Convertible Security
or portion thereof to be converted, means the date on which such Convertible
Security shall be surrendered for conversion and notice given in accordance
with the provisions of Article Sixteen.
"Defaulted Interest" has the meaning specified in Section 307.
"Depository" or "U.S. Depository" means, with respect to any
Security issuable or issued in the form of one or more global Securities, the
Person designated as Depository or U.S. Depository by the Company in or
pursuant to this Indenture, which Person must be, to the extent required by
applicable law or regulation, a clearing agency registered under the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and, if so provided with respect to any
Security, any successor to such Person. If at any time there is more than one
such Person, "Depository" or "U.S. Depository" shall mean, with respect to any
Securities, the qualifying entity which has been appointed with respect to such
Securities.
"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.
"Event of Default" has the meaning specified in Section_501.
"Government Obligations", with respect to any Security, means
(i) direct obligations of the government or governments which issued the
Currency in which the principal of or any premium or interest on such 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 such government or governments or (ii) obligations of a Person
controlled or supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality of such
government or governments,
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in each case where the payment or payments thereunder are unconditionally
guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation by such government or
governments, 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", in the case of any Registered Security, means the
Person in whose name such Security is registered in the Security Register and,
in the case of any Bearer Security, means the bearer thereof and, in the case
of any Coupon, means the bearer thereof.
"Indenture" means this instrument 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, with respect to
any Security, by the terms and provisions of such Security and any Coupon
appertaining thereto established pursuant to Section 301 (as such terms and
provisions may be amended pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof).
"Independent Public Accountants" means accountants or a firm
of accountants that, with respect to the Company and any other obligor under
the Securities or the Coupons, are independent public accountants within the
meaning of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and
regulations promulgated by the Commission thereunder, who may be the
independent public accountants regularly retained by the Company or who may be
other independent public accountants. Such accountants or firm shall be
entitled to rely upon any Opinion of Counsel as to the interpretation of any
legal matters relating to the Indenture or certificates required to be provided
hereunder.
"Indexed Security" means a Security the terms of which provide
that the principal amount thereof payable at Stated Maturity and/or interest to
be paid thereon may be determined by reference to the exchange rate of one or
more specified currencies relative to an index or one or more equity or other
indices and/or formulae or the price of one or more specified commodities or by
such other methods or formulae as may be determined in accordance with this
Indenture.
"Interest", with respect to any Original Issue Discount
Security which by its terms bears interest only after Maturity, means interest
payable after Maturity, and, when used with respect to a Security which
provides for payment of Additional Amounts pursuant to Section 1004, includes
such Additional Amounts.
"Interest Payment Date", with respect to any Security, means
the Stated Maturity of an installment of interest on such Security.
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"Legal Holiday", with respect to any Place of Payment or other
location, means a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which banking institutions or
trust companies in such Place of Payment or other location are not authorized
or obligated to be open.
"Maturity", 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 provided in or pursuant to this Indenture, whether at the Stated
Maturity or by declaration of acceleration, notice of redemption, notice of
option to elect repayment or otherwise, and includes Redemption Date.
"Office or Agency", with respect to any Securities, means an
office or agency of the Company maintained or designated in 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 and Chief Executive Officer, a Vice Chairman, the
President and Chief Operating Officer, any Senior Vice President, the
Treasurer, any Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of
the Company, that complies with the requirements of Section 314(e) of the Trust
Indenture Act and is 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 other counsel who shall be
reasonably acceptable to the Trustee, that complies with the requirements of
Section 314(e) of the Trust Indenture Act and is delivered to the Trustee.
"Original Issue Discount Security" means a Security issued
pursuant to this Indenture which provides for declaration of an amount less
than the principal face amount thereof to be due and payable upon acceleration
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) any such Security theretofore cancelled by the Trustee or
the Security Registrar or delivered to the Trustee or the Security
Registrar for cancellation;
(ii) any such Security or portions thereof for whose payment
at the Maturity thereof money in the necessary amount has been
theretofore deposited pursuant hereto 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, provided that, if such Securities are to be redeemed, notice
of such redemption has been duly given pursuant to this Indenture or
provision therefor satisfactory to the Trustee has been made;
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(iii) any such Security with respect to which the Company has
effected defeasance pursuant to Section 402 hereof;
(iv) any such Security which has 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,
unless there shall have been presented to the Trustee proof
satisfactory to it that such Security is held by a bona fide purchaser
in whose hands such Security is a valid obligation of the Company; and
(v) Convertible Securities converted into Common Stock in
accordance with Article Sixteen hereof;
provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite
principal amount of Outstanding Securities have given any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder or are present at
a meeting of Holders of Securities for quorum purposes, (i) the principal
amount of an Original Issue Discount Security that may be counted in making
such determination and that shall be deemed to be Outstanding for such purposes
shall be equal to the amount of the principal thereof that pursuant to the
terms of such Original Issue Discount Security would be declared (or shall have
been declared to be) due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration thereof
pursuant to Section 502 at the time of such determination, (ii) the principal
amount of any Indexed Security that may be counted in making such determination
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 provided in or pursuant to this Indenture, (iii) the principal amount
of a Security denominated in one or more foreign currencies or currency units
shall be the U.S. dollar equivalent based on the applicable exchange rate or
rates at the time of sale (or in the case of an Original Issue Discount
Security, the U.S. dollar equivalent on the date of original issuance of such
Security of the amount determined in (ii); and (iv) Securities owned by the
Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the
Company or such other obligor, shall be disregarded and deemed not to be
Outstanding, except that, in determining whether the Trustee shall be protected
in making any such determination or relying upon any such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Securities which a
Responsible Officer of the Trustee actually knows to be so owned shall be so
disregarded. Securities so owned which shall have been pledged in good faith
may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction
of the Trustee (A) the pledgee's right so to act with respect to such
Securities and (B) that the pledgee is not the Company or any other obligor
upon the Securities or any Coupons appertaining thereto or any Affiliate of the
Company or such other obligor.
"Paying Agent" means any Person authorized by the Company to
pay the principal of, or any premium or interest on, or any Additional Amounts
with respect to any Security or any Coupon on behalf of the Company.
"Person" means any individual, Corporation, partnership, joint
venture, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization or government
or any agency or political subdivision thereof.
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"Place of Payment", with respect to any Security, means the
place or places where the principal of, or any premium or interest on, or any
Additional Amounts with respect to such Security is payable as provided in or
pursuant to this Indenture.
"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 lost, destroyed, mutilated or stolen Security or
any Security to which a mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Coupon appertains
shall be deemed to evidence the same debt as the lost, destroyed, mutilated or
stolen Security or the Security to which a mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen
Coupon appertains.
"Redemption Date", with respect to any Security or portion
thereof to be redeemed, means the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant
to this Indenture.
"Redemption Price", with respect to any Security or portion
thereof to be redeemed, means the price at which it is to be redeemed as
determined by or pursuant to this Indenture.
"Registered Security" means any Security established pursuant
to Section 201 which is registered in the Security Register.
"Regular Record Date" for the interest payable on any
Registered Security on any Interest Payment Date therefor means the date, if
any, specified in or pursuant to this Indenture as the "Regular Record Date".
"Responsible Officer" means an officer of the Trustee assigned
to the Corporate Trust Office, including any Vice President, any trust officer
or any other officer performing functions similar to those performed by the
persons who at the time shall be such officers, and any other officer of the
Trustee to whom a matter is referred because of his knowledge of and
familiarity with the particular subject.
"Security" or "Securities" means any Security or Securities,
as the case may be, 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 any 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.
"Significant Subsidiary" means any Subsidiary of the Company
the Consolidated Assets of which constitute 20% or more of the Company's
Consolidated Assets.
"Special Record Date" for the payment of any Defaulted
Interest on any Registered Security means a date fixed by the Trustee pursuant
to Section 307.
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"Stated Maturity", with respect to any Security or any
installment of principal thereof or interest thereon or any Additional Amounts
with respect thereto, means the date established by or pursuant to this
Indenture 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.
"Subsidiary" means any Corporation of which at the time of
determination the Company or one or more Subsidiaries owns or controls directly
or indirectly more than 50% of the shares of Voting Stock.
"Trust Indenture Act" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939,
as amended, and any reference herein to the Trust Indenture Act or a particular
provision thereof shall mean such Act or provision, as the case may be, as
amended or replaced from time to time or as supplemented from time to time by
rules or regulations adopted by the Commission under or in furtherance of the
purposes of such Act or provision, as the case may be.
"Trustee" means the Person named as the "Trustee" in the first
paragraph of this instrument until a successor Trustee shall have become such
with respect to one or more series of Securities pursuant to the applicable
provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter "Trustee" shall mean each Person
who is then a Trustee hereunder; provided, however, that if at any time there
is more than one such Person, "Trustee" shall mean each such Person and as used
with respect to the Securities of any series shall mean the Trustee with
respect to the Securities of such series.
"United States", except as otherwise provided herein or in any
Security, means the United States of America (including the states thereof and
the District of Columbia), its territories and possessions and other areas
subject to its jurisdiction.
"United States Alien", except as otherwise provided in or
pursuant to this Indenture, means any Person who, for United States Federal
income tax purposes, is a foreign corporation, a non-resident alien individual,
a non-resident alien fiduciary of a foreign estate or trust, or a foreign
partnership one or more of the members of which is, for United States Federal
income tax purposes, a foreign corporation, a non-resident alien individual or
a non-resident alien fiduciary of a foreign estate or trust.
"Vice President", when used with respect to the Company or the
Trustee, means any vice president, whether or not designated by a number or a
word or words added before or after the title "Vice President".
"Voting Stock" means stock of a Corporation of the class or
classes having general voting power under ordinary circumstances to elect at
least a majority of the board of directors, managers or trustees of such
Corporation provided that, for the purposes hereof, stock which carries only
the right to vote conditionally on the happening of an event shall not be
considered voting stock whether or not such event shall have happened.
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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 an Officers' Certificate stating that all conditions
precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed
action have been complied with and an Opinion of Counsel stating that, in the
opinion of such counsel, all such conditions precedent, if any, have been
complied with, except that in the case of any such application or request as to
which the furnishing of such documents or any of them is specifically required
by any provision of this Indenture relating to such particular application or
request, no additional certificate or opinion need be furnished.
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
stating that the information with respect to such factual matters is in the
possession of the Company unless such counsel knows, or in the exercise of
reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations
with respect to such matters are erroneous.
Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or
more applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or
other instruments under this Indenture or any Security, they may, but need not,
be consolidated and form one instrument.
Section 104. Acts of Holders.
(a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or other action provided by or pursuant to this Indenture to be
given or taken by Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more
instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or
by an agent 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 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
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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 or record or both are received by the Trustee and,
where it is hereby expressly required, to the Company. Such instrument or
instruments and any such record (and the action embodied therein and evidenced
thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the "Act" of the Holders signing
such instrument or instruments or so voting at any such meeting. 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 315 of the Trust Indenture Act)
conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the Company and any agent of the Trustee
or 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.
Without limiting the generality of this Section 104, unless
otherwise provided in or pursuant to this Indenture, a Holder, including a U.S.
Depository that is a Holder of a global Security, may make, give or take, by a
proxy, or proxies, duly appointed in writing, 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, and a U.S.
Depository that is a Holder of a global Security may provide its proxy or
proxies to the beneficial owners of interests in any such global Security
through such U.S. Depository's standing instructions and customary practices.
The Trustee shall fix a record date for the purpose of
determining the Persons who are beneficial owners of interest in any permanent
global Security held by a U.S. Depository entitled under the procedures of such
U.S. Depository to make, give or take, by a proxy or proxies duly appointed in
writing, 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. If such a record date is fixed, the Holders on such record
date or their duly appointed proxy or proxies, and only such Persons, shall be
entitled to make, give or take such request, demand, authorization, direction,
notice, consent, waiver or other action, whether or not such Holders remain
Holders after such record date. No such request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action shall be valid or effective
if made, given or taken more than 90 days after such record date.
(b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any
such instrument or writing may be proved in any reasonable manner which the
Trustee deems sufficient and in accordance with such reasonable rules as the
Trustee may determine; and the Trustee may in any instance require further
proof with respect to any of the matters referred to in this Section 104.
(c) The ownership, principal amount and serial numbers of
Registered Securities held by any Person, and the date of the commencement and
the date of the termination of holding the same, shall be proved by the
Security Register.
(d) The ownership, principal amount and serial numbers of
Bearer Securities held by any Person, and the date of the commencement and the
date of the termination of holding the
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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 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 produced to the
Trustee by some other Person, or (3) such Bearer Security is surrendered in
exchange for a Registered Security, or (4) 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 deems
sufficient.
(e) If the Company shall solicit from the Holders of any
Registered Securities any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or other Act, the Company may at its option (but is not
obligated to), by Board Resolutions, fix in advance a record date for the
determination of Holders of Registered Securities entitled to give such
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other
Act. If such a record date is fixed, such request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act may be given before or after
such record date, but only the Holders of Registered Securities of record at
the close of business on such record date shall be deemed to be Holders for the
purpose of determining whether Holders of the requisite proportion of
Outstanding Securities have authorized or agreed or consented to such request,
demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act, and for
that purpose the Outstanding Securities shall be computed as of such record
date; provided that no such authorization, agreement or consent by the Holders
of Registered Securities shall be deemed effective unless it shall become
effective pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture not later than six
months after the record date.
(f) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or other action by 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 or suffered to be done by the Trustee, any Security
Registrar, any Paying Agent or the Company in reliance thereon, whether or not
notation of such action is made upon such Security.
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,
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(1) the Trustee by any Holder or 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
(2) the Company by the Trustee or any Holder shall be
sufficient for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein
expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage
prepaid, to the Company addressed to the attention of its Treasurer at
the address of its principal office specified in the first paragraph
of this instrument (with a copy to its Corporate Secretary at the same
address) or at any other address previously furnished in writing to
the Trustee by the Company.
Section 106. Notice to Holders of Securities; Waiver.
Except as otherwise expressly provided in or pursuant to this
Indenture, where this Indenture provides for notice to Holders of Securities of
any event,
(1) such notice shall be sufficiently given to Holders of
Registered Securities if in writing and mailed, first-class postage
prepaid, to each Holder of a Registered Security affected by such
event, at his address as it appears in the Security Register, not
later than the latest date, and not earlier than the earliest date,
prescribed for the giving of such Notice; and
(2) such notice shall be sufficiently given to Holders of
Bearer Securities, if any, if published in an Authorized Newspaper in
The City of New York and, if such Securities are then listed on any
stock exchange outside the United States, in an Authorized Newspaper
in such city as the Company shall advise the Trustee that such stock
exchange so requires, on a Business Day at least twice, the first such
publication to be not earlier than the earliest date and not later
than the latest date prescribed for the giving of such notice.
