Exhibit 4.3
EEX CORPORATION
and
CHASE BANK OF TEXAS, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
Trustee
FORM OF
SUBORDINATED INDENTURE
Dated as of ________, 1998
Providing for Issuance of Securities in Series
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
Recitals of the Company....................................................... 1
Agreements of the Parties .................................................... 1
ARTICLE ONE: DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION
Section 101 Definitions ..................................................... 1
Section 102 Compliance Certificates and Opinions............................. 7
Section 103 Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee .......................... 7
Section 104 Acts of Securityholders ......................................... 8
Section 105 Notices, etc., to Trustee and Company ........................... 9
Section 106 Notices to Securityholders; Waiver ............................. 9
Section 107 Conflict with Trust Indenture Act .............................. 10
Section 108 Effect of Headings and Table of Contents ....................... 10
Section 109 Successors and Assigns ......................................... 10
Section 110 Separability Clause ............................................ 10
Section 111 Benefits of Indenture .......................................... 10
Section 112 Governing Law .................................................. 10
Section 113 Counterparts ................................................... 10
Section 114 Judgment Currency .............................................. 10
ARTICLE TWO: SECURITY FORMS.
Section 201 Forms Generally ................................................ 11
Section 202 Forms of Securities ........................................... 11
Section 203 Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication ................ 12
Section 204 Securities Issuable in the Form of a Global Security ........... 12
ARTICLE THREE: THE SECURITIES.
Section 301 General Title; General Limitations; Issuable in Series; Terms of
Particular Series ............................................. 14
Section 302 Denominations .................................................. 16
Section 303 Execution, Authentication and Delivery and Dating .............. 16
Section 304 Temporary Securities ........................................... 18
Section 305 Registration, Transfer and Exchange ............................ 19
Section 306 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities ............... 20
Section 307 Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved ................. 20
Section 308 Persons Deemed Owners .......................................... 21
Section 309 Cancellation ................................................... 22
Section 310 Computation of Interest ........................................ 22
Section 311 Medium-term Securities ......................................... 22
Section 312 CUSIP Numbers .................................................. 22
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ARTICLE FOUR: SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE; DEFEASANCE;
UNCLAIMED MONEYS
Section 401 Applicability of Article ....................................... 23
Section 402 Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture; Defeasance ............ 23
Section 403 Conditions of Defeasance ....................................... 24
Section 404 Application of Trust Money ..................................... 25
Section 405 Repayment to Company ........................................... 25
Section 406 Indemnity for U.S. Government Obligations ...................... 25
Section 407 Reinstatement .................................................. 26
ARTICLE FIVE: REMEDIES
Section 501 Events of Default .............................................. 26
Section 502 Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment ............. 27
Section 503 Trustee May File Proofs of Claim ............................... 28
Section 504 Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities .... 29
Section 505 Application of Money Collected ................................. 30
Section 506 Limitation on Suits ............................................ 30
Section 507 Unconditional Right of Securityholders to Receive Principal,
Premium and Interest .......................................... 30
Section 508 Restoration of Rights and Remedies ............................ 31
Section 509 Rights and Remedies Cumulative ................................ 31
Section 510 Delay or Omission Not Waiver .................................. 31
Section 511 Control by Securityholders .................................... 32
Section 512 Waiver of Past Defaults ....................................... 32
Section 513 Undertaking for Costs ......................................... 32
Section 514 Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws .............................. 32
ARTICLE SIX: THE TRUSTEE
Section 601 Certain Duties and Responsibilities ............................ 33
Section 602 Notice of Defaults ............................................. 34
Section 603 Certain Rights of Trustee ...................................... 34
Section 604 Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities ......... 35
Section 605 May Hold Securities ............................................ 35
Section 606 Money Held in Trust ............................................ 35
Section 607 Compensation and Reimbursement ................................. 36
Section 608 Disqualification; Conflicting Interests ........................ 36
Section 609 Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility ........................ 36
Section 610 Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor .............. 37
Section 611 Acceptance of Appointment by Successor ......................... 38
Section 612 Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business .... 39
Section 613 Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company .............. 39
Section 614 Appointment of Authenticating Agent ............................ 42
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ARTICLE SEVEN: SECURITYHOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY
Section 701 Company To Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of
Securityholders ............................................... 44
Section 702 Preservation of Information; Communications to Securityholders . 44
Section 703 Reports by Trustee ............................................. 45
Section 704 Reports by Company ............................................. 47
ARTICLE EIGHT: CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE OR TRANSFER
Section 801 Company May Consolidate, etc., only on Certain Terms ........... 48
Section 802 Successor Corporation Substituted .............................. 48
ARTICLE NINE: SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
Section 901 Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Securityholders ..... 48
Section 902 Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Securityholders ........ 49
Section 903 Execution of Supplemental Indentures ........................... 50
Section 904 Effect of Supplemental Indentures .............................. 50
Section 905 Conformity with Trust Indenture Act ............................ 51
Section 906 Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures ............. 51
ARTICLE TEN: COVENANTS
Section 1001 Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest .................... 51
Section 1002 Maintenance of Office or Agency ............................... 51
Section 1003 Money for Security Payments to be Held in Trust ............... 51
Section 1004 Statement as to Compliance .................................... 53
Section 1005 Corporate Existence ........................................... 53
ARTICLE ELEVEN: REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
Section 1101 Applicability of Article ...................................... 53
Section 1102 Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee ......................... 53
Section 1103 Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed ............. 54
Section 1104 Notice of Redemption .......................................... 54
Section 1105 Deposit of Redemption Price ................................... 55
Section 1106 Securities Payable on Redemption Date ......................... 55
Section 1107 Securities Redeemed in Part ................................... 55
Section 1108 Provisions with Respect to any Sinking Funds .................. 55
ARTICLE TWELVE: SUBORDINATION
Section 1201 Agreement of Securityholders that Securities Subordinated to
Extent Provided .............................................. 56
Section 1202 Company Not to Make Payments With Respect to Securities in
Certain Circumstances ........................................ 57
Section 1203 Securities Subordinated to Prior Payments of All Senior
Indebtedness on Dissolution, Liquidation or Reorganization of
the Company .................................................. 58
Section 1204 Securityholders to be Subrogated to Right of Holders of Senior
Indebtedness ................................................. 58
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Section 1205 Obligation of the Company Unconditional ....................... 59
Section 1206 Trustee Entitled to Assume Payments Not Prohibited in Absence
of Notice .................................................... 59
Section 1207 Application by Trustee of Monies Deposited With It ............ 59
Section 1208 Subordination Rights Not Impaired by Acts or Omissions of
Company or Holders of Senior Indebtedness .................... 60
Section 1209 Securityholders Authorize Trustee to Effectuate Subordination
of Securities ................................................ 60
Section 1210 Right of Trustee to Hold Senior Indebtedness .................. 60
Section 1211 Article Twelve Not to Prevent Events of Default ............... 60
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THIS SUBORDINATED INDENTURE (the "Indenture") between EEX CORPORATION, a
Texas corporation (hereinafter called the "Company") having its principal office
at 0000 XxxxXxxx Xxxx., Xxxxx 0000, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxx 00000, and Chase Bank of
Texas, National Association, a national banking corporation, as trustee
(hereinafter called the "Trustee"), is made and entered into as of this ___ day
of ________, 1998.
Recitals of the Company
The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this
Indenture to provide for the issuance of its Securities, notes, bonds or other
evidences of indebtedness, to be issued in one or more fully registered series.
All things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement of the
Company, in accordance with its terms, have been done.
Agreements of the Parties
To set forth or to provide for the establishment of the terms and
conditions upon which the Securities are and are to be authenticated, issued and
delivered, and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of Securities
by the Holders thereof, it is mutually covenanted and agreed as follows, for the
equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Securities or of a series
thereof, as the case may be:
ARTICLE ONE
Definitions and Other Provisions
of General Application
Section 101. Definitions. For all purposes of this Indenture and of any
indenture supplemental hereto, 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 under the Trust Indenture Act, either
directly or by reference therein, have the meanings assigned to them
therein;
(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 of America at the date of such
computation;
(4) all references in this instrument to designated "Articles,"
"Sections" and other subdivisions are to the designated Articles, Sections
and other subdivisions of this
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instrument as originally executed. 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; and
(5) "including" and words of similar import shall be deemed to be
followed by "without limitation." Certain terms, used principally in
Article Six, are defined in that Article.
"Act," when used with respect to any Security-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.
"Authenticating Agent" means any Person authorized by the Trustee to
authenticate Securities under Section 614.
"Board of Directors" means either the board of directors of the Company or
any duly authorized committee of that board.
"Board Resolution" means a copy of a resolution certified by the Secretary
or an Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted by the Board
of Directors and to be in full force and effect on the date of such
certification, and delivered to the Trustee.
"Business Day" means each day which is neither a Saturday, Sunday or other
day on which banking institutions in the pertinent Place or Places of Payment
are authorized or required by law or executive order to be closed.
"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.
"Company" means the Person named as the "Company" in the first paragraph of
this instrument until a successor corporation shall have become such pursuant to
the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter "Company" shall mean
such successor corporation.
"Company Request," "Company Order" and "Company Consent" mean,
respectively, a written request, order or consent signed in the name of the
Company by its Chairman of the Board, President or a Vice President, and by its
Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, Controller, an Assistant Controller,
Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, and delivered to the Trustee.
"Corporate Trust Office" means the principal office of the Trustee in
Dallas, Texas at which at any particular time its corporate trust business shall
be principally administered, which
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office at the date hereof is located at ___________, Dallas, Texas _____, except
that with respect to the presentation of Securities for payment or for
registration of transfer and exchange, such term shall mean the office or the
agency of the Trustee in said city at which at any particular time its corporate
agency business shall be conducted, which office at the date hereof is located
at ____________, New York, New York _____.
"Debt" means indebtedness for money borrowed.
"Defaulted Interest" has the meaning specified in Section 307.
"Depositary" means, unless otherwise specified by the Company pursuant to
either Section 204 or 301, with respect to Securities of any series issuable or
issued as a Global Security, The Depository Trust Company, New York, New York,
or any successor thereto registered as a clearing agency under the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or other applicable statute or regulation.
"Event of Default" has the meaning specified in Article Five.
"Global Security" means with respect to any series of Securities issued
hereunder, a Security which is executed by the Company and authenticated and
delivered by the Trustee to the Depositary or pursuant to the Depositary's
instruction, all in accordance with this Indenture and an indenture supplemental
hereto, if any, or Board Resolution and pursuant to a Company Request, which
shall be registered in the name of the Depositary or its nominee and which shall
represent, and shall be denominated in an amount equal to the aggregate
principal amount of, all of the Outstanding Securities of such series or any
portion thereof, in either case having the same terms, including, without
limitation, the same original issue date, date or dates on which principal is
due, and interest rate or method of determining interest.
"Holder," when used with respect to any Security, means a Securityholder.
"Indenture" or "this Indenture" means this instrument as originally
executed or as it may from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or
more indentures supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable
provisions hereof and shall include the terms of particular series of Securities
established as contemplated by Section 301.
"Interest," when used with respect to an Original Issue Discount Security
which by its terms bears interest only after Maturity, means interest payable
after Maturity.
"Interest Payment Date," when used with respect to any series of
Securities, means the Stated Maturity of any installment of interest on those
Securities.
"Maturity," when used with respect to any Securities, means the date on
which the principal of any such Security becomes due and payable as therein or
herein provided, whether on a Repayment Date, at the Stated Maturity or by
declaration of acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise.
"Officers' Certificate" means a certificate signed by the Chairman of the
Board, the President or a Vice President, and by the Treasurer, an Assistant
Treasurer, the Controller, an
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Assistant Controller, the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company,
and delivered to the Trustee. Wherever this Indenture requires that an Officers'
Certificate be signed also by an engineer or an accountant or other expert, such
engineer, accountant or other expert (except as otherwise expressly provided in
this Indenture) may be in the employ of the Company, and shall be acceptable 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 of counsel
to the Company. Such counsel shall be acceptable to the Trustee, whose
acceptance shall not be unreasonably withheld.
"Original Issue Discount Security" means (i) any Security which provides
for an amount less than the principal amount thereof to be due and payable upon
a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof, and (ii) any other
Security deemed an Original Issue Discount Security for United States Federal
income tax purposes.
"Outstanding," when used with respect to Securities or Securities of any
series, means, as of the date of determination, all such Securities theretofore
authenticated and delivered under this Indenture, except:
(i) such Securities theretofore canceled by the Trustee or delivered
to the Trustee for cancellation;
(ii) such Securities for whose payment or redemption money in the
necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the Trustee or any
Paying Agent in trust for the Holders of such Securities; provided that, if
such Securities are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly
given pursuant to this Indenture or provision therefor satisfactory to the
Trustee has been made; and
(iii) such Securities in exchange for or in lieu of which other
Securities have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to this
Indenture, or which shall have been paid pursuant to the terms of Section
306 (except with respect to any such Security as to which proof
satisfactory to the Trustee is presented that such Security is held by a
person in whose hands such Security is a legal, valid and binding
obligation of the Company).
In determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of such
Securities Outstanding have given any request, demand, authorization, direction,
notice, consent or waiver hereunder, (i) the principal amount of any Original
Issue Discount Security that shall be deemed to be Outstanding shall be the
amount of the principal thereof that would be due and payable as of the date of
the taking of such action upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity
thereof and (ii) Securities owned by the Company or any other obligor upon the
Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor shall be
disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding. In determining whether the Trustee
shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Securities which a Responsible
Officer assigned to the corporate trust department of the Trustee knows to be
owned by the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate
of the Company or such other obligor shall be so disregarded. Securities so
owned which have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if
the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Trustee
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the pledgee's right to act as owner with respect to such Securities and that the
pledgee is not the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any
Affiliate of the Company or such other obligor.
"Paying Agent" means any Person authorized by the Company to pay the
principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on any Securities on behalf of
the Company.
"Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, limited liability
company, joint venture, association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated
organization, government or other entity or any agency or political subdivision
thereof.
"Place of Payment" means the office of the Trustee or an agent of the
Trustee in New York, New York.
"Predecessor Securities" of any particular Security means every previous
Security evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such
particular Security; and, for the purposes of this definition, any Security
authenticated and delivered under Section 306 in lieu of a lost, destroyed or
stolen Security shall be deemed to evidence the same debt as the lost, destroyed
or stolen Security.
"Redemption Date," when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed,
means the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this Indenture.
"Redemption Price," when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed,
means the price specified in the Security at which it is to be redeemed pursuant
to this Indenture.
"Regular Record Date" for the interest payable on any Security on any
Interest Payment Date means the date specified in such Security as the Regular
Record Date.
"Repayment Date," when used with respect to any Security to be repaid,
means the date fixed for such repayment pursuant to such Security.
"Repayment Price," when used with respect to any Security to be repaid,
means the price at which it is to be repaid pursuant to such Security.
"Responsible Officer," when used with respect to the Trustee, means the
chairman or vice-chairman of the board of directors, the chairman or
vice-chairman of the executive committee of the board of directors, the
president, any vice president, the secretary, any assistant secretary, the
treasurer, any assistant treasurer, the cashier, any assistant cashier, any
senior trust officer or trust officer, the controller and any assistant
controller or any other officer of the Trustee customarily performing functions
similar to those performed by any of the above designated officers and also
means, with respect to a particular corporate trust matter, any other officer to
whom such matter is referred because of his knowledge of and familiarity with
the particular subject.
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"Security" or "Securities" means any note or notes, bond or bonds,
debenture or debentures, or any other evidences of indebtedness, as the case may
be, of any series authenticated and delivered from time to time under this
Indenture.
