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TRUST AGREEMENT
between
AUTORICS II, INC.,
as Depositor,
and
WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
as Owner Trustee
Dated as of March 1, 1997
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I
Definitions
SECTION 1.01. Capitalized Terms...................................... 1
SECTION 1.02. Other Definitional Provisions.......................... 4
ARTICLE II
Organization
SECTION 2.01. Name................................................... 5
SECTION 2.02. Office................................................. 5
SECTION 2.03. Purposes and Powers.................................... 5
SECTION 2.04. Appointment of Owner Trustee........................... 6
SECTION 2.05. Initial Capital Contribution of Owner Trust Estate..... 6
SECTION 2.06. Declaration of Trust................................... 6
SECTION 2.07. Liability of the Owners................................ 6
SECTION 2.08. Title to Trust Property................................ 7
SECTION 2.09. Situs of Trust......................................... 7
SECTION 2.10. Representations and Warranties of the Depositor........ 8
SECTION 2.11. Maintenance of the Demand Note......................... 9
SECTION 2.12. Federal Income Tax Provisions.......................... 9
ARTICLE III
Trust Certificates and Transfer of Interests
SECTION 3.01. Initial Ownership...................................... 9
SECTION 3.02. The Trust Certificates................................. 9
SECTION 3.03. Authentication of Trust Certificates................... 9
SECTION 3.04. Registration of Transfer and Exchange of
Trust Certificates..................................... 10
SECTION 3.05. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Trust
Certificates........................................... 12
SECTION 3.06. Persons Deemed Owners.................................. 13
SECTION 3.07. Access to List of Certificateholders' Names
and Addresses.......................................... 13
SECTION 3.08. Maintenance of Office or Agency........................ 13
SECTION 3.09. Appointment of Paying Agent............................ 13
SECTION 3.10. Ownership by Depositor of Trust
Certificates........................................... 14
SECTION 3.11. Book-Entry Trust Certificates.......................... 14
SECTION 3.12. Notices to Clearing Agency............................. 15
SECTION 3.13. Definitive Trust Certificates.......................... 15
ARTICLE IV
Actions by Owner Trustee
SECTION 4.01. Prior Notice to Owners with Respect to
Certain Matters........................................ 16
SECTION 4.02. Action by Owners with Respect to Certain
Matters................................................ 17
SECTION 4.03. Action by Owners with Respect to Bankruptcy............ 17
SECTION 4.04. Restrictions on Owners' Power.......................... 17
SECTION 4.05. Majority Control....................................... 17
ARTICLE V
Application of Trust Funds; Certain Duties
SECTION 5.01. Establishment of Trust Account......................... 18
SECTION 5.02. Application of Trust Funds............................. 18
SECTION 5.03. Method of Payment...................................... 18
SECTION 5.04. No Segregation of Moneys; No Interest.................. 19
SECTION 5.05. Accounting and Reports to the Noteholders,
Owners, the Internal Revenue Service and
Others................................................. 19
SECTION 5.06. Signature on Returns................................... 19
ARTICLE VI
Authority and Duties of Owner Trustee
SECTION 6.01. General Authority...................................... 19
SECTION 6.02. General Duties......................................... 20
SECTION 6.03. Action upon Instruction................................ 20
SECTION 6.04. No Duties Except as Specified in this
Agreement or in Instructions........................... 21
SECTION 6.05. No Action Except Under Specified Documents
or Instructions........................................ 21
SECTION 6.06. Restrictions........................................... 22
ARTICLE VII
Concerning the Owner Trustee
SECTION 7.01. Acceptance of Trusts and Duties........................ 22
SECTION 7.02. Furnishing of Documents................................ 23
SECTION 7.03. Representations and Warranties......................... 23
SECTION 7.04. Reliance; Advice of Counsel............................ 24
SECTION 7.05. Not Acting in Individual Capacity...................... 25
SECTION 7.06. Owner Trustee Not Liable for Trust
Certificates or Receivables............................ 25
SECTION 7.07. Owner Trustee May Own Trust Certificates and
Notes.................................................. 25
ARTICLE VIII
Compensation of Owner Trustee
SECTION 8.01. Owner Trustee's Fees and Expenses...................... 25
SECTION 8.02. Indemnification........................................ 26
SECTION 8.03. Payments to the Owner Trustee.......................... 26
ARTICLE IX
Termination of Trust Agreement
SECTION 9.01. Termination of Trust Agreement......................... 26
SECTION 9.02. Dissolution upon Bankruptcy of the Depositor........... 28
ARTICLE X
Successor Owner Trustees and Additional Owner Trustees
SECTION 10.01. Eligibility Requirements for Owner Trustee............. 28
SECTION 10.02. Resignation or Removal of Owner Trustee................ 29
SECTION 10.03. Successor Owner Trustee................................ 29
SECTION 10.04. Merger or Consolidation of Owner Trustee............... 30
SECTION 10.05. Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee.......... 30
ARTICLE XI
Miscellaneous
SECTION 11.01. Supplements and Amendments............................. 32
SECTION 11.02. No Legal Title to Owner Trust Estate in Owners......... 34
SECTION 11.03. Limitations on Rights of Others........................ 34
SECTION 11.04. Notices................................................ 34
SECTION 11.05. Severability........................................... 34
SECTION 11.06. Separate Counterparts.................................. 35
SECTION 11.07. Successors and Assigns................................. 35
SECTION 11.08. Covenants of the Depositor............................. 35
SECTION 11.09. No Petition............................................ 35
SECTION 11.10. No Recourse............................................ 36
SECTION 11.11. Headings............................................... 36
SECTION 11.12. GOVERNING LAW.......................................... 36
SECTION 11.13. [Reserved.]............................................ 36
SECTION 11.14. Depositor Payment Obligation........................... 36
EXHIBIT A Form of Trust Certificate EXHIBIT B Form of Certificate of Trust
EXHIBIT C Form of Transferor Certificate EXHIBIT D Form of Investment Letter
EXHIBIT E Form of Depository Agreement ANNEX A Tax Partnership Provisions
TRUST AGREEMENT dated as of March 1, 1997, between AUTORICS II, INC.,
a Delaware corporation, as depositor (the "Depositor") and WILMINGTON
TRUST COMPANY, a Delaware banking corporation, as owner trustee (the
"Owner Trustee").
ARTICLE I
Definitions
SECTION 1.01. Capitalized Terms. For all purposes of this Agreement,
the following terms shall have the meanings set forth below:
"Administration Agreement" shall mean the Administration Agreement
dated as of March 1, 1997, among the Trust, the Indenture Trustee and NAL
Acceptance Corporation, as Administrator.
"Agreement" shall mean this Trust Agreement, as the same may be amended
and supplemented from time to time.
"Basic Documents" shall mean the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the
Indenture, the Administration Agreement, the Custodial Agreement and the other
documents, instruments and certificates delivered in connection therewith.
"Benefit Plan" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 3.04.
"Book-Entry Trust Certificate" shall mean a beneficial interest in the
Trust Certificates, ownership and transfers of which shall be made through book
entries by a Clearing Agency as described in Section 3.11.
"Business Trust Statute" shall mean Chapter 38 of Title 12 of the
Delaware Code, 12 Del. Code '3801 et seq., as the same may be amended from time
to time.
"Certificate Depository Agreement" shall mean the agreement dated March
26, 1997, among the Trust, the Owner Trustee, the Administrator and The
Depository Trust Company, as the initial Clearing Agency, substantially in the
form attached hereto as Exhibit E, relating to the Trust Certificates, as the
same may be amended and supplemented from time to time.
"Certificate Distribution Account" shall have the meaning assigned to
such term in Section 5.01.
"Certificate of Trust" shall mean the Certificate of Trust in the form
of Exhibit B filed for the Trust pursuant to Section 3810(a) of the Business
Trust Statute.
"Certificate Register" and "Certificate Registrar" shall mean the
register mentioned in and the registrar appointed pursuant to Section 3.04.
"Certificate Owner" shall mean, with respect to a Book-Entry Trust
Certificate, a Person who is the beneficial owner of such Book-Entry Trust
Certificate, as reflected on the books of the Clearing Agency or on the books of
a Person maintaining an account with such Clearing Agency (directly as a
Clearing Agency Participant or as an indirect participant, in each case in
accordance with the rules of such Clearing Agency).
"Certificateholder" or "Holder" shall mean a Person in whose name a
Trust Certificate is registered.
"Clearing Agency" shall mean an organization registered as a "clearing
agency" pursuant to Section 17A of the Exchange Act.
"Clearing Agency Participant" shall mean a broker, dealer, bank, other
financial institution or other Person for whom from time to time a Clearing
Agency effects book-entry transfers and pledges of securities deposited with the
Clearing Agency.
"Code" shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and
Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder.
"Corporate Trust Office" shall mean, with respect to the Owner Trustee,
the principal corporate trust office of the Owner Trustee located at 0000 X.
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000, Attn: Corporate Trust
Administration, or at such other address as the Owner Trustee may designate by
notice to the Owners and the Depositor, or the principal corporate trust office
of any successor Owner Trustee at the address designated by such successor Owner
Trustee by notice to the Owners and the Depositor.
"Custodial Agreement" shall mean the Custodial Agreement dated as of
March 1, 1997, between the Trust and Bankers Trust Company, as Custodian.
"Definitive Trust Certificates" shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 3.11.
"Demand Note" shall mean, in the case of the Depositor, the Demand Note
dated March 26, 1997, from NAL to the Depositor.
"Depositor" shall mean AUTORICS II, Inc. in its capacity as depositor
hereunder.
"Depositor's Interest" shall mean the Trust Certificate owned by the
Depositor evidencing (i) a not less than 1% undivided interest in the
Certificate Balance and interest at the Pass-Through Rate and (ii) all other
amounts in respect of the Trust property to which the Depositor is entitled
hereunder.
"ERISA" shall have the meaning assigned thereto in Section 3.04.
"Exchange Act" shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended.
"Expenses" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 8.02.
"Indemnified Parties" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 8.02.
"Indenture" shall mean the Indenture dated as of March 1, 1997 between
the Trust and Bankers Trust Company, as Indenture Trustee.
"Initial Certificate Balance" shall mean $8,238,301.89.
"NAL" shall mean NAL Acceptance Corporation, a Florida Corporation, and
any successor in interest.
"Owner" shall mean each Holder of a Trust Certificate.
"Owner Trust Estate" shall mean all right, title and interest of the
Trust in and to the property and rights assigned to the Trust pursuant to
ArticleII of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, all funds on deposit from time to
time in the Trust Accounts and the Certificate Distribution Account and all
other property of the Trust from time to time, including any rights of the Owner
Trustee and the Trust pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement and the
Administration Agreement.
"Owner Trustee" shall mean Wilmington Trust Company, a Delaware banking
corporation, not in its individual capacity but solely as owner trustee under
this Agreement, and any successor Owner Trustee hereunder.
"Paying Agent" shall mean any paying agent or co-paying agent appointed
pursuant to Section 3.09 and shall initially be Wilmington Trust Company.
"Person" shall mean any individual, corporation, estate, partnership,
joint venture, association, joint stock company, trust (including any
beneficiary thereof), unincorporated organization, or government or any agency
or political subdivision thereof.
"Record Date" shall mean, with respect to any Distribution Date, the
close of business on the last day of the month immediately preceding such
Distribution Date.
"Sale and Servicing Agreement" shall mean the Sale and Servicing
Agreement dated as of March 1, 1997, among the Trust, as issuer, the Depositor,
as seller, NAL Acceptance Corporation, as servicer and Bankers Trust Company, as
Backup Servicer as the same may be amended or supplemented from time to time.
"Secretary of State" shall mean the Secretary of State of the State of
Delaware.
"Treasury Regulations" shall mean regulations, including proposed or
temporary Regulations, promulgated under the Code. References herein to specific
provisions of proposed or temporary regulations shall include analogous
provisions of final Treasury Regulations or other successor Treasury
Regulations.
"Trust" shall mean the trust established by this Agreement.
"Trust Certificate" shall mean a certificate evidencing the beneficial
interest of an Owner in the Trust, substantially in the form attached hereto as
Exhibit A.
SECTION 1.02. Other Definitional Provisions. (a) Capitalized terms used
and not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in the Sale
and Servicing Agreement or, if not defined therein, in the Indenture.
(b) All terms defined in this Agreement shall have the defined meanings
when used in any certificate or other document made or delivered pursuant hereto
unless otherwise defined therein.
(c) As used in this Agreement and in any certificate or other document
made or delivered pursuant hereto or thereto, accounting terms not defined in
this Agreement or in any such certificate or other document, and accounting
terms partly defined in this Agreement or in any such certificate or other
document to the extent not defined, shall have the respective meanings given to
them under generally accepted accounting principles. To the extent that the
definitions of accounting terms in this Agreement or in any such certificate or
other document are inconsistent with the meanings of such terms under generally
accepted accounting principles, the definitions contained in this Agreement or
in any such certificate or other document shall control.
(d) The words "hereof," "herein," "hereunder" and words of similar
import when used in this Agreement shall refer to this Agreement as a whole and
not to any particular provision of this Agreement; Section and Exhibit
references contained in this Agreement are references to Sections and Exhibits
in or to this Agreement unless otherwise specified; and the term "including"
shall mean "including without limitation".
(e) The definitions contained in this Agreement are applicable to the
singular as well as the plural forms of such terms and to the masculine as well
as to the feminine and neuter genders of such terms.
(f) Any agreement, instrument or statute defined or referred to herein
or in any instrument or certificate delivered in connection herewith means such
agreement, instrument or statute as from time to time amended, modified or
supplemented and includes (in the case of agreements or instruments) references
to all attachments thereto and instruments incorporated therein; references to a
Person are also to its permitted successors and assigns.
ARTICLE II
Organization
SECTION 2.01. Name. The Trust created hereby shall be known as "NAL
Auto Trust 1997-1" in which name the Owner Trustee may conduct the business of
the Trust, make and execute contracts and other instruments on behalf of the
Trust and xxx and be sued.
SECTION 2.02. Office. The office of the Trust shall be in care of the
Owner Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office or at such other address in Delaware
as the Owner Trustee may designate by written notice to the Owners and the
Depositor.
SECTION 2.03. Purposes and Powers. (a) The purpose of the Trust is to
engage in the following activities:
(i) to issue the Notes pursuant to the Indenture and the Trust
Certificates pursuant to this Agreement and to sell the Notes and the
Trust Certificates;
(ii) with the proceeds of the sale of the Notes and the Trust
Certificates, to purchase the Receivables, to fund the Reserve Account
and to pay the organizational, start-up and transactional expenses of
the Trust;
(iii) to assign, grant, transfer, pledge, mortgage and convey the
Trust Estate pursuant to the Indenture and to hold, manage and
distribute to the Owners pursuant to the terms of the Sale and
Servicing Agreement any portion of the Trust Estate released from the
Lien of, and remitted to the Trust pursuant to, the Indenture;
(iv) to enter into and perform its obligations under the Basic
Documents to which it is to be a party;
(v) to engage in those activities, including entering into
agreements, that are necessary, suitable or convenient to accomplish
the foregoing or are incidental thereto or connected therewith; and
(vi) subject to compliance with the Basic Documents, to engage in
such other activities as may be required in connection with
conservation of the Owner Trust Estate and the making of distributions
to the Owners and the Noteholders.
The Trust is hereby authorized to engage in the foregoing activities. The Trust
shall not engage in any activity other than in connection with the foregoing or
other than as required or authorized by the terms of this Agreement or the Basic
Documents.
SECTION 2.04. Appointment of Owner Trustee. The Depositor hereby
appoints the Owner Trustee as trustee of the Trust effective as of the date
hereof, to have all the rights, powers and duties set forth herein.
SECTION 2.05. Initial Capital Contribution of Owner Trust Estate. The
Depositor hereby sells, assigns, transfers, conveys and sets over to the Owner
Trustee, as of the date hereof, the sum of $1. The Owner Trustee hereby
acknowledges receipt in trust from the Depositor, as of the date hereof, of the
foregoing contribution, which shall constitute the initial Owner Trust Estate
and shall be deposited in the Certificate Distribution Account. The Depositor
shall pay organizational expenses of the Trust as they may arise or shall, upon
the request of the Owner Trustee, promptly reimburse the Owner Trustee for any
such expenses paid by the Owner Trustee.
SECTION 2.06. Declaration of Trust. The Owner Trustee hereby declares
that it will hold the Owner Trust Estate in trust upon and subject to the
conditions set forth herein for the use and benefit of the Owners, subject to
the obligations of the Trust under the Basic Documents. It is the intention of
the parties hereto that the Trust constitute a business trust under the Business
Trust Statute and that this Agreement constitute the governing instrument of
such business trust. It is the intention of the parties hereto that, solely for
income and franchise tax purposes, the Trust shall be treated as a partnership,
with the assets of the partnership being the Receivables and other assets held
by the Trust, the partners of the partnership being the Certificateholders
(including the Depositor, in its capacity as recipient of distributions from the
Reserve Account), and the Notes being debt of the partnership. The parties agree
that, unless otherwise required by appropriate tax authorities, the Trust will
file or cause to be filed annual or other necessary returns, reports and other
forms consistent with the characterization of the Trust as a partnership for
such tax purposes. Effective as of the date hereof, the Owner Trustee shall have
all rights, powers and duties set forth herein and in the Business Trust Statute
with respect to accomplishing the purposes of the Trust.
