EXHIBIT 4.4
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RESIDENTIAL ASSET MORTGAGE PRODUCTS, INC.,
as Depositor
and
WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY
as Owner Trustee
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TRUST AGREEMENT
Dated as of February 28, 2000
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GMACM HOME EQUITY LOAN TRUST Series-2000-HE1
GMACM Home Equity Loan-Backed Certificates,
Series 2000-HE1
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I Definitions..........................................1
Section 1.01. Definitions...................................1
Section 1.02. Other Definitional Provisions.................1
ARTICLE II Organization.........................................3
Section 2.01. Name..........................................3
Section 2.02. Office........................................3
Section 2.03. Purposes and Powers...........................3
Section 2.04. Appointment of Owner Trustee..................3
Section 2.05. Initial Capital Contribution of Trust Estate..4
Section 2.06. Declaration of Trust..........................4
Section 2.07. Title to Trust Property.......................4
Section 2.08. Situs of Trust................................4
Section 2.09. Representations and Warranties of the
Depositor.....................................5
Section 2.10. Payment of Trust Fees.........................5
ARTICLE III Conveyance of the Mortgage Loans; Certificates.......6
Section 3.01. Conveyance of the Mortgage Loans..............6
Section 3.02. Initial Ownership.............................6
Section 3.03. Issuance of Certificates......................6
Section 3.04. Authentication of Certificates................6
Section 3.05. Registration of and Limitations on
Transfer and Exchange of Certificates.........7
Section 3.06. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen
Certificates..................................9
Section 3.07. Persons Deemed Certificateholders............10
Section 3.08. Access to List of Certificateholders'
Names and Addresses..........................10
Section 3.09. Maintenance of Office or Agency..............10
Section 3.10. Certificate Paying Agent.....................10
Section 3.11. Cooperation..................................12
Section 3.12. Additional Certificate Balances Upon
Issuance of Capped Funding Notes.............12
ARTICLE IV Authority and Duties of Owner Trustee...............14
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Section 4.01. General Authority............................14
Section 4.02. General Duties...............................14
Section 4.03. Action upon Instruction......................14
Section 4.04. No Duties Except as Specified under
Specified Documents or in Instructions.......15
Section 4.05. Restrictions.................................15
Section 4.06. Prior Notice to Certificateholders
and the Enhancer with Respect to
Certain Matters............................. 15
Section 4.07. Action by Certificateholders with
Respect to Certain Matters...................16
Section 4.08. Action by Certificateholders with
Respect to Bankruptcy........................16
Section 4.09. Restrictions on Certificateholders' Power....16
Section 4.10. Majority Control.............................16
Section 4.11. Doing Business in Other Jurisdictions........16
ARTICLE V Application of Trust Funds..........................18
Section 5.01. Distributions................................18
Section 5.02. Method of Payment............................18
Section 5.03. Signature on Returns.........................18
Section 5.04. Statements to Certificateholders.............18
Section 5.05. Tax Reporting................................19
ARTICLE VI Concerning the Owner Trustee........................20
Section 6.01. Acceptance of Trusts and Duties..............20
Section 6.02. Furnishing of Documents......................21
Section 6.03. Representations and Warranties...............21
Section 6.04. Reliance; Advice of Counsel..................22
Section 6.05. Not Acting in Individual Capacity............22
Section 6.06. Owner Trustee Not Liable for
Certificates or Related Documents............22
Section 6.07. Owner Trustee May Own Certificates
and Notes................................... 23
ARTICLE VII Compensation of Owner Trustee.......................24
Section 7.01. Owner Trustee's Fees and Expenses............24
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Section 7.02. Indemnification..............................24
ARTICLE VIII Termination of Trust Agreement......................26
Section 8.01. Termination of Trust Agreement...............26
ARTICLE IX Successor Owner Trustees and Additional Owner
Trustees............................................28
Section 9.01. Eligibility Requirements for Owner
Trustee......................................28
Section 9.02. Replacement of Owner Trustee.................28
Section 9.03. Successor Owner Trustee......................29
Section 9.04. Merger or Consolidation of Owner Trustee.....29
Section 9.05. Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate
Trustee......................................29
ARTICLE X Miscellaneous.......................................31
Section 10.01.Amendments...................................31
Section 00.00.Xx Legal Title to Trust Estate...............32
Section 10.03.Limitations on Rights of Others..............32
Section 10.04.Notices......................................32
Section 10.05.Severability.................................33
Section 10.06.Separate Counterparts........................33
Section 10.07.Successors and Assigns.......................33
Section 00.00.Xx Petition..................................33
Section 00.00.Xx Recourse..................................34
Section 10.10.Headings.....................................34
Section 10.11.GOVERNING LAW................................34
Section 10.12.Integration..................................34
Section 10.13.Rights of Enhancer to Exercise Rights of
Certificateholders...........................34
Signatures .............................................35
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EXHIBITS
Exhibit A - Form of Certificate.................................A-1
Exhibit B - Certificate of Trust................................B-1
Exhibit C - Form of 144A Investment Representation..............C-1
Exhibit D - Form of Investor Representation Letter..............D-1
Exhibit E - Form of Transferor Representation Letter............E-1
Exhibit F - Form of Certificate of Non-Foreign Status...........F-1
Exhibit G - Form of ERISA Representation Letter.................G-1
Exhibit H - Form of Representation Letter.......................H-1
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This trust agreement, dated as of February 28, 2000 (as amended from time
to time, the "Trust Agreement"), is between Residential Asset Mortgage Products,
Inc., a Delaware corporation, as depositor (the "Depositor"), and Wilmington
Trust Company, a Delaware banking corporation, as owner trustee (the "Owner
Trustee").
WITNESSETH:
WHEREAS, the Depositor and the Owner Trustee desire to form a Delaware
business trust;
NOW, THEREFORE, In consideration of the mutual agreements herein contained,
the Depositor and the Owner Trustee agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
Definitions
Section 1.01 DEFINITIONS. For all purposes of this Trust Agreement,
except as otherwise expressly provided herein or unless the context otherwise
requires, capitalized terms used herein that are not otherwise defined shall
have the meanings ascribed thereto in Appendix A to the indenture dated as of
February 28, 2000 (the "Indenture"), between GMACM Home Equity Loan Trust
2000-HE1, as Issuer, and Norwest Bank Minnesota, National Association, as
Indenture Trustee. All other capitalized terms used herein shall have the
meanings specified herein.
Section 1.02 OTHER DEFINITIONAL PROVISIONS.
(a) All terms defined in this Trust Agreement shall have the defined
meanings when used in any certificate or other document made or delivered
pursuant hereto unless otherwise defined therein.
(b) As used in this Trust Agreement and in any certificate or other
document made or delivered pursuant hereto or thereto, accounting terms not
defined in this Trust Agreement or in any such certificate or other document,
and accounting terms partly defined in this Trust Agreement or in any such
certificate or other document to the extent not defined, shall have the
respective meanings given to them under generally accepted accounting
principles. To the extent that the definitions of accounting terms in this Trust
Agreement or in any such certificate or other document are inconsistent with the
meanings of such terms under generally accepted accounting principles, the
definitions contained in this Trust Agreement or in any such certificate or
other document shall control.
(c) The words "hereof," "herein," "hereunder" and words of similar import
when used in this Trust Agreement shall refer to this Trust Agreement as a whole
and not to any particular provision of this Trust Agreement; Section and Exhibit
references contained in this Trust Agreement are references to Sections and
Exhibits in or to this Trust Agreement unless otherwise specified; the term
"including" shall mean "including without limitation"; "or" shall include
"and/or"; and the term "proceeds" shall have the meaning ascribed thereto in the
UCC.
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(d) The definitions contained in this Trust Agreement are applicable to the
singular as well as the plural forms of such terms and to the masculine as well
as to the feminine and neuter genders of such terms.
(e) Any agreement, instrument or statute defined or referred to herein or
in any instrument or certificate delivered in connection herewith means such
agreement, instrument or statute as from time to time amended, modified or
supplemented and includes (in the case of agreements or instruments) references
to all attachments thereto and instruments incorporated therein; references to a
Person are also to its permitted successors and assigns.
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ARTICLE II
Organization
Section 2.01 NAME. The trust created hereby shall be known as "GMACM Home
Equity Loan Trust 2000-HE1," in which name the Owner Trustee may conduct the
business of the Trust, make and execute contracts and other instruments on
behalf of the Trust and xxx and be sued.
Section 2.02 OFFICE. The office of the Trust shall be in care of the Owner
Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office or at such other address in Delaware as
the Owner Trustee may designate by written notice to the Certificateholders, the
Depositor, and the Enhancer.
Section 2.03 PURPOSES AND POWERS. The purpose of the Trust is to engage in
the following activities:
(i) to issue the Notes pursuant to the Indenture and the Certificates
pursuant to this Trust Agreement and to sell the Notes and the
Certificates;
(ii) to purchase the Mortgage Loans and to pay the organizational,
start-up and transactional expenses of the Trust;
(iii)to assign, grant, transfer, pledge and convey the Mortgage Loans
pursuant to the Indenture and to hold, manage and distribute to
the Certificateholders pursuant to Section 5.01 any portion of
the Mortgage Loans released from the Lien of, and remitted to the
Trust pursuant to, the Indenture;
(iv) to enter into and perform its obligations under the Basic
Documents to which it is to be a party;
(v) to engage in those activities, including entering into
agreements, that are necessary, suitable or convenient to
accomplish the foregoing or are incidental thereto or connected
therewith, including, without limitation, to accept additional
contributions of equity that are not subject to the Lien of the
Indenture; and
(vi) subject to compliance with the Basic Documents, to engage in such
other activities as may be required in connection with
conservation of the Trust Estate and the making of distributions
to the Securityholders.
The Trust is hereby authorized to engage in the foregoing activities. The Trust
shall not engage in any activity other than in connection with the foregoing or
other than as required or authorized by the terms of this Trust Agreement or the
other Basic Documents while any Note is outstanding without the consent of the
Certificateholders of Certificates evidencing a majority of the aggregate
Certificate Balance, the Indenture Trustee, and the Enhancer.
Section 2.04 APPOINTMENT OF OWNER TRUSTEE. The Depositor hereby appoints
the Owner Trustee as trustee of the Trust effective as of the date hereof, to
have all the rights, powers and duties set forth herein.
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Section 2.05 INITIAL CAPITAL CONTRIBUTION OF TRUST ESTATE. In consideration
of the delivery by the Owner Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, of the Securities
to the Depositor or its designee, upon the order of the Depositor, the
Depositor, as of the Closing Date and concurrently with the execution and
delivery hereof, does hereby transfer, assign, set over and otherwise convey to
the Trust, without recourse, but subject to the other terms and provisions of
this Trust Agreement, all of the right, title and interest of the Depositor in
and to the Trust Estate. The foregoing transfer, assignment, set over and
conveyance does not, and is not intended to, result in a creation or an
assumption by the Trust of any obligation of the Depositor or any other Person
in connection with the Trust Estate or under any agreement or instrument
relating thereto, except as specifically set forth herein.
The Owner Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, acknowledges the conveyance to
the Trust by the Depositor, as of the Closing Date, of the Trust Estate,
including all right, title and interest of the Depositor in and to the Trust
Estate. Concurrently with such conveyance and in exchange therefor, the Trust
has pledged the Trust Estate to the Indenture Trustee and has executed the
Certificates and the Notes and caused them to be duly authenticated and
delivered.
Section 2.06 DECLARATION OF TRUST. The Owner Trustee hereby declares that
it shall hold the Trust Estate in trust upon and subject to the conditions set
forth herein for the use and benefit of the Certificateholders, subject to the
obligations of the Trust under the Basic Documents. It is the intention of the
parties hereto that the Trust constitute a business trust under the Business
Trust Statute and that this Trust Agreement constitute the governing instrument
of such business trust. Effective as of the date hereof, the Owner Trustee shall
have all rights, powers and duties set forth herein and in the Business Trust
Statute with respect to accomplishing the purposes of the Trust. It is the
intention of the parties hereto that, solely for federal, state and local income
and franchise tax purposes, the Trust shall be treated as an entity wholly owned
by the Depositor or an affiliate thereof, with the assets of the entity being
the Trust Estate, and the Notes being debt of the entity and the provisions of
this Trust Agreement shall be interpreted to further this intention. If more
than one person owns the Certificates, then it is the intention of the parties
hereto, that solely for federal, state and local income and franchise tax
purposes the Trust shall be treated as a partnership, with the assets of the
partnership being the Trust Estate, the partners of the partnership being the
Certificateholders and the Notes being debt of the partnership and the
provisions of this Trust Agreement shall be interpreted to further this
intention.
Section 2.07 TITLE TO TRUST PROPERTY. Legal title to the Trust Estate shall
be vested at all times in the Trust as a separate legal entity except where
applicable law in any jurisdiction requires title to any part of the Trust
Estate to be vested in a trustee or trustees, in which case title shall be
deemed to be vested in the Owner Trustee, a co-trustee and/or a separate
trustee, as the case may be.
Section 2.08 SITUS OF TRUST. The Trust will be located and administered in
the State of Delaware. All bank accounts maintained by the Owner Trustee on
behalf of the Trust shall be located in the State of Delaware or the State of
New York. The Trust shall not have any employees in any state other than
Delaware; provided, however, that nothing herein shall restrict or prohibit the
Owner Trustee from having employees within or without the State of Delaware or
taking actions outside the State of Delaware in order to comply with Section
2.03. Payments will be received by the Trust only in Delaware or Minnesota, and
payments will be made by the Trust
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only from Delaware or Minnesota. The only office of the Trust will be at the
Corporate Trust Office of the Owner Trustee in Delaware.
Section 2.09 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE DEPOSITOR. The Depositor
hereby represents and warrants to the Owner Trustee and the Enhancer that:
(a) The Depositor is duly organized and validly existing as a corporation
in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware, with power and
authority to own its properties and to conduct its business as such properties
are currently owned and such business is at present conducted.
(b) The Depositor is duly qualified to do business as a foreign corporation
in good standing and has obtained all necessary licenses and approvals in all
jurisdictions in which the ownership or lease of its property or the conduct of
its business shall require such qualifications and in which the failure to so
qualify would have a material adverse effect on the business, properties, assets
or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Depositor and the ability of the
Depositor to perform under this Trust Agreement.
(c) The Depositor has the power and authority to execute and deliver this
Trust Agreement and to carry out its terms; the Depositor has full power and
authority to sell and assign the property to be sold and assigned to and
deposited with the Trust as part of the Trust and the Depositor has duly
authorized such sale and assignment and deposit to the Trust by all necessary
corporate action; and the execution, delivery and performance of this Trust
Agreement have been duly authorized by the Depositor by all necessary corporate
action.
(d) The consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Trust
Agreement and the fulfillment of the terms hereof do not conflict with, result
in any material breach of any of the terms and provisions of, or constitute
(with or without notice or lapse of time) a material default under, the articles
of incorporation or bylaws of the Depositor, or any material indenture,
agreement or other instrument to which the Depositor is a party or by which it
is bound; nor result in the creation or imposition of any Lien upon any of its
properties pursuant to the terms of any such indenture, agreement or other
instrument (other than pursuant to the Basic Documents); nor violate any law or,
to the best of the Depositor's knowledge, any order, rule or regulation
applicable to the Depositor of any court or of any federal or state regulatory
body, administrative agency or other governmental instrumentality having
jurisdiction over the Depositor or its properties.
Section 2.10 PAYMENT OF TRUST FEES. The Owner Trustee shall pay the Trust's
fees and expenses incurred with respect to the performance of the Trust's duties
under the Indenture.
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ARTICLE III
Conveyance of the Mortgage Loans; Certificates
Section 3.01 CONVEYANCE OF THE MORTGAGE LOANS. The Depositor, concurrently
with the execution and delivery hereof, does hereby transfer, convey and assign
to the Trust, on behalf of the Securityholders and the Enhancer, without
recourse, all its right, title and interest in and to the Initial Mortgage
Loans, including but not limited to any rights of the Depositor under the
Purchase Agreement. The Depositor shall also provide the Indenture Trustee with
the Policy.