"Security Register" shall have the meaning specified in Section 305.
"Security Registrar" means the Person who keeps the Security Register
specified in Section 305.
"Securityholder" means a Person in whose name a Security is registered in
the Security Register.
"Senior Indebtedness" means the principal of and premium, if any, and
interest on the following whether outstanding on the date of execution of this
Indenture or thereafter incurred or created (i) indebtedness of the Company for
money borrowed by the Company (including purchase money obligations with an
original maturity in excess of one year) or evidenced by securities (other than
the Securities), notes, bankers' acceptances or other corporate debt securities
or similar instruments issued by the Company; (ii) unreimbursed drawings under
letters of credit; (iii) indebtedness of the Company constituting a guarantee of
indebtedness of others of the type referred to in the preceding clauses (i) and
(ii); or (iv) renewals, extensions or refundings of any of the indebtedness
referred to in the preceding clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) unless, in the case of
any particular indebtedness, renewal, extension or refunding, under the express
provisions of the instrument creating or evidencing the same, or pursuant to
which the same is outstanding, such indebtedness or such renewal, extension or
refunding thereof is not superior in right of payment to the Securities.
"Special Record Date" for the payment of any Defaulted Interest (as defined
in Section 307) means a date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 307.
"Stated Maturity" when used with respect to any Security or any installment
of principal thereof or interest thereon means the date specified in such
Security as the fixed date on which the principal of such Security or such
installment of principal or interest is due and payable.
"Subsidiary" of any specified corporation means any corporation at least a
majority of whose outstanding Voting Stock shall at the time be owned, directly
or indirectly, by the specified corporation or by one or more of its
Subsidiaries, or both.
"Trust Indenture Act" or "TIA" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as
amended by the Trust Indenture Reform Act of 1990, as in force at the date as of
which this instrument was executed except as provided in Section 905.
"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 and
include each Person who is then a Trustee hereunder. If at any time there is
more than one such Person, "Trustee" as used with respect to the Securities of
any series shall mean the Trustee with respect to Securities of that series.
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"U.S. Government Obligations" means securities that are (x) direct
obligations of the United States of America for the payment of which its full
faith and credit is pledged or (y) obligations of a Person controlled or
supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality of the United States of
America, the payment of which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and
credit obligation by the United States of America, which, in either case, are
not callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof.
"Vice President" when used with respect to the Company or the Trustee means
any vice president, whether or not designated by a number or a word or words
added before or after the title "vice president," including, without limitation,
an assistant vice president.
"Voting Stock," as applied to the stock of any corporation, means stock of
any class or classes (however designated) having by the terms thereof ordinary
voting power to elect a majority of the members of the board of directors (or
other governing body) of such corporation other than stock having such power
only by reason of the happening of a contingency.
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, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate stating that all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this
Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with and, if
requested, 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 (except for the written statement
required by Section 1004) shall include
(1) a statement that each individual signing such certificate or
opinion has read such covenant or condition and the definitions herein
relating thereto;
(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 has
made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him to
express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition
has been complied with; and
(4) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such individual,
such condition or covenant has been complied with.
Section 103. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee. In any case where
several matters are required to be certified by, or covered by an opinion of,
any specified Person, it is not necessary that all such matters be certified by,
or covered by the opinion of, only one such
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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 the 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 certificate or opinion is based are
erroneous. Any such certificate or Opinion of Counsel may be based, insofar as
it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or
representations by, an officer or officers of the Company stating that the
information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the
Company, unless such counsel knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should
know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to such
matters are erroneous.
Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more
applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other
instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated and
form one instrument.
Section 104. Acts of Securityholders.
(a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by
Securityholders or Securityholders of any series may be embodied in and
evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by
such Securityholders in person or by an agent duly appointed in writing; and,
except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall become
effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to the Trustee, and,
where it is hereby expressly required, to the Company. If any Securities are
denominated in coin or currency other than that of the United States, then for
the purposes of determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal
amount of Securities have taken any action as herein described, the principal
amount of such Securities shall be deemed to be that amount of United States
dollars that could be obtained for such principal amount on the basis of the
spot rate of exchange into United States dollars for the currency in which such
Securities are denominated (as evidenced to the Trustee by an Officers'
Certificate) as of the date the taking of such action by the Holders of such
requisite principal amount is evidenced to the Trustee as provided in the
immediately preceding sentence. Such instrument or instruments (and the action
embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the
"Act" of the Securityholders signing such instrument or instruments. Proof of
execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall
be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Section 601)
conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the Company, if made in the manner
provided in this Section.
(b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such
instrument or writing may be proved by the affidavit of a witness to such
execution or by the certificate of any notary public or other officer authorized
by law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the individual signing
such instrument or writing acknowledged to him the execution thereof. Where such
execution is by an officer of a corporation or a member of a partnership, on
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behalf of such corporation or partnership, such certificate or affidavit shall
also constitute sufficient proof of his authority. The fact and date of the
execution of any such instrument or writing, or the authority of the person
executing the same, may also be proved in any other manner which the Trustee
deems sufficient.
(c) The ownership of Securities shall be proved by the Security
Register.
(d) If the Company shall solicit from the Holders any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action, the Company
may, at its option, by Board Resolution, fix in advance a record date for the
determination of Holders entitled to give such request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action, but the Company shall have
no obligation to do so. If such a record date is fixed, such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action may be given
before or after the record date, but only the Holders of record at the close of
business on the record date shall be deemed to be Holders for the purposes of
determining whether Holders of the requisite proportion of Securities
Outstanding have authorized or agreed or consented to such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action, and for that
purpose the Securities Outstanding shall be computed as of the record date;
provided that no such authorization, agreement or consent by the Holders on the
record date shall be deemed effective unless it shall become effective pursuant
to the provisions of this Indenture not later than six months after the record
date.
(e) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other action by the Holder of any Security shall bind the Holder of
every Security issued upon the transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in
lieu thereof, in respect of anything done or suffered to be done by the Trustee
or the Company in reliance thereon whether or not notation of such action is
made upon such Security.
Section 105. Notices, etc., to Trustee and Company. Any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of Securityholders 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 Securityholder or by the Company shall be
sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed
in writing to or with the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office, or
(2) the Company by the Trustee or by any Securityholder shall be
sufficient for every purpose hereunder (except as provided in Section
501(4) or, in the case of a request for repayment, as specified in the
Security carrying the right to repayment) if in writing and mailed,
first-class postage prepaid, to the Company addressed to it 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. Notices to Securityholders; Waiver. Where this Indenture or
any Security provides for notice to Securityholders of any event, such notice
shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein or in such Security
expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-
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class postage prepaid, to each Securityholder affected by such event, at his
address as it appears in the Security Register, not later than the latest date,
and not earlier than the earliest date, prescribed for the giving of such
notice. In any case where notice to Securityholders is given by mail, neither
the failure to mail such notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed, to any
particular Securityholder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with
respect to other Securityholders. Where this Indenture or any Security 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
Securityholders shall be filed with the Trustee, but such filing shall not be a
condition precedent to the validity of any action taken in reliance upon such
waiver.
In case, by reason of the suspension of regular mail service as a result of
a strike, work stoppage or otherwise, it shall be impractical to mail notice of
any event to any Securityholder when such notice is required to be given
pursuant to any provision of this Indenture, then any method of notification as
shall be satisfactory to the Trustee and the Company shall be deemed to be a
sufficient giving of such notice.
Section 107. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act. If any provision hereof
limits, qualifies or conflicts with the duties imposed by any of Sections 310 to
317, inclusive, of the Trust Indenture Act through the operation of Section
318(c) thereof, such imposed duties 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.
Section 109. Successors and Assigns. All covenants and agreements in this
Indenture by the Company shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so
expressed or not.
Section 110. Separability Clause. In case any provision in this Indenture
or in the Securities shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity,
legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be
affected or impaired thereby.
Section 111. Benefits of Indenture. Nothing in this Indenture or in any
Securities, express or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties
hereto and their successors hereunder, any Authenticating Agent or Paying Agent,
the Security Registrar and the Holders of Securities (or such of them as may be
affected thereby), any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim
under this Indenture.
Section 112. Governing Law. This Indenture shall be construed in accordance
with and governed by the laws of the State of New York, without regard to the
conflicts of law principles thereof.
Section 113. Counterparts. This instrument may be executed in any number of
counterparts, each of which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but
all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.
Section 114. Judgment Currency. The Company agrees, to the fullest extent
that it may effectively do so under applicable law, that (a) if for the purpose
of obtaining judgment in any
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court it is necessary to convert the sum due in respect of the principal of, or
premium or interest, if any, on the Securities of any series (the "Required
Currency") into a currency in which a judgment will be rendered (the "Judgment
Currency"), the rate of exchange used shall be the rate at which in accordance
with normal banking procedures the Trustee could purchase in the City of New
York the Required Currency with the Judgment Currency on the New York Banking
Day (as defined below) preceding that on which final unappealable judgment is
given and (b) its obligations under this Indenture to make payments in the
Required Currency (i) shall not be discharged or satisfied by any tender, or any
recovery pursuant to any judgment (whether or not entered in accordance with
subsection (a)), in any currency other than the Required Currency, except to the
extent that such tender or recovery shall result in the actual receipt, by the
payee, of the full amount of the Required Currency expressed to be payable in
respect of such payments, (ii) shall be enforceable as an alternative or
additional cause of action for the purpose of recovering in the Required
Currency the amount, if any, by which such actual receipt shall fall short of
the full amount of the Required Currency so expressed to be payable and (iii)
shall not be affected by judgment being obtained for any other sum due under
this Indenture. For purposes of the foregoing, "New York Banking Day" means any
day except a Saturday, Sunday or a legal holiday in the City of New York or a
day on which banking institutions in the City of New York are authorized or
required by law or executive order to close.
ARTICLE TWO
Security Forms
Section 201. Forms Generally. The Securities shall have such appropriate
insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or
permitted by this Indenture and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of
identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon, as may be
required to comply with applicable laws or regulations or with the rules of any
securities exchange, or as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the
officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution of the
Securities. Any portion of the text of any Security may be set forth on the
reverse thereof, with an appropriate reference thereto on the face of the
Security.
The definitive Securities shall be printed, lithographed or engraved or
produced by any combination of these methods on steel engraved borders or may be
produced in any other manner, all as determined by the officers executing such
Securities, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities, subject, with
respect to the Securities of any series, to the rules of any securities exchange
on which such Securities are listed.
Section 202. Forms of Securities. Each Security shall be in one of the
forms approved from time to time by or pursuant to a Board Resolution, or
established in one or more indentures supplemental hereto. Prior to the delivery
of a Security to the Trustee for authentication in any form approved by or
pursuant to a Board Resolution, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee the
Board Resolution by or pursuant to which such form of Security has been
approved, which Board Resolution shall have attached thereto a true and correct
copy of the form of Security which has been approved thereby or, if a Board
Resolution authorizes a specific officer or officers to approve a form of
Security, a certificate of such officer or officers approving the form of
Security attached thereto. Any form of Security approved by or pursuant to a
Board
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Resolution must be acceptable as to form to the Trustee, such acceptance to be
evidenced by the Trustee's authentication of Securities in that form or a
certificate signed by a Responsible Officer of the Trustee and delivered to the
Company.
Section 203. Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication. The form of
Trustee's Certificate of Authentication for any Security issued pursuant to this
Indenture shall be substantially as follows:
TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to
in the within-mentioned Indenture.
Chase Bank of Texas, National Association,
as Trustee,
Dated: By:
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Authorized Signatory
Section 204. Securities Issuable in the Form of a Global Security.
(a) If the Company shall establish pursuant to Sections 202 and 301 that
the Securities of a particular 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 or its agent shall, in accordance with Section 303 and the Company
Request delivered to the Trustee or its agent thereunder, authenticate and
deliver, such Global Security or Securities, which (i) shall represent, and
shall be denominated in an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of,
the Outstanding Securities of such series to be represented by such Global
Security or Securities, or such portion thereof as the Company shall specify in
a Company Request, (ii) shall be registered in the name of the Depositary for
such Global Security or Securities or its nominee, (iii) shall be delivered by
the Trustee or its agent to the Depositary or pursuant to the Depositary's
instruction and (iv) shall bear a legend substantially to the following effect:
"Unless and until it is exchanged in whole or in part for the individual
Securities represented hereby, this Global Security may not be transferred
except as a whole by the Depositary to a nominee of the Depositary or by a
nominee of the Depositary to the Depositary or another nominee of the Depositary
or by the Depositary or any such nominee to a successor Depositary or a nominee
of such successor Depositary."
(b) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Section 204 or of Section
305, and subject to the provisions of paragraph (c) below, unless the terms of a
Global Security expressly permit such Global Security to be exchanged in whole
or in part for individual Securities, a Global Security may be transferred, in
whole but not in part and in the manner a provided in Section 305, only to a
nominee of the Depositary for such Global Security, or to the Depositary, or a
successor Depositary for such Global Security selected or approved by the
Company, or to a nominee of such successor Depositary unless (i) such Depositary
(A) has
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notified the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary
for such Global Security or (B) has ceased to be a clearing agency registered as
such under the Exchange Act or announces an intention permanently to cease
business or does in fact do so or (ii) there shall have occurred and be
continuing an Event of Default with respect to such Global Security.
(c) (i) If at any time the Depositary for a Global Security notifies the
Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for such Global
Security or if at any time the Depositary for the Securities for such series
ceases to be a clearing agency registered under the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended, or other applicable statute or regulation, the Company shall
appoint a successor Depositary with respect to such Global Security. If a
successor Depositary for such Global Security is not appointed by the Company
within 90 days after the Company receives such notice or becomes aware of such
ineligibility, the Company will execute, and the Trustee or its agent, upon
receipt of a Company Request for the authentication and delivery of individual
Securities of such series in exchange for such Global Security, will
authenticate and deliver, individual Securities of such series of like tenor and
terms in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of the
Global Security in exchange for such Global Security.
(ii) The Company may at any time and in its sole discretion determine
that the Securities of any series or portion thereof issued or issuable 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 Request for the authentication
and delivery of individual Securities of such series in exchange in whole
or in part for such Global Security, will authenticate and deliver
individual Securities of such series of like tenor and terms in definitive
form in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of such
Global Security or Securities representing such series or portion thereof
in exchange for such Global Security or Securities.
(iii) If specified by the Company pursuant to Sections 202 and 301
with respect to Securities issued or issuable in the form of a Global
Security, the Depositary for such Global Security may surrender such Global
Security in exchange in whole or in part for individual Securities of such
series of like tenor and terms in definitive form on such terms as are
acceptable to the Company and such Depositary. Thereupon the Company shall
execute, and the Trustee or its agent shall authenticate and deliver,
without service charge, (1) to each Person specified by such Depositary a
new Security or Securities of the same series of like tenor and terms and
of any authorized denomination 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 (2) to such Depositary a new Global
Security of like tenor and terms and in an authorized denomination equal to
the difference, if any, between the principal amount of the surrendered
Global Security and the aggregate principal amount of Securities delivered
to the Holders thereof.
(iv) In any exchange provided for in any of the preceding three
subsections, the Company will execute and the Trustee or its agent will
authenticate and deliver individual Securities in definitive registered
form in authorized denominations.
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Upon the exchange of the entire principal amount of a Global Security for
individual Securities, such Global Security shall be canceled by the
Trustee or its agent. Except as
provided in the preceding paragraph, 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 or the Security Registrar. The
Trustee or the Security Registrar shall deliver such Securities to the
Persons in whose names such Securities are so registered.
