AMENDED AND RESTATED
TRUST AGREEMENT
among
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON COMPANY
as Depositor,
THE BANK OF NEW YORK TRUST COMPANY, N.A.
as Property Trustee,
THE BANK OF NEW YORK (DELAWARE),
as Delaware Trustee,
THE REGULAR TRUSTEES NAMED HEREIN,
and
THE SEVERAL HOLDERS, AS DEFINED HEREIN
Dated as of ___________, 20__
SCE TRUST [__]
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SCE TRUST [__]
Certain Sections of this Trust Agreement relating to
Sections 310 through 318 of the
Trust Indenture Act of 1939:
Trust Indenture Act Trust Agreement
Section Section
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(S) 310 (a)(1) ................................................8.7
(a)(2) ................................................8.7
(a)(3) ................................................8.9
(a)(4) ................................................2.7(a)(ii)
(b) ................................................8.8
(S) 311 (a) ................................................8.13
(b) ................................................8.13
(S) 312 (a) ................................................5.7
(b) ................................................5.7
(c) ................................................5.7
(S) 313 (a) ................................................8.14(a)
(a)(4) ................................................8.14(b)
(b) ................................................8.14(b)
(c) ................................................10.8
(d) ................................................8.14(c)
(S) 314 (a) ................................................8.15
(b) ................................................Not Applicable
(c)(1) ................................................8.16
(c)(2) ................................................8.16
(c)(3) ................................................Not Applicable
(d) ................................................Not Applicable
(e) ................................................1.1, 8.16
(S) 315 (a) ................................................8.1(a), 8.3(a)
(b) ................................................8.2, 10.8
(c) ................................................8.1(a)
(d) ................................................8.1, 8.3
(e) ................................................Not Applicable
(S) 316 (a) ................................................Not Applicable
(a)(1)(A) ................................................Not Applicable
(a)(1)(B) ................................................Not Applicable
(a)(2) ................................................Not Applicable
(b) ................................................5.14
(c) ................................................6.7
(S) 317 (a)(1) ................................................Not Applicable
(a)(2) ................................................Not Applicable
(b) ................................................5.9
(S) 318 (a) ................................................10.10
Note: This reconciliation and tie sheet shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a part of the Trust
Agreement.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I DEFINED TERMS..............................................................1
SECTION 1.1. Definitions........................................................1
ARTICLE II ESTABLISHMENT OF THE TRUST...............................................10
SECTION 2.1. Name..............................................................10
SECTION 2.2. Office of the Delaware Trustee; Principal Place of Business.......10
SECTION 2.3. Organizational Expenses...........................................10
SECTION 2.4. Issuance of the Preferred Securities..............................10
SECTION 2.5. Issuance of the Common Securities; Subscription and
Purchase of Shares................................................11
SECTION 2.6. Declaration of Trust..............................................12
SECTION 2.7. Authorization to Enter into Certain Transactions..................12
SECTION 2.8. Assets of Trust...................................................16
SECTION 2.9. Title to Trust Property...........................................16
ARTICLE III PAYMENT ACCOUNT.........................................................16
SECTION 3.1. Payment Account...................................................16
ARTICLE IV DISTRIBUTIONS; REDEMPTION................................................16
SECTION 4.1. Distributions.....................................................16
SECTION 4.2. Redemption........................................................17
SECTION 4.3. Subordination of Common Securities................................19
SECTION 4.4. Payment Procedures................................................20
SECTION 4.5. Tax Returns and Reports...........................................20
SECTION 4.6. Intentionally Omitted.............................................21
SECTION 4.7. Payments under Certificate of Determination or Pursuant to
Direct Actions....................................................21
ARTICLE V TRUST SECURITIES CERTIFICATES.............................................21
SECTION 5.1. Initial Ownership.................................................21
SECTION 5.2. Trust Securities Certificates.....................................21
SECTION 5.3. Execution and Delivery of Trust Securities Certificates...........21
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SECTION 5.4. Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Preferred
Securities Certificates. ........................................ 22
SECTION 5.5. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Trust Securities
Certificates......................................................22
SECTION 5.6. Persons Deemed Securityholders....................................23
SECTION 5.7. Access to List of Securityholders' Names and Addresses............23
SECTION 5.8. Maintenance of Office or Agency...................................23
SECTION 5.9. Appointment of Paying Agent.......................................24
SECTION 5.10. Ownership of Common Securities by Depositor.......................24
SECTION 5.11. Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificates; Common
Securities Certificate............................................25
SECTION 5.12. Notices to Clearing Agency........................................26
SECTION 5.13. Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates......................26
SECTION 5.14. Rights of Securityholders.........................................26
ARTICLE VI ACTS OF SECURITYHOLDERS; MEETINGS; VOTING................................28
SECTION 6.1. Limitations on Voting Rights......................................28
SECTION 6.2. Notice of Meetings................................................29
SECTION 6.3. Meetings of Preferred Securityholders.............................30
SECTION 6.4. Voting Rights.....................................................30
SECTION 6.5. Proxies, etc......................................................30
SECTION 6.6. Securityholder Action by Written Consent..........................31
SECTION 6.7. Record Date for Voting and Other Purposes.........................31
SECTION 6.8. Acts of Securityholders...........................................31
SECTION 6.9. Inspection of Records.............................................32
ARTICLE VII REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES..........................................32
SECTION 7.1. Representations and Warranties of the Property Trustee
and the Delaware Trustee....................................... 32
SECTION 7.2. Representations and Warranties of Depositor.......................33
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ARTICLE VIII THE TRUSTEES...........................................................33
SECTION 8.1. Certain Duties and Responsibilities...............................33
SECTION 8.2. Certain Notices...................................................35
SECTION 8.3. Certain Rights of Property Trustee................................35
SECTION 8.4. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities............37
SECTION 8.5. May Hold Securities...............................................37
SECTION 8.6. Compensation; Indemnity; Fees.....................................37
SECTION 8.7. Corporate Property Trustee Required; Eligibility of Trustees......39
SECTION 8.8. Conflicting Interests.............................................39
SECTION 8.9. Co-Trustees and Separate Trustee..................................39
SECTION 8.10. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.................41
SECTION 8.11. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor............................42
SECTION 8.12. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.......43
SECTION 8.13. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Depositor or Trust......43
SECTION 8.14. Reports by Property Trustee.......................................44
SECTION 8.15. Reports to the Property Trustee...................................44
SECTION 8.16. Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent..................44
SECTION 8.17. Number of Trustees................................................45
SECTION 8.18. Delegation of Power...............................................45
SECTION 8.19. Delaware Trustee..................................................45
ARTICLE IX TERMINATION, LIQUIDATION AND MERGER......................................46
SECTION 9.1. Termination Upon Expiration Date..................................46
SECTION 9.2. Early Termination.................................................46
SECTION 9.3. Termination.......................................................46
SECTION 9.4. Liquidation.......................................................47
SECTION 9.5. Mergers, Consolidations, Amalgamations or Replacements
of the Trust..................................................... 48
ARTICLE X MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS..................................................49
SECTION 10.1. Limitation of Rights of Securityholders...........................49
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SECTION 10.2. Amendment.........................................................49
SECTION 10.3. Separability......................................................50
SECTION 10.4. Governing Law.....................................................51
SECTION 10.5. Payments Due on Non-Business Day..................................51
SECTION 10.6. Successors........................................................51
SECTION 10.7. Headings..........................................................51
SECTION 10.8. Reports, Notices and Demands......................................51
SECTION 10.9. Agreement Not to Petition.........................................52
SECTION 10.10. Trust Indenture Act; Conflict with Trust Indenture Act............52
SECTION 10.11. Acceptance of Terms of Trust Agreement, Guarantee and
Certificate of Determination..................................... 53
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AMENDED AND RESTATED TRUST AGREEMENT, dated as of _______________, 20__, among (i) SOUTHERN
CALIFORNIA EDISON COMPANY, a California corporation (including any successors or assigns, the "Depositor"),
(ii) THE BANK OF NEW YORK TRUST COMPANY, N.A., as property trustee (in such capacity, the "Property Trustee"
and, in its separate corporate capacity and not in its capacity as Property Trustee, the "Bank"), (iii) THE
BANK OF NEW YORK (DELAWARE), as Delaware trustee (the "Delaware Trustee"), (iv) [Xxxx X. Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxx X.
Xxxxxx and Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxx], each an officer of the Depositor, as regular trustees (the "Regular Trustees")
(the Property Trustee, the Delaware Trustee and the Regular Trustees referred to collectively as the
"Trustees") and (v) the several Holders, as hereinafter defined.
WITNESSETH
WHEREAS, the Depositor, the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee have heretofore duly
declared and established a statutory trust pursuant to the Delaware Statutory Trust Act by the entering into
that certain Trust Agreement, dated as of [____________] (the "Original Trust Agreement"), and by the
execution and filing with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware of the Certificate of Trust, filed
on [____________], [attached as Exhibit A]; and
WHEREAS, the Depositor and the Trustees desire to amend and restate the Original Trust
Agreement in its entirety as set forth herein to provide for, among other things, (i) the issuance of the
Common Securities by the Trust to the Depositor, (ii) the issuance and sale of the Preferred Securities by
the Trust pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement, (iii) the acquisition by the Trust from the Depositor of
all of the right, title and interest in the Shares and (iv) the appointment of the Regular Trustees;
NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the agreements and obligations set forth herein and for
other good and valuable consideration, the sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, each party, for the
benefit of the other parties and for the benefit of the Securityholders, hereby amends and restates the
Original Trust Agreement in its entirety and agrees as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINED TERMS
SECTION 1.1 Definitions.
For all purposes of this Trust Agreement, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the
context otherwise requires:
(a) the terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to them in this Article and include
the plural as well as the singular;
(b) all other terms used herein that are defined in the Trust Indenture Act, either directly or by
reference therein, have the meanings assigned to them therein;
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(c) unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to an "Article" or a "Section" refers to an
Article or a Section, as the case may be, of this Trust Agreement; and
(d) the words "herein", "hereof" and "hereunder" and other words of similar import refer to this Trust
Agreement as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision.
"Act" has the meaning specified in Section 6.8.
"Affiliate" of any specified Person means any other Person directly or indirectly controlling
or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with such specified Person. For the purposes of
this definition, "control" when used with respect to any specified Person means the power to direct the
management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting
securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms "controlling" and "controlled" have meanings correlative
to the foregoing.
"Bank" has the meaning specified in the preamble to this Trust Agreement.
"Bankruptcy Event" means, with respect to any Person:
(a) the entry of a decree or order by a court having jurisdiction in the premises judging such Person a
bankrupt or insolvent, or approving as properly filed a petition seeking reorganization, arrangement,
adjudication or composition of or in respect of such Person under any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization or other similar law, or appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee,
sequestrator (or other similar official) of such Person or of any substantial part of its property or
ordering the winding up or liquidation of its affairs, and the continuance of any such decree or order
unstayed and in effect for a period of 60 consecutive days; or
(b) the institution by such Person of proceedings to be adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent, or the
consent by it to the institution of bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings against it, or the filing by it of a
petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization or relief under any applicable Federal or State
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law, or the consent by it to the filing of any such
petition or to the appointment of a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or similar
official) of such Person or of any substantial part of its property, or the making by it of an assignment for
the benefit of creditors, or the admission by it in writing of its inability to pay its debts generally as
they become due and its willingness to be adjudicated a bankrupt, or the taking of corporate action by such
Person in furtherance of any such action.
"Bankruptcy Laws" has the meaning specified in Section 10.9.
"Board Resolution" means a copy of a resolution certified by the Secretary or an Assistant
Secretary of the Depositor to have been duly adopted by the Depositor's
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Board of Directors, or such committee of the Board of Directors or officers of the Depositor to
which authority to act on behalf of the Board of Directors has been delegated, and to be in full force and
effect on the date of such certification, and delivered to the Trustees.
"Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificates" means a beneficial interest in the Preferred
Securities Certificates, ownership and transfers of which shall be evidenced through book entries by a
Clearing Agency as described in Section 5.11.
"Business Day" means a day other than (a) a Saturday or Sunday, (b) a day on which banking
institutions in The City of New York or Los Angeles, California are authorized or required by law or
executive order to remain closed, or (c) a day on which the Property Trustee's Corporate Trust Office or the
Corporate Trust Office of the Indenture Trustee is closed for business.
"Certificate Depository Agreement" means the agreement among the Trust, the Depositor and The
Depository Trust Company, as the initial Clearing Agency, dated as of the Closing Date, relating to the Trust
Securities Certificates, substantially in the form required by the Depository Trust Company for
book-entry-only equity security issues, as the same may be amended and supplemented from time to time.
"Certificate of Determination" means the certificate of determination of rights, preferences,
privileges and restrictions filed with the California Secretary of State with respect to the Shares.
"Certificate of Determination Redemption Date" means, with respect to any Shares to be redeemed
under the Certificate of Determination, the date fixed for redemption under the Certificate of Determination.
"Clearing Agency" means an organization registered as a "clearing agency" pursuant to Section
17A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. The Depository Trust Company will be the initial
Clearing Agency.
"Clearing Agency Participant" means a broker, dealer, bank, other financial institution or
other Person for whom from time to time a Clearing Agency effects book-entry transfers and pledges of
securities deposited with the Clearing Agency.
"Closing Date" means the "First Time of Delivery" as specified in the Underwriting Agreement.
"Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
"Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from time to time constituted,
created under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or, if at any time after the execution of this
instrument such Commission is not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under the Trust
Indenture Act, then the body performing such duties at such time.
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"Common Security" means an undivided beneficial interest in the assets of the Trust, having a
Liquidation Amount of $[___] and having the rights provided therefor in this Trust Agreement, including the
right to receive Distributions and a Liquidation Distribution as provided herein.
"Common Securityholder" means the Holder from time to time of the Common Securities.
"Common Securities Certificate" means a certificate evidencing ownership of Common Securities,
substantially in the form attached as Exhibit B.
"Corporate Trust Office" means (i) when used with respect to the Property Trustee, the
principal office of the Property Trustee located at _______________________, and (ii) when used with respect
to the Indenture Trustee, the principal office of the Indenture Trustee located at ________________________.
"Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates" means either or both (as the context requires)
of (a) Preferred Securities Certificates issued as Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificates as provided
in Section 5.11(a) and (b) Preferred Securities Certificates issued in certificated, fully registered form as
provided in Section 5.13.
"Delaware Statutory Trust Act" means Chapter 38 of Title 12 of the Delaware Code, 12 Del. C.
ss.ss.3801, et seq., as it may be amended from time to time.
"Delaware Trustee" means the Person identified as the "Delaware Trustee" in the preamble to
this Trust Agreement solely in its capacity as Delaware Trustee of the Trust and not in its individual
capacity, or its successor in interest in such capacity, or any successor trustee appointed as herein
provided.
"Depositor" has the meaning specified in the preamble to this Trust Agreement.
"Distribution Date" has the meaning specified in Section 4.1(a).
"Distributions" means amounts payable in respect of the Trust Securities as provided in Section 4.1.
"Early Termination Event" has the meaning specified in Section 9.2.
"Event of Default" means any one of the following events (whatever the reason for such Event of
Default and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to
any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or
governmental body):
(a) [the occurrence of a Stock Event of Default]; or
(b) default by the Trust in the payment of any Distribution when it becomes due and payable, and
continuation of such default for a period of 30 days; or
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(c) default by the Trust in the payment of any Redemption Price of any Trust Security when it
becomes due and payable; or
(d) default in the performance, or breach, in any material respect, of any covenant or warranty of the
Trustees in this Trust Agreement (other than a covenant or warranty a default in the performance or breach of
which is dealt with in clause (b) or (c) above) and continuation of such default or breach for a period of 90
days after there has been given, by registered or certified mail, to the defaulting Trustee or Trustees by
the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate liquidation amount of the Outstanding Preferred Securities a written
notice specifying such default or breach and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a
"Notice of Default" hereunder; or
(e) the occurrence of a Bankruptcy Event with respect to the Property Trustee and the failure by the
Depositor to appoint a successor Property Trustee within 60 days thereof.
"Expense Agreement" means the Agreement as to Expenses and Liabilities between the Guarantor
and the Trust, substantially in the form attached as Exhibit C, as amended from time to time.
"Expiration Date" has the meaning specified in Section 9.1.
"Guarantee" means the Guarantee Agreement executed and delivered by the Guarantor and The Bank
of New York Trust Company, N.A., as trustee, contemporaneously with the execution and delivery of this Trust
Agreement, for the benefit of the holders of the Preferred Securities, as amended from time to time.
"Guarantor" means Southern California Edison Company, a California corporation, and its
successors and assigns.
"Lien" means any lien, pledge, charge, encumbrance, mortgage, deed of trust, adverse ownership
interest, hypothecation, assignment, security interest or preference, priority or other security agreement or
preferential arrangement of any kind or nature whatsoever.
"Like Amount" means (a) with respect to a redemption of Trust Securities, Trust Securities
having a Liquidation Amount equal to the par value of Shares to be contemporaneously redeemed in accordance
with the Certificate of Determination the proceeds of which will be used to pay the Redemption Price of such
Trust Securities, and (b) with respect to a distribution of Shares to Holders of Trust Securities in
connection with a dissolution or liquidation of the Trust, Shares having a par value equal to the Liquidation
Amount of the Trust Securities of the Holder to whom such Shares are distributed.