SECTION 2.07. Liability of the Owners. (a) The Depositor shall be
liable directly to and will indemnify any injured party for all losses, claims,
damages, liabilities and expenses of the Trust (including Expenses, to the
extent not paid out of the Owner Trust Estate) to the extent that the Depositor
would be liable if the Trust were a partnership under the Delaware Revised
Uniform Limited Partnership Act in which the Depositor were a general partner;
provided, however, that the Depositor shall not be liable for any losses
incurred by a Certificateholder in the capacity of an investor in the Trust
Certificates, or by a Noteholder in the capacity of an investor in the Notes. In
addition, any third party creditors of the Trust (other than in connection with
the obligations described in the preceding sentence for which the Depositor
shall not be liable) shall be deemed third party beneficiaries of this paragraph
and paragraph (c) below. The obligations of the Depositor under this paragraph
and paragraph (c) below shall be evidenced by the Trust Certificates described
in Section 3.10, which for purposes of the Business Trust Statute shall be
deemed to be a separate class of Trust Certificates from all other Trust
Certificates issued by the Trust; provided that the rights and obligations
evidenced by all Trust Certificates, regardless of class, shall, except as
provided in this Section, be identical.
(b) No Owner, other than to the extent set forth in paragraphs (a) and
(c), shall have any personal liability for any liability or obligation of the
Trust.
(c) The Depositor agrees to be liable directly to and will indemnify
any injured party for all losses, claims, damages, liabilities and expenses
(other than those incurred by a Certificateholder in the capacity of an investor
in the Trust Certificates and a Noteholder in the capacity of an investor in the
Notes) as though such arrangements were a partnership under the Delaware Revised
Uniform Limited Partnership Act in which the Depositor were a general partner.
SECTION 2.08. Title to Trust Property. Legal title to all the Owner
Trust Estate shall be vested at all times in the Trust as a separate legal
entity except where applicable law in any jurisdiction requires title to any
part of the Owner Trust Estate to be vested in a trustee or trustees, in which
case title shall be deemed to be vested in the Owner Trustee, a co-trustee
and/or a separate trustee, as the case may be.
SECTION 2.09. Situs of Trust. The Trust will be located and
administered in the State of Delaware. All bank accounts maintained by the Owner
Trustee on behalf of the Trust shall be located in the State of Delaware or the
State of New York. The Trust shall not have any employees in any state other
than Delaware; provided, however, that nothing herein shall restrict or prohibit
the Owner Trustee from having employees within or without the State of Delaware.
Payments will be received by the Trust only in Delaware or New York, and
payments will be made by the Trust only from Delaware or New York. The only
office of the Trust will be at the Corporate Trust Office in Delaware.
SECTION 2.10. Representations and Warranties of the Depositor. The
Depositor hereby represents and warrants to the Owner Trustee that:
(a) The Depositor is duly organized and validly existing as a
corporation in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware,
with power and authority to own its properties and to conduct its
business as such properties are currently owned and such business is
presently conducted.
(b) The Depositor is duly qualified to do business as a
foreign corporation in good standing and has obtained all necessary
licenses and approvals in all jurisdictions in which the ownership or
lease of its property or the conduct of its business shall require such
qualifications.
(c) The Depositor has the power and authority to execute and
deliver this Agreement and to carry out its terms; the Depositor has
full power and authority to sell and assign the property to be sold and
assigned to and deposited with the Trust and the Depositor has duly
authorized such sale and assignment and deposit to the Trust by all
necessary corporate action; and the execution, delivery and performance
of this Agreement have been duly authorized by the Depositor by all
necessary corporate action.
(d) The consummation of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement and the fulfillment of the terms hereof do not conflict with,
result in any breach of any of the terms and provisions of, or
constitute (with or without notice or lapse of time) a default under,
the certificate of incorporation or bylaws of the Depositor, or any
indenture, agreement or other instrument to which the Depositor is a
party or by which it is bound; nor result in the creation or imposition
of any Lien upon any of its properties pursuant to the terms of any
such indenture, agreement or other instrument (other than pursuant to
the Basic Documents); nor violate any law or, to the best of the
Depositor's knowledge, any order, rule or regulation applicable to the
Depositor of any court or of any federal or state regulatory body,
administrative agency or other governmental instrumentality having
jurisdiction over the Depositor or its properties.
(e) There are no proceedings or investigations pending or, to
the Depositor's best knowledge, threatened before any court, regulatory
body, administrative agency or other governmental instrumentality
having jurisdiction over the Depositor or its properties: (A) asserting
the invalidity of this Agreement, (B) seeking to prevent the
consummation of any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement
or (C) seeking any determination or ruling that might materially and
adversely affect the performance by the Depositor of its obligations
under, or the validity or enforceability of, this Agreement.
SECTION 2.11. Maintenance of the Demand Note. To the fullest extent
permitted by applicable law, the Depositor agrees that it shall not sell,
convey, pledge, transfer or otherwise dispose of the Demand Note.
SECTION 2.12. Federal Income Tax Provisions. Annex A to this Agreement
sets forth the tax accounting and administration of the Trust in a manner
consistent with its treatment as a partnership for federal, state and local tax
purposes.
ARTICLE III
Trust Certificates and Transfer of Interests
SECTION 3.01. Initial Ownership. Upon the formation of the Trust by the
contribution by the Depositor pursuant to Section 2.05 and until the issuance of
the Trust Certificates, the Depositor shall be the sole beneficiary of the
Trust.
SECTION 3.02. The Trust Certificates. The Trust Certificates shall be
issued in minimum denominations of $100,000 and in integral multiples of $1,000
in excess thereof; provided, however, that the Trust Certificates issued to the
Depositor pursuant to Section 3.10 may be issued in such denomination as
required to include any residual amount. The Trust Certificates shall be
executed on behalf of the Trust by manual or facsimile signature of an
authorized officer of the Owner Trustee. Trust Certificates bearing the manual
or facsimile signatures of individuals who were, at the time when such
signatures shall have been affixed, authorized to sign on behalf of the Trust,
shall be validly issued and entitled to the benefit of this Agreement,
notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them shall have ceased to be so
authorized prior to the authentication and delivery of such Trust Certificates
or did not hold such offices at the date of authentication and delivery of such
Trust Certificates.
A transferee of a Trust Certificate shall become a Certificateholder
and shall be entitled to the rights and subject to the obligations of a
Certificateholder hereunder upon such transferee's acceptance of a Trust
Certificate duly registered in such transferee's name pursuant to Section 3.04.
SECTION 3.03. Authentication of Trust Certificates. On the Closing
Date, the Owner Trustee shall cause the Trust Certificates in an aggregate
principal amount equal to the Initial Certificate Balance to be executed on
behalf of the Trust, authenticated and delivered to or upon the written order of
the Depositor, signed by its chairman of the board, its president, any vice
president, secretary or any assistant treasurer, without further corporate
action by the Depositor, in authorized denominations. No Trust Certificate shall
entitle its Holder to any benefit under this Agreement or be valid for any
purpose unless there shall appear on such Trust Certificate a certificate of
authentication substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit A, executed by the
Owner Trustee, by manual signature; such authentication shall constitute
conclusive evidence that such Trust Certificate shall have been duly
authenticated and delivered hereunder. All Trust Certificates shall be dated the
date of their authentication.
SECTION 3.04. Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust
Certificates. The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the
office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a Certificate Register in
which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Owner
Trustee shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of
transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. Wilmington
Trust Company shall be the initial Certificate Registrar.
The Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the
Securities Act and will not be listed on any exchange. No transfer of a
Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective
registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state
securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under said Act
and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in
reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in
order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Holder
desiring to effect such transfer and such Holder's prospective transferee shall
each certify to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor in writing the facts
surrounding the transfer in substantially the forms set forth in Exhibit C (the
"Transferor Certificate") and Exhibit D (the "Investment Letter"). Except in the
case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided an
Investment Letter with respect to a Rule 144A transaction, there shall also be
delivered to the Owner Trustee an opinion of counsel that such transfer may be
made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws,
which opinion of counsel shall not be an expense of the Trust, the Owner Trustee
or the Indenture Trustee (unless it is the transferee from whom such opinion is
to be obtained) or of the Depositor or NAL; provided that such opinion of
counsel in respect of the applicable state securities laws may be a memorandum
of law rather than an opinion if such counsel is not licensed in the applicable
jurisdiction. The Depositor shall provide to any Holder of a Certificate and any
prospective transferee designated by any such Holder information regarding the
Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be
necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4)
for transfer of any such Certificate without registration thereof under the
Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A.
Each Holder of a Certificate desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does
hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee
and the Depositor against any liability that may result if the transfer is not
so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws.
No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless
the Owner Trustee has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 3 to
the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the
effect that such Person is not (i) an employee benefit plan (as defined in
Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended
("ERISA")) that is subject to the provisions of TitleI of ERISA, (ii) a plan
described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code or (iii) any entity whose underlying
assets include plan assets by reason of a plan's investment in the entity (each,
a "Benefit Plan"), (B) an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Owner Trustee
and the Depositor to the effect that the purchase and holding of such Trust
Certificate will not constitute or result in the assets of the Issuer being
deemed to be "plan assets" subject to the prohibited transactions provisions of
ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code and will not subject the Owner Trustee, the
Indenture Trustee or the Depositor to any obligation in addition to those
undertaken in the Basic Documents or (C) if such Person is an insurance company,
a representation that such Person is an insurance company that is purchasing
such Certificates with funds contained in an "insurance company general account"
(as such term is defined in section v (e) of Prohibited Transaction Class
Exemption 95-60 ("PTCE 95-60")) and that the purchase and holding of such
Certificates and any deemed extension of credit from a Certificateholder which
is a party in interest to a Plan, the assets of which are held by such
"Insurance Company" are covered under PTCE 95-60; provided, however, that the
Owner Trustee will not require such certificate or opinion in the event that, as
a result of a change of law or otherwise, counsel satisfactory to the Owner
Trustee has rendered an opinion to the effect that the purchase and holding of a
Trust Certificate by a Benefit Plan or a Person that is purchasing or holding
such a Trust Certificate with the assets of a Benefit Plan will not constitute
or result in a prohibited transaction under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code.
The preparation and delivery of the certificate and opinions referred to above
shall not be an expense of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee,
the Servicer or the Depositor. The transferee of a beneficial interest in a
Book-Entry Trust Certificate shall be deemed to represent either (1) that it is
not acting on behalf of a Benefit Plan and is not using the assets of the
Benefit Plan to acquire such interest or (2) that it is an insurance company and
is acquiring such interest with funds contained in an insurance company general
account and that the purchase and holding of such interest is covered under
Sections I and III of PTCE 95-60. Any attempted or purported transfer in
violation of these transfer restrictions will be null and void and will vest no
rights in any purported transferee.
The Owner Trustee shall cause each Certificate to contain a legend
stating that transfer of the Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and
referring prospective purchasers of the Certificates to the terms of this
Agreement with respect to such restrictions.
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at
the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, the Owner Trustee
shall execute, authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated
transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized
denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the
Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Trust
Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized
denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust
Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to
Section 3.08.
Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of
transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in
form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly
executed by the Holder or such Holder's attorney duly authorized in writing.
Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange
shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee in
accordance with its customary practice.
No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or
exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate
Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or
governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or
exchange of Trust Certificates.
The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner
Trustee shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register
transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding
the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
SECTION 3.05. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Trust Certificates.
If (a) any mutilated Trust Certificate shall be surrendered to the Certificate
Registrar, or if the Certificate Registrar shall receive evidence to its
satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Trust Certificate and
(b) there shall be delivered to the Certificate Registrar and the Owner Trustee
such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them
harmless, then in the absence of notice that such Trust Certificate has been
acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Trust
shall execute and the Owner Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange
for or in lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Trust
Certificate, a new Trust Certificate of like tenor and denomination. In
connection with the issuance of any new Trust Certificate under this Section,
the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require the payment of a sum
sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in
connection therewith. Any duplicate Trust Certificate issued pursuant to this
Section shall constitute conclusive evidence of ownership in the Trust, as if
originally issued, whether or not the lost, stolen or destroyed Trust
Certificate shall be found at any time.
SECTION 3.06. Persons Deemed Owners. Prior to due presentation of a
Trust Certificate for registration of transfer, the Owner Trustee, the
Certificate Registrar or any Paying Agent may treat the Person in whose name any
Trust Certificate is registered in the Certificate Register as the owner of such
Trust Certificate for the purpose of receiving distributions pursuant to
Section 5.02 and for all other purposes whatsoever, and none of the Owner
Trustee, the Certificate Registrar or any Paying Agent shall be bound by any
notice to the contrary.
SECTION 3.07. Access to List of Certificateholders' Names and
Addresses. The Owner Trustee shall furnish or cause to be furnished to the
Servicer and the Depositor, within 15days after receipt by the Owner Trustee of
a written request therefor from the Servicer or the Depositor, a list, in such
form as the Servicer or the Depositor may reasonably require, of the names and
addresses of the Certificateholders as of the most recent Record Date. If three
or more Certificateholders or one or more Holders of Trust Certificates
evidencing not less than 25% of the Certificate Balance apply in writing to the
Owner Trustee, and such application states that the applicants desire to
communicate with other Certificateholders with respect to their rights under
this Agreement or under the Trust Certificates and such application is
accompanied by a copy of the communication that such applicants propose to
transmit, then the Owner Trustee shall, within five Business Days after the
receipt of such application, afford such applicants access during normal
business hours to the current list of Certificateholders. Each Holder, by
receiving and holding a Trust Certificate, shall be deemed to have agreed not to
hold any of the Depositor, the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee
accountable by reason of the disclosure of its name and address, regardless of
the source from which such information was derived.
SECTION 3.08. Maintenance of Office or Agency. The Owner Trustee shall
maintain in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, an office or offices
or agency or agencies where Trust Certificates may be surrendered for
registration of transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon
the Owner Trustee in respect of the Trust Certificates and the Basic Documents
may be served. The Owner Trustee initially designates Xxxxxx Trust Company of
New York, 00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, 0xx Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, Attention:
Xxxxxxx Xxxxx, as its office for such purposes. The Owner Trustee shall give
prompt written notice to the Depositor and to the Certificateholders of any
change in the location of the Certificate Register or any such office or agency.
SECTION 3.09. Appointment of Paying Agent. The Paying Agent shall make
distributions to Certificateholders from the Certificate Distribution Account
pursuant to Section 5.02 and shall report the amounts of such distributions to
the Owner Trustee. Any Paying Agent shall have the revocable power to withdraw
funds from the Certificate Distribution Account for the purpose of making the
distributions referred to above. The Owner Trustee may revoke such power and
remove the Paying Agent if the Owner Trustee determines in its sole discretion
that the Paying Agent shall have failed to perform its obligations under this
Agreement in any material respect. The Owner Trustee will be the initial Paying
Agent. In the event that the Owner Trustee shall no longer be the Paying Agent,
the Owner Trustee shall appoint a successor to act as Paying Agent (which shall
be a bank or trust company). The Owner Trustee shall cause such successor Paying
Agent or any additional Paying Agent appointed by the Owner Trustee to execute
and deliver to the Owner Trustee an instrument in which such successor Paying
Agent or additional Paying Agent shall agree with the Owner Trustee that, as
Paying Agent, such successor Paying Agent or additional Paying Agent will hold
all sums, if any, held by it for payment to the Certificateholders in trust for
the benefit of the Certificateholders entitled thereto until such sums shall be
paid to such Certificateholders. The Paying Agent shall return all unclaimed
funds to the Owner Trustee and upon removal of a Paying Agent such Paying Agent
shall also return all funds in its possession to the Owner Trustee. The
provisions of Sections 7.01, 7.03, 7.04 and 8.01 shall apply to the Owner
Trustee also in its role as Paying Agent, for so long as the Owner Trustee shall
act as Paying Agent and, to the extent applicable, to any other paying agent
appointed hereunder. Any reference in this Agreement to the Paying Agent shall
include any co-paying agent unless the context requires otherwise.
SECTION 3.10. Ownership by Depositor of Trust Certificates. The
Depositor shall on the Closing Date retain Trust Certificates representing at
least 1% of the Initial Certificate Balance and shall thereafter retain
beneficial and record ownership of Trust Certificates representing at least 1%
of the Certificate Balance. Any attempted transfer of the Depositor's Trust
Certificate that would reduce such interest of the Depositor below 1% of the
Certificate Balance shall be void. The Owner Trustee shall cause the Depositor's
Trust Certificate to contain a legend stating "THIS CERTIFICATE IS
NON-TRANSFERABLE".
