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Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated
TO
NationsBank of Georgia, National Association,
Trustee
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Supplemental Indenture
Dated as of March 3, 1995
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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PARTIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
RECITALS OF THE COMPANY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
ARTICLE ONE
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION
SECTION 101. Definitions:
Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Affiliate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Attributable Debt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Authenticating Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Board of Directors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Board Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Business Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Capital Stock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Commission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Company Request and Company Order . . . . . . . . . . 3
Consolidated Net Tangible Assets . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Corporate Trust Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Debt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Defaulted Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Depositary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Event of Default . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Funded Debt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Holder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Indenture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Interest Payment Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Maturity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Mortgage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Officers' Certificate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Opinion of Counsel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Original Issue Discount Security . . . . . . . . . . . 5
NOTE: This table of contents shall not, for any purpose, be
deemed to be a part of the Indenture.
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Outstanding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Paying Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Place of Payment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Predecessor Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Preferred Stock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Principal Property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Redemption Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Redemption Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Regular Record Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Repayment Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Repayment Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Responsible Officer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Restricted Subsidiary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Security Register and Security Registrar . . . . . . . 7
Special Record Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Stated Maturity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Subsidiary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Trust Indenture Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Voting Stock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
SECTION 102. Compliance Certificates and Opinions . . . . . . . . . 8
SECTION 103. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee . . . . . . . . 9
SECTION 104. Acts of Holders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
SECTION 105. Notices, Etc., to Trustee and Company . . . . . . . . 10
SECTION 106. Notice to Holders; Waiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
SECTION 107. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act . . . . . . . . . . 11
SECTION 108. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents . . . . . . . 11
SECTION 109. Successors and Assigns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
SECTION 110. Separability Clause . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
SECTION 111. Benefits of Indenture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
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SECTION 112. Governing Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
SECTION 113. Legal Holidays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
ARTICLE TWO
SECURITY FORMS
SECTION 201. Forms Generally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
SECTION 202. Forms of Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
SECTION 203. Form of Trustee's Certificate of
Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
SECTION 204. Securities in Global Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
ARTICLE THREE
THE SECURITIES
SECTION 301. Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series . . . . . . . . . 14
SECTION 302. Denominations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
SECTION 303. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and
Dating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
SECTION 304. Temporary Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
SECTION 305. Registration, Registration of Transfer and
Exchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
SECTION 306. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen
Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
SECTION 307. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights
Reserved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
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SECTION 308. Persons Deemed Owners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
SECTION 309. Cancellation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
SECTION 310. Computation of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
SECTION 311. Medium-Term Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
ARTICLE FOUR
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
SECTION 401. Satisfaction and Discharge of Securities
of any Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
SECTION 402. Application of Trust Money . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
ARTICLE FIVE
REMEDIES
SECTION 501. Events of Default . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
SECTION 502. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and
Annulment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
SECTION 503. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for
Enforcement by Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . 29
SECTION 504. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim . . . . . . . . . . . 30
SECTION 505. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without
Possession of Securities . . . . . . . . . . 30
SECTION 506. Application of Money Collected . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
SECTION 507. Limitation on Suits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
SECTION 508. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive
Principal, Premium and Interest . . . . . . . 32
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SECTION 509. Restoration of Rights and Remedies . . . . . . . . . . 32
SECTION 510. Rights and Remedies Cumulative . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
SECTION 511. Delay or Omission Not Waiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
SECTION 512. Control by Holders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
SECTION 513. Waiver of Past Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
SECTION 514. Undertaking for Costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
SECTION 515. Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws . . . . . . . . . . . 34
SECTION 516. Record Date for Action By Holders . . . . . . . . . . 34
ARTICLE SIX
THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 601. Certain Duties and Responsibilities . . . . . . . . . 34
SECTION 602. Notice of Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
SECTION 603. Certain Rights of Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
SECTION 604. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of
Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
SECTION 605. May Hold Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
SECTION 606. Money Held in Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
SECTION 607. Compensation and Reimbursement . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
SECTION 608. Persons Ineligible for Appointment as
Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
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SECTION 609. Disqualification; Conflicting Interests . . . . . . . 38
(a) Elimination of Conflicting Interest
or Resignation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
(b) Notice of Failure to Eliminate
Conflicting Interest or Resign . . . . . . . . 39
(c) "Conflicting Interest" Defined . . . . . . . . . 39
(d) Definitions of Certain Terms Used in
This Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
(e) Calculation of Percentages of
Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
SECTION 610. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility . . . . . . . 45
SECTION 611. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of
Successor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
SECTION 612. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor . . . . . . . . 47
SECTION 613. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or
Succession to Business . . . . . . . . . . . 48
SECTION 614. Preferential Collection of Claims Against
Company . . . . . . . . 48
(a) Segregation and Apportionment of Certain
Collections by Trustee, Certain
Exceptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
(b) Certain Creditor Relationships Excluded
from Segregation and Apportionment . . . . . . 50
(c) Definitions of Certain Terms Used in
This Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
SECTION 615. Appointment of Authenticating Agent . . . . . . . . . 52
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ARTICLE SEVEN
HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY
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SECTION 701. Company to Furnish Trustee Names and
Addresses of Holders . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
SECTION 702. Preservation of Information; Communications
to Holders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
SECTION 703. Reports by Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
SECTION 704. Reports by Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
ARTICLE EIGHT
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, OR TRANSFER
SECTION 801. Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only
on Certain Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
SECTION 802. Successor Corporation Substituted . . . . . . . . . . 58
ARTICLE NINE
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
SECTION 901. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of
Holders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
SECTION 902. Supplemental Indentures With Consent of
Holders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
SECTION 903. Execution of Supplemental Indentures . . . . . . . . . 60
SECTION 904. Effect of Supplemental Indentures . . . . . . . . . . 61
SECTION 905. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act . . . . . . . . . 61
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SECTION 906. Reference in Securities to Supplemental
Indentures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
ARTICLE TEN
COVENANTS
SECTION 1001. Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest . . . . . 61
SECTION 1002. Maintenance of Office or Agency . . . . . . . . . . . 61
SECTION 1003. Money for Securities Payments to Be Held in
Trust . . . . . . . . . . . 62
SECTION 1004. Corporate Existence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
SECTION 1005. Statement By Officers as to Default . . . . . . . . . 63
SECTION 1006. Restrictions on Debt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
SECTION 1007. Restrictions on Sales and Leasebacks . . . . . . . . 65
SECTION 1008. Waiver of Certain Covenants . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
SECTION 1009. Calculation of Original Issue Discount; and Certain
Information Concerning Tax Reporting . . . . . . . 67
ARTICLE ELEVEN
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 1101. Applicability of Article . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
SECTION 1102. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee . . . . . . . . 68
SECTION 1103. Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be
Redeemed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
SECTION 1104. Notice of Redemption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
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SECTION 1105. Deposit of Redemption Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
SECTION 1106. Securities Payable on Redemption Date . . . . . . . . 69
SECTION 1107. Securities Redeemed in Part . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
ARTICLE TWELVE
SINKING FUNDS
SECTION 1201. Applicability of Article . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
SECTION 1202. Satisfaction of Sinking-Fund Payments with
Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
SECTION 1203. Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund . . . . . . 71
ARTICLE THIRTEEN
DEFEASANCE
SECTION 1301. Applicability of Article; Company's
Option to Effect Defeasance . . . . . . . . 71
SECTION 1302. Defeasance and Discharge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
SECTION 1303. Covenant Defeasance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
SECTION 1304. Conditions to Defeasance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
SECTION 1305. Deposited Money and U.S. Government
Obligations to be Held in Trust;
Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
ARTICLE FOURTEEN
REPAYMENT OF SECURITIES AT OPTION OF HOLDERS
SECTION 1401. Applicability of Article . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
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SECTION 1402. Notice of Repayment Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
SECTION 1403. Deposit of Repayment Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
SECTION 1404. Securities Payable on Repayment Date . . . . . . . . 76
SECTION 1405. Securities Repaid in Part . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
ARTICLE FIFTEEN
IMMUNITY OF INCORPORATORS, STOCKHOLDERS, OFFICERS
AND DIRECTORS.
SECTION 1501. Immunity of Incorporators, Stockholders,
Officers and Directors . . . . . . . . . . . 76
TESTIMONIUM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
SIGNATURES AND SEALS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
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SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, dated as of March 3, 1995, between Coca-Cola
Bottling Co. Consolidated, a corporation duly organized and existing under the
laws of the State of Delaware (herein called the "Company"), having its
principal office at 0000 Xxxxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx 00000, and
NationsBank of Georgia, National Association, a National Banking Association
organized under the laws of the United States, as Trustee (herein called the
"Trustee"), having its principal office at 000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxx 00000.
RECITALS OF THE COMPANY
The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this
Supplemental Indenture to provide for the issuance from time to time of its
unsecured debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness (herein called
the "Securities"), to be issued in one or more series as in this Indenture
provided. This Supplemental Indenture amends and supplements, and restates
(as amended and supplemented) the provisions of that certain Indenture between
the Company and the Trustee dated July 20, 1994 (the "Original Indenture").
All things necessary to make this Supplemental Indenture a valid agreement of
the Company, in accordance with its terms and with the terms of the Original
Indenture, have been done.
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the
Securities by the Holders thereof, it is mutually covenanted and agreed, for
the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Securities or of
series thereof, as follows:
ARTICLE ONE
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS
OF GENERAL APPLICATION
SECTION 101. Definitions.
For all purposes of this Indenture, except as otherwise expressly
provided or unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) the terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to
them in this Article and include the plural as well as the singular;
(2) all other terms used herein which are defined in the Trust
Indenture Act, either directly or by reference therein, have the meanings
assigned to them therein;
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(3) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings
assigned to them in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles
and, except as otherwise herein expressly provided, the term "generally
accepted accounting principles" with respect to any computation required or
permitted hereunder shall mean such accounting principles as are generally
accepted at the date of such computation; and
(4) the words "herein", "hereof" and "hereunder" and other words of
similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular
Article, Section or other subdivision.
Certain terms, used principally in Article Six, are defined in that
Article.
"Act", when used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning specified
in Section 104.
"Affiliate" of any specified Person means any other Person directly or
indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common
control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition,
"control" when used with respect to any specified Person means the power to
direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly,
whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise;
and the terms "controlling" and "controlled" have meanings correlative to the
foregoing.
"Attributable Debt" means, as to any particular lease under which any
person is at the time liable, at any date as of which the amount thereof is to
be determined, the total net amount of rent required to be paid by such Person
under such lease during the remaining primary term thereof, discounted from
the respective due date thereof to such date at a rate per annum equal to the
weighted average interest rate, or yield to maturity in the case of an
Original Issue Discount Security, borne by all the Outstanding Securities.
The weighted average interest rate borne by the Securities shall be calculated
by dividing the aggregate of the annual interest payments required on the
Securities, based on the amount Outstanding at the latest date any Securities
were issued hereunder, by the aggregate principal amount of the Securities
Outstanding at such date. In the case of an Original Issue Discount Security,
the amount Outstanding shall be deemed to be the entire principal amount
thereof and the annual interest payments shall be deemed to be the product
obtained by multiplying such entire principal amount by the rate of interest
payable on overdue principal. The net amount of rent required to be paid
under any such lease for any such period shall be the amount of the rent
payable by the lessee with respect to such period, after excluding amounts
required to be paid on account of maintenance and repairs, insurance, taxes,
assessments, water rates and similar charges. In the case of any lease which
is terminable by the lessee upon the payment of a penalty, such net amount
shall also include the amount of such penalty, but no rent shall be considered
as required to be paid under such lease subsequent to the first date upon
which it may be so terminated.
"Authenticating Agent" means any Person authorized by the Trustee to act
on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Securities.
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"Board of Directors" means either the board of directors of the Company
or any duly authorized committee of that board.
"Board Resolution" means a copy of a resolution certified by the
Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted
by the Board of Directors and to be in full force and effect on the date of
such certification, and delivered to the Trustee.
"Business Day", when used with respect to any Place of Payment, means
each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday which is not a day on
which any banking institutions in that Place of Payment are authorized or
obligated by law to close.
"Capital Stock", as applied to the stock of any corporation, means the
capital stock of every class whether now or hereafter authorized, regardless
of whether such capital stock shall be limited to a fixed sum or percentage
with respect to the rights of the holders thereof to participate in dividends
and in the distribution of assets upon the voluntary or involuntary
liquidation, dissolution or winding up of such corporation.
"Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from time
to time constituted, created under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, or, if
at any time after the execution of this instrument such Commission is not
existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under the Trust
Indenture Act, then the body performing such duties at such time.
"Company" means the Person named as the "Company" in the first paragraph
of this instrument until a successor corporation shall have become such
pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter
"Company" shall mean such successor corporation.
"Company Request" and "Company Order" mean, respectively, a written
request or order signed in the name of the Company by the Chairman of the
Board or a Vice Chairman, the President or a Vice President (any reference to
a Vice President of the Company herein shall be deemed to include any Vice
President of the Company whether or not designated by a number or a word or
words added before or after the title "Vice President"), and by the Treasurer,
an Assistant Treasurer, the Controller, an Assistant Controller, the Secretary
or an Assistant Secretary of the Company, and delivered to the Trustee.
"Consolidated Net Tangible Assets" means the aggregate amount of assets
(less applicable reserves and other properly deductible items) after deducting
therefrom (i) all current liabilities and (ii) all goodwill, trade names,
trademarks, patents, unamortized debt discount and expense and other like
intangibles, all as set forth on the most recent balance sheet of the Company
and its consolidated subsidiaries and computed in accordance with generally
accepted accounting principles. For purposes of this definition, any
leasehold interest of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary shall be deemed
to be a tangible asset if the rental obligations thereunder are included in
Funded Debt.
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"Corporate Trust Office" means the principle office of the Trustee at
which at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be principally
administered, which office at the date hereof is located at 000 Xxxxxxxxx
Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 000, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx 00000, Attention: Corporate Trust
Administration.
"corporation" includes corporations, associations, companies and
business trusts.
"Debt" has the meaning specified in Section 1006.
"Defaulted Interest" has the meaning specified in Section 307.
"Depositary" means, with respect to the Securities of any series
issuable or issued in the form of a global Security, the Person designated as
Depositary by the Company pursuant to Section 301 until a successor Depositary
shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this
Indenture, and thereafter "Depositary" shall mean or include each Person who
is then a Depositary hereunder, and if at any time there is more than one such
Person, "Depositary" as used with respect to the Securities of any such series
shall mean the Depositary with respect to the Securities of that series.
"Event of Default" has the meaning specified in Section 501.
"Funded Debt" means (i) all indebtedness for money borrowed having a
maturity of more than 12 months from the date as of which the amount thereof
is to be determined or having a maturity of less than 12 months but by its
terms being renewable or extendible beyond 12 months from such date at the
option of the borrower, and (ii) rental obligations payable more than 12
months from such date under leases which are capitalized in accordance with
generally accepted accounting principles (such rental obligations to be
included as Funded Debt at the amount so capitalized and to be included for
the purposes of the definition of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets both as an
asset and as Funded Debt at the amount so capitalized).
"Holder" means a Person in whose name a Security is registered in the
Security Register.
"Indenture" means this Instrument as originally executed or as it may
from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more Indentures
supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof
and shall include the terms of any particular series of Securities established
as contemplated by Section 301.
"interest", when used with respect to an Original Issue Discount
Security which by its terms bears interest only after Maturity, means interest
payable after Maturity.
"Interest Payment Date", when used with respect to any Security, means
the Stated Maturity of an installment of interest on such Security.
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"Maturity", when used with respect to any Security, means the date on
which the principal of such Security or an installment of principal becomes
due and payable as therein or herein provided, whether at the Stated Maturity
or by declaration of acceleration, call for redemption, occurrence of any
Repayment Date or otherwise.
"Mortgage" has the meaning specified in Section 1006.
"Officers' Certificate" means a certificate signed by the Chairman of
the Board, a Vice Chairman, the President or a Vice President, and by the
Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Controller, an Assistant Controller,
the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company and delivered to the
Trustee.
"Opinion of Counsel" means a written opinion of counsel, who may (except
as otherwise provided in this Indenture) be counsel for, or an employee of,
the Company and who shall be acceptable to the Trustee.
"Original Issue Discount Security" means any Security which provides for
an amount less than the principal amount thereof to be due and payable upon a
declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502.
"Outstanding", when used with respect to Securities of any series,
means, as of the date of determination, all Securities of such series
theretofore authenticated and delivered under this Indenture, except:
(i) Securities theretofore canceled by the Trustee or delivered to
the Trustee for cancellation;
(ii) Securities for whose payment or redemption money in the
necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the Trustee or any
Paying Agent (other than the Company) in trust or set aside and
segregated in trust by the Company (if the Company shall act as its own
Paying Agent) for the Holders of such Securities; provided that, if such
Securities are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly
given pursuant to this Indenture or provision therefor satisfactory to
the Trustee has been made; and
(iii) Securities which have been paid pursuant to Section 306 or
in exchange for or in lieu of which other Securities have been
authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture, other than any
such Securities in respect of which there shall have been presented to
the Trustee proof satisfactory to it that such Securities are held by a
bona fide purchaser in whose hands such Securities are valid obligations
of the Company;
provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series have given any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver
hereunder, (i) the principal amount of an Original Issue
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Discount Security
that shall be deemed to be Outstanding shall be the amount of the principal
thereof that would be due and payable as of the date of such determination
upon acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502, and (ii)
Securities owned by the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or
any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor shall be disregarded and
deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining whether the Trustee
shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Securities which the Trustee knows
to be so owned shall be so disregarded. Securities so owned which have been
pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee
establishes to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee's right so to act
with respect to such Securities and that the pledgee is not the Company or any
other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of such
other obligor.
"Paying Agent" means any Person authorized by the Company to pay the
principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on any Securities on behalf of
the Company.
"Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture,
association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization or
government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.
"Place of Payment", when used with respect to the Securities of any
series, means the place or places where the principal of (and premium, if any)
and interest on the Securities of that Series are payable as specified as
contemplated by Section 301.
"Predecessor Security" of any particular Security means every previous
Security evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by
such particular Security; and, for the purposes of this definition, any
Security authenticated and delivered under Section 306 in exchange for or in
lieu of a mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be deemed to
evidence the same debt as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security.
"Preferred Stock," as applied to the Capital Stock of any corporation,
means Capital Stock ranking prior to the shares of any other class of Capital
Stock of said corporation as to the payment of dividends or the distribution
of assets on any voluntary or involuntary liquidation.
