Exhibit 4.2
LLG&M Draft
9/28/98
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IDACORP, INC.
TO
BANKERS TRUST COMPANY,
Trustee
INDENTURE
Dated as of _____________ __, 199___
SUBORDINATED DEBT SECURITIES
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IDACORP, INC.
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*Reconciliation and tie between Trust Indenture Act of 1939,
as amended by the Trust Reform Act of 1990, and Indenture, dated as of
___________, 199__.
Section of the
Trust Indenture Act of 1939 Section of Indenture
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310(a)(1), (2) and (5)......................................... 7.9
310(a)(3) and (4).............................................. Inapplicable
310(b)......................................................... 7.8 and 7.10(a)and(b)
311(a)......................................................... 7.13(a) and (c)(1) and (2)
311(b)......................................................... 7.13(b)
312(a)......................................................... 5.1 and 5.2(a)
312(b)......................................................... 5.2(b)
312(c)......................................................... 5.2(c)
313(a)......................................................... 5.4(a)
313(b)(1)...................................................... Inapplicable
313(b)(2)...................................................... 5.4(b)
313(c)......................................................... 5.4(c)
313(d)......................................................... 5.4(d)
314(a)......................................................... 4.6 and 5.3
314(b)......................................................... Inapplicable
314(c)(1) and (2).............................................. 13.6
314(c)(3)...................................................... Inapplicable
314(d)......................................................... Inapplicable
314(e)......................................................... 13.6
315(a), (c) and (d)............................................ 7.1
315(b)......................................................... 6.11
315(e)......................................................... 6.12
316(a)(1)...................................................... 6.9
316(a)(2)...................................................... Inapplicable
316(a) (last sentence)......................................... 8.4
316(b)......................................................... 6.7
316(c)......................................................... 8.1
317(a)......................................................... 6.2
317(b)......................................................... 4.4
318(a)......................................................... 13.9
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* This reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be
part of the Indenture or to have any bearing upon the interpretation of
any of its terms or provisions.
TABLE OF CONTENTS*
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Parties.........................................................................1
Recitals........................................................................1
ARTICLE I.
DEFINITIONS
SECTION 1.1. Certain Terms Defined.............................................1
Authenticating Agent............................................2
Authorized Newspaper............................................2
Board of Directors..............................................2
Board Resolution................................................2
Business Day....................................................2
Capital Lease Obligation........................................2
Commission......................................................2
Common Securities...............................................2
Company.........................................................3
Corporate Trust Office..........................................3
Depository......................................................3
Dividend Reinvestment and Stock Purchase Plan...................3
Dollar ("$")....................................................3
Event of Default................................................3
Extension Period................................................3
Generally Accepted Accounting Principles........................3
Global Security.................................................3
Government Obligations..........................................4
Xxxxxx, Registered Holder and Securityholder....................4
IDACORP Guarantee...............................................4
IDACORP Trust...................................................4
include.........................................................4
Indebtedness....................................................4
Indenture.......................................................5
interest........................................................5
Interest Payment Date...........................................5
Investment Company Event........................................5
Issuer or Company...............................................5
Issuer Order and Issuer Request.................................5
Lien............................................................5
Maturity........................................................6
Officers' Certificate...........................................6
Opinion of Counsel..............................................6
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* This Table of Contents shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be part
of the Indenture or to have any bearing upon the interpretation of any
of its terms or provisions.
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Original Issue Discount Security................................6
Outstanding.....................................................6
Overdue Rate....................................................7
Paying Agent....................................................7
person..........................................................7
Place of Payment................................................7
Predecessor Security............................................7
Preferred Securities............................................7
Property Trustee................................................7
Redemption Date.................................................8
Redemption Price................................................8
Registered Holder...............................................8
responsible officer.............................................8
Rights Agreement................................................8
Securities Act..................................................8
Securities Register and Securities Registrar....................8
Security or Securities..........................................8
Senior Indebtedness.............................................8
Stated Maturity.................................................9
Subordinated Indebtedness.......................................9
Subsidiary......................................................9
Tax Event.......................................................9
Trust Indenture Act.............................................9
Trust Securities...............................................10
Trustee........................................................10
vice president.................................................10
SECTION 1.2. Other Defined Terms..............................................10
ARTICLE II.
SECURITY FORMS
SECTION 2.1. Forms Generally .................................................11
SECTION 2.2. Form of Trustee's Certificate of
Authentication.................................................11
SECTION 2.3. Form of Trustee's Certificate of
Authentication by an Authenticating Agent......................11
SECTION 2.4. Securities Issuable in the Form of Global
Securities.....................................................12
ARTICLE III.
THE SECURITIES
SECTION 3.1. Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series.............................15
SECTION 3.2. Form and Denominations...........................................18
SECTION 3.3. Authentication, Xxxxxx and Delivery of
Securities.....................................................18
SECTION 3.4. Execution of Securities..........................................20
SECTION 3.5. Certificate of Authentication....................................20
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SECTION 3.6. Registration, Registration of Transfer and
Exchange.......................................................21
SECTION 3.7. Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx, Lost and Stolen
Securities.....................................................22
SECTION 3.8. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights
Preserved......................................................23
SECTION 3.9. Cancellation of Securities; Destruction
Thereof........................................................24
SECTION 3.10. Temporary Securities............................................25
SECTION 3.11. Computation of Interest.........................................25
SECTION 3.12. Deferrals of Interest........................................25
ARTICLE IV.
COVENANTS OF THE ISSUER
SECTION 4.1. Payment of Securities............................................27
SECTION 4.2. Offices or Agency................................................27
SECTION 4.3. Appointment to Fill a Vacancy in Office of
Trustee........................................................28
SECTION 4.4. Paying Agents .................................................28
SECTION 4.5. Maintenance of Corporate Existence...............................29
SECTION 4.6. Certificates to Trustee..........................................29
SECTION 4.7. Costs and Expenses of IDACORP Trust..............................29
SECTION 4.8. Additional Covenants with Respect to
Securities Held by an IDACORP Trust............................30
ARTICLE V.
SECURITYHOLDER LISTS AND REPORTS BY THE
ISSUER AND THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 5.1. Issuer to Furnish Trustee Information as to
Names and Addresses of Securityholders.........................32
SECTION 5.2. Preservation and Disclosure of Securityholder
Lists..........................................................32
SECTION 5.3. Reports by the Issuer............................................34
SECTION 5.4. Reports by the Trustee...........................................35
ARTICLE VI.
REMEDIES OF THE TRUSTEE AND SECURITYHOLDERS
ON EVENT OF DEFAULT
SECTION 6.1. Event of Default Defined; Acceleration of
Maturity; Waiver of Default....................................38
SECTION 6.2. Collection of Indebtedness by Trustee;
Trustee May Prove Debt.........................................42
SECTION 6.3. Application of Proceeds..........................................43
SECTION 6.4. Suits for Enforcement............................................45
SECTION 6.5. Restoration of Rights on Abandonment of
Proceedings....................................................45
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SECTION 6.6. Limitations on Suits by Securityholders..........................45
SECTION 6.7. Unconditional Right of Securityholders to
Institute Certain Suits........................................46
SECTION 6.8. Powers and Remedies Cumulative; Delay or
Omission Not Waiver of Default.................................46
SECTION 6.9. Control by Holders of Securities.................................47
SECTION 6.10. Waiver of Past Defaults..........................................47
SECTION 6.11. Trustee to Give Notice of Default, But May
Withhold in Certain Circumstances..............................48
SECTION 6.12. Right of Court to Require Filing of
Undertaking to Pay Costs.......................................48
ARTICLE VII.
CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 7.1. Duties and Responsibilities of the Trustee;
During Default; Prior to Default...............................50
SECTION 7.2. Certain Rights of the Trustee....................................51
SECTION 7.3. Trustee Not Responsible for Recitals,
Disposition of Securities or Application
of Proceeds Thereof............................................52
SECTION 7.4. Trustee and Agents May Hold Securities;
Collections, etc...............................................52
SECTION 7.5. Moneys Held by Trustee...........................................53
SECTION 7.6. Compensation and Indemnification of Trustee
and Its Prior Claim............................................53
SECTION 7.7. Right of Trustee to Rely on Officers'
Certificate, etc...............................................53
SECTION 7.8. Qualification of Trustee; Conflicting
Interests......................................................54
SECTION 7.9. Persons Eligible for Appointment as Trustee......................54
SECTION 7.10. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of
Successor Trustee..............................................55
SECTION 7.11. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor
Trustee........................................................56
SECTION 7.12. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or
Succession to Business of Trustee..............................57
SECTION 7.13. Preferential Collection of Claims Against
the Issuer.....................................................57
SECTION 7.14. Authenticating Agent............................................62
ARTICLE VIII.
CONCERNING THE HOLDERS OF SECURITIES
SECTION 8.1. Action by Holders................................................64
SECTION 8.2. Proof of Execution of Instruments by Holders
of Securities..................................................64
SECTION 8.3. Holders to be Treated as Owners..................................65
SECTION 8.4. Securities Owned by Issuer Deemed Not
Outstanding....................................................65
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SECTION 8.5. Right of Revocation of Action Taken..............................66
ARTICLE IX.
HOLDERS' MEETINGS
SECTION 9.1. Purposes of Meetings.............................................67
SECTION 9.2. Call of Meetings by Trustee......................................67
SECTION 9.3. Call of Meetings by Issuer or Holders............................67
SECTION 9.4. Qualifications for Voting........................................68
SECTION 9.5. Regulations......................................................68
SECTION 9.6. Voting...........................................................69
SECTION 9.7. No Delay of Rights by Reason of Meeting..........................69
ARTICLE X.
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
SECTION 10.1. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of
Securityholders................................................70
SECTION 10.2. Supplemental Indentures With Consent of
Securityholders................................................72
SECTION 10.3. Notice of Supplemental Indenture.................................73
SECTION 10.4. Effect of Supplemental Indenture.................................73
SECTION 10.5. Documents To Be Given to Trustee.................................74
SECTION 10.6. Notation on Securities in Respect of
Supplemental Indentures........................................74
ARTICLE XI.
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER OR SALE
SECTION 11.1. Issuer May Consolidate, Merge or Sell on
Certain Terms..................................................75
SECTION 11.2. Conditions to Consolidation or Merger, etc.......................75
SECTION 11.3. Documents and Opinion To Be Furnished to the
Trustee........................................................76
ARTICLE XII.
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE;
UNCLAIMED MONEYS
SECTION 12.1. Satisfaction and Discharge of Securities of
Any Series.....................................................78
SECTION 12.2. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture..........................79
SECTION 12.3. Application of Trust Money.......................................80
SECTION 12.4. Repayment of Moneys Held by Paying Agent.........................80
SECTION 12.5. Return of Unclaimed Moneys Held by Trustee
and Paying Agent...............................................80
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ARTICLE XIII.
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
SECTION 13.1. Incorporators, Stockholders, Officers and
Directors of Issuer Exempt from Individual
Liability......................................................82
SECTION 13.2. Benefits of Indenture............................................82
SECTION 13.3. Successors and Assigns of Issuer Bound by
Indenture......................................................82
SECTION 13.4. Notices to Holders; Waiver.......................................82
SECTION 13.5. Addresses for Notices............................................83
SECTION 13.6. Officers' Certificates and Opinions of
Counsel; Statements to Be Contained
Therein........................................................83
SECTION 13.7. Separability Clause..............................................84
SECTION 13.8. Legal Holidays ..................................................84
SECTION 13.9. Conflict of Any Provision of Indenture with
Trust Indenture Act............................................85
SECTION 13.10. Governing Law ..................................................85
SECTION 13.11. Counterparts ..................................................85
SECTION 13.12. Effect of Headings..............................................85
ARTICLE XIV.
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 14.1. Applicability of Article.........................................86
SECTION 14.2. Notice of Redemption; Selection of
Securities.....................................................86
SECTION 14.3. Payment of Securities Called for Redemption......................87
SECTION 14.4. Exclusion of Certain Securities from
Eligibility for Selection for Redemption.......................88
SECTION 14.5. Right of Redemption of Securities Initialy
Issued to an IDACORP Trust.....................................88
ARTICLE XV.
SINKING FUNDS
SECTION 15.1. Applicability of Article.........................................89
SECTION 15.2. Satisfaction of Mandatory Sinking Fund
Payment with Securities........................................89
SECTION 15.3. Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund........................89
ARTICLE XVI.
SUBORDINATION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 16.1. Securities Subordinate to Senior
Indebtedness...................................................92
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SECTION 16.2. No Payment When Senior Indebtedness in
Default; Payment Over of Proceeds Upon
Dissolution, Etc...............................................92
SECTION 16.3. Payment Permitted If No Default..................................94
SECTION 16.4. Subrogation to Rights of Holders of Senior
Indebtedness...................................................94
SECTION 16.5. Provisions Solely to Define Relative Rights......................95
SECTION 16.6. Trustee to Effectuate Subordination..............................95
SECTION 16.7. No Waiver of Subordination Provisions............................95
SECTION 16.8. Notice to Trustee................................................96
SECTION 16.9. Reliance on Judicial Order or Certificate of
Liquidating Agent..............................................97
SECTION 16.10. Trustee Not Fiduciary for Holders of Senior
Indebtedness...................................................97
SECTION 16.11. Rights of Trustee as Holder of Senior
Indebtedness; Preservation of Trustee's
Rights.........................................................97
SECTION 16.12. Article Applicable to Paying Agents.............................97
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INDENTURE, dated as of __________ __, 199___, between IDACORP,
INC., an Idaho corporation (hereinafter, subject to Article XI, called the
"Issuer" or the "Company"), having its principal office at 0000 Xxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxxx, Xxxxx, Xxxxx 00000- 0000, and BANKERS TRUST COMPANY, a New York banking
corporation (hereinafter, subject to Article VII, called the "Trustee").
Recitals of the Issuer
The Issuer has duly authorized the execution and delivery of
this Indenture to provide for the issuance from time to time of its notes,
debentures or other evidences of its unsecured subordinated indebtedness
(hereinafter generally called the "Securities"), to be issued in one or more
series, authenticated and delivered, as in this Indenture provided.
All things necessary have been done to make this Indenture a
valid agreement of the Issuer, in accordance with its terms.
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of
the Securities by the persons acquiring the same, it is mutually covenanted and
agreed, for the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders (as defined in
Section 1.1.) of the Securities or of the Securities of any series, without any
priority of any one Security or series over any other, except as otherwise
expressly provided herein, as follows:
ARTICLE I.
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, including any indenture
supplemental hereto, have the respective meanings specified in this Section. All
other terms used in this Indenture that are defined in the Trust Indenture Act
or the definitions of which in the Securities Act of 1933 are referred to in the
Trust Indenture Act or that are defined by rule of the Commission under the
Trust Indenture Act (except as herein otherwise expressly provided or unless the
context otherwise clearly requires) have the meanings assigned to such terms in
said Trust Indenture Act and in said Securities Act or in said Commission rule
under the Trust Indenture Act as in force at the date on which this Indenture
was originally executed (subject to Sections 10.1 and 10.2). The words "herein",
"hereof" and "hereunder" and other words of similar import refer to this
Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other
subdivision. All
references herein to "Articles" or other subdivisions are to the corresponding
Articles or other subdivisions of this Indenture. The terms defined in this
Article have the meanings assigned to them in this Article and include the
plural as well as the singular.
"Authenticating Agent" means, with respect to any series of
Securities, any authenticating agent appointed by the Trustee, with respect to
that series of Securities, pursuant to Section 7.14.
"Authorized Newspaper" means a newspaper printed in the
English language, customarily published at least once a day, and customarily
published for at least five days in each calendar week, and of general
circulation in The City of New York. Whenever successive publications are
required or authorized to be made in Authorized Newspapers, the successive
publications may be made (unless otherwise expressly provided herein) in the
same or different newspapers meeting the foregoing requirements and in each case
on any Business Day.
"Board of Directors" means either the Board of Directors of
the Issuer or any committee of such Board of Directors duly authorized to act on
behalf of the Board of Directors.
"Board Resolution" means a copy of a resolution certified by
the Secretary or any Assistant Secretary of the Issuer to have been duly adopted
by the Board of Directors and to be in full force and effect on the date of such
certification, and delivered to the Trustee.
"Business Day" means any day, other than a Saturday or Sunday,
which is not a day on which banking or trust institutions are authorized or
required by law or regulation to be closed in The City of New York.
"Capital Lease Obligation" means any rental obligation which,
under Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, is or will be required to be
capitalized on the books of the Issuer, taken at the amount thereof accounted
for as indebtedness (net of interest expense) in accordance with such
principles.
"Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as
from time to time constituted, created under the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, or if at any time after the date on which this Indenture was originally
executed such Commission is not existing and performing the duties assigned to
it under the Trust Indenture Act on such date of original execution, then the
body performing such duties at such time.
"Common Securities" means the common securities issued by an
IDACORP Trust.
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"Company": See "Issuer".
"Corporate Trust Office" means the principal office of the
Trustee at which at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be
administered, which office, on the date of original execution of this Indenture,
is located at Four Albany Street, New York, New York, 10006, Attention: Manager,
Pubic Utilities.
"Depository" means, with respect to the Securities of any
series which, in accordance with the determination of the Issuer, will be issued
in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities, The Depository
Trust Company, New York, New York, another clearing agency or any successor
registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, or other applicable
statute or regulation, which, in each case, shall be designated by the Issuer
pursuant to either Section 2.4 or 3.1. If at any time there is more than one
such person, "Depository" as used with respect to the Securities of any such
series means the Depository with respect to the Securities of that series.
"Dividend Reinvestment and Stock Purchase Plan" means the
Dividend Reinvestment and Stock Purchase Plan of the Issuer or similar plan as
in effect from time to time.
"Dollar" ("$") means the coin or currency of the United States
of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for the payment of public
and private debts.
"Event of Default" means any event or condition specified as
such in Section 6.1 which shall have continued for the period of time, if any,
therein designated.
"Extension Period" has the meaning specified in Section 3.12.
"Generally Accepted Accounting Principles" means such
accounting practice and principles as, in the opinion of the independent
accountants regularly retained by the Issuer, conform at the time to accounting
principles generally accepted by the certified public accounting profession and
applied on a consistent basis (except for changes in application in which such
accountants concur). Any accounting terms not defined in this Indenture shall
have the respective meanings given to them under Generally Accepted Accounting
Principles consistent with those applied in the preparation of the Issuer's
financial statements or other financial statements required thereunder.
"Global Security" means, with respect to all or any part of
any series of Securities, a Security executed by the Issuer and authenticated
and delivered by the Trustee to the Depository or pursuant to the Depository's
instruction, all in accordance with this Indenture and pursuant to an Issuer
Order, which shall be registered in the name of the Depository or its
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nominee and the ownership of which will be registered in a "book-entry" or other
system maintained by the Depository.
"Government Obligations" means securities which are (i) direct
obligations of the United States government or (ii) obligations of an agency or
instrumentality of the United States government the payment of which is
unconditionally guaranteed by the United States government, which, in either
case, are not callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof, and
such term also includes a depository receipt issued by a bank (as defined in
Section 3(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933) as custodian with respect to any
such securities or specific payment of interest on or principal of any such
securities held by such custodian for the account of the holder of such
depository receipt; provided that (except as required by law) such custodian is
not authorized to make any deduction from the amount payable to the holder of
such depository receipt from any amount received by the custodian in respect of
the securities or the specific payment of interest on or principal of the
securities evidenced by such depository receipt.
"Holder", "Registered Holder" and "Securityholder" mean, with
respect to a Security, the person in whose name at the time such Security is
registered in the Securities Register (which terms, in the case of a Global
Security, mean the Depository, notwithstanding that the Depository maintains a
"book-entry" or other system for identification of ownership in respect of such
Global Security).
"IDACORP Guarantee" means the guarantee by the Issuer of
distributions on the Preferred Securities of an IDACORP Trust substantially in
such form as may be specified pursuant to Section 3.1.
"IDACORP Trust" means a statutory business trust created by
the Issuer for the purpose of issuing Trust Securities and using the proceeds of
the sale thereof to purchase one or more series of Securities.