SECTION 3.11. Book-Entry Trust Certificates. The Trust Certificates,
upon original issuance, will be issued in the form of a typewritten Trust
Certificate or Trust Certificates representing Book-Entry Trust Certificates, to
be delivered to The Depository Trust Company, the initial Clearing Agency, by,
or on behalf of, the Trust; provided, however, that one Definitive Trust
Certificate may be issued to the Company pursuant to Section 3.10. Such Trust
Certificate or Trust Certificates shall initially be registered on the
Certificate Register in the name of Cede &Co., the nominee of the initial
Clearing Agency, and no Certificate Owner will receive a definitive Trust
Certificate representing such Certificate Owner's interest in such Trust
Certificate, except as provided in Section 3.13. Unless and until definitive,
fully registered Trust Certificates (the "Definitive Trust Certificates") have
been issued to Certificate Owners pursuant to Section 3.13:
(a) The provisions of this Section shall be in full force and effect;
(b) The Certificate Registrar and the Owner Trustee shall be entitled
to deal with the Clearing Agency for all purposes of this Agreement (including
the payment of principal of and interest on the Trust Certificates and the
giving of instructions or directions hereunder) as the sole Holder of the Trust
Certificates and shall have no obligation to the Certificate Owners;
(c) To the extent that the provisions of this Section conflict with any
other provisions of this Agreement, the provisions of this Section shall
control;
(d) The rights of Certificate Owners shall be exercised only through
the Clearing Agency and shall be limited to those established by law and
agreements between such Certificate Owners and the Clearing Agency and/or the
Clearing Agency Participants. Pursuant to the Certificate Depository Agreement,
unless and until Definitive Trust Certificates are issued pursuant to
Section 3.13, the initial Clearing Agency will make book-entry transfers among
the Clearing Agency Participants and receive and transmit payments of principal
of and interest on the Trust Certificates to such Clearing Agency Participants;
and
(e) Whenever this Agreement requires or permits actions to be taken
based upon instructions or directions of Holders of Trust Certificates
evidencing a specified percentage of the Certificate Balance, the Clearing
Agency shall be deemed to represent such percentage only to the extent that it
has received instructions to such effect from Certificate Owners and/or Clearing
Agency Participants owning or representing, respectively, such required
percentage of the beneficial interest in the Trust Certificates and has
delivered such instructions to the Owner Trustee.
SECTION 3.12. Notices to Clearing Agency. Whenever a notice or other
communication to the Certificateholders is required under this Agreement, unless
and until Definitive Trust Certificates shall have been issued to Certificate
Owners pursuant to Section 3.14, the Owner Trustee shall give all such notices
and communications specified herein to be given to Certificateholders to the
Clearing Agency, and shall have no obligations to the Certificate Owners.
SECTION 3.13. Definitive Trust Certificates. If (i) the Administrator
advises the Owner Trustee in writing that the Clearing Agency is no longer
willing or able to properly discharge its responsibilities with respect to the
Trust Certificates and the Administrator is unable to locate a qualified
successor, (ii) the Administrator at its option advises the Owner Trustee in
writing that it elects to terminate the book-entry system through the Clearing
Agency or (iii) after the occurrence of an Event of Default or a Servicer
Default, Certificate Owners representing beneficial interests aggregating at
least a majority of the Certificate Balance advise the Clearing Agency in
writing that the continuation of a book-entry system through the Clearing Agency
is no longer in the best interest of the Certificate Owners, then the Clearing
Agency shall notify all Certificate Owners and the Owner Trustee of the
occurrence of any such event and of the availability of the Definitive Trust
Certificates to Certificate Owners requesting the same. Upon surrender to the
Owner Trustee of the typewritten Trust Certificate or Trust Certificates
representing the Book-Entry Trust Certificates by the Clearing Agency,
accompanied by registration instructions, the Owner Trustee shall execute and
authenticate the Definitive Trust Certificates in accordance with the
instructions of the Clearing Agency. Neither the Certificate Registrar nor the
Owner Trustee shall be liable for any delay in delivery of such instructions and
may conclusively rely on, and shall be protected in relying on, such
instructions. Upon the issuance of Definitive Trust Certificates, the Owner
Trustee shall recognize the Holders of the Definitive Trust Certificates as
Certificateholders. The Definitive Trust Certificates shall be printed,
lithographed or engraved or may be produced in any other manner as is reasonably
acceptable to the Owner Trustee, as evidenced by its execution thereof.
ARTICLE IV
Actions by Owner Trustee
SECTION 4.01. Prior Notice to Owners with Respect to Certain Matters.
With respect to the following matters, the Owner Trustee shall not take action
unless at least 30 days before the taking of such action, the Owner Trustee
shall have notified the Certificateholders in writing of the proposed action and
the Owners shall not have notified the Owner Trustee in writing prior to the
30th day after such notice is given that such Owners have withheld consent or
provided alternative direction:
(a) the initiation of any claim or lawsuit by the Trust (except claims
or lawsuits brought in connection with the collection of the Receivables) and
the compromise of any action, claim or lawsuit brought by or against the Trust
(except with respect to the aforementioned claims or lawsuits for collection of
the Receivables);
(b) the election by the Trust to file an amendment to the Certificate
of Trust (unless such amendment is required to be filed under the Business Trust
Statute);
(c) the amendment of the Indenture by a supplemental indenture in
circumstances where the consent of any Noteholder is required;
(d) the amendment of the Indenture by a supplemental indenture in
circumstances where the consent of any Noteholder is not required and such
amendment would materially adversely affect the interests of the Owners;
(e) the amendment, change or modification of the Administration
Agreement, except to cure any ambiguity or to amend or supplement any provision
in a manner or add any provision that would not materially adversely affect the
interests of the Owners; or
(f) the appointment pursuant to the Indenture of a successor Note
Registrar, Paying Agent or Indenture Trustee or pursuant to this Agreement of a
successor Certificate Registrar, or the consent to the assignment by the Note
Registrar, Paying Agent or Indenture Trustee or Certificate Registrar of its
obligations under the Indenture or this Agreement, as applicable.
SECTION 4.02. Action by Owners with Respect to Certain Matters. The
Owner Trustee shall not have the power, except upon the written direction of the
Owners, to (a) remove the Administrator under the Administration Agreement
pursuant to Section 8 thereof, (b) appoint a successor Administrator under the
Administration Agreement pursuant to Section 8 thereof, (c) remove the Servicer
under the Sale and Servicing Agreement pursuant to Section 8.01 thereof or
(d) except as expressly provided in the Basic Documents, sell the Receivables
after the termination of the Indenture. The Owner Trustee shall take the actions
referred to in the preceding sentence only upon written instructions signed by
the Owners.
SECTION 4.03. Action by Owners with Respect to Bankruptcy. The Owner
Trustee shall not have the power to commence a voluntary proceeding in
bankruptcy relating to the Trust without the unanimous prior approval of all
Owners and the delivery to the Owner Trustee by each such Owner of a certificate
certifying that such Owner reasonably believes that the Trust is insolvent.
SECTION 4.04. Restrictions on Owners' Power. The Owners shall not
direct the Owner Trustee to take or to refrain from taking any action if such
action or inaction would be contrary to any obligation of the Trust or the Owner
Trustee under this Agreement or any of the Basic Documents or would be contrary
to Section 2.03 or contrary to applicable law, nor shall the Owner Trustee be
obligated to follow any such direction, if given.
SECTION 4.05. Majority Control. Except as expressly provided herein,
any action that may be taken by the Owners under this Agreement may be taken by
the Holders of Trust Certificates evidencing not less than a majority of the
Certificate Balance. Except as expressly provided herein, any written notice of
the Owners delivered pursuant to this Agreement shall be effective if signed by
Holders of Trust Certificates evidencing not less than a majority of the
Certificate Balance at the time of the delivery of such notice.
ARTICLE V
Application of Trust Funds; Certain Duties
SECTION 5.01. Establishment of Trust Account. The Owner Trustee, for
the benefit of the Certificateholders, shall establish and maintain in the name
of the Trust an Eligible Deposit Account (the "Certificate Distribution
Account"), bearing a designation clearly indicating that the funds deposited
therein are held for the benefit of the Certificateholders.
The Owner Trustee shall possess all right, title and interest in all
funds on deposit from time to time in the Certificate Distribution Account and
in all proceeds thereof. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, the
Certificate Distribution Account shall be under the sole dominion and control of
the Owner Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders. If, at any time,
the Certificate Distribution Account ceases to be an Eligible Deposit Account,
the Owner Trustee (or the Depositor on behalf of the Owner Trustee, if the
Certificate Distribution Account is not then held by the Owner Trustee or an
affiliate thereof) shall within 10Business Days (or such longer period, not to
exceed 30 calendar days, as to which each Rating Agency may consent) establish a
new Certificate Distribution Account as an Eligible Deposit Account and shall
transfer any cash and/or any investments to such new Certificate Distribution
Account.
SECTION 5.02. Application of Trust Funds. (a) On each Distribution
Date, the Owner Trustee will distribute to Certificateholders, on a pro rata
basis, amounts deposited in the Certificate Distribution Account pursuant to
Sections 5.05 and 5.06 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement with respect to such
Distribution Date.
(b) On each Distribution Date, the Owner Trustee shall send to each
Certificateholder the statement or statements provided to the Owner Trustee by
the Servicer pursuant to Section 5.07 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement with
respect to such Distribution Date.
SECTION 5.03. Method of Payment. Subject to Section 9.01(c),
distributions required to be made to Certificateholders on any Distribution Date
shall be made to each Certificateholder of record on the preceding Record Date
either (x) by wire transfer, in immediately available funds, to the account of
such Holder at a bank or other entity having appropriate facilities therefor, if
such Certificateholder shall have provided to the Certificate Registrar
appropriate written instructions no later than the Record Date prior to such
Distribution Date, or (y) if such Holder does not qualify under clause (x), by
check mailed to such Certificateholder at the address of such holder appearing
in the Certificate Register.
SECTION 5.04. No Segregation of Moneys; No Interest. Subject to
Sections 5.01 and 5.02, moneys received by the Owner Trustee hereunder need not
be segregated in any manner except to the extent required by law or the Sale and
Servicing Agreement and may be deposited under such general conditions as may be
prescribed by law, and the Owner Trustee shall not be liable for any interest
thereon.
SECTION 5.05. Accounting and Reports to the Noteholders, Owners, the
Internal Revenue Service and Others SECTION 5.05. Accounting and Reports to the
Noteholders, Owners, the Internal Revenue Service and Others. In accordance with
Annex A hereto, the Owner Trustee shall (a) maintain (or cause to be maintained)
the books of the Trust on a calendar year basis and the accrual method of
accounting, in a manner consistent with its treatment as a partnership for
federal and applicable state and local tax purposes, (b) deliver to each Owner,
as may be required by the Code and applicable Treasury Regulations, such
information as may be required (including Schedule K-1) to enable each Owner to
prepare its federal and state income tax returns, (c) file such tax returns
relating to the Trust (including a partnership information return, IRS Form
1065) and make such elections as from time to time may be required or
appropriate under any applicable state or federal statute or any rule or
regulation thereunder so as to maintain the Trust's characterization as a
partnership for federal income tax purposes, (d) cause such tax returns to be
signed in the manner required by law and (e) collect or cause to be collected
any withholding tax as described in and in accordance with Section 6(e) of Annex
A hereto with respect to income or distributions to Owners. The Owner Trustee
shall elect under Section 1278 of the Code to include in income currently any
market discount that accrues with respect to the Receivables. The Owner Trustee
shall not make the election provided under Section 754 of the Code.
SECTION 5.06. Signature on Returns. The Owner Trustee shall sign on
behalf of the Trust the tax returns of the Trust, unless applicable law requires
an Owner to sign such documents, in which case such documents shall be signed by
the Depositor.
ARTICLE VI
Authority and Duties of Owner Trustee
SECTION 6.01. General Authority. The Owner Trustee is authorized and
directed to execute and deliver the Basic Documents to which the Trust is to be
a party and each certificate or other document attached as an exhibit to or
contemplated by the Basic Documents to which the Trust is to be a party and, in
each case, in such form as the Depositor shall approve, as evidenced
conclusively by the Owner Trustee's execution thereof. In addition to the
foregoing, the Owner Trustee is authorized, but shall not be obligated, to take
all actions required of the Trust pursuant to the Basic Documents. The Owner
Trustee is further authorized from time to time to take such action as the
Administrator recommends with respect to the Basic Documents.
SECTION 6.02. General Duties. It shall be the duty of the Owner Trustee
to discharge (or cause to be discharged) all of its responsibilities pursuant to
the terms of this Agreement and the Basic Documents to which the Trust is a
party and to administer the Trust in the interest of the Owners, subject to the
Basic Documents and in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Owner Trustee shall be deemed to have
discharged its duties and responsibilities hereunder and under the Basic
Documents to the extent the Administrator has agreed in the Administration
Agreement to perform any act or to discharge any duty of the Owner Trustee
hereunder or under any Basic Document, and the Owner Trustee shall not be held
liable for the default or failure of the Administrator to carry out its
obligations under the Administration Agreement.
SECTION 6.03. Action upon Instruction. (a) Subject to Article IV and in
accordance with the terms of the Basic Documents, the Owners may by written
instruction direct the Owner Trustee in the management of the Trust. Such
direction may be exercised at any time by written instruction of the Owners
pursuant to Article IV.
(b) The Owner Trustee shall not be required to take any action
hereunder or under any Basic Document if the Owner Trustee shall have reasonably
determined, or shall have been advised by counsel, that such action is likely to
result in liability on the part of the Owner Trustee or is contrary to the terms
hereof or of any Basic Document or is otherwise contrary to law.
(c) Whenever the Owner Trustee is unable to decide between alternative
courses of action permitted or required by the terms of this Agreement or under
any Basic Document, the Owner Trustee shall promptly give notice (in such form
as shall be appropriate under the circumstances) to the Owners requesting
instruction as to the course of action to be adopted, and to the extent the
Owner Trustee acts in good faith in accordance with any written instruction of
the Owners received, the Owner Trustee shall not be liable on account of such
action to any Person. If the Owner Trustee shall not have received appropriate
instruction within 10 days of such notice (or within such shorter period of time
as reasonably may be specified in such notice or may be necessary under the
circumstances) it may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from
taking such action not inconsistent with this Agreement or the Basic Documents,
as it shall deem to be in the best interests of the Owners, and shall have no
liability to any Person for such action or inaction.
(d) In the event that the Owner Trustee is unsure as to the application
of any provision of this Agreement or any Basic Document or any such provision
is ambiguous as to its application, or is, or appears to be, in conflict with
any other applicable provision, or in the event that this Agreement permits any
determination by the Owner Trustee or is silent or is incomplete as to the
course of action that the Owner Trustee is required to take with respect to a
particular set of facts, the Owner Trustee may give notice (in such form as
shall be appropriate under the circumstances) to the Owners requesting
instruction and, to the extent that the Owner Trustee acts or refrains from
acting in good faith in accordance with any such instruction received, the Owner
Trustee shall not be liable, on account of such action or inaction, to any
Person. If the Owner Trustee shall not have received appropriate instruction
within 10 days of such notice (or within such shorter period of time as
reasonably may be specified in such notice or may be necessary under the
circumstances) it may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from
taking such action not inconsistent with this Agreement or the Basic Documents,
as it shall deem to be in the best interests of the Owners, and shall have no
liability to any Person for such action or inaction.
SECTION 6.04. No Duties Except as Specified in this Agreement or in
Instructions. The Owner Trustee shall not have any duty or obligation to manage,
make any payment with respect to, register, record, sell, dispose of, or
otherwise deal with the Owner Trust Estate, or to otherwise take or refrain from
taking any action under, or in connection with, any document contemplated hereby
to which the Owner Trustee is a party, except as expressly provided by the terms
of this Agreement or in any document or written instruction received by the
Owner Trustee pursuant to Section 6.03; and no implied duties or obligations
shall be read into this Agreement or any Basic Document against the Owner
Trustee. The Owner Trustee shall have no responsibility for filing any financing
or continuation statement in any public office at any time or to otherwise
perfect or maintain the perfection of any security interest or lien granted to
it hereunder or to prepare or file any Securities and Exchange Commission filing
for the Trust or to record this Agreement or any Basic Document. The Owner
Trustee nevertheless agrees that it will, at its own cost and expense, promptly
take all action as may be necessary to discharge any liens on any part of the
Owner Trust Estate that result from actions by, or claims against, the Owner
Trustee that are not related to the ownership or the administration of the Owner
Trust Estate.
SECTION 6.05. No Action Except Under Specified Documents or
Instructions. The Owner Trustee shall not manage, control, use, sell, dispose of
or otherwise deal with any part of the Owner Trust Estate except (i) in
accordance with the powers granted to and the authority conferred upon the Owner
Trustee pursuant to this Agreement, (ii) in accordance with the Basic Documents
and (iii) in accordance with any document or instruction delivered to the Owner
Trustee pursuant to Section 6.03.
