EXHIBIT 99.1
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INDYMAC MBS, INC.
Depositor
INDYMAC BANK, F.S.B.
Seller and Master Servicer
DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY
Trustee
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POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT
Dated as of September 1, 2005
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INDYMAC INDX MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST
2005-AR18
MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES
Series 2005-AR18
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE ONE DEFINITIONS..........................................................................................10
Section 1.01 Definitions...........................................................................10
Section 1.02 Rules of Construction.................................................................43
ARTICLE TWO CONVEYANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS; REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES.........................................45
Section 2.01 Conveyance of Mortgage Loans..........................................................45
Section 2.02 Acceptance by the Trustee of the Mortgage Loans.......................................48
Section 2.03 Representations, Warranties, and Covenants of the Seller and the Master
Servicer..............................................................................50
Section 2.04 Representations and Warranties of the Depositor as to the Mortgage Loans..............52
Section 2.05 Delivery of Opinion of Counsel in Connection with Substitutions.......................52
Section 2.06 Execution and Delivery of Certificates................................................52
Section 2.07 REMIC Matters.........................................................................52
ARTICLE THREE ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS.....................................................53
Section 3.01 Master Servicer to Service Mortgage Loans.............................................53
Section 3.02 Subservicing; Enforcement of the Obligations of Subservicers..........................53
Section 3.03 Rights of the Depositor, the Trustee and the Certificate Insurer in Respect of
the Master Servicer...................................................................54
Section 3.04 No Contractual Relationship Between Subservicers and the Trustee......................54
Section 3.05 Trustee to Act as Master Servicer.....................................................54
Section 3.06 Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Servicing Accounts; Collection Account;
Certificate Account; Distribution Account; Yield Maintenance Reserve Fund.............55
Section 3.07 Collection of Taxes, Assessments and Similar Items; Escrow Accounts...................59
Section 3.08 Access to Certain Documentation and Information Regarding the Mortgage Loans..........60
Section 3.09 Permitted Withdrawals from the Certificate Account, the Distribution Account
and the Yield Maintenance Reserve Funds...............................................60
Section 3.10 Maintenance of Hazard Insurance; Maintenance of Primary Insurance Policies............61
Section 3.11 Enforcement of Due-On-Sale Clauses; Assumption Agreements.............................63
Section 3.12 Realization Upon Defaulted Mortgage Loans.............................................64
Section 3.13 Trustee to Cooperate; Release of Mortgage Files.......................................66
Section 3.14 Documents, Records and Funds in Possession of the Master Servicer to be Held
for the Trustee.......................................................................66
Section 3.15 Servicing Compensation................................................................67
Section 3.16 Access to Certain Documentation.......................................................67
Section 3.17 Annual Statement as to Compliance.....................................................67
Section 3.18 Annual Independent Public Accountants' Servicing Statement; Financial
Statements............................................................................68
Section 3.19 Errors and Omissions Insurance; Fidelity Bonds........................................68
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Section 3.20 Notification of Adjustments...........................................................68
Section 3.21 Prepayment Charges....................................................................69
ARTICLE FOUR DISTRIBUTIONS AND ADVANCES BY THE MASTER SERVICER...................................................70
Section 4.01 Advances..............................................................................70
Section 4.02 Priorities of Distribution............................................................71
Section 4.03 Cross-Collateralization; Adjustments to Available Funds...............................76
Section 4.04 Allocation of Net Deferred Interest...................................................76
Section 4.05 Allocation of Realized Losses.........................................................77
Section 4.06 Monthly Statements to Certificateholders..............................................78
Section 4.07 Carryover Shortfall Reserve Fund......................................................80
Section 4.08 Determination of Pass-Through Rates for LIBOR Certificates............................81
Section 4.09 Determination of Pass-Through Rates for MTA Certificates..............................82
Section 4.10 Policy; Rights of the Certificate Insurer.............................................83
ARTICLE FIVE THE CERTIFICATES....................................................................................86
Section 5.01 The Certificates......................................................................86
Section 5.02 Certificate Register; Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates...........86
Section 5.03 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Certificates.....................................90
Section 5.04 Persons Deemed Owners.................................................................90
Section 5.05 Access to List of Certificateholders' Names and Addresses.............................90
Section 5.06 Maintenance of Office or Agency.......................................................91
ARTICLE SIX THE DEPOSITOR AND THE MASTER SERVICER................................................................92
Section 6.01 Respective Liabilities of the Depositor and the Master Servicer.......................92
Section 6.02 Merger or Consolidation of the Depositor or the Master Servicer.......................92
Section 6.03 Limitation on Liability of the Depositor, the Seller, the Master Servicer, and
Others................................................................................92
Section 6.04 Limitation on Resignation of the Master Servicer......................................93
ARTICLE SEVEN DEFAULT............................................................................................94
Section 7.01 Events of Default.....................................................................94
Section 7.02 Trustee to Act; Appointment of Successor..............................................95
Section 7.03 Notification to Certificateholders....................................................96
ARTICLE EIGHT CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE.............................................................................97
Section 8.01 Duties of the Trustee.................................................................97
Section 8.02 Certain Matters Affecting the Trustee.................................................97
Section 8.03 Trustee Not Liable for Certificates or Mortgage Loans.................................99
Section 8.04 Trustee May Own Certificates..........................................................99
Section 8.05 Trustee's Fees and Expenses...........................................................99
Section 8.06 Eligibility Requirements for the Trustee.............................................100
Section 8.07 Resignation and Removal of the Trustee...............................................100
Section 8.08 Successor Trustee....................................................................101
Section 8.09 Merger or Consolidation of the Trustee...............................................101
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Section 8.10 Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee........................................102
Section 8.11 Tax Matters..........................................................................103
Section 8.12 Periodic Filings.....................................................................105
ARTICLE NINE TERMINATION........................................................................................107
Section 9.01 Termination upon Liquidation or Purchase of the Mortgage Loans.......................107
Section 9.02 Final Distribution on the Certificates...............................................108
Section 9.03 Additional Termination Requirements..................................................109
ARTICLE TEN MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS............................................................................110
Section 10.01 Amendment............................................................................110
Section 10.02 Recordation of Agreement; Counterparts...............................................111
Section 10.03 Governing Law........................................................................112
Section 10.04 Intention of Parties.................................................................112
Section 10.05 Notices..............................................................................112
Section 10.06 Severability of Provisions...........................................................113
Section 10.07 Assignment...........................................................................113
Section 10.08 Limitation on Rights of Certificateholders...........................................113
Section 10.09 Inspection and Audit Rights..........................................................114
Section 10.10 Certificates Nonassessable and Fully Paid............................................114
Section 10.11 Official Record......................................................................115
Section 10.12 Protection of Assets.................................................................115
Section 10.13 Qualifying Special Purpose Entity....................................................115
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SCHEDULES
Schedule I: Mortgage Loan Schedule...................................................................S-I-1
Schedule II: Representations and Warranties of the Seller/Master Servicer............................S-II-1
Schedule III: Representations and Warranties as to the Mortgage Loans................................S-III-1
Schedule IV: Form of Monthly Report..................................................................S-IV-1
EXHIBITS
Exhibit A: Form of Senior Certificate (excluding Notional Amount Certificates)........................A-1
Exhibit B: Form of Subordinated Certificate...........................................................B-1
Exhibit C: Form of Class A-R Certificate..............................................................C-1
Exhibit D: Form of Notional Amount Certificate........................................................D-1
Exhibit E Form of Reverse of Certificates............................................................E-1
Exhibit F: Form of Class P Certificates...............................................................F-1
Exhibit G-1: Form of Initial Certification of Trustee.................................................G-1-1
Exhibit G-2: [Reserved]...............................................................................G-2-1
Exhibit G-3: Form of Delay Delivery Certification.....................................................G-3-1
Exhibit G-4: [Reserved]...............................................................................G-4-1
Exhibit H-1: Form of Final Certification of Trustee...................................................H-1-1
Exhibit H-2: [Reserved]...............................................................................H-2-1
Exhibit I: Form of Transfer Affidavit.................................................................I-1
Exhibit J: Form of Transferor Certificate.............................................................J-1
Exhibit K: Form of Investment Letter (Non-Rule 144A)..................................................K-1
Exhibit L: Form of Rule 144A Letter...................................................................L-1
Exhibit M: Form of Request for Release (for Trustee)..................................................M-1
Exhibit N: Request for Release of Documents...........................................................N-1
Exhibit O: Form of Trustee Certification..............................................................O-1
Exhibit P-1: Form of Yield Maintenance Agreement for Group 1 Senior Floating Rate
Certificates...............................................................................P-1
Exhibit P-2: Form of Yield Maintenance Agreement for Group 2 Senior Floating Rate
Certificates...............................................................................P-2
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THIS POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT, dated as of September 1, 2005,
among INDYMAC MBS, INC., a Delaware corporation, as depositor (the
"Depositor"), IndyMac Bank, F.S.B. ("IndyMac"), a federal savings bank, as
seller (in that capacity, the "Seller") and as master servicer (in that
capacity, the "Master Servicer"), and Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, a
national banking association, as trustee (the "Trustee"),
W I T N E S S E T H T H A T
In consideration of the mutual agreements set forth in this
Agreement, the parties agree as follows:
PRELIMINARY STATEMENT
The Depositor is the owner of the Trust Fund that is hereby conveyed
to the Trustee in return for the Certificates. As provided in this Agreement,
the Trustee shall elect that the Trust Fund (exclusive of the Yield
Maintenance Agreements, the Yield Maintenance Reserve Funds and the Carryover
Shortfall Reserve Fund) be treated for federal income tax purposes as
comprising three real estate mortgage investment conduits (each, a "REMIC" or,
in the alternative, "REMIC 1", "REMIC 2," and the "Master REMIC"). Each
Certificate, other than the Class A-R Certificate, will represent ownership of
one or more regular interests in the Master REMIC for purposes of the REMIC
Provisions. The Class A-R represents ownership of the sole class of residual
interest in each REMIC created under this Agreement. The Master REMIC will
hold as assets the several classes of uncertificated REMIC 2 Interests (other
than the Class R-2 Interest). REMIC 2 will hold as assets the several classes
of uncertificated REMIC 1 Interests (other than the Class R-1 Interest). REMIC
1 will hold as assets all property of the Trust Fund other than the Yield
Maintenance Agreements, the Yield Maintenance Reserve Funds and the Carryover
Shortfall Reserve Fund. Each REMIC 2 Interest (other than the Class R-2
Interest) is hereby designated as a regular interest in REMIC 2. Each REMIC 1
Interest (other than the Class R-1 Interest) is hereby designated as a regular
interest in REMIC 1. The latest possible maturity date of all REMIC regular
interests created in this Agreement shall be the Latest Possible Maturity
Date.
REMIC 1
The REMIC 1 Interests will have the initial principal balances, Pass-Through
Rates and corresponding Loan Groups as set forth in the following table:
Initial Corresponding
Principal Pass-Through Loan
REMIC 1 Interests Balance Rate Group
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A-1 (0.9% of SP Loan Group 1) (1) (2) 1
B-1 (0.1% of SP Loan Group 1) (1) (2) 1
C-1 (Excess of Loan Group 1) (1) (2) 1
A-2 (0.9% of SP Loan Group 2) (1) (2) 2
B-2 (0.1% of SP Loan Group 2) (1) (2) 2
C-2 (Excess of Loan Group 2) (1) (2) 2
1-P-1 $100 (3) 1
1-P-2 $100 (3) 2
R-1 (4) (4) N/A
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(1) Each Class A Interest will have a principal balance initially equal to
0.9% of the Subordinated Portion ("SP") of its corresponding Loan Group. Each
Class B Interest will have a principal balance initially equal to 0.1% of the
SP of its corresponding Loan Group. The initial principal balance of each
Class C Interest will equal the excess of the initial aggregate principal
balance of its corresponding Loan Group over the initial aggregate principal
balances of the Class A and Class B Interests corresponding to such Loan
Group.
(2) The Weighted Average Adjusted Net Mortgage Rate of the Mortgage Loans in
the corresponding Loan Group.
(3) The Class 1-P-1 and Class 1-P-2 Interests will not bear interest and will
be entitled to all Prepayment Charges collected in respect of the Group 1
Mortgage Loans and Group 2 Mortgage Loans, respectively.
(4) The Class R-1 Interest is the sole class of residual interest in REMIC 1.
It has no principal balance and pays no principal or interest.
On each Distribution Date, the Available Funds shall be distributed
with respect to the REMIC 1 Interests in the following manner:
(1) Interest is to be distributed with respect to each REMIC 1 Interest
according to the formulas described above;
(2) If no Cross-Over Situation exists with respect to any Class of Interests,
then Principal Amounts, Deferred Interest and Realized Losses arising with
respect to each Loan Group will be allocated: first to cause the Loan Group's
corresponding Class A and Class B to equal, respectively, 0.9% of the SP and
0.1% of the SP; and second to the Loan Group's corresponding Class C Interest;
(3) If a Cross-Over Situation exists with respect to the Class A and Class B
Interests then:
(a) if the Calculation Rate in respect of the outstanding Class A and
Class B Interests is less than the Subordinate WAC Cap, Principal
Relocation Payments will be made proportionately to the outstanding
Class A Interests prior to any other distributions of principal from
each such Loan Group; and
(b) if the Calculation Rate in respect of the outstanding Class A and
Class B Interests is greater than the Subordinate WAC Cap, Principal
Relocation Payments will be made proportionately to the outstanding
Class B Interests prior to any other distributions of principal from
each such Loan Group.
In case of either (a) or (b), Principal Relocation Payments will be made so as
to cause the Calculation Rate in respect of the outstanding Class A and Class
B Interests to equal the Subordinate WAC Cap. With respect to each Loan Group,
if (and to the extent that) the sum of (a) the principal payments comprising
the Principal Amount received during the Due Period and (b) the Realized
Losses, are insufficient to make the necessary reductions of principal on the
Class A and Class B Interests, then interest will be added to the Loan Group's
other REMIC 1 Interests that are not receiving Principal Relocation Payments,
in proportion to their principal balances.
(c) The outstanding aggregate Class A and Class B Interests for all
Loan Groups will not be reduced below 1% of the excess of (i) the
aggregate Stated Principal Balances of the Mortgage Loans as of the
end of any Due Period (excluding any accruals of Deferred Interest)
over (ii) the
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Certificate Balance of the Senior Certificates (excluding the Class
A-R Certificates) for all Loan Groups as of the related Distribution
Date (after taking into account distributions of principal on such
Distribution Date).
If (and to the extent that) the limitation in paragraph (c) prevents the
distribution of principal to the Class A and Class B Interests of a Loan
Group, and if the Loan Group's Class C Interest has already been reduced to
zero, then the excess principal from that Loan Group will be paid to the Class
C Interests of the other Loan Group, the aggregate Class A and Class B
Interests of which are less than 1% of the SP. If the Mortgage Loans in the
Loan Group of the Class C Interest that receives such payment have a Weighted
Average Adjusted Net Mortgage Rate below the Weighted Average Adjusted Net
Mortgage Rate of the Mortgage Loans in the Loan Group making the payment, then
the payment will be treated by the REMIC 1 as a Realized Loss. Conversely, if
the Mortgage Loans in the Loan Group of the Class C Interest that receives
such payment has a Weighted Average Adjusted Net Mortgage Rate above the
Weighted Average Adjusted Net Mortgage Rate of the Mortgage Loans in the Loan
Group making the payment, then the payment will be treated by the REMIC 1 as a
reimbursement for prior Realized Losses.
REMIC 2
The REMIC 2 Interests will have the initial Class Certificate Balances,
Pass-Through Rates and Corresponding Certificate Classes as set forth in the
following table:
Corresponding
Class Pass-Through Certificates
REMIC 2 Interests Certificate Balances(1) Rate Classes
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Class 2-1-A-1 (1) (2) Class 1-A-1
Class 2-1-A-2 (1) (2) Class 1-A-2
Class 2-1-A-3A (1) (2) Class 1-A-3A
Class 2-1-A-3B (1) (2) Class 1-A-3B
Class 2-2-A-1A (1) (3) Class 2-A-1A
Class 2-2-A-1B (1) (3) Class 2-A-1B
Class 2-2-A-2A (1) (3) Class 2-A-2A
Class 2-2-A-2B (1) (3) Class 2-A-2B
Class 2-2-A-2C (1) (3) Class 2-A-2C
Class 2-2-A-3A (1) (3) Class 2-A-3A
Class 2-2-A-3B (1) (3) Class 2-A-3B
Class 1-Accrual (1) (2) N/A
Class 2-Accrual (1) (3) N/A
Class 2-$100 (1) (2) Class A-R
Class 2-B-1 (1) (4) Class B-1
Class 2-B-2 (1) (4) Class B-2
Class 2-B-3 (1) (4) Class B-3
Class 2-B-4 (1) (4) Class B-4
Class 2-B-5 (1) (4) Class B-5
Class 2-B-6 (1) (4) Class B-6
Class 2-B-7 (1) (4) Class B-7
Class 2-B-8 (1) (4) Class B-8
Class 2-B-9 (1) (4) Class B-9
Class 2-B-10 (1) (4) Class B-10
Class 2-B-11 (1) (4) Class B-11
Class B-Accrual (1) (4) N/A
Class 2-P-2 $100 (5) Class P-1
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Class 2-P-1 $100 (5) Class P-2
Class R-2 (6) (6) N/A
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(1) On each Distribution Date, Principal Amounts, Net Deferred Interest and
Realized Losses will be allocated to the REMIC 2 Interests in such a manner
that, following such allocations: (i) the principal balances of the REMIC 2
Interests (other than the Class 1-Accrual, 2-Accrual, B-Accrual, Class 2-P-1,
Class 2-P-2 and Class R-2 Interests) will equal 50% of the Certificate Balance
of their Corresponding Certificates for such Distribution Date, (ii) the Class
1-Accrual Interest will have a principal balance equal to 50% of the aggregate
Certificate Balances of the Group 1 Senior Certificates plus 100% of all Net
Deferred Interest allocated to the Class 1-X PO Component, (iii) the Class
2-Accrual Interest will have a principal balance equal to 50% of the aggregate
Certificate Balances of the Group 2 Certificates plus 100% of all Net Deferred
Interest allocated to the Class 2-X PO Component, (iv) the Class B-Accrual
Interest will have a principal balance equal to 50% of the aggregate
Certificate Balances of the Subordinate Certificates plus 100% of all Net
Deferred Interest allocated to the Class B-X PO Component, and (v) the
principal balances of the Class 2-P-1 and Class 2-P-2 Interests will equal
100% of the Certificate Balance of their Corresponding Certificates for such
Distribution Date.
(2) The Weighted Average Adjusted Net Mortgage Rate of the Group 1 Mortgage
Loans.
(3) The Weighted Average Adjusted Net Mortgage Rate of the Group 2 Mortgage
Loans.
(4) The Subordinate WAC Cap. For federal income tax purposes, the Pass-Through
Rate will be the Calculation Rate.
(5) The Class 1-P-1 and Class 1-P-2 Interests will not bear interest and will
be entitled to all Prepayment Charges collected in respect of the Group 1
Mortgage Loans and Group 2 Mortgage Loans, respectively.
(6) The Class R-2 Interest is the sole class of residual interest in REMIC 2.
It has no principal balance and pays no principal or interest.
The Master REMIC
The following table sets forth the Class Designation, Initial Class
Certificate Balance, Pass-Through Rate, Minimum Denominations and Integral
Multiples in excess thereof in respect of the Certificates, each of which
(other than the Class A-R Certificates) is hereby designated a regular
interest in the Master REMIC, in which such Classes shall be issuable (except
that one Certificate of each Class of Certificates may be issued in a
different amount):
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Initial Class Pass-Through Minimum Integral Multiples in
Class Designation Certificate Balance Rate Denomination Excess of Minimum
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Class 1-A-1 $629,654,000 Variable(1) $ 25,000 $1,000
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Class 1-A-2 $262,356,000 Variable(1) $ 25,000 $1,000
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Class 1-A-3A $77,413,000 Variable(1) $ 25,000 $1,000
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Class 1-A-3B $80,000,000 Variable(1) $ 25,000 $1,000
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Class 2-A-1A $398,032,000 Variable(1) $ 25,000 $1,000
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Class 2-A-1B $300,000,000 Variable(1) $ 25,000 $1,000
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Class 2-A-2A $50,000,000 Variable(1) $ 25,000 $1,000
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Class 2-A-2B $65,846,000 Variable(2) $ 25,000 $1,000
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Class 2-A-2C $175,000,000 Variable(1) $ 25,000 $1,000
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Class 2-A-3A $84,508,000 Variable(1) $ 25,000 $1,000
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Class 2-A-3B $90,000,000 Variable(1) $ 25,000 $1,000
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Class 1-X Notional(3) Variable(4) $ 25,000(5) $1,000(5)
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Class 2-X Notional(6) Variable(7) $ 25,000(5) $1,000(5)
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Class A-R $100.00 Variable(8) $ 100 N/A
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Class B-1 $12,201,000 Variable(9) $ 25,000 $1,000
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Class B-2 $49,300,000 Variable(9) $ 25,000 $1,000
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Class B-3 $33,764,000 Variable(9) $ 25,000 $1,000
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Class B-4 $14,470,000 Variable(9) $ 25,000 $1,000
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Class B-5 $13,264,000 Variable(9) $ 25,000 $1,000
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Class B-6 $10,853,000 Variable(9) $ 25,000 $1,000
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Class B-7 $9,647,000 Variable(9) $ 25,000 $1,000
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Class B-8 $7,235,000 Variable(9) $ 25,000 $1,000
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Class B-9 $16,882,000 Variable(9) $ 100,000 $1,000
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Class B-10 $18,088,000 Variable(9) $ 100,000 $1,000
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Class B-11 $13,269,015 Variable(9) $ 100,000 $1,000
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Class B-X Notional (10) Variable(11) $ 25,000(5) $1,000(5)
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Class P-1 $100.00 0%(12) $100 N/A
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Class P-2 $100.00 0%(12) $100 N/A
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1. The Pass-Through Rate for this Class of Certificates for any Interest
Accrual Period for any Distribution Date will be the least of (i) LIBOR
plus the applicable Pass-Through Margin, (ii) the related Net WAC Cap for
that Distribution Date and (iii) the Maximum Rate Cap. Solely for federal
income tax purposes, the Pass-Through Rate on the first Distribution Date
will equal the fixed rate produced by the sum of LIBOR and the applicable
Pass-Through Margin for such Distribution Date.
2. The Pass-Through Rate for this Class of Certificates for any Interest
Accrual Period for any Distribution Date will be a per annum rate equal
to the least of (i) MTA plus 1.40% per annum, (ii) the related Net WAC
Cap for that Distribution Date and (iii) the Maximum Rate Cap.
3. The Class 1-X Certificates will be Notional Amount Certificates, will
bear interest on their Notional Amount, which will be $1,049,423,000 for
the initial Interest Accrual Period. The Class 1-X Certificates will also
consist of one principal-only component with a Component Principal
Balance initially equal to zero.
4. The Pass-Through Rate of the Class 1-X Certificates for the Interest
Accrual Period for any Distribution Date will be equal to the excess, if
any, of (i) the Weighted Average Adjusted Net Mortgage Rate of the Group
1 Mortgage Loans over (ii) the product of (a) the weighted average
Pass-Through Rate on the Group 1 Senior Floating Rate Certificates,
adjusted for the related Interest Accrual Period, and (b) a fraction, the
numerator of which is the aggregate Class Certificate Balance of the
Group 1 Senior Floating Rate Certificates immediately prior to such
Distribution Date and the denominator of which is the aggregate Class
Certificate Balance of the Group 1 Senior Certificates immediately prior
to such Distribution Date. Solely for federal income tax purposes, the
Pass-Through rate in respect of the Class 1-X Certificates will equal the
product of two and the weighted average Pass-Through Rate of the REMIC 2
Interests designated "2-1-A" and the Class 1-Accrual Interest subjecting
the Interests designated "2-1-A" to a cap equal to the interest rate in
respect of their corresponding Certificate Classes and the Class
1-Accrual Interest to a cap equal to zero.
5. Minimum denomination is based on the Notional Amount of such Class.
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6. The Class 2-X Certificates will be Notional Amount Certificates and will
bear interest on their Notional Amount, which will be $1,163,386,000 for
the initial Interest Accrual Period. The Class 2-X Certificates will also
consist of one principal-only Component with a Component Principal
Balance initially equal to zero.
7. The Pass-Through Rate for the Class 2-X Certificates for the Interest
Accrual Period for any Distribution Date will be equal to the excess, if
any, of (i) the Weighted Average Adjusted Net Mortgage Rate of the Group
2 Mortgage Loans over (ii) the product of (a) the weighted average
Pass-Through Rate on the Group 2 Senior Floating Rate Certificates,
adjusted for the related Interest Accrual Period, and (b) a fraction, the
numerator of which is the aggregate Class Certificate Balance of the
Group 2 Senior Floating Rate Certificates immediately prior to such
Distribution Date and the denominator of which is the aggregate Class
Certificate Balance of the Group 2 Senior Certificates immediately prior
to such Distribution Date. Solely for federal income tax purposes, the
Pass-Through Rate in respect of the Class 2-X Certificates will equal the
product of two and the weighted average Pass-Through Rate of the REMIC 2
Interests designated "2-2-A" and the Class 2-Accrual Interest subjecting
the Interests designated "2-2-A" to a cap equal to the interest rate in
respect of their corresponding Certificate Classes and the Class
2-Accrual Interest to a cap equal to zero.
8. The Pass-Through Rate for the Class A-R Certificates for any Interest
Accrual Period for any Distribution Date will be the Weighted Average
Adjusted Net Mortgage Rate of the Group 1 Mortgage Loans for that
Distribution Date. The Class A-R Certificates shall represent the sole
class of residual interest in the Master REMIC.
9. The Pass-Through Rate for this Class of Certificates for any Interest
Accrual Period for any Distribution Date will be the lesser of (i) LIBOR
plus the applicable Pass-Through Margin and (ii) the Subordinate WAC Cap
for that Distribution Date.
10. The Class B-X Certificates will be Notional Amount Certificates and will
bear interest on the Notional Amount, which will be $198,973,015 for the
initial Interest Accrual Period. The Class B-X Certificates will also
consist of one principal-only component with a Component Principal
Balance initially equal to zero.
11. The Pass-Through Rate for the Class B-X IO Component for the Interest
Accrual Period for any Distribution Date will be equal to the excess, if
any, of (i) the Subordinate WAC Cap over (ii) the product of (a) the
Pass-Through Rate on the Subordinated Floating Rate Certificates,
adjusted for the related Interest Accrual Period, and (b) a fraction, the
numerator of which is the aggregate Class Certificate Balance of the
Subordinated Floating Rate Certificates immediately prior to such
Distribution Date and the denominator of which is the aggregate Class
Certificate Balance of the Subordinated Certificates immediately prior to
such Distribution Date. Solely for federal income tax purposes, the pass
through rate in respect of the Class B-X Certificates will equal the
product of two and the weighted average pass through rate of the REMIC 2
Interests designated "2-B" and the Class B-Accrual Interest subjecting
the Interests designated "2-B" to a cap equal to the interest rate in
respect of their corresponding Certificate Classes and the Class
B-Accrual Interest to a cap equal to zero.
12. The Class P-1 and Class P-2 Certificates will not bear interest and will
be entitled to all Prepayment Charges collected in respect of the Group 1
Mortgage Loans and Group 2 Mortgage Loans, respectively.
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The foregoing REMIC structure is intended to cause all of the cash
from the Mortgage Loans to flow through to the Master REMIC as cash flow on a
REMIC regular interest, without creating any shortfall--actual or potential
(other than for credit losses) to any REMIC regular interest.
For any purpose for which the Pass-Through Rates (other than in the
Master REMIC) are calculated, the interest rate on the Mortgage Loans shall be
appropriately adjusted to account for the difference between the monthly day
count convention of the Mortgage Loans and the monthly day count convention of
the regular interests issued by each of the REMICs. For purposes of
calculating the Pass-Through Rates for each of the interests issued by each
REMIC (other than the Master REMIC) created hereunder such rates shall be
adjusted to equal a monthly day count convention based on a 30 day month for
each Due Period and a 360-day year so that the Mortgage Loans and all regular
interests will be using the same monthly day count convention.
Set forth below are designations of Classes of Certificates to the categories
used in this Agreement:
Accretion Directed Certificates.......................... None.
Accrual Certificates..................................... None.
Book-Entry Certificates.................................. All Classes of Certificates other than the Physical
Certificates.
COFI Certificates........................................ None.
Components............................................... Class 1-X IO, Class 1-X PO, Class 2-X IO, Class 2-X
PO, Class B-X IO and Class B-X PO Components
Component Certificates................................... Class 1-X, Class 2-X and Class B-X Certificates.
Delay Certificates....................................... The Class 2-A-2B, Class A-R, Class 1-X, Class 2-X
and Class B-X Certificates.
ERISA-Restricted Certificates............................ The Residual Certificates and the Private
Certificates; and Certificates of any Class that
ceases to satisfy the rating requirements of the
Underwriter's Exemption.
Floating Rate Certificates............................... Group 1 Senior Floating Rate Certificates, Group 2
Senior Floating Rate Certificates and the
Subordinated Floating Rate Certificates.
Group 1 Senior Certificates.............................. Class 1-A-1, Class 1-A-2, Class 1-A-3A, Class 1-A-3B
and Class A-R Certificates and Class 1-X IO and
Class 1-X PO Components.
Group 1 Senior Floating Rate Certificates................ Class 1-A-1, Class 1-A-2, Class 1-A-3A and Class
1-A-3B Certificates.
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Group 1 Certificates..................................... Group 1 Senior Certificates and the portion of the
Subordinated Certificates related to Loan Group 1.
Group 2 Senior Certificates.............................. Class 2-A-1A, Class 2-A-1B, Class 2-A-2A, Class
2-A-2B, Class 2-A-2C, Class 2-A-3A and Class 2-A-3B
Certificates and Class 2-X IO and Class 2-X
Components.
Group 2 Senior LIBOR Certificates........................ Class 2-A-1A, Class 2-A-1B, Class 2-A-2A and Class
2-A-2C, Class 2-A-3A and Class 2-A-3B Certificates.
Group 2 Senior Floating Rate Certificates................ Group 2 Senior LIBOR Certificates and Class 2-A-2B
Certificates.
Group 2 Certificates..................................... Group 2 Senior Certificates and the portion of the
Subordinated Certificates related to Loan Group 2.
Floating Rate Certificates............................... Group 1 Senior Floating Rate Certificates, Group 2
Senior Floating Rate Certificates and Subordinated
Floating Rate Certificates.
MTA Certificates......................................... Class 2-A-2B Certificates.
Non-Delay Certificates................................... All LIBOR Certificates.
Notional Amount Certificates............................. Class 1-X, Class 2-X and Class B-X Certificates.
Notional Amount Components............................... Class 1-X IO, Class 2-X IO and Class B-X IO
Components.
Offered Certificates..................................... All Classes of Certificates other than the Private
Certificates.
Physical Certificates.................................... Class A-R Certificates and the Private Certificates.
Planned Principal Classes................................ None.
Principal Only Certificates.............................. None.
Principal Only Components................................ Class 1-X PO, Class 2-X PO and Class B-X PO
Components.
Private Certificates..................................... Class P, Class B-9, Class B-10 and Class B-11
Certificates.
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Rating Agencies.......................................... Xxxxx'x and S&P.
Regular Certificates..................................... All Classes of Certificates other than the Class A-R
Certificates.
Residual Certificate..................................... Class A-R Certificates.
Senior Certificates...................................... Class 1-A-1, Class 1-A-2, Class 1-A-3A, Class
1-A-3B, Class 2-A-1A, Class 2-A-1B, Class 2-A-2A,
Class 2-A-2B, Class 2-A-2C, Class 2-A-3A, Class
2-A-3B, Class 1-X, Class 2-X and Class A-R
Certificates.
Senior Certificate Group................................. The Group 1 Senior Certificates or the Group 2
Senior Certificates.
Subordinated Certificates................................ Class B-1, Class B-2, Class B-3, Class B-4, Class
B-5, Class B-6, Class B-7, Class B-8, Class B-9,
Class B-10, Class B-11 and Class B-X Certificates.
Subordinated Floating Rate Certificates.................. The Subordinated Certificates other than the Class
B-X Certificates.
Targeted Principal Classes............................... None.
Targeted Principal Component............................. None.
With respect to any of the foregoing designations as to which the corresponding reference is "None," all
defined terms and provisions in this Agreement relating solely to such designations shall be of no force or
effect, and any calculations in this Agreement incorporating references to such designations shall be interpreted
without reference to such designations and amounts. Defined terms and provisions in this Agreement relating to
statistical rating agencies not designated above as Rating Agencies shall be of no force or effect.
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ARTICLE One
DEFINITIONS
Section 1.01 Definitions.
Unless the context requires a different meaning, capitalized terms
are used in this Agreement as defined below.
Accretion Directed Certificates: As specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
Accretion Direction Rule: Not applicable.
Accrual Amount: With respect to any Accrual Certificates and any
Distribution Date prior to the Accrual Termination Date, the amount allocable
to interest on such Class of Accrual Certificates with respect to such
Distribution Date pursuant to Section 4.02(a)(i).
Accrual Certificates: As specified in the Preliminary Statement.
Accrual Termination Date: Not applicable.
Accrued Interest Amount: For any Distribution Date and an
Undercollateralized Group, the sum of (x) the product of (A) the applicable
Principal Deficiency Amount and (B) the weighted average Pass-Through Rate for
the related Senior Certificates for that Distribution Date, accrued during the
related Interest Accrual Period and (y) any such unpaid interest amounts from
prior Distribution Dates.
Adjusted Cap Rate: The Class 1-X Adjusted Cap Rate, Class 2-X
Adjusted Cap Rate, Class B-X Adjusted Cap Rate, Group 1 Adjusted Cap Rate,
Group 2 Adjusted Cap Rate or Subordinated Adjusted Cap Rate, as applicable.
Adjusted Mortgage Rate: As to each Mortgage Loan and at any time, the
per annum rate equal to the Mortgage Rate less the Servicing Fee Rate.
Adjusted Net Mortgage Rate: As to each Mortgage Loan and any
Distribution Date, the per annum rate equal to the Mortgage Rate of that
Mortgage Loan (as of the Due Date in the month preceding the month in which
such Distribution Date occurs) less the Expense Fee Rate for that Mortgage
Loan.
Adjustment Date: A date specified in each Mortgage Note as a date on
which the Mortgage Rate on the related Mortgage Loan is subject to adjustment.
Advance: As to a Loan Group, the payment required to be made by the
Master Servicer with respect to any Distribution Date pursuant to Section
4.01, the amount of any such payment being equal to the aggregate of payments
of principal and interest (net of the Servicing Fee) on the Mortgage Loans in
such Loan Group that were due during the related Due Period and not received
as of the close of business on the related Determination Date, together with
an amount equivalent to interest on each REO Property, net of any net income
from such REO Property, less the aggregate amount of any such delinquent
payments that the Master Servicer has determined would constitute a
Nonrecoverable Advance if advanced.
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Advance Notice: As defined in Section 4.01(b).
Advance Deficiency: As defined in Section 4.01(b).
Affiliate: With respect to any Person, any other Person controlling,
controlled or under common control with such Person. For purposes of this
definition, "control" means the power to direct the management and policies of
a Person, directly or indirectly, whether through ownership of voting
securities, by contract, or otherwise and "controlling" and "controlled" shall
have meanings correlative to the foregoing. Affiliates also include any
entities consolidated with the requirements of generally accepted accounting
principles.
Aggregate Senior Percentage: With respect to any Distribution Date,
the fraction, expressed as a percentage, the numerator of which is equal to
the aggregate Class Certificate Balance of the Senior Certificates immediately
prior to such Distribution Date and the denominator of which is the aggregate
Stated Principal Balance of all the Mortgage Loans as of the Due Date in the
month preceding the month of such Distribution Date (after giving effect to
Principal Prepayments in the Prepayment Period related to that prior Due
Date).
Aggregate Subordinated Percentage: With respect to any Distribution
Date, the fraction, expressed as a percentage, the numerator of which is equal
to the aggregate Class Certificate Balance of the Subordinated Certificates
immediately prior to such Distribution Date and the denominator of which is
the aggregate Stated Principal Balance of all the Mortgage Loans as of the Due
Date in the month preceding the month of such Distribution Date (after giving
effect to Principal Prepayments in the Prepayment Period related to that prior
Due Date).
Agreement: This Pooling and Servicing Agreement and all amendments
and supplements.
Ambac: Ambac Assurance Corporation, organized and crated under the
laws of the state of Wisconsin, or any successor thereto.
Amount Held for Future Distribution: As to any Distribution Date and
the Mortgage Loans in a Loan Group, the aggregate amount held in the
Certificate Account at the close of business on the related Determination Date
on account of (i) Principal Prepayments received after the last day of the
related Prepayment Period and Liquidation Proceeds and Subsequent Recoveries
relating to the Mortgage Loans in such Loan Group received in the month of
such Distribution Date and (ii) all Scheduled Payments relating the Mortgage
Loans in such Loan Group due after the related Due Date.
Applicable Credit Support Percentage: As defined in Section 4.02(e).
Appraised Value: With respect to any Mortgage Loan, the Appraised
Value of the related Mortgaged Property shall be: (i) with respect to a
Mortgage Loan other than a Refinance Loan, the lesser of (a) the value of the
Mortgaged Property based upon the appraisal made at the time of the
origination of such Mortgage Loan and (b) the sales price of the Mortgaged
Property at the time of the origination of such Mortgage Loan; and (ii) with
respect to a Refinance Loan, the value of the Mortgaged Property based upon
the appraisal made at the time of the origination of such Refinance Loan.
Available Funds: As to any Distribution Date and the Mortgage Loans
in a Loan Group, the sum of (a) the aggregate amount held in the Certificate
Account at the close of business on the related Determination Date, including
any Subsequent Recoveries with respect to Mortgage Loans in a Loan Group, net
of the Amount Held for Future Distribution, net of Prepayment Charges and net
of amounts permitted to be withdrawn from the Certificate Account pursuant to
clauses (i) - (viii), inclusive, of
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Section 3.09(a) and amounts permitted to be withdrawn from the Distribution
Account pursuant to clauses (i) - (ii), inclusive, of Section 3.09(b), (b) the
amount of the related Advance, (c) in connection with Defective Mortgage Loans
in such Loan Group, as applicable, the aggregate of the Purchase Prices and
Substitution Adjustment Amounts deposited on the related Distribution Account
Deposit Date, and (d) any amount deposited on the related Distribution Account
Deposit Date pursuant to Section 3.10. The Holders of the Class P Certificates
will be entitled to all Prepayment Charges received on the Mortgage Loans and
such amounts will not be available for distribution to the Holders of any
other Class of Certificates.
Bankruptcy Code: The United States Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978, as
amended.
Bankruptcy Coverage Termination Date: Not applicable.
Bankruptcy Loss: Not applicable.
Bankruptcy Loss Coverage Amount: Not applicable.
Blanket Mortgage: The mortgage or mortgages encumbering a Cooperative
Property.
Book-Entry Certificates: As specified in the Preliminary Statement.
Business Day: Any day other than (i) a Saturday or a Sunday, or (ii)
a day on which the Certificate Insurer or banking institutions in the City of
New York, New York, the State of California or the city in which the Corporate
Trust Office of the Trustee is located are authorized or obligated by law or
executive order to be closed.
Calculation Rate: For each Distribution Date, the product of (i) 10
and (ii) the weighted average rate of the outstanding Class A-1, Class A-2,
Class B-1 and Class B-2 Interests, treating each of the Class A-1 and Class
A-2 Interests as capped at zero or reduced by a fixed percentage of 100% of
the interest accruing on such Class.
Cap Counterparty: The Bank of New York.
Carryover Shortfall Amount: For each Class of Floating Rate
Certificates and any Distribution Date, the sum of:
(i) the excess, if any, of the amount of interest to which such
Class would have been entitled to if the Pass-Through Rate
for such Class were calculated without regard to the
applicable Net WAC Cap, over the actual amount of interest
to which such Class is entitled for such Distribution Date
(in each case prior to any reduction for Net Deferred
Interest);
(ii) any excess described in clause (i) above remaining unpaid
from prior Distribution Dates; and
(iii) interest for the applicable Interest Accrual Period on the
amount described in clause (ii) above based on the
Pass-Through Rate for the applicable Class of Certificates,
determined without regard to the applicable Net WAC Cap.
Carryover Shortfall Reserve Fund: A fund created as part of the Trust
Fund pursuant to Section 4.07 of this Agreement but which is not an asset of
any of the REMICs.
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Certificate: Any one of the certificates issued by the Trust Fund and
executed by the Trustee in substantially the forms attached as exhibits.
Certificate Account: The separate Eligible Account or Accounts
created and maintained by the Master Servicer pursuant to Section 3.06(d) with
a depository institution in the name of the Master Servicer for the benefit of
the Trustee on behalf of Certificateholders and designated "IndyMac Bank,
F.S.B., in trust for the registered holders of IndyMac INDX Mortgage Loan
Trust 2005-AR18, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2005-AR18."
Certificate Balance: With respect to any Certificate (other than the
Notional Amount Certificates) at any date, the maximum dollar amount of
principal to which the Holder thereof is then entitled under this Agreement,
such amount being equal to the Denomination thereof (A) plus any increases in
the Certificate Balance of such Certificate pursuant to Section 4.02 due to
the receipt of Subsequent Recoveries on the Mortgage Loans in the related Loan
Group, (B) minus the sum of (i) all distributions of principal previously made
with respect thereto and (ii) all Realized Losses allocated to that
Certificate and, in the case of any Subordinated Certificates, all other
reductions in Certificate Balance previously allocated to that Certificate
pursuant to Section 4.05 and (C) in the case of any Class of Accrual
Certificates, plus the Accrual Amount added to the Class Certificate Balance
of such Class prior to such date, plus the amount of Net Deferred Interest
allocated to such Class of Certificates pursuant to Section 4.04 prior to the
date of determination. With respect to the Class 1-X, Class 2-X and Class B-X
Certificates at any date, the Component Principal Balances of the related PO
Component as reduced by the sum of (x) all amounts actually distributed in
respect of principal of such Component on all prior Distribution Dates and (y)
all Realized Losses allocated to such Component prior to the date of
determination, plus any increases in the Component Principal Balance of such
Component pursuant to Section 4.02 due to the receipt of Subsequent
Recoveries, plus the amount of Net Deferred Interest allocated to such
Component prior to the date of determination as set forth in Section 4.04.
Certificate Group: Either the Group 1 Certificates or the Group 2
Certificates.
Certificate Insurer: Ambac in its capacity as insurer under the
Policy, and any permitted successor or assign.
Certificate Insurer Contact Person: The officer designated by the
Master Servicer to provide information to the Certificate Insurer pursuant to
Section 4.10(i).
Certificate Insurer Default: As defined in Section 4.10(l). -
Certificate Owner: With respect to a Book-Entry Certificate, the
Person who is the beneficial owner of the Book-Entry Certificate. For the
purposes of this Agreement, in order for a Certificate Owner to enforce any of
its rights under this Agreement, it shall first have to provide evidence of
its beneficial ownership interest in a Certificate that is reasonably
satisfactory to the Trustee, the Depositor and/or the Master Servicer, as
applicable.
Certificate Register: The register maintained pursuant to Section
5.02.
Certificateholder or Holder: The person in whose name a Certificate
is registered in the Certificate Register, except that, solely for the purpose
of giving any consent pursuant to this Agreement, any Certificate registered
in the name of the Depositor or any affiliate of the Depositor is not
Outstanding and the Percentage Interest evidenced thereby shall not be taken
into account in determining whether the requisite amount of Percentage
Interests necessary to effect a consent has been obtained, except that if the
Depositor or its affiliates own 100% of the Percentage Interests evidenced by
a Class of Certificates, the
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Certificates shall be Outstanding for purposes of any provision of this
Agreement requiring the consent of the Holders of Certificates of a particular
Class as a condition to the taking of any action. The Trustee is entitled to
rely conclusively on a certification of the Depositor or any affiliate of the
Depositor in determining which Certificates are registered in the name of an
affiliate of the Depositor.
Class: All Certificates bearing the same class designation as set
forth in the Preliminary Statement.
Class 1-A-3B Policy Premium Rate: With respect to any Distribution
Date, the percentage equivalent of a fraction, the numerator of which is the
product of (x) 12, (y) the monthly premium rate for the Policy for such
Distribution Date and (z) the Class Certificate Balance of the Class 1-A-3B
Certificates immediately prior to that Distribution Date, and the denominator
of which is equal to the aggregate Stated Principal Balance of the Group1
Mortgage Loans immediately prior to that Distribution Date.
Class 1-X Adjusted Cap Rate: The excess, if any, of (i) the Adjusted
Cap Rate for the Group 1 Senior Floating Rate Certificates over (ii) the
product of (1) the weighted average rate at which interest would have accrued
on the Group 1 Senior Floating Rate Certificates if the Pass-Through Rates for
such Classes were limited by the applicable Adjusted Cap Rate rather than the
applicable Net WAC Cap, adjusted for the related Interest Accrual Period, and
(2) a fraction, the numerator of which is the aggregate Class Certificate
Balance of the Group 1 Senior Floating Rate Certificates immediately prior to
such Distribution Date and the denominator of which is the aggregate Class
Certificate Balance of the Group 1 Senior Certificates immediately prior to
such Distribution Date.
Class 1-X IO Component: The interest-only component of the Class 1-X
Certificates that relates to the Senior Portion of the Group 1 Mortgage Loans.
Class 1-X PO Component: The principal-only component of the Class 1-X
Certificates that relates to the Senior Portion of the Group 1 Mortgage Loans.
Class 2-A-3B Policy Premium Rate: With respect to any Distribution
Date, the percentage equivalent of a fraction, the numerator of which is the
product of (x) 12, (y) the monthly premium rate for the Policy for such
Distribution Date and (z) the Class Certificate Balance of the Class 2-A-3B
Certificates immediately prior to that Distribution Date, and the denominator
of which is equal to the aggregate Stated Principal Balance of the Group 2
Mortgage Loans immediately prior to that Distribution Date.
Class 2-X Adjusted Cap Rate: The excess, if any, of (i) the Adjusted
Cap Rate for the Group 2 Senior Floating Rate Certificates over (ii) the
product of (1) the weighted average rate at which interest would have accrued
on the Group 2 Senior Certificates (other than the Class 2-X Certificates) if
the Pass-Through Rates for such Classes were limited by the applicable
Adjusted Cap Rate rather than the applicable Net WAC Cap, adjusted for the
related Interest Accrual Period, and (2) a fraction, the numerator of which is
the aggregate Class Certificate Balance of the Group 2 Senior Floating Rate
Certificates immediately prior to such Distribution Date and the denominator
of which is the aggregate Class Certificate Balance of the Group 2 Senior
Certificates immediately prior to such Distribution Date.
Class 2-X IO Component: The interest-only component of the Class 2-X
Certificates that relates to the Senior Portion of the Group 2 Mortgage Loans.
Class 2-X PO Component: The principal-only component of the Class 2-X
Certificates that relates to the Senior Portion of the Group 2 Mortgage Loans.
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Class A Interest: Each of the Class A-1 and Class A-2 Interests.
Class B Interest: Each of the Class B-1 and Class B-2 Interests.
Class B-X Adjusted Cap Rate: The excess, if any, of (i) the Adjusted
Cap Rate for the Subordinated Floating Rate Certificates over (ii) the product
of (1) the weighted average rate at which interest would have accrued on the
Subordinated Floating Rate Certificates if the Pass-Through Rates for such
Classes were limited by the applicable Adjusted Cap Rate rather than the
applicable Net WAC Cap, adjusted for the related Interest Accrual Period, and
(2) a fraction, the numerator of which is the aggregate Class Certificate
Balance of the Subordinated Floating Rate Certificates immediately prior to
such Distribution Date and the denominator of which is the aggregate Class
Certificate Balance of the Subordinated Certificates immediately prior to such
Distribution Date.
Class B-X IO Component: The interest-only component of the Class B-X
Certificates that relates to the Subordinated Portion of the Mortgage Loans.
Class B-X PO Component: The principal-only component of the Class B-X
Certificates that relates to the Subordinate Portion of the Mortgage Loans.
Class C Interest: Each of the Class C-1 and Class C-2 Interests.
Class Certificate Balance: For any Class (other than the Notional
Amount Certificates) as of any date of determination, the aggregate of the
Certificate Balances of all Certificates of the Class as of that date. For any
Class of Notional Amount Certificates as of any date of determination, the
Component Principal Balance of the related PO Component as of that date.
Exclusively for purposes of determining any subrogation rights of the
Certificate Insurer arising under Section 4.10, the "Class Certificate
Balance" of the Class 1-A-3B and Class 2-A-3B Certificates will not be reduced
by the amount of any payments made by the Certificate Insurer in respect to
principal on those Certificates under the Policy, except to the extent such
payment has been reimbursed to the Certificate Insurer pursuant to the
provisions of this Agreement.
Class Interest Shortfall: As to any Distribution Date and
interest-bearing Class, the amount by which the amount described in clause (i)
of the definition of Class Optimal Interest Distribution Amount for such Class
exceeds the amount of interest actually distributed on such Class on such
Distribution Date pursuant to such clause (i).
Class Optimal Interest Distribution Amount: With respect to any
Distribution Date and interest-bearing Class, the sum of (i) interest accrued
during the related Interest Accrual Period at the Pass-Through Rate for such
Class, on the related Class Certificate Balance or Notional Amount, as
applicable, immediately prior to such Distribution Date, subject to reduction
pursuant to Section 4.02(d) and (ii) any Class Unpaid Interest Amounts for
such Class; reduced by any Net Deferred Interest on the related Mortgage Loans
allocated to such Class of Certificates, as described in Section 4.04.
Class Subordination Percentage: With respect to any Distribution Date
and each Class of Subordinated Certificates, the fraction (expressed as a
percentage) the numerator of which is the Class Certificate Balance of such
Class of Subordinated Certificates immediately prior to such Distribution Date
and the denominator of which is the aggregate Class Certificate Balance of all
Classes of Certificates immediately prior to such Distribution Date.
Class Unpaid Interest Amounts: As to any Distribution Date and Class
of interest-bearing Certificates, the amount by which the aggregate Class
Interest Shortfalls for such Class on prior
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Distribution Dates exceeds the amount distributed on such Class on prior
Distribution Dates pursuant to clause (ii) of the definition of Class Optimal
Interest Distribution Amount.
Closing Date: September 7, 2005.
CMT Index: Not applicable.
Code: The Internal Revenue Code of 1986, including any successor or
amendatory provisions.
COFI: Not applicable.
COFI Certificates: Not applicable.
Collection Account: As defined in Section 3.06(c).
Commission: The United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
Compensating Interest: For any Distribution Date, 0.125% multiplied
by one-twelfth multiplied by the aggregate Stated Principal Balance of the
Mortgage Loans as of the first day of the prior month.
Component Principal Balance: For any of the Class 1-X PO, Class 2-X
PO or Class B-X PO Components, equal to (i) the aggregate Net Deferred
Interest allocated to such Component prior to the date of determination
pursuant to Section 4.04 minus (ii) all amounts actually distributed as
principal of such Component and all Realized Losses applied in reduction of
principal of such Component prior to such date of determination, plus, any
increases in the Component Principal Balance of such Certificate pursuant to
Section 4.02 due to the receipt of Subsequent Recoveries.
Co-op Shares: Shares issued by a Cooperative Corporation.
Cooperative Corporation: The entity that holds title (fee or an
acceptable leasehold estate) to the real property and improvements
constituting the Cooperative Property and that governs the Cooperative
Property, which Cooperative Corporation must qualify as a Cooperative Housing
Corporation under section 216 of the Code.
Cooperative Loan: Any Mortgage Loan secured by Co-op Shares and a
Proprietary Lease.
Cooperative Property: The real property and improvements owned by the
Cooperative Corporation, including the allocation of individual dwelling units
to the holders of the Co-op Shares of the Cooperative Corporation.
Cooperative Unit: A single family dwelling located in a Cooperative
Property.
Corporate Trust Office: The designated office of the Trustee in the
State of California at which at any particular time its corporate trust
business with respect to this Agreement is administered, which office at the
date of the execution of this Agreement is located at 0000 Xxxx Xx. Xxxxxx
Xxxxx, Xxxxx Xxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000, Attn: Mortgage Administration-IN05AJ
(IndyMac MBS, Inc., IndyMac INDX Mortgage Loan Trust 2005-AR18, Mortgage
Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2005-AR18), and which is the address to
which notices to and correspondence with the Trustee should be directed.
Cross-over Situation: For any Distribution Date and for any Loan
Group (after taking into account principal distributions on such Distribution
Date) a Cross-Over Situation exists with respect to
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the Class A and Class B Interests of the Loan Group if such interests in the
aggregate are less than 1% of the Subordinated Portion of the related Loan
Group.
Cut-off Date: September 1, 2005.
Cut-off Date Pool Principal Balance: $2,411,782,116.
Cut-off Date Principal Balance: As to any Mortgage Loan, its Stated
Principal Balance as of the close of business on the Cut-off Date.
Debt Service Reduction: For any Mortgage Loan, a reduction by a court
of competent jurisdiction in a proceeding under the Bankruptcy Code in the
Scheduled Payment for the Mortgage Loan that became final and non-appealable,
except a reduction resulting from a Deficient Valuation or a reduction that
results in a permanent forgiveness of principal.
Defective Mortgage Loan: Any Mortgage Loan that is required to be
repurchased pursuant to Section 2.02 or 2.03.
Deferred Interest: With respect to each Mortgage Loan and each
related Due Date, the excess, if any, of the amount of interest accrued on
such Mortgage Loan from the preceding Due Date to such Due Date over the
monthly payment due or received for such Due Date.
Deficiency Amount: With respect to
(A) each Distribution Date prior to the Last Scheduled Distribution
Date and the Class 1-A-3B and Class 2-A-3B Certificates, an amount equal to
the sum of (i) the excess, if any, of (a) the amount of current interest on
the Class 1-A-3B or Class 2-A-3B Certificates net (without duplication) of any
interest shortfalls resulting from Net Interest Shortfalls, Carryover
Shortfall Amounts, Net Deferred Interest or Deferred Interest over (b) the
Class 1-A-3B Available Funds or the Class 2-A-3B Available Funds for that
Distribution Date, and (ii) the amount of Realized Losses allocable to the
Class 1-A-3B or Class 2-A-3B Certificates; and
(B) the Last Scheduled Distribution Date and the Class 1-A-3B and
Class 2-A-3B Certificates, an amount equal to the sum of (i) the excess, if
any, of (a) the amount of current interest on the Class 1-A-3B or Class 2-A-3B
Certificates net (without duplication) of any interest shortfalls resulting
from Net Interest Shortfalls, Carryover Interest Shortfalls, Net Deferred
Interest or Deferred Interest over (b) the Class 1-A-3B Available Funds or the
Class 2-A-3B Available Funds for that Distribution Date and (ii) the excess,
if any, of the Class Certificate Balance of all outstanding Class 1-A-3B and
Class 2-A-3B Certificates due on such Last Scheduled Distribution Date after
taking into account all payments to be made to the Class 1-A-3B and Class
2-A-3B Certificates on such date.
