THE FIRST TRUST SPECIAL SITUATIONS TRUST, SERIES 215
TRUST AGREEMENT
Dated: August 27, 1997
This Trust Agreement among Nike Securities L.P., as
Depositor, The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Trustee, First Trust
Advisors L.P., as Evaluator and First Trust Advisors L.P., as
Portfolio Supervisor, sets forth certain provisions in full and
incorporates other provisions by reference to the document
entitled "Standard Terms and Conditions of Trust for The First
Trust Special Situations Trust, Series 18 and subsequent Series,
Effective October 15, 1991" (herein called the "Standard Terms
and Conditions of Trust"), and such provisions as are
incorporated by reference constitute a single instrument. All
references herein to Articles and Sections are to Articles and
Sections of the Standard Terms and Conditions of Trust.
WITNESSETH THAT:
In consideration of the premises and of the mutual
agreements herein contained, the Depositor, the Trustee, the
Evaluator and the Portfolio Supervisor agree as follows:
PART I
STANDARD TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF TRUST
Subject to the provisions of Part II and Part III hereof,
all the provisions contained in the Standard Terms and Conditions
of Trust are herein incorporated by reference in their entirety
and shall be deemed to be a part of this instrument as fully and
to the same extent as tough said provisions had been set forth in
full in this instrument.
PART II
SPECIAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF TRUST
The following special terms and conditions are hereby agreed
to:
A. The Securities initially deposited in the Trust
pursuant to Section 2.01 of the Standard Terms and Conditions of
Trust are set forth in the Schedules hereto.
B. (1) The aggregate number of Units outstanding for the
Trust on the Initial Date of Deposit is 15,000 Units.
(2) The initial fractional undivided interest in and
ownership of the Trust represented by each Unit thereof shall be
1/15,000.
Documents representing this number of Units for the Trust
are being delivered by the Trustee to the Depositor pursuant to
Section 2.03 of the Standard Terms and Conditions of Trust.
C. The Percentage Ratio is as follows on the Initial Date
of Deposit:
49.47% Zero coupon U.S. Treasury bonds maturing November 15,
2004, 1.00% E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, .92% Monsanto
Company, .73% The Boeing Company, .67% Caterpillar Inc.,
.64% Deere & Company, .63% Xxxxxxx Electric Co., .97%
General Electric Company, .68% Xxxxxxxxxxx Industries Inc.,
.62% Tyco International Ltd., .56% United States Filter
Corporation, 1.01% Pacific Gateway Exchange, Inc., .93%
Worldcom, Inc., .85% Consolidated Stores Corporation, .48%
Xxxxxx Tire & Rubber Company, .75% Xxxx'x Corporation, .58%
New York Times Company (Class A), .96% NIKE, Inc. (Class B),
.49% Service Corporation International, .91% The Coca-Cola
Company, 1.19% The Xxxx Disney Company, .85% Xxx Xxxxxxxx
Xxxxxxx, 1.15% Imax Corporation, 1.00% XxXxxxxx'x
Corporation, .92% The Procter & Xxxxxx Company, 1.02% Amoco
Corporation, .70% Exxon Corporation, .74% Mobil Corporation,
1.01% Schlumberger, Ltd., 1.13% Transocean Offshore Inc.,
.79% American International Group, Inc., 1.06% Banc One
Corporation, .94% Xxxxxxx Xxxxx, Inc., 1.15% Citicorp, .95%
Fifth Third Bancorp, 1.16% Huntington Bancshares
Incorporated, .99% National City Corporation, .61%
Nationwide Financial Service, Inc., .99% X. Xxxx Price
Associates, Inc., .85% Amgen, Inc., .67% Biomet, Inc., 1.03%
Cardinal Health, Inc., .78% HEALTHSOUTH Corporation, .84%
Xxxxxxx & Xxxxxxx, 1.02% Medtronic, Inc., .92% Merck &
Company, Inc., .93% Pfizer, Inc., 1.05% Applied Materials,
Inc., .92% Aspen Technologies, Inc., 1.19% Cisco Systems,
Inc., 1.14% Compaq Computer Corporation, .85% Computer
Sciences Corporation, 1.30% Intel Corporation, .82% Lucent
Technologies, 1.26% Microsoft Corporation, .83% Motorola,
Inc., .72% Federal Express Corporation, .68% The Xxxxxxxx
Companies, Inc.