The term "include" (and other forms of such term) means
"include, without limitation".
"Indebtedness" means, with respect to a Person, (i) the
principal of and premium, if any, and interest, if any, on, (A) indebtedness of
such Person for money borrowed and (B) indebtedness evidenced by securities,
notes, debentures, bonds or other similar instruments issued by such Person;
(ii) all Capital Lease Obligations of such Person; (iii) all obligations of such
Person issued or assumed as the deferred purchase price of property, all
conditional sale obligations of such Person and all obligations of such Person
under any conditional sale or title retention agreement (but excluding trade
accounts payable and accrued liabilities in the ordinary course of business);
(iv) all obligations, contingent or
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otherwise, of such Person in respect of any letters of credit, banker's
acceptance, security purchase facilities or similar credit transactions; (v) all
obligations in respect of interest rate swap, cap, floor, collar or other
agreements, interest rate future or option contracts, currency swap agreements,
currency or other future or option contracts and other similar agreements; and
(vi) all obligations of the type referred to in clauses (i) through (v) of
others for the payment of which such Person is responsible or liable as obligor,
guarantor or otherwise.
"Indenture" means this instrument as originally executed and
delivered or, if amended or supplemented as herein provided, as so amended or
supplemented, and includes the forms and terms of particular series of
Securities established as contemplated hereunder.
The term "interest" means, with respect to
non-interest-bearing Securities, interest payable after Maturity.
"Interest Payment Date" means the Stated Maturity of an
installment of interest on the Securities of any series.
"Investment Company Event" means the receipt by the applicable
IDACORP Trust of an opinion of counsel experienced in such matters to the effect
that, as a result of the occurrence of a change in law or regulation or a change
in interpretation or application of law or regulation by any legislative body,
court, governmental agency or regulatory authority (a "Change in the Investment
Company Act"), the applicable IDACORP Trust is or will be considered an
"investment company" that is required to be registered under the Investment
Company Act of 1940, as amended, which Change in the Investment Company Act
becomes effective on or after the date of original issuance of the series of
Preferred Securities issued by the IDACORP Trust.
"Issuer" or "Company" means IDACORP, Inc., an Idaho
corporation, and, subject to Article XI, its successors and assigns.
"Issuer Order" and "Issuer Request" mean a written order and a
written request, respectively, signed in the name of the Issuer by the
president, any vice president or the treasurer and by any assistant treasurer,
the secretary or any assistant secretary of the Issuer, and delivered to the
Trustee.
"Lien" means any mortgage, pledge, security interest,
encumbrance, lien or charge of any kind (including any agreement to give any of
the foregoing, any conditional sale or other title retention agreement, any
lease in the nature thereof, and the filing of or agreement to give any
financing statement under the Uniform Commercial Code of any jurisdiction).
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"Maturity" means, with respect to any Security, the date on
which the principal of such Security becomes due and payable as therein or
herein provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by acceleration, call for
redemption or otherwise.
"Officers' Certificate" means a certificate signed by the
president, any vice president or the treasurer and by any assistant treasurer,
the secretary or any assistant secretary of the Issuer, and delivered to the
Trustee, except that any Officers' Certificate delivered pursuant to Section 4.6
shall be signed by a principal operating officer, principal financial officer or
principal accounting officer. Each such certificate shall include the statements
provided for in Section 13.6, if and to the extent required thereby.
"Opinion of Counsel" means an opinion in writing signed by
legal counsel who may be an employee of or counsel to the Issuer or who may be
other counsel satisfactory to the Trustee. Each such opinion shall include the
statements provided for in Section 13.6, if and to the extent required thereby.
"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 with respect thereto pursuant to
Section 6.1.
"Outstanding" (subject to Section 8.4) means, with reference
to Securities as of any particular time, all Securities authenticated and
delivered under this Indenture, except
(a) Securities theretofore cancelled 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
irrevocably 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) or for the payment of
which Government Obligations shall have been irrevocably deposited in
trust with the Trustee in accordance with Article XII; provided that,
if such Securities, or portions thereof, are to be redeemed prior to
the Stated Maturity thereof, notice of such redemption shall have been
given as herein provided, or 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 3.7 (except with respect to any
such Security as to which proof satisfactory to the Trustee and the
Issuer is
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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 Holders of the requisite principal
amount of Outstanding Securities of any or all series have made or given any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder,
or are present to constitute a quorum at a meeting of Holders of Securities, 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 with respect thereto pursuant to Section 6.1.
"Overdue Rate" means, with respect to any series of
Securities, the rate designated as such in or pursuant to the resolution of the
Board of Directors or the supplemental indenture, as the case may be, relating
to such series as contemplated by Section 3.1.
"Paying Agent" means any person authorized by the Issuer to
pay the principal of, or premium, if any, or interest, if any, on, any
Securities on behalf of the Issuer.
The term "person" means any individual, corporation, limited
liability company, partnership, joint venture, association, joint stock company,
trust, unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political
subdivision thereof.
"Place of Payment" means, with respect to the Securities of
any series, the place or places where the principal of, and premium, if any, and
interest, if any, on, the Securities of such series are payable as specified
pursuant to Section 3.1.
"Predecessor Security" of any particular Security means every
previous Security evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced
by such particular Security; and, for the purposes of this definition, any
Security authenticated and delivered under Section 3.7 in lieu of a lost,
destroyed, mutilated or stolen Security shall be deemed to evidence the same
debt as the lost, destroyed or stolen Security.
"Preferred Securities" means the preferred securities
issued by an IDACORP Trust.
"Property Trustee" means, with respect to any IDACORP Trust,
the commercial bank or trust company identified as the "Property Trustee" in the
related Trust Agreement, solely in its capacity as Property Trustee of such
IDACORP Trust under such Trust Agreement and not in its individual capacity, or
its
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successor in interest in such capacity, or any successor property trustee
appointed as xxxxxxx provided.
"Redemption Date" means, with respect to any Security to be
redeemed, the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this Indenture.
"Redemption Price" means, with respect to any Security to be
redeemed, the price at which it is to be redeemed pursuant to this Indenture.
"Registered Holder": See "Holder".
The term "responsible officer" means, with respect to the
Trustee, the chairman of the board of directors, any vice chairman of the board
of directors, the chairman of the trust committee, the chairman of the executive
committee of the board of directors, any vice chairman of the executive
committee of the board of directors, the president, any vice president, the
cashier, the secretary, the treasurer, any trust officer, any assistant trust
officer, any assistant vice president, any assistant cashier, any assistant
secretary, any assistant treasurer, or any other officer or assistant officer of
the Trustee customarily performing functions similar to those performed by the
persons who at the time shall be such officers, respectively, or to whom any
corporate trust matter is referred because of his knowledge of and familiarity
with the particular subject.
"Rights Agreement" means a plan of the Issuer providing for
the issuance by the Issuer to all holders of its common stock of rights
entitling the holders therof to subscribe for or purchase shares of common stock
or any class or series of preferred stock of the Issuer, which rights (i) are
deemed to be transferred with such shares of common stock of the Issuer, (ii)
are not exercisable and (iii) are also issued in respect of future issuances of
common stock of the Issuer, in each case until the occurrence of a specified
event or events.
"Securities Act" means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
"Securities Register" and "Securities Registrar": See
Section 3.6.
"Security" or "Securities" has the meaning stated in the
recitals of this Indenture.
"Senior Indebtedness" means all Indebtedness of the Issuer,
unless, in the instrument creating or evidencing the same or pursuant to which
the same is outstanding, it is provided that such obligations are not superior
in right of payment to Subordinated Indebtedness or to other Indebtedness of
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the Issuer which is pari passu with, or subordinated to, Subordinated
Indebtedness.
"Stated Maturity" means, with respect to any Security or any
installment of interest thereon, the date specified in such Security as the
fixed date on which the principal of, or premium, if any, or interest, if any,
on, such Security is due and payable.
"Subordinated Indebtedness" means all Indebtedness of the
Issuer which is subordinate and junior in right of payment to Senior
Indebtedness.
"Subsidiary" means as to any person a corporation of which
outstanding shares of stock having ordinary voting power (other than stock
having such power only by reason of a contingency) to elect a majority of the
Board of Directors of such corporation are at the time owned, directly or
indirectly through one or more intermediaries, or both, by such person.
"Tax Event" means the receipt by an IDACORP Trust of an
opinion of counsel experienced in such matters to the effect that, as a result
of any amendment to, or change (including any announced prospective change) in,
the laws (or any regulations thereunder) of the United States or any political
subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein, or as a result of any
official administrative pronouncement or judicial decision interpreting or
applying such laws or regulations, which amendment or change is effective or
which pronouncement or decision is announced on or after the date of issuance of
the Preferred Securities of such IDACORP Trust, there is more than an
insubstantial risk that (i) such IDACORP Trust is, or will be within 90 days of
the date of such opinion of counsel, subject to United States Federal income tax
with respect to income received or accrued on the corresponding series of
Securities issued by the Issuer to such IDACORP Trust, (ii) interest payable by
the Issuer on such corresponding series of Securities is not, or within 90 days
of the date of such opinion of counsel, will not be, deductible by the Issuer,
in whole or in part, for United States Federal income tax purposes or (iii) such
IDACORP Trust is, or will be within 90 days of the date of such opinion of
counsel, subject to more than a de minimis amount of other taxes, duties, or
other governmental charges.
"Trust Agreement" means the Trust Agreement as amended by the
Amended and Restated Trust Agreement pursuant to which an IDACORP Trust is
formed substantially in such form as may be specified as contemplated by Section
3.1.
"Trust Indenture Act" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939,
as amended and in force (except as otherwise provided herein) at the date on
which this Indenture was originally executed.
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"Trust Securities" means the undivided beneficial interests in
an IDACORP Trust.
"Trustee" means the person identified as "Trustee" in the
first paragraph hereof and, subject to the provisions of Article VII, shall also
include any successor trustee.
The term "vice president" means, with respect to the Issuer or
the Trustee, any vice president, whether or not designated by a number or a word
or words added before or after the title of "vice president".
SECTION 1.2. Other Defined Terms. Certain other
terms are defined in Article VII and other Articles of this
Indenture.
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ARTICLE II.
SECURITY FORMS
SECTION 2.1. Forms Generally. The Securities of each series
shall be in substantially such form as shall be established pursuant to Section
3.1, in each case with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and
other variations as are required or permitted by this Indenture, and may have
such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such legends or
endorsements placed thereon as the Issuer may deem appropriate and as are not
contrary to the provisions of this Indenture, or as may be required to comply
with any law or with any rules made pursuant thereto or with any rules of any
securities exchange or of any automated quotation system, or to conform to
usage, all as determined by the officers executing such Securities, as
conclusively evidenced by their execution of the Securities.
The definitive Securities of each series shall be prepared by
the Company and 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, as conclusively evidenced by their execution
of such Securities, subject, with respect to the Securities of any series, to
the rules of any securities exchange or automated quotation system on which the
Securities of such series are listed or quoted and (with respect to Global
Securities of any series) to the rules of the Depository.
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:
This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein
referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
--------------------,
as Trustee
By
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Authorized Signatory
SECTION 2.3. Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication
by an Authenticating Agent. If at any time there shall be an Authenticating
Agent appointed with respect to any series of Securities, then the Trustee's
Certificate of Authentication by such Authenticating Agent on all Securities of
each such series shall be in substantially the following form:
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--------------------,
as Trustee
By [NAME OF AUTHENTICATING
AGENT],
Authenticating Agent
By
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Authorized Signatory
SECTION 2.4. Securities Issuable in the Form of Global
Securities. (a) If the Issuer shall establish pursuant to Section 3.1 that the
Securities of a particular series are to be issued in whole or in part as one or
more Global Securities, then the Issuer shall execute, and the Trustee shall, in
accordance with Section 3.3 and the Issuer Order delivered to the Trustee
thereunder, authenticate and make available for delivery, one or more Global
Securities which (i) shall represent an aggregate principal amount equal to the
aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series to be
represented by one or more Global Securities, (ii) shall be registered in the
name of the Depository or its nominee, (iii) shall be delivered by the Trustee
to the Depository or pursuant to the Depository's instruction and (iv) shall
bear a legend substantially to the following effect:
"Except as otherwise provided in Section 2.4 of the Indenture,
unless this certificate is presented by an authorized representative of The
Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation ("DTC"), to the Company or its
agent for registration of transfer, exchange, or payment, and any certificate
issued is registered in the name of Cede & Co. or in such other name as is
requested by an authorized representative of DTC (and any payment is made to
Cede & Co. or to such other entity as is requested by an authorized
representative of DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE, OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR
OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL inasmuch as the registered owner
hereof, Cede & Co., has an interest herein."
(b) Notwithstanding any provision of Section 3.6, any Global
Security of a series may be transferred, in whole but not in part, and in the
manner provided in Section 3.6, only to another nominee of the Depository for
such series, or to a successor Depository for such series selected or approved
by the Issuer or to a nominee of such successor Depository.
(c) If at any time the Depository for Securities of a series
notifies the Issuer that it is unwilling or unable to
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continue as Depository for Securities of such series or if at any time the
Depository shall no longer be registered or in good standing under the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, or other applicable statute or regulation, and
a successor Depository is not appointed by the Issuer within 90 days after the
Issuer receives such notice or becomes aware of such condition, as the case may
be, this Section shall no longer be applicable to the Securities of such series
and the Issuer will execute, and the Trustee, upon receipt of an Issuer Order
for the authentication and delivery of individual Securities of such series,
will authenticate and make available for delivery, Securities of such series, in
authorized denominations, and in an aggregate principal amount equal to the
aggregate principal amount of the Global Security or Global Securities of such
series in exchange for such Global Security or Global Securities.
The Issuer may at any time determine that Securities of any
series shall no longer be represented by one or more Global Securities and that
the provisions of this Section shall no longer apply to the Securities of such
series. In such event the Issuer will execute and the Trustee, upon receipt of
an Issuer Order for the authentication and delivery of individual Securities of
such series, will authenticate and make available for delivery Securities of
such series, in authorized denominations, and in an aggregate principal amount
equal to the aggregate principal amount of the Global Security or Global
Securities of such series in exchange for such Global Security.
If specified by the Issuer pursuant to Section 3.1 with
respect to a series of Securities, the Depository for such series of Securities
may surrender a Global Security for such series of Securities in exchange in
whole or in part for individual Securities of such series on such terms as are
acceptable to the Issuer and such Depository. Thereupon, the Issuer shall
execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery,
without service charge,
(i) to each person specified by such Depository a new
individual Security or Securities of the same series, of any authorized
denomination as requested by such person in aggregate principal amount
equal to and in exchange for such persons' beneficial interest in the
Global Security; and
(ii) to such Depository a new Global Security in a
denomination equal to the difference, if any, between the principal
amount of the surrendered Global Security and the aggregate principal
amount of individual Securities delivered to Holders thereof.
In any exchange provided for in any of the preceding
paragraphs of this Section, the Issuer will execute and the Trustee will
authenticate and make available for delivery
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individual Securities in registered form in authorized denominations.
Upon the exchange of a Global Security for individual
Securities, such Global Security shall be cancelled by the Trustee. Individual
Securities issued in exchange for a Global Security pursuant to this Section
shall be registered in such names and in such authorized denominations as the
Depository for such Global Security, pursuant to instructions from its direct or
indirect participants or otherwise, shall instruct the Trustee. The Trustee
shall make such Securities available for delivery to the persons in whose names
such Securities are so registered.
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ARTICLE III.
THE SECURITIES
SECTION 3.1. 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 from time to time in one or more
series. With respect to the Securities of any particular series, there shall be
established in, or pursuant to the authority granted in, a resolution of the
Board of Directors (delivered to the Trustee in the form of a Board Resolution)
or established in one or more indentures supplemental hereto:
(1) the form of the Securities of the series;
(2) the title of the Securities of the series (which shall
distinguish the Securities of the series from all other Securities);
(3) 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 2.4, 3.6, 3.7, 3.10 or
14.3);
(4) the date or dates on which the Securities of the series
may be issued;
(5) the date or dates, which may be serial, on which the
principal of, and premium, if any, on, the Securities of the series are
payable;
(6) the rate or rates, or the method of determination thereof,
at which the Securities of the series shall bear interest, if any
(including the rate or rates at which overdue principal shall bear
interest, if different from the rate or rates at which such Securities
shall bear interest prior to Maturity, and, if applicable, the rate or
rates at which overdue premium or interest shall bear interest, if
any); any formulary or other method or other means by which any such
rate or rates shall be determined, by reference to an index or other
fact or event ascertainable outside this Indenture or otherwise; 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, if other than as set forth in Section 3.8, for the determination
of Holders to whom interest is payable; the right of the Issuer
pursuant to Section 3.12 to defer or extend an Interest Payment Date;
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(7) the place or places where the principal of, and premium,
if any, and interest, if any, on, the Securities of the series shall be
payable (if other than as provided in Section 4.2);
(8) the provisions, if any, establishing 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;
(9) 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;
(10) if other than denominations of $1,000, and any integral
multiple thereof, the denominations in which Securities of the series
shall be issuable;
(11) whether the Securities of the series are to be issued as
Original Issue Discount Securities and, if so, the amount of the
discount with respect thereto;
(12) if other than the principal amount thereof, the portion
of the principal amount of the Securities of the series which shall be
payable upon declaration of acceleration with respect thereto pursuant
to Section 6.1 or payable in bankruptcy pursuant to Section 6.2;
(13) any Events of Default or restrictive covenants provided
for with respect to the Securities of the series, if other than as set
forth in Section 6.1 and Articles IV and XI;
(14) if other than the rate of interest stated in the
title of the Securities of the series, the applicable
Overdue Rate;
(15) in case the Securities of the series do not bear
interest, the applicable dates for the purpose of clause (a) of Section
5.1;
(16) if other than as set forth in Article XII, provisions for
the satisfaction and discharge of the Securities of the series and this
Indenture;
(17) any trustees, paying agents, transfer agents or
registrars with respect to the Securities of the series;
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(18) whether the Securities of the series are issuable in
whole or in part as one or more Global Securities and, in such case,
the identity of the Depository for such Global Security or Global
Securities;
(19) any restrictions on transfer with respect to the
Securities of the series and any legend reflecting such restrictions to
be placed on such Securities;
(20) if the amount of payment of principal of, and premium, if
any, or interest, if any, on, the Securities of the series may be
determined with reference to an index, formula or other method, the
manner in which such amounts shall be determined;
(21) the right of the Issuer, if any, to defer any payment of
principal of or interest on Securities of the series and the maximum
length of any such deferral period;
(22) if other than as set forth herein, the relative degree,
if any, to which the Securities of such series shall be subordinated to
other series of Securities in right of payment, whether Outstanding or
not;
(23) if such Securities are to be issued to an IDACORP Trust,
the forms of the related trust agreement and guarantee agreement
relating thereto;
(24) the additions or changes, if any, to this Indenture with
respect to the Securities of such series as shall be necessary or
convenient to permit or facilitate the issuance of such Securities to
an IDACORP Trust;
(25) any exceptions to Section 13.8 or in the definition of
"Business Day" with respect to the Securities of the series; and
(26) any other terms of the series (which terms shall not be
contrary to the provisions of this Indenture).
With respect to any Securities (and without limiting the
generality of the foregoing provisions of this Section), such resolution of the
Board of Directors or indenture supplemental hereto may provide general terms or
parameters and may provide that the specific terms of particular Securities, and
the persons authorized to determine such terms or parameters, may be determined
in accordance with or pursuant to the Issuer Order referred to in Section 3.3.
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 the authority granted in, such resolution of the Board of
Directors or in any such indenture supplemental hereto.
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SECTION 3.2. Form and Denominations. In the absence of any
specification pursuant to Section 3.1 with respect to the Securities of any
series, the Securities of such series shall be issuable in fully registered
form, without coupons, in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple
thereof.
