EXHIBIT 4.2
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TRUST AGREEMENT
BETWEEN
THE CIT GROUP SECURITIZATION CORPORATION II
SELLER
AND
FIRST OMNI BANK, N.A.
OWNER TRUSTEE
DATED AS OF NOVEMBER 1, 1997
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE........................................................... 1
SECTION 1.1 Definitions................................................................................. 1
ARTICLE II ORGANIZATION....................................................................................... 1
SECTION 2.1 Name...................................................................................... 1
SECTION 2.2 Office ................................................................................... 1
SECTION 2.3 Purposes and Powers....................................................................... 1
SECTION 2.4 Appointment of Owner Trustee.............................................................. 2
SECTION 2.5 Initial Capital Contribution of Owner Trust Estate........................................ 2
SECTION 2.6 Declaration of Trust...................................................................... 2
SECTION 2.7 Transfer of Interest to The CIT GP Corporation III........................................ 2
SECTION 2.8 Title to Trust Property................................................................... 3
SECTION 2.9 Situs of Trust............................................................................ 3
SECTION 2.10 Representations and Warranties of the Seller.............................................. 3
SECTION 2.11 Representations and Warranties of the Holder of the AO Interest........................... 4
SECTION 2.12 Tax Treatment............................................................................. 4
ARTICLE III THE CERTIFICATES................................................................................. 7
SECTION 3.1 Initial Certificate Ownership............................................................. 7
SECTION 3.2 Form of the Certificates.................................................................. 7
SECTION 3.3 Execution, Authentication and Delivery.................................................... 7
SECTION 3.4 Registration; Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates....................... 8
SECTION 3.5 Mutilated; Destroyed; Lost or Stolen Certificates......................................... 9
SECTION 3.6 Persons Deemed Certificateholders......................................................... 9
SECTION 3.7 Access to List of Certificateholders' Names and Addresses................................. 10
SECTION 3.8 Maintenance of Corporate Trust Office..................................................... 10
SECTION 3.9 Appointment of Paying Agent............................................................... 10
SECTION 3.10 Seller as Certificateholder............................................................... 11
ARTICLE IV ACTIONS BY OWNER TRUSTEE......................................................................... 12
SECTION 4.1 Prior Notice to Certificateholders with Respect to Certain Matters........................ 12
SECTION 4.2 Action by Certificateholders with Respect to Certain Matters.............................. 12
SECTION 4.3 Action by Certificateholders with Respect to Bankruptcy................................... 13
SECTION 4.4 Restrictions on Certificateholders' Power................................................. 13
SECTION 4.5 Majority Control.......................................................................... 13
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ARTICLE V APPLICATION OF TRUST FUNDS; CERTAIN DUTIES........................................................... 14
SECTION 5.1 Establishment of Accounts................................................................. 14
SECTION 5.2 Application of Trust Funds................................................................ 14
SECTION 5.3 Method of Payment......................................................................... 15
SECTION 5.4 Accounting and Reports to the Certificateholders. The Internal Revenue Service and Others 15
SECTION 5.5 Signature on Returns; Tax Matters Partner................................................. 15
ARTICLE VI THE OWNER TRUSTEE................................................................................... 17
SECTION 6.1 Duties of Owner Trustee................................................................... 17
SECTION 6.2 Rights of Owner Trustee................................................................... 18
SECTION 6.3 Acceptance of Trusts and Duties........................................................... 18
SECTION 6.4 Action Upon Instruction by Certificateholders............................................. 20
SECTION 6.5 Furnishing of Documents................................................................... 20
SECTION 6.6 Representations and Warranties of Owner Trustee........................................... 20
SECTION 6.7 Reliance; Advice of Counsel............................................................... 21
SECTION 6.8 Owner Trustee May Own Certificates and Notes.............................................. 22
SECTION 6.9 Compensation and Indemnity................................................................ 22
SECTION 6.10 Replacement of Owner Trustee.............................................................. 22
SECTION 6.11 Merger or Consolidation of Owner Trustee.................................................. 23
SECTION 6.12 Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee............................................. 23
SECTION 6.13 Eligibility Requirements for Owner Trustee................................................ 25
ARTICLE VII TERMINATION OF TRUST AGREEMENT..................................................................... 26
SECTION 7.1 Termination of Trust Agreement............................................................ 26
ARTICLE VIII AMENDMENTS....................................................................................... 28
SECTION 8.1 Amendments Without Consent of Certificateholders or Noteholders........................... 28
SECTION 8.2 Amendments With Consent of Certificateholders and Noteholders............................. 28
SECTION 8.3 Form of Amendments........................................................................ 29
ARTICLE IX MISCELLANEOUS.................................................................................... 30
SECTION 9.1 No Legal Title to Owner Trust Estate...................................................... 30
SECTION 9.2 Limitations on Rights of Others........................................................... 30
SECTION 9.3 Notices................................................................................... 30
SECTION 9.4 Severability.............................................................................. 30
SECTION 9.5 Counterparts.............................................................................. 31
SECTION 9.6 Successors and Assigns.................................................................... 31
SECTION 9.7 No Petition Covenant...................................................................... 31
SECTION 9.8 No Recourse............................................................................... 31
SECTION 9.9 Headings.................................................................................. 31
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SECTION 9.10 Governing Law............................................................................. 31
SECTION 9.11 Certificate Transfer Restrictions......................................................... 32
SECTION 9.12 Indemnification by the Servicer........................................................... 32
Exhibit A 6.800% Asset-Backed Certificate
Exhibit B Certificate of Trust
Exhibit C Certificate Transferee Letter
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TRUST AGREEMENT, dated as of November 1, 1997, between THE CIT GROUP
SECURITIZATION CORPORATION II, a Delaware corporation, as Seller, and FIRST OMNI
BANK, N.A., a national banking association formed under the laws of the United
States with its principal place of business in the State of Delaware, as Owner
Trustee.
The Seller and the Owner Trustee hereby agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
SECTION 1.1 Definitions. Certain capitalized terms used in this
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Agreement shall have the respective meanings assigned to them in the Sale and
Servicing Agreement of even date herewith, among the Seller, the Servicer and
the Trust (the "Sale and Servicing Agreement"). All references herein to "the
Agreement" or "this Agreement" are to the Trust Agreement, and all references
herein to Articles, Sections and subsections are to Articles, Sections and
subsections of this Agreement unless otherwise specified.
ARTICLE II
ORGANIZATION
SECTION 2.1 Name. The Trust created hereby shall be known as "CIT RV
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Trust 1997-A" in which name the Owner Trustee may conduct the business of the
Trust, make and execute contracts and other instruments on behalf of the Trust
and xxx and be sued on behalf of the Trust.
SECTION 2.2 Office. The office of the Trust shall be in care of the
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Owner Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office or at such other address as the
Owner Trustee may designate by written notice to the Certificateholders and the
Seller.
SECTION 2.3 Purposes and Powers. The purpose of the Trust is to
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engage in the following activities:
(i) to issue the Notes pursuant to the Indenture and the Certificates
pursuant to this Agreement, and to sell, transfer or exchange the Notes
and the Certificates;
(ii) with the proceeds of the sale of the Notes and the Certificates to pay
the organizational, start-up and transactional expenses of the Trust and
to pay the balance of the proceeds to the Seller pursuant to the Sale and
Servicing Agreement;
(iii) to acquire, manage and hold the Contracts;
(iv) to assign, grant, transfer, pledge, mortgage and convey the Trust Estate
pursuant to the terms of the Indenture and to hold, manage and distribute
to the Certificateholders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement and the
Sale and Servicing
Agreement any portion of the Trust Estate released from the lien of, and
remitted to the Trust pursuant to, the Indenture;
(v) to enter into and perform its obligations and exercise its rights
under the Basic Documents to which it is to be a party;
(vi) to engage in those activities, including entering into agreements,
that are necessary, suitable or convenient to accomplish the foregoing or
are incidental thereto or connected therewith;
(vii) to hold and administer the Certificate Distribution Account and
apply the proceeds thereof as provided in the Sale and Servicing
Agreement; and
(viii) subject to compliance with the Basic Documents, to engage in such
other activities as may be required in connection with conservation of the
Owner Trust Estate and the making of distributions to the
Certificateholders and the Noteholders.
The Trust is hereby authorized to engage in the foregoing activities and
shall not engage in any activity other than in connection with the foregoing or
other than as required or authorized by the terms of this Agreement or the Basic
Documents.
SECTION 2.4 Appointment of Owner Trustee. The Seller hereby appoints the
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Owner Trustee as trustee of the Trust effective as of the date hereof, to have
all the rights, powers and duties set forth herein.
SECTION 2.5 Initial Capital Contribution of Owner Trust Estate. The
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Seller hereby sells, assigns, transfers, conveys and sets over to the Owner
Trustee, as of the date hereof, the sum of $10. The Owner Trustee hereby
acknowledges receipt in trust from the Seller, as of the date hereof, of the
foregoing contribution, which shall constitute the initial Owner Trust Estate
and shall be deposited in the Certificate Distribution Account.
SECTION 2.6 Declaration of Trust. The Owner Trustee hereby declares that
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it shall hold the Owner Trust Estate in trust upon and subject to the conditions
set forth herein for the use and benefit of the Certificateholders, subject to
the obligations of the Trust under the Basic Documents. It is the intention of
the parties hereto that the Trust constitute a business trust under the Business
Trust Statute and that this Agreement constitute the governing instrument of
such business trust. It is the intention of the parties hereto that, solely for
purposes of federal income taxes, state and local income and franchise taxes and
any other taxes imposed upon, measured by, or based upon gross or net income,
the Trust shall be treated as a partnership. The parties agree that, unless
otherwise required by appropriate tax authorities, the Trust shall file or cause
to be filed annual or other necessary returns, reports and other forms
consistent with the characterization of the Trust as a partnership for such tax
purposes. Effective as of the date hereof, the Owner Trustee shall have all
rights, powers and duties set forth herein and in the Business Trust Statute
with respect to accomplishing the purposes of the Trust.
SECTION 2.7 Transfer of Interest to The CIT GP Corporation III
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(a) On the Closing Date, the Seller shall and does hereby transfer and
assign its entire interest in the Trust (including the AO Interest but excluding
the Certificates sold on the Closing Date to the underwriters) to CIT through
the issuance of a dividend and The CIT GP Corporation III acknowledges receipt
of such interest in the Trust (including the AO Interest) from CIT as a capital
contribution. The holder of the AO Interest shall pay organizational expenses of
the Trust as they may arise or shall, upon the request of the Owner Trustee,
promptly reimburse the Owner Trustee for any such expenses paid by the Owner
Trustee. The obligations of the holder of the AO Interest under this subsection
2.7(a) shall be evidenced by the Certificates issued to the holder of the AO
Interest, which for purposes of the Business Trust Statute shall be deemed to be
a separate class of Certificates from all other Certificates issued by the
Trust.
(b) No Certificateholder, other than to the extent set forth in
subsection 2.7(a) with respect to the holder of the AO Interest, shall have any
personal liability for any liability or obligation of the Trust.
(c) No Certificateholder, including the holder of the AO Interest,
shall have the right to exercise any control of the Trust other than to the
extent of its percentage ownership of the Certificates as provided herein.
SECTION 2.8 Title to Trust Property. Legal title to all the Owner Trust
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Estate shall be vested at all times in the Trust as a separate legal entity
except where applicable law in any jurisdiction requires title to any part of
the Owner Trust Estate to be vested in a trustee or trustees, in which case
title shall be deemed to be vested in the Owner Trustee, a co-trustee and/or a
separate trustee, as the case may be, for the benefit of the Trust.
SECTION 2.9 Situs of Trust. The Trust shall be located in the State of
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Delaware.