"Principal Property" means any building, structure or other facility,
together with the land upon which it is erected and fixtures comprising a part
thereof, used primarily for the bottling, canning or packaging of soft drinks
or soft drink products or warehousing and distributing of such products, owned
or leased by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company, the gross book
value (without deduction of any depreciation reserves) of which on the date as
of which the determination is being made exceeds 3% of Consolidated Net
Tangible Assets, other than any such building, structure or other facility or
portion thereof which, in the opinion of the Board of Directors, is not of
material importance to the total business conducted by the Company and its
Subsidiaries as an entirety.
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"Redemption Date", when used with respect to any Security to be
redeemed, means the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this
Indenture.
"Redemption Price", when used with respect to any Security to be
redeemed, means the price at which it is to be redeemed pursuant to this
Indenture.
"Regular Record Date" for the interest payable on any Interest Payment
Date on the Securities of any series means the date specified for that purpose
as contemplated by Section 301.
"Repayment Date", when used with respect to any Security of any series
to be repaid, means the date, if any, fixed for such repayment pursuant to
Section 301 of this Indenture.
"Repayment Price", when used with respect to any Security of any series
to be repaid, means the price, if any, at which such Security is to be repaid
pursuant to Section 301 of this Indenture.
"Responsible Officer", when used with respect to the Trustee, means any
officer in the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee or any other officer of
the Trustee customarily performing functions similar to those performed by any
of the above designated officers and also means, with respect to a particular
corporate trust matter, any other officer to whom such matter is referred
because of his knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject.
"Restricted Subsidiary" means a Subsidiary of the Company which (i) owns
a Principal Property as of the date hereof, or (ii) acquires a Principal
Property after the date hereof from the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary
other than for cash equal to such property's fair market value as determined
by the Board of Directors, or (iii) acquires a Principal Property after the
date hereof by purchase with funds substantially all of which are provided by
the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary or with the proceeds of indebtedness
for money borrowed, which indebtedness is guaranteed in whole or in part by
the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary, or (iv) is a party to any contract
with respect to the bottling, canning, packaging or distribution of soft
drinks or soft drink products, other than any such contract which in the
opinion of the Board of Directors is not of material importance to the total
business conducted by the Company and its Subsidiaries as an entirety.
"Securities" has the meaning stated in the first recital of this
Indenture and more particularly means any Securities authenticated and
delivered under this Indenture.
"Security Register" and "Security Registrar" have the respective
meanings specified in Section 305.
"Special Record Date" for the payment of any Defaulted Interest means a
date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 307.
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"Stated Maturity", when used with respect to any Security or any
Installment of principal thereof or Interest thereon, means the date specified
in such Security as the fixed date on which the principal of such Security or
such installment of principal or interest is due and payable.
"Subsidiary" means a corporation more than 50% of the outstanding Voting
Stock of which is owned, directly or indirectly by the Company or by one or
more other Subsidiaries, or by the Company and one or more other Subsidiaries.
"Trustee" means the Person named as the "Trustee" in the first paragraph
of this instrument until a successor Trustee shall have become such pursuant
to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter "Trustee" shall
mean or include each Person who is then a Trustee hereunder, and if at any
time there is more than one such Person, "Trustee" as used with respect to the
Securities of any series shall mean the Trustee with respect to Securities of
that series.
"Trust Indenture Act" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended
and in force at the date as of which this instrument was executed, except as
provided in Section 905.
"Voting Stock" means stock of the class or classes having general voting
power under ordinary circumstances for the election of the board of directors,
managers or trustees of such corporation (irrespective of whether or not at
the time stock of any other class or classes shall have or might have voting
power by reason of the happening of any contingency).
SECTION 102. Compliance Certificates and Opinions.
Except as otherwise expressly provided by this Indenture, upon any
application or request by the Company to the Trustee to take any action under
any provision of this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee an
Officers' Certificate stating that all conditions precedent, if any, provided
for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with
and an Opinion of Counsel stating that in the opinion of such counsel all such
conditions precedent, if any, have been complied with, except that in the case
of any such application or request as to which the furnishing of such
documents is specifically required by any provision of this Indenture relating
to such particular application or request, no additional certificate or
opinion need be furnished.
Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition
or covenant provided for in this Indenture (other than certificates provided
pursuant to paragraph (4) of Section 704 of this Indenture) shall include:
(1) a statement that each individual signing such certificate or opinion
has read such covenant or condition and the definitions herein relating
thereto;
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(2) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or
investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in such
certificate or opinion are based;
(3) a statement that, in the opinion of each such individual, he or she
has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him or
her to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or
condition has been complied with, and
(4) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such individual,
such condition or covenant has been complied with.
SECTION 103. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee.
In any case where several matters are required to be certified by, or covered
by an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all such
matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such Person,
or that they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one such
Person may certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one or
more other such Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify
or give an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents.
Any certificate or opinion of an officer of the Company may be based, insofar
as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or
representations by, counsel, unless such officer knows, or in the exercise of
reason able care should know, that the certificate or opinion or
representations with respect to the matters upon which his certificate or
opinion is based are erroneous. Any such certificate or Opinion of Counsel
may be based, insofar as it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or
opinion of, or representations by, an officer or officers of the Company
stating that the information with respect to such factual matters is in the
possession of the Company, unless such counsel knows, or in the exercise of
reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or
representations with respect to such matters are erroneous.
Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more
applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other
instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated and
form one instrument.
SECTION 104. Acts of Holders.
(a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by
Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of
substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by agent duly
appointed in writing; and, except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such
action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are
delivered to the Trustee and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the
Company. Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and
evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the "Act" of the
Holders signing such instrument or instruments. Proof of execution of any
such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient
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for any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Section 601) conclusive in
favor of the Trustee and the Company, if made in the manner provided in this
Section.
(b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such
instrument or writing may be proved in any reasonable manner which the Trustee
deems sufficient.
(c) The ownership of Securities shall be proved by the Security
Register.
(d) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other Act of the Holder of any Security shall bind every future
Holder of the same Security and the Holder of every Security issued upon the
registration or transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in
respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Trustee, any
Security Registrar, any Paying Agent, any Authenticating Agent or the Company
in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such
Security.
(e) Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless otherwise
specified pursuant to Section 301 or pursuant to one or more indentures
supplemental hereto, a Holder, including a Depositary that is the Holder of a
global Security, may make, give or take, by a proxy or proxies duly appointed
in writing, any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other action provided in this Indenture to be made, given or taken
by Holders, and a Depositary that is the Holder of a global Security may
provide its proxy or proxies to the beneficial owners of interests in any such
global Security through such Depositary's standing instructions and customary
practices.
(f) The Trustee shall fix a record date for the purpose of determining
the Persons who are beneficial owners of interests in any global Security held
by a Depositary entitled under the procedures of such Depositary to make, give
or take, by a proxy or proxies duly appointed in writing, any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided in
this Indenture to be made, given or taken by Holders. If such a record date
is fixed, the Holders on such record date or their duly appointed proxy or
proxies, and only such Persons, shall be entitled to make, give or take such
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other
action, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date. No
such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or
other action shall be valid or effective if made, given or taken more than 90
days after such record date.
SECTION 105. Notices, Etc., to Trustee and Company.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver
or Act of Holders or other document provided or permitted by this Indenture to
be made upon, given or furnished to, or filed with,
(1) the Trustee by any Holder or by the Company shall be
sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or
filed in writing to or with the Trustee at
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its Corporate Trust Office,
Attention: Corporate Trust Administration, or at any other address
previously furnished in writing to the Company by the Trustee, or
(2) the Company by the Trustee or by any Holder shall be
sufficient for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein
expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage
prepaid, to the Company addressed to it and marked "Attention:
Treasurer" at the address of its principal office specified in the first
paragraph of this instrument or at any other address previously
furnished in writing to the Trustee by the Company.
SECTION 106. Notice to Holders; Waiver.
Where this Indenture provides for notice to Holders of any event, such
notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly
provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each
Holder affected by such event, at such Holder's address as it appears in the
Security Register, not later than the latest date, and not earlier than the
earliest date, prescribed for the giving of such notice. In any case where
notice to Holders is given by mail, neither the failure to mail such notice,
nor any defect in any notice so mailed, to any particular Holder shall affect
the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Holders. Where this
Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice may be waived in
writing by the person entitled to receive such notice, either before or after
the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of such notice. Waivers of
notice by Holders shall be filed with the Trustee, but such filing shall not
be a condition precedent to the validity of any action taken in reliance upon
such waiver.
In case by reason of the suspension of regular mail service or by reason
of any other cause it shall be impracticable to give such notice by mail, then
such notification as shall be made with the approval of the Trustee shall
constitute a sufficient notification for every purpose hereunder.
SECTION 107. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.
If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with another
provision hereof which is required to be included in this Indenture by any of
the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act, such required provision shall
control.
SECTION 108. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents.
The Article and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are
for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.
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SECTION 109. Successors and Assigns.
All covenants and agreements in this Indenture by the Company shall bind
its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.
SECTION 110. Separability Clause.
In case any provision in this Indenture or in the Securities shall be
invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability
of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired
thereby.
SECTION 111. Benefits of Indenture.
Nothing in this Indenture or in the Securities, express or implied,
shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto, any Security
Registrar and Paying Agent, any Authenticating Agent and their successors
hereunder and the Holders, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy
or claim under this Indenture.
SECTION 112. Governing Law.
This Indenture and the Securities shall be governed by and construed in
accordance with the laws of the State of New York.
SECTION 113. Legal Holidays.
In any case where any Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date, Repayment
Date or Stated Maturity of any Security shall not be a Business Day at any
Place of Payment, then (notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture
or of the Securities) payment of interest or principal (and premium, if any)
need not be made at such Place of Payment on such date, but may be made on the
next succeeding Business Day at such Place of Payment with the same force and
effect as if made on the Interest Payment Date or Redemption Date, Repayment
Date or at the Stated Maturity, provided that no interest shall accrue for the
period from and after such Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date, Repayment
Date or Stated Maturity, as the case may be.
ARTICLE TWO
SECURITY FORMS
SECTION 201. Forms Generally.
The Securities of each series shall have such appropriate insertions,
omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by
this Indenture, and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of
identification and such legends or endorsements placed
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thereon as may be
required to comply with the rules of any securities exchange or as may,
consistently herewith, be determined by the officers executing such
Securities, as evidenced by their execution of the Securities. Any portion of
the text of any Security may be set forth on the reverse thereof, with an
appropriate reference thereto on the face of the Security.
The definitive Securities shall be printed, lithographed or engraved or
produced by any combination of these methods on steel engraved borders or may
be produced in any other manner, subject, with respect to the Securities of
any series, to the rules of any securities exchange on which the Securities
may be listed, all as determined by the officers executing such Securities, as
evidenced by their execution of such Securities.
SECTION 202. Forms of Securities.
Each Security shall be in one of the forms approved from time to time by
or pursuant to a Board Resolution, or established in one or more indentures
supplemental hereto. Prior to the delivery of a Security to the Trustee for
authentication in any form approved by or pursuant to a Board Resolution, the
Company shall deliver to the Trustee the Board Resolution by or pursuant to
which such form of Security has been approved, which Board Resolution shall
have attached thereto a true and correct copy of the form of Security which
has been approved thereby or, if a Board Resolution authorizes a specific
officer or officers to approve a form of Security, a certificate of such
officer or officers approving the form of Security attached thereto. Any form
of Security approved by or pursuant to a Board Resolution must be acceptable
as to form to the Trustee, such acceptance to be evidenced by the Trustee's
authentication of Securities in that form or a certificate signed by a
Responsible Officer of the Trustee and delivered to the Company.
SECTION 203. Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication.
The form of the Trustee's Certificate of Authentication for any Security
issued pursuant to this Indenture shall be substantially as follows:
TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred
to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
NationsBank of Georgia,
National Association, as Trustee
By: ____________________________
Authorized Signatory
SECTION 204. Securities in Global Form.
If any Security of a series is issuable in global form, such Security
may provide that it shall represent the aggregate amount of Outstanding
Securities from time to time endorsed
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thereon and may also provide that the
aggregate amount of Outstanding Securities represented thereby may from time
to time be reduced to reflect exchanges. Any endorsement of a Security in
global form to reflect the amount, or any increase or decrease in the amount,
of Outstanding Securities represented thereby shall be made by the Trustee and
in such manner as shall be specified in such Security. Any instructions by
the Company with respect to a Security in global form, after its initial
issuance, shall be in writing but need not comply with Section 102.
ARTICLE THREE
THE SECURITIES
SECTION 301. Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series.
The aggregate principal amount of Securities which may be authenticated
and delivered under this Indenture is unlimited.
The Securities may be issued in one or more series. All Securities of
each series issued under this Indenture shall in all respects be equally and
ratably entitled to the benefits hereof with respect to such series without
preference, priority or distinction on account of the actual time of the
authentication and delivery or Maturity of the Securities of such series.
There shall be established in or pursuant to a Board Resolution and, subject
to Section 303, set forth, or determined in the manner provided, in an
Officers' Certificate, or established in one or more indentures supplemental
hereto, prior to the issuance of Securities of any series:
(1) the title of the Securities of the series (which shall
distinguish the Securities of the series from all other Securities);
(2) any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the
Securities of the series which may be authenticated and delivered under
this Indenture (except for Securities authenticated and delivered upon
registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other
Securities of the series pursuant to Section 304, 305, 306, 906 or 1107
and except for any Securities which, pursuant to Section 303, are deemed
never to have been authenticated and delivered hereunder);
(3) the date or dates (or manner of determining the same) on
which the principal of the Securities of the series is payable (which,
if so provided in such Board Resolution, may be determined by the
Company from time to time and set forth in the Securities of the series
issued from time to time);
(4) the rate or rates (or the manner of calculation thereof) at
which the Securities of the series shall bear interest, if any, the date
or dates from which such interest shall accrue (which, if so provided by
the Board Resolution, may be determined by the Company from time to time
and set forth in the Securities of the series issued from time
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to time),
the Interest Payment Dates on which such interest shall be payable and
the Regular Record Date for the interest payable on any Interest Payment
Date;
(5) if other than the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, the
place or places where the principal of (and premium, if any) and
interest, if any, on Securities of the series shall be payable;
(6) the period or periods within which, the price or prices at
which and the terms and conditions upon which Securities of the series
may be redeemed, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company;
(7) the obligation, if any, of the Company to redeem or
repurchase Securities of the series pursuant to any sinking fund or
analogous provisions or at the option of a Holder thereof and the period
or periods within which, the price or prices at which and the terms and
conditions upon which Securities of the series shall be redeemed or
repurchased, in whole or in part, pursuant to such obligation;
(8) if other than denominations of $1,000 and any integral
multiple thereof, the denominations in which Securities of the series
shall be issuable;
(9) whether the Securities of the series shall be issued in whole
or in part in the form of a global Security or Securities and, in such
case, the Depositary for such global Security or Securities;
(10) if other than the principal amount thereof, the portion of
the principal amount of Securities of the series which shall be payable
upon declaration of acceleration of Maturity thereof pursuant to Section
502;
(11) the application, if any, of either or both of Section 1302
and Section 1303 hereof to the Securities of the series; and
(12) any other terms of the series (which terms shall not be
inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture).
All Securities of any one series shall be substantially identical except
as to denomination and except as may otherwise be provided in or pursuant to
the Board Resolution referred to above and (subject to Section 303) set forth
in the Officers' Certificate referred to above or in any such indenture
supplemental hereto.
If any of the terms of the series are established by action taken
pursuant to a Board Resolution, a copy of an appropriate record of such action
shall be certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company
and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Officers'
Certificate setting forth the terms of the series.
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SECTION 302. Denominations.
The Securities of each series shall be issuable in registered form
without coupons in such denominations as shall be specified as contemplated by
Section 301. In the absence of any such provisions with respect to the
Securities of any series, the Securities of such series shall be issuable in
denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof.
SECTION 303. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating.
The Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its
Chairman of the Board or one of its Vice Chairmen, its President or one of its
Vice Presidents, under its corporate seal reproduced thereon attested by its
Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries. The signature of any of these
officers on the Securities may be manual or facsimile.
Securities bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who
were at any time the proper officers of the Company shall bind the Company,
notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such
offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Securities or did not
hold such offices at the date of such Securities.
At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of
this Indenture, the Company may deliver Securities of any series executed by
the Company to the Trustee for authentication, together with a Company Order
for the authentication and delivery of such Securities, and the Trustee in
accordance with the Company Order shall authenticate and deliver such
Securities. If any Security shall be represented by a global Security, then,
for purposes of this Section and Section 304, the notation of the record
owner's interest therein upon original issuance of such Security shall be
deemed to be delivery in connection with the original issuance of each
beneficial owner's interest in such global Security. If all the Securities of
any one series are not to be originally issued at one time and if a Board
Resolution relating to such Securities shall so permit, such Company Order may
set forth procedures acceptable to the Trustee for the issuance and
authentication of such Securities.
If the form or terms of the Securities of the series have been
established in or pursuant to one or more Board Resolutions as permitted by
Sections 201 and 301, in authenticating such Securities, and accepting the
additional responsibilities under this Indenture in relation to such
Securities, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to Section
601) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating:
(a) if the form of such Securities has been established by or
pursuant to Board Resolution as permitted by Section 201, that such form
has been established in conformity with the provisions of this
Indenture;
(b) if the terms of such Securities have been established by or
pursuant to Board Resolution as permitted by Section 301, that such
terms have been established in conformity with the provisions of this
Indenture;
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(c) that such Securities, when authenticated and delivered by the
Trustee and issued by the Company in the manner and subject to any
conditions specified in such Opinion of Counsel, will constitute valid
and legally binding obligations of the Company, enforceable in
accordance with their terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization and other laws of general applicability relating to or
affecting the enforcement of creditors' rights and to general equity
principles;
(d) that all laws and requirements in respect of the execution and
delivery by the Company of the Securities have been complied with; and
(e) such other matters as the Trustee may reasonably request.
If such form or terms have been so established, the Trustee shall not be
required to authenticate such Securities if the issue of such Securities
pursuant to this Indenture will affect the Trustee's own rights, duties or
immunities under the Securities and this Indenture or otherwise in a manner
which is not reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 301 and of the preceding
paragraph, if all Securities of a series are not to be originally issued at
one time, it shall not be necessary to deliver the Officers' Certificate
otherwise required pursuant to Section 301 or the Company Order and Opinion of
Counsel otherwise required pursuant to such preceding paragraph at or prior to
the time of authentication of each Security of such series if such documents
are delivered at or prior to the time of authentication upon original issuance
of the first Security of such series to be issued.
