Exhibit
T3C
BALLY TOTAL FITNESS HOLDING CORPORATION,
as Issuer
THE GUARANTORS PARTY HERETO,
as Guarantors
and
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Trustee
Dated as of , 2007
13% SENIOR SECURED NOTES DUE 2011
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION |
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Section 1.1
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Definitions
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Section 1.2
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Other Definitions
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Section 1.3
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Compliance Certificates and Opinions
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Section 1.4
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Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee
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Section 1.5
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Acts of Holders
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Section 1.6
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Notices, etc., to Trustee and the Company
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Section 1.7
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Notice to Holders; Waiver
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Section 1.8
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Conflict with Trust Indenture Act
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Section 1.9
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Effect of Headings and Table of Contents
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Section 1.10
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Successors and Assigns
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Section 1.11
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Separability Clause
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Section 1.12
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Benefits of Indenture
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Section 1.13
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Governing Law
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Section 1.14
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Legal Holidays
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Section 1.15
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Schedules
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Section 1.16
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Counterparts
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Section 1.17
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No Recourse against Others
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ARTICLE II SECURITY FORMS |
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Section 2.1
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Forms Generally
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Section 2.2
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Form of Face of Notes
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Section 2.3
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Form of Reverse of Notes
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Section 2.4
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Form of Guarantee
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ARTICLE III THE NOTES |
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Section 3.1
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Title and Terms
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Section 3.2
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Denominations
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Section 3.3
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Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating
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Section 3.4
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Temporary Notes
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Section 3.5
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Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange
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Section 3.6
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Book-Entry Provisions for Global Notes
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Section 3.7
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Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Notes
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Section 3.8
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Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved
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Section 3.9
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CUSIP Numbers
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Section 3.10
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Persons Deemed Owners
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Section 3.11
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Cancellation
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Section 3.12
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Computation of Interest
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ARTICLE IV DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE |
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Section 4.1
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Company’s Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance
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Section 4.2
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Defeasance and Discharge
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Section 4.3
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Covenant Defeasance
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Section 4.4
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Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance
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Section 4.5
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Deposited Money and U.S. Government Obligations to Be Held
in Trust; Other Miscellaneous Provisions
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Section 4.6
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Reinstatement
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ARTICLE V REMEDIES |
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Section 5.1
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Events of Default
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Section 5.2
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Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment
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Section 5.3
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Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee
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Section 5.4
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Trustee May File Proofs of Claim
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Section 5.5
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Trustee May Enforce Claims without Possession of Notes
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Section 5.6
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Application of Money Collected
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Section 5.7
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Limitation on Suits
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Section 5.8
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Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium
and Interest
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Section 5.9
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Restoration of Rights and Remedies
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Section 5.10
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Rights and Remedies Cumulative
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Section 5.11
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Delay or Omission Not Waiver
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Section 5.12
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Control by Holders
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Section 5.13
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Waiver of Past Defaults
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Section 5.14
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Undertaking for Costs
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Section 5.15
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Waiver of Stay, Extension or Usury Laws
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Section 5.16
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Remedies Subject to Applicable Law
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ARTICLE VI THE TRUSTEE |
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Section 6.1
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Duties of Trustee
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Section 6.2
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Notice of Defaults
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Section 6.3
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Certain Rights of Trustee
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Section 6.4
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Trustee Not Responsible for Recitals, Dispositions of Notes
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Section 6.5
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Trustee and Agents May Hold Notes; Collections; etc.
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Section 6.6
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Money Held in Trust
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Section 6.7
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Compensation and Indemnification of Trustee and Its Prior Claim
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Section 6.8
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Conflicting Interests
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Section 6.9
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Trustee Eligibility
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Section 6.10
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Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor Trustee
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Section 6.11
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Acceptance of Appointment by Successor
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Section 6.12
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Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business
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Section 6.13
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Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company
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ARTICLE VII HOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY |
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Section 7.1
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Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders
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Section 7.2
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Disclosure of Names and Addresses of Holders
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Section 7.3
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Reports by Trustee
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Section 7.4
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Reports by Company
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ARTICLE VIII MERGER, CONSOLIDATION OR SALE OF ASSETS |
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Section 8.1
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Company May Merge, Consolidate, etc., Only on Certain Terms
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Section 8.2
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Successor Substituted
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ARTICLE IX SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES |
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Section 9.1
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Supplemental Indentures and Agreements without Consent of Holders
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Section 9.2
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Supplemental Indentures and Agreements with Consent of Holders
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Section 9.3
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Execution of Supplemental Indentures and Agreements
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Section 9.4
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Effect of Supplemental Indentures
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Section 9.5
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Conformity with Trust Indenture Act
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Section 9.6
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Reference in Notes to Supplemental Indentures
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Section 9.7
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Notice of Supplemental Indentures
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ARTICLE X COVENANTS |
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Section 10.1
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Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest
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Section 10.2
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Maintenance of Office or Agency
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Section 10.3
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Money for Note Payments to Be Held in Trust
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Section 10.4
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Corporate Existence
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Section 10.5
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Payment of Taxes and Other Claims
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Section 10.6
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Maintenance of Properties
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Section 10.7
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Insurance
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Section 10.8
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Incurrence of Indebtedness
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Section 10.9
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Restricted Payments
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Section 10.10
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Transactions with Affiliates
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Section 10.11
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Liens
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Section 10.12
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Asset Sales
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Section 10.13
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Purchase of Notes upon a Change of Control
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Section 10.14
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Preferred Stock of Subsidiaries
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Section 10.15
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Dividend and Other Payment Restrictions Affecting Subsidiaries
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Section 10.16
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Unrestricted Subsidiaries
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Section 10.17
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Additional Subsidiary Guarantees
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Section 10.18
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Statement by Officers as to Default
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Section 10.19
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Waiver of Certain Covenants
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Section 10.20
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Perfection of Security Interests
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Section 10.21
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Consummation of Plan of Reorganization
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ARTICLE XI REDEMPTION OF NOTES |
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Section 11.1
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Rights of Redemption
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Section 11.2
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Applicability of Article
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Section 11.3
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Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee
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Section 11.4
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Selection by Trustee of Notes to Be Redeemed
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Section 11.5
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Notice of Redemption
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Section 11.6
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Deposit of Redemption Price
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Section 11.7
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Notes Payable on Redemption Date
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Section 11.8
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Notes Redeemed or Purchased in Part
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ARTICLE XII SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE |
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Section 12.1
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Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture
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Section 12.2
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Application of Trust Money
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ARTICLE XIII GUARANTEE |
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Section 13.1
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Unconditional Guarantee
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Section 13.2
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Severability
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Section 13.3
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Limitation of Guarantor’s Liability
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Section 13.4
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Release of Guarantor
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Section 13.5
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Contribution
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Section 13.6
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Waiver of Subrogation
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Section 13.7
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Execution of Guarantee
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Section 13.8
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Waiver of Stay, Extension or Usury Laws
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ARTICLE XIV SECURITY ARRANGEMENTS |
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Section 14.1
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Collateral and Security Documents
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Section 14.2
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Release of Collateral
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Section 14.3
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Opinions as to Recording
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Section 14.4
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Further Assurances and Security
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Section 14.5
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Authorization of Actions to be Taken by Collateral Agent
Under the Security Documents
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Section 14.6
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Authorization of Receipt of Funds by the Trustee under the
Security Documents
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Section 14.7
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Covenants of Collateral Agent with Respect to the Credit
Agreement
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INDENTURE dated as of , 2007 between BALLY TOTAL FITNESS HOLDING CORPORATION, a
Delaware corporation (as more fully defined below, the “Company”), the Guarantors (as more
fully defined below, the “Guarantors”) listed on Schedule A hereto and U.S. BANK
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a national banking association, as trustee (the “Trustee”).
RECITALS
WHEREAS, the Company and certain of its Subsidiaries filed for reorganization under chapter 11
of title 11 of the United States Code (the “
Bankruptcy Code”) in the United States
Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of
New York (the “
Bankruptcy Court”); and
WHEREAS by order, dated , 2007, the Bankruptcy Court has confirmed the Company’s
plan of reorganization (the “Plan”) in accordance with Section 1129 of the Bankruptcy Code
and such Plan has become effective as of , 2007; and
WHEREAS, as part of the Plan, the Company has agreed, inter alia, to issue $247,337,500
aggregate principal amount of 13% Senior Secured Notes due 2011 (the “Notes”) to Holders of
the Company’s outstanding 10-1/2% Senior Notes due 2011 (the “Old Notes”) in exchange for
all of the Company’s Old Notes and the related obligations thereunder; and
WHEREAS, all acts and things necessary have been done to make (i) the Securities, when duly
issued and executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered hereunder, the valid obligations
of the Company and (ii) this Indenture a valid agreement of the Company in accordance with the
terms of this Indenture.
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the Notes by the Holders thereof,
it is mutually covenanted and agreed, for the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of the
Notes, as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION
Section 1.1 Definitions.
For all purposes of this Indenture, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the
context otherwise requires:
(a) the terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to them in this Article, and
include the plural as well as the singular;
(b) all other terms used herein which are defined in the Trust Indenture Act, either directly
or by reference therein, have the meanings assigned to them therein;
(c) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in
accordance with GAAP;
(d) 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;
(e) all references to $, US$, dollars or United States dollars shall refer to the lawful
currency of the United States of America;
(f) all references herein to particular Sections or Articles refer to this Indenture unless
otherwise so indicated; and
(g) the word “or” is not exclusive and the word “including” means including without
limitation.
The following terms shall have the meanings set forth in this Section.
“Acquired Debt” means Indebtedness of a Person: (i) existing at the time that Person
becomes a Subsidiary or merges with or into or consolidates with the Company or any Subsidiary, or
(ii) assumed in connection with the acquisition of assets from that Person, in each case, other
than Indebtedness incurred in connection with, or in contemplation of, such Person becoming a
Subsidiary or such acquisition, as the case may be. Acquired Indebtedness shall be deemed to be
incurred on the date of the related acquisition of assets from any Person or the date the acquired
Person becomes a Subsidiary, as the case may be.
“Additional Notes” means 13% Senior Secured Notes due 2011 issued after the Issue Date
pursuant to Article II and in compliance with Section 10.8.
“Adjusted Consolidated Interest Expense” of any Person means, without duplication, for
any period, as applied to any Person, the sum of: (a) the interest expense of such Person and its
Consolidated Subsidiaries (exclusive of deferred financing fees and any premiums or penalties paid
in connection with redeeming or retiring any Indebtedness prior to its stated maturity) for such
period, on a Consolidated basis, including without limitation, (i) amortization of debt discount,
(ii) the net cost under interest rate contracts (including amortization of discounts), (iii) the
interest portion of any deferred payment obligation, and (iv) accrued interest, plus (b) the
interest component of the Capital Lease Obligations paid, accrued and/or scheduled to be paid, or
accrued by such Person during such period, plus (c) all capitalized interest of such Person and its
Consolidated Subsidiaries, in each case as determined in accordance with GAAP consistently applied.
“Affiliate” means, with respect to any specified Person: (i) any other Person directly
or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with such
specified Person; (ii) any other Person that owns, directly or indirectly, 10% or more of such
specified Person’s Capital Stock or beneficial equity interest in such Person (if such Person is a
real estate investment trust), or any officer or director of any such specified Person or other
Person or, with respect to any natural Person, any person having a relationship with such Person by
blood, marriage or adoption not more remote than first cousin; or (iii) any other Person 10% or
more of the Voting Stock of which is beneficially owned or held directly or indirectly by such
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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 ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the
terms “controlling” and “controlled” have meanings correlative to the foregoing.
“Asset Sale” means any sale, issuance, conveyance, transfer, lease or other
disposition (including, without limitation, by way of merger, consolidation or Sale and Leaseback
Transaction) (collectively, a “transfer”), directly or indirectly, in one or a series of
related transactions, of: (i) any Capital Stock of any Subsidiary; (ii) all or substantially all of
the properties and assets of any division or line of business of the Company or its Subsidiaries;
or (iii) any other properties or assets of the Company or any Subsidiary, other than in the
ordinary course of business. For the purposes of this definition, the term “Asset Sale”
shall not include any transfer of properties and assets: (A) that is governed by the provisions of
Article VIII, (B) that is between or among the Company and its Subsidiaries in accordance
with the terms of the Indenture, (C) that is of obsolete equipment or other obsolete assets in the
ordinary course of business, (D) that constitutes a Restricted Payment that is permitted by the
provisions of Section 10.9, including the making of a Permitted Investment (other than
pursuant to clause (v) of the definition of “Permitted Investment”), or (E) the Fair Market
Value of which in the aggregate does not exceed $1,000,000 in any transaction or series of related
transactions.
“Average Life to Stated Maturity” means, as of the date of determination with respect
to any Indebtedness, the quotient obtained by dividing: (i) the sum of the products of (a) the
number of years from the date of determination to the date or dates of each successive scheduled
principal payment of such Indebtedness multiplied by (b) the amount of each such principal payment;
by (ii) the sum of all such principal payments.
“Bankruptcy Law” means Xxxxx 00, Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Bankruptcy Code of 1978, as amended, or
any similar United States federal or state law relating to bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership,
winding-up, liquidation, reorganization or relief of debtors or any amendment to, succession to or
change in any such law.
“Board of Directors” means either the board of directors of the Company or any duly
authorized committee of such 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.
“Book-Entry Note” means any Note bearing the legend specified in Section 2.2
evidencing all or part of a series of Notes, authenticated and delivered to the Depository for such
series or its nominee, and registered in the name of such Depository or nominee.
“
Business Day” means each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday which is not
a day on which banking institutions in the City of
New York or the city in which the principal
office of the Trustee is located are authorized or obligated by law or executive order to close.
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“Capital Lease Obligation” of any Person means any obligation of such Person and its
Subsidiaries on a Consolidated basis under any capital lease of real or personal property which, in
accordance with GAAP, has been recorded as a capitalized lease obligation.
“Capital Stock” means: (i) in the case of a corporation, corporate stock; (ii) in the
case of an association or business entity, any and all shares, interests, participations, rights or
other equivalents, however designated, of corporate stock; (iii) in the case of a partnership or
limited liability company, partnership or membership interests, whether general or limited; and
(iv) any other interest or participation that confers on a Person the right to receive a share of
the profits and losses of, or distributions of assets of, the issuing Person.
“Cash Equivalents” means: (i) Temporary Cash Investments; (ii) securities received by
the Company or any Subsidiary from the transferee in an Asset Sale that are promptly converted by
the Company or such Subsidiary into cash; (iii) the assumption of Indebtedness or other obligations
or liabilities of the Company or any Subsidiary in connection with an Asset Sale and from which the
Company or such Subsidiary is released; and (iv) in connection with an Asset Sale to a Person where
the assets sold, issued, conveyed, transferred, leased or otherwise disposed of are included in a
business which will be a party to the Franchise Program, the net present value of payments by such
Person pursuant to the Franchise Program as calculated and certified by the chief financial officer
of the Company.
“Change of Control” means the occurrence of any of the following events: (i) any
“person” or “group” (as such terms are used in Sections 13(d)(3) and 14(d)(2) of the Exchange Act,
or any successor provision) other than Permitted Holders is or becomes the “beneficial owner” (as
defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act, except that a Person shall be deemed to
have beneficial ownership of all shares that such Person has the right to acquire, whether such
right is exercisable immediately or only after the passage of time), directly or indirectly, of
more than a majority of the total outstanding Voting Stock of the Company; (ii) the Company
consolidates with or merges with or into any Person or conveys, transfers or leases all or
substantially all of its assets to any Person, or any corporation consolidates with or merges into
or with the Company in any such event pursuant to a transaction in which the outstanding Voting
Stock of the Company is changed into or exchanged for cash, securities or other property, other
than (A) any such transaction where the outstanding Voting Stock of the Company is not changed or
exchanged at all (except to the extent necessary to reflect a change in the jurisdiction of
incorporation of the Company), (B) or where the outstanding Voting Stock of the Company is changed
into or exchanged for (x) Voting Stock of the surviving corporation which is not Redeemable Capital
Stock, or (y) cash, securities and other property (other than Capital Stock of the surviving
corporation) in an amount which could be paid by the Company as a Restricted Payment as described
in Section 10.9 (and such amount shall be treated as a Restricted Payment subject to the
provisions in the Indenture described in Section 10.9), and (C) where no “person” or
“group” other than Permitted Holders owns immediately after such transaction, directly or
indirectly, more than a majority of the total outstanding Voting Stock of the surviving
corporation; or (iii) the Company is liquidated or dissolved or adopts a plan of liquidation or
dissolution other than in a transaction which complies with the provisions described in Article
VIII.
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“Collateral” means the collective reference to all assets, whether now owned or
hereafter acquired, upon which a lien is created or granted from time to time pursuant to any
Security Document.
“Collateral Agency Agreement” means that certain Collateral Agency Agreement by and
among the Company, the Subsidiaries of the Company party thereto, the Collateral Agent and the
Trustee.
“Collateral Agent” means the Trustee, in its capacity as collateral agent under the
Security Documents, until a successor collateral agent shall have become such pursuant to the
Security Documents, and thereafter “Collateral Agent” shall mean such successor collateral agent.
“Company” means Bally Total Fitness Holding Corporation, a corporation incorporated
under the laws of Delaware, until a successor Person shall have become such pursuant to the
applicable provisions of the Indenture, and thereafter “Company” shall mean such successor Person.
“Company Request” or “Company Order” means a written request or order signed
in the name of the Company by (i) any of its Chairman of the Board, its Vice Chairman, its
President or a Vice President (regardless of Vice Presidential designation) or Treasurer, and (ii)
any one of its Assistant Treasurers, its Secretary or any Assistant Secretary, and delivered to the
Trustee, provided, however, that such request or order may be signed by any two of the officers or
directors listed in clause (i) above in lieu of being signed by one of such officers or directors
and one officer pursuant to clause (ii) above.
“Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio” of any Person means, for any period, the
ratio of EBITDA to the sum of Adjusted Consolidated Interest Expense for such period and cash
dividends paid on any Preferred Stock of such Person during such period; provided that: (i) in
making such computation, the Adjusted Consolidated Interest Expense attributable to interest on any
Indebtedness shall be computed on a pro forma basis, and (A) where such Indebtedness was
outstanding during the period and bore a floating interest rate, interest shall be computed as if
the rate in effect on the date of computation had been the applicable rate for the entire period,
and (B) where such Indebtedness was not outstanding during the period for which the computation is
being made but which bears, at the option of the Company, a fixed or floating rate of interest,
shall be computed by applying at the option of the Company, either the fixed or floating rates and
(ii) in making such computation, the Adjusted Consolidated Interest Expense of such Person
attributable to interest on any Indebtedness under a revolving credit facility computed on a pro
forma basis shall be computed based upon the average daily balance of such Indebtedness during the
applicable period.
“Consolidated Income Tax Expense” of any Person means, for any period, the provision
for federal, state, local and foreign income taxes of such Person and its Consolidated Subsidiaries
for such period as determined in accordance with GAAP.
“Consolidated Net Income (Loss)” of any Person means, for any period, the Consolidated
net income (or loss) of such Person and its Subsidiaries for such period on a Consolidated basis
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as determined in accordance with GAAP, adjusted, to the extent included in calculating such
net income (or loss), by excluding, without duplication, (i) all extraordinary gains or losses
(exclusive of all fees and expenses relating thereto), (ii) the portion of net income (or loss) of
such Person and its Subsidiaries on a Consolidated basis allocable to minority interests in
unconsolidated Persons to the extent that cash dividends or distributions have not actually been
received by such Person or one of its Subsidiaries, (iii) net income (or loss) of any Person
combined with such Person or any of its Subsidiaries on a “pooling of interests” basis attributable
to any period prior to the date of combination, (iv) any gain or loss, net of taxes, realized upon
the termination of any employee pension benefit plan, (v) net gains (or losses) (except for all
fees and expenses relating thereto) in respect of dispositions of assets other than in the ordinary
course of business, (vi) the net income of any Subsidiary to the extent that the declaration of
dividends or similar distributions by that Subsidiary of that income is not at the time permitted,
directly or indirectly, by operation of the terms of its charter or any agreement, instrument,
judgment, decree, order, statute, rule or governmental regulation applicable to that Subsidiary or
its stockholders, (vii) any gain arising from the acquisition of any securities, or the
extinguishment, under GAAP, of any Indebtedness of such Person, (viii) transaction costs charged in
connection with the Refinancing, or (ix) amortization of intangible assets of such Person and its
Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis under GAAP.
“Consolidated Non-Cash Charges” of any Person means, for any period, the aggregate
depreciation, amortization and other non-cash charges of such Person and its Subsidiaries on a
Consolidated basis for such period, as determined in accordance with GAAP (excluding any non-cash
charge which requires an accrual or reserve for cash charges for any future period).
“Consolidation” means, with respect to any Person, the consolidation of the accounts
of such Person and each of its Subsidiaries if and to the extent the accounts of such Person and
each of its Subsidiaries would normally be consolidated with those of such Person, all in
accordance with GAAP. The term “Consolidated” shall have a similar meaning.
“Corporate Trust Office” means the office of the Trustee or an affiliate or agent
thereof at which at any particular time the corporate trust business for the purposes of this
Indenture shall be principally administered, which office at the date of execution of this
Indenture is located at 000 Xxxx 0xx Xxxxxx, Xx. Xxxx, Xxxxxxxxx 00000, Attention: Corporate
Finance.
“Credit Agreement” means
, including any
guarantees, instruments and collateral security documents delivered in connection therewith and any
amendments, renewals, extensions, substitutions, refinancings, restructurings, replacements,
supplements or other modifications thereto, in whole or in part (including, without limitation, any
successive amendments, renewals, extensions, substitutions, refinancings, restructurings,
replacements, supplements or other modifications of the foregoing), whether or not with the same
lenders.
“Default” means any event which is, or after notice or passage of any time or both
would be, an Event of Default.
“Depository” means, with respect to the Notes issued in the form of one or more
Book-Entry Notes, The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”), its nominees and successors, or
another
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Person designated as Depository by the Company, which must be a clearing agency registered
under the Exchange Act.
“Disinterested Director” means, with respect to any transaction or series of related
transactions, a member of the Board of Directors who does not have any material direct or indirect
financial interest in or with respect to such transaction or series of related transactions.
“Domestic Subsidiary” means a Subsidiary incorporated or otherwise organized and
existing under the laws of the United States and any state thereof.
“EBITDA” means the sum of Consolidated Net Income, Adjusted Consolidated Interest
Expense, Consolidated Income Tax Expense and Consolidated Non-Cash Charges deducted in computing
Consolidated Net Income, in each case, for such period, of the Company and its Subsidiaries on a
Consolidated basis, all determined in accordance with GAAP consistently applied.
“Event of Default” has the meaning specified in Article V.
“Exchange Act” means the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or
any successor statute.
“Fair Market Value” means, with respect to any asset or property, the sale value that
would be obtained in an arm’s-length transaction between an informed and willing seller under no
compulsion to sell and an informed and willing buyer under no compulsion to buy. Fair Market Value
shall be determined by the Board of Directors acting in good faith and shall be evidenced by a
Board Resolution.
“Franchise Program” means the program under which the Company and/or its Subsidiaries
grant franchises to third parties which require franchisees, among other things, to pay fees to the
Company and/or its Subsidiaries, and which, among other things, grants to the franchisee the right
to receive training from the Company or its Subsidiaries or sell memberships to use facilities of
the franchisee and the Company or its Subsidiaries. The Franchise Program may include the
conversion of facilities owned by the Company or its Subsidiaries to franchise facilities and
includes such a program as it may be amended, renewed, extended, substituted, restructured,
replaced, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time (including, without limitation, any
successive renewal, extension, substitution, restructuring, replacement, supplementation or other
modification of the foregoing).
“Generally Accepted Accounting Principles” or “GAAP” means generally accepted
accounting principles in the United States, consistently applied, which are in effect on July 2,
2003.
“Global Notes” means one or more securities evidencing all or a part of the Notes to
be issued as Book-Entry Notes issued to the Depository in accordance with this Indenture.
“Guaranteed Debt” of any Person means, without duplication, all Indebtedness of any
other Person referred to in the definition of “Indebtedness” contained in this Section
guaranteed directly or indirectly in any manner by such Person, or in effect guaranteed directly or
indirectly
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by such Person through an agreement (i) to pay or purchase such Indebtedness or to advance or
supply funds for the payment or purchase of such Indebtedness, (ii) to purchase, sell or lease (as
lessee or lessor) property, or to purchase or sell services, primarily for the purpose of enabling
the debtor to make payment of such Indebtedness or to assure the holder of such Indebtedness
against loss, (iii) to supply funds to, or in any other manner invest in, the debtor (including any
agreement to pay for property or services without requiring that such property be received or such
services be rendered), (iv) to maintain working capital or equity capital of the debtor, or
otherwise to maintain the net worth, solvency or other financial condition of the debtor, or (v)
otherwise to assure a creditor against loss; provided that the term “guarantee” shall not include
endorsements for collection or deposit, in either case in the ordinary course of business or
guarantees of operating leases.
“Guarantor” means: (1) each of the Guarantors listed on Schedule A hereto; and
(2) each of the Company’s Subsidiaries that in the future executes a supplemental indenture in
which such Subsidiary agrees to be bound by the terms of this Indenture as a Guarantor; provided
that any Person constituting a Guarantor as described above shall cease to constitute a Guarantor
when its respective Guarantee is released in accordance with the terms of this Indenture.
“Holder” means a Person in whose name a Note is registered in the Note Register.
“Indebtedness” means, with respect to any Person, without duplication, (i) all
indebtedness of such Person for borrowed money or for the deferred purchase price of property or
services, excluding any trade payables and other accrued current liabilities arising in the
ordinary course of business, but including, without limitation, all obligations, contingent or
otherwise, of such Person in connection with any letters of credit issued under letter of credit
facilities, acceptance facilities or other similar facilities and in connection with any agreement
to purchase, redeem, exchange, convert or otherwise acquire for value any Capital Stock of such
Person, or any warrants, rights or options to acquire such Capital Stock, now or hereafter
outstanding, (ii) all obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, notes, debentures or other
similar instruments, (iii) all indebtedness created or arising under any conditional sale or other
title retention agreement with respect to property acquired by such Person (even if the rights and
remedies of the seller or lender under such agreement in the event of default are limited to
repossession or sale of such property), but excluding trade payables arising in the ordinary course
of business, (iv) all obligations under Interest Rate Agreements of such Person, (v) all Capital
Lease Obligations of such Person, (vi) all Indebtedness referred to in clauses (i) through (v)
above of other Persons and all dividends of other Persons, the payment of which is secured by (or
for which the holder of such Indebtedness has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be
secured by) any Lien, upon or with respect to property (including, without limitation, accounts and
contract rights) owned by such Person, even though such Person has not assumed or become liable for
the payment of such Indebtedness, (vii) all Guaranteed Debt of such Person, (viii) all Redeemable
Capital Stock issued by such Person valued at the greater of its voluntary or involuntary maximum
fixed repurchase price plus accrued and unpaid dividends, and (ix) any amendment, supplement,
modification, deferral, renewal, extension, refunding or refinancing of any liability which
constitutes Indebtedness of the types referred to in clauses (i) through (viii) above. For
purposes hereof, the “maximum fixed repurchase price” of any Redeemable Capital Stock which does
not have a fixed repurchase price shall be calculated in accordance with the terms of such
Redeemable Capital Stock as if such Redeemable Capital Stock were purchased on
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any date on which Indebtedness shall be required to be determined pursuant to the Indenture,
and if such price is based upon, or measured by, the Fair Market Value of such Redeemable Capital
Stock, such Fair Market Value to be determined in good faith by the board of directors of the
issuer of such Redeemable Capital Stock.
“Indenture” means this instrument as originally executed (including all exhibits and
schedules thereto) and 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.
“Indenture Obligations” means the obligations of the Company and any other obligor on
the Indenture or under the Notes to pay principal of, premium, if any, and interest when due and
payable, and all other amounts due or to become due under or in connection with the Indenture, the
Notes and the performance of all other obligations to the Trustee and the holders under the
Indenture and the Notes, according to the terms thereof.
“Intercreditor Agent” means or any person whom it may designate, as
provided in the Intercreditor Agreement.
“Intercreditor Agreement” means an Intercreditor Agreement between the Company and
as agent for itself and other lenders pursuant to the Credit Agreement, and the
Collateral Agent as agent for the Trustee and the Holders, in substantially the form attached
hereto as Exhibit A.
