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OLD DOMINION ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE
to
SUNTRUST BANK,
TRUSTEE
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AMENDED AND RESTATED INDENTURE
Dated as of September 1, 2001
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION................................. 2
Section 1.01. Definitions........................................................................ 2
Section 1.02. Acts of Holders.................................................................... 12
Section 1.03. Notices, Etc., to Trustee and Company.............................................. 13
Section 1.04. Notices to Holders; Waiver......................................................... 13
Section 1.05. Form and Contents of Documents Delivered to Trustee................................ 14
Section 1.06. Compliance Certificates and Opinions............................................... 15
Section 1.07. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.................................................. 16
Section 1.08. Effect Headings and Table of Contents.............................................. 16
Section 1.09. Successors and Assigns............................................................. 16
Section 1.10. Severability Paragraph............................................................. 16
Section 1.11. Benefits of Indenture.............................................................. 16
Section 1.12. Governing Law...................................................................... 16
Section 1.13. Action by Credit Enhancer When Action by Holders Required.......................... 16
Section 1.14. Bank Holidays...................................................................... 17
Section 1.15. Acceptance of Trust by Trustee..................................................... 17
Section 1.16. Maturity of Obligations............................................................ 17
Section 1.17. Investment of Cash Held by Trustee................................................. 17
Section 1.18. Principal Amount of Certain Obligations............................................ 17
ARTICLE II OBLIGATION FORM......................................................................... 18
Section 2.01. Forms of Additional Obligations Generally.......................................... 18
Section 2.02. Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication for Pre-Existing Bonds............. 18
Section 2.03. Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication for Additional Obligations......... 19
ARTICLE III THE OBLIGATIONS......................................................................... 19
Section 3.01. Terms and Forms of Pre-Existing Bonds.............................................. 19
Section 3.02. General Limitations; Issuable in Series............................................ 19
Section 3.03. Terms of Particular Series......................................................... 20
Section 3.04. Denominations...................................................................... 21
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Section 3.05. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating..................................... 21
Section 3.06. Temporary Obligations.............................................................. 21
Section 3.07. Registration; Registration of Transfer and Exchange................................ 22
Section 3.08. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Obligations.................................. 23
Section 3.09. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved..................................... 23
Section 3.10. Persons Deemed Owners.............................................................. 25
Section 3.11. Cancellation....................................................................... 25
Section 3.12. CUSIP Numbers...................................................................... 25
ARTICLE IV AUTHENTICATION AND DELIVERY OF ADDITIONAL OBLIGATIONS 25
ARTICLE V DEFEASANCE.............................................................................. 26
Section 5.01. Termination of Company's Obligations............................................... 26
Section 5.02. Application of Deposited Money and Money From Defeasance Securities................ 29
Section 5.03. Repayment to Company............................................................... 29
Section 5.04. Reinstatement...................................................................... 29
ARTICLE VI EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES.......................................................... 30
Section 6.01. Events of Default.................................................................. 30
Section 6.02. Acceleration of Maturity Rescission and Annulment.................................. 31
Section 6.03. Covenant to Pay Trustee Amounts Due on Obligations and Right of Trustee to
Judgment........................................................................... 32
Section 6.04. Application of Money Collected..................................................... 33
Section 6.05. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim................................................... 34
Section 6.06. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Obligations....................... 35
Section 6.07. Limitation on Suits................................................................ 35
Section 6.08. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and Interest.......... 35
Section 6.09. Restoration of Positions........................................................... 36
Section 6.10. Rights and Remedies Cumulative..................................................... 36
Section 6.11. Delay or Omission Not Waiver....................................................... 36
Section 6.12. Control by Holders................................................................. 36
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Section 6.13. Waiver of Past Defaults............................................................ 37
Section 6.14. Undertaking for Costs.............................................................. 37
Section 6.15. Remedies Subject to Applicable Laws................................................ 37
Section 6.16. Principal Amount of Original Issue Discount Obligation............................. 38
Section 6.17. Default Not Affecting All Series of Obligations.................................... 38
ARTICLE VII THE TRUSTEE............................................................................. 38
Section 7.01. Certain Duties and Responsibilities................................................ 38
Section 7.02. Notice of Defaults................................................................. 39
Section 7.03. Certain Rights of Trustee.......................................................... 39
Section 7.04. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Obligations or Application of
Proceeds........................................................................... 41
Section 7.05. May Hold Obligations............................................................... 41
Section 7.06. Money Held in Trust................................................................ 41
Section 7.07. Compensation and Reimbursement..................................................... 41
Section 7.08. Disqualification; Conflicting Interests............................................ 42
Section 7.09. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility............................................ 47
Section 7.10. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.................................. 47
Section 7.11. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor............................................. 48
Section 7.12. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business........................ 49
Section 7.13. Preferential Collection of Claims against Company.................................. 49
Section 7.14. Authenticating Agent............................................................... 52
ARTICLE VIII HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY....................................... 54
Section 8.01. Company to Furnish Trustee Semi-Annual Lists of Holders............................ 54
Section 8.02. Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders............................. 54
Section 8.03. Reports by Trustee................................................................. 55
Section 8.04. Reports by Company................................................................. 57
ARTICLE IX CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE OR TRANSFER........................................... 58
Section 9.01. Consolidation, Merger, Conveyance or Transfer only on Certain Terms................ 58
Section 9.02. Successor Person Substituted....................................................... 58
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ARTICLE X SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES................................................................. 58
Section 10.01. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders................................. 58
Section 10.02. Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Holders.................................... 60
Section 10.03. Execution of Supplemental Indentures............................................... 61
Section 10.04. Effect of Supplemental Indentures.................................................. 61
Section 10.05. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act................................................ 61
Section 10.06. Reference in Obligations to Supplemental Indentures................................ 62
ARTICLE XI COVENANTS............................................................................... 62
Section 11.01. Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest......................................... 62
Section 11.02. Maintenance of Office or Agency.................................................... 62
Section 11.03. Money for Obligation Payments to be Held in Trust; Repayment of Unclaimed Money.... 62
Section 11.04. Limitations on Security Interests.................................................. 63
Section 11.05. Maintenance of Properties.......................................................... 64
Section 11.06. To Insure.......................................................................... 64
Section 11.07. Corporate Existence................................................................ 64
Section 11.08. To Keep Books; Inspection by Trustee............................................... 64
Section 11.09. Advances by Trustee................................................................ 64
Section 11.10. Statement as to Compliance......................................................... 65
Section 11.11. Waiver of Certain Covenants........................................................ 65
Section 11.12. Rate Covenant...................................................................... 65
Section 11.13. Distributions to Members........................................................... 66
ARTICLE XII REDEMPTION OF OBLIGATIONS; SINKING FUNDS................................................ 66
Section 12.01. General Applicability of Sections 12.01 through 12.07.............................. 66
Section 12.02. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee.............................................. 66
Section 12.03. Selection by Trustee of Obligations to be Redeemed................................. 67
Section 12.04. Notice of Redemption............................................................... 67
Section 12.05. Deposit of Redemption Price........................................................ 68
Section 12.06. Obligations Payable on Redemption Date............................................. 68
Section 12.07. Obligations Redeemed in Part....................................................... 68
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Section 12.08. Applicability of Sections 12.08 through 12.10...................................... 69
Section 12.09. Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Obligations............................. 69
Section 12.10. Redemption of Obligations for Sinking Fund......................................... 69
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This AMENDED AND RESTATED INDENTURE, dated as of September 1, 2001, is
between OLD DOMINION ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, a Virginia utility aggregation
cooperative (hereinafter called the "Company"), and SUNTRUST BANK, a Georgia
banking corporation (hereinafter called the "Trustee").
RECITALS OF THE COMPANY
The Company previously has entered into the Original Indenture (as defined
below), pursuant to which the Company has issued the Pre-Existing Bonds (as
defined below). The Company intends to issue, under the Original Indenture on
or after the reference date stated in the first paragraph hereof, new bonds
(including a series of bonds, denominated "2001 Series A Bonds" authorized by
the Eleventh Supplemental Indenture to the Original Indenture).
All bonds issued under the Original Indenture are secured by a lien on and
security interest in substantially all of the assets of the Company. However,
the Company desires that those bonds it issues under the Original Indenture on
or after the reference date hereof (including all 2001 Series A Bonds), together
with all Pre-Existing Bonds (as defined below) still Outstanding, shall become
unsecured general obligations of the Company, governed by and subject to the
terms and conditions stated in this Indenture, beginning on the Release Date (as
defined below).
Effective as of the Release Date, this Indenture amends and restates the
Original Indenture in its entirety. Effective on and as of the Release Date,
all Pre-Existing Bonds including all 2001 Series A Bonds, shall constitute
Obligations subject to, and entitled to the benefits of, this Indenture.
The Company may from time to time authorize and issue the Pre-Existing
Bonds and may authorize the creation, execution and delivery from time to time
on or after the Release Date of its notes, bonds and other obligations (other
than Subordinated Debt) of substantially the tenor hereinafter provided,
issuable under this Indenture in one or more series (the "Additional
Obligations" and, collectively with the Pre-Existing Bonds, the "Obligations"),
and provide for the execution and issuance by the Company authentication and
delivery hereunder of the Additional Obligations by the Trustee from time to
time.
All things have been done which are necessary to make the Pre-Existing
Bonds and, when duly executed and issued by the Company and authenticated and
delivered by the Trustee hereunder, the Additional Obligations, the valid
obligations of the Company, and to constitute this Indenture a valid contract
for the benefit of the holders of the Obligations, in accordance with the terms
of the Obligations and this Indenture.
Should the Obligations be paid according to the tenor and effect thereof
when the same shall become due and payable and should the Company perform all
covenants herein contained in a timely manner, then this Indenture shall be
cancelled and surrendered in accordance with the terms hereof.
AND IT IS HEREBY COVENANTED AND DECLARED that all the Additional
Obligations are to be authenticated and delivered, subject to the further
covenants, conditions and trusts hereinafter set forth, and the Company does
hereby covenant and agree to and with the
Trustee, for the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of the
Outstanding Obligations as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS
OF GENERAL APPLICATION
Section 1.01. Definitions.
For all purposes of this Indenture, except as otherwise expressly provided
or unless the context otherwise requires:
A. The terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to
them in this Article and include the plural as well as the singular.
B. At any time at which this Indenture is qualified or required to
be qualified under the Trust Indenture Act, all other terms used herein which
are defined in the Trust Indenture Act, either directly or by reference therein,
have the meanings assigned to them therein.
C. All accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the
meanings assigned to them, and all determinations and computations herein
provided for shall be made, in accordance with Accounting Requirements (as
hereinafter defined), and, except to the extent expressly otherwise provided
herein, the express reference to "Accounting Requirements" with respect to
certain terms, determinations or computations shall not imply that other terms,
determinations and computations shall not be defined or made in accordance with
"Accounting Requirements."
D. All references herein to "Accounting Requirements" refer to such
requirements as are in use in the United States at the time of the determination
of any computation required or permitted hereunder, or, at the option of the
Company, such requirements in use on the date of this Indenture.
E. All references in this instrument to designated "Articles,"
"Sections" and other subdivisions are to the designated Articles, Sections and
other subdivisions of this Indenture.
F. The words "herein," "hereof" and "hereunder" and other words of
similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular
Article, Section or other subdivision.
G. The words "include" and "including" shall not be terms of
limitation, and shall in all cases, whether or not expressly provided, be read
to be "include, without limitation," and "including, without limitation,"
respectively.
H. When used herein the terms "corporation" and "company" or other
equivalent terms shall include any legal entity whether in the form of a
corporation, cooperative, partnership, joint venture, association, joint-stock
company, limited liability company, limited partnership, limited liability
partnership, trust or unincorporated organization.
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I. Reference to a Person means that Person and its successors and
permitted assigns.
J. Certain terms used principally in Article VII are defined in that
Article.
"Accountant" means a Person regularly engaged in the practice of accounting
who need not be certified, licensed or public.
"Accounting Requirements" means the requirements of any system of accounts
prescribed by a regulatory authority having jurisdiction over the Company or, in
the absence thereof, the requirements of generally accepted accounting
principles applicable to similar Persons conducting businesses similar to that
of the Company. Generally accepted accounting principles refers to a common set
of accounting standards and procedures that are either promulgated by an
authoritative accounting rulemaking body or accepted as appropriate due to
widespread application in the United States.
"acquire" means to acquire by purchase, exchange, construction, merger,
consolidation, conveyance, transfer or otherwise. The terms "acquired,"
"acquiring" and "acquisition" have meanings correlative to the foregoing.
"Act" when used with respect to any Holder or Holders has the meaning
stated in Section 1.02.
"Additional Obligations" has the meaning stated in the recitals of this
Indenture and includes any Obligation authenticated and delivered hereunder on
or after the Release Date.
"Affiliate" of any specified Person means any other Person directly or
indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common
control with such specified Person. For purposes of this definition, "control"
when used with respect to any specified Person means the power to direct the
management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through
the exercise of voting power, by contract or otherwise; and the terms
"controlling" and "controlled" have meanings correlative to the foregoing.
"Application" means an application for the authentication and delivery of
Additional Obligations under any provision of this Indenture and shall consist
of, and shall not be deemed complete until there shall have been delivered to
the Trustee, such documents as are required by such provision to establish the
right of the Company to the action applied for. The date of a particular
Application shall be deemed to be the date of completion of all such deliveries
to the Trustee and not the date on which any particular document is so delivered
or the date of its delivery.
"Authenticating Agent" when used with respect to any particular series of
Obligations means any Person named as Authenticating Agent for such series in
the provisions of this Indenture creating such series until a successor
Authenticating Agent therefor becomes such pursuant thereto, and thereafter
"Authenticating Agent" shall mean such successor.
"Board of Directors" means either the board of directors of the Company or
any duly authorized committee of such board.
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"Board Resolution" means a copy of a resolution certified by the Secretary
or an Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted by the Board
of Directors and to be in full force and effect on the date of such
certification, and delivered to the Trustee.
"Bonds" has the meaning set forth in the Original Indenture.
"Book-Entry System" means that system whereby the clearance and settlement
of transactions in Obligations held in such system is made through electronic
book-entry changes, thereby eliminating the need for physical movement of
Obligation certificates or other instruments.
"Cede & Co." means Cede & Co., as nominee for DTC, and any successor
nominee of DTC.
"Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from time to
time constituted, created under the Exchange Act, or if at any time after the
execution of this instrument such Commission is not existing and performing the
duties theretofore assigned to it under the Trust Indenture Act, then the body
performing such duties at such time.
"Company" means the Person named as the "Company" in the first paragraph of
this instrument until a successor corporation shall have become such pursuant to
the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter "Company" shall mean
such successor Person.
"Company Consent," "Company Order" or "Company Request" mean, respectively,
a written consent, order or request signed in the name of the Company by an
Officer of the Company, and delivered to the Trustee.
"Credit Enhancement" means, with respect to the Obligations of a series or
a maturity within a series, the issuance of an insurance policy, letter of
credit, surety bond or any other similar undertaking, whereby the issuer thereof
becomes unconditionally obligated to pay when due, to the extent not paid by the
Company or otherwise, the principal of and interest on such Obligations or on
another obligation the payment on which is (i) secured by such Obligations or
(ii) credited against the principal and interest due on such Obligations.
"Credit Enhancer" means any Person which, pursuant to this Indenture or a
Supplemental Indenture, is designated as a Credit Enhancer and which provides
Credit Enhancement.
"Defaulted Interest" has the meaning stated in Section 3.09.
"Defeasance Securities" means and includes any of the following securities,
if and to the extent the same are not subject to redemption or call prior to
maturity by anyone other than the holder thereof and are at the time legal for
investment of the Company's funds:
(a) any bonds or other obligations which as to principal and interest
constitute direct obligations of, or are unconditionally guaranteed by,
the United States of America;
(b) any bonds or other obligations of any state of the United States
of America or of any agency, instrumentality or local governmental unit of
any such state (i) which are not callable prior to maturity, or which have
been duly called for redemption by the obligor on a date or dates specified
and as to which irrevocable instructions have been given to a
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trustee in respect of such bonds or other obligations by the obligor to
give due notice of such redemption on such date or dates, which date or
dates shall be also specified in such instructions, (ii) which are secured
as to principal and interest and redemption premium, if any, by a fund
consisting only of cash or bonds or other obligations of the character
described in paragraph (a) above which fund may be applied only to the
payment of such principal of and interest and redemption premium, if any,
on such bonds or other obligations on the maturity date or dates thereof or
the redemption date or dates specified in the irrevocable instructions
referred to in subparagraph (i) of this paragraph (b), as appropriate,
(iii) as to which the principal of and interest on the bonds and
obligations of the character described in paragraph (a) above on deposit in
such fund along with any cash on deposit in such fund are sufficient to pay
principal of and interest and redemption premium, if any, on the bonds or
other obligations described in this paragraph (b) on the maturity date or
dates thereof or on the redemption date or dates specified in the
irrevocable instructions referred to in subparagraph (i) of this paragraph
(b), as appropriate, and (iv) which at the time of their purchase hereunder
are rated "AAA" by Standard & Poor's Ratings Group and, if rated by Xxxxx'x
Investors Service, are rated "Aaa" by such agency; and
(c) any certificates or any other evidences of an ownership interest
in obligations or in specified portions thereof (which may consist of
specified portions of the interest thereon) of the character described in
paragraph (a) or (b) above.
"Distribution" has the meaning stated in Section 11.13.
"DTC" means The Depository Trust Company, a limited purpose trust company
organized under the laws of the State of New York, and its successors and
assigns.
"DTC Participant" means a broker-dealer, bank or other financial
institution for which DTC holds Obligations.
"Event of Default" has the meaning stated in Section 6.01 or in any
Supplemental Indenture. An Event of Default shall "exist" if an Event of Default
shall have occurred and be continuing.
"Excepted Property" means any interest of the Company in the following
described property, now owned or hereafter acquired:
A. all cash on hand or in banks (excluding amounts deposited or required
to be deposited with the Trustee pursuant to this Indenture), choses in action
and judgments, contracts and contract rights, shares of stock (including,
without limitation, any interest of the Company in the National Rural Utilities
Cooperative Finance Corporation and in the National Bank for Cooperatives),
bonds, notes, repurchase agreements, evidences of indebtedness and other
securities, bills, patents, patent licenses and other patent rights, patent
applications, trade names and trademarks and any other general intangibles;
B. all automobiles, buses, trucks, truck cranes, tractors, trailers and
similar vehicles and movable equipment, and all tools, accessories and supplies
used in connection with any of the foregoing;
C. all nuclear fuel and all accessories and supplies used in connection
therewith;
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D. all vessels, boats, barges and other marine equipment, all airplanes,
airplane engines and other flight equipment, and all tools, accessories and
supplies used in connection with any of the foregoing;
E. all office furniture, equipment and supplies and all data processing,
accounting and other computer equipment, software and supplies;
F. all leasehold interests of the Company (for other than office
purposes) under leases for an original term (including any period for which the
Company shall have a right of renewal) of less than five (5) years;
G. all leasehold interests for office purposes; and
H. all timber separated from the land included in the Subject Property
and all coal, ore, gas, oil and other minerals, mined or extracted from the land
included in the Subject Property and all electric energy, gas, steam, water and
other products generated or produced.
"Exchange Act" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, or any successor
statute, as amended and in effect from time to time.
"Guarantee" of or by any Person means any obligation, contingent or
otherwise, of such Person guaranteeing or having the economic effect of
guaranteeing an obligation of any other Person.
"Holder" when used with respect to any Obligation means the Person in whose
name such Obligation is registered in the Obligation Register.
"Indenture" means the Original Indenture, as amended and restated hereby,
and as it may from time to time be supplemented, modified or amended by one or
more indentures or other instruments supplemental hereto (including Supplemental
Indentures) entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof.
"Independent" when used with respect to any specified Person means such a
Person who (i) is in fact independent, (ii) does not have any direct financial
interest or any material indirect financial interest in the Company or in any
other obligor upon the Obligations or in any Affiliate of the Company or of such
other obligor and (iii) is not connected with the Company or such other obligor
as an officer, employee, promoter, underwriter, trustee, partner, director or
person performing similar functions. Whenever it is herein provided that any
Independent Person's opinion or certificate shall be furnished to the Trustee,
such opinion or certificate shall state that the signer has read this definition
and that the signer is Independent within the meaning thereof. The acceptance
by the Trustee of such opinion or certificate shall be sufficient evidence that
such Independent Person has been approved by the Trustee.