D. The Record Dates shall be as set forth in the
Prospectus under "Summary of Essential Information."
E. The Distribution Dates shall be as set forth in the
Prospectus under "Summary of Essential Information."
F. The Mandatory Termination Date for the Trust shall be
November 15, 2004.
G. The Treasury Obligations Maturity Date for the Trust
shall be November 15, 2004.
H. The Evaluator's compensation as referred to in Section
4.03 of the Standard Terms and Conditions of Trust shall be an
annual fee of $.0025 per Unit calculated on the largest number of
Units outstanding during each period in respect of which a
payment is made pursuant to Section 3.05, payable on a
Distribution Date. Such fee may exceed the actual cost of
providing such evaluation services for the Trust, but at no time
will the total amount received for evaluation services rendered
to unit investment trusts of which Nike Securities L.P. is the
sponsor in any calendar year exceed the aggregate cost to the
Evaluator of supplying such services in such year.
I. The Trustee's Compensation Rate pursuant to Section
6.04 of the Standard Terms and Conditions of Trust shall be an
annual fee of $.0075 per Unit, calculated on the largest number
of Units outstanding during each period in respect of which a
payment is made pursuant to Section 3.05. However, in no event,
except as may be otherwise be provided in the Standard Terms and
Conditions of Trust, shall the Trustee receive compensation in
any one year from any Trust of less than $2,000 for such annual
compensation.
J. The Initial Date of Deposit for the Trust is August 27,
1997.
K. The minimum amount of Equity Securities to be sold by
the Trustee pursuant to Section 5.02 of the Indenture for the
redemption of Units shall be 100 shares.
PART III
A. Section 1.01(2) shall be amended to read as follows:
"(2) "Trustee" shall mean The Chase Manhattan Bank, or any
successor trustee appointed as hereinafter provided."
All references to United States Trust Company of New York in
the Standard Terms and Conditions of Trust shall be amended to
refer to The Chase Manhattan Bank.
B. The term "Capital Account" as set forth in the
Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to the "Principal Account."
C. Paragraph (b) of Section 2.01 shall be restated in its
entirety as follows:
(b)(1)From time to time following the Initial Date of
Deposit, the Depositor is hereby authorized, in its
discretion, to assign, convey to and deposit with the
Trustee (i) additional Securities, duly endorsed in blank or
accompanied by all necessary instruments of assignment and
transfer in proper form, (ii) Contract Obligations relating
to such additional Securities, accompanied by cash and/or
Letter(s) of Credit as specified in paragraph (c) of this
Section 2.01, or (iii) cash (or a Letter of Credit in lieu
of cash) with instructions to purchase additional
Securities, in an amount equal to the portion of the Unit
Value of the Units created by such deposit attributable to
the Securities to be purchased pursuant to such
instructions. Except as provided in the following
subparagraphs (2), (3) and (4) the Depositor, in each case,
shall ensure that each deposit of additional Securities
pursuant to this Section shall maintain, as nearly as
practicable, the Percentage Ratio. Each such deposit of
additional Securities shall be made pursuant to a Notice of
Deposit of Additional Securities delivered by the Depositor
to the Trustee. Instructions to purchase additional
Securities shall be in writing, and shall specify the name
of the Security, CUSIP number, if any, aggregate amount,
price or price range and date to be purchased. When
requested by the Trustee, the Depositor shall act as broker
to execute purchases in accordance with such instructions;
the Depositor shall be entitled to compensation therefor in
accordance with applicable law and regulations. The Trustee
shall have no liability for any loss or depreciation
resulting from any purchase made pursuant to the Depositor's
instructions or made by the Depositor as broker.