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 a Registered Security shall
affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Holders of
Registered Securities or the sufficiency of any notice to Holders of Bearer
Securities given as provided herein. Any notice which is mailed in the manner
herein provided shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given or
provided. In the 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 failure to give
notice by publication to Holders of Bearer Securities as provided above, nor
any defect in any notice so published,
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shall affect the sufficiency of any notice mailed to Holders of Registered
Securities as provided above.
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 of Securities 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. Language of Notices.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, election or waiver required or permitted under this Indenture shall be
in the English language, except that, if the Company so elects, any published
notice may be in an official language of the country of publication.
Section 108. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.
If any provision hereof modifies; excludes; limits, qualifies
or conflicts with any duties under any required provision of the Trust
Indenture Act imposed hereon by Section 318(c) thereof, such required
provision shall control. If any provisions 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 109. 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.
Section 110. 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 111. 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 112. 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 and their successors hereunder and the
Holders of Securities or Coupons, any benefit or any legal or equitable right,
remedy or claim under this Indenture.
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Section 113. Governing Law.
This Indenture, the Securities and any Coupons shall be
governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York
applicable to agreements made or instruments entered into and, in each case,
performed in said state.
Section 114. Legal Holidays.
In any case where any Interest Payment Date, Stated Maturity
or Maturity of any Security, or the last date on which a Holder has the right
to convert his Securities shall be a Legal Holiday at any Place of Payment,
then (notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, any Security or
any Coupon other than a provision in any Security or Coupon that specifically
states that such provision shall apply in lieu of this Section 114) or
conversion payment of the Securities need not be made at such Place of Payment
on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding day that is a Business Day
at such Place of Payment with the same force and effect as if made on the
Interest Payment Date or at the Stated Maturity or Maturity, or on the last
such date for conversion, and no interest shall accrue on the amount payable on
such date or at such time for the period from and after such Interest Payment
Date or Stated Maturity or Maturity, or last such date for conversion, as the
case may be.
ARTICLE TWO
SECURITIES FORMS
Section 201. Forms Generally.
Each Registered Security, Bearer Security, Coupon and
temporary global Security issued pursuant to this Indenture shall be in the
form established by or pursuant to a Board Resolution or in one or more
indentures supplemental hereto, shall have such appropriate insertions,
omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by
or pursuant to this Indenture or any indenture supplemental hereto and may have
such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such legends or
endorsements placed thereon as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the
officers executing such Security or Coupon as evidenced by their execution of
such Security or Coupon.
Unless otherwise provided in or pursuant to this Indenture,
the Securities shall be issuable in registered form without Coupons.
Definitive Securities and definitive Coupons shall be printed,
lithographed or engraved or produced by any combination of these methods on a
steel engraved border or steel engraved borders or may be produced in any other
manner, all as determined by the officers of the Company executing such
Securities or Coupons, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities or
Coupons.
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Section 202. Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication.
Subject to Section 610, the Trustee's certificate of
authentication shall be in substantially the following form:
This is one of the Securities of the series
designated herein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
, as Trustee
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By
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Authorized Officer
Section 203. Securities in Global Form.
If Securities of a series shall be issuable in global form,
any such Security may provide that it or any number of such Securities shall
represent the aggregate amount of all Outstanding Securities of such series (or
such lesser amount as is permitted by the terms thereof) from time to time
endorsed thereon and may also provide that the aggregate amount of Outstanding
Securities represented thereby may from time to time be increased or reduced to
reflect exchanges. Any endorsement of any Security in global form to reflect
the amount, or any increase or decrease in the amount, or changes in the rights
of Holders, of Outstanding Securities represented thereby shall be made in such
manner and by such Person or Persons as shall be specified therein or in the
Company Order to be delivered pursuant to Section 303 or 304 with respect
thereto. Subject to the provisions of Section 303 and, if applicable, Section
304, the Trustee shall deliver and redeliver any Security in permanent global
form in the manner and upon instructions given by the Person or Persons
specified therein or in the applicable Company Order. If a Company Order
pursuant to Section 303 or 304 has been, or simultaneously is, delivered, any
instructions by the Company with respect to a Security in global form shall be
in writing but need not be accompanied by or contained in an Officers'
Certificate and need not be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel.
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 Securities to be authenticated and
delivered hereunder, there shall be established in or pursuant to a Board
Resolution and set forth in an Officers' Certificate, or established in one or
more indentures supplemental hereto,
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(1) the title of such Securities and the series in which such
Securities shall be included;
(2) any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the
Securities of such title or the Securities of such series which may be
authenticated and delivered under this Indenture (except for
Securities authenticated and delivered upon registration or transfer
of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Securities of such series
pursuant to Section 304, 305, 306, 905, 1107 or 1602 or the terms of
such Securities);
(3) whether such Securities 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 may be exchanged for
Registered Securities and vice versa;
(4) if any of such Securities are to be issuable in global
form, when any of such Securities are to be issuable in global form
and (i) whether beneficial owners of interests in any such global
Security may exchange such interest for Securities of the same series
and of like tenor and of any authorized form and denomination, and the
circumstances under which any such exchanges may occur, if other than
in the manner specified in Section 305, and (ii) the name of the
Depository or the U.S. Depository, as the case may be, with respect to
any global Security;
(5) if any of such Securities are to be issuable as Bearer
Securities or in global form, the date as of which any such Bearer
Security or global Security shall be dated (if other than the date of
original issuance of the first of such Securities to be issued);
(6) if any of such Securities are to be issuable as Bearer
Securities, whether interest in respect of any portion of a temporary
Bearer Security in global form payable in respect of an Interest
Payment Date therefor prior to the exchange, if any, of such temporary
Bearer Security for definitive Securities shall be paid to any
clearing organization with respect to the portion of such temporary
Bearer Security held for its account and, in such event, the terms and
conditions (including any certification requirements) upon which any
such interest payment received by a clearing organization will be
credited to the Persons entitled to interest payable on such Interest
Payment Date;
(7) 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 such Securities is payable;
(8) the rate or rates at which such Securities shall bear
interest, if any, or the method or methods, if any, by which such rate
or rates are to be determined, the date or dates, if any, from which
such interest shall accrue or the method or methods, if any, by which
such date or dates are to be determined, the Interest Payment Dates,
if any, on which such interest shall be payable and the Regular Record
Date, if any, for the interest payable on Registered Securities on any
Interest Payment Date, whether and under what
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circumstances Additional Amounts on such Securities or any of them
shall be payable, and the basis upon which interest shall be
calculated;
(9) if in addition to or other than The City of New York, the
place or places where the principal of, any premium and interest on or
any Additional Amounts with respect to such Securities shall be
payable, any of such Securities that are Registered Securities may be
surrendered for registration of transfer, any of such Securities may
be surrendered for exchange or conversion and notices or demands to or
upon the Company in respect of such Securities and this Indenture may
be served;
(10) whether any of such Securities are to be redeemable at
the option of the Company and, if so, the period or periods within
which, the price or prices at which and the other terms and conditions
upon which such Securities may be redeemed, in whole or in part, at
the option of the Company;
(11) whether the Company is obligated to redeem or purchase
any of such Securities pursuant to any sinking fund or at the option
of any Holder thereof and, if so, the period or periods within which,
the price or prices at which and the other terms and conditions upon
which such Securities shall be redeemed or purchased, in whole or in
part, pursuant to such obligation, and any provisions for the
remarketing of such Securities so redeemed or purchased;
(12) the denominations in which any of such Securities that
are Registered Securities shall be issuable if other than
denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof, and the
denominations in which any of such Securities that are Bearer
Securities shall be issuable if other than the denomination of $5,000;
(13) if other than the principal amount thereof, the portion
of the principal amount of any of such Securities that shall be
payable upon declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof
pursuant to Section 501 or the method by which such portion is to be
determined;
(14) if other than Dollars, the Currency in which payment of
the principal of, any premium or interest on or any Additional Amounts
with respect to any of such Securities shall be payable;
(15) the Currency in which payment of principal of, any
premium or interest on or any Additional Amounts with respect to any
Securities shall be payable if other than the currency of the United
States, and the time and manner of determining the exchange rate
between the Currency in which such Securities are payable and the
Currency in which such Securities or any of them are so payable;
(16) whether the amount of payments of principal of, any
premium or interest on or any Additional Amounts with respect to such
Securities may be determined with reference to an index, formula or
other method (which index, formula or method or methods may be based,
without limitation, on one or more Currencies, commodities,
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equity indices or other indices), and, if so, the terms and conditions
upon which and the manner in which such amounts shall be determined
and paid or payable;
(17) any deletions from, modifications of or additions to the
Events of Default or covenants of the Company with respect to any of
such Securities, whether or not such Events of Default or covenants
are consistent with the Events of Default or covenants set forth
herein;
(18) the applicability, if any, of Section 402 to any of such
Securities and any provisions in modification of, in addition to or in
lieu of any of the provisions of Section 402;
(19) whether the principal of (and premium, if any) or
interest (including Additional Amounts), if any, on the Securities of
the series are to be payable, at the election of the Company or any
Holder thereof or otherwise, in a currency or currencies, currency
unit or units or composite currency or currencies other than that in
which such Securities or any of them are denominated or stated to be
payable, the period or periods within which, and the other terms and
conditions upon which, such election, if any, may be made, and the
time and manner of determining the exchange rate between the currency
or currencies, currency unit or units or composite currency or
currencies in which such Securities or any of them are denominated or
stated to be payable and the currency or currencies, currency unit or
units or composite currency or currencies in which such Securities or
any of them are to be so payable;
(20) if any of such Securities are to be issuable in global
form and are to be issuable in definitive form (whether upon original
issue or upon exchange of a temporary Security) only upon receipt of
certain certificates or other documents or satisfaction of other
conditions, then the form and terms of such certificates, documents or
conditions;
(21) if there is more than one Trustee, the identity of the
Trustee and, if not the Trustee, the identity of each Security
Registrar, Paying Agent or Authenticating Agent with respect to such
Securities; and
(22) whether Securities of the series are to be Convertible
Securities and, if so, the initial Conversion Price applicable
thereto, the period or periods within which the conversion privilege
may be exercised, the class of Common Stock into which such
Convertible Securities may be converted and any additions, deletions,
modifications or variations to the provisions of Article Sixteen
hereof applicable thereto;
(23) any other terms of such Securities (which terms shall
not be inconsistent 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 as to Currency of payments due thereunder, denomination and
the rate or rates of interest, if any, and Maturity, the date from which
interest, if any, shall accrue and except as may otherwise be provided by the
Company in
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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. All Securities of any one series need not be issued at the same
time and, unless otherwise so provided by the Company, a series may be reopened
for issuances of additional Securities of such series or to establish
additional terms of such series of Securities.
If any of the terms of the Securities of any series shall be
established by action taken by or pursuant to a Board Resolution, the Board
Resolution shall be delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the
Officers' Certificate setting forth the terms of such series.
Section 302. Currency; Denominations.
Unless otherwise provided in or pursuant to this Indenture,
the principal of, any premium and interest on and any Additional Amounts with
respect to the Securities shall be payable in Dollars. Unless otherwise
provided in or pursuant to this Indenture, Registered Securities denominated in
Dollars shall be issuable in registered form without Coupons in denominations
of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof, and the Bearer Securities
denominated in Dollars shall be issuable in the denomination of $5,000.
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.
Section 303. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating.
Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, its President and Chief
Operating Officer, the Chief Financial Officer, the Treasurer and any Assistant
Treasurer or one of its Senior Vice Presidents under its corporate seal
reproduced thereon and attested by its Corporate Secretary or one of its
Assistant Secretaries. Coupons shall be executed on behalf of the Company by
the Chief Financial Officer, the Treasurer or any Assistant Treasurer of the
Company. The signature of any of these officers on the Securities or any
Coupons appertaining thereto may be manual or facsimile.
Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto 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.
At any time and from time to time after the execution and
delivery of this Indenture, the Company may deliver Securities, together with
any Coupons appertaining thereto, executed by the Company, to the Trustee for
authentication, together with the Board Resolution and Officers' Certificate or
supplemental indenture with respect to such Securities referred to in Section
301 and a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of such Securities,
and the Trustee in accordance with the Company Order and subject to the
provisions hereof shall authenticate and deliver such Securities. In
authenticating such Securities, and accepting the
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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 Article Six hereof) shall be fully protected in relying upon an
Opinion of Counsel substantially to the effect that:
(a) the form or forms and terms of such Securities and
Coupons, if any, have been established in conformity with the
provisions of this Indenture;
(b) that such Securities, and Coupons, when completed by
appropriate insertion and executed and delivered by the Company to the
Trustee for authentication pursuant to this Indenture, and
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 legally valid and binding obligations of
the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their
terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium,
fraudulent transfer or other similar laws affecting the enforcement of
creditors' rights generally, and subject to general principles of
equity (regardless of whether enforcement is sought in a proceeding in
equity or at law) and except further as enforcement thereof may be
limited by (A) requirements that a claim with respect to any
securities denominated other than in Dollars (or a foreign currency or
foreign currency unit judgment in respect of such claim) be converted
into Dollars at a rate of exchange prevailing on a date determined
pursuant to applicable law or (B) governmental authority to limit,
delay or prohibit the making of payments in foreign currency or
currency units or payments outside the United States; and will entitle
the Holders thereof to the benefits of this Indenture; such Opinion of
Counsel need express no opinion as to the availability of equitable
remedies;
(c) all legal requirements in respect of the execution and
delivery by the Company of such Securities and Coupons, if any, have
been complied with; and
(d) as to such other matters as the Trustee may reasonably
request.
If all the Securities of any series are not to be issued at
one time, it shall not be necessary to deliver an Opinion of Counsel and an
Officers' Certificate at the time of issuance of each Security, but such
opinion and certificate, with appropriate modifications, shall be delivered at
or before the time of issuance of the first Security of such series. After any
such first delivery, any separate request by the Company that the Trustee
authenticate Securities of such series for original issue will be deemed to be
a certification by the Company that all conditions precedent provided for in
this Indenture relating to authentication and delivery of such Securities
continue to have been complied with.
