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INDENTURE
between
MMCA AUTO OWNER TRUST 2001-4,
as Issuer,
and
BANK OF TOKYO-MITSUBISHI TRUST COMPANY,
as Indenture Trustee
Dated as of December 1, 2001
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$[ ] [ ]% Class A-1 Asset Backed Notes
$[ ] [ ]% Class A-2 Asset Backed Notes
$[ ] [ ]% Class A-3 Asset Backed Notes
$[ ] [ ]% Class A-4 Asset Backed Notes
$[ ] [ ]% Class B Asset Backed Notes
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CROSS REFERENCE TABLE1
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TIA Indenture
Section Section
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310 (a)(1).............................................................6.11
(a)(2).............................................................6.11
(a)(3).............................................................6.10
(a)(4)............................................................N.A.2
(a)(5).............................................................6.11
(b)...........................................................6.8; 6.11
(c).................................................................N.A.
311 (a)................................................................6.12
(b)................................................................6.12
(c).................................................................N.A.
312 (a).................................................................7.1
(b).................................................................7.2
(c).................................................................7.2
313 (a).................................................................7.4
(b)(1)..............................................................7.4
(b)(2)........................................................7.4; 11.5
(c).................................................................7.4
(d).................................................................7.3
314 (a).................................................................7.3
(b)...............................................................11.15
(c)(1).............................................................11.1
(c)(2).............................................................11.1
(c)(3).............................................................11.1
(d)................................................................11.1
(e)................................................................11.1
(f)................................................................11.1
315 (a).................................................................6.1
(b)...........................................................6.5; 11.5
(c).................................................................6.1
(d).................................................................6.1
(e).................................................................5.13
316 (a) (last sentence)..................................................1.1
(a)(1)(A)...........................................................5.11
(a)(1)(B)...........................................................5.12
(a)(2)..............................................................N.A.
(b).................................................................5.7
(c).................................................................N.A
317 (a)(1)..............................................................5.3
(a)(2)..............................................................5.3
(b).................................................................3.3
318 (a)................................................................11.7
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1 Note: This Cross Reference Table shall not, for any purpose, be deemed
to be part of this Indenture.
2 N.A. means Not Applicable.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
ARTICLE I - DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE............................................................2
Section 1.1 Definitions.........................................................................2
Section 1.2 Incorporated by Reference of Trust Indenture Act....................................2
Section 1.3 Rules of Construction...............................................................2
ARTICLE II - THE NOTES............................................................................................3
Section 2.1 Form................................................................................3
Section 2.2 Execution, Authentication and Delivery..............................................3
Section 2.3 Temporary Notes.....................................................................3
Section 2.4 Tax Treatment.......................................................................4
Section 2.5 Registration; Registration of Transfer and Exchange.................................4
Section 2.6 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes..........................................5
Section 2.7 Persons Deemed Owner................................................................6
Section 2.8 Payments............................................................................6
Section 2.9 Cancellation........................................................................9
Section 2.10 Release of Collateral...............................................................9
Section 2.11 Book-Entry Notes....................................................................9
Section 2.12 Notices to Clearing Agency.........................................................10
Section 2.13 Definitive Notes...................................................................10
Section 2.14 Authenticating Agents..............................................................11
ARTICLE III - COVENANTS..........................................................................................11
Section 3.1 Payment Covenant...................................................................11
Section 3.2 Maintenance of Office or Agency....................................................11
Section 3.3 Money for Payments To Be Held in Trust.............................................11
Section 3.4 Existence..........................................................................13
Section 3.5 Protection of Trust Estate.........................................................13
Section 3.6 Opinions as to Trust Estate........................................................13
Section 3.7 Performance of Obligations; Servicing of Receivables...............................14
Section 3.8 Negative Covenants.................................................................15
Section 3.9 Annual Statement as to Compliance..................................................16
Section 3.10 Consolidation, Merger, etc., of the Issuer; Disposition of Subtrust Assets.........16
Section 3.11 No Other Business..................................................................16
Section 3.12 No Borrowing.......................................................................16
Section 3.13 Servicer's Obligations.............................................................16
Section 3.14 Guarantees, Loans, Advances and Other Liabilities..................................16
Section 3.15 Capital Expenditures...............................................................17
Section 3.16 Further Instruments and Acts.......................................................17
Section 3.17 Restricted Payments................................................................17
Section 3.18 Notice of Events of Default........................................................17
Section 3.19 Removal of Administrator...........................................................17
ARTICLE IV - SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE..........................................................................17
Section 4.1 Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture............................................17
Section 4.2 Satisfaction and Discharge of the Notes............................................18
Section 4.3 Application of Trust Money.........................................................19
Section 4.4 Repayment of Monies Held by Paying Agent...........................................20
ARTICLE V - REMEDIES.............................................................................................20
Section 5.1 Events of Default..................................................................20
Section 5.2 Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment.................................21
Section 5.3 Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Indenture Trustee..........22
Section 5.4 Remedies; Priorities...............................................................23
Section 5.5 Optional Preservation of the Receivables...........................................24
Section 5.6 Limitation of Suits................................................................25
Section 5.7 Unconditional Rights of Noteholders To Receive Principal and Interest..............25
Section 5.8 Restoration of Rights and Remedies.................................................25
Section 5.9 Rights and Remedies Cumulative.....................................................26
Section 5.10 Delay or Omission Not a Waiver.....................................................26
Section 5.11 Control by Noteholders.............................................................26
Section 5.12 Waiver of Past Default.............................................................26
Section 5.13 Undertaking for Costs..............................................................27
Section 5.14 Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws...................................................27
Section 5.15 Action on Notes....................................................................27
Section 5.16 Performance and Enforcement of Certain Obligations.................................27
ARTICLE VI - THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE...............................................................................28
Section 6.1 Duties of Indenture Trustee........................................................28
Section 6.2 Rights of Indenture Trustee........................................................29
Section 6.3 Individual Rights of Indenture Trustee.............................................30
Section 6.4 Indenture Trustee's Disclaimer.....................................................30
Section 6.5 Notice of Defaults.................................................................30
Section 6.6 Reports by Indenture Trustee to Holders............................................30
Section 6.7 Compensation and Indemnity.........................................................30
Section 6.8 Replacement of Indenture Trustee...................................................31
Section 6.9 Successor Indenture Trustee by Merger..............................................32
Section 6.10 Appointment of Co-Indenture Trustee or Separate Indenture Trustee..................32
Section 6.11 Eligibility; Disqualification......................................................33
Section 6.12 Preferential Collection of Claims Against Issuer...................................34
Section 6.13 Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Sales Finance Act Licenses..............................34
ARTICLE VII - NOTEHOLDERS' LISTS; REPORTING......................................................................34
Section 7.1 Issuer To Furnish Indenture Trustee Names and Addresses of Noteholders.............34
Section 7.2 Preservation of Information; Communications to Noteholders.........................34
Section 7.3 Reporting by Issuer................................................................34
Section 7.4 Reporting and Notices by Indenture Trustee.........................................35
ARTICLE VIII - ACCOUNTS, DISBURSEMENTS AND RELEASES..............................................................35
Section 8.1 Collection of Money................................................................35
Section 8.2 Trust Accounts.....................................................................35
Section 8.3 General Provisions Regarding Accounts..............................................36
Section 8.4 Release of Trust Estate............................................................36
Section 8.5 Opinion of Counsel.................................................................37
ARTICLE IX - SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES.............................................................................37
Section 9.1 Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Noteholders.............................37
Section 9.2 Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Noteholders................................38
Section 9.3 Execution of Supplemental Indentures...............................................40
Section 9.4 Effect of Supplemental Indenture...................................................40
Section 9.5 Conformity with Trust Indenture Act................................................40
Section 9.6 Reference in Notes to Supplemental Indentures......................................40
ARTICLE X - REDEMPTION OF NOTES..................................................................................41
Section 10.1 Redemption.........................................................................41
Section 10.2 Form of Redemption Notice..........................................................41
Section 10.3 Notes Payable on Redemption Date...................................................41
ARTICLE XI - MISCELLANEOUS.......................................................................................42
Section 11.1 Compliance Certificates and Opinions, etc..........................................42
Section 11.2 Form of Documents Delivered to Indenture Trustee...................................43
Section 11.3 Acts of Noteholders................................................................44
Section 11.4 Notices, etc., to Indenture Trustee, Issuer and Rating Agencies....................44
Section 11.5 Notices to Noteholders; Waiver.....................................................45
Section 11.6 Alternate Payment and Notice Provisions............................................46
Section 11.7 Conflict with Trust Indenture Act..................................................46
Section 11.8 Effect of Headings and Table of Contents...........................................46
Section 11.9 Successors and Assigns.............................................................46
Section 11.10 Separability.......................................................................46
Section 11.11 Benefits of Indenture..............................................................46
Section 11.12 Legal Holiday......................................................................46
Section 11.13 Governing Law......................................................................47
Section 11.14 Counterparts.......................................................................47
Section 11.15 Recording of Indenture.............................................................47
Section 11.16 Trust Obligation...................................................................47
Section 11.17 No Petition; Subordination; Claims Against Seller..................................47
Section 11.18 Inspection.........................................................................48
Section 11.19 Employee Benefit Plans.............................................................48
SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE A Schedule of Receivables.................................................................SA-1
SCHEDULE I List of Permitted Investments...........................................................SI-1
EXHIBITS
EXHIBIT A-1 Form of Class A-1 Note................................................................A-1-1
EXHIBIT A-2 Form of Class A-2 Note................................................................A-2-1
EXHIBIT A-3 Form of Class A-3 Note................................................................A-3-1
EXHIBIT A-4 Form of Class A-4 Note................................................................A-4-1
EXHIBIT B Form of Class B Note....................................................................B-1
EXHIBIT C Form of Opinion of Counsel Pursuant to Section 3.6(a)...................................C-1
APPENDICES
APPENDIX A Definitions and Usage............................................................Appendix A
INDENTURE, dated as of December 1, 2001 (as amended,
supplemented or otherwise modified and in effect from time to time, this
"Indenture"), between MMCA AUTO OWNER TRUST 2001-4, a Delaware business
trust (the "Issuer"), and BANK OF TOKYO-MITSUBISHI TRUST COMPANY, a New
York banking corporation, as trustee for the benefit of the Noteholders and
not in its individual capacity (in such capacity, the "Indenture Trustee").
Each party agrees as follows for the benefit of the other
party and for the equal and ratable benefit of the holders of the Issuer's
[ ]% Class A-1 Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A-1 Notes"), [ ]% Class A-2
Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A-2 Notes"), [ ]% Class A-3 Asset Backed
Notes (the "Class A-3 Notes"), [ ]% Class A-4 Asset Backed Notes (the
"Class A-4 Notes" and, together with the Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2
Notes and the Class A-3 Notes, the "Class A Notes") and [ ]% Class B Asset
Backed Notes (the "Class B Notes" and, together with the Class A Notes, the
"Notes"):
GRANTING CLAUSE
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The Issuer hereby Grants to the Indenture Trustee at the
Closing Date, as Indenture Trustee for the benefit of the Holders of the
Notes, all of the Issuer's right, title and interest in, to and under,
whether now owned or existing or hereafter acquired or arising (a) the
Receivables; (b) with respect to Actuarial Receivables, monies due
thereunder after the Cutoff Date (including Payaheads) and, with respect to
Simple Interest Receivables, monies received thereunder after the Cutoff
Date; (c) the security interests in the Financed Vehicles granted by
Obligors pursuant to the Receivables and any other interest of the Issuer
in the Financed Vehicles; (d) all rights to receive proceeds with respect
to the Receivables from claims on any physical damage, theft, credit life
or disability insurance policies covering the Financed Vehicles or
Obligors; (e) all rights to receive proceeds with respect to the
Receivables from recourse to Dealers thereon pursuant to the Dealer
Agreements; (f) all rights to the Receivable Files; (g) the Trust Accounts
and all amounts, securities, financial assets, investments and other
property deposited in or credited to any of the foregoing and all proceeds
thereof; (h) all rights under the Sale and Servicing Agreement and the
Yield Supplement Agreement; (i) all rights under the Purchase Agreement,
including the right of the Seller to cause MMCA to repurchase Receivables
from the Seller; (j) all payments and proceeds with respect to the
Receivables held by the Servicer; (k) all property (including the right to
receive Liquidation Proceeds and Recoveries and Financed Vehicles and the
proceeds thereof acquired by the Issuer pursuant to the terms of a Final
Payment Receivable), guarantees and other collateral securing a Receivable
(other than a Receivable purchased by the Servicer or repurchased by the
Seller); (l) all rebates of premiums and other amounts relating to
insurance policies and other items financed under the Receivables in effect
as of the Cutoff Date; and (m) all present and future claims, demands,
causes of action and choses in action in respect of any or all of the
foregoing and all payments on or under and all proceeds of every kind and
nature whatsoever in respect of any or all of the foregoing, including all
proceeds of the conversion thereof, voluntary or involuntary, into cash or
other liquid property, all cash proceeds, accounts, accounts receivable,
notes, drafts, acceptances, chattel paper, checks, deposit accounts,
insurance proceeds, condemnation awards, rights to payment of any and every
kind and other forms of obligations and receivables, instruments and other
property which at any time constitute all or part of or are included in the
proceeds of any of the foregoing (collectively, the "Collateral").
The foregoing Grant is made in trust to secure the
payment of principal of and interest on, and any other amounts owing in
respect of, the Notes, equally and ratably without prejudice, priority or
distinction, and to secure compliance with the provisions of this
Indenture, all as provided in this Indenture.
The Indenture Trustee, as Indenture Trustee on behalf of
the Holders of the Notes, acknowledges such Grant, accepts the trusts under
this Indenture in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture and
agrees to perform its duties required in this Indenture to the best of its
ability to the end that the interests of the Holders of the Notes may be
adequately and effectively protected.
ARTICLE I - DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
Section 1.1 Definitions. Except as otherwise specified
herein or as the context may otherwise require, capitalized terms used but
not otherwise defined herein are defined in Appendix A hereto, which also
contains rules as to usage that shall be applicable herein.
Section 1.2 Incorporated by Reference of Trust Indenture
Act. Whenever this Indenture refers to a provision of the TIA, the
provision is incorporated by reference in and made a part of this
Indenture. The following TIA terms used in this Indenture have the
following meanings:
"Indenture securities" shall mean the Notes.
"Indenture security holder" shall mean a Noteholder.
"Indenture to be qualified" shall mean this Indenture.
"Indenture trustee" or "Institutional trustee" shall mean
the Indenture Trustee.
"Obligor" on the indenture securities shall mean the
Issuer and any other obligor on the indenture securities.
All other TIA terms used in this Indenture that are
defined in the TIA, defined by TIA reference to another statute or defined
by Commission rule have the meaning assigned to them by such definitions.
Section 1.3 Rules of Construction. Unless the context
otherwise requires:
(i) a term has the meaning assigned to it;
(ii) an accounting term not otherwise defined has the
meaning assigned to it in accordance with generally accepted
accounting principles as in effect from time to time;
(iii) "or" is not exclusive;
(iv) "including" means including without limitation;
(v) words in the singular include the plural and words in
the plural include the singular; and
(vi) any agreement, instrument or statute defined or
referred to herein or in any instrument or certificate delivered in
connection herewith means such agreement, instrument or statute as
from time to time amended, modified or supplemented and includes (in
the case of agreements or instruments) references to all attachments
thereto and instruments incorporated therein; references to a Person
are also to its permitted successors and assigns.
ARTICLE II - THE NOTES
Section 2.1 Form. (a) The Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2
Notes, the Class A-3 Notes, the Class A-4 Notes and the Class B Notes,
together with the Indenture Trustee's Certificates of Authentication, shall
be in substantially the form set forth in Exhibit X-0, Xxxxxxx X-0, Exhibit
X-0, Xxxxxxx X-0 and Exhibit B, respectively, with such appropriate
insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required
or permitted by this Indenture, 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
Notes, as evidenced by their execution thereof. Any portion of the text of
any Note may be set forth on the reverse thereof, with an appropriate
reference thereto on the face of the Note.
(b) The Definitive Notes shall be typewritten, printed,
lithographed or engraved or produced by any combination of these methods
(with or without steel engraved borders), all as determined by the officers
executing such Notes, as evidenced by their execution of such Notes.
(c) Each Note shall be dated the date of its
authentication. The terms of the Notes set forth in Exhibits X-0, X-0, X-0,
X-0 and B hereto are part of the terms of this Indenture and are
incorporated herein by reference.
Section 2.2 Execution, Authentication and Delivery.
(a) The Notes shall be executed on behalf of the Issuer
by any of its Responsible Officers. The signature of any such Responsible
Officer on the Notes may be manual or facsimile.
(b) Notes bearing the manual or facsimile signature of
individuals who were at any time Responsible Officers of the Issuer shall
bind the Issuer, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have
ceased to hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of
such Notes or did not hold such offices at the date of such Notes.
(c) The Indenture Trustee shall, upon Issuer Order,
authenticate and deliver Class A-1 Notes for original issue in an aggregate
principal amount of $[ ], Class A-2 Notes for original issue in an
aggregate principal amount of $[ ], Class A-3 Notes for original issue in
an aggregate principal amount of $[ ], Class A-4 Notes for original issue
in an aggregate principal amount of $[ ], and Class B Notes for original
issue in an aggregate principal amount of $[ ]. The aggregate principal
amounts of Class A-1 Notes, Class A-2 Notes, Class A-3 Notes, Class A-4
Notes and Class B Notes outstanding at any time may not exceed those
respective amounts except as provided in Section 2.6.
(d) Each Note shall be dated the date of its
authentication. The Notes shall be issuable in minimum denominations of
$1,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.
(e) No Note shall be entitled to any benefit under this
Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose, unless there appears
on such Note a certificate of authentication substantially in the form
provided for herein executed by the Indenture Trustee by the manual
signature of one of its authorized signatories, and such certificate upon
any Note shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such
Note has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder.
Section 2.3 Temporary Notes.
(a) Pending the preparation of Definitive Notes pursuant
to Section 2.13, the Issuer may execute, and upon receipt of an Issuer
Order the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, temporary Notes
that are printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise
produced, of the tenor of the Definitive Notes in lieu of which they are
issued and with such variations not inconsistent with the terms of this
Indenture as the officers executing such Notes may determine, as evidenced
by their execution of such Notes.
(b) If temporary Notes are issued pursuant to Section
2.3(a), the Issuer shall cause Definitive Notes to be prepared without
unreasonable delay. After the preparation of Definitive Notes, the
temporary Notes shall be exchangeable for Definitive Notes upon surrender
of the temporary Notes at the office or agency of the Issuer to be
maintained as provided in Section 3.2, without charge to the Holder. Upon
surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Notes, the Issuer
shall execute, and the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in
exchange therefor, a like principal amount of Definitive Notes of
authorized denominations. Until so exchanged, the temporary Notes shall in
all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as
Definitive Notes.
Section 2.4 Tax Treatment. The Issuer has entered into
this Indenture, and the Notes shall be issued, with the intention that, for
federal, state and local income and franchise tax purposes, the Notes shall
qualify as indebtedness of the Issuer secured by the Trust Estate. The
Issuer, by entering into this Indenture, and each Noteholder, by its
acceptance of a Note (and each Note Owner by its acceptance of an interest
in the applicable Book-Entry Note), agree to treat the Notes for federal,
state and local income and franchise tax purposes as indebtedness of the
Issuer.
Section 2.5 Registration; Registration of Transfer and
Exchange.
(a) The Issuer shall cause to be kept a register (the
"Note Register") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may
prescribe, the Issuer shall provide for the registration of Notes and the
registration of transfers of Notes. The Indenture Trustee initially shall
be the "Note Registrar" for the purpose of registering Notes and transfers
of Notes as herein provided. Upon any resignation of any Note Registrar,
the Issuer shall promptly appoint a successor or, if it elects not to make
such an appointment, assume the duties of Note Registrar.
(b) If a Person other than the Indenture Trustee is
appointed by the Issuer as Note Registrar, (i) the Issuer shall give the
Indenture Trustee prompt written notice of the appointment of such Note
Registrar and of the location and any change in the location, of the Note
Register, (ii) the Indenture Trustee shall have the right to inspect the
Note Register at all reasonable times and to obtain copies thereof and
(iii) the Indenture Trustee shall have the right to rely upon a certificate
executed on behalf of the Note Registrar by an Executive Officer thereof as
to the names and addresses of the Holders of the Notes and the principal
amounts and number of such Notes.
(c) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any
Note at the office or agency of the Issuer to be maintained as provided in
Section 3.2, if the requirements of Section 8-401 of the Relevant UCC are
met, the Issuer shall execute, and the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate
and the Noteholder shall obtain from the Indenture Trustee, in the name of
the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes of the same
Class in any authorized denomination, of a like aggregate principal amount.
The Indenture Trustee may rely upon the Administrator with respect to the
determination of whether the requirements of Section 8-401 of the Relevant
UCC are met.
(d) At the option of the Noteholder, Notes may be
exchanged for other Notes of the same Class in any authorized
denominations, of a like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the
Notes to be exchanged at such office or agency. Whenever any Notes are so
surrendered for exchange, if the requirements of Section 8-401 of the
Relevant UCC are met, the Issuer shall execute, the Indenture Trustee shall
authenticate, and the Noteholder shall obtain from the Indenture Trustee,
the Notes which the Noteholder making such exchange is entitled to receive.
The Indenture Trustee may rely upon the Administrator with respect to the
determination of whether the requirements of Section 8-401 of the Relevant
UCC are met.
(e) All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or
exchange of Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Issuer, evidencing
the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as
the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.
(f) Every Note presented or surrendered for registration
of transfer or exchange shall be duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a
written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Indenture
Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Holder's attorney duly
authorized in writing, with such signature guaranteed by an "eligible
guarantor institution" meeting the requirements of the Note Registrar.
(g) No service charge shall be made to a Holder for any
registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Issuer 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 Notes, other than exchanges pursuant to Section 2.3 or 9.6 not
involving any transfer.
(h) The preceding provisions of this Section 2.5
notwithstanding, the Issuer shall not be required to make and the Note
Registrar need not register transfers or exchanges of Notes selected for
redemption or of any Note for a period of 15 days preceding the due date
for any payment with respect to such Note.
(i) Each Person to whom a Note is transferred will be
required to represent, in the case of a Definitive Note, or deemed to
represent, in the case of a Book-Entry Note, that (x) such Person is not an
employee benefit plan, as described in section 3(3) of ERISA, or a plan, as
defined in section 4975(E)(1) of the Code, that is subject to Title I of
ERISA or to section 4975 of the Code, a government plan subject to any
state or local law similar to Title I of ERISA or section 4975 of the Code,
or a Person investing on behalf of or with "plan assets" of such a plan, or
(y) the Person's acquisition, holding and disposition of the Note are and
will be eligible for relief under a prohibited transaction exemption.
Section 2.6 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes.
(a) If (i) any mutilated Note is surrendered to the
Indenture Trustee, or the Indenture Trustee receives evidence to its
satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Note, and (ii) there
is delivered to the Indenture Trustee such security or indemnity as may be
required by it to hold the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee harmless, then,
in the absence of notice to the Issuer, the Note Registrar or the Indenture
Trustee that such Note has been acquired by a protected purchaser, and
provided that the requirements of Section 8-405 of the Relevant UCC are
met, the Issuer shall execute, and upon its request the Indenture Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange for or in lieu of any such
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note, a replacement Note of the same
Class; provided, however, that if any such destroyed, lost or stolen Note,
but not a mutilated Note, shall have become or within seven days of the
Indenture Trustee's receipt of evidence to its satisfaction of such
destruction, loss or theft shall be due and payable, or shall have been
called for redemption, instead of issuing a replacement Note of the same
Class, the Issuer may pay such destroyed, lost or stolen Note when so due
or payable or upon the Redemption Date without surrender thereof. The
Indenture Trustee may rely upon the Administrator with respect to the
determination of whether the requirements of Section 8-405 of the Relevant
UCC are met. If, after the delivery of such replacement Note or payment of
a destroyed, lost or stolen Note pursuant to the proviso to the preceding
sentence, a protected purchaser of the original Note in lieu of which such
replacement Note was issued presents for payment such original Note, the
Issuer and the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to recover such
replacement Note (or such payment) from the Person to whom it was delivered
or any Person taking such replacement Note from such Person to whom such
replacement Note was delivered or any assignee of such Person, except a
protected purchaser, and shall be entitled to recover upon the security or
indemnity provided therefor to the extent of any loss, damage, cost or
expense incurred by the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee in connection
therewith.
(b) Upon the issuance of any replacement Note under this
Section 2.6, the Issuer may require the payment by the Holder of such Note
of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may
be imposed in relation thereto and any other reasonable expenses (including
the fees and expenses of the Indenture Trustee) connected therewith.
(c) Every replacement Note issued pursuant to this
Section 2.6 in replacement of any mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note
shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the
Issuer, whether or not the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note 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 Notes duly issued hereunder.
(d) The provisions of this Section 2.6 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 Notes.
Section 2.7 Persons Deemed Owner. Prior to due
presentment for registration of transfer of any Note, the Issuer, the
Indenture Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee may
treat the Person in whose name any Note is registered (as of the day of
determination) as the owner of such Note for the purpose of receiving
payments of principal of and interest, if any, on such Note and for all
other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Note be overdue, and none of
the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee or any agent of the Issuer or the
Indenture Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
Section 2.8 Payments.
(a) On each Payment Date, upon receipt of written
instructions from the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.6(c) of the Sale and
Servicing Agreement, the Indenture Trustee shall withdraw the Total
Available Funds on deposit in the Collection Account for the related
Collection Period and make the following payments and deposits for such
Payment Date in the following order of priority:
(i) to the Servicer, the Total Servicing Fee;
(ii) to the Note Payment Account, the Accrued Note
Interest for the Class A Notes;
(iii) to the Note Payment Account, the Accrued Note
Interest for the Class B Notes;
(iv) to the Note Payment Account, the Principal
Distribution Amount;
(v) to the Reserve Account, the amount, if any, necessary
to reinstate the balance in the Reserve Account up to the Specified
Reserve Balance; and
(vi) to the Certificate Distribution Account, any
remaining portion of Total Available Funds.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, following the occurrence
and during the continuation of an Event of Default which has resulted in an
acceleration of the Notes, on each Payment Date the Total Available Funds
shall be deposited in the Note Payment Account and applied in accordance
with Section 2.8(f).
(b) The principal of each Note shall be payable in
installments on each Payment Date in an aggregate amount (unless the Notes
have been accelerated in accordance with Section 5.2 following the
occurrence of an Event of Default) for all Classes of Notes equal to the
Principal Distribution Amount with respect to such Payment Date. On each
Payment Date, unless the Notes have been accelerated in accordance with
Section 5.2 following the occurrence of an Event of Default, the Issuer
shall cause to be paid all amounts on deposit in the Note Payment Account
with respect to the related Collection Period in the following order of
priority:
(i) to the Class A Noteholders, Accrued Note Interest
(and, if amounts on deposit in the Note Payment Account are
insufficient for such purpose, payments shall be made to the to the
Class A Noteholders pro rata in proportion to the Accrued Note
Interest for each Class of Notes);
(ii) to the Class B Noteholders, Accrued Note Interest;
(iii) to the Class A-1 Noteholders, 100% of the Principal
Distribution Amount in reduction of principal until the Class A-1
Notes are paid in full;
(iv) following payment in full of the Class A-1 Notes,
the Class A Percentage of the Principal Distribution Amount in
reduction of principal to the Class A-2 Noteholders until the Class
A-2 Notes are paid in full, then to the Class A-3 Noteholders until
the Class A-3 Notes are paid in full, then to the Class A-4
Noteholders until the Class A-4 Notes are paid in full; and
(v) following payment in full of the Class A-1 Notes, the
Class B Percentage of the Principal Distribution Amount in reduction
of principal to the Class B Noteholders until the Class B Notes are
paid in full.
(c) The principal amount of the Class A-1 Notes, to the
extent not previously paid, will be due on the Class A-1 Stated Maturity
Date, the principal amount of the Class A-2 Notes, to the extent not
previously paid, will be due on the Class A-2 Stated Maturity Date, the
principal amount of the Class A-3 Notes, to the extent not previously paid,
will be due on the Class A-3 Stated Maturity Date, the principal amount of
the Class A-4 Notes, to the extent not previously paid, will be due on the
Class A-4 Stated Maturity Date and the principal amount of the Class B
Notes, to the extent not previously paid, will be due on the Class B Stated
Maturity Date.
(d) The Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes, the Class
A-3 Notes, the Class A-4 Notes and the Class B Notes shall accrue interest
at the Class A-1 Rate, the Class A-2 Rate, the Class A-3 Rate, the Class
A-4 Rate and the Class B Rate, respectively, and such interest shall be due
and payable on each Payment Date. Interest on the Class A-1 Notes shall be
calculated on the basis of the actual days elapsed and a 360-day year.
Interest on the Class A-2 Notes, the Class A-3 Notes, the Class A-4 Notes
and the Class B Notes shall be calculated on the basis of a 360-day year of
twelve 30-day months. Subject to Section 3.1, any installment of interest
or principal, if any, payable on any Note that is punctually paid or duly
provided for by the Issuer on the applicable Payment Date shall be paid to
the Person in whose name such Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is
registered on the Record Date by check mailed first-class postage prepaid
to such Person's address as it appears on the Note Register on such Record
Date; provided that, unless Definitive Notes have been issued pursuant to
Section 2.13, with respect to Notes registered on the Record Date in the
name of the nominee of the Clearing Agency (initially, such nominee to be
Cede & Co.), payment shall be made by wire transfer in immediately
available funds to the account designated by such nominee, and except for
the final installment of principal payable with respect to such Note on a
Payment Date or on the related Stated Maturity Date (and except for the
Redemption Price for any Note called for redemption), which shall be
payable as provided below. The funds represented by any such checks
returned undelivered shall be held in accordance with Section 3.3. The
Issuer shall pay all Accrued Note Interest, including Interest Carryover
Shortfalls, to the Persons who are Noteholders on the Record Date for a
particular Payment Date even if a portion of such Accrued Note Interest
relates to a different Payment Date.
(e) All principal payments on a Class of Notes shall be
made pro rata to the Noteholders entitled thereto. The Indenture Trustee
shall notify the Person in whose name a Note is registered at the close of
business on the Record Date preceding the Payment Date on which the Issuer
expects that the final installment of principal of and interest on such
Note shall be paid. Such notice shall be mailed or transmitted by facsimile
prior to such final Payment Date and shall specify that such final
installment shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of such
Note and shall specify the place where such Note may be presented and
surrendered for payment of such installment. Notices in connection with
redemption of Notes shall be mailed to Noteholders as provided in Section
10.2.
(f) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the entire unpaid
principal amount of the Notes shall be due and payable, if not previously
paid, on the date on which an Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing, if the Indenture Trustee or the Holders of Notes representing
not less than a majority of the principal amount of the Notes Outstanding
have declared the Notes to be immediately due and payable in the manner
provided in Section 5.2. On each Payment Date following acceleration of the
Notes, all amounts on deposit in the Note Payment Account shall be paid in
the following order of priority.
(i) first, to the Indenture Trustee for amounts due under
Section 6.7 and to the Owner Trustee for amounts due under Sections
8.1 and 8.2 of the Trust Agreement;
(ii) second, to the Servicer for amounts due and unpaid
in respect of Total Servicing Fees;
(iii) third, to Noteholders of the Class A Notes, the
Accrued Note Interest ratably in proportion to Accrued Note Interest
for each Class of the Class A Notes, without preference or priority of
any kind, according to the amounts due and payable on the Class A
Notes for interest;
(iv) fourth, to the Class A-1 Noteholders, the
outstanding principal amount of the Class A-1 Notes as of such Payment
Date (prior to giving effect to any payment of principal on such date)
in reduction of principal until the principal amount of the Class A-1
Notes has been paid in full;
(v) fifth, to the Class A-2 Noteholders, the Class A-3
Noteholders and the Class A-4 Noteholders, the outstanding principal
amount of the Class A-2 Notes, the Class A-3 Notes and the Class A-4
Notes, respectively, pro rata in proportion to the respective
principal balances of each of such Classes as of such Payment Date
(prior to giving effect to any payment of principal on such date) in
reduction of principal until the principal amount of each of such
Classes has been paid in full;
(vi) sixth, to the Class B Noteholders, Accrued Note
Interest;
(vii) seventh, to the Class B Noteholders, the
outstanding principal amount of the Class B Notes as of such Payment
Date (prior to giving effect to any payment of principal on such date)
in reduction of principal until the principal amount of the Class B
Notes has been paid in full; and
(viii) eighth, to the Certificateholders.
Section 2.9 Cancellation. All Notes surrendered for
payment, registration of transfer, exchange or redemption shall, if
surrendered to any Person other than the Indenture Trustee, be delivered to
the Indenture Trustee and shall be promptly cancelled by the Indenture
Trustee. The Issuer may at any time deliver to the Indenture Trustee for
cancellation any Notes previously authenticated and delivered hereunder
which the Issuer may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and all Notes
so delivered shall be promptly cancelled by the Indenture Trustee. No Notes
shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Notes cancelled as
provided in this Section 2.9, except as expressly permitted by this
Indenture. All cancelled Notes may be held or disposed of by the Indenture
Trustee in accordance with its standard retention or disposal policy as in
effect at the time unless the Issuer shall direct by an Issuer Order that
they be destroyed or returned to it, provided, that such Issuer Order is
timely and the Notes have not been previously disposed of by the Indenture
Trustee.
Section 2.10 Release of Collateral. Subject to Section
11.1 and the terms of the Basic Documents, the Indenture Trustee shall
release property from the lien of this Indenture only upon receipt of (i)
an Issuer Request accompanied by an Officer's Certificate and an Opinion of
Counsel, in each case stating that all conditions precedent, if any,
provided for in this Indenture relating to the release of the property from
the lien of this Indenture have been complied with, provided that counsel
rendering any such opinion may rely, without independent investigation, on
the accuracy and validity of any certificate or other instrument delivered
to the Indenture Trustee in connection with any such action and (ii)
Independent Certificates in accordance with TIA Sections 314(c) and
314(d)(1) or an Opinion of Counsel in lieu of such Independent Certificates
to the effect that the TIA does not require any such Independent
Certificates. If the Commission shall issue an exemptive order under TIA
Section 304(d) modifying the Owner Trustee's obligations under TIA Sections
314(c) and 314(d)(1), the Indenture Trustee shall release property from the
lien of this Indenture in accordance with the conditions and procedures set
forth in such exemptive order.
