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EXHIBIT NO. 4.1
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Indenture between the Registrant and The First National Bank of Boston, Trustee,
dated as of September 15, 1993 (the "Indenture")
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THE PROGRESSIVE CORPORATION
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THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF BOSTON,
TRUSTEE
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INDENTURE
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DATED AS OF SEPTEMBER 15, 1993
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CROSS-REFERENCE SHEET*
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BETWEEN
Provisions of Trust Indenture Act of 1939 and Indenture to be dated as
of September 15, 1993 between THE PROGRESSIVE CORPORATION and THE FIRST
NATIONAL BANK OF BOSTON, Trustee:
SECTION OF THE ACT SECTION OF INDENTURE
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310(a)(1) and (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.8
310(a)(3) and (4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Inapplicable
310(a)(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.8
310(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.9(a), (b) and (d)
310(b)(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.13
310(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Inapplicable
311(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.12
311(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.12
311(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Inapplicable
312(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.1 and 4.2(a)
312(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.2(a) and (b)(i) and (ii)
312(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.2(c)
313(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.4
313(b)(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Inapplicable
313(b)(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.4
313(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.4
313(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.4
314(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.3
314(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Inapplicable
314(c)(1) and (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.5
314(c)(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Inapplicable
314(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Inapplicable
314(e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.5
314(f) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Inapplicable
315(a), (c) and (d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.1
315(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.11
315(e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.12
316(a)(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.9
316(a)(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Not required
316(a)(last sentence) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.4
316(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.7
317(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.2
317(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.4(a) and (b)
318(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.7
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* This Cross Reference Sheet is not part of the Indenture.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE ONE
DEFINITIONS
SECTION 1.1 Certain Terms Defined. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
ARTICLE TWO
SECURITIES
SECTION 2.1 Forms Generally. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
SECTION 2.2 Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
SECTION 2.3 Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
SECTION 2.4 Authentication and Delivery of Securities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
SECTION 2.5 Execution of Securities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
SECTION 2.6 Certificate of Authentication. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
SECTION 2.7 Denomination and Date of Securities; Payments of Interest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
SECTION 2.8 Registration, Transfer and Exchange. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
SECTION 2.9 Mutilated, Defaced, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
SECTION 2.10 Cancellation of Securities; Destruction Thereof. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
SECTION 2.11 Temporary Securities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
ARTICLE THREE
COVENANTS OF THE ISSUER
SECTION 3.1 Payment of Principal and Interest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
SECTION 3.2 Offices for Payments, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
SECTION 3.3 Appointment to Fill a Vacancy in Office of Trustee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
SECTION 3.4 Paying Agents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
SECTION 3.5 Written Statement to Trustee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
ARTICLE FOUR
SECURITYHOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY THE ISSUER AND THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 4.1 Issuer to Furnish Trustee Information as to Names and Addresses of Securityholders. . . . . . . 18
SECTION 4.2 Preservation and Disclosure of Securityholders' Lists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
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SECTION 4.3 Reports by the Issuer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
SECTION 4.4 Reports by the Trustee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
ARTICLE FIVE
REMEDIES OF THE TRUSTEE AND SECURITYHOLDERS ON EVENT OF DEFAULT
SECTION 5.1 Event of Default Defined; Acceleration of Maturity; Waiver of Default. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
SECTION 5.2 Collection of Indebtedness by Trustee; Trustee May Prove Debt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
SECTION 5.3 Application of Proceeds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
SECTION 5.4 Suits for Enforcement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
SECTION 5.5 Restoration of Rights on Abandonment of Proceedings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
SECTION 5.6 Limitations on Suits by Securityholders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
SECTION 5.7 Unconditional Right of Securityholders to Institute Certain Suits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
SECTION 5.8 Powers and Remedies Cumulative; Delay or Omission Not Waiver of Default. . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
SECTION 5.9 Control by Securityholders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
SECTION 5.10 Waiver of Past Defaults. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
SECTION 5.11 Trustee to Give Notice of Default, But May Withhold in Certain Circumstances. . . . . . . . . . 30
SECTION 5.12 Right of Court to Require Filing of Undertaking to Pay Costs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
ARTICLE SIX
CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 6.1 Duties and Responsibilities of the Trustee; During Default; Prior to Default. . . . . . . . . . 31
SECTION 6.2 Certain Rights of the Trustee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
SECTION 6.3 Trustee Not Responsible for Recitals, Disposition of Securities or Application of Proceeds
Thereof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
SECTION 6.4 Trustee and Agents May Hold Securities or Coupons; Collections, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
SECTION 6.5 Moneys Held by Trustee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
SECTION 6.6 Compensation and Indemnification of Trustee and Its Prior Claim. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
SECTION 6.7 Right of Trustee to Rely on Officers' Certificate, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
SECTION 6.8 Persons Eligible for Appointment as Trustee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
SECTION 6.9 Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor Trustee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
SECTION 6.10 Acceptance of Appointment by Successor Trustee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
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SECTION 6.11 Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business of Trustee. . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
SECTION 6.12 Preferential Collection of Claims Against the Issuer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
SECTION 6.13 Indentures Not Creating Potential Conflicting Interests for the Trustee. . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
ARTICLE SEVEN
CONCERNING THE SECURITYHOLDERS
SECTION 7.1 Evidence of Action Taken by Securityholders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
SECTION 7.2 Proof of Execution of Instruments and of Holding of Securities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
SECTION 7.3 Holders to Be Treated as Owners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
SECTION 7.4 Securities Owned by Issuer Deemed Not Outstanding. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
SECTION 7.5 Right of Revocation of Action Taken. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
ARTICLE EIGHT
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
SECTION 8.1 Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Securityholders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
SECTION 8.2 Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Securityholders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
SECTION 8.3 Effect of Supplemental Indenture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
SECTION 8.4 Documents to Be Given to Trustee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
SECTION 8.5 Notation on Securities in Respect of Supplemental Indentures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
ARTICLE NINE
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE OR CONVEYANCE
SECTION 9.1 Issuer May Consolidate, etc., on Certain Terms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
SECTION 9.2 Successor Corporation Substituted. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
SECTION 9.3 Opinion of Counsel to Trustee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
ARTICLE TEN
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE; UNCLAIMED MONEYS
SECTION 10.1 Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
SECTION 10.2 Application by Trustee of Funds Deposited for Payment of Securities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
SECTION 10.3 Repayment of Moneys Held by Paying Agent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
SECTION 10.4 Return of Moneys Held by Trustee and Paying Agent Unclaimed for Two Years. . . . . . . . . . . . 51
SECTION 10.5 Indemnity for U.S. Government Obligations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
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ARTICLE ELEVEN
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
SECTION 11.1 Incorporators, Shareholders, Officers and Directors of Issuer Exempt from Individual
Liability. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
SECTION 11.2 Provisions of Indenture for the Sole Benefit of Parties and Securityholders. . . . . . . . . . . 52
SECTION 11.3 Successors and Assigns of Issuer Bound by Indenture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
SECTION 11.4 Notices and Demands on Issuer, Trustee and Securityholders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
SECTION 11.5 Officers' Certificates and Opinions of Counsel; Statements to Be Contained Therein. . . . . . . 53
SECTION 11.6 Payments Due on Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
SECTION 11.7 Conflict of Any Provision of Indenture with Trust Indenture Act of 1939. . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
SECTION 11.8 New York Law to Govern. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
SECTION 11.9 Counterparts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
SECTION 11.10 Effect of Headings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
SECTION 11.11 Securities in Foreign Currencies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
ARTICLE TWELVE
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES AND SINKING FUNDS
SECTION 12.1 Applicability of Article. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
SECTION 12.2 Notice of Redemption; Partial Redemptions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
SECTION 12.3 Payment of Securities Called for Redemption. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
SECTION 12.4 Exclusion of Certain Securities from Eligibility for Selection for Redemption. . . . . . . . . . 58
SECTION 12.5 Mandatory and Optional Sinking Funds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
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THIS INDENTURE, dated as of September 15, 1993, between THE
PROGRESSIVE CORPORATION, an Ohio corporation (the "Issuer"), and THE FIRST
NATIONAL BANK OF BOSTON, a national banking association (the "Trustee"),
WITNESSETH:
WHEREAS, the Issuer has duly authorized the issue from time to time of
its unsecured debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness to be issued
in one or more series (the "Securities") up to such principal amount or amounts
as may from time to time be authorized in accordance with the terms of this
Indenture and to provide, among other things, for the authentication, delivery
and administration thereof, the Issuer has duly authorized the execution and
delivery of this Indenture; and
WHEREAS, all things necessary to make this Indenture a valid indenture
and agreement according to its terms have been done;
NOW, THEREFORE:
In consideration of the premises and the purchases of the Securities
by the Holders thereof, the Issuer and the Trustee mutually covenant and agree
for the equal and proportionate benefit of the respective Holders from time to
time of the Securities and of the Coupons, if any, appertaining thereto as
follows:
ARTICLE ONE
DEFINITIONS
SECTION 1.1 Certain Terms Defined. The following terms (except as
otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise clearly requires)
for all purposes of this Indenture and of any indenture supplemental hereto
shall have the respective meanings specified in this Section. All other terms
used in this Indenture that are defined in the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 or
the definitions of which in the Securities Act of 1933 are referred to in the
Trust Indenture Act of 1939 including terms defined therein by reference to the
Securities Act of 1933 (except as herein otherwise expressly provided or unless
the context otherwise clearly requires), shall have the meanings assigned to
such terms in said Trust Indenture Act and in said Securities Act as in force
at the date of this Indenture. All accounting terms used herein and not
expressly defined shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in accordance
with generally accepted accounting principles, and the term "generally accepted
accounting principles" means such accounting principles as are generally
accepted at the time of any computation. The words "herein," "hereof," and
"hereunder" and other words of similar import refer to this Indenture as a
whole and not to any particular Article,
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Section or other subdivision. The terms defined in this Article have the
meanings assigned to them in this Article and include the plural as well as the
singular.
"Authorized Newspaper" means The Wall Street Journal, The New York
Times or other newspaper of general circulation throughout the United States of
America.
"Board of Directors" means either the Board of Directors of the Issuer
or any committee of such Board duly authorized to act hereunder.
"Business Day" means, with respect to any Security, a day that in the
city (or in any of the cities, if more than one) in which amounts are payable,
as specified in the form of such Security, is not a day on which banking
institutions are authorized by law or regulation to close or a day on which
transactions in the currency in which the Securities are payable are not
conducted.
"Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from
time to time constituted, created under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, or
if any time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture such Commission
is not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under the Trust
Indenture Act of 1939, then the body performing such duties on such date.
"Corporate Trust Office" means the office of the Trustee at which the
corporate trust business of the Trustee shall, at any particular time, be
principally administered, which office is, at the date as of which this
Indenture is dated, located at 000 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxxxx 00000,
Attn: Corporate Trust Administration.
"Coupon" means any interest coupon appertaining to a Security.
"Event of Default" means any event or condition specified as such in
Section 5.1.
"Foreign Currency" means a currency issued by the government of a
country other than the United States.
"Holder," "holder of Securities," "Securityholder" or other similar
terms mean (a) in the case of any Registered Security, the Person in whose name
such Security is registered in the security register kept by the Issuer for
that purpose in accordance with the terms hereof, and (b) in the case of any
Unregistered Security, the bearer of such Security, or any Coupon appertaining
thereto, as the case may be.
"Indenture" means this instrument as originally executed and delivered
or, if amended or supplemented as herein provided, as so amended or
supplemented or both, and shall include the forms
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and terms of particular series of Securities established as contemplated
hereunder.
"Interest" means, when used with respect to non-interest-bearing
Securities, interest payable after maturity.
"Issuer" means (except as otherwise provided in Article Six THE
PROGRESSIVE CORPORATION, an Ohio corporation, and, subject to Article Nine, its
successors and assigns.
"Officers' Certificate" means a certificate signed by the chairman of
the Board of Directors or the president or any vice president or by the
treasurer and by the secretary or any assistant secretary of the Issuer and
delivered to the Trustee. Each such certificate shall include the statements
provided for in Section 11.5.
"Opinion of Counsel" means an opinion in writing signed by legal
counsel who may be an employee of or counsel to the Issuer or other counsel who
shall be satisfactory to the Trustee. Each such opinion shall include the
statements provided for in Section 11.5, if and to the extent required hereby.
"original issue date" of any Security (or portion thereof) means the
earlier of (a) the date of such Security or (b) the date of any Security (or
portion thereof) for which such Security was issued (directly or indirectly) on
registration of transfer, exchange or substitution.
"Original Issue Discount Security" means any Security that provides
for an amount less than the principal amount thereof to be due and payable upon
a declaration of acceleration of the maturity thereof pursuant to Section 5.1.
"Outstanding" (except as otherwise provided in Section 6.8), when used
with reference to Securities, subject to the provisions of Section 7.4, means,
as of any particular time, all Securities authenticated and delivered by the
Trustee under this Indenture, except
(a) Securities theretofore canceled by the Trustee or
delivered to the Trustee for cancellation;
(b) Securities, or portions thereof, for the payment or
redemption of which moneys in the necessary amount shall have been
deposited in trust with the Trustee or with any paying agent (other
than the Issuer) or shall have been set aside, segregated and held in
trust by the Issuer for the holders of such Securities (if the Issuer
shall act as its own paying agent), provided that if such Securities,
or portions thereof, are to be redeemed prior to the maturity thereof,
notice of such redemption shall have been given as herein provided, or
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provision satisfactory to the Trustee shall have been made for giving
such notice; and
(c) Securities in substitution for which other Securities
shall have been authenticated and delivered, or which shall have been
paid, pursuant to the terms of Section 2.9 (except with respect to any
such Security as to which proof satisfactory to the Trustee is
presented that such Security is held by a person in whose hands such
Security is a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Issuer).
In determining whether the holders of the requisite principal amount
of Outstanding Securities of any or all series have given any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, the principal
amount of an Original Issue Discount Security that shall be deemed to be
Outstanding for such purposes shall be the amount of the principal thereof that
would be due and payable as of the date of such determination upon a
declaration of acceleration of the maturity thereof pursuant to Section 5.1.
"Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint
venture, association, joint stock company, trust, unincorporated organization
or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.
"principal" whenever used with reference to the Securities or any
Security or any portion thereof, shall be deemed to include "and premium, if
any."
"Registered Security" means any Security registered on the Security
Register of the Issuer.
"Responsible Officer" when used with respect to the Trustee means any
officer or assistant officer assigned by the Trustee to administer its
corporate trust matters.
"Security" or "Securities" (except as otherwise provided in Section
6.8) has the meaning stated in the first recital of this Indenture, or, as the
case may be, Securities that have been authenticated and delivered under this
Indenture.
"Security Register" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.8.
"Trust Indenture Act of 1939" (except as otherwise provided in
Sections 8.1 and 8.2) means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in force at the
date as of which this Indenture was originally executed.
"Trustee" means the Person identified as "Trustee" in the first
paragraph hereof and, subject to the provisions of Article Six, shall also
include any successor trustee.
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"Unregistered Security" means any Security other than a Registered
Security.
"U.S. Government Obligations" means direct obligations of the United
States of America, backed by its full faith and credit.
"vice president" when used with respect to the Issuer, means any vice
president, whether or not designated by a number or a word or words added
before or after the title of "vice president."
"Yield to Maturity" means the yield to maturity on a series of
securities, calculated at the time of issuance of such series, or, if
applicable, at the most recent redetermination of interest on such series, and
calculated in accordance with accepted financial practice.
ARTICLE TWO
SECURITIES
SECTION 2.1 Forms Generally. The Securities of each series and the
Coupons, if any, to be attached thereto shall be substantially in such form
(not inconsistent with this Indenture) as shall be established by or pursuant
to a resolution of the Board of Directors or in one or more indentures
supplemental hereto, in each case with such appropriate insertions, omissions,
substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by this
Indenture and may have imprinted or otherwise reproduced thereon such legend or
legends, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture, as may be
required to comply with any law or with any rules or regulations pursuant
thereto, or with any rules of any securities exchange or to conform to general
usage, all as may be determined by the officers executing such Securities and
Coupons, as evidenced by their execution of the Securities and Coupons.
The definitive Securities and Coupons shall be printed, lithographed
or engraved on steel engraved borders or may be produced in any other manner,
all as determined by the officers executing such Securities and Coupons, as
evidenced by their execution of such Securities and Coupons.