SECTION 3.3. Authentication, Dating and Delivery of
Securities. At any time and from time to time after the original execution and
delivery of this Indenture, the Issuer may deliver Securities of any series,
executed by the Issuer, to the Trustee for authentication. Except as otherwise
provided in this Article, the Trustee shall thereupon authenticate and make
available for delivery, or cause to be authenticated and delivered, said
Securities to or upon an Issuer Order, without any further action by the Issuer;
provided, however, that the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for
delivery Securities of such series for original issue from time to time in the
aggregate principal amount established for such series pursuant to such
procedures, acceptable to the Trustee and to such recipients, as may be
specified from time to time by an Issuer Order. The maturity dates, original
issue dates, interest rates and any other terms of the Securities of such series
shall be determined by or pursuant to such Issuer Order and procedures. If
provided for in such procedures, such Issuer Order may authorize authentication
and delivery pursuant to oral instructions from the Issuer or its duly
authorized agent, which instructions shall be promptly confirmed in writing.
In authenticating such Securities and accepting the
responsibilities under this Indenture in relation to such Securities, the
Trustee shall be entitled to receive, prior to the initial authentication of
such Securities, and (subject to Section 7.1) shall be fully protected in
relying upon:
(1) a Board Resolution relating thereto;
(2) an executed supplemental indenture, if any, relating
thereto;
(3) an Officers' Certificate which shall state that all
conditions precedent provided for in this Indenture relating to the
issuance of such Securities have been complied with, that no Event of
Default with respect to any series of Securities has occurred and is
continuing and that the issuance of such Securities does not constitute
and will not result in (i) any Event of Default or any event or
condition, which, upon the giving of notice or the lapse of time or
both, would become an Event of Default or (ii) any default under the
provisions of any other instrument or agreement by which the Company is
bound; and
(4) an Opinion of Counsel, which shall state
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(a) that the form and the terms of such Securities
have been established (i) by or pursuant to the authority
granted in a resolution of the Board of Directors delivered to
the Trustee pursuant to subparagraph (1) above or by a
supplemental indenture delivered to the Trustee pursuant to
subparagraph (2) above, (ii) as provided by Section 3.1 and
(iii) in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture;
(b) that such Securities, 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 enforceable in accordance with their terms, subject
to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization and other laws of
general applicability relating to or affecting the enforcement
of creditors' rights and to general equity principles;
(c) that the Issuer has the corporate power to issue
such Securities and has duly taken all necessary corporate
action with respect to such issuance;
(d) that, assuming compliance with any restrictions
limiting the debt issuance capacity of the Issuer applicable
to such Securities at the time of the issuance thereof, the
issuance of such Securities will not contravene the charter or
by-laws of the Issuer or result in any violation of any of the
terms or provisions of any law or regulation or of any
indenture, mortgage or other instrument or agreement known to
such counsel by which the Issuer is bound; and
(e) that all laws and requirements in respect of the
execution and delivery by the Issuer of the Securities, and
the related supplemental indenture, if any, have been complied
with and that authentication and delivery of such Securities
and the execution and delivery of the related supplemental
indenture, if any, by the Trustee will not violate the terms
of the Indenture.
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 3.1 and of this
Section, if all the Securities of a series are not to be originally issued at
one time, it shall not be necessary to deliver the Board Resolution or
supplemental indenture otherwise required pursuant to Section 3.1 or the Issuer
Order, Officers' Certificate, Opinion of Counsel and other documents required
pursuant to this Section at or prior to the time of authentication of each
Security of such series if such documents are delivered at or prior to the time
of authentication upon original issuance of the first Security of such series to
be issued; provided, however, that any subsequent request by the
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Issuer to the Trustee to authenticate Securities of such series shall constitute
a representation and warranty by the Issuer that as of the date of such request
the statements made in the Officers' Certificate delivered pursuant to Section
3.3(3) shall be true and correct on the date thereof as if made on and as of the
date thereof.
The Trustee shall have the right to decline to authenticate
and make available for delivery any Securities under this Section if the
Trustee, being advised by counsel reasonably acceptable to the Trustee and the
Issuer, determines that such action would expose the Trustee to personal
liability.
Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication,
except as otherwise provided pursuant to Section 3.1 with respect to the series
of which such Security is a part and except that any substitute Security under
Section 3.7 shall be dated so that neither gain nor loss in interest shall
result from any mutilation, destruction, loss or theft of the relevant
Predecessor Security.
SECTION 3.4. Execution of Securities. The Securities shall be
signed in the name of and on behalf of the Issuer by both (a) its president or
any vice president and (b) its treasurer, any assistant treasurer, its secretary
or any assistant secretary, under its corporate seal which may, but need not, be
attested. Such signatures may be the manual or facsimile signatures of 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 thereon.
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 that has been duly authenticated and delivered by the Trustee.
In case any officer of the Issuer who shall have signed any of
the Securities shall cease to be such officer before the Security so signed
shall be authenticated and delivered by or on behalf of the Trustee or disposed
of by the Issuer, such Securities nevertheless may be authenticated and
delivered or disposed of as though the person who signed such Securities had not
ceased to be such officer of the Issuer; and any Security may be signed on
behalf of the Issuer by such persons as, at the actual date of the original
execution of such Security, shall be the proper officers of the Issuer, although
at the date of the original execution and delivery of this Indenture, or at the
date of such Security, any such person was not such an officer.
SECTION 3.5. Certificate of Authentication. No Security shall
be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any
purpose, unless there appears on such Security a certificate of authentication
substantially in the form hereinbefore recited, executed by or on behalf of the
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Trustee by manual signature. Such certificate by or on behalf of the Trustee
upon any Security executed by the Company 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.
SECTION 3.6. Registration, Registration of Transfer and
Exchange. Subject to the conditions set forth below (and subject, with respect
to Global Securities, to Section 2.4), Securities of any series may be exchanged
for a like aggregate principal amount of Securities of the same series and
having the same terms but in other authorized denominations. Securities to be
exchanged shall be surrendered at the offices or agencies to be maintained for
such purposes as provided in Section 4.2, and the Issuer shall execute and the
Trustee or any Authenticating Agent shall authenticate and make available for
delivery in exchange therefor the Security or Securities which the Holder making
the exchange shall be entitled to receive.
The Issuer shall keep or cause to be kept, at one of said
offices or agencies maintained pursuant to Section 4.2, a register for each
series of Securities issued hereunder (hereinafter collectively referred to as
the "Securities Register") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as
it may prescribe, the Issuer shall, subject to the provisions of Section 2.4,
provide for the registration of Securities of such series and shall register the
transfer of Securities of such series as in this Article provided. The
Securities Register shall be in written form or in any other form capable of
being converted into written form within a reasonable time. The Trustee is
hereby appointed as the initial "Securities Registrar" for the purpose of
registering Securities and registering transfers of Securities as herein
provided. Subject to the provisions of Section 2.4, upon surrender for
registration of transfer of any Security of any series at any such office or
agency, the Issuer shall execute and the Trustee or any Authenticating Agent
shall authenticate and make available for delivery in the name of transferee or
transferees a new Security or Securities of the same series for an equal
aggregate principal amount.
All Securities presented for registration of transfer or for
exchange, redemption or payment shall (if so required by the Issuer or the
Securities Registrar) be duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written
instrument or instruments of transfer in form satisfactory to the Issuer and the
Securities Registrar duly executed by, the Holder thereof or his attorney duly
authorized in writing.
Each Security issued upon registration of transfer or exchange
of Securities pursuant to this Section shall be the valid obligation of the
Issuer, evidencing the same indebtedness and entitled to the same benefits under
this Indenture as the
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Security or Securities surrendered upon registration of such transfer or
exchange.
No service charge shall be made for any registration of
transfer or exchange of Securities, but 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 registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, other
than exchanges pursuant to Section 3.10, 10.6, or 14.3 not involving any
transfer.
The Issuer shall not be required (a) to issue, exchange or
register the transfer of any Securities of any series during a period beginning
at the opening of business 15 days before the day of the mailing of a notice of
redemption of Securities of such series and ending at the close of business on
the day of such mailing, or (b) to exchange or register the transfer of any
Securities selected, called or being called for redemption except, in the case
of any Security to be redeemed in part, the portion thereof not to be redeemed.
SECTION 3.7. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities.
In case any temporary or definitive Security shall become mutilated (whether by
defacement or otherwise) or be destroyed, lost or stolen, and in the absence of
notice to the Issuer or the Trustee that such Security has been acquired by a
bona fide purchaser, the Issuer shall, except as otherwise provided in this
Section, execute, and upon an Issuer Request, the Trustee shall authenticate and
make available for delivery, a new Security of the same series, tenor and
principal amount, bearing a number, letter or other distinguishing symbol not
contemporaneously outstanding, in exchange and substitution for the mutilated
Security, or in lieu of and in substitution for the Security so destroyed, lost
or stolen. In every case the applicant for a substituted Security 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 save each of them harmless,
and, in every case of destruction, loss or theft, 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 and of the ownership thereof.
Upon the issuance of any substitute Security under this
Section, 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 or any
Authenticating Agent) connected therewith.
In case any Security which has matured or is about to mature
or has been called for redemption in full shall become mutilated or be
destroyed, lost or stolen, the Issuer may, instead of issuing a substitute
Security, pay or authorize the
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payment of the same (without surrender thereof except in the case of a mutilated
Security). In every case, 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, 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 and of the ownership thereof.
Every substitute Security of any series issued pursuant to the
provisions of this Section by virtue of the fact that any such Security is
destroyed, lost or stolen shall constitute an additional contractual obligation
of the Issuer, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be at
any time enforceable by anyone and shall be entitled to all the benefits of (but
shall be subject to all the limitations of rights set forth in) this Indenture
equally and proportionately with any and all other Securities of such series
duly authenticated and delivered hereunder. All Securities shall be held and
owned upon the express condition that, to the extent permitted by law, the
foregoing provisions of this Section are exclusive with respect to the
replacement or payment of mutilated (whether by defacement or otherwise) or
destroyed, lost or stolen Securities 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 3.8. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved.
The Holder of any Securities at the close of business on any record date with
respect to any Interest Payment Date shall be entitled to receive the interest,
if any, payable on such Interest Payment Date notwithstanding the cancellation
of such Securities upon any registration of transfer or exchange subsequent to
the record date and prior to such Interest Payment Date, and, if provided for in
the Board Resolution pursuant to Section 3.1, in the case of a Security issued
between a record date and the initial Interest Payment Date relating to such
record date, interest for the period beginning on the date of issue and ending
on such initial Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the person to whom such
Security shall have been originally issued. Except as otherwise specified as
contemplated by Section 3.1, for Securities of a particular series the term
"record date" as used in this Section with respect to any Interest Payment Date
shall mean the close of business on the last day of the calendar month preceding
such Interest Payment Date if such Interest Payment Date is the fifteenth day of
a calendar month and shall mean the close of business on the fifteenth day of
the calendar month preceding such Interest Payment Date if such Interest Payment
Date is the first day of a calendar month, whether or not such day shall be
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a Business Day. At the option of the Issuer, payment of interest on any Security
may be made by check mailed to the address of the person entitled thereto (which
shall be the Depository in the case of Global Securities) as such address shall
appear in the Securities Register.
If and to the extent the Issuer shall default in the payment
of the interest due on such Interest Payment Date in respect of any Securities,
such defaulted interest shall be paid by the Issuer at its election in each
case, as provided in clause (1) or (2) below:
(1) The Issuer may make payment of any defaulted interest to
the Holder of Securities at the close of business on a subsequent
record date established by notice given by mail, by or on behalf of the
Issuer, to such Holder not less than 15 days preceding such subsequent
record date, such record date to be not less than 10 days preceding the
date for payment of such defaulted interest.
(2) The Issuer may make payment of any defaulted interest on
the Securities of any series in any other lawful manner not
inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which
the Securities of such series may be listed, and upon such notice as
may be required by such exchange, if, after notice given by the Issuer
to the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to this clause, such
manner of payment shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section, each
Security delivered under this Indenture upon registration of transfer of, or in
exchange for, or in lieu of, any other Security shall carry the rights to
interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other
Security.
SECTION 3.9. Cancellation of Securities; Destruction Thereof.
All Securities surrendered for payment, redemption, registration of transfer or
exchange, or for credit against any payment in respect of a sinking or analogous
fund, shall, if surrendered to the Issuer or any Paying Agent or any Securities
Registrar, be delivered to the Trustee for cancellation or, if surrendered to
the Trustee, shall be cancelled by it, and no Securities shall be issued in lieu
thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this
Indenture. The Trustee shall, unless instructed to deliver the Securities to the
Issuer in an Issuer Order, destroy such cancelled Securities and deliver
certification of their destruction to the Issuer. If the Issuer shall acquire
any of the Securities, such acquisition shall not operate as a redemption or
satisfaction of the indebtedness represented by such Securities unless and until
the same are delivered to the Trustee for cancellation.
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SECTION 3.10. Temporary Securities. Pending the preparation by
the Issuer of definitive Securities of any series, the Issuer may execute and
the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery 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 in any authorized denomination, and
substantially in the form of the definitive Securities of such series in lieu of
which they are issued but with such omissions, insertions and variations as may
be appropriate for temporary securities, all as may be determined by the Issuer
with the 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 the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and the
Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery in exchange for such
temporary Securities an equal aggregate principal amount of definitive
Securities of the same series. Such exchange shall be made by the Issuer at its
own expense and without any charge therefor except that in case of any such
exchange involving any registration of transfer the Issuer may require payment
of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be
imposed in relation thereto. Until so exchanged, the temporary Securities of any
series shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this
Indenture as definitive Securities of such series authenticated and delivered
hereunder.
SECTION 3.11. Computation of Interest. Except as otherwise
specified as contemplated by Section 3.1 for Securities of any series, interest
on the Securities of each series shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day
year of twelve 30-day months.
SECTION 3.12. Deferrals of Interest Payment Dates on
Securities Issued to an IDACORP Trust. If specified as contemplated by Section
3.1 with respect to the Securities of a series issued to an IDACORP Trust, so
long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Issuer shall
have the right, at any time during the term of such series but subject to
Section 4.8, from time to time to defer the payment of interest on such
Securities for such period or periods as may be specified as contemplated by
Section 3.1 (each, an "Extension Period") during which Extension Periods the
Company shall have the right to make partial payments of interest on any
Interest Payment Date. No Extension Period shall end on a date other than an
Interest Payment Date. At the end of any such Extension Period the Issuer shall
pay all interest then accrued and unpaid
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on the Securities of such series. Prior to the termination of any such Extension
Period, the Issuer may further extend the interest payment period, provided that
no Extension Period shall exceed the period or periods specified in the
Securities of such series or extend beyond the Stated Maturity of the principal
of the Securities of such series. Upon the termination of any Extension Period
and upon the payment of all amounts then due on any Interest Payment Date, the
Issuer may elect to begin a new Extension Period, subject to the above
requirements. No interest shall be due and payable during an Extension Period,
except at the end thereof. The Issuer shall give the Holders of the Securities
of such series and the Trustee notice of its election to begin any such
Extension Period at least one Business Day prior to the next succeeding Interest
Payment Date on which interest on Securities of such series would be payable but
for such deferral or, so long as such Securities are held by an IDACORP Trust,
prior to the earlier of (i) the next succeeding date on which Distributions (as
defined in the applicable Trust Agreement) on the Preferred Securities of such
IDACORP Trust would be payable but for such deferral or (ii) the date the
Trustees of such an IDACORP Trust are required to give notice to any securities
exchange or other applicable self-regulatory organization or to holders of such
Preferred Securities of the record date or the date such Distributions are
payable, but in any event not less than one Business Day prior to such record
date.
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ARTICLE IV.
COVENANTS OF THE ISSUER
The Issuer covenants and agrees for the benefit of each series
of Securities (except to the extent that any series of the Securities is
excluded from the benefits of any of such covenants pursuant to Section 3.1(13))
that on and after the date of original execution of this Indenture and so long
as any of the Securities of such series remain Outstanding:
SECTION 4.1. Payment of Securities. The Issuer will duly and
punctually pay or cause to be paid the principal of, and the premium, if any,
and interest, if any, on, the Securities of such series at the place or places,
at the respective times and in the manner provided in such Securities and in the
Indenture. As provided in Section 3.8, each installment of interest on the
Securities of any series may be paid by mailing checks for such interest payable
to the Holders of such Securities entitled thereto as their names shall appear
on the Securities Register.
SECTION 4.2. Offices or Agency. So long as any of the
Securities remain Outstanding, the Issuer will maintain in the Borough of
Manhattan, The City of New York, New York, an office or agency where Securities
of such series may be presented or surrendered for payment, where Securities of
such series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and
where notices and demands to or upon the Issuer in respect of the Securities of
such series and this Indenture may be served, which office or agency shall
initially be the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee or, if the Corporate
Trust Office of the Trustee is not located in the Borough of Manhattan, The City
of New York, such office or agency shall be the principal corporate trust office
of the Authenticating Agent designated pursuant to Section 7.14 hereof. The
Issuer will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any change in the
location of any such office or agency. If at any time the Issuer shall fail to
maintain such required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee
with the required information with respect thereto, presentations, surrenders,
notices and demands in respect of Securities may be made or served at the
Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee and the corporate trust office of any
Authenticating Agent appointed hereunder; and the Issuer hereby appoints the
Trustee and any Authenticating Agent appointed hereunder its agents to receive
all such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands.
The Issuer may also from time to time designate one or more
other offices or agencies (in or outside The City of New York) where the
Securities of such series may be presented or surrendered for any or all of such
purposes, and may from time to time rescind such designation; provided, however,
that no such designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the
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Issuer of its obligation to maintain for such purposes an office or agency in
the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York. The Issuer will promptly notify
the Trustee of any such designation or rescission thereof.
SECTION 4.3. 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 7.10, a Trustee, so
that there shall at all times be a Trustee with respect to each series of
Securities hereunder.
SECTION 4.4. 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 Paying 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 Paying
Agent for the payment of the principal of, and premium, if any, and
interest, if any, 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 of the Trustee,
(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 premium, if any, or interest,
if any, on, the Securities of such series when the same shall be due
and payable, and
(c) that at any time during the continuance of any such
failure, upon the written request of the Trustee it will forthwith pay
to the Trustee all sums so held in trust by such Paying Agent.
If the Issuer shall act as its own Paying Agent with respect
to the Securities of any series, it will, on or before each due date of the
principal of, or premium, if any, or interest, if any, on, the Securities of
such series, set aside, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the
Holders of the Securities of such series a sum sufficient to pay such principal,
premium, if any, or interest, if any, so becoming due. The Issuer will promptly
notify the Trustee of any failure to take such action.
Whenever the Issuer shall have one or more Paying Agents with
respect to the Securities of any series, it will, on or prior to the due date of
the principal of, or premium, if any, or interest, if any, on, the Securities of
such series, deposit with a designated Paying Agent for such series a sum
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sufficient to pay the principal, premium, if any, or interest, if any, so
becoming due, such sum to be held in trust for the benefit of the persons
entitled to such principal, premium, if any, or interest, if any, and (unless
such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Issuer will promptly notify the Trustee at
its Corporate Trust Office of its failure so to act.
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 12.3, 12.4 and 12.5.
SECTION 4.5. Maintenance of Corporate Existence. The Issuer
will preserve its corporate existence, but this covenant shall not require the
Issuer to continue its corporate existence in the event of a consolidation or
merger of the Issuer with or into any other corporation in accordance with
Article XI as a result of which the Issuer shall lose its corporate identity, or
in the event of a sale, transfer or lease of the property of the Issuer as an
entirety or substantially as an entirety in accordance with Article XI.
SECTION 4.6. Certificates to Trustee. The Issuer will, on or
before May 1 in each year, commencing with the year 1999, file with the Trustee
an Officers' Certificate complying with the provisions of the second paragraph
of Section 13.6, covering the period from the date of original execution of this
Indenture to December 31, 1998 in the case of the first such certificate, and
covering the preceding calendar year in the case of each subsequent certificate,
and stating whether or not, to the knowledge of each of the signers, the Issuer
has complied with the conditions and covenants on its part contained in this
Indenture, and, if the signers, to the best of their knowledge, know of any
default by the Issuer in the performance, observance or fulfillment of any such
condition or covenant, specifying each such default and the nature thereof. For
the purpose of this Section, compliance shall be determined without regard to
any grace period or requirement of notice provided pursuant to the terms of this
Indenture.
