Exhibit 4.1
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XXXXXX FINANCIAL CORPORATION
TO
WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY
TRUSTEE
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INDENTURE
DATED AS OF ____________, 2001
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JUNIOR SUBORDINATED DEBT SECURITIES
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XXXXXX FINANCIAL CORPORATION
RECONCILIATION AND TIE BETWEEN TRUST INDENTURE ACT OF 1939 AND
INDENTURE, DATED AS OF ___________, 2001
TRUST INDENTURE ACT SECTION INDENTURE SECTION
ss.310(a)(1)............................................................ 609
(a)(2)............................................................ 609
(a)(3).................................................... Not Applicable
(a)(4).................................................... Not Applicable
(a)(5)............................................................ 609
(b).......................................................... 608, 610
(c)....................................................... Not Applicable
ss.311(a)............................................................... 613
(b)............................................................... 613
ss.312(a).......................................................... 701, 702(a)
(b)............................................................. 702(b)
(c)............................................................. 702(c)
ss.313(a)............................................................. 703(a)
(b)............................................................. 703(a)
(c)............................................................. 703(a)
(d)............................................................. 703(b)
ss.314(a)............................................................. 704, 1004
(b)....................................................... Not Applicable
(c)(1)............................................................. 102
(c)(2)............................................................. 102
(c)(3).................................................... Not Applicable
(d)....................................................... Not Applicable
(e)................................................................ 102
ss.315(a)................................................................ 601
(b)................................................................ 602
(c)................................................................ 601
(d)................................................................ 601
(e)................................................................ 514
ss.316(a)................................................................ 101
(a)(1)(A)................................................... 104(h), 502
512
(a)(1)(B)................................................... 104(h), 513
(a)(2).................................................... Not Applicable
(b)................................................................ 508
(c)............................................................. 104(h)
ss.317(a)(1)............................................................. 503
(a)(2)............................................................. 504
(b)................................................................ 1003
ss.318(a)................................................................ 107
(c)................................................................ 107
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Note: This reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to
be part of the Indenture.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Parties..................................................................................................1
Recitals.................................................................................................1
ARTICLE ONE DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION.....................................1
SECTION 101. DEFINITIONS............................................................................1
Act................................................................................................2
Affiliate..........................................................................................2
Authorized Newspaper...............................................................................2
Bearer Security....................................................................................2
Board of Directors.................................................................................2
Board Resolution...................................................................................2
Business Day.......................................................................................2
CEDEL..............................................................................................3
CEDEL S.A..........................................................................................3
Closing Price......................................................................................3
Commission.........................................................................................3
Common Stock.......................................................................................3
Company............................................................................................3
Company Request....................................................................................3
Company Order......................................................................................3
Conversion Price...................................................................................3
Convertible Securities.............................................................................3
Corporate Trust Office.............................................................................3
corporation........................................................................................3
coupon.............................................................................................3
Debt Securities....................................................................................4
Defaulted Interest.................................................................................4
Depositary.........................................................................................4
Designated Currency................................................................................4
Dollar.............................................................................................4
ECU................................................................................................4
Eligible Instruments...............................................................................4
Euroclear..........................................................................................4
European Communities...............................................................................4
Event of Default...................................................................................4
Exchange Rate......................................................................................4
Exchange Rate Agent................................................................................4
Exchange Rate Officer's Certificate................................................................4
Federal Reserve....................................................................................5
Foreign Currency...................................................................................5
Global Exchange Agent..............................................................................5
Global Exchange Date...............................................................................5
Global Security....................................................................................5
Holder.............................................................................................5
Indenture..........................................................................................5
interest...........................................................................................5
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Interest Payment Date..............................................................................5
Maturity...........................................................................................5
Officers' Certificate..............................................................................5
Opinion of Counsel.................................................................................5
Original Issue Discount Security...................................................................6
Outstanding........................................................................................6
Paying Agent.......................................................................................6
Perpetual Preferred Stock..........................................................................6
Person.............................................................................................7
Place of Payment...................................................................................7
Predecessor Security...............................................................................7
Redemption Date....................................................................................7
Redemption Price...................................................................................7
Registered Security................................................................................7
Regular Record Date................................................................................7
Remarketing Entity.................................................................................7
Repayment Date.....................................................................................7
Repayment Price....................................................................................7
Responsible Officer................................................................................7
Rights.............................................................................................7
Security Register..................................................................................8
Security Registrar.................................................................................8
Senior Debt........................................................................................8
Special Record Date................................................................................8
Stated Maturity....................................................................................8
Trust Indenture Act................................................................................8
Trust Related Securities...........................................................................8
Trustee............................................................................................8
United States......................................................................................8
United States Alien................................................................................8
U.S. Government Obligations........................................................................9
SECTION 102. COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATES AND OPINIONS...................................................9
SECTION 103. FORM OF DOCUMENTS DELIVERED TO TRUSTEE.................................................9
SECTION 104. ACTS OF HOLDERS.......................................................................10
SECTION 105. NOTICES, ETC., TO TRUSTEE AND COMPANY.................................................12
SECTION 106. NOTICE TO HOLDERS; WAIVER.............................................................12
SECTION 107. CONFLICT WITH TRUST INDENTURE ACT.....................................................13
SECTION 108. EFFECT OF HEADINGS AND TABLE OF CONTENTS..............................................13
SECTION 109. SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS................................................................13
SECTION 110. SEPARABILITY CLAUSE...................................................................13
SECTION 111. BENEFITS OF INDENTURE.................................................................13
SECTION 112. GOVERNING LAW.........................................................................14
SECTION 113. LEGAL HOLIDAYS........................................................................14
SECTION 114. COUNTERPARTS..........................................................................14
ARTICLE TWO DEBT SECURITY FORMS........................................................................14
SECTION 201. FORMS GENERALLY.......................................................................14
SECTION 202. FORM OF TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION.......................................15
SECTION 203. DEBT SECURITIES IN GLOBAL FORM........................................................15
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ARTICLE THREE THE DEBT SECURITIES......................................................................16
SECTION 301. AMOUNT UNLIMITED; ISSUANCE IN SERIES..................................................16
SECTION 302. DENOMINATIONS.........................................................................19
SECTION 303. EXECUTION, AUTHENTICATION, DELIVERY AND DATING........................................19
SECTION 304. TEMPORARY DEBT SECURITIES.............................................................22
SECTION 305. REGISTRATION; REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER AND EXCHANGE...................................24
SECTION 306. MUTILATED, DESTROYED, LOST AND STOLEN DEBT SECURITIES.................................28
SECTION 307. PAYMENT OF INTEREST; INTEREST RIGHTS PRESERVED........................................29
SECTION 308. PERSONS DEEMED OWNERS.................................................................31
SECTION 309. CANCELLATION..........................................................................31
SECTION 310. COMPUTATION OF INTEREST...............................................................31
SECTION 311. CERTIFICATION BY A PERSON ENTITLED TO DELIVERY OF A BEARER SECURITY...................32
SECTION 312. JUDGMENTS.............................................................................32
ARTICLE FOUR SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE................................................................32
SECTION 401. SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE...............................................32
SECTION 402. APPLICATION OF TRUST MONEY AND ELIGIBLE INSTRUMENTS...................................34
SECTION 403. SATISFACTION, DISCHARGE AND DEFEASANCE OF DEBT SECURITIES OF ANY SERIES...............34
ARTICLE FIVE REMEDIES..................................................................................37
SECTION 501. EVENTS OF DEFAULT.....................................................................37
SECTION 502. ACCELERATION OF MATURITY; RESCISSION AND ANNULMENT....................................38
SECTION 503. COLLECTION OF INDEBTEDNESS AND SUITS FOR ENFORCEMENT BY TRUSTEE.......................39
SECTION 504. TRUSTEE MAY FILE PROOFS OF CLAIM......................................................40
SECTION 505. TRUSTEE MAY ENFORCE CLAIMS WITHOUT POSSESSION OF DEBT SECURITIES OR COUPONS...........40
SECTION 506. APPLICATION OF MONEY COLLECTED........................................................41
SECTION 507. LIMITATION ON SUITS...................................................................41
SECTION 508. UNCONDITIONAL RIGHT OF HOLDERS TO RECEIVE PRINCIPAL, PREMIUM AND INTEREST.............42
SECTION 509. RESTORATION OF RIGHTS AND REMEDIES....................................................42
SECTION 510. RIGHTS AND REMEDIES CUMULATIVE........................................................42
SECTION 511. DELAY OR OMISSION NOT WAIVER..........................................................43
SECTION 512. CONTROL BY HOLDERS OF DEBT SECURITIES.................................................43
SECTION 513. WAIVER OF PAST DEFAULTS...............................................................43
SECTION 514. UNDERTAKING FOR COSTS.................................................................44
SECTION 515. WAIVER OF STAY OR EXTENSION LAWS......................................................44
ARTICLE SIX THE TRUSTEE................................................................................44
SECTION 601. CERTAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES...................................................44
SECTION 602. NOTICE OF DEFAULT.....................................................................45
SECTION 603. CERTAIN RIGHTS OF TRUSTEE.............................................................45
SECTION 604. NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR RECITALS OR ISSUANCE OF DEBT SECURITIES...........................46
SECTION 605. MAY HOLD DEBT SECURITIES OR COUPONS...................................................46
SECTION 606. MONEY HELD IN TRUST...................................................................46
SECTION 607. COMPENSATION AND REIMBURSEMENT........................................................47
SECTION 608. DISQUALIFICATION; CONFLICTING INTERESTS...............................................47
SECTION 609. CORPORATE TRUSTEE REQUIRED; ELIGIBILITY...............................................47
SECTION 610. RESIGNATION AND REMOVAL; APPOINTMENT OF SUCCESSOR.....................................48
SECTION 611. ACCEPTANCE OF APPOINTMENT BY SUCCESSOR................................................50
SECTION 612. MERGER, CONVERSION, CONSOLIDATION OR SUCCESSION TO BUSINESS...........................51
SECTION 613. PREFERENTIAL COLLECTION OF CLAIMS AGAINST COMPANY.....................................51
SECTION 614. AUTHENTICATING AGENT..................................................................51
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ARTICLE SEVEN HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY........................................53
SECTION 701. COMPANY TO FURNISH TRUSTEE NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF HOLDERS.............................53
SECTION 702. PRESERVATION OF INFORMATION; COMMUNICATIONS TO HOLDERS................................53
SECTION 703. REPORTS BY TRUSTEE....................................................................54
SECTION 704. REPORTS BY COMPANY....................................................................54
ARTICLE EIGHT CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE.....................................54
SECTION 801. COMPANY MAY CONSOLIDATE, ETC. ONLY ON CERTAIN TERMS...................................54
SECTION 802. SUCCESSOR CORPORATION SUBSTITUTED.....................................................55
ARTICLE NINE SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES...................................................................55
SECTION 901. SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES WITHOUT CONSENT OF HOLDERS....................................55
SECTION 902. SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES WITH CONSENT OF HOLDERS.......................................56
SECTION 903. EXECUTION OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES..................................................58
SECTION 904. EFFECT OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES.....................................................58
SECTION 905. CONFORMITY WITH TRUST INDENTURE ACT...................................................58
SECTION 906. REFERENCE IN DEBT SECURITIES TO SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES...............................58
ARTICLE TEN COVENANTS..................................................................................59
SECTION 1001. PAYMENT OF PRINCIPAL, PREMIUM AND INTEREST.........................................59
SECTION 1002. MAINTENANCE OF OFFICE OR AGENCY....................................................59
SECTION 1003. MONEY FOR DEBT SECURITIES PAYMENTS TO BE HELD IN TRUST.............................60
SECTION 1004. OFFICERS' CERTIFICATE AS TO DEFAULT................................................61
SECTION 1005. WAIVER OF CERTAIN COVENANTS........................................................62
SECTION 1006. PAYMENT OF ADDITIONAL AMOUNTS......................................................62
ARTICLE ELEVEN REDEMPTION OF DEBT SECURITIES...........................................................63
SECTION 1101. APPLICABILITY OF ARTICLE...........................................................63
SECTION 1102. ELECTION TO REDEEM; NOTICE TO TRUSTEE..............................................63
SECTION 1103. SELECTION BY TRUSTEE OF DEBT SECURITIES TO BE REDEEMED.............................63
SECTION 1104. NOTICE OF REDEMPTION...............................................................64
SECTION 1105. DEPOSIT OF REDEMPTION PRICE........................................................65
SECTION 1106. DEBT SECURITIES PAYABLE ON REDEMPTION DATE.........................................65
SECTION 1107. DEBT SECURITIES REDEEMED IN PART...................................................66
ARTICLE TWELVE SINKING FUNDS...........................................................................66
SECTION 1201. APPLICABILITY OF ARTICLE...........................................................66
SECTION 1202. SATISFACTION OF SINKING FUND PAYMENTS WITH DEBT SECURITIES.........................66
SECTION 1203. REDEMPTION OF DEBT SECURITIES FOR SINKING FUND.....................................67
ARTICLE THIRTEEN REPAYMENT AT THE OPTION OF HOLDERS....................................................67
SECTION 1301. APPLICABILITY OF ARTICLE...........................................................67
SECTION 1302. REPAYMENT OF DEBT SECURITIES.......................................................68
SECTION 1303. EXERCISE OF OPTION; NOTICE.........................................................68
SECTION 1304. ELECTION OF REPAYMENT BY REMARKETING ENTITIES......................................69
SECTION 1305. SECURITIES PAYABLE ON THE REPAYMENT DATE...........................................69
ARTICLE FOURTEEN MEETINGS OF HOLDERS OF DEBT SECURITIES................................................69
SECTION 1401. PURPOSES FOR WHICH MEETINGS MAY BE CALLED..........................................69
SECTION 1402. CALL, NOTICE AND PLACE OF MEETINGS.................................................70
SECTION 1403. PERSONS ENTITLED TO VOTE AT MEETINGS...............................................70
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SECTION 1404. QUORUM; ACTION.....................................................................70
SECTION 1405. DETERMINATION OF VOTING RIGHTS; CONDUCT AND ADJOURNMENT OF MEETINGS................71
SECTION 1406. COUNTING VOTES AND RECORDING ACTION OF MEETINGS....................................72
ARTICLE FIFTEEN DEFEASANCE.............................................................................73
SECTION 1501. TERMINATION OF COMPANY'S OBLIGATIONS...............................................73
SECTION 1502. REPAYMENT TO COMPANY...............................................................74
SECTION 1503. INDEMNITY FOR ELIGIBLE INSTRUMENTS.................................................74
ARTICLE SIXTEEN SUBORDINATION OF DEBT SECURITIES.......................................................74
SECTION 1601. DEBT SECURITIES SUBORDINATE TO SENIOR DEBT.........................................74
SECTION 1602. TRUSTEE AND HOLDERS OF DEBT SECURITIES MAY RELY ON CERTIFICATE OF LIQUIDATING
AGENT; TRUSTEE MAY REQUIRE FURTHER EVIDENCE AS TO OWNERSHIP OF SENIOR DEBT;
TRUSTEE NOT FIDUCIARY TO HOLDERS OF SENIOR DEBT....................................77
SECTION 1603. PAYMENT PERMITTED IF NO DEFAULT....................................................77
SECTION 1604. TRUSTEE NOT CHARGED WITH KNOWLEDGE OF PROHIBITION..................................78
SECTION 1605. TRUSTEE TO EFFECTUATE SUBORDINATION................................................78
SECTION 1606. RIGHTS OF TRUSTEE AS HOLDER OF SENIOR DEBT.........................................78
SECTION 1607. ARTICLE APPLICABLE TO PAYING AGENTS................................................78
SECTION 1608. SUBORDINATION RIGHTS NOT IMPAIRED BY ACTS OR OMISSIONS OF THE COMPANY OR
HOLDERS OF SENIOR DEBT.............................................................79
ARTICLE SEVENTEEN CONVERSION OF CONVERTIBLE SECURITIES.................................................79
SECTION 1701. APPLICABILITY OF ARTICLE...........................................................79
SECTION 1702. RIGHT TO CONVERT...................................................................79
SECTION 1703. EXERCISE OF CONVERSION PRIVILEGE; DELIVERY OF COMMON STOCK ON CONVERSION;
NO ADJUSTMENT FOR INTEREST OR DIVIDENDS............................................80
SECTION 1704. CASH PAYMENTS IN LIEU OF FRACTIONAL SHARES.........................................81
SECTION 1705. CONVERSION PRICE...................................................................81
SECTION 1706. ADJUSTMENT TO CONVERSION PRICE.....................................................81
SECTION 1707. EFFECT OF RECLASSIFICATION, CONSOLIDATION, MERGER OR SALE..........................85
SECTION 1708. TAXES ON SHARES ISSUED.............................................................85
SECTION 1709. SHARES TO BE FULLY PAID; COMPLIANCE WITH GOVERNMENTAL REQUIREMENTS;
LISTING OF COMMON STOCK............................................................86
SECTION 1710. RESPONSIBILITY OF TRUSTEE..........................................................86
SECTION 1711. NOTICE TO HOLDERS PRIOR TO CERTAIN ACTIONS.........................................86
SECTION 1712. COVENANT TO RESERVE SHARES.........................................................87
Testimonium ........................................................................................... 90
Signature and Seals ................................................................................... 90
Acknowledgements ...................................................................................... 91
Exhibit A-1 ...........................................................................................A-1
Exhibit A-2 ...........................................................................................A-2
Exhibit B .............................................................................................B-1
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INDENTURE (the "Indenture") dated as of _______________, 2001,
between XXXXXX FINANCIAL CORPORATION, a Minnesota corporation (hereinafter
called the "Company"), having its principal place of business at 000 Xxxxxxxxx
Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xx. Xxxx, XX 00000 and Wilmington Trust Company, a Delaware
banking corporation, acting hereunder not in its individual capacity but solely
as trustee under this Indenture (hereinafter called the "Trustee"), having its
Corporate Trust Office at Xxxxxx Square North, 0000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000-0000.
RECITALS OF THE COMPANY
The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of
this Indenture to provide for the issuance from time to time of its junior
subordinated debentures, notes, bonds and other evidences of indebtedness
(herein called the "Debt Securities").
All things necessary have been done to make this Indenture a
valid agreement of the Company, in accordance with its terms.
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of
the Debt Securities of any series created and issued on or after the date hereof
by the Holders thereof, it is mutually covenanted and agreed for the equal and
proportionate benefit of all Holders of such Debt Securities, or of any such
series, as follows:
ARTICLE ONE
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS
OF GENERAL APPLICATION
SECTION 101. DEFINITIONS.
For all purposes of this Indenture, except as otherwise
expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) the terms defined in this Article have the meanings
assigned to them in this Article, and include the plural as well as the
singular;
(2) all other terms used herein which are defined in the Trust
Indenture Act or by Commission rule or regulation under the Trust
Indenture Act, either directly or by reference therein, as in force at
the date as of which this instrument was executed, except as provided
in Section 905, have the meanings assigned to them therein;
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(3) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the
meanings assigned to them in accordance with generally accepted
accounting principles, and, except as otherwise herein expressly
provided, the term "generally accepted accounting principles" with
respect to any computation required or permitted hereunder shall mean
such accounting principles as are generally accepted in the United
States at the date of such computation; and
(4) the words "herein," "hereof" and "hereunder" and other
words of similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to
any particular Article, Section or other subdivision.
"Act" when used with respect to any Holder has the meaning
specified in Section 104.
"Affiliate" of any specified Person means any other Person
directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect
common control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition,
"control" when used with respect to any specified Person means the power to
direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly,
whether through the ownership of voting securities by contract or otherwise, and
the terms "controlling" and "controlled" have meanings correlative to the
foregoing.
"Authorized Newspaper" means a newspaper in an official
language of the country of publication or in the English language customarily
published on each Business Day, whether or not published on Saturdays, Sundays
or holidays, and of general circulation in the place in connection with which
the term is used or in the financial community of such place. Where successive
publications are required to be made in Authorized Newspapers, the successive
publications may be made in the same or in different newspapers in the same city
meeting the foregoing requirements and in each case on any Business Day.
"Bearer Security" means any Debt Security established pursuant
to Section 201 which is payable to bearer including, without limitation, unless
the context otherwise indicates, a Debt Security in global bearer form.
"Board of Directors" means either the board of directors of
the Company, or the executive or any other committee of that board duly
authorized to act in respect hereof.
"Board Resolution" means a copy of a resolution certified by
the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted
by the Board of Directors and to be in full force and effect on the date of such
certification, and delivered to the Trustee. Where any provision of this
Indenture refers to action to be taken pursuant to a Board Resolution (including
the establishment of any series of the Debt Securities and the forms and terms
thereof), such action may be taken by any committee of the Board or any officer
or employee of the Company authorized to take such action by a Board Resolution.
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"Business Day," means any day other than a day on which
banking institutions in New York, New York, Wilmington, Delaware or Minneapolis,
Minnesota are authorized or required by law to close.
"CEDEL" or "CEDEL S.A." means Centrale de Livraison de Valeurs
Mobilieres S.A.
"Closing Price" has the meaning specified in Section 1706(d).
"Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as
from time to time constituted, created under the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, or if at any time after the execution of this instrument such Commission
is not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under the Trust
Indenture Act, then the body performing such duties on such date.
"Common Stock" means, when used with reference to the capital
stock of the Company, the class of stock which, at the date of execution of this
Indenture, is designated as common stock of the Company and stock of any class
or classes into which such common stock or any such other class may thereafter
be changed or reclassified. In case by reason of the operation of Article
Seventeen, the Convertible Securities shall be convertible into any other shares
or other securities or property of the Company or any other corporation, any
reference in this Indenture to the conversion of Convertible Securities pursuant
to Article Seventeen shall be deemed to refer to and include conversion of
Convertible Securities into such other shares or other securities or property.
"Company" means the Person named as the "Company" in the first
paragraph of this instrument until a successor Person shall have become such
pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter
"Company" shall mean such successor Person.
"Company Request" and "Company Order" mean, respectively,
except as otherwise provided in this Indenture, a written request or order
signed in the name of the Company by the Chairman of the Board, a Vice Chairman
of the Board, the President or a Vice President (any references to a Vice
President of the Company herein shall be deemed to include any Vice President of
the Company whether or not designated by a number or word or words added before
or after the title "Vice President"), the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the
Controller, an Assistant Controller, Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the
Company, or by another officer of the Company duly authorized to sign by a Board
Resolution, and delivered to the Trustee.
"Conversion Price" has the meaning specified in Section 1705.
"Convertible Securities" means any series of Debt Securities
that are designated as such pursuant to Section 301.
"Corporate Trust Office" means the principal corporate trust
office of the Trustee at which any particular time its corporate trust business
shall be administered.
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The term "corporation" includes corporations, associations,
companies and business trusts.
The term "coupon" means any interest coupon appertaining to a
Bearer Security.
"Debt Securities" has the meaning stated in the first recital
of this Indenture and more particularly means any Debt Securities authenticated
and delivered under this Indenture.
"Defaulted Interest" has the meaning specified in Section 307.
"Depositary" means, with respect to the Debt Securities of any
series issuable or issued in the form of a Global Security, the Person
designated as Depositary by the Company pursuant to Section 301 until a
successor Depositary shall have become such pursuant to the applicable
provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter "Depositary" shall mean or include
each person who is then a Depositary hereunder, and if at any time there is more
than one such Person, "Depositary" as used with respect to the Debt Securities
of any such series shall mean the Depositary with respect to the Debt Securities
of that series.
"Designated Currency" has the meaning specified in Section
312.
"Dollar" or "$" means the coin or currency of the United
States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for the payment of
public and private debts.
"ECU" means the European Currency Unit as defined and revised
from time to time by the Council of the European Communities.
"Eligible Instruments" means monetary assets, money market
instruments and securities that are payable in Dollars only and essentially risk
free as to collection of principal and interest, including U.S. Government
Obligations.
"Euroclear" means Xxxxxx Guaranty Trust Company of New York,
Brussels Office, as operator of the Euroclear System.
"European Communities" means the European Economic Community,
the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Atomic Energy Community.
"Event of Default" has the meaning specified in Section 501.
"Exchange Rate" shall have the meaning specified as
contemplated in Section 301.
"Exchange Rate Agent" shall have the meaning specified as
contemplated in Section 301.
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"Exchange Rate Officer's Certificate," with respect to any
date for the payment of principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on any
series of Debt Securities, means a certificate setting forth the applicable
Exchange Rate and the amounts payable in Dollars and Foreign Currencies in
respect of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on Debt
Securities denominated in ECU, any other composite currency or Foreign Currency,
and signed by the Chairman of the Board, a Vice Chairman of the Board, the
President, the Treasurer or any Assistant Treasurer of the Company or the
Exchange Rate Agent appointed pursuant to Section 301, and delivered to the
Trustee.
"Federal Reserve" means the Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System.
"Foreign Currency" means a currency issued by the government
of any country other than the United States of America.
"Global Exchange Agent" has the meaning specified in Section
304.
"Global Exchange Date" has the meaning specified in Section
304.
"Global Security" means a Debt Security issued to evidence all
or part of a series of Debt Securities in accordance with Section 303.
"Holder," with respect to a Registered Security, means a
Person in whose name such Registered Security is registered in the Security
Register and, with respect to a Bearer Security or a coupon, means the bearer
thereof.
"Indenture" means this instrument as originally executed or as
it may from time to time be supplemented, amended or restated by or pursuant to
one or more indentures supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the
applicable provisions hereof and, unless the context otherwise requires, shall
include the terms of a particular series of Debt Securities established as
contemplated by Section 301.
The term "interest," when used with respect to an Original
Issue Discount Security which by its terms bears interest only after Maturity,
means interest payable after Maturity.
"Interest Payment Date," with respect to any Debt Security,
means the Stated Maturity of an installment of interest on such Debt Security.
"Maturity," when used with respect to any Debt Security, means
the date on which the principal of such Debt Security becomes due and payable as
therein or herein provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by declaration of
acceleration, call for redemption, repayment at the option of the Holder or
otherwise.
"Officers' Certificate" means a certificate signed by the
Chairman of the Board, a Vice Chairman of the Board, the President or a Vice
President, and by the Treasurer, an Assistant
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Treasurer, the Controller, an Assistant Controller, the Secretary or an
Assistant Secretary of the Company, and delivered to the Trustee.
"Opinion of Counsel" means a written opinion of counsel, who
may (except as otherwise expressly provided in this Indenture) be an employee of
or counsel for the Company, or who may be other counsel acceptable to the
Trustee, which is delivered to the Trustee.
"Original Issue Discount Security" means any Debt Security
which provides for an amount less than the principal amount thereof to be due
and payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant
to Section 502.
"Outstanding," when used with respect to Debt Securities
means, as of the date of determination, all Debt Securities theretofore
authenticated and delivered under this Indenture, EXCEPT:
(i) Debt Securities theretofore cancelled by the Trustee or
delivered to the Trustee for cancellation;
(ii) Debt Securities or portions thereof for whose payment or
redemption money in the necessary amount has been theretofore deposited
with the Trustee or any Paying Agent (other than the Company) in trust
or set aside and segregated in trust by the Company (if the Company
shall act as its own Paying Agent) for the Holders of such Debt
Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto; provided, however,
that if such Debt Securities are to be redeemed, notice of such
redemption has been duly given pursuant to this Indenture or provision
therefor satisfactory to the Trustee has been made; and
(iii) Debt Securities in exchange for or in lieu of which
other Debt Securities have been authenticated and delivered, or which
have been paid, pursuant to this Indenture;
provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite
principal amount of Debt Securities Outstanding have given any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, Debt Securities
owned by the Company or any other obligor upon the Debt Securities or any
Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor shall be disregarded and
deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining whether the Trustee
shall be protected in relying upon such request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Debt Securities which the Trustee
knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded. Debt Securities so owned which
have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee
establishes to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee's right so to act
with respect to such Debt Securities and that the pledgee is not the Company or
any other obligor upon the Debt Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of
such other obligor.