"Liquidation Amount" means the stated amount of $[___] per Trust Security.
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"Liquidation Date" means the date on which Shares are to be distributed to Holders of Trust
Securities in connection with a dissolution and liquidation of the Trust pursuant to Section 9.4(a).
"Liquidation Distribution" has the meaning specified in Section 9.4(d).
"1940 Act" means the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.
"Officer's Certificate" means a certificate signed by any one of the Chairman of the Board,
Chief Executive Officer, President, a Vice President, the Treasurer, an Associate Treasurer, an Assistant
Treasurer, the Controller, the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, of the Depositor, and delivered to the
appropriate Trustee. The officer signing an Officer's Certificate given pursuant to Section 8.15 shall be
the principal executive, financial or accounting officer of the Depositor. Any Officer's Certificate
delivered with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Trust Agreement shall
include:
(a) a statement that the officer signing the Officer's Certificate has read the covenant or condition and
the definitions relating thereto;
(b) a brief statement of the nature and scope of the examination or investigation undertaken by such
officer in rendering the Officer's Certificate;
(c) a statement that such officer has made such examination or investigation as, in such officer's
opinion, is necessary to enable such officer to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such
covenant or condition has been complied with; and
(d) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of such officer, such condition or covenant has been
complied with.
"Opinion of Counsel" means a written opinion of counsel, who may be counsel for the Trust, the
Property Trustee or the Depositor, and who shall be reasonably acceptable to the Property Trustee.
"Original Trust Agreement" has the meaning specified in the recitals to this Trust Agreement.
"Outstanding", when used with respect to Trust Securities, means, as of the date of
determination, all Trust Securities theretofore executed and delivered under this Trust Agreement, except:
(a) Trust Securities theretofore canceled by the Property Trustee or delivered to the Property Trustee for
cancellation;
(b) Trust Securities for whose payment or redemption money in the necessary amount has been theretofore
deposited with the Property Trustee or any Paying Agent for the Holders of such Trust Securities; provided
that, if such Trust Securities are
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to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly given pursuant to this Trust Agreement; and
(c) Trust Securities which have been paid or in exchange for or in lieu of which other Preferred
Securities have been executed and delivered pursuant to Sections 5.4, 5.5, 5.11 and 5.13; provided, however,
that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite Liquidation Amount of the Outstanding Preferred
Securities have given any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder,
Preferred Securities owned by the Depositor, any Trustee or any Affiliate of the Depositor or any Trustee
shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that (i) in determining whether any Trustee
shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or
waiver, only Preferred Securities that such Trustee knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded and (ii) the
foregoing proviso shall not apply at any time when all of the outstanding Preferred Securities are owned by
the Depositor, one or more of the Trustees and/or any such Affiliate. Preferred Securities so owned which
have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction
of the Regular Trustees the pledgee's right so to act with respect to such Preferred Securities and that the
pledgee is not the Depositor or any Affiliate of the Depositor.
["Over-allotment Option" has the meaning specified in the Underwriting Agreement.]
"Owner" means each Person who is the beneficial owner of a Book-Entry Preferred Securities
Certificate as reflected in the records of the Clearing Agency or, if a Clearing Agency Participant is not
the Owner, then as reflected in the records of a Person maintaining an account with such Clearing Agency
(directly or indirectly, in accordance with the rules of such Clearing Agency).
"Paying Agent" means any paying agent or co-paying agent appointed pursuant to Section 5.9 and
shall initially be the Bank.
"Payment Account" means a segregated non-interest-bearing corporate trust account maintained by
the Property Trustee with the Bank in its trust department for the benefit of the Securityholders in which
all amounts paid in respect of the Shares will be held and from which the Property Trustee, through the
Paying Agent, shall make payments to the Securityholders in accordance with Sections 4.1 and 4.2.
"Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership (general or limited), joint venture,
trust, limited liability company or corporation, unincorporated organization or government or any agency or
political subdivision thereof.
"Preferred Security" means an undivided beneficial interest in the assets of the Trust, having
a Liquidation Amount of $[___] and having the rights provided therefor in this Trust Agreement, including the
right to receive Distributions and a Liquidation Distribution as provided herein.
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"Preferred Securities Certificate" means a certificate evidencing ownership of Preferred
Securities, substantially in the form attached as Exhibit D.
"Property Trustee" means the Person identified as the "Property Trustee" in the preamble to
this Trust Agreement solely in its capacity as Property Trustee of the Trust and not in its individual
capacity, or its successor in interest in such capacity, or any successor property trustee appointed as
herein provided.
"Redemption Date" means, with respect to any Trust Security to be redeemed, the date fixed for
such redemption by or pursuant to this Trust Agreement; provided that each Certificate of Determination
Redemption Date [and the stated mandatory redemption date of the Shares] shall be a Redemption Date for a
Like Amount of Trust Securities.
"Redemption Price" means, with respect to any Trust Security, the Liquidation Amount of such
Trust Security, plus accumulated and unpaid Distributions to the Redemption Date, allocated on a pro rata
basis (based on Liquidation Amounts) among the Trust Securities.
"Regular Trustees" means each of the Persons identified as a "Regular Trustee" in the preamble
to this Trustee Agreement solely in such Person's capacity as Regular Trustee of the Trust and not in such
Person's individual capacity, or such Regular Trustee's successor in interest in such capacity, or any
successor trustee appointed as herein provided.
"Relevant Trustee" shall have the meaning specified in Section 8.10.
"Responsible Officer" shall mean when used with respect to the Property Trustee any officer
within the Corporate Trust Office including any Vice President, Managing Director, Assistant Vice President,
Secretary, Assistant Secretary, Treasurer or Assistant Treasurer or any other officer of the Property Trustee
customarily performing functions similar to those performed by any of the above designated officers and also,
with respect to a particular matter, any other officer to whom such matter is referred because of such
officer's knowledge and familiarity with the particular subject.
["Second Closing Date" means the "Second Time of Delivery" as specified in the Underwriting
Agreement.]
"Securities Register" and "Securities Registrar" have the respective meanings specified in
Section 5.4.
"Securityholder" or "Holder" means a Person in whose name a Trust Security or Trust Securities
is registered in the Securities Register, any such Person being a beneficial owner within the meaning of the
Delaware Statutory Trust Act; provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite
amount of Preferred Securities have voted on any matter provided for in this Trust Agreement, then for the
purpose of any such determination, so long as Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates
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have not been issued, the term Securityholders or Holders as used herein shall refer to the Owners.
"Shares" means the aggregate principal amount of the Depositor's [____]% Subordinated
[Deferrable Interest] Shares, Series [_], issued pursuant to the Certificate of Determination.
["Stock Event of Default" means an "Event of Default," as defined in the Certificate of
Determination, with respect to the Shares.]
"Tax Event" means the receipt by the Trust of an Opinion of Counsel from counsel experienced in
such matters to the effect that, as a result of any amendment to, or change (including any announced
prospective change) in, the laws (or any regulations thereunder) of the United States or any political
subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein, or as a result of any official administrative
pronouncement or judicial decision interpreting or applying such laws or regulations, which amendment or
change is effective or which pronouncement or decision is announced on or after the date of issuance of the
Preferred Securities under this Trust Agreement, there is more than an insubstantial risk that (i) the Trust
is, or will be within 90 days after the date of such Opinion of Counsel, subject to United States federal
income tax with respect to income received or accrued on the Shares, (ii) interest payable by the Depositor
on the Shares is not, or within 90 days after the date of such Opinion of Counsel, will not be, deductible by
the Depositor, in whole or in part, for United States federal income tax purposes or (iii) the Trust is, or
will be within 90 days after the date of such Opinion of Counsel, subject to more than a de minimis amount of
other taxes, duties, assessments or other governmental charges.
"Trust" means the Delaware statutory trust continued hereby and identified on the cover page to
this Trust Agreement.
"Trust Agreement" means this Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, as the same may be modified,
amended or supplemented in accordance with the applicable provisions hereof, including (i) all exhibits
hereto and (ii) for all purposes of this Trust Agreement and any such modification, amendment or supplement,
the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act that are deemed to be a part of and govern this Trust Agreement and
any such modification, amendment or supplement, respectively.
"Trust Indenture Act" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in force at the date as of which
this instrument was executed; provided, however, that in the event the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 is amended
after such date, "Trust Indenture Act" means, to the extent required by any such amendment, the Trust
Indenture Act of 1939 as so amended.
"Trust Property" means (a) the Shares, (b) any cash on deposit in, or owing to, the Payment
Account and (c) all proceeds and rights in respect of the foregoing and any other property and assets for the
time being held or deemed to be held by the Property Trustee pursuant to the trusts of this Trust Agreement.
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"Trust Security" means any one of the Common Securities or the Preferred Securities.
"Trust Securities Certificate" means any one of the Common Securities Certificates or the
Preferred Securities Certificates.
"Trustees" means, collectively, the Property Trustee, the Delaware Trustee and the Regular
Trustees.
"Underwriting Agreement" means the Pricing Agreement (including the Underwriting Agreement
incorporated by reference therein), dated __________, 20__, among the Trust, the Depositor and the
underwriters named therein.
ARTICLE II
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE TRUST
SECTION 2.1 Name.
The Trust continued hereby shall be known as "SCE Trust [_]," as such name may be modified from
time to time by the Regular Trustees following written notice to the Holders of Trust Securities and the
other Trustees, in which name the Trustees 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 2.2 Office of the Delaware Trustee; Principal Place of Business.
The address of the Delaware Trustee in the State of Delaware is
___________________________________________________________________, or such other address in the State of
Delaware as the Delaware Trustee may designate by written notice to the Depositor. The principal executive
office of the Trust is 0000 Xxxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000.
SECTION 2.3 Organizational Expenses.
The Depositor shall pay organizational expenses of the Trust as they arise or shall, upon
request of any Trustee, promptly reimburse such Trustee for any such expenses paid by such Trustee. The
Depositor shall make no claim upon the Trust Property for the payment of such expenses.
SECTION 2.4 Issuance of the Preferred Securities.
The Depositor, on behalf of the Trust and pursuant to the Original Trust Agreement, executed
and delivered the Underwriting Agreement. On the Closing Date, a Regular Trustee, on behalf of the Trust,
shall execute in accordance with Section 5.2, and the Property Trustee shall deliver to the Underwriters
named in the Underwriting
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Agreement, Preferred Securities Certificates, registered in the name of the nominee of the
initial Clearing Agency, evidencing an aggregate of __________ Preferred Securities having an aggregate
Liquidation Amount of $_____________, against receipt by the Property Trustee of the aggregate purchase price
of such Preferred Securities of $____________. [In the event that the Underwriters shall exercise their
Over-allotment Option, on the Second Closing Date, a Regular Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, shall execute
in accordance with Section 5.2, and the Property Trustee shall deliver to the Underwriters named in the
Underwriting Agreement, Preferred Securities Certificates, registered in the name of the nominee of the
initial Clearing Agency, evidencing an aggregate of up to _____________ Preferred Securities having an
aggregate Liquidation Amount of up to $___________, against receipt by the Property Trustee of the aggregate
purchase price of such Preferred Securities in an amount equal to such aggregate Liquidation Amount, all in
accordance with the terms of such exercise.]
SECTION 2.5 Issuance of the Common Securities; Subscription and Purchase of Shares.
On the Closing Date, a Regular Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, shall execute in accordance
with Section 5.2, and the Property Trustee shall deliver to the Depositor, Common Securities Certificates,
registered in the name of the Depositor, evidencing an aggregate of ________ Common Securities having an
aggregate Liquidation Amount of $___________ against receipt by the Property Trustee from the Depositor of
such amount. Contemporaneously therewith, a Regular Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, shall subscribe to and
purchase from the Depositor Shares, registered in the name of the Property Trustee (in its capacity as such)
and having an aggregate principal amount equal to $______________, and, in satisfaction of the purchase price
for such Shares, the Property Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, shall deliver to the Depositor the sum of
$____________ (being the sum of the amounts delivered to the Property Trustee pursuant to (i) the second
sentence of Section 2.4 and (ii) the first sentence of this Section 2.5). [In the event that the
Underwriters shall exercise their Over-allotment Option, on the Second Closing Date, a Regular Trustee, on
behalf of the Trust, shall execute in accordance with Section 5.2, and the Property Trustee shall deliver to
the Depositor, Common Securities Certificates, registered in the name of the Depositor, evidencing an
aggregate of up to ________ Common Securities having an aggregate Liquidation Amount of up to $_________
(such number and aggregate Liquidation Amount to be equal, unless otherwise agreed by the Depositor and the
Underwriters, to 3/97 of the number and aggregate Liquidation Amount, respectively, of Preferred Securities
to be executed and delivered pursuant to the third sentence of Section 2.4, rounded (A) in the case of such
number, up to the nearest whole number and (B) in the case of such amount, to the product of such number
multiplied by $[__]), against receipt by the Property Trustee from the Depositor of such amount.
Contemporaneously therewith, a Regular Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, shall subscribe to and purchase from
the Depositor Shares, registered in the name of the Property Trustee (in its capacity as such) and having an
aggregate principal amount equal to the sum of the aggregate Liquidation Amounts of (x) the Preferred
Securities to be executed and delivered pursuant to the third sentence of Section 2.4 and (y) the Common
Securities to be executed and delivered pursuant to the third sentence of this Section 2.5, and, in
satisfaction of the purchase price for such
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Shares, the Property Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, shall deliver to the Depositor an amount
equal to such sum.]
SECTION 2.6 Declaration of Trust.
The exclusive purposes and functions of the Trust are (a) to issue and sell Trust Securities
and use the proceeds from such sale to acquire the Shares, (b) to distribute the cash payments it receives on
the Shares it owns to the Securityholders, and (c) to engage in only those activities necessary, appropriate,
convenient or incidental thereto. The Depositor hereby appoints the Trustees as trustees of the Trust, to
have all the rights, powers and duties to the extent set forth herein, and the Trustees hereby accept such
appointment. The Property Trustee hereby declares that it will hold the Trust Property in trust upon and
subject to the conditions set forth herein for the benefit of the Trust and the Securityholders. The Regular
Trustees shall have all rights, powers and duties set forth herein and in accordance with applicable law with
respect to accomplishing the purposes of the Trust. The Delaware Trustee shall not be entitled to exercise
any powers, nor shall the Delaware Trustee have any of the duties and responsibilities, of the Trustees set
forth herein. The Delaware Trustee shall be one of the Trustees of the Trust for the sole and limited purpose
of fulfilling the requirements of Section 3807(a) of the Delaware Statutory Trust Act.
SECTION 2.7 Authorization to Enter into Certain Transactions.
(a) The Trustees shall conduct the affairs of the Trust in accordance with the terms of this Trust
Agreement. Subject to the limitations set forth in paragraph (b) of this Section, and in accordance with the
following provisions (i) and (ii), the Trustees shall have the authority to enter into all transactions and
agreements determined by the Trustees to be appropriate in exercising the authority, express or implied,
otherwise granted to the Trustees under this Trust Agreement, and to perform all acts in furtherance thereof,
including without limitation, the following:
(i) Each Regular Trustee, acting singly or collectively, shall have the power and authority to act on
behalf of the Trust with respect to the following matters:
(A) the issuance and sale of the Trust Securities;
(B) to cause the Trust to enter into, and to execute, deliver and perform on behalf of the Trust, the
Expense Agreement and the Certificate Depository Agreement and such other agreements as may be
necessary or desirable in connection with the purposes and function of the Trust;
(C) assisting in the registration of the Preferred Securities under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, and under state securities or blue sky laws, and the qualification of this Trust
Agreement as a trust indenture under the Trust Indenture Act;
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(D) assisting in the listing of the Preferred Securities upon such securities exchange or exchanges as
shall be determined by the Depositor and the registration of the Preferred Securities under the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the preparation and filing of all periodic and
other reports and other documents pursuant to the foregoing;
(E) assisting in the sending of notices (other than notices of default) and other information regarding
the Trust Securities and the Shares to the Securityholders in accordance with this Trust
Agreement;
(F) consenting to the appointment of a Paying Agent in accordance with this Trust Agreement;
(G) execution of the Trust Securities on behalf of the Trust in accordance with this Trust Agreement;
(H) execution and delivery of closing certificates pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement and application
for a taxpayer identification number for the Trust;
(I) unless otherwise determined by the Depositor, the Property Trustee or the Holders of Preferred
Securities representing more than 50% of the aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Outstanding
Preferred Securities, or as otherwise required by the Delaware Statutory Trust Act or the Trust
Indenture Act, to execute on behalf of the Trust (either acting alone or together with any or
all of the Regular Trustees) any documents that the Regular Trustees have the power to execute
pursuant to this Trust Agreement; and
(J) the taking of any action incidental to the foregoing as the Trustees may from time to time determine
is necessary or advisable to give effect to the terms of this Trust Agreement for the benefit
of the Securityholders (without consideration of the effect of any such action on any
particular Securityholder).