The Trustee shall not be required to authenticate or to cause
an Authenticating Agent to authenticate any 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 or if the Trustee,
being advised by counsel, determines that such action may not lawfully be
taken.
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Each Registered Security shall be dated the date of its
authentication. Each Bearer Security and any temporary Bearer Security in
global form shall be dated as of the date specified in or pursuant to this
Indenture.
No Security or Coupon appertaining thereto 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 in Section 202 or 610 executed by or on
behalf of the Trustee by the manual signature of one of its authorized officers
or by an Authenticating Agent. Such certificate upon any Security shall be
conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Security has been duly
authenticated and delivered hereunder. Except as permitted by Section 306 or
307, the Trustee shall not authenticate and deliver any Bearer Security unless
all Coupons appertaining thereto then matured have been detached and cancelled.
Section 304. Temporary Securities.
Pending the preparation of definitive Securities, the Company
may execute and deliver to the Trustee and, upon Company Order, the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver, in the manner provided in Section 303,
temporary Securities in lieu thereof 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 of the Company executing such Securities may
determine, as conclusively evidenced by their execution of such Securities.
Such temporary Securities may be in global form.
Except in the case of temporary Securities in global form,
which shall be exchanged in accordance with the provisions thereof, if
temporary Securities are issued, the Company shall cause definitive Securities
to be prepared without unreasonable delay. After the preparation of definitive
Securities of the same series and containing terms and provisions that are
identical to those of any temporary Securities, such temporary Securities shall
be exchangeable for such definitive Securities upon surrender of such temporary
Securities at an Office or Agency for such Securities, without charge to any
Holder thereof. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary
Securities (accompanied by any unmatured Coupons appertaining thereto), the
Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in
exchange therefor a like principal amount of definitive Securities of
authorized denominations of the same series and containing identical terms and
provisions; 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.
Unless otherwise provided in or pursuant to this Indenture with respect to a
temporary global Security, 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.
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Section 305. Registration, Transfer and Exchange.
With respect to the Registered Securities of each series, if
any, the Company shall cause to be kept a register (each such register being
herein sometimes referred to as the "Security Register") at an Office or Agency
for such series in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may
prescribe, the Company shall provide for the registration of the Registered
Securities of such series and of transfers of the Registered Securities of such
series. In the event that the Trustee shall not be the Security Registrar, it
shall have the right to examine the Security Register at all reasonable times.
The Trustee is hereby initially appointed as Security Registrar for each series
of Securities. In the event that the Trustee 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.
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Registered
Security of any series at any Office or Agency for such 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 denominated as authorized in or pursuant to this Indenture,
of a like aggregate principal amount bearing a number not contemporaneously
outstanding and containing identical terms and provisions.
At the option of the Holder, Registered Securities of any
series may be exchanged for other Registered Securities of the same series
containing identical terms and provisions, in any authorized denominations, and
of a like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Securities to be
exchanged at any Office or Agency for such series. 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 provided in or pursuant to this Indenture, 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, 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
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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 expressly provided 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 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.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, except as otherwise provided in
or pursuant to this Indenture, any global Security shall be exchangeable for
definitive Securities only if (i) the Depository notifies the Company that it
is at any time unwilling, unable or ineligible to continue as Depository and a
successor depository is not appointed by the Company within 60 days of the date
the Company is so informed in writing, (ii) the Company executes and delivers
to the Trustee a Company Order to the effect that such global Security shall be
so exchangeable, or (iii) an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing
with respect to the Securities. If the beneficial owners of interests in a
global Security are entitled to exchange such interests for definitive
Securities, then without unnecessary delay but in any event not later than the
earliest date on which such interests may be so exchanged, the Company shall
deliver to the Trustee definitive Securities in such form and denominations, as
directed by the Depositary, as are required by or pursuant to this Indenture
and of the same series, containing identical terms and in aggregate principal
amount equal to the principal amount of, such global Security, executed by the
Company. On or after the earliest date on which such interests may be so
exchanged, such global Security shall be surrendered from time to time by the
U.S. Depository or such other Depository as shall be specified in the Company
Order with respect thereto, and in accordance with instructions given to the
Trustee and the U.S. Depository or such other Depository, as the case may be
(which instructions shall be in writing but need not be contained in or
accompanied by an Officers' Certificate or be accompanied by an Opinion of
Counsel), 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 in part, for definitive Securities as described above without charge. The
Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery, in exchange for
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each portion of such surrendered global Security, a like aggregate principal
amount of definitive Securities of the same series of authorized denominations
and of like tenor as the portion of such global Security to be exchanged, which
(unless such Securities are not issuable both as Bearer Securities and as
Registered Securities, in which case the definitive Securities exchanged for
the global Security shall be issuable only in the form in which the Securities
are issuable, as provided in or pursuant to this Indenture) shall be in the
form of Bearer Securities or Registered Securities, or any combination thereof,
as shall be specified by the beneficial owner thereof; provided, however, that
no such exchanges may occur during a period beginning at the opening of
business 15 days before any selection of Securities of the same series and
continuing identical terms to be redeemed and ending on the relevant Redemption
Date; and provided, further, that (unless otherwise provided in or pursuant to
this Indenture) no Bearer Security delivered in exchange for a portion of a
global Security shall be mailed or otherwise delivered to any location in the
United States. Promptly following any such exchange in part, such global
Security shall be returned by the Trustee to such Depository or the U.S.
Depository, as the case may be, or such other Depository or U.S. Depository
referred to above in accordance with the instructions of the Company referred
to above. If a Registered Security is issued in exchange for any portion of a
global Security after the close of business at the Office or Agency for such
Security where such exchange occurs on or after (i) any Regular Record Date for
such Security and before the opening of business at such Office or Agency on
the next Interest Payment Date, or (ii) any Special Record Date for such
Security and before the opening of business at such Office or Agency on the
related proposed date for payment of interest or Defaulted Interest, as the
case may be, interest shall 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 shall 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 global Security shall be payable in accordance with the
provisions of this Indenture.
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 entitling the Holders thereof to 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 for such Security 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, redemption or conversion 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, 905 or
1107 not involving any transfer.
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Except as otherwise provided in or pursuant to this Indenture,
the Company shall not be required (i) to issue, register the transfer of or
exchange any Securities during a period beginning at the opening of business 15
days before the day of the selection for redemption of Securities of like tenor
and the same series under Section 1103 and ending at the close of business (A)
if Securities of the series are issuable only as Registered Securities, on the
day of the mailing of the relevant notice of redemption, and (B) if Securities
of the series are issuable as Bearer Securities, on the day of the first
publication of the relevant notice of redemption or, if Securities of the
series 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 so selected for redemption in
whole or in part, except in the case of any 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 may be exchanged for a
Registered Security of like tenor and the same series, provided that such
Registered Security shall be immediately 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 to be so
repaid.
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, subject to the
provisions of this Section 306, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a new Security of the same series
containing identical terms and of like principal amount and bearing a number
not contemporaneously outstanding, with Coupons appertaining thereto
corresponding to the Coupons, if any, appertaining to the surrendered Security.
If there be delivered to the Company and to 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
exchange for or in lieu of any such mutilated, 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 containing identical terms and of like
principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding, with
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 foregoing provisions of this Section 306,
in case any 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
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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 306,
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, with any Coupons appertaining thereto
issued pursuant to this Section in lieu of any destroyed, lost or stolen
Security, or in exchange for a Security to which a destroyed, lost or stolen
Coupon appertains shall constitute a separate 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 such
series and any Coupons, if any, duly issued hereunder.
The provisions of this Section 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 and Certain Additional
Amounts; Rights to Interest and Certain
Additional Amounts Preserved.
Unless otherwise provided in or pursuant to this Indenture,
any interest on and any Additional Amounts with respect to any Registered
Security which shall be payable, and are punctually paid or duly provided for,
on any Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the Person in whose name such
Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered as of the close
of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest. Unless otherwise
provided in or pursuant to this Indenture, in case a Bearer Security is
surrendered in exchange for a Registered Security 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.
Unless otherwise provided in or pursuant to this Indenture,
any interest on and any Additional Amounts with respect to any Registered
Security which shall be payable, but shall not be punctually paid or duly
provided for, on any Interest Payment Date for such Registered Security (herein
called "Defaulted Interest") shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder
thereof on the relevant Regular Record Date by virtue of having been such
Holder; and
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such Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Company, at its election in each
case, as provided in Clause (1) or (2) below:
(1) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted
Interest to the Person in whose name such Registered Security (or a
Predecessor Security thereof) shall be 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 such 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 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
on or prior to the date of the proposed payment, such money when so
deposited to be held in trust for the benefit of the Person entitled
to such Defaulted Interest as in this Clause provided. Thereupon, the
Trustee shall fix a Special Record Date for the payment of such
Defaulted Interest which shall be not 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 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 the Holder of such Registered Security
(or a Predecessor Security thereof) 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 mailed as
aforesaid, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Person in
whose name such Registered Security (or a Predecessor Security
thereof) shall be 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 proposed date of payment 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 make payment of any Defaulted Interest in
any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any
securities exchange on which such Security may be listed, and upon
such notice as may be required by such
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exchange, if, after notice given by the Company to the Trustee of the
proposed payment pursuant to this Clause, such payment shall be deemed
practicable by the Trustee.
At the option of the Company, interest on Registered
Securities that bear interest may be paid by mailing a check to the address of
the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security
Register.
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section 307 and
Section 305, 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 in the Security Register as the owner of such Registered Security
for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of, any premium and (subject
to Sections 305 and 307) interest on and any Additional Amounts with respect to
such Registered Security and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not
any payment with respect to such Registered Security shall be overdue, and
neither the Company, nor the Trustee or 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, for the purpose of conversion 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, nor 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 global Security
held on its behalf by a Depository shall have any rights under this Indenture
with respect to such global Security, and such Depository may be treated by the
Company, the Trustee, and any agent of the Company or the Trustee as the owner
of such global 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 global Security
or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records relating to such
beneficial ownership interests.
Section 309. Cancellation.
All Securities and Coupons surrendered for payment,
redemption, registration of transfer, exchange or 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 any such Securities and Coupons,
as well as Securities and Coupons surrendered directly to the Trustee for any
such purpose, shall be cancelled promptly by the Trustee. The Company may at
any time
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deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated
and delivered hereunder which the Company may have acquired in any manner
whatsoever, and all Securities so delivered shall be cancelled promptly by the
Trustee. No Securities shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for
any Securities cancelled as provided in this Section, except as expressly
permitted by or pursuant to this Indenture. All cancelled Securities and
Coupons held by the Trustee shall be destroyed by the Trustee, unless by a
Company Order the Company directs their return to it in a timely manner.
Section 310. Computation of Interest.
Except as otherwise provided in or pursuant to this Indenture,
interest on the Securities shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of
twelve 30-day months.
ARTICLE FOUR
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
Section 401. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture.
Upon the direction of the Company by a Company Order, this
Indenture shall cease to be of further effect (except as to any surviving
rights of registration of transfer or exchange of Securities herein expressly
provided for and any right to receive Additional Amounts), and the Trustee, on
receipt of a Company Order, at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper
instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, when
(1) either
(A) all Securities theretofore authenticated and
delivered and all Coupons appertaining thereto (other than (i)
Coupons appertaining to Bearer Securities surrendered in
exchange for Registered Securities and maturing after such
exchange whose surrender is not required or has been waived as
provided in Xxxxxxx 000, (xx) Securities and Coupons which
have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been
replaced or paid as provided in Xxxxxxx 000, (xxx) Coupons
appertaining to Securities called for redemption and maturing
after the relevant Redemption Date whose surrender has been
waived as provided in Section 1107, and (iv) Securities and
Coupons 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 and, in the case of (i) or (ii)
below, any Coupons appertaining thereto not theretofore
delivered to the Trustee for cancellation
(i) have become due and payable, or
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(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 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
deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust
funds in trust for such purpose, money and/or Government
Obligations which through the payment of interest and
principal in respect thereof in accordance with their terms,
without consideration of any reinstatement thereof, will
provide not later than the opening of business on the due
dates of any payment of principal and any premium, interest
and Additional Amounts with respect thereto, or a combination
thereof, money in an amount sufficient to pay and discharge
the entire indebtedness on such Securities and Coupons 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 Maturity thereof, as the case may be;
(2) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums
payable hereunder by the Company; 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 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 all series as to which it is Trustee and if the other
conditions thereto are met. In the event there are two or more Trustees
hereunder, then the effectiveness of any such instrument shall be conditioned
upon receipt of each such instrument from all Trustees hereunder.
Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this
Indenture, the obligations of the Company to the Trustee under Section 605, the
obligations of the Trustee to any Authenticating Agent under Section 610 and,
if money and/or Government Obligations shall have been deposited with the
Trustee pursuant to subclause (B) of Clause (1) of this Section, the
obligations of the Trustee under Section 403 and the last paragraph of Section
1003 shall survive.
In the event that, subsequent to the date a discharge is
effected pursuant to this Section 401, Additional Amounts in excess of those
established as of the date such discharge is effected become payable in respect
of any Securities, in order to preserve the benefits of the discharge
established hereunder, the Company shall deposit or cause to be deposited in
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accordance with provisions of this Section 401, within ten business days prior
to the earlier to occur of (i) one year after the existence of such excess
Additional Amounts is established and (ii) the date the first payment in
respect of any portion of such excess Additional Amounts becomes due, such
additional funds as are necessary to satisfy the provisions of this Section 401
as if a discharge were being effected as of the date of such subsequent
deposit. For purposes of this paragraph, the existence of excess Additional
Amounts shall be deemed to have been established as of the date the
governmental authority imposing the tax, assessment or other governmental
charge resulting in the Additional Amounts first publishes the legislation,
regulation or other enactment adopting such tax, assessment or other
governmental charge. Failure to comply with the requirements of this paragraph
shall result in the termination of the benefits of the discharge established by
this Section 401.
Section 402. Satisfaction, Discharge and Defeasance of
Securities of any Series.