"Paying Agent" means any Person authorized by the Company to
pay the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on any Debt Securities on
behalf of the Company.
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"Perpetual Preferred Stock" means any stock of any class of
the Company which has a preference over Common Stock in respect of dividends or
of amounts payable in the event of any voluntary or involuntary liquidation,
dissolution or winding up of the Company and which is not mandatorily redeemable
or repayable, or redeemable or repayable at the option of the Holder, otherwise
than in shares of Common Stock or Perpetual Preferred Stock of another class or
series or with the proceeds of the sale of Common Stock or Perpetual Preferred
Stock.
"Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint
venture, association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization or
government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.
"Place of Payment," when used with respect to the Debt
Securities of any series means any place where the principal of (and premium, if
any) and interest on the Debt Securities of that series are payable as specified
as contemplated by Section 301.
"Predecessor Security" of any particular Debt Security means
every previous Debt Security evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as
that evidenced by such particular Debt Security; and, for the purposes of this
definition, any Debt Security authenticated and delivered under Section 306 in
lieu of a lost, destroyed or stolen Debt Security shall be deemed to evidence
the same debt as the lost, destroyed or stolen Debt Security.
"Redemption Date," when used with respect to any Debt Security
to be redeemed, means the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this
Indenture.
"Redemption Price," when used with respect to any Debt
Security to be redeemed, means the price at which it is to be redeemed pursuant
to this Indenture.
"Registered Security" means any Debt Security in the form of
Registered Securities established pursuant to Section 201 which is registered in
the Security Register.
"Regular Record Date" for the interest payable on any Interest
Payment Date on the Registered Securities of any series means the date specified
for that purpose as contemplated by Section 301.
"Remarketing Entity," when used with respect to Debt
Securities of any series which are repayable at the option of the Holders
thereof before their Stated Maturity, means any person designated by the Company
to purchase any such Debt Securities.
"Repayment Date," when used with respect to any Debt Security
to be repaid upon exercise of an option for repayment by the Holder, means the
date fixed for such repayment pursuant to this Indenture.
"Repayment Price," when used with respect to any Debt Security
to be repaid upon exercise of an option for repayment by the Holder, means the
price at which it is to be repaid pursuant to this Indenture.
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"Responsible Officer" when used with respect to the Trustee,
means any officer of the Trustee assigned by it to administer its corporate
trust matters.
"Rights" has the meaning specified in Section 1706(c).
"Security Register" and "Security Registrar" have the
respective meanings specified in Section 305.
"Senior Debt" means (i) the principal, premium, if any, and
interest in respect of (A) indebtedness of the Company for money borrowed and
(B) indebtedness evidenced by securities, debentures, bonds or other similar
instruments issued by the Company; (ii) all capital lease obligations of the
Company; (iii) all obligations of the Company issued or assumed as the deferred
purchase price of property, all conditional sale obligations of the Company and
all obligations of the Company under any title retention agreement (but
excluding trade accounts payable arising in the ordinary course of business);
(iv) all obligations of the Company for the reimbursement on any letter of
credit, banker's acceptance, security purchase facility or similar credit
transaction; (v) all obligations of the type referred to in clauses (i) through
(iv) of other Persons for the payment of which the Company is responsible or
liable as obligor, guarantor or otherwise; and (vi) all obligations of the type
referred to in clauses (i) through (v) of other Persons secured by any lien on
any property or asset of the Company (whether or not such obligation is assumed
by the Company), except for Trust Related Securities.
"Special Record Date" for the payment of any Defaulted
Interest means a date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 307.
"Stated Maturity," when used with respect to any Debt Security
or any installment of interest thereon, means the date specified in such Debt
Security or a coupon representing such installment of interest as the fixed date
on which the principal of such Debt Security or such installment is due and
payable.
"Trust Indenture Act" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as
in force at the date as of which this instrument was executed, except as
provided in Section 905.
"Trust Related Securities" means any obligations evidenced by
debt securities (and guarantees in respect of those debt securities) initially
issued to any trust, or a trustee of a trust, partnership or other entity
affiliated with the Company that is, directly or indirectly, a financing vehicle
of the Company in connection with the issuance by such entity of capital
securities or other similar securities.
"Trustee" means the Person named as the "Trustee" in the first
paragraph of this instrument until a successor Trustee shall have become such
pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter
"Trustee" shall mean or include each Person who is then a Trustee hereunder, and
if at any time there is more than one such Person, "Trustee" as used with
respect to
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the Debt Securities of any series shall mean the Trustee with respect to Debt
Securities of that series.
"United States" means the United States of America (including
the District of Columbia) and its possessions.
"United States Alien" means any Person who, for United States
Federal income tax purposes, is a foreign corporation, a non-resident alien
individual, a non-resident alien fiduciary of a foreign estate or trust, or a
foreign partnership one or more of the members of which is, for United States
Federal income tax purposes, a foreign corporation, a non-resident alien
individual or a non-resident alien fiduciary of a foreign estate or trust.
"U.S. Government Obligations" means direct obligations of the
United States for the payment of which its full faith and credit is pledged, or
obligations of a person controlled or supervised by and acting as an agency or
instrumentality of the United States the timely payment of which is
unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation by the United
States.
SECTION 102. COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATES AND OPINIONS.
Upon any application or request by the Company to the Trustee
to take any action under any provision of this Indenture (other than the
delivery of any Debt Security to the Trustee for authentication pursuant to
Section 303), the Company shall furnish to the Trustee, if so requested by the
Trustee, an Officers' Certificate stating that all conditions precedent, if any,
provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been
complied with and an Opinion of Counsel stating that in the opinion of such
counsel all such conditions precedent, if any, have been complied with, except
that in the case of any such application or request as to which the furnishing
of such documents is specifically required by any provision of this Indenture
relating to such particular application or request, no additional certificate or
opinion need be furnished.
Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a
condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture shall include:
(1) a statement that each individual signing such certificate
or opinion has read such covenant or condition and the definition
herein relating thereto;
(2) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the
examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions
contained in such certificate or opinion are based;
(3) a statement that, in the opinion of each such individual,
he or she has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to
enable him or her to express an informed opinion as to whether or not
such covenant or condition has been complied with; and
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(4) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such
individual, such condition or covenant has been complied with.
SECTION 103. FORM OF DOCUMENTS DELIVERED TO TRUSTEE.
In any case where several matters are required to be certified
by, or covered by an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that
all such matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such
Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one
such Person may certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one
or more other such Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify
or give an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents.
Any certificate or opinion of an officer of the Company may be
based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of,
or representations by, counsel, unless such officer knows, or in the exercise of
reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations
with respect to the matters upon which his or her certificate or opinion is
based is erroneous. Any such certificate or Opinion of Counsel may be based,
insofar as it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or
representations by, an officer or officers of the Company stating that the
information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the
Company, unless such counsel knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should
know, that the certificate or opinions or representations with respect to such
matters is erroneous.
Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or
more applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or
other instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated
and form one instrument.
SECTION 104. ACTS OF HOLDERS.
(a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or other action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken
by Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of
substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by an agent duly
appointed in writing. If Debt Securities of a series are issuable in whole or in
part as Bearer Securities, any request, demand, authorization, direction,
notice, consent, waiver or other action provided by this Indenture to be given
or taken by Holders may, alternatively, be embodied in and evidenced by the
record of Holders of Debt Securities voting in favor thereof, either in person
or by proxies duly appointed in writing, at any meeting of Holders of Debt
Securities duly called and held in accordance with the provisions of Article
Fourteen, or a combination of such instruments and any such record. Except as
herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall become effective when
such instrument or instruments or record or both are delivered to the Trustee,
and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the Company. Such instrument or
instruments and any such record (and the action embodied therein and evidenced
thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the "Act" of the Holders signing
such instrument or instruments and so voting at any such meeting. Proof of
execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent, or
the holding by any Person of a Debt Security, shall be sufficient for any
purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Section 601) conclusive in favor of
the
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Trustee and the Company, if made in the manner provided in this Section. The
record of any meeting of Holders of Debt Securities shall be proved in the
manner provided in Section 1406.
(b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any
such instrument or writing may be proved in any manner which the Trustee deems
sufficient.
(c) The ownership of Registered Securities shall be proved by
the Security Register.
(d) The principal amount and serial numbers of Bearer
Securities held by any Person, and the date of holding the same, may be proved
by the production of such Bearer Securities or by a certificate executed, as
depositary, by any trust company, bank, banker or other depositary, wherever
situated, if such certificate shall be deemed by the Trustee to be satisfactory,
showing that at the date therein mentioned such Person had on deposit with such
depositary, or exhibited to it, the Bearer Securities in the amount and with the
serial numbers therein described; or such facts may be proved by the certificate
or affidavit of the Person holding such Bearer Securities, if such certificate
or affidavit is deemed by the Trustee to be satisfactory. The Trustee and the
Company may assume that such ownership of any Bearer Security continues until
(1) another certificate or affidavit bearing a later date issued in respect of
the same Bearer Security is produced, or (2) such Bearer Security is produced to
the Trustee by some other person, or (3) such Bearer Security is surrendered in
exchange for a Registered Security, or (4) such Bearer Security is no longer
Outstanding.
(e) The fact and date of execution of any such instrument or
writing, the authority of the Person executing the same and the principal amount
and serial numbers of Bearer Securities held by the Person so executing such
instrument or writing and the date of holding the same may also be proved in any
other manner which the Trustee deems sufficient; and the Trustee may in any
instance require further proof with respect to any of the matters referred to in
this Section.
(f) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or other Act of the Holder of any Debt Security shall bind every
future holder of the same Debt Security and the Holder of every Debt Security
issued upon the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in
lieu thereof in respect of anything done, suffered or omitted by the Trustee or
the Company in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made
upon such Debt Security.
(g) For purposes of determining the principal amount of
Outstanding Debt Securities of any series of Holders of which are required,
requested or permitted to give any request, demand, authorization, direction,
notice, consent, waiver or take any other Act under this Indenture, (i) each
Original Issue Discount Security shall be deemed to have the principal amount
determined by the Trustee that could be declared to be due and payable pursuant
to the terms of such Original Issue Discount Security as of the date there is
delivered to the Trustee and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the
Company, such Act by Holders of the required aggregate principal amount of the
Outstanding Debt Securities of such series and (ii) each Debt Security
denominated
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in a Foreign Currency or composite currency shall be deemed to have the
principal amount determined by the Exchange Rate Agent by converting the
principal amount of such Debt Security in the currency in which such Debt
Security is denominated into Dollars at the Exchange Rate as of the date such
Act is delivered to the Trustee and, where it is hereby expressly required, to
the Company, by Holders of the required aggregate principal amount of the
Outstanding Debt Securities of such series (or, if there is no such rate on such
date, such rate on the date determined as specified as contemplated in Section
301).
(h) The Company may set a record date for purposes of
determining the identity of Holders of Debt Securities of any series entitled to
vote or consent to any action by vote or consent authorized or permitted by
Section 512 or Section 513. Such record date shall be the later of 30 days prior
to the first solicitation of such consent or the date of the most recent list of
Holders of such Debt Securities furnished to the Trustee pursuant to Section 701
prior to such solicitation.
SECTION 105. NOTICES, ETC., TO TRUSTEE AND COMPANY.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or other Act of Holders or other document provided or permitted
by this Indenture to be made upon, given or furnished to, or filed with,
(1) the Trustee by any Holder or by the Company shall be
sufficient for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein
expressly provided), if made, given, furnished or filed in writing to
or with the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office, Attention: Corporate
Trust Administration, or
(2) the Company by the Trustee or by any Holder shall be
sufficient for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein
expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage
prepaid, to the Company addressed to the attention of its Secretary at
the address of its principal office specified in the first paragraph of
this instrument or at any other address previously furnished in writing
to the Trustee by the Company.
SECTION 106. NOTICE TO HOLDERS; WAIVER.
Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, where this
Indenture provides for notice to Holders of any event, (1) such notice shall be
sufficiently given to Holders of Registered Securities if in writing and mailed,
first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder of a Registered Security affected by
such event, at such Holder's address as it appears in the Security Register, not
later than the latest date, and not earlier than the earliest date, prescribed
for the giving of such notice; and (2) such notice shall be sufficiently given
to Holders of Bearer Securities by publication thereof in an Authorized
Newspaper in The City of New York and, if the Debt Securities of such series are
then listed on The International Stock Exchange of the United Kingdom and the
Republic of Ireland and such stock exchange shall so require, in London, and, if
the Debt Securities of such series are then listed on the Luxembourg Stock
Exchange and such stock exchange shall so require, in Luxembourg and, if the
Debt Securities of such series are then listed on any other stock exchange
outside the United States and such stock exchange shall so require, in any other
required city
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outside the United States or, if not practicable, in Europe on a Business Day at
least twice, the first such publication to be not later than the latest date and
not earlier than the earliest date prescribed for the giving of such notice.
In case, by reason of the suspension of or irregularities in
regular mail service or for any other reason, it shall be impossible or
impracticable to mail notice of any event to Holders when said notice is
required to be given pursuant to any provision of this Indenture or of the Debt
Securities, then any manner of giving such notice as shall be satisfactory to
the Trustee shall be deemed to be a sufficient giving of such notice. In any
case where notice to Holders of Registered Securities is to be given by mail,
neither the failure to mail such notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed,
to any particular Holder of a Registered Security shall affect the sufficiency
of such notice with respect to other Holders of Registered Securities or the
sufficiency of any notice by publication to Holders of Bearer Securities given
as provided above.
In case, by reason of the suspension of publication of any
Authorized Newspaper, or by reason of any other cause, it shall be impossible or
impracticable to make publication of any notice to Holders of Bearer Securities
as provided above, then such method of publication or notification as shall be
made with the approval of the Trustee shall constitute a sufficient publication
of such notice. Neither failure to give notice by publication to Holders of
Bearer Securities as provided above, nor any defect in any notice so published,
shall affect the sufficiency of any notice mailed to Holders of Registered
Securities as provided above.
Where this Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such
notice may be waived in writing by the Person entitled to receive such notice,
either before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of
such notice. Waivers of notice by Holders shall be filed with the Trustee, but
such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action
taken in reliance upon such waiver.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, election, waiver or other Act required or permitted under this
Indenture shall be in the English language, except that any published notice may
be in an official language of the country of publication.
SECTION 107. CONFLICT WITH TRUST INDENTURE ACT.
If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with
another provision hereof which is required to be included in this Indenture by
any of the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act, such required provision shall
control.
SECTION 108. EFFECT OF HEADINGS AND TABLE OF CONTENTS.
The Article and Section headings herein and the Table of
Contents are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.
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SECTION 109. SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS.
All covenants and agreements in this Indenture by the Company
shall bind its successors and assigns, whether expressed or not.
SECTION 110. SEPARABILITY CLAUSE.
In case any provision in this Indenture or in the Debt
Securities or coupons shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity,
legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be
affected or impaired thereby.
SECTION 111. BENEFITS OF INDENTURE.
Nothing in this Indenture or in the Debt Securities or
coupons, express or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties
hereto and their successors hereunder, any Paying Agent and the Holders, any
benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.
SECTION 112. GOVERNING LAW.
This Indenture and the Debt Securities and coupons shall be
governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of
Minnesota.
SECTION 113. LEGAL HOLIDAYS.
In any case where any Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date,
Repayment Date or Stated Maturity of any Debt Security shall not be a Business
Day at any Place of Payment, then (notwithstanding any other provision of this
Indenture or of the Debt Securities or coupons) payment of interest or principal
(and premium, if any) need not be made at such Place of Payment on such date,
but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day at such Place of Payment
with the same force and effect as if made on the Interest Payment Date,
Redemption Date, Repayment Date or at the Stated Maturity, and no interest shall
accrue for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date, Redemption
Date, Repayment Date or Stated Maturity, as the case may be.
SECTION 114. COUNTERPARTS.
This Indenture may be executed in any number of counterparts,
each of which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such
counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same Indenture.
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ARTICLE TWO
DEBT SECURITY FORMS
SECTION 201. FORMS GENERALLY.
The Registered Securities, if any, and the Bearer Securities
and related coupons, if any, of each series shall be in substantially the form
(including temporary or permanent global form) as shall be established in or
pursuant to a Board Resolution or in one or more indentures supplemental hereto,
in each case with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and
other variations as are required or permitted by this Indenture, and may have
such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such legends or
endorsements placed thereon, as may be required to comply with the rules of any
securities exchange, or as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the
officers executing such Debt Securities or coupons, as evidenced by their
signatures on the Debt Securities or coupons. If the form of Debt Securities of
any series or coupons (including any such Global Security) is established by
action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution, a copy of an appropriate record of
such action shall be certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the
Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Company
Order contemplated by Section 303 or the authentication and delivery of such
Debt Securities or coupons.
Unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301,
Debt Securities in bearer form other than Debt Securities in temporary or
permanent global form shall have coupons attached.
The definitive Debt Securities and coupons, if any, shall be
printed, lithographed or engraved on steel-engraved borders or may be produced
in any other manner, all as determined by the officers executing such Debt
Securities, as evidenced by the execution of such Debt Securities and coupons.
SECTION 202. FORM OF TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION.
This is one of the Debt Securities, of the series designated
herein, described in the within-mentioned Indenture.
Wilmington Trust Company, not in its individual
capacity but solely as Trustee
By
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AUTHORIZED OFFICER
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SECTION 203. DEBT SECURITIES IN GLOBAL FORM.
If Debt Securities of a series are issuable in whole or in
part in global form, as contemplated by Section 301, then, notwithstanding
clause (12) of Section 301 and the provisions of Section 302, such Global
Security shall represent such of the outstanding Debt Securities of such series
as shall be specified therein and may provide that it shall represent the
aggregate amount of Outstanding Debt Securities from time to time endorsed
thereon and that the aggregate amount of Outstanding Debt Securities represented
thereby may from time to time be reduced to reflect exchanges. Any endorsement
of a Global Security to reflect the amount, or any increase or decrease in the
amounts, of Outstanding Debt Securities represented thereby shall be made in
such manner and upon instructions given by such Person or Persons as shall be
specified therein or in the Company Order to be delivered to the Trustee
pursuant to Section 303 or Section 304.
The provisions of the last sentence of Section 303(g) shall
apply to any Debt Securities represented by a Debt Security in global form if
such Debt Security was never issued and sold by the Company and the Company
delivers to the Trustee the Debt Security in global form together with written
instructions (which need not comply with Section 102 and need not be accompanied
by an Opinion of Counsel) with respect to the reduction in the principal amount
of Debt Securities represented thereby, together with the written statement
contemplated by the last sentence of Section 303(g).
Global Securities may be issued in either registered or bearer
form and in either temporary or permanent form.
ARTICLE THREE
THE DEBT SECURITIES
SECTION 301. AMOUNT UNLIMITED; ISSUANCE IN SERIES.
The aggregate principal amount of Debt Securities which may be
authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is unlimited.
The Debt Securities may be issued in one or more series. There
shall be established in or pursuant to a Board Resolution, and set forth in an
Officers' Certificate, or established in one or more indentures supplemental
hereto, prior to the issuance of Debt Securities of any series:
(1) the title of the Debt Securities of the series (which
shall distinguish the Debt Securities of the series from all other Debt
Securities);
(2) the limit, if any, upon the aggregate principal amount of
the Debt Securities of the series which may be authenticated and
delivered under this Indenture (except for Debt Securities
authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in
exchange for, or in lieu of, other Debt Securities of the series
pursuant to Section 304, 305, 306, 906,
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1107, 1303 or 1703 and except for any Debt Securities which, pursuant
to Section 303, are deemed never to have been authenticated and
delivered hereunder);
(3) the date or dates on which the principal and premium, if
any, of the Debt Securities of the series are payable;
(4) the rate or rates, if any, at which the Debt Securities of
the series shall bear interest, or the method or methods by which such
rate or rates may be determined, the date or dates from which such
interest shall accrue, the Interest Payment Dates on which such
interest shall be payable, the Regular Record Date for the interest
payable on any Registered Security on any Interest Payment Date and the
circumstances, if any, in which the Company may defer interest
payments;
(5) the place or places where, subject to the provisions of
Section 1002, the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on
Debt Securities of the series shall be payable, any Registered
Securities of the series may be surrendered for registration of
transfer, Debt Securities of the series may be surrendered for exchange
and notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Debt
Securities of the series and this Indenture may be served and where
notices to Holders pursuant to Section 106 will be published;
(6) if applicable, the period or periods within which or the
date or dates on which, the price or prices at which and the terms and
conditions upon which Debt Securities of the series may be redeemed, in
whole or in part, at the option of the Company;
(7) the obligation, if any, of the Company to redeem, repay or
purchase Debt Securities of the series pursuant to any sinking fund or
analogous provisions or at the option of a Holder thereof and the
period or periods within which, the price or prices at which and the
terms and conditions upon which Debt Securities of the series shall be
redeemed, repaid or purchased, in whole or in part, pursuant to such
obligation;
(8) whether Debt Securities of the series are to be issuable
as Registered Securities, Bearer Securities or both, whether Debt
Securities of the series are to be issuable with or without coupons or
both and, in the case of Bearer Securities, the date as of which such
Bearer Securities shall be dated if other than the date of original
issuance of the first Debt Security of such series of like tenor and
term to be issued;
(9) whether the Debt Securities of the series shall be issued
in whole or in part in the form of a Global Security or Securities and,
in such case, the Depositary and Global Exchange Agent for such Global
Security or Securities, whether such global form shall be permanent or
temporary and, if applicable, the Global Exchange Date;
(10) if Debt Securities of the series are to be issuable
initially in the form of a temporary Global Security, the circumstances
under which the temporary Global Security can be exchanged for
definitive Debt Securities and whether the definitive Debt Securities
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will be Registered and/or Bearer Securities and will be in global form
and whether interest in respect of any portion of such Global Security
payable in respect of an Interest Payment Date prior to the Global
Exchange Date shall be paid to any clearing organization with respect
to a portion of such Global Security held for its account and, in such
event, the terms and conditions (including any certification
requirements) upon which any such interest payment received by a
clearing organization will be credited to the Persons entitled to
interest payable on such Interest Payment Date if other than as
provided in this Article Three;
(11) whether, and under what conditions, additional amounts
will be payable to Holders of Debt Securities of the series pursuant to
Section 1006;
(12) the denominations in which any Registered Securities of
the series shall be issuable, if other than denominations of $1,000 and
any integral multiple thereof, and the denominations in which any
Bearer Securities of such series shall be issuable, if other than the
denomination of $5,000;
(13) if other than the principal amount thereof, the portion
of the principal amount of Debt Securities of the series which shall be
payable upon declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof
pursuant to Section 502;
(14) the currency or currencies of denomination of the Debt
Securities of any series, which may be in Dollars, any Foreign Currency
or any composite currency, including but not limited to the ECU, and,
if any such currency of denomination is a composite currency other than
the ECU, the agency or organization, if any, responsible for overseeing
such composite currency;
(15) the currency or currencies in which payment of the
principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Debt Securities
will be made, the currency or currencies, if any, in which payment of
the principal of (and premium, if any) or the interest on Registered
Securities, at the election of each of the Holders thereof, may also be
payable and the periods within which and the terms and conditions upon
which such election is to be made and the Exchange Rate and Exchange
Rate Agent;
(16) if the amount of payments of principal of (and premium,
if any) or interest on the Debt Securities of the series may be
determined with reference to an index based on a currency or currencies
other than that in which the Debt Securities are denominated or
designated to be payable, the manner in which such amounts shall be
determined;
(17) if payments of principal of (and premium, if any) or
interest on the Debt Securities of the series are to be made in a
Foreign Currency other than the currency in which such Debt Securities
are denominated, the manner in which the Exchange Rate with respect to
such payments shall be determined or if the Exchange Rate is to be
determined otherwise than as provided in Section 101;
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(18) any Events of Default with respect to Debt Securities of
such series, if not set forth herein;
(19) any other covenant or warranty included for the benefit
of the Debt Securities of the series in addition to (and not
inconsistent with) those set forth herein for the benefit of Debt
Securities of all series, or any other covenant or warranty included
for the benefit of Debt Securities of the series in lieu of any
covenant or warranty set forth herein for the benefit of Debt
Securities of all series, or any provision that any covenant or
warranty set forth herein for the benefit of Debt Securities of all
series shall not be for the benefit of Debt Securities of such series,
or any combination of such covenants, warranties or provisions and the
applicability, if any, of the provisions of Section 1005 to such
covenants and warranties;
(20) the terms and conditions, if any, pursuant to which the
Company's obligations under this Indenture may be terminated through
the deposit of money or Eligible Instruments as provided in Articles
Four and Fifteen;
(21) the Person or Persons who shall be Security Registrar for
the Debt Securities of such series if other than the Trustee, and the
place or places where the Security Register for such series shall be
maintained and the Person or Persons who will be the initial Paying
Agent or Agents, if other than the Trustee;
(22) whether the Debt Securities of the series are Convertible
Securities and the terms related thereto including the Conversion Price
and the date on which the right to convert expires; and
(23) any other terms of the series (which terms shall not be
inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture).
All Debt Securities of any one series and the coupons
appertaining to Bearer Securities of such series, if any, shall be substantially
identical except, in the case of Registered Securities, as to denomination and
except as may otherwise be provided in or pursuant to such Board Resolution and
set forth in such Officers' Certificate or in any such indenture supplemental
hereto.
Debt Securities of any particular series may be issued at
various times, with different dates on which the principal or any installment of
principal is payable, with different rates of interest, if any, or different
methods by which rates of interest may be determined, with different dates on
which such interest may be payable and with different Redemption or Repayment
Dates and may be denominated in different currencies or payable in different
currencies.
If any of the terms of a series of Debt Securities are
established by action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution, a copy of an
appropriate record of such action shall be certified by the Secretary or an
Assistant Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to
the delivery of the Officers' Certificate setting forth the terms of the series.
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SECTION 302. DENOMINATIONS.
Debt Securities of each series shall be issuable in such form
and denominations as shall be specified in the form of Debt Security for such
series approved or established pursuant to Section 201 or in the Officers'
Certificate delivered pursuant to Section 301. In the absence of any
specification with respect to the Debt Securities of any series, the Registered
Securities of such series, if any, shall be issuable in denominations of $1,000
and any integral multiple thereof and the Bearer Securities of such series, if
any, shall be issuable in the denomination of $5,000.
SECTION 303. EXECUTION, AUTHENTICATION, DELIVERY AND DATING.
(a) The Debt Securities shall be executed on behalf of the
Company by its Chairman of the Board, a Vice Chairman of the Board, the
President or a Vice President, and by its Chief Accounting Officer, Controller,
Treasurer, one of its Assistant Treasurers, Secretary or one of its Assistant
Secretaries. The signature of any of these officers on the Debt Securities may
be manual or facsimile. Coupons shall bear the facsimile signature of an
authorized officer of the Company.