"Interest Charges" for any period means the total interest charges (other
than capitalized interest charges) of the Company for such period on (i) all
Outstanding Indenture Obligations and (ii) all other obligations of the Company
(other than Subordinated Debt) to repay borrowed money or to pay the deferred
purchase price for property or services, in all cases including amortization of
debt discount and premium on issuance but excluding the interest component
attributable to any capitalized lease or similar agreement; PROVIDED, HOWEVER,
that with respect to any
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calculation of Interest Charges for any period prior to the Release Date,
"Interest Charges" has the meaning set forth in the Original Indenture.
"Interest Payment Date" means the Stated Maturity of an installment of
interest on the Obligations.
"Margins for Interest" means, for any period, the net margins of the
Company for such period, which shall include revenues of the Company, if any,
subject to possible refund at a later date; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, no deductions
shall be made as a result of refunds ordered in a subsequent period; adjusted
by:
(a) adding:
(i) Interest Charges;
(ii) the amount, if any, deducted in arriving at net margins on
account of accruals of Federal income and other taxes imposed on income
after deduction of Interest Charges for such period;
(iii) the amount, if any, deducted in arriving at net margins on
account of any losses incurred by any Subsidiary or Affiliate of the
Company other than amounts deducted pursuant to paragraph (b)(ii) below;
(iv) the amount, if any, the Company actually receives in such period
as a dividend or other distribution of earnings of any Subsidiary or
Affiliate (whether or not such earnings were for such period or any earlier
period or periods) which amount has not otherwise been reflected as an
increase in net margins in such period or any earlier period or periods;
and
(v) the amount of any expenses or provisions for any non-recurring
charge to income or margins or retained earnings of whatever kind or nature
(including, without limitation, (A) the recognition of expense due to the
non-recoverability of assets or expenses and (B) the accelerated portion of
the amortization of any deferred charges or regulatory assets carried on
the books of the Company) that may have been deducted or otherwise taken
into account in arriving at net margins whether or not recorded as a non-
recurring charge in the Company's books of account; and
(b) subtracting:
(i) the amount, if any, added in arriving at net margins on account
of any income, gain, earnings or profits of any Subsidiary or Affiliate of
the Company other than amounts added pursuant to paragraph (a)(iv) above;
and
(ii) the amount, if any, the Company actually contributes to the
capital of, or actually pays under a guarantee or like agreement by the
Company of an obligation of, any Subsidiary or Affiliate in such period, to
the extent of any accumulated losses incurred by such Subsidiary or
Affiliate (whether or not such losses were for such period or any earlier
periods), but only to the extent (A) such losses have not otherwise caused
other contributions or payments to be subtracted from net margins for
purposes of computing
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Margins for Interest for a prior period and (B) such amount has not
otherwise been subtracted from net margins.
Margins for Interest shall be determined in accordance with Accounting
Requirements; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that such determination shall be made on a
Company only and not on a consolidated basis.
"Maturity" when used with respect to any Obligation means the date on which
the principal of such Obligation or any installment thereof becomes due and
payable as therein or herein provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by
declaration of acceleration or call for redemption, purchase or prepayment or
otherwise; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that any obligation to purchase or otherwise
acquire any Additional Obligations from its Holder shall not constitute an
undertaking to pay the principal of such Obligation if so provided in the
Supplemental Indenture creating such Additional Obligation.
"Obligation Register" and "Obligation Registrar" have the respective
meanings stated in Section 3.07.
"Obligations" has the meaning stated in the recitals of this instrument and
includes any Obligation authenticated and delivered hereunder.
"Officer" of the Company for purposes of any consent, order, certificate,
opinion, request or other action hereunder means the President, any Vice
President, Controller, Assistant Vice President of Finance of the Company or any
other officer or employee of the Company authorized by a Board Resolution to
give such consent, order, certificate or opinion, or make such request or
perform such action.
"Officers' Certificate" means a certificate signed by any two Officers of
the Company.
"Opinion of Counsel" means a written opinion of counsel who may (except as
otherwise expressly provided in this Indenture) be counsel for the Company and
shall be reasonably acceptable to the Trustee. The acceptance by the Trustee of
such opinion shall be sufficient evidence that such counsel is reasonably
acceptable to the Trustee.
"Original Indenture" means the Indenture of Mortgage and Deed of Trust,
dated as of May 1, 1992, between the Company and Crestar Bank (currently known
SunTrust Bank), as trustee, as amended and supplemented prior to the Release
Date.
"Original Issue Discount Obligation" means any Obligation declared to be an
"Original Issue Discount Obligation" in the Supplemental Indenture establishing
the series to which such Obligation belongs.
"Outstanding" when used with respect to Obligations means, as of the date
of determination, all Pre-Existing Bonds and all Additional Obligations
theretofore authenticated and delivered under this Indenture, except:
A. Obligations, or any portion thereof, theretofore cancelled by the
Trustee or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation or delivered to the Trustee
marked cancelled, satisfied or otherwise evidenced to the Trustee's satisfaction
as paid (and which amount may not be readvanced);
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B. Obligations for whose payment or redemption money or Defeasance
Securities in the necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the
Trustee or any Paying Agent (other than the Company) in trust, or set aside and
segregated in trust by the Company (if the Company shall act as its own Paying
Agent) for the Holders of such Obligations, PROVIDED that, if such Obligations
are to be redeemed or prepaid, notice of such redemption or prepayment has been
duly given pursuant to this Indenture or other provision therefor satisfactory
to the Trustee has been made;
C. Obligations which have been paid pursuant to Section 3.08 or in
exchange for or in lieu of which other Obligations have been authenticated and
delivered pursuant to this Indenture, other than any such Obligations in respect
of which there shall have been presented to the Trustee proof satisfactory to it
that such Obligations are held by a bona fide purchaser in whose hands such
Obligations are valid obligations of the Company; and
D. Obligations which have not been sold, pledged or subjected to a
security interest and have been surrendered to the Trustee or which a portion
thereof has not been advanced and with respect to such portion either (i) any
commitment to advance thereunder has terminated, or (ii) no commitment to
advance exists;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite
principal amount of Obligations Outstanding or the Obligations Outstanding of a
series, as the case may be, have given any request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, Obligations owned by the Company
or any other obligor upon the Obligations or any Affiliate of the Company or of
such other obligor (unless any of the Company, such obligor, such Affiliate or
Affiliates own all Obligations Outstanding under this Indenture, or as to
matters relating solely to a particular series all Obligations Outstanding of
such series, as the case may be, determined without regard to this proviso)
shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in
determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only
Obligations which are registered in the name of the Company, an Affiliate of the
Company, another obligor on such Obligations (other than a Credit Enhancer) or
an Affiliate of such obligor of which the Trustee has been given written notice
shall be so disregarded. Obligations so owned which have been pledged in good
faith may be regarded as Outstanding for such purposes if the pledgee
establishes to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee's right so to act
with respect to such Obligations and that the pledgee is not the Company or any
other obligor upon the Obligations or any Affiliate of the Company or of such
other obligor. For purposes of the definition of "Outstanding," no Credit
Enhancer shall be an obligor on the Obligations.
"Outstanding Indenture Obligations" means, as of the date of determination,
(i) all Obligations then Outstanding other than Obligations then owned by the
Company or any wholly owned Subsidiary and held in its treasury, and (ii) all
Obligations, if any, alleged to have been destroyed, lost or stolen which have
been replaced or paid as provided in Section 3.08 but whose ownership and
enforceability by the Holder thereof have been established by a court of
competent jurisdiction or other competent tribunal or otherwise established to
the satisfaction of the Company and the Trustee.
"Paying Agent" means any Person authorized by the Company to pay the
principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on any Obligations on behalf of
the Company.
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"Periodic Offering" means an offering of Additional Obligations of a series
from time to time any or all of the specific terms of which Additional
Obligations, including the rate or rates of interest, if any, thereon, the
Stated Maturity or Maturities thereof and the redemption provision, if any, with
respect thereto, are to be determined by the Company or its agents at or about
the time of the issuance of such Additional Obligations.
"Person" means any individual, corporation, cooperative, partnership,
limited liability company, limited partnership, limited liability partnership,
joint venture, association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated
organization or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.
"Place of Payment" when used with respect to the Obligations of any series
means a city or any political subdivision thereof in which the Company is by
this Indenture required to maintain an office or agency for the payment of the
principal of or interest on the Obligations of such series.
"Predecessor Obligations" of any particular Obligation means every previous
Obligation evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by
such particular Obligation; and, for purposes of this definition, any Obligation
authenticated and delivered under Section 3.08 in lieu of a lost, destroyed or
stolen Obligation shall be deemed to evidence the same obligation as the lost,
destroyed or stolen Obligation.
"Pre-Existing Bonds" means all Bonds that remain Outstanding as of the
Release Date and that either (i) are Bonds issued on or after September 1, 2001,
or (ii) are Bonds whose Holders shall have agreed in writing that the Release
Date may occur while such Bonds remain Outstanding.
"Rates" has the meaning stated in Section 11.12 hereof.
"Redemption Date" when used with respect to any Obligation to be prepaid
means the date of such prepayment and when used with respect to any Obligation
to be redeemed means the date fixed for such redemption pursuant to this
Indenture.
"Redemption Price" when used with respect to any Obligation to be prepaid
means the amount of the indebtedness to be prepaid and when used with respect to
any Obligation to be redeemed means the price at which it is to be redeemed
pursuant to this Indenture. It includes the applicable premium, if any,
including any prepayment penalty, but does not include installments of interest
whose Stated Maturity is on or before the Redemption Date.
"Regular Record Date" for the interest payable on any Interest Payment Date
on the Obligations of any series means the date specified for such purpose in
the provisions of a Supplemental Indenture creating such series.
"Release Date" means the date on which this Amended and Restated Indenture,
dated as of September 1, 2001, becomes effective pursuant to the Eleventh
Supplemental Indenture, dated as of September 1, 2001, to the Original
Indenture.
"Responsible Officer" when used with respect to the Trustee, shall mean any
vice-president, the treasurer, the secretary, any trust officer, any second or
assistant vice-president or any other officer or assistant officer associated
with the corporate trust department of the Trustee who
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at the time shall be such officers, respectively, or to whom any corporate trust
matter is referred because of his knowledge of and familiarity with a particular
subject.
"Security Interest" means with respect to any property or assets any
mortgage, lien, pledge, charge, security interest or other encumbrance of any
kind in respect of such property or assets (other than a lien or security
interest arising by operation of law) securing repayment of borrowed money or
the obligation to pay the deferred purchase price for property or services or a
Guarantee thereof but excluding, in any case, any encumbrances resulting from
(i) agreements relating to a sale and leaseback, lease and leaseback or similar
transactions, and (ii) a commodities trading agreement entered into in the
ordinary course of business by the Company.
"Special Record Date" for the payment of any Defaulted Interest on
Obligations means a date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 3.09.
"Stated Maturity" when used with respect to any Obligation, any installment
of principal thereof or any installment of interest thereon means the date
specified in such Obligation as the date on which the principal of such
Obligation, or such installment thereof, or such installment of interest is due
and payable (without regard to any provisions for redemption, prepayment,
acceleration, purchase or extension).
"Subject Property" means all of the Company's interest in the following
property but only if such property comprises a portion of the System, whether
now owned or hereafter acquired and wheresoever situated:
A. all fee and leasehold interests, easements, licenses and rights-of-way
comprising real property, and all other interests in real property;
B. all fixtures; and
C. all other tangible personal property;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the Subject Property shall not include any Excepted
Property now owned or hereafter acquired by the Company.
"Subordinated Debt" means any obligation of the Company to repay borrowed
money, or to pay the deferred purchase price for property or services, with
respect to which (i) any payment by or for the account of the Company would, in
the event of a bankruptcy, reorganization or liquidation of the Company, be
subordinated to payment of the principal of, and interest and premium (if any)
on, all Obligations then Outstanding, and (ii) the creditor is required not to
accept payment from the Company, or to pay to the Trustee any amounts received
by the creditor from or for the account of the Company, during any period
following the creditor's receipt of notice of an Event of Default under this
Indenture and prior to the curing of such Event of Default.
"Subsidiary" of any specified Person means any other Person at least a
majority of whose outstanding voting capital stock, partnership interests or
membership interests shall at the time be owned or held, directly or indirectly,
by the specified Person and/or by one or more of its Subsidiaries.
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"Supplemental Indenture" means (i) with respect to any series of
Obligations issued after the Release Date, the indenture supplemental hereto
establishing such series in accordance herewith; (ii) with respect to any series
of Bonds not established in the Original Indenture, the supplemental indenture
to the Original Indenture establishing such series; and (iii) with respect to
any series of Bonds established in the Original Indenture, the provisions of the
Original Indenture establishing such series.
"System" means all properties and interest in properties of the Company for
use, in whole or in major part, in connection with any of the Company's
generating plants, now existing or hereafter acquired by lease, contract,
purchase or otherwise or constructed by the Company, including any interest or
participation of the Company in any such facilities, together with all
additions, betterments, extensions and improvements thereto or any part thereof
hereafter made and together with all lands, easements and rights-of-way of the
Company used or useful in connection with or related thereto, all electric
production, transmission, distribution, conservation, load management, general
plant and other related facilities, equipment or property and any mine, well,
pipeline, plant, structure or other facility for the development, production,
manufacture, storage, fabrication or processing of fossil, nuclear or other fuel
of any kind or in any facility or rights with respect to the supply of water.
"TIA" or "Trust Indenture Act" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, or
any successor statute, as amended and in effect from time to time.
"Trustee" means the Person named as the "Trustee" in the first paragraph of
this Indenture until a successor Trustee shall have become such pursuant to the
applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter "Trustee" means such
successor Trustee.
"Vice President" when used with respect to the Company or the Trustee means
any vice president, whether or not designated by a number or a word added to the
title.
Section 1.02. Acts of Holders.
A. Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver
or other action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by Holders may
be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar
tenor signed by such Holders in person or by an agent duly appointed in writing;
and, except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall become
effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to the Trustee, and,
where it is hereby expressly required, to the Company. Such instrument or
instruments (and the action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein
sometimes referred to as the "Act" of the Holders signing such instrument or
instruments. Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a writing
appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture
and conclusive in favor of the Company and (subject to Section 7.01) in favor of
the Trustee, if made in the manner provided in this Section.
B. The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such instrument
or writing may be proved by the affidavit of a witness of such execution or by
the certificate of any notary public or other officer authorized by law to take
acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the individual signing such instrument
or writing acknowledged to him the execution thereof. Whenever such execution is
by a signer acting in a capacity other than his or her individual capacity, such
certificate
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or affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof of his or her authority. The
fact and date of the execution of any such instrument or writing, and the
authority of the Person executing the same, may also be proved in any manner
which the Trustee deems sufficient.
C. The ownership of Obligations shall be proved by the Obligation
Register.
D. Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver
or other Act of the Holder of any Obligation shall bind every future Holder of
the same Obligation and the Holder of every Obligation issued upon the transfer
thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof, in respect of anything done,
omitted or suffered to be done by the Trustee or the Company in reliance
thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Obligation.
However, unless such Obligation is held in the Book-Entry System and the DTC
letter of representations executed by the Company in connection therewith, as
amended from time to time, does not permit such revocation, any such Holder or
subsequent Holder may revoke by written instrument any such Act as to its
Obligation or portion of an Obligation except as otherwise provided herein until
such time as written instruments have been received by the Trustee with respect
to the requisite percentage of principal amount of Obligations for the action
contemplated such instruments; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that such revocation shall be
effective only if the Trustee receives written notice of revocation before the
date the Trustee or the Company does or suffers to be done anything in reliance
on such instrument.
Section 1.03. Notices, Etc., to Trustee and Company.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or
other Act of Holders or other document provided or permitted by this Indenture
to be made upon, given or furnished to, or filed with:
A. the Trustee by any Holder or by the Company shall be sufficient for
every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed in writing to or with
the Trustee at its principal corporate trust office, or
B. the Company by the Trustee or by any Holder shall be sufficient for
every purpose hereunder (except as otherwise expressly provided in Section
6.01(C) and (E)) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, hand
delivered, express overnight or via facsimile to the Company addressed to it at
Innsbrook Corporate Center, 0000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000,
facsimile (000) 000-0000, or at any other address previously furnished in
writing to the Trustee by the Company.
Section 1.04. Notices to Holders; Waiver.
Where this Indenture provides for notice to Holders 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 Holder of such
Obligations, at the address of such Holder as it appears in the Obligation
Register, not later than the latest date, and not earlier than the earliest
date, prescribed for such notice.
In any case where notice to Holders is given by mail, neither the failure
to mail such notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed, to any particular
Holder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other
Holders. Where this Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such
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notice may be waived in writing by the Person entitled to receive such notice,
either before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of
such notice. Waivers of notice by Holders shall be filed with the Trustee, but
such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action
taken in reliance upon such waiver.
In case, by reason of the suspension of mail service or by reason of any
other cause, it shall be impossible to give such notice by mail, then such
notification as shall be specified by the Company and satisfactory to the
Trustee shall constitute a sufficient notification for every purpose hereunder.
Section 1.05. Form and Contents of Documents Delivered to Trustee.
In any case where several matters are required to be certified by, or
covered by an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all
such matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such
Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one
such Person may certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one
or more other such Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify
or give an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents.
Any certificate or opinion of an Officer of the Company may be based,
insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, advice
of or representations by, counsel, unless such Officer knows, or in the exercise
of reasonable care should know, that the certificate, opinion, advice or
representations with respect to the matters upon which its certificate or
opinion is based are erroneous. Any Opinion of Counsel may be based, insofar as
it relates to factual matters or matters of business judgment, upon a
certificate or opinion of, or representations by, an Officer or Officers of the
Company stating that the information with respect to such factual matters is in
the possession of the Officers, unless such counsel knows that the certificate
or opinion or representations with respect to such matters are erroneous. Any
Opinion of Counsel may be based upon such assumptions, be subject to such
qualifications and may be stated in such language as at the time delivered is
considered in the jurisdiction whose laws are covered by such opinion to be
standard practice with respect to opinions relating to such matters. In
addition, in giving any Opinion of Counsel, counsel may, except with respect to
any opinion required by Article V, rely upon (i) opinions of other counsel
believed by such counsel to be reliable and (ii) title insurance policies, title
insurance commitments and reports, lien search certificates and other similar
evidences of the existence of liens.
Whenever any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more
Applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other
instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated and
form one instrument.
Wherever in this Indenture, in connection with any Application, certificate
or report to the Trustee, it is provided that the Company shall deliver any
document as a condition of the granting of such Application, or as evidence of
the Company'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 Company to have such Application granted or to the sufficiency
of such certificate or report. Notwithstanding anything else herein to the
contrary, the validity of any action taken or Obligation issued hereunder based
upon any
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Application, certificate or report shall not be affected by the truth and
accuracy of such Application, certification or report. Nothing in the
immediately preceding sentence shall, however, limit any rights or remedies
available to the Trustee or the Holders under this Indenture or at law or equity
against the Company, any officer thereof or any Person with respect to a false
or inaccurate Application, certification or report other than any remedy seeking
to invalidate the action so taken or Obligation issued.
Whenever a clerical, typographical, inadvertent or unintentional error or
omission shall be discovered in any instrument filed with the Trustee, a new
instrument in corrected form, executed as prescribed herein for that originally
filed and which may bear the same date as the instrument originally filed, may
be substituted therefor with the same force and effect as if the instrument
originally filed had been filed in the corrected form, or in lieu of such
substitution an appropriate adjustment may be made in a like instrument filed
with the Trustee after such discovery. To the extent that action has been taken
hereunder which could not have been taken if the original instrument had been
filed in the corrected form, such action shall be validated and rendered
effective if the substituted or adjusting instrument shall indicate that any
deficiency has been fully satisfied since the filing of the original instrument.
Section 1.06. Compliance Certificates and Opinions.