ARTICLE THREE
The Securities
Section 301. General Title; General Limitations; Issuable in Series; Terms
of Particular Series. The aggregate principal amount of Securities which may be
authenticated and delivered and Outstanding under this Indenture is not limited.
The Securities may be issued in one or more series up to an aggregate
principal amount of Securities as from time to time may be authorized by the
Board of Directors. All Securities of each series under this Indenture shall in
all respects be equally and ratably entitled to the benefits hereof with respect
to such series without preference, priority or distinction on account of the
actual time of the authentication and delivery or Stated Maturity of the
Securities of such series.
Each series of Securities shall be created either by or pursuant to a Board
Resolution or by or pursuant to an indenture supplemental hereto. The Securities
of each such series may bear such date or dates, be payable at such place or
places, have such Stated Maturity or Maturities, be issuable at such premium
over or discount from their face value, bear interest at such rate or rates
(which may be fixed or floating), from such date or dates, payable in such
installments and on such dates and at such place or places to the Holders of
Securities registered as such on such Regular Record Dates, or may bear no
interest, and may be redeemable or repayable at such Redemption Price or Prices
or Repayment Price or Prices, as the case may be, whether at the option of the
Holder or otherwise, and upon such terms, all as shall be provided for in or
pursuant to the Board Resolution or in or pursuant to the supplemental indenture
creating that series. There may also be established in or pursuant to a Board
Resolution or in or pursuant to a supplemental indenture prior to the issuance
of Securities of each such series, provision for:
(1) the exchange or conversion of the Securities of that series, at
the option of the Holders thereof, for or into new Securities of a
different series or other securities or other property of the Company or
another Person, including shares of capital stock of the Company or any
subsidiary of the Company or of any other Person or securities directly or
indirectly convertible into or exchangeable for any such shares;
(2) a sinking or purchase fund or other analogous obligation;
(3) if other than U.S. dollars, the currency or currencies or units
based on or related to currencies (including European Currency Units) in
which the Securities of such series shall be denominated and in which
payments of principal of, and any premium and interest on, such Securities
shall or may be payable;
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(4) if the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest, if any, on
the Securities of such series are to be payable, at the election of the
Company or a holder thereof, in a currency or currencies or units based on
or related to currencies (including European Currency Units) other than
that in which the Securities are stated to be payable, the period or
periods within which, and the terms and conditions upon which, such
election may be made;
(5) if the amount of payments of principal of (and premium, if any) or
interest, if any, on the Securities of such series may be determined with
reference to an index based on (i) a currency or currencies or units based
on or related to currencies (including European Currency Units) other than
that in which the Securities are stated to be payable, (ii) changes in the
price of one or more other securities or groups or indexes of securities or
(iii) changes in the prices of one or more commodities or groups or indexes
of commodities, or any combination of the foregoing, the manner in which
such amounts shall be determined;
(6) if the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of that series
is to be limited, such limitations, and the maturity date of the principal
amount of such Securities of that series (which may be fixed or
extendible), and the rate or rates (which may be fixed or floating) per
annum at which the Securities of that series will bear interest, if any, or
the method of determining such rate or rates, and the payment dates and
record dates relating to such interest payments;
(7) the exchange of Securities of that series, at the option of the
Holders thereof, for other Securities of the same series of the same
aggregate principal amount of a different authorized kind or different
authorized denomination or denominations, or both;
(8) the appointment by the Trustee of an Authenticating Agent in one
or more places other than the location of the office of the Trustee with
power to act on behalf of the Trustee and subject to its direction in the
authentication and delivery of the Securities of any one or more series in
connection with such transactions as shall be specified in the provisions
of this Indenture or in or pursuant to the Board Resolution or the
supplemental indenture creating such series;
(9) the percentage of their principal amount at which such Securities
will be issued, and the portion of the principal amount of Securities of
the series, if other than the total principal amount thereof, which shall
be payable upon declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof
pursuant to Section 502 or provable in bankruptcy pursuant to Section 504;
(10) any Event of Default with respect to the Securities of such
series, if not set forth herein and any additions, deletions or other
changes to the Events of Default set forth herein that shall be applicable
to the Securities of such series (including a provision making any Event of
Default set forth herein inapplicable to the Securities of that series);
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(11) any covenant solely for the benefit of the Securities of such
series and any additions, deletions or other changes to the provisions of
Article Ten or any definitions relating to such Article that shall be
applicable to the Securities of such series (including a provision making
any Section of such Article inapplicable to the Securities of such series);
(12) the applicability of Section 402(b) of this Indenture to the
Securities of such series;
(13) if the Securities of the series shall be issued in whole or in
part in the form of a Global Security or Global Securities, the terms and
conditions, if any, upon which such Global Security or Global Securities
may be exchanged in whole or in part for other individual Securities; and
the Depositary for such Global Security or Global Securities (if other than
the Depositary specified in Section 101 hereof);
(14) the subordination of the Securities of such series to any other
indebtedness of the Company, including without limitation, the Securities
of any other series; and
(15) any other terms of the series, which shall not be inconsistent
with the provisions of this Indenture,
all upon such terms as may be determined in or pursuant to a Board Resolution or
in or pursuant to a supplemental indenture with respect to such series. All
Securities of the same series shall be substantially identical in tenor and
effect, except as to denomination.
The form of the Securities of each series shall be established pursuant to
the provisions of this Indenture in or pursuant to the Board Resolution or in or
pursuant to the supplemental indenture creating such series. The Securities of
each series shall be distinguished from the Securities of each other series in
such manner, reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, as the Board of Directors
may determine.
Unless otherwise provided with respect to Securities of a particular
series, the Securities of any series may only be issuable in registered form,
without coupons.
Any terms or provisions in respect of the Securities of any series issued
under this Indenture may be determined pursuant to this Section by providing in
a Board Resolution or supplemental indenture for the method by which such terms
or provisions shall be determined.
Section 302. Denominations. The Securities of each series shall be issuable
in such denominations and currency as shall be provided in the provisions of
this Indenture or in or pursuant to the Board Resolution or the supplemental
indenture creating such series. In the absence of any such provisions with
respect to the Securities of any series, the Securities of that series shall be
issuable only in fully registered form in denominations of $1,000 and any
integral multiple thereof.
Section 303. Execution, Authentication and Delivery and Dating. The
Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its Chairman of the
Board, its President, one of its Vice
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Presidents or its Treasurer under its corporate seal reproduced thereon and
attested by its Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries. The signature of
any of these officers on the Securities may be manual or facsimile.
Securities bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who
were at any time the proper officers of the Company shall bind the Company,
notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such
offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Securities or did not
hold such offices at the date of such Securities.
At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this
Indenture, the Company may deliver Securities executed by the Company to the
Trustee for authentication; and the Trustee shall, upon Company Order,
authenticate and make available for delivery such Securities as in this
Indenture provided and not otherwise.
Prior to any such authentication and delivery, the Trustee shall be
entitled to receive, in addition to any Officers' Certificate and Opinion of
Counsel required to be furnished to the Trustee pursuant to Section 102, and the
Board Resolution and any certificate relating to the issuance of the series of
Securities required to be furnished pursuant to Section 202, an Opinion of
Counsel stating that:
(1) all instruments furnished to the Trustee conform to the
requirements of the Indenture and constitute sufficient authority hereunder
for the Trustee to authenticate and deliver such Securities;
(2) the form and terms (or in connection with the issuance of
medium-term Securities under Section 311, the manner of determining the
terms) of such Securities have been established in conformity with the
provisions of this Indenture;
(3) all laws and requirements with respect to the execution and
delivery by the Company of such Securities have been complied with, the
Company has the corporate power to issue such Securities and such
Securities have been duly authorized and delivered by the Company and,
assuming due authentication and delivery by the Trustee, constitute legal,
valid and binding obligations of the Company enforceable in accordance with
their terms (subject, as to enforcement of remedies, to (i) applicable
bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance or transfer,
moratorium or other laws and legal principles affecting creditors' rights
generally from time to time in effect; (ii) general equitable principles,
whether applied in an action at law or in equity, and the exercise of
discretionary authority of any court before which a proceeding may be
brought; (iii) commercial reasonableness and unconscionability and an
implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing; and (iv) the power of the
courts to award damages in lieu of equitable remedies) and entitled to the
benefits of this Indenture, equally and ratably with all other Securities,
if any, of such series Outstanding; and
(4) such other matters as the Trustee may reasonably request;
and, if the authentication and delivery relates to a new series of Securities
created by an indenture supplemental hereto, also stating that all laws and
requirements with respect to the
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form and execution by the Company of the supplemental indenture with respect to
that series of Securities have been complied with, the Company has corporate
power to execute and deliver any such supplemental indenture and has taken all
necessary corporate action for those purposes and any such supplemental
indenture has been executed and delivered and constitutes the legal, valid and
binding obligation of the Company enforceable in accordance with its terms
(subject, as to enforcement of remedies, to (i) applicable bankruptcy,
reorganization, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance or transfer, moratorium or
other laws and legal principles affecting creditors' rights generally from time
to time in effect; (ii) general equitable principles, whether applied in an
action at law or in equity, and the exercise of discretionary authority of any
court before which a proceeding may be brought; (iii) commercial reasonableness
and unconscionability and an implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing;
and (iv) the power of the courts to award damages in lieu of equitable
remedies).
The Trustee shall not be required to authenticate such Securities if the
issue thereof will adversely affect the Trustee's own rights, duties or
immunities under the Securities and this Indenture.
Unless otherwise provided in the form of Security for any series, all
Securities shall be dated the date of their authentication.
No Security shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be
valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on such Security a
certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein
executed by the Trustee by manual signature of an authorized signatory, and such
certificate upon any Security shall be conclusive evidence, and the only
evidence, that such Security has been duly authenticated and delivered
hereunder.
Section 304. Temporary Securities. Pending the preparation of definitive
Securities of any series, the Company may execute, and, upon receipt of the
documents required by Section 303, together with a Company Order, the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver, temporary Securities which are printed,
lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise produced, in any authorized
denomination, substantially of the tenor of the definitive Securities in lieu of
which they are issued and with such appropriate insertions, omissions,
substitutions and other variations as the officers executing such Securities may
determine, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities.
If temporary Securities of any series are issued, the Company will cause
definitive Securities of such series to be prepared without unreasonable delay.
After the preparation of definitive Securities, the temporary Securities of such
series shall be exchangeable for definitive Securities of such series upon
surrender of the temporary Securities of such series at the office or agency of
the Company in a Place of Payment, without charge to the Holder; and upon
surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Securities the Company
shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange
therefor a like principal amount of definitive Securities of such series of
authorized denominations and of like tenor and terms. Until so exchanged the
temporary Securities of such series shall in all respects be entitled to the
same benefits under this Indenture as definitive Securities of such series.
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Section 305. Registration, Transfer and Exchange. The Company shall keep or
cause to be kept 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 Securities, or of Securities
of a particular series, and for transfers of Securities or of Securities of such
series. Any such register shall be in written form or in any other form capable
of being converted into written form within a reasonable time. At all reasonable
times the information contained in such register or registers shall be available
for inspection by the Trustee at the office or agency to be maintained by the
Company as provided in Section 1002.
Subject to Section 204, upon surrender for transfer of any Security of any
series at the office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment, the Company
shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for
delivery, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more
new Securities of such series of any authorized denominations, of a like
aggregate principal amount and Stated Maturity and of like tenor and terms.
Subject to Section 204, at the option of the Holder, Securities of any
series may be exchanged for other Securities of such series of any authorized
denominations, of a like aggregate principal amount and Stated Maturity and of
like tenor and terms, upon surrender of the Securities to be exchanged at such
office or agency. Whenever any Securities are so surrendered for exchange, the
Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for
delivery, the Securities which the Securityholder making the exchange is
entitled to receive.
All Securities issued upon any transfer or exchange of Securities shall be
the valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to
the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Securities surrendered upon such
transfer or exchange.
Every Security presented or surrendered for transfer or exchange shall (if
so required by the Company or the Trustee) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied
by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the
Security Registrar duly executed, by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly
authorized in writing.
Unless otherwise provided in the Security to be transferred or exchanged,
no service charge shall be made on any Securityholder for any transfer or
exchange of Securities, but the Company may (unless otherwise provided in such
Security) require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or
exchange of Securities, other than exchanges pursuant to Section 304 or 906 not
involving any transfer.
The Company shall not be required (i) to issue, transfer or exchange any
Security of any series during a period beginning at the opening of business 15
days before the day of the mailing of a notice of redemption of Securities of
such series selected for redemption under Section 1103 and ending at the close
of business on the date of such mailing, or (ii) to transfer or exchange any
Security so selected for redemption in whole or in part, except for the portion
of such Security not so selected for redemption.
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None of the Company, the Trustee, any agent of 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.
The Company initially appoints the Trustee to act as Security Registrar for
the Securities on its behalf. The Company may at any time and from time to time
authorize any Person to act as Security Registrar in place of the Trustee with
respect to any series of Securities issued under this Indenture.
Section 306. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities. If (i) any
mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee, or the Company and the Trustee
receive evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any
Security, and (ii) 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 or the Trustee that such Security
has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Company shall execute and upon
its request the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange for or in
lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security, a new Security
of like tenor, series, Stated Maturity and principal amount, bearing a number
not contemporaneously Outstanding.
In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security has become
or is about to become due and payable, the Company in its discretion may,
instead of issuing a new Security, pay such Security.
Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section, the Company may
require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental
charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other expenses (including
the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith.
Every new Security issued pursuant to this Section in lieu of any
destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall constitute an original additional
contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or
stolen Security shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be
entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with
any and all other Securities of the same series 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 Securities.
Section 307. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved. Unless
otherwise provided with respect to such Security pursuant to Section 301,
interest on any Security which is payable, and is punctually paid or duly
provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the Person in whose
name that Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the
close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest.
Any interest on any Security 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
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been such Holder; and, except as hereinafter provided, such Defaulted Interest
may be paid by the Company, at its election in each case, as provided in Clause
(1) or Clause (2) below:
(1) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest to
the Persons in whose names any such Securities (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
such Security and the date of the proposed payment, and at the same time
the Company shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of money equal to the
aggregate amount proposed to be paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest
or shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit
prior to the date of the proposed payment, such money when deposited to be
held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted
Interest as in this Clause provided. Thereupon the Trustee shall fix a
Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest which shall
be not more than 15 nor less than 10 days prior to the date of the proposed
payment and not less than 10 days after the receipt by the Trustee of the
notice of the proposed payment. The Trustee shall promptly notify the
Company of such Special Record Date and, in the name and at the expense of
the Company, shall cause notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted
Interest and the Special Record Date therefor to be mailed, first-class
postage prepaid, to the Holder of each such Security 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 such Securities (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are
registered on such Special Record Date and shall no longer be payable
pursuant to the following Clause (2).
(2) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest in any
other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any
securities exchange on which such Securities may be listed, and upon such
notice as may be required by such exchange, if, after notice given by the
Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to this Clause,
such manner of payment shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.
If any installment of interest the Stated Maturity of which is on or prior
to the Redemption Date for any Security called for redemption pursuant to
Article Eleven is not paid or duly provided for on or prior to the Redemption
Date in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this Section, such interest
shall be payable as part of the Redemption Price of such Securities.
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section, each Security
delivered under this Indenture upon transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of
any other Security shall carry the rights to interest accrued and unpaid, and to
accrue, which were carried by such other Security.