SECTION 6.06. Restrictions. The Owner Trustee shall not take any action
(a) that is inconsistent with the purposes of the Trust set forth in Section
2.03 or (b) that, to the actual knowledge of the Owner Trustee, would result in
the Trust's becoming taxable as a corporation for federal income tax purposes.
The Owners shall not direct the Owner Trustee to take action that would violate
the provisions of this Section.
ARTICLE VII
Concerning the Owner Trustee
SECTION 7.01. Acceptance of Trusts and Duties. The Owner Trustee
accepts the trusts hereby created and agrees to perform its duties hereunder
with respect to such trusts, but only upon the terms of this Agreement. The
Owner Trustee also agrees to disburse all moneys actually received by it
constituting part of the Owner Trust Estate upon the terms of the Basic
Documents and this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall not be answerable or
accountable hereunder or under any Basic Document under any circumstances,
except (i) for its own willful misconduct or gross negligence (or negligence in
the case of handling funds), (ii) for liabilities arising from the failure by
the Owner Trustee to perform obligations expressly undertaken by it in the last
sentence of Section 6.04 hereof, (iii) for any investments made by the Owner
Trustee with Wilmington Trust Company (in its individual capacity) in its
commercial capacity, (iv) in the case of the inaccuracy of any representation or
warranty contained in Section 7.03 expressly made by the Owner Trustee or (v)
for federal or Delaware taxes, fees or other charges, based on or measured by
any fees, commissions or compensation received by the Owner Trustee in
connection with any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any of
the Basic Documents. In particular, but not by way of limitation (and subject to
the exceptions set forth in the preceding sentence):
(a) The Owner Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment
made by a Trust Officer of the Owner Trustee;
(b) The Owner Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action
taken or omitted to be taken by it in accordance with the instructions of the
Administrator or any Owner;
(c) No provision of this Agreement or any Basic Document shall require
the Owner Trustee to expend or risk funds or otherwise incur any financial
liability in the performance of any of its rights or powers hereunder or under
any Basic Document if the Owner Trustee shall have reasonable grounds for
believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk
or liability is not reasonably assured or provided to it;
(d) Under no circumstances shall the Owner Trustee be liable for
indebtedness evidenced by or arising under any of the Basic Documents, including
the principal of and interest on the Notes;
(e) The Owner Trustee shall not be responsible for or in respect of the
validity or sufficiency of this Agreement or for the due execution hereof by the
Depositor or for the form, character, genuineness, sufficiency, value or
validity of any of the Owner Trust Estate, or for or in respect of the validity
or sufficiency of the Basic Documents, other than the certificate of
authentication on the Trust Certificates, and the Owner Trustee shall in no
event assume or incur any liability, duty or obligation to any Noteholder or to
any Owner, other than as expressly provided for herein or expressly agreed to in
the Basic Documents;
(f) The Owner Trustee shall not be liable for the default or misconduct
of the Administrator, the Depositor, the Indenture Trustee, the Servicer or the
Backup Servicer under any of the Basic Documents or otherwise, and the Owner
Trustee shall have no obligation or liability to perform the obligations of the
Trust under this Agreement or the Basic Documents that are required to be
performed by the Administrator under the Administration Agreement, the Indenture
Trustee under the Indenture or the Servicer or AUTORICS II, Inc., as Depositor
under the Sale and Servicing Agreement; and
(g) The Owner Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of
the rights or powers vested in it by this Agreement, or to institute, conduct or
defend any litigation under this Agreement or otherwise or in relation to this
Agreement or any Basic Document, at the request, order or direction of any of
the Owners, unless such Owners have offered to the Owner Trustee security or
indemnity satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities that
may be incurred by the Owner Trustee therein or thereby. The right of the Owner
Trustee to perform any discretionary act enumerated in this Agreement or in any
Basic Document shall not be construed as a duty, and the Owner Trustee shall not
be answerable for other than its negligence or willful misconduct in the
performance of any such act.
SECTION 7.02. Furnishing of Documents. The Owner Trustee shall furnish
to the Owners promptly upon receipt of a written request therefor, duplicates or
copies of all reports, notices, requests, demands, certificates, financial
statements and any other instruments furnished to the Owner Trustee under the
Basic Documents.
SECTION 7.03. Representations and Warranties. The Owner Trustee hereby
represents and warrants to the Depositor, for the benefit of the Owners, that:
(a) It is a banking corporation duly organized and validly existing in
good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware. It has all requisite
corporate power and authority to execute, deliver and perform its obligations
under this Agreement.
(b) It has taken all corporate action necessary to authorize the
execution and delivery by it of this Agreement, and this Agreement will be
executed and delivered by one of its officers who is duly authorized to execute
and deliver this Agreement on its behalf.
(c) Neither the execution or the delivery by it of this Agreement, nor
the consummation by it of the transactions contemplated hereby, nor compliance
by it with any of the terms or provisions hereof will contravene any federal or
Delaware law, governmental rule or regulation governing the banking or trust
powers of the Owner Trustee or any judgment or order binding on it, or
constitute any default under its charter documents or bylaws or any indenture,
mortgage, contract, agreement or instrument to which it is a party or by which
any of its properties may be bound.
SECTION 7.04. Reliance; Advice of Counsel. (a) The Owner Trustee shall
incur no liability to anyone in acting upon any signature, instrument, notice,
resolution, request, consent, order, certificate, report, opinion, bond, or
other document or paper believed by it to be genuine and believed by it to be
signed by the proper party or parties. The Owner Trustee may accept a certified
copy of a resolution of the board of directors or other governing body of any
corporate party as conclusive evidence that such resolution has been duly
adopted by such body and that the same is in full force and effect. As to any
fact or matter the method of determination of which is not specifically
prescribed herein, the Owner Trustee may for all purposes hereof rely on a
certificate, signed by the president or any vice president or by the treasurer
or other authorized officers of the relevant party, as to such fact or matter,
and such certificate shall constitute full protection to the Owner Trustee for
any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in reliance thereon.
(b) In the exercise or administration of the trusts hereunder and in
the performance of its duties and obligations under this Agreement or the Basic
Documents, the Owner Trustee (i) may act directly or through its agents or
attorneys pursuant to agreements entered into with any of them, and the Owner
Trustee shall not be liable for the conduct or misconduct of such agents or
attorneys if such agents or attorneys shall have been selected by the Owner
Trustee with reasonable care, and (ii) may consult with counsel, accountants and
other skilled Persons to be selected with reasonable care and employed by it.
The Owner Trustee shall not be liable for anything done, suffered or omitted in
good faith by it in accordance with the written opinion or advice of any such
counsel, accountants or other such Persons and not contrary to this Agreement or
any Basic Document.
SECTION 7.05. Not Acting in Individual Capacity. Except as provided in
this Article VII, in accepting the trusts hereby created Wilmington Trust
Company acts solely as Owner Trustee hereunder and not in its individual
capacity, and all Persons having any claim against the Owner Trustee by reason
of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any Basic Document shall
look only to the Owner Trust Estate for payment or satisfaction thereof.
SECTION 7.06. Owner Trustee Not Liable for Trust Certificates or
Receivables. The Owner Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or
sufficiency of this Agreement, of any Basic Document or of the Trust
Certificates (other than the signature and countersignature of the Owner Trustee
on the Trust Certificates) or the Notes, or of any Receivable or related
documents. The Owner Trustee shall at no time have any responsibility or
liability for or with respect to the legality, validity and enforceability of
any Receivable, or the perfection and priority of any security interest created
by any Receivable in any Financed Vehicle or the maintenance of any such
perfection and priority, or for or with respect to the sufficiency of the Owner
Trust Estate or its ability to generate the payments to be distributed to
Certificateholders under this Agreement or the Noteholders under the Indenture,
including, without limitation: the existence, condition and ownership of any
Financed Vehicle; the existence and enforceability of any insurance thereon; the
existence and contents of any Receivable on any computer or other record
thereof; the validity of the assignment of any Receivable to the Trust or of any
intervening assignment; the completeness of any Receivable; the performance or
enforcement of any Receivable; the compliance by the Depositor or the Servicer
with any warranty or representation made under any Basic Document or in any
related document or the accuracy of any such warranty or representation, or any
action of the Administrator, the Indenture Trustee or the Servicer or any
subservicer taken in the name of the Owner Trustee.
SECTION 7.07. Owner Trustee May Own Trust Certificates and Notes. The
Owner Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or
pledgee of Trust Certificates or Notes and may deal with the Depositor, the
Administrator, the Indenture Trustee and the Servicer in banking transactions
with the same rights as it would have if it were not Owner Trustee.
ARTICLE VIII
Compensation of Owner Trustee
SECTION 8.01. Owner Trustee's Fees and Expenses. The Owner Trustee
shall receive as compensation for its services hereunder such fees as have been
separately agreed upon before the date hereof between the Depositor and the
Owner Trustee, and the Owner Trustee shall be entitled to be reimbursed by the
Administrator pursuant to the Administration Agreement for its other reasonable
expenses hereunder, including the reasonable compensation, expenses and
disbursements of such agents, representatives, experts and counsel as the Owner
Trustee may employ in connection with the exercise and performance of its rights
and its duties hereunder.
SECTION 8.02. Indemnification. Pursuant to the Administration
Agreement, the Administrator shall be liable as primary obligor for, and shall
indemnify the Owner Trustee and its successors, assigns, agents and servants
(collectively, the "Indemnified Parties") from and against, any and all
liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, taxes, claims, actions and suits, and
any and all reasonable costs, expenses and disbursements (including reasonable
legal fees and expenses) of any kind and nature whatsoever (collectively,
"Expenses") which may at any time be imposed on, incurred by, or asserted
against the Owner Trustee or any Indemnified Party in any way relating to or
arising out of this Agreement, the Basic Documents, the Owner Trust Estate, the
administration of the Owner Trust Estate or the action or inaction of the Owner
Trustee hereunder, except only that the Administrator shall not be liable for or
required to indemnify an Indemnified Party from and against Expenses arising or
resulting from any of the matters described in the third sentence of
Section 7.01. The indemnities contained in this Section shall survive the
resignation or termination of the Owner Trustee or the termination of this
Agreement. In any event of any claim, action or proceeding for which indemnity
will be sought pursuant to this Section, the Owner Trustee's choice of legal
counsel shall be subject to the approval of the Administrator, which approval
shall not be unreasonably withheld.
SECTION 8.03. Payments to the Owner Trustee. Any amounts paid to the
Owner Trustee pursuant to this Article VIII shall be deemed not to be a part of
the Owner Trust Estate immediately after such payment.
ARTICLE IX
Termination of Trust Agreement
SECTION 9.01. Termination of Trust Agreement. (a) This Agreement (other
than Article VIII) and the Trust shall terminate and be of no further force or
effect (i) upon the final distribution by the Owner Trustee of all moneys or
other property or proceeds of the Owner Trust Estate in accordance with the
terms of the Indenture, the Sale and Servicing Agreement and Article V or (ii)
at the time provided in Section 9.02. The bankruptcy, liquidation, dissolution,
death or incapacity of any Owner, other than the Depositor as described in
Section 9.02, shall not (x) operate to terminate this Agreement or the Trust or
(y) entitle such Owner's legal representatives or heirs to claim an accounting
or to take any action or proceeding in any court for a partition or winding up
of all or any part of the Trust or Owner Trust Estate or (z) otherwise affect
the rights, obligations and liabilities of the parties hereto.
(b) Except as provided in Section 9.01(a), neither the Depositor nor
any Owner shall be entitled to revoke or terminate the Trust.
(c) Notice of any termination of the Trust, specifying the Distribution
Date upon which Certificateholders shall surrender their Trust Certificates to
the Paying Agent for payment of the final distribution and cancellation, shall
be given by the Owner Trustee by letter to Certificateholders mailed within five
Business Days of receipt of notice of such termination from the Servicer given
pursuant to Section 9.01(c) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, stating (i) the
Distribution Date upon or with respect to which final payment of the Trust
Certificates shall be made upon presentation and surrender of the Trust
Certificates at the office of the Paying Agent therein designated, (ii) the
amount of any such final payment and (iii) that the Record Date otherwise
applicable to such Distribution Date is not applicable, payments being made only
upon presentation and surrender of the Trust Certificates at the office of the
Paying Agent therein specified. The Owner Trustee shall give such notice to the
Certificate Registrar (if other than the Owner Trustee) and the Paying Agent at
the time such notice is given to Certificateholders. Upon presentation and
surrender of the Trust Certificates, the Paying Agent shall cause to be
distributed to Certificateholders amounts distributable on such Distribution
Date pursuant to Section 5.02.
In the event that all of the Certificateholders shall not surrender
their Trust Certificates for cancellation within six months after the date
specified in the above mentioned written notice, the Owner Trustee shall give a
second written notice to the remaining Certificateholders to surrender their
Trust Certificates for cancellation and receive the final distribution with
respect thereto. If within one year after the second notice all the Trust
Certificates shall not have been surrendered for cancellation, the Owner Trustee
may take appropriate steps, or may appoint an agent to take appropriate steps,
to contact the remaining Certificateholders concerning surrender of their Trust
Certificates, and the cost thereof shall be paid out of the funds and other
assets that shall remain subject to this Agreement. Any funds remaining in the
Trust after exhaustion of such remedies shall be distributed by the Owner
Trustee to the Depositor.
(d) Upon the winding up of the Trust and its termination, the Owner
Trustee shall cause the Certificate of Trust to be cancelled by filing a
certificate of cancellation with the Secretary of State in accordance with the
provisions of Section 3810 of the Business Trust Statute.
SECTION 9.02. Dissolution upon Bankruptcy of the Depositor. In the
event that an Insolvency Event shall occur with respect to the Depositor, this
Agreement shall be terminated in accordance with Section 9.01 90 days after the
date of such Insolvency Event, unless, before the end of such 90-day period, the
Owner Trustee shall have received written instructions from (a) Holders of
Certificates (other than the Depositor) representing more than 50% of the
Certificate Balance (not including the Certificate Balance of the Trust
Certificates held by the Depositor) and (b) Holders (as defined in the
Indenture) of Notes representing more than 50% of the Outstanding Amount of the
Notes, to the effect that each such party disapproves of the liquidation of the
Receivables and termination of the Trust. Promptly after the occurrence of any
Insolvency Event with respect to the Depositor, (A) the Depositor shall give the
Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee written notice of such Insolvency Event,
(B) the Owner Trustee shall, upon the receipt of such written notice from the
Depositor, give prompt written notice to the Certificateholders and the
Indenture Trustee, of the occurrence of such event and (C) the Indenture Trustee
shall, upon receipt of written notice of such Insolvency Event from the Owner
Trustee or the Depositor, give prompt written notice to the Noteholders of the
occurrence of such event; provided, however, that any failure to give a notice
required by this sentence shall not prevent or delay, in any manner, a
termination of the Trust pursuant to the first sentence of this Section 9.02.
Upon a termination pursuant to this Section, the Owner Trustee shall direct the
Indenture Trustee promptly to sell the assets of the Trust (other than the Trust
Accounts and the Certificate Distribution Account), in a commercially reasonable
manner and on commercially reasonable terms. The proceeds of such a sale of the
assets of the Trust shall be treated as collections under the Sale and Servicing
Agreement.
ARTICLE X
Successor Owner Trustees and Additional Owner Trustees
SECTION 10.01. Eligibility Requirements for Owner Trustee. The Owner
Trustee shall at all times be a corporation satisfying the provisions of
Section 3807 (a) of the Business Trust Statute; authorized to exercise corporate
trust powers; having a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 and
subject to supervision or examination by federal or state authorities. If such
corporation shall publish reports of condition at least annually pursuant to law
or to the requirements of the aforesaid supervising or examining authority, then
for the purpose of this Section, the combined capital and surplus of such
corporation shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth
in its most recent report of condition so published. In case at any time the
Owner Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of
this Section, the Owner Trustee shall resign immediately in the manner and with
the effect specified in Section 10.02.
SECTION 10.02. Resignation or Removal of Owner Trustee. The Owner
Trustee may at any time resign and be discharged from the trusts hereby created
by giving written notice thereof to the Administrator. Upon receiving such
notice of resignation, the Administrator shall promptly appoint a successor
Owner Trustee by written instrument, in duplicate, one copy of which instrument
shall be delivered to the resigning Owner Trustee and one copy to the successor
Owner Trustee. If no successor Owner Trustee shall have been so appointed and
have accepted appointment within 30 days after the giving of such notice of
resignation, the resigning Owner Trustee may petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Owner Trustee.
