POTLATCH CORPORATION
TO
BANKERS TRUST COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA,
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
TRUSTEE
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INDENTURE
DATED AS OF NOVEMBER 27, 1990
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Exhibit (4)(a)
POTLATCH CORPORATION
RECONCILIATION AND TIE BETWEEN TRUST INDENTURE ACT OF 1939 AND
INDENTURE, DATED AS OF NOVEMBER 27, 1990
TRUST INDENTURE
ACT SECTION INDENTURE SECTION
Section 310(a)(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609
(a)(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609
(a)(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Not Applicable
(a)(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Not Applicable
(a)(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608
610
Section 311(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613(a)
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613(b)
(b)(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703(a)(2)
703(b)
Section 312(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 701
702(a)
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 702(b)
(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 702(c)
Section 313(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703(a)
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703(b)
(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703(a), 703(b)
(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703(c)
Section 314(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 704
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Not Applicable
(c)(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
(c)(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
(c)(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Not Applicable
(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Not Applicable
(e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Section 315(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601(a)
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602
703(a)(6)
(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601(b)
(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601(c)
(d)(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601(a)(1)
(d)(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601(c)(2)
(d)(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601(c)(3)
(e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514
Section 316(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
(a)(1)(A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502
512
(a)(1)(B) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513
(a)(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Not Applicable
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508
(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104(g)
Section 317(a)(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503
(a)(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1003
Section 318(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
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NOTE: This reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a
part of the Indenture.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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PARTIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
RECITALS OF THE COMPANY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
ARTICLE ONE
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION
SECTION 101. Definitions:
Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Affiliate; control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Attributable Debt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Authenticating Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Authorized Newspaper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Board of Directors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Board Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Business Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Commission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Company Request; Company Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Consolidated Net Tangible Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Corporate Trust Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Defaulted Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Depository . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Event of Default . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Funded Indebtedness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Global Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Holder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
indebtedness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Indenture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Interest Payment Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Lien . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Maturity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Officers' Certificate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Opinion of Counsel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Original Issue Discount Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Outstanding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Paying Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Place of Payment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
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NOTE: This table of contents shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a part
of the Indenture.
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Predecessor Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Principal Property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Redemption Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Redemption Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Registered Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Regular Record Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Repayment Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Repayment Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Responsible Officer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Security Register and Security Registrar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
series or series of Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Special Record Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Stated Maturity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Subsidiary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
timberlands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Trust Indenture Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
U.S. Government Obligations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
U.S. Person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Unregistered Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Vice President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Yield to Maturity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
SECTION 102. Compliance Certificates and Opinions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
SECTION 103. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
SECTION 104. Acts of Holders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
SECTION 105. Notices, Etc., to Trustee and Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
SECTION 106. Notice to Holders; Waiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
SECTION 107. Conflict With Trust Indenture Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
SECTION 108. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
SECTION 109. Successors and Assigns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
SECTION 110. Separability Clause . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
SECTION 111. Benefits of Indenture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
SECTION 112. Governing Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
SECTION 113. Legal Holidays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
SECTION 114. Rules by Trustee and Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
SECTION 115. No Recourse Against Others . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
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ARTICLE TWO
SECURITY FORMS
SECTION 201. Forms Generally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
SECTION 202. Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
ARTICLE THREE
THE SECURITIES
SECTION 301. Amount Unlimited, Issuable in Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
SECTION 302. Denominations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
SECTION 303. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
SECTION 304. Temporary Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
SECTION 305. Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
SECTION 306. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
SECTION 307. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
SECTION 308. Persons Deemed Owners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
SECTION 309. Cancellation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
SECTION 310. Computation of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
SECTION 311. Global Securities; Exchanges; Registration and Registration of Transfer . . . . . . . . . . . 32
ARTICLE FOUR
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
SECTION 401. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
SECTION 402. Application of Trust Money . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
SECTION 403. Satisfaction, Discharge and Defeasance of Securities of Any Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
ARTICLE FIVE
REMEDIES
SECTION 501. Events of Default . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
SECTION 502. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
SECTION 503. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
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SECTION 504. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
SECTION 505. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities or Coupons . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
SECTION 506. Application of Money Collected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
SECTION 507. Limitation on Suits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
SECTION 508. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and Interest . . . . . . . . . . 45
SECTION 509. Restoration of Rights and Remedies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
SECTION 510. Rights and Remedies Cumulative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
SECTION 511. Delay or Omission Not Waiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
SECTION 512. Control by Holders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
SECTION 513. Waiver of Past Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
SECTION 514. Undertaking for Costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
SECTION 515. Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
ARTICLE SIX
THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 601. Certain Duties and Responsibilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
SECTION 602. Notice of Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
SECTION 603. Certain Rights of Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
SECTION 604. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
SECTION 605. May Hold Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
SECTION 606. Money Held in Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
SECTION 607. Compensation and Reimbursement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
SECTION 608. Disqualification; Conflicting Interests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
SECTION 609. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
SECTION 610. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
SECTION 611. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
SECTION 612. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
SECTION 613. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
SECTION 614. Appointment of Authenticating Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
ARTICLE SEVEN
HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY
SECTION 701. Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
SECTION 702. Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
SECTION 703. Reports by Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
SECTION 704. Reports by Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
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ARTICLE EIGHT
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE OR TRANSFER
PAGE
SECTION 801. Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
SECTION 802. Successor Corporation Substituted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
SECTION 803. Limitation on Lease of Properties as Entirety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
ARTICLE NINE
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
SECTION 901. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
SECTION 902. Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Holders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
SECTION 903. Execution of Supplemental Indentures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
SECTION 904. Effect of Supplemental Indentures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
SECTION 905. Conformity With Trust Indenture Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
SECTION 906. Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
SECTION 907. Revocation and Effect of Consents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
ARTICLE TEN
COVENANTS
SECTION 1001. Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
SECTION 1002. Maintenance of Office or Agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
SECTION 1003. Money for Securities Payments to Be Held in Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
SECTION 1004. Corporate Existence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
SECTION 1005. Limitations on Liens and Encumbrances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
SECTION 1006. Limitations on Sale and Leaseback Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
SECTION 1007. Defeasance of Certain Obligations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
SECTION 1008. Statement by Officers as to Default . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
SECTION 1009. Waiver of Certain Covenants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
ARTICLE ELEVEN
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 1101. Applicability of Article . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
SECTION 1102. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
SECTION 1103. Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
SECTION 1104. Notice of Redemption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
SECTION 1105. Deposit of Redemption Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
SECTION 1106. Securities Payable on Redemption Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
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SECTION 1107. Securities Redeemed in Part . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
ARTICLE TWELVE
SINKING FUNDS
SECTION 1201. Applicability of Article . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
SECTION 1202. Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments With Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
SECTION 1203. Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
ARTICLE THIRTEEN
REPAYMENT OF SECURITIES AT OPTION OF HOLDERS
SECTION 1301. Applicability of Article . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
SECTION 1302. Notice of Repayment Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
SECTION 1303. Deposit of Repayment Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
SECTION 1304. Securities Payable on Repayment Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
SECTION 1305. Securities Repaid in Part . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
TESTIMONIUM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
SIGNATURES AND SEALS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
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INDENTURE, dated as of November 27, 1990, between Potlatch
Corporation, a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the
State of Delaware (herein called the "Company"), having its principal office at
Xxx Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000, and Bankers Trust Company
of California, National Association (herein called the "Trustee").