Debt Securities and coupons bearing the manual or facsimile
signatures of individuals who were at any time the proper officers of the
Company shall bind the Company, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of
them have ceased to hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery
of such Debt Securities or coupons of any series or did not hold such offices at
the date of such Debt Securities or coupons.
(b) At any time and from time to time after the execution and
delivery of this Indenture, Debt Securities of any series may be executed by the
Company and delivered to the Trustee for authentication, and, except as
otherwise provided in this Article Three, shall thereupon be authenticated and
delivered by the Trustee upon Company Order, without any further action by the
Company; provided, however, that, in connection with its original issuance, a
Bearer Security may be delivered only outside the United States and, except in
the case of a temporary Global Security, only if the Company or its agent shall
have received the certification required pursuant to Sections 304(b)(iii) and
(iv), unless such certification shall have been provided earlier pursuant to
section 304(b)(v) hereof, and only if the Company has no reason to know that
such certification is false.
To the extent authorized in or pursuant to a Board Resolution
and set forth in an Officers' Certificate, or established in one or more
indentures supplemental hereto, such written Company Order may be given by any
one officer or employee of the Company, may be electronically transmitted, and
may provide instructions as to registration of holders, principal amounts, rates
of interest, maturity dates and other matters contemplated by such Board
Resolution and Officers' Certificate or supplemental indenture to be so
instructed in respect thereof. Before authorizing and delivering the first Debt
Securities of any series (and upon request of the Trustee thereafter), the
Company shall deliver to the Trustee (i) the certificates called for under
Sections 201 and 301 hereof and (ii) an Opinion of Counsel described in the next
sentence.
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In authenticating such Debt Securities, and accepting the
additional responsibilities under this Indenture in relation to any Debt
Securities, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, prior to the initial
authentication of such Debt Securities, and (subject to Section 601) shall be
fully protected in relying upon:
(i) a Board Resolution relating thereto and, if applicable, an
appropriate record of any action taken pursuant to such resolution
certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company;
(ii) an executed supplemental indenture, if any, relating
thereto;
(iii) an Officers' Certificate setting forth the form and
terms of the Debt Securities of such series and coupons, if any,
pursuant to Sections 201 and 301 and stating that all conditions
precedent provided for in this Indenture relating to the issuance of
such Debt Securities have been complied with; and
(iv) an Opinion of Counsel stating
(A) that the form of such Debt Securities and
coupons, if any, has been established in or pursuant to a
Board Resolution or by a supplemental indenture as permitted
by Section 201 in conformity with the provisions of this
Indenture;
(B) that the terms of such Debt Securities and
coupons, if any, have been established in or pursuant to a
Board Resolution or by a supplemental indenture as permitted
by Section 301 in conformity with the provisions of this
Indenture; and
(C) that such Debt Securities and coupons, if any,
when authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and issued by
the Company in the manner and subject to any conditions
specified in such Opinion of Counsel, will constitute valid
and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable in
accordance with their terms, subject, as to enforcement of
remedies, to applicable bankruptcy, reorganization,
insolvency, moratorium or other laws affecting creditors'
rights generally and the application of general principles of
equity and except further as enforcement thereof may be
limited by (i) requirements that a claim with respect to any
Debt Securities denominated other than in Dollars (or a
Foreign Currency or currency unit judgment in respect of such
claim) be converted into Dollars at a rate of exchange
prevailing on a date determined pursuant to applicable law or
(ii) governmental authority to limit, delay or prohibit the
making of payments in Foreign Currencies or currency units or
payments outside the United States.
(c) If the Company shall establish pursuant to Section 301
that the Debt Securities of a series are to be issued in whole or in part in the
form of one or more Global Securities, then the Company shall execute and the
Trustee shall, in accordance with this Section and the Company Order with
respect to such series, authenticate and deliver one or more Global
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Securities in permanent or temporary form that (i) shall represent and shall be
denominated in an aggregate amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of
the Outstanding Debt Securities of such series to be represented by one or more
Global Securities, (ii) shall be registered in the name of the Depositary for
such Global Security or Securities or the nominee of such Depositary and (iii)
shall be delivered by the Trustee to such Depositary or pursuant to such
Depositary's instructions.
(d) The Trustee shall have the right to decline to
authenticate and deliver any Debt Securities under this Section 303 if the
issuance of such Debt Securities will adversely affect the Trustee's own rights,
duties or immunities under the Debt Securities and this Indenture or otherwise
in a manner which is not reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.
(e) If all the Debt Securities of any series are not to be
issued at one time, it shall not be necessary to deliver an Opinion of Counsel
at the time of issuance of each Debt Security, but such Opinion of Counsel, with
appropriate modifications, may instead be delivered at or prior to the time of
the first issuance of Debt Securities of such series.
(f) Each Registered Security shall be dated the date of its
authentication. Each Bearer Security shall be dated as of the date specified as
contemplated by Section 301.
(g) No Debt Security or coupon attached thereto shall be
entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any
purpose, unless there appears on such Debt Security a certificate of
authentication substantially in the form provided for herein executed by the
Trustee, and such certificate upon any Debt Security shall be conclusive
evidence, and the only evidence, that such Debt Security has been duly
authenticated and delivered hereunder. Except as permitted by Section 306, the
Trustee shall not authenticate and deliver any Bearer Security unless all
appurtenant coupons for interest then matured have been detached and cancelled.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any Debt Security or portion thereof shall
have been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder but never issued and sold
by the Company, and the Company shall deliver such Debt Security to the Trustee
for cancellation as provided in Section 309 together with a written statement
(which need not comply with Section 102 and need not be accompanied by an
Opinion of Counsel) stating that such Debt Security or portion thereof has never
been issued and sold by the Company, for all purposes of this Indenture such
Debt Security shall be deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered
hereunder and shall never be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture.
(h) Each Depositary designated pursuant to Section 301 for a
Global Security in registered form must, at the time of its designation and at
all times while it serves as Depositary, be a clearing agency registered under
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and any other applicable statute or
regulation.
SECTION 304. TEMPORARY DEBT SECURITIES.
(a) Pending the preparation of definitive Debt Securities of
any series, the Company may execute, and upon receipt of documents required by
Sections 301 and 303, together
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with a Company Order, the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, temporary Debt
Securities which are printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or
otherwise produced, in any denomination, substantially of the tenor and terms of
the definitive Debt Securities in lieu of which they are issued in registered
form or, if authorized, in bearer form with one or more coupons or without
coupons, and with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and
other variations as the officers executing such Debt Securities may determine,
as evidenced by their signatures on such Debt Securities. In the case of Debt
Securities of any series issuable as Bearer Securities, such temporary Debt
Securities may be in global form, representing all or any part of the
Outstanding Debt Securities of such series.
(b) Unless otherwise provided pursuant to Section 301:
(i) Except in the case of temporary Debt Securities in global
form, if temporary Debt Securities of any series are issued, the
Company will cause definitive Debt Securities of such series to be
prepared without unreasonable delay. After the preparation of
definitive Debt Securities of such series, the related temporary Debt
Securities shall be exchangeable for such definitive Debt Securities
upon surrender of the temporary Debt Securities of such series at the
office or agency of the Company in the Place of Payment for such
series, without charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation
of any one or more temporary Debt Securities of any series
(accompanied, if applicable, by all unmatured coupons and all matured
coupons in default appertaining thereto), the Company shall execute and
the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a like
principal amount of definitive Debt Securities of the same series of
like tenor and terms and of authorized denominations; provided,
however, that no Bearer Security shall be delivered in exchange for a
Registered Security; and provided, further, that a Bearer Security
shall be delivered in exchange for a Bearer Security only in compliance
with the conditions set forth in Section 305.
(ii) If Debt Securities of any series are issued in temporary
global form, any such temporary Global Security shall, unless otherwise
provided pursuant to Section 301, be delivered to the Depositary for
the benefit of Euroclear and CEDEL S.A., for credit to the respective
accounts of the beneficial owners of such Debt Securities (or to such
other accounts as they may direct).
(iii) Without unnecessary delay but in any event not later
than the date specified in, or determined pursuant to the terms of, any
such temporary Global Security (the "Global Exchange Date"), the
Company shall deliver definitive Debt Securities to the Trustee or the
agent appointed by the Company pursuant to Section 301 to effect the
exchange of the temporary Global Security for definitive Debt
Securities (the "Global Exchange Agent"), in an aggregate principal
amount equal to the principal amount of such temporary Global Security,
executed by the Company. On or after the Global Exchange Date, such
temporary Global Security shall be surrendered by the Depositary to the
Global Exchange Agent, to be exchanged, in whole or from time to time
in part, for definitive Debt Securities without charge and the Trustee
or the Global Exchange Agent, if authorized by the Trustee pursuant to
Section 614, shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange for each
portion of such
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temporary Global Security, an equal aggregate principal amount of
definitive Debt Securities of the same series of authorized
denominations and of like tenor and terms as the portion of such
temporary Global Security to be exchanged. Upon any exchange of a part
of such temporary Global Security for definitive Debt Securities, the
portion of the principal amount and any interest thereon so exchanged
shall be endorsed by the Global Exchange Agent on a schedule to such
temporary Global Security, whereupon the principal amount and interest
payable with respect to such temporary Global Security shall be reduced
for all purposes by the amount so exchanged and endorsed. The
definitive Debt Securities to be delivered in exchange for any such
temporary Global Security shall be in bearer form, registered form,
global registered form or global bearer form, or any combination
thereof, as specified as contemplated by Section 301, and, if any
combination thereof is so specified, as requested by the beneficial
owner thereof; provided, however, that, in the case of the exchange of
the temporary Global Security for definitive Bearer Securities
(including a definitive Global Bearer Security), upon such presentation
by the Depositary, such temporary Global Security shall be accompanied
by a certificate signed by Euroclear as to the portion of such
temporary Global Security held for its account then to be exchanged and
a certificate signed by CEDEL S.A. as to the portion of such temporary
Global Security held for its account then to be exchanged, each in the
form set forth in Exhibit B to this Indenture, unless such
certificate(s) shall have been provided earlier pursuant to section
304(b)(v) hereof; and provided, further, that definitive Bearer
Securities (including a definitive Global Bearer Security) shall be
delivered in exchange for a portion of a temporary Global Security only
in compliance with the requirements of Section 303.
(iv) The interest of a beneficial owner of Debt Securities of
a series in a temporary Global Security shall be exchanged for
definitive Debt Securities of the same series and of like tenor and
terms following the Global Exchange Date when the account holder
instructs Euroclear or CEDEL S.A., as the case may be, to request such
exchange on such account holder's behalf and, in the case of the
exchange of the temporary Global Security for definitive Bearer
Securities (including a definitive Global Bearer Security), unless such
certificate(s) shall have been provided earlier pursuant to Section
304(b)(v) hereof, the account holder delivers to Euroclear or CEDEL
S.A., as the case may be, a certificate in the form set forth in
Exhibit A-1 and, if applicable, A-2 to this Indenture, dated no earlier
than 15 days prior to the Global Exchange Date, copies of which
certificate shall be available from the offices of Euroclear and CEDEL
S.A., the Global Exchange Agent, any authenticating agent appointed for
such series of Debt Securities and each Paying Agent. Unless otherwise
specified in such temporary Global Security, any such exchange shall be
made free of charge to the beneficial owners of such temporary Global
Security, except that a Person receiving definitive Debt Securities
must bear the cost of insurance, postage, transportation and the like
in the event that such Person does not take delivery of such definitive
Debt Securities in person at the offices of Euroclear and CEDEL S.A.
Definitive Debt Securities in bearer form to be delivered in exchange
for any portion of a temporary Global Security shall be delivered only
outside the United States.
(v) Until exchanged in full as hereinabove provided, the
temporary Debt Securities of any series shall in all respects be
entitled to the same benefits under this
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Indenture as definitive Debt Securities of the same series and of like
tenor and terms authenticated and delivered hereunder, except that
interest payable on a temporary Global Security on an Interest Payment
Date shall be payable to Euroclear and CEDEL S.A. on such Interest
Payment Date only if there has been delivery by Euroclear and CEDEL
S.A. to the Global Exchange Agent of a certificate or certificates in
the form set forth in Exhibit B to this Indenture dated no earlier than
the first Interest Payment Date, for credit without further interest on
or after such Interest Payment Date to the respective accounts of the
Persons who are the beneficial owners of such temporary Global Security
on such Interest Payment Date and who have each delivered to Euroclear
or CEDEL S.A., as the case may be, a certificate in the form set forth
in Exhibit A-1 and, if applicable, A-2 to this Indenture dated no
earlier than the first Interest Payment Date. Any interest so received
by Euroclear and CEDEL S.A. and not paid as herein provided prior to
the Global Exchange Date shall be returned to the Global Exchange Agent
which, upon expiration of two years after such Interest Payment Date,
shall repay such interest to the Company in accordance with Section
1003.
SECTION 305. REGISTRATION; REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER AND
EXCHANGE.
The Company shall cause to be kept at one of the offices or
agencies to be maintained by the Company in accordance with the provisions of
this Section 305 and Section 1002, with respect to the Debt Securities of each
series which are Registered Securities, a register (herein sometimes referred to
as the "Security Register") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as
it may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the registration of Registered
Securities and of transfers of Registered Securities. Pursuant to Section 301,
the Company shall appoint, with respect to Debt Securities of each series which
are Registered Securities, a "Security Registrar" for the purpose of registering
such Debt Securities and transfers and exchanges of such Debt Securities as
herein provided.
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Registered
Security of any series at the office or agency of the Company maintained for
such purpose, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more
new Registered Securities of the same series of any authorized denomination or
denominations, of like tenor and terms and aggregate principal amount.
At the option of the Holder, Registered Securities of any
series may be exchanged for other Registered Securities of the same series of
any authorized form and denomination, of like tenor and terms and aggregate
principal amount, upon surrender of the Registered Securities to be exchanged at
such office or agency. Bearer Securities may not be delivered in exchange for
Registered Securities.
At the option of the Holder, Registered Securities or Bearer
Securities of any series may be issued in exchange for Bearer Securities (except
as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 with respect to a Bearer
Security in global form) of the same series, of any authorized form and
denomination and of like tenor and terms and aggregate principal amount, upon
surrender of the Bearer Securities to be exchanged at any such office or agency,
with all unmatured coupons
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and all matured coupons in default thereto appertaining. If the Holder of a
Bearer Security is unable to produce any such unmatured coupon or coupons or
matured coupon or coupons in default, such exchange may be effected if the
Bearer Securities are accompanied by payment in funds acceptable to the Company
and the Trustee in an amount equal to the face amount of such missing coupon or
coupons, or the surrender of such missing coupon or coupons may be waived by the
Company and the Trustee if there be furnished to them such security or indemnity
as they may require to save each of them and any Paying Agent harmless. If
thereafter the Holder of such Security shall surrender to any Paying Agent any
such missing coupon in respect of which such a payment shall have been made,
such Holder shall be entitled to receive the amount of such payment; provided,
however, that, except as otherwise provided in Section 1002, interest
represented by coupons shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of
those coupons at an office or agency located outside the United States.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, in case a Bearer Security of any series is
surrendered at any such office or agency in exchange for a Registered Security
of the same series and like tenor and terms after the close of business at such
office or agency of (i) any Regular Record Date and before the opening of
business at such office or agency on the relevant Interest Payment Date, or (ii)
any Special Record Date and before the opening of business at such office or
agency on the related date for payment of Defaulted Interest, such Bearer
Security shall be surrendered without the coupon relating to such Interest
Payment Date or proposed date of payment, as the case may be.
Whenever any Debt Securities are so surrendered for exchange,
the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the
Debt Securities which the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.
If at any time the Depositary for the Debt Securities of a
series notifies the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as
Depositary for the Debt Securities of such series or if at any time the
Depositary for the Debt Securities of such series shall no longer be eligible
under Section 303(h), the Company shall appoint a successor Depositary with
respect to the Debt Securities of such series. If a successor Depositary for the
Debt Securities of such series is not appointed by the Company within 90 days
after the Company receives such notice or becomes aware of such ineligibility,
the Company's election pursuant to Section 301(9) shall no longer be effective
with respect to the Debt Securities of such series and the Company will execute,
and the Trustee, upon receipt of a Company Order for the authentication and
delivery of definitive Debt Securities of such series, will authenticate and
deliver, Debt Securities of such series in definitive form in an aggregate
principal amount equal to the principal amount of the Global Security or
Securities representing such series in exchange for such Global Security or
Securities.
The Company may at any time and in its sole discretion
determine that the Debt Securities of any series issued in the form of one or
more Global Securities shall no longer be represented by such Global Security or
Securities. In such event the Company will execute, and the Trustee, upon
receipt of a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of definitive
Debt Securities of such series, will authenticate and deliver, Debt Securities
of such series in definitive form and in an aggregate principal amount equal to
the principal amount of the Global Security or Securities representing such
series in exchange for such Global Security or Securities.
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If specified by the Company pursuant to Section 301 with
respect to a series of Debt Securities, the Depositary for such series of Debt
Securities may surrender a Global Security for such series of Debt Securities in
exchange in whole or in part for Debt Securities of such series of like tenor
and terms and in definitive form on such terms as are acceptable to the Company
and such Depositary. Thereupon, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver, without service charge,
(a) to each Person specified by such Depositary a new Debt
Security or Securities of the same series, of like tenor and terms and
of any authorized denominations as requested by such person in
aggregate principal amount equal to and in exchange for such Person's
beneficial interest in the Global Security; and
(b) to such Depositary a new Global Security of like tenor and
terms and in a denomination equal to the difference, if any, between
the principal amount of the surrendered Global Security and the
aggregate principal amount of Debt Securities delivered to Holders
thereof.
In any exchange provided for in any of the preceding three
paragraphs, the Company will execute and the Trustee will authenticate and
deliver Debt Securities (a) in definitive registered form in authorized
denominations, if the Debt Securities of such series are issuable as Registered
Securities, (b) in definitive bearer form in authorized denominations, with
coupons attached, if the Debt Securities of such series are issuable as Bearer
Securities or (c) as either Registered or Bearer Securities, as shall be
specified by the beneficial owner thereof, if the Debt Securities of such series
are issuable in either form; provided, however, that no definitive Bearer
Security shall be delivered in exchange for a temporary Global Security unless
the Company or its agent shall have received from the person entitled to receive
the definitive Bearer Security a certificate substantially in the form set forth
in Exhibit A-1 and, if applicable, A-2 hereto; and provided further that
delivery of a Bearer Security shall occur only outside the United States; and
provided further that no definitive Bearer Security will be issued if the
Company has reason to know that any such certificate is false.
Upon the exchange of a Global Security for Debt Securities in
definitive form, such Global Security shall be cancelled by the Trustee.
Registered Securities issued in exchange for a Global Security pursuant to this
Section shall be registered in such names and in such authorized denominations
as the Depositary for such Global Security, pursuant to instructions from its
direct or indirect participants or otherwise, shall instruct the Trustee. The
Trustee shall deliver such Registered Securities to the persons in whose names
such Debt Securities are so registered. The Trustee shall deliver Bearer
Securities issued in exchange for a Global Security pursuant to this Section to
the persons, and in such authorized denominations, as the Depositary for such
Global Security, pursuant to instructions from its direct or indirect
participants or otherwise, shall instruct the Trustee; provided, however, that
no definitive Bearer Security shall be delivered in exchange for a temporary
Global Security unless the Company or its agent shall have received from the
person entitled to receive the definitive Bearer Security a certificate
substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit A-1 and, if applicable, A-2
hereto; and provided further that delivery of a Bearer
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Security shall occur only outside the United States; and provided further that
no definitive Bearer Security will be issued if the Company has reason to know
that any such certificate is false.
All Debt Securities issued upon any registration of transfer
or exchange of Debt Securities shall be the valid obligations of the Company,
evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this
Indenture, as the Debt Securities surrendered upon such registration of transfer
or exchange.
Every Registered Security presented or surrendered for
registration of transfer or for exchange shall (if so required by the Company,
the Security Registrar or the Trustee) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a
written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company, the Security
Registrar and the Trustee duly executed by the Holder thereof or such Holder's
attorney duly authorized in writing.
No service charge shall be made for any registration of
transfer or exchange of Debt Securities, but the Company may require payment of
a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be
imposed in connection with any transfer, registration of transfer or exchange of
Debt Securities, other than exchanges expressly provided in this Indenture to be
made at the Company's own expense or without expense or without charge to the
Holders.
The Company shall not be required (i) to issue, register the
transfer of or exchange Debt Securities of any particular series to be redeemed
for a period of fifteen days preceding the first publication of the relevant
notice of redemption or, if Registered Securities are outstanding and there is
no publication, the mailing of the relevant notice of redemption of Debt
Securities of such series selected for redemption under Section 1103 and ending
at the close of business on the day of such mailing, or (ii) to register the
transfer of or exchange any Registered Security so selected for redemption in
whole or in part, except the unredeemed portion of such Registered Security
being redeemed in part, or (iii) to exchange any Bearer Security so selected for
redemption except that such a Bearer Security may be exchanged for a Registered
Security of like tenor and terms of that series, provided, however, that such
Registered Security shall be simultaneously surrendered for redemption or
exchange.
Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the exchange
of Bearer Securities into Registered Securities shall be subject to applicable
laws and regulations in effect at the time of exchange; neither the Company, the
Trustee nor the Security Registrar shall exchange any Bearer Securities into
Registered Securities if it has received an Opinion of Counsel that as a result
of such exchanges the Company would suffer adverse consequences under the United
States Federal income tax laws and regulations then in effect and the Company
has delivered to the Trustee a Company Order directing the Trustee not to make
such exchanges thereafter unless and until the Trustee receives a subsequent
Company Order to the contrary. The Company shall deliver copies of such Company
Orders to the Security Registrar.
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SECTION 306. MUTILATED, DESTROYED, LOST AND STOLEN DEBT
SECURITIES.
If (i) any mutilated Debt Security or a Bearer Security with a
mutilated coupon appertaining to it is surrendered to a Paying Agent outside the
United States designated by the Company, or, in the case of any Registered
Security, to the Trustee, or (ii) the Company and the Trustee receive evidence
to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Debt Security or
coupon, and there is delivered to the Company and the Trustee such security or
indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them harmless, then, in the
absence of notice to the Company and the Trustee that such Debt Security or
coupon has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Company shall execute and
upon its written request the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange
for any such mutilated Debt Security or Bearer Security with a mutilated coupon
appertaining to it or to which a destroyed, lost or stolen coupon appertains
(with all appurtenant coupons not destroyed, lost or stolen) or in lieu of any
such destroyed, lost or stolen Debt Security, a new Debt Security of like tenor
and terms and principal amount, bearing a number not contemporaneously
outstanding, with coupons corresponding to the coupon, if any, appertaining to
such destroyed, lost or stolen Debt Security or to the Debt Security to which
such destroyed, lost or stolen coupon appertains; provided, however, that any
such new Bearer Security will be delivered only in compliance with the
conditions set forth in Section 305.
In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Debt
Security or coupon has become or is about to become due and payable, the Company
in its discretion may, instead of issuing a new Debt Security, pay such Debt
Security or coupon; provided, however, that payment of principal of (and
premium, if any) and any interest on Bearer Securities shall, except as
otherwise provided in Section 1002, be payable only at an office or agency
located outside the United States; and provided, further, that, with respect to
any such coupons, interest represented thereby (but not any additional amounts
payable as provided in Section 1006) shall be payable only upon presentation and
surrender of the coupons appertaining thereto.
Upon the issuance of any new Debt Security or coupons under
this Section, the Company may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover
any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and
any other expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee and printing
expenses) connected therewith.
Every new Debt Security of any series, with its coupons, if
any, issued pursuant to this Section in lieu of any destroyed, lost or stolen
Debt Security, or in exchange for a Bearer Security to which a destroyed, lost
or stolen coupon appertains, shall constitute an original additional contractual
obligation of the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Debt
Security and its coupons, if any, or the destroyed, lost or stolen coupon shall
be at any time enforceable by anyone, and any such new Debt Security and
coupons, if any, shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally
and proportionately with any and all other Debt Securities of that series and
their coupons, if any, duly issued hereunder.
The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall
preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to
the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Debt
Securities or coupons.
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SECTION 307. PAYMENT OF INTEREST; INTEREST RIGHTS PRESERVED.
Interest on any Registered Security which is payable, and is
punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall be paid
to the Person in whose name that Registered Security (or one or more Predecessor
Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date
for such interest. In case a Bearer Security of any series is surrendered in
exchange for a Registered Security of such series after the close of business
(at an office or agency in a Place of Payment for such series) on any Regular
Record Date and before the opening of business (at such office or agency) on the
next succeeding Interest Payment Date, such Bearer Security shall be surrendered
without the coupon relating to such Interest Payment Date and interest will not
be payable on such Interest Payment Date in respect of the Registered Security
issued in exchange for such Bearer Security, but will be payable only to the
Holder of such coupon when due in accordance with the provisions of this
Indenture. At the option of the Company, payment of interest on any Registered
Security may be made by check in the currency designated for such payment
pursuant to the terms of such Registered Security mailed to the address of the
Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security Register or
by wire transfer to an account in such currency designated by such Person in
writing not later than ten days prior to the date of such payment.
Any interest on any Registered Security of any series which is
payable, but is not punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest
Payment Date (herein called "Defaulted Interest") shall forthwith cease to be
payable to the registered Holder on the relevant Regular Record Date by virtue
of his having been such Holder, and such Defaulted Interest may be paid by the
Company, at its election in each case, as provided in Clause (1) or (2) below:
(1) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted
Interest to the Persons in whose names the Registered Securities of
such series (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered
at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of
such Defaulted Interest, which shall be fixed in the following manner.
The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of
Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each Registered Security of
such series and the date of the proposed payment, and at the same time
the Company shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of money and/or,
to the extent such Debt Securities are denominated and payable in
Dollars only, Eligible Instruments the payments of principal and
interest on which when due (and without reinvestment and providing no
tax liability will be imposed upon the Trustee or the Holder of such
Registered Securities) will provide money in such amounts as will
(together with any money irrevocably deposited in trust with the
Trustee, without investment) be equal to the aggregate amount proposed
to be paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest or shall make
arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit prior to the
date of the proposed payment, such money and/or Eligible Instruments
when deposited to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons
entitled to such Defaulted Interest as in this Clause provided.
Thereupon the Trustee shall fix a Special Record Date for the payment
of such Defaulted Interest which shall be not more than 15 days and not
less than 10 days prior to the date of the proposed payment and not
less than 10 days after the receipt by the Trustee
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of the notice of the proposed payment. The Trustee shall promptly
notify the Company of such Special Record Date. Unless the Trustee is
acting as the Security Registrar, promptly after such Special Record
Date, the Company shall furnish the Trustee with a list, or shall make
arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee with respect thereto, of the
names and addresses of, and principal amounts of Registered Securities
of such series held by, the Holders appearing on the Security Register
at the close of business on such Special Record Date. In the name and
at the expense of the Company, the Trustee shall cause notice of the
proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date
therefor to be mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder of
Registered Securities of such series at his address as it appears in
the Security Register, not less than 10 days prior to such Special
Record Date. Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest
and the Special Record Date therefor having been mailed as aforesaid,
such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Persons in whose names the
Registered Securities of such series (or their respective Predecessor
Securities) are registered at the close of business on such Special
Record Date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the following
Clause (2). In case a Bearer Security of any series is surrendered at
the office or agency in a Place of Payment for such series in exchange
for a Registered Security of such series after the close of business at
such office or agency on any Special Record Date and before the opening
of business at such office or agency on the related proposed date for
payment of Defaulted Interest, such Bearer Security shall be
surrendered without the coupon relating to such proposed date of
payment and Defaulted Interest will not be payable on such proposed
date of payment in respect of the Registered Security issued in
exchange for such Bearer Security, but will be payable only to the
Holder of such coupon when due in accordance with the provisions of
this Indenture.