If provision is made in or pursuant to this Indenture for
defeasance of Securities of any series and any Coupons appertaining thereto
pursuant to this Section 402, the Company may at any time elect to have this
Section 402 be applied to the outstanding Securities and the Company shall be
deemed to have paid and discharged the entire indebtedness on all the
Outstanding Securities of such series and the Trustee, at the expense of the
Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and
discharge of such indebtedness, when
(1) no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, or
would occur upon the giving of notice or the lapse of time at the time
such satisfaction and discharge is being effected and either
(A) with respect to all Outstanding Securities of
such series and any Coupons appertaining thereto, the Company
has irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited with the
Trustee, as trust funds and/or obligations in trust for such
purpose, money and/or Government Obligations which through the
payment of interest and principal in respect thereof in
accordance with their terms, without consideration of any
reinvestment thereof, will provide not later than the opening
of business on the due dates of any payment of principal and
any premium, interest and Additional Amounts with respect
thereto, or a combination thereof, money in an amount
sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on all
Outstanding Securities of such series 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 Maturity thereof, as the case may be,
as contemplated by the penultimate paragraph of this Section
402; or
(B) the Company has properly fulfilled such other
means of satisfaction and discharge as is provided in or
pursuant to this Indenture for the Securities of such series;
and
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(2) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums
payable hereunder with respect to the Outstanding Securities of such
series and any Coupons appertaining thereto; and
(3) the Company has delivered to the Trustee a certificate
signed by Independent Public Accountants certifying as to the
sufficiency of the amounts deposited pursuant to subsections (A)(i) or
(ii) of this Section for payment of the principal of, any premium and
interest on and any Additional Amounts with respect to such Securities
and any Coupons appertaining thereto on the dates such payments are
due, an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each such
Certificate and Opinion stating that 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 shall have occurred and all
conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction
and discharge of the entire indebtedness on all Outstanding Securities
of any such series and any Coupons appertaining thereto shall have
been complied with; and
(4) the Company has delivered to the Trustee
(A) an opinion of independent counsel that the
Holders of the Securities of such series and any Coupons
appertaining thereto shall have no federal income tax
consequences as a result of such deposit and termination; and
(B) if the Securities of such series are then listed
on the New York Stock Exchange, an opinion of independent
counsel that the Securities of such series shall not be
delisted as a result of the exercise of this option.
Any deposits with the Trustee referred to in subsection (1)(A)
of this Section shall be irrevocable and shall be made under the terms of an
escrow trust agreement in form and substance satisfactory to the Trustee. If
any Outstanding Securities of such series are to be redeemed prior to their
Stated Maturity, whether pursuant to any optional redemption provisions or in
accordance with any mandatory sinking fund requirement or otherwise, the
Company shall make such arrangements as are satisfactory to the Trustee for the
giving of notice of redemption by the Trustee in the name, and at the expense,
of the Company.
Upon the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in this
Section 402 with respect to all the Outstanding Securities of any series and
any Coupons appertaining thereto, the terms and conditions of such series
(including the terms and conditions with respect thereto set forth in this
Indenture, other than the provisions of Sections 305, 306, and 1002 and other
than the right of Holders of Securities of such series and any Coupons
appertaining thereto to receive, from the trust fund described in this Section,
payment of the principal of, any premium or the interest on, or any Additional
Amounts with respect to such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto
when such payments shall be due) and the rights, powers, duties and immunities
of the Trustee hereunder with respect to the Securities of such series shall no
longer be binding upon, or applicable to, the Company; provided that the
Company shall not be discharged from any payment obligations in respect of
Securities of such series or any Coupons appertaining thereto
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which are deemed not to be Outstanding under clause (iii) of the definition of
Outstanding if such obligations continue to be valid obligations of the Company
under applicable law.
In the event that, subsequent to the date a defeasance is
effected pursuant to this Section 402 with respect to Securities of any series,
Additional Amounts in excess of those established as of the date such
defeasance is effected become payable in respect of such Securities, in order
to preserve the benefits of the defeasance established hereunder with respect
to such series, the Company shall deposit or cause to be deposited in
accordance with the provisions of this Section 402, within ten business days
prior to the earlier to occur of (i) one year after the existence of such
excess Additional Amounts is established and (ii) the date the first payment in
respect of any portion of such excess Additional Amounts becomes due, such
additional funds as are necessary to satisfy the provisions of this Section 402
as if a defeasance were being effected as of the date of such subsequent
deposit. For purposes of this paragraph, the existence of excess Additional
Amounts shall be deemed to have been established as of the date the
governmental authority imposing the tax, assessment or other governmental
charge resulting in the Additional Amounts first publishes the legislation,
regulation or other enactment adopting such tax, assessment or other
governmental charge. Failure to comply with the requirements of this paragraph
shall result in the termination of the benefits of the defeasance established
by this Section 402 with respect to the Securities of such series.
Section 403. Application of Trust Money.
Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section
1003, all money and Government Obligations deposited with the Trustee pursuant
to Section 401 or 402 shall be held in trust and applied by it, in accordance
with the provisions of the Securities, the Coupons and this Indenture, to the
payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Company
acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Persons
entitled thereto, of the principal, premium, interest and Additional Amounts
for whose payment such money has or Government Obligations have been deposited
with or received by the Trustee; but such money and Government Obligations need
not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.
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 be
effected by operation of law pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any
court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental
body):
(1) default in the payment of any interest on or any
Additional Amounts payable in respect of any Security of such series
when such interest becomes or such Additional
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Amounts become due and payable, and continuance of such default for a
period of 30 days; or
(2) default in the payment of the principal of and any
premium on any Security of such series when it becomes due and payable
at its Maturity; or
(3) default in the deposit of any sinking fund payment, when
and as due by the terms of a Security of such series; or
(4) default in the performance, or breach, of any covenant or
warranty of the Company in this Indenture or the Securities (other
than a covenant or warranty a default in the performance or the breach
of which is elsewhere in this Section specifically dealt with or which
has been expressly included in this Indenture solely for the benefit
of a series of Securities other than 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 such 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) if any event of default as defined in any mortgage,
indenture or instrument under which there may be issued, or by which
there may be secured or evidenced, any indebtedness of the Company or
any Significant Subsidiary for money borrowed, whether such
indebtedness now exists or shall hereafter be created, shall happen
and shall result in such indebtedness in principal amount in excess of
$10,000,000 becoming or being declared due and payable prior to the
date on which it would otherwise become due and payable, and such
acceleration shall not be rescinded or annulled within a period of 30
days after there shall have 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 such series, a written notice specifying such event of
default and requiring the Company to cause such acceleration to be
rescinded or annulled and stating that such notice is a "Notice of
Default" hereunder; or
(6) the entry by a court having competent jurisdiction of:
(a) a decree or order for relief in respect of the
Company or any Significant Subsidiary in an involuntary
proceeding under any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization or other similar law and such decree or order
shall remain unstayed and in effect for a period of 60
consecutive days; or
(b) a decree or order adjudging the Company or any
Significant Subsidiary to be insolvent, or approving a
petition seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or
composition of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary and
such decree or order shall remain unstayed and in effect for a
period of 60 consecutive days; or
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(c) a final and non-appealable order appointing a
custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee or other
similar official of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary
or of any substantial part of the property of the Company or
any Significant Subsidiary, as the case may be, or ordering
the winding up or liquidation of the affairs of the Company or
any Significant Subsidiary; or
(7) the commencement by the Company or any Significant
Subsidiary of a voluntary proceeding under any applicable bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or of a voluntary
proceeding seeking to be adjudicated insolvent or the consent by the
Company or any Significant Subsidiary to the entry of a decree or
order for relief in an involuntary proceeding under any applicable
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or to the
commencement of any insolvency proceedings against it, or the filing
by the Company or any Significant Subsidiary of a petition or answer
or consent seeking reorganization or relief under any applicable law,
or the consent by the Company or any Significant Subsidiary to the
filing of such petition or to the appointment of or taking possession
by a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee or similar
official of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary or any
substantial part of the property of the Company or any Significant
Subsidiary or the making by the Company or any Significant Subsidiary
of an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the taking of
corporate action by the Company or any Significant Subsidiary in
furtherance of any such action; or
(8) any other Event of Default provided in or pursuant to
this Indenture with respect to Securities of such series.
If a default occurs hereunder with respect to Securities of
any series, the Trustee shall give the Holders of Securities of such series
notice of such default as and to the extent provided by the Trust Indenture
Act; provided, however, that in the case of any default of the character
specified in Section 501(4) with respect to Securities of such series, no such
notice to Holders shall be given until at least 30 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 Securities of such series.
Section 502. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and
Annulment.
If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any
series at the time Outstanding occurs and is continuing, then the Trustee or
the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of such series may declare the principal of all the Securities of
such series, or such lesser amount as may be provided for in the Securities of
such series, to be due and payable immediately, by a notice in writing to the
Company (and to the Trustee if given by the Holders), and upon any such
declaration such principal or such lesser amount 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 not less than a
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majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such 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
of money sufficient to pay
(A) all overdue installments of any interest on and
any Additional Amounts with respect to all Securities of such
series and any Coupon appertaining thereto,
(B) the principal of and any premium on any
Securities of such series which have become due otherwise than
by such declaration of acceleration and interest thereon at
the rate or rates borne by or provided for in such Securities,
(C) to the extent that payment of such interest is
lawful, interest upon overdue installments of any interest and
Additional Amounts at the rate or rates borne by or provided
for in such Securities, and
(D) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee
hereunder and the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and
counsel; and
(2) all Events of Default with respect to Securities of such
series, other than the non-payment of the principal of, any premium
and interest on, and any Additional Amounts with respect to Securities
of such series which shall have become due solely by such declaration
of acceleration, shall have been cured or waived as provided in
Section 513.
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 installment of
interest on or any Additional Amounts with respect to any Security or
any Coupon appertaining thereto when such interest or Additional
Amounts shall have become 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 any
premium on any Security at its Maturity,
the Company shall, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to the Trustee, for the
benefit of the Holders of such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto,
the whole amount of money then due and payable with respect to such Securities
and any Coupons appertaining thereto, with interest upon the overdue principal,
any premium and, to the extent that payment of such interest shall be
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legally enforceable, upon any overdue installments of interest and Additional
Amounts at the rate or rates borne by or provided for in such Securities, and,
in addition thereto, such further amount of money as shall be sufficient to
cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the reasonable
compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents
and counsel.
If the Company fails to pay the money it is required to pay
the Trustee pursuant to the preceding paragraph forthwith upon the demand of
the Trustee, the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust,
may institute a judicial proceeding for the collection of the money so due and
unpaid, and 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 any Coupons appertaining thereto 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 covenant or agreement
in this Indenture or such Securities or in aid of the exercise of any power
granted herein or therein, 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 such other obligor or their
creditors, the Trustee (irrespective of whether the principal of the 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 any overdue principal, premium, interest or
Additional Amounts) shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such
proceeding or otherwise,
(i) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount, or such
lesser amount as may be provided for in the Securities of such series,
of the principal and any premium, interest and Additional Amounts
owing and unpaid in respect of the Securities and any Coupons
appertaining thereto and to file such other papers or documents as may
be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee
(including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents or counsel) and
of the Holders of Securities or any Coupons allowed in such judicial
proceeding, and
(ii) to collect and receive any monies or other property
payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same;
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and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or
other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by
each Holder of Securities or any Coupons 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 of Securities or any Coupons, to pay to the Trustee any
amount due to it for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and
advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel and any other amounts due the
Trustee under Section 605.
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the
Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder
of a Security or any Coupon any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment
or composition affecting the Securities or Coupons or the rights of any Holder
thereof, or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any
Holder of a Security or any Coupon in any such proceeding.
Section 505. Trustee May Enforce Claims without Possession of
Securities or Coupons.
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 or judgment, after provision for the payment of the reasonable
compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents
and counsel, shall be for the ratable benefit of each and every Holder of a
Security or Coupon 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
shall be applied in the following order, at the date or dates fixed by the
Trustee and, in 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 605;
SECOND: To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid
upon the Securities and any Coupons for principal and any premium,
interest and Additional Amounts 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 aggregate amounts due and
payable on such Securities and Coupons for principal and any premium,
interest and Additional Amounts, respectively;
THIRD: The balance, if any, to the Person or Persons entitled
thereto.
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Section 507. Limitations 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 such series;
(2) the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of
the Outstanding Securities of such 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 such
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 such Holders or Holders of Securities of any other series, or to
obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other Holders or to
enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided
and for the equal and ratable benefit of all such Holders.
Section 508. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive
Principal and any Premium, Interest and
Additional Amounts and to Convert any
Convertible Security.
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, any premium and (subject
to Sections 305 and 307) interest on, and any Additional Amounts with respect
to such Security or payment of such Coupon, as the case may be, on the
respective Stated Maturity or Maturities therefor specified in such Security or
Coupon (or, in the case of redemption, on the Redemption Date or, in the case
of repayment at the option of such Holder if provided in or pursuant to this
Indenture, on the date such repayment is due) and to institute suit for the
enforcement of any such payment, and shall have the right to convert any such
Security which is a Convertible Security in accordance with the terms hereof
and thereof and to institute suit for enforcement of such right; and such
rights shall not be impaired without the consent of such Holder.
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Section 509. Restoration of Rights and Remedies.
If the Trustee or any Holder of a Security or a Coupon 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 the Company, the Trustee and each such Holder shall, subject to any
determination in such proceeding, be restored severally and respectively to
their former positions hereunder, and thereafter all rights and remedies of the
Trustee and each such Holder shall continue as though no such proceeding had
been instituted.
Section 510. Rights and Remedies.
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 each and every Holder of a Security or a Coupon
is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and
remedy, to the extent permitted by law, shall 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 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
Security or Coupon 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 any Holder of a Security or a
Coupon may be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed
expedient, by the Trustee or by such Holder, as the case may be.
Section 512. Control by Holders of Securities.
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 and any Coupons appertaining thereto,
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,
(2) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by
the Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction,
(3) such direction is not unduly prejudicial to the rights of
the other Holders of Securities of such series not joining in such
action (subject to the provisions of Section
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601), it being understood that the Trustee shall have no duty or
ascertain whether or not such actions or forebearances are unduly
prejudicial to such Holders; and
(4) the Trustee shall have the right to decline to follow any
such direction if the Trustee in good faith shall determine that the
action or proceedings so directed might involve the Trustee in
personal liability.
Section 513. Waiver of Past Defaults.
The Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of
the Outstanding Securities of any series on behalf of the Holders of all the
Securities of such series and any Coupons appertaining thereto may waive any
past default hereunder with respect to such series and its consequences, except
a default
(1) in the payment of the principal of, any premium or
interest on, or any Additional Amounts with respect to any Security of
such series or any Coupons appertaining thereto, 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. Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws.
The Company covenants that (to the extent that it may lawfully
do so) 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
wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the
covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and the Company expressly
waives (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) all benefit or advantage of
any such law and covenant that it will not hinder, delay or impede the
execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will 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 Rights of Trustee.