SECTION 2.10 Representations and Warranties of the Seller. The Seller
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hereby represents and warrants to the Owner Trustee, as of the Closing Date,
that:
(a) The Seller has been organized and is validly existing as a
corporation in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware, with power
and authority to own its properties and conduct its business as such properties
are presently owned and such business is presently conducted and had at all
relevant times, and now has, power, authority and legal right to acquire and own
the Contracts.
(b) The Seller is duly qualified to do business as a foreign
corporation in good standing, and has obtained all necessary licenses and
approvals, in all jurisdictions in which the ownership or lease of property or
the conduct of its business requires such qualifications.
(c) The Seller has the power and authority to execute and deliver this
Agreement and to carry out its terms, the Seller has full power and authority to
sell and assign the property to be sold and assigned to and deposited with, as
part of, the Trust and the Seller has duly authorized such sale and assignment
to the Trust by all necessary corporate action; and the
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execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement have been duly authorized
by the Seller by all necessary corporate action.
(d) The consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement
and the fulfillment of the terms of this Agreement do not conflict with, result
in any breach of any of the terms and provisions of or constitute (with or
without notice or lapse of time) a default under its certificate of
incorporation or by-laws of the Seller, or any indenture, agreement or other
instrument to which the Seller is a party or by which it is bound, or result in
the creation or imposition of any Lien upon any of its properties pursuant to
the terms of any such indenture, agreement or other instrument (other than
pursuant to or as contemplated by the Basic Documents), or violate any law or,
to the best of its knowledge, any order, rule or regulation applicable to the
Seller of any court or of any federal or state regulatory body, administrative
agency or other governmental instrumentality having jurisdiction over the Seller
or any of its properties.
SECTION 2.11 Representations and Warranties of the Holder of the AO
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Interest. The CIT GP Corporation III, as intended holder of the AO Interest,
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hereby represents and warrants to the Owner Trustee, as of the Closing Date,
that:
(a) It has been duly organized and is validly existing as a corporation
in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware, with power and
authority to own its properties and to conduct its business as such properties
are presently owned and such business is presently conducted.
(b) It is duly qualified to do business as a foreign corporation in
good standing, and has obtained all necessary licenses and approvals in all
jurisdictions in which the ownership or lease of property or the conduct of its
business requires such qualifications.
(c) It has the power and authority to execute and deliver this
Agreement and to carry out its terms and the execution, delivery and performance
of this Agreement has been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action.
(d) The consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement
and the fulfillment of the terms of this Agreement do not conflict with, result
in any breach of any of the terms and provisions of or constitute (with or
without notice or lapse of time) a default under its certificate of
incorporation or by-laws, or any indenture, agreement or other instrument to
which it is a party or by which it is bound, or result in the creation or
imposition of any Lien upon any of its properties pursuant to the terms of any
such indenture, agreement or other instrument (other than pursuant to or as
contemplated by the Basic Documents), or violate any law or, to the best of its
knowledge, any order, rule or regulation applicable to the Seller of any court
or of any federal or state regulatory body, administrative agency or other
governmental instrumentality having jurisdiction over the it or any of its
properties.
SECTION 2.12 Tax Treatment.
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(a) The Trust shall maintain capital accounts ("Capital Accounts") for
each Certificateholder and allocations of income, gain, loss or deduction as
provided herein shall be
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credited or debited, as the case may be, to such Capital Accounts. Contributions
to, and distributions from, the Trust shall be credited or debited, as the case
may be, to such Capital Accounts.
(b) Net income of the Trust for any month as determined for Federal
income tax purposes (and each item of income, gain, loss, credit and deduction
entering into the computation thereof) shall be allocated as determined by the
Servicer as follows:
(i) to the extent of available net income, among the Certificateholders
as of the first Record Date following the end of such month, in proportion to
their ownership of principal amount of Certificates on such date, an amount of
net income up to the sum of (x) the amount of any interest that accrues on the
Certificates for such month based on the Pass-Through Rate, (y) an amount
equivalent to any overdue interest on the Certificates that accrued during a
prior month (to the extent that no allocation of taxable income has been
previously made for such amount under clause (x)), and (z) any Trust income
attributable to discount on the Contracts that corresponds to any excess of the
principal amount of the Certificates over initial issue price; and
(ii) to the holder of the AO Interest, to the extent of any remaining
net income.
If the net income of the Trust for any month is insufficient for the
allocations described in clause (b) (i) above, subsequent net income shall first
be allocated to make up such shortfall before being allocated as provided in
clause (b) (ii). Net losses of the Trust, if any, for any month as determined
for Federal income tax purposes (and each item of income, gain, loss, credit and
deduction entering into the computation thereof) shall be allocated to the
holder of the AO Interest to the extent the holder of the AO Interest is
reasonably expected, as determined by the Servicer, to bear the economic burden
of such net losses, then net losses shall be allocated among the
Certificateholders as of the first Record Date following the end of such month
in proportion to their ownership of principal amount of Certificates on such
Record Date until the principal balance of the Certificates is reduced to zero.
The holder of the AO Interest is authorized to modify the allocations in this
paragraph if necessary or appropriate, in its sole discretion, for the
allocations to fairly reflect the economic income, gain or loss to the holder of
the AO Interest, the Certificateholders, or as otherwise required by the Code.
(c) Notwithstanding anything in this Section 2.12 to the contrary, (i)
items of net loss and deduction attributable to nonrecourse debt of the Trust
and to "partner nonrecourse debt" (as defined in the Section 704(b) Regulations)
shall be allocated as provided in the Section 704(b) Regulations; (ii) if in any
period, there is a net decrease in the amount of "minimum gain" (as defined in
the Section 704(b) Regulations) of the Trust, or in the amount of "minimum gain"
attributable to "partner nonrecourse debt", then the Certificateholders shall be
allocated items of income or gain for such period and subsequent periods to the
extent and in the manner provided in Treasury Regulations Sections 1.704-2(f)
and 1.704-(2)(i)(4) as a "minimum gain chargeback" (as defined in the Section
704(b) Regulations); (iii) allocations of income of the Trust shall be made in a
manner necessary to satisfy a "qualified income offset" provision as described
in Treasury
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Regulation Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(ii)(d); and (iv) in no event shall net losses
or deductions be allocated to a Certificateholder to the extent that such
allocation would result in such Certificateholder having a negative balance in
its Capital Account which exceeds the sum of its share of "minimum gain" of the
Trust and "minimum gain" attributable to "partner nonrecourse debt" and the
amount such Certificateholder is obligated (or deemed obligated) to contribute
to the Trust upon liquidation of the Trust.
(d) For purposes of Treasury Regulations Section 1.752-3(a)(3), "excess
nonrecourse liabilities" shall be allocated among the Certificateholders in
accordance with the manner in which it is reasonably expected that the
deductions attributable to those nonrecourse liabilities will be allocated.
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ARTICLE III
THE CERTIFICATES
SECTION 3.1 Initial Certificate Ownership. Upon the formation of the
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Trust by the contribution by the Seller pursuant to Section 2.5 and until the
issuance of the Certificates, the Seller shall be the sole beneficiary of the
Trust.
SECTION 3.2 Form of the Certificates.
(a) The Certificates shall be substantially in the form set forth in
Exhibit A and shall be issued in minimum denominations of $20,000 and in
integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof; provided, however, that (a)
Certificates shall be issued to the holder of the AO Interest pursuant to
Section 2.7 in such denominations as to represent at least 1% of the initial
Certificate Balance and (b) one Certificate may be issued in a denomination
other than an integral multiple of $1,000. The Certificates shall be executed on
behalf of the Trust by manual or facsimile signature of a Responsible Officer of
the Owner Trustee. Certificates bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of
individuals who were, at the time when such signatures shall have been affixed,
authorized to sign on behalf of the Trust, shall be valid and binding
obligations of the Trust, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them
shall have ceased to be so authorized prior to the authentication and delivery
of such Certificates or did not hold such offices at the date of authentication
and delivery of such Certificates.
(b) The Certificates shall be typewritten, printed, lithographed or
engraved or produced by any combination of these methods (with or without steel
engraved borders) all as determined by the officers executing such Certifi
xxxxx, as evidenced by their execution of such Certificates.
(c) The terms of the Certificates set forth in Exhibit A shall form
part of this Agreement.
SECTION 3.3 Execution, Authentication and Delivery. Concurrently with
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the sale of the Contracts to the Trust pursuant to the Sale and Servicing
Agreement, the Owner Trustee shall cause the Certificates in an aggregate
principal amount equal to the initial Certificate Balance to be executed on
behalf of the Trust, authenticated and delivered to or upon the written order of
the Seller, signed by its chairman of the board, its president or any vice
president, without further corporate action by the Seller, in authorized
denominations. No Certificate shall entitle its holder to any benefit under this
Agreement, or shall be valid for any purpose, unless there shall appear on such
Certificate a certificate of authentication substantially in the form set forth
in Exhibit A, executed by the Owner Trustee, or by the Owner Trustee's
authenticating agent, by manual signature. Such authentication shall constitute
conclusive evidence that such Certificate shall have been duly authenticated and
delivered hereunder. All Certificates shall be dated the date of their
authentication.
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SECTION 3.4 Registration; Registration of Transfer and Exchange of
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Certificates.
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(a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the
office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8, a Certificate Register in
which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Owner
Trustee shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and
exchanges of Certificates as provided herein; provided, however, that no
Certificate may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange such that the
denomination of any resulting Certificate is less than $20,000. First Omni Bank,
N.A. shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of a
Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor or,
if it elects not to make such an appointment, assume the duties of Certificate
Registrar.
(b) Upon surrender for registration or transfer of any Certificate at
the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8, the Owner Trustee shall
execute on behalf of the Trust, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its
authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated
transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized
denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the
Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent.
(c) At the option of a Holder of Certificates, Certificates may be
exchanged for other Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate
principal amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the
Corporate Trust Office maintained pursuant to Section 3.8. Whenever any
Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee shall execute on
behalf of the Trust, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating
agent to authenticate and deliver) one or more Certificates dated the date of
authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. Such
Certificates shall be delivered to the Holder making the exchange.
(d) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of
transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in
form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly
executed by the Holder or his attorney duly authorized in writing with such
signature guaranteed by an "eligible guarantor institution" meeting the
requirements of the Certificate Registrar, which requirements include membership
or participation in the Securities Transfer Agent's Medallion Program ("STAMP")
or such other "signature guarantee program" as may be determined by the
Certificate Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in
accordance with the Exchange Act. Each Certificate surrendered for registration
of transfer or exchange shall be canceled and subsequently destroyed by the
Owner Trustee or Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary
practice.
(e) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or
exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may
require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that
may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Certificates.
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SECTION 3.5 Mutilated; Destroyed; Lost or Stolen Certificates. (a) If
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(i) any mutilated Certificate is surrendered to the Certificate Registrar, or
the Certificate Registrar receives evidence to its satisfaction of the
destruction, loss or theft of any Certificate, and (ii) there is delivered to
the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Trust such security or
indemnity as may be required by them to hold each of them harmless, then, in the
absence of notice to the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee that such
Certificate has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Owner Trustee shall
execute on behalf of the Trust and the Owner Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver),
in exchange for or in lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen
Certificate, a replacement Certificate of a like aggregate principal amount;
provided, however, that if any such destroyed, lost or stolen Certificate, but
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not a mutilated Certificate, shall have become or within seven days shall be due
and payable, then instead of issuing a replacement Certificate the Owner Trustee
may pay such destroyed, lost or stolen Certificate when so due or payable.