The parties hereto intend that, for non-tax purposes, the transaction set
forth herein be a sale by the Depositor to the Trust of all of its right, title
and interest in and to the Initial Mortgage Loans. In the event that, for
non-tax purposes, the transaction set forth herein is not deemed to be a sale,
the Depositor hereby grants to the Trust a security interest in all of its
right, title and interest in, to and under the Initial Mortgage Loans, all
distributions thereon and all proceeds thereof; and this Trust Agreement shall
constitute a security agreement under applicable law.
Section 3.02 INITIAL OWNERSHIP. Upon the formation of the Trust by the
contribution by the Depositor pursuant to Section 2.05 and the conveyance of the
Initial Mortgage Loans pursuant to Section 3.01 and the issuance of the
Certificates, the Seller shall be the sole Certificateholder.
Section 3.03 ISSUANCE OF CERTIFICATES. The Certificates shall be issued in
minimum denominations of a Percentage Interest of 10.0000% and integral
multiples of 0.0001% in excess thereof; provided, however, that Certificates may
be issued in minimum denominations of less than 10.0000% in accordance with the
provisions of Section 3.12.
The Certificates shall be executed on behalf of the Trust by manual or
facsimile signature of an authorized officer of the Owner Trustee and
authenticated in the manner provided in Section 3.04. Certificates bearing the
manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were, at the time when such
signatures shall have been affixed, authorized to sign on behalf of the Trust,
shall be validly issued and entitled to the benefit of this Trust Agreement,
notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them shall have ceased to be so
authorized prior to the authentication and delivery of such Certificates or did
not hold such offices at the date of authentication and delivery of such
Certificates. A Person shall become a Certificateholder and shall be entitled to
the rights and subject to the obligations of a Certificateholder hereunder upon
such Person's acceptance of a Certificate duly registered in such Person's name,
pursuant to Section 3.05.
A transferee of a Certificate shall become a Certificateholder and shall be
entitled to the rights and subject to the obligations of a Certificateholder
hereunder upon such transferee's acceptance of a Certificate duly registered in
such transferee's name pursuant to and upon satisfaction of the conditions set
forth in Section 3.05.
Section 3.04 AUTHENTICATION OF CERTIFICATES. Concurrently with the
acquisition of the Initial Mortgage Loans by the Trust, the Owner Trustee or the
Certificate Paying Agent shall cause the Certificates in an initial Percentage
Interest of 100.00% to be executed on behalf of the
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Trust, authenticated and delivered to or upon the written order of the Seller,
signed by its chairman of the board, its president or any vice president,
without further corporate action by the Seller, in authorized denominations. No
Certificate shall entitle the Certificateholder thereof to any benefit under
this Trust Agreement or be valid for any purpose unless there shall appear on
such Certificate a certificate of authentication substantially in the form set
forth in Exhibit A hereto, executed by the Owner Trustee or the Certificate
Paying Agent, by manual signature, and such authentication shall constitute
conclusive evidence that such Certificate has been duly authenticated and
delivered hereunder. All Certificates shall be dated the date of their
authentication.
Section 3.05 REGISTRATION OF AND LIMITATIONS ON TRANSFER AND EXCHANGE OF
CERTIFICATES. The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the
office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.09, a Certificate Register in
which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the
Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of
transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. The Indenture
Trustee shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. If the Certificate Registrar
resigns or is removed, the Owner Trustee shall appoint a successor Certificate
Registrar.
Subject to satisfaction of the conditions set forth below, upon surrender
for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the office or agency
maintained pursuant to Section 3.09, the Owner Trustee shall execute,
authenticate and deliver (or shall cause the Certificate Registrar as its
authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated
transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized
denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the
Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder,
Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of authorized denominations
of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at
the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.09.
Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or
exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form
satisfactory to the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder
or such Certificateholder's attorney duly authorized in writing. Each
Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be
cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar in
accordance with its customary practice.
No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or
exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may
require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that
may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Certificates.
Except as described below, each Certificateholder shall establish its
non-foreign status by submitting to the Certificate Paying Agent an IRS Form W-9
and the Certificate of Non-Foreign Status (in substantially the form attached
hereto as Exhibit F).
A Certificate may be transferred to a Certificateholder unable to
establish its non-foreign status as described in the preceding paragraph only if
such Certificateholder provides an Opinion of
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Counsel to the Depositor, the Certificate Registrar and the Enhancer, which
Opinion of Counsel shall not be an expense of the Trust, the Owner Trustee, the
Certificate Registrar or the Depositor, satisfactory to the Depositor and the
Enhancer, that such transfer (1) will not affect the tax status of the Owner
Trust and (2) will not adversely affect the interests of any Securityholder or
the Enhancer, including, without limitation, as a result of the imposition of
any United States federal withholding taxes on the Trust (except to the extent
that such withholding taxes would be payable solely from amounts otherwise
distributable to the Certificate of the prospective transferee). If such
transfer occurs and such foreign Certificateholder becomes subject to such
United States federal withholding taxes, any such taxes will be withheld by the
Indenture Trustee at the direction of the Tax Matters Partner. Each
Certificateholder unable to establish its non-foreign status shall submit to the
Certificate Paying Agent a copy of its Form W-8 and shall resubmit such Form W-8
every three years.
No transfer, sale, pledge or other disposition of a Certificate shall be
made unless such transfer, sale, pledge or other disposition is exempt from the
registration requirements of the Securities Act and any applicable state
securities laws or is made in accordance with the Securities Act and such state
laws. In the event of any such transfer, the Certificate Registrar or the
Depositor shall prior to such transfer require the transferee to execute (A)
either (i) (a) an investment letter in substantially the form attached hereto as
Exhibit C (or in such form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the
Certificate Registrar and the Depositor) which investment letters shall not be
an expense of the Trust, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the
Servicer or the Depositor and which investment letter states that, among other
things, such transferee (a) is a "qualified institutional buyer" as defined
under Rule 144A, acting for its own account or the accounts of other "qualified
institutional buyers" as defined under Rule 144A, and (b) is aware that the
proposed transferor intends to rely on the exemption from registration
requirements under the Securities Act, provided by Rule 144A or (ii) (a) a
written Opinion of Counsel acceptable to and in form and substance satisfactory
to the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor that such transfer may be made
pursuant to an exemption, describing the applicable exemption and the basis
therefor, from the Securities Act and such state laws or is being made pursuant
to the Securities Act and such state laws, which Opinion of Counsel shall not be
an expense of the Trust, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the
Servicer or the Depositor and (b) the transferee executes a representation
letter, substantially in the form of Exhibit D hereto, and the transferor
executes a representation letter, substantially in the form of Exhibit E hereto,
each acceptable to and in form and substance satisfactory to the Certificate
Registrar and the Depositor certifying the facts surrounding such transfer,
which representation letters shall not be an expense of the Trust, the Owner
Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Servicer or the Depositor and (B) the
Certificate of Non-Foreign Status (in substantially the form attached hereto as
Exhibit F) acceptable to and in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to
the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor, which certificate shall not be an
expense of the Trust, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar or the
Depositor. If such Certificateholder is unable to provide a Certificate of
Non-Foreign Status, such Certificateholder must provide an Opinion of Counsel as
described in the preceding paragraph. The Certificateholder desiring to effect
such transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Trust, the Owner
Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Servicer , the Enhancer and the
Depositor against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt
or is not made in accordance with such federal and state laws. No transfer of
Certificates or any interest therein shall be made to any employee benefit plan
or certain other retirement plans and arrangements, including individual
retirement accounts and annuities, Xxxxx plans and bank collective investment
funds and insurance company general or
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separate accounts in which such plans, accounts or arrangements are invested,
that are subject to ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (collectively, a "Plan"),
any Person acting, directly or indirectly, on behalf of any such Plan or any
Person acquiring such Certificates with "plan assets" of a Plan within the
meaning of the Department of Labor Regulations Section 2510.3-101 ("Plan
Assets") unless the Depositor, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and
the Servicer are provided with an Opinion of Counsel that establishes to the
satisfaction of the Depositor, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and
the Servicer that the purchase of Certificates is permissible under applicable
law, will not constitute or result in any prohibited transaction under ERISA or
Section 4975 of the Code and will not subject the Depositor, the Owner Trustee,
the Certificate Registrar or the Servicer to any obligation or liability
(including obligations or liabilities under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code)
in addition to those undertaken in this Trust Agreement, which Opinion of
Counsel shall not be an expense of the Depositor, the Owner Trustee, the
Certificate Registrar or the Servicer. In lieu of such Opinion of Counsel, a
Plan, any Person acting, directly or indirectly, on behalf of any such Plan or
any Person acquiring such Certificates with Plan Assets of a Plan may provide a
certification in the form of Exhibit G to this Trust Agreement, which the
Depositor, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Servicer may
rely upon without further inquiry or investigation. Neither an Opinion of
Counsel nor a certification will be required in connection with the initial
transfer of any such Certificate by the Depositor to an Affiliate of the
Depositor (in which case, the Depositor or any such Affiliate shall be deemed to
have represented that such Affiliate is not a Plan or a Person investing Plan
Assets of any Plan) and the Owner Trustee shall be entitled to conclusively rely
upon a representation (which, upon the request of the Owner Trustee, shall be a
written representation) from the Depositor of the status of such transferee as
an Affiliate of the Depositor.
In addition, no transfer of a Certificate shall be permitted, and no such
transfer shall be registered by the Certificate Registrar or be effective
hereunder, unless evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel addressed to the
Certificate Registrar and the Enhancer that establishes that such transfer or
the registration of such transfer would not cause the Trust to be classified as
a publicly traded partnership, by having more than 100 Certificateholders at any
time during the taxable year of the Trust, an association taxable as a
corporation, a corporation or a taxable mortgage pool for federal and relevant
state income tax purposes.
In addition, no transfer, sale, assignment, pledge or other disposition of
a Certificate shall be made unless the proposed transferee executes a
representation letter substantially in the form of Exhibit H hereto, that (1)
the transferee is acquiring such Certificate for its own behalf and is not
acting as agent or custodian for any other Person or entity in connection with
such acquisition and (2) if the transferee is a partnership, grantor trust or S
corporation for federal income tax purposes, the Certificates acquired are not
more than 50% of the assets of the partnership, grantor trust or S corporation.
Section 3.06 MUTILATED, DESTROYED, LOST OR STOLEN Certificates. If (a) any
mutilated Certificate shall be surrendered to the Certificate Registrar, or if
the Certificate Registrar shall receive evidence to its satisfaction of the
destruction, loss or theft of any Certificate and (b) there shall be delivered
to the Certificate Registrar and the Owner Trustee such security or indemnity as
may be required by them to save each of them and the Issuer from harm, then in
the absence of notice to the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee that
such Certificate has been acquired
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by a bona fide purchaser, the Owner Trustee shall execute on behalf of the Trust
and the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Paying Agent, as the Trust's
authenticating agent, shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange for or in lieu
of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Certificate, a new Certificate
of like tenor and denomination. In connection with the issuance of any new
Certificate under this Section 3.06, the Owner Trustee or the Certificate
Registrar may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge that may be imposed in connection therewith. Any duplicate
Certificate issued pursuant to this Section 3.06 shall constitute conclusive
evidence of ownership in the Trust, as if originally issued, whether or not the
lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate shall be found at any time.
Section 3.07 PERSONS DEEMED CERTIFICATEHOLDERS. Prior to due presentation
of a Certificate for registration of transfer, the Owner Trustee, the
Certificate Registrar or any Certificate Paying Agent may treat the Person in
whose name any Certificate is registered in the Certificate Register as the
owner of such Certificate for the purpose of receiving distributions pursuant to
Section 5.02 and for all other purposes whatsoever, and none of the Trust, the
Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar or any Paying Agent shall be bound by
any notice to the contrary.
Section 3.08 ACCESS TO LIST OF CERTIFICATEHOLDERS' NAMES AND ADDRESSES. The
Certificate Registrar shall furnish or cause to be furnished to the Depositor or
the Owner Trustee, within 15 days after receipt by the Certificate Registrar of
a written request therefor from the Depositor or the Owner Trustee, a list, in
such form as the Depositor or the Owner Trustee, as the case may be, may
reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Certificateholders as of
the most recent Record Date. Each Certificateholder, by receiving and holding a
Certificate, shall be deemed to have agreed not to hold any of the Trust, the
Depositor, the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee accountable by reason
of the disclosure of its name and address, regardless of the source from which
such information was derived.
Section 3.09 MAINTENANCE OF OFFICE OR AGENCY. The Owner Trustee, on behalf
of the Trust, shall maintain in The City of New York an office or offices or
agency or agencies where Certificates may be surrendered for registration of
transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Owner Trustee
in respect of the Certificates and the Basic Documents may be served. The Owner
Trustee initially designates the Corporate Trust Office of the Indenture Trustee
(or such other office as the Indenture Trustee may specify to the Owner Trustee)
as its office for such purposes. The Owner Trustee shall give prompt written
notice to the Depositor, the Certificateholders and the Enhancer of any change
in the location of the Certificate Register or any such office or agency.
Section 3.10 CERTIFICATE PAYING AGENT.
(a) The Certificate Paying Agent shall make distributions to
Certificateholders from the Distribution Account on behalf of the Trust in
accordance with the provisions of the Certificates and Section 5.01 hereof from
payments remitted to the Certificate Paying Agent by the Indenture Trustee
pursuant to Section 3.05 of the Indenture. The Trust hereby appoints the
Indenture Trustee as Certificate Paying Agent. The Certificate Paying Agent
shall:
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(i) hold all sums held by it for the payment of amounts due with respect to
the Certificates 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;
(ii) give the Owner Trustee notice of any default by the Trust of which it
has actual knowledge in the making of any payment required to be made with
respect to the Certificates;
(iii) at any time during the continuance of any such default, upon the
written request of the Owner Trustee, forthwith pay to the Owner Trustee on
behalf of the Trust all sums so held in Trust by such Certificate Paying Agent;
(iv) immediately resign as Certificate Paying Agent and forthwith pay to
the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Trust all sums held by it in trust for the
payment of Certificates if at any time it ceases to meet the standards required
to be met by the Certificate Paying Agent at the time of its appointment;
(v) comply with all requirements of the Code with respect to the
withholding from any payments made by it on any Certificates of any applicable
withholding taxes imposed thereon and with respect to any applicable reporting
requirements in connection therewith; and
(vi) deliver to the Owner Trustee a copy of the report to
Certificateholders prepared with respect to each Payment Date by the Servicer
pursuant to Section 4.01 of the Servicing Agreement.
(b) The Trust may revoke such power and remove the Certificate Paying Agent
if the Owner Trustee determines in its sole discretion that the Certificate
Paying Agent shall have failed to perform its obligations under this Trust
Agreement in any material respect. The Indenture Trustee shall be permitted to
resign as Certificate Paying Agent upon 30 days' written notice to the Owner
Trustee and the Enhancer; provided the Indenture Trustee is also resigning as
Paying Agent under the Indenture at such time. In the event that the Indenture
Trustee shall no longer be the Certificate Paying Agent under this Trust
Agreement and Paying Agent under the Indenture, the Owner Trustee shall appoint
a successor to act as Certificate Paying Agent (which shall be a bank or trust
company) and which shall also be the successor Paying Agent under the Indenture.
The Owner Trustee shall cause such successor Certificate Paying Agent or any
additional Certificate Paying Agent appointed by the Owner Trustee to execute
and deliver to the Owner Trustee an instrument to the effect set forth in this
Section 3.10 as it relates to the Certificate Paying Agent. The Certificate
Paying Agent shall return all unclaimed funds to the Trust and upon removal of a
Certificate Paying Agent such Certificate Paying Agent shall also return all
funds in its possession to the Trust. The provisions of Sections 6.01, 6.03,
6.04 and 7.01 shall apply to the Certificate Paying Agent to the extent
applicable. Any reference in this Trust Agreement to the Certificate Paying
Agent shall include any co-paying agent unless the context requires otherwise.
(c) The Certificate Paying Agent shall establish and maintain with itself
the Distribution Account in which the Certificate Paying Agent shall deposit, on
the same day as it is
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received from the Indenture Trustee, each remittance received by the Certificate
Paying Agent with respect to payments made pursuant to the Indenture. The
Certificate Paying Agent shall make all distributions on the Certificates as
provided in Section 3.05 of the Indenture from moneys on deposit in the
Distribution Account.
