Exhibit 4.1
AEGIS ASSET BACKED SECURITIES CORPORATION,
Depositor
[________________________________]
[Master Servicer]
[________________________________]
Servicer
[AEGIS MORTGAGE CORPORATION
Seller]
and
[________________________________]
Trustee
_____________________________________________________
POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT
Dated as of 1, 200
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_____________________________________________________
AEGIS ASSET BACKED SECURITIES TRUST 200 -
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MORTGAGE LOAN ASSET BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 200 -
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE 1 DEFINITIONS.......................................................................16
Section 1.1 Defined Terms...........................................................16
ARTICLE 2 CONVEYANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS; REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES......................41
Section 2.1 Conveyance of Mortgage Loans............................................41
Section 2.2 Acceptance by Trustee of the Mortgage Loans.............................44
Section 2.3 Representations, Warranties and Covenants of the Depositor,
Seller, Servicer and [Master Servicer]..................................46
Section 2.4 Delivery of Opinion of Counsel in Connection with Substitutions.........53
Section 2.5 Execution and Delivery of Certificates..................................53
Section 2.6 [Purchase of Subsequent Mortgage Loans..................................53
Section 2.7 [Pre-Funding Account....................................................55
ARTICLE 3 ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS....................................56
Section 3.1 Servicer to Service Mortgage Loans......................................56
Section 3.2 Subservicing; Enforcement of the Obligations of Servicers...............57
Section 3.3 Rights of the Depositor and the Trustee in Respect of the Servicer......58
Section 3.4 Master Servicer to Act as Servicer......................................58
Section 3.5 Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account;
Distribution Account....................................................59
Section 3.6 Collection of Taxes, Assessments and Similar Items; Escrow
Accounts................................................................62
Section 3.7 Access to Certain Documentation and Information Regarding the
Mortgage Loans..........................................................62
Section 3.8 Permitted Withdrawals from the Collection Account, [Master Servicer
Custodial Account] and Distribution Account.............................63
Section 3.9 Maintenance of Hazard Insurance; Maintenance of Primary Insurance
Policies................................................................64
Section 3.10 Enforcement of Due-on-Sale Clauses; Assumption Agreements...............66
Section 3.11 Realization Upon Defaulted Mortgage Loans; Repurchase of Certain
Mortgage Loans..........................................................67
Section 3.12 Trustee to Cooperate; Release of Mortgage Files.........................71
Section 3.13 Documents Records and Funds in Possession of Servicer to
be Held for the Trustee.................................................72
Section 3.14 Servicing Compensation..................................................72
Section 3.15 Access to Certain Documentation.........................................73
Section 3.16 Annual Statement as to Compliance.......................................73
Section 3.17 Annual Independent Public Accountants' Servicing Statement;
Financial Statements....................................................73
Section 3.18 Errors and Omissions Insurance; Fidelity Bonds..........................74
Section 3.19 Advances................................................................74
Section 3.20 [Advance Facility.......................................................74
Section 3.21 Prepayment Penalties....................................................75
ARTICLE 4 DISTRIBUTIONS.....................................................................76
Section 4.1 Priorities of Distribution..............................................76
Section 4.2 Method of Distribution..................................................80
Section 4.3 Allocation of Losses....................................................81
Section 4.4 Reports to the Depositor and the Trustee................................81
Section 4.5 Reports by or on Behalf of the [Master] Servicer........................82
Section 4.6 Basis Risk Reserve Fund.................................................84
Section 4.7 The Instrument..........................................................84
Section 4.8 The Calculation Agent...................................................85
ARTICLE 5 THE CERTIFICATES..................................................................85
Section 5.1 The Certificates........................................................85
Section 5.2 Certificate Register; Registration of Transfer and Exchange of
Certificates............................................................86
Section 5.3 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Certificates.......................91
Section 5.4 Persons Deemed Owners...................................................91
Section 5.5 Access to List of Certificateholders' Names and Addresses...............91
Section 5.6 Maintenance of Office or Agency.........................................91
ARTICLE 6 THE DEPOSITOR, THE SERVICER AND [MASTER SERVICER].................................92
Section 6.1 Respective Liabilities of the Depositor, Servicer
[and Master Servicer]...................................................92
Section 6.2 Merger or Consolidation of the Depositor, Servicer and
Master Servicer.........................................................92
Section 6.3 Limitation on Liability of the Depositor, the Servicer, the Master
Servicer and Others.....................................................92
Section 6.4 Limitation on Resignation of Servicer...................................93
ARTICLE 7 SERVICER DEFAULT..................................................................93
Section 7.1 Events of Default.......................................................93
Section 7.2 Notification to Certificateholders......................................95
ARTICLE 8 CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE............................................................95
Section 8.1 Duties of Trustee.......................................................95
Section 8.2 Certain Matters Affecting the Trustee...................................97
Section 8.3 Trustee Not Liable for Certificates or Mortgage Loans...................99
Section 8.4 Trustee May Own Certificates............................................99
Section 8.5 Trustee's Fees and Expenses.............................................99
Section 8.6 Eligibility Requirements for Trustee...................................100
Section 8.7 Resignation and Removal of Trustee.....................................100
Section 8.8 Successor Trustee......................................................101
Section 8.9 Merger or Consolidation of Trustee.....................................101
Section 8.10 Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee..........................102
Section 8.11 Tax Matters............................................................103
Section 8.12 Periodic Filings.......................................................105
ARTICLE 9 TERMINATION......................................................................105
Section 9.1 Termination upon Liquidation or Purchase of all Mortgage Loans.........105
Section 9.2 Final Distribution on the Certificates.................................106
Section 9.3 Additional Termination Requirements....................................107
ARTICLE 10 ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS BY THE MASTER SERVICER...........108
Section 10.1 Duties of the Master Servicer..........................................108
Section 10.2 Compensation to the Master Servicer....................................108
Section 10.3 Termination of Master Servicer; Trustee to Act.........................109
Section 10.4 Notification to Certificateholders.....................................111
ARTICLE 11 MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS........................................................111
Section 11.1 Amendment..............................................................111
Section 11.2 Recordation of Agreement; Counterparts.................................113
Section 11.3 Governing Law..........................................................113
Section 11.4 Intention of Parties...................................................113
Section 11.5 Notices................................................................114
Section 11.6 Severability of Provisions.............................................115
Section 11.7 Assignment.............................................................115
Section 11.8 Limitation on Rights of Certificateholders.............................115
Section 11.9 Inspection and Audit Rights............................................116
Section 11.10 Certificates Nonassessable and Fully Paid..............................116
Section 11.11 Limitations on Actions; No Proceedings.................................116
THIS POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT, dated as of _______ 1, 200__ (this
"Agreement") among AEGIS ASSET BACKED SECURITIES CORPORATION, a Delaware
corporation, as depositor (the "Depositor"), [___________________________, an
________ corporation, as master servicer (the "Master Servicer")], AEGIS
MORTGAGE CORPORATION,] as seller (the "Seller"), an Oklahoma corporation, as
servicer (the "Servicer"), and [__________________], a __________ banking
corporation, as trustee (the "Trustee"),
WITNESSETH THAT
In consideration of the mutual agreements herein contained, the parties
hereto agree as follows:
PRELIMINARY STATEMENT
The Depositor is the owner of the assets that are hereby conveyed to the
Trustee in return for the Certificates. For federal income tax purposes, the
Trust Fund shall comprise [multiple] REMICs organized in [a tiered] REMIC
structure in the manner set forth in Schedule III hereto. The Certificates will
represent the entire beneficial ownership interest in the Trust Fund.
The following table sets forth the initial Class Certificate Balances of
the Certificates and the minimum denominations (or Percentage Interests) and
integral multiples in excess thereof in which such Classes shall be issuable
(except that one Certificate of each Class of Certificates may be issued in a
different amount and, in addition, one Residual Certificate representing the Tax
Matters Person Certificate may be issued in a different Percentage Interest):
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Initial Class Minimum Percentage Integral Multiples in
Class Designation Certificate Balance Interest/Denomination Excess Minimum
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Class AF-____ $ $ $
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Class AV-____ Notional 1,000,000 1,000
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Class M-__ 100,000 1,000
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Class M-__ 100,000 1,000
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Class B 100,000 1,000
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Class R N/A 100% N/A
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Account Designation: Aegis Asset Backed Securities Trust Mortgage Loan Asset Backed
Certificates, Series 200___-___.
Assumed Investment Rate: Not applicable.
Book-Entry Certificates: All Classes of Certificates other than the Physical Certificates.
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Calculation Agent: [______________________], a [ ]banking corporation,
and its successors and assigns in such capacity.
Class C Distribution Amount: With respect to any Distribution Date, any amounts distributable pursuant
to Section 4.1(i) hereof.
Closing Date: _________, 200___.
Component Certificates: None.
Components: For purposes of calculating distributions,
the Component Certificates will be comprised
of multiple payment components having the
designations, Initial Component Balances and
Pass-Through Rates set forth below:
Initial Component Pass-Through
Designation Balance Rate
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N/A N/A N/A
Custodial Agreement: The Custodial Agreement between the Custodian and Trustee dated as of
______1, 200___.
Custodian: [_______________], and its successors and assigns in such capacity.
Cut Off Date: _______,200___.
Delay Certificates: All interest-bearing Classes of Certificates other than the Non-Delay
Certificates.
ERISA-Restricted Certificates: Any of the Class __ Certificates.
XXXXX Xxxxxxxxxx Underwriting: A best efforts or
firm commitment underwriting that meets the
requirements of either Prohibited
Transaction Exemption 83-1 or an
"Underwriter's Exemption," as defined in
Section V(h) of Prohibited Transaction
Exemption 95-60, except the requirements
that the Certificates (i) not be
subordinated to the rights and interest of
other Certificates issued by the Trust and
(ii) have a rating that is one of the top
three ratings categories.
Extra Principal Distribution
Amount lesser of: With respect to any Distribution Date, the
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(x) the Interest Funds available after
payment of the amounts set forth in
Section 4.1(g)(i) through (v), and:
(y) the excess of:
(i) the Required Overcollateralization
Amount for such date, over
(ii) the Overcollateralization Amount
for such date (assuming that all
Principal Funds are distributed as
principal to the Certificates on
such date).
Funding Period Termination Date:_________, 200___.
Group: Group I and Group II.
Group I: The pool of Mortgage Loans identified in
the Mortgage Loan Schedule as having been
assigned to Group I, including any related
Subsequent Mortgage Loans and any Substitute
Mortgage Loans delivered in replacement of
any Mortgage Loan or Subsequent Mortgage
Loan.
Group I Certificate: Any of the Class AF-__ Certificates.
Group I Class A Certificate: Any Group I Certificate.
Group I Class A Certificate
Principal Balance: For any Distribution Date, the sum of the
Certificate Principal Balances
for the Group I Class A Certificates.
Group II: The pool of Mortgage Loans identified in
the Mortgage Loan Schedule as having been
assigned to Group II, including any related
Subsequent Mortgage Loans and any Substitute
Mortgage Loans delivered in replacement of
any Mortgage Loan or Subsequent Mortgage
Loan.
Group II Certificate: Any of the Class AV-___ Certificates.
Group II Class A Certificates: Any Group II Certificate.
Group II Class A Certificate
Principal Balance: For any Distribution Date, the sum of the
Certificate Principal Balances of Group II Class
A Certificates.
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Initial Distribution Date: _______ 25, 200___.
Initial Optional Termination
Date: The first Distribution Date on which the
aggregate Assumed Principal Balance of the
Mortgage Loans is less than __% of the
aggregate Assumed Principal Balance thereof
as of the Cut Off Date.
Interest Determination Date: With respect to the first Accrual Period
for the Variable Rate Certificates, _________,
200__, and with respect to any subsequent
Accrual Period for the Variable Rate
Certificates, the second London Business Day
preceding such Accrual Period.
Interest Only Certificates: The Class A-__ Certificates.
Lower Tier Interest: Any interest created in REMIC 1, REMIC 2 or
REMIC 3.
Master Servicing Fee Rate: ____% per annum.
Maximum Cap Rate: For any Distribution Date, a per annum rate
that would equal the Net WAC Cap for such date
if such Net WAC Cap were determined under the
assumption that (i) each adjustable rate
Mortgage Loan had an interest rate equal to the
maximum rate permitted under the terms of the
related mortgage note, and (ii) each fixed rate
Mortgage Loan had an interest rate equal to its
stated fixed rate.
Mortgage Loan Group: Group I or Group II.
Net Pledged Prepayment
Penalties: For each Distribution Date means the Pledged
Prepayment Penalties remaining after payment of
any Cap Carryover Amounts for such date.
Net Rate: As to each Mortgage Loan and Distribution Date,
the related Mortgage Rate as of the
Determination Date immediately preceding such
Distribution Date less the sum of the related
Servicing Fee Rate and Master Servicing Fee Rate
with respect to each Mortgage Loan.
Net WAC Cap: For any Distribution Date and each Certificate
other than the Variable Rate Certificates, a per
annum rate equal to the Weighted Average Net
Rate of the Mortgage Loans less,
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(x) the Pass-Through Rate for the Class ____
Certificates for such Distribution Date
multiplied by a fraction equal to:
(i) the Notional Principal Balance of
the Class _____ Certificates
prior to such Distribution Date
divided by;
(ii) the Assumed Principal Balance as
of such Distribution Date; and
(y) the Pass-Through Rate for the Class __
Certificates for such Distribution Date
multiplied by a fraction equal to:
(i) the Notional Principal Balance of
the Class __ Certificates prior
to such Distribution Date divided
by;
(ii) the Assumed Principal Balance as
of such Distribution Date.
For any Distribution Date and the Variable Rate Certificates, the Net
WAC Cap equals the product of
(a) the rate determined under the
above-described formula and
(b) a fraction, the numerator of which is 30
and the denominator of which is the
actual number of days in the Accrual
Period applicable to such Certificates.
Non-Delay Certificates: Any of the Class ____ Certificates.
Notional Amount Certificates: The Class ____ Certificates.
Notional Principal Balance: Principal Balance: With respect to each
Distribution Date and the Class _____
Certificates, the lesser of the Assumed
Principal Balance for such date and the
amount determined for such date with
reference to the following schedule:
DISTRIBUTION DATES NOTIONAL AMOUNT
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[1 - 6 $
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7 - 9
10 - 12
13 - 15
16 - 18
19 - 21
22 - 24
25 - 27
28 - 31
32 and thereafter] 0
With respect to each Distribution Date
and the Class _____ Certificates, the Assumed
Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans for such
date.
With respect to the Class __ Certificates and
each Distribution Date, on or prior to the
thirty-sixth Distribution Date after the Closing
Date, the aggregate Stated Principal Balance of
each adjustable rate Mortgage Loans for such
Distribution Date that has not reached its
Initial Adjustment Date. Following the
thirty-sixth Distribution Date, the Notional
Principal Balance of the Class ___ Certificates
will be zero.
Offered Certificates: The Class AF-__, Class AV-__, Class M-__, Class
M-__ and Class B Certificates.
Original Pre-Funded Amount: $_______________, $___________________of which
may be applied to the purchase of additional
fixed rate Mortgage Loans for Group I,
$_____________of which may be applied to the
purchase of additional adjustable rate Mortgage
Loans for Group II.
Physical Certificates: The Private Certificates.
Pledged Prepayment Penalties: For any Distribution Date and each Group of
Mortgage Loans, an amount equal to the sum of
(i) the lesser of (x) Prepayment Penalties
collected on the Mortgage Loans in such Group
during the related Prepayment Period and (y)
___% of the Prepayment Penalties owed and not
waived by the Servicer for the related
Prepayment Period, and (ii) the aggregate
amount, if any, by which (i)(y) exceeded (i)(x)
for prior Distribution Dates for such Group.
Principal Only Certificates: None.
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Principal Percentage: With respect to each Distribution Date and
Group, the percentage equivalent of a fraction,
the numerator of which is the Principal Funds
for such Group and date, and the denominator of
which is the Principal Funds for all of the
Groups and such Distribution Date.
Priority Principal
Distribution Amount: With respect to any Distribution Date:
(x) the product of :
(i) a fraction the numerator of
which is the Certificate
Principal Balance of the
Class ____ Certificates and
the denominator of which is
the Group I Class A
Certificate Principal
Balance, in each case,
immediately prior to such
Distribution Date,
(ii) the Senior Principal Distribution
Amount for Group I for such
Distribution Date, and
(iii) the applicable percentage for such
Distribution Date set forth below:
Distribution Date Percentage
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[____l 200__ - _____ 200__ %
____ 200__ - _____ 200__
____ 200__ - _____ 200__
____ 200__ - _____ 200__
____ 200__ and thereafter]
Private Certificate: Any Class ___ or Class R Certificate.
Rating Agencies: ____________ and _____________.
Record Date: With respect to Delay Certificates and any
Distribution Date, the close of business on the
last Business Day of the month preceding the
month in which such Distribution Date occurs.
With respect to Non-Delay Certificates and any
Distribution Date, the close of business on the
Business Day immediately preceding such
Distribution Date.
Regular Certificates: Any of the Offered Certificates and the Class
__ Certificates.
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Required Overcollateralization
Amount: With respect to any Distribution Date:
(i) prior to the Stepdown Date, ____% of the
Assumed Principal Balance of the Mortgage
Loans as of the Cut Off Date;
(ii) on and after the Stepdown Date, if a Trigger
Event is not in effect, the greater of:
(x) the lesser of:
(I) _____% of the Assumed Principal
Balance for the Mortgage Loans
as of the Cut Off Date, and
(II) _____% of the Assumed Principal
Balance of the Mortgage Loans on
the preceding Determination Date,
and
(y) _____% of the Assumed Principal Balance
of the Mortgage Loans as of the Cut Off
Date; and
(iii) if a Trigger Event is in effect, the
Overcollateralization Amount as of the
preceding Distribution Date.
Required Reserve Fund Deposit: For any Distribution Date on which the
difference between (a) the excess of the Net WAC
Cap over the rate payable on the Class _____
Certificates for such date, and (b) the weighted
average of the rates on the Offered
Certificates, other than the Class _____
Certificates, is less than ____%, an amount that
would cause the balance held in the Basis Risk
Reserve Fund to equal _____ % of the Assumed
Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans for such
date, and, for any other Distribution Date, the
amount that would cause the balance held in the
Basis Risk Reserve Fund to equal $_____.
Residual Certificates: The Class R Certificates.
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Sales Agreement: The Sales Agreement dated _____ ___, 200__, between
the Depositor and _____ regarding the sale of the
Mortgage Loans.
Senior Certificates: Any Class of Certificates including the letter "A"
or the letter "S" in its class designation.
Servicing Fee Rate: As set forth in the Mortgage Loan Schedule.
Stepdown Date: The earlier to occur of:
(i) the later to occur of:
(A) the Distribution Date in ______
200__, and
(B) the first Distribution Date on which the
Group I Class A Certificate Principal
Balance and Group II Class A Certificate
Principal Balance immediately prior to
such Distribution Date (less the Principal
Funds for such Distribution Date) is
less than or equal to ____ % of the Assumed
Principal Balance on such date, and
(ii) the Distribution Date after which the Group
I Class A Certificate Principal Balance
and Group II Class A Certificate Principal Balance
have been reduced to zero.
Subordinate Certificates: Any Class M-__ and Class B Certificate.
Subsequent Delivery
Requirements: (a) After giving effect to the acquisition of all Subsequent Mortgage
Loans, the Mortgage Loans in Group I (which shall all be Mortgage
Loans bearing interest at fixed rates of interest) as of their
respective Cut Off Dates:
(i) shall have a weighted average Mortgage Rate of not less
than _____ % per annum;
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(ii) shall have a weighted average original combined loan to
value ratio not in excess of _____%;
(iii) shall be Mortgage Loans no more than _____% of which (by
Stated Principal Balance) were made in connection with
a cash out refinancing;
(iv) shall be Mortgage Loans at least _____% of which (by
Stated Principal Balance) shall be classified by Aegis
Mortgage Corporation as "A-" or better;
(v) shall be Mortgage Loans at least _____ % of which (by
Stated Principal Balance) will have been originated
pursuant to a full documentation program; and
(vi) shall have a weighted average credit score of not less
than _____.
(b) After giving effect to the acquisition of all the Subsequent
Mortgage Loans, the Mortgage Loans in Group II (which shall
all be first lien Mortgage Loans bearing interest at adjustable
rates) as of their respective Cut Off Dates:
(i) shall have a weighted average Mortgage Rate of not less
than _____ % per annum;
(ii) shall have a weighted average original Loan to Value Ratio
not in excess of _____ %;
(iii) shall be Mortgage Loans at least _____ % of which (by
Stated Principal Balance) shall be classified by Aegis
Mortgage Corporation as "A-" or better; and
(iv) shall have a weighted average credit score of not less
than _____.
Target Percentage: For the Senior Certificates, _____%; for the Class M-__ Certificates,
_____%; for the Class M-__ Certificates, _____%; and for the Class B
Certificates, _____%.
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Trigger Event: With respect to any Distribution Date after the Stepdown Date, a Trigger
Event exists if either (x) the quotient (expressed as a percentage) of:
(i) the Stated Principal Balances of all 60 or more days
Delinquent Mortgage Loans (including Mortgage Loans
subject to bankruptcy or foreclosure proceedings and
REO Property), divided by
(ii) the Assumed Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans as of
the preceding Determination Date
equals or exceeds 50% of the Senior Credit
Enhancement Percentage or (y) Realized
Losses occurring since the Closing Date as a
percentage of the Assumed Principal Balance
as of the Cut Off Date, for the related
Distribution Date, are greater than:
Distribution Date Cumulative Loss Percentage
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[37 to 48 %
49 to 60
61 and thereafter]
Trustee Fee Rate: _____% per annum.
Trustee Series Designation: Aegis 200__-__ (AG___)
Underwriters: _________________________..
Upper Tier REMIC: REMIC 4
Variable Rate Certificates: Any of the Class _____ Certificates.
Voting Rights: The voting rights of the trust will be allocated as follows:
(i) _____% to each of the Class _____ and
Class _____ Certificates;
(ii) _____% to the Class __ Certificates;
(iii) _____ % to the Class __ Certificates;
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(iv) _____% to the Group I
Certificates and Group II
Certificates in proportion to
their respective outstanding
Certificate Principal
Balances; and
(v) _____% to each of the Class
__ and Class __ Certificates.
With respect to any of the foregoing designations as to which the
corresponding reference is "None," all defined terms and provisions herein
relating solely to such designations shall be of no force or effect, and any
calculations herein incorporating references to such designations shall be
interpreted without reference to such designations and amounts. Defined terms
and provisions herein relating to statistical rating agencies not designated
above as Rating Agencies shall be of no force or effect.
ARTICLE 1
DEFINITIONS
Section 1.1 Defined Terms
Whenever used in this Agreement, the following words and phrases, unless
the context otherwise requires, shall have the following meanings:
Accrual Period: With respect to each Lower Tier Interest and each Class
of Delay Certificates and any Distribution Date, the calendar month immediately
preceding such Distribution Date. With respect to each Class of Non-Delay
Certificates and any Distribution Date, the period commencing on the immediately
preceding Distribution Date (or in the case of the first Distribution Date, the
Closing Date) and ending on the day immediately preceding the current
Distribution Date.
Advance: Each P&I Advance and Servicing Advance.
Agreement: This
Pooling and Servicing Agreement and all amendments or
supplements hereto.
Allocable Portion: For each Group, Distribution Date and each of the
Class ___ Certificates and Class ___ Certificates, an amount equal to the (i)
Interest Funds for such Group and date; divided by (ii) the Interest Funds for
all groups related to such Class of Certificates and such date.
Applied Realized Loss Amount: As to any Distribution Date and Class of
Subordinate Certificates, the sum of any Realized Losses which have been applied
in reduction of the Certificate Principal Balance of such Class of Certificates
on such date.
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Assumed Principal Balance: As of any Distribution Date, the sum of:
(i) the aggregate Stated Principal Balances of the Mortgage
Loans as of such Distribution Date, plus
(ii) [the aggregate amount on deposit in any Pre-Funding
Account (less all amounts representing investment earnings thereon).]
Available Funds: As to any Distribution Date, the sum of all Principal
Funds and Interest Funds for such date.
Bankruptcy Code: The United States Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978, as
amended.
Basis Risk Payment: For any Distribution Date, an amount to be deposited
into the Basis Risk Reserve Fund equal to the sum of (i) any Cap Carryover
Amounts for such Distribution Date and (ii) any Required Reserve Fund Deposit
for such Distribution Date, provided however, the amount of the Basis Risk
Payment for any Distribution Date cannot exceed the amount available for
distribution therefor pursuant to priorities for distributions pursuant to
Section 4.1(g).
Basis Risk Reserve Fund: Any fund created hereunder and held as part of
the Trust Fund but not as part of any REMIC created hereunder, to provide a
source for payments of Cap Carryover Amounts.
Blanket Mortgage: The mortgage or mortgages encumbering a Cooperative
Property.
Business Day: Any day other than (i) a Saturday or a Sunday, or (ii) a
day on which banking institutions in
New York City or the city in which any of
the Custodian, the Servicer, the Master Servicer, or the Corporate Trust Office
of the Trustee is located are authorized or obligated by law or executive order
to be closed.
Cap Carryover Amount: On any Distribution Date and as to any Class whose
Pass-Through Rate is subject to a cap equal to the Net WAC Cap, the sum of:
(i) if the Pass-Through Rate for such Distribution Date and
Class is based on the Net WAC Cap, the excess of (A) the amount of
interest that would have been distributable on such Certificates for
such Distribution Date had the interest rate thereon been calculated
without regard to the Net WAC Cap, over (B) the amount of interest
distributable based on the Net WAC Cap, and
(ii) the excess of the amount described in clause (i)(A)
above over the amount described in clause (i)(B) above for all prior
Distribution Dates, together with interest thereon calculated at the
applicable Pass-Through Rate (determined without regard to the Net WAC
Cap), reduced by all amounts previously distributed with respect to such
Class
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pursuant to Section 4.1(g) in respect of Cap Carryover Amounts on all
such prior Distribution Dates.
Certificate: Any one of the Certificates executed by the Trustee in
substantially the forms attached hereto as exhibits.
Certificate Owner: With respect to a Book-Entry Certificate, the Person
who is the beneficial owner of such Book-Entry Certificate.
Certificate Principal Balance: With respect to any Certificate and as of
any Distribution Date, the Certificate Principal Balance on the date of the
initial issuance of such Certificate as set forth on the face thereof, as
reduced by:
(i) all amounts distributed on previous Distribution Dates
on such Certificate in reduction of the Certificate
Principal Balance thereof; and
(ii) in the case of a Subordinate Certificate, such
Certificate's pro rata share, if any, of any Applied
Realized Loss Amounts for the related Class on previous
Distribution Dates; and
Certificate Register: The register maintained pursuant to Section 5.2
hereof.
Certificateholder or Holder: The person in whose name a Certificate is
registered in the Certificate Register, except that, solely for the purpose of
giving any consent pursuant to this Agreement, any Certificate registered in the
name of the Depositor or any affiliate of the Depositor shall be deemed not to
be Outstanding and the Percentage Interest evidenced thereby shall not be taken
into account in determining whether the requisite amount of Percentage Interests
necessary to effect such consent has been obtained; provided, however, that if
any such Person (including the Depositor) owns 100% of the Percentage Interests
evidenced by a Class of Certificates, such Certificates shall be deemed to be
Outstanding for purposes of any provision hereof that requires the consent of
the Holders of Certificates of a particular Class as a condition to the taking
of any action hereunder. The Trustee is entitled to rely conclusively on a
certification of the Depositor or any affiliate of the Depositor in determining
which Certificates are registered in the name of an affiliate of the Depositor.
Class: All Certificates bearing the same class designation as set forth
in the Preliminary Statement.
Class B Principal Distribution Amount: With respect to any Distribution
Date before the Stepdown Date or for which a Trigger Event is in effect, zero,
and with respect to any Distribution Date on and after the Stepdown Date and as
long as a Trigger Event is not in effect the excess of:
(i) the sum of:
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(A) the Group I Class A Certificate Principal
Balance, the Group II Class A Certificate
Principal Balance and the Group III Class A
Certificate Principal Balance (in each case,
after giving effect to distributions on that
date),
(B) the Class Certificate Balance of the Class M-__
Certificates (after giving effect to
distributions on that date),
(C) the Class Certificate Balance of the Class M-__
Certificates (after giving effect to
distributions on that date), and
(D) the Class Certificate Balance of the Class B
Certificates immediately prior to such
Distribution Date over
(ii) the lesser of:
(A) related Target Percentage of the Assumed
Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans on the
preceding Determination Date, and
(B) the excess, if any, of:
(I) the Assumed Principal Balance of the
Mortgage Loans on the preceding
Determination Date over
(II) the Assumed Principal Balance of the
Mortgage Loans on the preceding
Determination Date less 0.50% of the
Assumed Principal Balance as of the Cut
Off Date (but in no event less than
zero).
Class Certificate Balance: With respect to any Class of Certificates and
as of any Distribution Date, the aggregate of the Certificate Principal Balances
of all Certificates of such Class as of such date.
Class M-__ Principal Distribution Amount: With respect to any
Distribution Date before the Stepdown Date or for which a Trigger Event is in
effect, zero, and with respect to any Distribution Date on or after the Stepdown
Date and as long as a Trigger Event is not in effect the excess of:
(i) the sum of:
(A) the Group I Class A Certificate Principal
Balance and the Group II Class A Certificate
Principal Balance (after giving effect to
distributions on that date), and
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(B) the Class Certificate Balance of the Class M-__
Certificates immediately prior to such
Distribution Date over
(ii) the lesser of:
(A) the related Target Percentage of the Assumed
Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans on the
preceding Determination Date, and
(B) the excess, if any, of:
(I) the Assumed Principal Balance of the
Mortgage Loans on the preceding
Determination Date over
(II) the Assumed Principal Balance of the
Mortgage Loans on the preceding
Determination Date less 0.50% of the
Assumed Principal Balance as of the Cut
Off Date (but in no event less than
zero).
Class M-__ Principal Distribution Amount: With respect to any
Distribution Date before the Stepdown Date or for which a Trigger Event is in
effect, zero, and with respect to any Distribution Date on or after the Stepdown
Date and as long as a Trigger Event is not in effect the excess of:
(i) the sum of:
(A) the Group I Class A Certificate Principal
Balance and the Group II Class A Certificate
Principal Balance (after giving effect to
distributions on that date),
(B) the Class Certificate Balance of the Class M-__
Certificates (after giving effect to
distributions on that date), and
(C) the Class Certificate Balance of the Class M-__
Certificates immediately prior to such
Distribution Date over
(ii) the lesser of:
(A) the related Target Percentage of the Assumed
Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans on the
preceding Determination Date, and
(B) the excess, if any, of:
(I) the Assumed Principal Balance of the
Mortgage Loans on the preceding
Determination Date over
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(II) the Assumed Principal Balance of the
Mortgage Loans on the preceding
Determination Date less _____ % of the
Assumed Principal Balance as of the Cut
Off Date (but in no event less than
zero).
Class __ Prepayment Amount: As to each Distribution Date, the excess, if
any, of Prepayment Penalties collected with respect to the Mortgage Loans during
the related Prepayment Period over the Pledged Prepayment Penalties for such
Distribution Date.
Code: The Internal Revenue Code of 1986, including any successor or
amendatory provisions.
Collection Account: The separate Eligible Account or Accounts created
and maintained by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.5 hereof with a depository
institution for the benefit of the Trustee on behalf of Certificateholders and
designated with the applicable Account Designation.
Compensating Interest: As to any Distribution Date and any Principal
Prepayment in Full in respect of a Mortgage Loan that is received during the
period from the eighteenth day of the month prior to the month of such
Distribution Date through the last day of such month, an additional payment made
by the Servicer, to the extent funds are available from the total Servicing Fee
payable for such Distribution Date, equal to the amount of interest at the
Mortgage Rate (less the applicable Servicing Fee Rate) for that Mortgage Loan
from the date of the prepayment through the last day of the month of such
Distribution Date. For the avoidance of doubt, no Compensating Interest payment
shall be required in connection with any shortfalls resulting from Principal
Prepayments in part or the application of the Relief Act.
Cooperative Corporation: The entity that holds title (fee or an
acceptable leasehold estate) to the real property and improvements constituting
the Cooperative Property and which governs the Cooperative Property, which
Cooperative Corporation must qualify as a Cooperative Housing Corporation under
Section 216 of the Code.
Coop Shares: Shares issued by a Cooperative Corporation.
Cooperative Loan: Any Mortgage Loan secured by Coop Shares and a
Proprietary Lease.
Cooperative Property: The real property and improvements owned by the
Cooperative Corporation, including the allocation of individual dwelling units
to the holders of the Coop Shares of the Cooperative Corporation.
Cooperative Unit: A single-family dwelling located in a Cooperative
Property.
Corporate Trust Office: The designated office of the Trustee at which at
any particular time its corporate trust business with respect to this Agreement
shall be administered.
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Credit Support Depletion Date: The Distribution Date on which the
Certificate Principal Balance of each of the Class M-__, Class M-__ and Class B
Certificates has been reduced to zero.
Current Interest: With respect to any Distribution Date and any Class of
Certificates, the interest accrued on the Class Certificate Balance (or Notional
Principal Balance) thereof immediately prior to such Distribution Date during
the related Accrual Period at the applicable Pass-Through Rate; provided,
however, that such Current Interest shall be reduced by such Class's pro rata
share (based on the amount of Current Interest distributable on such Class) of
any Net Prepayment Interest Shortfalls and Relief Act Shortfalls for such
Distribution Date. All calculations of interest on each Class of Delay
Certificates will be made on the basis of a 360-day year assumed to consist of
twelve 30-day months and all calculations of interest on each Class of Non-Delay
Certificates will be made on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed in
the related Accrual Period and a 360-day year.
Debt Service Reduction: With respect to any Mortgage Loan, a reduction
by a court of competent jurisdiction in a proceeding under the Bankruptcy Code
in the Scheduled Payment for such Mortgage Loan which became final and
non-appealable, except such a reduction resulting from a Deficient Valuation or
any reduction that results in a permanent forgiveness of principal.
Defective Mortgage Loan: Any Mortgage Loan which is required to be
repurchased pursuant to Section 2.2 or 2.3.
Deficient Valuation: With respect to any Mortgage Loan, a valuation by a
court of competent jurisdiction of the Mortgaged Property in an amount less than
the then-outstanding indebtedness under the Mortgage Loan, or any reduction in
the amount of principal to be paid in connection with any Scheduled Payment that
results in a permanent forgiveness of principal, which valuation or reduction
results from an order of such court which is final and non-appealable in a
proceeding under the Bankruptcy Code.
Definitive Certificates: Any Certificate evidenced by a Physical
Certificate and any Certificate issued in lieu of a Book-Entry Certificate
pursuant to Section 5.2(e).
Deleted Mortgage Loan: As defined in Section 2.3(e) hereof.
Delinquent: A Mortgage Loan is "Delinquent" if any payment due thereon
is not made by the close of business on the Determination Date immediately
following the day such payment is scheduled to be due. A Mortgage Loan is "30
days Delinquent" if such payment has not been received by the close of business
on the Determination Date immediately succeeding the Determination Date on which
such payment was categorized as "Delinquent." Similarly for "60 days
Delinquent," "90 days Delinquent" and so on.
Denomination: With respect to each Certificate, the amount set forth on
the face thereof as the "Initial Certificate Balance of this Certificate" or the
Percentage Interest appearing on the face thereof.