Deficient Valuation: For any Mortgage Loan, a valuation by a court of
competent jurisdiction of the Mortgaged Property in an amount less than the
then outstanding indebtedness under the Mortgage Loan, or any reduction in the
amount of principal to be paid in connection with any Scheduled Payment that
results in a permanent forgiveness of principal, which valuation or reduction
results from an order of the court that is final and non-appealable in a
proceeding under the Bankruptcy Code.
Definitive Certificates: Any Certificate evidenced by a Physical
Certificate and any Certificate issued in lieu of a Book-Entry Certificate
pursuant to Section 5.02(e).
Delay Certificates: As specified in the Preliminary Statement.
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Delay Delivery Certification: A certification substantially in the
form of Exhibit G-3.
Delay Delivery Mortgage Loans: The Mortgage Loans identified on the
Mortgage Loan Schedule for which all or a portion of a related Mortgage File
is not delivered to the Trustee by the Closing Date. The Depositor shall
deliver the Mortgage Files to the Trustee:
(A) for at least 70% of the Mortgage Loans in each Loan Group, not
later than the Closing Date and
(B) for the remaining 30% of the Mortgage Loans in each Loan Group,
not later than five Business Days following the Closing Date.
To the extent that the Seller is in possession of any Mortgage File
for any Delay Delivery Mortgage Loan, until delivery of the Mortgage File to
the Trustee as provided in Section 2.01, the Seller shall hold the files as
Master Servicer, as agent and in trust for the Trustee.
Deleted Mortgage Loan: As defined in Section 2.03(c).
Delinquent: A Mortgage Loan is "Delinquent" if any monthly payment
due on a Due Date is not made by the close of business on the next scheduled
Due Date for such Mortgage Loan. A Mortgage Loan is "30 days Delinquent" if
such monthly payment has not been received by the close of business on the
corresponding day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such
monthly payment was due. The determination of whether a Mortgage Loan is "60
days Delinquent", "90 days Delinquent", etc. shall be made in a like manner.
Denomination: For each Certificate, the amount on the face of the
Certificate as the "Initial Certificate Balance of this Certificate" or the
"Initial Notional Amount of this Certificate" or, if neither of the foregoing,
the Percentage Interest appearing on the face of the Certificate.
Depositor: IndyMac MBS, Inc., a Delaware corporation, or its
successor in interest.
Depository: The initial Depository shall be The Depository Trust
Company, the nominee of which is CEDE & Co., as the registered Holder of the
Book-Entry Certificates. The Depository shall at all times be a "clearing
corporation" as defined in Section 8-102(a)(5) of the UCC.
Depository Participant: A broker, dealer, bank, or other financial
institution or other Person for whom from time to time a Depository effects
book-entry transfers and pledges of securities deposited with the Depository.
Determination Date: As to any Distribution Date, the 18th day of each
month or if that day is not a Business Day the next Business Day, except that
if the next Business Day is less than two Business Days before the related
Distribution Date, then the Determination Date shall be the Business Day
preceding the 18th day of the month.
Distribution Account: The separate Eligible Account created and
maintained by the Trustee pursuant to Section 3.06(e) in the name of the
Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders and designated "Deutsche
Bank National Trust Company in trust for registered holders of IndyMac INDX
Mortgage Loan Trust 2005-AR18, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series
2005-AR18." Funds in the Distribution Account shall be held in trust for the
Certificateholders for the uses and purposes set forth in this Agreement.
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Distribution Account Deposit Date: As to any Distribution Date, 12:30
P.M. Pacific time on the Business Day preceding the Distribution Date.
Distribution Date: The 25th day of each calendar month after the
initial issuance of the Certificates, or if that day is not a Business Day,
the next Business Day, commencing in October 2005.
Due Date: For any Mortgage Loan and Distribution Date, the first day
of the month in which such Distribution Date occurs.
Due Period: For any Distribution Date, the period commencing on the
second day of the month preceding the month in which the Distribution Date
occurs and ending on the first day of the month in which the Distribution Date
occurs.
Eligible Account: Any of
(i) an account maintained with a federal or state chartered
depository institution or trust company the short-term unsecured debt
obligations of which (or, in the case of a depository institution or trust
company that is the principal subsidiary of a holding company, the debt
obligations of the holding company, but only if Xxxxx'x is not a Rating
Agency) have the highest short-term ratings of each Rating Agency at the time
any amounts are held on deposit therein, or
(ii) [reserved], or
(iii) a trust account or accounts maintained with the trust
department of a federal or state chartered depository institution or trust
company, acting in its fiduciary capacity, or
(iv) any other account acceptable to each Rating Agency.
Eligible Accounts may bear interest, and may include, if otherwise qualified
under this definition, accounts maintained with the Trustee.
ERISA: The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as
amended.
ERISA-Qualifying Underwriting: A best efforts or firm commitment
underwriting or private placement that meets the requirements of the
Underwriter's Exemption.
ERISA-Restricted Certificate: As specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
Escrow Account: The Eligible Account or Accounts established and
maintained pursuant to Section 3.07(a).
Event of Default: As defined in Section 7.01.
Excess Loss: Not applicable.
Excess Proceeds: For any Liquidated Mortgage Loan, the excess of
(a) all Liquidation Proceeds from the Mortgage Loan received in the
calendar month in which the Mortgage Loan became a Liquidated Mortgage Loan,
net of any amounts previously reimbursed to the Master Servicer as
Nonrecoverable Advances with respect to the Mortgage Loan pursuant to Section
3.09(a)(iii), over
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(b) the sum of (i) the unpaid principal balance of the Liquidated
Mortgage Loan as of the Due Date in the month in which the Mortgage Loan
became a Liquidated Mortgage Loan plus (ii) accrued interest at the Mortgage
Rate from the Due Date for which interest was last paid or advanced (and not
reimbursed) to Certificateholders up to the Due Date applicable to the
Distribution Date following the calendar month during which the liquidation
occurred.
Exchange Act: The Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
Expense Fee Rate: As to each Mortgage Loan, the sum of (a) the
related Servicing Fee Rate and (b) the Trustee Fee Rate.
FDIC: The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, or any successor
thereto.
FHLMC: The Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, a corporate
instrumentality of the United States created and existing under Title III of
the Emergency Home Finance Act of 1970, as amended, or any successor thereto.
Fitch: Fitch, Inc., or any successor thereto. If Fitch is designated
as a Rating Agency in the Preliminary Statement, for purposes of Section
10.05(b) the address for notices to Fitch shall be Fitch, Inc., Xxx Xxxxx
Xxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000, Attention: MBS Monitoring - IndyMac
2005-AR18, or any other address Fitch furnishes to the Depositor and the
Master Servicer.
Floating Rate Certificates: As specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
FNMA: The Federal National Mortgage Association, a federally
chartered and privately owned corporation organized and existing under the
Federal National Mortgage Association Charter Act, or any successor thereto.
Fraud Loan: Not applicable.
Fraud Losses: Not applicable.
Fraud Loss Coverage Amount: Not applicable.
Fraud Loss Coverage Termination Date: Not applicable.
Gross Margin: With respect to each Mortgage Loan, the fixed
percentage set forth in the related Mortgage Note that is added to MTA on each
Adjustment Date in accordance with the terms of the Mortgage Note used to
determine the Mortgage Rate for such Mortgage Loan.
Group 1 Adjusted Cap Rate: For the Group 1 Senior Floating Rate
Certificates, the Weighted Average Adjusted Net Mortgage Rate of the Group 1
Mortgage Loans for that Distribution Date, minus a fraction, the numerator of
which is the product of (a) the Net Deferred Interest for the Group 1 Mortgage
Loans for such Distribution Date, and (b) 12, and the denominator of which is
(2) the aggregate Stated Principal Balance of the Group 1 Mortgage Loans as of
the Due Date in the prior month (after giving effect to Principal Prepayments
in the Prepayment Period related to such prior Due Date.
Group 1 Certificates: As specified in the Preliminary Statement.
Group 1 Mortgage Loan: Any Mortgage Loan in Loan Group 1.
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Group 1 Net WAC Cap: For any Distribution Date, the Weighted Average
Adjusted Net Mortgage Rate of the Group 1 Mortgage Loans for that Distribution
Date minus the Class 1-A-3B Policy Premium Rate, such result multiplied by a
fraction, the numerator of which is 30 and the denominator of which is the
number of days in the related Interest Accrual Period.
Group 1 Senior Certificates: As specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
Group 1 Senior Floating Rate Certificates: As specified in the
Preliminary Statement.
Group 2 Adjusted Cap Rate: For the Group 2 Senior Floating Rate
Certificates, the Weighted Average Adjusted Net Mortgage Rate of the Group 2
Mortgage Loans for that Distribution Date, minus a fraction, the numerator of
which is the product of (a) the Net Deferred Interest for the Group 2 Mortgage
Loans for such Distribution Date, and (b) 12, and the denominator of which is
(2) the aggregate Stated Principal Balance of the Group 2 Mortgage Loans as of
the Due Date in the prior month (after giving effect to Principal Prepayments
in the Prepayment Period related to such prior Due Date).
Group 2 Certificates: As specified in the Preliminary Statement.
Group 2 Mortgage Loan: Any Mortgage Loan in Loan Group 2.
Group 2 Net WAC Cap: For any Distribution Date , the Weighted Average
Adjusted Net Mortgage Rate of the Group 2 Mortgage Loans for that Distribution
Date minus the Class 2-A-3B Policy Premium Rate, such result multiplied by a
fraction, the numerator of which is 30 and the denominator of which is the
number of days in the related Interest Accrual Period.
Group 2 Senior Certificates: As specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
Group 2 Senior Floating Rate Certificates: As specified in the
Preliminary Statement.
Group 2 Senior LIBOR Certificates: As specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
Hedged Certificates: Any of the Senior Certificates other than the
Class 2-A-2B Certificates.
Indirect Participant: A broker, dealer, bank, or other financial
institution or other Person that clears through or maintains a custodial
relationship with a Depository Participant.
Initial Bankruptcy Loss Coverage Amount: Not applicable.
Initial LIBOR Rate: 3.68% per annum.
Insurance Policy: For any Mortgage Loan included in the Trust Fund,
any insurance policy, including all riders and endorsements thereto in effect,
including any replacement policy or policies for any Insurance Policies.
Insurance Proceeds: Proceeds paid by an insurer pursuant to any
Insurance Policy, in each case other than any amount included in such
Insurance Proceeds in respect of Insured Expenses.
Insured Expenses: Expenses covered by an Insurance Policy or any
other insurance policy with respect to the Mortgage Loans.
Interest Accrual Period: With respect to each Class of Delay
Certificates and any Distribution Date, the calendar month prior to the month
of such Distribution Date. The Delay Certificates will accrue
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interest on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months.
With respect to each Class of Non-Delay Certificates and any Distribution
Date, the period commencing on the immediately preceding Distribution Date
(or, in the case of the first Distribution Date, the Closing Date) and ending
on the day immediately preceding that Distribution Date. Each Class of
Non-Delay Certificates will accrue interest on the basis of a 360-day year and
the actual number of days elapsed during the related Interest Accrual Period.
Interest Determination Date: With respect to (a) any Interest Accrual
Period for a Class of LIBOR Certificates and (b) any Interest Accrual Period
for the COFI Certificates for which the applicable Index is LIBOR, the second
Business Day prior to the first day of such Interest Accrual Period. With
respect to any Interest Accrual Period for the MTA Certificates, the fifteenth
day prior to the commencement of that Interest Accrual Period.
Interest Rate: With respect to each REMIC 1 Interest, REMIC 2
Interest or Master REMIC Interest, the applicable rate set forth or calculated
in the manner described in the Preliminary Statement.
Interest Settlement Rate: As defined in Section 4.08.
Last Scheduled Distribution Date: The Distribution Date in the month
immediately following the month of the latest scheduled maturity date for any
of the Mortgage Loans.
Latest Possible Maturity Date: The Distribution Date following the
third anniversary of the scheduled maturity date of the Mortgage Loan having
the latest scheduled maturity date as of the Cut-off Date.
Lender PMI Loans: Mortgage Loans with respect to which the lender
rather than the borrower acquired the primary mortgage guaranty insurance and
charged the related borrower an interest premium.
LIBOR: The London interbank offered rate for one month United States
dollar deposits calculated in the manner described in Section 4.08.
LIBOR Determination Date: For any Interest Accrual Period, the second
London Business Day prior to the commencement of such Interest Accrual Period.
Liquidated Mortgage Loan: For any Distribution Date, a defaulted
Mortgage Loan (including any REO Property) that was liquidated in the calendar
month preceding the month of the Distribution Date and as to which the Master
Servicer has certified (in accordance with this Agreement) that it has
received all amounts it expects to receive in connection with the liquidation
of the Mortgage Loan, including the final disposition of an REO Property.
Liquidation Proceeds: Amounts, including Insurance Proceeds
regardless of when received, received in connection with the partial or
complete liquidation of defaulted Mortgage Loans, whether through trustee's
sale, foreclosure sale, or otherwise or amounts received in connection with
any condemnation or partial release of a Mortgaged Property, and any other
proceeds received in connection with an REO Property, less the sum of related
unreimbursed Servicing Fees, Servicing Advances, and Advances.
Loan Group: Either Loan Group 1 and Loan Group 2, as applicable.
Loan Group 1: All Mortgage Loans identified as Group 1 Mortgage Loans
on the Mortgage Loan Schedule.
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Loan Group 2: All Mortgage Loans identified as Group 2 Mortgage Loans
on the Mortgage Loan Schedule.
Loan-to-Value Ratio: For any Mortgage Loan and as of any date of
determination, is the fraction whose numerator is the original principal
balance of the related Mortgage Loan at that date of determination and whose
denominator is the Appraised Value of the related Mortgaged Property.
London Business Day: Any day on which dealings in deposits of United
States dollars are transacted in the London interbank market.
Lost Mortgage Note: Any Mortgage Note the original of which was
permanently lost or destroyed and has not been replaced.
Maintenance: For any Cooperative Unit, the rent paid by the Mortgagor
to the Cooperative Corporation pursuant to the Proprietary Lease.
Master Servicer: IndyMac Bank, F.S.B., a federal savings bank, and
its successors and assigns, in its capacity as master servicer under this
Agreement.
Master Servicer Advance Date: As to any Distribution Date, 12:30 P.M.
Pacific time on the Business Day preceding the Distribution Date.
Maximum Mortgage Rate: For each Mortgage Loan, the percentage set
forth in the related Mortgage Note as the lifetime maximum Mortgage Rate to
which such Mortgage Rate may be adjusted.
MERS: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., a corporation
organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware, or any
successor thereto.
MERS Mortgage Loan: Any Mortgage Loan registered with MERS on the
MERS(R) System.
MERS(R) System: The system of recording transfers of mortgages
electronically maintained by MERS.
MIN: The mortgage identification number for any MERS Mortgage Loan.
MOM Loan: Any Mortgage Loan as to which MERS is acting as mortgagee,
solely as nominee for the originator of such Mortgage Loan and its successors
and assigns.
Moneyline Telerate Page 3750: The display page currently so
designated on the Moneyline Telerate Information Services, Inc. (or any page
replacing that page on that service for the purpose of displaying London
inter-bank offered rates of major banks).
Monthly Statement: The statement delivered to the Certificateholders
pursuant to Section 4.06.
Moody's: Xxxxx'x Investors Service, Inc., or any successor thereto.
If Xxxxx'x is designated as a Rating Agency in the Preliminary Statement, for
purposes of Section 10.05(b) the address for notices to Moody's shall be
Xxxxx'x Investors Service, Inc., 00 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000,
Attention: Residential Loan Monitoring Group, or any other address that
Moody's furnishes to the Depositor and the Master Servicer.
Mortgage: The mortgage, deed of trust, or other instrument creating a
first lien on an estate in fee simple or leasehold interest in real property
securing a Mortgage Note.
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Mortgage File: The mortgage documents listed in Section 2.01
pertaining to a particular Mortgage Loan and any additional documents
delivered to the Trustee to be added to the Mortgage File pursuant to this
Agreement.
Mortgage Loans: Such of the mortgage loans transferred and assigned
to the Trustee pursuant to this Agreement, as from time to time are held as a
part of the Trust Fund (including any REO Property), the Mortgage Loans so
held being identified on the Mortgage Loan Schedule, notwithstanding
foreclosure or other acquisition of title of the related Mortgaged Property.
Mortgage Loan Schedule: As of any date, the list set forth in
Schedule I of Mortgage Loans included in the Trust Fund on that date. The
Mortgage Loan Schedule shall be prepared by the Seller and shall set forth the
following information with respect to each Mortgage Loan by Loan Group:
(i) the loan number;
(ii) the street address of the Mortgaged Property,
including the zip code;
(iii) the maturity date;
(iv) the original principal balance;
(v) the Cut-off Date Principal Balance;
(vi) the first payment date of the Mortgage Loan;
(vii) the Scheduled Payment in effect as of the Cut-off
Date;
(viii) the Gross Margin in effect as of the Cut-off Date;
(ix) the Maximum Mortgage Rate in effect as of the
Cut-off Date;
(x) the first Payment Adjustment Date after the Cut-off
Date;
(xi) a code indicating when the Mortgage Index is
determined;
(xii) the Loan-to-Value Ratio at origination;
(xiii) a code indicating whether the residential dwelling
at the time of origination was represented to be
owner-occupied;
(xiv) a code indicating whether the residential dwelling
is either (a) a detached single family dwelling,
(b) a dwelling in a PUD, (c) a condominium unit,
(d) a two- to four-unit residential property, or
(e) a Cooperative Unit;
(xv) the Mortgage Rate in effect as of the Cut-off Date;
(xvi) the purpose for the Mortgage Loan;
(xvii) the type of documentation program pursuant to which
the Mortgage Loan was originated;
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(xviii) a code indicating whether the Mortgage Loan is a
borrower-paid mortgage insurance loan;
(xix) the Servicing Fee Rate;
(xx) a code indicating whether the Mortgage Loan is a
Lender PMI Loan;
(xxi) the coverage amount of any mortgage insurance;
(xxii) with respect to the Lender PMI Loans, the interest
premium charged by the lender;
(xxiii) a code indicating whether the Mortgage Loan is a
Delay Delivery Mortgage Loan; and
(xxiv) a code indicating whether the Mortgage Loan is a
MERS Mortgage Loan.
The schedule shall also set forth the total of the amounts described under (v)
above for all of the Mortgage Loans and for each Loan Group.
Mortgage Note: The original executed note or other evidence of the
indebtedness of a Mortgagor under a Mortgage Loan.
Mortgage Rate: The annual rate of interest borne by a Mortgage Note
from time to time (net of the interest premium for any Lender PMI Loan).
Mortgaged Property: The underlying property securing a Mortgage Loan,
which, with respect to a Cooperative Loan, is the related Co-op Shares and
Proprietary Lease.
Mortgagor: The obligors on a Mortgage Note.
MTA Index: The twelve-month average of the monthly yields on U.S.
Treasury Securities adjusted to a constant maturity of one year as published
by the Federal Reserve Board in Statistical Release H. 15(519) determined as
described in Section 4.09.
National Cost of Funds Index: The National Monthly Median Cost of
Funds Ratio to SAIF-Insured Institutions published by the OTS.
Net Deferred Interest: With respect to each Loan Group and
Distribution Date, the excess, if any, of the amount of Deferred Interest that
accrued on the Mortgage Loans in that Loan Group from the preceding Due Date
to the Due Date in the month of such Distribution Date, over any Principal
Prepayment Amount for those Mortgage Loans during the related Prepayment
Period.
Net Interest Shortfall: With respect to any Distribution Date and
Loan Group, an amount equal to any Net Prepayment Interest Shortfalls for that
Loan Group and Distribution Date and the amount of interest that would
otherwise have been received with respect to any Mortgage Loan in that Loan
Group that was the subject of a Relief Act Reduction.
Net Prepayment Interest Shortfall: As to any Distribution Date and
Loan Group, the amount, if any, by which the aggregate of Prepayment Interest
Shortfalls for such Loan Group exceeds an amount equal to the sum of (a) the
Compensating Interest for such Loan Group and Distribution Date and (b) the
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excess, if any, of the Compensating Interest for the other Loan Group for such
Distribution Date over Prepayment Interest Shortfalls for such Loan Group and
Distribution Date.
Net Prepayments: As to any Distribution Date and Loan Group, the
amount equal to the excess, if any, of the (i) Principal Prepayment Amount for
that Loan Group over (ii) the aggregate amount of Deferred Interest accrued on
the Mortgage Loans in that Loan Group from the preceding Due Date to the Due
Date related to that Distribution Date.
Net WAC Cap: The Group 1 Net WAC Cap, the Group 2 Net WAC Cap or the
Subordinate WAC Cap, as applicable.
Non-Delay Certificates: As specified in the Preliminary Statement.
Nonrecoverable Advance: Any portion of an Advance previously made or
proposed to be made by the Master Servicer, that, in the good faith judgment
of the Master Servicer, will not be ultimately recoverable by the Master
Servicer from the related Mortgagor, related Liquidation Proceeds or
otherwise.
Notice of Final Distribution: The notice to be provided pursuant to
Section 9.02 to the effect that final distribution on any of the Certificates
shall be made only upon presentation and surrender thereof.
Notional Amount: With respect to the Class 1-X Certificates and
immediately prior to any Distribution Date, the aggregate Class Certificate
Balance of the Group 1 Senior Certificates immediately prior to that
Distribution Date. With respect to the Class 2-X Certificates and immediately
prior to any Distribution Date, the aggregate Class Certificate Balance of the
Group 2 Senior Certificates immediately prior to that Distribution Date. With
respect to the Class B-X Certificates and immediately prior to any
Distribution Date, the aggregate Class Certificate Balance of the Subordinated
Certificates immediately prior to that Distribution Date.
Notional Amount Certificates: As specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
Notional Amount Components: As specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
Offered Certificates: As specified in the Preliminary Statement.
Officer's Certificate: A certificate (i) signed by the Chairman of
the Board, the Vice Chairman of the Board, the President, a Managing Director,
a Vice President (however denominated), an Assistant Vice President, the
Treasurer, the Secretary, or one of the Assistant Treasurers or Assistant
Secretaries of the Depositor or the Master Servicer, or (ii) if provided for
in this Agreement, signed by a Servicing Officer, as the case may be, and
delivered to the Depositor and the Trustee as required by this Agreement.
Opinion of Counsel: For the interpretation or application of the
REMIC Provisions, a written opinion of counsel who (i) is in fact independent
of the Depositor and the Master Servicer, (ii) does not have any direct
financial interest in the Depositor or the Master Servicer or in any affiliate
of either, and (iii) is not connected with the Depositor or the Master
Servicer as an officer, employee, promoter, underwriter, trustee, partner,
director, or person performing similar functions. Otherwise, a written opinion
of counsel who may be counsel for the Depositor or the Master Servicer,
including in-house counsel, reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.
Optional Termination Date: As defined in Section 9.01.
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Original Applicable Credit Support Percentage: With respect to each
of the following Classes of Subordinated Certificates, the corresponding
percentage described below, as of the Closing Date:
Class B-1.................................... 8.25%
Class B-2.................................... 7.74%
Class B-3.................................... 5.70%
Class B-4.................................... 4.30%
Class B-5.................................... 3.70%
Class B-6.................................... 3.15%
Class B-7.................................... 2.70%
Class B-8.................................... 2.30%
Class B-9.................................... 2.00%
Class B-10................................... 1.30%
Class B-11................................... 0.55%
Original Mortgage Loan: The Mortgage Loan refinanced in connection
with the origination of a Refinance Loan.
Original Subordinated Principal Balance: The aggregate Class
Certificate Balance of the Subordinated Certificates as of the Closing Date.
OTS: The Office of Thrift Supervision.
Outside Reference Date: Not applicable.
Outstanding: For the Certificates as of any date of determination,
all Certificates theretofore executed and authenticated under this Agreement
except:
(i) Certificates theretofore canceled by the Trustee or
delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; and
(ii) Certificates in exchange for which or in lieu of
which other Certificates have been executed and
delivered by the Trustee pursuant to this
Agreement.
Outstanding Mortgage Loan: As of any Due Date, a Mortgage Loan with a
Stated Principal Balance greater than zero that was not the subject of a
Principal Prepayment in Full before the Due Date or during the related
Prepayment Period and that did not become a Liquidated Mortgage Loan before
the Due Date.
Overcollateralized Group: As defined in Section 4.03.
Ownership Interest: As to any Residual Certificate, any ownership
interest in the Certificate including any interest in the Certificate as its
Holder and any other interest therein, whether direct or indirect, legal or
beneficial.
Pass-Through Margin: For each Class of LIBOR Certificates for the
Interest Accrual Period related to any Distribution Date, as follows:
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(1) (2)
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Class 1-A-1.............................. 0.310% 0.620%
Class 1-A-2.............................. 0.810% 1.620%
Class 1-A-3A............................. 0.440% 0.880%
Class 1-A-3B............................. 0.340% 0.680%
Class 2-A-1A............................. 0.310% 0.620%
Class 2-A-1B............................. 0.780% 1.560%
Class 2-A-2A............................. 0.380% 0.760%
Class 2-A-2C............................. 0.610% 1.220%
Class 2-A-3A............................. 0.440% 0.880%
Class 2-A-3B............................. 0.340% 0.680%
Class B-1................................ 0.580% 0.870%
Class B-2................................ 0.630% 0.945%
Class B-3................................ 0.880% 1.320%
Class B-4................................ 0.940% 1.410%
Class B-5................................ 1.080% 1.620%
Class B-6, Class B-7, Class B-8, Class
B-9, Class B-10 and Class B-11........... 1.250% 1.875%
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(1) For the Interest Accrual Period for each Distribution Date
occurring on or prior to the Optional Termination Date.
(2) For each other Interest Accrual Period.
Pass-Through Rate: For each Class of Certificates, the per annum rate
set forth or calculated in the manner described in the Preliminary Statement.
Payment Adjustment Date: A date specified in each Mortgage Note as a
date on which the Scheduled Payment for the related Mortgage Loan is subject
to adjustment.
Payment Cap: For each Mortgage Loan, the percentage limit set forth
in the related Mortgage Note concerning the maximum permitted increase in a
monthly payment.
Percentage Interest: As to any Certificate, the percentage interest
evidenced thereby in distributions required to be made on the related Class,
the percentage interest being set forth on its face or equal to the percentage
obtained by dividing the Denomination of the Certificate by the aggregate of
the Denominations of all Certificates of the same Class.
Permitted Investments: At any time, any of the following:
(i) obligations of the United States or any agency thereof backed by
the full faith and credit of the United States;
(ii) general obligations of or obligations guaranteed by any state of
the United States or the District of Columbia receiving the highest long-term
debt rating of each Rating Agency, or any lower rating that will not result in
the downgrading, qualification or withdrawal of the ratings then assigned to
the Certificates (without regard to the Policy) by the Rating Agencies, as
evidenced by a signed writing delivered by each Rating Agency;
(iii) commercial or finance company paper that is then receiving the
highest commercial or finance company paper rating of each Rating Agency, or
any lower rating that will not result in the
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downgrading, qualification or withdrawal of the ratings then assigned to the
Certificates (without regard to the Policy) by the Rating Agencies , as
evidenced by a signed writing delivered by each Rating Agency;
(iv) certificates of deposit, demand or time deposits, or bankers'
acceptances issued by any depository institution or trust company incorporated
under the laws of the United States or of any state thereof and subject to
supervision and examination by federal or state banking authorities, provided
that the commercial paper or long-term unsecured debt obligations of the
depository institution or trust company (or in the case of the principal
depository institution in a holding company system, the commercial paper or
long-term unsecured debt obligations of the holding company, but only if
Xxxxx'x is not a Rating Agency) are then rated one of the two highest
long-term and the highest short-term ratings of each Rating Agency for the
securities, or any lower rating that will not result in the downgrading,
qualification or withdrawal of the ratings then assigned to the Certificates
(without regard to the Policy) by the Rating Agencies, as evidenced by a
signed writing delivered by each Rating Agency;
(v) demand or time deposits or certificates of deposit issued by any
bank or trust company or savings institution to the extent that the deposits
are fully insured by the FDIC;
(vi) guaranteed reinvestment agreements issued by any bank, insurance
company, or other corporation acceptable to the Rating Agencies at the time of
the issuance of the agreements, as evidenced by a signed writing delivered by
each Rating Agency;
(vii) repurchase obligations with respect to any security described
in clauses (i) and (ii) above, in either case entered into with a depository
institution or trust company (acting as principal) described in clause (iv)
above; provided that such repurchase obligation would be accounted for as a
financing arrangement under generally accepted accounting principles;
(viii) securities (other than stripped bonds, stripped coupons, or
instruments sold at a purchase price in excess of 115% of their face amount)
bearing interest or sold at a discount issued by any corporation incorporated
under the laws of the United States or any state thereof that, at the time of
the investment, have one of the two highest ratings of each Rating Agency
(except if the Rating Agency is Moody's the rating shall be the highest
commercial paper rating of Moody's for the securities), or any lower rating
that will not result in the downgrading, qualification or withdrawal of the
ratings then assigned to the Certificates (without regard to the Policy) by
the Rating Agencies, as evidenced by a signed writing delivered by each Rating
Agency and that have a maturity date occurring no more than 365 days from
their date of issuance;
(ix) units of a taxable money-market portfolio having the highest
rating assigned by each Rating Agency (except (i) if Fitch is a Rating Agency
and has not rated the portfolio, the highest rating assigned by Moody's and
(ii) if S&P is a Rating Agency, "AAAm" or "AAAM-G" by S&P) and restricted to
obligations issued or guaranteed by the United States of America or entities
whose obligations are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States
of America and repurchase agreements collateralized by such obligations; and
(x) any other investments bearing interest or sold at a discount
acceptable to each Rating Agency that will not result in the downgrading,
qualification or withdrawal of the ratings then assigned to the Certificates
(without regard to the Policy) by the Rating Agencies, as evidenced by a
signed writing delivered by each Rating Agency.
No Permitted Investment may (i) evidence the right to receive
interest-only payments with respect to the obligations underlying the
instrument, (ii) be sold or disposed of before its maturity or (iii)
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be any obligation of the Seller or any of its Affiliates. Any Permitted
Investment shall be relatively risk free and no options or voting rights shall
be exercised with respect to any Permitted Investment. Any Permitted
Investment shall be sold or disposed in accordance with Financial Accounting
Standard 140, paragraph 35c(6) in effect as of the Closing Date.
Permitted Transferee: Any person other than
(i) the United States, any State or political subdivision thereof, or
any agency or instrumentality of any of the foregoing,
(ii) a foreign government, International Organization, or any agency
or instrumentality of either of the foregoing,
(iii) an organization (except certain farmers' cooperatives described
in section 521 of the Code) that is exempt from tax imposed by Chapter 1 of
the Code (including the tax imposed by section 511 of the Code on unrelated
business taxable income) on any excess inclusions (as defined in section
860E(c)(1) of the Code) with respect to any Residual Certificate,
(iv) a rural electric and telephone cooperatives described in section
1381(a)(2)(C) of the Code,
(v) an "electing large partnership" as defined in section 775 of the
Code,
(vi) a Person that is not a U.S. Person, and
(vii) any other Person so designated by the Depositor based on an
Opinion of Counsel that the Transfer of an Ownership Interest in a Residual
Certificate to the Person may cause any REMIC to fail to qualify as a REMIC at
any time that the Certificates are outstanding.
Person: Any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture,
association, limited liability company, joint-stock company, trust,
unincorporated organization, or government, or any agency or political
subdivision thereof.
Physical Certificates: As specified in the Preliminary Statement.
Planned Balance: With respect to the Planned Principal Classes in the
aggregate and any Distribution Date appearing in the aggregate Principal
Balance Schedule, the amount appearing opposite such Distribution Date for
such Planned Principal Classes.
Planned Principal Classes: As specified in the Preliminary Statement.
Policy: The irrevocable Certificate Guaranty Insurance Policy, No.
AB0921BE, including any endorsements thereto, issued by Ambac with respect to
the Class 1-A-3B and Class 2-A-3B Certificates, in the form attached hereto as
Exhibit R.
Policy Payments Account: The separate Eligible Account created and
maintained by the Trustee pursuant to Section 4.06(c) in the name of the
Trustee for the benefit of the Class 1-A-3B and Class 2-A-3B
Certificateholders and designated "The Bank of New York in trust for
registered holders of IndyMac MBS, Inc., INDX Mortgage Loan Trust Series
2005-AR18, Class 1-A-3B and Class 2-A-3B". Funds in the Policy Payments
Account shall be held in trust for the Class 1-A-3B and Class 2-A-3B
Certificateholders for the uses and purposes set forth in this Agreement.
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Policy Premium: For any Distribution Date is the fee payable to the
Certificate Insurer in respect of its services as Certificate Insurer that
accrues at the Policy Premium Rate on a balance equal to the aggregate Class
Certificate Balance of the Class 1-A-3B and Class 2-A-3B Certificates
immediately prior to such Distribution Date. The Policy Premium shall be
computed on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed over a year of 360
days.
Policy Premium Rate: The sum of the Class 1-A-3B Policy Premium Rate
and the Class 2-A-3B Policy Premium Rate.
Pool Stated Principal Balance: The aggregate Stated Principal
Balances of the Mortgage Loans.
Prepayment Charge: As to a Mortgage Loan, any charge payable by a
Mortgagor in connection with certain partial prepayments and all prepayments
in full made within the related Prepayment Charge Period, the Prepayment
Charges with respect to each applicable Mortgage Loan so held by the Trust
Fund being identified in the Prepayment Charge Schedule.
Prepayment Charge Period: As to any Mortgage Loan, the period of time
during which a Prepayment Charge may be imposed.
Prepayment Charge Schedule: As of any date, the list of Prepayment
Charges included in the Trust Fund on that date (including the prepayment
charge summary attached thereto). The Prepayment Charge Schedule shall set
forth the following information with respect to each Prepayment Charge:
o the Mortgage Loan account number;
o a code indicating the type of Prepayment Charge;
o the state of origination in which the related
Mortgage Property is located;
o the first date on which a monthly payment is or was
due under the related Mortgage Note;
o the term of the Prepayment Charge;
o the original principal amount of the related
Mortgage Loan; and
o the Cut-off Date Principal Balance of the related
Mortgage Loan.
The Prepayment Charge Schedule shall be amended from time to time by
the Master Servicer in accordance with this Agreement.
Prepayment Interest Excess: As to any Principal Prepayment received
by the Master Servicer on a Mortgage Loan from the first day through the
fifteenth day of any calendar month other than the month of the Cut-off Date,
all amounts paid by the related Mortgagor in respect of interest on such
Principal Prepayment. All Prepayment Interest Excess shall be retained by the
Master Servicer as additional master servicing compensation.
Prepayment Interest Shortfall: As to any Distribution Date, Mortgage
Loan and Principal Prepayment received on or after the sixteenth day of the
month preceding the month of such Distribution Date (or, in the case of the
first Distribution Date, on or after the Cut-off Date) and on or before the
last day of the month preceding the month of such Distribution Date, the
amount, if any, by which one
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month's interest at the related Mortgage Rate, net of the Servicing Fee Rate,
on such Principal Prepayment exceeds the amount of interest paid in connection
with such Principal Prepayment.
Prepayment Period: As to any Distribution Date and related Due Date,
the period from and including the 16th day of the month immediately prior to
the month of such Distribution Date (or, in the case of the first Distribution
Date, from the Cut-off Date) and to and including the 15th day of the month of
such Distribution Date.
Prepayment Shift Percentage: Not applicable.
Primary Insurance Policy: Each policy of primary mortgage guaranty
insurance or any replacement policy therefor with respect to any Mortgage
Loan.
Principal Amount: As to any Distribution Date and each Loan Group,
the sum of (a) all monthly payments of principal due on each Mortgage Loan in
that Loan Group on the related Due Date, (b) the principal portion of the
Purchase Price of each Mortgage Loan in that Loan Group that was repurchased
by the Seller pursuant to this Agreement as of such Distribution Date,
excluding any Mortgage Loan that was repurchased due to a modification of the
Mortgage Rate, (c) the Substitution Adjustment Amount in connection with any
Deleted Mortgage Loan in that Loan Group received with respect to such
Distribution Date, (d) any Insurance Proceeds or Liquidation Proceeds
allocable to recoveries of principal of Mortgage Loans in that Loan Group that
are not yet Liquidated Mortgage Loans received during the calendar month
preceding the month of such Distribution Date, (e) with respect to each
Mortgage Loan in that Loan Group that became a Liquidated Mortgage Loan during
the calendar month preceding the month of such Distribution Date, the amount
of Liquidation Proceeds allocable to principal received with respect to such
Mortgage Loan, (f) all Net Prepayments on the Mortgage Loans in that Loan
Group received during the related Prepayment Period and (g) any Subsequent
Recoveries with respect to the Mortgage Loans in that Loan Group received
during the calendar month preceding the month of such Distribution Date.
Principal Balance Schedules: Not applicable.
Principal Deficiency Amount: For any Distribution Date for an
Undercollateralized Group, the excess of the aggregate Class Certificate
Balance and Component Principal Balance of the Senior Certificates and
Principal Only Component related to that Undercollateralized Group on that
Distribution Date (after all other distributions have been made on that date)
over the aggregate Stated Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans in that Loan
Group as of the Due Date in the month of such Distribution Date after giving
effect to Principal Prepayments in the Prepayment Period related to the Due
Date in the month of such Distribution Date.
Principal Only Certificates: As specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
Principal Only Components: The Class 1-X PO, Class 2-X PO and Class
B-X PO Components.
Principal Prepayment: Any payment of principal by a Mortgagor on a
Mortgage Loan (including the principal portion of the Purchase Price of any
Mortgage Loan purchased pursuant to Section 3.12) that is received in advance
of its scheduled Due Date and is not accompanied by an amount representing
scheduled interest due on any date in any month after the month of prepayment.
The Master Servicer shall apply partial Principal Prepayments in accordance
with the related Mortgage Note.
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Principal Prepayment Amount: As to any Distribution Date and any Loan
Group, an amount equal to the sum of all voluntary Principal Prepayments on
the Mortgage Loans in that Loan Group received during the related Prepayment
Period.
Principal Prepayment in Full: Any Principal Prepayment made by a
Mortgagor of the entire principal balance of a Mortgage Loan.
Principal Relocation Payment: A payment from any Loan Group to REMIC
1 Regular Interests other than those of their corresponding Loan Group as
provided in the Preliminary Statement. Principal Relocation Payments shall be
made of principal allocations comprising the Principal Amount from a Loan
Group.
Private Certificates: As specified in the Preliminary Statement.
Pro Rata Share: As to any Distribution Date and any Class of
Subordinated Certificates, the portion of the Subordinated Principal
Distribution Amount allocable to such Class, equal to the product of the
Subordinated Principal Distribution Amount on such Distribution Date and a
fraction, the numerator of which is the related Class Certificate Balance
thereof and the denominator of which is the aggregate Class Certificate
Balance of the Subordinated Certificates, in each case immediately prior to
such Distribution Date.
Proprietary Lease: For any Cooperative Unit, a lease or occupancy
agreement between a Cooperative Corporation and a holder of related Co-op
Shares.
Prospectus Supplement: The Prospectus Supplement dated September 2,
2005, relating to the Offered Certificates, and any supplement thereto.
PUD: Planned Unit Development.
Purchase Price: For any Mortgage Loan required to be purchased by the
Seller pursuant to Section 2.02 or 2.03 or purchased by the Master Servicer
pursuant to Section 3.12, the sum of
(i) 100% of the unpaid principal balance of the Mortgage Loan on the
date of the purchase,
(ii) accrued and unpaid interest on the Mortgage Loan at the
applicable Mortgage Rate (or at the applicable Adjusted Mortgage Rate if (x)
the purchaser is the Master Servicer or (y) if the purchaser is the Seller and
the Seller is the Master Servicer) from the date through which interest was
last paid by the Mortgagor to the Due Date in the month in which the Purchase
Price is to be distributed to Certificateholders, net of any unreimbursed
Advances made by the Master Servicer on the Mortgage Loan, and
(iii) any costs and damages incurred by the Trust Fund in connection
with any violation by the Mortgage Loan of any predatory or abusive lending
law.
If the Mortgage Loan is purchased pursuant to Section 3.12, the
interest component of the Purchase Price shall be computed (i) on the basis of
the applicable Adjusted Mortgage Rate before giving effect to the related
modification and (ii) from the date to which interest was last paid to the
date on which the Mortgage Loan is assigned to the Master Servicer pursuant to
Section 3.12.
Qualified Insurer: A mortgage guaranty insurance company duly
qualified as such under the laws of the state of its principal place of
business and each state having jurisdiction over the insurer in
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connection with the insurance policy issued by the insurer, duly authorized
and licensed in such states to transact a mortgage guaranty insurance business
in such states and to write the insurance provided by the insurance policy
issued by it, approved as a FNMA- or FHLMC-approved mortgage insurer or having
a claims paying ability rating of at least "AA" or equivalent rating by a
nationally recognized statistical rating organization. Any replacement insurer
with respect to a Mortgage Loan must have at least as high a claims paying
ability rating as the insurer it replaces had on the Closing Date.
Rating Agency: Each of the Rating Agencies specified in the
Preliminary Statement. If any of them or a successor is no longer in
existence, "Rating Agency" shall be the nationally recognized statistical
rating organization, or other comparable Person, designated by the Depositor,
notice of which designation shall be given to the Trustee. References to a
given rating or rating category of a Rating Agency means the rating category
without giving effect to any modifiers.
Realized Loss: With respect to each Liquidated Mortgage Loan, an
amount (not less than zero or more than the Stated Principal Balance of the
Mortgage Loan) as of the date of such liquidation, equal to (i) the Stated
Principal Balance of the Liquidated Mortgage Loan as of the date of such
liquidation, plus (ii) interest at the Adjusted Net Mortgage Rate from the Due
Date as to which interest was last paid or advanced (and not reimbursed) to
Certificateholders up to the Due Date in the month in which Liquidation
Proceeds are required to be distributed on the Stated Principal Balance of
such Liquidated Mortgage Loan from time to time, minus (iii) the Liquidation
Proceeds, if any, received during the month in which such liquidation
occurred, to the extent applied as recoveries of interest at the Adjusted Net
Mortgage Rate and to principal of the Liquidated Mortgage Loan. With respect
to each Mortgage Loan that has become the subject of a Deficient Valuation, if
the principal amount due under the related Mortgage Note has been reduced, the
difference between the principal balance of the Mortgage Loan outstanding
immediately prior to such Deficient Valuation and the principal balance of the
Mortgage Loan as reduced by the Deficient Valuation. With respect to each
Mortgage Loan which has become the subject of a Debt Service Reduction and any
Distribution Date, the amount, if any, by which the principal portion of the
related Scheduled Payment has been reduced.
To the extent the Master Servicer receives Subsequent Recoveries with
respect to any Mortgage Loan, the amount of the Realized Loss with respect to
that Mortgage Loan will be reduced by such Subsequent Recoveries.
Recognition Agreement: For any Cooperative Loan, an agreement between
the Cooperative Corporation and the originator of the Mortgage Loan that
establishes the rights of the originator in the Cooperative Property.
Record Date: With respect to any Distribution Date and any Definitive
Certificate and the Delay Certificates, the close of business on the last
Business Day of the month preceding the month of that Distribution Date. With
respect to any Distribution Date and the LIBOR Certificates as long as they
are Book-Entry Certificates, the Business Day immediately prior to such
Distribution Date.
Reference Bank: As defined in Section 4.08.
Refinance Loan: Any Mortgage Loan the proceeds of which are used to
refinance an Original Mortgage Loan.
Regular Certificates: As specified in the Preliminary Statement.
Reimbursement Amount: As to any Distribution Date, (i) all Insured
Payments paid by the Certificate Insurer, but for which the Certificate
Insurer has not been reimbursed prior to such
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Distribution Date pursuant to Section 4.02, plus (ii) interest accrued on such
Insured Payments not previously repaid, calculated at the Late Payment Rate
from the date such Insured Payments were made.
Relief Act: The Servicemembers Civil Relief Act and any similar state
and local laws.
Relief Act Reductions: With respect to any Distribution Date and any
Mortgage Loan as to which there has been a reduction in the amount of interest
collectible thereon for the most recently ended calendar month as a result of
the application of the Relief Act, the amount, if any, by which (i) interest
collectible on such Mortgage Loan for the most recently ended calendar month
is less than (ii) interest accrued thereon for such month pursuant to the
Mortgage Note.
REMIC: A "real estate mortgage investment conduit" within the meaning
of section 860D of the Code.
REMIC Provisions: Provisions of the federal income tax law relating
to real estate mortgage investment conduits, which appear at sections 860A
through 860G of Subchapter M of Chapter 1 of the Code, and related provisions,
and regulations promulgated thereunder, as the foregoing may be in effect from
time to time as well as provisions of applicable state laws.
REO Property: A Mortgaged Property acquired by the Trust Fund through
foreclosure or deed-in-lieu of foreclosure in connection with a defaulted
Mortgage Loan.
Request for Release: The Request for Release submitted by the Master
Servicer to the Trustee, substantially in the form of Exhibits M and N, as
appropriate.
Required Insurance Policy: For any Mortgage Loan, any insurance
policy that is required to be maintained from time to time under this
Agreement.
Required Reserve Fund Deposit: With respect to the Class 1-X
Certificates, the lesser of (i) the current interest for the Class 1-X IO
Component for such Distribution Date (after reductions due to that Component's
share of any Net Deferred Interest and after any reduction in current interest
due to Net Interest Shortfalls on such Distribution Date) and (ii) the amount,
if any, required to bring the balance on deposit in the Carryover Shortfall
Reserve Fund related to the Group 1 Senior Certificates up to an amount equal
to the greater of (a) the aggregate remaining Carryover Shortfall Amount for
such Distribution Date with respect to the Group 1 Senior Floating Rate
Certificates (after distributing amounts in the related Yield Maintenance
Reserve Fund) and (b) $1,000. With respect to the Class 2-X Certificates, the
lesser of (i) the current interest for the Class 2-X IO Component for such
Distribution Date (after reductions due to that Component's share of any Net
Deferred Interest and after any reduction in current interest due to net
interest shortfalls on such Distribution Date) and (ii) the amount, if any,
required to bring the balance on deposit in the Carryover Shortfall Reserve
Fund related to the Group 2 Senior Certificates up to an amount equal to the
greater of (a) the aggregate remaining Carryover Shortfall Amount for such
Distribution Date with respect to the Group 2 Senior Floating Rate
Certificates (with respect to the Group 2 Senior LIBOR Certificates, after
distributing amounts in the related Yield Maintenance Reserve Fund) and (b)
$1,000. With respect to the Class B-X Certificates, the lesser of (i) the
current interest for the Class B-X IO Component for such Distribution Date
(after reductions due to that Component's share of any Net Deferred Interest
and after any reduction in current interest due to Net Interest Shortfalls on
such Distribution Date) and (ii) the amount, if any, required to bring the
balance on deposit in the Carryover Shortfall Reserve Fund related to the
Subordinated Certificates up to an amount equal to the greater of (a) the
aggregate remaining Carryover Shortfall Amount for such Distribution Date with
respect to the Subordinated Floating Rate Certificates and (b) $1,000.
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Residual Certificates: As specified in the Preliminary Statement.
Responsible Officer: When used with respect to the Trustee, any
Managing Director, any Director, Vice President, any Assistant Vice President,
any Associate, any Assistant Secretary, any Trust Officer, or any other
officer of the Trustee customarily performing functions similar to those
performed by any of the above designated officers who at such time shall be
officers to whom, with respect to a particular matter, the matter is referred
because of the officer's knowledge of and familiarity with the particular
subject and who has direct responsibility for the administration of this
Agreement.
Restricted Classes: As defined in Section 4.02(e).
SAIF: The Savings Association Insurance Fund, or any successor
thereto.
S&P: Standard & Poor's, a division of The XxXxxx-Xxxx Companies, Inc.
If S&P is designated as a Rating Agency in the Preliminary Statement, for
purposes of Section 10.05(b) the address for notices to S&P shall be Standard
& Poor's, a division of The XxXxxx-Xxxx Companies, Inc., 00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx
Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, Attention: Mortgage Surveillance Monitoring, or any
other address that S&P furnishes to the Depositor and the Master Servicer.
Scheduled Balance: Not applicable.
Scheduled Classes: As specified in the Preliminary Statement.
Scheduled Payment: The scheduled monthly payment on a Mortgage Loan
due on any Due Date allocable to principal and/or interest on such Mortgage
Loan which, unless otherwise specified herein, shall give effect to any
related Debt Service Reduction and any Deficient Valuation that affects the
amount of the monthly payment due on such Mortgage Loan.
Securities Act: The Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
Security Agreement: For any Cooperative Loan, the agreement between
the owner of the related Co-op Shares and the originator of the related
Mortgage Note that defines the security interest in the Co-op Shares and the
related Proprietary Lease.
Seller: IndyMac Bank, F.S.B., a federal savings bank, and its
successors and assigns, in its capacity as seller of the Mortgage Loans to the
Depositor.
Senior Certificate Group: As specified in the Preliminary Statement.
Senior Certificates: As specified in the Preliminary Statement.
Senior Credit Support Depletion Date: The date on which the Class
Certificate Balance of each Class of Subordinated Certificates has been
reduced to zero.
Senior Percentage: As to any Senior Certificate Group and
Distribution Date, the percentage equivalent of a fraction, the numerator of
which is the aggregate of the Class Certificate Balances and Component
Principal Balances of each Class of Senior Certificates of such Senior
Certificate Group (other than the related Notional Amount Components)
immediately before the Distribution Date and the denominator of which is the
aggregate Stated Principal Balance of each Mortgage Loan in the related Loan
Group as of the Due Date occurring in the month prior to the month of that
Distribution Date (after giving effect to Principal Prepayments received on
the Mortgage Loans in the Prepayment Period related
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to such prior Due Date); provided, however, that on any Distribution Date
after the Senior Termination Date, the Senior Percentage of the remaining
Senior Certificate Group is the percentage equivalent of a fraction, the
numerator of which is the aggregate of the Class Certificate Balances and
Component Principal Balances of each such Class of Senior Certificates (other
than the Notional Amount Components) of such remaining Senior Certificate
Group immediately prior to such Distribution Date and the denominator is the
aggregate of the Class Certificate Balances and Component Principal Balances
of all Classes of Certificates (other than the Notional Amount Certificates or
Components) immediately prior to such Distribution Date.
Senior Portion: For any Distribution Date and Loan Group, the
aggregate Stated Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans in that Loan Group
minus the Subordinated Portion of those Mortgage Loans.
Senior Prepayment Percentage: As to a Senior Certificate Group and
any Distribution Date during the ten years beginning on the first Distribution
Date, 100%. The related Senior Prepayment Percentage for any Distribution Date
occurring on or after the tenth anniversary of the first Distribution Date
will, except as provided in this Agreement, be as follows: for any
Distribution Date in the first year thereafter, the related Senior Percentage
plus 70% of the related Subordinated Percentage for such Distribution Date;
for any Distribution Date in the second year thereafter, the related Senior
Percentage plus 60% of the related Subordinated Percentage for such
Distribution Date; for any Distribution Date in the third year thereafter, the
related Senior Percentage plus 40% of the related Subordinated Percentage for
such Distribution Date; for any Distribution Date in the fourth year
thereafter, the related Senior Percentage plus 20% of the related Subordinated
Percentage for such Distribution Date; and for any Distribution Date
thereafter, the related Senior Percentage for such Distribution Date (unless
on any Distribution Date the Aggregate Senior Percentage exceeds the initial
Aggregate Senior Percentage in which case the Senior Prepayment Percentage for
each Senior Certificate Group for such Distribution Date will once again equal
100%). Notwithstanding the foregoing, no decrease in the Senior Prepayment
Percentage will occur unless both Senior Step Down Conditions are satisfied
with respect to the Mortgage Loans. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if (x) on
or before the Distribution Date in September 2008, the Aggregate Subordinated
Percentage is at least 200% of the Aggregate Subordinated Percentage as of the
Closing Date, the delinquency test set forth in clause (i) of the definition
of Senior Step Down Conditions is satisfied and cumulative Realized Losses do
not exceed 20% of the Original Subordinated Principal Balance, the Senior
Prepayment Percentage will equal the Senior Percentage for that Distribution
Date plus 50% of the Subordinated Percentage for that Distribution Date and
(y) after the Distribution Date in September 2008, the Aggregate Subordinated
Percentage is at least 200% of the Aggregate Subordinated Percentage as of the
Closing Date, the delinquency test set forth in clause (i) of the definition
of Senior Step Down Conditions is satisfied and cumulative Realized Losses do
not exceed 30% of the Original Subordinate Principal Balance, the Senior
Prepayment Percentage will equal the Senior Percentage for that Distribution
Date.
Senior Principal Distribution Amount: As to any Distribution Date and
either Loan Group, the sum of (i) the related Senior Percentage of all amounts
described in clauses (a) through (d) of the definition of Principal Amount for
that Loan Group and such Distribution Date, (ii) with respect to any Mortgage
Loan that became a Liquidated Mortgage Loan during the calendar month
preceding the month of such Distribution Date, the lesser of (x) the related
Senior Percentage of the Stated Principal Balance of such Mortgage Loan and
(y) the related Senior Prepayment Percentage of the amount of the Liquidation
Proceeds allocable to principal received on the Mortgage Loan, and (iii) the
related Senior Prepayment Percentage of the amounts described in clauses (f)
and (g) of the definition of Principal Amount for that Loan Group and such
Distribution Date.
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Senior Step Down Conditions: As to any Distribution Date: (i) the
outstanding principal balance of all the Mortgage Loans 60 days or more
Delinquent (averaged over the preceding six month period) (including any
Mortgage Loans subject to foreclosure proceedings, REO Property (regardless of
whether that Mortgage Loan is 60 days or more Delinquent) and Mortgage Loans
the mortgagers of which are in bankruptcy), as a percentage of the aggregate
Class Certificate Balance of the Subordinated Certificates, does not equal or
exceed 50%, and (ii) cumulative Realized Losses do not exceed: (a) commencing
with the Distribution Date on the tenth anniversary of the first Distribution
Date, 30% of the Original Subordinated Principal Balance, (b) commencing with
the Distribution Date on the eleventh anniversary of the first Distribution
Date, 35% of the Original Subordinated Principal Balance, (c) commencing with
the Distribution Date on the twelfth anniversary of the first Distribution
Date, 40% of the Original Subordinated Principal Balance, (d) commencing with
the Distribution Date on the thirteenth anniversary of the first Distribution
Date, 45% of the Original Subordinated Principal Balance, and (e) commencing
with the Distribution Date on the fourteenth anniversary of the first
Distribution Date and thereafter, 50% of the Original Subordinated Principal
Balance.
Senior Termination Date: For each Senior Certificate Group, the
Distribution Date on which the aggregate Class Certificate Balance and
Component Principal Balance of the Classes or Components of the Senior
Certificates of such Senior Certificate Group has been reduced to zero.
Servicing Account: The separate Eligible Account or Accounts created
and maintained pursuant to Section 3.06(b).