Upon any Application or request by the Company to the Trustee to take any
action under any provision of this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the
Trustee an Officers' Certificate stating that all conditions precedent, if any,
provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been
complied with and an Opinion of Counsel stating that in the opinion of such
Counsel all such conditions precedent, if any, have been complied with, except
that in the case of any such Application or request as to which the furnishing
of such documents is specifically required by any provision of this Indenture
relating to such particular Application or request, 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 (other than certificates provided
pursuant to Section 11.10 hereof) shall include:
A. a statement that each individual signing such certificate or opinion
has read such condition or covenant 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 individual, such
individual has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable
him or her to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such condition or
covenant has been complied with; and
D. a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such individual, such
condition or covenant has been complied with.
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Section 1.07. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.
At any time at which this Indenture is qualified or required to be
qualified under the TIA, if any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts
with another provision hereof which is required to be included in this Indenture
by any of the provisions of the TIA, such required provision shall control.
Section 1.08. Effect Headings and Table of Contents.
The Article and Section headings herein and in the Table of Contents are
for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.
Section 1.09. Successors and Assigns.
All covenants and agreements in this Indenture by the Company shall bind
its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.
Section 1.10. Severability Paragraph.
In case any provision in this Indenture or in any Obligation 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 1.11. Benefits of Indenture.
Nothing in this Indenture or in the Obligations, express or implied, shall
give to any Person, other than the parties hereto and their successors hereunder
and the Holders, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim
under this Indenture.
Section 1.12. Governing Law.
This Indenture and the Obligations shall be governed by and construed in
accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Section 1.13. Action by Credit Enhancer When Action by Holders Required.
Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, except as otherwise
provided in a Supplemental Indenture authorizing Obligations of any series or
maturity within a series for which Credit Enhancement is being provided, if not
in default in respect of any of its obligations with respect to Credit
Enhancement for such Obligations, the Credit Enhancer for, and not the actual
Holders of, such Obligations, shall be deemed to be the Holder of such
Obligations at all times for the purpose of (i) giving any approval or consent
to the effectiveness of any Supplemental Indenture or any amendment, change or
modification of the Indenture which requires the written approval or consent of
Holders of such Obligations; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the provisions of this
paragraph (i) shall not apply to any change which could not be made pursuant to
Section 10.02 without the consent of each Holder of Obligations affected
thereby, and (ii) giving any notice, approval or consent, effecting any waiver
or authorization, exercising any remedies, giving any direction or taking any
other action in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.
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Section 1.14. Bank Holidays.
Except as specified in a Pre-Existing Obligation or a Supplemental
Indenture, if the specified date for the making of any payment or the last date
for performance of any act or the exercising of any right, as provided in this
Indenture, shall be a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday or a day on which
banking institutions in the city in which is located the office from which the
Trustee performs the functions to which such act or right relates are authorized
by law to remain closed, such payment may be made or act performed or right
exercised on the next succeeding day which is not one of the foregoing days
without additional interest and with the same force and effect as if made,
performed or exercised on the specified date for such payment.
Section 1.15. Acceptance of Trust by Trustee.
The Trustee accepts the trusts in this Indenture declared and provided,
upon the terms and conditions herein set forth.
Section 1.16. Maturity of Obligations.
The Stated Maturity of the Pre-Existing Bonds is set forth in the Pre-
Existing Bonds or the Supplemental Indenture establishing the series to which
such Pre-Existing Bonds belong. The Stated Maturity of Additional Obligations
authorized pursuant to Article IV and governed by this Indenture shall be as
provided in Supplemental Indentures adopted in accordance with and pursuant to
Sections 3.03 and Article X.
Section 1.17. Investment of Cash Held by Trustee.
Any cash held by the Trustee or any Paying Agent under any provision of
this Indenture shall, except as otherwise provided in Article V and Section
6.04, at the request of the Company evidenced by a Company Request be invested
or reinvested as designated by the Company, and, unless an Event of Default
shall exist, any interest or other earnings on such investments shall be
promptly paid over to the Company as received free and clear of any lien. Such
investments shall be held subject to the same provisions hereof as was the cash
used to purchase the same, but upon a like request of the Company shall be sold,
in whole or in designated part, and the proceeds of such sale shall be held
subject to the same provisions hereof as was the cash used to purchase the
investments so sold.
Section 1.18. Principal Amount of Certain Obligations.
At any point in time, the principal amount of an Obligation in any form
other than a bond shall not include any amount not then advanced and outstanding
thereunder. The principal amount of any Obligation evidencing an assumption by
the Company of all or a part of another obligation shall be the principal amount
of the other obligation, or the portion thereof, assumed pursuant to such
Obligation. The principal amount of such Obligation shall be reduced as the
principal amount of such Obligation (or the obligation it evidences an
assumption of) is paid or otherwise reduced. The principal amount of such
Obligation may be evidenced from time to time by an Officers' Certificate
delivered to the Trustee and the Holder of such Obligation. In the absence of
any timely objection by the Holder to the principal amount of such Obligation
set forth in such Officers' Certificate, the Trustee may conclusively rely on
such Officers' Certificate. Following any timely
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objection by the Holder, the Trustee may require such other evidence of the
principal amount of such Obligation as shall be satisfactory to the Trustee in
its sole discretion.
ARTICLE II
OBLIGATION FORM
Section 2.01. Forms of Additional Obligations Generally.
Additional Obligations of each series shall be in substantially the form
set forth in the Supplemental Indenture creating such series or in a Board
Resolution establishing such series and delivered to the Trustee, or in an
Officers' Certificate pursuant to a Supplemental Indenture or Board Resolution
delivered to the Trustee, in each case, 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 be
required to comply with the rules of any securities exchange or as may,
consistently herewith, be determined by the Officers executing such Additional
Obligations, as evidenced by their execution of such Additional Obligations.
The Place of Payment of Additional Obligations of each series shall be set forth
in such Additional Obligations. Any portion of the text of any Additional
Obligation may be set forth on the reverse or subsequent pages thereof, with an
appropriate reference thereto on the face of the Additional Obligation if
desired. Additional Obligations may be printed, lithographed, typewritten,
mimeographed or otherwise produced.
Section 2.02. Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication for Pre-Existing
Bonds.
The Trustee's certificate of authentication for Pre-Existing Bonds shall be
in substantially the following form:
This is one of the Bonds referred to in and secured by the Indenture
of Mortgage and Deed of Trust, dated as of May 1, 1992, by and between
Old Dominion Electric Cooperative and Crestar Bank, predecessor to
SunTrust Bank, as trustee, as amended (the "Original Indenture").
This now constitutes one of the unsecured Obligations referred to in
and entitled to the benefits of the Amended and Restated Indenture,
dated as of September 1, 2001, between Old Dominion Electric
Cooperative and SunTrust Bank, as trustee, which amended and restated
the Original Indenture in its entirety.
SUNTRUST BANK,
as Trustee
By:__________________________
Authorized Signatory
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Section 2.03. Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication for Additional
Obligations.
The Trustee's certificate of authentication for Additional Obligations
shall be in substantially the following form.
This is one of the Obligations of the series designated therein
referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
SUNTRUST BANK, as Trustee
By:_____________________________
Authorized Signatory
ARTICLE III
THE OBLIGATIONS
Section 3.01. Terms and Forms of Pre-Existing Bonds.
Authentication of the Pre-Existing Bonds shall be in substantially the form
set forth in Section 2.02 and may be either on the Pre-Existing Bonds or on an
allonge to be affixed to such Pre-Existing Bonds. The Pre-Existing Bonds shall
be in the forms of such instruments as are delivered to the Trustee for
authentication under the Original Indenture. The terms and conditions of the
Pre-Existing Bonds, including series designations, principal amounts, maximum
aggregate principal amount (if any), maturity dates, interest rates and payment
and redemption provisions, shall be as provided for therein or in the
Supplemental Indenture establishing the series to which such Pre-Existing Bonds
belong.
Section 3.02. General Limitations; Issuable in Series.
A. Any increase in the outstanding principal amount of any Pre-Existing
Bond (other than an advance under a Pre-Existing Bond held by a Credit Enhancer)
shall be deemed an issuance of an Additional Obligation and shall, therefore, be
subject to satisfying the conditions for the issuance of Additional Obligations
provided in Article IV.
B. The aggregate principal amount of Additional Obligations which may be
authenticated and delivered and Outstanding under this Indenture is not limited,
except as provided in Article IV and the provisions of any Supplemental
Indenture creating any series of Additional Obligations and except as may be
limited by law.
C. The Additional Obligations may be issued in series as from time to time
authorized by the Board of Directors.
With respect to the Additional Obligations of any particular series, the
Company may incorporate in or add to the general title of such Additional
Obligations any words, letters or figures designed to distinguish that series.
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Section 3.03. Terms of Particular Series.
Each series of Additional Obligations shall be created by a Supplemental
Indenture authorized by the Board of Directors and establishing the terms and
provisions of such series of Additional Obligations or the method by which such
terms and conditions shall be established. The several series of Additional
Obligations may differ as between series and may differ from the Pre-Existing
Bonds and as between series in any respect not in conflict with the provisions
of this Indenture and as may be prescribed in the Supplemental Indenture
creating such series; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the Company may not issue
Additional Obligations which constitute Subordinated Debt.
The Company may, at the time of the creation of any series of Additional
Obligations or at any time thereafter, make, and the Additional Obligations of
such series may contain, provision for:
A. the exchange or conversion of the Additional Obligations of such
series, at the option of the Holders thereof, for or into new Additional
Obligations of a different series or other securities;
B. a sinking, amortization, improvement or other analogous fund or the
other payment of principal by installments or otherwise;
C. limiting the aggregate principal amount of the Additional Obligations
of such series;
D. exchanging Additional Obligations of such series, at the option of the
Holders thereof, for other Additional Obligations of the same series of the same
aggregate principal amount of a different authorized kind or authorized
denomination or denominations;
E. the authentication of Additional Obligations of such series by the
Authenticating Agent;
F. providing for the issuance of Additional Obligations of such series in
bearer or book-entry form;
G. specifying redemption or prepayment terms and procedures with respect
to such series;
H. specifying business days, grace periods, covenants, events of default,
remedies or other provisions with respect to such series; and
I. any other terms of the Additional Obligations of such series, or any
maturity thereof, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture;
all upon such terms as the Board of Directors may determine as evidenced by a
Board Resolution or as may be set forth in the Supplemental Indenture creating
the series of Additional Obligations.
With respect to Additional Obligations of a series subject to a Periodic
Offering, the Supplemental Indenture or the Board Resolution, or Officers'
Certificate pursuant to the Supplemental Indenture or Board Resolution, as the
case may be, which establishes such series may provide general terms or
parameters for Additional Obligations of such series and specify procedures,
acceptable to the Trustee, by which such specific terms are to be established
(which procedures may provide for authentication and delivery pursuant to oral
or electronic instructions
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from the Company or any agent or agents thereof, which oral instructions are to
be promptly confirmed electronically or in writing).
Section 3.04. Denominations.
Additional Obligations of each series shall be issuable in such
denominations as shall be provided in the provisions of the Supplemental
Indenture creating such series. In the absence of any such provision with
respect to Additional Obligations of any particular series, the Additional
Obligations of such series shall be of the denomination of $1,000 or any
integral multiple thereof. Additional Obligations may be in the form of bonds,
notes, debentures, guarantees or any other undertaking for the payment of money.
Section 3.05. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating.
Additional Obligations shall be executed on behalf of the Company by any
Officer and attested by its Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries. The
signature of any of these Officers on the Additional Obligations may be manual
or facsimile. Additional Obligations bearing the manual or facsimile signatures
of individuals who were at any time the proper Officers of the Company shall
bind the Company, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them shall
have ceased to hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of
such Additional Obligations or shall not have held such offices at the date of
such Additional Obligations.
At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this
Indenture, the Company may deliver Additional Obligations executed by the
Company to the Trustee for authentication, together with a Company Order for the
authentication and delivery of such Additional Obligations, and the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver such Additional Obligations as in this Indenture
provided and not otherwise.
All Additional Obligations shall be dated as provided in the Supplemental
Indenture creating such Additional Obligations or in the absence thereof, the
date of their authentication.
No Obligation shall be entitled to any right or benefit under this
Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose, unless there appears on
such Obligation (or an allonge thereto) a certificate of authentication
substantially in the form provided for herein or in the Original Indenture,
executed by the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent by manual signature, and
such certificate upon any Obligation (or an allonge thereto) shall be conclusive
evidence, and the only evidence, that such Obligation has been duly
authenticated and delivered hereunder or thereunder.
Section 3.06. Temporary Obligations.
Pending the preparation of definitive Additional Obligations, the Company
may execute, and upon Company Request the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver, temporary Additional Obligations which are printed, lithographed,
typewritten, mimeographed, copied or otherwise produced or reproduced, in any
authorized denomination, substantially of the tenor of the definitive Additional
Obligations in lieu of which they are issued, and with such appropriate
insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as the Officers
executing such Additional Obligations may determine, as evidenced by their
execution of such Additional Obligations.
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If temporary Additional Obligations are issued, the Company will cause
definitive Additional Obligations to be prepared without unreasonable delay.
After the preparation of definitive Additional Obligations, the temporary
Additional Obligations shall be exchangeable for definitive Additional
Obligations upon surrender of the temporary Additional Obligations at the office
or agency of the Trustee in a Place of Payment therefor, without charge to the
Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Additional
Obligations, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver in exchange therefor a like principal amount of definitive Additional
Obligations of authorized denominations. Until so exchanged, temporary
Additional Obligations shall in all respects be entitled to the benefits of this
Indenture.
Section 3.07. Registration; Registration of Transfer and Exchange.
The Company shall cause to be kept at one of the offices or agencies
maintained by the Trustee a register (herein sometimes referred to as the
"Obligation Register") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it
may prescribe, the Trustee shall provide for the registration of Obligations and
registration of transfers and exchanges of Obligations. The Trustee is hereby
appointed "Obligation Registrar" for the purpose of registering Obligations and
transfers and exchanges of Obligations as herein provided.
Upon surrender for transfer of any Obligation at the office or agency of
the Trustee in a Place of Payment therefor (or delivery of other evidence
satisfactory to the Trustee of the transfer of an Obligation), the Company shall
execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the
designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Obligations of the same
series and maturity, of any authorized denomination and of a like aggregate
principal amount. If such Obligation is not surrendered for transfer, upon
delivery to the Trustee of such evidence reasonably satisfactory to it of a
transfer, the Obligation Registrar shall register such transfer on the
Obligation Register.
Upon surrender for exchange of any Obligation at the office or agency of
the Trustee, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver, in the name of the Holder exchanging such Obligation, one or more new
Obligations of the same series of any authorized denomination and of a like
aggregate principal amount and maturity.
All Obligations surrendered upon registration of any exchange or transfer
provided for in this Indenture shall be promptly cancelled by the Trustee and
thereafter the Trustee shall retain such Obligations or destroy such Obligations
and deliver a certificate of destruction to the Company.
All Obligations issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of
Obligations shall be the valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same
debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Obligations
surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.
Every Obligation presented or surrendered for registration of transfer,
exchange or discharge from registration shall (if so required by the Company or
the Obligation Registrar) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written
instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Obligation
Registrar duly executed, by the Holder thereof or its attorney duly authorized
in writing.
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No service charge shall be made for any registration, discharge from
registration, registration of transfer or exchange of Obligations, but the
Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any registration of
transfer or exchange of Obligations, other than exchanges under Section 3.06,
10.06 or 12.07 not involving any transfer.
Except as provided in a Supplemental Indenture and with respect to Pre-
Existing Bonds, the Company shall not be required (i) to issue, register the
transfer of or exchange any Obligation of any series during a period beginning
at the opening of business fifteen (15) days before the day of the mailing of a
notice of redemption of Obligations of such series under Section 12.04 and
ending at the close of business on the day of such mailing, or (ii) to register
the transfer of or exchange any Obligation so selected for redemption in whole
or in part, except the unredeemed portion of an Obligation being redeemed in
part.
Section 3.08. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Obligations.
If (i) any mutilated Obligation is surrendered to the Trustee, or the
Company and the Trustee receive evidence to their satisfaction of the
destruction, loss or theft of any Obligation, and (ii) there is delivered to the
Trustee such security or indemnity as may be required to save each of the
Company and the Trustee harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Company
or the Trustee that such Obligation has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser,
the Company shall execute and upon its written request the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver, in exchange for or in lieu of any such mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Obligation, a new Obligation of the same series and of
like tenor and principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously
outstanding.
In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Obligation has become
or is about to become due and payable, the Company in its discretion may,
instead of issuing a new Obligation, pay all amounts to become due and payable
with respect to such Obligation.
Upon the issuance of any new Obligation under this Section, the Company may
require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental
charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other expense (including
the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith.
Every new Obligation issued pursuant to this Section in lieu of any
destroyed, lost or stolen Obligation shall constitute an original additional
contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or
stolen Obligation shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be
entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and ratably with all
other Outstanding Obligations.
The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to the
extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement or
payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Obligations.
Section 3.09. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved.
Interest on any Obligation of any series which is payable, and is
punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall be paid
to the Person in whose name that Obligation (or one or more Predecessor
Obligations) is registered at the close of business on the
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Regular Record Date for such interest as specified herein or in the provisions
of the Supplemental Indenture creating such series.
Any interest on any Obligation of any series which is payable, but is not
punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date (herein
called "Defaulted Interest") shall be payable as provided in such Obligation or,
if not so provided, shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on the
relevant Regular Record Date solely by virtue of such Holder having been such
Holder, and such Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Company, at its election
in each case, as provided in subsection (A) or (B) below:
A. The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest on the
Obligations of any series to the Persons in whose names such Obligations (or
their respective Predecessor Obligations) are registered at the close of
business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest,
which shall be fixed in the following manner. The Company shall notify the
Trustee in writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on
each Obligation and the date of the proposed payment (which date shall be such
as will enable the Trustee to comply with the next sentence hereof), and at the
same time the Company shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of money equal to
the aggregate amount proposed to be paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest
or shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit prior to
the date of the proposed payment, such money when deposited to be held in trust
for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted Interest as provided
in this subsection. Thereupon the Trustee shall fix a Special Record Date for
the payment of such Defaulted Interest which shall be not more than fifteen (15)
days nor less than ten (10) days prior to the date of the proposed payment and
not less than ten (10) days after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of
the proposed payment. The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company of such
Special Record Date and, in the name and at the expense of the Company, shall
cause notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special
Record Date therefor to be mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder
of an Obligation of such series at its address as it appears in the Obligation
Register not less than ten (10) days prior to such Special Record Date. Notice
of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date
therefor having been mailed as aforesaid, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid
to the Persons in whose names the Obligations of such series (or their
respective Predecessor Obligations) are registered on such Special Record Date
and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the following subsection B.
B. The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest on the
Obligations of any series in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the
requirements of any securities exchange on which such Obligations may be listed
and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, if, after notice given
by the Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to this
subsection, such payment shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section, each Obligation
delivered under this Indenture upon registration of transfer of or in exchange
for or in lieu of any other Obligation shall carry all the rights to interest
accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other Obligation
and each such Obligation shall bear interest from such date so that neither gain
nor loss in interest shall result from such transfer, exchange or substitution.
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Section 3.10. Persons Deemed Owners.
Subject to the provisions of Section 1.13, prior to due presentment of such
Obligation for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent
of the Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name any Obligation
is registered as the owner of such Obligation for the purpose of receiving
payment of principal of (and premium, if any) and (subject to Section 3.09)
interest on such Obligation and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or
not such Obligation be overdue, and, to the extent permitted by law, neither the
Company, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the
contrary.
Section 3.11. Cancellation.
All Obligations surrendered for payment, redemption, transfer, exchange or
conversion, if surrendered to the Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it,
and, if surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee, shall be delivered to
the Trustee and, if not already cancelled, shall be promptly cancelled by it.
The Company may at any time deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any
Obligations previously authenticated and delivered hereunder, which the Company
may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and all Obligations so delivered
shall be promptly cancelled by the Trustee. No Obligation shall be authenticated
in lieu of or in exchange for any Obligation cancelled as provided in this
Section, except as expressly provided by this Indenture. All cancelled
Obligations held by the Trustee shall be destroyed and thereafter the Trustee
shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Company.
Section 3.12. CUSIP Numbers.