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Depositor:
Aegis Asset Backed Securities Corporation, a Delaware
corporation, or its successor in interest.
Depository: The initial Depository shall be The Depository Trust
Company, the nominee of which is CEDE & Co., as the registered Holder of the
Book-Entry Certificates. The Depository shall at all times be a "clearing
corporation" as defined in Section 8-102(a)(5) of the Uniform Commercial Code of
the State of
New York.
Depository Participant: A broker, dealer, bank or other financial
institution or other Person for whom from time to time a Depository effects
book-entry transfers and pledges of securities deposited with the Depository.
Determination Date: As to any Distribution Date, the earlier of (i) the
17th day of each month, or (ii) if such day is not a Business Day, the
immediately preceding Business Day.
Distribution Account: The separate Eligible Account created and
maintained by the Trustee pursuant to Section 3.5(d) in the name of the Trustee
for the benefit of the Certificateholders and designated with the applicable
Account Designation.
Distribution Account Deposit Date: As to any Distribution Date, the
Business Day immediately preceding such Distribution Date.
Distribution Date: The 25th day of each calendar month after the initial
issuance of the Certificates, or if such 25th day is not a Business Day, the
next succeeding Business Day, commencing on the Initial Distribution Date.
Due Date: With respect to any Distribution Date and each Mortgage Loan,
the day of the month in which each Distribution Date occurs on which the related
mortgage payment is due (or, in the case of an Odd Due Date Mortgage Loan, such
day in the preceding month).
Due Period: With respect to any Distribution Date, the period from and
including the second day of each month through and including the first day of
the following month.
Eligible Account: Any of (i) an account or accounts maintained with a
federal or state chartered depository institution or trust company the
short-term unsecured debt obligations of which (or, in the case of a depository
institution or trust company that is the principal subsidiary of a holding
company, the debt obligations of such holding company) have the highest
short-term ratings of each Rating Agency at the time any amounts are held on
deposit therein, or (ii) an account or accounts in a depository institution or
trust company in which such accounts are insured by the FDIC or the SAIF (to the
limits established by the FDIC or the SAIF, as applicable) and the uninsured
deposits in which accounts are otherwise secured such that, as evidenced by an
Opinion of Counsel delivered to the Trustee and to each Rating Agency, the
Certificateholders have a claim with respect to the funds in such account or a
perfected first priority security interest against any collateral (which shall
be limited to Permitted Investments) securing such funds that is superior to
claims of any other depositors or creditors of the
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depository institution or trust company in which such account is maintained, or
(iii) a trust account or accounts maintained with (a) the trust department of a
federal or state chartered depository institution or (b) a trust company, acting
in its fiduciary capacity or (iv) any other account acceptable to each Rating
Agency. Eligible Accounts may bear interest, and may include, if otherwise
qualified under this definition, accounts maintained with the Trustee.
ERISA: The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended.
Escrow Account: The Eligible Account or Accounts established and
maintained pursuant to Section 3.6(a) hereof.
Event of Default: As defined in Section 7.1 hereof.
Excess Proceeds: With respect to any Liquidated Mortgage Loan, the
amount, if any, by which the sum of any Liquidation Proceeds of such Mortgage
Loan received during the Prepayment Period in which such Mortgage Loan became a
Liquidated Mortgage Loan, net of any amounts [note] previously reimbursed to the
Master Servicer as Nonrecoverable Advance(s) with respect to such Mortgage Loan
pursuant to Section 3.8(a)(iii), exceeds (i) the unpaid principal balance of
such Liquidated Mortgage Loan as of the Due Date in the month in which such
Mortgage Loan became a Liquidated Mortgage Loan plus (ii) accrued interest at
the Mortgage Rate from the Due Date as to which interest was last paid or
advanced (and not reimbursed) to Certificateholders up to the Due Date
applicable to the Distribution Date immediately following the Prepayment Period
during which such liquidation occurred. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Excess
Proceeds with respect to any Nonrecoverable Mortgage Loan shall be equal to the
amount, if any, by which Subsequent Recoveries with respect to such
Nonrecoverable Mortgage Loan exceed the Realized Loss with respect thereto.
FDIC: The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, or any successor
thereto.
FHLMC: The Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, a corporate
instrumentality of the United States created and existing under Title III of the
Emergency Home Finance Act of 1970, as amended, or any successor thereto.
FIRREA: The Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act
of 1989.
Fitch: Fitch Ratings or any successor thereto. If Fitch is designated as
a Rating Agency in the Preliminary Statement, the address for notices to Fitch
shall be Fitch Ratings, Xxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000,
Attention: Residential Mortgage Surveillance Group, or such other address as
Fitch may hereafter furnish to the Depositor and the Master Servicer.
FNMA: The Federal National Mortgage Association, a federally chartered
and privately owned corporation organized and existing under the Federal
National Mortgage Association Charter Act, or any successor thereto.
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[Funding Period: The period commencing on the Closing Date and ending on
the earliest to occur of :
(i) the date on which the amount on deposit in the
Pre-Funding Account (exclusive of any investment
earnings) is less than $________,
(ii) the date on which an Event of Default occurs, and
(iii) the Funding Period Termination Date.]
Group: Any grouping of Mortgage Loans described in the Preliminary
Statement.
Indirect Participant: A broker, dealer, bank or other financial
institution or other Person that clears through or maintains a custodial
relationship with a Depository Participant.
Initial Adjustment Date: As to each adjustable rate Mortgage Loan, the
first date upon which the monthly interest rate thereon is reset.
Insurance Policy: With respect to any Mortgage Loan included in the
Trust Fund, any insurance policy, including all riders and endorsements thereto
in effect, including any replacement policy or policies for any Insurance
Policies.
Insurance Proceeds: Proceeds paid by an insurer pursuant to any
Insurance Policy, in each case other than any amount included in such Insurance
Proceeds in respect of Insured Expenses.
Insured Expenses: Expenses covered by an Insurance Policy or any other
insurance policy with respect to the Mortgage Loans.
[Interest Carry Forward Amount: With respect to each Distribution Date
and Class, the sum of:
(i) the excess of:
(A) Current Interest for such Class with respect to
prior Distribution Dates (excluding any Cap
Carryover Amount) over
(B) the amount actually distributed to such Class
(other than in respect of any applicable Cap
Carryover Amount) with respect to interest on
such prior Distribution Dates, and
(ii) interest thereon at the applicable Pass-Through Rate for
the related Accrual Period.]
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Interest Funds: With respect to any Group and any Determination Date,
the sum, without duplication, of:
(i) all scheduled interest due during the related Due Period
(and received by the related Determination Date) with
respect to such Group less the related Servicing Fee and
the Master Servicing Fee,
(ii) all Advances relating to interest with respect to such
Group,
(iii) any Compensating Interest payment with respect to such
Group,
(iv) any Prepayment Interest Excess with respect to such
Group,
(v) Liquidation Proceeds with respect to such Group (to the
extent such Liquidation Proceeds relate to interest)
less all Non-Recoverable Advances relating to interest
and expenses, and
(vi) any Subsequent Recoveries added to the Interest Funds
for such group pursuant to Section 4.1(j).
Last Endorsee: As defined in Section 2.1(b).
Latest Possible Maturity Date: The Distribution Date following the third
anniversary of the scheduled maturity date of the Mortgage Loan having the
latest scheduled maturity date as of the Cut Off Date.
Liquidated Mortgage Loan: With respect to any Distribution Date, a
defaulted Mortgage Loan (including any REO Property) which was liquidated by the
Servicer or Master Servicer in any manner, including but not limited to a
disposition pursuant to Section 3.11(i), in the Prepayment Period for such
Distribution Date and as to which the Servicer has determined (in accordance
with this Agreement) that it has received all amounts it expects to receive in
connection with the liquidation of such Mortgage Loan, including the final
disposition of an REO Property.
Liquidation Proceeds: Amounts, including Insurance Proceeds, received by
the Servicer or Master Servicer in connection with the partial or complete
liquidation of defaulted Mortgage Loans, whether through trustee's sale,
foreclosure sale, disposition pursuant to Section 3.11(i), or otherwise or
amounts received in connection with any condemnation or partial release of a
Mortgaged Property and any other proceeds received in connection with an REO
Property, less the sum of related unreimbursed Servicing Fees, Xxxxxxxxx
Advances and P&I Advances.
Loan-to-Value Ratio: With respect to any Mortgage Loan and as to any
date of determination, the fraction (expressed as a percentage) the numerator of
which is the principal balance of the related Mortgage Loan at such date of
determination and the denominator of
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which is the lesser of the purchase price of the related Mortgaged Property and
the appraised value of the related Mortgaged Property.
London Business Day: A day on which banks are open for dealing in
foreign currency and exchange in London and
New York City.
Lost Mortgage Note: Any Mortgage Note the original of which was
permanently lost or destroyed and has not been replaced.
Maintenance: With respect to any Cooperative Unit, the rent paid by the
Mortgagor to the Cooperative Corporation pursuant to the Proprietary Lease.
Majority in Interest: As to any Class of Regular Certificates, the
Holders of Certificates of such Class evidencing, in the aggregate, at least 51%
of the Percentage Interests evidenced by all Certificates of such Class.
Master Servicer: [__________________, a [_______] corporation, and its
successors and assigns, in its capacity as master servicer hereunder.
Master Servicer Custodial Account: The separate Eligible Account created
and maintained by the Master Servicer pursuant to Section 3.5(c) for the benefit
of Certificateholders and designated with the applicable Account Designation.
Master Servicing Fee: As to each Mortgage Loan and any Distribution
Date, an amount payable out of each full payment of interest received on such
Mortgage Loan and equal to one-twelfth of the Master Servicing Fee Rate
multiplied by the Stated Principal Balance of such Mortgage Loan as of the first
day of the month prior to the month of such Distribution Date.
Master Servicer Reporting Date: The opening of business on the third
Business Day preceding each Distribution Date.
Monthly Statement: The statement delivered to the Certificateholders
pursuant to Section 4.5.
Moody's: Xxxxx'x Investors Service, Inc., or any successor thereto. If
Xxxxx'x is designated as a Rating Agency in the Preliminary Statement, the
address for notices to Moody's shall be Xxxxx'x Investors Service, Inc., 00
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, Attention: Residential Pass-Through
Monitoring, or such other address as Moody's may hereafter furnish to the
Depositor or the Master Servicer.
Mortgage: The mortgage, deed of trust or other instrument creating a
first lien on an estate in fee simple or leasehold interest in real property
securing a Mortgage Note.
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Mortgage File: The mortgage documents listed in Section 2.1 hereof
pertaining to a particular Mortgage Loan and any additional documents delivered
to the Trustee to be added to the Mortgage File pursuant to this Agreement.
Mortgage Loan Documents: As defined in Section 2.1 hereof.
Mortgage Loans: Such of the mortgage loans transferred and assigned
pursuant to the provisions hereof as from time to time are held as a part of the
Trust Fund (including any REO Property), the mortgage loans so held being
identified in the Mortgage Loan Schedule, notwithstanding foreclosure or other
acquisition of title of the related Mortgaged Property.
Mortgage Loan Schedule: The list of Mortgage Loans (as from time to time
amended by the Master Servicer to reflect the addition of Substitute or
Subsequent Mortgage Loans and the deletion of Deleted Mortgage Loans pursuant to
the provisions of this Agreement) transferred to the Trustee as part of the
Trust Fund and from time to time subject to this Agreement, attached hereto as
Schedule I, setting forth the following information with respect to each
Mortgage Loan:
(i) the loan number;
(ii) the Mortgagor's name;
(iv) the original principal balance;
(v) the Stated Principal Balance as of the Cut Off Date;
(vi) Mortgage Rate;
(vii) Servicing Fee; and
(vii) Group.
Mortgage Note: The original executed note or other evidence of
indebtedness evidencing the indebtedness of a Mortgagor under a Mortgage Loan.
Mortgage Rate: The annual rate of interest borne by a Mortgage Note from
time to time, net of any insurance premium charged by the mortgagee to obtain or
maintain any Primary Insurance Policy.
Mortgaged Property: The underlying property securing a Mortgage Loan,
which, in the case of a Cooperative Loan, is the related Coop Shares and
Proprietary Lease.
Mortgagor: Any obligor on a Mortgage Note.
Net Prepayment Interest Shortfall: As to any Distribution Date and
Group, the amount by which the aggregate of Prepayment Interest Shortfalls
during the related Prepayment Period for
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such Group exceeds an amount equal to the Compensating Interest for such Group,
if any, for such Distribution Date.
Nonrecoverable Advance: Any portion of any P&I Advance or Servicing
Advance previously made or proposed to be made by the Servicer [or Master
Servicer] that, in the good faith judgment of the advancing party, will not be
ultimately recoverable by such advancing party from the related Mortgagor,
related Liquidation Proceeds or otherwise.
Nonrecoverable Mortgage Loan: Any Mortgage Loan that has been determined
to be a Nonrecoverable Mortgage Loan pursuant to Section 3.11(f) hereof and is
identified in an Officer's Certificate signed by a Servicing Officer delivered
to the Master Servicer pursuant to Section 3.11(f) hereof. For the avoidance of
doubt, Mortgage Loans represented by REO Property shall not constitute
Nonrecoverable Mortgage Loans.
Nonrecoverable Mortgage Loan Purchase Price: As to any Nonrecoverable
Mortgage Loan, an amount equal to the sum of (i) the Projected Net Liquidation
Value thereof on the date of purchase of such loan pursuant to this Agreement;
and (ii) any accrued interest at the applicable Mortgage Rate from the date
through which interest was last paid by the Mortgagor to the Due Date occurring
in the Due Period immediately preceding the Distribution Date on which the
Nonrecoverable Mortgage Loan Purchase Price is to be distributed to
Certificateholders.
Notice Address: For purposes hereof, the addresses of the Depositor, the
[Master Servicer], the Servicer and the Trustee, are as follows:
(i) If to the Depositor:
Aegis Asset Backed Securities Corporation
00000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxx 00000
(ii) [If to the Master Servicer:
_____________________]
(iii) [If to the Trustee:
______________________]
(iv) [If to the Servicer:
______________________]
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Notice of Final Distribution: The notice to be provided pursuant to
Section 9.2 hereof to the effect that final distribution on any of the
Certificates shall be made only upon presentation and surrender thereof.
Odd Due Date Mortgage Loan: Any Mortgage Loan whose monthly payments are
due on a day other than the first day of the month.
Officer's Certificate: A certificate signed by the Chairman of the
Board, the Vice Chairman of the Board, the President, a Managing Director, a
Vice President (however denominated), an Assistant Vice President, the
Treasurer, the Secretary, or one of the Assistant Treasurers or Assistant
Secretaries of the entity required by the terms of this Agreement to deliver
such certificate, or by such officer of such entity as may be required to sign
such certificate by the terms of this Agreement relating to such particular
certificate.
One Month LIBOR: As of any Interest Determination Date, the rate for
one-month U.S. dollar deposits which appears in the Telerate Page 3750, as of
11:00 a.m., London time, on such Interest Determination Date. If such rate does
not appear on Telerate Page 3750, the rate for that day will be determined on
the basis of the rates at which deposits in United States dollars are offered by
the Reference Banks at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, on that day to
prime banks in the London interbank market for a period equal to the relevant
Accrual Period (commencing on the first day of such Accrual Period). The
Calculation Agent, as agent for the [Master] Servicer, will request the
principal London office of each of the Reference Banks to provide a quotation of
its rate. If at least two such quotations are provided, the rate for that day
will be the arithmetic-mean of the quotations. If fewer than two quotations are
provided as requested, the rate for that day will be the arithmetic-mean of the
rates quoted by major banks in
New York City, selected by the Master Servicer,
at approximately 11:00 a.m.,
New York City time, on that day for loans in United
States dollars to leading European banks for a period equal to the relevant
Accrual Period (commencing on the first day of such Accrual Period). The
Calculation Agent, as agent for the Master Servicer, shall review Telerate Page
3750 as of the required time, make the required requests to the principal
offices of the Reference Banks and selections of major banks in
New York City
and shall determine the rate which constitutes One Month LIBOR for each Interest
Determination Date.
Opinion of Counsel: A written opinion of counsel, who may be counsel for
the Depositor, Servicer or [the Master Servicer], including, in-house counsel,
reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.
Optional Termination: The termination of the trust created hereunder in
connection with the purchase of the Mortgage Loans pursuant to Section 9.1
hereof.
Original Mortgage Loan: The Mortgage Loan refinanced in connection with
the origination of a Refinancing Mortgage Loan.
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OTS: The Office of Thrift Supervision.
Outstanding: With respect to the Certificates as of any date of
determination, all Certificates theretofore executed and authenticated under
this Agreement except:
(i) Certificates theretofore canceled by the Trustee or
delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; and
(ii) Certificates in exchange for which or in lieu of which
other Certificates have been executed and delivered by the Trustee
pursuant to this Agreement.
Outstanding Mortgage Loan: As of any Determination Date, a Mortgage Loan
with a Stated Principal Balance greater than zero which was not the subject of a
Principal Prepayment in Full prior to such Determination Date and which did not
become a Liquidated Mortgage Loan prior to such Determination Date.
Overcollateralization Amount: With respect to any Distribution Date, the
excess, if any, of the Assumed Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans over the
aggregate Certificate Principal Balance of the Certificates after giving effect
to principal distributions on such Distribution Date.
Ownership Interest: As to any Residual Certificate, any ownership
interest in such Certificate including any interest in such Certificate as the
Holder thereof and any other interest therein, whether direct or indirect, legal
or beneficial.
P&I Advance: The payment required to be made by the Servicer with
respect to any Distribution Date pursuant to Section 3.19 hereof, the amount of
any such payment being equal to the aggregate of payments of principal and
interest (net of the related Servicing Fee and any net income in the case of any
REO Property) on the Mortgage Loans that were due during the related Due Period
and not received as of the close of business on the related Determination Date,
less the aggregate amount of any such delinquent payments that the Servicer or
Master Servicer has determined would constitute a Nonrecoverable Advance if
advanced.
Pass-Through Rate: For any interest bearing Class of Certificates or
Component, the per annum rate set forth or calculated in the manner described in
the Pass-Through Rate Schedule.
Pass-Through Rate Schedule: The Schedule setting forth the Pass-Through
Rates of the Certificates, attached as Schedule II hereto.
Paying Agent: [________________], a [___________] banking corporation,
and its successors and assigns in such capacity.
Percentage Interest: As to any Certificate, the percentage interest
evidenced thereby in distributions required to be made on the related Class,
such percentage interest being set forth on the face thereof or equal to the
percentage obtained by dividing the Denomination of such Certificate by the
aggregate of the Denominations of all Certificates of the same Class.
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Permitted Investments: At any time, any one or more of the following
obligations and securities:
(i) obligations of the United States or any agency thereof,
provided such obligations are backed by the full faith and credit of the
United States;
(ii) general obligations of or obligations guaranteed by any
state of the United States or the District of Columbia receiving the
highest long-term debt rating of each Rating Agency, or such lower
rating as will not result in the downgrading or withdrawal of the
ratings then assigned to the Certificates by each Rating Agency;
(iii) commercial or finance company paper which is then
receiving the highest commercial or finance company paper rating of each
Rating Agency, or such lower rating as will not result in the
downgrading or withdrawal of the ratings then assigned to the
Certificates by each Rating Agency;
(iv) certificates of deposit, demand or time deposits, or
bankers' acceptances issued by any depository institution or trust
company incorporated under the laws of the United States or of any state
thereof and subject to supervision and examination by federal and/or
state banking authorities, provided that the commercial paper and/or
long term unsecured debt obligations of such depository institution or
trust company (or in the case of the principal depository institution in
a holding company system, the commercial paper or long-term unsecured
debt obligations of such holding company, but only if Xxxxx'x is not a
Rating Agency) are then rated one of the two highest long-term and the
highest short-term ratings of each Rating Agency for such securities, or
such lower ratings as will not result in the downgrading or withdrawal
of the rating then assigned to the Certificates by either Rating Agency;
(v) interest-bearing demand or time deposits or certificates
of deposit issued by any bank or trust company or savings institution to
the extent that such deposits are fully insured by the FDIC;
(vi) guaranteed reinvestment agreements issued by any bank,
insurance company or other corporation containing, at the time of the
issuance of such agreements, such terms and conditions as will not
result in the downgrading or withdrawal of the rating then assigned to
the Certificates by either Rating Agency;
(vii) repurchase obligations with respect to any security
described in clauses (i) and (ii) above, in either case entered into
with a depository institution or trust company (acting as principal)
described in clause (iv) above, provided that the long-term or
short-term unsecured debt obligations of the party agreeing to
repurchase such obligations are at the time rated by each Rating Agency
in one of its highest long-term unsecured debt rating categories or its
highest short-term unsecured debt rating category, respectively;
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(viii) securities (other than stripped bonds, stripped coupons
or instruments sold at a purchase price in excess of ___% of the face
amount thereof) bearing interest or sold at a discount issued by any
corporation incorporated under the laws of the United States or any
state thereof which, at the time of such investment, have one of the two
highest ratings of each Rating Agency (except if the Rating Agency is
Moody's, such rating shall be the highest commercial paper rating of
Moody's for any such securities), or such lower rating as will not
result in the downgrading or withdrawal of the rating then assigned to
the Certificates by either Rating Agency as evidenced by a signed
writing delivered by each Rating Agency;
(ix) units of a taxable money-market portfolio having the
highest rating assigned by each Rating Agency (except if Fitch is a
Rating Agency and has not rated the portfolio, then the highest rating
assigned by Moody's) and restricted to obligations issued or guaranteed
by the United States of America or entities whose obligations are backed
by the full faith and credit of the United States of America and
repurchase agreements collateralized by such obligations; and
(x) such other investments bearing interest or sold at a
discount acceptable to each Rating Agency as will not result in the
downgrading or withdrawal of the rating then assigned to the
Certificates by either Rating Agency, as evidenced by a signed writing
delivered by each Rating Agency;
provided that no such instrument shall be a Permitted Investment if such
instrument evidences the right to receive interest only payments with
respect to the obligations underlying such instrument.
Permitted Transferee: Any person other than a "disqualified
organization" as defined in section 860E(e)(5) of the Code.
Person: Any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture,
association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization or
government, or any agency or political subdivision thereof.
Pool Principal Balance: As to any Distribution Date, the aggregate of
the Stated Principal Balances of the Mortgage Loans which were Outstanding
Mortgage Loans on the Determination Date in the month preceding the month of
such Distribution Date.
[Pre-Funded Amount: With respect to any date and Group, the amount
remaining on deposit in the Pre-Funding Account with respect to such Group
(exclusive of any related Pre-Funding Account Earnings).]
[Pre-Funding Account: The account created and maintained with the Paying
Agent by the Trust pursuant to Section 2.7 hereof.]
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[Pre-Funding Account Earnings: With respect to each Distribution Date to
and including the date immediately preceding the Distribution Date immediately
following the end of the Funding Period, the actual interest and investment
earnings on the Pre-Funded Amount as calculated by the Master Servicer (based on
information supplied by the Trustee).]
Prepayment Interest Excess: As to any Principal Prepayment in Full
received by the Servicer from the first day through the 17th day of any calendar
month (other than the calendar month in which the Cut Off Date occurs), all
amounts paid by the related Mortgagor in respect of interest on such Principal
Prepayment.
Prepayment Interest Shortfall: As to any Distribution Date, Mortgage
Loan and Principal Prepayment received (a) during the period from the eighteenth
day of the month preceding the month of such Distribution Date through the last
day of such month, in the case of a Principal Prepayment in Full, or (b) during
the month preceding the month of such Distribution Date, in the case of a
partial Principal Prepayment, the amount, if any, by which one month's interest
at the related Mortgage Rate (less the related Servicing Fee) on such Principal
Prepayment exceeds the amount of interest actually paid by the Mortgagor in
connection with such Principal Prepayment.
Prepayment Penalty: With respect to any Prepayment Period, any
prepayment premium, penalty or charge collected by the Servicer [or Master
Servicer] from a Mortgagor pursuant to the terms of the related Mortgage Note.
Prepayment Period: As to each Distribution Date, the period from but
excluding the Cut Off Date to and including the 17th day of the month in which
the first Determination Date occurs and each period thereafter from and
including the 18th day of a month (or, if the prior Prepayment Period ended on a
later day, such later day) to and including the Determination Date occurring in
the following month.
Primary Insurance Policy: Each policy of primary mortgage guaranty
insurance or any replacement policy therefor with respect to any Mortgage Loan.
Principal Distribution Amount: With respect to each Group and
Distribution Date, the excess of:
(i) the sum of:
(A) the Principal Funds for that Distribution Date
and Group, and
(B) the related Principal Percentage of any Extra
Principal Distribution Amount for that
Distribution Date over
(ii) the related Principal Percentage of the Released
Principal Amount for that Distribution Date.
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Principal Funds: With respect to each Group of Mortgage Loans and any
Determination Date the sum, without duplication, of:
(i) all scheduled principal with respect to such Group
collected by the Servicer during the related Due Period or advanced on
or before such Determination Date,
(ii) prepayments with respect to such Group collected by the
Servicer in the related Prepayment Period,
(iii) the Stated Principal Balance of each Mortgage Loan in
such Group repurchased by the [Depositor] in the related Prepayment
Period,
(iv) any Substitution Adjustment Amount with respect to such
Group for such date,
(v) all Liquidation Proceeds with respect to such Group
collected by the Servicer during the related Due Period (to the extent
such Liquidation Proceeds related to principal) less all non-recoverable
Advances relating to principal with respect to such Group reimbursed
during the related Due Period, and
(vi) [any remaining related Pre-Funded Amount immediately
following the end of the Funding Period.]
Principal Prepayment: Any payment of principal by a Mortgagor on a
Mortgage Loan that is received in advance of its scheduled Due Date and is not
accompanied by an amount representing scheduled interest due on any date or
dates in any month or months subsequent to the month of prepayment. Partial
Principal Prepayments shall be applied by the Servicer in accordance with the
terms of the related Mortgage Note.
Principal Prepayment in Full: Any Principal Prepayment made by a
Mortgagor of the entire principal balance of a Mortgage Loan.
Projected Net Liquidation Value: With respect to any Nonrecoverable
Mortgage Loan, the amount, set forth in an Officer's Certificate signed by a
Servicing Officer in a form acceptable to the [Master Servicer], equal to (i)
the fair market value of the related Mortgaged Property as determined by a real
estate broker meeting the qualifications, and applying broker's price opinion
methodology generally acceptable to, residential mortgage servicers, or other
property valuation opinion methodology customarily used by residential mortgage
servicers with respect to defaulted loans, less (ii) the Servicer's good faith
estimate of the total of all related costs of liquidation, Servicing Fees, and
Advances reasonably expected to be incurred in the event the Mortgaged Property
were the subject of foreclosure or otherwise converted to, and sold as, REO
Property.
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Proprietary Lease: With respect to any Cooperative Unit, a lease or
occupancy agreement between a Cooperative Corporation and a holder of related
Coop Shares.
PUD: Planned Unit Development.
Purchase Price: With respect to any Mortgage Loan, an amount equal to
the sum of (i) 100% of the unpaid principal balance of such Mortgage Loan on the
date of such purchase, and (ii) accrued interest thereon at the applicable
Mortgage Rate from the date through which interest was last paid by the
Mortgagor to the Due Date occurring in the Due Period immediately preceding the
Distribution Date on which the Purchase Price is to be distributed to
Certificateholders.
Rating Agency: Each of the Rating Agencies specified in the Preliminary
Statement. If any such organization or a successor is no longer in existence,
"Rating Agency" shall be such nationally recognized statistical rating
organization, or other comparable Person, as is designated by the Depositor,
notice of which designation shall be given to the Trustee. References herein to
a given rating category of a Rating Agency shall mean such rating category
without giving effect to any modifiers.
Realized Loss: With respect to any Mortgage Loan (other than a
Nonrecoverable Mortgage Loan), the amount by which the unpaid principal balance
thereof exceeds the net amount recovered in liquidation thereof (after payment
of expenses of liquidation, unpaid Servicing Fees, and reimbursement of
Advances), after payment of accrued interest on such Mortgage Loan and after
application of any Insurance Proceeds with respect thereto. With respect to any
Nonrecoverable Mortgage Loan, the sum of (i) the amount by which the unpaid
principal balance thereof exceeds the Projected Net Liquidation Value thereof
and (ii) the amount, if any, by which the Projected Net Liquidation Value
thereof exceeds Liquidation Proceeds received in respect thereof. The Realized
Loss in respect of any Nonrecoverable Mortgage Loan calculated pursuant to
clause (i) of the preceding sentence shall be given effect as of the Prepayment
Period during which the Servicer [or Master Servicer] classifies such loan as a
Nonrecoverable Mortgage Loan.
Recognition Agreement: With respect to any Cooperative Loan, an
agreement between the Cooperative Corporation and the originator of such
Mortgage Loan which establishes the rights of such originator in the Cooperative
Property.
Reference Bank: Leading banks selected by the [Master Servicer] and
engaged in transactions in U.S. dollar deposits in the London interbank market.
Refinancing Mortgage Loan: Any Mortgage Loan originated in connection
with the refinancing of an existing mortgage loan.
Released Principal Amount: With respect to any Distribution Date, the
amount by which the Overcollateralization Amount (assuming for such purpose that
all Principal Funds for such
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Distribution Date are distributed as principal to the Certificates) exceeds the
Required Overcollateralization Amount for such date.
Relief Act: The Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940, as
amended.
Relief Act Shortfall: With respect to any Mortgage Loan as to which
there has been a reduction in the amount of interest collectible thereon as a
result of application of the Relief Act, any amount by which interest
collectible on such Mortgage Loan for the Due Date in the related Due Period is
less than interest accrued thereon for the applicable one-month period at the
Net Rate without giving effect to such reduction.
REMIC: A "real estate mortgage investment conduit" within the meaning of
section 860D of the Code.
REMIC Change of Law: Any proposed, temporary or final regulation,
revenue ruling, revenue procedure or other official announcement or
interpretation relating to REMICs and the REMIC Provisions issued after the
Closing Date.
REMIC Provisions: Provisions of the federal income tax law relating to
real estate mortgage investment conduits, which appear at sections 860A through
860G of subchapter M of chapter 1 of the Code, and related provisions, and
regulations promulgated thereunder, as the foregoing may be in effect from time
to time.
Remittance Agency Agreement: As defined in Section 2.2 hereof.
REO Property: A Mortgaged Property acquired by the Trust Fund through
foreclosure or deed-in-lieu of foreclosure in connection with a defaulted
Mortgage Loan.
Request for Release: The Request for Release submitted by the Servicer
to the Trustee, substantially in the form of Exhibits I and J, as appropriate.
Required Recordation States: The states of Florida and Mississippi.
Responsible Officer: When used with respect to the Trustee, any Vice
President, any Assistant Vice President, the Secretary, any Assistant Secretary,
any Trust Officer or any other officer of the Trustee customarily performing
functions similar to those performed by any of the above designated officers and
having direct responsibility for the administration of this Agreement and also
to whom, with respect to a particular matter, such matter is referred because of
such officer's knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject.
S&P: Standard & Poor's Ratings Service, a division of The XxXxxx-Xxxx
Companies, Inc. If S&P is designated as a Rating Agency in the Preliminary
Statement, the address for notices to S&P shall be Standard & Poor's, 00
Xxxxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, Attention: Mortgage Surveillance
Monitoring, or such other address as S&P may hereafter furnish to the Depositor
and the Master Servicer.
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Scheduled Payment: The scheduled monthly payment on a Mortgage Loan due
on any Due Date allocable to principal and/or interest on such Mortgage Loan
which, unless otherwise specified herein, shall give effect to any related Debt
Service Reduction and any Deficient Valuation that affects the amount of the
monthly payment due on such Mortgage Loan.
Securities Act: The Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
Security Release Certification: As defined in Section 2.2 hereof.
Seller: Aegis Mortgage Corporation and its permitted successors and
assigns.
Senior Credit Enhancement Percentage: As of any Distribution Date is
equal to a fraction, expressed as a percentage, the numerator of which is the
sum of the aggregate Certificate Principal Balance of the Subordinate
Certificates for such Distribution Date and the Overcollateralization Amount for
such Distribution Date, and the denominator of which is the Assumed Principal
Balance of the Mortgage Loans as of such Distribution Date.
Senior Principal Distribution Amount: With respect to each Group and any
Distribution Date before the Stepdown Date or as to which a Trigger Event has
occurred, 100% of the Principal Distribution Amount for such Group and
Distribution Date, and with respect to any Distribution Date on or after the
Stepdown Date and as to which a Trigger Event has not occurred, the related
Principal Percentage of the excess of:
(i) the Group I, Group II and Group III Class A Certificate
Principal Balances immediately prior to such Distribution Date over
(ii) the lesser of:
(A) the related Target Percentage of the Assumed
Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans on the
preceding Determination Date, and
(B) the Assumed Principal Balance of the Mortgage
Loans on the preceding Determination Date less
0.50% of the Assumed Principal Balance as of the
Cut Off Date (but in no event less than zero).
Servicer: [_______] and its permitted successors and assigns.
Servicer Deposit Date: The twenty-first day of each month, or if such
day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding day.
Servicing Advances: All customary, reasonable and necessary "out of
pocket" costs and expenses incurred in the performance by the Servicer of its
servicing obligations hereunder, including, but not limited to, the cost of (i)
the preservation, restoration and protection of a Mortgaged Property, (ii) any
expenses reimbursable to the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.11 hereof and any
enforcement or judicial proceedings, including foreclosures, (iii) the
management
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and liquidation of any REO Property and (iv) compliance with the obligations
under Section 3.1 and Section 3.9 thereof.
Servicing Fee: As to each Mortgage Loan and any Distribution Date, an
amount payable out of each full payment of interest received on such Mortgage
Loan and equal to one-twelfth of the Servicing Fee Rate multiplied by the Stated
Principal Balance of such Mortgage Loan as of the Due Date in of the month prior
to the month of such Distribution Date (or, in the case of an Odd Due Date
Mortgage Loan, the Due Date occurring in the second month preceding the month of
such Distribution Date).
Servicing Officer: Any of the President, any Vice President (however
denominated), or Assistant Vice President of the Servicer involved in, or
responsible for, the administration and servicing of one or more Mortgage Loans
at the time of performance of the relevant activity of the Servicer.
Startup Day: The Closing Date.
Stated Principal Balance: As to any Mortgage Loan and Determination
Date, the unpaid principal balance of such Mortgage Loan as of the applicable
Due Date as specified in the amortization schedule at the time relating thereto
(before any adjustment to such amortization schedule by reason of any moratorium
or similar waiver or grace period) after giving effect to (i) any previous
partial Principal Prepayments and Liquidation Proceeds allocable to principal
(other than with respect to any Liquidated Mortgage Loan), (ii) the payment of
principal due on such Due Date, and (iii) in the case of any Nonrecoverable
Mortgage Loan, the amount of any Realized Loss in respect thereof (but otherwise
determined, in each case, regardless of any delinquency in payment by the
related Mortgagor).
Subservicer: Any person to whom the Servicer [(or Master Servicer)] has
contracted for the servicing of all or a portion of the Mortgage Loans pursuant
to Section 3.2 hereof.
[Subsequent Cut Off Date: The date specified in a Subsequent Sales
Agreement with respect to those Subsequent Mortgage Loans which are transferred
and assigned to the Trust Fund pursuant to the related Subsequent Sales
Agreement.]
[Subsequent Mortgage Loans: The Mortgage Loans listed on a Mortgage Loan
Schedule attached to a Subsequent Sales Agreement.]