(2) Additional Securities (or Contract Obligations
therefor) may, at the Depositor's discretion, be deposited
or purchased in round lots. If the amount of the deposit is
insufficient to acquire round lots of each Security to be
acquired, the additional Securities shall be deposited or
purchased in the order of the Security in the Trust most
under-represented immediately before the deposit with
respect to the Percentage Ratio.
(3) If at the time of a deposit of additional
Securities, Securities of an issue deposited on the Initial
Date of Deposit (or of an issue of Replacement Securities
acquired to replace an issue deposited on the Initial Date
of Deposit) are unavailable, cannot be purchased at
reasonable prices or their purchase is prohibited or
restricted by applicable law, regulation or policies, the
Depositor may (i) deposit, or instruct the Trustee to
purchase, in lieu thereof, another issue of Securities or
Replacement Securities or (ii) deposit cash or a letter of
credit in an amount equal to the valuation of the issue of
Securities whose acquisition is not feasible with
instructions to acquire such Securities of such issue when
they become available.
(4) Any contrary authorization in the preceding
subparagraphs (1) through (3) notwithstanding, deposits of
additional Securities made after the 90-day period
immediately following the Initial Date of Deposit (except
for deposits made to replace Failed Contract Obligations if
such deposits occur with 20 days from the date of a failure
occurring within such initial 90-day period) shall maintain
exactly the Percentage Ratio existing immediately prior to
such deposit.
(5) In connection with and at the time of any deposit
of additional Securities pursuant to this Section 2.01(b),
the Depositor shall exactly replicate Cash (as defined
below) received or receivable by the Trust as of the date of
such deposit. For purposes of this paragraph, "Cash" means,
as to the Capital Account, cash or other property (other
than Securities) on hand in the Capital Account or
receivable and to be credited to the Capital Account as of
the date of the deposit (other than amounts to be
distributed solely to persons other than holders of Units
created by the deposit) and, as to the Income Account, cash
or other property (other than Securities) received by the
Trust as of the date of the deposit or receivable by the
Trust in respect of a record date for a payment on a
Security which has occurred or will occur before the Trust
will be the holder of record of a Security, reduced by the
amount of any cash or other property received or receivable
on any Security allocable (in accordance with the Trustee's
calculations of distributions from the Income Account
pursuant to Section 3.05) to a distribution made or to be
made in respect of a Record Date occurring prior to the
deposit. Such replication will be made on the basis of a
fraction, the numerator of which is the number of Units
created by the deposit and the denominator of which is the
number of Units which are outstanding immediately prior to
the deposit".
D. The last sentence of the first paragraph of Section
5.02 of the Standard Terms and Conditions of Trust is amended by
substituting "4:00 p.m. Eastern time" for "12:00 p.m in the City
of New York."
E. The third sentence of the seventh paragraph of Section
5.02 of the Standard Terms and Conditions of Trust is amended by
deleting "a certification from the independent public accountants
to the effect described in the second paragraph of this Section
5.02" and in its place inserting "a certification from the
Depositor and Trustee to the effect described in the second
paragraph of this Section 5.02."
F. Paragraph (a) of subsection II of Section 3.05 of the
Standard Terms and Conditions of Trust is hereby amended to
substitute the following sentence for the first sentence of such
paragraph:
"On each Distribution Date, the Trustee shall
distribute to each Unit holder of record at the close of
business on the Record Date immediately preceding such
Distribution Date an amount per Unit equal to such Unit
holder's Income Distribution (as defined below), plus such
Unit holder's pro rata share of the balance of the Principal
Account (except for monies on deposit therein required to
purchase Contract Obligations) computed as of the close of
business on such Record Date after deduction of any amounts
provided in Subsection I, provided, however, that with
respect to distributions other than the distribution
occurring in the month of December of each year, the Trustee
shall not be required to make a distribution from the
Principal Account unless the amount available for
distribution shall equal $1.00 per 100 Units.