SECTION 2.2 Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication. The
Trustee's certificate of authentication on all Securities shall be in
substantially the following form:
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This is one of the Securities, of the series designated herein,
referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
TRUSTEE,
as Trustee
By
_________________________________
Authorized Signatory
SECTION 2.3 Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series. The aggregate
principal amount of Securities which may be authenticated and delivered under
this Indenture is unlimited.
The Securities may be issued in one or more series. There shall be
established in or pursuant to a resolution of the Board of Directors and set
forth in an Officers' Certificate, or established in one or more indentures
supplemental hereto, prior to the issuance of Securities of any series,
(1) the title of the Securities of the series (which shall
distinguish the Securities of the series from all other Securities);
(2) any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the
Securities of the series that may be authenticated and delivered under
this Indenture (except for Securities authenticated and delivered upon
registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other
Securities of the series pursuant to Section 2.8, 2.9, 2.11 or 12.3);
(3) the date or dates on which the principal of the
Securities of the series is payable or the method by which such date
or dates shall be determined;
(4) the rate or rates at which the Securities of the series
shall bear interest, if any, or the method by which such rate or rates
shall be determined, the date or dates from which such interest shall
accrue, the interest payment dates on which such interest shall be
payable and the record dates for the determination of Holders to whom
interest is payable;
(5) the place or places where the principal and any interest
on Securities of the series shall be payable;
(6) the price or prices at which, the period or periods
within which and the terms and conditions upon which Securities of the
series may be redeemed, in whole or in part, at the option of the
Issuer, pursuant to any sinking fund or otherwise;
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(7) the obligation, if any, of the Issuer to redeem,
purchase or repay Securities of the series pursuant to any sinking
fund or analogous provisions or at the option of a Holder thereof and
the price or prices at which and the period or periods within which
and the terms and conditions upon which Securities of the series shall
be redeemed, purchased or repaid, in whole or in part, pursuant to
such obligation;
(8) if other than denominations of U.S. $1,000 and any
integral multiple thereof, in the case of Registered Securities, or
U.S. $1,000 in the case of Unregistered Securities, the denominations
in which Securities of the series shall be issuable;
(9) if other than the principal amount thereof, the portion
of the principal amount of Securities of the series which shall be
payable upon declaration of acceleration of the maturity thereof
pursuant to Section 5.1 or provable in bankruptcy pursuant to Section
5.2;
(10) any authenticating or paying agents, transfer agents or
registrars or any other agents with respect to the Securities of such
series;
(11) if other than such coin or currency of the United States
of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of
public or private debts, the coin or currency or units based on or
relating to currencies in which payment of the principal of and
interest, if any, on the securities of that series shall be payable;
(12) if the principal of or interest, if any, on the
Securities of that series are to be payable, at the election of the
Issuer or a Holder thereof, in a coin or currency or units based on or
relating to currencies other than that in which the Securities are
stated to be payable, the period or periods within which, and the
terms and conditions upon which, such election may be made;
(13) if the amount of payments of principal of or interest,
if any, on the Securities of the series may be determined with
reference to an index, formula or other method based on a coin or
currency or units based on or relating to currencies other than that
in which the Securities are stated to be payable, the manner in which
such amounts shall be determined;
(14) whether the Securities of the series will be issuable as
Registered Securities or Unregistered Securities (with or without
Coupons), or both, any restrictions applicable to the offer, sale or
delivery of Unregistered Securities and, if other than as provided in
Section 2.8, the
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terms upon which Unregistered Securities of any series may be
exchanged for Registered Securities of such series and vice versa;
(15) whether and under what circumstances the Issuer will pay
additional amounts on the Securities of the series held by a Person
who is not a U.S. person in respect of any tax, assessment or
governmental charge withheld or deducted and, if so, whether the
Issuer will have the option to redeem such Securities rather than pay
such additional amounts;
(16) if the Securities of such series are to be issuable in
definitive form (whether upon original issue or upon exchange of a
temporary Security of such series) only upon receipt of certain
certificates or other documents or satisfaction of other conditions
not otherwise set forth herein, then the form and terms of such
certificates, documents or conditions; and
(17) any other terms of the series, including provisions for
payment by wire transfers, if any, or modifications of the definition
of Business Day (which terms shall not adversely affect the interests
of the holders of the Securities).
All Securities of any one series shall be substantially identical
except as to denomination and except as may otherwise be provided in or
pursuant to such resolution of the Board of Directors or in any such indenture
supplemental hereto.
SECTION 2.4 Authentication and Delivery of Securities. At any time
and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the
Issuer may deliver Securities of any series (having attached thereto
appropriate Coupons, if any), executed by the Issuer to the Trustee for
authentication, and the Trustee shall thereupon authenticate and deliver such
Securities and Coupons, if any, to or upon the written order of the Issuer,
signed by both (a) the chairman of its Board of Directors, or any vice chairman
of its Board of Directors, or its president or any vice president or its
treasurer or any assistant treasurer and (b) by its secretary or any assistant
secretary, without any further action by the Issuer. In authenticating such
Securities and Coupons, if any, and accepting the additional responsibilities
under this Indenture in relation to such Securities and Coupons, if any, the
Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to Section 6.1) shall be
fully protected in relying upon:
(1) a copy of any resolution or resolutions of the Board of
Directors by or pursuant to which the form and terms of such series
were established in each case certified by the secretary or an
assistant secretary of the Issuer;
(2) an executed supplemental indenture, if any;
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(3) an Officers' Certificate setting forth the form and terms
of the Securities and Coupons, if any, as required pursuant to Section
2.3, and prepared in accordance with Section 11.5;
(4) an Opinion of Counsel, prepared in accordance with
Section 11.5, which shall state
(a) that the form or forms and terms of such
Securities and Coupons, if any, have been established by or
pursuant to a resolution of the Board of Directors or by a
supplemental indenture as permitted by Sections 2.1 and 2.3 in
conformity with the provisions of this Indenture;
(b) that such Securities and Coupons, if any, when
authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and issued by the
Issuer in the manner and subject to any conditions specified
in such Opinion of Counsel, will constitute valid and binding
obligations of the Issuer;
(c) that all laws and requirements in respect of the
execution and delivery by the Issuer of the Securities and
Coupons, if any, have been complied with; and
(d) such other matters as the Trustee may reasonably
request.
The Trustee shall have the right to decline to authenticate and
deliver any Securities and Coupons, if any, under this Section if the Trustee,
being advised by counsel, determines that such action may not lawfully be taken
by the Issuer or if the Trustee in good faith by its board of directors or
board of trustees, executive committee, or a trust committee of directors,
trustees or Responsible Officers shall determine that such action would expose
the Trustee to personal liability to existing Holders.
SECTION 2.5 Execution of Securities. The Securities and, if
applicable, each Coupon appertaining thereto, shall be signed on behalf of the
Issuer by both (a) the chairman of its Board of Directors or any vice chairman
of its Board of Directors or its president or any vice president or its
treasurer or any assistant treasurer and (b) by its secretary or any assistant
secretary, under its corporate seal, if any, which may, but need not, be
attested. Such signatures may be the manual or facsimile signatures of the
present or any future such officers. The seal of the Issuer may be in the form
of a facsimile thereof and may be impressed, affixed, imprinted or otherwise
reproduced on the Securities. Typographical and other minor errors or defects
in any such reproduction of the seal or any such signature shall not affect the
validity or enforceability of any Security or Coupon that has been duly
authenticated and delivered by the Trustee.
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In case any officer of the Issuer who shall have signed any of the
Securities or Coupons shall cease to be such officer before the Security or
Coupon so signed (or the Security to which the Coupon so signed appertains)
shall be authenticated and delivered by the Trustee or disposed of by the
Issuer, such Security or Coupon nevertheless may be authenticated and delivered
or disposed of as though the person who signed such Security or Coupon had not
ceased to be such officer of the Issuer; and any Security or Coupon may be
signed on behalf of the Issuer by such persons as, at the actual date of the
execution of such Security or Coupon, shall be the proper officers of the
Issuer, although at the date of the execution and delivery of this Indenture
any such person was not such an officer.
SECTION 2.6 Certificate of Authentication. Only such Securities as
shall bear thereon a certificate of authentication substantially in the form
hereinbefore recited, executed by the Trustee by the manual signature of one of
its authorized signatories, shall be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture
or be valid or obligatory for any purpose. Such certificate by the Trustee
upon any Security executed by the Issuer shall be conclusive evidence that the
Security so authenticated has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder
and that the holder is entitled to the benefits of this Indenture. No Coupon
shall be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture or shall be valid or
obligatory for any purpose until such certificate by the Trustee shall have
become duly executed on the Security to which such Coupon appertains.
SECTION 2.7 Denomination and Date of Securities; Payments of
Interest. The Securities shall be issuable as Registered Securities or
Unregistered Securities in such denominations as shall be specified as
contemplated by Section 2.3. In the absence of any such specification with
respect to the Registered Securities of any series, the Registered Securities
of such series shall be issuable in dominations of U.S. $1,000 and any integral
multiple thereof. In the absence of any such specification with respect to the
Unregistered Securities, Unregistered Securities shall be issued in the
denomination of U.S. $1,000. The Securities shall be numbered, lettered, or
otherwise distinguished in such manner or in accordance with such plan as the
officers of the Issuer executing the same may determine with the approval of
the Trustee as evidenced by the execution and authentication thereof.
Each Registered Security shall be dated the date of its
authentication. Each Unregistered Security shall be dated as provided in the
resolution or resolutions of the Board of Directors of the Issuer or the
supplemental indenture referred to in Section 2.3. The Securities of each
series shall bear interest, if any, from the date, and such interest shall be
payable on the dates, established as contemplated by Section 2.3.
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The person in whose name any Registered Security on the Security
Register maintained by the Issuer pursuant to Section 2.8 of any series is
registered at the close of business on any record date applicable to a
particular series with respect to any interest payment date for such series
shall be entitled to receive the interest, if any, payable on such interest
payment date notwithstanding any transfer or exchange of such Registered
Security subsequent to the record date and prior to such interest payment date,
except if and to the extent the Issuer shall default in the payment of the
interest due on such interest payment date for such series, in which case such
defaulted interest shall be paid to the persons in whose names Outstanding
Registered Securities for such series are registered at the close of business
on a subsequent record date (which shall be not less than five Business Days
prior to the date of payment of such defaulted interest) established by notice
given by mail by or on behalf of the Issuer to the holders of Registered
Securities not less than 15 days preceding such subsequent record date. The
term "record date" as used with respect to any interest payment date (except a
date for payment of defaulted interest) shall mean the date specified as such
in the terms of the Registered Securities of any particular series, or, if no
such date is so specified, if such interest payment date is the first day of a
calendar month, the fifteenth day of the next preceding calendar month or, if
such interest payment date is the fifteenth day of a calendar month, the first
day of such calendar month, whether or not such record date is a Business Day.
Any defaulted interest payable in respect of any Unregistered Security
shall be payable pursuant to such procedures as are satisfactory to the Trustee
and in such manner so that there is no discrimination as between the holders of
Registered Securities and Unregistered Securities of the same series and notice
of the payment date therefor shall be given by the Trustee in the name and at
the expense of the Issuer by publication at least once in an Authorized
Newspaper. In case an Unregistered Security is surrendered in exchange for a
Registered Security after the close of business on any record date for the
payment of defaulted interest and before the opening of business on the
proposed date of payment of such defaulted interest, the Coupon appertaining to
such surrendered Unregistered Security and due for payment on such proposed
date of payment will not be surrendered with such surrendered Unregistered
Security and interest payable on such proposed date of payment will be made
only to the holder of such Coupon on such proposed date.
SECTION 2.8 Registration, Transfer and Exchange. The Issuer will
keep or cause to be kept at each office or agency to be maintained for the
purpose as provided in Section 3.2 a register or registers for each series of
Registered Securities issued hereunder (collectively, the "Security Register")
in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it
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will register, and will register the transfer of, or cause the registration of
transfer of, Registered Securities as in this Article provided. Such register
shall be in written form in the English language or in any other form capable
of being converted into such form within a reasonable time. At all reasonable
times such register or registers shall be open for inspection by the Trustee.
Upon due presentation for registration of transfer of any Registered
Security of any series at any such office or agency to be maintained for the
purpose as provided in Section 3.2, the Issuer shall execute and the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver in the name of the transferee or transferees a
new Registered Security or Registered Securities of the same series in
authorized denominations for a like aggregate principal amount.
Unregistered securities (except for any temporary Unregistered
Securities) and Coupons (except for Coupons attached to any temporary
Unregistered Securities) shall be transferable by delivery.
Any Registered Security or Registered Securities of any series may be
exchanged for a Registered Security or Registered Securities of the same series
in other authorized denominations, in an equal aggregate principal amount.
Registered Securities of any series to be exchanged shall be surrendered at any
office or agency maintained by the Issuer for the purpose as provided in
Section 3.2, and the Issuer shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate
and deliver in exchange therefor the Registered Security or Registered
Securities of the same series which the Securityholder making the exchange
shall be entitled to receive, bearing numbers not contemporaneously
outstanding. If the Securities of any series are issued in both registered and
unregistered form, except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 2.3, at
the option of the Holder thereof, Unregistered Securities of any series may be
exchanged for Registered Securities of such series, maturity date and interest
rate, of any authorized denominations and in a like aggregate principal amount,
upon surrender of such Unregistered Securities to be exchanged at the agency of
the Issuer that shall be maintained for such purpose in accordance with Section
3.2, with, in the case of Unregistered Securities that have Coupons attached,
all unmatured Coupons and all matured Coupons in default thereto appertaining,
and upon payment, if the Issuer shall so require, of the charges hereinafter
provided. At the option of the Holder thereof, if Unregistered Securities of
any series, maturity date, interest rate and original issue date are issued in
more than one authorized denomination, except as otherwise specified pursuant
to Section 2.3, such Unregistered Securities may be exchanged for Unregistered
Securities of such series, maturity date, interest rate and original issue
date, of other authorized denominations and in a like aggregate principal
amount, upon surrender of such Unregistered Securities to be exchanged at the
agency of the
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Issuer that shall be maintained for such purpose in accordance with Section 3.2
or as specified pursuant to Section 2.3, with, in the case of Unregistered
Securities that have Coupons attached, all unmatured Coupons and all matured
Coupons in default thereto appertaining, and upon payment, if the Issuer shall
so require, of the charges hereinafter provided. Unless otherwise specified
pursuant to Section 2.3, Registered Securities of any series may not be
exchanged for Unregistered Securities of such series. Whenever any Securities,
and the Coupons appertaining thereto, if any, are so surrendered for exchange,
the Issuer shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the
Securities, and the Coupons appertaining thereto, if any, which the Holder
making the exchange is entitled to receive. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if
an Unregistered Security of any series is surrendered at any such office or
agency in exchange for a Registered Security of the same series after the close
of business at such office or agency on any record date and before the opening
of business at such office or agency on the applicable interest payment date,
such Unregistered Security shall be surrendered without the Coupon, if any,
relating to such interest payment date. All Securities and Coupons surrendered
upon any exchange or transfer provided for in this Indenture shall be promptly
canceled and disposed of by the Trustee and the Trustee will deliver a
certificate of disposition thereof to the Issuer.
All Registered Securities presented for registration of transfer,
exchange, redemption or payment shall (if so required by the Issuer or the
Trustee) be duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument or
instruments of transfer in form satisfactory to the Issuer and the Trustee duly
executed by, the Holder or his attorney duly authorized in writing.
The Issuer may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or
other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any exchange
or registration of transfer of Securities and shall not be required to exchange
or register a transfer of any Securities until such payment is made. No
service charge shall be made for any such transaction.
The Issuer shall not be required to exchange or register a transfer of
(a) any Securities of any series for a period of 15 days next preceding the
first mailing of notice of redemption of Securities of such series to be
redeemed, or (b) any Securities selected, called or being called for redemption
except, in the case of any Security where public notice has been given that
such Security is to be redeemed in part, the portion thereof not so to be
redeemed and except that an Unregistered Security may be exchanged for a
Registered Security of the same series being called for redemption.
All Securities issued upon any transfer or exchange of Securities
shall be valid obligations of the Issuer, evidencing the same debt, and
entitled to the same benefits under this
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Indenture, as the Securities surrendered upon such transfer or exchange.