Subsequent Recoveries: As to any Nonrecoverable Mortgage Loan, the
excess of (i) any net Liquidation Proceeds received in respect of such loan;
over (ii) the Projected Net Liquidation Value thereof.
[Subsequent Sales Agreement: Each Subsequent Sales Agreement dated as of
a Subsequent Sales Date by which Subsequent Mortgage Loans are sold and assigned
to the Trust.]
[Subsequent Sales Date: The date specified in each Subsequent Sales
Agreement.
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Substitute Mortgage Loan: A Mortgage Loan substituted by the Depositor
or [Master] Servicer for a Deleted Mortgage Loan which must, on the date of such
substitution, as confirmed in a Request for Release, substantially in the form
of Exhibit I, (i) have a Stated Principal Balance, after deduction of the
principal portion of the Scheduled Payment due in the month of substitution, not
in excess of, and not more than 10% less than the Stated Principal Balance of
the Deleted Mortgage Loan; (ii) accrue interest on the same basis as the Deleted
Mortgage Loan and be accruing interest at a rate no lower than and not more than
1% per annum higher than, that of the Deleted Mortgage Loan; (iii) have a
Loan-to-Value Ratio no higher than that of the Deleted Mortgage Loan; (iv) not
be a Cooperative Loan unless the Deleted Mortgage Loan was a Cooperative Loan;
and (v) comply with each representation and warranty set forth in Section 2.3
hereof. Any of the characteristics described above may be satisfied in the
aggregate by one or more Substitute Mortgage Loans.
Substitution Adjustment Amount: The meaning ascribed to such term
pursuant to Section 2.3 hereof.
Tax Matters Person: The person designated as "tax matters person" in the
manner provided under Treasury regulation Section 1.860F-4(d) and Treasury
regulation Section 301.6231(a)(7)-1. Initially, the Tax Matters Person shall be
the Trustee.
Tax Matters Person Certificate: The Class R Certificate with a
Denomination of _______%.
Telerate Page 3750: The display page currently so designated on the
Bridge Telerate Market Report (or such other page as may replace that page on
that service for the purpose of displaying comparable rates or prices).
Transfer: Any direct or indirect transfer or sale of any Ownership
Interest in a Residual Certificate.
Trustee: [__________________________] and its successors and, if a
successor trustee is appointed hereunder, such successor.
Trustee Fee: As to any Distribution Date, an amount equal to one-twelfth
of the Trustee Fee Rate multiplied by the Pool Principal Balance with respect to
such Distribution Date, to be paid by the Master Servicer from the [Master]
Servicing Fee.
Trust Fund: As described in Section 2.1 hereof.
Unpaid Realized Loss Amount: As to any Distribution Date and any Class,
the excess of:
(i) the Applied Realized Loss Amount for such Class over
(ii) the sum of all distributions in reduction of such
Applied Realized Loss Amount on all previous
Distribution Dates.
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Weighted Average Net Rate: The weighted average of the Mortgage Rates of
the Mortgage Loans less the sum of the Servicing Fee Rate and the Master
Servicing Fee Rate, as applicable, provided, however, that for the first three
Distribution Dates, the Weighted Average Net Rate shall equal the product of (i)
the weighted average of the Mortgage Rates of only those Mortgage Loans
transferred to the Trust Fund on the Closing Date less the sum of the Servicing
Fee Rate and the Master Servicing Fee Rate, as applicable, multiplied by (ii) a
fraction, the numerator of which is the aggregate principal balance of the
Mortgage Loans transferred to the Trust Fund on the Closing Date and the
denominator of which is the Assumed Principal Balance as of such Distribution
Date.
ARTICLE 2
CONVEYANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS; REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
Section 2.1 Conveyance of Mortgage Loans.
(a) To provide for the distribution of the principal of and interest on
the Certificates in accordance with their terms, the distribution of all other
sums distributable hereunder with respect to the Certificates and the
performance of the covenants contained herein, the Depositor hereby bargains,
sells, conveys, assigns and transfers to the Trustee, in trust, without recourse
and for the exclusive benefit of the Certificateholders as their interests may
appear, all the Depositor's right, title and interest in and to any and all
benefits accruing to the Depositor from: (i) the Mortgage Loans, which the
Depositor is causing to be delivered to the Trustee (or the Custodian) herewith
(and all Substitute Mortgage Loans substituted therefor), together in each case
with the related Mortgage Files and the Depositor's interest in any collateral
that secured a Mortgage Loan but that is acquired by foreclosure or deed-in-lieu
of foreclosure after the Closing Date, and all Scheduled Payments due after the
Cut Off Date and all principal prepayments received with respect to the Mortgage
Loans paid by the borrower after the Cut Off Date and proceeds of the
conversion, voluntary or involuntary, of the foregoing; (ii) any Subsequent
Mortgage Loans; (iii) the Sales Agreement, [except that the Depositor does not
assign to the Trustee any of its rights under Sections 9 and 12 of the Sales
Agreement]; [(iv) any Pre-Funding Account whether in the form of cash,
instruments, securities or other properties] and (v) all proceeds of any of the
foregoing (including, but not limited to, all proceeds of any mortgage
insurance, hazard insurance, or title insurance policy relating to the Mortgage
Loans, cash proceeds, accounts, accounts receivable, notes, drafts, acceptances,
chattel paper, checks, deposit accounts, rights to payment of any and every
kind, and other forms of obligations and receivables, which at any time
constitute all or part or are included in the proceeds of any of the foregoing)
to pay the Certificates as specified herein (items (i) through (v) above
collectively, the "Trust Fund").
With respect to any Mortgage Loan that does not have a first payment
date on or before the last day of the Due Period immediately preceding the first
Distribution Date, the [Depositor] shall deposit into the Distribution Account
on or before the Distribution Account Deposit Date
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relating to the first Distribution Date, an amount equal to one month's interest
at the related Net Rate on the Cut Off Date Principal Balance of such Mortgage
Loan.
(b) In connection with the transfer set forth in clause (a) above, the
Depositor has delivered or caused to be delivered to the Trustee or the
Custodian on its behalf for the benefit of the Certificateholders the following
documents or instruments (collectively, the "Mortgage Loan Documents") with
respect to each Mortgage Loan so transferred:
(i) (A) the original Mortgage Note endorsed by manual or
facsimile signature to the Trustee or the Custodian or in blank, without
recourse, with all intervening endorsements showing a complete chain of
endorsement from the originator to the Person endorsing the Mortgage
Note (the "Last Endorsee") (each such endorsement being sufficient to
transfer all right, title and interest of the party so endorsing, as
noteholder or assignee thereof, in and to that Mortgage Note); or
(B) with respect to any Lost Mortgage Note, a lost note
affidavit from the Depositor stating that the original Mortgage
Note was lost or destroyed, together with a copy of such
Mortgage Note;
(ii) except with respect to any Cooperative Loan, the
original recorded Mortgage or a copy of such Mortgage certified by the
Depositor, the originating lender, settlement agent, or escrow company
as being a true and complete copy of the Mortgage;
(iii) except with respect to any Mortgage Loan for which the
related Mortgage names the Custodian as nominee for the originating
lender (or similar designation satisfactory to the Custodian), as
beneficiary or mortgagee, either (A) a duly executed assignment of the
Mortgage in blank, or (B) an original recorded assignment of the
Mortgage from the Last Endorsee to the Custodian or a copy of such
assignment of Mortgage certified by the Depositor, the originating
lender, settlement agent, or escrow company as being a true and complete
copy thereof which in either case may be included in a blanket
assignment or assignments;
(iv) each interim recorded assignment of such Mortgage, or a
copy of each such interim recorded assignment of Mortgage certified by
the Depositor, the originating lender, settlement agent, or escrow
company as being a true and complete copy thereof;
(v) the original or copies of each assumption, modification,
written assurance or substitution agreement, if any;
(vi) except as to any second lien Mortgage Loan in the
original principal amount of $[_______] or less, either the original or
duplicate original title policy (including all riders thereto) with
respect to the related Mortgaged Property, if available, provided that
the title policy (including all riders thereto) will be delivered as
soon as it becomes available, and if the title policy is not available,
and to the extent required pursuant to the second paragraph below or
otherwise in connection with the rating of the
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Certificates, a written commitment or interim binder or preliminary
report of the title issued by the title insurance or escrow company with
respect to the Mortgaged Property; and
(vii) in the case of a Cooperative Loan, the originals of the
following documents or instruments:
(a) The Coop Shares, together with a stock power in
blank;
(b) The executed Security Agreement;
(c) The executed Proprietary Lease;
(d) The executed Recognition Agreement;
(e) The executed UCC-1 financing statement with
evidence of recording thereon which have been
filed in all places required to perfect the
Depositor's interest in the Coop Shares and the
Proprietary Lease; and
(f) Executed UCC-3 financing statements or other
appropriate UCC financing statements required by
state law, evidencing a complete and unbroken
line from the mortgagee to the Trustee with
evidence of recording thereon (or in a form
suitable for recordation).
In the event that in connection with any Mortgage Loan the Depositor
cannot deliver (a) the original recorded Mortgage or (b) any recorded
assignments or interim assignments satisfying the requirements of clause (iii)
or (iv) above, respectively, concurrently with the execution and delivery hereof
because such document or documents have not been returned from the applicable
public recording office, the Depositor shall deliver such documents to the
Trustee or the Custodian on its behalf as promptly as possible upon receipt
thereof and, in any event, within ___ days following the Closing Date. The
Depositor or [Seller] shall forward or cause to be forwarded to the Trustee or
the Custodian on its behalf (a) from time to time additional original documents
evidencing an assumption or modification of a Mortgage Loan and (b) any other
documents required to be delivered by the Depositor or the [Seller] to the
Trustee. In the case where a public recording office retains the original
recorded Mortgage or in the case where a Mortgage is lost after recordation in a
public recording office, the Depositor shall deliver to the Trustee a copy of
such Mortgage certified (to the extent such certification is reasonably
obtainable) by such public recording office to be a true and complete copy of
the original recorded Mortgage.
In addition, in the event that in connection with any Mortgage Loan the
Depositor cannot deliver the original or duplicate original lender's title
policy (together with all riders thereto), satisfying the requirements of clause
(vi) above, concurrently with the execution and delivery hereof because the
related Mortgage or a related assignment has not been returned from the
applicable public recording office, the Depositor shall promptly deliver to the
Trustee or the Custodian on its behalf such original or duplicate original
lender's title policy (together with all riders thereto) upon receipt thereof
from the applicable title insurer, and in any event, within days following the
Closing Date.
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Subject to the immediately following sentence, as promptly as
practicable subsequent to the transfer set forth in clause (a) of this Section
2.1, and in any event, within thirty (30) days thereafter, the [SELLER] shall as
to any Mortgage Loan with respect to which the Depositor delivers an assignment
of the Mortgage in blank pursuant to clause (b)(iii)(A) of this Section 2.1, (i)
complete each such assignment of Mortgage to conform to clause (b)(iii)(B) of
this Section 2.1, (ii) cause such assignment to be in proper form for recording
in the appropriate public office for real property records, and (iii) cause to
be delivered for recording in the appropriate public office for real property
records each such assignment of the Mortgages, except that, with respect to any
assignments of Mortgage as to which the [Seller] has not received the
information required to prepare such assignments in recordable form, the
[Seller's] obligation to do so and to deliver the same for such recording shall
be as soon as practicable after receipt of such information and in any event
within thirty (30) days after receipt thereof. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
the [Seller] need not cause to be recorded any assignment which relates to a
Mortgage Loan in any state other than the Required Recordation States.
In the case of Mortgage Loans that have been prepaid in full as of the
Closing Date, the Depositor, in lieu of delivering the above documents to the
Trustee or the Custodian on its behalf, will deposit in the Collection Account
the portion of such payment that is required to be deposited in the Collection
Account pursuant to Section 3.8 hereof.
Section 2.2 Acceptance by Trustee of the Mortgage Loans.
The Trustee or the Custodian, on behalf of the Trustee acknowledges
receipt of the documents identified in the initial certification in the form
annexed hereto as Exhibit C (the "Initial Certification") and declares that it
or the Custodian holds and will hold such documents and the other documents
delivered to it constituting the Mortgage Files, and that it or the Custodian
holds or will hold such other assets as are included in the Trust Fund, in trust
for the exclusive use and benefit of all present and future Certificateholders.
The Trustee agrees to execute and deliver or to cause the Custodian to
execute and deliver on the Closing Date to the Depositor, the Seller, [the
Master Servicer] and the Servicer an Initial Certification in the form annexed
hereto as Exhibit C. Based on its or the Custodian's review and examination, and
only as to the documents identified in such Initial Certification, the
Custodian, on behalf of the Trustee acknowledges that such documents appear
regular on their face and relate to such Mortgage Loan. Neither the Trustee nor
the Custodian shall be under any duty or obligation to inspect, review or
examine said documents, instruments, certificates or other papers to determine
that the same are genuine, enforceable or appropriate for the represented
purpose or that they have actually been recorded in the real estate records or
that they are other than what they purport to be on their face.
Not later than 360 days after the Closing Date, the Trustee shall
deliver or shall cause the Custodian to deliver to the Depositor, the Seller,
[the Master Servicer]and the Servicer a Final Certification in the form annexed
hereto as Exhibit D, with any applicable exceptions noted thereon.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, in the event there
are
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exceptions to the Final Certification, the Trustee may transmit such exceptions
electronically (via email) to the Depositor, the Seller, [the Master
Servicer]and the Servicer, subject to the prior approval of the Depositor, the
Seller, [the Master Servicer]and the Servicer.
If, in the course of such review, the Trustee or the Custodian, on
behalf of the Trustee finds any document constituting a part of a Mortgage File
which does not meet the requirements of Section 2.1 hereof, the Trustee shall
list or shall cause the Custodian to list such as an exception in the Final
Certification; provided, however that neither the Trustee nor the Custodian
shall make any determination as to whether (i) any endorsement is sufficient to
transfer all right, title and interest of the party so endorsing, as noteholder
or assignee thereof, in and to that Mortgage Note or (ii) any assignment is in
recordable form or is sufficient to effect the assignment of and transfer to the
assignee thereof under the mortgage to which the assignment relates.
[Depositor/Seller] shall promptly correct or cure such defect within 90 days
from the date it was so notified of such defect and, if [Depositor/Seller] does
not correct or cure such defect within such period, [Depositor/Seller] shall
either (a) substitute for the related Mortgage Loan a Substitute Mortgage Loan,
which substitution shall be accomplished in the manner and subject to the
conditions set forth in Section 2.3 hereof, or (b) purchase such Mortgage Loan
from the Trustee within 90 days from the date [Depositor/Seller] was notified of
such defect in writing at the Purchase Price of such Mortgage Loan; provided,
however, that in no event shall such substitution or purchase occur more than
540 days from the Closing Date, except that if the substitution or purchase of a
Mortgage Loan pursuant to this provision is required by reason of a delay in
delivery of any documents by the appropriate recording office, and there is a
dispute between either the Depositor or Seller and the Trustee over the location
or status of the recorded document, then such substitution or purchase shall
occur within 720 days from the Closing Date. Any such substitution pursuant to
(a) above shall not be effected prior to the delivery to the Trustee of the
Opinion of Counsel required by Section 2.4 hereof, if any, and any substitution
pursuant to (a) above shall not be effected prior to the additional delivery to
the Trustee of a Request for Release substantially in the form of Exhibit I. No
substitution is permitted to be made in any calendar month after the
Determination Date for such month. The Purchase Price for any such Mortgage Loan
shall be deposited by Seller in the Collection Account on or prior to the
Distribution Account Deposit Date for the Distribution Date in the month
following the month of repurchase and, upon receipt of such deposit and
certification with respect thereto in the form of Exhibit J hereto, the Trustee
shall cause the Custodian to release the related Mortgage File to Seller and
shall execute and deliver at Seller's request such instruments of transfer or
assignment prepared by Seller, in each case without recourse, as shall be
necessary to vest in Seller, or a designee, the Trustee's interest in any
Mortgage Loan released pursuant hereto.
The Trustee shall retain or shall cause the Custodian to retain
possession and custody of each Mortgage File in accordance with and subject to
the terms and conditions set forth herein. The Servicer shall promptly deliver
to the Trustee or the Custodian on its behalf, upon the execution or receipt
thereof, the originals of such other documents or instruments constituting the
Mortgage File as come into the possession of the Servicer from time to time.
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It is understood and agreed that the obligation of Seller to substitute
for or to purchase any Mortgage Loan which does not meet the requirements of
Section 2.1 hereof shall constitute the sole remedy respecting such defect
available to the Trustee and any Certificateholder against the Depositor or
Seller.
In order to facilitate sales and deliveries of Mortgage Loans to the
Trust Fund, the Trustee may execute and deliver one or more remittance agency
agreements in substantially the form of Exhibit K hereto (each, a "Remittance
Agency Agreement"), and in such event the Trustee: (i) shall perform the duties
of Remittance Agent (as that term is defined in the related Remittance Agency
Agreement); and (ii) may accept as conclusive evidence of the release of the
related security interests one or more security release certifications in
substantially the form attached as Exhibit L hereto (each, a "Security Release
Certification").
Section 2.3. Representations, Warranties and Covenants of the
Depositor, Seller, Servicer and [Master Servicer].
(a) The Servicer represents and warrants to the Trustee that, as of
the Closing Date:
(i) the Servicer is a corporation licensed as a mortgage
servicer duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the
laws of the state of its incorporation and has, and had at all relevant
times, full corporate power to service the Mortgage Loans, to own its
property, to carry on its business as presently conducted and to enter
into and perform its obligations under this Agreement. The Servicer has
all necessary licenses and is qualified to transact business in and is
in good standing under the laws of each state where any Mortgaged
Property is located or is otherwise exempt under applicable law from
such qualification or is otherwise not required under applicable law to
effect such qualification and no demand for such qualification has been
made upon the Servicer by any state having jurisdiction;
(ii) the execution and delivery of this Agreement by the
Servicer and the performance by it of and compliance with the terms of
this Agreement will not (A) violate the Servicer's articles of
incorporation or by-laws or constitute a default (or an event which,
with notice or lapse of time or both, would constitute a default) under,
or result in the breach or acceleration of, any material contract,
agreement or other instrument to which the Servicer is a party or which
may be applicable to the Servicer or any of its assets or (B) result in
the creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any
of its properties pursuant to the terms of any such contract, agreement
or other instrument;
(iii) the Servicer has the full power and authority to enter
into and consummate all transactions contemplated by this Agreement to
be consummated by it, has duly authorized the execution, delivery and
performance of this Agreement, and has duly executed and delivered this
Agreement. This Agreement, assuming due authorization, execution and
delivery by the other parties hereto, constitutes a valid, legal and
binding
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obligation of the Servicer, enforceable against it in accordance with
the terms hereof, except as such enforcement may be limited by
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership, moratorium or
other similar laws relating to or affecting the rights of creditors
generally, and by general equity principles (regardless of whether such
enforcement is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law);
(iv) the Servicer is not in violation of, and the execution
and delivery of this Agreement by the Servicer and the performance by it
and compliance with the terms of this Agreement will not constitute a
violation with respect to, any order or decree of any court or any order
or regulation of any federal, state, municipal or governmental agency
having jurisdiction, which violation would materially and adversely
affect the condition (financial or otherwise) or operations of the
Servicer or any of its properties or materially and adversely affect the
performance of any of its duties hereunder; and
(v) there are no actions or proceedings against, or
investigations of, the Servicer pending or, to the knowledge of the
Servicer, threatened, before any court, administrative agency or other
tribunal (A) that, if determined adversely, would prohibit its entering
into this Agreement, (B) seeking to prevent the consummation of any of
the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or (C) that, if
determined adversely, would prohibit or materially and adversely affect
the performance by the Servicer of any of its obligations under, or the
validity or enforceability of, this Agreement.
(b) The Master Servicer represents and warrants to the Trustee
that, as of the Closing Date:
(i) the Master Servicer is a corporation licensed as a
mortgage banker duly organized, validly existing and in good standing
under the laws of the state of its incorporation and has, and had at all
relevant times, full corporate power to service the Mortgage Loans, to
own its property, to carry on its business as presently conducted and to
enter into and perform its obligations under this Agreement. The Master
Servicer has all necessary licenses and is qualified to transact
business in and is in good standing under the laws of each state where a
Mortgaged Property is located or is otherwise exempt under applicable
law from such qualification or is otherwise not required under
applicable law to effect such qualification and no demand for such
qualification has been made upon the Master Servicer by any state having
jurisdiction;
(ii) the execution and delivery of this Agreement by the
Master Servicer and the performance by it of and compliance with the
terms of this Agreement will not (A) violate the Master Servicer's
articles of incorporation or by-laws or constitute a default (or an
event which, with notice or lapse of time or both, would constitute a
default) under, or result in the breach or acceleration of, any material
contract, agreement or other instrument to which the Master Servicer is
a party or which may be applicable to the Master Servicer or any of its
assets or (B) result in the creation or imposition of any lien,
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charge or encumbrance upon any of its properties pursuant to the terms
of any such contract, agreement or other instrument;
(iii) the Master Servicer has the full power and authority to
enter into and consummate all transactions contemplated by this
Agreement to be consummated by it, has duly authorized the execution,
delivery and performance of this Agreement, and has duly executed and
delivered this Agreement. This Agreement, assuming due authorization,
execution and delivery by the other parties hereto, constitutes a valid,
legal and binding obligation of the Master Servicer, enforceable against
it in accordance with the terms hereof, except as such enforcement may
be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership,
moratorium or other similar laws relating to or affecting the rights of
creditors generally, and by general equity principles (regardless of
whether such enforcement is considered in a proceeding in equity or at
law);
(iv) the Master Servicer is not in violation of, and the
execution and delivery of this Agreement by the Master Servicer and the
performance by it and compliance with the terms of this Agreement will
not constitute a violation with respect to, any order or decree of any
court or any order or regulation of any federal, state, municipal or
governmental agency having jurisdiction, which violation would
materially and adversely affect the condition (financial or otherwise)
or operations of the Master Servicer or any of its properties or
materially and adversely affect the performance of any of its duties
hereunder; and
(v) there are no actions or proceedings against, or
investigations of, the Master Servicer pending or, to the knowledge of
the Master Servicer, threatened, before any court, administrative agency
or other tribunal (A) that, if determined adversely, would prohibit its
entering into this Agreement, (B) seeking to prevent the consummation of
any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or (C) that, if
determined adversely, would prohibit or materially and adversely affect
the performance by the Master Servicer of any of its obligations under,
or the validity or enforceability of, this Agreement.
(c) The Depositor represents and warrants to the Trustee that,
as of the Closing Date:
(i) the Depositor is a corporation, duly organized, validly
existing and in good standing under the laws of the state of its
incorporation and has, and had at all relevant times, full corporate
power to own its property, to carry on its business as presently
conducted and to enter into and perform its obligations under this
Agreement;
(ii) the execution and delivery of this Agreement by the
Depositor and the performance by it of and compliance with the terms of
this Agreement will not (A) violate the Depositor's articles of
incorporation or by-laws or constitute a default (or an event which,
with notice or lapse of time or both, would constitute a default) under,
or result in the breach or acceleration of, any material contract,
agreement or other
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instrument to which the Depositor is a party or which may be applicable
to the Depositor or any of its assets or (B) result in the creation or
imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any of its properties
pursuant to the terms of any such contract, agreement or other
instrument;
(iii) the Depositor has the full power and authority to enter
into and consummate all transactions contemplated by this Agreement to
be consummated by it, has duly authorized the execution, delivery and
performance of this Agreement, and has duly executed and delivered this
Agreement. This Agreement, assuming due authorization, execution and
delivery by the other parties hereto, constitutes a valid, legal and
binding obligation of the Depositor, enforceable against it in
accordance with the terms hereof, except as such enforcement may be
limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership,
moratorium or other similar laws relating to or affecting the rights of
creditors generally, and by general equity principles (regardless of
whether such enforcement is considered in a proceeding in equity or at
law);
(iv) the Depositor is not in violation of, and the execution
and delivery of this Agreement by the Depositor and the performance by
it and compliance with the terms of this Agreement will not constitute a
violation with respect to, any order or decree of any court or any order
or regulation of any federal, state, municipal or governmental agency
having jurisdiction, which violation would materially and adversely
affect the condition (financial or otherwise) or operations of the
Depositor or any of its properties or materially and adversely affect
the performance of any of its duties hereunder; and
(v) there are no actions or proceedings against, or
investigations of, the Depositor pending or, to the knowledge of the
Depositor, threatened, before any court, administrative agency or other
tribunal (A) that, if determined adversely, would prohibit its entering
into this Agreement, (B) seeking to prevent the consummation of any of
the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or (C) that, if
determined adversely, would prohibit or materially and adversely affect
the performance by the Depositor of any of its obligations under, or the
validity or enforceability of, this Agreement.
(d) The Seller represents and warrants to the Trustee that, as
of the Closing Date:
(i) the Seller is a corporation, duly organized, validly
existing and in good standing under the laws of the state of its
incorporation and has, and had at all relevant times, full corporate
power to own its property, to carry on its business as presently
conducted and to enter into and perform its obligations under this
Agreement;
(ii) the execution and delivery of this Agreement by the
Seller and the performance by it of and compliance with the terms of
this Agreement will not (A) violate the Seller's articles of
incorporation or by-laws or constitute a default (or an event which,
with notice or lapse of time or both, would constitute a default) under,
or result in the breach or acceleration of, any material contract,
agreement or other instrument to
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which the Seller is a party or which may be applicable to the Seller or
any of its assets or (B) result in the creation or imposition of any
lien, charge or encumbrance upon any of its properties pursuant to the
terms of any such contract, agreement or other instrument;
(iii) the Seller has the full power and authority to enter
into and consummate all transactions contemplated by this Agreement to
be consummated by it, has duly authorized the execution, delivery and
performance of this Agreement, and has duly executed and delivered this
Agreement. This Agreement, assuming due authorization, execution and
delivery by the other parties hereto, constitutes a valid, legal and
binding obligation of the Seller, enforceable against it in accordance
with the terms hereof, except as such enforcement may be limited by
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership, moratorium or
other similar laws relating to or affecting the rights of creditors
generally, and by general equity principles (regardless of whether such
enforcement is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law);
(iv) the Seller is not in violation of, and the execution and
delivery of this Agreement by the Seller and the performance by it and
compliance with the terms of this Agreement will not constitute a
violation with respect to, any order or decree of any court or any order
or regulation of any federal, state, municipal or governmental agency
having jurisdiction, which violation would materially and adversely
affect the condition (financial or otherwise) or operations of the
Seller or any of its properties or materially and adversely affect the
performance of any of its duties hereunder; and
(v) there are no actions or proceedings against, or
investigations of, the Seller pending or, to the knowledge of the
Seller, threatened, before any court, administrative agency or other
tribunal (A) that, if determined adversely, would prohibit its entering
into this Agreement, (B) seeking to prevent the consummation of any of
the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or (C) that, if
determined adversely, would prohibit or materially and adversely affect
the performance by the Seller of any of its obligations under, or the
validity or enforceability of, this Agreement.; and
(e) Pursuant to Section 2.1(a)(iii) hereof, the Depositor has
assigned to the Trustee, for the benefit of Certificateholders, its rights under
the Sales Agreement, including each representation and warranty of Seller set
forth in such Sales Agreement in respect of the Mortgage Loans.
Upon discovery by any of the parties hereto of a breach of a
representation or warranty made by Seller in respect of the Mortgage Loans that
materially and adversely affects the interests of the Certificateholders in any
such Mortgage Loan, the party discovering such breach shall give prompt notice
thereof to the other parties. Seller hereby covenants that within 90 days of the
earlier of its discovery or its receipt of written notice from any party of a
breach such of any representation or warranty which materially and adversely
affects the interests of the Certificateholders in any Mortgage Loan (it being
understood that any such breach shall be deemed to materially and adversely
affect the value of such Mortgage Loan or the interest of the
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Trust Fund therein, if the Trust Fund incurs a loss as the result of such
breach), it shall cure such breach in all material respects, and if such breach
is not so cured, shall, (i) if such 90-day period expires prior to the second
anniversary of the Closing Date, remove such Mortgage Loan (a "Deleted Mortgage
Loan") from the Trust Fund and substitute in its place a Substitute Mortgage
Loan, in the manner and subject to the conditions set forth in this Section; or
(ii) repurchase the affected Mortgage Loan or Mortgage Loans from the Trustee at
the Purchase Price in the manner set forth below; provided, however, that any
such substitution pursuant to (i) above shall not be effected prior to the
delivery to the Trustee of the Opinion of Counsel required by Section 2.4(a)
hereof, if any, and any such substitution pursuant to (i) above shall not be
effected prior to the additional delivery to the Trustee or the Custodian on its
behalf of a Request for Release substantially in the form of Exhibit J and the
Mortgage File for any such Substitute Mortgage Loan. Seller shall promptly
reimburse the Servicer and the Trustee for any expenses reasonably incurred by
the Servicer or the Trustee in respect of enforcing the remedies for such
breach. With respect to the representations and warranties described in this
Section which are made to the best of Seller's knowledge, if it is discovered by
either the Servicer or the Trustee that the substance of such representation and
warranty is inaccurate and such inaccuracy materially and adversely affects the
value of the related Mortgage Loan or the interests of the Certificateholders
therein, notwithstanding Seller's lack of knowledge with respect to the
substance of such representation or warranty, such inaccuracy shall be deemed a
breach of the applicable representation or warranty.
With respect to any Substitute Mortgage Loan, Seller shall deliver to
the Trustee or the Custodian on its behalf for the benefit of the
Certificateholders the Mortgage Note, the Mortgage, the related assignment of
the Mortgage, and such other documents and agreements as are required by Section
2.1, with the Mortgage Note endorsed and the Mortgage assigned as required by
Section 2.1. No substitution is permitted to be made in any calendar month after
the Determination Date for such month. Scheduled Payments due with respect to
Substitute Mortgage Loans in the month of substitution shall not be part of the
Trust Fund and will be retained by Seller on the next succeeding Distribution
Date. For the month of substitution, distributions to Certificateholders will
include the monthly payment due on any Deleted Mortgage Loan for such month and
thereafter Seller shall be entitled to retain all amounts received in respect of
such Deleted Mortgage Loan. The Servicer shall amend the Mortgage Loan Schedule
for the benefit of the Certificateholders to reflect the removal of such Deleted
Mortgage Loan and the substitution of the Substitute Mortgage Loan or Loans and
the Servicer shall deliver the amended Mortgage Loan Schedule to the Trustee.
Upon such substitution, the Substitute Mortgage Loan or Loans shall be subject
to the terms of this Agreement in all respects, and Seller shall be deemed to
have made with respect to such Substitute Mortgage Loan or Loans, as of the date
of substitution, the representations and warranties made by Seller pursuant to
the Sales Agreement with respect to such Mortgage Loan. Upon any such
substitution and the deposit to the Collection Account of the amount required to
be deposited therein in connection with such substitution as described in the
following paragraph, the Trustee shall release or shall cause the Custodian to
release the Mortgage File held for the benefit of the Certificateholders
relating to such Deleted Mortgage Loan to Seller and shall execute and deliver
at Seller's direction such instruments of transfer or assignment prepared by
Seller , in each case
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without recourse, as shall be necessary to vest title in Seller, or its
designee, the Trustee's interest in any Deleted Mortgage Loan substituted for
pursuant to this Section 2.3.
For any month in which Seller substitutes one or more Substitute
Mortgage Loans for one or more Deleted Mortgage Loans, the Servicer will
determine the amount (if any) by which the aggregate principal balance of all
such Substitute Mortgage Loans as of the date of substitution is less than the
aggregate Stated Principal Balance of all such Deleted Mortgage Loans (after
application of the scheduled principal portion of the monthly payments due in
the month of substitution). The amount of such shortage (the "Substitution
Adjustment Amount") plus an amount equal to the aggregate of any unreimbursed
Advances with respect to such Deleted Mortgage Loans shall be deposited in the
Collection Account by Seller on or before the Distribution Account Deposit Date
for the Distribution Date in the month succeeding the calendar month during
which the related Mortgage Loan became required to be purchased or replaced
hereunder.
In the event that Seller shall have repurchased a Mortgage Loan, the
Purchase Price therefor shall be deposited in the Distribution Account prior to
the Distribution Date in the month following the month during which Seller
became obligated hereunder to repurchase or replace such Mortgage Loan and upon
such deposit of the Purchase Price, the delivery of the Opinion of Counsel
required by Section 2.4 hereof and receipt of a Request for Release in the form
of Exhibit I hereto, the Trustee shall release or shall cause the Custodian to
release the related Mortgage File held for the benefit of the Certificateholders
to Seller, and the Trustee shall execute and deliver or shall cause the
Custodian to execute and deliver at Seller's direction such instruments of
transfer or assignment prepared by such Person, in each case without recourse,
as shall be necessary to transfer title from the Trustee. It is understood and
agreed that the obligation under this Agreement of Seller to cure, repurchase or
replace any Mortgage Loan as to which a breach has occurred and is continuing
shall constitute the sole remedy respecting such breach available to
Certificateholders or the Trustee on their behalf.
The representations and warranties made pursuant to this Section 2.3
(and the representations and warranties with respect to the Mortgage Loans made
in the Sales Agreement) shall survive delivery of the respective Mortgage Files
to the Trustee or the Custodian for the benefit of the Certificateholders.
(f) Upon discovery by the Depositor, the Servicer, the Master
Servicer or the Trustee that any Mortgage Loan does not constitute a "qualified
mortgage" within the meaning of Section 860G(a)(3) of the Code, the party
discovering such fact shall promptly (and in any event within five (5) Business
Days of discovery) give written notice thereof to the other parties. In
connection therewith, the Trustee shall require Seller, at Seller's option, to
either (i) substitute, if the conditions in Section 2.3(e) with respect to
substitutions are satisfied, a Substitute Mortgage Loan for the affected
Mortgage Loan, or (ii) repurchase the affected Mortgage Loan within 90 days of
such discovery in the same manner as it would a Mortgage Loan for a breach of
representation or warranty made pursuant to this Section 2.3. The Trustee shall
reconvey or shall cause the Custodian to reconvey to Seller the Mortgage Loan to
be released pursuant hereto in
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the same manner, and on the same terms and conditions, as it would a Mortgage
Loan repurchased for breach of a representation or warranty contained in this
Section 2.3.
Section 2.4. Delivery of Opinion of Counsel in Connection with
Substitutions.
(a) Notwithstanding any contrary provision of this Agreement, no
substitution pursuant to Section 2.2 or Section 2.3 shall be made more than 90
days after the Closing Date unless the Depositor or Seller delivers to the
Trustee an Opinion of Counsel, which Opinion of Counsel shall not be at the
expense of either the Trustee or the Trust Fund, addressed to the Trustee, to
the effect that such substitution will not (i) result in the imposition of the
tax on "prohibited transactions" on the Trust Fund or contributions after the
Startup Date, as defined in Sections 860F(a)(2) and 860G(d) of the Code,
respectively, or (ii) cause any REMIC created hereunder to fail to qualify as a
REMIC at any time that any Certificates are outstanding.
Section 2.5 Execution and Delivery of Certificates.
The Trustee acknowledges the transfer and assignment to it of the Trust
Fund and, concurrently with such transfer and assignment, has executed and
delivered to or upon the order of the Depositor, the Certificates in authorized
denominations evidencing directly or indirectly the entire ownership of the
Trust Fund. The Trustee agrees to hold the Trust Fund and exercise the rights
referred to above for the benefit of all present and future Holders of the
Certificates and to perform the duties set forth in this Agreement to the best
of its ability, to the end that the interests of the Holders of the Certificates
may be adequately and effectively protected.