Each Trust shall provide the following distribution
elections: (1) distributions to be made by check mailed to
the post office address of the Unit holder as it appears on
the registration books of the Trustee, or (2) the following
reinvestment option:
The Trustee will, for any Unit holder who provides
the Trustee written instruction, properly executed and
in form satisfactory to the Trustee, received by the
Trustee no later than its close of business 10 business
days prior to a Record Date (the "Reinvestment Notice
Date"), reinvest such Unit holder's distribution from
the Income and Capital Accounts in Units of the Trust,
purchased from the Depositor, to the extent the
Depositor shall make Units available for such purchase,
at the Depositor's offering price as of the fifth
business day prior to the following Distribution Date,
and at such reduced sales charge as may be described in
the prospectus for the Trusts. If, for any reason, the
Depositor does not have Units of the Trust available
for purchase, the Trustee shall distribute such Unit
holder's distribution from the Income and Capital
Accounts in the manner provided in clause (1) of the
preceding paragraph. The Trustee shall be entitled to
rely on a written instruction received as of the
Reinvestment Notice Date and shall not be affected by
any subsequent notice to the contrary. The Trustee
shall have no responsibility for any loss or
depreciation resulting from any reinvestment made in
accordance with this paragraph, or for any failure to
make such reinvestment in the event the Depositor does
not make Units available for purchase.
Any Unit holder who does not effectively elect
reinvestment in Units of their respective Trust pursuant to
the preceding paragraph shall receive a cash distribution in
the manner provided in clause (1) of the second preceding
paragraph."
G. Section 3.12 of the Standard Terms and Conditions of
Trust is hereby deleted in its entirety and replaced with the
following language:
"Section 3.12. Notice to Depositor. In the event that the
Trustee shall have been notified at any time of any action to be
taken or proposed to be taken by at least a legally required
number of holders of any Zero Coupon Obligation, if any,
(including but not limited to the making of any demand,
direction, request, giving of any notice, consent or waiver or
the voting with respect to any amendment or supplement to any
indenture, resolution, agreement or other instrument under or
pursuant to which the Zero Coupon Obligations, if any, have been
issued) the Trustee shall promptly notify the Depositor and shall
thereupon take such action or refrain from taking any action as
the Depositor shall in writing direct; provided, however, that if
the Depositor shall not within five Business Days of the giving
of such notice to the Depositor direct the Trustee to take or
refrain from taking any action, the Trustee shall take such
action as it, in its sole discretion, shall deem advisable.
In the event that the Trustee shall have been notified at
any time of any action to be taken or proposed to be taken by at
least a legally required number of holders of any Equity
Securities deposited in a Trust, the Trustee shall take such
action or omit from taking any action, as appropriate, so as to
insure that the Equity Securities are voted as closely as
possible in the same manner and the same general proportion as
are the Equity Securities held by owners other than the Trust.
In the event that an offer by the issuer of any of the
Securities or any other party shall be made to issue new
securities, or to exchange securities, for Trust Securities, the
Trustee shall reject such offer. However, should any exchange or
substitution be effected notwithstanding such rejection or
without an initial offer, any Securities, cash and/or property
received in exchange shall be deposited hereunder and shall be
promptly sold, if securities or property, by the Trustee pursuant
to the Depositor's direction, unless the Depositor advises the
Trustee to keep such securities or property. The Depositor may
rely on the Portfolio Supervisor in so advising the Trustee. The
cash received in such exchange and cash proceeds of any such
sales shall be distributed to Unit holders on the next
distribution date in the manner set forth in Section 3.05
regarding distributions from the Principal Account. The Trustee
shall not be liable or responsible in any way for depreciation or
loss incurred by reason of any such sale.
Neither the Depositor nor the Trustee shall be liable to any
person for any action or failure to take action pursuant to the
terms of this Section 3.12 other than failure to notify the
Depositor.
Whenever new securities or property is received and retained
by the Trust pursuant to this Section 3.12, the Trustee shall,
within 5 days thereafter, mail to all Unit holders of the Trust
notices of such acquisition unless legal counsel for the Trust
determines that such notice is not required by The Investment
Company Act of 1940, as amended."
H. Section 1.01(4) shall be amended to read as follows:
"(4)"Portfolio Supervisor" shall mean First Trust Advisors
L.P. and its successors in interest, or any successor portfolio
supervisor appointed as hereinafter provided."