RECITALS OF THE COMPANY
The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this
Indenture to provide for the issuance from time to time of its unsecured and
nonconvertible debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness (each
herein called a "Security" or collectively the "Securities"), to be issued in
one or more series as in this Indenture provided.
All things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement of the
Company, in accordance with its terms, have been done.
Now, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the
Securities by the Holders thereof, it is mutually covenanted and agreed, for
the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Securities or of
any series thereof, as follows:
ARTICLE ONE
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS
OF GENERAL APPLICATION
SECTION 101. Definitions.
For all purposes of this Indenture, except as otherwise expressly
provided or unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) the terms defined in this Article have the
meanings assigned to them in this Article and include the
plural as well as the singular;
(2) all other terms used herein which are defined
in the Trust Indenture Act, either directly or by reference
therein, have the meanings assigned to them therein;
(3) all accounting terms not otherwise defined
herein have the meanings assigned to them in accordance with
generally accepted accounting
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principles, and, except as otherwise herein expressly provided, the
term "generally accepted accounting principles" with respect to any
computation required or permitted hereunder shall mean such accounting
principles as are generally accepted at the date of this
instrument; and
(4) the words "herein", "hereof" and "hereunder"
and other words of similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole
and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision.
Certain terms, used principally in Article Six, are defined in that
Article.
"Act", when used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning
specified in Section 104.
"Affiliate" of any specified Person means any other Person directly
or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common
control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition,
"control" when used with respect to any specified Person means the power to
direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly,
whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise;
and the terms "controlling" and "controlled" have meanings correlative to
the foregoing.
"Attributable Debt" means, as to any particular lease (other than a
crossborder or defeased lease arrangement) entered into after the date hereof
under which any Person is at the time liable and at any date as of which the
amount thereof is to be determined, the total net amount of rent required to be
paid by such Person under such lease during the remaining primary term thereof,
discounted to present values as of such time in accordance with generally
accepted accounting principles from the respective due dates thereof to such
date. The net amount of rent required to be paid under any such lease for any
such period shall be the aggregate amount of the rent payable by the lessee
with respect to such period after excluding amounts required to be paid on
account of maintenance and repairs, insurance, taxes, assessments, water and
utility rates and similar charges. In the case of any lease which is
terminable by the lessee upon the payment of a penalty, such net amount shall
also include the amount of such penalty, but no rent shall be considered as
required to be paid under such lease subsequent to the first date upon which it
may be so terminated.
"Authenticating Agent" means any Person authorized by the Trustee to
act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Securities.
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"Authorized Newspaper" means a newspaper of general circulation, in
an official language of the country of publication or in the English language,
customarily published on a daily basis (including newspapers published on a
daily basis except not published on Legal Holidays, as defined in Section 113)
in such country. Whenever successive weekly publications in an Authorized
Newspaper are required hereunder, they may be made (unless otherwise expressly
provided herein) on the same or different days of the week and in the
same or different Authorized Newspapers.
"Board of Directors" means either the board of directors of the
Company or any duly authorized committee of that board.
"Board Resolution" means a copy of a resolution certified by the
Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted
by the Board of Directors and to be in full force and effect on the date of
such certification, and delivered to the Trustee.
"Business Day", when used with respect to any Place of Payment, means
each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday which is not a day on
which banking institutions in that Place of Payment or the city in which the
Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee is located, are authorized or
obligated by law to close.
"Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
"Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as
from time to time constituted, created under the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, or, if at any time after the execution of this instrument such Commission
is not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under the Trust
Indenture Act, then the body performing such duties at such time.
"Company" means the Person named as the "Company" in the first
paragraph of this instrument until a successor Person shall have become such
pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter
"Company" shall mean such successor Person.
"Company Request" or "Company Order" means a written request or order
signed in the name of the Company by its Chairman of the Board, its Vice
Chairman, its President or a Vice President, and by its Treasurer, an
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Assistant Treasurer, its Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, and delivered to
the Trustee.
"Consolidated Net Tangible Assets" means the total amount of assets of
the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries (less applicable reserves) after
deducting therefrom: (a) all current liabilities of the Company and its
consolidated Subsidiaries (excluding intercompany items among the Company and
its consolidated Subsidiaries and excluding any current liabilities
constituting Funded Indebtedness by reason of being renewable or extendable and
excluding deferred income taxes), and (b) goodwill, trade names, trademarks,
patents, unamortized debt discount and expense and other like intangibles, such
assets and exclusions and deductions therefrom to be in such amounts, if any,
as would appear on a consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its
consolidated Subsidiaries as of the date of computation, prepared in accordance
with generally accepted accounting principles applied on a consistent basis as
in effect on the date of such computation.
"Corporate Trust Office" means the principal office of the Trustee at
which at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be administered
and, with respect to Bankers Trust Company of California, National Association,
shall be located in San Francisco, California.
"corporation" includes corporations, associations, companies and
business trusts.
"Defaulted Interest" has the meaning specified in Section 307.
"Depository" means, with respect to any series of Securities issuable
or issued in the form of a Global Security, an entity named as such in the
Indenture, or, if no entity is so named, an entity, if any, named by the
Company as such by Board Resolution, or its successor. The Depository is the
entity which holds a Global Security, if any, and operates the computerized
book-entry system through which ownership interests in the Securities are
recorded. Such entity shall at all times be a registered clearing agency under
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and in good standing
thereunder or, in the case of an entity which holds a Global Security issued
outside of the United States, such entity shall at all times be in compliance
with any applicable registration requirements and in good standing under
application regulations.