Section 3.11 COOPERATION. The Owner Trustee shall cooperate in all respects
with any reasonable request by the Enhancer for action to preserve or enforce
the Enhancer's rights or interest under this Trust Agreement or the Insurance
Agreement, consistent with this Trust Agreement and without limiting the rights
of the Certificateholders as otherwise expressly set forth in this Trust
Agreement.
Section 3.12 ADDITIONAL CERTIFICATE BALANCES UPON ISSUANCE OF CAPPED
FUNDING NOTES.
(a) On any date on which Variable Funding Notes are exchanged for Capped
Funding Notes pursuant to Section 4.01(d) of the Indenture, the Certificate
Balance of one or more Certificates may be increased in an amount equal to the
Additional Certificate Balance if required pursuant to the Opinion of Counsel
required to be delivered pursuant to Section 4.01(d) of the Indenture in
connection with the issuance of the Capped Funding Notes.
(b) 100.00% of the value of the Additional Certificate Balance shall be
added to any Certificate held by the Seller or an Affiliate thereof without the
consent of the other Certificateholders; or if no such Certificate exists, a new
Certificate or Certificates shall be issued at the direction of the Seller or an
Affiliate thereof having in the aggregate a Certificate Balance equal to such
100.00% of such value. Alternatively, the Depositor may allocate any portion of
such value to a Certificateholder other than the Depositor or an Affiliate
thereof, provided that such Certificateholder provides its written consent to
the Depositor and the Owner Trustee.
(c) Following such increase, the Percentage Interest of each Certificate
shall be recalculated, the numerator of which shall be the value thereof
including the respective value of the portion of the Additional Certificate
Balance added thereto pursuant to this Section 3.12, and the denominator of
which shall be the value of all the Certificates following such increase. The
Owner Trustee shall issue new Certificates with new Percentage Interests to each
Certificateholder of the Certificates, with such Percentage Interests calculated
to four decimal places. In addition, the new Certificates may be issued in
minimum denominations of 0.0001% and integral multiples of 0.0001% in excess
thereof.
(d) For purposes of the foregoing, the "value" of any Certificate or any
Additional Certificate Balance added thereto shall be determined by the Seller
in its sole discretion based on reasonable cash flow assumptions and valuation
methods, and any such determination shall be binding on the Certificateholders.
If the Seller is unable to determine the "value," the Owner Trustee shall
determine the "value" using the same assumptions and methods.
(e) The Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee and the Issuer agree to
cooperate with each other and with the Depositor and the Seller and to cause no
unreasonable
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delay in adjusting the Percentage Interests of the Certificates pursuant to this
Section 3.12 and the issuing of Capped Funding Notes in connection with Section
4.01(d) of the Indenture.
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ARTICLE IV
Authority and Duties of Owner Trustee
Section 4.01 GENERAL AUTHORITY. The Owner Trustee is authorized and
directed to execute and deliver the Basic Documents to which the Trust is to be
a party and each certificate or other document attached as an exhibit to or
contemplated by the Basic Documents to which the Trust is to be a party and any
amendment or other agreement or instrument described herein, in each case, in
such form as the Owner Trustee shall approve, as evidenced conclusively by the
Owner Trustee's execution thereof. In addition to the foregoing, the Owner
Trustee is obligated to take all actions required of the Trust pursuant to the
Basic Documents.
Section 4.02 GENERAL DUTIES. The Owner Trustee shall be responsible to
administer the Trust pursuant to the terms of this Trust Agreement and the other
Basic Documents to which the Trust is a party and in the interest of the
Certificateholders, subject to the Basic Documents and in accordance with the
provisions of this Trust Agreement.
Section 4.03 ACTION UPON INSTRUCTION.
(a) Subject to this Article IV and Section 10.13 of this Trust Agreement
and in accordance with the terms of the Basic Documents, the Certificateholders
may by written instruction direct the Owner Trustee in the management of the
Trust. Such direction may be exercised at any time by written instruction of the
Certificateholders pursuant to this Article IV.
(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Owner Trustee shall not be required
to take any action hereunder or under any Basic Document if the Owner Trustee
shall have reasonably determined, or shall have been advised by counsel, that
such action is likely to result in liability on the part of the Owner Trustee or
is contrary to the terms hereof or of any other Basic Document or is otherwise
contrary to law.
(c) Whenever the Owner Trustee is unable to decide between alternative
courses of action permitted or required by the terms of this Trust Agreement or
under any other Basic Document, or in the event that the Owner Trustee is unsure
as to the application of any provision of this Trust Agreement or any other
Basic Document or any such provision is ambiguous as to its application, or is,
or appears to be, in conflict with any other applicable provision, or in the
event that this Trust Agreement permits any determination by the Owner Trustee
or is silent or is incomplete as to the course of action that the Owner Trustee
is required to take with respect to a particular set of facts, the Owner Trustee
shall promptly give notice (in such form as shall be appropriate under the
circumstances) to the Certificateholders (with a copy to the Enhancer)
requesting instruction as to the course of action to be adopted, and to the
extent the Owner Trustee acts in good faith in accordance with any written
instructions received from Certificateholders of Certificates representing a
majority of the aggregate Certificate Balance, the Owner Trustee shall not be
liable on account of such action to any Person. If the Owner Trustee shall not
have received appropriate instruction within 10 days of such notice (or within
such shorter period of time as reasonably may be specified in such notice or may
be necessary under the circumstances) it may, but shall be under no duty to,
take or refrain from taking such action not inconsistent with this Trust
Agreement or the other Basic Documents, as it shall deem to be
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in the best interests of the Certificateholders, and the Owner Trustee shall
have no liability to any Person for such action or inaction.
Section 4.04 NO DUTIES EXCEPT AS SPECIFIED UNDER SPECIFIED DOCUMENTS OR IN
INSTRUCTIONS. The Owner Trustee shall not have any duty or obligation to manage,
make any payment with respect to, register, record, sell, dispose of, or
otherwise deal with the Trust Estate, or to otherwise take or refrain from
taking any action under, or in connection with, any document contemplated hereby
to which the Owner Trustee is a party, except as expressly provided (i) in
accordance with the powers granted to and the authority conferred upon the Owner
Trustee pursuant to this Trust Agreement, (ii) in accordance with the Basic
Documents and (iii) in accordance with any document or instruction delivered to
the Owner Trustee pursuant to Section 4.03; and no implied duties or obligations
shall be read into this Trust Agreement or any other Basic Document against the
Owner Trustee. The Owner Trustee shall have no responsibility for filing any
financing or continuation statement in any public office at any time or to
otherwise perfect or maintain the perfection of any security interest or lien
granted to it hereunder or to prepare or file any filing with the Commission for
the Trust or to record this Trust Agreement or any other Basic Document. The
Owner Trustee nevertheless agrees that it will, at its own cost and expense,
promptly take all action as may be necessary to discharge any liens on any part
of the Trust Estate that result from actions by, or claims against, the Owner
Trustee that are not related to the ownership or the administration of the Trust
Estate.
Section 4.05 RESTRICTIONS.
(a) The Owner Trustee shall not take any action (i) that is inconsistent
with the purposes of the Trust set forth in Section 2.03 or (ii) that, to the
actual knowledge of the Owner Trustee, would cause the Trust to be treated as an
association (or a publicly-traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or a
taxable mortgage pool for federal income tax purposes. The Certificateholders
shall not direct the Owner Trustee to take action that would violate the
provisions of this Section 4.05.
(b) The Owner Trustee shall not convey or transfer any of the Trust's
properties or assets, including those included in the Trust Estate, to any
person unless (i) it shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect
that such transaction will not have any material adverse tax consequence to the
Trust or any Certificateholder and (ii) such conveyance or transfer shall not
violate the provisions of Section 3.16(b) of the Indenture.
Section 4.06 PRIOR NOTICE TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS AND THE ENHANCER WITH
RESPECT TO CERTAIN MATTERS. With respect to the following matters, the Owner
Trustee shall not take action unless, at least 30 days before the taking of such
action, the Owner Trustee shall have notified the Certificateholders and the
Enhancer in writing of the proposed action and the Enhancer and the
Certificateholders of Certificates representing a majority of the aggregate
Certificate Balance shall not have notified the Owner Trustee in writing prior
to the 30th day after such notice is given that such Certificateholders have
withheld consent or provided alternative direction:
(a) the initiation of any Proceeding by the Trust (except Proceedings
brought in connection with the collection of cash distributions due and owing
under the Mortgage Loans) and the compromise of any Proceeding brought by or
against the Trust (except with respect to
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the aforementioned Proceedings for collection of cash distributions due and
owing under the Mortgage Loans);
(b) the election by the Trust to file an amendment to the Certificate of
Trust (unless such amendment is required to be filed under the Business Trust
Statute);
(c) the amendment of the Indenture by a supplemental indenture in
circumstances where the consent of any Noteholder is required;
(d) the amendment of the Indenture by a supplemental indenture in
circumstances where the consent of any Noteholder is not required and such
amendment materially and adversely affects the interest of the
Certificateholders;
(e) the appointment pursuant to the Indenture of a successor Note
Registrar, Paying Agent or Indenture Trustee or pursuant to this Trust Agreement
of a successor Certificate Registrar or Certificate Paying Agent or the consent
to the assignment by the Note Registrar, Paying Agent, Indenture Trustee,
Certificate Registrar or Certificate Paying Agent of its obligations under the
Indenture or this Trust Agreement, as applicable.
Section 4.07 ACTION BY CERTIFICATEHOLDERS WITH RESPECT TO CERTAIN MATTERS.
The Owner Trustee shall not have the power, except upon the written direction of
Certificateholders of Certificates evidencing not less than a majority of the
aggregate Certificate Balance, and with the consent of the Enhancer, to (a)
remove the Servicer under the Servicing Agreement pursuant to Section 7.01
thereof or (b) except as expressly provided in the Basic Documents, sell the
Mortgage Loans after the termination of the Indenture.
Section 4.08 ACTION BY CERTIFICATEHOLDERS WITH RESPECT TO BANKRUPTCY. The
Owner Trustee shall not have the power to commence a voluntary Proceeding in
bankruptcy relating to the Trust without the unanimous prior approval of all
Certificateholders, and with the consent of the Enhancer, and the delivery to
the Owner Trustee by each such Certificateholder of a certificate certifying
that such Certificateholder reasonably believes that the Trust is insolvent.
Section 4.09 RESTRICTIONS ON CERTIFICATEHOLDERS' POWER. The
Certificateholders shall not direct the Owner Trustee to take or to refrain from
taking any action if such action or inaction would be contrary to any obligation
of the Trust or the Owner Trustee under this Trust Agreement or any of the other
Basic Documents or would be contrary to Section 2.03, nor shall the Owner
Trustee be obligated to follow any such direction, if given.
Section 4.10 MAJORITY CONTROL. Except as expressly provided herein, any
action that may be taken by the Certificateholders under this Trust Agreement
may be taken by the Certificateholders of Certificates evidencing not less than
a majority of the aggregate Certificate Balance. Except as expressly provided
herein, any written notice of the Certificateholders delivered pursuant to this
Trust Agreement shall be effective if signed by the Certificateholders of
Certificates evidencing not less than a majority of the aggregate Certificate
Balance at the time of the delivery of such notice.
Section 4.11 DOING BUSINESS IN OTHER JURISDICTIONS. Notwithstanding
anything contained herein to the contrary, neither Wilmington Trust Company nor
the Owner Trustee shall
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be required to take any action in any jurisdiction other than in the State of
Delaware if the taking of such action will, even after the appointment of a
co-trustee or separate trustee in accordance with Section 9.05 hereof, (i)
require the consent or approval or authorization or order of or the giving of
notice to, or the registration with or the taking of any other action in respect
of, any state or other governmental authority or agency of any jurisdiction
other than the State of Delaware; (ii) result in any fee, tax or other
governmental charge under the laws of the State of Delaware becoming payable by
Wilmington Trust Company, or (iii) subject Wilmington Trust Company to personal
jurisdiction in any jurisdiction other than the State of Delaware for causes of
action arising from acts unrelated to the consummation of the transactions by
Wilmington Trust Company or the Owner Trustee, as the case may be, contemplated
hereby.
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ARTICLE V
Application of Trust Funds
Section 5.01 DISTRIBUTIONS.
(a) On each Payment Date, the Certificate Paying Agent shall distribute to
the Certificateholders all funds on deposit in the Distribution Account and
available therefor as provided in Section 3.05 of the Indenture. All
distributions made pursuant to this Section shall be distributed to the
Certificateholders pro rata based on the Percentage Interests thereof.
(b) In the event that any withholding tax is imposed on the distributions
(or allocations of income) to a Certificateholder, such tax shall reduce the
amount otherwise distributable to such Certificateholder in accordance with this
Section 5.01. The Certificate Paying Agent is hereby authorized and directed to
retain or cause to be retained from amounts otherwise distributable to the
Certificateholders sufficient funds for the payment of any tax that is legally
owed by the Trust (but such authorization shall not prevent the Owner Trustee
from contesting any such tax in appropriate Proceedings, and withholding payment
of such tax, if permitted by law, pending the outcome of such Proceedings). The
amount of any withholding tax imposed with respect to a Certificateholder shall
be treated as cash distributed to such Certificateholder at the time it is
withheld by the Certificate Paying Agent and remitted to the appropriate taxing
authority. If there is a possibility that withholding tax is payable with
respect to a distribution (such as a distribution to a non-U.S.
Certificateholder), the Certificate Paying Agent may in its sole discretion
withhold such amounts in accordance with this paragraph (b).
(c) Distributions to Certificateholders shall be subordinated to the
creditors of the Trust, including the Noteholders.
(d) Allocations of profits and losses, as determined for federal income tax
purposes, shall be made to the Certificateholders on a pro rata basis based on
the Certificate Percentage Interests thereof.
Section 5.02 METHOD OF PAYMENT. Subject to Section 8.01(c), distributions
required to be made to Certificateholders on any Payment Date as provided in
Section 5.01 shall be made to each Certificateholder of record on the preceding
Record Date by wire transfer, in immediately available funds, to the account of
each Certificateholder at a bank or other entity having appropriate facilities
therefor, if such Certificateholder shall have provided to the Certificate
Registrar appropriate written instructions at least five Business Days prior to
such Payment Date or, if not, by check or money order mailed to such
Certificateholder at the address of such Certificateholder appearing in the
Certificate Register.
Section 5.03 SIGNATURE ON RETURNS. The Servicer, as the Tax Matters
Partner, shall sign on behalf of the Trust the tax returns of the Trust.
Section 5.04 STATEMENTS TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS. On each Payment Date, the
Certificate Paying Agent shall make available to each Certificateholder the
statement or statements provided to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Paying
Agent by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01 of the Servicing Agreement with
respect to such Payment Date.
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Section 5.05 TAX REPORTING. So long as the Depositor or any Affiliate of
the Depositor owns 100% of the Certificates, then no separate federal and state
income tax returns and information returns or statements will be filed with
respect to the Trust. If the Tax Matters Partner is no longer the sole
Certificateholder, the subsequent holders of the Certificates by their
acceptance of a Certificate, agree to appoint the Tax Matters Partner as their
agent and the Tax Matters Partner, as agent for such holders, agrees to perform
all duties necessary to comply with federal and state income tax laws.
The Certificateholders agree by their purchase of 100% of the Certificates
to treat the Trust as an entity wholly owned by the Depositor or any Affiliate
of the Depositor for purposes of federal and state income tax, franchise tax and
any other tax measured in whole or in part by income, with the assets of the
entity being the assets held by the Trust, and the Notes being debt of the
Trust.