Notwithstanding anything herein or in the terms of any series of
Securities to the contrary, neither the Issuer nor the Trustee (which shall
rely on an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel) shall be required
to exchange any Unregistered Security for a Registered Security if such
exchange would result in adverse Federal income tax consequences to the Issuer
(including, without limitation, the inability of the Issuer to deduct from its
income, as computed for Federal income tax purposes, the interest payable on
the Unregistered Securities) under then applicable United States Federal income
tax laws.
SECTION 2.9 Mutilated, Defaced, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen
Securities. In case any temporary or definitive Security or any Coupon
appertaining to any Security shall become mutilated, defaced or be destroyed,
lost or stolen, the Issuer in its discretion may execute, and upon the written
request of any officer of the Issuer, the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver, a new Security of the same series, bearing a number not
contemporaneously outstanding, in exchange and substitution for the mutilated
or defaced Security, or in lieu of and substitution for the Security so
destroyed, lost or stolen, with Coupons corresponding to the Coupons
appertaining to the Security so mutilated, defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen,
or in exchange or substitution for the Security to which such mutilated,
defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen Coupons appertained, with Coupons
appertaining thereto corresponding to the Coupons so mutilated, defaced,
destroyed, lost or stolen. In every case, the applicant for a substitute
Security or Coupon shall furnish to the Issuer and to the Trustee and any agent
of the Issuer or the Trustee such security or indemnity as may be required by
them to indemnify and defend and to save each of them harmless and, in every
case of destruction, loss or theft, evidence to their satisfaction of the
destruction, loss or theft of such Security and of the ownership thereof.
Upon the issuance of any substitute Security or Coupon, the Issuer may
require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental
charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other expenses
(including the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith. In case
any Security or Coupon which has matured or is about to mature or has been
called for redemption in full shall become mutilated or defaced or be
destroyed, lost or stolen, the Issuer may, at its sole discretion, instead of
issuing a substitute Security or Coupon, pay or authorize the payment of the
same (without surrender thereof except in the case of a mutilated or defaced
Security or Coupon), if the applicant for such payment shall furnish to the
Issuer and to the Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee such
security or indemnity as any of them may require to save each of them harmless,
and, in every case of destruction, loss or theft,
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the applicant shall also furnish to the Issuer and the Trustee and any agent of
the Issuer or the Trustee evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction,
loss or theft of such Security or Coupon and of the ownership thereof.
Every substitute Security or Coupon of any series issued pursuant to
the provisions of this Section by virtue of the fact that any such Security or
Coupon is destroyed, lost or stolen shall constitute an additional contractual
obligation of the Issuer, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Security
or Coupon shall be at any time enforceable by anyone and shall be entitled to
all the benefits of (but shall be subject to all the limitations of rights set
forth in) this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other
Securities or Coupons of such series duly authenticated and delivered
hereunder. All Securities or Coupons shall be held and owned upon the express
condition that, to the extent permitted by law, the foregoing provisions are
exclusive with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, defaced or
destroyed, lost or stolen Securities or Coupons and shall preclude any and all
other rights or remedies notwithstanding any law or statute existing or
hereafter enacted to the contrary with respect to the replacement or payment of
negotiable instruments or other securities without their surrender.
SECTION 2.10 Cancellation of Securities; Destruction Thereof. All
Securities and Coupons surrendered for payment, redemption, registration of
transfer or exchange, or for credit against any payment in respect of a sinking
or analogous fund, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Issuer or
the Trustee, shall be delivered to the Trustee for cancellation or, if
surrendered to the Trustee, shall be canceled by it; and no Securities or
Coupons shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of
the provisions of this Indenture. The Trustee shall destroy cancelled
Securities and Coupons held by it and deliver a certificate of destruction to
the Issuer. If the Issuer shall acquire any of the Securities or Coupons, such
acquisition shall not operate as a redemption or satisfaction of the
indebtedness represented by such Securities or Coupons unless and until the
same are delivered to the Trustee for cancellation.
SECTION 2.11 Temporary Securities. Pending the preparation of
definitive Securities for any series, the Issuer may execute and the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver temporary Securities for such series (printed,
lithographed, typewritten or otherwise reproduced, in each case in form
satisfactory to the Trustee). Temporary Securities of any series shall be
issuable as Registered Securities without Coupons, or as Unregistered
Securities with or without Coupons attached thereto, of any authorized
denomination, and substantially in the form of the definitive Securities of
such series, but with such omissions, insertions and variations as may be
appropriate for temporary Securities, all as may be determined by the Issuer
with the
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concurrence of the Trustee. Temporary Securities may contain such reference to
any provisions of this Indenture as may be appropriate. Every temporary
Security shall be executed by the Issuer and be authenticated by the Trustee
upon the same conditions and in substantially the same manner, and with like
effect, as the definitive Securities. Without unreasonable delay, the Issuer
shall execute and shall furnish definitive Securities of such series and
thereupon temporary Securities of such series may be surrendered in exchange
therefor without charge at each office or agency to be maintained by the Issuer
for that purpose pursuant to Section 3.2, and in the case of Unregistered
Securities, together with any unmatured Coupons and any matured Coupons in
default appertaining thereto, at any agency maintained by the Issuer for such
purpose as specified pursuant to Section 3.2, and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver in exchange for such temporary Securities of such
series a like aggregate principal amount of definitive Securities of the same
series of authorized denominations. Until so exchanged, the temporary
Securities and any unmatured Coupons appertaining thereto of any series shall
be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as definitive Securities
and any unmatured Coupons appertaining thereto of such series. The provisions
of this Section are subject to any restrictions or limitations on the issue and
delivery of temporary Unregistered Securities of any series that may be
established pursuant to Section 2.3 (including any provision that Unregistered
Securities of such series initially be issued in the form of a single global
Unregistered Security to be delivered to a depositary or agency of the Issuer
located outside the United States and the procedures pursuant to which
definitive Unregistered Securities of such series would be issued in exchange
for such temporary global Unregistered Security).
ARTICLE THREE
COVENANTS OF THE ISSUER
SECTION 3.1 Payment of Principal and Interest. The Issuer covenants
and agrees for the benefit of each series of Securities that it will duly and
punctually pay or cause to be paid the principal of, and interest on, each of
the Securities of such series at the place or places, at the respective times
and in the manner provided in such Securities. Except as specified in Section
2.3, the interest on Securities with Coupons attached (together with any
additional amounts payable pursuant to the terms of such Securities) shall be
payable only upon presentation and surrender of the several Coupons for such
interest installments as are evidenced thereby as they severally mature.
Except as specified in Section 2.3, the interest on any temporary Unregistered
Securities (together with any additional amounts payable pursuant to the terms
of such Securities) shall be paid, as to the installments of interest evidenced
by Coupons attached thereto, if any, only upon presentation and surrender
thereof,
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and, as to the other installments of interest, if any, only upon presentation
of such Securities for notation thereon of the payment of such interest. Each
installment of interest on the Registered Securities of any series may be paid
by mailing checks for such interest payable to or upon the written order of the
holders of Registered Securities entitled thereto as they shall appear on the
registry books of the Issuer.
SECTION 3.2 Offices for Payments, etc. So long as any of the
Securities remain outstanding, the Issuer will maintain the following for each
series: an office or agency (a) where the Registered Securities may be
presented for payment, (b) where the Registered Securities may be presented for
registration of transfer and for exchange as in this Indenture provided and (c)
where notices and demands to or upon the Issuer in respect of the Registered
Securities or of this Indenture may be served.
The Issuer will give to the Trustee written notice of the location of
any such office or agency and of any change of location thereof. With respect
to each series of Securities and Coupons whose terms are established pursuant
to Section 2.3, the Issuer hereby designates the Corporate Trust Office as the
initial office to be maintained by it for each such purpose. In case the
Issuer shall fail to so designate or maintain any such office or agency or
shall fail to give such notice of the location or of any change in the location
thereof, presentations and demands may be made and notices may be served at the
Corporate Trust Office.
SECTION 3.3 Appointment to Fill a Vacancy in Office of Trustee. The
Issuer, whenever necessary to avoid or fill a vacancy in the office of Trustee,
will appoint, in the manner provided in Section 6.10, a Trustee, so that there
shall at all times be a Trustee with respect to each series of Securities
hereunder.
SECTION 3.4 Paying Agents. Whenever the Issuer shall appoint a
paying agent other than the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any
series, it will cause such paying agent to execute and deliver to the Trustee
an instrument in which such agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the
provisions of this Section,
(a) that it will hold all sums received by it as such agent
for the payment of the principal of or interest on the Securities of
such series (whether such sums have been paid to it by the Issuer or
by any other obligor on the Securities of such series) in trust for
the benefit of the holders of the Securities of such series or the
Coupons appertaining thereto or of the Trustee, and
(b) that it will give the Trustee notice of any failure by the
Issuer (or by any other obligor on the Securities of such series) to
make any payment of the principal of or
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interest on the Securities of such series when the same shall be due
and payable.
The Issuer will, on or prior to each due date of the principal of or
interest on the Securities of such series, deposit with the paying agent a sum
sufficient to pay such principal or interest so becoming due, and (unless such
paying agent is the Trustee) the Issuer will promptly notify the Trustee of any
failure to take such action.
If the Issuer shall act as its own paying agent with respect to the
Securities or the Coupons appertaining thereto of any series, it will, on or
before each due date of the principal of or interest on the Securities or the
Coupons appertaining thereto of such series, set aside, segregate and hold in
trust for the benefit of the holders of the Securities or the Coupons
appertaining thereto of such series a sum sufficient to pay such principal or
interest so becoming due. The Issuer will promptly notify the Trustee of any
failure to take such action.
Anything in this Section to the contrary notwithstanding, the Issuer
may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining a satisfaction and discharge with
respect to one or more or all series of Securities hereunder, or for any other
reason, pay or cause to be paid to the Trustee all sums held in trust for any
such series by the Issuer or any paying agent hereunder, as required by this
Section, such sums to be held by the Trustee upon the trusts herein contained.
Anything in this Section to the contrary notwithstanding, the
agreement to hold sums in trust as provided in this Section is subject to the
provisions of Sections 10.3 and 10.4.
SECTION 3.5 Written Statement to Trustee. The Issuer will deliver to
the Trustee on or before April 30 in each year (beginning with April 30, 1994)
a brief certificate (which need not comply with Section 11.5) from the
principal executive officer, principal financial officer or principal
accounting officer as to his or her knowledge of the Issuer's compliance with
all conditions and covenants under this Indenture (such compliance to be
determined without respect to any period of grace or requirement of notice
provided under the Indenture).
ARTICLE FOUR
SECURITYHOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY THE
ISSUER AND THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 4.1 Issuer to Furnish Trustee Information as to Names and
Addresses of Securityholders. The Issuer covenants and agrees that it will
furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee a list in such form as the
Trustee may reasonably require of the
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names and addresses of the holders of the Securities of each series:
(a) semiannually and not more than 15 days after each record
date for the payment of interest on such Securities, as hereinabove
specified, as of such record date and on dates to be determined
pursuant to Section 2.3 for non-interest- bearing securities in each
year, and
(b) at such other times as the Trustee may request in
writing, within 30 days after receipt by the Issuer of any such
request as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the time such
information is furnished,
provided that if and so long as the Trustee shall be the Security registrar for
such series and all of the Securities of such series are Registered Securities,
such list shall not be required to be furnished. The Trustee shall, at the
request of the Issuer, provide such list to the Issuer for so long as the
Trustee shall be the Security registrar.
SECTION 4.2 Preservation and Disclosure of Securityholders' Lists.
(a) The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably
practicable, all information as to the names and addresses of the holders of
each series of Securities (i) contained in the most recent list furnished to it
as provided in Section 4.1, (ii) received by it in the capacity of Security
registrar for such series, if so acting and (iii) filed with it within the
preceding two years pursuant to Section 4.4(c)(ii). The Trustee may destroy
any list furnished to it as provided in Section 4.1 upon receipt of a new list
so furnished.
(b) In case three or more holders of Securities (hereinafter referred
to as "applicants") apply in writing to the Trustee and furnish to the Trustee
reasonable proof that each such applicant has owned a Security for a period of
at least six months preceding the date of such application, and such
application states that the applicants desire to communicate with other holders
of Securities of a particular series (in which case the applicants must all
hold Securities of such series) or with holders of all Securities with respect
to their rights under this Indenture or under such Securities and such
application is accompanied by a copy of the form of proxy or other
communication which such applicants propose to transmit, then the Trustee
shall, within five Business Days after the receipt of such application, at its
election, either
(i) afford to such applicants access to the information
preserved at the time by the Trustee in accordance with the provisions
of subsection (a) of this Section, or
(ii) inform such applicants as to the approximate number of
holders of Securities of such series or all Securities, as the case
may be, whose names and addresses appear in the
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information preserved at the time by the Trustee, in accordance with
the provisions of subsection (a) of this Section, and as to the
approximate cost of mailing to such Securityholders the form of proxy
or other communication, if any, specified in such application.
If the Trustee shall elect not to afford to such applicants access to
such information, the Trustee shall, upon the written request of such
applicants, mail to each Securityholder of such series or all Securities, as
the case may be, whose name and address appears in the information preserved at
the time by the Trustee in accordance with the provisions of subsection (a) of
this Section a copy of the form of proxy or other communication which is
specified in such request, with reasonable promptness after a tender to the
Trustee of the material to be mailed and of payment, or provision for the
payment, of the reasonable expenses of mailing, unless within five days after
such tender, the Trustee shall mail to such applicants and file with the
Commission together with a copy of the material to be mailed, a written
statement to the effect that, in the opinion of the Trustee, such mailing would
be contrary to the best interests of the holders of Securities of such series
or all Securities, as the case may be, or would be in violation of applicable
law. Such written statement shall specify the basis of such opinion. If the
Commission, after opportunity for a hearing upon the objections specified in
the written statement so filed, shall enter an order refusing to sustain any of
such objections or if, after the entry of an order sustaining one or more of
such objections, the Commission shall find, after notice and opportunity for
hearing, that all the objections so sustained have been met, and shall enter an
order so declaring, the Trustee shall mail copies of such material to all such
Securityholders with reasonable promptness after the entry of such order and
the renewal of such tender; otherwise the Trustee shall be relieved of any
obligation or duty to such applicants respecting their application.
(c) Each and every holder of Securities and Coupons, by receiving and
holding the same, agrees with the Issuer and the Trustee that neither the
Issuer nor the Trustee nor any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee shall be held
accountable by reason of the disclosure of any such information as to the names
and addresses of the holders of Securities in accordance with the provisions of
subsection (b) of this Section, regardless of the source from which such
information was derived, and that the Trustee shall not be held accountable by
reason of mailing any material pursuant to a request made under such subsection
(b).
SECTION 4.3 Reports by the Issuer. The Issuer covenants to file with
the Trustee, within 15 days after the Issuer is required to file the same with
the Commission, copies of the annual reports and of the information, documents,
any other reports (or copies of such portions of any of the foregoing as the
Commission may from time to time by rules and regulations prescribe) which the
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Issuer may be required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or
Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, or if the Issuer is not
required to file information, documents, or reports pursuant to either of such
Sections, then to file with the Trustee and the Commission, in accordance with
rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission, such of
the supplementary and periodic information, documents, and reports which may be
required pursuant to Section 13 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, or in
respect of a security listed and registered on a national securities exchange
as may be prescribed from time to time in such rules and regulations. The
Issuer shall also comply with the provisions of Section 314(a) of the Trust
Indenture Act of 1939.
SECTION 4.4 Reports by the Trustee. Any Trustee's report required
under Section 313(a) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 shall be transmitted or
filed, as the case may be, on or before July 15 in each year beginning July 15,
1994, as provided in Sections 313(b), 313(c) and 313(d) of the Trust Indenture
Act of 1939, so long as any Securities are Outstanding hereunder, and shall be
dated as of a date convenient to the Trustee no more than 60 days prior
thereto.