"Event of Default" has the meaning specified in Section 501.
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"Funded Indebtedness" means, with respect to any corporation, indebt
edness of such corporation if such indebtedness shall be payable more than one
year from the date of computation or shall be extendable or renewable at the
option of such corporation to a time more than one year after the date of
computation; and all guarantees (direct or indirect) of such indebtedness of
others.
"Global Security" means a Security, if any, issued to evidence all or a
part of a series of Securities in accordance with Section 301.
"Holder" means the bearer of an Unregistered Security or coupon
appertaining thereto or a Person in whose name a Registered Security is
registered in the Security Register or the Person who is the record owner of
any ownership interests in a Global Security.
"indebtedness" of a corporation means any and all obligations for money
borrowed which in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles
would be included on the liabilities side of a balance sheet of such
corporation as of the date as of which such indebtedness was incurred.
"Indenture" means this instrument as originally executed or as it may
from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more indentures
supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof
and shall include the terms of particular series of Securities established as
contemplated by Section 301.
"interest", when used with respect to an Original Issue Discount
Security which by its terms bears interest only after Maturity, means interest
payable after Maturity.
"Interest Payment Date", when used with respect to any Security, means
the Stated Maturity of an installment of interest on such Security.
"Lien" means any mortgage, pledge, security interest, encumbrance, lien
or charge of any kind (including any conditional sale or other title retention
agreement, and, except with respect to any lease, the filing of or agreement to
file any financing statement under the Uniform Commercial Code of any
jurisdiction).
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"Maturity", when used with respect to any Security, means the date on
which the principal of such Security or an installment of principal becomes due
and payable as therein or herein provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by
declaration of acceleration, call for redemption, exercise of repayment option
or otherwise.
"Officers' Certificate" means a certificate signed by the Chairman of
the Board, a Vice Chairman, the President or a Vice President, and by the
Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, of
the Company, and delivered to the Trustee.
"Opinion of Counsel" means a written opinion of counsel, who may be an
employee of (except in the case of an opinion of counsel deliverable pursuant
to Sections 403(j) and 1007(6)), or counsel for, the Company, and who shall be
acceptable to the Trustee.
"Original Issue Discount Security" means any Security which provides
for an amount less than the principal amount thereof to be due and payable upon
a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502.
"Outstanding", when used with respect to Securities, means, as of the
date of determination, all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered
under this Indenture, except:
(i) Securities theretofore cancelled by the Trustee or
delivered to the Trustee for cancellation;
(ii) Securities or portions thereof for whose payment or
redemption (a) money in the necessary amount has been theretofore
deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent (other than the
Company) in trust or set aside and segregated in trust by the Company
(if the Company shall act as its own Paying Agent) for the Holders of
such Securities or (b) U.S. Government Obligations as contemplated by
Sections 401 and 403 in the necessary amount have been theretofore
deposited with the Trustee, in trust, for the Holders of such
Securities, provided that, if such Securities are to be redeemed,
notice of such redemption has been duly given pursuant to this
Indenture or provision therefor satisfactory to the Trustee has been
made; and
(iii) Securities which have been paid pursuant to Section
306 or in exchange for or in lieu of which other Securities have been
authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture, other than any
such Securities
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in respect of which there shall have been presented to the Trustee
proof satisfactory to it that such Securities are held by a bona fide
purchaser in whose hands such Securities are valid obligations of the
Company;
provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities have given any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, Securities owned
by the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the
Company or of such other obligor shall be disregarded and deemed not to be
Outstanding, except that, in determining whether the Trustee shall be protected
in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent or waiver, only Securities which the Trustee knows to be so owned shall
be so disregarded. Securities so owned which have been pledged in good faith
may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction
of the Trustee the pledgee's right so to act with respect to such Securities
and that the pledgee is not the Company or any other obligor upon the
Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor. In
determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of Securities
of any series have concurred in any direction, waiver or consent, the principal
amount of Original Issue Discount Securities that shall be deemed to be
outstanding shall be the amount of the principal thereof that would be due and
payable as of the date of such determination upon acceleration of the maturity
thereof pursuant to Section 502.
"Paying Agent" means any Person authorized by the Company to pay the
principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on any Securities on behalf of
the Company.
"Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint
venture, association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization
or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.
"Place of Payment", when used with respect to the Securities of any
series, means the place or places where the principal of (and premium, if any)
and interest on the Securities of that series are payable as specified as
contemplated by Section 301.
"Predecessor Security" of any particular Security means every previous
Security evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such
particular Security, and, for the purposes of this definition, any Security au-
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thenticated and delivered under Section 306 in exchange for or in lieu of a
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be deemed to evidence the
same debt as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security.
"Principal Property" means (a) any building, structure or other
facility used primarily for manufacturing and located in the United States, in
each case the gross book value (without deduction of any depreciation reserves)
of which on the date as of which the determination is being made shall exceed
10% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets, other than any of the types of
facilities described in subsections (b)(4), (b)(5) and (b)(6) of Section 103 of
the Code, or as described in any provisions of the Code which may hereafter
replace such subsections, or any types of facilities which may hereafter be
added to the list of facilities described in such subsections or their
successor provisions, and (b) any timberlands in the United States owned in fee
or under contract for the purchase of the fee by the Company or any Subsidiary
other than such timberlands in the aggregate not exceeding 10% of the aggregate
timberlands acreage in the United States owned in fee or under contract for the
purchase of the fee by the Company and its Subsidiaries on the date as of which
any determination shall be made; provided, however, that the term "Principal
Property" shall not include any timberlands, buildings, structures, facilities
or any portion of any of the foregoing which, in the opinion of the Board of
Directors as expressed in a Board Resolution, shall not be of material
importance to the total business conducted by the Company and its Subsidiaries
taken as an entirety; and provided, further, that the term Principal Property
shall not include any land, including without limitation timberlands,
designated by the Board of Directors as being held primarily for development or
sale, or any land, including without limitation timberlands, held for the
exploitation of minerals or mineral rights.
"Redemption Date", when used with respect to any Security to be
redeemed, means the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this
Indenture.
"Redemption Price", when used with respect to any Security to be
redeemed, means the price at which it is to be redeemed pursuant to this
Indenture.