Unless otherwise provided in the form of Security for any series, all
Securities shall be dated the date of its authentication.
No Security shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be
valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on such Security a
certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein
executed by the Trustee by manual signature, and such certificate upon any
Security shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such
Security has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder and is entitled
to the benefits of this Indenture. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any
Security shall have been authenticated and delivered hereunder but never
issued and sold by the Company, and the Company shall deliver such Security to
the Trustee for cancellation as provided in Section 309 together with a
written statement (which need not comply with Section 102 and need not be
accompanied by an opinion of Counsel) stating that such Security has never
been issued and sold by the Company, for all purposes of this Indenture such
Security shall be deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered
hereunder and shall never be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture.
If the Company shall establish pursuant to Section 301 that the
Securities of a series are to be issued in the form of one or more global
Securities, then the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall, in
accordance with this Section and the Company Order with respect to such
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series, authenticate and deliver one or more global Securities that (i) shall
represent and shall be denominated in an amount equal to the aggregate
principal amount of all of the Securities of such series issued and not yet
canceled, (ii) shall be registered in the name of the Depositary for such
global Security or Securities or the nominee of such Depositary, (iii) shall
be delivered by the Trustee to such Depositary or pursuant to such
Depositary's instructions and (iv) shall bear a legend substantially to the
following effect: "Unless this certificate is presented by an authorized
representative of the Depositary to the Company or its agent for registration
of transfer, exchange, or payment, and any certificate issued is registered in
the name of the nominee of the Depositary or in such other name as is
requested by an authorized representative of the Depositary (and any payment
is made to the nominee of the Depositary or to such other entity as is
requested by an authorized representative of the Depositary), ANY TRANSFER,
PLEDGE, OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS
WRONGFUL inasmuch as the registered owner hereof, the nominee of the
Depositary, has an interest herein."
Each Depositary designated pursuant to Section 301 for a global Security
must, at the time of its designation and at all times while it serves as
Depositary, be a clearing agency registered under the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934, as amended, and any other applicable statute or regulation.
SECTION 304. Temporary Securities.
Pending the preparation of definitive Securities of any series, the
Company may execute, and upon Company Order the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver, temporary Securities which are printed, lithographed, typewritten,
mimeographed or otherwise produced, in any authorized denomination,
substantially of the tenor of the definitive Securities in lieu of which they
are issued and with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and
other variations as the officers executing such Securities may determine, as
evidenced by their execution of such Securities.
If temporary Securities of any series are issued, the Company will cause
definitive Securities of that series to be prepared without unreasonable
delay. After the preparation of definitive Securities of such series, the
temporary Securities of such series shall be exchangeable for definitive
Securities of such series of like Stated Maturity and with like terms and
provisions upon surrender of the temporary Securities of such series at the
office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment for that series, without
charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more
temporary securities of any series, the Company shall execute and the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a like principal amount of
definitive Securities of the same series and of like Stated Maturity and with
like terms and provisions. Until so exchanged the temporary Securities of any
series shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this
Indenture as definitive Securities of such series of like Stated Maturity and
with like terms and provisions.
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SECTION 305. Registration; Registration of Transfer and Exchange.
The Company shall cause to be kept at one of its offices or agencies
maintained pursuant to Section 1002 a register (the register maintained in
such office and in any other office or agency of the Company in a Place of
Payment being herein sometimes collectively referred to as the "Security
Register") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may
prescribe, the Company shall provide for the registration of Securities and of
transfers of Securities. The person responsible for the maintenance of the
Security Register is referred to herein as the "Security Registrar". The
Trustee is hereby appointed the initial Security Registrar.
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Security of any
series at the office or agency in a Place of Payment for that series, the
Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the
name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Securities
of the same series, of any authorized denominations and of a like aggregate
principal amount and tenor.
At the option of the Holder, Securities of any series may be exchanged
for other Securities of the same series, of any authorized denominations and
of a like aggregate principal amount and tenor, upon surrender of the
Securities to be exchanged at such office or agency. Whenever any Securities
are so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver, the Securities which the Holder making the
exchange is entitled to receive.
All Securities issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of
Securities shall be the valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same
debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the
Securities surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.
Every Security presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or
for exchange shall (if so required by the Company or the Security Registrar)
be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in
form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed, by
the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing.
No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or
exchange of Securities, but the Company may require payment of a sum
sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed
in connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities,
other than exchanges pursuant to Sections 304, 906 or 1107 not involving any
transfer.
The Company shall not be required (i) to issue, register the transfer of
or exchange Securities of any series during a period beginning at the opening
of business 15 days before the day of the mailing of a notice of redemption of
Securities of that series selected for redemption under Section 1103 and
ending at the close of business on the day of such mailing, or (ii) to
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register the transfer of or exchange any Security so selected for redemption
in whole or in part, except the unredeemed portion of any Security being
redeemed in part.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 305, unless and
until it is exchanged in whole or in part for Securities in definitive
registered form, a global Security representing all or a portion of the
Securities of a series may not be transferred except as a whole by the
Depositary for such series to a nominee of such Depositary or by a nominee of
such Depositary to such Depositary or another nominee of such Depositary or by
such Depositary or any such nominee to a successor Depositary for such series
or a nominee of such successor depositary.
If at any time the Depositary for the Securities of a series notifies
the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for the
Securities of such series or if at any time the Depositary for the Securities
of such series shall no longer be eligible under Section 303, the Company
shall appoint a successor Depositary with respect to the Securities of such
series. If a successor Depositary for the Securities of such series is not
appointed by the Company within 90 days after the Company receives such notice
or becomes aware of such ineligibility, the Company's election pursuant to
Section 301(9) shall no longer be effective with respect to the Securities of
such series, and the Company will execute, and the Trustee, upon receipt of a
Company Order for the authentication and delivery of definitive Securities of
such series, will authenticate and deliver, Securities of such series in
definitive registered form without coupons, in any authorized denominations,
in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of the global
Security or Securities representing such series, in exchange for such global
Security or Securities.
The Company may at any time and in its sole discretion determine that
the Securities of any series issued in the form of one or more global
Securities shall no longer be represented by a global Security or Securities.
In such event the Company will execute, and the Trustee, upon receipt of a
Company Order for the authentication and delivery of definitive Securities of
such series, will authenticate and deliver, Securities of such series in
definitive registered form without coupons, in any authorized denominations,
in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of the global
Security or Securities representing such series, in exchange for such global
Security or Securities.
If specified by the Company pursuant to Section 301 with respect to a
series of Securities, a Person owning a beneficial interest in a global
Security for Securities of a series may instruct the Depositary for such
series of Securities to surrender such global Security in exchange in whole or
in part for Securities of such series in definitive registered form on such
terms as are acceptable to the Company and such Depositary. Thereupon, the
Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, without
service charge:
(i) to the Person specified by such Depositary a new Security or
Securities of the same series, of any authorized denomination as requested by
such Person, in an aggregate principal amount equal to and in exchange for
such Person's beneficial interest in the global Security; and
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(ii) to such Depositary a new global Security in a denomination equal
to the difference, if any, between the principal amount of the surrendered
global Security and the aggregate principal amount of Securities authenticated
and delivered pursuant to Clause (i) above.
Upon the exchange of a global Security for Securities in definitive
registered form without coupons, in authorized denominations, such global
Security shall be canceled by the Trustee. Securities in definitive
registered form without coupons issued in exchange for a global Security
pursuant to this Section 305 shall be registered in such names and in such
authorized denominations as the Depositary for such global Security, pursuant
to instructions from its direct or indirect participants or otherwise, shall
instruct the Trustee. The Trustee shall deliver such Securities to or as
directed by the Persons in whose names such Securities are so registered.
SECTION 306. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities.
If any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee, the Company
shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange
therefor a new Security of the same series and of like tenor and principal
amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.
If there shall be delivered to the Company and the Trustee (i) evidence
to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Security and
(ii) such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of
them and any agent of either of them harmless, then, in the absence of notice
to the Company or the Trustee that such Security has been acquired by a bona
fide purchaser, the Company shall execute and upon its request the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver, in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen
Security, a new Security of the same series and of like tenor and principal
amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.
In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security has
become or is about to become due and payable, the Company in its discretion
may, instead of issuing a new Security, pay such Security.
Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section, the Company
may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other
expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith.
Every new Security of any series issued pursuant to this Section in lieu
of any destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall constitute an original
additional contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the
destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be at any time enforceable by anyone,
and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and
proportionately with any and all other Securities of that series duly issued
hereunder.
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The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to the
extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement
or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities.
SECTION 307. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Reserved.
Unless otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 301 with respect to
any series of Securities, interest on any Security which is payable, and is
punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall be
paid to the Person in whose name that Security (or one or more Predecessor
Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date
for such interest.
Any interest on any Security of any series which is payable, but is not
punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date (herein
called "Defaulted Interest") shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder
on the relevant Regular Record Date by virtue of having been such Holder, and
such Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Company, at its election in each
case, as provided in Clause (1) or (2) below:
(1) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted
Interest to the Persons in whose names the Securities of such series (or
their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of
business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted
Interest, which shall be fixed in the following manner. The Company
shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest
proposed to be paid on each Security of such series and the date of the
proposed payment, and at the same time the Company shall deposit with
the Trustee an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount proposed to
be paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest or shall make arrangements
satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit prior to the date of the
proposed payment, such money when deposited to be held in trust for the
benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted Interest as in this
Clause provided. Thereupon the Trustee shall fix a Special Record Date
for the payment of such Defaulted Interest which shall be not more than
15 days and not less than 10 days prior to the date of the proposed
payment and not less than 10 days after the receipt by the Trustee of
the notice of the proposed payment. The Trustee shall promptly notify
the Company of such Special Record Date and, in the name and at the
expense of the Company, shall cause notice of the proposed payment of
such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor to be
mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder of Securities of
such series at his address as it appears in the Security Register, not
less than 11 days prior to such Special Record Date. The Trustee may,
in its discretion, in the name and at the expense of the Company, cause
a similar notice to be published at least once in an authorized
newspaper in each Place of Payment, but such publication shall not be a
condition precedent to the establishment of such Special Record Date.
Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the
Special Record Date therefor having been so mailed, such Defaulted
Interest shall be paid to the Persons in whose names the Securities of
such series (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered
at the
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close of business on such Special Record Date and shall no longer
be payable pursuant to the following Clause (2).
(2) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest on the
Securities of any series in any other lawful manner not inconsistent
with the requirements of any securities exchange on which such
Securities may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by
such exchange, if, after notice given by the Company to the Trustee of
the proposed payment pursuant to this Clause, such manner of payment
shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section, each Security
delivered under this Indenture upon registration of transfer of or in exchange
for or in lieu of any other Security shall carry the rights to interest
accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other Security.
SECTION 308. Persons Deemed Owners.
Prior to due presentment of a Security for registration of transfer, the
Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the
Person in whose name such Security is registered as the owner of such Security
for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of (and premium, if any) and
(subject to Section 307) interest, if any, on such Security and for all other
purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Security be overdue, and neither the
Company, the Trustee nor any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be
affected by notice to the contrary.
None of the Company, the Trustee, any Paying Agent or the Security
Registrar will have any responsibility or liability for any aspect of the
records relating to or payments made on account of beneficial ownership
interests of a global Security or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing
any records relating to such beneficial ownership interests.
SECTION 309. Cancellation.
All Securities surrendered for payment, redemption, registration of
transfer or exchange or for credit against any sinking fund payment shall, if
surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee, be delivered to the Trustee
and shall be promptly canceled by it. The Company may at any time deliver to
the Trustee for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated and
delivered hereunder which the Company may have acquired in any manner
whatsoever and may deliver to the Trustee (or to any other Person for delivery
to the Trustee) for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated
hereunder which the Company has not issued and sold, and all Securities so
delivered shall be promptly canceled by the Trustee, except that if a global
Security is so surrendered, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver to the Depositary for such global Security, without
service charge, a new global Security or Securities in a denomination equal to
and in exchange for the unredeemed portion of the principal of the global
Security so surrendered. No Securities shall be authenticated in lieu of
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or in exchange for any Securities canceled as provided in this Section, except
as expressly permitted by this Indenture. All canceled Securities held by the
Trustee shall be destroyed by the Trustee, and the Trustee shall deliver a
certificate of such destruction to the Company.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture to the contrary,
in the case of a series, all the Securities of which are not deemed to have
been originally issued at one time, a Security of such series shall not be
deemed to have been Outstanding at any time hereunder if and to the extent
that, subsequent to the authentication and delivery thereof, such Security is
delivered to the Trustee for such Security for cancellation by the Company or
any agent thereof upon the failure of the original purchaser thereof to make
payment therefor against delivery thereof, and any Security so delivered to
such Trustee shall be promptly canceled by it.
SECTION 310. Computation of Interest.
Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for
Securities of any series, interest, if any, on the Securities of each series
shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.
SECTION 311. Medium-Term Securities.
Notwithstanding any contrary provision herein, if all Securities of a
series are not to be originally issued at one time, it shall not be necessary
for the Company to deliver to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate, Board
Resolution, supplemental indenture, Opinion of Counsel or Company Order
otherwise required pursuant to Sections 102, 202, 301 and 303 at or prior to
the time of authentication of each Security of such series if such documents
are delivered to the Trustee or its agent at or prior to the authentication
upon original issuance of the first Security of such series to be issued;
provided that any subsequent request by the Company to the Trustee to
authenticate Securities of such series upon original issuance shall constitute
a representation and warranty by the Company that as of the date of such
request, the statements made in the Officers' Certificate or other
certificates delivered pursuant to Sections 102 [and 202] shall be true and
correct as if made on such date.
A Company Order, Officers' Certificate or Board Resolution or
supplemental indenture delivered by the Company to the Trustee in the
circumstances set forth in the preceding paragraph may provide that Securities
which are the subject thereof will be authenticated and delivered by the
Trustee or its agent on original issue from time to time in the aggregate
principal amount established for such series pursuant to such procedures
acceptable to the Trustee as may be specified from time to time by Company
Order upon the telephonic, electronic or written order of persons designated
in such Company Order, Officers' Certificate, supplemental indenture or Board
Resolution (any such telephonic or electronic instructions to be promptly
confirmed in writing by such persons) and that such persons are authorized to
determine, consistent with such Company Order, Officers' Certificate,
supplemental indenture or Board Resolution, such terms and conditions of said
Securities as are specified in such Company Order, Officers' Certificate,
supplemental indenture or Board Resolution.
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ARTICLE FOUR
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
SECTION 401. Satisfaction and Discharge of Securities of any Series.
(a) The Company shall be deemed to have satisfied and discharged the
entire indebtedness on all the Securities of any particular series and, so
long as no Event of Default shall be continuing, the Trustee for the
Securities of such series, upon Company Request and at the expense of the
Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and
discharge of such indebtedness, when:
(1) either
(A) all Securities of such series theretofore authenticated
and delivered (other than (i) Securities of such series which have
been destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced or
paid as provided in Section 306 and (ii) Securities of such series
for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust or
segregated and held in trust by the Company and thereafter repaid
to the Company or discharged from such trust, as provided in
Section 1003) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation;
or
(B) all Outstanding Securities of such series not described
in subclause (A) above and not theretofore delivered to the
Trustee for cancellation
(i) have become due and payable, or
(ii) will become due and payable at their Stated Maturity
within one year, or
(iii) are to be called for redemption within one year under
arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of
notice of redemption by the Trustee in the name, and at the
expense, of the Company,
and the Company, in the case of (i), (ii) or (iii) above, has
deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust
funds in trust for the purpose an amount sufficient to pay and
discharge the entire indebtedness on all such Outstanding
Securities, for principal (and premium, if any) and interest, if
any, to the date of such deposit (in the case of Securities which
have become due and payable) or to the Stated Maturity or
Redemption Date, as the case may be;
(2) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums
payable hereunder by the Company with respect to Securities of
such series; and
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(3) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all
conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the
satisfaction and discharge of the entire indebtedness on all
Securities of such series have been complied with.
(b) Upon the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in this Section
401 with respect to all the Securities of any series, the terms and conditions
of such series, including the terms and conditions with respect thereto set
forth in this Indenture, shall no longer be binding upon, or applicable to,
the Company, and the Holders or the Securities of such series shall look for
payment only to the funds deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section
401(a)(1)(B); provided, however, that in no event shall the Company be
discharged from any obligations under Sections 305, 306 (except that
Securities of such series issued upon registration of transfer or exchange or
in lieu of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities shall not be
obligations of the Company), 607, 611, 701 or 1002; and provided, further,
that in the event a petition for relief under Title 11 of the United States
Code or a successor statute is filed and not discharged with respect to the
Company within 91 days after the deposit pursuant to Section 401(a)(1)(B), the
entire indebtedness on all Securities of such series shall not be discharged,
and in such event the Trustee shall return such deposited funds as it is then
holding to the Company upon Company Request.
SECTION 402. Application of Trust Money.
Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 1003, all
money deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 401 shall be held in
trust and applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the Securities
and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying
Agent (including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee
may determine, to the Persons entitled thereto, of the principal (and premium,
if any) and interest, if any, for whose payment such money has been deposited
with the Trustee; but such money need not be segregated from other funds
except to the extent otherwise required by law.
ARTICLE FIVE
REMEDIES
SECTION 501. Events of Default.