(ii) The Property Trustee shall have the power, duty and authority to act on behalf of the Trust with
respect to the following matters:
(A) the establishment of the Payment Account;
(B) the receipt of the Shares;
(C) the collection of interest, principal and any other payments made in respect of the Shares in the
Payment Account;
(D) the distribution through the Paying Agent of amounts owed to the Securityholders in respect of the
Trust Securities;
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(E) the exercise of all of the rights, powers and privileges of a holder of the Shares;
(F) the sending of notices of default and other information regarding the Trust Securities and the Shares
to the Securityholders in accordance with this Trust Agreement;
(G) the distribution of the Trust Property in accordance with the terms of this Trust Agreement;
(H) to the extent provided in this Trust Agreement, assisting in the winding up of the affairs of and
liquidation of the Trust and the preparation, execution and filing of the certificate of
cancellation with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware;
(I) after an Event of Default (other than under paragraph (b), (c), (d) or (e) of the definition of such
term if such Event of Default is by or with respect to the Property Trustee) the taking of any
action incidental to the foregoing as the Property Trustee may from time to time determine is
necessary or advisable to give effect to the terms of this Trust Agreement and protect and
conserve the Trust Property for the benefit of the Securityholders (without consideration of
the effect of any such action on any particular Securityholder); and
(J) any of the duties, liabilities, powers or the authority of the Regular Trustees set forth in Section
2.7(a)(i)(E), (F) and (J); and in the event of a conflict between the actions of the Regular
Trustees and those of the Property Trustee, the actions of the Property Trustee shall prevail.
(b) So long as this Trust Agreement remains in effect, the Trust (or the Trustees acting on behalf of the
Trust) shall not undertake any business, activities or transaction except as expressly provided herein or
contemplated hereby. In particular, the Trustees (acting on behalf of the Trust) shall not (i) acquire any
investments other than the Shares, (ii) engage in any activities not authorized by this Trust Agreement,
(iii) sell, assign, transfer, exchange, mortgage, pledge, set-off or otherwise dispose of any of the Trust
Property or interests therein, including to Securityholders, except as expressly provided herein, (iv) take
any action that would cause the Trust to fail or cease to qualify as a "grantor trust" for United States
federal income tax purposes, (v) incur any indebtedness for borrowed money or issue any other debt or (vi)
take or consent to any action that would result in the placement of a Lien on any of the Trust Property. The
Property Trustee shall defend all claims and demands of all Persons at any time claiming any Lien on any of
the Trust Property adverse to the interest of the Trust or the Securityholders in their capacity as
Securityholders; provided, however, that (x) all expenses relating to such defense shall be borne by the
Depositor and (y) the Property Trustee shall be fully indemnified by the Depositor for all costs incurred in
connection with such defense.
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(c) In connection with the issue and sale of the Preferred Securities, the Depositor shall have the right
and responsibility to assist the Trust with respect to, or effect on behalf of the Trust, the following (and
any actions taken by the Depositor in furtherance of the following prior to the date of this Trust Agreement
are hereby ratified and confirmed in all respects):
(i) the preparation and filing by the Trust with the Commission and the execution on behalf of the Trust
of a registration statement on the appropriate form in relation to the Preferred Securities, including
any amendments thereto;
(ii) the determination of the States in which to take appropriate action to qualify or register for sale
all or part of the Preferred Securities and the determination of any and all such acts, other than
actions which must be taken by or on behalf of the Trust, and the advice to the Trustees of actions
they must take on behalf of the Trust, and the preparation for execution and filing of any documents
to be executed and filed by the Trust or on behalf of the Trust, as the Depositor deems necessary or
advisable in order to comply with the applicable laws of any such States;
(iii) the preparation for filing by the Trust and execution on behalf of the Trust of an application to the
New York Stock Exchange or any other national stock exchange or the Nasdaq National Market for listing
upon notice of issuance of any Preferred Securities;
(iv) the preparation for filing by the Trust with the Commission and the execution on behalf of the Trust
of a registration statement on Form 8-A relating to the registration of the Preferred Securities under
Section 12(b) or 12(g) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, including any amendments
thereto, if required;
(v) the negotiation of the terms of, and the execution and delivery of, the Underwriting Agreement
providing for the sale of the Preferred Securities; and
(vi) the taking of any other actions necessary or desirable to carry out any of the foregoing activities.
(d) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Trustees are authorized, and the
Regular Trustees are directed, to conduct the affairs of the Trust and to operate the Trust so that (i) the
Trust will not be deemed to be an "investment company" required to be registered under the 1940 Act, (ii) the
Trust will be classified as a grantor trust for United States Federal income tax purposes [and (iii) so that
the Shares will be treated as indebtedness of the Depositor for United States Federal income tax purposes.]
In this connection, the Depositor and the Trustees are authorized to take any action, not inconsistent with
applicable law, the Certificate of Trust or this Trust Agreement, that each of the Depositor and the Trustees
determines in its discretion to be
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necessary or desirable for such purposes, as long as such action does not adversely affect in
any material respect the interests of the Holders of the Preferred Securities.
SECTION 2.8. Assets of Trust.
The assets of the Trust shall consist of the Trust Property.
SECTION 2.9. Title to Trust Property.
Legal title to all Trust Property shall be vested at all times in the Property Trustee (in its
capacity as such) and shall be held and administered by the Property Trustee for the benefit of the Trust and
the Securityholders in accordance with this Trust Agreement.
ARTICLE III
PAYMENT ACCOUNT
SECTION 3.1. Payment Account.
(a) On or prior to the Closing Date, the Property Trustee shall establish the Payment Account. The
Property Trustee and any agent of the Property Trustee shall have exclusive control and sole right of
withdrawal with respect to the Payment Account for the purpose of making deposits in and withdrawals from the
Payment Account in accordance with this Trust Agreement. All monies and other property deposited or held from
time to time in the Payment Account shall be held by the Property Trustee in the Payment Account for the
exclusive benefit of the Securityholders and for distribution as herein provided, including (and subject to)
any priority of payments provided for herein.
(b) The Property Trustee shall deposit in the Payment Account, promptly upon receipt, all dividend
and other payments on, and any other payments or proceeds with respect to, the Shares. Amounts held in the
Payment Account shall not be invested by the Property Trustee pending distribution thereof.
ARTICLE IV
DISTRIBUTIONS; REDEMPTION
SECTION 4.1. Distributions.
(a) The Trust Securities represent undivided beneficial interests in the Trust Property, and Distributions
will be made on the Trust Securities at the rate and on the dates that payments of dividends are made on the
Shares. Accordingly:
(i) Distributions on the Trust Securities shall be cumulative, and will accumulate whether or not there
are funds of the Trust available for the payment of Distributions. Distributions shall accrue from
__________, 20__, and, except in the event (and to the extent) that the Depositor exercises its right
to defer the
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payment of dividends on the Shares pursuant to the Certificate of Determination, shall be
payable [quarterly] in arrears on [________, _______, _________and _______] of each year, commencing
on ___________, 20__. If any date on which a Distribution is otherwise payable on the Trust Securities
is not a Business Day, then the payment of such Distribution shall be made on the next succeeding day
that is a Business Day (and without any interest or other payment in respect of any such delay) except
that, if such Business Day is in the next succeeding calendar year, payment of such Distribution shall
be made on the immediately preceding Business Day, in each case with the same force and effect as if
made on such date (each date on which distributions are payable in accordance with this Section
4.1(a), a "Distribution Date").
(ii) Assuming dividend payments on the Shares are made when due, Distributions on the Trust Securities
shall be payable at a rate of _____% per annum of the Liquidation Amount of the Trust Securities. The
amount of Distributions payable for any full period shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year
of twelve 30-day months. The amount of Distributions for any partial period shall be computed on the
basis of the number of days elapsed in a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. The amount of
Distributions payable for any period shall include the Additional Amounts, if any.
(iii) Distributions on the Trust Securities shall be made by the Property Trustee from the Payment Account
and shall be payable on each Distribution Date only to the extent that the Trust has funds then on
hand and available in the Payment Account for the payment of such Distributions.
(b) Distributions on the Trust Securities with respect to a Distribution Date shall be payable to the
Holders thereof as they appear on the Securities Register for the Trust Securities on the relevant record
date, which shall be one Business Day prior to such Distribution Date; provided, however, that in the event
that the Preferred Securities do not remain in book-entry-only form, the relevant record date shall be the
date 15 days prior to the relevant Distribution Date.
SECTION 4.2. Redemption.
(a) On each Certificate of Determination Redemption Date and on the stated maturity of the Shares, the
Trust will be required to redeem a Like Amount of Trust Securities at the Redemption Price.
(b) Notice of redemption shall be given by the Property Trustee at the expense of the Depositor by
first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date
(or, in the event that the redemption results from acceleration after the occurrence of a Stock Event of
Default and the Property Trustee is unable to give such notice within such period, as soon as practicable) to
each Holder of Trust Securities to be redeemed, at such Holder's address appearing in the Security Register.
All notices of redemption shall state:
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(i) the Redemption Date;
(ii) the Redemption Price;
(iii) the CUSIP number;
(iv) if less than all the Outstanding Trust Securities are to be redeemed, the identification and the total
Liquidation Amount of the particular Trust Securities to be redeemed; and
(v) that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price will become due and payable upon each such Trust
Security to be redeemed and that Distributions thereon will cease to accrue on and after said date,
except as provided in Section 4.2(d).
(c) The Trust Securities redeemed on each Redemption Date shall be redeemed at the Redemption Price with
the proceeds from the contemporaneous redemption of Shares. Redemptions of the Trust Securities shall be made
and the Redemption Price shall be payable on each Redemption Date only to the extent that the Trust has funds
then on hand and available in the Payment Account for the payment of such Redemption Price.
(d) If the Property Trustee gives a notice of redemption in respect of any Preferred Securities, then,
by 2:00 p.m., New York City time, on the Redemption Date, subject to Section 4.2(c), the Property Trustee will,
so long as the Preferred Securities are in book-entry-only form, irrevocably deposit with the Clearing Agency
for the Preferred Securities funds sufficient to pay the applicable Redemption Price and will give such
Clearing Agency instructions with respect to payment of the Redemption Price to the holders of the Preferred
Securities in accordance with the procedures set forth in the applicable agreement between the Property
Trustee and such Clearing Agency. If the Preferred Securities are no longer in book-entry-only form, the
Property Trustee, subject to Section 4.2(c), will irrevocably deposit with the Paying Agent funds sufficient
to pay the applicable Redemption Price and will give the Paying Agent instructions and authority to pay the
Redemption Price to the Holders thereof upon surrender of their Preferred Securities Certificates in
accordance with the notice of redemption. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Distributions payable on or prior to
the Redemption Date for any Trust Securities called for redemption shall be payable to the Holders of such
Trust Securities as they appear on the Register for the Trust Securities on the relevant record dates for the
related Distribution Dates. If notice of redemption shall have been given and funds deposited as required,
then upon the date of such deposit, all rights of Securityholders holding Trust Securities so called for
redemption will cease, except the right of such Securityholders to receive the Redemption Price and any
Distribution payable on or prior to the Redemption Date, but without interest, and such Securities will cease
to be outstanding. In the event that any date on which any Redemption Price is payable is not a Business Day,
then payment of the Redemption Price payable on such date will be made on the next succeeding day that is a
Business Day (and without any interest or other payment in respect of any such delay), except that, if such
Business Day
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falls in the next calendar year, such payment will be made on the immediately preceding
Business Day, in each case, with the same force and effect as if made on such date. In the event that payment
of the Redemption Price in respect of any Trust Securities called for redemption is improperly withheld or
refused and not paid either by the Trust or by the Guarantor pursuant to the Guarantee, Distributions on such
Trust Securities will continue to accrue, at the then applicable rate, from the Redemption Date originally
established by the Trust for such Trust Securities to the date such Redemption Price is actually paid, in
which case the actual payment date will be the date fixed for redemption for purposes of calculating the
Redemption Price.
(e) Payment of the Redemption Price on the Trust Securities shall be made to the Securityholders as
they appear on the Securities Register for the Trust Securities on the relevant record date, which shall be one
Business Day prior to the relevant Redemption Date; provided, however, that in the event that the Preferred
Securities do not remain in book-entry-only form, the relevant record date shall be the date 15 days prior to
the relevant Redemption Date.
(f) Subject to Section 4.3(a), if less than all the Outstanding Trust Securities are to be redeemed
on a Redemption Date, then the aggregate Liquidation Amount of Trust Securities to be redeemed shall be allocated
on a pro rata basis (based on Liquidation Amounts) among the Common Securities and the Preferred Securities.
The particular Preferred Securities and Common Securities to be redeemed shall be selected on a pro rata
basis (based upon Liquidation Amounts) not more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date by the Property
Trustee from the Outstanding Preferred Securities and Common Securities, respectively, not previously called
for redemption, by such method (including, without limitation, by lot) as the Property Trustee shall deem
fair and appropriate and which may provide for the selection for redemption of portions (equal to $[__] or an
integral multiple of $[__] in excess thereof) of the Liquidation Amount of Preferred Securities and Common
Securities, respectively, of a denomination larger than $[__]. The Property Trustee shall promptly notify the
Security Registrar in writing of the Preferred Securities and Common Securities selected for redemption and,
in the case of any Preferred Securities or Common Securities selected for partial redemption, the Liquidation
Amount thereof to be redeemed. For all purposes of this Trust Agreement, unless the context otherwise
requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of Preferred Securities or Preferred Securities shall
relate, in the case of any Preferred Securities or Common Securities, as applicable, redeemed or to be
redeemed only in part, to the portion of the Liquidation Amount of Preferred Securities or Common Securities,
as applicable, that has been or is to be redeemed.
SECTION 4.3. Subordination of Common Securities.
(a) Payment of Distributions (including Additional Amounts, if applicable) on, and the Redemption Price
of, the Trust Securities, as applicable, shall be made, subject to Section 4.2(f), pro rata among the Common
Securities and the Preferred Securities based on the Liquidation Amount of the Trust Securities; [provided,
however, that if on any Distribution Date or Redemption Date any Event of Default resulting from a Stock
Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, no payment of any
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Distribution on, or Redemption Price of, any Common Security, and no other payment on account
of the redemption, liquidation or other acquisition of Common Securities, shall be made unless payment in
full in cash of all accumulated and unpaid Distributions on all Outstanding Preferred Securities for all
Distribution periods terminating on or prior thereto, or in the case of payment of the Redemption Price the
full amount of such Redemption Price on all Outstanding Preferred Securities, shall have been made or
provided for, and all funds immediately available to the Property Trustee shall first be applied to the
payment in full in cash of all Distributions on, or the Redemption Price of, Preferred Securities then due
and payable].
(b) [In the case of the occurrence of any Event of Default resulting from any Stock Event of Default,
the Holder of Common Securities will be deemed to have waived any right to act with respect to any such Event of
Default under this Trust Agreement until the effect of all such Events of Default with respect to the
Preferred Securities have been cured, waived or otherwise eliminated. Until any such Event of Default under
this Trust Agreement with respect to the Preferred Securities has been so cured, waived or otherwise
eliminated, the Property Trustee shall act solely on behalf of the Holders of the Preferred Securities and
not the Holder of the Common Securities, and only the Holders of the Preferred Securities will have the right
to direct the Property Trustee to act on their behalf.]
SECTION 4.4. Payment Procedures.
Payments of Distributions in respect of the Preferred Securities shall be made by check mailed
to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear on the Securities Register or, if
the Preferred Securities are held by a Clearing Agency, such Distributions shall be made to the Clearing
Agency in immediately available funds, which shall credit the relevant Persons' accounts at such Clearing
Agency on the applicable Distribution Dates. Payments in respect of the Common Securities shall be made in
such manner as shall be mutually agreed between the Property Trustee and the Common Securityholder. Any
Distributions in respect of Preferred Securities that remain unclaimed for a period of two years following
the applicable Distribution Date shall be paid to the Holder of the Common Securities.
SECTION 4.5. Tax Returns and Reports.
The Regular Trustees shall prepare (or cause to be prepared), at the Depositor's expense, and
file all United States federal, state and local tax and information returns, payee statements and reports
required to be filed by or in respect of the Trust. In this regard, the Regular Trustees shall (a) prepare
and file (or cause to be prepared and filed) the appropriate Internal Revenue Service form required to be
filed in respect of the Trust in each taxable year of the Trust and (b) prepare and furnish (or cause to be
prepared and furnished) to each Securityholder the appropriate Internal Revenue Service form required to be
provided. The Regular Trustees shall provide the Depositor and the Property Trustee with a copy of all such
returns and reports promptly after such filing or furnishing. The Trustees and the Paying Agent shall comply
with United States federal
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withholding and backup withholding tax laws and information reporting requirements with respect
to any payments to Securityholders under the Trust Securities.
SECTION 4.6. Intentionally Omitted.
SECTION 4.7. Payments under Certificate of Determination or Pursuant to Direct Actions.
Any amount payable hereunder to any Holder of Preferred Securities shall be reduced by the
amount of any corresponding payment such Holder has directly received pursuant to _________________ or
Section 5.14 of this Trust Agreement.
ARTICLE V
TRUST SECURITIES CERTIFICATES
SECTION 5.1. Initial Ownership.
Upon the formation of the Trust and until the issuance of the Trust Securities, and at any time
during which no Trust Securities are outstanding, the Depositor shall be the sole beneficial owner of the
Trust.
SECTION 5.2. Trust Securities Certificates.