Section 2.6 [Purchase of Subsequent Mortgage Loans.
(a) Subject to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in
paragraph (b) below in consideration of the delivery on a Subsequent Sales Date
to or upon the order of the Depositor of all or a portion of the Pre-Funded
Amount, as the case may be, the Depositor shall on such Subsequent Sales Date
sell, transfer, assign, set over and otherwise convey without recourse, to the
Trust Fund, and the Trustee shall purchase on behalf of the Trust Fund, all the
Depositor's right, title and interest in and to the Subsequent Mortgage Loans,
together with the related Mortgage Loan Files, covered by the Subsequent Sales
Agreement delivered on such date.
(b) The obligation of the Trust to acquire Subsequent Mortgage Loans
is subject to the satisfaction of each of the following conditions on or prior
to the related Subsequent Sales Date:
(i) the Depositor shall have delivered to the Trustee with a
copy to the Master Servicer a duly executed written Subsequent Sales
Agreement, which shall include a Schedule of Subsequent Mortgage Loans,
and specifying the amount to be withdrawn from the Pre-Funding Account;
(ii) the remaining term to maturity of each Subsequent
Mortgage Loan may not exceed 30 years;
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(iii) no Subsequent Mortgage Loan will have been selected in a
manner adverse to the interests of Certificateholders;
(iv) the addition of the Subsequent Mortgage Loans will not
result in the reduction, qualification or withdrawal of the then current
ratings of the Certificates;
(v) no Subsequent Mortgage Loan may have a Loan-to-Value
Ratio greater than [100.00%];
(vi) each Subsequent Mortgage Loan will be underwritten in
accordance with the Depositor's underwriting guidelines;
(vii) after giving effect to the acquisition of all the
Subsequent Mortgage Loans, the Mortgage Loans in the applicable Group
shall conform to the applicable Subsequent Delivery Requirements;
(viii) the Depositor shall have provided the Master Servicer
and the Trustee any information reasonably requested by any of them with
respect to the Subsequent Mortgage Loans then to be sold to the Trust
Fund;
(ix) the Depositor shall have delivered to the Trustee a
letter from an independent accountant stating whether or not the
characteristics of the Subsequent Mortgage Loans conform to the
characteristics of the Mortgage Loans required in Section 2.6(b);
(x) as of each Subsequent Sales Date, neither the Depositor
nor Seller shall be insolvent, nor will either of them be made insolvent
by such transfer;
(xi) the Funding Period shall not have ended; and
(xii) the Depositor and Seller each shall have delivered to
the Master Servicer and the Trustee an Officer's Certificate confirming
the satisfaction of each condition precedent specified in this paragraph
(b) and in the related Subsequent Sales Agreement and opinions of
counsel with respect to corporate, bankruptcy and tax matters relating
to the transfer of Subsequent Mortgage Loans in the forms substantially
similar to those delivered on the Closing Date.
(c) Pursuant to Section 2.6(b) hereof, the Trustee shall remit
on each Subsequent Sales Date to or upon the order of the Depositor from the
Pre-Funding Account the amount specified by the Master Servicer only upon the
Trustee's receipt of:
(i) a fully executed Subsequent Sales Agreement;
(ii) the two Officer's Certificates required by Section
2.6(b) hereof;
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(iii) an Opinion or Opinions of Counsel from each of the
Depositor and Seller required by Section 2.6(b);
(iv) a letter from each Rating Agency on the final Subsequent
Sale Date confirming the condition provided in Section 2.6(b);
(v) a letter from an independent accountant as required by
Section 2.6(b); and
(vi) the written instruction from the Master Servicer setting
forth the amounts to be paid as required by Section 2.6(b) hereof. The
Trustee may rely and shall be protected in relying on all such Officer's
Certificates as evidencing full compliance with all conditions precedent
specified in Section 2.6(b), without any further duty of inquiry with
respect thereto.
(d) On each Subsequent Sales Date and on the Determination Date
immediately following the end of the Funding Period, the Master Servicer shall
determine:
(i) the amount and correct disposition of the Pre-Funded
Amount, and
(ii) any other necessary matters in connection with the
administration of the Pre-Funding Account. If any amounts are released
as a result of an error in calculation to the Holders or the Depositor
from the Pre-Funding Account, the Depositor shall immediately repay such
amounts to the Master Servicer.
(e) The Depositor shall deliver (or cause to be delivered) to
the Master Servicer for deposit in the Master Servicer Custodial Account on the
related Servicer Deposit Date all principal and interest due in respect of such
Subsequent Mortgage Loans after the related Subsequent Cut Off Date.]
Section 2.7 [Pre-Funding Account.
(a) The Trustee shall establish and maintain the Pre-Funding Account
to be held in trust for the benefit of the Certificateholders. The Pre-Funding
Account shall be an Eligible Account. On the Closing Date, the Depositor will
cause to be deposited in the Pre-Funding Account the Original Pre-Funded Amount.
(b) On any Subsequent Sales Date, the Master Servicer shall instruct
the Trustee, with a copy to the Depositor,
(i) to withdraw from the Pre-Funded Amount in the
Pre-Funding Account an amount equal to [___]% of the aggregate Stated
Principal Balances of the Subsequent Mortgage Loans as of the applicable
Subsequent Cut Off Date sold to the Trust on such Subsequent Sales Date,
and
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(ii) to pay such amounts to or upon the order of the
Depositor upon satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section
2.6(c) hereof with respect thereto. In no event shall the Trustee
withdraw from the Pre-Funding Account an amount in excess of the
Original Pre-Funded Amount.
(c) On the Business Day immediately following the end of the
Funding Period, the Master Servicer shall instruct the Trustee to transfer the
Pre-Funded Amount to the Distribution Account for distribution to the Holders of
the Certificates in accordance with Article 4. The Pre-Funded Amount shall not
be invested during the time such Pre-Funded Amount is held in the Distribution
Account.
(d) The Pre-Funding Account shall not be an asset of any REMIC
created pursuant to this Agreement.]
ARTICLE 3
ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS
Section 3.1 Servicer to Service Mortgage Loans.
For and on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Servicer shall service
and administer the Mortgage Loans in accordance with the terms of this Agreement
and [customary and usual standards of practice of prudent mortgage loan
servicers.] In connection with such servicing and administration, the Servicer
shall have full power and authority, acting alone and/or through Subservicers as
provided in Section 3.2 hereof, to do or cause to be done any and all things
that it may deem necessary or desirable in connection with such servicing and
administration, including but not limited to, the power and authority, subject
to the terms hereof (i) to execute and deliver, on behalf of the
Certificateholders and the Trustee, customary consents or waivers and other
instruments and documents, (ii) to consent to transfers of any Mortgaged
Property and assumptions of the Mortgage Notes and related Mortgages (but only
in the manner provided in this Agreement), (iii) to collect any Insurance
Proceeds and other Liquidation Proceeds, and (iv) to effectuate foreclosure or
other conversion of the ownership of the Mortgaged Property securing any
Mortgage Loan; provided that the Servicer shall not take any action that is
inconsistent with or prejudices the interests of the Trust Fund or the
Certificateholders in any Mortgage Loan or the rights and interests of the
Depositor, the Trustee and the Certificateholders under this Agreement. The
Servicer shall represent and protect the interests of the Trust Fund in the same
manner as it protects its own interests in mortgage loans in its own portfolio
in any claim, proceeding or litigation regarding a Mortgage Loan, provided,
however, that unless (x) the Mortgagor is in default with respect to the
Mortgage Loan, or such default is, in the judgment of the Servicer, imminent or
(y) in the absence of default or imminent default, any such waiver,
modification, postponement or indulgence would not cause any REMIC created
hereunder to be disqualified or result in the imposition of any tax under
Section 860F(a) or Section 860G(d) of the Code, the Servicer may not permit any
modification with respect to any Mortgage Loan. Without limiting the generality
of the foregoing, the Servicer, in its own name or in the name of
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the Depositor and the Trustee, is hereby authorized and empowered by the
Depositor and the Trustee, when the Servicer believes it appropriate in its
reasonable judgment, to execute and deliver, on behalf of the Trustee, the
Depositor, the Certificateholders or any of them, any and all instruments of
satisfaction or cancellation, or of partial or full release or discharge and all
other comparable instruments, with respect to the Mortgage Loans, and with
respect to the Mortgaged Properties held for the benefit of the
Certificateholders. The Servicer shall prepare and deliver to the Depositor
and/or the Trustee such documents requiring execution and delivery by either or
both of them as are necessary or appropriate to enable the Servicer to service
and administer the Mortgage Loans to the extent that the Servicer is not
permitted to execute and deliver such documents pursuant to the preceding
sentence. Upon receipt of such documents, the Depositor and/or the Trustee shall
promptly execute such documents and deliver them to the Servicer.
In accordance with the standards of the preceding paragraph, the
Servicer shall make Servicing Advances as necessary for the purpose of effecting
the payment of taxes and assessments on the Mortgaged Properties, which advances
shall be reimbursable in the first instance from related collections from the
Mortgagors pursuant to Section 3.6 hereof, and further as provided in Section
3.8 hereof. The costs incurred by the Servicer, if any, in effecting the timely
payments of taxes and assessments on the Mortgaged Properties and related
insurance premiums shall not, for the purpose of calculating monthly
distributions to the Certificateholders, be added to the Stated Principal
Balances of the related Mortgage Loans, notwithstanding that the terms of such
Mortgage Loans so permit.
Upon request of the Servicer, the Trustee and the Custodian shall
furnish the Servicer with any powers of attorney necessary or appropriate to
enable Servicer to execute in the name of the Trustee or the Custodian, as
applicable, all documents reasonably required to perform the servicing functions
described in this Article 3.
Section 3.2 Subservicing; Enforcement of the Obligations of
Servicers.
(a) The Servicer may arrange for the subservicing of any Mortgage
Loan by a Subservicer pursuant to a subservicing agreement; provided, however,
that such subservicing arrangement and the terms of the related subservicing
agreement must provide for the servicing of such Mortgage Loans in a manner
consistent with the servicing arrangements contemplated hereunder. Unless the
context otherwise requires, references in this Agreement to actions taken or to
be taken by the Servicer in servicing the Mortgage Loans include actions taken
or to be taken by a Subservicer on behalf of the Servicer. Notwithstanding the
provisions of any subservicing agreement, any of the provisions of this
Agreement relating to agreements or arrangements between the Servicer and a
Subservicer or reference to actions taken through a Subservicer or otherwise,
the Servicer shall remain obligated and liable to the Depositor, the Trustee and
the Certificateholders for the servicing and administration of the Mortgage
Loans in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement without diminution of
such obligation or liability by virtue of such subservicing agreements or
arrangements or by virtue of indemnification from the Subservicer and to the
same extent and under the same terms and conditions as if the Servicer alone
were servicing and administering the Mortgage Loans. All
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actions of each Subservicer performed pursuant to the related subservicing
agreement shall be performed as an agent of the Servicer with the same force and
effect as if performed directly by the Servicer.
(b) For purposes of this Agreement, the Servicer shall be deemed to
have received any collections, recoveries or payments with respect to the
Mortgage Loans that are received by a Subservicer regardless of whether such
payments are remitted by the Subservicer to the Servicer.
Section 3.3 Rights of the Depositor and the Trustee in Respect of
the Servicer.
The Depositor may, but is not obligated to, enforce the obligations of
the Servicer hereunder and may, but is not obligated to, perform, or cause a
designee to perform, any defaulted obligation of the Servicer hereunder and in
connection with any such defaulted obligation to exercise the related rights of
the Servicer hereunder; provided that the Servicer shall not be relieved of any
of its obligations hereunder by virtue of such performance by the Depositor or
its designee. Neither the Trustee nor the Depositor shall have any
responsibility or liability for any action or failure to act by the Servicer nor
shall the Trustee or the Depositor be obligated to supervise the performance of
the Servicer hereunder or otherwise.
Section 3.4 Master Servicer to Act as Servicer.
In the event that the Servicer shall for any reason no longer be the
Servicer hereunder (including by reason of an Event of Default), the Master
Servicer or its successor shall thereupon assume all of the rights and
obligations of the Servicer hereunder arising thereafter (except that the Master
Servicer shall not be (i) liable for losses of the Servicer pursuant to Section
3.9 hereof or any acts or omissions of the predecessor Servicer hereunder, (ii)
obligated to make Advances if it is prohibited from doing so by applicable law,
(iii) obligated to effectuate repurchases or substitutions of Mortgage Loans
hereunder including, but not limited to, repurchases or substitutions of
Mortgage Loans pursuant to Section 2.2 or 2.3 hereof, (iv) responsible for
expenses of the Servicer pursuant to Section 2.3 hereof or (v) deemed to have
made any representations and warranties of the Servicer hereunder). If the
Servicer shall for any reason no longer be the Servicer (including by reason of
any Event of Default), the Master Servicer or its successor shall succeed to any
rights and obligations of the Servicer under each subservicing agreement.
The Servicer shall, upon request of the Master Servicer, but at the
expense of the Servicer, deliver to the assuming party all documents and records
relating to each subservicing agreement or substitute subservicing agreement and
the Mortgage Loans then being serviced thereunder and an accounting of amounts
collected or held by it and otherwise use its best efforts to effect the orderly
and efficient transfer of the substitute subservicing agreement to the assuming
party.
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Section 3.5 Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection
Account; Distribution Account.
(a) The Servicer shall make [reasonable] efforts in accordance with
the [customary and usual standards of practice of prudent mortgage servicers] to
collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage
Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement.
Consistent with the foregoing, and subject to the provisions of Section 3.1
hereof, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or
penalty interest and (ii) extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage
Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that the
Servicer cannot extend the maturity of any such Mortgage Loan past the date on
which the final payment is due on the latest maturing Mortgage Loan as of the
Cut Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement, any P&I Advance required to
be made by the Servicer on the related Mortgage Loan in accordance with the
provisions hereof [(i) with respect to the Prepayment Period in which such
arrangement became effective shall be made in accordance with the amortization
schedule of such Mortgage Loan without giving effect to the modification thereof
by reason of such arrangements and (ii) with respect to any Prepayment Period
thereafter shall be made in accordance with the amortization schedule of such
Mortgage Loan as so modified.] The Servicer shall not be required to institute
or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a
Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental
authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes
that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to
which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law.
The Servicer shall comply with the provisions of Section 3.21 hereof
with respect to each Prepayment Penalty related to the Mortgage Loans.
(b) The Servicer shall establish and maintain a Collection Account
into which the Servicer shall deposit or cause to be deposited as soon as
practicable following receipt but in no event no later than two Business Days
after receipt, except as otherwise specifically provided herein, the following
payments and collections remitted by Subservicers or received by it in respect
of Mortgage Loans subsequent to the Cut Off Date (other than in respect of
principal and interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or before the Cut Off Date)
and the following amounts required to be deposited hereunder:
(i) all payments on account of principal on the Mortgage
Loans, including Principal Prepayments;
(ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage
Loans, net of the related Servicing Fee and any Prepayment Interest
Excess;
(iii) each Prepayment Penalty required to be deposited by the
Servicer hereunder;
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(iv) all Insurance Proceeds and Liquidation Proceeds, other
than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the
Mortgaged Property or released to the Mortgagor in accordance with the
Servicer's normal servicing procedures;
(v) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer
pursuant to Section 3.5(e) in connection with any losses on Permitted
Investments;
(vi) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer
pursuant to Section 3.9(b) and (d) hereof, and in respect of net monthly
rental income from REO Property pursuant to Section 3.11 hereof;
(vii) all Substitution Adjustment Amounts; and
(viii) all P&I Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to
Section 3.19 hereof.
In addition, with respect to any Mortgage Loan that is subject to a
buydown agreement, on each Due Date for such Mortgage Loan, in addition to the
monthly payment remitted by the Mortgagor, the Servicer shall cause funds to be
deposited into the Collection Account in an amount required to cause an amount
of interest to be paid with respect to such Mortgage Loan equal to the amount of
interest that has accrued on such Mortgage Loan from the preceding Due Date at
the related Mortgage Rate (net of the Servicing Fee Rate) on such date.
The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer shall be
exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality
of the foregoing, payments in the nature of late payment charges, assumption
fees or amounts attributable to reimbursements of Advances, if collected, need
not be remitted by the Servicer. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any
amount not required to be remitted, it may at any time withdraw or direct the
institution maintaining the Collection Account to withdraw such amount from the
Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. Such
withdrawal or direction may be accomplished by delivering written notice thereof
to the Trustee or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account
which describes the amounts deposited in error in the Collection Account. The
Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made
pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be
held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with
Section 3.8.
(c) [The Master Servicer shall establish and maintain, for the
benefit of Certificateholders, a Master Servicer Custodial Account. On each
Servicer Deposit Date, the Servicer shall remit to the Master Servicer for
deposit in the Master Servicer Custodial Account, the Available Funds for such
date. In addition, the Master Servicer shall deposit any amounts pursuant to
Section 3.5(e) in connection with losses on Permitted Investments in the Master
Servicer Custodial Account.]
(d) The Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of
Certificateholders, the Distribution Account. On each Distribution Account
Deposit Date, the [Master] Servicer shall remit to the Trustee for deposit in
the Distribution Account the Available Funds for such date. In
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addition, the Trustee shall deposit any amounts received from the [Master]
Servicer pursuant to Section 3.5(e) in connection with losses on permitted
Investments in the Distribution Account.
In the event that the Servicer [or Master Servicer] shall remit any
amount not required to be remitted, it may at any time direct the Trustee to
withdraw such amount from the Distribution Account, any provision herein to the
contrary notwithstanding. Such direction may be accomplished by delivering an
Officer's Certificate to the Trustee which describes the amounts deposited in
error in the Distribution Account. All funds deposited in the Distribution
Account shall be held by the Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until
disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with
Section 3.8. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from
the Distribution Account at the direction of the Servicer.
(e) The institutions at which the Collection Account, [Master
Servicer Custodial Account] and Distribution Account are maintained shall invest
funds as directed by the [Master] Servicer in Permitted Investments which in
each case shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account,
the second Business Day next preceding the related Servicer Deposit Date (except
that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that
maintains such account, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later
than the Business Day next preceding such Servicer Deposit Date), [(ii) in the
case of the Master Servicer Custodial Account, the second Business Day next
preceding the related Distribution Account Deposit Date (except that if such
Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such
account, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Business
Day next preceding such Distribution Account Deposit Date),] and (iii) in the
case of the Distribution Account, the Business Day next preceding the related
Distribution Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of
the institution that maintains such fund or account, then such Permitted
Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each
case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted
Investments shall be made in the name of the Trustee, for the benefit of the
Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from any such
investment of funds on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the
benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and all income and gain net of
any losses realized from any such investment of funds on deposit in the [Master
Servicer Custodial Account AND] the Distribution Account shall be for the
benefit of the [Master] Servicer. The amount of any realized losses in the
Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall promptly be
deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account and the amount of any
realized losses in the [Master Servicer Custodial Account and] the Distribution
Account in respect of any such investments shall promptly be deposited therein
by the [Master] Servicer. The Trustee in its fiduciary capacity shall not be
liable for the amount of any loss incurred in respect of any investment or lack
of investment of funds held in the Collection Account or the [Master Servicer
Custodial Account] and made in accordance with this Section 3.5.
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Section 3.6 Collection of Taxes, Assessments and Similar Items;
Escrow Accounts.
(a) To the extent required by the related Mortgage Note and not
violative of current law, the Servicer shall establish and maintain one or more
accounts (each, an "Escrow Account") and deposit and retain therein all
collections from the Mortgagors (or advances by the Servicer) for the payment of
taxes, assessments, hazard insurance premiums or comparable items for the
account of the Mortgagors. Nothing herein shall require the Servicer to compel a
Mortgagor to establish an Escrow Account in violation of applicable law.
(b) Withdrawals of amounts so collected from the Escrow Accounts may
be made only to effect timely payment of taxes, assessments, hazard insurance
premiums, condominium or PUD association dues, or comparable items, to reimburse
the Servicer out of related collections for any payments made pursuant to
Sections 3.1 hereof (with respect to taxes and assessments and insurance
premiums) and 3.9 hereof (with respect to hazard insurance), to refund to any
Mortgagors any sums determined to be overages, to pay interest, if required by
law or the terms of the related Mortgage or Mortgage Note, to Mortgagors on
balances in the Escrow Account or to clear and terminate the Escrow Account at
the termination of this Agreement in accordance with Section 9.1 hereof. The
Escrow Accounts shall not be a part of the Trust Fund.
(c) The Servicer shall advance, as Servicing Advances, any payments
referred to in Section 3.6(a) that are not timely paid by the Mortgagors on the
date when the tax, premium or other cost for which such payment is intended is
due, provided, however that the Servicer shall not be required to make any such
advance if such advance, in the good faith judgment of the Servicer, would
constitute a Nonrecoverable Advance.
Section 3.7 Access to Certain Documentation and Information
Regarding the Mortgage Loans.
The Servicer shall afford the Depositor and the Trustee reasonable
access to all records and documentation regarding the Mortgage Loans and all
accounts, insurance information and other matters relating to this Agreement,
such access being afforded without charge, but only upon reasonable request and
during normal business hours at the office designated by the Servicer.
Upon reasonable advance notice in writing, the Servicer will provide to
each Certificateholder which is a savings and loan association, bank or
insurance company certain reports and reasonable access to information and
documentation regarding the Mortgage Loans sufficient to permit such
Certificateholder to comply with applicable regulations of the OTS or other
regulatory authorities with respect to investment in the Certificates; provided
that the Servicer shall be entitled to be reimbursed by each such
Certificateholder for actual expenses incurred by the Servicer in providing such
reports and access.
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Section 3.8 Permitted Withdrawals from the Collection Account,
[Master Servicer Custodial Account] and Distribution
Account.
(a) The Servicer may from time to time make withdrawals from the
Collection Account for the following purposes:
(i) to the extent not previously retained by the Servicer,
to pay to the Servicer the servicing compensation to which it is
entitled pursuant to Section 3.14, and earnings on or investment income
with respect to funds in or credited to the Collection Account as
additional servicing compensation;
(ii) to the extent not previously retained by the Servicer,
to reimburse the Servicer for unreimbursed Advances made by it, such
right of reimbursement pursuant to this subclause (ii) being limited to
amounts received on the Mortgage Loan(s) in respect of which any such
Advance was made;
(iii) to reimburse the Servicer for any Nonrecoverable Advance
previously made;
(iv) to reimburse the Servicer for Insured Expenses from the
related Insurance Proceeds;
(v) to reimburse the Servicer for unpaid Servicing Fees as
provided in Section 3.11 hereof;
(vi) to pay to the purchaser, with respect to each Mortgage
Loan or property acquired in respect thereof that has been purchased
pursuant to Section 2.2, 2.3 or 3.11, all amounts received thereon after
the date of such purchase;
(vii) to reimburse the [Master Servicer,] the Servicer or the
Depositor for expenses incurred by any of them and reimbursable pursuant
to Section 6.3 hereof;
(viii) [to pay to the Master Servicer any accrued compensation
to which it is entitled hereunder (and any amount to which it is
entitled to reimbursement herewith)];
(ix) to withdraw any amount deposited in the Collection
Account and not required to be deposited therein;
(x) on or prior to each Servicer Deposit Date, to withdraw
an amount equal to the related Available Funds [and remit such amount to
the Master Servicer for deposit in the Master Servicer Custodial
Account]; and
(xi) to clear and terminate the Collection Account upon
termination of this Agreement pursuant to Section 9.1 hereof.
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The Servicer shall keep and maintain separate accounting, on a Mortgage
Loan by Mortgage Loan basis, for the purpose of justifying any withdrawal from
the Collection Account pursuant to such subclauses (i), (ii), (iv), (v) and
(vi). Prior to making any withdrawal from the Collection Account pursuant to
subclause (iii), the Servicer shall deliver to the [Master] Servicer an
Officer's Certificate of a Servicing Officer indicating the amount of any
previous Advance determined by the Servicer to be a Nonrecoverable Advance and
identifying the related Mortgage Loan(s), and their respective portions of such
Nonrecoverable Advance.
(b) [The Master Servicer may from time to time make withdrawals from
the Master Servicer Custodial Account for the following purposes:
(i) to pay to itself any compensation due it hereunder;
(ii) to pay to itself earnings or investment income with
respect to funds in the Master Servicer Custodial Account;
(iii) on each Distribution Account Deposit Date, to withdraw
the Available Funds for such date and remit such amount to the Trustee
for deposit in the Distribution Account; and
(iv) to clear and terminate the Master Servicer Custodial
Account upon termination of the Agreement pursuant to Section 9.1
hereof.]
(c) The Trustee shall withdraw funds from the Distribution Account
for distributions to Certificateholders in the manner specified in this
Agreement. In addition, the Trustee may prior to making the distribution
pursuant to Section 4.1 from time to time make withdrawals from the Distribution
Account for the following purposes:
(i) to pay to itself the Trustee Fee for the related
Distribution Date (allocated pro rata by Group, if applicable);
(ii) [to pay to the Master Servicer earnings on or investment
income with respect to funds in the Distribution Account;]
(iii) to withdraw and return to the Servicer [or Master
Servicer] any amount deposited in the Distribution Account and not
required to be deposited therein; and
(iv) to clear and terminate the Distribution Account upon
termination of the Agreement pursuant to Section 9.1 hereof.
Section 3.9 Maintenance of Hazard Insurance; Maintenance of Primary
Insurance Policies.
(a) The Servicer shall cause to be maintained, for each Mortgage
Loan, hazard insurance with extended coverage in an amount that is at least
equal to the lesser of (i) the
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maximum insurable value of the improvements securing such Mortgage Loan; (ii)
the outstanding principal balance of the Mortgage Loan and (iii) the maximum
amount available in the locality of the related Mortgaged Property from insurers
generally acceptable to institutional residential mortgage lenders without
payment of extraordinary premium. Each such policy of standard hazard insurance
shall contain, or have an accompanying endorsement that contains, a standard
mortgagee clause. Any amounts collected by the Servicer under any such policies
(other than the amounts to be applied to the restoration or repair of the
related Mortgaged Property or amounts released to the Mortgagor in accordance
with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures) shall be deposited in the
Collection Account. Any cost incurred by the Servicer in maintaining any such
insurance shall not, for the purpose of calculating monthly distributions to the
Certificateholders or remittances to the Trustee for their benefit, be added to
the principal balance of the Mortgage Loan, notwithstanding that the terms of
the Mortgage Loan so permit. Such costs shall be recoverable by the Servicer as
Servicing Advances or, if applicable, as Nonrecoverable Advances. It is
understood and agreed that no earthquake or other additional insurance is to be
required of any Mortgagor or maintained on property acquired in respect of a
Mortgage other than pursuant to such applicable laws and regulations as shall at
any time be in force and as shall require such additional insurance. If the
Mortgaged Property is located at the time of origination of the Mortgage Loan in
a federally designated special flood hazard area and such area is participating
in the national flood insurance program, the Servicer shall cause flood
insurance to be maintained with respect to such Mortgage Loan. Such flood
insurance shall be in an amount equal to the least of (i) the original principal
balance of the related Mortgage Loan, (ii) the replacement value of the
improvements which are part of such Mortgaged Property, and (iii) the maximum
amount of such insurance available for the related Mortgaged Property under the
national flood insurance program.
(b) In the event that the Servicer shall obtain and maintain a
blanket policy insuring against hazard losses on any or all of the Mortgage
Loans, it shall conclusively be deemed to have satisfied its obligations as set
forth in the first sentence of this Section with respect to all of the Mortgage
Loans so covered, it being understood and agreed that such policy may contain a
deductible clause on terms substantially equivalent to those commercially
available and maintained by comparable servicers. If such policy contains a
deductible clause, the Servicer shall, in the event that there shall not have
been maintained on the related Mortgaged Property a policy complying with the
first sentence of this Section, and there shall have been a loss that would have
been covered by such policy, deposit in the Collection Account the amount not
otherwise payable under the blanket policy because of such deductible clause. In
connection with its activities as Servicer of the Mortgage Loans, the Servicer
agrees to present, on behalf of itself, the Depositor, and the Trustee for the
benefit of the Certificateholders, claims under any such blanket policy.
(c) The Servicer shall not take any action which would result in
non-coverage under any applicable Primary Insurance Policy of any loss which,
but for the actions of the Servicer, would have been covered thereunder. The
Servicer shall not cancel or refuse to renew any such Primary Insurance Policy
that is in effect at the date of the initial issuance of the Certificates and
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is required to be kept in force hereunder unless the replacement Primary
Insurance Policy for such canceled or non-renewed policy is maintained with a
Qualified Insurer.
The Servicer shall not be required to maintain any Primary Insurance
Policy (i) with respect to any Mortgage Loan with a Loan-to-Value Ratio less
than or equal to [__]% (or such lower Loan-to-Value Ratio as may be provided by
applicable law) as of any date of determination or, based on a new appraisal,
the principal balance of such Mortgage Loan represents [__}% or less of the new
appraised value (or other method of determination as may be provided by
applicable law) or (ii) if maintaining such Primary Insurance Policy is
otherwise prohibited by applicable law.
The Servicer agrees to effect the timely payment of the premiums on each
Primary Insurance Policy, and such costs not otherwise recoverable shall be
recoverable by the Servicer as Servicing Advances or, if applicable, as
Nonrecoverable Advances.
(d) In connection with its activities as Servicer of the Mortgage
Loans, the Servicer agrees to present on behalf of itself, the Trustee and
Certificateholders, claims to the insurer under any Primary Insurance Policies
and, in this regard, to take such reasonable action as shall be necessary to
permit recovery under any Primary Insurance Policies respecting defaulted
Mortgage Loans. Any amounts collected by the Servicer under any Primary
Insurance Policies shall be deposited in the Collection Account.
Section 3.10 Enforcement of Due-on-Sale Clauses; Assumption
Agreements.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this Section, when any property
subject to a Mortgage has been conveyed by the Mortgagor, the Servicer shall to
the extent that it has knowledge of such conveyance enforce any due-on-sale
clause contained in any Mortgage Note or Mortgage, to the extent, in the
Servicer's reasonable judgment, enforcement is permitted under applicable law
and governmental regulations. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Servicer is not
required to exercise such rights with respect to a Mortgage Loan if the Person
to whom the related Mortgaged Property has been conveyed or is proposed to be
conveyed satisfies the terms and conditions contained in the Mortgage Note and
Mortgage related thereto and the consent of the mortgagee under such Mortgage
Note or Mortgage is not otherwise so required under such Mortgage Note or
Mortgage as a condition to such transfer. In the event that the Servicer is
prohibited by law from enforcing any such due-on-sale clause, or if
nonenforcement is otherwise permitted hereunder, the Servicer is authorized,
subject to Section 3.10(b), to take or enter into an assumption and modification
agreement from or with the person to whom such property has been or is about to
be conveyed, pursuant to which such person becomes liable under the Mortgage
Note and, unless prohibited by applicable state law, the Mortgagor remains
liable thereon, provided that the Mortgage Loan shall continue to be covered (if
so covered before the Servicer enters such agreement) by the applicable Required
Insurance Policies. The Servicer, subject to Section 3.10(b), is also authorized
with the prior approval of the insurers under any Required Insurance Policies to
enter into a substitution of liability agreement with such Person, pursuant to
which the original Mortgagor is released from liability and such Person is
substituted
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as Xxxxxxxxx and becomes liable under the Mortgage Note. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, the Servicer shall not be deemed to be in default under this Section
by reason of any transfer or assumption which the Servicer reasonably believes
it is restricted by law from preventing, for any reason whatsoever.
(b) Subject to the Servicer's duty to enforce any due-on-sale clause
to the extent set forth in Section 3.10(a) hereof, in any case in which a
Mortgaged Property has been conveyed to a Person by a Mortgagor, and such Person
is to enter into an assumption agreement or modification agreement or supplement
to the Mortgage Note or Mortgage that requires the signature of the Trustee, or
if an instrument of release signed by the Trustee is required releasing the
Mortgagor from liability on the Mortgage Loan, the Servicer shall prepare and
deliver or cause to be prepared and delivered to the Trustee for signature and
shall direct, in writing, the Trustee to execute the assumption agreement with
the Person to whom the Mortgaged Property is to be conveyed and such
modification agreement or supplement to the Mortgage Note or Mortgage or other
instruments as are reasonable or necessary to carry out the terms of the
Mortgage Note or Mortgage or otherwise to comply with any applicable laws
regarding assumptions or the transfer of the Mortgaged Property to such Person.
In connection with any such assumption, no material term of the Mortgage Note
may be changed. In addition, the substitute Mortgagor and the Mortgaged Property
must be acceptable to the Servicer in accordance with its underwriting standards
as then in effect. Together with each such substitution, assumption or other
agreement or instrument delivered to the Trustee for execution by it, the
Servicer shall deliver an Officer's Certificate signed by a Servicing Officer
stating that the requirements of this subsection have been met in connection
therewith. The Servicer shall notify the Trustee that any such substitution or
assumption agreement has been completed by forwarding to the Trustee the
original of such substitution or assumption agreement, which in the case of the
original shall be added to the related Mortgage File and shall, for all
purposes, be considered a part of such Mortgage File to the same extent as all
other documents and instruments constituting a part thereof. Any fee collected
by the Servicer for entering into an assumption or substitution of liability
agreement will be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation.
Section 3.11 Realization Upon Defaulted Mortgage Loans; Repurchase of
Certain Mortgage Loans.
(a) Subject to the limitations set forth in Sections 3.5(a),
3.11(b), 3.11(f), and 3.11(i), the Servicer shall use reasonable efforts to
foreclose upon or otherwise comparably convert the ownership of properties
securing such of the Mortgage Loans as come into and continue in default and as
to which no satisfactory arrangements can be made for collection of delinquent
payments. In connection with such foreclosure or other conversion, the Servicer
shall follow such practices and procedures as it shall deem necessary or
advisable and as shall be normal and usual in its general mortgage servicing
activities; provided, however, that the Servicer shall not be required to expend
its own funds in connection with any foreclosure or towards the restoration of
any property unless it shall determine (i) that such restoration and/or
foreclosure will increase the proceeds of liquidation of the Mortgage Loan after
reimbursement to itself of such expenses
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and (ii) that such expenses will be recoverable to it through Liquidation
Proceeds (respecting which it shall have priority for purposes of withdrawals
from the Collection Account). The Servicer shall be responsible for all other
costs and expenses incurred by it in any such proceedings; provided, however,
that it shall be entitled to reimbursement thereof from the Liquidation Proceeds
with respect to the related Mortgaged Property, as Servicing Advances or, if
applicable, as Nonrecoverable Advances.
(b) If the Servicer has actual knowledge that a Mortgaged Property
which the Servicer is contemplating acquiring in foreclosure or by deed in lieu
of foreclosure is located within a one mile radius of any site with material
environmental or hazardous waste risks known to the Servicer, the Servicer will,
prior to acquiring the Mortgaged Property, consider such risks and shall proceed
with such in foreclosure or by deed in lieu of foreclosure only if the Servicer
reasonably determines that doing so shall more like than not be in the best
interests of the Trust Fund, considering all relevant factors including such
environmental matters. For the purpose of this Section, actual knowledge of the
Servicer means actual knowledge of a Servicing Officer involved in the servicing
of the relevant Mortgage Loan at the time such knowledge was acquired. Actual
knowledge of the Servicer does not include knowledge imputable by virtue of the
availability of or accessibility to information relating to environmental or
hazardous waste sites or the locations thereof.