"Event of Default", wherever used herein with respect to Securities of
any series, means any one of the following events (whatever the reason for
such Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be
effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of
any court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or
governmental body):
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(1) default in the payment of any interest upon any Security of
that series when it becomes due and payable, and continuance of such
default for a period of 30 days; or
(2) default in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if
any, on) any Security of that series at its Maturity; or
(3) default in the deposit of any sinking fund payment, when
and as due by the terms of a Security of that series; or
(4) default in the performance, or breach, of any covenant or
warranty of the Company in this Indenture (other than a covenant or
warranty a default in whose performance or whose breach is elsewhere in
this Section specifically dealt with or which has expressly been
included in this Indenture solely for the benefit of a series of
Securities other than that series), and continuance of such default or
breach for a period of 60 days after there has been given, by registered
or certified mail, to the Company by the Trustee or to the Company and
the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of that series a written notice specifying such
default or breach and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such
notice is a "Notice of Default" hereunder; or
(5) a default under or the acceleration of the maturity date of
any bond, debenture, note or other evidence of indebtedness of the
Company or any Restricted Subsidiary (other then the Securities of that
series) or a default under any indenture or other instrument under which
any such evidence of indebtedness has been issued or by which it is
governed and the expiration of the applicable period of grace, if any,
specified in such evidence of indebtedness, indenture or other
instrument, if the aggregate amount of indebtedness with respect to
which such default or acceleration has occurred exceeds $1.0 million;
provided, however, that, if such default or acceleration under such
evidence of indebtedness, indenture or other instrument shall be cured
by the Company, or be waived by the holders of such indebtedness, in
each case as may be permitted by such evidence of indebtedness,
indenture or other instrument, then the Event of Default hereunder by
reason of such default shall be deemed likewise to have been thereupon
cured or waived;
(6) the entry by a court having jurisdiction in the premises of
(A) a decree or order for relief in respect of the Company in an
involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable Federal or State
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or (B) a
decree or order adjudging the Company a bankrupt or insolvent, or
a p p roving as properly filed a petition seeking reorganization,
arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in respect of the Company
under any applicable Federal or State law, or appointing a custodian,
receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar
official of the Company or of any substantial part of its property, or
ordering the winding up or liquidation of its affairs, and the
continuance of any such decree or order for relief or any such other
decree or order unstayed and in effect for a period of 60 consecutive
days; or
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(7) the commencement by the Company of a voluntary case or
proceeding under any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization or other similar law or of any other case or proceeding
to be adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent, or the consent by it to the
entry of a decree or order for relief in respect of the Company in an
involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable Federal or State
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or to the
commencement of any bankruptcy or insolvency case or proceeding against
it, or the filing by it of a petition or answer or consent seeking
reorganization or relief under any applicable Federal or State law, or
the consent by it to the filing of such petition or to the appointment
of or taking possession by a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee,
trustee, sequestrator or similar official of the Company or of any
substantial part of its property, or the making by it of an assignment
for the benefit of creditors, or the admission by it in writing of its
inability to pay its debts generally as they become due, or the taking
of corporate action by the Company in furtherance of any such action; or
(8) any other Event of Default provided with respect to Securities
of that series.
SECTION 502. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment.
If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series at the
time Outstanding occurs and is continuing, then in every such case the Trustee
or the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of that series may declare the principal amount (or, if any of the
Securities of that series are Original Issue Discount Securities, such portion
of the principal amount of such Securities as may be specified in the terms
thereof) of all of the Securities of that series to be due and payable
immediately, by a notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if
given by Holders), and upon any such declaration such principal amount (or
specified amount), plus any interest accrued on such Securities to the date of
declaration, shall become immediately due and payable.
Upon payment (i) of (A) such principal amount and (B) such interest and
(ii) of interest on any overdue principal and overdue interest (in each case
to the extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable),
all of the Company's obligations in respect of the payment of the principal of
and interest on such Securities shall terminate.
At any time after such a declaration of acceleration with respect to
Securities of any series has been made and before a judgment or decree for
payment of the money due has been obtained by the Trustee as hereinafter in
this Article provided, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of that series, by written notice to the Company and
the Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if:
(1) the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum
sufficient to pay
(A) all overdue interest on all Securities of that series,
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(B) the principal of (and premium, if any, on) any
Securities of that series which have become due otherwise than by
such declaration of acceleration and interest thereon at the rate
or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities,
(C) to the extent that payment of such interest is lawful,
interest upon overdue interest at the rate or rates prescribed
therefor in such Securities, and
(D) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder and
the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances
of the Trustee, its agents and counsel;
and
(2) all Events of Default with respect to Securities of that
series, other than the non-payment of the principal of Securities of
that series which have become due solely by such declaration of
acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in Section 513.
No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right
consequent thereon.
SECTION 503. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee.
The Company covenants that if
(1) default is made in the payment of any interest on any Security
when such interest becomes due and payable and such default continues
for a period of 30 days, or
(2) default is made in the payment of the principal of (or
premium, if any, on) any Security at the Maturity thereof,
the Company will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of
the Holder of such Security, the whole amount then due and payable on such
Security for principal (and premium, if any) and interest, if any, and, to the
extent that payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable, interest on
any overdue principal (and premium, if any) and on any overdue interest, at
the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Security, and, in addition
thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and
expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel.
If the Company fails to pay such amounts forthwith upon such demand, the
Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, may institute a
judicial proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, may
prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree and may enforce the same
against the Company or any other obligor upon such Security and collect the
moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable in the manner provided by law out of
the property of the Company or any other obligor upon such Security, wherever
situated.
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If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series occurs
and is continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and
enforce its rights and the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series
by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most
effectual to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific
enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the
exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy.
SECTION 504. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.
In case of the pendency of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation,
bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other
judicial proceeding relative to the Company or any other obligor upon the
Securities or the property of the Company or of such other obligor or their
creditors, the Trustee (irrespective of whether the principal of the
Securities shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by
declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Trustee shall have
made any demand on the Company for the payment of overdue principal or
interest) shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding
or otherwise,
(i) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of principal (and
premium, if any), and interest, if any, owing and unpaid in respect of
the Securities and to file such other papers or documents as may be
necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee
(including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel) and
of the Holders allowed in such judicial proceeding, and
(ii) to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or
deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same;
and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or
other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by
each Holder to make such payments to the Trustee and, in the event that the
Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders,
to pay to the Trustee any amount due it for the reasonable compensation,
expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel,
and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 607.
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to
authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the
Securities or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the Trustee to
vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding.
SECTION 505. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities.
All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the Securities
may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of
the Securities or the production
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thereof in any proceeding relating thereto,
and any such proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own
name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall, after
provision for the payment of the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, be for the
ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities in respect of which such
judgment has been recovered.
SECTION 506. Application of Money Collected.
Any money collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article shall be
applied in the following order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee and,
in the case of the distribution of such money on account of principal (or
premium, if any) or interest, if any, upon presentation of the Securities and
the notation thereon of the payment if only partially paid and upon surrender
thereof if fully paid:
FIRST: To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee under Section
607;
SECOND: To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid for
principal of (and premium, if any) and interest, if any, on the
Securities in respect of which or for the benefit of which such money
has been collected, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind,
according to the amounts due and payable on such Securities for
principal (and premium, if any) and interest, if any, respectively; and
THIRD: The balance, to the Person or Persons lawfully entitled
thereto, or as a court of competent jurisdiction may direct.
SECTION 507. Limitation on Suits.
No Holder of any Security of any series shall have any right to
institute any proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this
Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other
remedy hereunder, unless:
(1) such Holder has previously given written notice to the
Trustee of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities
of that series;
(2) the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of that series shall have made written request to
the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default
in its own name as Trustee hereunder;
(3) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee reasonable
indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred in
compliance with such request;
(4) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice,
request and offer of indemnity has failed to institute any such
proceeding; and
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(5) no direction inconsistent with such written request has been
given to the Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders of a
majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that
series, it being understood and intended that no one or more of such
Holders shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by
availing of, any provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or
prejudice the rights of any other of such Holders, or to obtain or to
seek to obtain priority or preference over any other of such Holders or
to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein
provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all such Holders.
SECTION 508. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and
Interest.
Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the Holder of any
Security shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive
payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and (subject to Section 307)
interest, if any, on such Security on the Stated Maturity or Maturities
expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption, on the Redemption
Date or, in the case of repayment at the option of the Holder, on the
Repayment Date) and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment,
and such rights shall not be impaired without the consent of such Holder.
SECTION 509. Restoration of Rights and Remedies.
If the Trustee or any Holder has instituted any proceeding to enforce
any right or remedy under this Indenture and such proceeding has been
discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or has been determined adversely to
the Trustee or to such Holder, then and in every such case, subject to any
determination in such proceeding, the Company, the Trustee and the Holders
shall be restored severally and respectively to their former positions
hereunder and thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee and the
Holders shall continue as though no such proceeding had been instituted.
SECTION 510. Rights and Remedies Cumulative.
Except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or payment
of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities in the last paragraph of
Section 306, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the
Trustee or to the Holders is intended to be exclusive of any other right or
remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be
cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or
now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or
employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent
the concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or
remedy.
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SECTION 511. Delay or Omission Not Waiver.
No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any Securities
to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default shall
impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event of
Default or an acquiescence therein. Every right and remedy given by this
Article or by law to the Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from time
to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the
Holders, as the case may be.
SECTION 512. Control by Holders.
The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of any series shall have the right to direct the time, method and
place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or
exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee, with respect to the
Securities of such series, provided that
(1) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law
or with this Indenture, expose the Trustee to personal liability or be
unduly prejudicial to Holders not joining therein, and
(2) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the
Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction.
SECTION 513. Waiver of Past Defaults.
The Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of any series may on behalf of the Holders of all the
Securities of such series waive any past default hereunder with respect to
such series and its consequences, except a default
(1) in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or
interest, if any, on any Security of such series, or
(2) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under
Article Nine cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the
Holder of each Outstanding Security of such series affected.
Upon any such waiver, such default shall cease to exist, and any Event
of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every
purpose of this Indenture, but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent
or other default or impair any right consequent thereon.
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SECTION 514. Undertaking for Costs.
All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Security by
his acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in
its discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy
under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken,
suffered or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such
suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that such court may
in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys'
fees, against any party litigant in such suit, having due regard to the merits
and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; but the
provisions of this Section shall not apply to any suit instituted by the
Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Holder, or group of Holders, holding in
the aggregate more than 10% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities
of any series, or to any suit instituted by any Holder for the enforcement of
the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest, if any, on
any Security on or after the Stated Maturity or Maturities expressed in such
Security (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date or,
in the case of repayment at the option of the Holder, on or after the
Repayment Date).
SECTION 515. Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws.
The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it
will not at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim
or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law wherever
enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the covenants
or the performance of this Indenture; and the Company (to the extent that it
may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any
such law and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or impede the execution
of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the
execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted.
SECTION 516. Record Date for Action by Holders.
The Company may set a record date for purposes of determining the
identity of Holders of Securities entitled to vote or consent to any action by
vote or consent authorized or permitted by Section 512 or 513 hereof. Such
record date shall be the later of 30 days prior to the first solicitation of
such consent or the date of the most recent list of Holders furnished to the
Trustee pursuant to Section 701 hereof prior to such solicitation.
ARTICLE SIX
THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 601. Certain Duties and Responsibilities.
(a) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default,
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(1) the Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and only such
duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture, and no implied
covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the
Trustee; and
(2) in the absence of bad faith on its part, the Trustee may
conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness
of the opinions expressed therein, upon certificates or opinions
furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this
Indenture; but in the case of any such certificates or opinions which by
any provision hereof are specifically required to be furnished to the
Trustee, the Trustee shall be under a duty to examine the same to
determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of this
Indenture.
(b) In case an Event of Default with respect to any series of
Securities has occurred and is continuing, the Trustee shall exercise such of
the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture, and use the same degree
of care and skill in their exercise, as a prudent man would exercise or use
under the circumstances in the conduct of his own affairs.
(c) No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to relieve the
Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure
to act, or its own willful misconduct, except that:
(1) this Subsection shall not be construed to limit the effect of
Subsection (a) of this Section;
(2) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made
in good faith by a Responsible Officer, unless it shall be proved that
the Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts;
(3) the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action
taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the
direction of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of any series, determined as provided in Section
512, relating to the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding
for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or
power conferred upon the Trustee, under this Indenture with respect to
the Securities of such series; and
(4) no provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to
expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability
in the performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the exercise of
any of its rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds for
believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against
such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it.
(d) Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of
this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or
affording protection to the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this
Section.
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SECTION 602. Notice of Defaults.
Within 90 days after the occurrence of any default hereunder with
respect to the Securities of any series, the Trustee shall transmit by mail to
all Holders of Securities of such series, as their names and addresses appear
in the Security Register, notice of such default hereunder known to the
Trustee, unless such default shall have been cured or waived; provided,
however, that, except in the case of a default in the payment of the principal
of (or premium, if any) or interest on any Security of such series or in the
payment of any sinking fund installment with respect to Securities of such
series, the Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice if and so
long as the board of directors, the executive committee or a trust committee
of directors or Responsible Officers of the Trustee in good faith determine
that the withholding of such notice is in the interest of the Holders of
Securities of such series; and provided, further, that in the case of any
default of the character specified in Section 501(4) with respect to
Securities of such series, no such notice to Holders shall be given until at
least 30 days after the occurrence thereof. For the purpose of this Section,
the term "default" means any event which is, or after notice or lapse of time
or both would become, an Event of Default with respect to Securities of such
series.
The Trustee shall not be deemed to have knowledge of any default or
Event of Default except (i) an Event of Default described in Section 501(1),
(2) or (3) so long as the Trustee is Paying Agent for the Securities or (ii)
any default or Event of Default of which the Trustee shall have received
written notification or a Responsible Officer charged with the administration
of this Indenture shall have obtained actual knowledge, and such notification
shall not be deemed to include receipt of information obtained in any report
or other documents furnished under Section 704(1) or (2) of this Indenture,
which reports and documents the Trustee shall have no duty to examine.
SECTION 603. Certain Rights of Trustee.
Subject to the provision of Section 601:
(a) the Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or
refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement,
instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order,
bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or
document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or
presented by the proper party or parties;
(b) any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein
shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Company Request or Company Order or
as otherwise expressly provided herein and any resolution of the Board
of Directors may be sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution;
(c) whenever in the administration of this Indenture the Trustee
shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to
taking, suffering or omitting any
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action hereunder, the Trustee (unless
other evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of
bad faith on its part, rely upon an Officers' Certificate;
(d) the Trustee may consult with counsel and the advice of such
counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete
authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or
omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon;
(e) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of
the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or
direction of any of the Holders pursuant to this Indenture, unless such
Holders shall have offered to the Trustee reasonable security or
indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be
incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction;
(f) the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into
the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement,
instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order,
bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or
document, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further
inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit,
and, if the Trustee shall determine to make such further inquiry or
investigation, it shall be entitled to examine the books, records and
premises of the Company, personally or by agent or attorney; and
(g) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder
or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents
or attorneys and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct
or negligence on the part of any agent or attorney appointed with due
care by it hereunder.
SECTION 604. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities.
The recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except the
Trustee's certificates of authentication, shall be taken as the statements of
the Company, and the Trustee or any Authenticating Agent assumes no
responsibility for their correctness. The Trustee makes no representations as
to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Securities. The
Trustee or any Authenticating Agent shall not be accountable for the use or
application by the Company of Securities or the proceeds thereof.
SECTION 605. May Hold Securities.
The Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, any Paying Agent, any Security
Registrar or any other agent of the Company, in its individual or any other
capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities and, subject to
Sections 608 and 613, may otherwise deal with the Company with the same rights
it would have if it were not Trustee, Authenticating Agent, Paying Agent,
Security Registrar or such other agent.
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SECTION 606. Money Held in Trust.
Money held by the Trustee in trust hereunder need not be segregated from
other funds except to the extent required by law. The Trustee shall be under
no liability for interest on any money received by it hereunder except as
otherwise agreed with the Company.
SECTION 607. Compensation and Reimbursement.
The Company agrees:
(1) to pay to the Trustee from time to time reasonable
compensation for all services rendered by it hereunder (which
compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to
the compensation of a trustee of an express trust);
(2) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse
the Trustee upon its request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements
and advances incurred or made by the Trustee in accordance with any
provision of this Indenture (including the reasonable compensation and
the expenses and disbursements of its agents and counsel), except any
such expense, disbursement or advance as may be attributable to its
negligence or bad faith; and
(3) to indemnify the Trustee and its officers, directors,
employees and agents (the Trustee and its officers, directors, employees
and agents referred to in this Section collectively as the "Indemnified
Parties" and individually as an "Indemnified Party") for, and to hold
each Indemnified Party harmless against, any loss, liability or expense
incurred without negligence or bad faith on its part, arising out of or
in connection with the acceptance or administration by the Trustee of
the trust or trusts hereunder, including the costs and expenses of
defending itself against any claim or liability in connection with the
exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder. As
security for the performance of the obligations of the Company under
this Section, the Trustee shall have a lien prior to the Securities upon
all property and funds held or collected by the Trustee, as such, except
funds held in trust for the payment of principal of (and premium, if
any) or interest on Securities.
SECTION 608. Persons Ineligible for Appointment as Trustee.
Neither the Company nor any other Person directly or indirectly
controlling, controlled by or under common control with the Company shall
serve as Trustee.
SECTION 609. Disqualification; Conflicting Interests.
(a) If the Trustee has or shall acquire any conflicting interest,
as defined in this Section, with respect to the Securities of any
series, then within 90 days after ascertaining that it has such
conflicting interest, and if the default (as defined in
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Subsection (b)
of this Section) to which such conflicting interest relates has not been
cured or duly waived or otherwise eliminated before the end of such 90-
day period, it shall either eliminate such conflicting interest or,
except as otherwise provided in this Section 609, resign with respect to
the Securities of that series in the manner and with the effect
hereinafter specified in this Article, and the Company shall take prompt
steps to have a successor appointed in the manner provided in this
Article Six.
(b) In the event that the Trustee shall fail to comply with the
provisions of Subsection (a) of this Section with respect to the
Securities of any series, the Trustee shall, within 10 days after the
expiration of such 90-day period, transmit by mail to all Holders of
Securities of that series, as their names and addresses appear in the
Security Register, notice of such failure in the manner and to the
extent provided in Subsection (a) of Section 703 hereof.