ARTICLE FIVE
REMEDIES OF THE TRUSTEE AND SECURITYHOLDERS
ON EVENT OF DEFAULT
SECTION 5.1 Event of Default Defined; Acceleration of Maturity;
Waiver of Default. "Event of Default" with respect to Securities of any series
wherever used herein, means each one of the following events which shall have
occurred and be continuing (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and
whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law
or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or
regulation of any administrative or governmental body):
(a) default in the payment of any instalment of interest upon
any of the Securities of such series as and when the same shall become
due and payable, and continuance of such default for a period of 30
days; or
(b) default in the payment of all or any part of the
principal on any of the Securities of such series as and when the same
shall become due and payable either at maturity, upon redemption, by
declaration or otherwise; or
(c) default in the payment of any sinking fund instalment as
and when the same shall become due and payable by the terms of the
Securities of such series; or
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(d) default in the performance, or breach, of any covenant or
warranty of the Issuer in respect of the Securities of such series
(other than a covenant or warranty in respect of the Securities of
such series, a default in the performance or breach of which is
elsewhere in this Section specifically dealt with), and continuance of
such default or breach for a period of 60 days after there has been
given, by registered or certified mail, to the Issuer by the Trustee
or to the Issuer and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of all series affected
thereby, a written notice specifying such default or breach and
requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a "Notice
of Default" hereunder; or
(e) a court having jurisdiction in the premises shall enter a
decree or order for relief in respect of the Issuer in an involuntary
case under any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law
now or hereafter in effect, or shall appoint a receiver, liquidator,
assignee, custodian, trustee or sequestrator (or similar official) of
the Issuer or for any substantial part of its property or ordering the
winding up or liquidation of its affairs, and such decree or order
shall remain unstayed and in effect for a period of 90 consecutive
days; or
(f) the Issuer shall commence a voluntary case under any
applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or
hereafter in effect, or consent to the entry of an order for relief in
an involuntary case commenced against the Issuer under any such law,
or consent to the appointment of or taking possession by a receiver,
liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee or sequestrator (or similar
official) of the Issuer or for any substantial part of its property,
or make any general assignment for the benefit of creditors; or
(g) any other Event of Default provided in the supplemental
indenture or resolution of the Board of Directors under which such
series of Securities is issued or in the form of Security for such
series.
If an Event of Default with respect to a particular series of Securities
described in clauses (a), (b), (c) or (d) above occurs and is continuing, then,
and in each and every such case, either the Trustee or the holders of not less
than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of such series then
Outstanding hereunder (each such series voting as a separate class) by notice
in writing to the Issuer (and to the Trustee if given by Securityholders), may
declare the entire principal (or, if the Securities of such series are Original
Issue Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount as may be
specified in the terms of such series) of all Securities of such series and the
interest accrued thereon, if any, to be due and payable immediately, and upon
any such declaration the same shall become
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immediately due and payable. If an Event of Default described in clause (e) or
(f) occurs and is continuing, then and in each and every such case, either the
Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of
all the Securities then Outstanding hereunder (treated as one class), by notice
in writing to the Issuer (and to the Trustee if given by Securityholders), may
declare the entire principal (or, if any Securities are Original Issue Discount
Securities, such portion of the principal as may be specified in the terms
thereof) of all the Securities then Outstanding and interest accrued thereon,
if any, to be due and payable immediately, and upon any such declaration the
same shall become immediately due and payable.
The foregoing provisions, however, are subject to the condition that
if, at any time after the principal (or, if the Securities are Original Issue
Discount Securities, such portion of the principal as may be specified in the
terms thereof) of the Securities of any series (or of all the Securities, as
the case may be) shall have been so declared due and payable, and before any
judgment or decree for the payment of the moneys due shall have been obtained
or entered as hereinafter provided, the Issuer shall pay or shall deposit with
the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay all matured installments of interest upon
all the Securities of such series (or of all the Securities, as the case may
be) and the principal of any and all Securities of such series (or of all the
Securities, as the case may be) which shall have become due otherwise than by
acceleration (with interest upon such principal and, to the extent that payment
of such interest is enforceable under applicable law, on overdue installments
of interest, at the same rate as the rate of interest or Yield to Maturity (in
the case of original Issue Discount Securities) specified in the Securities of
such series (or at the respective rates of interest or Yields to Maturity of
all the Securities, as the case may be, to the date of such payment or deposit)
and such amount as shall be sufficient to cover reasonable compensation to the
Trustee, its agents, attorneys and counsel, and all other expenses and
liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Trustee except as a result
of negligence or bad faith, and all other amounts due to the Trustee or any
predecessor Trustee pursuant to Section 6.6, and if any and all Events of
Default under the Indenture, other than the nonpayment of the principal of
Securities which shall have become due by acceleration, shall have been cured,
waived or otherwise remedied as provided herein--then and in every such case
the holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of all the Securities
of such series, each series voting as a separate class (or of all the
Securities, as the case may be, voting as a single class), then Outstanding, by
written notice to the Issuer and to the Trustee, may waive all defaults with
respect to such series (or with respect to all the Securities, as the case may
be) and rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences, but no such
waiver or rescission and annulment shall extend to or shall affect any
subsequent default or shall impair any right consequent thereon.
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For all purposes under this Indenture, if a portion of the principal
of any Original Issue Discount Securities shall have been accelerated and
declared due and payable pursuant to the provisions hereof, then, from and
after such declaration, unless such declaration has been rescinded and
annulled, the principal amount of such Original Issue Discount Securities shall
be deemed, for all purposes hereunder, to be such portion of the principal
thereof as shall be due and payable as a result of such acceleration, and
payment of such portion of the principal thereof as shall be due and payable as
a result of such acceleration, together with interest, if any, thereon and all
other amounts owing thereunder, shall constitute payment in full of such
Original Issue Discount Securities.
SECTION 5.2 Collection of Indebtedness by Trustee; Trustee May Prove
Debt. The Issuer covenants that (a) in case default shall be made in the
payment of any instalment of interest on any of the Securities of any series
when such interest shall have become due and payable, and such default shall
have continued for a period of 30 days or (b) in case default shall be made in
the payment of all or any part of the principal of any of the Securities of any
series when the same shall have become due and payable, whether upon maturity
of the Securities of such series or upon any redemption or by declaration or
otherwise--then upon demand of the Trustee, the Issuer will pay to the Trustee
for the benefit of the holders of the Securities of such series the whole
amount that then shall have become due and payable on all Securities of such
series, and Coupons appertaining thereto, for principal or interest, as the
case may be (with interest to the date of such payment upon the overdue
principal and, to the extent that payment of such interest is enforceable under
applicable law, on overdue installments of interest at the same rate as the
rate of interest or Yield to Maturity (in the case of original Issue Discount
Securities) specified in the Securities of such series); and in addition
thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and
expenses of collection, including reasonable compensation to the Trustee and
each predecessor Trustee, their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and
any expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Trustee
and each predecessor Trustee except as a result of its negligence or bad faith,
and all other amounts due to the Trustee or any predecessor Trustee pursuant to
Section 6.6.
Until such demand is made by the Trustee, the Issuer may pay the
principal of and interest on the Securities of any series to the Holders,
whether or not the principal of and interest on the Securities of such series
be overdue.
In case the Issuer shall fail forthwith to pay such amounts upon such
demand, the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, shall
be entitled and empowered to institute
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any action or proceeding at law or in equity for the collection of the sums so
due and unpaid, and may prosecute any such action or proceeding to judgment or
final decree, and may enforce any such judgment or final decree against the
Issuer or other obligor upon such Securities and collect in the manner provided
by law out of the property of the Issuer or other obligor upon such Securities,
wherever situated, the moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable.
In case there shall be pending proceedings relative to the Issuer or
any other obligor upon the Securities under Title 11 of the United States Code
or any other applicable Federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other
similar law, or in case a receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee or
sequestrator (or similar official) shall have been appointed for or taken
possession of the Issuer or its property or such other obligor, or in case of
any other comparable judicial proceedings relative to the Issuer or other
obligor upon the Securities of any series, or Coupons appertaining thereto, or
to the creditors or property of the Issuer or such other obligor, the Trustee,
irrespective of whether the principal of any Securities shall then be due and
payable as therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of
whether the Trustee shall have made any demand pursuant to the provisions of
this Section, shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such
proceedings or otherwise:
(a) to file and prove a claim or claims for the whole amount
of principal and interest (or, if the Securities of any series are
Original Issue Discount Securities, such portion of the principal
amount as may be specified in the terms of such series) owing and
unpaid in respect of the Securities of any series, and to file such
other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to
have the claims of the Trustee (including any claim for reasonable
compensation to the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee, and their
respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and for reimbursement of all
expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the
Trustee and each predecessor Trustee, except as a result of negligence
or bad faith, and all other amounts due to the Trustee or any
predecessor Trustee pursuant to Section 6.6) and of the
Securityholders allowed in any judicial proceedings relative to the
Issuer or other obligor upon the Securities of any series, or to the
creditors or property of the Issuer or such other obligor,
(b) unless prohibited by applicable law and regulations, to
vote on behalf of the holders of the Securities of any series in any
election of a trustee or a standby trustee in arrangement,
reorganization, liquidation or other bankruptcy or insolvency
proceedings or person performing similar functions in comparable
proceedings, and
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(c) to collect and receive any moneys or other property
payable or deliverable on any such claims, and to distribute all
amounts received with respect to the claims of the Securityholders and
of the Trustee on their behalf; and any trustee, receiver, or
liquidator, custodian or other similar official is hereby authorized
by each of the Securityholders to make payments to the Trustee, and,
in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of payments
directly to the Securityholders, to pay to the Trustee such amounts as
shall be sufficient to cover reasonable compensation to the Trustee,
each predecessor Trustee and their respective agents, attorneys and
counsel, and all other expenses and liabilities incurred, and all
advances made, by the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee except as a
result of negligence or bad faith and all other amounts due to the
Trustee or any predecessor Trustee pursuant to Section 6.6.
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to
authorize or consent to or vote for or accept or adopt on behalf of any
Securityholder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or
composition affecting the Securities or Coupons appertaining thereto of any
series or the rights of any Holder thereof, or to authorize the Trustee to vote
in respect of the claim of any Securityholder in any such proceeding except, as
aforesaid, to vote for the election of a trustee in bankruptcy or similar
person.
All rights of action and of asserting claims under this Indenture, or
under any of the Securities, or Coupons appertaining thereto, may be enforced
by the Trustee without the possession of any of the Securities, or Coupons
appertaining thereto, or the production thereof on any trial or other
proceedings relative thereto, and any such action or proceedings instituted by
the Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust,
and any recovery of judgment, subject to the payment of the expenses,
disbursements, compensation and all other amounts due pursuant to Section 6.6
to the Trustee, each predecessor Trustee and their respective agents and
attorneys, shall be for the ratable benefit of the holders of the Securities,
or Coupons appertaining thereto, in respect of which such action was taken.
In any proceedings brought by the Trustee (and also any proceedings
involving the interpretation of any provision of this Indenture to which the
Trustee shall be a party), the Trustee shall be held to represent all the
holders of the Securities in respect to which such action was taken, and it
shall not be necessary to make any holders of such Securities parties to any
such proceedings.
SECTION 5.3 Application of Proceeds. Any moneys collected by the
Trustee pursuant to this Article in respect of any series shall be applied in
the following order at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee and, in case of
the distribution of such moneys on
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account of principal or interest, upon presentation of the several Securities,
and Coupons appertaining thereto, in respect of which monies have been
collected and stamping (or otherwise noting) thereon the payment, or issuing
Securities of such series in reduced principal amounts in exchange for the
presented Securities of like series if only partially paid, or upon surrender
thereof if fully paid:
FIRST: To the payment of costs and expenses applicable to
such series in respect of which monies have been collected, including
reasonable compensation to the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee
and their respective agents and attorneys and of all expenses and
liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Trustee in the
exercise of its rights or discharge of its duties hereunder and each
predecessor Trustee except as a result of negligence or bad faith, and
all other amounts due to the Trustee or any predecessor Trustee
pursuant to Section 6.6;
SECOND: In case the principal of the Securities of such
series in respect of which moneys have been collected shall not have
become and be then due and payable, to the payment of interest on the
Securities of such series in default in the order of the maturity of
the installments of such interest, with interest (to the extent that
such interest has been collected by the Trustee) upon the overdue
installments of interest at the same rate as the rate of interest or
Yield to Maturity (in the case of Original Issue Discount Securities)
specified in such Securities, such payments to be made ratably to the
persons entitled thereto, without discrimination or preference;
THIRD: In case the principal of the Securities of such series
in respect of which moneys have been collected shall have become and
shall be then due and payable, to the payment of the whole amount then
owing and unpaid upon all the Securities of such series for principal
and interest, with interest upon the overdue principal, and (to the
extent that such interest has been collected by the Trustee) upon
overdue installments of interest at the same rate as the rate of
interest or Yield to Maturity (in the case of Original Issue Discount
Securities) specified in the securities of such series; and in case
such moneys shall be insufficient to pay in full the whole amount so
due and unpaid upon the Securities of such series, then to the payment
of such principal and interest or Yield to Maturity, without
preference or priority of principal over interest or Yield to
Maturity, or of interest or Yield to Maturity over principal, or of
any instalment of interest over any other instalment of interest, or
of any Security of such series over any other Security of such series,
ratably to the aggregate of such principal and accrued and unpaid
interest or Yield to Maturity; and
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FOURTH: To the payment of the remainder, if any, to the
Issuer or any other person lawfully entitled thereto.
SECTION 5.4 Suits for Enforcement. In case an Event of Default has
occurred, has not been waived and is continuing, the Trustee may in its
discretion proceed to protect and enforce the rights vested in it by this
Indenture by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem
most effectual to protect and enforce any of such rights, either at law or in
equity or in bankruptcy or otherwise, whether for the specific enforcement of
any covenant or agreement contained in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise
of any power granted in this Indenture or to enforce any other legal or
equitable right vested in the Trustee by this Indenture or by law.
SECTION 5.5 Restoration of Rights on Abandonment of Proceedings. In
case the Trustee shall have proceeded to enforce any right under this Indenture
and such proceedings shall have been discontinued or abandoned for any reason,
or shall have been determined adversely to the Trustee, then and in every such
case the Issuer and the Trustee shall be restored respectively to their former
positions and rights hereunder, and all rights, remedies and powers of the
Issuer, the Trustee and the Securityholders shall continue as though no such
proceedings had been taken.
SECTION 5.6 Limitations on Suits by Securityholders. No holder of
any Security of any series or of any Coupon appertaining thereto shall have any
right by virtue or by availing of any provision of this Indenture to institute
any action or proceedings at law or in equity or in bankruptcy or otherwise
upon or under or with respect to this Indenture, or for the appointment of a
receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee, or sequestrator (or other
similar official) or for any other remedy hereunder, unless such holder
previously shall have given to the Trustee written notice of an Event of
Default and of the continuance thereof, as hereinbefore provided, and unless
also the holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the
Securities of such series then Outstanding shall have made written request upon
the Trustee to institute such action or proceedings in its own name as trustee
hereunder and shall have offered to the Trustee such reasonable indemnity as it
may require against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred therein
or thereby and the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice,
request and offer of indemnity shall have failed to institute any such action
or proceeding and no direction inconsistent with such written request shall
have been given to the Trustee pursuant to Section 5.9; it being understood and
intended, and being expressly covenanted by the holder of every Security or
Coupon with every other Holder and the Trustee, that no one or more holders of
Securities of any series or of any Coupon appertaining thereto shall have any
right in any manner whatever by virtue or by availing themselves of any
provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any
other such holder of
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Securities or Coupons, or to obtain or seek to obtain priority over or
preference to any other such Holder or to enforce any right under this
Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal, ratable and
common benefit of all holders of Securities of the applicable series or of any
Coupon appertaining thereto. For the protection and enforcement of the
provisions of this Section, each and every Securityholder and the Trustee shall
be entitled to such relief as can be given either at law or in equity.
SECTION 5.7 Unconditional Right of Securityholders to Institute
Certain Suits. Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture and any
provision of any Security, the right of any holder of any Security or Coupon to
receive payment of the principal of and interest on such Security or Coupon on
or after the respective due dates expressed in such Security or Coupon, or in
any Coupon appertaining thereto, or to institute suit for the enforcement of
any such payment on or after such respective dates, shall not be impaired or
affected without the consent of such Holder.