SECTION 4.7. Costs and Expenses of IDACORP Trust. The Issuer,
as borrower, agrees to pay all debts and obligations (other than with respect to
the Trust Securities) and all costs and expenses of the applicable IDACORP Trust
(including, but not limited to, all costs and expenses relating to the
organization
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of the applicable IDACORP Trust, the fees and expenses of the Property Trustee,
the Delaware Trustee and the Administrative Trustees (each as defined in the
related Trust Agreement) and all costs and expenses relating to the operation of
the applicable IDACORP Trust (other than with respect to the Trust Securities))
and to pay any and all taxes, duties, assessments or other governmental charges
of whatever nature (other than United States withholding taxes) imposed by the
United States or any other taxing authority, so that the net amounts received
and retained by the applicable IDACORP Trust after paying such fees, expenses,
debts and obligations will be equal to the amounts the applicable IDACORP Trust
would have received and retained had no such fees, expenses, debts and
obligations been incurred by or imposed on the applicable IDACORP Trust. The
foregoing obligations of the Issuer are for the benefit of, and shall be
enforceable by, any person to whom such fees, expenses, debts and obligations
are owed (each, a "Creditor"), whether or not such Creditor has received notice
thereof. Any such Creditor may enforce such obligations of the Issuer directly
against the Issuer, and the Issuer irrevocably waives any right or remedy to
require that any such Creditor take any action against the applicable IDACORP
Trust or any other person before proceeding against the Issuer. The Issuer shall
execute such additional agreements as may be necessary to give full effect to
the foregoing.
SECTION 4.8. Additional Covenants with Respect to Securities
Held by an IDACORP Trust.
The Issuer covenants and agrees with respect to Securities of
each series held by an IDACORP Trust that it shall not (a) declare or pay any
dividends or distributions on, or redeem, purchase, acquire or make a
liquidation payment with respect to, any of the Issuer's capital stock, or ((b)
make any payment of principal of or interest or premium, if any, on or repay,
repurchase or redeem any debt securities of the Issuer that rank pari passu with
all respects with or junior in interest to the Securities of such series or make
any guarantee payments with respect to any guarantee by the Issuer of debt
securities of any Subsidiary of the Issuer if such guarantee ranks pari passu
with or junior in interest to the Securities (other than (a) dividends or
distributions in the common stock of the Issuer, (b) any declaration of a
dividend in connection with the implementation of a Rights Plan, the issuance of
any common stock of any class or series of preferred stock of the Issuer under
any Rights Plan in the future or the redemption or repurchase of any such rights
pursuant thereto, (c) payments under any IDACORP Guarantee and (d) purchases of
common stock related to the issuance of common stock or rights under the
Issuer's benefit plans for its directors, officers or employees or pursuant to
its Dividend Reinvestment and Stock Purchase Plan) if at such time (i) there
shall have occurred any event of which the Issuer has actual knowledge that (A)
with the giving of notice or the lapse of time, or both, would constitute an
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Event of Default with respect to the Securities of such series and (B) in
respect of which the Issuer shall not have taken reasonable steps to cure, (ii)
the Issuer shall be in default with respect to its payment of any obligations
under the IDACORP Guarantee relating to the Preferred Securities issued by such
IDACORP Trust or (iii) the Issuer shall have given notice of its election to
begin an Extension Period with respect to the Securities of such series as
provided herein and shall not have rescinded such notice, or such Extension
Period, or any extension thereof, shall be continuing.
The Issuer also covenants with respect to Securities of each
series issued to an IDACORP Trust (i) to maintain directly or indirectly 100%
ownership of the Common Securities of such IDACORP Trust; provided, however,
that any permitted successor of the Issuer hereunder may succeed to the Issuer's
ownership of such Common Securities, (ii) as holder of the Common Securities not
to voluntarily terminate, wind-up or liquidate such IDACORP Trust except in
connection with a distribution of the Securities of such series to the holders
of Preferred Securities in liquidation of such IDACORP Trust or in connection
with certain mergers, consolidations or amalgamations permitted by the related
Trust Agreement and (iii) to use its reasonable efforts, consistent with the
terms and provisions of such Trust Agreement, to cause such IDACORP Trust to
remain classified as a grantor trust and not an association taxable as a
corporation for United States federal income tax purposes.
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ARTICLE V.
SECURITYHOLDER LISTS AND REPORTS BY THE
ISSUER AND THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 5.1. 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 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, if any, on such Securities of such
series, as of such record date, and on dates to be determined pursuant
to Section 3.1 for non-interest bearing Securities of such series 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, a list,
in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and
addresses of the Holders of the Securities of such series, as of the
respective record dates therefor (and on dates to be determined
pursuant to Section 3.1 if the Securities of such series do not bear
interest) as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the time such
information is furnished and need not include information received
after such date;
provided that, if and so long as the Trustee shall be the Securities Registrar
for such series, such list shall not be required to be furnished.
SECTION 5.2. Preservation and Disclosure of Securityholder
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 the Securities (1) contained in the most recent list furnished to
it as provided in Section 5.1, (2) maintained by the Trustee in its capacity as
Paying Agent for such series (if so acting) hereunder and of the Securities
Registrar for such series, and (3) filed with it within two preceding years
pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of subsection (c) of Section 5.4.
The Trustee may (1) destroy any list furnished to it as
provided in Section 5.1 upon receipt of a new list so furnished, (2) destroy any
information received by it as Paying Agent for such series (if so acting)
hereunder upon delivery to itself as Trustee a list containing the names and
addresses of the Holders of Securities of such series obtained from such
information since the delivery of the next previous list, if any, (3) destroy
any list delivered to itself as Trustee which
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was compiled from information received by it as Paying Agent (if so acting)
hereunder upon the receipt of a new list so delivered, and (4) destroy any
information filed with it by the Holders of Securities of such series for the
purpose of receiving reports pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of
subsection (c) of Section 5.4, but not until two years after such information
has been filed with it.
(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 of such
series 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 at least three of 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 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 Holder of Securities of such series or all Holders of
Securities, as the case may be, whose names and addresses appear 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
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Holders of Securities of such series or all Holders of Securities, 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, by receiving and
holding the same, agrees with the Issuer and the Trustee that neither the Issuer
nor the Trustee nor any Paying Agent 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 5.3. Reports by the Issuer. The Issuer covenants:
(a) 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 and other reports (or copies
of such portions of any of the foregoing as the Commission may from
time to time by rules and regulations prescribe) which the 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 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;
(b) to file with the Trustee and the Commission, in accordance
with rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the
Commission, such additional information, documents and reports with
respect to compliance by the
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Issuer with the conditions and covenants provided for in this Indenture
as may be required from time to time by such rules and regulations; and
(c) to transmit by mail to the Holders of Securities in the
manner and to the extent provided in Sections 5.4(c) and 5.4(d) within
30 days after the filing thereof with the Trustee, such summaries of
any information, documents and reports required to be filed by the
Issuer pursuant to subsections (a) and (b) of this Section as may be
required to be transmitted to such Holders by rules and regulations
prescribed from time to time by the Commission.
SECTION 5.4. Reports by the Trustee. (a) Within 60 days after
May 15 in each year following the date of original execution of this Indenture,
so long as any Securities are Outstanding hereunder, the Trustee shall transmit
by mail as provided below to the Securityholders of such series, as hereinafter
in this Section provided, a brief report, dated as of a date convenient to the
Trustee no more than 60 days prior thereto, with respect to any of the following
events which may have occurred within the previous twelve months (but if no such
event has occurred within such period, no report need be transmitted):
(i) any change to its eligibility under Section 7.9
and its qualification under Section 7.8;
(ii) the creation of or any material change to a relationship
specified in Section 310(b)(1) through Section 310(b)(10) of the Trust
Indenture Act;
(iii) the character and amount of any advances (and if the
Trustee elects so to state, the circumstances surrounding the making
thereof) made by the Trustee (as such) which remain unpaid on the date
of such report and for the reimbursement of which it claims or may
claim a lien or charge, prior to that of the Securities of any series,
on any property or funds held or collected by it as Trustee, except
that the Trustee shall not be required (but may elect) to report such
advances if such advances so remaining unpaid aggregate not more than
1/2 of 1% of the principal amount of the Securities of such series
Outstanding on the date of such report;
(iv) any change to the amount, interest rate and maturity
date of all other indebtedness owing by the Issuer (or by any other
obligor on the Securities of such series) to the Trustee in its
individual capacity on the date of such report, with a brief
description of any property held as collateral security therefor,
except any indebtedness based upon a creditor relationship arising in
any manner described in Section 7.13(b)(2), (3), (4) or (6);
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(v) any change to the property and funds, if any, physically
in the possession of the Trustee (as such) on the date of such report;
(vi) any additional issue of Securities of any series which
the Trustee has not previously reported; and
(vii) any action taken by the Trustee in the performance of
its duties under this Indenture which it has not previously reported
and which in its opinion materially affects the Securities of any
series, except action in respect of a default, notice of which has been
or is to be withheld by it in accordance with the provisions of Section
6.11.
(b) The Trustee shall transmit to the Securityholders of each
series, as provided in subsection (c) of this Section, a brief report with
respect to the character and amount of any advances (and if the Trustee elects
so to state, the circumstances surrounding the making thereof) made by the
Trustee, as such, since the date of the last report transmitted pursuant to the
provisions of subsection (a) of this Section (or if no such report has yet been
so transmitted, since the date of original execution of this Indenture) for the
reimbursement of which it claims or may claim a lien or charge prior to that of
the Securities of any series on property or funds held or collected by it as
Trustee and which it has not previously reported pursuant to this subsection
(b), except that the Trustee shall not be required (but may elect) to report
such advances if such advances remaining unpaid at any time aggregate 10% or
less of the principal amount of Securities of such series Outstanding at such
time, such report to be transmitted within 90 days after such time.
(c) Reports pursuant to this Section shall be transmitted by
mail:
(1) to all Holders of Securities, as the names and addresses
of such Holders appear in the Securities Register;
(2) to such Holders of Securities of any series as have,
within two years preceding such transmission, filed their names and
addresses with the Trustee for that purpose; and
(3) except in the cases of reports pursuant to subsection (b)
of this Section, to each Holder of a Security of any series whose name
and address are preserved at the time by the Trustee, as provided in
subsection (a) of Section 5.2.
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(d) A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such
transmission to the Securityholders of any series, be furnished to the Issuer
and be filed by the Trustee with each stock exchange upon which the Securities
of such series are listed and also with the Commission. The Issuer agrees to
notify the Trustee promptly when and as the Securities of any series become
admitted to trading on any national securities exchange.
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ARTICLE VI.
REMEDIES OF THE TRUSTEE AND SECURITYHOLDERS
ON EVENT OF DEFAULT
SECTION 6.1. Event of Default Defined; Acceleration of
Maturity; Waiver of Default. "Event of Default", with respect to the 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),
unless it is either inapplicable to a particular series or it is specifically
deleted or modified in the applicable resolution of the Board of Directors or in
the supplemental indenture under which such series of Securities is issued, as
the case may be, as contemplated by Section 3.1:
(a) default in the payment of any installment 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 and the time for payment of such interest has not been extended;
provided, however that if the Issuer is permitted by the terms of the
Securities of the applicable series to defer the payment in question,
the date on which such payment is due and payable shall be the date on
which the Issuer is required to make payment following such deferral,
if such deferral has been elected pursuant to the terms of the
Securities of that series; or
(b) default in the payment of all or any part of the principal
of or premium, if any, on any of the Securities of such series as and
when the same shall become due and payable either at Stated Maturity,
upon redemption, by declaration or otherwise and the time for payment
of such principal (or premium, if any) has not been extended; provided,
however, that if the Issuer is permitted by the terms of the Securities
of the applicable series to defer the payment in question, the date on
which such payment is due and payable shall be the date on which the
Issuer is required to make payment following such deferral, if such
deferral has been elected pursuant to the terms of the Securities of
that series; or
(c) default in the deposit of any sinking fund payment when
and as due and payable by the terms of the Securities of such series;
or
(d) default in the performance or observance of any other
covenant or agreement of the Issuer in respect of the Securities of
such series (other than a covenant or
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agreement in respect of the Securities of such series a default in
whose performance or observance is elsewhere in this Section
specifically dealt with), and continuance of such default 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 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, under any such law, (i) appointing a
receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee or sequestrator (or
similar official) of the Issuer or for any substantial part of its
property or (ii) ordering the winding up or liquidation of its affairs,
and such decree or order shall remain unstayed and in effect for a
period of 60 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, under any such law, (i) consent to the entry of an order
for relief in an involuntary case under any such law, (ii) consent to
the appointment 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 (iii) make
any general assignment for the benefit of creditors; or
(g) any other Event of Default established by or pursuant to a
resolution of the Board of Directors or one or more indentures
supplemental hereto as applicable to the Securities of such series.
If an Event of Default described in clause (a), (b), (c), (d) or (g) above (if
the Event of Default under clause (d) or (g) is with respect to fewer than all
series of Securities then Outstanding) occurs and is continuing, then, and in
each and every case, unless the principal of all of the Securities of such
series shall have already become due and payable, either the Trustee or the
Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of
such series then Outstanding hereunder (each such series 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 as may be specified in the terms of such series) of all Securities of
such
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series and the interest accrued thereon, if any, to be due and payable
immediately, and upon any such declaration the same shall become immediately due
and payable; provided that, in the case of the Securities of a series issued to
an IDACORP Trust, if, upon such an Event of Default, the Trustee or the Holders
of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that
series fail to declare the principal of all the Securities of that series to be
immediately due and payable, the holders of at least 25% in aggregate
Liquidation Amount (as defined in the related Trust Agreement) of the
corresponding series of Preferred Securities then outstanding shall have such
right by a notice in writing to the Company and the Trustee. Payment of
principal and interest on such Securities shall remain subordinated to the
extent provided in Article XVI notwithstanding that such amount shall become
immediately due and payable as herein provided. If an Event of Default described
in clause (d) or (g) above with respect to all series of Securities then
Outstanding occurs and is continuing, then and in each and every such case,
unless the principal of all the Securities shall have already become due and
payable, either the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate
principal amount of all the Securities then Outstanding hereunder (treated as
one class), by notice in writing to the 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 the
interest accrued thereon, if any, to be due and payable immediately, and upon
any such declaration the same shall become immediately due and payable; provided
that, in the case of the Securities of a series issued to an IDACORP Trust, if,
upon such an Event of Default, the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25%
in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series fail to declare
the principal of all the Securities of that series to be immediately due and
payable, the holders of at least 25% in aggregate Liquidation Amount (as defined
in the related Trust Agreement) of the corresponding series of Preferred
Securities then outstanding shall have such right by a notice in writing to the
Company and the Trustee. Payment of principal and interest on such Securities
shall remain subordinated to the extent provided in Article XVI notwithstanding
that such amount shall become immediately due and payable as herein provided. If
any Event of Default described in clause (e) or (f) occurs and is continuing,
all the Securities then Outstanding and the interest accrued thereon, if any,
shall immediately become due and payable without declaration, presentment,
demand or notice of any kind by the Trustee or any Holder of Securities
Outstanding hereunder.
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
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case may be) shall have been so declared or become 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, if any, upon all the Securities of such series (or upon all the
Securities, as the case may be) and the principal of (and premium, if any, on)
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 premium, if any, and, to the extent that payment of such
interest is enforceable under applicable law, on overdue installments of
interest, at the Overdue Rate applicable to such series to the date of such
payment or deposit) and all amounts payable to the Trustee pursuant to the
provisions of Section 7.6, 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 if any and all Events
of Default under the Indenture, other than the nonpayment of the principal of
and accrued interest on Securities of such series 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 the Securities of such series (each series voting as a
separate class), or of all the Securities (voting as a single class), as the
case may be, then Outstanding, by written notice to the Issuer and to the
Trustee, may waive all defaults with respect to that series (or with respect to
all the Securities, as the case may be) and rescind and annul such acceleration
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. In the case of Securities issued to an IDACORP Trust,
holders of a majority in aggregate Liquidation Amount (as defined in the related
Trust Agreement) of the related series of Preferred Securities issued by such
IDACORP Trust shall also have the right to rescind and annul such declaration
and its consequences by written notice to the Issuer and to the Trustee, subject
to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in this paragraph.
For all purposes under this Indenture, if a portion of the
principal of any Original Issue Discount Security shall have been accelerated
and declared or become due and payable pursuant to the provisions hereof, then,
from and after such acceleration, unless such acceleration has been rescinded
and annulled, the principal amount of such Original Issue Discount Security
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
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all other amounts owing thereunder, shall constitute payment in full of such
Original Issue Discount Security.
SECTION 6.2. 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 installment 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 or any premium, if
any, on any Securities of any series when the same shall have become due and
payable, whether upon Stated Maturity of the Securities of such series or upon
any redemption or by acceleration or otherwise or (c) in case of default in the
making or satisfaction of any sinking fund payment or analogous obligation when
the same becomes due by the terms of the Securities of any series -- then upon
demand of the Trustee for such series, the Issuer will pay to the Trustee for
the benefit of the Holder of any such Security (or Holders of any such series of
Securities in the case of clause (c) above) the whole amount that then shall
have become due and payable on any such Security (or Securities of any such
series in the case of clause (c) above) for the principal, premium, if any, and
interest, if any, with interest upon the overdue principal and premium, if any,
and, so far as payment of the same is enforceable under applicable law, on
overdue installments of interest, at the Overdue Rate applicable to any such
Security (or Securities of any such series in the case of clause (c)); and, in
addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs
and expenses of collection, and any further amounts payable to the Trustee, its
agents and counsel pursuant to the provisions of Section 7.6.
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 any action or proceedings at
law or in equity for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, and may
prosecute any such action or proceedings to judgment or final decree, and may
enforce any such judgment or final decree against the Issuer or other obligor
upon such Securities (or Securities of any such series in case of clause (c))
and collect in the manner provided by law out of the property of the Issuer or
other obligor upon such Securities (or Securities of any such series in case of
clause (c)), wherever situated, the moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable.
The Trustee shall be entitled and empowered, either in its own
name as trustee of an express trust, or as attorney-in-fact for the Holders of
any of the Securities, or in both such capacities, to file such proof of debt,
amendment of proof of debt, claim, petition or other document as may be
necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee and of the
Holders of Securities allowed in any equity receivership,
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insolvency, bankruptcy, liquidation, readjustment, reorganization or other
similar proceedings, or any judicial proceedings, relative to the Company or any
other obligor on the Securities or its creditors or its property. The Trustee is
hereby irrevocably appointed (and the successive respective Holders of the
Securities, by taking and holding the same, shall be conclusively deemed to have
so appointed the Trustee) the true and lawful attorney-in-fact of the respective
Holders of the Securities, with authority to make or file in the respective
names of the Holders of the Securities any proof of debt, amendment of proof of
debt, claim, petition or other document in any such proceedings and to receive
payment of any sums becoming distributable on account thereof, and to execute
any other papers and documents and do and perform any and all acts and things
for and on behalf of such Holders of the Securities as may be necessary or
advisable in the opinion of the Trustee in order to have the respective claims
of the Holders of the Securities against the Issuer or any other obligor on the
Securities and/or its property allowed in any such proceedings, and to receive
payment of or on account of such claims; provided, however, that nothing herein
contained shall be deemed to authorize or empower the Trustee to consent to or
accept or adopt, on behalf of any Holder of Securities, any plan of
reorganization or readjustment of the Issuer or any other obligor on the
Securities or, by other action of any character in any such proceeding, to waive
or change in any way any right of any Holder of any Security, even though it may
otherwise be entitled so to do under any present or future law, all such power
or authorization being hereby expressly denied.
All rights of action and of asserting claims under this
Indenture or under any of the Securities may be enforced by the Trustee without
the possession of any of the Securities or the production thereof in 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 and compensation of the Trustee, each predecessor
Trustee and their respective agents and attorneys, shall be for the ratable
benefit of the holders of the Securities 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 of which such action was taken, and it
shall not be necessary to make any Holders of such Securities parties to any
such proceedings.