(c) For the purposes of this Section, the Trustee shall be deemed
to have a conflicting interest with respect to the Securities of any
series if such Securities are in default (as defined in Subsection (b)
of this Section, but exclusive of any period of grace or requirement of
notice) and:
(1) the Trustee is trustee under this Indenture with
respect to the Outstanding Securities of any series other than
that series or is trustee under another indenture under which any
other securities, or certificates of interest or participation in
any other securities, of the Company are outstanding, unless such
other indenture is a collateral trust indenture under which the
only collateral consists of Securities issued under this
Indenture, provided that there shall be excluded from the
operation of this paragraph this Indenture with respect to the
Securities of any series other than that series or any indenture
or indentures under which other securities, or certificates of
interest or participation in other securities, of the Company are
outstanding, if
(i) this Indenture and such other indenture or
indentures (and all series of Securities issuable
thereunder) are wholly unsecured and rank equally and such
other indenture or indentures (and such series) are
hereafter qualified under the Trust Indenture Act, unless
the Commission shall have found and declared by order
pursuant to Section 305(b) or Section 307(c) of the Trust
Indenture Act that differences exist between the provisions
of this Indenture with respect to Securities of that series
and one or more other series or the provisions of such other
indenture or indentures which are so likely to involve a
material conflict of interest as to make it necessary in the
public interest or for the protection of investors to
disqualify the Trustee from acting as such under this
Indenture with respect to the Securities of that series and
such other series or under such other indenture or
indentures, or
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(ii) the Company shall have sustained the burden of
proving, on application to the Commission and after
opportunity for hearing thereon, that trusteeship under this
Indenture with respect to the Securities of that series and
such other series or such other indenture or indentures is
not so likely to involve a material conflict of interest as
to make it necessary in the public interest or for the
protection of investors to disqualify the Trustee from
acting as such under this Indenture with respect to the
Securities of that series and such other series or under
such other indenture or indentures;
(2) the Trustee or any of its directors or executive
officers is an underwriter for the Company;
(3) the Trustee directly or indirectly controls or is
directly or indirectly controlled by or is under direct or
indirect common control with an underwriter for the Company;
(4) the Trustee or any of its directors or executive
officers is a director, officer, partner, employee, appointee or
representative of the Company, or of an underwriter (other than
the Trustee itself) for the Company who is currently engaged in
the business of underwriting, except that: (i) one individual may
be a director or an executive officer, or both, of the Trustee and
a director or an executive officer, or both, of the Company but
may not be at the same time an executive officer of both the
Trustee and the Company; (ii) if and so long as the number of
directors of the Trustee in office is more than nine, one
additional individual may be a director or an executive officer,
or both, of the Trustee and a director of the Company; and (iii)
the Trustee may be designated by the Company or by an underwriter
for the Company to act in the capacity of transfer agent,
registrar, custodian, paying agent, fiscal agent, escrow agent or
depository, or in any other similar capacity, or, subject to the
provisions of paragraph (1) of this Subsection, to act as trustee,
whether under an indenture or otherwise;
(5) 10% or more of the voting securities of the Trustee is
beneficially owned either by the Company or by any director,
partner or executive officer thereof, or 20% or more of such
voting securities is beneficially owned, collectively, by any two
or more of such persons; or 10% or more of the voting securities
of the Trustee is beneficially owned either by an underwriter for
the Company or by any director, partner or executive officer
thereof, or is beneficially owned, collectively, by any two or
more such persons;
(6) the Trustee is the beneficial owner of, or holds as
collateral security for an obligation which is in default (as
hereinafter in this Subsection defined), (i) 5% or more of the
voting securities, or 10% or more of any other class of security,
of the Company not including the Securities issued under this
Indenture
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and securities issued under an other indenture under
which the Trustee is also trustee, or (ii) 10% or more of any
class of security of an underwriter for the Company;
(7) the Trustee is the beneficial owner of, or holds as
collateral security for an obligation which is in default (as
hereinafter in this Subsection defined), 5% or more of the voting
securities of any person who, to the knowledge of the Trustee,
owns 10% or more of the voting securities of, or controls directly
or indirectly or is under direct or indirect common control with,
the Company;
(8) the Trustee is the beneficial owner of, or holds as
collateral security for an obligation which is in default (as
hereinafter in this Subsection defined), 10% or more of any class
of security of any person who, to the knowledge of the Trustee,
owns 50% or more of the voting securities of the Company;
(9) the Trustee owns, on the date of default upon the
Securities of any series issued under this Indenture (as such term
is defined hereinafter in this Section but exclusive of any period
of grace or requirement of notice) or any anniversary of such
default while such default upon the Securities of a series issued
under this Indenture remains outstanding, in the capacity of
executor, administrator, testamentary or inter vivos trustee,
guardian, committee or conservator, or in any other similar
capacity, an aggregate of 25% or more of the voting securities, or
of any class of security, of any person, the beneficial ownership
of a specified percentage of which would have constituted a
conflicting interest under paragraph (6), (7) or (8) of this
Subsection. As to any such securities of which the Trustee
acquired ownership through becoming executor, administrator or
testamentary trustee of an estate which includes them, the
provisions of the preceding sentence shall not apply, for a period
of two years from the date of such acquisition, to the extent that
such securities included in such estate do not exceed 25% of such
voting securities or 25% of any such class of security. Promptly
after the dates of any such default upon the Securities of any
series issued under this Indenture and annually in each succeeding
year that such Securities remain in default, the Trustee shall
make a check of its holdings of such securities in any of the
above-mentioned capacities as of such dates. If the Company fails
to make payment in full of the principal of (or premium, if any)
or interest on any of the Securities when and as the same becomes
d u e and payable, and such failure continues for 30 days
thereafter, the Trustee shall make a prompt check of its holdings
of such securities in any of the above-mentioned capacities as of
the date of the expiration of such 30-day period, and after such
date, notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this paragraph,
all such securities so held by the Trustee, with sole or joint
control over such securities vested in it, shall, but only so long
as such failure shall continue, be considered as though
beneficially owned by the Trustee for the purposes of paragraphs
(6), (7) and (8) of this Subsection; or
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(10) except under the circumstances described in paragraphs
(1), (3), (4), (5) or (6) of Subsection (b) of Section 614 of this
Indenture, the Trustee shall be or shall become a creditor of the
Company.
The specification of percentages in paragraphs (5) to (9), inclusive, of
this Subsection shall not be construed as indicating that the ownership of
such percentages of the securities of a person is or is not necessary or
sufficient to constitute direct or indirect control for the purposes of
paragraph (3) or (7) of this Subsection.
For the purposes of paragraphs (6), (7), (8) and (9) of this Subsection
only, (i) the terms "security" and "securities" shall include only such
securities as are generally known as corporate securities, but shall not
include any note or other evidence of indebtedness issued to evidence an
obligation to repay moneys lent to a person by one or more banks, trust
companies or banking firms, or any certificate of interest or participation in
any such note or evidence of indebtedness; (ii) an obligation shall be deemed
to be "in default" when a default in payment of principal shall have continued
for 30 days or more and shall not have been cured; and (iii) the Trustee shall
not be deemed to be the owner or holder of (A) any security which it holds as
collateral security, as trustee or otherwise, for an obligation which is not
in default as defined in clause (ii) above, or (8) any security which it holds
as collateral security under this Indenture, irrespective of any default
hereunder, or (C) any security which it holds as agent for collection, or as
custodian, escrow agent or depository, or in any similar representative
capacity.
Except in the case of a default in the payment of the principal of or
interest on any Security issued under this Indenture, or in the payment of any
sinking or purchase fund installment, the Trustee shall not be required to
resign as provided by this Subsection if the Trustee shall have sustained the
burden of proving, on application to the Commission and after opportunity for
hearing thereon, that:
(i) the default under this Indenture may be cured or waived
during a reasonable period and under the procedures described in such
application, and
(ii) a stay of the Trustee's duty to resign will not be
inconsistent with the interests of Holders of the Securities. The
filing of such an application shall automatically stay the performance
of the duty to resign until the Commission orders otherwise.
Any resignation of the Trustee shall become effective only upon the
appointment of a successor Trustee and such successor's acceptance of such an
appointment.
(d) For the purposes of this Section:
(1) The term "underwriter", when used with reference to the
Company, means every person who, within one year prior to the time
as of which the determination is made, has purchased from the
Company with a view to, or has
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offered or sold for the Company in
connection with, the distribution of any security of the Company
outstanding at such time, or has participated or has had a direct
or indirect participation in any such undertaking, or has
participated or has had a participation in the direct or indirect
underwriting of any such undertaking, but such term shall not
include a person whose interest was limited to a commission from
an underwriter or dealer not in excess of the usual and customary
distributors' or sellers' commission.
(2) The term "director" means any director of a corporation
or any individual performing similar functions with respect to any
organization, whether incorporated or unincorporated.
(3) The term "person" means an individual, a corporation, a
partnership, an association, a joint-stock company, a trust, an
unincorporated organization or a government or political
subdivision thereof. As used in this paragraph, the term "trust"
shall include only a trust where the interest or interests of the
beneficiary or beneficiaries are evidenced by a security.
(4) The term "voting security" means any security presently
entitling the owner or holder thereof to vote in the direction or
management of the affairs of a person, or any security issued
under or pursuant to any trust, agreement or arrangement whereby a
trustee or trustees or agent or agents for the owner or holder of
such security are presently entitled to vote in the direction or
management of the affairs of a person.
(5) The term "Company" means any obligor upon the
Securities.
(6) The term "executive officer" means the president, every
vice president, every trust officer, the cashier, the secretary
and the treasurer of a corporation, and any individual customarily
performing similar functions with respect to any organization
whether incorporated or unincorporated, but shall not include the
chairman of the board of directors.
(e) The percentages of voting securities and other securities
specified in this Section shall be calculated in accordance with the
following provisions:
(1) A specified percentage of the voting securities of the
Trustee, the Company or any other person referred to in this
Section (each of whom is referred to as a "person" in this
paragraph) means such amount of the outstanding voting securities
of such person as entitles the holder or holders thereof to cast
such specified percentage of the aggregate votes which the holders
of all the outstanding voting Securities of such person are
entitled to cast in the direction or management of the affairs of
such person.
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(2) A specified percentage of a class of securities of a
person means such percentage of the aggregate amount of securities
of the class outstanding.
(3) The term "amount", when used in regard to securities,
means the principal amount if relating to evidences of
indebtedness, the number of shares if relating to capital shares
and the number of units if relating to any other kind of security.
(4) The term "outstanding" means issued and not held by or
for the account of the issuer. The following securities shall not
be deemed outstanding within the meaning of this definition:
(i) securities of an issuer held in a sinking fund
relating to securities of the issuer of the same class;
(ii) securities of an issuer held in a sinking fund
relating to another class of securities of the issuer, if
the obligation evidenced by such other class of securities
is not in default as to principal or interest or otherwise;
(iii) securities pledged by the issuer thereof as
security for an obligation of the issuer not in default as
to principal or interest or otherwise; and
(iv) securities held in escrow if placed in escrow by
the issuer thereof;
provided, however, that any voting securities of an issuer shall
be deemed outstanding if any person other than the issuer is
entitled to exercise the voting rights thereof.
(5) A security shall be deemed to be of the same class as
another security if both securities confer upon the holder or
holders thereof substantially the same rights and privileges;
provided, however, that, in the case of secured evidences of
indebtedness, all of which are issued under a single indenture,
differences in the interest rates or maturity dates of various
series thereof shall not be deemed sufficient to constitute such
series different classes; and provided, further, that, in the case
of unsecured evidences of indebtedness, differences in the
interest rates or maturity dates thereof shall not be deemed
sufficient to constitute them securities of different classes,
whether or not they are issued under a single indenture.
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SECTION 610. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility.
There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder which shall be a
corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the United States
of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia, authorized under
such laws to exercise corporate trust powers, shall be subject to supervision
or examination by Federal, State or District of Columbia authority and shall
(i) have a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 or (ii) be a
wholly owned subsidiary of a bank, trust company or bank holding company
having a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 and subject to
supervision or examination by Federal, State or District of Columbia
authority. If such corporation publishes reports of condition at least
annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of said supervising or
examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section, the combined
capital and surplus of such corporation shall be deemed to be its combined
capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so
published. If at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in
accordance with the provisions of this Section, it shall resign immediately in
the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article.
SECTION 611. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.
(a) No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a
successor Trustee pursuant to this Article shall become effective until the
acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee in accordance with the
applicable requirements of Section 611.
(b) The Trustee may resign at any time with respect to the Securities
of one or more series by giving written notice thereof to the Company. If the
instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee required by Section 611 shall
not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such
notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee may petition any court of
competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect
to the Securities of such series.
(c) The Trustee may be removed at any time with respect to the
Securities of any series by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal
amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series, delivered to the Trustee
and to the Company.
(d) If at any time:
(1) the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section 609(a) after
written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder who has been a
bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months, or
(2) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 610 and
shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company or by
any such Holder, or
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(3) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be
adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the Trustee or of its
property shall be appointed or any public officer shall take charge or
control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of
rehabilitation, conservation, winding up or liquidation,
then, in any such case, (i) the Company, by a Board Resolution, may remove the
Trustee with respect to any or all series of Securities, or (ii) subject to
Section 514, unless the Trustee's duty to resign is stayed as provided in this
Section 611, any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at
least six months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated,
petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee
with respect to any or all series of Securities and the appointment of a
successor Trustee or Trustees with respect to such series.
(e) If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of
acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee for any cause,
with respect to the Securities of one or more series, the Company, by a Board
Resolution, shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee or Trustees with
respect to the Securities of that or those series (it being understood that
any such successor Trustee may be appointed with respect to the Securities of
one or more or all of such series and that at any time there shall be only one
Trustee with respect to the Securities of any particular series) and shall
comply with the applicable requirements of Section 612. If, within one year
after such resignation, removal or incapability, or the occurrence of such
vacancy, a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series
shall be appointed by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of
the Outstanding Securities of such series delivered to the Company and the
retiring Trustee, the successor Trustee so appointed shall, forthwith upon its
acceptance of such appointment in accordance with the applicable requirements
of Section 612, become the successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of
such series and to that extent supersede the successor Trustee appointed by
the Company. If no successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any
series shall have been so appointed by the Company or the Holders and accepted
appointment in the manner required by Section 612, any Holder who has been a
bona fide Holder of a Security of such series for at least six months may, on
behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of
competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect
to the Securities of such series.
(f) The Company shall give notice of each resignation and each removal
of the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series and each
appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any
series by mailing written notice of such event by first-class mail, postage
prepaid, to all Holders of Securities of such series as their names and
addresses appear in the Security Register. Each notice shall include the name
of the successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series and the
address of its Corporate Trust Officer.
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SECTION 612. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.
(a) In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with
respect to all Securities, every such successor Trustee so appointed shall
execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Company and to the retiring Trustee an
instrument accepting such appointment, and thereupon the resignation or
removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective and such successor
Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with
all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee; but, on the
request of the Company or the successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall,
upon payment of its charges, execute and deliver an instrument transferring to
such successor Trustee all the rights, powers and trusts of the retiring
Trustee and shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee
all property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder subject,
nevertheless, to its lien, if any, provided for in Section 607.
(b) In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with
respect to the Securities of one or more (but not all) series, the Company,
the retiring Trustee and each successor Trustee with respect to the Securities
of one or more series shall execute and deliver an indenture supplemental
hereto wherein each successor Trustee shall accept such appointment and which
(1) shall contain such provisions as shall be necessary or desirable to
transfer and confirm to, and to vest in, each successor Trustee all the
rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the
Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor
Trustee relates, (2) if the retiring Trustee is not retiring with respect to
all Securities, shall contain such provisions as shall be deemed necessary or
desirable to confirm that all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the
retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series as to
which the retiring Trustee is not retiring shall continue to be vested in the
retiring Trustee, and (3) shall add to or change any of the provisions of this
Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the
administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, it being
understood that nothing herein or in such supplemental indenture shall
constitute such Trustees co-trustees of the same trust and that each such
Trustee shall be trustee of a trust or trusts hereunder separate and apart
from any trust or trusts hereunder administered by any other such Trustee; and
upon the execution and delivery of such supplemental indenture the resignation
or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective to the extent
provided therein and each such successor Trustee, without any further act,
deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts
and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or
those series to which the appointment of each successor Trustee relates; but,
on request of the Company or any successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee
shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property
and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder with respect to the
Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor
Trustee relates.
(c) Upon request of any such successor Trustee, the Company shall
execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and
confirming to such successor Trustee all such rights, powers and trusts
referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section, as the case may be.
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(d) No successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at the
time of such acceptance such successor Trustee shall be qualified and eligible
under this Article.
SECTION 613. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.
Any corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or
with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any
merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or
any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all the corporate trust
business of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder,
provided such corporation shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this
Article, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on
the part of any of the parties hereto. In case any Securities shall have been
authenticated, but not delivered, by the Trustee then in office, any successor
by merger, conversion or consolidation to such authenticating Trustee may
adopt such authentication and deliver the Securities so authenticated with the
same effect as if such successor Trustee had itself authenticated such
Securities.
SECTION 614. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company.
(a) Subject to Subsection (b) of this Section, if the Trustee shall be
or shall become a creditor, directly or indirectly, secured or unsecured, of
the Company within three months prior to a default, as defined in Subsection
(c) of this Section, or subsequent to such a default, then unless and until
such default shall be cured, the Trustee shall set apart and hold in a special
account for the benefit of the Trustee individually, the Holders of the
Securities and the holders of other indenture securities, as defined in
Subsection (c) of this Section:
(1) an amount equal to any and all reductions in the amount due
and owing upon any claim as such creditor in respect of principal or
interest, effected after the beginning of such three months' period and
valid as against the Company and its other creditors, except any such
reduction resulting from the receipt or disposition of any property
described in paragraph (2) of this Subsection, or from the exercise of
any right of set-off which the Trustee could have exercised if a
petition in bankruptcy had been filed by or against the Company upon the
date of such default; and
(2) all property received by the Trustee in respect of any claims
as such creditor, either as security therefor, or in satisfaction or
composition thereof, or otherwise, after the beginning of such three
months' period, or an amount equal to the proceeds of any such property,
if disposed of, subject, however, to the rights, if any, of the Company
and its other creditors in such property or such proceeds.
Nothing herein contained, however, shall affect the right of the Trustee:
(A) to retain for its own account (i) payments made on account of
any such claim by any Person (other than the Company) who is liable
thereon, and (ii) the proceeds of the bona fide sale of any such claim
by the Trustee to a third Person, and (iii)
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distributions made in cash,
securities or other property in respect of claims filed against the
Company in bankruptcy or receivership or in proceedings for
reorganization pursuant to the Federal Bankruptcy Code or applicable
State law;
(B) to realize, for its own account, upon any property held by it
as security for any such claim, if such property was so held prior to
the beginning of such three months' period;
(C) to realize, for its own account, but only to the extent of
the claim hereinafter mentioned, upon any property held by it as
security for any such claim, if such claim was created after the
beginning of such three months' period and such property was received as
security therefor simultaneously with the creation thereof, and if the
Trustee shall sustain the burden of proving that at the time such
property was so received the Trustee had no reasonable cause to believe
that a default, as defined in Subsection (c) of this Section, would
occur within three months; or
(D) to receive payment on any claim referred to in paragraph (B)
or (C), against the release of any property held as security for such
claim as provided in paragraph (B) or (C), as the case may be, to the
extent of the fair value of such property.