The Preferred Securities Certificates shall be issued in minimum denominations of $[__]
Liquidation Amount and integral multiples of $[__] in excess thereof, and the Common Securities Certificates
shall be issued in minimum denominations of $[__] Liquidation Amount and integral multiples thereof. The
Trust Securities Certificates shall be executed on behalf of the Trust by manual signature of at least one
Regular Trustee. Trust Securities Certificates bearing the manual 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 benefits of this Trust Agreement, notwithstanding that such individuals or
any of them shall have ceased to be so authorized prior to the delivery of such Trust Securities Certificates
or did not hold such offices at the date of delivery of such Trust Securities Certificates. A transferee of a
Trust Securities Certificate shall become a Securityholder, and shall be entitled to the rights and subject
to the obligations of a Securityholder hereunder, upon due registration of such Trust Securities Certificate
in such transferee's name pursuant to Sections 5.4, 5.11 and 5.13.
SECTION 5.3. Execution and Delivery of Trust Securities Certificates.
At the Closing Date [and the Second Closing Date (if any)], the Regular Trustees shall cause
Trust Securities Certificates to be executed on behalf of the Trust and delivered by the Property Trustee as
provided in Sections 2.4 and 2.5.
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SECTION 5.4. Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Preferred Securities Certificates.
The Depositor shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to
Section 5.8, a register or registers for the purpose of registering Trust Securities Certificates and
transfers and exchanges of Preferred Securities Certificates (the "Securities Register") in which the
registrar designated by the Depositor (the "Securities Registrar"), subject to such reasonable regulations as
it may prescribe, shall provide for the registration of Preferred Securities Certificates and Common
Securities Certificates (subject to Section 5.10 in the case of the Common Securities Certificates) and
registration of transfers and exchanges of Preferred Securities Certificates as herein provided. The Bank
shall be the initial Securities Registrar.
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Preferred Securities Certificate at the
office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 5.8, the Regular Trustees or any one of them shall execute
and deliver to the Property Trustee, and the Property Trustee shall deliver, in the name of the designated
transferee or transferees, one or more new Preferred Securities Certificates in authorized denominations of a
like aggregate Liquidation Amount dated the date of execution by such Regular Trustee or Trustees.
The Securities Registrar shall not be required to register the transfer of any Preferred
Securities that have been called for redemption. At the option of a Holder, Preferred Securities Certificates
may be exchanged for other Preferred Securities Certificates in authorized denominations of the same class
and of a like aggregate Liquidation Amount upon surrender of the Preferred Securities Certificates to be
exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 5.8.
Every Preferred Securities Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or
exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Securities
Registrar duly executed by the Holder or his attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Preferred Securities
Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be canceled and subsequently disposed
of by the Property Trustee in accordance with such Person's customary practice.
No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Preferred
Securities Certificates, but the Securities 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 Preferred
Securities Certificates.
SECTION 5.5. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Trust Securities Certificates.
If (a) any mutilated Trust Securities Certificate shall be surrendered to the Securities
Registrar, or if the Securities Registrar shall receive evidence to its satisfaction of the destruction, loss
or theft of any Trust Securities Certificate and (b) there shall be delivered to the Securities Registrar and
the Regular Trustees such security or indemnity
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as may be required by them to save each of them harmless, then in the absence of notice that
such Trust Securities Certificate shall have been acquired by a protected purchaser, the Regular Trustees, or
any one of them, on behalf of the Trust shall execute and make available for delivery, in exchange for or in
lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Trust Securities Certificate, a new Trust Securities
Certificate of like class, tenor and denomination. In connection with the issuance of any new Trust
Securities Certificate under this Section, the Regular Trustees or the Securities 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 Trust Securities Certificate issued pursuant to this Section shall constitute
conclusive evidence of an undivided beneficial interest in the assets of the Trust, as if originally issued,
whether or not the lost, stolen or destroyed Trust Securities Certificate shall be found at any time.
SECTION 5.6. Persons Deemed Securityholders.
The Trustees or the Securities Registrar shall treat the Person in whose name any Trust
Securities Certificate shall be registered in the Securities Register as the owner of such Trust Securities
Certificate for the purpose of receiving Distributions and for all other purposes whatsoever, and neither the
Trustees nor the Securities Registrar shall be bound by any notice to the contrary.
SECTION 5.7. Access to List of Securityholders' Names and Addresses.
The Regular Trustees or the Depositor shall furnish or cause to be furnished to the Property
Trustee (a) semi-annually on or before January 15 and July 15 in each year, a list, in such form as the
Property Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Securityholders as of the most
recent record date and (b) promptly after receipt by any Regular Trustee or the Depositor of a request for
such list from the Property Trustee in order to enable the Property Trustee to discharge its obligations
under this Trust Agreement, a list of the type referred to in clause (a), in each case to the extent such
information is in the possession or control of the Regular Trustees or the Depositor and is not identical to
a previously supplied list or has not otherwise been received by the Property Trustee in its capacity as
Securities Registrar. The rights of Securityholders to communicate with other Securityholders with respect to
their rights under this Trust Agreement or under the Trust Securities, and the corresponding rights of the
Property Trustee shall be as provided in the Trust Indenture Act. Each Securityholder and each Owner shall be
deemed to have agreed not to hold the Trust, the Depositor, the Property Trustee or the Regular Trustees
accountable by reason of the disclosure of its name and address, regardless of the source from which such
information was derived.
SECTION 5.8. Maintenance of Office or Agency.
The Property Trustee shall designate, with the consent of the Regular Trustees (which consent
shall not be unreasonably withheld), an office or offices or agency or agencies where Preferred Securities
Certificates may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or
upon the
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Trustees in respect of the Trust Securities Certificates may be served. The Property Trustee
initially designates its Corporate Trust Office as its office and agency for such purposes. The Property
Trustee shall give prompt written notice to the Depositor and to the Securityholders of any change in the
location of the Securities Register or any such office or agency.
SECTION 5.9. Appointment of Paying Agent.
The Paying Agent shall make distributions to Securityholders from the Payment Account and shall
report the amounts of such distributions to the Property Trustee and the Regular Trustees. Any Paying Agent
shall have the revocable power to withdraw funds from the Payment Account for the purpose of making the
distributions referred to above. The Property Trustee may revoke such power and remove the Paying Agent in
its sole discretion. The Paying Agent shall initially be the Bank, and any co-paying agent chosen by the
Bank, and reasonably acceptable to the Regular Trustees. Any Person acting as Paying Agent shall be permitted
to resign as Paying Agent upon 30 days' written notice to the Regular Trustees and the Property Trustee. In
the event that the Bank shall no longer be the Paying Agent or a successor Paying Agent shall resign or its
authority to act be revoked, the Property Trustee shall appoint a successor that is acceptable to the Regular
Trustees to act as Paying Agent (which shall be a bank or trust company). The Property Trustee shall cause
such successor Paying Agent or any additional Paying Agent appointed by the Property Trustee to execute and
deliver to the Trustees an instrument in which such successor Paying Agent or additional Paying Agent shall
agree with the Trustees that as Paying Agent, such successor Paying Agent or additional Paying Agent will
hold all sums, if any, held by it for payment to the Securityholders in trust for the benefit of the
Securityholders entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to such Securityholders. The Paying Agent
shall return all unclaimed funds to the Property Trustee and upon removal of a Paying Agent such Paying Agent
shall also return all funds in its possession to the Property Trustee. The provisions of Sections 8.1, 8.3
and 8.6 herein shall apply to the Bank also in its role as Paying Agent, for so long as the Bank shall act as
Paying Agent and, to the extent applicable, to any other paying agent appointed hereunder. Any reference in
this Agreement to the Paying Agent shall include any co-paying agent unless the context requires otherwise.
SECTION 5.10. Ownership of Common Securities by Depositor.
On the Closing Date [and on the Second Closing Date (if any)], the Depositor shall acquire and
retain beneficial and record ownership of the Common Securities. To the fullest extent permitted by law,
other than a transfer in connection with a consolidation or merger of the Depositor into another corporation,
or any conveyance, transfer or lease by the Depositor of its properties and assets substantially as an
entirety to any Person, pursuant to _____________________, any attempted transfer of the Common Securities
shall be void. The Regular Trustees shall cause each Common Securities Certificate issued to the Depositor to
contain a legend stating "THIS CERTIFICATE IS NOT TRANSFERABLE EXCEPT IN CERTAIN LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES SET
FORTH IN THE TRUST AGREEMENT (AS DEFINED BELOW)."
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SECTION 5.11. Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificates; Common Securities Certificate.
(a) The Preferred Securities Certificates, upon original issuance, will be issued in the form of a
typewritten Preferred Securities Certificate or Certificates representing Book-Entry Preferred Securities
Certificates, to be delivered to The Depository Trust Company, the initial Clearing Agency, by, or on behalf
of, the Trust. Such Preferred Securities Certificate or Certificates shall initially be registered on the
Securities Register in the name of Cede & Co., the nominee of the initial Clearing Agency, and no Owner will
receive a Definitive Preferred Securities Certificate representing such Owner's interest in such Preferred
Securities, except as provided in Section 5.13. Unless and until Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates
have been issued to Owners pursuant to Section 5.13:
(i) the provisions of this Section 5.11(a) shall be in full force and effect;
(ii) the Securities Registrar, the Depositor and the Trustees shall be entitled to deal with the Clearing
Agency for all purposes of this Trust Agreement relating to the Book-Entry Preferred Securities
Certificates (including the payment of the Liquidation Amount of and Distributions or Redemption Price
on the Preferred Securities evidenced by Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificates and the giving
of instructions or directions to Owners of Preferred Securities evidenced by Book-Entry Preferred
Securities Certificates) as the sole Holder of Preferred Securities evidenced by Book-Entry Preferred
Securities Certificates and shall have no obligations to the Owners thereof;
(iii) to the extent that the provisions of this Section 5.11 conflict with any other provisions of this
Trust Agreement, the provisions of this Section 5.11 shall control; and
(iv) the rights of the Owners of the Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificates shall be exercised only
through the Clearing Agency and shall be limited to those established by law and agreements between
such Owners and the Clearing Agency and/or the Clearing Agency Participants. Pursuant to the
Certificate Depository Agreement, unless and until Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates are
issued pursuant to Section 5.13, the initial Clearing Agency will make book-entry transfers among the
Clearing Agency Participants and receive and transmit payments on the Preferred Securities to such
Clearing Agency Participants.
(b) A single Common Securities Certificate representing the Common Securities shall be issued to the
Depositor in the form of a definitive Common Securities Certificate.
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SECTION 5.12. Notices to Clearing Agency.
To the extent that a notice or other communication to the Owners is required under this Trust
Agreement, unless and until Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates shall have been issued to Owners
pursuant to Section 5.13, the Trustees shall give all such notices and communications specified herein to be
given to Owners to the Clearing Agency, and shall have no obligations to the Owners.
SECTION 5.13. Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates.
If (a) the Depositor advises the Trustees in writing that the Clearing Agency is no longer
willing or able to properly discharge its responsibilities with respect to the Preferred Securities
Certificates, and the Depositor is unable to locate a qualified successor, (b) the Depositor at its option
advises the Trustees in writing that it elects to terminate the book-entry system through the Clearing Agency
or (c) after the occurrence of a Stock Event of Default, Owners of Preferred Securities Certificates
representing beneficial interests aggregating at least a majority of the aggregate Liquidation Amount of the
Outstanding Preferred Securities advise the Regular Trustees in writing that the continuation of a book-entry
system through the Clearing Agency is no longer in the best interest of the Owners of Preferred Securities
Certificates, then the Regular Trustees shall notify the Clearing Agency and the Clearing Agency shall notify
all Owners of Preferred Securities Certificates and the other Trustees of the occurrence of any such event
and of the availability of the Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates to Owners of such class or
classes, as applicable, requesting the same. Upon surrender to the Regular Trustees or the Securities
Registrar of the typewritten Preferred Securities Certificate or Certificates representing the Book Entry
Preferred Securities Certificates by the Clearing Agency, accompanied by registration instructions, the
Regular Trustees, or any one of them, shall execute the Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates in
accordance with the instructions of the Clearing Agency. Neither the Securities Registrar nor the Trustees
shall be liable for any delay in delivery of such instructions and may conclusively rely on, and shall be
protected in relying on, such instructions. Upon the issuance of Definitive Preferred Securities
Certificates, the Trustees shall recognize the Holders of the Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates as
Securityholders. The Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates shall be printed, lithographed or engraved
or may be produced in any other manner as is reasonably acceptable to the Regular Trustees, as evidenced by
the execution thereof by the Regular Trustees or any one of them.
SECTION 5.14. Rights of Securityholders.
(a) The legal title to the Trust Property is vested exclusively in the Property Trustee (in its capacity
as such) in accordance with Section 2.9, and the Securityholders shall not have any right or title therein
other than the undivided beneficial interest in the assets of the Trust conferred by their Trust Securities
and they shall have no right to call for any partition or division of property, profits or rights of the
Trust except as described below. The Trust Securities shall be personal property giving only the rights
specifically set forth therein and in this Trust Agreement. The Trust Securities shall have no preemptive or
similar rights and when issued and delivered to
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Securityholders against payment of the purchase price therefor will be fully paid and nonassessable
by the Trust. The Holders of the Trust Securities, in their capacities as such, shall be entitled
to the same limitation of personal liability extended to stockholders of private corporations for
profit organized under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.
(b) For so long as any Preferred Securities remain Outstanding, if, upon a Stock Event of Default, the
Indenture Trustee fails or the holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the outstanding Shares
fail to declare the principal of all of the Shares to be immediately due and payable, the Holders of at least
25% in aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities then Outstanding shall have such right by a
notice in writing to the Depositor and the Indenture Trustee; and upon any such declaration such principal
amount of and the accrued interest on all of the Shares shall become immediately due and payable, provided
that the payment of principal and interest on such Shares shall remain subordinated to the extent provided in
the Certificate of Determination.
At any time after such a declaration of acceleration with respect to the Shares has been made
and before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due has been obtained by the Indenture Trustee as in
the Certificate of Determination provided, the Holders of a majority in aggregate Liquidation Amount of the
Outstanding Preferred Securities, by written notice to the Property Trustee, the Depositor and the Indenture
Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if:
(i) the Depositor has paid or deposited with the Indenture Trustee a sum sufficient to pay
(A) all overdue dividends on all of the Shares,
(B) the principal of any Shares which have become due otherwise than by such declaration of acceleration
and interest thereon at the rate borne by the Shares, and
(C) all sums paid or advanced by the Indenture Trustee under the Certificate of Determination and the
reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Indenture Trustee and the
Property Trustee, their agents and counsel; and
(ii) all Events of Default with respect to the Shares, other than the non-payment of the principal of the
Shares which has become due solely by such acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in
__________________.
The Holders of a majority in aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Outstanding Preferred
Securities may, on behalf of the Holders of all the Outstanding Preferred Securities, waive any past default
under the Certificate of Determination, except a default in the payment of principal or interest on the
Shares (unless such default has been cured and a sum sufficient to pay all matured installments of interest
and principal due otherwise than by acceleration has been deposited with the Indenture
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Trustee) or a default in respect of a covenant or provision which under the Certificate of
Determination cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the holder of each outstanding Note. No
such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right consequent thereon.
Upon receipt by the Property Trustee of written notice declaring such an acceleration, or
rescission and annulment thereof, by Holders of the Preferred Securities all or part of which is represented
by Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificates, a record date shall be established for determining Holders
of Outstanding Preferred Securities entitled to join in such notice, which record date shall be at the close
of business on the day the Property Trustee receives such notice. The Holders on such record date, or their
duly designated proxies, and only such Persons, shall be entitled to join in such notice, whether or not such
Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided, that, unless such declaration of acceleration, or
rescission and annulment, as the case may be, shall have become effective by virtue of the requisite
percentage having joined in such notice prior to the day which is 90 days after such record date, such notice
of declaration of acceleration, or rescission and annulment, as the case may be, shall automatically and
without further action by any Holder be canceled and of no further effect. Nothing in this paragraph shall
prevent a Holder, or a proxy of a Holder, from giving, after expiration of such 90-day period, a new written
notice of declaration of acceleration, or rescission and annulment thereof, as the case may be, that is
identical to a written notice which has been canceled pursuant to the proviso to the preceding sentence, in
which event a new record date shall be established pursuant to the provisions of this Section 5.14(b).
(c) For so long as any Preferred Securities remain Outstanding, to the fullest extent permitted by
law and subject to the terms of this Trust Agreement and the Certificate of Determination, upon a Stock Event of
Default specified in Section ____________ of the Certificate of Determination, any Holder of Preferred
Securities shall have the right to institute a proceeding directly against the Depositor, pursuant to Section
__________ of the Certificate of Determination, for enforcement of payment to such Holder of the principal
amount of or interest on Shares having a principal amount equal to the Liquidation Amount of the Preferred
Securities of such Holder (a "Direct Action"). Except as set forth in Section 5.14(b) and this Section
5.14(c), the Holders of Preferred Securities shall have no right to exercise directly any right or remedy
available to the holders of, or in respect of, the Shares.
ARTICLE VI
ACTS OF SECURITYHOLDERS; MEETINGS; VOTING
SECTION 6.1. Limitations on Voting Rights.