SECTION 5.8 Powers and Remedies Cumulative; Delay or Omission Not
Waiver of Default. Except as provided in Section 5.6, no right or remedy
herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Securityholders is
intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and
remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to
every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at
law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or
remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or
employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.
No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Securityholder to
exercise any right or power accruing upon any Event of Default occurring and
continuing as aforesaid shall impair any such right or power or shall be
construed to be a waiver of any such Event of Default or an acquiescence
therein; and, subject to Section 5.6, every power and remedy given by this
Indenture or by law to the Trustee or to the Securityholders may be exercised
from time to time, and as often as shall be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or
by the Securityholders.
SECTION 5.9 Control by Securityholders. The holders of a majority in
aggregate principal amount of the Securities of each series affected (with each
series voting as a separate class) at the time Outstanding shall have the right
to direct the time, method, and place of conducting any proceeding for any
remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred on
the Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series by this Indenture;
provided that such direction shall not be otherwise than in accordance with law
and the provisions of this Indenture and provided further that (subject to the
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provisions of Section 6.1) the Trustee shall have the right to decline to
follow any such direction if the Trustee, being advised by counsel, shall
determine that the action or proceeding so directed may not lawfully be taken
or if the Trustee in good faith by its board of directors, the executive
committee, or a trust committee of directors or Responsible Officers of the
Trustee shall determine that the action or proceedings so directed would
involve the Trustee in personal liability or if the Trustee in good faith shall
so determine that the actions or forbearances specified in or pursuant to such
direction would be unduly prejudicial to the interests of holders of the
Securities of all series so affected not joining in the giving of said
direction, it being understood that (subject to Section 6.1) the Trustee shall
have no duty to ascertain whether or not such actions or forbearances are
unduly prejudicial to such Holders.
Nothing in this Indenture shall impair the right of the Trustee in its
discretion to take any action deemed proper by the Trustee and which is not
inconsistent with such direction or directions by Securityholders.
SECTION 5.10 Waiver of Past Defaults. Prior to the declaration of
the acceleration of the maturity of the Securities of any series as provided in
Section 5.1, the holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
Securities of such series at the time Outstanding may on behalf of the holders
of all the Securities of such series waive any past default or Event of Default
described in Section 5.1 and its consequences except a default in respect of a
covenant or provision hereof which cannot be modified or amended without the
consent of the holder of each Security affected. In the case of any such
waiver, the Issuer, the Trustee and the holders of the Securities of such
series shall be restored to their former positions and rights hereunder,
respectively; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other
default or impair any right consequent thereon.
Upon any such waiver, such default shall cease to exist and be deemed
to have been cured and not to have occurred, and any Event of Default arising
therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, and not to have occurred for
every purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any
subsequent or other default or Event of Default or impair any right consequent
thereon.
SECTION 5.11 Trustee to Give Notice of Default, But May Withhold in
Certain Circumstances. The Trustee shall, within 90 days after the occurrence
of a default known to the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series,
provide notice to the holders of Securities of such series and Coupons
appertaining thereto, if any, (i) if any Unregistered Securities of that series
are then Outstanding, to the Holders thereof, by publication at least once in
an Authorized Newspaper, (ii) if any Unregistered Securities of that series are
then Outstanding, to all Holders
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thereof who have filed their names and addresses with the Trustee pursuant to
Section 4.4(c)(ii), by mailing such notice to such Holders at such addresses
and (iii) to all holders of then Outstanding Registered Securities of that
series, by mailing such notice to such Holders at their addresses as they shall
appear in the registry books, unless such defaults shall have been cured before
the giving of such notice (the term "default" or "defaults" for the purposes of
this Section being hereby defined to mean any event or condition which is, or
with notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default);
provided that, except in the case of default in the payment of the principal of
or interest on any of the Securities of such series, the Trustee shall be
protected in withholding such notice if and so long as the board of directors,
the executive committee, or a trust committee of directors or trustees and/or
Responsible Officers of the Trustee in good faith determines that the
withholding of such notice is in the interests of the Securityholders of such
series; provided, further, that in the case of any default of the character
specified in clause (d) of Section 5.1, no such notice to Holders shall be
given until at least 30 days after the occurrence thereof.
SECTION 5.12 Right of Court to Require Filing of Undertaking to Pay
Costs. The parties to this Indenture agree, and each holder of any Security or
Coupon by his acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court
may in its discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or
remedy under this Indenture or in any suit against the Trustee for any action
taken, suffered or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant
in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that such
court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable
attorneys' fees, against any party litigant in such suit, having due regard to
the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party
litigant; but the provisions of this Section shall not apply to any suit
instituted by the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Securityholder or
group of Securityholders of any series holding in the aggregate more than 10%
in aggregate principal amount of the Securities Outstanding of such series, or
to any suit instituted by any Securityholder for the enforcement of the payment
of the principal of or interest on any Security or Coupon on or after the due
date expressed in such Security or Coupon.
ARTICLE SIX
CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 6.1 Duties and Responsibilities of the Trustee; During
Default; Prior to Default. With respect to the holders of any series of
Securities issued hereunder, the Trustee, prior to the occurrence of an Event
of Default with respect to the Securities of a particular series and after the
curing or waiving
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of all Events of Default which may have occurred with respect to such series,
undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are specifically set
forth in this Indenture. In case an Event of Default with respect to the
Securities of a series has occurred (which has not been cured or waived) the
Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this
Indenture, and use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise, as a
prudent man would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his
own affairs.
No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to relieve the
Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure
to act or its own willful misconduct, except that
(a) prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default with
respect to the Securities of any series and after the curing or
waiving of all such Events of Default with respect to such series
which may have occurred:
(i) the duties and obligations of the Trustee with
respect to the Securities of any series shall be determined
solely by the express provisions of this Indenture, and the
Trustee shall not be liable except for the performance of such
duties and obligations as are specifically set forth in this
Indenture, and no implied covenants or obligations shall be
read into this Indenture against the Trustee; and
(ii) in the absence of bad faith on the part of the
Trustee, the Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of
the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed
therein, upon any statements, certificates or opinions
furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of
this Indenture; but in the case of any such statements,
certificates or opinions which by any provision hereof are
specifically required to be furnished to the Trustee, the
Trustee shall be under a duty to examine the same to determine
whether or not they conform to the requirements of this
Indenture;
(b) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment
made in good faith by a Responsible Officer or Responsible Officers of
the Trustee, unless it shall be proved that the Trustee was negligent
in ascertaining the pertinent facts; and
(c) the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any
action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance
with the direction of the holders pursuant to Section 5.9 relating to
the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy
available to the
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Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee,
under this Indenture.
None of the provisions contained in this Indenture shall require the
Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur personal financial
liability in the performance of any of its duties or in the exercise of any of
its rights or powers, if there shall be reasonable ground for believing that
the repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such liability is not
reasonably assured to it.
SECTION 6.2 Certain Rights of the Trustee. In furtherance of and
subject to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, and subject to Section 6.1:
(a) the Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or
refraining from acting upon any resolution, Officers' Certificate or
any other certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice,
request, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, coupon, security or
other paper or document reasonably believed by it to be genuine and to
have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties;
(b) any request, direction, order or demand of the Issuer
mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by an Officers'
Certificate or order of the Issuer (unless other evidence in respect
thereof be herein specifically prescribed); and any resolution of the
Board of Directors may be evidenced to the Trustee by a copy thereof
certified by the secretary or an assistant secretary of the Issuer;
(c) the Trustee may consult with counsel and any advice or
Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and
protection in respect of any action reasonably taken, suffered or
omitted to be taken by it hereunder in good faith and in accordance
with such advice or Opinion of Counsel;
(d) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any
of the trusts, rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the
request, order or direction of any of the Securityholders pursuant to
the provisions of this Indenture, unless such Securityholders shall
have offered to the Trustee reasonable security or indemnity against
the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred therein or
thereby;
(e) the Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken or
omitted by it in good faith and believed by it to be authorized or
within the discretion, rights or powers conferred upon it by this
Indenture;
(f) prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default hereunder
and after the curing or waiving of all Events of Default, the Trustee
shall not be bound to make any
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investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution,
certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request,
consent, order, approval, appraisal, bond, debenture, note, coupon,
security, or other paper or document unless requested in writing so to
do by the holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal
amount of the Securities of all series then Outstanding; provided
that, if the payment within a reasonable time to the Trustee of the
costs, expenses or liabilities likely to be incurred by it in the
making of such investigation is, in the opinion of the Trustee, not
reasonably assured to the Trustee by the security afforded to it by
the terms of this Indenture, the Trustee may require reasonable
indemnity against such expenses or liabilities as a condition to
proceeding; the reasonable expenses of every such investigation shall
be paid by the Issuer or, if paid by the Trustee or any predecessor
Trustee, shall be repaid by the Issuer upon demand;
(g) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers
hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or
through agents or attorneys not regularly in its employ and the
Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on
the part of any such agent or attorney appointed with due care by it
hereunder; and
SECTION 6.3 Trustee Not Responsible for Recitals, Disposition of
Securities or Application of Proceeds Thereof. The recitals contained herein
and in the Securities, except the Trustee's certificates of authentication,
shall be taken as the statements of the Issuer, and the Trustee assumes no
responsibility for the correctness of the same. The Trustee makes no
representation as to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the
Securities or Coupons. The Trustee shall not be accountable for the use or
application by the Issuer of any of the Securities or of the proceeds thereof.
SECTION 6.4 Trustee and Agents May Hold Securities or Coupons;
Collections, etc. The Trustee or any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee, in
its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of
Securities or Coupons with the same rights it would have if it were not the
Trustee or such agent and, subject to Sections 6.8 and 6.13, if operative, may
otherwise deal with the Issuer and receive, collect, hold and retain
collections from the Issuer with the same rights it would have if it were not
the Trustee or such agent.
SECTION 6.5 Moneys Held by Trustee. Subject to the provisions of
Section 10.4 hereof, all moneys received by the Trustee shall, until used or
applied as herein provided, be held in trust for the purposes for which they
were received, but need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent
required by mandatory provisions of law. Neither the Trustee nor any agent
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of the Issuer or the Trustee shall be under any liability for interest on any
moneys received by it hereunder.
SECTION 6.6 Compensation and Indemnification of Trustee and Its Prior
Claim. The Issuer covenants and agrees to pay to the Trustee from time to
time, and the Trustee shall be entitled to, reasonable compensation (which
shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a
trustee of an express trust) and the Issuer covenants and agrees to pay or
reimburse the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee upon its request for all
reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by or on
behalf of it in accordance with any of the provisions of this Indenture
(including the reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements of
its counsel and of all agents and other persons not regularly in its employ)
except any such expense, disbursement or advance as may arise from its
negligence or bad faith. The Issuer also covenants to indemnify the Trustee
and each predecessor Trustee for, and to hold it harmless against, any loss,
liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on its part,
arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of this
Indenture or the trusts hereunder and its duties hereunder, including the costs
and expenses of defending itself against or investigating any claim of
liability in the premises. The obligations of the Issuer under this Section to
compensate and indemnify the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee and to pay or
reimburse the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee for expenses, disbursements
and advances shall constitute additional indebtedness hereunder and shall
survive the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture. Such additional
indebtedness shall be a senior claim to that of the Securities and Coupons upon
all property and funds held or collected by the Trustee as such, except funds
held in trust for the benefit of the holders of particular Securities or
Coupons, and the Securities and Coupons are hereby subordinated to such senior
claim.
SECTION 6.7 Right of Trustee to Rely on Officers' Certificate, etc.
Subject to Sections 6.1 and 6.2, whenever in the administration of the trusts
of this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it necessary or desirable that a
matter be proved or established prior to taking or suffering or omitting any
action hereunder, such matter (unless other evidence in respect thereof be
herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of negligence or bad faith
on the part of the Trustee, be deemed to be conclusively proved and established
by an Officers' Certificate delivered to the Trustee, and such certificate, in
the absence of negligence or bad faith on the part of the Trustee, shall be
full warrant to the Trustee for any action taken, suffered or omitted by it
under the provisions of this Indenture upon the faith thereof.
SECTION 6.8 Persons Eligible for Appointment as Trustee. The Trustee
for each series of Securities hereunder shall at all
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times be a corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the
United States of America or of any State or the District of Columbia having a
combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000, which is authorized under
such laws to exercise corporate trust powers and is subject to supervision or
examination by Federal, State or District of Columbia authority. If such
corporation publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law
or to the requirements of the aforesaid supervising or examining authority,
then for the purposes of this Section 6.8, 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 Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of
this Section 6.8, the Trustee shall resign immediately in the manner and with
the effect specified in Section 6.9.
No obligor upon the Securities or person directly or indirectly
controlling, controlled by or under common control with such obligor shall
serve as Trustee for any series of Securities.
The Trustee shall comply with Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture
Act of 1939.
The provisions of this Section 6.8 are in furtherance of and subject
to Section 310(a) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939.
SECTION 6.9 Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor
Trustee. (a) The Trustee, or any trustee or trustees hereafter appointed, may
at any time resign with respect to one or more or all series of Securities by
giving written notice of resignation to the Issuer. Upon receiving such notice
of resignation, the Issuer shall promptly appoint a successor trustee or
trustees with respect to the applicable series by written instrument in
duplicate, executed by authority of the Board of Directors, one copy of which
instrument shall be delivered to the resigning Trustee and one copy to the
successor trustee or trustees. If no successor trustee shall have been so
appointed with respect to any series and have accepted appointment within 30
days after the mailing of such notice of resignation, the resigning trustee may
petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor
trustee, or any Securityholder who has been a bona fide holder of a Security or
Securities of the applicable series for at least six months may, subject to the
provisions of Section 5.12, on behalf of himself and all others similarly
situated, petition any such court for the appointment of a successor trustee.
Such court may thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it may deem proper and
prescribe, appoint a successor trustee.
(b) In case at any time any of the following shall occur:
(i) the Trustee shall fail to comply with the provisions of
Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 with
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respect to any series of Securities after written request therefor by
the Issuer or by any Securityholder who has been a bona fide holder of
a Security or Securities of such series for at least six months; or
(ii) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with
the provisions of Section 6.8 and shall fail to resign after written
request therefor by the Issuer or by any Securityholder; or
(iii) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting with respect to
any series of Securities, or shall be adjudged a bankrupt or
insolvent, or a receiver or liquidator of the Trustee or of its
property shall be appointed, or any public officer shall take charge
or control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the
purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation;
then, in any such case, the Issuer may remove the Trustee with respect to the
applicable series of Securities and appoint a successor trustee for such series
by written instrument, in duplicate, executed by order of the Board of
Directors of the Issuer, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the
Trustee so removed and one copy to the successor trustee, or, subject to the
provisions of Section 7.1, any Securityholder who has been a bona fide holder
of a Security or Securities of such series for at least six months may on
behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of
competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee and the appointment of a
successor trustee with respect to such series. Such court may thereupon,
after such notice, if any, as it may deem proper and prescribe, remove the
Trustee and appoint a successor trustee.
(c) The holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
Securities of each series at the time Outstanding may at any time remove the
Trustee with respect to securities of such series and appoint a successor
trustee with respect to the Securities of such series by delivering to the
Trustee so removed, to the successor trustee so appointed and to the Issuer the
evidence provided for in Section 7.1 of the action in that regard taken by the
Securityholders.
(d) Any resignation or removal of the Trustee with respect to any
series and any appointment of a successor trustee with respect to such series
pursuant to any of the provisions of this Section 6.9 shall become effective
upon acceptance of appointment by the successor trustee as provided in Section
6.10.
SECTION 6.10 Acceptance of Appointment by Successor Trustee. Any
successor trustee appointed as provided in Section 6.9 shall execute and
deliver to the Issuer and to its predecessor trustee an instrument accepting
such appointment hereunder, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the
predecessor trustee with respect
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to all or any applicable series shall become effective and such successor
trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with
all rights, powers, duties and obligations with respect to such series of its
predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as trustee for
such series hereunder; but, nevertheless, on the written request of the Issuer
or of the successor trustee, upon payment of its charges then unpaid, the
trustee ceasing to act shall, subject to Section 10.4, pay over to the
successor trustee all moneys at the time held by it hereunder and shall execute
and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor trustee all such
rights, powers, duties and obligations. Upon request of any such successor
trustee, the Issuer shall execute any and all instruments in writing for more
fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor trustee all
such rights and powers. Any trustee ceasing to act shall, nevertheless, retain
a prior claim upon all property or funds held or collected by such trustee to
secure any amounts then due it pursuant to the provisions of Section 6.6.