(b) If, after the delivery of a replacement Certificate or payment in
respect of a destroyed, lost or stolen Certificate pursuant to subsection
3.5(a), a bona fide purchaser of the original Certificate in lieu of which such
replacement Certificate was issued presents for payment such original
Certificate, the Owner Trustee shall be entitled to recover such replacement
Certificate (or such payment) from the Person to whom it was delivered or any
Person taking such replacement Certificate from such Person to whom such
replacement Certificate was delivered or any assignee of such Person, except a
bona fide purchaser, and shall be entitled to recover upon the security or
indemnity provided therefor to the extent of any loss, damage, cost or expense
incurred by the Owner Trustee in connection therewith.
(c) In connection with the issuance of any replacement Certificate
under this Section 3.5, the Owner Trustee may require the payment by the Holder
of such Certificate of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental
charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other reasonable expenses
(including the fees and expenses of the Owner Trustee and the Certificate
Registrar) connected therewith.
(d) Any duplicate Certificate issued pursuant to this Section 3.5 in
replacement of any mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Certificate shall
constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the Trust, whether
or not the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Certificate shall be found at
any time or be enforced by anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of
this Agreement equally and proportionately with any and all other Certificates
duly issued hereunder.
(e) The provisions of this Section 3.5 are exclusive and shall preclude
(to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the
replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Certificates.
SECTION 3.6 Persons Deemed Certificateholders. Prior to due
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presentation of a Certificate for registration of transfer, the Owner Trustee or
the Certificate Registrar may treat the Person in whose name any Certificate
shall be registered in the Certificate Register as the Certificateholder of such
Certificate for the purpose of receiving distributions pursuant to Article V
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and for all other purposes whatsoever, and neither the Owner Trustee nor the
Certificate Registrar shall be affected by any notice to the contrary.
SECTION 3.7 Access to List of Certificateholders' Names and Addresses.
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The Owner Trustee shall furnish or cause to be furnished to the Servicer, the
Seller and the holder of the AO Interest, within 15 days after receipt by the
Owner Trustee of a request therefor from the Servicer, the Seller or the holder
of the AO Interest in writing, a list, in such form as the Servicer, the Seller
or the holder of the AO Interest may reasonably require, of the names and
addresses of the Certificateholders as of the most recent Record Date. If three
or more Holders of Certificates or one or more Holder of Certificates evidencing
not less than 25% of the Certificate Balance apply in writing to the Owner
Trustee, and such application states that the applicants desire to communicate
with other Certificateholders with respect to their rights under this Agreement
or under the Certificates and such application is accompanied by a copy of the
communication that such applicants propose to transmit, then the Owner Trustee
shall, within five Business Days after the receipt of such application, afford
such applicants access during normal business hours to the current list of
Certificateholders. Each Holder, by receiving and holding a Certificate, shall
be deemed to have agreed not to hold the Seller, the holder of the AO Interest
or the Owner Trustee accountable by reason of the disclosure of its name and
address, regardless of the source from which such information was derived.
SECTION 3.8 Maintenance of Corporate Trust Office. The Owner Trustee
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shall maintain in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York, an office or
offices or agency or agencies where Certificates may be surrendered for
registration of transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon
the Owner Trustee in respect of the Certificates and the Basic Documents may be
served. The Owner Trustee initially designates the offices of The Bank of New
York, 000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx - 00 Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000, Attention: Xxxx Xxxxx,
VP Corporate Trust Administrator, Tel. 000-000-0000, fax 000-000-0000 as its
principal office for such purposes. The Owner Trustee shall give prompt written
notice to the Seller and to the Certificateholders of any change in the location
of the Certificate Register or any such office or agency.
SECTION 3.9 Appointment of Paying Agent. The Paying Agent shall make
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distributions to Certificateholders from the Certificate Distribution Account
pursuant to Section 5.2 and amounts, if any, to be paid to the holder of the AO
Interest, in each case pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement, and the
Paying Agent shall report the amounts of such distributions and withdrawals to
the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Any Paying Agent shall have the revocable
power to withdraw funds from the Certificate Distribution Account for the
purpose of making the distributions referred to above. The Owner Trustee may
revoke such power and remove the Paying Agent if the Owner Trustee determines in
its sole discretion that the Paying Agent shall have failed to perform its
obligations under this Agreement in any material respect. The Paying Agent
shall initially be First Omni Bank, N.A., and any co-paying agent chosen by the
Owner Trustee, and acceptable to the Servicer. The Paying Agent shall be
permitted to resign as Paying Agent upon 30 days' written notice to the Owner
Trustee. If First Omni Bank, N.A. shall no longer be the Paying Agent, the
Owner Trustee shall appoint a successor to act as Paying Agent (which shall be
an Eligible Institution). The Owner Trustee shall cause such successor Paying
Agent or any additional Paying Agent appointed by the Owner Trustee to execute
and deliver to the Owner Trustee an
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instrument in which such successor Paying Agent or additional Paying Agent shall
agree with the Owner Trustee that as Paying Agent, such successor Paying Agent
or additional Paying Agent shall hold all sums, if any, held by it for payment
to the Certificateholders in trust for the benefit of the Certificateholders
entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to such Certificateholders. The
Paying Agent shall return all unclaimed funds to the Owner Trustee and upon
removal of a Paying Agent such Paying Agent shall also return all funds in its
possession to the Owner Trustee. The provisions of Sections 6.3, 6.6, 6.7 and
6.9 shall apply to the Owner Trustee also in its role as Paying Agent (if the
Owner Trustee shall also act as Paying Agent), for so long as the Owner Trustee
shall act as Paying Agent and, to the extent applicable, to any other paying
agent appointed hereunder. Any reference in this Agreement to the Paying Agent
shall include any co-paying agent unless the context requires otherwise.
SECTION 3.10 Seller as Certificateholder. The Seller in its individual
or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee of Certificates and may
otherwise deal with the Owner Trustee or its Affiliates as if it were not the
Seller.
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ARTICLE IV
ACTIONS BY OWNER TRUSTEE
SECTION 4.1 Prior Notice to Certificateholders with Respect to Certain
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Matters. The Owner Trustee shall not take action with respect to the following
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matters, unless (i) the Owner Trustee shall have notified the Certificateholders
in writing of the proposed action at least 30 days before the taking of such
action, and (ii) the Certificateholders shall not have notified the Owner
Trustee in writing prior to the 30th day after such notice is given that such
Certificateholders have withheld consent or provided alternative direction:
(a) the initiation of any material claim or lawsuit by the Trust
(except claims or lawsuit brought in connection with the collection of payments
due on the Contracts) and the compromise of any material action, claim or
lawsuit brought by or against the Trust (except with respect to the
aforementioned claims or lawsuits for collection of payments due on the
Contracts);
(b) the election by the Trust to file an amendment to the Certificate
of Trust (unless such amendment is required to be filed under the Business Trust
Statute);
(c) the amendment of the Indenture by a supplemental indenture in
circumstances where the consent of any Noteholder is required;
(d) the amendment of the Indenture by a supplemental indenture in
circumstances where the consent of any Noteholder is not required and such
amendment materially adversely affects the interest of the Certificateholders;
(e) the amendment, change or modification of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement, except to cure any ambiguity or defect or to amend or supplement any
provision in a manner that would not materially adversely affect the interests
of the Certificateholders or in circumstances in which the Sale and Servicing
Agreement expressly provides that the consent of the Certificateholders is not
required; or
(f) the appointment pursuant to the Indenture of a successor Note
Registrar, Paying Agent or Indenture Trustee or pursuant to this Agreement of a
successor Certificate Registrar, or the consent to the assignment by the Note
Registrar, Paying Agent or Indenture Trustee or Certificate Registrar of its
obligations under the Indenture or this Agreement, as applicable.
SECTION 4.2 Action by Certificateholders with Respect to Certain
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Matters. The Owner Trustee shall not have the power, except upon the written
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direction of the Certificateholders evidencing not less than a majority of the
Certificate Balance, to (a) remove the Servicer under the Sale and Servicing
Agreement pursuant to Section 9.01 thereof, (b) appoint a successor Servicer
pursuant to Section 9.02 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, or (c) except as
expressly provided in the Basic Documents, sell the Contracts or any interest
therein after the termination of the Indenture.
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SECTION 4.3 Action by Certificateholders with Respect to Bankruptcy.
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The Owner Trustee shall not have the power to commence a voluntary proceeding in
bankruptcy relating to the Trust without the unanimous prior approval of all
Holders of Certificates (including the holder of the AO Interest) and the
delivery to the Owner Trustee by each such Certificateholder of a certificate
certifying that such Certificateholder reasonably believes that the Trust is
insolvent .
SECTION 4.4 Restrictions on Certificateholders' Power. The
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Certificateholders shall not direct the Owner Trustee to take or refrain from
taking any action if such action or inaction would be contrary to any obligation
of the Trust or the Owner Trustee under this Agreement or any of the Basic
Documents or would be contrary to Section 2.3, nor shall the Owner Trustee be
obligated to follow any such direction, if given.
SECTION 4.5 Majority Control. Except as expressly provided herein, any
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action that may be taken or consent that may be given or withheld by the
Certificateholders under this Agreement may be taken, given or withheld by the
Holders of Certificates evidencing not less than a majority of the Certificate
Balance. Except as expressly provided herein, any written notice of the
Certificateholders delivered pursuant to this Agreement shall be effective if
signed by Holders of Certificates evidencing not less than a majority of the
Certificate Balance at the time of the delivery of such notice.
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ARTICLE V
APPLICATION OF TRUST FUNDS; CERTAIN DUTIES
SECTION 5.1 Establishment of Accounts.
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(a) On or prior to the Closing Date, the Trust shall cause the Servicer
to establish and maintain, in the name of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner
Trustee, as appropriate, for the benefit of the Noteholders and
Certificateholders the accounts as provided in Section 5.01 of the Sale and
Servicing Agreement.
(b) The Owner Trustee shall possess all right, title and interest in
and to all funds on deposit from time to time in the Certificate Distribution
Account and in all proceeds thereof. Except as otherwise provided herein or in
the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Certificate Distribution Account shall be
under the sole dominion and control of the Owner Trustee for the benefit of the
Certificateholders. If, at any time, the Certificate Distribution Account ceases
to be held as an Eligible Account, the Owner Trustee (or the Servicer on behalf
of the Owner Trustee, if the Certificate Distribution Account is not then held
by the Owner Trustee or an Affiliate thereof) shall within 10 Business Days (or
such longer period, not to exceed 30 calendar days, as to which each Rating
Agency may consent) establish a new Certificate Distribution Account as an
Eligible Account and shall transfer any cash and/or any investments to such new
Certificate Distribution Account.
SECTION 5.2 Application of Trust Funds.
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(a) On each Distribution Date, the Owner Trustee shall distribute to
the Certificateholders, on a pro rata basis, amounts deposited in the
Certificate Distribution Account pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement on
or prior to such Distribution Date first in respect of interest and then in
respect of principal.
(b) On each Distribution Date, the Owner Trustee shall send to each
Certificateholder the statement provided to the Owner Trustee by the Servicer
pursuant to Section 5.08 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement on such
Distribution Date setting forth, among other things, the amount of the
distribution allocable to principal and to interest, the Certificate Balance
after giving effect to such distribution and the Servicer Payment with respect
to such Distribution Date.
