EXHIBIT 4.05
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OGE ENERGY CORP.,
AS ISSUER
TO
BANK OF OKLAHOMA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
AS TRUSTEE
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INDENTURE
SUBORDINATED DEBT SECURITIES
DATED AS OF _________________, 1999
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE ONE DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION...........................1
Section 101. Definitions...........................................................................1
"Act", ...............................................................................................2
"Affiliate".............................................................................................2
"Authenticating Agent"..................................................................................2
"Bankruptcy Law"........................................................................................2
"Board of Directors"....................................................................................2
"Board Resolution"......................................................................................2
"Business Day"..........................................................................................2
"Capitalized Lease Obligation"..........................................................................2
"Capital Stock".........................................................................................2
"Commission"............................................................................................3
"Common Depositary".....................................................................................3
"Company"...............................................................................................3
"Company Request" or "Company Order"....................................................................3
"Corporate Trust Office"................................................................................3
"Covenant Defeasance"...................................................................................3
"Custodian".............................................................................................3
"Default"...............................................................................................3
"Defaulted Interest"....................................................................................3
"Defeasance"............................................................................................3
"Dollars" and "$".......................................................................................3
"Event of Default"......................................................................................3
"Exchange Act"..........................................................................................3
"GAAP"..................................................................................................3
"Holder or Securityholder"..............................................................................4
"Indebtedness"..........................................................................................4
"Indenture".............................................................................................4
"Interest",.............................................................................................4
"Interest Payment Date",................................................................................4
"Lien"..................................................................................................4
"Maturity"..............................................................................................4
"Officer"...............................................................................................5
"Officer's Certificate".................................................................................5
"Opinion of Counsel"....................................................................................5
"Original Issue Discount Security"......................................................................5
"Outstanding",..........................................................................................5
"Paying Agent"..........................................................................................6
"Person"................................................................................................6
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"Place of Payment",.....................................................................................6
"Redemption Date",......................................................................................6
"Redemption Price",.....................................................................................6
"Registered Security"...................................................................................6
"Regular Record Date"...................................................................................6
"Responsible Officer",..................................................................................6
"Securities"............................................................................................6
"Security Register" and "Security Registrar"............................................................6
"Senior Indebtedness"...................................................................................7
"Significant Subsidiary"................................................................................7
"Special Record Date"...................................................................................7
"Stated Maturity",......................................................................................7
"Subsidiary"............................................................................................7
"Trust Indenture Act"...................................................................................7
"Trustee"...............................................................................................7
"U.S. Depositary".......................................................................................7
"U.S. Government Obligations"...........................................................................8
"Vice President",.......................................................................................8
Section 102. Compliance Certificates and Opinions..................................................8
Section 103. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee................................................9
Section 104. Acts of Holders.......................................................................9
Section 105. Notices, Etc., to Trustee and Company................................................10
Section 106. Notice to Holders; Waiver............................................................11
Section 107. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act....................................................11
Section 108. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents.............................................11
Section 109. Successors and Assigns...............................................................12
Section 110. Separability Clause..................................................................12
Section 111. Benefits of Indenture................................................................12
Section 112. Governing Law........................................................................12
Section 113. Legal Holidays.......................................................................12
Section 114. No Recourse Against Others...........................................................12
ARTICLE TWO SECURITY FORMS...................................................................13
Section 201. Forms Generally......................................................................13
Section 202. Form of Face of Security.............................................................13
Section 203. Form of Reverse of Security..........................................................15
Section 204. Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication......................................20
Section 205. Securities in Global Form............................................................20
Section 206. CUSIP Number.........................................................................21
Section 207. Form of Legend for the Securities in Global Form.....................................21
ARTICLE THREE SECURITIES..........................................................................21
Section 301. Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series.................................................21
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Section 302. Denominations........................................................................24
Section 303. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating.......................................24
Section 304. Temporary Securities.................................................................26
Section 305. Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange..................................26
Section 306. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities.....................................28
Section 307. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved.......................................29
Section 308. Persons Deemed Owners................................................................30
Section 309. Cancellation.........................................................................31
Section 310. Computation of Interest..............................................................31
ARTICLE FOUR SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE.......................................................31
Section 401. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture..............................................31
Section 402. Application of Trust Money...........................................................32
ARTICLE FIVE REMEDIES.........................................................................32
Section 501. Events of Default....................................................................32
Section 502. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment...................................34
Section 503. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee......................35
Section 504. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.....................................................36
Section 505. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities..........................37
Section 506. Application of Money Collected.......................................................37
Section 507. Limitation on Suits..................................................................37
Section 508. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and
Interest.............................................................................38
Section 509. Restoration of Rights and Remedies...................................................38
Section 510. Rights and Remedies Cumulative.......................................................38
Section 511. Delay or Omission Not Waiver.........................................................39
Section 512. Control by Holders...................................................................39
Section 513. Waiver of Past Defaults..............................................................39
Section 514. Undertaking for Costs................................................................40
ARTICLE SIX THE TRUSTEE......................................................................40
Section 601. Certain Duties and Responsibilities of the Trustee...................................40
Section 602. Notice of Defaults...................................................................40
Section 603. Certain Rights of Trustee............................................................41
Section 604. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities...............................42
Section 605. May Hold Securities..................................................................42
Section 606. Money Held in Trust..................................................................42
Section 607. Compensation and Reimbursement.......................................................42
Section 608. Disqualification; Conflicting Interests..............................................43
Section 609. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility..............................................43
Section 610. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor....................................44
Section 611. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor...............................................45
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Section 612. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business..........................46
Section 613. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company....................................46
Section 614. Appointment of Authenticating Agent..................................................46
ARTICLE SEVEN HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY................................48
Section 701. Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders............................48
Section 702. Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders...............................49
Section 703. Reports by Trustee...................................................................50
Section 704. Reports by Company...................................................................50
ARTICLE EIGHT CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, LEASE, SALE OR TRANSFER...................................51
Section 801. When Company May Merge, Etc..........................................................51
Section 802. Opinion of Counsel...................................................................52
Section 803. Successor Corporation Substituted....................................................52
ARTICLE NINE SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES..........................................................52
Section 901. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders...................................52
Section 902. Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders......................................53
Section 903. Execution of Supplemental Indentures.................................................54
Section 904. Effect of Supplemental Indentures....................................................55
Section 905. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act..................................................55
Section 906. Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures...................................55
ARTICLE TEN COVENANTS........................................................................55
Section 1001. Payments of Securities...............................................................55
Section 1002. Maintenance of Office or Agency......................................................55
Section 1003. Payment of Taxes and Other Claims....................................................56
Section 1004. Compliance Certificates..............................................................56
Section 1005. Commission Reports...................................................................57
Section 1006. Waiver of Stay, Extension or Usury Laws..............................................57
Section 1007. Money for Securities Payments to Be Held in Trust....................................58
ARTICLE ELEVEN REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES.............................................................59
Section 1101. Applicability of Article.............................................................59
Section 1102. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee................................................59
Section 1103. Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed....................................59
Section 1104. Notice of Redemption.................................................................60
Section 1105. Deposit of Redemption Price..........................................................61
Section 1106. Securities Payable on Redemption Date................................................61
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Section 1107. Securities Redeemed in Part..........................................................61
ARTICLE TWELVE SINKING FUNDS....................................................................62
Section 1201. Applicability of Article.............................................................62
Section 1202. Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities................................62
Section 1203. Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund............................................62
ARTICLE THIRTEEN DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE...............................................63
Section 1301. Applicability of Article; Company's Option to Effect Defeasance or
Covenant Defeasance..................................................................63
Section 1302. Defeasance and Discharge.............................................................63
Section 1303. Covenant Defeasance..................................................................64
Section 1304. Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance......................................64
Section 1305. Deposited Money and Government Obligations To Be Held In Trust.......................66
ARTICLE FOURTEEN SUBORDINATION....................................................................66
Section 1401. Agreement of Securityholders that Securities Subordinated to Extent
Provided.............................................................................66
Section 1402. Company not to Make Payments with Respect to Securities in Certain
Circumstances........................................................................67
Section 1403. Securities Subordinated to Prior Payment of all Senior Indebtedness on
Dissolution, Liquidation or Reorganization of Company................................68
Section 1404. Securityholders to be Subrogated to Right of Holders of Senior
Indebtedness.........................................................................68
Section 1405. Obligation of the Company Unconditional..............................................69
Section 1406. Trustee Entitled to Assume Payments Not Prohibited in Absence of Notice..............69
Section 1407. Application by Trustee of Monies Deposited With It...................................70
Section 1408. Subordination Rights not Impaired by Acts or Omissions of Company or
Holders of Senior Indebtedness.......................................................70
Section 1409. Securityholders Authorize Trustee to Effectuate Subordination of
Securities...........................................................................70
Section 1410. Right of Trustee to Hold Senior Indebtedness.........................................71
Section 1411. Article Fourteen Not to Prevent Events of Default....................................71
ARTICLE FIFTEEN MISCELLANEOUS....................................................................71
Section 1501. Miscellaneous........................................................................71
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OGE ENERGY CORP.
RECONCILIATION AND TIE BETWEEN TRUST INDENTURE ACT OF 1939
AND INDENTURE DATED AS OF _________ __, 1999
TRUST INDENTURE SECTION INDENTURE
ACT SECTION
Section 310(a)(1)........................................................................609
(a)(2)........................................................................609
(a)(3)........................................................................Not Applicable
(a)(4)........................................................................Not Applicable
(b)...........................................................................608, 610
Section 311(a)...........................................................................613
(b)...........................................................................613
Section 312(a)...........................................................................701, 702(a)
(b)...........................................................................702(b)
(c)...........................................................................702(c)
Section 313(a)...........................................................................703(a)
(b)...........................................................................Not Applicable
(c)...........................................................................703(a)
(d)...........................................................................703(b)
Section 314(a)...........................................................................704
(b)...........................................................................Not Applicable
(c)(1)........................................................................102
(c)(2)........................................................................102
(c)(3)........................................................................Not Applicable
(d)...........................................................................Not Applicable
(e)...........................................................................102
Section 315(a)...........................................................................601(a)
(b)...........................................................................602
(c)...........................................................................601(b)
(d)...........................................................................601(c)
(d)(1)........................................................................601(a)
(d)(2)........................................................................601(c)
(d)(3)........................................................................601(c)
(e)...........................................................................514
Section 316(a)(1)(A).....................................................................512
(a)(1)(B).....................................................................502, 513
(a)(2)........................................................................Not Applicable
(b)...........................................................................508
Section 317(a)(1)........................................................................503
(a)(2)........................................................................504
(b)...........................................................................1009
Section 318(a)...........................................................................107
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NOTE: THIS RECONCILIATION AND TIE SHALL NOT, FOR ANY PURPOSE,
BE DEEMED TO BE A PART OF THIS INDENTURE.
INDENTURE, dated as of ____________, 1999, between OGE ENERGY
CORP., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State
of Oklahoma (herein called the "Company"), having its principal office at 000
Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000, and Bank of Oklahoma, National
Association, a national banking association, as Trustee (herein called the
"Trustee").
RECITALS OF THE COMPANY
The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this
Indenture to provide for the issuance from time to time of its unsecured
debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness (herein called the
"Securities"), to be issued in one or more series as in this Indenture provided.
All things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement of the
Company, in accordance with its terms, have been done.
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the
Securities by the Holders thereof, it is mutually covenanted and agreed, for
the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Securities or of a
series thereof, as follows:
ARTICLE ONE
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION
SECTION 101. Definitions.
For all purposes of this Indenture, except as otherwise expressly
provided or unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) the terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to
them in this Article and include the plural as well as the singular;
(b) all other terms used herein which are defined in the Trust
Indenture Act, either directly or by reference therein, have the meanings
assigned to them therein;
(c) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the
meanings assigned to them in accordance with GAAP;
(d) the word "including" (and with correlative meaning "include")
means including, without limiting the generality of, any description
preceding such term; and
(e) the words "herein," "hereof" and "hereunder" and other words of
similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular
Article, Section or other subdivision.
"Act", when used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning
specified in Section 104.
"Affiliate" of any specified Person means any other Person directly
or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common
control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition,
"control" when used with respect to any specified Person means the power to
direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly,
whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise;
and the terms "controlling" and "controlled" have meanings correlative to the
foregoing.
"Authenticating Agent" means any Person authorized by the Trustee to
act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Securities.
"Bankruptcy Law" means Title 11, U.S. Code or any similar federal
or state law for the relief of debtors.
"Board of Directors" means the board of directors of the Company;
provided, however, that when the context refers to actions or resolutions of
the Board of Directors, then the term "Board of Directors" shall also mean
any duly authorized committee of the Board of Directors of the Company or
Officer authorized with respect to any particular matter to exercise the
power of the Board of Directors of the Company.
"Board Resolution" means a copy of a resolution certified by the
Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted by
the Board of Directors and to be in full force and effect on the date of such
certification, and delivered to the Trustee.
"Business Day" when used with respect to any Place of Payment, means
each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday which is not a day on which
banking institutions in that Place of Payment are authorized or obligated by law
or regulation to close.
"Capitalized Lease Obligation" means an obligation under a lease
that is required to be capitalized for financial reporting purposes in
accordance with GAAP. The amount of Indebtedness represented by such
obligation shall be the capitalized amount of such obligations determined in
accordance with such principles.
"Capital Stock" of any Person shall mean any and all shares, interests,
participations or other equivalents of or interests in (however designated)
equity of such Person, including any preferred stock, but excluding any debt
securities convertible into such equity.
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"Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from time
to time constituted, created under the Exchange Act, or, if at any time after
the execution of this instrument such Commission is not existing and performing
the duties now assigned to it under the Trust Indenture Act, then the body
performing such duties at such time.
"Common Depositary" has the meaning specified in Section 304.
"Company" means the Person named as the "Company" in the first
paragraph of this Indenture until a successor corporation shall have become
such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter
"Company" shall mean such successor corporation.
"Company Request" or "Company Order" means a written request or order
signed in the name of the Company by its Chairman of the Board, its President or
a Vice President, and by its Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, its Controller,
an Assistant Controller, its Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, and delivered
to the Trustee.
"Corporate Trust Office" means the office of the Trustee in Oklahoma
City, Oklahoma at which at any particular time its corporate trust business
shall be principally administered, which office at the date hereof is located at
Commerce Banking Center, 0000 Xxxxx Xxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000.
"Covenant Defeasance" has the meaning specified in Section 1303.
"Custodian" means any receiver, trustee, assignee, liquidator,
sequestrator or similar official under any Bankruptcy Law.
"Default" means any event which is, or after notice or passage of time
or both would be, an Event of Default.
"Defaulted Interest" has the meaning specified in Section 307.
"Defeasance" has the meaning specified in Section 1302.
"Dollars" and "$" means lawful money of the United States of America.
"Event of Default" has the meaning specified in Section 501.
"Exchange Act" means the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended from time to time, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
"GAAP" means such accounting principles that are generally accepted in
the United States of America as of the date of any computation required
hereunder.
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"Holder or Securityholder" means a Person in whose name a Security is
registered in the Security Register.
"Indebtedness" of any Person means, without duplication, (i) the
principal of and premium, if any, in respect of (A) indebtedness of such Person
for money borrowed and (B) indebtedness evidenced by notes, debentures, bonds or
other similar instruments for the payment of which such Person is responsible or
liable; (ii) all Capitalized Lease Obligations of such Person; (iii) all
obligations of such Person issued or assumed as the deferred purchase price of
property, all conditional sale obligations and all obligations under any title
retention agreement (but excluding trade accounts payable arising in the
ordinary course of business); (iv) all obligations of such Person for the
reimbursement of any obligor on any letter of credit, banker's acceptance or
similar credit transaction (other than obligations with respect to letters of
credit securing obligations (other than obligations described in (i) through
(iii) above) entered into in the ordinary course of business of such Person to
the extent such letters of credit are not drawn upon or, if and to the extent
drawn upon, such drawing is reimbursed no later than the third Business Day
following receipt by such Person of a demand for reimbursement following payment
on the letter of credit); (v) all obligations of the type referred to in clauses
(i) through (iv) of other Persons and all dividends of other Persons for the
payment of which, in either case, such Person is responsible or liable as
obligor, guarantor or otherwise; and (vi) all obligations of the type referred
to in clauses (i) through (v) of other Persons secured by any Lien on any
property or asset of such Person (whether or not such obligation is assumed by
such Person), the amount of such obligation being deemed to be the lesser of the
value of such property or assets or the amount of the obligation so secured.
"Indenture" means this instrument as originally executed or as it may
from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more indentures
supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof
and shall include the terms of particular series of Securities established as
contemplated by Section 301.
"Interest", when used with respect to an Original Issue Discount
Security which by its terms bears interest only after Maturity, means interest
payable after Maturity.
"Interest Payment Date", when used with respect to any Security, means
the Stated Maturity of an installment of interest on such Security.
"Lien" means any lien (statutory or other), mortgage, pledge,
hypothecation, assignment, deposit arrangement, encumbrance or preference,
priority or other security agreement or preferential arrangement of any kind or
nature whatsoever (including, without limitation, the interest of a vendor or
lessor under any conditional sale, capitalized lease or other title retention
agreement).
"Maturity" when used with respect to any Security, means the date on
which the principal of such Security or an installment of principal becomes due
and payable as therein or herein provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by
declaration of acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise.
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"Officer" means the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer,
the President, any Vice President, the Treasurer, any Assistant Treasurer, the
Controller, the Secretary or any Assistant Secretary of the Company.
"Officer's Certificate" means a certificate signed by an officer and
delivered to the Trustee.
"Opinion of Counsel" means a written opinion of counsel, who may be an
employee of or counsel for the Company, and who shall be reasonably acceptable
to the Trustee.