Section 308. Persons Deemed Owners. The Company, the Trustee and any agent
of the Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name any Security is
registered in the
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Security Register as the owner of such Security for the purpose of receiving
payment of principal of (and premium, if any), and (subject to Section 307)
interest on, such Security and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not
such Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any agent of
the Company or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
Section 309. Cancellation. All Securities surrendered for payment,
redemption, transfer, conversion or exchange or credit against a sinking fund
shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee, be delivered to the
Trustee and, if not already canceled, shall be promptly canceled by it. The
Company may at any time deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any Securities
previously authenticated and delivered hereunder which the Company may have
acquired in any manner whatsoever, and all Securities so delivered shall be
promptly canceled by the Trustee. No Security shall be authenticated in lieu of
or in exchange for any Securities canceled as provided in this Section, except
as expressly permitted by this Indenture. The Trustee shall return all canceled
Securities to the Company.
Section 310. Computation of Interest. Unless otherwise provided as
contemplated in Section 301, interest on the Securities shall be calculated on
the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.
Section 311. Medium-term Securities. Notwithstanding any contrary provision
herein, if all Securities of a series are not to be originally issued at one
time, it shall not be necessary for the Company to deliver to the Trustee an
Officers' Certificate, Board Resolution, supplemental indenture, Opinion of
Counsel or Company Request otherwise required pursuant to Sections 202, 301 and
303 at or prior to the time of authentication of each Security of such series if
such documents are delivered to the Trustee or its agent at or prior to the
authentication upon original issuance of the first Security of such series to be
issued; provided that any subsequent request by the Company to the Trustee to
authenticate Securities of such series upon original issuance shall constitute a
representation and warranty by the Company that as of the date of such request,
the statements made in the Officers' Certificate delivered pursuant to Section
102 shall be true and correct as if made on such date.
An Officers' Certificate, supplemental indenture or Board Resolution
delivered by the Company to the Trustee in the circumstances set forth in the
preceding paragraph may provide that Securities which are the subject thereof
will be authenticated and delivered by the Trustee or its agent on original
issue from time to time upon the telephonic or written order of persons
designated in such Officers' Certificate, Board Resolution or supplemental
indenture (any such telephonic instructions to be confirmed promptly in writing
by such persons) and that such persons are authorized to determine, consistent
with such Officers' Certificate, supplemental indenture or Board Resolution,
such terms and conditions of said Securities as are specified in such Officers'
Certificate, supplemental indenture or Board Resolution.
Section 312. CUSIP Numbers. The Company in issuing the Securities may use
"CUSIP" numbers (if then generally in use), and, if so, the Trustee shall use
"CUSIP" numbers in notices of redemption as a convenience to Holders; provided
that any such notice may state that no representation is made as to the
correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Securities or as contained
in any notice of a redemption and that reliance may be placed only on the other
identification numbers printed on the Securities, and any such redemption shall
not be affected
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by any defect in or omission of such numbers. The Company will promptly notify
the Trustee of any change in the "CUSIP" numbers.
ARTICLE FOUR
Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture;
Defeasance; Unclaimed Moneys
Section 401. Applicability of Article. If, pursuant to Section 301,
provision is made for the defeasance of Securities of a series and if the
Securities of such series are denominated and payable only in Dollars (except as
provided pursuant to Section 301), then the provisions of this Article Four
relating to defeasance of Securities shall be applicable except as otherwise
specified pursuant to Section 301 for Securities of such series. Defeasance
provisions, if any, for Securities denominated in a foreign currency may be
specified pursuant to Section 301.
Section 402. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture; Defeasance.
(a) This Indenture shall cease to be of further effect with respect to any
series of Securities (except as to any surviving rights of conversion, transfer
or exchange of Securities of such series expressly provided for herein or in the
form of Security for such series) and the Trustee, on demand of and at the
expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture as to such series, when (1) either
(A) all Securities of that series theretofore authenticated and delivered (other
than (i) Securities of such series which have been destroyed, lost or stolen and
which have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 306, and (ii) Securities
of such series of whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust or
segregated and held in trust by the Company and thereafter repaid to the Company
or discharged from such trust, as provided in Section 1003) have been delivered
to the Trustee canceled or for cancelation; or (B) all such Securities of that
series not theretofore delivered to the Trustee canceled or for cancelation (i)
have become due and payable, or (ii) will become due and payable at their Stated
Maturity within one year, or (iii) are to be called for redemption within one
year under arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of
redemption by the Trustee in the name, and at the expense, of the Company, and
the Company, in the case of (i), (ii) or (iii) above, has deposited or caused to
be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust for the purpose an amount
sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on such Securities not
theretofore delivered to the Trustee canceled or for cancelation, for principal
(and premium, if any) and interest to the date of such deposit (in the case of
Securities which have become due and payable), or to the Stated Maturity or
Redemption Date, as the case may be; (2) the Company has paid or caused to be
paid all other sums payable hereunder by the Company with respect to the
Securities of such series; 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 with respect to the Securities of such series have been complied with.
Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect to
any series of Securities, the obligations of the Company to the Trustee with
respect to that series under Section 607 shall survive and the obligations of
the Trustee under Sections 404 and 1003 shall survive.
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(b) Subject to Sections 402(c), 403 and 407, the Company at any time
may terminate, with respect to Securities of a particular series, (i) all its
obligations under the Securities of such series and this Indenture with respect
to the Securities of such series ("legal defeasance option") or (ii) its
obligations with respect to the Securities of such series under clause (3) of
Section 801 ("covenant defeasance option"). The Company may exercise its legal
defeasance option notwithstanding its prior exercise of its covenant defeasance
option.
If the Company exercises its legal defeasance option, payment of the
Securities of the defeased series may not be accelerated because of an Event of
Default. If the Company exercises its covenant defeasance option, payment of the
Securities may not be accelerated because of an Event of Default related to the
specified covenants.
Upon satisfaction of the conditions set forth herein and upon request of
the Company, the Trustee shall acknowledge in writing the discharge of those
obligations that the Company terminates.
(c) Notwithstanding clause (a) above and the exercise of the legal
defeasance option in clause (b) above, the Company's obligations in Sections
304, 305, 306, 310, 1002, 701, 607, 608, 404, 405, 406 and 407 shall survive
until the Securities of the defeased series have been paid in full. Thereafter,
the Company's obligations in Sections 607, 405 and 406 shall survive.
Section 403. Conditions of Defeasance. The Company may exercise its legal
defeasance option or its covenant defeasance option with respect to Securities
of a particular series only if:
(1) the Company irrevocably deposits in trust with the Trustee money
or U.S. Government Obligations for the payment of principal of, and
premium, if any, and interest on, the Securities of such series to maturity
or redemption, as the case may be;
(2) the Company delivers to the Trustee a certificate from a
nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressing
their opinion that the payments of principal and interest when due and
without reinvestment on the deposited U.S. Government Obligations plus any
deposited money without investment will provide cash at such times and in
such amounts as will be sufficient to pay the principal, premium, if any,
and interest when due on all the Securities of such series to maturity or
redemption, as the case may be;
(3) 91 days pass after the deposit is made and during the 91-day
period no Default specified in Section 501(5) or (6) with respect to the
Company occurs which is continuing at the end of the period;
(4) no Default has occurred and is continuing on the date of such
deposit and after giving effect thereto;
(5) the deposit does not constitute a default under any other
agreement binding on the Company;
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(6) the Company delivers to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the
effect that the trust resulting from the deposit does not constitute, or is
qualified as, a regulated investment company under the Investment Company
Act of 1940;
(7) in the event of the legal defeasance option, the Company shall
have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel stating that (i) the
Company has received from the Internal Revenue Service a ruling, or (ii)
since the date of this Indenture there has been a change in the applicable
Federal income tax law, in either case to the effect that, and based
thereon such Opinion of Counsel shall confirm that, the Holders of
Securities of such series will not recognize income, gain or loss for
Federal income tax purposes as a result of such defeasance and will be
subject to Federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and
at the same times as would have been the case if such defeasance had not
occurred;
(8) in the event of the covenant defeasance option, the Company shall
have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the
Holders of Securities of such series will not recognize income, gain or
loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result of such covenant
defeasance and will be subject to Federal income tax on the same amounts,
in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if
such covenant defeasance had not occurred; and
(9) the Company delivers to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate and
an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent to the
defeasance and discharge of the Securities of such series as contemplated
by this Article Four have been complied with.
Before or after a deposit, the Company may make arrangements satisfactory
to the Trustee for the redemption of Securities of such series at a future date
in accordance with Article Four.
Section 404. Application of Trust Money. The Trustee shall hold in trust
money or U.S. Government Obligations deposited with it pursuant to this Article
Four. It shall apply the deposited money and the money from U.S. Government
Obligations through any paying agent and in accordance with this Indenture to
the payment of principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on, the
Securities of the defeased series.
Section 405. Repayment to Company. The Trustee and any paying agent shall
promptly turn over to the Company upon request any excess money or securities
held by them at any time.
Subject to any applicable abandoned property law, the Trustee and any
paying agent shall pay to the Company upon request any money held by them for
the payment of principal, premium or interest that remains unclaimed for two
years, and, thereafter, Holders entitled to such money must look to the Company
for payment as general creditors and all liability of the Trustee or such paying
agent with respect to such money shall thereupon cease.
Section 406. Indemnity for U.S. Government Obligations. The Company shall
pay and shall indemnify the Trustee and the Holders against any tax, fee or
other charge imposed on or
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assessed against deposited U.S. Government Obligations or the principal and
interest received on such U.S. Government Obligations.
Section 407. Reinstatement. If the Trustee or any paying agent is unable to
apply any money or U.S. Government Obligations in accordance with this Article
Four by reason of any legal proceeding or by reason of any order or judgment of
any court or government authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise
prohibiting such application, the Company's obligations under this Indenture and
the Securities of the defeased series shall be revived and reinstated as though
no deposit had occurred pursuant to this Article Four until such time as the
Trustee or any paying agent is permitted to apply all such money or U.S.
Government Obligations in accordance with this Article Four; provided, however,
that, if the Company makes any payment of principal or, premium, if any, or
interest, if any, on any Securities following the reinstatement of its
obligations, the Company shall be subrogated to the rights of the Holders of
such Securities to receive such payment from the money held by the Trustee or
paying agent.
ARTICLE FIVE
Remedies
Section 501. Events of Default. "Event of Default," wherever used herein,
means with respect to any series of Securities any one of the following events
(whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary
or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment,
decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any
administrative or governmental body), unless such event is either inapplicable
to a particular series or it is specifically deleted or modified in the
supplemental indenture creating such series of Securities or in the form of
Security for such series:
(1) default in the payment of any interest upon any Security of that
series when it becomes due and payable, and continuance of such default for
a period of 90 days; or
(2) default in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any,
on) any Security of that series at its Maturity; or
(3) default in the payment of any sinking or purchase fund or
analogous obligation when the same becomes due by the terms of the
Securities of such series; or
(4) default in the performance, or breach, of any covenant or warranty
of the Company in this Indenture in respect of the Securities of such
series (other than a covenant or warranty in respect of the Securities of
such series a default in the performance of which or the breach of which is
elsewhere in this Section specifically dealt with), all of such covenants
and warranties in the Indenture which are not expressly stated to be for
the benefit of a particular series of Securities being deemed in respect of
the Securities of all series for this purpose, and continuance of such
default or breach for a period of 90 days after there has been given, by
registered or certified mail, to the Company by the Trustee or to the
Company and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount
of the Outstanding Securities of such series, a written notice
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specifying such default or breach and requiring it to be remedied and
stating that such notice is a "Notice of Default" hereunder; or
(5) the entry of an order for relief against the Company under the
Federal Bankruptcy Code by a court having jurisdiction in the premises or a
decree or order by a court having jurisdiction in the premises adjudging
the Company a bankrupt or insolvent under any other applicable Federal or
State law, or the entry of a decree or order approving as properly filed a
petition seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of
or in respect of the Company under the Federal Bankruptcy Code or any other
applicable Federal or State law, or appointing a receiver, liquidator,
assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or other similar official) of the Company
or of any substantial part of its property, or ordering the winding up or
liquidation of its affairs, and the continuance of any such decree or order
unstayed and in effect for a period of 60 consecutive days; or
(6) the consent by the Company to the institution of bankruptcy or
insolvency proceedings against it, or the filing by it of a petition or
answer or consent seeking reorganization or relief under the Federal
Bankruptcy Code or any other applicable Federal or State law, or the
consent by it to the filing of any such petition or to the appointment of a
receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or other similar
official) of the Company or of any substantial part of its property, or the
making by it of an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the
admission by it in writing of its inability to pay its debts generally as
they become due, or the taking of corporate action by the Company in
furtherance of any such action; or
(7) any other Event of Default provided in the supplemental indenture
under which such series of Securities is issued or in the form of Security
for such series.
Section 502. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment. If an
Event of Default described in paragraph (1), (2), (3), (4) or (7) (if the Event
of Default under paragraph (4) or (7) is with respect to less than all series of
Securities then Outstanding) of Section 501 occurs and is continuing with
respect to any series, then and in each and every such case, unless the
principal of all the Securities of such series shall have already become due and
payable, either the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate
principal amount of the Securities of such series then Outstanding hereunder
(each such series acting as a separate class), by notice in writing to the
Company (and to the Trustee if given by Holders), may declare the principal
amount (or, if the Securities of such series are Original Issue Discount
Securities, such portion of the principal amount as may be specified in the
terms of that series) of all the Securities of such series then Outstanding and
all accrued interest thereon to be due and payable immediately, and upon any
such declaration the same shall become and shall be immediately due and payable,
anything in this Indenture or in the Securities of such series contained to the
contrary notwithstanding. If an Event of Default described in paragraph (4) or
(7) (if the Event of Default under paragraph (4) or (7) is with respect to all
series of Securities then Outstanding), or (5) or (6) of Section 501 occurs and
is continuing, then and in each and every such case, unless the principal of all
the Securities shall have already become due and payable, either the Trustee or
the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of all the
Securities then Outstanding hereunder (treated as one class), by notice in
writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by Holders), may
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declare the principal amount (or, if any Securities are Original Issue Discount
Securities, such portion of the principal amount as may be specified in the
terms thereof) of all the Securities then Outstanding and all accrued interest
thereon to be due and payable immediately, and upon any such declaration the
same shall become and shall be immediately due and payable, anything in this
Indenture or in the Securities contained to the contrary notwithstanding.
At any time after such a declaration of acceleration has been made with
respect to the Securities of any series and before a judgment or decree for
payment of the money due has been obtained by the Trustee as hereinafter in this
Article provided, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of 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 the Securities of
such series,
(B) the principal of (and premium, if any, on) any 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
by the terms of the Securities of such series, to the extent that payment
of such interest is lawful,
(C) interest upon overdue installments of interest at the rate or
rates prescribed therefor by the terms of the Securities of such series to
the extent that payment of such interest is lawful, 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 all other amounts due the Trustee under
Section 607;
and
(2) all Events of Default with respect to such series of Securities,
other than the nonpayment of the principal of the Securities of such series
which have become due solely by such acceleration, have been cured or
waived as provided in Section 513.
No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right
consequent thereon.