SECTION 6.3. Application of Proceeds. Any moneys
collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article in respect of
any series of the Securities, together with any other sums held
by the Trustee (as such) hereunder (other than sums held in
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trust for the benefit of the Holders of particular Securities), 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 account of principal, upon presentation
(except in respect of Subdivision First below) of the several Securities in
respect of which moneys 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 moneys 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 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 7.6;
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), so far as it may be
enforceable under applicable law, upon the overdue installments of
interest at the Overdue Rate applicable to such series, 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 premium, if any, and interest, if any, with interest upon the
overdue principal and premium, if any, and (to the extent that such
interest has been collected by the Trustee), so far as payment of the
same is enforceable under applicable law, upon overdue installments of
interest, if any, at the Overdue Rate applicable to 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, premium, if any, and interest, if any,
without preference or priority of principal and premium, if any, over
interest, or of interest, if any, over principal and premium, if any,
or of any installment of interest over any other installment of
interest, or of any Security of such series over any other Security of
such series, ratably to the aggregate of such
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principal, premium, if any, and accrued and unpaid interest, if any;
and
FOURTH: To the payment of the remainder, if any, to the Issuer
or as a court of competent jurisdiction may direct.
SECTION 6.4. Suits for Enforcement. In case an Event of
Default with respect to Securities of any series 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 6.5. Restoration of Rights on Abandonment of
Proceedings. In case the Trustee or any Holder 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 or such Holder, then and in every such case (subject to the binding
effect of any determination made in such proceedings) the Issuer and the Trustee
shall be restored severally and respectively to their former positions and
rights hereunder, and (subject as aforesaid) all rights, remedies and powers of
the Issuer, the Trustee and the Holders shall continue as though no such
proceedings had been taken.
SECTION 6.6. Limitations on Suits by Securityholders. No
Holder of any Security of any series shall have any right by virtue or by
availing of any provision of this Indenture to institute an action or proceeding
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 trustee, receiver, liquidator,
custodian or other similar official or for any other remedy hereunder, unless
such Xxxxxx previously shall have given to the Trustee written notice 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 proceeding 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 6.9; it being
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understood and intended, and being expressly covenanted by the taker and Holder
of every Security with every other taker and Holder of any Security and with the
Trustee, that no one or more Holders of Securities of any series shall have any
right in any manner whatever by virtue or by availing of any provision of this
Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other Holder of
Securities, 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 such series. For the protection and enforcement of the
provisions of this Section, each and every Holder of Securities of any series
and the Trustee shall be entitled to such relief as can be given either at law
or in equity.
SECTION 6.7. Unconditional Right of Securityholders to
Institute Certain Suits. Nothing contained in this Indenture or in the
Securities of any series shall affect or impair the obligation of the Issuer,
which is unconditional and absolute, to pay the principal of, and premium, if
any, and interest, if any, on, the Securities of such series at the respective
places, at the respective times, at the respective rates, in the respective
amounts and in the coin or currency therein and herein prescribed, or affect or
impair the right of action, which is also absolute and unconditional, of any
Holder of any Security to institute suit to enforce such payment at the
respective due dates expressed in such Security, or upon redemption, by
declaration, repayment or otherwise as herein provided without reference to, or
the consent of, the Trustee or the Holder of any other Security, unless such
Holder consents thereto. In the case of Securities of a series issued to an
IDACORP Trust, any holder of the corresponding series of Preferred Securities
issued by such IDACORP Trust shall have the right to institute a suit directly
against the Issuer for enforcement of payment to such holder of principal of and
premium, if any, and interest on the Securities having a principal amount equal
to the aggregate Liquidation Amount (as defined in the Trust Agreement under
which such IDACORP Trust is formed) of such Preferred Securities of the
corresponding series held by such holder.
SECTION 6.8. Powers and Remedies Cumulative; Delay or Omission
Not Waiver of Default. Except as provided in Section 6.6, no right or remedy
herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Holder of any
Security is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every
right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in
addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter
existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any
right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent
assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.
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No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any
Security of any series 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 6.6, every power and remedy given
by this Indenture or by law to the Trustee or to the Holder of any Security may
be exercised from time to time, and as often as shall be deemed expedient, by
the Trustee or by the Holder of such Security.
SECTION 6.9. Control by Holders of Securities. 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 provisions of Section 7.1) 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
expose the Trustee to personal liability or if the Trustee in good faith shall
so determine that the actions or forebearances 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 7.1) the Trustee shall
have no duty to ascertain whether or not such actions or forebearances are
unduly prejudicial to such Holders.
As between the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities,
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 6.10. Waiver of Past Defaults. Prior to the
acceleration with respect to Securities of any series as provided in Section
6.1, the Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of
the Securities of such series at the time Outstanding and, in the case of any
Securities of a series issued to an IDACORP Trust, the holders of not less than
a majority in aggregate Liquidation Amount (as defined in the related Trust
Agreement) of the Preferred Securities issued by such IDACORP Trust, may on
behalf of the Holders of all the Securities of such series waive any past
default or Event of
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Default described in clause (d) or (g) of Section 6.1 which relates to fewer
than all series of Securities then Outstanding, and the Holders of a majority in
aggregate principal amount of the Securities then Outstanding affected thereby
(each series voting as a separate class) may waive any such default or Event of
Default, or, in the case of an event specified in clause (d) or (g) (if the
Event of Default under clause (d) or (g) relates to all series of Securities
then Outstanding) of Section 6.1, the Holders of a majority in aggregate
principal amount of all the Securities then Outstanding (voting as one class)
may waive any such default or Event of Default, 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, 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 6.11. Trustee to Give Notice of Default, But May
Withhold in Certain Circumstances. The Trustee shall transmit to the
Securityholders of any series, as the names and addresses of such Holders appear
on the Security Register, notice by mail of all defaults known to a responsible
officer of the Trustee which have occurred with respect to such series, such
notice to be transmitted within 90 days after the occurrence thereof, 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 premium, if any, or interest, if any, 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 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.
SECTION 6.12. Right of Court to Require Filing of Undertaking
to Pay Costs. The parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any
Security by his acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any
court may in its discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement of any
right or remedy under this Indenture or in any suit against the Trustee for any
action taken, 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
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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 of such series Outstanding, or, in the case of any suit relating to
or arising under clause (d) or (g) of Section 6.1 (if the suit relates to
Securities of more than one but fewer than all series), 10% in aggregate
principal amount of Securities Outstanding affected thereby, or, in the case of
any suit relating to or arising under clause (d), (g) (if the suit under clause
(d) or (g) relates to all the Securities then Outstanding), (e) or (f) of
Section 6.1, 10% in aggregate principal amount of all Securities Outstanding, or
to any suit instituted by any Holder of Securities for the enforcement of the
payment of the principal of, or premium, if any, or interest, if any, on, any
Security on or after the due date expressed in such Security.
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ARTICLE VII.
CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 7.1. 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 that series and after the curing or
waiving 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 wilful misconduct, except that
(a) prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default with
respect to the Securities of such 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 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
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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 of Securities pursuant to Section 6.9 relating
to the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any
remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power
conferred upon the Trustee, under this Indenture.
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 it shall have reasonable grounds for
believing that the repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such
liability is not reasonably assured to it.
SECTION 7.2. Certain Rights of the Trustee. Subject to
Section 7.1:
(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 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 (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 any 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 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 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;
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(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 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
affected 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; and
(g) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers
hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or
through agents or attorneys 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.
SECTION 7.3. Trustee Not Responsible for Recitals, Disposition
of Securities or Application of Proceeds Thereof. The recitals contained herein
and in the Securities, except the 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. 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 7.4. Trustee and Agents May Hold Securities;
Collections, etc. The Trustee, any Paying Agent, Securities Registrar,
Authenticating Agent or any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee, in its
individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities
with the same rights it would have if it were not the Trustee or such agent,
and, subject to Sections 7.8 and 7.13, 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
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Trustee, Paying Agent, Securities Registrar, Authenticating
Agent or such agent.
SECTION 7.5. Moneys Held by Trustee. Subject to the provisions
of Section 4.4, 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. The Trustee shall have no liability for
interest on money it receives and holds in trust except as specifically provided
herein.
SECTION 7.6. Compensation and Indemnification of Trustee and
Its Prior Claim. The Issuer covenants and agrees to pay the Trustee from time to
time, and the Trustee shall be entitled to such compensation as the Issuer and
the Trustee may from time to time agree in writing for all services rendered by
the Trustee hereunder (which compensation shall not be limited by any provision
of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust) and the
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 hold it harmless against, any
loss, liability, damage, claims or expense, including taxes (other than taxes
measured by the income of the Trustee or otherwise applicable to the Trustee for
operations outside the scope of this Indenture) 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 the performance of
its duties hereunder, including the costs and expenses of defending itself
against or investigating any claim of liability in connection with the exercise
or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder. 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 lien prior to that of the
Securities 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.
SECTION 7.7. Right of Trustee to Rely on Officers'
Certificate, etc. Subject to Sections 7.1 and 7.2, whenever in the
administration of the trusts of this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it
necessary or desirable that a matter be proved or
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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 good faith thereof.
SECTION 7.8. Qualification of Trustee; Conflicting Interests.
The Trustee for the Securities of any series issued hereunder shall be subject
to the provisions of Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act during the period
of time provided for therein. In determining whether the Trustee has a
conflicting interest as defined in Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act
with respect to the Securities of any series, there shall be excluded this
Indenture with respect to Securities of any particular series of Securities
other than that series. Nothing herein shall prevent the Trustee from filing
with the Commission the application referred to in the penultimate paragraph of
Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act.
SECTION 7.9. Persons Eligible for Appointment as
Trustee. There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder for
each series of Securities, which shall be at all times either
(i) a corporation organized and doing business under
the laws of the United States of America or of any State or
territory or the District of Columbia, authorized under such
laws to exercise corporate trust powers and subject to
supervision or examination by Federal, State, territory or
District of Columbia authority, or
(ii) a corporation or other person organized and
doing business under the laws of a foreign government that is
permitted to act as Trustee pursuant to a rule, regulation or
order of the Commission, authorized under such laws to
exercise corporate trust powers, and subject to supervision or
examination by authority of such foreign government or a
political subdivision thereof substantially equivalent to
supervision or examination applicable to United States
institutional trustees,
in either case having a combined capital and surplus of at least $100,000,000.
If such corporation publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant
to law or to requirements of the aforesaid supervising or examining authority,
then for the purposes of this Section 7.9, the combined capital and surplus of
such corporation shall be deemed to be its combined
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capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so
published. If at any time the Trustee for the Securities of any series shall
cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section 7.9, it
shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified
in this Article. Neither the Issuer nor any person directly or indirectly
controlling, controlled by, or under common control with the Issuer shall serve
as Trustee for the Securities of any series issued hereunder.
SECTION 7.10. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of
Successor Trustee. (a) The Trustee, or any trustee or trustees hereafter
appointed, may at any time resign by giving written notice of resignation to the
Issuer and by mailing notice thereof by first-class mail to Holders of the
Securities at their last addresses as they shall appear on the Security
Register. Upon receiving such notice of resignation, the Issuer shall promptly
appoint a successor trustee or trustees 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 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 for at least six
months may, subject to the provisions of Section 6.12, 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 after written request
therefor by the Issuer or by any Securityholder who has been a bona
fide Holder of a Security or Securities for at least six months unless
the Trustee's duty to resign is stayed in accordance with the
provisions of Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act; or
(ii) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance
with the provisions of Section 7.9 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, 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
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control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for
the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation;
then, in any case, the Issuer may remove the Trustee and appoint a successor
trustee 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 6.12, any Securityholder who has been a bona fide Holder
of a Security or Securities for at least six months may, on behalf of himself
and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction
for the removal of the Trustee and the appointment of a successor trustee. Such
court may thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it may deem proper and
prescribe, remove the Trustee and appoint a successor trustee.
(iv) The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount
of the Securities at the time Outstanding may at any time remove the Trustee and
appoint a successor trustee by delivering to the Trustee so removed, to the
successor trustee so appointed and to the Issuer the evidence provided for in
Section 8.1 of the action in that regard taken by the Securityholders.
(v) No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no
appointment of a successor trustee pursuant to any of the provisions of this
Section 7.10 shall become effective until acceptance of appointment by the
successor trustee as provided in Section 7.11.
SECTION 7.11. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor Trustee.
Any successor trustee appointed as provided in Section 7.10 shall execute,
acknowledge 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 shall become effective and such successor
trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with
all rights, powers, duties and obligations of its predecessor hereunder, with
like effect as if originally named as trustee hereunder; but nevertheless, on
the written request of the Issuer or of the successor trustee, upon payment of
all amounts due to the Trustee under Section 7.6, the Trustee ceasing to act
shall, subject to Section 4.4, 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 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 lien upon all property or
funds held or collected by
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such trustee to secure any amounts then due it pursuant to the provisions of
Section 7.6.
No successor trustee shall accept appointment as provided in
this Section 7.11 unless at the time of such acceptance such successor trustee
shall be qualified under the provisions of Section 7.8 and eligible under the
provisions of Section 7.9.
Upon acceptance of appointment by any successor trustee as
provided in this Section 7.11, the Issuer shall mail notice thereof by
first-class mail to the Holders of Securities at their last addresses as they
shall appear on the Security Register. If the acceptance of appointment is
substantially contemporaneous with the resignation, then the notice called for
by the preceding sentence may be combined with the notice called for by Section
7.10. If the Issuer fails to mail such notice within 10 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 7.12. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession
to Business of Trustee. Any corporation in 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 substantially all of the corporate trust
business of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the trustee hereunder,
provided that such corporation shall be qualified under the provisions of
Section 7.8 and eligible under the provisions of Section 7.9, without the
execution or filing of any paper or any further act (including the giving of any
notice to Securityholders) 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 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 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 or in this
Indenture provided for the certificate of authentication of the Trustee.
SECTION 7.13. Preferential Collection of Claims Against the
Issuer. (a) Subject to the provisions of this Section, if the Trustee shall be
or shall become a creditor, directly or indirectly, secured or unsecured, of the
Issuer or any other obligor of the Securities within three months prior to
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a default, as defined in subsection (c) of this Section, or subsequent to such a
default, then, unless and until such default shall be cured, the Trustee shall
set apart and hold in a special account for the benefit of the Trustee
individually, the Holders of the Securities and the holders of other indenture
securities (as defined in this Section):
(1) an amount equal to any and all reductions in the amount
due and owing upon any claim as such creditor in respect of principal
or interest, effected after the beginning of such three months' period
and valid as against the Issuer and its other creditors, except any
such reduction resulting from the receipt or disposition of any
property described in subsection (a)(2) of this Section, or from the
exercise of any right of set-off which the Trustee could have exercised
if a petition in bankruptcy had been filed by or against the Issuer
upon the date of such default; and
(2) all property received by the Trustee in respect of any
claim as such creditor, either as security therefor, or in satisfaction
or composition thereof, or otherwise, after the beginning of such three
months' period, or an amount equal to the proceeds of any such
property, if disposed of, subject, however, to the rights, if any, of
the Issuer and its other creditors in such property or such proceeds.
Nothing herein contained, however, shall affect the right of
the Trustee:
(A) to retain for its own account (i) payments made on account
of any such claim by any person (other than Issuer) who is liable
thereon, (ii) the proceeds of a bona fide sale of any such claim by the
Trustee to a third person, and (iii) distributions made in cash,
securities or other property in respect of claims filed against the
Issuer in bankruptcy or receivership or in the proceedings for
reorganization pursuant to the Federal Bankruptcy Code or applicable
state law;
(B) to realize, for its own account, upon any property held by
it as security for any such claim, if such property was so held prior
to the beginning of such three months' period;
(C) to realize, for its own account, but only to the extent of
the claim hereinafter mentioned, upon any property held by it as
security for any such claim, if such claim was created after the
beginning of such three months' period and such property was received
as security therefor simultaneously with the creation thereof, and if
the Trustee shall sustain the burden of proving that at the time such
property was so received the Trustee has no
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reasonable cause to believe that a default as defined by subsection (c)
of this Section would occur within three months; or
(D) to receive payment on any claim referred to in paragraph
(B) or (C), against the release of any property held as security for
such claim as provided in such paragraph (B) or (C), as the case may
be, to the extent of the fair value of such property.
For the purposes of paragraphs (B), (C) and (D), property
substituted after the beginning of such three months' period for property held
as security at the time of such substitution shall, to the extent of the fair
value of the property released, have the same status as the property released,
and, to the extent that any claim referred to in any of such paragraphs is
created in renewal of or in substitution for or for the purpose of repaying or
refunding any pre-existing claim of the Trustee as such creditor, such claim
shall have the same status as such pre-existing claim.
If the Trustee shall be required to account, the funds and
property held in such special account and the proceeds thereof shall be
apportioned between the Trustee, the Holders of the Securities and the holders
of other indenture securities in such manner that the Trustee, such Holders and
the holders of other indenture securities realize, as a result of payments from
such special account and payments of dividends on claims filed against the
Issuer in bankruptcy or receivership or in proceedings for reorganization
pursuant to the Federal Bankruptcy Code or applicable State law, the same
percentage of their respective claims, figured before crediting to the claim of
the Trustee anything on account of the receipt by it from the Issuer of the
funds and property in such special account and before crediting to the
respective claims of the Trustee, Holders of the Securities and the holders of
other indenture securities dividends on claims filed against the Issuer in
bankruptcy or receivership or in proceedings for reorganization pursuant to the
Federal Bankruptcy Code or applicable State law, but after crediting thereon
receipts on account of the indebtedness represented by their respective claims
from all sources other than from such dividends and from the funds and property
so held in such special account. As used in this paragraph, with respect to any
claim, the term "dividends" shall include any distribution with respect to such
claim, in bankruptcy or receivership or in proceedings for reorganization
pursuant to the Federal Bankruptcy Code or applicable State law, whether such
distribution is made in cash, securities or other property, but shall not
include any such distribution with respect to the secured portion, if any, of
such claim. The court in which such bankruptcy, receivership or proceeding for
reorganization is pending shall have jurisdiction (i) to apportion between the
Trustee, the Holders of Securities and the holders of other indenture
securities, in accordance with the
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provisions of this paragraph, the funds and property held in such special
account and the proceeds thereof, or (ii) in lieu of such apportionment, in
whole or in part, to give to the provisions of this paragraph due consideration
in determining the fairness of the distributions to be made to the Trustee, the
Holders of Securities and the holders of other indenture securities with respect
to their respective claims, in which event it shall not be necessary to
liquidate or to appraise the value of any securities or other property held in
such special account or as security for any such claim, or to make a specific
allocation of such distribution as between the secured and unsecured portions of
such claims, or otherwise to apply the provisions of this paragraph as a
mathematical formula.
Any Trustee who has resigned or been removed after the
beginning of such three months' period shall be subject to the provisions of
this subsection (a) as though such resignation or removal had not occurred. If
any Trustee has resigned or been removed prior to the beginning of such three
months' period, it shall be subject to the provisions of this subsection (a) if
and only if the following conditions exist:
(i) the receipt of property or reduction of claim which would
have given rise to the obligation to account, if such Trustee had
continued as trustee, occurred after the beginning of such three
months' period; and
(ii) such receipt of property or reduction of claim occurred
within three months after such resignation or removal.
(b) There shall be excluded from the operation of this Section a
creditor relationship arising from
(1) the ownership or acquisition of securities issued under
any indenture, or any security or securities having a maturity of one
year or more at the time of acquisition by the Trustee;
(2) advances authorized by a receivership or bankruptcy court
of competent jurisdiction or by this Indenture for the purpose of
preserving any property which shall at any time be subject to the lien
of this Indenture or of discharging tax liens or other prior liens or
encumbrances thereon, if notice of such advance and of the
circumstances surrounding the making thereof is given to the Holders of
the applicable series of Securities at the time and in the manner
provided in this Indenture;
(3) disbursements made in the ordinary course of business in
the capacity of trustee under an indenture, transfer agent, registrar,
custodian, paying agent, fiscal agent or depositary, or other similar
capacity;
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(4) an indebtedness created as a result of services rendered
or premises rented or an indebtedness created as a result of goods or
securities sold in a cash transaction as defined in subsection (c)(3)
of this Section;
(5) the ownership of stock or of some other securities of a
corporation organized under the provisions of Section 25(a) of the
Federal Reserve Act, as amended, which is directly or indirectly a
creditor of the Issuer; or
(6) the acquisition, ownership, acceptance or negotiation of
any drafts, bills of exchange, acceptances or obligations which fall
within the classification of self-liquidating paper as defined in
subsection (c)(4) of this Section.