(c) If any withholding tax is imposed on the Trust's payment (or
allocations of income) to a Certificateholder, such tax shall reduce the amount
otherwise distributable to the Certificateholder in accordance with this Section
5.2. The Owner Trustee is hereby authorized and directed to retain from amounts
otherwise distributable to the Certificateholders sufficient funds for the
payment of any tax that is legally owed by the Trust (but such authorization
shall not prevent the Owner Trustee from contesting any such tax in appropriate
proceedings and withholding payment of such tax, if permitted by law, pending
the outcome of such proceedings). The amount of any withholding tax imposed with
respect to a Certificateholder shall be treated as cash distributed to such
Certificateholder at the time it is withheld by the Trust and remitted to the
appropriate taxing authority. If there is a possibility that withholding tax is
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a distribution (such as a distribution to a non-U.S. Certificateholder), the
Owner Trustee may in its sole discretion withhold such amounts in accordance
with this subsection 5.2(c). If a Certificateholder wishes to apply for a refund
of any such withholding tax, the Owner Trustee shall reasonably cooperate with
such Certificateholder in making such claim so long as such Certificateholder
agrees to reimburse the Owner Trustee for any out-of-pocket expenses incurred.
(d) If the Indenture Trustee holds escheated funds for payment to the
Trust pursuant to Section 3.3(e) of the Indenture, the Owner Trustee shall, upon
notice from the Indenture Trustee that such funds exist, submit on behalf of the
Trust an Issuer Order to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section 3.3(e) of the
Indenture instructing the Indenture Trustee to pay such funds to or at the order
of the Seller.
SECTION 5.3 Method of Payment. Subject to subsection 7.1(c),
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distributions required to be made to Certificateholders on any Distribution Date
shall be made to each Certificateholder of record on the immediately preceding
Record Date either by wire transfer, in immediately available funds, to the
account of such Holder at a bank or other entity having appropriate facilities
therefor, if (i) such Certificateholder shall have provided to the Certificate
Registrar appropriate written instructions at least five Business Days prior to
such Record Date and such Holder's Certificates in the aggregate evidence a
denomination of not less than $1,000,000 or (ii) such Certificateholder is the
holder of the AO Interest, or an Affiliate thereof, or, if not, by check mailed
to such Certificateholder at the address of such holder appearing in the
Certificate Register. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the final distribution in
respect of the Certificates (whether on the Certificate Final Distribution Date
or otherwise) will be payable only upon presentation and surrender of such
Certificate at the office or agency maintained for that purpose by the Owner
Trustee pursuant to Section 3.8.
SECTION 5.4 Accounting and Reports to the Certificateholders. The
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Internal Revenue Service and Others. The Owner Trustee shall (a) maintain (or
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cause to be maintained) the books of the Trust on a calendar year basis on the
accrual method of accounting, (b) deliver to each Certificateholder, as may be
required by the Code and applicable Treasury Regulations or otherwise, such
information as may be required to enable each Certificateholder to prepare its
federal and state income tax returns, (c) file or cause to be filed such tax
returns relating to the Trust and make or cause to be made such elections as may
from time to time be required or appropriate under any applicable state or
federal statute or rule or regulation thereunder so as to maintain the Trust's
characterization as a partnership for federal income tax purposes, (d) cause
such tax returns to be signed in the manner required by law and (e) collect or
cause to be collected any withholding tax as described in and in accordance with
subsection 5.2(c) with respect to income or distributions to Certificateholders.
SECTION 5.5 Signature on Returns; Tax Matters Partner. The Owner
Trustee shall sign on behalf of the Trust any and all tax returns of the Trust,
unless applicable law requires a Certificateholder to sign such documents, in
which case such documents shall be signed by the holder of the AO Interest. To
the extent one may be required, the holder of the AO Interest shall be the "tax
matters partner" of the Trust pursuant to the Code.
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ARTICLE VI
THE OWNER TRUSTEE
SECTION 6.1 Duties of Owner Trustee
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(a) The Owner Trustee undertakes to perform such duties, and only such
duties, as are specifically set forth in this Agreement and the other Basic
Documents to which the Trust is a party, including the administration of the
Trust in the interest of the Certificateholders, subject to the Basic Documents
and in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement and the Basic Documents
to which the Trust is a party. No implied covenants or obligations shall be read
into this Agreement.
The Owner Trustee is authorized from time to time to take such action as
the Servicer directs in writing with respect to the Basic Documents and shall,
upon the written direction of the Servicer, execute and deliver any amendments
to this Agreement or any of the Basic Documents.
(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Owner Trustee shall be deemed to
have discharged its duties and responsibilities hereunder and under the Basic
Documents to the extent the Servicer has agreed in the Sale and Servicing
Agreement to perform any act or to discharge any duty of the Owner Trustee
hereunder or under any Basic Document, and the Owner Trustee shall not be liable
for the default or failure of the Servicer to carry out its obligations under
the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
(c) In the absence of bad faith on its part, the Owner Trustee may
conclusively rely upon certificates or opinions furnished to the Owner Trustee
and conforming to the requirements of this Agreement in determining the truth of
the statements and the correctness of the opinions contained therein; provided,
however, that the Owner Trustee shall have examined such certificates or
opinions so as to determine compliance of the same with the requirements of this
Agreement.
(d) The Owner Trustee may not be relieved from liability for its own
negligent action, its own negligent failure to act or its own willful
misconduct, except that:
(i) this subsection 6.1(d) shall not limit the effect of subsection
6.1(a) or (b);
(ii) the Owner Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment
made in good faith by a Responsible Officer unless it is proved that the Owner
Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts; and
(iii) the Owner Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action
it takes or omits to take in good faith in accordance with a direction received
by it pursuant to Section 4.1, 4.2 or 6.4.
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(e) Subject to Sections 5.1 and 5.2, monies received by the Owner
Trustee hereunder need not be segregated in any manner except to the extent
required by law or the Sale and Servicing Agreement and may be deposited under
such general conditions as may be prescribed by law, and the Owner Trustee shall
not be liable for any interest thereon.
(f) The Owner Trustee shall not take any action that (i) is
inconsistent with the purposes of the Trust set forth in Section 2.3 or (ii)
would, to the actual knowledge of a Responsible Officer of the Owner Trustee,
result in the Trust's becoming taxable as a corporation for federal income tax
purposes. The Certificateholders shall not direct the Owner Trustee to take
action that would violate the provisions of this Section 6.1 and any such
direction shall be null and void.
SECTION 6.2 Rights of Owner Trustee. The Owner Trustee is authorized
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and directed to execute and deliver the Basic Documents and each certificate or
other document attached as an exhibit to or contemplated by the Basic Documents
to which the Trust is to be a party, in such form as the Seller shall approve as
evidenced conclusively by the Owner Trustee's execution thereof. In addition to
the foregoing, the Owner Trustee is authorized, but shall not be obligated, to
take all actions required of the Trust pursuant to the Basic Documents. The
Owner Trustee is further authorized from time to time to take such action as the
Servicer recommends with respect to the Basic Documents.
SECTION 6.3 Acceptance of Trusts and Duties. Except as otherwise
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provided in this Article VI, in accepting the trusts hereby created First Omni
Bank, N.A. acts solely as Owner Trustee hereunder and not in its individual
capacity and all Persons having any claim against the Owner Trustee by reason of
the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any Basic Document shall look
only to the Owner Trust Estate for payment or satisfaction thereof. The Owner
Trustee accepts the trusts hereby created and agrees to perform its duties
hereunder with respect to such trusts but only upon the terms of this Agreement.
The Owner Trustee also agrees to disburse all monies actually received by it
constituting part of the Owner Trust Estate upon the terms of the Basic
Documents and this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall not be liable or
accountable hereunder or under any Basic Document under any circumstances,
except (i) for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act or its
own willful misconduct or (ii) in the case of the inaccuracy of any
representation or warranty contained in Section 6.6 and expressly made by the
Owner Trustee. In particular, but not by way of limitation (and subject to the
exceptions set forth in the preceding sentence):
(a) the Owner Trustee shall at no time have any responsibility or
liability for or with respect to the legality, validity and enforceability of
any Contract, or the perfection and priority of any security interest created by
any Contract in any Financed Vehicle or the maintenance of any such perfection
and priority, or for or with respect to the sufficiency of the Owner Trust
Estate or its ability to generate the payments to be distributed to
Certificateholders under this Agreement or the Noteholders under the Indenture,
including, without limitation: the existence, condition and ownership of any
Financed Vehicle; the existence and enforceability of any insurance thereon; the
existence and contents of any Contract on any computer or other record thereof;
the validity of the assignment of any Contract to the Trust or of any
intervening assignment; the completeness of any Contract; the performance or
enforcement of any Contract; the compliance by
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the Seller or the Servicer with any warranty or representation made under any
Basic Document or in any related document or the accuracy of any such warranty
or representation or any action of the Servicer, the Trustee or the Servicer or
any subservicer taken in the name of the Owner Trustee.
(b) the Owner Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action
taken or omitted to be taken by it in accordance with the instructions of the
Servicer or any Certificateholder;
(c) no provision of this Agreement or any Basic Document shall require
the Owner Trustee to expend or risk funds or otherwise incur any financial
liability in the performance of any of its rights or powers hereunder or under
any Basic Document, if the Owner Trustee shall have reasonable grounds for
believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk
or liability is not reasonably assured or provided to it;
(d) under no circumstances shall the Owner Trustee be liable for
indebtedness evidenced by or arising under any of the Basic Documents, including
the principal of and interest on the Notes or the Certificate Balance of and
interest on the Certificates;
(e) the Owner Trustee shall not be responsible for or in respect of and
makes no representation as to the validity or sufficiency of any provision of
this Agreement or for the due execution hereof by the Seller or for the form,
character, genuineness, sufficiency, value or validity of any of the Owner Trust
Estate or for or in respect of the validity or sufficiency of the Basic
Documents, the Notes, the Certificates (other than the certificate of
authentication on the Certificates) or of any Contracts or any related
documents, and the Owner Trustee shall in no event assume or incur any
liability, duty or obligation to any Noteholder or to any Certificateholder,
other than as expressly provided for herein and in the Basic Documents;
(f) the Owner Trustee shall not be liable for the default or misconduct
of the Servicer, the Indenture Trustee, the Seller or the Servicer under any of
the Basic Documents or otherwise and the Owner Trustee shall have no obligation
or liability to perform the obligations of the Trust under this Agreement or the
Basic Documents that are required to be performed by the Servicer under the Sale
and Servicing Agreement or the Indenture Trustee under the Indenture; and
(g) the Owner Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of
the rights or powers vested in it by this Agreement, or to institute, conduct or
defend any litigation under this Agreement or otherwise or in relation to this
Agreement or any Basic Document, at the request, order or direction of any of
the Certificateholders, unless such Certificateholders have offered to the Owner
Trustee security or indemnity satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and
liabilities that may be incurred by the Owner Trustee therein or thereby. The
right of the Owner Trustee to perform any discretionary act enumerated in this
Agreement or in any Basic Document shall not be construed as a duty, and the
Owner Trustee shall not be answerable for other than its negligence or willful
misconduct in the performance of any such act.
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SECTION 6.4 Action Upon Instruction by Certificateholders.
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(a) Subject to Section 4.4, the Certificateholders may by written
instruction direct the Owner Trustee in the management of the Trust. Such
direction may be exercised at any time by written instruction of the
Certificateholders pursuant to Section 4.5.
(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Owner Trustee shall not be
required to take any action hereunder or under any Basic Document if the Owner
Trustee shall have reasonably determined, or shall have been advised by counsel,
that such action is likely to result in liability on the part of the Owner
Trustee or is contrary to the terms hereof or of any Basic Document or is
otherwise contrary to law.