“Interest Payment Date” means the Stated Maturity of a regular installment of interest
on the Notes.
“Interest Rate Agreements” means one or more of the following agreements which shall
be entered into by one or more financial institutions: interest rate protection agreements
(including, without limitation, interest rate swaps, caps, floors, collars and similar agreements)
and/or other types of interest rate hedging agreements from time to time.
“Investment” means, with respect to any Person, directly or indirectly, any advance,
loan (including guarantees), or other extension of credit or capital contribution (by means of any
transfer of cash or other property to others or any payment for property or services for the
account or use of others), or any purchase, acquisition or ownership (other than ownership obtained
without making, or becoming liable, directly or indirectly, contingent or otherwise, for the making
of, any advance, loan (or the forgiveness thereof), payment, extension of credit or capital
contribution in connection therewith), by such Person of any Capital Stock, bonds, notes,
debentures or other securities issued or owned by any other Person and all other items that would
be classified as investments on a balance sheet prepared in accordance with GAAP.
“Issue Date” means the date on which Securities are first issued under this Indenture.
“Lien” means any mortgage or deed of trust, charge, pledge, lien (statutory or
otherwise), privilege, security interest, assignment, deposit, arrangement, easement,
hypothecation, claim, preference, priority or other encumbrance upon or with respect to any
property of any kind (including any conditional sale, capital lease or other title retention
agreement, any leases in the
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nature thereof, and any agreement to give any security interest), real or personal, movable or
immovable, now owned or hereafter acquired.
“Maturity” means, when used with respect to any Note, the date on which the principal
of such Note becomes due and payable as therein provided or as provided in the Indenture, whether
at Stated Maturity, the Offer Date, the Change of Control Purchase Date or the redemption date and
whether by declaration of acceleration, Offer in respect of Excess Proceeds, Change of Control
Offer in respect of a Change of Control, call for redemption or otherwise.
“Mortgages” means the mortgages granted pursuant to the Security Documents on certain
of the real property owned or leased by the Company or the Guarantors.
“Moody’s” means Xxxxx’x Investors Service, Inc. or any successor rating agency.
“Net Cash Proceeds” means (a) with respect to any Asset Sale by any Person, the
proceeds thereof (without duplication in respect of all Asset Sales) in the form of cash or
Temporary Cash Investments including payments in respect of deferred payment obligations when
received in the form of, or stock or other assets when disposed of for, cash or Temporary Cash
Investments (except to the extent that such obligations are financed or sold with recourse to the
Company or any Subsidiary) net of (i) brokerage commissions and other reasonable fees and expenses
(including fees and expenses of counsel and investment bankers) related to such Asset Sale, (ii)
provisions for all taxes payable as a result of such Asset Sale, (iii) payments made to retire
Indebtedness where payment of such Indebtedness is secured by the assets or properties the subject
of such Asset Sale other than Indebtedness described in clause (i) of the definition of Permitted
Indebtedness, (iv) amounts required to be paid to any Person (other than the Company or any
Subsidiary) owning a beneficial interest in the assets subject to the Asset Sale, (v) amounts held
in escrow pursuant to an appropriate contract of sale; provided, however, that such
amounts shall be deemed Net Cash Proceeds upon their release from escrow to the Seller and (vi)
appropriate amounts to be provided by the Company or any Subsidiary, as the case may be, as a
reserve, in accordance with GAAP, against any liabilities associated with such Asset Sale and
retained by the Company or any Subsidiary, as the case may be, after such Asset Sale, including,
without limitation, pension and other post-employment benefit liabilities, liabilities related to
environmental matters and liabilities under any indemnification obligations associated with such
Asset Sale, all as reflected in an Officers’ Certificate delivered to the Trustee, and (b) with
respect to any issuance or sale of Capital Stock or options, warrants or rights to purchase Capital
Stock, or debt securities or Capital Stock that have been converted into or exchanged for Capital
Stock as referred to in Section 10.9, the proceeds of such issuance or sale in the form of
cash or Temporary Cash Investments including payments in respect of deferred payment obligations
when received in the form of, or stock or other assets when disposed of for, cash or Temporary Cash
Investments (except to the extent that such obligations are financed or sold with recourse to the
Company or any Subsidiary), net of attorneys’ fees, accountants’ fees and brokerage, consultation,
underwriting and other fees and expenses actually incurred in connection with such issuance or sale
and net of taxes paid or payable as a result thereof.
“New Subordinated Notes” means collectively (i) the 15-5/8%/14% Senior Subordinated
Toggle Notes due 2013 issued pursuant to the Indenture dated as of , 2007, between the
Company and [HSBC Bank USA, National Association], as Trustee, in an original
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aggregate principal amount equal to the sum of $200,000,000 to be issued to the Class 6A
Creditors under the Plan, (ii) additional 15-5/8%/14% Senior Subordinated Toggle Notes due 2013
that may be issued from time to time after the Issue Date, in an original aggregate principal
amount not to exceed $90,000,000 and (iii) all additional pay-in-kind New Subordinated Notes issued
in respect of interest on any of the foregoing.
“Non-Guarantor Subsidiary” means H&T Receivables Funding, Bally ARA Corporation,
Lincoln Indemnity Company and any other Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Company whose sole activity
is engaging in receivables financing transactions or real estate financing transactions and which
Subsidiaries incur no Indebtedness other than Indebtedness directly related to such receivables or
real estate financing transactions.
“Notes” has the meaning specified in the first recital of this Indenture.
“Obligations” means any and all obligations with respect to the payment of (a) any
principal of or interest (including interest accruing on or after the commencement of any
insolvency, bankruptcy or liquidation proceeding, whether or not a claim for post-filing interest
is allowed in such proceeding) or premium on any Indebtedness, including any reimbursement
obligation in respect of any letter of credit, (b) any fees, indemnification obligations, damages,
expense reimbursement obligations or other liabilities payable under the documentation governing
any Indebtedness and (c) any obligation to post cash collateral in respect of letters of credit and
any other obligations.
“Officers’ Certificate” means a certificate signed by any of (i) the Chairman of the
Board, Vice Chairman, President or a Vice President (regardless of Vice Presidential designation)
or Treasurer, and (ii) by any one of its Assistant Treasurers, its Secretary or any Assistant
Secretary, of the Company, and delivered to the Trustee, provided, however, that such certificate
may be signed by any two of the officers or directors listed in clause (i) above in lieu of being
signed by one of such officers or directors and one officer pursuant to clause (ii) above.
“Opinion of Counsel” means a written opinion of qualified legal counsel, who may be
counsel for the Company or the Trustee, and who shall be reasonably acceptable to the Trustee,
including but not limited to an Opinion of Independent Counsel.
“Opinion of Independent Counsel” means a written opinion by qualified legal counsel
who is not an employee or consultant of the Company and who shall be reasonably acceptable to the
Trustee.
“Outstanding” when used with respect to Notes means, as of the date of determination,
all Notes theretofore authenticated and delivered under this Indenture, except:
(a) Notes theretofore canceled by the Trustee or delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation;
(b) Notes, or portions thereof, for whose payment or redemption money in the necessary
amount has been theretofore deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent (other than the
Company) in trust or set aside and segregated in trust by the Company (if the Company shall
act as its own Paying Agent) for the Holders of such Notes; provided,
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that if such Notes are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly given
pursuant to this Indenture or provision therefor reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee has
been made;
(c) Notes, except to the extent provided in Sections 4.2 and 4.3, with
respect to which the Company has effected defeasance or covenant defeasance as provided in
Article IV; and
(d) Notes in exchange for or in lieu of which other Notes have been authenticated and
delivered pursuant to this Indenture, other than any such Notes in respect of which there
shall have been presented to the Trustee and Company proof reasonably satisfactory to each
of them that such Notes are held by a bona fide purchaser in whose hands the Notes are valid
obligations of the Company; provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of
the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Notes have given any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, Notes owned by the Company or
any other obligor on the Notes or any Affiliate of the Company or such other obligor shall
be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining whether the
Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Notes which the Trustee knows to be so owned
shall be so disregarded. Notes so owned which have been pledged in good faith may be
regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the reasonable satisfaction of the
Trustee the pledgee’s right so as to act with respect to such Notes and that the pledgee is
not the Company or any other obligor on the Notes or any Affiliate of the Company or such
other obligor.
“Paying Agent” means any Person authorized by the Company to pay the principal of,
premium, if any, or interest on any Notes on behalf of the Company.
“Permitted Holders” means (i) any of Harbinger Capital Partners Master Fund I, Ltd.,
Harbinger Capital Partners Special Situations Fund, L.P., Liberation Investments, L.P. and
Liberation Investments, Ltd., and their respective Affiliates, including, one or more investment
funds controlled, managed or advised by any of them and (ii) any person that forms a group (within
meaning of Section 13(d)(3) or Section 14(d)(2) of the Exchange Act, or any successor provision)
with any Person mentioned in clause (i), provided that, in the case of clause (ii), a Person or
Persons listed in clause (i) owns a majority of the voting power of such group.
“Permitted Indebtedness” means:
(i) Indebtedness under the Credit Agreement in an aggregate principal amount not to
exceed, whichever amount is greater, (a) $292.0 million or (b) $115.0 million plus 80% of
the net book value of the consolidated accounts receivable of the Company and its
Subsidiaries, calculated in accordance with GAAP, in each case minus any permanent
reductions of the amounts outstanding under the Credit Agreement as a result of repayment of
such Indebtedness pursuant to Section 10.12 occurring after June 15, 2007 that
permanently reduce the commitments thereunder;
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(ii) Indebtedness of the Company (a) represented by the Notes, or (b) that is incurred,
in any amount, and in whole or in part, to (1) redeem all of the Notes outstanding as
described herein, or (2) effect a complete defeasance or a covenant defeasance thereof as
described herein; provided, in either case, that any Indebtedness incurred under this
subclause (b) is actually applied in accordance with the applicable redemption or defeasance
provision of this Indenture;
(iii) Indebtedness of the Company outstanding on the Issue Date (other than
Indebtedness incurred under clauses (i), (ii) and (ix) hereunder);
(iv) Indebtedness of the Company owing to a Subsidiary; provided that any Indebtedness
of the Company owing to a Subsidiary is made pursuant to an intercompany note and is
expressly subordinated in right of payment to the payment and performance of the Company’s
obligations under the Notes, and, upon an Event of Default, such Indebtedness shall not be
due and payable until such Event of Default is cured, waived or rescinded; provided,
further, that any disposition, pledge or transfer of any such Indebtedness to a Person
(other than a disposition, pledge or transfer to a Subsidiary) shall be deemed to be an
incurrence of such Indebtedness by the Company not permitted by this clause (iv);
(v) obligations of the Company entered into in the ordinary course of business pursuant
to Interest Rate Agreements designed to protect the Company against fluctuations in interest
rates in respect of Indebtedness of the Company as long as such obligations do not exceed
the aggregate principal amount of such Indebtedness then outstanding to which the Interest
Rate Agreements apply;
(vi) Indebtedness of the Company represented by Capital Lease Obligations or Purchase
Money Obligations or other Indebtedness incurred or assumed in connection with the
acquisition, improvement or development of real or tangible personal, movable or immovable,
property or equipment in each case incurred for the purpose of financing or refinancing all
or any part of the purchase price or cost of construction or improvement of property used in
the business of the Company and any refinancings of such Indebtedness made in accordance
with subclauses (a), (b) and (c) of clause (xi) below, in an aggregate principal amount
pursuant to this clause (vi) not to exceed $100,000,000 outstanding at any time; provided
that Indebtedness of the Company represented by Capital Lease Obligations incurred under
this clause (vi) may not exceed $50,000,000 in aggregate principal amount at any one time
outstanding; and provided that the principal amount of any Indebtedness permitted under this
clause (vi) did not in each case at the time of incurrence exceed the cost of the acquired
or constructed asset or improvement so financed;
(vii) Indebtedness of the Company in respect of performance bonds, surety bonds and
replevin bonds provided by the Company in the ordinary course of business;
(viii) other Indebtedness of the Company that does not exceed $50,000,000 in the
aggregate at any one time outstanding;
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(ix) Indebtedness represented by the New Subordinated Notes;
(x) Indebtedness arising from the honoring by a bank or other financial institution of
a check, draft or other financial instrument drawn against insufficient funds in the
ordinary course of business, provided that such Indebtedness is extinguished within four
Business Days of its incurrence;
(xi) any amendments (solely as to Indebtedness described in clause (ix) of this
definition of “Permitted Indebtedness”), renewals, extensions, substitutions,
refundings or refinancings (collectively, a “refinancing”) of any Indebtedness
described in clauses (iii), (vi) and (ix) of this definition of “Permitted
Indebtedness”, including any successive refinancings (a) so long as the borrower under
such refinancing is the Company or, if not the Company, the same as the borrower of the
Indebtedness being refinanced, (b) the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness
represented thereby is not increased by such refinancing by an amount greater than the
lesser of (I) the stated amount of any premium or other payment required to be paid in
connection with such a refinancing pursuant to the terms of the Indebtedness being
refinanced or (II) the amount of premium or other payment actually paid at such time to
refinance the Indebtedness, plus, in either case, the amount of expenses of the Company
incurred in connection with such refinancing, (c)(A) in the case of any refinancing of
Indebtedness that is Subordinated Indebtedness, such new Indebtedness is made subordinated
to the Notes at least to the same extent as the Indebtedness being refinanced and (B) in the
case of Senior Debt or Subordinated Indebtedness, as the case may be, such refinancing does
not reduce the Average Life to Stated Maturity or the Stated Maturity of such Indebtedness
and (d) in the case of Indebtedness described in clause (ix) of this definition of
“Permitted Indebtedness,” the interest provisions of any refinancing are no more
favorable to the holders thereof than the interest payment provision of the Subordinated
Notes as in effect on the Issue Date; and
(xii) Indebtedness of the Company used to make any Permitted Payment set forth in
clause (vi) of the definition of “Permitted Payments”; provided, that the Senior
Leverage Ratio for the most recently ended four full fiscal quarters for which financial
statements are available immediately preceding the date on which the additional Indebtedness
is incurred, taken as one period, does not exceed 2.75 to 1, determined on a pro forma basis
(including a pro forma application of the net proceeds therefrom).
“Permitted Investment” means: (i) Investments in any Subsidiary or any Person which,
as a result of such Investment, (a) becomes a Subsidiary or (b) is merged or consolidated with or
into, or transfers or conveys substantially all of its assets to, or is liquidated into, the
Company or any Subsidiary; (ii) Indebtedness of the Company described under clause (iv) of the
definition of “Permitted Indebtedness”; (iii) Investments in any of the Notes and
Investments represented by guarantees that are otherwise permitted by the Indenture; (iv) Temporary
Cash Investments; (v) Investments acquired by the Company or any Subsidiary in connection with an
Asset Sale permitted under Section 10.12 to the extent such Investments are non-cash
proceeds as permitted under such covenant; (vi) Investments in existence on the Issue Date; (vii)
Investments in the aggregate amount of $5,000,000 to purchase Capital Stock of any Subsidiary;
(viii) any advance, loan (including guarantees) or other extension of credit to any Person who
purchases or acquires
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assets of the Company or any Subsidiaries which are to be included in a business which will be
or is a party to the Franchise Program, limited to the purchase or acquisition price of such
assets; and (ix) any other Investments in joint ventures, partnerships, real estate investment
trusts or other Persons reasonably related or complementary to the business of the Company on the
date hereof in an aggregate amount not greater than $25,000,000 at any one time outstanding. In
connection with any assets or property contributed or transferred to any Person as an Investment,
such property and assets shall be equal to the Fair Market Value (as determined by the Board of
Directors) at the time of Investment.
“Permitted Liens” means the following types of Liens:
(i) Liens for taxes, assessments, governmental charges or levies either (a) not yet
delinquent, or (b) the validity of which is being contested in good faith in an appropriate
manner diligently pursued and as to which adequate reserves for the unpaid amount shall have
been set aside in conformity with GAAP;
(ii) materialmen’s, mechanics’, landlord’s, workmen’s, repairmen’s, employees’ or other
like liens arising in the ordinary course of business to secure obligations not yet
delinquent or being contested in good faith and as to which adequate reserves for the unpaid
amount shall have been set aside in conformity with GAAP or as to which adequate bonds or
insurance shall have been obtained;
(iii) deposits or pledges to secure the payment of, or to secure the Company’s or any
Subsidiaries’ obligations with respect to letters of credit that secure the payment of
workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance, social security or other retirements benefits
or obligations (exclusive of liens arising under ERISA) or to secure the performance of
bids, trade contracts, leases, public or statutory obligations, surety or appeal bonds, and
other obligations of a like nature incurred in the ordinary course of business;
(iv) judgment Liens not giving rise to an Event of Default;
(v) easements, rights-of-way, zoning restrictions and other similar charges or
encumbrances in respect of real property not interfering in any material respect with the
ordinary conduct of the business of the Company or of any of its Subsidiaries;
(vi) any interest or title of a lessor under any Capitalized Lease Obligation; provided
that such Liens do not extend to any property or asset which is not leased property subject
to such Capitalized Lease Obligation;
(vii) Liens securing reimbursement obligations with respect to commercial letters of
credit which encumber documents and other property relating to such letters of credit and
products and proceeds thereof;
(viii) Liens encumbering deposits made to secure obligations arising from statutory,
regulatory, contractual or warranty requirements of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries,
including rights of offset and setoff;
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(ix) Liens securing Interest Rate Agreements which Interest Rate Agreements relate to
Indebtedness that is otherwise permitted under this Indenture;
(x) Liens securing Acquired Debt incurred in accordance with Section 10.8;
provided that: (a) such Liens secured such Acquired Debt at the time of and prior to the
incurrence of such Acquired Debt by the Company or a Subsidiary and were not granted in
connection with, or in anticipation of, the incurrence of such Acquired Debt by the Company
or a Subsidiary; and (b) such Liens do not extend to or cover any property or assets of the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries other than the property or assets that secured the
Acquired Debt prior to the time such Indebtedness became Acquired Debt of the Company or a
Subsidiary and are no more favorable to the lienholders than those securing the Acquired
Debt prior to the incurrence of such Acquired Debt by the Company or a Subsidiary;
(xi) leases, subleases, licenses and sublicenses granted to others that do not
materially interfere with the ordinary course of business of the Company and its
Subsidiaries;
(xii) banker’s Liens, rights of setoff and similar Liens with respect to cash and Cash
Equivalents on deposit in one or more bank accounts in the ordinary course of business;
(xiii) Liens arising from filing Uniform Commercial Code financing statements regarding
leases;
(xiv) Liens related to credit card processing agreements and cash management
obligations in the ordinary course of business, including any guarantees thereof by the
Company or any Subsidiary;
(xv) non-monetary Liens which do not have an adverse effect on the value or use of the
property subject to such Liens;
(xvi) Liens securing Indebtedness permitted by Section 10.8 that is incurred in
connection with a Person becoming a Subsidiary or in connection with the acquisition of
assets that constitute a business; provided, that the amount of such Indebtedness to be
secured by this clause (xvi) shall, at the time such Indebtedness is incurred, not exceed an
amount equal to 1.5 times the EBITDA of such Person or acquired business for the mostly
recently ended four fiscal quarters for which internal financial statements of such Person
or acquired business are available; and
(xvii) additional Liens not to exceed $10,000,000 at any one time.
“Permitted Subsidiary Indebtedness” means:
(i) Indebtedness of a Subsidiary owing to the Company or another Subsidiary; provided
that such Indebtedness is made pursuant to an intercompany note, and, upon an Event of
Default, all amounts owing pursuant to such Indebtedness are immediately due and payable;
and provided, further, that (a) any disposition, pledge or
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transfer of any such Indebtedness to a Person (other than the Company or a Subsidiary)
shall be an incurrence of such Indebtedness by the obligor not within the definition of
“Permitted Subsidiary Indebtedness” pursuant to this clause (i), and (b) any
transaction pursuant to which any Subsidiary ceases to be a Subsidiary shall be deemed to be
the incurrence of Indebtedness by such Subsidiary that is not within the definition of
“Permitted Subsidiary Indebtedness” pursuant to this clause (i);
(ii) Indebtedness of a Subsidiary represented by Indebtedness which would be permitted
by clause (i), (iii), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x) or (xi) of the definition of
“Permitted Indebtedness” if incurred by the Company;
(iii) Acquired Debt of a Subsidiary that would be permitted to be incurred by the
Company if such Acquired Debt were being incurred by the Company,
(iv) Guarantees of the Notes and guarantees of Senior Debt of the Company; and
(v) guarantees of Indebtedness of Affiliates provided that the Investment in such
Affiliate complies with the limitations set forth in Section 10.9 or constitutes a
Permitted Investment.
“Person” means any individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership,
joint venture, association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization or government
or any agency or political subdivision thereof.
“Physical Certificates” means Securities other than Book-Entry Securities.
“Plan” has the meaning assigned to it in the preamble of this Indenture.
“Predecessor Note” of any particular Note means every previous Note evidencing all or
a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such particular Note; and, for the purposes of this
definition, any Note authenticated and delivered under Section 3.8 in exchange for a
mutilated Note or in lieu of a lost, destroyed or stolen Note shall be deemed to evidence the same
debt as the mutilated, lost, destroyed, or stolen Note.
“Preferred Stock” means, with respect to any Person, any Capital Stock of any class or
classes (however designated) which is preferred as to the payment of dividends or distributions, or
as to the distribution of assets upon any voluntary or involuntary liquidation or dissolution of
such Person, over the Capital Stock of any other class in such Person.
“Purchase Money Obligation” means any Indebtedness secured by a Lien on assets related
to the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries and any additions and accessions thereto, which
are purchased at any time after the Notes are issued; provided that (i) the security agreement or
conditional sales or other title retention contract pursuant to which the Lien on such assets is
created (collectively a “Purchase Money Security Agreement”) shall be entered into within
270 days after the purchase or substantial completion of the construction of such assets and shall
at all times be confined solely to the assets so purchased or acquired, any additions and
accessions thereto and any proceeds therefrom, (ii) at no time shall the aggregate principal
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amount of the outstanding Indebtedness secured thereby, be increased, except in connection
with the purchase of additions and accession thereto and except in respect of fees and other
obligations in respect of such Indebtedness, and (iii) (A) the aggregate outstanding principal
amount of Indebtedness secured thereby (determined on a per asset basis in the case of any
additions and accessions) shall not at the time such Purchase Money Security Agreement is entered
into exceed 100% of the purchase price to the Company and its Subsidiaries of the assets subject
thereto, or (B) the Indebtedness secured thereby shall be with recourse solely to the assets so
purchased or acquired, any additions and accessions thereto and any proceeds therefrom.
“Qualified Capital Stock” of any Person means any and all Capital Stock of such Person
other than Redeemable Capital Stock.
“Redeemable Capital Stock” means any Capital Stock that, either by its terms or by the
terms of any security into which it is convertible or exchangeable or otherwise, is or upon the
happening of any event or passage of time would be, required to be redeemed prior to any Stated
Maturity of the principal of the Notes or is redeemable at the option of the holder thereof at any
time prior to any such Stated Maturity, or is convertible into or exchangeable for debt securities
at any time prior to any such Stated Maturity at the option of the holder thereof.
“Redemption Date” when used with respect to any Note to be redeemed pursuant to any
provision in this Indenture means the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this
Indenture.
“Redemption Price” when used with respect to any Note to be redeemed pursuant to any
provision in this Indenture means the price at which it is to be redeemed pursuant to this
Indenture.
“Refinancing” means (i) the offering and sale of the Company’s 9-7/8% Senior
Subordinated Notes due 2007 (the “Series B Securities”) issued pursuant to the Indenture
dated October 7, 1997 (the “B Indenture”) between the Company and the U.S. Bank Trust National
Association, as trustee, providing for the issuance of the Series B Securities in the aggregate
principal amount of $225,000,000, (ii) the modification of the third amended and restated Credit
Agreement, dated as of June 26, 1995, among the Company, the Banks and The Chase Manhattan Bank, as
agent, (iii) the consummation of the tender offer by the Company for its Senior Subordinated Notes
due 2003 outstanding prior to the date of the B Indenture and (iv) the issuance of common stock
pursuant to the First Amended Joint Prepackaged Chapter 11 Plan of Reorganization of Bally Total
Fitness Holding Corporation and its Affiliate Debtors effective as of September ___, 2007.
“Regular Record Date” for the interest payable on any Interest Payment Date means
or , as the case may be (whether or not a Business Day), immediately
preceding such Interest Payment Date.
“Responsible Officer” when used with respect to the Trustee means any officer assigned
to the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee or any agent of the Trustee appointed hereunder,
including the chairman or vice chairman of the board of directors or the executive committee of the
board of directors, the president, any vice president, any assistant vice president, the
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secretary, any assistant secretary, the treasurer, any assistant treasurer, the cashier, any
assistant cashier, any trust officer or assistant trust officer, the controller or any other
officer of the Trustee customarily performing functions similar to those performed by any of the
above designated officers or any other officer appointed hereunder to whom any corporate trust
matter is referred because of his or her knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject.
“S&P” means Standard and Poor’s Ratings Service, a division of The XxXxxx-Xxxx
Companies, Inc., or any successor rating agency.
“Sale and Leaseback Transaction” means any transaction or series of related
transactions pursuant to which the Company or a Subsidiary sells or transfers any property or asset
in connection with the leasing, or the resale against installment payments, of such property or
asset to the seller or transferor.
“SEC” means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, as from time to time
constituted, created under the Exchange Act, or if, at any time after the execution of this
Indenture, the SEC is not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under the Trust
Indenture Act, then the body performing such duties at such time.
“Securities Act” means the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or any
successor statute.
“Security Agreement” means the Security Agreement by and among the Company, the
Guarantors and the Collateral Agent in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit E.
“Security Documents” means the Security Agreement, the Mortgages and any other
document or agreement that secures the Notes or the Subsidiary Guarantees.
“Senior Debt” means all Indebtedness of the Company and its Subsidiaries on a
Consolidated basis which is not Subordinated Indebtedness, including without limitation the Notes
and the Guarantees, Indebtedness arising under the Credit Agreement and guarantees thereof.
“Senior Leverage Ratio” means with respect to the Company and its Subsidiaries on a
Consolidated basis for the most recently ended four full fiscal quarters twelve month period for
which financial statements are available, the ratio of (a) Senior Debt of the Company and its
Subsidiaries on a Consolidated basis on the last day of such period to (b) EBITDA for such period.
“Senior Secured Debt” means Senior Debt that is secured by a Lien permitted by
Section 10.11.
“Significant Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary that would be a “Significant
Subsidiary” of the Company within the meaning of Rule 1-02 under Regulation S-X promulgated by
the SEC.
“Special Record Date” for the payment of any Defaulted Interest means a date fixed by
the Trustee pursuant to Section 3.8.
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“Stated Maturity” when used with respect to any Indebtedness or any installment of
interest thereon means the dates specified in such Indebtedness as the fixed date on which the
principal of such Indebtedness or such installment of interest, as the case may be, is due and
payable.
“Subordinated Indebtedness” means Indebtedness of the Company which is by its terms
expressly subordinated in right of payment to the Notes.
“Subsidiary” means any Person, a majority of the equity ownership or the Voting Stock
of which is at the time owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company or by one or more other
Subsidiaries, or by the Company and one or more other Subsidiaries; provided that any Unrestricted
Subsidiary shall not be deemed a Subsidiary under the Indenture.
“Temporary Cash Investments” means (i) any evidence of Indebtedness, maturing not more
than one year after the date of acquisition, issued by the United States of America, or an
instrumentality or agency thereof, and guaranteed fully as to principal, premium, if any, and
interest by the United States of America, (ii) any certificate of deposit (or, with respect to
non-U.S. banking institutions, similar instruments) maturing not more than one year after the date
of acquisition, issued by, or time deposit of, a commercial banking institution that is a member of
the Federal Reserve System or a commercial banking institution organized and located in a country
recognized by the United States of America, in each case, that has combined capital and surplus and
undivided profits of not less than $500,000,000 (or the foreign currency equivalent thereof), whose
debt has a rating, at the time as of which any investment therein is made, of “P-1” (or higher)
according to Moody’s or any successor rating agency or “A-1” (or higher) according to S&P or any
successor rating agency, (iii) commercial paper, maturing not more than one year after the date of
acquisition, issued by a corporation (other than an Affiliate or Subsidiary of the Company)
organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America with a rating, at the time as
of which any investment therein is made, of “P-1” (or higher) according to Moody’s or “A-1” (or
higher) according to S&P, (iv) any money market deposit accounts or demand deposit accounts issued
or offered by a domestic commercial bank or a commercial banking institution organized and located
in a country recognized by the United States of America, in each case having capital and surplus in
excess of $500,000,000 (or the foreign currency equivalent thereof); provided that the short-term
debt of such commercial bank has a rating, at the time of investment, of “P-1” (or higher)
according to Moody’s or “A-1” (or higher) according to S&P, and (v) any other Investments, that at
any one time do not exceed $100,000 in the aggregate, issued or offered by any domestic commercial
bank or any commercial banking institution organized and located in a country recognized by the
United States of America.