Subject to 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 any resolution, certificate, statement,
instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent,
order, bond, debenture, note, coupon or other paper or document
reasonably 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 a Company
Order (in each case, 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
sufficiently 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 shall be herein specifically
prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, rely upon an
Officers' Certificate;
(d) before the Trustee acts or refrains from acting, the
Trustee may consult with counsel and the 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 or pursuant to this Indenture
at the request or direction of any of the Holders of Securities 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, coupon or other paper or document,
but the Trustee, in its discretion, may make 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, during business hours
and upon reasonable notice, the books, records and premises of the
Company, personally or by agent or attorney;
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(g) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers
hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or
through agents or attorneys and the Trustee shall not be responsible
for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent or attorney
appointed with due care by it hereunder;
(h) the Trustee shall not be required to give any bond or
surety in respect of the performance of its powers and duties
hereunder;
(i) the permissive rights of the Trustee to do things
enumerated in this Indenture shall not be construed as a duty and the
Trustee shall not be answerable for other than its negligence or
willful misconduct; and
(j) except for (i) a default under Sections 501(1) or (2)
hereof, or (ii) any other event of which the Trustee has "actual
knowledge" and which event, with the giving of notice or the passage
of time or both, would constitute an Event of Default under this
Indenture, the Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice of any
default or Event of Default unless specifically notified in writing of
such event by the Company or the Holders of not less than 25% in
aggregate principal amount of the Securities then outstanding; as used
herein, the term "actual knowledge" means the actual fact or statement
of knowing, without any duty to make any investigation with regard
thereto.
Section 602. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of
Securities.
The recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except
the Trustee's certificate 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 the 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. Neither
the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent shall be accountable for the use or
application by the Company of the Securities or the proceeds thereof.
Section 603. 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
the Company, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or
pledgee of Securities or Coupons and, subject to Sections 310(b) and 311 of the
Trust Indenture Act, 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.
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Section 604. Money Held in Trust.
Except as provided in Section 403 and Section 1003, money held
by the Trustee in trust hereunder need not be segregated from other funds
except to the extent required by law and shall be held uninvested. The Trustee
shall be under no liability for interest on any money received by it hereunder
except as otherwise agreed with the Company.
Section 605. Compensation and Reimbursement.
The Company agrees:
(1) to pay to the Trustee from time to time, and the Trustee
shall be entitled to, reasonable compensation for all services
rendered by the Trustee 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 upon its request for all reasonable expenses,
disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Trustee in
accordance with any provision of this Indenture, including costs and
expenses incurred in collection (including the reasonable compensation
and the expenses and disbursements of its agents and counsel), except
any such expense, disbursement or advance as may be attributable to
the Trustee's negligence or willful misconduct; and
(3) to indemnify the Trustee and its agents for, and to hold
them harmless against, any loss, liability or expense incurred without
negligence or bad faith on their 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 themselves
against, or investigating, any claim or liability in connection with
the exercise or performance of any of their powers or duties
hereunder.
As security for the performance of the obligations of the
Company under this Section 605, the Trustee shall have a lien prior to the
Securities of any series upon all property and funds held or collected by the
Trustee as such, except funds held in trust for the payment of principal of,
and premium or interest on or any Additional Amounts with respect to Securities
or any Coupons appertaining thereto. When the Trustee incurs expenses or
renders services in connection with an Event of Default specified in Article
Five hereof, the expenses (including reasonable fees and expenses of its
counsel) and the compensation for the services in connection therewith are
intended to constitute expenses of administration under any applicable
bankruptcy law.
Section 606. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility.
There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder that is a
Corporation permitted by the Trust Indenture Act to act as trustee under an
indenture qualified under the Trust Indenture Act and that has a combined
capital and surplus (computed in accordance with Section 310(a)(2) of the Trust
Indenture Act) of at least $50,000,000. If at any time the Trustee shall cease
to be
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eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section 606, it shall resign
immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this
Article.
Section 607. 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 pursuant to Section 608.
(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 608 shall not have been delivered to the Trustee
within 30 days after the giving of such notice of resignation, the
resigning Trustee may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for
the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to 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 the Company.
(d) If at any time:
(1) the Trustee shall fail to comply with the
obligations imposed upon it under Section 310(b) of the Trust
Indenture Act with respect to Securities of any series after
written request therefor by the Company or any Holder of a
Security of such series who has been a bona fide Holder of a
Security of such series for at least six months, or
(2) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under
Section 606 and shall fail to resign after written request
therefor by the Company or any such Holder, 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 a Board
Resolution, may remove the Trustee with respect to all Securities or
the Securities of such series, or (ii) subject to Section 315(e) of
the Trust Indenture Act, any Holder of a Security 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 removal of the Trustee with
respect to all Securities of such series and the appointment of a
successor Trustee or Trustees.
(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
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one or more series, the Company, by or pursuant to a 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 608. 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
608, 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 of Securities and accepted appointment in the manner
required by Section 608, any Holder of a Security 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 by mailing written notice of such event by
first-class mail, postage prepaid, to the Holders of Registered
Securities, if any, of such series as their names and addresses appear
in the Security Register and, if Securities of such series are issued
as Bearer Securities, by publishing notice of such event once in an
Authorized Newspaper in each Place of Payment located outside the
United States. Each notice shall include the name of the successor
Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series and the address
of its Corporate Trust Office.
Section 608. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.
(a) Upon the appointment hereunder of any successor Trustee
with respect to all Securities, such successor Trustee so appointed
shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Company and 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 hereunder of the retiring Trustee; but, on the request of
the Company or such successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee, upon
payment of its charges, shall 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, subject
nevertheless to its claim, if any, provided for in Section 605.
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(b) Upon the appointment hereunder of any successor Trustee
with respect to the Securities of one or more (but not all) series,
the Company, the retiring Trustee and such successor Trustee 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, such 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, that each such Trustee
shall be trustee of a trust or trusts hereunder separate and apart
from any trust or trusts hereunder administered by any other such
Trustee and that no Trustee shall be responsible for any notice given
to, or received by, or any act or failure to act on the part of any
other Trustee hereunder, and, upon the execution and delivery of such
supplemental indenture, the resignation or removal of the retiring
Trustee shall become effective to the extent provided therein, such
retiring Trustee shall have no further responsibility for the exercise
of rights and powers or for the performance of the duties and
obligations vested in the Trustee under this Indenture with respect to
the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of
such successor Trustee relates other than as hereinafter expressly set
forth, 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 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 such successor
Trustee, such retiring Trustee, upon payment of its charges with
respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the
appointment of such successor relates and subject to Section 1003
shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee, to
the extent contemplated by such supplemental indenture, the property
and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder with respect to the
Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such
successor Trustee relates.
(c) Upon request of any Person appointed hereunder as a
successor Trustee, the Company shall execute any and all instruments
for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such
successor Trustee all such rights, powers and trusts referred to in
paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section 608, as the case may be.
(d) No Person shall accept its appointment hereunder as a
successor Trustee unless at the time of such acceptance such successor
Person shall be qualified and eligible under this Article.
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Section 609. 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 of the
corporate trust business of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee
hereunder, 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.
Section 610. Appointment of Authenticating Agent.
The Trustee may appoint one or more Authenticating Agents
acceptable to the Company with respect to one or more series of Securities
which shall be authorized to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate
Securities of that or those series issued upon original issue, exchange,
registration of transfer or partial redemption or conversion 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. 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, except as provided in or pursuant to this Indenture, shall at all times be
a corporation that would be permitted by the Trust Indenture Act to act as
trustee under an indenture qualified under the Trust Indenture Act, is
authorized under applicable law and by its charter to act as an Authenticating
Agent and has a combined capital and surplus (computed in accordance with
Section 310(a)(2) of the Trust Indenture Act) of at least $50,000,000. If at
any time an Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with
the provisions of this Section 610, it shall resign immediately in the manner
and with the effect specified in this Section 610.
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
be the successor of such Authenticating Agent hereunder, provided such
Corporation shall be otherwise eligible under this Section 610, 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 and the Company. The Trustee may at any
time terminate the agency of an Authenticating Agent by giving written notice
thereof to such Authenticating Agent and the Company. Upon receiving such a
notice of resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at
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any time such Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance
with the provisions of this Section, the Trustee 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 shall serve, as their names and addresses
appear in the Security Register, and (ii) if Securities of the 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 610.
The Trustee agrees to pay each Authenticating Agent from time
to time reasonable compensation for its services under this Section 610 and the
Trustee shall be entitled to be reimbursed for such payments, subject to the
provisions of Section 605.
The provisions of Sections 308, 602 and 603 shall be
applicable to each Authenticating Agent.
If an Authenticating Agent is appointed with respect to one or
more series of Securities pursuant to this Section 610, the Securities of such
series may have endorsed thereon, in addition to or in lieu of the Trustee's
certificate of authentication, an alternate certificate of authentication in
the following form:
This is one of the Securities of the series
designated herein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
, As Trustee
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By
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As Authenticating Agent
By
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Authorized Signatory
If all of the Securities of any series may not be originally
issued at one time, and if the Trustee does not have an office capable of
authenticating Securities upon original issuance located in a Place of Payment
where the Company wishes to have Securities of such series authenticated upon
original issuance, the Trustee, if so requested in writing (which writing need
not be accompanied by or contained in an Officers' Certificate by the Company),
shall appoint in accordance with this Section 610 an Authenticating Agent
having an office in a Place of Paymentdesignated by the Company with respect to
such series of Securities.
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ARTICLE SEVEN
HOLDER'S LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY
Section 701. Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses
of Holders.
In accordance with Section 312(a) of the Trust Indenture Act,
the Company shall furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee
(a) semi-annually with respect to Securities of each series
on June 30 and December 31 of each year or upon such other dates as
are set forth in or pursuant to the Board Resolution or indenture
supplemental hereto authorizing such series, a list, in each case in
such form as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and
addresses of Holders as of the applicable date, and
(b) at such other times as the Trustee may request in
writing, within 30 days after the receipt by the Company of any such
request, a list of similar form and content as of a date not more than
15 days prior to the time such list is furnished,
provided, however, 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.
The Trustee shall comply with the obligations imposed upon it
pursuant to Section 312 of the Trust Indenture Act. Every Holder of Securities
or Coupons, by receiving and holding the same, agrees with the Company and the
Trustee that neither the Company, the Trustee, any Paying Agent or any Security
Registrar shall be held accountable by reason of the disclosure of any such
information as to the names and addresses of the Holders of Securities in
accordance with Section 312 of 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 Section 312(b) of the Trust Indenture Act.
Section 703. Reports by Trustee.
(a) Within 60 days after September 15 of each year commencing
with the first September 15 following the first issuance of Securities pursuant
to Section 301, if required by Section 313(a) of the Trust Indenture Act, the
Trustee shall transmit, pursuant to Section 313(c) of the Trust Indenture Act,
a brief report dated as of such September 15 with respect to any of the events
specified in said Section 313(a) which may have occurred since the later of the
immediately preceding September 15 and the date of this Indenture.
(b) The Trustee shall transmit the reports required by
Section 313(b) of the Trust Indenture Act at the times specified therein.
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(c) Reports pursuant to this Section shall be transmitted in
the manner and to the Persons required by Sections 313(c) and 313(d) of the
Trust Indenture Act.
Section 704. Reports by Company.
The Company, pursuant to Section 314(a) of the Trust Indenture
Act, shall:
(1) file with the Trustee, within 15 days after the Company
is required to file the same with the Commission, copies of the annual
reports and of the information, documents and other reports (or copies
of such portions of any of the foregoing as the Commission may from
time to time by rules and regulations prescribe) which the Company may
be required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or
Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; or, if the
Company is not required to file information, documents or reports
pursuant to either of said Sections, then it shall file with the
Trustee and the Commission, in accordance with rules and regulations
prescribed from time to time by the Commission, such of the
supplementary and periodic information, documents and reports which
may be required pursuant to Section 13 of the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934 in respect of a security listed and registered on a national
securities exchange as may be prescribed from time to time in such
rules and regulations;
(2) file with the Trustee and the Commission, in accordance
with rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the
Commission, such additional information, documents and reports with
respect to compliance by the Company, as the case may be, with the
conditions and covenants of this Indenture as may be required from
time to time by such rules and regulations; and
(3) transmit within 30 days after the filing thereof with the
Trustee, in the manner and to the extent provided in Section 313(c) of
the Trust Indenture Act, such summaries of any information, documents
and reports required to be filed by the Company pursuant to paragraphs
(1) and (2) of this Section 704 as may be required by rules and
regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission.
ARTICLE EIGHT
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER AND SALES
Section 801. Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain
Terms.
Nothing contained in this Indenture or in any of the
Securities shall prevent any consolidation or merger of the Company with or
into any other Person or Persons (whether or not affiliated with the Company),
or successive consolidations or mergers in which the Company or its successor
or successors shall be a party or parties, or shall prevent any conveyance,
transfer or lease of the property of the Company as an entirety or
substantially as an entirety, to any other Person (whether or not affiliated
with the Company); provided, however, that:
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(1) in case the Company shall consolidate with or merge into
another Person or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets
substantially as an entirety to any Person, the entity formed by such
consolidation or into which the Company is merged or the Person which
acquires by conveyance or transfer, or which leases, the properties
and assets of the Company substantially as an entirety shall be a
Corporation organized and existing under the laws of the United States
of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and shall
expressly assume, by an indenture (or indentures, if at such time
there is more than one Trustee) supplemental hereto, executed by the
successor Person and delivered to the Trustee, in form satisfactory to
the Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the principal of, any
premium and interest on and any Additional Amounts with respect to all
the Securities and the performance of every other covenant of this
Indenture on the part of the Company to be performed or observed;
(2) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no
event which, after notice or lapse of time, would become an Event of
Default, shall have occurred and be continuing;
(3) either the Company or the successor Person shall have
delivered to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of
Counsel, stating that such consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer
or lease and such supplemental indenture comply with this Article and
that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such
transaction have been complied with.
Section 802. Successor Person Substituted for Company.
Upon any consolidation or merger or any conveyance, transfer
or lease of the properties and assets of the Company substantially as an
entirety to any Person in accordance with Section 801, the successor Person
formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or to which
such conveyance, transfer or lease is made shall succeed to, and be substituted
for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Company under this
Indenture with the same effect as if such successor Person had been named as
the Company herein; and thereafter, except in the case of a lease to another
Person, the predecessor Person shall be released from all obligations and
covenants under this Indenture, the Securities and the Coupons.