(c) Whenever the Owner Trustee is unable to decide between alternative
courses of action permitted or required by the terms of this Agreement or any
Basic Document, or is unsure as to the application, intent, interpretation or
meaning of any provision of this Agreement or the Basic Documents, the Owner
Trustee shall promptly give notice (in such form as shall be appropriate under
the circumstances) to the Certificateholders requesting instruction as to the
course of action to be adopted, and, to the extent the Owner Trustee acts in
good faith in accordance with any such instruction received, the Owner Trustee
shall not be liable on account of such action to any Person. If the Owner
Trustee shall not have received appropriate instructions within ten days of such
notice (or within such shorter period of time as reasonably may be specified in
such notice or may be necessary under the circumstances) it may, but shall be
under no duty to, take or refrain from taking such action which is consistent,
in its view, with this Agreement or the Basic Documents, and as it shall deem to
be in the best interests of the Certificateholders, and the Owner Trustee shall
have no liability to any Person for any such action or inaction.
SECTION 6.5 Furnishing of Documents. The Owner Trustee shall furnish
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(a) to the Certificateholders, promptly upon receipt of a written request
therefor, duplicates or copies of all reports, notices, requests, demands,
certificates, financial statements and any other instruments furnished to the
Owner Trustee under the Basic Documents and (b) to the Noteholders, promptly
upon receipt of a written request therefor, copies of the Purchase Agreement,
the Sale and Servicing Agreement and this Agreement.
SECTION 6.6 Representations and Warranties of Owner Trustee. The Owner
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Trustee hereby represents and warrants to the Seller, for the benefit of the
Certificateholders, that:
(a) It is a national banking association duly organized, validly
existing and in good standing under the laws of the United States with its
principal place of business in the State of Delaware.
(b) It has full power, authority and legal right to execute, deliver
and perform this Agreement, and has taken all necessary action to authorize the
execution, delivery and performance by it of this Agreement.
(c) The execution, delivery and performance by it of this Agreement (i)
shall not violate any provision of any law or regulation governing the banking
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Owner Trustee or any order, writ, judgment or decree of any court, arbitrator or
governmental authority applicable to the Owner Trustee or any of its assets,
(ii) shall not violate any provision of the corporate charter or by-laws of the
Owner Trustee, or (iii) shall not violate any provision of, or constitute, with
or without notice or lapse of time, a default under, or result in the creation
or imposition of any lien on any properties included in the Trust pursuant to
the provisions of any mortgage, indenture, contract, agreement or other
undertaking to which it is a party, which violation, default or lien could
reasonably be expected to have a materially adverse effect on the Owner
Trustee's performance or ability to perform its duties as Owner Trustee under
this Agreement or on the transactions contemplated in this Agreement.
(d) The execution, delivery and performance by the Owner Trustee of
this Agreement shall not require the authorization, consent or approval of, the
giving of notice to, the filing or registration with, or the taking of any other
action in respect of, any governmental authority or agency regulating the
banking and corporate trust activities of banks or trust companies in the
jurisdiction in which the Trust was formed.
(e) This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by the Owner
Trustee and constitutes the legal, valid and binding agreement of the Owner
Trustee, enforceable in accordance with its terms, except as enforceability may
be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, or other similar laws
affecting the enforcement of creditors' rights in general and by general
principles of equity, regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in
a proceeding in equity or at law.
SECTION 6.7 Reliance; Advice of Counsel.
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(a) The Owner Trustee shall incur no liability to anyone in acting upon
any signature, instrument, notice, resolution, request, consent, order,
certificate, report, opinion, bond or other document or paper believed by it to
be genuine and believed by it to be signed by the proper party or parties and
need not investigate any fact or matter in any such document. The Owner Trustee
may accept a certified copy of a resolution of the board of directors or other
governing body of any corporate party as conclusive evidence that such
resolution has been duly adopted by such body and that the same is in full force
and effect. As to any fact or matter the method of the determination of which is
not specifically prescribed herein, the Owner Trustee may for all purposes
hereof rely on a certificate, signed by the president or any vice president or
by the treasurer or other authorized officers of the relevant party, as to such
fact or matter, and such certificate shall constitute full protection to the
Owner Trustee for any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in
reliance thereon.
(b) In the exercise or administration of the trusts hereunder and in
the performance of its duties and obligations under this Agreement or the Basic
Documents, the Owner Trustee: (i) may act directly or through its agents,
attorneys, custodians or nominees pursuant to agreements entered into with any
of them, and the Owner Trustee shall not be liable for the conduct or misconduct
of such agents, attorneys, custodians or nominees if such agents, attorneys,
custodians or nominees shall have been selected by the Owner Trustee with
reasonable care; and (ii) may consult with counsel, accountants and other
skilled professionals to be selected with
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reasonable care and employed by it. The Owner Trustee shall not be liable for
anything done, suffered or omitted in good faith by it in accordance with the
opinion or advice of any such counsel, accountants or other such Persons and not
contrary to this Agreement or any Basic Document.
SECTION 6.8 Owner Trustee May Own Certificates and Notes. The Owner
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Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee
of Certificates or Notes and may deal with the Seller, the Indenture Trustee and
the Servicer in transactions in the same manner as it would have if it were not
the Owner Trustee.
SECTION 6.9 Compensation and Indemnity. The Owner Trustee shall receive
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as compensation for its services hereunder such fees as have been separately
agreed upon before the date hereof between the Seller, or any person
representing the Seller, and the Owner Trustee, and the Owner Trustee shall be
entitled to be reimbursed by the Servicer for its other reasonable expenses
hereunder, including the reasonable compensation, expenses and disbursements of
such agents, custodians, nominees, representatives, experts and counsel as the
Owner Trustee may employ in connection with the exercise and performance of its
rights and its duties hereunder. If the Seller shall fail to compensate the
Owner Trustee, the Servicer shall pay to the Owner Trustee such compensation.
The Servicer shall indemnify the Owner Trustee and its successors, assigns,
agents and servants in accordance with the provisions of Section 8.02 of the
Sale and Servicing Agreement. The indemnities contained in this Section 6.9
shall survive the resignation, removal or termination of the Owner Trustee or
the termination of this Agreement. Any amounts paid to the Owner Trustee
pursuant to this Article VI shall be deemed not to be a part of the Owner Trust
Estate immediately after such payment.
SECTION 6.10 Replacement of Owner Trustee.
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(a) The Owner Trustee may resign at any time and be discharged from the
trusts hereby created by giving 30 days' prior written notice thereof to the
Servicer, provided that such resignation shall not become effective until a
successor Owner Trustee has been appointed. The Servicer may appoint a successor
Owner Trustee by delivering a written instrument pursuant to Section 6.10(b). If
no successor Owner Trustee shall have been appointed and have accepted
appointment within 30 days after the giving of such notice of resignation, the
resigning Owner Trustee may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the
appointment of a successor Owner Trustee. The Servicer shall remove the Owner
Trustee if:
(i) the Owner Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with
the provisions of Section 6.13 and shall fail to resign after written
request therefor by the Servicer;
(ii) the Owner Trustee shall be adjudged bankrupt or insolvent;
(iii) a receiver or other public officer shall be appointed or take
charge or control of the Owner Trustee or of its property or affairs for the
purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation; or
(iv) the Owner Trustee shall otherwise be incapable of acting.
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(b) If the Owner Trustee resigns or is removed or if a vacancy exists
in the office of Owner Trustee for any reason the Servicer shall promptly
appoint a successor Owner Trustee by written instrument, in duplicate (one copy
of which instrument shall be delivered to the outgoing Owner Trustee so removed
and one copy to the successor Owner Trustee) and shall pay all fees owed to the
outgoing Owner Trustee.
(c) Any resignation or removal of the Owner Trustee and appointment of
a successor Owner Trustee pursuant to any of the provisions of this Section 6.10
shall not become effective until a written acceptance of appointment is
delivered by the successor Owner Trustee to the outgoing Owner Trustee and the
Servicer and all fees and expenses due to the outgoing Owner Trustee are paid.
Any successor Owner Trustee appointed pursuant to this Section 6.10 shall be
eligible to act in such capacity in accordance with Section 6.13 and, following
compliance with the preceding sentence, shall become fully vested with all the
rights, powers, duties and obligations of its predecessor under this Agreement,
with like effect as if originally named as Owner Trustee. The Servicer shall
provide notice of such resignation or removal of the Owner Trustee to each of
the Rating Agencies.
(d) The predecessor Owner Trustee shall upon payment of its fees and
expenses deliver to the successor Owner Trustee all documents and statements and
monies held by it under this Agreement. The Servicer and the predecessor Owner
Trustee shall execute and deliver such instruments and do such other things as
may reasonably be required for fully and certainly vesting and confirming in the
successor Owner Trustee all such rights, powers, duties and obligations.
(e) Upon acceptance of appointment by a successor Owner Trustee
pursuant to this Section 6.10, the Servicer shall mail notice of the successor
of such Owner Trustee to all Certificateholders, the Indenture Trustee, the
Noteholders and the Rating Agencies.
SECTION 6.11 Merger or Consolidation of Owner Trustee. Any corporation
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into which the Owner Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may be
consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion or
consolidation to which the Owner Trustee shall be a party, or any corporation
succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of the
Owner Trustee, shall be the successor of the Owner Trustee hereunder, provided
such corporation shall be eligible pursuant to Section 6.13, and without the
execution or filing of any instrument or any further act on the part of any of
the parties hereto; provided, however, that the Owner Trustee shall mail notice
of such merger, conversion or consolidation to the Rating Agencies.
SECTION 6.12 Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee.
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(a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement, at any
time, for the purpose of meeting any legal requirement of any jurisdiction in
which any part of the Owner Trust Estate or any Financed Vehicle may at the time
be located, the Servicer and the Owner Trustee acting jointly shall have the
power and shall execute and deliver all instruments to appoint one or more
Persons approved by the Owner Trustee to act as co-trustee, jointly with the
Owner Trustee, or as separate trustee or trustees, of all or any part of the
Owner Trust Estate, and to vest in such Person, in such capacity, such title to
the Trust, or any part thereof, and, subject to the other
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provisions of this Section 6.12, such powers, duties, obligations, rights and
trusts as the Servicer and the Owner Trustee may consider necessary or
desirable. If the Servicer shall not have joined in such appointment within 15
days after the receipt by it of a request so to do, the Owner Trustee alone
shall have the power to make such appointment. No co-trustee or separate trustee
under this Agreement shall be required to meet the terms of eligibility as a
successor trustee pursuant to Section 6.13 and no notice of the appointment of
any co-trustee or separate trustee shall be required pursuant to Section 6.10.
(b) Each separate trustee and co-trustee shall, to the extent permitted
by law, be appointed and act subject to the following provisions and conditions:
(i) all rights, powers, duties and obligations conferred or imposed
upon the Owner Trustee shall be conferred upon and exercised or performed
jointly by the Owner Trustee and such separate trustee or co-trustee (it
being understood that such separate trustee or co-trustee is not authorized
to act separately without the Owner Trustee joining in such act), except to
the extent that under any law of any jurisdiction in which any particular
act or acts are to be performed, the Owner Trustee shall be incompetent or
unqualified to perform such act or acts, in which event such rights,
powers, duties and obligations (including the holding of title to the Trust
or any portion thereof in any such jurisdiction) shall be exercised and
performed singly by such separate trustee or co-trustee, but solely at the
direction of the Owner Trustee;
(ii) no trustee under this Agreement shall be personally liable by
reason of any act or omission of any other trustee under this Agreement;
and
(iii) the Servicer and the Owner Trustee acting jointly may at any time
accept the resignation of or remove any separate trustee or co-trustee.
(c) Any notice, request or other writing given to the Owner Trustee
shall be deemed to have been given to each of the then separate trustees and co-
trustees, as effectively as if given to each of them. Every instrument
appointing any separate trustee or co-trustee shall refer to this Agreement and
the conditions of this Article. Each separate trustee and co-trustee, upon its
acceptance of the trusts conferred, shall be vested with the estates or property
specified in its instrument of appointment, either jointly with the Owner
Trustee or separately, as may be provided therein, subject to all the provisions
of this Agreement, specifically including every provision of this Agreement
relating to the conduct of, affecting the liability of, or affording protection
to, the Owner Trustee. Each such instrument shall be filed with the Owner
Trustee and a copy thereof given to the Servicer.