"Original Issue Discount Security" means any Security which provides
for an amount less than the principal amount thereof to be due and payable upon
a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502.
"Outstanding", when used with respect to Securities or Securities of
any series, means, as of the date of determination, all such Securities
theretofore authenticated and delivered under this Indenture, except:
(i) Securities theretofore cancelled by the Trustee or
delivered to the Trustee for cancellation;
(ii) Securities, or portions thereof, for whose payment or
redemption money in the necessary amount has been theretofore deposited
with the Trustee or any Paying Agent (other than the Company) in trust
or set aside and segregated in trust by the Company (if the Company
shall act as its own Paying Agent) for the Holders of such Securities;
provided that, if such Securities are to be redeemed, notice of such
redemption has been duly given pursuant to this Indenture or provision
therefor satisfactory to the Trustee has been made;
(iii) Securities which have been paid pursuant to Section 306
or in exchange for or in lieu of which other Securities have been
authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture, other than any
such Securities in respect of which there shall have been presented to
the Trustee proof satisfactory to it that such Securities are held by a
bona fide purchaser in whose hands such Securities are valid
obligations of the Company; and
(iv) Securities which have been defeased pursuant to
Section 1302;
provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities have given any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, (a) the principal
amount of an Original Issue Discount Security that shall be deemed to be
outstanding for such purposes shall be that portion of the principal amount
thereof that could be declared to be due and payable upon the occurrence of an
Event of Default and the continuation thereof pursuant to the terms of such
Original Issue Discount Security as of the date of such determination and (b)
Securities owned by the Company or any other obligor
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upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor
shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in
determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only
Securities which the Trustee knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded.
Securities so owned which have been pledged in good faith may be
regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the
Trustee the pledgee's right so to act with respect to such Securities and that
the pledgee is not the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any
Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor.
"Paying Agent" means any Person authorized by the Company to pay the
principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on any Securities on behalf of
the Company. The Company may act as Paying Agent with respect to any Securities
issued hereunder.
"Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint
venture, association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization
or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.
"Place of Payment", when used with respect to the Securities of any
series, means the place or places where the principal of (and premium, if any)
and interest on the Securities of that series are payable as specified as
contemplated by Section 301.
"Redemption Date", when used with respect to any Security of any series
to be redeemed, means the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this
Indenture.
"Redemption Price", when used with respect to any Security of any
series to be redeemed, means the price at which it is to be redeemed pursuant to
this Indenture.
"Registered Security" means any Security issued hereunder and
registered in the Security Register.
"Regular Record Date" for the interest payable on any Interest Payment
Date on the Securities of any series means the date specified for that purpose
as contemplated by Section 301.
"Responsible Officer", when used with respect to the Trustee, means any
officer of the Trustee in its Corporate Trust Office and also means, with
respect to a particular corporate trust matter, any other officer to whom such
matter is referred because of his knowledge of and familiarity with the
particular subject.
"Securities" has the meaning stated in the first recital of this
Indenture and more particularly means any Securities authenticated and delivered
under this Indenture.
"Security Register" and "Security Registrar" have the respective
meanings specified in Section 305.
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"Senior Indebtedness" means, with respect to the Company, Indebtedness
of the Company, except for (1) any such Indebtedness that is by its terms
subordinated to or pari passu with the Securities and (2) any Indebtedness
(including all other debt securities and guarantees in respect of those debt
securities) initially issued to any other trust, or a trustee of such trust,
partnership or other entity affiliated with the Company that is, directly or
indirectly, a financing vehicle of the Company in connection with the issuance
by such entity of preferred securities or other similar securities.
"Significant Subsidiary" means a Subsidiary or Subsidiaries of the
Company possessing assets (including the assets of its own Subsidiaries but
without regard to the Company or any other Subsidiary) having a book value, in
the aggregate, equal to not less than 10% of the book value of the aggregate
assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries calculated on a consolidated basis.
"Special Record Date" for the payment of any Defaulted Interest means
the date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 307.
"Stated Maturity", when used with respect to any Security or any
installment of principal thereof or interest thereon, means the date specified
in such Security as the fixed date on which the principal of such Security or
such installment of principal or interest is due and payable.
"Subsidiary" of a Person means (i) any corporation more than 50% of the
outstanding securities having ordinary voting power of which shall at the time
be owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by such Person or by one or more
of its Subsidiaries, or by such Person and one or more of its Subsidiaries, or
(ii) any partnership, association, joint venture or similar business
organization more than 50% of the ownership interests having ordinary voting
power of which shall at the time be so owned or controlled. Unless otherwise
expressly provided, all references herein to a "Subsidiary" shall mean a
Subsidiary of the Company.
"Trust Indenture Act" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as
amended, as in force at the date as of which this Indenture was executed;
provided, however, that in the event that such Act is amended after such date,
"Trust Indenture Act" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as so amended.
"Trustee" means the Person named as the "Trustee" in the first
paragraph of this instrument until a successor Trustee shall have become such
pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter
"Trustee" shall mean or include each Person who is then a Trustee hereunder, and
if at any time there is more than one such Person, "Trustee" as used with
respect to the Securities of any series shall mean the Trustee with respect to
Securities of that series.
"U.S. Depositary" means, with respect to the Securities of any series
issuable or issued in whole or in part in the form of one or more permanent
global Securities, the Person designated as U.S. Depositary by the Company
pursuant to Section 301, which must be a clearing agency
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registered under the Exchange Act until a successor U.S. Depositary shall
have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and
thereafter "U.S. Depositary" shall mean or include each Person who is then a
U.S. Depositary hereunder, and if at any time there is more than one such
Person, "U.S. Depositary" as used with respect to the Securities of any
series shall mean the U.S. Depositary with respect to the Securities of that
series.
"U.S. Government Obligations" means securities which are (i) direct
obligations of the United States of America for the payment of which its full
faith and credit is pledged or (ii) obligations of a Person controlled or
supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality of the United States of
America the timely payment of which is unconditionally guaranteed by the full
faith and credit of the United States of America which, in either case, are not
callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof or otherwise subject
to prepayment, and shall also include a depository receipt issued by a New York
Clearing House bank or trust company as custodian with respect to any such U.S.
Government obligation or a specific payment of interest on or principal of any
such U.S. Government Obligation held by such custodian for the account of the
holder of a depository receipt, provided that (except as required by law) such
custodian is not authorized to make any deduction from the amount payable to the
holder of such depository receipt or from any amount held by the custodian in
respect of the U.S. Government Obligation or the specific payment of interest on
or principal of the U.S. Government Obligation evidenced by such depository
receipt.
"Vice President", when used with respect to the Company or the Trustee,
means any vice president, whether or not designated by a number or a word or
words added before or after the title "vice president".
SECTION 102. Compliance Certificates and Opinions.
Upon any application or request by the Company to the Trustee to take
any action under any provision of this Indenture, other than an action permitted
by Sections 205 and 704 hereof, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee an
Officer's Certificate stating that all conditions precedent, if any, provided
for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with
and an Opinion of Counsel stating that in the opinion of such counsel all such
conditions precedent, if any, have been complied with, except that in the case
of any such application or request as to which the furnishing of such documents
is specifically required by any provision of this Indenture relating to such
particular application or request, no additional certificate or opinion need be
furnished.
Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a
condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture shall include:
(a) a statement that each individual signing such certificate or
opinion has read such covenant or condition and the definitions herein
relating thereto;
(b) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination
or investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in such
certificate or opinion are based;
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(c) a statement that, in the opinion of each such individual, he has
made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him to
express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition
has been complied with; and
(d) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such
individual, such condition or covenant has been complied with.
SECTION 103. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee.
In any case where several matters are required to be certified by,
or covered by an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that
all such matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such
Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one
such Person may certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and
one or more other such Persons as to other matters, and any such person may
certify or give an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents.
Any certificate or opinion of an Officer may be based, insofar as it
relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations
by, counsel, unless such Officer knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care
should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to
the matters upon which his certificate or opinion is based are erroneous. Any
such certificate or Opinion of Counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to
factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, an
Officer or Officers of the Company stating that the information with respect to
such factual matters is in the possession of the Company, unless such counsel
knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate
or opinion or representations with respect to such matters are erroneous.
Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more
applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other
instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated and
form one instrument.
SECTION 104. Acts of Holders.
(a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by
Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of
substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by agents
duly appointed in writing; and, except as herein otherwise expressly
provided, such action shall become effective when such instrument or
instruments are delivered to the Trustee and, where it is hereby expressly
required, to the Company. Such instrument or instruments (and the action
embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as
the "Act" of the Holders signing such instrument or instruments. Proof of
execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent
shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Section
601) conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the Company, if made in the
manner provided in this Section.
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(b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such
instrument or writing may be proved by the affidavit of a witness of such
execution or by a certificate of a notary public or other officer authorized
by law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the individual
signing such instrument or writing acknowledged to him the execution thereof.
Where such execution is by a signer acting in a capacity other than his
individual capacity, such certificate or affidavit shall also constitute
sufficient proof of his authority. The fact and date of the execution of any
such instrument or writing, or the authority of the Person executing the
same, may also be proved in any other manner which the Trustee deems
sufficient.
(c) The ownership of Registered Securities shall be proved by the
Security Register.
(d) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other Act of the Holder of any Security shall bind every future
Holder of the same Security and the Holder of every Security issued upon the
registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof
in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Trustee or
the Company in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is
made upon such Security.
(e) If the Company shall solicit from the Holders any request,
demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act, the
Company may, at its option, by or pursuant to a Board Resolution, fix in
advance a record date for the determination of Holders entitled to give such
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other
Act, but the Company shall have no obligation to do so. If such a record date
is fixed, such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other Act may be given before or after such record date, but only
the Holders of record at the close of business on such record date shall be
deemed to be Holders for the purposes of determining whether Holders of the
requisite proportion of Outstanding Securities have authorized or agreed or
consented to such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other Act, and for that purpose the Outstanding Securities shall be
computed as of such record date; provided that no such authorization,
agreement or consent by the Holders on such record date shall be deemed
effective unless it shall become effective pursuant to the provisions of this
Indenture not later than six months after the record date.
SECTION 105. Notices, Etc., to Trustee and Company.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver
or Act of Holders or other document provided or permitted by this Indenture to
be made upon, given or furnished to, or filed with,
(a) the Trustee by any Holder or by the Company shall be
sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or
filed in writing to or with the Trustee and received by the Trustee at
its Corporate Trust Office, Attention: Corporate Trust Department, or
(b) the Company by the Trustee or by any Holder shall be sufficient
for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if
in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to the Company addressed
to it at the address of its principal office specified in
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the first paragraph of this Indenture, Attention: Secretary, or at any other
address previously furnished in writing to the Trustee by the Company.
SECTION 106. Notice to Holders; Waiver.
Where this Indenture or any Security provides for notice to Holders of
any event, such notice shall be deemed sufficiently given (unless otherwise
herein or in such Security expressly provided) if in writing and mailed,
first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder affected by such event, at his
address as it appears in the Security Register, not later than the latest date,
and not earlier than the earliest date, prescribed for the giving of such
notice. In any case where notice to Holders is given by mail, neither the
failure to mail such notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed, to any
particular Holder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to
other Holders or the validity of the proceedings to which such notice relates.
Where this Indenture or any Security provides for notice in any manner, such
notice may be waived in writing by the Person entitled to receive such notice,
either before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of
such notice. Waivers of notice by Holders shall be filed with the Trustee, but
such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action
taken in reliance upon such waiver.
In case by reason of the suspension of regular mail service or by
reason of any other cause it shall be impracticable to give such notice by mail,
then such notification as shall be made with the approval of the Trustee shall
constitute a sufficient notification for every purpose hereunder.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or
waiver required or permitted under this Indenture shall be in the English
language, except that any published notice may be in an official language of the
country of publication.
SECTION 107. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.
If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with another
provision hereof which is required to be included in this Indenture by any of
the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act, such required provision shall
control. If any provision of this Indenture modifies or excludes any provision
of the Trust Indenture Act that may be so modified or excluded, the latter
provision shall be deemed to apply to this Indenture as so modified or shall be
excluded, as the case may be.
SECTION 108. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents.
The Article and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are
for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.
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SECTION 109. Successors and Assigns.
All covenants and agreements in this Indenture by the Company shall
bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.
SECTION 110. Separability Clause.
In case any provision in this Indenture or in the Securities shall be
invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of
the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
SECTION 111. Benefits of Indenture.
Nothing in this Indenture or in the Securities, express or implied,
shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto and their successors
hereunder and the Holders, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy
or claim under this Indenture.
SECTION 112. Governing Law.
This Indenture and the Securities shall be governed by and construed in
accordance with the laws (other than the choice of law provisions) of the State
of Oklahoma.
SECTION 113. Legal Holidays.
In any case where any Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated
Maturity of any Security shall not be a Business Day at any Place of Payment,
then (notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or of the
Securities) payment of interest or principal (and premium, if any) need not be
made at such Place of Payment on such date, but may be made on the next
succeeding Business Day, or on such other day as may be set out in an indenture
supplemental hereto or in the Officer's Certificate delivered pursuant to
Section 301, at such Place of Payment with the same force and effect as if made
on the Interest Payment Date or Redemption Date, or at the Stated Maturity,
provided that no interest shall accrue for the period from and after such
Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity, as the case may be.
SECTION 114. No Recourse Against Others.
A director, officer, employee or stockholder, as such, of the Company
shall not have any liability for any obligations of the Company under the
Securities or this Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of or by
reason of such obligations or their creation. Each Securityholder, by accepting
a Security, waives and releases all such liability. Such waivers and releases
are part of the consideration for the issuance of the Securities.
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ARTICLE TWO
SECURITY FORMS
SECTION 201. Forms Generally.
The Securities of each series shall be in substantially the form set
forth in this Article, or in such other form as shall be established by or
pursuant to a Board Resolution or in one or more indentures supplemental hereto,
in each case with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and
other variations as are required or permitted by this Indenture, and may have
such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such legends or
endorsements placed thereon as may be required to comply with the rules of any
securities exchange or as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the
Officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution of the
Securities. If the form of Securities of any series is established by action
taken pursuant to a Board Resolution, a copy of an appropriate record of such
action shall be certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the
Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Company
Order contemplated by Section 303 for the authentication and delivery of such
Securities.
The Trustee's certificates of authentication shall be in substantially
the form set forth in this Article.
The definitive Securities shall be photocopied, printed, lithographed
or engraved on steel engraved borders or may be produced in any other manner,
all as determined by the Officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by
their execution of such Securities.
SECTION 202. Form of Face of Security.
[If the Security is an Original Issue Discount Security, insert--FOR
PURPOSES OF SECTION 1272 OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED (THE
"CODE"), THE AMOUNT OF ORIGINAL ISSUE DISCOUNT (AS DEFINED IN SECTION 1273(a)(1)
OF THE CODE AND TREASURY REGULATION SECTION 1.1273-1(a) WITH RESPECT TO THIS
SECURITY IS ________, THE ISSUE PRICE (AS DEFINED IN TREASURY REGULATION SECTION
1.1273-2) OF THIS SECURITY IS _________, THE ISSUE DATE (AS DEFINED IN SECTION
1275(a)(2) OF THE CODE AND TREASURY REGULATION SECTION 1.1273-2) OF THIS
SECURITY IS __________ AND THE YIELD TO MATURITY OF THIS SECURITY IS
__________.]
OGE ENERGY CORP.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
No. [$]
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OGE ENERGY CORP., a corporation duly organized and existing under the
laws of Oklahoma (herein called the "Company," which term includes any successor
corporation under
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the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises
to pay to ____________, or registered assigns, the principal sum of
______________ Dollars on ____________ [If the Security is to bear interest
prior to Maturity, insert--, and to pay interest thereon from ____________ or
from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or
duly provided for, [semi-annually] [quarterly] [monthly] on ____ and ____ in
each year, commencing __________________ at the rate of __________% per annum,
until the principal hereof is paid or made available for payment. [If applicable
insert--, and (to the extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally
enforceable) at the rate of _________% per annum on any overdue principal and
premium and on any overdue installment of interest]. The interest so payable,
and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as
provided in such Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Security
(or one or more predecessor securities) is registered at the close of business
on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be the ___________ of
__________ (whether or not a Business Day), as the case may be, next preceding
such Interest Payment Date. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly
provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular
Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or
one or more predecessor securities) is registered at the close of business on a
Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by
the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities of this
series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at
any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of
any securities exchange on which the Securities of this series may be listed,
and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully
provided in said Indenture].
[If the Security is not to bear interest prior to Maturity, insert--The
principal of this Security shall not bear interest except in the case of a
default in payment of principal upon acceleration, upon redemption or at Stated
Maturity and in such case the overdue principal of this Security shall bear
interest at the rate of ______% per annum (to the extent that the payment of
such interest shall be legally enforceable), which shall accrue from the date of
such default in payment to the date payment of such principal has been made or
duly provided for. Interest on any overdue principal shall be payable on demand.
Any such interest on any overdue principal that is not so paid on demand shall
bear interest at the rate of ______% per annum (to the extent that the payment
of such interest shall be legally enforceable), which shall accrue from the date
of such demand for payment to the date payment of such interest has been made or
duly provided for, and such interest shall also be payable on demand.]
Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and [if applicable,
insert--any such] interest on this Security will be made at the office or agency
of the Company maintained for that purpose in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in
Dollars [if applicable, insert--; provided, however, that at the option of the
Company payment of interest may be made by check mailed to the address of the
Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security Register].
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Security set
forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes
have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
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Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by
the Trustee referred to on the reverse hereof by manual signature, this Security
shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or
obligatory for any purpose.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly
executed under its corporate seal.