Section 2.11 Book-Entry Notes. The Notes, upon original
issuance, shall be issued in the form of typewritten Notes representing the
Book-Entry Notes, to be delivered to the Indenture Trustee as custodian for
The Depository Trust Company, the initial Clearing Agency, by, or on behalf
of, the Issuer. The Book-Entry Notes shall be registered initially on the
Note Register in the name of Cede & Co., the nominee of the initial
Clearing Agency, and no Note Owner thereof shall receive a definitive Note
representing such Note Owner's interest in such Note, except as provided in
Section 2.13. Unless and until definitive, fully registered Notes (the
"Definitive Notes") have been issued to such Note Owners pursuant to
Section 2.13:
(i) the provisions of this Section 2.11 shall be in full
force and effect;
(ii) the Note Registrar and the Indenture Trustee shall
be entitled to deal with the Clearing Agency for all purposes of this
Indenture (including the payment of principal of and interest on the
Notes and the giving of instructions or directions hereunder) as the
sole Holder of the Notes, and shall have no obligation to the Note
Owners;
(iii) to the extent that the provisions of this Section
2.11 conflict with any other provisions of this Indenture, the
provisions of this Section shall control;
(iv) the rights of Note Owners shall be exercised only
through the Clearing Agency and shall be limited to those established
by law and agreements between such Note Owners and the Clearing Agency
and/or the Clearing Agency Participants pursuant to the Note
Depository Agreement; unless and until Definitive Notes are issued
pursuant to Section 2.13, the initial Clearing Agency shall make
book-entry transfers among the Clearing Agency Participants and
receive and transmit payments of principal of and interest on the
Notes to such Clearing Agency Participants; and
(v) whenever this Indenture requires or permits actions
to be taken based upon instructions or directions of Holders of Notes
evidencing a specified percentage of the principal amount of the Notes
or any Class of Notes Outstanding, the Clearing Agency shall be deemed
to represent such percentage only to the extent that it has received
instructions to such effect from Note Owners and/or Clearing Agency
Participants owning or representing, respectively, such required
percentage of the beneficial interest in the Notes or such Class of
Notes and has delivered such instructions to the Indenture Trustee.
Section 2.12 Notices to Clearing Agency. Whenever a
notice or other communication to the Noteholders is required under this
Indenture, unless and until Definitive Notes shall have been issued to such
Note Owners pursuant to Section 2.13, the Indenture Trustee shall give all
such notices and communications specified herein to be given to Holders of
the Notes to the Clearing Agency, and shall have no obligation to such Note
Owners.
Section 2.13 Definitive Notes. If (i) the Issuer, the
Administrator or the Servicer advises the Indenture Trustee in writing that
the Clearing Agency is no longer willing or able to properly discharge its
responsibilities with respect to the Book-Entry Notes and the Indenture
Trustee or the Administrator is unable to locate a qualified successor,
(ii) the Administrator, at its option, advises the Indenture Trustee in
writing that it elects to terminate the book-entry system through the
Clearing Agency or (iii) after the occurrence of an Event of Default or an
Event of Servicing Termination, Note Owners of the Book-Entry Notes
representing beneficial interests aggregating not less than 51% of the
principal amount of such Notes advise the Indenture Trustee and the
Clearing Agency in writing that the continuation of a book-entry system
through the Clearing Agency is no longer in the best interests of such Note
Owners, then the Clearing Agency shall notify all Note Owners and the
Indenture Trustee of the occurrence of such event and of the availability
of Definitive Notes to Note Owners requesting the same. Upon surrender to
the Indenture Trustee of the typewritten Notes representing the Book-Entry
Notes by the Clearing Agency, accompanied by registration instructions, the
Issuer shall execute and the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate the
Definitive Notes in accordance with the instructions of the Clearing
Agency. None of the Issuer, the Note Registrar or the Indenture Trustee
shall be liable for any delay in delivery of such instructions and may
conclusively rely on, and shall be protected in relying on, such
instructions. Any portion of a Book-Entry Note transferred or exchanged
pursuant to this Section 2.13 shall be executed, authenticated and
delivered only in the minimum denominations and integral multiples set
forth in Section 2.2(d). Upon the issuance of Definitive Notes, the
Indenture Trustee shall recognize the Holders of the Definitive Notes as
Noteholders.
Section 2.14 Authenticating Agents. The Indenture Trustee
may appoint one or more Persons (each, an "Authenticating Agent") with
power to act on its behalf and subject to its direction in the
authentication of Notes in connection with issuance, transfers and
exchanges under Sections 2.2, 2.3, 2.5 and 2.6, as fully to all intents and
purposes as though each such Authenticating Agent had been expressly
authorized by those Sections to authenticate such Notes. For all purposes
of this Indenture, the authentication of Notes by an Authenticating Agent
pursuant to this Section 2.14 shall be deemed to be the authentication of
Notes "by the Indenture Trustee."
Any corporation into which any Authenticating Agent may
be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any
corporation resulting from any merger, consolidation or conversion to which
any Authenticating Agent shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to
all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of any
Authenticating Agent, shall be the successor of such Authenticating Agent
hereunder, without the execution or filing of any further act on the part
of the parties hereto or such Authenticating Agent or such successor
corporation.
Any Authenticating Agent may at any time resign by giving
written notice of resignation to the Indenture Trustee and the Owner
Trustee. The Indenture Trustee may at any time terminate the agency of any
Authenticating Agent by giving written notice of termination to such
Authenticating Agent and the Owner Trustee. Upon receiving such notice of
resignation or upon such a termination, the Indenture Trustee may appoint a
successor Authenticating Agent and shall give written notice of any such
appointment to the Owner Trustee.
The Administrator agrees to pay to each Authenticating
Agent from time to time reasonable compensation for its services. The
provisions of Sections 2.9 and 6.4 shall be applicable to any
Authenticating Agent.
ARTICLE III - COVENANTS
Section 3.1 Payment Covenant. The Issuer shall duly and
punctually pay the principal of and interest on, if any, the Notes in
accordance with the terms of the Notes and this Indenture. Amounts properly
withheld under the Code by any Person from a payment to any Noteholder of
interest and/or principal shall be considered as having been paid by the
Issuer to such Noteholder for all purposes of this Indenture.
Section 3.2 Maintenance of Office or Agency. The Issuer
shall maintain in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, an office
or agency where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or
exchange, and where notices and demands to or upon the Issuer in respect of
the Notes and this Indenture may be served. The Issuer hereby initially
appoints the Indenture Trustee to serve as its agent for the foregoing
purposes. The Issuer shall give prompt written notice to the Indenture
Trustee of the location, and of any change in the location, of any such
office or agency. If, at any time, the Issuer shall fail to maintain any
such office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Indenture Trustee with
the address thereof, such surrenders, notices and demands may be made or
served at the Corporate Trust Office, and the Issuer hereby appoints the
Indenture Trustee as its agent to receive all such surrenders, notices and
demands.
Section 3.3 Money for Payments To Be Held in Trust. (a)
As provided in Section 8.2, all payments of amounts due and payable with
respect to any Notes that are to be made from amounts withdrawn from the
Collection Account, the Reserve Account, the Yield Supplement Account and
the Note Payment Account shall be made on behalf of the Issuer by the
Indenture Trustee or by another Paying Agent, and no amounts so withdrawn
from the Collection Account, the Reserve Account, the Yield Supplement
Account and the Note Payment Account for payments of Notes shall be paid
over to the Issuer, except as provided in this Section 3.3.
(b) On or before each Payment Date and Redemption Date,
the Issuer shall deposit or cause to be deposited in the Note Payment
Account an aggregate sum sufficient to pay the amounts then becoming due
under the Notes, such sum to be held in trust for the benefit of the
Persons entitled thereto, and (unless the Paying Agent is the Indenture
Trustee) shall promptly notify the Indenture Trustee of its action or
failure so to act.
(c) The Issuer shall cause each Paying Agent other than
the Indenture Trustee to execute and deliver to the Indenture Trustee an
instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Indenture
Trustee (and if the Indenture Trustee acts as Paying Agent, it hereby so
agrees), subject to the provisions of this Section 3.3, that such Paying
Agent shall:
(i) hold all sums held by it for the payment of amounts
due with respect to the Notes in trust for the benefit of the Persons
entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or
otherwise disposed of as herein provided and pay such sums to such
Persons as herein provided;
(ii) give the Indenture Trustee notice of any default by
the Issuer (or any other obligor upon the Notes) of which it has
actual knowledge in the making of any payment required to be made with
respect to the Notes;
(iii) at any time during the continuance of any such
default, upon the written request of the Indenture Trustee, forthwith
pay to the Indenture Trustee all sums so held in trust by such Paying
Agent;
(iv) immediately resign as a Paying Agent and forthwith
pay to the Indenture Trustee all sums held by it in trust for the
payment of Notes if at any time it ceases to meet the standards
required to be met by a Paying Agent at the time of its appointment;
and
(v) comply with all requirements of the Code and any
state or local tax law with respect to the withholding from any
payments made by it on any Notes of any applicable withholding taxes
imposed thereon and with respect to any applicable reporting
requirements in connection therewith.
The Issuer may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining
the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any other
purpose, by Issuer Order direct any Paying Agent to pay to the
Indenture Trustee all sums held in trust by such Paying Agent, such
sums to be held by the Indenture Trustee upon the same trusts as those
upon which the sums were held by such Paying Agent; and upon such
payment by any Paying Agent to the Indenture Trustee, such Paying
Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to
such money.
(d) Subject to applicable laws with respect to escheat of
funds, any money held by the Indenture Trustee or any Paying Agent in trust
for the payment of any amount due with respect to any Note and remaining
unclaimed for two (2) years after such amount has become due and payable
shall be discharged from such trust and be paid to the Issuer on Issuer
Request; and the Holder of such Note shall thereafter, as an unsecured
general creditor, look only to the Issuer for payment thereof (but only to
the extent of the amounts so paid to the Issuer), and all liability of the
Indenture Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money
shall thereupon cease; provided, however, that the Indenture Trustee or
such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment, shall
at the expense and direction of the Issuer cause to be published once, in a
newspaper published in the English language, customarily published on each
Business Day and of general circulation in The City of New York, 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, any
unclaimed balance of such money then remaining shall be repaid to the
Issuer. The Indenture Trustee shall also adopt and employ, at the expense
and direction of the Issuer, any other reasonable means of notification of
such repayment (including, but not limited to, mailing notice of such
repayment to Holders whose Notes have been called but have not been
surrendered for redemption or whose right to or interest in monies due and
payable but not claimed is determinable from the records of the Indenture
Trustee or of any Paying Agent, at the last address of record for each such
Holder).
Section 3.4 Existence. The Issuer shall keep in full
effect its existence, rights and franchises as a business trust under the
laws of the State of Delaware (unless it becomes, or any successor Issuer
hereunder is or becomes, organized under the laws of any other State or of
the United States of America, in which case the Issuer shall keep in full
effect its existence, rights and franchises under the laws of such other
jurisdiction) and shall obtain and preserve its qualification to do
business in each jurisdiction in which such qualification is or shall be
necessary to protect the validity and enforceability of this Indenture, the
Notes, the Collateral and each other instrument or agreement included in
the Trust Estate.
Section 3.5 Protection of Trust Estate. The Issuer shall
from time to time execute and deliver all such supplements and amendments
hereto and all such financing statements, continuation statements,
instruments of further assurance and other instruments, and shall take such
other action necessary or advisable to:
(i) maintain or preserve the lien and security interest
(and the priority thereof) of this Indenture or carry out more
effectively the purposes hereof;
(ii) perfect, publish notice of or protect the validity
of any Grant made or to be made by this Indenture;
(iii) enforce any of the Collateral; or
(iv) preserve and defend title to the Trust Estate and
the rights of the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders in such Trust
Estate against the claims of all Persons.
The Issuer hereby designates the Indenture Trustee its agent and
attorney-in-fact to execute any financing statement, continuation statement
or other instrument required to be executed pursuant to this Section 3.5.
Section 3.6 Opinions as to Trust Estate. (a) On the
Closing Date, the Issuer shall furnish to the Indenture Trustee an Opinion
of Counsel substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit C.
(b) On or before March 31, in each calendar year,
beginning in 2002, the Issuer shall furnish to the Indenture Trustee an
Opinion of Counsel either stating that, in the opinion of such counsel,
such action has been taken with respect to the recording, filing,
re-recording and refiling of this Indenture, any indentures supplemental
hereto and any other requisite documents and with respect to the execution
and filing of any financing statements and continuation statements as is
necessary to maintain the lien and security interest created by this
Indenture and reciting the details of such action or stating that in the
opinion of such counsel no such action is necessary to maintain such lien
and security interest. Such Opinion of Counsel shall also describe the
recording, filing, re-recording and refiling of this Indenture, any
indentures supplemental hereto and any other requisite documents and the
execution and filing of any financing statements and continuation
statements that shall, in the opinion of such counsel, be required to
maintain the lien and security interest of this Indenture until March 31 in
the following calendar year.
Section 3.7 Performance of Obligations; Servicing of
Receivables. (a) The Issuer shall not take any action and shall use its
best efforts not to permit any action to be taken by others that would
release any Person from any of such Person's material covenants or
obligations under any instrument or agreement included in the Trust Estate
or that would result in the amendment, hypothecation, subordination,
termination or discharge of, or impair the validity or effectiveness of,
any such instrument or agreement, except as expressly provided in this
Indenture and the other Basic Documents.
(b) The Issuer may contract with other Persons to assist
it in performing its duties under this Indenture, and any performance of
such duties by a Person identified to the Indenture Trustee in an Officer's
Certificate of the Issuer shall be deemed to be action taken by the Issuer.
Initially, the Issuer has contracted with the Servicer and the
Administrator to assist the Issuer in performing its duties under this
Indenture.
(c) The Issuer shall punctually perform and observe all
of its obligations and agreements contained in this Indenture, the Basic
Documents and in the instruments and agreements included in the Trust
Estate, including, but not limited to, filing or causing to be filed all
financing statements and continuation statements required to be filed under
the Relevant UCC by the terms of this Indenture and the Sale and Servicing
Agreement in accordance with and within the time periods provided for
herein and therein. Except as otherwise expressly provided therein, the
Issuer shall not waive, amend, modify, supplement or terminate any Basic
Document or any provision thereof without the consent of the Indenture
Trustee or the Holders of at least a majority of the principal amount of
the Notes Outstanding.
(d) If the Issuer shall have knowledge of the occurrence
of an Event of Servicing Termination under the Sale and Servicing
Agreement, the Issuer shall promptly notify the Indenture Trustee and the
Rating Agencies thereof and shall specify in such notice the action, if
any, the Issuer is taking in respect of such default. If an Event of
Servicing Termination shall arise from the failure of the Servicer to
perform any of its duties or obligations under the Sale and Servicing
Agreement with respect to the Receivables, the Issuer shall take all
reasonable steps available to it to remedy such failure.
(e) As promptly as possible after the giving of notice of
termination to the Servicer of the Servicer's rights and powers pursuant to
Section 8.1 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Issuer shall (subject
to the rights of the Indenture Trustee to direct such appointment pursuant
to Section 8.2 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement) appoint a successor
servicer (the "Successor Servicer"), and such Successor Servicer shall
accept its appointment by a written assumption in a form acceptable to the
Indenture Trustee. In the event that a Successor Servicer has not been
appointed or has not accepted its appointment at the time when the Servicer
ceases to act as Servicer, the Indenture Trustee, without further action,
shall automatically be appointed the Successor Servicer. The Indenture
Trustee may resign as the Servicer by giving written notice of such
resignation to the Issuer and in such event shall be released from such
duties and obligations, such release not to be effective until the date a
new servicer enters into a servicing agreement with the Issuer as provided
below. Upon delivery of any such notice to the Issuer, the Issuer shall
obtain a new servicer as the Successor Servicer under the Sale and
Servicing Agreement. Any Successor Servicer (other than the Indenture
Trustee) shall (i) be an established financial institution having a net
worth of not less than $50,000,000 and whose regular business includes the
servicing of automotive installment sale contracts and (ii) enter into a
servicing agreement with the Issuer having substantially the same
provisions as the provisions of the Sale and Servicing Agreement applicable
to the Servicer. If, within 30 days after the delivery of the notice
referred to above, the Issuer shall not have obtained such a new servicer,
the Indenture Trustee may appoint, or may petition a court of competent
jurisdiction to appoint, a Successor Servicer. In connection with any such
appointment, the Indenture Trustee may make such arrangements for the
compensation of such successor as it and such successor shall agree,
subject to the limitations set forth below and in the Sale and Servicing
Agreement, and in accordance with Section 8.2 of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement, the Issuer shall enter into an agreement with such successor for
the servicing of the Receivables (such agreement to be in form and
substance satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee). If the Indenture Trustee
shall succeed to the Servicer's duties as servicer of the Receivables as
provided herein, it shall do so in its individual capacity and not in its
capacity as Indenture Trustee and, accordingly, the provisions of Article
VI hereof shall be inapplicable to the Indenture Trustee in its duties as
the successor to the Servicer and the servicing of the Receivables. If the
Indenture Trustee shall become successor to the Servicer under the Sale and
Servicing Agreement, the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to appoint as
Servicer any one of its Affiliates; provided that the Indenture Trustee, in
its capacity as the Servicer, shall be fully liable for the actions and
omissions of such Affiliate in such capacity as Successor Servicer.
(f) Upon any termination of the Servicer's rights and
powers pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Issuer shall
promptly notify the Indenture Trustee. As soon as a Successor Servicer is
appointed by the Issuer, the Issuer shall notify the Indenture Trustee of
such appointment, specifying in such notice the name and address of such
Successor Servicer.
(g) Without derogating from the absolute nature of the
assignment granted to the Indenture Trustee under this Indenture or the
rights of the Indenture Trustee hereunder, the Issuer hereby agrees that it
shall not, without the prior written consent of the Indenture Trustee or
the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the Notes
Outstanding, amend, modify, waive, supplement, terminate or surrender, or
agree to any amendment, modification, supplement, termination, waiver or
surrender of, the terms of any Collateral (except to the extent otherwise
provided in the Sale and Servicing Agreement or the Basic Documents).
Section 3.8 Negative Covenants. So long as any Notes are
Outstanding, the Issuer shall not:
(i) except as expressly permitted by this Indenture, the
Trust Agreement, the Purchase Agreement or the Sale and Servicing
Agreement, sell, transfer, exchange or otherwise dispose of any of the
properties or assets of the Issuer, including those included in the
Trust Estate, unless directed to do so by the Indenture Trustee;
(ii) claim any credit on, or make any deduction from the
principal or interest payable in respect of, the Notes (other than
amounts properly withheld from such payments under the Code or
applicable state law) or assert any claim against any present or
former Noteholder by reason of the payment of the taxes levied or
assessed upon the Issuer;
(iii) consolidate or merge with or into any other Person
(iv) dissolve or liquidate in whole or in part;
(v) (A) permit the validity or effectiveness of this
Indenture to be impaired, or permit the lien of this Indenture to be
amended, hypothecated, subordinated, terminated or discharged, or
permit any Person to be released from any covenants or obligations
with respect to the Notes under this Indenture except as may be
expressly permitted hereby, (B) permit any lien, charge, excise,
claim, security interest, mortgage or other encumbrance (other than
the lien of this Indenture) to be created on or extend to or otherwise
arise upon or burden the assets of the Issuer or any part thereof or
any interest therein or the proceeds thereof or (C) permit the lien of
this Indenture not to constitute a valid first priority (other than
with respect to any such tax, mechanics' or other lien) security
interest in the Trust Estate; or
(vi) engage in any activity which is inconsistent with
the treatment of the Issuer as a "Qualifying Special Purpose Entity"
as such term is used in SFAS 140 and any successor rule thereto.
Section 3.9 Annual Statement as to Compliance. The Issuer
shall deliver to the Indenture Trustee, on or before March 31 of each year
(commencing with the year 2002), an Officer's Certificate stating, as to
the Responsible Officer signing such Officer's Certificate, that:
(i) a review of the activities of the Issuer during such
year (or such shorter period, with respect to the first such Officer's
Certificate) and of its performance under this Indenture has been made
under such Responsible Officer's supervision; and
(ii) to the best of such Responsible Officer's knowledge,
based on such review, the Issuer has complied with all conditions and
covenants under this Indenture throughout such year (or such shorter
period, with respect to the first such Officer's Certificate), or, if
there has been a default in its compliance with any such condition or
covenant, specifying each such default known to such Responsible
Officer and the nature and status thereof.
Section 3.10 Consolidation, Merger, etc., of the Issuer;
Disposition of Subtrust Assets.
(a) The Issuer shall not consolidate or merge with or
into any other Person.
(b) Except as otherwise expressly permitted by this
Indenture or the other Basic Documents, the Issuer shall not sell, convey,
exchange, transfer or otherwise dispose of any material portion of the
properties and assets included in the Trust Estate to any Person.
Section 3.11 No Other Business. The Issuer shall not
engage in any business other than financing, acquiring, owning and pledging
the Receivables in the manner contemplated by this Indenture and the other
Basic Documents and activities incidental thereto.
Section 3.12 No Borrowing. The Issuer shall not issue,
incur, assume, guarantee or otherwise become liable, directly or
indirectly, for any indebtedness except for the Notes.
Section 3.13 Servicer's Obligations. The Issuer shall
cause the Servicer to comply with the Sale and Servicing Agreement,
including Sections 3.7, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, 3.13, 3.14 and 4.9 and
Article VII thereof.
Section 3.14 Guarantees, Loans, Advances and Other
Liabilities. Except as contemplated by this Indenture and the other Basic
Documents, the Issuer shall not make any loan or advance or credit to, or
guarantee (directly or indirectly or by an instrument having the effect of
assuring another's payment or performance on any obligation or capability
of so doing or otherwise), endorse or otherwise become contingently liable,
directly or indirectly, in connection with the obligations, stocks or
dividends of, or own, purchase, repurchase or acquire (or agree
contingently to do so) any stock, obligations, assets or securities of, or
any other interest in, or make any capital contribution to, any other
Person.
Section 3.15 Capital Expenditures. The Issuer shall not
make any expenditure (by long-term or operating lease or otherwise) for
capital assets (either realty or personalty).
Section 3.16 Further Instruments and Acts. Upon request
of the Indenture Trustee, the Issuer shall execute and deliver such further
instruments and do such further acts as may be reasonably necessary or
proper to carry out more effectively the purpose of this Indenture.
Section 3.17 Restricted Payments. The Issuer shall not,
directly or indirectly, (i) make any distribution (by reduction of capital
or otherwise), whether in cash, property, securities or a combination
thereof, to the Owner Trustee or any owner of a beneficial interest in the
Issuer or otherwise with respect to any ownership or equity interest or
security in or of the Issuer or to the Servicer, (ii) redeem, purchase,
retire or otherwise acquire for value any such ownership or equity interest
or security or (iii) set aside or otherwise segregate any amounts for any
such purpose; provided, however, that the Issuer may make, or cause to be
made, (x) payments to the Servicer, the Owner Trustee and the
Certificateholders as contemplated by, and to the extent funds are
available for such purpose under, the Sale and Servicing Agreement or the
Trust Agreement and (y) payments to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to
Section 1(a)(ii) of the Administration Agreement. The Issuer shall not,
directly or indirectly, make payments to or distributions from the
Collection Account except in accordance with this Indenture and the other
Basic Documents.
Section 3.18 Notice of Events of Default. The Issuer
shall give the Indenture Trustee and the Rating Agencies prompt written
notice of each Event of Default hereunder and of each default on the part
of any party to the Sale and Servicing Agreement or the Purchase Agreement
with respect to any of the provisions thereof.
Section 3.19 Removal of Administrator. For so long as any
Notes are Outstanding, the Issuer shall not remove the Administrator
without cause unless the Rating Agency Condition shall have been satisfied
in connection therewith.
ARTICLE IV - SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
Section 4.1 Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture.
(a) This Indenture shall cease to be of further effect
with respect to the Notes except as to (i) rights of registration of
transfer and exchange, (ii) substitution of mutilated, destroyed, lost or
stolen Notes, (iii) rights of Noteholders to receive payments of principal
thereof and interest thereon, (iv) Sections 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.8, 3.11 and
3.12 hereof, (v) the rights, obligations and immunities of the Indenture
Trustee hereunder (including the rights of the Indenture Trustee under
Section 6.7 and the obligations of the Indenture Trustee under Section
4.3), and (vi) the rights of Noteholders as beneficiaries hereof with
respect to the property so deposited with the Indenture Trustee payable to
all or any of them, and the Indenture Trustee, on demand of and at the
expense of the Issuer, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect to the Notes,
when either:
(A) all Notes of all Classes theretofore authenticated
and delivered (other than (i) Notes that have been destroyed, lost
or stolen and that have been replaced or paid as provided in
Section 2.6 and (ii) Notes for whose payment money has theretofore
been irrevocably deposited in trust or segregated and held in
trust by the Issuer and thereafter repaid to the Issuer or
discharged from such trust, as provided in Section 3.3) have been
delivered to the Indenture Trustee for cancellation; or
(B) each of the following:
(1) all Notes not theretofore delivered to the
Indenture Trustee for cancellation have become
due and payable and the Issuer has irrevocably
deposited or caused to be irrevocably deposited
with the Indenture Trustee cash or direct
obligations of or obligations guaranteed by the
United States of America (which will mature
prior to the date such amounts are payable), in
trust for such purpose, in an amount sufficient
to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on
such Notes not theretofore delivered to the
Indenture Trustee for cancellation when due to
the applicable Stated Maturity Date or
Redemption Date (if Notes shall have been called
for redemption pursuant to Section 10.1), as the
case may be;
(2) the Issuer has paid or caused to be paid all
other sums payable by the Issuer hereunder and
under the other Basic Documents;
(3) the Issuer has delivered to the Indenture
Trustee an Officer's Certificate, an Opinion of
Counsel and (if required by the TIA or the
Indenture Trustee) an Independent Certificate
from a firm of certified public accountants,
each meeting the applicable requirements of
Section 11.1(a) and, subject to Section 11.2,
each stating that all conditions precedent
herein provided for relating to the satisfaction
and discharge of this Indenture have been
complied with;
(4) the Issuer has delivered to the Indenture
Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that
the satisfaction and discharge of the Notes
pursuant to this Section 4.1 will not cause any
Noteholder to be treated as having sold or
exchanged any of its Notes for purposes of
Section 1001 of the Code; and
(5) the Issuer has delivered to the Indenture
Trustee an Officer's Certificate stating that
the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture
(i) is not inconsistent with the derecognition
by MMCA of the Receivables under GAAP and (ii)
will not cause the Issuer to become part of
MMCA's consolidated group under GAAP.
(b) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in
any other Basic Document, the Issuer shall not cause or permit the Notes to
be prepaid except as set forth in Section 10.1.
Section 4.2 Satisfaction and Discharge of the Notes.
(a) Upon satisfaction of the conditions set forth in
subsection (b) below, the Issuer shall be deemed to have paid and
discharged the entire indebtedness on all the Notes Outstanding, and the
provisions of this Indenture, as it relates to such Notes, shall no longer
be in effect (and the Indenture Trustee, at the expense of the Issuer,
shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the same), except as to:
(i) the rights of Holders of Notes to receive, from the
trust funds described in subsection (b)(i) hereof, payment of the
principal of and interest on the Notes Outstanding at maturity of such
principal or interest;
(ii) the obligations of the Issuer with respect to the
Notes under Sections 2.5, 2.6, 3.2 and 3.3 hereof;
(iii) the obligations of the Issuer to the Indenture
Trustee under Section 6.7 hereof; and
(iv) the rights, powers, trusts and immunities of the
Indenture Trustee hereunder and the duties of the Indenture Trustee
hereunder.
(b) The satisfaction and discharge of the Notes pursuant
to subsection (a) of this Section 4.2 is subject to the satisfaction of all
of the following conditions:
(i) the Issuer has deposited or caused to be deposited
irrevocably (except as provided in Section 4.4 hereof) with the
Indenture Trustee as trust funds in trust, specifically pledged as
security for, and dedicated solely to, the benefit of the Holders of
the Notes, which, through the payment of interest and principal in
respect thereof in accordance with their terms will provide, not later
than one day prior to the due date of any payment referred to below,
money in an amount sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally
recognized firm of independent certified public accountants expressed
in a written certification thereof delivered to the Indenture Trustee,
to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on the Notes Outstanding,
for principal thereof and interest thereon to the date of such deposit
(in the case of Notes that have become due and payable) or to the
maturity of such principal and interest, as the case may be;
(ii) such deposit will not result in a breach or
violation of, or constitute an event of default under, any other
agreement or instrument to which the Issuer is bound;
(iii) no Event of Default with respect to the Notes shall
have occurred and be continuing on the date of such deposit or on the
ninety-first (91st) day after such date;
(iv) the Issuer has delivered to the Indenture Trustee an
Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the satisfaction and discharge
of the Notes pursuant to this Section 4.2 will not cause any
Noteholder to be treated as having sold or exchanged any of its Notes
for purposes of Section 1001 of the Code; and
(v) the Issuer has delivered to the Indenture Trustee an
Officer's Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all
conditions precedent relating to the satisfaction and discharge of the
Notes contemplated by this Section 4.2 have been complied with.
(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in
any other Basic Document, the Issuer shall not cause or permit the Notes to
be prepaid except as set forth in Section 10.1.
Section 4.3 Application of Trust Money. All monies
deposited with the Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section 4.1 shall be held
in trust and applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the Notes
and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying
Agent, as the Indenture Trustee may determine, to the Holders of the
particular Notes for the payment or redemption of which such monies have
been deposited with the Indenture Trustee, of all sums due and to become
due thereon for principal and interest, but such monies need not be
segregated from other funds except to the extent required herein or in the
Sale and Servicing Agreement or required by law.
Section 4.4 Repayment of Monies Held by Paying Agent. In
connection with the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with
respect to the Notes, all monies then held by any Paying Agent other than
the Indenture Trustee under the provisions of this Indenture with respect
to such Notes shall, upon demand of the Issuer, be paid to the Indenture
Trustee to be held and applied according to Section 3.3 and thereupon such
Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to
such monies.
ARTICLE V - REMEDIES
Section 5.1 Events of Default. "Event of Default,"
wherever used herein, means the occurrence of any one of the following
events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall
be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant
to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or
regulation of any administrative or governmental body):
(i) default in the payment of any interest on any Note
when the same becomes due and payable, and such default shall continue
for a period of five days or more; or
(ii) default in the payment of the principal of or any
installment of the principal of any Note when the same becomes due and
payable, including with respect to each Class of Notes, the Stated
Maturity Date for such Class; or
(iii) default in the observance or performance of any
material covenant or agreement of the Issuer made in this Indenture
(other than a covenant or agreement, a default in the observance or
performance of which is elsewhere in this Section 5.1 specifically
dealt with), or any representation or warranty of the Issuer made in
this Indenture or in any certificate or other writing delivered
pursuant hereto or in connection herewith proving to have been
incorrect in any material respect as of the time when the same shall
have been made, and such default shall continue or not be cured, or
the circumstance or condition in respect of which such
misrepresentation or warranty was incorrect shall not have been
eliminated or otherwise cured, for a period of 60 days or in the case
of a materially incorrect representation and warranty 30 days, after
there shall have been given, by registered or certified mail, to the
Issuer by the Indenture Trustee or to the Issuer and the Indenture
Trustee by the Holders of not less than 25% of the principal amount of
the Notes Outstanding, a written notice specifying such default or
incorrect representation or warranty and requiring it to be remedied
and stating that such notice is a notice of Default hereunder; or
(iv) the filing of a decree or order for relief by a
court having jurisdiction in the premises in respect of the Issuer or
any substantial part of the Trust Estate in an involuntary case under
any applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other
similar law now or hereafter in effect, or appointing a receiver,
liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator or similar
official of the Issuer or for any substantial part of the Trust
Estate, or ordering the winding-up or liquidation of the Issuer's
affairs, and such decree or order shall remain unstayed and in effect
for a period of 60 consecutive days; or
(v) the commencement by the Issuer of a voluntary case
under any applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other
similar law now or hereafter in effect, or the consent by the Issuer
to the entry of an order for relief in an involuntary case under any
such law, or the consent by the Issuer to the appointment or taking
possession by a receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee,
sequestrator or similar official of the Issuer or for any substantial
part of the Trust Estate, or the making by the Issuer of any general
assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the failure by the Issuer
generally to pay its debts as such debts become due, or the taking of
any action by the Issuer in furtherance of any of the foregoing.
The Issuer shall deliver to the Indenture Trustee, within five days after
the occurrence thereof, written notice in the form of an Officer's
Certificate of any Default which with the giving of notice and the lapse of
time would become an Event of Default under clause (iii), its status and
what action the Issuer is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto.
Section 5.2 Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and
Annulment. (a) If an Event of Default should occur and be continuing, then
and in every such case the Indenture Trustee or the Holders of Notes
representing not less than a majority of the principal amount of the Notes
Outstanding, voting as a group, may declare all the Notes to be immediately
due and payable, by a notice in writing to the Issuer (and to the Indenture
Trustee if given by Noteholders), and upon any such declaration the unpaid
principal amount of such Notes, together with accrued and unpaid interest
thereon through the date of acceleration, shall become immediately due and
payable. If an Event of Default specified in Section 5.1(iv) or (v) occurs,
all unpaid principal, together with all accrued and unpaid interest
thereon, of all the Notes, and all other amounts payable hereunder, shall
automatically become due and payable without any declaration or other act
on the part of the Indenture Trustee or any Holder of the Notes.
(b) At any time after a declaration of acceleration of
maturity has been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of the
amount due has been obtained by the Indenture Trustee as hereinafter
provided in this Article V, the Holders of Notes representing a majority of
the principal amount of the Notes Outstanding, voting as a group, by
written notice to the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee, may rescind and
annul such declaration and its consequences if:
(i) the Issuer has paid or deposited with the Indenture
Trustee a sum sufficient to pay:
(A) all payments of principal of and interest on all
Notes and all other amounts that would then be due hereunder or upon
such Notes if the Event of Default giving rise to such acceleration
had not occurred; and
(B) all sums paid or advanced by the Indenture Trustee
hereunder and the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and
advances of the Indenture Trustee and its agents and counsel and other
amounts due and owing to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section
6.7; and
(ii) all Events of Default, other than the nonpayment of
the principal of the Notes that has become due solely by such
acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in Section 5.12.
No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right
consequent thereto.
Section 5.3 Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for
Enforcement by Indenture Trustee. (a) The Issuer covenants that if (i)
there is a default in the payment of any interest on any Note when the same
becomes due and payable, and such default continues for a period of five
days, or (ii) there is a default in the payment of the principal of or any
installment of the principal of any Note when the same becomes due and
payable, the Issuer shall, upon demand of the Indenture Trustee, pay to the
Indenture Trustee, for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes, the whole
amount then due and payable on the Notes for principal and interest, with
interest upon the overdue principal at the applicable Note Interest Rate
and, to the extent payment at such rate of interest shall be legally
enforceable, upon overdue installments of interest at the applicable Note
Interest Rate and in addition thereto such further amount as shall be
sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the
reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the
Indenture Trustee and its agents and counsel and other amounts due and
owing to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section 6.7.