(a) Except as provided in this Section and as otherwise required by law, no Holder of Preferred Securities
shall have any right to vote or in any manner otherwise control the administration, operation and management
of the Trust or the obligations of the parties hereto, nor shall anything herein set forth, or contained in
the terms of the
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Trust Securities Certificates, be construed so as to constitute the Securityholders from time
to time as partners or members of an association.
(b) So long as any Shares are held by the Property Trustee, the Trustees shall not (i) direct the time,
method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Indenture Trustee, or executing
any trust or power conferred on the Property Trustee with respect to such Shares, (ii) waive any past default
which is waivable under Section _____ of the Certificate of Determination, (iii) exercise any right to
rescind or annul a declaration that the principal of all the Shares shall be due and payable or (iv) consent
to any amendment, modification or termination of the Certificate of Determination, where such consent shall
be required, without, in each case, obtaining the prior approval of the Holders of a majority in aggregate
Liquidation Amount of all Outstanding Preferred Securities, provided, however, that where a consent under the
Certificate of Determination would require the consent of each Holder of Shares affected thereby, no such
consent shall be given by the Property Trustee without the prior written consent of each Holder of Preferred
Securities. The Trustees shall not revoke any action previously authorized or approved by a vote of the
Holders of Preferred Securities, except by a subsequent vote of the Holders of Preferred Securities. The
Property Trustee shall notify all Holders of the Preferred Securities of any notice of default received from
the Indenture Trustee with respect to the Shares. In addition to obtaining the foregoing approvals of the
Holders of the Preferred Securities, prior to taking any of the foregoing actions, the Trustees shall, at the
expense of the Depositor, obtain an Opinion of Counsel experienced in such matters to the effect that such
action shall not cause the Trust to fail to be classified as a grantor trust for United States Federal income
tax purposes.
(c) If any proposed amendment to this Trust Agreement provides for, or the Trustees otherwise propose to
effect, (i) any action that would adversely affect in any material respect the powers, preferences or special
rights of the Preferred Securities, whether by way of amendment to this Trust Agreement or otherwise, or (ii)
the dissolution, winding-up or termination of the Trust, other than pursuant to the terms of this Trust
Agreement, then the Holders of Outstanding Preferred Securities as a class will be entitled to vote on such
amendment or proposal and such amendment or proposal shall not be effective except with the approval of the
Holders of at least a majority in aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Outstanding Preferred Securities.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Trust Agreement, no amendment to this Trust Agreement may be made
if, as a result of such amendment, it would cause the Trust to fail to be classified as a grantor trust for
United States Federal income tax purposes.
SECTION 6.2. Notice of Meetings.
Notice of all meetings of the Preferred Securityholders, stating the time, place and purpose of
the meeting, shall be given by the Property Trustee pursuant to Section 10.8 to each Preferred Securityholder
of record, at his registered address, at least 15 days and not more than 90 days before the meeting. At any
such meeting, any business properly before the meeting may be so considered whether or not stated in the
notice of the meeting. Any adjourned meeting may be held as adjourned without further notice.
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SECTION 6.3. Meetings of Preferred Securityholders.
No annual meeting of Securityholders is required to be held. The Property Trustee, however,
shall call a meeting of Preferred Securityholders to vote on any matter upon the written request of the
Preferred Securityholders of record of 25% or more of the Preferred Securities (based upon their aggregate
Liquidation Amount) and the Regular Trustees or the Property Trustee may, at any time in their discretion,
call a meeting of Preferred Securityholders to vote on any matters as to which Preferred Securityholders are
entitled to vote.
Preferred Securityholders of record of 50% of the Outstanding Preferred Securities (based upon
their aggregate Liquidation Amount), present in person or by proxy, shall constitute a quorum at any meeting
of Securityholders.
If a quorum is present at a meeting, an affirmative vote by the Preferred Securityholders of
record present, in person or by proxy, holding a majority of the Preferred Securities (based upon their
aggregate Liquidation Amount) held by the Preferred Securityholders of record present, either in person or by
proxy, at such meeting shall constitute the action of the Preferred Securityholders, unless this Trust
Agreement requires a greater number of affirmative votes.
SECTION 6.4. Voting Rights.
Securityholders shall be entitled to one vote for each $[__] of Liquidation Amount represented
by their Trust Securities in respect of any matter as to which such Securityholders are entitled to vote.
SECTION 6.5. Proxies, etc.
At any meeting of Securityholders, any Securityholder entitled to vote thereat may vote by
proxy, provided that no proxy shall be voted at any meeting unless it shall have been placed on file with the
Property Trustee, or with such other officer or agent of the Trust as the Property Trustee may direct, for
verification prior to the time at which such vote shall be taken. Pursuant to a resolution of the Property
Trustee, proxies may be solicited in the name of the Property Trustee or one or more officers of the Property
Trustee. Only Securityholders of record shall be entitled to vote. When Trust Securities are held jointly by
several persons, any one of them may vote at any meeting in person or by proxy in respect of such Trust
Securities, but if more than one of them shall be present at such meeting in person or by proxy, and such
joint owners or their proxies so present disagree as to any vote to be cast, such vote shall not be received
in respect of such Trust Securities. A proxy purporting to be executed by or on behalf of a Securityholder
shall be deemed valid unless challenged at or prior to its exercise, and the burden of proving invalidity
shall rest on the challenger. No proxy shall be valid more than three years after its date of execution.
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SECTION 6.6. Securityholder Action by Written Consent.
Any action which may be taken by Securityholders at a meeting may be taken without a meeting
and without prior notice if Securityholders holding a majority of all Outstanding Trust Securities (based
upon their Liquidation Amount) entitled to vote in respect of such action (or such larger proportion thereof
as shall be required by any express provision of this Trust Agreement) shall consent to the action in writing.
SECTION 6.7. Record Date for Voting and Other Purposes.
For the purposes of determining the Securityholders who are entitled to notice of and to vote
at any meeting or to act by written consent, or to participate in any distribution on the Trust Securities in
respect of which a record date is not otherwise provided for in this Trust Agreement, or for the purpose of
any other action, the Regular Trustees or the Property Trustee may from time to time fix a date, not more
than 90 days prior to the date of any meeting of Securityholders or the payment of a distribution or other
action, as the case may be, as a record date for the determination of the identity of the Securityholders of
record for such purposes.
SECTION 6.8. Acts of Securityholders.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided
or permitted by this Trust Agreement to be given, made or taken by Securityholders or Owners may be embodied
in and evidenced by one or more written instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such
Securityholders or Owners in person or by an agent duly appointed in writing; and, except as otherwise
expressly provided herein, such action shall become effective when such written instrument or instruments are
delivered to the Property Trustee. Such written instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein
and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the "Act" of the Securityholders or Owners signing
such written instrument or instruments. Proof of execution of any such written instrument or of a writing
appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Trust Agreement and (subject to Section
8.1) conclusive in favor of the Trustees, if made in the manner provided in this Section.
The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such instrument or writing may be
proved by the affidavit of a witness of such execution or by a certificate of a notary public or other
officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the individual signing such
instrument or writing acknowledged to him the execution thereof. Where such execution is by a signer acting
in a capacity other than his individual capacity, such certificate or affidavit shall also constitute
sufficient proof of his authority. The fact and date of the execution of any such instrument or writing, or
the authority of the Person executing the same, may also be proved in any other manner which any Trustee
receiving the same deems sufficient.
The ownership of Preferred Securities shall be proved by the Securities Register.
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Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act of the
Securityholder of any Trust Security shall bind every future Securityholder of the same Trust Security and
the Securityholder of every Trust Security issued upon the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange
therefor or in lieu thereof in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Trustees or
the Trust in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Trust Security.
Without limiting the foregoing, a Securityholder entitled hereunder to take any action
hereunder with regard to any particular Trust Security may do so with regard to all or any part of the
Liquidation Amount of such Trust Security or by one or more duly appointed agents each of which may do so
pursuant to such appointment with regard to all or any part of such liquidation amount.
If any dispute arises between the Securityholders and the Property Trustee or among such
Securityholders or the Trustees with respect to the authenticity, validity or binding nature of any request,
demand, authorization, direction, consent, waiver or other Act of such Securityholder or Trustee under this
Article VI, then the determination of such matter by the Property Trustee shall be conclusive and binding
with respect to such matter.
SECTION 6.9. Inspection of Records.
Upon reasonable written notice to the Regular Trustees and the Property Trustee, the records of
the Trust shall be open to inspection by Securityholders during normal business hours for any purpose
reasonably related to such Securityholder's interest as a Securityholder.
ARTICLE VII
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
SECTION 7.1. Representations and Warranties of the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee.
The Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee, each severally on behalf of and as to itself,
hereby represents and warrants for the benefit of the Depositor and the Securityholders that:
(a) the Property Trustee is a national association validly existing and in good standing under the laws of
the United States of America;
(b) the Property Trustee has the requisite power and authority to execute, deliver and perform its
obligations under this Trust Agreement and has taken all necessary action to authorize the execution,
delivery and performance by it of this Trust Agreement;
(c) the Delaware Trustee is a Delaware banking corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good
standing;
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(d) the Delaware Trustee has full corporate power, authority and legal right to execute, deliver and
perform its obligations under this Trust Agreement and has taken all necessary action to authorize the
execution, delivery and performance by it of this Trust Agreement;
(e) this Trust Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Property Trustee and the
Delaware Trustee and constitutes the valid and legally binding agreement of each of the Property Trustee and
the Delaware Trustee enforceable against each of them in accordance with its terms, subject to bankruptcy,
insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of general applicability
relating to or affecting creditors' rights and to general equity principles;
(f) the execution, delivery and performance of this Trust Agreement has been duly authorized by all
necessary corporate or other action on the part of the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee and does not
require any approval of stockholders of the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee;
SECTION 7.2. Representations and Warranties of Depositor.
The Depositor hereby represents and warrants that:
(a) this Trust Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Depositor and constitutes
the valid and legally binding agreement of the Depositor enforceable against it in accordance with its terms,
subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of
general applicability relating to or affecting creditors' rights and to general equity principles;
(b) the Trust Securities Certificates issued on the Closing Date [and the Second Closing Date (if any)] on
behalf of the Trust have been duly authorized and will have been duly and validly executed, issued and
delivered by the Trustees pursuant to the terms and provisions of, and in accordance with the requirements
of, this Trust Agreement and the Securityholders will be, as of each such date, entitled to the benefits of
this Trust Agreement; and
(c) there are no taxes, fees or other governmental charges payable by the Trust (or the Trustees on behalf
of the Trust) under the laws of the State of Delaware or any political subdivision thereof in connection with
the execution, delivery and performance by the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee, as the case may be,
of this Trust Agreement.
ARTICLE VIII
THE TRUSTEES
SECTION 8.1. Certain Duties and Responsibilities.
(a) The duties and responsibilities of the Trustees shall be as provided by this Trust Agreement and, in
the case of the Property Trustee, subject to the Trust
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Indenture Act and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Trust Agreement
against the Property Trustee. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no provision of this Trust Agreement shall
require the Trustees to expend or risk their own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the
performance of any of their duties hereunder, or in the exercise of any of their rights or powers, if they
shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such
risk or liability is not reasonably assured to them. Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every
provision of this Trust Agreement relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or affording
protection to the Trustees shall be subject to the provisions of this Section. Nothing in this Trust
Agreement shall be construed to release a Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its own
negligent failure to act, or its own willful misconduct. To the extent that, at law or in equity, a Trustee
has duties (including fiduciary duties) and liabilities relating thereto to the Trust or to the
Securityholders, such Trustee shall not be liable to the Trust or to any Securityholder for such Trustee's
good faith reliance on the provisions of this Trust Agreement. The provisions of this Trust Agreement, to the
extent that they restrict the duties and liabilities of the Trustees otherwise existing at law or in equity,
are agreed by the Depositor and the Securityholders to replace such other duties and liabilities of the
Trustees.
(b) All payments made by the Property Trustee or a Paying Agent in respect of the Trust Securities shall
be made only from the revenue and proceeds from the Trust Property and only to the extent that there shall be
sufficient revenue or proceeds from the Trust Property to enable the Property Trustee or a Paying Agent to
make payments in accordance with the terms hereof. Each Securityholder, by its acceptance of a Trust
Security, agrees that it will look solely to the revenue and proceeds from the Trust Property to the extent
legally available for distribution to it as herein provided and that the Trustees are not personally liable
to it for any amount distributable in respect of any Trust Security or for any other liability in respect of
any Trust Security. This Section 8.1(b) does not limit the liability of the Trustees expressly set forth
elsewhere in this Trust Agreement or, in the case of the Property Trustee, in the Trust Indenture Act.
(c) No provision of this Trust Agreement shall be construed to relieve the Property Trustee from liability
for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act, or its own willful misconduct, except that:
(i) The Property Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by an authorized
officer of the Property Trustee, unless it shall be conclusively proved by a court of competent
jurisdiction that the Property Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts;
(ii) the Property Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken or omitted to be taken by it
in good faith in accordance with the direction of the Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate
Liquidation Amount of the Trust Securities relating to the time, method and place of conducting any
proceeding for any remedy available to the Property Trustee, or exercising any trust or power
conferred upon the Property Trustee under this Trust Agreement;
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(iii) the Property Trustee's sole duty with respect to the custody, safe keeping and physical preservation
of the Shares and the Payment Account shall be to deal with such Property in a similar manner as the
Property Trustee deals with similar property for its own account, subject to the protections and
limitations on liability afforded to the Property Trustee under this Trust Agreement and the Trust
Indenture Act;
(iv) the Property Trustee shall not be liable for any interest on any money received by it except as it may
otherwise agree with the Depositor in writing; and money held by the Property Trustee need not be
segregated from other funds held by it except in relation to the Payment Account maintained by the
Property Trustee pursuant to Section 3.1 and except to the extent otherwise required by law; and
(v) the Property Trustee shall not be responsible for monitoring the compliance by the Regular Trustees or
the Depositor with their respective duties under this Trust Agreement, nor shall the Property Trustee
be liable for the default or misconduct of the Regular Trustees or the Depositor.
SECTION 8.2. Certain Notices.
Within 90 days after the occurrence of any Event of Default actually known to a Responsible
Officer of the Property Trustee, the Property Trustee shall transmit, in the manner and to the extent
provided in Section 10.8, notice of such Event of Default to the Securityholders, the Regular Trustees and
the Depositor, unless such Event of Default shall have been cured or waived.
Within five Business Days after the receipt of written notice of the Depositor's exercise of
its right to defer the payment of interest on the Shares pursuant to the Certificate of Determination, the
Property Trustee shall transmit, in the manner and to the extent provided in Section 10.8, notice of such
exercise to the Securityholders and the Regular Trustees, unless such exercise shall have been revoked.
SECTION 8.3. Certain Rights of Property Trustee.
Subject to the provisions of Section 8.1:
(a) the Property Trustee may conclusively rely and shall be fully protected in acting or refraining from
acting in good faith upon any resolution, Opinion of Counsel, certificate, written representation of a Holder
or transferee, certificate of auditors or any other certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report,
notice, request, consent, order, appraisal, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other
paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or
parties;
(b) if (i) in performing its duties under this Trust Agreement the Property Trustee is required to decide
between alternative courses of action or (ii) in construing any of the provisions of this Trust Agreement the
Property Trustee finds the same
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ambiguous or inconsistent with any other provisions contained herein or (iii) the Property
Trustee is unsure of the application of any provision of this Trust Agreement, then, except as to any matter
as to which the Preferred Securityholders are entitled to vote under the terms of this Trust Agreement, the
Property Trustee shall take such action, or refrain from taking such action, not inconsistent with this Trust
Agreement as it shall deem advisable and in the best interests of the Securityholders, in which event the
Property Trustee shall have no liability except for its own bad faith, negligence or willful misconduct;
(c) any direction or act of the Depositor or the Regular Trustees contemplated by this Trust Agreement
shall be sufficiently evidenced by an Officer's Certificate;
(d) whenever in the administration of this Trust Agreement, the Property Trustee shall deem it desirable
that a matter be proved or established before undertaking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the
Property Trustee (unless other evidence is herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith
on its part, request and rely upon an Officer's Certificate which, upon receipt of such request, shall be
promptly delivered by the Depositor or the Regular Trustees;
(e) the Property Trustee shall have no duty to see to any recording, filing or registration of any
instrument (including any financing or continuation statement or any filing under tax or securities laws) or
any rerecording, refiling or reregistration thereof;
(f) the Property Trustee may consult with counsel (which counsel may be counsel to the Depositor or
any of its Affiliates, and may include any of its employees) and the advice of such counsel or any Opinion of
Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or
omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon and in accordance with such advice; the
Property Trustee shall have the right at any time to seek instructions concerning the administration of this
Trust Agreement from any court of competent jurisdiction;
(g) the Property Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested
in it by this Trust Agreement at the request or direction of any of the Securityholders pursuant to this Trust
Agreement, unless such Securityholders shall have offered to the Property Trustee security or indemnity
satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance
with such request or direction;
(h) the Property Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated
in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, consent, order,
approval, bond, debenture, note or other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document, unless
requested in writing to do so by one or more Securityholders;
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(i) the Property Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder
either directly or by or through agents, attorneys, custodians or nominees provided that the Property Trustee
shall be responsible for its own negligence or recklessness with respect to selection of any agent, attorney,
custodian or nominee appointed by it hereunder in due care;
(j) whenever in the administration of this Trust Agreement the Property Trustee shall deem it desirable
to receive instructions with respect to enforcing any remedy or right or taking any other action hereunder the
Property Trustee (i) may request written instructions from the Holders of the Trust Securities which written
instructions may only be given by the Holders of the same proportion in aggregate Liquidation Amount of the
Trust Securities as would be entitled to direct the Property Trustee under the terms of the Trust Securities
in respect of such remedy, right or action, (ii) may refrain from enforcing such remedy or right or taking
such other action until such written instructions are received, and (iii) shall be protected in acting in
accordance with such written instructions; and
(k) except as otherwise expressly provided by this Trust Agreement, the Property Trustee shall not be
under any obligation to take any action that is discretionary under the provisions of this Trust Agreement.