"Registered Security" means any Security issued hereunder and
registered by the Security Registrar or any recorded interest in a Global
Security issued hereunder.
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"Regular Record Date" for the interest payable on any Interest Payment
Date on the Securities of any series means the date specified for that purpose
as contemplated by Section 301.
"Repayment Date", when used with respect to any Security of any series
to be repaid, means the date, if any, fixed for such repayment pursuant to
Section 301 of this Indenture.
"Repayment Price", when used with respect to any Security of any
series to be repaid, means the price, if any, at which it is to be repaid
pursuant to Section 301.
"Responsible Officer", when used with respect to the Trustee, means
any officer within the corporate Trust and Agency Group or any other successor
group of the Trustee, including any vice president, assistant vice president,
assistant secretary or any other officer of the Trustee customarily performing
functions similar to those performed by any of the above designated officers.
"Security" or "Securities" has the meaning stated in the first recital
of this Indenture and more particularly means any Security or Securities
authenticated and delivered under this Indenture.
"Security Register" and "Security Registrar" have the respective
meanings specified in Section 305.
"series" or "series of Securities" means a series of Securities issued
under this Indenture as determined by Board Resolution or as otherwise
determined under this Indenture, and except as otherwise provided in Section
608.
"Special Record Date" for the payment of any Defaulted Interest means
a date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 307.
"Stated Maturity", when used with respect to any Security or any
installment of principal thereof or interest thereon, means the date specified
in such Security as the fixed date on which the principal of such Security or
such installment of principal or interest is due and payable.
"Subsidiary" means a corporation more than 50% of the outstanding
voting stock of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company or by
one or more other Subsidiaries, or by the Company and one or more other
Subsidiaries. For the purposes of this definition, "voting stock" means stock
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which ordinarily has voting power for the election of directors, whether at all
times or only so long as no senior class of stock has such voting power by
reason of any contingency.
"timberlands" means real property that contains standing timber which
is (or upon the completion of the growth cycle then in process is expected to
become) of a commercial quantity and of merchantable quality.
"Trustee" means the Person named as the "Trustee" in the first
Paragraph of this instrument until a successor Trustee shall have been
appointed pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and
thereafter "Trustee" shall mean or include each Person who is then a Trustee
hereunder, and if at any time there is more than one such Person, "Trustee" as
used with respect to the Securities of any series shall mean the Trustee with
respect to Securities of that series.
"Trust Indenture Act" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in
force at the date as of which this instrument was executed, except as provided
in Section 905.
"U.S. Government Obligations" means direct obligations of the United
States for the payment of which its full faith and credit is pledged, or
obligations of a Person controlled or supervised by and acting as an agency or
instrumentality of the United States and the payment of which is
unconditionally guaranteed by the United States.
"U.S. Person" means a citizen, national or resident of the United
States, a corporation, partnership or other entity created or organized in or
under the laws of the United States or any political subdivision thereof, or an
estate or trust whose income from sources without the United States is
includible in gross income for United States Federal income tax purposes
regardless of its connection with the conduct of a trade or business within the
United States.
"Unregistered Security" means any Security issued hereunder which is
not a Registered Security.
"Vice President", when used with respect to the Company or the
Trustee, means any vice president, whether or not designated by a number or a
word or words added before or after the title "vice president".
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"Yield to Maturity" means the yield to maturity, calculated by the
Company at the time of issuance of a series of Securities or, if applicable, at
the most recent determination of interest on such series in accordance with
accepted financial practice.
SECTION 102. Compliance Certificates and Opinions.
Upon any application or request by the Company to the Trustee to take
any action under any provision of this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to
the Trustee an Officers' Certificate stating that all conditions precedent, if
any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been
met and an Opinion of Counsel stating that in the opinion of such counsel all
such conditions precedent, if any, have been met, except that in the case of
any such application or request as to which the furnishing of such documents is
specifically required by any provision of this Indenture relating to such
particular application or request, no additional certificate or opinion need be
furnished.
Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a
condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture (other than certificates
provided pursuant to Section 704(4)) shall include:
(1) a statement that each individual signing such
certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition and the
definitions herein relating thereto;
(2) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the
examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions
contained in such certificate or opinion are based;
(3) a statement that, in the opinion of each such
individual, he has made such examination or investigation as is
necessary to enable him to express an informed opinion as to whether
or not such covenant or condition has been met; and
(4) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each
such individual, such condition or covenant has been met.
SECTION 103. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee.
In any case where several matters are required to be certified by, or
covered by an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all
such matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such
Person, or
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that they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one such Person
may certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one or more
other such Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify or give
an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents.
Any certificate or opinion of an officer of the Company may be based,
insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon an Opinion of Counsel, unless such
officer knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the
opinion with respect to the matters upon which his certificate or opinion is
based is erroneous. Any such Opinion of Counsel may be based, insofar as it
relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or
representations by, an officer or officers of the Company stating that the
information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the
Company, unless such counsel knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care
should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to
such matters are erroneous.
Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more applications,
requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other instruments
under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated and form one
instrument.
SECTION 104. Acts of Holders.
(a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or other action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken
by Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of
substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by an agent
duly appointed in writing; and, except as herein otherwise expressly provided,
such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are
delivered to the Trustee and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the
Company. Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and
evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the "Act" of the Holders
signing such instrument or instruments. Proof of execution of any such
instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent, or of the holding by any
Person of Unregistered Securities, shall be sufficient for any purpose of this
Indenture and (subject to Section 601) conclusive in favor of the Trustee and
the Company, if made in the manner provided in this Section.
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(b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such
instrument or writing may be proved by the affidavit of a witness of such
execution or by a certificate of a notary public or other officer authorized by
law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the individual signing
such instrument or writing acknowledged to him the execution thereof. Where
such execution is by a signer acting in a capacity other than his individual
capacity, such certificate or affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof
of his authority. The fact and date of the execution of any such instrument or
writing, or the authority of the Person executing the same, may also be proved
in any other manner acceptable to the Trustee.