(b) In case the Issuer shall fail forthwith to pay such
amounts upon such demand, the Indenture Trustee, in its own name and as
trustee of an express trust, may institute a Proceeding for the collection
of the sums so due and unpaid, and may prosecute such Proceeding to
judgment or final decree, and may enforce the same against the Issuer or
other obligor upon the Notes and collect in the manner provided by law out
of the property of the Issuer or other obligor upon the Notes, wherever
situated, the monies adjudged or decreed to be payable.
(c) If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the
Indenture Trustee may, as more particularly provided in Section 5.4, in its
discretion, proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the
Noteholders by such appropriate Proceedings as the Indenture Trustee shall
deem most effective to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the
specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in
aid of the exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce any other
proper remedy or legal or equitable right vested in the Indenture Trustee
by this Indenture or by law.
(d) In case there shall be pending, relative to the
Issuer or any other obligor upon the Notes or any Person having or claiming
an ownership interest in the Trust Estate, Proceedings under Title 11 of
the United States Code or any other applicable federal or state bankruptcy,
insolvency or other similar law, or in case a receiver, assignee or trustee
in bankruptcy or reorganization, liquidator, sequestrator or similar
official shall have been appointed for or taken possession of the Issuer or
its property or such other obligor or Person, or in case of any other
comparable judicial Proceedings relative to the Issuer or other obligor
upon the Notes, or to the creditors or property of the Issuer or such other
obligor, the Indenture Trustee, irrespective of whether the principal of
any Notes shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by
declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Indenture Trustee
shall have made any demand pursuant to the provisions of this Section 5.3,
shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such Proceedings or
otherwise:
(i) to file and prove a claim or claims for the whole
amount of principal and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the
Notes and to file such other papers or documents as may be necessary
or advisable in order to have the claims of the Indenture Trustee
(including any claim for reasonable compensation to the Indenture
Trustee and each predecessor Indenture Trustee, and their respective
agents, attorneys and counsel, and all other amounts due and owing to
the Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section 6.7), of the Noteholders
allowed in such Proceedings;
(ii) unless prohibited by applicable law and regulations,
to vote on behalf of the Holders of Notes in any election of a
trustee, a standby trustee or Person performing similar functions in
any such Proceedings;
(iii) to collect and receive any monies or other property
payable or deliverable on any such claims and to pay all amounts
received with respect to the claims of the Noteholders and of the
Indenture Trustee on their behalf; and
(iv) to file such proofs of claim and other papers or
documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims
of the Indenture Trustee or the Holders of Notes allowed in any
judicial proceedings relative to the Issuer, its creditors and its
property;
and any trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official
in any such Proceeding is hereby authorized by each of such Noteholders to
make payments to the Indenture Trustee and, in the event that the Indenture
Trustee shall consent to the making of payments directly to such
Noteholders, to pay to the Indenture Trustee such amounts as shall be
sufficient to cover reasonable compensation to the Indenture Trustee, each
predecessor Indenture Trustee and their respective agents, attorneys and
counsel, and all other amounts due and owing to the Indenture Trustee
pursuant to Section 6.7.
(e) Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize
the Indenture Trustee to authorize or consent to or vote for or accept or
adopt on behalf of any Noteholder any plan of reorganization, arrangement,
adjustment or composition affecting the Notes or the rights of any
Noteholder to authorize the Indenture Trustee to vote in respect of the
claim of any Noteholder in any such proceeding except, as aforesaid, to
vote for the election of a trustee in bankruptcy or similar Person.
(f) All rights of action and of asserting claims under
this Indenture, or under any of the Notes, may be enforced by the Indenture
Trustee without the possession of any of the Notes or the production
thereof in any trial or other Proceedings relative thereto, and any such
action or Proceedings instituted by the Indenture Trustee shall be brought
in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of
judgment, subject to the payment of the expenses, disbursements and
compensation of the Indenture Trustee, each predecessor Indenture Trustee
and their respective agents and attorneys, shall be for the ratable benefit
of the Holders of the Notes.
(g) In any Proceedings brought by the Indenture Trustee
(and also any Proceedings involving the interpretation of any provision of
this Indenture to which the Indenture Trustee shall be a party), the
Indenture Trustee shall be held to represent all the Noteholders, and it
shall not be necessary to make any Noteholder a party to any such
Proceedings.
Section 5.4 Remedies; Priorities. (a) If an Event of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Indenture Trustee may,
but shall not be obligated to, do one or more of the following (subject to
Section 5.5):
(i) institute Proceedings in its own name and as trustee
of an express trust for the collection of all amounts then payable on
the Notes or under this Indenture with respect thereto, whether by
declaration or otherwise, enforce any judgment obtained, and collect
from the Issuer and any other obligor upon such Notes the amounts then
payable and adjudged due;
(ii) institute Proceedings from time to time for the
complete or partial foreclosure of this Indenture with respect to the
Trust Estate;
(iii) exercise any remedies of a secured party under the
Relevant UCC and take any other appropriate action to protect and
enforce the rights and remedies of the Indenture Trustee and the
Noteholders; and
(iv) sell or liquidate the Trust Estate or any portion
thereof or rights or interest therein at one or more public or private
sales called and conducted in any manner permitted by law;
provided, however, that the Indenture Trustee may not sell or otherwise
liquidate the Trust Estate following an Event of Default, other than an
Event of Default described in Section 5.1(i) or (ii), unless (A) the
Holders of 100% of the principal amount of the Notes Outstanding, voting as
a group, consent thereto, (B) the proceeds of such sale or liquidation are
sufficient to pay in full the principal of and the accrued interest on the
outstanding Notes or (C) the Indenture Trustee determines that the Trust
Estate will not continue to provide sufficient funds for the payment of
principal of and interest on the Notes as they would have become due if the
Notes had not been declared due and payable, and the Indenture Trustee
obtains the consent of Holders of 66 2/3% of the principal amount of the
Notes Outstanding, voting as a group. In determining such sufficiency or
insufficiency with respect to clauses (B) and (C) above, the Indenture
Trustee may, but need not, obtain and rely upon an opinion of an
Independent investment banking or accounting firm of national reputation as
to the feasibility of such proposed action and as to the sufficiency of the
Trust Estate for such purpose.
(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, if an Event of Default
specified in Section 5.1(i) shall have occurred and be continuing and the
Notes shall have been accelerated under Section 5.2(a),
(i) if the Indenture Trustee determines that the net
proceeds of a sale or liquidation of the Trust Estate would be
sufficient to discharge in full the principal of and accrued interest
on the Notes, the Indenture Trustee shall sell or liquidate the Trust
Estate or any portion thereof or rights or interest therein at one or
more public or private sales called and conducted in any manner
permitted by law; or
(ii) if the Indenture Trustee determines that the net
proceeds of a sale or liquidation of the Trust Estate would not be
sufficient to discharge in full the principal of and accrued interest
on the Notes, the Indenture Trustee may sell or liquidate the Trust
Estate at one or more public or private sales called and conducted in
any manner permitted by law if the Indenture Trustee obtains the
consent of Holders of 66 2/3% of the principal amount of the Notes
Outstanding, voting as a group.
(c) If the Indenture Trustee collects any money or
property pursuant to this Article V, it shall pay out the money or property
in the order of priority set forth in Section 2.8(f).
(d) The Indenture Trustee may fix a record date and
payment date for any payment to Noteholders pursuant to this Section 5.4.
At least 15 days before such record date, the Issuer shall mail to each
Noteholder and the Indenture Trustee a notice that states the record date,
the payment date and the amount to be paid.
Section 5.5 Optional Preservation of the Receivables.
Subject to Section 5.4(b), if the Notes have been declared to be due and
payable under Section 5.2 following an Event of Default, and such
declaration and its consequences have not been rescinded and annulled, the
Indenture Trustee may, but need not, elect to maintain possession of the
Trust Estate and apply proceeds as if there had been no declaration of
acceleration; provided, however, that Total Available Funds shall be
applied in accordance with such declaration of acceleration in the manner
specified in Section 4.6(c) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement. It is the
desire of the parties hereto and the Noteholders that there be at all times
sufficient funds for the payment of principal of and interest on the Notes,
and the Indenture Trustee shall take such desire into account when
determining whether or not to maintain possession of the Trust Estate. In
determining whether to maintain possession of the Trust Estate, the
Indenture Trustee may, but need not, obtain and rely upon an opinion of an
Independent investment banking or accounting firm of national reputation as
to the feasibility of such proposed action and as to the sufficiency of the
Trust Estate for such purpose.
Section 5.6 Limitation of Suits. No Holder of any Note
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: (a) such Holder has
previously given written notice to the Indenture Trustee of a continuing
Event of Default;
(b) the Holders of not less than 25% of the principal
amount of the Notes Outstanding have made written request to the Indenture
Trustee to institute such Proceeding in respect of such Event of Default in
its own name as Indenture Trustee hereunder;
(c) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Indenture
Trustee reasonable indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities to
be incurred in complying with such request;
(d) the Indenture Trustee for 60 days after its receipt
of such notice, request and offer of indemnity has failed to institute such
Proceedings; and
(e) no direction inconsistent with such written request
has been given to the Indenture Trustee during such 60-day period by the
Holders of a majority of the principal amount of the Notes Outstanding.
It is understood and intended that no one or more Holders of Notes shall
have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any
provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of
any other Holders of Notes 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.
In the event the Indenture Trustee shall receive
conflicting or inconsistent requests and indemnity from two or more groups
of Holders of Notes, each representing less than a majority of the
principal amount of the Notes Outstanding, the Indenture Trustee in its
sole discretion may determine what action, if any, shall be taken,
notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture.
Section 5.7 Unconditional Rights of Noteholders To
Receive Principal and Interest. Notwithstanding any other provisions in
this Indenture, the Holder of any Note shall have the right, which is
absolute and unconditional, to receive payment of the principal of and
interest on, if any, such Note on or after the respective due dates thereof
expressed in such Note or in this Indenture (or, in the case of redemption,
on or after the Redemption Date) and to institute suit for the enforcement
of any such payment, and such right shall not be impaired without the
consent of such Holder.
Section 5.8 Restoration of Rights and Remedies. If the
Indenture Trustee or any Noteholder 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 Indenture Trustee or to such Noteholder, then and in every
such case the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders 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 Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders shall continue as
though no such Proceeding had been instituted.
Section 5.9 Rights and Remedies Cumulative. No right or
remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Indenture Trustee or to the
Noteholders is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and
every right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative
and in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or
hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or
employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not
prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate
right or remedy.
Section 5.10 Delay or Omission Not a Waiver. No delay or
omission of the Indenture Trustee or any Holder of any Note to exercise any
right or remedy accruing upon any Default or Event of Default shall impair
any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Default or
Event of Default or any acquiescence therein. Every right and remedy given
by this Article V or by law to the Indenture Trustee or to the Noteholders
may be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed
expedient, by the Indenture Trustee or by the Noteholders, as the case may
be.
Section 5.11 Control by Noteholders. The Holders of a
majority of the principal amount of the Notes Outstanding shall have the
right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any Proceeding for
any remedy available to the Indenture Trustee with respect to the Notes or
exercising any trust or power conferred on the Indenture Trustee; provided
that:
(a) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule
of law or with this Indenture;
(b) subject to the express terms of Section 5.4, any
direction to the Indenture Trustee to sell or liquidate the Trust Estate
shall be by Holders of Notes representing not less than 100% of the
principal amount of the Notes Outstanding;
(c) if the conditions set forth in Section 5.5 have been
satisfied and the Indenture Trustee elects to retain the Trust Estate
pursuant to such Section, then any direction to the Indenture Trustee by
Holders of Notes representing less than 100% of the principal amount of the
Notes Outstanding to sell or liquidate the Trust Estate shall be of no
force and effect; and
(d) the Indenture Trustee may take any other action
deemed proper by the Indenture Trustee that is not inconsistent with such
direction.
Notwithstanding the rights of Noteholders set forth in
this Section, subject to Section 6.1, the Indenture Trustee need not take
any action that it reasonably believes might involve it in costs, expenses
and liabilities for which it will not be adequately indemnified or might
materially adversely affect the rights of any Noteholders not consenting to
such action.
Section 5.12 Waiver of Past Default. Prior to the
declaration of the acceleration of the maturity of the Notes as provided in
Section 5.2, the Holders of Notes representing not less than a majority of
the principal amount of the Notes Outstanding, voting as a group, may waive
any past Default or Event of Default and its consequences except a Default
or Event of Default (a) in the payment of principal of or interest on any
of the Notes or (b) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof that
cannot be amended, supplemented or modified without the consent of the
Holder of each Note. In the case of any such waiver, the Issuer, the
Indenture Trustee and the Holders of the Notes shall be restored to their
former positions and rights hereunder, respectively; but no such waiver
shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or Event of Default or
impair any right consequent thereto.
Upon any such waiver, such Default or Event of Default
shall cease to exist and be deemed to have been cured and not to have
occurred, and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to
have been cured and not to have occurred, for every purpose of this
Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other
Default or Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereto.
Section 5.13 Undertaking for Costs. All parties to this
Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Note by such Holder's acceptance
thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in its
discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy
under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Indenture Trustee for any
action taken, suffered or omitted by it as Indenture Trustee, the filing by
any party litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such
suit, and that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs,
including reasonable attorney's fees, against any party litigant in such
suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or
defenses made by such party litigant; but the provisions of this Section
5.13 shall not apply to (a) any suit instituted by the Indenture Trustee,
(b) any suit instituted by any Noteholder or group of Noteholders, in each
case holding in the aggregate more than 10% of the principal amount of the
Notes Outstanding or (c) any suit instituted by any Noteholder for the
enforcement of the payment of principal of or interest on any Note on or
after the respective due dates expressed in such Note and in this Indenture
(or, in the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date).
Section 5.14 Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws. The Issuer
covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it shall 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, that may affect the covenants or the
performance of this Indenture, and the Issuer (to the extent that it may
lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any
such law, and covenants that it shall not hinder, delay or impede the
execution of any power herein granted to the Indenture Trustee, but will
suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law
had been enacted.
Section 5.15 Action on Notes. The Indenture Trustee's
right to seek and recover judgment on the Notes or under this Indenture
shall not be affected by the seeking, obtaining or application of any other
relief under or with respect to this Indenture. Neither the lien of this
Indenture nor any rights or remedies of the Indenture Trustee or the
Noteholders shall be impaired by the recovery of any judgment by the
Indenture Trustee against the Issuer or by the levy of any execution under
such judgment upon any portion of the Trust Estate or upon any of the
assets of the Issuer. Any money or property collected by the Indenture
Trustee shall be applied in accordance with Section 5.4(c).
Section 5.16 Performance and Enforcement of Certain
Obligations. (a) Promptly following a request from the Indenture Trustee to
do so, and at the Administrator's expense, the Issuer shall take all such
lawful action as the Indenture Trustee may request to compel or secure the
performance and observance by the Seller and the Servicer, as applicable,
of each of their obligations to the Issuer under or in connection with the
Sale and Servicing Agreement or by the Seller of each of its obligations
under or in connection with the Purchase Agreement, and to exercise any and
all rights, remedies, powers and privileges lawfully available to the
Issuer under or in connection with the Sale and Servicing Agreement to the
extent and in the manner directed by the Indenture Trustee, including the
transmission of notices of default on the part of the Seller or the
Servicer thereunder and the institution of legal or administrative actions
or proceedings to compel or secure performance by the Seller or the
Servicer of each of their obligations under the Sale and Servicing
Agreement.
(b) If an Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing, the Indenture Trustee may, and at the direction (which
direction shall be in writing or by telephone, confirmed in writing
promptly thereafter) of the Holders of 66 2/3% of the principal amount of
the Notes Outstanding, voting as a group, shall, exercise all rights,
remedies, powers, privileges and claims of the Issuer against the Seller or
the Servicer under or in connection with the Sale and Servicing Agreement,
or against the Seller under or in connection with the Purchase Agreement,
including the right or power to take any action to compel or secure
performance or observance by the Seller or the Servicer, as the case may
be, of each of their obligations to the Issuer thereunder and to give any
consent, request, notice, direction, approval, extension, or waiver under
the Sale and Servicing Agreement or the Purchase Agreement, as the case may
be, and any right of the Issuer to take such action shall be suspended.
(c) Promptly following a request from the Indenture
Trustee to do so and at the Administrator's expense, the Issuer agrees to
take all such lawful action as the Indenture Trustee may request to compel
or secure the performance and observance by MMCA of each of its obligations
to the Seller under or in connection with the Purchase Agreement in
accordance with the terms thereof, and to exercise any and all rights,
remedies, powers and privileges lawfully available to the Issuer under or
in connection with the Purchase Agreement to the extent and in the manner
directed by the Indenture Trustee, including the transmission of notices of
default on the part of the Seller thereunder and the institution of legal
or administrative actions or proceedings to compel or secure performance by
MMCA of each of its obligations under the Purchase Agreement.
(d) If an Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing, the Indenture Trustee may, and, at the direction (which
direction shall be in writing or by telephone (confirmed in writing
promptly thereafter)) of the Holders of 66 2/3% of the principal amount of
the Notes Outstanding, voting as a group, shall, exercise all rights,
remedies, powers, privileges and claims of the Seller against MMCA under or
in connection with the Purchase Agreement, including the right or power to
take any action to compel or secure performance or observance by MMCA of
each of its obligations to the Seller thereunder and to give any consent,
request, notice, direction, approval, extension or waiver under the
Purchase Agreement, and any rights of the Seller to take such action shall
be suspended.
ARTICLE VI - THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE
Section 6.1 Duties of Indenture Trustee. (a) If an Event
of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Indenture Trustee shall
exercise the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture and use the
same degree of care and skill in their exercise as a prudent person would
exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of such Person's own
affairs.
(b) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default:
(i) the Indenture Trustee undertakes to perform such
duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth in this
Indenture and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into
this Indenture against the Indenture Trustee; and
(ii) in the absence of bad faith on its part, the
Indenture Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the
statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon
certificates or opinions furnished to the Indenture Trustee and, if
required by the terms of this Indenture, conforming to the
requirements of this Indenture; however, the Indenture Trustee shall
examine the certificates and opinions to determine whether or not they
conform to the requirements of this Indenture.
(c) The Indenture Trustee may not be relieved from
liability for its own negligent action, negligent failure to act, willful
misconduct or bad faith, except that:
(i) this paragraph does not limit the effect of paragraph
(b) of this Section 6.1;
(ii) the Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for any
error of judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer unless
it is proved that the Indenture Trustee was negligent in ascertaining
the pertinent facts; and
(iii) the Indenture Trustee shall not be liable with
respect to any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in
accordance with a direction received by it pursuant to Section 5.11.
(d) Every provision of this Indenture that in any way
relates to the Indenture Trustee is subject to paragraphs (a), (b), (c),
(e) and (g) of this Section 6.1.
(e) The Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for
interest on any money received by it except as the Indenture Trustee may
agree in writing with the Issuer.
(f) Money held in trust by the Indenture Trustee need not
be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law or the
terms of this Indenture or the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
(g) No provision of this Indenture shall require the
Indenture Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur
financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder or in
the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable
grounds to believe that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity
against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it.
(h) Every provision of this Indenture relating to the
conduct or affecting the liability of or affording protection to the
Indenture Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this Section 6.1
and to the provisions of the TIA.
(i) The Indenture Trustee shall not be charged with
knowledge of any Event of Default unless either (1) a Responsible Officer
shall have actual knowledge of such Event of Default or (2) written notice
of such Event of Default shall have been given to the Indenture Trustee in
accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.
Section 6.2 Rights of Indenture Trustee. (a) The
Indenture Trustee may rely on any document believed by it to be genuine and
to have been signed or presented by the proper Person. The Indenture
Trustee need not investigate any fact or matters stated in the document.
(b) Before the Indenture Trustee acts or refrains from
acting, it may require an Officer's Certificate or an Opinion of Counsel.
The Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits
to take in good faith in reliance on an Officer's Certificate or Opinion of
Counsel unless it is proved that the Indenture Trustee was negligent in
such reliance.
(c) The Indenture Trustee may execute any of the trusts
or powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by
or through agents or attorneys or a custodian or nominee, and the Indenture
Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the
part of, or for the supervision of, any such agent, attorney, custodian or
nominee appointed with due care by it hereunder.
(d) The Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for any
action it takes or omits to take in good faith which it believes to be
authorized or within its rights or powers; provided, however, that such
action or omission by the Indenture Trustee does not constitute willful
misconduct, negligence or bad faith.
(e) The Indenture Trustee may consult with counsel, and
the advice or opinion of counsel with respect to legal matters relating to
this Indenture and the Notes shall be full and complete authorization and
protection from liability in respect to any action taken, omitted or
suffered by it hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the advice or
opinion of such counsel.
(f) The Indenture Trustee shall be under no obligation to
exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the
request or direction of any of the Noteholders pursuant to this Indenture,
unless such Noteholders shall have offered to the Indenture Trustee
reasonable security or indemnity against the costs, expenses and
liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance with such request
or direction.
(g) The Indenture 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 or other paper or document, but
the Indenture Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further inquiry or
investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the
Indenture Trustee shall determine to make such further inquiry or
investigation, it shall be entitled to examine the books, records and
premises of the Issuer, personally or by agent or attorney.
Section 6.3 Individual Rights of Indenture Trustee. The
Indenture Trustee, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the
owner or pledgee of Notes and may otherwise deal with the Issuer or its
Affiliates with the same rights it would have if it were not Indenture
Trustee. Any Paying Agent, Note Registrar, co-registrar or co-paying agent
hereunder may do the same with like rights.
Section 6.4 Indenture Trustee's Disclaimer. The Indenture
Trustee (i) shall not be responsible for, and makes no representation, as
to the validity or adequacy of this Indenture or the Notes and (ii) shall
not be accountable for the Issuer's use of the proceeds from the Notes, or
responsible for any statement of the Issuer in this Indenture or in any
document issued in connection with the sale of the Notes or in the Notes
other than the Indenture Trustee's certificate of authentication.
Section 6.5 Notice of Defaults. If a Default occurs and
is continuing and if it is known to a Responsible Officer of the Indenture
Trustee, the Indenture Trustee shall mail to each Noteholder notice of such
Default within 90 days after it occurs. Except in the case of a Default in
payment of principal of or interest on any Note (including payments
pursuant to the mandatory redemption provisions of such Note), the
Indenture Trustee may withhold the notice if and so long as a committee of
its Responsible Officers in good faith determines that withholding the
notice is in the interests of Noteholders.
Section 6.6 Reports by Indenture Trustee to Holders.
Within a reasonable period of time after the end of each calendar year, but
not later than the latest date permitted by law, in each case as determined
by the Servicer, the Indenture Trustee shall deliver to each Person who at
any time during the preceding calendar year was a Noteholder a statement
prepared by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.9 of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement containing the information which is required to be expressed in
the Payment Date statements as a dollar amount per $1,000 of original
denomination of the Notes or Class of Notes, as applicable, aggregated for
such calendar year, for the purposes of such Noteholder's preparation of
Federal income tax returns.
Section 6.7 Compensation and Indemnity. (a) The Issuer
shall, or shall cause the Administrator to, pay to the Indenture Trustee
from time to time reasonable compensation for its services. The Indenture
Trustee's compensation shall not be limited by any law on compensation of a
trustee of an express trust. The Issuer shall, or shall cause the
Administrator to, reimburse the Indenture Trustee for all reasonable
out-of-pocket expenses incurred or made by it, including costs of
collection, in addition to the compensation for its services. Such expenses
shall include the reasonable compensation and expenses, disbursements and
advances of the Indenture Trustee's agents, counsel, accountants and
experts. The Issuer shall, or shall cause the Administrator to, indemnify
the Indenture Trustee against any and all loss, liability or expense
(including attorneys' fees) incurred by it in connection with the
administration of this trust and the performance of its duties hereunder.
The Indenture Trustee shall notify the Issuer and the Administrator
promptly of any claim for which it may seek indemnity. Failure by the
Indenture Trustee to so notify the Issuer and the Administrator shall not
relieve the Issuer or the Administrator of its obligations hereunder. The
Issuer shall, or shall cause the Servicer to, defend any such claim, and
the Indenture Trustee may have separate counsel and the Issuer shall, or
shall cause the Servicer to, pay the fees and expenses of such counsel.
Neither the Issuer nor the Administrator need reimburse any expense or
indemnity against any loss, liability or expense incurred by the Indenture
Trustee through the Indenture Trustee's own willful misconduct, negligence
or bad faith.
(b) The Issuer's payment obligations to the Indenture
Trustee pursuant to this Section 6.7 shall survive the resignation or
removal of the Indenture Trustee and the discharge of this Indenture. When
the Indenture Trustee incurs expenses after the occurrence of a Default
specified in Section 5.1(iv) or (v) with respect to the Issuer, the
expenses are intended to constitute expenses of administration under Title
11 of the United States Code or any other applicable federal or state
bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law.
Section 6.8 Replacement of Indenture Trustee. (a) No
resignation or removal of the Indenture Trustee, and no appointment of a
successor Indenture Trustee, shall become effective until the acceptance of
appointment by the successor Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Section
6.8. The Indenture Trustee may resign at any time by so notifying the
Issuer. The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Notes
Outstanding, voting as a group, may remove the Indenture Trustee without
cause by so notifying the Indenture Trustee and the Issuer and the Issuer
may appoint a successor Indenture Trustee. The Issuer shall remove the
Indenture Trustee if:
(i) the Indenture Trustee fails to comply with Section
6.11;
(ii) the Indenture Trustee is adjudged a bankrupt or
insolvent;
(iii) a receiver or other public officer takes charge of
the Indenture Trustee or its property; or
(iv) the Indenture Trustee otherwise becomes incapable of
acting.
If the Indenture Trustee resigns or is removed or if a vacancy exists in
the office of Indenture Trustee for any reason (the Indenture Trustee in
such event being referred to herein as the retiring Indenture Trustee), the
Issuer shall promptly appoint a successor Indenture Trustee.
(b) Any successor Indenture Trustee shall deliver a
written acceptance of its appointment to the retiring Indenture Trustee and
to the Issuer. Thereupon, the resignation or removal of the retiring
Indenture Trustee shall become effective, and the successor Indenture
Trustee shall have all the rights, powers and duties of the Indenture
Trustee under this Indenture. The successor Indenture Trustee shall mail a
notice of its succession to Noteholders. The retiring Indenture Trustee
shall promptly transfer all property held by it as Indenture Trustee to the
successor Indenture Trustee.
(c) If a successor Indenture Trustee does not take office
within 60 days after the retiring Indenture Trustee resigns or is removed,
the retiring Indenture Trustee, the Issuer or the Holders of a majority in
principal amount of the Notes Outstanding may petition any court of
competent jurisdiction to appoint a successor Indenture Trustee. If the
Indenture Trustee fails to comply with Section 6.11, any Noteholder may
petition any court of competent jurisdiction to remove the Indenture
Trustee and to appoint a successor Indenture Trustee.
(d) Notwithstanding the replacement of the Indenture
Trustee pursuant to this Section 6.8, the Issuer's and the Administrator's
obligations under Section 6.7 shall continue for the benefit of the
retiring Indenture Trustee.
Section 6.9 Successor Indenture Trustee by Merger. (a) If
the Indenture Trustee consolidates with, merges or converts into, or
transfers all or substantially all its corporate trust business or assets
to, another corporation or banking association, the resulting, surviving or
transferee corporation or banking association without any further act shall
be the successor Indenture Trustee; provided, that such corporation or
banking association shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under Section
6.11. The Indenture Trustee shall provide the Rating Agencies with prior
written notice of any such transaction.
(b) If at the time such successor or successors by
merger, conversion or consolidation to the Indenture Trustee shall succeed
to the trusts created by this Indenture, any of the Notes shall have been
authenticated but not delivered, any such successor to the Indenture
Trustee may adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor
trustee, and deliver such Notes so authenticated, and if at that time any
of the Notes shall not have been authenticated, any successor to the
Indenture Trustee may authenticate such Notes either in the name of any
predecessor hereunder or in the name of the successor to the Indenture
Trustee. In all such cases such certificates shall have the full force
which it is anywhere in the Notes or in this Indenture provided that the
certificate of the Indenture Trustee shall have.
Section 6.10 Appointment of Co-Indenture Trustee or
Separate Indenture Trustee. (a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of
this Indenture, at any time, for the purpose of meeting any legal
requirement of any jurisdiction in which any part of the Trust Estate may
at the time be located, the Indenture Trustee shall have the power and may
execute and deliver an instrument to appoint one or more Persons to act as
a co-trustee or co-trustees, or separate trustee or separate trustees, of
all or any part of the Trust Estate, and to vest in such Person or Persons,
in such capacity and for the benefit of the Noteholders, such title to the
Trust Estate, or any part hereof, and, subject to the other provisions of
this Section, such powers, duties, obligations, rights and trusts as the
Indenture Trustee may consider necessary or desirable. No co-trustee or
separate trustee hereunder shall be required to meet the terms of
eligibility as a successor trustee under Section 6.11 and no notice to
Noteholders of the appointment of any co-trustee or separate trustee shall
be required under Section 6.8 hereof.
(b) Every separate trustee and co-trustee shall, to the
extent permitted by law, be appointed and act subject to the following
provisions and conditions:
(i) all rights, powers, duties and obligations conferred
or imposed upon the Indenture Trustee shall be conferred or imposed
upon and exercised or performed by the Indenture Trustee and such
separate trustee or co-trustee jointly (it being understood that such
separate trustee or co-trustee shall not be authorized to act
separately without the Indenture Trustee joining in such act), except
to the extent that under any law of any jurisdiction in which any
particular act or acts are to be performed the Indenture Trustee shall
be incompetent or unqualified to perform such act or acts, in which
event such rights, powers, duties and obligations (including the
holding of title to the Trust Estate or any portion thereof in any
such jurisdiction) shall be exercised and performed singly by such
separate trustee or co-trustee, but solely at the direction of the
Indenture Trustee;
(ii) no trustee hereunder shall be personally liable by
reason of any act or omission of any other trustee hereunder; and
(iii) the Indenture Trustee may at any time remove or
accept the resignation of any separate trustee or co-trustee.
(c) Any notice, request or other writing given to the
Indenture Trustee shall be deemed to have been given to each of the then
separate trustees and co-trustees, as effectively as if given to each of
them. Every instrument appointing any separate trustee or co-trustee shall
refer to this Indenture and the conditions of this Article VI. Each
separate trustee and co-trustee, upon its acceptance of the trusts
conferred, shall be vested with the estates or property specified in its
instrument of appointment, either jointly with the Indenture Trustee or
separately, as may be provided therein, subject to all the provisions of
this Indenture, specifically including every provision of this Indenture
relating to the conduct of, affecting the liability of, or affording
protection to, the Indenture Trustee. Every such instrument shall be filed
with the Indenture Trustee.
(d) Any separate trustee or co-trustee may at any time
constitute the Indenture Trustee as its agent or attorney-in-fact with full
power and authority, to the extent not prohibited by law, to do any lawful
act under or in respect of this Agreement on its behalf and in its name. If
any separate trustee or co-trustee shall die, become incapable of acting,
resign or be removed, all of its estates, properties, rights, remedies and
trusts shall vest in and be exercised by the Indenture Trustee, to the
extent permitted by law, without the appointment of a new or successor
trustee.
Section 6.11 Eligibility; Disqualification. (a) The
Indenture Trustee shall at all times satisfy the requirements of TIA
Section 310(a). The Indenture Trustee or its parent shall have a combined
capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 as set forth in its most recent
published annual report of condition and shall have a long-term debt rating
of investment grade by each of the Rating Agencies or shall otherwise be
acceptable to each of the Rating Agencies. The Indenture Trustee shall
comply with TIA Section 310(b).
(b) Within 90 days after ascertaining the occurrence of
an Event of Default which shall not have been cured or waived, unless
authorized by the Commission, the Indenture Trustee shall resign with
respect to the Class A Notes and/or the Class B Notes in accordance with
Section 6.8 of this Indenture, and the Issuer shall appoint a successor
Indenture Trustee for one or both of such Classes, as applicable, so that
there will be separate Indenture Trustees for the Class A Notes and the
Class B Notes. In the event the Indenture Trustee fails to comply with the
terms of the preceding sentence, the Indenture Trustee shall comply with
clauses (ii) and (iii) of TIA Section 310(b).
(c) In the case of the appointment pursuant to this
Section 6.11 of a successor Indenture Trustee with respect to any Class of
Notes, the Issuer, the retiring Indenture Trustee and the successor
Indenture Trustee with respect to such Class of Notes shall execute and
deliver an indenture supplemental hereto wherein each successor Indenture
Trustee shall accept such appointment and which (i) shall contain such
provisions as shall be necessary or desirable to transfer and confirm to,
and to vest in, the successor Indenture Trustee all the rights, powers,
trusts and duties of the retiring Indenture Trustee with respect to the
Notes of the Class to which the appointment of such successor Indenture
Trustee relates, (ii) if the retiring Indenture Trustee is not retiring
with respect to all Classes of Notes, shall contain such provisions as
shall be deemed necessary or desirable to confirm that all the rights,
powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Indenture Trustee with respect to
the Notes of each Class as to which the retiring Indenture Trustee is not
retiring shall continue to be vested in the Indenture Trustee and (iii)
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 Indenture Trustee, it being understood that
nothing herein or in such supplemental indenture shall constitute such
Indenture Trustees co-trustees of the same trust and that each such
Indenture Trustee shall be a trustee of a trust or trusts hereunder
separate and apart from any trust or trusts hereunder administered by any
other such Indenture Trustee; and upon the removal of the retiring
Indenture Trustee shall become effective to the extent provided herein.
Section 6.12 Preferential Collection of Claims Against
Issuer. The Indenture Trustee shall comply with TIA Section 311(a),
excluding any creditor relationship listed in TIA Section 311(b). An
Indenture Trustee who has resigned or been removed shall be subject to TIA
Section 311(a) to the extent indicated.
Section 6.13 Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Sales Finance Act
Licenses. The Indenture Trustee shall use its best efforts to maintain the
effectiveness of all licenses required under the Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle
Sales Finance Act in connection with this Indenture and the transactions
contemplated hereby until the lien and security interest of this Indenture
shall no longer be in effect in accordance with the terms hereof.