(2) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest on
the Registered Securities of any series in any other lawful manner not
inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which
the Registered Securities may be listed, and upon such notice as may be
required by such exchange, if, after notice given by the Company to the
Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to this Clause, such manner of
payment shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section, each Debt
Security delivered under this Indenture upon registration of transfer of or in
exchange for or in lieu of any other Debt Security shall carry the rights to
interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other
Debt Security.
Subject to the limitations set forth in Section 1002, the
Holder of any coupon appertaining to a Bearer Security shall be entitled to
receive the interest payable on such coupon upon presentation and surrender of
such coupon on or after the Interest Payment Date of such coupon at an office or
agency maintained for such purpose pursuant to Section 1002.
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SECTION 308. PERSONS DEEMED OWNERS.
Prior to due presentment of a Registered Security for
registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company
or of the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name such Registered Security is
registered as the owner of such Registered Security for the purpose of receiving
payment of principal of (and premium, if any) and (subject to Section 307)
interest on such Registered Security and for all other purposes whatsoever,
whether or not such Registered Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the
Trustee nor any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be affected by notice
to the contrary.
The Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the
Trustee may treat the bearer of any Bearer Security and the bearer of any coupon
as the absolute owner of such Bearer Security or coupon for the purpose of
receiving payment thereof or on account thereof and for all other purposes
whatsoever, whether or not such Bearer Security or coupon be overdue, and
neither the Company, the Trustee nor any agent of the Company or the Trustee
shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
None of the Company, the Trustee, any Paying Agent or the
Security Registrar will have any responsibility or liability for any aspect of
the records relating to or payments made on account of beneficial ownership
interests of a Global Security or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any
records relating to such beneficial ownership interests.
SECTION 309. CANCELLATION.
Unless otherwise provided with respect to a series of Debt
Securities, all Debt Securities and coupons surrendered for payment, redemption,
repayment, transfer, exchange or credit against any sinking fund payment
pursuant to this Indenture, shall, if surrendered to the Company or any agent of
the Company, be delivered to the Trustee and shall be promptly cancelled by it.
The Company may at any time deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any Debt
Securities previously authenticated and delivered hereunder which the Company
may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and all Debt Securities so delivered
shall be promptly cancelled by the Trustee. No Debt Securities shall be
authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Debt Securities cancelled as
provided in this Section, except as expressly permitted by this Indenture. All
cancelled Debt Securities and coupons held by the Trustee shall be destroyed and
certification of their destruction delivered to the Company unless by a Company
Order the Company shall direct that the cancelled Debt Securities or coupons be
returned to it.
SECTION 310. COMPUTATION OF INTEREST.
Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301
for Debt Securities of any series, interest on the Debt Securities of each
series shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.
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SECTION 311. CERTIFICATION BY A PERSON ENTITLED TO DELIVERY OF
A BEARER SECURITY.
Whenever any provision of this Indenture or a Debt Security
contemplates that certification be given by a Person entitled to delivery of a
Bearer Security, such certification shall be provided substantially in the form
of Exhibit A-1 and, if applicable, A-2 hereto, with only such changes as shall
be approved by the Company and consented to by the Trustee whose consent shall
not unreasonably be withheld.
SECTION 312. JUDGMENTS.
The Company may provide, pursuant to Section 301, for the Debt
Securities of any series that, to the fullest extent possible under applicable
law and except as may otherwise be specified as contemplated in Section 301, (a)
the obligation, if any, of the Company to pay the principal of (and premium, if
any) and interest on the Debt Securities of any series and any appurtenant
coupons in a Foreign Currency, composite currency or Dollars (the "Designated
Currency") as may be specified pursuant to Section 301 is of the essence and
agrees that judgments in respect of such Debt Securities shall be given in the
Designated Currency; (b) the obligation of the Company to make payments in the
Designated Currency of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on
such Debt Securities and any appurtenant coupons shall, notwithstanding any
payment in any other currency (whether pursuant to a judgment or otherwise), be
discharged only to the extent of the amount in the Designated Currency that the
Holder receiving such payment may, in accordance with normal banking procedures,
purchase with the sum paid in such other currency (after any premium and cost of
exchange) in the country of issue of the Designated Currency in the case of
Foreign Currency or Dollars or in the international banking community in the
case of a composite currency on the Business Day immediately following the day
on which such Holder receives such payment; (c) if the amount in the Designated
Currency that may be so purchased for any reason falls short of the amount
originally due, the Company shall pay such additional amounts as may be
necessary to compensate for such shortfall; and (d) any obligation of the
Company not discharged by such payment shall be due as a separate and
independent obligation and, until discharged as provided herein, shall continue
in full force and effect.
ARTICLE FOUR
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
SECTION 401. SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE.
This Indenture shall upon Company Request cease to be of
further effect, including the provisions of Article Sixteen hereof (except as to
any surviving rights of registration of transfer or exchange of Debt Securities
herein expressly provided for and rights to receive payments of principal and
interest thereon and any right to receive additional amounts, as provided in
Section 1006) and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall execute
proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture
when
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(1) either
(A) all Debt Securities theretofore authenticated and
delivered and all coupons appertaining thereto (other than (i)
coupons appertaining to Bearer Securities surrendered in
exchange for Registered Securities and maturing after such
exchange, surrender of which is not required or has been
waived as provided in Xxxxxxx 000, (xx) Debt Securities and
coupons which have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which
have been replaced or paid as provided in Xxxxxxx 000, (xxx)
coupons appertaining to Bearer Securities called for
redemption or surrendered for repayment and maturing after the
relevant Redemption Date or Repayment Date, as appropriate,
surrender of which has been waived as provided in Section 1106
or 1303 and (iv) Debt Securities and coupons for whose payment
money and/or Eligible Instruments have theretofore been
deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust by the
Company and thereafter repaid to the Company or discharged
from such trust, as provided in Section 1003) have been
delivered to the Trustee cancelled or for cancellation; or
(B) all such Debt Securities not theretofore
delivered to the Trustee for cancellation
(i) have become due and payable, or
(ii) will become due and payable at their
Stated Maturity within one year, or
(iii) are to be called for redemption within
one year under arrangements satisfactory to the
Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption by the
Trustee in the name, and at the expense, of the
Company,
and the Company, in the case of (B)(i), (B)(ii) or (B)(iii)
above, has irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited
with the Trustee as trust funds in trust money and/or, to the
extent such Debt Securities are denominated and payable in
Dollars only, Eligible Instruments the payments of principal
and interest on which when due (and without reinvestment and
providing no tax liability will be imposed upon the Trustee or
the Holders of Debt Securities) will provide money in such
amounts as will (together with any money irrevocably deposited
in trust with the Trustee, without investment) be sufficient
to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on such Debt
Securities and coupons of such series for principal (and
premium, if any) and interest, and any mandatory sinking fund,
repayment or analogous payments thereon, on the scheduled due
dates therefor to the date of such deposit (in the case of
Debt Securities and coupons which have become due and payable)
or to the Stated Maturity or Redemption Date, if any, and all
Repayment Dates (in the case of Debt Securities repayable at
the option of the Holders thereof); provided, however, that in
the event a petition for relief under the Bankruptcy Reform
Act of 1978 or a successor statute is filed with respect to
the Company within 91 days after the
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deposit, the obligations of the Company under the Indenture
with respect to the Debt Securities of such series shall not
be deemed terminated or discharged, and in such event the
Trustee shall be required to return the deposited money and
Eligible Instruments to the Company;
(2) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums
payable hereunder by the Company; and
(3) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each stating that all conditions
precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and
discharge of this Indenture have been complied with.
Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the
obligations of the Company to the Trustee under Section 607 and, if money or
Eligible Instruments shall have been deposited with the Trustee pursuant to
Subclause (B) of Clause (1) of this Section, the obligations of the Trustee
under Section 402 and the last paragraph of Section 1003 shall survive.
SECTION 402. APPLICATION OF TRUST MONEY AND ELIGIBLE
INSTRUMENTS.
Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section
1003, all money and Eligible Instruments deposited with the Trustee pursuant to
Section 401, 403 or 1501 shall be held in trust and such money and the principal
and interest received on such Eligible Instruments shall be applied by it, in
accordance with the provisions of the Debt Securities, the coupons and this
Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent
(including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may
determine, to the Persons entitled thereto, of the principal (and premium, if
any) and interest for whose payment such money or Eligible Instruments have been
deposited with the Trustee.
SECTION 403. SATISFACTION, DISCHARGE AND DEFEASANCE OF DEBT
SECURITIES OF ANY SERIES.
If this Section 403 is specified, as contemplated by Section
301, to be applicable to Debt Securities of any series, then, notwithstanding
Section 401, (i) the Company shall be deemed to have paid and discharged the
entire indebtedness on all the Outstanding Debt Securities of any such series
and related coupons; (ii) the provisions of this Indenture as it relates to such
Outstanding Debt Securities and related coupons shall no longer be in effect,
including the provisions of Article Sixteen hereof (except as to the rights of
Holders of Debt Securities to receive, from the trust fund described in
subparagraph (1) below, payment of (x) the principal of (and premium, if any)
and any installment of principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on such
Debt Securities and related coupons on the Stated Maturity of such principal
(and premium, if any) or installment of principal (and premium, if any) or
interest or (y) any mandatory sinking fund, repayment or analogous payments
applicable to the Debt Securities of that series on that day on which such
payments are due and payable in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and
of such Debt Securities, the Company's obligations with respect to such Debt
Securities under Sections 304, 305, 306, 1002, 1003 and 1006 and the rights,
powers, trusts, duties and immunities
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of the Trustee hereunder, including those under Section 607 hereof); and (iii)
the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall, upon Company Order, execute
proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of such
indebtedness, when
(1) either
(A) with respect to all Outstanding Debt Securities
of such series and related coupons, with reference to this
Section 403, the Company has deposited or caused to be
deposited with the Trustee (or another trustee satisfying the
requirements of Section 609 who shall agree to comply with the
provisions of this Section 403 applicable to it) irrevocably,
as trust funds in trust, money and/or to the extent such Debt
Securities are denominated and payable in Dollars only,
Eligible Instruments the payments of principal and interest on
which when due (and without reinvestment and providing no tax
liability will be imposed upon the Trustee or the Holders of
such Debt Securities) will provide money in such amounts as
will (together with any money irrevocably deposited in trust
with the Trustee, without investment) be sufficient to pay and
discharge (i) the principal of (and premium, if any) and
interest on the Outstanding Debt Securities of that series and
related coupons on the Stated Maturity of such principal or
interest or, if such series may be redeemed by the Company
prior to the Stated Maturity thereof and the Company shall
have given irrevocable instructions to the Trustee to effect
such redemption, at the date fixed for such redemption
pursuant to Article Eleven, and (ii) any mandatory sinking
fund payments or analogous payments applicable to Debt
Securities of such series on the date on which such payments
are due and payable in accordance with the terms of this
Indenture and of such Debt Securities; or
(B) the Company has properly fulfilled such other
means of satisfaction and discharge as is specified, as
contemplated by Section 301, to be applicable to the Debt
Securities of such series;
(2) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all sums payable
with respect to the Outstanding Debt Securities of such series and
related coupons;
(3) such deposit will not result in a breach of, or constitute
a default under, this Indenture or any other agreement or instrument to
which the Company is a party or by which it is bound;
(4) no Event of Default or event which, with the giving of
notice or lapse of time, or both, would become an Event of Default with
respect to the Debt Securities of such series shall have occurred and
be continuing on the date of such deposit and no Event of Default under
Section 501(1) or Section 501(2) or event which, with the giving of
notice or lapse of time, or both, would become an Event of Default
under Section 501(1) or Section 501(2) shall have occurred and be
continuing on the 91st day after such date;
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(5) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of
Counsel to the effect that (a) the Company has received from, or there
has been published by, the Internal Revenue Service a ruling, or (b)
since the date of this Indenture there has been a change in applicable
Federal income tax law, in either case to the effect that, and based
thereon such Opinion of Counsel shall confirm that, the Holders of Debt
Securities and related coupons of such series will not recognize
income, gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result of
such deposit, defeasance and discharge and will be subject to Federal
income tax on the same amount and in the same manner and at the same
times as would have been the case if such deposit, defeasance and
discharge had not occurred;
(6) if the Debt Securities of that series are then listed on
any domestic or foreign securities exchange, the Company shall have
delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such
deposit, defeasance and discharge will not cause such Debt Securities
to be delisted;
(7) such deposit shall have been effected in compliance with
any additional terms, conditions or limitations which may be imposed on
the Company in connection therewith pursuant to Section 301; and
(8) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions
precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and
discharge of the entire indebtedness of all Outstanding Debt Securities
and related coupons have been complied with.
Any deposits with the Trustee referred to in Section 403(1)(A)
above shall be irrevocable and shall be made under the terms of an escrow trust
agreement in form and substance satisfactory to the Trustee. If any Outstanding
Debt Securities of such series are to be redeemed prior to their Stated
Maturity, whether pursuant to any optional redemption provisions or in
accordance with any mandatory sinking fund requirement, the applicable escrow
trust agreement shall provide therefor and the Company shall make such
arrangements as are satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of
redemption by the Trustee in the name, and at the expense, of the Company.
Upon the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in this
Section 403 with respect to all the Outstanding Debt Securities of any series,
the terms and conditions of such series, including the terms and conditions with
respect thereto set forth in this Indenture, shall no longer be binding upon, or
applicable to, the Company; provided that the Company shall not be discharged
from any payment obligations in respect of Debt Securities of such series which
are deemed not to be Outstanding under clause (iii) of the definition thereof if
such obligations continue to be valid obligations of the Company under
applicable law.
Notwithstanding the cessation, termination and discharge of
all obligations, covenants and agreements (except as provided above in this
Section 403) of the Company under this Indenture with respect to any series of
Debt Securities, the obligations of the Company to the
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Trustee under Section 607, and the obligations of the Trustee under Section 402
and the last paragraph of Section 1003, shall survive with respect to such
series of Debt Securities.
ARTICLE FIVE
REMEDIES
SECTION 501. EVENTS OF DEFAULT.
"Event of Default," wherever used herein with respect to Debt
Securities of any series, means any one of the following events (whatever the
reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or
involuntary or be effected by operation of law, pursuant to any judgment, decree
or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or
governmental body):
(1) the Company defaults in the payment of any installment of
interest upon any of the Debt Securities of such series, as and when
the same shall become due and payable, and continuance of such default
for a period of 30 days; provided, however, that a valid extension of
an interest payment period by the Company in accordance with the terms
of any indenture supplemental hereto shall not constitute a default in
the payment of interest for this purpose; or
(2) the Company defaults in the payment of the principal of
(or premium, if any, on) any of the Debt Securities of such series, as
and when the same shall become due and payable whether at maturity,
upon redemption, by declaration or otherwise, or in any payment
required by any sinking or analogous fund established with respect to
that series; provided, however, that a valid extension of the maturity
of such Debt Securities in accordance with the terms of any indenture
supplemental hereto shall not constitute a default in the payment of
principal or premium, if any; or
(3) if applicable to the Debt Securities of such series,
failure by the Company to issue Common Stock upon an election by the
Holder or Holders of such Debt Securities to convert such Debt
Securities into shares of Common Stock pursuant to the provisions of
any indenture supplemental hereto, Board Resolution or other instrument
authorizing such series of Debt Securities; or
(4) the entry of a decree or order for relief in respect of
the Company by a court having jurisdiction in the premises in an
involuntary case under the Federal bankruptcy laws, as now or hereafter
constituted, and the continuance of any such decree or order unstayed
and in effect for a period of 60 consecutive days; or
(5) the commencement by the Company of a voluntary case under
the Federal bankruptcy laws, as now or hereafter constituted, or the
consent by the Company to the entry of a decree or order for relief in
an involuntary case under any such law; or
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(6) any other Event of Default, if any, provided with respect
to Debt Securities of such series specified as contemplated by Section
301.
SECTION 502. ACCELERATION OF MATURITY; RESCISSION AND
ANNULMENT.
If an Event of Default with respect to Debt Securities of any
series at the time Outstanding occurs and is continuing, then and in every such
case the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of
Outstanding Debt Securities of such series may declare the principal amount (or,
if the Debt Securities of such series are Original Issue Discount Securities,
such portion of the principal amount as may be specified in the terms of such
series) of and all accrued but unpaid interest on all the Debt Securities of
such series to be due and payable immediately, by a notice in writing to the
Company (and to the Trustee if given by such Holders), and upon any such
declaration such principal amount (or specified amount) shall become immediately
due and payable. Upon payment of such amount, all obligations of the Company in
respect of the payment of principal of the Debt Securities of such series shall
terminate.
At any time after such a declaration of acceleration with
respect to Debt Securities of any series has been made and before a judgment or
decree for payment of the money due has been obtained by the Trustee as
hereinafter in this Article provided, the Holders of a majority in principal
amount of the Outstanding Debt Securities of such series, by written notice to
the Company and the Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its
consequences if
(1) the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum
sufficient to pay
(A) all overdue installments of interest on all Debt
Securities of such series and any related coupons,
(B) the principal of (and premium, if any, on) any
Debt Securities of such series which have become due otherwise
than by such declaration of acceleration and interest thereon
at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Debt
Securities,
(C) to the extent that payment of such interest is
lawful, interest upon overdue installments of interest on each
Debt Security and any related coupons at the rate or rates
prescribed therefor in such Debt Securities, and
(D) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee
hereunder and the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and
counsel; and
(2) all Events of Default with respect to Debt Securities of
such series have been cured or waived as provided in Section 513.
No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right
consequent thereon.
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SECTION 503. COLLECTION OF INDEBTEDNESS AND SUITS FOR
ENFORCEMENT BY TRUSTEE.
The Company covenants that if:
(1) default is made in the payment of any installment of
interest on any Debt Security or any related coupon when such interest
becomes due and payable and such default continues for a period of 30
days, or
(2) default is made in the payment of the principal of (or
premium, if any, on) any Debt Security at the Maturity thereof, or
(3) default is made in the deposit of any sinking fund
payment, when and as due by the terms of a Debt Security of such
series, or
(4) default is made in the performance, or breach, of any
covenant or warranty of the Company in this Indenture (other than a
covenant or warranty a default in whose performance or whose breach is
elsewhere in this Section specifically dealt with or which has been
expressly included in this Indenture solely for the benefit of series
of Debt Securities other than such series), and such default or breach
continues for a period of 30 days after there has been given, by
registered or certified mail, to the Company by the Trustee or to the
Company and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in principal
amount of the Outstanding Debt Securities of such series a written
notice specifying such default or breach and requiring it to be
remedied and stating that such notice is a "Notice of Default"
hereunder,
the Company will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the
Holders of such Debt Securities and coupons, the amount then due and payable on
such Debt Securities and coupons for principal (and premium, if any) and
interest, sinking fund installment and interest and, to the extent that payment
of such interest shall be legally enforceable, interest upon the overdue
principal (and premium, if any) and, upon overdue installments of interest, at
the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Debt Securities, and, in addition
thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and
expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel.
If the Company fails to pay such amounts forthwith upon such
demand, the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, may
institute a judicial proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and
unpaid, and may prosecute such proceeding to judgment of final decree, and may
enforce the same against the Company or any other obligor upon such Debt
Securities and coupons and collect the moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable
in the manner provided by law out of the property of the Company or any other
obligor upon such Debt Securities and coupons, wherever situated.
If an Event of Default with respect to Debt Securities of any
series occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to
protect and enforce its rights and the rights
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of the Holders of Debt Securities of such series and any related coupons by such
appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most effectual to
protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific enforcement of any
covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power
granted herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy.
SECTION 504. TRUSTEE MAY FILE PROOFS OF CLAIM.
In case of the pendency of any receivership, insolvency,
liquidation, bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or
other judicial proceedings, or any voluntary or involuntary case under the
Federal bankruptcy laws as now or hereafter constituted, relative to the Company
or any other obligor upon the Debt Securities of a particular series or any
related coupons or the property of the Company or of such other obligor or their
creditors, the Trustee (irrespective of whether the principal of such Debt
Securities shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration
or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Trustee shall have made any demand
on the Company for the payment of overdue principal or interest) shall be
entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceedings or otherwise,
(1) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of
principal (and premium, if any) and interest owing and unpaid in
respect of the Debt Securities of such series and any appurtenant
coupons and to file such other papers or documents as may be necessary
or advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee (including any
claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and
advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel) and of the Holders
allowed in such judicial proceeding, and
(2) to collect and receive any moneys or other property
payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same;
and any receiver, assignee, trustee, custodian, liquidator, sequestrator or
other similar official in any such proceeding is hereby authorized by each
Holder to make such payments to the Trustee, and in the event that the Trustee
shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to
the Trustee any amount due it for the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other
amounts due the Trustee under Section 607.
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the
Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder
any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the
Debt Securities or coupons or the rights of any Holder thereof, or to authorize
the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such
proceeding.
SECTION 505. TRUSTEE MAY ENFORCE CLAIMS WITHOUT POSSESSION OF
DEBT SECURITIES OR COUPONS.
All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the
Debt Securities or coupons may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without
the possession of any of the Debt
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Securities or coupons or the production thereof in any proceeding relating
thereto, and any such proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in
its own name, as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment
shall, after provision for the payment of the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, be for the
ratable benefit of the Holders of the Debt Securities and coupons in respect of
which such judgment has been recovered.
SECTION 506. APPLICATION OF MONEY COLLECTED.
Any money collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article
shall be applied in the following order, at the date or dates fixed by the
Trustee and, in case of the distribution of such money on account of principal
(and premium, if any) or interest, upon presentation of the Debt Securities or
coupons, or both, as the case may be, and the notation thereon of the payment if
only partially paid and upon surrender thereof if fully paid:
FIRST: To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee under
Section 607;
SECOND: To the payment of amounts then due and unpaid to the
holders of Senior Debt, to the extent required by Article Sixteen;
THIRD: To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid for
principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Debt Securities
and any coupons, in respect of which or for the benefit of which such
money has been collected ratably, without preference or priority of any
kind, according to the amounts due and payable on such Debt Securities
and any coupons for principal (and premium, if any) and interest,
respectively. The Holders of each series of Debt Securities denominated
in ECU, any other composite currency or a Foreign Currency and any
matured coupons relating thereto shall be entitled to receive a ratable
portion of the amount determined by the Exchange Rate Agent by
converting the principal amount Outstanding of such series of Debt
Securities and matured but unpaid interest on such series of Debt
Securities in the currency in which such series of Debt Securities is
denominated into Dollars at the Exchange Rate as of the date of
declaration of acceleration of the Maturity of the Debt Securities; and
FOURTH: The balance, if any, to the Person or Persons entitled
thereto.
SECTION 507. LIMITATION ON SUITS.
No Holder of any Debt Securities of any series or any related
coupons shall have any right to institute any proceeding, judicial or otherwise,
with respect to this Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee,
or for any other remedy hereunder, unless
(1) such Holder has previously given written notice to the
Trustee of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Debt
Securities of such series;
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(2) the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of
the Outstanding Debt Securities of such series shall have made written
request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such
Event of Default in its own name as Trustee hereunder;
(3) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee
reasonable indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be
incurred in compliance with such request;
(4) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice,
request and offer of indemnity has failed to institute any such
proceeding; and
(5) no direction inconsistent with such written request has
been given to the Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders of a
majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Debt Securities of such
series;
it being understood and intended that no one or more of such Holders shall have
any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision
of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other such
Holders, or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other
of such Holders or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the
manner herein provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all of such
Holders.
SECTION 508. UNCONDITIONAL RIGHT OF HOLDERS TO RECEIVE
PRINCIPAL, PREMIUM AND INTEREST.
Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the
Holder of any Debt Security or coupon shall have the right which is absolute and
unconditional to receive payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and
(subject to Section 307) interest on such Debt Security or payment of such
coupon on the respective Stated Maturity or Maturities expressed in such Debt
Security or coupon (or, in the case of redemption or repayment, on the
Redemption Date or the Repayment Date, as the case may be) and to institute suit
for the enforcement of any such payment, and such right shall not be impaired
without the consent of such Holder, SUBJECT, HOWEVER, to the provisions of
Article Sixteen.
SECTION 509. RESTORATION OF RIGHTS AND REMEDIES.
If the Trustee or any Holder has instituted any proceedings to
enforce any right or remedy under this Indenture and such proceeding has been
discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or has been determined adversely to
the Trustee or to such Holder, then and in every such case the Company, the
Trustee and the Holders shall, subject to any determination in such proceeding,
be restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder, and
thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee and the Holders shall continue
as though no such proceeding had been instituted.
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SECTION 510. RIGHTS AND REMEDIES CUMULATIVE.
Except as otherwise provided in Section 306, no right or
remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders is
intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and
remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to
every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law
or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy
hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or
employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.
SECTION 511. DELAY OR OMISSION NOT WAIVER.
No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any
Debt Security or coupon to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event
of Default shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any
such Event of Default or an acquiescence therein. Every right and remedy given
by this Article or by law to the Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from
time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the
Holders, as the case may be.
SECTION 512. CONTROL BY HOLDERS OF DEBT SECURITIES.
The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Debt Securities of any series shall have the right to direct the
time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to
the Trustee or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee with
respect to the Debt Securities of such series, provided, that
(1) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of
law or with this Indenture;
(2) subject to the provisions of Section 601, the Trustee
shall have the right to decline to follow any such direction if the
Trustee in good faith shall determine, by a Responsible Officer or
Responsible Officers of the Trustee, that the proceedings so directed
would be unjustly prejudicial to the Holders of Debt Securities of such
series not joining in any such direction; and
(3) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the
Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction.
SECTION 513. WAIVER OF PAST DEFAULTS.
The Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of
the Outstanding Debt Securities of any series may on behalf of the Holders of
all the Debt Securities of any such series and any related coupons waive any
past default hereunder with respect to such series and its consequences, except
a default
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(1) in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or
interest on any Debt Security of such series, or
(2) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under
Article Nine cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the
Holder of each Outstanding Debt Security of such series or coupons
affected.
Upon any such waiver, such default shall cease to exist, and
any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for
every purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any
subsequent or other default or impair any right consequent thereon.
SECTION 514. UNDERTAKING FOR COSTS.
All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any
Debt Security or coupon by his acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have
agreed, that any court may in its discretion require, in any suit for the
enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against
the Trustee for any action taken, suffered or omitted by it as Trustee, the
filing by any party litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of
such suit, and that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs,
including reasonable attorneys' fees, against any party litigant in such suit,
having a due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made
by such party litigant, but the provisions of this Section shall not apply to
any suit instituted by the Company or the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any
Holder, or group of Holders, holding in the aggregate more than 10% in principal
amount of the Outstanding Debt Securities of any series, or to any suit
instituted by any Holder for the enforcement of the payment of the principal of
(or premium, if any) or interest on any Debt Security or the payment of any
coupons on or after the respective Stated Maturity or Maturities expressed in
such Debt Security or coupon (or, in the case of redemption or repayment, on or
after the Redemption Date or Repayment Date, as the case may be).