(c) The amount of Unregistered Securities held by any Person
executing any such instrument or writings as the Holder thereof, and the
numbers of such Unregistered Securities, and the date of his holding the same,
may be proved by the production of such Unregistered Securities or by a
certificate executed, as depositary, by any trust company, bank, banker or
member of a national securities exchange (wherever situated), if such
certificate is in form satisfactory to the Trustee, showing that at the date
therein mentioned such Person had on deposit with such depositary, or exhibited
to it, the Unregistered Securities therein described; or such facts may be
proved by the certificate or affidavit of the Person executing such instrument
or writing as the Holder thereof, if such certificate or affidavit is in form
satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee and the Company may assume that such
ownership of any Unregistered Securities continues until (1) another
certificate bearing a later date issued in respect of the same Unregistered
Securities is produced, or (2) such Unregistered Securities are produced by
some other Person, or (3) such Unregistered Securities are registered as to
principal or are surrendered in exchange for Unregistered Securities, or (4)
such Unregistered Securities are no longer Outstanding.
(d) The fact and date of execution of any such instrument or
writing and the amount and number of Unregistered Securities held by the Person
so executing such instrument or writing may also be proved in any other manner
which the Trustee deems sufficient; and the Trustee may in any instance require
further proof with respect to any of the matters referred to in this Section.
(e) The ownership of Registered Securities shall be proved by the
Security Register.
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(f) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or other Act of the Holder of any Security shall bind every
future Holder of the same Security and the Holder of every Security issued upon
the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof
in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Trustee or
the Company in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made
upon such Security.
(g) The Company may set a record date for purposes of determining
the identity of Holders of any Securities of any series entitled to vote or
consent to any action by vote or consent authorized or permitted by Section 512
or 513. Such record date shall be the later of 30 days prior to the first
solicitation of such consent or the date of the most recent list of Holders of
such Securities furnished to the Trustee pursuant to Section 701 prior to such
solicitation.
SECTION 105. Notices, Etc., to Trustee and Company.
Except as otherwise provided herein, any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of Holders or other
document provided or permitted by this Indenture to be made upon, given or
furnished to, or filed with,
(1) the Trustee by any Holder or by the Company shall be
sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or
filed in writing to or with the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office,
Attention: Corporate Trust and Agency Group West, 00 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx,
00xx Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000, or
(2) the Company by the Trustee or by any Holder shall be
sufficient for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein
expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage
prepaid, to the Company addressed to it at the address of its
principal office specified in the first paragraph of this instrument
or at any other address previously furnished in writing to the Trustee
by the Company.
SECTION 106. Notice to Holders; Waiver.
Where this Indenture provides for notice of any event or reports to
Holders, such notice or report shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise
herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage
prepaid, to each Holder of Registered Securities affected by such event, at his
address as it appears in the Security Register and to addresses filed with the
Trustee or
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preserved on the Trustee's list pursuant to Section 702(a) for other Holders
(and to such other addresses as may be required in the case of such notice or
report under Section 313(c) of the Trust Indenture Act), not later than the
latest date, and not earlier than the earliest date, prescribed for the giving
of such notice or report. In any case where notice to Holders is given by
mail, neither the failure to mail such notice, nor any defect in any notice so
mailed, to any particular Holder shall affect the sufficiently given to Holders
of Unregistered Securities if published in an Authorized Newspaper in each of
The City of New York, London and, if such Securities are listed on any stock
exchange outside of the United States, in the city in which such stock exchange
is located (if other than London), or in such other city or cities as may be
specified in the Securities, once in each of two different calendar weeks, the
first publication to be not earlier than the earliest date, and not later than
the last date, if any, prescribed for the giving of such notice. Where this
Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice may be waived in
writing by the Person entitled to receive such notice, such notice may be
waived in writing by the Person entitled to receive such notice, either before
or after the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of such notice.
Waivers of notice by Holders shall be filed with the Trustee, but such filing
shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action taken in
reliance upon such waiver.
In case by reason of the suspension of regular mail service or by
reason of any other cause it shall be impracticable to give such notice by
mail, then such notification as shall be made with the approval of the Trustee
shall constitute a sufficient notification for every purpose hereunder.
If it shall be impractical in the opinion of the Trustee or the
Company to make any publication of any notice required hereby in an Authorized
Newspaper, any publication or other notice in lieu thereof which is made or
given with the approval of the Trustee shall constitute a sufficient
publication of such notice.
SECTION 107. Conflict With Trust Indenture Act.
If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with the duties
imposed by operation of subsection (c) of Section 318 of the Trust Indenture
Act, the imposed duties shall control.
SECTION 108. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents.
The Article and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are
for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.
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SECTION 109. Successors and Assigns.
All covenants and agreements in this Indenture by the Company shall
binds its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.
SECTION 110. Separability Clause.
In case any provision in this Indenture or in the Securities shall be
invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of
the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
SECTION 111. Benefits of Indenture.
Nothing in this Indenture or in the Securities, express or implied,
shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto (including any Paying
Agent appointed pursuant to Section 1002 and Authenticating Agent appointed
pursuant to Section 614 to the extent provided herein) and their successors
hereunder and the Holders, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy
or claim under this Indenture.
SECTION 112. Governing Law.
This Indenture and the Securities shall be governed by and construed
in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.
SECTION 113. Legal Holidays.
In any case where any Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date,
Repayment Date or Stated Maturity of any Security shall not be a Business Day
at any Place of Payment or the city in which the Corporate Trust Office of the
Trustee is located, then (notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture
or of the Securities) payment of interest or principal (and premium, if any)
need not be made at such Place of Payment on such date, but may be made on the
next succeeding Business Day at such Place of Payment with the same force and
effect as if made on the Interest Payment Date or Redemption Date, Repayment
Date, or at the Stated Maturity, provided that no interest shall accrue with
respect to such payment for the period from and after such Interest Payment
Date, Redemption Date, Repayment Date or Stated Maturity, as the case may be.
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SECTION 114. Rules by Trustee and Agents.
The Trustee may make reasonable rules for action by or at a meeting of
Holders of one or more series. The Paying Agent or Security Registrar may make
reasonable rules and set reasonable requirements for its functions.
SECTION 115. No Recourse Against Others.
No director, officer, employee, stockholder or Affiliate, as such, of
the Company shall have any liability for any obligation of the Company under
the Securities or the Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of or by
reason of such obligations or their creation. Each Holder by accepting a
Security waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and release are
part of the consideration for the issue of the Securities.
ARTICLE TWO
SECURITY FORMS
SECTION 201. Forms Generally.