Servicing Advances: All customary, reasonable, and necessary "out of
pocket" costs and expenses incurred in the performance by the Master Servicer
of its servicing obligations, including the cost of
(a) the preservation, restoration, and protection of a
Mortgaged Property,
(b) expenses reimbursable to the Master Servicer pursuant to
Section 3.12 and any enforcement or judicial proceedings, including
foreclosures,
(c) the maintenance and liquidation of any REO Property,
(d) compliance with the obligations under Section 3.10, and
(e) reasonable compensation to the Master Servicer or its
affiliates for acting as broker in connection with the sale of
foreclosed Mortgaged Properties and for performing certain default
management and other similar services (including appraisal services)
in connection with the servicing of defaulted Mortgage Loans. For
purposes of this clause (e), only costs and expenses incurred in
connection with the performance of activities generally considered to
be outside the scope of customary servicing or master servicing
duties shall be treated as Servicing Advances.
Servicing Fee: As to each Mortgage Loan and any Distribution Date,
one month's interest at the applicable Servicing Fee Rate on the Stated
Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loan, or, whenever a payment of interest
accompanies a Principal Prepayment in Full made by the Mortgagor, interest at
the Servicing Fee Rate on the Stated Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loan
for the period covered by the payment of interest, subject to reduction as
provided in Section 3.15.
Servicing Fee Rate: For each Mortgage Loan, 0.375% per annum.
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Servicing Officer: Any officer of the Master Servicer involved in, or
responsible for, the administration and servicing of the Mortgage Loans whose
name and facsimile signature appear on a list of servicing officers furnished
to the Trustee by the Master Servicer on the Closing Date pursuant to this
Agreement, as the list may from time to time be amended.
Servicing Standard: That degree of skill and care exercised by the
Master Servicer with respect to mortgage loans comparable to the Mortgage
Loans serviced by the Master Servicer for itself or others.
Shift Percentage: Not applicable.
Special Hazard Coverage Termination Date: Not applicable.
Special Hazard Loss: Not applicable.
Special Hazard Loss Coverage Amount: Not applicable.
Special Hazard Mortgage Loan: Not applicable.
Startup Day: The Closing Date.
Stated Principal Balance: As to any Mortgage Loan and Due Date, the
unpaid principal balance of such Mortgage Loan as of such Due Date, as
specified in the amortization schedule at the time relating thereto (before
any adjustment to such amortization schedule by reason of any moratorium or
similar waiver or grace period) after giving effect to the sum of: (i) the
payment of principal due on such Due Date and irrespective of any delinquency
in payment by the related Mortgagor and (ii) any Liquidation Proceeds
allocable to principal received in the prior calendar month and any Principal
Prepayments received through the last day of the related Prepayment Period, in
each case, with respect to such Mortgage Loan and increased by any Deferred
Interest added to the principal balance of that Mortgage Loan on or prior to
such Due Date.
Subordinate WAC Cap: For any Distribution Date, the weighted average
of the Weighted Average Adjusted Net Mortgage Rate of the Group 1 Mortgage
Loans and Group 2 Mortgage Loans, weighted on the basis of the Subordinated
Portion of the Group 1 Mortgage Loans and Group 2 Mortgage Loans,
respectively.
Subordinated Adjusted Cap Rate: For the Subordinated Certificates for
any Distribution Date, the weighted average (weighted on the basis of the
Subordinated Portion of the Group 1 Mortgage Loans and Group 2 Mortgage Loans)
of the Adjusted Cap Rates for the Group 1 Senior Floating Rate Certificates
and the Group 2 Senior Floating Rate Certificates..
Subordinated Certificates: As specified in the Preliminary Statement.
Subordinated Percentage: As to any Distribution Date, 100% minus the
related Senior Percentage for such Distribution Date.
Subordinated Portion: For any Distribution Date and Loan Group, the
aggregate Stated Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans in the related Loan
Group as of the Due Date in the month preceding the month of such Distribution
Date (after giving effect to Principal Prepayments in the Prepayment Period
related to that prior Due Date) minus the sum of the Class Certificate Balance
and Component Principal Balance of the related Senior Certificates and
Components immediately prior to such Distribution Date.
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Subordinated Prepayment Percentage: For any Distribution Date and
Loan Group, 100% minus the related Senior Prepayment Percentage.
Subordinated Principal Distribution Amount: As to any Distribution
Date and Loan Group, the sum of the following with respect to each Loan Group:
(i) the Subordinated Percentage of all amounts described in clauses (a)
through (d) of the definition of Principal Amount with respect to such Loan
Group and such Distribution Date, (ii) with respect to any Mortgage Loan in
the related Loan Group that became a Liquidated Mortgage Loan during the
calendar month preceding the month of such Distribution Date, the amount of
Liquidation Proceeds allocable to principal received with respect thereto
remaining after application thereof pursuant to clause (ii) of the definition
of Senior Principal Distribution Amount for that Loan Group, up to the related
Subordinated Percentage of the Stated Principal Balance of such Mortgage Loan,
and (iii) the related Subordinated Prepayment Percentage of the amounts
described in clauses (f) and (g) of the definition of Principal Amount with
respect to that Loan Group for such Distribution Date. On any Distribution
Date after the Senior Termination Date, the Subordinated Principal
Distribution Amount will not be calculated by Loan Group but will equal the
amount calculated pursuant to the formula set forth above based on the
applicable Subordinated Percentage or Subordinated Prepayment Percentage, as
applicable, for the Subordinated Certificates for such Distribution Date with
respect to all of the Mortgage Loans as opposed to the Mortgage Loans in the
related Loan Group.
Subsequent Recoveries: As to any Distribution Date, with respect to a
Liquidated Mortgage Loan that resulted in a Realized Loss in a prior calendar
month, unexpected amounts received by the Master Servicer (net of any related
expenses permitted to be reimbursed pursuant to Section 3.09) specifically
related to such Liquidated Mortgage Loan.
Subservicer: As defined in Section 3.02(a).
Substitute Mortgage Loan: A Mortgage Loan substituted by the Seller
for a Deleted Mortgage Loan that must, on the date of substitution, as
confirmed in a Request for Release, substantially in the form of Exhibit M,
(i) have a Stated Principal Balance, after deduction of the principal
portion of the Scheduled Payment due in the month of substitution, not in
excess of, and not more than 10% less than, the Stated Principal Balance of
the Deleted Mortgage Loan (unless the amount of any shortfall is deposited by
the Seller in the Certificate Account and held for distribution to the
Certificateholders on the related Distribution Date);
(ii) have a Mortgage Rate no lower than and not more than 1% per
annum higher than the Deleted Mortgage Loan;
(iii) have a Maximum Mortgage Rate not more than 1% per annum higher
than and not lower than the Maximum Mortgage Rate of the deleted Mortgage
Loan,
(iv) have the same negative amortization limit, payment adjustment
intervals and recast intervals as that of the deleted Mortgage Loan;
(v) have the same index and Payment Cap as the deleted Mortgage Loan
and a Gross Margin not more than 1% per annum higher than, and not lower than
that of the deleted Mortgage Loan;
(vi) have a Loan-to-Value Ratio no higher than that of the Deleted
Mortgage Loan;
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(vii) have a remaining term to maturity no greater than (and not more
than one year less than) that of the Deleted Mortgage Loan;
(viii) not be a Cooperative Loan unless the Deleted Mortgage Loan was
a Cooperative Loan; and
(ix) comply with each representation and warranty in Section 2.03.
Substitution Adjustment Amount: As defined in Section 2.03.
Suspension Notification: Notification to the Commission of the
suspension of the Trust Fund's obligation to file reports pursuant to Section
15(d) of the Exchange Act.
Targeted Balance: With respect to the Targeted Principal Classes and
any Distribution Date appearing in the Principal Balance Schedules, the
applicable amount appearing opposite such Distribution Date for such Targeted
Principal Classes.
Targeted Principal Classes: As specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
Transfer: Any direct or indirect transfer or sale of any Ownership
Interest in a Residual Certificate.
Trust Fund: The corpus of the trust created under this Agreement
consisting of
(i) the Mortgage Loans and all interest and principal received on
them after the Cut-off Date, other than amounts due on the Mortgage Loans by
the Cut-off Date;
(ii) the Certificate Account, the Distribution Account, the Yield
Maintenance Reserve Funds, the Carryover Shortfall Reserve Fund and all
amounts deposited therein pursuant to this Agreement (including amounts
received from the Seller on the Closing Date that will be deposited by the
Trustee in the Certificate Account pursuant to Section 2.01);
(iii) property that secured a Mortgage Loan and has been acquired by
foreclosure, deed-in-lieu of foreclosure, or otherwise;
(iv) the right to collect any amounts under any mortgage insurance
policies covering any Mortgage Loan and any collections received under any
mortgage insurance policies covering any Mortgage Loan;
(v) all rights to receive amounts under, and to enforce remedies in,
the Yield Maintenance Agreements; and
(vi) all proceeds of the conversion, voluntary or involuntary, of any
of the foregoing.
Trustee: Deutsche Bank National Trust Company and its successors and,
if a successor trustee is appointed under this Agreement, the successor.
Trustee Fee: The fee payable to the Trustee on each Distribution Date
for its services as Trustee hereunder, in an amount equal to one-twelfth of
the Trustee Fee Rate multiplied by the aggregate Stated Principal Balance of
the Mortgage Loans as of the Due Date in the month preceding the month of such
Distribution Date (after giving effect to Principal Prepayments in the
Prepayment Period related to that prior Due Date).
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Trustee Fee Rate: 0.0005% per annum.
The terms "United States," "State," and "International Organization"
have the meanings in section 7701 of the Code or successor provisions. A
corporation will not be treated as an instrumentality of the United States or
of any State or political subdivision thereof for these purposes if all of its
activities are subject to tax and, with the exception of the Federal Home Loan
Mortgage Corporation, a majority of its board of directors is not selected by
such government unit.
UCC: The Uniform Commercial Code for the State of New York.
Undercollateralized Group: As defined in Section 4.03.
Underwriter's Exemption: Prohibited Transaction Exemption 2002-41, 67
Fed. Reg. 54487 (2002) (or any successor thereto), or any substantially
similar administrative exemption granted by the U.S. Department of Labor
United States Person or U.S. Person:
(i) A citizen or resident of the United States;
(ii) a corporation (or entity treated as a corporation for tax
purposes) created or organized in the United States or under the laws of the
United States or of any state thereof, including, for this purpose, the
District of Columbia;
(iii) a partnership (or entity treated as a partnership for tax
purposes) organized in the United States or under the laws of the United
States or of any state thereof, including, for this purpose, the District of
Columbia (unless provided otherwise by future Treasury regulations);
(iv) an estate whose income is includible in gross income for United
States income tax purposes regardless of its source; or
(v) a trust, if a court within the United States is able to exercise
primary supervision over the administration of the trust and one or more U.S.
Persons have authority to control all substantial decisions of the trust.
Notwithstanding the last clause of the preceding sentence, to the extent
provided in Treasury regulations, certain trusts in existence on August 20,
1996, and treated as U.S. Persons before that date, may elect to continue to
be U.S. Persons.
U.S.A. Patriot Act: The Uniting and Strengthening America by
Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act
of 2001.
Voting Rights: The portion of the voting rights of all of the
Certificates that is allocated to any Certificate. As of any date of
determination, (a) 1% of all Voting Rights shall be allocated to each Class of
Notional Amount Certificates (the Voting Rights to be allocated among the
holders of Certificates of each Class in accordance with their respective
Percentage Interests), (b) 1% of all Voting Rights shall be allocated to the
Holder of the Class A-R Certificates and (c) the remaining Voting Rights shall
be allocated among Holders of the remaining Classes of Offered Certificates
(other than the Class A-R Certificates) in proportion to the Certificate
Balances of the respective Certificates on the date. Notwithstanding any of
the foregoing, on any date on which any Class 1-A-3B or Class 2-A-3B
Certificates are outstanding or amounts are owed the Certificate Insurer under
this Agreement, unless a Certificate Insurer Default shall have occurred and
be continuing, the Certificate Insurer will be entitled to exercise the Voting
Rights of the Holders of the Class 1-A-3B and Class 2-A-3B Certificates,
without the
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consent of the Holders of the Class 1-A-3B and Class 2-A-3B Certificates, and
the Holders of the Class 1-A-3B and Class 2-A-3B Certificates may exercise
such rights only with the prior written consent of the Certificate Insurer.
Weighted Average Adjusted Net Mortgage Rate: For any Distribution
Date, the average of the Adjusted Net Mortgage Rate of each Mortgage Loan,
weighted on the basis of its Stated Principal Balance as of the Due Date in
the prior month (after giving affect to Principal Prepayments in the
Prepayment Period related to such prior Due Date).
Withdrawal Date: The 18th day of each month, or if such day is not a
Business Day, the next preceding Business Day.
Yield Maintenance Agreements: The interest rate cap agreements
between the Trust Fund and the Cap Counterparty related to one of the
following groups of certificates: (x) the Group 1 Senior Floating Rate
Certificates or (y) the Group 2 Senior Floating Rate Certificates (other than
the Class 2-A-2B Certificates), a form of each of which is attached to this
Agreement as Exhibits P-1 and P-2.
Yield Maintenance Reserve Funds: The separate Eligible Accounts
created and maintained by the Trustee pursuant to Section 3.06(f) in the name
of the Trustee for the benefit of the Holders of the Senior Floating Rate
Certificates and designated "Deutsche Bank National Trust Company in trust for
registered holders of IndyMac INDX Mortgage Loan Trust 2005-AR18, Mortgage
Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2005-AR18, [Class 1-A-1, Class 1-A-2, Class
1-A-3A and Class 1-A-3B] [Class 2-A-1A, Class 2-A-1B, Class 2-A-2A, Class
2-A-2C, Class 2-A-3A and Class 2-A-3B]." Funds in each Yield Maintenance
Reserve Fund shall be held in trust for the Holders of the related Classes of
Certificates for the uses and purposes set forth in this Agreement. The Yield
Maintenance Reserve Funds will not be an asset of any REMIC.
Section 1.02 Rules of Construction.
Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement or unless
the context clearly requires otherwise
(a) References to designated articles, sections, subsections,
exhibits, and other subdivisions of this Agreement, such as "Section 6.12
(a)," refer to the designated article, section, subsection, exhibit, or other
subdivision of this Agreement as a whole and to all subdivisions of the
designated article, section, subsection, exhibit, or other subdivision. The
words "herein," "hereof," "hereto," "hereunder," and other words of similar
import refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular article,
section, exhibit, or other subdivision of this Agreement.
(b) Any term that relates to a document or a statute, rule, or
regulation includes any amendments, modifications, supplements, or any other
changes that may have occurred since the document, statute, rule, or
regulation came into being, including changes that occur after the date of
this Agreement.
(c) Any party may execute any of the requirements under this
Agreement either directly or through others, and the right to cause something
to be done rather than doing it directly shall be implicit in every
requirement under this Agreement. Unless a provision is restricted as to time
or limited as to frequency, all provisions under this Agreement are implicitly
available and things may happen from time to time.
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(d) The term "including" and all its variations mean "including but
not limited to." Except when used in conjunction with the word "either," the
word "or" is always used inclusively (for example, the phrase "A or B" means
"A or B or both," not "either A or B but not both").
(e) A reference to "a [thing]" or "any [of a thing]" does not imply
the existence or occurrence of the thing referred to even though not followed
by "if any," and "any [of a thing]" is any of it. A reference to the plural of
anything as to which there could be either one or more than one does not imply
the existence of more than one (for instance, the phrase "the obligors on a
note" means "the obligor or obligors on a note"). "Until [something occurs]"
does not imply that it must occur, and will not be modified by the word
"unless." The word "due" and the word "payable" are each used in the sense
that the stated time for payment has passed. The word "accrued" is used in its
accounting sense, i.e., an amount paid is no longer accrued. In the
calculation of amounts of things, differences and sums may generally result in
negative numbers, but when the calculation of the excess of one thing over
another results in zero or a negative number, the calculation is disregarded
and an "excess" does not exist. Portions of things may be expressed as
fractions or percentages interchangeably.
(f) All accounting terms used in an accounting context and not
otherwise defined, and accounting terms partly defined in this Agreement, to
the extent not completely defined, shall be construed in accordance with
generally accepted accounting principles. To the extent that the definitions
of accounting terms in this Agreement are inconsistent with their meanings
under generally accepted accounting principles, the definitions contained in
this Agreement shall control. Capitalized terms used in this Agreement without
definition that are defined in the Uniform Commercial Code are used in this
Agreement as defined in the Uniform Commercial Code.
(g) In the computation of a period of time from a specified date to a
later specified date or an open-ended period, the words "from" and "beginning"
mean "from and including," the word "after" means "from but excluding," the
words "to" and "until" mean "to but excluding," and the word "through" means
"to and including." Likewise, in setting deadlines or other periods, "by"
means "by." The words "preceding," "following," and words of similar import,
mean immediately preceding or following. References to a month or a year refer
to calendar months and calendar years.
(h) Any reference to the enforceability of any agreement against a
party means that it is enforceable, subject as to enforcement against the
party, to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, and other similar
laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors' rights and
to general equity principles.
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ARTICLE Two
CONVEYANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS; REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
Section 2.01 Conveyance of Mortgage Loans.
(a) The Seller, concurrently with the execution and delivery of this
Agreement, hereby transfers to the Depositor, without recourse, all the
interest of the Seller in each Mortgage Loan, including all interest and
principal received or receivable by the Seller on each Mortgage Loan after the
Cut-off Date and all interest and principal payments on each Mortgage Loan
received before the Cut-off Date for installments of interest and principal
due after the Cut-off Date but not including payments of principal and
interest due by the Cut-off Date. By the Closing Date, the Seller shall
deliver to the Depositor or, at the Depositor's direction, to the Trustee or
other designee of the Depositor, the Mortgage File for each Mortgage Loan
listed in the Mortgage Loan Schedule (except that, in the case of Mortgage
Loans that are Delay Delivery Mortgage Loans, such delivery may take place
within five Business Days of the Closing Date) as of the Closing Date. The
delivery of the Mortgage Files shall be made against payment by the Depositor
of the purchase price, previously agreed to by the Seller and Depositor, for
the Mortgage Loans. With respect to any Mortgage Loan that does not have a
first payment date on or before the Due Date in the month of the first
Distribution Date, the Seller shall deposit into the Distribution Account on
the first Distribution Account Deposit Date an amount equal to one month's
interest at the related Adjusted Mortgage Rate on the Cut-off Date Principal
Balance of such Mortgage Loan. Also on the Closing Date the Depositor shall
deposit $200 into the Certificate Account for the benefit of the Class P-1 and
Class P-2 Certificates and $4,104,735.62 into the Carryover Shortfall Reserve
Fund.
(b) The Depositor, concurrently with the execution and delivery of
this Agreement, hereby (i) transfers to the Trustee for the benefit of the
Certificateholders and the Certificate Insurer, without recourse, all the
interest of the Depositor in the Trust Fund, together with the Depositor's
right to require the Seller to cure any breach of a representation or warranty
made in this Agreement by the Seller or to repurchase or substitute for any
affected Mortgage Loan in accordance with this Agreement and (ii) causes the
Certificate Insurer to deliver the Policy to the Trustee. The Depositor hereby
directs the Trustee to execute the Yield Maintenance Agreement.
(c) In connection with the transfer and assignment of each Mortgage
Loan, the Depositor has delivered (or, in the case of the Delay Delivery
Mortgage Loans, will deliver to the Trustee within the time periods specified
in the definition of Delay Delivery Mortgage Loans), for the benefit of the
Certificateholders the following documents or instruments with respect to each
Mortgage Loan so assigned:
(i) The original Mortgage Note, endorsed by manual or
facsimile signature in blank in the following form: "Pay to the order
of _______________ ______________without recourse," with all
intervening endorsements showing a complete chain of endorsement from
the originator to the Person endorsing the Mortgage Note (each
endorsement being sufficient to transfer all interest of the party so
endorsing, as noteholder or assignee thereof, in that Mortgage Note)
or a lost note affidavit for any Lost Mortgage Note from the Seller
stating that the original Mortgage Note was lost or destroyed,
together with a copy of the Mortgage Note.
(ii) except as provided below and for each Mortgage Loan
that is not a MERS Mortgage Loan, the original recorded Mortgage or a
copy of such Mortgage certified by the Seller as being a true and
complete copy of the Mortgage (or, in the case of a Mortgage for
which the related Mortgaged Property is located in the Commonwealth
of Puerto Rico, a true copy of the Mortgage certified as such by the
applicable notary) and in the case of each MERS Mortgage
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Loan, the original Mortgage, noting the presence of the MIN of the
Mortgage Loans and either language indicating that the Mortgage Loan
is a MOM Loan if the Mortgage Loan is a MOM Loan or if the Mortgage
Loan was not a MOM Loan at origination, the original Mortgage and the
assignment thereof to MERS, with evidence of recording indicated
thereon, or a copy of the Mortgage certified by the public recording
office in which such Mortgage has been recorded.
(iii) A duly executed assignment of the Mortgage (which may
be included in a blanket assignment or assignments), together with,
except as provided below, all interim recorded assignments of the
mortgage (each assignment, when duly and validly completed, to be in
recordable form and sufficient to effect the assignment of and
transfer to its assignee of the Mortgage to which the assignment
relates). If the related Mortgage has not been returned from the
applicable public recording office, the assignment of the Mortgage
may exclude the information to be provided by the recording office.
The assignment of Mortgage need not be delivered in the case of a
Mortgage for which the related Mortgage Property is located in the
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
(iv) The original or copies of each assumption,
modification, written assurance, or substitution agreement.
(v) Except as provided below, the original or duplicate
original lender's title policy and all its riders.
(vi) The originals of the following documents for each
Cooperative Loan:
(A) the Co-op Shares, together with a stock
power in blank;
(B) the executed Security Agreement;
(C) the executed Proprietary Lease;
(D) the executed Recognition Agreement;
(E) the executed UCC-1 financing statement
that has been filed in all places required
to perfect the Seller's interest in the
Co-op Shares and the Proprietary Lease
with evidence of recording on it; and
(F) executed UCC-3 financing statements or
other appropriate UCC financing statements
required by state law, evidencing a
complete and unbroken line from the
mortgagee to the Trustee with evidence of
recording thereon (or in a form suitable
for recordation). If in connection with
any Mortgage Loan the Depositor cannot
deliver
(a) the original recorded Mortgage,
(b) all interim recorded assignments, or
(c) the lender's title policy (together
with all its riders).
In addition, in connection with the assignment of any MERS Mortgage
Loan, the Seller agrees that it will cause, at the Seller's expense, the
MERS(R) System to indicate that the Mortgage Loans sold by the Seller to the
Depositor have been assigned by the Seller to the Trustee in accordance with
this
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Agreement for the benefit of the Certificateholders by including (or deleting,
in the case of Mortgage Loans that are repurchased in accordance with this
Agreement) in such computer files the information required by the MERS(R)
System to identify the series of the Certificates issued in connection with
such Mortgage Loans. The Seller further agrees that it will not, and will not
permit the Master Servicer to, and the Master Servicer agrees that it will
not, alter the information referenced in this paragraph with respect to any
Mortgage Loan sold by the Seller to the Depositor during the term of this
Agreement unless and until such Mortgage Loan is repurchased in accordance
with the terms of this Agreement.
In the event that in connection with any Mortgage Loan that is not a
MERS Mortgage Loan the Depositor cannot deliver (a) the original recorded
Mortgage, (b) all interim recorded assignments or (c) the lender's title
policy (together with all riders thereto) satisfying the requirements of
clause (ii), (iii) or (v) above, respectively, concurrently with the execution
and delivery of this Agreement because such document or documents have not
been returned from the applicable public recording office in the case of
clause (ii) or (iii) above, or because the title policy has not been delivered
to either the Master Servicer or the Depositor by the applicable title insurer
in the case of clause (v) above, then the Depositor shall promptly deliver to
the Trustee, in the case of clause (ii) or (iii) above, the original Mortgage
or the interim assignment, as the case may be, with evidence of recording
indicated on when it is received from the public recording office, or a copy
of it, certified, if appropriate, by the relevant recording office and in the
case of clause (v) above, the original or a copy of a written commitment or
interim binder or preliminary report of title issued by the title insurance or
escrow company, with the original or duplicate copy thereof to be delivered to
the Trustee upon receipt thereof. The delivery of the original Mortgage Loan
and each interim assignment or a copy of them, certified, if appropriate, by
the relevant recording office, shall not be made later than one year following
the Closing Date, or, in the case of clause (v) above, later than 120 days
following the Closing Date. If the Depositor is unable to deliver each
Mortgage by that date and each interim assignment because any documents have
not been returned by the appropriate recording office, or, in the case of each
interim assignment, because the related Mortgage has not been returned by the
appropriate recording office, the Depositor shall deliver the documents to the
Trustee as promptly as possible upon their receipt and, in any event, within
720 days following the Closing Date.
The Depositor shall forward to the Trustee (a) from time to time
additional original documents evidencing an assumption or modification of a
Mortgage Loan and (b) any other documents required to be delivered by the
Depositor or the Master Servicer to the Trustee. If the original Mortgage is
not delivered and in connection with the payment in full of the related
Mortgage Loan the public recording office requires the presentation of a "lost
instruments affidavit and indemnity" or any equivalent document, because only
a copy of the Mortgage can be delivered with the instrument of satisfaction or
reconveyance, the Master Servicer shall execute and deliver the required
document to the public recording office. If a public recording office retains
the original recorded Mortgage or if a Mortgage is lost after recordation in a
public recording office, the Seller shall deliver to the Trustee a copy of the
Mortgage certified by the public recording office to be a true and complete
copy of the original recorded Mortgage.
As promptly as practicable after any transfer of a Mortgage Loan
under this Agreement, and in any event within thirty days after the transfer,
the Trustee shall (i) affix the Trustee's name to each assignment of Mortgage,
as its assignee, and (ii) cause to be delivered for recording in the
appropriate public office for real property records the assignments of the
Mortgages to the Trustee, except that, if the Trustee has not received the
information required to deliver any assignment of a Mortgage for recording,
the Trustee shall deliver it as soon as practicable after receipt of the
needed information and in any event within thirty days.
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The Trustee need not record any assignment that relates to a Mortgage
Loan (a) the Mortgaged Property and Mortgage File relating to which are
located in California or (b) in any other jurisdiction (including Puerto Rico)
under the laws of which, as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel delivered by
the Seller (at the Seller's expense) to the Trustee, recording the assignment
is not necessary to protect the Trustee's and the Certificateholders' interest
in the related Mortgage Loan. The Seller shall deliver such Opinion of Counsel
within 90 days of the Closing Date.
If any Mortgage Loans have been prepaid in full as of the Closing
Date, the Depositor, in lieu of delivering the above documents to the Trustee,
will deposit in the Certificate Account the portion of the prepayment that is
required to be deposited in the Certificate Account pursuant to Section 3.06.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, within
five Business Days after the Closing Date, the Seller shall either
(x) deliver to the Trustee the Mortgage File as required
pursuant to this Section 2.01 for each Delay Delivery
Mortgage Loan or
(y) (A) repurchase the Delay Delivery Mortgage Loan or (B)
substitute the Substitute Mortgage Loan for a Delay Delivery
Mortgage Loan, which repurchase or substitution shall be
accomplished in the manner and subject to the conditions in
Section 2.03 (treating each such Delay Delivery Mortgage
Loan as a Deleted Mortgage Loan for purposes of such Section
2.03);
provided, however, that if the Seller fails to deliver a Mortgage File for any
Delay Delivery Mortgage Loan within the period specified herein, the Seller
shall use its best reasonable efforts to effect a substitution, rather than a
repurchase of, such Deleted Mortgage Loan and provided further that the cure
period provided for in Section 2.02 or in Section 2.03 shall not apply to the
initial delivery of the Mortgage File for such Delay Delivery Mortgage Loan,
but rather the Seller shall have five (5) Business Days to cure such failure
to deliver. At the end of such period, the Trustee shall send a Delay Delivery
Certification for the Delay Delivery Mortgage Loans delivered during such
period in accordance with the provisions of Section 2.02.
(d) The Seller agrees to treat the transfer of the Mortgage Loans to
the Depositor as a sale for all tax, accounting, and regulatory purposes.
Section 2.02 Acceptance by the Trustee of the Mortgage Loans.
The Trustee acknowledges receipt of the documents identified in the
Initial Certification in the form of Exhibit G-1, and declares that it holds
and will hold such documents and the other documents delivered to it
constituting the Mortgage Files for the Mortgage Loans, and that it holds or
will hold such other assets as are included in the Trust Fund, in trust for
the exclusive use and benefit of all present and future Certificateholders.
The Trustee acknowledges that it will maintain possession of the
related Mortgage Notes in the State of California, unless otherwise permitted
by the Rating Agencies. The Trustee agrees to execute and deliver on the
Closing Date to the Depositor, the Master Servicer and the Seller an Initial
Certification in the form of Exhibit G-1. Based on its review and examination,
and only as to the documents identified in such Initial Certification, the
Trustee acknowledges that such documents appear regular on their face and
relate to such Mortgage Loans. The Trustee shall be under no duty or
obligation to inspect, review or examine said documents, instruments,
certificates or other papers to determine that
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the same are genuine, enforceable or appropriate for the represented purpose
or that they have actually been recorded in the real estate records or that
they are other than what they purport to be on their face.
By the thirtieth day after the Closing Date (or if that day is not a
Business Day, the succeeding Business Day), the Trustee shall deliver to the
Depositor, the Master Servicer, and the Seller a Delay Delivery Certification
with respect to the Mortgage Loans substantially in the form of Exhibit G-3,
with any applicable exceptions noted thereon.
By the ninetieth day after the Closing Date (or if that day is not a
Business Day, the succeeding Business Day), the Trustee shall deliver to the
Depositor, the Master Servicer and the Seller a Final Certification with
respect to the Mortgage Loans in the form of Exhibit H-1, with any applicable
exceptions noted thereon.
If, in the course of its review, the Trustee finds any document
constituting a part of a Mortgage File that does not meet the requirements of
Section 2.01, the Trustee shall list such as an exception in the Final
Certification. The Trustee shall not make any determination as to whether (i)
any endorsement is sufficient to transfer all interest of the party so
endorsing, as noteholder or assignee thereof, in that Mortgage Note or (ii)
any assignment is in recordable form or is sufficient to effect the assignment
of and transfer to the assignee thereof under the mortgage to which the
assignment relates. The Seller shall promptly correct any defect that
materially and adversely affects the interests of the Certificateholders or
the Certificate Insurer within 90 days from the date it was so notified of the
defect and, if the Seller does not correct the defect within that period, the
Seller shall either (a) substitute for the related Mortgage Loan a Substitute
Mortgage Loan, which substitution shall be accomplished in the pursuant
Section 2.03, or (b) purchase the Mortgage Loan at its Purchase Price from the
Trustee within 90 days from the date the Seller was notified of the defect in
writing.
If a substitution or purchase of a Mortgage Loan pursuant to this
provision is required because of a delay in delivery of any documents by the
appropriate recording office, or there is a dispute between either the Master
Servicer or the Seller and the Trustee over the location or status of the
recorded document, then the substitution or purchase shall occur within 720
days from the Closing Date. In no other case may a substitution or purchase
occur more than 540 days from the Closing Date.
The Trustee shall deliver written notice to each Rating Agency within
270 days from the Closing Date indicating each Mortgage Loan (a) that has not
been returned by the appropriate recording office or (b) as to which there is
a dispute as to location or status of the Mortgage Loan. The notice shall be
delivered every 90 days thereafter until the related Mortgage Loan is returned
to the Trustee. Any substitution pursuant to (a) above or purchase pursuant to
(b) above shall not be effected before the delivery to the Trustee of the
Opinion of Counsel required by Section 2.05, and any substitution pursuant to
(a) above shall not be effected before the additional delivery to the Trustee
of a Request for Release substantially in the form of Exhibit N. No
substitution is permitted to be made in any calendar month after the
Determination Date for the month.
The Purchase Price for any Mortgage Loan shall be deposited by the
Seller in the Certificate Account by the Distribution Account Deposit Date for
the Distribution Date in the month following the month of repurchase and, upon
receipt of the deposit and certification with respect thereto in the form of
Exhibit O, the Trustee shall release the related Mortgage File to the Seller
and shall execute and deliver at the Seller's request any instruments of
transfer or assignment prepared by the Seller, in each case without recourse,
necessary to vest in the Seller, or a designee, the Trustee's interest in any
Mortgage Loan released pursuant hereto.
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If pursuant to the foregoing provisions the Seller repurchases a
Mortgage Loan that is a MERS Mortgage Loan, the Master Servicer shall either
(i) cause MERS to execute and deliver an assignment of the Mortgage in
recordable form to transfer the Mortgage from MERS to the Seller and shall
cause such Mortgage to be removed from registration on the MERS(R) System in
accordance with MERS' rules and regulations or (ii) cause MERS to designate on
the MERS(R) System the Seller as the beneficial holder of such Mortgage Loan.
The Trustee shall retain possession and custody of each Mortgage File
in accordance with and subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein.
The Master Servicer shall promptly deliver to the Trustee, upon the execution
or receipt thereof, the originals of any other documents or instruments
constituting the Mortgage File that come into the possession of the Master
Servicer from time to time.
The obligation of the Seller to substitute for or to purchase any
Mortgage Loan that does not meet the requirements of Section 2.01 shall
constitute the sole remedy respecting the defect available to the Trustee, the
Depositor, and any Certificateholder against the Seller.
Section 2.03 Representations, Warranties, and Covenants of the Seller
and the Master Servicer.
(a) IndyMac, in its capacities as Seller and Master Servicer, makes
the representations and warranties in Schedule II, and by this reference
incorporated in this Agreement, to the Depositor and the Trustee, as of the
Closing Date. Solely with respect to the Group 1 Mortgage Loans, the Master
Servicer will fully furnish, in accordance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act
and its implementing regulations, accurate and complete information (i.e.,
favorable and unfavorable) on its credit files for the related Mortgagor for
each Group 1 Mortgage Loan to Equifax, Experian and Trans Union Credit
Information Company on a monthly basis.
(b) The Seller, in its capacity as Seller, makes the representations
and warranties in Schedule III, and by this reference incorporated in this
Agreement, to the Depositor, the Certificate Insurer and the Trustee, as of
the Closing Date, or if so specified in Schedule III, as of the Cut-off Date.
(c) Upon discovery by any of the parties hereto of a breach of a
representation or warranty made pursuant to Section 2.03(b) that materially
and adversely affects the interests of the Certificateholders in any Mortgage
Loan, the party discovering such breach shall give prompt notice thereof to
the other parties. With respect to the Group 1 Mortgage Loans, any breach of
the representation or warranty made pursuant to clauses (28), (32), (34),
(38), (42), (48), (49) and (50) of Schedule III or a breach of the covenant of
the Master Servicer made pursuant to clause (a) above will be deemed to
materially and adversely affect the interests of the Certificateholder or the
Certificate Insurer in the related Group 1 Mortgage Loan. The Seller covenants
that within 90 days of the earlier of its discovery or its receipt of written
notice from any party of a breach of any representation or warranty made
pursuant to Section 2.03(b) which materially and adversely affects the
interests of the Certificateholders or the Certificate Insurer in any Mortgage
Loan, it shall cure such breach in all material respects, and if such breach
is not so cured, shall, (i) if the 90-day period expires before the second
anniversary of the Closing Date, remove the Mortgage Loan (a "Deleted Mortgage
Loan") from the Trust Fund and substitute in its place a Substitute Mortgage
Loan, in accordance with this Section 2.03; or (ii) repurchase the affected
Mortgage Loan or Mortgage Loans from the Trustee at the Purchase Price in the
manner set forth below. Any substitution pursuant to (i) above shall not be
effected before the delivery to the Trustee of the Opinion of Counsel required
by Section 2.05 and a Request for Release substantially in the form of Exhibit
N, and the Mortgage File for any Substitute Mortgage Loan. The Seller shall
promptly reimburse the Master Servicer and the Trustee for any expenses
reasonably incurred by the Master Servicer or the Trustee in respect of
enforcing the remedies for the breach.
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With respect to any Substitute Mortgage Loan or Loans, the Seller
shall deliver to the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders the
Mortgage Note, the Mortgage, the related assignment of the Mortgage, and such
other documents and agreements as are required by Section 2.01, with the
Mortgage Note endorsed and the Mortgage assigned as required by Section 2.01.
No substitution is permitted to be made in any calendar month after the
Determination Date for such month. Scheduled Payments due with respect to
Substitute Mortgage Loans in the month of substitution shall not be part of
the Trust Fund and will be retained by the Seller on the next succeeding
Distribution Date. For the month of substitution, distributions to
Certificateholders will include the monthly payment due on any Deleted
Mortgage Loan for such month and thereafter the Seller shall be entitled to
retain all amounts received in respect of such Deleted Mortgage Loan.
The Master Servicer shall amend the Mortgage Loan Schedule for the
benefit of the Certificateholders to reflect the removal of the Deleted
Mortgage Loan and the substitution of the Substitute Mortgage Loans and the
Master Servicer shall deliver the amended Mortgage Loan Schedule to the
Trustee. Upon the substitution, the Substitute Mortgage Loans shall be subject
to this Agreement in all respects, and the Seller shall be deemed to have made
with respect to the Substitute Mortgage Loans, as of the date of substitution,
the representations and warranties made pursuant to Section 2.03(b) with
respect to the Mortgage Loan. Upon any substitution and the deposit to the
Certificate Account of the amount required to be deposited therein in
connection with the substitution as described in the following paragraph, the
Trustee shall release the Mortgage File held for the benefit of the
Certificateholders relating to the Deleted Mortgage Loan to the Seller and
shall execute and deliver at the Seller's direction such instruments of
transfer or assignment prepared by the Seller, in each case without recourse,
as shall be necessary to vest title in the Seller, or its designee, the
Trustee's interest in any Deleted Mortgage Loan substituted for pursuant to
this Section 2.03.
For any month in which the Seller substitutes one or more Substitute
Mortgage Loans for one or more Deleted Mortgage Loans, the Master Servicer
will determine the amount (if any) by which the aggregate principal balance of
all such Substitute Mortgage Loans as of the date of substitution is less than
the aggregate Stated Principal Balance of all such Deleted Mortgage Loans
(after application of the scheduled principal portion of the monthly payments
due in the month of substitution). The amount of such shortage and interest
thereon (the "Substitution Adjustment Amount") plus, if the Seller is not the
Master Servicer, an amount equal to the aggregate of any unreimbursed Advances
and Servicer Advances with respect to such Deleted Mortgage Loans shall be
deposited into the Certificate Account by the Seller by the Distribution
Account Deposit Date for the Distribution Date in the month succeeding the
calendar month during which the related Mortgage Loan became required to be
purchased or replaced hereunder. If the Seller repurchases a Mortgage Loan,
the Purchase Price therefor shall be deposited in the Certificate Account
pursuant to Section 3.06 by the Distribution Account Deposit Date for the
Distribution Date in the month following the month during which the Seller
became obligated hereunder to repurchase or replace the Mortgage Loan and upon
such deposit of the Purchase Price and receipt of a Request for Release in the
form of Exhibit N, the Trustee shall release the related Mortgage File held
for the benefit of the Certificateholders to such Person, and the Trustee
shall execute and deliver at such Person's direction such instruments of
transfer or assignment prepared by such Person, in each case without recourse,
as shall be necessary to transfer title from the Trustee. The obligation under
this Agreement of any Person to cure, repurchase, or replace any Mortgage Loan
as to which a breach has occurred and is continuing shall constitute the sole
remedy against the Person respecting the breach available to
Certificateholders, the Depositor, or the Trustee on their behalf.
The representations and warranties made pursuant to this Section 2.03
shall survive delivery of the respective Mortgage Files to the Trustee for the
benefit of the Certificateholders and the Certificate Insurer.
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Section 2.04 Representations and Warranties of the Depositor as to
the Mortgage Loans.
The Depositor represents and warrants to the Trustee and the
Certificate Insurer with respect to each Mortgage Loan as of the date of this
Agreement or such other date set forth in this Agreement that as of the
Closing Date, and following the transfer of the Mortgage Loans to it by the
Seller, the Depositor had good title to the Mortgage Loans and the Mortgage
Notes were subject to no offsets, defenses, or counterclaims.
The representations and warranties in this Section 2.04 shall survive
delivery of the Mortgage Files to the Trustee. Upon discovery by the
Depositor, the Certificate Insurer or the Trustee of any breach of any of the
representations and warranties in this Section that materially and adversely
affects the interest of the Certificateholders or the Certificate Insurer, the
party discovering the breach shall give prompt written notice to the others
and to each Rating Agency.
Section 2.05 Delivery of Opinion of Counsel in Connection with
Substitutions.
(a) Notwithstanding any contrary provision of this Agreement, no
substitution pursuant to Section 2.02 or 2.03 shall be made more than 90 days
after the Closing Date unless the Seller delivers to the Trustee an Opinion of
Counsel, which Opinion of Counsel shall not be at the expense of either the
Trustee or the Trust Fund, addressed to the Trustee, to the effect that such
substitution will not (i) result in the imposition of the tax on "prohibited
transactions" on the Trust Fund or contributions after the Startup Date, as
defined in sections 860F(a)(2) and 860G(d) of the Code, respectively or (ii)
cause any REMIC created under this Agreement to fail to qualify as a REMIC at
any time that any Certificates are outstanding.
(b) Upon discovery by the Depositor, the Seller, the Master Servicer
or the Trustee that any Mortgage Loan does not constitute a "qualified
mortgage" within the meaning of section 860G(a)(3) of the Code, the party
discovering such fact shall promptly (and in any event within five Business
Days of discovery) give written notice thereof to the other parties. In
connection therewith, the Trustee shall require the Seller, at the Seller's
option, to either (i) substitute, if the conditions in Section 2.03(c) with
respect to substitutions are satisfied, a Substitute Mortgage Loan for the
affected Mortgage Loan, or (ii) repurchase the affected Mortgage Loan within
90 days of such discovery in the same manner as it would a Mortgage Loan for a
breach of representation or warranty made pursuant to Section 2.03. The
Trustee shall reconvey to the Seller the Mortgage Loan to be released pursuant
hereto in the same manner, and on the same terms and conditions, as it would a
Mortgage Loan repurchased for breach of a representation or warranty contained
in Section 2.03.
Section 2.06 Execution and Delivery of Certificates.
The Trustee acknowledges the transfer and assignment to it of the
Trust Fund and, concurrently with such transfer and assignment, has executed
and delivered to or upon the order of the Depositor, the Certificates in
authorized denominations evidencing directly or indirectly the entire
ownership of the Trust Fund. The Trustee agrees to hold the Trust Fund and
exercise the rights referred to above for the benefit of all present and
future Holders of the Certificates.
Section 2.07 REMIC Matters.
The Preliminary Statement sets forth the designations and "latest
possible maturity date" for federal income tax purposes of all interests
created under this Agreement. The "Startup Day" for purposes of the REMIC
Provisions shall be the Closing Date. Each REMIC's fiscal year shall be the
calendar year.
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ARTICLE Three
ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS
Section 3.01 Master Servicer to Service Mortgage Loans.
For and on behalf of the Certificateholders and the Certificate
Insurer, the Master Servicer shall service and administer the Mortgage Loans
in accordance with this Agreement and the Servicing Standard.
The Master Servicer shall not make or permit any modification,
waiver, or amendment of any term of any Mortgage Loan that would cause any
REMIC created under this Agreement to fail to qualify as a REMIC or result in
the imposition of any tax under section 860F(a) or section 860G(d) of the
Code.
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Master
Servicer, in its own name or in the name of the Depositor and the Trustee, is
hereby authorized and empowered by the Depositor and the Trustee, when the
Master Servicer believes it appropriate in its reasonable judgment, to execute
and deliver, on behalf of the Trustee, the Depositor, the Certificateholders,
or any of them, any instruments of satisfaction or cancellation, or of partial
or full release or discharge, and all other comparable instruments, with
respect to the Mortgage Loans, and with respect to the Mortgaged Properties
held for the benefit of the Certificateholders. The Master Servicer shall
prepare and deliver to the Depositor or the Trustee any documents requiring
execution and delivery by either or both of them appropriate to enable the
Master Servicer to service and administer the Mortgage Loans to the extent
that the Master Servicer is not permitted to execute and deliver such
documents pursuant to the preceding sentence. Upon receipt of the documents,
the Depositor or the Trustee shall execute the documents and deliver them to
the Master Servicer.
The Master Servicer further is authorized and empowered by the
Trustee, on behalf of the Certificateholders and the Trustee, in its own name
or in the name of the Subservicer, when the Master Servicer or the
Subservicer, as the case may be, believes it appropriate in its best judgment
to register any Mortgage Loan on the MERS(R) System, or cause the removal from
the registration of any Mortgage Loan on the MERS(R) System, to execute and
deliver, on behalf of the Trustee and the Certificateholders or any of them,
any and all instruments of assignment and other comparable instruments with
respect to such assignment or re-recording of a Mortgage in the name of MERS,
solely as nominee for the Trustee and its successors and assigns.
In accordance with and to the extent of the Servicing Standard, the
Master Servicer shall advance funds necessary to effect the payment of taxes
and assessments on the Mortgaged Properties, which advances shall be
reimbursable in the first instance from related collections from the
Mortgagors pursuant to Section 3.07, and further as provided in Section 3.09.
The costs incurred by the Master Servicer in effecting the timely payments of
taxes and assessments on the Mortgaged Properties and related insurance
premiums shall not, for the purpose of calculating monthly distributions to
the Certificateholders, be added to the Stated Principal Balances of the
related Mortgage Loans, notwithstanding that the Mortgage Loans so permit.
Section 3.02 Subservicing; Enforcement of the Obligations of
Subservicers.
(a) The Master Servicer may arrange for the subservicing of any
Mortgage Loan by a subservicer pursuant to a subservicing agreement (a
"Subservicer"). The subservicing arrangement and the related subservicing
agreement must provide for the servicing of the Mortgage Loans in a manner
consistent with the servicing arrangements contemplated hereunder. Unless the
context otherwise requires, references in
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this Agreement to actions taken or to be taken by the Master Servicer in
servicing the Mortgage Loans include actions taken or to be taken by a
Subservicer on behalf of the Master Servicer. Notwithstanding anything in any
subservicing agreement or this Agreement relating to agreements or
arrangements between the Master Servicer and a Subservicer or references to
actions taken through a Subservicer or otherwise, the Master Servicer shall
remain obligated and liable to the Trustee and Certificateholders for the
servicing and administration of the Mortgage Loans in accordance with this
Agreement without diminution of its obligation or liability by virtue of the
subservicing agreements or arrangements or by virtue of indemnification from
the Subservicer and to the same extent and under the same terms as if the
Master Servicer alone were servicing and administering the Mortgage Loans. All
actions of each Subservicer performed pursuant to the related subservicing
agreement shall be performed as agent of the Master Servicer with the same
effect as if performed directly by the Master Servicer.
(b) For purposes of this Agreement, the Master Servicer shall be
deemed to have received any collections, recoveries, or payments with respect
to the Mortgage Loans that are received by the Subservicer regardless of
whether the payments are remitted by the Subservicer to the Master Servicer.
Section 3.03 Rights of the Depositor, the Trustee and the Certificate
Insurer in Respect of the Master Servicer.
The Depositor may, but is not obligated to, enforce the obligations
of the Master Servicer under this Agreement and may, but is not obligated to,
perform, or cause a designee to perform, any defaulted obligation of the
Master Servicer under this Agreement and in connection with any such defaulted
obligation to exercise the related rights of the Master Servicer under this
Agreement; provided that the Master Servicer shall not be relieved of any of
its obligations under this Agreement by virtue of such performance by the
Depositor or its designee. None of the Trustee, the Depositor or the
Certificate Insurer shall have any responsibility or liability for any action
or failure to act by the Master Servicer nor shall the Trustee, the Depositor
or the Certificate Insurer be obligated to supervise the performance of the
Master Servicer under this Agreement or otherwise.
Section 3.04 No Contractual Relationship Between Subservicers and the
Trustee.
Any subservicing arrangement that may be entered into and any other
transactions or services relating to the Mortgage Loans involving a
Subservicer in its capacity as such and not as an originator shall be deemed
to be solely between the Subservicer and the Master Servicer alone, and the
Trustee and Certificateholders shall not be deemed parties thereto and shall
have no claims, rights, obligations, duties, or liabilities with respect to
the Subservicer in its capacity as such except as set forth in Section 3.05.
Section 3.05 Trustee to Act as Master Servicer.
If the Master Servicer for any reason is no longer the Master
Servicer under this Agreement (including because of the occurrence or
existence of an Event of Default), the Trustee or its successor shall assume
all of the rights and obligations of the Master Servicer under this Agreement
arising thereafter (except that the Trustee shall not be
(i) liable for losses of the Master Servicer pursuant to
Section 3.10 or any acts or omissions of the predecessor Master
Servicer hereunder,
(ii) obligated to make Advances if it is prohibited from
doing so by applicable law,
(iii) obligated to effectuate repurchases or substitutions
of Mortgage Loans hereunder, including repurchases or substitutions
pursuant to Section 2.02 or 2.03,
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(iv) responsible for expenses of the Master Servicer
pursuant to Section 2.03, or
(v) deemed to have made any representations and warranties
of the Master Servicer hereunder). Any assumption shall be subject to
Section 7.02.
Every subservicing agreement entered into by the Master Servicer
shall contain a provision giving the successor Master Servicer the option to
terminate the agreement if a successor Master Servicer is appointed.
If the Master Servicer is no longer the Master Servicer for any
reason (including because the occurrence or existence of any Event of
Default), the Trustee (or any other successor Master Servicer) may, at its
option, succeed to any rights and obligations of the Master Servicer under any
subservicing agreement in accordance with its terms. The Trustee (or any other
successor Master Servicer) shall not incur any liability or have any
obligations in its capacity as successor Master Servicer under a subservicing
agreement arising before the date of succession unless it expressly elects to
succeed to the rights and obligations of the Master Servicer thereunder; and
the Master Servicer shall not thereby be relieved of any liability or
obligations under the subservicing agreement arising before the date of
succession.
The Master Servicer shall, upon request of the Trustee, but at the
expense of the Master Servicer, deliver to the assuming party all documents
and records relating to each subservicing agreement and the Mortgage Loans
then being serviced thereunder and an accounting of amounts collected held by
it and otherwise use its best efforts to effect the orderly and efficient
transfer of the subservicing agreement to the assuming party.
Notwithstanding anything else in this Agreement to the contrary, in
no event shall the Trustee be liable for any servicing fee or for any
differential in the amount of the Servicing Fee paid under this Agreement and
the amount necessary to induce any successor Master Servicer to act as
successor Master Servicer under this Agreement and the transactions provided
for in this Agreement.
Section 3.06 Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Servicing
Accounts; Collection Account; Certificate Account; Distribution Account; Yield
Maintenance Reserve Fund.
(a) In accordance with and to the extent of the Servicing Standard,
the Master Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with the
customary and usual standards of practice of prudent mortgage servicers to
collect all payments called for under the Mortgage Loans to the extent the
procedures are consistent with this Agreement and any related Required
Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing, the Master Servicer may in
its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, subject to Section 3.21,
any Prepayment Charge in connection with the prepayment of a Mortgage Loan and
(ii) extend the due dates for payments due on a Delinquent Mortgage Loan for a
period not greater than 125 days. In connection with a seriously delinquent or
defaulted Mortgage Loan, the Master Servicer may, consistent with the
Servicing Standard, waive, modify or vary any term of that Mortgage Loan
(including modifications that change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of
principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of that Mortgage Loan
), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated
Principal Balance in final satisfaction of that Mortgage Loan, or consent to
the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant
indulgence to any Mortgagor if in the Master Servicer's determination such
waiver, modification, postponement or indulgence is not materially adverse to
the interests of the Certificateholders (taking into account any estimated
loss that might result absent such action) and is expected to minimize the
loss on such Mortgage Loan; provided, however, the Master Servicer shall not
initiate new lending to such Mortgagor through the Trust and cannot, except as
provided in the immediately succeeding sentence, extend the maturity of any
Mortgage
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Loan past the date on which the final payment is due on the latest maturing
Mortgage Loan as of the Cut-off Date. With respect to no more than 5% of the
Mortgage Loans (measured by aggregate Cut-off Date Principal Balance of the
Mortgage Loans), the Master Servicer may extend the maturity of a Mortgage
Loan past the date on which the final payment is due on the latest maturing
Mortgage Loan as of the Cut-off Date, but in no event more than one year past
such date. In the event of any such arrangement, the Master Servicer shall
make Advances on the related Mortgage Loan in accordance with Section 4.01
during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of
the Mortgage Loan without modification thereof because of the arrangements.
The Master Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation
with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage
Note, or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with
respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing
the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which the
payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. The Master Servicer shall
not have the discretion to sell any Delinquent or defaulted Mortgage Loan.
(b) The Master Servicer shall establish and maintain (or, if a
Mortgage Loan is subserviced by another Person, cause the related Subservicer
to establish and maintain) one or more Servicing Accounts (the "Servicing
Account") into which the Master Servicer shall deposit on a daily basis within
one Business Day of receipt, the following payments and collections received
by it or remitted by any Subservicer in respect of Mortgage Loans after the
Cut-off Date (other than in respect of principal and interest due on the
Mortgage Loans by the Cut-off Date):
(i) all payments on account of principal on the Mortgage
Loans, including Principal Prepayments;
(ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage
Loans, net of the related Servicing Fee; and
(iii) all Insurance Proceeds, Subsequent Recoveries and
Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the
restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property or released to the
Mortgagor in accordance with the Master Servicer's normal servicing
procedures.
By the Withdrawal Date in each calendar month, the Master Servicer
shall (a) withdraw from the Servicing Account all amounts on deposit therein
pursuant to clauses (i) and (ii) above (other than amounts attributable to a
Principal Prepayment in Full) and (b) deposit such amounts in the Collection
Account.
By the Business Day in each calendar month following the deposit in
the Servicing Account of amounts on deposit therein pursuant to clause (iii)
above or pursuant to any Principal Prepayment in Full, the Master Servicer
shall (a) withdraw such amounts from the Servicing Account and (b) deposit
such amounts in the Collection Account.
(c) The Master Servicer shall establish and maintain a Collection
Account (the "Collection Account") into which the Master Servicer shall
deposit, as and when required by paragraph (b) of this Section 3.06, all
amounts required to be deposited into the Collection Account pursuant to that
paragraph. The Collection Account shall be an Eligible Account held for the
benefit of the Certificateholders.
(d) The Master Servicer shall establish and maintain a Certificate
Account into which the Master Servicer shall deposit on a daily basis (i)
within one Business Day of deposit in the Collection Account (in the case of
items (i) through (iii) below) and (2) within one Business Day of receipt (in
the case of all other items), except as otherwise specified herein, the
following payments and collections received by it or remitted by any
Subservicer in respect of Mortgage Loans after the Cut-off Date (other than in
respect
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of principal and interest due on the Mortgage Loans by the Cut-off Date) and
the following amounts required to be deposited hereunder:
(i) all payments on account of principal on the Mortgage
Loans, including Principal Prepayments;
(ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage
Loans, net of the Servicing Fee;
(iii) all Insurance Proceeds, Subsequent Recoveries and
Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the
restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property or released to the
Mortgagor in accordance with the Master Servicer's normal servicing
procedures;
(iv) any amount required to be deposited by the Master
Servicer pursuant to Section 3.06(f) in connection with any losses on
Permitted Investments;
(v) any amounts required to be deposited by the Master
Servicer pursuant to Sections 3.10 and 3.12;
(vi) all Purchase Prices from the Master Servicer or Seller
and all Substitution Adjustment Amounts;
(vii) all Advances made by the Master Servicer pursuant to
Section 4.01;
(viii) any other amounts required to be deposited under this
Agreement; and
(ix) all Prepayment Charges collected.