(c) With respect to any REO Property, the deed or certificate of
sale shall be taken in the name of the Trustee for the benefit of the
Certificateholders, or its nominee, on behalf of the Certificateholders,
provided that the Servicers may cause title to be placed in the name of the
Custodian or the Servicer if the Servicer reasonably determines that such manner
of holding title is required or advisable in order to facilitate the foreclosure
process as to any one or more particular Mortgage Loans. The Trustee's name
shall be placed on the title to such REO Property solely as the Trustee
hereunder and not in its individual capacity. The Servicer shall ensure that the
title to such REO Property references this Agreement and the Trustee's capacity
thereunder. Pursuant to its efforts to sell such REO Property, the Servicer
shall either itself or through an agent selected by the Servicer protect and
conserve such REO Property in the same manner and to such extent as is customary
in the locality where such REO Property is located and may, incident to its
conservation and protection of the interests of the Certificateholders, in its
sole discretion, rent or decline to rent the same, or any part thereof, as the
Servicer deems to be in the best interest of the Certificateholders for the
period prior to the sale of such REO Property. The Servicer shall prepare for
and deliver to the Trustee a statement with respect to any REO Property that has
been rented showing the aggregate rental income received and all expenses
incurred in connection with the management and maintenance of such REO Property
at such times as is necessary to enable the Trustee to comply with the reporting
requirements of the REMIC Provisions. The net monthly rental income, if any,
from such REO Property shall be deposited in the Collection Account no later
than the close of business on each Determination Date. The Servicer shall
perform the tax reporting and withholding required by Sections 1445 and 6050J of
the Code with respect to foreclosures and abandonments, the tax reporting
required by Section 6050H of the Code with respect to the receipt of mortgage
interest from individuals and any tax reporting required by Section 6050P of the
Code with respect to the cancellation of
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indebtedness by certain financial entities, by preparing such tax and
information returns as may be required, in the form required, and delivering the
same to the Trustee for filing.
(d) In the event that the Trust Fund acquires any Mortgaged Property
as aforesaid or otherwise in connection with a default or imminent default on a
Mortgage Loan, the Servicer shall dispose of such Mortgaged Property prior to
the close of the third taxable year after its acquisition by the Trust Fund
unless the Trustee shall have been supplied with an Opinion of Counsel to the
effect that the holding by the Trust Fund of such Mortgaged Property subsequent
to such three-year period will not result in the imposition of taxes on
"prohibited transactions" of any REMIC created hereunder as defined in section
860F of the Code or cause any REMIC created hereunder to fail to qualify as a
REMIC at any time that any Certificates are outstanding, in which case the Trust
Fund may continue to hold such Mortgaged Property (subject to any conditions
contained in such Opinion of Counsel). Notwithstanding any other provision of
this Agreement, no Mortgaged Property acquired by the Trust Fund shall be rented
(or allowed to continue to be rented) or otherwise used for the production of
income by or on behalf of the Trust Fund in such a manner or pursuant to any
terms that would (i) cause such Mortgaged Property to fail to qualify as
"foreclosure property" within the meaning of Section 860G(a)(8) of the Code or
(ii) subject any REMIC created hereunder to the imposition of any federal, state
or local income taxes on the income earned from such Mortgaged Property, unless
the Servicer has agreed to indemnify and hold harmless the Trust Fund with
respect to the imposition of any such taxes.
(e) In the event of a default on a Mortgage Loan one or more of
whose obligor is not a "United States person," as that term is defined in
Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code, in connection with any foreclosure or
acquisition of a deed in lieu of foreclosure (together, "foreclosure") in
respect of such Mortgage Loan, the Servicer will cause compliance with the
provisions of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1445-2(d)(3) (or any successor
thereto) necessary to assure that no withholding tax obligation arises with
respect to the proceeds of such foreclosure except to the extent, if any, that
proceeds of such foreclosure are required to be remitted to the obligor on such
Mortgage Loan.
(f) The decision of the Servicer to foreclose, or to continue the
foreclosure process, on a defaulted Mortgage Loan shall be subject to a
determination by the Servicer that the proceeds of such foreclosure would more
likely than not exceed the costs and expenses of bringing such a proceeding and
liquidating the REO expected to be obtained through such foreclosure. Promptly
upon making any determination in accordance with the preceding sentence not to
foreclose, or to discontinue the foreclosure process, as to any Mortgage Loan,
the Servicer shall deliver to the Master Servicer an Officer's Certificate
signed by a Servicing Officer identifying the Mortgage Loans as to which such
determination has been made (each such Mortgage Loan, upon acceptance of such
Officer's Certificate by the Master Servicer, a "Nonrecoverable Mortgage Loan")
setting forth the basis for such determination in a form acceptable to the
Master Servicer.
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(g) The income earned from the management of any REO Properties, net
of reimbursement to the Servicer for expenses incurred (including any property
or other taxes) in connection with such management and net of unreimbursed
Master Servicing Fees, Advances and Servicing Advances, shall be applied to the
payment of principal of and interest on the related defaulted Mortgage Loans
(with interest accruing as though such Mortgage Loans were still current) and
all such income shall be deemed, for all purposes in this Agreement, to be
payments on account of principal and interest on the related Mortgage Notes and
shall be deposited into the Collection Account. To the extent the net income
received during any calendar month is in excess of the amount attributable to
amortizing principal and accrued interest at the related Mortgage Rate on the
related Mortgage Loan for such calendar month, such excess shall be considered
to be a partial prepayment of principal of the related Mortgage Loan.
(h) The proceeds from any liquidation of a Mortgage Loan, as well as
any income from an REO Property, will be applied in the following order of
priority: first, to reimburse the Servicer for any related unreimbursed
Servicing Advances and Servicing Fees; second, to reimburse the Servicer for any
unreimbursed Advances; third, to reimburse the Collection Account for any
Nonrecoverable Advances (or portions thereof) that were previously withdrawn by
the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.8(a)(iii) that related to such Mortgage Loan;
fourth, to accrued and unpaid interest (to the extent no Advance has been made
for such amount or any such Advance has been reimbursed) on the Mortgage Loan or
related REO Property, at the Mortgage Rate (net of the Servicing Fee Rate) to
the Due Date occurring in the month in which such amounts are required to be
distributed; and fifth, as a recovery of principal of the Mortgage Loan. Excess
Proceeds, if any, from the liquidation of a Liquidated Mortgage Loan will be
retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation pursuant to
Section 3.14.
(i) Notwithstanding any provision hereof, in connection with the
foreclosure or other conversion of defaulted assets, the Servicer shall follow
such practices and procedures as it shall deem necessary or advisable in its
sole discretion, and as shall be normal and usual in its general mortgage
servicing activities. In connection therewith, the [Master Servicer] shall have
the sole discretion to determine whenever an immediate sale of any REO or
Nonrecoverable Mortgage Loan, or continued management of such REO or
Nonrecoverable Mortgage Loan, is in the best interest of certificateholders to
maximize recoveries. Any such disposition (including by means of a "whole loan
sale") shall be conducted by the Servicer on terms and conditions approved by
the Master Servicer in its sole discretion. The foregoing notwithstanding, the
Master Servicer shall not approve any such disposition that would (i) result in
the imposition of the tax on "prohibited transactions" on the Trust Fund, as
defined in Sections 860F(a)(2) of the Code, or (ii) cause any REMIC created
hereunder to fail to qualify as a REMIC at any time that any Certificates are
outstanding.
(j) The [Master Servicer], in its sole discretion, shall have the
right to purchase for its own account from the Trust Fund any Mortgage Loan
which is 91 days or more Delinquent at a price equal to the Purchase Price;
provided however, that for any such Mortgage Loan that is a Nonrecoverable
Mortgage Loan, such purchase shall be at a price equal to the Nonrecoverable
Mortgage Loan Purchase Price, and provided further that any REO Property may be
disposed of
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pursuant to the preceding Section 3.11(i). The total price calculated pursuant
to the preceding sentence for any Mortgage Loan purchased hereunder shall be
deposited in the Collection Account and the Trustee, upon receipt of the Request
for Release from the Servicer in the form of Exhibit J hereto, shall release or
cause to be released to the purchaser of such Mortgage Loan the related Mortgage
File and shall execute and deliver such instruments of transfer or assignment
prepared by the purchaser of such Mortgage Loan, in each case without recourse,
as shall be necessary to vest in the purchaser of such Mortgage Loan any
Mortgage Loan released pursuant hereto and the purchaser of such Mortgage Loan
shall succeed to all the Trustee's right, title and interest in and to such
Mortgage Loan and all security and documents related thereto. Such assignment
shall be an assignment outright and not for security. The purchaser of such
Mortgage Loan shall thereupon own such Mortgage Loan, and all security and
documents, free of any further obligation to the Trustee or the
Certificateholders with respect thereto.
Section 3.12 Trustee to Cooperate; Release of Mortgage Files.
Upon the payment in full of any Mortgage Loan, or the receipt by the
Servicer of a notification that payment in full will be escrowed in a manner
customary for such purposes, the Servicer will immediately notify the Trustee by
delivering, or causing to be delivered a Request for Release substantially in
the form of Exhibit J. Upon receipt of such request, the Trustee shall or shall
cause the Custodian to promptly release the related Mortgage File to the
Servicer, and the Trustee shall at the Servicer's direction execute and deliver
to the Servicer the request for reconveyance, deed of reconveyance or release or
satisfaction of mortgage or such instrument releasing the lien of the Mortgage,
in each case as provided by the Servicer, together with the Mortgage Note with
written evidence of cancellation thereon. In lieu of the document execution
process described in the preceding two sentences, the Servicer shall be
authorized to execute each such Request for Release, request for reconveyance,
deed of reconveyance, and release, satisfaction of mortgage, or such instrument
releasing the lien of the Mortgage as attorney in fact for the Trustee (or the
Custodian, if applicable) pursuant to the powers of attorney described in
Section 3.1. Expenses incurred in connection with any instrument of satisfaction
or deed of reconveyance shall be chargeable to the related Mortgagor. From time
to time and as shall be appropriate for the servicing or foreclosure of any
Mortgage Loan, including for such purpose, collection under any policy of flood
insurance, any fidelity bond or errors or omissions policy, or for the purposes
of effecting a partial release of any Mortgaged Property from the lien of the
Mortgage or the making of any corrections to the Mortgage Note or the Mortgage
or any of the other documents included in the Mortgage File, the Trustee shall,
upon delivery to the Trustee of a Request for Release in the form of Exhibit K
signed by a Servicing Officer, release the Mortgage File to the Servicer.
Subject to the further limitations set forth below, the Servicer shall cause the
Mortgage File or documents so released to be returned to the Trustee or its
Custodian when the need therefor by the Servicer no longer exists, unless the
Mortgage Loan is liquidated and the proceeds thereof are deposited in the
Collection Account, in which case the Servicer shall deliver to the Trustee a
Request for Release in the form of Exhibit L, signed by a Servicing Officer.
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If the Servicer at any time seeks to initiate a foreclosure proceeding
in respect of any Mortgaged Property as authorized by this Agreement, the
Servicer shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trustee, for signature,
as appropriate, any court pleadings, requests for trustee's sale or other
documents necessary to effectuate such foreclosure or any legal action brought
to obtain judgment against the Mortgagor on the Mortgage Note or the Mortgage or
to obtain a deficiency judgment or to enforce any other remedies or rights
provided by the Mortgage Note or the Mortgage or otherwise available at law or
in equity.
Section 3.13 Documents Records and Funds in Possession of Servicer to
be Held for the Trustee.
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement, the Servicer
shall transmit to the Trustee, or the Custodian on its behalf, all documents and
instruments described in Section 2.1(b), and shall hold as Servicer and agent of
the Trustee all other documents, in respect of a Mortgage Loan coming into the
possession of the Servicer from time to time and shall account fully to the
Trustee for any funds received by the Servicer or which otherwise are collected
by the Servicer as Liquidation Proceeds or Insurance Proceeds in respect of any
Mortgage Loan. All Mortgage Files and funds collected or held by, or under the
control of, the Servicer in respect of any Mortgage Loans, whether from the
collection of principal and interest payments or from Liquidation Proceeds,
including but not limited to, any funds on deposit in the Collection Account,
shall be held by the Servicer for and on behalf of the Trustee and shall be and
remain the sole and exclusive property of the Trustee, subject to the applicable
provisions of this Agreement. The Servicer also agrees that it shall not create,
incur or subject any Mortgage File or any funds that are deposited in the
Collection Account, Distribution Account or any Escrow Account, or any funds
that otherwise are or may become due or payable to the Trustee for the benefit
of the Certificateholders, to any claim, lien, security interest, judgment,
levy, writ of attachment or other encumbrance, or assert by legal action or
otherwise any claim or right of setoff against any Mortgage File or any funds
collected on, or in connection with, a Mortgage Loan, except, however, that the
Servicer shall be entitled to set off against and deduct from any such funds any
amounts that are properly due and payable to the Servicer under this Agreement.
Section 3.14 Servicing Compensation.
As compensation for its activities hereunder, the Servicer shall be
entitled to retain or withdraw from the Collection Account an amount equal to
the Servicing Fee for each Mortgage Loan, provided that the aggregate Servicing
Fee with respect to any Distribution Date shall be reduced (i) by the amount of
any Compensating Interest paid by the Servicer with respect to such Distribution
Date, and (ii) with respect to the first Distribution Date, an amount equal to
any amount to be deposited into the Distribution Account by the Depositor
pursuant to Section 2.1(a) and not so deposited.
Additional servicing compensation in the form of (i) Prepayment Interest
Excess and all income and gain net of any losses realized from Permitted
Investments and (ii) assumption fees, late payment charges, and other receipts
not required to be deposited to the Collection Account
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pursuant to Section 3.5 hereof, including any Excess Proceeds, shall be retained
by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. The Servicer and [Master
Servicer] shall be required to pay all expenses incurred by them respectively in
connection with their respective activities hereunder to the extent such
expenses do not constitute Advances or Nonrecoverable Advances as defined in
this Agreement and shall not be entitled to reimbursement therefor except as
specifically provided in this Agreement.
Section 3.15 Access to Certain Documentation.
The Servicer shall provide to the OTS and the FDIC and to comparable
regulatory authorities supervising Holders of Subordinate Certificates and the
examiners and supervisory agents of the OTS, the FDIC and such other
authorities, access to the documentation regarding the Mortgage Loans required
by applicable regulations of the OTS and the FDIC. Such access shall be afforded
without charge, but only upon reasonable and prior written request and during
normal business hours at the offices designated by the Servicer. Nothing in this
Section shall limit the obligation of the Servicer to observe any applicable law
prohibiting disclosure of information regarding the Mortgagors and the failure
of the Servicer to provide access as provided in this Section as a result of
such obligation shall not constitute a breach of this Section.
Section 3.16 Annual Statement as to Compliance.
The Servicer shall deliver to the Depositor and the Trustee on or before
120 days after the end of the Servicer's fiscal year, commencing with its 200__
fiscal year, an Officer's Certificate stating, as to the signer thereof, that
(i) a review of the activities of the Servicer during the preceding fiscal year
and of the performance of the Servicer under this Agreement has been made under
such officer's supervision and (ii) to the best of such officer's knowledge,
based on such review, the Servicer has fulfilled all of its material obligations
under this Agreement throughout such year, or, if there has been a material
default in the fulfillment of any such obligation, specifying each such default
known to such officer and the nature and status thereof. The Trustee shall
forward a copy of each such statement to each Rating Agency.
Section 3.17 Annual Independent Public Accountants' Servicing
Statement; Financial Statements.
On or before 120 days after the end of the Servicer's fiscal year,
commencing with its 200__ fiscal year, the Servicer at its expense shall cause a
nationally or regionally recognized firm of independent public accountants (who
may also render other services to the Servicer, the Depositor or any affiliate
thereof) which is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public
Accountants to furnish a statement to the Trustee and the Depositor to the
effect that such firm has examined certain documents and records relating to the
servicing of the Mortgage Loans under this Agreement or of mortgage loans under
pooling and servicing agreements substantially similar to this Agreement (such
statement to have attached thereto a schedule setting forth the
pooling and
servicing agreements covered thereby) substantially in compliance with the
Uniform Single Attestation Program for Mortgage Bankers or alternatively, if the
[Master Servicer] has so
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elected, the Audit Program for Mortgages serviced for FNMA and FHLMC, and
setting forth such firm's conclusions relating thereto in accordance with the
applicable attestation program or audit program. In rendering such statement,
such firm may rely, as to matters relating to direct servicing of mortgage loans
by Subservicers, upon comparable statements for examinations conducted
substantially in compliance with the Uniform Single Attestation Program for
Mortgage Bankers or the Audit Program for Mortgages serviced for FNMA and FHLMC
(rendered within one year of such statement) of independent public accountants
with respect to the related Subservicer. Copies of such statement shall be
provided by the Trustee to any Certificateholder upon request at the Servicer's
expense, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Trustee.
Section 3.18 Errors and Omissions Insurance; Fidelity Bonds.
The Servicer shall for so long as it acts as Servicer under this
Agreement, obtain and maintain in force (a) a policy or policies of insurance
covering errors and omissions in the performance of its obligations as Servicer
hereunder and (b) a fidelity bond in respect of its officers, employees and
agents. Each such policy or policies and bond shall, together, comply with the
requirements from time to time of FNMA or FHLMC for persons performing servicing
for mortgage loans purchased by FNMA or FHLMC. In the event that any such policy
or bond ceases to be in effect, the Servicer shall obtain a comparable
replacement policy or bond from an insurer or issuer, meeting the requirements
set forth above as of the date of such replacement.
Section 3.19 Advances.
The Servicer shall determine on or before each Determination Date
whether it is required to make a P&I Advance pursuant to the definition thereof.
If the Servicer determines it is required to make a P&I Advance, it shall,
before the Distribution Account Deposit Date, deposit into the [Master Servicer]
Custodial Account an amount equal to the P&I Advance. The Servicer shall be
entitled to be reimbursed for all P&I Advances of its own funds made pursuant to
this Section as provided in Section 3.8 hereof. The obligation to make P&I
Advances with respect to any Mortgage Loan shall continue if such Mortgage Loan
has been foreclosed or otherwise terminated and the related Mortgaged Property
has not been liquidated, provided that in no event shall the Servicer be
required to make any proposed Advance that, if made, would in the good faith
judgment of the Servicer to be a Nonrecoverable Advance.
The Servicer shall deliver to the [Master] Servicer on the related
Servicer Deposit Date an Officer's Certificate of a Servicing Officer indicating
the amount of any proposed Advance that, if made, would in the good faith
judgment of the Servicer be a Nonrecoverable Advance.
Section 3.20 [Advance Facility.
(a) The Servicer is hereby authorized to enter into any facility
with any Person (any such Person, an "Advance Facility Counterparty") which
provides that the Servicer may pledge or sell its rights to receive
reimbursement of Advances pursuant to this Agreement ("Advance
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Reimbursement Rights") pursuant to credit facilities, repurchase facilities, or
similar facilities providing liquidity for the funding of Advances, including
facilities providing that such Advance Facility Counterparty may make all or a
portion of the Advances (any such facility, an "Advance Facility"), although no
Advance Facility shall reduce or otherwise affect the Servicer's obligations to
fund such Advances. If so required pursuant to the terms of an Advance Facility,
to the extent that an Advance Facility Counterparty makes all or a portion of
any Advance and the Advance Facility Counterparty and the Servicer provide the
Trustee with notice acknowledged by the Servicer that such Advancing Servicer is
entitled to reimbursement, such Advancing Servicer shall be entitled to receive
reimbursement pursuant to this Agreement for such amount to the extent provided.
Such notice from the Advance Facility Counterparty and the Servicer must specify
the amount of the reimbursement and must specify which Section of this Agreement
permits the Advance to be reimbursed. The Trustee shall be entitled to rely
without independent investigation on the Advance Facility Counterparty's
statement with respect to the amount of any reimbursement pursuant to this
Section 3.20 and with respect to the Advance Facility Counterparty's statement
with respect to the Section of this Agreement permits the Advance to be
reimbursed. An Advance Facility Counterparty whose obligations are limited to
the making of Advances will not be deemed to be a Subservicer under this
Agreement.
(b) If so required pursuant to the terms of an Advance Facility, the
Servicer may direct, and if so directed the Trustee is hereby authorized to and
shall pay to the Advance Facility Counterparty (i) reimbursements for Advances;
and (ii) all or such portion of the Servicing Fee as may be so specified in the
Advance Facility, that would otherwise be payable to the Servicer pursuant to
this Agreement or the Servicing Agreement.
(c) Upon request of the Servicer, the Trustee agrees to execute such
acknowledgments, certificates, and other documents recognizing the interests of
any Advance Facility Counterparty in such Advance Reimbursement Rights and
Servicing Fees as the Servicer may cause to be made subject to Advance
Facilities pursuant to this Section 3.20, and such other documents in connection
with such Advance Facilities as may be reasonably requested from time to time by
any Advance Facility Counterparty. The implementation of the arrangement
described in this Section shall not require the consent of Certificateholders or
the Trustee.]
Section 3.21 Prepayment Penalties.
The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Penalty or part of a
Prepayment Penalty unless (i) such waiver would, in the reasonable judgment of
the Servicer, maximize recovery of total net proceeds taking into account the
value of such Prepayment Penalty and related Mortgage Loan and, if such waiver
is made in connection with a refinancing of the related Mortgage Loan, such
refinancing is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default; (ii)
the related Mortgage Loan indebtedness has been accelerated; or (iii) the
Servicer obtains an Opinion of Counsel, which may be in-house counsel for the
Servicer, opining that the Prepayment Penalty is not legally enforceable in the
circumstances under which the related prepayment occurs. In no event will the
Servicer waive a Prepayment Penalty in connection with a refinancing of a
Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseen default.
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ARTICLE 4
DISTRIBUTIONS
Section 4.1 Priorities of Distribution.
(a) On each Distribution Date, the Trustee shall make the following
distributions from the Distribution Account of an amount equal to the Interest
Funds for each Group in the following order of priority:
(i) from the Interest Funds for each Group, to the related
Senior Certificates, the Current Interest and any Interest Carry Forward
Amount for the such Certificates (or, in the case of the Class [___]
Certificates and Class [___] Certificates, the related Allocable Portion
thereof); provided, however, that any shortfall in available amounts in
respect of each Group shall be applied, pro rata, among the Senior
Certificates of such Group; and
(ii) any remaining amounts from the Interest Funds for Group
I, Group II and Group III shall be combined and distributed pursuant to
Section 4.1(b) hereof.
(b) On each Distribution Date, the Trustee shall apply all amounts
remaining pursuant to Section 4.1(a)(ii) in the following order of priority:
(i) to the Class M-[___] Certificates, the Current Interest
thereon;
(ii) to the Class M-[___] Certificates, Current Interest
thereon;
(iii) to the Class B Certificates, Current Interest thereon;
(iv) to the Class [___] Certificates, Current Interest
thereon; and
(v) any remaining amounts pursuant to Section 4.1(g) hereof.
(c) On each Distribution Date, the Trustee shall make the following
distributions from the Distribution Account of an amount equal to the Principal
Distribution Amount for each Group as follows:
(i) From the Principal Distribution Amount for Group I, in
an amount up to the Senior Principal Distribution Amount for such Group
as follows: (x) the Priority Principal Distribution Amount to the Class
AF-[___] Certificates until the Class Certificate Balance thereof has
been reduced to zero, and (y) the balance of the Senior Principal
Distribution Amount for Group I sequentially to the Class AF-[___]
Certificates, in that order, so that no such distribution pursuant to
this clause (y) will be made to any such Class until the Certificate
Principal Balances of all Group I Class A Certificates with a lower
numeral designation shall have been reduced to zero; provided,
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however, that, on any Distribution Date on or after the Credit Support
Depletion Date, the Senior Principal Distribution Amount for Group I
will be distributed pro rata and not sequentially to the Group I Class A
Certificates;
(ii) From the Principal Distribution Amount for Group II, an
amount up to the Senior Principal Distribution Amount for such Group
shall be distributed to the Class AV-__ Certificates until the Class
Certificate Balance thereof has been reduced to zero;
(iii) Reserved.
(iv) In the event the Certificate Principal Balance of one or
more of the (A) Group I Class A Certificates, or the (B) the Group II
Class A Certificates has been reduced to zero, on such Distribution Date
and each Distribution Date thereafter principal distributions otherwise
distributable to such retired Certificates will be applied to the
remaining Senior Certificates related to the other Mortgage Loan Groups,
pro rata, on the basis of their Class Certificate Balances (after giving
effect to the distributions described in this Section 4.1(c)). Any such
distributions in respect of the Group I Class A Certificates will be
distributed to such Classes in the manner provided in the first
subparagraph of this subsection.
(d) On each Distribution Date, the Trustee shall distribute the
Principal Distribution Amount for all Groups remaining after distributions
pursuant to Section 4.1(c) in the following order of priority:
(i) to the Class M-__ Certificates, the Class M-__ Principal
Distribution Amount, until the Class Certificate Balance thereof has
been reduced to zero;
(ii) to the Class M-__ Certificates, the Class M-__ Principal
Distribution Amount, until the Class Certificate Balance thereof has
been reduced to zero; and
(iii) to the Class B Certificates, the Class B Principal
Distribution Amount, until the Class Certificate Balance thereof has
been reduced to zero.
(e) Notwithstanding Section 4.1(c) and (d) hereof, before the
Stepdown Date or if a Trigger Event is in effect on any Distribution Date each
Principal Distribution Amount shall be distributed in the following order of
priority:
(i) to the related Class A Certificates (in the case of
Group I, in the manner described in Section 4.1(c)) until the
Certificate Principal Balance of such Class A Certificates has been
reduced to zero;
(ii) after the Certificate Principal Balance of the Class A
Certificates has been reduced to zero, the remaining combined Principal
Distribution Amounts shall be distributed to the Class M-__ Certificates
until the Class Certificate Balance of the Class M-__ Certificates has
been reduced to zero;
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(iii) after the Class Certificate Balance of the Class M-__
Certificates has been reduced to zero, the remaining combined Principal
Distribution Amounts shall be distributed to the Class M-__ Certificates
until the Class Certificate Balance of the Class M-__ Certificates has
been reduced to zero, and
(iv) after the Class Certificate Balance of the Class M-__
Certificates has been reduced to zero, the remaining combined Principal
Distribution Amounts shall be distributed to the Class B Certificates
until the Class Certificate Balance of the Class B Certificates has been
reduced to zero.
(F) [On each Distribution Date, the Trustee shall distribute Pledged
Prepayment Penalties for such Distribution Date in accordance with the
priorities set forth in clauses (xv) through (xviii) of Section 4.1(g) hereof
(without regard to references to the Basis Risk Reserve Fund).]
(g) On each Distribution Date, the Trustee shall make the following
distributions from the Distribution Account of any remaining amounts pursuant to
Sections 4.1(b)(v) hereof, [together with any Net Pledged Prepayment Penalties
for such Distribution Date,] in the following order of priority:
(i) on each of the first three Distribution Dates only, to
the Basis Risk Reserve Fund, any Basis Risk Payment for
such date;
(ii) on each of the first three Distribution Dates only, from
and to the extent of amounts held in the Basis Risk
Reserve Fund, to the Class A Certificates, on a pro rata
basis any applicable Cap Carryover Amount;
(iii) on each of the first three Distribution Dates only, from
and to the extent of amounts held in the Basis Risk
Reserve Fund, to the Class M-__ Certificates, any
applicable Cap Carryover Amount;
(iv) on each of the first three Distribution Dates only, from
and to the extent of amounts held in the Basis Risk
Reserve Fund, to the Class M-__ Certificates, any
applicable Cap Carryover Amount;
(v) on each of the first three Distribution Dates only, from
and to the extent of amounts held in the Basis Risk
Reserve Fund, to the Class B Certificates, any
applicable Cap Carryover Amount;
(vi) the related Principal Percentage of the Extra Principal
Distribution Amount will be added to the Principal
Distribution Amount for Group I; and the Principal
Percentage for Group II of the Extra Principal
Distribution Amount will be added to the Principal
Distribution Amount for Group II;
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(vii) to the Class [___] Certificates, any related Interest
Carry Forward Amount;
(viii) to the Class M-__ Certificates, any related Interest
Carry Forward Amount;
(ix) to the Class M-__ Certificates, any related Unpaid
Realized Loss Amount;
(x) to the Class M-__ Certificates, any related Interest
Carry Forward Amount;
(xi) to the Class M-__ Certificates, any related Unpaid
Realized Loss Amount;
(xii) to the Class B Certificates, any related Interest Carry
Forward Amount;
(xiii) to the Class B Certificates, any related Unpaid Realized
Loss Amount;
(xiv) to the Basis Risk Reserve Fund, any Basis Risk Payment
for such date;
(xv) on any Distribution Date on or before the Distribution
Date on which the Class Certificate Balance thereof has
been reduced to zero, from and to the extent of amounts
held in the Basis Risk Reserve Fund, to the Class A
Certificates, on a pro rata basis any applicable Cap
Carryover Amount;
(xvi) on any Distribution Date on or before the Distribution
Date on which the Class Certificate Balance of the Class
M-__ Certificates has been reduced to zero, from and to
the extent of amounts held in the Basis Risk Reserve
Fund, to the Class M-__ Certificates, any applicable Cap
Carryover Amount;
(xvii) on any Distribution Date on or before the Distribution
Date on which the Class Certificate Balance of the Class
M-__ Certificates has been reduced to zero, from and to
the extent of amounts held in the Basis Risk Reserve
Fund, to the Class M-__ Certificates, any applicable Cap
Carryover Amount;
(xviii) on any Distribution Date on or before the Distribution
Date on which the Class Certificate Balance of the Class
B Certificates has been reduced to zero, from and to the
extent of amounts held in the Basis Risk Reserve Fund,
to the Class B Certificates, any applicable Cap
Carryover Amount;
(xix) pro rata to the other Certificates to the extent of any
Unpaid Realized Loss Amount; and
(xx) the remainder pursuant to Section 4.1(i) hereof.
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(h) On each Distribution Date, the Trustee shall distribute an
amount equal to the Class __ Prepayment Amount for such Distribution Date to the
Class __ Certificates.
(i) On each Distribution Date, the Trustee shall distribute to the
Class C Certificates any remaining amounts pursuant to Section 4.1(g)(xx)
hereof, to the extent of the sum of the interest accrued thereon at the rate
described in Schedule III and that has not been distributed thereon on prior
Distribution Dates (amounts deposited in the Basis Risk Reserve Fund under
Section 4.1(g)(xiv) are treated as distributed for this purpose), amounts
representing earnings on the Basis Risk Reserve Fund, and any amounts released
from the Basis Risk Reserve Fund.
(j) On each Distribution Date, to the extent the Servicer or Master
Servicer shall have collected any Subsequent Recoveries during the related
Prepayment Period, the Trustee shall apply such amounts as follows:
first, sequentially, in order of priority, to each Class of
Subordinate Certificates then outstanding, in reduction of any
amounts previously applied to such Class to reduce the Class
Certificate Balance thereof pursuant to Section 4.3 hereof
(provided, however, that any such amounts distributed pursuant
to this clause first to a Class of Subordinate Certificates
shall not reduce the Class Certificate Balance thereof); and
second, as part of the related Interest Funds for such
Distribution Date for application pursuant to Section 4.1(a).
(k) On each Distribution Date the Trustee shall distribute to the
Class R Certificates any remaining amounts.
Section 4.2 Method of Distribution.
(a) All distributions with respect to each Class of Certificates on
each Distribution Date shall be made pro rata among the outstanding Certificates
of such Class, based on the Percentage Interest in such Class represented by
each Certificate. Payments to the Certificateholders on each Distribution Date
shall be made by the Trustee to the Certificateholders of record on the related
Record Date by check or money order mailed to a Certificateholder at the address
appearing in the Certificate Register, or upon written request by such
Certificateholder to the Trustee made not later than the applicable Record Date,
by wire transfer to a U.S. depository institution acceptable to the Trustee, or
by such other means of payment as such Certificateholder and the Trustee shall
agree.
(b) Each distribution with respect to a Book-Entry Certificate shall
be paid to the Depository, which shall credit the amount of such distribution to
the accounts of its Depository Participants in accordance with its normal
procedures. Each Depository Participant shall be responsible for disbursing such
distribution to the Certificate Owners that it represents and to each financial
intermediary for which it acts as agent. Each such financial intermediary shall
be
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responsible for disbursing funds to the Certificate Owners that it represents.
All such credits and disbursements with respect to a Book-Entry Certificate are
to be made by the Depository and the Depository Participants in accordance with
the provisions of the applicable Certificates. Neither the Trustee nor the
Master Servicer shall have any responsibility therefor except as otherwise
provided by applicable law.
(c) The Trustee shall withhold or cause to be withheld such amounts
as it reasonably determines are required by the Code (giving full effect to any
exemptions from withholding and related certifications required to be furnished
by Certificateholders or Certificate Owners and any reductions to withholding by
virtue of any bilateral tax treaties and any applicable certification required
to be furnished by Certificateholders or Certificate Owners with respect
thereto) from distributions to be made to a "Foreign Person" as defined in
Section 1445(f)(3) of the Code.
Section 4.3 Allocation of Losses.
On each Distribution Date, the Trustee shall allocate any excess of the
aggregate Certificate Principal Balance of the Certificates over the Assumed
Principal Balance to reduce the Class Certificate Balances of the Subordinate
Certificates in the following order of priority:
(i) to the Class B Certificates until the Class Certificate
Balance thereof is reduced to zero;
(ii) to the Class M-__ Certificates until the Class
Certificate Balance thereof is reduced to zero; and
(iii) to the Class M-__ Certificates until the Class
Certificate Balance thereof is reduced to zero.
Section 4.4 Reports to the Depositor and the Trustee.
On or before the Business Day preceding each Distribution Date, based on
information provided by the Servicer at such times and in form and content, as
acceptable to the Master Servicer in its reasonable discretion, the Master
Servicer shall notify, or cause to be notified, the Depositor and the Trustee of
the following information with respect to the next Distribution Date (which
notification may be given by facsimile, electronic transmission or by telephone
promptly confirmed in writing):
(a) the aggregate amount then on deposit in the Distribution Account
and the source thereof (identified as interest, scheduled principal or
unscheduled principal);
(b) the amount of any Realized Losses, Applied Realized Loss Amounts
and Unpaid Realized Loss Amounts;
(c) the application of the amounts distributed on such Distribution
Date pursuant to Section 4.1 hereof (including the distribution of any
Subsequent Recoveries);
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(d) whether a Trigger Event has occurred; and
(e) [For each Distribution Date during the Funding Period,
(i) the Pre-Funded Amount for each Group previously used to
acquire Subsequent Mortgage Loans;
(ii) the Pre-Funding Account Earnings for each Group
transferred to the Distribution Account; and
(iii) the Pre-Funded Amount and for the Distribution Date
following the end of the Funding Period, the Pre-Funded Amount distributed to
Certificateholders.]
Section 4.5 Reports by or on Behalf of the [Master] Servicer.