ARTICLE VII - NOTEHOLDERS' LISTS; REPORTING
Section 7.1 Issuer To Furnish Indenture Trustee Names and
Addresses of Noteholders. The Issuer shall furnish or cause to be furnished
to the Indenture Trustee (a) not more than five days after each Record
Date, a list, in such form as the Indenture Trustee may reasonably require,
of the names and addresses of the Holders of Notes as of such Record Date
and (b) at such other times as the Indenture Trustee may request in
writing, within 30 days after receipt by the Issuer of any such request, a
list of similar form and content as of a date not more than ten days prior
to the time such list is furnished; provided, however, that so long as (i)
the Indenture Trustee is the Note Registrar or (ii) the Notes are issued as
Book-Entry Notes, no such list shall be required to be furnished.
Section 7.2 Preservation of Information; Communications
to Noteholders. (a) The Indenture Trustee shall preserve, in as current a
form as is reasonably practicable, the names and addresses of the Holders
of Notes contained in the most recent list furnished to the Indenture
Trustee as provided in Section 7.1 and the names and addresses of Holders
of Notes received by the Indenture Trustee in its capacity as Note
Registrar. The Indenture Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as
provided in such Section 7.1 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.
(b) Noteholders may communicate pursuant to TIA Section
312(b) with other Noteholders with respect to their rights under this
Indenture or under the Notes.
(c) The Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Note
Registrar shall have the protection of TIA Section 312(c).
Section 7.3 Reporting by Issuer. (a) The Issuer shall:
(i) file with the Indenture Trustee, within 15 days after
the Issuer 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) that the
Issuer may be required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section
13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act;
(ii) file with the Indenture Trustee and the Commission
in accordance with the rules and regulations prescribed from time to
time by the Commission such additional information, documents and
reports with respect to compliance by the Issuer with the conditions
and covenants of this Indenture as may be required from time to time
by such rules and regulations; and
(iii) supply to the Indenture Trustee (and the Indenture
Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Noteholders described in TIA
Section 313(c)) such summaries of any information, documents and
reports required to be filed by the Issuer pursuant to clauses (i) and
(ii) of this Section 7.3(a) and by rules and regulations prescribed
from time to time by the Commission.
(b) Unless the Issuer otherwise determines, the fiscal
year of the Issuer shall correspond to the calendar year.
Section 7.4 Reporting and Notices by Indenture Trustee.
(a) If required by TIA Section 313(a), within 60 days after each March 31,
beginning with March 31, 2002, the Indenture Trustee shall mail to each
Noteholder as required by TIA Section 313(c) a brief report dated as of
such date that complies with TIA Section 313(a). The Indenture Trustee also
shall comply with TIA Section 313(b).
(b) A copy of each report at the time of its mailing to
Noteholders shall be filed by the Indenture Trustee with the Commission and
each stock exchange, if any, on which the Notes are listed. The Issuer
shall notify the Indenture Trustee if and when the Notes are listed on any
stock exchange.
ARTICLE VIII - ACCOUNTS, DISBURSEMENTS AND RELEASES
Section 8.1 Collection of Money. Except as otherwise
expressly provided herein, the Indenture Trustee may demand payment or
delivery of, and shall receive and collect, directly and without
intervention or assistance of any fiscal agent or other intermediary, all
money and other property payable to or receivable by the Indenture Trustee
pursuant to this Indenture and the Sale and Servicing Agreement. The
Indenture Trustee shall apply all such money received by it as provided in
this Indenture and the Sale and Servicing Agreement. Except as otherwise
expressly provided in this Indenture, if any default occurs in the making
of any payment or performance under any agreement or instrument that is
part of the Trust Estate, the Indenture Trustee may take such action as may
be appropriate to enforce such payment or performance, including the
institution and prosecution of appropriate Proceedings. Any such action
shall be without prejudice to any right to claim a Default or Event of
Default under this Indenture and any right to proceed thereafter as
provided in Article V.
Section 8.2 Trust Accounts. (a) On or prior to the
Closing Date, the Issuer shall cause the Servicer to establish and
maintain, in the name of the Indenture Trustee, (i) for the benefit of the
Noteholders and the Certificateholders, each of the Trust Accounts other
than the Note Payment Account as provided in Sections 4.1, 4.7 and 5.1 of
the Sale and Servicing Agreement and (ii) for the exclusive benefit of the
Noteholders, the Note Payment Account as provided in Section 4.1(b) of the
Sale and Servicing Agreement.
(b) On or before each Payment Date, the Servicer shall
deposit in the Collection Account all amounts required to be deposited
therein with respect to the related Collection Period as provided in
Sections 4.2 and 4.4 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement. On or before each
Payment Date, all amounts required to be deposited in the Note Payment
Account with respect to the related Collection Period pursuant to Sections
4.6 and 4.7 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement shall be withdrawn by the
Indenture Trustee from the Collection Account and/or the Reserve Account
and deposited to the Note Payment Account for payment to Noteholders in
accordance with Section 2.8 on such Payment Date.
Section 8.3 General Provisions Regarding Accounts. (a) So
long as no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing, all or a portion of the funds in the Collection Account, the
Payahead Account, the Reserve Account and the Yield Supplement Account
shall be invested by the Indenture Trustee at the direction of the Servicer
in Permitted Investments as provided in Sections 4.1, 4.7 and 5.1 of the
Sale and Servicing Agreement. All income or other gain (net of losses and
investment expenses) from investments of monies deposited in the Collection
Account, the Payahead Account, the Reserve Account and the Yield Supplement
Account shall be withdrawn by the Indenture Trustee from such accounts and
distributed (but only under the circumstances set forth in the Sale and
Servicing Agreement in the case of the Reserve Account and the Yield
Supplement Account) as provided in Sections 4.1, 4.7 and 5.1 of the Sale
and Servicing Agreement. The Servicer shall not direct the Indenture
Trustee to make any investment of any funds or to sell any investment held
in any of the Trust Accounts unless the security interest Granted and
perfected in such account will continue to be perfected in such investment
or the proceeds of such sale, in either case without any further action by
any Person, and, in connection with any direction to the Indenture Trustee
to make any such investment or sale, if requested by the Indenture Trustee,
the Issuer shall deliver to the Indenture Trustee an Opinion of Counsel,
acceptable to the Indenture Trustee, to such effect.
(b) Subject to Section 6.1(c), the Indenture Trustee
shall not in any way be held liable by reason of any insufficiency in any
of the Trust Accounts resulting from any loss on any Permitted Investment
included therein, except for losses attributable to the Indenture Trustee's
failure to make payments on such Permitted Investments issued by the
Indenture Trustee, in its commercial capacity as principal obligor and not
as trustee, in accordance with their terms.
(c) If (i) the Servicer shall have failed to give
investment directions to the Indenture Trustee by 11:00 a.m., New York Time
(or such other time as may be agreed by the Issuer and Indenture Trustee),
on the Business Day preceding each Payment Date for any funds on deposit in
the Collection Account, the Payahead Account, the Reserve Account or the
Yield Supplement Account, (ii) to the knowledge of a Responsible Officer of
the Indenture Trustee, a Default or Event of Default shall have occurred
and be continuing with respect to the Notes but the Notes shall not have
been declared due and payable pursuant to Section 5.2 or (iii) the Notes
shall have been declared due and payable following an Event of Default and
amounts collected or receivable from the Trust Estate are being applied in
accordance with Section 5.4 as if there had not been such a declaration,
then the Indenture Trustee shall, to the fullest extent practicable, invest
and reinvest funds in such Trust Accounts in one or more Permitted
Investments as set forth in Schedule I hereto.
Section 8.4 Release of Trust Estate. (a) Subject to the
payment of its fees and expenses pursuant to Section 6.7, the Indenture
Trustee may, and when required by the provisions of this Indenture shall,
execute instruments to release property from the lien of this Indenture, or
convey the Indenture Trustee's interest in the same, in a manner and under
circumstances that are not inconsistent with the provisions of this
Indenture. No party relying upon an instrument executed by the Indenture
Trustee as provided in this Article VIII shall be bound to ascertain the
Indenture Trustee's authority, inquire into the satisfaction of any
conditions precedent or see to the application of any monies.
(b) The Indenture Trustee shall, at such time as there
are no Notes Outstanding and all sums due the Indenture Trustee pursuant to
Section 6.7 have been paid in full, release any remaining portion of the
Trust Estate that secured the Notes from the lien of this Indenture and
release to the Issuer or any other Person entitled thereto any funds then
on deposit in the Trust Accounts. The Indenture Trustee shall release
property from the lien of this Indenture pursuant to this Section 8.4(b)
only upon receipt of (i) an Issuer Request accompanied by an Officer's
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, in each case stating that all
conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to
the release of the property from the lien of this Indenture have been
complied with, provided that counsel rendering any such opinion may rely,
without independent investigation, on the accuracy and validity of any
certificate or other instrument delivered to the Indenture Trustee in
connection with any such action and (ii) if required by the TIA,
Independent Certificates in accordance with TIA Sections 314(c) and
314(d)(1) meeting the applicable requirements of Section 11.1.
Section 8.5 Opinion of Counsel. The Indenture Trustee
shall receive at least seven days notice when requested by the Issuer to
take any action pursuant to Section 8.4(a), accompanied by copies of any
instruments involved, and the Indenture Trustee shall also require, except
in connection with any action contemplated by Section 8.4(b), as a
condition to such action, an Opinion of Counsel, in form and substance
satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, stating the legal effect of any such
action, outlining the steps required to complete the same, and concluding
that all conditions precedent to the taking of such action have been
complied with and such action will not materially and adversely impair the
security for the Notes or the rights of the Noteholders in contravention of
the provisions of this Indenture; provided, however, that such Opinion of
Counsel shall not be required to express an opinion as to the fair value of
the Trust Estate. Counsel rendering any such opinion may rely, without
independent investigation, on the accuracy and validity of any certificate
or other instrument delivered to the Indenture Trustee in connection with
any such action.
ARTICLE IX - SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
Section 9.1 Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of
Noteholders.
(a) Without the consent of the Holders of any Notes but
with prior notice to the Rating Agencies, the Issuer and the Indenture
Trustee, when authorized by an Issuer Order, at any time and from time to
time, may enter into one or more indentures supplemental hereto (which
shall conform to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act as in force at
the date of the execution thereof), in form satisfactory to the Indenture
Trustee, for any of the following purposes:
(i) to correct or amplify the description of any property
at any time subject to the lien of this Indenture, or better to
assure, convey and confirm unto the Indenture Trustee any property
subject or required to be subjected to the lien of this Indenture, or
to subject to the lien of this Indenture additional property;
(ii) to evidence the succession, in compliance with the
applicable provisions hereof, of another Person to the Issuer, and the
assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the Issuer herein
and in the Notes contained;
(iii) to add to the covenants of the Issuer, for the
benefit of the Holders of the Notes, or to surrender any right or
power herein conferred upon the Issuer;
(iv) to convey, transfer, assign, mortgage or pledge any
property to or with the Indenture Trustee;
(v) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any
provision herein or in any supplemental indenture that may be
inconsistent with any other provision herein or in any supplemental
indenture or to make any other provisions with respect to matters or
questions arising under this Indenture which will not be inconsistent
with other provisions of the Indenture;
(vi) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of the
appointment hereunder by a successor trustee with respect to the Notes
and to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as
shall be necessary to facilitate the administration of the trusts
hereunder by more than one trustee, pursuant to the requirements of
Article VI;
(vii) to modify, eliminate or add to the provisions of
this Indenture to such extent as shall be necessary to effect the
qualification of this Indenture under the TIA or under any similar
federal statute hereafter enacted and to add to this Indenture such
other provisions as may be expressly required by the TIA; or
(viii) to add, delete or modify any provisions necessary
or advisable to allow the Receivables to be derecognized by MMCA under
GAAP or to allow the Issuer to avoid becoming a member of MMCA's
consolidated group under GAAP;
provided, however, that (i) such action shall not, as evidenced by an
Opinion of Counsel, adversely affect in any material respect the interests
of any Noteholder, (ii) the Rating Agency Condition shall have been
satisfied with respect to such action and (iii) such action shall not, as
evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel, cause the Issuer to be characterized
for Federal or any then Applicable Tax State income tax purposes as an
association taxable as a corporation or otherwise have any material adverse
impact on the Federal or any then Applicable Tax State income taxation of
any Notes Outstanding or outstanding Certificates or any Noteholder or
Certificateholder. The Indenture Trustee is hereby authorized to join in
the execution of any such supplemental indenture and to make any further
appropriate agreements and stipulations that may be therein contained;
(b) Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the
contrary, this Indenture may be amended by the parties hereto, whose
consent to so amend this Indenture will not be unreasonably withheld, but
without the consent of any Noteholders, to add, modify or eliminate such
provisions as may be necessary or advisable in order to enable: (a) the
transfer to the Issuer of all or any portion of the Receivables to be
derecognized by MMCA under GAAP, (b) the Issuer to avoid becoming a member
of MMCA's consolidated group under GAAP or (c) the Issuer or any affiliate
of the Seller to otherwise comply with or obtain more favorable treatment
under any law or regulation or any accounting rule or principle; provided,
however, it being a condition to any such amendment that the Rating Agency
Condition shall have been met; provided, further, that in the case of any
amendment hereunder, the Administrator shall furnish to the Indenture
Trustee an Opinion of Counsel which provides that: (i) the interests of the
Noteholders will not be materially and adversely affected by the amendment
and (ii) the amendment will not significantly change the permitted
activities of the Issuer; and provided, further, that no such amendment
shall be inconsistent with the derecognition by MMCA of the Receivables
under GAAP or cause the Issuer to become a member of MMCA's consolidated
group under GAAP.
Section 9.2 Supplemental Indentures with Consent of
Noteholders. The Issuer and the Indenture Trustee, when authorized by an
Issuer Order, also may, with prior notice to the Rating Agencies and with
the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority of the principal
amount of the Notes Outstanding, by Act of such Holders delivered to the
Issuer and the Indenture Trustee, 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 modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of the Notes
under this Indenture; provided, however, that (i) such action shall not, as
evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel, adversely affect in any material
respect the interests of any Noteholder, (ii) the Rating Agency Condition
shall have been satisfied with respect to such action and (iii) such action
shall not, as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel, cause the Issuer to be
characterized for Federal or any then Applicable Tax State income tax
purposes as an association taxable as a corporation or otherwise have any
material adverse impact on the Federal or any then Applicable Tax State
income taxation of any Notes Outstanding or outstanding Certificates or any
Noteholder or Certificateholder; and provided, further, that no such
supplemental indenture shall, without the consent of the Holder of each
Outstanding Note affected thereby:
(i) change any Stated Maturity Date or the date of
payment of any installment of principal of or interest on any Note, or
reduce the principal amount thereof, the interest rate thereon or the
Redemption Price with respect thereto, change the provisions of this
Indenture relating to the application of collections on, or the
proceeds of the sale of, the Trust Estate to payment of principal of
or interest on the Notes, or change any place of payment where, or the
coin or currency in which, any Note or the interest thereon is
payable, or impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of
the provisions of this Indenture requiring the application of funds
available therefor, as provided in Article V, to the payment of any
such amount due on the Notes on or after the respective due dates
thereof (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption
Date);
(ii) reduce the percentage of the principal amount of the
Notes Outstanding, the consent of the Holders of which is required for
any such supplemental indenture, or the consent of the Holders of
which 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;
(iii) modify or alter the provisions of the proviso to
the definition of the term "Outstanding";
(iv) reduce the percentage of the principal amount of the
Notes Outstanding required to direct the Indenture Trustee to sell or
liquidate the Trust Estate pursuant to Section 5.4 if the proceeds of
such sale would be insufficient to pay the principal amount and
accrued but unpaid interest on the Notes and the Certificates;
(v) modify any provision of this Indenture specifying a
percentage of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes necessary to
amend this Indenture or the other Basic Documents except to increase
any percentage specified herein or to provide that certain additional
provisions of this Indenture or the Basic Documents cannot be modified
or waived without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Note
affected thereby;
(vi) modify any of the provisions of this Indenture in
such manner as to affect the calculation of the amount of any payment
of interest or principal due on any Note on any Payment Date
(including the calculation of any of the individual components of such
calculation) or to affect the rights of the Holders of Notes to the
benefit of any provisions for the mandatory redemption of the Notes
contained herein; or
(vii) permit the creation of any lien ranking prior to or
on a parity with the lien of this Indenture with respect to any part
of the Trust Estate or, except as otherwise permitted or contemplated
herein, terminate the lien of this Indenture on any such collateral at
any time subject hereto or deprive the Holder of any Note of the
security provided by the lien of this Indenture.
The Indenture Trustee may in its discretion determine whether or not any
Notes would be affected by any supplemental indenture and any such
determination shall be conclusive upon the Holders of all Notes, whether
theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder. The
Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for any such determination made in
good faith or on the basis of an Opinion of Counsel.
It shall not be necessary for any Act of Noteholders
under this Section 9.2 to approve the particular form of any proposed
supplemental indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such Act shall
approve the substance thereof.
Promptly after the execution by the Issuer and the
Indenture Trustee of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Section
9.2, the Indenture Trustee shall mail to the Holders of the Notes to which
such amendment or supplemental indenture relates a notice setting forth in
general terms the substance of such supplemental indenture. Any failure of
the Indenture Trustee to mail such notice, or any defect therein, shall
not, however, in any way impair or affect the validity of any such
supplemental indenture.
Section 9.3 Execution of Supplemental Indentures. In
executing, or permitting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental
indenture permitted by this Article IX or the modification thereby of the
trusts created by this Indenture, the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled
to receive and, subject to Sections 6.1 and 6.2, 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 and
that all conditions precedent to the execution and delivery of such
supplemental indenture have been satisfied. The Indenture Trustee may, but
shall not be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture that
affects the Indenture Trustee's own rights, duties, liabilities or
immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.
Section 9.4 Effect of Supplemental Indenture. Upon the
execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions hereof,
this Indenture shall be and shall be deemed to be modified and amended in
accordance therewith with respect to the Notes affected thereby, and the
respective rights, limitations of rights, obligations, duties, liabilities
and immunities under this Indenture of the Indenture Trustee, the Issuer
and the Holders of the Notes shall thereafter be determined, exercised and
enforced hereunder subject in all respects to such modifications and
amendments, and all the terms and conditions of any such supplemental
indenture shall be and be deemed to be part of the terms and conditions of
this Indenture for any and all purposes.
Section 9.5 Conformity with Trust Indenture Act. Every
amendment of this Indenture and every supplemental indenture executed
pursuant to this Article IX shall conform to the requirements of the Trust
Indenture Act as then in effect so long as this Indenture shall then be
qualified under the Trust Indenture Act.
Section 9.6 Reference in Notes to Supplemental
Indentures. Notes authenticated and delivered after the execution of any
supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article IX may, and if required by
the Indenture Trustee shall, bear a notation in form approved by the
Indenture Trustee as to any matter provided for in such supplemental
indenture. If the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee shall so determine, new
Notes so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Indenture Trustee
and the Issuer, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and
executed by the Issuer and authenticated and delivered by the Indenture
Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Notes.
ARTICLE X - REDEMPTION OF NOTES
Section 10.1 Redemption. The Notes are subject to
redemption in whole, but not in part, at the direction of the Servicer
pursuant to Section 9.1(a) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, on any
Payment Date on which the Servicer exercises its option to purchase the
assets of the Issuer pursuant to said Section 9.1(a), and the amount paid
by the Servicer shall be treated as collections of Receivables and applied
to pay the unpaid principal amount of the Notes plus accrued and unpaid
interest thereon and the Certificate Balance. The Servicer or the Issuer
shall furnish the Rating Agencies and the Noteholders notice of such
redemption. If the Notes are to be redeemed pursuant to this Section 10.1,
the Servicer or the Issuer shall furnish notice of such election to the
Indenture Trustee not later than 20 days prior to the Redemption Date and
the Issuer shall deposit by 10:00 A.M. (New York City time) on the
Redemption Date with the Indenture Trustee in the Note Payment Account the
Redemption Price of the Notes to be redeemed, whereupon all such Notes
shall be due and payable on the Redemption Date. Section 10.2 Form of
Redemption Notice. Notice of redemption under Section 10.1 shall be given
by the Indenture Trustee by first-class mail, postage prepaid, or by
facsimile mailed or transmitted promptly following receipt of notice from
the Issuer or Servicer pursuant to Section 10.1, but not later than ten
days prior to the applicable Redemption Date, to each Holder of Notes as of
the close of business on the Record Date preceding the applicable
Redemption Date, at such Holder's address or facsimile number appearing in
the Note Register.
All notices of redemption shall state:
(i) the Redemption Date;
(ii) the Redemption Price; and
(iii) the place where such Notes are to be surrendered
for payment of the Redemption Price (which shall be the office or
agency of the Issuer to be maintained as provided in Section 3.2).
Notice of redemption of the Notes shall be given by the
Indenture Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Issuer. Failure to
give any required notice of redemption, or any defect therein, to any
Holder of any Note shall not impair or affect the validity of the
redemption of any other Note.
Section 10.3 Notes Payable on Redemption Date. The Notes
to be redeemed shall, following notice of redemption as required by Section
10.2 (in the case of redemption pursuant to Section 10.1), on the
Redemption Date become due and payable at the Redemption Price and (unless
the Issuer shall default in the payment of the Redemption Price) no
interest shall accrue on the Redemption Price for any period after the date
to which accrued interest is calculated for purposes of calculating the
Redemption Price.
ARTICLE XI - MISCELLANEOUS
Section 11.1 Compliance Certificates and Opinions, etc.
(a) Upon any application or request by the Issuer to the Indenture Trustee
to take any action under any provision of this Indenture, the Issuer shall
furnish to the Indenture Trustee (i) an Officer's Certificate stating that
all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture relating
to the proposed action have been complied with, (ii) an Opinion of Counsel
stating that in the opinion of such counsel all such conditions precedent,
if any, have been complied with and (iii) (if required by the TIA) an
Independent Certificate from a firm of certified public accountants meeting
the applicable requirements of this Section 11.1, except that, in the case
of any such application or request as to which the furnishing of such
documents is specifically required by any provision of this Indenture, no
additional certificate or opinion need be furnished.
Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance
with a condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture shall include:
(A) a statement that each signatory of such certificate
or opinion has read or has caused to be read such covenant or
condition and the definitions herein relating thereto;
(B) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the
examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions
contained in such certificate or opinion are based;
(C) a statement that, in the opinion of each such
signatory, such signatory has made such examination or
investigation as is necessary to enable such signatory to express
an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or
condition has been complied with; and
(D) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each
such signatory, such condition or covenant has been complied with.
(b) (i) Prior to the deposit of any Collateral or other
property or securities with the Indenture Trustee that is to be made the
basis for the release of any property or securities subject to the lien of
this Indenture, the Issuer shall, in addition to any obligation imposed in
Section 11.1(a) or elsewhere in this Indenture, furnish to the Indenture
Trustee an Officer's Certificate certifying or stating the opinion of each
person signing such certificate as to the fair value (within 90 days of
such deposit) to the Issuer of the Collateral or other property or
securities to be so deposited.
(ii) Whenever the Issuer is required to furnish to the
Indenture Trustee an Officer's Certificate certifying or stating the
opinion of any signer thereof as to the matters described in clause
(i) above, the Issuer shall also deliver to the Indenture Trustee an
Independent Certificate as to the same matters, if the fair value to
the Issuer of the property or securities to be so deposited and of all
other such property or securities made the basis of any such
withdrawal or release since the commencement of the then-current
fiscal year of the Issuer, as set forth in the certificates delivered
pursuant to clause (i) above and this clause (ii), is ten percent
(10%) or more of the principal amount of the Notes Outstanding, but
such a certificate need not be furnished with respect to any property
or securities so deposited, if the fair value thereof to the Issuer as
set forth in the related Officer's Certificate is less than $25,000 or
less than one percent (1%) of the principal amount of the Notes
Outstanding.
(iii) Whenever any property or securities are to be
released from the lien of this Indenture, the Issuer shall also
furnish to the Indenture Trustee an Officer's Certificate certifying
or stating the opinion of each person signing such certificate as to
the fair value (within 90 days of such release) of the property or
securities proposed to be released and stating that in the opinion of
such person the proposed release will not impair the security under
this Indenture in contravention of the provisions hereof.
(iv) Whenever the Issuer is required to furnish to the
Indenture Trustee an Officer's Certificate certifying or stating the
opinion of any signer thereof as to the matters described in clause
(iii) above, the Issuer shall also furnish to the Indenture Trustee an
Independent Certificate as to the same matters if the fair value of
the property or securities and of all other property, other than
property as contemplated by clause (v) below or securities released
from the lien of this Indenture since the commencement of the
then-current calendar year, as set forth in the certificates required
by clause (iii) above and this clause (iv), equals ten percent (10%)
or more of the principal amount of the Notes Outstanding, but such
certificate need not be furnished in the case of any release of
property or securities if the fair value thereof as set forth in the
related Officer's Certificate is less than $25,000 or less than one
percent (1%) of the principal amount of the then Outstanding Notes.
(v) Notwithstanding Section 2.10 or any other provisions
of this Section 11.1, the Issuer may, without compliance with the
requirements of the other provisions of this Section 11.1, (A)
collect, liquidate, sell or otherwise dispose of Receivables and
Financed Vehicles as and to the extent permitted or required by the
Basic Documents and (B) make cash payments out of the Trust Accounts
as and to the extent permitted or required by the Basic Documents.
Section 11.2 Form of Documents Delivered to Indenture
Trustee. (a) 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.
(b) Any certificate or opinion of a Responsible Officer
of the Issuer 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 such officer's certificate or opinion is based are erroneous. Any
such certificate of a Responsible Officer 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 Servicer,
the Seller, the Administrator or the Issuer, stating that the information
with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the Servicer,
the Seller, the Administrator or the Issuer, unless such Responsible
Officer or 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.
(c) Where any Person is required to make, give or execute
two or more applications, requests, comments, certificates, statements,
opinions or other instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not,
be consolidated and form one instrument.
(d) Whenever in this Indenture, in connection with any
application or certificate or report to the Indenture Trustee, it is
provided that the Issuer shall deliver any document as a condition of the
granting of such application, or as evidence of the Issuer's compliance
with any term hereof, it is intended that the truth and accuracy, at the
time of the granting of such application or at the effective date of such
certificate or report (as the case may be), of the facts and opinions
stated in such document shall in such case be conditions precedent to the
right of the Issuer to have such application granted or to the sufficiency
of such certificate or report. The foregoing shall not, however, be
construed to affect the Indenture Trustee's right to rely upon the truth
and accuracy of any statement or opinion contained in any such document as
provided in Article VI.
Section 11.3 Acts of Noteholders. (a) Any request,
demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action
provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by Noteholders may be
embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially
similar tenor signed by such Noteholders in person or by agents duly
appointed in writing; and except as herein otherwise expressly provided
such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are
delivered to the Indenture Trustee, and, where it is hereby expressly
required, to the Issuer. Such instrument or instruments (and the action
embodied herein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as
the "Act" of the Noteholders signing such instrument or instruments. Proof
of execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such
agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to
Section 6.1) conclusive in favor of the Indenture Trustee and the Issuer,
if made in the manner provided in this Section 11.3.
(b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of
any such instrument or writing may be proved in any manner that the
Indenture Trustee deems sufficient.
(c) The ownership of Notes shall be provided by the Note
Register.
(d) Any request, demand, authorization, direction,
notice, consent, waiver or other action by the Holder of any Notes shall
bind the Holder of every Note issued upon the registration thereof or in
exchange therefor or in lieu thereof, in respect of anything done, omitted
or suffered to be done by the Indenture Trustee or the Issuer in reliance
thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Note.
Section 11.4 Notices, etc., to Indenture Trustee, Issuer
and Rating Agencies. Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or Act of Noteholders or other documents provided or
permitted by this Indenture shall be in writing and if such request,
demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of
Noteholders is to be made upon, given or furnished to or filed with:
(a) the Indenture Trustee by any Noteholder or by the
Issuer, shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given,
furnished or filed in writing to or with the Indenture Trustee at its
Corporate Trust Office; or
(b) the Issuer by the Indenture Trustee or by any
Noteholder, shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if in writing
and mailed first-class, postage prepaid to the Issuer addressed to:
MMCA Auto Owner Trust 2001-4,
c/o Wilmington Trust Company
Xxxxxx Square North
0000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000
Attention: Corporate Trust Department
with a copy to the Administrator at:
0000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000-0000
Attention: Executive Vice President and Treasurer
or at any other address previously furnished in writing to the Indenture
Trustee by the Issuer or the Administrator. The Issuer shall promptly
transmit any notice received by it from the Noteholders to the Indenture
Trustee.
(c) Notices required to be given to the Rating Agencies
by the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee shall be in
writing, personally delivered, sent by facsimile or mailed by certified
mail, return receipt requested, to
in the case of Moody's, at the following address:
Xxxxx'x Investors Service, Inc.
ABS Monitoring Department
00 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Fax: (000) 000-0000
in the case of S&P, at the following address:
Standard & Poor's
00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Fax: (000) 000-0000
in the case of Fitch, at the following address:
Fitch, Inc.
Xxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attention: Asset Backed Surveillance Department
Fax: (000) 000-0000
Section 11.5 Notices to Noteholders; Waiver. (a) Where
this Indenture provides for notice to Noteholders of any event, such notice
shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if
in writing and mailed, first-class, postage prepaid to each Noteholder
affected by such event, at his address as it appears on the Note Register,
not later than the latest date, and not earlier than the earliest date,
prescribed for the giving of such notice. In any case where notice to
Noteholders is given by mail, neither the failure to mail such notice nor
any defect in any notice so mailed to any particular Noteholder shall
affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Noteholders,
and any notice that is mailed in the manner herein provided shall
conclusively be presumed to have been duly given.
(b) Where this Indenture provides for notice in any
manner, such notice may be waived in writing by any 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 Noteholders
shall be filed with the Indenture Trustee but such filing shall not be a
condition precedent to the validity of any action taken in reliance upon
such a waiver.
(c) In case, by reason of the suspension of regular mail
service as a result of a strike, work stoppage or similar activity, it
shall be impractical to mail notice of any event to Noteholders when such
notice is required to be given pursuant to any provision of this Indenture,
then any manner of giving such notice as shall be satisfactory to the
Indenture Trustee shall be deemed to be a sufficient giving of such notice.
(d) Where this Indenture provides for notice to the
Rating Agencies, failure to give such notice shall not affect any other
rights or obligations created hereunder, and shall not under any
circumstance constitute a Default or Event of Default.
Section 11.6 Alternate Payment and Notice Provisions.
Notwithstanding any provision of this Indenture or any of the Notes to the
contrary, the Issuer may enter into any agreement with any Holder of a Note
providing for a method of payment, or notice by the Indenture Trustee or
any Paying Agent to such Holder, that is different from the methods
provided for in this Indenture for such payments or notices. The Issuer
shall furnish to the Indenture Trustee a copy of each such agreement and
the Indenture Trustee shall cause payments to be made and notices to be
given in accordance with such agreements.
Section 11.7 Conflict with Trust Indenture Act. If any
provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with another provision
hereof that is required to be included in this Indenture by any of the
provisions of the Trust Indenture Act, such required provision shall
control.
The provisions of TIA Sections 310 through 317 that
impose duties on any Person (including the provisions automatically deemed
included herein unless expressly excluded by this Indenture) are a part of
and govern this Indenture, whether or not physically contained herein.
Section 11.8 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 11.9 Successors and Assigns. All covenants and
agreements in this Indenture and the Notes by the Issuer shall bind its
successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not. All agreements of the
Indenture Trustee in this Indenture shall bind its successors, co-trustees
and agents.
Section 11.10 Separability. In case any provision in this
Indenture or in the Notes 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 11.11 Benefits of Indenture. Nothing in this
Indenture or in the Notes, express or implied, shall give to any Person,
other than the parties hereto and their successors hereunder, and the
Noteholders and any other party secured hereunder, and any other Person
with an ownership interest in any part of the Trust Estate, any benefit or
any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.
Section 11.12 Legal Holiday. In any case where the date
on which any payment is due shall not be a Business Day, then
(notwithstanding any other provision of the Notes or this Indenture)
payment need not be made on such date, but may be made on the next
succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if made on the
date on which nominally due, and no interest shall accrued for the period
from and after any such nominal date.
Section 11.13 Governing Law. This Indenture shall be
construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.
Section 11.14 Counterparts. This Indenture 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.
Section 11.15 Recording of Indenture. If this Indenture
is subject to recording in any appropriate public recording offices, such
recording is to be effected by the Issuer and at its expense accompanied by
an Opinion of Counsel (which may be counsel to the Indenture Trustee or any
other counsel reasonably acceptable to the Indenture Trustee) to the effect
that such recording is necessary either for the protection of the
Noteholders or any other Person secured hereunder or for the enforcement of
any right or remedy granted to the Indenture Trustee under this Indenture.
Section 11.16 Trust Obligation. No recourse may be taken,
directly or indirectly, with respect to the obligations of the Issuer, the
Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee on the Notes or under this Indenture
or any certificate or other writing delivered in connection herewith or
therewith, against (i) the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its
individual capacity, (ii) any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer
or (iii) any partner, owner, beneficiary, agent, officer, director,
employee or agent of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its
individual capacity, any holder of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, the
Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee or of any successor or assign of the
Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity, except
as any such Person may have expressly agreed (it being understood that the
Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee have no such obligations in their
individual capacities), and except that any such partner, owner or
beneficiary shall be fully liable, to the extent provided by applicable
law, for any unpaid consideration for stock, unpaid capital contribution or
failure to pay any installment or call owing to such entity. For all
purposes of this Indenture, in the performance of any duties or obligations
of the Issuer hereunder, the Owner Trustee shall be subject to, and
entitled to the benefits of, the terms and provisions of Article VI, VII
and VIII of the Trust Agreement.
Section 11.17 No Petition; Subordination; Claims Against
Seller. The Indenture Trustee, by entering into this Indenture, and each
Noteholder or Note Owner, by accepting a Note or beneficial interest in a
Note, as the case may be, hereby covenant and agree that (a) they will not
at any time institute against the Seller or the Issuer, or join in any
institution against the Seller or the Issuer of, any bankruptcy,
reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings, or
other proceedings under any United States federal or state bankruptcy or
similar law in connection with any obligations relating to the Notes, this
Indenture or any of the Basic Documents, (b) any claim that they may have
at any time against the Subtrust Assets of any Subtrust unrelated to the
Notes, and any claim they have at any time against the Seller that they may
seek to enforce against the Subtrust Assets of any Subtrust unrelated to
the Notes, shall be subordinate to the payment in full, including
post-petition interest, in the event that the Seller becomes a debtor or
debtor in possession in a case under any applicable federal or state
bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect or
otherwise subject to any insolvency, reorganization, liquidation,
rehabilitation or other similar proceedings, of the claims of the holders
of any Securities related to such unrelated Subtrust and the holders of any
other notes, bonds, contracts or other obligations that are related to such
unrelated Subtrust and (c) they hereby irrevocably make the election
afforded by Title 00 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Code Section 1111(b)(1)(A)(i) to secured
creditors to receive the treatment afforded by Title 00 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Code
Section 1111(b)(2) with respect to any secured claim that they may have at
any time against the Seller. The obligations of the Seller under this
Indenture are limited to the related Subtrust and the related Subtrust
Assets.