“Trustee” means the Person named as the “Trustee” in the first paragraph of
this Indenture, until a successor Trustee shall have become such pursuant to the applicable
provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Trustee” shall mean such successor Trustee.
“Trust Indenture Act” or “TIA” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as
amended, or any successor statute. References to sections of the Trust Indenture Act include
successor statute sections dealing with the same subject.
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“Unrestricted Subsidiary” means (i) BTFCC, Inc., (ii) BTF Canada Corporation, (iii)
BTF Cincinnati Corporation, (iv) BTF Europe Corporation, (v) BTFF Corporation, (vi) BTF
Indianapolis Corporation, (vii) BTF Minneapolis Corporation, (viii) Bally Real Estate I, LLC; (ix)
any subsidiary of the Company that at the time of determination shall be an Unrestricted Subsidiary
(as designated by the Board of Directors, as provided below), and (x) any subsidiary of an
Unrestricted Subsidiary. The Board of Directors may designate any subsidiary of the Company
(including any newly acquired or newly formed subsidiary) to be an Unrestricted Subsidiary if all
of the following conditions apply: (a) neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries provides
credit support for Indebtedness of such Unrestricted Subsidiary (including any undertaking,
agreement or instrument evidencing such Indebtedness), (b) such Unrestricted Subsidiary is not
liable, directly or indirectly, with respect to any Indebtedness other than Unrestricted Subsidiary
Indebtedness or the Credit Agreement, (c) any Investment by the Company in such Unrestricted
Subsidiary made as a result of designating such subsidiary an Unrestricted Subsidiary shall not
violate the provisions described under Section 10.16 and such Unrestricted Subsidiary is
not party to any agreement, contract, arrangement or understanding at such time with the Company or
any other subsidiary of the Company unless the terms of any such agreement, contract, arrangement
or understanding are no less favorable to the Company or such other subsidiary than those that
might be obtained at the time from Persons who are not Affiliates of the Company or, in the event
such condition is not satisfied, the value of such agreement, contract, arrangement or
understanding to such Unrestricted Subsidiary shall be deemed an Investment, and (d) such
Unrestricted Subsidiary does not own any Capital Stock in any subsidiary of the Company which is
not simultaneously being designated an Unrestricted Subsidiary. Any such designation by the Board
of Directors shall be evidenced to the Trustee by filing with the Trustee a Board Resolution giving
effect to such designation and an Officers’ Certificate certifying that such designation complies
with the foregoing conditions and any Investment by the Company in such Unrestricted Subsidiary
shall be deemed a Restricted Payment on the date of designation in an amount equal to the greater
of (1) the net book value of such Investment or (2) the Fair Market Value of such Investment as
determined in good faith by the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors may designate any
Unrestricted Subsidiary as a Subsidiary; provided (i) that if such Unrestricted Subsidiary has any
Indebtedness, that immediately after giving effect to such designation, the Company could incur
$1.00 of additional Indebtedness (other than Permitted Indebtedness or Permitted Subsidiary
Indebtedness) pursuant to the restrictions under Section 10.8, and (ii) that all
Indebtedness of such Subsidiary shall be deemed to be incurred on the date such Unrestricted
Subsidiary becomes a Subsidiary.
“Unrestricted Subsidiary Indebtedness” of any Unrestricted Subsidiary means
Indebtedness of such Unrestricted Subsidiary (a) as to which neither the Company nor any Subsidiary
is directly or indirectly liable (by virtue of the Company or any such Subsidiary being the primary
obligor on, guarantor of, or otherwise liable in any respect to, such Indebtedness), and (b) which,
upon the occurrence of a default with respect thereto, does not result in, or permit any holder of
any Indebtedness of the Company or any Subsidiary to declare, a default on such Indebtedness of the
Company or any Subsidiary or cause the payment thereof to be accelerated or payable prior to its
Stated Maturity.
“Voting Stock” means Capital Stock of the class or classes pursuant to which the
holders thereof have the general voting power under ordinary circumstances to elect at least a
majority of the board of directors, managers or trustees of a corporation (irrespective of whether
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time Capital Stock of any other class or classes shall have or might have voting power by
reason of the happening of any contingency).
“Wholly Owned Subsidiary” means a Subsidiary all the Capital Stock of which (other
than qualifying shares, if any) is owned by the Company or another Wholly Owned Subsidiary.
Section 1.2 Other Definitions.
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Section 1.3 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 and each other obligor on the Notes shall furnish to the
Trustee an Officers’ Certificate in a form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Trustee
stating that all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture (including any
covenant compliance which constitutes a condition precedent) relating to the proposed action have
been complied with and an Opinion of Counsel in a form and substance reasonably acceptable to the
Trustee 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 any certificates and/or opinions 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 of Counsel with respect to compliance with a condition or
covenant provided for in this Indenture shall include:
(a) a statement to the effect that each individual or firm signing such certificate or opinion
has read such covenant or condition and the definitions herein relating thereto;
(b) 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;
(c) a statement to the effect that, in the opinion of each such individual or such firm, he
has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him or them to express an
informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with; and
(d) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such individual or such firm, such
condition or covenant has been complied with.
Section 1.4 Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee.
In any case where several matters are required to be certified by, or covered by an opinion
of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all such matters be certified by, or covered by
the opinion of, only one such Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one document,
but one such Person may certify or give an opinion with respect to such matters and one or more
other such Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify or give an opinion as to
such matters in one or several documents.
Any certificate or opinion of an officer of the Company or other obligor on the Notes 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 certificate or opinion of such an officer or 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 or other obligor on the Notes with
respect to such factual matters and which contains a statement to the effect that the
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information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the Company or other
obligor on the Notes, unless such officer or 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. Opinions of Counsel required to be delivered to the Trustee may have qualifications
customary for opinions of the type required, and counsel delivering such Opinions of Counsel may
rely on certificates of the Company or government or other officials customary for opinions of the
type required, including certificates certifying as to matters of fact, including that various
financial covenants have been complied with.
Any certificate or opinion of an officer of the Company or other obligor on the Notes may be
based, insofar as it relates to accounting matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or
representations by, an accountant or firm of accountants in the employ of the Company, unless such
officer knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion
or representations with respect to the accounting matters upon which his certificate or opinion may
be based are erroneous. Any certificate or opinion of any independent firm of public accountants
filed with the Trustee shall contain a statement that such firm is independent with respect to the
Company.
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 1.5 Acts of Holders.
(a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action
provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by one
or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by an agent
duly appointed in writing; 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. Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied
therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the “Act” of the Holders
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 conclusive in
favor of the Trustee and the Company, if made in the manner provided in this Section.
(b) The ownership of Notes shall be proved by the Note Register.
(c) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act by the
Holder of any Note shall bind every future Holder of the same Note or the Holder of every Note
issued upon the transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof, in respect of anything
done, suffered or omitted to be done by the Trustee, any Paying Agent or the Company or any other
obligor on the Notes in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such
Note.
(d) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such instrument or writing may be
proved by the affidavit of a witness of such execution or by a certificate of a
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notary public or other officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying
that the individual signing such instrument or writing acknowledged to him the execution thereof.
Where such execution is by a signer acting in a capacity other than his individual capacity, such
certificate or affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof of his authority. The fact and
date of the execution of any such instrument or writing, or the authority of the Person executing
the same, may also be proved in any other manner which the Trustee deems sufficient.
Section 1.6 Notices, etc., to Trustee and the Company.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of Holders or
other document provided or permitted by this Indenture to be made upon, given or furnished to, or
filed with:
(a) the Trustee by any Holder or by the Company or any other obligor on the Notes shall be
sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed, in writing, by
first-class mail postage prepaid (return receipt requested) or delivered in person or by recognized
overnight courier to or with the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office, Attention: Corporate Trust
Administration or at any other address furnished in writing prior thereto to the Holders, the
Company or any other obligor on the Notes by the Trustee; or
(b) the Company shall be sufficient for every purpose (except as provided in Section
5.1(c)) hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed, in writing, by first-class mail postage
prepaid (return receipt requested) or delivered in person or by recognized overnight courier, to or
with the Company addressed to it at 0000 Xxxx Xxxx Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000, Attention:
Chief Financial Officer, or at any other address previously furnished in writing to the Trustee by
the Company.
Section 1.7 Notice to Holders; Waiver.
Where this Indenture provides for notice to Holders of any event, such notice shall be
sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed,
first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder affected by such event, at such Holder’s address as it
appears in the Note 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 Holders is given by
mail, neither the failure to mail such notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed, to any
particular Holder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Holders. Any
notice when mailed to a Holder in the aforesaid manner shall be conclusively deemed to have been
received by such Holder whether or not actually received by such Holder. Where this Indenture
provides for notice in any manner, such notice may be waived in writing by the Person entitled to
receive such notice, either before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of
such notice. Waivers of notice by Holders shall be filed with the Trustee, but such filing shall
not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action taken in reliance upon such waiver.
In case by reason of the suspension of regular mail service or by reason of any other cause,
it shall be impracticable to mail notice of any event as required by any provision of this
Indenture, then any method of giving such notice as shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee
shall be deemed to be a sufficient giving of such notice.
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Section 1.8 Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.
If and to the extent that any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with any
provision of the Trust Indenture Act or another provision which is required or deemed to be
included in this Indenture by any of the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act, the provision or
requirement of the Trust Indenture Act shall control. If any provision of this Indenture modifies
or excludes any provision of the Trust Indenture Act that may be so modified or excluded, such
provision of the Trust Indenture Act shall be deemed to apply to this Indenture as so modified or
to be excluded, as the case may be.
Section 1.9 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 1.10 Successors and Assigns.
All covenants and agreements in this Indenture by the Company, the Guarantors and any other
obligor on the Notes or Guarantees shall bind their successors and assigns, whether so expressed or
not.
Section 1.11 Separability Clause.
In case any provision in this Indenture or in the Notes or Guarantees 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 1.12 Benefits of Indenture.
Nothing in this Indenture or in the Notes or Guarantees, express or implied, shall give to any
Person (other than the parties hereto and their successors hereunder, any Paying Agent and the
Holders) any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.
Section 1.13 Governing Law.
THIS INDENTURE, THE NOTES AND THE GUARANTEES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE
WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK (WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICTS OF LAWS PRINCIPLES THEREOF).
Section 1.14 Legal Holidays.
In any case where any Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date, Maturity or Stated Maturity of
any Note shall not be a Business Day, then (notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture
or of the Notes) payment of interest or principal or premium, if any, need not be made on such
date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if made
on the Interest Payment Date or Redemption Date, or at Maturity or the Stated Maturity, and no
interest shall accrue with respect to such payment for the period from
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and after such Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date, Maturity or Stated Maturity, as the
case may be, to the next succeeding Business Day.
Section 1.15 Schedules.
All schedules attached hereto are by this reference made a part with the same effect as if
herein set forth in full.
Section 1.16 Counterparts.
This Indenture may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an
original; but such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.
Section 1.17 No Recourse against Others.
A director, officer, employee or stockholder, as such, of the Company or a Guarantor shall not
have any liability for any obligations of the Company or such Guarantor under the Notes, the
Guarantees or this Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of or by reason of such
obligations or their creation. Each Holder by accepting any of the Notes waives and releases all
such liability. Such waiver may not be effective to waive liabilities under federal securities
laws and it is the view of the SEC that such a waiver is against public policy.
ARTICLE II
SECURITY FORMS
Section 2.1 Forms Generally.
The Notes, the Guarantees and the Trustee’s certificate of authentication thereon shall be in
substantially the forms set forth in this Article II, with such appropriate insertions,
omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted hereby and may have such
letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon
as may be required to comply with the rules of any securities exchange, any organizational document
or governing instrument or applicable law or as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the
officers executing such Notes, as evidenced by their execution of the Notes. Any portion of the
text of any Note may be set forth on the reverse thereof, with an appropriate reference thereto on
the face of the Note.
The definitive Notes shall be printed, lithographed or engraved or produced by any combination
of these methods or may be produced in any other manner permitted by the rules of any securities
exchange on which the Notes may be listed, all as determined by the officers executing such Notes,
as evidenced by their execution of such Notes.
Notes shall be issued initially in the form of one or more permanent global Notes
substantially in the form set forth in Section 2.2 and Section 2.3 deposited with
the Trustee, as custodian for the Depository, duly executed by the Company and authenticated by the
Trustee as hereinafter provided. The aggregate principal amount of the Global Note may from time
to time be increased or decreased by adjustments made on the records of the Trustee, as custodian
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Depository or its nominee, as hereinafter provided or on schedules to the Global Notes as
hereafter provided.
Section 2.2 Form of Face of Notes.
(a) The form of the face of any Note authenticated and delivered hereunder shall be
substantially as follows:
THIS NOTE IS A GLOBAL NOTE WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED
TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITORY OR A NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITORY OR A
SUCCESSOR DEPOSITORY. TRANSFERS OF THIS GLOBAL NOTE SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS
IN WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO NOMINEES OF CEDE & CO. OR TO A SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR
SUCH SUCCESSOR’S NOMINEE AND TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL NOTE SHALL BE
LIMITED TO TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN SECTIONS
3.5 AND 3.6 OF THE INDENTURE. UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED
REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION
(“DTC”), TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE,
OR PAYMENT AND ANY SUCH CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO.
OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND
ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE, OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR
VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER
HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.
(b) Each Note, if issued with original issue discount, shall bear a legend in substantially
the following form (the “OID Legend”).
THIS SECURITY HAS BEEN ISSUED WITH ORIGINAL ISSUE DISCOUNT (“OID”) AS
DEFINED IN SECTION 1273 OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED. FOR
INFORMATION REGARDING THE ISSUE DATE, THE ISSUE PRICE, THE YIELD TO MATURITY AND THE
AMOUNT OF OID PER $1,000 OF PRINCIPAL AMOUNT, OF THIS SECURITY PLEASE CONTACT THE
COMPANY AT BALLY TOTAL FITNESS HOLDING CORPORATION, 0000 XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXXXX,
XXXXXXX, XXXXXXXX 00000, ATTENTION: CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
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BALLY TOTAL FITNESS HOLDING CORPORATION
13% SENIOR SECURED NOTES DUE 2011
CUSIP NO.
Bally Total Fitness Holding Corporation, a Delaware corporation (herein called the
“Company,” which term includes any successor Person under the Indenture hereinafter
referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to or registered assigns,
the principal sum of in United States dollars on July 15, 2011, at the office or agency
of the Company referred to below, and to pay interest thereon in United States dollars from July
15, 2007, or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly
provided for, semiannually on January 15 and July 15 in each year, commencing January 15, 2008,
until the principal hereof is paid or duly provided for; provided that if the Company does not
furnish to the Holders its annual financial statements in respect of the Company’s fiscal year
ended December 31, 2007, together with a report thereon by the Company’s independent registered
public accounting firm (the “Audited 2007 Financials”) pursuant to Section 7.4(a) of the
Indenture (as defined below) by April 15, 2008, the interest rate will be increased on such date to
153/8% per annum until the first to occur of the delivery of the Audited 2007 Financials to the
Holders or acceleration of the Notes.
The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment
Date will, as provided in such Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Note (or any
Predecessor Notes) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such
interest, which shall be January 1 or July 1 (whether or not a Business Day), as the case may be,
immediately preceding such Interest Payment Date. Any such interest not so punctually paid, or
duly provided for, and interest on such defaulted interest at the interest rate borne by the Notes,
to the extent lawful, shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record
Date, and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Note (or any Predecessor Notes) is
registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such defaulted
interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Notes not less
than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner
not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Notes may be listed,
and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in the
Indenture.
Payment of the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on, this Note, and exchange or
transfer of the Note, will be made at the office or agency of the Company in The City of
New York
maintained for such purpose (which initially will be the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee), or
at such other office or agency as may be maintained for such purpose, in such coin or currency of
the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and
private debts; provided, however, that payment of interest may be made at the option of the Company
by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear on the
Note Register.
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Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse
hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at
this place.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been duly executed by the Trustee referred
to on the reverse hereof or by the authenticating agent appointed as provided in the Indenture by
manual signature of an authorized signer, this Note shall not be entitled to any benefit under the
Indenture, or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed by the manual
or facsimile signature of its authorized officers and its corporate seal to be affixed or
reproduced hereon.
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TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the 13% Senior Secured Notes due 2011 referred to in the within-mentioned
Indenture.
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OPTION OF HOLDER TO ELECT PURCHASE
If you wish to have this Note purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 10.12 or
Section 10.13, as applicable, of the Indenture, check the Box: [ ].
If you wish to have a portion of this Note purchased by the Company pursuant to Section
10.12 or Section 10.13 as applicable, of the Indenture, state the amount (in original
principal amount): $
(Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Note)
Signature Guarantee:
[Signatures must be guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the
requirements of the Notes Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in the
Security Transfer Agent Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other “signature guarantee
program” as may be determined by the Notes Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP,
all in accordance with the Exchange Act.]
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Section 2.3 Form of Reverse of Notes.
The form of the reverse of the Notes shall be substantially as follows:
BALLY TOTAL FITNESS HOLDING CORPORATION
13% SENIOR SECURED NOTES DUE 2011
This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Company designated as its 13%
Senior Secured Notes due 2011 (herein called the “Notes”), limited (except as otherwise
provided in the Indenture referred to below) in aggregate principal amount at maturity limited to
$ , issued under and subject to the terms of an indenture (as amended or
supplemented from time to time the “Indenture”), dated as of , 2007, among the
Company, the Guarantors party thereto and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (herein called
the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), to which
Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the
respective rights, limitations of rights, duties, obligations and immunities thereunder of the
Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes, and of the terms upon which the
Notes are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered.
The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of (a) the entire Indebtedness on
the Notes and (b) certain restrictive covenants and related Defaults and Events of Default, in each
case upon compliance with certain conditions set forth therein.
Except as described below, the Notes are subject to redemption at any time on or after July
15, 2008, at the option of the Company, in whole or in part, on not less than 30 nor more than 60
days’ prior notice to the Holders by first-class mail, in amounts of $1,000 or an integral multiple
thereof, at the following redemption prices (expressed as percentages of the principal amount), if
redeemed during the 12-month period beginning July 15 of the years indicated below:
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The Notes will also be redeemable, in whole or in part, at the Company’s option at any time or
from time to time, prior to July 15, 2008 at the applicable Make-Whole Price (as defined below), in
accordance with the provisions of the Indenture.
“Make-Whole Price” with respect to any Notes to be redeemed, means an amount equal to
the greater of:
(1) 100% of the principal amount of such Notes; and
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(2) the sum of the present values of (a) the Redemption Price of such Notes at June 15, 2008
(as set forth above) and (b) the remaining scheduled payments of interest from the Redemption Date
to July 15, 2008 (not including any portion of such payments of interest accrued as of the
Redemption Date) discounted back to the Redemption Date on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day
year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate (as defined below) plus 50 basis
points;
plus, in the case of both (1) and (2), accrued and unpaid interest on such Notes to the Redemption
Date. Unless the Company defaults in payment of the Make-Whole Price, on and after the applicable
Redemption Date, interest will cease to accrue on the Notes to be redeemed.
“Comparable Treasury Issue” means, with respect to the Notes to be redeemed, the U.S.
Treasury security selected by an Independent Investment Banker as having a maturity most nearly
equal to the period from the Redemption Date to July 15, 2008, at the time of selection and in
accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities;
provided if such period is less that one year, then the U.S. Treasury security having a maturity of
one year shall be used.
“Comparable Treasury Price” means, with respect to any Redemption Date, (1) the
average of four Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such Redemption Date, after excluding the
highest and lowest of such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (2) if the Trustee obtains
fewer than four such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all such Reference
Treasury Dealer Quotations.
“Independent Investment Banker” means or
and
their respective successors, at the Company’s option, or, if such firms or the successors, if any,
to such firms, as the case may be, are unwilling or unable to select the Comparable Treasury Issue,
an independent investment banking institution of national standing appointed by the Company.
“
Reference Treasury Dealer” means
or
at the
Company’s option, and three additional primary U.S. government securities dealers in
New York City
(each a “
Primary Treasury Dealer”) selected by the Company, and its successors (
provided,
however, that if any such firm or any such successor, as the case may be, shall cease to be a
primary U.S. government securities dealer in
New York City, the Company shall substitute therefor
another Primary Treasury Dealer).
“
Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations” means, with respect to each Reference Treasury
Dealer and any Redemption Date, the average, as determined by the Trustee, of the bid and asked
prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal
amount) quoted in writing to the Trustee by such Reference Treasury Dealer at 5:00 p.m.,
New York
City time, on the third Business Day preceding such Redemption Date.
“Treasury Rate” means, with respect to any Redemption Date, (1) the yield, under the
heading which represents the average for the immediately preceding week in the most recently
published statistical release designated “H.15(159)” or any successor publication that is published
weekly by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and that establishes
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yields on actively traded U.S. Treasury securities adjusted to constant maturity under the
caption “Treasury Constant Maturities,” for the maturity corresponding to the Comparable Treasury
Issue (if no maturity is within three months before or after the stated maturity, yields for the
two published maturities most closely corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue shall be
determined, and the Treasury Rate shall be interpolated or extrapolated from such yields on a
straight-line basis, rounding to the nearest month) or (2) if such release (or any successor
release) is not published during the week preceding the calculation date or does not contain such
yields, the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable
Treasury Issue, calculated using a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a
percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for such Redemption
Date. The Treasury Rate shall be calculated on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption
Date.
The notice of redemption with respect to the foregoing redemption need not set forth the
Make-Whole Price but only the manner of calculation thereof. The Company will notify the Trustee
of the Make-Whole Price with respect to any redemption promptly after the calculation, and the
Trustee shall not be responsible for such calculation.
If less than all of the Notes are to be redeemed, the Trustee shall select the Notes or
portions thereof to be redeemed pro rata, by lot or by any other method the Trustee shall deem fair
and reasonable.
Upon the occurrence of a Change of Control, each Holder may require the Company to purchase
such Holder’s Notes in whole or in part in integral multiples of $1,000, at a purchase price in
cash in an amount equal to 101% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest,
if any, to the date of purchase, pursuant to a Change of Control Offer and in accordance with the
procedures set forth in the Indenture.
Under certain circumstances, in the event the Net Cash Proceeds received by the Company from
any Asset Sale (which proceeds are not used to permanently repay any Senior Secured Debt or
invested in properties or other assets that replace the properties and assets that were the subject
of the Asset Sale or which will be used in the businesses of the Company or its Subsidiaries
existing on the date of the Indenture or in businesses reasonably related or complementary thereto)
exceeds a specified amount, the Company will be required to set aside such proceeds in a separate
account pending an offer by the Company to apply such proceeds to the repayment of the Notes and
certain unsecured Senior Debt.
In the case of any redemption or repurchase of Notes in accordance with the Indenture,
interest installments whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption Date will be payable
to the Holders of such Notes of record as of the close of business on the relevant Regular Record
Date or Special Record Date referred to on the face hereof. Notes (or portions thereof) for whose
redemption and payment provision is made in accordance with the Indenture shall cease to bear
interest from and after the Redemption Date.
In the event of redemption or repurchase of this Note in accordance with the Indenture in part
only, a new Note or Notes for the unredeemed portion hereof shall be issued in the name of the
Holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof.
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The payment of principal of and interest, and premium, if any, on the Notes is secured by the
Liens of the Security Documents pursuant to, and subject to the terms (including the provisions of
Article XIV) of the Indenture, the Security Agreement and the other Security Documents.
If an Event of Default shall occur and be continuing, the principal amount of all the Notes
may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture. The
Notes are not entitled to the benefit of any sinking fund.
The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions (including certain amendments permitted without
the consent of any Holders) as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the
rights and obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders under the Indenture and the
Notes at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a specified
percentage in aggregate principal amount of the Notes at the time Outstanding. The Indenture also
contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in aggregate principal amount
of the Notes at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all the Notes, to waive
compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture and the Notes and certain past
Defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by or on behalf of
the Holder of this Note shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future
Holders of this Note and of any Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange
herefor or in lieu hereof whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Note.
No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture shall
alter or impair the obligation of the Company or any other obligor on the Note (in the event such
other obligor is obligated to make payments in respect of the Notes), which is absolute and
unconditional, to pay the principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on, this Note at the
times, place, and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.
If this Note is in certificated form, then as provided in the Indenture and subject to certain
limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Note is registrable on the Note Register of the
Company, upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the
Company maintained for such purpose in The City of
New York or at such other office or agency of
the Company as may be maintained for such purpose, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written
instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Note Registrar duly executed by,
the Holder hereof or its attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Notes,
of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the
designated transferee or transferees.
If this Note is in certificated form, then as provided in the Indenture and subject to certain
limitations therein set forth, the Holder, may exchange this Note for a Book-Entry Note by
instructing the Trustee (by completing the Transferee Certificate in the form in Appendix I) to
arrange for such Note to be represented by a beneficial interest in a Global Note in accordance
with the customary procedures of the Depository unless the Company has elected not to issue a
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If this Series is a Global Note, it is exchangeable for a Note in certificated form as
provided in the Indenture and in accordance with the rules and procedures of the Trustee and the
Depository. In addition, certificated securities shall be transferred to all beneficial holders in
exchange for their beneficial interests in the Global Note if (x) the Depository notifies the
Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as depository for the Global Note and a
successor Depository is not appointed by the Company within 90 days or (y) there shall have
occurred and be continuing an Event of Default and the Note Registrar has received a request from
the Depository; provided that Physical Notes may not be issued to more than 400 Holders without the
prior written consent of the Company. Upon any such issuance, the Trustee is required to register
such certificated Notes in the name of, and cause the same to be delivered to, such Person or
Persons (or the nominee of any thereof).
Notes in certificated form are issuable only in registered form without coupons in
denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof. As provided in the Indenture and
subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the Notes are exchangeable for a like aggregate
principal amount of Notes of a differing authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder
surrendering the same.
Payment on each Note is guaranteed, jointly and severally, by the Guarantors pursuant to
Article XIII of the Indenture.
No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the
Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge
payable in connection therewith.
Prior to due presentment of this Note for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee
and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Note is
registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note is overdue, and neither
the Company, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
THIS NOTE AND THE GUARANTEES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF
THE STATE OF NEW YORK (WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICTS OF LAWS PRINCIPLES THEREOF).
All terms used in this Note which are defined in the Indenture and not otherwise defined
herein shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.
The Transferee Certificate, in the form of Appendix II hereto, will be attached to the Note.
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SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES OF INTERESTS IN THE GLOBAL NOTE/1/
The following exchanges of a part of this Global Note for an interest in another Global Note
or for a Physical Note, or exchanges of a part of another Global Note or Physical Note for an
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Section 2.4 Form of Guarantee.
The form of the Guarantee shall be substantially as follows:
For value received, the undersigned hereby unconditionally guarantees, as principal obligor
and not only as surety, to the Holder of this Note the cash payments in United States dollars of
principal of, premium, if any, and interest on this Note (and including Additional Interest payable
thereon) in the amounts and at the times when due and interest on the overdue principal, premium,
if any, and interest, if any, of this Note, if lawful, and the payment or performance of all other
obligations of the Company under the Indenture (as defined below) or the Note, to the Holder of
this Note and the Trustee, all in accordance with and subject to the terms and limitations of this
Note, Article XIII of the Indenture and this Guarantee. This Guarantee will become
effective in accordance with Article XIII of the Indenture and its terms shall be evidenced
therein. The validity and enforceability of this Guarantee shall not be affected by the fact that
it is not affixed to any particular Note. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have
the meanings ascribed to them in the Indenture dated as of ___, 2007, among Bally Total
Fitness Holding Corporation, as Issuer (the “Company”), each of the Guarantors named
therein and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”) (as amended or
supplemented, the “Indenture”).