The Securities of each series and related coupons, if any, shall be in
substantially the form as shall be established by or pursuant to a Board
Resolution or in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in each case with
such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as
are required or permitted by this Indenture and as reasonably acceptable to the
Trustee, and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification
and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may be required to comply
with the rules of any securities exchange or as may, consistently herewith, be
determined by the officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their
execution of the Securities. When the form of Securities of any series is
established by action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution, a copy of an
appropriate record of such action shall be certified by the Secretary or an
Assistant Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to
the delivery of the Company Order contemplated by Section 303 for the
authentication and delivery of such Securities.
If required or appropriate under applicable law, Unregistered
Securities and their coupons must have the following statement on their face:
"Any United States person who holds this obligation will be subject to
limitations
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under the United States income tax laws, including the limitations provided in
Sections 165(j) and 1287(a) of the Internal Revenue Code". If required or
appropriate under applicable law, Unregistered Securities and their coupons
must have the following statement on their face: "By accepting this obligation,
the Holder represents and warrants that it is not a United States person (other
than an exempt recipient described in section 6049(b)(4) of the Internal
Revenue Code and the regulations thereunder) and that it is not acting for or
on behalf of a United States person (other than an exempt recipient described
in section 6049(b)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code and the regulations
thereunder)."
The definitive Securities shall be printed, lithographed or engraved
on steel engraved borders or may be produced in any other manner or combination
of manners, all as determined by the officers executing such Securities, as
evidenced by their execution of such Securities.
SECTION 202. Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication.
The Trustee's certificate of authentication shall be in substantially
the following form:
This is one of the Securities of the series designated herein,
referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
BANKERS TRUST COMPANY OF
CALIFORNIA, NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION
as Trustee
By ...............................
Authorized Officer
ARTICLE THREE
THE SECURITIES
SECTION 301. Amount Unlimited, Issuable in Series.
The aggregate principal amount of Securities which may be
authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is unlimited.
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The Securities may be issued in one or more series. There may be
Registered Securities and Unregistered Securities within a series. Registered
and Unregistered Securities may be in temporary or permanent global form.
Unregistered Securities may be issued with or without coupons attached.
Unregistered Securities may be subject to such restrictions, and contain such
legends, as may be required by United States laws and regulations. There shall
be established in or pursuant to a Board Resolution, and set forth in an
Officers' Certificate, or established in one or more indentures supplemental
hereto, prior to the issuance of Securities of any series,
(1) the title of the Securities of the series (which
shall distinguish the Securities of the series from all other
Securities);
(2) any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the
Securities of the series which may be authenticated and delivered
under this Indenture (except for Securities authenticated and
delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in
lieu of, other Securities of the series pursuant to Section 304, 305,
306, 906, 1107 or 1305);
(3) the price or prices (expressed as a percentage of the
principal amount thereof) at which the securities will be issued and
the date or dates on which the principal (and premium, if any) of the
Securities of the series is payable;
(4) the rate or rates (including the method of
determining any variable rates) at which the Securities of the series
shall bear interest, if any, the date or dates from which such
interest shall accrue, the Interest Payment Dates on which such
interest shall be payable and, with respect to Registered Securities,
the Regular Record Date for the interest payable on any Interest
Payment Date;
(5) the place or places where the principal of (and
premium, if any) and interest on Securities of the series shall be
payable, any Registered Securities of the series may be surrendered
for registration of transfer, Securities of the series may be
surrendered for exchange, and where notices and demands to or upon the
Company in respect of the Securities of the series and this Indenture
may be served and notices to Holders pursuant to Section 106 will be
published;
(6) if applicable, the period or periods within which,
the price or prices at which and the terms and conditions upon which
Securities of the series may be redeemed, in whole or in part, at the
option of the Company;
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(7) the obligation, if any, of the Company to redeem or
purchase Securities of the series pursuant to any sinking fund or
analogous provisions and the period or periods within which, the price
or prices at which and the terms and conditions upon which Securities
of the series shall be redeemed or purchased, in whole or in part,
pursuant to such obligation;
(8) the period or periods within which, the price or
prices at which and the terms and conditions upon which Securities of
the series may be repaid, in whole or in part, at the option of the
Holders;
(9) the right, if any, of the Company to execute and
deliver to the Trustee, and to direct the Trustee to authenticate and
deliver in accordance with a Company Order, a Security of any series
in lieu of or in exchange for any Securities of such series cancelled
upon redemption or repayment;
(10) the denominations in which any Registered Securities
of the series shall be issuable, if other than denominations of $1,000
and any integral multiple thereof, and the denomination or
denominations in which any Unregistered Securities of the series shall
be issuable, if other than the denomination of $5,000;
(11) if other than the principal amount thereof, the
portion of the principal amount of Securities of the series which
shall be payable upon declaration of acceleration of the Maturity
thereof pursuant to Section 502;
(12) whether Securities of the series are to be issuable
as Registered Securities, Unregistered Securities, or both, whether
Securities of the series are to be issuable with or without coupons,
whether any Securities of the series are to be issuable initially in
temporary global form and the circumstances under which such
Securities in temporary global form may be exchanged for definitive
Securities, and whether any Securities of the series are to be
issuable in permanent global form with or without coupons and, if so,
whether beneficial owners of interests in any such permanent Global
Security may exchange such interests for Securities of such series and
of like tenor of any authorized form and denomination and the
circumstances under which any such exchanges may occur, if other than
in the manner provided in Section 311;
(13) whether and under what circumstances the Company will
pay additional amounts on the Securities of that series held by a
person who is not a U.S. Person in respect of taxes or similar charges
withheld or deducted and, if so, whether the Company will have the
option to redeem such Securities rather than pay such additional
amounts;
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(14) the currency or currencies, including composite
currencies, in which payment of the principal of (and premium, if any)
and interest on the Securities of the series shall be payable (if
other than the currency of the United States of America);
(15) if the amount of payments of principal of (and
premium, if any) or interest on the Securities of the series may be
determined with reference to an index, the manner in which such
amounts shall be determined;
(16) the form or forms of the Securities, including such
legends as may be required by United States laws or regulations, the
form of any coupons or temporary Global Security, if any, which may be
issued and the forms of any certificates which may be required
hereunder or under United States laws or regulations in connection
with the offering, sale, delivery or exchange of Unregistered
Securities, if any;
(17) the Person to whom any interest on any Registered
Security of the series shall be payable, if other than the Person in
whose name that Security is registered at the close of business on the
regular record date for such interest, and the manner in which, or the
Person to whom, any interest on any Unregistered Security of the
series shall be payable, if otherwise than upon presentation and
surrender of the coupons appertaining thereto as they severally
mature, and the extent to which, or the manner in which, any interest
payable on a temporary or permanent Global Security on an interest
payment date will be paid; and
(18) any other terms, conditions and rights of the series
(which terms, conditions and rights shall not be inconsistent with the
provisions of this Indenture).