Section 11.18 Inspection. The Issuer agrees that, with
reasonable prior notice, it will permit any representative of the Indenture
Trustee, during the Issuer's normal business hours, to examine all the
books of account, records, reports and other papers of the Issuer, to make
copies and extracts therefrom, to cause such books to be audited by
Independent certified public accountants, and to discuss the Issuer's
affairs, finances and accounts with the Issuer's officers, employees, and
Independent certified public accountants, all at such reasonable times and
as often as may be reasonably requested. The Indenture Trustee shall and
shall cause its representatives to hold in confidence all such information
except to the extent disclosure may be required by law (and all reasonable
applications for confidential treatment are unavailing) and except to the
extent that the Indenture Trustee may reasonably determine that such
disclosure is consistent with its obligations hereunder.
Section 11.19 Employee Benefit Plans. Each Plan that
acquires a Note, by its acceptance of the Note, shall be deemed to
represent that its acquisition, holding and disposition of the Note does
not give rise to a prohibited transaction for which no exemption is
available.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee
have caused this Indenture to be duly executed by their respective
officers, thereunto duly authorized, all as of the day and year first above
written.
MMCA AUTO OWNER TRUST 2001-4
By: WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
not in its individual capacity but solely
as Owner Trustee
By: ______________________________
Name:
Title:
By: BANK OF TOKYO-MITSUBISHI TRUST COMPANY,
not in its individual capacity but solely
as Indenture Trustee
By: ______________________________
Name:
Title:
SCHEDULE A
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Schedule of Receivables provided to Indenture Trustee
on Computer Tape, Compact Disk or Microfiche
SCHEDULE I
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List of Permitted Investments
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Account(s) Permitted Investments
Collection Account Federated Government Obligations Fund
Payahead Account Federated Government Obligations Fund
Reserve Account Federated Government Obligations Fund
Yield Supplement Account Federated Government Obligations Fund
EXHIBIT A-1
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[Form of Class A-1 Asset Backed Note]
UNLESS THIS NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION ("DTC"), TO THE ISSUER OR
ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY NOTE
ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS
REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE
TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED
REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE
OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED
OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.
THE PRINCIPAL OF THIS NOTE IS PAYABLE IN INSTALLMENTS AS SET FORTH HEREIN.
ACCORDINGLY, THE OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THIS NOTE AT ANY TIME MAY
BE LESS THAN THE AMOUNT SHOWN ON THE FACE HEREOF.
REGISTERED $[ ]
No. R-1 CUSIP NO. [ ]
MMCA AUTO OWNER TRUST 2001-4
[ ]% CLASS A-1 ASSET BACKED NOTES
MMCA Auto Owner Trust 2001-4, a business trust organized
and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein referred to as
the "Issuer"), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., or
its registered assigns, the principal sum of [ ] DOLLARS payable on each
Payment Date in the aggregate amount, if any, payable from the Note Payment
Account in respect of principal on the Class A-1 Notes pursuant to Section
2.8 of the Indenture, dated as of December 1, 2001 (as amended,
supplemented or otherwise modified and in effect from time to time, the
"Indenture"), between the Issuer and Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Trust
Company, a New York banking corporation, as Indenture Trustee (in such
capacity the "Indenture Trustee"); provided, however, that if not paid
prior to such date, the entire unpaid principal amount of this Class A-1
Note shall be due and payable on the earlier of the [ ] Payment Date (the
"Class A-1 Stated Maturity Date") and the Redemption Date, if any, pursuant
to Section 10.1 of the Indenture. Capitalized terms used but not defined
herein are defined in Appendix A of the Indenture, which also contains
rules as to construction that shall be applicable herein.
The Issuer shall pay interest on this Class A-1 Note at
the rate per annum shown above on each Payment Date until the principal of
this Class A-1 Note is paid or made available for payment, on the principal
amount of this Class A-1 Note outstanding on the preceding Payment Date
(after giving effect to all payments of principal made on the preceding
Payment Date), subject to certain limitations contained in Section 3.1 of
the Indenture. Interest on this Class A-1 Note will accrue for each Payment
Date from and including the previous Payment Date (or, in the case of the
initial Payment Date, or if no interest has been paid, from and including
the Closing Date) to but excluding such Payment Date. Interest will be
computed on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed and a 360-day
year. Such principal of and interest on this Class A-1 Note shall be paid
in the manner specified on the reverse side hereof.
The principal of and interest on this Class A-1 Note are
payable in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the
time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts.
All payments made by the Issuer with respect to this Class A-1 Note shall
be applied first to interest due and payable on this Class A-1 Note as
provided above and then to the unpaid principal of this Class A-1 Note.
Reference is made to the further provisions of this Class
A-1 Note set forth on the reverse hereof, which shall have the same effect
as though fully set forth on the face of this Class A-1 Note.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been
executed by the Indenture Trustee whose name appears below by manual
signature, this Class A-1 Note shall not be entitled to any benefit under
the Indenture referred to on the reverse hereof, or be valid or obligatory
for any purpose.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer has caused this instrument
to be signed, manually or in facsimile, by its Responsible Officer, as of
the date set forth below.
Date: December 13, 2001
MMCA AUTO OWNER TRUST 2001-4,
By: WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
not in its individual capacity but solely as
Owner Trustee under the Trust Agreement
By: __________________________________
Responsible Officer
TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Notes designated above and referred to
in the within-mentioned Indenture.
BANK OF TOKYO-MITSUBISHI TRUST COMPANY,
not in its individual capacity but solely as
Indenture Trustee
By: __________________________________
Responsible Officer
This Class A-1 Note is one of a duly authorized issue of
Notes of the Issuer, designated as its [ ]% Class A-1 Asset Backed Notes,
which, together with the [ ]% Class A-2 Asset-Backed Notes, the [ ]% Class
A-3 Asset-Backed Notes, the [ ]% Class A-4 Asset-Backed Notes and the [ ]%
Class B Asset-Backed Notes (collectively, the "Notes"), are issued under
the Indenture, to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto
reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights and
obligations thereunder of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Holders
of the Notes. The Notes are subject to all terms of the Indenture.
The Class A-1 Notes are and will be equally and ratably
secured by the collateral pledged as security therefor as provided in the
Indenture. Except as otherwise set forth in the Indenture, the Class A-1
Notes are equal in right of payment to the Class A-2 Notes, the Class A-3
Notes and the Class A-4 Notes and senior in right of payment to the Class B
Notes.
Principal of the Class A-1 Notes will be payable on each
Payment Date in an amount described on the face hereof. "Payment Date"
means the fifteenth day of each month or, if any such day is not a Business
Day, the next succeeding Business Day, commencing January 15, 2002.
As described above, the entire unpaid principal amount of
this Class A-1 Note shall be due and payable on the earlier of the Class
A-1 Stated Maturity Date and the Redemption Date, if any, pursuant to
Section 10.1 of the Indenture. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the entire
unpaid principal amount of the Notes shall be due and payable on the date
on which an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and the
Indenture Trustee or the Holders of the Notes representing not less than a
majority of all the Notes Outstanding of all Classes, voting as a group,
have declared the Notes to be immediately due and payable in the manner
provided in Section 5.2 of the Indenture. All principal payments on the
Class A-1 Notes shall be made pro rata to the Holders entitled thereto.
Payments of interest on this Class A-1 Note due and
payable on each Payment Date, together with the installment of principal,
if any, to the extent not in full payment of this Class A-1 Note, shall be
made by check mailed to the Person whose name appears as the Registered
Holder of this Class A-1 Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) on the
Note Register as of the close of business on each Record Date, except that
with respect to Class A-1 Notes registered on the Record Date in the name
of the nominee of the Clearing Agency (initially, such nominee to be Cede &
Co.), payments will be made by wire transfer in immediately available funds
to the account designated by such nominee. Such checks shall be mailed to
the Person entitled thereto at the address of such Person as it appears on
the Note Register as of the applicable Record Date without requiring that
this Class A-1 Note be submitted for notation of payment. Any reduction in
the principal amount of this Class A-1 Note (or any one or more Predecessor
Notes) effected by any payments made on any Payment Date shall be binding
upon all future Holders of this Class A-1 Note and of any Class A-1 Note
issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in
lieu hereof, whether or not noted hereon. If funds are expected to be
available, as provided in the Indenture, for payment in full of the then
remaining unpaid principal amount of this Class A-1 Note on a Payment Date,
then the Indenture Trustee, in the name of and on behalf of the Issuer,
will notify the Person who was the Registered Holder hereof as of the
Record Date preceding such Payment Date by notice mailed or transmitted by
facsimile prior to such Payment Date, and the amount then due and payable
shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of this Class A-1
Note at the Indenture Trustee's Corporate Trust Office or at the office of
the Indenture Trustee's agent appointed for such purposes located in New
York, New York.
The Issuer shall pay interest on overdue installments of
interest at the Class A-1 Rate to the extent lawful.
As provided in the Indenture, the Notes may be redeemed
in the manner and to the extent described in the Indenture and the Sale and
Servicing Agreement.
As provided in the Indenture, and subject to certain
limitations set forth therein, the transfer of this Class A-1 Note may be
registered on the Note Register upon surrender of this Class A-1 Note for
registration of transfer at the office or agency designated by the Issuer
pursuant to the Indenture, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written
instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee duly
executed by, the Holder hereof or such Holder's attorney duly authorized in
writing, with such signature guaranteed by an "eligible guarantor
institution" meeting the requirements of the Note Registrar, and thereupon
one or more new Class A-1 Notes of authorized denominations and in the same
aggregate principal amount will be issued to the designated transferee or
transferees. No service charge will be charged for any registration of
transfer or exchange of this Class A-1 Note, but the transferor may be
required to pay a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental
charge that may be imposed in connection with any such registration of
transfer or exchange.
Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by its acceptance of a
Note or, in the case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a Note,
covenants and agrees that no recourse may be taken, directly or indirectly,
with respect to the obligations of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the
Indenture Trustee on the Notes or under the Indenture or any certificate or
other writing delivered in connection therewith, against (i) the Indenture
Trustee or the Owner Trustee, each in its individual capacity, (ii) any
owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer or (iii) any partner, owner,
beneficiary, agent, officer, director or employee of the Indenture Trustee
or the Owner Trustee, each in its individual capacity, any holder of a
beneficial interest in the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture
Trustee or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner
Trustee, each in its individual capacity, except as any such Person may
have expressly agreed and except that any such partner, owner or
beneficiary shall be fully liable, to the extent provided by applicable
law, for any unpaid consideration for stock, unpaid capital contribution
for stock, unpaid capital contribution or failure to pay any installment or
call owing to such entity.
Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by acceptance of a Note
or, in the case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a Note, covenants
and agrees by accepting the benefits of the Indenture that (a) such
Noteholder or Note Owner will not at any time institute against the Seller,
or the Issuer, or join in any institution against the Seller or the Issuer
of, any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation
proceedings under any United States federal or state bankruptcy or similar
law in connection with any obligations relating to the Notes, the Indenture
or the Basic Documents and (b) any claim that such Noteholder or Note Owner
may have at any time against the Subtrust Assets of any Subtrust unrelated
to the Notes, and any claim that such Noteholder may have against the
Seller that such Noteholder may seek to enforce against the Subtrust Assets
of any Subtrust unrelated to the Notes, shall be subordinate to the payment
in full, including post-petition interest, in the event that the Seller
becomes a debtor or debtor in possession in a case under any applicable
federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or
hereafter in effect or otherwise subject to any insolvency, reorganization,
liquidation, rehabilitation or other similar proceedings, of the claims of
the holders of any Securities related to such unrelated Subtrust and the
holders of any other notes, bonds, contracts or other obligations that are
related to such unrelated Subtrust. The obligations of the Seller
represented by this Note are limited to the related Subtrust and the
related Subtrust Assets.
Each Noteholder or Note Owner that is a Plan, by its
acceptance of a Note or, in the case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest
in a Note, shall be deemed to represent that its acquisition, holding and
disposition of the Note or beneficial interest in the Note, as applicable,
does not give rise to a prohibited transaction for which no exemption is
available.
EACH NOTEHOLDER OR NOTE OWNER, BY ACCEPTANCE OF A NOTE
OR, IN THE CASE OF A NOTE OWNER, A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN A NOTE, HEREBY
IRREVOCABLY MAKES THE ELECTION AFFORDED BY TITLE 11 UNITED STATES CODE
SECTION 1111(b)(1)(A)(i) TO SECURED CREDITORS TO RECEIVE THE TREATMENT
AFFORDED BY XXXXX 00 XXXXXX XXXXXX CODE SECTION 1111(b)(2) WITH RESPECT TO
ANY SECURED CLAIM THAT SUCH NOTEHOLDER OR NOTE OWNER MAY HAVE AT ANY TIME
AGAINST THE SELLER.
The Issuer has entered into the Indenture and this Class
A-1 Note is issued with the intention that, for federal, state and local
income, and franchise tax purposes, the Notes will qualify as indebtedness
of the Issuer secured by the Trust Estate. Each Noteholder, by its
acceptance of a Note (and each Note Owner by its acceptance of a beneficial
interest in a Note), agrees to treat the Notes for federal, state and local
income, single business and franchise tax purposes as indebtedness of the
Issuer.
Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer
of this Class A-1 Note, the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and any agent of
the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this
Class A-1 Note (as of the day of determination or as of such other date as
may be specified in the Indenture) is registered as the owner hereof for
all purposes, whether or not this Class A-1 Note be overdue, and none of
the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee or any such agent shall be affected by
notice to the contrary.
The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein
provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and
obligations of the Issuer and the rights of the Holders of the Notes under
the Indenture at any time by the Issuer with the consent of the Holders of
Notes representing a majority of all of the Notes Outstanding, voting as a
group. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of
Notes representing specified percentages of the Class A Notes Outstanding,
on behalf of the Holders of all the Notes, to waive compliance by the
Issuer with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults
under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by
the Holder of this Class A-1 Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes)
shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future
Holders of this Class A-1 Note and of any Class A-1 Note issued upon the
registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof
whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Class
A-1 Note. The Indenture also permits the Indenture Trustee to amend or
waive certain terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture without the
consent of Holders of the Notes issued thereunder.
The term "Issuer," as used in this Note, includes any
successor to the Issuer under the Indenture.
The Issuer is permitted by the Indenture, under certain
circumstances, to merge or consolidate, subject to the rights of the
Indenture Trustee and the Holders of Notes under the Indenture.
The Notes are issuable only in registered form in
denominations as provided in the Indenture, subject to certain limitations
therein set forth.
This Class A-1 Note and the Indenture shall be governed
by, and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, and
the obligations, rights and remedies of the parties hereunder and
thereunder shall be determined in accordance with such laws.
No reference herein to the Indenture, and no provision of
this Note or of the Indenture, shall alter or impair the obligation of the
Issuer, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and
interest on this Note at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or
currency herein prescribed.
Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, except
as expressly provided in the Basic Documents, none of Bank of
Tokyo-Mitsubishi Trust Company, in its individual capacity, Wilmington
Trust Company, in its individual capacity, any owner of a beneficial
interest in the Issuer, or any of their respective partners, beneficiaries,
agents, officers, directors, employees or successors or assigns shall be
personally liable for, nor shall recourse be had to any of them for, the
payment of principal or of interest on this Class A-1 Note or performance
of, or omission to perform, any of the covenants, obligations or
indemnifications contained in the Indenture. The Holder of this Note, by
his acceptance hereof, agrees that, except as expressly provided in the
Basic Documents, in the case of an Event of Default under the Indenture,
the Holder shall have no claim against any of the foregoing for any
deficiency, loss or claim therefrom; provided, however, that nothing
contained herein shall be taken to prevent recourse to, and enforcement
against, the assets of the Issuer for any and all liabilities, obligations
and undertakings contained in the Indenture or in this Class A-1 Note.
ASSIGNMENT
Social Security or taxpayer I.D. or other identifying number of assignee:
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FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfers
unto:
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(name and address of assignee)
the within Note and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably
constitutes and appoints ___________________, attorney, to transfer said
Note on the books kept for registration thereof, with full power of
substitution in the premises.
Dated: __________________ ______________________________*/
Signature Guaranteed
______________________________*/
Signature Guaranteed
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*/ NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the
name of the registered owner as it appears on the face of the
within Note in every particular, without alteration, enlargement
or any change whatever. Such signature must be guaranteed by an
"eligible guarantor institution" meeting the requirements of the
Note Registrar.
EXHIBIT A-2
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[Form of Class A-2 Asset Backed Note]
UNLESS THIS NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION ("DTC"), TO THE ISSUER OR
ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY NOTE
ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS
REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE
TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED
REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE
OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED
OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.
THE PRINCIPAL OF THIS NOTE IS PAYABLE IN INSTALLMENTS AS SET FORTH HEREIN.
ACCORDINGLY, THE OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THIS NOTE AT ANY TIME MAY
BE LESS THAN THE AMOUNT SHOWN ON THE FACE HEREOF.
REGISTERED $[ ]
No. R-1 CUSIP NO. [ ]
MMCA AUTO OWNER TRUST 2001-4
[ ]% CLASS A-2 ASSET BACKED NOTES
MMCA Auto Owner Trust 2001-4, a business trust organized
and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein referred to as
the "Issuer"), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., or
its registered assigns, the principal sum of [ ] DOLLARS payable on each
Payment Date in the aggregate amount, if any, payable from the Note Payment
Account in respect of principal on the Class A-2 Notes pursuant to Section
2.8 of the Indenture, dated as of December 1, 2001 (as amended,
supplemented or otherwise modified and in effect from time to time, the
"Indenture"), between the Issuer and Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Trust
Company, a New York banking corporation, as Indenture Trustee (in such
capacity, the "Indenture Trustee"); provided, however, that if not paid
prior to such date, the entire unpaid principal amount of this Class A-2
Note shall be due and payable on the earlier of the [ ] Payment Date (the
"Class A-2 Stated Maturity Date") and the Redemption Date, if any, pursuant
to Section 10.1 of the Indenture. Capitalized terms used but not defined
herein are defined in Appendix A of the Indenture, which also contains
rules as to construction that shall be applicable herein.
The Issuer shall pay interest on this Class A-2 Note at
the rate per annum shown above on each Payment Date until the principal of
this Class A-2 Note is paid or made available for payment, on the principal
amount of this Class A-2 Note outstanding on the preceding Payment Date
(after giving effect to all payments of principal made on the preceding
Payment Date), subject to certain limitations contained in Section 3.1 of
the Indenture. Interest on this Class A-2 Note will accrue for each Payment
Date from and including the previous Payment Date (or, in the case of the
initial Payment Date, or if no interest has been paid, from and including
the Closing Date) to but excluding such Payment Date. Interest will be
computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Such
principal of and interest on this Class A-2 Note shall be paid in the
manner specified on the reverse side hereof.
The principal of and interest on this Class A-2 Note are
payable in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the
time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts.
All payments made by the Issuer with respect to this Class A-2 Note shall
be applied first to interest due and payable on this Class A-2 Note as
provided above and then to the unpaid principal of this Class A-2 Note.
Reference is made to the further provisions of this Class
A-2 Note set forth on the reverse hereof, which shall have the same effect
as though fully set forth on the face of this Class A-2 Note.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been
executed by the Indenture Trustee whose name appears below by manual
signature, this Class A-2 Note shall not be entitled to any benefit under
the Indenture referred to on the reverse hereof, or be valid or obligatory
for any purpose.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer has caused this instrument
to be signed, manually or in facsimile, by its Responsible Officer, as of
the date set forth below.
Date: December 13, 2001
MMCA AUTO OWNER TRUST 2001-4,
By: WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
not in its individual capacity but solely
as Owner Trustee under the Trust Agreement
By: __________________________
Responsible Officer
TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Notes designated above and referred to
in the within-mentioned Indenture.
BANK OF TOKYO-MITSUBISHI
TRUST COMPANY,
not in its individual capacity but solely as
Indenture Trustee
By: __________________________
Responsible Officer
This Class A-2 Note is one of a duly authorized issue of
Notes of the Issuer, designated as its [ ]% Class A-2 Asset Backed Notes,
which, together with the [ ]% Class A-1 Asset-Backed Notes, the [ ]% Class
A-3 Asset-Backed Notes, the [ ]% Class A-4 Asset-Backed Notes and the [ ]%
Class B Asset-Backed Notes (collectively, the "Notes"), are issued under
the Indenture, to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto
reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights and
obligations thereunder of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Holders
of the Notes. The Notes are subject to all terms of the Indenture.
The Class A-2 Notes are and will be equally and ratably
secured by the collateral pledged as security therefor as provided in the
Indenture. Except as otherwise set forth in the Indenture, the Class A-2
Notes are equal in right of payment to the Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-3
Notes and the Class A-4 Notes and senior in right of payment to the Class B
Notes.
Principal of the Class A-2 Notes will be payable on each
Payment Date in an amount described on the face hereof. "Payment Date"
means the fifteenth day of each month or, if any such day is not a Business
Day, the next succeeding Business Day, commencing January 15, 2002.
As described above, the entire unpaid principal amount of
this Class A-2 Note shall be due and payable on the earlier of the Class
A-2 Stated Maturity Date and the Redemption Date, if any, pursuant to
Section 10.1 of the Indenture. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the entire
unpaid principal amount of the Notes shall be due and payable on the date
on which an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and the
Indenture Trustee or the Holders of the Notes representing not less than a
majority of all the Notes Outstanding of all Classes, voting as a group,
have declared the Notes to be immediately due and payable in the manner
provided in Section 5.2 of the Indenture. All principal payments on the
Class A-2 Notes shall be made pro rata to the Holders entitled thereto.
Payments of interest on this Class A-2 Note due and
payable on each Payment Date, together with the installment of principal,
if any, to the extent not in full payment of this Class A-2 Note, shall be
made by check mailed to the Person whose name appears as the Registered
Holder of this Class A-2 Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) on the
Note Register as of the close of business on each Record Date, except that
with respect to Class A-2 Notes registered on the Record Date in the name
of the nominee of the Clearing Agency (initially, such nominee to be Cede &
Co.), payments will be made by wire transfer in immediately available funds
to the account designated by such nominee. Such checks shall be mailed to
the Person entitled thereto at the address of such Person as it appears on
the Note Register as of the applicable Record Date without requiring that
this Class A-2 Note be submitted for notation of payment. Any reduction in
the principal amount of this Class A-2 Note (or any one or more Predecessor
Notes) effected by any payments made on any Payment Date shall be binding
upon all future Holders of this Class A-2 Note and of any Class A-2 Note
issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in
lieu hereof, whether or not noted hereon. If funds are expected to be
available, as provided in the Indenture, for payment in full of the then
remaining unpaid principal amount of this Class A-2 Note on a Payment Date,
then the Indenture Trustee, in the name of and on behalf of the Issuer,
will notify the Person who was the Registered Holder hereof as of the
Record Date preceding such Payment Date by notice mailed or transmitted by
facsimile prior to such Payment Date, and the amount then due and payable
shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of this Class A-2
Note at the Indenture Trustee's Corporate Trust Office or at the office of
the Indenture Trustee's agent appointed for such purposes located in New
York, New York.
The Issuer shall pay interest on overdue installments of
interest at the Class A-2 Rate to the extent lawful.
As provided in the Indenture, the Notes may be redeemed
in the manner and to the extent described in the Indenture and the Sale and
Servicing Agreement.
As provided in the Indenture, and subject to certain
limitations set forth therein, the transfer of this Class A-2 Note may be
registered on the Note Register upon surrender of this Class A-2 Note for
registration of transfer at the office or agency designated by the Issuer
pursuant to the Indenture, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written
instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee duly
executed by, the Holder hereof or such Holder's attorney duly authorized in
writing, with such signature guaranteed by an "eligible guarantor
institution" meeting the requirements of the Note Registrar, and thereupon
one or more new Class A-2 Notes of authorized denominations and in the same
aggregate principal amount will be issued to the designated transferee or
transferees. No service charge will be charged for any registration of
transfer or exchange of this Class A-2 Note, but the transferor may be
required to pay a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental
charge that may be imposed in connection with any such registration of
transfer or exchange.
Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by its acceptance of a
Note or, in the case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a Note,
covenants and agrees that no recourse may be taken, directly or indirectly,
with respect to the obligations of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the
Indenture Trustee on the Notes or under the Indenture or any certificate or
other writing delivered in connection therewith, against (i) the Indenture
Trustee or the Owner Trustee, each in its individual capacity, (ii) any
owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer or (iii) any partner, owner,
beneficiary, agent, officer, director or employee of the Indenture Trustee
or the Owner Trustee, each in its individual capacity, any holder of a
beneficial interest in the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture
Trustee or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner
Trustee, each in its individual capacity, except as any such Person may
have expressly agreed and except that any such partner, owner or
beneficiary shall be fully liable, to the extent provided by applicable
law, for any unpaid consideration for stock, unpaid capital contribution
for stock, unpaid capital contribution or failure to pay any installment or
call owing to such entity.
Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by acceptance of a Note
or, in the case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a Note, covenants
and agrees by accepting the benefits of the Indenture that (a) such
Noteholder or Note Owner will not at any time institute against the Seller,
or the Issuer, or join in any institution against the Seller or the Issuer
of, any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation
proceedings under any United States federal or state bankruptcy or similar
law in connection with any obligations relating to the Notes, the Indenture
or the Basic Documents and (b) any claim that such Noteholder or Note Owner
may have at any time against the Subtrust Assets of any Subtrust unrelated
to the Notes, and any claim that such Noteholder may have against the
Seller that such Noteholder may seek to enforce against the Subtrust Assets
of any Subtrust unrelated to the Notes, shall be subordinate to the payment
in full, including post-petition interest, in the event that the Seller
becomes a debtor or debtor in possession in a case under any applicable
federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or
hereafter in effect or otherwise subject to any insolvency, reorganization,
liquidation, rehabilitation or other similar proceedings, of the claims of
the holders of any Securities related to such unrelated Subtrust and the
holders of any other notes, bonds, contracts or other obligations that are
related to such unrelated Subtrust. The obligations of the Seller
represented by this Note are limited to the related Subtrust and the
related Subtrust Assets.
Each Noteholder or Note Owner that is a Plan, by its
acceptance of a Note or, in the case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest
in a Note, shall be deemed to represent that its acquisition, holding and
disposition of the Note or beneficial interest in the Note, as applicable,
does not give rise to a prohibited transaction for which no exemption is
available.
EACH NOTEHOLDER OR NOTE OWNER, BY ACCEPTANCE OF A NOTE
OR, IN THE CASE OF A NOTE OWNER, A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN A NOTE, HEREBY
IRREVOCABLY MAKES THE ELECTION AFFORDED BY TITLE 11 UNITED STATES CODE
SECTION 1111(b)(1)(A)(i) TO SECURED CREDITORS TO RECEIVE THE TREATMENT
AFFORDED BY XXXXX 00 XXXXXX XXXXXX CODE SECTION 1111(b)(2) WITH RESPECT TO
ANY SECURED CLAIM THAT SUCH NOTEHOLDER OR NOTE OWNER MAY HAVE AT ANY TIME
AGAINST THE SELLER.
The Issuer has entered into the Indenture and this Class
A-2 Note is issued with the intention that, for federal, state and local
income, and franchise tax purposes, the Notes will qualify as indebtedness
of the Issuer secured by the Trust Estate. Each Noteholder, by its
acceptance of a Note (and each Note Owner by its acceptance of a beneficial
interest in a Note), agrees to treat the Notes for federal, state and local
income, single business and franchise tax purposes as indebtedness of the
Issuer.
Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer
of this Class A-2 Note, the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and any agent of
the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this
Class A-2 Note (as of the day of determination or as of such other date as
may be specified in the Indenture) is registered as the owner hereof for
all purposes, whether or not this Class A-2 Note be overdue, and none of
the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee or any such agent shall be affected by
notice to the contrary.
The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein
provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and
obligations of the Issuer and the rights of the Holders of the Notes under
the Indenture at any time by the Issuer with the consent of the Holders of
Notes representing a majority of all of the Notes Outstanding, voting as a
group. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of
Notes representing specified percentages of the Class A Notes Outstanding,
on behalf of the Holders of all the Notes, to waive compliance by the
Issuer with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults
under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by
the Holder of this Class A-2 Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes)
shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future
Holders of this Class A-2 Note and of any Class A-2 Note issued upon the
registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof
whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Class
A-2 Note. The Indenture also permits the Indenture Trustee to amend or
waive certain terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture without the
consent of Holders of the Notes issued thereunder.
The term "Issuer," as used in this Note, includes any
successor to the Issuer under the Indenture.
The Issuer is permitted by the Indenture, under certain
circumstances, to merge or consolidate, subject to the rights of the
Indenture Trustee and the Holders of Notes under the Indenture.
The Notes are issuable only in registered form in
denominations as provided in the Indenture, subject to certain limitations
therein set forth.
This Class A-2 Note and the Indenture shall be governed
by, and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, and
the obligations, rights and remedies of the parties hereunder and
thereunder shall be determined in accordance with such laws.
No reference herein to the Indenture, and no provision of
this Note or of the Indenture, shall alter or impair the obligation of the
Issuer, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and
interest on this Note at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or
currency herein prescribed.
Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, except
as expressly provided in the Basic Documents, none of Bank of
Tokyo-Mitsubishi Trust Company, in its individual capacity, Wilmington
Trust Company, in its individual capacity, any owner of a beneficial
interest in the Issuer, or any of their respective partners, beneficiaries,
agents, officers, directors, employees or successors or assigns shall be
personally liable for, nor shall recourse be had to any of them for, the
payment of principal or of interest on this Class A-2 Note or performance
of, or omission to perform, any of the covenants, obligations or
indemnifications contained in the Indenture. The Holder of this Note, by
his acceptance hereof, agrees that, except as expressly provided in the
Basic Documents, in the case of an Event of Default under the Indenture,
the Holder shall have no claim against any of the foregoing for any
deficiency, loss or claim therefrom; provided, however, that nothing
contained herein shall be taken to prevent recourse to, and enforcement
against, the assets of the Issuer for any and all liabilities, obligations
and undertakings contained in the Indenture or in this Class A-2 Note.
ASSIGNMENT
Social Security or taxpayer I.D. or other identifying number of assignee:
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FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfers
unto:
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(name and address of assignee)
the within Note and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably
constitutes and appoints ______________________, attorney, to transfer said
Note on the books kept for registration thereof, with full power of
substitution in the premises.
Dated: __________________ ______________________________*/
Signature Guaranteed
______________________________*/
Signature Guaranteed
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*/ NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name
of the registered owner as it appears on the face of the within Note in
every particular, without alteration, enlargement or any change whatever.
Such signature must be guaranteed by an "eligible guarantor institution"
meeting the requirements of the Note Registrar.
EXHIBIT A-3
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[Form of Class A-3 Asset Backed Note]
UNLESS THIS NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION ("DTC"), TO THE ISSUER OR
ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY NOTE
ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS
REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE
TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED
REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE
OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED
OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.
THE PRINCIPAL OF THIS NOTE IS PAYABLE IN INSTALLMENTS AS SET FORTH HEREIN.
ACCORDINGLY, THE OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THIS NOTE AT ANY TIME MAY
BE LESS THAN THE AMOUNT SHOWN ON THE FACE HEREOF.
REGISTERED $[ ]
No. R-1 CUSIP NO. [ ]
MMCA AUTO OWNER TRUST 2001-4
[ ]% CLASS A-3 ASSET BACKED NOTES
MMCA Auto Owner Trust 2001-4, a business trust organized
and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein referred to as
the "Issuer"), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., or
its registered assigns, the principal sum of [ ] DOLLARS payable on each
Payment Date in the aggregate amount, if any, payable from the Note Payment
Account in respect of principal on the Class A-3 Notes pursuant to Section
2.8 of the Indenture, dated as of December 1, 2001 (as amended,
supplemented or otherwise modified and in effect from time to time, the
"Indenture"), between the Issuer and Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Trust
Company, a New York banking corporation, as Indenture Trustee (in such
capacity, the "Indenture Trustee"); provided, however, that if not paid
prior to such date, the entire unpaid principal amount of this Class A-3
Note shall be due and payable on the earlier of the [ ] Payment Date (the
"Class A-3 Stated Maturity Date") and the Redemption Date, if any, pursuant
to Section 10.1 of the Indenture. Capitalized terms used but not defined
herein are defined in Appendix A of the Indenture, which also contains
rules as to construction that shall be applicable herein.
The Issuer shall pay interest on this Class A-3 Note at
the rate per annum shown above on each Payment Date until the principal of
this Class A-3 Note is paid or made available for payment, on the principal
amount of this Class A-3 Note outstanding on the preceding Payment Date
(after giving effect to all payments of principal made on the preceding
Payment Date), subject to certain limitations contained in Section 3.1 of
the Indenture. Interest on this Class A-3 Note will accrue for each Payment
Date from and including the previous Payment Date (or, in the case of the
initial Payment Date, or if no interest has been paid, from and including
the Closing Date) to but excluding such Payment Date. Interest will be
computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Such
principal of and interest on this Class A-3 Note shall be paid in the
manner specified on the reverse side hereof.
The principal of and interest on this Class A-3 Note are
payable in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the
time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts.
All payments made by the Issuer with respect to this Class A-3 Note shall
be applied first to interest due and payable on this Class A-3 Note as
provided above and then to the unpaid principal of this Class A-3 Note.
Reference is made to the further provisions of this Class
A-3 Note set forth on the reverse hereof, which shall have the same effect
as though fully set forth on the face of this Class A-3 Note.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been
executed by the Indenture Trustee whose name appears below by manual
signature, this Class A-3 Note shall not be entitled to any benefit under
the Indenture referred to on the reverse hereof, or be valid or obligatory
for any purpose.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer has caused this instrument
to be signed, manually or in facsimile, by its Responsible Officer, as of
the date set forth below.
Date: December 13, 2001
MMCA AUTO OWNER TRUST 2001-4,
By: WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
not in its individual capacity but solely
as Owner Trustee under the
Trust Agreement
By: _________________________
Responsible Officer
TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Notes designated above and referred to
in the within-mentioned Indenture.