THIS GUARANTEE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE
OF NEW YORK BUT WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO APPLICABLE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAW TO THE EXTENT
THAT THE APPLICATION OF THE LAW OF ANOTHER JURISDICTION WOULD BE REQUIRED THEREBY. Each Guarantor
hereby agrees to submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of the State of New York in any action or
proceeding arising out of or relating to this Guarantee.
This Guarantee is subject to release upon the terms set forth in the Indenture.
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ARTICLE III
THE NOTES
Section 3.1 Title and Terms.
The aggregate principal amount of Notes which may be authenticated and delivered under this
Indenture is limited to (i) $247,337,500 in principal amount at maturity of the Notes, and (ii)
subject to Section 10.8, Additional Notes, except for Notes authenticated and delivered
upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Notes pursuant to
Sections 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 9.6,
10.12, 10.13 or 11.8. Any Additional Notes shall be part of the same issue
as the Notes being issued on the Issue Date and will vote on all matters as one class with the
Notes being issued on the Issue Date, including, without limitation, waivers, amendments,
redemptions, Change of Control Offers and Offers. For the purposes of this Indenture, except for
Section 10.8, references to the Notes include Additional Notes, if any.
The Notes shall be known and designated as the “13% Senior Secured Notes due 2011” of the
Company. The Stated Maturity of the Notes shall be July 15, 2011, and the Notes shall each bear
interest at the rate of 13% per annum, as such interest rate may be adjusted as set forth in the
Notes, from July 15, 2007, or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been
paid, payable semiannually on January 15 and July 15 in each year, commencing January 15, 2008,
until the principal thereof is paid or duly provided for; provided that, irrespective of the grace
periods set forth in Section 7.4(a), if the Company does not furnish to the Holders its
annual financial statements in respect of the Company’s fiscal year ended December 31, 2007,
together with a report thereon by the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm (the
“Audited 2007 Financials”) pursuant to Section 7.4(a) by April 15, 2008, the
interest rate will be increased on such date to 15-3/8% per annum until the first to occur of the
delivery of the Audited 2007 Financials to the Holders or the acceleration of the Notes pursuant to
Section 5.2. Interest on any overdue principal, interest (to the extent lawful) or
premium, if any, shall be payable on demand.
The principal of, premium, if any, and interest on, the Notes shall be payable and the Notes
will be exchangeable and transferable at an office or agency of the Company in The City of New York
maintained for such purposes (which initially will be the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee) or
at such other office or agency as may be maintained for such purpose; provided, however, that
payment of interest may be made at the option of the Company by check mailed to addresses of the
Person entitled thereto as such addresses shall appear on the Note Register.
The Notes shall be subject to repurchase by the Company pursuant to an Offer as provided in
Section 10.12.
Holders shall have the right to require the Company to purchase their Notes, in whole or in
part, in the event of a Change of Control pursuant to Section 10.13.
The Notes shall not be entitled to the benefits of any sinking fund.
The Notes shall be redeemable as provided in Article XI and in the Notes.
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Payment on each Note is guaranteed, jointly and severally, by the Guarantors pursuant to
Article XIII of the Indenture.
The Notes are secured as provided in Article XIV.
At the election of the Company, the entire Indebtedness on the Notes or certain of the
Company’s obligations and covenants and certain Events of Default thereunder may be defeased as
provided in Article IV.
Section 3.2 Denominations.
The Notes shall be issuable only in fully registered form without coupons and only in
denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof.
Section 3.3 Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating.
The Notes shall be executed on behalf of the Company by one of its Chairman of the Board, its
President, its Chief Executive Officer, its Chief Financial Officer or one of its Vice Presidents
and attested by its Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries. The signatures of any of these
officers on the Notes may be manual or facsimile. Each Guarantor shall execute a Guarantee in the
manner set forth in Section 13.7.
Notes 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 Notes or
did not hold such offices at the date of such Notes.
On the Issue Date, , the Company may deliver Notes in the outstanding aggregate principal
amount of $247,337,500 executed by the Company to the Trustee for authentication, together with a
Company Order for the authentication and delivery of such Notes; and the Trustee in accordance with
such Company Order shall authenticate and make available for delivery such Notes as provided in
this Indenture and not otherwise.
Each Note shall be dated the date of its authentication.
No Note shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for
any purpose unless there appears on such Note a certificate of authentication substantially in the
form provided for herein duly executed by the Trustee by manual signature of one of its duly
authorized signatories, and such certificate upon any Note shall be conclusive evidence, and the
only evidence, that such Note has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder and is entitled
to the benefits of this Indenture.
In case the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, pursuant to Article VIII, shall, in a
single transaction or through a series of related transactions, be consolidated or merged with or
into any other Person or shall sell, assign, convey, transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of all or
substantially all of its properties and assets to any Person, and the successor Person resulting
from such consolidation or surviving such merger, or into which the Company shall have been merged,
or the successor Person which shall have participated in the sale, assignment,
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conveyance, transfer, lease or other disposition as aforesaid, shall have executed an
indenture supplemental hereto with the Trustee pursuant to Article VIII, any of the Notes
authenticated or delivered prior to such consolidation, merger, sale, assignment, conveyance,
transfer, lease or other disposition may, from time to time, at the request of the successor
Person, be exchanged for other Notes executed in the name of the successor Person with such changes
in phraseology and form as may be appropriate, but otherwise in substance of like tenor as the
Notes surrendered for such exchange and of like principal amount; and the Trustee, upon Company
Request of the successor Person, shall authenticate and deliver Notes as specified in such request
for the purpose of such exchange. If Notes shall at any time be authenticated and delivered in any
new name of a successor Person pursuant to this Section 3.3 in exchange or substitution for
or upon registration of transfer of any Notes, such successor Person, at the option of the Holders
but without expense to them, shall provide for the exchange of all Notes at the time Outstanding
for Notes authenticated and delivered in such new name.
The Trustee may appoint an authenticating agent acceptable to the Company to authenticate
Notes on behalf of the Trustee. Unless limited by the terms of such appointment, an authenticating
agent may authenticate Notes whenever the Trustee may do so. Each reference in this Indenture to
authentication by the Trustee includes authentication by such agent. An authenticating agent has
the same rights as any Note Registrar or Paying Agent to deal with the Company and its Affiliates.
If an officer whose signature is on a Note no longer holds that office at the time the Trustee
authenticates such Note, such Note shall be valid nevertheless.
Section 3.4 Temporary Notes.
Pending the preparation of definitive Notes, the Company may execute, and upon Company Order
the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery, temporary Notes which are printed,
lithographed, typewritten or otherwise produced, in any authorized denomination, substantially of
the tenor of the definitive Notes in lieu of which they are issued and with such appropriate
insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as the officers executing such Notes may
determine, as conclusively evidenced by their execution of such Notes.
If temporary Notes are issued, the Company will cause definitive Notes to be prepared without
unreasonable delay. After the preparation of definitive Notes, the temporary Notes shall be
exchangeable for definitive Notes upon surrender of the temporary Notes at the office or agency of
the Company designated for such purpose pursuant to Section 10.2, without charge to the
Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Notes, the Company shall
execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery in exchange therefor a
like principal amount of definitive Notes of authorized denominations. Until so exchanged the
temporary Notes shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as
definitive Notes.
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Section 3.5 Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange.
The Company shall cause the Trustee to keep, so long as it is the Note Registrar, at the
Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, or such other office as the Trustee may designate, a
register (the register maintained in such office or in any other office or agency designated
pursuant to Section 10.2 being herein sometimes referred to as the “Note Register”)
in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as the Note Registrar may prescribe, the Company
shall provide for the registration of Notes and of transfers of Notes. The Trustee shall initially
be the “Note Registrar” for the purpose of registering Notes and transfers of Notes as
herein provided. The Company may change the Note Registrar or appoint one or more co-Note
Registrars without notice.
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the office or agency of the Company
designated pursuant to Section 10.2, 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 Notes of the same series of any authorized denomination or
denominations, of a like aggregate principal amount.
Furthermore, any Holder of a Global Note shall, by acceptance of such Global Note, agree that
transfers of beneficial interests in such Global Note may be effected only through a book-entry
system maintained by the Holder of such Global Note (or its agent), and that ownership of a
beneficial interest in a Note shall be required to be reflected in a book entry.
At the option of the Holder, Notes may be exchanged for other Notes of any authorized
denomination or denominations, of a like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Notes to
be exchanged at such office or agency. Whenever any Notes are so surrendered for exchange, the
Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery, Notes
which the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.
All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes shall be the valid
obligations of the Company, evidencing the same Indebtedness, and entitled to the same benefits
under this Indenture, as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.
Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer, or for exchange, repurchase
or redemption, 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 Note
Registrar, duly executed by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing.
No service charge shall be made to a Holder for any registration of transfer, exchange or
redemption of Notes, except for any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in
connection therewith, other than exchanges pursuant to Sections 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 9.6, 10.12,
10.13 or 11.8 not involving any transfer.
The Company shall not be required (a) to issue, register the transfer of or exchange any Note
during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before the mailing of a notice of
redemption of the Notes selected for redemption under Section 11.4 and ending at the close
of business on the day of such mailing or (b) to register the transfer of or exchange any Note so
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selected for redemption in whole or in part, except the unredeemed portion of Notes being
redeemed in part.
Section 3.6 Book-Entry Provisions for Global Notes.
(a) The Global Notes initially shall (i) be registered in the name of the Depository, (ii) be
deposited with, or on behalf of, the Depository or with the Trustee as custodian for the Depository
and (iii) bear legends as set forth in Section 2.2.
Members of, or participants in, the Depository (“Agent Members”) shall have no rights
under this Indenture with respect to any Global Note held on their behalf by the Depository or the
Trustee as its custodian, or under the Global Note, and the Depository may be treated by the
Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee as the absolute owner of such
Global Note for all purposes whatsoever. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall
prevent the Company, the Trustee or any agent of the Company or the Trustee from giving effect to
any written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by the Depository, or shall
impair, as between the Depository and its Agent Members, the operation of customary practices
governing the exercise of the rights of a holder of any Note.
(b) Transfer of a Global Note shall be limited to transfers of such Global Note in whole, but
not in part, to the Depository, its successors or their respective nominees. Interests of
beneficial owners in a Global Note may be transferred in accordance with the rules and procedures
of the Depository. Physical Notes shall be issued to all beneficial owners in exchange for their
beneficial interests in a Global Note if (i) the Depository notifies the Company that it is
unwilling or unable to continue as a Depository for a Global Note and a successor Depository is not
appointed by the Company within 90 days of such notice or (ii) an Event of Default has occurred and
is continuing and the Note Registrar has received a request from the Depository; provided that
Physical Notes may not be issued to more than 400 Holders without the prior written consent of the
Company.
(c) In connection with any transfer of a portion of the beneficial interest in a Global Note
pursuant to subsection (b) of this Section to beneficial owners who are required to hold Physical
Notes, the Note Registrar shall reflect on its books and records the date and a decrease in the
principal amount of the Global Note in an amount equal to the principal amount of the beneficial
interest in the Global Note to be transferred, and the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver one or more Physical Notes of like tenor and amount.
(d) In connection with the transfer of an entire Global Note to beneficial owners pursuant to
subsection (b) of this Section, such Global Note shall be deemed to be surrendered to the Trustee
for cancellation, and the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, to
each beneficial owner identified by the Depository, in exchange for its beneficial interest in the
Global Note an equal aggregate principal amount of Physical Notes of authorized denominations.
(e) The registered holder of a Global Note may grant proxies and otherwise authorize any
person, including Agent Members and Persons that may hold interests through Agent Members, to take
any action which a Holder is entitled to take under this Indenture or the Notes.
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Section 3.7 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Notes.
If (a) any mutilated Note is surrendered to the Trustee, or (b) the Company and the Trustee
receive evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Note, and there is
delivered to the Company, any other obligor on the Notes and the Trustee, such security or
indemnity, in each case, as may be required by them to save each of them harmless, then, in the
absence of notice to the Company, any other obligor on the Notes or the Trustee that such Note has
been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Company shall execute and upon a Company Request the
Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery, in exchange for any such mutilated Note
or in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen Note, a replacement Note of like tenor and
principal amount, bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.
In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note has become or is about to become
due and payable, the Company in its discretion may, instead of issuing a replacement Note, pay such
Note.
Upon the issuance of any replacement Notes under this Section, the Company may require the
payment of a sum sufficient to pay all documentary, stamp or similar issue or transfer taxes or
other governmental charges that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other expenses
(including the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith.
Every replacement Note issued pursuant to this Section in lieu of any destroyed, lost or
stolen Note shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the Company and any
other obligor on the Notes, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall be at any time
enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all benefits of this Indenture equally and
proportionately with any and all other Notes 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 Notes.
Section 3.8 Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved.
Interest on any Note which is payable, and is punctually paid or duly provided for, on the
Stated Maturity of such interest shall be paid to the Person in whose name the Note (or any
Predecessor Notes) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such
interest payment.
Any interest on any Note which is payable, but is not punctually paid or duly provided for, on
the Stated Maturity of such interest, and interest on such defaulted interest at the then
applicable interest rate borne by the Notes, to the extent lawful (such defaulted interest and
interest thereon herein collectively called “Defaulted Interest”), shall forthwith cease to
be payable to the Holder on the Regular Record Date, and such Defaulted Interest may be paid by the
Company, at its election in each case, as provided in Subsection (a) or (b) below:
(a) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest to the Persons in whose
names the Notes (or an relevant Predecessor Notes) are registered at the close of business on a
Special Record Date for the Payment of such Defaulted Interest, which shall be
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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 Note and the date (not less than 30 days after
such notice) of the proposed payment (the “Special Payment Date”), 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 Special Payment Date, such money when deposited to be held in
trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted Interest as provided in this
Subsection. Thereupon the Trustee shall fix a Special Record Date for the payment of such
Defaulted Interest which shall be not more than 15 days and not less than 10 days prior to the date
of the Special Payment Date 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 in writing of such
Special Record Date. In the name and at the expense of the Company, the Trustee shall cause notice
of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor to be
mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder at its address as it appears in the Note
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 and Special Payment Date therefor having
been so mailed, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Persons in whose names the Notes are
registered on such Special Record Date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the following
Subsection (b).
(b) 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 the Notes may be listed, and
upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, if, after written notice given by the Company
to the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to this Subsection, such payment shall be deemed
practicable by the Trustee.
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section 3.8, each Note delivered under
this Indenture upon registration of transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of any other Note
shall carry the rights to interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such
other Note.
Section 3.9 CUSIP Numbers.
The Company in issuing the Notes may use “CUSIP” numbers (if then generally in use), and the
Company, or the Trustee on behalf of the Company, shall use CUSIP numbers in notices of redemption
or exchange as a convenience to Holders; provided, however, that any such notice shall state that
no representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Notes or
as contained in any notice of redemption or exchange and that reliance may be placed only on the
other identification numbers printed on the Notes; and provided further, however, that failure to
use CUSIP numbers in any notice of redemption or exchange shall not affect the validity or
sufficiency of such notice.
Section 3.10 Persons Deemed Owners.
Prior to due presentment of a Note for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and
any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name any Note is registered
as the owner of such Note for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of,
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premium, if any and (subject to Section 3.8) interest on, such Note and for all other
purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Note is overdue, and none of the Company, the Trustee nor
any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
Section 3.11 Cancellation.
All Notes surrendered for payment, purchase, redemption, registration of transfer or exchange
shall 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 Notes previously
authenticated and delivered hereunder which the Company may have acquired in any manner whatsoever,
and all Notes so delivered shall be promptly canceled by the Trustee. No Notes shall be
authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Notes canceled as provided in this Section
3.11, except as expressly permitted by this Indenture. If requested by the Company, all
canceled Notes held by the Trustee shall be returned to the Company. The Trustee shall provide the
Company a list of all Notes that have been canceled from time to time as requested by the Company.
Section 3.12 Computation of Interest.
Interest on the Notes shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year comprised of twelve
30-day months.
ARTICLE IV
DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE
Section 4.1 Company’s Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.
The Company may, at its option by Board Resolution, at any time, with respect to the Notes,
elect to have either Section 4.2 or Section 4.3 be applied to all of the
Outstanding Notes (the “Defeased Notes”), upon compliance with the conditions set forth
below in this Article IV.
Section 4.2 Defeasance and Discharge.
Upon the Company’s exercise under Section 4.1 of the option applicable to this
Section 4.2, the Company and any other obligor on the Notes, if any, shall be deemed to
have been discharged from its obligations with respect to the Defeased Notes on the date the
conditions set forth in Section 4.4 below are satisfied (hereinafter,
“defeasance”). For this purpose, such defeasance means that the Company and any other
obligor on the Notes shall be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire Indebtedness
represented by the Defeased Notes, which shall thereafter be deemed to be “Outstanding” only for
the purposes of Section 4.5 and the other Sections of this Indenture referred to in (a) and
(b) below, and to have satisfied all its other obligations under such Notes, this Indenture and the
Security Documents insofar as such Notes are concerned (and the Trustee, at the expense of the
Company and upon Company Request, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the same), except
for the following which shall survive until otherwise terminated or discharged hereunder: (a) the
rights of Holders of Defeased Notes to receive, solely from the trust fund described in Section
4.4 and as more fully set forth in such Section, payments in respect of the principal of,
premium, if any, and
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interest on, such Notes, when such payments are due, (b) the Company’s obligations with
respect to such Defeased Notes under Sections 3.4, 3.5, 3.8, 10.2 and 10.3, (c) the
rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the Trustee hereunder, including, without
limitation, the Trustee’s rights under Section 6.7, and (d) this Article IV.
Subject to compliance with this Article IV, the Company may exercise its option under this
Section 4.2 notwithstanding the prior exercise of its option under Section 4.3 with
respect to the Notes.
Section 4.3 Covenant Defeasance.
Upon the Company’s exercise under Section 4.1 of the option applicable to this
Section 4.3, the Company and any other obligor on the Notes shall be released from its
obligations under any covenant or provision contained or referred to in Sections 10.4
through 10.19, inclusive, and the provisions of Article VIII with respect to
the Defeased Notes on and after the date the conditions set forth in Section 4.4 below are
satisfied (hereinafter, “covenant defeasance”), and the Defeased Notes shall thereafter be
deemed to be not “Outstanding” for the purposes of any direction, waiver, consent or declaration or
Act of Holders (and the consequences of any thereof) in connection with such covenants, but shall
continue to be deemed “Outstanding” for all other purposes hereunder. For this purpose, such
covenant defeasance means that, with respect to the Defeased Notes, the Company and any other
obligor on the Notes may omit to comply with and shall have no liability in respect of any term,
condition or limitation set forth in any such Section or Article, whether directly or indirectly,
by reason of any reference elsewhere herein to any such Section or Article or by reason of any
reference in any such Section or Article to any other provision herein or in any other document and
such omission to comply shall not constitute a Default or an Event of Default under Sections
5.1(c), (d), (e) or (f), but, except as specified in this Indenture, the remainder of
this Indenture and such Defeased Notes shall be unaffected thereby. In the event covenant
defeasance occurs, the Events of Default specified in Sections 5.1(e) and (f) will
no longer constitute Events of Default with respect to the Notes.
Section 4.4 Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.
The following shall be the conditions to application of either Section 4.2 or
Section 4.3 to the Notes to be defeased:
(1) The Company shall irrevocably have deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as
trust funds in trust for the purpose of making the following payments, specifically pledged as
security for, and dedicated solely to, the benefit of the Holders of such Notes, (a) United States
dollars in an amount, (b) U.S. Government Obligations which through the scheduled payment of
principal and interest in respect thereof in accordance with their terms and with no further
reinvestment will provide, not later than one day before the due date of any payment, money in an
amount, or (c) a combination thereof, in such amounts as will be sufficient, in the opinion of a
nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants or a nationally recognized investment
banking firm expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay and
discharge, and which shall be applied by the Trustee to pay and discharge, the principal of,
premium, if any, and interest on, the Notes to be defeased, on the Stated Maturity of such
principal or interest (or on any date after the Issue Date (such date being referred to as the
“Defeasance Redemption Date”) if at or prior to electing to exercise either its
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option applicable to Section 4.2 or its option applicable to Section 4.3, the
Company has delivered to the Trustee an irrevocable notice to redeem all of the Outstanding Notes
on the Defeasance Redemption Date). For this purpose, “U.S. Government Obligations” means
securities that are (i) direct obligations of the United States of America for the timely payment
of which its full faith and credit is pledged or (ii) obligations of a Person controlled or
supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality of the United States of America the timely
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, and shall also include a depository receipt issued by a bank (as defined in Section
3(a)(2) of the Securities Act), as custodian with respect to any such U.S. Government Obligation or
a specific payment of principal of or interest on any such U.S. Government Obligation held by such
custodian for the account of the holder of such depository receipt, provided that (except as
required by law) such custodian is not authorized to make any deduction from the amount payable to
the holder of such depository receipt from any amount received by the custodian in respect of the
U.S. Government Obligation or the specific payment of principal of or interest on the U.S.
Government Obligation evidenced by such depository receipt;
(2) In the case of an election under Section 4.2, the Company shall have delivered to
the Trustee an Opinion of Independent Counsel in the United States stating that (A) the Company has
received from, or there has been published by, the Internal Revenue Service a ruling or (B) since
the Issue Date, 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 Independent Counsel in the United States shall
confirm that, the Holders of the Outstanding Notes 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;
(3) In the case of an election under Section 4.3, the Company shall have delivered to
the Trustee an Opinion of Independent Counsel in the United States to the effect that the Holders
of the Outstanding Notes 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;
(4) No Default or Event of Default (other than a Default or Event of Default resulting from
the borrowing of funds to be applied to such deposit) shall have occurred and be continuing on the
date of such deposit or insofar as Section 5.1(g) or (h) is concerned, at any time
during the period ending on the 91st day after the date of deposit (it being understood that this
condition shall not be deemed satisfied until the expiration of such period);
(5) Such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall not cause the Trustee for the Notes to have a
conflicting interest for purposes of the Trust Indenture Act with respect to any other securities
of the Company;
(6) Such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall not result in a breach or violation of, or
constitute a default under, (A) this Indenture or (B) any other agreement or instrument to which
the Company or any Significant Subsidiary is a party or by which the Company or any
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Significant
Subsidiary is bound, if such breach, violation, or default thereof would have a material adverse
effect on the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole;
(7) Such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall not result in the trust arising from such
deposit constituting an investment company within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of
1940, as amended, unless such trust shall be registered under such Act or exempt from registration
thereunder;
(8) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Independent Counsel in the
United States to the effect that after the 91st day following the deposit, the trust funds will not
be subject to avoidance under Xxxxxxx 000 xx xxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Bankruptcy Code (or any successor
provision thereto) and related judicial decisions;
(9) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate stating that the
deposit was not made by the Company with the intent of preferring the holders of the Notes over the
other creditors of the Company with the intent of defeating, hindering, delaying or defrauding
creditors of the Company or others;
(10) No event or condition shall exist that would prevent the Company from making payments of
the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Notes on the date of such deposit or at any
time ending on the 91st day after the date of such deposit; and
(11) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion
of Independent Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent provided for relating to either
the defeasance under Section 4.2 or the covenant defeasance under Section 4.3 (as
the case may be) have been complied with.
Opinions of Counsel or Opinions of Independent Counsel required to be delivered under this
Section shall be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee and may have
qualifications customary for opinions of the type required and counsel delivering such opinions may
rely on certificates of the Company or government or other officials customary for opinions of the
type required, which certificates shall be limited as to matters of fact, including that various
financial covenants have been complied with.
Section 4.5 Deposited Money and U.S. Government Obligations to Be Held in Trust; Other
Miscellaneous Provisions.
Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 10.3, all United States
dollars and U.S. Government Obligations (including the proceeds thereof) deposited with the Trustee
pursuant to Section 4.4 in respect of the Defeased Notes shall be held in trust and applied
by the Trustee, in accordance with the provisions of such Notes and this Indenture, to the payment,
either directly or through any Paying Agent (excluding the Company or any of its Affiliates acting
as Paying Agent), as the Trustee may determine, to the Holders of such Notes of all sums due and to
become due thereon in respect of principal, premium, if any, and interest, but such money need not
be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.
The Company shall pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or other charge imposed
on or assessed against the U.S. Government Obligations deposited pursuant to
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Section 4.4 or
the principal and interest received in respect thereof other than any such tax, fee or other charge
which by law is imposed, assessed or for the account of the Holders of the Defeased Notes.
Anything in this Article IV to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall deliver
or pay to the Company from time to time upon Company Request any United States dollars or U.S.
Government Obligations held by it as provided in Section 4.4 which, in the opinion of a
nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification
thereof delivered to the Trustee, are in excess of the amount thereof which would then be required
to be deposited to effect defeasance or covenant defeasance.
Section 4.6 Reinstatement.
If the Trustee or Paying Agent is unable to apply any United States dollars or U.S. Government
Obligations in accordance with Section 4.2 or 4.3, as the case may be, by reason of
any order or judgment of any court or governmental authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise
prohibiting such application, then the Company’s obligations under this Indenture, the Security
Documents and the Notes shall be revived and reinstated, with present and prospective effect, as
though no deposit had occurred pursuant to Section 4.2 or 4.3, as the case may be,
until such time as the Trustee or Paying Agent is permitted to apply all such United States dollars
or U.S. Government Obligations in accordance with Section 4.2 or 4.3, as the case
may be; provided, however, that if the Company makes any payment to the Trustee or Paying Agent of
principal of, premium, if any, or interest on any Note following the reinstatement of its
obligations, the Trustee or Paying Agent shall promptly pay any such amount to the Holders of the
Notes and the Company shall be subrogated to the rights of the Holders of such Notes to receive
such payment from the United States dollars and U.S. Government Obligations held by the Trustee or
Paying Agent.
ARTICLE V
REMEDIES
Section 5.1 Events of Default.