All Securities of any one series and the coupons appertaining to any
Unregistered Securities of such series shall be substantially identical except
in the case of Registered Securities as to denomination and except as may
otherwise be provided in or pursuant to such Board Resolution and set forth in
such Officers' Certificate or in any such indenture supplemental hereto and as
reasonably acceptable to the Trustee. Securities of different series may
differ in any respect, provided that all series of Securities shall be equally
and ratably entitled to the benefits of this Indenture.
If the terms and form or forms of any series of Securities are
established by or pursuant to a Board Resolution, the Company shall deliver a
copy of such Board Resolution to the Trustee at or prior to the issuance of
such series with (1) the form or forms of Security which have been approved
attached thereto, or (2) if such Board Resolution authorizes a specific officer
or officers
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to approve the terms and form or forms of the Securities, a certificate of such
officer or officers approving the terms and form or forms of Security with such
form or forms of Securities attached thereto. Such Board Resolution or
certificate may provide general terms or parameters for Securities of any
series and may provide that the specific terms of particular Securities of a
series may be determined in accordance with or pursuant to the Company Order
referred to in Section 303 hereof.
SECTION 302. Denominations.
The Securities of each series shall be issuable in registered or
unregistered form with or without coupons in such denominations as shall be
specified as contemplated by Section 301. In the absence of any such
provisions with respect to the Securities of any series, the Registered
Securities of such series shall be issuable in denominations of $1,000 and any
integral multiple thereof and the Unregistered Securities of the series shall
be issuable in denominations of $5,000 and any integral multiple thereof.
SECTION 303. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating.
The Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, its President, the Senior
Vice President, Finance, and the Treasurer, under its corporate seal reproduced
thereon attested by its Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries. The
signature of any of these officers on the Securities may be manual or
facsimile. The coupons, if any, of Unregistered Securities shall bear the
manual or facsimile signature of any one of the officers or assistant officers
referred to in the first sentence of this Section 303.
Securities bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals
who were at any time the proper officers of the Company shall bind the Company,
notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such
offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Securities or did not
hold such offices at the date of such Securities.
At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of
this Indenture, the Company may deliver Securities of any series executed by
the Company to the Trustee for authentication, together with a Company Order
for the authentication and delivery of such Securities, and the Trustee
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in accordance with the Company Order shall authenticate and deliver such
Securities. In authenticating such Securities, and accepting the additional
responsibilities under this Indenture in relation to such Securities, the
Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to Section 601) shall be
fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating,
(a) that such form of Securities has been established in
conformity with the provisions of this Indenture;
(b) that such terms have been established in conformity
with the provisions of this Indenture; and
(c) that such Securities, when authenticated and
delivered by the Trustee and issued by the Company in the manner and
subject to any conditions specified in such Opinion of Counsel, will
constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company,
enforceable in accordance with their terms, subject to bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization and other laws of general applicability
relating to or affecting the enforcement of creditors' rights and to
general equity principles.
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 301 and of the preceding
paragraphs, if all Securities of a series are not to be originally issued at
one time, it shall not be necessary to deliver the Officers' Certificate
otherwise required pursuant to Section 301 or the Company Order and Opinion of
Counsel otherwise required pursuant to such preceding paragraphs at or prior to
the time of authentication of each Security of such series if such documents
are delivered at or prior to the authentication upon original issuance of the
first Security of such series to be issued. If such form or terms have been so
established, the Trustee shall not be required to authenticate such Securities
if the issuance of such Securities pursuant to this Indenture will affect the
Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under the Securities and this
Indenture or otherwise in a manner which is not reasonably acceptable to the
Trustee.
Each Registered Security shall be dated the date of its authentication
and each Unregistered Security shall be dated the date of its original
issuance.
No Security shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or
be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on such Security a
certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein
exe-
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cuted by the Trustee by manual signature and no coupon shall be valid until the
Security to which it appertains has been so authenticated, and such certificate
upon any Security shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that
such Security has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder and is
entitled to the benefits of this Indenture.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, until the Company has delivered an
Officers' Certificate to the Trustee and the Security Registrar stating that,
as a result of the action described, the Company would not suffer adverse
consequences under the provisions of United States law or regulations in effect
at the time of the delivery of Unregistered Securities, the Trustee or the
Security Registrar will (i) deliver Unregistered Securities only outside the
United States and its possessions and (ii) release Unregistered Securities in
definitive form to the person entitled to physical delivery thereof only upon
presentation of a certificate in the form prescribed by the Company.
SECTION 304. Temporary Securities.
Pending the preparation of definitive Registered Securities of any
series (including Global Securities), the Company may execute, and upon Company
Order the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, temporary Registered
Securities which are printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or
otherwise produced, in any authorized denomination, substantially of the tenor
of the definitive Registered Securities in lieu of which they are issued and
with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations
as the officers executing such Securities may determine, as evidenced by their
execution of such Securities. Every temporary Registered Security shall be
executed by the Company and authenticated by the Trustee, and registered by the
Security Registrar, upon the same conditions, and with like effect, as a
definitive Registered Security.
If temporary Securities of any series are issued, the Company will
cause definitive Registered Securities of that series to be prepared without
unreasonable delay. After the preparation of definitive Registered Securities
of such series, the temporary Registered Securities of such series shall be
exchangeable for definitive Registered Securities of such series upon surrender
of the temporary Registered Securities of such series at the office or agency
of the Company in a Place of Payment for that series, without charge to the
Holder. Upon
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surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Registered Securities
of any series the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver in exchange therefor a like principal amount of definitive Registered
Securities of the same series of authorized denominations. Until so exchanged
the temporary Registered Securities of any series shall in all respects be
entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as definitive Registered
Securities of such series.