BANK OF TOKYO-MITSUBISHI
TRUST COMPANY,
not in its individual capacity but solely as
Indenture Trustee
By: _________________________
Responsible Officer
This Class A-3 Note is one of a duly authorized issue of
Notes of the Issuer, designated as its [ ]% Class A-3 Asset Backed Notes,
which, together with the [ ]% Class A-1 Asset-Backed Notes, the [ ]% Class
A-2 Asset-Backed Notes, the [ ]% Class A-4 Asset-Backed Notes and the [ ]%
Class B Asset-Backed Notes (collectively, the "Notes"), are issued under
the Indenture, to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto
reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights and
obligations thereunder of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Holders
of the Notes. The Notes are subject to all terms of the Indenture.
The Class A-3 Notes are and will be equally and ratably
secured by the collateral pledged as security therefor as provided in the
Indenture. Except as otherwise set forth in the Indenture, the Class A-3
Notes are equal in right of payment to the Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2
Notes and the Class A-4 Notes and senior in right of payment to the Class B
Notes.
Principal of the Class A-3 Notes will be payable on each
Payment Date in an amount described on the face hereof. "Payment Date"
means the fifteenth day of each month or, if any such day is not a Business
Day, the next succeeding Business Day, commencing January 15, 2002.
As described above, the entire unpaid principal amount of
this Class A-3 Note shall be due and payable on the earlier of the Class
A-3 Stated Maturity Date and the Redemption Date, if any, pursuant to
Section 10.1 of the Indenture. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the entire
unpaid principal amount of the Notes shall be due and payable on the date
on which an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and the
Indenture Trustee or the Holders of the Notes representing not less than a
majority of all the Notes Outstanding of all Classes, voting as a group,
have declared the Notes to be immediately due and payable in the manner
provided in Section 5.2 of the Indenture. All principal payments on the
Class A-3 Notes shall be made pro rata to the Holders entitled thereto.
Payments of interest on this Class A-3 Note due and
payable on each Payment Date, together with the installment of principal,
if any, to the extent not in full payment of this Class A-3 Note, shall be
made by check mailed to the Person whose name appears as the Registered
Holder of this Class A-3 Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) on the
Note Register as of the close of business on each Record Date, except that
with respect to Class A-3 Notes registered on the Record Date in the name
of the nominee of the Clearing Agency (initially, such nominee to be Cede &
Co.), payments will be made by wire transfer in immediately available funds
to the account designated by such nominee. Such checks shall be mailed to
the Person entitled thereto at the address of such Person as it appears on
the Note Register as of the applicable Record Date without requiring that
this Class A-3 Note be submitted for notation of payment. Any reduction in
the principal amount of this Class A-3 Note (or any one or more Predecessor
Notes) effected by any payments made on any Payment Date shall be binding
upon all future Holders of this Class A-3 Note and of any Class A-3 Note
issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in
lieu hereof, whether or not noted hereon. If funds are expected to be
available, as provided in the Indenture, for payment in full of the then
remaining unpaid principal amount of this Class A-3 Note on a Payment Date,
then the Indenture Trustee, in the name of and on behalf of the Issuer,
will notify the Person who was the Registered Holder hereof as of the
Record Date preceding such Payment Date by notice mailed or transmitted by
facsimile prior to such Payment Date, and the amount then due and payable
shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of this Class A-3
Note at the Indenture Trustee's Corporate Trust Office or at the office of
the Indenture Trustee's agent appointed for such purposes located in New
York, New York.
The Issuer shall pay interest on overdue installments of
interest at the Class A-3 Rate to the extent lawful.
As provided in the Indenture, the Notes may be redeemed
in the manner and to the extent described in the Indenture and the Sale and
Servicing Agreement.
As provided in the Indenture, and subject to certain
limitations set forth therein, the transfer of this Class A-3 Note may be
registered on the Note Register upon surrender of this Class A-3 Note for
registration of transfer at the office or agency designated by the Issuer
pursuant to the Indenture, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written
instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee duly
executed by, the Holder hereof or such Holder's attorney duly authorized in
writing, with such signature guaranteed by an "eligible guarantor
institution" meeting the requirements of the Note Registrar, and thereupon
one or more new Class A-3 Notes of authorized denominations and in the same
aggregate principal amount will be issued to the designated transferee or
transferees. No service charge will be charged for any registration of
transfer or exchange of this Class A-3 Note, but the transferor may be
required to pay a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental
charge that may be imposed in connection with any such registration of
transfer or exchange.
Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by its acceptance of a
Note or, in the case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a Note,
covenants and agrees that no recourse may be taken, directly or indirectly,
with respect to the obligations of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the
Indenture Trustee on the Notes or under the Indenture or any certificate or
other writing delivered in connection therewith, against (i) the Indenture
Trustee or the Owner Trustee, each in its individual capacity, (ii) any
owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer or (iii) any partner, owner,
beneficiary, agent, officer, director or employee of the Indenture Trustee
or the Owner Trustee, each in its individual capacity, any holder of a
beneficial interest in the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture
Trustee or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner
Trustee, each in its individual capacity, except as any such Person may
have expressly agreed and except that any such partner, owner or
beneficiary shall be fully liable, to the extent provided by applicable
law, for any unpaid consideration for stock, unpaid capital contribution
for stock, unpaid capital contribution or failure to pay any installment or
call owing to such entity.
Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by acceptance of a Note
or, in the case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a Note, covenants
and agrees by accepting the benefits of the Indenture that (a) such
Noteholder or Note Owner will not at any time institute against the Seller,
or the Issuer, or join in any institution against the Seller or the Issuer
of, any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation
proceedings under any United States federal or state bankruptcy or similar
law in connection with any obligations relating to the Notes, the Indenture
or the Basic Documents and (b) any claim that such Noteholder or Note Owner
may have at any time against the Subtrust Assets of any Subtrust unrelated
to the Notes, and any claim that such Noteholder may have against the
Seller that such Noteholder may seek to enforce against the Subtrust Assets
of any Subtrust unrelated to the Notes, shall be subordinate to the payment
in full, including post-petition interest, in the event that the Seller
becomes a debtor or debtor in possession in a case under any applicable
federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or
hereafter in effect or otherwise subject to any insolvency, reorganization,
liquidation, rehabilitation or other similar proceedings, of the claims of
the holders of any Securities related to such unrelated Subtrust and the
holders of any other notes, bonds, contracts or other obligations that are
related to such unrelated Subtrust. The obligations of the Seller
represented by this Note are limited to the related Subtrust and the
related Subtrust Assets.
Each Noteholder or Note Owner that is a Plan, by its
acceptance of a Note or, in the case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest
in a Note, shall be deemed to represent that its acquisition, holding and
disposition of the Note or beneficial interest in the Note, as applicable,
does not give rise to a prohibited transaction for which no exemption is
available.
EACH NOTEHOLDER OR NOTE OWNER, BY ACCEPTANCE OF A NOTE
OR, IN THE CASE OF A NOTE OWNER, A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN A NOTE, HEREBY
IRREVOCABLY MAKES THE ELECTION AFFORDED BY TITLE 11 UNITED STATES CODE
SECTION 1111(b)(1)(A)(i) TO SECURED CREDITORS TO RECEIVE THE TREATMENT
AFFORDED BY XXXXX 00 XXXXXX XXXXXX CODE SECTION 1111(b)(2) WITH RESPECT TO
ANY SECURED CLAIM THAT SUCH NOTEHOLDER OR NOTE OWNER MAY HAVE AT ANY TIME
AGAINST THE SELLER.
The Issuer has entered into the Indenture and this Class
A-3 Note is issued with the intention that, for federal, state and local
income, and franchise tax purposes, the Notes will qualify as indebtedness
of the Issuer secured by the Trust Estate. Each Noteholder, by its
acceptance of a Note (and each Note Owner by its acceptance of a beneficial
interest in a Note), agrees to treat the Notes for federal, state and local
income, single business and franchise tax purposes as indebtedness of the
Issuer.
Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer
of this Class A-3 Note, the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and any agent of
the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this
Class A-3 Note (as of the day of determination or as of such other date as
may be specified in the Indenture) is registered as the owner hereof for
all purposes, whether or not this Class A-3 Note be overdue, and none of
the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee or any such agent shall be affected by
notice to the contrary.
The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein
provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and
obligations of the Issuer and the rights of the Holders of the Notes under
the Indenture at any time by the Issuer with the consent of the Holders of
Notes representing a majority of all of the Notes Outstanding, voting as a
group. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of
Notes representing specified percentages of the Class A Notes Outstanding,
on behalf of the Holders of all the Notes, to waive compliance by the
Issuer with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults
under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by
the Holder of this Class A-3 Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes)
shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future
Holders of this Class A-3 Note and of any Class A-3 Note issued upon the
registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof
whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Class
A-3 Note. The Indenture also permits the Indenture Trustee to amend or
waive certain terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture without the
consent of Holders of the Notes issued thereunder.
The term "Issuer," as used in this Note, includes any
successor to the Issuer under the Indenture.
The Issuer is permitted by the Indenture, under certain
circumstances, to merge or consolidate, subject to the rights of the
Indenture Trustee and the Holders of Notes under the Indenture.
The Notes are issuable only in registered form in
denominations as provided in the Indenture, subject to certain limitations
therein set forth.
This Class A-3 Note and the Indenture shall be governed
by, and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, and
the obligations, rights and remedies of the parties hereunder and
thereunder shall be determined in accordance with such laws.
No reference herein to the Indenture, and no provision of
this Note or of the Indenture, shall alter or impair the obligation of the
Issuer, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and
interest on this Note at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or
currency herein prescribed.
Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, except
as expressly provided in the Basic Documents, none of Bank of
Tokyo-Mitsubishi Trust Company, in its individual capacity, Wilmington
Trust Company, in its individual capacity, any owner of a beneficial
interest in the Issuer, or any of their respective partners, beneficiaries,
agents, officers, directors, employees or successors or assigns shall be
personally liable for, nor shall recourse be had to any of them for, the
payment of principal or of interest on this Class A-3 Note or performance
of, or omission to perform, any of the covenants, obligations or
indemnifications contained in the Indenture. The Holder of this Note, by
his acceptance hereof, agrees that, except as expressly provided in the
Basic Documents, in the case of an Event of Default under the Indenture,
the Holder shall have no claim against any of the foregoing for any
deficiency, loss or claim therefrom; provided, however, that nothing
contained herein shall be taken to prevent recourse to, and enforcement
against, the assets of the Issuer for any and all liabilities, obligations
and undertakings contained in the Indenture or in this Class A-3 Note.
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ASSIGNMENT
Social Security or taxpayer I.D. or other identifying number of assignee:
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FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfers
unto:
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(name and address of assignee)
the within Note and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably
constitutes and appoints ______________________, attorney, to transfer said
Note on the books kept for registration thereof, with full power of
substitution in the premises.
Dated: __________________ ______________________________*/
Signature Guaranteed
______________________________*/
Signature Guaranteed
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*/ NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name
of the registered owner as it appears on the face of the within Note in
every particular, without alteration, enlargement or any change whatever.
Such signature must be guaranteed by an "eligible guarantor institution"
meeting the requirements of the Note Registrar.
EXHIBIT A-4
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[Form of Class A-4 Asset Backed Note]
UNLESS THIS NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION ("DTC"), TO THE ISSUER OR
ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY NOTE
ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS
REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE
TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED
REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE
OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED
OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.
THE PRINCIPAL OF THIS NOTE IS PAYABLE IN INSTALLMENTS AS SET FORTH HEREIN.
ACCORDINGLY, THE OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THIS NOTE AT ANY TIME MAY
BE LESS THAN THE AMOUNT SHOWN ON THE FACE HEREOF.
REGISTERED $[ ]
No. R-1 CUSIP NO. [ ]
MMCA AUTO OWNER TRUST 2001-4
[ ]% CLASS A-4 ASSET BACKED NOTES
MMCA Auto Owner Trust 2001-4, a business trust organized
and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein referred to as
the "Issuer"), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., or
its registered assigns, the principal sum of [ ] DOLLARS payable on each
Payment Date in the aggregate amount, if any, payable from the Note Payment
Account in respect of principal on the Class A-4 Notes pursuant to Section
2.8 of the Indenture, dated as of December 1, 2001 (as amended,
supplemented or otherwise modified and in effect from time to time, the
"Indenture"), between the Issuer and Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Trust
Company, a New York banking corporation, as Indenture Trustee (in such
capacity, the "Indenture Trustee"); provided, however, that if not paid
prior to such date, the entire unpaid principal amount of this Class A-4
Note shall be due and payable on the earlier of the [ ] Payment Date (the
"Class A-4 Stated Maturity Date") and the Redemption Date, if any, pursuant
to Section 10.1 of the Indenture. Capitalized terms used but not defined
herein are defined in Appendix A of the Indenture, which also contains
rules as to construction that shall be applicable herein.
The Issuer shall pay interest on this Class A-4 Note at
the rate per annum shown above on each Payment Date until the principal of
this Class A-4 Note is paid or made available for payment, on the principal
amount of this Class A-4 Note outstanding on the preceding Payment Date
(after giving effect to all payments of principal made on the preceding
Payment Date), subject to certain limitations contained in Section 3.1 of
the Indenture. Interest on this Class A-4 Note will accrue for each Payment
Date from and including the previous Payment Date (or, in the case of the
initial Payment Date, or if no interest has been paid, from and including
the Closing Date) to but excluding such Payment Date. Interest will be
computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Such
principal of and interest on this Class A-4 Note shall be paid in the
manner specified on the reverse side hereof.
The principal of and interest on this Class A-4 Note are
payable in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the
time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts.
All payments made by the Issuer with respect to this Class A-4 Note shall
be applied first to interest due and payable on this Class A-4 Note as
provided above and then to the unpaid principal of this Class A-4 Note.
Reference is made to the further provisions of this Class
A-4 Note set forth on the reverse hereof, which shall have the same effect
as though fully set forth on the face of this Class A-4 Note.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been
executed by the Indenture Trustee whose name appears below by manual
signature, this Class A-4 Note shall not be entitled to any benefit under
the Indenture referred to on the reverse hereof, or be valid or obligatory
for any purpose.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer has caused this instrument
to be signed, manually or in facsimile, by its Responsible Officer, as of
the date set forth below.
Date: December 13, 2001
MMCA AUTO OWNER TRUST 2001-4,
By: WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
not in its individual capacity but
solely as Owner
Trustee under the Trust Agreement
By: _______________________
Responsible Officer
TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Notes designated above and referred to
in the within-mentioned Indenture.
BANK OF TOKYO-MITSUBISHI TRUST COMPANY,
not in its individual capacity but solely as
Indenture Trustee
By: _______________________
Responsible Officer
This Class A-4 Note is one of a duly authorized issue of
Notes of the Issuer, designated as its [ ]% Class A-4 Asset Backed Notes,
which, together with the [ ]% Class A-1 Asset-Backed Notes, the [ ]% Class
A-2 Asset-Backed Notes, the [ ]% Class A-3 Asset-Backed Notes and the [ ]%
Class B Asset-Backed Notes (collectively, the "Notes"), are issued under
the Indenture, to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto
reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights and
obligations thereunder of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Holders
of the Notes. The Notes are subject to all terms of the Indenture.
The Class A-4 Notes are and will be equally and ratably
secured by the collateral pledged as security therefor as provided in the
Indenture. Except as otherwise set forth in the Indenture, the Class A-4
Notes are equal in right of payment to the Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2
Notes and the Class A-3 Notes and senior in right of payment to the Class B
Notes.
Principal of the Class A-4 Notes will be payable on each
Payment Date in an amount described on the face hereof. "Payment Date"
means the fifteenth day of each month or, if any such day is not a Business
Day, the next succeeding Business Day, commencing on January 15, 2002.
As described above, the entire unpaid principal amount of
this Class A-4 Note shall be due and payable on the earlier of the Class
A-4 Stated Maturity Date and the Redemption Date, if any, pursuant to
Section 10.1 of the Indenture. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the entire
unpaid principal amount of the Notes shall be due and payable on the date
on which an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and the
Indenture Trustee or the Holders of the Notes representing not less than a
majority of all the Notes Outstanding of all Classes, voting as a group,
have declared the Notes to be immediately due and payable in the manner
provided in Section 5.2 of the Indenture. All principal payments on the
Class A-4 Notes shall be made pro rata to the Holders entitled thereto.
Payments of interest on this Class A-4 Note due and
payable on each Payment Date, together with the installment of principal,
if any, to the extent not in full payment of this Class A-4 Note, shall be
made by check mailed to the Person whose name appears as the Registered
Holder of this Class A-4 Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) on the
Note Register as of the close of business on each Record Date, except that
with respect to Class A-4 Notes registered on the Record Date in the name
of the nominee of the Clearing Agency (initially, such nominee to be Cede &
Co.), payments will be made by wire transfer in immediately available funds
to the account designated by such nominee. Such checks shall be mailed to
the Person entitled thereto at the address of such Person as it appears on
the Note Register as of the applicable Record Date without requiring that
this Class A-4 Note be submitted for notation of payment. Any reduction in
the principal amount of this Class A-4 Note (or any one or more Predecessor
Notes) effected by any payments made on any Payment Date shall be binding
upon all future Holders of this Class A-4 Note and of any Class A-4 Note
issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in
lieu hereof, whether or not noted hereon. If funds are expected to be
available, as provided in the Indenture, for payment in full of the then
remaining unpaid principal amount of this Class A-4 Note on a Payment Date,
then the Indenture Trustee, in the name of and on behalf of the Issuer,
will notify the Person who was the Registered Holder hereof as of the
Record Date preceding such Payment Date by notice mailed or transmitted by
facsimile prior to such Payment Date, and the amount then due and payable
shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of this Class A-4
Note at the Indenture Trustee's Corporate Trust Office or at the office of
the Indenture Trustee's agent appointed for such purposes located in New
York, New York.
The Issuer shall pay interest on overdue installments of
interest at the Class A-4 Rate to the extent lawful.
As provided in the Indenture, the Notes may be redeemed
in the manner and to the extent described in the Indenture and the Sale and
Servicing Agreement.
As provided in the Indenture, and subject to certain
limitations set forth therein, the transfer of this Class A-4 Note may be
registered on the Note Register upon surrender of this Class A-4 Note for
registration of transfer at the office or agency designated by the Issuer
pursuant to the Indenture, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written
instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee duly
executed by, the Holder hereof or such Holder's attorney duly authorized in
writing, with such signature guaranteed by an "eligible guarantor
institution" meeting the requirements of the Note Registrar, and thereupon
one or more new Class A-4 Notes of authorized denominations and in the same
aggregate principal amount will be issued to the designated transferee or
transferees. No service charge will be charged for any registration of
transfer or exchange of this Class A-4 Note, but the transferor may be
required to pay a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental
charge that may be imposed in connection with any such registration of
transfer or exchange.
Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by its acceptance of a
Note or, in the case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a Note,
covenants and agrees that no recourse may be taken, directly or indirectly,
with respect to the obligations of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the
Indenture Trustee on the Notes or under the Indenture or any certificate or
other writing delivered in connection therewith, against (i) the Indenture
Trustee or the Owner Trustee, each in its individual capacity, (ii) any
owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer or (iii) any partner, owner,
beneficiary, agent, officer, director or employee of the Indenture Trustee
or the Owner Trustee, each in its individual capacity, any holder of a
beneficial interest in the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture
Trustee or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner
Trustee, each in its individual capacity, except as any such Person may
have expressly agreed and except that any such partner, owner or
beneficiary shall be fully liable, to the extent provided by applicable
law, for any unpaid consideration for stock, unpaid capital contribution
for stock, unpaid capital contribution or failure to pay any installment or
call owing to such entity.
Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by acceptance of a Note
or, in the case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a Note, covenants
and agrees by accepting the benefits of the Indenture that (a) such
Noteholder or Note Owner will not at any time institute against the Seller,
or the Issuer, or join in any institution against the Seller or the Issuer
of, any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation
proceedings under any United States federal or state bankruptcy or similar
law in connection with any obligations relating to the Notes, the Indenture
or the Basic Documents and (b) any claim that such Noteholder or Note Owner
may have at any time against the Subtrust Assets of any Subtrust unrelated
to the Notes, and any claim that such Noteholder may have against the
Seller that such Noteholder may seek to enforce against the Subtrust Assets
of any Subtrust unrelated to the Notes, shall be subordinate to the payment
in full, including post-petition interest, in the event that the Seller
becomes a debtor or debtor in possession in a case under any applicable
federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or
hereafter in effect or otherwise subject to any insolvency, reorganization,
liquidation, rehabilitation or other similar proceedings, of the claims of
the holders of any Securities related to such unrelated Subtrust and the
holders of any other notes, bonds, contracts or other obligations that are
related to such unrelated Subtrust. The obligations of the Seller
represented by this Note are limited to the related Subtrust and the
related Subtrust Assets.
Each Noteholder or Note Owner that is a Plan, by its
acceptance of a Note or, in the case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest
in a Note, shall be deemed to represent that its acquisition, holding and
disposition of the Note or beneficial interest in the Note, as applicable,
does not give rise to a prohibited transaction for which no exemption is
available.
EACH NOTEHOLDER OR NOTE OWNER, BY ACCEPTANCE OF A NOTE
OR, IN THE CASE OF A NOTE OWNER, A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN A NOTE, HEREBY
IRREVOCABLY MAKES THE ELECTION AFFORDED BY TITLE 11 UNITED STATES CODE
SECTION 1111(b)(1)(A)(i) TO SECURED CREDITORS TO RECEIVE THE TREATMENT
AFFORDED BY XXXXX 00 XXXXXX XXXXXX CODE SECTION 1111(b)(2) WITH RESPECT TO
ANY SECURED CLAIM THAT SUCH NOTEHOLDER OR NOTE OWNER MAY HAVE AT ANY TIME
AGAINST THE SELLER.
The Issuer has entered into the Indenture and this Class
A-4 Note is issued with the intention that, for federal, state and local
income, and franchise tax purposes, the Notes will qualify as indebtedness
of the Issuer secured by the Trust Estate. Each Noteholder, by its
acceptance of a Note (and each Note Owner by its acceptance of a beneficial
interest in a Note), agrees to treat the Notes for federal, state and local
income, single business and franchise tax purposes as indebtedness of the
Issuer.
Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer
of this Class A-4 Note, the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and any agent of
the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this
Class A-4 Note (as of the day of determination or as of such other date as
may be specified in the Indenture) is registered as the owner hereof for
all purposes, whether or not this Class A-4 Note be overdue, and none of
the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee or any such agent shall be affected by
notice to the contrary.
The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein
provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and
obligations of the Issuer and the rights of the Holders of the Notes under
the Indenture at any time by the Issuer with the consent of the Holders of
Notes representing a majority of all of the Notes Outstanding, voting as a
group. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of
Notes representing specified percentages of the Class A Notes Outstanding,
on behalf of the Holders of all the Notes, to waive compliance by the
Issuer with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults
under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by
the Holder of this Class A-4 Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes)
shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future
Holders of this Class A-4 Note and of any Class A-4 Note issued upon the
registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof
whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Class
A-4 Note. The Indenture also permits the Indenture Trustee to amend or
waive certain terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture without the
consent of Holders of the Notes issued thereunder.
The term "Issuer," as used in this Note, includes any
successor to the Issuer under the Indenture.
The Issuer is permitted by the Indenture, under certain
circumstances, to merge or consolidate, subject to the rights of the
Indenture Trustee and the Holders of Notes under the Indenture.
The Notes are issuable only in registered form in
denominations as provided in the Indenture, subject to certain limitations
therein set forth.
This Class A-4 Note and the Indenture shall be governed
by, and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, and
the obligations, rights and remedies of the parties hereunder and
thereunder shall be determined in accordance with such laws.
No reference herein to the Indenture, and no provision of
this Note or of the Indenture, shall alter or impair the obligation of the
Issuer, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and
interest on this Note at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or
currency herein prescribed.
Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, except
as expressly provided in the Basic Documents, none of Bank of
Tokyo-Mitsubishi Trust Company, in its individual capacity, Wilmington
Trust Company, in its individual capacity, any owner of a beneficial
interest in the Issuer, or any of their respective partners, beneficiaries,
agents, officers, directors, employees or successors or assigns shall be
personally liable for, nor shall recourse be had to any of them for, the
payment of principal or of interest on this Class A-4 Note or performance
of, or omission to perform, any of the covenants, obligations or
indemnifications contained in the Indenture. The Holder of this Note, by
his acceptance hereof, agrees that, except as expressly provided in the
Basic Documents, in the case of an Event of Default under the Indenture,
the Holder shall have no claim against any of the foregoing for any
deficiency, loss or claim therefrom; provided, however, that nothing
contained herein shall be taken to prevent recourse to, and enforcement
against, the assets of the Issuer for any and all liabilities, obligations
and undertakings contained in the Indenture or in this Class A-4 Note.
ASSIGNMENT
Social Security or taxpayer I.D. or other identifying number of assignee:
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FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfers
unto:
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(name and address of assignee)
the within Note and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably
constitutes and appoints _____________________, attorney, to transfer said
Note on the books kept for registration thereof, with full power of
substitution in the premises.
Dated: __________________ ______________________________*/
Signature Guaranteed
______________________________*/
Signature Guaranteed
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*/ NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name
of the registered owner as it appears on the face of the within Note in
every particular, without alteration, enlargement or any change whatever.
Such signature must be guaranteed by an "eligible guarantor institution"
meeting the requirements of the Note Registrar.
EXHIBIT B
[Form of Class B Asset Backed Note]
UNLESS THIS NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION ("DTC"), TO THE ISSUER OR
ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY NOTE
ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS
REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE
TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED
REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE
OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED
OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.
THE PRINCIPAL OF THIS NOTE IS PAYABLE IN INSTALLMENTS AS SET FORTH HEREIN.
ACCORDINGLY, THE OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THIS NOTE AT ANY TIME MAY
BE LESS THAN THE AMOUNT SHOWN ON THE FACE HEREOF.
REGISTERED $[ ]
No. R-1 CUSIP NO. [ ]
MMCA AUTO OWNER TRUST 2001-4
[ ]% CLASS B ASSET BACKED NOTES
MMCA Auto Owner Trust 2001-4, a business trust organized
and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein referred to as
the "Issuer"), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., or
its registered assigns, the principal sum of [ ] DOLLARS payable on each
Payment Date in the aggregate amount, if any, payable from the Note Payment
Account in respect of principal on the Class B Notes pursuant to Section
2.8 of the Indenture, dated as of December 1, 2001 (as amended,
supplemented or otherwise modified and in effect from time to time, the
"Indenture"), between the Issuer and Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Trust
Company, a New York banking corporation, as Indenture Trustee (in such
capacity, the "Indenture Trustee"); provided, however, that if not paid
prior to such date, the entire unpaid principal amount of this Class B Note
shall be due and payable on the earlier of the [ ] Payment Date (the "Class
B Stated Maturity Date") and the Redemption Date, if any, pursuant to
Section 10.1 of the Indenture. Capitalized terms used but not defined
herein are defined in Appendix A of the Indenture, which also contains
rules as to construction that shall be applicable herein.
The Issuer shall pay interest on this Class B Note at the
rate per annum shown above on each Payment Date until the principal of this
Class B Note is paid or made available for payment, on the principal amount
of this Class B Note outstanding on the preceding Payment Date (after
giving effect to all payments of principal made on the preceding Payment
Date), subject to certain limitations contained in Section 3.1 of the
Indenture. Interest on this Class B Note will accrue for each Payment Date
from and including the previous Payment Date (or, in the case of the
initial Payment Date, or if no interest has been paid, from and including
the Closing Date) to but excluding such Payment Date. Interest will be
computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Such
principal of and interest on this Class B Note shall be paid in the manner
specified on the reverse side hereof.
The principal of and interest on this Class B Note are
payable in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the
time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts.
All payments made by the Issuer with respect to this Class B Note shall be
applied first to interest due and payable on this Class B Note as provided
above and then to the unpaid principal of this Class B Note.
Reference is made to the further provisions of this Class
B Note set forth on the reverse hereof, which shall have the same effect as
though fully set forth on the face of this Class B Note.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been
executed by the Indenture Trustee whose name appears below by manual
signature, this Class B Note shall not be entitled to any benefit under the
Indenture referred to on the reverse hereof, or be valid or obligatory for
any purpose.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer has caused this instrument
to be signed, manually or in facsimile, by its Responsible Officer, as of
the date set forth below.
Date: December 13, 2001
MMCA AUTO OWNER TRUST 2001-4,
By: WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
not in its individual capacity but
solely as Owner Trustee under
the Trust Agreement
By: __________________________
Responsible Officer
TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Notes designated above and referred to
in the within-mentioned Indenture.
BANK OF TOKYO-MITSUBISHI TRUST COMPANY,
not in its individual capacity but
]solely as Indenture Trustee
By: __________________________
Responsible Officer
This Class B Note is one of a duly authorized issue of
Notes of the Issuer, designated as its [ ]% Class B Asset Backed Notes,
which, together with the [ ]% Class A-1 Asset-Backed Notes, the [ ]% Class
A-2 Asset-Backed Notes, the [ ]% Class A-3 Asset-Backed Notes and the [ ]%
Class A-4 Asset-Backed Notes (collectively, the "Notes"), are issued under
the Indenture, to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto
reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights and
obligations thereunder of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Holders
of the Notes. The Notes are subject to all terms of the Indenture.
The Class B Notes are and will be equally and ratably
secured by the collateral pledged as security therefor as provided in the
Indenture. Except as otherwise set forth in the Indenture, the Class B
Notes are subordinated in right of payment to the Class A-1 Notes, the
Class A-2 Notes, the Class A-3 Notes and the Class A-4 Notes.
Principal of the Class B Notes will be payable on each
Payment Date in an amount described on the face hereof. "Payment Date"
means the fifteenth day of each month or, if any such day is not a Business
Day, the next succeeding Business Day, commencing January 15, 2002.
As described above, the entire unpaid principal amount of
this Class B Note shall be due and payable on the earlier of the Class B
Stated Maturity Date and the Redemption Date, if any, pursuant to Section
10.1. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the entire unpaid principal amount of
the Notes shall be due and payable on the date on which an Event of Default
shall have occurred and be continuing and the Indenture Trustee or the
Holders of the Notes representing not less than a majority of all the Notes
Outstanding of all Classes, voting as a group, have declared the Notes to
be immediately due and payable in the manner provided in Section 5.2 of the
Indenture. All principal payments on the Class B Notes shall be made pro
rata to the Holders entitled thereto.
Payments of interest on this Class B Note due and payable
on each Payment Date, together with the installment of principal, if any,
to the extent not in full payment of this Class B Note, shall be made by
check mailed to the Person whose name appears as the Registered Holder of
this Class B Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) on the Note Register
as of the close of business on each Record Date, except that with respect
to Class B Notes registered on the Record Date in the name of the nominee
of the Clearing Agency (initially, such nominee to be Cede & Co.), payments
will be made by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the account
designated by such nominee. Such checks shall be mailed to the Person
entitled thereto at the address of such Person as it appears on the Note
Register as of the applicable Record Date without requiring that this Class
B Note be submitted for notation of payment. Any reduction in the principal
amount of this Class B Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) effected
by any payments made on any Payment Date shall be binding upon all future
Holders of this Class B Note and of any Class B Note issued upon the
registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof,
whether or not noted hereon. If funds are expected to be available, as
provided in the Indenture, for payment in full of the then remaining unpaid
principal amount of this Class B Note on a Payment Date, then the Indenture
Trustee, in the name of and on behalf of the Issuer, will notify the Person
who was the Registered Holder hereof as of the Record Date preceding such
Payment Date by notice mailed or transmitted by facsimile prior to such
Payment Date, and the amount then due and payable shall be payable only
upon presentation and surrender of this Class B Note at the Indenture
Trustee's Corporate Trust Office or at the office of the Indenture
Trustee's agent appointed for such purposes located in New York, New York.
The Issuer shall pay interest on overdue installments of
interest at the Class B Rate to the extent lawful.
As provided in the Indenture, the Notes may be redeemed
in the manner and to the extent described in the Indenture and the Sale and
Servicing Agreement.
As provided in the Indenture, and subject to certain
limitations set forth therein, the transfer of this Class B Note may be
registered on the Note Register upon surrender of this Class B Note for
registration of transfer at the office or agency designated by the Issuer
pursuant to the Indenture, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written
instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee duly
executed by, the Holder hereof or such Holder's attorney duly authorized in
writing, with such signature guaranteed by an "eligible guarantor
institution" meeting the requirements of the Note Registrar, and thereupon
one or more new Class B Notes of authorized denominations and in the same
aggregate principal amount will be issued to the designated transferee or
transferees. No service charge will be charged for any registration of
transfer or exchange of this Class B Note, but the transferor may be
required to pay a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental
charge that may be imposed in connection with any such registration of
transfer or exchange.
Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by its acceptance of a
Note or, in the case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a Note,
covenants and agrees that no recourse may be taken, directly or indirectly,
with respect to the obligations of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the
Indenture Trustee on the Notes or under the Indenture or any certificate or
other writing delivered in connection therewith, against (i) the Indenture
Trustee or the Owner Trustee, each in its individual capacity, (ii) any
owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer or (iii) any partner, owner,
beneficiary, agent, officer, director or employee of the Indenture Trustee
or the Owner Trustee, each in its individual capacity, any holder of a
beneficial interest in the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture
Trustee or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner
Trustee, each in its individual capacity, except as any such Person may
have expressly agreed and except that any such partner, owner or
beneficiary shall be fully liable, to the extent provided by applicable
law, for any unpaid consideration for stock, unpaid capital contribution
for stock, unpaid capital contribution or failure to pay any installment or
call owing to such entity.
Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by acceptance of a Note
or, in the case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a Note, covenants
and agrees by accepting the benefits of the Indenture that (a) such
Noteholder or Note Owner will not at any time institute against the Seller,
or the Issuer, or join in any institution against the Seller or the Issuer
of, any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation
proceedings under any United States federal or state bankruptcy or similar
law in connection with any obligations relating to the Notes, the Indenture
or the Basic Documents and (b) any claim that such Noteholder or Note Owner
may have at any time against the Subtrust Assets of any Subtrust unrelated
to the Notes, and any claim that such Noteholder may have against the
Seller that such Noteholder may seek to enforce against the Subtrust Assets
of any Subtrust unrelated to the Notes, shall be subordinate to the payment
in full, including post-petition interest, in the event that the Seller
becomes a debtor or debtor in possession in a case under any applicable
federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or
hereafter in effect or otherwise subject to any insolvency, reorganization,
liquidation, rehabilitation or other similar proceedings, of the claims of
the holders of any Securities related to such unrelated Subtrust and the
holders of any other notes, bonds, contracts or other obligations that are
related to such unrelated Subtrust. The obligations of the Seller
represented by this Note are limited to the related Subtrust and the
related Subtrust Assets.