Section 503. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by
Trustee. The Company covenants that if
(1) default is made in the payment of any installment of interest on
any Security of any series when such interest becomes due and payable, or
(2) default is made in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if
any, on) any Security at the Maturity thereof, or
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(3) default is made in the payment of any sinking or purchase fund or
analogous obligation when the same becomes due by the terms of the
Securities of any series,
and any such default continues for any period of grace provided with respect to
the Securities of such series, the Company will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay
to it, for the benefit of the Holder of any such Security (or the Holders of any
such series in the case of Clause (3) above), the whole amount then due and
payable on any such Security (or on the Securities of any such series in the
case of Clause (3) above) for principal (and premium, if any) and interest, with
interest, to the extent that payment of such interest shall be legally
enforceable, upon the overdue principal (and premium, if any) and upon overdue
installments of interest, at such rate or rates as may be prescribed therefor by
the terms of any such Security (or of Securities of any such series in the case
of Clause (3) above); 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 and all other amounts due the Trustee under Section 607.
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 or final decree, and may enforce the same
against the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities of such series and
collect the money 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
Securities, wherever situated.
If an Event of Default with respect to any series of Securities occurs and
is continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce
its rights and the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series by such
appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most effectual to
protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific enforcement of any
covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power
granted herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy.
Section 504. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim. In case of the pendency of
any receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy, reorganization,
arrangement, adjustment, composition or other judicial proceeding relative to
the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or the property of the
Company or of such other obligor or their creditors, the Trustee (irrespective
of whether the principal of the Securities shall then be due and payable as
therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the
Trustee shall have made any demand on the Company for the payment of overdue
principal or interest) shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such
proceedings or otherwise,
(i) 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 Securities
and to file such other papers or documents as may be necessary and
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 all other amounts due the Trustee
under Section 607) and of the Securityholders allowed in such judicial
proceeding, and
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(ii) 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, liquidator, sequestrator (or other similar
official) in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each
Securityholder to make such payment to the Trustee and in the event that the
Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the
Securityholders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due to 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 Securityholder any
plan or reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the
Securities or the rights of any Holder thereof, or to authorize the Trustee to
vote in respect of the claim of any Securityholder in any such proceeding.
Section 505. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities.
All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the Securities of any
series may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the possession of
any of the Securities of such series 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 agent and counsel, be
for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities of the series in
respect of which such judgment has been recovered.
Section 506. Application of Money Collected. Any money collected by the
Trustee with respect to a series of Securities 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 (or premium,
if any) or interest, upon presentation of the Securities of such series and the
notation thereon of the payment if only partially paid and upon surrender
thereof if fully paid:
FIRST: To the payment of all amounts due the
Trustee under Section 607.
SECOND: To the payment of the amounts then due and
unpaid upon the Securities of that series
for principal (and premium, if any) and
interest, in respect of which or for the
benefit of which such money has been
collected, ratably, without preference or
priority of any kind, according to the
amounts due and payable on such Securities
for principal (and premium, if any) and
interest, respectively.
THIRD: To the Company.
Section 507. Limitation on Suits. No Holder of any Security of any series
shall have any right to institute any proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with
respect to this Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or
for any other remedy hereunder, unless
(1) such Holder has previously given written notice to the Trustee of
a continuing Event of Default with respect to Securities of such series;
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(2) the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the
Outstanding 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 Securities of such series;
it being understood and intended that no one or more Holders of Securities of
such series 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 Holders of Securities of such series, or to obtain or to
seek to obtain priority or preference over any other such Holders or to enforce
any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the
equal and proportionate benefit of all the Holders of all Securities of such
series.
Section 508. Unconditional Right of Securityholders to Receive Principal,
Premium and Interest. Notwithstanding any other provisions in this Indenture,
the Holder of any Security shall have the right, which is absolute and
unconditional, to receive payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and
(subject to Section 307) interest on such Security on the respective Stated
Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption or
repayment, on the Redemption Date or 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.
Section 509. Restoration of Rights and Remedies. If the Trustee or any
Securityholder has instituted any proceeding to enforce any right or remedy
under this Indenture and such proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for
any reason, then and in every such case the Company, the Trustee and the
Securityholders 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 Securityholders shall
continue as though no such proceeding had been instituted.
Section 510. Rights and Remedies Cumulative. No right or remedy herein
conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Securityholders is intended
to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and remedy shall,
to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to every other
right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in
equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy
hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or
employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.
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Section 511. Delay or Omission Not Waiver. No delay or omission of the
Trustee or of any Holder of any Security 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
Securityholders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be
deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Securityholders, as the case may be.
Section 512. Control by Securityholders. The Holders of a majority in
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series shall have the
right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any
remedy available to the Trustee or exercising any trust or power conferred on
the Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series, provided that
(1) the Trustee shall have the right to decline to follow any such
direction if the Trustee, being advised by counsel, determines that the
action so directed may not lawfully be taken or would conflict with this
Indenture or if the Trustee in good faith shall, by a Responsible Officer,
determine that the proceedings so directed would involve it in personal
liability or be unjustly prejudicial to the Holders not taking part in such
direction, and
(2) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee
which is not inconsistent with such direction.
Section 513. Waiver of Past Defaults. The Holders of not less than a
majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series may on
behalf of the Holders of all the Securities of such series waive any past
default hereunder with respect to such series and its consequences, except a
default not theretofore cured
(1) in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or
interest on any Security of such series, or in the payment of any sinking
or purchase fund or analogous obligation with respect to the Securities of
such series, or
(2) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under Article
Nine cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of
each Outstanding Security of such series.
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 Security by his acceptance thereof shall be deemed to
have agreed, that any court may in its discretion require, in any suit for the
enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against
the Trustee for any action taken or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any
party litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and
that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including
reasonable attorneys' fees, against any party litigant in such suit, having due
regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party
litigant; but the provisions of this Section shall not apply to any suit
instituted by the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Securityholder, or
group of
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Securityholders, holding in the aggregate more than 10% in principal amount of
the Outstanding Securities of any series to which the suit relates, or to any
suit instituted by any Securityholder for the enforcement of the payment of the
principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on any Security on or after the
respective Stated Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in the case of
redemption or repayment, on or after the Redemption Date or Repayment Date).
Section 515. Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws. The Company covenants (to
the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will not at any time insist upon,
or plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of,
any stay or extension law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in
force, which may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and
the Company (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives
all benefit or advantage of any such law, and covenants that it will not hinder,
delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but
will suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law
had been enacted.
ARTICLE SIX
The Trustee
Section 601. Certain Duties and Responsibilities.
(a) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default with respect to
any series of Securities,
(1) the Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties
as are specifically set forth in this Indenture with respect to the
Securities of such series, and no implied covenants or obligations shall be
read into this Indenture against the Trustee; and
(2) in the absence of bad faith on its part, the Trustee may, with
respect to Securities of such series, conclusively rely, as to the truth of
the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon
certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the
requirements of this Indenture; but in the case of any such certificates or
opinions which by any provision hereof are specifically required to be
furnished to the Trustee, the Trustee shall be under a duty to examine the
same to determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of this
Indenture.
(b) In case an Event of Default with respect to any series of
Securities has occurred and is continuing, the Trustee shall exercise with
respect to the Securities of such series such of the rights and powers vested in
it by this Indenture, and use the same degree of care and skill in their
exercise, as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in
the conduct of such person's own affairs.
(c) No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to relieve the
Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure
to act, or its own willful misconduct, except that
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(1) this Subsection shall not be construed to limit the effect of
Subsection (a) of this Section;
(2) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment
made in good faith by a Responsible Officer, unless it shall be proved that
the Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts;
(3) the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action
taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the
direction of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of any series relating to the time, method and place
of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or
exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee, under this
Indenture with respect to the Securities of such series; and
(4) no provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to
expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in
the performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the exercise of any
of its rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds for believing
that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or
liability is not reasonably assured to it.
(d) Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of
this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or
affording protection to the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this
Section.
Section 602. Notice of Defaults. Within 90 days after the occurrence of any
default hereunder with respect to Securities of any series, the Trustee shall
transmit by mail to all Securityholders of such series, as their names and
addresses appear in the Security Register, notice of such default hereunder
known to the Trustee, unless such default shall have been cured or waived;
provided, however, that, except in the case of a default in the payment of the
principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on any Security of such series or
in the payment of any sinking or purchase fund installment or analogous
obligation with respect to Securities of such series, the Trustee shall be
protected in withholding such notice if and so long as the board of directors,
the executive committee or a trust committee of directors and/or Responsible
Officers of the Trustee in good faith determine that the withholding of such
notice is in the interests of the Securityholders of such series; and provided,
further, that in the case of any default of the character specified in Section
501(4) with respect to Securities of such series no such notice to
Securityholders of such series shall be given until at least 90 days after the
occurrence thereof. For the purpose of this Section, the term "default," with
respect to Securities of any series, means any event which is, or after notice
or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default with respect to
Securities of such series.
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 resolution, certificate, statement, instrument,
opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture or
other paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or
presented by the proper party or parties;
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(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 may be sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution;
(c) whenever in the administration of this Indenture the Trustee shall
deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking,
suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Trustee (unless other evidence
be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part,
rely upon an Officers' Certificate;
(d) the Trustee may consult with counsel of its selection and the
written 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 Securityholders pursuant to this Indenture, unless such
Securityholders 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 or
other paper or document, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may make such
further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit,
and, if the Trustee shall determine to make such further inquiry or
investigation, it shall be entitled to examine the books, records and premises
of the Company, personally or by agent or attorney; and
(g) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or
perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents or
attorneys and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or
negligence on the part of any agent or attorney appointed with due care by it
hereunder.
Section 604. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities. The
recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except the certificates of
authentication, 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
Securities. The Trustee shall not be accountable for the use or application by
the Company of Securities or the proceeds thereof.
Section 605. May Hold Securities. The Trustee, any Paying Agent, the
Security Registrar or any other agent of the Company, in its individual or any
other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities and, subject to
Sections 608 and 613, may otherwise deal with the Company with the same rights
it would have if it were not Trustee, Paying Agent, Security Registrar or such
other agent.
Section 606. Money Held in Trust. Money held by the Trustee in trust
hereunder need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required
by law. The Trustee shall be
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under no liability for interest on any money received by it hereunder except as
otherwise agreed with the Company.
Section 607. Compensation and Reimbursement. The Company agrees
(1) to pay to the Trustee from time to time such compensation for all
services rendered by it hereunder as the parties shall agree from time to
time (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
loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on its
part, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration
of this trust, including the costs and expenses of defending itself against
any claim or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of
any of its powers or duties hereunder.
As security for the performance of the obligations of the Company under
this Section the Trustee shall have a lien prior to the Securities upon all
property and funds held or collected by the Trustee as such, except funds held
in trust for the payment of principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on
particular Securities.
Section 608. Disqualification; Conflicting Interests. The Trustee for the
Securities of any series issued hereunder shall be subject to the provisions of
Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act during the period of time provided for
therein. In determining whether the Trustee has a conflicting interest as
defined in Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act with respect to the
Securities of any series, there shall be excluded for purposes of the
conflicting interest provisions of such Section 310(b) the Securities of every
other series issued under this Indenture. Nothing herein shall prevent the
Trustee from filing with the Commission the application referred to in the
second to last paragraph of Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act.
Section 609. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility. There shall at all
times be a Trustee hereunder with respect to each series of Securities, which
shall be a corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the United
States of America or of any State, 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. 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.
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If at any time the Trustee with respect to any series of Securities shall
cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, it shall
resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in
this Article.
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 with respect to any series of Securities at
any time 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.
(c) The Trustee may be removed with respect to any series of
Securities at any time by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount
of the Outstanding Securities of that series, delivered to the Trustee and 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 removal, the removed Trustee may petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee.
(d) If at any time:
(1) the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section 310(b) of the
Trust Indenture Act pursuant to Section 608(a) with respect to any series
of Securities after written request therefor by the Company or by any
Securityholder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security of that series
for at least 6 months, or
(2) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 609 with
respect to any series of Securities and shall fail to resign after written
request therefor by the Company or by any such Securityholder, or
(3) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting with respect to
any series of Securities, or
(4) the Trustee shall be adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent or a
receiver of the Trustee or of its property shall be appointed or any public
officer shall take charge or control of the Trustee or of its property or
affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation,
then, in any such case, (i) the Company by a Board Resolution may remove the
Trustee, with respect to the series, or in the case of Clause (4), with respect
to all series, or (ii) subject to Section 514, any Securityholder who has been a
bona fide Holder of a Security of such series for at least 6 months may, on
behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of
competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee and the appointment of a
successor Trustee with respect to the series, or, in the case of Clause (4),
with respect to all series.
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(e) If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of
acting with respect to any series of Securities, or if a vacancy shall occur in
the office of the Trustee with respect to any series of Securities for any
cause, the Company, by a Board Resolution, shall promptly appoint a successor
Trustee for that series of Securities. If, within one year after such
resignation, removal or incapacity, or the occurrence of such vacancy, a
successor Trustee with respect to such series of Securities shall be appointed
by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of such series delivered to the Company and the retiring Trustee, the
successor Trustee so appointed shall, forthwith upon its acceptance of such
appointment, become the successor Trustee with respect to such series and
supersede the successor Trustee appointed by the Company with respect to such
series. If no successor Trustee with respect to such series shall have been so
appointed by the Company or the Securityholders of such series and accepted
appointment in the manner hereinafter provided, any Securityholder who has been
a bona fide Holder of a Security of that series for at least 6 months may, on
behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of
competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect
to such series.
(f) The Company shall give notice of each resignation and each removal
of the Trustee with respect to any series and each appointment of a successor
Trustee with respect to any series by mailing written notice of such event by
first-class mail, postage prepaid, to the Holders of Securities of that series
as their names and addresses appear in the Security Register. Each notice shall
include the name of the successor Trustee and the address of its principal
Corporate Trust Office.
Section 611. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor. Every successor
Trustee appointed hereunder shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the
Company and to the predecessor Trustee an instrument accepting such appointment,
and thereupon the resignation or removal of the predecessor Trustee shall become
effective with respect to any series as to which it is resigning or being
removed as Trustee, and such successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or
conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties
of the predecessor Trustee with respect to any such series; but, on request of
the Company or the successor Trustee, such predecessor Trustee shall, upon
payment of its reasonable charges, if any, execute and deliver an instrument
transferring to such successor Trustee all the rights, powers and trusts of the
predecessor Trustee, and shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such
successor Trustee all property and money held by such predecessor Trustee
hereunder with respect to all or any such series, subject nevertheless to its
lien, if any, provided for in Section 607. 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.
In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to
the Securities of one or more (but not all) series, the Company, the predecessor
Trustee and each successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any
applicable series shall execute and deliver an indenture supplemental hereto
which shall contain such provisions as shall be deemed necessary or desirable to
confirm that all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the predecessor
Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series as to which the predecessor
Trustee is not being succeeded shall continue to be vested in the predecessor
Trustee, and shall add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as
shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the
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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.
No successor Trustee with respect to any series of Securities shall accept
its appointment unless at the time of such acceptance such successor Trustee
shall be qualified and eligible with respect to that series 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 execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of
any of the parties hereto. In case any Securities shall have been authenticated,
but not delivered, by the Trustee then in office, any successor by merger,
conversion or consolidation to such authenticating Trustee may adopt such
authentication and deliver the Securities so authenticated with the same effect
as if such successor Trustee had itself authenticated such Securities.
Section 613. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company.