ARTICLE NINE
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
Section 901. Supplemental Indentures without Consent of
Holders.
Without the consent of any Holders of Securities or Coupons,
the Company (when authorized by or pursuant to a Board Resolution) 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:
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(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; or
(2) to add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit of
the Holders of all or any series of Securities (as shall be specified
in such supplemental indenture or indentures) or to surrender any
right or power herein conferred upon the Company; or
(3) to add to or change any of the provisions of this
Indenture to provide that Bearer Securities may be registrable as to
principal, to change or eliminate any restrictions on the payment of
principal of, any premium or interest on or any Additional Amounts
with respect to Securities, to permit Registered Securities to be
exchanged for Bearer Securities, to permit Bearer Securities to be
exchanged for Bearer Securities of other authorized denominations or
to permit or facilitate the issuance of Securities in uncertificated
form, provided 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
(4) to establish the form or terms of Securities of any
series and any Coupons appertaining thereto as permitted by Sections
201 and 301; or
(5) 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,
pursuant to the requirements of Section 608; or
(6) to cure any ambiguity or to correct or supplement any
provision herein which may be defective or inconsistent with any other
provision herein, or to make any other provisions with respect to
matters or questions arising under this Indenture which shall not
adversely affect the interests of the Holders of Securities of any
series or any Coupons appertaining thereto in any material respect; or
(7) to add to, delete from or revise the conditions,
limitations and restrictions on the authorized amount, terms or
purposes of issue, authentication and delivery of Securities, as
herein set forth; or
(8) to add any additional Events of Default with respect to
all or any series of Securities (as shall be specified in such
supplemental indenture); or
(9) to supplement any of the provisions of this Indenture to
such extent as shall be necessary to permit or facilitate the
defeasance and discharge of any series of Securities pursuant to
Article Four; provided that any such action shall not adversely affect
the interests of any Holder of a Security of such series and any
Coupons appertaining thereto or any other Security or Coupon in any
material respect; or
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(10) to secure the Securities pursuant to Section 1006 or
otherwise;
(11) to amend or supplement any provision contained herein or
in any supplemental indenture, provided that no such amendment or
supplement shall materially adversely affect the interests of the
Holders of any Securities then Outstanding; or
(12) to make provision with respect to the conversion rights
of Holders of Convertible Securities pursuant to the requirements of
Section 1606.
Section 902. Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders.
With the consent of the Holders of not less than 66-2/3% 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 or pursuant to a Company's Board
Resolution), 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
under this Indenture; provided, however, that no such supplemental indenture,
without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected
thereby, shall
(1) change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or any
premium or installment of interest on or any Additional Amounts with
respect to, any Security, or reduce the principal amount thereof or
the rate of interest thereon or any Additional Amounts with respect
thereto, or any premium payable upon the redemption thereof or
otherwise, or change the obligation of the Company to pay Additional
Amounts pursuant to Section 1004 (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 that would be due and
payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof
pursuant to Section 502 or the amount thereof provable in bankruptcy
pursuant to Section 504, or adversely affect the right of repayment at
the option of any Holder as contemplated by Article Thirteen, or
change the Place of Payment, Currency in which the principal of, 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 Stated Maturity
thereof (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption
Date or, in the case of repayment at the option of the Holder, on or
after the date for repayment), 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 (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,
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(3) modify any of the provisions of this Section 902, or
Section 513 or Section 1008, 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
(4) adversely affect the right to convert any Convertible
Security.
A supplemental indenture which changes or eliminates any
covenant or other provision of this Indenture which shall have been included
expressly and solely for the benefit of one or more particular series of
Securities, 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.
It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders of Securities
under this Section 902 to approve the particular form of any proposed
supplemental indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve
the substance thereof.
Section 903. Execution of Supplemental Indentures.
As a condition to executing, or accepting the additional
trusts created by, any supplemental indenture permitted by this Article or the
modifications thereby of the trust created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall
be entitled to receive, and (subject to Article Six hereof) 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 shall form a part of this Indenture for all purposes;
and every Holder of a Security theretofore or thereafter authenticated and
delivered hereunder and of any Coupon appertaining thereto shall be bound
thereby.
Section 905. 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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Section 906. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act.
Every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article
Nine shall conform to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act.
ARTICLE TEN
COVENANTS
Section 1001. Payment of Principal and any Premium, Interest
and Additional Amounts.
The Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of the
Holders of the Securities of each series that it will duly and punctually pay
the principal of, any premium and interest on and any Additional Amounts with
respect to the Securities of such series in accordance with the terms thereof,
any Coupons appertaining thereto and this Indenture. Any interest due on any
Bearer Security on or before the Maturity thereof, and any Additional Amounts
payable with respect to such interest, shall be payable only upon presentation
and surrender of the Coupons appertaining thereto for such interest as they
severally mature.
Section 1002. Maintenance of Office or Agency.
The Company shall maintain in each Place of Payment for any
series of Securities an Office or Agency where Securities of such series (but
not Bearer Securities, except as otherwise provided below, unless such Place of
Payment is located outside the United States) may be presented or surrendered
for payment, where Securities of such series may be surrendered for
registration of transfer or exchange or, if applicable, conversion and where
notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities of such
series relating thereto 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; provided, however, that if the Securities of such
series are listed on any stock exchange located outside the United States and
such stock exchange shall so require, the Company shall maintain a Paying Agent
in the 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 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 of 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.
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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 Security may be made at the Corporate Trust
Office of the Trustee or any Office or Agency designated by the Company in 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 shall 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 of Payment for
each series The City of New York, and initially appoints the Office or Agency
of the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee for such purpose. Pursuant to
Section 301(9) of this Indenture, the Company may subsequently appoint a place
or places in The City of New York where such Securities may be payable.
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 any series of Securities, it shall, on or before each due date
of the principal of, any premium or interest on or Additional Amounts with
respect to any of the Securities of such series, segregate and hold in trust
for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto a sum of money sufficient to
pay the principal or any premium, interest or Additional Amounts so becoming
due until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as
herein provided, and shall promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure
so to act.
Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents for
any series of Securities, it shall, on or prior to each due date of the
principal of, any premium or interest on or any Additional Amounts with respect
to any Securities of such series, deposit with any Paying Agent a sum of money
sufficient to pay the principal or any premium, interest or Additional Amounts
so becoming due, 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 shall cause each Paying Agent for any series of
Securities other than the Trustee to execute and deliver to the Trustee an
instrument in which such Paying Agent
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shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section, that
such Paying Agent shall:
(1) 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;
(2) give the Trustee notice of any default by the Company (or
any other obligor upon the Securities of such series) in the making of
any payment of principal, any premium or interest on or any Additional
Amounts with respect to the Securities of such series;
(3) at any time during the continuance of any such default,
upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee
all sums so held in trust by such Paying Agent; and
(4) comply with the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act
applicable to it as Paying Agent.
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 terms as those upon which such sums were held by the
Company or such Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the
Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with
respect to such money.
Except as otherwise provided herein or pursuant hereto, 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, any premium or interest
on or any Additional Amounts with respect to any Security of any series and
remaining unclaimed for two years after such principal or any such premium or
interest or any such Additional Amounts shall have become due and payable shall
be paid to the Company on Company Request, or (if then held by the Company)
shall be discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Security or any
Coupon appertaining thereto 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 to be mailed to Holders
of Registered Securities of such series, or both, 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 nor shall it be
later than two years after such principal and any premium or interest or
Additional Amounts shall have become due and payable, any unclaimed balance of
such money then remaining will be repaid to the Company.
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Section 1004. 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
therein. 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,
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 is
made), and at least 10 days prior to each date of payment of principal 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 or interest on the
Securities of such series shall be made to Holders of Securities of such series
or the Coupons appertaining thereto who are United States Aliens 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 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 (including
reasonable fees and expenses) 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 1004.
Section 1005. Limitation Upon Disposition of Voting Stock of
Significant Subsidiaries.
So long as any of the Securities shall be Outstanding but
subject to the provisions of Article Eight, the Company:
(a) will not, nor will it permit any Subsidiary to, sell,
assign, transfer or otherwise dispose of any shares of, securities
convertible into or options, warrants or rights to subscribe for or
purchase shares of, Voting Stock of a Significant Subsidiary (other
than sales of directors qualifying shares), and will not permit a
Significant Subsidiary to issue
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any shares of, or securities convertible into or options, warrants or
rights to subscribe for or purchase shares of, such Voting Stock
(other than sales of directors qualifying shares) if, in each case,
after giving effect to any such transaction and to the issuance of the
maximum number of shares of Voting Stock of such Significant
Subsidiary issuable upon the exercise of all such convertible
securities, options, warrants or rights, such Significant Subsidiary
would cease to be a Controlled Subsidiary, or
(b) will not permit a Significant Subsidiary to
(i) merge or consolidate with or into any other
corporation, unless the surviving corporation is the Company
or is, or upon consummation of the merger or consolidation
will become, a Controlled Subsidiary; or
(ii) lease, sell or transfer all or substantially
all of its properties and assets to any corporation or other
Person, except to the Company or to a Controlled Subsidiary or
a Person that, upon such lease, sale or transfer, will become
a Controlled Subsidiary.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, any such sale, assignment or
transfer of securities, any such merger or consolidation or any such lease,
sale or transfer of properties and assets shall not be prohibited if required
(i) by any law or any rule, regulation or order of any governmental agency or
authority or (ii) as a condition imposed by any law or any rule, regulation or
order of any governmental agency or authority to the acquisition by the
Company, directly or indirectly, through purchase of stock or assets, merger,
consolidation or otherwise, of any Person, provided that, after giving effect
to such disposition and acquisition, (A) such Person will be a Controlled
Subsidiary, and (B) the Consolidated Assets of the Company will be at least
equal to the Consolidated Assets of the Company prior thereto; and nothing in
this section shall prohibit the Company from the sale or transfer of assets
pursuant to any securitization transaction.
Section 1006. Limitation on Creation of Liens.
So long as any of the Securities shall be outstanding, the
Company will not, nor will it permit any Subsidiary to, create, assume, incur
or suffer to be created, assumed or incurred or to exist any pledge,
encumbrance or lien, as security for indebtedness for borrowed money, upon any
shares of, or securities convertible into or options, warrants or rights to
subscribe for or purchase shares of, Voting Stock of a Significant Subsidiary,
directly or indirectly, without making effective provision whereby the
Securities of all series shall be equally and ratably secured with any and all
such indebtedness if, treating such pledge, encumbrance or lien as a transfer
of the shares of, or securities convertible into or options, warrants or rights
to subscribe for or purchase shares of, Voting Stock subject thereto to the
secured party and to the issuance of the maximum number of shares of Voting
Stock of such Significant Subsidiary issuable upon the exercise of all such
convertible securities, options, warrants or rights, such Significant
Subsidiary would not continue to be a Controlled Subsidiary.
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Section 1007. Corporate Existence.
Subject to Article Eight, the Company will do or cause to be
done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its
corporate existence and the corporate existence of each Significant Subsidiary
and its rights (charter and statutory) and franchises and those of each such
Significant Subsidiary; provided, however, that neither the Company nor any
Significant Subsidiary shall be required to preserve any such right or
franchise if the Company or such Significant Subsidiary, as the case may be,
shall determine that the preservation thereof is no longer desirable in the
conduct of its business and that the loss thereof is not disadvantageous in any
material respect to the Holders.
Section 1008. Waiver of Certain Covenants.
The Company may omit in any particular instance to comply with
any term, provision or condition set forth in Section 1005, 1006 or 1007 with
respect to the Securities of any series if before the time for such compliance
the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of such series, by Act of such Holders, either shall waive such
compliance in such instance or generally shall have waived 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 1009. Company Statement as to Compliance; Notice of
Certain Defaults.
(a) The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days
after the end of each fiscal year, a written statement (which need not be
contained in or accompanied by an Officers' Certificate) signed by the
principal executive officer, the principal financial officer or the principal
accounting officer of the Company, stating that
(1) a review of the activities of the Company during such
year and of its performance under this Indenture has been made under
his or her supervision, and
(2) to the best of his or her knowledge, based on such
review, (a) the Company has complied with all the conditions and
covenants imposed on it under this Indenture throughout such year, or,
if there has been a default in the fulfillment of any such condition
or covenant, specifying each such default known to him or her and the
nature and status thereof, and (b) no event has occurred and is
continuing which is, or after notice or lapse of time or both would
become, an Event of Default, or, if such an event has occurred and is
continuing, specifying each such event known to him and the nature and
status thereof.
[(b) The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, within five
days after the occurrence thereof, written notice of any event which after
notice or lapse of time or both would become an Event of Default pursuant to
clause (4) of Section 501.]
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ARTICLE ELEVEN
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
Section 1101. Applicability of Article.
Redemption of Securities of any series at the option of the
Company as permitted or required by the terms of such Securities shall be made
in accordance with the terms of such Securities and (except as otherwise
provided herein or pursuant hereto) this Article.
Section 1102. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee.
The election of the Company to redeem any Securities shall be
evidenced by or pursuant to a Board Resolution. In case of any redemption at
the election of the Company of the Securities of any series, with the same
issue date, interest rate, Stated Maturity and other terms, the Company shall,
at least 60 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 and of the principal amount of Securities of such series
to be redeemed.
Section 1103. Selection by Trustee of Securities to be
Redeemed.
If less than all the Securities of any series with the same
issue date, interest rate, Stated Maturity and other 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, by such method
as the Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate and which may provide for the
selection for redemption of portions of the principal amount of Registered
Securities of such series; provided, however, that no such partial redemption
shall reduce the portion of the principal amount of a Registered Security of
such series not redeemed to less than the minimum denomination for a Security
of such series established herein or pursuant hereto.
If any Convertible Security selected for partial redemption is
converted in part before termination of the conversion right with respect to
the portion of the Security so selected, the converted portion of such Security
shall be deemed (so far as may be) to be the portion selected for redemption.
Securities which have been converted during a selection of Securities to be
redeemed shall be treated by the Trustee as Outstanding for the purpose of such
selection.
The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company and the Security
Registrar (if other than itself) 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 of such Securities which has been or is
to be redeemed.
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Section 1104. Notice of Redemption.