No provision of this Trust Agreement shall be deemed to impose any duty or obligation on the
Property Trustee to perform any act or acts or exercise any right, power, duty or obligation conferred or
imposed on it, in any jurisdiction in which it shall be illegal, or in which the Property Trustee shall be
unqualified or incompetent in accordance with applicable law, to perform any such act or acts, or to exercise
any such right, power, duty or obligation. No permissive power or authority available to the Property Trustee
shall be construed to be a duty.
SECTION 8.4. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities.
The recitals contained herein and in the Trust Securities Certificates shall be taken as the
statements of the Depositor, and the Trustees do not assume any responsibility for their correctness. The
Trustees shall not be accountable for the use or application by the Depositor of the proceeds of the Shares.
SECTION 8.5. May Hold Securities.
Any Trustee or any other agent of any Trustee or the Trust, in its individual or any other
capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Trust Securities and, subject to Sections 8.8 and 8.13 and
except as provided in the definition of the term "Outstanding" in Article I, may otherwise deal with the
Trust with the same rights it would have if it were not a Trustee or such other agent.
SECTION 8.6. Compensation; Indemnity; Fees.
The Depositor agrees:
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(a) to pay to the Trustees from time to time reasonable compensation for all services rendered by them
hereunder (which compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a
trustee of an express trust);
(b) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse the Trustees upon request for all
reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Trustees in accordance with any
provision of this Trust Agreement (including the reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements
of its agents and counsel), except any such expense, disbursement or advance as may be attributable to its
negligence or bad faith; and
(c) to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, to indemnify and hold harmless (i) each Trustee,
(ii) any Affiliate of any Trustee, (iii) any officer, director, shareholder, employee, representative or
agent of any Trustee, and (iv) any employee or agent of the Trust or its Affiliates, (referred to herein as
an "Indemnified Person") from and against any loss, damage, liability, tax, penalty, expense or claim of any
kind or nature whatsoever incurred by such Indemnified Person by reason of the creation, operation or
termination of the Trust or any act or omission performed or omitted by such Indemnified Person in good faith
on behalf of the Trust and in a manner such Indemnified Person reasonably believed to be within the scope of
authority conferred on such Indemnified Person by this Trust Agreement, except that no Indemnified Person
shall be entitled to be indemnified in respect of any loss, damage or claim incurred by such Indemnified
Person by reason of negligence or willful misconduct with respect to such acts or omissions.
The provisions of this Section 8.6 shall survive the termination of this Trust Agreement or the
resignation or removal of any Trustee.
No Trustee may claim any lien or charge on any Trust Property as a result of any amount due
pursuant to this Section 8.6.
The Depositor and any Trustee (subject to Section 8.8) may engage in or possess an interest in
other business ventures of any nature or description, independently or with others, similar or dissimilar to
the business of the Trust, and the Trust and the Holders of Trust Securities shall have no rights by virtue
of this Trust Agreement in and to such independent ventures or the income or profits derived therefrom, and
the pursuit of any such venture, even if competitive with the business of the Trust, shall not be deemed
wrongful or improper. Neither the Depositor, nor any Trustee, shall be obligated to present any particular
investment or other opportunity to the Trust even if such opportunity is of a character that, if presented to
the Trust, could be taken by the Trust, and the Depositor or any Trustee shall have the right to take for its
own account (individually or as a partner or fiduciary) or to recommend to others any such particular
investment or other opportunity. Any Trustee may engage or be interested in any financial or other
transaction with the Depositor or any Affiliate of the Depositor, or may act as depository for, trustee or
agent for, or act on any committee or body of holders of, securities or other obligations of the Depositor or
its Affiliates.
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SECTION 8.7. Corporate Property Trustee Required; Eligibility of Trustees.
(a) There shall at all times be a Property Trustee hereunder. The Property Trustee shall be a Person
that is eligible pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act to act as such and has a combined capital and surplus of at
least $50,000,000. If any such Person publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to
the requirements of its supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section, the
combined capital and surplus of such Person shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set
forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at any time the Property Trustee with respect
to the Trust Securities shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, it
shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article.
(b) There shall at all times be one or more Regular Trustees hereunder. Each Regular Trustee shall be a
natural person at least 21 years of age who is an officer of the Depositor.
(c) There shall at all times be a Delaware Trustee. The Delaware Trustee shall either be (i) a natural
person who is at least 21 years of age and a resident of the State of Delaware or (ii) a legal entity with
its principal place of business in the State of Delaware and that otherwise meets the requirements of
applicable Delaware law that shall act through one or more persons authorized to bind such entity.
SECTION 8.8. Conflicting Interests.
If the Property Trustee has or shall acquire a conflicting interest within the meaning of the
Trust Indenture Act, the Property Trustee shall either eliminate such interest or resign, to the extent and
in the manner provided by, and subject to the provisions of, the Trust Indenture Act and this Trust
Agreement. The Certificate of Determination and the Guarantee are hereby excluded for purposes of Section
310(b)(1) of the Trust Indenture Act.
SECTION 8.9. Co-Trustees and Separate Trustee.
Unless an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, at any time or times, for the
purpose of meeting the legal requirements of the Trust Indenture Act or of any jurisdiction in which any part
of the Trust Property may at the time be located, the Depositor and the Regular Trustees, by agreed action of
the majority of such Trustees, shall have power to appoint, and upon the written request of the Regular
Trustees, the Depositor shall for such purpose join with the Regular Trustees in the execution, delivery, and
performance of all instruments and agreements necessary or proper to appoint, one or more Persons approved by
the Property Trustee either to act as co-trustee, jointly with the Property Trustee, of all or any part of
such Trust Property, or to the extent required by law to act as separate trustee of any such property, in
either case with such powers as may be provided in the instrument of appointment, and to vest in such Person
or Persons in the capacity aforesaid, any property, title, right or power
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deemed necessary or desirable, subject to the other provisions of this Section. If the
Depositor does not join in such appointment within 15 days after the receipt by it of a request so to do, or
in case a Stock Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Property Trustee alone shall have power
to make such appointment. Any co-trustee or separate trustee appointed pursuant to this Section shall either
be (i) a natural person who is at least 21 years of age and a resident of the United States or (ii) a legal
entity with its principal place of business in the United States that shall act through one or more persons
authorized to bind such entity.
Should any written instrument from the Depositor be required by any co-trustee or separate
trustee so appointed for more fully confirming to such co-trustee or separate trustee such property, title,
right, or power, any and all such instruments shall, on request, be executed, acknowledged and delivered by
the Depositor.
Every co-trustee or separate trustee shall, to the extent permitted by law, but to such extent
only, be appointed subject to the following terms, namely:
(a) The Trust Securities shall be executed and delivered and all rights, powers, duties, and obligations
hereunder in respect of the custody of securities, cash and other personal property held by, or required to
be deposited or pledged with, the Trustees specified hereunder shall be exercised solely by such Trustees and
not by such co-trustee or separate trustee.
(b) The rights, powers, duties, and obligations hereby conferred or imposed upon the Property Trustee in
respect of any property covered by such appointment shall be conferred or imposed upon and exercised or
performed by the Property Trustee or by the Property Trustee and such co-trustee or separate trustee jointly,
as shall be provided in the instrument appointing such co-trustee or separate trustee, except to the extent
that under any law of any jurisdiction in which any particular act is to be performed, the Property Trustee
shall be incompetent or unqualified to perform such act, in which event such rights, powers, duties and
obligations shall be exercised and performed by such co-trustee or separate trustee.
(c) The Property Trustee at any time, by an instrument in writing executed by it, with the written
concurrence of the Depositor, may accept the resignation of or remove any co-trustee or separate trustee
appointed under this Section, and, in case a Stock Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the
Property Trustee shall have power to accept the resignation of, or remove, any such co-trustee or separate
trustee without the concurrence of the Depositor. Upon the written request of the Property Trustee, the
Depositor shall join with the Property Trustee in the execution, delivery and performance of all instruments
and agreements necessary or proper to effectuate such resignation or removal. A successor to any co-trustee
or separate trustee so resigned or removed may be appointed in the manner provided in this Section.
(d) No co-trustee or separate trustee hereunder shall be personally liable by reason of any act or
omission of the Property Trustee or any other trustee hereunder.
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(e) The Property Trustee shall not be liable by reason of any act of a co-trustee or separate trustee.
(f) Any Act of Holders delivered to the Property Trustee shall be deemed to have been delivered to each
such co-trustee and separate trustee.
SECTION 8.10. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.
No resignation or removal of any Trustee (the "Relevant Trustee") and no appointment of a
successor Trustee pursuant to this Article shall become effective until the acceptance of appointment by the
successor Trustee in accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 8.11.
Subject to the immediately preceding paragraph, the Relevant Trustee may resign at any time by
giving written notice thereof to the Securityholders and the other Trustees. If the instrument of acceptance
by the successor Trustee required by Section 8.11 shall not have been delivered to the Relevant Trustee
within 30 days after the giving of such notice of resignation, the Relevant Trustee may petition, at the
expense of the Trust, any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Relevant Trustee.
Unless a Stock Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, any Trustee may be
removed at any time by Act of the Common Securityholder. If a Stock Event of Default shall have occurred and
be continuing, the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee, or both of them, may be removed at such time by
Act of the Holders of a majority in aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Outstanding Preferred Securities,
delivered to the Relevant Trustee (in its individual capacity and on behalf of the Trust). A Regular Trustee
may be removed by the Common Securityholder at any time.
If any Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of acting as Trustee, or if a
vacancy shall occur in the office of any Trustee for any cause, at a time when no Stock Event of Default
shall have occurred and be continuing, the Common Securityholder, by Act of the Common Securityholder
delivered to the retiring Trustee, shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee or Trustees, which successor
Trustee shall be domiciled outside of the State of California, and the retiring Trustee shall comply with the
applicable requirements of Section 8.11. If the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee shall resign, be
removed or become incapable of continuing to act as the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee, as the case
may be, at a time when a Stock Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Preferred
Securityholders, by Act of the Securityholders of a majority in aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Preferred
Securities then Outstanding delivered to the retiring Relevant Trustee, shall promptly appoint a successor
Relevant Trustee or Trustees, and such successor Trustee shall comply with the applicable requirements of
Section 8.11. If a Regular Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of acting as Regular
Trustee, at a time when a Stock Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Common
Securityholder by Act of the Common Securityholder delivered to the Regular Trustee shall promptly appoint a
successor Regular Trustee and such successor Regular Trustee
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shall comply with the applicable requirements of Section 8.11. If no successor Relevant Trustee
shall have been so appointed by the Common Securityholder or the Preferred Securityholders and accepted
appointment in the manner required by Section 8.11, any Securityholder who has been a Securityholder of Trust
Securities for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any
court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Relevant Trustee.
The Property Trustee shall, at the expense of the Depositor, give notice of each resignation
and each removal of the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee and each appointment of a successor to the
Property Trustee or the DelawareTrustee to all Securityholders in the manner provided in Section 10.8 and
shall give notice to the Depositor. Each notice shall include the name of the successor Relevant Trustee and
the address of its Corporate Trust Office if it is the Property Trustee.
Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision of this Trust Agreement, in the event any
Regular Trustee or a Delaware Trustee who is a natural person dies or becomes, in the opinion of the
Depositor, incompetent or incapacitated, the vacancy created by such death, incompetence or incapacity may be
filled by (a) the unanimous act of the remaining Regular Trustees if there are at least two of them or (b)
otherwise by the Depositor (with the successor in each case being a Person who satisfies the eligibility
requirement for Regular Trustee or Delaware Trustee, as the case may be, set forth in Section 8.7).
SECTION 8.11. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.
In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Relevant Trustee, each successor Relevant
Trustee with respect to the Trust Securities shall execute an amendment hereto wherein each successor
Relevant Trustee shall accept such appointment and which (a) shall contain such provisions as shall be
necessary or desirable to transfer and confirm to, and to vest in, each successor Relevant Trustee all the
rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Relevant Trustee with respect to the Trust Securities and
the Trust and (b) shall add to or change any of the provisions of this Trust Agreement as shall be necessary
to provide for or facilitate the administration of the Trust by more than one Relevant Trustee, it being
understood that nothing herein or in such amendment shall constitute such Relevant Trustees co-trustees and
upon the execution of such amendment the resignation or removal of the retiring Relevant Trustee shall become
effective to the extent provided therein and each such successor Relevant Trustee, without any further act,
deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring
Relevant Trustee; but, on request of the Trust or any successor Relevant Trustee such retiring Relevant
Trustee shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Relevant Trustee all Trust Property, all
proceeds thereof and money held by such retiring Relevant Trustee hereunder with respect to the Trust
Securities and the Trust.
Upon request of any such successor Relevant Trustee, the Trust shall execute any and all
instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to
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such successor Relevant Trustee all such rights, powers and trusts referred to in the first or
second preceding paragraph, as the case may be.
No successor Relevant Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at the time of such
acceptance such successor Relevant Trustee shall be qualified and eligible under this Article.
SECTION 8.12. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.
Any corporation into which the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee may be merged or
converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion or
consolidation to which such Trustee shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to all or substantially
all the corporate trust business of such Trustee, shall be the successor of such Trustee hereunder, provided
such corporation shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article, without the execution or
filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto.
SECTION 8.13. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Depositor or Trust.
In case of the pendency of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy,
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other similar judicial proceeding relative to the
Trust or any other obligor upon the Trust Securities or the property of the Trust or of such other obligor or
their creditors, the Property Trustee (irrespective of whether any Distributions on the Trust Securities
shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether
the Property Trustee shall have made any demand on the Trust for the payment of any past due Distributions)
shall be entitled and empowered, to the fullest extent permitted by law, by intervention in such proceeding
or otherwise:
(a) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of any Distributions owing and unpaid in respect of
the Trust Securities and to file such other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have
the claims of the Property Trustee (including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Property Trustee, its agents and counsel) and of the Holders allowed in
such judicial proceeding, and
(b) to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims
and to distribute the same; and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other
similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make such payments to
the Property Trustee and, in the event the Property Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments
directly to the Holders, to pay to the Property Trustee any amount due it for the reasonable compensation,
expenses, disbursements and advances of the Property Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts
due the Property Trustee.
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Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Property Trustee to authorize or
consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of reorganization, arrangement adjustment or
compensation affecting the Trust Securities or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the Property
Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding.
SECTION 8.14. Reports by Property Trustee.
(a) Not later than 60 days following May 15 of each year commencing with __________, 20__, the Property
Trustee shall transmit to all Securityholders in accordance with Section 10.8, and to the Depositor, a brief
report dated as of such May 15 with respect to:
(i) its eligibility under Section 8.7 or, in lieu thereof, if to the best of its knowledge it has
continued to be eligible under said Section, a written statement to such effect; and
(ii) any change in the property and funds in its possession as Property Trustee since the date of its last
report and any action taken by the Property Trustee in the performance of its duties hereunder which
it has not previously reported and which in its opinion materially affects the Trust Securities.
(b) In addition the Property Trustee shall transmit to Securityholders such reports concerning the
Property Trustee and its actions under this Trust Agreement as may be required pursuant to the Trust
Indenture Act at the times and in the manner provided pursuant thereto.
(c) A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such transmission to Holders, be filed by the
Property Trustee with each national stock exchange, the NASDAQ National Market or such other interdealer
quotation system or self-regulatory organization upon which the Trust Securities are listed or traded
(information regarding each such listing to be provided to the Property Trustee by the Depositor), with the
Commission and with the Depositor.
SECTION 8.15. Reports to the Property Trustee.
The Depositor and the Regular Trustees on behalf of the Trust shall provide to the Property
Trustee such documents, reports and information as required by Section 314 of the Trust Indenture Act (if
any) and the compliance certificate required by Section 314(a) of the Trust Indenture Act in the form, in the
manner and at the times required by Section 314 of the Trust Indenture Act.
SECTION 8.16. Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent.
Each of the Depositor and the Regular Trustees on behalf of the Trust shall provide to the
Property Trustee such evidence of compliance with any conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this
Trust Agreement that relate to any of the matters set forth in Section 314 (c) of the Trust Indenture Act.
Any certificate or opinion required to
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be given by an officer pursuant to Section 314(c)(1) of the Trust Indenture Act shall be given
in the form of an Officer's Certificate.
SECTION 8.17. Number of Trustees.
(a) The number of Trustees shall initially be five, provided that the Holder of all of the Common
Securities by written instrument may increase or decrease the number of Regular Trustees. The Property
Trustee and the Delaware Trustee may be the same Person.