(c) As used in this Section:
(1) the term "default" shall mean any failure to make payment
in full of the principal of or interest upon any of the Securities of
the applicable series or upon the other indenture securities when and
as such principal or interest becomes due and payable;
(2) the term "other indenture securities" shall mean
securities upon which the Issuer is an obligor (as defined in the Trust
Indenture Act) outstanding under any other indenture (i) under which
the Trustee is also trustee, (ii) which contains provisions
substantially similar to the provisions of subsection (a) of this
Section, and (iii) under which a default exists at the time of the
apportionment of the funds and property held in said special account;
(3) the term "cash transaction" shall mean any transaction in
which full payment for goods or securities sold is made within seven
days after delivery of the goods or securities in currency or in checks
or other orders drawn upon banks or bankers and payable upon demand;
(4) the term "self-liquidating paper" shall mean any draft,
bill of exchange, acceptance or obligation which is made, drawn,
negotiated or incurred by the Issuer for the purpose of financing the
purchase, processing, manufacture, shipment, storage or sale of goods,
wares or merchandise and which is secured by documents evidencing title
to, possession of, or a lien upon the goods, wares or merchandise or
the receivables or proceeds arising from the sale of goods, wares or
merchandise previously constituting the security, provided that the
security is received by the Trustee simultaneously with the creation of
the creditor relationship with the Issuer arising from the making,
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drawing, negotiating or incurring of the draft, bill of exchange,
acceptance or obligation; and
(5) the term "Issuer" shall mean any obligor upon the
Securities.
SECTION 7.14. Authenticating Agent. So long as any Securities
remain Outstanding, if the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee is not located
in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, or otherwise upon an Issuer
Request, there shall be an authenticating agent (the "Authenticating Agent")
appointed, for such period as the Issuer shall elect, by the Trustee to act as
its agent on its behalf and subject to its direction in connection with the
authentication and delivery of Securities. Securities authenticated by such
Authenticating Agent shall be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture and
shall be valid and obligatory for all purposes as if authenticated by such
Trustee. Wherever reference is made in this Indenture to the authentication and
delivery of Securities by the Trustee or to the Trustee's Certificate of
Authentication, such reference shall be deemed to include authentication and
delivery on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent and a Certificate
of Authentication executed on behalf of such Trustee by such Authenticating
Agent. Such Authenticating Agent shall at all times be a corporation organized
and doing business under the laws of the United States of America or of any
State or of the District of Columbia, authorized under such laws to exercise
corporate trust powers, having a combined capital and surplus of at least
$20,000,000 and subject to supervision or examination by Federal, State or
District of Columbia authority. If the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee is
not located in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, the
Authenticating Agent shall have its principal office and place of business in
the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York.
Any corporation into which any Authenticating Agent may be
merged or converted, or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation
resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which any
Authenticating Agent shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to the
corporate agency business of any Authenticating Agent, shall continue to be the
Authenticating Agent without the execution or filing of any paper or any further
act on the part of the Trustee or such Authenticating Agent.
Any Authenticating Agent may at any time, and if it shall
cease to be eligible shall, resign by giving written notice of resignation to
the Trustee and to the Issuer. The Trustee may at any time terminate the agency
of any Authenticating Agent by giving written notice of termination to such
Authenticating Agent and to the Issuer. Upon receiving such a notice of
resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at any time any
Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the
provisions of this Section 7.14,
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the Trustee shall upon Issuer Request appoint a successor Authenticating Agent,
and the Issuer shall provide notice of such appointment to all Holders of
Securities in the manner and to the extent provided in Section 13.4. Any
successor Authenticating Agent upon acceptance of its appointment hereunder
shall become vested with all rights, powers, duties and responsibilities of its
predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as Authenticating
Agent herein. The Issuer agrees to pay or to cause to be paid to the
Authenticating Agent from time to time reasonable compensation for its services.
The Authenticating Agent shall have no responsibility or liability for any
action taken by it as such in good faith at the direction of the Trustee.
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ARTICLE VIII.
CONCERNING THE HOLDERS OF SECURITIES
SECTION 8.1. Action by Holders. Whenever in this Indenture it
is provided that the Holders of a specified percentage in aggregate principal
amount of the Securities of any series may take any action (including the making
of any demand or request, the giving of any notice, consent or waiver or the
taking of any other action) the fact that at the time of taking any such action
the Holders of such specified percentage have joined therein may be evidenced
(a) by any instrument or any number of instruments of similar tenor executed by
Holders in person or by agent or proxy appointed in writing, or (b) by the
record of Holders voting in favor thereof at any meeting of such Holders duly
called and held in accordance with the provisions of Article IX, or (c) by a
combination of such instrument or instruments and any such record of such a
meeting of Holders. The Issuer may (but shall not be required to) set a record
date for purposes of determining the identity of Securityholders entitled to
vote or consent to any action by vote or consent authorized or permitted under
this Indenture, which record date shall be the later of 10 days prior to the
first solicitation of such consent or the date of the most recent list of
Holders furnished to the Trustee pursuant to Section 5.1 of this Indenture prior
to such solicitation. If a record date is fixed, those persons who were
Securityholders at such record date (or their duty designated proxies), and only
those persons, shall be entitled to take such action by vote or consent or to
revoke any vote or consent previously given, whether or not such persons
continue to be Holders after such record date. No such vote or consent shall be
valid or effective for more than 120 days after such record date.
SECTION 8.2. Proof of Execution of Instruments by Holders of
Securities. Subject to Sections 7.1, 7.2 and 9.5, the execution of any
instrument by a Holder of a Security or his agent or proxy may be proved in any
reasonable manner that the Trustee deems sufficient, including, without
limitation, in the following manner:
The fact and date of the execution by any such person of any
instrument may be proved by the certificate of any notary public or
other officer authorized to take acknowledgments of deeds, that the
person executing such instrument acknowledged to him the execution
thereof, or by an affidavit or written statement of a witness to such
execution. Where such execution is by an officer of a corporation or
association or a member of a partnership on behalf of such corporation,
association or partnership, as the case may be, or by any other person
acting in a representative capacity, such certificate, affidavit
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or written statement shall also constitute sufficient
proof of his authority.
The ownership of Securities shall be proved by the Securities
Register or by a certificate of the Securities Registrar.
The record of any Holders' meeting shall be proved in the
manner provided in Section 9.6.
SECTION 8.3. 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 as the
absolute owner of such Security (notwithstanding any notation of ownership or
other writing thereon) for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of, and
premium, if any, and (subject to Section 3.8) interest, if any, on, such
Security, and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Security be
overdue, and neither the Issuer, the Trustee nor any agent of the Issuer or the
Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary. All such payments so made
to any Holder for the time being, 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 such Security.
None of the Issuer, the Trustee or any agent of the Issuer or
the Trustee shall have any responsibility or liability for any aspect of the
records relating to or payments made on account of beneficial ownership interest
of a Global Security, or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records
relating to such beneficial ownership interest. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
with respect to any Global Security, nothing herein shall prevent the Issuer or
the Trustee or any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee from giving effect to any
written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by any Depository
(or its nominee), as a Holder, with respect to such Global Security or impair,
as between such Depository and owners of beneficial interests in such Global
Security, the operation of customary practices governing the exercise of the
right of such Depository (or its nominee) as holder of such Global Security.
SECTION 8.4. Securities Owned by Issuer Deemed Not
Outstanding. In determining whether the Holders of the requisite aggregate
principal amount of 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 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
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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 an Officers' Certificate 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 7.1 and
7.2, 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 8.5. Right of Revocation of Action Taken. At any time
prior to (but not after) the evidencing to the Trustee, as provided in Section
8.1, 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 number, letter or other distinguishing symbol of which is shown by
the evidence to be included in 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 or such other
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 IX.
HOLDERS' MEETINGS
SECTION 9.1. Purposes of Meetings. A meeting of Holders of
Securities of any or all series may be called at any time and from time to time
pursuant to the provisions of this Article for any of the following purposes:
(1) to give any notice to the Issuer or to the Trustee for the
Securities of such series, or to give any directions to the Trustee, or
to consent to the waiving of any default hereunder and its
consequences, or to take any other action authorized to be taken by
Holders pursuant to any of the provisions of Article VI;
(2) to remove the Trustee and nominate a successor Trustee
pursuant to the provisions of Article VII;
(3) to consent to the execution of an indenture or indentures
supplemental hereto pursuant to the provisions of Section 10.2; or
(4) to take any other action authorized to be taken by or on
behalf of the Holders of any specified aggregate principal amount of
the Securities of any one or more or all series, as the case may be,
under any other provision of this Indenture or under applicable law.
SECTION 9.2. Call of Meetings by Trustee. The Trustee may at
any time call a meeting of Holders of Securities to take any action specified in
Section 9.1, to be held at such time and at such place in the Borough of
Manhattan, The City of New York, or such other Place of Payment, as the Trustee
shall determine. Notice of every meeting of the Holders of Securities, setting
forth the time and the place of such meeting, and in general terms the action
proposed to be taken at such meeting, shall be given to Holders of Securities of
the particular series in the manner and to the extent provided in Section 13.4.
Such notice shall be given not less than 20 nor more than 90 days prior to the
date fixed for the meeting.
SECTION 9.3. Call of Meetings by Issuer or Holders. In case at
any time the Issuer, pursuant to a resolution of its Board of Directors, or the
Holders of at least 10% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of any or all series, as the case may be, shall have requested the
Trustee to call a meeting of Holders of Securities of any or all series, as the
case may be, by written request setting forth in reasonable detail the action
proposed to be taken at the meeting, and the Trustee for such series shall not
have given the notice of such meeting within 20 days after receipt of such
request, then the Issuer or such Holders may determine the time and the place in
the Borough of Manhattan or other Place of Payment for such
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meeting and may call such meeting to take any action authorized in Section 9.1,
by giving notice thereof as provided in Section 9.2.
SECTION 9.4. Qualifications for Voting. To be entitled to vote
at any meeting of Holders a person shall be (a) a Holder of one or more
outstanding Securities with respect to which such meeting is being held or (b) a
person appointed by an instrument in writing as proxy by such Xxxxxx. The only
persons who shall be entitled to be present or to speak at any meeting of
Holders shall be the persons entitled to vote at such meeting and their counsel
and any representatives of the Trustee and its counsel and any representatives
of the Issuer and its counsel.
SECTION 9.5. Regulations. Notwithstanding any other provisions
of this Indenture, the Trustee may make such reasonable regulations as it may
deem advisable for any meeting of Holders of the Securities in regard to proof
of the holding of Securities and of the appointment of proxies, and in regard to
the appointment and duties of inspectors of votes, the submission and
examination of proxies, certificates and other evidence of the right to vote,
and such other matters concerning the conduct of the meeting as it shall think
fit.
The Trustee shall, by an instrument in writing, appoint a
temporary chairman of the meeting, unless the meeting shall have been called by
the Issuer or by Holders of Securities as provided in Section 9.3, in which case
the Issuer or the Holders calling the meeting, as the case may be, shall in like
manner appoint a temporary chairman. A permanent chairman and a permanent
secretary of the meeting, shall be elected by majority vote of the meeting.
Subject to Section 8.4, at any meeting each Holder of
Securities with respect to which such meeting is being held or proxy therefor
shall be entitled to one vote for each $1,000 principal amount (in the case of
Original Issue Discount Securities, such principal amount to be determined as
provided in the definition of "Outstanding") of Securities held or represented
by him; provided, however, that no vote shall be cast or counted at any meeting
in respect of any such Security challenged as not Outstanding and ruled by the
chairman of the meeting to be not Outstanding. The chairman of the meeting shall
have no right to vote other than by virtue of Securities held by him or
instruments in writing aforesaid duly designating him as the person to vote on
behalf of other Holders. At any meeting of Holders, the presence of persons
holding or representing Securities with respect to which such meeting is being
held in an aggregate principal amount sufficient to take action on the business
for the transaction of which such meeting was called shall constitute a quorum,
but, if less than a quorum is present, the persons holding or representing a
majority in aggregate principal amount of such Securities represented at the
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meeting may adjourn such meeting with the same effect, for all intents and
purposes, as though a quorum had been present. Any meeting of Holders of
Securities with respect to which a meeting was duly called pursuant to the
provisions of Section 9.2 or Section 9.3 may be adjourned from time to time by
persons holding or representing a majority in aggregate principal amount of such
Securities represented at the meeting, present, whether or not constituting a
quorum, and the meeting may be held as so adjourned without further notice.
SECTION 9.6. Voting. The vote upon any resolution submitted to
any meeting of Holders of Securities with respect to which such meeting is being
held shall be by written ballots on which shall be subscribed the signatures of
such Holders or of their representatives by proxy and the serial number or
numbers of the Securities held or represented by them. The permanent chairman of
the meeting shall appoint two inspectors of votes who shall count all votes cast
at the meeting for or against any resolution and who shall make and file with
the secretary of the meeting their verified written reports in duplicate of all
votes cast at the meeting. A record in duplicate of the proceedings of each
meeting of holders shall be prepared by the secretary of the meeting and there
shall be attached to said record the original reports of the inspectors of votes
on any vote by ballot taken thereat and affidavits by one or more persons having
knowledge of the facts setting forth a copy of the notice of the meeting and
showing that said notice was mailed as provided in Section 9.2. The record shall
show the serial numbers of the Securities voting in favor of or against any
resolution. The record shall be signed and verified by the affidavits of the
permanent chairman and secretary of the meeting and one of the duplicates shall
be delivered to the Issuer and the other to the Trustee to be preserved by the
Trustee.
Any record so signed and verified shall be conclusive evidence
of the matters therein stated.
SECTION 9.7. No Delay of Rights by Reason of Meeting. Nothing
in this Article contained shall be deemed or construed to authorize or permit,
by reason of any call of a meeting of Holders or any rights expressly or
impliedly conferred hereunder to make such call, any hindrance or delay in the
exercise of any right or rights conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to
the Holders under any of the provisions of this Indenture or of the Securities
of any series.
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ARTICLE X.
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
SECTION 10.1. 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 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 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
under this Indenture and the Securities;
(c) to add to the covenants of the Issuer such further
covenants, restrictions, conditions or provisions as its Board of
Directors shall consider to be for the protection of the Holders of any
series of Securities, and to make 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 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 materially adversely affect the
interests of the Holders of any Securities;
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(e) to establish the form or terms of Securities of any series
as permitted by Section 3.1;
(f) to provide for the issuance under this Indenture of
Securities in coupon form (including Securities registrable as to
principal only), to provide for interchangeability thereof with
Securities in registered form of the same series and to make all
appropriate changes for such purpose, or to permit or facilitate the
issuance of Securities of any series in uncertificated form;
(g) to provide for the issuance under this Indenture of
Securities denominated or payable in currency other than Dollars and to
make all appropriate changes for such purpose;
(h) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment
hereunder by a successor trustee with respect to the Securities,
pursuant to Section 7.11, or 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;
(i) to modify any restrictions on and procedures for resales
of Securities of any series that is not registered pursuant to the
Securities Act to reflect any change in applicable law or regulation
(or the interpretation thereof) or in practices relating to the resale
or transfer of restricted securities generally and to modify any
legends placed on such securities to reflect such restrictions and
procedures;
(j) to add to or change or eliminate any provision of this
Indenture as shall be necessary or desirable to conform to provisions
of the Trust Indenture Act as at the time in effect, provided that such
action shall not materially adversely affect the interests of the
Holders of the Securities of any series; and
(k) otherwise to change or eliminate any of the provisions of
this Indenture; provided, however, that any such change or elimination
may only be effected when no Outstanding Security of any series created
prior to the execution of such supplemental indenture is entitled to
the benefit of such provision.
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
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supplemental indenture which adversely 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 10.2.
SECTION 10.2. Supplemental Indentures With Consent of
Securityholders. With the consent (evidenced as provided in Article VIII) of the
Holders of not less than a majority 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 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; provided that no such supplemental
indenture shall (a) change the Stated Maturity of any Security of such series,
or reduce the principal amount thereof or the amount of any premium thereon, or
reduce the rate, extend the time of payment or change the method of calculation
of interest thereon, 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 with respect thereto pursuant to
Section 6.1 or the amount thereof provable in bankruptcy pursuant to Section
6.2, or impair or adversely 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 of such series so affected, or (b) reduce the aforesaid
percentage of the principal amount of Securities of such series, the consent of
the Holders of which is required for any such supplemental indenture or any
waiver of any obligations of the Issuer under this Indenture, without the
consent of the Holders of each Security of such series so affected; provided,
further, that, in the case of the Securities of a series issued to an IDACORP
Trust, so long as any of the corresponding series of Preferred Securities issued
by such IDACORP Trust remains outstanding, (i) no such amendment shall be made
that adversely affects the holders of such Preferred Securities in any material
respect, and no discharge of this Indenture shall occur, and no waiver of any
Event of Default or compliance with any covenant under this Indenture shall be
effective, without the prior consent of the holders of not less than a majority
of the aggregate Liquidation Amount (as defined in the related Trust Agreement)
of such Preferred Securities then outstanding unless and until the principal and
premium, if any, of the Securities
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of such series and all accrued and unpaid interest thereon have been paid in
full and (ii) no amendment shall be made to Section 6.7 of this Indenture that
would impair the rights of the holders of Preferred Securities provided therein
without the prior consent of the holders of each Preferred Security then
outstanding unless and until the principal (and premium, if any) of the
Securities of such series and all accrued and unpaid interest thereon have been
paid in full.
Upon the request of the Issuer, accompanied by a Board
Resolution 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 8.1, the Trustee
shall join with the Issuer in the execution of such supplemental indenture
unless such supplemental indenture adversely 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.
A supplemental indenture which changes or eliminates any
covenant or other provision of this Indenture which has expressly been included
solely for the benefit of one or more particular series of Securities or
Preferred Securities, or which modifies the rights of the Holders of Securities
of such series or holders of Preferred Securities of such series with respect to
such covenant or other provision, shall be deemed not to affect the rights under
this Indenture of the Holders of Securities or holders of Preferred Securities
of any other series.
SECTION 10.3. Notice of Supplemental Indenture. Promptly after
the execution by the Issuer and the Trustee of any supplemental indenture
pursuant to the provisions of Section 10.2, the Issuer shall mail a notice
thereof by first-class mail to the Holders of Securities of each series affected
thereby at their addresses as they shall appear on the Security Register,
setting forth in general terms the substance of such supplemental indenture. Any
failure of the Issuer to mail such notice, or any defect therein, shall not,
however, in any way impair or affect the validity of any such supplemental
indenture.
SECTION 10.4. Effect of Supplemental Indenture. Upon the
execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions of this
Article, this Indenture shall be and be deemed to be modified and amended in
accordance therewith, but only with regard to the Securities of each series
affected by such supplemental indenture, and the respective rights,
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limitations of rights, obligations, duties and immunities under this Indenture
of the Trustee, the Issuer and the Holders of any Securities of such 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 with regard to the Securities of such series.
SECTION 10.5. Documents To Be Given to Trustee. The Trustee,
subject to the provisions of Sections 7.1 and 7.2, shall receive an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel as conclusive evidence that any
supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article complies with the
applicable provisions of this Indenture.
SECTION 10.6. Notation on Securities in Respect of
Supplemental Indentures. Securities of any series affected by any supplemental
indenture which are authenticated and delivered after the execution of such
supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions of this Article may bear a
notation in form approved by the Issuer and the Trustee as to any matter
provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Issuer shall so determine,
new Securities of any series so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the
Issuer, 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.
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ARTICLE XI.