In addition, with respect to any Mortgage Loan that is subject to a
buydown agreement, on each Due Date for the Mortgage Loan, in addition to the
monthly payment remitted by the Mortgagor, the Master Servicer shall cause
funds to be deposited into the Certificate Account in an amount required to
cause an amount of interest to be paid with respect to the Mortgage Loan equal
to the amount of interest that has accrued on the Mortgage Loan from the
preceding Due Date at the Mortgage Rate net of the Servicing Fee Rate on that
date.
The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Master Servicer
shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the
generality of the foregoing, payments in the nature of late payment charges or
assumption fees, if collected, need not be remitted by the Master Servicer. If
the Master Servicer remits any amount not required to be remitted, it may at
any time withdraw that amount from the Certificate Account, any provision in
this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding. The withdrawal or direction
may be accomplished by delivering written notice of it to the Trustee or any
other institution maintaining the Certificate Account that describes the
amounts deposited in error in the Certificate Account. The Master Servicer
shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant
to this Section 3.06. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be
held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with
Section 3.09.
(e) The Trustee shall establish and maintain the Distribution Account
on behalf of the Certificateholders. The Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt,
deposit in the Distribution Account and retain in the Distribution Account the
following:
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(i) the aggregate amount remitted by the Master Servicer to
the Trustee pursuant to Section 3.09(a);
(ii) any amount deposited by the Master Servicer pursuant to
Section 3.06(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted
Investments; and
(iii) any other amounts deposited under this Agreement that
are required to be deposited in the Distribution Account.
If the Master Servicer remits any amount not required to be remitted,
it may at any time direct the Trustee in writing to withdraw that amount from
the Distribution Account, any provision in this Agreement to the contrary
notwithstanding. The direction may be accomplished by delivering an Officer's
Certificate to the Trustee that describes the amounts deposited in error in
the Distribution Account. All funds deposited in the Distribution Account
shall be held by the Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until
disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with
Section 3.09. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals
from the Distribution Account at the direction of the Master Servicer.
(f) Each institution at which the Certificate Account is maintained
shall invest the funds in such account as directed in writing by the Master
Servicer in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than the
second Business Day preceding the related Distribution Account Deposit Date
(except that if the Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution
that maintains the account, then the Permitted Investment shall mature not
later than the Business Day preceding the Distribution Account Deposit Date)
and which shall not be sold or disposed of before its maturity. The funds in
the Distribution Account shall remain uninvested. All such Permitted
Investments shall be made in the name of the Trustee, for the benefit of the
Certificateholders. All income realized from any such investment of funds on
deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of the Master
Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it monthly as
provided in this Agreement. The amount of any realized losses on Permitted
Investments in the Certificate Account shall promptly be deposited by the
Master Servicer in the Certificate Account. The Trustee shall not be liable
for the amount of any loss incurred in respect of any investment or lack of
investment of funds held in the Certificate Account and made in accordance
with this Section 3.06.
(g) (i) On the Closing Date, the Trustee shall establish and maintain
two Yield Maintenance Reserve Funds in its name, in trust for the benefit of
(x) the Holders of the Group 1 Senior Floating Rate Certificates and (y) the
Holders of the Group 2 Senior LIBOR Certificates. Each Yield Maintenance
Reserve Fund shall be an Eligible Account, and funds on deposit in the account
shall be held separate and apart from, and shall not be commingled with, any
other moneys, including without limitation, other moneys held by the Trustee
pursuant to this Agreement.
(ii) The Trustee shall deposit in the applicable Yield
Maintenance Reserve Fund all amounts received from the Cap Counterparty on any
Distribution Date pursuant to the related Yield Maintenance Agreement. If the
Trustee shall also deposit into a Yield Maintenance Reserve Fund any amount
not required to be deposited in that account, it may at any time withdraw such
amount from that Yield Maintenance Reserve Fund, any provision in this
Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding. Funds in each Yield Maintenance
Reserve Fund shall be held uninvested. The Seller shall be the owner of each
Yield Maintenance Reserve Fund for federal tax purposes. The Trustee shall
have no liability for losses on investments in Permitted Investments made
pursuant to this Section (other than as an obligor on such investments). The
Trustee shall account for each Yield Maintenance Reserve Fund as an outside
reserve fund within the meaning of Treasury regulation 1.860G-2(h) and not an
asset of any REMIC created pursuant to this Agreement.
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(iii) Amounts on deposit in each Yield Maintenance Reserve
Fund shall be withdrawn by the Trustee in connection with any Distribution
Date on which there exists a Carryover Shortfall Amount for the related
Classes of Certificates to pay the amount of such Carryover Shortfall Amount
(to the extent of funds on deposit in the related Yield Maintenance Reserve
Fund) to the related Classes of Certificates, pro rata, based on their
respective Class Certificate Balances immediately prior to that Distribution
Date. On any Distribution Date, any amounts on deposit in a Yield Maintenance
Reserve Fund in excess of the related Carryover Shortfall Amount shall be paid
to the Holders of the related Class of Senior Notional Amount Certificates.
(iv) The Trustee shall prepare and deliver any notices
required to be delivered under each Yield Maintenance Agreement. The Trustee
shall act as calculation agent and/or shall terminate each Yield Maintenance
Agreements, in each case upon the occurrence of certain events of default or
termination events to the extent specified thereunder. Any amounts received by
the Trustee for the benefit of the Trust Fund in respect of termination of a
Yield Maintenance Agreement shall be deposited and held in the related Yield
Maintenance Reserve Fund and applied on future Distribution Dates to pay any
related Carryover Shortfall Amounts on the related Classes of Certificates.
(h) The Master Servicer shall give notice to the Trustee, the Seller,
each Rating Agency and the Depositor of any proposed change of the location of
the Certificate Account not later than 30 days and not more than 45 days prior
to any change of this Agreement. The Trustee shall give notice to the Master
Servicer, the Seller, each Rating Agency and the Depositor of any proposed
change of the location of the Distribution Account not later than 30 days and
not more than 45 days prior to any change of this Agreement.
Section 3.07 Collection of Taxes, Assessments and Similar Items;
Escrow Accounts.
(a) To the extent required by the related Mortgage Note and not
violative of current law, the Master Servicer shall establish and maintain one
or more accounts (each, an "Escrow Account") and deposit and retain therein
all collections from the Mortgagors (or advances) for the payment of taxes,
assessments, hazard insurance premiums or comparable items for the account of
the Mortgagors. Nothing herein shall require the Master Servicer to compel a
Mortgagor to establish an Escrow Account in violation of applicable law.
(b) Withdrawals of amounts so collected from the Escrow Accounts may
be made only to effect timely payment of taxes, assessments, hazard insurance
premiums, condominium or PUD association dues, or comparable items, to
reimburse (without duplication) the Master Servicer out of related collections
for any payments made pursuant to Section 3.01 (with respect to taxes and
assessments and insurance premiums) and Section 3.10 (with respect to hazard
insurance), to refund to any Mortgagors any sums determined to be overages, to
pay interest, if required by law or the related Mortgage or Mortgage Note, to
Mortgagors on balances in the Escrow Account or to clear and terminate the
Escrow Account at the termination of this Agreement in accordance with Section
9.01. The Escrow Accounts shall not be a part of the Trust Fund.
(c) The Master Servicer shall advance any payments referred to in
Section 3.07(a) that are not timely paid by the Mortgagors or advanced by the
Master Servicer on the date when the tax, premium or other cost for which such
payment is intended is due, but the Master Servicer shall be required so to
advance only to the extent that such advances, in the good faith judgment of
the Master Servicer, will be recoverable by the Master Servicer out of
Insurance Proceeds, Liquidation Proceeds or otherwise.
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Section 3.08 Access to Certain Documentation and Information
Regarding the Mortgage Loans.
The Master Servicer shall afford the Depositor, the Certificate
Insurer and the Trustee reasonable access to all records and documentation
regarding the Mortgage Loans and all accounts, insurance information and other
matters relating to this Agreement, such access being afforded without charge,
but only upon reasonable request and during normal business hours at the
office designated by the Master Servicer.
Upon reasonable advance notice in writing, the Master Servicer will
provide to each Certificateholder or Certificate Owner that is a savings and
loan association, bank, or insurance company certain reports and reasonable
access to information and documentation regarding the Mortgage Loans
sufficient to permit the Certificateholder or Certificate Owner to comply with
applicable regulations of the OTS or other regulatory authorities with respect
to investment in the Certificates. The Master Servicer shall be entitled to be
reimbursed by each such Certificateholder or Certificate Owner for actual
expenses incurred by the Master Servicer in providing the reports and access.
Section 3.09 Permitted Withdrawals from the Certificate Account, the
Distribution Account and the Yield Maintenance Reserve Funds.
(a) The Master Servicer may (and, in the case of clause (ix) below,
shall) from time to time make withdrawals from the Certificate Account for the
following purposes:
(i) to pay to the Master Servicer or the related subservicer
(to the extent not previously retained) the servicing compensation to
which it is entitled pursuant to Section 3.15, and to pay to the
Master Servicer, as additional master servicing compensation,
earnings on or investment income with respect to funds in or credited
to the Certificate Account;
(ii) to reimburse the Master Servicer or successor Master
Servicer for the unreimbursed Advances made by it, such right of
reimbursement pursuant to this subclause (ii) being limited to
amounts received on the Mortgage Loans in respect of which the
Advance was made;
(iii) to reimburse the Master Servicer or successor Master
Servicer for any Nonrecoverable Advance previously made by it;
(iv) to reimburse the Master Servicer for Insured Expenses
from the related Insurance Proceeds;
(v) to reimburse the Master Servicer for (a) unreimbursed
Servicing Advances, the Master Servicer's right to reimbursement
pursuant to this clause (a) with respect to any Mortgage Loan being
limited to amounts received on the Mortgage Loans that represent late
recoveries of the payments for which the advances were made pursuant
to Section 3.01 or Section 3.07 and (b) for unpaid Servicing Fees as
provided in Section 3.12;
(vi) to pay to the purchaser, with respect to each Mortgage
Loan or property acquired in respect of such Mortgage Loan that has
been purchased pursuant to Section 2.02, 2.03, or 3.12, all amounts
received thereon after the date of such purchase;
(vii) to reimburse the Seller, the Master Servicer, or the
Depositor for expenses incurred by any of them and reimbursable
pursuant to Section 6.03;
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(viii) to withdraw any amount deposited in the Certificate
Account and not required to be deposited in the Certificate Account;
(ix) by the Distribution Account Deposit Date, to withdraw
(1) the Available Funds and the Trustee Fee for the Distribution
Date, to the extent on deposit, and (2) the Prepayment Charges on
deposit, and remit such amount to the Trustee for deposit in the
Distribution Account; and
(x) to clear and terminate the Certificate Account upon
termination of this Agreement pursuant to Section 9.01.
The Master Servicer shall keep and maintain separate accounting, on a
Mortgage Loan by Mortgage Loan basis, to justify any withdrawal from the
Certificate Account pursuant to subclauses (i), (ii), (iv), (v) and (vi).
Before making any withdrawal from the Certificate Account pursuant to
subclause (iii), the Master Servicer shall deliver to the Trustee an Officer's
Certificate of a Servicing Officer indicating the amount of any previous
Advance determined by the Master Servicer to be a Nonrecoverable Advance and
identifying the related Mortgage Loans and their respective portions of the
Nonrecoverable Advance.
(b) The Trustee shall withdraw funds from the Distribution Account
for distributions to Certificateholders and the Certificate Insurer in the
manner specified in this Agreement (and to withhold from the amounts so
withdrawn the amount of any taxes that it is authorized to withhold pursuant
to the last paragraph of Section 8.11). In addition, the Trustee may from time
to time make withdrawals from the Distribution Account for the following
purposes:
(i) to pay to itself the Trustee Fee for the related
Distribution Date;
(ii) to withdraw and return to the Master Servicer any
amount deposited in the Distribution Account and not required to be
deposited therein; and
(iii) to clear and terminate the Distribution Account upon
termination of the Agreement pursuant to Section 9.01.
(c) On each Distribution Date, the Trustee shall make withdrawals
from each Yield Maintenance Reserve Fund for deposit in the Distribution
Account of the amounts required pursuant to Section 3.06(g). On the earliest
of (i) the termination of this Agreement pursuant to Section 9.01, (ii) the
Distribution Date on which the aggregate Class Certificate Balance of the
related Classes of Certificates is reduced to zero, and (iii) the latest Yield
Maintenance Agreement termination date, any amount remaining on deposit in
each Yield Maintenance Reserve Fund after giving effect to the requirements of
the preceding sentence shall be withdrawn by the Trustee and paid to the
Holders of the related Class of Senior Notional Amount Certificates.
Section 3.10 Maintenance of Hazard Insurance; Maintenance of Primary
Insurance Policies.
(a) The Master Servicer shall maintain, for each Mortgage Loan,
hazard insurance with extended coverage in an amount that is at least equal to
the lesser of
(i) the maximum insurable value of the improvements securing the
Mortgage Loan and
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(ii) the greater of (y) the outstanding principal balance of the
Mortgage Loan and (z) an amount such that the proceeds of the policy are
sufficient to prevent the Mortgagor or the mortgagee from becoming a
co-insurer.
Each policy of standard hazard insurance shall contain, or have an
accompanying endorsement that contains, a standard mortgagee clause. Any
amounts collected under the policies (other than the amounts to be applied to
the restoration or repair of the related Mortgaged Property or amounts
released to the Mortgagor in accordance with the Master Servicer's normal
servicing procedures) shall be deposited in the Certificate Account. Any cost
incurred in maintaining any insurance shall not, for the purpose of
calculating monthly distributions to the Certificateholders or remittances to
the Trustee for their benefit, be added to the principal balance of the
Mortgage Loan, notwithstanding that the Mortgage Loan so permits. Such costs
shall be recoverable by the Master Servicer out of late payments by the
related Mortgagor or out of Liquidation Proceeds to the extent permitted by
Section 3.09. No earthquake or other additional insurance is to be required of
any Mortgagor or maintained on property acquired in respect of a Mortgage
other than pursuant to any applicable laws and regulations in force that
require additional insurance. If the Mortgaged Property is located at the time
of origination of the Mortgage Loan in a federally designated special flood
hazard area and the area is participating in the national flood insurance
program, the Master Servicer shall maintain flood insurance for the Mortgage
Loan. The flood insurance shall be in an amount equal to the least of (i) the
original principal balance of the related Mortgage Loan, (ii) the replacement
value of the improvements that are part of the Mortgaged Property, and (iii)
the maximum amount of flood insurance available for the related Mortgaged
Property under the national flood insurance program.
If the Master Servicer obtains and maintains a blanket policy
insuring against hazard losses on all of the Mortgage Loans, it shall have
satisfied its obligations in the first sentence of this Section 3.10. The
policy may contain a deductible clause on terms substantially equivalent to
those commercially available and maintained by comparable servicers. If the
policy contains a deductible clause and a policy complying with the first
sentence of this Section 3.10 has not been maintained on the related Mortgaged
Property, and if a loss that would have been covered by the required policy
occurs, the Master Servicer shall deposit in the Certificate Account, without
any right of reimbursement, the amount not otherwise payable under the blanket
policy because of the deductible clause. In connection with its activities as
Master Servicer of the Mortgage Loans, the Master Servicer agrees to present,
on behalf of itself, the Depositor, and the Trustee for the benefit of the
Certificateholders, claims under any blanket policy.
(b) The Master Servicer shall not take any action that would result
in non-coverage under any applicable Primary Insurance Policy of any loss
that, but for the actions of the Master Servicer, would have been covered
thereunder. The Master Servicer shall not cancel or refuse to renew any
Primary Insurance Policy that is in effect at the date of the initial issuance
of the Certificates and is required to be kept in force hereunder unless the
replacement Primary Insurance Policy for the canceled or non-renewed policy is
maintained with a Qualified Insurer. The Master Servicer need not maintain any
Primary Insurance Policy if maintaining the Primary Insurance Policy is
prohibited by applicable law. The Master Servicer agrees, to the extent
permitted by applicable law, to effect the timely payment of the premiums on
each Primary Insurance Policy, and any costs not otherwise recoverable shall
be recoverable by the Master Servicer from the related liquidation proceeds.
In connection with its activities as Master Servicer of the Mortgage
Loans, the Master Servicer agrees to present, on behalf of itself, the Trustee
and the Certificateholders, claims to the insurer under any Primary Insurance
Policies and, in this regard, to take any reasonable action in accordance with
the Servicing Standard necessary to permit recovery under any Primary
Insurance Policies respecting defaulted Mortgage Loans. Any amounts collected
by the Master Servicer under any Primary Insurance Policies shall be deposited
in the Certificate Account or the Collection Account (as applicable).
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Section 3.11 Enforcement of Due-On-Sale Clauses; Assumption
Agreements.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this Section 3.11, when any
property subject to a Mortgage has been conveyed by the Mortgagor, the Master
Servicer shall to the extent that it has knowledge of the conveyance and in
accordance with the Servicing Standard, enforce any due-on-sale clause
contained in any Mortgage Note or Mortgage, to the extent permitted under
applicable law and governmental regulations, but only to the extent that
enforcement will not adversely affect or jeopardize coverage under any
Required Insurance Policy. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Master Servicer
is not required to exercise these rights with respect to a Mortgage Loan if
the Person to whom the related Mortgaged Property has been conveyed or is
proposed to be conveyed satisfies the conditions contained in the Mortgage
Note and Mortgage related thereto and the consent of the mortgagee under the
Mortgage Note or Mortgage is not otherwise so required under the Mortgage Note
or Mortgage as a condition to the transfer.
If (i) the Master Servicer is prohibited by law from enforcing any
due-on-sale clause, (ii) coverage under any Required Insurance Policy would be
adversely affected, (iii) the Mortgage Note does not include a due-on-sale
clause, or (iv) nonenforcement is otherwise permitted hereunder, the Master
Servicer is authorized, subject to Section 3.11(b), to take or enter into an
assumption and modification agreement from or with the person to whom the
property has been or is about to be conveyed, pursuant to which the person
becomes liable under the Mortgage Note and, unless prohibited by applicable
state law, the Mortgagor remains liable thereon. The Mortgage Loan must
continue to be covered (if so covered before the Master Servicer enters into
the agreement) by the applicable Required Insurance Policies.
The Master Servicer, subject to Section 3.11(b), is also authorized
with the prior approval of the insurers under any Required Insurance Policies
to enter into a substitution of liability agreement with the Person, pursuant
to which the original Mortgagor is released from liability and the Person is
substituted as Mortgagor and becomes liable under the Mortgage Note.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Master Servicer shall not be deemed to be
in default under this Section 3.11 because of any transfer or assumption that
the Master Servicer reasonably believes it is restricted by law from
preventing, for any reason whatsoever.
(b) Subject to the Master Servicer's duty to enforce any due-on-sale
clause to the extent set forth in Section 3.11(a), in any case in which a
Mortgaged Property has been conveyed to a Person by a Mortgagor, and the
Person is to enter into an assumption agreement or modification agreement or
supplement to the Mortgage Note or Mortgage that requires the signature of the
Trustee, or if an instrument of release signed by the Trustee is required
releasing the Mortgagor from liability on the Mortgage Loan, the Master
Servicer shall prepare and deliver to the Trustee for signature and shall
direct the Trustee, in writing, to execute the assumption agreement with the
Person to whom the Mortgaged Property is to be conveyed, and the modification
agreement or supplement to the Mortgage Note or Mortgage or other instruments
appropriate to carry out the terms of the Mortgage Note or Mortgage or
otherwise to comply with any applicable laws regarding assumptions or the
transfer of the Mortgaged Property to the Person. In connection with any such
assumption, no material term of the Mortgage Note may be changed.
In addition, the substitute Mortgagor and the Mortgaged Property must
be acceptable to the Master Servicer in accordance with its underwriting
standards as then in effect. Together with each substitution, assumption, or
other agreement or instrument delivered to the Trustee for execution by it,
the Master Servicer shall deliver an Officer's Certificate signed by a
Servicing Officer stating that the requirements of this subsection have been
met in connection with such Officer's Certificate. The Master Servicer shall
notify the Trustee that any substitution or assumption agreement has been
completed by forwarding to the Trustee the original of the substitution or
assumption agreement, which in the case of
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the original shall be added to the related Mortgage File and shall, for all
purposes, be considered a part of the Mortgage File to the same extent as all
other documents and instruments constituting a part of the Mortgage File. The
Master Servicer will retain any fee collected by it for entering into an
assumption or substitution of liability agreement as additional master
servicing compensation.
Section 3.12 Realization Upon Defaulted Mortgage Loans.
The Master Servicer shall use reasonable efforts in accordance with
the Servicing Standard to foreclose on or otherwise comparably convert the
ownership of assets securing such of the Mortgage Loans as come into and
continue in default and as to which no satisfactory arrangements can be made
for collection of delinquent payments. In connection with the foreclosure or
other conversion, the Master Servicer shall follow the Servicing Standard and
shall follow the requirements of the insurer under any Required Insurance
Policy. The Master Servicer shall not be required to expend its own funds in
connection with any foreclosure or towards the restoration of any property
unless it determines (i) that the restoration or foreclosure will increase the
proceeds of liquidation of the Mortgage Loan after reimbursement to itself of
restoration expenses and (ii) that restoration expenses will be recoverable to
it through Liquidation Proceeds (respecting which it shall have priority for
purposes of withdrawals from the Certificate Account). The Master Servicer
shall be responsible for all other costs and expenses incurred by it in any
foreclosure proceedings. The Master Servicer is entitled to reimbursement of
such costs and expenses from the liquidation proceeds with respect to the
related Mortgaged Property, as provided in the definition of Liquidation
Proceeds. If the Master Servicer has knowledge that a Mortgaged Property that
the Master Servicer is contemplating acquiring in foreclosure or by deed in
lieu of foreclosure is located within a one mile radius of any site listed in
the Expenditure Plan for the Hazardous Substance Clean Up Bond Act of 1984 or
other site with environmental or hazardous waste risks known to the Master
Servicer, the Master Servicer will, before acquiring the Mortgaged Property,
consider the risks and only take action in accordance with its established
environmental review procedures.
With respect to any REO Property, the deed or certificate of sale
shall be taken in the name of the Trustee for the benefit of the
Certificateholders, or its nominee, on behalf of the Certificateholders. The
Trustee's name shall be placed on the title to the REO Property solely as the
Trustee hereunder and not in its individual capacity. The Master Servicer
shall ensure that the title to the REO Property references the Pooling and
Servicing Agreement and the Trustee's capacity hereunder. Pursuant to its
efforts to sell the REO Property, the Master Servicer shall either itself or
through an agent selected by the Master Servicer protect and conserve the REO
Property in accordance with the Servicing Standard.
The Master Servicer shall perform the tax reporting and withholding
required by sections 1445 and 6050J of the Code with respect to foreclosures
and abandonments, the tax reporting required by section 6050H of the Code with
respect to the receipt of mortgage interest from individuals and, if required
by section 6050P of the Code with respect to the cancellation of indebtedness
by certain financial entities, by preparing any required tax and information
returns, in the form required.
If the Trust Fund acquires any Mortgaged Property as aforesaid or
otherwise in connection with a default or imminent default on a Mortgage Loan,
the REO Property shall only be held temporarily, shall be actively marketed
for sale, and the Master Servicer shall dispose of the Mortgaged Property as
soon as practicable, and in any case before the end of the third calendar year
following the calendar year in which the Trust Fund acquires the property.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, no Mortgaged Property
acquired by the Trust Fund shall be rented (or allowed to continue to be
rented) or otherwise used for the production of income by or on behalf of the
Trust Fund.
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The decision of the Master Servicer to foreclose on a defaulted
Mortgage Loan shall be subject to a determination by the Master Servicer that
the proceeds of the foreclosure would exceed the costs and expenses of
bringing a foreclosure proceeding. The proceeds received from the maintenance
of any REO Properties, net of reimbursement to the Master Servicer for costs
incurred (including any property or other taxes) in connection with
maintenance of the REO Properties and net of unreimbursed Servicing Fees,
Advances, and Servicing Advances, shall be applied to the payment of principal
of and interest on the related defaulted Mortgage Loans (with interest
accruing as though the Mortgage Loans were still current and adjustments, if
applicable, to the Mortgage Rate were being made in accordance with the
Mortgage Note) and all such proceeds shall be deemed, for all purposes in this
Agreement, to be payments on account of principal and interest on the related
Mortgage Notes and shall be deposited into the Certificate Account. To the
extent the net proceeds received during any calendar month exceeds the amount
attributable to amortizing principal and accrued interest at the related
Mortgage Rate on the related Mortgage Loan for the calendar month, the excess
shall be considered to be a partial prepayment of principal of the related
Mortgage Loan.
The proceeds from any liquidation of a Mortgage Loan, as well as any
proceeds from an REO Property, will be applied in the following order of
priority: first, to reimburse the Master Servicer for any related unreimbursed
Servicing Advances or Servicing Fees or for any related unreimbursed Advances,
as applicable; second, to reimburse the Master Servicer, as applicable, and to
reimburse the Certificate Account for any Nonrecoverable Advances (or portions
thereof) that were previously withdrawn by the Master Servicer pursuant to
Section 3.09(a)(iii) that related to the Mortgage Loan; third, to accrued and
unpaid interest (to the extent no Advance has been made for such amount or any
such Advance has been reimbursed) on the Mortgage Loan or related REO
Property, at the Adjusted Net Mortgage Rate to the Due Date occurring in the
month in which such amounts are required to be distributed; and fourth, as a
recovery of principal of the Mortgage Loan. The Master Servicer will retain
any Excess Proceeds from the liquidation of a Liquidated Mortgage Loan as
additional servicing compensation pursuant to Section 3.15.
The Master Servicer may agree to a modification of any Mortgage Loan
at the request of the related Mortgagor if (i) the modification is in lieu of
a refinancing and the Mortgage Rate on the Mortgage Loan, as modified, is
approximately a prevailing market rate for newly-originated Mortgage Loans
having similar terms and (ii) the Master Servicer purchases that Mortgage Loan
from the Trust Fund as described below. Upon the agreement of the Master
Servicer to modify a Mortgage Loan in accordance with the preceding sentence,
the Master Servicer shall purchase that Mortgage Loan and all interest of the
Trustee in that Mortgage Loan shall automatically be deemed transferred and
assigned to the Master Servicer and all benefits and burdens of ownership
thereof, including the right to accrued interest thereon from the date of
purchase and the risk of default thereon, shall pass to the Master Servicer.
The Master Servicer shall promptly deliver to the Trustee a certification of a
Servicing Officer to the effect that all requirements of this paragraph have
been satisfied with respect to a Mortgage Loan to be repurchased pursuant to
this paragraph.
The Master Servicer shall deposit the Purchase Price for any Mortgage
Loan repurchased pursuant to Section 3.12 in the Certificate Account pursuant
to Section 3.06 within one Business Day after the purchase of the Mortgage
Loan. Upon receipt by the Trustee of written notification of any such deposit
signed by a Servicing Officer, the Trustee shall release to the Master
Servicer the related Mortgage File and shall execute and deliver such
instruments of transfer or assignment, in each case without recourse, as shall
be necessary to vest in the Master Servicer any Mortgage Loan previously
transferred and assigned pursuant hereto. The Master Servicer covenants and
agrees to indemnify the Trust Fund against any liability for any "prohibited
transaction" taxes and any related interest, additions, and penalties imposed
on the Trust Fund established hereunder as a result of any modification of a
Mortgage Loan effected pursuant to this Section, or any purchase of a Mortgage
Loan by the Master
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Servicer in connection with a modification (but such obligation shall not
prevent the Master Servicer or any other appropriate Person from contesting
any such tax in appropriate proceedings and shall not prevent the Master
Servicer from withholding payment of such tax, if permitted by law, pending
the outcome of such proceedings). The Master Servicer shall have no right of
reimbursement for any amount paid pursuant to the foregoing indemnification,
except to the extent that the amount of any tax, interest, and penalties,
together with interest thereon, is refunded to the Trust Fund.
Section 3.13 Trustee to Cooperate; Release of Mortgage Files.
Upon the payment in full of any Mortgage Loan, or the receipt by the
Master Servicer of a notification that payment in full will be escrowed in a
manner customary for such purposes, the Master Servicer will immediately
notify the Trustee by delivering a Request for Release substantially in the
form of Exhibit N. Upon receipt of the request, the Trustee shall promptly
release the related Mortgage File to the Master Servicer, and the Trustee
shall at the Master Servicer's direction execute and deliver to the Master
Servicer the request for reconveyance, deed of reconveyance, or release or
satisfaction of mortgage or such instrument releasing the lien of the Mortgage
in each case provided by the Master Servicer, together with the Mortgage Note
with written evidence of cancellation thereon. The Master Servicer is
authorized to cause the removal from the registration on the MERS System of
such Mortgage and to execute and deliver, on behalf of the Trustee and the
Certificateholders or any of them, any and all instruments of satisfaction or
cancellation or of partial or full release. Expenses incurred in connection
with any instrument of satisfaction or deed of reconveyance shall be
chargeable to the related Mortgagor.
From time to time and as shall be appropriate for the servicing or
foreclosure of any Mortgage Loan, including for such purpose collection under
any policy of flood insurance, any fidelity bond or errors or omissions
policy, or for the purposes of effecting a partial release of any Mortgaged
Property from the lien of the Mortgage or the making of any corrections to the
Mortgage Note or the Mortgage or any of the other documents included in the
Mortgage File, the Trustee shall, upon delivery to the Trustee of a Request
for Release in the form of Exhibit M signed by a Servicing Officer, release
the Mortgage File to the Master Servicer or its designee. Subject to the
further limitations set forth below, the Master Servicer shall cause the
Mortgage File or documents so released to be returned to the Trustee when the
need therefor by the Master Servicer no longer exists, unless the Mortgage
Loan is liquidated and the proceeds thereof are deposited in the Certificate
Account, in which case the Master Servicer shall deliver to the Trustee a
Request for Release in the form of Exhibit N, signed by a Servicing Officer.
If the Master Servicer at any time seeks to initiate a foreclosure
proceeding in respect of any Mortgaged Property as authorized by this
Agreement, the Master Servicer shall deliver to the Trustee, for signature, as
appropriate, any court pleadings, requests for trustee's sale, or other
documents necessary to effectuate such foreclosure or any legal action brought
to obtain judgment against the Mortgagor on the Mortgage Note or the Mortgage
or to obtain a deficiency judgment or to enforce any other remedies or rights
provided by the Mortgage Note or the Mortgage or otherwise available at law or
in equity.
Section 3.14 Documents, Records and Funds in Possession of the Master
Servicer to be Held for the Trustee.
The Master Servicer shall account fully to the Trustee for any funds
it receives or otherwise collects as Liquidation Proceeds or Insurance
Proceeds in respect of any Mortgage Loan. All Mortgage Files and funds
collected or held by, or under the control of, the Master Servicer in respect
of any Mortgage Loans, whether from the collection of principal and interest
payments or from Liquidation Proceeds, including any funds on deposit in the
Certificate Account, shall be held by the Master Servicer for and on behalf of
the Trustee and shall be and remain the sole and exclusive property of the
Trustee, subject to the applicable provisions of this Agreement. The Master
Servicer also agrees that it shall not
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create, incur or subject any Mortgage File or any funds that are deposited in
the Certificate Account, the Collection Account, Distribution Account, or any
Escrow Account, or any funds that otherwise are or may become due or payable
to the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, to any claim, lien,
security interest, judgment, levy, writ of attachment, or other encumbrance,
or assert by legal action or otherwise any claim or right of setoff against
any Mortgage File or any funds collected on, or in connection with, a Mortgage
Loan, except, however, that the Master Servicer shall be entitled to set off
against and deduct from any such funds any amounts that are properly due and
payable to the Master Servicer under this Agreement.
Section 3.15 Servicing Compensation.
As compensation for its activities hereunder, the Master Servicer may
retain or withdraw from the Servicing Account, the Collection Account, or the
Certificate Account the Servicing Fee for each Mortgage Loan for the related
Distribution Date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Servicing Fee payable to
the Master Servicer shall be reduced by the lesser of the aggregate of the
Prepayment Interest Shortfalls with respect to the Distribution Date and the
aggregate Compensating Interest for the Distribution Date.
The Master Servicer may retain or withdraw from the Servicing
Account, the Collection Account, or the Certificate Account the Servicing Fee
for each Mortgage Loan for the related Distribution Date. If the Master
Servicer directly services a Mortgage Loan, the Master Servicer may retain the
Servicing Fee for its own account as compensation for performing services. If
a Subservicer directly services a Mortgage Loan, unless the Subservicer
retains the Servicing Fee, the Master Servicer shall remit the Servicing Fee
to the related Subservicer as compensation for performing services.
Additional master servicing compensation in the form of Excess
Proceeds, Prepayment Interest Excess, assumption fees, late payment charges
and all income net of any losses realized from Permitted Investments shall be
retained by the Master Servicer to the extent not required to be deposited in
the Certificate Account pursuant to Section 3.06. The Master Servicer shall be
required to pay all expenses incurred by it in connection with its servicing
activities hereunder (including the fees of any Subservicer, payment of any
premiums for hazard insurance, and any Primary Insurance Policy and
maintenance of the other forms of insurance coverage required by this
Agreement) and shall not be entitled to reimbursement therefor except as
specifically provided in this Agreement.
Section 3.16 Access to Certain Documentation.
The Master Servicer shall provide to the OTS and the FDIC and to
comparable regulatory authorities supervising Holders of Certificates and
Certificate Owners and the examiners and supervisory agents of the OTS, the
FDIC, and such other authorities, access to the documentation regarding the
Mortgage Loans required by applicable regulations of the OTS and the FDIC.
Access shall be afforded without charge, but only upon reasonable prior
written request and during normal business hours at the offices designated by
the Master Servicer. Nothing in this Section 3.16 shall limit the obligation
of the Master Servicer to observe any applicable law prohibiting disclosure of
information regarding the Mortgagors and the failure of the Master Servicer to
provide access as provided in this Section 3.16 as a result of such obligation
shall not constitute a breach of this Section 3.16.
Section 3.17 Annual Statement as to Compliance.
By March 1 of each year, commencing with 2006, the Master Servicer
shall deliver to the Depositor, the Certificate Insurer and the Trustee an
Officer's Certificate signed by two Servicing Officers stating, as to each
signer thereof, that (i) a review of the activities of the Master Servicer
during
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the preceding calendar year and of the performance of the Master Servicer
under this Agreement has been made under such officer's supervision, and (ii)
to the best of such officer's knowledge, based on the review, the Master
Servicer has fulfilled all its obligations under this Agreement throughout the
year, or, if there has been a default in the fulfillment of any obligation,
specifying each default known to the officer and the nature and status
thereof. The Trustee shall forward a copy of each compliance statement to each
Rating Agency.
Section 3.18 Annual Independent Public Accountants' Servicing
Statement; Financial Statements.
By March 1 of each year, commencing with 2006, the Master Servicer at
its expense shall cause a nationally or regionally recognized firm of
independent public accountants (who may also render other services to the
Master Servicer, the Seller or any affiliate thereof) which is a member of the
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants to furnish a statement to
the Trustee, the Certificate Insurer and the Depositor to the effect that the
firm has examined certain documents and records relating to the servicing of
the Mortgage Loans under this Agreement or of mortgage loans under pooling and
servicing agreements substantially similar to this Agreement (the statement to
have attached to it a schedule of the pooling and servicing agreements covered
by it) and that, on the basis of its examination, conducted substantially in
compliance with the Audit Guide for Audits of HUD Approved Nonsupervised
Mortgagees, the Uniform Single Attestation Program for Mortgage Bankers, or
the Audit Program for Mortgages serviced for FNMA and FHLMC, such servicing
has been conducted in compliance with this Agreement except for any
significant exceptions or errors in records that, in the opinion of the firm,
the Audit Guide for Audits of HUD Approved Nonsupervised Mortgagees, the
Uniform Single Attestation Program for Mortgage Bankers, or the Audit Program
for Mortgages serviced for FNMA and FHLMC requires it to report. In rendering
the statement, the firm may rely, as to matters relating to direct servicing
of Mortgage Loans by the subservicers, upon comparable statements for
examinations conducted substantially in compliance with the Audit Guide for
Audits of HUD Approved Nonsupervised Mortgagees, the Uniform Single
Attestation Program for Mortgage Bankers, or the Audit Program for Mortgages
serviced for FNMA and FHLMC (rendered within one year of the statement) of
independent public accountants with respect to the related Subservicer. The
Master Servicer shall deliver the statement to the Trustee so that the Trustee
can provide copies of the statement to any Certificateholder or Certificate
Owner on request at the Master Servicer's expense.
Section 3.19 Errors and Omissions Insurance; Fidelity Bonds.
The Master Servicer shall obtain and maintain in force (a) policies
of insurance covering errors and omissions in the performance of its
obligations as Master Servicer hereunder and (b) a fidelity bond covering its
officers, employees, and agents. Each policy and bond shall, together, comply
with the requirements from time to time of FNMA or FHLMC for persons
performing servicing for mortgage loans purchased by FNMA or FHLMC. If any
policy or bond ceases to be in effect, the Master Servicer shall obtain a
comparable replacement policy or bond from an insurer or issuer meeting the
above requirements as of the date of the replacement.
Section 3.20 Notification of Adjustments.
On each Adjustment Date and Payment Adjustment Date, the Master
Servicer shall make interest rate and payment adjustments, respectively, for
each Mortgage Loan in compliance with the requirements of the related Mortgage
and Mortgage Note and applicable regulations. The Master Servicer shall
execute and deliver the notices required by each Mortgage and Mortgage Note
and applicable regulations regarding interest rate adjustments and Scheduled
Payment adjustments. The Master Servicer also shall provide timely
notification to the Trustee of all applicable data and information regarding
such interest
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rate adjustments and the Master Servicer's methods of implementing such
interest rate adjustments and Scheduled Payment adjustments. Upon the
discovery by the Master Servicer or the Trustee that the Master Servicer has
failed to adjust or has incorrectly adjusted a Mortgage Rate or a Scheduled
Payment pursuant to the terms of the related Mortgage Note and Mortgage, the
Master Servicer shall immediately deposit in the Certificate Account from its
own funds the amount of any loss caused thereby without reimbursement
therefor; provided, however, the Master Servicer shall not be liable with
respect to any interest rate adjustments or Scheduled Payment adjustments made
by any servicer prior to the Master Servicer.
Section 3.21 Prepayment Charges.
The Master Servicer will not waive any part of any Prepayment Charge
unless the waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default,
the Prepayment Charge would cause an undue hardship to the related borrower,
the Mortgaged Property is sold by the Mortgagor, the collection of any
Prepayment Charge would violate any relevant law or regulation or the waiving
of the Prepayment Charge would otherwise benefit the Trust Fund and it is
expected that the waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into
account the value of the Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and doing
so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including
any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a
Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable
default). The Master Servicer will not waive a Prepayment Charge in connection
with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a
reasonably foreseeable default.
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ARTICLE Four
DISTRIBUTIONS AND ADVANCES BY THE MASTER SERVICER
Section 4.01 Advances.
(a) The Master Servicer shall determine on or before each Master
Servicer Advance Date whether it is required to make an Advance pursuant to
the definition thereof. If the Master Servicer determines it is required to
make an Advance, it shall, on or before the Master Servicer Advance Date,
either (i) deposit into the Certificate Account an amount equal to the Advance
or (ii) make an appropriate entry in its records relating to the Certificate
Account that any Amount Held for Future Distribution has been used by the
Master Servicer in discharge of its obligation to make any such Advance. Any
funds so applied shall be replaced by the Master Servicer by deposit in the
Certificate Account no later than the close of business on the next Master
Servicer Advance Date. The Master Servicer shall be entitled to be reimbursed
from the Certificate Account for all Advances of its own funds made pursuant
to this Section 4.01 as provided in Section 3.09. The obligation to make
Advances with respect to any Mortgage Loan shall continue if such Mortgage
Loan has been foreclosed or otherwise terminated and the Mortgaged Property
has not been liquidated. The Master Servicer shall inform the Trustee of the
amount of the Advance to be made on each Master Servicer Advance Date no later
than the second Business Day before the related Distribution Date.
(b) If the Master Servicer determines that it will be unable to
comply with its obligation to make the Advances as and when described in the
second sentence of Section 4.01(a), it shall use its best efforts to give
written notice thereof to the Trustee (each such notice an "Advance Notice";
and such notice may be given by telecopy), not later than 3:00 P.M., New York
time, on the Business Day immediately preceding the related Master Servicer
Advance Date, specifying the amount that it will be unable to deposit (each
such amount an "Advance Deficiency") and certifying that such Advance
Deficiency constitutes an Advance hereunder and is not a Nonrecoverable
Advance. If the Trustee receives a Trustee Advance Notice on or before 3:00
P.M., New York time on a Master Servicer Advance Date, the Trustee is entitled
to immediately terminate the Master Servicer under Section 7.01, and shall,
not later than 3:00 P.M., New York time, on the related Distribution Date,
deposit in the Distribution Account an amount equal to the Advance Deficiency
identified in such Trustee Advance Notice unless it is prohibited from so
doing by applicable law. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Trustee shall not
be required to make such deposit if the Trustee shall have received written
notification from the Master Servicer that the Master Servicer has deposited
or caused to be deposited in the Certificate Account an amount equal to such
Advance Deficiency by 3:00 P.M. New York time on the related Distribution
Date. If the Trustee has not terminated the Master Servicer, the Master
Servicer shall reimburse the Trustee for the amount of any Advance (including
interest at the Prime Rate on the day of such reimbursement published in The
Wall Street Journal) on such amount, made by the Trustee pursuant to this
Section 4.01(b) not later than the second day following the related Master
Servicer Advance Date. In the event that the Master Servicer does not
reimburse the Trustee in accordance with the requirements of the preceding
sentence, the Trustee shall immediately (a) terminate all of the rights and
obligations of the Master Servicer under this Agreement in accordance with
Section 7.01 and (b) subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.05,
assume all of the rights and obligations of the Master Servicer hereunder.
(c) The Master Servicer shall, not later than the close of business
on the Business Day immediately preceding each Master Servicer Advance Date,
deliver to the Trustee a report (in form and substance reasonably satisfactory
to the Trustee) that indicates (i) the Mortgage Loans with respect to which
the Master Servicer has determined that the related Scheduled Payments should
be advanced and (ii) the amount of the related Scheduled Payments. The Master
Servicer shall deliver to the Trustee on
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the related Master Servicer Advance Date an Officer's Certificate of a
Servicing Officer indicating the amount of any proposed Advance determined by
the Master Servicer to be a Nonrecoverable Advance.
Section 4.02 Priorities of Distribution.
(a) (1) On each Distribution Date, the Trustee shall withdraw the
Available Funds for Loan Group 1 from the Distribution Account and apply such
funds first, to the Certificate Insurer, the portion of the monthly premium
for the Policy for such Distribution Date payable at the Class 1-A-3B Premium
Rate from Available Funds for Loan Group 1, and second, to distributions on
the Group 1 Senior Certificates in the following order and priority and, in
each case, to the extent of Available Funds remaining:
(i) concurrently, to each interest-bearing Class of Group 1
Senior Certificates, an amount allocable to interest equal to the
related Class Optimal Interest Distribution Amount, any shortfall
being allocated among such Classes in proportion to the amount of the
Class Optimal Interest Distribution Amount that would have been
distributed in the absence of such shortfall, provided that the
amount otherwise distributable on the Class 1-X IO Component, up to
the amount of the Required Reserve Fund Deposit, shall be deposited
in the Carryover Shortfall Reserve Fund to the extent required by
Section 4.07;
(ii) to the Certificate Insurer, any Reimbursement Amounts
related to Loan Group 1;
(iii) concurrently, to the Classes of Group 1 Senior
Certificates as follows:
(A) [reserved]; and
(B) the Principal Amount for Loan Group 1, up
to the amount of the related Senior
Principal Distribution Amount for such
Distribution Date will be distributed,
sequentially, to the following Classes and
Component of Certificates in the following
order of priority:
first, the Class A-R Certificates,
until its Class Certificate
Balance is reduced to zero;
second, concurrently, to the Class
1-A-1, Class 1-A-2, Class 1-A-3A
and Class 1-A-3B Certificates, pro
rata, until their respective Class
Certificate Balances are reduced
to zero; and
third, to the Class 1-X PO
Component, until its Component
Principal Balance is reduced to
zero.
(iv) [reserved].
(2) On each Distribution Date, the Trustee shall withdraw the
Available Funds for Loan Group 2 from the Distribution Account and apply such
funds first, to the Certificate Insurer, the portion of the monthly premium
for the Policy for such Distribution Date payable at the Class 2-A-3B Premium
Rate from Available Funds for Loan Group 2, and second, to distributions on
the Group 2 Senior Certificates in the following order and priority and, in
each case, to the extent of Available Funds remaining:
(i) concurrently, to each interest-bearing Class of Group 2
Senior Certificates, an amount allocable to interest equal to the
related Class Optimal Interest Distribution Amount, any
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shortfall being allocated among such Classes in proportion to the
amount of the Class Optimal Interest Distribution Amount that would
have been distributed in the absence of such shortfall, provided that
the amount otherwise distributable on the Class 2-X IO Component, up
to the amount of the Required Reserve Fund Deposit, shall be
deposited in the Carryover Shortfall Reserve Fund to the extent
required by Section 4.07;
(ii) to the Certificate Insurer, any Reimbursement
Amounts related to Loan Group 2;
(iii) concurrently, to the Classes of Group 2 Senior
Certificates as follows:
(A) [reserved].
(B) the Principal Amount for Loan Group 2, up
to the amount of the related Senior
Principal Distribution Amount for such
Distribution Date will be distributed,
sequentially, to the following Classes and
Component of Certificates in the following
order of priority:
first, concurrently, to the Class
2-A-1A, Class 2-A-1-B, Class
2-A-2A, Class 2-A-2B, Class
2-A-2C, Class 2-A-3A and Class
2-A-3B Certificates, pro rata,
until their respective Class
Certificate Balances are reduced
to zero; and
second, to the Class 2-X PO
Component, until its Component
Principal Balance is reduced to
zero.
(3) On each Distribution Date, after making the distributions
described in Section 4.02(a)(1) and Section 4.02(a)(2), to each Class of
Senior Floating Rate Certificates, any Carryover Shortfall Amounts only to the
extent of amounts in the Carryover Shortfall Reserve Fund on deposit from the
related Class of Senior Notional Amount Certificates, as described in Section
4.07 and, with respect to each Class of Senior LIBOR Certificates, amounts on
deposit in the related Yield Maintenance Reserve Fund, as described in Section
3.06.
(4) On each Distribution Date, after making the distributions
described in Section 4.02(a)(1), Section 4.02(a)(2) and Section 4.02(a)(3),
Available Funds from each Loan Group remaining will be distributed to the
Senior Certificates to the extent provided in Section 4.03.
(5) On each Distribution Date, Available Funds from both Loan Groups
remaining after making the distributions described in Section 4.02(a)(1),
Section 4.02(a)(2), Section 4.02(a)(3) and Section 4.02(a)(4) will be
distributed to the Subordinated Certificate, subject to paragraph 4.02(e)
below, in the following order of priority:
(A) to the Class B-X Certificates, an amount allocable
to interest equal to the Class Optimal Interest
Distribution Amount for such Class for such
Distribution Date; provided that the amount
otherwise distributable on the Class B-X IO
Component, up to the amount of the Required Reserve
Fund Deposit, shall be deposited in the Carryover
Shortfall Reserve Fund to the extent required by
Section 4.07
(B) to the Class B-X Certificates, an amount allocable
to principal equal to its Pro Rata Share for such
Distribution Date until the Class Certificate
Balance thereof is reduced to zero;
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(C) to the Class B-1 Certificates, an amount allocable
to interest equal to the Class Optimal Interest
Distribution Amount for such Class for such
Distribution Date;
(D) to the Class B-1 Certificates, an amount allocable
to principal equal to its Pro Rata Share for such
Distribution Date until the Class Certificate
Balance thereof is reduced to zero;
(E) to the Class B-2 Certificates, an amount allocable
to interest equal to the Class Optimal Interest
Distribution Amount for such Class for such
Distribution Date;
(F) to the Class B-2 Certificates, an amount allocable
to principal equal to its Pro Rata Share for such
Distribution Date until the Class Certificate
Balance thereof is reduced to zero;
(G) to the Class B-3 Certificates, an amount allocable
to interest equal to the Class Optimal Interest
Distribution Amount for such Class for such
Distribution Date;
(H) to the Class B-3 Certificates, an amount allocable
to principal equal to its Pro Rata Share for such
Distribution Date until the Class Certificate
Balance thereof is reduced to zero;
(I) to the Class B-4 Certificates, an amount allocable
to interest equal to the Class Optimal Interest
Distribution Amount for such Class for such
Distribution Date;
(J) to the Class B-4 Certificates, an amount allocable
to principal equal to its Pro Rata Share for such
Distribution Date until the Class Certificate
Balance thereof is reduced to zero;
(K) to the Class B-5 Certificates, an amount allocable
to interest equal to the Class Optimal Interest
Distribution Amount for such Class for such
Distribution Date;
(L) to the Class B-5 Certificates, an amount allocable
to principal equal to its Pro Rata Share for such
Distribution Date until the Class Certificate
Balance thereof is reduced to zero;
(M) to the Class B-6 Certificates, an amount allocable
to interest equal to the Class Optimal Interest
Distribution Amount for such Class for such
Distribution Date;
(N) to the Class B-6 Certificates, an amount allocable
to principal equal to its Pro Rata Share for such
Distribution Date until the Class Certificate
Balance thereof is reduced to zero;
(O) to the Class B-7 Certificates, an amount allocable
to interest equal to the Class Optimal Interest
Distribution Amount for such Class for such
Distribution Date;
(P) to the Class B-7 Certificates, an amount allocable
to principal equal to its Pro Rata Share for such
Distribution Date until the Class Certificate
Balance thereof is reduced to zero;
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(Q) to the Class B-8 Certificates, an amount allocable
to interest equal to the Class Optimal Interest
Distribution Amount for such Class for such
Distribution Date; and
(R) to the Class B-8 Certificates, an amount allocable
to principal equal to its Pro Rata Share for such
Distribution Date until the Class Certificate
Balance thereof is reduced to zero;
(S) to the Class B-9 Certificates, an amount allocable
to interest equal to the Class Optimal Interest
Distribution Amount for such Class for such
Distribution Date; and
(T) to the Class B-9 Certificates, an amount allocable
to principal equal to its Pro Rata Share for such
Distribution Date until the Class Certificate
Balance thereof is reduced to zero;
(U) to the Class B-10 Certificates, an amount allocable
to interest equal to the Class Optimal Interest
Distribution Amount for such Class for such
Distribution Date; and
(V) to the Class B-10 Certificates, an amount allocable
to principal equal to its Pro Rata Share for such
Distribution Date until the Class Certificate
Balance thereof is reduced to zero;
(W) to the Class B-11 Certificates, an amount allocable
to interest equal to the Class Optimal Interest
Distribution Amount for such Class for such
Distribution Date; and
(X) to the Class B-11 Certificates, an amount allocable
to principal equal to its Pro Rata Share for such
Distribution Date until the Class Certificate
Balance thereof is reduced to zero;
(6) [reserved]; and
(7) to the Class A-R Certificates, any remaining funds; provided,
that such amounts shall not include the $100 held in trust for the Class P
Certificates.
On each Distribution Date, all amounts representing Prepayment
Charges received during the related Prepayment Period will be distributed to
the holders of the Class P Certificates. On the Distribution Date immediately
following the expiration of the latest Prepayment Charge Period of the
Mortgage Loans, the $100 held in trust for the Class P Certificates will be
distributed to the holders of the Class P Certificates.
(b) [reserved].
(c) [reserved].
(d) On each Distribution Date, the amount referred to in clause (i)
of the definition of Class Optimal Interest Distribution Amount for each Class
of Certificates for such Distribution Date shall be reduced by (i) the related
Class' pro rata share of Net Interest Shortfalls in a Loan Group based on (x)
with respect to a related Class of Senior Certificates, the related Class
Optimal Interest Distribution
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Amount (for this purpose calculated pursuant to clause (i) only) for such
Distribution Date in the absence of such Net Interest Shortfalls and (y) with
respect to a Class of Subordinated Certificates on and prior to a Senior
Termination Date, the portion of the related Class Optimal Interest
Distribution Amount (for this purpose calculated pursuant to clause (i) only)
for such Distribution Date based on a principal balance equal to such Class'
pro rata share of the Subordinated Portion in the absences of such Net
Interest Shortfalls and after the Senior Termination Date, the related Class
Optimal Interest Distribution Amount (for this purpose calculated pursuant to
clause (i) only) for such Distribution Date in the absence of such Net
Interest Shortfalls.
(e) Notwithstanding the priority and allocation contained in Section
4.02(a), if, with respect to any Class of Subordinated Certificates, on any
Distribution Date the sum of the related Class Subordination Percentages of
such Class and of all Classes of Subordinated Certificates that have a higher
numerical Class designation than such Class (the "Applicable Credit Support
Percentage") is less than the Original Applicable Credit Support Percentage
for such Class, no distribution of Net Prepayments on the Mortgage Loans will
be made to any such Classes (the "Restricted Classes") and the amount of such
Net Prepayments otherwise distributable to the Restricted Classes shall be
distributed to the Classes of Subordinated Certificates having lower numerical
Class designations than such Class, pro rata, based on their respective Class
Certificate Balances immediately prior to such Distribution Date and shall be
distributed in the sequential order set forth in Section 4.02(a)(5).
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Class of Subordinated Certificates then
outstanding with the lowest numerical class designation shall not be a
Restricted Class.
(f) If the amount of a Realized Loss on a Mortgage Loan has been
reduced by application of Subsequent Recoveries with respect to such Mortgage
Loan, the amount of such Subsequent Recoveries will be applied sequentially,
in the order of payment priority, to increase the Class Certificate Balance of
each Class of Certificates to which Realized Losses have been allocated, but
in each case by not more than the amount of Realized Losses previously
allocated to that Class of Certificates pursuant to Section 4.05. Holders of
such Certificates will not be entitled to any payment in respect of the Class
Optimal Interest Distribution Amount on the amount of such increases for any
Interest Accrual Period preceding the Distribution Date on which such increase
occurs. Any such increases shall be applied to the Certificate Balance of each
Certificate of such Class in accordance with its respective Percentage
Interest.
(g) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, for
so long as any Hedged Certificates are held by the Seller or its Affiliates
the Trustee shall not knowingly distribute any amounts received under a Yield
Maintenance Agreement in respect of any Class of Hedged Certificates of which
not less than 100% are held by the Seller or any of its Affiliates, and any
such amounts shall instead be distributed in accordance with Section 3.06(g)
excluding those Certificates held by the Seller or its Affiliates. At least
six (6) Business Days prior to the related Distribution Date, the Seller shall
make available to the Trustee a statement containing (i) the aggregate
Certificate Balances of each Class of Hedged Certificates owned by the Seller
or any of its Affiliates during the immediately preceding Interest Accrual
Period and/or as of the date of such statement to the Trustee and (ii) the
names of the Seller and/or any of its Affiliates that own any Certificates
during the immediately preceding Interest Accrual Period and/or as of the date
of the such statement to the Trustee. The Seller and its Affiliates hereby
agree that (i) if the Seller or any of its Affiliates own any of a Class of
Hedged Certificates, the Seller and its Affiliates shall own not less than
100% of any Class of Hedged Certificates and all transfers of Certificates the
Seller and/or its Affiliates may undertake shall be restricted to 100% of such
Class and (ii) neither the Seller nor any of its Affiliates shall undertake to
sell any Certificates held by such entities or purchase any additional
Certificates from the date of such statement to the Trustee until the first
day following the related Distribution Date. Any amounts received by the
Seller or any of its Affiliates under any of the Yield Maintenance Agreements
in respect of any Certificates owned 100% by the Seller or any of its
Affiliates, or in error or otherwise, shall be immediately returned by the
Seller to the Trustee and
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then distributed by the Trustee to other entitled Certificateholders of such
Class in accordance with Section 3.06(g) and if no such other
Certificateholders, to the Cap Counterparty.