I. Section 3.05 of Article III of the Standard Terms and
Conditions of Trust is hereby amended to include the following
subsection:
"Section 3.05.I.(e) deduct from the Income Account or,
to the extent funds are not available in such Account, from
the Capital Account and pay to the Depositor the amount that
it is entitled to receive pursuant to Section 3.16."
J. Article III of the Standard Terms and Conditions of
Trust is hereby amended by inserting the following paragraphs
which shall be entitled Section 3.16.:
"Section 3.16. Bookkeeping and Administrative Expenses. As
compensation for providing bookkeeping and other administrative
services of a character described in Section 26(a)(2)(C) of the
Investment Company Act of 1940 to the extent such services are in
addition to, and do not duplicate, the services to be provided
hereunder by the Trustee or the Portfolio Supervisor, the
Depositor shall receive against a statement or statements
therefor submitted to the Trustee monthly or annually an
aggregate annual fee in an amount which shall not exceed that
dollar amount set forth in the Prospectus times the number of
Units outstanding as of January 1 of such year except for a year
or years in which an initial offering period as determined by
Section 4.01 of this Indenture occurs, in which case the fee for
a month is based on the number of Units outstanding at the end of
such month (such annual fee to be pro rated for any calendar year
in which the Depositor provides service during less than the
whole of such year), but in no event shall such compensation when
combined with all compensation received from other unit
investment trusts for which the Depositor hereunder is acting as
Depositor for providing such bookkeeping and administrative
services in any calendar year exceed the aggregate cost to the
Depositor providing services to such unit investment trusts.
Such compensation may, from time to time, be adjusted provided
that the total adjustment upward does not, at the time of such
adjustment, exceed the percentage of the total increase, after
the date hereof, in consumer prices for services as measured by
the United States Department of Labor Consumer Price Index
entitled "All Services Less Rent of Shelter" or similar index, if
such index should no longer be published. The consent or
concurrence of any Unit holder hereunder shall not be required
for any such adjustment or increase. Such compensation shall be
paid by the Trustee, upon receipt of invoice therefor from the
Depositor, upon which, as to the cost incurred by the Depositor
of providing services hereunder the Trustee may rely, and shall
be charged against the Income and Principal Accounts on or before
the Distribution Date following the Monthly Record Date on which
such period terminates. The Trustee shall have no liability to
any Certificateholder or other person for any payment made in
good faith pursuant to this Section.
If the cash balance in the Income and Principal Accounts
shall be insufficient to provide for amounts payable pursuant to
this Section 3.16, the Trustee shall have the power to sell (i)
Securities from the current list of Securities designated to be
sold pursuant to Section 5.02 hereof, or (ii) if no such
Securities have been so designated, such Securities as the
Trustee may see fit to sell in its own discretion, and to apply
the proceeds of any such sale in payment of the amounts payable
pursuant to this Section 3.16, provided, however, that Zero
Coupon Obligations may not be sold to pay for amounts payable
pursuant to this Section 3.16.
Any moneys payable to the Depositor pursuant to this Section
3.16 shall be secured by a prior lien on the Trust Fund except
that no such lien shall be prior to any lien in favor of the
Trustee under the provisions of Section 6.04 herein.
K. Section 1.01(3) shall be amended to read as follows:
"(3) "Evaluator" shall mean First Trust Advisors L.P. and
its successors in interest, or any successor evaluator appointed
as hereinafter provided."
L. The first sentence of Section 3.14. shall be amended to
read as follows:
"As compensation for providing supervisory portfolio
services under this Indenture, the Portfolio Supervisor
shall receive, in arrears, against a statement or statements
therefor submitted to the Trustee monthly or annually an
aggregate annual fee in an amount which shall not exceed the
amount set forth under "Summary of Essential Information-
Supervisory Fee" in the Prospectus times the number of Units
outstanding as of January 1 of such year except for a Trust
during the year or years in which an initial offering period
as determined in Section 4.01 of this Indenture occurs, in
which case the fee for a month is based on the number of
Units outstanding at the end of such month (such annual fee
to be pro rated for any calendar year in which the Portfolio
Supervisor provides services during less than the whole of
such year), but in no event shall such compensation when
combined with all compensation received from other series of
the Trust for providing such supervisory services in any
calendar year exceed the aggregate cost to the Portfolio
Supervisor for providing such services."