OGE ENERGY CORP.
By:
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Attest:
(SEAL)
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SECTION 203. Form of Reverse of Security.
This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the
Company (herein called the "Securities"), issued and to be issued in one or more
series under an Indenture, dated as of _________________, 1999 (herein called
the "Indenture"), between the Company and Bank of Oklahoma, National
Association, as Trustee (herein called the "Trustee," which term includes any
successor trustee under the Indenture), to which Indenture and all indentures
supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective
rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company,
the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities and of the terms upon which the
Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. This Security is one
of the series designated on the face hereof [, limited in aggregate principal
amount to $_________].
[If applicable, insert--The Securities of this series are subject to
redemption upon not less than 30 nor more than 45 days' notice by first class
mail, [if applicable, insert--(l) on ________ in any year commencing with the
year ______ and ending with the year ______ through operation of the sinking
fund for this series at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of the principal
amount, and (2)] at any time [on or after __________, _________], as a whole or
in part, at the election of the Company, at the following Redemption Prices
(expressed as percentages of the principal amount):
If redeemed [on or before __________, _____%, and if redeemed] during
the 12-month period beginning __________ of the years indicated,
Redemption Redemption
Year Price Year Price
---- ----- ---- -----
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and thereafter at a Redemption Price equal to ___% of the principal amount,
together in the case of any such redemption [if applicable, insert -- (whether
through operation of the sinking fund or otherwise)] with accrued and unpaid
interest to the Redemption Date, but interest installments whose Stated Maturity
is on or prior to such Redemption Date will be payable to the Holders of such
Securities, or one or more predecessor securities, of record at the close of
business on the relevant Record Dates referred to on the face hereof, all as
provided in the Indenture.]
[If applicable, insert -- The Securities of this series are subject to
redemption upon not less than 30 nor more than 45 days' notice by first class
mail, (1) on __________ in any year commencing with the year __________ and
ending with the year _______ through operation of the sinking fund for this
series at the Redemption Prices for redemption through operation of the sinking
fund (expressed as percentages of the principal amount) set forth in the table
below, and (2) at any time [on or after __________], as a whole or in part, at
the election of the Company, at the Redemption Prices for redemption otherwise
than through operation of the sinking fund (expressed as percentages of the
principal amount) set forth in the table below:
If redeemed during a 12-month period beginning __________ of the years
indicated.
Redemption Price
For Redemption Redemption Price for
Through Operation Redemption Otherwise
of the Than Through Operation
Year Sinking Fund of the Sinking Fund
---- ------------ -------------------
and thereafter at a Redemption Price equal to _% of the principal amount,
together in the case of any such redemption (whether through operation of the
sinking fund or otherwise) with accrued and unpaid interest to the Redemption
Date, but interest installments whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to such
Redemption Date will be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or
more predecessor securities, of record at the close of business on the relevant
Record Dates referred to on the face hereof, all as provided in the Indenture.]
[Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may not, prior to _____,
redeem any Securities of this series as contemplated by [clause (2) of] the
preceding paragraph as a part of, or in anticipation of, any refunding operation
by the application, directly or indirectly, of moneys borrowed having an
interest cost to the Company (calculated in accordance with generally accepted
financial practice) of less than ___% per annum.]
[The sinking fund for this series provides for the redemption on
________ in each year beginning with the year _____ and ending with the year
________ of [not less than] $__________ [("mandatory sinking fund") and not more
than $__________] aggregate principal amount of Securities of this series.]
[Securities of this series acquired or redeemed by the Company otherwise than
through [mandatory] sinking fund payments may be credited against subsequent
[mandatory] sinking fund payments otherwise required to be made-- in the
[inverse] order in which they become due.]
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[In the event of redemption of this Security in part only, a new
Security or Securities of this series for the unredeemed portion hereof will be
issued in the name of the Holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof.]
[If the Security is not an Original Issue Discount Security, insert -If
any Event of Default with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and
be continuing, the principal of the Securities of this series may be declared
due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.]
[If the Security is an Original Issue Discount Security, insert -If an Event of
Default with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and be continuing,
an amount of principal of the Securities of this series may be declared due and
payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture. Such amount
shall be equal to--insert formula for determining the amount.] Upon payment (i)
of the amount of principal so declared due and payable and (ii) of interest on
any overdue principal and overdue interest (in each case to the extent that the
payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable), all of the Company's
obligations in respect of the payment of the principal of and interest, if any,
on the Securities of this series shall terminate.
This Security is a general unsecured obligation of the Company and will
be subordinate in right of payment to all existing and future Senior
Indebtedness of the Company.
[This Security is subject to Defeasance as described in the Indenture.]
The Indenture may be modified by the Company and the Trustee without
consent of any Holder with respect to certain matters as described in the
Indenture. In addition, the Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as
therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and
obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of
each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and
the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of
the Securities at the time Outstanding of each series to be affected. The
Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of a majority in
principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on
behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by
the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults
under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the
Holder of this Security shall bind such Holder and all future Holders of this
Security and of any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or
in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or
waiver is made upon this Security.
No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security
or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which
is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of (and premium, if any) and
interest on this Security at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or
currency, herein prescribed.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein
set forth, the transfer of this Security is registrable in the Security
Register, upon surrender of this Security for
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registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in any place
where the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on this Security
are payable, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of
transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly
executed by the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and
thereupon one or more new Securities of this series, of authorized
denominations and for the same Stated Maturity and aggregate principal
amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.
The Securities of this series are issuable only in registered form
without coupons in denominations of [$1,000] and any integral multiple thereof.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set
forth, Securities of this series are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal
amount of Securities of this series of a different authorized denomination, as
requested by the Holder surrendering the same.
No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer
or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover
any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.
Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of transfer,
the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat
the Person in whose name this Security is registered as the owner hereof for all
purposes, whether or not this Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the
Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
The Indenture imposes certain limitations on the ability of the Company
to, among other things, merge or consolidate with any other Person or sell,
assign, transfer or lease all or substantially all of its properties or assets
[If other covenants are applicable pursuant to the provisions of Section 301,
insert here]. All such covenants and limitations are subject to a number of
important qualifications and exceptions. The Company must report periodically to
the Trustee on compliance with the covenants in the Indenture.
A director, officer, employee or stockholder, as such, of the Company
shall not have any liability for any obligations of the Company under this
Security or the Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of or by reason
of, such obligations or their creation. Each Holder, by accepting a Security,
waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and release are part of the
consideration for the issuance of this Security.
[If applicable, insert -- Pursuant to a recommendation promulgated by
the Committee on Uniform Security Identification Procedures ("CUSIP"), the
Company has caused CUSIP numbers to be printed on the Securities of this series
as a convenience to the Holders of the Securities of this series. No
representation is made as to the correctness or accuracy of such numbers as
printed on the Securities of this series and reliance may be placed only on the
other identification numbers printed hereon.]
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All capitalized terms used in this Security without definition which
are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the
Indenture.
ASSIGNMENT FORM
To assign this Security, fill in the form below: (I) or (we) assign
and transfer this Security to
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(Insert assignee's social security or tax I.D. number)
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(Print or type assignee's name, address and zip code)
and irrevocably appoint_______________________________________________________
agent to transfer this Security on the books of the Company. The agent may
substitute another to act for him.
Dated: ________________________ Your Signature: ________________________
(Sign exactly as your name
appears on the other side
of this Security)
Signature Guaranty:
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[Signatures must be guaranteed by an "eligible
guarantor institution" meeting the requirements
of the Transfer Agent, which requirements will
include membership or participation in STAMP or
such other "signature guarantee program" as may
be determined by the Transfer Agent in addition
to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in
accordance with the Exchange Act.]
Social Security Number or Taxpayer Identification
Number:___________________________
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SECTION 204. Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication.
Dated:__________________
This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein
referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
BANK OF OKLAHOMA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, As
Trustee
By_________________________
Authorized Signatory
SECTION 205. Securities in Global Form.
If Securities of a series are issuable in global form, as
contemplated by Section 301, then, notwithstanding the provisions of Section
302, any such Security shall represent such of the Outstanding Securities of
such series as shall be specified therein and may provide that it shall
represent the aggregate amount of Outstanding Securities from time to time
endorsed thereon and that the aggregate amount of Outstanding Securities
represented thereby may from time to time be reduced to reflect exchanges.
Any endorsement of a Security in global form to reflect the amount, or any
increase or decrease in the amount, of Outstanding Securities represented
thereby shall be made in such manner and upon instructions given by such
Person or Persons as shall be specified therein or in the Company Order to be
delivered to the Trustee pursuant to Section 303 or Section 304. Subject to
the provisions of Section 303 and, if applicable, Section 304, the Trustee
shall deliver and redeliver any Security in permanent global form in the
manner and upon instructions given by the Person or Persons specified therein
or in the applicable Company Order. If a Company Order pursuant to Section
303 or 304 has been, or simultaneously is, delivered, any instructions by the
Company with respect to endorsement or delivery or redelivery of a Security
in global form shall be in writing but need not comply with Section 102 and
need not be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel.
The provisions of Section 309 shall apply to any Security
represented by a Security in global form if such Security was never issued
and sold by the Company and the Company delivers to the Trustee the Security
in global form together with written instructions (which need not comply with
Section 102 and need not be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel) with regard
to the reduction in the principal amount of Securities represented thereby.
Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 201 and 307, unless
otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301, payment of principal of,
premium, if any, and interest on any Security in permanent global form shall
be made to the Person or Persons specified therein.
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Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 308 and except as provided
in the preceding paragraph, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the
Company and the Trustee shall treat a Person as the Holder of such principal
amount of Outstanding Securities represented by a permanent global Security
as shall be specified in a written statement of the Holder of such permanent
global Security.
SECTION 206. CUSIP Number
The Company in issuing Securities of any series may use a "CUSIP"
number, and, if so, the Trustee may use the CUSIP number in notices of
redemption or exchange as a convenience to Holders of such series; provided,
that any such notice may state that no representation is made as to the
correctness or accuracy of the CUSIP number printed on the notice or on the
Securities of such series, and that reliance may be placed only on the other
identification numbers printed on the Securities, and any such redemption
shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of such numbers. The
Company will promptly notify the Trustee of any change in the CUSIP number of
any series of Securities.
SECTION 207. Form of Legend for the Securities in Global Form.
Any Security in global form authenticated and delivered hereunder
shall bear a legend in substantially the following form:
"This Security is in global form within the meaning of the
Indenture hereinafter referred to and is registered in the name of a
Common Depositary or a U.S. Depositary. Unless and until it is exchanged
in whole or in part for Securities in certificated form, this Security may
not be transferred except as a whole by the Common Depositary or a U.S.
Depositary or by a nominee of the Common Depositary or a nominee of the U.S.
Depositary as the case may be."
ARTICLE THREE
SECURITIES
SECTION 301. Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series.
The aggregate principal amount of Securities which may be
authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is unlimited.
The Securities may be issued from time to time in one or more
series. There shall be established in or pursuant to a Board Resolution, and
set forth in an Officer's Certificate, or established in one or more
indentures supplemental hereto, prior to the issuance of Securities of any
series:
(1) the title of the Securities of the series
(which shall distinguish the Securities of the series from all other
Securities);
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(2) any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the
Securities of the series which may be authenticated and delivered under
this Indenture (except for Securities authenticated and delivered upon
registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other
Securities of the series pursuant to Sections 304, 305, 306, 906 or
1107);
(3) whether any Securities of the series are to be issuable in
permanent global form with or without coupons and, if so, (i) whether
beneficial owners of interests in any such permanent global Security
may exchange such interests for Securities of such series and of like
tenor of any authorized form and denomination and the circumstances
under which any such exchanges may occur, if other than in the manner
provided in Section 305, and (ii) the name of the Common Depositary (as
defined in Section 304) or the U.S. Depositary, as the case may be,
with respect to any global Security;
(4) the date or dates on which the principal of the
Securities of the series is payable;
(5) the rate or rates at which the Securities of the series
shall bear interest, if any, the date or dates from which such interest
shall accrue, the Interest Payment Dates on which such interest shall
be payable and the Regular Record Date for the interest payable on any
Interest Payment Date and, if applicable to such series of Securities,
the basis points and United States Treasury rate(s) and any other rates
or formula to be used in calculating the reset rate;
(6) the place or places where the principal of (and premium,
if any) and interest on Securities of the series shall be payable;
(7) the right of the Company, if any, to defer any payment of
principal of or interest on the Securities of the series, and the
maximum length of any such deferral period;
(8) the period or periods within which, the price or prices at
which and the terms and conditions upon which Securities of the series
may be redeemed, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company,
pursuant to any sinking fund or otherwise;
(9) the obligation, if any, of the Company to redeem or
purchase Securities of the series pursuant to any sinking fund or
analogous provisions or at the option of a Holder thereof and the
period or periods within which, the price or prices at which and the
terms and conditions upon which Securities of the series shall be
redeemed or purchased, in whole or in part, pursuant to such
obligation, and, where applicable, the obligation of the Company to
select the Securities to be redeemed;
(10) if other than denominations of $1,000 and any integral
multiple thereof, the denominations in which Securities of the series
shall be issuable;
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(11) if other than the principal amount thereof, the portion
of the principal amount of Securities of the series which shall be
payable upon declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof
pursuant to Section 502;
(12) additional Events of Default with respect to Securities
of the series, if any, other than those set forth herein;
(13) if either or both of Section 1302 and Section 1303 shall
be inapplicable to the Securities of the series (provided that if no
such inapplicability shall be specified, then both Section 1302 and
Section 1303 shall be applicable to the Securities of the series);
(14) if other than U.S. dollars, the currency or currencies or
units based on or related to currencies in which the Securities of such
series shall be denominated and in which payments of principal of, and
any premium and interest on, such Securities shall or may be payable;
provided, however, that prior to the issuance of any such Securities,
the Company shall have obtained the written consent of the Trustee,
which consent may be withheld in the sole discretion of the Trustee, to
the currency, currencies, or currency units so established;
(15) additional covenants with respect to Securities of the
series, if any, other than those set forth herein;
(16) if other than the Trustee, the identity of the
Registrar and any Paying Agent; and
(17) any other terms of the series (which terms shall not be
inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture).
All Securities of any one series shall be substantially identical
except as to denomination and except as may otherwise be provided in or
pursuant to such Board Resolution and set forth in such Officer's Certificate
or in any such Indenture supplemental hereto.
If any of the terms of the series are established by action taken
pursuant to a Board Resolution, a copy of an appropriate record of such
action shall be certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the
Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the
Officer's Certificate setting forth, or providing the manner for determining,
the terms of the Securities of such series.
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SECTION 302. Denominations.
The Securities of each series shall be issuable in registered form
without coupons in such denominations as shall be specified as contemplated
by Section 301. In the absence of any such provisions with respect to the
Securities of any series, the Securities of such series shall be issuable in
denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof.
SECTION 303. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating.
The Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its
President or one of its Vice Presidents, under its corporate seal reproduced
thereon attested by its Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries. The
signature of any of these officers on the Securities may be manual or
facsimile. The seal of the Company may be in the form of a facsimile thereof
and may be impressed, affixed, imprinted or otherwise reproduced on the
Securities. Typographical and other minor errors or defects in any such
reproduction of the seal or any such signature shall not affect the validity
or enforceability of any Security that has been duly authenticated and
delivered by the Trustee.
Securities bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals
who were at any time the proper officers of the Company shall bind the
Company, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to
hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Securities
or did not hold such offices at the date of such Securities.
At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery
of this Indenture, the Company may deliver Securities of any series executed
by the Company to the Trustee for authentication, together with a Company
Order for the authentication and delivery of such Securities, and the Trustee
in accordance with the Company Order shall authenticate and make such
Securities available for delivery. If the form or terms of the Securities of
the series have been established in or pursuant to one or more Board
Resolutions as permitted by Sections 201 and 301, in authenticating such
Securities, and accepting the additional responsibilities under this
Indenture in relation to such Securities, the Trustee shall be entitled to
receive, and (subject to Sections 315(a) through (d) of the Trust Indenture
Act) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating,
(a) if the form of such Securities has been established by or
pursuant to Board Resolution as permitted by Section 201, that such form has
been established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture;
(b) if the terms of such Securities have been established by or
pursuant to Board Resolution as permitted by Section 301, that such terms
have been established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture;
(c) that such Securities, when authenticated and delivered by the
Trustee and issued by the Company in the manner and subject to any conditions
specified in such Opinion of Counsel, will constitute valid and legally
binding obligations of the Company, enforceable in accordance
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with their terms, except to the extent enforceability may be limited by
applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and other
similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors' rights generally and by
the effect of general principles of equity (regardless of whether
enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law); and
(d) that no consent, approval, authorization, order, registration or
qualification of or with any court or any governmental agency or body having
jurisdiction over the Company is required for the execution and delivery of
such Securities by the Company, except such as have been obtained (except
that no opinion need be expressed as to state securities or Blue Sky laws).
If such form or terms have been so established, the Trustee shall not be
required to authenticate such Securities if the issue of such Securities
pursuant to this Indenture will affect the Trustee's own rights, duties or
immunities under the Securities and this Indenture or otherwise in a manner
which is not reasonably acceptable to the Trustee, or in the written opinion
of counsel to the Trustee (which counsel may be an employee of the Trustee)
such authentication may not lawfully be made or would involve the Trustee in
personal liability.
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 301 and of the immediately
preceding paragraph, if all Securities of a series are not to be originally
issued at one time, it shall not be necessary to deliver the Officer's
Certificate otherwise required pursuant to Section 301 or the Company Order
and Opinion of Counsel otherwise required pursuant to the immediately
preceding paragraph at or prior to the time of authentication of each
Security of such series if such documents are delivered at or prior to the
authentication upon original issuance of the first Security of such series to
be issued.