“Event of Default,” wherever used herein, means any one of the following events
(whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or
be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any
order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body):
(a) there shall be a default in the payment of any interest on any Note when it becomes due
and payable, and such default shall continue for a period of 30 days;
(b) there shall be a default in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any, on) any
Note at its Maturity (upon acceleration, optional or mandatory redemption, required repurchase or
otherwise);
(c) there shall be a default in the performance, or breach, of any covenant or agreement of
the Company under this Indenture (other than a default in the performance, or
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breach, of a covenant
or agreement which is specifically dealt with in clauses (a), (b) or (d) of this Section
5.1) and such default or breach shall continue for a period of 30 days after written notice has
been given, by certified mail, (x) to the Company by the Trustee or (y) to the Company and the
Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Notes,
which notice shall specify that it is a “notice of default” and shall demand that such a default be
remedied; provided, that, the Company’s failure to furnish to the Holders of the
Notes the Audited 2007 Financials pursuant to Section 7.4(a)(i), shall not be an Event of
Default unless the Company does not provide such information on or before June 30, 2008, and shall
then be an Event of Default notwithstanding the failure of a “notice of default” being delivered to
the Company;
(d) (i) there shall be a default in the performance or breach of the provisions of Article
VIII; (ii) the Company shall have failed to make or consummate an Offer required in accordance
with the provisions of Section 10.12; or (iii) the Company shall have failed to make or
consummate a Change of Control Offer required in accordance with the provisions of Section
10.13;
(e) one or more defaults shall have occurred under any of the agreements, indentures or
instruments under which the Company or any Subsidiary then has outstanding Indebtedness in excess
of $10,000,000, individually or in the aggregate, and either (a) such default results from the
failure to pay principal of or premium, if any, or interest on such Indebtedness after the
expiration of any grace period provided by the documents governing such Indebtedness, which default
has not been cured, or (b) such default or defaults have resulted in the acceleration of the
maturity of such Indebtedness;
(f) one or more judgments, orders or decrees for the payment of money in excess of $10,000,000
either individually or in the aggregate, shall be rendered against the Company or any Subsidiary or
any of their respective properties and shall not be discharged and either (a) any creditor shall
have commenced an enforcement proceeding upon such judgment, order or decree or (b) there shall
have been a period of 60 consecutive days during which a stay of enforcement of such judgment,
order or decree, by reason of an appeal or otherwise, shall not be in effect; provided that the
amount of such money judgment, order or decree shall be calculated net of any insurance coverage
that the Company has determined in good faith is available in whole or in part with respect to such
money judgment, order or decree;
(g) there shall have been the entry by a court of competent jurisdiction of (i) a decree or
order for relief in respect of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary in an involuntary case or
proceeding under any applicable Bankruptcy Law or (ii) a decree or order adjudging the Company or
any Significant Subsidiary bankrupt or insolvent, or seeking reorganization, arrangement,
adjustment or composition of or in respect of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary under any
applicable federal or state law, or appointing a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee,
trustee, sequestrator (or other similar official) of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary or
of any substantial part of their respective properties, or ordering the winding up or liquidation
of their respective affairs, and any such decree or order for relief shall continue to be in
effect, or any such other decree or order shall be unstayed and in effect for a period of 60
consecutive days;
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(h) (1) the Company or any Significant Subsidiary commences a voluntary case or proceeding
under any applicable Bankruptcy Law or any other case or proceeding to be adjudicated bankrupt or
insolvent, (2) the Company or any Significant Subsidiary consents to the entry of a decree or order
for relief in respect of the Company or such Significant Subsidiary in an involuntary case or
proceeding under any applicable Bankruptcy Law or to the commencement of any bankruptcy or
insolvency case or proceeding against it, (3) the Company or any Significant Subsidiary files a
petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization or relief under any applicable federal or
state law, (4) the Company or any Significant Subsidiary (A) consents to the filing of such
petition or the appointment of, or taking possession by, a custodian, receiver, liquidator,
assignee, trustee, sequestrator or similar official of the Company or such Significant Subsidiary
or of any substantial part of their respective properties, (B) makes
an assignment for the benefit of creditors or (C) admits in writing its inability to pay its
debts generally as they become due, or (5) the Company or any Significant Subsidiary takes any
corporate action in furtherance of any such actions in this paragraph (h);
(i) any Guarantee of a Significant Subsidiary ceases to be in full force and effect or any
Guarantee of a Significant Subsidiary is declared to be null and void and unenforceable or any
Guarantee of a Significant Subsidiary is found to be invalid or any Guarantor that is a Significant
Subsidiary denies its liability in writing under its Guarantee (in each case other than by reason
of release of a Guarantor in accordance with the terms of this Indenture);
(j) the Liens created by the Security Documents shall at any time not constitute valid and
perfected Liens on the Collateral intended to be covered thereby (to the extent perfection by
filing, registration, recordation or possession is required herein or therein) in favor of the
Collateral Agent, free and clear of all other Liens (other than Permitted Liens), or, except for
expiration in accordance with its terms or amendment, modification, waiver, termination or release
in accordance with the terms or amendment, modification, waiver, termination or release in
accordance with the terms of this Indenture, any of the Security Documents shall for whatever
reason be terminated or cease to be in full force and effect, if in either case, such default
continues for 15 days after (i) written notice to the Company by the Trustee or to the Company and
the Trustee by Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of outstanding Notes, or (ii)
the enforceability thereof shall be contested by the Company or any Guarantor; or
(k) failure of the Company to make, when due, any transfer, delivery, pledge, assignment or
grant of Collateral required to be made by it and such failure continues unremedied for 10 Business
Days after notice of such failure is given to the Company by the Trustee or to the Company and the
Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Notes.
Section 5.2 Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment.
If an Event of Default (other than an Event of Default specified in Sections 5.1(g)
and (h) with respect to the Company) shall occur and be continuing with respect to this
Indenture, the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the
Notes then Outstanding may, and the Trustee at the request of such Holders shall, declare all
unpaid principal of, premium, if any, and accrued interest on all Notes to be due and payable, by a
notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by the Holders of the Notes) and upon
any
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such declaration, such principal, premium, if any, and interest shall become due and payable
immediately. If an Event of Default specified in clause (g) or (h) of Section 5.1 occurs
with respect to the Company and is continuing, then all the Notes shall ipso facto become and be
due and payable immediately in an amount equal to the principal amount of the Notes, together with
accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the date the Notes become due and payable, without any
declaration or other act on the part of the Trustee or any Holder. Thereupon, the Trustee may, at
its discretion, proceed to protect and enforce the rights of the Holders of the Notes by
appropriate judiciary proceedings.
After such declaration of acceleration with respect to the Notes, but 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 aggregate principal amount of the Notes Outstanding, by
written notice to the Company and the Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its
consequences if:
(a) the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay
(i) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee under this Indenture and the reasonable
compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel,
(ii) all overdue interest on all Outstanding Notes,
(iii) the principal of and premium, if any, on any Outstanding Notes which have become
due otherwise than by such declaration of acceleration and interest thereon at the rate
borne by the Notes, and
(iv) to the extent that payment of such interest is lawful, interest upon overdue
interest at the rate borne by the Notes; and
(b) all Events of Default, other than the nonpayment of principal of the Notes which have
become due solely by such declaration of acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in
Section 5.13. No such rescission shall affect any subsequent Default or impair any right
consequent thereon.
Section 5.3 Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee.
The Company covenants that if (a) default is made in the payment of any interest on any Note
when such interest becomes due and payable and such default continues for a period of 30 days, or
(b) default is made in the payment of the principal of, premium, if any, on any Note at the Stated
Maturity thereof, the Company will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the
holders of such Notes, the whole amount then due and payable on such Notes for principal and
premium, if any, and interest, with interest upon the overdue principal and premium, if any, and,
to the extent that payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable, upon overdue installments
of interest, at the rate borne by the Notes; 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.
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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 on the Notes and collect the moneys
adjudged or decreed to be payable in the manner provided by law out of the property of the Company
or any other obligor on the Notes, wherever situated.
If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to
protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the Holders under this Indenture by such
appropriate private or judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most effectual to protect and
enforce such rights, subject however to Section 5.12. No recovery of any such judgment
upon any property of the Company shall affect or impair any rights, powers or remedies of the
Trustee or the Holders.
Section 5.4 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 on the Notes or the property of the Company or of such other obligor
or their creditors, the Trustee (irrespective of whether the principal of the Notes 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 proceeding or otherwise, (a) 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 Notes and to file such other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable
in order to have the claims of the Trustee (including any claim for the reasonable compensation,
expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel) and of the Holders
allowed in such judicial proceeding, and (b) to collect and receive any moneys or other property
payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same; and any custodian, receiver,
assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or similar official in any such judicial proceeding is
hereby authorized by each Holder to make such payments to the Trustee and, in the event that the
Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay the Trustee
any amount due it for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the
Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 6.7.
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent to
or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or
composition affecting the Notes or the rights of any Holder thereof, or to authorize the Trustee to
vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding.
Section 5.5 Trustee May Enforce Claims without Possession of Notes.
All rights of action and claims under this Indenture, the Notes or the Guarantees may be
prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of the Notes or the production
thereof in any proceeding relating thereto, and any such proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall
be brought in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of
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judgment shall,
after provision for the payment of the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and
advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the
Notes in respect of which such judgment has been recovered.
Section 5.6 Application of Money Collected.
Any money collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article or otherwise on behalf of the
Holders or the Trustee pursuant to this Article or through any proceeding or any arrangement or
restructuring in anticipation or in lieu of any proceeding contemplated by this Article shall be
applied, subject to applicable law and the Intercreditor Agreement, 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, premium, if any, or interest, upon presentation of the Notes 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 6.7;
SECOND: To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid upon the Notes for
principal, 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 Notes for principal, premium, if any, and
interest; and
THIRD: The balance, if any, to the Person or Persons entitled thereto, including the
Company and the Guarantors, provided that all sums due and owing to the Holders and the
Trustee have been paid in full as required by this Indenture.
Section 5.7 Limitation on Suits.
No Holder of any Notes shall have any right to institute any proceeding, judicial or
otherwise, with respect to this Indenture or the Notes, or for the appointment of a receiver or
trustee, or for any other remedy hereunder, unless:
(a) such Holder has previously given written notice to the Trustee of a continuing Event of
Default;
(b) the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Notes 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;
(c) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee an indemnity satisfactory to the
Trustee against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred in compliance with such request;
(d) the Trustee for 30 days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer (and if
requested, provision) of indemnity has failed to institute any such proceeding; and
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(e) no direction inconsistent with such written request has been given to the Trustee during
such 30-day period by the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Notes;
it being understood and intended that no one or more Holders shall have any right in any manner
whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or
prejudice the rights of any other Holders, or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference
over any other Holders or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner provided
in this Indenture and for the equal and ratable benefit of all the Holders.
Section 5.8 Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and
Interest.
Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the Holder of any Note shall have the
right based on the terms stated herein, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive payment of
the principal of, premium, if any, and (subject to Section 3.8) interest on such Note on
the respective Stated Maturities expressed in such Note (or, in the case of redemption or
repurchase, on the Redemption Date or the repurchase date) and to institute suit for the
enforcement of any such payment, and such rights shall not be impaired without the consent of such
Holder, except that no Holder shall have the right to institute any such suit, if and to the extent
that the institution or prosecution thereof or the entry of judgment therein would under applicable
law result in the surrender, impairment, waiver, or loss of the Liens of the Security Documents
upon any property or assets subject to the Liens.
Section 5.9 Restoration of Rights and Remedies.
If the Trustee or any Holder has instituted any proceeding to enforce any right or remedy
under this Indenture and such proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or has
been determined adversely to the Trustee or to such Holder, then and in every such case the
Company, any other obligor on the Notes, the Trustee and the Holders shall, subject to any
determination in such proceeding, be restored severally and respectively to their former positions
hereunder, and thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee and the Holders shall continue as
though no such proceeding had been instituted.
Section 5.10 Rights and Remedies Cumulative.
Except as provided in Section 3.7, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or
reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy,
and every right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to
every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or
otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not
prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.
Section 5.11 Delay or Omission Not Waiver.
No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any Note 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
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this Article or by law to the Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as
often as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders, as the case may be.
Section 5.12 Control by Holders.
The Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Notes
shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for
exercising any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred on the
Trustee, provided that
(a) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or with this Indenture
(including, without limitation, Section 5.7) or expose the Trustee to personal liability,
or be unduly prejudicial to Holders not joining therein; and
(b) subject to the provisions of Section 315 of the Trust Indenture Act, the Trustee may take
any other action deemed proper by the Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction.
Section 5.13 Waiver of Past Defaults.
The Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Notes
may on behalf of the Holders of all Outstanding Notes waive any past Default hereunder and its
consequences, except a Default
(a) in the payment of the principal of, premium, if any, or interest on any Note; or
(b) in respect of a covenant or a provision hereof which under this Indenture cannot be
modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each Note Outstanding affected by such
modification or amendment.
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 5.14 Undertaking for Costs.
All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Note by his acceptance thereof
shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in its discretion require, in any suit for the
enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any
action taken, suffered or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit
of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that such court may in its discretion assess
reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, against any party litigant in such suit,
having 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 Holder, or group of Holders, holding in the aggregate more than 10%
in principal amount of the Outstanding Notes, or to any suit instituted by any Holder for the
enforcement of the payment of the principal of, premium, if any, or interest on, any Note on or
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after the respective Stated Maturities expressed in such Note (or, in the case of redemption, on or
after the Redemption Date).
Section 5.15 Waiver of Stay, Extension or Usury Laws.
Each of the Company and any other obligor on the Notes 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 or any usury or other law
wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, which would prohibit or forgive the
Company from paying all or any portion of the principal of, premium, if any, or interest on the
Notes contemplated herein or in the Notes or which may affect the covenants or the performance of
this Indenture; and each of the Company and any other obligor on the Notes (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.
Section 5.16 Remedies Subject to Applicable Law.
All rights, remedies and powers provided by this Article V may be exercised only to
the extent that the exercise thereof does not violate any applicable provision of law, and all the
provisions of this Indenture are intended to be subject to all applicable mandatory provisions of
law which may be controlling and to be limited to the extent necessary so that they will not render
this Indenture invalid, unenforceable or not entitled to be recorded, registered or filed under the
provisions of any applicable law.
ARTICLE VI
THE TRUSTEE
Section 6.1 Duties of Trustee.
Subject to the provisions of Trust Indenture Act Sections 315(a) through 315(d):
(a) if a Default or an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Trustee shall
exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture and use the same degree of
care and skill in its exercise thereof as a prudent person would exercise or use under the
circumstances in the conduct of his own affairs;
(b) except during the continuance of a Default or an Event of Default:
(1) the Trustee need perform only those duties as are specifically set forth in this
Indenture and no covenants or obligations shall be implied in this Indenture that are
adverse to the Trustee; and
(2) in the absence of bad faith or willful misconduct on its part, the Trustee may
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
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the requirements of this Indenture. However, the Trustee shall examine the certificates and
opinions to determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of this Indenture;
(c) the Trustee may not be relieved from liability for its own negligent action, its own
negligent failure to act, or its own willful misconduct, except that:
(1) this Subsection (c) does not limit the effect of Subsection (b) of this Section
6.1;
(2) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by a
Responsible Officer, unless it is proved that the Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the
pertinent facts; and
(3) the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action it takes or omits to
take in good faith, in accordance with a direction of the Holders of a majority in principal
amount of Outstanding Notes relating to the time, method and place of conducting any
proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power
confirmed upon the Trustee under this Indenture;
(d) 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;
(e) whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of this Indenture that in
any way relates to the Trustee is subject to Subsections (a), (b), (c) and (d) of this Section
6.1; and
(f) the Trustee shall not be liable for interest on any money or assets received by it except
as the Trustee may agree with the Company. Assets held in trust by the Trustee need not be
segregated from other assets except to the extent required by law.
Section 6.2 Notice of Defaults.
Within 90 days after a Responsible Officer of the Trustee receives notice of the occurrence of
any Default, the Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Holders and any other Persons entitled to
receive reports pursuant to Section 313(c) of the Trust Indenture Act, as their names and addresses
appear in the Note 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, premium, if any, or interest on any Note, the Trustee shall be
protected in withholding such notice if and so long as a trust committee of Responsible Officers of
the Trustee in good faith determines that the withholding of such notice is in the interest of the
Holders.
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Section 6.3 Certain Rights of Trustee.
Subject to the provisions of Section 6.1 hereof and Trust Indenture Act Sections
315(a) through 315(d):
(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, note, other evidence of Indebtedness or other paper or document
believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties;
(b) 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) the Trustee may consult with counsel of its selection and any 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 in
accordance with such advice or Opinion of Counsel;
(d) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in
it by this Indenture at the request or direction of any of the Holders pursuant to this Indenture,
unless such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee security or indemnity satisfactory to the
Trustee against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred therein or thereby in
compliance with such request or direction;
(e) the Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken or omitted by it in good faith and
believed by it to be authorized or within the discretion, rights or powers conferred upon it by
this Indenture other than any liabilities arising out of the negligence, bad faith or willful
misconduct of the Trustee;
(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, approval, appraisal, bond, debenture, note, coupon, security or other paper or
document unless requested in writing to do so by the Holders of not less than a majority in
aggregate principal amount of the Notes then Outstanding; provided that, if the payment within a
reasonable time to the Trustee of the costs, expenses or liabilities likely to be incurred by it in
the making of such investigation is, in the opinion of the Trustee, not reasonably assured to the
Trustee by the security afforded to it by the terms of this Indenture, the Trustee may require
reasonable indemnity against such expenses or liabilities as a condition to proceeding; the
reasonable expenses of every such investigation so requested by the Holders of not less than 25% in
aggregate principal amount of the Notes Outstanding shall be paid by the Company or, if paid by the
Trustee or any predecessor Trustee, shall be repaid by the Company upon demand; provided, further,
the Trustee in its discretion may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or
matters as it may deem 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;
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(g) 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; and
(h) 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.
(i) notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the Trustee shall have no duties to
review any Officers’ Certificates, Board Resolutions, Opinions of Counsel, financials or other
documents furnished to it by the Company for purposes of determining compliance with any provisions
of this Indenture.
(j) the Trustee shall have no duty to inquire as to the performance of the Company’s covenants
in Article X. In addition, the Trustee shall not be deemed to have knowledge of any
Default or Event of Default except (i) any Event of Default occurring pursuant to Sections
5.1(a), 5.1(b) and 10.1 or (ii) any Default or Event of Default to which the
Trustee shall have received written notification or obtained actual knowledge.
Section 6.4 Trustee Not Responsible for Recitals, Dispositions of Notes or Application
of Proceeds Thereof.
The recitals contained herein and in the Notes, except the Trustee’s 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 Notes, except that the Trustee represents that it is
duly authorized to execute and deliver this Indenture, authenticate the Notes and perform its
obligations hereunder and that the statements made by it in any Statement of Eligibility and
Qualification on Form T-1 supplied to the Company are true and accurate subject to the
qualifications set forth therein. The Trustee shall not be accountable for the use or application
by the Company of Notes or the proceeds thereof nor shall the Trustee be responsible for any
statement in any registration statement for the Notes under the Securities Act or responsible for
the determination as to which beneficial owners are entitled to receive notices hereunder.
Section 6.5 Trustee and Agents May Hold Notes; Collections; etc.
The Trustee, any Paying Agent, Note Registrar or any other agent of the Company, in its
individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Notes, with the same rights it
would have if it were not the Trustee, Paying Agent, Note Registrar or such other agent and,
subject to Sections 6.8 and 6.13 hereof and Trust Indenture Act Sections 310 and
311, may otherwise deal with the Company and receive, collect, hold and retain collections from the
Company with the same rights it would have if it were not the Trustee, Paying Agent, Note Registrar
or such other agent.
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Section 6.6 Money Held in Trust.
All moneys received by the Trustee shall, until used or applied as herein provided, be held in
trust for the purposes for which they were received, but need not be segregated from other funds
except to the extent required by mandatory provisions of law. Except for funds or securities
deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Article IV, the Trustee shall, upon request by the
Company, invest all moneys received by the Trustee, until used or applied as herein provided, in
Temporary Cash Investments in accordance with the directions of the Company. The Trustee shall be
under no liability to the Company for interest on any money received by it hereunder except as
otherwise agreed in writing with the Company.
Section 6.7 Compensation and Indemnification of Trustee and Its Prior Claim.
The Company covenants and agrees to pay to the Trustee from time to time, and the Trustee
shall be entitled to, such compensation as the parties shall agree in writing from time to time for
all services rendered by it hereunder (which compensation shall not be limited by any provision of
law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust) and the Company covenants and
agrees to pay or reimburse the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee upon its request for all
reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by or on behalf of the Trustee in
accordance with any of the provisions of this Indenture (including the reasonable compensation and
the expenses and disbursements of its counsel and of all agents and other persons not regularly in
its employ) except any such expense, disbursement or advance as may arise from its negligence, bad
faith or willful misconduct. The Company also covenants and agrees to indemnify the Trustee and
each predecessor Trustee for, and to hold it harmless
against, any claim, loss, liability, tax, assessment or other governmental charge (other than
taxes applicable to the Trustee’s compensation hereunder) or expense incurred without negligence,
bad faith or willful misconduct on its part, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or
administration of this Indenture or the trusts hereunder and its duties hereunder, including
enforcement of this Section 6.7 and also including any liability which the Trustee may
incur as a result of failure to withhold, pay or report any tax, assessment or other governmental
charge, and the costs and expenses of defending itself against or investigating any claim or
liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder.
The obligations of the Company under this Section 6.7 to compensate and indemnify the
Trustee and each predecessor Trustee and to pay or reimburse the Trustee and each predecessor
Trustee for reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances shall constitute an additional
obligation hereunder and shall survive the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture and the
resignation or removal of the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee.
Section 6.8 Conflicting Interests.
The Trustee shall comply with the provisions of Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act.
Section 6.9 Trustee Eligibility.
There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder which shall be eligible to act as trustee
under Trust Indenture Act Section 310(a)(1) and (5) and which shall have a combined capital and
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surplus of at least $100,000,000 or is a member of a bank holding company with a combined capital
and surplus of at least $100,000,000, to the extent there is an institution eligible and willing to
serve. If the Trustee does not have a Corporate Trust Office in The City of New York, the Trustee
may appoint an agent in The City of New York reasonably acceptable to the Company to conduct any
activities which the Trustee may be required under this Indenture to conduct in The City of New
York. If such Trustee publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the
requirements of federal, state, territorial or District of Columbia supervising or examining
authority, then for the purposes of this Section 6.9, the combined capital and surplus of
such corporation shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most
recent report of condition so published. If at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in
accordance with the provisions of this Section 6.9, the Trustee shall resign immediately in
the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article.
Section 6.10 Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor Trustee.
(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 6.11.
(b) The Trustee, or any trustee or trustees hereafter appointed, may at any time, upon 30 days
prior or written notice, resign by giving written notice thereof to the Company. Upon receiving
such notice or resignation, the Company shall promptly appoint a successor trustee by written
instrument executed by authority of the Board of Directors, a copy of which shall be delivered to
the resigning Trustee and a copy to the successor trustee. 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, or any Holder who has been a bona fide
Holder of a Note for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly
situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor trustee.
Such court may thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it may deem proper, appoint and prescribe a
successor trustee.
(c) The Trustee may be removed at any time for any cause or for no cause by an Act of the
Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Notes,
delivered to the Trustee and to the Company.
(d) If at any time:
(1) the Trustee shall fail to comply with the provisions of Trust Indenture Act Section
310(b) after written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder who has been a bona
fide Holder of a Note for at least six months,
(2) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 6.9 and shall fail to
resign after written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder who has been a bona
fide Holder of a Note for at least six months, or
(3) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be adjudged a bankrupt or
insolvent, or a receiver of the Trustee or of its property shall be appointed or
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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 case, (i) the Company by a Board Resolution may remove the Trustee, or (ii) subject to
Section 5.14, the Holder of any Note who has been a bona fide Holder of a Note for at least
six months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of
competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee and the appointment of a successor trustee.
Such court may thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it may deem proper and prescribe, remove
the Trustee and appoint a successor trustee.
(e) If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of acting, or if a vacancy
shall occur in the office of Trustee for any cause, the Company, by a Board Resolution, shall
promptly appoint a successor trustee and shall comply with the applicable requirements of
Section 6.11. If, within 60 days after such resignation, removal or incapability, or the
occurrence of such vacancy, the Company has not appointed a successor Trustee, a successor trustee
shall be appointed by the Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding
Notes delivered to the Company and the retiring Trustee. Such successor trustee so appointed shall
forthwith upon its acceptance of such appointment become the successor trustee and supersede the
successor trustee appointed by the Company. If no successor trustee shall have been so
appointed by the Company or the Holders of the Notes and accepted appointment in the manner
hereinafter provided, the Trustee or the Holder of any Note who has been a bona fide Holder for at
least six months may, subject to Section 5.14, on behalf of himself and all others
similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor
trustee.
(f) The Company shall give notice of each resignation and each removal of the Trustee and each
appointment of a successor trustee by mailing written notice of such event by first-class mail,
postage prepaid, to the Holders of Notes as their names and addresses appear in the Note Register.
Each notice shall include the name of the successor trustee and the address of its Corporate Trust
Office or agent hereunder.
Section 6.11 Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.
Every successor trustee appointed hereunder shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the
Company and to the retiring Trustee an instrument accepting such appointment, and thereupon the
resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective and such successor trustee,
without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers,
trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee as if originally named as Trustee hereunder; but,
nevertheless, on the written request of the Company or the successor trustee, upon payment of its
charges pursuant to Section 6.7 then unpaid, such retiring Trustee shall pay over to the
successor trustee all moneys at the time held by it hereunder and shall execute and deliver an
instrument transferring to such successor trustee all such rights, powers, duties and obligations.
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 and
powers.
No successor trustee with respect to the Notes shall accept appointment as provided in this
Section 6.11 unless at the time of such acceptance such successor trustee shall be eligible
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act as trustee under the provisions of Trust Indenture Act Section 310(a) and this Article
VI and shall have a combined capital and surplus of at least $100,000,000 and have a Corporate
Trust Office or an agent selected in accordance with Section 6.9.
Upon acceptance of appointment by any successor trustee as provided in this Section
6.11, the Company shall give notice thereof to the Holders of the Notes, by mailing such notice
to such Holders at their addresses as they shall appear on the Note Register. If the acceptance of
appointment is substantially contemporaneous with the appointment, then the notice called for by
the preceding sentence may be combined with the notice called for by Section 6.10. If the
Company fails to give such notice within 10 days after acceptance of appointment by the successor
trustee, the successor trustee shall cause such notice to be given at the expense of the Company.
Section 6.12 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 (including the trust created by this Indenture) shall be
the successor of the Trustee hereunder, provided that such corporation shall be eligible under
Trust Indenture Act Section 310(a) and this Article VI and shall have a combined capital
and surplus of at least $100,000,000 and have a Corporate Trust Office or an agent selected in
accordance with Section 6.9, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further
act on the part of any of the parties hereto.
In case at the time such successor to the Trustee shall succeed to the trusts created by this
Indenture any of the Notes shall have been authenticated but not delivered, any such successor to
the Trustee may adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor Trustee and deliver such
Notes so authenticated; and, in case at that time any of the Notes shall not have been
authenticated, any successor to the Trustee may authenticate such Notes either in the name of any
predecessor hereunder or in the name of the successor trustee; and in all such cases such
certificate shall have the full force which it is anywhere in the Notes or in this Indenture
provided that the certificate of the Trustee shall have; provided that the right to adopt the
certificate of authentication of any predecessor Trustee or to authenticate Notes in the name of
any predecessor Trustee shall apply only to its successor or successors by merger, conversion or
consolidation.
Section 6.13 Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company.
If and when the Trustee shall be or become a creditor of the Company (or other obligor on the
Notes), the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act regarding the
collection of claims against the Company (or any such other obligor). A Trustee who has resigned
or been removed shall be subject to Trust Indenture Act Section 311(a) to the extent indicated
therein.
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ARTICLE VII
HOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY
Section 7.1 Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders.
The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee:
(a) semiannually, not more than 15 days after each Regular Record Date, a list, in such form
as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Holders as of such Regular
Record Date; and
(b) at such other times as the Trustee may reasonably request in writing, within 30 days after
receipt by the Company of any such request, a list of similar form and content to that in
Subsection (a) hereof as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the time such list is furnished.
Section 7.2 Disclosure of Names and Addresses of Holders.
Holders may communicate pursuant to Trust Indenture Act Section 312(b) with other Holders with
respect to their rights under this Indenture or the Notes, and the Trustee shall comply with Trust
Indenture Act Section 312(b). The Company, the Trustee, the Registrar and any other Person shall
have the protection of Trust Indenture Act Section 312(c). Further, every Holder of Notes, by
receiving and holding the same, agrees with the Company and the Trustee that neither the Company
nor the Trustee nor any agent of either of them shall be held accountable by reason of the
disclosure of any information as to the names and addresses of the Holders in accordance with Trust
Indenture Act Section 312, 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 Trust Indenture Action Section 312.
Section 7.3 Reports by Trustee.
(a) Within 60 days after May 15 of each year commencing with the first May 15 after the
issuance of Notes, the Trustee, if so required under the Trust Indenture Act shall transmit by mail
to all Holders in the manner and to the extent provided in Trust Indenture Act Section 313(c), a
brief report dated as of such May 15 in accordance with and with respect to the matters required by
Trust Indenture Act Section 313(a), provided that if no event described in Trust Indenture Act
Section 313(a) has occurred within the twelve-month period preceding the reporting date, no such
report need be transmitted. The Trustee shall also transmit by mail to the Holders, in the manner
and to the extent provided in Trust Indenture Act Section 313(c), a brief report in accordance with
and with respect to the matters required by Trust Indenture Act Sections 313(a) and 313(b)(2).
(b) A copy of each report transmitted to Holders pursuant to this Section 7.3 shall,
at the time of such transmission, be mailed to the Company and filed with each stock exchange, if
any, upon which the Notes are listed and also with the SEC. The Company will notify the Trustee
promptly if the Notes are listed on any stock exchange.
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Section 7.4 Reports by Company.
(a) The Company shall furnish to the Holders of the Notes:
(1) within 20 days of the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and regulations, all
annual financial information that would be required to be contained in a filing with the SEC on
Form 10-K and, within 5 days of the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules
and regulations, all quarterly financial information that would be required to be contained in
a filing with the SEC on form 10-Q, in each case, if the Company were required to file such Forms,
including footnotes and a “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results
of Operations” (“MD&A”) and, with respect to the annual information only, a report thereon
by the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, except that none of such reports
need include any certifications required under the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002 or any rules of the
SEC adopted pursuant thereto; and
(2) the information that would be required to be contained in all current reports that would
be required to be filed with the SEC on Form 8-K if the Company were required to file such reports
(including any information that would be required to be filed as exhibits to a Form 8-K, except
that the report need not include any certifications required under the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002
or any rules of the SEC adopted pursuant thereto), in each case within the time periods specified
in the rules of the SEC adopted pursuant thereto.