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ARTICLE VI
Concerning the Owner Trustee
Section 6.01 ACCEPTANCE OF TRUSTS AND DUTIES. The Owner Trustee accepts the
trusts hereby created and agrees to perform its duties hereunder with respect to
such trusts, but only upon the terms of this Trust Agreement. The Owner Trustee
and the Certificate Paying Agent also agree to disburse all moneys actually
received by it constituting part of the Trust Estate upon the terms of this
Trust Agreement and the other Basic Documents. The Owner Trustee shall not be
answerable or accountable hereunder or under any Basic Document under any
circumstances, except (i) for its own willful misconduct, negligence or bad
faith or negligent failure to act or (ii) in the case of the inaccuracy of any
representation or warranty contained in Section 6.03 expressly made by the Owner
Trustee. In particular, but not by way of limitation (and subject to the
exceptions set forth in the preceding sentence):
(a) no provision of this Trust Agreement or any other Basic Document shall
require the Owner Trustee to expend or risk funds or otherwise incur any
financial liability in the performance of any of its rights, duties or powers
hereunder or under any other Basic Document if the Owner Trustee shall have
reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate
indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured or provided
to it;
(b) under no circumstances shall the Owner Trustee be liable for
indebtedness evidenced by or arising under any of the Basic Documents, including
the principal of and interest on the Notes;
(c) the Owner Trustee shall not be responsible for or in respect of the
validity or sufficiency of this Trust Agreement or for the due execution hereof
by the Depositor for the form, character, genuineness, sufficiency, value or
validity of any of the Trust Estate, or for or in respect of the validity or
sufficiency of the Basic Documents, the Notes, the Certificates, other than the
certificate of authentication on the Certificates, if executed by the Owner
Trustee and the Owner Trustee shall in no event assume or incur any liability,
duty, or obligation to any Noteholder or to any Certificateholder, other than as
expressly provided for herein or in the other Basic Documents;
(d) the execution, delivery, authentication and performance by the Owner
Trustee of this Trust Agreement will not require the authorization, consent or
approval of, the giving of notice to, the filing or registration with, or the
taking of any other action with respect to, any governmental authority or
agency;
(e) the Owner Trustee shall not be liable for the default or misconduct of
the Depositor, Indenture Trustee or the Servicer under any of the Basic
Documents or otherwise and the Owner Trustee shall have no obligation or
liability to perform the obligations of the Trust under this Trust Agreement or
the other Basic Documents that are required to be performed by the Indenture
Trustee under the Indenture or the Seller under the Purchase Agreement; and
(f) the Owner Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the
rights or powers vested in it or duties imposed by this Trust Agreement, or to
institute, conduct
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or defend any litigation under this Trust Agreement or otherwise or in relation
to this Trust Agreement or any other Basic Document, at the request, order or
direction of any of the Certificateholders, unless such Certificateholders have
offered to the Owner Trustee security or indemnity satisfactory to it against
the costs, expenses and liabilities that may be incurred by the Owner Trustee
therein or thereby. The right of the Owner Trustee to perform any discretionary
act enumerated in this Trust Agreement or in any other Basic Document shall not
be construed as a duty, and the Owner Trustee shall not be answerable for other
than its negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct in the performance of any
such act.
Section 6.02 FURNISHING OF DOCUMENTS. The Owner Trustee shall furnish to
the Securityholders promptly upon receipt of a written reasonable request
therefor, duplicates or copies of all reports, notices, requests, demands,
certificates, financial statements and any other instruments furnished to the
Trust under the Basic Documents.
Section 6.03 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES. The Owner Trustee hereby
represents and warrants to the Depositor, for the benefit of the
Certificateholders, that:
(a) It is a banking corporation duly organized and validly existing in good
standing under the laws of the State of Delaware. It has all requisite corporate
power and authority to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under this
Trust Agreement;
(b) It has taken all corporate action necessary to authorize the execution
and delivery by it of this Trust Agreement, and this Trust Agreement will be
executed and delivered by one of its officers who is duly authorized to execute
and deliver this Trust Agreement on its behalf;
(c) Neither the execution nor the delivery by it of this Trust Agreement,
nor the consummation by it of the transactions contemplated hereby nor
compliance by it with any of the terms or provisions hereof will contravene any
federal or Delaware law, governmental rule or regulation governing the banking
or trust powers of the Owner Trustee or any judgment or order binding on it, or
constitute any default under its charter documents or bylaws or any indenture,
mortgage, contract, agreement or instrument to which it is a party or by which
any of its properties may be bound;
(d) This Trust Agreement, assuming due authorization, execution and
delivery by the Owner Trustee and the Depositor, constitutes a valid, legal and
binding obligation of the Owner Trustee, enforceable against it in accordance
with the terms hereof subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, moratorium and other laws affecting the enforcement of
creditors' rights generally and to general principles of equity, regardless of
whether such enforcement is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law;
(e) The Owner Trustee is not in default with respect to any order or decree
of any court or any order, regulation or demand of any federal, state, municipal
or governmental agency, which default might have consequences that would
materially and adversely affect the condition (financial or other) or operations
of the Owner Trustee or its properties or might have consequences that would
materially adversely affect its performance hereunder; and
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(f) No litigation is pending or, to the best of the Owner Trustee's
knowledge, threatened against the Owner Trustee which would prohibit its
entering into this Trust Agreement or performing its obligations under this
Trust Agreement.
Section 6.04 RELIANCE; ADVICE OF COUNSEL.
(a) The Owner Trustee shall incur no liability to anyone in acting upon any
signature, instrument, notice, resolution, request, consent, order, certificate,
report, opinion, bond, or other document or paper believed by it to be genuine
and believed by it to be signed by the proper party or parties. The Owner
Trustee may accept a certified copy of a resolution of the board of directors or
other governing body of any corporate party as conclusive evidence that such
resolution has been duly adopted by such body and that the same is in full force
and effect. As to any fact or matter the method of determination of which is not
specifically prescribed herein, the Owner Trustee may for all purposes hereof
rely on a certificate, signed by the president or any vice president or by the
treasurer or other authorized officers of the relevant party, as to such fact or
matter and such certificate shall constitute full protection to the Owner
Trustee for any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in
reliance thereon.
(b) In the exercise or administration of the Trust hereunder and in the
performance of its duties and obligations under this Trust Agreement or the
other Basic Documents, the Owner Trustee (i) may act directly or through its
agents, attorneys, custodians or nominees (including persons acting under a
power of attorney) pursuant to agreements entered into with any of them, and the
Owner Trustee shall not be liable for the conduct or misconduct of such agents,
attorneys, custodians or nominees (including persons acting under a power of
attorney) if such persons have been selected by the Owner Trustee with
reasonable care, and (ii) may consult with counsel, accountants and other
skilled persons to be selected with reasonable care and employed by it at the
expense of the Trust. The Owner Trustee shall not be liable for anything done,
suffered or omitted in good faith by it in accordance with the opinion or advice
of any such counsel, accountants or other such Persons and not contrary to this
Trust Agreement or any other Basic Document.
Section 6.05 NOT ACTING IN INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY. Except as provided in this
Article VI, in accepting the trusts hereby created Wilmington Trust Company acts
solely as Owner Trustee hereunder and not in its individual capacity, and all
Persons having any claim against the Owner Trustee by reason of the transactions
contemplated by this Trust Agreement or any other Basic Document shall look only
to the Trust Estate for payment or satisfaction thereof.
Section 6.06 OWNER TRUSTEE NOT LIABLE FOR CERTIFICATES OR RELATED
DOCUMENTS. The recitals contained herein and in the Certificates (other than the
signatures of the Owner Trustee on the Certificates) shall be taken as the
statements of the Depositor, and the Owner Trustee assumes no responsibility for
the correctness thereof. The Owner Trustee makes no representations as to the
validity or sufficiency of this Trust Agreement, of any other Basic Document or
of the Certificates (other than the signatures of the Owner Trustee on the
Certificates) or the Notes, or of any Related Documents. The Owner Trustee shall
at no time have any responsibility or liability with respect to the sufficiency
of the Trust Estate or its ability to generate the payments to be distributed to
Certificateholders under this Trust Agreement or the Noteholders under the
Indenture, including, the compliance by the Depositor or the Seller with
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any warranty or representation made under any Basic Document or in any related
document or the accuracy of any such warranty or representation, or any action
of the Certificate Paying Agent, the Certificate Registrar or the Indenture
Trustee taken in the name of the Owner Trustee.
Section 6.07 OWNER TRUSTEE MAY OWN CERTIFICATES AND NOTES. The Owner
Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee
of Certificates or Notes and may deal with the Depositor, the Seller, the
Certificate Paying Agent, the Certificate Registrar and the Indenture Trustee in
transactions with the same rights as it would have if it were not Owner Trustee.
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ARTICLE VII
Compensation of Owner Trustee
Section 7.01 OWNER TRUSTEE'S FEES AND EXPENSES. The Owner Trustee shall
receive as compensation for its services hereunder such fees as have been
separately agreed upon before the date hereof in accordance with Section 6.06 of
the Servicing Agreement, and the Owner Trustee shall be reimbursed for its
reasonable expenses hereunder and under the other Basic Documents, including the
reasonable compensation, expenses and disbursements of such agents,
representatives, experts and counsel as the Owner Trustee may reasonably employ
in connection with the exercise and performance of its rights and its duties
hereunder and under the other Basic Documents which shall be payable by the
Servicer pursuant to Section 3.09 of the Servicing Agreement.
Section 7.02 INDEMNIFICATION. The Certificateholder of the majority of the
Percentage Interest of the Certificates shall indemnify, defend and hold
harmless the Owner Trustee and its successors, assigns, agents and servants
(collectively, the "Indemnified Parties") from and against, any and all
liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, taxes, claims, actions and suits, and
any and all reasonable costs, expenses and disbursements (including reasonable
legal fees and expenses) of any kind and nature whatsoever (collectively,
"Expenses") which may at any time be imposed on, incurred by, or asserted
against the Owner Trustee or any Indemnified Party in any way relating to or
arising out of this Trust Agreement, the other Basic Documents, the Trust
Estate, the administration of the Trust Estate or the action or inaction of the
Owner Trustee hereunder; provided, that:
(a) the Certificateholder of the majority of the Percentage Interest of the
Certificates shall not be liable for or required to indemnify an Indemnified
Party from and against Expenses arising or resulting from the Owner Trustee's
willful misconduct, negligence or bad faith or as a result of any inaccuracy of
a representation or warranty contained in Section 6.03 expressly made by the
Owner Trustee;
(b) with respect to any such claim, the Indemnified Party shall have given
the Certificateholder of the majority of the Percentage Interest of the
Certificates written notice thereof promptly after the Indemnified Party shall
have actual knowledge thereof;
(c) while maintaining control over its own defense, the Certificateholder
of the majority of the Percentage Interest of the Certificates shall consult
with the Indemnified Party in preparing such defense; and
(d) notwithstanding anything in this Trust Agreement to the contrary, the
Certificateholder of the majority of the Percentage Interest of the Certificates
shall not be liable for settlement of any claim by an Indemnified Party entered
into without the prior consent of the Certificateholder of the majority of the
Percentage Interest of the Certificates, which consent shall not be unreasonably
withheld.
The indemnities contained in this Section shall survive the resignation or
termination of the Owner Trustee or the termination of this Trust Agreement. In
the event of any Proceeding
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for which indemnity may be sought pursuant to this Section 7.02, the Owner
Trustee's choice of legal counsel, if other than the legal counsel retained by
the Owner Trustee in connection with the execution and delivery of this Trust
Agreement, shall be subject to the approval of the Certificateholder of the
majority of the Percentage Interest of the Certificates, which approval shall
not be unreasonably withheld. In addition, upon written notice to the Owner
Trustee and with the consent of the Owner Trustee, which consent shall not be
unreasonably withheld, the Certificateholder of the majority of the Percentage
Interest of the Certificates shall have the right to assume the defense of any
Proceeding against the Owner Trustee.
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ARTICLE VIII
Termination of Trust Agreement
Section 8.01 TERMINATION OF TRUST AGREEMENT.
(a) This Trust Agreement (other than this Article VIII) and the Trust shall
terminate and be of no further force or effect upon the final distribution of
all moneys or other property or proceeds of the Trust Estate in accordance with
the terms of the Indenture and this Trust Agreement. The bankruptcy,
liquidation, dissolution, death or incapacity of any Certificateholder shall not
(i) operate to terminate this Trust Agreement or the Trust, (ii) entitle such
Certificateholder's legal representatives or heirs to claim an accounting or to
take any Proceeding in any court for a partition or winding up of all or any
part of the Trust or the Trust Estate or (iii) otherwise affect the rights,
obligations and liabilities of the parties hereto.
(b) Except as provided in Section 8.01(a), neither the Depositor nor any
Certificateholder shall be entitled to revoke or terminate the Trust.
(c) Notice of any termination of the Trust, specifying the Payment Date on
which Certificateholders shall surrender their Certificates to the Certificate
Paying Agent for payment of the final distribution thereon and cancellation
thereof, shall be given by the Certificate Paying Agent by letter to the
Certificateholders and the Enhancer mailed within five Business Days of receipt
of notice of such termination from the Owner Trustee, stating (i) the Payment
Date upon or with respect to which final payment of the Certificates shall be
made upon presentation and surrender of the Certificates at the office of the
Certificate Paying Agent therein designated, (ii) the amount of any such final
payment and (iii) that the Record Date otherwise applicable to such Payment Date
is not applicable, payments being made only upon presentation and surrender of
the Certificates at the office of the Certificate Paying Agent therein
specified. The Certificate Paying Agent shall give such notice to the Owner
Trustee and the Certificate Registrar at the time such notice is given to
Certificateholders. Upon presentation and surrender of the Certificates, the
Certificate Paying Agent shall cause to be distributed to Certificateholders
amounts distributable on such Payment Date pursuant to Section 5.01.
In the event that all of the Certificateholders shall not have surrendered
their Certificates for cancellation within six months after the date specified
in the above mentioned written notice, the Certificate Paying Agent shall give a
second written notice to the remaining Certificateholders to surrender their
Certificates for cancellation and receive the final distribution with respect
thereto. Subject to applicable laws with respect to escheat of funds, if within
one year following the Payment Date on which final payment of the Certificates
was to have been made pursuant to Section 3.10, all the Certificates shall not
have been surrendered for cancellation, the Certificate Paying Agent may take
appropriate steps, or may appoint an agent to take appropriate steps, to contact
the remaining Certificateholders concerning surrender of their Certificates, and
the cost thereof shall be paid out of the funds and other assets that shall
remain subject to this Trust Agreement. Any funds remaining in the Distribution
Account after exhaustion of such remedies shall be distributed by the
Certificate Paying Agent to the Certificateholder of the majority of the
Percentage Interest of the Certificates.
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(d) Upon the winding up of the Trust and its termination, the Owner Trustee
shall cause the Certificate of Trust to be cancelled by filing a certificate of
cancellation with the Secretary of State in accordance with the provisions of
Section 3810(c) of the Business Trust Statute.
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ARTICLE IX
Successor Owner Trustees and Additional Owner Trustees
Section 9.01 ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS FOR OWNER TRUSTEE. The Owner Trustee
shall at all times be a corporation satisfying the provisions of Section 3807(a)
of the Business Trust Statute; authorized to exercise corporate trust powers;
having a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 and subject to
supervision or examination by federal or state authorities; and having (or
having a parent that has) long-term debt obligations with a rating of at least A
by Moody's or Standard & Poor's. If such corporation shall publish reports of
condition at least annually pursuant to law or to the requirements of the
aforesaid supervising or examining authority, then for the purpose 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. In case at any time the Owner Trustee shall cease to be
eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section 9.01, the Owner
Trustee shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in
Section 9.02.
Section 9.02 REPLACEMENT OF OWNER TRUSTEE. The Owner Trustee may at any
time resign and be discharged from the trusts hereby created by giving 30 days'
prior written notice thereof to the Enhancer and the Depositor. Upon receiving
such notice of resignation, the Indenture Trustee shall promptly appoint a
successor Owner Trustee with the consent of the Enhancer, which consent shall
not be unreasonably withheld, by written instrument, in duplicate, one copy of
which instrument shall be delivered to the resigning Owner Trustee and one copy
to the successor Owner Trustee. If no successor Owner Trustee shall have been so
appointed and have accepted appointment within 30 days after the giving of such
notice of resignation, the resigning Owner Trustee may petition any court of
competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Owner Trustee.