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER OR SALE
SECTION 11.1. Issuer May Consolidate, Merge or Sell on Certain
Terms. The Issuer will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to,
directly or indirectly, consolidate with, or merge into, or sell all or
substantially all of its assets to, any person, except that
(a) a Subsidiary may permit any person to be merged into such
Subsidiary, and such Subsidiary may consolidate with or merge into or
sell all or substantially all of its assets to the Issuer or another
Subsidiary or a person which thereupon becomes a Subsidiary;
(b) the Issuer may permit any person to be merged into the
Issuer or may, subject to Section 11.2, consolidate with or merge into,
or sell all or substantially all of its assets to, any solvent person
organized in the United States of America (substantially all of the
assets of which are located within the United States of America);
(c) the stock of a Subsidiary may be sold under circumstances
whereby all of the capital stock and debt of that Subsidiary owned by
the Issuer or another Subsidiary are being disposed of by the Issuer or
such other Subsidiary; or
(d) all or substantially all the assets of a Subsidiary may be
sold in a transaction approved by the Board of Directors of the Issuer;
provided that, immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Event of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing under this Indenture.
SECTION 11.2. Conditions to Consolidation or Merger, etc. The
Issuer covenants and agrees that it will not consolidate with or merge into any
other corporation, or sell all or substantially all of its assets, unless, and
the Issuer covenants and agrees that any such consolidation, merger or sale
shall be upon the condition that, the due and punctual payment of the principal
of, and premium, if any, and interest, if any, on, all the Securities of each
series according to their tenor, and the due and punctual performance and
observance of all the terms, covenants and conditions of this Indenture to be
performed or observed by the Issuer, shall, by a supplemental indenture hereto
pursuant to Section 10.1(b), be expressly assumed by the successor corporation,
if other than the Issuer, formed by or surviving any such consolidation or
merger or to which such sale, transfer or lease shall have been made, as
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fully and effectually as if such successor corporation had been an original
party to this Indenture.
Every such successor corporation, if other than the Issuer,
upon executing such supplemental indenture, in form satisfactory to the Trustee,
shall succeed to and be substituted for the Issuer with the same effect as if it
had been an original party hereto, and shall possess and from time to time may
exercise each and every power of the Issuer under this Indenture, and, in the
case of any such sale or transfer, the person named as the "Issuer" in the first
paragraph of this Indenture or any successor corporation which shall theretofore
have become such in the manner prescribed in this Article shall be released from
its liability hereunder and as obligor on all the Securities. Such successor
corporation thereupon may execute and deliver Securities under this Indenture,
either in the name of the Issuer (unless the Issuer shall have been released
from its liability hereunder and as obligor on the Securities as provided in the
next preceding sentence) or of such successor corporation, and any act or
proceeding required by this Indenture to be done or performed by any board or
officer of the Issuer may be done or performed with like force and effect by the
comparable board or officer of such successor corporation. Such change in
phraseology and form (but not in substance) may be made in the Securities as may
be appropriate in view of such consolidation, merger, sale, transfer or lease.
All the Securities when issued by such successor corporation shall in all
respects have the same legal priority as the Securities theretofore or
thereafter authenticated, issued and delivered in accordance with the terms of
this Indenture.
SECTION 11.3. Documents and Opinion To Be Furnished to the
Trustee. The Issuer covenants and agrees that if it shall consolidate with or
merge into any other corporation, or if it shall sell all or substantially all
of its assets, the Issuer will promptly furnish to the Trustee:
(1) An Officers' Certificate stating that the conditions and
covenants of the Issuer contained in Section 11.2 have been complied
with;
(2) An executed counterpart of any instrument or instruments
executed by the Issuer in the performance of such conditions and
covenants; and
(3) An Opinion of Counsel stating that in the opinion of such
counsel such conditions and covenants have been complied with and that
any instrument or instruments executed by the Issuer in the performance
of such conditions and covenants comply with the requirements of such
conditions and covenants.
The Trustee shall receive an Opinion of Counsel as conclusive
evidence that any such consolidation, merger or sale,
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any such assumption and any such supplemental indenture comply with this
Article.
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ARTICLE XII.
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE;
UNCLAIMED MONEYS
SECTION 12.1. Satisfaction and Discharge of Securities of Any
Series. Except as otherwise provided for the Securities of any series
established pursuant to Section 3.1(16), the Issuer shall be deemed to have
satisfied and discharged this Indenture with respect to the entire indebtedness
on all the Outstanding Securities of any particular series, and the Trustee, at
the expense of the Issuer and upon Issuer Request, shall execute proper
instruments acknowledging such satisfaction and discharge, when
(1) either
(A) all Outstanding Securities of such series
theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than (i) any
Securities of such series which have been destroyed, lost or
stolen and which have been replaced or paid as provided in
Section 3.7 and (ii) Outstanding Securities of such series for
whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust or
segregated and held in trust by the Issuer and thereafter
repaid to the Issuer or discharged from such trust, as
provided in Section 12.5) have been delivered to the Trustee
for cancellation; or
(B) with respect to all Outstanding Securities of
such series described in sub-clause (A) above (other than the
Securities referred to in the parenthetical phrase thereof)
not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation:
(i) the Issuer has irrevocably deposited or
caused to be irrevocably deposited with the Trustee
as trust funds in trust an amount (except as
otherwise specified pursuant to Section 3.1 for the
Securities of such series) sufficient to pay and
discharge the entire indebtedness on all such
Outstanding Securities of such series for principal
(and premium, if any) and interest to the Stated
Maturity or any Redemption Date as contemplated by
Section 12.3, as the case may be; or
(ii) the Issuer has irrevocably deposited or
caused to be irrevocably deposited with the Trustee
as obligations in trust such amount of Government
Obligations as will, in a written opinion of
independent public accountants delivered to the
Trustee, together with the predetermined and certain
income to accrue
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thereon (without consideration of any reinvestment
thereof), be sufficient to pay and discharge when due
the entire indebtedness on all such Outstanding
Securities of such series for unpaid principal (and
premium, if any) and interest to the Stated Maturity
or any Redemption Date as contemplated by Section
12.3, as the case may be;
(2) the Issuer has paid or caused to be paid all other sums
payable with respect to the Outstanding Securities of such series
including all fees due to the Trustee under Section 7.6;
(3) the Issuer has delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions
precedent herein provided for relating to the due satisfaction and
discharge of this Indenture with respect to the entire indebtedness on
all Outstanding Securities of any such series have been complied with;
and
(4) if the Securities of such series are not to become due and
payable at their Stated Maturity within one year of the date of such
deposit or are not to be called for redemption within one year of the
date of such deposit under arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee as
of the date of such deposit, then the Issuer shall have given, not
later than the date of such deposit, notice of such deposit to the
Holders of the Securities of such series.
Upon the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in this
Section 12.1 with respect to all the Outstanding Securities of any series, the
terms and conditions with respect thereto set forth in this Indenture shall no
longer be binding upon, or applicable to, the Issuer; provided, however, that
the Issuer shall not be discharged from (a) any obligations under Sections 7.6
and 7.10 and (b) any obligations under Section 3.6 or 3.7 and Section 5.1; and
provided, further, that in the event a petition for relief under the federal
Bankruptcy Code or a successor statute is filed with respect to the Issuer
within 91 days after the deposit, this Indenture with respect to the entire
indebtedness on all Securities of such series shall not be discharged, and in
such event the Trustee shall return such deposited funds or obligations as it is
then holding to the Issuer upon Issuer Request.
SECTION 12.2. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture. Upon
compliance by the Issuer with the provisions of Section 12.1 as to the
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect to each series of
Securities issued hereunder and if the Issuer has paid or caused to be paid all
other sums payable under this Indenture, this Indenture shall cease to be of any
further effect (except as otherwise provided
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herein). Upon Issuer Request and receipt of an Opinion of Counsel and an
Officers' Certificate (and at the expense of the Issuer), the Trustee shall
execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this
Indenture.
Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this
Indenture, any obligations of the Issuer under Sections 3.6, 3.7, 5.1, 7.6 and
7.10 and the obligations of the Trustee under Section 12.3 shall survive.
SECTION 12.3. Application of Trust Money. All money and
obligations deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 12.1 shall be held
irrevocably in trust and shall be made under the terms of an escrow trust
agreement in form and substance satisfactory to the Issuer and the Trustee. Such
money and obligations shall be applied by the Trustee, in accordance with the
provisions of the Securities, this Indenture and such escrow trust agreement, to
the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Issuer
acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the persons
entitled thereto, of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest, if
any, on the Securities for the payment of which such money and obligations have
been deposited with the Trustee. If Securities of any series are to be redeemed
prior to their Stated Maturity, whether pursuant to any optional redemption
provisions or in accordance with any mandatory or optional sinking fund
requirement, the Issuer shall give the required notice of redemption or shall
make such arrangements as are satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of
notice of redemption by the Trustee in the name, and at the expense, of the
Issuer.
SECTION 12.4. 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 with respect to such series then held by
any Paying Agent (and not required for such satisfaction and discharge) 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 12.5. Return of Unclaimed Moneys Held by Trustee and
Paying Agent. Any moneys deposited with or paid to the Trustee or any Paying
Agent for the payment of the principal of, or premium, if any, or interest, if
any, on, Securities of any series and which shall not be applied but shall
remain unclaimed by the Holders of Securities of such series for two years after
the date upon which such payment shall have become due and payable, shall be
repaid to the Issuer by the Trustee on demand; and the Holder of any of such
Securities entitled to receive such payment shall thereafter look only to the
Issuer for the payment thereof; provided, however, that the Issuer or the
Trustee, before making any such repayment, shall at the expense of the Issuer
cause to be published once a week for two
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successive weeks (in each case on any day of the week) in an Authorized
Newspaper, or mail to each Holder, or both, a notice that said moneys have not
been so applied and that after a date named therein any unclaimed balance of
said moneys then remaining will be returned to the Issuer.
If the Trustee or Paying Agent is unable to apply any money in
accordance with Section 12.3 by reason of any order or judgment of any court or
governmental authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such
application, then the Company's obligations under this Indenture and the
Securities shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred
pursuant to Section 12.1 until such time as the Trustee or Paying Agent is
permitted to apply all such money in accordance with Section 12.3; provided,
however, that if the Company makes any payment of interest on or principal of
any Security following the reinstatement of its obligations, the Company shall
be subrogated to the rights of the Holders of such Securities to receive such
payment from the money held by the Trustee or Paying Agent.
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ARTICLE XIII.
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
SECTION 13.1. Incorporators, Stockholders, 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 because of any indebtedness evidenced thereby, shall be had against
any incorporator, as such, or against any past, present or future stockholder,
officer or director, as such, of the Issuer or of any successor, either directly
or through the Issuer or any 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 by the Holders thereof and as
part of the consideration for the issue of such Securities.
SECTION 13.2. Benefits of Indenture. Nothing in this Indenture
or in the Securities, expressed or implied, shall give or be construed to give
to any person, other than the parties hereto and their successors and the
Holders of the Securities, the holders of Senior Indebtedness to the extent
provided in Article XVI and the holders of the Preferred Securities to the
extent provided in Sections 6.1, 6.7, 6.10 and 10.2, 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 the Holders of the Securities.
SECTION 13.3. Successors and Assigns of Issuer Bound by
Indenture. All the covenants, stipulations, promises and agreements in this
Indenture contained by or on behalf of the Issuer shall bind its successors and
assigns, whether so expressed or not.
SECTION 13.4. Notices to Holders; Waiver. Where this Indenture
provides for notice to Holders of any event, such notice shall be sufficiently
given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed by
first class mail, postage prepaid, to such Holders as their names and addresses
appear on the Securities Register within the time prescribed. 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 on such
waiver. In any case where notice to Holders is given by mail, neither the
failure to mail such notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed to any
particular Holder, shall affect the sufficiency of
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such notice with respect to other Holders, and any notice which is mailed in the
manner herein provided shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given.
In case by reason of the suspension of publication of any Authorized Newspapers
or by reason of any other cause it shall be impracticable to publish any notice
to Holders otherwise required or permitted under this Indenture, then such
notification as shall be given with the approval of the Trustee shall constitute
sufficient notice to such Holders for every purpose hereunder.
SECTION 13.5. Addresses for Notices. 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 of any series on the
Issuer may be given or served by registered mail addressed (until another
address is filed by the Issuer with the Trustee) as follows: IDACORP, Inc.,
________________, Attention: ____________ (with a concurrent copy to the General
Counsel). Any notice, direction, request or demand by the Issuer or any Holders
of Securities of any series to or upon the Trustee shall be deemed to have been
sufficiently given or made, for all purposes, if received at the Corporate Trust
Office of such Trustee.
SECTION 13.6. 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 (including any covenants compliance with which
constitutes a condition 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 (including any
covenants compliance with which constitutes a condition 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
(other than annual certificates provided pursuant to Section 4.6) 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
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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 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 13.7. Separability Clause. In case any provision of
this Indenture or of the Securities shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable,
the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not
in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
SECTION 13.8. Legal Holidays. In any case where the date of
maturity of interest on or principal of (or premium, if any, on) the Securities
or the date fixed for redemption or repayment of any Security shall not be a
Business Day at any Place of Payment with respect to Securities of that series,
then (notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture or of the Security)
payment of such interest on or principal of (or premium, if any, on) the
Securities of such series need not be made on such date in such Place of Payment
but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day in such Place of Payment
with the same force and effect as if made on the date of maturity or the date
fixed for redemption or repayment, as the case may be,
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and no interest shall accrue for the period from and after such date by reason
of such delayed payment.
SECTION 13.9. Conflict of Any Provision of Indenture with
Trust Indenture Act. If and to the extent that any provision of this Indenture
limits, qualifies or conflicts with a provision of the Trust Indenture Act that
is required under such Act to be a part of and govern this Indenture, the latter
provision shall control. If any provision of this Indenture modifies or excludes
any provision of the Trust Indenture Act that may be so modified or excluded,
the former provision shall control.
SECTION 13.10. Governing Law. This Indenture and each Security
shall be deemed to be a contract under the laws of the State of New York, and
for all purposes this Indenture shall be construed in accordance with the laws
of said State applicable to contracts made and to be wholly performed within
said State.
SECTION 13.11. Counterparts. This Indenture may be executed in
any number of counterparts, and on separate counterparts, each of which shall be
an original; but such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the
same instrument.
SECTION 13.12. Effect of Headings. The Article and Section
headings herein and the Table of Contents are for convenience only and shall not
affect the interpretation hereof.
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ARTICLE XIV.
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 14.1. Applicability of Article. The provisions of this
Article shall be applicable to the Securities of any series which are redeemable
before their stated Maturity or to any sinking fund for the retirement of
Securities of a series except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section
3.1 for Securities of such series. For purposes of Section 14.2, the redemption
of all Securities having the same terms within a series shall not be deemed to
be the redemption of fewer than all of the Securities of any series.
SECTION 14.2. Notice of Redemption; Selection of Securities.
In case the Issuer shall desire to exercise the right to redeem all or, as the
case may be, any part of the Securities of any series in accordance with their
terms, it shall fix a Redemption Date and shall provide notice of such
redemption at least 30 days prior to such Redemption Date to the Trustee and to
the Holders of Securities of such series so to be redeemed as a whole or in part
in the manner provided in Section 13.4. The notice provided in the manner herein
specified shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether or not
the Holder receives such notice. In any case, failure to give such notice 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.
Each such notice of redemption shall specify the Redemption
Date, the Redemption Price, the CUSIP or other comparable number, the Place or
Places of Payment, that the Securities of such series are being redeemed at the
option of the Issuer pursuant to provisions contained in the terms of the
Securities of such series or in a supplemental indenture establishing such
series, if such be the case, together with a brief statement of the facts
permitting such redemption, that payment will be made upon presentation and
surrender of the applicable Securities at the Place or Places of Payment, that
the Redemption Price and any interest accrued to the Redemption Date will be
paid as specified in said notice, and that on and after said Redemption Date any
interest thereon or on the portions thereof to be redeemed will cease to accrue,
and any information that is required to be included therein by the Depository.
If fewer than all the Securities of any series are to be redeemed the notice of
redemption shall specify the numbers of the Securities of such series to be
redeemed. In case any Security of any 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 Redemption Date, 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, or, in
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the case of Securities providing appropriate space for such notation, at the
option of the Holders the Trustee, in lieu of delivering a new Security or
Securities as aforesaid, may make a notation on such Security of the payment of
the redeemed portion thereof.
On or before the Redemption Date with respect to the
Securities of any series stated in the notice of redemption given as provided in
this Section 14.2, the Issuer will deposit with the Trustee or with one or more
Paying Agents an amount of money (except as otherwise specified as contemplated
by Section 3.1 for the Securities of such series) sufficient to redeem on such
Redemption Date all the Securities or portions thereof so called for redemption
at the applicable Redemption Price, together with accrued interest to such
Redemption Date. If the Issuer is acting as its own Paying Agent, it will
segregate such amount and hold it in trust as provided in Section 4.4.
If fewer than all the Securities of a series are to be
redeemed (including the redemption of fewer than all Securities having the same
terms within a series), the Issuer will give the Trustee written notice not less
than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date as to the aggregate principal amount
of Securities to be redeemed and the Trustee shall select, in such manner as in
its sole discretion it shall deem fair and appropriate, the Securities of such
series or portions thereof (in multiples of $1,000) to be redeemed.
The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company in writing of
the Securities selected for redemption and, in the case of any Securities
selected for partial redemption, the principal amount thereof to be redeemed.
SECTION 14.3. Payment of Securities Called for Redemption. If
notice of redemption has been given as above provided, the Securities or
portions of Securities of the series specified in such notice shall become due
and payable on the Redemption Date, and at the place or places stated in such
notice at the applicable Redemption Price, together with any interest accrued to
such Redemption Date, and on and after said Redemption Date (unless the Issuer
shall default in the payment of such Securities at the applicable Redemption
Price, together with any interest accrued to said Redemption Date) any interest
on the Securities or portion of Securities of any series so called for
redemption shall cease to accrue. On presentation and surrender of such
Securities at a Place of Payment in such notice specified, such Securities or
the specified portions thereof shall be paid and redeemed by the Issuer at the
applicable Redemption Price, together with any interest accrued thereon to the
applicable Redemption Date, except that if such Redemption Date is an Interest
Payment Date, interest shall be paid as provided in Section 3.8.
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Upon presentation of any Security redeemed in part only, the
Issuer shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for
delivery to or on the order of the Holder thereof, at the expense of the Issuer,
a new Security or Securities of such series, of authorized denominations, in
principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion of the Security so presented.
SECTION 14.4. 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 45 days prior to the last date on which notice
of redemption may be given as being owned 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 14.5. Right of Redemption of Securities Initialy
Issued to an IDACORP Trust. In the case of the Securities of a series initially
issued to an IDACORP Trust, if specified as contemplated by Section 3.1, the
Issuer, at its option, may redeem such Securities (i) on or after the date ten
years after the Original Issue Date of such Securities, in whole at any time or
in part from time to time, or (ii) upon the occurrence and during the
continuation of a Tax Event or Investment Company Event, prior to the date ten
years after the Original Issue Date of such Securities and within 90 days
following the occurrence of such Tax Event or Investment Company Event in
respect of such IDACORP Trust, in whole (but not in part), in each case at a
Redemption Price specified as contemplated by Section 3.1.
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ARTICLE XV.
SINKING FUNDS
SECTION 15.1. Applicability of Article. The provisions of this
Article shall be applicable to any sinking fund for the retirement of Securities
of a series except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.1 for
Securities of such series.
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".
SECTION 15.2. Satisfaction of Mandatory Sinking Fund Payment
with Securities. In lieu of making all or any part of any mandatory sinking fund
payment with respect to any Securities of a series in cash, the Issuer may at
its option, at any time but not less than 45 days prior to the date on which
such sinking fund payment is due, deliver to the Trustee Securities of such
series theretofore purchased or otherwise acquired by the Issuer, except
Securities of such series which have been redeemed through the application of
mandatory sinking fund payments pursuant to the terms of the Securities of such
series, accompanied by an Issuer Order instructing the Trustee to credit such
obligations and stating that the Securities of such series were originally
issued by the Issuer by way of bona fide sale or other negotiation for value;
provided that such Securities have not been previously so credited. Such
Securities shall be received and credited for such purpose by the Trustee at the
Redemption Price specified in such Securities for redemption through operation
of the mandatory sinking fund and the amount of such mandatory sinking fund
payment shall be reduced accordingly.