(a) On or as soon as practicable following each Distribution Date,
based on information provided by the Servicer at such times and in form and
content[, as acceptable to the Master Servicer in its reasonable discretion,]
the [Master] Servicer shall report or cause to be published on the Trustee's
website located at xxxx://xxx.__________, or such other website designated by
the [Master] Servicer as may be set forth in a notice provided to the Holder of
each of the Certificates and each Rating Agency, the following information:
(i) with respect to each Class of Certificates (other than
Class C and Class R) (based on a Certificate in the
original principal amount of $1,000):
(A) the amount of the aggregate distributions on
such Distribution Date;
(B) the amount of such distribution allocable to
interest;
(C) the amount of such distributions allocable to
principal, separately identifying the aggregate
amount of any prepayments, Substitution
Adjustment Amounts, repurchase amounts pursuant
to Article 2 or other recoveries of principal
included therein, any Extra Principal
Distribution Amount and any Class M-__, Class
M-__, Class B, Applied Realized Loss Amount with
respect to, and any Class M-__, Class M-__, and
Class B, Unpaid Realized Loss Amount at, such
Distribution Date;
(D) the Class Certificate Balance after giving
effect to any distribution allocable to
principal; and
(E) any Interest Carry Forward Amount and any Cap
Carryover Amount;
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(ii) the Net WAC Cap and the Maximum Cap Rate;
(iii) any Subsequent Recoveries and Realized Losses for Group
I and Group II for the period and since the Cut Off
Date;
(iv) the largest Mortgage Loan balance outstanding in each
Group;
(v) the Prepayment Penalties owed by borrowers and (if
different) collected by the Servicer [or the Master
Servicer];
(vi) the Servicing Fees [and Master Servicing Fees] allocable
to each Group;
(vii) One-Month LIBOR on the most recent Interest
Determination Date;
(viii) the Pass-Through Rates for the Certificates for the
current Accrual Period and whether such rates have been
capped;
(ix) for each Distribution Date during the Funding Period,
the Pre-Funded Amount allocable to each Group;
(x) the number and aggregate principal balances of Mortgage
Loans in each Group (a) 30-59 days Delinquent, (b) 60-89
days Delinquent and (c) 90 or more days Delinquent, as
of the close of business as of the end of the related
prepayment period;
(xi) the percentage that each of the Stated Principal
Balances set forth pursuant to clauses (a), (b) and (c)
of paragraph (i) above represent with respect to all
Mortgage Loans in each Group;
(xii) the number and Stated Principal Balance of all Mortgage
Loans in each Group in foreclosure proceedings as of the
close of business as of the end of the related
Prepayment Period and in the immediately preceding
Prepayment Period;
(xiii) the number of Mortgagors and the Stated Principal
Balances of Mortgage Loans in each Group involved in
bankruptcy proceedings as of the close of business as of
the end of the related Prepayment Period;
(xiv) the aggregate number and aggregate book value of any REO
Property in each Group as of the close of business as of
the end of the related Prepayment Period; and
(xv) the number and amount by principal balance of 60+ Day
Delinquent Loans in each Group, in each case by Servicer
and as of the end of the related Prepayment Period.
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(b) All allocations made by the Trustee shall be based on
information the Trustee receives from the Master Servicer which the Trustee
shall be protected in relying on.
Section 4.6 Basis Risk Reserve Fund.
(a) On the Closing Date, the Trustee shall establish and maintain in
its name, in trust for the benefit of the holders of the Certificates, other
than the Class ___, Class ___, Class ____, Class __, and Class R Certificates,
the Basis Risk Reserve Fund, into which the Depositor shall deposit $1,000. The
Basis Risk Reserve Fund shall be an Eligible Account, and funds on deposit
therein shall be held separate and apart from, and shall not be commingled with,
any other moneys, including, without limitation, other moneys of the Trustee
held pursuant to this Agreement.
(b) The Trustee shall make withdrawals from the Basis Risk Reserve
Fund to make distributions pursuant to Section 4.1(g) hereof.
(c) Funds in the Basis Risk Reserve Fund shall be invested in
Eligible Investments. Any earnings on such amounts shall be distributed to the
Class ___ Certificateholder pursuant to Section 4.1(i). The Class ___
Certificate shall evidence ownership of the Basis Risk Reserve Fund for federal
income tax purposes and the Holder thereof shall direct the Trustee, in writing,
as to investment of amounts on deposit therein. The Class ___ Certificateholder
shall be liable for any losses incurred on such investments. In the absence of
written instructions from the Class ___ Certificateholder as to investment of
funds on deposit in the Basis Risk Reserve Fund, such funds shall be invested in
the __________ Prime Investment Money Market Fund or comparable investment
vehicle. Any amounts on deposit in the Basis Risk Reserve Fund in excess of the
Required Reserve Fund Deposit on any Distribution Date shall be distributed to
the Class ____ Certificateholder on the following Distribution Date. For all
Federal income tax purposes, amounts transferred by REMIC ___ to the Basis Risk
Reserve Fund shall be treated as amounts distributed by REMIC ___ to the Class
___ Certificateholder.
(d) Upon termination of the Trust Fund, any amounts remaining in the
Basis Risk Reserve Fund shall be distributed to the Class C Certificateholder
pursuant to Section 4.1(i).
Section 4.7 The Instrument.
At any time on or after the Closing Date, the Depositor shall have the
right to deposit into the Trust Fund, solely for the benefit of the Holder of
the Class ___ Certificates, a derivative contract or comparable instrument. Any
such instrument shall constitute a fully prepaid agreement. All collections,
proceeds and other amounts in respect of such an instrument shall be distributed
to the Class ___ Certificates on the Distribution Date following receipt thereof
by the Trustee. In no event shall such an instrument constitute a part of any
REMIC created hereunder. In addition, in the event any such instrument is
deposited, the Trust Fund shall be deemed to be divided into two separate and
discrete sub-Trusts. The assets of one such sub-Trust shall consist
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of all the assets of the Trust other than the instrument and the assets of the
other sub-Trust shall consist solely of such instrument.
Section 4.8 The Calculation Agent.
(a) The Calculation Agent, as agent for the [Master] Servicer, shall
timely and accurately (i) perform and provide to the Trustee calculations of all
amounts of principal and interest required to be distributed on each
Distribution Date pursuant to this Article 4; (ii) in connection with such
calculations, determine the appropriate One Month LIBOR with respect to each
Interest Determination Date in accordance with the definition of "One Month
LIBOR" set forth in Section 1.1, and (iii) with respect to each Distribution
Date, determine the Pre-Funding Account Earnings in accordance with the
definition of "Pre-Funding Account Earnings" set forth in Section 1.1. The
Calculation Agent shall not resign from its capacity as the Calculation Agent on
fewer than sixty (60) prior written days notice to the [Master] Servicer.
(b) The compensation of the Calculation Agent shall be the
responsibility of the [Master] Servicer, payable from the [Master] Servicing
Fee.
(c) The [Master] Servicer may terminate the Calculation Agent, in
its capacity as the Calculation Agent, at any time, with or without cause, upon
thirty (30) days notice in writing to the Calculation Agent. No fee shall be
payable to the Calculation Agent in connection with any such termination.
ARTICLE 5
THE CERTIFICATES
Section 5.1 The Certificates.
The Certificates shall be substantially in the forms attached as
exhibits hereto. The Certificates shall be issuable in registered form, in the
minimum denominations, integral multiples in excess thereof (except that one
Certificate in each Class may be issued in a different amount which must be in
excess of the applicable minimum denomination) and aggregate denominations per
Class ___et forth in the Preliminary Statement.
Subject to Section 9.2 hereof respecting the final distribution on the
Certificates, on each Distribution Date the Trustee shall make distributions to
each Certificateholder of record on the preceding Record Date either (x) by wire
transfer in immediately available funds to the account of such Holder at a bank
or other entity having appropriate facilities therefor, if (i) such Holder has
so notified the Trustee at least five Business Days prior to the related Record
Date and (ii) such Holder shall hold (A) 100% of the Class Certificate Balance
of any Class of Certificates or (B) Certificates of any Class with aggregate
principal Denominations of not less than $1,000,000 or (y) by check mailed by
first class mail to such Certificateholder at the address of such Holder
appearing in the Certificate Register.
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The Certificates shall be executed by manual or facsimile signature on
behalf of the Trustee by an authorized officer. Certificates bearing the manual
or facsimile signatures of individuals who were, at the time when such
signatures were affixed, authorized to sign on behalf of the Trustee shall bind
the Trustee, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to
be so authorized prior to the countersignature and delivery of such Certificates
or did not hold such offices at the date of such Certificate. No Certificate
shall be entitled to any benefit under this Agreement, or be valid for any
purpose, unless countersigned by the Trustee by manual signature, and such
countersignature upon any Certificate shall be conclusive evidence, and the only
evidence, that such Certificate has been duly executed and delivered hereunder.
All Certificates shall be dated the date of their countersignature. On the
Closing Date, the Trustee shall countersign the Certificates to be issued at the
direction of the Depositor, or any affiliate thereof.
The Depositor shall provide, or cause to be provided, to the Trustee on
a continuous basis, an adequate inventory of Certificates to facilitate
transfers.
Section 5.2 Certificate Register; Registration of Transfer and
Exchange of Certificates.
(a) The Trustee shall maintain, or cause to be maintained in
accordance with the provisions of Section 5.6 hereof, a Certificate Register for
the Trust Fund in which, subject to the provisions of subsections (b) and (c)
below and to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Trustee shall
provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of
Certificates as herein provided. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of
any Certificate, the Trustee shall execute and deliver, in the name of the
designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates of the same
Class and aggregate Percentage Interest.
At the option of a Certificateholder, Certificates may be exchanged for
other Certificates of the same Class in authorized denominations and evidencing
the same aggregate Percentage Interest upon surrender of the Certificates to be
exchanged at the office or agency of the Trustee. Whenever any Certificates are
so surrendered for exchange, the Trustee shall execute, authenticate, and
deliver the Certificates which the Certificateholder making the exchange is
entitled to receive. Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration
of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer
in form satisfactory to the Trustee duly executed by the Holder thereof or his
attorney duly authorized in writing.
No service charge to the Certificateholders shall be made for any
registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but payment of a sum
sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in
connection with any transfer or exchange of Certificates may be required.
All Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange
shall be cancelled and subsequently destroyed by the Trustee in accordance with
the Trustee's customary procedures.
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(b) No Person shall transfer a Private Certificate unless such
transfer (i) is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the
Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws, or (ii) is exempt from
the registration requirements under said Act and such state securities laws. In
the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the
Securities Act and such laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities
Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and
such Certificateholder's prospective transferee shall each certify to the
Trustee in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in substantially the forms
set forth in Exhibit F (the "Transferor Certificate") and (i) deliver a letter
in substantially the form of either Exhibit G (the "Investment Letter") or
Exhibit H (the "Rule 144A Letter") or (ii) there shall be delivered to the
Trustee at the expense of the transferor an Opinion of Counsel that such
transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act. The
Depositor shall provide to any Holder of a Private Certificate and any
prospective transferee designated by any such Holder, information regarding the
related Certificates and the Mortgage Loans and such other information as shall
be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule
144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Certificate without registration thereof
under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule
144A. The Trustee and the Master Servicer shall cooperate with the Depositor in
providing the Rule 144A information referenced in the preceding sentence,
including providing to the Depositor such information regarding the
Certificates, the Mortgage Loans and other matters regarding the Trust Fund as
the Depositor shall reasonably request to meet its obligation under the
preceding sentence. Each Holder of a Private Certificate desiring to effect such
transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Trustee and the
Depositor, the Depositor and the Master Servicer against any liability that may
result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with such
federal and state laws.
No transfer of an ERISA-Restricted Certificate shall be made unless the
Trustee shall have received either (i) a representation from the transferee of
such Certificate acceptable to and in form and substance satisfactory to the
Trustee (in the event such Certificate is a Private Certificate, such
requirement is satisfied only by the Trustee's receipt of a representation
letter from the transferee substantially in the form of Exhibit G-1), to the
effect that such transferee is not an employee benefit plan or arrangement
subject to Section 406 of ERISA or a plan or arrangement subject to Section 4975
of the Code, nor a person acting on behalf of any such plan or arrangement, nor
using the assets of any such plan or arrangement to effect such transfer, (ii)
if the purchaser is an insurance company, a representation in the form of
Exhibit G-2 that (a) the purchaser is an insurance company which is purchasing
such Certificates with funds contained in an "insurance company general account"
(as such term is defined in Section V(e) of Prohibited Transaction Class
Exemption 95-60 ("PTCE 95-60")) and (b) all of the requirements of PTCE 95-60
are met, including the requirement that an ERISA Qualifying Underwriting
applies, to exempt the acquisition and holding of such Certificates and the
transactions in connection with the servicing, management and operation of the
trust from the prohibited transaction rules of ERISA and the Code; or (iii) in
the case of any such ERISA-Restricted Certificate presented for registration in
the name of an employee benefit plan subject to ERISA, or a plan or arrangement
subject to Section 4975 of the Code (or comparable provisions of any subsequent
enactments), or a trustee of any such plan or any other person acting on behalf
of any such plan or arrangement,
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or using such plan's or arrangement's assets, an Opinion of Counsel satisfactory
to the Trustee, which Opinion of Counsel shall not be an expense of either the
Trustee or the Trust Fund, addressed to the Trustee to the effect that the
purchase or holding of such ERISA-Restricted Certificate will not result in the
assets of the Trust Fund being deemed to be "plan assets" and subject to the
prohibited transaction provisions of ERISA and the Code and will not subject the
Trustee to any obligation in addition to those expressly undertaken in this
Agreement or to any liability. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary
herein, any purported transfer of an ERISA-Restricted Certificate to or on
behalf of an employee benefit plan subject to ERISA or to the Code without the
delivery to the Trustee of an Opinion of Counsel satisfactory to the Trustee as
described above shall be void and of no effect.
To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited
to, ERISA), the Trustee shall be under no liability to any Person for any
registration of transfer of any ERISA-Restricted Certificate that is in fact not
permitted by this Section 5.2(b) or for making any payments due on such
Certificate to the Holder thereof or taking any other action with respect to
such Holder under the provisions of this Agreement so long as the transfer was
registered by the Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(c) Each Person who has or who acquires any Ownership Interest in a
Residual Certificate shall be deemed by the acceptance or acquisition of such
Ownership Interest to have agreed to be bound by the following provisions, and
the rights of each Person acquiring any Ownership Interest in a Residual
Certificate are expressly subject to the following provisions:
(i) Each Person holding or acquiring any Ownership Interest
in a Residual Certificate shall be a Permitted Transferee.
(ii) No Ownership Interest in a Residual Certificate may be
registered on the Closing Date or thereafter transferred, and the
Trustee shall not register the Transfer of any Residual Certificate
unless, in addition to the certificates required to be delivered to the
Trustee under subparagraph (b) above, the Trustee shall have been
furnished with an affidavit (a "Transfer Affidavit") of the initial
owner or the proposed transferee in the form attached hereto as Exhibit
E.
(iii) Each Person holding or acquiring any Ownership Interest
in a Residual Certificate shall agree (A) to obtain a Transfer Affidavit
from any other Person to whom such Person attempts to Transfer its
Ownership Interest in a Residual Certificate, (B) to obtain a Transfer
Affidavit from any Person for whom such Person is acting as nominee,
trustee or agent in connection with any Transfer of a Residual
Certificate and (C) not to Transfer its Ownership Interest in a Residual
Certificate or to cause the Transfer of an Ownership Interest in a
Residual Certificate to any other Person if it has actual knowledge that
such Person is not a Permitted Transferee.
(iv) Any attempted or purported Transfer of any Ownership
Interest in a Residual Certificate in violation of the provisions of
this Section 5.2(c) shall be
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absolutely null and void and shall vest no rights in the purported
Transferee. If any purported transferee shall become a Holder of a
Residual Certificate in violation of the provisions of this Section
5.2(c), then the last preceding Permitted Transferee shall be restored
to all rights as Holder thereof retroactive to the date of registration
of Transfer of such Residual Certificate. The Trustee shall be under no
liability to any Person for any registration of Transfer of a Residual
Certificate that is in fact not permitted by Section 5.2(b) and this
Section 5.2(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the
Holder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder
under the provisions of this Agreement so long as the Transfer was
registered after receipt of the related Transfer Affidavit, Transferor
Certificate and either the Rule 144A Letter or the Investment Letter.
The Trustee shall be entitled but not obligated to recover from any
Holder of a Residual Certificate that was in fact not a Permitted
Transferee at the time it became a Holder or, at such subsequent time as
it became other than a Permitted Transferee, all payments made on such
Residual Certificate at and after either such time. Any such payments so
recovered by the Trustee shall be paid and delivered by the Trustee to
the last preceding Permitted Transferee of such Certificate.
(v) The Depositor shall use its best efforts to make
available, upon receipt of written request from the Trustee, all
information necessary to compute any tax imposed under Section 860E(e)
of the Code as a result of a Transfer of an Ownership Interest in a
Residual Certificate to any Holder who is not a Permitted Transferee.
The restrictions on Transfers of a Residual Certificate set forth in
this Section 5.2(c) shall cease to apply (and the applicable portions of the
legend on a Residual Certificate may be deleted) with respect to Transfers
occurring after delivery to the Trustee of an Opinion of Counsel, which Opinion
of Counsel shall not be an expense of the Trust Fund, the Trustee, the Depositor
or the Master Servicer, to the effect that the elimination of such restrictions
will not cause any REMIC created hereunder to fail to qualify as a REMIC at any
time that the Certificates are outstanding or result in the imposition of any
tax on the Trust Fund. Each Person holding or acquiring any Ownership Interest
in a Residual Certificate hereby consents to any amendment of this Agreement
which, based on an Opinion of Counsel furnished to the Trustee, is reasonably
necessary (a) to ensure that the record ownership of, or any beneficial interest
in, a Residual Certificate is not transferred, directly or indirectly, to a
Person that is not a Permitted Transferee and (b) to provide for a means to
compel the Transfer of a Residual Certificate which is held by a Person that is
not a Permitted Transferee to a Holder that is a Permitted Transferee.
(d) The preparation and delivery of all certificates and opinions
referred to above in this Section 5.2 in connection with transfer shall be at
the expense of the parties to such transfers.
(e) Except as provided below, the Book-Entry Certificates shall at
all times remain registered in the name of the Depository or its nominee and at
all times: (i) registration of the Certificates may not be transferred by the
Trustee except to another Depository; (ii) the Depository shall maintain
book-entry records with respect to the Certificate Owners and with respect to
ownership and transfers
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of such Book-Entry Certificates; (iii) ownership and transfers of registration
of the Book-Entry Certificates on the books of the Depository shall be governed
by applicable rules established by the Depository; (iv) the Depository may
collect its usual and customary fees, charges and expenses from its Depository
Participants; (v) the Trustee shall deal with the Depository, Depository
Participants and indirect participating firms as representatives of the
Certificate Owners of the Book-Entry Certificates for purposes of exercising the
rights of holders under this Agreement, and requests and directions for and
votes of such representatives shall not be deemed to be inconsistent if they are
made with respect to different Certificate Owners; and (vi) the Trustee may rely
and shall be fully protected in relying upon information furnished by the
Depository with respect to its Depository Participants and furnished by the
Depository Participants with respect to indirect participating firms and persons
shown on the books of such indirect participating firms as direct or indirect
Certificate Owners.
All transfers by Certificate Owners of Book-Entry Certificates shall be
made in accordance with the procedures established by the Depository Participant
or brokerage firm representing such Certificate Owner. Each Depository
Participant shall only transfer Book-Entry Certificates of Certificate Owners it
represents or of brokerage firms for which it acts as agent in accordance with
the Depository's normal procedures.
If (x) (i) the Depository or the Depositor advises the Trustee in
writing that the Depository is no longer willing or able to properly discharge
its responsibilities as Depository, and (ii) the Trustee or the Depositor is
unable to locate a qualified successor, (y) the Depositor at its option advises
the Trustee in writing that it elects to terminate the book-entry system through
the Depository, or (z) after the occurrence of an Event of Default, Certificate
Owners representing at least 51% of the Class Certificate Balance of the
Book-Entry Certificates together advise the Trustee and the Depository through
the Depository Participants in writing that the continuation of a book-entry
system through the Depository is no longer in the best interests of the
Certificate Owners, the Trustee shall notify all Certificate Owners, through the
Depository, of the occurrence of any such event and of the availability of
definitive, fully-registered Certificates (the "Definitive Certificates") to
Certificate Owners requesting the same. Upon surrender to the Trustee of the
related Class of Certificates by the Depository, accompanied by the instructions
from the Depository for registration, the Trustee shall issue the Definitive
Certificates. Neither the Master Servicer, the Depositor nor the Trustee shall
be liable for any delay in delivery of such instruction and each may
conclusively rely on, and shall be protected in relying on, such instructions.
The Master Servicer shall provide the Trustee with an adequate inventory of
certificates to facilitate the issuance and transfer of Definitive Certificates.
Upon the issuance of Definitive Certificates all references herein to
obligations imposed upon or to be performed by the Depository shall be deemed to
be imposed upon and performed by the Trustee, to the extent applicable with
respect to such Definitive Certificates and the Trustee shall recognize the
Holders of the Definitive Certificates as Certificateholders hereunder; provided
that the Trustee shall not by virtue of its assumption of such obligations
become liable to any party for any act or failure to act of the Depository.
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Section 5.3 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Certificates.
If (a) any mutilated Certificate is surrendered to the Trustee, or the
Trustee receives evidence to its satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft
of any Certificate and (b) there is delivered to the Master Servicer and the
Trustee such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of
them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Trustee that such
Certificate has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Trustee shall
execute, countersign and deliver, in exchange for or in lieu of any such
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Certificate, a new Certificate of like
Class, tenor and Percentage Interest. In connection with the issuance of any new
Certificate under this Section 5.3, the Trustee may require the payment of a sum
sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in
relation thereto and any other expenses (including the fees and expenses of the
Trustee) connected therewith. Any replacement Certificate issued pursuant to
this Section 5.3 shall constitute complete and indefeasible evidence of
ownership, as if originally issued, whether or not the lost, stolen or destroyed
Certificate shall be found at any time.
Section 5.4 Persons Deemed Owners.
The Trustee and any agent of the Trustee may treat the Person in whose
name any Certificate is registered as the owner of such Certificate for the
purpose of receiving distributions as provided in this Agreement and for all
other purposes whatsoever, and neither the Trustee nor any agent of the Trustee
shall be affected by any notice to the contrary.
Section 5.5 Access to List of Certificateholders' Names and
Addresses.
If three or more Certificateholders (a) request such information in
writing from the Trustee, (b) state that such Certificateholders desire to
communicate with other Certificateholders with respect to their rights under
this Agreement or under the Certificates, and (c) provide a copy of the
communication which such Certificateholders propose to transmit, or if the
Depositor or Master Servicer shall request such information in writing from the
Trustee, then the Trustee shall, within ten Business Days after the receipt of
such request, provide the Depositor, the Master Servicer or such
Certificateholders at such recipients' expense the most recent list of the
Certificateholders of such Trust Fund held by the Trustee, if any. The Depositor
and every Certificateholder, by receiving and holding a Certificate, agree that
the Trustee shall not be held accountable by reason of the disclosure of any
such information as to the list of the Certificateholders hereunder, regardless
of the source from which such information was derived.
Section 5.6 Maintenance of Office or Agency.
The Trustee will maintain or cause to be maintained at its expense an
office or offices or agency or agencies in
New York City where Certificates may
be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange. The Trustee initially
designates the office of the Trustee's agent, located at DTC Transfer Agent
Services, 00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx
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10041, Attention: Xxxxx Xxxxx, for such purposes. The Trustee will give prompt
written notice to the Certificateholders of any change in such location of any
such office or agency.
ARTICLE 6
THE DEPOSITOR, THE SERVICER AND [MASTER SERVICER]
Section 6.1 Respective Liabilities of the Depositor, Servicer [and
Master Servicer].
The Depositor, Servicer [and Master Servicer] shall each be liable in
accordance herewith only to the extent of the obligations specifically and
respectively imposed upon and undertaken by them herein.
Section 6.2 Merger or Consolidation of the Depositor, Servicer and
Master Servicer.
The Depositor, Servicer [and Master Servicer] will each keep in full
effect its existence, rights and franchises as a corporation under the laws of
the United States or under the laws of one of the states thereof and will each
obtain and preserve its qualification to do business as a foreign corporation in
each jurisdiction in which such qualification is or shall be necessary to
protect the validity and enforceability of this Agreement, or any of the
Mortgage Loans and to perform its respective duties under this Agreement.
Any Person into which the Depositor, Servicer [or the Master Servicer]
may be merged or consolidated, or any Person resulting from any merger or
consolidation to which the Depositor, Servicer [or the Master Servicer] shall be
a party, or any person succeeding to the business of the Depositor, Servicer [or
the Master Servicer], shall be the successor of the Depositor, Servicer [or the
Master Servicer], as the case may be, hereunder, without the execution or filing
of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto,
anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding; provided, however, that the
successor or surviving Person to the Servicer shall be qualified to sell
mortgage loans to, and to service mortgage loans on behalf of, FNMA or FHLMC.
Section 6.3 Limitation on Liability of the Depositor, the Servicer,
the Master Servicer and Others.
None of the Depositor, the Servicer, [the Master Servicer] or any of the
directors, officers, employees or agents of the Depositor, the Servicer [or the
Master Servicer] shall be under any liability to the Certificateholders for any
action taken or for refraining from the taking of any action in good faith
pursuant to this Agreement, or for errors in judgment; provided, however, that
this provision shall not protect the Depositor, the Servicer, [the Master
Servicer] or any such Person against any breach of representations or warranties
made by it herein or protect the Depositor, the Servicer, [the Master Servicer]
or any such Person from any liability which would otherwise be imposed by
reasons of willful misfeasance, bad faith or negligence in the performance of
duties or by reason of reckless disregard of obligations and duties hereunder.
The Depositor, the Servicer, [the Master Servicer] and any director, officer,
employee or agent of the Depositor, the Servicer [or the Master Servicer] may
rely in good faith on any document of any kind prima facie properly executed and
submitted by any Person respecting any matters arising hereunder. The Depositor,
the Servicer, [the Master Servicer] and any director, officer, employee or agent
of the
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Depositor, the Servicer [or the Master Servicer] shall be indemnified by the
Trust Fund and held harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred in
connection with any audit, controversy or judicial proceeding relating to a
governmental taxing authority or any legal action relating to this Agreement or
the performance thereof, or the Certificates, other than any loss, liability or
expense related to any specific Mortgage Loan or Mortgage Loans (except as any
such loss, liability or expense shall be otherwise reimbursable pursuant to this
Agreement) and any loss, liability or expense incurred by reason of willful
misfeasance, bad faith or negligence in the performance of duties hereunder or
by reason of reckless disregard of obligations and duties hereunder. None of the
Depositor, the Servicer [or the Master Servicer] shall be under any obligation
to appear in, prosecute or defend any legal action that is not incidental to its
respective duties hereunder and which in its opinion may involve it in any
expense or liability; provided, however, that any of the Depositor, the Servicer
[or the Master Servicer] may in its discretion undertake any such action that it
may deem necessary or desirable in respect of this Agreement and the rights and
duties of the parties hereto and interests of the Trustee and the
Certificateholders hereunder. In such event, the legal expenses and costs of
such action and any liability resulting therefrom shall be expenses, costs and
liabilities of the Trust Fund, and the Depositor, the Servicer and [the Master
Servicer] shall be entitled to be reimbursed therefor out of the Collection
Account.
Section 6.4 Limitation on Resignation of Servicer.
The Servicer shall not resign from the obligations and duties hereby
imposed on it except (a) upon appointment of a successor servicer and receipt by
the Trustee of a letter from each Rating Agency that such a resignation and
appointment will not result in a downgrading of the rating of any of the
Certificates, or (b) upon determination that its duties hereunder are no longer
permissible under applicable law. Any such determination under clause (b)
permitting the resignation of the Servicer shall be evidenced by an Opinion of
Counsel to such effect delivered to the Trustee. No such resignation shall
become effective until the Trustee or a successor master servicer shall have
assumed the Servicer's responsibilities, duties, liabilities and obligations
hereunder.
ARTICLE 7
SERVICER DEFAULT
Section 7.1 Events of Default.
"Event of Default," wherever used herein, means any one of the following
events:
(i) any failure by the Servicer to deposit in the Collection
Account or remit to the Trustee any payment required to be made under
the terms of this Agreement, [which
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failure shall continue unremedied for one day after the date upon which
written notice of such failure shall have been given to the Servicer by
the Trustee or the Depositor [or to the Master Servicer] and the Trustee
by the Holders of Certificates having not less than 51% of the Voting
Rights evidenced by the Certificates]; or
(ii) any failure by the Servicer to observe or perform in any
material respect any other of the covenants or agreements on the part of
the Servicer contained in this Agreement, which failure materially
affects the rights of Certificateholders, which failure continues
unremedied for a period of 60 days after the date on which written
notice of such failure shall have been given to the Servicer by the
Trustee, [the Master Servicer], or the Depositor, or to the Servicer and
the Trustee by the Holders of Certificates evidencing not less than 51%
of the Voting Rights evidenced by the Certificates; provided, however,
that the 60-day cure period shall not apply to the initial delivery of
the Mortgage File for Delay Delivery Mortgage Loans nor the failure to
substitute or repurchase in lieu thereof; or
(iii) a decree or order of a court or agency or supervisory
authority having jurisdiction in the premises for the appointment of a
receiver or liquidator in any insolvency, readjustment of debt,
marshalling of assets and liabilities or similar proceedings, or for the
winding-up or liquidation of its affairs, shall have been entered
against the Servicer and such decree or order shall have remained in
force undischarged or unstayed for a period of 60 consecutive days; or
(iv) the Servicer shall consent to the appointment of a
receiver or liquidator in any insolvency, readjustment of debt,
marshalling of assets and liabilities or similar proceedings of or
relating to the Servicer or all or substantially all of the property of
the Servicer; or
(v) the Servicer shall admit in writing its inability to pay
its debts generally as they become due, file a petition to take
advantage of, or commence a voluntary case under, any applicable
insolvency or reorganization statute, make an assignment for the benefit
of its creditors, or voluntarily suspend payment of its obligations.
Upon its obtaining actual knowledge of the occurrence of an Event of
Default, the [Master Servicer] shall promptly deliver to the Trustee, an
Officer's Certificate that an event has occurred that may justify termination of
the Servicer hereunder and describing the circumstances surrounding such event.
Upon determination by the [Master Servicer] that an Event of Default has
occurred, the [Master Servicer] shall promptly deliver to the Trustee an
Officer's Certificate to that effect, and the [Master Servicer] (a) may
terminate the Servicer hereunder, if in its judgment such termination is in the
best interests of the Trust Fund; or (b) shall terminate the Servicer hereunder,
if instructed to do so by the Trustee. The Trustee shall so instruct the [Master
Servicer] if directed to do so by the Holders of Certificates evidencing not
less than 51% of the Voting Rights evidenced by the Certificates exercised in
writing following delivery to
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such Holders by the Trustee of notice of the occurrence of such Event of Default
pursuant to Section 7.2(b).
Upon any such termination, the [Master Servicer] shall enter into a
substitute servicing arrangement with another mortgage loan servicing company
acceptable to the [Master Servicer] and Rating Agency under which such mortgage
loan servicing company shall assume, satisfy, perform and carry out all
liabilities, duties, responsibilities and obligations that are to be, or
otherwise were to have been, satisfied, performed and carried out by the
terminated Servicer hereunder. Until such time as the [Master Servicer] enters
into a substitute servicing agreement with respect to the Mortgage Loans, the
[Master Servicer] shall assume, satisfy, perform and carry out all obligations
which otherwise were to have been satisfied, performed and carried out by the
terminated Servicer. As compensation to the [Master Servicer] for any servicing
obligations fulfilled or assumed by the [Master Servicer], the [Master Servicer]
shall be entitled to any servicing compensation to which the terminated Servicer
would have been entitled if such Servicer had not been terminated.
Notwithstanding any termination of the activities of the Servicer
hereunder, the Servicer shall be entitled to receive, out of any late collection
of a Scheduled Payment on a Mortgage Loan which was due prior to the notice
terminating such Servicer's rights and obligations as Servicer hereunder and
received after such notice, that portion thereof to which such Servicer would
have been entitled pursuant to Sections 3.8(a)(i) through (viii), and any other
amounts payable to such [Master Servicer] hereunder the entitlement to which
arose prior to the termination of its activities hereunder.
Section 7.2 Notification to Certificateholders.
(a) Upon any termination of or appointment of a successor to the
Servicer [or Master Servicer], the Trustee shall give prompt written notice
thereof to Certificateholders and to each Rating Agency.
(b) Within 60 days after the occurrence of any Event of Default, the
Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Certificateholders notice of each such
Event of Default hereunder known to the Trustee, unless such Event of Default
shall have been cured or waived.
ARTICLE 8
CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE
Section 8.1 Duties of Trustee.
The Trustee, prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default of which a
Responsible Officer of the Trustee has actual knowledge and after the curing of
all Events of Default that may have occurred, shall undertake to perform such
duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Agreement. In
case an Event of Default of which a Responsible Officer of the Trustee has
actual knowledge has occurred and remains uncured, the Trustee shall exercise
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of the rights and powers vested in it by this Agreement, and use the same degree
of care and skill in their exercise as a prudent person would exercise or use
under the circumstances in the conduct of such person's own affairs.
The Trustee, upon receipt of all resolutions, certificates, statements,
opinions, reports, documents, orders or other instruments furnished to the
Trustee that are specifically required to be furnished pursuant to any provision
of this Agreement shall examine them to determine whether they are in the form
required by this Agreement; provided, however, that the Trustee shall not be
responsible for the accuracy or content of any such resolution, certificate,
statement, opinion, report, document, order or other instrument. If any such
instrument is found not to conform in any material respect to the requirements
of this Agreement, the Trustee shall notify the Certificateholders of such
instrument in the event that the Trustee, after so requesting, does not receive
a satisfactorily corrected instrument.
No provision of this Agreement 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; provided, however, that:
(i) unless an Event of Default of which a Responsible
Officer of the Trustee has actual knowledge shall have occurred and be
continuing, the duties and obligations of the Trustee shall be
determined solely by the express provisions of this Agreement, the
Trustee shall not be liable except for the performance of such duties
and obligations as are specifically set forth in this Agreement, no
implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Agreement
against the Trustee and the Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the
truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed
therein, upon any certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee and
conforming to the requirements of this Agreement which it believed in
good faith to be genuine and to have been duly executed by the proper
authorities respecting any matters arising hereunder;
(ii) the Trustee shall not be liable for an error of judgment
made in good faith by a Responsible Officer or Responsible Officers of
the Trustee, unless it shall be finally proven that the Trustee was
negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts;
(iii) the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any
action taken, suffered or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in
accordance with the direction of Holders of Certificates evidencing not
less than 25% of the Voting Rights of Certificates 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 Agreement;
(iv) the Trustee shall not be required to expend or risk its
own funds or otherwise incur financial liability in the performance of
any of its duties hereunder or the exercise of any of its rights or
powers if there is reasonable ground for believing that the repayment of
such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not
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assured to it, and none of the provisions contained in this Agreement
shall in any event require the Trustee to perform, or be responsible for
the manner of performance of, any of the obligations of the Master
Servicer under this Agreement except during such time, if any, as the
Trustee shall be the successor to, and be vested with the rights,
duties, powers and privileges of, the Master Servicer; and
(v) without limiting the generality of this Section 8.1, the
Trustee shall have no duty (A) to see to any recording, filing, or
depositing of this Agreement or any agreement referred to herein or any
financing statement or continuation statement evidencing a security
interest, or to see to the maintenance of any such recording or filing
or deposit or to any rerecording, refiling or redepositing of any
thereof, (B) to see to any insurance, (C) to see to the payment or
discharge of any tax, assessment, or other governmental charge or any
lien or encumbrance of any kind owing with respect to, assessed or
levied against, any part of the Trust Fund other than from funds
available in the Distribution Account (D) to confirm or verify the
contents of any reports or certificates of the Servicer delivered to the
Trustee pursuant to this Agreement believed by the Trustee to be genuine
and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties.