If at any time the Owner Trustee shall cease to be eligible in
accordance with the provisions of Section 10.01 and shall fail to resign after
written request therefor by the Administrator, or if at any time the Owner
Trustee shall be legally unable to act, or shall be adjudged bankrupt or
insolvent, or a receiver of the Owner Trustee or of its property shall be
appointed, or any public officer shall take charge or control of the Owner
Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation,
conservation or liquidation, then the Administrator may remove the Owner
Trustee. If the Administrator shall remove the Owner Trustee under the authority
of the immediately preceding sentence, the Administrator shall promptly appoint
a successor Owner Trustee by written instrument, in duplicate, one copy of which
instrument shall be delivered to the outgoing Owner Trustee so removed and one
copy to the successor Owner Trustee, and shall pay all fees owed to the outgoing
Owner Trustee.
Any resignation or removal of the Owner Trustee and appointment of a
successor Owner Trustee pursuant to any of the provisions of this Section shall
not become effective until acceptance of appointment by the successor Owner
Trustee pursuant to Section 10.03 and payment of all fees and expenses owed to
the outgoing Owner Trustee. The Administrator shall provide notice of such
resignation or removal of the Owner Trustee to each Rating Agency.
SECTION 10.03. Successor Owner Trustee. Any successor Owner Trustee
appointed pursuant to Section 10.02 shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to
the Administrator and to its predecessor Owner Trustee an instrument accepting
such appointment under this Agreement, and thereupon the resignation or removal
of the predecessor Owner Trustee shall become effective, and such successor
Owner Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become fully
vested with all the rights, powers, duties and obligations of its predecessor
under this Agreement, with like effect as if originally named as Owner Trustee.
The predecessor Owner Trustee shall upon payment of its fees and expenses
deliver to the successor Owner Trustee all documents and statements and monies
held by it under this Agreement; and the Administrator and the predecessor Owner
Trustee shall execute and deliver such instruments and do such other things as
may reasonably be required for fully and certainly vesting and confirming in the
successor Owner Trustee all such rights, powers, duties and obligations.
No successor Owner Trustee shall accept appointment as provided in this
Section unless at the time of such acceptance such successor Owner Trustee shall
be eligible pursuant to Section 10.01.
Upon acceptance of appointment by a successor Owner Trustee pursuant to
this Section, the Administrator shall mail notice thereof to all
Certificateholders, the Indenture Trustee, the Noteholders and the Rating
Agencies. If the Administrator shall fail to mail such notice within 10 days
after acceptance of such appointment by the successor Owner Trustee, the
successor Owner Trustee shall cause such notice to be mailed at the expense of
the Administrator.
SECTION 10.04. Merger or Consolidation of Owner Trustee. Any
corporation into which the Owner 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 Owner Trustee shall be a party, or any
corporation succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust
business of the Owner Trustee, shall be the successor of the Owner Trustee
hereunder, without the execution or filing of any instrument or any further act
on the part of any of the parties hereto, anything herein to the contrary
notwithstanding; provided, that such corporation shall be eligible pursuant to
Section 10.01 and, provided, further, that the Owner Trustee shall mail notice
of such merger or consolidation to each Rating Agency.
SECTION 10.05. Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee.
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement, at any time, for the
purpose of meeting any legal requirements of any jurisdiction in which any part
of the Owner Trust Estate or any Financed Vehicle may at the time be located,
the Administrator and the Owner Trustee acting jointly shall have the power and
shall execute and deliver all instruments to appoint one or more Persons
approved by the Administrator and Owner Trustee to act as co- trustee, jointly
with the Owner Trustee, or as separate trustee or separate trustees, of all or
any part of the Owner Trust Estate, and to vest in such Person, in such
capacity, such title to the Trust or any part thereof and, subject to the other
provisions of this Section, such powers, duties, obligations, rights and trusts
as the Administrator and the Owner Trustee may consider necessary or desirable.
If the Administrator shall not have joined in such appointment within 15days
after the receipt by it of a request so to do, the Owner Trustee alone shall
have the power to make such appointment. No co-trustee or separate trustee under
this Agreement shall be required to meet the terms of eligibility as a successor
Owner Trustee pursuant to Section 10.01 and no notice of the appointment of any
co-trustee or separate trustee shall be required pursuant to Section 10.03.
Each separate trustee and co-trustee shall, to the extent permitted by
law, be appointed and act subject to the following provisions and conditions:
(a) All rights, powers, duties and obligations conferred or imposed
upon the Owner Trustee shall be conferred upon and exercised or performed by the
Owner Trustee and such separate trustee or co-trustee jointly (it being
understood that such separate trustee or co-trustee is not authorized to act
separately without the Owner Trustee joining in such act), except to the extent
that under any law of any jurisdiction in which any particular act or acts are
to be performed, the Owner Trustee shall be incompetent or unqualified to
perform such act or acts, in which event such rights, powers, duties and
obligations (including the holding of title to the Owner Trust Estate or any
portion thereof in any such jurisdiction) shall be exercised and performed
singly by such separate trustee or co-trustee, but solely at the direction of
the Owner Trustee;
(b) No trustee under this Agreement shall be personally liable by
reason of any act or omission of any other trustee under this Agreement; and
(c) The Administrator and the Owner Trustee acting jointly may at any
time accept the resignation of or remove any separate trustee or co-trustee.
Any notice, request or other writing given to the Owner Trustee shall
be deemed to have been given to each of the then separate trustees and
co-trustees, as effectively as if given to each of them. Every instrument
appointing any separate trustee or co-trustee shall refer to this Agreement and
the conditions of this Article. Each separate trustee and co-trustee, upon its
acceptance of the trusts conferred, shall be vested with the estates or property
specified in its instrument of appointment, either jointly with the Owner
Trustee or separately, as may be provided therein, subject to all the provisions
of this Agreement, specifically including every provision of this Agreement
relating to the conduct of, affecting the liability of, or affording protection
to, the Owner Trustee. Each such instrument shall be filed with the Owner
Trustee and a copy thereof given to the Administrator.
Any separate trustee or co-trustee may at any time appoint the Owner
Trustee as its agent or attorney-in-fact with full power and authority, to the
extent not prohibited by law, to do any lawful act under or in respect of this
Agreement on its behalf and in its name. If any separate trustee or co-trustee
shall die, become incapable of acting, resign or be removed, all of its estates,
properties, rights, remedies and trusts shall vest in and be exercised by the
Owner Trustee, to the extent permitted by law, without the appointment of a new
or successor co-trustee or separate trustee.
ARTICLE XI
Miscellaneous
SECTION 11.01. Supplements and Amendments. This Agreement may be
amended by the Depositor and the Owner Trustee, with prior written notice to
each Rating Agency, without the consent of any of the Noteholders or the
Certificateholders, to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any
provisions in this Agreement or for the purpose of adding any provisions to or
changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions in this Agreement or
of modifying in any manner the rights of the Noteholders or the
Certificateholders; provided, however, that such action shall not, as evidenced
by an Opinion of Counsel, adversely affect in any material respect the interests
of any Noteholder or Certificateholder.
This Agreement may also be amended from time to time by the Depositor
and the Owner Trustee, with prior written notice to each Rating Agency, with the
consent of the Holders (as defined in the Indenture) of Notes evidencing not
less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes and the consent of
the Holders of Certificates evidencing not less than a majority of the
Certificate Balance, for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in
any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Agreement or of
modifying in any manner the rights of the Noteholders or the Certificateholders;
provided, however, that no such amendment shall (a) increase or reduce in any
manner the amount of, or accelerate or delay the timing of, collections of
payments on Receivables or distributions that shall be required to be made for
the benefit of the Noteholders or the Certificateholders or (b) reduce the
aforesaid percentage of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes and the Certificate
Balance required to consent to any such amendment, without the consent of the
holders of all the outstanding Notes and Certificates.
Section 2.07, Section 2.11 and Section 9.02 may be deleted or amended
pursuant to the first paragraph of this Section 11.01 if the Depositor shall
have provided to the Trustee, at the Depositor's expense, an Opinion of Counsel
to the effect that (i) the Trustee has complied with any applicable temporary or
final Treasury Regulation or Notice of the Internal Revenue Service providing
for a "check-the-box" partnership classification for federal income tax
purposes; and (ii) that the Trust should be treated as a partnership for State
of Florida income tax purposes and such amendment shall further provide that
Section 1 of Annex A hereto shall be amended by adding the following sentence
immediately following the last sentence thereof: "If the Treasury Department or
Internal Revenue Service shall promulgate a temporary or final regulation notice
or other rule adopting a 'check-the-box' classification system for
unincorporated organizations and which shall be applicable to the Trust, the
Servicer, on behalf of the Tax Partners, shall elect in such manner as may be
provided in such regulation, notice or other rule, to treat the Trust as a
partnership for federal income tax purposes, and each Tax Partner irrevocably
agrees to be bound by such election." Moreover, no amendment to this Agreement
shall be recognized or be effective without the written consent of the Trustee
and receipt by the Trustee of an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such
amendment will not (i) cause the Trust to be treated as an association taxable
as a corporation or as a publicly-traded partnership for federal income tax
purposes or (ii) cause the Trust to be subject to an entity-level tax for State
of Florida tax purposes.
Promptly after the execution of any such amendment or consent, the
Owner Trustee shall furnish written notification of the substance of such
amendment or consent to each Certificateholder, the Indenture Trustee and each
Rating Agency.
It shall not be necessary for the consent of Certificateholders,
Noteholders or the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Section to approve the
particular form of any proposed amendment or consent, but it shall be sufficient
if such consent shall approve the substance thereof. The manner of obtaining
such consents (and any other consents of Certificateholders provided for in this
Agreement or in any other Basic Document) and of evidencing the authorization of
the execution thereof by Certificateholders shall be subject to such reasonable
requirements as the Owner Trustee may prescribe.
Promptly after the execution of any amendment to the Certificate of
Trust, the Owner Trustee shall cause the filing of such amendment with the
Secretary of State.
Prior to the execution of any amendment to this Agreement or the
Certificate of Trust, the Owner Trustee shall be entitled to receive and rely
upon an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such amendment is
authorized or permitted by this Agreement. The Owner Trustee may, but shall not
be obligated to, enter into any such amendment that affects the Owner Trustee's
own rights, duties or immunities under this Agreement or otherwise.
In connection with the execution of any amendment to this Trust
Agreement or any amendment of any other agreement to which the Issuer is a
party, the Owner Trustee shall be entitled to receive and conclusively rely upon
an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such amendment is authorized or
permitted by the Basic Documents and that all conditions precedent in the Basic
Documents for the execution and delivery thereof by the Issuer or the Owner
Trustee, as the case may be, have been satisfied.
SECTION 11.02. No Legal Title to Owner Trust Estate in Owners. The
Owners shall not have legal title to any part of the Owner Trust Estate. The
Owners shall be entitled to receive distributions with respect to their
undivided ownership interest therein only in accordance with Articles V and IX.
No transfer, by operation of law or otherwise, of any right, title or interest
of the Owners to and in their ownership interest in the Owner Trust Estate shall
operate to terminate this Agreement or the trusts hereunder or entitle any
transferee to an accounting or to the transfer to it of legal title to any part
of the Owner Trust Estate.
SECTION 11.03. Limitations on Rights of Others. Except for Section
2.07, the provisions of this Agreement are solely for the benefit of the Owner
Trustee, the Depositor, the Owners, the Administrator and, to the extent
expressly provided herein, the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders, and
nothing in this Agreement (other than Section 2.07 hereof), whether express or
implied, shall be construed to give to any other Person any legal or equitable
right, remedy or claim in the Owner Trust Estate or under or in respect of this
Agreement or any covenants, conditions or provisions contained herein.
SECTION 11.04. Notices. (a) Unless otherwise expressly specified or
permitted by the terms hereof, all notices shall be in writing and shall be
deemed given upon receipt by the intended recipient or three Business Days after
mailing if personally delivered or mailed by certified mail, return receipt
requested and postage prepaid or by recognized overnight courier or by facsimile
confirmed by delivery or mail as described above (except that notice to the
Owner Trustee shall be deemed given only upon actual receipt by the Owner
Trustee), if to the Owner Trustee, addressed to the Corporate Trust Office; if
to the Depositor, addressed to AUTORICS II, Inc., 000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxx,
Xxxxx 000, Xxxx Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000; tel.: 000-000-0000; facsimile:
000-000-0000, Attention: Xxxxxx XxXxxxx; or, as to each party, at such other
address as shall be designated by such party in a written notice to each other
party.
(b) Any notice required or permitted to be given to a Certificateholder
shall be given by first-class mail, postage prepaid, at the address of such
Holder as shown in the Certificate Register. Any notice so mailed within the
time prescribed in this Agreement shall be conclusively presumed to have been
duly given, whether or not the Certificateholder receives such notice.
SECTION 11.05. Severability. Any provision of this Agreement that is
prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction,
be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or unenforceability without
invalidating the remaining provisions hereof, and any such prohibition or
unenforceability in any jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render
unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction.
SECTION 11.06. Separate Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed by
the parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed and
delivered shall be an original, but all such counterparts shall together
constitute but one and the same instrument.
SECTION 11.07. Successors and Assigns. All covenants and agreements
contained herein shall be binding upon, and inure to the benefit of, each of the
Depositor and its permitted assignees, the Owner Trustee and its successors and
each Owner and its successors and permitted assigns, all as herein provided. Any
request, notice, direction, consent, waiver or other instrument or action by an
Owner shall bind the successors and assigns of such Owner.
SECTION 11.08. Covenants of the Depositor. In the event that
(a) Certificateholders' Principal Carryover Shortfalls shall occur or (b) any
litigation with claims in excess of $1,000,000 to which the Depositor is a party
which shall be reasonably likely to result in a material judgment against the
Depositor that the Depositor will not be able to satisfy shall be commenced by
an Owner, during the period beginning nine months following the commencement of
such litigation and continuing until such litigation is dismissed or otherwise
terminated (and, if such litigation has resulted in a final judgment against the
Depositor, such judgment has been satisfied), the Depositor shall not pay any
dividend to NAL, or make any distribution on or in respect of its capital stock
to NAL, or repay the principal amount of any indebtedness of the Depositor held
by NAL, unless (i) after giving effect to such payment, distribution or
repayment, the Depositor's liquid assets shall not be less than the amount of
actual damages claimed in such litigation or (ii) the Rating Agency Condition
shall have been satisfied with respect to any such payment, distribution or
repayment. The Depositor will not at any time institute against the Trust any
bankruptcy proceedings under any United States federal or state bankruptcy or
similar law in connection with any obligations relating to the Trust
Certificates, the Notes, the Trust Agreement or any of the Basic Documents.
SECTION 11.09. No Petition. The Owner Trustee, by entering into this
Agreement, each Certificateholder, by accepting a Trust Certificate, and the
Indenture Trustee and each Noteholder, by accepting the benefits of this
Agreement, hereby covenant and agree that they will not at any time institute
against the Depositor or the Trust, or join in any institution against the
Depositor or the Trust of, any bankruptcy proceedings under any United States
federal or state bankruptcy or similar law in connection with any obligations
relating to the Trust Certificates, the Notes, this Agreement or any of the
Basic Documents.
SECTION 11.10. No Recourse. Each Certificateholder by accepting a Trust
Certificate acknowledges that such Certificateholder's Trust Certificates
represent beneficial interests in the Trust only and do not represent interests
in or obligations of the Depositor, the Servicer, the Administrator, the Owner
Trustee, the Indenture Trustee or any Affiliate thereof and no recourse may be
had against such parties or their assets, except as may be expressly set forth
or contemplated in this Agreement, the Trust Certificates or the Basic
Documents.
SECTION 11.11. Headings. The headings of the various Articles and
Sections herein are for convenience of reference only and shall not define or
limit any of the terms or provisions hereof.
SECTION 11.12. GOVERNING LAW. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS
CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISIONS, AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE
PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.
SECTION 11.13. [Reserved.]
SECTION 11.14. Depositor Payment Obligation. The Depositor shall be
responsible for payment of the Administrator's fees under the Administration
Agreement and shall reimburse the Administrator for all expenses and liabilities
of the Administrator incurred thereunder. In addition, the Depositor shall be
responsible for the payment of all fees and expenses of the Trust, the Owner
Trustee and the Indenture Trustee paid by any of them in connection with any of
their obligations under the Basic Documents to obtain or maintain any required
license under the Motor Vehicle Sales Finance Act.
* * * * * *
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Trust Agreement
to be duly executed by their respective officers hereunto duly authorized, as of
the day and year first above written.
AUTORICS II, INC., as Depositor,
by: ____________________________________
Name: Xxxxxx XxXxxxx
Title: Vice President
WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
not in its individual capacity but
solely as Owner Trustee,
by: ____________________________________
Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Title: Vice President
EXHIBIT A
FORM OF TRUST CERTIFICATE
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THIS CERTIFICATE IS SUBORDINATED TO THE NOTES, AS AND TO THE EXTENT SET FORTH IN
THE SALE AND SERVICING AGREEMENT.
UNLESS THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF
THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION ("DTC"), TO THE ISSUER OR
ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY TRUST
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.