If the Company shall establish pursuant to Section 301 that the
Securities of a series are to be issued in the form of one or more global
Securities, then the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall, in
accordance with this Section and the Company Order with respect to the
authentication and delivery of such series, authenticate and deliver one or
more global Securities that (i) shall be in an aggregate amount equal to the
aggregate principal amount specified in such Company Order, (ii) shall be
registered in the name of the Common Depositary or U.S. Depositary, as the
case may be, therefor or its nominee, and (iii) shall be made available for
delivery by the Trustee to such depositary or pursuant to such depositary's
instruction.
Each depositary designated pursuant to Section 301 must, at the time
of its designation and at all times while it serves as depositary, be a
clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act and any other applicable
statute or regulation.
Unless otherwise provided for in the form of Security, each Security
shall be dated the date of its authentication.
No Security shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or
be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on such Security
a certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein
executed by the Trustee by manual signature, and such certificate
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upon any Security shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that
such Security has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder and is
entitled to the benefits of this Indenture.
SECTION 304. Temporary Securities.
Pending the preparation of definitive Securities of any series, the
Company may execute, and upon Company Order the Trustee shall authenticate
and make available for delivery, temporary Securities which are printed,
lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise produced, in any
authorized denomination, substantially of the tenor of the definitive
Securities in lieu of which they are issued and with such appropriate
insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as the officers
executing such Securities may determine, as evidenced by their execution of
such Securities.
In the case of Securities of any series, such temporary Securities
may be in global form, representing all or a portion of the Outstanding
Securities of such series.
Except in the case of temporary Securities in global form (which
shall be exchanged in accordance with the provisions of Section 305), if
temporary Securities of any series are issued, the Company will cause
definitive Securities of that series to be prepared without unreasonable
delay. After the preparation of definitive Securities of such series, the
temporary Securities of such series shall be exchangeable for definitive
Securities of such series upon surrender of the temporary Securities of such
series at the office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment for that
series, without charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any
one or more temporary Securities of any series, the Company shall execute and
the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery in exchange
therefor a like principal amount of definitive Securities of the same series
of authorized denominations and of like tenor. Until so exchanged, the
temporary Securities of any series shall in all respects be entitled to the
same benefits under this Indenture as definitive Securities of such series.
If temporary Securities of any series are issued in global form, any
such temporary global Security shall, unless otherwise provided therein, be
delivered to the office of a depositary or common depositary (the "Common
Depositary") for credit to the respective accounts of the beneficial owners
of such Securities (or to such other accounts as they may direct).
SECTION 305. Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange.
The Company shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office of
the Trustee a register (the register maintained in such office and in any
other office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment being herein
sometimes collectively referred to as the "Security Register") in which,
subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company shall
provide for the registration of Securities and of registration of transfers
of Securities. The Trustee is hereby appointed "Security Registrar" for the
purpose of registering Securities and transfers of Securities as herein
provided.
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Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Security of any
series at the office or agency of the Company in Place of Payment for that
series, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and
make available for delivery, in the name of the designated transferee or
transferees, one or more new Securities of the same series, of any authorized
denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount and Stated Maturity.
At the option of the Holder, Securities of any series may be
exchanged for other Securities of the same series, of any authorized
denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount and Stated Maturity,
upon surrender of the Securities to be exchanged at such office or agency.
Whenever any Securities are so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall
execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery,
the Securities which the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, except as otherwise specified as
contemplated by Section 301, any permanent global Security shall be
exchangeable only as provided in this paragraph. If the beneficial owners of
interests in a permanent global Security are entitled to exchange such
interests for Securities of such series and of like tenor and principal
amount of another authorized form and denomination, as specified and as
subject to the conditions contemplated by Section 301, then without
unnecessary delay but in any event not later than the earliest date on which
such interests may be so exchanged, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee
definitive Securities of that series in aggregate principal amount equal to
the principal amount of such permanent global Security, executed by the
Company. On or after the earliest date on which such interests may be so
exchanged, such permanent global Securities shall be surrendered from time to
time by the Common Depositary or the U.S. Depositary, as the case may be, and
in accordance with instructions given to the Trustee and the Common
Depositary or the U.S. Depositary, as the case may be (which instructions
shall be in writing but need not comply with Section 102 or be accompanied by
an opinion of Counsel), as shall be specified in the Company Order with
respect thereto to the Trustee, as the Company's agent for such purpose, to
be exchanged, in whole or in part, for definitive Securities of the same
series without charge. The Trustee shall authenticate and make available for
delivery, in exchange for each portion of such surrendered permanent global
Security, a like aggregate principal amount of definitive Securities of the
same series of authorized denominations and of like tenor as the portion of
such permanent global Security to be exchanged which shall be in the form of
the Securities of such series; provided, however, that no such exchanges may
occur during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before the
day of the mailing of a notice of redemption of Securities of that series
selected for redemption under Section 1103 and ending at the close of
business on the day of such mailing. Promptly following any such exchange in
part, such permanent global Security shall be returned by the Trustee to the
Common Depositary or the U.S. Depositary, as the case may be, or such other
Common Depositary or U.S. Depositary referred to above in accordance with the
written instructions of the Company referred to above. If a Security in the
form specified for such series is issued in exchange for any portion of a
permanent global Security after the close of business at the office or agency
where such exchange occurs on (i) any Regular Record Date and before the
opening of business at such office or agency on the relevant Interest Payment
Date, or (ii) any Special Record Date and before the opening of business at
such office or agency on the related proposed date for payment of interest or
Defaulted Interest, as the case
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may be, such interest or Defaulted Interest will not be payable on such
Interest Payment Date or proposed date for payment, as the case may be, in
respect of such Security in the form specified for such series, but will be
payable on such Interest Payment Date or proposed date for payment, as the
case may be, only to the Person to whom interest in respect of such portion
of such permanent global Security is payable in accordance with the
provisions of this Indenture.
All Securities issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange
of Securities shall be the valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the
same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the
Securities surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.
Every Security presented or surrendered for registration of transfer
or for exchange shall (if so required by the Company or the Trustee) be duly
endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form
satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed, by the
Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing.
Unless otherwise provided in the Securities to be transferred or
exchanged, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer
or exchange of Securities, but the Company may require payment of a sum
sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed
in connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities,
other than exchanges pursuant to Section 304, 906 or 1107 not involving any
transfer.
The Company shall not be required (i) to issue, register the
transfer of or exchange Securities of any series during a period beginning at
the opening of business 15 days before the day of the mailing of a notice of
redemption of Securities of that series selected for redemption under Section
1103 and ending at the close of business on the day of such mailing, or (ii)
to register the transfer of or exchange any Security so selected for
redemption in whole or in part, except the unredeemed portion of any Security
being redeemed in part.
SECTION 306. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities.
If any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee, the Company
shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange
therefor a new Security of the same series and of like tenor and principal
amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.
If there shall be delivered to the Company and the Trustee (i)
evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any
Security and (ii) such security or indemnity as may be required by them to
save each of them and any agent of either of them harmless, then, in the
absence of notice to the Company or the Trustee that such Security has been
acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Company shall execute and upon its
request the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in lieu of any such
destroyed, lost or stolen Security, a new Security of the same series and of
like tenor and principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously
outstanding.
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In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security has
become or is about to become due and payable, the Company in its discretion
may, instead of issuing a new Security, pay such Security.
Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section, the
Company may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other
expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith.
Every new Security of any series issued pursuant to this Section in
lieu of any destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall constitute an original
additional contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the
destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be at any time enforceable by
anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally
and proportionately with any and all other Securities of that series duly
issued hereunder.
The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to
the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the
replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities.
SECTION 307. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved.
Interest on any Security which is payable, and is punctually paid or
duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the Person
in whose name that Security (or one or more predecessor securities) is
registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such
interest.
Any interest on any Security of any series which is payable, but is
not punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date
(herein called "Defaulted Interest") shall forthwith cease to be payable to
the Holder on the relevant Regular Record Date by virtue of having been such
Holder, and such Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Company, at its
election in each case, as provided in Clause (1) or (2) below:
(1) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted
Interest to the Persons in whose names the Securities of such series
(or their respective predecessor securities) are registered at the
close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such
Defaulted Interest, which shall be fixed in the following manner.
The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of
Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each Security of such
series and the date of the proposed payment, and at the same time
the Company shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of money equal
to the aggregate amount proposed to be paid in respect of such
Defaulted Interest or shall make arrangements satisfactory to the
Trustee for such deposit prior to the date of the proposed payment,
such money when deposited to be held in trust for the benefit of the
Persons entitled to such Defaulted Interest as in this Section 307
provided. Thereupon the Trustee shall fix a Special Record Date for
the payment of such Defaulted Interest which shall be not more than
15 days and not less than 10 days prior to the date of the
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proposed payment and not less than 10 days after the receipt by the
Trustee of the notice of the proposed payment. The Trustee shall
promptly notify the Company of such Special Record Date and, in the
name and at the expense of the Company, shall cause notice of the
proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record
Date therefor to be mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each
Holder of Securities of such series at his address as it appears in
the Security Register, not less than 10 days prior to such Special
Record Date. Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted
Interest and the Special Record Date therefor having been so mailed,
such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Persons in whose names
the Securities of such series (or their respective predecessor
securities) are registered at the close of business on such Special
Record Date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the following
Clause (2).
(2) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest on
the Securities of any series in any other lawful manner not
inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which
such Securities may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required
by such exchange, if, after notice given by the Company to the Trustee
of the proposed payment pursuant to this Section 307, such manner of
payment shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section, each Security
delivered under this Indenture upon registration of transfer of or in
exchange for or in lieu of any other Security shall carry the rights to
interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other
Security.
SECTION 308. Persons Deemed Owners.
Prior to due presentment of a Security for registration of transfer,
the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may
treat the Person in whose name such Security is registered as the owner of
such Security for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of (and
premium, if any) and (subject to Section 307) interest on such Security and
for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Security be overdue,
and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any agent of the Company or the
Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
None of the Company, the Trustee or any agent of the Company or the
Trustee shall have any responsibility or liability for any aspect of the
records relating to or payments made on account of a beneficial ownership
interest of a Security in global form, or for maintaining, supervising or
reviewing any records relating to such beneficial ownership interest.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to any Security in global form,
nothing herein shall prevent the Company or the Trustee or any agent of the
Company or the Trustee from giving effect to any written certification, proxy
or other authorization furnished by any Common Depositary (or its nominee),
as a Holder, with respect to such Security in global form or impair, as
between such Common Depositary and owners of beneficial interests in such
Security in global form, the operation of customary practices governing the
exercise of the right of such Common Depositary (or its nominee) as holder of
such Security in global form.
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SECTION 309. Cancellation.
All Securities surrendered for payment, redemption, registration of
transfer or exchange or for credit against any sinking fund payment shall, if
surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee, be delivered to the Trustee
and shall be promptly cancelled by it. The Company may at any time deliver to
the Trustee for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated and
delivered hereunder which the Company may have acquired in any manner
whatsoever, and all Securities so delivered shall be promptly cancelled by
the Trustee. No Securities shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange
for any Securities cancelled as provided in this Section, except as expressly
permitted by this Indenture. All cancelled Securities shall be held by the
Trustee and may be destroyed (and, if so destroyed, certification of their
destruction shall be delivered to the Company if requested in writing to do
so, unless, by a Company Order, the Company shall direct that cancelled
Securities be returned to it).
SECTION 310. Computation of Interest.
Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for
Securities of any series, interest on the Securities of each series shall be
computed on the basis of a year of twelve 30-day months.
ARTICLE FOUR
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
SECTION 401. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture.
This Indenture shall cease to be of further effect (except as to any
surviving rights of registration of transfer or exchange of Securities herein
expressly provided for or in the form of Security for such series), when the
Trustee, upon Company Request and at the expense of the Company, shall
execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this
Indenture, when
(1) either
(A) all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than
(i) Securities which have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been
replaced or paid as provided in Section 306 and (ii) Securities for whose
payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and held in
trust by the Company and thereafter repaid to the Company or discharged from
such trust, as provided in Section 1007) have been delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation; or
(B) all such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation
(i) have become due and payable, or
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(ii) will become due and payable at their Stated Maturity
within one year, or
(iii) are to be called for redemption within one year under
arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of
redemption by the Trustee in the name, and at the expense, of the Company,
and the Company, in the case of (i), (ii) or (iii) above, has deposited with
the Trustee as trust funds in trust for the purpose an amount sufficient to
pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on such Securities not theretofore
delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, for principal (and premium, if
any) and interest to the date of such deposit (in the case of Securities
which have become due and payable) or to the Stated Maturity or Redemption
Date, as the case may be;
(2) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable
hereunder by the Company; and
(3) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officer's
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions
precedent provided for herein relating to the satisfaction and discharge of
this Indenture have been complied with.
Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture,
the obligations of the Company to the Trustee under Section 607, the
obligations of the Company to any Authenticating Agent under Section 614 and,
if money shall have been deposited with the Trustee pursuant to subclause (B)
of clause (1) of this Section, the obligations of the Trustee under Section
402 and the last paragraph of Section 1007 shall survive.
SECTION 402. Application of Trust Money.
Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 1007, all
money deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 401 shall be held in
trust and applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the Securities
and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying
Agent (including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee
may determine, to the Persons entitled thereto, of the principal (and
premium, if any) and interest for whose payment such money has been deposited
with or received by the Trustee.
ARTICLE FIVE
REMEDIES
SECTION 501. Events of Default.
"Event of Default," wherever used herein with respect to Securities of
any series, means any one of the following events (whatever the reason for such
Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or to be
effected by operation of law or pursuant to any
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judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of
any administrative or governmental body):
(1) the Company defaults in the payment of interest on any Security
of that series when such interest becomes due and payable and the default
continues for a period of 30 days; provided, however that if the Company is
permitted by the terms of the Securities of the applicable series to defer
the payment in question, the date on which such payment is due and payable
shall be the date on which the Company is required to make payment following
such deferral, if such deferral has been elected pursuant to the terms of the
Securities; or
(2) the Company defaults in the payment of the principal of (or
premium, if any, on) any Security of that series when the same becomes due
and payable at Maturity, upon redemption (including redemptions under Article
Eleven), or otherwise; provided, however, that if the Company is permitted by
the terms of the Securities of the applicable series to defer the payment in
question, the date on which such payment is due and payable shall be the date
on which the Company is required to make payment following such deferral, if
such deferral has been elected pursuant to the terms of the Securities; or
(3) the Company fails to observe or perform any of its other
covenants, warranties or agreements in the Securities of that series or this
Indenture (other than a covenant, agreement or warranty a default in whose
performance or whose breach is elsewhere in this Section specifically dealt
with or which has expressly been included in this Indenture solely for the
benefit of one or more series of Securities other than that series), and the
failure to observe or perform continues for the period and after the notice
specified in the last paragraph of this Section; or
(4) the Company defaults in the payment of any Indebtedness at the
maturity or acceleration thereof (after giving effect to any applicable grace
period) or upon the acceleration thereof as a result of such Indebtedness
becoming or being declared due and payable prior to the date on which it
would otherwise become due and payable, and such default in payment is not
cured or such acceleration shall not be rescinded or annulled within 10 days
after written notice to the Company from the Trustee or to the Company and to
the Trustee from the Holders of at least 10% in aggregate principal amount of
the Securities of that series at the time outstanding; provided that it shall
not be an Event of Default if the principal amount of Indebtedness (other
than Indebtedness represented by Securities issued pursuant to this
Indenture) which is not paid at maturity or the maturity of which is
accelerated is less than the amount equal to 1% of the Company's consolidated
total assets (determined as of its most recent fiscal year-end); provided
further that if, prior to a declaration of acceleration of the maturity of
the Securities of that series or the entry of judgment in favor of the
Trustee in a suit pursuant to Section 503, such default shall be remedied or
cured by the Company or waived by the holders of such Indebtedness, then the
Event of Default hereunder by reason thereof shall be deemed likewise to have
been thereupon remedied, cured or waived without further action upon the part
of either the Trustee or any of the Holders of the Securities of that series,
and provided further, that, subject to Sections 601 and 602, the Trustee
shall not be charged with knowledge of any such default unless written notice
of such default shall have been given to the Trustee by the Company, by a
holder or an
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agent of a holder of any such Indebtedness, by the trustee then acting under
any indenture or other instrument under which such default shall have
occurred, or by the Holders of at least five percent in aggregate principal
amount of the Securities of that series at the time outstanding; or
(5) the Company pursuant to or within the meaning of any Bankruptcy
Law (A) commences a voluntary case or proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law
with respect to itself, (B) consents to the entry of a judgment, decree or
order for relief against it in an involuntary case or proceeding under any
Bankruptcy Law, (C) consents to or acquiesces in the institution of
bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings against it, (D) applies for, consents to
or acquiesces in the appointment of or taking possession by a Custodian of
the Company or for any material part of its property, (E) makes a general
assignment for the benefit of its creditors or (F) takes any corporate action
in furtherance of or to facilitate, conditionally or otherwise, any of the
foregoing; or
(6) (i) a court of competent jurisdiction enters a judgment, decree
or order for relief in respect of the Company in an involuntary case or
proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law which shall (A) approve as properly filed
a petition seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition in
respect of the Company, (B) appoint a Custodian of the Company or for any
material part of its property or (C) order the winding-up or liquidation of
its affairs, and such judgment, decree or order shall remain unstayed and in
effect for a period of 60 consecutive days; or (ii) any bankruptcy or
insolvency petition or application is filed, or any bankruptcy or insolvency
proceeding is commenced against the Company and such petition, application or
proceeding is not dismissed within 60 days; or (iii) a warrant of attachment
is issued against any material portion of the property of the Company which
is not released within 60 days of service; or
(7) any other Event of Default provided with respect to Securities
of that series.