M. Section 3.01 of the Standard Terms and Conditions of
Trust shall be replaced in its entirety with the following:
"Section 3.01. Initial Cost. The expenses incurred in
establishing a Trust, including the cost of the preparation and
typesetting of the registration statement, prospectuses
(including preliminary prospectuses), the indenture and other
documents relating to the Trust, printing of Certificates,
Securities and Exchange Commission and state blue sky
registration fees, the costs of the initial valuation of the
portfolio and audit of the Trust, the initial fees and expenses
of the Trustee, and legal and other out-of-pocket expenses
related thereto, but not including the expenses incurred in the
printing of preliminary prospectuses and prospectuses, expenses
incurred in the preparation and printing of brochures and other
advertising materials and any other selling expenses, to the
extent not borne by the Depositor, shall be borne by the Trust.
To the extent the funds in the Income and Capital Accounts of the
Trust shall be insufficient to pay the expenses borne by the
Trust specified in this Section 3.01, the Trustee shall advance
out of its own funds and cause to be deposited and credited to
the Income Account such amount as may be required to permit
payment of such expenses. The Trustee shall be reimbursed for
such advance on each Record Date from funds on hand in the Income
Account or, to the extent funds are not available in such
Account, from the Capital Account, in the amount deemed to have
accrued as of such Record Date as provided in the following
sentence (less prior payments on account of such advances, if
any), and the provisions of Section 6.04 with respect to the
reimbursement of disbursements for Trust expenses, including,
without limitation, the lien in favor of the Trustee therefor and
the authority to sell Securities as needed to fund such
reimbursement, shall apply to the payment of expenses and the
amounts advanced pursuant to this Section. For the purposes of
the preceding sentence and the addition provided in clause (4) of
the first sentence of Section 5.01, the expenses borne by the
Trust pursuant to this Section shall be deemed to have been paid
on the date of the Trust Agreement and to accrue at a daily rate
over the time period specified for their amortization provided in
the Prospectus; provided, however, that nothing herein shall be
deemed to prevent, and the Trustee shall be entitled to, full
reimbursement for any advances made pursuant to this Section no
later than the termination of the Trust. For purposes of
calculating the accrual of organizational expenses under this
Section 3.01, the Trustee shall rely on the written estimates of
such expenses provided by the Depositor pursuant to Section
5.01."
N. Section 5.01 of the Standard Terms and Conditions of
Trust shall be amended as follows:
(i) The first sentence of the first paragraph of
Section 5.01 shall be amended by deleting the phrase
"together with all other assets of the Trust" at the end of
such sentence and adding the following at the conclusion
thereof: ", plus (4) amounts representing organizational
expenses paid from the Trust less amounts representing
accrued organizational expenses of the Trust, plus (5) all
other assets of the Trust."
(ii) The following shall be added at the end of the
first paragraph of Section 5.01:
Until the Depositor has informed the Trustee that
there will be no further deposits of Additional
Securities pursuant to section 2.01(b), the Depositor
shall provide the Trustee with written estimates of (i)
the total organizational expenses to be borne by the
Trust pursuant to Section 3.01 and (ii) the total
number of Units to be issued in connection with the
initial deposit and all anticipated deposits of
additional Securities. For purposes of calculating the
Trust Fund Evaluation and Unit Value, the Trustee shall
treat all such anticipated expenses as having been paid
and all liabilities therefor as having been incurred,
and all Units as having been issued, in each case on
the date of the Trust Agreement, and, in connection
with each such calculation, shall take into account a
pro rata portion of such expense and liability based on
the actual number of Units issued as of the date of
such calculation. In the event the Trustee is informed
by the Depositor of a revision in its estimate of total
expenses or total Units and upon the conclusion of the
deposit of additional Securities, the Trustee shall
base calculations made thereafter on such revised
estimates or actual expenses, respectively, but such
adjustment shall not affect calculations made prior
thereto and no adjustment shall be made in respect
thereof.