(a) Subject to Subsection (b) of this Section, if the Trustee shall be
or shall become a creditor, directly or indirectly, secured or unsecured, of the
Company within 3 months prior to a default, as defined in Subsection (c) of this
Section, or subsequent to such a default, then, unless and until such default
shall be cured, the Trustee shall set apart and hold in a special account for
the benefit of the Trustee individually, the Holders of the Securities and the
holders of other indenture securities (as defined in Subsection (c) of this
Section):
(1) an amount equal to any and all reductions in the amount due and
owing upon any claim as such creditor in respect of principal or interest,
effected after the beginning of such 3-month period and valid as against
the Company and its other creditors, except any such reduction resulting
from the receipt or disposition of any property described in paragraph (2)
of this Subsection, or from the exercise of any right of set-off which the
Trustee could have exercised if a petition in bankruptcy had been filed by
or against the Company upon the date of such default; and
(2) all property received by the Trustee in respect of any claim as
such creditor, either as security therefor, or in satisfaction or
composition thereof, or otherwise, after the beginning of such 3-month
period, or an amount equal to the proceeds of any such property, if
disposed of, subject, however, to the rights, if any, of the Company and
its other creditors in such property or such proceeds.
Nothing herein contained, however, shall affect the right of the Trustee
(A) to retain for its own account (i) payments made on account of
any such claim by any Person (other than the Company) who is liable
thereon, and (ii)
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the proceeds of the bona fide sale of any such claim by the Trustee to a
third person, and (iii) distributions made in cash, securities or other
property in respect of claims filed against the Company in bankruptcy or
receivership or in proceedings for reorganization pursuant to the Federal
Bankruptcy Act or applicable State law;
(B) to realize, for its own account, upon any property held by it
as security for any such claim, if such property was so held prior to the
beginning of such 3-month period;
(C) to realize, for its own account, but only to the extent of
the claim hereinafter mentioned, upon any property held by it as security
for any such claim, if such claim was created after the beginning of such
3-month period and such property was received as security therefor
simultaneously with the creation thereof, and if the Trustee shall sustain
the burden of proving that at the time such property was so received the
Trustee had no reasonable cause to believe that a default as defined in
Subsection (c) of this Section would occur within 3 months; or
(D) to receive payment on any claim referred to in paragraph (B)
or (C), against the release of any property held as security for such claim
as provided in paragraph (B) or (C), as the case may be, to the extent of
the fair value of such property.
For the purposes of paragraphs (B), (C) and (D), property substituted after
the beginning of such 3-month period for property held as security at the time
of such substitution shall, to the extent of the fair value of the property
released, have the same status as the property released, and, to the extent that
any claim referred to in any of such paragraphs is created in renewal of or in
substitution for or for the purpose of repaying or refunding any pre-existing
claim of the Trustee as such creditor, such claim shall have the same status as
such pre-existing claim.
If the Trustee shall be required to account, the funds and property held in
such special account and the proceeds thereof shall be apportioned between the
Trustee, the Securityholders and the holders of other indenture securities in
such manner that the Trustee, the Securityholders and the holders of other
indenture securities realize, as a result of payments from such special account
and payments of dividends on claims filed against the Company in bankruptcy or
receivership or in proceedings for reorganization pursuant to the Federal
Bankruptcy Act or applicable State law, the same percentage of their respective
claims, figured before crediting to the claim of the Trustee anything on account
of the receipt by it from the Company of the funds and property in such special
account and before crediting to the respective claims of the Trustee and the
Securityholders and the holders of other indenture securities dividends on
claims filed against the Company in bankruptcy or receivership or in proceedings
for reorganization pursuant to the Federal Bankruptcy Act or applicable State
law, but after crediting thereon receipts on account of the indebtedness
represented by their respective claims from all sources other than from such
dividends and from the funds and property so held in such special account. As
used in this paragraph, with respect to any claim, the term "dividends" shall
include any distribution with respect to such claim, in bankruptcy or
receivership or proceedings for reorganization pursuant to the Federal
Bankruptcy Act or applicable State law, whether such distribution is made in
cash, securities, or other property, but shall not include any such distribution
with respect to the
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secured portion, if any, of such claim. The court in which such bankruptcy,
receivership or proceedings for reorganization is pending shall have
jurisdiction (i) to apportion between the Trustee and the Securityholders and
the holders of other indenture securities in accordance with the provisions of
this paragraph, the funds and property held in such special account and proceeds
thereof, or (ii) in lieu of such apportionment, in whole or in part, to give to
the provisions of this paragraph due consideration in determining the fairness
of the distributions to be made to the Trustee and the Securityholders and the
holders of other indenture securities with respect to their respective claims,
in which event it shall not be necessary to liquidate or to appraise the value
of any securities or other property held in such special account or as security
for any such claim, or to make a specific allocation of such distributions as
between the secured and unsecured portions of such claims, or otherwise to apply
the provisions of this paragraph as a mathematical formula.
Any Trustee which has resigned or been removed after the beginning of such
3-month period shall be subject to the provisions of this Subsection as though
such resignation or removal had not occurred. If any Trustee has resigned or
been removed prior to the beginning of such 3-month period, it shall be subject
to the provisions of this Subsection if and only if the following conditions
exist:
(i) the receipt of property or reduction of claim, which would have
given rise to the obligation to account, if such Trustee had continued as
Trustee, occurred after the beginning of such 3-month period; and
(ii) such receipt of property or reduction of claim occurred within 3
months after such resignation or removal.
(b) There shall be excluded from the operation of Subsection (a) of
this Section a creditor relationship arising from
(1) the ownership or acquisition of securities issued under any
indenture, or any security or securities having a maturity of one year or
more at the time of acquisition by the Trustee;
(2) advances authorized by a receivership or bankruptcy court of
competent jurisdiction, or by this Indenture, for the purpose of preserving
any property which shall at any time be subject to the lien of this
Indenture or of discharging tax liens or other prior liens or encumbrances
thereon, if notice of such advances and of the circumstances surrounding
the making thereof is given to the Securityholders at the time and in the
manner provided in this Indenture;
(3) disbursements made in the ordinary course of business in the
capacity of trustee under an indenture, transfer agent, registrar,
custodian, paying agent, fiscal agent or depositary, or other similar
capacity;
(4) an indebtedness created as a result of services rendered or
premises rented; or an indebtedness created as a result of goods or
securities sold in a cash transaction as defined in Subsection (c) of this
Section;
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(5) the ownership of stock or of other securities of a
corporation organized under the provisions of Section 25(a) of the Federal
Reserve Act, as amended, which is directly or indirectly a creditor of the
Company; or
(6) the acquisition, ownership, acceptance or negotiation of any
drafts, bills of exchange, acceptances or obligations which fall within the
classification of self liquidating paper as defined in Subsection (c) of
this Section.
(c) For the purposes of this Section only:
(1) The term "default" means any failure to make payment in full
of the principal of or interest on any of the Securities or upon the other
indenture securities when and as such principal or interest becomes due and
payable.
(2) The term "other indenture securities" means securities upon
which the Company is an obligor outstanding under any other indenture (i)
under which the Trustee is also trustee, (ii) which contains provisions
substantially similar to the provisions of this Section, and (iii) under
which a default exists at the time of the apportionment of the funds and
property held in such special account.
(3) The term "cash transaction" means any transaction in which
full payment for goods or securities sold is made within 7 days after
delivery of the goods or securities in currency or in checks or other
orders drawn upon banks or bankers and payable upon demand.
(4) The term "self-liquidating paper" means any draft, xxxx of
exchange, acceptance or obligation which is made, drawn, negotiated or
incurred by the Company for the purpose of financing the purchase,
processing, manufacturing, shipment, storage or sale of goods, wares or
merchandise and which is secured by documents evidencing title to,
possession of, or a lien upon, the goods, wares or merchandise or the
receivables or proceeds arising from the sale of the goods, wares or
merchandise previously constituting the security, provided the security is
received by the Trustee simultaneously with the creation of the creditor
relationship with the Company arising from the making, drawing, negotiating
or incurring of the draft, xxxx of exchange, acceptance or obligation.
(5) The term "Company" means any obligor upon the Securities.
Section 614. Appointment of Authenticating Agent. At any time when any of
the Securities remain Outstanding the Trustee, with the approval of the Company,
may appoint an Authenticating Agent or Agents with respect to one or more series
of Securities which shall be authorized to act on behalf of the Trustee to
authenticate Securities of such series issued upon exchange, registration of
transfer or partial redemption thereof or pursuant to Section 306, and
Securities so authenticated shall be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture
and shall be valid and obligatory for all purposes as if authenticated by the
Trustee hereunder. Wherever reference is made in this Indenture to the
authentication and delivery of Securities by the Trustee or the Trustee's
certificate of authentication, such reference shall be deemed to include
authentication and delivery on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent
and a certificate of
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authentication executed on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent.
Each Authenticating Agent shall be acceptable to the Company and shall at all
times be a corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the United
States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia, authorized
under such laws to act as an Authenticating Agent, having a combined capital and
surplus of not less than $50,000,000 and, if other than the Company itself,
subject to supervision or examination by Federal or State authority. If such
Authenticating Agent publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant
to law or to the requirements of said supervising or examining authority, then
for the purposes of this Section, the combined capital and surplus of such
Authenticating Agent shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as
set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at any time an
Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the
provisions of this Section, such Authenticating Agent shall resign immediately
in the manner and with the effect specified in this Section.
Any corporation into which an Authenticating Agent may be merged or
converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting
from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which such Authenticating Agent
shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to the corporate agency or
corporate trust business of an Authenticating Agent, shall continue to be an
Authenticating Agent, provided such corporation shall be otherwise eligible
under this Section, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further
act on the part of the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent.
An Authenticating Agent may resign at any time by giving written notice
thereof to the Trustee and, if other than the Company, to the Company. The
Trustee may at any time terminate the agency of an Authenticating Agent by
giving written notice thereof to such Authenticating Agent and, if other than
the Company, to the Company. Upon receiving such a notice of resignation or upon
such a termination, or in case at any time such Authenticating Agent shall cease
to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, the Trustee,
with the approval of the Company, may appoint a successor Authenticating Agent
which shall be acceptable to the Company and shall mail written notice of such
appointment by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to all Holders of Securities
of the series with respect to which such Authenticating Agent will serve, as
their names and addresses appear in the Security Register. Any successor
Authenticating Agent upon acceptance of its appointment hereunder shall become
vested with all the rights, powers and duties of its predecessor hereunder, with
like effect as if originally named as an Authenticating Agent. No successor
Authenticating Agent shall be appointed unless eligible under the provisions of
this Section.
The Trustee agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent (other than an
Authenticating Agent appointed at the request of the Company from time to time)
reasonable compensation for its services under this Section, and the Trustee
shall be entitled to be reimbursed for such payments, subject to the provisions
of Section 607.
If an appointment with respect to one or more series is made pursuant to
this Section, the Securities of such series may have endorsed thereon, in
addition to the Trustee's certificate of authentication, an alternate
certificate of authentication in the following form:
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This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to
in the within-mentioned Indenture.
Chase Bank of Texas, National Association,
as Trustee
By:
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As Authenticating Agent
Date: By:
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Authorized Signatory
ARTICLE SEVEN
Securityholders' Lists and Reports by
Trustee and Company
Section 701. Company To Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of
Securityholders. The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the
Trustee
(a) semi-annually, not more than 15 days after each Regular Record
Date, in each year in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require, a list of
the names and addresses of the Holders of Securities of such series as of such
date, and
(b) at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, within
30 days after the receipt by the Company of any such request, a list of similar
form and content as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the time such list
is furnished,
excluding from any such list names and addresses received by the Trustee in its
capacity as Security Registrar.
Section 702. Preservation of Information; Communications to
Securityholders.
(a) The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably
practicable, the names and addresses of Holders of Securities contained in the
most recent list furnished to the Trustee as provided in Section 701 and the
names and addresses of Holders of Securities received by the Trustee in its
capacity as Security Registrar. The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it
as provided in Section 701 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.
(b) If 3 or more Holders of Securities of any series (hereinafter
referred to as "applicants") apply in writing to the Trustee, and furnish to the
Trustee reasonable proof that each such applicant has owned a Security of such
series for a period of at least 6 months preceding the date of such application,
and such application states that the applicants desire to communicate with other
Holders of Securities of such series or with the Holders of all Securities with
respect to their rights under this Indenture or under such Securities and is
accompanied by a
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copy of the form of proxy or other communication which such applicants propose
to transmit, then the Trustee shall, within 5 Business Days after the receipt of
such application, at its election, either
(i) afford such applicants access to the information preserved at
the time by the Trustee in accordance with Section 702(a), or
(ii) inform such applicants as to the approximate number of
Holders of Securities of such series or all Securities, as the case may be,
whose names and addresses appear in the information preserved at the time
by the Trustee in accordance with Section 702(a), and as to the approximate
cost of mailing to such Securityholders the form of proxy or other
communication, if any, specified in such application.
If the Trustee shall elect not to afford such applicants access to such
information, the Trustee shall, upon the written request of such applicants,
mail to each Holder of a Security of such series or to all Securityholders, as
the case may be, whose names and addresses appear in the information preserved
at the time by the Trustee in accordance with Section 702(a), a copy of the form
of proxy or other communication which is specified in such request, with
reasonable promptness after a tender to the Trustee of the material to be mailed
and of payment, or provision for the payment, of the reasonable expenses of
mailing, unless, within 5 days after such tender, the Trustee shall mail to such
applicants and file with the Commission, together with a copy of the material to
be mailed, a written statement to the effect that, in the opinion of the
Trustee, such mailing would be contrary to the best interests of the Holders of
Securities of such series or all Securityholders, as the case may be, or would
be in violation of applicable law. Such written statement shall specify the
basis of such opinion. If the Commission, after opportunity for a hearing upon
the objections specified in the written statement so filed, shall enter an order
refusing to sustain any of such objections or if, after the entry of an order
sustaining one or more of such objections, the Commission shall find, after
notice and opportunity for hearing, that all the objections so sustained have
been met and shall enter an order so declaring, the Trustee shall mail copies of
such material to all Securityholders of such series or all Securityholders, as
the case may be, with reasonable promptness after the entry of such order and
the renewal of such tender; otherwise the Trustee shall be relieved of any
obligation or duty to such applicants respecting their application.
(c) Every Holder of Securities, by receiving and holding the same,
agrees with the Company and the Trustee that neither the Company nor the Trustee
shall be held accountable by reason of the disclosure of any such information as
to the names and addresses of the Holders of Securities in accordance with
Section 702(b), regardless of the source from which such information was
derived, and that the Trustee shall not be held accountable by reason of mailing
any material pursuant to a request made under Section 702(b).
Section 703. Reports by Trustee.
(a) The term "reporting date" as used in this Section means May 15 of
each year. Within 60 days after the reporting date in each year, beginning in
199__, the Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Securityholders, as their names
and addresses appear in the Security Register, a brief report dated as of such
reporting date with respect to any of the following events
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which may have occurred during the 12 months preceding the date of such report
(but if no such event has occurred within such period no report need be
transmitted):
(1) any change to its eligibility under Section 609 and its
qualifications under Section 608;
(2) the creation of or any material change to a relationship
specified in Section 310(b)(1) through Section 310(b)(10) of the Trust
Indenture Act;
(3) the character and amount of any advances (and if the Trustee
elects so to state, the circumstances surrounding the making thereof) made
by the Trustee (as such) which remain unpaid on the date of such report,
and for the reimbursement of which it claims or may claim a lien or charge,
prior to that of Securities of any series, on any property or funds held or
collected by it as Trustee, except that the Trustee shall not be required
(but may elect) to report such advances if such advances so remaining
unpaid aggregate not more than 1/2 of 1% of the principal amount of the
Securities of such series outstanding on the date of such report;
(4) any change to the amount, interest rate and maturity date of
all other indebtedness owing by the Company (or by any other obligor on the
Securities) to the Trustee in its individual capacity, on the date of such
report, with a brief description of any property held as collateral
security therefor, except an indebtedness based upon a creditor
relationship arising in a manner described in Section 613(b)(2), (3), (4)
or (6);
(5) any change to the property and funds, if any, physically in
the possession of the Trustee as such on the date of such report;
(6) any release, or release and substitution, of property subject
to the lien of this instrument (and the consideration therefor, if any)
which the Trustee had not previously reported;
(7) any additional issue of Securities which the Trustee has not
previously reported
(8) any action taken by the Trustee in the performance of its
duties hereunder which it has not previously reported and which in its
opinion materially affects the Securities, except action in respect of a
default, notice of which has been or is to be withheld by the Trustee in
accordance with Section 602.