A Default under clause (3) above is not an Event of Default until
the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of
the Outstanding Securities of that series notify the Company of the Default
and the Company does not cure the Default within 60 days after receipt of the
notice. The notice must specify the Default, demand that it be remedied and
state that the notice is a "Notice of Default." When a Default under clause
(3) above is cured within such 60-day period, it ceases.
SECTION 502. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment.
If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series
(other than an Event of Default specified in clause (5) or (6) of Section
501) occurs and is continuing, the Trustee by notice in writing to the
Company, or the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of that series by notice in writing to the Company and
the Trustee, may declare the unpaid principal of and accrued interest to the
date of acceleration (or, if the Securities of that series are Original Issue
Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount as may be specified
in the terms of that series) on all the Outstanding Securities of that series
to be due and payable immediately and, upon any such declaration, the
Outstanding
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Securities of that series (or specified principal amount) shall become and be
immediately due and payable.
If an Event of Default specified in clause (5) or (6) of Section 501
occurs, all unpaid principal of and accrued interest on the Outstanding
Securities of that series (or specified principal amount) shall ipso facto
become and be immediately due and payable without any declaration or other
act on the part of the Trustee or any Holder of any Security of that series.
Upon payment of all such principal and interest, all of the
Company's obligations under the Securities of that series and (upon payment
of the Securities of all series) this Indenture shall terminate, except
obligations under Section 607.
The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of that series by notice to the Trustee may rescind an
acceleration and its consequences if (i) all existing Events of Default,
other than the nonpayment of the principal and interest of the Securities of
that series that has become due solely by such declaration of acceleration,
have been cured or waived, (ii) to the extent the payment of such interest is
lawful, interest on overdue installments of interest and overdue principal
that has become due otherwise than by such declaration of acceleration have
been paid, (iii) the rescission would not conflict with any judgment or
decree of a court of competent jurisdiction and (iv) all payments due to the
Trustee and any predecessor Trustee under Section 607 have been made.
SECTION 503. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by
Trustee.
The Company covenants that if:
(1) default is made in the payment of any interest on any
Security of any series when such interest becomes due and
payable and such default continues for a period of 30 days,
or
(2) default is made in the payment of the principal of (or
premium, if any, on) any Security of any series at the
Maturity thereof,
the Company will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of
the Holders of such Securities, the whole amount then due and payable on such
Securities for principal (and premium, if any) and interest and, to the
extent that payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable, interest
on any overdue principal (and premium, if any) and on any overdue interest,
at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities, and, in addition
thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the reasonable
costs and expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation,
expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel.
If the Company fails to pay such amounts forthwith upon such demand,
the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, may
institute a judicial proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and
unpaid, may prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree and
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may enforce the same against the Company or any other obligor upon such
Securities and collect the moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable in the
manner provided by law out of the property of the Company or any other
obligor upon such Securities, wherever situated.
If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series
occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to
protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the Holders of Securities of
such series by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall
deem most effectual to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the
specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid
of the exercise of any power granted herein, or to secure any other proper
remedy.
SECTION 504. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.
In case of the pendency of any receivership, insolvency,
liquidation, bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition
or other judicial proceeding relative to the Company or any other obligor
upon the Securities or the property of the Company or of such other obligor
or their creditors, the Trustee (irrespective of whether the principal of the
Securities shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by
declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Trustee shall have
made any demand on the Company for the payment of overdue principal or
interest) shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding
or otherwise,
(i) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of
principal (and premium, if any) and interest owing and unpaid in
respect of the Securities and to file such other papers or documents
as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the
Trustee (including any claim for the reasonable compensation,
expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agent and
counsel) and of the Holders allowed in such judicial proceedings, and
(ii) to collect and receive any moneys or other property
payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same;
and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator,
sequestrator or other similar official in any such judicial proceeding
is hereby authorized by each Holder to make such payments to the
Trustee and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making
of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Trustee any
amount due it for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements
and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other
amounts due the Trustee under Section 607.
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to
authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan
of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the
Securities or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the Trustee to
vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding.
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SECTION 505. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities.
All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the
Securities may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the
possession of any of the Securities or the production thereof in any
proceeding relating thereto, and any such proceeding instituted by the
Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and
any recovery of judgment shall, after provision for the payment of the
reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee,
its agents and counsel, be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the
Securities in respect of which such judgment has been recovered.
SECTION 506. Application of Money Collected.
Any money collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article in
respect of the Securities of any series shall be applied in the following
order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee and, in case of the
distribution of such money on account of principal (or premium, if any) or
interest, upon presentation of the Securities in respect of which moneys have
been collected and the notation thereon of the payment if only partially paid
and upon surrender thereof if fully paid:
First: To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee under Section
607 applicable to such series;
Second: To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid for
principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Securities of such
series in respect of which or for the benefit of which such money has been
collected, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to
the amounts due and payable on such Securities of such series for principal
(and premium, if any) and interest, respectively; and
Third: To the Company.
The Trustee may fix a record date and payment date for any payment
to Holders pursuant to this Section 506. At least fifteen (15) days before
such record date, the Trustee shall mail to each Holder and the Company a
notice that states the record date, the payment date and the amount to be
paid.
SECTION 507. Limitation on Suits.
No Holder of any Security of any series shall have any right to
institute any proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this
Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other
remedy hereunder, unless:
(1) such Holder has previously given written notice to the Trustee
of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities of that
series;
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(2) the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of that series shall have made written request to the
Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default in its
own name as Trustee hereunder;
(3) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee reasonable
indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred in
compliance with such request;
(4) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice,
request and offer of indemnity has failed to institute any such proceeding;
and
(5) no direction inconsistent with such written request has been
given to the Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders of a majority
in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series;
it being understood and intended that no one or more Holders of Securities of
any series shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by
availing himself of, any provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or
prejudice the rights of any other of such Holders, or to obtain or to seek to
obtain priority or preference over any other of such Holders or to enforce
any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for
the equal and ratable benefit of all Holders of Securities of the affected
series.
SECTION 508. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal,
Premium and Interest.
Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the Holder of
any Security shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to
receive payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and (subject to
Section 307) interest on such Security on the Stated Maturity or Maturities
expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption, on the Redemption
Date) and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, and such
rights shall not be impaired without the consent of such Holder.
SECTION 509. Restoration of Rights and Remedies.
If the Trustee or any Holder has instituted any proceeding to
enforce any right or remedy under this Indenture and such proceeding has been
discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or has been determined adversely to
the Trustee or to such Holder, then and in every such case, subject to any
determination in such proceeding, the Company, the Trustee and the Holders
shall be restored severally and respectively to their former positions
hereunder and thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee and the
Holders shall continue as though no such proceeding has been instituted.
SECTION 510. Rights and Remedies Cumulative.
Except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or
payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities in the last
paragraph of Section 306, no right or remedy herein
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conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders is intended to be
exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to
the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to every other
right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in
equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy
hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or
employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.
SECTION 511. Delay or Omission Not Waiver.
No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any
Securities to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default
shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such
Event of Default or an acquiescence therein. Every right and remedy given by
this Article or by law to the Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from
time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by
the Holders, as the case may be.
SECTION 512. Control by Holders.
The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of any series shall have the right to direct the time, method and
place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee,
or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee, with respect to
the Securities of such series, provided that:
(1) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of
law or with this Indenture;
(2) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the
Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction; and
(3) subject to Section 601, the Trustee need not take any
action which might involve the Trustee in personal liability or be unduly
prejudicial to the Holders not joining therein.
SECTION 513. Waiver of Past Defaults.
The Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of any series may by written notice to the Trustee on
behalf of the Holders of all the Securities of such series waive any Default
or Event of Default with respect to such series and its consequences, except
a Default or Event of Default
(1) in respect of the payment of the principal of (or
premium, if any) or interest on any Security of such series, or
(2) in respect of a covenant or other provision hereof which
under Article Nine cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the
Holder of each Outstanding Security of such series affected.
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Upon any such waiver, such Default or Event of Default shall cease
to exist and shall be deemed to have been cured, for every purpose of this
Indenture and the Securities of such series; but no such waiver shall extend
to any subsequent or other Default or Event of Default or impair any right
consequent thereon.
SECTION 514. Undertaking for Costs.
All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Security
by his acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may
in its discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or
remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any
action taken, suffered or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party
litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and
that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including
reasonable attorneys' fees, against any party litigant in such suit, having
due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by
such party litigant; but the provisions of this Section shall not apply to
any suit instituted by the Company, to any suit instituted by the Trustee, to
any suit instituted by any Holder, or group of Holders, holding in the
aggregate more than 10% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of
any series, or to any suit instituted by any Holder for the enforcement of
the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on any
Security on or after the Stated Maturity or Maturities expressed in such
Security (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date).
ARTICLE SIX
THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 601. Certain Duties and Responsibilities of the Trustee.
(a) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default, the
Trustee's duties and responsibilities under this Indenture shall be governed
by Section 315(a) of the Trust Indenture Act.
(b) In case an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing,
and is known to the Trustee, the Trustee shall exercise the rights and powers
vested in it by this Indenture, and shall use the same degree of care and
skill in their exercise, as a prudent man would exercise or use under the
circumstances in the conduct of his own affairs.
(c) None of the provisions of Section 315(d) of the Trust
Indenture Act shall be excluded from this Indenture.
SECTION 602. Notice of Defaults.
Within 30 days after the occurrence of any Default or Event of
Default with respect to the Securities of any series, the Trustee shall give
to all Holders of Securities of such series, as their names and addresses
appear in the Security Register, notice of such Default or Event of Default
known to the Trustee, unless such Default or Event of Default shall have been
cured or waived; provided, however, that, except in the case of a Default or
Event of Default in the payment of the
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principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on any Security of such series
or in the payment of any sinking fund installment with respect to Securities
of such series, the Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice if
and so long as the board of directors, the executive committee or directors
or Responsible Officers of the Trustee in good faith determine that the
withholding of such notice is in the interest of the Holders of Securities of
such series.
SECTION 603. Certain Rights of Trustee.
Subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act:
(a) the Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or
refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement,
instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order,
bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or
document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by
the proper party or parties;
(b) any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein
shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Company Request or Company Order and any
resolution of the Board of Directors may be sufficiently evidenced by a Board
Resolution;
(c) whenever in the administration of this Indenture the
Trustee shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior
to taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Trustee (unless
other evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad
faith on its part, rely upon an Officer's Certificate;
(d) the Trustee may consult with counsel and the written advice
of such counsel or any opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete
authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or
omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon;
(e) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of
the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or
direction of any of the Holders pursuant to this Indenture, unless such
Holders shall have offered to the Trustee security or indemnity to its
reasonable satisfaction against the costs, expenses and liabilities which
might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction;
(f) prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default with respect
to the Securities of any series and after the curing or waiving of all such
Events of Default which may have occurred, the Trustee shall not be bound to
make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution,
certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request,
direction, consent, order, approval or other paper or document, or the books
and records of the Company, unless requested in writing to do so by the
Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of
any series; 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 not, in the opinion of the Trustee,
reasonably assured to the Trustee by the security afforded to it by the terms
of this Indenture, the Trustee may require reasonable indemnity against such
costs, expenses or liabilities as a condition to so proceeding; the
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reasonable expense of every such investigation shall be paid by the Company
or, if paid by the Trustee, shall be repaid by the Company upon demand;
(g) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers
hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through
agents or attorneys and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any
misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent or attorney appointed with
due care by it hereunder; and
(h) the Trustee shall not be required to expend or risk its own
funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of
its duties hereunder, or in the exercise of its rights or powers, if it shall
have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or
adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured
to it.
SECTION 604. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities.
The recitals herein and in the Securities, except the Trustee's
certificates of authentication, shall be taken as the statements of the
Company, and the Trustee or any Authenticating Agent assumes no
responsibility for their correctness. The Trustee makes no representations as
to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Securities.
Neither the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent shall be accountable for the
use or application by the Company of Securities or the proceeds thereof.
SECTION 605. May Hold Securities.
The Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, any Paying Agent, any
Security Registrar or any other agent of the Company, in its individual or
any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities and,
subject to Sections 608 and 613, may otherwise deal with the Company with the
same rights it would have if it were not Trustee, Authenticating Agent,
Paying Agent, Security Registrar or such other agent.
SECTION 606. Money Held in Trust.
Money held by the Trustee in trust hereunder (including amounts held
by the Trustee as Paying Agent) need not be segregated from other funds
except to the extent required by law. The Trustee shall be under no liability
for interest on any money received by it hereunder except as otherwise agreed
upon in writing with the Company.
SECTION 607. Compensation and Reimbursement.
The Company agrees
(1) to pay to the Trustee from time to time reasonable
compensation for all services rendered by it hereunder (which
compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to
the compensation of a trustee of an express trust);
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(2) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to
reimburse the Trustee upon its request for all reasonable expenses,
disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Trustee in
accordance with any provision of this Indenture (including the
reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its
agents and counsel), except any such expense, disbursement or advance
as may be attributable to its negligence or bad faith; and
(3) to indemnify the Trustee for, and to hold it harmless
against, any loss, liability, damage, claim or expense, including
taxes (other than taxes based upon or determined or measured by the
income of the Trustee), incurred without gross negligence or bad faith
on its part, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or
administration of the trust or trusts hereunder, including the costs
and expenses of defending itself against any claim or liability in
connection with the exercise or performance of any of its powers or
duties hereunder.
When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services in connection
with an Event of Default specified in Section 501(5) or Section 501(6), the
expenses (including the reasonable charges and expenses of its counsel) and
the compensation for the services are intended to constitute expenses of
administration under any applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency
or other similar law.
The provisions of this Section 607 shall survive this Indenture.
SECTION 608. Disqualification; Conflicting Interests.
The Trustee shall be disqualified only where such disqualification
is required by Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act. Nothing shall
prevent the Trustee from filing with the Commission the application referred
to in the second to last paragraph of Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture
Act.
SECTION 609. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility.
There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder which shall be
eligible to act as Trustee under Section 310(a)(1) of the Trust Indenture Act
having a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 subject to
supervision or examination by federal or State authority. If such corporation
publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the
requirements of said supervising or examining authority, then for the
purposes of this Section, the combined capital and surplus of such
corporation shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set
forth in its most recent report of condition so published. Neither the
Company nor any Person directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by, or
under common control with the Company may serve as Trustee. If at any time
the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of
this Section, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect
hereinafter specified in this Article.
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SECTION 610. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.
(a) No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment
of a successor Trustee pursuant to this Article shall become effective until
the acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee in accordance with the
applicable requirements of Section 611.
(b) The Trustee may resign at any time with respect to the
Securities of one or more series by giving written notice thereof to the
Company. If the instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee required by
Section 611 shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after
the giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee may petition
any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor
Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series.
(c) The Trustee may be removed at any time with respect to the
Securities of any series by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal
amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series, delivered to the Trustee
and to the Company.
(d) If at any time:
(1) the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section 310(b) of
the Trust Indenture Act after written request therefor by the Company
or by any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at
least six months; or
(2) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 609
and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company
or by any such Holder of a Security who has been a bona fide Holder of
a Security for at least six months; or
(3) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be
adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the Trustee or of
its property shall be appointed or any public officer shall take
charge or control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the
purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation;
then, in any such case, (i) the Company by a Board Resolution may remove the
Trustee with respect to all Securities, or (ii) subject to Section 315(e) of
the Trust Indenture Act, any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a
Security for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all others
similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the
removal of the Trustee with respect to all Securities and the appointment of
a successor Trustee or Trustees.
(e) If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable
of acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee for any
cause, with respect to the Securities of one or more series, the Company, by
a Board Resolution, shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee or Trustees
with respect to the Securities of that or those series (it being understood
that any such successor Trustee may be appointed with respect to the
Securities of one or more or all of such series and that at any time there
shall be only one Trustee with respect to the Securities of any particular
series) and shall comply with the applicable requirements of Section 611. If,
within
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one year after such resignation, removal or incapability, or the occurrence
of such vacancy, a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any
series shall be appointed by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal
amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series delivered to the Company
and the retiring Trustee, the successor Trustee so appointed shall, forthwith
upon its acceptance of such appointment in accordance with the applicable
requirements of Section 611, become the successor Trustee with respect to the
Securities of such series and to that extent supersede the successor Trustee
appointed by the Company with respect to such Securities. If no successor
Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall have been so
appointed by the Company or the Holders and accepted appointment in the
manner required by Section 611, any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of
a Security of such series for at least six months may, on behalf of himself
and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the
Securities of such series.
(f) The Company shall give notice of each resignation and each
removal of the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series and each
appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any
series by mailing written notice of such event by first-class mail, postage
prepaid, to all Holders of Securities of such series as their names and
addresses appear in the Security Register. Each notice shall include the name
of the successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series and
the address of its Corporate Trust Office.
SECTION 611. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.
(a) In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee
with respect to all Securities, every such successor Trustee so appointed
shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Company and to the retiring
Trustee an instrument accepting such appointment, and thereupon the
resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective and
such successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall
become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring
Trustee; but, on the request of the Company or the successor Trustee, such
retiring Trustee shall, upon payment of its charges, execute and deliver an
instrument transferring to such successor Trustee all the rights, powers and
trusts of the retiring Trustee and shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to
such successor Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee
hereunder.