(d) Any separate trustee or co-trustee may at any time appoint the
Owner Trustee as its agent or attorney-in-fact with full power and authority, to
the extent not prohibited by law, to do any lawful act under or in respect of
this Agreement on its behalf and in its name. If any separate trustee or co-
trustee shall die, become incapable of acting, resign or be removed, all of its
estates, properties, rights, remedies and trusts shall vest in and be exercised
by the Owner Trustee, to the extent permitted by law, without the appointment of
a new or successor trustee.
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SECTION 6.13 Eligibility Requirements for Owner Trustee. The Owner
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Trustee shall at all times: (a) be authorized to exercise corporate trust
powers; (b) have a combined capital and surplus of at least $40,000,000 and be
subject to supervision or examination by federal or state authorities; and (c)
have (or have a parent which has) a long-term unsecured debt rating of at least
"BBB" by Standard & Poor's and have a long-term unsecured debt rating of at
least "Baa3" by Moody's; provided, however, that if the Owner Trustee does not
meet the requirements of clause (b), the Owner Trustee may provide a guaranty
from its parent (which meets the requirements of clause (b)), acceptable to the
Servicer, of its liabilities and obligations under the Basic Documents;. If such
corporation shall publish reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to
law or to the requirements of the aforesaid supervising or examining authority,
then for the purpose of this Section 6.13, the combined capital and surplus of
such corporation shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set
forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at any time the
Owner Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of
this Section 6.13, the Owner Trustee shall resign immediately in the manner and
with the effect specified in Section 6.10. At all times at least one of the
Owner Trustee or the Co-trustee appointed pursuant hereto shall be a person that
satisfies the provisions of Section 3807(a) of the Business Trust Statute (the
"Delaware Trustee").
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ARTICLE VII
TERMINATION OF TRUST AGREEMENT
SECTION 7.1 Termination of Trust Agreement.
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(a) This Agreement has been entered into in part to induce the
Indenture Trustee and the Certificateholders from time to time to participate in
the transactions contemplated hereby, and each of the Owner Trustee, the holder
of the AO Interest and the Seller agree that the Indenture Trustee (so long as
the Indenture shall not have been terminated in accordance with its terms) and
the Certificateholders from time to time are third party beneficiaries hereof,
and shall be entitled to enforce the terms of this Agreement to the same extent
as if they were signatories hereto, subject, however, to Article IV hereof and
to the applicable provisions of the Indenture. So long as the Indenture shall
not have been terminated in accordance with its terms, this Agreement and the
Trust created hereby are irrevocable by the Owner Trustee and the Seller, unless
the Indenture Trustee and the Certificateholders consent in writing to such
termination. This Agreement (other than Section 6.9) and the Trust shall
terminate and be of no further force or effect on the earlier of: (i) the final
distribution by the Owner Trustee of all monies or other property or proceeds of
the Owner Trust Estate in accordance with the terms of the Indenture, the Sale
and Servicing Agreement (including the exercise by CITSF of its option to
purchase the Contracts pursuant to Section 11.01 of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement or resulting from the mandatory sale of all Contracts pursuant to
Section 11.02 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement) and Article V or (ii) twenty-
one years less one day after the death of the last survivor of all of the
descendants of the grandparents of Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxxx living on the date of
the earliest execution of this Agreement by any party hereto, but if this
Agreement and the Trust created hereby shall be or become authorized under
applicable law to be valid for a period commencing on the twenty-first
anniversary of the death of such last survivor (or, without limiting the
generality of the foregoing, if legislation shall become effective providing for
the validity of this Agreement and the Trust created hereby for a period in
gross exceeding the period for which this Agreement and the Trust created hereby
are hereinabove stated to extend and be valid), then this Agreement and the
Trust created hereby shall not terminate under this subsection (ii), but shall
extend to and continue in effect, but only if such non-termination and extension
shall then be valid under applicable law, until the day proceeding such date as
the same shall, under applicable law, cease to be valid. Upon such termination,
all monies or other property or proceeds constituting part of the Owner Trust
Estate shall be distributed in accordance with the terms of the Agreement. The
bankruptcy, liquidation, dissolution, death or incapacity of any
Certificateholder, including the holder of the AO Interest, shall not (x)
operate to terminate this Agreement or the Trust, nor (y) entitle such
Certificateholder's legal representatives or heirs to claim an accounting or to
take any action or proceeding in any court for a partition or winding up of all
or any part of the Trust or the Owner Trust Estate nor (z) otherwise affect the
rights, obligations and liabilities of the parties hereto. The bankruptcy,
liquidation or dissolution of the Owner Trustee (or any other beneficiary
herewith) will not terminate this Agreement or the Trust, nor entitle such
person's legal representatives or heirs, as appropriate, to claim an accounting
or to take any action or proceeding in any court for a partition or winding up
of the Trust or Owner Trust Estate, nor otherwise affect the rights, obligations
and liabilities of the parties hereto. No creditor of any Certificateholder
shall obtain legal title to or exercise legal or equitable remedies with respect
to the Owner Trust Estate as a result of such Certificateholder's holding of the
Certificate. No transfer, by
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operation of law or otherwise, of any right, title and interest of any
Certificateholder in and to its undivided beneficial interest in the Owner Trust
Estate shall operate to terminate this Agreement or the Trust created hereby.
(b) Except as provided in Section 7.1(a), neither the Seller nor the
holder of the AO Interest nor any Certificateholder shall be entitled to revoke
or terminate the Trust.
(c) Notice of any termination of the Trust, specifying the Distribution
Date upon which the Certificateholders shall surrender their Certificates to the
Paying Agent for payment of the final distribution and cancellation, shall be
given by the Owner Trustee by letter to Certificateholders mailed within five
Business Days of receipt of notice of such termination from CITSF given pursuant
to Section 11.01 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, or within five Business
Days of the Owner Trustee receiving notice of such termination from the
Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section 11.02 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement,
stating: (i) the Distribution Date upon or with respect to which final payment
of the Certificates shall be made upon presentation and surrender of the
Certificates at the office of the Paying Agent therein designated; (ii) the
amount of any such final payment; and (iii) that the Record Date otherwise
applicable to such Distribution Date is not applicable, payments being made only
upon presentation and surrender of the Certificates at the office of the Paying
Agent therein specified. The Owner Trustee shall give such notice to the
Certificate Registrar (if other than the Owner Trustee) and the Paying Agent at
the time such notice is given to Certificateholders. Upon presentation and
surrender of the Certificates, the Paying Agent shall cause to be distributed to
Certificateholders amounts distributable on such Distribution Date pursuant to
Section 5.2.
(d) If all of the Certificateholders shall not surrender their
Certificates for cancellation within six months after the date specified in the
above mentioned written notice, the Owner Trustee shall give a second written
notice to the remaining Certificateholders to surrender their Certificates for
cancellation and receive the final distribution with respect thereto. If within
one year after the second notice all the Certificates shall not have been
surrendered for cancellation, the Owner Trustee may take appropriate steps, or
may appoint an agent to take appropriate steps, to contact the remaining
Certificateholders concerning surrender of their Certificates, and the cost
thereof shall be paid out of the funds and other assets that shall remain
subject to this Agreement. Subject to applicable laws with respect to escheat of
funds, any funds remaining in the Trust after exhaustion of such remedies in the
preceding sentence shall be deemed property of the holder of the AO Interest and
distributed by the Owner Trustee to the holder of the AO Interest.
(e) Upon the winding up of the Trust and its termination, the Owner
Trustee shall cause the Certificate of Trust to be canceled by filing a
certificate of cancellation with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware
in accordance with the provisions of Section 3810 of the Business Trust Statute.
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ARTICLE VIII
AMENDMENTS
SECTION 8.1 Amendments Without Consent of Certificateholders or
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Noteholders. This Agreement may be amended by the Seller and the Owner Trustee
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without the consent of any of the Noteholders or the Certificateholders (but
with prior written notice to each of the Rating Agencies and, in the case of
clauses (iii) and (vi), satisfaction of the Rating Agency Condition), to (i)
correct manifest error or cure any ambiguity, (ii) correct or supplement any
provision in this Agreement that may be inconsistent with any other provision in
this Agreement, (iii) add or amend any provision as requested by Moody's or
Standard & Poor's to maintain or improve the rating of the Notes or
Certificates, (iv) add to the covenants, restrictions or obligations of the
Seller, the holder of the AO Interest, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture
Trustee, (v) evidence and provide for the acceptance of the appointment of a
successor trustee with respect to the Owner Trust Estate and add to or change
any provisions as shall be necessary to facilitate the administration of the
trusts hereunder by more than one trustee pursuant to Article VI and (vi) add,
change or eliminate any other provision of this Agreement provided that an
amendment pursuant to this clause (vi), as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel,
does not adversely affect in any material respect the interests of the
Noteholders or the Certificateholders.
SECTION 8.2 Amendments With Consent of Certificateholders and
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Noteholders. This Agreement may be amended from time to time by the Seller and
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the Owner Trustee with the consent of Noteholders whose Notes evidence not less
than a majority of the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Notes as of
the close of the preceding Distribution Date and the consent of
Certificateholders whose Certificates evidence not less than a majority of the
Certificate Balance as of the close of the preceding Distribution Date (which
consent, whether given pursuant to this Section 8.2 or pursuant to any other
provision of this Agreement, shall be conclusive and binding on such Person and
on all future Holders of such Notes or Certificates and of any Notes or
Certificates issued upon the transfer thereof or in exchange thereof or in lieu
thereof whether or not notation of such consent is made upon the Notes or
Certificates) for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any
manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Agreement, or of modifying
in any manner the rights of the Noteholders or the Certificateholders; provided,
however, that no such amendment shall increase or reduce in any manner the
amount of, or accelerate or delay the timing of, distributions that shall be
required to be made on any Note or Certificate, the Pass Through Rate or any
Interest Rate. The Owner Trustee shall furnish notice to each of the Rating
Agencies prior to obtaining consent to any proposed amendment under this Section
8.2.
SECTION 8.3 Form of Amendments.
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(a) Promptly after the execution of any amendment, supplement or
consent pursuant to Section 8.1 or 8.2, the Owner Trustee shall furnish written
notification of the substance of such amendment or consent to each
Certificateholder and the Indenture Trustee.
(b) It shall not be necessary for the consent of Certificateholders,
the Noteholders or the Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section 8.2 to approve the
particular form of any
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proposed amendment or consent, but it shall be sufficient if such consent shall
approve the substance thereof. The manner of obtaining such consents (and any
other consents of Certificateholders provided for in this Agreement or in any
other Basic Document) and of evidencing the authorization of the execution
thereof by Certificateholders shall be subject to such reasonable requirements
as the Owner Trustee may prescribe.
(c) Promptly after the execution of any amendment to the Certificate of
Trust, the Owner Trustee shall cause the filing of such amendment with the
Secretary of State of the State of Delaware.
(d) Prior to the execution of any amendment to this Agreement or the
Certificate of Trust, the Owner Trustee shall be entitled to receive and rely
upon an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such amendment is
authorized or permitted by this Agreement. The Owner Trustee may, but shall not
be obligated to, enter into any such amendment which affects the Owner Trustee's
own rights, duties or immunities under this Agreement or otherwise.