O. For purposes of this Trust, Units of the Trust will not
be rated by Standard & Poor's Ratings Services and any reference
to such rating or any requirement that information be forwarded
to Standard & Poor's Ratings Services in the Standard Terms and
Conditions of Trust shall be inapplicable. In addition, any
reference to Unit holders receiving or the Trust maintaining a
specified amount per Unit upon the Mandatory Termination Date
shall be inapplicable.
P. For purposes of this Trust, any reference in the
Standard Terms and Conditions of Trust to "140%" shall be
replaced with "110%" in relation to the amount of cash or a
Letter of Credit needed to acquire Treasury Obligations.
Q. The second paragraph of Section 3.02 of the Standard
Terms and Conditions of Trust is hereby deleted and replaced with
the following sentence:
"Any non-cash distributions (other than a non-taxable
distribution of the shares of the distributing corporation
which shall be retained by the Trust) received by the Trust
shall be dealt with in the manner described at Section 3.12,
herein, and shall by retained or disposed of by the Trust
according to those provisions. The proceeds of any
disposition shall be credited to the Income Account of the
Trust. Neither the Trustee nor the Depositor shall be
liable or responsible in any way for depreciation or loss
incurred by reason of any such sale."
R. Section 3.15 of the Standard Terms and Conditions of
Trust shall be deleted and any reference thereto shall be
inapplicable.
S. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in Sections
3.14 and 4.05 of the Standard Terms and Conditions of Trust, so
long as Nike Securities L.P. is acting as Depositor, the Trustee
shall have no power to remove the Portfolio Supervisor.
T. Paragraph (c) of Subsection II of Section 3.05 of the
Standard Terms and Conditions of Trust is hereby amended to read
as follows:
"On each Distribution Date the Trustee shall distribute
to each Unit holder of record at the close of business on
the Record Date immediately preceding such Distribution Date
an amount per Unit equal to such Unit holder's pro rata
share of the balance of the Capital Account (except for
monies on deposit therein required to purchase Contract
Obligations) computed as of the close of business on such
Record Date after deduction of any amounts provided in
Subsection I."
U. The following shall be added immediately following the
first sentence of paragraph (c) of Section 2.01:
"The Trustee may allow the Depositor to substitute any
Letter(s) of Credit deposited with the Trustee in connection
with the deposits described in Section 2.01(a) and (b) with
cash in an amount sufficient to satisfy the obligations to
which the Letter(s) of Credit relates. Any substituted
Letter(s) of Credit shall be released by the Trustee."
V. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this
Standard Terms and Conditions of Trust, any reference to Unit
holders receiving or the Trust maintaining a specified amount per
Unit upon the Mandatory Termination Date shall be inapplicable.
In addition, nothing contained herein or in the Standard Terms
and Conditions of Trust which would (1) restrict the sale of any
Zero Coupon Obligation held by the Trust or (2) require the
maintenance of a per Unit maturity value upon the creation of
additional Units pursuant to a subsequent deposit as described in
Section 2.01(b) shall be applicable.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Nike Securities L.P., The Chase
Manhattan Bank and First Trust Advisors L.P. have each caused
this Trust Agreement to be executed and the respective corporate
seal to be hereto affixed and attested (if applicable) by
authorized officers; all as of the day, month and year first
above written.
NIKE SECURITIES L.P.,Depositor
By Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx
Vice President
THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK, Trustee
(SEAL) By Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Vice President
Attest:
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Second Vice President
FIRST TRUST ADVISORS L.P.,
Evaluator
By Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx
Vice President
FIRST TRUST ADVISORS L.P.,
Portfolio Supervisor
By Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx
Senior Vice President
SCHEDULE A TO TRUST AGREEMENT
Securities Initially Deposited
The First Trust Special Situations Trust, Series 215
(Note: Incorporated herein and made a part hereof for the
Trust is the "Schedule of Investments" for the Trust as set forth
in the Prospectus.)