The Company in issuing Obligations may use "CUSISP" numbers (if then
generally in use), and, if so, the Trustee shall use "CUSIP" numbers in notices
of redemption as a convenience to Holders; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that any such
notice may state that no representation is made as to the correctness of such
numbers either printed on the Obligations or as contained in any notice of a
redemption and that reliance may be placed only on other identification numbers
printed on the Obligations, and any such redemption shall not be affected by any
defect in or omission of such numbers. The Company will promptly notify the
Trustee of any change in the "CUSIP" numbers.
ARTICLE IV
AUTHENTICATION AND DELIVERY OF ADDITIONAL OBLIGATIONS
Additional Obligations of any one or more series, or within a series, may
from time to time be executed by the Company and delivered to the Trustee for
authentication and thereupon the same shall be authenticated and delivered by
the Trustee upon Company Request, upon receipt in each case by the Trustee of
the following upon or prior to the date of the initial issuance of Additional
Obligations of such series:
A. A Board Resolution authorizing and requesting the authentication and
delivery under this Article from time to time or at any time of a specified
principal amount of Additional Obligations of a designated series;
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B. An Officers' Certificate, dated within thirty (30) days of the date of
the relevant Application for the authentication and delivery of the initial
issuance of such Additional Obligations and stating that all conditions
precedent provided for in this Indenture relating to the authentication and
delivery of such Additional Obligations have been complied with (and, in the
event such Additional Obligations are subject to a Periodic Offering, that the
statements made in such Officers' Certificate shall be deemed remade at the time
of each subsequent authentication and delivery of such Additional Obligations);
and
C. An Opinion of Counsel:
(1) specifying the certificate or other evidence that shows the
authorization, approval or consent of or to the issuance by the Company of
the Additional Obligations then applied for by any Federal, state or other
governmental regulatory agency whose authorization, approval or consent is
at the time required to be obtained by the Company having jurisdiction in
the premises, or stating that no such authorization, approval or consent is
required;
(2) stating that all conditions precedent provided for in this
Indenture relating to the authentication and delivery of the issuance of
such Additional Obligations have been complied with; and
(3) stating that such Additional Obligations, when executed by the
Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and when issued by
the Company (and, in the event of Additional Obligations subject to a
Periodic Offering, when the terms of such Additional Obligations have been
established as provided in the manner contemplated by this Indenture or the
Supplemental Indenture under which such Additional Obligations are
established), will be the legal, valid and binding obligations of the
Company enforceable in accordance with their terms and the terms of this
Indenture and entitled to the benefits of this Indenture equally and
ratably with all other Outstanding Obligations.
ARTICLE V
DEFEASANCE
Section 5.01. Termination of Company's Obligations.
A. The Company may terminate its obligations under the Obligations and
this Indenture if all Obligations previously authenticated and delivered (other
than destroyed, lost or stolen Obligations which have been replaced or paid or
Obligations for whose payment money or securities has theretofore been held in
trust and thereafter repaid to the Company, as provided in Section 5.03) have
been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation and the Company has paid all sums
payable by it hereunder and thereunder; or
B. Except as otherwise provided in this Section 5.01, the Company may
terminate its obligations under any Obligations and all of its obligations under
this Indenture to or for the benefit of the Holders of such Obligations, if:
(1) the Company has (a) in case any of such Obligations are to be
redeemed on any date prior to their Stated Maturity, given to the Trustee
irrevocable instructions to give as
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provided in Article XII notice of redemption of such Obligations (other
than Obligations which have been purchased by the Trustee at the direction
of the Company as hereinafter provided prior to the giving of such notice
of redemption), and (b) irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited
with the Trustee or Paying Agent and conveyed all right, title and interest
for the benefit of the Holders of such Obligations, under the terms of an
irrevocable trust agreement in form and substance satisfactory to the
Trustee and any such Paying Agent, as trust funds in trust solely for the
benefit of the Holders of such Obligations for that purpose, money or
Defeasance Securities maturing as to principal and interest in such amounts
and at such times as are sufficient (in the opinion of a nationally
recognized firm of Independent Accountants expressed in a certificate
signed by such firm and delivered to the Trustee), without consideration of
any reinvestment of such interest, to pay principal or Redemption Price (if
applicable) of, and interest due or to become due on such Obligations
(other than destroyed, lost or stolen Obligations which have been replaced
or paid or Obligations for whose payment money or securities has
theretofore been held in trust and thereafter repaid to the Company as
provided in Section 5.03) on or prior to the Redemption Date or Stated
Maturity thereof, as the case may be, in accordance with the terms of this
Indenture and such Obligations; PROVIDED, that the Trustee or Paying Agent
shall have been irrevocably instructed to apply such money or the proceeds
of such Defeasance Securities to the payment of such principal, Redemption
Price and interest with respect to such Obligations;
(2) no Event of Default shall exist on the date of such deposit or
shall occur as a result of such deposit;
(3) the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee either (i) a
ruling from the Internal Revenue Service and directed to the Trustee to the
effect that the Holders of such Obligations will not recognize income, gain
or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result of the Company's
exercise of its option under this subsection 5.01(B) and will be subject to
Federal income tax on the same amount and in the same manner and at the
same times as would have been the case if such option had not been
exercised, or (ii) an Opinion of Counsel from nationally recognized tax
counsel not an employee of the Company to the same effect as the ruling
described in paragraph (i) of this subsection;
(4) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all sums then due from
the Company hereunder and under the Obligations;
(5) the Company has delivered an Opinion of Counsel stating that the
deposit shall not result in the Company, the Trustee or the trust becoming
or being deemed to be an "investment company" under the Investment Company
Act of 1940;
(6) the Company has delivered an Opinion of Counsel from a nationally
recognized law firm stating that the Holders of such Obligations (or the
Trustee for the benefit of such Holders) shall have a perfected security
interest under applicable law in the money or Defeasance Securities so
deposited; and
(7) the Company has delivered to the Trustee and any Paying Agent an
Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that the
conditions set forth in subsections (1) through (6) above have been
complied with. After any such irrevocable
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deposit, the Trustee upon Company Request shall acknowledge in writing the
discharge of the Company's obligations under such Obligations and of the
Company's obligations to or for the benefit of the Holders of such
Obligations under this Indenture, except for those surviving obligations
specified below.
C. Notwithstanding the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in
subsection (B) with respect to any Obligations, the Company's and the Trustee's
obligations to or for the Holders of such Obligations or to the Trustee under
Sections 3.07, 3.08, 5.02, 5.03, 5.04, 7.07, 7.10, 8.02, 11.01, 11.02 and 11.03
shall survive until such Obligations are no longer Outstanding. Thereafter, only
the Company's obligations under Sections 5.03, 5.04 and 7.07 shall survive with
respect to such Holders or the Trustee. If and when a ruling from the Internal
Revenue Service or Opinion of Counsel referred to in paragraph (B)(3) is able to
be provided specifically without regard to, and not in reliance upon, the
continuance of the Company's obligations to such Holders under Section 11.01,
then the Company's obligations to such Holders under such Section 11.01 shall
cease upon delivery to the Trustee of such ruling or Opinion of Counsel and
compliance with the other conditions precedent provided for herein relating to
the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect to such Holders.
D. The Trustee or Paying Agent shall, if so directed by the Company (i)
prior to the Stated Maturity of Obligations in respect of which a deposit has
been made under paragraph (B)(1) above which are not to be redeemed prior to
their Stated Maturity or (ii) prior to the giving of the notice of redemption
referred to in paragraph (B)(1) above with respect to any Obligations in respect
of which a deposit has been made under paragraph (B)(1) which are to be redeemed
on a date prior to their Stated Maturity, apply moneys deposited with the
Trustee in respect of such Obligations and redeem or sell Defeasance Securities
so deposited with the Trustee and apply the proceeds thereof to the purchase of
such Obligations and the Trustee shall immediately thereafter cancel all such
Obligations so purchased; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the moneys and Defeasance
Securities remaining on deposit with the Trustee or Paying Agent after the
purchase and cancellation of such Obligations shall be sufficient to pay when
due the principal or Redemption Price (if applicable) of, and interest due or to
become due on, all Obligations in respect of which such moneys and Defeasance
Securities are being held by the Trustee or Paying Agent on or prior to the
Redemption Date or Stated Maturity thereof, as the case may be. In the event
that on any date as a result of any purchases and cancellations of Obligations
as provided in this subsection the total amount of moneys and Defeasance
Securities remaining on deposit with the Trustee or Paying Agent under this
Section is in excess of the total amount that would have been required to be
deposited with the Trustee or Paying Agent on such date under paragraph (B)(1)
in respect of the remaining Obligations for which such moneys and Defeasance
Securities are being held, the Trustee or Paying Agent shall, if requested by
the Company and upon receipt by the Trustee or Paying Agent of a certificate of
a nationally recognized firm of Independent Accountants setting forth the
calculation of such excess, pay the amount of such excess to the Company free
and clear of any trust, lien, security interest, pledge or assignment securing
such Obligations or otherwise existing under this Indenture.
E. If the requirements of this Section 5.01 have been satisfied with
respect to all Obligations theretofore Outstanding, then, upon Company Request,
the rights and interest created hereby shall become null and void and be
cancelled and surrendered (except as otherwise provided herein).
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Section 5.02. Application of Deposited Money and Money From Defeasance
Securities.
Money or Defeasance Securities deposited with the Trustee or the Paying
Agent pursuant to Section 5.01 shall constitute a separate trust fund for the
benefit of persons entitled thereto. Subject to the provisions of Section 11.03,
the Trustee or Paying Agent shall hold in trust money or Defeasance Securities
deposited with it pursuant to Section 5.01, and shall apply the deposited money
and the money from Defeasance Securities to the payment of the principal or
Redemption Price (if applicable) of, and interest on, the Obligations in respect
of which such money and Defeasance Securities are deposited. If money deposited
with the Trustee under this Article V, or money received from principal or
interest payments on Defeasance Securities deposited with the Trustee under this
Article V, will be required at a later date for payment of the principal or
Redemption Price (if applicable) of, and interest on, the Obligations in respect
of which such money and Defeasance Securities are deposited, such money shall,
at the written investment direction of the Company, to the extent practicable,
be reinvested in Defeasance Securities maturing at times and in amounts that,
together with other moneys so deposited or to be generated by other Defeasance
Securities, will be sufficient to pay when due the principal or Redemption Price
(if applicable) of, and interest to become due on, such Obligations, and the
interest earned from such reinvestments shall be paid over to the Company, as
received by the Trustee, free and clear of any trust otherwise existing under
this Indenture.
Section 5.03. Repayment to Company.
Subject to Section 5.01, to the extent any Defeasance Securities deposited
with the Trustee or Paying Agent under this Article V, or cash received from
principal or interest payments on such Defeasance Securities, will not be
required for the payment of the principal or Redemption Price (if applicable)
of, and interest on, the Obligations in respect of which such money and
Defeasance Securities are deposited, the Trustee and the Paying Agent shall upon
Company Request accompanied by a certificate of a nationally recognized firm of
Independent Accountants calculating such excess, promptly pay and deliver to the
Company upon Company Request any such Defeasance Securities and cash, and
thereupon the Trustee or Paying Agent shall be relieved from any liability with
respect thereto. Without limiting the foregoing, the Trustee and the Paying
Agent shall pay to the Company upon Company Request any money held by them for
the payment of principal, Redemption Price or interest that remains unclaimed
for two years after the date such payment was due. After payment to the
Company, Holders entitled to such money must look to the Company for payment as
general creditors unless an applicable law designates another person, and all
liability of the Trustee and such Paying Agent with respect to such money shall
cease.
Section 5.04. Reinstatement.
If the Trustee or Paying Agent is unable to apply any money or Defeasance
Securities in accordance with Section 5.01 and the second sentence of Section
5.02 by reason of any legal proceeding or by reason of any order or judgment of
any court or governmental authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise
prohibiting such application, the Company's obligations under this Indenture to
or for the benefit of the Holders of Obligations for whose benefit such money or
Defeasance Securities were deposited and under such Obligations shall be revived
and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to Section 5.01 until
such time as the Trustee or Paying Agent is permitted to apply all such money
and Defeasance Securities in accordance with Section 5.01; PROVIDED, HOWEVER,
that if the Company has made any payment of interest on or
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principal of any Obligations because of the reinstatement of its obligations,
the Company shall be subrogated to the rights of the Holders of such Obligations
to receive such payment from the money or Defeasance Securities held therefor by
the Trustee or Paying Agent. Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other
provision of this Indenture, during any period in which the Trustee or Paying
Agent is unable, for any of the reasons described in the first sentence of this
Section, to apply in accordance with Section 5.01 and the second sentence of
Section 5.02 for the benefit of the Holders of any Obligations any money or
proceeds from Defeasance Securities deposited with the Trustee with respect to
such Obligations pursuant to Section 5.01, the Company's right to obtain any
excess funds from such moneys or proceeds, and the Company's subrogation rights
arising hereunder with respect to such Obligations, shall be suspended.
ARTICLE VI
EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES
Section 6.01. Events of Default.
"Events of Default," wherever used herein, means any one of the following
events (whatever the reason for such event 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):
A. default in the payment of any interest upon any Obligation when such
interest becomes due and payable, and continuance of such default for a period
of forty-five (45) days or such other period provided for in such Obligation or
in the Supplemental Indenture under which such Obligation is issued; or
B. default in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any, on) any
Obligation at its Maturity and, if so provided for in such Obligation or the
Supplemental Indenture under which such Obligation is issued, the continuance of
such default for the period so provided; or
C. default in the performance, or breach, of any covenant or warranty of
the Company in this Indenture (other than a covenant or warranty a default in
the performance or breach of which is elsewhere in this Section specifically
dealt with), and continuance of such default or breach for a period of forty-
five (45) days after there has been given, by registered or certified mail, to
the Company by the Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of
at least ten percent (10%) in principal amount of the Outstanding Obligations, a
written notice specifying such default or breach and requiring it to be remedied
and stating that such notice is a "Notice of Default" hereunder; or
D. a failure to pay any portion of the principal when due and payable
(other than amounts due and payable on acceleration) under any bond, debenture,
note or other evidence of indebtedness for money borrowed by the Company, other
than any indebtedness evidenced by an Obligation, whether such indebtedness now
exists or shall hereafter be created, which failure shall have resulted in such
indebtedness becoming or being declared due and payable prior to the date on
which it would otherwise have become due and payable in an aggregate principal
amount exceeding $10,000,000 without such indebtedness having been discharged or
such acceleration having been rescinded or annulled within a period of ten (10)
days after such acceleration; or
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E. the rendering against the Company of a judgment for the payment of
moneys in excess of the sum of $10,000,000 and the continuance of such judgment
unsatisfied and without stay of execution thereon for a period of forty-five
(45) days after the entry of such judgment, or the continuance of such judgment
unsatisfied for a period of forty-five (45) days after the termination of any
stay of execution thereon entered within such first mentioned forty-five (45)
days; but only in either case if such judgment shall have been continued
unstayed or unsatisfied for a period of ten (10) days after written notice of
default hereunder shall have been given, by registered or certified mail, to the
Company by the Trustee, or to the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of not
less than ten percent (10%) in principal amount of the Obligations Outstanding;
or
F. the entry by a court having jurisdiction in the premises of (i) a
decree or order for relief in respect of the Company in an involuntary case or
proceeding under any applicable Federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization or other similar law or (ii) a decree or order adjudging the
Company a bankrupt or insolvent, or approving as properly filed a petition
seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in respect
of the Company under any applicable Federal or state law, or appointing a
custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other
similar official of the Company or of any substantial part of its property, or
ordering the winding up or liquidation of its affairs, and the continuance of
any such decree or order for relief of any such other decree or order unstayed
and in effect for a period of sixty (60) consecutive days; or
G. the commencement by the Company of a voluntary case or proceeding under
any applicable Federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other
similar law or of any other case or proceeding to be adjudicated a bankrupt or
insolvent, or the consent by it to the entry of a decree or order for relief in
respect of the Company in an involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable
Federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or
to the commencement of any bankruptcy or insolvency case or proceeding against
it, or the filing by it of a petition or answer or consent seeking
reorganization or relief under any applicable Federal or state law, or the
consent by it to the filing of such petition or to the appointment of or taking
possession by a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator
or similar official of the Company or of any substantial part of its property,
or the making by it of an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the
admission by it in writing of its inability to pay its debts generally as they
become due, or the taking of corporate action by the Company in furtherance of
any such action.
Section 6.02. Acceleration of Maturity Rescission and Annulment.
If an Event of Default exists, then and in every such case the Trustee or
the Holders of not less than twenty-five percent (25%) in principal amount of
the Obligations Outstanding may declare the principal (or, if the Obligations of
any series are Original Issue Discount Obligations, such portion of the
principal amount of such Original Issue Discount Obligations as may be specified
in the terms of such series) of all the Obligations to be due and payable
immediately, by a notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee, if given
by Holders), and upon any such declaration such principal shall become
immediately due and payable.
At any time after such a declaration of acceleration has been made, but
before any judgment or decree for payment of money due on any Obligations has
been obtained by the Trustee as hereinafter in this Article provided, the
Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Obligations (unless
such declaration has been made under Section 6.17 only with
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respect to a particular series of Outstanding Obligations, in which event only a
majority in principal amount of the Obligations of such series) may, by written
notice to the Company and the Trustee, rescind and annul such declaration and
its consequences if:
A. the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum sufficient to
pay
(1) all overdue installments of interest on all Obligations,
(2) the principal of (and premium, if any, on) any Obligations which
have become due otherwise than by such declaration of acceleration and
interest thereon at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such
Obligations,
(3) to the extent that payment of such interest is lawful, interest
upon overdue installments of interest at the rate or rates prescribed
therefor in such Obligations,
(4) all late payment charges or fees, if any, prescribed in such
Obligations, and
(5) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder and the
reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the
Trustee, its agents and counsel; and
B. all Events of Default, other than the non-payment of the principal of
Obligations which have become due solely by such declaration of acceleration,
have been cured or have been waived as provided in Section 6.13.
No such rescission and annulment shall affect any subsequent default or
impair any right consequent thereon.
Section 6.03. Covenant to Pay Trustee Amounts Due on Obligations and Right of
Trustee to Judgment.
The Company covenants that, if:
A. default is made in the payment of any interest on any Obligation when
such interest becomes due and payable, and such default continues for the period
prescribed in subsection 6.01(A), or
B. default is made in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any,
on) any Obligation at its Maturity and, if applicable, such default continues
for the period prescribed in subsection 6.01(B),
then upon demand of the Trustee, the Company will pay to the Trustee, for the
benefit of the Holders of such Obligations, the whole amount then due and
payable on such Obligations (including any amount accelerated pursuant to
Section 6.02) for principal (and premium, if any) and interest, with interest at
the respective rate or rates prescribed therefor in the Obligations on overdue
principal (and premium, if any) and, to the extent that payment of such interest
is legally enforceable, on overdue installments of interest; and, in addition
thereto, all late payment charges and fees, if any, prescribed in such
Obligations and such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs
and expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses,
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disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel. If the
Company fails to pay such amounts forthwith upon such demand, the Trustee, in
its own name and as trustee of an express trust, shall be entitled to xxx for
and recover judgment against the Company and any other obligor on the
Obligations for the whole amount so due and unpaid and exercise such other
rights and remedies as may be provided by law or otherwise available to the
Trustee.
Section 6.04. Application of Money Collected.
Any money collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article shall be
applied in the following order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee and,
except as otherwise provided in an Obligation or Supplemental Indenture creating
the series to which such Obligation belongs, in case of the distribution of such
money on account of principal (or premium, if any) or interest, upon
presentation of the Obligations and the notation thereon of the payment if only
partially paid and upon surrender thereof if fully paid:
A. First: To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee under Section
7.07;
B. Second: To the payment of the interest, premium, if any, and principal
or Redemption Price then due on the Obligations, as follows:
(1) unless the principal of all of the Obligations shall have become
due and payable,
First: Interest - To the payment to the Persons entitled thereto
of all installments of interest then due (and, to the extent that
payment of such interest is legally enforceable, interest on overdue
installments of interest) on Outstanding Indenture Obligations in the
order of the maturity of such installments, together with accrued and
unpaid interest on the Obligations theretofore called for redemption
or prepayment, and, if the amount available shall not be sufficient to
pay in full any installment or installments maturing on the same
date, then to the payment thereof ratably, according to the amounts
due thereon, to the persons entitled thereto, without any
discrimination or preference; and
Second: Principal, Premium or Redemption Price - To the payment
to the Persons entitled thereto of the unpaid principal and premium,
if any, and Redemption Price of any Outstanding Indenture Obligations
which shall have become due, whether at Maturity or by call for
redemption or acceleration, and, if the amount available shall not be
sufficient to pay in full all the Obligations which shall have become
due, then to the payment thereof ratably, according to the amounts of
principal and premium, if any, due, and Redemption Price to the
Persons entitled thereto, without any discrimination or preference.