(b) In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee
with respect to the Securities of one or more (but not all) series, the
Company, the retiring Trustee and each successor Trustee with respect to the
Securities of one or more series shall execute and deliver an indenture
supplemental hereto wherein each successor Trustee shall accept such
appointment and which (1) shall contain such provisions as shall be necessary
or desirable to transfer and confirm to, and to vest in, each successor
Trustee all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee
with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the
appointment of such successor Trustee relates, (2) if the retiring Trustee is
not retiring with respect to all Securities, shall contain such provisions as
shall be deemed necessary or desirable to confirm that all the rights,
powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the
Securities of that or those series as to which the retiring Trustee is not
retiring shall continue to be vested in the retiring Trustee, and (3) shall
add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be
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necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts
hereunder by more than one Trustee, it being understood that nothing herein
or in such supplemental indenture shall constitute such Trustees co-trustees
of the same trust and that each such Trustee shall be trustee of a trust or
trusts hereunder separate and apart from any trust or trusts hereunder
administered by any other such Trustee; and upon the execution and delivery
of such supplemental indenture the resignation or removal of the retiring
Trustee shall become effective to the extent provided therein and each such
successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become
vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee
with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the
appointment of such successor Trustee relates; but, on request of the Company
or any successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall duly assign, transfer
and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money held by such
retiring Trustee hereunder with respect to the Securities of that or those
series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates.
(c) Upon request of any such successor Trustee, the Company
shall execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in
and confirming to such successor Trustee all such rights, powers and trusts
referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section, as the case may be.
(d) No successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at
the time of such acceptance such successor Trustee shall be qualified and
eligible under the Trust Indenture Act.
SECTION 612. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.
Any corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or
with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any
merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or
any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all the corporate trust
business of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder,
provided such corporation shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under
this Article, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act
on the part of any of the parties hereto. In case any Securities shall have
been authenticated, but not delivered, by the Trustee then in office, any
successor by merger, conversion or consolidation to such authenticating
Trustee may adopt such authentication and deliver the Securities so
authenticated with the same effect as if such successor Trustee had itself
authenticated such Securities.
SECTION 613. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company.
The Trustee shall comply with Section 311(a) of the Trust Indenture
Act, excluding any creditor relationship listed in Section 311(b) of the
Trust Indenture Act. A Trustee who has resigned or been removed shall be
subject to Section 311(a) of the Trust Indenture Act to the extent indicated
therein.
SECTION 614. Appointment of Authenticating Agent.
At any time when any of the Securities remain outstanding the
Trustee may appoint an Authenticating Agent or Agents with respect to one or
more series of Securities which shall be
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authorized to act on behalf of, and subject to the direction of, the Trustee
to authenticate Securities of such series issued upon exchange, registration
of transfer or partial redemption thereof or pursuant to Section 306, and
Securities so authenticated shall be entitled to the benefits of this
Indenture and shall be valid and obligatory for all purposes as if
authenticated by the Trustee hereunder. Wherever reference is made in this
Indenture to the authentication and delivery of Securities by the Trustee or
the Trustee's certificate of authentication, such reference shall be deemed
to include authentication and delivery on behalf of the Trustee by an
Authenticating Agent and a certificate of authentication executed on behalf
of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent. Each Authenticating Agent shall be
acceptable to the Company and shall at all times be a corporation organized
and doing business under the laws of the United States of America, any State
thereof or the District of Columbia, authorized under such laws to act as
Authenticating Agent, having a combined capital and surplus of not less than
$50,000,000 and subject to supervision or examination by federal or State
authority. If such Authenticating Agent publishes reports of condition at
least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of said supervising or
examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section, the combined
capital and surplus of such Authenticating Agent shall be deemed to be its
combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of
condition so published. If at any time an Authenticating Agent shall cease to
be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, such
Authenticating Agent shall resign immediately in the manner and with the
effect specified in this Section.
Any corporation into which an Authenticating Agent may be merged or
converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting
from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which such Authenticating
Agent shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to the corporate agency
or corporate trust business of an Authenticating Agent, shall continue to be
an Authenticating Agent, provided such corporation shall be otherwise
eligible under this Section, without the execution or filing of any paper or
any further act on the part of the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent.
An Authenticating Agent may resign at any time by giving written
notice thereof to the Trustee and to the Company. The Trustee may at any time
terminate the agency of an Authenticating Agent by giving written notice
thereof to such Authenticating Agent and to the Company. Upon receiving such
a notice of resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at any time
such Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the
provisions of this Section, the Trustee may appoint a successor
Authenticating Agent which shall be acceptable to the Company and shall mail
written notice of such appointment by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to
all Holders of Securities of the series with respect to which such
Authenticating Agent will serve, as their names and addresses appear in the
Security Register. Any successor Authenticating Agent upon acceptance of its
appointment hereunder shall become vested with all the rights, powers and
duties of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if originally named
as an Authenticating Agent. No successor Authenticating Agent shall be
appointed unless eligible under the provisions of this Section.
The Company agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from time to
time reasonable compensation for its services under this Section.
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If an appointment with respect to one or more series is made pursuant
to this Section, the Securities of such series may have endorsed thereon, in
addition to the Trustee's certificate of authentication, an alternate
certificate of authentication in the following form:
Form of Authenticating Agent's
Certificate of Authentication
Dated:
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This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred
to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
BANK OF OKLAHOMA, NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION, as Trustee
By
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As Authenticating Agent
By
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Authorized Signatory
ARTICLE SEVEN
HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY
SECTION 701. Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders.
The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee:
(a) semi-annually, not later than January 1 and July 1 in each year,
a list, in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and
addresses of the Holders as of the preceding December 15 or June 15, as the
case may be; and
(b) at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing,
within 30 days after the receipt by the Company of any such request, a list
of similar form and content as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the
time such list is furnished;
provided, however, that so long as the Trustee is the Security Registrar, no
such list shall be required to be furnished.
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SECTION 702. Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders.
(a) The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is
reasonably practicable, the names and addresses of Holders contained in the
most recent list furnished to the Trustee as provided in Section 701 and the
names and addresses of Holders received by the Trustee in its capacity as
Security Registrar. The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as
provided in Section 701 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.
(b) If three or more Holders (herein referred to as "applicants")
apply in writing to the Trustee, and furnish to the Trustee reasonable proof
that each such applicant has owned a Security for a period of at least six
months preceding the date of such application, and such application states
that the applicants desire to communicate with other Holders with respect to
their rights under this Indenture or under the Securities and is accompanied
by a copy of the form of proxy or other communication which such applicants
propose to transmit, then the Trustee shall, within five Business Days after
the receipt of such application, at its election, either
(i) afford such applicants access to the information
preserved at the time by the Trustee in accordance with
Section 702(a); or
(ii) inform such applicants as to the approximate
number of Holders whose names and addresses appear in the
information preserved at the time by the Trustee in accordance
with Section 702(a), and as to the approximate cost of mailing
to such Holders the form of proxy or other communication, if
any, specified in such application.
If the Trustee shall elect not to afford such applicants access to
such information, the Trustee shall, upon the written request of such
applicants, mail to each Holder whose name and address appears in the
information preserved at the time by the Trustee in accordance with Section
702(a) a copy of the form of proxy or other communication which is specified
in such request, with reasonable promptness after a tender to the Trustee of
the material to be mailed and of payment, or provision for the payment, of
the reasonable expenses of mailing, unless within five days after such tender
the Trustee shall mail to such applicants and file with the Commission,
together with a copy of the material to be mailed, a written statement to the
effect that, in the opinion of the Trustee, such mailing would be contrary to
the best interests of the Holders or would be in violation of applicable law.
Such written statement shall specify the basis of such opinion. If the
Commission, after opportunity for a hearing upon the objections specified in
the written statement so filed, shall enter an order refusing to sustain any
of such objections or if, after the entry of an order sustaining one or more
of such objections, the Commission shall find, after notice and opportunity
for hearing, that all objections so sustained have been met and shall enter
an order so declaring, the Trustee shall mail copies of such material to all
such Holders with reasonable promptness after the entry of such order and the
renewal of such tender; otherwise the Trustee shall be relieved of any
obligation or duty to such applicants respecting their application.
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(c) Every Holder of Securities, by receiving and holding the same,
agrees with the Company and the Trustee that neither the Company nor the
Trustee nor any agent of either of them shall be held accountable by reason
of the disclosure of any such information as to the names and addresses of
the Holders in accordance with Section 702(b), regardless of the source from
which such information was derived, and that the Trustee shall not be held
accountable by reason of mailing any material pursuant to a request made
under Section 702(b).
SECTION 703. Reports by Trustee.
(a) Within 60 days after May 15 of each year commencing with the
year 2000, the Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Holders of Securities as
provided in Section 313(c) of the Trust Indenture Act, a brief report dated
as of May 15, if required by and in compliance with Section 313(a) of the
Trust Indenture Act.
(b) A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such
transmission to Holders, be filed by the Trustee with each stock exchange
upon which any Securities are listed, with the Commission and with the
Company. The Company will notify the Trustee when any Securities are listed
on any stock exchange.
SECTION 704. Reports by Company.
The Company shall:
(1) file with the Trustee, within 30 days after the Company is required
to file the same with the Commission, copies of the annual reports and of the
information, documents and other reports (or copies of such portions of any of
the foregoing as the Commission may from time to time by rules and regulations
prescribe) which the Company may be required to file with the Commission
pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act; or, if the Company
is not required to file information, documents or reports pursuant to either of
said Sections, then it shall file with the Trustee and the Commission, in
accordance with rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the
Commission, such of the supplementary and periodic information, documents and
reports which may be required pursuant to Section 13 of the Exchange Act in
respect of a security listed and registered on a national securities exchange as
may be prescribed from time to time in such rules and regulations;
(2) file with the Trustee and the Commission, in accordance with rules
and regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission, such additional
information, documents and reports with respect to compliance by the Company
with the conditions and covenants of this Indenture as may be required from time
to time by such rules and regulations;
(3) transmit by mail to all Holders, as their names and addresses
appear in the Security Register, (a) concurrently with furnishing the same to
its stockholders but only to the extent the Company is otherwise required to
furnish an annual report to its stockholders, the Company's annual report to
stockholders, containing certified financial statements, and any other financial
reports which the Company generally furnishes to its stockholders, and (b)
within 30
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days after the filing thereof with the Trustee, such summaries of any other
information, documents and reports required to be filed by the Company
pursuant to paragraphs (1) and (2) of this Section as may be required by
rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission; and
(4) furnish to the Trustee, on or before May 1 of each year, a brief
certificate from the principal executive officer, principal financial officer
or principal accounting officer as to his or her knowledge of the Company's
compliance with all conditions and covenants under this Indenture. For
purposes of this paragraph, such compliance shall be determined without
regard to any period of grace or requirement of notice provided under this
Indenture. Such certificate need not comply with Section 102.
ARTICLE EIGHT
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, LEASE, SALE OR TRANSFER
SECTION 801. When Company May Merge, Etc.
The Company shall not consolidate with, or merge with or into any other
corporation (whether or not the Company shall be the surviving corporation), or
sell, assign, transfer or lease all or substantially all of its properties and
assets as an entirety or substantially as an entirety to any Person or group of
affiliated Persons, in one transaction or a series of related transactions,
unless:
(1) either the Company shall be the continuing Person or the Person (if
other than the Company) formed by such consolidation or with which or into which
the Company is merged or the Person (or group of affiliated Persons) to which
all or substantially all the properties and assets of the Company as an entirety
or substantially as an entirety are sold, assigned, transferred or leased shall
be a corporation (or constitute corporations) organized and existing under the
laws of the United States of America or any State thereof or the District of
Columbia and shall expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental hereto,
executed and delivered to the Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, all
the obligations of the Company under the Securities and this Indenture; and
(2) immediately before and after giving effect to such transaction or
series of related transactions, no Event of Default, and no Default, shall have
occurred and be continuing.
For purposes of this Article Eight, the phrase "ALL OR SUBSTANTIALLY
ALL OF ITS PROPERTIES AND ASSETS" shall mean 50% or more of the total assets of
the Company as shown on the consolidated balance sheet of the Company as of the
end of the calendar year immediately preceding the day of the year in which such
determination is made and nothing in this Indenture shall prevent or hinder the
Company from selling, transferring or otherwise disposing during any calendar
year (in one transaction or a series of transactions) less than 50% of the
amount of its
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total assets as shown on the consolidated balance sheet of the Company as of
the end of the immediately preceding calendar year.
SECTION 802. Opinion of Counsel.
The Company shall deliver to the Trustee prior to the proposed
transactions covered by Section 801 an Officer's Certificate and an Opinion of
Counsel stating that the transaction(s) and such supplemental indenture comply
with this Indenture and that all conditions precedent to the consummation of the
transaction(s) under this Indenture have been met.
SECTION 803. Successor Corporation Substituted.
Upon any consolidation by the Company with or merger by the Company
into any other corporation or any lease, sale, assignment, or transfer of all or
substantially all of the property and assets of the Company in accordance with
Section 801, the successor corporation formed by such consolidation or into
which the Company is merged or the successor corporation or affiliated group of
corporations to which such lease, sale, assignment, or transfer is made shall
succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of,
the Company under this Indenture with the same effect as if such successor
corporation or corporations had been named as the Company herein, and
thereafter, except in the case of a lease, the predecessor corporation or
corporations shall be relieved of all obligations and covenants under this
Indenture and the Securities and in the event of such conveyance or transfer,
except in the case of a lease, any such predecessor corporation may be dissolved
and liquidated.
ARTICLE NINE
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
SECTION 901. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders.
Without notice to or the consent of any Holders, the Company, when
authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee, at any time and from time to
time, may enter into one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in form
satisfactory to the Trustee, for any of the following purposes:
(1) to evidence the succession of another corporation to the Company
and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the Company herein
and in the Securities; or
(2) to add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit of the
Holders of all or any series of Securities (and if such covenants are to be for
the benefit of less than all series of Securities, stating that such covenants
are expressly being included solely for the benefit of such series) or to
surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the Company; or
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(3) to add any additional Events of Default with respect to all or
any series of Securities; or
(4) to add or change any of the provisions of this Indenture to such
extent as shall be necessary to permit or facilitate the issuance of Securities
in bearer form, registrable or not registrable as to principal, and with or
without interest coupons; or
(5) to change or eliminate any of the provisions of this Indenture,
provided that any such change or elimination shall become effective only when
there is no Security Outstanding of any series created prior to the execution
of such supplemental indenture which is entitled to the benefit of such
provision; or
(6) to secure the Securities; or
(7) to establish the form or terms of Securities of any series as
permitted by Sections 201 and 301; or
(8) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment hereunder
by a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more series and
to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be
necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts
hereunder by more than one Trustee, pursuant to the requirements of Section
611(b); or
(9) to cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency or to correct or
supplement any provision herein which may be inconsistent with any other
provision herein; or
(10) to make any change that does not materially adversely affect the
interests of the Holders of Securities of any series.
Upon request of the Company, accompanied by a Board Resolution
authorizing the execution of any such supplemental indenture, and upon receipt
by the Trustee of the documents described in (and subject to the last sentence
of) Section 903, the Trustee shall join with the Company in the execution of any
supplemental indenture authorized or permitted by the terms of this Indenture.
SECTION 902. Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders.
With the written consent of the Holders of a majority in principal
amount of the Outstanding Securities of each series affected by such
supplemental indenture, by Act of said Holders delivered to the Company and the
Trustee, the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee
shall, subject to Section 903, enter into an indenture or indentures
supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in
any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture or of
modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series
under this Indenture; provided, however, that no such
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supplemental indenture shall, without the consent of the Holder of each
Outstanding Security affected thereby,
(1) change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or any
installment of principal of or interest on, any Security, or reduce the
principal amount thereof or the rate of interest thereon or any premium
payable upon the redemption thereof or extend the time for payment
thereof, or reduce the amount of the principal of an Original Issue
Discount Security that would be due and payable upon a declaration of
acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502, or change
any Place of Payment where, or the coin or currency in which, any
Security or any premium or the interest thereon is payable, or impair
the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on
or after the Stated Maturity thereof (or, in the case of redemption, on
or after the Redemption Date);
(2) reduce the percentage in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of any series, the consent of whose Holders is
required for any such supplemental indenture, or the consent of whose
Holders is required for any waiver of compliance with certain
provisions of this Indenture or Defaults or Events of Default hereunder
and their consequences provided for in this Indenture; or
(3) change the redemption provisions (including Article
Eleven) hereof in a manner adverse to such Holder; or
(4) modify any of the provisions of this Section or Section
513, except to increase any such percentage or to provide that certain
other provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified or waived without
the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected
thereby; provided, however, that this clause shall not be deemed to
require the consent of any Holder with respect to changes in the
references to "the Trustee" and concomitant changes in this Section, or
the deletion of this proviso, in accordance with the requirements of
Sections 611(b) and 901(8).
A supplemental indenture which changes or eliminates any covenant or other
provision of this Indenture which has expressly been included solely for the
benefit of one or more particular series of Securities, or which modifies the
rights of the Holders of Securities of such series with respect to such covenant
or other provision, shall be deemed not to affect the rights under this
Indenture of the Holders of Securities of any other series.
It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this Section to
approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it shall
be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.
SECTION 903. Execution of Supplemental Indentures.
The Trustee shall sign any supplemental indenture authorized pursuant
to this Article, subject to the last sentence of this Section 903. In executing,
or accepting the additional trusts
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created by, any supplemental indenture permitted by this Article or the
modifications thereby of the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee
shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to Section 601) shall be fully
protected in relying upon, an Officer's Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel
stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture is authorized or
permitted by this Indenture. The Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to,
enter into any such supplemental indenture which affects the Trustee's own
rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.
SECTION 904. Effect of Supplemental Indentures.
Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture under this Article,
this Indenture shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such supplemental
indenture shall form a part of this Indenture for all purposes; and every Holder
of Securities theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder
shall be bound thereby.
SECTION 905. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act.
Every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article shall
conform to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect.
SECTION 906. Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures.
Securities of any series authenticated and delivered after the
execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article may, and shall
if required by the Trustee, bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee as
to any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Company shall
so determine, new Securities of any series so modified as to conform, in the
opinion of the Trustee and the Company, to any such supplemental indenture may
be prepared and executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the
Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Securities of such series.
ARTICLE TEN
COVENANTS
SECTION 1001. Payments of Securities.
With respect to each series of Securities, the Company will duly and
punctually pay the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on such
Securities in accordance with their terms and this Indenture, and will duly
comply with all the other terms, agreements and conditions contained in, or made
in the Indenture for the benefit of, the Securities of such series.
SECTION 1002. Maintenance of Office or Agency.
The Company will maintain an office or agency in each Place of Payment
where Securities may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange or
for presentation for payment, where notices and demands to or upon the Company
in respect of the Securities and
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this Indenture may be served. The Company will give prompt written notice to
the Trustee of the location, and any change in location, of such office or
agency. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required
office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address
thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or
served at the address of the Trustee as set forth in Section 105 hereof.
The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other
offices or agencies where the Securities may be presented or surrendered for any
or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind such designations. The
Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation
or rescission and of any change in the location of any such other office or
agency.
Unless otherwise set forth in, or pursuant to, a Board Resolution or
Indenture supplemental hereto with respect to a series of Securities, the
Company hereby initially designates the office of Bank of Oklahoma, National
Association, Commerce Banking Center, 0000 Xxxxx Xxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx Xxxx,
Xxxxxxxx 00000, as such office of the Company.
SECTION 1003. Payment of Taxes and Other Claims.
The Company will pay or discharge, or cause to be paid or discharged,
before the same shall become delinquent, (1) all material taxes, assessments and
governmental charges levied or imposed upon the Company or any Subsidiary or
upon the income, profits or property of the Company or any Subsidiary, and (2)
all lawful claims for labor, materials and supplies which, if unpaid, might by
law become a material lien upon the property of the Company or any Subsidiary;
provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to pay or discharge or
cause to be paid or discharged any such tax, assessment, charge or claim whose
amount, applicability or validity is being contested in good faith by
appropriate proceedings and for which adequate provision has been made.
SECTION 1004. Compliance Certificates.
(a) The Company shall deliver to the Trustee within 90 days after
the end of each fiscal year of the Company (which fiscal year currently ends
on December 31), an Officer's Certificate stating whether or not the signer
knows of any Default or Event of Default by the Company that occurred prior
to the end of the fiscal year and is then continuing. If the signer does know
of such a Default or Event of Default, the certificate shall describe each
such Default or Event of Default and its status and the specific section or
sections of this Indenture in connection with which such Default or Event of
Default has occurred. The Company shall also promptly notify the Trustee in
writing should the Company's fiscal year be changed so that the end thereof
is on any date other than the date on which the Company's fiscal year
currently ends. The certificate need not comply with Section 102 hereof.
(b) The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, within 10 days after the
occurrence thereof, notice of any acceleration which with the giving of notice
and the lapse of time would be an Event of Default within the meaning of Section
501(4) hereof.
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(c) The Company shall deliver to the Trustee forthwith upon becoming
aware of a Default or Event of Default (but in no event later than 10 days
after the occurrence of each Default or Event of Default that is continuing),
an Officer's Certificate setting forth the details of such Default or Event
of Default and the action that the Company proposes to take with respect
thereto and the specific section or sections of this Indenture in connection
with which such Default or Event of Default has occurred.
SECTION 1005. Commission Reports.
(a) The Company shall file with the Trustee, within 30 days after it
files them with the Commission, copies of the quarterly and annual reports
and of the information, documents, and other reports (or copies of such
portions of any of the foregoing as the Commission may by rules and
regulations prescribe) which the Company is required to file with the
Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act. If the
Company is not subject to the requirement of such Section 13 or 15(d) of the
Exchange Act, the Company shall file with the Trustee, within 30 days after
it would have been required to file such information with the Commission,
financial statements, including any notes thereto and, with respect to annual
reports, an auditors' report by an accounting firm of established national
reputation and a "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition
and Results of Operations," both comparable to that which the Company would
have been required to include in such annual reports, information, documents
or other reports if the Company had been subject to the requirements of such
Sections 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act. The Company also shall comply with
the other provisions of Section 314(a) of the Trust Indenture Act.
(b) So long as the Securities remain outstanding, the Company shall
cause its annual report to stockholders and any other financial reports
furnished by it to stockholders generally, to be mailed to the Holders at
their addresses appearing in the register of Securities maintained by the
Security Registrar in each case at the time of such mailing or furnishing to
stockholders. If the Company is not required to furnish annual or quarterly
reports to its stockholders pursuant to the Exchange Act, the Company shall
cause its financial statements, including any notes thereto and, with respect
to annual reports, an auditors' report by an accounting firm of established
national reputation and a "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial
Condition and Results of Operations," to be so filed with the Trustee and
mailed to the Holders within 90 days after the end of each of the Company's
fiscal years and within 45 days after the end of each of the first three
quarters of each fiscal year.
(c) The Company shall provide the Trustee with a sufficient number
of copies of all reports and other documents and information that the Company
may be required to deliver to the Holders under this Section 1005.
SECTION 1006. Waiver of Stay, Extension or Usury Laws.
The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so)
that it will not at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner
whatsoever claim, and will actively resist any and all efforts to be
compelled to take the benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law or
any usury law or other law, which would prohibit or forgive the Company from
paying all or any portion of
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the principal of and/or interest on the Securities as contemplated herein,
wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, or which may affect
the covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and (to the extent that
it may lawfully do so) the Company hereby expressly waives all benefit or
advantage of any such law, and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or
impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will
suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had
been enacted.
SECTION 1007. Money for Securities Payments to Be Held in Trust.
If the Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent with
respect to any series of Securities, it will, on or before each due date of
the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on any of the Securities
of that series, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Persons
entitled thereto a sum sufficient to pay the principal (and premium, if any)
or interest so becoming due until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or
otherwise disposed of as herein provided and will promptly notify the Trustee
of its action or failure so to act.
Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents for any
series of Securities, it will, prior to each due date of the principal of
(and premium, if any) or interest on any Securities of that series, deposit
with a Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay the principal (and premium, if
any) or interest so becoming due, such sum to be held in trust for the
benefit of the Persons entitled to such principal, premium or interest, and
(unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify
the Trustee of its action or failure to so act.
The Company will cause each Paying Agent for any series of
Securities (other than the Trustee) to execute and deliver to the Trustee an
instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject
to the provisions of this Section, that such Paying Agent will:
(1) hold all sums held by it for the payment of the principal
of (and premium, if any) or interest on Securities of that series in
trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto until such sums
shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein
provided;
(2) give the Trustee notice of any default by the Company (or
any other obligor upon the Securities of that series) in the making of
any payment of principal (and premium, if any) or interest on the
Securities of that series; and
(3) at any time during the continuance of any such default,
upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee
all sums so held in trust by such Paying Agent.
The Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay,
or by Company Order direct any Paying Agent to pay, to the Trustee all sums
held in trust by the Company or such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by
the Trustee upon the same trusts as those upon which such sums were held by
the Company or such Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent
to the
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Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with
respect to such money.
Any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then
held by the Company, in trust for the payment of the principal of (and
premium, if any) or interest on any Security of any series and remaining
unclaimed for two years after such principal (and premium, if any) or
interest has become due and payable shall be paid to the Company on Company
Request, or (if then held by the Company) shall be discharged from such
trust; and the Holder of such Security shall thereafter, as an unsecured
general creditor, look only to the Company for payment thereof, and all
liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust
money, and all liability of the Company as trustee thereof, shall thereupon
cease; provided, however, that the Trustee or any such Paying Agent, before
being required to make any such repayment, may at the expense of the Company
cause to be published once, in a newspaper published in the English language,
customarily published on each Business Day and of general circulation in New
York, New York, notice that such money remains unclaimed and that, after a
date specified therein, which shall not be less than 30 days from the date of
such publication, any unclaimed balance of such money then remaining will be
repaid to the Company.
ARTICLE ELEVEN
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 1101. Applicability of Article.
Securities of any series which are redeemable before their Stated
Maturity shall be redeemable in accordance with their terms and (except as
otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for Securities of any
series) in accordance with this Article.
SECTION 1102. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee.
The election of the Company to redeem any Securities shall be
evidenced by a Board Resolution. In case of any redemption at the election of
the Company of less than all the Securities of any series, the Company shall,
at least 45 days prior to the Redemption Date fixed by the Company (unless a
shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the Trustee), notify the Trustee of
such Redemption Date and of the principal amount of Securities of such series
to be redeemed. In the case of any redemption of Securities prior to the
expiration of any restriction on such redemption provided in the terms of
such Securities or elsewhere in this Indenture, the Company shall furnish the
Trustee with an Officer's Certificate evidencing compliance with such
restriction.
SECTION 1103. Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed.
If less than all the Securities of any series are to be redeemed,
the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not more than 90
days prior to the Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the Outstanding
Securities of such series not previously called for redemption,
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substantially pro rata, by lot or by any other method as the Trustee
considers fair and appropriate and that complies with the requirements of the
principal national securities exchange, if any, on which such Securities are
listed, and which may provide for the selection for redemption of portions
(equal to the minimum authorized denomination for Securities of that series
or any integral multiple thereof) of the principal amount of Securities of
such series of a denomination larger than the minimum authorized denomination
for Securities of that series; provided that in case the Securities of such
series have different terms and maturities, the Securities to be redeemed
shall be selected by the Company and the Company shall give notice thereof to
the Trustee.
The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the
Securities selected for redemption and, in the case of any Securities
selected for partial redemption, the principal amount thereof to be redeemed.
For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise
requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of the Securities shall
relate, in the case of any Securities redeemed or to be redeemed only in
part, to the portion of the principal amount of such Securities which has
been or is to be redeemed.
SECTION 1104. Notice of Redemption.
Notice of redemption shall be given by first-class mail, postage
prepaid, mailed not less than 30 nor more than 45 days prior to the
Redemption Date, to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed, at his address
appearing in the Security Register.
All notices of redemption shall state:
(1) the Redemption Date;
(2) the Redemption Price;
(3) if less than all the Outstanding Securities of any series are to be
redeemed, the identification (and, in the case of partial redemption, the
principal amounts) of the particular Securities to be redeemed;
(4) that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price will become due
and payable upon each such Security to be redeemed and, if applicable, that
interest thereon will cease to accrue on and after said date;
(5) the place or places where such Securities are to be surrendered for
payment of the Redemption Price;
(6) that the redemption is for a sinking fund, if such is the case;
(7) the CUSIP number, if any, of the Securities to be redeemed; and
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(8) unless otherwise provided as to a particular series of
Securities, if at the time of publication or mailing of any notice of
redemption the Company shall not have deposited with the Trustee or Paying
Agent and/or irrevocably directed the Trustee or Paying Agent to apply, from
money held by it available to be used for the redemption of Securities, an
amount in cash sufficient to redeem all of the Securities called for
redemption, including accrued interest to the Redemption Date, such notice
shall state that it is subject to the receipt of the redemption moneys by the
Trustee or Paying Agent before the Redemption Date (unless such redemption is
mandatory) and such notice shall be of no effect unless such moneys are so
received before such date.
Notice of redemption of Securities to be redeemed at the election of
the Company shall be given by the Company or, at the Company's request, by
the Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company.
SECTION 1105. Deposit of Redemption Price.
Prior to any Redemption Date, the Company shall deposit with the
Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if the Company is acting as its own
Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 1007) an
amount of money sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of, and (except if the
Redemption Date shall be an Interest Payment Date) accrued interest on, all
the Securities which are to be redeemed on that date.
SECTION 1106. Securities Payable on Redemption Date.
Notice of redemption having been given as aforesaid, the Securities
so to be redeemed shall, on the Redemption Date, become due and payable at
the Redemption Price therein specified, and from and after such date (unless
the Company shall default in the payment of the Redemption Price and accrued
interest) such Securities shall cease to bear interest. Upon surrender of any
such Security for redemption in accordance with said notice, such Security
shall be paid by the Company at the Redemption Price, together with accrued
interest to the Redemption Date; provided, however, that installments of
interest whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption Date shall be
payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more predecessor
securities, registered as such at the close of business on the relevant
Regular or Special Record Dates according to their terms and the provisions
of Section 307.
If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon
surrender thereof for redemption, the principal (and premium, if any) shall,
until paid, bear interest from the Redemption Date at the rate prescribed
therefor in the Security.
SECTION 1107. Securities Redeemed in Part.
Any Security which is to be redeemed only in part shall be
surrendered at an office or agency of the Company at a Place of Payment
therefor (with, if the Company or the Trustee so requires, due endorsement
by, or a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the
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Company and the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or his attorney
duly authorized in writing), and the Company shall execute, and the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such Security without service
charge, a new Security or Securities of the same series and Stated Maturity,
of any authorized denomination as requested by such Holder, in aggregate
principal amount equal to and in exchange for the unredeemed portion of the
principal of the Security so surrendered.
ARTICLE TWELVE
SINKING FUNDS
SECTION 1201. Applicability of Article.
The provisions of this Article shall be applicable to any sinking
fund for the retirement of Securities of a series, except as otherwise
specified as contemplated by Section 301 for Securities of such series.
The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by the
terms of Securities of any series is herein referred to as a "Mandatory
Sinking Fund Payment," and any payment in excess of such minimum amount
provided for by the terms of Securities of any series is herein referred to
as an "Optional Sinking Fund Payment." If provided for by the terms of
Securities of any series, the cash amount of any sinking fund payment may be
subject to reduction as provided in Section 1202. Each sinking fund payment
shall be applied to the redemption of Securities of any series as provided
for by the terms of Securities of such series.
SECTION 1202. Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities.
The Company (1) may deliver Securities of a series (other than any
Securities previously called for redemption) and (2) may apply as a credit
Securities of a series which have been redeemed either at the election of the
Company pursuant to the terms of such Securities or through the application
of permitted optional sinking fund payments pursuant to the terms of such
Securities, in each case in satisfaction of all or any part of any sinking
fund payment with respect to the Securities of such series required to be
made pursuant to the terms of such Securities as provided for by the terms of
such series; provided that such Securities have not been previously so
credited. Such Securities shall be received and credited for such purpose by
the Trustee at the Redemption Price specified in such Securities for
redemption through operation of the sinking fund and the amount of such
sinking fund payment shall be reduced accordingly.
SECTION 1203. Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund.
Not less than 45 days prior to each sinking fund payment date for
any series of Securities, the Company will deliver to the Trustee an
Officer's Certificate specifying the amount of the next ensuing sinking fund
payment for that series pursuant to the terms of that series, the portion
thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by payment of cash and the portion
thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by delivering and crediting
Securities of that series pursuant to Section 1202 and
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will also deliver to the Trustee any Securities to be so delivered. Not less
than 30 days before each such sinking fund payment date the Trustee shall
select the Securities to be redeemed upon such sinking fund payment date in
the manner specified in Section 1103 and cause notice of the redemption
thereof to be given in the name of and at the expense of the Company in the
manner provided in Section 1104. Such notice having been duly given, the
redemption of such Securities shall be made upon the terms and in the manner
stated in Sections 1106 and 1107.
ARTICLE THIRTEEN
DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE
SECTION 1301. Applicability of Article; Company's Option to Effect
Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.
Unless pursuant to Section 301 provision is made for the
inapplicability of either or both of (a) Defeasance of the Securities of a
series under Section 1302 or (b) Covenant Defeasance of the Securities of a
series under Section 1303, then the provisions of such Section or Sections,
as the case may be, together with the other provisions of this Article, shall
be applicable to the Securities of such series, and the Company may at its
option by Board Resolution, at any time, with respect to the Securities of
such series, elect to have either Section 1302 (unless inapplicable) or
Section 1303 (unless inapplicable) be applied to the Outstanding Securities
of such series upon compliance with the applicable conditions set forth below
in this Article.
SECTION 1302. Defeasance and Discharge.
Upon the Company's exercise of the option provided in Section 1301
to defease the Outstanding Securities of a particular series, the Company
shall be discharged from its obligations with respect to the Outstanding
Securities of such series on the date the applicable conditions set forth in
Section 1304 are satisfied (hereinafter, "Defeasance"). Defeasance shall mean
that the Company shall be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire
indebtedness represented by the Outstanding Securities of such series and to
have satisfied all its other obligations under such Securities and this
Indenture insofar as such Securities are concerned (and the Trustee, at the
expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the
same); provided, however, that the following rights, obligations, powers,
trusts, duties and immunities shall survive until otherwise terminated or
discharged hereunder: (A) the rights of Holders of Outstanding Securities of
such series to receive, solely from the trust fund provided for in Section
1304, payments in respect of the principal of (and premium, if any) and
interest on such Securities when such payments are due, (B) the Company's
obligations with respect to such Securities under Sections 304, 305, 306,
1002 and 1007, (C) the rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the
Trustee hereunder and (D) this Article. Subject to compliance with this
Article, the Company may exercise its option with respect to Defeasance under
this Section 1302 notwithstanding the prior exercise of its option with
respect to Covenant Defeasance under Section 1303 in regard to the Securities
of such series.
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SECTION 1303. Covenant Defeasance.
Upon the Company's exercise of the option provided in Section 1301
to obtain a Covenant Defeasance with respect to the Outstanding Securities of
a particular series, the Company shall be released from its obligations under
this Indenture (except its obligations under Sections 304, 305, 306, 506,
509, 610, 1001, 1002, 1004, 1006 and 1007) with respect to the Outstanding
Securities of such series on and after the date the applicable conditions set
forth in Section 1304 are satisfied (hereinafter, "Covenant Defeasance").