(b) In no event shall any financial information required to be furnished pursuant to
Section 7.4(a)(1) be required to include any information required by, or to be prepared or
approved in accordance with, or otherwise be subject to, any provision of Section 404 of the
Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002 or any rules, regulations, or accounting guidance adopted pursuant to
that section.
(c) The Company agrees to deliver the financial information required by Section 7.4(a)
by electronic transmission directly to any Holder and any owner of a beneficial interest in any
Note that requests such delivery (who may, subject to Section 7.4(d), transmit them to any
prospective investor). The Company also agrees to make such reports available on a website to
which such Holders and beneficial owners shall have access. The Company shall not be required to
provide access to such website to any other Person who requests it unless such Person certifies to
order to obtain access to such website that such Person, is engaged in the business of acquiring
investments such as the Notes, is a prospective purchaser of Notes and not engaged in a Competitive
Business (as defined below). Before displaying any of such reports, the website described in this
subsection may also require the user to agree to be bound by an electronic agreement containing
substantially the same terms as those set forth in clauses (1), (2) and (3) of Section
7.4(d) by electronically confirming that he or she has read said provisions and agrees to be
bound by them.
(d) Each Holder and each other Person (each such Holder or other Person, a
“Recipient”) who at any time receives any non-public information about the Company and its
businesses and finances within the meaning of applicable securities laws communicated in any
report, described in Section 7.4(a) (collectively, the “Non-Public Information”),
by accepting any
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such Information, shall be deemed to have acknowledged to and agreed with the
Company as follows:
(1) The Recipient shall not use Non-Public Information if that use or communication would
constitute a violation of applicable securities laws or regulations (including but not limited to
laws or regulations prohibiting xxxxxxx xxxxxxx or tipping) and shall not communicate it to any
other Person not bound by, or which has not otherwise agreed to abide by, the terms of this clause
(1), unless such information (i) is or becomes publicly available other
than as a result of a disclosure known to the Recipient or is in violation of an agreement
with or obligation to the Company, (ii) was within the Recipient’s possession prior to it being
furnished to the Recipient by or on behalf of the Company, (iii) is or becomes available to the
Recipient on a non-confidential basis from a source (other than the Company) which is not known by
the Recipient to be prohibited from disclosing such information to the Recipient by a legal,
contractual or fiduciary obligation to the Company, (iv) is independently developed by the
Recipient without the benefit of any Non-Public Information (information in clauses (i) – (iv)
being “Non-Confidential Information”) or (v) unless such disclosure is required by subpoena
or other legal process of a tribunal, in which case the Recipient shall give the Company as much
advance notice as is practicable before making disclosure so as to provide the Company with an
opportunity to seek a protective order or to take other action to protect the confidentiality of
the Non-Public Information.
(2) The Recipient represents and agrees that it is (i) a Holder of Notes, (ii) a prospective
purchaser of Notes and in the business of buying securities such as the Notes and (iii) is not a
Person engaged in the business of operating fitness centers or any business activity reasonably
related thereto (a “Competitive Business”). The Company shall have no obligation to
provide any Non-Public Information to any Person engaged in a Competitive Business.
(3) The Recipient shall not disclose any Non-Public Information to any Person that engages in
a Competitive Business unless such disclosure is required by subpoena or other legal process of a
tribunal, in which case the Recipient shall give the Company as much advance notice as is
practicable before making disclosure so as to provide the Company with an opportunity to seek a
protective order or to take other action to protect the confidentiality of the Non-Public
Information.
(e) Any document delivered by the Company pursuant to Section 7.4(a) (in either paper
or electronic form) shall be deemed to contain Non-Public Information and be treated as
confidential for purposes of this Section 7.4 unless the same is Non-Confidential
Information.
(f) No later than December 17, 2007, the Company shall host a conference call with Holders,
any owner of a beneficial interest in any Note and any prospective purchaser of Notes to discuss
the financial information of the Company then available with respect to the quarter ended September
30, 2007. With respect to each quarter thereafter, the Company shall host quarterly conference
calls with such participants no later than 10 days after furnishing the quarterly financial
information described in Section 7.4(a)(1). Beginning in 2008, the Company shall host a
conference call with such participants no later than 10 days after furnishing the yearly
information described in Section 7.4(a)(1). The Company may also require any participant
in such calls to agree to be bound by an electronic or other agreement containing
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substantially the
same terms as those set forth in clauses (1), (2) and (3) of Section 7.4(d), and any other
terms which subsequent to the date hereof may become required by applicable law, by electronically
confirming that he or she has read said provisions and agrees to be bound by them.
ARTICLE VIII
MERGER, CONSOLIDATION OR SALE OF ASSETS
Section 8.1 Company May Merge, Consolidate, etc., Only on Certain Terms.
The Company will not, in a single transaction or through a series of related transactions,
consolidate with or merge with or into any other Person or sell, assign, convey, transfer, lease or
otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of its properties and assets to any Person or group
of affiliated Persons, or permit any of its Subsidiaries to enter into any such transaction or
series of related transactions if such transaction or series of related transactions, in the
aggregate, would result in a sale, assignment, conveyance, transfer, lease or disposition of all or
substantially all of the properties and assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries on a
Consolidated basis to any other Person or group of affiliated Persons, unless at the time and after
giving effect thereto:
(i) either (a) the Company will be the continuing corporation or (b) the Person (if
other than the Company) formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or
the Person which acquires by sale, assignment, conveyance, transfer, lease or disposition
all or substantially all of the properties and assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries on
a Consolidated basis (the “Surviving Entity”) will be a corporation duly organized
and validly existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or
the District of Columbia and such Surviving Entity expressly assumes, by a supplemental
indenture, in a form satisfactory to the Trustee, all the obligations of the Company under
the Notes, the Security Documents and hereunder, as the case may be, and the Notes, the
Security Documents and this Indenture will remain in full force and effect as so
supplemented;
(ii) immediately before and immediately after giving effect to such transaction on a
pro forma basis (and treating any Indebtedness not previously an obligation of the Company
or any of its Subsidiaries which becomes the obligation of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries as a result of such transaction as having been incurred at the time of such
transaction), no Default or Event of Default will have occurred and be continuing;
(iii) immediately before and immediately after giving effect to such transaction on a
pro forma basis (on the assumption that the transaction occurred on the first day of the
four-quarter period for which financial results are available ending immediately prior to
the consummation of such transaction with the appropriate adjustments with respect to the
transaction being included in such pro forma calculation), the Company (or the Surviving
Entity if the Company is not the continuing obligor hereunder) could incur $1.00 of
additional Indebtedness (other than Permitted Indebtedness or Permitted Subsidiary
Indebtedness) pursuant to the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio test under Section 10.8;
and
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(iv) at the time of the transaction the Company or the Surviving Entity will have
delivered, or caused to be delivered, to the Trustee, in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to the Trustee, an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each to the
effect that such consolidation, merger, transfer, sale, assignment, conveyance, transfer,
lease or other transaction and the supplemental indenture in respect thereof
comply with this Indenture and that all conditions precedent herein provided for
relating to such transaction have been complied with;
provided, however, that the foregoing prohibition shall not prohibit any merger between or among
Subsidiaries or between a Subsidiary and the Company, provided that the Company is the Surviving
Entity.
Section 8.2 Successor Substituted.
Upon any consolidation or merger, or any sale, assignment, conveyance, transfer, lease or
disposition of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of the Company in accordance
with Section 8.1, the successor Person formed by such consolidation or into which the
Company is merged or the successor Person to which such sale, assignment, conveyance, transfer,
lease or disposition is made shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right
and power of, the Company under this Indenture, with the same effect as if such successor had been
named as the Company herein. When a successor assumes all the obligations of its predecessor under
this Indenture or the Notes, the predecessor shall be released from such assumed obligations and
covenants under this Indenture and the Notes, as the case may be; provided that in the case of a
transfer by lease, the predecessor shall not be released from the payment of principal and interest
on the Notes.
ARTICLE IX
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
Section 9.1 Supplemental Indentures and Agreements without Consent of Holders.
Without the consent of any Holders, the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee, at any time
and from time to time, may amend or supplement this Indenture, the Notes, the Security Documents
and the Intercreditor Agreement by entering into one or more indentures supplemental hereto in form
and substance satisfactory to the Trustee, for any of the following purposes:
(a) to evidence the succession of another Person to the Company or any other obligor on the
Notes, and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the Company or obligor herein
and in the Notes in accordance with Article VIII;
(b) to add to the covenants of the Company or any other obligor on the Notes for the benefit
of the Holders, or to surrender any right or power conferred on the Company or any other obligor on
the Notes, as applicable, herein or in the Notes;
(c) to cure any ambiguity, or to correct or supplement any provision herein or in any
supplemental indenture or the Notes which may be defective or inconsistent with any other
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provision
herein or in the Notes or to make any other provisions with respect to matters or
questions arising under this Indenture or the Notes; provided that, in each case, such
provisions shall not adversely affect the interest of the Holders;
(d) to comply with the requirements of the SEC in order to effect or maintain the
qualification of this Indenture under the Trust Indenture Act, as contemplated by Section
9.5 or otherwise;
(e) to evidence and provide the acceptance of the appointment of a successor trustee
hereunder; or
(f) to mortgage, pledge, hypothecate or xxxxx x Xxxx in favor of the Collateral Agent for the
benefit of Trustee and the Holders of the Notes as additional security for the payment of principal
of and interest on the Notes by the Company or on the Guarantees by the Guarantors under this
Indenture in any property or assets, including any which are required to be mortgaged, pledged or
hypothecated, or in which a Lien is required to be granted to the Collateral Agent, pursuant to
this Indenture or the Security Documents.
Section 9.2 Supplemental Indentures and Agreements with Consent of Holders.
Except as permitted by Section 9.1, with the consent of the Holders of at least a
majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Notes, by Act of said Holders delivered
to the Company and the Trustee, the Company when authorized by Board Resolutions, the Guarantor and
the Trustee may (i) enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto in form and substance
satisfactory to the Trustee, for the purpose of adding any provisions to or amending, modifying or
changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture, the Security
Documents, the Intercreditor Agreement or the Notes (including, but not limited to, for the purpose
of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders under this Indenture, the Notes, the Security
Documents or the Intercreditor Agreement) or (ii) waive compliance with any provision in this
Indenture or the Notes (other than waivers of past Defaults covered by Section 5.13 and
waivers of covenants which are covered by Section 10.19); provided, however, that no such
supplemental indenture, agreement or instrument shall, without the consent of the Holder of each
Outstanding Note affected thereby:
(a) change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or any installment of interest on, or
change to an earlier date any redemption date of, or waive a default in the payment of the
principal or interest on, any such Note or reduce the principal amount thereof or the rate of
interest thereon or any premium payable upon the redemption thereof, or change the coin or currency
in which the principal of any Note or any premium or the interest thereon is payable, or impair the
right to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after the Stated Maturity
thereof (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date);
(b) amend, change or modify the obligation of the Company to make and consummate an Offer with
respect to any Asset Sale or Asset Sales in accordance with Section 10.12 or the obligation
of the Company to make and consummate a Change of Control Offer in the event of a Change of Control
in accordance with Section 10.13, including, in each case, amending, changing or modifying
any definitions relating thereto;
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(c) reduce the percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding Notes, the consent of whose
Holders is required for any such supplemental indenture, or the consent of whose Holders is
required for any waiver or compliance with certain provisions of this Indenture;
(d) modify any of the provisions of this Section 9.2 or Section 5.13 or
Section 10.19, except to increase the percentage of such Outstanding Notes required for any
such actions or to provide that certain other provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified or
waived without the consent of the Holder of each such Note affected thereby;
(e) except as otherwise permitted under Article VIII, consent to the assignment or
transfer by the Company of any of its rights and obligations hereunder;
(f) amend or modify any of the ranking provisions of the Indenture in any manner adverse to
the Holders of the Notes; or
(g) release any Guarantor that is a Significant Subsidiary from any of its obligations under
its Guarantee or this Indenture otherwise than in accordance with the terms of this Indenture.
Upon the written request of the Company accompanied by a copy of Board Resolutions authorizing
the execution of any such supplemental indenture, and upon the filing with the Trustee of evidence
of the consent of Holders as aforesaid, the Trustee shall join with the Company in the execution of
such supplemental indenture.
It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this Section 9.2 to approve the
particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture but it shall be sufficient if such Act shall
approve the substance thereof.
Section 9.3 Execution of Supplemental Indentures and Agreements.
In executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental indenture,
agreement, instrument or waiver permitted by this Article IX or the modifications thereby
of the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to
Trust Indenture Act Sections 315(a) through 315(d) and Section 6.3 hereof) shall be fully
protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel and an Officers’ Certificate stating that the
execution of such supplemental indenture, agreement or instrument is authorized or permitted by
this Indenture. The Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental
indenture, agreement or instrument which affects the Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities
under this Indenture or otherwise.
Section 9.4 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 Notes theretofore or thereafter authenticated
and delivered hereunder shall be bound thereby.
Section 9.5 Conformity with Trust Indenture Act.
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Every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article IX shall conform to the
requirements of the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect.
Section 9.6 Reference in Notes to Supplemental Indentures.
Notes authenticated and delivered after the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant
to this Article IX 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 Notes 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 Notes.
Section 9.7 Notice of Supplemental Indentures.
Promptly after the execution by the Company and the Trustee of any supplemental indenture
pursuant to the provisions of Section 9.2, the Company shall give notice thereof to the
Holders of each Outstanding Note affected, in the manner provided for in Section 1.7,
setting forth in general terms the substance of such supplemental indenture. Any failure of the
Company to mail such notice, or any defect therein, shall not, however, in any way impair or affect
the validity of any such supplemental indenture.
ARTICLE X
COVENANTS
Section 10.1 Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest.
The Company shall duly and punctually pay the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on
the Notes in accordance with the terms of the Notes and this Indenture.
Principal, premium, if any, and Cash Interest shall be considered paid on the date due if the
Paying Agent, if other than the Company or a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary, holds as of noon Eastern Time
on the due date money deposited by the Company in immediately available funds and designated for
and sufficient to pay all principal, premium, if any, and interest then due.
Section 10.2 Maintenance of Office or Agency.
The Company shall maintain an office or agency where Notes may be presented or surrendered for
payment. The Company also will maintain in The City of New York an office or agency where Notes
may be surrendered for registration of transfer, redemption or exchange and where notices and
demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Notes and this Indenture may be served. The
office of the Trustee, at its Corporate Trust Office, will be such office or agency of the Company,
unless the Company shall designate and maintain some other office or agency for one or more of such
purposes. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location and any
change in the location of any such offices or agencies. If at any time the Company shall fail to
maintain any such required offices or agencies or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the
address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and
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demands may be made or served at the
office of the Trustee and the Company hereby appoints the Trustee as its agent to receive all such
presentations, surrenders, notices and demands.
The Company may from time to time designate one or more other offices or agencies (in or
outside of The City of New York) where the Notes may be presented or surrendered for any or all
such purposes, and may from time to time rescind such designation. The Company will give prompt
written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and any change in the location
of any such office or agency.
The Trustee shall initially act as Paying Agent for the Notes.
Section 10.3 Money for Note Payments to Be Held in Trust.
If the Company or any of its Affiliates shall at any time act as Paying Agent, it will, on or
before each due date of the principal of, premium, if any, or interest on any of the Notes,
segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Holders entitled thereto a sum sufficient to pay
the principal, 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 so to act.
If the Company or any of its Affiliates is not acting as Paying Agent, the Company will, on or
before each due date of the principal of, premium, if any, or interest on any of the Notes, deposit
with a Paying Agent a sum in same day funds sufficient to pay the principal, premium, if any, or
interest so becoming due, such sum to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to
such principal, premium or interest, and (unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Company will
promptly notify the Trustee of such action or any failure to so act.
If the Company is not acting as Paying Agent, the Company will cause each Paying Agent other
than the Trustee to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent
shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section, that such Paying Agent
will:
(a) hold all sums held by it for the payment of the principal of, premium, if any, or interest
on the Notes 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;
(b) give the Trustee notice of any Default by the Company (or any other obligor upon the
Notes) in the making of any payment of principal, premium, if any, or interest on the Notes;
(c) 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; and
(d) acknowledge, accept and agree to comply in all aspects with the provisions of this
Indenture relating to the duties, rights and disabilities of such Paying Agent.
The Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the satisfaction and discharge of
this Indenture 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,
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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, premium, if any, or interest on any Note and remaining
unclaimed for two years after such principal and premium, if any, or interest has become due and
payable shall promptly 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 Note 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; provided, however, that the Trustee or such Paying Agent, before
being required to make any such repayment, may at the expense of the company cause to be published
once, in the NEW YORK TIMES and THE WALL STREET JOURNAL (national edition), and mail to each such
Holder, notice that such money remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified therein, which
shall not be less than 30 days from the date of such notification, publication and mailing, any
unclaimed balance of such money then remaining will promptly be repaid to the Company.
Section 10.4 Corporate Existence.
Subject to Article VIII, the Company shall do or cause to be done all things necessary
to preserve and keep in full force and effect the corporate existence and related rights and
franchises (charter and statutory) of the Company and each Subsidiary; provided, however, that the
Company shall not be required to preserve any such right or franchise or the corporate existence of
any such Subsidiary if the Board of Directors shall determine that the preservation thereof is no
longer necessary or desirable in the conduct of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries as
a whole; and provided, further, however, that the foregoing shall not prohibit a sale, transfer or
conveyance of a Subsidiary or any of its assets in compliance with the terms of this Indenture.
Section 10.5 Payment of Taxes and Other Claims.
The Company shall pay or discharge or cause to be paid or discharged, on or before the date
the same shall become due and payable, (a) all taxes, assessments and governmental charges levied
or imposed upon the Company or any of its Subsidiaries shown to be due on any return of the Company
or any of its Subsidiaries or otherwise assessed or upon the income, profits or property of the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries if failure to pay or discharge the same could reasonably be
expected to have a material adverse effect on the ability of the Company to perform its obligations
hereunder and (b) all lawful claims for labor, materials and supplies, which, if unpaid, would by
law become a Lien upon the property of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, except for any Lien
permitted to be incurred under Section 10.11, if failure to pay or discharge the same could
reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the ability of the Company to perform
its obligations hereunder; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to pay or
discharge or cause to be paid or discharged any such tax, assessment, charge or claim whose amount,
applicability or validity is being contested in
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good faith by appropriate proceedings properly
instituted and diligently conducted and in respect of which appropriate reserves (in the good faith
judgment of management of the Company) are being maintained in accordance with GAAP.
Section 10.6 Maintenance of Properties.
The Company shall cause all material properties owned by the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries or used or held for use in the conduct of its business or the business of any of its
Subsidiaries to be maintained and kept in good condition, repair and working order (ordinary wear
and tear excepted) and supplied with all necessary equipment and will cause to be made all
necessary repairs, renewals, replacements, betterments and improvements thereof, all as in the
reasonable judgment of the Company may be consistent with sound business practice and necessary so
that the business carried on in connection therewith may be properly conducted at all times;
provided, however, that nothing in this Section shall prevent the Company from discontinuing the
maintenance of any of such properties if such discontinuance is, in the
reasonable judgment of the Company, desirable in the conduct of its business or the business
of any of its Subsidiaries; and provided, further, however, that the foregoing shall not prohibit a
sale, transfer or conveyance of a Subsidiary or any of its properties or assets in compliance with
the terms of this Indenture.
Section 10.7 Insurance.
The Company shall at all times keep all of its and its Subsidiaries’ properties which are of
an insurable nature insured with insurers, believed by the Company in good faith to be financially
sound and responsible, against loss or damage to the extent that property of similar character is
usually so insured by corporations similarly situated and owning like properties in the same
general geographic areas in which the Company and its Subsidiaries operate, except where the
failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the
condition (financial or otherwise), earnings, business affairs or prospects of the Company and its
Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
Section 10.8 Incurrence of Indebtedness.
The Company will not create, issue, incur, assume, guarantee or otherwise in any manner become
directly or indirectly liable for the payment of or otherwise suffer to exist (collectively,
“incur”), any Indebtedness (including any Acquired Debt), other than Permitted
Indebtedness, unless such Indebtedness is incurred by the Company and the Company’s Consolidated
Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio for the four full fiscal quarters for which financial results are
available immediately preceding the date of incurrence of such Indebtedness, taken as one period
(and after giving pro forma effect to: (i) the incurrence of such Indebtedness and (if applicable)
the application of the net proceeds therefrom, including to refinance other Indebtedness, as if
such Indebtedness was incurred, and the application of such proceeds occurred, at the beginning of
such four-quarter period; (ii) the incurrence, repayment or retirement of any other Indebtedness by
the Company since the first day of such four-quarter period as if such Indebtedness was incurred,
repaid or retired at the beginning of such four-quarter period (except that, in making such
computation, the amount of Indebtedness under any revolving credit facility shall be computed based
upon the average daily balance of such Indebtedness during such four-quarter
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period); (iii) in the
case of Acquired Debt, the related acquisition; and (iv) any acquisition or disposition by the
Company and its Subsidiaries of any company or any business or any assets out of the ordinary
course of business, or any related repayment of Indebtedness, in each case since the first day of
such four-quarter period, assuming such acquisition or disposition and any such related payments
had been consummated on the first day of such four-quarter period), would be at least 2.0:1. The
Company will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to incur any Indebtedness (other than Permitted
Subsidiary Indebtedness).
Section 10.9 Restricted Payments.
(a) Except for Permitted Investments, the Company will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary
to, directly or indirectly:
(i) declare or pay any dividend on, or make any other payment or distribution to
holders of, any shares of the Company’s Capital Stock (other than dividends or distributions
payable solely in shares of its Qualified Capital Stock or in options, warrants or other
rights to acquire shares of such Qualified Capital Stock);
(ii) purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire or retire for value, directly or indirectly,
the Company’s Capital Stock or any Capital Stock of any Affiliate of the Company (other than
Capital Stock of any Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Company);
(iii) prior to any scheduled principal payment, sinking fund payment or maturity of any
Subordinated Indebtedness, make any principal payment on, or repurchase, redeem, defease,
retire or otherwise acquire for value, such Subordinated Indebtedness (other than any such
Indebtedness owed to the Company or a Wholly Owned Subsidiary) or pay interest on
Subordinated Notes except in accordance with the provisions of the Subordinated Notes as in
effect on the Issue Date;
(iv) declare or pay any dividend or distribution on any Capital Stock of any Subsidiary
to any Person (other than to the Company or any of its Wholly Owned Subsidiaries) or
purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire or retire for value any Capital Stock of any
Subsidiary held by any Person (other than the Company or any of its Wholly Owned
Subsidiaries);
(v) incur, create, or assume, any guarantee of Indebtedness of any Affiliate of the
Company (other than a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Company); or
(vi) make any Investment in any Person
(any of the foregoing actions described in clauses (i) through (vi), other than any such action
that is a Permitted Payment (as defined below), collectively, a “Restricted Payment”) (the
amount of any such Restricted Payment, if other than cash, being determined by the Board of
Directors, whose determination shall be conclusive and evidenced by a Board Resolution); unless (1)
immediately before and immediately after giving effect to such proposed Restricted Payment on a pro
forma basis, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and such
Restricted Payment shall not be an event which is, or after notice or lapse of time or both, would
be, an “event of default” under the terms of any Indebtedness of the Company or its Subsidiaries;
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(2) immediately before and immediately after giving effect to such Restricted Payment on a pro
forma basis, the Company could incur $1.00 of additional Indebtedness (other than Permitted
Indebtedness or Permitted Subsidiary Indebtedness) under the provisions of Section 10.8;
and (3) after giving effect to the proposed Restricted Payment, the aggregate amount of all such
Restricted Payments declared or made after October 7, 1997 plus the Permitted Payments made under
clause (b)(vii), do not exceed $5,000,000 plus the sum of:
(A) 50% of the aggregate Consolidated Net Income of the Company accrued on a cumulative
basis during the period beginning on January 1, 1998 and ending on the last day of the
Company’s last fiscal quarter ending prior to the date of the Restricted
Payment (or, if such aggregate cumulative Consolidated Net Income shall be a loss,
minus 100% of such loss); plus
(B) the aggregate Net Cash Proceeds received after October 7, 1997 by the Company
either (x) as capital contributions in the form of common equity to the Company or (y) from
the issuance or sale (other than to any of its Subsidiaries) of Qualified Capital Stock of
the Company or any options, warrants or rights to purchase such Qualified Capital Stock of
the Company (except, in each case, to the extent such proceeds are used to purchase, redeem
or otherwise retire Capital Stock or Subordinated Indebtedness as set forth in clause (ii)
or (iii) of paragraph (b) below); in each case, other than Net Cash Proceeds received from
the issuance or sale of Qualified Capital Stock or options, warrants or rights to purchase
Qualified Capital Stock in, or otherwise received in connection with, the Refinancing and
any equity contribution under the Plan; plus
(C) the aggregate Net Cash Proceeds received after October 7, 1997 by the Company
(other than from any of its Subsidiaries) upon the exercise of any options, warrants or
rights to purchase Qualified Capital Stock of the Company; plus
(D) the aggregate Net Cash Proceeds received after October 7, 1997 by the Company from
the conversion or exchange, if any, of debt securities or Redeemable Capital Stock of the
Company or its Subsidiaries into or for Qualified Capital Stock of the Company plus, to the
extent such debt securities or Redeemable Capital Stock were issued after October 7, 1997,
the aggregate of Net Cash Proceeds from their original issuance; plus
(E) in the case of the disposition or repayment of any Investment constituting a
Restricted Payment made after October 7, 1997, an amount equal to the lesser of the return
of capital with respect to such Investment and the initial amount of such Investment, in
either case, less the cost of the disposition of such Investment;
provided, that, the Company shall not, and shall not permit any Subsidiary to, make any Restricted
Payments under subclauses (i), (ii) or (iv) of this clause (a) at any time.