Each Noteholder or Note Owner that is a Plan, by its
acceptance of a Note or, in the case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest
in a Note, shall be deemed to represent that its acquisition, holding and
disposition of the Note or beneficial interest in the Note, as applicable,
does not give rise to a prohibited transaction for which no exemption is
available.
EACH NOTEHOLDER OR NOTE OWNER, BY ACCEPTANCE OF A NOTE
OR, IN THE CASE OF A NOTE OWNER, A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN A NOTE, HEREBY
IRREVOCABLY MAKES THE ELECTION AFFORDED BY TITLE 11 UNITED STATES CODE
SECTION 1111(b)(1)(A)(i) TO SECURED CREDITORS TO RECEIVE THE TREATMENT
AFFORDED BY XXXXX 00 XXXXXX XXXXXX CODE SECTION 1111(b)(2) WITH RESPECT TO
ANY SECURED CLAIM THAT SUCH NOTEHOLDER OR NOTE OWNER MAY HAVE AT ANY TIME
AGAINST THE SELLER.
The Issuer has entered into the Indenture and this Class
B Note is issued with the intention that, for federal, state and local
income, and franchise tax purposes, the Notes will qualify as indebtedness
of the Issuer secured by the Trust Estate. Each Noteholder, by its
acceptance of a Note (and each Note Owner by its acceptance of a beneficial
interest in a Note), agrees to treat the Notes for federal, state and local
income, single business and franchise tax purposes as indebtedness of the
Issuer.
Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer
of this Class B Note, the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and any agent of
the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this
Class B Note (as of the day of determination or as of such other date as
may be specified in the Indenture) is registered as the owner hereof for
all purposes, whether or not this Class B Note be overdue, and none of the
Issuer, the Indenture Trustee or any such agent shall be affected by notice
to the contrary.
The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein
provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and
obligations of the Issuer and the rights of the Holders of the Notes under
the Indenture at any time by the Issuer with the consent of the Holders of
Notes representing a majority of all of the Notes Outstanding, voting as a
group. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of
Notes representing specified percentages of the Class A Notes Outstanding,
on behalf of the Holders of all the Notes, to waive compliance by the
Issuer with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults
under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by
the Holder of this Class B Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes)
shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future
Holders of this Class B Note and of any Class B Note issued upon the
registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof
whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Class B
Note. The Indenture also permits the Indenture Trustee to amend or waive
certain terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture without the consent
of Holders of the Notes issued thereunder.
The term "Issuer," as used in this Note, includes any
successor to the Issuer under the Indenture.
The Issuer is permitted by the Indenture, under certain
circumstances, to merge or consolidate, subject to the rights of the
Indenture Trustee and the Holders of Notes under the Indenture.
The Notes are issuable only in registered form in
denominations as provided in the Indenture, subject to certain limitations
therein set forth.
This Class B Note and the Indenture shall be governed by,
and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, and the
obligations, rights and remedies of the parties hereunder and thereunder
shall be determined in accordance with such laws.
No reference herein to the Indenture, and no provision of
this Note or of the Indenture, shall alter or impair the obligation of the
Issuer, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and
interest on this Note at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or
currency herein prescribed.
Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, except
as expressly provided in the Basic Documents, none of Bank of
Tokyo-Mitsubishi Trust Company, in its individual capacity, Wilmington
Trust Company, in its individual capacity, any owner of a beneficial
interest in the Issuer, or any of their respective partners, beneficiaries,
agents, officers, directors, employees or successors or assigns shall be
personally liable for, nor shall recourse be had to any of them for, the
payment of principal or of interest on this Class B Note or performance of,
or omission to perform, any of the covenants, obligations or
indemnifications contained in the Indenture. The Holder of this Note, by
his acceptance hereof, agrees that, except as expressly provided in the
Basic Documents, in the case of an Event of Default under the Indenture,
the Holder shall have no claim against any of the foregoing for any
deficiency, loss or claim therefrom; provided, however, that nothing
contained herein shall be taken to prevent recourse to, and enforcement
against, the assets of the Issuer for any and all liabilities, obligations
and undertakings contained in the Indenture or in this Class B Note.
ASSIGNMENT
Social Security or taxpayer I.D. or other identifying number of assignee:
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FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfers
unto:
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(name and address of assignee)
the within Note and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably
constitutes and appoints _____________________, attorney, to transfer said
Note on the books kept for registration thereof, with full power of
substitution in the premises.
Dated: __________________ ______________________________*/
Signature Guaranteed
______________________________*/
Signature Guaranteed
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*/ NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name
of the registered owner as it appears on the face of the within Note in
every particular, without alteration, enlargement or any change whatever.
Such signature must be guaranteed by an "eligible guarantor institution"
meeting the requirements of the Note Registrar.
EXHIBIT C
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FORM OF OPINION OF COUNSEL PURSUANT TO SECTION 3.6(a)
Schedule B (to Opinion)
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[SCHEDULE OF PRIOR FILERS]
Exhibit A (to Opinion)
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Annex A (to Opinion)
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[FORMS OF RETAIL INSTALLMENT SALES CONTRACT]
Annex B (to Opinion)
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[CERTIFIED REPORT OF FILING OFFICE ON PRIOR FINANCING STATEMENTS]
Annex A
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[FORM OF RETAIL INSTALLMENT SALE CONTRACT]
APPENDIX A
DEFINITIONS AND USAGE
Usage
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The following rules of construction and usage shall be
applicable to any agreement or instrument that is governed by this
Appendix:
(a) All terms defined in this Appendix shall have the defined
meanings when used in any agreement or instrument governed hereby and in
any certificate or other document made or delivered pursuant thereto unless
otherwise defined therein.
(b) As used herein, in any agreement or instrument governed hereby
and in any certificate or other document made or delivered pursuant
thereto, accounting terms not defined in this Appendix or in any such
agreement, instrument, certificate or other document, and accounting terms
partly defined in this Appendix or in any such agreement, instrument,
certificate or other document, to the extent not defined, shall have the
respective meanings given to them under generally accepted accounting
principles as in effect on the date of such agreement or instrument. To the
extent that the definitions of accounting terms in this Appendix or in any
such agreement, instrument, certificate or other document are inconsistent
with the meanings of such terms under generally accepted accounting
principles, the definitions contained in this Appendix or in any such
instrument, certificate or other document shall control.
(c) The words "hereof," "herein," "hereunder" and words of similar
import when used in an agreement or instrument refer to such agreement or
instrument as a whole and not to any particular provision or subdivision
thereof; references in an agreement or instrument to "Article," "Section"
or another subdivision or to an attachment are, unless the context
otherwise requires, to an article, section or subdivision of or an
attachment to such agreement or instrument; and the term "including" means
"including without limitation."
(d) The definitions contained in this Appendix are equally
applicable to both the singular and plural forms of such terms and to the
masculine as well as to the feminine and neuter genders of such terms.
(e) Any agreement, instrument or statute defined or referred to
below or in any agreement or instrument that is governed by this Appendix
means such agreement or instrument or statute as from time to time amended,
modified or supplemented, including (in the case of agreements or
instruments) by waiver or consent and (in the case of statutes) by
succession of comparable successor statutes and includes (in the case of
agreements or instruments) references to all attachments thereto and
instruments incorporated therein. References to a Person are also to its
permitted successors and assigns.
Definitions
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"Accrued Note Interest" shall mean, with respect to any
Payment Date and each Class of Notes, the sum of the Monthly Accrued Note
Interest and the Interest Carryover Shortfall for such Class for such
Payment Date.
"Act" shall have the meaning specified in Section 11.3(a)
of the Indenture.
"Actuarial Advance" shall mean, with respect to an
Actuarial Receivable, the amount, as of the last day of a Collection
Period, which is required to be advanced with respect to such Actuarial
Receivable by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.4(a) of the Sale and
Servicing Agreement.
"Actuarial Method" shall mean the method of allocating a
fixed level payment on a Receivable between principal and interest,
pursuant to which the portion of such payment that is allocated to interest
is the product of one-twelfth (1/12) of the APR of the Receivable
multiplied by the scheduled principal balance of the Receivable, and the
remainder of such payment is allocable to principal.
"Actuarial Receivable" shall mean any Receivable under
which the portion of a payment with respect thereto allocable to interest
and the portion of a payment with respect thereto allocable to principal is
determined in accordance with the Actuarial Method.
"Adjusted Pool Balance" shall mean, as of any date of
determination, the aggregate Adjusted Principal Balance (including the
aggregate Adjusted Principal Balance of Last Scheduled Payments) of the
Receivables calculated as of such date.
"Adjusted Principal Balance" shall mean, with respect to
any Receivable as of any date of determination, the Principal Balance of
such Receivable, minus the Yield Supplement Overcollateralization Amount
for such Receivable, as of such date.
"Administration Agreement" shall mean the Administration
Agreement, dated as of December 1, 2001, by and among the Administrator,
the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee, as the same may from time to time be
amended, supplemented or otherwise modified and in effect.
"Administrator" shall mean Mitsubishi Motors Credit of
America, Inc., a Delaware corporation, or any successor Administrator under
the Administration Agreement.
"Advance" shall mean an Actuarial Advance or a Last
Scheduled Payment Advance, as the context may require.
"Affiliate" shall mean, with respect to any Person, any
other Person directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by, or under
direct or indirect common control with such specified Person. For purposes
of this definition, "control" when used with respect to any specified
Person shall mean 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 meanings correlative to the foregoing.
"Amount Financed" shall mean, with respect to a
Receivable, the aggregate amount advanced under such Receivable toward the
purchase price of the Financed Vehicle and any related costs.
"Applicable Tax State" shall mean, as of any date of
determination, each state as to which any of the following is then
applicable: (a) a state in which the Owner Trustee maintains the Corporate
Trust Office, (b) a state in which the Owner Trustee maintains its
principal executive offices and (c) a state in which the Servicer regularly
conducts servicing and collection operations other than purely ministerial
activities and which relate to a material portion of the Receivables.
"APR" of a Receivable shall mean the annual percentage
rate of interest stated in the Contract related to such Receivable.
"Authenticating Agent" shall have the meaning specified
in Section 2.14 of the Indenture.
"Available Funds" shall mean, for any Payment Date, an
amount equal to (a) the sum of the following amounts with respect to the
related Collection Period: (i) all collections on Receivables, including
Payaheads withdrawn from the Payahead Account (but excluding Payaheads
deposited into the Payahead Account), (ii) the proceeds of sale by the
Trust of any Financed Vehicle sold to the Trust upon termination, including
a prepayment, of a Final Payment Receivable, (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds
on Defaulted Receivables and any Recoveries, (iv) all extension and
deferral fees paid with respect to the Receivables, (v) the Purchase Amount
of each Receivable that became a Purchased Receivable during the related
Collection Period (net of applicable expenses), (vi) all Actuarial Advances
and Last Scheduled Payment Advances deposited to the Collection Account on
such Payment Date by the Servicer, (vii) amounts paid pursuant to the Yield
Supplement Agreement (including amounts, if any, withdrawn from the Yield
Supplement Account or the Reserve Account pursuant to Section 5.1(a)(ii))
with respect to the related Collection Period, and (viii) partial
prepayments attributable to any refunded item included in the Amount
Financed, such as extended warranty protection plan costs or physical
damage, credit life or disability insurance premiums, or any partial
prepayment which causes a reduction in the Obligor's periodic payment to be
below the Scheduled Payment as of the Cutoff Date minus (b) the aggregate
amount of funds described in clause (a) above that are used in the related
Collection Period to reimburse the Servicer for the aggregate amount of
Advances previously made by the Servicer that are due and payable to the
Servicer on such Payment Date; provided, however, that in calculating the
Available Funds, all payments and proceeds (including Liquidation Proceeds)
of any Purchased Receivables the Purchase Amount of which has been included
in the Available Funds in a prior Collection Period (which shall be paid to
the Seller or the Servicer, as applicable) will be excluded.
"Basic Documents" shall mean the Indenture, the
Certificate of Trust, the Trust Agreement, the Assignments, the Sale and
Servicing Agreement, the Purchase Agreement, the Administration Agreement,
the Note Depository Agreement, the Yield Supplement Agreement, the Control
Agreement and other documents and certificates delivered in connection
therewith as the same may from time to time be amended, supplemented or
otherwise modified and in effect.
"Book-Entry Notes" shall mean a beneficial interest in
the Notes, ownership and transfers of which shall be made through book
entries by a Clearing Agency as described in Section 2.11 of the Indenture.
"Business Day" shall mean any day other than a Saturday,
a Sunday or a day on which banking institutions or trust companies in New
York, New York, Wilmington, Delaware or Los Angeles, California are
authorized or obligated by law, regulation or executive order to be closed.
"Business Trust Statute" shall mean Chapter 38 of Title
12 of the Delaware Code, 12 Del. Code ss. 3801 et seq., as the same may be
amended, supplemented or otherwise modified and in effect from time to
time.
"Capped Receivable" shall mean a Simple Interest
Receivable that is subject to a cap on the aggregate amount of interest to
be paid by the related Obligor during the term of such Receivable.
"Certificate Balance" shall mean, as the context may
require, (i) with respect to all of the Certificates, an amount equal to,
initially, the Initial Certificate Balance and, thereafter, an amount equal
to the Initial Certificate Balance, as reduced from time to time by all
amounts allocable to principal previously distributed to Certificateholders
or (ii) with respect to any Certificate, an amount equal to, initially, the
initial denomination of such Certificate and, thereafter, an amount equal
to such initial denomination, as reduced from time to time by all amounts
allocable to principal previously distributed in respect of such
Certificate; provided, that in determining whether the Holders of the
requisite portion or percentage of the Certificate Balance of all of the
Certificates have given any request, demand, authorization, direction,
notice, consent, or waiver hereunder or under any other Basic Document,
Certificates owned by the Trust, any other obligor upon the Certificates,
the Seller, the Servicer or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons
shall be disregarded and deemed to be excluded from the Certificate Balance
(unless such Persons own 100% of the Certificate Balance of the
Certificates); provided, further, that where such Persons own 100% of the
Certificate Balance of the Certificates, any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder or under any
other Basic Document is deemed to have been given by the Holders of the
Certificates if also given by the Holders of the Notes, except that, in
determining whether the Indenture Trustee and Owner Trustee shall be
protected in relying on any such request, demand, authorization, direction,
notice, consent, or waiver, only Certificates that a Responsible Officer of
the Indenture Trustee, if applicable, and a Responsible Officer of the
Owner Trustee with direct responsibility for the administration of the
Trust Agreement, if applicable, knows to be so owned shall be so
disregarded. Certificates so owned that have been pledged in good faith may
be regarded as included in the Certificate Balance if the pledgee
establishes to the satisfaction of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner
Trustee, as applicable, the pledgee's right so to act with respect to such
Certificates and that the pledgee is not the Trust, any other obligor upon
the Certificates, the Seller, the Servicer or any Affiliate of any of the
foregoing Persons.
"Certificate Distribution Account" shall have the meaning
assigned to such term in Section 5.1 of the Trust Agreement.
"Certificate of Trust" shall mean (i) with respect to the
Trust, the Certificate of Trust in the form of Exhibit B to the Trust
Agreement filed for the Trust pursuant to Section 3810(a) of the Business
Trust Statute and (ii) with respect to the Issuer, the certificate of trust
of the Issuer substantially in the form of Exhibit C to the Trust
Agreement.
"Certificate Pool Factor" shall mean, as of the close of
business on the last day of a Collection Period, a seven-digit decimal
figure equal to the Certificate Balance (after giving effect to any
reductions therein to be made on the immediately following Payment Date)
divided by the Initial Certificate Balance. The Certificate Pool Factor
will be 1.0000000 as of the Closing Date; thereafter, the Certificate Pool
Factor will decline to reflect reductions in the Certificate Balance.
"Certificate Register" and "Certificate Registrar" shall
mean the register mentioned and the registrar appointed pursuant to Section
3.4 of the Trust Agreement.
"Certificate" shall mean a physical certificate
evidencing the beneficial interest of a Certificateholder in the property
of the Trust, substantially in the form of Exhibit A to the Trust
Agreement. Such certificate shall entitle the Holder thereof to
distributions pursuant to the Trust Agreement from collections and other
proceeds in respect of the Owner Trust Estate; provided, however, that the
Owner Trust Estate has been pledged to the Indenture Trustee to secure
payment of the Notes and that the rights of Certificateholders to receive
distributions on the Certificates are subordinated to the rights of the
Noteholders as described in the Sale and Servicing Agreement and the
Indenture.
"Certificateholder" shall mean a Person in whose name a
Certificate is registered in the Certificate Register.
"Class A Noteholder" shall mean the Person in whose name
a Class A Note is registered in the Note Register.
"Class A Notes" shall mean, collectively, the Class A-1
Notes, the Class A-2 Notes, the Class A-3 Notes and the Class A-4 Notes.
"Class A Percentage" shall mean approximately [ ]%,
calculated as the percentage equivalent of a fraction the numerator of
which is the sum of the principal amount on the date of issuance of the
Class A-2 Notes, the Class A-3 Notes and the Class A-4 Notes, and the
denominator of which is the sum of the principal amount on the date of
issuance of the Class A-2 Notes, the Class A-3 Notes, the Class A-4 Notes
and the Class B Notes.
"Class A-1 Noteholder" shall mean the Person in whose
name a Class A-1 Note is registered on the Note Register.
"Class A-1 Notes" shall mean the $[ ] aggregate initial
principal amount of [ ]% Class A-1 Asset Backed Notes issued by the Issuer
pursuant to the Indenture, substantially in the form of Exhibit A-1
thereto.
"Class A-1 Rate" shall mean [ ]% per annum.
"Class A-1 Stated Maturity Date" shall mean the [ ]
Payment Date.
"Class A-2 Noteholder" shall mean the Person in whose
name a Class A-2 Note is registered on the Note Register.
"Class A-2 Notes" shall mean the $[ ] aggregate initial
principal amount of [ ]% Class A-2 Asset Backed Notes issued by the Issuer
pursuant to the Indenture, substantially in the form of Exhibit A-2
thereto.
"Class A-2 Rate" shall mean [ ]% per annum.
"Class A-2 Stated Maturity Date" shall mean the [ ]
Payment Date.
"Class A-3 Noteholder" shall mean the Person in whose
name a Class A-3 Note is registered on the Note Register.
"Class A-3 Notes" shall mean the $[ ] aggregate initial
principal amount of [ ]% Class A-3 Asset Backed Notes issued by the Issuer
pursuant to the Indenture, substantially in the form of Exhibit A-3
thereto.
"Class A-3 Rate" shall mean [ ]% per annum.
"Class A-3 Stated Maturity Date" shall mean the [ ]
Payment Date.
"Class A-4 Noteholder" shall mean the Person in whose
name a Class A-4 Note is registered on the Note Register.
"Class A-4 Notes" shall mean the $[ ] aggregate initial
principal amount of [ ]% Class A-4 Asset Backed Notes issued by the Issuer
pursuant to the Indenture, substantially in the form of Exhibit A-4
thereto.
"Class A-4 Rate" shall mean [ ]% per annum.
"Class A-4 Stated Maturity Date" shall mean the [ ]
Payment Date.
"Class B Noteholder" shall mean the Person in whose name
a Class B Note is registered on the Note Register.
"Class B Notes" shall mean the $[ ] aggregate initial
principal amount of [ ]% Class B Asset Backed Notes issued by the Issuer
pursuant to the Indenture, substantially in the form of Exhibit B thereto.
"Class B Percentage" shall mean approximately [ ]%,
calculated as the percentage equivalent of a fraction the numerator of
which is the principal amount on the date of issuance of the Class B Notes,
and the denominator of which is the sum of the principal amount on the date
of issuance of the Class A-2 Notes, the Class A-3 Notes, the Class A-4
Notes and the Class B Notes.
"Class B Rate" shall mean [ ]% per annum.
"Class B Stated Maturity Date" shall mean the [ ]
Payment Date.
"Class" shall mean a class of Notes, which may be the
Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes, the Class A-3 Notes, the Class A-4
Notes or the Class B Notes.
"Clearing Agency Participant" shall mean a broker,
dealer, bank, other financial institution or other Person for whom from
time to time a Clearing Agency effects book-entry transfers and pledges of
securities deposited with the Clearing Agency.
"Clearing Agency" shall mean an organization registered
as a "clearing agency" pursuant to Section 17A of the Exchange Act.
"Closing Date" shall mean December 13, 2001.
"Closing" shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.3
of the Purchase Agreement.
"Code" shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended from time to time, and the rules and regulations, including
proposed or temporary regulations, promulgated thereunder.
"Collateral" shall have the meaning specified in the
Granting Clause of the Indenture.
"Collection Account" shall mean the account or accounts
established and maintained as such pursuant to Section 4.1(a) of the Sale
and Servicing Agreement.
"Collection Period" shall mean each calendar month during
the term of this Agreement or, in the case of the initial Collection
Period, the period from the Cutoff Date to [ ], 2001. As used herein, the
Collection Period "related to" a Payment Date or "preceding" a Payment Date
refers to the Collection Period that ends on the last day of the calendar
month preceding the calendar month in which such Payment Date occurs.
"Commission" shall mean the Securities and Exchange
Commission.
"Computer Tape" shall mean each computer tape or compact
disk generated by the Seller which provides information relating to the
Receivables and which was used by the Seller in selecting the Receivables
conveyed to the Trust hereunder on the Closing Date.
"Contract" shall mean a motor vehicle retail installment
sale contract, including a retail installment contract relating to the sale
of an automobile or a sports-utility vehicle for commercial use.
"Control Agreement" shall mean the Securities Account
Control Agreement, dated as of December 1, 2001, by and among the Seller,
the Issuer, the Servicer, the Indenture Trustee and Bank of
Tokyo-Mitsubishi Trust Company in its capacity as a securities
intermediary, as the same may from time to time be amended, supplemented or
otherwise modified and in effect.
"Corporate Trust Office" shall mean (i) with respect to
the Owner Trustee, the principal office of the Owner Trustee at which at
any particular time its corporate trust business shall be administered,
which office at the date of the execution of this Agreement is located at
Xxxxxx Square North, 0000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx,
00000-0000, Attention: Corporate Trust Administration or at such other
address as the Owner Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to
the Certificateholders, the Indenture Trustee and the Seller, or the
principal corporate trust office of any successor Owner Trustee (of which
address such successor Owner Trustee will notify the Certificateholders,
the Indenture Trustee and the Seller) and (ii) with respect to the
Indenture Trustee, the principal office of the Indenture Trustee at which
at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be administered,
which office at the date of the execution of this Agreement is located at
0000 Xxxxxx xx xxx Xxxxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000-0000, Attention:
Corporate Trust Department, or at such other address as the Indenture
Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Noteholders, the
Owner Trustee and the Seller, or the principal corporate trust office of
any successor Indenture Trustee (of which address such successor Indenture
Trustee will notify the Noteholders, the Owner Trustee and the Seller).
"Cutoff Date" shall mean December 1, 2001.
"Dealer Agreement" shall mean an agreement between MMCA
and a Dealer relating to the assignment of Receivables to MMCA and all
documents and instruments relating thereto, as the same may from time to
time be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified and in effect.
"Dealer" shall mean, with respect to any Receivable, the
seller of the related Financed Vehicle who originated and assigned the
Receivable relating to such Financed Vehicle to MMCA under a Dealer
Agreement.
"Default" shall mean any occurrence that is, or with
notice or the lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default.
"Defaulted Receivable" shall mean a Receivable (other
than a Purchased Receivable) as to which (i) the related Financed Vehicle
has been repossessed and liquidated, (ii) more than 10% of a Scheduled
Payment (including, in the case of a Final Payment Receivable, the amount
owed by an Obligor with respect to a Last Scheduled Payment but excluding
in each case any Excess Wear and Tear or Excess Mileage) is 120 or more
days past due and the Servicer has not repossessed the related Financed
Vehicle or (iii) the Servicer has determined, in accordance with its
customary servicing standards, policies and procedures, that eventual
payment in full (including, in the case of a Final Payment Receivable, the
amount owed by an Obligor with respect to a Last Scheduled Payment but
excluding in each case any Excess Wear and Tear or Excess Mileage) on the
Receivable is unlikely and the Servicer has either (x) repossessed and
liquidated the related Financed Vehicle or (y) repossessed and held the
related Financed Vehicle in its repossession inventory for more than 90
days, which 90 days shall not be more than 180 days after the date on which
a Scheduled Payment was due but not paid.
"Deferred Payment Receivable" shall mean any Receivable
for which the related Contract specifies that no Scheduled Payment under
such Contract shall be due until a date more than 50 days but less than 480
days from the date of inception of the such Contract. A Receivable shall
cease to be a Deferred Payment Receivable commencing on the last day of the
Collection Period preceding the Collection Period in which the first
Scheduled Payment is due under the related Contract.
"Definitive Notes" shall have the meaning specified in
Section 2.11 of the Indenture.
"Depositor" shall mean the Seller in its capacity as
Depositor under the Trust Agreement.
"Determination Date" shall mean, with respect to any
Collection Period, the seventh Business Day of the next succeeding calendar
month (but not later than the tenth calendar day of such month).
"Eligible Receivable" shall mean each Receivable as to
which the representations and warranties of (i) MMCA, in Section 3.2(b) of
the Purchase Agreement, and (ii) the Seller, in Section 2.2 of the Sale and
Servicing Agreement, shall be true and correct in all material respects as
of the Cutoff Date.
"Eligible Servicer" shall mean a Person which, at the
time of its appointment as Servicer or as a subservicer, (i) has a net
worth of not less than $50,000,000, (ii) is servicing a portfolio of motor
vehicle retail installment sale contracts and/or motor vehicle loans, (iii)
is legally qualified, and has the capacity, to service the Receivables,
(iv) has demonstrated the ability professionally and competently to service
a portfolio of motor vehicle retail installment sale contracts and/or motor
vehicle loans similar to the Receivables in accordance with standards of
skill and care that are consistent with prudent industry standards, and (v)
is qualified and entitled to use pursuant to a license or other written
agreement, and agrees to maintain the confidentiality of, the software
which the Servicer or any subservicer uses in connection with performing
its duties and responsibilities under the Sale and Servicing Agreement or
the related subservicing agreement or obtains rights to use, or develops at
its own expense, software which is adequate to perform its duties and
responsibilities under the Sale and Servicing Agreement or the related
subservicing agreement.
"ERISA" shall mean the Employee Retirement Income
Security Act of 1974, as amended.
"Event of Default" shall have the meaning specified in
Section 5.1 of the Indenture.
"Event of Servicing Termination" shall mean an event
specified in Section 8.1 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
"Excess Mileage" shall mean, with respect to any Financed
Vehicle securing a Final Payment Receivable, the amounts payable by the
related Obligor relating to the excess of the number of miles by which such
Financed Vehicle has been driven over the number of miles such Financed
Vehicle may be driven during the term of the related Final Payment
Receivable (as specified in the Contract related to such Final Payment
Receivable) without incurring an excess mileage charge pursuant to the
related Contract, net of the amount, if any, payable to a third party
collection agency as payment of its fees and expenses in connection with
collecting such amounts from the related Obligor.
"Excess Wear and Tear" shall mean, with respect to any
Financed Vehicle securing a Final Payment Receivable, all amounts payable
by the related Obligor relating to damages to such Financed Vehicle that
are not the result of normal wear and tear, as more specifically described
in the Contract related to such Final Payment Receivable, net of the
amount, if any, payable to a third party collection agency as payment of
its fees and expenses in connection with collecting such amounts from the
related Obligor.
"Exchange Act" shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended.
"Executive Officer" shall mean, with respect to any
corporation, the Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Chief
Financial Officer, President, Executive Vice President, any Vice President,
the Secretary or the Treasurer of such corporation and, with respect to any
partnership, any general partner thereof.
"Expenses" shall have the meaning assigned to such term
in Section 8.2 of the Trust Agreement.
"Final Payment Receivable" shall mean all rights and
obligations arising under a Contract listed on the Schedule of Receivables
which provides for a series of scheduled payments which, if each is made on
its scheduled due date, will amortize the initial Level Pay Balance by the
due date immediately preceding the maturity date of the Receivable. At
maturity of the Final Payment Receivable, the Obligor thereunder will owe
(assuming that all payments have been made on their scheduled due dates) an
amount consisting of interest for the period from the preceding due date
through the maturity date and the remaining Principal Balance of the
Receivable. At maturity of the Final Payment Receivable, the Obligor may
either (i) pay the remaining Principal Balance of the Receivable, all
accrued and unpaid interest, plus any fees, charges, and other amounts then
owing, (ii) refinance the amount then due, subject to certain conditions or
(iii) sell the Financed Vehicle to MMCA on behalf of the Trust for an
amount equal to the Sale Price, and pay any excess of the total amount owed
by the Obligor (calculated as in clause (i)) over the Sale Price, and
satisfy all other conditions stated under the terms of the Contract.
"Final Scheduled Maturity Date" shall mean, with respect to
any Receivable, [ ].
"Financed Vehicle" shall mean a new or used automobile or
sport-utility vehicle, together with all accessions thereto, securing an
Obligor's indebtedness under the respective Receivable.
"First-Tier Assignment" shall mean the document of
assignment in substantially the form attached as Exhibit A to the Purchase
Agreement.
"Fitch" shall mean Fitch, Inc.
"GAAP" shall mean generally accepted accounting
principles.
"Grant" shall mean to mortgage, pledge, bargain, sell,
warrant, alienate, remise, release, convey, assign, transfer, create, and
to xxxxx x xxxx upon and a security interest in and right of set-off
against, and to deposit, set over and confirm pursuant to the Indenture. A
Grant of the Collateral or of any other agreement or instrument shall
include all rights, powers and options (but none of the obligations) of the
granting party thereunder, including the immediate and continuing right to
claim for, collect, receive and give receipt for principal and interest
payments in respect of the Collateral and all other monies payable
thereunder, to give and receive notices and other communications, to make
waivers or other agreements, to exercise all rights and options, to bring
Proceedings in the name of the granting party or otherwise, and generally
to do and receive anything that the granting party is or may be entitled to
do or receive thereunder or with respect thereto.
"Holder" shall mean a Noteholder or a Certificateholder,
as the case may be.
"Indemnified Parties" shall have the meaning assigned to
such term in Section 8.2 of the Trust Agreement.
"Indenture Trustee" shall mean Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi
Trust Company, a New York banking corporation, as Indenture Trustee under
the Indenture, its successors in interest and any successor trustee under
the Indenture.
"Indenture" shall mean the Indenture, dated as of
December 1, 2001, between the Trust and the Indenture Trustee, as the same
may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified and in effect from time
to time.
"Independent Certificate" shall mean a certificate or
opinion to be delivered to the Indenture Trustee under the circumstances
described in, and otherwise complying with, the applicable requirements of
Section 11.1 of the Indenture, made by an Independent appraiser or other
expert appointed by an Issuer Order and approved by the Indenture Trustee
in the exercise of reasonable care, and such opinion or certificate shall
state that the signer has read the definition of "Independent" in the
Indenture and that the signer is Independent within the meaning thereof.
"Independent" shall mean, when used with respect to any
specified Person, that such Person (a) is in fact independent of the
Issuer, any other obligor on the Notes, the Seller and any Affiliate of any
of the foregoing Persons, (b) does not have any direct financial interest
or any material indirect financial interest in the Issuer, any such other
obligor, the Seller or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons and
(c) is not connected with the Issuer, any such other obligor, the Seller or
any Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons as an officer, employee,
promoter, underwriter, trustee, partner, director or person performing
similar functions.
"Index Maturity" shall mean one month.
"Initial Certificate Balance" shall mean, as the context may
require, (i) with respect to all of the Certificates, $[ ], or (ii)
with respect to any Certificate, an amount equal to the initial denomination
of such Certificate.
"Initial Pool Balance" shall mean the aggregate Principal
Balance (including the aggregate principal balance of Last Scheduled
Payments) of the Receivables as of the close of business on the Cutoff
Date, which is $[ ].
"Initial Weighted Average Rate" shall mean [ ]%.
"Initial Yield Supplement Amount" shall mean $[ ].
"Insolvency Event" shall mean, with respect to any
Person, (i) the making of a general assignment for the benefit of
creditors, (ii) the filing of a voluntary petition in bankruptcy, (iii)
being adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent, or having had entered against such
Person an order for relief in any bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding, (iv)
the filing by such Person of a petition or answer seeking reorganization,
arrangement, composition, readjustment, liquidation, dissolution or similar
relief under any statute, law or regulation, (v) the filing by such Person
of an answer or other pleading admitting or failing to contest the material
allegations of a petition filed against such Person in any proceeding
specified in (vii) below, (vi) seeking, consenting to or acquiescing in the
appointment of a trustee, receiver or liquidator of such Person or of all
or any substantial part of the assets of such Person or (vii) the failure
to obtain dismissal within 60 days of the commencement of any proceeding
against such Person seeking reorganization, arrangement, composition,
readjustment, liquidation, dissolution or similar relief under any statute,
law or regulation, or the entry of any order appointing a trustee,
liquidator or receiver of such Person or of such Person's assets or any
substantial portion thereof.
"Interest Accrual Period" shall mean, with respect to any
Payment Date, the period from and including the preceding Payment Date
through the day preceding the Payment Date; provided, that for the first
Payment Date, the "Interest Accrual Period" shall mean the period from and
including the Closing Date through January 14, 2002.
"Interest Carryover Shortfall" shall mean, with respect
to any Payment Date and any Class of Notes, the excess of the sum of the
Monthly Accrued Note Interest for the preceding Payment Date and any
outstanding Interest Carryover Shortfall from the close of business on such
preceding Payment Date, over the amount in respect of interest that is
actually deposited in the Note Payment Account on such preceding Payment
Date with respect to such Class, plus interest on such excess to the extent
permitted by law, at the applicable Note Interest Rate for the related
Interest Accrual Period.
"Issuer Order" and "Issuer Request" shall mean a written
order or request signed in the name of the Issuer by any one of its
Responsible Officers and delivered to the Indenture Trustee.
"Issuer" shall mean the Trust, unless a successor
replaces it and, thereafter, means the successor and for purposes of any
provision contained herein and required by the TIA, each other obligor on
the Notes.
"Last Scheduled Payment Advance" shall mean, with respect
to a Final Payment Receivable, the amount, as of the close of business on
the last day of a Collection Period, which is required to be advanced by
the Servicer with respect to such Final Payment Receivable pursuant to
Section 4.4(b) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
"Last Scheduled Payment Pool Balance" shall mean, for any
Payment Date, the aggregate principal balance of Last Scheduled Payments of
Final Payment Receivables as of the close of business on the last day of
the preceding Collection Period.