SECTION 15.3. Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund. Not
less than 60 days prior to each sinking fund payment date for any series of
Securities, the Issuer will deliver to the Trustee a certificate signed by a
Vice President, the Treasurer or any Assistant Treasurer of the Issuer
specifying the amount of the next ensuing sinking fund payment for such series
pursuant to the terms of such series, the portion thereof, if any, which is to
be satisfied by payment of cash and the portion thereof, if any, which is to be
satisfied by delivering and crediting Securities of such series pursuant to
Section 15.2 and whether the Issuer intends to exercise its rights to make a
permitted optional sinking fund payment with respect to such series. Such
certificate shall be irrevocable and upon its delivery the Issuer shall be
obligated to make the cash payment or payments therein referred to, if any, on
or before the next succeeding sinking fund payment date. In the
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case of the failure of the Issuer to deliver such certificate (or to deliver the
Securities, if any, specified in such certificate within the time period
specified in Section 15.2), unless otherwise agreed by the Trustee, the sinking
fund payment due on the next succeeding sinking fund payment date for such
series shall be paid entirely in cash and shall be sufficient to redeem the
principal amount of the Securities of such series subject to a mandatory sinking
fund payment without the right to deliver or credit Securities as provided in
Section 15.2 and without the right to make any optional sinking fund payment, if
any, with respect to such series.
Any sinking fund payment or payments (mandatory or optional)
made in cash plus any unused balance of any preceding sinking fund payments made
with respect to the Securities of any particular series shall be applied by the
Trustee (or by the Issuer if the Issuer is acting as its own Paying Agent) on
the sinking fund payment date on which such payment is made (or, if such payment
is made before a sinking fund payment date, on the sinking fund payment date
following the date of such payment) to the redemption of Securities of such
series at the Redemption Price specified in such Securities with respect to the
sinking fund together with accrued interest, if any, to the applicable
Redemption Date. Any sinking fund moneys not so applied or allocated by the
Trustee (or by the Issuer if the Issuer is acting as its own Paying Agent) to
the redemption of Securities shall be added to the next sinking fund payment
received by the Trustee (or if the Issuer is acting as its own Paying Agent,
segregated and held in trust as provided in Section 4.4) for such series and,
together with such payment (or such amount so segregated) shall be applied in
accordance with the provisions of this Section 15.3. Any and all sinking fund
moneys with respect to the Securities of any particular series held by the
Trustee (or if the Issuer is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregated and held
in trust as provided in Section 4.4) on the last sinking fund payment date with
respect to Securities of such series and not held for the payment or redemption
of particular Securities of such series shall be applied by the Trustee (or by
the Issuer if the Issuer is acting as its own Paying Agent), together with other
moneys, if necessary, to be deposited (or segregated) sufficient for the
purpose, to the payment of the principal of the Securities of such series at
Maturity.
The Trustee shall select or cause to be selected the
Securities to be redeemed upon such sinking fund payment date in the manner
specified in Section 14.2 and the Issuer shall cause notice of the redemption
thereof to be given in the manner provided in Section 14.2 except that the
notice of redemption shall also state that the Securities are being redeemed by
operation of the sinking fund and whether the sinking fund payment is mandatory
or optional, or both, as the case may be. Such notice having been duly given,
the redemption of the
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Securities shall be made upon the terms and in the manner stated in
Section 14.3.
On or before each sinking fund payment date, the Issuer shall
pay to the Trustee (or, if the Issuer is acting as its own Paying Agent, will
segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 4.4) in cash a sum equal to
the principal and any interest accrued to the Redemption Date for Securities or
portions thereof to be redeemed on such sinking fund payment date pursuant to
this Section.
Neither the Trustee nor the Issuer shall redeem any Securities
of a series with sinking fund moneys or mail any notice of redemption of
Securities of such series by operation of the sinking fund for such series
during the continuance of a default in payment of interest, if any, on any
Securities of such series or of any Event of Default (other than an Event of
Default occurring as a consequence of this paragraph) with respect to the
Securities of such series, except that if the notice of redemption shall have
been provided in accordance with the provisions hereof, the Trustee (or the
Issuer if the Issuer is acting as its own Paying Agent) shall redeem such
Securities if cash sufficient for that purpose shall be deposited with the
Trustee (or segregated by the Issuer) for that purpose in accordance with the
terms of this Article. 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 such sinking fund shall, during the
continuance of such default or Event of Default, be held as security for the
payment of the Securities of such series; provided, however, that in case such
Event of Default or default shall have been cured or waived as provided herein,
such moneys shall thereafter be applied on the next sinking fund payment date
for the Securities of such series on which such moneys may be applied pursuant
to the provisions of this Section.
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ARTICLE XVI.
SUBORDINATION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 16.1. Securities Subordinate to Senior Indebtedness.
The Issuer covenants and agrees, and each Holder of a Security, by its
acceptance thereof, likewise covenants and agrees, that, to the extent and in
the manner hereinafter set forth in this Article, the payment of the principal
of and premium, if any, and interest on each and all of the Securities are
hereby expressly made subordinate and subject in right of payment to the prior
payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness.
SECTION 16.2. No Payment When Senior Indebtedness in Default;
Payment Over of Proceeds Upon Dissolution, Etc. In the event that the Issuer
shall default in the payment of any principal of (or premium, if any) or
interest on any Senior Indebtedness when the same becomes due and payable,
whether at maturity or at a date fixed for prepayment or by declaration of
acceleration or otherwise, then, upon written notice of such default to the
Issuer by the holders of Senior Indebtedness or any trustee therefor, unless and
until such default shall have been cured or waived or shall have ceased to
exist, no direct or indirect payment (in cash, property, securities, by set-off
or otherwise) shall be made or agreed to be made on account of the principal of
(or premium, if any) or interest on any of the Securities, or in respect of any
redemption, repayment, retirement, purchase or other acquisition of any of the
Securities.
In the event of (a) any insolvency, bankruptcy, receivership,
liquidation, reorganization, readjustment, composition or other similar
proceedings relating to the Issuer, its creditors or its property, (b) any
proceeding for the liquidation, dissolution or other winding up of the Issuer,
voluntary or involuntary, whether or not involving insolvency or bankruptcy
proceedings, (c) any assignment by the Issuer for the benefit of creditors or
(d) any other marshalling of the assets of the Issuer (each such event, if any,
herein sometimes referred to as a "Proceeding"), all Senior Indebtedness
(including any interest thereon accruing after the commencement of any such
proceedings) shall first be paid in full before any payment or distribution,
whether in cash, securities or other property, shall be made to any Holder of
any of the Securities on account thereof. Any payment or distribution, whether
in cash, securities or other property (other than securities of the Issuer or
any other corporation provided for by a plan of reorganization or readjustment
the payment of which is subordinate, at least to the extent provided in these
subordination provisions with respect to the indebtedness evidenced by the
Securities, to the payment of all Senior Indebtedness at the time outstanding
and to any securities issued in respect thereof under any such plan of
reorganization or readjustment), which would otherwise (but for these
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subordination provisions) be payable or deliverable in respect of the Securities
of any series shall be paid or delivered directly to the holders of Senior
Indebtedness in accordance with the priorities then existing among such holders
until all Senior Indebtedness (including any interest thereon accruing after the
commencement of any Proceeding) shall have been paid in full.
In the event of any Proceeding, after payment in full of all
sums owing with respect to Senior Indebtedness, the Holders of the Securities,
together with the holders of any obligations of the Issuer ranking on a parity
with the Securities, shall be entitled to be paid from the remaining assets of
the Issuer the amounts at the time due and owing on account of unpaid principal
of and premium, if any, and interest on the Securities and such other
obligations before any payment or other distribution, whether in cash, property
or otherwise, shall be made on account of any capital stock or any obligations
of the Issuer ranking junior to the Securities and such other obligations. In
the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing, any payment or distribution of
any character or any security, whether in cash, securities or other property
(other than securities of the Issuer or any other corporation provided for by a
plan of reorganization or readjustment the payment of which is subordinate, at
least to the extent provided in these subordination provisions with respect to
the indebtedness evidenced by the Securities, to the payment of all Senior
Indebtedness at the time outstanding and to any securities issued in respect
thereof under any such plan of reorganization or readjustment), shall be
received by the Trustee or any Holder in contravention of any of the terms
hereof and before all Senior Indebtedness shall have been paid in full, such
payment or distribution or security shall be received in trust for the benefit
of, and shall be paid over or delivered and transferred to, the holders of the
Senior Indebtedness at the time outstanding in accordance with the priorities
then existing among such holders for application to the payment of all Senior
Indebtedness remaining unpaid, to the extent necessary to pay all such Senior
Indebtedness in full. In the event of the failure of the Trustee or any Holder
to endorse or assign any such payment, distribution or security, each holder of
Senior Indebtedness is hereby irrevocably authorized to endorse or assign the
same.
The Trustee and Holders will take such action (including,
without limitation, the delivery of this Indenture to an agent for the holders
of Senior Indebtedness or consent to the filing of a financing statement with
respect hereto) as may, in the opinion of counsel designated by the holders of a
majority in principal amount of the Senior Indebtedness at the time outstanding,
be necessary or appropriate to assure the effectiveness of the subordination
effected by these provisions.
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The provisions of this Section 16.2 shall not impair any
rights, interests, remedies or powers of any secured creditor of the Issuer in
respect of any security interest the creation of which is not prohibited by the
provisions of this Indenture.
The securing of any obligations of the Issuer, otherwise
ranking on a parity with the Securities or ranking Junior to the Securities,
shall not be deemed to prevent such obligations from constituting, respectively,
obligations ranking on a parity with the Securities or ranking junior to the
Securities.
SECTION 16.3. Payment Permitted If No Default. Nothing
contained in this Article or elsewhere in this Indenture, or in any of the
Securities, shall prevent (a) the Issuer at any time, except during the
conditions described in the first paragraph of Section 16.2 or the pendency of
any Proceeding referred to in Section 16.2, from making payments at any time of
principal of and premium, if any, or interest on the Securities, or (b) the
application by the Trustee of any moneys deposited with it hereunder to the
payment of or on account of the principal of and premium, if any, or interest on
the Securities or the retention of such payment by the Holders, if, at the time
of such application by the Trustee, it did not have knowledge that such payment
would have been prohibited by the provisions of this Article.
SECTION 16.4. Subrogation to Rights of Holders of Senior
Indebtedness. Subject to the payment in full of all amounts due or to become due
on all Senior Indebtedness, or the provision for such payment in cash or cash
equivalents or otherwise in a manner satisfactory to the holders of Senior
Indebtedness, the Holders of the Securities shall be subrogated to the extent of
the payments or distributions made to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness
pursuant to the provisions of this Article (equally and ratably with the holders
of all indebtedness of the Issuer which by its express terms is subordinated to
Senior Indebtedness of the Issuer to substantially the same extent as the
Securities are subordinated to the Senior Indebtedness and is entitled to like
rights of subrogation by reason of any payments or distributions made to holders
of such Senior Indebtedness) to the rights of the holders of such Senior
Indebtedness to receive payments and distributions of cash, property and
securities applicable to the Senior Indebtedness until the principal of and
premium, if any, and interest on the Securities shall be paid in full. For
purposes of such subrogation, no payments or distributions to the holders of the
Senior Indebtedness of any cash, property or securities to which the Holders of
the Securities or the Trustee would be entitled except for the provisions of
this Article, and no payments over pursuant to the provisions of this Article to
the holders of Senior Indebtedness by Holders of the Securities or the Trustee,
shall, as among the Issuer, its creditors other
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than holders of Senior Indebtedness, and the Holders of the Securities, be
deemed to be a payment or distribution by the Issuer to or on account of the
Senior Indebtedness.
SECTION 16.5. Provisions Solely to Define Relative Rights. The
provisions of this Article are and are intended solely for the purpose of
defining the relative rights of the Holders of the Securities on the one hand
and the holders of Senior Indebtedness on the other hand. Nothing contained in
this Article or elsewhere in this Indenture or in the Securities is intended to
or shall (a) impair, as between the Issuer and the Holders of the Securities,
the obligations of the Issuer, which are absolute and unconditional, to pay to
the Holders of the Securities the principal of and premium, if any, and interest
on the Securities as and when the same shall become due and payable in
accordance with their terms; or (b) affect the relative rights against the
Issuer of the Holders of the Securities and creditors of the Issuer other than
their rights in relation to the holders of Senior Indebtedness; or (c) prevent
the Trustee or the Holder of any Security from exercising all remedies otherwise
permitted by applicable law upon default under this Indenture including, without
limitation, filing and voting claims in any Proceeding, subject to the rights,
if any, under this Article of the holders of Senior Indebtedness to receive
cash, property and securities otherwise payable or deliverable to the Trustee or
such Holder.
SECTION 16.6. Trustee to Effectuate Subordination. Each Holder
of a Security by his or her acceptance thereof authorizes and directs the
Trustee on his or her behalf to take such action as may be necessary or
appropriate to acknowledge or effectuate the subordination provided in this
Article and appoints the Trustee his or her attorney-in-fact for any and all
such purposes.
SECTION 16.7. No Waiver of Subordination Provisions. No right
of any present or future holder of any Senior Indebtedness to enforce
subordination as herein provided shall at any time in any way be prejudiced or
impaired by any act or failure to act on the part of the Issuer or by any act or
failure to act, in good faith, by any such holder, or by any noncompliance by
the Issuer with the terms, provisions and covenants of this Indenture,
regardless of any knowledge thereof that any such holder may have or be
otherwise charged with.
Without in any way limiting the generality of the immediately
preceding paragraph, the holders of Senior Indebtedness may, at any time and
from to time, without the consent of or notice to the Trustee or the Holders of
the Securities, without incurring responsibility to the Holders of the
Securities and without impairing or releasing the subordination provided in this
Article or the obligations hereunder of the Holders of the Securities to the
holders of Senior Indebtedness, do any one or more of the following:
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(i) change the manner, place or terms of payment or extend the time of payment
of, or renew or alter, Senior Indebtedness, or otherwise amend or supplement in
any manner Senior Indebtedness or any instrument evidencing the same or any
agreement under which Senior Indebtedness is outstanding; (ii) sell, exchange,
release or otherwise deal with any property pledged, mortgaged or otherwise
securing Senior Indebtedness; (iii) release any Person liable in any manner for
the collection of Senior Indebtedness; and (iv) exercise or refrain from
exercising any rights against the Issuer and any other Person.
SECTION 16.8. Notice to Trustee. The Issuer shall give prompt
written notice to the Trustee of any fact known to the Issuer which would
prohibit the making of any payment to or by the Trustee in respect of the
Securities. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Article or any other
provision of this Indenture, the Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of
the existence of any facts which would prohibit the making of any payment to or
by the Trustee in respect of the Securities, unless and until the Trustee shall
have received written notice thereof from the Issuer or a holder of Senior
Indebtedness or from any trustee, agent or representative therefor; provided,
however, that if the Trustee shall not have received the notice provided for in
this Section at least two Business Days prior to the date upon which by the
terms hereof any monies may become payable for any purpose (including, without
limitation, the payment of the principal of and premium, if any or interest on
any Security), then, anything herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding,
the Trustee shall have full power and authority to receive such monies and to
apply the same to the purpose for which they were received and shall not be
affected by any notice to the contrary which may be received by it within two
Business Days prior to such date.
Subject to the provisions of Section 7.1, the Trustee shall be
entitled to rely on the delivery to it of a written notice by a Person
representing himself to be a holder of Senior Indebtedness (or a trustee or
attorney-in-fact therefor) to establish that such notice has been given by a
holder of Senior Indebtedness (or a trustee or attorney-in-fact therefor). In
the event that the Trustee determines in good faith that further evidence is
required with respect to the right of any Person as a holder of Senior
Indebtedness to participate in any payment or distribution pursuant to this
Article, the Trustee may request such Person to furnish evidence to the
reasonable satisfaction of the Trustee as to the amount of Senior Indebtedness
held by such Person, the extent to which such Person is entitled to participate
in such payment or distribution and any other facts pertinent to the rights of
such Person under this Article, and if such evidence is not furnished, the
Trustee may defer any payment to such Person pending judicial determination as
to the right of such Person to receive such payment.
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SECTION 16.9. Reliance on Judicial Order or Certificate of
Liquidating Agent. Upon any payment or distribution of assets of the Issuer
referred to in this Article, the Trustee, subject to the provisions of Section
7.1, and the Holders of the Securities shall be entitled to rely upon any order
or decree entered by any court of competent jurisdiction in which such
Proceeding is pending, or a certificate of the trustee in bankruptcy, receiver,
liquidating trustee, custodian, assignee for the benefit of creditors, agent or
other Person making such payment or distribution, delivered to the Trustee or to
the Holders of Securities, for the purpose of ascertaining the Persons entitled
to participate in such payment or distribution, the holders of the Senior
Indebtedness and other indebtedness of the Issuer, the amount thereof or payable
thereon, the amount or amounts paid or distributed thereon and all other facts
pertinent thereto or to this Article.
SECTION 16.10. Trustee Not Fiduciary for Holders of Senior
Indebtedness. The Trustee, in its capacity as trustee under this Indenture,
shall not be deemed to owe any fiduciary duty to the holders of Senior
Indebtedness and shall not be liable to any such holders if it shall in good
faith mistakenly pay over or distribute to Holders of Securities or to the
Issuer or to any other Person cash, property or securities to which any holders
of Senior Indebtedness shall be entitled by virtue of this Article or otherwise.
SECTION 16.11. Rights of Trustee as Holder of Senior
Indebtedness; Preservation of Trustee's Rights. The Trustee in its individual
capacity shall be entitled to all the rights set forth in this Article with
respect to any Senior Indebtedness which may at any time be held by it, to the
same extent as any other holder of Senior Indebtedness, and nothing in this
Indenture shall deprive the Trustee of any of its rights as such holder.
SECTION 16.12. Article Applicable to Paying Agents. In case at
any time any Paying Agent other than the Trustee shall have been appointed by
the Issuer and be then acting hereunder, the term "Trustee" as used in this
Article shall in such case (unless the context otherwise requires) be construed
as extending to and including such Paying Agent within its meaning as fully for
all intents and purposes as if such Paying Agent were named in this Article in
addition to or in place of the Trustee.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this
Indenture to be duly executed, and their respective seals to be hereunto affixed
and attested.
IDACORP, INC.
By
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Name:
Title:
[Seal]
Attest:
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Name:
Title:
BANKERS TRUST COMPANY
By
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Name:
Title:
[Seal]
Attest:
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Name:
Title:
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STATE OF _______________ )
) ss.
COUNTY OF ______________ )
At ____________________, on this ____ day of September 199__,
before me, a Notary Public in and for the County of ______________ and State of
______________, personally appeared ______________________________ and
_____________________, the ___________________ and ___________, respectively, of
IDACORP, Inc., each to me personally known, who respectively executed, and
affixed and attested the corporate seal on, the foregoing instrument on behalf
of said corporation, and severally acknowledged the same to be their free act
and deed in their said capacities and the free act and deed of IDACORP, Inc.
NOTARIAL SEAL
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Notary Public
My Commission Expires:
STATE OF NEW YORK )
) ss.
NEW YORK COUNTY )
At The City of New York, on this ____ day of September 199__,
before me, a Notary Public in and for the County and State of New York,
personally appeared _________________________ and ____________________, the
_____________________ and __________________, respectively, of Bankers Trust
___, to me personally known, who respectively executed, and affixed and attested
the corporate seal on, the foregoing instrument on behalf of said corporation,
and severally acknowledged the same to be their free act and deed in their said
capacities and the free act and deed of Bankers Trust ____.
NOTARIAL SEAL
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Notary Public
My Commission Expires:
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