Section 4.03 Cross-Collateralization; Adjustments to Available Funds
(a) If on each Distribution Date after the date on which the
aggregate Class Certificate Balance and Component Principal Balance of the
Senior Certificates related to a Loan Group has been reduced to zero, the
Trustee shall distribute Available Funds on all the Mortgage Loans assuming
there is only one Loan Group of Mortgage Loans consisting of all of the
Mortgage Loans.
(b) If on any Distribution Date the aggregate Class Certificate
Balance and Component Principal Balance of the Senior Certificates and related
Principal Only Component (after all other distributions are made on such
Distribution Date) in a Loan Group is greater than the aggregate Stated
Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans in such Loan Group as of the Due Date
in the month of such Distribution Date (after giving effect to Principal
Prepayments in the Prepayment Period related to that Due Date) (the
"Undercollateralized Group"), then the Trustee shall reduce the Available
Funds of the other Loan Group to the extent that it is not undercollateralized
(the "Overcollateralized Group"), as follows:
(i) to the Senior Certificates of the Undercollateralized
Group an amount equal to the lesser of (a) the Accrued Interest
Amount and (b) Available Funds of the Overcollateralized Group
remaining after making distributions to the Senior Certificates of
the Overcollateralized Group on such Distribution Date pursuant to
Section 4.02; and
(ii) to the Senior Certificates of the Undercollateralized
Group, to the extent of the principal portion of the Available Funds
of the Overcollateralized Group remaining after making distributions
to the Senior Certificates of the Overcollateralized Group on such
Distribution Date pursuant to Section 4.02 and the Accrued Interest
Amount pursuant to clause (i) above, until the Class Certificate
Balance and Component Principal Balance of the Senior Certificate
Group of such Undercollateralized Group equals the aggregate Stated
Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans in the related Loan Group as
of the Due Date in the month of such Distribution Date (after giving
effect to Principal Prepayments in the Prepayment Period related to
that Due Date).
Section 4.04 Allocation of Net Deferred Interest.
(a) For any Distribution Date, (i) the Senior Percentage of the Net
Deferred Interest on the Mortgage Loans in a Loan Group will be allocated, in
the aggregate, to the Senior Certificates in the related Senior Certificate
Group and (ii) the Subordinated Percentage (based upon the related
Subordinated Portion) of the Net Deferred Interest on the Mortgage Loans in a
Loan Group will be allocated, in the aggregate, to the Subordinated
Certificates.
(b) On each Distribution Date, any amount of Net Deferred Interest
allocable to a Class of Certificates (other than the Class 1-X, Class 2-X and
Class B-X Certificates) on such Distribution Date will be added as principal
to the outstanding Class Certificate Balance of such Class of Certificates.
With respect to the Class 1-X, Class 2-X and Class B-X Certificates and each
Distribution Date, any amount of Net Deferred Interest that is allocated to
the that Component on such Distribution Date will be added as principal to the
outstanding Component Principal Balances of the related Principal Only
Components.
(c) (i) For any Distribution Date and Class of LIBOR Certificates,
the Net Deferred Interest on the Mortgage Loans will be allocated to each
Class of Certificates in an amount equal to the excess, if any of
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(x) the interest accrued during the related Interest Accrual
Period at the applicable Pass-Through Rate on the related Class Certificate
Balance or Notional Amount, as the case may be, immediately prior to the
applicable Distribute Date over
(y) the amount of interest to which such Class would have
been entitled if the Pass-Through Rate for such Class were equal to the
Adjusted Cap Rate for such Class and Distribution Date; and
(ii) For any Distribution Date,
(x) the Senior Percentage of any Net Deferred Interest with
respect to a Loan Group remaining after allocation to the related Senior LIBOR
Certificates will be allocated to the related Class of Senior Notional Amount
Certificates, and
(y) the Subordinated Percentage of any Net Deferred Interest
remaining after allocation of Net Deferred Interest to the Subordinated LIBOR
Certificates will be allocated to the Class B-X Certificates.
Section 4.05 Allocation of Realized Losses.
(a) On or prior to each Determination Date, the Trustee shall
determine the total amount of Realized Losses with respect to each related
Distribution Date.
Realized Losses with respect to any Distribution Date shall be
allocated as follows:
(i) [reserved]; and
(ii) (A) any Realized Loss shall be allocated first to the
Subordinated Certificates in reverse order of their respective
numerical Class designations (beginning with the Class of
Subordinated Certificates then outstanding with the highest numerical
Class designation) until the respective Class Certificate Balance of
each such Class is reduced to zero. Any remaining Realized Losses on
the Group 1 Mortgage Loans will be allocated, concurrently, to the
Group 1 Senior Certificates, pro rata, until their respective Class
Certificate Balances are reduced to zero; provided, however, that any
Realized Losses on the Group 1 Mortgage Loans that would otherwise be
allocated to the Class 1-A-1 and Class 1-A-2 Certificates will first
be allocated to the Class 1-A-3A and Class 1-A-3B Certificates, pro
rata, until their respective Class Certificate Balances are reduced
to zero and, after the Class Certificate Balances of the Class 1-A-3A
and Class 1-A-3B Certificates are reduced to zero, any Realized
Losses on the Group 1 Mortgage Loans that would otherwise be
allocated to the Class 1-A-1 Certificates will first be allocated to
the Class 1-A-2 Certificates until its Class Certificate Balance is
reduced to zero. Any remaining Realized Losses on the Group 2
Mortgage Loans will be allocated, concurrently, to the Group 2 Senior
Certificates, pro rata, until their respective Class Certificate
Balances have been reduced to zero; provided, however, that any
Realized Losses on the Group 2 Mortgage Loans that would otherwise be
allocated to the Class 2-A-1A, Class 2-A-1B, Class 2-A-2A, Class
2-A-2B and Class 2-A-2C Certificates will first be allocated to the
Class 2-A-3A and Class 2-A-3B Certificates, pro rata, until their
respective Certificate Balances are reduced to zero, and, after the
Class Certificate Balances of the Class 2-A-3A and Class 2-A-3B
Certificates are reduced to zero, any Realized Losses on the Group 2
Mortgage Loans that would otherwise be allocated to the Class 2-A-1A
and Class 2-A-1B Certificates will instead be allocated to the Class
2-A-2A, Class 2-A-2B and Class 2-A-2C Certificates, pro rata, until
their respective Class Certificate Balances are reduced to zero.
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(B) [reserved];
(b) The Class Certificate Balance of the Class of Subordinated
Certificates then outstanding with the highest numerical Class designation
shall be reduced on each Distribution Date by the amount, if any, by which the
aggregate Class Certificate Balances of all outstanding Classes of
Certificates (after giving effect to the distribution of principal and the
allocation of Realized Losses on such Distribution Date) exceeds the aggregate
Stated Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans as of the Due Date in the month
of such Distribution Date (after giving effect to Principal Prepayments in the
Prepayment Period related to such Due Date).
(c) Any Realized Loss allocated to a Class of Certificates or any
reduction in the Class Certificate Balance of a Class of Certificates pursuant
to Section 4.05(a) or (b) shall be allocated among the Certificates of such
Class in proportion to their respective Certificate Balances.
(d) Any allocation of Realized Losses to a Certificate or any
reduction in the Certificate Balance of a Certificate pursuant to Section
4.05(a) or (b) shall be accomplished by reducing the Certificate Balance
thereof immediately following the distributions made on the related
Distribution Date in accordance with the definition of Certificate Balance.
Section 4.06 Monthly Statements to Certificateholders.
(a) Not later than each Distribution Date, the Trustee shall prepare
and make available on its website at xxxxx://xxx.xxx.xx.xxx/xxxx to each
Certificateholder, the Certificate Insurer, the Master Servicer and the
Depositor a statement for the related distribution of:
(i) the amount of the distribution allocable to principal,
separately identifying the aggregate amount of any scheduled
principal, Net Prepayments, Principal Prepayments in Full, partial
Principal Prepayments and Liquidation Proceeds included therein;
(ii) the amount of the distribution allocable to interest,
any Unpaid Interest Shortfall Amounts included in the distribution
and any remaining Unpaid Interest Shortfall Amounts after giving
effect to the distribution;
(iii) if the distribution to the Holders of any Class of
Certificates is less than the full amount that would be distributable
to them if sufficient funds were available, the amount of the
shortfall and the allocation of the shortfall between principal and
interest;
(iv) the Class Certificate Balance (including Component
Principal Balances) or Notional Amount of each Class of Certificates
after giving effect to the distribution of principal on the
Distribution Date;
(v) the Pool Stated Principal Balance for the following
Distribution Date;
(vi) each Senior Percentage and each Subordinated Percentage
for the following Distribution Date;
(vii) the amount of the Servicing Fees paid to or retained
by the Master Servicer or Subservicer (with respect to the
Subservicers, in the aggregate) and the amounts of any additional
servicing compensation received by the Master Servicer attributable
to penalties, fees, excess Liquidation Proceeds or other similar
charges or fees and items with respect to the Distribution Date;
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(viii) the Pass-Through Rate for each Class of Certificates
as of the day before the preceding Distribution Date;
(ix) the Pass-Through Rate for each Class of Certificates,
if adjusted from the date of the last monthly statement, expected to
be applicable on the next Distribution Date;
(x) the amount of Advances included in the distribution on
the Distribution Date and the aggregate amount of Advances
outstanding as of the close of business on the Distribution Date;
(xi) the number and aggregate principal amounts of Mortgage
Loans (A) delinquent (exclusive of Mortgage Loans in foreclosure) (1)
1 to 30 days, (2) 31 to 60 days, (3) 61 to 90 days, and (4) 91 or
more days and (B) in foreclosure and delinquent (1) 1 to 30 days, (2)
31 to 60 days, (3) 61 to 90 days, and (4) 91 or more days, as of the
close of business on the last day of the calendar month preceding the
Distribution Date;
(xii) for each of the preceding 12 calendar months, or all
calendar months since the Cut-off Date, whichever is less, the
aggregate dollar amount of the Scheduled Payments
(A) due on all Outstanding Mortgage Loans on each of the Due
Dates in each such month and
(B) delinquent 60 days or more on each of the Due Dates in
each such month;
(xiii) with respect to any Mortgage Loan that became an REO
Property during the preceding calendar month, the loan number and
Stated Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loan as of the close of
business on the Determination Date preceding the Distribution Date
and the date of acquisition thereof;
(xiv) the total number and principal balance of any REO
Properties (and market value, if available) as of the close of
business on the Determination Date preceding the Distribution Date;
(xv) each Senior Prepayment Percentage for such Distribution
Date;
(xvi) the aggregate amount of Realized Losses incurred and
Subsequent Recoveries, if any, received during the preceding calendar
month and aggregate Realized Losses through such Distribution Date;
(xvii) [reserved];
(xviii) with respect to the second Distribution Date, the
number and aggregate balance of any Delay Delivery Mortgage Loans not
delivered within the time periods specified in the definition of
Delay Delivery Mortgage Loans;
(xix) the aggregate amount of Deferred Interest on the
Mortgage Loans for the related Due Date, by Loan Group and in the
aggregate, and the cumulative amount of Deferred Interest on the
Mortgage Loans through such Distribution Date;
(xx) the aggregate amount of Net Deferred Interest on the
Mortgage Loans for the Distribution Date, by Loan Group and in the
aggregate, and the amount allocated to each Class of
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Certificates on such Distribution Date and the cumulative amount of
Net Deferred Interest on the Mortgage Loans allocated to each Class
of Certificates through such Distribution Date;
(xxi) the aggregate Stated Principal Balance of the Mortgage
Loans that became Liquidated Mortgage Loans in the prior month and
since the Cut-off Date (in each case immediately prior to the Stated
Principal Balance being reduced to zero);
(xxii) the amount paid by the Certificate Insurer under the
Policy with respect to each of the Class 1-A-3B and Class 2-A-3B
Certificates for such Distribution Date; and
(xxiii) all amounts paid to the Certificate Insurer in
respect of the Reimbursement Amount for such Distribution Date.
The Trustee's responsibility for disbursing the above information to
the Certificateholders and the Certificate Insurer is limited to the
availability, timeliness and accuracy of the information derived from the
Master Servicer.
By each Determination Date the Master Servicer shall provide to the
Trustee in electronic form the information needed to determine the
distributions to be made pursuant to Section 4.02 and any other information on
which the Master Servicer and the Trustee mutually agree.
(b) On or before the fifth Business Day following the end of each
Prepayment Period (but in no event later than the third Business Day prior to
the related Distribution Date), the Master Servicer shall deliver to the
Trustee (which delivery may be by electronic data transmission) a report in
substantially the form set forth as Schedule IV.
(c) Within a reasonable period of time after the end of each calendar
year, the Trustee shall cause to be furnished to each Person who at any time
during the calendar year was a Certificateholder, a statement containing the
information set forth in clauses (a)(i) and (a)(ii) of this Section 4.06
aggregated for such calendar year or applicable portion thereof during which
such Person was a Certificateholder. Such obligation of the Trustee shall be
deemed to have been satisfied to the extent that substantially comparable
information shall be provided by the Trustee pursuant to any requirements of
the Code as from time to time in effect.
Section 4.07 Carryover Shortfall Reserve Fund.
(a) On the Closing Date, the Trustee shall establish and maintain in
its name, in trust for the benefit of the Holders of the Floating Rate
Certificates, a Carryover Shortfall Reserve Fund, into which the Depositor
shall deposit $4,104,735.62. The Carryover Shortfall Reserve Fund shall be an
Eligible Account, and funds on deposit therein shall be held separate and
apart from, and shall not be commingled with, any other moneys, including,
without limitation, other moneys of the Trustee held pursuant to this
Agreement. The Carryover Shortfall Reserve Fund shall not be an asset of any
REMIC established by this Agreement.
(b) On each Distribution Date, the Class Optimal Interest
Distribution Amount that would otherwise be distributable with respect to the
Class 1-X IO Class, 2-X IO and Class B-X IO Components shall instead be
deposited in the Carryover Shortfall Reserve Fund to the extent of the related
Required Reserve Fund Deposit.
(c) On any Distribution Date for which a Carryover Shortfall Amount
exists with respect to any Class of Floating Rate Certificates (after
distributing amounts from the Yield Maintenance Reserve Funds
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to the related Classes of Certificates), the Trustee shall withdraw from the
Carryover Shortfall Reserve Fund, the amount of such Carryover Shortfall
Amount for distribution on such Distribution Date pursuant to Section
4.02(a)(3). If on any Distribution Date the amount on deposit in the Carryover
Shortfall Reserve Fund is not sufficient to make a full distribution of the
Carryover Shortfall Amount with respect to the Classes of the Floating Rate
Certificates, the Trustee shall withdraw the entire amount on deposit in the
Carryover Shortfall Reserve Fund related to a Class of Notional Amount
Certificates and distribute such amount to the corresponding Classes of
Certificates as follows: (x) with respect to either the Group 1 Senior
Floating Rate Certificates or the Group 2 Senior Floating Rate Certificates,
on a pro rata basis, based on the related remaining Carryover Shortfall Amount
due, and (y) with respect to the Classes of Subordinated Certificates,
sequentially, to the class B-1, Class B-2, Class B-3, Class B-4, Class B-5,
Class B-6, Class B-7, Class B-8, Class B-9, Class B-10 and Class B-11
Certificates, in that order. Any excess of the related Net WAC Cap over LIBOR
plus the applicable Pass-Through Margin in respect of any Class of Floating
Rate Certificates on the first Distribution Date will be treated as paid from
the Carryover Shortfall Reserve Fund to the Master REMIC and from the Master
REMIC to such Class of Certificates.
(d) Funds in the Carryover Shortfall Reserve Fund shall not be
invested. The Notional Amount Certificates shall evidence ownership of the
Carryover Shortfall Reserve Fund for federal income tax purposes. For all
federal income tax purposes, amounts transferred by the Master REMIC to each
Yield Maintenance Reserve Fund shall be treated as amounts distributed by the
Master REMIC to the Holders of the related Class Notional Amount Certificates.
(e) Upon termination of the Trust Fund any amounts remaining in the
Carryover Shortfall Reserve Fund shall be distributed to the Notional Amount
Certificateholders on a pro rata basis.
Section 4.08 Determination of Pass-Through Rates for LIBOR
Certificates.
On each LIBOR Determination Date so long as the LIBOR Certificates
are outstanding, the Trustee will determine LIBOR on the basis of the British
Bankers' Association ("BBA") "Interest Settlement Rate" for one-month deposits
in U.S. dollars as found on Moneyline Telerate Page 3750 as of 11:00 a.m.
London time on each LIBOR Determination Date.
(a) If LIBOR cannot be determined as provided in the first paragraph
of this Section 4.08, the Trustee shall either (i) request each Reference Bank
to inform the Trustee of the quotation offered by its principal London office
for making one-month United States dollar deposits in leading banks in the
London interbank market, as of 11:00 a.m. (London time) on such LIBOR
Determination Date or (ii) in lieu of making any such request, rely on such
Reference Bank quotations that appear at such time on the Reuters Screen LIBO
Page (as defined in the International Swap Dealers Association Inc. Code of
Standard Wording, Assumptions and Provisions for Swaps, 1986 Edition), to the
extent available.
(b) LIBOR for the next Interest Accrual Period for a Class of LIBOR
Certificates will be established by the Trustee on each LIBOR Determination
Date as follows:
(i) If on any LIBOR Determination Date two or more Reference
Banks provide such offered quotations, LIBOR for the next Interest
Accrual Period for a Class of LIBOR Certificates shall be the
arithmetic mean of such offered quotations (rounding such arithmetic
mean upwards if necessary to the nearest whole multiple of 1/32%).
(ii) If on any LIBOR Determination Date only one or none of
the Reference Banks provides such offered quotations, LIBOR for the
next Interest Accrual Period for a Class of LIBOR Certificates shall
be whichever is the higher of (i) LIBOR as determined on the previous
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LIBOR Determination Date or (ii) the Reserve Interest Rate. The
"Reserve Interest Rate" shall be the rate per annum which the Trustee
determines to be either (i) the arithmetic mean (rounded upwards if
necessary to the nearest whole multiple of 1/32%) of the one-month
United States dollar lending rates that New York City banks selected
by the Trustee are quoting, on the relevant LIBOR Determination Date,
to the principal London offices of at least two of the Reference
Banks to which such quotations are, in the opinion of the Trustee,
being so made, or (ii) in the event that the Trustee can determine no
such arithmetic mean, the lowest one-month United States dollar
lending rate which New York City banks selected by the Trustee are
quoting on such LIBOR Determination Date to leading European banks.
(iii) If on any LIBOR Determination Date the Trustee is
required but is unable to determine the Reserve Interest Rate in the
manner provided in paragraph (b) above, LIBOR shall be LIBOR as
determined on the preceding LIBOR Determination Date, or, in the case
of the first LIBOR Determination Date, the Initial LIBOR Rate.
(c) Until all of the LIBOR Certificates are paid in full, the Trustee
will at all times retain at least four Reference Banks for the purpose of
determining LIBOR with respect to each LIBOR Determination Date. The Master
Servicer initially shall designate the Reference Banks. Each "Reference Bank"
shall be a leading bank engaged in transactions in Eurodollar deposits in the
international Eurocurrency market, shall not control, be controlled by, or be
under common control with, the Trustee and shall have an established place of
business in London. If any such Reference Bank should be unwilling or unable
to act as such or if the Master Servicer should terminate its appointment as
Reference Bank, the Trustee shall promptly appoint or cause to be appointed
another Reference Bank. The Trustee shall have no liability or responsibility
to any Person for (i) the selection of any Reference Bank for purposes of
determining LIBOR or (ii) any inability to retain at least four Reference
Banks which is caused by circumstances beyond its reasonable control.
(d) The Pass-Through Rate for each Class of LIBOR Certificates for
each related Interest Accrual Period shall be determined by the Trustee on
each LIBOR Determination Date so long as the LIBOR Certificates are
outstanding on the basis of LIBOR and the respective formulae appearing in
footnotes corresponding to the LIBOR Certificates in the table relating to the
Certificates in the Preliminary Statement.
(e) In determining LIBOR, any Pass-Through Rate for the LIBOR
Certificates, any Interest Settlement Rate, or any Reserve Interest Rate, the
Trustee may conclusively rely and shall be protected in relying upon the
offered quotations (whether written, oral or on the Dow Xxxxx Markets) from
the BBA designated banks, the Reference Banks or the New York City banks as to
LIBOR, the Interest Settlement Rate or the Reserve Interest Rate, as
appropriate, in effect from time to time. The Trustee shall not have any
liability or responsibility to any Person for (i) the Trustee's selection of
New York City banks for purposes of determining any Reserve Interest Rate or
(ii) its inability, following a good-faith reasonable effort, to obtain such
quotations from, the BBA designated banks, the Reference Banks or the New York
City banks or to determine such arithmetic mean, all as provided for in this
Section 4.08.
(f) The establishment of LIBOR and each Pass-Through Rate for the
LIBOR Certificates by the Trustee shall (in the absence of manifest error) be
final, conclusive and binding upon each Holder of a Certificate and the
Trustee.
Section 4.09 Determination of Pass-Through Rates for MTA
Certificates.
(a) The Pass-Through Rate for the Class 2-A-2B Certificates for each
Interest Accrual Period shall be determined by the Trustee on each Interest
Determination Date so long as the Class 2-A-2B
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Certificates are outstanding on the basis of MTA and the formula appearing in
footnote corresponding to the Class 2-A-2B Certificates in the table relating
to the Certificates in the Preliminary Statement.
(b) The determination of MTA Index and the Pass-Through Rate for the
Class 2-A-2B Certificates by the Trustee shall (in the absence of manifest
error) be final, conclusive and binding upon each Holder of a Class 2-A-2B
Certificate and the Trustee.
Section 4.10 Policy; Rights of the Certificate Insurer.
(a) If, on the third Business Day before any Distribution Date, the
Trustee determines that there will be a Deficiency Amount for such
Distribution Date, the Trustee shall determine the amount of any such
deficiency and shall give notice to the Certificate Insurer by telephone or
telecopy of the amount of such deficiency, confirmed in writing by notice
substantially in the form of Exhibit A to the Policy, by 12:00 p.m., New York
time on such third Business Day. The Trustee's responsibility for delivering
the notice to the Certificate Insurer as provided in the preceding sentence is
limited to the availability, timeliness and accuracy of the information
provided by the Master Servicer.
(b) In the event the Trustee receives a certified copy of an order of
the appropriate court that any scheduled payment of principal or interest on a
Class 1-A-3B or Class 2-A-3B Certificate has been voided in whole or in part
as a preference payment under applicable bankruptcy law, the Trustee shall (i)
promptly notify the Certificate Insurer and (ii) comply with the provisions of
the Policy, to obtain payment by the Certificate Insurer of such voided
scheduled payment. In addition, the Trustee shall mail notice to all Holders
of the Class 1-A-3B or Class 2-A-3B Certificates so affected that, in the
event that any such Holder's scheduled payment is so recovered, such Holder
will be entitled to payment pursuant to the terms of the Policy, a copy of
which shall be made available to such Holders by the Trustee. The Trustee
shall furnish to the Certificate Insurer its records listing the payments on
the affected Class 1-A-3B or Class 2-A-3B Certificates, if any, that have been
made by the Trustee and subsequently recovered from the affected Holders, and
the dates on which such payments were made by the Trustee.
(c) At the time of the execution hereof, and for the purposes hereof,
the Trustee shall establish a special purpose trust account in the name of the
Trustee for the benefit of Holders of the Class 1-A-3B or Class 2-A-3B
Certificates (the "Policy Payments Account") over which the Trustee shall have
exclusive control and sole right of withdrawal. The Policy Payments Account
shall be an Eligible Account. The Trustee shall deposit any amount paid under
the Policy into the Policy Payments Account and distribute such amount only
for the purposes of making the payments to Holders of the Class 1-A-3B or
Class 2-A-3B Certificates, in respect of the related Deficiency Amount for
which the related claim was made under the Policy. Such amounts shall be
allocated by the Trustee to Holders of Class 1-A-3B or Class 2-A-3B
Certificates affected by such shortfalls in the same manner as principal and
interest payments are to be allocated with respect to such Certificates
pursuant to Section 4.04. It shall not be necessary for such payments to be
made by checks or wire transfers separated from the checks or wire transfers
used to make regular payments hereunder with funds withdrawn from the
Distribution Account. However, any payments made on the Class 1-A-3B or Class
2-A-3B Certificates from funds in the Policy Payments Account shall be noted
as provided in subsection (e) below. Funds held in the Policy Payments Account
shall not be invested by the Trustee.
(d) Any funds received from the Certificate Insurer for deposit into
the Policy Payments Account pursuant to the Policy in respect of a
Distribution Date or otherwise as a result of any claim under the Policy shall
be applied by the Trustee directly to the payment in full (i) of the related
Deficiency Amount on such Distribution Date or (ii) of other amounts payable
under the Policy. Funds received by the Trustee as a result of any claim under
the Policy shall be used solely for payment to the Holders of the Class 1-A-3B
or Class 2-A-3B Certificates and may not be applied for any other purpose,
including,
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without limitation, satisfaction of any costs, expenses or liabilities of the
Trustee, the Master Servicer or the Trust Fund. Any funds remaining in the
Policy Payments Account on the first Business Day after each Distribution Date
shall be remitted promptly to the Certificate Insurer in accordance with the
instructions set forth in Section 4.10.
(e) The Trustee shall keep complete and accurate records in respect
of (i) all funds remitted to it by the Certificate Insurer and deposited into
the Policy Payments Account and (ii) the allocation of such funds to (A)
payments of interest on and principal in respect of any Class 1-A-3B or Class
2-A-3B Certificates and (B) the amount of funds available to make
distributions on the Class 1-A-3B or Class 2-A-3B Certificates pursuant to
Sections 4.04(a), (b) and (d). The Certificate Insurer shall have the right to
inspect such records at reasonable times during normal business hours upon
three Business Days' prior notice to the Trustee.
(f) The Trustee acknowledges, and each Holder of a Class 1-A-3B or
Class 2-A-3B Certificate by its acceptance of the Class 1-A-3B or Class 2-A-3B
Certificate agrees, that, without the need for any further action on the part
of the Certificate Insurer or the Trustee, to the extent the Certificate
Insurer makes payments, directly or indirectly, on account of principal of or
interest on any Class 1-A-3B or Class 2-A-3B Certificates, the Certificate
Insurer will be fully subrogated to the rights of the Holders of such Class
1-A-3B or Class 2-A-3B Certificates to receive such principal and interest
from the Trust Fund. The Holders of the Class 1-A-3B or Class 2-A-3B
Certificates, by acceptance of the Class 1-A-3B or Class 2-A-3B Certificates,
assign their rights as Holders of the Class 1-A-3B or Class 2-A-3B
Certificates to the extent of the Certificate Insurer's interest with respect
to amounts paid under the Policy. Anything herein to the contrary
notwithstanding, solely for purposes of determining the Certificate Insurer's
rights, as applicable, as subrogee for payments distributable pursuant to
Section 4.04, any payment with respect to distributions to the Class 1-A-3B or
Class 2-A-3B Certificates which is made with funds received pursuant to the
terms of the Policy shall not be considered payment of the Class 1-A-3B or
Class 2-A-3B Certificates from the Trust Fund and shall not result in the
distribution or the provision for the distribution in reduction of the Class
Certificate Balance of the Class 1-A-3B or Class 2-A-3B Certificates within
the meaning of Article IV.
(g) Upon its becoming aware of the occurrence of an Event of Default,
the Trustee shall promptly notify the Certificate Insurer of such Event of
Default.
(h) The Trustee shall promptly notify the Certificate Insurer of
either of the following as to which it has actual knowledge: (A) the
commencement of any proceeding by or against the Depositor commenced under the
United States bankruptcy code or any other applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
receivership, rehabilitation or similar law (an "Insolvency Proceeding") and
(B) the making of any claim in connection with any Insolvency Proceeding
seeking the avoidance as a preferential transfer (a "Preference Claim") of any
distribution made with respect to the Class 1-A-3B or Class 2-A-3B
Certificates as to which it has actual knowledge. Each Holder of a Class
1-A-3B or Class 2-A-3B Certificate, by its purchase of Class 1-A-3B or Class
2-A-3B Certificates, and the Trustee hereby agrees that the Certificate
Insurer (so long as no Certificate Insurer Default exists) may at any time
during the continuation of any proceeding relating to a Preference Claim
direct all matters relating to such Preference Claim, including, without
limitation, (i) the direction of any appeal of any order relating to any
Preference Claim and (ii) the posting of any surety, supersedes or performance
bond pending any such appeal. In addition and without limitation of the
foregoing, the Certificate Insurer shall be subrogated to the rights of the
Trustee and each Holder of a Class 1-A-3B or Class 2-A-3B Certificate in the
conduct of any Preference Claim, including, without limitation, all rights of
any party to an adversary proceeding action with respect to any court order
issued in connection with any such Preference Claim.
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(i) The Master Servicer shall designate a Certificate Insurer Contact
Person who shall be available to the Certificate Insurer to provide reasonable
access to information regarding the Mortgage Loans. The initial Certificate
Insurer Contact Person is to the attention of Transaction Management:
Secondary Marketing.
(j) The Trustee shall surrender the Policy to the Certificate Insurer
for cancellation upon the reduction of the aggregate Class Certificate Balance
of the Class 1-A-3B and Class 2-A-3B Certificates to zero.
(k) The Trustee shall send to the Certificate Insurer the reports
prepared pursuant to Sections 3.17 and 3.18 and the statements prepared
pursuant to Section 4.05, as well as any other statements or communications
sent to Holders of the Class 1-A-3B or Class 2-A-3B Certificates, in each case
at the same time such reports, statements and communications are otherwise
sent.
(l) For so long as there is no continuing default by the Certificate
Insurer under its obligations under the Policy (a "Certificate Insurer
Default"), each Holder of a Class 1-A-3B or Class 2-A-3B Certificate agrees
that the Certificate Insurer shall be treated by the Depositor, the Master
Servicer and the Trustee as if the Certificate Insurer were the Holder of all
of the Class 1-A-3B or Class 2-A-3B Certificates, for the purpose (and solely
for the purpose) of the giving of any consent, the making of any direction or
the exercise of any voting or other control rights otherwise given to the
Holders of the Class 1-A-3B or Class 2-A-3B Certificates under this Agreement.
(m) With respect to this Section 4.10, the terms "Receipt" and
"Received" shall mean actual delivery to the Certificate Insurer, if any,
prior to 12:00 p.m., New York time, on a Business Day; delivery either on a
day that is not a Business Day or after 12:00 p.m., New York time, shall be
deemed to be Receipt on the next succeeding Business Day. If any notice or
certificate given under the Policy by the Trustee is not in proper form or is
not properly completed, executed or delivered, it shall be deemed not to have
been Received. The Certificate Insurer shall promptly so advise the Trustee
and the Trustee may submit an amended notice.
(n) All notices, statements reports, certificates or opinions
required by this Agreement to be sent to the Rating Agencies or the Class
1-A-3B or Class 2-A-3B Certificateholders shall also be sent at such time to
the Certificate Insurer at the notice address set forth in Section 10.05.
(o) The Certificate Insurer shall be an express third party
beneficiary of this Agreement for the purpose of enforcing the provisions
hereof to the extent of the Certificate Insurer's rights explicitly specified
herein as if a party hereto.
(p) All references in this Agreement to the ratings assigned to the
Certificates and to the interests of any Certificateholders shall be without
regard to the Policy, in the case of the Class 1-A-3B or Class 2-A-3B
Certificates.
(q) Payments to the Certificate Insurer will be made by wire transfer
of immediately available funds to the following account, unless the
Certificate Insurer notifies the Trustee in writing: Account Name: Ambac
Assurance Corporation, Citibank, NA, ABA # 000000000, DDA# 40609486, Re:
IndyMac INDX 2005-AR18.
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ARTICLE Five
THE CERTIFICATES
Section 5.01 The Certificates.
The Certificates shall be substantially in the forms attached hereto
as exhibits. The Certificates shall be issuable in registered form, in the
minimum denominations, integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof (except
that one Certificate in each Class may be issued in a different amount which
must exceed the applicable minimum denomination) and aggregate denominations
per Class set forth in the Preliminary Statement.
Subject to Section 9.02 respecting the final distribution on the
Certificates, on each Distribution Date the Trustee shall make distributions
to each Certificateholder of record on the preceding Record Date either (x) by
wire transfer in immediately available funds to the account of such holder at
a bank or other entity having appropriate facilities therefor, if such Holder
has so notified the Trustee at least five Business Days before the related
Record Date or (y) by check mailed by first class mail to such
Certificateholder at the address of such holder appearing in the Certificate
Register.
The Trustee shall execute the Certificates by the manual or facsimile
signature of an authorized officer. Certificates bearing the manual or
facsimile signatures of individuals who were, at the time such signatures were
affixed, authorized to sign on behalf of the Trustee shall bind the Trustee,
notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to be so
authorized before the countersignature and delivery of any such Certificates
or did not hold such offices at the date of such Certificate. No Certificate
shall be entitled to any benefit under this Agreement, or be valid for any
purpose, unless countersigned by the Trustee by manual signature, and such
countersignature upon any Certificate shall be conclusive evidence, and the
only evidence, that such Certificate has been duly executed and delivered
hereunder. All Certificates shall be dated the date of their countersignature.
On the Closing Date, the Trustee shall countersign the Certificates to be
issued at the direction of the Depositor, or any affiliate thereof.
The Depositor shall provide the Trustee, on a continuous basis with
an adequate inventory of Certificates to facilitate transfers.
Section 5.02 Certificate Register; Registration of Transfer and
Exchange of Certificates.
(a) The Trustee shall maintain, in accordance with Section 5.06, a
Certificate Register for the Trust Fund in which, subject to subsections (b)
and (c) below and to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the
Trustee shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers
and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. Upon surrender for
registration of transfer of any Certificate, the Trustee shall execute and
deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more
new Certificates of the same Class and aggregate Percentage Interest.
At the option of a Certificateholder, Certificates may be exchanged
for other Certificates of the same Class in authorized denominations and
evidencing the same aggregate Percentage Interest upon surrender of the
Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency of the Trustee. Whenever
any Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Trustee shall execute,
authenticate, and deliver the Certificates that the Certificateholder making
the exchange is entitled to receive. A written instrument of transfer in form
satisfactory to the Trustee duly executed by the holder of a Certificate or
his attorney duly authorized in writing shall accompany every Certificate
presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
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No service charge to the Certificateholders shall be made for any
registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but payment of a sum
sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in
connection with any transfer or exchange of Certificates may be required.
All Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange
shall be cancelled and subsequently destroyed by the Trustee in accordance
with the Trustee's customary procedures.
(b) No transfer of a Private Certificate shall be made unless such
transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the
Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the
registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities
laws. If a transfer is to be made in reliance on an exemption from the
Securities Act and such state securities laws, to assure compliance with the
Securities Act and such state securities laws, the Certificateholder desiring
to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder's prospective transferee
shall each certify to the Trustee in writing the facts surrounding the
transfer in substantially the form set forth in Exhibit J (the "Transferor
Certificate") and deliver to the Trustee either (i) a letter in substantially
the form of either Exhibit K (the "Investment Letter") or Exhibit L (the "Rule
144A Letter") or (ii) at the expense of the transferor, an Opinion of Counsel
that the transfer may be made without registration under the Securities Act.
The Depositor shall provide to any Holder of a Private Certificate and any
prospective transferee designated by that Holder, information regarding the
related Certificates and the Mortgage Loans and any other information
necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility in Rule 144A(d)(4) for
transfer of the Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities
Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. The Trustee
and the Master Servicer shall cooperate with the Depositor in providing the
Rule 144A information referenced in the preceding sentence, including
providing to the Depositor such information regarding the Certificates, the
Mortgage Loans, and other matters regarding the Trust Fund as the Depositor
reasonably requests to meet its obligation under the preceding sentence. Each
Holder of a Private Certificate desiring to effect a transfer shall, and does
hereby agree to, indemnify the Trustee, the Depositor, the Seller, and the
Master Servicer against any liability that may result if the transfer is not
so exempt or is not made in accordance with such federal and state laws.
No transfer of an ERISA-Restricted Certificate shall be made unless
the Trustee shall have received either (i) a representation from the
transferee of such Certificate acceptable to and in form and substance
satisfactory to the Trustee (if the Certificate is a Private Certificate, the
requirement is satisfied only by the Trustee's receipt of a representation
letter from the transferee substantially in the form of Exhibit K or Exhibit
L, and if the Certificate is a Residual Certificate, the requirement is
satisfied only by the Trustee's receipt of a representation letter from the
transferee substantially in the form of Exhibit I), to the effect that (x) the
transferee is not an employee benefit plan or arrangement subject to section
406 of ERISA or a plan subject to section 4975 of the Code, or a person acting
on behalf of any such plan or arrangement or using the assets of any such plan
or arrangement to effect the transfer, or (y) if the ERISA-Restricted
Certificate has been the subject of an ERISA-Qualifying Underwriting, a
representation that the transferee is an insurance company that is purchasing
such Certificate with funds contained in an "insurance company general
account" (as such term is defined in Section V(e) of Prohibited Transaction
Class Exemption 95-60 ("PTCE 95-60") and that the purchase and holding of such
Certificate satisfy the requirements for exemptive relief under Sections I and
III of PTCE 95-60, or (ii) in the case of any ERISA-Restricted Certificate
presented for registration in the name of an employee benefit plan subject to
ERISA, or a plan or arrangement subject to section 4975 of the Code (or
comparable provisions of any subsequent enactments), or a trustee of any such
plan or any other person acting on behalf of any such plan or arrangement or
using such plan's or arrangement's assets, an Opinion of Counsel satisfactory
to the Trustee, which Opinion of Counsel shall not be an expense of the
Trustee, the Master Servicer or the Trust Fund, addressed to the Trustee and
the Master Servicer, to the effect that the purchase and holding of such
ERISA-Restricted Certificate will not result in a non-exempt prohibited
transaction under ERISA or section 4975 of the Code and will not subject the
Trustee or the Master
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Servicer to any obligation in addition to those expressly undertaken in this
Agreement or to any liability. For purposes of the preceding sentence, with
respect to an ERISA-Restricted Certificate that is not a Residual Certificate,
if the representation letter or Opinion of Counsel referred to in the
preceding sentence is not furnished, the appropriate representation in clause
(i) shall be deemed to have been made to the Trustee by the transferee's
(including an initial acquirer's) acceptance of the ERISA-Restricted
Certificates. If the representation is violated, or any attempt is made to
transfer to a plan or arrangement subject to section 406 of ERISA or a plan
subject to section 4975 of the Code, or a person acting on behalf of any such
plan or arrangement or using the assets of any such plan or arrangement,
without the Opinion of Counsel described above, the attempted transfer or
acquisition shall be void.
To the extent permitted under applicable law (including ERISA), the
Trustee shall be under no liability to any Person for any registration of
transfer of any ERISA-Restricted Certificate that is in fact not permitted by
this Section 5.02(b) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the
Holder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under
this Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Trustee in
accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(c) Each Person who has or who acquires any Ownership Interest in a
Residual Certificate shall be deemed by the acceptance or acquisition of such
Ownership Interest to have agreed to be bound by the following provisions, and
the rights of each Person acquiring any Ownership Interest in a Residual
Certificate are expressly subject to the following provisions:
(i) Each Person holding or acquiring any Ownership Interest
in a Residual Certificate shall be a Permitted Transferee and shall
promptly notify the Trustee of any change or impending change in its
status as a Permitted Transferee.
(ii) No Ownership Interest in a Residual Certificate may be
registered on the Closing Date or thereafter transferred, and the
Trustee shall not register the Transfer of any Residual Certificate
unless, in addition to the certificates required to be delivered to
the Trustee under subparagraph (b) above, the Trustee shall have been
furnished with an affidavit (a "Transfer Affidavit") of the initial
owner or the proposed transferee in the form of Exhibit I.
(iii) Each Person holding or acquiring any Ownership
Interest in a Residual Certificate shall agree (A) to obtain a
Transfer Affidavit from any other Person to whom such Person attempts
to Transfer its Ownership Interest in a Residual Certificate, (B) to
obtain a Transfer Affidavit from any Person for whom such Person is
acting as nominee, trustee or agent in connection with any Transfer
of a Residual Certificate and (C) not to Transfer its Ownership
Interest in a Residual Certificate or to cause the Transfer of an
Ownership Interest in a Residual Certificate to any other Person if
it has actual knowledge that such Person is not a Permitted
Transferee.
(iv) Any attempted or purported Transfer of any Ownership
Interest in a Residual Certificate in violation of this Section
5.02(c) shall be absolutely null and void and shall vest no rights in
the purported Transferee. If any purported transferee shall become a
Holder of a Residual Certificate in violation of this Section
5.02(c), then the last preceding Permitted Transferee shall be
restored to all rights as Holder thereof retroactive to the date of
registration of Transfer of such Residual Certificate. The Trustee
shall be under no liability to any Person for any registration of
Transfer of a Residual Certificate that is in fact not permitted by
Section 5.02(b) and this Section 5.02(c) or for making any payments
due on such Certificate to the Holder thereof or taking any other
action with respect to such Holder under this Agreement so long as
the Transfer was registered after receipt of the related Transfer
Affidavit, Transferor Certificate and either the Rule 144A Letter or
the Investment Letter. The Trustee shall be entitled but not
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obligated to recover from any Holder of a Residual Certificate that
was in fact not a Permitted Transferee at the time it became a Holder
or, at such subsequent time as it became other than a Permitted
Transferee, all payments made on such Residual Certificate at and
after either such time. Any such payments so recovered by the Trustee
shall be paid and delivered by the Trustee to the last preceding
Permitted Transferee of such Certificate.
(v) The Depositor shall use its best efforts to make
available, upon receipt of written request from the Trustee, all
information necessary to compute any tax imposed under section
860E(e) of the Code as a result of a Transfer of an Ownership
Interest in a Residual Certificate to any Holder who is not a
Permitted Transferee.
The restrictions on Transfers of a Residual Certificate set forth in
this Section 5.02(c) shall cease to apply (and the applicable portions of the
legend on a Residual Certificate may be deleted) with respect to Transfers
occurring after delivery to the Trustee of an Opinion of Counsel, which
Opinion of Counsel shall not be an expense of the Trust Fund, the Trustee, the
Seller or the Master Servicer, to the effect that the elimination of such
restrictions will not cause any REMIC created under this Agreement to fail to
qualify as a REMIC at any time that the Certificates are outstanding or result
in the imposition of any tax on the Trust Fund, a Certificateholder or another
Person. Each Person holding or acquiring any Ownership Interest in a Residual
Certificate hereby consents to any amendment of this Agreement which, based on
an Opinion of Counsel furnished to the Trustee, is reasonably necessary (a) to
ensure that the record ownership of, or any beneficial interest in, a Residual
Certificate is not transferred, directly or indirectly, to a Person that is
not a Permitted Transferee and (b) to provide for a means to compel the
Transfer of a Residual Certificate which is held by a Person that is not a
Permitted Transferee to a Holder that is a Permitted Transferee.
(d) The preparation and delivery of all certificates and opinions
referred to above in this Section 5.02 in connection with transfer shall be at
the expense of the parties to such transfers.
(e) Except as provided below, the Book-Entry Certificates shall at
all times remain registered in the name of the Depository or its nominee and
at all times: (i) registration of the Certificates may not be transferred by
the Trustee except to another Depository; (ii) the Depository shall maintain
book-entry records with respect to the Certificate Owners and with respect to
ownership and transfers of such Book-Entry Certificates; (iii) ownership and
transfers of registration of the Book-Entry Certificates on the books of the
Depository shall be governed by applicable rules established by the
Depository; (iv) the Depository may collect its usual and customary fees,
charges and expenses from its Depository Participants; (v) the Trustee shall
deal with the Depository, Depository Participants and Indirect Participants as
representatives of the Certificate Owners of the Book-Entry Certificates for
purposes of exercising the rights of holders under this Agreement, and
requests and directions for and votes of such representatives shall not be
deemed to be inconsistent if they are made with respect to different
Certificate Owners; and (vi) the Trustee may rely and shall be fully protected
in relying upon information furnished by the Depository with respect to its
Depository Participants and furnished by the Depository Participants with
respect to Indirect Participants and persons shown on the books of such
Indirect Participants as direct or indirect Certificate Owners.
All transfers by Certificate Owners of Book-Entry Certificates shall
be made in accordance with the procedures established by the Depository
Participant or brokerage firm representing the Certificate Owner. Each
Depository Participant shall only transfer Book-Entry Certificates of
Certificate Owners it represents or of brokerage firms for which it acts as
agent in accordance with the Depository's normal procedures.
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If (x) (i) the Depository or the Depositor advises the Trustee in
writing that the Depository is no longer willing or able to properly discharge
its responsibilities as Depository, and (ii) the Trustee or the Depositor is
unable to locate a qualified successor or (y) after the occurrence of an Event
of Default, Certificate Owners representing at least 51% of the Certificate
Balance of the Book-Entry Certificates together advise the Trustee and the
Depository through the Depository Participants in writing that the
continuation of a book-entry system through the Depository is no longer in the
best interests of the Certificate Owners, the Trustee shall notify all
Certificate Owners, through the Depository, of the occurrence of any such
event and of the availability of definitive, fully-registered Certificates
(the "Definitive Certificates") to Certificate Owners requesting the same.
Upon surrender to the Trustee of the related Class of Certificates by the
Depository, accompanied by the instructions from the Depository for
registration, the Trustee shall issue the Definitive Certificates. Neither the
Master Servicer, the Depositor nor the Trustee shall be liable for any delay
in delivery of such instruction and each may conclusively rely on, and shall
be protected in relying on, such instructions. The Master Servicer shall
provide the Trustee with an adequate inventory of certificates to facilitate
the issuance and transfer of Definitive Certificates. Upon the issuance of
Definitive Certificates all references herein to obligations imposed upon or
to be performed by the Depository shall be deemed to be imposed upon and
performed by the Trustee, to the extent applicable with respect to such
Definitive Certificates and the Trustee shall recognize the Holders of the
Definitive Certificates as Certificateholders hereunder; provided that the
Trustee shall not by virtue of its assumption of such obligations become
liable to any party for any act or failure to act of the Depository.
Section 5.03 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Certificates.
If (a) any mutilated Certificate is surrendered to the Trustee, or
(b) the Trustee receives evidence to its satisfaction of the destruction,
loss, or theft of any Certificate and the Master Servicer and the Trustee
(and, with respect to the Class 1-A-3B and Class 2-A-3B Certificates, the
Certificate Insurer) receive the security or indemnity required by them to
hold each of them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Trustee that
the Certificate has been acquired by a Protected Purchaser, and if the
requirements of Section 8-406 of the UCC are met and subject to Section 8-405
of the UCC, the Trustee shall execute, countersign, and deliver, in exchange
for or in lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost, or stolen Certificate,
a new Certificate of like Class, tenor, and Percentage Interest. In connection
with the issuance of any new Certificate under this Section 5.03, the Trustee
may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other
expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith.
Any replacement Certificate issued pursuant to this Section 5.03 shall
constitute complete and indefeasible evidence of ownership, as if originally
issued, whether or not the lost, stolen, or destroyed Certificate is found at
any time.
Section 5.04 Persons Deemed Owners.
The Master Servicer, the Trustee or the Certificate Insurer and any
agent of the Master Servicer, the Trustee or the Certificate Insurer may treat
the Person in whose name any Certificate is registered as the owner of such
Certificate for the purpose of receiving distributions as provided in this
Agreement and for all other purposes whatsoever, and none of the Master
Servicer, the Trustee or the Certificate Insurer, nor any agent of the Master
Servicer, the Trustee or the Certificate Insurer shall be affected by any
notice to the contrary.
Section 5.05 Access to List of Certificateholders' Names and
Addresses.
If three or more Certificateholders and/or Certificate Owners (a)
request such information in writing from the Trustee, (b) state that such
Certificateholders and/or Certificate Owners desire to
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communicate with other Certificateholders and/or Certificate Owners with
respect to their rights under this Agreement or under the Certificates, and
(c) provide a copy of the communication which such Certificateholders and/or
Certificate Owners propose to transmit, or if the Depositor or Master Servicer
shall request such information in writing from the Trustee, then the Trustee
shall, within ten Business Days after the receipt of such request, provide the
Depositor, the Master Servicer or such Certificateholders and/or Certificate
Owners at such recipients' expense the most recent list of the
Certificateholders of such Trust Fund held by the Trustee. The Depositor and
every Certificateholder and/or Certificate Owner, by receiving and holding a
Certificate, agree that the Trustee shall not be held accountable because of
the disclosure of any such information as to the list of the
Certificateholders hereunder, regardless of the source from which such
information was derived.
Section 5.06 Maintenance of Office or Agency.
The Trustee will maintain at its expense an office or offices or
agency or agencies in New York City located at c/o DTC Transfer Services, 00
Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx Xxxx Entrance, New York, New York 10041, where
Certificates may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange. The
Trustee will give prompt written notice to the Certificateholders and the
Certificate Insurer of any change in such location of any such office or
agency.
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ARTICLE Six
THE DEPOSITOR AND THE MASTER SERVICER
Section 6.01 Respective Liabilities of the Depositor and the Master
Servicer.
The Depositor and the Master Servicer shall each be liable in
accordance with this Agreement only to the extent of the obligations
specifically and respectively imposed upon and undertaken by them in this
Agreement.
Section 6.02 Merger or Consolidation of the Depositor or the Master
Servicer.
The Depositor and the Master Servicer will each keep in full effect
their existence and their rights and franchises as a corporation and a federal
savings bank, respectively, under the laws of the United States or under the
laws of one of the states thereof and will each obtain and preserve its
qualification to do business as a foreign corporation in each jurisdiction in
which such qualification is or shall be necessary to protect the validity and
enforceability of this Agreement, or any of the Mortgage Loans and to perform
its respective duties under this Agreement.
Any Person into which the Depositor or the Master Servicer may be
merged or consolidated, or any Person resulting from any merger or
consolidation to which the Depositor or the Master Servicer shall be a party,
or any person succeeding to the business of the Depositor or the Master
Servicer, shall be the successor of the Depositor or the Master Servicer, as
the case may be, hereunder, without the execution or filing of any paper or
any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto, anything herein to
the contrary notwithstanding; provided, however, that the successor or
surviving Person to the Master Servicer shall be qualified to sell mortgage
loans to, and to service mortgage loans on behalf of, FNMA or FHLMC.
Section 6.03 Limitation on Liability of the Depositor, the Seller,
the Master Servicer, and Others.
None of the Depositor, the Seller, the Master Servicer or any of the
directors, officers, employees or agents of the Depositor, the Seller or the
Master Servicer shall be under any liability to the Certificateholders for any
action taken or for refraining from the taking of any action in good faith
pursuant to this Agreement, or for errors in judgment; provided, however, that
this provision shall not protect the Depositor, the Seller, the Master
Servicer or any such Person against any breach of representations or
warranties made by it herein or protect the Depositor, the Seller, the Master
Servicer or any such Person from any liability which would otherwise be
imposed by reasons of willful misfeasance, bad faith or gross negligence in
the performance of duties or because of reckless disregard of obligations and
duties hereunder. The Depositor, the Seller, the Master Servicer, and any
director, officer, employee or agent of the Depositor, the Seller or the
Master Servicer may rely in good faith on any document of any kind prima facie
properly executed and submitted by any Person respecting any matters arising
hereunder. The Depositor, the Seller, the Master Servicer, and any director,
officer, employee or agent of the Depositor, the Seller or the Master Servicer
shall be indemnified by the Trust Fund and held harmless against any loss,
liability or expense incurred in connection with any audit, controversy or
judicial proceeding relating to a governmental taxing authority or any legal
action relating to this Agreement or the Certificates, other than any loss,
liability or expense related to any specific Mortgage Loan or Mortgage Loans
(except as any such loss, liability or expense shall be otherwise reimbursable
pursuant to this Agreement) and any loss, liability or expense incurred
because of willful misfeasance, bad faith or gross negligence in the
performance of duties hereunder or because of reckless disregard of
obligations and duties hereunder. None of the Depositor, the Seller or the
Master Servicer shall be under any
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obligation to appear in, prosecute or defend any legal action that is not
incidental to its respective duties hereunder and which in its opinion may
involve it in any expense or liability; provided, however, that any of the
Depositor, the Seller or the Master Servicer may in its discretion undertake
any such action that it may deem appropriate in respect of this Agreement and
the rights and duties of the parties hereto and interests of the Trustee and
the Certificateholders hereunder. In such event, the legal expenses and costs
of such action and any liability resulting therefrom shall be expenses, costs
and liabilities of the Trust Fund, and the Depositor, the Seller, and the
Master Servicer shall be entitled to be reimbursed therefor out of the
Certificate Account.
Section 6.04 Limitation on Resignation of the Master Servicer.
The Master Servicer shall not resign from the obligations and duties
hereby imposed on it except (a) upon appointment of a successor servicer and
receipt by the Trustee of a letter from each Rating Agency that such a
resignation and appointment will not result in a downgrading, qualification or
withdrawal of the rating of any of the Certificates (without regard to the
Policy) or (b) upon determination that its duties under this Agreement are no
longer permissible under applicable law. Any such determination under clause
(b) permitting the resignation of the Master Servicer shall be evidenced by an
Opinion of Counsel to such effect delivered to the Trustee. No such
resignation shall become effective until the Trustee or a successor master
servicer shall have assumed the Master Servicer's responsibilities, duties,
liabilities and obligations under this Agreement.
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ARTICLE Seven
DEFAULT
Section 7.01 Events of Default.