THIS CERTIFICATE HAS NOT BEEN AND WILL NOT BE REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES
ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE "1933 ACT"), OR UNDER THE SECURITIES OR BLUE SKY
LAWS OF ANY STATE IN THE UNITED STATES OR ANY FOREIGN SECURITIES LAWS. BY ITS
ACCEPTANCE OF THIS CERTIFICATE THE HOLDER HEREOF IS DEEMED TO REPRESENT TO THE
DEPOSITOR AND THE OWNER TRUSTEE (i) THAT IT IS AN "ACCREDITED INVESTOR" AS
DEFINED IN RULE 501(a)(1), (2), (3) OR (7) OF REGULATION D PROMULGATED UNDER THE
1933 ACT (AN "ACCREDITED INVESTOR") AND THAT IT IS ACQUIRING THIS CERTIFICATE
FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT (AND NOT FOR THE ACCOUNT OF OTHERS) OR AS A FIDUCIARY OR
AGENT FOR OTHERS (WHICH OTHERS ALSO ARE ACCREDITED INVESTORS UNLESS THE HOLDER
IS A BANK ACTING IN ITS FIDUCIARY CAPACITY) FOR INVESTMENT AND NOT WITH A VIEW
TO, OR FOR OFFER OR SALE IN CONNECTION WITH, THE PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION HEREOF,
(ii) THAT IT IS A "QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER" AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER
THE 1933 ACT AND IS ACQUIRING SUCH CERTIFICATE FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT (AND NOT FOR
THE ACCOUNT OF OTHERS) OR AS A FIDUCIARY OR AGENT FOR OTHERS (WHICH OTHERS ALSO
ARE QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYERS) OR (iii) THAT IT IS AN INVESTOR THAT IS
OTHERWISE PERMITTED TO ACQUIRE THIS CERTIFICATE UNDER THE TRUST AGREEMENT.
NO SALE, PLEDGE OR OTHER TRANSFER OF THIS CERTIFICATE MAY BE MADE BY ANY PERSON
UNLESS EITHER (i) SUCH SALE, PLEDGE OR OTHER TRANSFER IS MADE TO THE DEPOSITOR,
(ii) SUCH SALE, PLEDGE OR OTHER TRANSFER IS MADE TO AN ACCREDITED INVESTOR THAT
EXECUTES A CERTIFICATE, SUBSTANTIALLY IN THE FORM SPECIFIED IN THE TRUST
AGREEMENT, TO THE EFFECT THAT IT IS AN ACCREDITED INVESTOR ACTING FOR ITS OWN
ACCOUNT (AND NOT FOR THE ACCOUNT OF OTHERS) OR AS A FIDUCIARY OR AGENT FOR
OTHERS (WHICH OTHERS ALSO ARE ACCREDITED INVESTORS UNLESS THE HOLDER IS A BANK
ACTING IN ITS FIDUCIARY CAPACITY), (iii) SO LONG AS THIS CERTIFICATE IS ELIGIBLE
FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE 1933 ACT, SUCH SALE, PLEDGE OR OTHER
TRANSFER IS MADE TO A PERSON WHO THE PROSPECTIVE TRANSFEROR REASONABLY BELIEVES
AFTER DUE INQUIRY IS A "QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER" (AS DEFINED IN RULE
144A), ACTING FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT (AND NOT FOR THE ACCOUNT OF OTHERS) OR AS A
FIDUCIARY OR AGENT FOR OTHERS (WHICH OTHERS ALSO ARE QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL
BUYERS) TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE SALE, PLEDGE OR TRANSFER IS BEING MADE
IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A, OR (iv) SUCH SALE, PLEDGE OR OTHER TRANSFER IS
OTHERWISE MADE IN A TRANSACTION EXEMPT FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE
1933 ACT, IN WHICH CASE THE OWNER TRUSTEE SHALL REQUIRE THAT BOTH THE
PROSPECTIVE TRANSFEROR AND THE PROSPECTIVE TRANSFEREE CERTIFY TO THE OWNER
TRUSTEE AND THE DEPOSITOR IN WRITING THE FACTS SURROUNDING SUCH TRANSFER, WHICH
CERTIFICATION SHALL BE IN FORM AND SUBSTANCE SATISFACTORY TO THE OWNER TRUSTEE
AND THE DEPOSITOR. EXCEPT IN THE CASE OF A TRANSFER DESCRIBED IN CLAUSES (i) OR
(iii) ABOVE, THE OWNER TRUSTEE SHALL REQUIRE A WRITTEN OPINION OF COUNSEL (WHICH
SHALL NOT BE AT THE EXPENSE OF THE DEPOSITOR, ANY AFFILIATE OF THE DEPOSITOR OR
THE OWNER TRUSTEE) SATISFACTORY TO THE DEPOSITOR AND THE OWNER TRUSTEE TO THE
EFFECT THAT SUCH TRANSFER WILL NOT VIOLATE THE 1933 ACT. NO SALE, PLEDGE OR
OTHER TRANSFER MAY BE MADE TO ANY ONE PERSON FOR SECURITIES WITH A FACE AMOUNT
OF LESS THAN $100,000 AND, IN THE CASE OF ANY PERSON ACTING ON BEHALF OF ONE OR
MORE THIRD PARTIES (OTHER THAN A BANK (AS DEFINED IN SECTION 3(a)(2) OF THE 1933
ACT) ACTING IN ITS FIDUCIARY CAPACITY), FOR SECURITIES WITH A FACE AMOUNT OF
LESS THAN $100,000 FOR EACH SUCH THIRD PARTY.
EACH SECURITYHOLDER, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE OF THIS SECURITY, COVENANTS AND AGREES
THAT SUCH SECURITYHOLDER, SHALL NOT, PRIOR TO THE DATE THAT IS ONE YEAR AND ONE
DAY AFTER THE TERMINATION OF THE TRUST AGREEMENT, ACQUIESCE, PETITION OR
OTHERWISE INVOKE OR CAUSE THE TRUST, THE DEPOSITOR OR THE SELLER TO INVOKE THE
PROCESS OF ANY COURT OR GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORITY FOR THE PURPOSE OF COMMENCING OR
SUSTAINING A CASE AGAINST THE TRUST, THE DEPOSITOR OR THE SELLER UNDER ANY
FEDERAL OR STATE BANKRUPTCY, INSOLVENCY, REORGANIZATION OR SIMILAR LAW, OR
APPOINTING A RECEIVER, LIQUIDATOR, ASSIGNEE, TRUSTEE, CUSTODIAN, SEQUESTRATOR OR
OTHER SIMILAR OFFICIAL OF THE TRUST, THE DEPOSITOR OR THE SELLER OR ANY
SUBSTANTIAL PART OF ITS PROPERTY, OR ORDERING THE WINDING UP OR LIQUIDATION OF
THE AFFAIRS OF THE TRUST, THE DEPOSITOR OR THE SELLER.
THIS CERTIFICATE WILL NOT BE REGISTERED FOR TRANSFER UNLESS THE OWNER TRUSTEE
RECEIVES EITHER (1) A REPRESENTATION FROM THE TRANSFEREE OF SUCH CERTIFICATE TO
THE EFFECT THAT SUCH TRANSFEREE NEITHER IS NOR IS ACTING ON BEHALF OF AN
EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN OR OTHER RETIREMENT ARRANGEMENT SUBJECT TO TITLE I OF THE
EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED ("ERISA"), SECTION 4975 OF
THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED (THE "CODE") OR A GOVERNMENTAL
PLAN (AS DEFINED IN SECTION 3(32) OF ERISA) SUBJECT TO ANY FEDERAL, STATE OR
LOCAL LAW ("SIMILAR LAW") WHICH IS, TO A MATERIAL EXTENT, SIMILAR TO THE
FOREGOING PROVISIONS OF ERISA OR THE CODE (COLLECTIVELY, A "PLAN") AND IS NOT
USING THE ASSETS OF A PLAN SUBJECT TO ERISA OR THE CODE TO INVEST IN THE
CERTIFICATES, (2) IF THE TRANSFEREE IS A PLAN, OR IS ACTING ON BEHALF OF A PLAN
TO INVEST IN THIS CERTIFICATE, OR IS USING THE ASSETS OF A PLAN, AN OPINION OF
COUNSEL SATISFACTORY TO THE OWNER TRUSTEE TO THE EFFECT THAT SUCH TRANSFER WILL
NOT RESULT IN THE ASSETS OF THE TRUST BEING DEEMED TO BE "PLAN ASSETS" OR
SUBJECT THE DEPOSITOR, THE SELLER, THE SERVICER, THE BACKUP SERVICER, THE OWNER
TRUSTEE, OR THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE TO ANY OBLIGATION IN ADDITION TO THOSE
UNDERTAKEN IN THE TRUST AGREEMENT, THE SALE AND SERVICING AGREEMENT AND THE
ADMINISTRATION AGREEMENT, INCLUDING ANY LIABILITIES ASSESSED FOR "PROHIBITED
TRANSACTIONS" UNDER ERISA, THE CODE OR SIMILAR LAW (3) IF THE TRANSFEREE IS AN
INSURANCE COMPANY, A REPRESENTATION THAT THE TRANSFEREE IS AN INSURANCE COMPANY
THAT IS ACQUIRING SUCH CERTIFICATES WITH FUNDS CONTAINED IN AN "INSURANCE
COMPANY GENERAL ACCOUNT" (AS SUCH TERM IS DEFINED IN SECTION V(e) OF PROHIBITED
TRANSACTION CLASS EXEMPTION 95-60 ("PTCE 95-60")) AND THAT THE PURCHASE AND
HOLDING OF SUCH CERTIFICATES AND ANY DEEMED EXTENSION OF CREDIT FROM A
CERTIFICATEHOLDER WHICH IS A PARTY IN INTEREST TO A PLAN, THE ASSETS OF WHICH
ARE HELD BY SUCH "INSURANCE COMPANY" ARE COVERED UNDER PTCE 95-60. ANY PURPORTED
TRANSFER OF A CERTIFICATE TO OR ON BEHALF OF A PLAN WITHOUT THE DELIVERY OF AN
OPINION OF COUNSEL REFERRED TO IN CLAUSE (2) ABOVE OR THE REPRESENTATION
REFERRED TO IN CLAUSE (3) ABOVE SHALL BE VOID AND OF NO EFFECT.
THE TRANSFEREE OF A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN A BOOK-ENTRY TRUST CERTIFICATE SHALL
BE DEEMED TO REPRESENT EITHER (1) THAT IT IS NOT ACTING ON BEHALF OF A PLAN AND
IS NOT USING THE ASSETS OF A PLAN TO ACQUIRE SUCH INTEREST OR (2) THAT IT IS AN
INSURANCE COMPANY AND IS ACQUIRING SUCH INTEREST WITH FUNDS CONTAINED IN AN
INSURANCE COMPANY GENERAL ACCOUNT AND THAT THE PURCHASE AND HOLDING OF SUCH
INTEREST IS COVERED UNDER SECTION I AND III OF PTCE 95-60.
[THIS CERTIFICATE IS NONTRANSFERABLE.]1
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1 To be included only on the Certificates representing the 1% minimum required
to be retained by the Depositor and any Certificates issued in exchange
therefor.
NUMBER $_________
R- CUSIP NO. _________
NAL AUTO TRUST 1997-1
____% ASSET BACKED CERTIFICATE
evidencing a fractional undivided interest in the Trust, as defined below, the
property of which consists of retail installment sale contracts for new and used
automobiles and light duty trucks (collectively, the "Receivables"), all monies
received on or after the related Cutoff Date, security interests in the vehicles
financed thereby, certain bank accounts and the proceeds thereof, proceeds from
claims on certain insurance policies and certain other rights under the Trust
Agreement and the Sale and Servicing Agreement and all proceeds of the
foregoing.
THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE DOES NOT REPRESENT AN INTEREST IN OR OBLIGATION OF
AUTORICS II, INC., NAL ACCEPTANCE CORPORATION OR ANY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE
AFFILIATES.
THIS CERTIFIES THAT ________________ is the registered owner of
____________________________________________ DOLLARS nonassessable, fully-paid,
fractional undivided interest in NAL Auto Trust 1997-1 (the "Trust"), formed by
AUTORICS II, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Depositor").
OWNER TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Trust Certificates referred to in the within-mentioned Trust
Agreement.
WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, not
in its individual capacity,
but solely as Owner Trustee
by: ________________________
Authorized Signatory
The Trust was created pursuant to a Trust Agreement dated as of March
1, 1997, (as amended or supplemented from time to time, the "Trust Agreement"),
between the Depositor and Wilmington Trust Company, as owner trustee (the "Owner
Trustee"), a summary of certain of the pertinent provisions of which is set
forth below. To the extent not otherwise defined herein, the capitalized terms
used herein have the meanings assigned to them in the Trust Agreement or the
Sale and Servicing Agreement dated as of March 1, 1997 (as amended and
supplemented from time to time, the "Sale and Servicing Agreement"), among the
Trust, the Depositor, NAL Acceptance Corporation, as servicer (the "Servicer"),
and Bankers Trust Company, as backup servicer, as applicable.
This Certificate is one of the duly authorized Certificates designated
as "8.15% Asset Backed Certificates" (herein called the "Trust Certificates").
Also issued under an Indenture dated as of March 1, 1997 (the "Indenture"),
between the Trust and Bankers Trust Company, as indenture trustee, are the Notes
designated as "____% Asset Backed Notes" (the "Notes"). This Trust Certificate
is issued under and is subject to the terms, provisions and conditions of the
Trust Agreement, to which Trust Agreement the Holder of this Trust Certificate
by virtue of its acceptance hereof assents and by which such Holder is bound.
The property of the Trust consists of retail installment sale contracts for new
and used automobiles, light duty trucks and vans (collectively, the
"Receivables"), all monies received on or after the Cutoff Date plus all
Payaheads as of the Cutoff Date; any proceeds with respect to the Receivables
from claims on any physical damage, credit life or disability, theft, mechanical
breakdown or "guaranteed auto protection" insurance policies relating to
Financed Vehicles or Obligors; proceeds of any recourse (but none of the
obligations) to Dealers on Receivables; any Financed Vehicle that shall have
secured a Receivable and shall have been acquired by or on behalf of the
Depositor, the Servicer, or the Trust; the Receivables Files; the Receivables
Purchase Agreement, including the right of the Depositor to cause NAL to
purchase Receivables under certain circumstances; the Trust Accounts; and
certain other rights under the Trust Agreement and the Sale and Servicing
Agreement and all proceeds of the foregoing. The rights of the Holders of the
Trust Certificates are subordinated to the rights of the Holders of the Notes,
as and to the extent set forth in the Sale and Servicing Agreement. [The
Depositor's Interest shall also entitle the Depositor to the distributions
specified in Sections 5.05 and 5.06 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.]
Under the Trust Agreement, there will be distributed March 15, June 15,
September 15 and December 15 of each year or, if such day is not a Business Day,
the immediately following Business Day (each, a "Distribution Date"), commencing
on June 16, 1997, to the Person in whose name this Trust Certificate is
registered at the close of business on the last day of the month immediately
preceding such Distribution Date (the "Record Date"), such Certificateholder's
fractional undivided interest in the amount to be distributed to
Certificateholders on such Distribution Date. No distributions of principal will
be made on any Certificate on any Distribution Date until the full amount of
principal payable on the Notes on such Distribution Date has been paid in full;
provided, however, that if a Loss Trigger Event has occurred, no distributions
of principal (other than any Certificateholders' Principal Carryover Shortfall
outstanding as of the date of occurrence of such Loss Trigger Event) will be
made on any Certificate.
The Holder of this Trust Certificate acknowledges and agrees that its
rights to receive distributions in respect of this Trust Certificate are
subordinated to the rights of the Noteholders as described in the Sale and
Servicing Agreement and the Indenture.
It is the intent of the Depositor, the Servicer and the
Certificateholders that, for purposes of federal income, state and local income
and single business tax and any other income taxes, the Trust will be treated as
a partnership and the Certificateholders (including the Depositor) will be
treated as partners in that partnership. The Depositor and the other
Certificateholders, by acceptance of a Trust Certificate, agree to treat, and to
take no action inconsistent with the treatment of, the Trust Certificates for
such tax purposes as partnership interests in the Trust.
Each Certificateholder, or Certificate Owner, by its acceptance of a
Trust Certificate or, in the case of a Certificate Owner, a beneficial interest
in a Trust Certificate, covenants and agrees that such Certificateholder or
Certificate Owner, as the case may be, will not at any time institute against
the Depositor, or join in any institution against the Depositor of, any
bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings,
or other proceedings under any United States federal or state bankruptcy or
similar law in connection with any obligations relating to the Trust
Certificates, the Notes, the Trust Agreement or any of the Basic Documents.
Distributions on this Trust Certificate will be made as provided in the
Trust Agreement by the Owner Trustee by wire transfer or check mailed to the
Certificateholder of record in the Certificate Register without the presentation
or surrender of this Trust Certificate or the making of any notation hereon.