If a successor trustee is appointed with respect to the Securities of
one or more (but not all) series, the Issuer, the predecessor Trustee and each
successor trustee with respect to the Securities of any applicable series shall
execute and deliver an indenture supplemental hereto which shall contain such
provisions as shall be deemed necessary or desirable to confirm that all the
rights, powers, trusts and duties of the predecessor Trustee with respect to
the Securities of any series as to which the predecessor Trustee is not
retiring shall continue to be vested in the predecessor Trustee, and shall add
to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to
provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more
than one trustee, it being understood that nothing herein or in such
supplemental indenture shall constitute such trustees or co- trustees of the
same trust and that each such trustee shall be trustee of a trust or trusts
under separate indentures.
No successor trustee with respect to any series of Securities shall
accept appointment as provided in this Section 6.10 unless at the time of such
acceptance such successor trustee shall be qualified under Section 310(b) of
the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 and eligible under the provisions of Section
6.8.
Upon acceptance of appointment by any successor trustee as provided in
this Section 6.10, the Issuer shall mail notice thereof (a) if any Unregistered
Securities of a series affected are then Outstanding, to the Holders thereof,
by publication of such notice at least once in an Authorized Newspaper, (b) if
any Unregistered Securities of a series affected are then Outstanding, to the
Holders thereof who have filed their names and addresses with the Trustee
pursuant to Section 4.4(c)(ii), by mailing such notice to such holders at such
addresses as were so furnished to
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the Trustee (and the Trustee shall make such information available to the
Issuer for such purpose) and (c) to the holders of Registered Securities of
each series affected, by first-class mail to such holders of Securities of any
series for which such successor trustee is acting as trustee at their last
addresses as they shall appear in the Security register. If the Issuer fails
to mail such notice within ten days after acceptance of appointment by the
successor trustee, the successor trustee shall cause such notice to be mailed
at the expense of the Issuer.
SECTION 6.11 Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to
Business of Trustee. Any corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or
converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting
from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a
party, or any corporation succeeding to the corporate trust business of the
Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder, provided, that such
corporation shall be qualified under Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act
of 1939 and eligible under the provisions of Section 6.8, without the execution
or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties
hereto, anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding.
In case at the time such successor to the Trustee shall succeed to the
trusts created by this Indenture any of the Securities of any series shall have
been authenticated but not delivered, any such successor to the Trustee may
adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor Trustee and deliver
such Securities so authenticated; and, in case at that time any of the
Securities of any series shall not have been authenticated, any successor to
the Trustee may authenticate such Securities either in the name of any
predecessor hereunder or in the name of the successor Trustee; and in all such
cases such certificate shall have the full force which it is anywhere in the
Securities of such series or in this Indenture provided that the certificate of
the Trustee shall have; provided, that the right to adopt the certificate of
authentication of any predecessor Trustee or to authenticate Securities of any
series in the name of any predecessor Trustee shall apply only to its successor
or successors by merger, conversion or consolidation.
SECTION 6.12 Preferential Collection of Claims Against the Issuer.
The Trustee shall comply with Section 311(a) of the Trust Indenture Act of
1939, excluding any creditor relationship listed in Section 311(b) of the Trust
Indenture Act of 1939.
Any Trustee who has resigned or been removed shall be subject to
Section 311(a) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 to the extent indicated
therein.
SECTION 6.13 Indentures Not Creating Potential Conflicting
Interests for the Trustee. The following indentures are hereby specifically
described for the purposes of Section 310(b)(1) of
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the Trust Indenture Act of 1939: Indenture dated as of November 15, 1988
between the Issuer and The First National Bank of Boston, as Trustee, pursuant
to which the Issuer's 10% Notes Due December 15, 2000 were issued.
ARTICLE SEVEN
CONCERNING THE SECURITYHOLDERS
SECTION 7.1 Evidence of Action Taken by Securityholders. Any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other
action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by a specified
percentage in principal amount of the Securityholders of any or all series may
be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially
similar tenor signed by such specified percentage of Securityholders in person
or by agent duly appointed in writing; and, except as herein otherwise
expressly provided, such action shall become effective when such instrument or
instruments are delivered to the Trustee. Proof of execution of any instrument
or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose
of this Indenture and (subject to Sections 6.1 and 6.2) conclusive in favor of
the Trustee and the Issuer, if made in the manner provided in this Article.
SECTION 7.2 Proof of Execution of Instruments and of Holding of
Securities. Subject to Sections 6.1 and 6.2, the execution of any instrument
by a Securityholder or his agent or proxy may be proved in the following
manner:
The fact and date of the execution by any Holder of any
instrument may be proved by the certificate of any notary public or
other officer of any jurisdiction authorized to take acknowledgments
of deeds or administer oaths that the person executing such
instruments acknowledged to him the execution thereof, or by an
affidavit of a witness to such execution sworn to before any such
notary or other such officer. Where such execution is by or on behalf
of any legal entity other than an individual, such certificate or
affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof of the authority of
the person executing the same. The fact of the holding by any holder
of an Unregistered Security of any series, and the identifying number
of such Security and the date of his holding the same, may be proved
by the production of such Security or by a certificate executed by any
trust company, bank, banker or recognized securities dealer wherever
situated satisfactory to the Trustee, if such certificate shall be
deemed by the Trustee to be satisfactory. Each such certificate shall
be dated and shall state that on the date thereof a Security of such
series bearing a specified identifying number was deposited with or
exhibited to such trust company, bank, banker or recognized securities
dealer by the person named in
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such certificate. Any such certificate may be issued in respect of
one or more Unregistered Securities of one or more series specified
therein. The holding by the person named in any such certificate of
any Unregistered Securities of any series specified therein shall be
presumed to continue for a period of one year from the date of such
certificate unless at the time of any determination of such holding
(1) another certificate bearing a later date issued in respect of the
same Securities shall be produced, or (2) the Security of such series
specified in such certificate shall be produced by some other person,
or (3) the Security of such series specified in such certificate shall
have ceased to be Outstanding. Subject to Sections 6.1 and 6.2, the
fact and date of the execution of any such instrument and the amount
and numbers of Securities of any series held by the person so
executing such instrument and the amount and numbers of any Security
or Securities for such series may also be proven in accordance with
such reasonable rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the
Trustee for such series or in any other manner which the Trustee for
such series may deem sufficient.
SECTION 7.3 Holders to Be Treated as Owners. The Issuer, the Trustee
and any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee may deem and treat the person in
whose name any Security shall be registered upon the Security register for such
series as the absolute owner of such Security (whether or not such Security
shall be overdue and notwithstanding any notation of ownership or other writing
thereon) for the purpose of receiving payment of or on account of the principal
of and, subject to the provisions of this Indenture, interest on such Security
and for all other purposes; and neither the Issuer nor the Trustee nor any
agent of the Issuer or the Trustee shall be affected by any notice to the
contrary. The Issuer, the Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee
may treat the holder of any Unregistered Security and the holder of any Coupon
as the absolute owner of such Unregistered Security or Coupon (whether or not
such Unregistered Security or Coupon shall be overdue) for the purpose of
receiving payment thereof or on account thereof and for all other purposes and
neither the Issuer, the Trustee, nor any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee
shall be affected by any notice to the contrary. All such payments so made to
any such person, or upon his order, shall be valid, and, to the extent of the
sum or sums so paid, effectual to satisfy and discharge the liability for
moneys payable upon any such Security or Coupon.
SECTION 7.4 Securities Owned by Issuer Deemed Not Outstanding. In
determining whether the Holders of the requisite aggregate principal amount of
Outstanding Securities of any or all series have concurred in any direction,
consent or waiver under this Indenture, Securities which are owned by the
Issuer or any other obligor on the Securities with respect to which such
determination is being made or by any person directly or indirectly controlling
or controlled by or under direct or
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indirect common control with the Issuer or any other obligor on the Securities
with respect to which such determination is being made shall be disregarded and
deemed not to be Outstanding for the purpose of any such determination, except
that for the purpose of determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in
relying on any such direction, consent or waiver only Securities which the
Trustee knows are so owned shall be so disregarded. Securities so owned which
have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee
establishes to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee's right so to act
with respect to such Securities and that the pledgee is not the Issuer or any
other obligor upon the Securities or any person directly or indirectly
controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with
the Issuer or any other obligor on the Securities. In case of a dispute as to
such right, the advice of counsel shall be full protection in respect of any
decision made by the Trustee in accordance with such advice. Upon request of
the Trustee, the Issuer shall furnish to the Trustee promptly a written
statement by two of its officers (which need not comply with Section 11.5)
listing and identifying all Securities, if any, known by the Issuer to be owned
or held by or for the account of any of the above-described persons; and,
subject to Sections 6.1 and 6.2, the Trustee shall be entitled to accept such
Officers' Certificate as conclusive evidence of the facts therein set forth and
of the fact that all Securities not listed therein are Outstanding for the
purpose of any such determination.
SECTION 7.5 Right of Revocation of Action Taken. At any time prior
to (but not after) the evidencing to the Trustee, as provided in Section 7.1,
of the taking of any action by the Holders of the percentage in aggregate
principal amount of the Securities of any or all series, as the case may be,
specified in this Indenture in connection with such action, any holder of a
Security the serial number of which is shown by the evidence to be included
among the serial numbers of the Securities the Holders of which have consented
to such action may, by filing written notice at the Corporate Trust Office and
upon proof of holding as provided in this Article, revoke such action so far as
concerns such Security. Except as aforesaid any such action taken by the
holder of any Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and
upon all future Holders and owners of such Security and of any Securities
issued in exchange or substitution therefor, irrespective of whether or not any
notation in regard thereto is made upon any such Security. Any action taken by
the Holders of the percentage in aggregate principal amount of the Securities
of any or all series, as the case may be, specified in this Indenture in
connection with such action shall be conclusively binding upon the Issuer, the
Trustee and the holders of all the Securities affected by such action.
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ARTICLE EIGHT
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
SECTION 8.1 Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of
Securityholders. The Issuer, when authorized by a resolution of its Board of
Directors, and the Trustee may from time to time and at any time enter into an
indenture or indentures supplemental hereto (which shall conform to the
provisions of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in force at the date of the
execution thereof) for one or more of the following purposes:
(a) to convey, transfer, assign, mortgage or pledge to the
Trustee as security for the Securities of one or more series any
property or assets;
(b) to evidence the succession of another corporation to the
Issuer, or successive successions, and the assumption by the successor
corporation of the covenants, agreements and obligations of the Issuer
pursuant to Article Nine;
(c) to add to the covenants of the Issuer such further
covenants, restrictions, conditions or provisions as its Board of
Directors and the Trustee shall consider to be for the protection of
the holders of Securities or Coupons, and to make the occurrence, or
the occurrence and continuance, of a default in any such additional
covenants, restrictions, conditions or provisions an Event of Default
permitting the enforcement of all or any of the several remedies
provided in this Indenture as herein set forth; provided, that in
respect of any such additional covenant, restriction, condition or
provision such supplemental indenture may provide for a particular
period of grace after default (which period may be shorter or longer
than that allowed in the case of other defaults) or may provide for an
immediate enforcement upon such an Event of Default or may limit the
remedies available to the Trustee upon such an Event of Default or may
limit the right of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal
amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series to waive such an
Event of Default;
(d) to cure any ambiguity or to correct or supplement any
provision contained herein or in any supplemental indenture which may
be defective or inconsistent with any other provision contained herein
or in any supplemental indenture; or to make such other provisions in
regard to matters or questions arising under this Indenture or under
any supplemental indenture as the Board of Directors may deem
necessary or desirable and which shall not adversely affect the
interests of the holders of the Securities;
(e) to provide for the issuance of Securities of any series
and related Coupons, if any, as permitted by Sections 2.1 and 2.3
hereof and to establish the form and term thereof;
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(f) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment
hereunder by a successor trustee with respect to the Securities of one
or more series, or of the Coupons appertaining to such Securities, and
to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall
be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the
trusts hereunder by more than one trustee, pursuant to the
requirements of Section 6.10; and
(g) to modify, eliminate or add to the provisions of this
Indenture to such extent as shall be necessary to effect and maintain
the qualification of this Indenture under the Trust Indenture Act of
1939, or under any similar Federal statute hereafter enacted, and to
add to this Indenture such other provisions and make such other
changes to this Indenture as may be expressly permitted by the Trust
Indenture Act of 1939, or under any similar Federal statute hereafter
enacted, excluding however, the provisions referred to in section
316(a)(2) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 or any corresponding
provisions in any similar Federal statute hereafter enacted.
The Trustee is hereby authorized to join with the Issuer in the
execution of any such supplemental indenture, to make any further appropriate
agreements and stipulations which may be therein contained and to accept the
conveyance, transfer, assignment, mortgage or pledge of any property
thereunder, but the Trustee shall not be obligated to enter into any such
supplemental indenture which affects the Trustee's own rights, duties or
immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.
Any supplemental indenture authorized by the provisions of this
Section may be executed without the consent of the holders of any of the
Securities at the time Outstanding, notwithstanding any of the provisions of
Section 8.2.
SECTION 8.2 Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Securityholders.
With the consent (evidenced as provided in Article Seven) of the Holders of not
less than 66 2/3% in aggregate principal amount of the Securities at the time
Outstanding of all series affected by such supplemental indenture (voting as
one class), the Issuer, when authorized by a resolution of its Board of
Directors, and the Trustee may, from time to time and at any time, enter into
an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto (which shall conform to the
provisions of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in force at the date of
execution thereof) for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in
any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture or of any
supplemental indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the holders
of the Securities of each such series or the coupons appertaining to such
Securities; provided, that no such supplemental indenture shall (a) extend the
final maturity of any Security, or reduce the principal amount thereof
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or the method in which amounts of payments of principal or interest thereon are
determined, or reduce the rate or extend the time of payment of interest
thereon, or change the coin or currency or units based on or related to
currencies of payment thereof, or reduce any amount payable on redemption
thereof or reduce the amount of the principal of an Original Issue Discount
Security that would be due and payable upon an acceleration of the maturity
thereof pursuant to Section 5.1 or the amount thereof provable in bankruptcy
pursuant to Section 5.2, or impair or affect the right of any Securityholder to
institute suit for the payment thereof or, if the Securities provide therefor,
any right of repayment at the option of the Securityholder without the consent
of the holder of each Security so affected, or (b) reduce the aforesaid
percentage of Securities of any series, the consent of the Holders of which is
required for any such supplemental indenture, without the consent of the holder
of each Security so affected.
Upon the request of the Issuer, accompanied by a copy of a resolution
of the Board of Directors certified by the secretary or an assistant secretary
of the Issuer authorizing the execution of any such supplemental indenture, and
upon the filing with the Trustee of evidence of the consent of Securityholders
as aforesaid and other documents, if any, required by Section 7.1, the Trustee
shall join with the Issuer in the execution of such supplemental indenture
unless such supplemental indenture affects the Trustee's own rights, duties or
immunities under this Indenture or otherwise, in which case the Trustee may in
its discretion, but shall not be obligated to, enter into such supplemental
indenture.
It shall not be necessary for the consent of the Securityholders under
this Section to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental
indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such consent shall approve the
substance thereof.
Promptly after the execution by the Issuer and the Trustee of any
supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions of this Section, the Issuer
shall mail or publish a notice thereof (i) by first class mail to the holders
of then Outstanding Registered Securities of each series affected thereby at
their addresses as they shall appear on the registry books of the Issuer, (ii)
if any Unregistered Securities of a series affected thereby are then
Outstanding, to the Holders thereof who have filed their names and addresses
with the Trustee pursuant to section 4.4(c)(ii), by mailing a notice thereof by
first class mail to such Holders at such addresses as were so furnished to the
Trustee and (iii) if any Unregistered Securities of a series affected thereby
are then Outstanding, to all holders thereof, by publication of a notice
thereof at least once in an Authorized Newspaper, and in each case such notice
shall set forth in general terms the substance of such supplemental indenture.
Any failure of the Issuer to mail or publish such notice, or any defect
therein, shall not, however,
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in any way impair or affect the validity of any such supplemental indenture.