"Last Scheduled Payment Principal Collections" shall mean
(a) collections of principal on a Final Payment Receivable that are
attributable to Last Scheduled Payments, which includes any collection
attributable to principal on a Final Payment Receivable in excess of the
initial Level Pay Balance of that Receivable, whether or not such payment
is made on the due date of the related Last Scheduled Payment, and
including the proceeds of sale (net of expenses) of any Financed Vehicle
purchased by MMCA on behalf of the Trust pursuant to the terms of the
Receivable and subsequently sold on behalf of the Trust, minus (b) with
respect to any Final Payment Receivable with respect to which the Obligor
exercises its right to have MMCA, on behalf of the Trust, purchase the
related Financed Vehicle, the excess of the purchase price from the Obligor
of such Financed Vehicle over the remaining amount owed by the Obligor.
"Last Scheduled Payment" shall mean, with respect to each
Final Payment Receivable, the amount referred to in the Contract related to
such Final Payment Receivable as the "last scheduled payment."
"Letter of Credit Bank" shall mean any Person having the
Required Rating that has provided a Yield Supplement Letter of Credit in
accordance with Section 5.1 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
"Level Pay Balance" shall mean, with respect to each
Final Payment Receivable, (i) initially the Amount Financed under such
Final Payment Receivable minus the principal portion of the Last Scheduled
Payment thereon and (ii) thereafter, shall be the amount set forth in
clause (i) minus all collections on or with respect to principal on such
Receivable other than amounts on deposit in the Payahead Account with
respect to future due dates; provided that such Level Pay Balance for any
Final Payment Receivable shall not be less than zero.
"Level Pay Pool Balance" shall mean, for any Payment
Date, the sum of (i) the aggregate Level Pay Balance of Final Payment
Receivables and (ii) the aggregate Principal Balance of the Receivables
other than Final Payment Receivables, as of the close of business on the
last day of the preceding Collection Period.
"Lien" shall mean a security interest, lien, charge,
pledge, equity or encumbrance of any kind, other than tax liens, mechanics'
or materialmen's liens, judicial liens and any liens that may attach to a
Financed Vehicle by operation of law.
"Liquidation Proceeds" shall mean, with respect to a
Defaulted Receivable, the monies collected from whatever source during the
Collection Period in which such Receivable became a Defaulted Receivable,
net of the sum of (i) any expenses incurred by the Servicer in connection
with collection of such Receivable and the disposition of the Financed
Vehicle and (ii) any amounts required by law to be remitted to the Obligor.
"London and New York Banking Day" shall mean any business
day on which dealings in deposits in United States dollars are transacted
in the London and New York interbank markets.
"MART Trust Agreement" shall mean the Amended and
Restated Trust Agreement, dated as of October 1, 1999, between MMCA, as
beneficiary, and Chase Manhattan Bank USA, N.A., a national banking
association (as successor to Chase Manhattan Bank Delaware), as trustee,
relating to the Seller, as from time to time amended, supplemented or
otherwise modified and in effect.
"Mitsubishi Motors" shall mean Mitsubishi Motors
Corporation, a Japanese corporation, and its successors and assigns, and
any Affiliates thereof.
"MMCA" shall mean Mitsubishi Motors Credit of America,
Inc., a Delaware corporation, and its successors and assigns.
"MMSA" shall mean Mitsubishi Motors Sales of America,
Inc., a Delaware corporation, and its successors and assigns.
"Modified Receivable" shall have the meaning assigned
thereto in Section 3.2(a) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
"Monthly Accrued Note Interest" shall mean, with respect
to any Payment Date and (i) any Class of Notes, interest accrued for the
related Interest Accrual Period at the applicable Note Interest Rate for
such Class on the aggregate principal balance of the Notes of such Class as
of the immediately preceding Payment Date, after giving effect to all
payments of principal to Noteholders of such Class on or prior to such
preceding Payment Date (or, in the case of the first Payment Date, the
initial principal amount of such Class of Notes); and (ii) with respect to
the Notes collectively, the sum of Monthly Accrued Note Interest for each
Class.
"Monthly Remittance Condition" shall have the meaning
assigned thereto in Section 4.1(f) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
"Moody's" shall mean Xxxxx'x Investors Service, Inc.
"Note Depository Agreement" shall mean the agreement,
dated as of the Closing Date, among the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee, the
Administrator and The Depository Trust Company, as the initial Clearing
Agency, relating to the Notes.
"Note Interest Rate" shall mean the Class A-1 Rate, the
Class A-2 Rate, the Class A-3 Rate, the Class A-4 Rate and the Class B
Rate, as applicable.
"Note Owner" shall mean, with respect to any Book-Entry
Note, the Person who is the beneficial owner of such Book-Entry Note, as
reflected on the books of the Clearing Agency or on the books of a Person
maintaining an account with such Clearing Agency (directly as a Clearing
Agency Participant or as an indirect participant, in each case in
accordance with the rules of such Clearing Agency).
"Note Payment Account" shall mean the account established
and maintained as such pursuant to Section 4.1(b) of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement.
"Note Percentage" shall mean, as of any Payment Date, the
percentage equivalent of a fraction, the numerator of which is the
aggregate principal amount of the Notes as of such Payment Date (after
giving effect to any payments of principal on such Payment Date), and the
denominator of which is an amount equal to the sum of the aggregate
principal amount of the Notes and the Certificate Balance, in each case as
of such Payment Date (after giving effect to any payment of principal on
such Payment Date).
"Note Pool Factor" shall mean, with respect to any Class
of Notes, as of the close of business on the last day of a Collection
Period, a seven-digit decimal figure equal to the outstanding principal
balance of such Class of Notes (after giving effect to any reductions
thereof to be made on the immediately following Payment Date) divided by
the original outstanding principal balance of such Class of Notes. Each
Note Pool Factor will be 1.0000000 as of the Closing Date; thereafter, the
Note Pool Factor will decline to reflect reductions in the outstanding
principal amount of such Class of Notes.
"Note Register" and "Note Registrar" shall have the
respective meanings specified in Section 2.5(a) of the Indenture.
"Noteholder" shall mean a Person in whose name a Note is
registered on the Note Register.
"Noteholders" shall mean the Class A-1 Noteholders, the
Class A-2 Noteholders, the Class A-3 Noteholders, the Class A-4 Noteholders
and the Class B Noteholders, collectively.
"Notes" shall mean the Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2
Notes, the Class A-3 Notes, the Class A-4 Notes and the Class B Notes,
collectively.
"Obligor" on a Receivable shall mean the purchaser or
co-purchasers of the related Financed Vehicle purchased in part or in whole
by the execution and delivery of such Receivable, or any other Person who
owes or may be liable for payments under such Receivable.
"Officer's Certificate" shall mean (i) with respect to
the Trust, a certificate signed by any Responsible Officer of the Trust and
(ii) with respect to the Seller or the Servicer, a certificate signed by
the chairman, the president, any executive vice president, vice president
or the treasurer of the Seller or the Servicer, as applicable.
"Opinion of Counsel" shall mean (i) in the case of the
Sale and Servicing Agreement, a written opinion of counsel (who, in the
case of counsel to the Seller or the Servicer, may be an employee of, or
outside counsel to, the Seller or the Servicer), which counsel shall be
acceptable to the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee or the Rating
Agencies, as applicable, and (ii) in the case of the Indenture, one or more
written opinions of counsel who may, except as otherwise expressly provided
in the Indenture, be employees of or counsel to the Issuer, MMCA or the
Servicer and who shall be satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, and which
opinion or opinions shall be addressed to the Indenture Trustee as
Indenture Trustee, shall comply with the applicable requirements of Section
11.1 of the Indenture, and shall be in form and substance satisfactory to
the Indenture Trustee.
"Optional Purchase Percentage" shall mean 10%.
"Outstanding Amount" shall mean the aggregate principal
amount of all Notes Outstanding at the date of determination.
"Outstanding" shall mean, as of the date of
determination, all Notes theretofore authenticated and delivered under the
Indenture except:
(i) Notes theretofore cancelled by the Note Registrar or
delivered to the Note Registrar for cancellation;
(ii) Notes or portions thereof the payment for which
money in the necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the
Indenture Trustee or any Paying Agent in trust for the Holders of such
Notes (provided, however, that if such Notes are to be redeemed, notice of
such redemption has been duly given pursuant to the Indenture or provision
for such notice has been made, satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee); and
(iii) Notes in exchange for or in lieu of which other
Notes have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to the Indenture
unless proof satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee is presented that any
such Notes are held by a protected purchaser;
provided, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite
principal amount of the Notes Outstanding have given any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, or waiver hereunder or under any
Basic Document, Notes owned by the Issuer, any other obligor upon the
Notes, the Seller, the Servicer or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing
Persons shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that,
in determining whether the Indenture Trustee shall be protected in relying
on any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, or
waiver, only Notes that a Responsible Officer of the Indenture Trustee
knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded. Notes so owned that have been
pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee
establishes to the satisfaction of the Indenture Trustee the pledgee's
right so to act with respect to such Notes and that the pledgee is not the
Issuer, any other obligor upon the Notes, the Seller, the Servicer or any
Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons.
"Owner Trust Estate" shall mean all right, title and
interest of the Trust in, to and under the property and rights assigned to
the Trust pursuant to Article II of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
"Owner Trustee" shall mean Wilmington Trust Company, a
Delaware banking corporation, not in its individual capacity but solely as
Owner Trustee under the Trust Agreement, its successors in interest and any
successor trustee under the Trust Agreement.
"Payahead Account Deposit" shall mean $[ ].
"Payahead Account" shall mean the account established and
maintained as such pursuant to Section 4.1(e) of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement.
"Payahead Balance", with respect to an Actuarial
Receivable, shall mean the sum, as of the close of business on the last day
of a Collection Period, of all Payaheads made by or on behalf of the
Obligor with respect to such Actuarial Receivable (including any amount
paid by or on behalf of the Obligor prior to the Cutoff Date that is due
after the Cutoff Date and was not used to reduce the principal balance of
such Actuarial Receivable), as reduced by applications of previous
Payaheads with respect to such Actuarial Receivable, pursuant to Sections
4.3(a) and 4.4 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
"Payahead" shall mean, with respect to an Actuarial
Receivable, the amount, as of the close of business on the last day of a
Collection Period, so designated in accordance with Section 4.3(a) of the
Sale and Servicing Agreement with respect to such Receivable.
"Paying Agent" shall mean (i) with respect to the Trust
Agreement, any paying agent or co-paying agent appointed pursuant to
Section 3.9 thereto, and shall initially be Wilmington Trust Company, and
(ii) with respect to the Indenture, the Indenture Trustee or any other
Person that meets the eligibility standards for the Indenture Trustee
specified in Section 6.11 thereto and is authorized by the Issuer to make
payments to and distributions from the Collection Account and the Note
Payment Account, including payment of principal of or interest on the Notes
on behalf of the Issuer.
"Payment Date" shall mean the fifteenth day of each
month, or if any such day is not a Business Day, the immediately following
Business Day, commencing January 15, 2002.
"Permitted Investments" shall mean, on any date of
determination, book-entry securities, negotiable instruments or securities
represented by instruments in bearer or registered form with maturities not
exceeding the Business Day preceding the next Payment Date which evidence:
(a) direct obligations of, and obligations fully
guaranteed as to timely payment by, the United States of America;
(b) demand deposits, time deposits or certificates of
deposit of any depository institution or trust company incorporated under
the laws of the United States of America or any state thereof (or any
domestic branch of a foreign bank) and subject to supervision and
examination by Federal or State banking or depository institution
authorities; provided, however, that at the time of the investment or
contractual commitment to invest therein, the commercial paper or other
short-term unsecured debt obligations (other than such obligations the
rating of which is based on the credit of a Person other than such
depository institution or trust company) thereof shall have a credit rating
from each of the Rating Agencies in the highest investment category granted
thereby;
(c) commercial paper having, at the time of the
investment or contractual commitment to invest therein, a rating from each
of the Rating Agencies in the highest investment category granted thereby;
(d) investments in money market funds having a rating
from each of the Rating Agencies in the highest investment category granted
thereby (including funds for which the Indenture Trustee or the Owner
Trustee or any of their respective Affiliates is investment manager or
advisor);
(e) bankers' acceptances issued by any depository
institution or trust company referred to in clause (b) above;
(f) repurchase obligations with respect to any security
that is a direct obligation of, or fully guaranteed by, the United States
of America or any agency or instrumentality thereof the obligations of
which are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States of
America, in either case entered into with a depository institution or trust
company (acting as principal) described in clause (b); and
(g) any other investment with respect to which the Trust
or the Servicer has received written notification from the Rating Agencies
that the acquisition of such investment as a Permitted Investment will not
result in a withdrawal or downgrading of the ratings on any Class of Notes
or the Certificates.
"Person" shall mean a legal person, including any
individual, corporation, estate, partnership, joint venture, association,
joint stock company, limited liability company, limited liability
partnership, trust, unincorporated organization, or government or any
agency or political subdivision thereof, or any other entity of whatever
nature.
"Plan" shall mean an employee benefit plan subject to
Title I of ERISA, a plan or arrangement subject to Section 4975 of the
Code, and any entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason
of a plan's investment in the entity or otherwise.
"Pool Balance" shall mean, as of any date of
determination, the aggregate Principal Balance of the Receivables
(including the aggregate Principal Balance of Last Scheduled Payments) as
of the close of business on the last day of the preceding Collection Period
or, with respect to any date of determination during the first Collection
Period, as of the Cutoff Date, after giving effect to, with respect to such
Collection Period, (i) all payments received from Obligors (other than
Payaheads), (ii) all Advances to be made by the Servicer and (iii) all
Purchase Amounts to be remitted by the Seller or the Servicer, in each case
for such Collection Period, and reduced by the aggregate Principal Balance
of Receivables that became Defaulted Receivables during such Collection
Period.
"Predecessor Note" shall mean, with respect to any
particular Note, every previous Note evidencing all or a portion of the
same debt as that evidenced by such particular Note and, for purposes of
this definition, any Note authenticated and delivered under Section 2.6 of
the Indenture in lieu of a mutilated, lost, destroyed or stolen Note shall
be deemed to evidence the same debt as the mutilated, lost, destroyed or
stolen Note.
"Prepayment Date" shall mean the Payment Date specified
by the Servicer pursuant to Section 9.2(a) of the Trust Agreement.
"Prepayment Price" shall mean an amount equal to the
Certificate Balance as of the applicable Prepayment Date.
"Principal Balance" shall mean, with respect to any
Receivable as of any date of determination, the Amount Financed minus the
sum of the following amounts: (i) in the case of an Actuarial Receivable,
that portion of all Scheduled Payments due on or prior to such date
allocable to principal computed in accordance with the Actuarial Method (to
the extent collected or advanced), (ii) in the case of a Simple Interest
Receivable, that portion of all Scheduled Payments actually received on or
prior to such date allocable to principal using the Simple Interest Method
(to the extent collected or advanced), (iii) any refunded portion of
extended warranty protection plan costs, or of physical damage, credit
life, or disability insurance premiums included in the Amount Financed and
(iv) any prepayment in full or partial prepayment applied to reduce the
unpaid principal balance of such Receivable. The Principal Balance of a
Defaulted Receivable shall be zero as of the beginning of the Collection
Period following the Collection Period in which it became a Defaulted
Receivable.
"Principal Distribution Amount" shall mean, with respect
to any Payment Date, the sum of the outstanding principal balance of the
Notes plus the Certificate Balance on such Payment Date (prior to any
payments on such Payment Date) minus the Adjusted Pool Balance as of the
last day of the preceding Collection Period; provided, however, that on the
Stated Maturity Date for each Class of Notes, the principal required to be
deposited in the Note Payment Account shall include the amount necessary
(after giving effect to the other amounts to be deposited in the Note
Payment Account on such Payment Date and allocable to principal) to reduce
the outstanding principal amount of the Notes of such Class to zero.
"Proceeding" shall mean any suit in equity, action at law
or other judicial or administrative proceeding.
"Program" shall have the meaning assigned thereto in
Section 3.11 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
"Prospectus" shall have the meaning specified in the
Underwriting Agreement.
"Purchase Agreement" shall mean the Purchase Agreement,
dated as of December 1, 2001, between the Seller and MMCA, as the same may
be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified and in effect from time to
time.
"Purchase Amount" shall mean, with respect to a Payment
Date and a Receivable to be repurchased by the Seller or purchased by the
Servicer on such Payment Date, an amount equal to the sum of (a) the
Principal Balance of such Receivable as of the first day of the Collection
Period preceding the Collection Period in which such Payment Date occurs
and (b) an amount equal to the amount of accrued and unpaid interest on
such Principal Balance at the related APR from the date a payment was last
made by or on behalf of the Obligor through the due date for payment of
such Receivable in the Collection Period preceding the Collection Period in
which such Payment Date occurs and, in the case of clauses (a) and (b),
after giving effect to the receipt of monies collected on such Receivable
in such preceding Collection Period.
"Purchased Receivable" shall mean, on any date of
determination, a Receivable as to which payment of the Purchase Amount has
been made by the Seller pursuant to Section 2.3 of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement or by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.7 or 9.1 of the Sale and
Servicing Agreement.
"Purchaser" shall mean the Seller in its capacity as
Purchaser under the Purchase Agreement.
"Qualified Institution" shall mean Bank of
Tokyo-Mitsubishi Trust Company, a New York banking corporation, or any
depository institution organized under the laws of the United States of
America or any one of the states thereof or incorporated under the laws of
a foreign jurisdiction with a branch or agency located in the United States
of America or one of the states thereof qualified to take deposits and
subject to supervision and examination by federal or state banking
authorities which at all times has a short-term deposit rating of "Prime-1"
by Xxxxx'x, "A-1" by S&P and "F1" by Fitch and, in the case of any such
institution organized under the laws of the United States of America, whose
deposits are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any
successor thereto.
"Qualified Institutional Buyer" has the meaning specified
in Rule 144A.
"Qualified Trust Institution" shall mean the corporate
trust department of Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Trust Company or any other
institution organized under the laws of the United States of America or any
one of the states thereof or incorporated under the laws of a foreign
jurisdiction with a branch or agency located in the United States of
America or one of the states thereof qualified to take deposits and subject
to supervision and examination by federal or state banking authorities
which at all times (i) is authorized under such laws to act as a trustee or
in any other fiduciary capacity, (ii) has not less than one billion dollars
in assets under fiduciary management and (iii) has a long-term deposit
rating that satisfies the Rating Agency Condition.
"Rating Agency Condition" shall mean, with respect to any
action, that each Rating Agency shall have been given prior written notice
thereof and that each of the Rating Agencies shall have notified the
Seller, the Servicer, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee in
writing that such action will not result in a reduction or withdrawal of
the then current rating of the Notes or the Certificates.
"Rating Agency" shall mean Xxxxx'x, S&P or Fitch, and
together, the "Rating Agencies." If no such organization or successor is
any longer in existence, "Rating Agency" shall be a nationally recognized
statistical rating organization or other comparable Person designated by
the Issuer, notice of which designation shall be given to the Indenture
Trustee, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer.
"Realized Losses" shall mean, with respect to each
Payment Date and each Receivable that became a Defaulted Receivable during
the related Collection Period, the excess of the Principal Balance of such
Defaulted Receivable (including the principal of a Last Scheduled Payment)
over the Liquidation Proceeds attributable to such Defaulted Receivable.
"Receivable" shall mean (i) in the case of the Purchase
Agreement, each motor vehicle retail installment sale contract described in
the Schedule of Receivables attached as Exhibit B thereto and all rights
and obligations thereunder and any amendments, modifications or supplements
to such motor vehicle retail installment sale contract and (ii) in the case
of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, any Standard Receivable or Final
Payment Receivable conveyed by the Seller to the Trust on the Closing Date,
as described in the Schedule of Receivables attached thereto.
"Receivable File" shall have the meaning assigned thereto
in Section 2.4 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
"Receivable Yield Supplement Amount" shall mean, with
respect to each Payment Date and each Receivable that was a Deferred
Payment Receivable as of the last day of the preceding Collection Period
(other than a Receivable which became a Defaulted Receivable or a Purchased
Receivable or any Receivable sold by the Indenture Trustee following an
Event of Default pursuant to Section 5.4 of the Indenture), an amount equal
to the product of (x) the Adjusted Principal Balance of such Receivable on
the first day of the preceding Collection Period, (y) the Initial Weighted
Average Rate plus 0.25%, and (z) 1/12.
"Record Date" shall mean, with respect to a Payment Date
or Redemption Date, (i) for any Book-Entry Notes, the close of business on
the Business Day immediately preceding such Payment Date or Redemption Date
or (ii) for any Definitive Notes and for the Certificates, the fifteenth
day of the preceding month, unless such fifteenth day is not a Business
Day, in which case the immediately preceding Business Day.
"Recoveries" shall mean, with respect to any Collection
Period following the Collection Period in which such Receivable became a
Defaulted Receivable, all monies received by the Servicer with respect to
such Defaulted Receivable during any Collection Period, net of the sum of
(i) any expenses incurred by the Servicer in connection with the collection
of such Receivable and the disposition of the Financed Vehicle (to the
extent not previously reimbursed) and (ii) any payments on such Receivable
required by law to be remitted to the Obligor.
"Redemption Date" shall mean the Payment Date specified
by the Servicer pursuant to Section 10.1 of the Indenture on which date the
Indenture Trustee shall withdraw any amount remaining in the Reserve
Account and deposit the applicable amount thereof payable to the Notes in
the Note Payment Account from any amount remaining in the Reserve Account.
"Redemption Price" shall mean an amount equal to the
unpaid principal amount of the Notes redeemed plus accrued and unpaid
interest thereon as of the applicable Redemption Date.
"Registered Holder" shall mean the Person in whose name a
Note is registered on the Note Register on the applicable Record Date.
"Relevant UCC" shall mean the Uniform Commercial Code as
in effect in any relevant jurisdiction. In the event that the Uniform
Commercial Code as in effect on the date hereof in any relevant
jurisdiction is revised subsequent to the date hereof, all references to
specific sections of the Uniform Commercial Code shall be deemed to be
references to the successor provisions of the Uniform Commercial Code.
"Repurchase Event" shall have the meaning specified in
Section 6.2 of the Purchase Agreement.
"Required Rating" shall mean a rating on short-term
unsecured debt obligations of "Prime-1" by Xxxxx'x, "A-1" by S&P and "F1+"
by Fitch, and any requirement that short-term unsecured debt obligations
have the "Required Rating" shall mean that such short-term unsecured debt
obligations have the foregoing required ratings from each of such Rating
Agencies.
"Reserve Account Advance Draw Amount" shall have the
meaning assigned thereto in Section 4.6(b) of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement.
"Reserve Account Amount" shall mean, with respect to any
Payment Date, the amount on deposit in the Reserve Account. Unless
specifically stated to the contrary, the Reserve Account Amount shall be
calculated after giving effect to all deposits and withdrawals therefrom on
the prior Payment Date (or, in the case of the first Payment Date, the
Closing Date) and all interest and other income (net of losses and
investment expenses) on such amounts during the related Collection Period.
"Reserve Account Initial Deposit" shall mean $[ ].
"Reserve Account Property" shall have the meaning
assigned thereto in Section 4.7(a) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
"Reserve Account TRP Draw Amount" shall have the meaning
assigned thereto in Section 4.6(b) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
"Reserve Account" shall mean the account established and
maintained as such pursuant to Section 4.7(a) of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement.
"Responsible Officer" shall mean (a) with respect to the
Indenture Trustee, any officer within the Corporate Trust Office of the
Indenture Trustee with direct responsibility for the administration of the
Indenture and the other Basic Documents on behalf of the Indenture Trustee
and also, with respect to a particular matter, any other officer to whom
such matter is referred because of such officer's knowledge of and
familiarity with the particular subject, (b) with respect to the Owner
Trustee, any officer within the Corporate Trust Office of the Owner Trustee
with direct responsibility for administration of the Trust, including any
vice president, assistant vice president, secretary, assistant secretary,
financial services officer or any other officer of the Owner Trustee,
customarily performing functions similar to those performed by any of the
above designated officers and also, with respect to a particular matter,
any other officer to whom such matter is referred because of such officer's
knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject and shall also
mean any officer of the Administrator and (c) with respect to the Issuer,
any officer of the Owner Trustee who is authorized to act for or on behalf
of the Owner Trustee in matters relating to the Issuer and who is
identified on the list of Responsible Officers delivered by the Owner
Trustee to the Indenture Trustee on the Closing Date (as such list may be
modified or supplemented from time to time thereafter) and, for so long as
the Administration Agreement is in full force and effect, any officer of
the Administrator who is authorized to act for the Administrator in matters
relating to the Issuer and to be acted upon by the Administrator pursuant
to the Administration Agreement.
"Rule 144A Information" shall have the meaning assigned
to such term in Section 3.4(e) of the Trust Agreement.
"Rule 144A" shall have the meaning assigned to such term
in Section 3.4(d)(i) of the Trust Agreement.
"S&P" shall mean Standard & Poor's, a division of The
XxXxxx-Xxxx Companies, Inc.
"Sale and Servicing Agreement" shall mean the Sale and
Servicing Agreement, dated as of December 1, 2001, by and among the Issuer,
the Seller and the Servicer, as from time to time amended, supplemented or
otherwise modified and in effect.
"Sale Price" shall mean, with respect to any Final
Payment Receivable, an amount equal to the Last Scheduled Payment, minus
the sum of any charges for Excess Wear and Tear and Excess Mileage and the
amount of any disposition fee payable to the Servicer.
"Schedule of Receivables" shall mean (i) in the case of
the Purchase Agreement, the list of Contracts attached as Exhibit B thereto
and incorporated by reference therein (which list may be in the form of
computer tape, microfiche, compact disk or other electronic medium) and
(ii) in the case of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Schedule of
Receivables attached as Schedule A thereto.
"Scheduled Payment" shall mean, for any Collection Period
for any Receivable, the amount indicated in such Receivable as required to
be paid by the Obligor in such Collection Period (without giving effect to
modifications of payment terms pursuant to Section 3.2 of the Sale and
Servicing Agreement or any rescheduling in any insolvency or similar
proceedings).
"Secretary of State" shall mean the Secretary of State of
the State of Delaware.
"Securities Act" shall mean the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended.
"Securities" shall have the meaning specified in the MART
Trust Agreement.
"Seller" shall mean MMCA Auto Receivables Trust, a
Delaware business trust, in its capacity as seller of the Receivables under
the Sale and Servicing Agreement, and each successor thereto (in the same
capacity) pursuant to Section 6.3 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
"Servicer" shall mean MMCA, in its capacity as servicer
under the Sale and Servicing Agreement, and any successor Servicer
thereunder.
"Servicer's Certificate" shall have the meaning assigned
thereto in Section 3.9 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
"Servicing Fee" shall mean, with respect to any Payment
Date, the fee payable to the Servicer for services rendered during the
related Collection Period, determined pursuant to and defined in Section
3.8 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
"Servicing Officer" shall mean any officer of the
Servicer involved in, or responsible for, the administration and servicing
of the Receivables, whose name appears on a list of servicing officers
attached to an Officer's Certificate furnished on the Closing Date to the
Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee by the Servicer, as such list may
be amended from time to time by the Servicer in writing.
"SFAS 140" shall mean Statement of Financial Accounting
Standard No. 140, Accounting for Transfers and Servicing of Financial
Assets and Extinguishments of Liabilities.
"Simple Interest Method" shall mean the method of
allocating a fixed payment between principal and interest, pursuant to
which the portion of such payment that is allocated to interest is equal to
the product of the APR multiplied by the unpaid principal balance
multiplied by the period of time (expressed as a fraction of a year, based
on the actual number of days in the calendar month and a 365-day year)
elapsed since the preceding payment was made and the remainder of such
payment is allocable to principal.
"Simple Interest Receivable" shall mean any Receivable
under which the portion of a payment allocable to interest and the portion
allocable to principal is determined in accordance with the Simple Interest
Method.
"Specified Reserve Balance" shall mean, with respect to
any Payment Date, the lesser of (a) 2.25% of the Adjusted Pool Balance and
(b) the outstanding principal amount of the Notes as of such Payment Date
(after giving effect to any principal payment made on such Payment Date).
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if (i) each Rating Agency delivers a letter
to the Indenture Trustee that the use of any new formulation requested by
the Seller would not cause a downgrade, qualification or withdrawal of the
then current rating on any Class of Notes, and (ii) an Opinion of Counsel
to the effect that the proposed change will not adversely affect the status
of the Notes as debt is delivered to the Indenture Trustee, then the
Specified Reserve Balance may be changed in accordance with such letters
without an amendment hereto.
"Specified Yield Supplement Account Balance" shall mean,
(i) on the Closing Date, $[ ], and (ii) as of the close of business on any
Payment Date, an amount equal to the sum of all projected Yield Supplement
Amounts for all future Payment Dates, assuming that no prepayments are made
on the Deferred Payment Receivables.
"Standard Receivable" shall mean all rights and
obligations under a Contract listed on a Schedule of Receivables which is
not a Final Payment Receivable.
"State" shall mean any of the fifty States of the United
States of America or the District of Columbia.
"Stated Maturity Date" shall mean the Class A-1 Stated
Maturity Date, the Class A-2 Stated Maturity Date, the Class A-3 Stated
Maturity Date, the Class A-4 Stated Maturity Date and the Class B Stated
Maturity Date, collectively, or any of them, as the context requires.
"Subtrust Assets" shall have the meaning specified in the
MART Trust Agreement.
"Subtrust" shall have the meaning specified in the MART
Trust Agreement.
"Successor Servicer" shall have the meaning specified in
Section 3.7(e) of the Indenture.
"Supplemental Servicing Fee" shall mean, with respect to
any Payment Date, the fee payable to the Servicer for services rendered
during the related Collection Period, determined pursuant to and defined in
Section 3.8 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
"Total Available Funds" shall mean, for any Payment Date,
an amount equal to the sum of (i) the Available Funds for such Payment Date
and (ii) the Reserve Account TRP Draw Amount, if any, for such Payment
Date.
"Total Required Payment" shall mean, on any Payment Date,
the sum of (i) the Total Servicing Fee, (ii) the Accrued Note Interest and
(iii) the Principal Distribution Amount with respect to such Payment Date.
"Total Servicing Fee" shall mean, with respect to any
Payment Date, the sum of (i) the Servicing Fee for the related Collection
Period plus (ii) all accrued and unpaid Servicing Fees for prior Collection
Periods.
"Total Yield Supplement Overcollateralization Amount"
shall mean, with respect to any Payment Date, the sum of the Yield
Supplement Overcollateralization Amounts with respect to all Receivables
(other than Purchased Receivables or Defaulted Receivables) as of such
Payment Date.
"Transfer" shall have the meaning assigned to such term
in Section 3.2 of the Trust Agreement.
"Treasury Regulations" shall mean regulations, including
proposed or temporary regulations, promulgated under the Code. References
herein to specific provisions of proposed or temporary regulations shall
include analogous provisions of final Treasury Regulations or other
successor Treasury Regulations.
"Trust Accounts" shall have the meaning assigned thereto
in Section 5.1(a) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
"Trust Agreement" shall mean the Amended and Restated
Trust Agreement, dated as of December 1, 2001, between the Seller and the
Owner Trustee, as the same may be amended, supplemented or otherwise
modified and in effect from time to time.
"Trust Estate" shall mean all money, instruments, rights
and other property that are subject or intended to be subject to the lien
and security interest of the Indenture for the benefit of the Noteholders
(including, without limitation, all property and interests Granted to the
Indenture Trustee), including all proceeds thereof.
"Trust Indenture Act" or "TIA" shall mean the Trust
Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, unless otherwise specifically provided.
"Trust Property" shall mean, as of any date of
determination, the Receivables and other property related thereto sold,
transferred, assigned and otherwise conveyed by the Seller to the Trust
pursuant to Section 2.1(a) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
"Trust" shall mean MMCA Auto Owner Trust 2001-4, a
Delaware business trust.
"Underwriting Agreement" shall mean the Underwriting
Agreement, dated as of [ ], 2001, by and between X.X. Xxxxxx
Securities Inc., as representative of the several underwriters of the Class
A Notes and as the sole underwriter of the Class B Notes, and the Purchaser.
"Void Transfer" shall have the meaning assigned to such
term in Section 3.2 of the Trust Agreement.
"Weighted Average Rate" shall mean, with respect to any
date of determination, a per annum rate equal to (1) the sum of (a) the
product of (x) the outstanding principal amount of the Class A-1 Notes on
such date and (y) the Class A-1 Rate, plus (b) the product of (x) the
outstanding principal amount of the Class A-2 Notes on such date and (y)
the Class A-2 Rate, plus (c) the product of (x) the outstanding principal
amount of the Class A-3 Notes on such date and (y) the Class A-3 Rate, plus
(D) the product of (x) the outstanding principal amount of the Class A-4
Notes on such date and (y) the Class A-4 Rate, plus (e) the product of (x)
the outstanding principal amount of the Class B Notes on such date and (y)
the Class B Rate, divided by (2) the sum of the outstanding principal
amount of the Notes on such date, plus Certificate Balance on such date;
provided, that if the date of determination is a Payment Date, then the
outstanding principal amount of any class of Notes shall be determined
after giving effect to all payments made on such date.
"Yield Supplement Account" shall have the meaning assigned
thereto in Section 5.1(a) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
"Yield Supplement Agreement" shall mean the Yield
Supplement Agreement, dated as of December 1, 2001, by and between the
Seller and MMCA, as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time,
substantially in the form of Exhibit D to the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
"Yield Supplement Amount" shall mean, with respect to any
Payment Date, the sum of all Receivable Yield Supplement Amounts for the
related Collection Period.
"Yield Supplement Letter of Credit" shall mean any letter
of credit issued by the Letter of Credit Bank, as permitted by Section 5.1
of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, to support payments of the Yield
Supplement Amount under the Yield Supplement Agreement.
"Yield Supplement Overcollateralization Amount" shall
mean, with respect to any Payment Date and any Receivable (other than a
Purchased Receivable or a Defaulted Receivable), an amount equal to the
excess of (i) the present value of the remaining Scheduled Payments due
under such Receivable as of the later to occur of (x) the last day of the
preceding Collection Period and (y) the first date on which interest
accrues on such Receivable as set forth in the related Contract, discounted
at a rate equal to the APR of such Receivable, over (ii) the present value
of the remaining Scheduled Payments due under such Receivable as set forth
in clause (i) above, discounted at a rate equal to the greater of the APR
of the Receivable and [ ]%. For the purposes of the foregoing calculation,
the Payahead Balance with respect to any Actuarial Receivable shall be
applied to reduce the amount of any Scheduled Payment on the related
Actuarial Receivable in the order in which such Scheduled Payments were
due.