Except as otherwise provided in the Trust Agreement and notwithstanding the
above, the final distribution on this Trust Certificate will be made after due
notice by the Owner Trustee of the pendency of such distribution and only upon
presentation and surrender of this Trust Certificate at the office or agency
maintained for that purpose by the Owner Trustee in the Borough of Manhattan,
The City of New York.
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Trust
Certificate 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 shall have been
executed by an authorized officer of the Owner Trustee, by manual signature,
this Trust Certificate shall not entitle the Holder hereof to any benefit under
the Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement or be valid for any
purpose.
THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS
OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISIONS,
AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE
DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Owner Trustee, on behalf of the Trust and not
in its individual capacity, has caused this Trust Certificate to be duly
executed.
NAL AUTO TRUST 1997-1
by: WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
not in its individual
capacity but solely as
Owner Trustee
Dated: _____________ by: ________________________
Authorized Signatory
[REVERSE OF TRUST CERTIFICATE]
The Trust Certificates do not represent an obligation of, or an
interest in, the Depositor, the Servicer, the Seller, the Owner Trustee or any
affiliates of any of them and no recourse may be had against such parties or
their assets, except as expressly set forth or contemplated herein or in the
Trust Agreement or the Basic Documents. In addition, this Trust Certificate is
not guaranteed by any governmental agency or instrumentality and is limited in
right of payment to certain collections and recoveries with respect to the
Receivables (and certain other amounts), all as more specifically set forth
herein and in the Sale and Servicing Agreement. A copy of each of the Sale and
Servicing Agreement and the Trust Agreement may be examined by any
Certificateholder upon written request during normal business hours at the
principal office of the Depositor and at such other places, if any, designated
by the Depositor.
The Trust Agreement permits, with certain exceptions therein provided,
the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the
Depositor and the rights of the Certificateholders under the Trust Agreement at
any time by the Depositor and the Owner Trustee with the consent of the Holders
of the Trust Certificates and the Notes, each voting as a class, evidencing not
less than a majority of the Certificate Balance and the outstanding principal
balance of the Notes. Any such consent by the Holder of this Trust Certificate
shall be conclusive and binding on such Holder and on all future Holders of this
Trust Certificate and of any Trust Certificate issued upon the transfer hereof
or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such
consent is made upon this Trust Certificate. The Trust Agreement also permits
the amendment thereof, in certain limited circumstances, without the consent of
the Holders of any of the Trust Certificates.
As provided in the Trust Agreement and subject to certain limitations
therein set forth, the transfer of this Trust Certificate is registerable in the
Certificate Register upon surrender of this Trust Certificate for registration
of transfer at the offices or agencies of the Certificate Registrar maintained
by the Owner Trustee in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York,
accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the
Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Holder hereof
or such Holder's attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more
new Trust Certificates of authorized denominations evidencing the same aggregate
interest in the Trust will be issued to the designated transferee. The initial
Certificate Registrar appointed under the Trust Agreement is the Owner Trustee.
Except as provided in the Trust Agreement, the Trust Certificates are
issuable only as registered Trust Certificates without coupons in denominations
of $100,000 and in integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. As provided
in the Trust Agreement and subject to certain limitations therein set forth,
Trust Certificates are exchangeable for new Trust Certificates of authorized
denominations evidencing the same aggregate denomination, as requested by the
Holder surrendering the same. No service charge will be made for any such
registration of transfer or exchange, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate
Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or
governmental charge payable in connection therewith.
The Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and any agent of the Owner
Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may treat the Person in whose name this
Certificate is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, and none of the
Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar or any such agent shall be affected by
any notice to the contrary.
The obligations and responsibilities created by the Trust Agreement and
the Trust created thereby shall terminate upon the payment to Certificateholders
of all amounts required to be paid to them pursuant to the Trust Agreement and
the Sale and Servicing Agreement and the disposition of all property held as
part of the Owner Trust Estate. The Servicer of the Receivables may at its
option purchase the Owner Trust Estate at a price specified in the Sale and
Servicing Agreement, and such purchase of the Receivables and other property of
the Trust will effect early retirement of the Trust Certificates; however, such
right of purchase is exercisable only as of the last day of any Collection
Period as of which the Pool Balance is less than or equal to 5% of the Original
Pool Balance.
ASSIGNMENT
FOR VALUE RECEIVED the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfers
unto
PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR
OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE
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(Please print or type name and address, including postal zip code, of assignee)
the within Trust Certificate, and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably
constitutes and appoints , attorney, to transfer said Trust
Certificate on the books of the Certificate Registrar, with full power of
substitution in the premises.
Dated:
________________________________________*/
Signature Guaranteed:
____________________________*/
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*/ NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as it
appears upon the face of the within Trust Certificate in every particular,
without alteration, enlargement or any change whatever. Such signature must be
guaranteed by a member firm of the New York Stock Exchange or a commercial bank
or trust company.
EXHIBIT B
CERTIFICATE OF TRUST OF
NAL AUTO TRUST 1997-1
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THIS Certificate of Trust of NAL AUTO TRUST1997-1 (the "Trust"), dated
March [ ], 1997, is being duly executed and filed by Wilmington Trust Company, a
Delaware banking corporation, as trustee, to form a business trust under the
Delaware Business Trust Act (12 Del. C. (Section) 3801 et seq.).
1. Name. The name of the business trust formed hereby is NAL Auto Trust
1997-1.
2. Delaware Trustee. The name and business address of the trustee of
the Trust in the State of Delaware is Wilmington Trust Company, Xxxxxx Square
North, 0000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000-0000, Attn:
Corporate Trust Administration.
3. Effective Date. This Certificate of Trust shall be effective upon
filing with the Secretary of State.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, being the sole trustee of the
Trust, has executed this Certificate of Trust as of the date first-above
written.
WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
as trustee
By:______________________________________
Name:
Title:
EXHIBIT C
FORM OF TRANSFEROR CERTIFICATE
[DATE]
Autorics II, Inc.
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxx Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Wilmington Trust Company, as Owner Trustee
Xxxxxx Square North
0000 X. Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Re: NAL Auto Trust 1997-1
____% Asset Backed Certificates
Ladies and Gentlemen:
In connection with our disposition of the above-referenced ____% Asset
Backed Certificates (the "Certificates") we certify that (a) we understand that
the Certificates have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended (the "Act"), and are being transferred by us in a transaction that is
exempt from the registration requirements of the Act and (b) we have not offered
or sold any Certificates to, or solicited offers to buy any Certificates from,
any person, or otherwise approached or negotiated with any person with respect
thereto, in a manner that would be deemed, or taken any other action which would
result in, a violation of Section 5 of the Act.
Very truly yours,
[NAME OF TRANSFEROR]
By:_______________________________________
Authorized Officer
EXHIBIT D
FORM OF INVESTMENT LETTER
Autorics II, Inc.
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxx Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Wilmington Trust Company, as Owner Trustee
Xxxxxx Square North
0000 X. Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Ladies and Gentlemen:
In connection with our proposed purchase of $_______ aggregate
principal amount of ____% Asset Backed Certificates (the "Certificates") of NAL
Auto Trust 1997-1 (the "Issuer"), we confirm that:
1. We understand that the Certificates have not been registered
under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "1933 Act"), and may
not be sold except as permitted in the following sentence. We
understand and agree, on our own behalf and on behalf of any accounts
for which we are acting as hereinafter stated, (x) that such
Certificates are being offered only in a transaction not involving any
public offering within the meaning of the 1933 Act and (y) that such
Certificates may be resold, pledged or transferred only (i) to the
Depositor, (ii) to an "accredited investor" as defined in Rule
501(a)(1),(2),(3) or (7) (an "Accredited Investor") under the 1933 Act
acting for its own account (and not for the account of others) or as a
fiduciary or agent for others (which others also are Accredited
Investors unless the holder is a bank acting in its fiduciary
capacity) that executes a certificate substantially in the form
hereof, (iii) so long as such Certificate is eligible for resale
pursuant to Rule 144A under the 1933 Act ("Rule 144A"), to a person
whom we reasonably believe after due inquiry is a "qualified
institutional buyer" as defined in Rule 144A, acting for its own
account (and not for the account of others) or as a fiduciary or agent
for others (which others also are "qualified institutional buyers") to
whom notice is given that the resale, pledge or transfer is being made
in reliance on Rule 144A or (iv) in a sale, pledge or other transfer
made in a transaction otherwise exempt from the registration
requirements of the 1933 Act, in which case the Owner Trustee shall
require that both the prospective transferor and the prospective
transferee certify to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor in writing
the facts surrounding such transfer, which certification shall be in
form and substance satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the
Depositor. Except in the case of a transfer described in clauses (i)
or (iii) above, the Owner Trustee shall require a written opinion of
counsel (which will not be at the expense of the Depositor, any
affiliate of the Depositor or the Owner Trustee) satisfactory to the
Depositor and the Owner Trustee be delivered to the Depositor and the
Owner Trustee to the effect that such transfer will not violate the
1933 Act, in each case in accordance with any applicable securities
laws of any state of the United States. We will notify any purchaser
of the Certificates from us of the above resale restrictions, if then
applicable. We further understand that in connection with any transfer
of the Certificates by us that the Depositor and the Owner Trustee may
request, and if so requested we will furnish such certificates and
other information as they may reasonably require to confirm that any
such transfer complies with the foregoing restrictions. We understand
that no sale, pledge or other transfer may be made to any one person
of Certificates with a face amount of less than $100,000 and, in the
case of any person acting on behalf of one or more third parties
(other than a bank (as defined in Section 3(a)((2) of the 0000 Xxx)
acting in its fiduciary capacity), of Certificates with a face amount
of less than $100,000 for each such third party.
2. [CHECK ONE]
__ (a) We are an "accredited investor" (as defined in Rule
501(a)(1),(2),(3) or (7) of Regulation D under the Certificates
Act) acting for our own account (and not for the account of
others) or as a fiduciary or agent for others (which others also
are Accredited Investors unless we are a bank acting in its
fiduciary capacity). We have such knowledge and experience in
financial and business matters as to be capable of evaluating the
merits and risks of our investment in the Certificates, and we
and any accounts for which we are acting are each able to bear
the economic risk of our or their investment for an indefinite
period of time. We are acquiring the Certificates for investment
and not with a view to, or for offer and sale in connection with,
a public distribution.
__ (b) We are a "qualified institutional buyer" as defined under Rule
144A under the 1933 Act and are acquiring the Certificates for
our own account (and not for the account of others) or as a
fiduciary or agent for others (which others also are "qualified
institutional buyers"). We are familiar with Rule 144A under the
1933 Act and are aware that the seller of the Certificates and
other parties intend to rely on the statements made herein and
the exemption from the registration requirements of the 1933 Act
provided by Rule 144A.
3. We are not (i) an employee benefit plan (as defined in Section
3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as
amended ("ERISA")) that is subject to the provisions of TitleI of
ERISA, (ii) a plan described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code or
(iii) any entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason
of a plan's investment in the entity (each, a "Benefit Plan"). We
hereby acknowledge that no transfer of any Certificate shall be
permitted to be made to any person unless the Trustee has received (i)
a certificate from such transferee to the effect of the preceding
sentence, (ii) an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Trustee to
the effect that the purchase and holding of any such Certificate will
not constitute or result in the assets of the Issuer being deemed to
be "plan assets" and subject to the prohibited transaction provisions
of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code and will not subject the Owner
Trustee, the Indenture Trustee or the Depositor to any obligation in
addition to those undertaken in the Basic Documents with respect to
the Certificates (provided, however, that the Owner Trustee will not
require such certificate or opinion in the event that, as a result of
change of law or otherwise, counsel satisfactory to the Owner Trustee
has rendered an opinion to the effect that the purchase and holding of
any such Certificate by a Benefit Plan or a Person that is purchasing
or holding any such Certificate with the assets of a Benefit Plan will
not constitute or result in a prohibited transaction under ERISA or
Section 4975 of the Code) or (iii) if the transferee is an insurance
company, a representation that the transferee is an insurance company
that is acquiring such Certificates with funds contained in an
"Insurance Company General Account" (as such term is defined in
Section V(e) of Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption 95-60 ("PTCE
95-60)) and that the purchase and holding of such Certificates and any
deemed extension of credit from a Certificateholder which is a party
in interest to a Plan, the assets of which are held by such "Insurance
Company" are covered under PTCE 95-60.
4. We understand that the Depositor, the Trust, Greenwich Capital
Financial Products, Inc. ("Greenwich") and others will rely upon the
truth and accuracy of the foregoing acknowledgments, representations
and agreements, and we agree that if any of the acknowledgments,
representations and warranties deemed to have been made by us by our
purchase of the Certificates, for our own account or for one or more
accounts as to each of which we exercise sole investment discretion,
are no longer accurate, we shall promptly notify the Depositor and
Greenwich.
5. You are entitled to rely upon this letter and you are
irrevocably authorized to produce this letter or a copy hereof to any
interested party in any administrative or legal proceeding or official
inquiry with respect to the matters covered hereby.
Very truly yours,
[NAME OF PURCHASER]
By:_____________________________________
Name:
Title:
Date:________________________________
ANNEX A
TAX PARTNERSHIP PROVISIONS
1. Characterization for Tax Purposes. For United States federal and
applicable state and local income tax purposes, the Depositor's contribution of
the Receivables to the Trust in exchange for interests in the Trust, and the
sale by the Depositor of the Certificates (other than the retention by the
Depositor of the Depositor's Trust Certificate) is intended to constitute the
formation of a partnership (the "Tax Partnership") whose partners are the
Certificateholders (which are hereinafter collectively referred to as the "Tax
Partners"). If the Treasury Department or Internal Revenue Service shall
promulgate a temporary or final regulation notice or other rule adopting a
'check-the-box' classification system for unincorporated organizations and which
shall be applicable to the Trust, the Servicer, on behalf of the Tax Partners,
shall elect in such manner as may be provided in such regulation, notice or
other rule, to treat the Trust as a partnership for federal income tax purposes,
and each Tax Partner irrevocably agrees to be bound by such election.
2. Election with Respect to Subchapter K. Notwithstanding anything to
the contrary, each Tax Partner agrees: (a) not to elect to be excluded from the
application of Subchapter K of Chapter 1 of Subtitle A of the Code, or any
comparable provisions of applicable state laws; and (b) to join in the execution
of such additional documents and elections as may be required in order to
effectuate the foregoing.
3. Capital Contributions and Capital Accounts.
(a) The value of the interests contributed by the
Certificateholders (other than the Depositor) shall equal the amount
paid by such Certificateholders, respectively, for their Certificates
and such amounts shall constitute the opening balance in their Capital
Accounts (as hereinafter defined). The value of the interests
contributed by the Depositor shall equal the fair market value of the
Depositor's Interest, which the Tax Partners agree shall be based on
the sum, without duplication, of (i) the Reserve Account Initial
Deposit and (ii) the value of the Depositor's Interest based on (A) as
to the Certificate Balance and interest at the Pass-Through Rate of
the Depositor's Trust Certificate, the average price of the
Certificates to investors and (B) as to all other amounts due the
Depositor, the present value of the cash flow to the Depositor of the
amounts to which the Depositor is entitled to receive pursuant to
Sections 5.05(b)(viii) and 5.06(b) and (e) of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement at each Distribution Date or upon termination of the Trust
using a discount rate that reflects an appropriate arm's-length equity
rate of return and a prepayment assumption of 1.75 ABS, and such total
shall be submitted to the Owner Trustee in writing within ten (10)
Business Days after the Closing Date. Such amount shall constitute the
opening balance in the Depositor's Capital Account.
(b) An individual capital account (a "Capital Account") shall be
maintained for each Tax Partner in compliance with Treasury Regulation
Sections 1.704-1(b)(2)(iv) and 1.704-2 and accordingly, except as
otherwise provided herein:
(i) The Capital Account of each Tax Partner shall be credited by
(A) the amount of cash and the fair market value of property other
than cash contributed (or deemed contributed pursuant to Code Section
708) by such Tax Partner to the Tax Partnership (net of any
liabilities assumed by the Tax Partnership upon such contribution or
to which such property is subject at the time of such contribution);
and (B) the amount of any item of taxable income or gain and the
amount of any item of income or gain exempt from tax allocated to such
Tax Partner.
(ii) The Capital Account of each Tax Partner shall be debited by
(A) the amount of any item of tax deduction or loss allocated to such
Tax Partner; (B) such Tax Partner's allocable share of expenditures
not deductible in computing taxable income and not properly chargeable
as capital expenditures; and (C) the amount of cash and the fair
market value of any property other than cash (net of any liabilities
assumed by such Tax Partner or to which such property is subject at
the time of distribution) distributed to such Tax Partner.
(iii) Immediately prior to any distribution of property in kind,
the Tax Partners' Capital Accounts shall be adjusted by assuming that
the distributed properties were sold for cash at their respective fair
market values as of the date of distribution and crediting or debiting
each Tax Partner's Capital Account with its respective share of the
hypothetical gains or losses resulting from such assumed sales in the
same manner as gains or losses on actual sales of such properties
would be allocated under Paragraph 6 below.