For the purposes of paragraphs (B), (C) and (D), property substituted
after the beginning of such three months' period for property held as security
at the time of such substitution shall, to the extent of the fair value of the
property released, have the same status as the property released, and, to the
extent that any claim referred to in any of such paragraphs is created in
renewal of or in substitution for or for the purpose of repaying or refunding
any pre-existing claim of the Trustee as such creditor, such claim shall have
the same status as such pre-existing claim.
If the Trustee shall be required to account, the funds and property held
in such special account and the proceeds thereof shall be apportioned among
the Trustee, the Holders and the holders of other indenture securities in such
manner that the Trustee, the Holders and the holders of other indenture
securities realize, as a result of payments from such special account and
payments of dividends on claims filed against the Company in bankruptcy or
receivership or in proceedings for reorganization pursuant to the Federal
Bankruptcy Code or applicable State law, the same percentage of their
respective claims, figured before crediting to the claim of the Trustee
anything on account of the receipt by it from the Company of the funds and
property in such special account and before crediting to the respective claims
of the Trustee and the Holders and the holders of other indenture securities
dividends on claims filed against the Company in bankruptcy or receivership or
in proceedings for reorganization pursuant to the Federal Bankruptcy Code or
applicable State law, but after crediting thereon receipts on account of the
indebtedness represented by their respective claims from all sources other
than from such dividends and from the funds and property so held in such
special account. As used in this paragraph, with respect to any claim, the
term "dividends" shall include any distribution with respect to such claim, in
bankruptcy or receivership or proceedings for reorganization pursuant
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to the
Federal Bankruptcy Code or applicable State law, whether such distribution is
made in cash, securities or other property, but shall not include any such
distribution with respect to the secured portion, if any, of such claim. The
court in which such bankruptcy, receivership or proceedings for reorganization
is pending shall have jurisdiction (i) to apportion among the Trustee, the
Holders and the holders of other indenture securities, in accordance with the
provisions of this paragraph, the funds and property held in such special
account and proceeds thereof, or (ii) in lieu of such apportionment, in whole
or in part, to give to the provisions of this paragraph due consideration in
determining the fairness of the distributions to be made to the Trustee and
the Holders and the holders of other indenture securities with respect to
their respective claims, in which event it shall not be necessary to liquidate
or to appraise the value of any securities or other property held in such
special account or as security for any such claim, or to make a specific
allocation of such distributions as between the secured and unsecured portions
of such claims, or otherwise to apply the provisions of this paragraph as a
mathematical formula.
Any Trustee which has resigned or been removed after the beginning of
such three months' period shall be subject to the provisions of this
Subsection as though such resignation or removal had not occurred. If any
Trustee has resigned or been removed prior to the beginning of such three
months' period, it shall be subject to the provision of this Subsection if and
only if the following conditions exist:
(i) the receipt of property or reduction of claim, which would
have given rise to the obligation to account, if such Trustee had
continued as Trustee, occurred after the beginning of such three months'
period; and
(ii) such receipt of property or reduction of claim occurred
within three months after such resignation or removal.
In any case commenced under the Bankruptcy Act of July 1, 1898 or any
amendment thereto enacted prior to November 6, 1978, all references to periods
of three months shall be deemed to be references to periods of four months.
(b) There shall be excluded from the operation of Subsection (a) of
this Section a creditor relationship arising from:
(1) the ownership or acquisition of securities issued under any
indenture, or any security or securities having a maturity of one year
or more at the time of acquisition by the Trustee;
(2) advances authorized by a receivership or bankruptcy court of
competent jurisdiction or by this Indenture, for the purpose of
preserving any property which shall at any time be subject to the lien
of this Indenture or of discharging tax liens or other prior liens or
encumbrances thereon, if notice of such advances and of the
circumstances
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surrounding the making thereof is given to the Holders at
the time and in the manner provided in this Indenture;
(3) disbursements made in the ordinary course of business in the
capacity of trustee under an indenture,transfer agent, registrar,
custodian, paying agent, fiscal agent or depositary, or other similar
capacity;
(4) an indebtedness created as a result of services rendered or
premises rented; or an indebtedness created as a result of goods or
securities sold in a cash transaction,as defined in Subsection (c) of
this Section;
(5) the ownership of stock or of other securities of a
corporation organized under the provisions of Section 25(a) of the
Federal Reserve Act, as amended, which is directly or indirectly a
creditor of the Company; and
(6) the acquisition, ownership, acceptance or negotiation of any
drafts, bills of exchange, acceptances or obligations which fall within
the classification of self-liquidating paper, as defined in Subsection
(c) of this Section.
(c) For the purposes of this Section only:
(1) the term "default" means any failure to make payment in full
of the principal of or interest on any of the Securities or upon the
other indenture securities when and as such principal or interest
becomes due and payable;
(2) the term "other indenture securities" means securities upon
which the Company is an obligor outstanding under any other indenture
(i) under which the Trustee is also trustee, (ii) which contains
provisions substantially similar to the provisions of this Section, and
(iii) under which a default exists at the time of the apportionment of
the funds and property held in such special account;
(3) the term "cash transaction" means any transaction in which
full payment for goods or securities sold is made within seven days
after delivery of the goods or securities in currency or in checks or
other orders drawn upon banks or bankers and payable upon demand;
(4) the term "self-liquidating paper" means any draft, xxxx of
exchange, acceptance or obligation which is made, drawn, negotiated or
incurred by the Company for the purpose of financing the purchase,
processing, manufacturing, shipment, storage or sale of goods, wares or
merchandise and which is secured by documents evidencing title to,
possession of, or a lien upon, the goods, wares or merchandise or the
receivables or proceeds arising from the sale of the goods, wares or
merchandise previously constituting the security, provided the security
is received by the Trustee simultaneously
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with the creation of the
creditor relationship with the Company arising from the making, drawing,
negotiating or incurring of the draft, xxxx of exchange, acceptance or
obligation;
(5) the term "Company" means any obligor upon the Securities; and
(6) the term "Federal Bankruptcy Code" means the Bankruptcy Code
of 1978, as amended, or successor provisions thereto.
SECTION 615. Appointment of Authenticating Agent.
At any time when any of the Securities remain Outstanding the Trustee
may appoint an Authenticating Agent or Agents with respect to one or more
series of Securities which shall be authorized to act on behalf of the Trustee
to authenticate Securities of such series issued upon original issue or upon
exchange, registration of transfer or partial redemption thereof or pursuant
to Section 306, and Securities so authenticated shall be entitled to the
benefits of this Indenture and shall be valid and obligatory for all purposes
as if authenticated by the Trustee hereunder. Wherever reference is made in
this Indenture to the authentication and delivery of Securities by the Trustee
or the Trustee's certificate of authentication, such reference shall be deemed
to include authentication and delivery on behalf of the Trustee by an
Authenticating Agent and a certificate of authentication executed on behalf of
the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent. Each Authenticating Agent shall be
acceptable to the Company and shall at all times be a corporation organized
and doing business under the laws of the United States of America, any State
thereof or the District of Columbia, authorized under such laws to act as
Authenticating Agent, having a combined capital and surplus of not less than
$15,000,000 and subject to supervision or examination by Federal or State
authority. If such Authenticating Agent publishes reports of condition at
least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of said supervising or
examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section, the combined
capital and surplus of such Authenticating Agent shall be deemed to be its
combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of
condition so published. If at any time an Authenticating Agent shall cease to
be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, such
Authenticating Agent shall resign immediately in the manner and with the
effect specified in this Section.
Any corporation into which an Authenticating Agent may be merged or
converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting
from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which such Authenticating
Agent shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to the corporate agency
or corporate trust business of an Authenticating Agent, shall continue to be
an Authenticating Agent, provided such corporation shall be otherwise eligible
under this Section, without the execution or filing of any paper or any
further act on the part of the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent.
An Authenticating Agent may resign at any time by giving written notice
thereof to the Trustee and to the Company. The Trustee may at any time
terminate the agency of an Authenticating Agent by giving written notice
thereof to such Authenticating Agent and to the Company. Upon receiving such
a notice of resignation or upon such a termination, or in case
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at any time
such Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the
provisions of this Section, the Trustee may appoint a successor Authenticating
Agent which shall be acceptable to the Company and shall mail written notice
of such appointment by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to all Holders of
Securities of the series with respect to which such Authenticating Agent will
serve, as their names and addresses appear in the Security Register. Any
successor Authenticating Agent upon acceptance of its appointment hereunder
shall become vested with all the rights, powers and duties of its predecessor
hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as an Authenticating Agent.
No successor Authenticating Agent shall be appointed unless eligible under
the provisions of this Section.
The Trustee agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from time to time
reasonable compensation for its services under this Section, and the Trustee
shall be entitled to be reimbursed for such payments, subject to the
provisions of Section 607.
If all of the Securities of a series are not to be originally issued at
one time, and if the Trustee does not have an office capable of authenticating
Securities upon original issuance located in a Place of Payment where the
Company wishes to have Securities of such series authenticated upon original
issuance, the Trustee may appoint in accordance with this Section an
Authenticating Agent having an office in a Place of Payment designated by the
Company with respect to such series of Securities.
If an appointment with respect to one or more series is made pursuant to
this Section, the Securities of such series may have endorsed thereon, in
addition to the Trustee's certificate of authentication, an alternate
certificate of authentication in the following form:
This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred
to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
NationsBank of Georgia,
National Association, as Trustee
By ______________________
as Authenticating Agent
By _______________________
Authorized Officer
ARTICLE SEVEN
HOLDERS LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY
SECTION 701. Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders.
The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee
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(a) semi-annually, not more than 15 days after each Regular Record
Date of each series of Securities having such a Regular Record Date, a
list, in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the names
and addresses of the Holders as of a date not more than 15 days prior to
the time such list is furnished, and
(b) at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing,
within 30 days after the receipt by the Company of any such request, a
list of similar form and content as of a date not more than 15 days
prior to the time such list is furnished; excluding from any such list
names and addresses received by the Trustee in its capacity as Security
Registrar.
SECTION 702. Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders.
(a) The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably
practicable, the names and addresses of Holders contained in the most recent
list furnished to the Trustee as provided in Section 701 and the names and
addresses of Holders received by the Trustee in its capacity as Security
Registrar. The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in
Section 701 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.
(b) If three or more Holders (herein referred to as "applicants") apply
in writing to the Trustee, and furnish to the Trustee reasonable proof that
each such applicant has owned a Security for a period of at least six months
preceding the date of such application, and such application states that the
applicants desire to communicate with other Holders with respect to their
rights under this Indenture or under the Securities and is accompanied by a
copy of the form of proxy or other communication which such applicants propose
to transmit, then the Trustee shall, within five business days after the
receipt of such application, at its election, either
(i) afford such applicants access to the information preserved
at the time by the Trustee in accordance with Section 702(a), or
(ii) inform such applicants as to the approximate number of
Holders whose names and addresses appear in the information preserved at
the time by the Trustee in accordance with Section 702(a), and as to the
approximate cost of mailing to such Holders the form of proxy or other
communication, if any, specified in such application.
If the Trustee shall elect not to afford such applicants access to such
information, the Trustee shall, upon the written request of such applicants,
mail to each Holder whose name and address appear in the information preserved
at the time by the Trustee in accordance with Section 702(a) a copy of the
form of proxy or other communication which is specified in such request, with
reasonable promptness after a tender to the Trustee of the material to be
mailed and of payment, or provision for the payment, of the reasonable
expenses of mailing, unless within five days after such tender the Trustee
shall mail to such applicants and file with the Commission, together with a
copy of the material to be mailed, a written statement to the effect that, in
the opinion of the Trustee, such mailing would be contrary to the best
interest of the Holders or would be in violation of applicable law. Such
written statement shall specify the basis of such opinion. If the Commission,
after opportunity for a hearing upon the objections specified in the written
statement so filed, shall enter an order refusing to sustain any of such
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objections or if, after the entry of an order sustaining one or more of such
objections, the Commission shall find, after notice and opportunity for
hearing, that all the objections so sustained have been met and shall enter an
order so declaring, the Trustee shall mail copies of such material to all such
Holders with reasonable promptness after the entry of such order and the
renewal of such tender; otherwise the Trustee shall be relieved of any
obligation or duty to such applicants respecting their application.
(c) Every Holder of Securities, by receiving and holding the same,
agrees with the Company and the Trustee that neither the Company nor the
Trustee nor any agent of either of them shall be held accountable by reason of
the disclosure of any such information as to the names and addresses of the
Holders in accordance with Section 702(b), regardless of the source from which
such information was derived, and that the Trustee shall not be held
accountable by reason of mailing any material pursuant to a request made under
Section 702(b).
SECTION 703. Reports by Trustee.
(a) Within 60 days after May 15 of each year commencing with the year
1995, the Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Holders, as their names and
addresses appear in the Security Register, a brief report dated as of such May
15 with respect to any of the following events which may have occurred within
the previous 12 months (but if no such event has occurred within such period,
no report need be transmitted):
(1) any change to its eligibility under Section 610 and its
qualifications under Section 609;
(2) the creation of or any material change to a relationship
specified in paragraph 1 through 10 of Subsection (c) of Section 609
hereof;
(3) the character and amount of any advances (and if the Trustee
elects so to state, the circumstances surrounding the making thereof)
made by the Trustee (as such) which remain unpaid on the date of such
report, and for the reimbursement of which it claims or may claim a lien
or charge, prior to that of the Securities, on any property or funds
held or collected by it as Trustee, except that the Trustee shall not be
required (but may elect) to report such advances if such advances so
remaining unpaid aggregate not more than 1/2 of 1% of the principal
amount of the Securities Outstanding on the date of such report;
(4) the amount, interest rate and maturity date of all other
indebtedness owing by the Company (or by any other obligor on the
Securities) to the Trustee in its individual capacity, on the date of
such report, with a brief description of any property held as collateral
security therefor, except an indebtedness based upon a creditor
relationship arising in any manner described in Section 613(b)(2), (3),
(4) or (6);
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(5) any change to the property and funds, if any, physically in
the possession of the Trustee as such on the date of such report;
(6) any additional issue of Securities which the Trustee has not
previously reported; and
(7) any action taken by the Trustee in the performance of its
duties hereunder which it has not previously reported and which in its
opinion materially affects the Securities, except action in respect of a
default, notice of which has been or is to be withheld by the Trustee in
accordance with Section 602.
(b) The Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Holders, as their names
and addresses appear in the Security Register, a brief report with respect to
the character and amount of any advances (and if the Trustee elects so to
state, the circumstances surrounding the making thereof) made by the Trustee
(as such) since the date of the last report transmitted pursuant to Subsection
(a) of this Section (or if no such report has yet been so transmitted, since
the date of execution of this instrument) for the reimbursement of which it
claims or may claim a lien or charge, prior to that of the Securities, on
property or funds held or collected by it as Trustee and which it has not
previously reported pursuant to this Subsection, except that the Trustee shall
not be required (but may elect) to report such advances if such advances
remaining unpaid at any time aggregate 10% or less of the principal amount of
the Securities Outstanding at such time, such report to be transmitted within
90 days after such time.
(c) A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such transmission
to Holders, be filed by the Trustee with each stock exchange upon which any
Securities are listed, with the Commission and with the Company. The Company
will notify the Trustee when any Securities are listed on any stock exchange.
SECTION 704. Reports by Company.
The Company shall:
(1) file with the Trustee, within 15 days after the Company is
required to file the same with the Commission, copies of the annual
reports and of the information, documents and other reports (or copies
of such portions of any of the foregoing as the Commission may from time
to time by rules and regulations prescribe) which the Company may be
required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or Section
15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; or, if the Company is not
required to file information, documents or reports pursuant to either of
said Sections, then it shall file with the Trustee and the Commission,
in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by
the Commission, such of the supplementary and periodic information,
documents and reports which may be required pursuant to Section 13 of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 in respect of a security listed and
registered on a
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national securities exchange as may be prescribed from
time to time in such rules and regulations;
(2) file with the Trustee and the Commission, in accordance with
rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission,
such additional information, documents and reports with respect to
compliance by the Company with the conditions and covenants of this
Indenture as may be required from time to time by such rules and
regulations;
(3) transmit by mail to all Holders, as their names and addresses
appear in the Security Register, within 30 days after the filing thereof
with the Trustee, such summaries of any information, documents and
reports required to be filed by the Company pursuant to paragraphs (1)
and (2) of this Section as may be required by rules and regulations
prescribed from time to time by the Commission; and
(4) furnish to the Trustee, not less often than annually, a brief
certificate from the Company's principal executive officer, principal
financial officer or principal accounting officer as to his or her
knowledge of the Company's compliance with all conditions and covenants
under the Indenture. For purposes of this paragraph, such compliance
shall be determined without regard to any period of grace or requirement
of notice provided under this Indenture.
ARTICLE EIGHT
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE OR TRANSFER
SECTION 801. Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms.
The Company shall not consolidate with or merge into any other
corporation or convey or transfer all or substantially all of its properties
and assets as an entirety to any Person unless:
(1) the corporation formed by such consolidation or into which
the Company is merged or the Person which acquires by conveyance or
transfer the properties and assets of the Company substantially as an
entirety shall be a corporation organized and existing under the laws of
the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of
Columbia and shall expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental
hereto, executed and delivered to the Trustee, in form satisfactory to
the Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the principal of (and
premium, if any) and interest on all the Securities and the performance
and observance of every covenant of this Indenture on the part of the
Company to be performed or observed;
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(2) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Event
of Default, and no event which, after notice or lapse of time or both,
would become an Event of Default, shall have occurred and be continuing;
and
(3) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such
consolidation, merger, conveyance or transfer and such supplemental
indenture comply with this Article and that all conditions precedent
herein provided for relating to such transaction have been complied
with.
Anything in this Article Eight to the contrary notwithstanding, no such
consolidation, merger, conveyance or transfer shall be entered into or made by
the Company with or to another corporation which has outstanding any
obligations secured by a Mortgage if, as a result of such consolidation,
merger, conveyance or transfer, any Principal Property of the Company or any
Restricted Subsidiary would be subjected to the lien of such Mortgage and such
Mortgage is not expressly excluded from the restrictions or permitted by the
provisions of Section 1006 unless simultaneously therewith or prior thereto
effective provision shall be made for the securing of all the Securities
(together with, if the Company shall so determine, any other Debt of the
Company now existing or hereafter created which is not subordinated to the
Securities), equally and ratably with (or, at the option of the Company, prior
to) the obligations secured by such Mortgage by a lien upon such Principal
Property.
SECTION 802. Successor Corporation Substituted.