Notice of redemption shall be given in the manner provided in
Section 106, 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
the Holders of Securities to be redeemed. 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 Outstanding Securities of any series are
to be redeemed, the identification (and, in the case of partial
redemption, the principal amount) of the particular Security or
Securities to be redeemed,
(4) in case any Security is to be redeemed in part only, the
notice which relates to such Security shall state that on and after
the Redemption Date, upon surrender of such Security, the Holder of
such Security will receive, without charge, a new Security or
Securities of authorized denominations for the principal amount
thereof remaining unredeemed,
(5) that, on the Redemption Date, the Redemption Price shall
become due and payable upon each such Security or portion thereof to
be redeemed, and, if applicable, that interest thereon shall 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 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,
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(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) the CUSIP number or the Euro-clear or the CEDEL
reference numbers of such Securities, if any (or any other numbers
used by a Depository to identify such Securities), and
(11) in the case of Convertible Securities, the Conversion
Price then in effect, the date on which the right to convert the
principal amount of the Securities or the portions thereof to be
redeemed will terminate and the place or places where such Securities
may be surrendered for conversion,
A notice of redemption published in an Authorized Newspaper as
contemplated by Section 106 need not identify particular Registered Securities
to be redeemed.
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 sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of, and (except if the
Redemption Date shall be an Interest Payment Date) any accrued interest on and
Additional Amounts with respect thereto, all the Securities or portions thereof
which are to be redeemed on that date.
If any Convertible Security or portion thereof called for
redemption is converted pursuant to Article Sixteen, any money deposited with
the Trustee or so segregated and held in trust for the redemption of such
Security or portion thereof shall (subject to any right of the Holder of the
Security on a Regular Record Date preceding such conversion to receive
interest) be paid to the Company upon Company Request or, if then held by the
Company, shall be discharged from such trust.
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) such Securities shall 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 for redemption in
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accordance with said notice, together with all Coupons, if any, appertaining
thereto maturing after the Redemption Date, such Security shall be paid by the
Company at the Redemption Price, together with any accrued interest and
Additional Amounts to the Redemption Date; provided, however, that 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 otherwise provided in Section 1002), and provided, further,
that installments of interest on Registered Securities whose Stated Maturity is
on or prior to the Redemption Date shall be payable to the Holders of such
Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities, registered as such at the
close of business on the Regular Record Dates therefor 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 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 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 provided in Section 1002.
If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid
upon surrender thereof for redemption, the principal and any premium, until
paid, shall bear interest from the Redemption Date at the rate prescribed
therefor in the 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
Securities of the same series, containing identical terms and provisions, 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. If a Security in global form is so surrendered,
the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to
the U.S. Depository or other Depository for such Security in global form as
shall be specified in the Company Order with respect thereto to the Trustee,
without service charge, a new Security in global form in a denomination equal
to and in exchange for the unredeemed portion of the principal of the Security
in global form so surrendered.
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Section 1108. Conversion Arrangements on Call for Redemption.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this
Indenture, in connection with any redemption of Convertible Securities of any
series, the Company, by an agreement with one or more investment bankers or
other purchasers, may arrange for such purchasers to purchase all such
Convertible Securities called for redemption (the "Called Securities") which
are either (i) surrendered for redemption or (ii) not duly surrendered for
redemption or conversion prior to the close of business on the Redemption Date,
and to convert the same into shares of Common Stock, by the purchasers'
depositing with the Trustee (acting as Paying Agent with respect to the deposit
of such amount and as conversion agent with respect to the conversion of such
Called Securities), in trust for the Holders of the Called Securities, on or
prior to the Redemption Date in the manner agreed to by the Company and such
purchasers, an amount sufficient to pay the Redemption Price, payable by the
Company on redemption of such Called Securities. In connection with any such
arrangement for purchase and conversion, the Trustee as Paying Agent shall pay
on or after the Redemption Date such amounts so deposited by the purchasers in
exchange for Called Securities surrendered for redemption prior to the close of
business on the Redemption Date and for all Called Securities surrendered after
such Redemption Date. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in
this Article Eleven, the obligation of the Company to pay the Redemption Price
of such Called Securities shall be satisfied and discharged to the extent such
amount is so paid by such purchasers, provided, however, that nothing in this
Section 1108 shall in any way relieve the Company of the obligation to pay such
Redemption Price on all Called Securities to the extent such amount is not so
paid by said purchasers. For all purposes of this Indenture, any Called
Securities surrendered by the Holders for redemption, and any Called Securities
not duly surrendered for redemption or conversion prior to the close of
business on the Redemption Date, shall be deemed acquired by such purchasers
from such Holders and surrendered by such purchasers for conversion and shall
in all respects be deemed to have been converted, all as of immediately prior
to the close of business on the Redemption Date, subject to the deposit by the
purchasers of the above amount as aforesaid. Nothing in this Section 1108
shall in any way limit the right of any Holder of a Security to convert his
Security pursuant to the terms of this Indenture and of such Security at any
time prior to the close of business on the Redemption Date applicable thereto.
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
permitted or required by any form of Security of such series issued pursuant to
this Indenture.
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 such series is herein referred to as
an "optional sinking fund payment". If provided for by the terms of
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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.
Section 1202. Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with
Securities.
The Company may, in satisfaction of all or any part of any
sinking fund payment with respect to the Securities of any series to be made
pursuant to the terms of such Securities (1) deliver Outstanding Securities of
such series (other than any of such Securities previously called for redemption
or any of such Securities in respect of which cash shall have been released to
the Company), 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 series of Securities or through the
application of permitted optional sinking fund payments pursuant to the terms
of such Securities or which have been surrendered for conversion pursuant to
Article Sixteen, provided that such series of Securities have not been
previously so credited. Such Securities shall be received and credited for
such purpose by the Trustee at the Redemption Price specified in such
Securities for redemption through operation of the sinking fund and the amount
of such sinking fund payment shall be reduced accordingly. If as a result of
the delivery or credit of Securities of any series in lieu of cash payments
pursuant to this Section 1202, the principal amount of Securities of such
series to be redeemed in order to exhaust the aforesaid cash payment shall be
less than $100,000, the Trustee need not call Securities of such series for
redemption, except upon Company Request, and such cash payment shall be held by
the Trustee or a Paying Agent and applied to the next succeeding sinking fund
payment, provided, however, that the Trustee or such Paying Agent shall at the
request of the Company from time to time pay over and deliver to the Company
any cash payment so being held by the Trustee or such Paying Agent upon
delivery by the Company to the Trustee of Securities of that series purchased
by the Company having an unpaid principal amount equal to the cash payment
requested to be released to the Company.
Section 1203. Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund.
Not less than 45 days prior to each sinking fund payment date
for any series of Securities (unless a shorter notice shall be satisfactory to
the Trustee), the Company shall deliver to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate
specifying the amount of the next ensuing mandatory 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 and the portion thereof, if any,
which is to be satisfied by delivering and crediting of 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 credited and not theretofore
delivered. 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 40 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
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not less than 30 nor more than 40 days prior to the sinking fund payment date
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
1106 and 1107.
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 cancelled. 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, 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.
ARTICLE FOURTEEN
SECURITIES IN FOREIGN CURRENCIES
Section 1401. Applicability of Article.
Whenever this Indenture provides for (i) any action by, or the
determination of any of the rights of, Holders of Securities of any series in
which not all of such Securities are denominated in the same Currency, or (ii)
any distribution to Holders of Securities, in the absence of any provision to
the contrary in the form of Security of any particular series, any amount in
respect of any Security denominated in a Currency other than Dollars shall be
treated for any such action or 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 action, determination of rights or distribution (or, if there
shall be no applicable record date, such other date reasonably proximate to the
date of such action, determination of rights or 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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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 action 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.
(a) 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 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.
(b) 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 made
the first publication of the notice of such meeting within 21 days after
receipt of such request 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 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
subsection (a) of this Section 1502.
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 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.
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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
66-2/3% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of a series, the
Persons entitled to vote 66-2/3% 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(a), 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
66-2/3% 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
66-2/3% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series; and
provided, further, that, except as limited by the proviso to Section 902, any
resolution with respect to any request, demand, authorization, direction,
notice, consent, waiver or other action which this Indenture expressly provides
may be made, given or taken by the Holders of 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 reconvened and
at which a quorum is present as aforesaid by the affirmative vote of the
Holders of such specified percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of such series.
Any resolution passed or decision taken at any meeting of
Holders of Securities of any series duly held in accordance with this Section
1504 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.
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Section 1505. Determination of Voting Rights; Conduct and
Adjournment of Meetings.
(a) 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.
(b) 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(b), 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.
(c) 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. The chairman of the meeting shall have no right to vote,
except as a Holder of a Security of such series or proxy.
(d) 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 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.
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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.
ARTICLE SIXTEEN
CONVERSION
Section 1601. Conversion Privilege.
Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this
Article Sixteen and the terms of the Convertible Securities of the series
proposed to be converted, at the option of the Holder, any Convertible Security
or any portion of the principal amount thereof which is $1,000 or an integral
multiple thereof, may be converted into shares of Common Stock, as said shares
shall be constituted at the Date of Conversion, at the Conversion Price for
such Convertible Securities of such series in effect at the Date of Conversion.
Section 1602. Manner of Exercise of Conversion Privilege.
In order to exercise the conversion privilege, the Holder of
any Convertible Security to be converted shall surrender such Convertible
Security to the Company at its office or agency in The City of New York,
together with the conversion notice in the form provided on the Securities (or
separate written notice) duly executed, and, if so required by the Company,
accompanied by instruments of transfer, in form satisfactory to the Company and
to the Trustee, duly executed by the Holder or by his duly authorized attorney
in writing. Any Registered Convertible Security so surrendered during the
period from the close of business on the Regular Record Date preceding an
Interest Payment Date for such Registered Convertible Security to the opening
of business on such Interest Payment Date shall (unless any such Registered
Convertible Security or the portion thereof being converted shall have been
called for redemption on a Redemption Date during such period, in which event
no interest shall be payable with respect to such Registered Convertible
Security or portion thereof, as the case may be, following such Redemption
Date) also be accompanied by payment in New York Clearing House funds or other
funds acceptable to the Company of an amount equal to the interest payable on
such Interest Payment Date on the principal amount of such Registered
Convertible Security then being converted; provided, however, that no such
payment need be made if there shall exist, at the time of conversion, a default
in the payment of interest on the Convertible Securities of such series.
Except as provided in the immediately preceding sentence, no adjustment shall
be made for interest accrued on any Convertible Security that shall be
converted or for dividends on any shares of Common Stock that shall be
delivered upon the conversion of such Convertible
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Securities. The funds so delivered to such office or agency shall be paid to
the Company on or after such Interest Payment Date, unless the Company shall
default in the payment of the interest due on such Interest Payment Date, in
which event such funds shall be repaid to the Person who delivered the same.
As promptly as practicable after the surrender of any Convertible Security for
conversion as aforesaid, the Company shall deliver at said office or agency to
such Holder, or on his written order, a certificate or certificates for the
number of full shares deliverable upon the conversion of such Convertible
Security or portion thereof and a check or cash in respect of any fraction of a
share of Common Stock otherwise deliverable upon such conversion, all as
provided in this Article Sixteen, together with a Convertible Security or
Convertible Securities of the same series in principal amount equal to the
unconverted and unredeemed portion, if any, of the Convertible Security so
converted in accordance with Section 305 hereof. Such conversion shall be
deemed to have been effected on the date on which such notice shall have been
received at said office or agency and such Convertible Security shall have been
surrendered as aforesaid, and the Person or Persons in whose name or names any
certificate or certificates, for shares of Common Stock shall be deliverable
upon such conversion shall be deemed to have become on said date the Holder or
Holders of record of the shares represented thereby, provided, however, that
any such surrender on any date when the stock transfer books of the Company
shall be closed shall constitute the Person or Persons in whose name or names
the certificates are to be delivered as the record Holder or Holders thereof
for all purposes on the next succeeding day on which such stock transfer books
are open, but such conversion shall be at the Conversion Price in effect on the
date of such surrender.
Section 1603. Cash Adjustment Upon Conversion.
The Company shall not be required to deliver fractions of
shares of Common Stock upon conversions of Convertible Securities. If more
than one Convertible Security shall be surrendered for conversion at one time
by the same Holder, the number of full shares which shall be deliverable upon
conversion thereof shall be computed on the basis of the aggregate principal
amount of the Securities so surrendered. If any fractional interest in a share
of Common Stock would be deliverable upon the conversion of any Convertible
Security or Securities, the Company shall make an adjustment therefor in cash
equal to the current market value of such fractional interest computed to the
nearest cent either on the basis of the last reported sale price regular way of
the Common Stock on the New York Exchange (or, if not listed on the New York
Exchange, then on such other exchange on which the shares of Common Stock are
listed as the Company may designate) on the last Business Day prior to the Date
of Conversion or, if there shall not have been a sale on such last Business
Day, on the basis of the average of the bid and asked quotations therefor on
such exchange on such last Business Day or, if the Common Stock shall not then
be listed on any exchange, at the highest bid quotation in the over-the-counter
market on such last Business Day as reported by the National Association of
Securities Dealers through NASDAQ, its automated system for reporting quotes,
or its successor or such other generally accepted source of publicly reported
bid and asked quotations as the Company may reasonably designate.
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Section 1604. Conversion Price.
The Conversion Price applicable to any series of Convertible
Securities shall be the initial Conversion Price set forth on the Officers'
Certificate or supplemental indenture establishing such series adjusted as
provided in this Article Sixteen.
Section 1605. Adjustment of Conversion Price.
The Conversion Price applicable to any series of Convertible
Securities shall be adjusted from time to time as follows:
(a) In case the Company shall, at any time or from time to
time while the Securities of any series are Outstanding, (i) pay a
dividend on its Common Stock in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivide
its outstanding shares of Common Stock into a larger number of shares,
or (iii) combine its outstanding Common Stock into a smaller number of
shares, the Conversion Price for such series in effect immediately
prior thereto shall be adjusted so that the Holder of any Security of
such series thereafter surrendered for conversion shall be entitled to
receive the number of shares of Common Stock or other securities of
the Company which he would have owned or have been entitled to receive
after the happening of any of the events described above, had such
Convertible Security of such series been converted immediately prior
to the happening of such event. An adjustment made pursuant to this
subdivision (a) shall become effective, in the case of a dividend, on
the payment date retroactively to immediately after the opening of
business on the day following the record date for the determination of
stockholders entitled to receive such dividend, subject to the
provisions of paragraph (g) of this Section 1605, and shall become
effective in the case of a subdivision or combination immediately
after the opening of business on the day following the day when such
subdivision or combination, as the case may be, becomes effective.