"Event of Default," wherever used in this Agreement, means any one of
the following events:
(a) any failure by the Master Servicer to deposit in the Certificate
Account or remit to the Trustee any payment required to be made by it under
this Agreement, which failure continues unremedied for five days after the
date on which written notice of the failure has been given to the Master
Servicer by the Trustee or the Depositor or to the Master Servicer and the
Trustee by the Holders of Certificates of any Class evidencing not less than
25% of the aggregate Percentage Interests of the Class; or
(b) any failure by the Master Servicer to observe or perform in any
material respect any other of the covenants or agreements on the part of the
Master Servicer contained in this Agreement, which failure materially affects
the rights of Certificateholders and continues unremedied for a period of 60
days after the date on which written notice of such failure shall have been
given to the Master Servicer by the Trustee or the Depositor, or to the Master
Servicer and the Trustee by the Holders of Certificates of any Class
evidencing not less than 25% of the Percentage Interests of the Class;
provided that the sixty-day cure period shall not apply to the initial
delivery of the Mortgage File for Delay Delivery Mortgage Loans nor the
failure to repurchase or substitute in lieu thereof; or
(c) a decree or order of a court or agency or supervisory authority
having jurisdiction in the premises for the appointment of a receiver,
conservator or liquidator in any insolvency, readjustment of debt, marshalling
of assets and liabilities or similar proceedings, or for the winding-up or
liquidation of its affairs, shall have been entered against the Master
Servicer and such decree or order shall have remained in force undischarged or
unstayed for a period of 60 consecutive days; or
(d) the Master Servicer shall consent to the appointment of a
receiver, conservator or liquidator in any insolvency, readjustment of debt,
marshalling of assets and liabilities or similar proceedings of or relating to
the Master Servicer or all or substantially all of the property of the Master
Servicer; or
(e) the Master Servicer shall admit in writing its inability to pay
its debts generally as they become due, file a petition to take advantage of,
or commence a voluntary case under, any applicable insolvency or
reorganization statute, make an assignment for the benefit of its creditors,
or voluntarily suspend payment of its obligations; or
(f) the Master Servicer shall fail (i) to make an Advance on the
Master Servicer Advance Date or (ii) to reimburse in full the Trustee within
two days of the Master Servicer Advance Date for any Advance made by the
Trustee pursuant to Section 4.01(b).
If an Event of Default described in clauses (a) through (f) of this
Section 7.01 occurs, then, and in each and every such case, so long as such
Event of Default shall not have been remedied, the Trustee may, or at the
direction of the Holders of Certificates evidencing Percentage Interests
aggregating not less than 66 2/3% (subject to the consent of the Certificate
Insurer), the Trustee shall by notice in writing to the Master Servicer (with
a copy to each Rating Agency), terminate all of the rights and obligations of
the Master Servicer under this Agreement and in the Mortgage Loans and the
proceeds thereof, other than its rights as a Certificateholder hereunder. On
and after the receipt by the Master Servicer of such written notice, all
authority and power of the Master Servicer hereunder, whether with respect to
the Mortgage Loans or otherwise, shall pass to and be vested in the Trustee.
The Trustee shall make any Advance that
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the Master Servicer failed to make subject to Section 3.05, whether or not the
obligations of the Master Servicer have been terminated pursuant to this
Section. The Trustee is hereby authorized and empowered to execute and
deliver, on behalf of the Master Servicer, as attorney-in-fact or otherwise,
any documents and other instruments, and to do or accomplish all other acts or
things necessary or appropriate to effect the purposes of such notice of
termination, whether to complete the transfer and endorsement or assignment of
the Mortgage Loans and related documents, or otherwise. Unless expressly
provided in such written notice, no such termination shall affect any
obligation of the Master Servicer to pay amounts owed pursuant to Article
VIII. The Master Servicer agrees to cooperate with the Trustee in effecting
the termination of the Master Servicer's responsibilities and rights
hereunder, including the transfer to the Trustee of all cash amounts which
shall at the time be credited to the Certificate Account, or thereafter be
received with respect to the Mortgage Loans. If the Master Servicer fails to
make any Advance required under Section 4.01 of this Agreement, thereby
triggering an Event of Default described in clause (f) of this Section 7.01,
the Trustee shall make such Advance on that Distribution Date.
Notwithstanding any termination of the activities of the Master
Servicer under this Agreement, the Master Servicer shall be entitled to
receive, out of any late collection of a Scheduled Payment on a Mortgage Loan
which was due before the notice terminating such Master Servicer's rights and
obligations as Master Servicer hereunder and received after such notice, that
portion thereof to which such Master Servicer would have been entitled
pursuant to Sections 3.09(a)(i) through (viii), and any other amounts payable
to such Master Servicer hereunder the entitlement to which arose before the
termination of its activities hereunder.
Section 7.02 Trustee to Act; Appointment of Successor.
On and after the time the Master Servicer receives a notice of
termination pursuant to Section 7.01, the Trustee shall, subject to and to the
extent provided in Section 3.05, be the successor to the Master Servicer in
its capacity as master servicer under this Agreement and the transactions set
forth or provided for herein and shall be subject to all the responsibilities,
duties and liabilities relating thereto placed on the Master Servicer by the
terms hereof and applicable law including the obligation to make Advances
pursuant to Section 4.01. As compensation therefor, the Trustee shall be
entitled to all funds relating to the Mortgage Loans that the Master Servicer
would have been entitled to charge to the Certificate Account or Distribution
Account if the Master Servicer had continued to act hereunder, including, if
the Master Servicer was receiving the Servicing Fee, the Servicing Fee.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Trustee has become the successor to the
Master Servicer in accordance with Section 7.01, the Trustee may, if it shall
be unwilling to so act, or shall, if it is prohibited by applicable law from
making Advances pursuant to Section 4.01 or if it is otherwise unable to so
act, appoint, or petition a court of competent jurisdiction to appoint, any
established mortgage loan servicing institution the appointment of which does
not adversely affect the then current rating of the Certificates by each
Rating Agency, as the successor to the Master Servicer hereunder in the
assumption of all or any part of the responsibilities, duties or liabilities
of the Master Servicer hereunder. Any successor to the Master Servicer shall
be an institution which is a FNMA and FHLMC approved seller/servicer in good
standing, which has a net worth of at least $15,000,000, which is willing to
service the Mortgage Loans and which executes and delivers to the Depositor
and the Trustee an agreement accepting such delegation and assignment,
containing an assumption by such Person of the rights, powers, duties,
responsibilities, obligations and liabilities of the Master Servicer (other
than liabilities of the Master Servicer under Section 6.03 incurred before
termination of the Master Servicer under Section 7.01), with like effect as if
originally named as a party to this Agreement; provided that each Rating
Agency acknowledges that its rating of the Certificates in effect immediately
before such assignment and delegation will not be qualified or reduced as a
result of such assignment and delegation. Pending appointment of a successor
to the Master Servicer hereunder, the Trustee shall act in such capacity as
provided above, subject to section 3.03 and unless prohibited by law. In
connection with such appointment and assumption, the Trustee may
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make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor out of payments
on Mortgage Loans as it and such successor shall agree; provided, however,
that in no case shall the rate of such compensation exceed the Servicing Fee
Rate. The Trustee and such successor shall take such action, consistent with
this Agreement, as shall be necessary to effectuate any such succession.
Neither the Trustee nor any other successor master servicer shall be deemed to
be in default hereunder because of any failure to make, or any delay in
making, any distribution hereunder or any portion thereof or any failure to
perform, or any delay in performing, any duties or responsibilities hereunder,
in either case caused by the failure of the Master Servicer to deliver or
provide, or any delay in delivering or providing, any cash, information,
documents or records to it.
In connection with the termination or resignation of the Master
Servicer hereunder, either (i) the successor Master Servicer, including the
Trustee if the Trustee is acting as successor Master Servicer, shall represent
and warrant that it is a member of MERS in good standing and shall agree to
comply in all material respects with the rules and procedures of MERS in
connection with the servicing of the Mortgage Loans that are registered with
MERS, or (ii) the predecessor Master Servicer shall cooperate with the
successor Master Servicer either (x) in causing MERS to execute and deliver an
assignment of Mortgage in recordable form to transfer the Mortgage from MERS
to the Trustee and to execute and deliver such other notices, documents and
other instruments as may be necessary or desirable to effect a transfer of
such Mortgage Loan or servicing of such Mortgage Loan on the MERS(R) System to
the successor Master Servicer or (y) in causing MERS to designate on the
MERS(R) System the successor Master Servicer as the servicer of such Mortgage
Loan. The predecessor Master Servicer shall file or cause to be filed any such
assignment in the appropriate recording office. The successor Master Servicer
shall cause such assignment to be delivered to the Trustee promptly upon
receipt of the original with evidence of recording thereon or a copy certified
by the public recording office in which such assignment was recorded.
Any successor to the Master Servicer as master servicer shall give
notice to the Mortgagors of such change of servicer and shall, during the term
of its service as master servicer, maintain in force the policy or policies
that the Master Servicer is required to maintain pursuant to this Agreement.
Section 7.03 Notification to Certificateholders.
(a) Upon any termination of or appointment of a successor to the
Master Servicer, the Trustee shall give prompt written notice thereof to
Certificateholders, to the Certificate Insurer and to each Rating Agency.
(b) Within 60 days after the occurrence of any Event of Default, the
Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Certificateholders and each Rating
Agency notice of each such Event of Default hereunder known to the Trustee,
unless such Event of Default shall have been cured or waived.
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ARTICLE Eight
CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE
Section 8.01 Duties of the Trustee.
The Trustee, before the occurrence of an Event of Default and after
the curing of all Events of Default that may have occurred, shall undertake to
perform such duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth in this
Agreement. In case an Event of Default has occurred and remains uncured, the
Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this
Agreement, and use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise as a
prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of
such person's own affairs.
The Trustee, upon receipt of all resolutions, certificates,
statements, opinions, reports, documents, orders or other instruments
furnished to the Trustee that are specifically required to be furnished
pursuant to any provision of this Agreement shall examine them to determine
whether they are in the form required by this Agreement. The Trustee shall not
be responsible for the accuracy or content of any such resolution,
certificate, statement, opinion, report, document, order, or other instrument.
No provision of this Agreement shall be construed to relieve the
Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure
to act or its own willful misconduct; provided, however, that, unless an Event
of Default known to the Trustee has occurred and is continuing,
(a) the duties and obligations of the Trustee shall be determined
solely by the express provisions of this Agreement, the Trustee shall not be
liable except for the performance of the duties and obligations specifically
set forth in this Agreement, no implied covenants or obligations shall be read
into this Agreement against the Trustee, and the Trustee may conclusively
rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions
expressed therein, upon any certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee
and conforming to the requirements of this Agreement which it believed in good
faith to be genuine and to have been duly executed by the proper authorities
respecting any matters arising hereunder;
(b) the Trustee shall not be liable for an error of judgment made in
good faith by a Responsible Officer or Responsible Officers of the Trustee,
unless it is finally proven that the Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the
pertinent facts; and
(c) the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken,
suffered, or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the
direction of Holders of Certificates evidencing not less than 25% of the
Voting Rights (subject to the consent of the Certificate Insurer, which
consent shall not be unreasonably withheld) relating to the time, method, and
place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or
exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee under this Agreement.
As long as any Voting Rights are held by parties other than the Seller, its
Affiliates, or its agents, Voting Rights of Certificates held by the Seller,
its Affiliates or its agents will be excluded from participating in such
voting arrangements, and excluded from determining the 25% threshold.
Section 8.02 Certain Matters Affecting the Trustee.
Except as otherwise provided in Section 8.01:
(a) the Trustee may request and rely upon and shall be protected in
acting or refraining from acting upon any resolution, Officer's Certificate,
certificate of auditors or any other certificate, statement,
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instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, consent, order, appraisal, bond
or other paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been
signed or presented by the proper party or parties and the Trustee shall have
no responsibility to ascertain or confirm the genuineness of any signature of
any such party or parties;
(b) the Trustee may consult with counsel, financial advisers or
accountants and the advice of any such counsel, financial advisers or
accountants and any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete
authorization and protection in respect of any action taken or suffered or
omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in accordance with such Opinion of
Counsel;
(c) the Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken, suffered or
omitted by it in good faith and believed by it to be authorized or within the
discretion or rights or powers conferred upon it by this Agreement;
(d) the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the
facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument,
opinion, report, notice, request, consent, order, approval, bond or other
paper or document, unless requested in writing so to do by Holders of
Certificates evidencing not less than 25% of the Voting Rights allocated to
each Class of Certificates;
(e) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or
perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents,
accountants or attorneys and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any
misconduct or negligence on the part of any agents, accountants or attorneys
appointed with due care by it hereunder;
(f) the Trustee shall not be required to risk or expend its own funds
or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its
duties or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers hereunder if it shall
have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate
indemnity against such risk or liability is not assured to it;
(g) the Trustee shall not be liable for any loss on any investment of
funds pursuant to this Agreement (other than as issuer of the investment
security);
(h) the Trustee shall not be deemed to have knowledge of an Event of
Default until a Responsible Officer of the Trustee shall have received written
notice thereof;
(i) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the
trusts, rights or powers vested in it by this Agreement or to institute,
conduct or defend any litigation hereunder or in relation hereto at the
request, order or direction of any of the Certificateholders, pursuant to this
Agreement, unless such Certificateholders shall have offered to the Trustee
reasonable security or indemnity satisfactory to the Trustee against the
costs, expenses and liabilities which may be incurred therein or thereby;
(j) the Trustee or its Affiliates are permitted to receive additional
compensation that could be deemed to be in the Trustee's economic
self-interest for (i) serving as investment adviser, administrator,
shareholder servicing agent, custodian or sub-custodian with respect to
certain of the Permitted Investments, (ii) using Affiliates to effect
transactions in certain Permitted Investments and (iii) effecting transactions
in certain Permitted Investments. The Trustee does not guarantee the
performance of any Permitted Investment; and
(k) The Trustee shall not knowingly take any action that would cause
the Trust Fund to fail to qualify as a qualifying special purpose entity.
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In order to comply with its duties under the U.S.A. Patriot Act, the
Trustee shall obtain and verify certain information and documentation from the
other parties to this Agreement, including, but not limited to, such parties'
name, address, and other identifying information.
Section 8.03 Trustee Not Liable for Certificates or Mortgage Loans.
The recitals contained herein and in the Certificates shall be taken
as the statements of the Depositor or the Seller, as the case may be, and the
Trustee assumes no responsibility for their correctness. The Trustee makes no
representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Agreement or of the
Certificates or of any Mortgage Loan or related document other than with
respect to the Trustee's execution and countersignature of the Certificates.
The Trustee shall not be accountable for the use or application by the
Depositor or the Master Servicer of any funds paid to the Depositor or the
Master Servicer in respect of the Mortgage Loans or deposited in or withdrawn
from the Certificate Account by the Depositor or the Master Servicer.
Except as provided in Section 2.01(c), the Trustee shall have no
responsibility for filing or recording any financing or continuation statement
in any public office at any time or to otherwise perfect or maintain the
perfection of any security interest or lien granted to it hereunder (unless
the Trustee shall have become the successor Master Servicer). The Trustee
makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Agreement
or of the Certificates or of any Mortgage Loan or related document or of MERS
or the MERS(R) System other than with respect to the Trustee's execution and
counter-signature of the Certificates.
The Trustee executes the Certificates not in its individual capacity
but solely as Trustee of the Trust Fund created by this Agreement, in the
exercise of the powers and authority conferred and vested in it by this
Agreement. Each of the undertakings and agreements made on the part of the
Trustee on behalf of the Trust Fund in the Certificates is made and intended
not as a personal undertaking or agreement by the Trustee but is made and
intended for the purpose of binding only the Trust Fund.
Section 8.04 Trustee May Own Certificates.
The Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the
owner or pledgee of Certificates with the same rights as it would have if it
were not the Trustee.
Section 8.05 Trustee's Fees and Expenses.
As compensation for its activities under this Agreement, on each
Distribution Date the Trustee may withdraw from the Distribution Account the
Trustee Fee for that Distribution Date. The Trustee and any director, officer,
employee, or agent of the Trustee shall be indemnified by the Master Servicer
against any loss, liability, or expense (including reasonable attorney's fees)
resulting from any error in any tax or information return prepared by the
Master Servicer or incurred in connection with any claim or legal action
relating to
(a) this Agreement, (b) the Certificates, or (c) the performance of
any of the Trustee's duties under this Agreement, other than any loss,
liability or expense incurred because of willful misfeasance, bad faith or
negligence in the performance of any of the Trustee's duties hereunder or
incurred by reason of any action of the Trustee taken at the direction of the
Certificateholders under this Agreement. This indemnity shall survive the
termination of this Agreement or the resignation or removal of the Trustee
under this Agreement. Without limiting the foregoing, except as otherwise
agreed upon in writing by the Depositor and the Trustee, and except for any
expense, disbursement, or advance arising from the Trustee's negligence, bad
faith, or willful misconduct, the Master Servicer shall pay or reimburse the
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Trustee, for all reasonable expenses, disbursements, and advances incurred or
made by the Trustee in accordance with this Agreement with respect to
(A) the reasonable compensation, expenses, and disbursements of its
counsel not associated with the closing of the issuance of the Certificates,
(B) the reasonable compensation, expenses, and disbursements of any
accountant, engineer, or appraiser that is not regularly employed by the
Trustee, to the extent that the Trustee must engage them to perform services
under this Agreement, and
(C) printing and engraving expenses in connection with preparing any
Definitive Certificates.
Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, the Trustee shall not be
entitled to payment or reimbursement for any routine ongoing expenses incurred
by the Trustee in the ordinary course of its duties as Trustee, Registrar, or
Paying Agent under this Agreement or for any other expenses.
Section 8.06 Eligibility Requirements for the Trustee.
The Trustee hereunder shall at all times be a corporation or
association organized and doing business under the laws of a state or the
United States of America, authorized under such laws to exercise corporate
trust powers, having a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000,
subject to supervision or examination by federal or state authority and with a
credit rating which would not cause either of the Rating Agencies to reduce
their respective then current ratings of the Certificates (or having provided
such security from time to time as is sufficient to avoid such reduction) as
evidenced in writing by each Rating Agency. If such corporation or association
publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the
requirements of the aforesaid supervising or examining authority, then for the
purposes of this Section 8.06 the combined capital and surplus of such
corporation or association shall be deemed to be its combined capital and
surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. In
case at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with
this Section 8.06, the Trustee shall resign immediately in the manner and with
the effect specified in Section 8.07. The entity serving as Trustee may have
normal banking and trust relationships with the Depositor and its affiliates
or the Master Servicer and its affiliates; provided, however, that such entity
cannot be an affiliate of the Seller, the Depositor or the Master Servicer
other than the Trustee in its role as successor to the Master Servicer.
Section 8.07 Resignation and Removal of the Trustee.
The Trustee may at any time resign and be discharged from the trusts
hereby created by giving written notice of resignation to the Depositor, the
Master Servicer, and each Rating Agency not less than 60 days before the date
specified in such notice, when, subject to Section 8.08, such resignation is
to take effect, and acceptance by a successor trustee in accordance with
Section 8.08 meeting the qualifications set forth in Section 8.06. If no
successor trustee meeting such qualifications shall have been so appointed and
have accepted appointment within 30 days after the giving of such notice or
resignation, the resigning Trustee may petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor trustee.
If at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance
with Section 8.06 and shall fail to resign after written request thereto by
the Depositor, or if at any time the Trustee shall become incapable of acting,
or shall be adjudged as bankrupt or insolvent, or a receiver of the Trustee or
of its property shall be appointed, or any public officer shall take charge or
control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of
rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation, or a tax is imposed with respect
to the Trust Fund by any state in which the Trustee or the Trust Fund is
located and the imposition
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of such tax would be avoided by the appointment of a different trustee, then
the Depositor or the Master Servicer may remove the Trustee and appoint a
successor trustee by written instrument, in triplicate, one copy of which
shall be delivered to the Trustee, one copy to the Master Servicer and one
copy to the successor trustee.
The Holders of Certificates entitled to at least 51% of the Voting
Rights may at any time remove the Trustee and appoint a successor trustee by
written instrument or instruments, in triplicate, signed by such Holders or
their attorneys-in-fact duly authorized, one complete set of which shall be
delivered by the successor Trustee to the Master Servicer, one complete set to
the Trustee so removed and one complete set to the successor so appointed. As
long as any Voting Rights are held by parties other than the Seller, its
Affiliates, or its agents, Voting Rights of Certificates held by the Seller,
its Affiliates or its agents will be excluded from participating in such
voting arrangements, and excluded from determining the 51% threshold. The
successor trustee shall notify each Rating Agency of any removal of the
Trustee.
Any resignation or removal of the Trustee and appointment of a
successor trustee pursuant to this Section 8.07 shall become effective upon
acceptance of appointment by the successor trustee as provided in Section
8.08.
Section 8.08 Successor Trustee.
Any successor trustee appointed as provided in Section 8.07 shall
execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Depositor and to its predecessor
trustee and the Master Servicer an instrument accepting such appointment
hereunder and thereupon the resignation or removal of the predecessor trustee
shall become effective and such successor trustee, without any further act,
deed or conveyance, shall become fully vested with all the rights, powers,
duties and obligations of its predecessor hereunder, with the like effect as
if originally named as trustee herein. The Depositor, the Master Servicer and
the predecessor trustee shall execute and deliver such instruments and do such
other things as may reasonably be required for more fully and certainly
vesting and confirming in the successor trustee all such rights, powers,
duties, and obligations.
No successor trustee shall accept appointment as provided in this
Section 8.08 unless, at the time of its acceptance, the successor trustee is
eligible under Section 8.06 and its appointment does not adversely affect the
then current rating of the Certificates.
Upon acceptance of appointment by a successor trustee as provided in
this Section 8.08, the Depositor shall mail notice of the succession of such
trustee hereunder to all Holders of Certificates. If the Depositor fails to
mail such notice within 10 days after acceptance of appointment by the
successor trustee, the successor trustee shall cause such notice to be mailed
at the expense of the Depositor.
Section 8.09 Merger or Consolidation of the Trustee.
Any corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or
with which it may be consolidated or any corporation resulting from any
merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or
any corporation succeeding to the business of the Trustee, shall be the
successor of the Trustee hereunder, provided that such corporation shall be
eligible under Section 8.06 without the execution or filing of any paper or
further act on the part of any of the parties hereto, anything herein to the
contrary notwithstanding.
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Section 8.10 Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee.
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement, at any time,
for the purpose of meeting any legal requirements of any jurisdiction in which
any part of the Trust Fund or property securing any Mortgage Note may at the
time be located, the Master Servicer and the Trustee acting jointly shall have
the power and shall execute and deliver all instruments to appoint one or more
Persons approved by the Trustee to act as co-trustee or co-trustees jointly
with the Trustee, or separate trustee or separate trustees, of all or any part
of the Trust Fund, and to vest in such Person or Persons, in such capacity and
for the benefit of the Certificateholders, such title to the Trust Fund or any
part thereof, whichever is applicable, and, subject to the other provisions of
this Section 8.10, such powers, duties, obligations, rights and trusts as the
Master Servicer and the Trustee may consider appropriate. If the Master
Servicer shall not have joined in such appointment within 15 days after the
receipt by it of a request to do so, or in the case an Event of Default shall
have occurred and be continuing, the Trustee alone shall have the power to
make such appointment. No co-trustee or separate trustee hereunder shall be
required to meet the terms of eligibility as a successor trustee under Section
8.06 and no notice to Certificateholders of the appointment of any co-trustee
or separate trustee shall be required under Section 8.08.
Every separate trustee and co-trustee shall, to the extent permitted
by law, be appointed and act subject to the following provisions and
conditions:
(a) To the extent necessary to effectuate the purposes of this
Section 8.10, all rights, powers, duties and obligations conferred or imposed
upon the Trustee, except for the obligation of the Trustee under this
Agreement to advance funds on behalf of the Master Servicer, shall be
conferred or imposed upon and exercised or performed by the Trustee and such
separate trustee or co-trustee jointly (it being understood that such separate
trustee or co-trustee is not authorized to act separately without the Trustee
joining in such act), except to the extent that under any law of any
jurisdiction in which any particular act or acts are to be performed (whether
as Trustee hereunder or as successor to the Master Servicer hereunder), the
Trustee shall be incompetent or unqualified to perform such act or acts, in
which event such rights, powers, duties and obligations (including the holding
of title to the applicable Trust Fund or any portion thereof in any such
jurisdiction) shall be exercised and performed singly by such separate trustee
or co-trustee, but solely at the direction of the Trustee;
(b) No trustee hereunder shall be held personally liable because of
any act or omission of any other trustee hereunder and such appointment shall
not, and shall not be deemed to, constitute any such separate trustee or
co-trustee as agent of the Trustee;
(c) The Trustee may at any time accept the resignation of or remove
any separate trustee or co-trustee; and
(d) The Master Servicer, and not the Trustee, shall be liable for the
payment of reasonable compensation, reimbursement and indemnification to any
such separate trustee or co-trustee.
Any notice, request or other writing given to the Trustee shall be
deemed to have been given to each of the separate trustees and co-trustees,
when and as effectively as if given to each of them. Every instrument
appointing any separate trustee or co-trustee shall refer to this Agreement
and the conditions of this Article VIII. Each separate trustee and co-trustee,
upon its acceptance of the trusts conferred, shall be vested with the estates
or property specified in its instrument of appointment, either jointly with
the Trustee or separately, as may be provided therein, subject to all the
provisions of this Agreement, specifically including every provision of this
Agreement relating to the conduct of, affecting the liability of, or affording
protection to, the Trustee. Every such instrument shall be filed with the
Trustee and a copy thereof given to the Master Servicer and the Depositor.
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Any separate trustee or co-trustee may, at any time, constitute the
Trustee its agent or attorney-in-fact, with full power and authority, to the
extent not prohibited by law, to do any lawful act under or in respect of this
Agreement on its behalf and in its name. If any separate trustee or co-trustee
shall die, become incapable of acting, resign or be removed, all of its
estates, properties, rights, remedies and trusts shall vest in and be
exercised by the Trustee, to the extent permitted by law, without the
appointment of a new or successor trustee.
Section 8.11 Tax Matters.
It is intended that the assets with respect to which one or more
REMIC elections pertaining to the Trust Fund is to be made, as set forth in
the Preliminary Statement, shall constitute, and that the conduct of matters
relating to such assets shall be such as to qualify such assets as, a "real
estate mortgage investment conduit" as defined in and in accordance with the
REMIC Provisions. In furtherance of such intention, the Trustee covenants and
agrees that it shall act as agent (and the Trustee is hereby appointed to act
as agent) on behalf of each REMIC created under this Agreement and that in
such capacity it shall:
(a) prepare and file in a timely manner, a U.S. Real Estate Mortgage
Investment Conduit Income Tax Return (Form 1066 or any successor form adopted
by the Internal Revenue Service) with respect to each REMIC created hereunder
and prepare and file with the Internal Revenue Service and applicable state or
local tax authorities income tax or information returns for each taxable year
with respect to each REMIC described in the Preliminary Statement, containing
such information and at the times and in the manner as may be required by the
Code or state or local tax laws, regulations, or rules, and furnish to
Certificateholders the schedules, statements or information at such times and
in such manner as may be required thereby;
(b) within thirty days of the Closing Date, furnish to the Internal
Revenue Service, on Forms 8811 or as otherwise may be required by the Code,
the name, title, address, and telephone number of the person that the holders
of the Certificates may contact for tax information relating thereto, together
with such additional information as may be required by such Form, and update
such information at the time or times in the manner required by the Code;
(c) make an election that each REMIC created under this Agreement be
treated as a REMIC on the federal tax return for its first taxable year (and,
if necessary, under applicable state law);
(d) prepare and forward to the Certificateholders and to the Internal
Revenue Service and, if necessary, state tax authorities, all information
returns and reports as and when required to be provided to them in accordance
with the REMIC Provisions, including the calculations of any original issue
discount and of taxable income or net loss to the holders of the residual
interests in each REMIC created hereunder using the Prepayment Assumption (as
defined in the Prospectus Supplement). For purposes of calculating taxable
income or net loss to the holders of the residual interests in each such
REMIC, the Trustee also shall assume that the indices in respect of any
floating rate Mortgage Loans are static until the liquidation or purchase of
the Mortgage Loans in accordance with Section 9.01 herein;
(e) provide information necessary for the computation of tax imposed
on the transfer of a Residual Certificate to a Person that is not a Permitted
Transferee, or an agent (including a broker, nominee or other middleman) of a
Person that is not a Permitted Transferee, or a pass-through entity in which a
Person that is not a Permitted Transferee is the record holder of an interest
(the reasonable cost of computing and furnishing such information may be
charged to the Person liable for such tax);
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(f) to the extent that they are under its control, conduct matters
relating to such assets at all times that any Certificates are outstanding so
as to maintain the status as any REMIC created under this Agreement under the
REMIC Provisions;
(g) not knowingly or intentionally take any action or omit to take
any action that would cause the termination of the REMIC status of any REMIC
created under this Agreement;
(h) pay, from the sources specified in the last paragraph of this
Section 8.11, the amount of any federal or state tax, including prohibited
transaction taxes as described below, imposed on any REMIC before its
termination when and as the same shall be due and payable (but such obligation
shall not prevent the Trustee or any other appropriate Person from contesting
any such tax in appropriate proceedings and shall not prevent the Trustee from
withholding payment of such tax, if permitted by law, pending the outcome of
such proceedings);
(i) ensure that federal, state or local income tax or information
returns shall be signed by the Trustee or such other person as may be required
to sign such returns by the Code or state or local laws, regulations or rules;
(j) maintain records relating to each REMIC created under this
Agreement, including the income, expenses, assets, and liabilities thereof and
the fair market value and adjusted basis of the assets determined at such
intervals as may be required by the Code, as may be necessary to prepare the
foregoing returns, schedules, statements or information; and
(k) as and when necessary and appropriate, represent each REMIC
created under this Agreement in any administrative or judicial proceedings
relating to an examination or audit by any governmental taxing authority,
request an administrative adjustment as to any taxable year of such REMIC,
enter into settlement agreements with any governmental taxing agency, extend
any statute of limitations relating to any tax item of such REMIC, and
otherwise act on behalf of such REMIC in relation to any tax matter or
controversy involving it.
To enable the Trustee to perform its duties under this Agreement, the
Depositor shall provide to the Trustee within ten days after the Closing Date
all information or data that the Trustee requests in writing and determines to
be relevant for tax purposes to the valuations and offering prices of the
Certificates, including the price, yield, prepayment assumption, and projected
cash flows of the Certificates and the Mortgage Loans. Thereafter, the
Depositor shall provide to the Trustee promptly upon written request therefor
any additional information or data that the Trustee may, from time to time,
reasonably request to enable the Trustee to perform its duties under this
Agreement. The Depositor hereby indemnifies the Trustee for any losses,
liabilities, damages, claims, or expenses of the Trustee arising from any
errors or miscalculations of the Trustee that result from any failure of the
Depositor to provide, or to cause to be provided, accurate information or data
to the Trustee on a timely basis.
If any tax is imposed on "prohibited transactions" (as defined in
section 860F(a)(2) of the Code) of any REMIC created under this Agreement, on
the "net income from foreclosure property" of any REMIC created under this
Agreement as defined in section 860G(c) of the Code, on any contribution to
any REMIC created under this Agreement after the Startup Day pursuant to
section 860G(d) of the Code, or any other tax is imposed, including any
minimum tax imposed on any REMIC created hereunder pursuant to sections 23153
and 24874 of the California Revenue and Taxation Code, if not paid as
otherwise provided for herein, the tax shall be paid by (i) the Trustee, if
any such other tax arises out of or results from negligence of the Trustee in
the performance of any of its obligations under this Agreement, (ii) the
Master Servicer or the Seller, in the case of any such minimum tax, if such
tax arises out of or results from a breach by the Master Servicer or Seller of
any of their obligations under this Agreement,
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(iii) the Seller, if any such tax arises out of or results from the Seller's
obligation to repurchase a Mortgage Loan pursuant to Section 2.02 or 2.03, or
(iv) in all other cases, or if the Trustee, the Master Servicer, or the Seller
fails to honor its obligations under the preceding clauses (i), (ii), or
(iii), any such tax will be paid with amounts otherwise to be distributed to
the Certificateholders, as provided in Section 3.09(b).
The Trustee shall treat each Yield Maintenance Reserve Fund and the
Carryover Shortfall Reserve Fund as outside reserve funds within the meaning
of Treasury Regulation 1.860G-2(h). The Carryover Shortfall Reserve Fund shall
be treated as owned by the Holders of the Notional Amount Certificates and
each Yield Maintenance Reserve Fund shall each be treated as owned by the
Holders of the related Class of Notional Amount Certificates. Neither the
Carryover Shortfall Reserve Fund nor the Yield Maintenance Reserve Funds shall
be an asset of any REMIC created under this Agreement. The Trustee shall treat
the rights of the holders of the Senior LIBOR Certificates to receive payments
from the related Yield Maintenance Reserve Fund and the rights of the Holders
of the Floating Rate Certificates to receive payments from the Carryover
Shortfall Reserve Fund (excluding any monies distributed from the Carryover
Shortfall Reserve Fund on the first Distribution Date following the Closing
Date), as applicable, as rights in an interest rate cap contract written by
the Holders of the applicable Class of Notional Amount Certificates or by the
Cap Counterparty, as applicable, in respect of any Carryover Shortfall Amounts
distributed in favor of the Holders of the Floating Rate Certificates. Thus,
the Floating Rate Certificates shall be treated as representing ownership of
not only a Master REMIC regular interest, but also ownership of an interest in
an interest rate cap contract. For purposes of determining the issue price of
the Master REMIC regular interests, the Trustee shall assume that the cap
contracts entered into by (a) the Class 1-A-1, Class 1-A-2, Class 1-A-3A and
Class 1-A-3B Certificates have a value, in the aggregate, of $499,000, (b) the
Class 2-A-1A, Class 2-A-1B, Class 2-A-2A, Class 2-A-2C, Class 2-A-3A and Class
2-A-3B Certificates have a value, in the aggregate, of $534,000, and each of
the Class 2-A-2B Certificates and each Class of Subordinated Certificates have
a value of $5,000.
Section 8.12 Periodic Filings.
Beginning with the first Distribution Date, the Trustee, pursuant to
written instructions of the Depositor (which instructions shall be deemed to
be this Section 8.12), shall prepare and file all periodic reports required
under the Exchange Act in conformity with the terms of the relief granted to
issuers similar to the Trust Fund. The Trustee shall execute the Form 8-Ks
pursuant to a limited power of attorney from the Depositor which shall
terminate upon written notice from the Depositor or the termination of this
Agreement. In connection with the preparation and filing of such periodic
reports, the Depositor and the Master Servicer shall timely provide to the
Trustee all material information available to them that is required to be
included in such reports and not known to them to be in the possession of the
Trustee and such other information as the Trustee reasonably may request from
either of them (including any certification required pursuant to Section
3.02(a) of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002 and any regulations promulgated
thereunder (the "Required Certifications")) and otherwise reasonably shall
cooperate with the Trustee. The Depositor shall execute the Form 10-Ks and the
Required Certifications. The Trustee shall have no responsibility for making
any of the Required Certifications; provided, however, that upon the request
of the Master Servicer or the Depositor in connection with the delivery of the
Required Certifications on behalf of the Trust Fund, the Trustee shall furnish
to the Master Servicer or the Depositor, as applicable, a certificate signed
by an officer of the Trustee (the "Trustee Certification"), which is attached
as Exhibit O to this Agreement. The Trustee shall indemnify and hold harmless
the Master Servicer and the Depositor, their respective officers and directors
from and against any and all losses, claims, expenses, damages or liabilities,
as and when such losses, claims, expenses, damages or liabilities are
incurred, insofar as such losses, claims, expenses, damages or liabilities (or
actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon any untrue
statement of any material fact contained in the Trustee Certification. The
Trustee shall prepare the Form 10-K and provide such to the Depositor by
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March 10th of each year, commencing in 2006. The Depositor shall execute such
Form 10-K upon its receipt and shall provide the original of such executed
Form 10-K to the Trustee no later than five Business Days following its
receipt from the Trustee.
Prior to January 30th of the first year in which the Trustee is able
to do so under applicable law, the Trustee shall file under the Exchange Act a
Suspension Notification with respect to the Trust Fund. The Trustee shall have
no liability with respect to any failure to properly prepare or file such
periodic reports resulting from or relating to the Trustee's inability or
failure to obtain any information not resulting from its own negligence or
willful misconduct.
The Trustee and any director, officer, employee, or agent of the
Trustee shall be indemnified by the Master Servicer against any loss,
liability, or expense (including reasonable attorney's fees) incurred in
connection with any claim or legal action relating to the preparation of the
Required Certification, other than any loss, liability or expense incurred
because of willful misfeasance, bad faith or negligence in the performance of
any of the Trustee's duties under this Agreement or incurred by reason of any
action of the Trustee taken at the direction of the Certificateholders under
this Agreement. This indemnity shall survive the termination of this Agreement
or the resignation or removal of the Trustee under this Agreement.
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ARTICLE Nine
TERMINATION
Section 9.01 Termination upon Liquidation or Purchase of the Mortgage
Loans.
Subject to Section 9.03, the obligations and responsibilities of the
Depositor, the Master Servicer, and the Trustee created hereby shall terminate
upon the earlier of
(a) the purchase by the Master Servicer of all Mortgage Loans (and
REO Properties) at the price equal to the sum of
(i) 100% of the Stated Principal Balance of each Mortgage
Loan (other than in respect of a Delinquent Mortgage Loan or REO
Property) plus one month's accrued interest thereon at the applicable
Adjusted Mortgage Rate less any amounts collected by the Master
Servicer representing principal and interest due after the related
Due Date,
(ii) the lesser of (x) the appraised value of any Delinquent
Mortgage Loan or REO Property as determined by the higher of two
appraisals completed by two independent appraisers selected by the
Master Servicer at the expense of the Master Servicer and (y) the
Stated Principal Balance of each such Delinquent Mortgage Loan or
Mortgage Loan related to such REO Property, in each case plus accrued
and unpaid interest thereon at the applicable Adjusted Net Mortgage
Rate, and
(iii) any costs and damages incurred by the Trust Fund in
connection with any violation by each Mortgage Loan of any predatory
or abusive lending law, and
(b) the later of
(i) the maturity or other liquidation (or any Advance with
respect thereto) of the last Mortgage Loan and the disposition of all
REO Property and
(ii) the distribution to Certificateholders of all amounts
required to be distributed to them pursuant to this Agreement. In no
event shall the trusts created hereby continue beyond the expiration
of 21 years from the death of the survivor of the descendants of
Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx, the late Ambassador of the United States to the
Court of St. James's, living on the date of this Agreement. If any
such termination will result in a Deficiency Amount on the Policy or
any amounts would remain owing to the Certificate Insurer, the
consent of the Certificate Insurer will also be required prior to
exercising such option.
The right to purchase all Mortgage Loans and REO Properties pursuant
to clause (a) above shall be conditioned upon the aggregate Stated Principal
Balance of those Mortgage Loans, at the time of any such repurchase,
aggregating less than ten percent (10%) of the aggregate Stated Principal
Balance of the Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-off Date. The first Distribution
Date on which the right to purchase all Mortgage Loans and REO Properties
pursuant to clause (a) above first becomes exercisable is referred to as the
"Optional Termination Date." The Master Servicer shall effect any such
repurchase by depositing the purchase price, as calculated above, as of the
month preceding the date on which such purchase price shall be distributed to
Certificateholders into the Certificate Account.
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Section 9.02 Final Distribution on the Certificates.
If on any Determination Date the Master Servicer determines that
there are no Outstanding Mortgage Loans and no other funds or assets in the
Trust Fund other than the funds in the Certificate Account, the Master
Servicer shall direct the Trustee promptly to send a final distribution notice
to each Certificateholder and the Certificate Insurer. If the Master Servicer
elects to terminate the Trust Fund pursuant to clause (a) of Section 9.01, no
later than the 15th day of the month preceding the month of the final
Distribution Date the Master Servicer shall notify the Depositor, the
Certificate Insurer and the Trustee of the date the Master Servicer intends to
terminate the Trust Fund and of the applicable repurchase price of the
Mortgage Loans and REO Properties.
Notice of any termination of the Trust Fund specifying the
Distribution Date on which Certificateholders may surrender their Certificates
for payment of the final distribution and cancellation shall be given promptly
by the Trustee by letter to Certificateholders mailed not earlier than the
15th day and not later than the last day of the month next preceding the month
of such final distribution. Any such notice shall specify (a) the Distribution
Date upon which final distribution on the Certificates will be made upon
presentation and surrender of Certificates at the office therein designated,
(b) the amount of such final distribution, (c) the location of the office or
agency at which such presentation and surrender must be made, and (d) that the
Record Date otherwise applicable to the Distribution Date is not applicable,
distributions being made only upon presentation and surrender of the
Certificates at the office therein specified. The Master Servicer will give
such notice to each Rating Agency at the time such notice is given to
Certificateholders.
If this notice is given, the Master Servicer shall cause all funds in
the Certificate Account to be remitted to the Trustee for deposit in the
Distribution Account on the Business Day before the applicable Distribution
Date in an amount equal to the final distribution in respect of the
Certificates. Upon such final deposit with respect to the Trust Fund and the
receipt by the Trustee of a Request for Release therefor, the Trustee shall
promptly release to the Master Servicer the Mortgage Files for the Mortgage
Loans.
Upon presentation and surrender of the Certificates, the Trustee
shall cause to be distributed to the Certificateholders of each Class and the
Certificate Insurer, in each case on the final Distribution Date and in the
order set forth in Section 4.02, in proportion to their respective Percentage
Interests or amounts allocable to the Certificate Insurer, with respect to
Certificateholders of the same Class, an amount equal to (i) as to each Class
of Regular Certificates (other than the Notional Amount Certificates), its
Certificate Balance plus for each such Class accrued interest thereon (or on
their Notional Amount, if applicable) in the case of an interest-bearing
Certificate, (ii) as to the Notional Amount Certificates, the principal
balance of the related PO Component for the immediately preceding Distribution
Date plus interest accrued on its Notional Amount, and (iii) as to the
Residual Certificates, any amount remaining on deposit in the Distribution
Account (other than the amounts retained to meet claims) after application
pursuant to clause (i) above. Notwithstanding the reduction of the Certificate
Balance of any Class of Certificates to zero, such Class will be outstanding
hereunder solely for the purpose of receiving distributions and for no other
purpose until the termination of the respective obligations and
responsibilities of the Depositor, the Master Servicer and the Trustee
hereunder in accordance with Article Nine. The foregoing provisions are
intended to distribute to each Class of Regular Certificates any accrued and
unpaid interest and principal to which they are entitled based on the
Pass-Through Rates and actual Class Certificate Balances or Notional Amounts
set forth in the Preliminary Statement upon liquidation of the Trust Fund.
If any affected Certificateholder does not surrender its Certificates
for cancellation within six months after the date specified in the above
mentioned written notice, the Trustee shall give a second
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written notice to the remaining Certificateholders to surrender their
Certificates for cancellation and receive the final distribution with respect
thereto. If within six months after the second notice all the applicable
Certificates shall not have been surrendered for cancellation, the Trustee may
take appropriate steps, or may appoint an agent to take appropriate steps, to
contact the remaining Certificateholders concerning surrender of their
Certificates, and the cost thereof shall be paid out of the funds and other
assets which remain a part of the Trust Fund. If within one year after the
second notice all Certificates shall not have been surrendered for
cancellation, then the Holders of the Class A-R Certificates shall be entitled
to all unclaimed funds and other assets of the Trust Fund which remain subject
hereto.
Section 9.03 Additional Termination Requirements.
(a) If the Master Servicer exercises its purchase option with respect
to the Mortgage Loans as provided in Section 9.01, the Trust Fund shall be
terminated in accordance with the following additional requirements, unless
the Trustee has been supplied with an Opinion of Counsel, at the expense of
the Master Servicer, to the effect that the failure to comply with the
requirements of this Section 9.03 will not (i) result in the imposition of
taxes on "prohibited transactions" on any REMIC created hereunder as defined
in section 860F of the Code, or (ii) cause any REMIC created under this
Agreement to fail to qualify as a REMIC at any time that any Certificates are
outstanding:
(b) The Trustee shall sell all of the assets of the Trust Fund to the
Master Servicer, and, within 90 days of such sale, shall distribute to the
Certificateholders the proceeds of such sale in complete liquidation of each
REMIC created under this Agreement.
(c) The Trustee shall attach a statement to the final federal income
tax return for each REMIC created under this Agreement stating that pursuant
to Treasury Regulation ss. 1.860F-1, the first day of the 90-day liquidation
period for such REMIC was the date on which the Trustee sold the assets of the
Trust Fund to the Master Servicer.
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ARTICLE Ten
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Section 10.01 Amendment.
This Agreement may be amended from time to time by the Depositor, the
Master Servicer and the Trustee without the consent of any of the
Certificateholders (i) to cure any ambiguity or mistake, (ii) to correct any
defective provision in this Agreement or to supplement any provision in this
Agreement which may be inconsistent with any other provision in this
Agreement, (iii) to conform this Agreement to the Prospectus Supplement, (iv)
to add to the duties of the Depositor, the Seller or the Master Servicer, (v)
to modify, alter, amend, add to or rescind any of the terms or provisions
contained in this Agreement to comply with any rules or regulations
promulgated by the Commission from time to time, (vi) to add any other
provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this Agreement,
or (vii) to modify, alter, amend, add to, or rescind any of the terms or
provisions contained in this Agreement.
No action pursuant to clauses (v), (vi) or (vii) above may, as
evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel (which Opinion of Counsel shall not be an
expense of the Trustee or the Trust Fund), adversely affect in any material
respect the interests of any Certificateholder. The amendment shall not be
deemed to adversely affect in any material respect the interests of the
Certificateholders if the Person requesting the amendment obtains a letter
from each Rating Agency stating that the amendment would not result in the
downgrading, qualification or withdrawal of the respective ratings then
assigned to the Certificates (without regard to the Policy). Any such letter
in and of itself will not represent a determination as to the materiality of
any amendment and will represent a determination only as to the credit issues
affecting any rating. Each party to this Agreement agrees that it will
cooperate with each other party in amending this Agreement pursuant to clause
(v) above.
The Trustee, the Depositor, and the Master Servicer also may at any
time and from time to time amend this Agreement without the consent of the
Certificateholders to modify, eliminate or add to any of its provisions to the
extent necessary or helpful to (i) maintain the qualification of any REMIC
created under this Agreement as a REMIC under the Code, (ii) avoid or minimize
the risk of the imposition of any tax on any REMIC created under this
Agreement pursuant to the Code that would be a claim at any time before the
final redemption of the Certificates, or (iii) comply with any other
requirements of the Code, if the Trustee has been provided an Opinion of
Counsel, which opinion shall be an expense of the party requesting such
opinion but in any case shall not be an expense of the Trustee or the Trust
Fund, to the effect that the action is necessary or helpful for one of the
foregoing purposes.
This Agreement may also be amended from time to time by the
Depositor, the Master Servicer, and the Trustee with the consent of the
Holders of Certificates evidencing Percentage Interests aggregating not less
than 51% of each Class of Certificates adversely affected thereby for the
purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating
any of the provisions of this Agreement or of modifying in any manner the
rights of the Holders of Certificates. As long as any Voting Rights are held
by parties other than the Seller, its Affiliates, or its agents, Voting Rights
of Certificates held by the Seller, its Affiliates or its agents will be
excluded from participating in such voting arrangements, and excluded from
determining the 51% threshold. No amendment shall
(i) reduce in any manner the amount of, or delay the timing of,
payments required to be distributed on any Certificate without the consent of
the Holder of such Certificate,
(ii) amend, modify, add to, rescind, or alter in any respect Section
10.13, notwithstanding any contrary provision of this Agreement, without the
consent of the Holders of Certificates evidencing
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Percentage Interests aggregating not less than 66 2/3% (provided, however,
that no Certificates held by the Seller, the Depositor or any Affiliate
thereby shall be given effect for the purpose of calculating any such
aggregation of Percentage Interests),
(iii) reduce the aforesaid percentages of Certificates the Holders of
which are required to consent to any such amendment, without the consent of
the Holders of all such Certificates then outstanding, or
(iv) adversely affect in any material respect the rights and
interests of the Certificate Insurer in any of the following provisions of
this Agreement without its consent, which consent shall not be unreasonably
withheld: (I) the definitions of "Class 1-A-3B Policy Premium," "Class 2-A-3B
Policy Premium" and "Reimbursement Amount" in Article I, (II) the priority of
payments to the Certificate Insurer pursuant to Sections 4.02(a)(1),
4.02(a)(1)(ii), 4.02(a)(2) and 4.02(a)(2)(ii) and (III) Sections 4.01, 4.10
and 10.01.
Notwithstanding any contrary provision of this Agreement, the Trustee
shall not consent to any amendment to this Agreement unless (i) it shall have
first received an Opinion of Counsel, which opinion shall not be an expense of
the Trustee or the Trust Fund, to the effect that such amendment will not
cause the imposition of any tax on any REMIC created under this Agreement or
the Certificateholders or cause any REMIC created hereunder to fail to qualify
as a REMIC at any time that any Certificates are outstanding and (ii) because
the Trust Fund is required to be a Qualifying Special Purpose Entity (as that
term is defined in Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 140 ("SFAS
140"), in order for the Seller to continue to account for the transfer of the
Mortgage Loans under this Agreement as a sale under SFAS 140, prior to the
parties hereto entering into such an amendment, the Trustee shall receive an
Officer's Certificate, which shall not be an expense of the Trustee or the
Trust Fund, to the effect that such amendment would not "significantly change"
(within the meaning of SFAS 140) the permitted activities of the Trust Fund so
as to cause the Trust Fund to fail to qualify as a Qualifying Special Purpose
Entity.
Promptly after the execution of any amendment to this Agreement
requiring the consent of Certificateholders, the Trustee shall furnish written
notification of the substance or a copy of such amendment to each
Certificateholder, the Certificate Insurer and each Rating Agency.
It shall not be necessary for the consent of Certificateholders under
this Section 10.01 to approve the particular form of any proposed amendment,
but it shall be sufficient if such consent shall approve the substance
thereof. The manner of obtaining such consents and of evidencing the
authorization of the execution thereof by Certificateholders shall be subject
to such reasonable regulations as the Trustee may prescribe.
Nothing in this Agreement shall require the Trustee to enter into an
amendment without receiving an Opinion of Counsel (which Opinion shall not be
an expense of the Trustee or the Trust Fund), satisfactory to the Trustee that
(i) such amendment is permitted and is not prohibited by this Agreement and
that all requirements for amending this Agreement have been complied with; and
(ii) either (A) the amendment does not adversely affect in any material
respect the interests of any Certificateholder or (B) the conclusion set forth
in the preceding clause (A) is not required to be reached pursuant to this
Section 10.01.
Section 10.02 Recordation of Agreement; Counterparts.
This Agreement is subject to recordation in all appropriate public
offices for real property records in all the counties or other comparable
jurisdictions in which any or all of the properties subject to the
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Mortgages are situated, and in any other appropriate public recording office
or elsewhere, such recordation to be effected by the Master Servicer at its
expense, but only upon receipt of an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that
such recordation materially and beneficially affects the interests of the
Certificateholders.
For the purpose of facilitating the recordation of this Agreement as
herein provided and for other purposes, this Agreement may be executed
simultaneously in any number of counterparts, each of which counterparts shall
be deemed to be an original, and such counterparts shall constitute but one
and the same instrument.
Section 10.03 Governing Law.
THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND GOVERNED BY
THE SUBSTANTIVE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK APPLICABLE TO AGREEMENTS MADE
AND TO BE PERFORMED IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND
REMEDIES OF THE PARTIES HERETO AND THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS SHALL BE DETERMINED
IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.
Section 10.04 Intention of Parties.
It is the express intent of the parties hereto that the conveyance
(i) of the Mortgage Loans by the Seller to the Depositor and (ii) of the Trust
Fund by the Depositor to the Trustee each be, and be construed as, an absolute
sale thereof. It is, further, not the intention of the parties that such
conveyances be deemed a pledge thereof. However, if, notwithstanding the
intent of the parties, the assets are held to be the property of the Seller or
Depositor, as the case may be, or if for any other reason this Agreement is
held or deemed to create a security interest in either such assets, then (i)
this Agreement shall be deemed to be a security agreement within the meaning
of the UCC and (ii) the conveyances provided for in this Agreement shall be
deemed to be an assignment and a grant (i) by the Seller to the Depositor or
(ii) by the Depositor to the Trustee, for the benefit of the
Certificateholders, of a security interest in all of the assets transferred,
whether now owned or hereafter acquired.
The Seller and the Depositor for the benefit of the
Certificateholders shall, to the extent consistent with this Agreement, take
such actions as may be necessary to ensure that, if this Agreement were deemed
to create a security interest in the Trust Fund, such security interest would
be deemed to be a perfected security interest of first priority under
applicable law and will be maintained as such throughout the term of the
Agreement. The Depositor shall arrange for filing any Uniform Commercial Code
continuation statements in connection with any security interest granted or
assigned to the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders.
Section 10.05 Notices.
(a) The Trustee shall use its best efforts to promptly provide notice
to each Rating Agency with respect to each of the following of which it has
actual knowledge:
1. Any material change or amendment to this Agreement;
2. The occurrence of any Event of Default that has not been cured;
3. The resignation or termination of the Master Servicer or the
Trustee and the appointment of any successor;
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4. The repurchase or substitution of Mortgage Loans pursuant to
Section 2.03; and
5. The final payment to Certificateholders.
In addition, the Trustee shall promptly furnish to each Rating Agency
copies of the following:
1. Each report to Certificateholders described in Section 4.06;
2. Each annual statement as to compliance described in Section 3.17;
3. Each annual independent public accountants' servicing report
described in Section 3.18; and
4. Any notice of a purchase of a Mortgage Loan pursuant to Section
2.02, 2.03 or 3.11.
(b) All directions, demands and notices hereunder shall be in writing
and shall be deemed to have been duly given when delivered to (a) in the case
of the Depositor, IndyMac MBS, Inc., 000 Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxxxx 00000, Attention: Xxxx Xxxxxxx; (b) in the case of the Master
Servicer, IndyMac Bank, F.S.B., 000 Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx
00000, Attention: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxx or such other address as may be hereafter
furnished to the Depositor and the Trustee by the Master Servicer in writing;
(c) in the case of the Trustee to the Corporate Trust Office, Deutsche Bank
National Trust Company, 0000 Xxxx Xx. Xxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxx Xxx, Xxxxxxxxxx
00000-0000, Attention: Mortgage Administration IN05AJ, Series 2005-AR18, or
such other address as the Trustee may hereafter furnish to the Depositor or
Master Servicer, (d) in the case of each of the Rating Agencies, the address
specified therefor in the definition corresponding to the name of such Rating
Agency and (e) in the case of the Certificate Insurer, to Ambac Assurance
Corporation, Xxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, Attention:
IndyMac INDX 2005-AR18 (telecopy number 212-208-3547), or such other address
or telecopy number as may be furnished to the Depositor, the Master Servicer
and the Trustee in writing by the Certificate Insurer. Notices to
Certificateholders shall be deemed given when mailed, first class postage
prepaid, to their respective addresses appearing in the Certificate Register.
Section 10.06 Severability of Provisions.
If any one or more of the covenants, agreements, provisions or terms
of this Agreement shall be for any reason whatsoever held invalid, then such
covenants, agreements, provisions or terms shall be deemed severable from the
remaining covenants, agreements, provisions or terms of this Agreement and
shall in no way affect the validity or enforceability of the other provisions
of this Agreement or of the Certificates or the rights of the Holders thereof.
Section 10.07 Assignment
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement,
except as provided in Section 6.02, this Agreement may not be assigned by the
Master Servicer without the prior written consent of the Trustee and
Depositor.
Section 10.08 Limitation on Rights of Certificateholders.
The death or incapacity of any Certificateholder shall not operate to
terminate this Agreement or the trust created by this Agreement, nor entitle
such Certificateholder's legal representative or heirs to claim an accounting
or to take any action or commence any proceeding in any court for a petition
or winding up of the trust created hereby, or otherwise affect the rights,
obligations and liabilities of the parties to this Agreement or any of them.