(b) If a Trustee ceases to hold office for any reason and, if such Trustee is a Regular Trustee, the
number of Regular Trustees is not reduced pursuant to Section 8.17(a), or if the number of Trustees is
increased pursuant to Section 8.17(a), a vacancy shall occur. The vacancy shall be filled with a Trustee
appointed in accordance with Section 8.10.
(c) The death, resignation, retirement, removal, bankruptcy, incompetence or incapacity to perform the
duties of a Trustee shall not operate to annul, dissolve or terminate the Trust. Whenever a vacancy in the
number of Regular Trustees shall occur, until such vacancy is filled by the appointment of a Regular Trustee
or Regular Trustees in accordance with Section 8.10, the Regular Trustees in office, regardless of their
number (and notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement), shall have all the powers granted to the
Regular Trustees and shall discharge all the duties imposed upon the Regular Trustees by this Trust Agreement.
SECTION 8.18. Delegation of Power.
(a) Any Regular Trustee may, by power of attorney consistent with applicable law, delegate to any other
natural person over the age of 21 his or her power for the purpose of executing any documents contemplated in
Section 2.7(a); and
(b) The Regular Trustees shall have power to delegate from time to time to such of their number or to the
Depositor the doing of such things and the execution of such instruments either in the name of the Trust or
the names of the Regular Trustees or otherwise as the Regular Trustees may deem expedient, to the extent such
delegation is not prohibited by applicable law or contrary to the provisions of this Trust Agreement, as set
forth herein.
SECTION 8.19. Delaware Trustee.
It is expressly understood and agreed by the parties hereto that, in fulfilling its obligations
as Delaware Trustee hereunder on behalf of the Trust, (i) any agreements or instruments executed and
delivered by The Bank of New York (Delaware) are executed and delivered not in its individual capacity but
solely as Delaware Trustee under this Trust Agreement in exercise of the powers and authority conferred and
vested in it, (ii) each of the representations, undertakings and agreements herein made by The Bank of New
York (Delaware) on the part of the Trust is made and intended not as representations, warranties, covenants,
undertakings and agreements by The Bank of
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New York (Delaware) in its individual capacity but is made and intended for the purpose of
binding only the Trust, and (iii) under no circumstances shall The Bank of New York (Delaware) in its
individual capacity be personally liable for the payment of any indebtedness or expenses of the Trust or be
liable for the breach or failure of any obligation, representation, warranty or covenant made or undertaken
by the Trust under this Trust Agreement, except if such breach or failure is due to any negligence or willful
misconduct of the Delaware Trustee.
ARTICLE IX
TERMINATION, LIQUIDATION AND MERGER
SECTION 9.1. Termination Upon Expiration Date.
Unless earlier dissolved, the Trust shall automatically dissolve on ____________, _____ (the
"Expiration Date"), and the Trust Property shall be distributed in accordance with Section 9.4.
SECTION 9.2. Early Termination.
The first to occur of any of the following events is an "Early Termination Event", upon the
occurrence of which the Trust shall be dissolved:
(a) the occurrence of a Bankruptcy Event in respect of, or the dissolution or liquidation of, the
Depositor;
(b) the written direction to the Property Trustee from the Depositor at any time to dissolve the Trust
and distribute Shares to Securityholders in exchange for the Preferred Securities (which direction is optional
and wholly within the discretion of the Depositor);
(c) the redemption of all of the Preferred Securities in connection with the redemption of all the
Shares; and
(d) the entry of an order for dissolution of the Trust by a court of competent jurisdiction.
SECTION 9.3. Termination.
The respective obligations and responsibilities of the Trustees and the Trust created and
continued hereby shall terminate upon the latest to occur of the following: (a) the distribution by the
Property Trustee to Securityholders upon the liquidation of the Trust pursuant to Section 9.4, or upon the
redemption of all of the Trust Securities pursuant to Section 4.2, of all amounts required to be distributed
hereunder upon the final payment of the Trust Securities; (b) the payment of any expenses owed by the Trust;
and (c) the discharge of all administrative duties of the Regular Trustees, including the performance of any
tax reporting obligations with respect to the Trust or the Securityholders.
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SECTION 9.4. Liquidation.
(a) If an Early Termination Event specified in clause (a), (b) or (d) of Section 9.2 occurs or upon the
Expiration Date, the Trust shall be liquidated by the Trustees as expeditiously as the Trustees determine to
be possible by distributing, after satisfaction of liabilities to creditors of the Trust as provided by
applicable law, to each Securityholder a Like Amount of Shares, subject to Section 9.4(d). Notice of
liquidation shall be given by the Property Trustee at the expense of the Depositor by first-class mail,
postage prepaid mailed not later than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the Liquidation Date to each Holder
of Trust Securities at such Holder's address appearing in the Securities Register. All notices of liquidation
shall:
(i) state the Liquidation Date;
(ii) state that from and after the Liquidation Date, the Trust Securities will no longer be deemed to be
Outstanding and any Trust Securities Certificates not surrendered for exchange will be deemed to
represent a Like Amount of Shares; and
(iii) provide such information with respect to the mechanics by which Holders may exchange Trust Securities
Certificates for Shares, or if Section 9.4(d) applies, receive a Liquidation Distribution.
(b) Except where Section 9.2(c) or 9.4(d) applies, in order to effect the liquidation of the Trust
and distribution of the Shares to Securityholders, the Property Trustee shall establish a record date for such
distribution (which shall be (i) one Business Day prior to the Liquidation Date or (ii) in the event that the
Preferred Securities are not in book-entry form, the date 15 days prior to the Liquidation Date) and, either
itself acting as exchange agent or through the appointment of a separate exchange agent, shall establish such
procedures as it shall deem appropriate to effect the distribution of Shares in exchange for the Outstanding
Trust Securities Certificates.
(c) Except where Section 9.2(c) or 9.4(d) applies, after the Liquidation Date, (i) the Trust Securities
will no longer be deemed to be Outstanding, (ii) certificates representing a Like Amount of Shares will be
issued to holders of Trust Securities Certificates, upon surrender of such certificates to the Property
Trustee or its agent for exchange, (iii) the Depositor shall use its best efforts to have the Shares listed
on the New York Stock Exchange or on such other exchange, interdealer quotation system or self-regulatory
organization as the Preferred Securities are then listed, (iv) any Trust Securities Certificates not so
surrendered for exchange will be deemed to represent a Like Amount of Shares, accruing interest at the rate
provided for in the Shares from the last Distribution Date on which a Distribution was made on such Trust
Securities Certificates until such certificates are so surrendered (and until such certificates are so
surrendered, no payments of interest or principal will be made to Holders of Trust Securities Certificates
with respect to such Shares) and (v) all rights of Securityholders holding Trust Securities will cease,
except the right of such Securityholders to receive Shares upon surrender of Trust Securities Certificates.
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(d) In the event that, notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 9.4, whether because of an
order for dissolution entered by a court of competent jurisdiction or otherwise, distribution of the Shares
in the manner provided herein is determined by the Property Trustee not to be practical, the Trust Property
shall be liquidated, and the Trust shall be wound-up by the Property Trustee in such manner as the Property
Trustee determines. In such event, Securityholders will be entitled to receive out of the assets of the Trust
available for distribution to Securityholders, after satisfaction of liabilities to creditors of the Trust as
provided by applicable law, an amount equal to the Liquidation Amount per Trust Security plus accumulated and
unpaid Distributions thereon to the date of payment (such amount being the "Liquidation Distribution"). If,
upon any such winding up, the Liquidation Distribution can be paid only in part because the Trust has
insufficient assets available to pay in full the aggregate Liquidation Distribution, then, subject to the
next succeeding sentence, the amounts payable by the Trust on the Trust Securities shall be paid on a pro
rata basis (based upon Liquidation Amounts). The Holder of the Common Securities will be entitled to receive
Liquidation Distributions upon any such winding-up pro rata (determined as aforesaid) with Holders of
Preferred Securities, except that, if a Stock Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Preferred
Securities shall have a priority over the Common Securities.
SECTION 9.5. Mergers, Consolidations, Amalgamations or Replacements of the Trust.
The Trust may not merge with or into, consolidate, amalgamate, or be replaced by, or convey,
transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any Person, except pursuant to
this Section 9.5 or Section 9.4. At the request of the Depositor, with the consent of the Holders of at
least a majority in aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Outstanding Preferred Securities, the Trust may merge
with or into, consolidate, amalgamate, or be replaced by or convey, transfer or lease its properties and
assets substantially as an entirety to a trust organized as such under the laws of any State; provided, that
(i) such successor entity either (x) expressly assumes all of the obligations of the Trust with respect to
the Preferred Securities or (y) substitutes for the Preferred Securities other securities having
substantially the same terms as the Preferred Securities (the "Successor Securities") so long as the
Successor Securities rank the same as the Preferred Securities rank in priority with respect to distributions
and payments upon liquidation, redemption and otherwise, (ii) the Depositor expressly appoints a trustee of
such successor entity possessing substantially the same powers and duties as the Property Trustee as the
holder of the Shares, (iii) the Preferred Securities are listed or traded, or any Successor Securities will
be listed upon notification of issuance, on any national securities exchange or other organization on which
the Preferred Securities are then listed or traded, if any, (iv) such merger, consolidation, amalgamation,
replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease does not cause the Preferred Securities (including any Successor
Securities) to be downgraded by any nationally recognized statistical rating organization, (v) such merger,
consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease does not adversely affect the rights,
preferences and privileges of the holders of the Preferred Securities (including any Successor Securities) in
any material respect, (vi) such successor entity has a purpose substantially identical to that of the Trust,
(vii) prior to such merger, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance,
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transfer or lease, the Depositor has received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that (x) such
merger, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease does not adversely affect the
rights, preferences and privileges of the Holders of the Preferred Securities (including any Successor
Securities) in any material respect, and (y) following such merger, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement,
conveyance, transfer or lease, neither the Trust nor such successor entity will be required to register as an
investment company under the 1940 Act and (viii) the Depositor owns all of the common securities of such
successor entity and the Guarantor guarantees the obligations of such successor entity under the Successor
Securities at least to the extent provided by the Guarantee. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Trust shall
not, except with the consent of holders of 100% in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities,
consolidate, amalgamate, merge with or into, or be replaced by or convey, transfer or lease its properties
and assets substantially as an entirety to any other entity or permit any other entity to consolidate,
amalgamate, merge with or into, or replace it if such consolidation, amalgamation, merger, replacement,
conveyance, transfer or lease would cause the Trust or the successor entity to be classified as other than a
grantor trust for United States Federal income tax purposes.
ARTICLE X
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
SECTION 10.1. Limitation of Rights of Securityholders.
Except as otherwise provided in Section 9.2, the death, dissolution, termination, bankruptcy or
incapacity of any Person having an interest, beneficial or otherwise, in Trust Securities shall not operate
to terminate this Trust Agreement, nor dissolve, terminate or annul the Trust, nor entitle the legal
successors, representatives or heirs of such Person or any Securityholder for such Person, to claim an
accounting, take any action or bring any proceeding in any court for a partition or winding up of the
arrangements contemplated hereby, nor otherwise affect the rights, obligations and liabilities of the parties
hereto or any of them.
SECTION 10.2. Amendment.
(a) In addition to amendments contemplated by Section 8.11, this Trust Agreement may be amended from
time to time by the Regular Trustees and the Depositor, without the consent of any Securityholders, (i) to cure
any ambiguity, correct or supplement any provision herein which may be inconsistent with any other provision
herein, or to make any other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this Trust
Agreement, which shall not be inconsistent with the other provisions of this Trust Agreement, or (ii) to
modify, eliminate or add to any provisions of this Trust Agreement to such extent as shall be necessary to
ensure that the Trust will be classified for United States Federal income tax purposes as a grantor trust at
all times that any Trust Securities are outstanding or to ensure that the Trust will not be required to
register as an investment company under the 1940 Act; provided, however, that in the case of clause (i), such
action shall not adversely affect in any material respect the interests of any
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Securityholder, and any such amendments of this Trust Agreement shall become effective when
notice thereof is given to the Securityholders.
(b) Except as provided in Section 10.2(c) hereof, any provision of this Trust Agreement may be amended
by the Trustees and the Depositor with (i) the consent of Securityholders representing a majority (based upon
aggregate Liquidation Amount) of the Trust Securities then Outstanding and (ii) receipt by the Trustees of an
Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such amendment or the exercise of any power granted to the Trustees in
accordance with such amendment will not affect the Trust's status as a grantor trust for United States
Federal income tax purposes or the Trust's exemption from status of an investment company under the 1940 Act.
(c) In addition to and notwithstanding any other provision in this Trust Agreement, without the consent
of each affected Securityholder, this Trust Agreement may not be amended to (i) change the amount or timing of
any Distribution on the Trust Securities or otherwise adversely affect the amount of any Distribution
required to be made in respect of the Trust Securities as of a specified date or (ii) restrict the right of a
Securityholder to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after such date;
notwithstanding any other provision herein, without the unanimous consent of the Securityholders, this
paragraph (c) of this Section 10.2 may not be amended.
(d) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Trust Agreement, no Trustee shall enter into or
consent to any amendment to this Trust Agreement which would cause the Trust to fail or cease to qualify for the
exemption from status of an investment company under the 1940 Act or fail or cease to be classified as a
grantor trust for United States Federal income tax purposes.
(e) Notwithstanding anything in this Trust Agreement to the contrary, this Trust Agreement may not be
amended in a manner which imposes any additional obligation on the Depositor, the Property Trustee or the
Delaware Trustee without the consent of the Depositor, the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee, as the
case may be.
(f) In the event that any amendment to this Trust Agreement is made, the Regular Trustees shall
promptly provide to the Depositor a copy of such amendment.
(g) Neither the Property Trustee nor the Delaware Trustee shall be required to enter into any amendment
to this Trust Agreement which affects its own rights, duties or immunities under this Trust Agreement. The
Property Trustee shall be entitled to receive an Opinion of Counsel and an Officer's Certificate stating that
any amendment to this Trust Agreement is in compliance with this Trust Agreement and that all conditions
precedent, if any, to such amendment have been complied with.
SECTION 10.3. Separability.
In case any provision in this Trust Agreement or in the Trust Securities Certificates shall be
invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and
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enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
SECTION 10.4. Governing Law.
THIS TRUST AGREEMENT AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF EACH OF THE SECURITYHOLDERS, THE TRUST
AND THE TRUSTEES WITH RESPECT TO THIS TRUST AGREEMENT AND THE TRUST SECURITIES SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH AND GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE WITHOUT REGARD TO THE CONFLICT OF LAWS
PRINCIPLES THEREOF.
SECTION 10.5. Payments Due on Non-Business Day.
If the date fixed for any payment on any Trust Security shall be a day that is not a Business
Day, then such payment need not be made on such date but may be made on the next succeeding day that is a
Business Day (except as otherwise provided in Sections 4.1(a) and 4.2(d)), with the same force and effect as
though made on the date fixed for such payment, and no interest shall accrue thereon for the period after
such date.
SECTION 10.6. Successors.
This Trust Agreement shall be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of any successor to
the Depositor, the Trust or the Relevant Trustee, including any successor by operation of law. Except in
connection with a consolidation, merger, sale or other transaction involving the Depositor that is permitted
[under _______] and pursuant to which the assignee agrees in writing to perform the Depositor's obligations
hereunder, the Depositor shall not assign its obligations hereunder.
SECTION 10.7. Headings.
The Article and Section headings are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction
of this Trust Agreement.
SECTION 10.8. Reports, Notices and Demands.
Any report, notice, demand or other communication which by any provision of this Trust
Agreement is required or permitted to be given or served to or upon any Securityholder or the Depositor may
be given or served in writing by deposit thereof, first-class postage prepaid, in the United States mail,
hand delivery or facsimile transmission, in each case, addressed, (a) in the case of a Preferred
Securityholder, to such Preferred Securityholder as such Securityholder's name and address may appear on the
Securities Register; and (b) in the case of the Common Securityholder or the Depositor, to Southern
California Edison Company, 0000 Xxxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000, Attention: Corporate
Secretary, facsimile no.: 000-000-0000. Any notice to Preferred Securityholders shall also be given to such
owners as have, within two years preceding the giving of such notice, filed their names and addresses with
the Property Trustee for that purpose. Such notice, demand or other communication
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to or upon a Securityholder shall be deemed to have been sufficiently given or made, for all
purposes, upon hand delivery, mailing or transmission.
Any notice, demand or other communication which by any provision of this Trust Agreement is
required or permitted to be given or served to or upon the Trust, the Property Trustee, the Delaware Trustee
or the Regular Trustees shall be given in writing addressed (until another address is published by the Trust)
as follows: (a) with respect to the Property Trustee to The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., at its
[Corporate Trust Office,] Attention: _____________; (b) with respect to the Delaware Trustee, to The Bank of
New York (Delaware) , _______________________, (c) with respect to the Regular Trustees, to them c/o
Southern California Edison Company, 0000 Xxxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000, marked "Attention
Regular Trustees of SCE Trust [__]"; and (d) with respect to the Trust, to its principal office specified in
Section 2.1, with a copy to the Property Trustee. Such notice, demand or other communication to or upon the
Trust or the Property Trustee shall be deemed to have been sufficiently given or made only upon actual
receipt of the writing by the Trust or the Property Trustee.