(b) In case the Company shall, at any time or from time to
time while the Convertible Securities of any series are Outstanding,
issue rights or warrants to all holders of its shares of Common Stock
entitling them (for a period expiring within 45 days of the record
date mentioned below) to subscribe for or purchase shares of Common
Stock at a price per share less than the current market price per
share of Common Stock (as defined in paragraph (d) below) at such
record date, the Conversion Price of any series of Convertible
Securities in effect immediately prior to the issuance of such rights
or warrants shall be adjusted as follows: the number of shares of
Common Stock into which $1,000 principal amount of Convertible
Securities of such series was theretofore convertible shall be
multiplied by a fraction, of which the numerator shall be the number
of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to such record
date plus the number of additional shares of Common Stock offered for
subscription or purchase, and of which the denominator shall be the
number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to such
record date plus the number of shares which the aggregate offering
price of the total number of shares so offered would purchase at such
current market price; and the Conversion Price for such series of
Convertible Securities shall be
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adjusted by dividing $1,000 by the new number of shares into which
$1,000 principal amount of Securities of such series shall be
convertible as aforesaid. Such adjustment shall become effective on
the date of such issuance retroactively to immediately after the
opening of business on the day following the record date for the
determination of shareholders entitled to receive such rights or
warrants, subject to the provisions of paragraph (g) of this Section
1605. In determining whether any rights or warrants entitle the
holders to subscribe for or purchase shares of Common Stock at less
than such current market price, and in determining the aggregate
offering price of such shares, there shall be taken into account any
consideration received by the Company for such rights or warrants, the
value of such consideration, if other than cash, to be determined by
the Board of Directors.
(c) In case the Company shall, at any time from time to time
while the Convertible Securities of any series are Outstanding,
distribute to all holders of shares of its Common Stock evidences of
its indebtedness or securities or assets (excluding cash dividends or
cash distributions payable out of consolidated net earnings or
retained earnings) or rights or warrants to subscribe for shares of
Common Stock at a price per share less than the current market price
per share of Common Stock, determined in the manner set forth in
paragraph (d) below, but excluding rights or warrants referred to in
paragraph (b) above, the Conversion Price for such series of
Convertible Securities in effect immediately prior to such
distribution shall be adjusted by multiplying the number of shares of
Common Stock into which $1,000 principal amount of Convertible
Securities of such series of Convertible Securities was theretofore
convertible by a fraction, of which the numerator shall be the current
market price per share of Common Stock (as defined in paragraph (d)
below) on the record date for such distribution, and of which the
denominator shall be such current market price per share of the Common
Stock, less the then fair market value (as determined by the Board of
Directors of the Company, whose determination shall be conclusive) of
the portion of such evidences of indebtedness, securities or assets or
of such subscription rights or warrants so distributed applicable to
one share of Common Stock; and the Conversion Price for such series of
Convertible Securities shall be adjusted by dividing $1,000 by the new
number of shares into which $1,000 principal amount of Convertible
Securities of such series shall be convertible as aforesaid. Such
adjustment shall become effective on the date of such distribution
retroactively to immediately after the opening of business on the day
following the record date for the determination of shareholders
entitled to receive such distribution, subject to the provisions of
paragraph (g) of this Section 1605. For the purposes of this
paragraph (c) consolidated net earnings or retained earnings shall be
computed by adding thereto all charges against retained earnings on
account of dividends paid in shares of Common Stock in respect of
which the Conversion Price has been adjusted, all as determined by
Independent Public Accountants, whose determination shall be
conclusive.
(d) For the purpose of any computation under paragraphs (b)
and (c) above, the current market price per share of Common Stock at
any date shall be deemed to be the average of the market values of the
shares of Common Stock for the ten consecutive
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Business Days immediately preceding the day in question. The market
value of the Common Stock for each day shall be determined as provided
in Section 1603 hereof.
(e) The Company may make such reductions in the Conversion
Price for any series of Convertible Securities, in addition to those
required by paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of this Section as it
considers to be advisable in order that any event treated for Federal
income tax purposes as a dividend of stock or stock rights shall not
be taxable to the recipients.
(f) Except as herein otherwise provided, no adjustment in the
Conversion Price for any series of Convertible Securities shall be
made by reason of the issuance, in exchange for cash, property or
services, of shares of Common Stock or any securities convertible into
or exchangeable for shares of Common Stock or carrying the right to
purchase any of the foregoing.
(g) If the Company shall take a record of the holders of its
shares of Common Stock for the purpose of entitling them to receive
any dividend or any subscription or purchase rights or any
distribution and shall, thereafter and before the distribution to
shareholders of any such dividend, subscription or purchase rights or
distribution, legally abandon its plan to pay or deliver such
dividend, subscription or purchase rights or distribution, then no
adjustment of the Conversion Price for any series of Convertible
Securities shall be required by reason of the taking of such record.
(h) No adjustment in the Conversion Price for any series of
Convertible Securities shall be required unless such adjustment would
require an increase or decrease of at least 1% in such price;
provided, however, that any adjustments which by reason of this
paragraph (h) are not required to be made shall be carried forward and
taken into account in any subsequent adjustment. All calculations
under this Article Seventeen shall be made to the nearest cent or to
the nearest one-hundredth of a share, as the case may be.
(i) Whenever the Conversion Price for any series of
Convertible Securities is adjusted as herein provided, the Company
shall (i) forthwith place on file at the Principal Office of the
Trustee an Officers' Certificate showing in detail the facts requiring
such adjustment and the Conversion Price after such adjustment and
shall exhibit the same from time to time to any Holder of Convertible
Securities of such series desiring an inspection thereof, and (ii)
cause a notice stating that such adjustment has been effected and the
adjusted Conversion Price to be mailed to the Holders of Registered
Convertible Securities of such series at their last addresses as they
shall appear on the Security Register.
(j) The Company may delete, modify or vary any of the
provisions applicable to conversion of the Convertible Securities of
any series, or may add new provisions applicable thereto, all as may
be contained in the Board Resolutions and Officers' Certificate or
supplemental indenture establishing such series.
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Section 1606. Effect of Reclassifications, Consolidations,
Mergers or Sales on Conversion Privilege.
In case of any reclassification or change of outstanding
shares of the class of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Convertible
Securities (other than a change in par value, or from par value to no par
value, or from no par value to par value, or as a result of a subdivision or
combination), or in case of any merger or consolidation of the Company with one
or more other corporations (other than a merger or consolidation in which the
Company is the continuing corporation and which does not result in any
reclassification or change of outstanding shares of Common Stock issuable upon
conversion of the Securities), or in case of the merger of the Company into
another corporation, or in case of any sale or conveyance to another
corporation of the property of the Company as an entirety or substantially as
an entirety, the Holders of Convertible Securities of each series then
Outstanding shall have the right to convert such Convertible Securities into
the kind and amount of shares of capital stock or other securities and
property, including cash, receivable upon such reclassifications change,
consolidation, merger, sale or conveyance by a holder of the number of shares
of Common Stock into which such Convertible Securities might have been
converted immediately prior to such reclassification, change, consolidation,
merger, sale or conveyance. In any such case the Company, or such successor or
purchasing corporation, as the case may be, shall execute with the Trustee one
or more supplemental indentures (which shall conform to the Trust Indenture Act
of 1939 as in force at the date of the execution of such supplemental
indenture) containing provisions to the effect set forth above in this Section
1606 and providing further for adjustments which shall be as nearly equivalent
as may be practicable to the adjustments provided for in this Article Sixteen;
and any such adjustment which shall be approved by the Board of Directors and
set forth in such supplemental indenture or supplemental indentures shall be
conclusive for all purposes of this Section, and the Trustee shall not be under
any responsibility to determine the correctness of any provision contained in
such supplemental indenture or supplemental indentures relating to either the
kind or amount of shares of stock or securities or property receivable by
Holders of Securities of any series upon the conversion of their Convertible
Securities after any such reclassification, change, consolidation, merger, sale
or conveyance.
The above provisions of this Section 1606 shall similarly
apply to successive reclassifications, changes, consolidations, mergers, sales
and conveyances.
Section 1607. Taxes on Conversions.
The issue of stock certificates on conversions of Convertible
Securities shall be made without charge to the converting Holder of Convertible
Securities for any tax in respect of the issue thereof. The Company shall not,
however, be required to pay any tax which may be payable in respect of any
transfer involved in the issue and delivery of shares in any name other than
that of the Holder of any Registered Convertible Security converted, and the
Company shall not be required to issue or deliver any such stock certificate
unless and until the Person or Persons requesting the issue thereof shall have
paid to the Company the amount of such tax or shall have established to the
satisfaction of the Company that such tax has been paid.
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Section 1608. Company to Reserve Common Stock.
The Company shall at all times reserve and keep available out
of the aggregate of its authorized but unissued shares or its issued shares
held in its treasury, or both, for the purpose of effecting the conversion of
the Securities, such number of its duly authorized shares of Common Stock as
shall from time to time be sufficient to effect the conversion of all
Outstanding Securities.
If any shares of Common Stock reserved or to be reserved for
the purpose of conversion of Securities hereunder require registration with or
approval of any governmental authority under any Federal or State law before
such shares may be validly delivered upon conversion, then the Company
covenants that it will in good faith and as expeditiously as possible endeavor
to secure registration or approval, as the case may be.
The Company covenants that all shares of Common Stock which
may be delivered upon conversion of Convertible Securities shall upon delivery
be fully paid and nonassessable by the Company and free from all taxes, liens
and charges with respect to the issue or delivery thereof.
Section 1609. Disclaimer by Trustee of Responsibility for
Certain Matters.
Neither the Trustee nor any conversion agent shall at any time
be under any duty or responsibility to any Holder of Convertible Securities of
any series to determine whether any facts exist which may require any
adjustment of the Conversion Price for such series, or with respect to the
nature or extent of any such adjustment when made, or with respect to the
method employed, or herein or in any supplemental indenture provided to be
employed, in making the same, subject, however, to the provisions of Sections
315(a) through 315(b) of the Trust Indenture Act. Neither the Trustee nor any
conversion agent shall be accountable with respect to the validity or value (or
the kind or amount) of any shares of Common Stock, or of any securities or
property which may at any time be issued or delivered upon the conversion of
any Convertible Security; and neither of them makes any representation with
respect thereto. Neither the Trustee nor any conversion agent shall be
responsible for any failure of the Company to make any cash payment or to
issue, transfer or deliver any shares of Common Stock or stock certificates or
other securities or property upon the surrender of any Security for the purpose
of conversion or, subject to Sections 315(a) through 315(b) of the Trust
Indenture Act, to comply with any of the covenants of the Company contained in
this Article Sixteen.
Section 1610. Company to Give Notice of Certain Events.
In the event
(A) that the Company shall pay any dividend or make any
distribution to the holders of shares of Common Stock otherwise than
in cash charged against consolidated net earnings or retained earnings
of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries or in Common Stock;
or
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(B) that the Company shall offer for subscription or
purchase, pro rata, to the holders of shares of Common Stock any
additional shares of stock of any class or any securities convertible
into or exchangeable for stock of any class; or
(C) of any reclassification or change of outstanding shares
of the class of Common Stock issuable upon the conversion of the
Securities (other than a change in par value, or from par value to no
par value, or from no par value to par value, or as a result of a
subdivision or combination), or of any merger or consolidation of the
Company with, or merger of the Company into, another corporation
(other than a merger or consolidation in which the Company is the
continuing corporation and which does not result in reclassification
or change of outstanding shares of Common Stock issuable upon
conversion of the Securities), or of any sale or conveyance to another
corporation of the property of the Company as an entirety or
substantially as an entirety;
then, and in any one or more of such events, the Company will give to the
Trustee and each conversion agent written notice thereof at least fifteen days
prior to (i) the record date fixed with respect to any of the events specified
in (A) and (B) above, and (ii) the effective date of any of the events
specified in (C) above; and shall mail in the case of Registered Securities,
promptly a copy of such notice to the Holders thereof at their last addresses
as they shall appear upon the Security Register or, in the case of Bearer
Securities, cause such notice to be published in an Authorized Newspaper.
Failure to give such notice, or any defect therein, shall not affect the
legality or validity of such dividend, distribution, reclassification,
consolidation, merger, sale, transfer, dissolution, liquidation or winding up.
ARTICLE SEVENTEEN
IMMUNITY OF INCORPORATORS, STOCKHOLDERS, OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS
Section 1701. Indenture and Securities Solely Corporate
Obligations.
No recourse for the payment of the principal of or premium, if
any, or interest or Additional Amounts on any Security, or for any claim based
thereon or otherwise in respect thereof, and no recourse under or upon any
obligation, covenant or agreement of the Company in this Indenture or in any
supplemental indenture or, in any Security, or because of the creation of any
indebtedness represented thereby, shall be had against any incorporator,
stockholder, officer or director, as such, past, present or future, of the
Company or of any successor corporation, either directly or through the Company
or any successor corporation, whether by virtue of any constitution, statute or
rule of law, or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise;
it being expressly understood that all such liability is hereby expressly
waived and released as a condition of, and as a consideration for, the
execution of this Indenture and the issuance of the Securities.
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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, and their respective corporate seals to be
hereunto affixed, all as of the day and year first above written.
[SEAL] Capital One Financial Corporation
Attest:
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By
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Name:
Title:
[SEAL] Xxxxxx Trust and Savings Bank,
as Trustee
Attest:
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By
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Name:
Title:
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STATE OF ________________)
SS.:
COUNTY OF _______________)
On the _____ day of ________________, 1996, before me
personally came _______________, to me known, who, being by me duly sworn, did
depose and say that he is a _____________ of Capital One Financial Corporation,
a Delaware corporation, one of the persons described in and who executed the
foregoing instrument; that he knows the seal of said Corporation; that the seal
affixed to said instrument is such Corporation's seal; that it was so affixed
by authority of the Board of Directors of said Corporation; and that he signed
his name thereto by like authority.
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Notary Public
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STATE OF ________________)
SS.:
COUNTY OF _______________)
On the _____ day of ________________, 199, before me
personally came _______________, to me known, who, being by me duly sworn, did
depose and say that he is a _____________ of Xxxxxx Trust and Savings Bank, a
national banking association organized and existing under the laws of the
United States, one of the persons described in and who executed the foregoing
instrument; that he knows the seal of said Corporation; that the seal affixed
to said instrument is such Corporation's seal; that it was so affixed by
authority of the Board of Directors of said Corporation; and that he signed his
name thereto by like authority.
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