Section 8.2 Certain Matters Affecting the Trustee.
Except as otherwise provided in Section 8.1:
(i) the Trustee may request and rely upon and shall be
protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any resolution,
Officers' Certificate, certificate of auditors or any other certificate,
statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, consent, order,
appraisal, bond or other paper or document believed by it to be genuine
and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties and
the Trustee shall have no responsibility to ascertain or confirm the
genuineness of any signature of any such party or parties;
(ii) the Trustee may consult with counsel, financial advisers
or accountants and the advice of any such counsel, financial advisers or
accountants and any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete
authorization and protection in respect of any action taken or suffered
or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in accordance with such
Opinion of Counsel;
(iii) the Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken,
suffered or omitted by it in good faith and believed by it to be
authorized or within the discretion or rights or powers conferred upon
it by this Agreement;
(iv) 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, consent, order,
approval, bond or other paper or document, unless requested in
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writing so to do by Holders of Certificates evidencing not less than 25%
of the Voting Rights allocated to each Class of Certificates; provided,
however, that if the payment within a reasonable time to the Trustee of
the costs, expenses or liabilities likely to be incurred by it in the
making of such investigation is, in the opinion of the Trustee, not
assured to the Trustee by the security afforded to it by the terms of
this Agreement, the Trustee may require indemnity satisfactory to the
Trustee against such cost, expense or liability as a condition to taking
any such action.
(v) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers
hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or
through agents, accountants or attorneys and the Trustee shall not be
responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of such agent,
accountant or attorney appointed by the Trustee with due care;
(vi) the Trustee shall not be required to risk or expend its
own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance
of any of its duties or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers
hereunder if it shall have reasonable grounds for believing that
repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or
liability is not assured to it;
(vii) the Trustee shall not be liable for any loss on any
investment of funds pursuant to this Agreement (other than as issuer of
the investment security);
(viii) the Trustee shall not be deemed to have knowledge of an
Event of Default until a Responsible Officer of the Trustee shall have
received written notice thereof and in the absence of such notice, the
Trustee may conclusively assume that there is no Event of Default;
(ix) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any
of the trusts, rights or powers vested in it by this Agreement or to
institute, conduct or defend any litigation hereunder or in relation
hereto at the request, order or direction of any of the
Certificateholders, pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, unless
such Certificateholders shall have offered to the Trustee reasonable
security or indemnity satisfactory to the Trustee against the costs,
expenses and liabilities which may be incurred therein or thereby;
(x) the right of the Trustee to perform any discretionary
act enumerated in this Agreement shall not be construed as a duty, and
the Trustee shall not be answerable for other than its negligence or
willful misconduct in the performance of such act; and
(xi) the Trustee shall not be required to give any bond or
surety in respect of the execution of the Trust Fund created hereby or
the powers granted hereunder.
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Section 8.3 Trustee Not Liable for Certificates or Mortgage Loans.
The recitals contained herein and in the Certificates shall be taken as
the statements of the Depositor, the Depositor or Master Servicer, as the case
may be, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for their correctness. The
Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this
Agreement or of the Certificates or of any Mortgage Loan or related document
other than with respect to the Trustee's execution and counter-signature of the
Certificates. The Trustee shall not be accountable for the use or application by
the Depositor or the Master Servicer of any funds paid to the Depositor or the
Master Servicer in respect of the Mortgage Loans or deposited in or withdrawn
from the Collection Account by the Depositor or the Master Servicer.
Section 8.4 Trustee May Own Certificates.
The Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner
or pledgee of Certificates with the same rights as it would have if it were not
the Trustee.
Section 8.5 Trustee's Fees and Expenses.
The Trustee, as compensation for its activities prior to making the
distributions pursuant to Section 4.1 hereunder, shall be entitled to deduct
from the Master Servicing Fee on each Distribution Date an amount equal to the
Trustee Fee and reasonable expenses for such Distribution Date. Xxxxx shall
indemnify and hold harmless the Trustee, the Paying Agent or the Custodian and
any director, officer, employee or agent thereof against any loss, liability or
expense, including reasonable attorney's fees, incurred in connection with or
arising out of or in connection with this Agreement, any custodial agreement or
the Certificates, including, but not limited to, any such loss, liability or
expense incurred in connection with any legal action against the Trust or the
Trustee, the Paying Agent or the Custodian or any director, officer, employee or
agent thereof, or the performance of any of the duties of the Trustee or the
Paying Agent under this Agreement or the duties of the Custodian under any
custodial agreement (including, but not limited to, the execution and delivery
of documents in connection with a foreclosure sale, trustee's sale, or deed in
lieu of foreclosure of a Mortgage Loan, including, but not, limited to, any deed
of reconveyance, any substitution of trustee documents or any other documents to
release, satisfy, cancel or discharge any Mortgage Loan) other than any loss,
liability or expense incurred by reason of the willful misfeasance, bad faith or
negligence in the performance of the duties under this Agreement or by reason of
the willful misfeasance, bad faith or gross negligence of the Custodian under
any custodial agreement (including specifically any loss, liability or expense
incurred by the Custodian by reason of simple negligence under any custodial
agreement). The provisions of this Section 8.5 shall survive the resignation or
removal of the Trustee or the Paying Agent and the termination of this Agreement
and the resignation or removal of the Custodian under any custodial agreement.
The Trustee may receive an additional indemnity from a party acceptable to the
Trustee.
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Section 8.6 Eligibility Requirements for Trustee.
The Trustee hereunder shall at all times be a corporation or association
organized and doing business under the laws of a state or the United States of
America, authorized under such laws to exercise corporate trust powers, having a
combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000, subject to super-vision or
examination by federal or state authority and with a credit rating which would
not cause either of the Rating Agencies to reduce their respective then current
ratings of the Certificates (or having provided such security from time to time
as is sufficient to avoid such reduction). If such corporation or association
publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the
requirements of the aforesaid supervising or examining authority, then for the
purposes of this Section 8.6 the combined capital and surplus of such
corporation or association shall be deemed to be its combined capital and
surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. In
case at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the
provisions of this Section 8.6, the Trustee shall resign immediately in the
manner and with the effect specified in Section 8.7 hereof. The entity serving
as Trustee may have normal banking and trust relationships with the Depositor
and its affiliates or the Master Servicer and its affiliates; provided, however,
that such entity cannot be an affiliate of the Master Servicer other than the
Trustee in its role as successor to the Master Servicer.
Section 8.7 Resignation and Removal of Trustee.
The Trustee may at any time resign and be discharged from the trusts
hereby created by giving written notice of resignation to the Depositor and the
Master Servicer and each Rating Agency not less than 60 days before the date
specified in such notice when, subject to Section 8.8, such resignation is to
take effect, and acceptance by a successor trustee in accordance with Section
8.8 meeting the qualifications set forth in Section 8.6. If no successor trustee
meeting such qualifications shall have been so appointed and have accepted
appointment within 30 days after the giving of such notice or resignation, the
resigning Trustee may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the
appointment of a successor trustee.
If at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with
the provisions of Section 8.6 hereof and shall fail to resign after written
request thereto by the Depositor, or if at any time the Trustee shall become
incapable of acting, or shall be adjudged as 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, or a tax
is imposed with respect to the Trust Fund by any state in which the Trustee or
the Trust Fund is located and the imposition of such tax would be avoided by the
appointment of a different trustee, then the Depositor or the Master Servicer
may remove the Trustee and appoint a successor trustee by written instrument, in
triplicate, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the Trustee, one
copy of which shall be delivered to the Master Servicer and one copy to the
successor trustee.
The Holders of Certificates entitled to at least 51% of the Voting
Rights may at any time remove the Trustee and appoint a successor trustee by
written instrument or instruments, in
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triplicate, signed by such Holders or their attorneys-in-fact duly authorized,
one complete set of which instruments shall be delivered by the successor
Trustee to the Master Servicer, one complete set to the Trustee so removed and
one complete set to the successor so appointed. Notice of any removal of the
Trustee shall be given to each Rating Agency by the Successor Trustee.
Any resignation or removal of the Trustee and appointment of a successor
trustee pursuant to any of the provisions of this Section 8.7 shall become
effective upon acceptance of appointment by the successor trustee as provided in
Section 8.8 hereof.
Section 8.8 Successor Trustee.
Any successor trustee appointed as provided in Section 8.7 hereof shall
execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Depositor and to its predecessor trustee
and the Master Servicer an instrument accepting such appointment hereunder and
thereupon the resignation or removal of the predecessor trustee shall become
effective and such successor trustee, without any further act, deed or
conveyance, shall become fully vested with all the rights, powers, duties and
obligations of its predecessor hereunder, with the like effect as if originally
named as trustee herein. The Depositor, the Master Servicer and the predecessor
trustee shall execute and deliver such instruments and do such other things as
may reasonably be required for more fully and certainly vesting and confirming
in the successor trustee all such rights, powers, duties, and obligations.
No successor trustee shall accept appointment as provided in this
Section 8.8 unless at the time of such acceptance such successor trustee shall
be eligible under the provisions of Section 8.6 hereof and its appointment shall
not adversely affect the then current rating of the Certificates.
Upon acceptance of appointment by a successor trustee as provided in
this Section 8.8, the Depositor shall mail notice of the succession of such
trustee hereunder to all Holders of Certificates. If the Depositor fails to mail
such notice within 10 days after acceptance of appointment by the successor
trustee, the successor trustee shall cause such notice to be mailed at the
expense of the Depositor.
Section 8.9 Merger or Consolidation of Trustee.
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 the business of the Trustee, shall be the successor of
the Trustee hereunder, provided that such corporation shall be eligible under
the provisions of Section 8.6 hereof without the execution or filing of any
paper or further act on the part of any of the parties hereto, anything herein
to the contrary notwithstanding.
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Section 8.10 Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee.
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement, at any time, for
the purpose of meeting any legal requirements of any jurisdiction in which any
part of the Trust Fund or property securing any Mortgage Note may at the time be
located, the Master Servicer and the Trustee acting jointly shall have the power
and shall execute and deliver all instruments to appoint one or more Persons
approved by the Trustee to act as co-trustee or co-trustees jointly with the
Trustee, or separate trustee or separate trustees, of all or any part of the
Trust Fund, and to vest in such Person or Persons, in such capacity and for the
benefit of the Certificateholders, such title to the Trust Fund or any part
thereof, whichever is applicable, and, subject to the other provisions of this
Section 8.10, such powers, duties, obligations, rights and trusts as the Master
Servicer and the Trustee may consider necessary or desirable. If the Master
Servicer shall not have joined in such appointment within 15 days after the
receipt by it of a request to do so, or in the case an Event of Default shall
have occurred and be continuing, the Trustee alone shall have the power to make
such appointment. No co-trustee or separate trustee hereunder shall be required
to meet the terms of eligibility as a successor trustee under Section 8.6 and no
notice to Certificateholders of the appointment of any co-trustee or separate
trustee shall be required under Section 8.8.
Every separate trustee and co-trustee shall, to the extent permitted by
law, be appointed and act subject to the following provisions and conditions:
(i) To the extent necessary to effectuate the purposes of
this Section 8.10, all rights, powers, duties and obligations conferred
or imposed upon the Trustee shall be conferred or imposed upon and
exercised or performed by the Trustee and such separate trustee or
co-trustee jointly (it being understood that such separate trustee or
co-trustee is not authorized to act separately without the Trustee
joining in such act), except to the extent that under any law of any
jurisdiction in which any particular act or acts are to be performed
(whether as Trustee hereunder or as successor to the Master Servicer
hereunder), the Trustee shall be incompetent or unqualified to perform
such act or acts, in which event such rights, powers, duties and
obligations (including the holding of title to the applicable Trust Fund
or any portion thereof in any such jurisdiction) shall be exercised and
performed singly by such separate trustee or co-trustee, but solely at
the direction of the Trustee;
(ii) No trustee hereunder shall be held personally liable by
reason of any act or omission of any other trustee hereunder and such
appointment shall not, and shall not be deemed to, constitute any such
separate trustee or co-trustee as agent of the Trustee;
(iii) The Trustee may at any time accept the resignation of or
remove any separate trustee or co-trustee; and
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(iv) The Master Servicer, and not the Trustee, shall be
liable for the payment of reasonable compensation, reimbursement and
indemnification to any such separate trustee or co-trustee.
Any notice, request or other writing given to the Trustee shall be
deemed to have been given to each of the separate trustees and co-trustees, when
and as effectively as if given to each of them. Every instrument appointing any
separate trustee or co-trustee shall refer to this Agreement and the conditions
of this Article VIII. Each separate trustee and co-trustee, upon its acceptance
of the trusts conferred, shall be vested with the estates or property specified
in its instrument of appointment, either jointly with the Trustee or separately,
as may be provided therein, subject to all the provisions of this Agreement,
specifically including every provision of this Agreement relating to the conduct
of, affecting the liability of, or affording protection to, the Trustee. Every
such instrument shall be filed with the Trustee and a copy thereof given to the
Master Servicer and the Depositor.
Any separate trustee or co-trustee may, at any time, constitute the
Trustee its agent or attorney-in-fact, with full power and authority, to the
extent not prohibited by law, to do any lawful act under or in respect of this
Agreement on its behalf and in its name. If any separate trustee or co-trustee
shall die, become incapable of acting, resign or be removed, all of its estates,
properties, rights, remedies and trusts shall vest in and be exercised by the
Trustee, to the extent permitted by law, without the appointment of a new or
successor trustee.
Section 8.11 Tax Matters.
It is intended that the assets with respect to which the REMIC elections
are to be made, as set forth in Schedule III, shall constitute, and that the
conduct of matters relating to such assets shall be such as to qualify such
assets as REMICs as defined in and in accordance with the REMIC Provisions. In
furtherance of such intention, the Master Servicer covenants and agrees that it
shall act as agent (and the Master Servicer is hereby appointed to act as agent)
on behalf of each such REMIC and that in such capacity it shall: (a) prepare and
file, or cause to be prepared and filed, in a timely manner, a U.S. Real Estate
Mortgage Investment Conduit Income Tax Return (Form 1066 or any successor form
adopted by the Internal Revenue Service) and prepare and file or cause to be
prepared and filed with the Internal Revenue Service and applicable state or
local tax authorities income tax or information returns for each taxable year
with respect to each such REMIC, containing such information and at the times
and in the manner as may be required by the Code or state or local tax laws,
regulations, or rules, and furnish or cause to be furnished to
Certificateholders the schedules, statements or information at such times and in
such manner as may be required thereby; (b) within thirty days of the Closing
Date, furnish or cause to be furnished to the Internal Revenue Service, on Forms
8811 or as otherwise may be required by the Code, the name, title, address, and
telephone number of the person that the Holders of the Certificates may contact
for tax information relating thereto, together with such additional information
as may be required by such Form, and update such information at the time or
times in the manner required by the Code; (c) make or cause to be made REMIC
elections as directed in Schedule III on the federal tax returns for each such
REMIC's first taxable year (and, if
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necessary, under applicable state law); (d) prepare and forward, or cause to be
prepared and forwarded, to the Certificateholders and to the Internal Revenue
Service and, if necessary, state tax authorities, all information returns and
reports as and when required to be provided to them in accordance with the REMIC
Provisions, including without limitation, the calculation of any original issue
discount using the prepayment assumption; (e) provide information necessary for
the computation of tax imposed on the transfer of a Residual Certificate to a
Person that is not a Permitted Transferee, or an agent (including a broker,
nominee or other middleman) of a Non-Permitted Transferee, or a pass-through
entity in which a Non-Permitted Transferee is the record holder of an interest
(the reasonable cost of computing and furnishing such information may be charged
to the Person liable for such tax); (f) to the extent that they are under its
control conduct matters relating to such assets at all times that any
Certificates are outstanding so as to maintain the status of each REMIC created
hereunder under the REMIC Provisions; (g) not knowingly or intentionally take
any action or omit to take any action that would cause the termination of REMIC
status or result in the imposition of tax on any REMIC; (h) pay the amount of
any federal or state tax, including prohibited transaction taxes as described
below, imposed on any such REMIC prior to its termination when and as the same
shall be due and payable (but such obligation shall not prevent the Master
Servicer or any other appropriate Person from contesting any such tax in
appropriate proceedings and shall not prevent the Master Servicer from
withholding payment of such tax, if permitted by law, pending the outcome of
such proceedings); (i) ensure that federal, state or local income tax or
information returns shall be signed by the Trustee or such other person as may
be required to sign such returns by the Code or state or local laws, regulations
or rules; (j) maintain records relating to any such REMIC, including but not
limited to the income, expenses, assets and liabilities thereof and the fair
market value and adjusted basis of the assets determined at such intervals as
may be required by the Code, as may be necessary to prepare the foregoing
returns, schedules, statements or information; and (k) as and when necessary and
appropriate, represent any such REMIC in any administrative or judicial
proceedings relating to an examination or audit by any governmental taxing
authority, request an administrative adjustment as to any taxable year of any
such REMIC, enter into settlement agreements with any governmental taxing
agency, extend any statute of limitations relating to any tax item of any such
REMIC, and otherwise act on behalf of any such REMIC in relation to any tax
matter or controversy involving it.
To enable the [Master Servicer] to perform its duties as set forth
herein, the Depositor shall provide, or cause to be provided, to the [Master
Servicer] within ten (10) days after the Closing Date all information or data
that the [Master Servicer] requests in writing and determines to be relevant for
tax purposes to the valuations and offering prices of the Certificates,
including, without limitation, the price, yield, prepayment assumption and
projected cash flows of the Certificates and the Mortgage Loans. Thereafter, the
Depositor shall provide to the [Master Servicer] promptly upon written request
therefor, any such additional information or data that the [Master Servicer]
may, from time to time, reasonably request in order to enable the [Master
Servicer] to perform its duties as set forth herein. The Depositor hereby
indemnifies the [Master Servicer] for any losses, liabilities, damages, claims
or expenses of the Master Servicer arising from any errors or miscalculations of
the [Master Servicer] that result from any failure of the
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Depositor to provide, or to cause to be provided, accurate information or data
to the [Master Servicer] on a timely basis.
Section 8.12 Periodic Filings.
The Trustee shall prepare, execute and file all periodic reports
required under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 in conformity with the terms
of the "no-action" relief granted by the SEC to issuers of asset-backed
securities such as the Certificates. In connection with the preparation and
filing of such periodic reports, the Depositor [and the Master Servicer] shall
timely provide to the Trustee all material information available to them which
is required to be included in such reports and not known to them to be in the
possession of the Trustee and such other information as the Trustee reasonably
may request from either of them and otherwise reasonably shall cooperate with
the Trustee. The Trustee shall have no liability with respect to any failure to
properly prepare or file such periodic reports resulting from or relating to the
Trustee's inability or failure to obtain any information not resulting from its
own negligence or willful misconduct.
ARTICLE 9
TERMINATION
Section 9.1 Termination upon Liquidation or Purchase of all Mortgage
Loans.
(a) Subject to Section 9.3, the obligations and responsibilities of
the Depositor, the Master Servicer and the Trustee created hereby with respect
to the Trust Fund shall terminate upon the earlier of:
(i) the purchase by the [Master Servicer] or its designee of
all Mortgage Loans (including REO Properties not otherwise disposed of
pursuant to Section 3.11(i)) remaining in the Trust Fund at a price
equal to the sum of (A) 100% of the Stated Principal Balance of each
Mortgage Loan that is not a Nonrecoverable Mortgage Loan; (B) the
Projected Net Liquidation Value of each Nonrecoverable Mortgage Loan
(not including any REO), and (C) the lesser of (x) the appraised value
of any REO Property as determined by a real estate broker meeting the
qualifications, and applying broker's price opinion methodology,
generally acceptable to residential mortgage servicers, or other
property valuation opinion methodology customarily used by residential
mortgage servicers with respect to defaulted loans and (y) the Stated
Principal Balance of each Mortgage Loan related to any REO Property. In
addition, such purchase price shall include with respect to the Mortgage
Loans (including REO Properties) accrued and unpaid interest thereon at
the applicable Net Rate, except to the extent the Servicer was not or
would not be required to make a P&I Advance hereunder; and
(ii) the later of (A) the maturity or other liquidation (or
any Advance with respect thereto) of the last Mortgage Loan remaining in
the Trust Fund and the
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disposition of all REO Property and (B) the distribution to
Certificateholders of all amounts required to be distributed to them
pursuant to this Agreement. In no event shall the trusts created hereby
continue beyond the earlier of (i) the expiration of 21 years from the
death of the survivor of the descendants of Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx, the late
Ambassador of the United States to the Court of St. James's, living on
the date hereof, and (ii) the Latest Possible Maturity Date.
The right to purchase all Mortgage Loans and REO Properties pursuant to
clause (i) above shall be conditioned upon the Pool Principal Balance, at the
time of any such repurchase, aggregating less than ten percent of the Assumed
Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date.
(b) With respect to any purchase pursuant to subsection (a), upon
deposit of the price determined pursuant to subsection (a)(i) in the
Distribution Account, the Trustee shall release or cause to be released to the
purchaser of each such Mortgage Loan the related Mortgage File and shall execute
and deliver such instruments of transfer or assignment prepared by the purchaser
of such Mortgage Loan (including appropriate instruments with respect to any REO
Property), in each case without recourse, as shall be necessary to vest in the
purchaser of such Mortgage Loan any Mortgage Loan sold pursuant hereto, and the
purchaser of such Mortgage Loan shall succeed to all the Trustee's right, title
and interest in and to such Mortgage Loan and all security and documents related
thereto. Such assignment shall be an assignment outright and not for security.
The purchaser of such Mortgage Loan shall thereupon own such Mortgage Loan, and
all security and documents, free of any further obligation to the Trustee or the
Certificateholders with respect thereto.
Section 9.2 Final Distribution on the Certificates.
If on any Determination Date, the [Master Servicer] determines that
there are no Outstanding Mortgage Loans and no other funds or assets in the
Trust Fund other than the funds in the Collection Account, the [Master Servicer]
shall direct the Trustee promptly to send a final distribution notice to each
Certificateholder. If the Master Servicer elects to terminate the Trust Fund
pursuant to clause (a) of Section 9.1, at least 20 days prior to the date notice
is to be mailed to the affected Certificateholders, the [Master Servicer] shall
notify the Depositor and the Trustee of the date the [Master Servicer] intends
to terminate the Trust Fund and of the applicable repurchase price of the
Mortgage Loans and REO Properties.
Notice of any termination of the Trust Fund, specifying the Distribution
Date on which Certificateholders may surrender their Certificates for payment of
the final distribution and cancellation, shall be given promptly by the Trustee
by letter to Certificateholders mailed not earlier than the 10th day and no
later than the 15th day of the month next preceding the month of such final
distribution. Any such notice shall specify (a) the Distribution Date upon which
final distribution on the Certificates will be made upon presentation and
surrender of Certificates at the office therein designated, (b) the amount of
such final distribution, (c) the location of the office or agency at which such
presentation and surrender must be made, and (d) that the Record
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Date otherwise applicable to such Distribution Date is not applicable,
distributions being made only upon presentation and surrender of the
Certificates at the office therein specified. The Master Servicer will give such
notice to each Rating Agency at the time such notice is given to
Certificateholders.
In the event such notice is given, the [Master Servicer] shall cause all
funds in the Collection Account to be remitted to the Trustee for deposit in the
Distribution Account on the Business Day prior to the applicable Distribution
Date in an amount equal to the final distribution in respect of the
Certificates. Upon such final deposit with respect to the Trust Fund and the
receipt by the Trustee of a Request for Release therefor, the Trustee shall
promptly release to the [Master Servicer] the Mortgage Files for the Mortgage
Loans.
Upon presentation and surrender of the Certificates, the Trustee shall
cause to be distributed to the Certificateholders of each Class, in the order
set forth in Section 4.2 hereof, on the final Distribution Date, in the case of
the Certificateholders, in proportion to their respective Percentage Interests,
with respect to Certificateholders of the same Class, an amount equal to (i) as
to each Class of Regular Certificates, the Class Certificate Balance thereof
plus accrued interest thereon (or on their Notional Amount, if applicable) in
the case of an interest bearing Certificate, and (ii) as to the Residual
Certificates, the amount, if any, which remains on deposit in the Distribution
Account (other than the amounts retained to meet claims) after application
pursuant to clause (i) above.
In the event that any affected Certificateholders shall not surrender
Certificates for cancellation within six months after the date specified in the
above mentioned written notice, the Trustee shall give a second written notice
to the remaining Certificateholders to surrender their Certificates for
cancellation and receive the final distribution with respect thereto. If within
six months after the second notice all the applicable Certificates shall not
have been surrendered for cancellation, the Trustee may take appropriate steps,
or may appoint an agent to take appropriate steps, to contact the remaining
Certificateholders concerning surrender of their Certificates, and the cost
thereof shall be paid out of the funds and other assets which remain a part of
the Trust Fund. If within one year after the second notice all Certificates
shall not have been surrendered for cancellation, the holder of each of the
Class R Certificates shall be entitled to all unclaimed funds and other assets
of the REMICs held for distribution to such Certificateholders, which remain
subject hereto.
Section 9.3 Additional Termination Requirements.
(a) In the event the [Master Servicer] exercises its purchase option
as provided in Section 9.1, the Trust Fund shall be terminated in accordance
with the following additional requirements, unless the Trustee has been supplied
with an Opinion of Counsel, at the expense of the Master Servicer, to the effect
that the failure to comply with the requirements of this Section 9.3 will not
(i) result in the imposition of taxes on "prohibited transactions" on any REMIC
as defined in section 860F of the Code, or (ii) cause any REMIC to fail to
qualify as a REMIC at any time that any Certificates are outstanding:
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(i) The Trustee shall sell all of the assets that constitute
the Trust Fund for cash as provided in Section 9.01(a)(i), and, within
90 days of such sale, shall distribute to (or credit to the account of)
the Holders of the Certificates the proceeds of such sale together with
other cash on hand (less amounts retained to meet claims) in complete
liquidation of the Trust Fund and each REMIC created hereunder; and
(ii) The Trustee shall attach a statement to the final
federal income tax return for each REMIC created hereunder stating that
pursuant to Treasury Regulation Section 1.860F-1, the first day of the
90-day liquidation period for each such REMIC was the date on which the
Trustee sold the assets of the Trust Fund pursuant to Section
9.01(a)(i).
(b) By their acceptance of the Certificates, the Holders thereof
hereby authorize the Trustee to undertake the above-described actions.
ARTICLE 10
ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS
BY THE MASTER SERVICER
Section 10.1 Duties of the Master Servicer.
(a) The Certificateholders, by their purchase and acceptance of the
Certificates, appoint ___________________. as Master Servicer. For and on behalf
of the Depositor, the Trustee and the Certificateholders, the Master Servicer
shall master service the Mortgage Loans in accordance with the provisions of
this Agreement.
(b) The Master Servicer shall supervise and provide oversight of the
Servicer's performance of its obligations hereunder. The Master Servicer shall,
for the benefit of Certificateholders, use its reasonable best efforts to
enforce the obligations of the Servicer hereunder, and, upon its obtaining
actual knowledge of an Event of Default, shall take such action as is required
by Section 7.1.
(c) To the extent the Servicer defaults in its obligation to timely
make an P&I Advance required hereunder, upon notice of such failure, the Master
Servicer shall be required to make such P&I Advance by the related Distribution
Date. All rights of reimbursement otherwise available to the Servicer hereunder
in respect of any Advance shall be fully available to the Master Servicer.
(d) The Master Servicer shall, in the manner and at such times
specified, prepare and furnish the reports described in Sections 4.4 and 4.5
hereof.
Section 10.2 Compensation to the Master Servicer.
The Master Servicer shall be entitled to the Master Servicing Fee on
each Distribution Date from amounts on deposit in the Master Servicer Custodial
Account. If, on any Distribution
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Date such fee is not distributed as provided herein, the Master Servicer shall
be entitled to direct the Trustee to pay the Master Servicing Fee to the Master
Servicer by withdrawal from the Distribution Account. The Master Servicer shall
be entitled to deposit account earnings as provided in Section 3.5 as additional
master servicing compensation.
Section 10.3 Termination of Master Servicer; Trustee to Act.
Each of the following shall constitute an event of default by the Master
Servicer (a "Master Servicer Event of Default") of its obligations hereunder:
(a) any failure of the Master Servicer to remit to the Trustee any
payment required to be made to the Trustee for the benefit of Certificateholders
under the terms of this Agreement within five days of the due date therefor;
(b) the Master Servicer shall fail duly to observe or perform in any
material respect any of its covenants or agreements (other than its obligation
to make an Advance) contained herein and such failure shall continue unremedied
for a period of 30 days after the date on which written notice of such failure,
requiring the same to be remedied, shall have been given to the Master Servicer
by the Trustee or to the Master Servicer and the Trustee by the Holders of
Certificates entitled to at least 51% of the Voting Rights; or
(c) a decree or order of a court or agency or supervisory authority
having jurisdiction in the premises in an involuntary case under any present or
future federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law or the appointment
of a conservator or receiver or liquidator in any insolvency, readjustment of
debt, marshaling of assets and 1iabilities or similar proceeding, or for the
winding-up or liquidation of its affairs, shall have been entered against the
Master Servicer and such decree or order shall have remained in force
undischarged and unstayed for a period of 60 days; or
(d) the Master Servicer shall consent to the appointment of a
conservator or receiver or liquidator in any insolvency, readjustment of debt,
marshaling of assets and liabilities or similar proceeding of or relating to the
Master Servicer or relating to all or substantially all its property; or
(e) the Master Servicer shall admit in writing its inability to pay
its debts generally as they become due, file a petition to take advantage of any
applicable insolvency or reorganization statute, make an assignment for the
benefit of its creditors or voluntarily suspend payment of its obligations.
The rights and obligations of the Master Servicer under this Agreement
may be terminated only upon the occurrence of a Master Servicer Event of
Default. If a Master Servicer Event of Default described in clauses (a) through
(d) of this Section 10.3 shall occur, then, and in each and every such case, so
long as such Master Servicer Event of Default shall not have been remedied, the
Trustee may, and at the direction of the Holders of Certificates entitled to at
least 51% of the Voting Rights, the Trustee shall, by notice in writing to the
Master Servicer,
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terminate all the rights and obligations of the Master Servicer hereunder, other
than its rights as a Certificateholder. If a Master Servicer Event of Default
described in clause (e) of this Section 10.3 shall occur, the Trustee may
terminate, by notice in writing to the Master Servicer, all the rights and
obligations of the Master Servicer hereunder, other than its rights as a
Certificateholder. On and after the receipt by the Master Servicer of such
written notice, all authority and power of the Master Servicer hereunder,
whether with respect to the Certificates (other than as a Holder thereof) or the
Mortgage Loans or otherwise, shall, to the maximum extent permitted by law, pass
to and be vested in the Trustee pursuant to and under this Section 10.3
(provided, however, that the Master Servicer shall continue to be entitled to
receive all amounts accrued or owing to it hereunder on or prior to the date of
such termination. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Trustee
is hereby authorized and empowered to execute and deliver on behalf of and at
the expense of the Master Servicer, as the Master Servicer's attorney-in-fact or
otherwise, any and all documents and other instruments, and to do or accomplish
all other acts or things that in the Trustee's sole and absolute judgment may be
necessary or appropriate, to effect such termination. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, upon any such termination the Master Servicer shall do all things
reasonably requested by the Trustee to effect the termination of the Master
Servicer's responsibilities, rights and powers hereunder, and the transfer
thereof to the Trustee, including, but not limited to, promptly providing to the
Trustee (and in no event later than ten Business Days subsequent to such notice)
all documents and records electronic and otherwise reasonably requested by the
Trustee to enable the Trustee or its designee to assume and carry out the duties
and obligations that otherwise were to have been performed and carried out by
the Master Servicer but for such termination.
As successor Master Xxxxxxxx, the Trustee shall be entitled to the fees
to which the Master Servicer would have been entitled if the Master Servicer had
continued to act as such. The Trustee shall also, as successor Master Xxxxxxxx,
be entitled to all the protections and indemnification afforded to the Master
Servicer hereunder.
Notwithstanding the above, upon the occurrence of a Master Servicer
Event of Default, if the Trustee shall be unwilling so to act, or shall, if it
is unable so to act or, if the Holders of Certificates entitled to at least 51%
of the Voting Rights so request in writing to the Trustee, promptly appoint, or
petition a court of competent jurisdiction to appoint, any established mortgage
loan servicing institution acceptable to each Rating Agency and having a net
worth of not less than $15,000,000 as the successor to the Master Servicer. No
appointment of a successor to the Master Servicer shall be effective until the
assumption by such successor of all future responsibilities, duties and
liabilities of the Master Servicer hereunder. Pending appointment of a successor
to the Master Servicer, the Trustee or an affiliate shall, to the maximum extent
permitted by law, act in such capacity as hereinabove provided.
In connection with any such appointment and assumption described herein,
the Trustee may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor
out of payments received on the assets included in .the Trust Fund as it and
such successor shall agree; provided, however, that no such compensation shall
be in excess of that permitted the Master Servicer hereunder.
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The Trustee and such successor shall take such action, consistent with this
Agreement, as shall be necessary to effectuate any such succession.
Section 10.4 Notification to Certificateholders.
Upon any termination pursuant to Section 10.3 hereof, or any appointment
of a successor to the Master Servicer, the Trustee shall give prompt written
notice thereof to the Certificateholders at their respective addresses appearing
in the Certificate Register.
ARTICLE 11
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Section 11.1 Amendment.
This Agreement may be amended from time to time by the Depositor,
Servicer, the Seller, the [Master] Servicer and the Trustee without the consent
of any of the Certificateholders (i) to cure any ambiguity or mistake, (ii) to
cause the provisions herein to conform to or be consistent with or in
furtherance of the statements made with respect to the Certificates, the Trust
Fund or this Agreement in any disclosure document pursuant to which any
Certificates were offered; to correct any defective provision herein or to
supplement any provision herein which may be inconsistent with any other
provision herein, (iii) to add to the duties of the Depositor, the Servicer or
the [Master] Servicer, (iv) to add any other provisions with respect to matters
or questions arising hereunder or (v) to modify, alter, amend, add to or rescind
any of the terms or provisions contained in this Agreement; provided that any
action pursuant to clauses (iv) or (v) above shall not, as evidenced by an
Opinion of Counsel delivered to the Trustee (which Opinion of Counsel shall not
be an expense of the Trustee or the Trust Fund), adversely affect in any
material respect the interests of any Certificateholder; provided, however, that
the amendment shall not be deemed to adversely affect in any material respect
the interests of the Certificateholders if the Person requesting the amendment
obtains a letter from each Rating Agency stating that the amendment would not
result in the downgrading or withdrawal of the respective ratings then assigned
to the Certificates; it being understood and agreed that any such letter in and
of itself will not represent a determination as to the materiality of any such
amendment and will represent a determination only as to the credit issues
affecting any such rating. The Trustee, Servicer, the Seller, the Depositor and
the Master Servicer also may at any time and from time to time amend this
Agreement without the consent of the Certificateholders to modify, eliminate or
add to any of its provisions to such extent as shall be necessary or helpful to
(i) maintain the qualification of each REMIC created hereunder as a REMIC under
the Code, (ii) avoid or minimize the risk of the imposition of any tax on any
such REMIC pursuant to the Code that would be a claim at any time prior to the
final redemption of the Certificates or (iii) comply with any other requirements
of the Code, provided that the Trustee have been provided an Opinion of Counsel,
which opinion shall be an expense of the party requesting such opinion but in
any case shall not be an expense of the Trustee or the Trust Fund, to the effect
that such action is necessary or helpful to, as applicable, (i) maintain such
qualification, (ii) avoid or
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minimize the risk of the imposition of such a tax or (iii) comply with any such
requirements of the Code.