If at any time the Owner Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance
with the provisions of Section 9.01 and shall fail to resign after written
request therefor by the Indenture Trustee, or if at any time the Owner Trustee
shall be legally unable to act, or shall be adjudged bankrupt or insolvent, or a
receiver of the Owner Trustee or of its property shall be appointed, or any
public officer shall take charge or control of the Owner Trustee or of its
property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or
liquidation, then the Indenture Trustee may, and, at the direction of the
Enhancer, shall, remove the Owner Trustee. If the Indenture Trustee shall remove
the Owner Trustee under the authority of the immediately preceding sentence, the
Indenture Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor Owner Trustee acceptable to
the Enhancer by written instrument, in duplicate, one copy of which instrument
shall be delivered to the outgoing Owner Trustee so removed and one copy to the
successor Owner Trustee, and shall pay all fees owed to the outgoing Owner
Trustee.
Any resignation or removal of the Owner Trustee and appointment of a
successor Owner Trustee pursuant to any of the provisions of this Section shall
not become effective until acceptance of appointment by the successor Owner
Trustee pursuant to Section 9.03 and payment of all fees and expenses owed to
the outgoing Owner Trustee.
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Section 9.03 SUCCESSOR OWNER TRUSTEE. Any successor Owner Trustee appointed
pursuant to Section 9.02 shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Indenture
Trustee and to its predecessor Owner Trustee an instrument accepting such
appointment under this Trust Agreement, and thereupon the resignation or removal
of the predecessor Owner Trustee shall become effective, and such successor
Owner Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become fully
vested with all the rights, powers, duties and obligations of its predecessor
under this Trust Agreement, with like effect as if originally named as Owner
Trustee. The predecessor Owner Trustee shall upon payment of its fees and
expenses deliver to the successor Owner Trustee all documents and statements and
monies held by it under this Trust Agreement; and the predecessor Owner Trustee
shall execute and deliver such instruments and do such other things as may
reasonably be required for fully and certainly vesting and confirming in the
successor Owner Trustee all such rights, powers, duties and obligations.
No successor Owner Trustee shall accept appointment as provided in this
Section 9.03 unless at the time of such acceptance such successor Owner Trustee
shall be eligible pursuant to Section 9.01.
Upon acceptance of appointment by a successor Owner Trustee pursuant to
this Section 9.03, the Indenture Trustee shall mail notice thereof to all
Certificateholders, the Indenture Trustee, the Noteholders and the Rating
Agencies. If the Indenture Trustee shall fail to mail such notice within 10 days
after acceptance of such appointment by the successor Owner Trustee, the
successor Owner Trustee shall cause such notice to be mailed at the expense of
the Indenture Trustee.
Section 9.04 MERGER OR CONSOLIDATION OF OWNER TRUSTEE. Any Person into
which the Owner Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may be
consolidated, or any Person resulting from any merger, conversion or
consolidation to which the Owner Trustee shall be a party, or any Person
succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of the
Owner Trustee, shall be the successor of the Owner Trustee hereunder, without
the execution or filing of any instrument or any further act on the part of any
of the parties hereto, anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding;
provided, that such Person shall be eligible pursuant to Section 9.01 and,
provided, further, that the Owner Trustee shall mail notice of such merger or
consolidation to the Rating Agencies.
Section 9.05 APPOINTMENT OF CO-TRUSTEE OR SEPARATE TRUSTEE. Notwithstanding
any other provisions of this Trust Agreement, at any time, for the purpose of
meeting any legal requirements of any jurisdiction in which any part of the
Trust Estate may at the time be located, the Owner Trustee shall have the power
and shall execute and deliver all instruments to appoint one or more Persons to
act as co-trustee, jointly with the Owner Trustee, or as separate trustee or
trustees, of all or any part of the Trust Estate, and to vest in such Person, in
such capacity, such title to the Trust or any part thereof and, subject to the
other provisions of this Section, such powers, duties, obligations, rights and
trusts as the Owner Trustee may consider necessary or desirable. No co-trustee
or separate trustee under this Trust Agreement shall be required to meet the
terms of eligibility as a successor Owner Trustee pursuant to Section 9.01 and
no notice of the appointment of any co-trustee or separate trustee shall be
required pursuant to Section 9.03.
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Each separate trustee and co-trustee shall, to the extent permitted by law,
be appointed and act subject to the following provisions and conditions:
(a) All rights, powers, duties and obligations conferred or imposed upon
the Owner Trustee shall be conferred upon and exercised or performed by the
Owner Trustee and such separate trustee or co-trustee jointly (it being
understood that such separate trustee or co-trustee is not authorized to act
separately without the Owner Trustee joining in such act), except to the extent
that under any law of any jurisdiction in which any particular act or acts are
to be performed, the Owner Trustee shall be incompetent or unqualified to
perform such act or acts, in which event such rights, powers, duties and
obligations (including the holding of title to the Trust Estate or any portion
thereof in any such jurisdiction) shall be exercised and performed singly by
such separate trustee or co-trustee, but solely at the direction of the Owner
Trustee;
(b) No trustee under this Trust Agreement shall be personally liable by
reason of any act or omission of any other trustee under this Trust Agreement;
and
(c) The Owner Trustee may at any time accept the resignation of or remove
any separate trustee or co-trustee.
Any notice, request or other writing given to the Owner Trustee shall be
deemed to have been given to each of the then separate trustees and co-trustees,
as effectively as if given to each of them. Every instrument appointing any
separate trustee or co-trustee shall refer to this Trust Agreement and the
conditions of this Article IX. Each separate trustee and co-trustee, upon its
acceptance of the trusts conferred, shall be vested with the estates or property
specified in its instrument of appointment, either jointly with the Owner
Trustee or separately, as may be provided therein, subject to all the provisions
of this Trust Agreement, specifically including every provision of this Trust
Agreement relating to the conduct of, affecting the liability of, or affording
protection to, the Owner Trustee. Each such instrument shall be filed with the
Owner Trustee.
Any separate trustee or co-trustee may at any time appoint the Owner
Trustee as its agent or attorney-in-fact with full power and authority, to the
extent not prohibited by law, to do any lawful act under or in respect of this
Trust Agreement on its behalf and in its name. If any separate trustee or
co-trustee shall die, become incapable of acting, resign or be removed, all of
its estates, properties, rights, remedies and trusts shall vest in and be
exercised by the Owner Trustee, to the extent permitted by law, without the
appointment of a new or successor co-trustee or separate trustee.
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ARTICLE X
Miscellaneous
Section 10.01 AMENDMENTS.
(a) This Trust Agreement may be amended from time to time by the parties
hereto as specified in this Section 10.01, provided that any such amendment,
except as provided in paragraph (e) below, shall be accompanied by an Opinion of
Counsel addressed to the Owner Trustee and the Enhancer to the effect that such
amendment (i) complies with the provisions of this Section and (ii) will not
cause the Trust to be subject to an entity level tax.
(b) If the purpose of any such amendment (as detailed therein) is to
correct any mistake, eliminate any inconsistency, cure any ambiguity or deal
with any matter not covered in this Trust Agreement (I.E., to give effect to the
intent of the parties), it shall not be necessary to obtain the consent of any
Certificateholders, but the Owner Trustee shall be furnished with (i) a letter
from each Rating Agency that the amendment will not result in a Rating Event,
determined without regard to the Policy and (ii) an Opinion of Counsel to the
effect that such action will not adversely affect in any material respect the
interests of any Certificateholder, and the consent of the Enhancer shall be
obtained.
(c) If the purpose of the amendment is to prevent the imposition of any
federal or state taxes at any time that any Security is outstanding (I.E.,
technical in nature), it shall not be necessary to obtain the consent of any
Certificateholder, but the Owner Trustee shall be furnished with an Opinion of
Counsel that such amendment is necessary or helpful to prevent the imposition of
such taxes and is not materially adverse to any Certificateholder and the
consent of the Enhancer shall be obtained.
(d) If the purpose of the amendment is to add or eliminate or change any
provision of the Trust Agreement other than as contemplated in (b) and (c)
above, the amendment shall require (i) the consent of the Enhancer and an
Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such action will not adversely affect in
any material respect the interests of any Certificateholder and (ii) either (A)
a letter from each Rating Agency that such amendment will not cause a Rating
Event, if determined without regard to the Policy or (B) the consent of
Certificateholders of Certificates evidencing a majority of the aggregate
Certificate Balance and the Indenture Trustee; provided, however, that no such
amendment shall reduce in any manner the amount of, or delay the timing of,
payments received that are required to be distributed on any Certificate without
the consent of each Certificateholder affected thereby and the Enhancer, or
reduce the aforesaid percentage of Certificates the Certificateholders of which
are required to consent to any such amendment, without the consent of the
Certificateholders of all such Certificates then outstanding.
(e) No amendment of this Trust Agreement may provide for the holding of any
of the Certificates in book-entry form.
(f) If the purpose of any such amendment is to provide for the issuance of
additional Certificates representing an interest in the Trust, it shall not be
necessary to obtain the
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consent of any Certificateholder, but the Owner Trustee shall be furnished with
(i) an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such action will not adversely
affect in any material respect the interests of any Certificateholders and (B) a
letter from each Rating Agency to the effect that such amendment will not cause
a Rating Event, if determined without regard to the Policy, and the consent of
the Enhancer shall be obtained.
(g) Promptly after the execution of any such amendment or consent, the
Owner Trustee shall furnish written notification of the substance of such
amendment or consent to each Certificateholder, the Indenture Trustee, the
Enhancer and each of the Rating Agencies. It shall not be necessary for the
consent of Certificateholders or the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Section
10.01 to approve the particular form of any proposed amendment or consent, but
it shall be sufficient if such consent shall approve the substance thereof. The
manner of obtaining such consents (and any other consents of Certificateholders
provided for in this Trust Agreement or in any other Basic Document) and of
evidencing the authorization of the execution thereof by Certificateholders
shall be subject to such reasonable requirements as the Owner Trustee may
prescribe.
(h) In connection with the execution of any amendment to any agreement to
which the Trust is a party, other than this Trust Agreement, the Owner Trustee
shall be entitled to receive and conclusively rely upon an Opinion of Counsel to
the effect that such amendment is authorized or permitted by the documents
subject to such amendment and that all conditions precedent in the Basic
Documents for the execution and delivery thereof by the Trust or the Owner
Trustee, as the case may be, have been satisfied.
Promptly after the execution of any amendment to the Certificate of Trust,
the Owner Trustee shall cause the filing of such amendment with the Secretary of
State.
Section 10.02 NO LEGAL TITLE TO TRUST ESTATE. The Certificateholders shall
not have legal title to any part of the Trust Estate. The Certificateholders
shall be entitled to receive distributions with respect to their undivided
beneficial interest therein only in accordance with Articles V and VIII. No
transfer, by operation of law or otherwise, of any right, title or interest of
the Certificateholders to and in their ownership interest in the Trust Estate
shall operate to terminate this Trust Agreement or the trusts hereunder or
entitle any transferee to an accounting or to the transfer to it of legal title
to any part of the Trust Estate.
Section 10.03 LIMITATIONS ON RIGHTS OF OTHERS. Except for Section 2.07, the
provisions of this Trust Agreement are solely for the benefit of the Owner
Trustee, the Depositor, the Certificateholders, the Enhancer and, to the extent
expressly provided herein, the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders, and
nothing in this Trust Agreement (other than Section 2.07), whether express or
implied, shall be construed to give to any other Person any legal or equitable
right, remedy or claim in the Trust Estate or under or in respect of this Trust
Agreement or any covenants, conditions or provisions contained herein.
Section 10.04 NOTICES.
(a) Unless otherwise expressly specified or permitted by the terms hereof,
all notices shall be in writing and shall be deemed given upon receipt: if to
the Owner Trustee,
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addressed to its Corporate Trust Office; if to the Certificate Paying Agent,
addressed to Norwest Bank Minnesota, National Association, 00000 Xxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000, with a copy to the Corporate Trust Office of
the Indenture Trustee, if to the Depositor, addressed to Residential Asset
Mortgage Products, Inc., 0000 Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxx 000, Xxxxxxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxxx 00000, Attention: President, Re: GMACM Home Equity Loan Trust Series
2000-HE1; if to the Enhancer, addressed to MBIA Insurance Corporation, 000 Xxxx
Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000: Attention: Insured Portfolio Management-
Structured Finance (GMACM Home Equity Loan Trust 2000-HE1), if to the Rating
Agencies, addressed to Xxxxx'x Investors Service, Inc., 00 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, 0xx
Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000 and Standard & Poor's, a division of The
XxXxxx-Xxxx Companies, Inc., 00 Xxxxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000,
Attention: Structured Finance Department - MBS; or, as to each of the foregoing
Persons, at such other address as shall be designated by such Person in a
written notice to each of the other foregoing Persons.
(b) Any notice required or permitted to be given to a Certificateholder
shall be given by first-class mail, postage prepaid, at the address of such
Certificateholder as shown in the Certificate Register. Any notice so mailed
within the time prescribed in this Trust Agreement to a Certificateholder shall
be conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether or not such
Certificateholder receives such notice.
(c) A copy of any notice delivered to the Owner Trustee or the Trust shall
also be delivered to the Depositor.
Section 10.05 SEVERABILITY. Any provision of this Trust Agreement that is
prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction,
be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or unenforceability without
invalidating the remaining provisions hereof, and any such prohibition or
unenforceability in any jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render
unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction.
Section 10.06 SEPARATE COUNTERPARTS. This Trust Agreement may be executed
by the parties hereto in any number of counterparts, each of which when so
executed and delivered shall be an original, but all such counterparts shall
together constitute but one and the same instrument.
Section 10.07 SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS. All representations, warranties,
covenants and agreements contained herein shall be binding upon, and inure to
the benefit of, each of the Enhancer, the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and its
successors and each Certificateholder and its successors and permitted assigns,
all as herein provided. Any request, notice, direction, consent, waiver or other
instrument or action by a Certificateholder shall bind the successors and
assigns of such Certificateholder.
Section 10.08 NO PETITION. The Owner Trustee, by entering into this Trust
Agreement, and each Certificateholder, by accepting a Certificate, hereby
covenant and agree that they will not at any time institute against the
Depositor or the Trust, or join in any institution against the Depositor or the
Trust of, any bankruptcy Proceedings under any United States federal or state
bankruptcy or similar law in connection with any obligations to the
Certificates, the Notes, this Trust Agreement or any of the other Basic
Documents.
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Section 10.09 NO RECOURSE. Each Certificateholder, by accepting a
Certificate, acknowledges that such Certificateholder's Certificate represents a
beneficial interest in the Trust only and does not represent an interest in or
obligation of the Depositor, the Seller, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture
Trustee or any Affiliate thereof, and that no recourse may be had against such
Persons or their assets, except as may be expressly set forth or contemplated in
the Certificates, this Trust Agreement or the other Basic Documents.
Section 10.10 HEADINGS. The headings of the various Articles and Sections
herein are for convenience of reference only and shall not define or limit any
of the terms or provisions hereof.
Section 10.11 GOVERNING LAW. THIS TRUST AGREEMENT SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS
CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISIONS, AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE
PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.
Section 10.12 INTEGRATION. This Trust Agreement constitutes the entire
agreement among the parties hereto pertaining to the subject matter hereof and
supersedes all prior agreements and understanding pertaining thereto.
Section 10.13 RIGHTS OF ENHANCER TO EXERCISE RIGHTS OF CERTIFICATEHOLDERS.
By accepting its Certificate, each Certificateholder agrees that unless a
Enhancer Default exists, the Enhancer shall have the right to exercise all
rights of the Certificateholders under this Trust Agreement without any further
consent of the Certificateholders. Nothing in this Section, however, shall alter
or modify in any way, the fiduciary obligations of the Owner Trustee to the
Certificateholders pursuant to this Trust Agreement, or create any fiduciary
obligation of the Owner Trustee to the Enhancer. The Enhancer shall be an
express third party beneficiary of this Trust Agreement.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Depositor and the Owner Trustee have caused their
names to be signed hereto by their respective officers thereunto duly
authorized, all as of the day and year first above written.
RESIDENTIAL ASSET MORTGAGE
PRODUCTS, INC.,
as Depositor
By: /S/ XXXXXXXX X. XXXXXX
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Name: Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Title: Vice President
WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, not in its individual
capacity but solely as Owner Trustee, except
with respect to the representations and
warranties contained in Section 6.03 hereof
By: /S/ XXXXXXXX X. XXXXX
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Name: Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxxx
Title: Financial Services Officer
Acknowledged and Agreed:
NORWEST BANK MINNESOTA,
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Indenture Trustee, Certificate Registrar
and Certificate Paying Agent
By: /S/ XXXXX X. XXXXXX
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Name: Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Title: Assistant Vice President
EXHIBIT A
FORM OF CERTIFICATE
THIS CERTIFICATE IS SUBORDINATED IN RIGHT OF PAYMENT TO THE TERM NOTES AND
THE VARIABLE FUNDING NOTES AS DESCRIBED IN THE AGREEMENT (AS DEFINED HEREIN).