(2) if the principal of all of the Obligations shall have become due
and payable, to the payment of the principal, premium, if any, and interest
then due and unpaid upon the Outstanding Indenture Obligations without
preference or priority of principal and premium, if any, over interest or
of interest over principal and premium, if any, or of any installment of
interest over any other installment of interest, or of any Obligation over
any other Obligation, ratably, according to the amounts due respectively
for principal, premium, if any,
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and interest, to the Persons entitled thereto without any discrimination or
preference except as to any difference in the respective rates of interest
specified in the Obligations; and
C. Third: To the payment of the remainder, if any, to the Company or to
whosoever may be lawfully entitled to receive the same or as a court of
competent jurisdiction may direct.
Until such funds are so distributed, such funds shall be invested by the
Trustee in overnight deposits with commercial banks having a combined capital
and surplus of not less than $500 million or in shares of a money market mutual
fund or other collective investment fund registered under the Investment Company
Act of 1940, whose shares are registered under the Securities Act of 1933,
having assets of at least $100 million and having a rating "AAAm" or "AAAm-G" by
Standard & Poor's Ratings Group, including money market mutual funds from which
the Trustee or its affiliates derive a fee for investment advisory or other
services to the fund. The interest or other gains on such investments shall be
distributed by the Trustee as if such interest or gains were amounts recovered
from the Company.
Section 6.05. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.
In case of the pendency of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation,
bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other
judicial proceeding relative to the Company or any other obligor upon the
Obligations or the property of the Company or of such other obligor or their
creditors, the Trustee (irrespective of whether the principal of the Obligations
shall then be due and payable, as therein expressed or by declaration or
otherwise, and irrespective of whether the Trustee shall have made any demand on
the Company for the payment of overdue principal, premium or interest) shall be
entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise:
A. to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of principal (and
premium, if any) and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the Outstanding
Indenture Obligations and to file such other papers or documents as may be
necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee (including any
claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of
the Trustee, its agents and counsel) and of the Holders allowed in such judicial
proceeding, and
B. to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or
deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same;
and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or
other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by
each Holder to make such payments to the Trustee, and in the event that the
Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to
pay to the Trustee any amount due to it for the reasonable compensation,
expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and
any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 7.07.
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to
authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Obligations
or the rights of any Holder thereof, or to authorize the Trustee to vote in
respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding.
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Section 6.06. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Obligations.
All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the Obligations may
be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of the
Obligations or the production thereof in any proceeding relating thereto, and
any such proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name
as trustee of an express trust. Any recovery of judgment shall, after provision
for the payment of the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and
advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, be for the ratable benefit of
the Holders of the Obligations in respect of which such judgment has been
recovered.
Section 6.07. Limitation on Suits.
No Holder of any Obligation shall have any right to institute any
proceeding, judicial or otherwise, under or 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 Trustee of a
continuing Event of Default;
B. the Holders of not less than twenty-five percent (25%) in principal
amount of the Outstanding Obligations shall have made written request to the
Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default in its own
name as Trustee hereunder;
C. such Holder or Holders (other than the United States of America or its
agencies or instrumentalities) have offered to the Trustee reasonable indemnity
against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred in compliance with
such request;
D. the Trustee for sixty (60) days after its receipt of such notice,
request and offer of indemnity, if any is required pursuant to subsection (C)
above, has failed to institute any such proceeding; and
E. no direction inconsistent with such written request has been given to
the Trustee during such sixty (60) day period by the Holders of a majority in
principal amount of the Outstanding Obligations;
it being understood and intended that no one or more Holders of Obligations
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 Obligations, or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or
preference over any other Holders or to enforce any right under this Indenture,
except in the manner herein provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of
all Outstanding Indenture Obligations.
Section 6.08. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and
Interest.
Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the Holder of any
Obligation shall have the absolute and unconditional right to receive payment of
the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on such Obligation on the
respective Stated Maturities expressed in such Obligation (or, in the case of
redemption, on the Redemption Date) and to institute suit for the
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enforcement of any such payment, and such rights shall not be impaired without
the consent of such Holder.
Section 6.09. Restoration of Positions.
If the Trustee or any Holder has instituted any proceeding to enforce any
right or remedy under this Indenture and such proceeding has been discontinued
or abandoned for any reason or has been determined adversely to the Trustee or
to such Holder, then and in every such case the Company, the Trustee and the
Holders shall, subject to any determination in such proceeding, be restored to
their former positions hereunder, and thereafter all rights and remedies of the
Trustee and the Holders shall continue as though no such proceeding had been
instituted.
Section 6.10. Rights and Remedies Cumulative.
Except as otherwise provided in Sections 3.08, 5.03 and 11.03 with respect
to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen
Obligations or the payment of certain moneys, no right or remedy herein
conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders is intended to be
exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to the
extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to every other right and
remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or
otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or
otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other
appropriate right or remedy.
Section 6.11. Delay or Omission Not Waiver.
No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any Obligation to
exercise any right or remedy accruing upon an Event of Default shall impair any
such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default or an
acquiescence therein. Every right and remedy given by this Article or by law to
the Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as often
as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders, as the case may
be.
Section 6.12. Control by Holders.
The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding
Obligations shall have the right, during the continuance of an Event of Default:
A. to require the Trustee to proceed to enforce this Indenture, either by
judicial proceedings for the enforcement of the payment of the Obligations or
otherwise; and
B. to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for
any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred
upon the Trustee hereunder, PROVIDED that:
(1) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or
this Indenture,
(2) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the
Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction, and
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(3) the Trustee shall not determine that the action so directed would
be unjustly prejudicial to the Holders not taking part in such direction.
Section 6.13. Waiver of Past Defaults.
Before any judgment or decree for payment of money due has been obtained by
the Trustee as provided in this Article, the Holders of not less than a majority
in principal amount of the Outstanding Obligations may, by Act of such Holders
delivered to the Trustee and the Company, on behalf of the Holders of all the
Obligations waive any past default hereunder and its consequences, except a
default:
A. in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on
any Obligation, or
B. in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under Article X
cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each
Outstanding Obligation affected.
Upon any such waiver, such default shall cease to exist, and any Event of
Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every purpose
of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other
default or impair any right consequent thereon.
Section 6.14. Undertaking for Costs.
All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Obligation by
its acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in its
discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under
this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken,
suffered or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such
suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that such court may in
its discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys' fees,
against any party litigant in such suit, having due regard to the merits and
good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; but the
provisions of this Section shall not apply to any suit instituted by the
Trustee, by the United States of America (or its agencies or instrumentalities)
or by any Holder, or group of Holders, holding in the aggregate more than ten
percent (10%) in principal amount of the Outstanding Obligations, or to any suit
instituted by any Holder for the enforcement of the payment of the principal of
(or premium, if any) or interest on any Obligation on or after the respective
Stated Maturities expressed in such Obligation (or, in the case of redemption or
acceleration, on or after the Redemption Date or date of acceleration).
Section 6.15. Remedies Subject to Applicable Laws.
All rights, remedies and powers provided by this Article may be exercised
only to the extent that the exercise thereof does not violate any applicable
provision of law, and all the provisions of this Article are intended to be
subject to all applicable mandatory provisions of law which may be controlling
and to be limited to the extent necessary so that they will not render this
Indenture invalid, unenforceable or not entitled to be registered or filed under
the provisions of any applicable law.
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Section 6.16. Principal Amount of Original Issue Discount Obligation.
The principal amount of an Original Issue Discount Obligation shall, for
purposes of voting, directing the time, place or manner or exercising any
remedy, applying moneys, authenticating and delivering Additional Obligations,
and for all other purposes hereunder, be determined in the manner specified in
the Supplemental Indenture establishing the series to which such Original Issue
Discount Obligation belongs.
Section 6.17. Default Not Affecting All Series of Obligations.
In case an Event of Default affecting the rights of the Holders of
Obligations of any one or more series which does not similarly affect the rights
of Holders of all other series of Obligations at the time Outstanding
(including, without limitation, an Event of Default specified in a Supplemental
Indenture creating a series of Obligations) shall have occurred and be
continuing, then whatever action (including, without limitation, the
acceleration of Obligations under Section 6.02, the giving of any request or
direction to the Trustee under Section 6.07 or 6.12 or the waiver of any default
under Section 6.13) may or shall be taken under this Article upon the occurrence
of such Event of Default by or upon the request of the Holders of a specified
percentage in principal amount of the Obligations then Outstanding, may or shall
be taken in respect of the Obligations then Outstanding of the series as to
which such Event of Default shall have been made, by or upon the request of the
Holders of the same percentage in principal amount of the Obligations of such
series then Outstanding.
ARTICLE VII
THE TRUSTEE
Section 7.01. Certain Duties and Responsibilities.
A. Except during the continuance of an Event of Default,
(1) the 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
Trustee; and
(2) in the absence of bad faith on its part, the 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 Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture; but in
the case of any such certificates or opinions which by any provision hereof
are specifically required to be furnished to the Trustee, the Trustee shall
be under a duty to examine the same to determine whether or not they
conform to the requirements of this Indenture.
B. In case an Event of Default exists, the Trustee shall exercise such of
the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture, and use the same degree of
care and skill in their exercise, as a prudent person would exercise or use
under the circumstances in the conduct of his or her own affairs.
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C. No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to relieve the
Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure
to act, or its own willful misconduct, except that:
(1) this subsection shall not be construed to limit the effect of
subsection (A) of this Section;
(2) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in
good faith by a Responsible Officer, unless it shall be proved that the
Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts;
(3) the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken
or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the direction
of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding
Obligations relating to the time, method and place of conducting any
proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust
or power conferred upon the Trustee, under this Indenture; and
(4) no provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to
expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in
the performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the exercise of any
of its rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds for believing
that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or
liability is not reasonably assured to it.
D. Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of this
Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or affording
protection to the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this Section.
Section 7.02. Notice of Defaults.
Within ninety (90) days after the occurrence of any default hereunder, the
Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Holders entitled to receive reports
pursuant to Section 8.03(C), if operative, and if Section 8.03(C) is not
operative, to all Holders of Obligations as their names and addresses appear in
the Obligation Register, notice of such default hereunder known to the Trustee,
unless such default shall have been cured or waived; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that
except in the case of a default in the payment, repayment or prepayment of the
principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on any Obligation or in the
payment, repayment or prepayment of any sinking or purchase fund installment,
the Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice if and so long as the
board of directors, the executive committee or a trust committee of directors
and/or Responsible Officers of the Trustee in good faith determine that the
withholding of such notice is in the interests of the Holders; and PROVIDED
FURTHER, that in the case of any default of the character specified in Section
6.01(C) or 6.01(D), no such notice to Holders shall be given until at least
sixty (60) days after the occurrence thereof. For the purpose of this Section,
the term "default" means any event which is, or after notice or lapse of time or
both would become, an Event of Default.
Section 7.03. Certain Rights of Trustee.
Except as otherwise provided in Section 7.01:
A. the Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or refraining
from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion,
report, notice, request, direction, consent,
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order, bond, debenture or other paper or document believed by it to be genuine
and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties;
B. any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein shall be
sufficiently evidenced by a Company Request or Company Order and any resolution
of the Board of Directors may be sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution;
C. whenever in the administration of this Indenture the Trustee shall deem
it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking, suffering
or omitting any action hereunder, the Trustee (unless other evidence be herein
specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, rely upon
an Officers' Certificate;
D. the Trustee may consult with counsel and the written advice of such
counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and
protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by the Trustee
hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon;
E. the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights
or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or direction of any of
the Holders pursuant to this Indenture, unless such Holders (other than the
United States of America or its agencies or instrumentalities) shall have
offered to the Trustee reasonable security or indemnity against the costs,
expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance with such
request or direction;
F. the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts
or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument,
opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture,
note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document, or, except as
specifically provided herein, compliance by the Company with its agreements or
covenants in this Indenture but the Trustee, in its discretion, may make such
further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit,
and, if the Trustee shall determine to make such further inquiry or
investigation, it shall be entitled to examine the books, records and premises
of the Company, personally or by agent or attorney;
G. the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or
perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents or
attorneys and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or
negligence on the part of any agent or attorney appointed with due care by it
hereunder;
H. the Trustee shall not be required to take notice or be deemed to have
notice of any default (as defined in Section 7.02) hereunder unless the Trustee
shall be specifically notified in writing of such default by the Company or by
the Holder of any Obligation as to the Events of Default described in paragraph
(A) or (B) of Section 6.01, or by the Holders of not less than ten percent (10%)
in principal amount of the Obligations Outstanding as to any other default (as
defined in Section 7.02); and
I. the rights, privileges, protections, immunities and benefits given to
the Trustee, including, without limitation, its right to be indemnified, are
extended to, and shall be enforceable by, the Trustee in each of its capacities
hereunder, and to each agent, custodian and other Person employed to act
hereunder.
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Section 7.04. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Obligations or
Application of Proceeds.
The recitals contained herein and in the Obligations, except the Trustee's
certificate of authentication on the Obligations, shall be taken as the
statements of the Company, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for their
correctness. The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or
sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Obligations. The Trustee shall not be
accountable for the use or application by the Company of Obligations or the
proceeds thereof or of any money paid to the Company or upon Company Order under
any provision hereof.
Section 7.05. May Hold Obligations
The Trustee, any Paying Agent, Obligation Registrar, Authenticating Agent
or any other agent of the Company, in its individual or any other capacity, may
become the owner or pledgee of Obligations and, subject to Sections 7.08 and
7.13, if operative, may otherwise deal with the Company with the same rights it
would have if it were not Trustee, Paying Agent, Obligation Registrar,
Authenticating Agent or such other agent.
Section 7.06. Money Held in Trust.
Money held by the Trustee in trust hereunder need not be segregated from
other funds except to the extent required by law. The Trustee shall be under no
liability for interest on any money received by it hereunder except as otherwise
agreed with the Company, the Trustee will have no liability or responsibility
for any loss or failure to maximize earnings resulting from any investment made
in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.
Section 7.07. Compensation and Reimbursement.
The Company agrees:
A. to pay to the Trustee and each Paying Agent from time to time such
compensation as may be specifically agreed upon with the Trustee or Paying Agent
and, absent specific agreement, reasonable compensation for all services
rendered by it hereunder (which compensation shall not be limited by any
provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express
trust);
B. except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse the Trustee
and each Paying Agent upon its request for all reasonable expenses,
disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Trustee or Paying Agent in
accordance with any provision of this Indenture or as a result of its
performance of any obligation under this Indenture (including the reasonable
compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its agents and counsel),
except any such expense, disbursement or advance as may be attributable to the
Trustee's or Paying Agent's negligence or bad faith; and
C. to indemnify the Trustee and each Paying Agent for, and to hold it
harmless against, any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or
bad faith on its part, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or
administration of this trust or its duties hereunder, including the costs and
expenses of defending itself against any claim or liability in connection with
the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder.
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All such payments and reimbursements shall be made with interest at the "prime
rate" as quoted by and in effect from time to time by the Trustee plus one
percent (1%) per annum (such rate to be recomputed, and as so recomputed to take
effect, as of the day immediately following the date on which the Trustee
publicly announces any change in its "prime rate").
The provisions of this Section shall survive the termination of this Indenture
and the resignation or removal of the Trustee.
Section 7.08. Disqualification; Conflicting Interests.
A. If the Trustee has or shall acquire any conflicting interest, as
defined in this Section (certain terms being defined and percentages calculated
as hereinafter stated in this Section), if the default to which such conflicting
interest relates has not been cured or duly waived or otherwise eliminated
within the ninety (90) day period immediately following the date on which the
Trustee ascertains that it has such conflicting interest, it shall, within such
ninety (90) day period, either eliminate such conflicting interest or resign in
the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article.
B. In the event that the Trustee shall fail to comply with the provisions
of subsection A of this Section the Trustee shall, within ten (10) days after
the expiration of such ninety (90) day period, transmit notice of such failure
to the Holders in the manner and to the extent provided in Section 8.03(C).
C. For the purposes of this Section, the Trustee shall be deemed to have a
conflicting interest if there is an Event of Default and
(1) the Trustee is trustee under another indenture under which any
other securities, or certificates of interest or participation in any other
securities, of the Company are outstanding, or is trustee for more than one
outstanding series of securities, as hereafter defined, under a single
indenture of the Company, unless such other indenture is a collateral trust
indenture under which the only collateral consists of Obligations issued
under this Indenture, PROVIDED that there shall be excluded from the
operation of this paragraph other series under this Indenture and any
indenture or indentures under which other securities, or certificates of
interest or participation in other securities, of the Company are
outstanding, if the Company shall have sustained the burden of proving, on
application to the Commission and after opportunity for hearing thereon,
that trusteeship under this Indenture and such other indenture or
indentures or under more than one outstanding series under a single
indenture is not so likely to involve a material conflict of interest as to
make it necessary in the public interest or for the protection of investors
to disqualify the Trustee from acting as such under one of such indentures
or with respect to such series; or
(2) the Trustee or any of its directors or executive officers is an
underwriter for the Company; or
(3) the Trustee directly or indirectly controls or is directly or
indirectly controlled by or is under direct or indirect common control with
the Company or an underwriter for the Company; or
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(4) the Trustee or any of its directors or executive officers is a
director, officer, partner, employee, appointee or representative of the
Company, or of an underwriter (other than the Trustee itself) for the
Company who is currently engaged in the business of underwriting, except
that (a) one individual may be a director or an executive officer or both
of the Trustee and a director or an executive officer or both of the
Company but may not be at the same time an executive officer of both the
Trustee and the Company; (b) if and so long as the number of directors of
the Trustee in office is more than nine (9), one (1) additional individual
may be a director or an executive officer or both of the Trustee and a
director of the Company; and (c) the Trustee may be designated by the
Company or by any underwriter for the Company to act in the capacity of
transfer agent, registrar, custodian, paying agent, fiscal agent, escrow
agent, or depositary, or in any other similar capacity, or, subject to the
provisions of paragraph (1) of this subsection, to act as trustee, whether
under an indenture or otherwise; or
(5) ten percent (10%) or more of the voting securities of the
Trustee is beneficially owned either by the Company or by any director,
partner, or executive officer thereof, or twenty percent (20%) or more of
such voting securities is beneficially owned, collectively, by any two (2)
or more of such persons; or ten percent (10%) or more of the voting
securities of the Trustee is beneficially owned either by an underwriter
for the Company or by any director, partner or executive officer thereof,
or is beneficially owned, collectively, by any two (2) or more such
persons; or
(6) the Trustee is the beneficial owner of, or holds as collateral
security for an obligation which is in default (as hereinafter in this
subsection defined), (a) five percent (5%) or more of the voting
securities, or ten percent (10%) or more of any other class of security, of
the Company not including the Obligations issued under this Indenture and
securities issued under any other indenture under which the Trustee is also
trustee, or (b) ten percent (10%) or more of any class of security of an
underwriter for the Company; or
(7) the Trustee is the beneficial owner of, or holds as collateral
security for an obligation which is in default (as hereinafter in this
subsection defined), five percent (5%) or more of the voting securities of
any person who, to the knowledge of the Trustee, owns ten percent (10%) or
more of the voting securities of, or controls directly or indirectly or is
under direct or indirect common control with, the Company; or
(8) the Trustee is the beneficial owner of, or holds as collateral
security for an obligation which is in default (as hereinafter in this
subsection defined), ten percent (10%) or more of any class of security of
any person who, to the knowledge of the Trustee, owns fifty percent (50%)
or more of the voting securities of the Company; or
(9) the Trustee owns, upon the occurrence of an Event of Default (or
any occurrence that would constitute an Event of Default upon the lapse of
time or giving of notice) or any anniversary of such date while such Event
of Default or occurrence remains outstanding, in the capacity of executor,
administrator, testamentary or inter vivos trustee, guardian, committee or
conservator, or in any other similar capacity, an aggregate of twenty-five
percent (25%) or more of the voting securities, or of any class of
security, of any person, the beneficial ownership of a specified percentage
of which would have constituted a conflicting interest under paragraph (6),
(7) or (8) of this subsection. As to any such
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securities of which the Trustee acquired ownership through becoming
executor, administrator, or testamentary trustee of an estate which
included them, the provisions of the preceding sentence shall not apply,
for a period of two (2) years from the date of such acquisition, to the
extent that such securities included in such estate do not exceed twenty-
five percent (25%) of such voting securities or twenty-five percent (25%)
of any such class of security. Promptly after any Event of Default (or
other occurrence that would constitute an Event of Default upon the lapse
of time or giving of notice) and annually in each succeeding year that any
Event of Default or other occurrence remains outstanding, the Trustee shall
make a check of its holdings of such securities in any of the above-
mentioned capacities as of such dates. If the Company fails to make payment
in full of the principal of, or the premium, if any, or interest on, any of
the Obligations when and as the same becomes due and payable, and such
failure continues for thirty (30) days thereafter, the Trustee shall make a
prompt check of its holdings of such securities in any of the above-
mentioned capacities as of the date of the expiration of such thirty (30)
day period, and after such date, notwithstanding the foregoing provisions
of this paragraph, all such securities so held by the Trustee, with sole or
joint control over such securities vested in it, shall, but only so long as
such failure shall continue, be considered as though beneficially owned by
the Trustee for the purposes of paragraphs (6), (7) and (8) of this
subsection; or
(10) except under the circumstances described in subsection 7.13(B),
the Trustee shall become a creditor of the Company.