SECTION 515. WAIVER OF STAY OR EXTENSION LAWS.
The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do
so) that it will not at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner
whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law
whenever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the
covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and the Company (to the extent
that it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefits or advantage of
any such law, and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or impede the
execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit
the execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted.
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ARTICLE SIX
THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 601. CERTAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.
The duties and responsibilities of the Trustee shall be as
provided in the Trust Indenture Act. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no provision
of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or
otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its duties
hereunder, or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it shall have
reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate
indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it.
Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of this Indenture
relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or affording protection to
the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this Section.
SECTION 602. NOTICE OF DEFAULT.
If a default occurs hereunder with respect to Debt Securities
of any series the Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Holders of Debt
Securities of such series notice of such default as and to the extent provided
by the Trust Indenture Act; provided, however, that, except in the case of a
default in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on
any Debt Security of such series or any related coupons or in the payment of any
sinking fund installment with respect to Debt Securities of such series, the
Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice if and so long as the
board of directors, the executive committee or a trust committee of directors
and/or Responsible Officers of the Trustee in good faith determines that the
withholding of such notice is in the interest of the Holders of Debt Securities
of such series. For the purpose of this Section, the term "default" means any
event which is, or after notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event
of Default with respect to Debt Securities of such series.
SECTION 603. CERTAIN RIGHTS OF TRUSTEE.
Except as otherwise provided in Section 601:
(a) the Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or
refraining from acting upon any signature, resolution, certificate, statement,
instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond,
debenture, note, coupon or other paper or document believed by it to be genuine
and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties;
(b) any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein
shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Company Request or Company Order and any
resolution of the Board of Directors shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Board
Resolution;
(c) whenever in the administration of this Indenture the
Trustee shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to
taking, suffering or omitting any action
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hereunder, the Trustee (unless other evidence be herein specifically prescribed)
may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, rely upon an Officers'
Certificate;
(d) the Trustee may consult with counsel and the advice of
such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization
and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it
hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon;
(e) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any
of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or
direction of any of the Holders of Debt Securities of such series or any related
coupons pursuant to this Indenture, unless such Holders shall have offered to
the Trustee reasonable security or indemnity against the costs, expenses and
liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or
direction;
(f) the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation
into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement,
instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond,
debenture, note, coupon, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or
document, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further inquiry or
investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the Trustee
shall determine to make such further inquiry or investigation, it shall be
entitled to examine the books, records and premises of the Company, personally
or by agent or attorney, other than any such books or records containing
information as to the affairs of the customers of the Company or any of its
subsidiaries; provided that the Trustee may examine such books and records
relating to customers to the extent that such books and records contain
information as to any payments made to such customers in their capacity as
Holders of Debt Securities; and
(g) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers
hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through
agents or attorneys and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct
or negligence on the part of any agent or attorney appointed with due care by it
hereunder; no Exchange Rate Agent, Global Exchange Agent, Depositary or Paying
Agent shall be deemed an agent of the Trustee and the Trustee shall not be
responsible for any act or omission by any of them.
SECTION 604. NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR RECITALS OR ISSUANCE OF DEBT
SECURITIES.
The recitals contained herein and in the Debt Securities,
except the Trustee's certificates of authentication, and in any coupons, and the
information in any registration statement, including all attachments thereto,
except information provided by the Trustee therein, shall be taken as the
statements of the Company, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for their
correctness. The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or
sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Debt Securities of any series or any
coupons. The Trustee shall not be accountable for the use or application by the
Company of any Debt Securities or the proceeds thereof. The Trustee shall not be
responsible for and makes no representations as to the Company's ability or
authority to issue Bearer Securities or the lawfulness thereof.
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SECTION 605. MAY HOLD DEBT SECURITIES OR COUPONS.
The Trustee, any Paying Agent, the Security Registrar or any
other agent of the Company or the Trustee, in its individual or any other
capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Debt Securities and coupons, and,
subject to Sections 608 and 613, may otherwise deal with the Company with the
same rights it would have if it were not Trustee, Paying Agent, Security
Registrar or such agent.
SECTION 606. MONEY HELD IN TRUST.
Money held by the Trustee or any Paying Agent in trust
hereunder need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required
by law. Neither the Trustee nor any Paying Agent shall be under any liability
for interest on any money received by it hereunder except as otherwise agreed
with the Company.
SECTION 607. COMPENSATION AND REIMBURSEMENT.
The Company agrees
(1) to pay to the Trustee from time to time reasonable
compensation for all services rendered by it hereunder which shall have
been separately agreed to by the Company and the Trustee (which
compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to
the compensation of a trustee of an express trust);
(2) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to
reimburse the Trustee upon its request for all reasonable expenses,
disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Trustee in
accordance with any provision of this Indenture (including the
reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its
agents and counsel), except any such expense, disbursement or advance
as may be attributable to its negligence or bad faith; and
(3) to indemnify the Trustee for, and to hold it harmless
against, any claim, action, suit, cost, loss, liability or expense of
any kind any nature whatsoever incurred without negligence or bad faith
on its part, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or
administration of this trust or performance of its duties hereunder,
including the costs and expenses of defending itself against any claim
or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of
its powers or duties hereunder.
As security for the performance of the obligations of the
Company under this Section the Trustee shall have a claim prior to the Debt
Securities and any coupons upon all property and funds held or collected by the
Trustee as such, except funds held in trust for the payment of principal of (and
premium, if any) or interest on particular Debt Securities or any coupons. The
claims of the Trustee under this Section shall not be subject to the provisions
of Article Sixteen.
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The provisions of this section 607 shall survive the termination of
this Indenture and the resignation or removal of the Trustee.
SECTION 608. DISQUALIFICATION; CONFLICTING INTERESTS.
If the Trustee has or shall acquire any conflicting interest
within the meaning of the Trust Indenture Act, the 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 Indenture. To
the extent permitted by such Act, the Trustee shall not be deemed to have a
conflicting interest with respect to Debt Securities of any series by virtue of
being a trustee under this Indenture with respect to Debt Securities of any
particular series of Debt Securities.
SECTION 609. CORPORATE TRUSTEE REQUIRED; ELIGIBILITY.
There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder which shall be
a corporation that is eligible pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act to act as
such and organized and doing business under the laws of the United States, any
State thereof or the District of Columbia, authorized under such laws to
exercise corporate trust powers, having a combined capital and surplus of at
least $50,000,000, and subject to supervision or examination by Federal or State
authority; provided, however, that if Section 310(a) of the Trust Indenture Act
or the rules and regulations of the Commission under the Trust Indenture Act at
any time permit a corporation organized and doing business under the laws of any
other jurisdiction to serve as trustee of an indenture qualified under the Trust
Indenture Act, this Section 609 shall be automatically amended to permit a
corporation organized and doing business under the laws of any such other
jurisdiction to serve as Trustee hereunder. If such corporation publishes
reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements
of the aforesaid supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of
this Section, the combined capital and surplus of such corporation shall be
deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent
report of condition so published. If at any time the Trustee shall cease to be
eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, it shall resign
immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this
Article.
SECTION 610. RESIGNATION AND REMOVAL; APPOINTMENT OF
SUCCESSOR.
(a) No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no
appointment of a successor Trustee pursuant to this Article shall become
effective until the acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee under
Section 611.
(b) The Trustee may resign at any time with respect to the
Debt Securities of one or more series by giving written notice thereof to the
Company. If an instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee shall not have
been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such notice of
resignation, the resigning Trustee may petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Debt
Securities of such series.
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(c) The Trustee may be removed at any time with respect to the
Debt Securities of any series by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal
amount of the Outstanding Debt Securities of such series, delivered to the
Trustee and to the Company.
(d) If at any time:
(1) the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section 608 with
respect to the Debt Securities of any series after written request
therefor by the Company or by any Holder who has been a bona fide
Holder of a Debt Security of such series for at least six months, or
(2) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 609
with respect to any series of Debt Securities and shall fail to resign
after written request therefor by the Company or by any such Holder, or
(3) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting with respect
to any series of Debt Securities or a decree or order for relief by a
court having jurisdiction in the premises shall have been entered in
respect of the Trustee in an involuntary case under the Federal
bankruptcy laws, as now or hereafter constituted, or any other
applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law; or a
decree or order by a court having jurisdiction in the premises shall
have been entered for the appointment of a receiver, custodian,
liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar official
of the Trustee or of its property or affairs, or any public officer
shall take charge or control of the Trustee or of its property or
affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation, winding up or
liquidation, or
(4) the Trustee shall commence a voluntary case under the
Federal bankruptcy laws, as now or hereafter constituted, or any other
applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law or
shall consent to the appointment of or taking possession by a receiver,
custodian, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar
official of the Trustee or its property or affairs, or shall make an
assignment for the benefit of creditors, or shall admit in writing its
inability to pay its debts generally as they become due, or shall take
corporate action in furtherance of any such action,
then, in any such case, (i) the Company by a Board Resolution may remove the
Trustee with respect to such series or (ii) subject to Section 514, any Holder
who has been a bona fide Holder of a Debt Security of any series for at least
six months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition
any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee for the Debt
Securities of such series and the appointment of a successor Trustee.
(e) If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become
incapable of acting with respect to any series of Debt Securities, or if a
vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee for any cause, with respect to the
Debt Securities of one or more series, the Company, by a Board Resolution, shall
promptly appoint a successor Trustee or Trustees with respect to the Debt
Securities of that or those series (it being understood that any such successor
Trustee may be appointed with respect to the Debt Securities of one or more or
all of such series and that at any time there shall be only one Trustee with
respect to the Debt Securities of any particular series) and
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shall comply with the applicable requirements of Section 611. If, within one
year after such resignation, removal or incapability, or the occurrence of such
vacancy, a successor Trustee with respect to the Debt Securities of any series
shall be appointed by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of
the Outstanding Debt Securities of such series delivered to the Company and the
retiring Trustee, the successor Trustee so appointed shall, forthwith upon its
acceptance of such appointment, become the successor Trustee with respect to the
Debt Securities of such series and to that extent supersede the successor
Trustee appointed by the Company. If no successor Trustee with respect to the
Debt Securities of any series shall have been so appointed by the Company or the
Holders and accepted appointment in the manner hereinafter provided, any Holder
who has been a bona fide Holder of a Debt Security of such series for at least
six months may, subject to Section 514, on behalf of himself and all others
similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the
appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Debt Securities of such
series.
(f) The Company shall give notice of each resignation and each
removal of the Trustee with respect to the Debt Securities of any series and
each appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Debt Securities of
any series by mailing written notice of such event by first-class mail, postage
prepaid, to the Holders of Registered Securities, if any, of such series as
their names and addresses appear in the Security Register and, if Debt
Securities of such series are issuable as Bearer Securities, by publishing
notice of such event once in an Authorized Newspaper in each Place of Payment
located outside the United States. Each notice shall include the name of the
successor Trustee with respect to the Debt Securities of such series and the
address of its Corporate Trust Office.
SECTION 611. ACCEPTANCE OF APPOINTMENT BY SUCCESSOR.
(a) In the case of an appointment hereunder of a successor
Trustee with respect to all Debt Securities, every such successor Trustee so
appointed shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Company and to the
retiring Trustee an instrument accepting such appointment, and thereupon the
resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective and such
successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become
vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee;
but, on request of the Company or the successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee
shall, upon payment of its charges, execute and deliver an instrument
transferring to such successor Trustee all the rights, powers and trusts of the
retiring Trustee, and shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor
Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder.
(b) In the case of the appointment hereunder of a successor
Trustee with respect to the Debt Securities of one or more (but not all) series,
the Company, the retiring Trustee upon payment of its charges and each successor
Trustee with respect to the Debt Securities of one or more series shall execute
and deliver an indenture supplemental hereto wherein each successor Trustee
shall accept such appointment and which (1) shall contain such provisions as
shall be necessary or desirable to transfer and confirm to, and to vest in, each
successor Trustee all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring
Trustee with respect to the Debt Securities of that or those series to which the
appointment of such successor Trustee relates, (2) if the retiring Trustee is
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not retiring with respect to all Debt Securities, shall contain such provisions
as shall be deemed necessary or desirable to confirm that all the rights,
powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Debt
Securities of that or those series as to which the retiring Trustee is not
retiring shall continue to be vested in the retiring Trustee, and (3) shall add
to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to
provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more
than one Trustee, it being understood that nothing herein or in such
supplemental indenture shall constitute such Trustees co-trustees of the same
trust and that each such Trustee shall be trustee of a trust or trusts hereunder
separate and apart from any trust or trusts hereunder administered by any other
such Trustee; and upon the execution and delivery of such supplemental
indenture, the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become
effective to the extent provided therein and each such successor Trustee,
without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the
rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the
Debt Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such
successor Trustee relates; but, on the request of the Company or any successor
Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such
successor Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder
with respect to the Debt Securities of that or those series to which the
appointment of such successor Trustee relates.
(c) Upon request of any such successor Trustee, the Company
shall execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in
and confirming to such successor Trustee all such rights, powers and trusts
referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section, as the case may be.
(d) No successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless
at the time of such acceptance such successor Trustee shall be qualified and
eligible under this Article.
SECTION 612. MERGER, CONVERSION, CONSOLIDATION OR SUCCESSION
TO BUSINESS.
Any corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or
converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting
from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a
party, or any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all of the
corporate trust business of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee
hereunder, provided such corporation shall be otherwise qualified and eligible
under this Article, without the executing or filing of any paper or any further
act on the part of any of the parties hereto. In case any Debt Securities shall
have been authenticated, but not delivered, by the Trustee then in office, any
successor by merger, conversion or consolidation to such authenticating Trustee
may adopt such authentication and deliver the Debt Securities so authenticated
with the same effect as if such successor Trustee had itself authenticated such
Debt Securities. In case any Debt Securities shall not have been authenticated
by such predecessor Trustee, any such successor Trustee may authenticate and
deliver such Debt Securities, in either its own name or that of its predecessor
Trustee, with the full force and effect which this Indenture provides for the
certificate of authentication of the Trustee.
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SECTION 613. PREFERENTIAL COLLECTION OF CLAIMS AGAINST
COMPANY.
If and when the Trustee shall be or shall become a creditor,
directly or indirectly, secured or unsecured, of the Company (or any other
obligor upon the Debt Securities), the Trustee shall be subject to the
provisions of the Trust Indenture Act regarding collection of claims against the
Company (or any such other obligor).
SECTION 614. AUTHENTICATING AGENT.
The Trustee shall upon Company request appoint one or more
authenticating agents (including, without limitation, the Company or any
Affiliate thereof) with respect to one or more series of Debt Securities which
shall be authorized on behalf of the Trustee in authenticating Debt Securities
of such series in connection with the issue, delivery, registration of transfer,
exchange, partial redemption or repayment of such Debt Securities. Wherever
reference is made in this Indenture to the authentication of Debt Securities by
the Trustee or the Trustee's certificate of authentication, such reference shall
be deemed to include authentication on behalf of the Trustee by an
authenticating agent and a certificate of authentication executed on behalf of
the Trustee by an authenticating agent. Each authenticating agent must be
acceptable to the Company and must be a corporation organized and doing business
under the laws of the United States, any State thereof or the District of
Columbia, having a combined capital and surplus of at least $1,000,000,
authorized under such laws to do a trust business and subject to supervision or
examination by Federal or State authorities or the equivalent foreign authority
in the case of an authenticating agent who is not organized and doing business
under the laws of the United States, any State thereof or the District of
Columbia.
Any corporation succeeding to the corporate agency business of
an authenticating agent shall continue to be an authenticating agent without the
execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of the Trustee
or such authenticating agent.
An authenticating agent may at any time resign with respect to
one or more series of Debt Securities by giving written notice of resignation to
the Trustee and to the Company. The Trustee may at any time terminate the agency
of any authenticating agent with respect to one or more series of Debt
Securities by giving written notice of termination to such authenticating agent
and to the Company. Upon receiving such a notice of resignation or upon such a
termination, or in case at any time an authenticating agent shall cease to be
eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, the Trustee promptly
may appoint a successor authenticating agent. Any successor authenticating agent
upon acceptance of its appointment hereunder shall become vested with all
rights, powers and duties of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if
originally named as an authenticating agent herein. No successor authenticating
agent shall be appointed unless eligible under the provisions of this Section.
The Trustee agrees to pay to each authenticating agent from
time to time reasonable compensation for its services under this Section, and
the Trustee shall be entitled to be reimbursed for such payment, subject to the
provisions of Section 607.
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The provisions of Sections 104, 111, 306, 309, 603, 604 and
605 shall be applicable to any authenticating agent.
Pursuant to each appointment made under this Section, the Debt
Securities of each series covered by such appointment may have endorsed thereon,
in lieu of the Trustee's certificate of authentication, an alternate certificate
of authentication in substantially the following form:
This is one of the Debt Securities, of the series designated
herein, described in the within-mentioned Indenture.
[___________________________________________]
By
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AS AUTHENTICATING AGENT FOR THE TRUSTEE
By
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AUTHORIZED OFFICER
ARTICLE SEVEN
HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY
SECTION 701. COMPANY TO FURNISH TRUSTEE NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF
HOLDERS.
The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the
Trustee with respect to Debt Securities of each series for which it acts as
Trustee:
(1) semi-annually, not more than 15 days after the Regular
Record Date in respect of the Debt Securities of such series or on May
15 and November 15 of each year with respect to each series of Debt
Securities for which there are no Regular Record Dates, a list, in such
form as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses
of the Holders of Registered Securities as of such Regular Record Date
or May 1 or November 1, as the case may be, and
(2) at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing,
within 30 days after the receipt by the Company of any such request, a
list of similar form and content as of a date not more than 15 days
prior to the time such list is furnished;
provided, however, that if and so long as the Trustee shall be the Security
Registrar, no such list need be furnished.
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SECTION 702. PRESERVATION OF INFORMATION; COMMUNICATIONS TO
HOLDERS.
(a) The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is
reasonably practicable, the names and addresses of Holders of Registered
Securities contained in the most recent list furnished to the Trustee as
provided in Section 701 and the names and addresses of Holders of Registered
Securities received by the Trustee in its capacity as Paying Agent or Security
Registrar, if so acting. The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as
provided in Section 701 upon receipt of a new list so furnished. The Trustee
shall preserve for at least two years the names and addresses of Holders of
Bearer Securities filed with the Trustee by such Holders.
(b) The rights of Holders to communicate with other Holders
with respect to their rights under this Indenture or under the Debt Securities,
and the corresponding rights and privileges of the Trustee, shall be as provided
by the Trust Indenture Act.
(c) Every Holder of Debt Securities or coupons, by receiving
and holding the same, agrees with the Company and the Trustee that neither the
Company nor the Trustee shall be held accountable by reason of any disclosure of
information as to the names and addresses of the Holders made pursuant to the
Trust Indenture Act.
SECTION 703. REPORTS BY TRUSTEE.
(a) Within 60 days after May 15 of each year commencing with
the first May 15 after the first issuance of Debt Securities pursuant to this
Indenture and at any other time required by the Trust Indenture Act, the Trustee
shall transmit to Holders such reports concerning the Trustee and its actions
under this Indenture and such other matters as may be required pursuant to the
Trust Indenture Act in the manner required by the Trust Indenture Act.
(b) A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such
transmission to Holders, be filed by the Trustee with each stock exchange upon
which any Debt Securities of such series are listed, with the Commission and
also with the Company. The Company will notify the Trustee when any series of
Debt Securities are listed on any stock exchange.
SECTION 704. REPORTS BY COMPANY.
The Company shall file with the Trustee and the Commission,
and transmit to Holders, such information, documents and other reports, and such
summaries thereof, as may be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act at the
time and in the manner pursuant to such Act; provided that such information,
documents or reports required to be filed with the Commission pursuant to
Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 shall be
filed with the Trustee within 15 days after the same is so required to be filed
with the Commission.
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ARTICLE EIGHT
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE
SECTION 801. COMPANY MAY CONSOLIDATE, ETC. ONLY ON CERTAIN
TERMS.
The Company shall not consolidate with or merge into any other
corporation or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially
as an entirety to any Person, unless:
(1) the corporation formed by such consolidation or into which
the Company is merged or the Person which acquires by conveyance or
transfer, or which leases, the properties and assets of the Company
substantially as an entirety shall be a corporation organized and
existing under the laws of the United States of America, any political
subdivision thereof or any State thereof and shall expressly assume, by
an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the
Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, the due and punctual
payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest
(including all additional amounts, if any, payable pursuant to Section
1006) on all the Debt Securities and any related coupons and the
performance of every covenant of this Indenture on the part of the
Company to be performed or observed;
(2) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no
Event of Default, and no event which, after notice or lapse of time, or
both, would become an Event of Default, shall have happened and be
continuing; and
(3) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each stating that such
consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer or lease and such
supplemental indenture comply with this Article and that all conditions
precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction have been
met.
SECTION 802. SUCCESSOR CORPORATION SUBSTITUTED.
Upon any consolidation with or merger into any other
corporation, or any conveyance, transfer or lease of the properties and assets
of the Company substantially as an entirety in accordance with Section 801, the
successor corporation formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is
merged or to which such conveyance, transfer or lease is made shall succeed to,
and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Company
under this Indenture with the same effect as if such successor had been named as
the Company herein, and thereafter, except in the case of a lease, the Company
(which term for this purpose shall mean the Person named as the "Company" in the
first paragraph of this instrument or any successor corporation which shall
theretofore have become such in the manner presented in this Article) shall be
relieved of all obligations and covenants under this Indenture and the Debt
Securities and coupons.
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ARTICLE NINE
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
SECTION 901. SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES WITHOUT CONSENT OF
HOLDERS.
Without the consent of any Holders, the Company, when
authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee, at any time and from time to
time, may enter into one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in form
satisfactory to the Trustee, for any of the following purposes:
(1) to evidence the succession of another corporation to the
Company, and the assumption by such successor of the covenants of the
Company herein and in the Debt Securities contained; or
(2) to add to the covenants of the Company, for the benefit of
the Holders of all or any series of Debt Securities or coupons (and if
such covenants are to be for the benefit of less than all series of
Debt Securities or coupons, stating that such covenants are expressly
being included solely for the benefit of such series), to convey,
transfer, assign, mortgage or pledge any property to or with the
Trustee, or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the
Company; or
(3) to add any additional Events of Default (and if such
Events of Default are to be applicable to less than all series of Debt
Securities, stating that such Events of Default are expressly being
included solely to be applicable to such series); or
(4) to add to, change or eliminate any of the provisions of
this Indenture to provide that Bearer Securities may be registrable as
to principal, to change or eliminate any restrictions on the payment of
principal (or premium, if any) on Registered Securities or of principal
(or premium, if any) or any interest on Bearer Securities, to permit
Bearer Securities to be issued in exchange for Registered Securities of
other authorized denominations or to permit or facilitate the issuance
of Debt Securities in uncertificated form, provided any such action
shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of Debt
Securities of any series or any related coupons in any material
respect; or
(5) to change or eliminate any of the provisions of this
Indenture, provided that any such change or elimination (a) shall
become effective only when there is no Debt Security Outstanding of any
series created prior to the execution of such supplemental indenture
which is entitled to the benefit of such provisions or (b) shall not
apply to any Debt Security Outstanding; or
(6) to establish the form or terms of Debt Securities of any
series as permitted by Sections 201 and 301; or
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(7) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment
hereunder by a successor Trustee with respect to the Debt Securities of
one or more series and to add to or change any of the provisions of
this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the
administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee,
pursuant to the requirements of Section 611(b); or
(8) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any
provision herein which may be defective or inconsistent with any other
provision herein, or to make any other provisions with respect to
matters or questions arising under this Indenture which shall not be
inconsistent with any provision of this Indenture, provided such other
provisions shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of
Debt Securities of any series or any related coupons in any material
respect; or
(9) to add to or change or eliminate any provision of this
Indenture as shall be necessary or desirable in accordance with any
amendments to the Trust Indenture Act, provided such action shall not
adversely affect the interest of Holders of Debt Securities of any
series or any appurtenant coupons in any material respect.
SECTION 902. SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES WITH CONSENT OF HOLDERS.
With the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in
principal amount of the Outstanding Debt Securities of each series affected by
such supplemental indenture, by Act of said Holders delivered to the Company and
the Trustee, the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee
may enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of
adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the
provisions of this Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the
Holders under this Indenture of such Debt Securities of such series and any
related coupons; provided, however, that no such supplemental indenture shall,
without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Debt Security or coupon
affected thereby,
(1) change the Stated Maturity of the principal or any
installment of principal of, or any installment of interest on, any
Debt Security (other than to the extent set forth in any Debt
Security), or reduce the principal amount thereof or the interest
thereon or any premium payable upon redemption or repayment thereof, or
change any obligation of the Company to pay additional amounts pursuant
to Section 1006 (except as contemplated by Section 801(1) and permitted
by Section 901(1)), or reduce the amount of the principal of an
Original Issue Discount Security that would be due and payable upon a
declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section
502, or change any Place of Payment, or the coin or currency in which
any Debt Security or the interest thereon or any coupon is payable, or
the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on
or after the Stated Maturity thereof (or, in the case of redemption or
repayment, on or after the Redemption Date or Repayment Date, as the
case may be), or
(2) reduce the percentage in principal amount of the
Outstanding Debt Securities of any series, the consent of whose Holders
is required for any such supplemental
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indenture, or the consent of whose Holders is required for any waiver
(of compliance with certain provisions of this Indenture or certain
defaults hereunder and their consequences) provided for in this
Indenture, or reduce the requirements of Section 1404 for quorum or
voting, or
(3) modify any of the provisions of this Section, Section 513
or Section 1005, except to increase any such percentage or to provide
that certain other provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified or
waived without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Debt
Security affected thereby; provided, however, that this clause shall
not be deemed to require the consent of any Holder with respect to
changes in the references to "the Trustee" and concomitant changes in
this Section and Section 1005, or the deletion of this proviso, in
accordance with the requirements of Section 611(b) and 901(7); or
(4) adversely affect the right to repayment, if any, of Debt
Securities of any series at the option of the Holders thereof; or
(5) impair the right of any Holder of Convertible Securities
of any series to convert such Debt Securities pursuant to Article
Seventeen;
and provided, further, that no change shall be made in the provisions of Article
Sixteen that will affect adversely the holders of Senior Debt without the
consent of the holders of all Senior Debt Outstanding.
A supplemental indenture which changes or eliminates any
covenant or other provision of this Indenture which has expressly been included
solely for the benefit of one or more particular series of Debt Securities, or
which modifies the rights of the Holders of Debt Securities of such series with
respect to such covenant or other provision, shall be deemed not to affect the
rights under this Indenture of the Holders of Debt Securities of any other
series.
It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders of the Debt
Securities under this Section to approve the particular form of any proposed
supplemental indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve the
substance thereof.
SECTION 903. EXECUTION OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES.
In executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by,
any supplemental indenture permitted by this Article or the modifications
thereby of the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled
to receive, and (subject to Section 601) shall be fully protected in relying
upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental
indenture is authorized or permitted by this Indenture and that all conditions
precedent have been met. The Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter
into any such supplemental indenture which affects the Trustee's own rights,
duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.
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SECTION 904. EFFECT OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES.
Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture under this
Article, this Indenture shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such
supplemental indenture shall form a part of this Indenture for all purposes; and
every Holder of Debt Securities theretofore or thereafter authenticated and
delivered hereunder and of any coupons appertaining thereto shall be bound
thereby.
SECTION 905. CONFORMITY WITH TRUST INDENTURE ACT.
Every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article
shall conform to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect.
SECTION 906. REFERENCE IN DEBT SECURITIES TO SUPPLEMENTAL
INDENTURES.
Debt Securities of any series authenticated and delivered
after the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article may,
and shall if required by the Trustee, bear a notation in form approved by the
Trustee as to any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the
Company shall so determine, new Debt Securities of any series and any
appurtenant coupons so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Trustee and
the Board of Directors, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and
executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in
exchange for Outstanding Debt Securities of such series and any appurtenant
coupons.
ARTICLE TEN
COVENANTS
SECTION 1001. PAYMENT OF PRINCIPAL, PREMIUM AND INTEREST.
The Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of each
series of Debt Securities and any appurtenant coupons that it will duly and
punctually pay the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Debt
Securities and any appurtenant coupons in accordance with the terms of the Debt
Securities, any appurtenant coupons and this Indenture. Any interest due on
Bearer Securities on or before Maturity, other than additional amounts, if any,
payable as provided in Section 1006 in respect of principal of (or premium, if
any, on) such a Debt Security, shall be payable only upon presentation and
surrender of the several coupons for such interest installments as are evidenced
thereby as they severally mature.
SECTION 1002. MAINTENANCE OF OFFICE OR AGENCY.
The Company will maintain in each Place of Payment for any
series of Debt Securities an office or agency where Debt Securities (but, except
as otherwise provided below, unless such Place of Payment is located outside the
United States, not Bearer Securities) may be
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presented or surrendered for payment, where Debt Securities may be surrendered
for registration of transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or
upon the Company in respect of the Debt Securities and this Indenture may be
served. If Debt Securities of a series are issuable as Bearer Securities, the
Company will maintain, subject to any laws or regulations applicable thereto, an
office or agency in a Place of Payment for such series which is located outside
the United States where Debt Securities of such series and the related coupons
may be presented and surrendered for payment (including payment of any
additional amounts payable on Debt Securities of such series pursuant to Section
1006); provided, however, that if the Debt Securities of such series are listed
on The Stock Exchange of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland or the
Luxembourg Stock Exchange or any other stock exchange located outside the United
States and such stock exchange shall so require, the Company will maintain a
Paying Agent in London or Luxembourg or any other required city located outside
the United States, as the case may be, so long as the Debt Securities of such
series are listed on such exchange. The Company will give prompt written notice
to the Trustee of the location, and any change in the location, of any such
office or agency. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such
required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address
thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices or demands may be made or
served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and the Company hereby
appoints the Trustee its agent to receive all presentations, surrenders, notices
and demands, except that Bearer Securities of that series and the related
coupons may be presented and surrendered for payment (including payment of any
additional amounts payable on Bearer Securities of that series pursuant to
Section 1006) at the place specified for the purpose pursuant to Section 301(5).
No payment of principal of, premium or interest on Bearer
Securities shall be made at any office or agency of the Company in the United
States or by check mailed to any address in the United States or by transfer to
an account maintained with a bank located in the United States; provided,
however, payment of principal of and any premium and interest denominated in
Dollars (including additional amounts payable in respect thereof) on any Bearer
Security may be made at an office or agency of, and designated by, the Company
located in the United States if (but only if) payment of the full amount of such
principal, premium, interest or additional amounts in Dollars at all offices
outside the United States maintained for the purpose by the Company in
accordance with this Indenture is illegal or effectively precluded by exchange
controls or other similar restrictions and the Trustee receives an Opinion of
Counsel that such payment within the United States is legal. Unless otherwise
provided as contemplated by Section 301 with respect to any series of Debt
Securities, at the option of the Holder of any Bearer Security or related
coupon, payment may be made by check in the currency designated for such payment
pursuant to the terms of such Bearer Security presented or mailed to an address
outside the United States or by transfer to an account in such currency
maintained by the payee with a bank located outside the United States.
The Company may also from time to time designate one or more
other offices or agencies (in or outside of such Place of Payment) where the
Debt Securities of one or more series and any appurtenant coupons (subject to
the preceding paragraph) may be presented or surrendered for any or all such
purposes, and may from time to time rescind such designations; provided,
however, that no such designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the
Company of its obligation to maintain an office or agency in each Place of
Payment for any series of Debt
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Securities for such purposes. The Company will give prompt written notice to the
Trustee of any such designation and any change in the location of any such other
office or agency.
SECTION 1003. MONEY FOR DEBT SECURITIES PAYMENTS TO BE HELD IN
TRUST.
If the Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent
with respect to any series of Debt Securities, it will, on or before each due
date of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on any of the Debt
Securities of such series and any appurtenant coupons, segregate and hold in
trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto a sum sufficient to pay
the principal (and premium, if any) or interest so becoming due until such sums
shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided, and
will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or its omission.
Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents with
respect to any series of Debt Securities, it will, on or before each due date of
the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on any of the Debt Securities
of such series and any appurtenant coupons, deposit with a Paying Agent a sum
sufficient to pay the principal (and premium, if any) or interest so becoming
due, such sum to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to
such principal, premium or interest, and (unless such Paying Agent is the
Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or its
omission.
The Company will cause each Paying Agent with respect to any
series of Debt Securities other than the Trustee to execute and deliver to the
Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustee,
subject to the provisions of this Section, that such Paying Agent will
(1) hold all sums held by it for the payment of the principal
of (and premium, if any) or interest on Debt Securities of such series
and any appurtenant coupons in trust for the benefit of the Persons
entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or
otherwise disposed of as herein provided;
(2) give the Trustee notice of any default by the Company (or
any other obligor upon the Debt Securities of such series or any
appurtenant coupons) in the making of any payment of principal of (and
premium, if any) or interest on the Debt Securities of such series or
any appurtenant coupons; and
(3) at any time during the continuance of any such default,
upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee
all sums so held in trust by such Paying Agent.
The Company may at any time, for the purpose of terminating
its obligations under this Indenture with respect to Debt Securities of any
series or for any other purpose, pay, or by Company Order direct any Paying
Agent to pay, to the Trustee all sums held in trust by the Company or such
Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the Trustee upon the same trusts as those
upon which such sums were held by the Company or such Paying Agent; and, upon
such payment
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by any Paying Agent to the Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be released from all
further liability with respect to such money.
Any principal and interest received on the Eligible
Instruments deposited with the Trustee or any money deposited with the Trustee
or any Paying Agent, or then held by the Company, in trust for the payment of
the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on any Debt Security of any
series or any appurtenant coupons or any money on deposit with the Trustee or
any Paying Agent representing amounts deducted from the Redemption Price or
Repayment Price with respect to unmatured coupons not presented upon redemption
or exercise of the Holder's option for repayment pursuant to Section 1106 or
1303 and remaining unclaimed for two years after such principal (and premium, if
any) or interest has become due and payable shall be paid to the Company on
Company Request, or (if then held by the Company) shall be discharged from such
trust; and the Holder of such Debt Security or any coupon appertaining thereto
shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Company for
payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with
respect to such trust money (including the principal and interest received on
Eligible Instruments deposited with the Trustee), and all liability of the
Company as trustee thereof, shall thereupon cease; provided, however, that the
Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment,
may at the expense of the Company cause to be published once, in an Authorized
Newspaper of general circulation in The City of New York, and each Place of
Payment or mailed to each such Holder, or both, notice that such money remains
unclaimed and that, after a date specified therein, which shall not be less than
30 days from the date of such publication or mailing, any unclaimed balance of
such money then remaining will be repaid to the Company.
SECTION 1004. OFFICERS' CERTIFICATE AS TO DEFAULT.
The Company will deliver to the Trustee, on or before a date
not more than four months after the end of each fiscal year of the Company
ending after the date hereof, an Officers' Certificate, stating whether or not
to the best knowledge of the signers thereof the Company is in default in the
performance and observance of any of the terms, provisions and conditions of
this Indenture, and, if the Company shall be in default, specifying all such
defaults and the nature thereof of which they may have knowledge.
SECTION 1005. WAIVER OF CERTAIN COVENANTS.
The Company may omit in any particular instance to comply with
any covenant or condition applicable to the Debt Securities of any series that
is determined pursuant to Section 301 to be subject to this provision if, before
the time for such compliance the Holders of at least a majority in principal
amount of the Debt Securities at the time Outstanding shall, by Act of such
Holders, either waive such compliance in such instance or generally waive
compliance with such covenant or condition, but no such waiver shall extend to
or affect such covenant or condition except to the extent so expressly waived,
and, until such waiver shall become effective, the obligations of the Company
and the duties of the Trustee in respect of any such covenant or condition shall
remain in full force and effect.
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SECTION 1006. PAYMENT OF ADDITIONAL AMOUNTS.
If the Debt Securities of a series provide for the payment of
additional amounts, the Company will pay to the Holder of any Debt Security of
any series or any coupon appertaining thereto additional amounts upon the terms
and subject to the conditions provided therein. Whenever in this Indenture there
is mentioned, in any context, the payment of the principal of (or premium, if
any) or interest on, or in respect of, any Debt Security of any series or any
related coupon or the net proceeds received on the sale or exchange of any Debt
Security of any series, such mention shall be deemed to include mention of the
payment of additional amounts provided for in the terms of such Debt Securities
and this Section to the extent that, in such context, additional amounts are,
were or would be payable in respect thereof pursuant to the provisions of this
Section and express mention of the payment of additional amounts (if applicable)
in any provisions hereof shall not be construed as excluding additional amounts
in those provisions hereof where such express mention is not made.
If the Debt Securities of a series provide for the payment of
additional amounts, at least 10 days prior to the first Interest Payment Date
with respect to that series of Debt Securities (or if the Debt Securities of
that series will not bear interest prior to Maturity, the first day on which a
payment of principal (and premium, if any) is made), and at least 10 days prior
to each date of payment of principal (and premium, if any) or interest if there
has been any change with respect to the matters set forth in the below-mentioned
Officers' Certificate, the Company will furnish the Trustee and the Company's
principal Paying Agent or Paying Agents, if other than the Trustee, with an
Officers' Certificate instructing the Trustee and such Paying Agent or Paying
Agents whether such payment of principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on
the Debt Securities of that series shall be made to Holders of Debt Securities
of that series or the related coupons who are United States Aliens without
withholding for or on account of any tax, assessment or other governmental
charge described in the Debt Securities of that series. If any such withholding
shall be required, then such Officers' Certificate shall specify by country the
amount, if any, required to be withheld on such payments to such Holders of Debt
Securities or coupons and the Company will pay to the Trustee or such Paying
Agent the additional amounts, if any, required by the terms of such Debt
Securities and the first paragraph of this Section. The Company covenants to
indemnify the Trustee and any Paying Agent for, and to hold them harmless
against, any loss, liability or expense reasonably incurred without negligence
or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or
omitted by any of them in reliance on any Officers' Certificate furnished
pursuant to this Section.
ARTICLE ELEVEN
REDEMPTION OF DEBT SECURITIES
SECTION 1101. APPLICABILITY OF ARTICLE.
Subject to the Company having received the prior approval of
the Federal Reserve, if then required under the applicable capital guidelines or
policies of the Federal Reserve, Debt
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Securities of any series which are redeemable before their Stated Maturity shall
be redeemable in accordance with their terms and (except as otherwise specified
as contemplated by Section 301 for Debt Securities of any series) in accordance
with this Article.
SECTION 1102. ELECTION TO REDEEM; NOTICE TO TRUSTEE.
The election of the Company to redeem any Debt Securities
shall be evidenced by a Board Resolution. In case of any redemption at the
election of the Company of less than all of the Debt Securities of any series,
the Company shall, at least 45 days prior to the Redemption Date fixed by the
Company (unless a shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the Trustee), notify
the Trustee of such Redemption Date and of the principal amount and the tenor
and terms of the Debt Securities of any series to be redeemed. In the case of
any redemption of Debt Securities prior to the expiration of any restriction on
such redemption provided in the terms of such Debt Securities or elsewhere in
this Indenture, the Company shall furnish the Trustee with an Officers'
Certificate evidencing compliance with such restriction.
SECTION 1103. SELECTION BY TRUSTEE OF DEBT SECURITIES TO BE
REDEEMED.
Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301
for Debt Securities of any series, if less than all the Debt Securities of any
series with like tenor and terms are to be redeemed, the particular Debt
Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not more than 60 days prior to the
Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the Outstanding Debt Securities of such
series with like tenor and terms not previously called for redemption, by such
method as the Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate and which may provide for
the selection for redemption of portions (equal to the minimum authorized
denomination for Debt Securities of such series or any integral multiple thereof
which is also an authorized denomination) of the principal amount of Registered
Securities or Bearer Securities (if issued in more than one authorized
denomination) of such series of a denomination larger than the minimum
authorized denomination for Debt Securities of such series.
The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company in writing of
the Debt Securities selected for redemption and, in the case of any Debt
Securities selected for partial redemption, the principal amount thereof to be
redeemed.
For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context
otherwise requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of Debt Securities
shall relate, in the case of any Debt Security redeemed or to be redeemed only
in part, to the portion of the principal amount of such Debt Security which has
been or is to be redeemed.
SECTION 1104. NOTICE OF REDEMPTION.
Notice of redemption shall be given in the manner provided in
Section 106 not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date,
to each Holder of Debt Securities to be redeemed.
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All notices of redemption shall state:
(1) the Redemption Date,
(2) the Redemption Price,
(3) if less than all Outstanding Debt Securities of any series
are to be redeemed, the identification (and, in the case of partial
redemption, the principal amounts) of the particular Debt Securities to
be redeemed,
(4) that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price will
become due and payable upon each such Debt Security to be redeemed, and
that interest thereon shall cease to accrue on and after said date,
(5) the Place or Places of Payment where such Debt Securities,
together in the case of Bearer Securities with all coupons, if any,
appertaining thereto maturing after the Redemption Date, are to be
surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price,
(6) that Bearer Securities may be surrendered for payment only
at such place or places which are outside the United States, except as
otherwise provided in Section 1002,
(7) that the redemption is for a sinking fund, if such is the
case, and
(8) the CUSIP number, if any.
A notice of redemption published as contemplated by Section
106 need not identify particular Registered Securities to be redeemed.
Notice of redemption of Debt Securities to be redeemed at the
election of the Company shall be given by the Company, or, at the Company's
request, by the Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company.
SECTION 1105. DEPOSIT OF REDEMPTION PRICE.
On or prior to any Redemption Date, the Company shall deposit
with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if the Company is acting as its own
Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 1003) an amount
of money and/or, to the extent the Debt Securities to be redeemed are
denominated and payable in Dollars only, Eligible Instruments the payments of
principal and interest on which when due (and without reinvestment and providing
no tax liability will be imposed upon the Trustee or the Holders of the Debt
Securities to be redeemed) will provide money on or prior to the Redemption Date
in such amounts as will (together with any money irrevocably deposited in trust
with the Trustee, without investment) be sufficient to pay the Redemption Price
of, and (except if the Redemption Date shall be an Interest Payment Date)
accrued interest on, all the Debt Securities or portions thereof which are to be
redeemed on that date; provided, however, that deposits with respect to Bearer
Securities shall be made with a Paying
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Agent or Paying Agents located outside the United States except as otherwise
provided in Section 1002, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section
301.
SECTION 1106. DEBT SECURITIES PAYABLE ON REDEMPTION DATE.
Notice of redemption having been given as aforesaid, the Debt
Securities to be redeemed shall, on the Redemption Date, become due and payable
at the Redemption Price therein specified and from and after such date (unless
the Company shall default in the payment of the Redemption Price and accrued
interest) such Debt Securities shall cease to bear interest and the coupons for
such interest appertaining to any Bearer Securities so to be redeemed, except to
the extent provided below, shall be void. Upon surrender of any such Debt
Security for redemption in accordance with said notice, such Debt Security shall
be paid by the Company at the Redemption Price, together with accrued interest
to the Redemption Date; provided, however, that installments of interest on
Bearer Securities whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption Date
shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of coupons for such
interest (at an office or agency located outside the United States except as
otherwise provided in Section 1002), and provided further, that installments of
interest on Registered Securities whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the
Redemption Date shall be payable to the Holders of such Debt Securities, or one
or more Predecessor Securities, registered as such on the relevant Record Dates
according to their terms and the provisions of Section 307.
If any Bearer Security surrendered for redemption shall not be
accompanied by all appurtenant coupons maturing after the Redemption Date, such
Bearer Security may be paid after deducting from the Redemption Price an amount
equal to the face amount of all such missing coupons, or the surrender of such
missing coupon or coupons may be waived by the Company and the Trustee if there
be furnished to them such security or indemnity as they may require to save each
of them and any Paying Agent harmless. If thereafter the Holder of such Bearer
Security shall surrender to the Trustee or any Paying Agent any such missing
coupon in respect of which a deduction shall have been made from the Redemption
Price, such Holder shall be entitled to receive the amount so deducted without
interest thereon; provided, however, that interest represented by coupons shall
be payable only upon presentation and surrender of those coupons at an office or
agency located outside of the United States except as otherwise provided in
Section 1002.
If any Debt Security called for redemption shall not be so
paid upon surrender thereof for redemption, the principal (and premium, if any)
shall, until paid, bear interest from the Redemption Date at the rate prescribed
therefor in the Debt Security.
SECTION 1107. DEBT SECURITIES REDEEMED IN PART.
Any Registered Security which is to be redeemed only in part
shall be surrendered at a Place of Payment therefor (with, if the Company, the
Security Registrar or the Trustee so requires, due endorsement by, or a written
instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company, the Security
Registrar and the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or his attorney
duly authorized in writing), and the Company shall execute, and the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such Debt Security without
service charge, a new
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Registered Security or Registered Securities of the same series and of like
tenor and terms, of any authorized denominations as requested by such Holder in
aggregate principal amount equal to and in exchange for the unredeemed portion
of the principal of the Debt Security so surrendered.
ARTICLE TWELVE
SINKING FUNDS
SECTION 1201. APPLICABILITY OF ARTICLE.
The provisions of this Article shall be applicable to any
sinking fund for the retirement of Debt Securities of a series except as
otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for Debt Securities of such
series.
The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by
the terms of Debt Securities of any series is herein referred to as a "mandatory
sinking fund payment," and any payment in excess of such minimum amount provided
for by the term of Debt Securities of any series is herein referred to an
"optional sinking fund payment." If provided for by the terms of Debt Securities
of any series, the amount of any sinking fund payment may be subject to
reduction as provided in Section 1202. Each sinking fund payment shall be
applied to the redemption of Debt Securities of any series as provided for by
the terms of Debt Securities of such series.
SECTION 1202. SATISFACTION OF SINKING FUND PAYMENTS WITH DEBT
SECURITIES.
The Company (1) may deliver Outstanding Debt Securities of a
series (other than any previously called for redemption), together in the case
of any Bearer Securities of such series with all unmatured coupons appertaining
thereto, and (2) may apply as a credit Debt Securities of a series which have
been redeemed either at the election of the Company pursuant to the terms of
such Debt Securities or through the application of permitted optional sinking
fund payments pursuant to the terms of such Debt Securities, in each case in
satisfaction of all or any part of any sinking fund payment with respect to the
Debt Securities of such series required to be made pursuant to the terms of such
Debt Securities as provided for by the terms of such series; provided that such
Debt Securities have not been previously so credited. Such Debt Securities shall
be received and credited for such purpose by the Trustee at the Redemption Price
specified in such Debt Securities for redemption through operation of the
sinking fund and the amount of such sinking fund payment shall be reduced
accordingly. If as a result of the delivery or credit of Debt Securities in lieu
of cash payments pursuant to this Section 1202, the principal amount of Debt
Securities to be redeemed in order to exhaust the aforesaid cash payment shall
be less than $100,000, the Trustee need not call Debt Securities for redemption,
except upon Company Request, and such cash payment shall be held by the Trustee
or a Paying Agent and applied to the next succeeding sinking fund payment,
provided, however, that the Trustee or such Paying Agent shall at the request of
the Company from time to time pay over and deliver to the Company any cash
payment so being held by the Trustee or such Paying Agent upon delivery by the
Company to the
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Trustee of Debt Securities purchased by the Company having an unpaid principal
amount equal to the cash payment requested to be released to the Company.
SECTION 1203. REDEMPTION OF DEBT SECURITIES FOR SINKING FUND.
Not less than 60 days prior to each sinking fund payment date
for any series of Debt Securities (unless a shorter period shall be satisfactory
to the Trustee), the Company will deliver to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate specifying the amount of the next ensuing sinking fund payment for
that series pursuant to the terms of that series, the portion thereof, if any,
which is to be satisfied by payment of cash, the portion thereof, if any, which
is to be satisfied by crediting Debt Securities of that series pursuant to
Section 1202 and the basis for any such credit and, prior to or concurrently
with the delivery of such Officers' Certificate, will also deliver to the
Trustee any Debt Securities to be so credited and not theretofore delivered to
the Trustee. Not less than 30 days (unless a shorter period shall be
satisfactory to the Trustee) before each such sinking fund payment date the
Trustee shall select the Debt Securities to be redeemed upon such sinking fund
payment date in the manner specified in Section 1103 and cause notice of the
redemption thereof to be given in the name of and at the expense of the Company
in the manner provided in Section 1104. Such notice having been duly given, the
redemption of such Debt Securities shall be made upon the terms and in the
manner stated in Sections 1105, 1106 and 1107.
ARTICLE THIRTEEN
REPAYMENT AT THE OPTION OF HOLDERS
SECTION 1301. APPLICABILITY OF ARTICLE.
Debt Securities of any series which are repayable at the
option of the Holders thereof before their Stated Maturity shall be repaid in
accordance with their terms and (except as otherwise specified pursuant to
Section 301 for Debt Securities of such series) in accordance with this Article.
SECTION 1302. REPAYMENT OF DEBT SECURITIES.
Each Debt Security which is subject to repayment in whole or
in part at the option of the Holder thereof on a Repayment Date shall be repaid
at the applicable Repayment Price together with interest accrued to such
Repayment Date as specified pursuant to Section 301.
SECTION 1303. EXERCISE OF OPTION; NOTICE.
Each Holder desiring to exercise such Holder's option for
repayment shall, as conditions to such repayment, surrender the Debt Security to
be repaid in whole or in part together with written notice of the exercise of
such option at any office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment, not
less than 30 nor more than 45 days prior to the Repayment Date; provided,
however, that surrender of Bearer Securities together with written notice of
exercise of such option
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shall be made at an office or agency located outside the United States except as
otherwise provided in Section 1002. Such notice, which shall be irrevocable,
shall specify the principal amount of such Debt Security to be repaid, which
shall be equal to the minimum authorized denomination for such Debt Security or
an integral multiple thereof, and shall identify the Debt Security to be repaid
and, in the case of a partial repayment of the Debt Security, shall specify the
denomination or denominations of the Debt Security or Debt Securities of the
same series to be issued to the Holder for the portion of the principal of the
Debt Security surrendered which is not to be repaid.
If any Bearer Security surrendered for repayment shall not be
accompanied by all unmatured coupons and all matured coupons in default, such
Bearer Security may be paid after deducting from the Repayment Price an amount
equal to the face amount of all such missing coupons, or the surrender of such
missing coupon or coupons may be waived by the Company and the Trustee if there
be furnished to them such security or indemnity as they may require to save each
of them and any Paying Agent harmless. If thereafter the Holder of such Bearer
Security shall surrender to the Trustee or any Paying Agent any such missing
coupon in respect of which a deduction shall have been made from the Repayment
Price, such Holder shall be entitled to receive the amount so deducted without
interest thereon; provided, however, that interest represented by coupons shall
be payable only at an office or agency located outside the United States except
as otherwise provided in Section 1002.
The Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate
and deliver without service charge to the Holder of any Registered Security so
surrendered a new Registered Security or Securities of the same series, of any
authorized denomination specified in the foregoing notice, in an aggregate
principal amount equal to any portion of the principal of the Registered
Security so surrendered which is not to be repaid.
The Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate
and deliver without service charge to the Holder of any Bearer Security so
surrendered a new Registered Security or Securities or new Bearer Security or
Securities (and all appurtenant unmatured coupons and matured coupons in
default) or any combination thereof of the same series of any authorized
denomination or denominations specified in the foregoing notice, in an aggregate
principal amount equal to any portion of the principal of the Debt Security so
surrendered which is not to be paid; provided, however, that the issuance of a
Registered Security therefor shall be subject to applicable laws and
regulations, including provisions of the United States Federal income tax laws
and regulations in effect at the time of the exchange; neither the Company, the
Trustee nor the Security Registrar shall issue Registered Securities for Bearer
Securities if it has received an Opinion of Counsel that as a result of such
issuance the Company would suffer adverse consequences under the United States
Federal income tax laws then in effect and the Company has delivered to the
Trustee a Company Order directing the Trustee not to make such issuances
thereafter unless and until the Trustee receives a subsequent Company Order to
the contrary. The Company shall deliver copies of such Company Order to the
Security Registrar.
For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context
otherwise requires, all provisions relating to the repayment of Debt Securities
shall relate, in the case of any Debt Security
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repaid or to be repaid only in part, to the portion of the principal of such
Debt Security which has been or is to be repaid.
SECTION 1304. ELECTION OF REPAYMENT BY REMARKETING ENTITIES.
The Company may elect, with respect to Debt Securities of any
series which are repayable at the option of the Holders thereof before their
Stated Maturity, at any time prior to any Repayment Date to designate one or
more Remarketing Entities to purchase, at a price equal to the Repayment Price,
Debt Securities of such series from the Holders thereof who give notice and
surrender their Debt Securities in accordance with Section 1303.
SECTION 1305. SECURITIES PAYABLE ON THE REPAYMENT DATE.
Notice of exercise of the option of repayment having been
given and the Debt Securities so to be repaid having been surrendered as
aforesaid, such Debt Securities shall, unless purchased in accordance with
Section 1304, on the Repayment Date become due and payable at the price therein
specified and from and after the Repayment Date such Debt Securities shall cease
to bear interest and shall be paid on the Repayment Date, and the coupons for
such interest appertaining to Bearer Securities so to be repaid, except to the
extent provided above, shall be void, unless the Company shall default in the
payment of such price in which case the Company shall continue to be obligated
for the principal amount of such Debt Securities and shall be obligated to pay
interest on such principal amount at the rate borne by such Debt Securities from
time to time until payment in full of such principal amount.
ARTICLE FOURTEEN
MEETINGS OF HOLDERS OF DEBT SECURITIES
SECTION 1401. PURPOSES FOR WHICH MEETINGS MAY BE CALLED.
If Debt Securities of a series are issuable in whole or in
part as Bearer Securities, a meeting of Holders of Debt Securities of such
series may be called at any time and from time to time pursuant to this Article
to make, give or take any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or other Act provided by this Indenture to be made, given or
taken by Holders of Debt Securities of such series.