THIS CERTIFICATE IS ISSUED IN THE PERCENTAGE INTEREST SET FORTH BELOW;
HOWEVER, THE PERCENTAGE INTEREST OF THIS CERTIFICATE MAY CHANGE IN ACCORDANCE
WITH SECTION 3.12 OF THE AGREEMENT. THE CERTIFICATEHOLDER OF THIS CERTIFICATE
HEREBY CONSENTS TO ANY CHANGE IN ITS PERCENTAGE INTEREST IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH
SECTION.
THIS CERTIFICATE HAS NOT BEEN AND WILL NOT BE REGISTERED UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE AND MAY
NOT BE RESOLD OR TRANSFERRED UNLESS IT IS REGISTERED PURSUANT TO SUCH ACT AND
STATE LAWS OR IS SOLD OR TRANSFERRED IN TRANSACTIONS WHICH ARE EXEMPT FROM
REGISTRATION UNDER SUCH ACT AND SUCH STATE LAWS AND IS TRANSFERRED IN ACCORDANCE
WITH THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 3.05 OF THE AGREEMENT.
NO TRANSFER OF THIS CERTIFICATE SHALL BE MADE UNLESS THE CERTIFICATE
REGISTRAR SHALL HAVE RECEIVED EITHER (i) A REPRESENTATION LETTER FROM THE
TRANSFEREE OF THIS CERTIFICATE TO THE EFFECT THAT SUCH TRANSFEREE IS NOT AN
EMPLOYEE BENEFIT OR OTHER PLAN SUBJECT TO THE PROHIBITED TRANSACTION
RESTRICTIONS AND THE FIDUCIARY RESPONSIBILITY REQUIREMENTS OF THE EMPLOYEE
RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED ("ERISA"), OR SECTION 4975 OF
THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED (THE "CODE"), ANY PERSON
ACTING,
DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, ON BEHALF OF ANY SUCH PLAN OR ANY PERSON USING "PLAN
ASSETS," WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR REGULATIONS SECTION
2510.3-101, TO ACQUIRE THIS CERTIFICATE (EACH, A "PLAN INVESTOR"), OR (ii) IF
THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED FOR REGISTRATION IN THE NAME OF A PLAN INVESTOR,
AN OPINION OF COUNSEL ACCEPTABLE TO AND IN FORM AND SUBSTANCE SATISFACTORY TO
THE DEPOSITOR, THE OWNER TRUSTEE, THE SERVICER AND THE CERTIFICATE REGISTRAR, OR
A CERTIFICATION IN THE FORM OF EXHIBIT G TO THE AGREEMENT, TO THE EFFECT THAT
THE PURCHASE OR HOLDING OF THIS CERTIFICATE IS PERMISSIBLE UNDER APPLICABLE LAW,
WILL NOT CONSTITUTE OR RESULT IN A PROHIBITED TRANSACTION UNDER SECTION 406 OF
ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE (OR COMPARABLE PROVISIONS OF ANY SUBSEQUENT
ENACTMENTS) AND WILL NOT SUBJECT THE DEPOSITOR, THE OWNER TRUSTEE, THE SERVICER
OR THE CERTIFICATE REGISTRAR TO ANY OBLIGATION OR LIABILITY (INCLUDING
OBLIGATIONS OR LIABILITIES UNDER SECTION 406 OF ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE
CODE) IN ADDITION TO THOSE UNDERTAKEN IN THE AGREEMENT.
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THE TRANSFEREE OF THIS CERTIFICATE SHALL BE SUBJECT TO UNITED STATES
FEDERAL WITHHOLDING TAX UNLESS THE CERTIFICATE REGISTRAR SHALL HAVE RECEIVED A
CERTIFICATE OF NON-FOREIGN STATUS CERTIFYING AS TO THE TRANSFEREE'S STATUS AS A
U.S. PERSON OR CORPORATION OR PARTNERSHIP UNDER U.S. LAW.
THIS CERTIFICATE DOES NOT REPRESENT AN INTEREST IN OR OBLIGATION OF THE
SELLER, THE DEPOSITOR, THE SERVICER, THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE, THE OWNER TRUSTEE OR
ANY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE AFFILIATES, EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY PROVIDED IN THE
AGREEMENT OR THE OTHER BASIC DOCUMENTS.
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Certificate No.
Cut-Off Date:
February 1, 2000
Date of Trust Agreement:
February 28, 2000
First Payment Date: Percentage Interest: 100%
March 27, 2000
Final Payment Date:
February 25, 2030
GMACM HOME EQUITY LOAN-BACKED CERTIFICATE, SERIES 2000-HE1
evidencing a fractional undivided interest in GMACM Home Equity Loan Trust
2000-HE1 (the "Issuer"), the property of which consists primarily of the
Mortgage Loans.
This Certificate is payable solely from the assets of the Trust Estate, and
does not represent an obligation of or interest in the Depositor, the Seller,
the Servicer, the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee or any of their
Affiliates. This Certificate is not guaranteed or insured by any governmental
agency or instrumentality or by the Depositor, the Seller, the Servicer, the
Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee or any of their affiliates. None of the
Depositor, the Seller, the Servicer, the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee
or any of their Affiliates will have any obligation with respect to any
certificate or other obligation secured by or payable from payments on the
Certificates.
This certifies that GMAC Mortgage Corporation is the registered owner of
the Certificate Balance evidenced by this Certificate (as set forth on the face
hereof) in certain distributions with respect to the Trust Estate, consisting
primarily of the Mortgage Loans, created Residential Asset Mortgage Products,
Inc. (the "Depositor"). The Trust (as defined herein) was created pursuant to a
trust agreement dated as of February 28, 2000 (as amended and supplemented from
time to time, the "Agreement"), between the Depositor and Wilmington Trust
Company, as owner trustee (the "Owner Trustee," which term includes any
successor entity under the Agreement), a summary of certain of the pertinent
provisions of which is set forth hereafter. Capitalized terms used herein that
are not otherwise defined shall have the meanings ascribed thereto in Appendix A
to the indenture dated as of February 28, 2000, between the Trust and the
Indenture Trustee. This Certificate is issued under and is subject to the terms,
provisions and conditions of the Agreement, to which Agreement the
Certificateholder of this Certificate by virtue of the acceptance hereof assents
and by which such Certificateholder is bound.
Pursuant to the terms of the Agreement, a distribution will be made on the
25th day of each month or, if such 25th day is not a Business Day, the Business
Day immediately following (the "Payment Date"), commencing on the first Payment
Date specified above, to the Person in whose name this Certificate is registered
at the close of business on the last day (or if such last day is not a Business
Day, the Business Day immediately preceding such last day) of the month
immediately preceding the month of such distribution (the "Record Date"), in an
amount equal to
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the pro rata portion evidenced by this Certificate (based on the Percentage
Interest stated on the face hereon) of the amount, if any, required to be
distributed to Certificateholders of Certificates on such Payment Date.
Distributions on this Certificate will be made as provided in the Agreement by
the Certificate Paying Agent by wire transfer or check mailed to the
Certificateholder of record in the Certificate Register without the presentation
or surrender of this Certificate or the making of any notation hereon.
Except as otherwise provided in the Agreement and notwithstanding the
above, the final distribution on this Certificate will be made after due notice
by the Certificate Paying Agent of the pendency of such distribution and only
upon presentation and surrender of this Certificate at the office or agency
designated by the Certificate Registrar for that purpose in the City and State
of New York. The initial Certificate Balance of this Certificate is set forth
above. The Certificate Balance hereof will be reduced to the extent of the
distributions allocable to principal.
No transfer of this Certificate will be made unless such transfer is exempt
from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended
(the "Securities Act"), and any applicable state securities laws or is made in
accordance the Securities Act and such state laws. In the event that such a
transfer is to be made, (i) the Certificate Registrar or the Depositor may
require an opinion of counsel acceptable to and in form and substance
satisfactory to the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor that such transfer
is exempt (describing the applicable exemption and the basis therefor) from or
is being made pursuant to the registration requirements of the Securities Act,
and of any applicable statute of any state and (ii) the transferee shall execute
an investment letter in the form described in the Agreement and (iii) the
Certificate Registrar shall require the transferee to execute an investment
letter and a Certificate of Non-Foreign Status in the form described by the
Agreement (or if a Certificate of Non-Foreign Status is not provided, an Opinion
of Counsel as described in the Agreement), which investment letter and
certificate or Opinion of Counsel shall not be at the expense of the Trust, the
Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar or the Depositor. The Certificateholder
hereof desiring to effect such transfer shall, and does hereby agree to,
indemnify the Trust, the Owner Trustee, the Depositor, the Servicer and the
Certificate Registrar against any liability that may result if the transfer is
not so exempt or is not made in accordance with such federal and state laws. In
connection with any such transfer, the Certificate Registrar (unless otherwise
directed by the Depositor) will also require either (i) a representation letter,
in the form as described by the Agreement, stating that the transferee is not an
employee benefit or other plan subject to the prohibited transaction
restrictions or the fiduciary responsibility requirements of ERISA or Section
4975 of the Code (a "Plan"), any person acting, directly or indirectly, on
behalf of any such Plan or any Person using the "plan assets," within the
meaning of the Department of Labor Regulations Section 2510.3-101, to effect
such acquisition (collectively, a "Plan Investor") or (ii) if such transferee is
a Plan Investor, an opinion of counsel acceptable to and in form and substance
satisfactory to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee, the Servicer and the
Certificate Registrar, or a certification in the form of Exhibit G to the
Agreement, to the effect that the purchase or holding of such Certificate is
permissible under applicable law, will not constitute or result in a prohibited
transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (or
comparable provisions of any subsequent enactments) and will not subject the
Depositor, the Owner Trustee, the Servicer or the Certificate Registrar to any
obligation or liability (including obligations or liabilities under Section 406
of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code) in addition to those undertaken in the
Agreement.
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This Certificate is one of a duly authorized issue of Certificates
designated as GMACM Home Equity Loan-Backed Certificates of the Series specified
hereon (the "Certificates").
The Certificateholder of this Certificate, by its acceptance hereof, agrees
that it will look solely to the funds on deposit in the Distribution Account
that have been released from the Lien of the Indenture for payment hereunder and
that neither the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity nor the Depositor is
personally liable to the Certificateholders for any amount payable under this
Certificate or the Agreement or, except as expressly provided in the Agreement,
subject to any liability under the Agreement.
The Certificateholder of this Certificate acknowledges and agrees that its
rights to receive distributions in respect of this Certificate are subordinated
to the rights of the Noteholders as described in the Indenture.
Each Certificateholder, by its acceptance of a Certificate, covenants and
agrees that such Certificateholder will not at any time institute against the
Depositor, or join in any institution against the Depositor or the Trust of, any
bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings,
or other proceedings under any United States federal or state bankruptcy or
similar law in connection with any obligations relating to the Certificates, the
Notes, the Agreement or any of the other Basic Documents.
The Agreement permits the amendment thereof as specified below, provided
that any amendment be accompanied by the consent of the Enhancer and an Opinion
of Counsel to the Owner Trustee to the effect that such amendment complies with
the provisions of the Agreement and will not cause the Trust to be subject to an
entity level tax. If the purpose of any such amendment is to correct any
mistake, eliminate any inconsistency, cure any ambiguity or deal with any matter
not covered, it shall not be necessary to obtain the consent of any
Certificateholder, but the Owner Trustee shall be furnished with a letter from
each Rating Agency to the effect that such amendment will not cause a Rating
Event, determined without regard to the Policy, and the counsel of the Enhancer
shall be obtained. If the purpose of any such amendment is to prevent the
imposition of any federal or state taxes at any time that any Security is
Outstanding, it shall not be necessary to obtain the consent of the any
Certificateholder, but the Owner Trustee shall be furnished with an Opinion of
Counsel that such amendment is necessary or helpful to prevent the imposition of
such taxes and is not materially adverse to any Certificateholder and the
consent of the Enhancer shall be obtained. If the purpose of the amendment is to
add or eliminate or change any provision of the Agreement, other than as
specified in the preceding two sentences, the amendment shall require either (a)
a letter from each Rating Agency to the effect that such amendment will not
cause a Rating Event, determined without regard to the Policy or (b) the consent
of Certificateholders of a majority of the Percentage Interests of the
Certificates and the Indenture Trustee; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that no such
amendment shall (i) reduce in any manner the amount of, or delay the time of,
payments received that are required to be distributed on any Certificate without
the consent of all Certificateholders affected thereby and the Enhancer, or (ii)
reduce the aforesaid percentage of Certificates the Certificateholders of which
are required to consent to any such amendment without the consent of the
Certificateholders of all such Certificates then outstanding.
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As provided in the Agreement and subject to certain limitations therein set
forth, the transfer of this Certificate is registerable in the Certificate
Register upon surrender of this Certificate for registration of transfer at the
offices or agencies of the Certificate Registrar maintained in the City and
State of New York, accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form
satisfactory to the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder
hereof or such Certificateholder's attorney duly authorized in writing, and
thereupon one or more new Certificates of authorized denominations evidencing
the same Class and aggregate Percentage Interest will be issued to the
designated transferee. The initial Certificate Registrar appointed under the
Agreement is the Owner Trustee.
Except as provided in the Agreement, the Certificates are issuable only in
minimum denominations of a 10.0000% Percentage Interest and in integral
multiples of a 0.0001% Percentage Interest in excess thereof. As provided in the
Agreement and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the Certificates
are exchangeable for new Certificates of authorized denominations, as requested
by the Certificateholder surrendering the same. This Certificate is issued in
the Percentage Interest above; however, the Percentage Interest of this
Certificate may change in accordance with Section 3.12 of the Agreement. The
Certificateholder of this Certificate hereby consents to any change in its
Percentage Interest in accordance with such Section.
No service charge will be made for any such registration of transfer or
exchange, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require payment
of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge payable in
connection therewith.
The Owner Trustee, the Certificate Paying Agent, the Certificate Registrar
and any agent of the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Paying Agent, or the
Certificate Registrar may treat the Person in whose name this Certificate is
registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, and none of the Owner Trustee,
the Certificate Paying Agent, the Certificate Registrar or any such agent shall
be affected by any notice to the contrary.
This Certificate shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the
laws of the State of Delaware.
The obligations created by the Agreement in respect of this Certificate and
the Trust created thereby shall terminate upon the final distribution of all
moneys or other property or proceeds of the Trust Estate in accordance with the
terms of the Indenture and the Agreement.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon shall have been executed by
an authorized officer of the Owner Trustee, or an authenticating agent by manual
signature, this Certificate shall not be entitled to any benefit under the
Agreement or be valid for any purpose.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Owner Trustee, on behalf of the Trust and not in its
individual capacity, has caused this Certificate to be duly executed.
GMACM HOME EQUITY LOAN
TRUST 2000-HE1
By: WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
not in its individual
capacity but solely as
Owner Trustee
Dated: February 28, 2000 By:__________________________
Authorized Signatory
CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Certificates referred to in the within mentioned Agreement.
WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
not in its individual capacity
but solely as Owner Trustee
By:_____________________________________
Authorized Signatory
or ____________________________________,
as Authenticating Agent of the Trust
By:_____________________________________
Authorized Signatory
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ASSIGNMENT
FOR VALUE RECEIVED the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and
transfers unto
PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR
OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE
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(Please print or type name and address, including postal zip code, of assignee)
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the within Certificate, and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably
constituting and appointing
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to transfer said Certificate on the books of the Certificate Registrar, with
full power of substitution in the premises.
Dated:
_____________________________________ */
Signature Guaranteed:
___________________________ */
____________________
*/ NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as it
appears upon the face of the within Certificate in every particular, without
alteration, enlargement or any change whatever. Such signature must be
guaranteed by a member firm of the New York Stock Exchange or a commercial bank
or trust company.