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No Certificateholder shall have any right to vote (except as provided
in this Agreement) or in any manner otherwise control the operation and
management of the Trust Fund, or the obligations of the parties to this
Agreement, nor shall anything herein set forth or contained in the terms of
the Certificates be construed so as to constitute the Certificateholders from
time to time as partners or members of an association; nor shall any
Certificateholder be under any liability to any third party because of any
action taken by the parties to this Agreement pursuant to any provision of
this Agreement.
No Certificateholder shall have any right by virtue or by availing
itself of any provisions of this Agreement to institute any suit, action or
proceeding in equity or at law upon or under or with respect to this
Agreement, unless such Holder previously shall have given to the Trustee a
written notice of an Event of Default and of the continuance thereof, as
provided in this Agreement, and unless the Holders of Certificates evidencing
not less than 25% of the Voting Rights evidenced by the Certificates shall
also have made written request to the Trustee to institute such action, suit
or proceeding in its own name as Trustee hereunder and shall have offered to
the Trustee such reasonable indemnity as it may require against the costs,
expenses, and liabilities to be incurred therein or thereby, and the Trustee,
for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity
shall have neglected or refused to institute any such action, suit or
proceeding; it being understood and intended, and being expressly covenanted
by each Certificateholder with every other Certificateholder and the Trustee,
that no one or more Holders of Certificates shall have any right in any manner
whatever by virtue or by availing itself or themselves of any provisions of
this Agreement to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of the Holders of
any other of the Certificates, or to obtain or seek to obtain priority over or
preference to any other such Holder or to enforce any right under this
Agreement, except in the manner herein provided and for the common benefit of
all Certificateholders. For the protection and enforcement of this Section
10.08, each Certificateholder and the Trustee shall be entitled to any relief
that can be given either at law or in equity. As long as any Voting Rights are
held by parties other than the Seller, its Affiliates, or its agents, Voting
Rights of Certificates held by the Seller, its Affiliates or its agents will
be excluded from participating in such voting arrangements, and excluded from
determining the 25% threshold.
Section 10.09 Inspection and Audit Rights.
The Master Servicer agrees that, on reasonable prior notice, it will
permit any representative of the Depositor or the Trustee during the Master
Servicer's normal business hours, to examine all the books of account,
records, reports and other papers of the Master Servicer relating to the
Mortgage Loans, to make copies and extracts therefrom, to cause such books to
be audited by independent certified public accountants selected by the
Depositor or the Trustee and to discuss its affairs, finances and accounts
relating to the Mortgage Loans with its officers, employees and independent
public accountants (and by this provision the Master Servicer hereby
authorizes said accountants to discuss with such representative such affairs,
finances and accounts), all at such reasonable times and as often as may be
reasonably requested. Any out-of-pocket expense incident to the exercise by
the Depositor or the Trustee of any right under this Section 10.09 shall be
borne by the party requesting such inspection; all other such expenses shall
be borne by the Master Servicer or the Subservicer.
Section 10.10 Certificates Nonassessable and Fully Paid.
It is the intention of the Depositor that Certificateholders shall
not be personally liable for obligations of the Trust Fund, that the interests
in the Trust Fund represented by the Certificates shall be nonassessable for
any reason whatsoever, and that the Certificates, upon due authentication
thereof by the Trustee pursuant to this Agreement, are and shall be deemed
fully paid.
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Section 10.11 Official Record.
The Seller agrees that this Agreement is and shall remain at all
times before the time at which this Agreement terminates an official record of
the Seller as referred to in Section 13(e) of the Federal Deposit Insurance
Act.
Section 10.12 Protection of Assets.
(a) Except for transactions and activities entered into in connection
with the securitization that is the subject of this Agreement, the trust
created by this Agreement is not authorized and has no power to:
(1) borrow money or issue debt;
(2) merge with another entity, reorganize, liquidate or sell assets;
(3) engage in any business or activities.
(b) Each party to this Agreement agrees that it will not file an
involuntary bankruptcy petition against the Trustee or the Trust Fund or
initiate any other form of insolvency proceeding until after the Certificates
have been paid in full.
Section 10.13 Qualifying Special Purpose Entity.
Notwithstanding any contrary provision of this Agreement, the Trust
Fund shall not hold any property or engage in any activity that would
disqualify the Trust Fund from being a qualifying special purpose entity under
generally accepted accounting principles.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Depositor, the Trustee, and the Seller and
Master Servicer have caused their names to be signed hereto by their
respective officers thereunto duly authorized as of the day and year first
above written.
INDYMAC MBS, INC.
as Depositor
By: /s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Title: Vice President
DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY,
as Trustee
By: /s/ Xxxx Xxxxxx
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Name: Xxxx Xxxxxx
Title: Associate
By: /s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Title: Associate
INDYMAC BANK, F.S.B.
as Seller and Master Servicer
By: /s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Title: Vice President
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
: ss.:
COUNTY OF Los Angeles )
On this ____ day of September, 2005, before me, personally appeared
Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx, known to me to be a Vice President of IndyMac MBS, Inc., one
of the entities that executed the within instrument, and also known to me to
be the person who executed it on behalf of said entity, and acknowledged to me
that such entity executed the within instrument.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my
official seal the day and year in this certificate first above written.
/s/ Xxxxxxx Xxx
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Notary Public
[NOTARIAL SEAL]
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
: ss.:
COUNTY OF Orange )
On this ___ day of September, 2005, before me, personally appeared
Xxxx Xxxxxx and Xxxxx Xxxxxx, known to me to be an Associate and an Associate,
respectively, of Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, one of the entities
that executed the within instrument, and also known to me to be the person who
executed it on behalf of said entity, and acknowledged to me that such entity
executed the within instrument.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my
official seal the day and year in this certificate first above written.
/s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxx
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Notary Public
[NOTARIAL SEAL]
2
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
: ss.:
COUNTY OF Los Angeles )
On this ___ day of September, 2005, before me, personally appeared
Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx, known to me to be a Vice President of IndyMac Bank, F.S.B.,
one of the entities that executed the within instrument, and also known to me
to be the person who executed it on behalf of said entity, and acknowledged to
me that such entity executed the within instrument.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my
official seal the day and year in this certificate first above written.
/s/ Xxxxxxx Xxx
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Notary Public
[NOTARIAL SEAL]
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Schedule I
MORTGAGE LOAN SCHEDULE [DELIVERED AT CLOSING TO TRUSTEE]
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Schedule II
INDYMAC MBS, INC. MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-AR18
Representations and Warranties of the Seller/Master Servicer
Indy Mac Bank, F.S.B. ("IndyMac") hereby makes the representations
and warranties set forth in this Schedule II to the Depositor, the Certificate
Insurer and the Trustee, as of the Closing Date. Capitalized terms used but
not otherwise defined in this Schedule II shall have the meanings assigned
thereto in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement (the "Pooling and Servicing
Agreement") relating to the above-referenced Series, among IndyMac, as seller
and master servicer, IndyMac MBS, Inc., as depositor, and Deutsche Bank
National Trust Company, as trustee.
(1) IndyMac is duly organized as a federally insured savings
bank and is validly existing and in good standing under the laws of
the United States of America and is duly authorized and qualified to
transact any business contemplated by the Pooling and Servicing
Agreement to be conducted by IndyMac in any state in which a
Mortgaged Property is located or is otherwise not required under
applicable law to effect such qualification and, in any event, is in
compliance with the doing business laws of any such state, to the
extent necessary to ensure its ability to enforce each Mortgage Loan,
to service the Mortgage Loans in accordance with the Pooling and
Servicing Agreement and to perform any of its other obligations under
the Pooling and Servicing Agreement in accordance with the terms
thereof.
(2) IndyMac has the full corporate power and authority to
sell and service each Mortgage Loan, and to execute, deliver and
perform, and to enter into and consummate the transactions
contemplated by the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and has duly
authorized by all necessary corporate action on the part of IndyMac
the execution, delivery and performance of the Pooling and Servicing
Agreement; and the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, assuming the due
authorization, execution and delivery thereof by the other parties
thereto, constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of
IndyMac, enforceable against IndyMac in accordance with its terms,
except that (a) the enforceability thereof may be limited by
bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar
laws relating to creditors' rights generally and (b) the remedy of
specific performance and injunctive and other forms of equitable
relief may be subject to equitable defenses and to the discretion of
the court before which any proceeding therefor may be brought.
(3) The execution and delivery of the Pooling and Servicing
Agreement by IndyMac, the sale and servicing of the Mortgage Loans by
IndyMac under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, the consummation
of any other of the transactions contemplated by the Pooling and
Servicing Agreement, and the fulfillment of or compliance with the
terms thereof are in the ordinary course of business of IndyMac and
will not (A) result in a material breach of any term or provision of
the charter or by-laws of IndyMac or (B) materially conflict with,
result in a material breach, violation or acceleration of, or result
in a material default under, any other material agreement or
instrument to which IndyMac is a party or by which it may be bound,
or (C) constitute a material violation of any statute, order or
regulation applicable to IndyMac of any court, regulatory body,
administrative agency or governmental body having jurisdiction over
IndyMac (including the OTS, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
or any other governmental entity having regulatory authority over
IndyMac); and IndyMac is not in breach or violation of any material
indenture or other material agreement or instrument, or in violation
of any statute, order or regulation of any court, regulatory body,
administrative agency or
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governmental body having jurisdiction over it (including the OTS, the
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other governmental
entity having regulatory authority over IndyMac) which breach or
violation may materially impair IndyMac's ability to perform or meet
any of its obligations under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.
(4) IndyMac is an approved servicer of conventional mortgage
loans for FNMA or FHLMC or is a mortgagee approved by the Secretary
of Housing and Urban Development pursuant to Sections 203 and 211 of
the National Housing Act.
(5) No litigation is pending or, to the best of IndyMac's
knowledge, threatened against IndyMac that would prohibit the
execution or delivery of, or performance under, the Pooling and
Servicing Agreement by IndyMac.
(6) IndyMac is a member of MERS in good standing, and will
comply in all material respects with the rules and procedures of MERS
in connection with the servicing of the MERS Mortgage Loans for as
long as such Mortgage Loans are registered with MERS.
(7) Notwithstanding any federal or state law to the
contrary, the Master Servicer shall not impose such Prepayment Charge
at any time when the mortgage is accelerated as a result of the
borrower's default in making the scheduled payments.
(8) The Master Servicer will transmit full-file credit
reporting data for each Mortgage Loan pursuant to Xxxxxx Xxx Guide
Announcement 95-19 and that for each Mortgage Loan, Servicer agrees
it shall report one of the following statuses each month as follows:
new origination, current, delinquent (30-, 60-, 90-days, etc.),
foreclosed, or charged-off.
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Schedule III
INDYMAC MBS, INC.
MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES,
SERIES 2005-AR18
Representations and Warranties as to the Mortgage Loans
IndyMac Bank, F.S.B. ("IndyMac") hereby makes the representations and
warranties set forth in this Schedule III to the Depositor, the Certificate
Insurer and the Trustee, as of the Closing Date or if so specified in this
Schedule III, as of the Cut-off Date with respect to each Mortgage Loan.
Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined in this Schedule III shall
have the meanings assigned to them in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement (the
"Pooling and Servicing Agreement") relating to the above-referenced Series,
among IndyMac, as seller and master servicer, IndyMac MBS, Inc., as depositor,
and Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as trustee.
(1) The information set forth on Schedule I to the Pooling
and Servicing Agreement with respect to each Mortgage Loan is true
and correct in all material respects as of the Closing Date.
(2) All regularly scheduled monthly payments due with
respect to each Mortgage Loan up to and including the Due Date before
the Cut-off Date have been made; and as of the Cut-off Date, no
Mortgage Loan had a regularly scheduled monthly payment that was 60
or more days Delinquent during the twelve months before the Cut-off
Date.
(3) With respect to any Mortgage Loan that is not a
Cooperative Loan, each Mortgage is a valid and enforceable first lien
on the Mortgaged Property subject only to (a) the lien of
nondelinquent current real property taxes and assessments and liens
or interests arising under or as a result of any federal, state or
local law, regulation or ordinance relating to hazardous wastes or
hazardous substances and, if the related Mortgaged Property is a unit
in a condominium project or planned unit development, any lien for
common charges permitted by statute or homeowner association fees,
(b) covenants, conditions and restrictions, rights of way, easements
and other matters of public record as of the date of recording of
such Mortgage, such exceptions appearing of record being generally
acceptable to mortgage lending institutions in the area wherein the
related Mortgaged Property is located or specifically reflected in
the appraisal made in connection with the origination of the related
Mortgage Loan, and (c) other matters to which like properties are
commonly subject which do not materially interfere with the benefits
of the security intended to be provided by such Mortgage.
(4) Immediately before the assignment of the Mortgage Loans
to the Depositor, the Seller had good title to, and was the sole
owner of, each Mortgage Loan free and clear of any pledge, lien,
encumbrance or security interest and had full right and authority,
subject to no interest or participation of, or agreement with, any
other party, to sell and assign the same pursuant to the Pooling and
Servicing Agreement.
(5) There was no delinquent tax or assessment lien against
the related Mortgaged Property.
(6) There is no valid offset, defense or counterclaim to any
Mortgage Note or Mortgage, including the obligation of the Mortgagor
to pay the unpaid principal of or interest on such Mortgage Note.
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(7) There are no mechanics' liens or claims for work, labor
or material affecting any Mortgaged Property which are or may be a
lien prior to or equal with, the lien of such Mortgage, except those
which are insured against by the title insurance policy referred to
in item (11) below.
(8) No Mortgaged Property has been materially damaged by
water, fire, earthquake, windstorm, flood, tornado or similar
casualty (excluding casualty from the presence of hazardous wastes or
hazardous substances, as to which the Seller makes no representation)
so as to affect adversely the value of the related Mortgaged Property
as security for the Mortgage Loan.
(9) Each Mortgage Loan at origination complied in all
material respects with applicable local, state and federal laws and
regulations, including usury, equal credit opportunity, real estate
settlement procedures, truth-in-lending, and disclosure laws, or any
noncompliance does not have a material adverse effect on the value of
the related Mortgage Loan.
(10) The Seller has not modified the Mortgage in any
material respect (except that a Mortgage Loan may have been modified
by a written instrument which has been recorded or submitted for
recordation, if necessary, to protect the interests of the
Certificateholders and which has been delivered to the Trustee);
satisfied, cancelled or subordinated such Mortgage in whole or in
part; released the related Mortgaged Property in whole or in part
from the lien of such Mortgage; or executed any instrument of
release, cancellation, modification or satisfaction with respect
thereto.
(11) A lender's policy of title insurance together with a
condominium endorsement and extended coverage endorsement, if
applicable, and negative amortization endorsement in an amount at
least equal to the Cut-off Date Principal Balance of each such
Mortgage Loan or a commitment (binder) to issue the same was
effective on the date of the origination of each Mortgage Loan and
each such policy is valid and remains in full force and effect.
(12) Each Mortgage Loan was originated (within the meaning
of Section 3(a)(41) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended) by an entity that satisfied at the time of origination the
requirements of Section 3(a)(41) of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended.
(13) To the best of the Seller's knowledge, all of the
improvements which were included for the purpose of determining the
Appraised Value of the Mortgaged Property lie wholly within the
boundaries and building restriction lines of such property, and no
improvements on adjoining properties encroach upon the Mortgaged
Property, unless such failure to be wholly within such boundaries and
restriction lines or such encroachment, as the case may be, does not
have a material effect on the value of the Mortgaged Property.
(14) To the best of the Seller's knowledge, as of the date
of origination of each Mortgage Loan, no improvement located on or
being part of the Mortgaged Property is in violation of any
applicable zoning law or regulation unless such violation would not
have a material adverse effect on the value of the related Mortgaged
Property. To the best of the Seller's knowledge, all inspections,
licenses and certificates required to be made or issued with respect
to all occupied portions of the Mortgaged Property and, with respect
to the use and occupancy of the same, including certificates of
occupancy and fire underwriting certificates, have been made or
obtained from the appropriate authorities, unless the lack thereof
would not have a material adverse effect on the value of the
Mortgaged Property.
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(15) The Mortgage Note and the related Mortgage are genuine,
and each is the legal, valid and binding obligation of the maker
thereof, enforceable in accordance with its terms and under
applicable law.
(16) The proceeds of the Mortgage Loan have been fully
disbursed and there is no requirement for future advances thereunder.
(17) The related Mortgage contains customary and enforceable
provisions which render the rights and remedies of the holder thereof
adequate for the realization against the Mortgaged Property of the
benefits of the security, including, (i) in the case of a Mortgage
designated as a deed of trust, by trustee's sale, and (ii) otherwise
by judicial foreclosure.
(18) With respect to each Mortgage constituting a deed of
trust, a trustee, duly qualified under applicable law to serve as
such, has been properly designated and currently so serves and is
named in such Mortgage, and no fees or expenses are or will become
payable by the Certificateholders to the trustee under the deed of
trust, except in connection with a trustee's sale after default by
the Mortgagor.
(19) At the Cut-off Date, the improvements upon each
Mortgaged Property are covered by a valid and existing hazard
insurance policy with a generally acceptable carrier that provides
for fire and extended coverage and coverage for such other hazards as
are customarily required by institutional single family mortgage
lenders in the area where the Mortgaged Property is located, and the
Seller has received no notice that any premiums due and payable
thereon have not been paid; the Mortgage obligates the Mortgagor
thereunder to maintain all such insurance including flood insurance
at the Mortgagor's cost and expense. Anything to the contrary in this
item (19) notwithstanding, no breach of this item (19) shall be
deemed to give rise to any obligation of the Seller to repurchase or
substitute for such affected Mortgage Loan or Loans so long as the
Master Servicer maintains a blanket policy pursuant to the second
paragraph of Section 3.10(a) of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.
(20) If at the time of origination of each Mortgage Loan,
the related Mortgaged Property was in an area then identified in the
Federal Register by the Federal Emergency Management Agency as having
special flood hazards, a flood insurance policy in a form meeting the
then-current requirements of the Flood Insurance Administration is in
effect with respect to the Mortgaged Property with a generally
acceptable carrier.
(21) To the best of the Seller's knowledge, there is no
proceeding pending or threatened for the total or partial
condemnation of any Mortgaged Property, nor is such a proceeding
currently occurring.
(22) To the best of the Seller's knowledge, there is no
material event which, with the passage of time or with notice and the
expiration of any grace or cure period, would constitute a material
non-monetary default, breach, violation or event of acceleration
under the Mortgage or the related Mortgage Note; and the Seller has
not waived any material non-monetary default, breach, violation or
event of acceleration.
(23) Each Mortgage File contains an appraisal of the related
Mortgaged Property in a form acceptable to FNMA or FHLMC. Appraisal
Form 1004 or Form 2055 has been obtained.
(24) Any leasehold estate securing a Mortgage Loan has a
stated term of not less than five years in excess of the term of the
related Mortgage Loan.
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(25) Each Mortgage Loan was selected from among the
outstanding one- to four-family mortgage loans in the Seller's
portfolio at the Closing Date as to which the representations and
warranties made with respect to the Mortgage Loans set forth in this
Schedule III can be made. No such selection was made in a manner
intended to adversely affect the interests of the Certificateholders.
(26) None of the Mortgage Loans are Cooperative Loans.
(27) [Reserved].
(28) None of the Mortgage Loans is a "high cost" loan,
"covered" loan (excluding home loans defined as "covered home loans"
in the New Jersey Home Ownership Security Act of 2002 that were
originated between November 26, 2003 and July 7, 2004), "high risk
home" or "predatory" loan or any other similarly designated loan as
defined under any state, local or federal law, as defined by
applicable predatory and abusing lending laws.
(29) Each Mortgage Loan at the time it was made complied in
all material respects with applicable local, state, and federal laws,
including, but not limited to, all applicable predatory and abusive
lending laws.
(30) [Reserved].
(31) No proceeds from any Mortgage Loan underlying the
Certificates were used to finance single-premium credit insurance
policies.
(32) None of the Mortgage Notes related to the Mortgage
Loans impose a Prepayment Charge on the related Mortgage Loan for a
term in excess of three years from the origination of the Mortgage
Loan.
(33) [Reserved].
(34) No Mortgage Loan is subject to the requirements of the
Home Ownership and Equity Protection Act of 1994.
(35) No borrower was encouraged or required to select a
Mortgage Loan product offered by the Mortgage Loan's originator that
is a higher cost product designed for less creditworthy borrowers,
unless at the time of the Mortgage Loan's origination, such borrower
did not qualify taking into account credit history and debt-to-income
ratios, for a lower-cost credit product then offered by the Seller or
any affiliate of the Seller. If, at the time of loan application, the
borrower may have qualified for a lower-cost credit product then
offered by any mortgage lending affiliate of the Seller, the Seller
referred the borrower's application to such affiliate for
underwriting consideration.
(36) The methodology used in underwriting the extension of
credit for each Mortgage Loan employs objective mathematical
principles that relate the borrower's income, assets and liabilities
to the proposed payment and such underwriting methodology does not
rely on the extent of the borrower's equity in the collateral as the
principal determining factor in approving such credit extension. Such
underwriting methodology confirmed that at the time of origination
(application/approval) the borrower had a reasonable ability to make
timely payments on the Mortgage Loan.
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(37) With respect to any Mortgage Loan that contains a
provision permitting imposition of a premium upon a prepayment prior
to maturity: (i) prior to the Mortgage Loan's origination, the
borrower agreed to such premium in exchange for a monetary benefit,
including but not limited to an interest rate or fee reduction, (ii)
prior to the Mortgage Loan's origination, the borrower was offered
the option of obtaining a mortgage loan that did not require payment
of such a premium, (iii) the Prepayment Charge is disclosed to the
borrower in the loan documents pursuant to applicable state and
federal law and (iv) for Mortgage Loans originated on or after
September 1, 2004, the duration of the prepayment period shall not
exceed three years from the date of the Mortgage Note, unless the
Mortgage Loan was modified to reduce the prepayment period to no more
than three years from the date of the Mortgage Note and the borrower
was notified in writing of such reduction in the prepayment period.
(38) No borrower was required to purchase any credit life,
disability, accident or health insurance product as a condition of
obtaining the extension of credit. No borrower obtained a prepaid
single-premium credit life, credit disability, credit unemployment,
credit property, disability, accident or health insurance policy in
connection with the origination of the Mortgage Loan; no proceeds
from any Mortgage Loan were used to purchase single premium credit
insurance policies as part of the origination of, or as a condition
to closing, such Mortgage Loan.
(39) All points and fees related to each Mortgage Loan were
disclosed in writing to the borrower in accordance with applicable
state and federal law and regulation. Except in the case of a
Mortgage Loan in an original principal amount of less than $60,000
that would have resulted in an unprofitable origination, no borrower
was charged "points and fees" (whether or not financed) in an amount
greater than 5% of the principal amount of such loan, such 5%
limitation calculated in accordance with Xxxxxx Mae's anti-predatory
lending requirements as set forth in the Xxxxxx Mae Selling Guide.
(40) All fees and charges (including finance charges),
whether or not financed, assessed, collected or to be collected in
connection with the origination and servicing of each Mortgage Loan
has been disclosed in writing to the borrower in accordance with
applicable state and federal law and regulation.
(41) Each Mortgage Loan was in compliance with the
anti-predatory lending eligibility for purchase requirements of
Xxxxxx Mae's Selling Guide.
(42) No Mortgage Loan is a "High-Cost Home Loan" as defined
in any of the following statutes: the Georgia Fair Lending Act, as
amended (the "Georgia Act"), the New York Banking Law 6-1, the
Arkansas Home Loan Protection Act effective July 16, 2003 (Act 1340
of 2003), the Kentucky high-cost home loan statute effective June 24,
2003 (Ky. Rev. Stat. Section 360.100), the New Jersey Home Ownership
Act effective November 27, 2003 (N.J.S.A. 46:10B-22 et seq.), or the
New Mexico Home Loan Protection Act effective January 1, 2004 (N.M.
Stat. Xxx xx.xx. 58-21A-1 et seq.). With respect to any Mortgage Loan
subject to the Georgia Act and secured by owner occupied real
property or an owner occupied manufactured home located in the state
of Georgia and originated (or modified) on or after October 1, 2002
through and including March 7, 2003, such Mortgage Loan was
originated by IndyMac. No Mortgage Loan is a "High-Risk Home Loan" as
defined in the Illinois High-Risk Home Loan Act effective January 1,
2004 (815 Ill. Comp. Stat. 137/1 et seq.). No Mortgage Loan is a
"High-Cost Home Mortgage Loan" as defined in Massachusetts Predatory
Home Loan Practices Act, effective November 6, 2004 (Mass. Xxx. Laws
Ch. 183C). None of the Mortgage Loans that are secured by property
located in the State of Illinois are in violation of the provisions
of the Illinois Interest Act (815 Ill. Comp. Stat. 205/1 et. seq.).
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(43) Each Group 1 Mortgage Loan had a principal balance at
origination that conformed to Xxxxxx Mae and Xxxxxxx Mac guidelines.
(44) Each Mortgage Loan has been underwritten and serviced
substantially in accordance with the Seller's guidelines, subject to
such variances as are reflected on the Mortgage Loan Schedule or that
the Seller has approved.
(45) No Mortgage Loan is a High Cost Loan or Covered Loan,
as applicable (as such terms are defined in the then-current version
of Standard & Poor's LEVELS(R) Glossary, which is now Version 5.6
Revised, Appendix E) and no Mortgage Loan originated on or after Oct.
1, 2002 through March 6, 2003 is governed by the Georgia Fair Lending
Act.
(46) The Pooling and Servicing Agreement creates a valid and
continuing "security interest" (as defined in Section 1-201(37) of
the UCC) in each Mortgage Note in favor of the Trustee, which
security interest is prior to all other liens and is enforceable as
such against creditors of and purchasers from the Depositor. Each
Mortgage Note constitutes "promissory notes" (as defined in Section
9-102(a)(65) of the UCC). Immediately before the assignment of each
Mortgage Note to the Trustee, the Depositor had good and marketable
title to such Mortgage Note free and clear of any lien, claim,
encumbrance of any Person. All original executed copies of each
Mortgage Note have been or shall be delivered to the Trustee within
five Business Days following the Closing Date. Other than the
security interest granted to the Trustee, the Depositor has not
pledged, assigned, sold, granted a security interest in, or otherwise
conveyed any Mortgage Note. The Depositor has not authorized the
filing of and is not aware of any financing statements against the
Depositor that include a description of any of the Mortgage Notes.
The Depositor is not aware of any judgment or tax liens filed against
the Depositor. None of the Mortgage Notes has any marks or notations
indicating that they have been pledged, assigned or otherwise
conveyed to any Person other than the Trustee.
(47) To the best of the Seller's knowledge, there was no
fraud involved in the origination of any Mortgage Loan by the
mortgagee or by the Mortgagor, any appraiser or any other party
involved in the origination of the Mortgage Loan.
(48) The Master Servicer has fully furnished, in accordance
with the Fair Credit Reporting Act and its implement regulations,
accurate and complete information (i.e., favorable and unfavorable)
on the credit files for the related Mortgagor for each Group 1
Mortgage Loan to Equifax, Experian and Trans Union Credit Information
Company on a monthly basis.
(49) Each Group 1 Mortgage Loan is a "qualified mortgage"
under Section 860G(a)(3) of the Code.
(50) With respect to any Group 1 Mortgage Loan originated on
or after August 1, 2004, neither the related Mortgage nor the related
Mortgage Note requires the borrower to submit to arbitration to
resolve any dispute arising out of or relating in any way to the
Group 1 Mortgage Loan transaction.
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Schedule IV
INDYMAC MBS, INC.
MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES,
SERIES 2005-AR18
Form of Monthly Report
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EXHIBIT A
[FORM OF SENIOR CERTIFICATE (other than Notional Amount Certificates)]
[UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE
OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION ("DTC"), TO THE ISSUER
OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE, OR PAYMENT, AND ANY
CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER
NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT
IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED
REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE, OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR
OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER
HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.]
SOLELY FOR U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX PURPOSES, THIS CERTIFICATE IS A
"REGULAR INTEREST" IN A "REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE INVESTMENT CONDUIT," AS THOSE
TERMS ARE DEFINED, RESPECTIVELY, IN SECTIONS 860G AND 860D OF THE INTERNAL
REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED (THE "CODE").
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Certificate No. :
Cut-off Date :
First Distribution Date :
Initial Certificate Balance of this
Certificate ("Denomination") : $
Initial Certificate Balances of all
Certificates of this Class : $
CUSIP :
Interest Rate : %
Maturity Date :
INDYMAC MBS, INC.
IndyMac INDX Mortgage Loan Trust 200_-_
Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 200_-_
Class [__]
evidencing a percentage interest in the distributions
allocable to the Certificates of the above-referenced Class with
respect to a Trust Fund consisting primarily of a pool of
conventional mortgage loans (the "Mortgage Loans") secured by first
liens on one- to four-family residential properties.
IndyMac MBS, Inc., as Depositor
Principal in respect of this Certificate is distributable monthly as
set forth herein or in the Agreement (defined below). Accordingly, the
Certificate Balance at any time may be less than the Certificate Balance as
set forth herein. This Certificate does not evidence an obligation of, or an
interest in, and is not guaranteed by the Depositor, the Seller, the Master
Servicer or the Trustee referred to below or any of their respective
affiliates. Neither this Certificate nor the Mortgage Loans are guaranteed or
insured by any governmental agency or instrumentality.
This certifies that _________________ is the registered owner of the
Percentage Interest evidenced by this Certificate (obtained by dividing the
denomination of this Certificate by the aggregate Initial Certificate Balances
of all Certificates of the Class to which this Certificate belongs) in certain
monthly distributions with respect to a Trust Fund consisting primarily of the
Mortgage Loans deposited by IndyMac MBS, Inc. (the "Depositor"). The Trust
Fund was created pursuant to a Pooling and Servicing Agreement dated as of the
Cut-off Date specified above (the "Agreement") among the Depositor, IndyMac
Bank, F.S.B., as seller (in such capacity, the "Seller") and as master
servicer (in such capacity, the "Master Servicer"), and Deutsche Bank National
Trust Company, as trustee (the "Trustee"). To the extent not defined herein,
the capitalized terms used herein have the meanings assigned in the Agreement.
This Certificate is issued under and is subject to the terms, provisions and
conditions of the Agreement, to which Agreement the Holder of this Certificate
by virtue of the acceptance hereof assents and by which such Holder is bound.
A-2
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this
Certificate set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall
for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
This Certificate shall not be entitled to any benefit under the
Agreement or be valid for any purpose unless manually countersigned by an
authorized signatory of the Trustee.
A-3
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Trustee has caused this Certificate to be
duly executed.
Dated: ____________, 20__
DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY,
as Trustee
By ______________________
Countersigned:
By ___________________________
Authorized Signatory of
DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY,
as Trustee
A-4
EXHIBIT B
[FORM OF SUBORDINATED CERTIFICATE]
[UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE
OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION ("DTC"), TO THE ISSUER
OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE, OR PAYMENT, AND ANY
CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER
NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT
IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED
REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE, OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR
OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER
HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.]
SOLELY FOR U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX PURPOSES, THIS CERTIFICATE IS A
"REGULAR INTEREST" IN A "REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE INVESTMENT CONDUIT," AS THOSE
TERMS ARE DEFINED, RESPECTIVELY, IN SECTIONS 860G AND 860D OF THE INTERNAL
REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED (THE "CODE").
THIS CERTIFICATE IS SUBORDINATED IN RIGHT OF PAYMENT TO CERTAIN
CERTIFICATES AS DESCRIBED IN THE AGREEMENT REFERRED TO HEREIN.
[THIS CERTIFICATE HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF
1933, AS AMENDED (THE "ACT"). ANY RESALE OR TRANSFER OF THIS CERTIFICATE
WITHOUT REGISTRATION THEREOF UNDER THE ACT MAY ONLY BE MADE IN A TRANSACTION
EXEMPTED FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE ACT AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH
THE PROVISIONS OF THE AGREEMENT REFERRED TO HEREIN.]
[NEITHER THIS CERTIFICATE NOR ANY INTEREST HEREIN MAY BE TRANSFERRED
UNLESS THE TRANSFEREE REPRESENTS TO THE TRUSTEE THAT SUCH TRANSFEREE IS NOT
AND IS NOT INVESTING ON BEHALF OF OR WITH PLAN ASSETS OF AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT
PLAN SUBJECT TO THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS
AMENDED ("ERISA"), OR A PLAN SUBJECT TO SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE, OR, IF THE
CERTIFICATE HAS BEEN THE SUBJECT OF AN ERISA-QUALIFYING UNDERWRITING, DELIVERS
A REPRESENTATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE AGREEMENT REFERRED
TO HEREIN, OR DELIVERS TO THE TRUSTEE AN OPINION OF COUNSEL IN ACCORDANCE WITH
THE PROVISIONS OF THE AGREEMENT REFERRED TO HEREIN. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING
ELSE TO THE CONTRARY HEREIN, ANY PURPORTED TRANSFER OF THIS CERTIFICATE TO OR
ON BEHALF OF AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN SUBJECT TO ERISA OR TO SECTION 4975 OF
THE CODE WITHOUT THE OPINION OF COUNSEL SATISFACTORY TO THE TRUSTEE AS
DESCRIBED ABOVE SHALL BE VOID AND OF NO EFFECT.]
B-1
Certificate No. :
Cut-off Date :
First Distribution Date :
Initial Certificate Balance of this
Certificate ("Denomination") : $
Initial Certificate Balances of all
Certificates of this Class : $
CUSIP :
INDYMAC MBS, INC.
IndyMac INDX Mortgage Loan Trust 200_-_
Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 200_-_
Class [___]
evidencing a percentage interest in the distributions
allocable to the Certificates of the above-referenced Class with
respect to a Trust Fund consisting primarily of a pool of
conventional mortgage loans (the "Mortgage Loans") secured by first
liens on one- to four-family residential properties.
IndyMac MBS, Inc., as Depositor
Principal in respect of this Certificate is distributable monthly as set forth
herein or in the Agreement (defined below). Accordingly, the Certificate
Balance at any time may be less than the Certificate Balance as set forth
herein. This Certificate does not evidence an obligation of, or an interest
in, and is not guaranteed by the Depositor, the Seller, the Master Servicer or
the Trustee referred to below or any of their respective affiliates. Neither
this Certificate nor the Mortgage Loans are guaranteed or insured by any
governmental agency or instrumentality.
This certifies that _____________ is the registered owner of the Percentage
Interest evidenced by this Certificate (obtained by dividing the denomination
of this Certificate by the aggregate Initial Certificate Balances of the
denominations of all Certificates of the Class to which this Certificate
belongs) in certain monthly distributions with respect to a Trust Fund
consisting primarily of the Mortgage Loans deposited by IndyMac MBS, Inc. (the
"Depositor"). The Trust Fund was created pursuant to a Pooling and Servicing
Agreement dated as of the Cut-off Date specified above (the "Agreement") among
the Depositor, IndyMac Bank, F.S.B., as seller (in such capacity, the
"Seller"), and as master servicer (in such capacity, the "Master Servicer"),
and Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as trustee (the "Trustee"). To the
extent not defined herein, the capitalized terms used herein have the meanings
assigned in the Agreement. This Certificate is issued under and is subject to
the terms, provisions and conditions of the Agreement, to which Agreement the
Holder of this Certificate by virtue of the acceptance hereof assents and by
which such Holder is bound.
B-2
[No transfer of a Certificate of this Class shall be made unless such transfer
is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities
Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the
registration requirements under said Act and such laws. In the event that a
transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act
and such laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such
laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such
Certificateholder's prospective transferee shall each certify to the Trustee
in writing the facts surrounding the transfer. In the event that such a
transfer is to be made within three years from the date of the initial
issuance of Certificates pursuant hereto, there shall also be delivered
(except in the case of a transfer pursuant to Rule 144A of the Securities Act)
to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant
to an exemption from the Securities Act and such state securities laws, which
Opinion of Counsel shall not be obtained at the expense of the Trustee, the
Seller, the Master Servicer or the Depositor. The Holder hereof desiring to
effect such transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Trustee
and the Depositor against any liability that may result if the transfer is not
so exempt or is not made in accordance with such federal and state laws.]
[No transfer of a Certificate of this Class shall be made unless the Trustee
shall have received either (i) a representation [letter] from the transferee
of such Certificate, acceptable to and in form and substance satisfactory to
the Trustee, to the effect that such transferee is not an employee benefit
plan or other benefit plan subject to Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of
the Code, or a person acting on behalf of or investing plan assets of any such
plan, which representation letter shall not be an expense of the Trustee or
the Master Servicer, (ii) if the Certificate has been the subject of an
ERISA-Qualifying Underwriting, a representation that the transferee is an
insurance company which is purchasing such Certificate with funds contained in
an "insurance company general account" (as such term is defined in Section
V(e) of Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption 95-60 ("PTCE 95-60")) and that
the purchase and holding of such Certificate are covered under Sections I and
III of PTCE 95-60 or (iii) in the case of any such Certificate presented for
registration in the name of an employee benefit plan subject to ERISA or
Section 4975 of the Code (or comparable provisions of any subsequent
enactments), or a trustee of any such plan or any other person acting on
behalf of any such plan, an Opinion of Counsel satisfactory to the Trustee and
addressed to the Trustee and the Master Servicer to the effect that the
purchase and holding of such Certificate will not result in a nonexempt
prohibited transaction under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code and will not
subject the Trustee or the Master Servicer to any obligation in addition to
those undertaken in the Agreement, which Opinion of Counsel shall not be an
expense of the Trustee, the Master Servicer or the Trust Fund. Notwithstanding
anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate
of this Class to or on behalf of an employee benefit plan subject to ERISA or
to Section 4975 of the Code without the opinion of counsel satisfactory to the
Trustee as described above shall be void and of no effect.]
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Certificate set
forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes
have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
This Certificate shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Agreement or
be valid for any purpose unless manually countersigned by an authorized
signatory of the Trustee.
B-3
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Trustee has caused this Certificate to be
duly executed.
Dated: ____________, 20__
DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY,
as Trustee
By ______________________
Countersigned:
By ___________________________
Authorized Signatory of
DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY,
as Trustee
B-4
EXHIBIT C
[FORM OF CLASS A-R CERTIFICATE]
SOLELY FOR U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX PURPOSES, THIS CERTIFICATE IS A
"RESIDUAL INTEREST" IN A "REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE INVESTMENT CONDUIT," AS THOSE
TERMS ARE DEFINED, RESPECTIVELY, IN SECTIONS 860G AND 860D OF THE INTERNAL
REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED (THE "CODE").
NEITHER THIS CERTIFICATE NOR ANY INTEREST HEREIN MAY BE TRANSFERRED
UNLESS THE PROPOSED TRANSFEREE DELIVERS TO THE TRUSTEE A TRANSFER AFFIDAVIT IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE AGREEMENT REFERRED TO HEREIN.
NEITHER THIS CERTIFICATE NOR ANY INTEREST HEREIN MAY BE TRANSFERRED
UNLESS THE TRANSFEREE REPRESENTS TO THE TRUSTEE THAT SUCH TRANSFEREE IS NOT
AND IS NOT INVESTING ON BEHALF OF OR WITH PLAN ASSETS OF AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT
PLAN SUBJECT TO THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS
AMENDED ("ERISA"), OR A PLAN SUBJECT TO SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE, OR, IF SUCH
PURCHASER IS AN INSURANCE COMPANY, DELIVERS A REPRESENTATION IN ACCORDANCE
WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE AGREEMENT REFERRED TO HEREIN, OR DELIVERS TO THE
TRUSTEE AN OPINION OF COUNSEL IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE
AGREEMENT REFERRED TO HEREIN. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING ELSE TO THE CONTRARY
HEREIN, ANY PURPORTED TRANSFER OF THIS CERTIFICATE TO OR ON BEHALF OF AN
EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN SUBJECT TO ERISA OR TO SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE WITHOUT
THE OPINION OF COUNSEL SATISFACTORY TO THE TRUSTEE AS DESCRIBED ABOVE SHALL BE
VOID AND OF NO EFFECT.
C-1
Certificate No. :
Cut-off Date :
First Distribution Date :
Initial Certificate Balance of this
Certificate ("Denomination") : $
Initial Certificate Balances of all
Certificates of this Class : $
CUSIP :
INDYMAC MBS, INC.
IndyMac INDX Mortgage Loan Trust 200_-_
Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 200_-_
evidencing the distributions allocable to the Class A-R
Certificates with respect to a Trust Fund consisting primarily of a
pool of conventional mortgage loans (the "Mortgage Loans") secured by
first liens on one- to four-family residential properties.
IndyMac MBS, Inc., as Depositor
Principal in respect of this Certificate is distributable monthly as set forth
herein or in the Agreement (defined below). Accordingly, the Certificate
Balance at any time may be less than the Certificate Balance as set forth
herein. This Certificate does not evidence an obligation of, or an interest
in, and is not guaranteed by the Depositor, the Seller, the Master Servicer or
the Trustee referred to below or any of their respective affiliates. Neither
this Certificate nor the Mortgage Loans are guaranteed or insured by any
governmental agency or instrumentality.
This certifies that ______________ is the registered owner of the Percentage
Interest (obtained by dividing the denomination of this Certificate by the
aggregate Initial Certificate Balances of the denominations of all
Certificates of the Class to which this Certificate belongs) in certain
monthly distributions with respect to a Trust Fund consisting of the Mortgage
Loans deposited by IndyMac MBS, Inc. (the "Depositor"). The Trust Fund was
created pursuant to a Pooling and Servicing Agreement dated as of the Cut-off
Date specified above (the "Agreement") among the Depositor, IndyMac Bank,
F.S.B., as seller (in such capacity, the "Seller") and as master servicer (in
such capacity, the "Master Servicer"), and Deutsche Bank National Trust
Company, as trustee (the "Trustee"). To the extent not defined herein, the
capitalized terms used herein have the meanings assigned in the Agreement.
This Certificate is issued under and is subject to the terms, provisions and
conditions of the Agreement, to which Agreement the Holder of this Certificate
by virtue of the acceptance hereof assents and by which such Holder is bound.
Any distribution of the proceeds of any remaining assets of the Trust Fund
will be made only upon presentment and surrender of this Class A-R Certificate
at the Corporate Trust Office or the office or agency maintained by the
Trustee in New York, New York.
C-2
No transfer of a Class A-R Certificate shall be made unless the Trustee shall
have received either (i) a representation letter from the transferee of such
Certificate, acceptable to and in form and substance satisfactory to the
Trustee, to the effect that such transferee is not an employee benefit plan or
other benefit plan subject to Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the
Code, or a person investing on behalf of or with plan assets of any such plan,
which representation letter shall not be an expense of the Trustee or the
Master Servicer, (ii) a representation that the purchaser is an insurance
company which is purchasing such Certificate with funds contained in an
"insurance company general account" (as such term is defined in Section V(e)
of Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption 95-60 ("PTCE 95-60")) and that the
purchase and holding of such Certificate are covered under Sections I and III
of PTCE 95-60 or (iii) in the case of any such Certificate presented for
registration in the name of an employee benefit plan subject to ERISA or
Section 4975 of the Code (or comparable provisions of any subsequent
enactments), or a trustee of any such plan or any other person acting on
behalf of any such plan, an Opinion of Counsel satisfactory to the Trustee and
addressed to the Trustee and the Master Servicer to the effect that the
purchase and holding of such Class A-R Certificate will not result in a
nonexempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of
the Code and will not subject the Trustee or the Master Servicer to any
obligation in addition to those undertaken in the Agreement, which Opinion of
Counsel shall not be an expense of the Trustee, the Master Servicer or the
Trust Fund. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any
purported transfer of a Class A-R Certificate to or on behalf of an employee
benefit plan subject to ERISA or to the Code without the opinion of counsel
satisfactory to the Trustee as described above shall be void and of no effect.
Each Holder of this Class A-R Certificate will be deemed to have agreed to be
bound by the restrictions of the Agreement, including but not limited to the
restrictions that (i) each person holding or acquiring any Ownership Interest
in this Class A-R Certificate must be a Permitted Transferee, (ii) no
Ownership Interest in this Class A-R Certificate may be transferred without
delivery to the Trustee of (a) a transfer affidavit of the proposed transferee
and (b) a transfer certificate of the transferor, each of such documents to be
in the form described in the Agreement, (iii) each person holding or acquiring
any Ownership Interest in this Class A-R Certificate must agree to require a
transfer affidavit and to deliver a transfer certificate to the Trustee as
required pursuant to the Agreement, (iv) each person holding or acquiring an
Ownership Interest in this Class A-R Certificate must agree not to transfer an
Ownership Interest in this Class A-R Certificate if it has actual knowledge
that the proposed transferee is not a Permitted Transferee and (v) any
attempted or purported transfer of any Ownership Interest in this Class A-R
Certificate in violation of such restrictions will be absolutely null and void
and will vest no rights in the purported transferee.
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Certificate set
forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes
have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
This Certificate shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Agreement or
be valid for any purpose unless manually countersigned by an authorized
signatory of the Trustee.
C-3
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Trustee has caused this Certificate to be
duly executed.
Dated: ____________, 20__
DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY,
as Trustee
By ______________________
Countersigned:
By ___________________________
Authorized Signatory of
DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY,
as Trustee
C-4
EXHIBIT D
[FORM OF NOTIONAL AMOUNT CERTIFICATE]
[UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE
OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION ("DTC"), TO THE ISSUER
OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE, OR PAYMENT, AND ANY
CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER
NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT
IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED
REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE, OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR
OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER
HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.]
SOLELY FOR U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX PURPOSES, THIS CERTIFICATE IS A
"REGULAR INTEREST" IN A "REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE INVESTMENT CONDUIT," AS THOSE
TERMS ARE DEFINED, RESPECTIVELY, IN SECTIONS 860G AND 860D OF THE INTERNAL
REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED (THE "CODE").
THIS CERTIFICATE HAS NO PRINCIPAL BALANCE AND IS NOT ENTITLED TO ANY
DISTRIBUTIONS IN RESPECT OF PRINCIPAL.
D-1
Certificate No. :
Cut-off Date :
First Distribution Date :
Initial Notional Amount of this
Certificate ("Denomination") :
Initial Notional Amount of all
Certificates of this Class :
CUSIP :
Interest Rate : %
Maturity Date :
INDYMAC MBS, INC.
IndyMac INDX Mortgage Loan Trust 200_-_
Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 200_-_
Class [__]
evidencing a percentage interest in the distributions
allocable to the Certificates of the above-referenced Class with
respect to a Trust Fund consisting primarily of a pool of
conventional mortgage loans (the "Mortgage Loans") secured by first
liens on one- to four-family residential properties.
IndyMac MBS, Inc., as Depositor
This Certificate does not evidence an obligation of, or an interest
in, and is not guaranteed by the Depositor, the Seller, the Master Servicer or
the Trustee referred to below or any of their respective affiliates. Neither
this Certificate nor the Mortgage Loans are guaranteed or insured by any
governmental agency or instrumentality.
D-2
This certifies that __________ is the registered owner of the
Percentage Interest evidenced by this Certificate (obtained by dividing the
denomination of this Certificate by the aggregate Initial Notional Amounts of
all Certificates of the Class to which this Certificate belongs) in certain
monthly distributions with respect to a Trust Fund consisting primarily of the
Mortgage Loans deposited by IndyMac MBS, Inc. (the "Depositor"). The Trust
Fund was created pursuant to a Pooling and Servicing Agreement dated as of the
Cut-off Date specified above (the "Agreement") among the Depositor, IndyMac
Bank, F.S.B., as seller (in such capacity, the "Seller") and as master
servicer (in such capacity, the "Master Servicer"), and Deutsche Bank National
Trust Company, as trustee (the "Trustee"). To the extent not defined herein,
the capitalized terms used herein have the meanings assigned in the Agreement.
This Certificate is issued under and is subject to the terms, provisions and
conditions of the Agreement, to which Agreement the Holder of this Certificate
by virtue of the acceptance hereof assents and by which such Holder is bound.
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this
Certificate set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall
for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
This Certificate shall not be entitled to any benefit under the
Agreement or be valid for any purpose unless manually countersigned by an
authorized signatory of the Trustee.
D-3
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Trustee has caused this Certificate to be
duly executed.
Dated: ____________, 20__
DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY,
as Trustee
By ______________________
Countersigned:
By ___________________________
Authorized Signatory of
DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY,
as Trustee
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EXHIBIT E
[Form of Reverse of Certificates]
INDYMAC MBS, INC.
IndyMac INDX Mortgage Loan Trust 200_-_
Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 200_-_
This Certificate is one of a duly authorized issue of Certificates
designated as IndyMac MBS, Inc. Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, of the
Series specified on the face hereof (herein collectively called the
"Certificates"), and representing a beneficial ownership interest in the Trust
Fund created by the Agreement.
The Certificateholder, by its acceptance of this Certificate, agrees
that it will look solely to the funds on deposit in the Distribution Account
for payment hereunder and that the Trustee is not liable to the
Certificateholders for any amount payable under this Certificate or the
Agreement or, except as expressly provided in the Agreement, subject to any
liability under the Agreement.
This Certificate does not purport to summarize the Agreement and
reference is made to the Agreement for the interests, rights and limitations
of rights, benefits, obligations and duties evidenced thereby, and the rights,
duties and immunities of the Trustee.
Pursuant to the terms of the Agreement, a distribution will be made
on the 25th day of each month or, if such 25th day is not a Business Day, the
Business Day immediately following (the "Distribution Date"), commencing on
the first Distribution Date specified on the face hereof, to the Person in
whose name this Certificate is registered at the close of business on the
applicable Record Date in an amount equal to the product of the Percentage
Interest evidenced by this Certificate and the amount required to be
distributed to Holders of Certificates of the Class to which this Certificate
belongs on such Distribution Date pursuant to the Agreement. The Record Date
applicable to each Distribution Date is the last Business Day of the month
next preceding the month of such Distribution Date.
Distributions on this Certificate shall be made by wire transfer of
immediately available funds to the account of the Holder hereof at a bank or
other entity having appropriate facilities therefor, if such Certificateholder
shall have so notified the Trustee in writing at least five Business Days
prior to the Record Date and such Certificateholder shall satisfy the
conditions to receive such form of payment set forth in the Agreement, or, if
not, by check mailed by first class mail to the address of such
Certificateholder appearing in the Certificate Register. The final
distribution on each Certificate will be made in like manner, but only upon
presentment and surrender of such Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office or
such other location specified in the notice to Certificateholders of such
final distribution.
The Agreement permits, with certain exceptions therein provided, the
amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the
Trustee and the rights of the Certificateholders under the Agreement at any
time by the Depositor, the Master Servicer and the Trustee with the consent of
the Holders of Certificates affected by such amendment evidencing the
requisite Percentage Interest, as provided in the Agreement. Any such consent
by the Holder of this Certificate shall be conclusive and binding on such
Holder and upon all future Holders of this Certificate and of any Certificate
issued upon the transfer hereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu hereof
whether or not notation of such consent is made upon this Certificate. The
Agreement also permits the amendment thereof, in certain limited
circumstances, without the consent of the Holders of any of the Certificates.
E-1
As provided in the Agreement and subject to certain limitations
therein set forth, the transfer of this Certificate is registrable in the
Certificate Register of the Trustee upon surrender of this Certificate for
registration of transfer at the Corporate Trust Office or the office or agency
maintained by the Trustee in New York, New York, accompanied by a written
instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Certificate
Registrar duly executed by the holder hereof or such holder's attorney duly
authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Certificates of the same
Class in authorized denominations and evidencing the same aggregate Percentage
Interest in the Trust Fund will be issued to the designated transferee or
transferees.
The Certificates are issuable only as registered Certificates without
coupons in denominations specified in the Agreement. As provided in the
Agreement and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Certificates
are exchangeable for new Certificates of the same Class in authorized
denominations and evidencing the same aggregate Percentage Interest, as
requested by the Holder surrendering the same.
No service charge will be made for any such registration of transfer
or exchange, but the Trustee may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover
any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.
The Depositor, the Master Servicer, the Seller and the Trustee and
any agent of the Depositor or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name
this Certificate is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, and
neither the Depositor, the Trustee, nor any such agent shall be affected by
any notice to the contrary.
On any Distribution Date on which the aggregate Stated Principal
Balance of the Mortgage Loans is less than ten percent (10%) of the Cut-off
Date Pool Principal Balance, the Master Servicer will have the option to
repurchase, in whole, from the Trust Fund all remaining Mortgage Loans and all
property acquired in respect of the Mortgage Loans at a purchase price
determined as provided in the Agreement. In the event that no such optional
termination occurs, the obligations and responsibilities created by the
Agreement will terminate upon the later of the maturity or other liquidation
(or any advance with respect thereto) of the last Mortgage Loan remaining in
the Trust Fund or the disposition of all property in respect thereof and the
distribution to Certificateholders of all amounts required to be distributed
pursuant to the Agreement. In no event, however, will the trust created by the
Agreement continue beyond the expiration of 21 years from the death of the
last survivor of the descendants living at the date of the Agreement of a
certain person named in the Agreement.
Any term used herein that is defined in the Agreement shall have the
meaning assigned in the Agreement, and nothing herein shall be deemed
inconsistent with that meaning.
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ASSIGNMENT
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FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s), assign(s) and
transfer(s) unto _____________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
(Please print or typewrite name and address including postal zip code of
assignee)
the Percentage Interest evidenced by the within Certificate and hereby
authorizes the transfer of registration of such Percentage Interest to
assignee on the Certificate Register of the Trust Fund.
I (We) further direct the Trustee to issue a new Certificate of a like
denomination and Class, to the above named assignee and deliver such
Certificate to the following address:
______________________________________________________________________________.
Dated:
_____________________________________
Signature by or on behalf of assignor
DISTRIBUTION INSTRUCTIONS
The assignee should include the following for purposes of distribution:
Distributions shall be made, by wire transfer or otherwise, in
immediately available funds to _______________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________,
for the account of __________________________________________________________,
account number , or, if mailed by check, to ________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________.
Applicable statements should be mailed to ____________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
This information is provided by ________________________________________,
the assignee named above, or ________________________________________________,
as its agent.
E-3
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
: ss.:
COUNTY OF _____________ )
On the __th day of _______, 20__ before me, a notary public in and for
said State, personally appeared _________________, known to me who, being by
me duly sworn, did depose and say that he executed the foregoing instrument.
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Notary Public
[Notarial Seal]
E-4
EXHIBIT F
[FORM OF CLASS P CERTIFICATE]
SOLELY FOR U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX PURPOSES, THIS CERTIFICATE IS A "REGULAR
INTEREST" IN A "REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE INVESTMENT CONDUIT," AS THOSE TERMS ARE
DEFINED, RESPECTIVELY, IN SECTIONS 860G AND 860D OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE
OF 1986, AS AMENDED (THE "CODE").
THIS CERTIFICATE HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS
AMENDED (THE "ACT"). ANY RESALE OR TRANSFER OF THIS CERTIFICATE WITHOUT
REGISTRATION THEREOF UNDER THE ACT MAY ONLY BE MADE IN A TRANSACTION EXEMPTED
FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE ACT AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE
PROVISIONS OF THE AGREEMENT REFERRED TO HEREIN.