(b) The Trustee shall transmit to all Securityholders, a brief report
with respect to the release, or release and substitution, of property subject to
the lien of this instrument, if any (and the consideration therefor, if any),
unless the fair value of such property is less than 10% of the principal amount
of Securities outstanding at the time of such release, or such release and
substitution, such report to be so transmitted within 90 days after such time;
and the character and amount of any advances (and if the Trustee elects so to
state, the circumstances surrounding the making thereof) made by the Trustee (as
such) since the date of the last report transmitted pursuant to Subsection (a)
of this Section (or if no such report has yet been so transmitted, since the
date of execution of this instrument) for the reimbursement of which it
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claims or may claim a lien or charge, prior to that of the Securities of any
series, on property or funds held or collected by it as Trustee, and which it
has not previously reported pursuant to this Subsection, except that the Trustee
shall not be required (but may elect) to report such advances if such advances
remaining unpaid at any time aggregate 10% or less of the principal amount of
the Securities Outstanding of such series at such time, such report to be
transmitted within 90 days after such time.
(c) Each such report pursuant to paragraphs (a) and (b) above shall be
transmitted by mail:
(1) To all registered Securityholders as their names and
addresses appear in the Security Register; and
(2) To such Securityholders as have, within the two years
preceding such report, filed their names and addresses with the Trustee for
such purpose.
(d) A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such transmission
to Securityholders, be filed by the Trustee with each stock exchange upon which
the Securities are listed, and also with the Commission.
Section 704. Reports by Company. The Company will
(1) file with the Trustee, within 15 days after the Company is
required to file the same with the Commission, copies of the annual reports
and of the information, documents and other reports (or copies of such
portions of any of the foregoing as the Commission may from time to time by
rules and regulations prescribe) which the Company may be required to file
with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934; or, if the Company is not required to file
information, documents or reports pursuant to either of said Sections, then
it will file with the Trustee and the Commission, in accordance with rules
and regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission, such of the
supplementary and periodic information, documents and reports which may be
required pursuant to Section 13 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 in
respect of a security listed and registered on a national securities
exchange as may be prescribed from time to time in such rules and
regulations;
(2) file with the Trustee and the Commission, in accordance with
rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission, such
additional information, documents and reports with respect to compliance by
the Company with the conditions and covenants of this Indenture as may be
required from time to time by such rules and regulations; and
(3) transmit by mail to all Securityholders, as their names and
addresses appear in the Security Register, within 30 days after the filing
thereof with the Trustee, such summaries of any information, documents and
reports required to be filed by the Company pursuant to paragraphs (1) and
(2) of this Section as may be required by rules and regulations prescribed
from time to time by the Commission.
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ARTICLE EIGHT
Consolidation, Merger, Conveyance or Transfer
Section 801. Company May Consolidate, etc., only on Certain Terms. The
Company shall not consolidate with or merge into any other corporation or convey
or transfer 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
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 or any State or the District of Columbia, and shall expressly
assume, by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the
Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, the due and punctual payment
of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on all the
Securities and the performance 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 or transfer and such supplemental indenture comply with this
Article and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to
such transaction have been complied with.
Section 802. Successor Corporation Substituted. Upon any consolidation or
merger, or any conveyance or transfer of the properties and assets of the
Company substantially as an entirety in accordance with Section 801, the
successor corporation formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is
merged or to which such conveyance or transfer is made shall succeed to, and be
substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Company under
this Indenture with the same effect as if such successor corporation had been
named as the Company herein. In the event of any such conveyance or transfer,
the Company as the predecessor corporation may be dissolved, wound up or
liquidated at any time thereafter.
ARTICLE NINE
Supplemental Indentures
Section 901. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Securityholders.
Without the consent of the Holders of any Securities, 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 any such successor of the covenants of the Company
herein and in the Securities contained; or
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(2) to add to the covenants of the Company, or to surrender any right
or power herein conferred upon the Company, for the benefit of the Holders
of the Securities of any or all series (and if such covenants or the
surrender of such right or power are to be for the benefit of less than all
series of Securities, stating that such covenants are expressly being
included or such surrenders are expressly being made solely for the benefit
of one or more specified series); or
(3) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision
herein which may be inconsistent with any other provision herein, or to
make any other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising
under this Indenture; or
(4) to add to this Indenture such provisions as may be expressly
permitted by the TIA, excluding, however, the provisions referred to in
Section 316(a)(2) of the TIA as in effect at the date as of which this
instrument was executed or any corresponding provision in any similar
federal statute hereafter enacted; or
(5) to establish any form of Security, as provided in Article Two, and
to provide for the issuance of any series of Securities as provided in
Article Three and to set forth the terms thereof, and/or to add to the
rights of the Holders of the Securities of any series; or
(6) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment by
another corporation as a successor Trustee hereunder with respect to one or
more series of Securities 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 Section 611; or
(7) to add any additional Events of Default in respect of the
Securities of any or all series (and if such additional Events of Default
are to be in respect of less than all series of Securities, stating that
such Events of Default are expressly being included solely for the benefit
of one or more specified series); or
(8) to provide for the issuance of Securities in coupon as well as
fully registered form.
No supplemental indenture for the purposes identified in Clauses (2), (3),
(5) or (7) above may be entered into if to do so would adversely affect the
interest of the Holders of Securities of any series.
Section 902. Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Securityholders. With
the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of
the Outstanding Securities of each series affected by such supplemental
indenture or indentures, 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 of the Securities of each such series under this Indenture; provided,
however, that no such supplemental indenture shall, without the consent of the
Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby,
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(1) change the Maturity of the principal of, or the Stated Maturity of
any premium on, or any installment of interest on, any Security, or reduce
the principal amount thereof or the interest or any premium thereon, or
change the method of computing the amount of principal thereof or interest
thereon on any date or change any Place of Payment where, or the coin or
currency in which, any Security or any premium or interest thereon is
payable, or impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any
such payment on or after the Maturity or the Stated Maturity, as the case
may be, thereof (or, in the case of redemption or repayment, on or after
the Redemption Date or the Repayment Date, as the case may be); or
(2) reduce the percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of any series, the consent of whose Holders is required for any
such supplemental indenture, or the consent of whose Holders is required
for any waiver of compliance with certain provisions of this Indenture or
certain defaults hereunder and their consequences, provided for in this
Indenture; or
(3) modify any of the provisions of this Section or Section 513,
except to increase any such percentage or to provide that certain other
provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified or waived without the
consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby.
A supplemental indenture which changes or eliminates any covenant or other
provision of this Indenture which has expressly been included solely for the
benefit of one or more particular series of Securities, or which modifies the
rights of the Holders of Securities of such series with respect to such covenant
or other provision, shall be deemed not to affect the rights under this
Indenture of the Holders of Securities of any other series.
It shall not be necessary for any Act of Securityholders 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. The Trustee may, but shall not (except to the extent required in
the case of a supplemental indenture entered into under Section 901(4) or
901(6)) be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture which
affects the Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or
otherwise.
Section 904. Effect of Supplemental Indentures. Upon the execution of any
supplemental indenture under this Article, this Indenture shall be modified in
accordance therewith, and such supplemental indenture shall form a part of this
Indenture for all purposes; and every Holder of Securities theretofore or
thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder shall be bound thereby to the
extent provided therein.
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Section 905. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act. Every supplemental
indenture executed pursuant to this Article shall conform to the requirements of
the TIA as then in effect.
Section 906. Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures. Securities
authenticated and delivered after the execution of any supplemental indenture
pursuant to this Article may, and shall if required by the Trustee, bear a
notation in form approved by the Trustee as to any matter provided for in such
supplemental indenture. If the Company shall so determine, new Securities 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 Securities.
ARTICLE TEN
Covenants
Section 1001. Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest. With respect to
each series of Securities, the Company will duly and punctually pay the
principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on such Securities in New York,
New York in accordance with their terms and this Indenture, and will duly comply
with all the other terms, agreements and conditions contained in, or made in the
Indenture for the benefit of, the Securities of such series.
Section 1002. Maintenance of Office or Agency. The Company will maintain an
office or agency in New York, New York and each Place of Payment where
Securities may be presented or surrendered for payment, where Securities may be
surrendered for transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon
the Company in respect of the Securities and this Indenture may be served. The
Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and of
any change in the location, of such office or agency. If at any time the Company
shall fail to maintain such office or agency or shall fail to furnish the
Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and
demands may be made or served at the principal Corporate Trust Office of the
Trustee, and the Company hereby appoints the Trustee its agent to receive all
such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands.
Section 1003. Money for Security Payments to be Held in Trust. If the
Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent for any series of
Securities, it will, on or before each due date of the principal of (and
premium, if any) or interest on, any of the Securities of such series, segregate
and hold in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto a sum
sufficient to pay the principal (and premium, if any) or interest so becoming
due until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as
herein provided, and will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure
to act.
Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents for any series of
Securities, it will, on or prior to each due date of the principal of (and
premium, if any) or interest on, any Securities of such series, 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 (and premium, if any) or interest, and
(unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the
Trustee of its action or failure so to act.
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The Company will cause each Paying Agent other than the Trustee for any
series of Securities 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 principal of (and
premium, if any) or interest on Securities of such series in trust for the
benefit of the Persons entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to
such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided;
(2) give the Trustee notice of any default by the Company (or any
other obligor upon the Securities of such series) in the making of any such
payment of principal (and premium, if any) or interest on the Securities of
such series; and
(3) at any time during the continuance of any such default, upon the
written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums so
held in trust by such Paying Agent.
The Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the satisfaction
and discharge of this Indenture with respect to any series of Securities 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 in
respect of each and every series of Securities as to which it seeks to discharge
this Indenture or, if for any other purpose, all sums so held in trust by the
Company in respect of all Securities, such sums to be held by the Trustee upon
the same trusts as those upon which such sums were held by the Company or such
Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the Trustee, such
Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such
money.
Any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then held by
the Company, in trust for the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any)
or interest on any Security of any series 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 Security
shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Company for
payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with
respect to such trust money, and all liability of the Company as trustee
thereof, shall thereupon cease. The Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being
required to make any such repayment, may at the expense of the Company mail to
the Holders of the Securities as to which the money to be repaid was held in
trust, as their names and addresses appear in the Security Register, a notice
that such moneys remain unclaimed and that, after a date specified in the
notice, which shall not be less than 30 days from the date on which the notice
was first mailed to the Holders of the Securities as to which the money to be
repaid was held in trust, any unclaimed balance of such moneys then remaining
will be paid to the Company free of the trust formerly impressed upon it.
The Company initially authorizes the Trustee to act as Paying Agent for the
Securities on its behalf. The Company may at any time and from time to time
authorize one or more Persons to act as Paying Agent in addition to or in place
of the Trustee with respect to any series of Securities issued under this
Indenture.
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Section 1004. Statement as to Compliance. The Company will deliver to the
Trustee, within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year, a written statement
signed by the principal executive officer, principal financial officer or
principal accounting officer of the Company, stating that
(1) a review of the activities of the Company during such year and of
the Company's performance under this Indenture and under the terms of the
Securities has been made under his supervision; and
(2) to the best of his knowledge, based on such review, the Company
has complied with all conditions and covenants under this Indenture through
such year, or, if there has been a default in the fulfillment of any such
obligation, specifying each such default known to him and the nature and
status thereof.
For purposes of this Section 1004, compliance shall be determined without regard
to any grace period or requirement of notice provided pursuant to the terms of
this Indenture.
Section 1005. Corporate Existence. Subject to Article Eight the Company
will do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full
force and effect its corporate existence.
ARTICLE ELEVEN
Redemption of Securities
Section 1101. Applicability of Article. The Company may reserve the right
to redeem and pay before Stated Maturity all or any part of the Securities of
any series, either by optional redemption, sinking or purchase fund or analogous
obligation or otherwise, by provision therefor in the form of Security for such
series established and approved pursuant to Section 202 and on such terms as are
specified in such form or in the Board Resolution or indenture supplemental
hereto with respect to Securities of such series as provided in Section 301.
Redemption of Securities of any series shall be made in accordance with the
terms of such Securities and, to the extent that this Article does not conflict
with such terms, the succeeding Sections of this Article.
Section 1102. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee. The election of the
Company to redeem any Securities redeemable at the election of the Company shall
be evidenced by, or made pursuant to authority granted by, a Board Resolution.
In case of any redemption at the election of the Company of any Securities of
any series, the Company shall, at least 60 days prior to the Redemption Date
fixed by the Company (unless a shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the
Trustee), notify the Trustee of such Redemption Date and of the principal amount
of Securities of such series to be redeemed.
In the case of any redemption of Securities (i) prior to the expiration of
any restriction on such redemption provided in the terms of such Securities or
elsewhere in this Indenture, or (ii) pursuant to an election of the Company
which is subject to a condition specified in the terms of such Securities, the
Company shall furnish the Trustee with an Officers' Certificate evidencing
compliance with such restriction or condition.
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Section 1103. Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed. If less
than all the Securities of like tenor and terms of any series are to be
redeemed, the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not more
than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the Outstanding
Securities of such series not previously called for redemption, by such method
as the Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate and which may include provision
for the selection for redemption of portions of the principal of Securities of
such series of a denomination larger than the minimum authorized denomination
for Securities of that series. Unless otherwise provided in the terms of a
particular series of Securities, the portions of the principal of Securities so
selected for partial redemption shall be equal to the minimum authorized
denomination of the Securities of such series, or an integral multiple thereof,
and the principal amount which remains outstanding shall not be less than the
minimum authorized denomination for Securities of such series. If less than all
the Securities of unlike tenor and terms of a series are to be redeemed, the
particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected by the Company.
The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the Securities
selected for redemption and, in the case of any Security selected for partial
redemption, the principal amount thereof to be redeemed.
For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise requires,
all provisions relating to the redemption of Securities shall relate, in the
case of any Security redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the portion of
the principal of such Security which has been or is to be redeemed.
Section 1104. Notice of Redemption. Notice of redemption shall be given by
first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not less than 30 nor more than 60 days
prior to the Redemption Date, to each holder of Securities to be redeemed, at
his address appearing in the Security Register.
All notices of redemption shall state:
(1) the Redemption Date;
(2) the Redemption Price;
(3) if less than all Outstanding Securities of any series are to be
redeemed, the identification, including CUSIP numbers, (and, in the case of
partial redemption, the respective principal amounts) of the Securities to
be redeemed, from the Holder to whom the notice is given;
(4) that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price will become due
and payable upon each such Security, and that interest, if any, thereon
shall cease to accrue from and after said date;
(5) the place where such Securities are to be surrendered for payment
of the Redemption Price, which shall be the office or agency of the Company
in the Place of Payment; and
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(6) that the redemption is on account of a sinking or purchase fund,
or other analogous obligation, if that be the case.
Notice of redemption of Securities to be redeemed at the election of the
Company shall be given by the Company or, at the Company's request, by the
Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company. Such notice shall be
deemed to have been given to each Holder if sent in accordance with Section 105
hereof.