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DISTRIBUTION INSTRUCTIONS
The assignee should include the following for the information of the
Certificate Paying Agent:
Distribution shall be made by wire transfer in immediately available funds
to _____________________________________________
________________________________________________
for the account of ___________________, account number _______________ , or, if
mailed by check, to ___________________.
Applicable statements should be mailed to _______________________.
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Signature of assignee or agent
(for authorization of wire
transfer only)
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EXHIBIT B
CERTIFICATE OF TRUST
OF
GMACM HOME EQUITY LOAN TRUST 2000-HE1
THE UNDERSIGNED, Wilmington Trust Company, as owner trustee (the
"Trustee"), for the purpose of forming a business trust does hereby certify as
follows:
1. The name of the business trust is:
GMACM HOME EQUITY LOAN TRUST 2000-HE1
2. The name and business address of the Trustee of the business trust in
the State Delaware is Wilmington Trust Company, Xxxxxx Square North, 0000 Xxxxx
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000.
3. The business trust reserves the right to amend, alter, change, or repeal
any provision contained in this Certificate of Trust in the manner now or
hereafter prescribed by law.
4. This Certificate of Trust shall be effective upon filing.
THE UNDERSIGNED, being the Trustee hereinbefore named, for the purpose of
forming a business trust pursuant to the provisions of the Delaware Business
Trust Act, does make this certificate of trust, hereby declaring and further
certifying that this is its act and deed and that to the best of the
undersigned's knowledge and belief the facts herein stated are true.
WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
not in its individual capacity but
solely as owner trustee under the
trust agreement to be
dated as of February 28, 2000
By:___________________________________
Name:
Title:
Dated: February 28, 2000
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EXHIBIT C
[FORM OF RULE 144A INVESTMENT REPRESENTATION]
Description of Rule 144A Securities, including numbers:
_____________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________
The undersigned seller, as registered holder (the "Seller"), intends to
transfer the Rule 144A Securities described above to the undersigned buyer (the
"Buyer").
1. In connection with such transfer and in accordance with the agreements
pursuant to which the Rule 144A Securities were issued, the Seller hereby
certifies the following facts: Neither the Seller nor anyone acting on its
behalf has offered, transferred, pledged, sold or otherwise disposed of the Rule
144A Securities, any interest in the Rule 144A Securities or any other similar
security to, or solicited any offer to buy or accept a transfer, pledge or other
disposition of the Rule 144A Securities, any interest in the Rule 144A
Securities or any other similar security from, or otherwise approached or
negotiated with respect to the Rule 144A Securities, any interest in the Rule
144A Securities or any other similar security with, any person in any manner, or
made any general solicitation by means of general advertising or in any other
manner, or taken any other action, that would constitute a distribution of the
Rule 144A Securities under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "1933
Act"), or that would render the disposition of the Rule 144A Securities a
violation of Section 5 of the 1933 Act or require registration pursuant thereto,
and that the Seller has not offered the Rule 144A Securities to any person other
than the Buyer or another "qualified institutional buyer" as defined in Rule
144A under the 0000 Xxx.
2. The Buyer warrants and represents to, and covenants with, the Owner
Trustee and the Depositor, pursuant to Section 3.05 of the trust agreement dated
as of February 28, 2000 (the "Agreement"), between Residential Asset Mortgage
Products, Inc., as depositor (the "Depositor"), and Norwest Bank Minnesota,
National Association, as indenture trustee (the "Indenture Trustee"), as
follows:
a. The Buyer understands that the Rule 144A Securities have not been
registered under the 1933 Act or the securities laws of any state.
b. The Buyer considers itself a substantial, sophisticated institutional
investor having such knowledge and experience in financial and business matters
that it is capable of evaluating the merits and risks of investment in the Rule
144A Securities.
c. The Buyer has been furnished with all information regarding the Rule
144A Securities that it has requested from the Seller, the Indenture Trustee,
the Owner Trustee or the Servicer.
d. Neither the Buyer nor anyone acting on its behalf has offered,
transferred, pledged, sold or otherwise disposed of the Rule 144A Securities,
any interest in the Rule
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144A Securities or any other similar security to, or solicited any offer to buy
or accept a transfer, pledge or other disposition of the Rule 144A Securities,
any interest in the Rule 144A Securities or any other similar security from, or
otherwise approached or negotiated with respect to the Rule 144A Securities, any
interest in the Rule 144A Securities or any other similar security with, any
person in any manner, or made any general solicitation by means of general
advertising or in any other manner, or taken any other action, that would
constitute a distribution of the Rule 144A Securities under the 1933 Act or that
would render the disposition of the Rule 144A Securities a violation of Section
5 of the 1933 Act or require registration pursuant thereto, nor will it act, nor
has it authorized or will it authorize any person to act, in such manner with
respect to the Rule 144A Securities.
e. The Buyer is a "qualified institutional buyer" as that term is defined
in Rule 144A under the 1933 Act and has completed either of the forms of
certification to that effect attached hereto as Annex 1 or Annex 2. The Buyer is
aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A. The Buyer is
acquiring the Rule 144A Securities for its own account or the accounts of other
qualified institutional buyers, understands that such Rule 144A Securities may
be resold, pledged or transferred only (i) to a person reasonably believed to be
a qualified institutional buyer that purchases for its own account or for the
account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that the
resale, pledge or transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, or (ii)
pursuant to another exemption from registration under the 1933 Act.
3. The Buyer represents that:
(i) either (a) or (b) is satisfied, as marked below:
____ a. The Buyer is not any employee benefit plan subject to the
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended ("ERISA"), or
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code"), a Person
acting, directly or indirectly, on behalf of any such plan or any Person
acquiring such Certificates with "plan assets" of a Plan within the meaning
of the Department of Labor Regulations Section 2510.3-101; or
____ b. The Buyer will provide the Depositor, the Owner Trustee, the
Certificate Registrar and the Servicer with either: (x) an opinion of
counsel, satisfactory to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate
Registrar and the Servicer, to the effect that the purchase and holding of
a Certificate by or on behalf of the Buyer is permissible under applicable
law, will not constitute or result in a prohibited transaction under
Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (or comparable provisions
of any subsequent enactments) and will not subject the Depositor, the Owner
Trustee, the Certificate Registrar or the Servicer to any obligation or
liability (including liabilities under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code)
in addition to those undertaken in the Trust Agreement, which opinion of
counsel shall not be an expense of the Depositor, the Owner Trustee, the
Certificate Registrar or the Servicer; or (y) in lieu of such opinion of
counsel, a certification in the form of Exhibit G to the Trust Agreement;
and
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(ii) the Buyer is familiar with the prohibited transaction
restrictions and fiduciary responsibility requirements of
Sections 406 and 407 of ERISA and Section 4975 of the Code and
understands that each of the parties to which this certification
is made is relying and will continue to rely on the statements
made in this paragraph 3.
This document may be executed in one or more counterparts and by the
different parties hereto on separate counterparts, each of which, when so
executed, shall be deemed to be an original; such counterparts, together, shall
constitute one and the same document.
Capitalized terms used herein that are not otherwise defined shall have the
meanings ascribed thereto in Appendix A to the indenture dated as of February
28, 2000, between the Trust and the Indenture Trustee.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the parties has executed this document as of
the date set forth below.
______________________________ _________________________________
Print Name of Seller Print Name of Buyer
By:___________________________ By:______________________________
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
Taxpayer Identification: Taxpayer Identification:
No.___________________________ No.______________________________
Date:_________________________ Date:
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ANNEX 1 TO EXHIBIT C
QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER STATUS UNDER SEC RULE 144A
[For Buyers Other Than Registered Investment Companies]
The undersigned hereby certifies as follows in connection with the Rule
144A Investment Representation to which this certification is attached:
1. As indicated below, the undersigned is the President, Chief Financial
Officer, Senior Vice President or other executive officer of the Buyer.
2. In connection with purchases by the Buyer, the Buyer is a "qualified
institutional buyer" as that term is defined in Rule 144A under the Securities
Act of 1933 ("Rule 144A") because (i) the Buyer owned and/or invested on a
discretionary basis $___________________1/ in securities (except for the
excluded securities referred to below) as of the end of the Buyer's most recent
fiscal year (such amount being calculated in accordance with Rule 144A) and (ii)
the Buyer satisfies the criteria in the category marked below.
____ CORPORATION, ETC. The Buyer is a corporation (other than a bank,
savings and loan association or similar institution), Massachusetts or
similar business trust, partnership, or charitable organization
described in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
____ BANK.The Buyer (a) is a national bank or banking institution organized
under the laws of any state, territory or the District of Columbia,
the business of which is substantially confined to banking and is
supervised by the state or territorial banking commission or similar
official or is a foreign bank or equivalent institution, and (b) has
an audited net worth of at least $25,000,000 as demonstrated in its
latest annual financial statements, a copy of which is attached
hereto.
____ SAVINGS AND LOAN. The Buyer (a) is a savings and loan association,
building and loan association, cooperative bank, homestead association
or similar institution, which is supervised and examined by a state or
federal authority having supervision over any such institutions or is
a foreign savings and loan association or equivalent institution and
(b) has an audited net worth of at least $25,000,000 as demonstrated
in its latest annual financial statements.
____ BROKER-DEALER. The Buyer is a dealer registered pursuant to Section 15
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
__________________________
1 Buyer must own and/or invest on a discretionary basis at least $100,000,000
in securities unless Buyer is a dealer, and, in that case, Buyer must own
and/or invest on a discretionary basis at least $10,000,000 in securities.
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____ INSURANCE COMPANY. The Buyer is an insurance company whose
primary and predominant business activity is the writing of
insurance or the reinsuring of risks underwritten by insurance
companies and which is subject to supervision by the insurance
commissioner or a similar official or agency of a state or
territory or the District of Columbia.
____ STATEOR LOCAL PLAN. The Buyer is a plan established and
maintained by a state, its political subdivisions, or any agency
or instrumentality of the state or its political subdivisions,
for the benefit of its employees.
____ ERISAPLAN. The Buyer is an employee benefit plan within the
meaning of Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act
of 1974, as amended.
____ INVESTMENT ADVISER. The Buyer is an investment adviser registered
under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940. as amended.
____ SBIC. The Buyer is a Small Business Investment Company licensed
by the U.S. Small Business Administration under Section 301(c) or
(d) of the Small Business Investment Act of 1958, as amended.
____ BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COMPANY. The Buyer is a business development
company as defined in Section 202(a)(22) of the Investment
Advisers Act of 1940, as amended.
____ TRUST FUND. The Buyer is a trust fund whose trustee is a bank or
trust company and whose participants are exclusively (a) plans
established and maintained by a state, its political
subdivisions, or any agency or instrumentality of the state or
its political subdivisions, for the benefit of its employees, or
(b) employee benefit plans within the meaning of Title I of the
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, but
is not a trust fund that includes as participants individual
retirement accounts or H.R. 10 plans.
3. The term "securities" as used herein does not include (i) securities of
issuers that are affiliated with the Buyer, (ii) securities that are part of an
unsold allotment to or subscription by the Buyer, if the Buyer is a dealer,
(iii) bank deposit notes and certificates of deposit, (iv) loan participations,
(v) repurchase agreements, (vi) securities owned but subject to a repurchase
agreement and (vii) currency, interest rate and commodity swaps.
4. For purposes of determining the aggregate amount of securities owned
and/or invested on a discretionary basis by the Buyer, the Buyer used the cost
of such securities to the Buyer and did not include any of the securities
referred to in the preceding paragraph. Further, in determining such aggregate
amount, the Buyer may have included securities owned by subsidiaries of the
Buyer, but only if such subsidiaries are consolidated with the Buyer in its
financial statements prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles and if the investments of such subsidiaries are managed under the
Buyer's direction. However, such securities were not included if the Buyer is a
majority-owned, consolidated subsidiary of another enterprise and the Buyer is
not itself a reporting company under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended.
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5. The Buyer acknowledges that it is familiar with Rule 144A and
understands that the seller to it and other parties related to the Rule 144A
Securities are relying and will continue to rely on the statements made herein
because one or more sales to the Buyer may be in reliance on Rule 144A.
_____ _____ Will the Buyer be purchasing the Rule 144A
Yes No Securities only for the Buyer's own account?
6. If the answer to the foregoing question is "no", the Buyer agrees that,
in connection with any purchase of securities sold to the Buyer for the account
of a third party (including any separate account) in reliance on Rule 144A, the
Buyer will only purchase for the account of a third party that at the time is a
"qualified institutional buyer" within the meaning of Rule 144A. In addition,
the Buyer agrees that the Buyer will not purchase securities for a third party
unless the Buyer has obtained a current representation letter from such third
party or taken other appropriate steps contemplated by Rule 144A to conclude
that such third party independently meets the definition of "qualified
institutional buyer" set forth in Rule 144A.
7. The Buyer will notify each of the parties to which this certification is
made of any changes in the information and conclusions herein. Until such notice
is given, the Buyer's purchase of Rule 144A Securities will constitute a
reaffirmation of this certification as of the date of such purchase.
___________________________________________
Print Name of Buyer
By:________________________________________
Name:
Title:
Date:______________________________________
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ANNEX 2 TO EXHIBIT C
QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER STATUS UNDER SEC RULE 144A
[For Buyers That Are Registered Investment Companies]
The undersigned hereby certifies as follows in connection with the Rule
144A Investment Representation to which this certification is attached:
1. As indicated below, the undersigned is the President, Chief Financial
Officer or Senior Vice President of the Buyer or, if the Buyer is a "qualified
institutional buyer" as that term is defined in Rule 144A under the Securities
Act of 1933 ("Rule 144A") because Buyer is part of a Family of Investment
Companies (as defined below), is such an officer of the Adviser.
2. In connection with purchases by Buyer, the Buyer is a "qualified
institutional buyer" as defined in Rule 144A because (i) the Buyer is an
investment company registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, and (ii)
as marked below, the Buyer alone, or the Buyer's Family of Investment Companies,
owned at least $100,000,000 in securities (other than the excluded securities
referred to below) as of the end of the Buyer's most recent fiscal year. For
purposes of determining the amount of securities owned by the Buyer or the
Buyer's Family of Investment Companies, the cost of such securities was used.
____ The Buyer owned $__________________ in securities (other than the
excluded securities referred to below) as of the end of the
Buyer's most recent fiscal year (such amount being calculated in
accordance with Rule 144A).
____ The Buyer is part of a Family of Investment Companies which owned
in the aggregate $__________________ in securities (other than
the excluded securities referred to below) as of the end of the
Buyer's most recent fiscal year (such amount being calculated in
accordance with Rule 144A).
3. The term "Family of Investment Companies" as used herein means two or
more registered investment companies (or series thereof) that have the same
investment adviser or investment advisers that are affiliated (by virtue of
being majority owned subsidiaries of the same parent or because one investment
adviser is a majority owned subsidiary of the other).
4. The term "securities" as used herein does not include (i) securities of
issuers that are affiliated with the Buyer or are part of the Buyer's Family of
Investment Companies, (ii) bank deposit notes and certificates of deposit, (iii)
loan participations, (iv) repurchase agreements, (v) securities owned but
subject to a repurchase agreement and (vi) currency, interest rate and commodity
swaps.
5. The Buyer is familiar with Rule 144A and understands that each of the
parties to which this certification is made are relying and will continue to
rely on the statements made
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herein because one or more sales to the Buyer will be in reliance on Rule 144A.
In addition, the Buyer will only purchase for the Buyer's own account.
6. The undersigned will notify each of the parties to which this
certification is made of any changes in the information and conclusions herein.
Until such notice, the Buyer's purchase of Rule 144A Securities will constitute
a reaffirmation of this certification by the undersigned as of the date of such
purchase.
______________________________________
Print Name of Buyer
By:___________________________________
Name:
Title:
IF AN ADVISER:
______________________________________
Print Name of Buyer
Date:_________________________________
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EXHIBIT D
FORM OF INVESTOR REPRESENTATION LETTER
_______________, _____
Residential Asset Mortgage Products, Inc.