For purposes of paragraph (1) of this subsection, the term "series of
securities" or "series" means a series, class or group of securities issuable
under an indenture pursuant to whose terms holders of one such series may vote
to direct the Trustee, or otherwise take action pursuant to a vote of such
Holders, separately from Holders of another such series; PROVIDED, that "series
of securities" or "series" shall not include any series of securities issuable
under an indenture if all such series rank equally and are wholly unsecured.
The specification of percentages in paragraphs (5) to (9) inclusive, of
this subsection, shall not be construed as indicating that the ownership of such
percentages of the securities of a person is or is not necessary or sufficient
to constitute direct or indirect control for the purposes of paragraph (3) or
(7) of this subsection.
For the purposes of paragraphs (6), (7), (8) and (9) of this subsection
only, (a) the terms "security" and "securities" shall include only such
securities as are generally known as corporate securities, but shall not include
any note or other evidence of indebtedness issued to evidence an obligation to
repay moneys lent to a person by one or more banks, trust companies or banking
firms, or any certificate of interest or participation in any such note or
evidence of indebtedness; (b) an obligation shall be deemed to be "in default"
when a default in payment of principal shall have continued for thirty (30) days
or more and shall not have been cured; and (c) the Trustee shall not be deemed
to be the owner or holder of (i) any security which it holds as collateral
security, as trustee or otherwise, for an obligation which is not in default as
defined above, or (ii) any security which it holds as collateral security under
this Indenture, irrespective of any default hereunder, or (iii) any security
which it holds as agent for collection, or as custodian, escrow agent, or
depositary, or in any similar representative capacity.
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Except in the case of the failure to pay, repay or prepay the principal of
or interest on any Obligation, or to pay any sinking or purchase fund
installment, on the date on which it becomes due, the Trustee shall not be
required to resign as provided by this subsection if such Trustee shall have
sustained the burden of proving, on application to the Commission and after
opportunity for hearing thereon, that:
(i) the Event of Default (or other event that would constitute an
Event of Default upon the passage of time or giving of notice) otherwise
giving rise to an obligation by the Trustee to resign may be cured or
waived during a reasonable period and under the procedures described in
such application, and
(ii) a stay of the Trustee's duty to resign will not be inconsistent
with the interests of Holders of the Obligations. The filing of such an
application shall automatically stay the performance of the duty to resign
until the Commission orders otherwise.
Any resignation of the Trustee shall become effective only upon the
appointment of a successor trustee and such successor's acceptance of such an
appointment.
D. For the purposes of this Section:
(1) The term "underwriter" when used with reference to the Company
means every person who, within one (1) year prior to the time as of which
the determination is made, has purchased from the Company with a view to,
or has offered or sold for the Company in connection with, the distribution
of any security of the Company outstanding at such time, or has
participated or has had a direct or indirect participation in any such
undertaking, or has participated or has had a participation in the direct
or indirect underwriting of any such undertaking, but such term shall not
include a person whose interest was limited to a commission from an
underwriter or dealer not in excess of the usual and customary
distributors' or sellers' commission.
(2) The term "director" means any director of a corporation, or any
individual performing similar functions with respect to any organization
whether incorporated or unincorporated.
(3) The term "person" means an individual, a corporation, a
partnership, an association, a joint-stock company, a trust, an
unincorporated organization, or a government or political subdivision
thereof. As used in this paragraph, the term "trust" shall include only a
trust where the interest or interests of the beneficiary or beneficiaries
are evidenced by a security.
(4) The term "voting security" means any security presently entitling
the owner or holder thereof to vote in the direction or management of the
affairs of a person, or any security issued under or pursuant to any trust,
agreement or arrangement whereby a trustee or trustees or agent or agents
for the owner or holder of such security are presently entitled to vote in
the direction or management of the affairs of a person.
(5) The term "the Company" means any obligor upon the Obligations.
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(6) The term "executive officer" means the president, every vice
president, every trust officer, the cashier, the secretary, and the
treasurer of a corporation, and any individual customarily performing
similar functions with respect to any organization whether incorporated or
unincorporated, but shall not include the chairman of the board of
directors.
E. The percentages of voting securities and other securities specified in
this Section shall be calculated in accordance with the following provisions:
(1) A specified percentage of the voting securities of the Trustee,
the Company or any other person referred to in this Section (each of whom
is referred to as a "person" in this paragraph) means such amount of the
outstanding voting securities of such person as entitles the holder or
holders thereof to cast such specified percentage of the aggregate votes
which the holders of all the outstanding voting securities of such person
are entitled to cast in the direction or management of the affairs of such
person.
(2) A specified percentage of a class of securities of a person means
such percentage of the aggregate amount of securities of the class
outstanding.
(3) The term "amount," when used in regard to securities, means the
principal amount if relating to evidences of indebtedness, the number of
shares if relating to capital shares, and the number of units if relating
to any other kind of security.
(4) The term "outstanding" means issued and not held by or for the
account of the issuer. The following securities shall not be deemed
outstanding within the meaning of this definition:
(a) securities of an issuer held in a sinking fund relating to
securities of the issuer of the same class;
(b) securities of an issuer held in a sinking fund relating to
another class of securities of the issuer, if the obligation evidenced by
such other class of securities is not in default as to principal or
interest or otherwise;
(c) securities pledged by the issuer thereof as security for an
obligation of the issuer not in default as to principal or interest or
otherwise; and
(d) securities held in escrow if placed in escrow by the issuer
thereof;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that any voting securities of an issuer shall be deemed
outstanding if any person other than the issuer is entitled to exercise the
voting rights thereof.
(5) A security shall be deemed to be of the same class as another
security if both securities confer upon the holder or holders thereof
substantially the same rights and privileges; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that, in
the case of secured evidences of indebtedness, all of which are issued
under a single indenture, differences in the interest rates or maturity
dates of various series thereof shall not be deemed sufficient to
constitute such series as different classes, and PROVIDED FURTHER, that in
the case of unsecured evidences of indebtedness, differences in the
interest rates or maturity dates thereof shall not
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be deemed sufficient to constitute them securities of different classes,
whether or not they are issued under a single indenture.
Section 7.09. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility.
There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder which (i) shall be a
corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the United States of
America or of any state or the District of Columbia, and (ii) shall have a
combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000. If such corporation
publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the
requirements of such supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes
of this Section, the combined capital and surplus of such corporation shall be
deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent
report of condition so published. Neither the Company nor any Person directly
or indirectly controlling, controlled by or under common control with the
Company shall serve as Trustee hereunder. If at any time the Trustee shall cease
to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, it shall
resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in
this Article.
Section 7.10. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.
A. No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a
successor Trustee pursuant to this Article shall become effective until the
acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee under Section 7.11.
B. The Trustee may resign at any time by giving written notice thereof to
the Company. If an instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee shall not
have been delivered to the Trustee within thirty (30) days after the giving of
such notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee may petition any court of
competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee.
C. Unless an Event of Default (or an occurrence that would constitute an
Event of Default upon the passage of time or the giving of notice) exists, the
Company may remove the Trustee with or without cause, by delivery to the Trustee
of a Board Resolution effecting such removal. The Trustee may be removed with or
without cause at any time by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal
amount of the Outstanding Obligations, delivered to the Trustee and to the
Company.
D. If at any time:
(1) the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section 7.08(A) after
written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder who has been a
bona fide Holder of an Obligation for at least six (6) months, or
(2) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 7.09 and
shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company or by
any such Holder, or
(3) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be adjudged
bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the Trustee or of its property shall
be appointed or any public officer shall take charge or control of the
Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation,
conservation or liquidation,
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then, in any such case, (a) the Company by a Board Resolution may remove the
Trustee, or (b) subject to Section 6.14, any Holder who has been a bona fide
Holder of an Obligation for at least six (6) months may, on behalf of himself
and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction
for the removal of the Trustee and the appointment of a successor Trustee.
E. If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of acting,
or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee for any cause, the Company,
by a Board Resolution, shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee. In case all
or substantially all of the property of the Company shall be in the possession
of a receiver or trustee lawfully appointed, such receiver or trustee, by
written instrument, may similarly appoint a successor to fill such vacancy until
a new Trustee shall be so appointed by the Holders. If, within one (1) year
after such resignation, removal or incapability or the occurrence of such
vacancy, a successor Trustee shall be appointed by Act of the Holders of a
majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Obligations delivered to the
Company and the retiring Trustee, the successor Trustee so appointed shall,
forthwith upon its acceptance of such appointment, become the successor Trustee
and supersede the successor Trustee appointed by the Company or by such receiver
or trustee. If no successor Trustee shall have been so appointed by the Company
or the Holders and accepted appointment in the manner hereinafter provided,
subject to Section 6.14, the Trustee or any Holder who has been a bona fide
Holder of an Obligation for at least six (6) months may, on behalf of itself and
all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for
the appointment of a successor Trustee.
F. The Company shall give notice of each resignation and each removal of
the Trustee and each appointment of a successor Trustee by mailing written
notice of such event by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to the Holders of
Obligations as their names and addresses appear in the Obligation Register. Each
notice shall include the name of the successor Trustee and the address of its
principal corporate trust office.
Section 7.11. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.
Every successor Trustee appointed hereunder shall execute, acknowledge and
deliver to the Company and to the retiring Trustee an instrument accepting such
appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee
shall become effective and such successor Trustee, without any further act, deed
or conveyance, shall become vested with all the estates, properties, rights,
powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee; but, on request of the
Company or the successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall, upon payment of
its charges, execute and deliver an instrument conveying and transferring to
such successor Trustee upon the trusts herein expressed all the estates,
properties, rights, powers and trusts of the retiring Trustee, and shall duly
assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money
held by such retiring Trustee hereunder. Upon request of any such successor
Trustee, the Company shall execute any and all instruments for more fully and
certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor Trustee all such estates,
properties, rights, powers and trusts.
No successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at the time of
such acceptance such successor Trustee shall be qualified and eligible under
this Article, to the extent operative.
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Section 7.12. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.
Any corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or with
which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger,
conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any
corporation succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust
business of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder,
provided such corporation shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this
Article, to the extent operative, without the execution or filing of any paper
or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto. In case any
Obligations shall have been authenticated, but not delivered, by the Trustee
then in office, any successor by merger, conversion or consolidation to such
authenticating Trustee may adopt such authentication and deliver the Obligations
so authenticated with the same effect as if such successor Trustee had itself
authenticated such Obligations.
Section 7.13. Preferential Collection of Claims against Company.
A. Subject to subsection (B) of this Section, if the Trustee shall be or
shall become a creditor, directly or indirectly, secured or unsecured, of the
Company within three (3) months prior to a default (as defined in subsection (C)
of this Section), or subsequent to such a default, then, unless and until such
default shall be cured, the Trustee shall set apart and hold in a special
account for the benefit of the Trustee individually, the Holders of the
Obligations and the holders of other indenture securities (as defined in
subsection (C) of this Section):
(1) an amount equal to any and all reductions in the amount due and
owing upon any claim as such creditor in respect of principal, premium (if
any) or interest, effected after the beginning of such three (3) month
period and valid as against the Company and its other creditors, except any
such reduction resulting from the receipt or disposition of any property
described in paragraph (2) of this subsection, or from the exercise of any
right of set-off which the Trustee could have exercised if a petition in
bankruptcy had been filed by or against the Company upon the date of such
default; and
(2) all property received by the Trustee in respect of any claim as
such creditor, either as security therefor, or in satisfaction or
composition thereof, or otherwise, after the beginning of such three (3)
month period, or an amount equal to the proceeds of any such property, if
disposed of, SUBJECT, HOWEVER, to the rights, if any, of the Company and
its other creditors in such property or such proceeds.
Nothing herein contained, however, shall affect the right of the Trustee
(a) to retain for its own account (i) payments made on account
of any such claim by any Person (other than the Company) who is liable
thereon, and (ii) the proceeds of the bona fide sale of any such claim by
the Trustee to a third person, and (iii) distributions made in cash,
securities or other property in respect of claims filed against the Company
in bankruptcy or receivership or in proceedings for reorganization pursuant
to the Federal Bankruptcy Code or applicable state law; or
(b) to realize, for its own account, upon any property held by
it as security for any such claim, if such property was so held prior to
the beginning of such three (3) month period; or
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(c) to realize, for its own account, but only to the extent of
the claim hereinafter mentioned, upon any property held by it as security
for any such claim, if such claim was created after the beginning of such
three (3) month period and such property was received as security therefor
simultaneously with the creation thereof, and if the Trustee shall sustain
the burden of proving that at the time such property was so received the
Trustee had no reasonable cause to believe that a default would occur
within three (3) months; or
(d) to receive payment on any claim referred to in subparagraph
(b) or (c) above, against the release of any property held as security for
such claim as provided in subparagraph (b) or (c), as the case may be, to
the extent of the fair value of such property.
For the purposes of subparagraphs (b), (c) and (d), property substituted
after the beginning of such three (3) month period for property held as security
at the time of such substitution shall, to the extent of the fair value of the
property released, have the same status as the property released, and, to the
extent that any claim referred to in any of such Subparagraphs is created in
renewal of or in substitution for or for the purpose of repaying or refunding
any pre-existing claim of the Trustee as such creditor, such claim shall have
the same status as such pre-existing claim.
If the Trustee shall be required to account, the funds and property held in
such special account and the proceeds thereof shall be apportioned among the
Trustee, the Holders and the holders of other indenture securities in such
manner that the Trustee, the Holders and the holders of other indenture
securities realize, as a result of payments from such special account and
payments of dividends on claims filed against the Company in bankruptcy or
receivership or in proceedings for liquidation or reorganization pursuant to the
Federal Bankruptcy Code or applicable state law, the same percentage of their
respective claims, calculated before crediting to the claim of the Trustee
anything on account of the receipt by it from the Company of the funds and
property in such special account and before crediting to the respective claims
of the Trustee and the Holders and the holders of other indenture securities
dividends on claims filed against the Company in bankruptcy or receivership or
in proceedings for liquidation or reorganization pursuant to the Federal
Bankruptcy Code or applicable state law, but after crediting thereon receipts on
account of the indebtedness represented by their respective claims from all
sources other than from such dividends and from the funds and property so held
in such special account. As used in this paragraph, with respect to any claim,
the term "dividends" shall include any distribution with respect to such claim,
in bankruptcy or receivership or proceedings for reorganization pursuant to the
Federal Bankruptcy Code or applicable state law, whether such distribution is
made in cash, securities, or other property, but shall not include any such
distribution with respect to the secured portion, if any, of such claim. The
court in which such bankruptcy, receivership or proceedings for reorganization
is pending shall have jurisdiction (i) to apportion among the Trustee, the
Holders and the holders of other indenture securities, in accordance with the
provisions of this paragraph, the funds and property held in such special
account and proceeds thereof, or (ii) in lieu of such apportionment, in whole or
in part, to give to the provisions of this paragraph due consideration in
determining the fairness of the distributions to be made to the Trustee and the
Holders and the holders of other indenture securities with respect to their
respective claims, in which event it shall not be necessary to liquidate or to
appraise the value of any securities or other property held in such special
account or as security for any such claim, or to make a specific allocation of
such distributions as between the secured and
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unsecured portions of such claims, or otherwise to apply the provisions of this
paragraph as a mathematical formula.
Any Trustee which has resigned or been removed after the beginning of such
three (3) month period shall be subject to the provisions of this subsection as
though such resignation or removal had not occurred. If any Trustee has resigned
or been removed prior to the beginning of such three (3) months' period, it
shall be subject to the provisions of this subsection if and only if the
following conditions exist:
(i) the receipt of property or reduction of claim, which would have
given rise to the obligation to account, if such Trustee had continued as
Trustee, occurred after the beginning of such three (3) month period; and
(ii) such receipt of property or reduction of claim occurred within
three (3) months after such resignation or removal.
B. There shall be excluded from the operation of subsection (A) of this
Section a creditor relationship arising from:
(1) the ownership or acquisition of securities issued under any
indenture or any security or securities having a maturity of one (1) year
or more at the time of acquisition by the Trustee; or
(2) disbursements made in the ordinary course of business in the
capacity of trustee under an indenture, transfer agent, registrar,
custodian, paying agent, fiscal agent or depositary, or other similar
capacity; or
(3) an indebtedness created as a result of services rendered or
premises rented; or an indebtedness created as a result of goods or
securities sold in a cash transaction (as defined in subsection (C) of this
Section); or
(4) the ownership of stock or of other securities of a corporation
organized under the provisions of Section 25(a) of the Federal Reserve Act,
as amended, or any successor statute, which is directly or indirectly a
creditor of the Company; or
(5) the acquisition, ownership, acceptance or negotiation of any
drafts, bills of exchange, acceptances or obligations which fall within the
classification of self-liquidating paper (as defined in subsection (C) of
this Section).
C. For the purposes of this Section only:
(1) The term "default" means any failure to make payment in full of
the principal of or interest on any of the Obligations or upon the other
indenture securities when and as such principal or interest become due and
payable;
(2) The term "other indenture securities" means securities upon which
the Company is an obligor outstanding (within the meaning of that term in
Section 7.08(E)(4)) under any other indenture (a) under which the Trustee
is also trustee, (b) which contains provisions substantially similar to the
provisions of this Section, and (c) under which a
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default exists at the time of the apportionment of the funds and property
held in such special account;
(3) The term "cash transaction" means any transaction in which full
payment for goods or securities sold is made within seven (7) days after
delivery of the goods or securities in currency or in checks or other
orders drawn upon banks or bankers and payable upon demand;
(4) The term "self-liquidating paper" means any draft, xxxx of
exchange, acceptance or obligation which is made, drawn, negotiated or
incurred by the Company for the purpose of financing the purchase,
processing, manufacturing, shipment, storage or sale of goods, wares or
merchandise and which is secured by documents evidencing title to,
possession of, or a lien upon, the goods, wares or merchandise or the
receivables or proceeds arising from the sale of the goods, wares or
merchandise previously constituting the security, provided the security is
received by the Trustee simultaneously with the creation of the creditor
relationship with the Company arising from the making, drawing, negotiating
or incurring of the draft, xxxx of exchange, acceptance or obligation;
(5) The term "Company" means any obligor upon the Obligations; and
(6) The term "Federal Bankruptcy Code" means Title 11 of the United
States Code, as it may be amended from time to time.
Section 7.14. Authenticating Agent.