Upon any consolidation by the Company with or merger by the Company into
any other corporation or any conveyance or transfer of the properties and
assets of the Company substantially as an entirety in accordance with Section
801, the successor corporation formed by such consolidation or into which the
Company is merged or to which such conveyance or transfer is made shall
succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of,
the Company under this Indenture with the same effect as if such successor
corporation had been named as the Company herein, and thereafter the
predecessor corporation shall be relieved of all obligations and covenants
under this Indenture and the Securities.
ARTICLE NINE
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
SECTION 901. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders.
Without the consent of any Holders, the Company, when authorized by a
Board Resolution, and the Trustee, at any time and from time to time, may
enter into one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in form satisfactory to
the Trustee, for any of the following purposes:
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(1) to evidence the succession of another corporation to the
Company and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the
Company herein and in the Securities; or
(2) to add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit of the
Holders of all or any series of Securities (and if such covenants are to
be for the benefit of less than all series of Securities, stating that
such covenants are expressly being included solely for the benefit of
such series) or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon
the Company; or
(3) to add any additional Events of Default; or
(4) to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture
to such extent as shall be necessary to permit or facilitate the
issuance of Securities in bearer form, registrable or not registrable as
to principal, and with or without interest coupons, or to permit or
facilitate the issuance of Securities in uncertificated form; or
(5) to change or eliminate any of the provisions of this
Indenture, provided that any such change or elimination shall become
effective only when there is no Security Outstanding of any series
created prior to the execution of such supplemental indenture which is
entitled to the benefit of such provision; or
(6) to secure the Securities; or
(7) to establish the form or terms of Securities of any series as
permitted by Sections 201 and 301; or
(8) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment
hereunder by a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one
or more series and to add to or change any of the provisions of this
Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the
administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee,
pursuant to the requirements of Section 611(b); or
(9) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision
herein which may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision
herein, or to make any other provisions with respect to matters or
questions arising under this Indenture; provided such other provisions
shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of Securities of
any series in any material respect.
SECTION 902. Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders.
With the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal
amount of the Outstanding Securities of each series affected by such
supplemental indenture, by Act of said Holders delivered to the Company and
the Trustee, the Company, when authorized by a Board
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Resolution, and the
Trustee may enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the
purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating
any of the provisions of this Indenture or of modifying in any manner the
rights of the Holders of Securities of such series under this Indenture;
provided, however, that no such supplemental indenture shall, without the
consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby,
(1) change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or any
installment of principal of or interest on, any Security, or reduce the
principal amount thereof or the rate of interest thereon or any premium
payable upon the redemption thereof, or change any Place of Payment
where, or the coin or currency in which, any Security or any premium or
the interest thereon is payable, or impair the right to institute suit
for the enforcement of any such payment on or after the Stated Maturity
thereof (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption
Date), or
(2) reduce the percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of any series, the consent of whose Holders is required for
any such supplemental indenture, or the consent of whose Holders is
required for any waiver (of compliance with certain provisions of this
Indenture or certain defaults hereunder and their consequences) provided
for in this Indenture, or
(3) modify any of the provisions of this Section, Section 513 or
Section 1008, except to increase any such percentage or to provide that
certain other provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified or waived
without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected
thereby, provided, however, that this clause shall not be deemed to
require the consent of any Holder with respect to changes in the
references to "the Trustee" and concomitant changes in this Section and
Section 1008, or the deletion of this proviso, in accordance with the
requirements of Section 611(b) and 901(8).
A supplemental indenture which changes or eliminates any covenant or other
provision of this Indenture which has expressly been included solely for the
benefit of one or more particular series of Securities, or which modifies the
rights of the Holders of Securities of such series with respect to such
covenant or other provision, shall be deemed not to affect the rights under
this Indenture of the Holders of Securities of any other series.
It shall be necessary for any Act of Holders under this Section to
approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it
shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.
SECTION 903. Execution of Supplemental Indentures.
In executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by, any
supplemental indenture permitted by this Article or the modifications thereby
of the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to
receive, and (subject to Section 601) shall be fully protected in
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relying
upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental
indenture is authorized or permitted by this Indenture. The Trustee may, but
shall not be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture which
affects the Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or
otherwise.
SECTION 904. Effect of Supplemental Indentures.
Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture under this Article,
this Indenture shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such
supplemental indenture shall form a part of this Indenture for all purposes;
and every Holder of Securities theretofore or thereafter authenticated and
delivered hereunder shall be bound thereby.
SECTION 905. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act.
Every supplemental Indenture executed pursuant to this Article shall
conform to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect.
SECTION 906. Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures.
Securities of any series authenticated and delivered after the execution
of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article may, and shall if
required by the Trustee, bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee as to
any matter provided for in such supplemental Indenture. If the Company shall
so determine, new Securities of any series to modified as to conform, in the
opinion of the Trustee and the Company, to any such supplemental indenture may
be prepared and executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the
Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Securities of such series.
ARTICLE TEN
COVENANTS
SECTION 1001. Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest.
The Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of each series of
Securities that it will duly and punctually pay the principal of (and premium,
if any) and interest, if any, on the Securities of that series in accordance
with the terms of the Securities and this Indenture.
SECTION 1002. Maintenance of Office or Agency.
The Company will maintain in each Place of Payment for any series of
Securities an office or agency where Securities of that series may be
presented or surrendered for payment, where Securities of that series may be
surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and where notices and
demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities of that series and
this Indenture may be served. The Company hereby appoints Midwest Clearing
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Xxxxx Xxxxxx, 0xx Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx, 00000, as its initial
office or agency for each said purposes. The Company will give prompt written
notice to the Trustee of the location, and any change in the location, of such
office or agency. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such
required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the
address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be
made or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and the Company
hereby appoints the Trustee as its agent to receive all such presentations,
surrenders, notices and demands.
The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other
offices or agencies where the Securities of one or more series may be
presented or surrendered for any or all such purposes and may from time to
time rescind such designations; provided, however, that no such designation or
rescission shall in any manner relieve the Company of its obligation to
maintain an office or agency in each Place of Payment for Securities of any
series for such purposes. The Company will give prompt written notice to the
Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any change in the
location of any such other office or agency.
SECTION 1003. Money for Securities Payments to Be Held in Trust.
If the Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent with
respect to any series of Securities, it will, on or before each due date of
the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest, if any, on any of the
Securities of that series, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the
Persons entitled thereto a sum sufficient to pay the principal (and premium,
if any) or interest, if any, so becoming due until such sums shall be paid to
such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided and will promptly
notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act.
Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents for any series
of Securities, it will, prior to each due date of the principal of (and
premium, if any) or interest, if any, on any Securities of that series,
deposit with a Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay the principal (and
premium, if any) or interest, if any, so becoming due, such sum to be held in
trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such principal, premium or
interest, and (unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Company will
promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act.
The Company will cause each Paying Agent for any series of Securities
other than the Trustee to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in
which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the
provisions of this Section, that such Paying Agent will:
(1) hold all sums held by it for the payment of the principal of
(and premium, if any) or interest, if any, on Securities of that series
in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto until such sums
shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein
provided;
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(2) give the Trustee notice of any default by the Company (or any
other obligor upon the Securities of that series) in the making of any
payment of principal (and premium, if any) or interest, if any, on the
Securities of that series; and
(3) at any time during the continuance of any such default, upon
the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all
sums so held in trust by such Paying Agent.
The Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay, or
by Company Order direct any Paying Agent to pay, to the Trustee all sums held
in trust by the Company or such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the
Trustee upon the same trusts as those upon which such sums were held by the
Company or such Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to
the Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability
with respect to such money.
Any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then held
by the Company, in trust for the payment of the principal of (and premium, if
any) or interest, if any, on any Security of any series and remaining
unclaimed for two years after such principal (and premium, if any) or
interest, if any, has become due and payable shall be paid to the Company on
Company Request, or (if then held by the Company) shall be discharged from
such trust; and the Holder of such Security shall thereafter, as an unsecured
general creditor, look only to the Company for payment thereof, and all
liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust
money, and all liability of the Company as trustee thereof, shall thereupon
cease; provided, however, that the Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being
required to make any such repayment, may at the expense of the Company cause
to be published once, in a newspaper published in the English language,
customarily published on each Business Day and of general circulation in the
Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, notice that such money remains
unclaimed and that, after a date specified therein, which shall not be less
than 30 days from the date of such publication, any unclaimed balance of such
money then remaining will be repaid to the Company.
SECTION 1004. Corporate Existence.
Subject to Article Eight, the Company will do or cause to be done all
things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate
existence, rights (charter and statutory) and franchises; provided, however,
that the Company shall not be required to preserve any such right or franchise
if the Board of Directors shall determine that the preservation thereof is no
longer desirable in the conduct of the business of the Company and its
Subsidiaries as a whole.
SECTION 1005. Statement by Officers as to Default.
The Company will deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after the end
of each fiscal year of the Company ending after the date hereof, an Officers'
Certificate, stating whether or
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not to the best knowledge of the signers
thereof the Company is in default in the performance and observance of any of
the terms, provisions and conditions of Sections 1001 to 1004 inclusive, and
Sections 1006 and 1007, and if the Company shall be in default, specifying all
such defaults and the nature and status thereof of which they may have
knowledge.
SECTION 1006. Restrictions on Debt.
The Company will not itself, and will not permit any Restricted
Subsidiary to, incur, issue, assume or guarantee any loans, whether or not
evidenced by negotiable instruments or securities, or any notes, bonds,
debentures or other similar evidences of indebtedness for money borrowed
(loans and notes, bonds, debentures or other similar evidences of indebtedness
for money borrowed being hereinafter in this Article called "Debt"), secured
by pledge of, or mortgage or other lien on, any Principal Property of the
Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, or any shares of stock or Debt of any
Restricted Subsidiary (pledges, mortgages and other liens being hereinafter in
this Article called "Mortgage" or "Mortgages"), without effectively providing
that the Securities (together with, if the Company shall so determine, any
other Debt of the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary then existing or
thereafter created which is not subordinate to the Securities) shall be
secured equally and ratably with (or prior to) such secured Debt, so long as
such secured Debt shall be so secured, and will not permit any Restricted
Subsidiary to incur, issue, assume or guaranty any unsecured Debt (except for
guaranties of Unsecured Debt of the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of the
Company) or to issue any Preferred Stock in each instance unless the aggregate
amount of (A) all such Debt, (B) the aggregate preferential amount to which
such Preferred Stock would be entitled on any involuntary distribution of
assets and (C) Attributable Debt of the Company and its Restricted
Subsidiaries in respect of sale and leaseback transactions (as defined in
Section 1007) would not exceed 10% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets;
provided, however, that this Section 1006 shall not apply to, and there shall
be excluded from Debt in any computation under this Section 1006:
(1) Debt secured by Mortgages on property of, or on any shares of
stock or Debt of, any corporation, and unsecured Debt of any
corporation, existing at the time such corporation becomes a Restricted
Subsidiary;
(2) Debt secured by Mortgages in favor of the Company or any
Restricted Subsidiary and unsecured Debt payable to the Company or any
Restricted Subsidiary;
(3) Debt secured by Mortgages in favor of the United States of
America, or any agency, department or other instrumentality thereof, to
secure progress, advance or other payments pursuant to any contract or
provision of any statute;
(4) (a) Debt secured by Mortgages on property, shares of Capital
Stock or Debt existing at the time of acquisition thereof (including
acquisition through merger or consolidation) or to secure the payment of
all or any part of the purchase price or construction cost thereof or to
secure any Debt incurred prior to, at the time of, or within
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120 days
after, the acquisition of such property or shares or Debt or the
completion of any such construction for the purpose of financing all or
any part of the purchase price or construction cost thereof, and (b)
unsecured Debt incurred to finance the acquisition of any property,
shares of Capital Stock or Debt (other than shares of Capital Stock or
Debt of the Company) or to finance construction on property incurred
prior to, at the time of, or within 120 days after the later of the
acquisition of such property or the completion of construction thereon;
(5) Debt secured by Mortgages securing obligations issued by a
state, territory or possession of the United States, or any political
subdivision of any of the foregoing or the District of Columbia, to
finance the acquisition of or construction on property, and on which the
interest is not, in the opinion of tax counsel of recognized standing or
in accordance with a ruling issued by the Internal Revenue Service,
includible in gross income of the holder by reason of Section 103(a)(1)
of the Internal Revenue Code (or any successor to such provision) as in
effect at the time of the issuance of such obligations; and
(6) Any extension, renewal or replacement (or successive
extensions, renewals or replacements), as a whole or in part, of any
Debt referred to in the foregoing clauses (1) to (5), inclusive;
provided, that (i) such extension, renewal or replacement, in the case
of Debt secured by a Mortgage, shall be limited to all or a part of the
same property, shares of stock or Debt that secured the Mortgage
extended, renewed or replaced (plus improvements on such property), and
(ii) the Debt secured by such Mortgage at such time is not increased;
and provided, further, that this Section 1006 shall not apply to any
issuance of Preferred Stock by a Restricted Subsidiary to the Company or
another Restricted Subsidiary, provided that such Preferred Stock shall
not thereafter be transferable to any Person other than the Company or a
Restricted Subsidiary.
SECTION 1007. Restrictions on Sales and Leasebacks.
The Company will not itself, and will not permit any Restricted
Subsidiary to, enter into any transaction after the date hereof with any bank,
insurance company, lender or other investor, or to which any such bank,
insurance company, lender or investor is a party, provided for the leasing by
the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of any Principal Property which has
been or is to be sold or transferred by the Company or such Restricted
Subsidiary to such bank, insurance company, lender or investor, or to any
person to whom funds have been or are to be advanced by such bank, insurance
company, lender or investor on the security of such Principal Property (herein
referred to as a "sale and leaseback transaction") unless, after giving effect
thereto, the aggregate amount of all Attributable Debt with respect to such
transactions plus all Debt to which Section 1006 is applicable would not
exceed 10% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets. This covenant shall not apply
to, and there shall be excluded from Attributable Debt in any computation
under this Section 1007, Attributable Debt with respect to any sale and
leaseback transaction if:
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(1) the lease in such sale and leaseback transaction is for a
period, including renewal rights, of not in excess of three years, or
(2) the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary, within 180 days after
the sale or transfer shall have been made by the Company or by a
Restricted Subsidiary, applies an amount not less than the greater of
the net proceeds of the sale of the Principal Property leased pursuant
to such arrangement or the fair market value of the Principal Property
so leased at the time of entering into such arrangement (as determined
in any manner approved by the Board of Directors) to (a) the retirement
of Funded Debt of the Company ranking on a parity with or senior to the
Securities or the retirement of Funded Debt of a Restricted Subsidiary;
provided, however, that the amount to be applied to the retirement of
such Funded Debt of the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary shall be
reduced by (x) the principal amount of any Securities (or other notes or
debentures constituting such Funded Debt) delivered within such 180-day
period to the Trustee or other applicable trustee for retirement and
cancellation and (y) the principal amount of such Funded Debt, other
than items referred to in the preceding clause (x), voluntarily retired
by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary within 180 days after such
sale; and provided, further, that, notwithstanding the foregoing, no
retirement referred to in this clause (a) may be effected by payment at
maturity or pursuant to any mandatory sinking fund payment or any
mandatory prepayment provision, or (b) the purchase of other property
which will constitute a Principal Property having a fair market value,
in the opinion of the Board of Directors of the Company, at least equal
to the fair market value of the Principal Property leased in such sale
and leaseback transaction less the amount of any Funded Debt retired
pursuant to clause (a) of this subsection, or
(3) such sale and leaseback transaction is entered into prior to,
at the time of, or within 180 days after the later of the acquisition of
the Principal Property or the completion of construction thereon, or
(4) the lease in such sale and leaseback transaction secures or
relates to obligations issued by a state territory or possession of the
United States, or any political subdivision of any of the foregoing, or
the District of Columbia, to finance the acquisition of or construction
on property, and on which the interest is not, in the opinion of tax
counsel of recognized standing or in accordance with a ruling issued by
the Internal Revenue Service, includible in gross income of the holder
by reason of Section 103(a)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code (or any
successor to such provision) as in effect at the time of the issuance of
such obligations or
(5) such sale and leaseback transaction is entered into between
the Company and a Restricted Subsidiary or between Restricted
Subsidiaries.
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SECTION 1008. Waiver of Certain Covenants.
The Company may omit in any particular instance to comply with any term,
provision or condition set forth in Sections 1006 and 1007, inclusive, with
respect to the Securities of any series if before the time for such compliance
the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of such series shall, by Act of such Holders, either waive such
compliance in such instance or generally waive compliance with such term,
provision or condition, but no such waiver shall extend to or affect such
term, provision or condition except to the extent so expressly waived, and,
until such waiver shall become effective, the obligations of the Company and
the duties of the Trustee in respect of any such term, provision or condition
shall remain in full force and effect.
SECTION 1009. Calculation of Original Issue Discount; and Certain Information
Concerning Tax Reporting
The Company will deliver to the Trustee, within 40 days of the date of
original issuance of any series of Securities with Original Issue Discount, an
Officers' Certificate, setting forth (i) the amount of the Original Issue
Discount on the Securities, expressed as a U.S. dollar amount per $1,000 of
principal amount at Stated Maturity, (ii) the yield to maturity for the
Securities, and (iii) a table of the amount of the Original Issue Discount on
the Securities, expressed as a U.S. dollar amount per $1,000 of principal
amount at Stated Maturity, accrued for each day from the date of original
issuance of the Securities to their Stated Maturity.
On or before December 15 of each year during which any Securities are
Outstanding, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee such information as may
be reasonably requested by the Trustee in order that the Trustee may prepare
the information which it is required to report for such year on Internal
Revenue Service Forms 1096 and 1099 pursuant to Section 6049 of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. Such information shall include the amount
of Original Issue Discount includible in income for each $1,000 of principal
amount at Stated Maturity of Outstanding Securities during such year.
ARTICLE ELEVEN
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 1101. Applicability of Article.
Securities of any series which are redeemable before their Stated
Maturity shall be redeemable in accordance with their terms and (except as
otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for Securities of any
series) in accordance with this Article.
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SECTION 1102. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee.
The election of the Company to redeem any Securities shall be evidenced
by a Board Resolution. In case of any redemption at the election of the
Company of less than all the Securities of any series, the Company shall, at
least 60 days prior to the Redemption Date fixed by the Company (unless a
shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the Trustee), notify the Trustee of
such Redemption Date and of the principal amount of Securities of such series
to be redeemed. In the case of any redemption of Securities prior to the
expiration of any restriction on such redemption provided in the terms of such
Securities or elsewhere in this Indenture, the Company shall furnish the
Trustee with an Officers' Certificate evidencing compliance with such
restriction.