SECTION 1402. CALL, NOTICE AND PLACE OF MEETINGS.
(a) The Trustee may at any time call a meeting of Holders of
Debt Securities of any series issuable as Bearer Securities for any purpose
specified in Section 1401, to be held at such time and at such place in
Wilmington, Delaware, or in London as the Trustee shall determine. Notice of
every meeting of Holders of Debt Securities of any series, setting forth the
time and the place of such meeting and in general terms the action proposed to
be taken at such meeting, shall be
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given, in the manner provided in Section 106, not less than 21 nor more than 180
days prior to the date fixed for the meeting.
(b) In case at any time the Company, pursuant to a Board
Resolution, or the Holders of at least 10% in principal amount of the
Outstanding Debt Securities of any series shall have requested the Trustee to
call a meeting of the Holders of Debt Securities of such series for any purpose
specified in Section 1401, by written request setting forth in reasonable detail
the action proposed to be taken at the meeting, and the Trustee shall not have
made the first publication of the notice of such meeting within 21 days after
receipt of such request or shall not thereafter proceed to cause the meeting to
be held as provided herein, then the Company or the Holders of Debt Securities
of such series in the amount above specified, as the case may be, may determine
the time and the place in Wilmington, Delaware, or in London for such meeting
and may call such meeting for such purposes by giving notice thereof as provided
in subsection (a) of this Section.
SECTION 1403. PERSONS ENTITLED TO VOTE AT MEETINGS.
To be entitled to vote at any meeting of Holders of Debt
Securities of any series, a Person shall be (1) a Holder of one or more
Outstanding Debt Securities of such series, or (2) a Person appointed by an
instrument in writing as proxy for a Holder or Holders of one or more
Outstanding Debt Securities of such series by such Holder or Holders. The only
Persons who shall be entitled to be present or to speak at any meeting of
Holders of Debt Securities of any series shall be the Persons entitled to vote
at such meeting and their counsel, any representatives of the Trustee and its
counsel and any representatives of the Company and its counsel.
SECTION 1404. QUORUM; ACTION.
The Persons entitled to vote a majority in principal amount of
the Outstanding Debt Securities of a series shall constitute a quorum for a
meeting of Holders of Debt Securities of such series. In the absence of a quorum
within 30 minutes of the time appointed for any such meeting, the meeting shall,
if convened at the request of Holders of Debt Securities of such series, be
dissolved. In the absence of a quorum in any other case the meeting may be
adjourned for a period of not less than 10 days as determined by the chairperson
of the meeting prior to the adjournment of such meeting. In the absence of a
quorum at any such adjourned meeting, such adjourned meeting may be further
adjourned for a period of not less than 10 days as determined by the chairperson
of the meeting prior to the adjournment of such adjourned meeting. Notice of
this reconvening of any adjourned meeting shall be given as provided in Section
1402(a), except that such notice need be given only once not less than five days
prior to the date on which the meeting is scheduled to be reconvened. Notice of
the reconvening of an adjourned meeting shall state expressly the percentage, as
provided above, of the principal amount of the Outstanding Debt Securities of
such series which shall constitute a quorum.
Except as limited by the proviso to Section 902, any
resolution presented to a meeting or adjourned meeting duly reconvened at which
a quorum is present as aforesaid may be adopted only by the affirmative vote of
the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Debt Securities
of that series, provided however, that, except as limited by the proviso
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to Section 902, any resolution with respect to any demand, consent or waiver or
other action which this Indenture expressly provides may be made, given or taken
by the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Debt Securities of a series may be adopted at a meeting or an
adjourned meeting duly reconvened and at which a quorum is present as aforesaid
only by the affirmative vote of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of
the Outstanding Debt Securities of that series; and provided, further, that,
except as limited by the proviso to Section 902, any resolution with respect to
any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other
Act which this Indenture expressly provides may be made, given or taken by the
Holders of a specified percentage, which is less than a majority, in principal
amount of the Outstanding Debt Securities of a series may be adopted at a
meeting or an adjourned meeting duly reconvened and at which a quorum is present
as aforesaid by the affirmative vote of the Holders of such specified percentage
in principal amount of the Outstanding Debt Securities of that series.
Any resolution passed or decision taken at any meeting of
Holders of Debt Securities of any series duly held in accordance with this
Section shall be binding on all the Holders of Debt Securities of such series
and the related coupons, whether or not present or represented at the meeting.
SECTION 1405. DETERMINATION OF VOTING RIGHTS; CONDUCT AND
ADJOURNMENT OF MEETINGS.
(a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture,
the Trustee may make such reasonable regulations as it may deem advisable for
any meeting of Holders of Debt Securities of such series in regard to proof of
the holding of Debt Securities of such series and of the appointment of proxies
and in regard to the appointment and duties of inspectors of votes, the
submission and examination of proxies, certificates and other evidence of the
right to vote, and such other matters concerning the conduct of the meeting as
it shall deem appropriate. Except as otherwise permitted or required by any such
regulations, the holding of Debt Securities shall be proved in the manner
specified in Section 104 and the appointment of any proxy shall be proved in the
manner specified in Section 104 or, in the case of Bearer Securities, by having
the signature of the person executing the proxy witnessed or guaranteed by any
trust company, bank or banker authorized by Section 104 to certify to the
holding of Bearer Securities. Such regulations may provide that written
instruments appointing proxies, regular on their face, may be presumed valid and
genuine without the proof specified in Section 104 or other proof.
(b) The Trustee shall, by an instrument in writing, appoint a
temporary chairperson of the meeting, unless the meeting shall have been called
by the Company or by Holders of Debt Securities as provided in Section 1402(b),
in which case the Company or the Holders of Debt Securities of the series
calling the meeting, as the case may be, shall in like manner appoint a
temporary chairperson. A permanent chairperson and a permanent secretary of the
meeting shall be elected by vote of the Persons entitled to vote a majority in
principal amount of the Outstanding Debt Securities of such series represented
at the meeting.
(c) At any meeting each Holder of a Debt Security of such
series or proxy shall be entitled to one vote for each $1,000 principal amount
(or the equivalent in ECU, any other
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composite currency or a Foreign Currency) of Debt Securities of such series held
or represented by him; provided, however, that no vote shall be cast or counted
at any meeting in respect of any Debt Security challenged as not Outstanding and
ruled by the chairperson of the meeting not to be Outstanding. The chairperson
of the meeting shall have no right to vote, except as a Holder of a Debt
Security of such series or proxy.
(d) Any meeting of Holders of Debt Securities of any series
duly called pursuant to Section 1402 at which a quorum is present may be
adjourned from time to time by Persons entitled to vote a majority in principal
amount of the Outstanding Debt Securities of such series represented at the
meeting; and the meeting may be held as so adjourned without further notice.
SECTION 1406. COUNTING VOTES AND RECORDING ACTION OF MEETINGS.
The vote upon any resolution submitted to any meeting of
Holders of Debt Securities of any series shall be by written ballots on which
shall be subscribed the signatures of the Holders of Debt Securities of such
series or of their representatives by proxy and the principal amounts and serial
numbers of the Outstanding Debt Securities of such series held or represented by
them. The permanent chairperson of the meeting shall appoint two inspectors of
votes who shall count all votes cast at the meeting for or against any
resolution and who shall make and file with the secretary of the meeting their
verified written reports in triplicate of all votes cast at the meeting. A
record, at least in triplicate, of the proceedings of each meeting of Holders of
Debt Securities of any series shall be prepared by the secretary of the meeting
and there shall be attached to said record the original reports of the
inspectors of votes on any vote by ballot taken thereat and affidavits by one or
more persons having knowledge of the facts setting forth a copy of the notice of
the meeting and showing that said notice was given as provided in Section 1402
and, if applicable, Section 1401. Each copy shall be signed and verified by the
affidavits of the permanent chairperson and secretary of the meeting and one
such copy shall be delivered to the Company, and another to the Trustee to be
preserved by the Trustee, the latter to have attached thereto the ballots voted
at the meeting. Any record so signed and verified shall be conclusive evidence
of the matters therein stated.
ARTICLE FIFTEEN
DEFEASANCE
SECTION 1501. TERMINATION OF COMPANY'S OBLIGATIONS.
If this Section 1501 is specified, as contemplated by Section
301, to be applicable to any series of Debt Securities and if the Company
deposits irrevocably in trust with the Trustee money and/or, to the extent such
Debt Securities are denominated and payable in Dollars only, Eligible
Instruments the payments of principal and interest on which when due (and
without reinvestment and providing no tax liability will be imposed upon the
Trustee or the Holders of such Debt Securities) will provide money in such
amounts as will (together with any money irrevocably
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deposited in trust with the Trustee, without investment) be sufficient to pay
the principal of (and premium, if any) and any installment of principal of (and
premium, if any) or interest when due on the Debt Securities of such series and
any coupons appertaining thereto and any mandatory sinking fund, repayment or
analogous payments thereon on the scheduled due dates therefor at the Stated
Maturity thereof, the Company's obligations under any covenant determined
pursuant to Section 301 to be subject to this Section shall terminate with
respect to the Debt Securities of the series for which such deposit was made;
provided, however, that (i) no Event of Default with respect to the Debt
Securities of such series under Section 501(1) or Section 501(2) or event that
with notice or lapse of time or both would constitute such an Event of Default
shall have occurred and be continuing on such date, (ii) such deposit will not
result in a breach of, or constitute a default under, this Indenture or any
other agreement or instrument to which the Company is a party or by which it is
bound, and (iii) such termination shall not relieve the Company of its
obligations under the Debt Securities of such series and this Indenture to pay
when due the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest and additional
amounts on such Debt Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto if such
Debt Securities or coupons are not paid (or payment is not provided for) when
due from the money and Eligible Instruments (and the proceeds thereof) so
deposited.
It shall be a condition to the deposit of cash and/or Eligible
Instruments and the termination of the Company's obligations pursuant to the
provisions of this Section with respect to the Debt Securities of any series
under any covenant determined pursuant to Section 301 to be subject to this
Section that the Company deliver to the Trustee (i) an Opinion of Counsel to the
effect that: (a) Holders of Debt Securities of such series and any coupons
appertaining thereto will not recognize income, gain or loss for Federal income
tax purposes as a result of such deposit and termination and (b) such Holders
(and future Holders) will be subject to tax in the same amount, manner and
timing as if such deposit and termination had not occurred, (ii) an Officers'
Certificate to the effect that under the laws in effect on the date such money
and/or Eligible Instruments are deposited with the Trustee, the amount thereof
will be sufficient, after payment of all Federal, state and local taxes in
respect thereof payable by the Trustee, to pay principal (and premium, if any)
and interest when due on the Debt Securities of such series and any coupons
appertaining thereto; and (iii) an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of
Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating
to the defeasance contemplated in this Section have been complied with.
It shall be an additional condition to the deposit of cash
and/or Eligible Instruments and the termination of the Company's obligations
pursuant to the provisions of this Section under any covenant determined
pursuant to Section 301 to be subject to this Section, with respect to the Debt
Securities of any series then listed on any national securities exchange, that
the Company deliver an Opinion of Counsel that the Debt Securities of such
series will not be delisted from any national securities exchange as a result of
such deposit and termination.
After a deposit as provided herein, the Trustee shall, upon
Company Request, acknowledge in writing the discharge of the Company's
obligations pursuant to the provisions of this Section with respect to the Debt
Securities of such series under any covenant determined pursuant to Section 301
to be subject to this Section.
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SECTION 1502. REPAYMENT TO COMPANY.
The Trustee and any Paying Agent shall promptly pay to the
Company upon Company Request any money or Eligible Instruments not required for
the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Debt
Securities of any series and any related coupons for which money or Eligible
Instruments have been deposited pursuant to Section 1501 held by them at any
time.
The Trustee and any Paying Agent shall promptly pay to the
Company upon Company Request any money held by them for the payment of principal
(and premium, if any) and interest that remains unclaimed for two years after
the Maturity of the Debt Securities for which a deposit has been made pursuant
to Section 1501. After such payment to the Company, the Holders of the Debt
Securities of such series and any related coupons shall thereafter, as unsecured
general creditors, look only to the Company for the payment thereof.
SECTION 1503. INDEMNITY FOR ELIGIBLE INSTRUMENTS.
The Company shall pay and shall indemnify the Trustee against
any tax, fee or other charge imposed on or assessed against the deposited
Eligible Instruments or the principal or interest received on such Eligible
Instruments.
ARTICLE SIXTEEN
SUBORDINATION OF DEBT SECURITIES
SECTION 1601. DEBT SECURITIES SUBORDINATE TO SENIOR DEBT.
The Company covenants and agrees that anything in this
Indenture or the Debt Securities of any series to the contrary notwithstanding,
the indebtedness evidenced by the Debt Securities of each series and any coupons
appurtenant thereto is subordinate and junior in right of payment to all Senior
Debt to the extent provided herein and shall be PARI PASSU with all Trust
Related Securities, and each Holder of Debt Securities of each series and
coupons appurtenant thereto, by such Holder's acceptance thereof, likewise
covenants and agrees to the subordination herein provided and shall be bound by
the provisions hereof. Senior Debt shall continue to be Senior Debt and entitled
to the benefits of these subordination provisions irrespective of any amendment,
modification or waiver of any term of the Senior Debt or extension or renewal of
the Senior Debt.
In the event that the Company shall default in the payment of
any principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on any Senior Debt when the
same become due and payable, whether at maturity or at a date fixed for
prepayment or by declaration of acceleration or otherwise, then, upon written
notice of such default to the Company by the Holders of Senior Debt or any
trustee therefor, unless and until such default shall have been cured or waived
or shall have ceased to exist, no direct or indirect payment (in cash, property,
securities, by set-off or otherwise) shall be made or agreed to
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be made on account of the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on any
of the Debt Securities, or in respect of any redemption, repayment, retirement,
purchase or other acquisition of any of the Debt Securities.
In the event of
(a) any insolvency, bankruptcy, receivership, liquidation,
reorganization, readjustment, composition or other similar proceeding
relating to the Company, its creditors or its property,
(b) any proceeding for the liquidation, dissolution or other
winding up of the Company, voluntary or involuntary, whether or not
involving insolvency or bankruptcy proceedings,
(c) any assignment by the Company for the benefit of
creditors, or
(d) any other marshalling of the assets of the Company,
all Senior Debt (including any interest thereon accruing after the commencement
of any such proceedings) shall first be paid in full before any payment or
distribution, whether in cash, securities or other property, shall be made to
any Holder of any of the Debt Securities or coupons appurtenant thereto on
account thereof. Any payment or distribution, whether in cash, securities or
other property (other than securities of the Company or any other corporation
provided for by a plan of reorganization or readjustment the payment of which is
subordinate, at least to the extent provided in these subordination provisions
with respect to the indebtedness evidenced by the Debt Securities, to the
payment of all Senior Debt at the time outstanding and to any securities issued
in respect thereof under any such plan of reorganization or readjustment), which
would otherwise (but for these subordination provisions) be payable or
deliverable in respect of the Debt Securities of any series or coupons
appurtenant thereto shall be paid or delivered directly to the holders of Senior
Debt in accordance with the priorities then existing among such holders until
all Senior Debt (including any interest thereon accruing after the commencement
of any such proceedings) shall have been paid in full. In the event of any such
proceeding, after payment in full of all sums owing with respect to Senior Debt,
the Holders of the Debt Securities and coupons appurtenant thereto, together
with the holders of any obligations of the Company ranking on a parity with the
Debt Securities, shall be entitled to be paid from the remaining assets of the
Company the amounts at the time due and owing on account of unpaid principal of
(and premium, if any) and interest on the Debt Securities and such other
obligations before any payment or other distribution, whether in cash, property
or otherwise, shall be made on account of any capital stock or any obligations
of the Company ranking junior to the Debt Securities and such other obligations.
In the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing, any payment
or distribution of any character or any security, whether in cash, securities or
other property (other than securities of the Company or any other corporation
provided for by a plan of reorganization or readjustment the payment of which is
subordinate, at least to the extent provided in these subordination provisions
with respect to the indebtedness evidenced by the Debt Securities, to the
payment of all Senior Debt
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at the time outstanding and to any securities issued in respect thereof under
any such plan or reorganization or readjustment), shall be received by the
Trustee or any Holder in contravention of any of the terms hereof such payment
or distribution or security shall be received in trust for the benefit of, and
shall be paid over or delivered and transferred to, the holders of the Senior
Debt at the time outstanding in accordance with the priorities then existing
among such holders for application to the payment of all Senior Debt remaining
unpaid, to the extent necessary to pay all such Senior Debt in full. In the
event of the failure of the Trustee or any Holder to endorse or assign any such
payment, distribution or security, each holder of Senior Debt is hereby
irrevocably authorized to endorse or assign the same.
No present or future holder of any Senior Debt shall be
prejudiced in the right to enforce subordination of the indebtedness evidenced
by the Debt Securities by any act or omission on the part of the Company.
Nothing contained herein shall impair, as between the Company and the Holders of
Debt Securities of each series, the obligation of the Company to pay to such
Holders the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on such Debt
Securities and coupons appurtenant thereto or prevent the Trustee or the Holder
from exercising all rights, powers and remedies otherwise permitted by
applicable law or hereunder upon a default or Event of Default hereunder, all
subject to the rights of the holders of the Senior Debt to receive cash,
securities or other property otherwise payable or deliverable to the Holders.
Senior Debt shall not be deemed to have been paid in full
unless the holders thereof shall have received cash, securities or other
property equal to the amount of such Senior Debt then outstanding. Upon the
payment in full of all Senior Debt, the Holders of Debt Securities of each
series and coupons appurtenant thereto, if any, shall be subrogated to all
rights of any holders of Senior Debt to receive any further payments or
distributions applicable to the Senior Debt until the indebtedness evidenced by
the Debt Securities of such series and coupons appertaining thereto, if any,
shall have been paid in full, and such payments or distributions received by
such Holders, by reason of such subrogation, of cash, securities or other
property which otherwise would be paid or distributed to the holders of Senior
Debt shall, as between the Company and its creditors other than the holders of
Senior Debt, on the one hand, and such Holders, on the other hand, be deemed to
be a payment by the Company on account of Senior Debt, and not on account of the
Debt Securities of such series.
The Trustee and Holders will take such action (including,
without limitation, the delivery of this Indenture to an agent for the holders
of Senior Debt or consent to the filing of a financing statement with respect
hereto) as may, in the opinion of counsel designated by the holders of a
majority in principal amount of the Senior Debt at the time outstanding, be
necessary or appropriate to assure the effectiveness of the subordination
effected by these provisions.
The provisions of this Section 1601 shall not impair any
rights, interests, remedies or powers of any secured creditor of the Company in
respect of any security interest the creation of which is not prohibited by the
provisions of this Indenture.
The securing of any obligations of the Company, otherwise
ranking on a parity with the Debt Securities or ranking junior to the Debt
Securities, shall not be deemed to prevent such
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obligations from constituting, respectively, obligations ranking on a parity
with the Debt Securities or ranking junior to the Debt Securities.
SECTION 1602. TRUSTEE AND HOLDERS OF DEBT SECURITIES MAY RELY
ON CERTIFICATE OF LIQUIDATING AGENT; TRUSTEE MAY REQUIRE FURTHER EVIDENCE AS TO
OWNERSHIP OF SENIOR DEBT; TRUSTEE NOT FIDUCIARY TO HOLDERS OF SENIOR DEBT.
Upon any payment or distribution of assets of the Company
referred to in this Article Sixteen, the Trustee and the Holders shall be
entitled to rely upon an order or decree made by any court of competent
jurisdiction in which such dissolution or winding up or liquidation or
reorganization or arrangement proceedings are pending or upon a certificate of
the trustee in bankruptcy, receiver, assignee for the benefit of creditors or
other Person making such payment or distribution, delivered to the Trustee or to
the Holders, for the purpose of ascertaining the persons entitled to participate
in such distribution, the holders of the Senior Debt and other indebtedness of
the Company, the amount thereof or payable thereon, the amount or amounts paid
or distributed thereon and all other facts pertinent thereto or to this Article
Sixteen. In the absence of any such bankruptcy trustee, receiver, assignee or
other Person, the Trustee shall be entitled to rely upon a written notice by a
Person representing himself or herself to be a holder of Senior Debt (or a
trustee or representative on behalf of such holder) as evidence that such Person
is a holder of such Senior Debt (or is such a trustee or representative). In the
event that the Trustee determines, in good faith, that further evidence is
required with respect to the right of any Person as a holder of Senior Debt to
participate in any payments or distributions pursuant to this Article Sixteen,
the Trustee may request such person to furnish evidence to the reasonable
satisfaction of the Trustee as to the amount of Senior Debt held by such Person,
as to the extent to which such Person is entitled to participate in such payment
or distribution, and as to other facts pertinent to the rights of such Person
under this Article Sixteen, and if such evidence is not furnished, the Trustee
may offer any payment to such Person pending judicial determination as to the
right of such Person to receive payment. The Trustee, however, shall not be
deemed to owe any fiduciary duty to the holders of Senior Debt.
SECTION 1603. PAYMENT PERMITTED IF NO DEFAULT.
Nothing contained in this Article Sixteen or elsewhere in this
Indenture, or in any of the Debt Securities, shall prevent (a) the Company at
any time, except during the pendency of any dissolution, winding up, liquidation
or reorganization proceedings referred to in, or under the conditions described
in, Section 1601, from making payments of the principal of (or premium, if any)
or interest on the Debt Securities or (b) the application by the Trustee or any
Paying Agent of any moneys deposited with it hereunder to payments of the
principal of or interest on the Debt Securities, if, at the time of such
deposit, the Trustee or such Paying Agent, as the case may be, did not have the
written notice provided for in Section 1604 of any event prohibiting the making
of such deposit, or if, at the time of such deposit (whether or not in trust) by
the Company with the Trustee or any Paying Agent (other than the Company) such
payment would not have been prohibited by the provisions of this Article, and
the Trustee or any Paying Agent shall not be affected by any notice to the
contrary received by it on or after such date.
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SECTION 1604. TRUSTEE NOT CHARGED WITH KNOWLEDGE OF
PROHIBITION.
Anything in this Article Sixteen or elsewhere in this
Indenture contained to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall not at
any time be charged with knowledge of the existence of any facts which would
prohibit the making of any payment of money to or by the Trustee and shall be
entitled conclusively to assume that no such facts exist and that no event
specified in Section 1601 has happened, until the Trustee shall have received an
Officers' Certificate to that effect or notice in writing to that effect signed
by or on behalf of the holder or holders, or their representatives, of Senior
Debt who shall have been certified by the Company or otherwise established to
the reasonable satisfaction of the Trustee to be such holder or holders or
representatives or from any trustee under any indenture pursuant to which such
Senior Debt shall be outstanding. The Company shall give prompt written notice
to the Trustee and to the Paying Agent of any facts which would prohibit the
payment of money to or by the Trustee or any Paying Agent.
SECTION 1605. TRUSTEE TO EFFECTUATE SUBORDINATION.
Each Holder of Debt Securities or coupons by such Holder's
acceptance thereof authorizes and directs the Trustee in such Holder's behalf to
take such action as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate the
subordination as between such Holder and holders of Senior Debt as provided in
this Article and appoints the Trustee its attorney-in-fact for any and all such
purposes.
SECTION 1606. RIGHTS OF TRUSTEE AS HOLDER OF SENIOR DEBT.
The Trustee shall be entitled to all the rights set forth in
this Article with respect to any Senior Debt which may at the time be held by
it, to the same extent as any other holder of Senior Debt; provided that nothing
in this Article shall deprive the Trustee of any rights as such holder and,
provided, further that nothing in this Article shall apply to claims of, or
payments to, the Trustee under or pursuant to Section 607.
SECTION 1607. ARTICLE APPLICABLE TO PAYING AGENTS.
In case at any time any Paying Agent other than the Trustee
shall have been appointed by the Company and be then acting hereunder, the term
"Trustee" as used in this Article shall in such case (unless the context shall
otherwise require) be construed as extending to and including such Paying Agent
within its meaning as fully for all intents and purposes as if the Paying Agent
were named in this Article in addition to or in place of the Trustee, provided,
however, that Sections 1604 and 1606 shall not apply to the Company or any
Affiliate of the Company if the Company or such Affiliate acts as Paying Agent.
SECTION 1608. SUBORDINATION RIGHTS NOT IMPAIRED BY ACTS OR
OMISSIONS OF THE COMPANY OR HOLDERS OF SENIOR DEBT.
No right of any present or future holders of any Senior Debt
to enforce subordination as herein provided shall at any time in any way be
prejudiced or impaired by any act
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or omission on the part of the Company or by any act or omission, in good faith,
by any such holder, or by any noncompliance by the Company with the terms,
provisions and covenants of this Indenture, regardless of any knowledge thereof
which any such holder may have or be otherwise charged with. The holders of
Senior Debt may, at any time or from time to time and in their absolute
discretion, change the manner, place or terms of payment, change or extend the
time of payment of, or renew or alter, any such Senior Debt, or amend or
supplement any instrument pursuant to which any such Senior Debt is issued or by
which it may be secured, or release any security therefor, or exercise or
refrain from exercising any other of their rights under the Senior Debt
including, without limitation, the waiver of default thereunder, all without
notice to or assent from the Holders of the Debt Securities or the Trustee and
without affecting the obligations of the Company, the Trustee or the Holders of
the Debt Securities under this Article.
ARTICLE SEVENTEEN
CONVERSION OF CONVERTIBLE SECURITIES
SECTION 1701. APPLICABILITY OF ARTICLE.
If an Officers' Certificate or supplemental indenture pursuant
to Section 301 provides that the Debt Securities of a series shall be
Convertible Securities, Debt Securities of such series shall be convertible in
accordance with their terms and (except as otherwise specified in such Officers'
Certificate or supplemental indenture) in accordance with this Article.
SECTION 1702. RIGHT TO CONVERT.
Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this
Article, the Holder of any Convertible Security shall have the right, at such
Holder's option, at any time prior to the close of business on the date set
forth in the Officers' Certificate delivered pursuant to Section 301 hereof or
in an indenture supplemental hereto, as the case may be (or if such Convertible
Security is called for redemption or submitted for repayment, then in respect of
such Convertible Security to and including but not after the close of business
on the Redemption or Repayment Date, as the case may be, unless the Company
shall default in the payment due), to convert the principal amount of any such
Convertible Security, or, in the case of any Convertible Security of a
denomination greater than $1,000, any portion of such principal which is $1,000
or an integral multiple thereof, into that number of fully paid and
nonassessable shares of Common Stock (as such shares shall then be constituted)
obtained by dividing the principal amount of the Convertible Security or portion
thereof surrendered for conversion by the Conversion Price, by surrender of the
Convertible Security so to be converted in whole or in part in the manner
provided in Section 1703. Such conversion shall be effected by the Company.
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SECTION 1703. EXERCISE OF CONVERSION PRIVILEGE; DELIVERY OF
COMMON STOCK ON CONVERSION; NO ADJUSTMENT FOR INTEREST OR DIVIDENDS.