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ARTICLE IX
MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 9.1 No Legal Title to Owner Trust Estate. The
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Certificateholders shall not have legal title to any part of the Owner Trust
Estate. The Certificateholders shall be entitled to receive distributions with
respect to their undivided ownership interest therein only in accordance with
Articles V and VII. No transfer, by operation of law or otherwise, of any right,
title, and interest of the Certificateholders to and in their ownership interest
in the Owner Trust Estate shall operate to terminate this Agreement or the
trusts hereunder or entitle any transferee to an accounting or to the transfer
to it of legal title to any part of the Owner Trust Estate.
SECTION 9.2 Limitations on Rights of Others. Except as expressly
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provided herein, the provisions of this Agreement are solely for the benefit of
the Owner Trustee, the Seller, the Certificateholders, the Servicer and, to the
extent expressly provided herein, the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders, and
nothing in this Agreement, whether express or implied, shall be construed to
give to any other Person any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim in the
Owner Trust Estate or under or in respect of this Agreement or any covenants,
conditions or provisions contained herein.
SECTION 9.3 Notices.
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(a) All demands, notices and communications upon or to the Seller, the
Servicer, the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee or the Rating Agencies under
this Agreement shall be in writing personally delivered, sent by electronic
facsimile (with hard copy to follow via first class mail), provided, however,
receipt of such is acknowledged by return facsimile or otherwise in writing, or
mailed by certified mail-return receipt requested, and shall be deemed to have
been duly given upon receipt (a) in the case of the Seller, at the following
address: 000 XXX Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx, X.X. 00000, (b) in the case of the Servicer,
at the following address: 000 XXX Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx, X.X. 00000, (c) in the case
of the Indenture Trustee, at its Corporate Trust Office, (d) in the case of the
Trust or the Owner Trustee, to the Owner Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office,
(e) in the case of Xxxxx'x Investors Service, Inc., to Xxxxx'x Investors
Service, Inc., ABS Monitoring Department, 00 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx
00000 and (f) in the case of Standard & Poor's Ratings Service, to Standard &
Poor's Ratings Service, 00 Xxxxxxxx (00xx Xxxxx), Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000,
Attention: Asset-Backed Surveillance Department, or at such other address as
shall be designated by such Person in a written notice to the other parties to
this Agreement.
(b) Any notice required or permitted to be given to a Certificateholder
shall be given by first-class mail, postage prepaid, at the address of such
Holder as shown in the Certificate Register. Any notice so mailed within the
time prescribed in this Agreement shall be conclusively presumed to have been
duly given, whether or not the Certificateholder receives such notice.
SECTION 9.4 Severability. If any one or more of the covenants,
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agreements, provisions or terms of this Agreement shall be for any reason
whatsoever held invalid, then such covenants, agreements, provisions or terms
shall be deemed severable from the remaining covenants, agreements, provisions
or terms of this Agreement and shall in no way affect the
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validity or enforceability of the other provisions of this Agreement or of the
Certificates or the rights of the holders thereof.
SECTION 9.5 Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed by the parties
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hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed and delivered
shall be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute one
and the same instrument.
SECTION 9.6 Successors and Assigns. All covenants and agreements
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contained herein shall be binding upon, and inure to the benefit of, the Seller,
the Owner Trustee and each Certificateholder and their respective successors and
permitted assigns, all as herein provided. Any request, notice, direction,
consent, waiver or other instrument or action by a Certificateholder shall bind
the successors and assigns of such Certificateholder.
SECTION 9.7 No Petition Covenant. Notwithstanding any prior termination
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of this Agreement, the Trust (or the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Trust), the
Owner Trustee, each Certificateholder, the Indenture Trustee and each Noteholder
or Note Owner shall not, prior to the date which is one year and one day after
the termination of this Agreement with respect to the Seller or the Trust,
acquiesce, petition or otherwise invoke or cause the Seller or the Trust to
invoke the process of any court or governmental authority for the purpose of
commencing or sustaining a case against the Seller or the Trust under any
federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law or appointing a receiver,
liquidator, assignee, trustee, custodian, sequestrator or other similar official
of the Seller or the Trust or any substantial part of its property, or ordering
the winding up or liquidation of the affairs of the Seller or the Trust.
SECTION 9.8 No Recourse. Each Certificateholder by accepting a
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Certificate acknowledges that such Certificateholder's Certificates represent
beneficial interests in the Trust only and do not represent interests in or
obligations of the Seller, the holder of the AO Interest, the Servicer, the
Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee or any Affiliate thereof and no recourse
may be had against such parties or their assets, except as may be expressly set
forth or contemplated in this Agreement, the Certificates or the Basic
Documents.
SECTION 9.9 Headings. The headings of the various Articles and Sections
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herein are for convenience of reference only and shall not define or limit any
of the terms or provisions hereof.
SECTION 9.10 Governing Law. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN
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ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS
CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISIONS, AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE
PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.
SECTION 9.11 Certificate Transfer Restrictions.
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The Certificates may not be acquired by or for the account of (i) a non-
United States person as defined in (S)7701(a) of the Code, (ii) an employee
benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) that is subject to the
provisions of Title I of ERISA, (iii) a plan described in Section
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4975(e)(1) of the Code or (iv) any entity whose underlying assets include plan
assets by reason of a plan's investment in the entity (each, a "Benefit Plan").
No transfer of a Certificate may be made unless the Certificate Registrar shall
have received from the prospective transferee of such Certificate a
representation letter substantially in the form of Exhibit C, that such
transferee is not subject to the foregoing limitation.
SECTION 9.12 Indemnification by the Servicer. The Owner Trustee further
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acknowledges and accepts the conditions and limitations with respect to the
Servicer's obligation to indemnify, defend and hold the Owner Trustee harmless
as set forth in Section 8.02 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Trust Agreement
to be duly executed by their respective officers hereunto duly authorized, as of
the day and year first above written.
FIRST OMNI BANK, N.A.,
as Owner Trustee
By: /s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
___________________________
Name: Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
Title: Vice President
THE CIT GROUP SECURITIZATION
CORPORATION II
By: /s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxx
___________________________
Name: Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Title: Vice President
Accepted and Agreed
with respect to the
provisions relating to
the intended holder of
the AO Interest:
THE CIT GP CORPORATION III
By: /s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxx
___________________________
Name: Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Title: Vice President
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EXHIBIT A
NUMBER ______ ORIGINAL CERTIFICATE BALANCE $ _________________
FRACTIONAL UNDIVIDED INTEREST: ___%
SEE REVERSE FOR CERTAIN DEFINITIONS
NO INTEREST IN THIS CERTIFICATE MAY BE ACQUIRED BY OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF
(i) A NON-UNITED STATES PERSON, AS DEFINED IN SECTION 7701(A) OF THE CODE, (ii)
AN "EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN" (AS DEFINED IN SECTION 3(3) OF THE EMPLOYEE
RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED, ("ERISA")) THAT IS SUBJECT
TO THE PROVISIONS OF TITLE I OF ERISA, (iii) A PLAN DESCRIBED IN SECTION
4975(e)(1) OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED (INCLUDING, WITHOUT
LIMITATION, INDIVIDUAL RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS AND XXXXX PLANS), OR (iv) ANY ENTITY
WHOSE UNDERLYING ASSETS INCLUDE PLAN ASSETS BY REASON OF A PLAN'S INVESTMENT IN
THE ENTITY.
CIT RV TRUST 1997-A
6.800% ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATE
evidencing a fractional undivided interest in the Trust, as defined below, the
property of which includes a pool of retail installment sale contracts secured
by new and used recreation vehicles and sold to the Trust by The CIT Group
Securitization Corporation II (This Certificate does not represent an interest
in or obligation of The CIT Group Securitization Corporation II, The CIT
Group/Sales Financing, Inc. or The CIT Group, Inc. or any of their respective
affiliates.)
THIS CERTIFIES THAT _____________________________________________ is the
registered owner of a nonassessable, fully-paid, fractional undivided interest
in CIT RV Trust 1997-A (the "Trust") formed by The CIT Group Securitization
Corporation II, a Delaware corporation, represented by the Original Certificate
Balance specified above.
The Trust was created pursuant to a Trust Agreement, dated as of
November 1, 1997 (as amended and supplemented from time to time, the "Trust
Agreement"), between the Seller and, First Omni Bank, N.A. as owner trustee (the
"Owner Trustee"), a summary of certain of the pertinent provisions of which is
set forth below. To the extent not otherwise defined herein, the capitalized
terms used herein have the meanings assigned to them in the Trust Agreement.
This Certificate is one of the duly authorized Certificates designated
as 6.800% Asset-Backed Certificates (the "Certificates"). This Certificate is
issued under and is subject to the terms, provisions and conditions of the Trust
Agreement, to which Trust Agreement the holder of this Certificate by virtue of
the acceptance hereof assents and by which such holder is bound. The property of
the Trust includes a pool of simple interest retail installment sale contracts
(the "Contracts") secured by the new and used recreation vehicles financed
thereby (the "Financed
Vehicles"), certain monies received under the Contracts on and after November 1,
1997 (the "Cut-off Date"), the Collection Account, the Reserve Account, the Note
Distribution Account and the Certificate Distribution Account, in each case
together with the proceeds thereof, the proceeds from claims under certain
insurance policies in respect of individual Financed Vehicles or the related
Obligors and certain rights under the Sale and Servicing Agreement. The rights
of the holders of the Certificates are subordinated to the rights of the holders
of the Notes, as set forth in the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
Under the Trust Agreement, there shall be distributed on the 15th day of
each month or, if such 15th day is not a Business Day, the next Business Day,
commencing December 15, 1997 (each, a "Distribution Date"), to the person in
whose name this Certificate is registered on the related Record Date (as defined
below), such Certificateholder's fractional undivided interest as set forth
above in the amount of interest and principal to be distributed to
Certificateholders on such Distribution Date. Interest in respect of a
Distribution Date will accrue at the Pass-Through Rate shown above during the
related Interest Accrual Period. On each Distribution Date accrued interest at
the Pass-Through Rate on the outstanding Certificate Balance of this Certificate
shall be distributed, to the extent of the Available Amount remaining after
payment of the Servicer Payment and interest and principal due on the Notes on
such Distribution Date. To the extent the remaining Available Amount on a
Distribution Date is insufficient to pay Certificateholders the entire amount of
interest due on such Distribution Date, such shortfall will be funded from the
Reserve Account, subject to the Available Amount remaining after any withdrawal
from the Reserve Account to make payments of interest and principal due on the
Notes on such Distribution Date, as more specifically set forth in the Sale and
Servicing Agreement. Interest on this Certificate for any Distribution Date due
but not paid on such Distribution Date will be due on the next Distribution Date
in addition to an amount equal to interest on such amount at the Pass-Through
Rate (to the extent lawful). Interest on this Certificate will be calculated on
the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months. The "Record
Date," with respect to any Distribution Date, means the last Business Day of the
month immediately preceding the month in which such Distribution Date occurs.
On each Distribution Date prior to the Distribution Date on which the
Notes have been paid in full (the "Cross-over Date"), the Holder of this
Certificate will not be entitled to any payments of principal.
On each Distribution Date on or after the Cross-over Date, principal of
this Certificate will be payable, subject to the remaining Available Amount and
the remaining Available Reserve Amount, in an amount equal to the
Certificateholders' Principal Distribution Amount with respect to such
Distribution Date. Such principal payments will be funded to the extent of the
Available Amount remaining after payment of the Servicer Payment, payment of
interest and principal in respect of the Notes on the Cross-over Date, and
payment of interest due on the Certificates on such Distribution Date. To the
extent the remaining Available Amount on a Distribution Date is insufficient to
fund the entire Certificateholders' Principal Distribution Amount due on such
Distribution Date, such shortfall will be funded from the Reserve Account,
subject to the Available Reserve Amount remaining after any withdrawals from the
Reserve Account to make
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payments of interest and principal due on the Notes and interest due on the
Certificates on such Distribution Date, as more specifically set forth in the
Sale and Servicing Agreement.