The Trustee may appoint an Authenticating Agent or Agents which shall be
authorized to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Obligations issued
upon original issue and upon exchange, registration of transfer or partial
redemption or pursuant to Sections 3.06, 3.07, 3.08 or 12.07, and Obligations so
authenticated shall be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture and shall be
valid and obligatory for all purposes as if authenticated by the Trustee
hereunder. Such Authenticating Agent shall at all times be a bank or trust
company, and shall at all times be a corporation organized and doing business
under the laws of the United States or of any state, territory or the District
of Columbia, with a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 and
authorized under such laws to exercise corporate trust powers and subject to
supervision or examination by Federal, state, territorial or District of
Columbia authority. If such corporation publishes reports of condition at least
annually pursuant to law or the requirements of such supervising or examining
authority, then for the purposes of this Section the combined capital and
surplus of such corporation shall be deemed to be its combined capital and
surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published.
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 the corporate trust business
of any Authenticating Agent, shall continue to be the Authenticating Agent
hereunder, provided such corporation shall otherwise be eligible under this
Section, without the execution or filing of any further act on the part of the
parties hereto or the Authenticating Agent or such successor corporation.
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Any Authenticating Agent may at any time resign by giving written notice of
resignation to the Trustee and the Company. The Trustee may at any time
terminate the agency of any Authenticating Agent by giving written notice of
termination to such Authenticating Agent and the Company. Upon receiving such a
notice of resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at any time any
Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible under this Section, the Trustee
shall promptly appoint a successor Authenticating Agent, shall give written
notice of such appointment to the Company and shall mail notice of such
appointment by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to all Holders of Obligations
of the applicable series as the names and addresses of such Holders appear on
the Obligation Register.
If at any time an Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in
accordance with the provisions of this Section, such Authenticating Agent shall
resign immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in this Section.
The Trustee agrees to pay to the Authenticating Agent from time to time
reasonable compensation for its services under this Section and the Trustee
shall be entitled to be reimbursed by the Company for such payments, subject to
Section 7.07. The provisions of Sections 3.10, 7.04 and 7.05 shall be applicable
to any Authenticating Agent.
Any successor Authenticating Agent upon acceptance of its appointment
hereunder shall become vested with all the rights, powers and duties of its
predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as an
Authenticating Agent. No successor Authenticating Agent shall be appointed
unless eligible under the provisions of this Section.
The Trustee agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from time to time
reasonable compensation for its services under this Section, and the Trustee
shall be entitled to be reimbursed for such payments, subject to the provisions
of Section 7.07.
If an appointment is made pursuant to this Section, the Obligations may
have endorsed thereon, in lieu of the Trustee's certificate of authentication,
an alternative certificate of authentication in the following form:
This is one of the Obligations described in the within-mentioned Indenture.
_____________________________________
As Trustee
By___________________________________
As Authenticating Agent
By___________________________________
Authorized Officer
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ARTICLE VIII
HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS
BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY
Section 8.01. Company to Furnish Trustee Semi-Annual Lists of Holders.
The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee
semiannually, not less than forty-five (45) days nor more than sixty (60) days
after June 1 and December 1, and at such other times as the Trustee may request
in writing, within thirty (30) days after receipt by the Company of any such
request, a list in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require containing
all the information in the possession or control of the Company, or any of its
Paying Agents other than the Trustee, as to the names and addresses of the
Holders of Obligations, obtained since the date as of which the next previous
list, if any, was furnished, EXCLUDING from any such list the names and
addresses received by the Trustee in its capacity as Obligation Registrar. Any
such list may be dated as of a date not more than fifteen (15) days prior to the
time such information is furnished and need not include information received
after such date.
Section 8.02. Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders.
A. The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably
practicable, the names and addresses of Holders of Obligations (1) contained in
the most recent list furnished to the Trustee as provided in Section 8.01, (2)
received by the Trustee in the capacity of Paying Agent (if so acting)
hereunder, (3) filed with the Trustee by Holders of Obligations within the two
(2) preceding years as provided for in Section 8.03(C)(2) or (4) received by the
Trustee in its capacity as Obligation Registrar.
The Trustee may (1) destroy any list furnished to it under Section 8.01
upon receipt of a new list so furnished, (2) destroy any information received by
it as Paying Agent (if so acting) hereunder upon delivering to itself as
Trustee, not earlier than forty-five (45) days after June 1 and December 1 of
each year, a list containing the names and addresses of the Holders of
Obligations obtained from such information since the delivery of the next
previous list, if any, (3) destroy any list delivered to itself as Trustee which
was compiled from information received by it as Paying Agent (if so acting)
hereunder upon the receipt of a new list so delivered, and (4) destroy, not
earlier than two (2) years after filing, any information as to their names and
addresses filed with the Trustee by Holders of Obligations as provided for in
Section 8.03(C)(2).
B. If three (3) or more Holders of Obligations (hereinafter referred to as
"applicants") apply in writing to the Trustee, and furnish to the Trustee
reasonable proof that each such applicant has owned an Obligation for a period
of at least six (6) months preceding the date of such application, and such
application states that the applicants desire to communicate with other Holders
of Obligations with respect to their rights under this Indenture or under the
Obligations and is accompanied by a copy of the form of proxy or other
communication which such applicants propose to transmit, then the Trustee shall,
within five (5) business days after the receipt of such application, at its
election, either
(1) afford such applicants access to the information preserved at the
time by the Trustee in accordance with Section 8.02(A), or
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(2) inform such applicants as to the approximate number of Holders of
Obligations whose names and addresses appear in the information preserved
at the time by the Trustee in accordance with Section 8.02(A), and as to
the approximate cost of mailing to such Holders the form of proxy or other
communication, if any specified in such application.
If the Trustee shall elect not to afford such applicants access to such
information, the Trustee shall, upon the written request of such applicants,
mail to each Holder whose name and address appear in the information preserved
at the time by the Trustee in accordance with Section 8.02(A), a copy of the
form of proxy or other communication which is specified in such request, with
reasonable promptness after a tender to the Trustee of the material to be mailed
and of payment, or provision for the payment, of the reasonable expenses of such
mailing, unless within five (5) days after such tender, the Trustee shall mail
to such applicants and file with the Commission, together with a copy of the
material to be mailed, a written statement to the effect that, in the opinion of
the Trustee, such mailing would be contrary to the best interests of the Holders
of Obligations or would be in violation of applicable law. Such written
statement shall specify the basis of such opinion. If the Commission, after
opportunity for a hearing upon the objections specified in the written statement
so filed, shall enter an order refusing to sustain any of such objections or if,
after the entry of an order sustaining one or more of such objections, the
Commission shall find, after notice and opportunity for hearing, that all the
objections so sustained have been met and shall enter an order so declaring, the
Trustee shall mail copies of such material to all such Holders with reasonable
promptness after the entry of such order and the renewal of such tender;
otherwise the Trustee shall be relieved of any obligation or duty to such
applicants respecting their application.
C. Every Holder of Obligations, by receiving and holding the same, agrees
with the Company and the Trustee that neither the Company nor the Trustee nor
any Paying Agent shall be held accountable by reason of the disclosure of any
such information as to the names and addresses of the Holders of Obligations in
accordance with Section 8.02(B), regardless of the source from which such
information was derived, and that the Trustee shall not be held accountable by
reason of mailing any material pursuant to a request made under Section 8.02(B).
Section 8.03. Reports by Trustee.
The provisions of this Section shall be operative only while this Indenture
is required to be qualified under the Trust Indenture Act.
A. The term "reporting date," as used in this Section, means June 30 in
each year, beginning with the first June 30/th/ following the Release Date.
Within sixty (60) days after the reporting date in each year, the Trustee shall
transmit to the Holders, as provided in subsection (C) of this Section, a brief
report dated as of such reporting date with respect to any of the following
events which may have occurred within the previous twelve (12) months (but if no
such event has occurred within such period no such report need be transmitted):
(1) any change to its eligibility under Section 7.09 and its
qualifications under Section 7.08;
(2) the creation of or any material change to a relationship
specified in paragraphs (1) through (10) of subsection 7.08(C);
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(3) the character and amount of any advances (and if the Trustee
elects so to state, the circumstances surrounding the making thereof) made
by the Trustee (as such) which remain unpaid on the date of such report,
and for the reimbursement of which it claims or may claim a lien or charge,
prior to that of the Obligations on any property or funds held or collected
by it as Trustee, except that the Trustee shall not be required (but may
elect) to report such advances if such advances so remaining unpaid
aggregate not more than one-half percent (0.5%) of the principal amount of
the Obligations Outstanding on the date of such report;
(4) the amount, interest rate and maturity date of all other
indebtedness owing by the Company (or by any other obligor on the
Obligations) to the Trustee in its individual capacity, on the date of such
report, with a brief description of any property held as collateral
security therefor, except an indebtedness based upon a creditor
relationship arising in any manner described in Section 7.13(B)(2), (3),
(4) or (6);
(5) any change to the property and funds, if any, physically in the
possession of the Trustee as such on the date of such report;
(6) any additional issue of Obligations which the Trustee has not
previously reported; and
(7) any action taken by the Trustee in the performance of its duties
hereunder which it has not previously reported and which in its opinion
materially affects the Obligations, except action in respect of a default,
notice of which has been or is to be withheld by the Trustee in accordance
with Section 7.02.
B. The Trustee shall transmit to the Holders, as provided in subsection
(C) of this Section, a brief report with respect to the character and amount of
any advances (and if the Trustee elects so to state, the circumstances
surrounding the making thereof) made by the Trustee (as such) since the date of
the last report transmitted pursuant to subsection (A) of this Section (or if no
such report has yet been so transmitted, since the date of execution of this
instrument) for the reimbursement of which it claims or may claim a lien or
charge, prior to that of the Obligations on any property or funds held or
collected by it as Trustee, and which it has not previously reported pursuant to
this subsection, except that the Trustee shall not be required (but may elect)
to report such advances if such advances remaining unpaid at any time aggregate
ten percent (10%) or less of the principal amount of the Obligations Outstanding
at such time, such report to be transmitted within ninety (90) days after such
time.
C. Reports pursuant to this Section shall be transmitted by mail:
(1) to all Holders of Obligations, as the names and addresses of such
Holders appear in the Obligation Register;
(2) to such Holders as have, within the two (2) years preceding such
transmission, filed their names and addresses with the Trustee for that
purpose; and
(3) except in the case of reports pursuant to subsection (B) of this
Section, to all Holders whose names and addresses have been furnished to or
received by the Trustee pursuant to Section 8.01 hereof.
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D. A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such transmission to
Holders, be filed by the Trustee with each stock exchange upon which any of the
Obligations are listed and also with the Commission. The Company will notify
the Trustee when the Obligations are listed on any stock exchange.
Section 8.04. Reports by Company.
As long as this Indenture is required to be qualified under the Trust Indenture
Act, the Company shall:
A. file with the Trustee, within fifteen (15) days after the Company is
required to file the same with the Commission, copies of the annual reports and
of the information, documents and other reports (or copies of such portions of
any of the foregoing as the Commission may from time to time by rules and
regulations prescribe) which the Company may be required to file with the
Commission pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act; or, if
the Company is not required to file information, documents or reports pursuant
to either of such Sections, then it will file with the Trustee and the
Commission, in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed by the
Commission, such of the supplementary and periodic information, documents and
reports which may be required pursuant to Section 13 of the Exchange Act in
respect of a security listed and registered on a national securities exchange as
may be prescribed in such rules and regulations;
B. file with the Trustee and the Commission, in accordance with rules and
regulations prescribed by the Commission, such additional information, documents
and reports with respect to compliance by the Company with the conditions and
covenants of this Indenture as may be required by such rules and regulations;
and
C. transmit to the Holders of Obligations, within thirty (30) days after
the filing thereof with the Trustee, in the manner and to the extent provided in
Section 8.03(C) with respect to reports pursuant to Section 8.03(A), such
summaries of any information, documents and reports required to be filed by the
Company pursuant to subsections (A) and (B) of this Section as may be required
by rules and regulations prescribed by the Commission.
D. The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, as soon as possible and in
any event within five (5) days after the Company becomes aware of the occurrence
of any Event of Default or an event which, with notice or the lapse of time or
both, would constitute an Event of Default, an Officer's Certificate setting
forth the details of such Event of Default or default and the action which the
Company proposes to take with respect thereto.
E. In respect of each Series of Original Issue Discount Obligations, the
Company shall file with the Trustee promptly at the end of each calendar year
(i) a written notice specifying the amount of original issue discount (including
daily rates and accrual periods) accrued on each Series of such Obligations as
of the end of such year, and (ii) such other specific information relating to
such original issue discount as may then be relevant under the Internal Revenue
Code of 1986, as amended from time to time.
Delivery of such reports, information and documents to the Trustee pursuant to
subsection (A) of this Section 8.04 is for informational purposes only and the
Trustee's receipt of such shall not constitute constructive notice of any
information contained therein or determinable from
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information contained therein, including the Company's compliance with any of
its covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is entitled to rely exclusively
on Officers' Certificates).
ARTICLE IX
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE
OR TRANSFER
Section 9.01. Consolidation, Merger, Conveyance or Transfer only on Certain
Terms.
The Company shall not consolidate with or merge into any other Person or
convey or transfer all or substantially all of its properties and assets to any
Person, unless:
A. the Person formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is
merged or the Person which acquires by conveyance or transfer all or
substantially all of the Company's properties and assets shall be a Person
organized and validly existing under the laws of the United States of America,
any state thereof or the District of Columbia and shall execute and deliver to
the Trustee a Supplemental Indenture in form satisfactory to the Trustee
containing an assumption by such successor Person of the due and punctual
payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on all the
Obligations and the performance and observance of every covenant and condition
of this Indenture to be performed or observed by the Company; and
B. immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Event of
Default hereunder shall exist; and
C. the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each of which shall state that such
consolidation, merger, conveyance or transfer and such Supplemental Indenture
comply with this Article and that all conditions precedent herein provided for
relating to such transaction shall be complied with.
Section 9.02. Successor Person Substituted.
Upon any consolidation or merger or any conveyance or transfer of all or
substantially all of the Company's properties and assets, the successor Person
formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or to which
such conveyance or transfer is made shall succeed to, and be substituted for,
and may exercise every right and power of, the Company under this Indenture with
the same effect as if such successor Person had been named as the Company
herein.
ARTICLE X
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
Section 10.01. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders.
Without the consent of the Holders of any Obligations, the Company, when
authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee, at any time and from time to
time, may enter into one or more Supplemental Indentures, in form satisfactory
to the Trustee, for any of the following purposes:
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A. to add to the conditions, limitations and restrictions on the
authorized amount, terms or purposes of issue, authentication and delivery of
Obligations or of any series of Obligations, as herein set forth, additional
conditions, limitations and restrictions thereafter to be observed; or
B. to create any series of Obligations and make such other provisions as
provided in Section 3.03; or
C. to modify or eliminate any of the terms of this Indenture; PROVIDED,
HOWEVER, that
(1) in the event any such modification or elimination made in such
Supplemental Indenture would adversely affect or diminish the rights of the
Holders of any Obligations then Outstanding against the Company or its
property, it shall expressly be stated in such Supplemental Indenture that
any such modifications or eliminations shall become effective only when
there is no Obligation Outstanding of any series created prior to the
execution of such Supplemental Indenture; and
(2) the Trustee may, in its discretion, decline to enter into any
such Supplemental Indenture which, in its opinion, may not afford adequate
protection to the Trustee when the same becomes operative; or
D. to evidence the succession of another corporation to the Company and
the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the Company herein and
in the Obligations contained; or
E. to evidence the appointment of any successor trustee or separate
trustee or trustees or co-trustee or co-trustees hereunder, and to define the
rights, powers, duties and obligations conferred upon any such separate trustee
or trustees or co-trustee or co-trustees; or
F. to add to the covenants of the Company or the Events of Default for the
benefit of the Holders of all or any series of Obligations or to surrender any
right or power herein conferred upon the Company; or
G. to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision herein
which may be inconsistent with any other provision herein or to make any other
provisions, with respect to matters or questions arising under this Indenture,
which shall not be inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture, PROVIDED
such action shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of the
Obligations in any material respect; or
H. 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 permitted by the TIA,
EXCLUDING, HOWEVER, the provisions referred to in Section 316(a)(2) of the TIA
as in effect at the date as of which this instrument was executed or any
corresponding provision in any similar federal statute hereafter enacted; or
I. to add or change any of the provisions of this Indenture to such extent
as shall be necessary to permit or facilitate the issuance of Obligations (i) in
bearer form, registrable or not registrable as to principal and with or without
interest coupons or (ii) in book-entry form; or
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J. to make any change in the Indenture that, in the reasonable judgment of
the Trustee, will not materially and adversely affect the rights of Holders. For
purposes of this paragraph of this Section, any Supplemental Indenture will be
presumed not to materially and adversely affect the rights of the Holders if (1)
this Indenture, as supplemented and amended by such Supplemental Indenture,
provides equally and ratably for the payment of principal of (and premium, if
any) and interest on the Outstanding Obligations which are to remain
Outstanding, and (2) subject to the last sentence of this paragraph, the Company
shall furnish to the Trustee written evidence from at least two (2) nationally
recognized statistical rating organizations then rating the Obligations (or
other obligations primarily secured by Outstanding Obligations) that their
respective ratings of the Outstanding Obligations (or other obligations
primarily secured by Outstanding Obligations) that are not subject to Credit
Enhancement will not be withdrawn or reduced as a result of the changes in the
Indenture effected by such Supplemental Indenture; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the
failure to qualify for the presumption set forth in this sentence shall not
create any presumption to the contrary or be used to question the judgment of
the Trustee and PROVIDED, FURTHER, that the provisions of this paragraph may not
be used to amend or modify the items listed in paragraphs (A) through (F) of
Section 10.02 hereof in any way that is inconsistent with the provisions of such
Section 10.02. The Trustee may rely on the written evidence of the nationally
recognized statistical rating organizations then rating the Obligations (or
other obligations primarily secured by Outstanding Obligations) with respect to
credit matters relating to the Company to the extent that it deems such reliance
to be appropriate.
The Company shall promptly give notice to any Credit Enhancer of any
Supplemental Indenture entered into pursuant to the provisions of this Section
10.01.
Section 10.02. Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Holders.
With the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal
amount of the Obligations of all series then Outstanding affected by such
Supplemental Indenture, by Act of such Holders delivered to the Company and the
Trustee, the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee may
enter into a Supplemental Indenture for the purpose of adding any provisions to
or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture
or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of the Obligations under
this Indenture; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that no such Supplemental Indenture shall,
without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Obligation affected
thereby:
A. change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or any installment of
interest on, any Obligation, or reduce the principal amount thereof or the
interest thereon or any premium payable upon the redemption thereof, or change
any Place of Payment where, or the coin or currency in which, any Obligation, or
the interest thereon is payable, or impair the right to institute suit for the
enforcement of any such payment on or after the Stated Maturity thereof (or, in
the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date); or
B. reduce the percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding
Obligations, the consent of whose Holders is required for any such Supplemental
Indenture, or the consent of whose Holders is required for any waiver provided
for in this Indenture of compliance with certain provisions of this Indenture or
certain defaults hereunder and their consequences; or
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C. modify or alter the provisions of the proviso to the definition of the
term "Outstanding"; or
D. modify any of the provisions of this Section, Section 6.08 or Section
6.13, except to increase any percentage provided thereby or to provide that
certain other provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified or waived without
the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Obligation affected thereby; or
E. modify, in the case of Obligations of any series for which a mandatory
sinking fund is provided, any of the provisions of this Indenture in such manner
as to affect the rights of the Holders of such Obligations to the benefits of
such sinking fund; or
F. modify Section 6.04 of this Indenture.
The Trustee may in its discretion determine whether or not any Obligations
would be affected by any Supplemental Indenture and any such determination shall
be conclusive upon the Holder of all Obligations, whether theretofore or
thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder. The Trustee shall not be
liable for any such determination made in good faith.
It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this Section to
approve the particular form of any proposed Supplemental Indenture, but it shall
be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.
Section 10.03. Execution of Supplemental Indentures.