This Agreement may also be amended from time to time by the Depositor,
Servicer, the Seller, the Master Servicer and the Trustee with the consent of
the Holders of a Majority in Interest of each Class of Certificates affected
thereby for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or
eliminating any of the provisions of this Agreement or of modifying in any
manner the rights of the Holders of Certificates; provided, however, that no
such amendment shall (i) reduce in any manner the amount of, or delay the timing
of, payments required to be distributed on any Certificate without the consent
of the Holder of such Certificate, (ii) adversely affect in any material respect
the interests of the Holders of any Class of Certificates in a manner other than
as described in (i), without the consent of the Holders of Certificates of such
Class evidencing, as to such Class, Percentage Interests aggregating 66%, or
(iii) reduce the aforesaid percentages of Certificates the Holders of which are
required to consent to any such amendment, without the consent of the Holders of
all such Certificates then outstanding.
Notwithstanding any contrary provision of this Agreement, the Trustee
shall not consent to any amendment to this Agreement unless it shall have first
received an Opinion of Counsel, which opinion shall not be an expense of the
Trustee or the Trust Fund, to the effect that such amendment will not cause the
imposition of any tax on any REMIC created hereunder or the Certificateholders
or cause any REMIC created hereunder to fail to qualify as a REMIC at any time
that any Certificates are outstanding.
Promptly after the execution of any amendment to this Agreement
requiring the consent of Certificateholders, the Trustee shall furnish written
notification of the substance or a copy of such amendment to each
Certificateholder and each Rating Agency.
It shall not be necessary for the consent of Certificateholders under
this Section to approve the particular form of any proposed amendment, but it
shall be sufficient if such consent shall approve the substance thereof. The
manner of obtaining such consents and of evidencing the authorization of the
execution thereof by Certificateholders shall be subject to such reasonable
regulations as the Trustee may prescribe.
Nothing in this Agreement shall require the Trustee to enter into an
amendment without receiving an Opinion of Counsel (which Opinion shall not be an
expense of the Trustee or the Trust Fund), satisfactory to the Trustee that (i)
such amendment is permitted and is not prohibited by this Agreement and that all
requirements for amending this Agreement have been complied with; and (ii)
either (A) the amendment does not adversely affect in any material respect the
interests of any Certificateholder or (B) the conclusion set forth in the
immediately preceding clause (A) is not required to be reached pursuant to this
Section 11.1.
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Section 11.2 Recordation of Agreement; Counterparts.
This Agreement is subject to recordation in all appropriate public
offices for real property records in all the counties or other comparable
jurisdictions in which any or all of the properties subject to the Mortgages are
situated, and in any other appropriate public recording office or elsewhere,
such recordation to be effected by the [Master] Servicer at its expense, but
only upon direction by a majority of the Certificateholders to the effect that
such recordation materially and beneficially affects the interests of the
Certificateholders. However, the foregoing sentence notwithstanding, the
Servicer may provide copies hereof to counsel, judicial officers, and government
agencies, or may cause this Agreement to be recorded, in any jurisdiction in
which, in the Servicer's judgment, such disclosure or recording may facilitate
foreclosure or other recovery with respect to any one or more of the Mortgage
Loans.
For the purpose of facilitating the recordation of this Agreement as
herein provided and for other purposes, this Agreement may be executed (by
facsimile or otherwise) simultaneously in any number of counterparts, each of
which counterparts shall be deemed to be an original, and such counterparts
shall constitute but one and the same instrument.
Section 11.3 Governing Law.
THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND GOVERNED BY THE
SUBSTANTIVE LAWS OF THE STATE OF
NEW YORK APPLICABLE TO AGREEMENTS MADE AND TO
BE PERFORMED IN THE STATE OF
NEW YORK AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES
OF THE PARTIES HERETO AND THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS SHALL BE DETERMINED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.
Section 11.4 Intention of Parties.
It is the express intent of the parties hereto that the conveyance of
the Trust Fund by the Depositor to the Trustee be, and be construed as, absolute
sales thereof to the Trustee. It is, further, not the intention of the parties
that such conveyances be deemed a pledge thereof by the Depositor to the
Trustee. However, in the event that, notwithstanding the intent of the parties,
such assets are held to be the property of the Depositor, or if for any other
reason this Agreement is held or deemed to create a security interest in such
assets, then (i) this Agreement shall be deemed to be a security agreement
within the meaning of the Uniform Commercial Code of the State of
New York and
(ii) the conveyance provided for in this Agreement shall be deemed to be an
assignment and a grant by the Depositor to the Trustee, for the benefit of the
Certificateholders, of a security interest in all of the assets that constitute
the Trust Fund, whether now owned or hereafter acquired.
The Depositor, for the benefit of the Certificateholders, shall, to the
extent consistent with this Agreement, take such actions as may be necessary to
ensure that, if this Agreement were deemed to create a security interest in the
Trust Fund, such security interest would be deemed to
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be a perfected security interest of first priority under applicable law and will
be maintained as such throughout the term of the Agreement. The Depositor shall
arrange for filing any Uniform Commercial Code continuation statements in
connection with any security interest granted or assigned to the Trustee for the
benefit of the Certificateholders.
Section 11.5 Notices.
(a) The Trustee shall use its best efforts to promptly provide
notice to each Rating Agency with respect to each of the following of which it
has actual knowledge:
1. any material change or amendment to this Agreement;
2. the occurrence of any Event of Default that has not been
cured;
3. the resignation or termination of the Servicer, [the
Master Servicer] or the Trustee and the appointment of any successor;
4. the repurchase or substitution of Mortgage Loans
pursuant to Section 2.3 hereof;
5. the final payment to Certificateholders; and
6. any rating action involving the long-term credit rating
of the Master Servicer, which notice shall be made by first-class mail
within two Business Days after the Trustee gains actual knowledge
thereof.
In addition, the Trustee shall promptly furnish to each Rating Agency
copies of the following:
1. Each report to Certificateholders described in Section
4.6 hereof;
2. Each annual statement as to compliance described in
Section 3.16 hereof;
3. Each annual independent public accountants' servicing
report described in Section 3.17 hereof; and
4. Any notice of a purchase of a Mortgage Loan pursuant to
Section 2.2, 2.3 or 3.11 hereof.
(b) All directions, demands, authorizations, consents, waivers,
communications and notices hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed to
have been duly given when delivered by first class mail, facsimile or courier to
the applicable Notice Address, or in the case of the Rating Agencies, the
address specified therefor in the definition corresponding to the name of such
Rating Agency. Notices to Certificateholders shall be deemed given when mailed,
first Class postage prepaid, to their respective addresses appearing in the
Certificate Register.
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Section 11.6 Severability of Provisions.
If any one or more of the covenants, agreements, provisions or terms of
this Agreement shall be for any reason whatsoever held invalid, then such
covenants, agreements, provisions or terms shall be deemed severable from the
remaining covenants, agreements, provisions or terms of this Agreement and shall
in no way affect the validity or enforceability of the other provisions of this
Agreement or of the Certificates or the rights of the Holders thereof.
Section 11.7 Assignment.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, except as
provided in Section 6.02, this Agreement may not be assigned by the Master
Servicer without the prior written consent of the Trustee and Depositor.
Section 11.8 Limitation on Rights of Certificateholders.
The death or incapacity of any Certificateholder shall not operate to
terminate this Agreement or the trust created hereby, nor entitle such
Certificateholder's legal representative or heirs to claim an accounting or to
take any action or commence any proceeding in any court for a petition or
winding up of the trust created hereby, or otherwise affect the rights,
obligations and liabilities of the parties hereto or any of them.
No Certificateholder shall have any right to vote (except as provided
herein) or in any manner otherwise control the operation and management of the
Trust Fund, or the obligations of the parties hereto, nor shall anything herein
set forth or contained in the terms of the Certificates be construed so as to
constitute the Certificateholders from time to time as partners or members of an
association; nor shall any Certificateholder be under any liability to any third
party by reason of any action taken by the parties to this Agreement pursuant to
any provision hereof.
No Certificateholder shall have any right by virtue or by availing
itself of any provisions of this Agreement to institute any suit, action or
proceeding in equity or at law upon or under or with respect to this Agreement,
unless such Holder previously shall have given to the Trustee a written notice
of an Event of Default and of the continuance thereof, as herein provided, and
unless the Holders of Certificates evidencing not less than 25% of the Voting
Rights evidenced by the Certificates shall also have made written request to the
Trustee to institute such action, suit or proceeding in its own name as Trustee
hereunder and shall have offered to the Trustee such reasonable indemnity as it
may require against the costs, expenses, and liabilities to be incurred therein
or thereby, and the Trustee, for 60 days after its receipt of such notice,
request and offer of indemnity shall have neglected or refused to institute any
such action, suit or proceeding; it being understood and intended, and being
expressly covenanted by each Certificateholder with every other
Certificateholder and the Trustee, that no one or more Holders of Certificates
shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue or by availing itself or
themselves of any provisions of this Agreement to affect, disturb or prejudice
the rights of the Holders of any other of the Certificates, or to obtain or seek
to obtain priority over or preference
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to any other such Holder or to enforce any right under this Agreement, except in
the manner herein provided and for the common benefit of all Certificateholders.
For the protection and enforcement of the provisions of this Section 11.8, each
and every Certificateholder and the Trustee shall be entitled to such relief as
can be given either at law or in equity.
Section 11.9 Inspection and Audit Rights.
The Servicer agrees that, on reasonable prior notice, it will permit and
will cause each Subservicer to permit any representative of the Depositor or the
Trustee during the Servicer's normal business hours, to examine all the books of
account, records, reports and other papers of the Servicer relating to the
Mortgage Loans, to make copies and extracts therefrom, to cause such books to be
audited by independent certified public accountants selected by the Depositor or
the Trustee and to discuss its affairs, finances and accounts relating to the
Mortgage Loans with its officers, employees and independent public accountants
(and by this provision the Master Servicer hereby authorizes said accountants to
discuss with such representative such affairs, finances and accounts), all at
such reasonable times and as often as may be reasonably requested. Any
out-of-pocket expense incident to the exercise by the Depositor or the Trustee
of any right under this Section 11.9 shall be borne by the party requesting such
inspection; all other such expenses shall be borne by the Servicer or the
related Subservicer.
Section 11.10 Certificates Nonassessable and Fully Paid.
It is the intention of the Depositor that Certificateholders shall not
be personally liable for obligations of the Trust Fund, that the interests in
the Trust Fund represented by the Certificates shall be nonassessable for any
reason whatsoever, and that the Certificates, upon due authentication thereof by
the Trustee pursuant to this Agreement, are and shall be deemed fully paid.
Section 11.11 Limitations on Actions; No Proceedings.
(a) Other than pursuant to this Agreement, or in connection with or
incidental to the provisions or purposes of this Agreement, the trust created
hereunder shall not (i) issue debt or otherwise borrow money, (ii) merge or
consolidate with any other entity reorganize, liquidate or transfer all or
substantially all of its assets to any other entity, or (iii) otherwise engage
in any activity or exercise any power not provided for in this Agreement.
(b) Notwithstanding any prior termination of this Agreement, the
Trustee, the Servicer, [the Master ServicerB] and the Depositor shall not, prior
to the date which is one year and one day after the termination of this
Agreement, acquiesce, petition or otherwise invoke or cause any Person to invoke
the process of any court or government authority for the purpose of commencing
or sustaining a case against the Depositor or the Trust Fund under any federal
or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law or appointing a receiver,
liquidator, assignee, trustee, custodian, sequestrator or other similar official
of the Depositor or the Trust Fund or any
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substantial part of their respective property, or ordering the winding up or
liquidation of the affairs of the Depositor or the Trust Fund.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Depositor, Master Servicer, Servicer and the
Trustee, have caused their names to be signed hereto by their respective
officers thereunto duly authorized as of the day and year first above written.
AEGIS ASSET BACKED SECURITIES CORPORATION
By:
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NAME:
TITLE:
AEGIS MORTGAGE CORPORATION
By:
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NAME:
TITLE:
[SERVICER]
By:
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NAME:
TITLE:
[TRUSTEE]
By:
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NAME:
TITLE:
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SCHEDULES
Schedule I: Mortgage Loan Schedule (By Group)......................................S-I-1
Schedule II: Pass-Through Rate Schedule............................................S-II-1
Schedule III: REMIC Structure......................................................S-III-1
EXHIBITS
Exhibit A: Form of Senior Certificates..............................................A-1
Exhibit B: Form of Subordinate Certificates.........................................B-1
SCHEDULE I
MORTGAGE LOAN SCHEDULE (BY GROUP)
I-1
SCHEDULE II
PASS-THROUGH RATE SCHEDULE
II-1
SCHEDULE III
REMIC STRUCTURE
III-1
EXHIBIT A
THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY
TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION ("DTC"), TO SELLER OR ITS AGENT FOR
REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE, OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS
REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH
OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY
TRANSFER, PLEDGE, OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON
IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST
HEREIN.
AEGIS ASSET SECURITIES TRUST 200_-__
MORTGAGE LOAN ASSET BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 200_-_
CLASS AF-__ CERTIFICATE
THE PRINCIPAL OF THIS CERTIFICATE IS SUBJECT TO PREPAYMENT FROM TIME TO TIME
WITHOUT SURRENDER OF OR NOTATION ON THIS CERTIFICATE. ACCORDINGLY, THE
CERTIFICATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF THIS CERTIFICATE MAY BE LESS THAN THAT SET
FORTH BELOW. ANYONE ACQUIRING THIS CERTIFICATE MAY ASCERTAIN ITS CURRENT
CERTIFICATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE BY INQUIRY OF THE TRUSTEE.
THIS CERTIFICATE REPRESENTS A REMIC REGULAR INTEREST FOR FEDERAL INCOME TAX
PURPOSES.
DENOMINATION: $__________ INITIAL PRINCIPAL BALANCE: $__________
PASS-THROUGH RATE:
REGISTERED HOLDER: CEDE & CO.
CERTIFICATE NO. AF-__-__ CUSIP NO: _________
This Certificate evidences a beneficial ownership interest in a Trust
consisting primarily of a pool of Mortgage Loans (collectively, the "Mortgage
Loans") formed and sold by
AEGIS ASSET BACKED SECURITIES CORPORATION
THIS CERTIFICATE DOES NOT REPRESENT AN OBLIGATION OF OR INTEREST IN
AEGIS ASSET BACKED SECURITIES CORPORATION, THE MASTER SERVICER, ANY SERVICER,
THE TRUSTEE OR ANY OF THEIR AFFILIATES. NEITHER THIS CERTIFICATE NOR THE
UNDERLYING MORTGAGE LOANS ARE GUARANTEED BY ANY AGENCY OR INSTRUMENTALITY OF THE
UNITED STATES.
The Registered Holder named above is the owner of the Percentage
Interest calculated as set forth below in the above mentioned Class of
Certificates issued by the Trust (the "Trust") created pursuant to a
Pooling and
Servicing Agreement dated as of ________ 1, 200__ (the "
Pooling and Servicing
Agreement"), among
Aegis Asset Backed Securities Corporation (herein called the
"Depositor," which term includes any successor entity under the
Pooling and
Servicing Agreement), Aegis Mortgage, Inc., as Master Servicer,
___________________, as Servicer, and ______________________, as Trustee, a
summary of certain of the pertinent provisions of which is set forth herein. To
the extent not defined herein, capitalized terms used herein have the meanings
assigned in the
Pooling and Servicing Agreement. This Certificate is issued
under and is subject to the terms, provisions and conditions of the Pooling
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and Servicing Agreement to which
Pooling and Servicing Agreement the Holder of
this Certificate, by virtue of the acceptance hereof, assents and by which such
Holder is bound.
This Certificate is one of a duly authorized issue of Certificates
designated as Mortgage Loan Asset Backed Certificates, Series 200__-__ (herein
called the "Certificates") and represents a Percentage Interest in the above
mentioned Class of Certificates equal to the quotient, expressed as a
percentage, obtained by dividing the Denomination of this Certificate specified
above by the Initial Principal Balance specified above of the above mentioned
Class of Certificates. The Certificates are issued in multiple Classes
designated as specifically set forth in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement. The
Certificates will evidence in the aggregate 100% of the beneficial ownership of
the Trust.
To the extent and subject to the limitations set forth in the Pooling
and Servicing Agreement, the Person in whose name this Certificate is registered
at the close of business on the last Business Day of the month immediately
preceding the month of such distribution (the "Record Date") is entitled to
receive an amount equal to the product of such Person's Percentage Interest and
the Distribution Amount (as defined in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement) with
respect to the above mentioned Class of Certificates on the 25th day of each
month or, if such 25th day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business
Day (each a "Distribution Date"), commencing in ______ 200__. All amounts
distributable with respect to this Certificate are payable in the coin or
currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal
tender for the payment of public and private debts.
The Certificates are limited in right of payment to certain collections
and recoveries respecting the Mortgage Loans, all as more specifically set forth
in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement. As provided in the Pooling and Servicing
Agreement, withdrawals from the Distribution Account and related accounts shall
be made from time to time for purposes other than distributions to Holders of
the Certificates, such purposes including reimbursement of Advances made, or
certain expenses incurred, with respect to the Mortgage Loans and administration
of the Trust Fund.
So long as this Certificate is registered in the name of a clearing
agency or its nominee, the Paying Agent will make distributions on this
Certificate by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the Clearing
agency or its nominee. Otherwise, all distributions under the Pooling and
Servicing Agreement will be made by the Paying Agent either (i) by check mailed
to the address of the Holder as it appears on the Certificate Register on the
related Record Date or (ii) upon request to the Paying Agent in writing by the
Record Date immediately prior to the Distribution Date of any Holder of
Certificates of this Class having an aggregate initial principal amount equal to
or in excess of $1,000,000, by wire transfer of immediately available funds to
the account of such Holder. A fee may be charged by the Paying Agent to a
Certificateholder for any payment made by wire transfer. Notwithstanding the
above, the final distribution on this Certificate will be made after due notice
by the Paying Agent of a pendency of such distribution and only upon
presentation and surrender of this Certificate at its principal Corporate Trust
Office or such other offices or agencies appointed by the Paying Agent for that
purpose and such other locations provided in the Pooling and Servicing
Agreement.
The Trustee will duly and punctually make distributions with respect to
this Certificate in accordance with the terms hereof and the Pooling and
Servicing Agreement. Amounts properly withheld under the Code by any Person from
a distribution to any Holder shall be considered as having been distributed to
such Holder for all purposes of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.
The Pooling and Servicing Agreement permits, with certain exceptions
therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and
obligations of the Depositor and the Trustee and the rights of the Holders of
the Certificates under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement at any time by the
Depositor, the Master Servicer and the Trustee with consent of the Holders of
Certificates entitled to at least 66% of the Voting Rights. Any such consent by
the Holder of this Certificate shall be conclusive and binding on such Holder
and upon all future Holders of this Certificate and of any Certificate issued
upon the transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof whether or not
notation of such consent is made upon this Certificate. The Pooling and
Servicing Agreement also permits the amendment thereof, in certain limited
circumstances, without the consent of the Holders of any of the Certificates.
As provided in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and subject to any
limitations on transfer of this Certificate by a clearing agency or its nominee
and certain limitations set forth in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, the
transfer of this Certificate is registerable in the Certificate Register upon
surrender of this Certificate
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for registration of transfer at the principal Corporate Trust Office of the
Trustee or such other offices or agencies appointed by the Trustee for that
purpose and such other locations provided in the Pooling and Servicing
Agreement, duly endorsed by or accompanied by an assignment in the form below or
other written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee and
duly executed by the Holder hereof or such Xxxxxx's attorney duly authorized in
writing, and thereupon one or more new Certificates of the same Class in the
same aggregate principal balance will be issued to the designated transferee or
transferees.
Subject to the terms of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, the
Certificates of this Class will be registered as one or more certificates held
by a clearing agency or its nominee and beneficial interests will be held by
Beneficial Owners through the book-entry facilities of such Clearing agency or
its nominee in minimum denominations of $25,000 and integral multiples of $1,000
in excess thereof.
As provided in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and subject to
certain limitations therein set forth, this Certificate is exchangeable for a
new Certificate of the same Class in the same denomination. No service charge
will be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Trustee
may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental
charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of
Certificates.
The Depositor, the Master Servicer, the Trustee and the Paying Agent and
any agent of the Depositor, the Master Servicer, the Trustee and the Paying
Agent may treat the Person in whose name this Certificate is registered as the
owner hereof for all purposes, and none of the Depositor, the Master Servicer,
the Trustee or any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
The Pooling and Servicing Agreement provides that the obligations
created thereby will terminate upon the payment to the Holders of all
Certificates of all amounts held by the Trustee and required to be paid to such
Holders pursuant to the Pooling and Servicing Agreement or the last to occur of
(a) the final payment or other liquidation (or any advance made with respect
thereto) of the last Mortgage Loan in the Trust Fund, (b) the disposition of all
property acquired in respect of any Mortgage Loan remaining in the Trust Fund
and (c) at any time when a qualified liquidation of the Trust Fund is effected
as described in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.
The Pooling and Servicing Agreement also provides that (i) on and after
the Initial Optional Termination Date, the Master Servicer may purchase the
Mortgage Loans then remaining in the Trust Fund and apply the proceeds of such
sale to effect early retirement of the Certificates and (ii) under certain
circumstances relating to the qualification of any REMIC as a REMIC under the
Code the Mortgage Loans may be sold, thereby effecting the early retirement of
the Certificates.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the
Trustee, by manual signature, this Certificate shall not be entitled to any
benefit under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement or be valid for any purpose.
THIS CERTIFICATE AND THE POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT SHALL BE
CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, AND GOVERNED BY, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW
YORK.
The Trustee has executed this Certificate on behalf of the Trust not in
its individual capacity but solely as Trustee under the Pooling and Servicing
Agreement, and the Trustee shall be liable hereunder only in respect of the
assets of the Trust.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Trustee has caused this Certificate to be duly
executed under its official seal.
Dated: __________ ___, 200__
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AS TRUSTEE
BY:
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Authorized Officer
[SEAL]
ATTEST:
CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
THIS IS ONE OF THE CLASS AF-__ CERTIFICATES REFERRED TO IN THE WITHIN-MENTIONED
POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT.
Dated: ____________ ___, 200__
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AS TRUSTEE
BY:
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Authorized Signatory
A-4
FORM OF TRANSFER
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfers
unto
___________________________________________________________________________
PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF
ASSIGNEE___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
(Please print or typewrite name and address of assignee)
the within Certificate and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint
_________________________ (Attorney) to transfer the said Certificate in the
Certificate Register of the within-named Trust, with full power of substitution
in the premises.
Dated:_______________
________________________________________
NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as
written upon the face of this Certificate in every particular without alteration
or enlargement or any change whatever.
______________________________________________________
SIGNATURE GUARANTEED: The signature must be guaranteed by a commercial bank or
trust company or by a member firm of the New York Stock Exchange or another
national securities exchange. Notarized or witnessed signatures are not
acceptable.
ABBREVIATIONS
The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of
this Certificate, shall be construed as though they were written out in full
according to applicable laws or regulations:
TEN COM as tenants in common UNIF GIFT MIN ACT Custodian..............
(Cus)(Minors)
TEN ENT. as tenants by the entireties Under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act
JT TEN. as joint tenants with rights of ..............................
survivorship and not as [State]
Tenants in Common
Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.
DISTRIBUTION INSTRUCTIONS
The assignee should include the following for purposes of distribution:
Distributions shall be made, by wire transfer or otherwise, in
immediately available funds, to _________________, for the account of
____________, account number _______________, or, if mailed by check, to
_____________. Applicable reports and statements should be mailed to
___________. This information is provided by _____________________, the assignee
named above, or _____________________, as its agent.
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EXHIBIT B
UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION ("DTC"), TO SELLER OR ITS AGENT
FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE, OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED
IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY
AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO
SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY
TRANSFER, PLEDGE, OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON
IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST
HEREIN.
AEGIS ASSET SECURITIES TRUST 200__-__
MORTGAGE LOAN ASSET BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 200__-__
CLASS B CERTIFICATE
THE PRINCIPAL OF THIS CERTIFICATE IS SUBJECT TO PREPAYMENT FROM TIME TO TIME
WITHOUT SURRENDER OF OR NOTATION ON THIS CERTIFICATE. ACCORDINGLY, THE
CERTIFICATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF THIS CERTIFICATE MAY BE LESS THAN THAT SET
FORTH BELOW. ANYONE ACQUIRING THIS CERTIFICATE MAY ASCERTAIN ITS CURRENT
CERTIFICATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE BY INQUIRY OF THE TRUSTEE.
THIS CERTIFICATE REPRESENTS A REMIC REGULAR INTEREST FOR FEDERAL INCOME TAX
PURPOSES.
THIS CERTIFICATE IS SUBORDINATE IN RIGHT OF PAYMENT AS DESCRIBED IN THE POOLING
AND SERVICING AGREEMENT REFERRED TO HEREIN.
DENOMINATION: $__________ INITIAL PRINCIPAL BALANCE: $__________
PASS-THROUGH RATE:
REGISTERED HOLDER: CEDE & CO.
CERTIFICATE NO. B-__ CUSIP NO: __________
This Certificate evidences a beneficial ownership interest in a Trust
consisting primarily of a pool of Mortgage Loans (collectively, the "Mortgage
Loans") formed and sold by
AEGIS ASSET BACKED SECURITIES CORPORATION
THIS CERTIFICATE DOES NOT REPRESENT AN OBLIGATION OF OR INTEREST IN
AEGIS ASSET BACKED SECURITIES CORPORATION, THE MASTER SERVICER, ANY SERVICER,
THE TRUSTEE OR ANY OF THEIR AFFILIATES. NEITHER THIS CERTIFICATE NOR THE
UNDERLYING MORTGAGE LOANS ARE GUARANTEED BY ANY AGENCY OR INSTRUMENTALITY OF THE
UNITED STATES.
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The Registered Holder named above is the owner of the Percentage
Interest calculated as set forth below in the above mentioned Class of
Certificates issued by the Trust (the "Trust") created pursuant to a Pooling and
Servicing Agreement dated as of ________, 200__ (the "Pooling and Servicing
Agreement"), among Aegis Asset Backed Securities Corporation (herein called the
"Depositor," which term includes any successor entity under the Pooling and
Servicing Agreement), Aegis Mortgage, Inc., as Master Servicer,
____________________, as Servicer, and ____________________, as Trustee, a
summary of certain of the pertinent provisions of which is set forth herein. To
the extent not defined herein, capitalized terms used herein have the meanings
assigned in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement. This Certificate is issued
under and is subject to the terms, provisions and conditions of the Pooling and
Servicing Agreement to which Pooling and Servicing Agreement the Holder of this
Certificate, by virtue of the acceptance hereof, assents and by which such
Holder is bound.
This Certificate is one of a duly authorized issue of Certificates
designated as Mortgage Loan Asset Backed Certificates, Series 200__-__ (herein
called the "Certificates") and represents a Percentage Interest in the above
mentioned Class of Certificates equal to the quotient, expressed as a
percentage, obtained by dividing the Denomination of this Certificate specified
above by the Initial Principal Balance specified above of the above mentioned
Class of Certificates. The Certificates are issued in multiple Classes
designated as specifically set forth in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement. The
Certificates will evidence in the aggregate 100% of the beneficial ownership of
the Trust.
To the extent and subject to the limitations set forth in the Pooling
and Servicing Agreement, the Person in whose name this Certificate is registered
at the close of business on the last Business Day of the month immediately
preceding the month of such distribution (the "Record Date") is entitled to
receive an amount equal to the product of such Person's Percentage Interest and
the Distribution Amount (as defined in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement) with
respect to the above mentioned Class of Certificates on the 25th day of each
month or, if such 25th day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business
Day (each a "Distribution Date"), commencing in _______ 200__. All amounts
distributable with respect to this Certificate are payable in the coin or
currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal
tender for the payment of public and private debts.
The Certificates are limited in right of payment to certain collections
and recoveries respecting the Mortgage Loans, all as more specifically set forth
in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement. As provided in the Pooling and Servicing
Agreement, withdrawals from the Distribution Account and related accounts shall
be made from time to time for purposes other than distributions to Holders of
the Certificates, such purposes including reimbursement of Advances made, or
certain expenses incurred, with respect to the Mortgage Loans and administration
of the Trust Fund.
So long as this Certificate is registered in the name of a clearing
agency or its nominee, the Paying Agent will make distributions on this
Certificate by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the Clearing
agency or its nominee. Otherwise, all distributions under the Pooling and
Servicing Agreement will be made by the Paying Agent either (i) by check mailed
to the address of the Holder as it appears on the Certificate Register on the
related Record Date or (ii) upon request to the Paying Agent in writing by the
Record Date immediately prior to the Distribution Date of any Holder of
Certificates of this Class having an aggregate initial principal amount equal to
or in excess of $1,000,000, by wire transfer of immediately available funds to
the account of such Holder. A fee may be charged by the Paying Agent to a
Certificateholder for any payment made by wire transfer. Notwithstanding the
above, the final distribution on this Certificate will be made after due notice
by the Paying Agent of a pendency of such distribution and only upon
presentation and surrender of this Certificate at its principal Corporate Trust
Office or such other offices or agencies appointed by the Paying Agent for that
purpose and such other locations provided in the Pooling and Servicing
Agreement.
The Trustee will duly and punctually make distributions with respect to
this Certificate in accordance with the terms hereof and the Pooling and
Servicing Agreement. Amounts properly withheld under the Code by any Person from
a distribution to any Holder shall be considered as having been distributed to
such Holder for all purposes of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.
The Pooling and Servicing Agreement permits, with certain exceptions
therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and
obligations of the Depositor and the Trustee and the rights of the Holders of
the Certificates under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement at any time by the
Depositor, the Master
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Servicer and the Trustee with consent of the Holders of Certificates entitled to
at least 66% of the Voting Rights. Any such consent by the Holder of this
Certificate shall be conclusive and binding on such Holder and upon all future
Holders of this Certificate and of any Certificate issued upon the transfer
hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof whether or not notation of such
consent is made upon this Certificate. The Pooling and Servicing Agreement also
permits the amendment thereof, in certain limited circumstances, without the
consent of the Holders of any of the Certificates.
As provided in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and subject to any
limitations on transfer of this Certificate by a clearing agency or its nominee
and certain limitations set forth in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, the
transfer of this Certificate is registerable in the Certificate Register upon
surrender of this Certificate for registration of transfer at the principal
Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee or such other offices or agencies
appointed by the Trustee for that purpose and such other locations provided in
the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, duly endorsed by or accompanied by an
assignment in the form below or other written instrument of transfer in form
satisfactory to the Trustee and duly executed by the Holder hereof or such
Xxxxxx's attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new
Certificates of the same Class in the same aggregate principal balance will be
issued to the designated transferee or transferees.
Subject to the terms of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, the
Certificates of this Class will be registered as one or more certificates held
by a clearing agency or its nominee and beneficial interests will be held by
Beneficial Owners through the book-entry facilities of such Clearing agency or
its nominee in minimum denominations of $100,000 and integral multiples of
$1,000 in excess thereof.
As provided in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and subject to
certain limitations therein set forth, this Certificate is exchangeable for a
new Certificate of the same Class in the same denomination. No service charge
will be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Trustee
may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental
charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of
Certificates.
The Depositor, the Master Servicer, the Trustee and the Paying Agent and
any agent of the Depositor, the Master Servicer, the Trustee and the Paying
Agent may treat the Person in whose name this Certificate is registered as the
owner hereof for all purposes, and none of the Depositor, the Master Servicer,
the Trustee or any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
The Pooling and Servicing Agreement provides that the obligations
created thereby will terminate upon the payment to the Holders of all
Certificates of all amounts held by the Trustee and required to be paid to such
Holders pursuant to the Pooling and Servicing Agreement or the last to occur of
(a) the final payment or other liquidation (or any advance made with respect
thereto) of the last Mortgage Loan in the Trust Fund, (b) the disposition of all
property acquired in respect of any Mortgage Loan remaining in the Trust Fund
and (c) at any time when a qualified liquidation of the Trust Fund is effected
as described in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.
The Pooling and Servicing Agreement also provides that (i) on and after
the Initial Optional Termination Date, the Master Servicer may purchase the
Mortgage Loans then remaining in the Trust Fund and apply the proceeds of such
sale to effect early retirement of the Certificates and (ii) under certain
circumstances relating to the qualification of any REMIC as a REMIC under the
Code the Mortgage Loans may be sold, thereby effecting the early retirement of
the Certificates.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the
Trustee, by manual signature, this Certificate shall not be entitled to any
benefit under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement or be valid for any purpose.
THIS CERTIFICATE AND THE POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT SHALL BE
CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, AND GOVERNED BY, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW
YORK.
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The Trustee has executed this Certificate on behalf of the Trust not in
its individual capacity but solely as Trustee under the Pooling and Servicing
Agreement, and the Trustee shall be liable hereunder only in respect of the
assets of the Trust.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Trustee has caused this Certificate to be duly
executed under its official seal.
Dated: __________ ___, 200__ ___________________________________
AS TRUSTEE
BY: ________________________________
Authorized Officer
[SEAL]
ATTEST:
CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
THIS IS ONE OF THE CLASS B-__ CERTIFICATES REFERRED TO IN THE WITHIN-MENTIONED
POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT.
Dated: ________ ___, 200__ ___________________________________
AS TRUSTEE
BY: __________________________
Authorized Signatory
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FORM OF TRANSFER
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfers
unto
___________________________________________________________________________
PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF
ASSIGNEE___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
(Please print or typewrite name and address of assignee)
the within Certificate and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint
_________________________ (Attorney) to transfer the said Certificate in the
Certificate Register of the within-named Trust, with full power of substitution
in the premises.
Dated:_______________
________________________________________
NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as
written upon the face of this Certificate in every particular without alteration
or enlargement or any change whatever.
______________________________________________________
SIGNATURE GUARANTEED: The signature must be guaranteed by a commercial bank or
trust company or by a member firm of the New York Stock Exchange or another
national securities exchange. Notarized or witnessed signatures are not
acceptable.
ABBREVIATIONS
The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of
this Certificate, shall be construed as though they were written out in full
according to applicable laws or regulations:
TEN COM as tenants in common UNIF GIFT MIN ACT Custodian..............
(Cus)(Minors)
TEN ENT. as tenants by the entireties Under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act
JT TEN. as joint tenants with rights of ..............................
survivorship and not as [State]
Tenants in Common
Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.
DISTRIBUTION INSTRUCTIONS
The assignee should include the following for purposes of distribution:
Distributions shall be made, by wire transfer or otherwise, in
immediately available funds, to _________________, for the account of
____________, account number _______________, or, if mailed by check, to
_____________. Applicable reports and statements should be mailed to
___________. This information is provided by _____________________, the assignee
named above, or _____________________, as its agent.
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