SECTION 8.3 Effect of Supplemental Indenture. Upon the execution of
any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions hereof, this Indenture
shall be and be deemed to be modified and amended in accordance therewith and
the respective rights, limitations of rights, obligations, duties and
immunities under this Indenture of the Trustee, the Issuer and the holders of
Securities of each series affected thereby shall thereafter be determined,
exercised and enforced hereunder subject in all respects to such modifications
and amendments, and all the terms and conditions of any such supplemental
indenture shall be and be deemed to be part of the terms and conditions of this
Indenture for any and all purposes.
SECTION 8.4 Documents to Be Given to Trustee. The Trustee, subject
to the provisions of Sections 6.1 and 6.2, may receive an Officers' Certificate
and an Opinion of Counsel as conclusive evidence that any supplemental
indenture executed pursuant to this Article Eight complies with the applicable
provisions of this Indenture.
SECTION 8.5 Notation on Securities in Respect of Supplemental
Indentures. Securities of any series authenticated and delivered after the
execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions of this
Article may bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee for such series as
to any matter provided for by such supplemental indenture or as to any action
taken at any such meeting. If the Issuer or the Trustee shall so determine,
new Securities of any series so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the
Trustee and the Board of Directors, to any modification of this Indenture
contained in any such supplemental indenture may be prepared by the Issuer,
authenticated by the Trustee and delivered in exchange for the Securities of
such series then Outstanding.
ARTICLE NINE
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE OR CONVEYANCE
SECTION 9.1 Issuer May Consolidate, etc., on Certain Terms. The
Issuer covenants that it will not merge or consolidate with any other
corporation or sell or convey all or substantially all of its assets to any
Person, unless (i) either the Issuer shall be the continuing corporation, or
the successor corporation or the Person which acquires by sale or conveyance
substantially all the assets of the Issuer (if other than the Issuer) shall be
a corporation organized under the laws of the United States of America or any
State thereof and shall expressly assume the due and punctual payment of the
principal of and interest on all the Securities and Coupons, according to their
tenor, and the due and
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punctual performance and observance of all of the covenants and conditions of
this Indenture to be performed or observed by the Issuer, by supplemental
indenture satisfactory to the Trustee, executed and delivered to the Trustee by
such corporation, and (ii) the Issuer or such successor corporation, as the
case may be, shall not, immediately after such merger or consolidation, or such
sale or conveyance, be in default in the performance of any such covenant or
condition.
SECTION 9.2 Successor Corporation Substituted. In case of any such
consolidation, merger, sale or conveyance, and following such an assumption by
the successor corporation, such successor corporation shall succeed to and be
substituted for the Issuer, with the same effect as if it had been named
herein. Such successor corporation may cause to be signed, and may issue
either in its own name or in the name of the Issuer prior to such succession
any or all of the Securities issuable hereunder, together with any Coupons
appertaining thereto, which theretofore shall not have been signed by the
Issuer and delivered to the Trustee; and, upon the order of such successor
corporation instead of the Issuer and subject to all the terms, conditions and
limitations in this Indenture prescribed, the Trustee shall authenticate and
shall deliver any Securities, together with any Coupons appertaining thereto,
which previously shall have been signed and delivered by the officers of the
Issuer to the Trustee for authentication, and any Securities, together with any
Coupons appertaining thereto, which such successor corporation thereafter shall
cause to be signed and delivered to the Trustee for that purpose. All of the
Securities, together with any Coupons appertaining thereto, so issued shall in
all respects have the same legal rank and benefit under this Indenture as the
Securities, together with any Coupons appertaining thereto, theretofore or
thereafter issued in accordance with the terms of this Indenture as though all
of such Securities and Coupons had been issued at the date of the execution
hereof.
In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale, lease or conveyance,
such changes in phraseology and form (but not in substance) may be made in the
Securities and Coupons thereafter to be issued as may be appropriate.
In the event of any such sale or conveyance (other than a conveyance
by way of lease), the Issuer or any successor corporation which shall
theretofore have become such in the manner described in this Article shall be
discharged from all obligations and covenants under this Indenture and the
Securities and may be liquidated and dissolved.
SECTION 9.3 Opinion of Counsel to Trustee. The Trustee, subject to
the provisions of Sections 6.1 and 6.2, may receive an Opinion of Counsel,
prepared in accordance with Section 11.5, as conclusive evidence that any such
consolidation, merger, sale, lease or conveyance, and any such assumption, and
any such
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liquidation or dissolution, complies with the applicable provisions of this
Indenture.
ARTICLE TEN
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE;
UNCLAIMED MONEYS
SECTION 10.1 Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture. (A) If at any
time (a) the Issuer shall have paid or caused to be paid the principal of and
interest on all the Securities of any series Outstanding hereunder and all
unmatured Coupons appertaining thereto (other than Securities or Coupons which
have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced or paid as
provided in Section 2.9) as and when the same shall have become due and
payable, or (b) the Issuer shall have delivered to the Trustee for cancellation
all Securities of any series theretofore authenticated and all unmatured
Coupons appertaining thereto (other than any Securities or Coupons of such
series which shall have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which shall have
been replaced or paid as provided in Section 2.9) or (c) (i) all the Securities
of such series not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation shall
have become due and payable, or are by their terms to become due and payable
within one year or are to be or may be called for redemption within one year
under arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of
redemption, and (ii) the Issuer shall have irrevocably deposited or caused to
be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds the entire amount in cash (other
than moneys repaid by the Trustee or any paying agent to the Issuer in
accordance with Section 10.4) or U.S. Government Obligations, maturing as to
principal and interest in such amounts and at such times as will insure the
availability of cash (without consideration of any reinvestment of such
principal or interest), or a combination of U.S. Government Obligations and
cash sufficient to pay at maturity or upon redemption all Securities of such
series not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, including
principal and interest due or to become due to such date of maturity as the
case may be, and if, in any such case, the Issuer shall also pay or cause to be
paid all other sums payable hereunder by the Issuer with respect to Securities
of such series and Coupons appertaining thereto, then this Indenture shall
cease to be of further effect with respect to Securities of such series and
Coupons appertaining thereto (except as to (i) rights of registration of
transfer and exchange, and the Issuer's right of optional redemption, (ii)
substitution of mutilated, defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities or
Coupons, (iii) rights of holders of Securities and Coupons appertaining thereto
to receive payments of principal thereof and interest thereon, upon the
original stated due dates therefor (but not upon acceleration) and remaining
rights of the holders to receive mandatory sinking fund payments, if any, (iv)
the rights, obligations, duties and immunities of the Trustee
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hereunder, including those under Section 6.6, (v) the rights of the
Securityholders of such series as beneficiaries hereof with respect to the
property so deposited with the Trustee payable to all or any of them, and (vi)
the obligations of the Issuer under Section 3.2, and the Trustee, on demand of
the Issuer accompanied by an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel
and at the cost and expense of the Issuer, shall execute proper instruments
acknowledging such satisfaction of and discharging this Indenture with respect
to such series; provided, that the rights of holders of the Securities and
Coupons to receive amounts in respect of principal of and interest on the
Securities and Coupons held by them shall not be delayed longer than required
by then-applicable mandatory rules or policies of any securities exchange upon
which the Securities are listed. The Issuer agrees to reimburse the Trustee
for any costs or expenses thereafter reasonably and properly incurred and to
compensate the Trustee for any services thereafter reasonably and properly
rendered by the Trustee in connection with this Indenture or the Securities and
Coupons of such series.
(B) The following provisions shall apply to the Securities of each
series unless specifically otherwise provided in a Board Resolution, Officers'
Certificate or indenture supplemental hereto provided pursuant to Section 2.3.
In addition to discharge of the Indenture pursuant to the next preceding
paragraph, the Issuer shall be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire
indebtedness on all the Securities of a series and Coupons appertaining thereto
on the 121st day after the date of the deposit referred to in subparagraph (a)
below, and the provisions of this Indenture with respect to the Securities of
such series and Coupons appertaining thereto shall no longer be in effect
(except as to (i) rights of registration of transfer and exchange of Securities
of such series, and of Coupons appertaining thereto, (ii) substitution of
mutilated, defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities or Coupons, (iii)
rights of holders of Securities and Coupons appertaining thereto to receive,
from the trust fund described in subparagraph (a) below, payments of principal
thereof and interest thereon, upon the original stated due dates therefor (but
not upon acceleration) and remaining rights of the holders to receive sinking
fund payments, if any, (iv) the rights, obligation, duties and immunities of
the Trustee hereunder, including those under Section 6.6, (v) the rights of the
holders of Securities of such series and Coupons appertaining thereto as
beneficiaries hereof with respect to the property so deposited with the Trustee
payable to all or any of them and (vi) the obligations of the Issuer under
Section 3.2, and the Trustee, at the expense of the Issuer, shall at the
Issuer's request, execute proper instruments acknowledging the same, if
(a) with reference to this provision the Issuer has
irrevocably deposited or caused to be irrevocably deposited with the
Trustee as trust funds in trust, specifically pledged as security for,
and dedicated solely to, the benefit of the
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holders of the Securities of such series and Coupons appertaining
thereto (i) cash, or (ii) U.S. Government Obligations, maturing as to
principal and interest at such times and in such amounts as will
insure the availability of cash or (iii) a combination thereof, in an
amount sufficient, in the opinion or a nationally recognized firm of
independent public accountants expressed in a written certification
thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay (A) the principal and
interest on all Securities of such series and Coupons appertaining
thereto on the date that such principal or interest is due and payable
and (B) any mandatory sinking fund payments on the day on which such
payments are due and payable in accordance with the terms of the
Indenture and the Securities of such series;
(b) such deposit will not result in a breach or violation of,
or constitute a default under, any agreement or instrument to which
the Issuer is a party or by which it is bound;
(c) the Issuer has delivered to the Trustee an opinion of
independent legal counsel satisfactory to the Trustee to the effect
that holders of the Securities of such series and Coupons appertaining
thereto will not recognize income, gain or loss for Federal income tax
purposes as a result of such deposit, defeasance and discharge and
will be subject to Federal income tax on the same amount and in the
same manner and at the same times, as would have been the case if such
deposit, defeasance and discharge had not occurred; and
(d) the Issuer has delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all
conditions precedent provided for relating to the defeasance
contemplated by this provision have been complied with, and the
Opinion of Counsel shall also state that such deposit does not violate
applicable law.
SECTION 10.2 Application by Trustee of Funds Deposited for Payment of
Securities. Subject to Section 10.4, all moneys deposited with the Trustee
pursuant to Section 10.1 shall be held in trust and applied by it to the
payment, either directly or through any paying agent (including the Issuer
acting as its own paying agent), to the Holders of the particular Securities of
such series and of Coupons appertaining thereto for the payment or redemption
of which such moneys have been deposited with the Trustee, of all sums due and
to become due thereon for principal and interest; but such money need not be
segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.
SECTION 10.3 Repayment of Moneys Held by Paying Agent. In connection
with the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect to
Securities of any series, all moneys then held by any paying agent under the
provisions of this Indenture with
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respect to such series of Securities shall, upon demand of the Issuer, be
repaid to it or paid to the Trustee and thereupon such paying agent shall be
released from all further liability with respect to such moneys.
SECTION 10.4 Return of Moneys Held by Trustee and Paying Agent
Unclaimed for Two Years. Any moneys deposited with or paid to the Trustee or
any paying agent for the payment of the principal of or interest on any
Security of any series and not applied but remaining unclaimed for two years
after the date upon which such principal or interest shall have become due and
payable, shall, upon the written request of the Issuer and unless otherwise
required by mandatory provisions of applicable escheat or abandoned or
unclaimed property law, be repaid to the Issuer by the Trustee for such series
or such paying agent, and the holder of the Security of such series shall,
unless otherwise required by mandatory provisions of applicable escheat or
abandoned or unclaimed property laws, thereafter look only to the Issuer for
any payment which such Holder may be entitled to collect, and all liability of
the Trustee or any paying agent with respect to such moneys shall thereupon
cease; provided, the Trustee or such paying agent, before being required to
make any such repayment with respect to moneys deposited with it for any
payment (a) in respect of Registered Securities of any series, may at the
expense of the Issuer, mail by first class mail to Holders of such Securities
at their addresses as they shall appear on the Security Register, and (b) in
respect of Unregistered Securities of any series, may at the expense of the
Issuer cause to be published once, in an Authorized Newspaper, notice, that
such moneys remain and that, after a date specified therein, which shall not be
less than thirty days from the date of such mailing or publication, any
unclaimed balance of such money then remaining will be repaid to the Issuer.
SECTION 10.5 Indemnity for U.S. Government Obligations. The Issuer
shall pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or other charge
imposed on or assessed against the U.S. Government Obligations deposited
pursuant to Section 10.1 or the principal or interest received in respect of
such obligations.
ARTICLE ELEVEN
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
SECTION 11.1 Incorporators, Shareholders, Officers and Directors of
Issuer Exempt from Individual Liability. No recourse under or upon any
obligation, covenant or agreement contained in this Indenture, or in any
Security or Coupon appertaining thereto, or because of any indebtedness
evidenced thereby, shall be had against any incorporator, as such or against
any past, present or future shareholder, officer or director, as such, of the
Issuer or of any successor, either directly or through the Issuer or any
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successor, under any rule of law, statute or constitutional provision or by the
enforcement of any assessment or by any legal or equitable proceeding or
otherwise, all such liability being expressly waived and released by the
acceptance of the Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto by the
holders thereof and as part of the consideration for the issue of the
Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto.
SECTION 11.2 Provisions of Indenture for the Sole Benefit of Parties
and Securityholders. Nothing in this Indenture or in the Securities and any
Coupons appertaining thereto, expressed or implied, shall give or be construed
to give to any person, firm or corporation, other than the parties hereto and
their successors and the holders of the Securities or Coupons, any legal or
equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture or under any covenant or
provision herein contained, all such covenants and provisions being for the
sole benefit of the parties hereto and their successors and of the holders of
the Securities.
SECTION 11.3 Successors and Assigns of Issuer Bound by Indenture.
All the covenants, stipulations, promises and agreements in this Indenture
contained by or in behalf of the Issuer shall bind its successors and assigns,
whether so expressed or not.
SECTION 11.4 Notices and Demands on Issuer, Trustee and
Securityholders. Any notice or demand which by any provision of this Indenture
is required or permitted to be given or served by the Trustee or by the holders
of Securities or Coupons to or on the Issuer may be given or served by being
deposited postage prepaid, first-class mail (except as otherwise specifically
provided herein) addressed (until another address of the Issuer is filed by the
Issuer with the Trustee) to The Progressive Corporation, 0000 Xxxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx, Xxxx 00000, Attn: Treasurer. Any notice,
direction, request or demand by the Issuer or any Securityholder to or upon the
Trustee shall be deemed to have been sufficiently given or made, for all
purposes, if given or made at the Corporate Trust Office.
Where this Indenture provides for notice to Holders, such notice shall
be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) (i) in the
case of holders of Registered Securities and holders of Unregistered Securities
who have filed their names and addresses with the Trustee pursuant to Section
4.4(c)(ii), if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each
holder entitled thereto, at his last address as it appears in the registry
books or as so filed; and (ii) in the case of holders of Unregistered
Securities who have not filed their names and addresses with the Trustee, by
publication in accordance with the requirements of the provision hereof
requiring such notice. Any notice which is mailed in the manner herein
provided shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given when mailed,
whether or not the Holder receives the notice. In any case where notice
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to Holders is given by mail, neither the failure to mail such notice, nor any
defect in any notice so mailed, to any particular holder shall affect the
sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Holders. Where this Indenture
provides for notice in any manner, such notice may be waived in writing by the
person entitled to receive such notice, either before or after the event, and
such waiver shall be the equivalent of such notice. Waivers of notice by
Holders shall be filed with the Trustee, but such filing shall not be a
condition precedent to the validity of any action taken in reliance upon such
waiver.
In case, by reason of the suspension of or irregularities in regular
mail service, it shall be impracticable to mail notice to the Issuer and
Securityholders when such notice is required to be given pursuant to any
provision of this Indenture, then any manner of giving such notice as shall be
satisfactory to the Trustee shall be deemed to be a sufficient giving of such
notice.