(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, so long as there is no Default or Event of Default
continuing, the foregoing provisions shall not prohibit the following actions (each of clauses (i)
through (vii) being referred to as a “Permitted Payment”):
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(i) the payment of any dividend within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof if
at the date of declaration thereof such other dividend (A) would be permitted by the
provisions of paragraph (a) of this Section and (B) shall be deemed to have been paid on
such date of declaration for purposes of the calculation required by paragraph (a) of this
Section;
(ii) the repurchase, redemption, or other acquisition or retirement for value of any shares of any class of Capital Stock of the Company in exchange for (including any such
exchange pursuant to the exercise of a conversion right or privilege in connection with
which cash is paid in lieu of the issuance of fractional shares or scrip), or out of the Net
Cash Proceeds of a substantially concurrent issue and sale for cash (other than to a
Subsidiary) of, other shares of Qualified Capital Stock of the Company; provided that
the Net Cash Proceeds from the issuance of such shares of Qualified Capital Stock are, to
the extent so used, excluded from clause (3)(B) of paragraph (a) of this Section;
(iii) the repurchase, redemption, defeasance, retirement or acquisition for value or
payment of principal of any Subordinated Indebtedness or Redeemable Capital Stock in
exchange for, or in an amount not in excess of the Net Cash Proceeds of, a substantially
concurrent issuance and sale for cash (other than to any Subsidiary) of any Qualified
Capital Stock of the Company, provided that the Net Cash Proceeds from the issuance of such shares of Qualified Capital Stock are, to the extent so used, excluded from clause (3)(B) of
paragraph (a) of this Section;
(iv) the repurchase, redemption, defeasance, retirement, refinancing, acquisition for
value or payment of principal of any Subordinated Indebtedness (other than Redeemable
Capital Stock) (a “refinancing”) through the substantially concurrent issuance of
new Subordinated Indebtedness of the Company, provided that any such new Subordinated
Indebtedness (1) shall be in a principal amount that does not exceed the principal amount so
refinanced (or, if such Subordinated Indebtedness provides for an amount less than the
principal amount thereof to be due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration thereof,
then such lesser amount as of the date of determination), plus the lesser of (I) the stated
amount of any premium or other payment required to be paid in connection with such a
refinancing pursuant to the terms of the Indebtedness being refinanced, or (II) the amount
of premium or other payment actually paid at such time to refinance the Indebtedness, plus,
in either case, the amount of expenses of the Company incurred in connection with such
refinancing; (2) has an Average Life to Stated Maturity greater than the remaining Average
Life to Stated Maturity of the Notes; (3) has a Stated Maturity for its final scheduled
principal payment later than the Stated Maturity for the final scheduled principal payment
of the Notes; (4) is expressly subordinated in right of payment to the Notes at least to the
same extent as the Subordinated Indebtedness to be refinanced and (5) in the case of a
refinancing of any New Subordinated Notes, has cash interest payment provisions no more
favorable to the holders thereof than the comparable provisions in the indenture governing
such New Subordinated Notes as in effect on the Issue Date;
(v) the repurchase, redemption, defeasance, retirement, refinancing, acquisition for
value or payment of principal of the Subordinated Notes (a “refinancing”)
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through
the substantially concurrent issuance of new Senior Debt of the Company, provided that (1)
any such new Senior Debt shall be in a principal amount that does not exceed the principal
amount of Subordinated Notes so refinanced (or, if such Senior Debt provides for an amount
less than the principal amount thereof to be due and payable upon a declaration of
acceleration thereof, then such lesser amount as of the date of determination), plus the
lesser of (I) the stated amount of any premium or other payment required to be paid in
connection with such a refinancing pursuant to the terms of the Subordinated Notes being
refinanced, or (II) the amount of premium or other payment actually paid at such time to
refinance such Subordinated Notes, plus, in either case, the amount of expenses of the
Company incurred in connection with such refinancing; and
(2) the incurrence of such new Senior Debt shall be permitted by clause (xi) of the
definition of “Permitted Indebtedness”;
(vi) the repurchase, redemption, defeasance, retirement, refinancing, acquisition for
value or payment of any Redeemable Capital Stock through the substantially concurrent
issuance of new Redeemable Capital Stock of the Company, provided that any such new
Redeemable Capital Stock (1) shall have an aggregate liquidation preference that does not
exceed the aggregate liquidation preference of the amount so refinanced; (2) has an Average
Life to Stated Maturity greater than the remaining Average Life to Stated Maturity of the
Notes; and (3) has a Stated Maturity later than the Stated Maturity for the final scheduled
principal payment of the Notes; and
(vii) the repurchase of shares of, or options or warrants to purchase shares of, common
stock of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries from employees, former employees, directors
or former directors of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (or permitted transferees of
such employees, former employees, directors or former directors), pursuant to the terms of
the agreements (including employment agreements) or plans (or amendments thereto) approved
by the Board of Directors under which such individuals purchase or sell or are granted the
option to purchase or sell, shares of such common stock in an aggregate amount not to exceed
$500,000 in any calendar year or an aggregate of $2,500,000 from and after July 2, 2003.
(c) The Company will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, make
any (x) payment of cash interest on Subordinated Notes, or on any refinancing thereof, or (y)
principal payment on, or repurchase, redeem, defease, retire or otherwise acquire for value, such
Subordinated Notes other than as permitted in Section 10.9(b)(iv), unless in either
instance immediately thereafter the Company has EBITDA (excluding the impact of non-cash revenues
until received) for the four full fiscal quarters for which financial results are available
immediately preceding the relevant Interest Payment Date exceeding $200.0 million, and the Company
and its consolidated subsidiaries have, after giving effect to such payment, $75 million of (A)
combined unrestricted cash and cash equivalents, plus (B) then unrestricted borrowing availability
under the Credit Agreement.
Section 10.10 Transactions with Affiliates.
The Company will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly,
enter into any transaction or series of related transactions (including, without
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limitation, the
sale, purchase, exchange or lease of assets, property or services) with or for the benefit of any
Affiliate of the Company (other than the Company or a Subsidiary) unless such transaction or series
of related transactions is entered into in good faith and (a) such transaction or series of related
transactions is on terms that are no less favorable to the Company or such Subsidiary, as the case
may be, than those that would be available in a comparable transaction in arm’s-length dealings
with an unrelated third party, (b) with respect to any transaction or series of related
transactions involving aggregate value in excess of $1,000,000, the Company delivers an Officers’
Certificate to the Trustee certifying that such transaction or series of related
transactions complies with clause (a) above, and (c) with respect to any transaction or series
of related transactions involving aggregate value in excess of $10,000,000, either (A) such
transaction or series of related transactions has been approved by a majority of the Disinterested
Directors of the Company, or in the event there is only one Disinterested Director, by such
Disinterested Director, or (B) the Company delivers to the Trustee a written opinion of an
investment banking firm of national standing or other recognized independent expert with experience
appraising the terms and conditions of the type of transaction or series of related transactions
for which an opinion is required stating that the transactions or series of related transactions
are fair to the Company or such Subsidiary from a financial point of view; provided, however, that
clauses (a) through (c) above shall not apply to (i) any transaction with an employee or director
of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries entered into in the ordinary course of business
(including compensation and employee benefit arrangements with any officer, director or employee of
the Company or any Subsidiary, including under any stock option or stock incentive plans), (ii)
transactions between or among the Company and/or its Subsidiaries, (iii) Permitted Payments, (iv)
Restricted Payments made in accordance with Section 10.9 or Permitted Payments, and (v)
management agreements or similar agreements between (A) the Company or any Subsidiary and (B)
Affiliates in which the Company or any Subsidiary has made an Investment.
Section 10.11 Liens.
The Company will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, create,
incur, assume or permit or suffer any Liens upon any property or assets of the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries whether owned on the Issue Date or acquired after the Issue Date, or any proceeds
therefrom, or assign or otherwise convey any right to receive income or profits therefrom unless:
(1) in the case of Liens securing Subordinated Indebtedness, the Notes or the Guarantee
of such Guarantor, as the case may be, are secured by a Lien on such property, assets or
proceeds that is senior in priority to such Liens; and
(2) in all other cases, the Notes or the Guarantees, as the case may be, are secured on
an equal and ratable basis,
except for Permitted Liens and:
(a) Liens existing as of the Issue Date to the extent and in the manner such Liens are
in effect on the Issue Date;
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(b) (x) Liens securing Indebtedness permitted by clause (i) of the definition of
“Permitted Indebtedness” and (y) Liens securing Indebtedness constituting Indebtedness
referred to by the cross-reference to clause (i) of the definition of “Permitted
Indebtedness” contained in clause (ii) of the definition of “Permitted Subsidiary
Indebtedness” (including guarantees of Obligations owed under the Credit Agreement) and, in
each case, related Obligations (collectively, the “First Priority Lien
Obligations”); provided that neither the Company nor any of the Subsidiaries shall grant
a second
priority Lien (subject to the Permitted Liens and to the provisions of the
Intercreditor Agreement) upon the property or assets constituting collateral for such
Indebtedness (other than the Liens securing the Notes);
(c) Liens securing the Notes and Guarantees;
(d) Liens of the Company or a Subsidiary on assets of any Subsidiary and Liens on the
assets of the Company in favor of a Subsidiary that is a Guarantor;
(e) Liens securing Indebtedness that is incurred to refinance any Indebtedness that has
been secured by a Lien permitted under this Indenture and that has been incurred in
accordance with the provisions of the Indenture; provided, however, that such Liens:
(x) are no less favorable to the Holders of Notes in any material respect, than
the Liens in respect of the Indebtedness being refinanced; and
(y) do not extend to or cover any property or assets of the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries not securing the Indebtedness so refinanced, except in the case of
Liens securing Purchase Money Obligations, then the Liens permitted by this clause
(e) may extend to or cover a similar property or asset that was subject to the Lien
at the time such Purchase Money Obligation was originally incurred;
(f) Liens in favor of the Company;
(g) (x) Liens securing Indebtedness permitted by clause (vi) of the definition of
“Permitted Indebtedness” and (y) Liens securing Indebtedness constituting Indebtedness
referred to by the cross-reference to clause (v) of the definition of “Permitted Subsidiary
Indebtedness.”
Section 10.12 Asset Sales.
(a) The Company will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or
indirectly, consummate an Asset Sale unless (i) at least 75% of the consideration from such Asset
Sale is received in cash or Cash Equivalents, and (ii) the Company or such Subsidiary receives
consideration at the time of such Asset Sale at least equal to the Fair Market Value of the shares
or assets subject to such Asset Sale (as determined by the Board of Directors and evidenced in a
Board Resolution).
(b) Within 360 days of the Asset Sale, the Company may at its option apply the Net Cash
Proceeds (1) to repay Indebtedness under the Credit Agreement or any other Senior Secured Debt
other than the Notes (and, in each case, effect a corresponding permanent
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reduction in the
availability under such Credit Agreement (in the case of repayment of revolving Indebtedness) or to
the outstanding amount of such Senior Secured Debt) or to repay unsecured Senior Debt that has
provisions requiring the Company to make an offer to purchase upon an Asset Sale; provided,
however, that if the Company repays such unsecured Senior Debt it must make a ratable offer to all
Holders of Notes as provided in paragraph (c) below; (2) to acquire
properties and assets that (as determined by the Board of Directors) replace the properties
and assets that were the subject of the Asset Sale; or (3) to acquire properties and assets that
will be used in the businesses of the Company or its Subsidiaries existing on the Issue Date or in
businesses reasonably related or complementary thereto. The amount of such Net Cash Proceeds not
applied or invested as set forth in this paragraph shall constitute “Excess Proceeds.”
(c) When the aggregate amount of Excess Proceeds exceeds $15,000,000, the Company will apply
the Excess Proceeds to the repayment of the Notes and any other unsecured Senior Debt outstanding
with provisions requiring the Company to make an offer to purchase or to purchase or redeem such
unsecured Senior Debt with the proceeds from any Asset Sale as follows: (A) the Company will make
an offer to purchase (an “Offer”) from all Holders of the Notes in accordance with the
procedures set forth in this Indenture in the maximum principal amount (expressed as a multiple of
$1,000) of Notes that may be purchased out of an amount (the “Notes Amount”) equal to the
product of such Excess Proceeds multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the outstanding
principal amount of the Notes, and the denominator of which is the sum of the outstanding principal
amount of the Notes and such unsecured Senior Debt outstanding with provisions requiring the
Company to make an offer to purchase or to purchase or redeem such unsecured Senior Debt with the
proceeds from any Asset Sale (subject to proration in the event such amount is less than the
aggregate Offered Price (as defined herein) of all Notes tendered), and (B) to the extent required
by such unsecured Senior Debt outstanding with provisions requiring the Company to make an offer to
purchase or to purchase or redeem such unsecured Senior Debt with the proceeds from any Asset Sale
to permanently reduce the principal amount of such unsecured Senior Debt, the Company will make an
offer to purchase or otherwise repurchase or redeem unsecured Senior Debt (a “Senior Debt
Offer”) in an amount (the “Senior Debt Amount”) equal to the excess of the Excess
Proceeds over the Notes Amount; provided that in no event will the Company be required to make a
Senior Debt Offer in a Senior Debt Amount exceeding the principal amount of such unsecured Senior
Debt plus the amount of any premium required to be paid to repurchase such unsecured Senior Debt.
The offer price for the Notes will be payable in cash in an amount equal to 100% of the principal
amount of the Notes plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the date (the “Offer
Date”) such Offer is consummated (the “Offered Price”), in accordance with the
procedures set forth in this Indenture. To the extent that the aggregate Offered Price of the
Notes tendered pursuant to the Offer is less than the Notes Amount relating thereto or the
aggregate amount of unsecured Senior Debt that is purchased in a Senior Debt Offer is less than the
Senior Debt Amount, the Company may use any remaining Excess Proceeds for any purpose not otherwise
prohibited by this Indenture. If the aggregate principal amount of Notes and such unsecured Senior
Debt surrendered by holders thereof exceeds the amount of Excess Proceeds, the Trustee shall select
the Notes to be purchased on a pro rata basis. Upon the completion of the purchase of all the
Notes tendered pursuant to an Offer and the completion of Senior Debt Offer, the amount of Excess
Proceeds, if any, shall be reset at zero.
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(d) If the Company becomes obligated to make an Offer pursuant to clause (c) above, the Notes
and the unsecured Senior Debt that has provisions requiring the Company to make an offer to
purchase upon an Asset Sale shall be purchased by the Company, at the option of the holders
thereof, in whole or in part in integral multiples of $1,000, on a date that is not earlier than 30
days and not later than 60 days from the date the notice of such Offer is given to holders,
or such later date as may be necessary for the Company to comply with the requirements under
the Exchange Act.
(e) The Company will comply with the applicable tender offer rules, including Rule 14e-l under
the Exchange Act, and any other applicable securities laws or regulations in connection with an
Offer.
Section 10.13 Purchase of Notes upon a Change of Control.
(a) If a Change of Control shall occur at any time, then each Holder shall have the right to
require that the Company purchase such Holder’s Notes in whole or in part in integral multiples of
$1,000 at a purchase price (the “Change of Control Purchase Price”) in cash in an amount
equal to 101% of the principal amount of such Notes, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to
the date of purchase (the “Change of Control Purchase Date”), pursuant to the offer
described below in this Section 10.13 (the “Change of Control Offer”) and in
accordance with the other procedures set forth in subsections (b), (c), (d) and (e) of this
Section 10.13.
(b) Within 30 days following any Change of Control, the Company shall notify the Trustee
thereof and give written notice (a “Change of Control Purchase Notice”) of such Change of
Control to each Holder by first-class mail, postage prepaid, at his address appearing in the Note
Register, stating among other things:
(1) that a Change of Control has occurred, the date of such event, and that such Holder
has the right to require the Company to repurchase such Holder’s Notes at the Change of
Control Purchase Price;
(2) the circumstances and relevant facts regarding such Change of Control (including
but not limited to, if applicable, information with respect to pro forma historical income,
cash flow and capitalization after giving effect to such Change of Control);
(3) (i) the most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10-K (including audited
consolidated financial statements) of the Company, the most recent subsequently filed
Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, as applicable, and any Current Report on Form 8-K of the
Company filed subsequent to such Quarterly Report (or in the event the Company is not
required to prepare any of the foregoing Forms, the comparable information required to be
prepared by the Company pursuant to Section 7.4), (ii) a description of material
developments, if any, in the Company’s business subsequent to the date of the latest of such
reports and (iii) such other information, if any, concerning the business of the Company
which the Company in good faith believes will enable such Holders to make an informed
investment decision regarding the Change of Control Offer;
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(4) that the Change of Control Offer is being made pursuant to this Section
10.13 and that all Notes properly tendered pursuant to the Change of Control Offer will
be accepted for payment at the Change of Control Purchase Price;
(5) the Change of Control Purchase Date, which shall be a Business Day no earlier than
30 days nor later than 60 days from the date such notice is mailed, or such later date as is
necessary to comply with requirements under the Exchange Act;
(6) the Change of Control Purchase Price;
(7) the names and addresses of the Paying Agent and the offices or agencies referred to
in Section 10.2;
(8) that Notes must be surrendered not later than one Business Day prior to the Change
of Control Purchase Date to the Paying Agent at the office of the Paying Agent or to an
office or agency referred to in Section 10.2 to collect payment;
(9) that the Change of Control Purchase Price for any Note which has been properly
tendered and not withdrawn will be paid promptly following the Change of Control Offer
Purchase Date;
(10) the procedures that a Holder must follow to accept a Change of Control Offer or to
withdraw such acceptance;
(11) that any Note not tendered will continue to accrue interest; and
(12) that, unless the Company defaults in the payment of the Change of Control Purchase
Price, any Notes accepted for payment pursuant to the Change of Control Offer shall cease to
accrue interest after the Change of Control Purchase Date.
(c) Upon receipt by the Company of the proper tender of Notes, the Holder of the Note in
respect of which such proper tender was made shall (unless the tender of such Note is properly
withdrawn) thereafter be entitled to receive solely the Change of Control Purchase Price with
respect to such Note. Upon surrender of any such Note for purchase in accordance with the
foregoing provisions, such Note shall be paid by the Company at the Change of Control Purchase
Price; provided, however, that installments of interest whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the
Change of Control Purchase Date shall be payable to the Holders of such Notes, or one or more
Predecessor Notes, registered as such on the relevant Regular Record Dates according to the terms
and the provisions of Section 3.9. Holders electing to have Notes purchased will be
required to surrender such Notes to the Paying Agent at the address specified in the Change of
Control Purchase Notice at least one Business Day prior to the Change of Control Purchase Date.
Any Note that is to be purchased only in part shall be surrendered to a Paying Agent at the office
of such Paying Agent (with, if the Company, the Note Registrar or the Trustee so requires, due
endorsement by, or a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the
Note Registrar or the Trustee, as the case may be, duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such
Holder’s attorneys duly authorized in writing), and the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such Note, without service charge, one or more new Notes
of any authorized denomination as requested by such Holder in an aggregate principal
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amount equal
to, and in exchange for, the portion of the principal amount of the Note so surrendered that is not
purchased.
(d) The Company shall (i) not later than the Change of Control Purchase Date, accept for
payment Notes or portions thereof tendered pursuant to the Change of Control Offer, (ii) not later
than 10:00 a.m. (New York time) on the Change of Control Purchase Date, deposit with the Trustee
or with a Paying Agent an amount of money in same day funds (or New York Clearing House funds if
such deposit is made prior to the Change of Control Purchase Date) sufficient to pay the aggregate
Change of Control Purchase Price of all the Notes or portions thereof which are to be purchased as
of the Change of Control Purchase Date and (iii) not later than 10:00 a.m. (New York time) on the
Change of Control Purchase Date, deliver to the Paying Agent an Officers’ Certificate stating the
Notes or portions thereof accepted for payment by the Company. The Paying Agent shall promptly
mail or deliver to Holders of Notes so accepted payment in an amount equal to the Change of Control
Purchase Price of the Notes purchased from each such Holder, and the Company shall execute and the
Trustee shall promptly authenticate and mail or deliver to such Holders a new Note equal in
principal amount to any unpurchased portion of the Note surrendered. Any Notes not so accepted
shall be promptly mailed or delivered by the Paying Agent at the Company’s expense to the Holder
thereof. The Company will publicly announce the results of the Change of Control Offer on the
Change of Control Purchase Date. For purposes of this Section 10.13, the Company shall
choose a Paying Agent which shall not be the Company.
(e) A tender made in response to a Change of Control Purchase Notice may be withdrawn if the
Company receives, not later than one Business Day prior to the Change of Control Purchase Date, a
telegram, telex, facsimile transmission or letter, specifying, as applicable:
(1) the name of the Holder;
(2) the certificate number of the Note in respect of which such notice of withdrawal is
being submitted;
(3) the principal amount of the Note (which shall be $1,000 or an integral multiple
thereof) delivered for purchase by the Holder as to which such notice of withdrawal is being
submitted;
(4) a statement that such Holder is withdrawing his election to have such principal
amount of such Note purchased; and
(5) the principal amount, if any, of such Note (which shall be $1,000 or an integral
multiple thereof) that remains subject to the original Change of Control Purchase Notice and
that has been or will be delivered for purchase by the Company.
(f) Subject to applicable escheat laws, the Trustee and the Paying Agent shall return to the
Company any cash that remains unclaimed, together with interest or dividends, if any, thereon, held
by them for the payment of the Change of Control Purchase Price; provided, however, that, (x) to
the extent that the aggregate amount of cash deposited by the Company pursuant to clause (ii) of
paragraph (d) above exceeds the aggregate Change of Control Purchase
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Price of the Notes or portions
thereof to be purchased, then the Trustee shall hold such excess for the Company and (y) unless
otherwise directed by the Company in writing, promptly after the
Business Day following the Change of Control Purchase Date the Trustee shall return any such
excess to the Company together with interest, if any, thereon.
(g) The Company shall comply, to the extent applicable, with the applicable tender offer
rules, including Rule 14e-1 under the Exchange Act, and any other applicable securities laws or
regulations in connection with a Change of Control Offer.
Section 10.14 Preferred Stock of Subsidiaries.
The Company will not permit (a) any Subsidiary of the Company to issue any Preferred Stock,
except for (i) Preferred Stock issued to the Company or a Wholly Owned Subsidiary and (ii)
Preferred Stock issued by a Person prior to the time (A) such Person becomes a Subsidiary, (B) such
Person merges with or into a Subsidiary or (C) a Subsidiary merges with or into such Person;
provided that such Preferred Stock referred to in clause (ii) above was not issued or incurred by
such Person in anticipation of the type of transaction contemplated by subclause (A), (B) or (C),
or (b) any Person (other than the Company, or a Wholly Owned Subsidiary) to acquire Preferred Stock
of any Subsidiary from the Company or any Subsidiary, except, in the case of clause (a) or (b),
upon the acquisition of all the outstanding Preferred Stock of such Subsidiary in accordance with
the terms hereof.
Section 10.15 Dividend and Other Payment Restrictions Affecting Subsidiaries.
The Company will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly,
create or suffer to exist any consensual encumbrance or restriction on the ability of any
Subsidiary to (i) pay dividends or make any other distribution on its Capital Stock, (ii) pay any
Indebtedness owed to the Company or any other Subsidiary, (iii) make any Investment in the Company
or any other Subsidiary or (iv) transfer any of its properties or assets to the Company or any
other Subsidiary, except for: (a) any encumbrance or restriction pursuant to any agreement in
effect on the Issue Date; (b) any encumbrance or restriction, with respect to a Subsidiary that is
not a Subsidiary of the Company on the Issue Date, in existence at the time such Person becomes a
Subsidiary of the Company and not incurred in connection with, or in contemplation of, such Person
becoming a Subsidiary; (c) customary non-assignment or subletting provisions of any lease, license
or other contract; (d) any restriction entered into in the ordinary course of business contained in
any lease of any Subsidiary or any security agreement or mortgage securing Indebtedness of any
Subsidiary to the extent such restriction restricts the transfer of property subject to such
security agreement, mortgage or lease; (e) any restriction contained in the Credit Agreement or any
other agreement pursuant to which Permitted Subsidiary Indebtedness is incurred; and (f) any
encumbrance or restriction existing under any agreement that amends, substitutes, restructures,
supplements, extends, renews, refinances or replaces or otherwise modifies the agreements
containing the encumbrances or restrictions in the foregoing clauses (a), (b), (c), (d) or (e), or
in this clause (f); provided that the terms and conditions of any such encumbrances or restrictions
are no more restrictive in any material
respect than those under or pursuant to the agreement evidencing the Indebtedness so amended,
substituted, restructured, supplemented, extended, renewed, refinanced, replaced or modified.
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Section 10.16 Unrestricted Subsidiaries.
The Company will not make, and will not permit its Subsidiaries to make, an Investment in
Unrestricted Subsidiaries unless, at the time thereof, (a) the aggregate amount of such Investments
would not exceed the amount of Restricted Payments then permitted to be made pursuant to the
provisions of Section 10.9 or (b) such Investment is a Permitted Investment. Except for
Permitted Investments, any Investment in Unrestricted Subsidiaries permitted to be made pursuant to
this covenant (i) must be permitted to be made pursuant to the provisions of Section 10.9
and will be treated as a Restricted Payment in calculating the amount of Restricted Payments made
by the Company, and (ii) may be made in cash or property.
Section 10.17 Additional Subsidiary Guarantees.
If the Company or any Subsidiary transfers or causes to be transferred, in one transaction or
a series of related transactions, any property to any Domestic Subsidiary that is not a Guarantor
having total assets (after giving effect to such transfer) with a book value in excess of $500,000,
or if the Company or any of its Subsidiaries shall organize, acquire or otherwise invest in another
Domestic Subsidiary having total assets with a book value in excess of $500,000, then such Domestic
Subsidiary shall:
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execute and deliver to the Trustee a supplemental indenture in form reasonably
satisfactory to the Trustee pursuant to which such Subsidiary shall unconditionally
guarantee all of the Company’s obligations under the Notes and this Indenture on the
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deliver to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel that such supplemental indenture
has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Subsidiary and constitutes a
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Thereafter, such Subsidiary shall be a Guarantor for all purposes of this Indenture; provided,
however, that (i) if such Subsidiary is a Non-Guarantor Subsidiary, it shall not be required to be
a Guarantor hereunder and (ii) to the extent that a Subsidiary is subject to any instrument
governing Acquired Debt, as in effect at the time of acquisition thereof, that prohibits such
Subsidiary from issuing a Guarantee, such Subsidiary shall not be required to execute such a
supplemental indenture until it is permitted to issue such Guarantee pursuant to the terms of such
Acquired Debt; provided, further, however, that notwithstanding the above proviso, if any such
Subsidiary, other than a Non-Guarantor Subsidiary, incurs Indebtedness under or guarantees the
Credit Agreement, then such Subsidiary or Non-Guarantor Subsidiary will guarantee the Notes as
well.
Section 10.18 Statement by Officers as to Default.
(a) The Company will deliver to the Trustee, on or before a date not more than 120 days after
the end of each fiscal year of the Company ending after the date hereof, a written statement signed
by two executive officers of the Company, one of whom shall be the principal executive officer,
principal financial officer or principal accounting officer of the Company, as to compliance
herewith, including whether or not, after a review of the activities of the Company during such
year and of the Company’s performance under this Indenture, to the best knowledge,
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based on such
review, of the signers thereof, the Company has fulfilled all of its respective obligations and is
in compliance with all conditions and covenants under this Indenture throughout such year and, if
there has been a Default specifying each Default and the nature and status thereof and any actions
being taken by the Company with respect thereto.
(b) When any Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, or if the Trustee or
any Holder or the trustee for or the holder of any other evidence of Indebtedness of the Company or
any Subsidiary gives any notice or takes any other action with respect to a claimed default the
Company shall deliver to the Trustee by registered or certified mail or facsimile transmission
followed by hard copy of an Officers’ Certificate specifying such Default, Event of Default, notice
or other action, the status thereof and what actions the Company is taking or proposes to take with
respect thereto, within ten Business Days of becoming aware of its occurrence.
Section 10.19 Waiver of Certain Covenants.
The Company may omit in any particular instance to comply with any covenant or condition set
forth in Section 7.4, Sections 10.6 through 10.11 and Sections
10.14 through 10.20, if, before or after the time for such compliance, the Holders of
not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes at the time Outstanding shall,
by Act of such Holders, waive such compliance in such instance with such covenant or provision, but
no such waiver shall extend to or affect such covenant or condition except to the extent so
expressly waived, and, until such waiver shall become effective, the obligations of the Company and
the duties of the Trustee in respect of any such covenant or condition shall remain in full force
and effect.
Section 10.20 Perfection of Security Interests.
Subject to the Intercreditor Agreement, the Company shall preserve the Liens granted under the
Security Documents and the Intercreditor Agreement and, subject to the provisions of the Security
Documents, shall undertake all actions which are required by applicable law in the reasonable
judgment of the Trustee or the Collateral Agent to (a) maintain the Liens of the Collateral Agent
in the Collateral in full force and effect at all times (including the priority thereof), and (b)
preserve and protect the Collateral and protect and enforce the Company’s rights and title and the
rights of the Collateral Agent to the Collateral, including, without limitation, the making or
delivery of all filings and recordations, the payment of fees and other charges and the issuance of
supplemental documentation for such purposes.
Section 10.21 Consummation of Plan of Reorganization.
No provision of this Indenture shall prevent the Company and its Subsidiaries from
consummating the Plan and the transactions contemplated thereby.
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ARTICLE XI
REDEMPTION OF NOTES
Section 11.1 Rights of Redemption.
The Notes are subject to redemption at any time, at the option of the Company, in whole or in
part, subject to the conditions, and at the Redemption Prices, specified in the form of Note,
together with accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the Redemption Date (subject to the right of
Holders of record on relevant Regular Record Dates and Special Record Dates to receive interest due
on relevant Interest Payment Dates and Special Payment Dates).
Section 11.2 Applicability of Article.
Redemption of Notes at the election of the Company or otherwise, as permitted or required by
any provision of this Indenture, shall be made in accordance with such provision and this
Article XI.
Section 11.3 Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee.
The election of the Company to redeem any Notes pursuant to Section 11.1 shall be
evidenced by a Company Order and an Officers’ Certificate. In case of any redemption at the
election of the Company, the Company shall, not less than 45 nor more than 60 days prior to the
Redemption Date fixed by the Company (unless a shorter notice period shall be satisfactory to the
Trustee), notify the Trustee in writing of such Redemption Date and of the principal amount of
Notes to be redeemed.