5. Federal and State Income Tax Returns and Elections.
(a) The Tax Partners agree that the Depositor shall serve as the
"tax matters partner" (as such term is defined in Code Section
6231(a)(7) (the "Tax Matters Partner") of the Tax Partnership. The Tax
Matters Partner shall (i) apply to the Internal Revenue Service for a
taxpayer identification number for the Tax Partnership, (ii) elect to
adopt the accrual method of accounting and the calendar year as the
Tax Partnership's fiscal year (the "Fiscal Year"), (iv) make such
other elections as it deems proper, (v) prepare, execute and file the
necessary federal and state partnership income tax returns for the Tax
Partnership and (vi) keep the other Tax Partners informed of all
material matters that may come to its attention in its capacity as Tax
Matters Partner. Each Tax Partner agrees to furnish the Tax Matters
Partner with all pertinent information relating to activities under
this Agreement which is necessary for the Tax Matters Partner to
prepare and file federal and state partnership returns. In acting as
Tax Matters Partner, the Tax Matters Partner shall use its best
efforts, but shall incur no liability to the other Tax Partners.
(b) Within 60 days after the end of each of the Tax Partnership's
taxable years, the Tax Matters Partner shall send to each Tax Partner
who has been a Tax Partner at any time during the taxable year then
ended such tax information as shall be necessary for the preparation
by such Tax Partner of its Federal income tax return and state income
and other tax returns, if any, in states where the Tax Partnership is
organized or is qualified to do business.
6. Allocations.
(a)(i) "Net Income" and "Net Loss" respectively, for any period,
means the income or losses of the Tax Partnership as determined in
accordance with the method of accounting followed by the Tax
Partnership for Federal income tax purposes, including, for all
purposes, any income exempt from tax and any expenditures of the Tax
Partnership described in Code Section 705(a)(2)(B); provided, however,
(i) that any item allocated under Paragraph 6(c) shall be excluded
from the computation of Net Loss and (ii) that if, as a result of the
contribution of an asset whose fair market value differs from its
adjusted basis for Federal income tax purposes or as a result of the
revaluation of the Tax Partnership's assets, the book value of any Tax
Partnership asset differs from its adjusted basis for Federal income
tax purposes, gain, loss, depreciation and amortization with respect
to such assets shall be computed using the asset's book value
consistently with the requirements of Treasury Regulation Section
1.704- 1(b)(2)(iv)(g).
(ii) "Period" shall mean the period ending on each
Distribution Date; provided that as to the month in which the
Closing Date occurs, Period shall mean the period commencing on
the Closing Date and ending on the first Distribution Date and as
to the period in which the Tax Partnership terminates, Period
shall mean the period beginning on the first day of such period
and ending on the date of the Tax Partnership's termination.
(b) The Tax Partners agree that the Tax Partnership's Net Income
and Net Loss and each item of income, gain, loss, or deduction
entering into the computation thereof for any Fiscal Year shall be
allocated by first allocating the Tax Partnership's Net Income and Net
Loss (and each item of income, gain, loss, or deduction entering into
the computation thereof) for each Period or portion thereof within
such Fiscal Year (as if such Period (or portion) were a complete
fiscal year), dividing the amount of such allocations for the Period
ending March 15 on a daily basis between calendar years and then
aggregating the allocations for the portion of such Period within each
Fiscal Year; provided, that the Tax Partnership's Net Income or Net
Loss for the period commencing December 18 and ending December 31 may
be determined on an estimated basis to permit timely preparation of
the Partnership's tax returns and reporting to the Tax Partners. In
the case of the transfer of any interest in the Tax Partnership, the
items of Net Income and Net Loss allocated for any Period with respect
to the transferred interest shall be allocated between the transferor
and transferee of such interest on a daily basis within such Period.
The Tax Partnership's Net Income and Net Loss for each Period within a
Fiscal Year shall be allocated as follows:
(i) Net Income for such Period shall be allocated as
follows:
(A) An amount of Net Income equal to the excess of (x)
the sum for such Period and each preceding Period up to the
Period beginning with the Closing Date, of (1) the product
of the Pass-Through Rate and (2) the Certificate Balance
amount for such Period (and each such preceding Period) over
(y) all amounts allocated to the Certificateholders pursuant
to this Paragraph 6(b)(i)(A) shall be allocated 100% to the
Certificateholders (including the Depositor), in proportion
to their holdings of Trust Certificates; provided that the
product of (1) and (2) in clause (x) shall be computed on
the basis of a 360 day year consisting of twelve 30 day
months.
(B) An amount of Net Income equal to the excess of (x)
the sum for such Period and each preceding Period up to the
Period beginning with the Closing Date, of that portion of
any excess of the principal amount of the Trust Certificates
over their initial issue price (disregarding accrued
interest) that would have accrued with respect to such
Periods if the Trust Certificates were indebtedness and such
excess were original issue discount over (y) all amounts
previously allocated to the Certificateholders pursuant to
this Paragraph 6(b)(i)(B) shall be allocated 100% to the
Certificateholders (including the Depositor), in proportion
to their holdings of Trust Certificates.
(C) Any remaining Net Income shall be allocated 100% to
the Depositor.
(ii) Net Losses for such Period shall be allocated as
follows:
(A) 100% to the Depositor until the excess of the
Adjusted Capital Account (as hereinafter defined) balance of
the Depositor over the amount specified in Paragraph
3(a)(i)(A) (as adjusted for all prior distributions of
principal and accruals of market discount income allocable
to the Depositor) equals zero.
(B) 100% to the Certificateholders (including the
Depositor) in proportion to their holdings of Trust
Certificates, until the Adjusted Capital Account balances of
the Certificateholders equal zero; and
(C) Any remaining Net Losses shall be allocated 100% to
the Depositor.
(c)(i) Any deductions attributable to (w) the amortization of
premium on the Receivables, (x) payments to the Owner Trustee, (y)
payments to the Servicer and (z) payments of any other expenses,
claims and losses of the Trust shall be specially allocated to the
Depositor.
(ii) If there is a net decrease in "partnership minimum
gain" (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section
1.704-2(d)) for a Fiscal year, then there shall be allocated to
each Tax Partner items of income and gain for that year equal to
that Tax Partner's share of the net decrease in partnership
minimum gain (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section
1.704-2(g)(2)), subject to the exceptions set forth in Treasury
Regulation Sections 1.704-2(f)(2), (3) and (5), provided, that if
the Tax Partnership has any discretion as to an exception set
forth pursuant to Treasury Regulation Section 1.704-2(f)(5), the
Tax Matters Partner may exercise such discretion on behalf of the
Tax Partnership. In the event the application of the minimum gain
chargeback requirement would cause a distortion in the economic
arrangement among the Tax Partners, the Tax Matters Partner shall
request the Commissioner to waive the minimum gain chargeback
requirement pursuant to Treasury Regulation Section
1.704-2(f)(4). The foregoing is intended to be a "minimum gain
chargeback" provision as described in Treasury Regulation Section
1.704-2(f) and shall be interpreted and applied in all respects
in accordance with that Treasury Regulation.
If during a Fiscal Year there is a net decrease in partner
nonrecourse debt minimum gain (as determined in accordance with
Treasury Regulation Section 1.704-2(i)(3)), then, in addition to
the amounts, if any, allocated pursuant to the preceding
paragraph, any Tax Partner with a share of that partner
nonrecourse debt minimum gain (determined in accordance with
Treasury Regulation Section 1.704-2(i)(5)) as of the beginning of
the Fiscal Year shall, subject to the exceptions set forth in
Treasury Regulation Section 1.704-2(i)(4), including exceptions
analogous to those provided pursuant to Treasury Regulation
Sections 1.704-2(f)(2), (3) and (5) (provided, that if the Tax
Partnership has any discretion as to an exception set forth
pursuant to Treasury Regulation Section 1.704-2(f)(5) as made
applicable by Treasury Regulation Section 1.704-2(i)(4), the Tax
Matters Partner may exercise such discretion on behalf of the Tax
Partnership) be allocated items of income and gain for the year
(and, if necessary, for succeeding years) equal to that Tax
Partner's share of the net decrease in the partner nonrecourse
minimum gain. In the event the application of the minimum gain
chargeback requirement would cause a distortion in the economic
arrangement among the Tax Partners, the Tax Matters Partner shall
request the Commissioner to waive the minimum gain chargeback
requirement pursuant to Treasury Regulation Sections
1.704-2(i)(4) and 1.704-2(f)(4). The foregoing is intended to be
the "chargeback of partner nonrecourse debt minimum gain"
required by Treasury Regulation Section 1.704-2(i)(4) and shall
be interpreted and applied in all respects in accordance with
that Treasury Regulation.
(iii) If during any Fiscal year of the Tax Partnership a Tax
Partner unexpectedly receives an adjustment, allocation or
distribution described in Treasury Regulation Sections
1.704-1(b)(2)(ii)(d)(4), (5) or (6), which causes or increases a
deficit balance in the Tax Partner's Adjusted Capital Account (as
defined below), there shall be allocated to the Tax Partner items
of income and gain (consisting of a pro rata portion of each item
of Tax Partnership income, including gross income, and gain for
such year) in an amount and manner sufficient to eliminate such
deficit as quickly as possible. The foregoing is intended to be a
"qualified income offset" provision as described in Treasury
Regulation Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(ii)(d) and shall be interpreted
and applied in all respects in accordance with the Treasury
Regulation.
A Tax Partner's "Adjusted Capital Account", at any time,
shall equal the Tax Partner's Capital Account at such time (x)
increased by the sum of (A) the amount of the Tax Partner's share
of partnership minimum gain (as defined in Treasury Regulation
Section 1.704-2(g)(1) and (3)), (B) the amount of the Tax
Partner's share of partner nonrecourse debt minimum gain (as
defined in Treasury Regulation Section 1.704-2(i)(5)), and (C)
any amount of the deficit balance in its Capital Account and Tax
Partner is obligated to restore on liquidation of the Tax
Partnership and (y) decreased by reasonably expected adjustments,
allocations and distributions described in Treasury Regulation
Sections 1.704-1(b)(2)(ii)(d)(4), (5) and (6).
(iv) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this
Paragraph 6, Tax Partnership losses, deductions, or Code Section
705(a)(2)(B) expenditures that are attributable to a particular
partner nonrecourse liability shall be allocated to the Tax
Partner that bears the economic risk of loss for the liability in
accordance with the rules of Treasury Regulation Section
1.704-2(i).
(v) Notwithstanding any provision of Paragraphs 6(b) and
6(c)(i), no allocation of items of loss or deduction shall be
made to a Tax Partner if it would cause the Tax Partner to have a
negative balance in its Adjusted Capital Account. Allocations of
items of loss or deduction that would be made to a Tax Partner
but for this Paragraph 6(c)(v) shall instead be made first to the
Depositor to the extent not inconsistent with this Paragraph
6(c)(v), and second, to the Certificateholders in proportion to
the amounts distributable for the related Period pursuant to
Sections 5.05(b)(iv) or (v) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement,
to the extent distributions under either such Section were
reduced. To the extent allocations of items of loss or deduction
cannot be made to any Tax Partner because of this Paragraph
6(c)(v), such allocations shall be made to the Tax Partners in
accordance with Paragraphs 6(b) and 6(c)(i) notwithstanding this
Paragraph 6(c)(v).
(vi) To the extent that any item of income, gain, loss or
deduction has been specially allocated pursuant to Paragraphs
6(c)(iii) and (v) and such allocation is inconsistent with the
way in which the same amount otherwise would have been allocated
under Paragraphs 6(b) and 6(c)(i), subsequent allocations under
Paragraph 6(b) and 6(c)(i) shall be made, to the extent possible
and without duplication, in a manner consistent with Paragraphs
6(c)(ii), (iii), (iv) and (v) which negate as rapidly as possible
the effect of all such inconsistent allocations.
(vii) Any allocations made pursuant to this Paragraph 6
shall be made in the following order:
(i) Paragraph 6(c)(ii)
(ii) Paragraph 6(c)(iii)
(iii) Paragraph 6(c)(iv)
(iv) Paragraph 6(c)(vi)
(v) Paragraph 6(c)(i)
(vi) Paragraph 6(b)(i) and (ii)
These provisions shall be applied as if all distributions and
allocations were made at the end of the Fiscal Year. Where any
provision depends on the Capital Account of any Tax Partner, that
Capital Account shall be determined after the operation of all
preceding provisions for the year. These allocations shall be
made consistently with the requirements of Treasury Regulation
Section 1.704-2(j).
(d) The income, gains, losses, deductions and credits of the Tax
Partnership for Federal, state and local income tax purposes shall be
allocated in the same manner as the corresponding items entering into
the computation of Net Income and Net Losses were allocated pursuant
to Paragraphs 6(b) and (c) provided that solely for Federal, local and
state income and franchise tax purposes and not for book or Capital
Account purposes, income, gain, loss and deduction with respect to
property properly carried on the Tax Partnership's books at a value
other than its tax basis shall be allocated (i) in the case of
property contributed in kind, in accordance with the requirements of
Code Section 704(c) and such Treasury Regulations as may be
promulgated thereunder from time to time, and (ii) in the case of
other property, in accordance with the principles of Code Section
704(c) and the Treasury Regulations thereunder as incorporated among
the requirements of the relevant provisions of the Treasury
Regulations under Code Section 704(b).
(e) The Tax Partnership shall comply with all withholding
requirements under Federal, state and local law and shall remit
amounts withheld to and file required forms with the applicable
jurisdictions. To the extent the Tax Partnership is required to
withhold and pay over any amounts with respect to distributions or
allocations to any Tax Partner, the amount withheld shall be treated
as a distribution to that Tax Partner. In the event of any claimed
overwithholding, Tax Partners shall have no claim for recovery against
the Tax Partnership or other Tax Partners. If the amount withheld was
not withheld from actual distributions, the Tax Partnership, may at
its option, (i) require the Tax Partner to reimburse the Tax
Partnership for such withholding (and each Tax Partner agrees to
reimburse the Tax Partnership promptly following such request) or (ii)
reduce any subsequent distributions by the amount of such withholding.
If there is a possibility that withholding tax is payable with respect
to a distribution (such as a distribution to a non-U.S. Tax Partner),
the Tax Partnership may in its sole discretion withhold such amounts
in accordance with this Partnership may in its sole discretion
withhold such amounts in accordance with this Paragraph 6(e). Each Tax
Partner agrees to furnish the Tax Partnership with any representations
and forms as shall reasonably be requested by the Tax Partnership to
assist it in determining the extent of, and in fulfilling, its
withholding obligations. If a Tax Partner wishes to apply for a refund
of any such withholding tax, the Owner Trustee shall reasonably
cooperate with such Tax Partner in making such claim as long as the
Tax Partner agrees to reimburse the Tax Partnership for any
out-of-pocket expenses incurred.
7. Sale of Interests. The Tax Partners agree that any sale by a Tax
Partner of any ownership interest in a Trust Certificate shall be deemed to be
a sale of all or a portion of such Tax Partner's interest in the Tax
Partnership.
8. Termination of a Tax Partner's Interest. Any distribution by the Tax
Partnership in termination of any Tax Partner's interest in the Tax Partnership
other than pursuant to Paragraph 9 below shall be in an amount of cash or
property other than cash having a net fair market value equal to the positive
Capital Account balance of such Tax Partner at the time such interest is
terminated, after such Capital Account balance has been adjusted in accordance
with Paragraphs 4 and 6 above for all operations preceding such distribution and
the applicable Treasury Regulations under Code Section 704(b), and shall be made
by the later of: (a) the end of the Tax Partnership's taxable year in which such
termination occurs; or (b) within 90 days after the date of such termination.
9. Distributions upon Termination. Upon termination of the Agreement
pursuant to its terms, the activities of the Tax Partners under this Annex A
shall be concluded and the assets subject to the Agreement and this Annex A
shall be distributed to the Tax Partners in the manner and in the order set
forth below:
(a) Debts of the Tax Partnership created pursuant to the
Indenture on the Trust Agreement, other than to Tax Partners, shall be
paid.
(b) All cash on hand representing unexpended contributions by any
Tax Partner shall be returned to the contributor.
(c) The Tax Partners' Capital Accounts shall be adjusted by: (i)
assuming the sale of all remaining assets at their fair market values
as of the date of termination of the Trust Agreement; and (ii)
debiting or crediting each Tax Partner's Capital Account with the Tax
Partner's respective share of the hypothetical gains or losses
resulting from such assumed sales in the same manner as such Tax
Partner's Capital Account would be debited or credited under Paragraph
6 above for gains or losses on actual sales of such properties.
(d) All Tax Partnership assets shall be distributed to the Tax
Partners in accordance with their respective Capital Account balances
as so adjusted by the later of: (i) the end of the Tax Partnership's
taxable year in which the termination occurs; or (ii) within 90 days
after the date of such termination.
If property subject to the Agreement is distributed pursuant to this paragraph,
the amount of the distribution shall be equal to the net fair market value of
the distributed property.