Covenant Defeasance shall mean that, with respect to the Outstanding
Securities of such series, the Company may omit to comply with and shall have
no liability in respect of any term, condition or limitation set forth in
this Indenture (except its obligations under Sections 304, 305, 306, 506,
509, 610, 1001, 1002, 1004, 1006 and 1007), whether directly or indirectly by
reason of any reference elsewhere herein or by reason of any reference to any
other provision herein or in any other document, and such omission to comply
shall not constitute an Event of Default under Section 501(4) with respect to
Outstanding Securities of such series, and the remainder of this Indenture
and of the Securities of such series shall be unaffected thereby.
SECTION 1304. Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.
The following shall be the conditions to Defeasance under Section
1302 and Covenant Defeasance under Section 1303 with respect to the
Outstanding Securities of a particular series:
(1) the Company shall irrevocably have deposited or caused to
be deposited with the Trustee (or another trustee satisfying the
requirements of Section 609 who shall agree to comply with the
provisions of this Article applicable to it), under the terms of an
irrevocable trust agreement in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to such Trustee, as trust funds in trust for the purpose
of making the following payments, specifically pledged as security for,
and dedicated solely to, the benefit of the Holders of such Securities,
(A) Dollars in an amount, or (B) U.S. Government Obligations which
through the scheduled payment of principal and interest in respect
thereof in accordance with their terms will provide, not later than the
due date of any payment, money in an amount, or (C) a combination
thereof, in each case sufficient, after payment of all federal, state
and local taxes or other charges or assessments in respect thereof
payable by the Trustee, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm
of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification
thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay and discharge, and which shall
be applied by the Trustee (or other qualifying trustee) to pay and
discharge, (i) the principal of (and premium, if any, on) and each
installment of principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the
Outstanding Securities of such series on the Stated Maturity of such
principal or installment of principal or interest and (ii) any
mandatory sinking fund payments or analogous payments applicable to the
Outstanding Securities of such series on the day on which such payments
are due and payable in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and
of such Securities.
(2) No Default or Event of Default with respect to the
Securities of such series shall have occurred and be continuing on the
date of such deposit or shall occur as a
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result of such deposit, and no Default or Event of Default under clause
(5) or (6) of Section 501 hereof shall occur and be continuing, at any
time during the period ending on the 91st day after the date of such
deposit (it being understood that this condition shall not be deemed
satisfied until the expiration of such period).
(3) Such deposit, Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not
result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, any
other agreement or instrument to which the Company is a party or by
which it is bound.
(4) Such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not cause any
Securities of such series then listed on any national securities
exchange registered under the Exchange Act to be delisted.
(5) In the case of an election with respect to Section 1302,
the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee either (A) a ruling
directed to the Trustee received from the Internal Revenue Service to
the effect that the Holders of the Outstanding Securities of such
series will not recognize income, gain or loss for federal income tax
purposes as a result of such Defeasance and will be subject to federal
income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same
times as would have been the case if such Defeasance had not occurred
or (B) an Opinion of Counsel, based on such ruling or on a change in
the applicable federal income tax law since the date of this Indenture,
in either case to the effect that, and based thereon such opinion shall
confirm that, the Holders of the Outstanding Securities of such series
will not recognize income, gain or loss for federal income tax purposes
as a result of such Defeasance and will be subject to federal income
tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as
would have been the case if such Defeasance had not occurred.
(6) In the case of an election with respect to Section 1303,
the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel
or a ruling directed to the Trustee received from the Internal Revenue
Service to the effect that the Holders of the Outstanding Securities of
such series will not recognize income, gain or loss for federal income
tax purposes as a result of such Covenant Defeasance and will be
subject to federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner
and at the same times as would have been the case if such Covenant
Defeasance had not occurred.
(7) Such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall be effected
in compliance with any additional terms, conditions or limitations
which may be imposed on the Company in connection therewith pursuant to
Section 301.
(8) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an
Officer's Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all
conditions precedent provided for relating to either the Defeasance
under Section 1302 or the Covenant Defeasance under Section 1303 (as
the case may be) have been complied with.
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SECTION 1305. Deposited Money and U.S. Government Obligations To Be Held In
Trust.
Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 1007, all
money and U.S. Government Obligations (including the proceeds thereof) deposited
with the Trustee (or other qualifying trustee--collectively for purposes of
this Section 1305, the "Trustee") pursuant to Section 1304 in respect of the
Outstanding Securities of a particular series shall be held in trust and
applied by the Trustee, in accordance with the provisions of such Securities
and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying
Agent (including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee
may determine, to the Holders of such Securities of all sums due and to
become due thereon in respect of principal (and premium, if any) and
interest, but such money need not be segregated from other funds except to
the extent required by law.
The Company shall pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or
other charge imposed on or assessed against the U.S. Government Obligations
deposited pursuant to Section 1304 or the principal and interest received in
respect thereof, other than any such tax, fee or other charge which by law is
for the account of the Holders of the Outstanding Securities of such series.
Anything in this Article to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee
shall deliver to and pay to the Company from time to time upon Company Request
any money or U.S. Government Obligations held by it as provided in Section 1304
which, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public
accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the
Trustee, are in excess of the amount thereof which would then be required to
be deposited for the purpose for which such money or U.S. Government Obligations
were deposited.
ARTICLE FOURTEEN
SUBORDINATION
SECTION 1401. Agreement of Securityholders that Securities Subordinated
to Extent Provided.
The Company, for itself, its successors and assigns, covenants and
agrees and each Holder of the Securities by his acceptance thereof likewise
covenants and agrees that the payment of the principal of, premium, if any,
and interest on each and all of the Securities is hereby expressly
subordinated, to the extent and in the manner hereinafter set forth, to the
prior payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness. The provisions of this
Article shall constitute a continuing offer to all persons who, in reliance
upon such provisions, become holders of, or continue to hold, Senior
Indebtedness, and such provisions are made for the benefit of the holders of
Senior Indebtedness, and such holders are hereby made obligees hereunder the
same as if their names were written herein as such, and they and/or each of
them may proceed to enforce such provisions.
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SECTION 1402. Company not to Make Payments with Respect to Securities in
Certain Circumstances.
(a) Upon the maturity of any Senior Indebtedness by lapse of time,
acceleration or otherwise, all principal thereof and premium, if any, and
interest thereon shall first be paid in full, or such payment duly provided
for in cash or in a manner satisfactory to the holder or holders of such
Senior Indebtedness, before any payment is made on account of the principal
of or premium, if any, or interest on the Securities or to acquire any of the
Securities or on account of any sinking fund (except sinking fund payments
made in Securities acquired by the Company before the maturity of such Senior
Indebtedness).
(b) No payment of principal of, premium, if any, or interest on the
Securities may be made if, (i) a default has occurred and is continuing in
the payment of principal of or premium, if any, or interest on any Senior
Indebtedness of the Company or (ii) if any event of default with respect to
Senior Indebtedness of the Company has occurred and is continuing and has
resulted in Senior Indebtedness becoming or being declared due and payable
prior to the date on which it would otherwise have become due and payable,
unless and until the event of default shall have been rescinded or annulled,
or (iii) any judicial proceeding is pending with respect to any default in
payment or event of default.
(c) In the event that notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 1402
the Company shall make any payment to the Trustee on account of the principal
of or premium, if any, or interest on the Securities, or on account of any
sinking fund, or the Holders of the Securities shall receive any such
payment, after the happening of a default in payment of the principal of or
premium, if any, or interest on Senior Indebtedness, then, unless and until
such default or event of default shall have been cured or waived or shall
have ceased to exist, such payment (subject to the provisions of Section 1406
and 1407) shall be held by the Trustee or the Holders of the Securities, as
the case may be, in trust for the benefit of, and shall be paid forthwith
over and delivered to, the holders of Senior Indebtedness (pro rata as to
each of such holders on the basis of the respective amounts of Senior
Indebtedness held by them) or their representative or the trustee under the
indenture or other agreement (if any) pursuant to which any instruments
evidencing any Senior Indebtedness may have been issued, as their respective
interests may appear, for application to the payment of all Senior
Indebtedness remaining unpaid to the extent necessary to pay all Senior
Indebtedness in full in accordance with the terms of such Senior
Indebtedness, after giving effect to any concurrent payment or distribution
to or for the holders of Senior Indebtedness. The Company shall give prompt
written notice to a Responsible Officer of the Trustee of any fact known to
the Company that would prohibit the making of any payment of monies to or by
the Trustee in respect of the Securities pursuant to the provisions of this
Article Fourteen.
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SECTION 1403. Securities Subordinated to Prior Payment of all Senior
Indebtedness on Dissolution, Liquidation or Reorganization of Company.
In case of the pendency of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation,
bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other
judicial proceeding relative to the Company, then:
(a) the holders of Senior Indebtedness of the Company shall be entitled
to receive payment in full of all such Senior Indebtedness, or provision
shall be made for such payment in cash or cash equivalents or otherwise in a
manner satisfactory to the holders of Senior Indebtedness of the Company
before the Securityholders are entitled to receive or retain any payment or
distribution of any kind or character, whether in cash, property or
securities (including any payment or distribution which may be payable or
deliverable by reason of the payment of any other Indebtedness of the Company
(including any series of the Securities) subordinated to the payment of the
Securities, such payment or distribution being hereinafter referred to as a
"Junior Subordinated Payment"), on account of principal of (or premium, if
any) or interest on the Securities or on account of the purchase or other
acquisition of Securities by the Company and to that end the holders of
Senior Indebtedness of the Company shall be entitled to receive, for
application to the payment thereof; any payment or distribution of any kind
or character, whether in cash, property or securities, including any Junior
Subordinated Payment, which may be payable or deliverable in respect of the
Securities in any such proceeding.
(b) in the event that notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this
Section 1403, any payment or distribution of assets of the Company of any
kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities, shall be received
by the Trustee or the Holders of the Securities on account of principal,
premium, if any, or interest on the Securities before all Senior Indebtedness
is paid in full, or effective provision made for its payment, such payment or
distribution (subject to the provisions of Section 1406 and 1407) shall be
received and held in trust for and shall be paid over to the holders of the
Senior Indebtedness remaining unpaid or unprovided for or their representative
or representatives, or to the trustee or trustees under any indenture under
which any instruments evidencing any of such Senior Indebtedness may have
been issued, for application to the payment of such Senior Indebtedness until
all such Senior Indebtedness shall have been paid in full, after giving
effect to any concurrent payment or distribution or provision therefor to the
holders of such Senior Indebtedness.
SECTION 1404. Securityholders to be Subrogated to Right of Holders of
Senior Indebtedness.
Subject to the payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness, the Holders
of the Securities shall be subrogated to the rights of the holders of Senior
Indebtedness to receive payments or distributions of assets of the Company
applicable to the Senior Indebtedness until all amounts owing on the
Securities shall be paid in full, and for the purpose of such subrogation no
payments or distributions to the holders of the Senior Indebtedness by or on
behalf of the Company or by or on behalf of the Holders of the Securities by
virtue of this Article which otherwise would have been made to the Holders of
the Securities shall, as between the Company
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and the Holders of the Securities, be deemed to be payment by the Company to
or on account of the Senior Indebtedness, it being understood that the
provisions of this Article Fourteen are and are intended solely for the
purpose of defining the relative rights of the Holders of the Securities, on
the one hand, and the holders of the Senior Indebtedness, on the other hand.
SECTION 1405. Obligation of the Company Unconditional.
Nothing contained in this Article Fourteen or elsewhere in this
Indenture or in the Securities is intended to or shall impair as between the
Company and the Holders of the Securities, the obligation of the Company,
which is absolute and unconditional, to pay to the Holders of the Securities
the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Securities as and when
the same shall become due and payable in accordance with their terms, or is
intended to or shall affect the relative rights of the Holders of the
Securities and creditors of the Company other than the holders of the Senior
Indebtedness, nor shall anything herein or therein prevent the Trustee or the
Holder of any Security from exercising all remedies otherwise permitted by
applicable law upon default under this Indenture, subject to the rights, if
any, under this Article Fourteen of the holders of Senior Indebtedness in
respect of cash, property, or securities of the Company received upon the
exercise of any such remedy. Upon any distribution of assets of the Company
referred to in this Article Fourteen, the Trustee, subject to the provisions
of Section 601, and the Holders of the Securities shall be entitled to rely
upon any order or decree made by any court of competent jurisdiction in which
such dissolution, winding up, liquidation or reorganization proceedings are
pending, or a certificate of the liquidating trustee or agent or other person
making any distribution to the Trustee or to the Holders of the Securities,
for the purpose of ascertaining the persons entitled to participate in such
distribution, the holders of the Senior Indebtedness and other indebtedness
of the Company, the amount thereof or payable thereon, the amount or amounts
paid or distributed thereon and all other facts pertinent thereto or to this
Article Fourteen.
SECTION 1406. Trustee Entitled to Assume Payments Not Prohibited in
Absence of Notice.
The Trustee shall not at any time be charged with knowledge of the
existence of any facts which would prohibit the making of any payment of
monies to or by the Trustee, unless and until a Responsible Officer of the
Trustee shall have received written notice thereof from the Company or from
one or more holders of Senior Indebtedness or from any trustee therefor; and,
prior to the receipt of any such written notice, the Trustee, subject to the
provisions of Section 601, shall be entitled to assume conclusively that no
such facts exist.
The Trustee, subject to the provisions of Section 601, shall be entitled
to conclusively rely on the delivery to it of a written notice by a Person
representing himself to be a holder of Senior Indebtedness of the Company be
or a trustee on behalf of such holder, as the case may, to establish that
such notice has been given by a holder of such Senior Indebtedness or a
trustee on behalf of any such holder or holders. In the event that the
Trustee determines in good faith that further evidence is required with
respect to the right of any Person as a holder of such Senior Indebtedness to
participate in any payment or distribution pursuant to this Article Fourteen,
the
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Trustee may request such Person to furnish evidence to the reasonable
satisfaction of the Trustee as to the amount of such Senior Indebtedness held
by such Person, the extent to which such Person is entitled to participate in
such payment or distribution and any other facts pertinent to the rights of
such Person under this Article Fourteen, and, if such evidence is not
furnished, the Trustee may defer any payment to such Person pending judicial
determination as to the right of such Person to receive such payment.
SECTION 1407. Application by Trustee of Monies Deposited With It.
Anything in this Indenture to the contrary notwithstanding, any deposit
of monies by the Company with the Trustee or any paying agent (whether or not
in trust) for the payment of the principal of or premium, if any, or interest
on any Securities shall be subject to the provisions of Sections 1401, 1402,
1403 and 1404 except that, if at least two Business Days prior to the date on
which by the terms of this Indenture any such monies may become payable for
any purpose (including, without limitation, the payment of either the
principal of or the interest or premium, if any, on any Security) a
Responsible Officer of the Trustee shall not have received with respect to
such monies the notice provided for in Section 1406, then, anything herein
contained to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall have full power
and authority to receive such monies and to apply the same to the purpose for
which they were received, and shall not be affected by any notice to the
contrary which may be received by it within two Business Days prior to such
date or on or after such date.
SECTION 1408. Subordination Rights not Impaired by Acts or Omissions of
Company or Holders of Senior Indebtedness.
No right of any present or future holders of any Senior Indebtedness to
enforce subordination as herein provided shall at any time in any way be
prejudiced or impaired by any act or failure to act on the part of the
Company or by any act or failure to act, in good faith, by any such holder,
or by any noncompliance by the Company with the terms, provisions and
covenants of this Indenture, regardless of any knowledge thereof which any
such holder may have or be otherwise charged with.
SECTION 1409. Securityholders Authorize Trustee to Effectuate
Subordination of Securities.
Each Holder of the Securities by his acceptance thereof authorizes and
expressly directs the Trustee on his behalf to take such action as may be
necessary or appropriate to effectuate the subordination provided in this
Article Fourteen and appoints the Trustee his attorney-in-fact for such
purpose, including, in the event of any dissolution, winding up, liquidation
or reorganization of the Company (whether in bankruptcy, insolvency or
receivership proceedings or upon an assignment for the benefit of creditors
or otherwise) tending towards liquidation of the business and assets of the
Company, the immediate filing of a claim for the unpaid balance of its or his
Securities in the form required in said proceedings and cause said claim to
be approved. If the Trustee does not file a proper claim or proof of debt in
the form required in such proceeding prior to 30 days before the expiration
of the time to file such claim or claims, then the
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holder or holders of Senior Indebtedness are hereby authorized to and have
the right to file an appropriate claim for and on behalf of the holders of
said Securities.
SECTION 1410. Right of Trustee to Hold Senior Indebtedness.
The Trustee shall be entitled to all of the rights set forth in this
Article Fourteen in respect of any Senior Indebtedness at any time held by it
to the same extent as any other holder of Senior Indebtedness, and nothing in
Section 613 or elsewhere in this Indenture shall be construed to deprive the
Trustee of any of its rights as such holder.
SECTION 1411. Article Fourteen Not to Prevent Events of Default.
The failure to make a payment on account of principal, interest or
sinking fund by reason of any provision in this Article Fourteen shall not be
construed as preventing the occurrence of an Event of Default under Section 501.
ARTICLE FIFTEEN
MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 1501. Miscellaneous.
This instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of
which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such
counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be
duly executed, and their respective corporate seals to be hereunto affixed,
all as of the day and year first above written.
OGE ENERGY CORP.
By ________________________________
Name: Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
Title: Vice President and Treasurer
Attest:
________________________________
Name: __________________________
Title: _________________________
BANK OF OKLAHOMA, NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION
By: _______________________________
Name:
Title:
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