0000 Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx 00000
Norwest Bank Minnesota, National Association
00000 Xxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000
Attention: Corporate Trust Administration
Re: Residential Asset Mortgage Products, Inc.,
GMACM HOME EQUITY LOAN-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2000-HE1
Ladies and Gentlemen:
___________________ (the "Purchaser") intends to purchase from
___________________ (the "Seller") $_______ [Certificate Balance of
Certificates] of Series 2000-HE1 (the "Certificates"), issued pursuant to the
trust agreement dated as of February 28, 2000 (the "Trust Agreement"), between
Residential Asset Mortgage Products, Inc., as depositor (the "Depositor") and
Wilmington Trust Company, as owner trustee (the "Owner Trustee"), as
acknowledged and agreed by Norwest Bank Minnesota, National Association, as
Certificate Registrar. Capitalized terms used herein that are not otherwise
defined shall have the meanings ascribed thereto in Appendix A to the indenture
dated as of February 28, 2000, between the Trust and the Indenture Trustee. The
Purchaser hereby certifies, represents and warrants to, and covenants with, the
Depositor and the Certificate Registrar that:
1. The Purchaser understands that (a) the Certificates have not been and
will not be registered or qualified under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended
(the "Act"), or any state securities law, (b) the Company is not required to so
register or qualify the Certificates, (c) the Certificates may be resold only if
registered and qualified pursuant to the provisions of the Act or any state
securities law, or if an exemption from such registration and qualification is
available, (d) the Trust Agreement contains restrictions regarding the transfer
of the Certificates and (e) the Certificates will bear a legend to the foregoing
effect.
2. The Purchaser is acquiring the Certificates for its own account for
investment only and not with a view to or for sale in connection with any
distribution thereof in any manner that would violate the Act or any applicable
state securities laws.
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3. The Purchaser is (a) a substantial, sophisticated institutional investor
having such knowledge and experience in financial and business matters, and, in
particular, in such matters related to securities similar to the Certificates,
such that it is capable of evaluating the merits and risks of investment in the
Certificates, (b) able to bear the economic risks of such an investment and (c)
an "accredited investor" within the meaning of Rule 501(a) promulgated pursuant
to the Act.
4. The Purchaser has been furnished with, and has had an opportunity to
review a copy of the Trust Agreement and such other information concerning the
Certificates, the Mortgage Loans and the Depositor as has been requested by the
Purchaser from the Depositor or the Seller and is relevant to the Purchaser's
decision to purchase the Certificates. The Purchaser has had any questions
arising from such review answered by the Depositor or the Seller to the
satisfaction of the Purchaser.
5. The Purchaser has not and will not nor has it authorized or will it
authorize any person to (a) offer, pledge, sell, dispose of or otherwise
transfer any Certificate, any interest in any Certificate or any other similar
security to any person in any manner, (b) solicit any offer to buy or to accept
a pledge, disposition of other transfer of any Certificate, any interest in any
Certificate or any other similar security from any person in any manner, (c)
otherwise approach or negotiate with respect to any Certificate, any interest in
any Certificate or any other similar security with any person in any manner, (d)
make any general solicitation by means of general advertising or in any other
manner or (e) take any other action, that (as to any of (a) through (d) above)
would constitute a distribution of any Certificate under the Act, that would
render the disposition of any Certificate a violation of Section 5 of the Act or
any state securities law, or that would require registration or qualification
pursuant thereto. The Purchaser will not sell or otherwise transfer any of the
Certificates, except in compliance with the provisions of the Trust Agreement.
6. The Purchaser represents:
(i) that either (a) or (b) is satisfied, as marked below:
____ a. The Purchaser is not any employee benefit plan subject to
the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as
amended ("ERISA"), or the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended (the "Code"), a Person acting, directly or
indirectly, on behalf of any such plan or any Person
acquiring such Certificates with "plan assets" of a Plan
within the meaning of the Department of Labor Regulations
Section 2510.3-101; or
____ b. The Purchaser will provide the Depositor, the Owner
Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Servicer with
either: (x) an opinion of counsel, satisfactory to the
Depositor, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and
the Servicer, to the effect that the purchase and holding of
a Certificate by or on behalf of the Purchaser is
permissible under applicable law, will not constitute or
result in a prohibited transaction under Section 406 of
ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (or comparable provisions
of any subsequent enactments) and will not
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subject the Depositor, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate
Registrar or the Servicer to any obligation or
liability (including liabilities under ERISA or Section
4975 of the Code) in addition to those undertaken in
the Trust Agreement, which opinion of counsel shall not
be an expense of the Depositor, the Owner Trustee, the
Certificate Registrar or the Servicer; or (y) in lieu
of such opinion of counsel, a certification in the form
of Exhibit G to the Trust Agreement; and
(ii) the Purchaser is familiar with the prohibited transaction
restrictions and fiduciary responsibility requirements of
Sections 406 and 407 of ERISA and Section 4975 of the Code and
understands that each of the parties to which this certification
is made is relying and will continue to rely on the statements
made in this paragraph 6.
7. The Purchaser is not a non-United States person.
Very truly yours,
_______________________________
By:_____________________________
Name:
Title:
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EXHIBIT E
FORM OF TRANSFEROR REPRESENTATION LETTER
_____________, ____
Residential Asset Mortgage Products, Inc.
0000 Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx 00000
Norwest Bank Minnesota, National Association
00000 Xxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000
Re: Residential Asset Mortgage Products, Inc.
GMACM HOME EQUITY LOAN-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2000-HE1
Ladies and Gentlemen:
_______________ (the "Purchaser") intends to purchase from ___________ (the
"Seller") a ______% Percentage Interest of Certificates of Series 2000-HE1 (the
"Certificates"), issued pursuant to the trust agreement dated as of February 28,
2000 (the "Trust Agreement"), between Residential Asset Mortgage Products, Inc.,
as depositor (the "Depositor"), and Wilmington Trust Company, as owner trustee
(the "Owner Trustee"), as acknowledged and agreed by Norwest Bank Minnesota,
National Association, as Certificate Registrar. Capitalized terms used herein
that are not otherwise defined shall have the meanings ascribed thereto in
Appendix A to the indenture dated as of February 28, 2000, between the Trust and
the Indenture Trustee. The Seller hereby certifies, represents and warrants to,
and covenants with, the Depositor and the Certificate Registrar that:
Neither the Seller nor anyone acting on its behalf has (a) offered,
pledged, sold, disposed of or otherwise transferred any Certificate, any
interest in any Certificate or any other similar security to any person in any
manner, (b) has solicited any offer to buy or to accept a pledge, disposition or
other transfer of any Certificate, any interest in any Certificate or any other
similar security from any person in any manner, (c) has otherwise approached or
negotiated with respect to any Certificate, any interest in any Certificate or
any other similar security with any person in any manner, (d) has made any
general solicitation by means of general advertising or in any other manner, or
(e) has taken any other action, that (as to any of (a) through (e) above) would
constitute a distribution of the Certificates under the Securities Act of 1933
(the "Act"), that would render the disposition of any Certificate a violation of
Section 5 of the Act or any state securities law, or that would require
registration or qualification pursuant thereto. The Seller will
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not act, in any manner set forth in the foregoing sentence with respect to any
Certificate. The Seller has not and will not sell or otherwise transfer any of
the Certificates, except in compliance with the provisions of the Trust
Agreement.
Very truly yours,
________________________________
(Seller)
By:_____________________________
Name:
Title:
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EXHIBIT F
FORM OF CERTIFICATE OF NON-FOREIGN STATUS
This Certificate of Non-Foreign Status is delivered pursuant to Section
3.05 of the trust agreement dated as of February 28, 2000 (the "Trust
Agreement"), between Residential Asset Mortgage Products, Inc., as depositor
(the "Depositor"), and Wilmington Trust Company, as owner trustee, in connection
with the acquisition of, transfer to or possession by the undersigned, whether
as beneficial owner (the "Beneficial Owner"), or nominee on behalf of the
Beneficial Owner of GMACM Home Equity Loan-Backed Certificates, Series 2000-HE1
(the "Certificates"). Capitalized terms used herein that are not otherwise
defined shall have the meanings ascribed thereto in Appendix A to the indenture
dated as of February 28, 2000, between the Trust and the Indenture Trustee.
Each holder must complete Part I, Part II (if the holder is a nominee), and
in all cases sign and otherwise complete Part III.
In addition, each holder shall submit with the Certificate an IRS Form W-9
relating to such holder.
To confirm to the Trust that the provisions of Sections 871, 881 or 1446 of
the Internal Revenue Code (relating to withholding tax on foreign partners) do
not apply in respect of the Certificates held by the undersigned, the
undersigned hereby certifies:
Part I - Complete Either A or B
A. Individual as Beneficial Owner
1. I am (the Beneficial Owner is ) not a non-resident alien for
purposes of U.S. income taxation;
2. My (the Beneficial Owner's) name and home address are:
________________________________
________________________________
________________________________; and
3. My (the Beneficial Owner's) U.S. taxpayer identification
number (Social Security Number) is _______________________.
B. Corporate, Partnership or Other Entity as Beneficial Owner
1. __________________________ (Name of the Beneficial
Owner) is not a foreign corporation, foreign
partnership, foreign trust or foreign estate (as those
terms are defined in the Code and Treasury Regulations;
2. The Beneficial Owner's office address and place of
incorporation (if applicable) is
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______________________________
______________________________
______________________________; and
3. The Beneficial Owner's U.S. employer identification
number is _______________________.
Part II - Nominees
If the undersigned is the nominee for the Beneficial Owner, the undersigned
certifies that this Certificate has been made in reliance upon information
contained in:
____ an IRS Form W-9
____ a form such as this or substantially similar
provided to the undersigned by an appropriate person and (i) the undersigned
agrees to notify the Trust at least thirty (30) days prior to the date that the
form relied upon becomes obsolete, and (ii) in connection with change in
Beneficial Owners, the undersigned agrees to submit a new Certificate of
Non-Foreign Status to the Trust promptly after such change.
Part III - Declaration
The undersigned, as the Beneficial Owner or a nominee thereof, agrees to
notify the Trust within sixty (60) days of the date that the Beneficial Owner
becomes a foreign person. The undersigned understands that this certificate may
be disclosed to the Internal Revenue Service by the Trust and any false
statement contained therein could be punishable by fines, imprisonment or both.
Under penalties of perjury, I declare that I have examined this certificate
and to the best of my knowledge and belief it is true, correct and complete and
will further declare that I will inform the Trust of any change in the
information provided above, and, if applicable, I further declare that I have
the authority* to sign this document.
_____________________________________
Name
_____________________________________
Title (if applicable)
_____________________________________
Signature and Date
*NOTE: If signed pursuant to a power of attorney, the power of attorney must
accompany this certificate.
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EXHIBIT G
FORM OF ERISA REPRESENTATION LETTER
________________, _____
Residential Asset Mortgage Products, Inc.
0000 Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx 00000
Wilmington Trust Company
Xxxxxx Square North
0000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000
GMAC Mortgage Corporation
000 Xxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxxx 00000
Norwest Bank Minnesota, National Association
00000 Xxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000
Re: Residential Asset Mortgage Products, Inc.
GMACM HOME EQUITY LOAN-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2000-HE1
Dear Sirs:
_____________________________ (the "Transferee") intends to acquire from
_____________________ (the "Transferor") a ____% Percentage Interest of GMACM
Home Equity Loan-Backed Certificates, Series 2000-HE1 (the "Certificates"),
issued pursuant to a trust agreement dated as of February 28, 2000, between
Residential Asset Mortgage Products, Inc., as depositor (the "Depositor"), and
Wilmington Trust Company, as owner trustee (the "Owner Trustee"). Capitalized
terms used herein that are not otherwise defined shall have the meanings
ascribed thereto in Appendix A to the indenture dated as of February 28, 2000,
between the Trust and the Indenture Trustee.
The Transferee hereby certifies, represents and warrants to, and covenants
with, the Depositor, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the
Servicer that either:
(1) The Certificates (i) are not being acquired by, and will not be
transferred to, any employee benefit plan within the meaning of
Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of
1974, as amended ("ERISA") or other retirement arrangement,
including individual retirement accounts and annuities, Xxxxx
plans and bank collective investment funds and insurance company
general or separate accounts in which such plans, accounts or
arrangements are invested, that is subject to Section 406 of
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ERISA or Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the
"Code") (any of the foregoing, a "Plan"), (ii) are not being acquired with "plan
assets" of a Plan within the meaning of the Department of Labor ("DOL")
Regulations Section 2510.3-101, and (iii) will not be transferred to any entity
that is deemed to be investing in plan assets within the meaning of the DOL
Regulations Section 2510.3-101; or
(2) The purchase of the Certificates is permissible under applicable
law, will not constitute or result in any prohibited transaction
under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, will not subject the
Depositor or the Owner Trustee to any obligation in addition to
those undertaken in the Trust Agreement and, with respect to each
source of funds being used by the Transferee to acquire the
Certificates (each being referred to as a "Source") and the
following statements in either (a) or (b):
(a) the Transferee is an insurance company and (i) the Source is
assets of its "general account," (ii) the conditions set
forth in PTCE 95-60 issued by the DOL have been satisfied
and the purchase and holding of Certificates by or on behalf
of the Transferee are exempt under PTCE 95-60, (iii) less
then 25% of the Transferee's general account constitute
"plan assets" of "benefit plan investors" within the meaning
of DOL Regulations Section 2510.3-101(f)(2), and (iv) the
amount of reserves and liabilities for such general account
contracts held by or on behalf of any Plan do not exceed 10%
of the total reserves and liabilities of such general
account plus surplus as of the date hereof (for purposes of
this clause, all Plans maintained by the same employer (or
affiliate thereof) or employee organization are deemed to be
a single Plan) in connection with its purchase and holding
of such Certificates; or
(b) the Transferee is an insurance company and (i) the Source is
assets of its "general account," (ii) the requirements of
Section 401(c) of ERISA and the DOL Regulations to be
promulgated thereunder ("401(c) Regulations") have been
satisfied and will continue to be satisfied and (iii) the
Transferee represents that it understands that the operation
of the general account after December 31, 1998 may affect
its ability to continue to hold the Certificates after July
5, 2001 and, unless a class exemption issued by the DOL or
an exception under Section 401(c) of ERISA is then available
for the continued holding of Certificates, if the assets of
the general account constitute "plan assets" within the
meaning of DOL Regulations Section 2510.3-101, it will
dispose of the Certificates prior to July 5, 2001.
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(3) The Transferee is familiar with the prohibited transaction
restrictions and fiduciary responsibility requirements of
Sections 406 and 407 of ERISA and Section 4975 of the Code and
understands that each of the parties to which this certification
is made is relying and will continue to rely on the statements
made herein.
Very truly yours,
_________________________________
By:_______________________________
Name:
Title:
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EXHIBIT H
FORM OF REPRESENTATION LETTER
_____________, _____
Residential Asset Mortgage Products, Inc.
0000 Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx 00000
Wilmington Trust Company
Xxxxxx Square North
0000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000
GMAC Mortgage Corporation
000 Xxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxxx 00000
Norwest Bank Minnesota, National Association
00000 Xxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000
Re: Residential Asset Mortgage Products, Inc.
GMACM HOME EQUITY LOAN-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2000-HE1
Dear Sirs:
_____________________ (the "Transferee") intends to acquire from
___________________ (the "Transferor") a ____% Percentage Interest of GMACM Home
Equity Loan-Backed Certificates, Series 2000-HE1 (the "Certificates"), issued
pursuant to a trust agreement dated as of February 28, 2000 (the "Trust
Agreement"), Residential Asset Mortgage Products, Inc., as depositor (the
"Depositor"), and Wilmington Trust Company, as owner trustee (the "Owner
Trustee"). Capitalized terms used herein that are not otherwise defined shall
have the meanings ascribed thereto in Appendix A to the indenture dated as of
February 28, 2000, between the Trust and the Indenture Trustee.
The Transferee hereby certifies, represents and warrants to, and covenants
with, the Depositor, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the
Servicer that:
(1) the Transferee is acquiring the Certificate for its own behalf
and is not acting as agent or custodian for any other person or
entity in connection with such acquisition; and
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(2) the Transferee is not a partnership, grantor trust or S
corporation for federal income tax purposes, or, if the
Transferee is a partnership, grantor trust or S corporation for
federal income tax purposes, the Certificates are not more than
50% of the assets of the partnership, grantor trust or S
corporation.
Very truly yours,
________________________________
By:______________________________
Name:
Title:
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