SECTION 1103. Selection By Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed.
With the exception of Securities delivered by the Company to the Trustee
in satisfaction of obligations of the Company to make mandatory sinking fund
payments, if less than all the Securities of any series are to be redeemed,
the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not more than 60
days prior to the Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the Outstanding
Securities of such series not previously called for redemption, by such method
as the Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate and which may provide for the
selection for redemption of portions (equal to the minimum authorized
denomination for Securities of that series or any integral multiple thereof)
of the principal amount of Securities of such series of a denomination larger
than the minimum authorized denomination for Securities of that series.
The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the
Securities selected for redemption and, in the case of any Securities selected
for partial redemption, the principal amount thereof to be redeemed.
For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise
requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of Securities shall
relate, in the case of any Securities redeemed or to be redeemed only in part,
to the portion of the principal amount of such Securities which has been or is
to be redeemed.
SECTION 1104. Notice of Redemption.
Notice of redemption shall be given by first-class mail, postage
prepaid, mailed not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the Redemption
Date, to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed, at his address appearing in
the Security Register.
All notices of redemption shall state:
(1) the Redemption Date;
(2) the Redemption Price;
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(3) if less than all the Outstanding Securities of any series
are to be redeemed, the identification (and, in the case of
partial redemption, the principal amounts) of the particular
Securities to be redeemed;
(4) that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price will become
due and payable upon each such Security to be redeemed and,
if applicable, that interest thereon will cease to accrue on
and after said date;
(5) the place or places where such Securities are to be
surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price; and
(6) that the redemption is for a sinking fund, if such is the
case.
Notice of redemption of Securities to be redeemed at the election of the
Company shall be given by the Company or, at the Company's request, by the
Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company.
SECTION 1105. Deposit of Redemption Price.
Prior to any Redemption Date, the Company shall deposit with the Trustee
or with a Paying Agent (or, if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent,
segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 1003) an amount of money
sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of, and (except if the Redemption Date
shall be an Interest Payment Date) accrued interest on, all the Securities
which are to be redeemed on that date.
SECTION 1106. Securities Payable on Redemption Date.
Notice of redemption having been given as aforesaid, the Securities so
to be redeemed shall, on the Redemption Date, become due and payable at the
Redemption Price therein specified, and from and after such date (unless the
Company shall default in the payment of the Redemption Price and accrued
interest) such Securities shall cease to bear interest. Upon surrender of any
such Security for redemption in accordance with said notice, such Security
shall be paid by the Company at the Redemption Price, together with accrued
interest, if any, to the Redemption Date; provided, however, that installments
of interest whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption Date shall
be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor
Securities, registered as such at the close of business on the relevant Record
Dates according to their terms and the provisions of Section 307.
If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon
surrender thereof for redemption, the principal (and premium, if any) shall,
until paid, bear interest from the Redemption Date at the rate prescribed
therefor in the Security.
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SECTION 1107. Securities Redeemed in Part.
Any Security which is to be redeemed only in part shall be surrendered
at a Place of Payment therefor (with, if the Company or the Trustee so
requires, due endorsement by, or a written instrument of transfer in form
satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder
thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing), and the Company shall
execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such
Security without service charge, a new Security or Securities of the same
series and of like tenor, of any authorized denomination as requested by such
Holder, in aggregate principal amount equal to and in exchange for the
unredeemed portion of the principal of the Security so surrendered, except
that if a global Security is so surrendered, the Company shall execute, and
the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Depositary for such global
Security, without service charge, a new global Security or Securities in a
denomination equal to and in exchange for the unredeemed portion of the
principal of the global Security so surrendered.
ARTICLE TWELVE
SINKING FUNDS
SECTION 1201. Applicability of Article.
The provisions of this Article shall be applicable to any sinking fund
for the retirement of Securities of a series except as otherwise specified as
contemplated by Section 301 for Securities of such series.
The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by the terms
of Securities of any series is herein referred to as a "mandatory sinking fund
payment", and any payment in excess of such minimum amount provided for by the
terms of Securities of any series is herein referred to as an "optional
sinking fund payment". If provided for by the terms of Securities of any
series, the cash amount of any sinking fund payment may be subject to
reduction as provided in Section 1202. Each sinking fund payment shall be
applied to the redemption of Securities of any series as provided for by the
terms of Securities of such series.
SECTION 1202. Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities.
The Company (1) may deliver Outstanding Securities of a series (other
than any previously called for redemption) and (2) may apply as a credit
Securities of a series which have been redeemed either at the election of the
Company pursuant to the terms of such Securities or through the application of
permitted optional sinking fund payments pursuant to the terms of such
Securities, in each case in satisfaction of all or any part of any sinking
fund payment with respect to the Securities of such series required to be made
pursuant to the terms of such Securities as provided for by the terms of such
series; provided that such Securities have not been previously so credited.
Such Securities shall be received and credited for such purpose by
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the Trustee
at the Redemption Price specified in such Securities for redemption through
operation of the sinking fund and the amount of such sinking fund payment
shall be reduced accordingly.
SECTION 1203. Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund.
Not less than 60 days prior to each sinking fund payment date for any
series of Securities, the Company will deliver to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate specifying the amount of the next ensuing sinking fund payment for
that series pursuant to the terms of that series, the portion thereof, if any,
which is to be satisfied by payment of cash and the portion thereof, if any,
which is to be satisfied by delivering and crediting Securities of that series
pursuant to Section 1202, and will also deliver to the Trustee any Securities
to be so credited which have not theretofore been so delivered. Not less than
30 days before each such sinking fund payment date the Trustee shall select
the Securities to be redeemed upon such sinking fund payment date in the
manner specified in Section 1103 and cause notice of the redemption thereof to
be given in the name of and at the expense of the Company in the manner
provided in Section 1104. Such notice having been duly given, the redemption
of such Securities shall be made upon the terms and in the manner stated in
Sections 1106 and 1107.
ARTICLE THIRTEEN
DEFEASANCE
SECTION 1301. Applicability of Article; Company's Option to Effect
Defeasance.
If pursuant to Section 301 provision is made for either or both of (a)
defeasance of the Securities of a series under Section 1302 or (b) covenant
defeasance of the Securities of a series under Section 1303, then the
provisions of such Section or Sections, as the case may be, together with the
other provisions of this Article Thirteen, shall be applicable to the
Securities of such series, and the Company may at its option by Board
Resolution, at any time, with respect to the Securities of such series, elect
to have either Section 1302 (if applicable) or Section 1303 (if applicable) be
applied to the Outstanding Securities of such series upon compliance with the
conditions set forth below in this Article Thirteen.
SECTION 1302. Defeasance and Discharge.
Upon the Company's exercise of the above option applicable to this
Section, the Company shall be deemed to have been discharged from its
obligations with respect to the Outstanding Securities of such series on the
date the conditions set forth below are satisfied (hereinafter, "defeasance").
For this purpose, such defeasance means that the Company shall be deemed to
have paid and discharged the entire indebtedness represented by the
Outstanding Securities of such series and to have satisfied all its other
obligations under such Securities and this Indenture insofar as such
Securities are concerned (and the Trustee, at the expense of the
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Company,
shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the same), except for the
following which shall survive until otherwise terminated or discharged
hereunder: (a) the rights of Holders of Outstanding Securities of such series
to receive, solely from the trust fund described in Section 1304 and as more
fully set forth in such Section, payments in respect of the principal of (and
premium, if any) and interest on such Securities when such payments are due,
(b) the Company's obligations with respect to such Securities under Sections
304, 305, 306, 1002 and 1003, (c) the rights, powers, trusts, duties and
immunities of the Trustee hereunder and (d) this Article Thirteen. Subject to
compliance with this Article Thirteen, the Company may exercise its option
under this Section 1302 notwithstanding the prior exercise of its option under
Section 1303 with respect to the Securities of such series.
SECTION 1303. Covenant Defeasance.
Upon the Company's exercise of the above option applicable to this
Section, the Company shall be released from its obligations under Sections
501(5), 1006 and 1007 with respect to the Outstanding Securities of such
series on and after the date the conditions set forth below are satisfied
(hereinafter, "covenant defeasance"). For this purpose, such covenant
defeasance means that, with respect to the Outstanding Securities of such
series, the Company may omit to comply with and shall have no liability in
respect of any term, condition or limitation set forth in any such Section,
whether directly or indirectly by reason of any reference elsewhere herein to
any such Section or by reason of any reference in any such Section to any
other provision herein or in any other document, but the remainder of this
Indenture and such Securities shall be unaffected thereby.
SECTION 1304. Conditions to Defeasance.
The following shall be the conditions to application of either Section
1302 or Section 1303 to the Outstanding Securities of such series:
(1) the Company shall irrevocably have deposited or caused to be
deposited with the Trustee (or another trustee satisfying the
requirements of Section 609 who shall agree to comply with the
provisions of this Article Thirteen applicable to it) as trust funds in
trust for the purpose of making the following payments, specifically
pledged as security for, and dedicated solely to, the benefit of the
Holders of such Securities, (a) money in an amount, or (b) U.S.
Government Obligations which through the scheduled payment of principal
and interest, if any, in respect thereof in accordance with their terms
will provide, not later than one day before the due date of any payment,
money in an amount, or (c) a combination thereof, sufficient, in the
opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public
accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to
the Trustee, to pay and discharge, and which shall be applied by the
Trustee (or other qualifying trustee) to pay and discharge, (i) the
principal of (and premium, if any, on) and each installment of principal
of (and premium, if any) and interest, if any, on the Outstanding
Securities of such series on the Stated Maturity of such principal or
installment of principal or interest and (ii) any mandatory sinking fund
payments or
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analogous payments applicable to the Outstanding Securities
of such series on the day on which such payments are due and payable in
accordance with the terms of this Indenture and of such Securities. For
this purpose, "U.S. Government Obligations" means securities that are
(x) direct obligations of the United States of America for the payment
of which its full faith and credit is pledged or (y) obligations of a
Person controlled or supervised by and acting as an agency or
instrumentality of the United States of America, the payment of which is
unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation by the
United States of America, which, in either case, are not callable or
redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof, and shall also include a
depository receipt issued by a bank (as defined in Section 3(a)(2) of
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended) as custodian with respect to any
such U.S. Government obligation or a specific payment of principal of or
interest on any such U.S. Government Obligation held by such custodian
for the account of the holder of such depository receipt, provided that
(except as required by law) such custodian is not authorized to make any
deduction from the amount payable to the holder of such depository
receipt from any amount received by the custodian in respect of the U.S.
Government Obligation or the specific payment of principal of or
interest on the U.S. Government Obligation evidenced by such depository
receipt.
(2) No Event of Default or event which with notice or lapse of
time or both would become an Event of Default with respect to the
Securities of such series shall have occurred and be continuing on the
date of such deposit or, insofar as Subsections 501(6) and (7) are
concerned, at any time during the period ending on the 91st day after
the date of such deposit or, if longer, ending on the day following the
expiration of the longest preference period applicable to the Company in
respect of such deposit (it being understood that this condition shall
not be deemed satisfied until the expiration of such period).
(3) Such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall not cause the
Trustee for the Securities of such series to have a conflicting interest
as defined in Section 608 and for purposes of the Trust Indenture Act
with respect to any securities of the Company.
(4) Such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall not cause any
Securities of such series then listed on any registered national
securities exchange under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended, to be delisted or deregistered.
(5) In the case of an election under Section 1302, the Company
shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel stating that
(x) the Company has received from, or there has been published by, the
Internal Revenue Service a ruling, or (y) since the date of this
Indenture there has been a change in the applicable federal income tax
law, in either case to the effect that, and based thereon such opinion
shall confirm that, the Holders of the Outstanding Securities of such
series will not recognize income, gain or loss for federal income tax
purposes as a result of such defeasance and will be subject to federal
income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times
as would have been the case if such defeasance had not occurred.
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(6) In the case of an election under Section 1303, the Company
shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect
that the Holders of the Outstanding Securities of such series will not
recognize income, gain or loss for federal income tax purposes as a
result of such covenant defeasance and will be subject to federal income
tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as
would have been the case if such covenant defeasance had not occurred.
(7) Such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall be effected in
compliance with any additional terms, conditions or limitations which
may be imposed on the Company in connection therewith pursuant to
Section 301.
(8) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions
precedent provided for relating to either the defeasance under Section
1302 or the covenant defeasance under Section 1303 (as the case may be)
have been complied with.
SECTION 1305. Deposited Money and U.S. Government Obligations to be Held in
Trust; Miscellaneous.
Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 1003, all
money and U. S. Government Obligations (including the proceeds thereof)
deposited with the Trustee (or other qualifying trustee -- collectively, for
purposes of this Section 1305, the "Trustee") pursuant to Section 1304, in
respect of the Outstanding Securities of such series shall be held in trust
and applied by the Trustee, in accordance with the provisions of such
Securities and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any
Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the
Trustee may determine, to the Holders of such Securities, of all sums due and
to become due thereon in respect of principal (and premium, if any) and
interest, if any, but such money need not be segregated from other funds
except to the extent required by law.
The Company shall pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or
other charge imposed on or assessed against the U. S. Government Obligations
deposited pursuant to Section 1304 or the principal and interest received in
respect thereof other than any such tax, fee or other charge which by law is
for the account of the Holders of the Outstanding Securities of such series.
Anything in this Article Thirteen to the contrary notwithstanding, the
Trustee shall deliver or pay to the Company from time to time upon Company
Request any money or U. S. Government obligations held by it as provided in
Section 1304 which, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of
independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof
delivered to the Trustee, are in excess of the amount thereof which would be
required to be deposited to effect an equivalent defeasance or covenant
defeasance.
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ARTICLE FOURTEEN
REPAYMENT OF SECURITIES AT OPTION OF HOLDERS
SECTION 1401. Applicability of Article.
Securities of any series which are repayable before their Stated
Maturity at the option of the Holders shall be repaid in accordance with their
terms and (except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for
Securities of any series) in accordance with this Article.
SECTION 1402. Notice of Repayment Date.
Notice of any Repayment Date with respect to Securities of any series
shall, unless otherwise specified by the terms of the Securities of any
series, be given by the Company not less than 45 nor more than 60 days prior
to such Repayment Date to each Holder of Securities of such series in
accordance with Section 106.
The notice as to Repayment Date shall state:
(1) the Repayment Date;
(2) the Repayment Price;
(3) the place or places where such Securities are to be
surrendered for payment of the Repayment Price and the date
by which Securities must be so surrendered in order to be
repaid;
(4) a description of the procedure which a Holder must follow to
exercise a repayment right; and
(5) that exercise of the option to elect repayment is
irrevocable.
No failure of the Company to give the foregoing notice shall limit any
Holder's right to exercise a repayment right.
SECTION 1403. Deposit of Repayment Price.
Prior to the Repayment Date, the Company shall deposit with the Trustee
or with a Paying Agent (or, if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent,
segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 1003) an amount of money
sufficient to pay the Repayment Price of and (unless the Repayment Date shall
be an Interest Payment Date) accrued interest, if any, on all of the
Securities of such series which are to be repaid on that date.
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SECTION 1404. Securities Payable on Repayment Date.
The form of option to elect repayment having been delivered as specified
in the form of Security for such series, the Securities of such series so to
be repaid shall, on the Repayment Date, become due and payable at the
Repayment Price applicable thereto, and from and after such date (unless the
Company shall default in the payment of the Repayment Price and accrued
interest) such Securities shall cease to bear interest. Upon surrender of any
such Security for repayment in accordance with said notice, such Security
shall be paid by the Company at the Repayment Price together with accrued
interest to the Repayment Date; provided, however, that installments of
interest whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to such Repayment Date shall be
payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor
Securities, registered as such at the close of business on the relevant Record
Dates according to their terms and the provisions of Section 307.
If any Security shall not be paid upon surrender thereof for repayment,
the principal (and premium, if any) shall, until paid, bear interest from the
Repayment Date at the rate prescribed therefor in such Security.
SECTION 1405. Securities Repaid in Part.
Any Security which by its terms may be repaid in part at the option of
the Holder and which is to be repaid only in part shall be surrendered at any
office or agency of the Company designated for that purpose pursuant to
Section 1002 (with, if the Company or the Trustee so requires, due endorsement
by, or a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company
and the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or his attorney duly
authorized in writing), and the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such Security without service
charge, a new Security or Securities of the same series, of any authorized
denomination as requested by such Holder, in aggregate principal amount equal
to and in exchange for the unrepaid portion of the principal of the Security
so surrendered.
ARTICLE FIFTEEN
IMMUNITY OF INCORPORATORS, STOCKHOLDERS, OFFICERS
AND DIRECTORS.
SECTION 1501. Immunity of Incorporators, Stockholders, Officers and
Directors.
No recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement of this
Indenture, or of any Security, or for any claim based thereon or otherwise in
respect thereof, shall be had against any incorporator, stockholder, officer
or director, as such, past, present or future, of the Company or of any
successor corporation, either directly or through the Company, whether by
virtue of any constitution, statute or rule of law, or by the enforcement of
any assessment or penalty or otherwise; it being expressly understood that
this Indenture and the obligations issued hereunder are solely corporate
obligations, and that no personal liability whatever shall attach
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to, or is or
shall be incurred by, the incorporators, stockholders, officers or directors,
as such, of the Company or any successor corporation, or any of them, because
of the creation of the indebtedness hereby authorized, or under or by reason
of the obligations, covenants or agreements contained in this Indenture or in
any of the Securities or implied therefrom; and that any and all such personal
liability of every name and nature, either at common law or in equity or by
constitution or statute, of, and any and all such rights and claims against,
every such incorporator, stockholder, officer or director, as such, because of
the creation of the indebtedness hereby authorized, or under or by reason of
the obligations, covenants or agreements contained in this Indenture or in any
of the Securities or implied therefrom are hereby expressly waived and
released as a condition of, and as a consideration for, the execution of this
Indenture and the issue of such Securities.
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This instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of
which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts
shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Supplemental
Indenture to be duly executed, and their respective corporate seals to be
hereunto affixed and attested, all as of the day and year first above written.
COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO.
CONSOLIDATED
By: s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
ATTEST: Vice President and Treasurer
s/ Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxx
Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxx, Assistant Secretary
[Corporate Seal]
NATIONSBANK OF GEORGIA,
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE
By: s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
ATTEST: Vice President
s/ Xxxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
[Corporate Seal]