Section 1105. Deposit of Redemption Price. On or prior to 10:00 a.m. of any
Redemption Date, the Company shall deposit with the Trustee or with a Paying
Agent (or, if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregate and hold
in trust as provided in Section 1003) an amount of money sufficient to pay the
Redemption Price of all the Securities which are to be redeemed on that date.
Section 1106. Securities Payable on Redemption Date. Notice of Redemption
having been given as aforesaid, the Securities so to be redeemed shall, on the
Redemption Date, become due and payable at the Redemption Price therein
specified and from and after such date (unless the Company shall default in the
payment of the Redemption Price) such Securities shall cease to bear interest.
Upon surrender of such Securities for redemption in accordance with the notice,
such Securities shall be paid by the Company at the Redemption Price.
Installments of interest the Stated Maturity of which is on or prior to the
Redemption Date shall be payable to the Holders of such Securities registered as
such on the relevant Regular Record Dates according to their terms and the
provisions of Section 307.
If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon surrender
thereof for redemption, the principal shall, until paid, bear interest from the
Redemption Date at the rate borne by the Security, or as otherwise provided in
such Security.
Section 1107. Securities Redeemed in Part. Any Security which is to be
redeemed only in part shall be surrendered at the office or agency of the
Company in the Place of Payment with respect to that series (with, if the
Company or the Trustee so requires, due endorsement by, or a written instrument
of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee duly executed
by, the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing) and the
Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the
Holder of such Security without service charge, a new Security or Securities of
the same series and Stated Maturity and of like tenor and terms, of any
authorized denomination as requested by such Holder in aggregate principal
amount equal to and in exchange for the unredeemed portion of the principal of
the Security so surrendered.
Section 1108. Provisions with Respect to any Sinking Funds. Unless the form
or terms of any series of Securities shall provide otherwise, in lieu of making
all or any part of any mandatory sinking fund payment with respect to such
series of Securities in cash, the Company may at its option (1) deliver to the
Trustee for cancellation any Securities of such series theretofore acquired by
the Company, or (2) receive credit for any Securities of such series (not
previously so credited) acquired by the Company and theretofore delivered to the
Trustee for cancellation or redeemed by the Company other than through the
mandatory sinking fund, and if it does so then (i) Securities so delivered or
credited shall be credited at the applicable sinking
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fund Redemption Price with respect to Securities of such series, and (ii) on or
before the 60th day next preceding each sinking fund Redemption Date with
respect to such series of Securities, the Company will deliver to the Trustee
(A) an Officers' Certificate specifying the portions of such sinking fund
payment to be satisfied by payment of cash and by delivery or credit of
Securities of such series acquired by the Company or so redeemed, and (B) such
Securities so acquired, to the extent not previously surrendered. Such Officers'
Certificate shall also state the basis for such credit and that the Securities
for which the Company elects to receive credit have not been previously so
credited and were not redeemed by the Company through operation of the mandatory
sinking fund, if any, provided with respect to such Securities and shall also
state that no Event of Default with respect to Securities of such series has
occurred and is continuing. All Securities so delivered to the Trustee shall be
canceled by the Trustee and no Securities shall be authenticated in lieu
thereof.
If the sinking fund payment or payments (mandatory or optional) with
respect to any series of Securities made in cash plus any unused balance of any
preceding sinking fund payments with respect to Securities of such series made
in cash shall exceed $50,000 (or a lesser sum if the Company shall so request),
unless otherwise provided by the terms of such series of Securities, that cash
shall be applied by the Trustee on the sinking fund Redemption Date with respect
to Securities of such series next following the date of such payment to the
redemption of Securities of such series at the applicable sinking fund
Redemption Price with respect to Securities of such series, together with
accrued interest, if any, to the date fixed for redemption, with the effect
provided in Section 1106. The Trustee shall select, in the manner provided in
Section 1103, for redemption on such sinking fund Redemption Date a sufficient
principal amount of Securities of such series to utilize that cash and shall
thereupon cause notice of redemption of the Securities of such series for the
sinking fund to be given in the manner provided in Section 1104 (and with the
effect provided in Section 1106) for the redemption of Securities in part at the
option of the Company. Any sinking fund moneys not so applied or allocated by
the Trustee to the redemption of Securities of such series shall be added to the
next cash sinking fund payment with respect to Securities of such series
received by the Trustee and, together with such payment, shall be applied in
accordance with the provisions of this Section 1108. Any and all sinking fund
moneys with respect to Securities of any series held by the Trustee at the
Maturity of Securities of such series, and not held for the payment or
redemption of particular Securities of such series, shall be applied by the
Trustee, together with other moneys, if necessary, to be deposited sufficient
for the purpose, to the payment of the principal of the Securities of such
series at Maturity.
On or before each sinking fund Redemption Date provided with respect to
Securities of any series, the Company shall pay to the Trustee in cash a sum
equal to all accrued interest, if any, to the date fixed for redemption on
Securities to be redeemed on such sinking fund Redemption Date pursuant to this
Section 1108.
ARTICLE TWELVE
Subordination
Section 1201. Agreement of Securityholders that Securities Subordinated to
Extent Provided. The Company, for itself, its successors and assigns, covenants
and agrees and each
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Holder of the Securities by his or her acceptance thereof likewise covenants and
agrees that the payment of the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on
each and all of the Securities is hereby expressly subordinated, to the extent
and in the manner hereinafter set forth, to the prior payment in full of all
Senior Indebtedness. The provisions of this Article shall constitute a
continuing offer to all persons who, in reliance upon such provisions, become
holders of, or continue to hold, Senior Indebtedness, and such provisions are
made for the benefit of the holders of Senior Indebtedness, and such holders are
hereby made obligees hereunder the same as if their names were written herein as
such, and the and/or each of them may proceed to enforce such provisions.
Section 1202. Company Not to Make Payments With Respect to Securities in
Certain Circumstances.
(a) Upon the maturity of any Senior Indebtedness by lapse of time,
acceleration or otherwise, all principal thereof and premium, if any, and
interest thereon shall first be paid in full, or such payment duly provided for
in cash or in a manner satisfactory to the holder or holders of such Senior
Indebtedness, before any payment is made on account of the principal of or
premium, if any, or interest on the Securities or to acquire any of the
Securities or on account of any sinking fund (except sinking fund payments made
in Securities acquired by the Company before the maturity of such Senior
Indebtedness).
(b) Upon the happening of (i) an event of default with respect to any
Senior Indebtedness, as such event of default is defined therein or in the
instrument under which it is outstanding, permitting the holders to accelerate
the maturity thereof, or (ii) an event which, with the giving of notice, or
lapse of time, or both, would constitute such an event of default, then, unless
and until such event shall have been cured or waived or shall have ceased to
exist, no payment shall be made by the Company with respect to the principal of
or premium, if any, or interest on the Securities or to acquire any of the
Securities or on account of any sinking fund for the Securities (except sinking
fund payments made in Securities acquired by the Company before such default and
notice thereof).
(c) In the event that notwithstanding the provisions of this Section
1202 the Company shall make any payment to the Trustee on account of the
principal of or premium, if any, or interest on the Securities, or on account of
any sinking fund, or the Holders of the Securities shall receive any such
payment, after the happening of a default in payment of the principal of or
premium, if any, or interest on Senior Indebtedness, then, unless and until such
default or event of default shall have been cured or waived or shall have ceased
to exist, such payment (subject to the provisions of Section 1206) shall be held
by the Trustee or the Holders of the Securities, as the case may be, in trust
for the benefit of, and shall be paid forthwith over and delivered to, the
holders of Senior Indebtedness (pro rata as to each of such holders on the basis
of the respective amounts of Senior Indebtedness held by them) or their
representatives or the trustee under the indenture or other agreement (if any)
pursuant to which any instruments evidencing any Senior Indebtedness may have
been issued, as their respective interests may appear, for application to the
payment of all Senior Indebtedness remaining unpaid to the extent necessary to
pay all Senior Indebtedness in full in accordance with the terms of such Senior
Indebtedness, after giving effect to any concurrent payment or distribution to
or for the holders of Senior Indebtedness. The Company shall give prompt written
notice to the Trustee of any
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default under any Senior Indebtedness or under any agreement pursuant to which
Senior Indebtedness may have been issued.
Section 1203. Securities Subordinated to Prior Payments of All Senior
Indebtedness on Dissolution, Liquidation or Reorganization of the Company. Upon
any distribution of assets of the Company upon any dissolution, winding up,
liquidation or reorganization of the Company (whether in bankruptcy, insolvency
or receivership proceedings or upon an assignment for the benefit of creditors
or otherwise):
(a) the holders of all Senior Indebtedness shall first be entitled to
receive payment in full of the principal thereof, premium, if any, and interest
due thereon before the Holders of the Securities are entitled to receive any
payment on account of the principal of, premium, if any, or interest on the
Securities;
(b) any payment or distribution of assets of the Company of any kind
or character, whether in cash, property or securities, to which the Holders of
the Securities or the Trustees would be entitled except for the provisions of
this Article Twelve, shall be paid by the liquidating trustee or agent or other
person making such payment or distribution, whether a trustee in bankruptcy, a
receiver or liquidating trustee or other trustee or agent, directly to the
holders of Senior Indebtedness or their representative or representatives, or to
the trustee or trustees under any indenture under which any instruments
evidencing any of such Senior Indebtedness may have been issued, to the extent
necessary to make payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness remaining unpaid,
after giving effect to any concurrent payment or distribution or provision
therefor to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness;
(c) in the event that notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this
Section 1203, any payment or distribution of assets of the Company of any kind
or character, whether in cash, property or securities, shall be received by the
Trustee or the Holders of the Securities on account of principal, or premium, if
any, or interest on the Securities before all Senior Indebtedness is paid in
full, or effective provisions made for its payment, such payment or distribution
(subject to the provisions of Sections 1206 and 1207) shall be received and held
in trust for and shall be paid over to the holders of the Senior Indebtedness
remaining unpaid or unprovided for or their representative or representatives,
or to the trustee or trustees under any indenture under which any instruments
evidencing any of such Senior Indebtedness may have been issued, for application
to the payment of such Senior Indebtedness until all such Senior Indebtedness
shall have been paid in full, after giving effect to any concurrent payment or
distribution or provision therefor to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness.
Section 1204. Securityholders to be Subrogated to Right of Holders of
Senior Indebtedness. Subject to the payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness,
the Holders of the Securities shall be subrogated to the rights of the holders
of Senior Indebtedness to receive payments or distributions of assets of the
Company applicable to the Senior Indebtedness until all amounts owing on the
Securities shall be paid in full, and for the purpose of such subrogation no
payments or distributions to the holders of the Senior Indebtedness by or on
behalf of the Company or by or on behalf of the Holders of the Securities by
virtue of this Article which otherwise would have been made to the Holders of
the Securities, be deemed to be payment by the Company to or on account of the
Senior Indebtedness, it being understood that the provisions
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of this Article Twelve are and are intended solely for the purpose of defining
the relative rights of the Holders of the Securities, on the one hand, and the
holders of the Senior Indebtedness, on the other hand.
Section 1205. Obligation of the Company Unconditional. Nothing contained in
this Article Twelve or elsewhere in this Indenture or in the Securities is
intended to or shall impair as between the Company and the Holders of the
Securities, the obligations of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional,
to pay to the Holders of the Securities the principal of, premium, if any, and
interest on the Securities as and when the same shall become due and payable in
accordance with their terms, or is intended to or shall affect the relative
rights of the Holders of the Securities and creditors of the Company other than
the holders of the Senior Indebtedness, nor shall anything herein or therein
prevent the Trustee or the Holder of any Security from exercising all remedies
otherwise permitted by applicable law upon default under this Indenture, subject
to the rights, if any, under this Article Twelve of the holders of Senior
Indebtedness in respect of cash, property or securities of the Company received
upon the exercise of any such remedy. Upon any distribution of assets of the
Company referred to in this Article Twelve, the Trustee, subject to the
provisions of Section 601, and the Holders of the Securities shall be entitled
to rely upon any order or decree made by any court of competent jurisdiction in
which such dissolution, winding up, liquidation or reorganization proceedings
are pending, or a certificate of the liquidating trustee or agent or other
person making any distribution to the Trustee or to the Holders of the
Securities, for the purpose of ascertaining the persons entitled to participate
in such distribution, the holders of the Senior Indebtedness 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 Twelve.
Section 1206. Trustee Entitled to Assume Payments Not Prohibited in Absence
of Notice. 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 monies
to or by the Trustee, unless and until a Responsible Officer of the Trustee
shall have received written notice thereof from the Company or from one or more
holders of Senior Indebtedness or from any trustee therefor; and, prior to the
receipt of any such written notice, the Trustee, subject to the provisions of
Section 601, shall be entitled to assume conclusively that no such facts exist.
Section 1207. Application by Trustee of Monies Deposited With It. Anything
in this Indenture to the contrary notwithstanding, any deposit of monies by the
Company with the Trustee or any paying agent (whether or not in trust) for the
payment of the principal of or premium, if any, or interest on any Securities
shall be subject to the provisions of Sections 1201, 1202, 1203 and 1204 except
that, if prior to the date on which by the terms of this Indenture any such
monies may become payable for any purpose (including, without limitation, the
payment of either the principal of or interest or premium, if any, on any
Security) a Responsible Officer of the Trustee shall not have received with
respect to such monies the notice provided for in Section 1206, then, anything
herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall have full
power and authority to receive such monies and to apply the same to the purpose
for which they were received, and shall not be affected by any notice to the
contrary which may be received by it on or after such date.
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Section 1208. Subordination Rights Not Impaired by Acts or Omissions of
Company or Holders of Senior Indebtedness. No right of any present or future
holders of any Senior Indebtedness to enforce subordination as herein provided
shall at any time in any way be prejudiced or impaired by any act or failure to
act on the part of the Company or by any act or failure to act, 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.
Section 1209. Securityholders Authorize Trustee to Effectuate Subordination
of Securities. Each Holder of the Securities by his or her acceptance thereof
authorizes and expressly directs the Trustee on his or her behalf to take such
action as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate the subordination
provided in this Article Twelve and appoints the Trustee his/her
attorney-in-fact for such purpose, including, in the event of any dissolution,
winding up, liquidation or reorganization of the Company (whether in bankruptcy,
insolvency or receivership proceedings or upon an assignment for the benefit of
creditors or otherwise) tending towards liquidation of the business and assets
of the Company, the immediate filing of a claim for the unpaid balance of its or
his or her Securities in the form required in said proceedings and cause said
claim to be approved. If the trustee does not file a proper claim or proof of
debt in the form required in such proceeding prior to 30 days before the
expiration of the time to file such claim or claims, then the holder or holders
of the Senior Indebtedness are hereby authorized to and have the right to file
an appropriate claim for and on behalf of the holders of said Securities.
Section 1210. Right of Trustee to Hold Senior Indebtedness. The Trustee
shall be entitled to all of the rights set forth in this Article Twelve in
respect of any Senior Indebtedness at any time held by it to the same extent as
any other holder of Senior Indebtedness, and nothing in Section 613 or elsewhere
in this Indenture shall be construed to deprive the Trustee of any of its rights
as such holder.
Section 1211. Article Twelve Not to Prevent Events of Default. The failure
to make a payment on account of principal, interest or sinking fund by reason of
any provision of this Article Twelve shall not be construed as preventing the
occurrence of an Event of Default under Section 501.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be
duly executed, and their respective corporate seals to be hereunto affixed and
attested, all as of the day and year first above written.
EEX CORPORATION,
By:
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Name:
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Title:
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CHASE BANK OF TEXAS, NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION,
as Trustee
By:
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Name:
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Title:
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