The distributions in respect of Certificate Balance and interest on this
Certificate are payable in such coin or currency of the United States of America
as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private
debts. All payments made by the Trust with respect to this Certificate shall be
applied, to the extent of the remaining Available Amount and the remaining
Available Reserve Amount, first to interest due and payable on this Certificate
as provided above and then to the unpaid distributions in respect of Certificate
Balance on this Certificate.
The holder of this Certificate acknowledges and agrees that its rights
to receive distributions in respect of this Certificate are subordinated to the
rights of the Noteholders as and to the extent described in the Sale and
Servicing Agreement and the Indenture.
It is the intent of the Seller, the Servicer and the Certificateholders
that, for purposes of federal income, state and local income and franchise taxes
and any other taxes imposed upon, measured by or based upon gross or net income,
the Trust shall be treated as a partnership. Except as otherwise required by
appropriate taxing authorities, the Seller and the other Certificateholders by
acceptance of a Certificate, agree to treat, and to take no action inconsistent
with the treatment of, the Certificates for such tax purposes as interests in
such partnership.
Each Certificateholder by its acceptance of a Certificate covenants and
agrees that such Certificateholder shall not, prior to the date which is one
year and one day after the termination of the Trust Agreement, acquiesce,
petition or otherwise invoke or cause the Seller or the Issuer to invoke the
process of any court or governmental authority for the purpose of commencing or
sustaining a case against the Seller or the Issuer under any federal or state
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar law or appointing a receiver,
liquidator, assignee, trustee, custodian, sequestrator or other similar official
of the Seller or the Issuer or any substantial part of its property, or ordering
the winding up or liquidation of the affairs of the Seller or the Issuer.
Distributions on this Certificate shall be made as provided in the Trust
Agreement by the Owner Trustee by wire transfer or check mailed to the
Certificateholder of record in the Certificate Register without the presentation
or surrender of this certificate or the making of any notation hereon. Except as
otherwise provided in the Trust Agreement and notwithstanding the above, the
final distribution on this Certificate shall be made after due notice by the
Owner Trustee of the pendency of such distribution and only upon presentation
and surrender of this Certificate at the office maintained for such purpose by
the Owner Trustee.
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Certificate
set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes
have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon shall have been executed
by an authorized officer of the Owner Trustee by manual signature, this
Certificate shall not entitle the
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holder hereof to any benefit under the Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing
Agreement or be valid for any purpose.
THIS CERTIFICATE SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE
STATE OF DELAWARE, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISIONS, AND THE
OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE DETERMINED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Owner Trustee, on behalf of the Trust and not in
its individual capacity, has caused this Certificate to be duly executed.
CIT RV TRUST 1997-A
BY: FIRST OMNI BANK, N.A.
not in its individual capacity,
but solely as Owner Trustee
By: ________________________
Name:
Title:
Dated: _____________________
OWNER TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Certificates referred to in the within-mentioned
Trust Agreement.
FIRST OMNI BANK, N.A.
not in its individual
capacity but solely
as Owner Trustee
By: ____________________________
First Omni Bank, N.A., as
authenticating agent
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REVERSE OF CERTIFICATE
The Certificates do not represent an obligation of, or an interest in,
the Seller, the Servicer, The CIT Group, Inc., the holder of the AO Interest,
the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee or any affiliates of any of them and no
recourse may be had against such parties or their assets, except as may be
expressly set forth or contemplated herein or in the Trust Agreement or the
Basic Documents. In addition, this Certificate is not guaranteed by any
governmental agency or instrumentality and is limited in right of payment to
certain collections and recoveries with respect to the Contracts (and certain
other amounts), all as more specifically set forth herein and in the Trust
Agreement and the Sale and Servicing Agreement. A copy of each of the Sale and
Servicing Agreement and the Trust Agreement may be examined during normal
business hours at the principal office of the Seller, and at such other places,
if any, designated by the Seller, by any Certificateholder upon written request.
The Trust Agreement permits, with certain exceptions therein provided,
the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the
Seller and the rights of the Certificateholders under the Trust Agreement at any
time by the Seller and the Owner Trustee with the consent of the Holders of the
Notes evidencing not less than a majority of the aggregate outstanding principal
amount of the Notes as of the close of the preceding Distribution Date and the
consent of Certificateholders whose Certificates evidence not less than a
majority of the Certificate Balance as of the close of the preceding
Distribution Date. Any such consent by the Holder of this Certificate shall be
conclusive and binding on such holder and on all future Holders of this
Certificate and of any Certificate issued upon the transfer hereof or in
exchange herefor or in lieu hereof whether or not notation of such consent is
made upon this Certificate. The Trust Agreement also permits the amendment
thereof, in certain circumstances, without the consent of the Holders of any of
the Certificates or the Notes.
As provided in the Trust Agreement and subject to certain limitations
therein set forth, the transfer of this Certificate is registerable in the
Certificate Register upon surrender of this Certificate for registration of
transfer at the offices or agencies of the Certificate Registrar maintained by
the Owner Trustee for such purposes, accompanied by a written instrument of
transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar
duly executed by the Holder hereof or such Holder's attorney duly authorized in
writing and thereupon one or more new Certificates of authorized denominations
evidencing the same aggregate interest in the Trust will be issued to the
designated transferee. The initial Certificate Registrar appointed under the
Trust Agreement is First Omni Bank, N.A.
Neither this Certificate nor any beneficial interest herein may be
directly or indirectly assigned, sold, pledged, hypothecated or otherwise
transferred except upon satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 9.11
of the Trust Agreement pursuant to which this Certificate was issued. Any
attempted transfer in violation of such restrictions shall be null and void and
shall vest no rights in any purported transferee, and shall subject the Holder
hereof to liability for any tax imposed (and related expenses, if any) with
respect to such attempted transfer.
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The Certificates are issuable only as registered Certificates without
coupons in denominations of $20,000 or integral multiples of $1,000 in excess
thereof; provided, however, that one Certificate may be issued in a denomination
other than an integral multiple of $1,000 such that the holder of the AO
Interest may own at least 1% of the Certificate Balance (as described in the
Trust Agreement). As provided in the Trust Agreement and subject to certain
limitations therein set forth, Certificates are exchangeable for new
Certificates of authorized denominations evidencing the same aggregate
denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same; provided,
however, that no Certificate may be subdivided such that the denomination of any
resulting Certificate is less than $20,000. No service charge shall be made for
any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Owner Trustee or the
Certificate Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax
or governmental charge payable in connection therewith.
The Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and any agent of the Owner
Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may treat the person in whose name this
Certificate is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, and none of the
Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar or any such agent shall be affected by
any notice to the contrary.
The obligations and responsibilities created by the Trust Agreement and
the Trust created thereby shall terminate upon the payment to Certificateholders
of all amounts required to be paid to them pursuant to the Trust Agreement and
the Sale and Servicing Agreement and the disposition of all property held as
part of the Trust. CITSF may at its option purchase the Contracts at a price
specified in the Sale and Servicing Agreement, and such purchase of the
Contracts shall effect early retirement of the Certificates; provided, however,
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that such right of purchase is exercisable on any Distribution Date as of which
the Pool Balance as of the last day of the related Due Period is 10% or less of
the Initial Pool Balance. In addition, within ten days following the first
Distribution Date as of which the Pool Balance as of the last day of the related
Due Period is 5% or less of the Initial Pool Balance an auction sale of the
remaining Contracts may be conducted (in each case, as described in the Sale and
Servicing Agreement) and such auction may effect early retirement of the
Certificates.
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ASSIGNMENT
FOR VALUE RECEIVED the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto
PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY
OR OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER
OF ASSIGNEE
______________________________________________________________________________
(Please print or type name and address, including postal zip code, of assignee)
______________________________________________________________________________
the within Certificate, and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably
constituting and appointing
______________________________________________________________________ Attorney
to transfer said Certificate on the books of the Certificate Registrar, with
full power of substitution in the premises.
Dated:______________ _____________________*
Signature Guaranteed: _____________________
* NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as it
appears upon the face of the within Certificate in every particular, without
alteration, enlargement or any change whatever. Such signature must be
guaranteed by an "eligible guarantor institution" meeting the requirements of
the Certificate Registrar, which requirements include membership or
participation in the Securities Transfer Agent's Medallion Program ("STAMP") or
such other "signature guarantee program" as may be determined by the Certificate
Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with
the Exchange Act.
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EXHIBIT B
CERTIFICATE OF TRUST OF
CIT RV TRUST 1997-A
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THIS Certificate of Trust of CIT RV Trust 1997-A (the "Trust"), dated as of
November 1, 1997, is being duly executed and filed by First Omni Bank, N.A., a
national banking association, as trustee, to form a business trust under the
Delaware Business Trust Act (12 Del. C. 3801 et seq.).
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1. Name. The name of the business trust formed hereby is CIT RV Trust
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1997-A.
2. Delaware Trustee. The name and business address of the Trustee
resident in the State of Delaware is First Omni Bank, N.A., 000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxxx, XX 00000.
3. This Certificate of Trust shall be effective as of November __,
1997. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, being the trustee of the Trust, has
executed this Certificate of Trust as of the date first-above written.
First Omni Bank, N.A., not in its individual capacity but solely as
Owner Trustee under a Trust Agreement dated as of November 1, 1997
By: ________________________________________
Name:
Title:
EXHIBIT C
FORM OF CIT RV TRUST 1997-A CERTIFICATE TRANSFEREE LETTER
First Omni Bank, N.A., as Certificate Registrar and Owner Trustee
Re: $564,122,864 CIT RV Trust 1997-A
Ladies and Gentlemen:
This letter is delivered pursuant to Section 9.11 of the Trust Agreement, dated
as of November 1, 1997 (the "Agreement"), between The CIT Group Securitization
Corporation II, as seller and First Omni Bank, N.A., as Owner Trustee, in
connection with the transfer by [________________] to the undersigned (the
"Transferee") of $ Original Certificate Balance, in
certificated, fully registered form (such registered interest being the
"Certificates"). Terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings
ascribed thereto in the Agreement.
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(Initial)
I. The Transferee is not acquiring such Certificate, directly or indirectly,
for or on behalf of, an employee benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(3)
of ERISA) that is subject to Title I of ERISA or a plan (including an
individual retirement account) as described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the
Code or any entity (including an insurance company general account) whose
underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan or account
investing in such entity, or a person acting on behalf of any such plan.
II. Non-Foreign Status:
For Individuals
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(Initial)
(1) The Transferee hereby certifies under penalties of perjury that it is not a
nonresident alien for purposes of income taxation (as such term is defined
in the Code and Income Tax Regulations).
For Entities
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(Initial)
(2) The Transferee hereby certifies under penalties of perjury that it is not a
foreign corporation, foreign partnership, foreign trust or foreign estate
(as those terms are defined in the Code and Income Tax Regulations).
General - for All Investors
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(Initial)
(3) The Transferee understands that the information contained in this Item II
may be disclosed to the Internal Revenue Service by the Trust and that any
false statement contained in this Item II could be punished by fine,
imprisonment or both.
III. Transferee's U.S. Employer Identification Number is
[_____________].
IV. Please make all payments due on the Certificates:
(a) by wire transfer to the following account at a bank or other entity in the
United States, having appropriate facilities therefor:
Account Number ______________________ Institution
(b) by mailing a check to the following address:
______________________________
______________________________
______________________________
Very truly yours,
[Name of Transferee]
By: ___________________________
Name:
Title:
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