SECTION 11.5 Officers' Certificates and Opinions of Counsel;
Statements to Be Contained Therein. Upon any application or demand by the
Issuer to the Trustee to take any action under any of the provisions of this
Indenture, the Issuer shall furnish to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate
stating that all conditions precedent provided for in this Indenture relating
to the proposed action have been complied with and an Opinion of Counsel
stating that in the opinion of such counsel all such conditions precedent have
been complied with, except that in the case of any such application or demand
as to which the furnishing of such documents is specifically required by any
provision of this Indenture relating to such particular application or demand,
no additional certificate or opinion need be furnished.
Each certificate or opinion provided for in this Indenture and
delivered to the Trustee with respect to compliance with a condition or
covenant provided for in this Indenture shall include (a) a statement that the
person making such certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition,
(b) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or
investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in such
certificate or opinion are based, (c) a statement that, in the opinion of such
person, he has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable
him to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or
condition has been complied with and (d) a statement as to whether or not, in
the opinion of such person, such condition or covenant has been complied with.
Any certificate, statement or opinion of an officer of the Issuer may
be based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion
of or representations by counsel, unless such officer knows that the
certificate or opinion or representations with respect to the matters upon
which his certificate, statement or opinion may be based as aforesaid are
erroneous, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know that
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the same are erroneous. Any certificate, statement or opinion of counsel may
be based, insofar as it relates to factual matters, information with respect to
which is in the possession of the Issuer, upon the certificate, statement or
opinion of or representations by an officer or officers of the Issuer, unless
such counsel knows that the certificate, statement or opinion or
representations with respect to the matters upon which his certificate,
statement or opinion may be based as aforesaid are erroneous, or in the
exercise of reasonable care should know that the same are erroneous.
Any certificate, statement or opinion of an officer of the Issuer or
of counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to accounting matters, upon a
certificate or opinion of or representations by an accountant or firm of
accountants in the employ of the Issuer, unless such officer or counsel, as the
case may be, knows that the certificate or opinion or representations with
respect to the accounting matters upon which his certificate, statement or
opinion may be based as aforesaid are erroneous, or in the exercise of
reasonable care should know that the same are erroneous.
Any certificate or opinion of any independent firm of public
accountants filed with the Trustee shall contain a statement that such firm is
independent.
SECTION 11.6 Payments Due on Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays. If the
date of maturity of interest on or principal of the Securities of any series or
any Coupons appertaining thereto or the date fixed for redemption or repayment
of any such Security or Coupon shall not be a Business Day, then payment of
interest or principal need not be made on such date, but may be made on the
next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if made on the
date of maturity or the date fixed for redemption, and no interest shall accrue
for the period after such date.
SECTION 11.7 Conflict of Any Provision of Indenture with Trust
Indenture Act of 1939. If and to the extent that any provision of this
Indenture limits, qualifies or conflicts with another provision included in
this Indenture which is required to be included herein by any of Sections 310
to 317, inclusive, of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, such required provision
shall control.
SECTION 11.8 New York Law to Govern. This Indenture and each
Security and Coupon shall be deemed to be a contract under the laws of the
State of New York, and for all purposes shall be construed in accordance with
the laws of such State, except as may otherwise be required by mandatory
provisions of law.
SECTION 11.9 Counterparts. This Indenture may be executed in any
number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original;
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but such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same
instrument.
SECTION 11.10 Effect of Headings. The Article and Section headings
herein and the Table of Contents are for convenience only and shall not affect
the construction hereof.
SECTION 11.11 Securities in Foreign Currencies. Whenever this
Indenture provides for any action by, or the determination of any of the rights
of, or any distribution to, holders of Securities denominated in United States
dollars and in any other currency or currency unit, in the absence of any
provision to the contrary in the form of Security of any particular series, any
amount in respect of any Security denominated in a currency or currency unit
other than United States dollars shall be treated for any such action or
distribution as that amount of United States dollars that could be obtained for
such amount on such reasonable basis of exchange and as of such date as the
Issuer may reasonably specify in a written notice to the Trustee or in the
absence of such written notice, as the Trustee shall so determine.
ARTICLE TWELVE
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES AND SINKING FUNDS
SECTION 12.1 Applicability of Article. The provisions of this
Article shall be applicable to the Securities of any series which are
redeemable before their maturity or to any sinking fund for the retirement of
Securities of a series except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section
2.3 for Securities of such series.
SECTION 12.2 Notice of Redemption; Partial Redemptions. Notice of
redemption to the holders of Registered Securities of any series to be redeemed
as a whole or in part at the option of the Issuer shall be given by mailing
notice of such redemption by first class mail, postage prepaid at least 30 days
and not more than 60 days prior to the date fixed for redemption to such
holders of Securities of such series at their last addresses as they shall
appear upon the Security Register. Notice of redemption to the holders of
Unregistered Securities to be redeemed as a whole or in part, who have filed
their names and addresses with the Trustee pursuant to Section 4.4(c)(ii),
shall be given by mailing notice of such redemption, by first class mail,
postage prepaid, at least thirty and not more than sixty days prior to the date
fixed for redemption, to such Holders at such addresses as were so furnished to
the Trustee (and, in the case of any such notice given by the Issuer, the
Trustee shall make such information available to the Issuer for such purpose).
Notice of redemption to all other holders of Unregistered Securities shall be
published in an Authorized Newspaper once in each of two successive calendar
weeks, the first publication to
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be not less than thirty nor more than sixty days prior to the date fixed for
redemption. Any notice which is mailed in the manner herein provided shall be
conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether or not the Holder
receives the notice. Failure to give notice by mail, or any defect in the
notice to the holder of any Security of a series designated for redemption, as
a whole or in part, shall not affect the validity of the proceedings for the
redemption of any other Security of such series.
The notice of redemption to each such Holder shall specify the
principal amount of each Security of such series held by such Holder to be
redeemed, the date fixed for redemption, the redemption price, the place or
places of payment, that payment will be made upon presentation and surrender of
such Securities, and, in the case of Securities with Coupons attached thereto,
of all coupons appertaining thereto maturing after the date fixed for
redemption, that such redemption is pursuant to the mandatory or optional
sinking fund, or both, if such be the case, that interest accrued to the date
fixed for redemption will be paid as specified in such notice and that on and
after said date interest thereon or on the portions thereof to be redeemed will
cease to accrue. In case any Security of a series is to be redeemed in part
only, the notice of redemption shall state the portion of the principal amount
thereof to be redeemed and shall state that on and after the date fixed for
redemption, upon surrender of such Security, a new Security or Securities of
such series in principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion thereof will be
issued.
The notice of redemption of Securities of any series to be redeemed at
the option of the Issuer shall be given by the Issuer or, at the Issuer's
request, by the Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Issuer.
On the redemption date specified in the notice of redemption given as
provided in this Section, the Issuer will deposit with the Trustee or with one
or more paying agents (or, if the Issuer is acting as its own paying agent, set
aside, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 3.4) an amount of
money sufficient to redeem on the redemption date all the Securities of such
series so called for redemption at the appropriate redemption price, together
with accrued interest to the date fixed for redemption. If any or all of the
outstanding Securities of a series are to be redeemed, the Issuer will deliver
to the Trustee at least 70 days prior to the date fixed for redemption an
Officers' Certificate stating the date of redemption and the aggregate
principal amount of Securities to be redeemed.
If less than all the Securities of a series are to be redeemed, the
Trustee shall select, in such manner as it shall deem appropriate and fair,
Securities of such series to be redeemed in whole or in part. Securities may
be redeemed in part in multiples equal to the minimum authorized denomination
for Securities of such series or any integral multiple thereof. The
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Trustee shall promptly notify the Issuer in writing of the Securities of such
series selected for redemption and, in the case of any Securities of such
series selected for partial redemption, the principal amount thereof to be
redeemed. For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise
requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of Securities of any series
shall relate, in the case of any Security redeemed or to be redeemed only in
part, to the portion of the principal amount of such Security which has been or
is to be redeemed.
SECTION 12.3 Payment of Securities Called for Redemption. If notice
of redemption has been given as above provided, the Securities or portions of
Securities specified in such notice shall become due and payable on the date
and at the place stated in such notice at the applicable redemption price,
together with interest accrued to the date fixed for redemption, and on and
after said date (unless the Issuer shall default in the payment of such
Securities at the redemption price, together with interest accrued to said
date) interest on the Securities or portions of Securities so called for
redemption shall cease to accrue and the unmatured Coupons, if any,
appertaining thereto shall be void and, except as provided in Sections 6.5 and
10.4, such Securities shall cease from and after the date fixed for redemption
to be entitled to any benefit or security under this Indenture, and the Holders
thereof shall have no right in respect of such Securities except the right to
receive the redemption price thereof and unpaid interest to the date fixed for
redemption. On presentation and surrender of such Securities, together with
all Coupons appertaining thereto maturing after the date fixed for redemption,
at a place of payment specified in said notice, said Securities and Coupons or
the specified portions thereof shall be paid and redeemed by the Issuer at the
applicable redemption price, together with interest accrued thereon to the date
fixed for redemption; provided that any semiannual payment of interest becoming
due on the date fixed for redemption shall be payable in the case of Securities
with Coupons attached thereto, to the bearers of the Coupons for such interest
upon surrender thereof, and in the case of Registered Securities, to the
holders of such Securities registered as such on the relevant record date
subject to the terms and provisions of Section 2.4 hereof.
If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon
surrender thereof for redemption, the principal shall, until paid or duly
provided for, bear interest from the date fixed for redemption at the rate of
interest or Yield to Maturity (in the case of an Original Issue Discount
Security) borne by the Security.
If any Security with Coupons attached thereto is surrendered for
redemption and is not accompanied by all such Coupons maturing after the date
fixed for redemption, the surrender of such missing Coupon or Coupons may be
waived by the Issuer and the Trustee, if
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there be furnished to each of them such security or indemnity as they may
require to save each of them harmless.
Upon presentation of any Security redeemed in part only, the Issuer
shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to or on the order
of the Holder thereof, at the expense of the Issuer, a new Security or
Securities of such series, together with all Coupons, if any, appertaining
thereto, of authorized denominations, in principal amount equal to the
unredeemed portion of the Security so presented.
SECTION 12.4 Exclusion of Certain Securities from Eligibility for
Selection for Redemption. Securities shall be excluded from eligibility for
selection for redemption if they are identified by registration and certificate
number in a written statement signed by an authorized officer of the Issuer and
delivered to the Trustee at least 40 days prior to the last date on which
notice of redemption may be given as being owned of record and beneficially by,
and not pledged or hypothecated by either (a) the Issuer or (b) an entity
specifically identified in such written statement directly or indirectly
controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with
the Issuer.
SECTION 12.5 Mandatory and Optional Sinking Funds. The minimum
amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by the terms of Securities of
any series is herein referred to as a "mandatory sinking fund payment", and any
payment in excess of such minimum amount provided for by the terms of
Securities of any series is herein referred to as an "optional sinking fund
payment." The date on which a sinking fund payment is to be made is herein
referred to as the "sinking fund payment date."
In lieu of making all or any part of any mandatory sinking fund
payment with respect to any series of Securities in cash, the Issuer may at its
option (a) deliver to the Trustee Securities of such series theretofore
purchased or otherwise acquired (except upon redemption pursuant to the
mandatory sinking fund) by the Issuer or receive credit for Securities of such
series (not previously so credited) theretofore purchased or otherwise acquired
(except as aforesaid) by the Issuer and delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation pursuant to Section 2.7,(b) receive credit for optional sinking
fund payments (not previously so credited) made pursuant to this Section, or
(c) receive credit for Securities of such series (not previously so credited)
redeemed by the Issuer through any optional redemption provision contained in
the terms of such series. Securities so delivered or credited shall be
received or credited by the Trustee at the sinking fund redemption price
specified in such Securities.
On or before the sixtieth day next preceding each sinking fund payment
date for any series, the Issuer will deliver to the Trustee a written statement
(which need not contain the statements required by Section 11.5) signed by an
authorized officer of the
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Issuer (a) specifying the portion of the mandatory sinking fund payment to be
satisfied by payment of cash and the portion to be satisfied by credit of
Securities of such series, (b) stating that none of the Securities of such
series has theretofore been so credited, (c) stating that no defaults in the
payment of interest or Events of Default with respect to such series have
occurred (which have not been waived or cured) and are continuing and (d)
stating whether or not the Issuer intends to exercise its right to make an
optional sinking fund payment with respect to such series and, if so,
specifying the amount of such optional sinking fund payment which the Issuer
intends to pay on or before the next succeeding sinking fund payment date. Any
Securities of such series to be credited and required to be delivered to the
Trustee in order for the Issuer to be entitled to credit therefor as aforesaid
which have not theretofore been delivered to the Trustee shall be delivered for
cancellation pursuant to Section 2.10 to the Trustee with such written
statement (or reasonably promptly thereafter if acceptable to the Trustee).
Such written statement shall be irrevocable and upon its receipt by the Trustee
the Issuer shall become unconditionally obligated to make all the cash payments
or payments therein referred to, if any, on or before the next succeeding
sinking fund payment date. Failure of the Issuer, on or before any such
sixtieth day, to deliver such written statement and Securities specified in
this paragraph, if any, shall not constitute a default but shall constitute, on
and as of such date, the irrevocable election of the Issuer (i) that the
mandatory sinking fund payment for such series due on the next succeeding
sinking fund payment date shall be paid entirely in cash without the option to
deliver or credit Securities of such series in respect thereof and (ii) that
the Issuer will make no optional sinking fund payment with respect to such
series as provided in this Section.
If the sinking fund payment or payments (mandatory or optional or
both) to be made in cash on the next succeeding sinking fund payment date plus
any unused balance of any preceding sinking fund payments made in cash shall
exceed $50,000 (or a lesser sum if the Issuer shall so request) with respect to
the Securities of any particular series, such cash shall be applied on the next
succeeding sinking fund payment date to the redemption of Securities of such
series at the sinking fund redemption price together with accrued interest to
the date fixed for redemption. If such amount shall be $50,000 or less and the
Issuer makes no such request then it shall be carried over until a sum in
excess of $50,000 is available. The Trustee shall select, in the manner
provided in Section 12.2, for redemption on such sinking fund payment date a
sufficient principal amount of Securities of such series to absorb said cash,
as nearly as may be, and shall (if requested in writing by the Issuer) inform
the Issuer of the serial numbers of the Securities of such series (or portions
thereof) so selected. Except as aforesaid, any moneys in the sinking fund for
such series at the time when any such default or Event of Default shall occur,
and any moneys thereafter paid into
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the sinking fund, shall, during the continuance of such default or Event of
Default, be deemed to have been collected under Article Five and held for the
payment of all such Securities. In case such Event of Default shall have been
waived as provided in Section 5.10 or the default cured on or before the
sixtieth day preceding the sinking fund payment date in any year, such moneys
shall thereafter be applied on the next succeeding sinking fund payment date in
accordance with this Section to the redemption of such Securities.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to
be duly executed, and their respective corporate seals to be hereunto affixed
and attested, all as of September 15, 1993.
THE PROGRESSIVE CORPORATION
[Corporate Seal]
By ____________________
Treasurer
Attest:
By __________________
Secretary
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF BOSTON
[Corporate Seal]
By __________________________
Authorized Officer
Attest:
By ___________________________
Assistant Cashier
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STATE OF OHIO )
) ss.:
COUNTY OF CUYAHOGA )
On this __ day of ________, before me personally came _____________ to
me personally known, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that he
resides at
Cleveland, Ohio; that he is an officer of THE PROGRESSIVE CORPORATION, one of
the corporations described in and which executed the above instrument; that he
knows the corporate seal of said corporation; that the seal affixed to said
instrument is such corporate seal; that it was so affixed by authority of the
Board of Directors of said corporation, and that he signed his name thereto
by like authority.
______________________
Notary Public
[Notarial Seal]
STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS )
) ss.:
COUNTY OF SUFFOLK )
On this __ day of __________ before me personally came ___________ to
me personally known, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that he
resides at ___________, __________ ; that he is an authorized officer of THE
FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF BOSTON, one of the corporations described in and which
executed the above instrument; that he knows the corporate seal of said
corporation; that the seal affixed to said instrument is such corporate seal;
that it was so affixed by authority of the Board of Directors of said
corporation, and that he signed his name thereto by like authority.
______________________
Notary Public
[Notarial Seal]
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