SECTION 10.9. Agreement Not to Petition.
Each of the Trustees and the Depositor agree for the benefit of the Securityholders that, until
at least one year and one day after the Trust has been terminated in accordance with Article IX, they shall
not file, or join in the filing of, a petition against the Trust under any bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization or other similar law (including, without limitation, the United States Bankruptcy Code)
(collectively, "Bankruptcy Laws") or otherwise join in the commencement of any proceeding against the Trust
under any Bankruptcy Law. In the event the Depositor takes action in violation of this Section 10.9, the
Property Trustee agrees, for the benefit of Securityholders, that at the expense of the Depositor, it shall
file an answer with the bankruptcy court or otherwise properly contest the filing of such petition by the
Depositor against the Trust or the commencement of such action and raise the defense that the Depositor has
agreed in writing not to take such action and should be stopped and precluded therefrom and such other
defenses, if any, as counsel for the Trustee or the Trust may assert. The provisions of this Section 10.9
shall survive the termination of this Trust Agreement.
SECTION 10.10. Trust Indenture Act; Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.
(a) This Trust Agreement is subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act that are required to be
part of this Trust Agreement and shall, to the extent applicable, be governed by such provisions.
(b) The Property Trustee shall be the only Trustee which is a trustee for the purposes of the Trust
Indenture Act.
(c) If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with another provision hereof which is required
to be included in this Trust Agreement by any of the
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provisions of the Trust Indenture Act, such required provision shall control. If any provision
of this Trust Agreement modifies or excludes any provision of the Trust Indenture Act which may be so
modified or excluded, the latter provision shall be deemed to apply to this Trust Agreement as so modified or
excluded, as the case may be.
(d) The application of the Trust Indenture Act to this Trust Agreement shall not affect the nature of the
Securities as equity securities representing undivided beneficial interests in the assets of the Trust.
SECTION 10.11. Acceptance of Terms of Trust Agreement, Guarantee and Certificate of Determination.
THE RECEIPT AND ACCEPTANCE OF A TRUST SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN BY OR ON BEHALF OF A
SECURITYHOLDER OR ANY BENEFICIAL OWNER, WITHOUT ANY SIGNATURE OR FURTHER MANIFESTATION OF ASSENT, SHALL
CONSTITUTE THE UNCONDITIONAL ACCEPTANCE BY THE SECURITYHOLDER AND ALL OTHERS HAVING A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN
SUCH TRUST SECURITY OF ALL THE TERMS AND PROVISIONS OF THIS TRUST AGREEMENT AND AGREEMENT TO THE
SUBORDINATION PROVISIONS AND OTHER TERMS OF THE GUARANTEE AND THE CERTIFICATE OF DETERMINATION, AND SHALL
CONSTITUTE THE AGREEMENT OF THE TRUST, SUCH SECURITYHOLDER AND SUCH OTHERS THAT THE TERMS AND PROVISIONS OF
THIS TRUST AGREEMENT SHALL BE BINDING, OPERATIVE AND EFFECTIVE AS BETWEEN THE TRUST AND SUCH SECURITYHOLDER
AND SUCH OTHERS.
THE DEPOSITOR, THE TRUST AND EACH HOLDER AND BENEFICIAL OWNER OF A PREFERRED SECURITY (BY ITS
ACCEPTANCE OF AN INTEREST THEREIN) SHALL BE DEEMED TO HAVE AGREED TO TREAT THE SHARES AS INDEBTEDNESS FOR ALL
U.S. TAX PURPOSES AND THE PREFERRED SECURITY AS EVIDENCE OF AN INDIRECT BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP INTEREST IN THE
SHARES.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have caused this Amended and Restated Trust Agreement to be
duly executed, all as of the day and year first above written.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON COMPANY
By: ________________________________________
Name: ______________________________________
Title: _____________________________________
THE BANK OF NEW YORK TRUST COMPANY, N.A.,
as Property Trustee
By: ________________________________________
Name: _______________________________________
Title: _____________________________________
THE BANK OF NEW YORK (DELAWARE),
as Delaware Trustee
By: ________________________________________
Name: ______________________________________
Title: _____________________________________
[XXXX X. XXXXXXX],
as Regular Trustee
By: ________________________________________
Name: ______________________________________
Title: _____________________________________
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[XXXXXX X. XXXXXX],
as Regular Trustee
By: ________________________________________
Name: ______________________________________
Title: _____________________________________
[XXXXXXX X. XXXXX],
as Regular Trustee
By: ________________________________________
Name: ______________________________________
Title: _____________________________________
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EXHIBIT A
[CERTIFICATE OF TRUST
OF
SCE TRUST [__]
THIS Certificate of Trust of SCE Trust [__] (the "Trust"), dated ___________, is being duly
executed and filed by the undersigned, as trustees of the Trust, with the Secretary of State of the State of
Delaware to form a [business][statutory] trust under the Delaware [Business][Statutory] Trust Act (12 Del. C.
ss.3801 et seq.).
1. Name. The name of the statutory trust formed hereby is SCE Trust [__].
2. Delaware Trustee. The name and business address of the trustee of the Trust with a principal place of
business in the State of Delaware are The Bank of New York (Delaware),
[______________________________________]
[____________________________________________________________________].
3. Effective Date. This Certificate of Trust shall be effective upon filing with the Secretary of State
of the State of Delaware.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, being the trustees of the Trust, have executed this
Certificate of Trust as of the date first above written.
THE BANK OF NEW YORK (DELAWARE), as trustee
By: __________________________________
Name: ________________________________
Title: ______________________________
[THE BANK OF NEW YORK TRUST COMPANY, N.A.], as
trustee
By: __________________________________
Name: ________________________________
Title: _______________________________
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EXHIBIT B
THIS CERTIFICATE IS NOT TRANSFERABLE
EXCEPT IN CERTAIN LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES
SET FORTH IN THE TRUST AGREEMENT
(AS DEFINED BELOW).
CERTIFICATE NUMBER NUMBER OF COMMON SECURITIES
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CERTIFICATE EVIDENCING COMMON SECURITIES
OF
SCE TRUST [__]
_____% COMMON SECURITIES
(LIQUIDATION AMOUNT $[__] PER COMMON SECURITY)
SCE Trust [__], a statutory trust created under the laws of the State of Delaware (the
"Trust"), hereby certifies that Southern California Edison Company (the "Holder") is the registered owner of
the number set forth above of common securities of the Trust representing beneficial interests of the Trust
and designated the _____% Common Securities (liquidation amount $[__] per Common Security) (the "Common
Securities"). Except as provided in Section 5.10 of the Trust Agreement (as defined below), the Common
Securities are not transferable and any attempted transfer hereof shall, to the fullest extent permitted by
law, be void. The designations, rights, privileges, restrictions, preferences and other terms and provisions
of the Common Securities are set forth in, and this certificate and the Common Securities represented hereby
are issued and shall in all respects be subject to the terms and provisions of, the Amended and Restated
Trust Agreement of the Trust dated as of _________, 20__, as the same may be amended from time to time (the
"Trust Agreement"), including the designation of the terms of the Common Securities as set forth therein. The
Trust will furnish a copy of the Trust Agreement to the Holder without charge upon written request to the
Trust at its principal place of business or registered office.
Upon receipt of this certificate, the Holder is bound by the Trust Agreement and is entitled to
the benefits thereunder.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, one of the Regular Trustees of the Trust has executed this certificate this
______ day of ___________________, _______.
By: ________________________________________
Name: _____________________________________
Title: Regular Trustee
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EXHIBIT C
AGREEMENT AS TO EXPENSES AND LIABILITIES
AGREEMENT dated as of ___________, 20__, between Southern California Edison Company, a
California corporation, and SCE Trust [__], a Delaware statutory trust (the "Trust"). Capitalized terms used
but not defined herein have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Trust Agreement (as defined below).
WHEREAS, the Trust intends to issue its Common Securities (the "Common Securities") to and
receive Shares from Southern California Edison Company and to issue and sell _____% [________ Preferred
Securities], Series [__] (the "Preferred Securities") with such powers, preferences and special rights and
restrictions as are set forth in the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement of the Trust dated as of
___________, 20__, as the same may be amended from time to time (the "Trust Agreement");
WHEREAS, Southern California Edison Company will directly or indirectly own all of the Common
Securities of the Trust and will issue the Shares;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the purchase by each holder of the Preferred Securities,
which purchase Southern California Edison Company hereby agrees shall benefit Southern California Edison
Company and which purchase Southern California Edison Company acknowledges will be made in reliance upon the
execution and delivery of this Agreement, Southern California Edison Company and the Trust hereby agree as
follows:
ARTICLE I
SECTION 1.1. Guarantee by Southern California Edison Company
Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, Southern California Edison Company hereby
irrevocably and unconditionally guarantees to each person or entity to whom the Trust is now or hereafter
becomes indebted or liable (the "Beneficiaries") the full payment, when and as due, of any and all
Obligations (as hereinafter defined) to such Beneficiaries. As used herein, "Obligations" means any costs,
expenses or liabilities of the Trust, other than obligations of the Trust to pay to holders of any Preferred
Securities or other similar interests in the Trust the amounts due such holders pursuant to the terms of the
Preferred Securities or such other similar interests, as the case may be. This Agreement is intended to be
for the benefit of, and to be enforceable by, all such Beneficiaries, whether or not such Beneficiaries have
received notice hereof.
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SECTION 1.2. Term of Agreement.
This Agreement shall terminate and be of no further force and effect upon the later of (a) the
date on which full payment has been made of all amounts payable to all holders of all the Preferred
Securities (whether upon redemption, liquidation, exchange or otherwise) and (b) the date on which there are
no Beneficiaries remaining; provided, however, that this Agreement shall continue to be effective or shall be
reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time any holder of Preferred Securities or any Beneficiary must
restore payment of any sums paid under the Preferred Securities, under any Obligation, under the Guarantee
Agreement dated as of the date hereof between Southern California Edison Company and The Bank of New York
Trust Company, N.A., as guarantee trustee, or under this Agreement for any reason whatsoever. This Agreement
is continuing, irrevocable, unconditional and absolute.
SECTION 1.3. Waiver of Notice.
Southern California Edison Company hereby waives notice of acceptance of this Agreement and of
any Obligation to which it applies or may apply, and Southern California Edison Company hereby waives
presentment, demand for payment, protest, notice of nonpayment, notice of dishonor, notice of redemption and
all other notices and demands.
SECTION 1.4. No Impairment.
The obligations, covenants, agreements and duties of Southern California Edison Company under
this Agreement shall in no way be affected or impaired by reason of the happening from time to time of any of
the following:
(a) the extension of time for the payment by the Trust of all or any portion of the Obligations
or for the performance of any other obligation under, arising out of, or in connection with, the Obligations;
(b) any failure, omission, delay or lack of diligence on the part of the Beneficiaries to
enforce, assert or exercise any right, privilege, power or remedy conferred on the Beneficiaries with respect
to the Obligations or any action on the part of the Trust granting indulgence or extension of any kind; or
(c) the voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution, sale of any collateral,
receivership, insolvency, bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of creditors, reorganization, arrangement,
composition or readjustment of debt of, or other similar proceedings affecting, the Trust or any of the
assets of the Trust.
There shall be no obligation of the Beneficiaries to give notice to, or obtain the consent of,
Southern California Edison Company with respect to the happening of any of the foregoing.
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SECTION 1.5. Enforcement.
A Beneficiary may enforce this Agreement directly against Southern California Edison Company
and Southern California Edison Company waives any right or remedy to require that any action be brought
against the Trust or any other person or entity before proceeding against Southern California Edison Company.
SECTION 1.6. Subrogation.
Southern California Edison Company shall be subrogated to all (if any) rights of any
Beneficiary against the Trust, in respect of any amounts paid to the Beneficiaries by Southern California
Edison Company under this Agreement; provided, however, that Southern California Edison Company shall not
(except to the extent required by mandatory provisions of law) be entitled to enforce or exercise any rights
which it may acquire against the Trust by way of subrogation or any indemnity, reimbursement or other
agreement, in all cases as a result of payment under this Agreement, if, at the time of any such payment, any
amounts are due and unpaid under this Agreement.
ARTICLE II
SECTION 2.1. Binding Effect.
All guarantees and agreements contained in this Agreement shall bind the successors, assigns,
receivers, trustees and representatives of Southern California Edison Company and shall inure to the benefit
of the Beneficiaries.
SECTION 2.2. Amendment.
So long as there remains any Beneficiary or any Preferred Securities of any series are
outstanding, this Agreement shall not be modified or amended in any manner adverse to such Beneficiary or to
the holders of the Preferred Securities.
SECTION 2.3. Notices.
Any notice, request or other communication required or permitted to be given hereunder shall be
given in writing by delivering the same against receipt therefor by facsimile transmission (confirmed by
mail) or by registered or certified mail, addressed as follows (and if so given, shall be deemed given when
mailed or upon receipt of a confirmation, if sent by facsimile):
SCE Trust [__]
0000 Xxxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000
Facsimile No.: 000-000-0000
Attention: Corporate Governance
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Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx Edison Company
0000 Xxxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000
Facsimile No.: 000-000-0000
Attention: Corporate Secretary
SECTION 2.4. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED AND INTERPRETED IN ACCORDANCE
WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICTS OF LAWS PRINCIPLES THEREOF.
THIS AGREEMENT is executed as of the day and year first above written.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON COMPANY
By:________________________________
Name:______________________________
Title:_____________________________
SCE TRUST [__]
By:________________________________
Name:______________________________
Title: Regular Trustee
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EXHIBIT D
IF THE PREFERRED SECURITY IS TO BE EVIDENCED BY A GLOBAL CERTIFICATE, INSERT--This Preferred
Securities Certificate is a Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificate within the meaning of the Trust
Agreement hereinafter referred to and is registered in the name of The Depository Trust Company (the
"Depositary") or a nominee of the Depositary. This Preferred Securities Certificate is exchangeable for
Preferred Securities Certificates registered in the name of a person other than the Depositary or its nominee
only in the limited circumstances described in the Trust Agreement and may not be transferred except as a
whole by the Depositary to a nominee of the Depositary or by a nominee of the Depositary to the Depositary or
another nominee of the Depositary, except in limited circumstances.
Unless this Preferred Security is presented by an authorized representative of The Depository
Trust Company (55 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx) to SCE Trust [__] or its agent for registration of transfer,
exchange or payment, and any Preferred Securities Certificate issued is registered in the name of Cede & Co.
or such other name as requested by an authorized representative of The Depository Trust Company and any
payment hereon is made to Cede & Co., ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY A
PERSON IS WRONGFUL inasmuch as the registered owner hereof, Cede & Co., has an interest herein.
CERTIFICATE NUMBER NUMBER OF PREFERRED SECURITIES
P-
CUSIP NO.
CERTIFICATE EVIDENCING PREFERRED SECURITIES
OF
SCE TRUST [__]
____% [____________ PREFERRED SECURITIES, SERIES [__]
(LIQUIDATION AMOUNT $[__] PER PREFERRED SECURITY)
SCE Trust [__], a statutory trust created under the laws of the State of Delaware (the
"Trust"), hereby certifies that ___________________ (the "Holder") is the registered owner of the number set
forth above of preferred securities of the Trust representing an undivided beneficial interest in the assets
of the Trust and designated the SCE Trust [__] _____% [_______________] Preferred Securities, Series [__]
(liquidation amount $[__] per Preferred Security) (the "Preferred Securities"). The Preferred Securities are
transferable on the books and records of the Trust, in person or by a duly authorized attorney, upon
surrender of this certificate duly endorsed and in proper form for transfer as provided in Section 5.4 of the
Trust Agreement (as defined below). The designations, rights, privileges, restrictions, preferences and other
terms and provisions of the Preferred Securities are set forth in, and this certificate and the Preferred
Securities represented hereby are issued and shall in all respects be subject to the terms and provisions of,
the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement of the Trust dated as of ____________, 20__, as the same may be
amended from time to time (the "Trust Agreement") including the designation of the terms of Preferred
Securities as set forth therein. The Holder is
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entitled to the benefits of the Guarantee Agreement dated as of ___________, 20__, between
Southern California Edison Company, a California corporation, and The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A.,
as guarantee trustee (as the same may be amended from time to time, the "Guarantee"), to the extent provided
therein. The Trust will furnish a copy of the Trust Agreement and the Guarantee to the Holder without charge
upon written request to the Trust at its principal place of business or registered office.
Upon receipt of this certificate, the Holder is bound by the Trust Agreement and is entitled to
the benefits thereunder.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, one of the Regular Trustees of the Trust has executed this certificate this
_____ day of ________, ____.
SCE TRUST [__]
By: ________________________________
Name: ____________________________
Title: Regular Trustee
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ASSIGNMENT
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned assigns and transfers this Preferred Security to:
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
(Insert assignee's social security or tax identification number)
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
(Insert address and zip code of assignee)
and irrevocably appoints
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
agent to transfer this Preferred Securities Certificate on the books of the Trust. The agent may substitute
another to act for him or her.
Date: ________________
Signature:
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
(Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Preferred Securities Certificate)
The signature(s) should be guaranteed by an eligible guarantor institution (banks, stockbrokers, savings and
loan associations and credit unions with membership in an approved signature guarantee medallion program),
pursuant to SEC Rule 17Ad-15.