NEITHER THIS CERTIFICATE NOR ANY INTEREST HEREIN MAY BE TRANSFERRED UNLESS THE
TRANSFEREE DELIVERS TO THE TRUSTEE A REPRESENTATION LETTER TO THE EFFECT THAT
SUCH TRANSFEREE IS NOT AND IS NOT INVESTING ON BEHALF OF OR WITH PLAN ASSETS
OF AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN SUBJECT TO THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY
ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED ("ERISA"), OR A PLAN SUBJECT TO SECTION 4975 OF THE
CODE, OR, IF THE CERTIFICATE HAS BEEN THE SUBJECT OF AN ERISA-QUALIFYING
UNDERWRITING, A REPRESENTATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE
AGREEMENT REFERRED TO HEREIN, OR DELIVERS AN OPINION OF COUNSEL IN ACCORDANCE
WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE AGREEMENT REFERRED TO HEREIN. NOTWITHSTANDING
ANYTHING ELSE TO THE CONTRARY HEREIN, ANY PURPORTED TRANSFER OF THIS
CERTIFICATE TO OR ON BEHALF OF AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN SUBJECT TO ERISA OR TO
SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE WITHOUT THE OPINION OF COUNSEL SATISFACTORY TO THE
TRUSTEE AS DESCRIBED ABOVE SHALL BE VOID AND OF NO EFFECT.
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Certificate No. :
Cut-off Date :
First Distribution Date :
Initial Certificate Balance
of this Certificate
("Denomination") : $
Initial Certificate Balances
of all Certificates
of this Class : $
CUSIP :
Interest Rate :
Maturity Date :
INDYMAC MBS, INC.
IndyMac INDX Mortgage Loan Trust 200_-__
Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 200_-__
Class P
evidencing a percentage interest in the distributions allocable to the
Certificates of the above-referenced Class with respect to a Trust Fund
consisting primarily of a pool of conventional mortgage loans (the
"Mortgage Loans") secured by first liens on one- to four-family
residential properties.
Distributors in respect of this Certificate are distributable monthly as set
forth herein. Accordingly, the Certificate Balance at any time may be less
than the Certificate Balance as set forth herein. This Certificate does not
evidence an obligation of, or an interest in, and is not guaranteed by the
Depositor, the Seller, the Master Servicer or the Trustee referred to below or
any of their respective affiliates. Neither this Certificate nor the Mortgage
Loans are guaranteed or insured by any governmental agency or instrumentality.
This certifies that ________________ is the registered owner of the Percentage
Interest evidenced by this Certificate (obtained by dividing the denomination
of this Certificate by the aggregate of the denominations of all Certificates
of the Class to which this Certificate belongs) in certain monthly
distributions with respect to a Trust Fund consisting primarily of the
Mortgage Loans deposited by IndyMac MBS, Inc. (the "Depositor"). The Trust
Fund was created pursuant to a Pooling and Servicing Agreement dated as of the
Cut-off Date specified above (the "Agreement") among the Depositor, IndyMac
Bank, F.S.B., as seller and master servicer (the "Seller" or the "Master
Servicer", as appropriate), and Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as
trustee (the "Trustee"). To the extent not defined herein, the capitalized
terms used herein have the meanings assigned in the Agreement. This
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Certificate is issued under and is subject to the terms, provisions and
conditions of the Agreement, to which Agreement the Holder of this Certificate
by virtue of the acceptance hereof assents and by which such Holder is bound.
The Certificates are limited in right of payment to certain collections and
recoveries respecting the Mortgage Loans, all as more specifically set forth
herein and in the Agreement. As provided in the Agreement, withdrawals from
the Collection Account and the Distribution Account may be made from time to
time for purposes other than distributions to Certificateholders, such
purposes including reimbursement of advances made, or certain expenses
incurred, with respect to the Mortgage Loans.
This Certificate does not have a Certificate Balance or Pass-Through Rate and
will be entitled to distributions only to the extent set forth in the
Agreement. In addition, any distribution of the proceeds of any remaining
assets of the Trust will be made only upon presentment and surrender of this
Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office or the office or agency maintained
by the Trustee.
No transfer of a Certificate of this Class shall be made unless such
disposition is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act
of 1933, as amended (the "1933 Act"), and any applicable state securities laws
or is made in accordance with the 1933 Act and such laws. In the event of any
such transfer, the Trustee shall require the transferor to execute a
transferor certificate (in substantially the form attached to the Pooling and
Servicing Agreement) and deliver either (i) an Investment Letter or the Rule
144A Letter, in either case substantially in the form attached to the
Agreement, or (ii) a written Opinion of Counsel to the Trustee that such
transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption, describing the applicable
exemption and the basis therefor, from the 1933 Act or is being made pursuant
to the 1933 Act, which Opinion of Counsel shall be an expense of the
transferor.
No transfer of a Certificate of this Class shall be made unless the Trustee
shall have received either (i) a representation letter from the transferee of
such Certificate, acceptable to and in form and substance satisfactory to the
Trustee, to the effect that such (x) transferee is not an employee benefit
plan subject to Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, or a person
acting on behalf of or investing plan assets of any such plan, which
representation letter shall not be an expense of the Trustee or (y) if the
Certificate has been the subject of an ERISA-Qualifying Underwriting, a
representation that the transferee is an insurance company that is purchasing
such Certificate with funds contained in an "insurance company general
account" (as such term is defined in Section V(e) of Prohibited Transaction
Class Exemption 95-60 ("PTCE 95-60") and that the purchase and holding of such
Certificate satisfy the requirements for exemptive relief under Sections I and
III of PTCE 95-60 or (ii) in the case of a Certificate presented for
registration in the name of an employee benefit plan subject to ERISA, or a
plan or arrangement subject to Section 4975 of the Code (or comparable
provisions of any subsequent enactments), or a trustee of any such plan or any
other person acting on behalf of any such plan or arrangement or using such
plan's or arrangement's assets, an Opinion of Counsel satisfactory to the
Trustee, which Opinion of Counsel shall not be an expense of the Trustee, the
Master Servicer or the Trust Fund, addressed to the Trustee and the Master
Servicer, to the effect that the purchase and holding of such Certificate will
not result in a nonexempt prohibited transaction under ERISA or Section 4975
of the Code and will not subject the Trustee or the Master Servicer to any
obligation in addition to those expressly undertaken in this Agreement or to
any liability.
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Certificate set
forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes
have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
This Certificate shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Agreement or
be valid for any purpose unless manually countersigned by an authorized
signatory of the Trustee.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Trustee has caused this Certificate to be
duly executed.
Dated: _______, ____
DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY,
as Trustee
By ______________________________________
Countersigned:
By ___________________________
Authorized Signatory of
DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST
COMPANY, as Trustee
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INDYMAC MBS, INC.
IndyMac INDX Mortgage Loan Trust 200_-__
Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates
This Certificate is one of a duly authorized issue of Certificates designated
as IndyMac MBS, Inc. Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, of the Series
specified on the face hereof (herein collectively called the "Certificates"),
and representing a beneficial ownership interest in the Trust Fund created by
the Agreement.
The Certificateholder, by its acceptance of this Certificate, agrees that it
will look solely to the funds on deposit in the Distribution Account for
payment hereunder and that the Trustee is not liable to the Certificateholders
for any amount payable under this Certificate or the Agreement or, except as
expressly provided in the Agreement, subject to any liability under the
Agreement.
This Certificate does not purport to summarize the Agreement and reference is
made to the Agreement for the interests, rights and limitations of rights,
benefits, obligations and duties evidenced thereby, and the rights, duties and
immunities of the Trustee.
Pursuant to the terms of the Agreement, a distribution will be made on the
25th day of each month or, if such 25th day is not a Business Day, the
Business Day immediately following (the "Distribution Date"), commencing on
the first Distribution Date specified on the face hereof, to the Person in
whose name this Certificate is registered at the close of business on the
applicable Record Date in an amount equal to the product of the Percentage
Interest evidenced by this Certificate and the amount required to be
distributed to Holders of Certificates of the Class to which this Certificate
belongs on such Distribution Date pursuant to the Agreement. The Record Date
applicable to each Distribution Date is the last Business Day of the month
next preceding the month of such Distribution Date.
Distributions on this Certificate shall be made by wire transfer of
immediately available funds to the account of the Holder hereof at a bank or
other entity having appropriate facilities therefor, if such Certificateholder
shall have so notified the Trustee in writing at least five Business Days
prior to the related Record Date and such Certificateholder shall satisfy the
conditions to receive such form of payment set forth in the Agreement, or, if
not, by check mailed by first class mail to the address of such
Certificateholder appearing in the Certificate Register. The final
distribution on each Certificate will be made in like manner, but only upon
presentment and surrender of such Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office or
such other location specified in the notice to Certificateholders of such
final distribution.
The Agreement permits, with certain exceptions therein provided, the amendment
thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Trustee and
the rights of the Certificateholders under the Agreement at any time by the
Depositor, the Master Servicer and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders
of Certificates affected by such amendment evidencing the requisite Percentage
Interest, as provided in the Agreement. Any such consent by the Holder of this
Certificate shall be conclusive and binding on such Holder and upon all future
Holders of this Certificate and of any Certificate issued upon the transfer
hereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu hereof whether or not notation of
such consent is made upon this Certificate. The Agreement also permits the
amendment thereof, in certain limited circumstances, without the consent of
the Holders of any of the Certificates.
As provided in the Agreement and subject to certain limitations therein set
forth, the transfer of this Certificate is registrable in the Certificate
Register of the Trustee upon surrender of this Certificate for registration of
transfer at the Corporate Trust Office or the office or agency maintained by
the Trustee in New York, New York, accompanied by a written instrument of
transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Certificate Registrar
duly executed by the holder hereof or such holder's attorney duly authorized
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in writing, and thereupon one or more new Certificates of the same Class in
authorized denominations and evidencing the same aggregate Percentage Interest
in the Trust Fund will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.
The Certificates are issuable only as registered Certificates without coupons
in denominations specified in the Agreement. As provided in the Agreement and
subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Certificates are
exchangeable for new Certificates of the same Class in authorized
denominations and evidencing the same aggregate Percentage Interest, as
requested by the Holder surrendering the same.
No service charge will be made for any such registration of transfer or
exchange, but the Trustee may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any
tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.
The Depositor, the Master Servicer, the Seller and the Trustee and any agent
of the Depositor or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this
Certificate is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, and neither
the Depositor, the Trustee, nor any such agent shall be affected by any notice
to the contrary.
On any Distribution Date on which the aggregate Stated Principal Balance of
the Mortgage Loans is less than ten percent (10%) of the Cut-off Date Pool
Principal Balance, the Master Servicer will have the option to repurchase, in
whole, from the Trust Fund all remaining Mortgage Loans and all property
acquired in respect of the Mortgage Loans at a purchase price determined as
provided in the Agreement. In the event that no such optional termination
occurs, the obligations and responsibilities created by the Agreement will
terminate upon the later of the maturity or other liquidation (or any advance
with respect thereto) of the last Mortgage Loan remaining in the Trust Fund or
the disposition of all property in respect thereof and the distribution to
Certificateholders of all amounts required to be distributed pursuant to the
Agreement. In no event, however, will the trust created by the Agreement
continue beyond the expiration of 21 years from the death of the last survivor
of the descendants living at the date of the Agreement of a certain person
named in the Agreement.
Any term used herein that is defined in the Agreement shall have the meaning
assigned in the Agreement, and nothing herein shall be deemed inconsistent
with that meaning.
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ASSIGNMENT
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FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s), assign(s) and
transfer(s) unto _____________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
(Please print or typewrite name and address including postal zip code of
assignee)
the Percentage Interest evidenced by the within Certificate and hereby
authorizes the transfer of registration of such Percentage Interest to
assignee on the Certificate Register of the Trust Fund.
I (We) further direct the Trustee to issue a new Certificate of a like
denomination and Class, to the above named assignee and deliver such
Certificate to the following address:
______________________________________________________________________________.
Dated:
_____________________________________
Signature by or on behalf of assignor
DISTRIBUTION INSTRUCTIONS
The assignee should include the following for purposes of distribution:
Distributions shall be made, by wire transfer or otherwise, in
immediately available funds to _______________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________,
for the account of __________________________________________________________,
account number , or, if mailed by check, to ________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________.
Applicable statements should be mailed to ____________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
This information is provided by ________________________________________,
the assignee named above, or ________________________________________________,
as its agent.
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STATE OF ______________ )
) ss.:
COUNTY OF ______________ )
On the __th day of ____________, 20__ before me, a notary public in and
for said State, personally appeared _____________, known to me who, being by
me duly sworn, did depose and say that he executed the foregoing instrument.
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Notary Public
[Notarial Seal]
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EXHIBIT G-1
FORM OF INITIAL CERTIFICATION OF TRUSTEE
[date]
[Depositor]
[Master Servicer]
[Seller]
______________________
______________________
Re: Pooling and Servicing Agreement among IndyMac MBS,
Inc., as Depositor, IndyMac Bank, F.S.B., as Seller
and Master Servicer, and Deutsche Bank National
Trust Company, as Trustee, Mortgage Pass-Through
Certificates, Series 200 -
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Gentlemen:
In accordance with Section 2.02 of the above-captioned Pooling and
Servicing Agreement (the "Pooling and Servicing Agreement"), the undersigned,
as Trustee, hereby certifies that, as to each Mortgage Loan listed in the
Mortgage Loan Schedule (other than any Mortgage Loan listed in the attached
schedule), it has received:
(i) the original Mortgage Note, endorsed as provided in the following
form: "Pay to the order of ________, without recourse"; and
(ii) a duly executed assignment of the Mortgage (which may be
included in a blanket assignment or assignments); provided, however, that it
has received no assignment with respect to any Mortgage for which the
Mortgaged Property is located in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
Based on its review and examination and only as to the foregoing
documents, such documents appear regular on their face and to such Mortgage
Loan.
The Trustee has made no independent examination of any
documents contained in each Mortgage File beyond the review specifically
required in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement. The Trustee makes no
representations as to: (i) the validity, legality, sufficiency, enforceability
or genuineness of any of the documents contained in each Mortgage File of any
of the Mortgage Loans identified on the Mortgage Loan Schedule, or (ii) the
collectability, insurability, effectiveness or suitability of any such
Mortgage Loan.
Capitalized words and phrases used herein shall have the
respective meanings assigned to them in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.
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DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY,
as Trustee
By:__________________________________
Name:
Title:
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EXHIBIT G-2
[RESERVED
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EXHIBIT G-3
FORM OF DELAY DELIVERY CERTIFICATION
[date]
[Depositor]
[Master Servicer]
[Seller]
_____________________
_____________________
Re: Pooling and Servicing Agreement among IndyMac MBS,
Inc., as Depositor, IndyMac Bank, F.S.B., as Seller
and Master Servicer, and Deutsche Bank National
Trust Company, as Trustee, Mortgage Pass-Through
Certificates, Series 200 -
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Gentlemen:
Reference is made to the Initial Certification of Trustee relating to
the above-referenced series, with the schedule of exceptions attached thereto
(the "Schedule A"), delivered by the undersigned, as Trustee, on the Closing
Date in accordance with Section 2.02 of the above-captioned Pooling and
Servicing Agreement (the "Pooling and Servicing Agreement"). The undersigned
hereby certifies that, as to each Mortgage Loan that is a Delay Delivery
Mortgage Loan listed on Schedule A attached hereto (other than any Mortgage
Loan paid in full or listed on Schedule B attached hereto) it has received:
(i) the original Mortgage Note, endorsed by the Seller or the
originator of such Mortgage Loan, without recourse in the
following form: "Pay to the order of _______________ without
recourse", with all intervening endorsements that show a
complete chain of endorsement from the originator to the
Seller, or, if the original Mortgage Note has been lost or
destroyed and not replaced, an original lost note affidavit
from the Seller, stating that the original Mortgage Note was
lost or destroyed, together with a copy of the Mortgage
Note;
(ii) the original recorded Mortgage;
(iii) a duly executed assignment of the Mortgage to "Deutsche Bank
National Trust Company, as trustee under the Pooling and
Servicing Agreement dated as of January 1, 2005, without
recourse" (each such assignment, when duly and validly
completed, to be in recordable form and sufficient to effect
the assignment of and transfer to the assignee thereof,
under the Mortgage to which such assignment relates);
(iv) the original recorded assignment or assignments of the
Mortgage together with all interim recorded assignments of
such Mortgage;
(v) the original or copies of each assumption, modification,
written assurance or substitution agreement, if any, with
evidence of recording thereon if recordation thereof is
permissible under applicable law; and
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(vi) the original or duplicate original lender's title policy and
all riders, if any, thereto or, in the event such original
title policy has not been received from the insurer, any one
of an original title binder, an original preliminary title
report or an original title commitment, or a copy thereof
certified by the title company, with the original policy of
title insurance to be delivered within one year of the
Closing Date.
In the event that in connection with any Mortgage Loan for which the
Seller cannot deliver the original recorded Mortgage or all interim recorded
assignments of the Mortgage satisfying the requirements of clause (ii), (iii)
or (iv), as applicable, the Trustee has received, in lieu thereof, a true and
complete copy of such Mortgage and/or such assignment or assignments of the
Mortgage, as applicable, each certified by the Seller, the applicable title
company, escrow agent or attorney, or the originator of such Mortgage Loan, as
the case may be, to be a true and complete copy of the original Mortgage or
assignment of Mortgage submitted for recording.
Based on its review and examination and only as to the foregoing
documents, (i) such documents appear regular on their face and related to such
Mortgage Loan, and (ii) the information set forth in items (i), (iv), (vi) and
(xv) (solely as of origination, not as of the Cut-off Date) of the definition
of the "Mortgage Loan Schedule" in Section 1.01 of the Pooling and Servicing
Agreement accurately reflects information set forth in the Mortgage File.
The Trustee has made no independent examination of any documents
contained in each Mortgage File beyond the review specifically required in the
above-referenced Pooling and Servicing Agreement. The Trustee makes no
representations as to: (i) the validity, legality, sufficiency, enforceability
or genuineness of any of the documents contained in each Mortgage File of any
of the Mortgage Loans identified on the [Mortgage Loan Schedule][Loan Number
and Borrower Identification Mortgage Loan Schedule] or (ii) the
collectability, insurability, effectiveness or suitability of any such
Mortgage Loan.
Capitalized words and phrases used herein shall have the respective
meanings assigned to them in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.
DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY,
as Trustee
By:__________________________________
Name:
Title:
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EXHIBIT G-4
[RESERVED]
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EXHIBIT H-1
FORM OF FINAL CERTIFICATION OF TRUSTEE
[date]
[Depositor]
[Master Servicer]
[Seller]
_____________________
_____________________
Re: Pooling and Servicing Agreement among IndyMac MBS,
Inc., as Depositor, IndyMac Bank, F.S.B., as Seller
and Master Servicer, and Deutsche Bank National
Trust Company, as Trustee, Mortgage Pass-Through
Certificates, Series 200 -
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Gentlemen:
In accordance with Section 2.02 of the above-captioned Pooling and
Servicing Agreement (the "Pooling and Servicing Agreement"), the undersigned,
as Trustee, hereby certifies that as to each Mortgage Loan listed in the
Mortgage Loan Schedule (other than any Mortgage Loan paid in full or listed on
the attached Document Exception Report) it has received:
(i) The original Mortgage Note, endorsed in the form provided in
Section 2.01(c) of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, with all intervening
endorsements showing a complete chain of endorsement from the originator to
the Seller.
(ii) The original recorded Mortgage.
(iii) A duly executed assignment of the Mortgage in the form provided
in Section 2.01(c) of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement; provided, however,
that it has received no assignment with respect to any Mortgage for which the
Mortgaged Property is located in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or, if the
Depositor has certified or the Trustee otherwise knows that the Mortgage has
not been returned from the applicable recording office, a copy of the
assignment of the Mortgage (excluding information to be provided by the
recording office).
(iv) The original or duplicate original recorded assignment or
assignments of the Mortgage showing a complete chain of assignment from the
originator to the Seller.
(v) The original or duplicate original lender's title policy and all
riders thereto or, any one of an original title binder, an original
preliminary title report or an original title commitment, or a copy thereof
certified by the title company.
Based on its review and examination and only as to the foregoing
documents, (a) such documents appear regular on their face and related to such
Mortgage Loan, and (b) the information set forth in items (i), (ii), (iii),
(iv), (vi) and (xi) of the definition of the "Mortgage Loan Schedule" in
Section 1.01 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement accurately reflects
information set forth in the Mortgage File.
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The Trustee has made no independent examination of any documents
contained in each Mortgage File beyond the review specifically required in the
Pooling and Servicing Agreement. The Trustee makes no representations as to:
(i) the validity, legality, sufficiency, enforceability or genuineness of any
of the documents contained in each Mortgage File of any of the Mortgage Loans
identified on the Mortgage Loan Schedule, or (ii) the collectability,
insurability, effectiveness or suitability of any such Mortgage Loan.
Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Trustee has made no
determination and makes no representations as to whether (i) any endorsement
is sufficient to transfer all right, title and interest of the party so
endorsing, as noteholder or assignee thereof, in and to that Mortgage Note or
(ii) any assignment is in recordable form or sufficient to effect the
assignment of and transfer to the assignee thereof, under the Mortgage to
which the assignment relates.
Capitalized words and phrases used herein shall have the respective
meanings assigned to them in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.
DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY,
as Trustee
By:__________________________________
Name:
Title:
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[RESERVED]
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EXHIBIT I
TRANSFER AFFIDAVIT
IndyMac MBS, Inc.
Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates
Series 200_-_
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
: ss.:
COUNTY OF _____________ )
The undersigned, being first duly sworn, deposes and says as follows:
1. The undersigned is an officer of ___________________, the proposed
Transferee of an Ownership Interest in a Class A-R Certificate (the
"Certificate") issued pursuant to the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, (the
"Agreement"), relating to the above-referenced Series, by and among IndyMac
MBS, Inc., as depositor (the "Depositor"), IndyMac Bank, F.S.B., as seller and
master servicer and Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee.
Capitalized terms used, but not defined herein or in Exhibit 1 hereto, shall
have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Agreement. The Transferee has
authorized the undersigned to make this affidavit on behalf of the Transferee.
2. The Transferee is, as of the date hereof, and will be, as of the
date of the Transfer, a Permitted Transferee. The Transferee is acquiring its
Ownership Interest in the Certificate for its own account.
3. The Transferee has been advised of, and understands that (i) a tax
will be imposed on Transfers of the Certificate to Persons that are not
Permitted Transferees; (ii) such tax will be imposed on the transferor, or, if
such Transfer is through an agent (which includes a broker, nominee or
middleman) for a Person that is not a Permitted Transferee, on the agent; and
(iii) the Person otherwise liable for the tax shall be relieved of liability
for the tax if the subsequent Transferee furnished to such Person an affidavit
that such subsequent Transferee is a Permitted Transferee and, at the time of
Transfer, such Person does not have actual knowledge that the affidavit is
false.
4. The Transferee has been advised of, and understands that a tax
will be imposed on a "pass-through entity" holding the Certificate if at any
time during the taxable year of the pass-through entity a Person that is not a
Permitted Transferee is the record holder of an interest in such entity. The
Transferee understands that such tax will not be imposed for any period with
respect to which the record holder furnishes to the pass-through entity an
affidavit that such record holder is a Permitted Transferee and the
pass-through entity does not have actual knowledge that such affidavit is
false. (For this purpose, a "pass-through entity" includes a regulated
investment company, a real estate investment trust or common trust fund, a
partnership, trust or estate, and certain cooperatives and, except as may be
provided in Treasury Regulations, persons holding interests in pass-through
entities as a nominee for another Person.)
5. The Transferee has reviewed the provisions of Section 5.02(c) of
the Agreement (attached hereto as Exhibit 2 and incorporated herein by
reference) and understands the legal consequences of the acquisition of an
Ownership Interest in the Certificate including, without limitation, the
restrictions on subsequent Transfers and the provisions regarding voiding the
Transfer and mandatory sales. The Transferee expressly agrees to be bound by
and to abide by the provisions of Section 5.02(c)
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of the Agreement and the restrictions noted on the face of the Certificate.
The Transferee understands and agrees that any breach of any of the
representations included herein shall render the Transfer to the Transferee
contemplated hereby null and void.
6. The Transferee agrees to require a Transfer Affidavit from any
Person to whom the Transferee attempts to Transfer its Ownership Interest in
the Certificate, and in connection with any Transfer by a Person for whom the
Transferee is acting as nominee, trustee or agent, and the Transferee will not
Transfer its Ownership Interest or cause any Ownership Interest to be
Transferred to any Person that the Transferee knows is not a Permitted
Transferee. In connection with any such Transfer by the Transferee, the
Transferee agrees to deliver to the Trustee a certificate substantially in the
form set forth as Exhibit J to the Agreement (a "Transferor Certificate") to
the effect that such Transferee has no actual knowledge that the Person to
which the Transfer is to be made is not a Permitted Transferee.
7. The Transferee does not have the intention to impede the
assessment or collection of any tax legally required to be paid with respect
to the Certificate.
8. The Transferee's taxpayer identification number is _____________.
9. The Transferee is a U.S. Person as defined in Code Section
7701(a)(30).
10. The Transferee is aware that the Certificate may be a
"noneconomic residual interest" within the meaning of proposed Treasury
regulations promulgated pursuant to the Code and that the transferor of a
noneconomic residual interest will remain liable for any taxes due with
respect to the income on such residual interest, unless no significant purpose
of the transfer was to impede the assessment or collection of tax.
11. The Transferee is not a foreign permanent establishment or fixed
base (within the meaning of an applicable income tax treaty) of a U.S.
taxpayer.
12. The Transferee will not transfer the Certificates, directly or
indirectly, to a foreign permanent establishment or fixed base (within the
meaning of an applicable income tax treaty) of the Transferee or another U.S.
taxpayer.
13. The Transferee will not cause income from the Certificates to be
attributable to a foreign permanent establishment or fixed base (within the
meaning of an applicable income tax treaty) of the Transferee or another U.S.
taxpayer.
14. Either:
(a) (i) At the time of the transfer, and at the close of
each of the Transferee's two fiscal years preceding the Transferee's
fiscal year of transfer, the Transferee's gross assets for financial
reporting purposes exceed $100 million and its net assets for
financial reporting purposes exceed $10 million. For purposes of the
preceding sentence, the gross assets and net assets of a Transferee
do not include any obligation of any Related Person, as defined
below, or any other asset if a principal purpose for holding or
acquiring the other asset is to permit the Transferee to satisfy the
conditions of this paragraph 15(a); (ii) The Transferee is an
Eligible Corporation, as defined below, and hereby agrees that any
subsequent transfer of the interest will be to another Eligible
Corporation in a transaction that satisfies this Transfer Affidavit,
including this paragraph 15(a); and (iii) The Transferee has not
given the Transferor any reason to know that the Transferee will not
honor the restrictions on subsequent transfers of the residual
interest or that the Transferee cannot or will not pay any taxes
associated with the residual interest; or
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(b)(i) The Transferee is a United States Person; (ii) The
present value of the anticipated tax liabilities associated with
holding the residual interest does not exceed the sum of: (A) The
present value of any consideration given to the Transferee to acquire
the interest; (B) The present value of the expected future
distributions on the interest; and (C) The present value of the
anticipated tax savings associated with holding the interest as any
REMIC generates losses; and (iii) For purposes of calculating the
aforementioned present values: (A) The transferee has assumed that it
pays tax at a rate equal to the highest rate of tax specified in Code
Section 11(b)(1) (unless the Transferee has been subject to the
alternative minimum tax under Code Section 55 in the preceding two
years and will compute its taxable income in the current taxable year
using the alternative minimum tax rate, in which case the Transferee
can assume that it pays tax at the rate specified in Code Section
55(b)(1)(B) provided the Transferee states in this Transfer Affidavit
that it is using such alternate rate and that has been subject to the
alternative minimum tax under Code Section 55 in the preceding two
years and will compute its taxable income in the current taxable year
using the alternative minimum tax rate):and (B) The Transferee uses a
discount rate equal to the Federal short-term rate prescribed by
section 1274(d) for the month of the transfer and the compounding
period used by the Transferee.
The term "Eligible Corporation" means any domestic C corporation (as
defined in section 1361(a)(2) of the Code) other than a corporation which is
exempt from, or is not subject to, tax under section 11 of the Code, an entity
described in section 851(a) or 856(a) of the Code, a REMIC; or an organization
to which part I, subchapter T, chapter 1, subtitle A of the Code applies. The
Term "Related Person" means any person that bears a relationship to the
Transferee enumerated in section 267(b) or 707(b)(1) of the Code, using "20
percent" instead of "50 percent" where it appears under the provisions; or is
under common control (within the meaning of section 52(a) and (b) of the Code)
with the Transferee.
15. Either (i) the Transferee is not an employee benefit plan that is
subject to ERISA or a plan that is subject to Section 4975 of the Code, and
the Transferee is not acting on behalf of or with plan assets of such a plan;
or (ii) the Transferee is an insurance company that is investing funds
contained in an "insurance company general account" (as such term is defined
in Section V(e) of Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption 95-60 ("PTCE 95-60")
and the purchase and holding of the Class A-R Certificate satisfy the
requirements for exemptive relief under Sections I and III of PTCE 95-60.
* * *
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Transferee has caused this instrument to be
executed on its behalf, pursuant to authority of its Board of Directors, by
its duly authorized officer and its corporate seal to be hereunto affixed,
duly attested, this ____ day of ___________, 20__.
___________________________________
Print Name of Transferee
By:________________________________
Name:
Title:
[Corporate Seal]
ATTEST:
[Assistant] Secretary
Personally appeared before me the above-named __________, known or
proved to me to be the same person who executed the foregoing instrument and
to be the of the Transferee, and acknowledged that he executed the same as his
free act and deed and the free act and deed of the Transferee.
Subscribed and sworn before me this ___ day of _________, 20__.
_________________________________
NOTARY PUBLIC
My Commission expires the ____ day
of _________, 20__.
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EXHIBIT 1
to EXHIBIT I
Certain Definitions
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"Ownership Interest": As to any Certificate, any ownership interest
in such Certificate, including any interest in such Certificate as the Holder
thereof and any other interest therein, whether direct or indirect, legal or
beneficial.
"Permitted Transferee": Any Person other than (i) the United States,
any State or political subdivision thereof, or any agency or instrumentality
of any of the foregoing, (ii) a foreign government, International Organization
or any agency or instrumentality of either of the foregoing, (iii) an
organization (except certain farmers' cooperatives described in Code Section
521) that is exempt from tax imposed by Chapter 1 of the Code (including the
tax imposed by Code Section 511 on unrelated business taxable income) on any
excess inclusions (as defined in Code Section 860E(c)(1)) with respect to any
Restricted Certificate, (iv) a rural electric and telephone cooperatives
described in Code Section 1381(a)(2)(c), (v) an "electing large partnership"
as defined in Code Section 775 of (vi) a Person that is not a U.S. Person, and
(vii) any other Person so designated by the Depositor based upon an Opinion of
Counsel that the Transfer of an Ownership Interest in a Residual Certificate
to such Person may cause any REMIC to fail to qualify as a REMIC at any time
that certain Certificates are Outstanding. The terms "United States," "State"
and "International Organization" shall have the meanings set forth in Code
Section 7701 or successor provisions. A corporation will not be treated as an
instrumentality of the United States or of any State or political subdivision
thereof if all of its activities are subject to tax, and, with the exception
of the FHLMC, a majority of its board of directors is not selected by such
governmental unit.
"Person": Any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture,
limited liability company, bank, joint stock company, trust (including any
beneficiary thereof), unincorporated organization or government or any agency
or political subdivision thereof.
"Transfer": Any direct or indirect transfer or sale of any Ownership
Interest in a Certificate, including the acquisition of a Certificate by the
Depositor.
"Transferee": Any Person who is acquiring by Transfer any Ownership
Interest in a Certificate.
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EXHIBIT 2
to EXHIBIT I
Section 5.02(c) of the Agreement
(c) Each Person who has or who acquires any Ownership Interest in a
Residual Certificate shall be deemed by the acceptance or acquisition of such
Ownership Interest to have agreed to be bound by the following provisions, and
the rights of each Person acquiring any Ownership Interest in a Residual
Certificate are expressly subject to the following provisions:
(i) Each Person holding or acquiring any Ownership
Interest in a Residual Certificate shall be a Permitted
Transferee and shall promptly notify the Trustee of any
change or impending change in its status as a Permitted
Transferee.
(ii) No Ownership Interest in a Residual
Certificate may be registered on the Closing Date or
thereafter transferred, and the Trustee shall not register
the Transfer of any Residual Certificate unless, in addition
to the certificates required to be delivered to the Trustee
under subparagraph (b) above, the Trustee shall have been
furnished with an affidavit (a "Transfer Affidavit") of the
initial owner or the proposed transferee in the form
attached hereto as Exhibit I.
(iii) Each Person holding or acquiring any
Ownership Interest in a Residual Certificate shall agree (A)
to obtain a Transfer Affidavit from any other Person to whom
such Person attempts to Transfer its Ownership Interest in a
Residual Certificate, (B) to obtain a Transfer Affidavit
from any Person for whom such Person is acting as nominee,
trustee or agent in connection with any Transfer of a
Residual Certificate and (C) not to Transfer its Ownership
Interest in a Residual Certificate or to cause the Transfer
of an Ownership Interest in a Residual Certificate to any
other Person if it has actual knowledge that such Person is
not a Permitted Transferee.
(iv) Any attempted or purported Transfer of any
Ownership Interest in a Residual Certificate in violation of
the provisions of this Section 5.02(c) shall be absolutely
null and void and shall vest no rights in the purported
Transferee. If any purported transferee shall become a
Holder of a Residual Certificate in violation of the
provisions of this Section 5.02(c), then the last preceding
Permitted Transferee shall be restored to all rights as
Holder thereof retroactive to the date of registration of
Transfer of such Residual Certificate. The Trustee shall be
under no liability to any Person for any registration of
Transfer of a Residual Certificate that is in fact not
permitted by Section 5.02(b) and this Section 5.02(c) or for
making any payments due on such Certificate to the Holder
thereof or taking any other action with respect to such
Holder under the provisions of this Agreement so long as the
Transfer was registered after receipt of the Transfer
Affidavit, Transferor Certificate and either the Rule 144A
Letter or the Investment Letter. The Trustee shall be
entitled but not obligated to recover from any Holder of a
Residual Certificate that was in fact not a Permitted
Transferee at the time it became a Holder or, at such
subsequent time as it became other than a Permitted
Transferee, all payments made on such Residual Certificate
at and after either such time. Any such payments so
recovered by the Trustee shall be paid and delivered by the
Trustee to the last preceding Permitted Transferee of such
Certificate.
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(v) The Depositor shall use its best efforts to
make available, upon receipt of written request from the
Trustee, all information necessary to compute any tax
imposed under Section 860E(e) of the Code as a result of a
Transfer of an Ownership Interest in a Residual Certificate
to any Holder who is not a Permitted Transferee.
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EXHIBIT J
FORM OF TRANSFEROR CERTIFICATE
__________, 200__
IndyMac MBS, Inc.
000 Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxx, 0xx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Attention: S. Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx
Deutsche Bank National Trust Company
0000 Xxxx Xx. Xxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxx Xxx, XX 00000-0000
Attention: Trust Administration, Series 200 -
Re: IndyMac MBS, Inc.
Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 200 -, Class
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Ladies and Gentlemen:
In connection with our disposition of the above Certificates we
certify that (a) we understand that the Certificates have not been registered
under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"), and are being
disposed by us in a transaction that is exempt from the registration
requirements of the Act, (b) we have not offered or sold any Certificates to,
or solicited offers to buy any Certificates from, any person, or otherwise
approached or negotiated with any person with respect thereto, in a manner
that would be deemed, or taken any other action which would result in, a
violation of Section 5 of the Act and (c) to the extent we are disposing of a
Class A-R Certificate, we have no knowledge the Transferee is not a Permitted
Transferee.
Very truly yours,
______________________________
Print Name of Transferor
By: ___________________________
Authorized Officer
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EXHIBIT K
FORM OF INVESTMENT LETTER (NON-RULE 144A)
__________, 200__
IndyMac MBS, Inc.
000 Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxx, 0xx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Attention: S. Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx
Deutsche Bank National Trust Company
0000 Xxxx Xx. Xxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxx Xxx, XX 00000-0000
Attention: Trust Administration, Series 200 -
Re: IndyMac MBS, Inc.
Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 200 -, Class
-------------------------------------------------------
Ladies and Gentlemen:
In connection with our acquisition of the above Certificates we
certify that (a) we understand that the Certificates are not being registered
under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"), or any state
securities laws and are being transferred to us in a transaction that is
exempt from the registration requirements of the Act and any such laws, (b) we
are an "accredited investor," as defined in Regulation D under the Act, and
have such knowledge and experience in financial and business matters that we
are capable of evaluating the merits and risks of investments in the
Certificates, (c) we have had the opportunity to ask questions of and receive
answers from the Depositor concerning the purchase of the Certificates and all
matters relating thereto or any additional information deemed necessary to our
decision to purchase the Certificates, (d) either (i) we are not an employee
benefit plan that is subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of
1974, as amended, or a plan or arrangement that is subject to Section 4975 of
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, nor are we acting on behalf of
any such plan or arrangement or using the assets of any such plan or
arrangement to effect such acquisition or (ii) if the Certificates have been
the subject of an ERISA-Qualifying Underwriting, we are purchasing the
Certificates with funds contained in an "insurance company general account"
(as such term is defined in Section V(e) of Prohibited Transaction Class
Exemption 95-60 ("PTCE 95-60")) and the purchase and holding of such
Certificates are covered under Sections I and III of PTCE 95-60, (e) we are
acquiring the Certificates for investment for our own account and not with a
view to any distribution of such Certificates (but without prejudice to our
right at all times to sell or otherwise dispose of the Certificates in
accordance with clause (g) below), (f) we have not offered or sold any
Certificates to, or solicited offers to buy any Certificates from, any person,
or otherwise approached or negotiated with any person with respect thereto, or
taken any other action which would result in a violation of Section 5 of the
Act, (g) we will not sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of any Certificates
unless (1) such sale, transfer or other disposition is made pursuant to an
effective registration statement under the Act or is exempt from such
registration requirements, and if requested, we will at our expense provide an
opinion of counsel satisfactory to the addressees of this Certificate that
such sale, transfer or other disposition may be made pursuant to an exemption
from the Act, (2) the purchaser or transferee of such Certificate has executed
and delivered to you a certificate to substantially the same effect as this
certificate, and (3) the purchaser or transferee has otherwise complied with
any conditions for transfer set forth in the Pooling and
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Servicing Agreement and (h) if we are a corporation purchasing the
Certificates in the State of California, we have a net worth of at least
$14,000,000 according to our most recent audited financial statements.
Very truly yours,
______________________________
Print Name of Transferee
By: ___________________________
Authorized Officer
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EXHIBIT L
FORM OF RULE 144A LETTER
____________, 200__
IndyMac MBS, Inc.
000 Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxx, 0xx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Attention: S. Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx
Deutsche Bank National Trust Company
0000 Xxxx Xx. Xxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxx Xxx, XX 00000-0000
Attention: Trust Administration, Series 200 -
Re: IndyMac MBS, Inc.
Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 200 -, Class
-------------------------------------------------------
Ladies and Gentlemen:
In connection with our acquisition of the above Certificates we
certify that (a) we understand that the Certificates are not being registered
under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"), or any state
securities laws and are being transferred to us in a transaction that is
exempt from the registration requirements of the Act and any such laws, (b) we
have such knowledge and experience in financial and business matters that we
are capable of evaluating the merits and risks of investments in the
Certificates, (c) we have had the opportunity to ask questions of and receive
answers from the Depositor concerning the purchase of the Certificates and all
matters relating thereto or any additional information deemed necessary to our
decision to purchase the Certificates, (d) either (i) we are not an employee
benefit plan that is subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of
1974, as amended, or a plan or arrangement that is subject to Section 4975 of
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, nor are we acting on behalf of
any such plan or arrangement or using the assets of any such plan or
arrangement to effect such acquisition, or (ii) if the Certificates have been
the subject of an ERISA-Qualifying Underwriting, we are purchasing the
Certificates with funds contained in an "insurance company general account"
(as defined in Section V(e) of Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption 95-60
("PTCE 95-60")) and our purchase and holding of the Certificates satisfy the
requirements for exemptive relief under Sections I and III of PTCE 95-60, (e)
we have not, nor has anyone acting on our behalf offered, transferred,
pledged, sold or otherwise disposed of the Certificates, any interest in the
Certificates or any other similar security to, or solicited any offer to buy
or accept a transfer, pledge or other disposition of the Certificates, any
interest in the Certificates or any other similar security from, or otherwise
approached or negotiated with respect to the Certificates, any interest in the
Certificates or any other similar security with, any person in any manner, or
made any general solicitation by means of general advertising or in any other
manner, or taken any other action, that would constitute a distribution of the
Certificates under the Act or that would render the disposition of the
Certificates a violation of Section 5 of the Act or require registration
pursuant thereto, nor will act, nor has authorized or will authorize any
person to act, in such manner with respect to the Certificates, (f) we are a
"qualified institutional buyer" as that term is defined in Rule 144A under the
Act ("Rule 144A") and have completed either of the forms of certification to
that effect attached hereto as Annex 1 or Annex 2, (g) we are aware that the
sale to us is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, (h) we are acquiring the
Certificates
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for our own account or for resale pursuant to Rule 144A and further,
understand that such Certificates may be resold, pledged or transferred only
(A) to a person reasonably believed to be a qualified institutional buyer that
purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional
buyer to whom notice is given that the resale, pledge or transfer is being
made in reliance on Rule 144A, or (B) pursuant to another exemption from
registration under the Act and (i) if we are a corporation purchasing the
Certificates in the State of California, we have a net worth of at least
$14,000,000 according to our most recent audited financial statements.
Very truly yours,
____________________________
Print Name of Transferee
By:_____________________________
Authorized Officer
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ANNEX 1 TO EXHIBIT L
QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER STATUS UNDER SEC RULE 144A
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[For Transferees Other Than Registered Investment Companies]
The undersigned (the "Buyer") hereby certifies as follows to the
parties listed in the Rule 144A Transferee Certificate to which this
certification relates with respect to the Certificates described therein:
1. As indicated below, the undersigned is the President, Chief
Financial Officer, Senior Vice President or other executive officer of the
Buyer.
2. In connection with purchases by the Buyer, the Buyer is a
"qualified institutional buyer" as that term is defined in Rule 144A under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended ("Rule 144A") because (i) the Buyer owned
and/or invested on a discretionary basis $ (1) in securities (except
for the excluded securities referred to below) as of the end of the Buyer's most
recent fiscal year (such amount being calculated in accordance with Rule 144A
and (ii) the Buyer satisfies the criteria in the category marked below.
___ Corporation, etc. The Buyer is a corporation (other than
a bank, savings and loan association or similar institution),
Massachusetts or similar business trust, partnership, or charitable
organization described in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue
Code of 1986, as amended.
___ Bank. The Buyer (a) is a national bank or banking
institution organized under the laws of any State, territory or the
District of Columbia, the business of which is substantially confined
to banking and is supervised by the State or territorial banking
commission or similar official or is a foreign bank or equivalent
institution, and (b) has an audited net worth of at least $25,000,000
as demonstrated in its latest annual financial statements, a copy of
which is attached hereto.
___ Savings and Loan. The Buyer (a) is a savings and loan
association, building and loan association, cooperative bank,
homestead association or similar institution, which is supervised and
examined by a State or Federal authority having supervision over any
such institutions or is a foreign savings and loan association or
equivalent institution and (b) has an audited net worth of at least
$25,000,000 as demonstrated in its latest annual financial
statements, a copy of which is attached hereto.
___ Broker-dealer. The Buyer is a dealer registered pursuant
to Section 15 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
___ Insurance Company. The Buyer is an insurance company
whose primary and predominant business activity is the writing of
insurance or the reinsuring of risks underwritten by insurance
companies and which is subject to supervision by the
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(1) Buyer must own and/or invest on a discretionary basis at least
$100,000,000 in securities unless Buyer is a dealer, and, in that case,
Buyer must own and/or invest on a discretionary basis at least
$10,000,000 in securities.
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insurance commissioner or a similar official or agency of a State,
territory or the District of Columbia.
___ State or Local Plan. The Buyer is a plan established and
maintained by a State, its political subdivisions, or any agency or
instrumentality of the State or its political subdivisions, for the
benefit of its employees.
___ ERISA Plan. The Buyer is an employee benefit plan within
the meaning of Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act
of 1974.
___ Investment Advisor. The Buyer is an investment advisor
registered under the Investment Advisors Act of 1940.
___ Small Business Investment Company. Buyer is a small
business investment company licensed by the U.S. Small Business
Administration under Section 301(c) or (d) of the Small Business
Investment Act of 1958.
___ Business Development Company. Buyer is a business
development company as defined in Section 202(a)(22) of the
Investment Advisors Act of 1940.
3. The term "securities" as used herein does not include (i)
securities of issuers that are affiliated with the Buyer, (ii) securities that
are part of an unsold allotment to or subscription by the Buyer, if the Buyer
is a dealer, (iii) securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. or any
instrumentality thereof, (iv) bank deposit notes and certificates of deposit,
(v) loan participations, (vi) repurchase agreements, (vii) securities owned
but subject to a repurchase agreement and (viii) currency, interest rate and
commodity swaps.
4. For purposes of determining the aggregate amount of securities
owned and/or invested on a discretionary basis by the Buyer, the Buyer used
the cost of such securities to the Buyer and did not include any of the
securities referred to in the preceding paragraph, except (i) where the Buyer
reports its securities holdings in its financial statements on the basis of
their market value, and (ii) no current information with respect to the cost
of those securities has been published. If clause (ii) in the preceding
sentence applies, the securities may be valued at market. Further, in
determining such aggregate amount, the Buyer may have included securities
owned by subsidiaries of the Buyer, but only if such subsidiaries are
consolidated with the Buyer in its financial statements prepared in accordance
with generally accepted accounting principles and if the investments of such
subsidiaries are managed under the Buyer's direction. However, such securities
were not included if the Buyer is a majority-owned, consolidated subsidiary of
another enterprise and the Buyer is not itself a reporting company under the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
5. The Buyer acknowledges that it is familiar with Rule 144A and
understands that the seller to it and other parties to the Certificates are
relying and will continue to rely on the statements made herein because one or
more sales to the Buyer may be in reliance on Rule 144A.
6. Until the date of purchase of the Rule 144A Securities, the Buyer
will notify each of the parties to which this certification is made of any
changes in the information and conclusions herein. Until such notice is given,
the Buyer's purchase of the Certificates will constitute a reaffirmation of
this certification as of the date of such purchase. In addition, if the Buyer
is a bank or savings and loan is provided above, the Buyer agrees that it will
furnish to such parties updated annual financial statements promptly after
they become available.
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_______________________________
Print Name of Buyer
By:____________________________
Name:
Title:
_______________________________Date:
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ANNEX 2 TO EXHIBIT L
QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER STATUS UNDER SEC RULE 144A
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[For Transferees That are Registered Investment Companies]
The undersigned (the "Buyer") hereby certifies as follows to the
parties listed in the Rule 144A Transferee Certificate to which this
certification relates with respect to the Certificates described therein:
1. As indicated below, the undersigned is the President, Chief
Financial Officer or Senior Vice President of the Buyer or, if the Buyer is a
"qualified institutional buyer" as that term is defined in Rule 144A under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended ("Rule 144A") because Buyer is part of a
Family of Investment Companies (as defined below), is such an officer of the
Adviser.
2. In connection with purchases by Buyer, the Buyer is a "qualified
institutional buyer" as defined in SEC Rule 144A because (i) the Buyer is an
investment company registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as
amended and (ii) as marked below, the Buyer alone, or the Buyer's Family of
Investment Companies, owned at least $100,000,000 in securities (other than
the excluded securities referred to below) as of the end of the Buyer's most
recent fiscal year. For purposes of determining the amount of securities owned
by the Buyer or the Buyer's Family of Investment Companies, the cost of such
securities was used, except (i) where the Buyer or the Buyer's Family of
Investment Companies reports its securities holdings in its financial
statements on the basis of their market value, and (ii) no current information
with respect to the cost of those securities has been published. If clause
(ii) in the preceding sentence applies, the securities may be valued at
market.
___ The Buyer owned $ in securities (other than the
excluded securities referred to below) as of the end of the Buyer's
most recent fiscal year (such amount being calculated in accordance
with Rule 144A).
___ The Buyer is part of a Family of Investment Companies
which owned in the aggregate $ in securities (other than the
excluded securities referred to below) as of the end of the Buyer's
most recent fiscal year (such amount being calculated in accordance
with Rule 144A).
3. The term "Family of Investment Companies" as used herein means two
or more registered investment companies (or series thereof) that have the same
investment adviser or investment advisers that are affiliated (by virtue of
being majority owned subsidiaries of the same parent or because one investment
adviser is a majority owned subsidiary of the other).
4. The term "securities" as used herein does not include (i)
securities of issuers that are affiliated with the Buyer or are part of the
Buyer's Family of Investment Companies, (ii) securities issued or guaranteed
by the U.S. or any instrumentality thereof, (iii) bank deposit notes and
certificates of deposit, (iv) loan participations, (v) repurchase agreements,
(vi) securities owned but subject to a repurchase agreement and (vii)
currency, interest rate and commodity swaps.
5. The Buyer is familiar with Rule 144A and understands that the
parties listed in the Rule 144A Transferee Certificate to which this
certification relates are relying and will continue to rely on the statements
made herein because one or more sales to the Buyer will be in reliance on Rule
144A. In addition, the Buyer will only purchase for the Buyer's own account.
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6. Until the date of purchase of the Certificates, the undersigned
will notify the parties listed in the Rule 144A Transferee Certificate to
which this certification relates of any changes in the information and
conclusions herein. Until such notice is given, the Buyer's purchase of the
Certificates will constitute a reaffirmation of this certification by the
undersigned as of the date of such purchase.
_________________________________
Print Name of Buyer
By:______________________________
Name:
Title:
_________________________________
Date:
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EXHIBIT M
REQUEST FOR RELEASE
(for Trustee)
IndyMac MBS, Inc.
Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates
Series 200_-_
Loan Information
Name of Mortgagor:
Servicer
Loan No.: _______________________
Trustee
Name: _______________________
Address: _______________________
_______________________
Trustee
Mortgage File No.:
The undersigned Master Servicer hereby acknowledges that it has
received from Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for the Holders
of Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, of the above-referenced Series, the
documents referred to below (the "Documents"). All capitalized terms not
otherwise defined in this Request for Release shall have the meanings given
them in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement (the "Pooling and Servicing
Agreement") relating to the above-referenced Series among the Trustee, IndyMac
Bank, F.S.B., as Seller and Master Servicer and IndyMac MBS, Inc., as
Depositor.
( ) Mortgage Note dated ____________, 20__, in the original principal sum
of $_________, made by _________________. payable to, or endorsed to
the order of, the Trustee.
( ) Mortgage recorded on _________________ as instrument no.
_____________________ in the County Recorder's Office of the County
of __________________, State of _______________ in book/reel/docket
________________ of official records at page/image _______________.
( ) Deed of Trust recorded on __________________ as instrument no.
_________________ in the County Recorder's Office of the County of
_______________, State of _______________ in book/reel/docket
______________ of official records at page/image _______________.
( ) Assignment of Mortgage or Deed of Trust to the Trustee, recorded on
_________________ as instrument no. ____________ in the County
Recorder's Office of the County of _________, State of
________________ in book/reel/docket _______________ of official
records at page/image ______________.
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( ) Other documents, including any amendments, assignments or other
assumptions of the Mortgage Note or Mortgage.
The undersigned Master Servicer hereby acknowledges and agrees as
follows:
(1) The Master Servicer shall hold and retain
possession of the Documents in trust for the benefit of the
Trustee, solely for the purposes provided in the Agreement.
(2) The Master Servicer shall not cause or
knowingly permit the Documents to become subject to, or
encumbered by, any claim, liens, security interest, charges,
writs of attachment or other impositions nor shall the
Servicer assert or seek to assert any claims or rights of
setoff to or against the Documents or any proceeds thereof.
(3) The Master Servicer shall return each and every
Document previously requested from the Mortgage File to the
Trustee when the need therefor no longer exists, unless the
Mortgage Loan relating to the Documents has been liquidated
and the proceeds thereof have been remitted to the
Certificate Account and except as expressly provided in the
Agreement.
(4) The Documents and any proceeds thereof,
including any proceeds of proceeds, coming into the
possession or control of the Master Servicer shall at all
times be earmarked for the account of the Trustee, and the
Master Servicer shall keep the Documents and any proceeds
separate and distinct from all other property in the Master
Servicer's possession, custody or control.
INDYMAC BANK, F.S.B.
By: _________________________
Name:
Title:
Date: , 20
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EXHIBIT N
REQUEST FOR RELEASE OF DOCUMENTS
To: Deutsche Bank National Trust Company
Attn: Mortgage Custody Services
Re: The Pooling and Servicing Agreement dated September
1, 2005 among IndyMac Bank, F.S.B. as Master
Servicer, Inc, IndyMac MBS, Inc. and Deutsche Bank
National Trust Company, as Trustee
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Ladies and Gentlemen:
In connection with the administration of the Mortgage Loans held by
you as Trustee for IndyMac MBS, Inc., we request the release of the Mortgage
Loan File for the Mortgage Loan(s) described below, for the reason indicated.
FT Account #: Pool #:
Mortgagor's Name, Address and Zip Code:
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Mortgage Loan Number:
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Reason for Requesting Documents (check one)
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_______1. Mortgage Loan paid in full (IndyMac hereby certifies that
all amounts have been received.)
_______2. Mortgage Loan Liquidated (IndyMac hereby certifies that all
proceeds of foreclosure, insurance, or other liquidation
have been finally received.)
_______3. Mortgage Loan in Foreclosure.
_______4. Other (explain): ____________________________________
If item 1 or 2 above is checked, and if all or part of the Mortgage
File was previously released to us, please release to us our previous receipt
on file with you, as well as an additional documents in your possession
relating to the above-specified Mortgage Loan. If item 3 or 4 is checked, upon
return of all of the above documents to you as Trustee, please acknowledge
your receipt by signing in the space indicated below, and returning this form.
N-1
INDYMAC BANK, F.S.B.
000 Xxxxx Xxxx Xxx.
Xxxxxxxx, XX 00000
By:________________________
Name:______________________
Title:____________________
Date:______________________
TRUSTEE CONSENT TO RELEASE AND
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF RECEIPT
By:________________________
Name:______________________
Title:____________________
Date:______________________
N-2
EXHIBIT O
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FORM OF TRUSTEE CERTIFICATION
To: IndyMac MBS, Inc.
IndyMac Bank, F.S.B.
Re: The Pooling and Servicing Agreement dated September 1, 2005
among IndyMac Bank, F.S.B. as Master Servicer, Inc, IndyMac
MBS, Inc. and Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee
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Ladies and Gentlemen:
In connection with the delivery of the Required Certifications on
behalf of the Trust Fund, we certify, based on the information provided by the
Master Servicer to the Trustee, the information contained in the Monthly
Statements, taken as a whole, does not contain an untrue statement of a
material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the
statements made, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made,
not misleading as of the last day of the period covered by any Required
Certification.
DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY
By:_________________________________________
Name:_______________________________________
Title:______________________________________
Date:_______________________________________
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Xxxxxxx X-0
[On File with the Trustee]
P-1
Exhibit P-2
[On File with the Trustee]
P-2