In order to exercise the conversion privilege, the Holder of
any Convertible Security to be converted in whole or in part shall surrender
such Convertible Security at an office or agency maintained by the Company
pursuant to Section 1002, accompanied by the funds, if any, required by the last
paragraph of this Section, together with written notice of conversion, in the
form provided on the Convertible Securities, that the Holder elects to convert
such Convertible Security or the portion thereof specified in said notice. Such
notice shall also state the name or names (with address) in which the
certificate or certificates for shares of Common Stock which shall be
deliverable on such conversion shall be registered, and shall be accompanied by
transfer taxes, if required pursuant to Section 1708. Each Convertible Security
surrendered for conversion shall, unless the shares deliverable on conversion
are to be registered in the same name as the registration of such Convertible
Security, be duly endorsed by, or accompanied by instruments of transfer in form
satisfactory to the Company duly executed by, the Holder or such Holder's duly
authorized attorney.
As promptly as practicable after the surrender of such
Convertible Security and the receipt of such notice and funds, if any, as
aforesaid, the Company shall deliver at such office or agency to such Holder, or
on such Holder's written order, a certificate or certificates for the number of
full shares deliverable upon the conversion of such Convertible Security or
portion thereof in accordance with the provisions of this Article and a check or
cash in respect of any fractional interest in respect of a share of Common Stock
arising upon such conversion as provided in Section 1704. In case any
Convertible Security of a denomination greater than $1,000 shall be surrendered
for partial conversion and subject to Section 302, the Company shall execute and
the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to or upon the written order of the
Holder of the Convertible Security so surrendered, without charge to such
Holder, a new Convertible Security or Convertible Securities in authorized
denominations in an aggregate principal amount equal to the unconverted portion
of the surrendered Convertible Security.
Each conversion shall be deemed to have been effected on the
date on which such Convertible Security shall have been surrendered (accompanied
by the funds, if any, required by the last paragraph of this Section) and such
notice shall have been received by the Company, as aforesaid, and the person in
whose name any certificate or certificates for shares of Common Stock shall be
registrable upon such conversion shall be deemed to have become on said date the
holder of record of the shares represented thereby; provided however, that any
such surrender on any date when the stock transfer books of the Company shall be
closed shall constitute the person in whose name the certificates are to be
registered as the record holder thereof for all purposes on the next succeeding
day on which stock transfer books are open, but such conversion shall be at the
Conversion Price in effect on the date upon which such Convertible Security
shall have been surrendered.
Any Convertible Security or portion thereof surrendered for
conversion during the period from the close of business on the Regular Record
Date for any Interest Payment Date to the opening of business on such Interest
Payment Date shall (unless such Convertible Security or
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portion thereof being converted shall have been called for redemption or
submitted for repayment on a date in such period) be accompanied by payment, in
legal tender or other funds acceptable to the Company, of an amount equal to the
interest otherwise payable on such Interest Payment Date on the principal amount
being converted; provided, however, that no such payment need be made if there
shall exist at the time of conversion a default in the payment of interest on
the Convertible Securities. An amount equal to such payment shall be paid by the
Company on such Interest Payment Date to the Holder of such Convertible Security
on such Regular Record Date, provided, however, that if the Company shall
default in the payment of interest on such Interest Payment Date, such amount
shall be paid to the person who made such required payment. Except as provided
above in this Section, no adjustment shall be made for interest accrued on any
Convertible Security converted or for dividends on any shares issued upon the
conversion of such Convertible Security as provided in this Article.
SECTION 1704. CASH PAYMENTS IN LIEU OF FRACTIONAL SHARES.
No fractional shares of Common Stock or scrip representing
fractional shares shall be delivered upon conversion of Convertible Securities.
If more than one Convertible Security shall be surrendered for conversion at one
time by the same Holder, the number of full shares which shall be deliverable
upon conversion shall be computed on the basis of the aggregate principal amount
of the Convertible Securities (or specified portions thereof to the extent
permitted hereby) so surrendered. If any fractional share of stock would be
deliverable upon the conversion of any Convertible Security or Convertible
Securities, the Company shall make an adjustment therefor in cash at the current
market value of such fractional share of stock. The market value of a share of
Common Stock shall be the Closing Price on the Business Day immediately
preceding the day on which the Convertible Securities (or specified portions
thereof) are deemed to have been converted.
SECTION 1705. CONVERSION PRICE.
The Conversion Price shall be as specified in the form of
Convertible Security hereinabove set forth, subject to adjustment as provided in
this Article.
SECTION 1706. ADJUSTMENT TO CONVERSION PRICE.
The Conversion Price shall be adjusted from time to time as
follows:
(a) In case the Company shall (i) pay a dividend or make a
distribution on the Common Stock in shares of its capital stock
(whether shares of Common Stock or of capital stock of any other
class), (ii) subdivide or reclassify its outstanding Common Stock into
a greater number of securities (including Common Stock), or (iii)
combine or reclassify its outstanding Common Stock into a smaller
number of securities (including Common Stock), the Conversion Price in
effect immediately prior thereto shall be adjusted so that the Holder
of any Convertible Security thereafter surrendered for conversion shall
be entitled to receive the number of shares of capital stock of the
Company which such Holder would have owned or have been entitled to
receive after the happening of any of the events described above had
such Convertible Security been converted immediately prior to the
happening of
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such event. An adjustment made pursuant to this subsection (a) shall
become effective immediately after the record date in the case of a
dividend and shall become effective immediately after the effective
date in the case of a subdivision or combination. If, as a result of an
adjustment made pursuant to this subsection (a), the Holder of any
Convertible Security thereafter surrendered for conversion shall become
entitled to receive shares of two or more classes of capital stock of
the Company, the Board of Directors (whose determination shall be
conclusive and shall be described in a written statement filed with the
Trustee and any conversion agent) shall determine the allocation of the
adjusted Conversion Price between or among shares of such classes of
capital stock.
In the event that at any time, as a result of an adjustment
made pursuant to this subsection (a) of this Section 1706, the Holder
of any Convertible Security thereafter converted shall become entitled
to receive any shares or other securities of the Company other than
shares of Common Stock, thereafter the number of such other shares so
received upon conversion of any Convertible Security shall be subject
to adjustment from time to time in a manner and on terms as nearly
equivalent as practicable to the provisions with respect to the shares
of Common Stock contained in this Section 1706, and other provisions of
this Article Seventeen with respect to the shares of Common Stock shall
apply on like terms to any such other shares or other securities.
(b) In case the Company shall fix a record date for the
issuance of rights or warrants to all holders of its Common Stock (or
securities convertible into Common Stock) entitling them (for a period
expiring within 45 days after such record date) to subscribe for or
purchase Common Stock at a price per share (or a conversion price per
share) less than the current market price per share of Common Stock (as
defined in subsection (d) below) at such record date, the Conversion
Price in effect immediately prior thereto shall be adjusted so that the
same shall equal the price determined by multiplying the Conversion
Price in effect immediately prior to such record date by a fraction of
which the numerator shall be the number of shares of Common Stock
outstanding on such record date plus the number of shares which the
aggregate offering price of the total number of shares so offered (or
the aggregate initial conversion price of the convertible securities so
offered) would purchase at such current market price, and of which the
denominator shall be the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding
on such record date plus the number of additional shares of Common
Stock offered for subscription or purchase (or into which the
convertible securities so offered are initially convertible). Such
adjustment shall be made successively whenever such a record date is
fixed, and shall become effective immediately after such record date.
In determining whether any rights or warrants entitle the holders to
subscribe for or purchase shares of Common Stock at less than such
current market price, and in determining the aggregate offering price
of such shares, there shall be taken into account any consideration
received by the Company for such rights or warrants, the value of such
consideration, if other than cash, to be determined by the Board of
Directors. Common Stock owned by or held for the account of the Company
or any majority owned subsidiary shall not be deemed outstanding for
the purpose of any adjustment required under this subsection (b).
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(c) In case the Company shall fix a record date for making a
distribution to all holders of its Common Stock evidences of its
indebtedness or assets (excluding regular quarterly or other periodic
or recurring cash dividends or distributions and cash dividends or
distributions paid from retained earnings of the Company or dividends
or distributions referred to in subsection (a) above) or rights or
warrants to subscribe or purchase (excluding those referred to in
subsection (b) above), then in each such case the Conversion Price
shall be adjusted so that the same shall equal the price determined by
multiplying the Conversion Price in effect immediately prior to such
record date by a fraction of which the numerator shall be the current
market price per share (as defined in subsection (d) below) of the
Common Stock on such record date less the then fair market value (as
determined by the Board of Directors whose determination shall be
conclusive, and described in a certificate filed with the Trustee) of
the portion of the assets or evidences of indebtedness so distributed
or of such rights or warrants applicable to one share of Common Stock,
and the denominator shall be the current market price per share (as
defined in subsection (d) below) of the Common Stock. Such adjustment
shall be made successively whenever such a record date is fixed and
shall become effective immediately after such record date.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that the Company shall
distribute any rights or warrants to acquire capital stock ("Rights")
pursuant to this subsection (c), the distribution of separate
certificates representing such Rights subsequent to their initial
distribution (whether or not such distribution shall have occurred
prior to the date of the issuance of such Convertible Securities) shall
be deemed to be the distribution of such Rights for purposes of this
subsection (c); provided that the Company may, in lieu of making any
adjustment pursuant to this subsection (c) upon a distribution of
separate certificates representing such Rights, make proper provision
so that each Holder of such Convertible Security who converts such
Convertible Security (or any portion thereof) (i) before the record
date for such distribution of separate certificates shall be entitled
to receive upon such conversion shares of Common Stock issued with
Rights and (ii) after such record date and prior to the expiration,
redemption or termination of such Rights, shall be entitled to receive
upon such conversion, in addition to the shares of Common Stock
issuable upon such conversion, the same number of such Rights as would
a holder of the number of shares of Common Stock that such Convertible
Security so converted would have entitled the holder thereof to
purchase in accordance with the terms and provisions of and applicable
to the Rights if such Convertible Security were converted immediately
prior to the record date for such distribution. Common Stock owned by
or held for the account of the Company or any majority owned subsidiary
shall not be deemed outstanding for the purpose of any adjustment
required under this subsection (c).
(d) For the purpose of any computation under subsection (b)
and (c) above, the current market price per share of Common Stock at
any date shall be deemed to be the average of the daily Closing Prices
for the thirty consecutive days (which are not legal holidays as
defined in Section 113) commencing forty-five days (which are not legal
holidays as defined in Section 113) before the day in question. The
Closing Price for any day shall be (i) if the Common Stock is listed or
admitted for trading on any national securities exchange, the last sale
price (regular way), or the average of the closing bid and ask prices
if no sale occurred, of Common Stock on the principal securities
exchange on
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which the Common Stock is listed, or, if not listed or admitted to
trading on any national securities exchange, on the National Market
System of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.
Automated Quotations System ("Nasdaq"), (ii) if not listed or quoted as
described in (i), the mean between the closing high bid and low asked
quotations of Common Stock reported by Nasdaq, or any similar system or
automated dissemination of quotations of securities prices then in
common use, if so quoted, or (iii) if not quoted as described in clause
(ii), the mean between the high bid and low asked quotations for Common
Stock as reported by the National Quotation Bureau Incorporated if at
least two securities dealers have inserted both bid and asked
quotations for Common Stock on at least 5 of the 10 preceding days. If
none of the conditions set forth above is met, the Closing Price of
Common Stock on any day or the average of such Closing Prices for any
period shall be the fair market value of Common Stock as determined by
a member firm of the New York Stock Exchange, Inc. selected by the
Company.
(e)(i) No adjustment in the Conversion Price shall be required
unless such adjustment would require an increase or decrease of at
least 1% in such price; provided, however, that any adjustments which
by reason of this subsection (e)(i) are not required to be made shall
be carried forward and taken into account in any subsequent adjustment,
further provided, however, that any adjustments which by reason of this
subsection (e)(i) are not otherwise required to be made shall be made
no later than 3 years after the date on which occurs an event that
requires an adjustment to be made or carried forward.
(ii) All calculations under this Article Seventeen shall be
made to the nearest cent or to the nearest one-hundredth of a share, as
the case may be. Anything in this Section 1706 to the contrary
notwithstanding, the Company shall be entitled to make such reductions
in the Conversion Price, in addition to those required by this Section
1706, as it in its discretion shall determine to be advisable in order
that any stock dividends, subdivision of shares, distribution of rights
to purchase stock or securities, or distribution of securities
convertible into or exchangeable for stock hereafter made by the
Company to its shareholders shall not be taxable.
(f) Whenever the Conversion Price is adjusted, as herein
provided, the Company shall promptly file with the Trustee and any
conversion agent other than the Trustee an Officers' Certificate
setting forth the Conversion Price after such adjustment and setting
forth a brief statement of the facts requiring such adjustment.
Promptly after delivery of such certificate, the Company shall prepare
a notice of such adjustment of the Conversion Price setting forth the
adjusted Conversion Price and the date on which such adjustment becomes
effective and shall mail such notice of such adjustment of the
Conversion Price to the Holder of each Convertible Security at such
Holder's last address appearing on the Security Register provided for
in Section 305 of this Indenture.
(g) In any case in which this Section 1706 provides that an
adjustment shall become effective immediately after a record date for
an event, the Company may defer until the occurrence of such event (i)
delivering to the Holder of any Convertible Security converted after
such record date and before the occurrence of such event the additional
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shares of Common Stock deliverable upon such conversion by reason of
the adjustment required by such event over and above the Common Stock
deliverable upon such conversion before giving effect to such
adjustment and (ii) paying to such Holder any amount in cash in lieu of
any fraction pursuant to Section 1704, provided, however, that the
Company shall deliver to such Holder a due xxxx or other appropriate
instrument evidencing such Holder's rights to receive such additional
shares, and such cash, upon the occurrence of the event requiring such
adjustment. If such event does not occur, no adjustments shall be made
pursuant to this Section 1706.
SECTION 1707. EFFECT OF RECLASSIFICATION, CONSOLIDATION,
MERGER OR SALE.
If any of the following events occur, namely (i) any
reclassification or change of outstanding shares of Common Stock deliverable
upon conversion of the Convertible Securities (other than a change in par value,
or from par value to no par value, or from no par value to par value, or as a
result of a subdivision or combination, but including any change in the shares
of Common Stock into two or more classes or series of securities), (ii) any
consolidation or merger to which the Company is a party (other than a
consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing corporation and
which does not result in any reclassification of, or change (other than a change
in par value, or from par value to no par value, or from no par value to par
value, or as a result of a subdivision or combination) in, outstanding shares of
its Common Stock) or (iii) any sale or conveyance of the properties and assets
of the Company as, or substantially as, an entirety to any other corporation;
then the Company, or such successor or purchasing corporation, as the case may
be, shall execute with the Trustee a supplemental indenture (which shall conform
to the Trust Indenture Act as in force at the date of execution of such
supplemental indenture and comply with the provisions of Article Nine) providing
that each Convertible Security shall be convertible into the kind and amount of
shares of stock and other securities or property, including cash, receivable
upon such reclassification, change, consolidation, merger, sale or conveyance by
a holder of a number of shares of Common Stock deliverable upon conversion of
such Convertible Securities immediately prior to such reclassification, change,
consolidation, merger, sale or conveyance. Such supplemental indenture shall
provide for adjustments which shall be as nearly equivalent as may be
practicable to the adjustments provided for in this Article. The Company shall
cause notice of the execution of such supplemental indenture to be mailed to
each holder of Convertible Securities, at such holder's address appearing on the
Security Register provided for in Section 305 of this Indenture.
The above provisions of this Section shall similarly apply to
successive reclassifications, changes, consolidations, mergers, sales and
conveyances.
SECTION 1708. TAXES ON SHARES ISSUED.
The delivery of stock certificates on conversions of
Convertible Securities shall be made without charge to the Holder converting a
Convertible Security for any tax in respect of the issue thereof. The Company
shall not, however, be required to pay any tax which may be payable in respect
of any transfer involved in the delivery of stock registered in any name other
than of the Holder of any Convertible Security converted, and the Company shall
not be required to deliver
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any such stock certificate unless and until the person or persons requesting the
delivery thereof shall have paid to the Company the amount of such tax or shall
have established to the satisfaction of the Company that such tax has been paid.
SECTION 1709. SHARES TO BE FULLY PAID; COMPLIANCE WITH
GOVERNMENTAL REQUIREMENTS; LISTING OF COMMON STOCK.
The Company covenants that all shares of Common Stock which
may be delivered upon conversion of Convertible Securities will upon delivery be
fully paid and nonassessable by the Company and free from all taxes, liens and
charges with respect to the issue thereof.
The Company covenants that if any shares of Common Stock to be
provided for the purpose of conversion of Convertible Securities hereunder
require registration with or approval of any governmental authority under any
Federal or state law before such shares may be validly delivered upon
conversion, the Company will in good faith and as expeditiously as possible
endeavor to secure such registration or approval, as the case may be.
The Company further covenants that it will, if permitted by
the rules of the AMEX, list and keep listed for so long as the Common Stock
shall be so listed on such exchange, upon official notice of issuance, all
Common Stock deliverable upon conversion of the Convertible Securities.
SECTION 1710. RESPONSIBILITY OF TRUSTEE.
Neither Trustee nor any authenticating agent nor any
conversion agent shall at any time be under any duty or responsibility to any
Holder of Convertible Securities to determine whether any facts exist which may
require any adjustment of the Conversion Price, or with respect to the nature or
extent of any such adjustment when made, or with respect to the method employed,
or herein or in any supplemental indenture provided to be employed, in making
the same. Neither the Trustee nor any authenticating agent nor any conversion
agent shall be accountable with respect to the validity or value (or the kind or
amount) of any shares of Common Stock, or of any securities or property, which
may at any time be delivered upon the conversion of any Convertible Security,
and neither the Trustee nor any authenticating agent nor any conversion agent
makes any representation with respect thereto. Subject to the provisions of
Section 601, neither the Trustee nor any authenticating agent nor any conversion
agent shall be responsible for any failure of the Company to deliver any shares
of Common Stock or stock certificates or other securities or property or cash
upon the surrender of any Convertible Security for the purpose of conversion or
for any failure of the Company to comply with any of the covenants of the
Company contained in this Article.
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SECTION 1711. NOTICE TO HOLDERS PRIOR TO CERTAIN ACTIONS.
In case:
(a) the Company shall declare a dividend (or any other
distribution) on the Common Stock (other than in cash out of its
current or retained earnings); or
(b) the Company shall authorize the granting to the holders of
the Common Stock of rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase any
shares of any class or any other rights or warrants; or
(c) of any reclassification or change of the Common Stock
(other than a subdivision or combination of its outstanding Common
Stock, or a change in par value, or from par value to no par value, or
from no par value to par value) or of any consolidation or merger to
which the Company is a party and for which approval of any stockholders
of the Company is required or of the sale or transfer of all or
substantially all of the assets of the Company; or
(d) of the voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation
or winding up of the Company;
the Company shall cause to be filed with the Trustee and the Company shall cause
to be mailed to each holder of Convertible Securities at such holder's address
appearing on the Security Register, provided for in Section 305 of this
Indenture, as promptly as possible but in any event no less than fifteen days
prior to the applicable date hereinafter specified, a notice stating (x) the
date on which a record is to be taken for the purpose of such dividend,
distribution, rights or warrants, or, if a record is not to be taken, the date
as of which the holders of Common Stock of record to be entitled to such
dividend, distribution, rights or warrants are to be determined, or (y) the date
on which such reclassification, change, consolidation, merger, sale, transfer,
dissolution, liquidation or winding up is expected to become effective, and the
date as of which it is expected that holders of Common Stock of record shall be
entitled to exchange their Common Stock for securities or other property
deliverable upon such reclassification, change, consolidation, merger, sale,
transfer, dissolution, liquidation or winding up. Failure to give such notice,
or any defect therein, shall not affect the legality or validity of such
dividend, distribution, reclassification, change, consolidation, merger, sale,
transfer, dissolution, liquidation or winding up or any adjustment in the
Conversion Price required by this Article Seventeen.
SECTION 1712. COVENANT TO RESERVE SHARES.
The Company covenants that it will at all times reserve and
keep available, free from pre-emptive rights, out of its authorized but unissued
Common Stock, such number of shares of Common Stock as shall then be deliverable
upon the conversion of all outstanding Convertible Securities.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this
Indenture to be duly executed, and their respective corporate seals, if any, to
be hereunto affixed and attested, all as of the day and year first above
written.
XXXXXX FINANCIAL CORPORATION
By
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Its
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Attest:
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Secretary
WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, not in its
individual capacity but solely as trustee
By
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Its
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[CORPORATE SEAL]
Attest:
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Assistant Secretary
STATE OF MINNESOTA )
)SS.
COUNTY OF HENNEPIN )
On the _______ day of ___________, 2001, before me personally
came ________________, to me known, who, being duly sworn, did depose and say
that he resides at ________________, Minnesota; that he is a __________________,
of a corporation described in and which executed the above instrument; and that
he signed his name thereto pursuant to the authority of the board of directors
of said corporation.
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Notary Public
STATE OF DELAWARE )
)SS.
COUNTY OF NEW CASTLE )
On the __________ day of ___________, 2001, before me
personally came ______________________, to me known, who, being duly sworn, did
depose and say that he resides at _____________________; that he is a
____________________________ of Wilmington Trust Company, a Delaware banking
corporation described in and which executed the above instrument; that he knows
the seal of said corporation; that it was so affixed pursuant to the authority
of the Board of Directors of said corporation; and that he signed his name
thereto pursuant to like authority.
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Notary Public
EXHIBIT A-1
[Form of Certificate of Beneficial Ownership by a
Non-United States Person or by Certain Other Persons]
Certificate
XXXXXX FINANCIAL CORPORATION
[Insert title or sufficient description of
Debt Securities to be delivered]
Reference is hereby made to the Indenture dated as of ________________,
__________ (the "Indenture") between Xxxxxx Financial Corporation and Wilmington
Trust Company, not in its individual capacity but solely as trustee (the
"Trustee"), covering the above-captioned Debt Securities. This is to certify
that as of the date hereof, ________________ principal amount of Debt Securities
credited to you for our account (i) is owned by persons that are not United
States Persons, as defined below; (ii) is owned by United States Persons that
are (a) foreign branches of United States financial institutions (as defined in
U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.165-12(c)(1)(iv)) ("financial institutions")
purchasing for their own account or for resale, or (b) United States Persons who
acquired the Debt Securities through foreign branches of United States financial
institutions and who hold the Debt Securities through such United States
financial institutions on the date hereof (and in either case (a) or (b), each
such United States financial institution encloses herewith a certificate in the
form of Exhibit A-2 to the Indenture); or (iii) is owned by United States or
foreign financial institutions for purposes of resale during the restricted
period (as defined in U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.163-5(c)(2)(i)(D)(7)),
which United States or foreign financial institutions described in clause (iii)
above (whether or not also described in clause (i) or (ii)) certify that they
have not acquired the Debt Securities for purposes of resale directly or
indirectly to a United States Person or to a person within the United States or
its possessions.
[Insert if certificate does not relate to an interest payment--We
undertake to advise you by tested telex followed by written confirmation if the
above statement as to beneficial ownership is not correct on the date of
delivery of the above-captioned Debt Securities in bearer form as to all of such
Debt Securities with respect to such of said Debt Securities as then appear in
your books as being held for our account.] We understand that this certificate
is required in connection with United States tax laws. We irrevocably authorize
you to produce this certificate or a copy hereof to any interested party in any
administrative or legal proceedings with respect to the matters covered by this
certificate. "United States Person" shall mean a citizen or resident of the
United States of America (including the District of Columbia), a corporation,
partnership or other entity created or organized in or under the laws of the
United States or any political subdivision thereof or an estate or trust that is
subject to United States Federal income taxation regardless of the source of its
income.
[This certificate excepts and does not relate to ____________ principal
amount of Debt Securities credited to you for our account and to which we are
not now able to make the certification set forth above. We understand that
definitive Debt Securities cannot be delivered and
interest cannot be paid until we are able to so certify with respect to such
principal amount of Debt Securities.]*
Dated:
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[To be dated on or after
____________________ (the date
determined as provided in the
Indenture)]
[Name of Person Entitled to Receive
Bearer Security]
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(Authorized Signatory)
Name:
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Title:
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EXHIBIT A-2
[Form of Certificate of Status as a
Foreign Branch of a United States Financial Institution]
Certificate
XXXXXX FINANCIAL CORPORATION
[Insert title or sufficient description of
Debt Securities to be delivered]
Reference is hereby made to the Indenture dated as of ________________,
________ (the "Indenture") between Xxxxxx Financial Corporation _______________,
as trustee, relating to the offering of the above-captioned Debt Securities (the
"Debt Securities"). Unless herein defined, terms used herein have the same
meaning as given to them in the Indenture.
The undersigned represents that it is a branch located outside the
United States of a United States securities clearing organization, bank or other
financial institution (as defined in U.S. Treasury Regulation Section
1.165-12(c)(1)(iv)) that holds customers' securities in the ordinary course of
its trade or business and agrees, and authorizes you to advise the issuer or the
issuer's agent, that it will comply with the requirements of Section
165(j)(3)(A), (B) or (C) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the
regulations thereunder and is not purchasing for resale directly or indirectly
to a United States Person or to a person within the United States or its
possessions. We undertake to advise you by tested telex followed by written
confirmation if the statement in the immediately preceding sentence is not
correct on the date of delivery of the above-captioned Debt Securities in bearer
form.
We understand that this certificate is required in connection with the
United States tax laws. We irrevocably authorize you to produce this certificate
or a copy hereof to any interested party in any administrative or legal
proceedings with respect to the matters covered by this certificate.
Dated:
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[To be dated on or after ________________________
(the date determined as provided in the Indenture)]
[Name of Person Entitled to Receive
Bearer Security]
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(Authorized Signatory)
Name:
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Title:
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EXHIBIT B
[Form of Certificate to be Given by Euroclear and Cedel S.A.
in Connection with the Exchange of All or a Portion of a
Temporary Global Security or to Obtain
Interest Prior to Exchange]
Certificate
XXXXXX FINANCIAL CORPORATION
[Insert title or sufficient description of Debt Securities
to be delivered]
We refer to that portion, _____________, of the Global Security
representing the above-captioned issue [which is herewith submitted to be
exchanged for definitive Debt Securities]* [for which we are seeking to obtain
payment of interest]* (the "Submitted Portion"). This is to certify, pursuant to
the Indenture dated as of ______________, _____ (the "Indenture") between Xxxxxx
Financial Corporation and ____________________________________________, as
trustee (the "Trustee"), that we have received in writing, by tested telex or by
electronic transmission from member organizations with respect to each of the
persons appearing in our records as being entitled to a beneficial interest in
the Submitted Portion a Certificate of Beneficial Ownership by a Non-United
States Person or by Certain Other Persons [and, in some cases, a Certificate of
Status as a Foreign Branch of a United States Financial Institution, authorizing
us to inform the issuer or the issuer's agent that it will comply with the
requirements of Section 165(j)(3)(A), (B) or (C) of the Internal Revenue Code of
1986 and the regulations thereunder]* substantially in the form of Exhibit A-1
[and A-2]* to the Indenture.
We hereby request that you deliver to the office of _____________ in
____________ definitive Bearer Securities in the denominations on the attached
Schedule A.
We further certify that as of the date hereof we have not received any
notification from any of the persons giving such certificates to the effect that
the statements made by them with respect to any part of the Submitted Portion
are no longer true and cannot be relied on as of the date hereof.
Dated:
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[XXXXXX GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY OF
NEW YORK, BRUSSELS OFFICE, as Operator
of the Euroclear System] [CEDEL
S.A.]
By:
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