Section 11.4 Selection by Trustee of Notes to Be Redeemed.
If less than all the Notes are to be redeemed, the particular Notes or portions thereof to be
redeemed shall be selected not more than 45 days prior to the Redemption Date. The Trustee shall
select the Notes or portions thereof to be redeemed pro rata, by lot or by any other method
the Trustee shall deem fair and reasonable. The amounts to be redeemed shall be equal to
$1,000 or any integral multiple thereof.
If requested by the Company, the Trustee shall promptly notify the Company and the Note
Registrar in writing of the Notes selected for redemption and, in the case of any Notes 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 redemption of Notes shall relate, in the case of any Note redeemed or to be redeemed
only in part, to the portion of the principal amount of such Note which has been or is to be
redeemed.
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Section 11.5 Notice of Redemption.
Notice of redemption shall be given by first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not less than
30 days nor more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date, to each Holder of Notes to be redeemed,
at its address appearing in the Note Register.
(a) All notices of redemption shall state:
(b) the Redemption Date;
(c) the Redemption Price;
(d) if less than all Outstanding Notes are to be redeemed, the identification of the
particular Notes to be redeemed;
(e) in the case of a Note to be redeemed in part, the principal amount of such Note to be
redeemed and that after the Redemption Date upon surrender of such Note, new Note or Notes in the
aggregate principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion thereof will be issued;
(f) that Notes called for redemption must be surrendered to the Paying Agent to collect the
Redemption Price;
(g) that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price will become due and payable upon each
such Note or portion thereof to be redeemed, and that (unless the Company shall default in payment
of the Redemption Price) interest thereon shall cease to accrue on and after said date;
(h) the names and addresses of the Paying Agent and the offices or agencies referred to in
Section 10.2 where such Notes are to be surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price;
(i) the CUSIP number, if any, relating to such Notes; and
(j) the procedures that a Holder must follow to surrender the Notes to be redeemed.
Notice of redemption of Notes to be redeemed at the election of the Company shall be given by
the Company or, at the Company’s written request, by the Trustee in the name and at the expense of
the Company. If the Company elects to give notice of redemption, it shall provide the Trustee with
a certificate stating that such notice has been given in compliance with the requirements of this
Section 11.5.
The notice if mailed in the manner herein provided shall be conclusively presumed to have been
given, whether or not the Holder receives such notice. In any case, failure to give such notice by
mail or any defect in the notice to the Holder of any Note designated for redemption as a whole or
in part shall not affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption of any other Note.
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Section 11.6 Deposit of Redemption Price.
On or prior to 10:00 a.m., New York time, on any Redemption Date, the Company shall deposit
with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if the Company or any of its Affiliates is acting as
Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 10.3) an amount of money
in same day funds sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of, and (except if the Redemption Date
shall be an Interest Payment Date or Special Payment Date) accrued interest on, all the Notes or
portions thereof which are to be redeemed on that date. The Paying Agent shall promptly mail or
deliver to Holders of Notes so redeemed payment in an amount equal to the Redemption Price of the
Notes purchased from each such Holder. All money, if any, earned on funds held in trust by the
Trustee or any Paying Agent shall be remitted to the Company. For purposes of this Section
11.6, the Company shall choose a Paying Agent which shall not be the Company.
Section 11.7 Notes Payable on Redemption Date.
Notice of redemption having been given as aforesaid, the Notes 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 and
accrued interest) such Notes shall cease to bear interest. Holders will be required to surrender
the Notes to be redeemed to the Paying Agent at the address specified in the notice of redemption
at least one Business Day prior to the Redemption Date. Upon surrender of any such Note for
redemption in accordance with said notice, such Note shall be paid by the Company at the Redemption
Price together with accrued interest to the Redemption Date; provided, however, that installments
of interest whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption Date shall be payable to the
Holders of such Notes, or one or more Predecessor Notes, registered as such on the relevant Regular
Record Dates and Special Record Dates according to the terms and the provisions of Section
3.9.
If any Note called for redemption shall not be so paid upon surrender thereof for redemption,
the principal and premium, if any, shall, until paid, bear interest from the Redemption Date at the
rate borne by such Note.
Section 11.8 Notes Redeemed or Purchased in Part.
Any Note which is to be redeemed or purchased only in part shall be surrendered to the Paying
Agent at the office or agency maintained for such purpose pursuant to Section 10.2 (with,
if the Company, the Note Registrar or the Trustee so requires, due endorsement by, or a written
instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company, the Note Registrar or the Trustee, as
the case may be, duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Holder’s attorney duly authorized in
writing), and the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the
Holder of such Note without service charge, a new Note or Notes, 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 Note so surrendered that is not redeemed or purchased.
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ARTICLE XII
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
Section 12.1 Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture.
This Indenture shall be discharged and shall cease to be of further effect (except as to
surviving rights of registration of transfer or exchange of Notes as expressly provided for herein)
as to all Outstanding Notes hereunder, and the Trustee, upon Company Request and at the expense of
the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this
Indenture, when
(a) either
(1) all the Notes theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than (i) lost, stolen
or destroyed Notes which have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 3.8 or
(ii) all Notes for whose payment United States dollars have theretofore been deposited in
trust or segregated and held in trust by the Company and thereafter repaid to the Company or
discharged from such trust as provided in Section 10.3) have been delivered to the
Trustee for cancellation; or
(2) all such Notes not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation (i) have
become due and payable, (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 has irrevocably deposited or
caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust an amount in United States
dollars sufficient to pay and discharge the entire Indebtedness on the Notes not theretofore
delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, including the principal of, premium, if any, and
accrued interest on, such Notes at such Maturity, Stated Maturity or Redemption Date;
(b) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable hereunder by the Company;
and
(c) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of
Independent Counsel, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, each stating
that (i) all conditions precedent herein relating to the satisfaction and discharge hereof have
been complied with and (ii) such satisfaction and discharge will not result in a breach or
violation of, or constitute a default under, this Indenture or any other material agreement or
instrument to which the Company or any Subsidiary is a party or by which the Company or any
Subsidiary is bound.
Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge hereof, the obligations of the Company to the
Trustee under Section 6.6 and, if United States dollars shall have been deposited with the
Trustee pursuant to subclause (2) of subsection (a) of this Section 12.1, the obligations
of the Trustee under Section 12.2 and the last paragraph of Section 10.3 shall
survive.
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Section 12.2 Application of Trust Money.
Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 10.3, all United States
dollars deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 12.1 shall be held in trust and
applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the Notes and this Indenture, to the payment,
either directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent)
as the Trustee may determine, to the Persons entitled thereto, of the principal of, premium, if
any, and interest on, the Notes for whose payment such United States dollars have been deposited
with the Trustee.
ARTICLE XIII
GUARANTEE
Section 13.1 Unconditional Guarantee.
Each Guarantor hereby unconditionally guarantees (such guarantee to be referred herein as a
“Guarantee”), on a senior unsecured basis jointly and severally, to each Holder of a Note
authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and to the Trustee and its successors and assigns, the
Notes or the obligations of the Company hereunder or thereunder, that: (i) the principal of and
interest on the Notes will be promptly paid in full when due, subject to any applicable grace
period, whether at maturity, by acceleration or otherwise and interest on the overdue principal, if
any, and interest on any interest, to the extent lawful, of the Notes and all other obligations of
the Company to the Holders or the Trustee hereunder or thereunder will be promptly paid in full or
performed, all in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof; and (ii) in case of any extension
of time of payment or renewal of any Notes or of any such other obligations, the same will be
promptly paid in full when due or performed in accordance with the terms of the extension or
renewal, subject to any grace period, whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise,
subject, however, in the case of clauses (i) and (ii) above, to the limitations set forth in
Section 13.3. Each Guarantor hereby agrees that its obligations hereunder shall be
unconditional, irrespective of the validity, regularity or enforceability of the Notes or this
Indenture, the absence of any action to enforce the same, any waiver or consent by any Holder of
the Notes with respect to any provisions hereof or thereof, the recovery of any judgment against
the Company, and action to enforce the same or any other circumstance which might otherwise
constitute a legal or equitable discharge or defense of a Guarantor. Each Guarantor hereby waives
diligence, presentment, demand of payment, filing of claims with a court in the event of insolvency
or bankruptcy of the Company, any right to require a proceeding first against the Company, protest,
notice and all demands whatsoever and covenants that this Guarantee will not be discharged except
by complete performance of the obligations contained in the Notes, this Indenture and in this
Guarantee. If any Holder or the Trustee is required by any court or otherwise to return to the
Company, any Guarantor, or any custodian, trustee, liquidator or other similar official acting in
relation to the Company or any Guarantor, any amount paid by the Company or any Guarantor to the
Trustee or such Holder, this Guarantee, to the extent theretofore discharged, shall be reinstated
in full force and effect. Each Guarantor further agrees that, as between each Guarantor, on the
one hand, and the Holders and the Trustee, on the other hand (x) the maturity of the obligations
guaranteed hereby may be accelerated as provided in Article V for purposes of this
Guarantee, notwithstanding any stay, injunction or other
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prohibition preventing such acceleration
in respect of the obligations guaranteed hereby, and (y) in the event of any acceleration of such
obligations as provided in Article V, such obligations (whether or not due and payable)
shall forthwith become due and payable by each Guarantor for purposes of this Guarantee.
Section 13.2 Severability.
In case any provision of this Guarantee 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 13.3 Limitation of Guarantor’s Liability.
Each Guarantor and by its acceptance hereof each Holder hereby confirms that it is the
intention of all such parties that the guarantee by such Guarantor pursuant to its Guarantee shall
not constitute a fraudulent transfer or conveyance for purposes of any Bankruptcy Law, the Uniform
Fraudulent Conveyance Act, the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act or any similar Federal or state law.
To effectuate the foregoing intention, the Holders and such Guarantor hereby irrevocably agree
that the obligations of such Guarantor under its Guarantee shall be limited to the maximum amount
as will, after giving effect to all other contingent and fixed liabilities (including all of its
obligations under or with respect to the Credit Agreement and all Interest Rate Agreements) of such
Guarantor and after giving effect to any collections from or payments made by or on behalf of any
other Guarantor in respect of the obligations of such other
Guarantor under its Guarantee or pursuant to Section 13.5, result in the obligations
of such Guarantor under the Guarantee not constituting such fraudulent transfer or conveyance.
Section 13.4 Release of Guarantor.
(a) The Guarantee of a Guarantor will be automatically and unconditionally released without
any action on the part of the Trustee or the Holders of the Notes: (1) in connection with any sale
or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of that Guarantor (including,
without limitation, by way of merger or consolidation), if the Company applies the Net Cash
Proceeds of that sale or other disposition in accordance with the applicable provisions of this
Indenture; (2) in connection with any sale of all of the Capital Stock of that Guarantor, if the
Company applies the Net Cash Proceeds of that sale in accordance with the applicable provisions of
this Indenture; (3) if the Company designates that Guarantor as an Unrestricted Subsidiary in
accordance with the applicable provisions of this Indenture; or (4) upon the payment in full of the
Notes.
In addition, concurrently with any defeasance or covenant defeasance pursuant to Article
IV, the Guarantors shall be released from all of their obligations under their respective
applicable Guarantees.
(b) The Trustee shall deliver an appropriate instrument evidencing such release upon receipt
of a request by the Company accompanied by an Officers’ Certificate and Opinion of Counsel
certifying as to the compliance with this Section 13.4.
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Section 13.5 Contribution.
In order to provide for just and equitable contribution among the Guarantors, the Guarantors
agree, inter se, that in the event any payment or distribution is made by any Guarantor (a
“Funding Guarantor”) under its Guarantee, such Funding Guarantor shall be entitled to a
contribution from all other Guarantors in a pro rata amount based on the Adjusted Net Assets (as
defined below) of each Guarantor (including the Funding Guarantor) for all payments, damages and
expenses incurred by that Funding Guarantor in discharging the Company’s obligations with respect
to the Notes or any other Guarantor’s obligations with respect to its Guarantee. “Adjusted Net
Assets” of such Guarantor at any date shall mean the lesser of the amount by which (x) the fair
value of the property of such Guarantor exceeds the total amount of liabilities, including, without
limitation, contingent liabilities (after giving effect to all other fixed and contingent
liabilities incurred or assumed on such date), but excluding liabilities under its Guarantee, of
such Guarantor at such date and (y) the present fair salable value of the assets of such Guarantor
at such date exceeds the amount that will be required to pay the probable liability of such
Guarantor on its debts (after giving effect to all other fixed and contingent liabilities incurred
or assumed on such date), excluding debt in respect of the Guarantee of such Guarantor, as they
become absolute and matured.
Section 13.6 Waiver of Subrogation.
Until all obligations under the Guarantees are paid in full, each Guarantor hereby irrevocably
waives any claims or other rights which it may now or hereafter acquire against the Company that
arise from the existence, payment, performance or enforcement of such Guarantor’s obligations under
its Guarantee and this Indenture, including, without limitation, any right of subrogation,
reimbursement, exoneration, indemnification, and any right to participate in any claim or remedy of
any Holder against the Company, whether or not such claim, remedy or right arises in equity, or
under contract, statute or common law, including, without limitation, the right to take or receive
from the Company, directly or indirectly, in cash or other property or by set-off or in any other
manner, payment or security on account of such claim or other rights. If any amount shall be paid
to any Guarantor in violation of the preceding sentence and the Notes shall not have been paid in
full, such amount shall have been deemed to have been paid to such Guarantor for the benefit of,
and held in trust for the benefit of, the Holders, and shall, forthwith be paid to the Trustee for
the benefit of such Holders to be credited and applied upon the Notes, whether matured or
unmatured, in accordance with the terms of this Indenture. Each Guarantor acknowledges that it
will receive direct and indirect benefits from the financing arrangements contemplated by this
Indenture and that the waiver set forth in this Section 13.6 is knowingly made in
contemplation of such benefits.
Section 13.7 Execution of Guarantee.
To evidence their guarantee to the Holders set forth in this Article XIII, the
Guarantors hereby agree to execute the Guarantee in substantially the form set forth in Section
2.4, which shall be endorsed on each Note ordered to be authenticated and delivered by the
Trustee. Each Guarantor hereby agrees that its Guarantee set forth in this Article XIII
shall remain in full force and effect notwithstanding the failure to endorse on each Note a
notation of such Guarantee. Each such Guarantee shall be signed on behalf of each Guarantor by one
of its duly authorized
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officers prior to the authentication of the Note on which it is endorsed,
and the delivery of such Note by the Trustee, after the authentication thereof hereunder, shall
constitute due delivery of such Guarantee on behalf of such Guarantor. Such signatures upon the
Guarantee may be by manual or facsimile signature of such officers and may be imprinted or
otherwise reproduced on the Guarantee, and in case any such officer who shall have signed the
Guarantee shall cease to be such officer before the Note on which such Guarantee is endorsed shall
have been authenticated and delivered by the Trustee or disposed of by the Company, such Note
nevertheless may be authenticated and delivered or disposed of as though the Person who signed the
Guarantee had not ceased to be such officer of the Guarantor.
Section 13.8 Waiver of Stay, Extension or Usury Laws.
Each Guarantor covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will not at any
time insist upon, plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any
state or extension law or any usury law or other law that would prohibit or forgive each such
Guarantor from performing its Guarantee as contemplated herein, wherever enacted, now or at any
time hereafter in force, or which may affect the covenants or performance of this Indenture; and
(to the extent that it may lawfully do so) each such Guarantor hereby expressly waives all benefits
or advantage of any such law, and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or impede the execution
of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such
power as though no such law had been enacted.
ARTICLE XIV
SECURITY ARRANGEMENTS
Section 14.1 Collateral and Security Documents.
(a) To secure the due and punctual payment of principal of and interest on the Notes by the
Company when and as the same shall be due and payable (whether on an Interest Payment Date, at
Stated Maturity, by acceleration, call for redemption, upon a Change of Control Offer or an Offer,
with respect to an Asset Sale or otherwise) and interest on the overdue principal of, and interest
(to the extent permitted by law) on, the Notes and performance of all other obligations of the
Company and the Guarantors to the Holders of the Notes, the Trustee or the Collateral Agent under
this Indenture, the Notes, the Guarantees, and the Security Documents, according to the terms
hereunder or thereunder, each of the Company and the Guarantors will enter into the Security
Documents, to create the security interests with respect to the Collateral (except to the extent
that granting such Liens is precluded by the provisions or the documents evidencing Senior Secured
Debt). The Trustee, the Collateral Agent, the Guarantors and the Company hereby acknowledge and
agree that the Collateral Agent holds the Collateral in Trust for the benefit of the Holders of the
Note and the Trustee pursuant to the terms of the Security Documents.
(b) Each Holder, by accepting a Note, agrees to all of the terms and provisions of the
Security Documents and the Intercreditor Agreement (including, without limitation, the provisions
providing for foreclosure and release of Collateral) as the same may be in effect or may be amended
from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof and hereof, and
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authorizes and directs the
Trustee, in its capacity as Collateral Agent, to perform its obligations and exercise its rights
under the Security Documents in accordance therewith; provided, however, that if any provisions of
the Security Documents limit, qualify or conflict with the duties imposed by the provisions of the
TIA, the TIA will control.
(c) As more fully set forth in, and subject to the provisions of, the Security Documents, the
Holders, and the Trustee and the Collateral Agent on behalf of such Holders,
will have rights in and to the Collateral that are subject to the rights that have been or may
be created in favor of the holders of other indebtedness and obligations of the Company.
(d) As among the Holders, the Collateral shall be held for the equal and ratable benefit of
the Holders without preference, priority or distinction of any thereof over any other.
(e) With respect to the Trustee acting as Collateral Agent, the Trustee (i) shall not be
deemed to have breached its fiduciary duty as Trustee to the Holders as a result of the performance
of its duties as Collateral Agent to the extent it acts in compliance with the Security Documents
and the Intercreditor Agreement and (ii) shall not be liable to the Holders for any such action or
inaction. The rights and interests created under this Indenture shall be subject to the terms of
the Security Documents. and the Intercreditor Agreement.
(f) The Company and each Guarantor will do or cause to be done all such acts and things as may
be required by the provisions of the Security Documents to which it is a party, to assure and
confirm to the Trustee, in its capacity as Collateral Agent, the Liens on the Collateral
contemplated by the Security Documents to which it is a party, as from time to time constituted, so
as to render the same available for the security and benefit of this Indenture and of the Notes and
each Subsidiary Guarantee secured thereby, as applicable, according to the intent and purposes
herein and therein expressed. The Company will take all actions required pursuant to the Security
Documents to be valid, enforceable and perfected (except as expressly provided therein) Liens in
and on all the Collateral in favor of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Trustee and for
the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders of the Notes. Each Guarantor will take any and all
actions required pursuant to the Security Documents to cause the Liens created pursuant to the
Security Documents to which it is a party to create and maintain for its obligations under each
Guarantee and the Security Document related thereto, valid and enforceable, perfected (except as
expressly provided therein), Liens in favor of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Trustee
and for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders of the Notes.
Section 14.2 Release of Collateral.
Collateral may be released from the Liens created by the Security Documents at any time or
from time to time, and the Security Documents may be terminated, in accordance with the provisions
of the Security Documents, the Intercreditor Agreement or in accordance with this Indenture. Upon
the request of the Company pursuant to an Officers’ Certificate certifying that all conditions
precedent hereunder have been met, the Company and the Guarantors will be entitled to a release of
assets included in the Collateral from the Liens securing the Notes, and the Collateral Agent and
the Trustee (if the Trustee is not then the Collateral Agent) shall release
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the same from such
Liens at the Company’s sole cost and expense, under one or more of the following circumstances:
(1) if all other Liens on such property or assets securing First Priority Lien
Obligations (including all commitments and letters of credit thereunder) are released;
provided, however, that if the Company or any Guarantor subsequently incurs First
Priority Lien Obligations that are secured by liens on property or assets of the
Company or any Guarantor of the type constituting the Collateral and the related Liens are
incurred in reliance on clause (vii) of the definition of Permitted Liens, then the Company
and its Subsidiaries will be required to reinstitute the security arrangement with respect
to the Collateral in favor of the Notes, which, in the case of any such subsequent First
Priority Lien Obligations, will be second priority Liens on the Collateral securing such
First Priority Lien Obligations to the same extent provided by the Security Documents and on
the terms and conditions of the security documents relating to such First Priority Lien
Obligations, with the second priority Lien held either by the administrative agent,
collateral agent or other representative for such First Priority Lien Obligations or by a
collateral agent or other representative designated by the Company to hold the second
priority Liens for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes and the Trustee and subject to an
intercreditor agreement that provides the administrative agent or collateral agent
substantially the same rights and powers as afforded under the Intercreditor Agreement;
(2) to enable the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary to sell, exchange or otherwise
dispose of any of the Collateral as permitted under Section 10.12;
(3) in the case of a Guarantor that is released from its Guarantee with respect to the
Notes, the release of the property and assets of such Guarantor;
(4) if the Notes have been defeased pursuant to Section 4.2;
(5) pursuant to an amendment or waiver in accordance with Article IX of this
Indenture.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if an Event of Default under this Indenture exists on the date
on which First Priority Lien Obligations are repaid in full and terminated (including all
commitments and letters of credit thereunder), the second priority Liens on the Collateral securing
the Notes will not be released, except to the extent the Collateral or any portion thereof was
disposed of in order to repay First Priority Lien Obligations secured by the Collateral, and
thereafter the Trustee (acting at the direction of the holders of a majority of outstanding
principal amount of the Notes) will have the right to direct the Intercreditor Agent to foreclose
upon the Collateral (but in such event, the Liens on the Collateral securing the Notes will be
released when such Event of Default and all other Events of Default under the Indenture cease to
exist).
Upon the request of the Company pursuant to an Officers’ Certificate and receipt of an Opinion
of Counsel certifying that any sale, conveyance or disposal of any Collateral has been effected in
compliance with the provisions of this Indenture, the Trustee will release such Collateral. Upon
receipt of such Officers’ Certificate and Opinion of Counsel, the Trustee will execute, deliver and
acknowledge any necessary or proper instruments of termination or release
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of any Collateral permitted to be released pursuant to this Indenture or the Collateral Documents.
The release of any Collateral from the terms hereof and of the Security Documents or the release
of, in whole or in part, the Liens created by the Security Documents, or the termination of the
Security Documents, will not be deemed to impair the Liens on the Collateral in contravention of
the provisions hereof if and to the extent that the Liens on Collateral are released, or the
Security Documents are terminated, pursuant to this Indenture, the
Intercreditor Agreement or the applicable Security Documents. The Trustee and each of the
Holders acknowledge that a release of Collateral or a Lien in accordance with the terms of the
Security Documents will not be deemed for any purpose to be an impairment of the Lien on the
Collateral in contravention of the terms of this Indenture. To the extent applicable, the Company
and each obligor on the Notes shall cause § 314(d) of the TIA relating to the release of property
or securities from the Lien hereof and of the Security Documents to be complied with. Any
certificate or opinion required by § 314(d) of the TIA may be made by an officer of the Company,
except in cases which § 314(d) of the TIA requires that such certificate or opinion be made by an
independent person. In releasing any Collateral pursuant to the terms of the Indenture, including
the provisions of Section 10.02, or any Security Documents, the Trustee shall be entitled
to receive, and shall be fully protected in relying upon, in addition to the documents required by
Section 13.04, an Officers’ Certificate certifying that such release is authorized or
permitted by this Indenture and the Security Documents and the Intercreditor Agreement and that all
conditions precedent, if any, to such release have been satisfied.
Section 14.3 Opinions as to Recording.
(a) Each of the Company and the Guarantors represent that it has caused or will promptly cause
to be executed and delivered, filed and recorded and covenants that it will promptly cause to be
executed and delivered and filed and recorded, all instruments and documents, and represents that
it has done and will do or will cause to be done all such acts and other things, at the Company’s
or the Guarantors’ expense, as applicable, as are necessary to subject the applicable Collateral to
valid Liens and to perfect those Liens to the extent contemplated by the Security Documents.
(b) The Company and the Guarantors shall furnish to the Trustee and the Collateral Agent
promptly after the execution and delivery of this Indenture an Opinion of Counsel either (i)
stating that in the opinion of such counsel all action has been taken with respect to the
recording, registering and filing of this Indenture, financing statements or other instruments or
otherwise necessary to make effective the Liens intended to be created by the Security Documents
and reciting the details of such action, or (ii) stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, no
such action is necessary to make such Lien effective. Such Opinion of Counsel may contain such
qualifications, assumptions and limitations as are customary for such opinions.
(c) The Company and the Subsidiary Guarantors shall furnish to the Trustee and the Collateral
Agent within three months after each anniversary of the Issue Date, an Opinion of Counsel, dated as
of such date, stating either that (i) in the opinion of such counsel, all action has been taken
with respect to the recording, filing, re-recording, and refiling of the Indenture and related
financing statements, continuation statements and other instruments and documents as is necessary
to maintain the effectiveness of the Liens intended to be created by the Security Documents and
reciting the details of such action or (ii) in the opinion of such counsel, no such
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necessary to maintain the effectiveness of such Liens. Such Opinion of Counsel may contain such
qualifications, assumptions and limitations as are customary for such opinions.
(d) The Company and the Subsidiary Guarantors shall otherwise comply with the provisions of §
314(b) and, as applicable §§ 314(c), (d) and (e) of the TIA.
Section 14.4 Further Assurances and Security.
(a) The Company and the Guarantors will execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Trustee, at
the Company’s and/or such Guarantor’s expense, at any time and from time to time such further
assignments, transfers, assurances or other instruments as may be reasonably required by the
Trustee, to assure and confirm to the Trustee, in its capacity as Collateral Agent, the Liens in
the Collateral contemplated hereby and by the Security Documents, all to the extent contemplated by
the Security Documents.
Section 14.5 Authorization of Actions to be Taken by Collateral Agent Under the Security
Documents.
Subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement, the Trustee, in its capacity as
Collateral Agent, may, in its sole discretion and without the consent of the Holders, on behalf of
the Holders, take all actions it deems necessary or appropriate in order to (a) enforce any of the
terms of the Security Documents and (b) collect and receive any and all amounts payable in respect
of the obligations of the Company and the Guarantors hereunder. The Trustee, in its capacity as
Collateral Agent, shall have the power to institute and to maintain such suits and proceedings as
such Person may deem expedient to prevent any impairment of the Collateral by any acts that may be
unlawful or in violation of the Security Documents of this Indenture, and such suits and
proceedings as the Trustee may deem expedient to preserve or protect its interests and the
interests of the Holders in the Collateral (including power to institute and maintain suits or
proceedings to restrain the enforcement of or compliance with any legislative or other government
enactment, rule or order that may be unconstitutional or otherwise invalid if the enforcement of,
or compliance with, such enactment, rule or order would impair the security interest hereunder or
be prejudicial to the interests of the Holders or of the Trustee).
Section 14.6 Authorization of Receipt of Funds by the Trustee under the Security
Documents.
The Trustee, in its capacity as Collateral Agent, is authorized to receive any funds for the
benefit of the Holders distributed under the Security Documents, and to make further distributions
of such funds to the Holders according to the provisions of this Indenture and the Security
Documents.
Section 14.7 Covenants of Collateral Agent with Respect to the Credit Agreement.
The Trustee, in its capacity as Collateral Agent, and any successor Collateral Agent, hereby
agrees that it shall, upon the written request of the Company:
(1) enter into the Intercreditor Agreement with regard to the Credit Agreement to
effectuate the priority of the Liens granted under the Credit Agreement over the Liens
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the Collateral Agent with respect to the Collateral to the extent contemplated herein; and
(2) release its Lien with respect to Collateral to the extent required under the
Intercreditor Agreement.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be duly executed, all as
of the day and year first above written.
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APPENDIX I
FORM OF TRANSFEREE CERTIFICATE
I or we assign and transfer this Note to:
Please insert social security or other identifying number of assignee Print or type name,
address and zip code of assignee and irrevocably appoint [Agent], to transfer this Note on the
books of the Company. The Agent may substitute another to act for him.
(Sign exactly as name appears on the other side of this Note)
[Signatures must be guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements
of the Notes Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in the Security
Transfer Agent Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other “signature guarantee program” as
may be determined by the Notes Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in
accordance with the Exchange Act.]
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RECONCILIATION AND TIE BETWEEN TRUST INDENTURE ACT OF 1939
AND INDENTURE, DATED AS OF ___, 2007
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This reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a part of this
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