In executing or accepting the additional trusts created by, any
Supplemental Indenture permitted by this Article or the modification thereby of
the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive,
and, subject to Section 7.01, shall be fully protected in relying upon, an
Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such Supplemental Indenture is
authorized or permitted by this Indenture. The Trustee may, but shall not,
except to the extent required in the case of a Supplemental Indenture entered
into under Section 10.01, be obligated to, enter into any such Supplemental
Indenture which adversely affects the Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities
under this Indenture or otherwise.
Section 10.04. Effect of Supplemental Indentures.
Upon the execution of any Supplemental Indenture under this Article, this
Indenture shall be modified in accordance therewith and such Supplemental
Indenture shall form a part of this Indenture for all purposes; and every Holder
of Obligations theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder
shall be bound thereby.
Section 10.05. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act.
As long as this Indenture is required to be qualified under the TIA, every
Supplemental Indenture executed pursuant to this Article shall conform to the
requirements of the TIA as then in effect.
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Section 10.06. Reference in Obligations to Supplemental Indentures.
Obligations authenticated and delivered after the execution of any
Supplemental Indenture pursuant to this Article may, and if required by the
Trustee or the Company shall, bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee as
to any matter provided for in such Supplemental Indenture. If the Company shall
so determine, new Obligations so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the
Trustee and the Board of Directors, to any such Supplemental Indenture may be
prepared and executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the
Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Obligations.
ARTICLE XI
COVENANTS
Section 11.01. Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest.
The Company will duly and punctually pay the principal of (and premium, if
any) and interest on the Obligations in accordance with the terms of the
Obligations and this Indenture.
Section 11.02. Maintenance of Office or Agency.
The Company will maintain an office or agency in each Place of Payment
where Obligations may be presented or surrendered for payment, where Obligations
entitled to be registered, transferred, exchanged or converted may be presented
or surrendered for registration, transfer, exchange or conversion and where
notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Obligations and
this Indenture may be served. The Company will give prompt written notice to the
Trustee of the location, and of any change in the location, of any such office
or agency. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain such an office or
agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such
presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the
principal corporate trust office of the Trustee, and the Company hereby appoints
the Trustee its agent to receive all such presentations, surrenders, notices and
demands.
Section 11.03. Money for Obligation Payments to be Held in Trust; Repayment of
Unclaimed Money.
If the Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent, it will, on
or before each due date of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on
any of the Obligations, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the
Holders of such Obligations a sum sufficient to pay the principal (and premium,
if any) or interest so becoming due until such sums shall be paid to such
Holders or otherwise disposed of as herein provided, and the Company will
promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act.
Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents, it will, prior
to each due date of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on any
Obligations, deposit with a Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay the principal
(and premium, if any) or interest so becoming due, such sum to be held in trust
for the benefit of the Holders of such Obligations entitled to such principal
(and premium, if any) or interest, and (unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee)
the Company will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to
act.
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Moneys so segregated or deposited and held in trust shall constitute a
separate trust fund for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such principal,
premium or interest. Except in the case of moneys so segregated by the Company
when acting as its own Paying Agent, moneys held in trust by the Trustee or any
other Paying Agent for the payment of the principal (or premium, if any) or
interest on the Obligations need not be segregated from other funds, except to
the extent required by law.
The Company will cause each Paying Agent other than the Company or the
Trustee to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such Paying
Agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section,
that such Paying Agent will:
A. hold all sums held by it for the payment of principal of (and premium,
if any) or interest on Obligations in trust for the benefit of the Holders of
such Obligations until such sums shall be paid to the Holders or otherwise
disposed of as herein provided;
B. give the Trustee notice of any default by the Company (or any other
obligor upon the Obligations) in the making of any payment of principal (and
premium, if any) or interest; and
C. at any time during the continuance of any such default, upon the
written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums so held in
trust by such Paying Agent.
The Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the satisfaction
and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay, or by Company
Order direct any Paying Agent to pay, to the Trustee all money held in trust by
the Company or such Paying Agent, such money to be held by the Trustee upon the
same trusts as those upon which such money was held by the Company or such
Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by the Company, the Company shall be
discharged from such trust, and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the
Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with
respect to such money.
Any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent or held by the
Company in trust for the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) or
interest on any Obligation and remaining unclaimed for two (2) years after such
principal (and premium, if any) or interest has become due and payable shall be
paid to the Company on Company Request, or (if then held by the Company) shall
be discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Obligation shall
thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Company for
payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with
respect to such trust money, and all liability of the Company as trustee
thereof, shall thereupon cease.
Section 11.04. Limitations on Security Interests.
The Company shall not create, assume or suffer to exist any Security
Interest on any Subject Property without equally and ratably securing the
obligations of the Company to the Holders of any and all Obligations of any
series then Outstanding except Security Interests securing at any one time
outstanding amounts not to exceed in the aggregate the greater of (i) two
percent (2%) of the Company's total assets, and (ii) $10,000,000.
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Section 11.05. Maintenance of Properties.
The Company will cause all its properties used or useful in the conduct of
its business to be maintained and kept in good condition, repair and working
order and supplied with all necessary equipment and will cause to be made all
necessary repairs, renewals, replacements, betterments and improvements
thereof, all as in the judgment of the Company may be necessary so that the
business carried on in connection therewith may be properly and advantageously
conducted at all times; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that nothing in this Section shall
prevent the Company from discontinuing the operation and maintenance of any of
its properties if such discontinuance is, in the judgment of the Company,
desirable in the conduct of its business and not disadvantageous in any material
respect to the Holders.
Section 11.06. To Insure.
The Company will at all times keep all its property of an insurable nature
and of the character usually insured by companies operating similar properties,
insured in amounts customarily carried, and against loss or damage from such
causes as are customarily insured against, by similar companies. All such
insurance shall be effected with responsible insurance carriers.
Section 11.07. Corporate Existence.
Subject to Article IX, the Company will do or cause to be done all things
necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence,
rights (charter and statutory) and franchises; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the
Company shall not be required to preserve any right or franchise if the Board of
Directors shall determine that the preservation thereof is no longer desirable
in the conduct of the business of the Company and that the loss thereof is not
disadvantageous in any material respect to the Holders.
Section 11.08. To Keep Books; Inspection by Trustee.
The Company will keep proper books of record and account, in which full and
correct entries shall be made of all dealings or transactions of or in relation
to the Obligations and the plants, properties, business and affairs of the
Company in accordance with Accounting Requirements. The Company will, upon
reasonable written notice by the Trustee to the Company and at the expense of
the Company, permit the Trustee by its representatives to inspect the plants and
properties, books of account, records, reports and other papers of the Company,
and to take copies and extracts therefrom, and will afford and procure a
reasonable opportunity to make any such inspection, and the Company will furnish
to the Trustee any and all information as the Trustee may reasonably request,
with respect to the performance by the Company of its covenants in this
Indenture; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, the Company shall not be required to make
available any information supplied to it by a third party which is subject to a
confidentiality agreement with such third party except to the extent allowed by,
and subject to the terms of, such confidentiality agreement.
Section 11.09. Advances by Trustee.
If the Company shall fail to perform any of its covenants in this
Indenture, the Trustee may, at any time and from time to time after notice to
the Company, make advances, to effect performance of any such covenant on behalf
of the Company; and all moneys so used or advanced
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by the Trustee, together with interest at the "prime rate" as quoted by and in
effect from time to time by the Trustee plus one percent (1%) per annum (such
rate to be recomputed, and as so recomputed to take effect, as of the day
immediately following the date on which the Trustee publicly announces any
change in its "prime rate"), shall be repaid by the Company upon demand.
Section 11.10. Statement as to Compliance.
The Company will deliver to the Trustee, within one hundred twenty (120)
days after the end of each calendar year, a written statement signed by the
principal executive officer and by the principal financial officer or principal
accounting officer of the Company stating that a review of the Company's
activities has been made under his or her supervision and that the Company has
fulfilled its obligations hereunder in all material respects.
Promptly after any Officer of the Company may reasonably be deemed to have
knowledge of a default (as defined in Section 7.02) hereunder, the Company will
deliver to the Trustee a written notice specifying the nature and period of
existence thereof and the action the Company is taking and proposes to take with
respect thereto.
Promptly upon becoming aware of the ownership of any Obligation by any
Affiliate of the Company, any other obligor under such Obligation or any
Affiliate of such obligor, the Company shall give the Trustee notice thereof.
Section 11.11. Waiver of Certain Covenants.
The Company may omit in any particular instance to comply with any covenant or
condition set forth in this Article except Sections 11.01, 11.02, 11.03, 11.07,
11.08 and 11.09 if before or after the time for such compliance the Holders of
at least a majority in principal amount of all Obligations then Outstanding
shall, by Act of such Holders, either waive such compliance in such instance or
generally waive compliance with such covenant or condition, but no such waiver
shall extend to or affect such covenant or condition except to the extent so
expressly waived and, until such waiver shall become effective, the obligations
of the Company and the duties of the Trustee in respect of any such covenant or
condition shall remain in full force and effect.
Section 11.12. Rate Covenant.
The Company shall establish and collect rates, rents, charges, fees and
other compensation (collectively "Rates") (i) for the use or the sale of the
output, capacity or service of the System which are reasonably expected to yield
Margins for Interest for each fiscal year of the Company, equal to at least 1.10
times Interest Charges for such period, subject to the approval or determination
of any regulatory or judicial authority with jurisdiction over Rates, and (ii)
that, together with other moneys available to the Company, produce moneys
sufficient to enable the Company to comply with its covenants under this
Indenture. Promptly upon any material change in the circumstances which were
contemplated at the time such Rates were most recently reviewed, but not less
frequently than once every twelve (12) months, the Company shall review the
Rates so established and shall, subject in the case of the Margins for Interest
requirement in clause (i) to any necessary regulatory or judicial approval or
determination, promptly establish or revise such Rates as necessary to comply
with the foregoing requirements.
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Section 11.13. Distributions to Members.
The Company shall not directly or indirectly declare or pay any dividend or
make any payments, distributions or retirements of patronage capital to members
(each a "Distribution") if, at the time thereof or after giving effect thereto,
(i) an Event of Default shall exist, or (ii) the Company's patronage capital
(determined in accordance with Accounting Requirements) as of the end of the
Company's most recent fiscal quarter would be less than twenty percent (20%) of
the Company's total long-term debt and patronage capital (determined in
accordance with Accounting Requirements) at such time. Notwithstanding the
foregoing and so long as no Event of Default shall exist, the Company may
declare and make Distributions each fiscal year as long as the aggregate
Distributions for such fiscal year is equal to or less than five percent (5%) of
the Company's patronage capital (determined in accordance with Accounting
Requirements) as of the end of the immediately preceding fiscal year. For
purposes of this Section, determination of patronage capital and total long-term
debt and patronage capital shall not include any amount on account of earnings
retained in any Subsidiary or Affiliate of the Company and any such
determination of total long-term debt and patronage capital shall exclude the
debt of any Subsidiary or Affiliate.
ARTICLE XII
REDEMPTION OF OBLIGATIONS; SINKING FUNDS
Section 12.01. General Applicability of Sections 12.01 through 12.07.
Obligations which are redeemable before their Stated Maturity shall be
redeemable in accordance with their terms and (except as otherwise provided with
respect to the Obligations of any particular series by the provisions of the
Supplemental Indenture creating such series) in accordance with Sections 12.01
through 12.07.
Section 12.02. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee.
The election of the Company to redeem any Obligations shall be evidenced by
a Board Resolution. In case of any redemption at the election of the Company of
less than all the Outstanding Obligations of any series, the Company shall, at
least forty-five (45) days prior to the Redemption Date fixed by the Company
(unless a shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the Trustee) notify the
Trustee of such Redemption Date and of the principal amount of Obligations of
such series to be redeemed and of the numbers of any Outstanding Obligations of
such series then owned by the Company.
If the Obligations of any series to be redeemed consist of Obligations
having different Stated Maturities or different rates of interest (or methods of
computing interest), then the Company may, in the notice delivered to the
Trustee pursuant to this Section, direct that the Securities of such series to
be redeemed shall be selected from among groups of such Obligations having
specified Stated Maturities or rates of interest (or methods of computing
interest) and the Trustee shall thereafter select the particular Obligations to
be redeemed in the manner set forth below from among the groups of Obligations
so specified.
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Section 12.03. Selection by Trustee of Obligations to be Redeemed.
Unless otherwise provided in a Supplemental Indenture authorizing a
particular series of Obligations, if less than all the Outstanding Obligations
of any series or maturity within a series are to be redeemed, the particular
Obligations to be redeemed shall be selected not more than sixty (60) days prior
to the Redemption Date by the Trustee from the Outstanding Obligations of such
series or maturity within a series which have not previously been called for
redemption by such method as the Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate. In
any such selection pursuant to this Section, the Trustee shall make such
adjustments, reallocations and eliminations as it shall deem proper to the end
that the principal amount of Obligations of such series or maturity within a
series so selected shall be equal to the greater of $1,000 and the smallest
authorized denomination of the Obligations of such series, or a multiple
thereof, by increasing or decreasing or eliminating the amount which would
otherwise be allocable to any Holder by an amount not exceeding such minimum.
The Trustee in its discretion may determine the particular Obligations (if there
is more than one) registered in the name of any Holder which are to be redeemed,
in whole or in part. In any case where any Obligations of such series are
registered in the same name, the Trustee in its discretion may treat the
aggregate principal amount so registered as if it were represented by one
Obligation of such series.
The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the Obligations
selected for redemption and, in the case of any Obligation selected for partial
redemption, the principal amount thereof to be redeemed.
For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise requires,
all provisions relating to the redemption of Obligations shall relate, in the
case of any Obligation redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the portion
of the principal of such Obligation which has been or is to be redeemed.
Section 12.04. Notice of Redemption.
Except as otherwise provided in a Supplemental Indenture, notice of
redemption shall be given by first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not less
than thirty (30) nor more than sixty (60) days prior to the Redemption Date, to
each Holder of Obligations of such series to be redeemed, at its address
appearing in the Obligation Register.
Except as otherwise provided in a Supplemental Indenture, all notices of
redemption shall state:
A. the CUSIP number (if any) of all Obligations to be redeemed,
B. the Redemption Xxxx,
X. the Redemption Price,
D. the principal amount of Obligations of each series to be redeemed, and,
if less than all Outstanding Obligations of a series are to be redeemed, the
identification (and, in the case of partial redemption, the respective principal
amounts) of the Obligations of such series to be redeemed,
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E. that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price of each of the
Obligations to be redeemed will become due and payable and that the interest
thereon shall cease to accrue from and after such Redemption Date if the
Redemption Price is then paid,
F. the place or places where the Obligations of each series to be redeemed
are to be surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price, which shall be the
office or agency of the Company in each Place of Payment for such series, and
G. if it be the case, that such redemption is to satisfy sinking fund
requirements.
Notice of redemption of Obligations to be redeemed at the election of the
Company shall be given by the Company or, at the Company's request, by the
Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company.
Section 12.05. Deposit of Redemption Price.
Prior to 10:00 a.m., Richmond, Virginia time on any Redemption Date, the
Company shall deposit with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if the
Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust as
provided in Section 11.03) an amount of money sufficient to pay the Redemption
Price of all the Obligations which are to be redeemed on that date. Such money
shall be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such
Redemption Price.
Subject to the requirements of any Supplemental Indenture, the Company may
determine what sinking fund requirements (if any) to apply redeemed Obligations
against.
Section 12.06. Obligations Payable on Redemption Date.
Notice of redemption having been given as aforesaid, the Obligations so to
be redeemed shall, on the Redemption Date, become due and payable at the
Redemption Price therein specified and from and after such date (unless the
Company shall default in the payment of the Redemption Price) such Obligations
shall cease to bear interest. Upon surrender of any such Obligation for
redemption in accordance with such notice or compliance with such other terms as
may be provided in any Supplemental Indenture relating thereto, such Obligation
shall be paid by the Company at the Redemption Price. Installments of interest
with a Stated Maturity on or prior to the Redemption Date shall be payable to
the Holders of the Obligations registered as such on the relevant Record Dates
according to the terms of such Obligations and the provisions of Section 3.09.
If any Obligation called for redemption shall not be so paid upon surrender
thereof for redemption or as otherwise provided under Section 12.07 in lieu of
surrender, the principal (and premium, if any) shall, until paid, bear interest
from the Redemption Date at the rate prescribed therefor in the Obligation.
Section 12.07. Obligations Redeemed in Part.
Unless otherwise provided in any Supplemental Indenture, any Obligation
which is to be redeemed only in part shall be surrendered at a Place of Payment
therefor (with, if the Company or the Trustee so requires, due endorsement by,
or a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the
Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or its attorney duly authorized in
writing) and the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver to the
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Holder of such Obligation, without service charge, a new Obligation or
Obligations of the same series and maturity of any authorized denomination or
denominations as requested by such Holder in aggregate principal amount equal to
and in exchange for the unredeemed portion of the principal of the Obligation so
surrendered.
In lieu of surrender under the preceding paragraph, payment of the
Redemption Price of a portion of any Obligation held in the Book-Entry System
may be made directly to the Holder thereof without surrender thereof, if there
shall have been filed with the Trustee either (1) a written agreement between
the Company and such Holder and, if such Holder is a nominee, the Person for
whom such Holder is a nominee, that payment shall be so made and that such
Holder will not sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of such Obligation unless
prior to delivery thereof such Holder shall present such Obligation to the
Trustee for notation thereon of the portion of the principal thereof redeemed or
shall surrender such Obligation in exchange for a new Obligation or Obligations
for the unredeemed balance of the principal of the surrendered Obligation or (2)
a certificate of the Company that such an agreement has been entered into and
remains in force.
Section 12.08. Applicability of Sections 12.08 through 12.10.
The provisions of Sections 12.08 through 12.10 shall be applicable to any
sinking fund for the retirement of Obligations of a series except as otherwise
specified as contemplated by Section 3.03 for Obligations of such series.
The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by the terms of
Obligations of any series is herein referred to as a "mandatory sinking fund
payment," and any payment in excess of such minimum amount provided for by the
terms of Obligations of any series is herein referred to as an "optional sinking
fund payment." If provided for by the terms of Obligations of any series, the
cash amount of any sinking fund payment may be subject to reduction as provided
in Section 12.09. Each sinking fund payment shall be applied to the redemption
of Obligations of any series as provided for by the terms of Obligations of such
series.
Section 12.09. Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Obligations.
The Company (1) may deliver Outstanding Obligations of a series (other than
any previously called for redemption) and (2) may apply, as a credit,
Obligations of a series which have been redeemed either at the election of the
Company pursuant to the terms of such Obligations or through the application of
permitted optional sinking fund payments pursuant to the terms of such
Obligations, in each case in satisfaction of all or any part of any sinking fund
payment with respect to the Obligations of such series required to be made
pursuant to the terms of such Obligations as provided for by the terms of such
series; PROVIDED that such Obligations have not been previously so credited,
Obligations shall be received and credited for such purpose by the Trustee at
the Redemption Price specified in such Obligations for redemption through
operation of the sinking fund and the amount of such sinking fund payment shall
be reduced accordingly.
Section 12.10. Redemption of Obligations for Sinking Fund.
Not less than sixty (60) days prior to each sinking fund payment date for
any series of Obligations, the Company will deliver to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate specifying the amount of the next ensuing sinking fund payment for
that series pursuant to the terms of that series, the
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portion thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by payment of cash and the
portion thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by delivering and crediting
Obligations of that series pursuant to Section 12.09 and will also deliver to
the Trustee any Obligations to be so delivered. Not less than thirty (30) days
before each such sinking fund payment date the Trustee shall select the
Obligations to be redeemed upon such sinking fund payment date in the manner
specified in Section 12.03 and cause notice of the redemption thereof to be
given in the name of and at the expense of the Company in the manner provided in
Section 12.04. Such notice having been duly given, the redemption of such
Obligations shall be made upon the terms and in the manner stated in Sections
12.06 and 12.07.
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This instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of
which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts
shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be
duly executed as of the day and year first above written.
Company: OLD DOMINION ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE,
a Virginia utility aggregation cooperative
Innsbrook Corporate Center
0000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx
Xxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000
By: /s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Title: Senior Vice President
Trustee: SUNTRUST BANK,
a Georgia banking corporation
000 Xxxx Xxxx Xxxxxx, 00xx Floor
Corporate Trust Administration
Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000
By: /s/ J. Xxx Xxxx
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Name: J. Xxx Xxxx
Title: Senior Vice President
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