Until definitive Unregistered Securities of any series (including
Global Securities) are ready for delivery, the Company may prepare and execute
and the Trustee shall authenticate one or more temporary Unregistered
Securities, which may have coupons attached or which may be in the form of one
or more temporary Global Unregistered Securities of that series without
coupons. The temporary Unregistered Security or Securities of any series shall
be substantially in the form approved by or pursuant to a Board Resolution and
shall be delivered to one of the Paying Agents located outside the United
States and its possessions or to such other person or persons as the Company
shall direct against such certification as the Company may from time to time
prescribe by or pursuant to a Board Resolution. The temporary Unregistered
Security or Securities of a series shall be executed by the Company and
authenticated by the Trustee upon the same conditions, and with like effect, as
a definitive Unregistered Security of such series, except as provided herein or
in the Board Resolution or supplemental Indenture relating thereto. A
temporary Unregistered Security or Securities shall be exchangeable for
definitive Unregistered Securities at the time and on the conditions, if any,
specified in the temporary Security.
Upon any exchange of a part of a temporary Unregistered Security of a
series for definitive Unregistered Securities of such series, the temporary
Unregistered Security shall be endorsed by the Trustee or Paying Agent to
reflect the reduction of its principal amount by an amount equal to the
aggregate principal amount of the definitive Unregistered Securities of such
series so exchanged and endorsed.
SECTION 305. Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange.
The Company shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office of
the Trustee a register (the register maintained in such office and in any other
office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment being herein sometimes
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collectively referred to as the "Security Register") in which, subject to such
reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the
registration of Securities and of transfers of Securities. The Trustee is
hereby appointed "Security Registrar" for the purpose of registering Securities
and transfers of Securities as herein provided.
Except in the case of Securities issued in the form of a Global
Security, upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Registered
Security of any series at the office or agency of the Company in a Place of
Payment for that series, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or
transferees, one or more new Registered Securities of the same series, of any
authorized denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount.
If both Registered and Unregistered Securities are authorized for a
series of Securities and the terms of such Securities permit, (i) Unregistered
Securities may be exchanged for an equal principal amount of Registered or
Unregistered Securities of the same series and date of maturity in any
authorized denominations upon delivery to the Security Registrar (or a Paying
Agent (as herein defined), if the exchange is for Unregistered Securities) of
the Unregistered Security with all unmatured coupons and all matured coupons in
default appertaining thereto and if all other requirements of the Security
Registrar (or such Paying Agent) and such Securities for such exchange are met,
and (ii) Registered Securities, other than Securities issued in the form of a
Global Security (except as provided in Section 311), may be exchanged for an
equal principal amount of Unregistered Securities of the same series and date
of maturity in any authorized denominations (except that any coupons
appertaining to such Unregistered Securities which have matured and have been
paid shall be detached) upon delivery to the Security Registrar of the
Registered Securities and if all other requirements of the Security Registrar
and such Securities for such exchange are met.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the exchange of Unregistered Securities
for Registered Securities or Registered Securities for Unregistered Securities
will be subject to the satisfaction of the provisions of United States law and
regulations in effect at the time of such exchange, and no exchange of
Registered Securities for Unregistered Securities will be made until the
Company
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has notified the Trustee in an Officers' Certificate and the Security Registrar
that, as a result of such exchange, the Company would not suffer adverse
consequences under such law or regulations.
All Securities issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of
Securities shall be the valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same
debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Securities
surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.
Every Security presented or surrendered for registration of transfer
or for exchange shall (if so required by the Company or the Trustee) be duly
endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form
satisfactory to the Company, the Trustee and the Security Registrar duly
executed, by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing.
No service charge shall be made to the Holder for any registration of
transfer or exchange of Securities, but the Company may require payment of a
sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be
imposed in connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of
Securities, other than exchanges pursuant to Section 304, 306 or 1107 not
involving any transfer.
The Company shall not be required (i) to issue, register the transfer
of or exchange Securities of any series during a period beginning at the
opening of business 15 days before the day of the mailing of a notice of
redemption of Securities of that series selected for redemption under Section
1103 and ending at the close of business on the day of such mailing, or (ii) to
register the transfer of or exchange any Security so selected for redemption in
whole or in part, except the unredeemed portion of any Security being redeemed
in part. Unregistered Securities or any coupons appertaining thereto shall be
transferable by delivery thereof.
SECTION 306. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities.
If any mutilated Security or a Security with a mutilated coupon or
coupons appertaining to it is surrendered to the Trustee, the Company shall
execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a
replacement Registered Security, if such surrendered security was a Registered
Security, or a replacement Unregistered Security with coupons corresponding
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to the coupons appertaining to the surrendered Security, if such surrendered
Security was an Unregistered Security, of the same series and of like tenor and
principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.
If there shall be delivered to the Company and the Trustee (i)
evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any
Security or any coupon or coupons appertaining thereto, and (ii) such bond,
security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them and any
agent of either of them harmless, then, in the absence of actual notice to the
Company or the Trustee that such Security or any coupon or coupons appertaining
thereto has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Company shall execute
and upon its request the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, a replacement
Registered Security, if such Holder's claim pertains to a Registered Security,
or a replacement Unregistered Security with coupons corresponding to the
coupons appertaining to the destroyed, lost or stolen Unregistered Security or
the Unregistered Security to which such destroyed, lost or stolen coupon or
coupons appertains, if such Holder's claim pertains to an Unregistered
Security, of the same series and of like tenor and principal amount and bearing
a number not contemporaneously outstanding.
In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security or any
coupon or coupons appertaining thereto has become or is about to become due and
payable, the Company in its discretion may, instead of issuing a new Security,
pay such Security or any coupon or coupons appertaining thereto.
Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section or any coupon
or coupons appertaining thereto, the Company may require the payment of a sum
sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in
relation thereto and any other expenses (including the fees and expenses of the
Trustee) connected therewith.
Every new Security or any coupon or coupons appertaining thereto of
any series issued pursuant to this Section in lieu of any destroyed, lost or
stolen Security or any coupon or coupons appertaining thereto shall constitute
an original additional contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not
the destroyed, lost or stolen Security or any coupon or coupons appertaining
thereto shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to
all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all
other Securities or any coupon or coupons appertaining thereto of that series
duly issued hereunder.
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The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to
the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the
replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities or
any coupon or coupons appertaining thereto.
SECTION 307. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved.
Interest on any Registered Security which is payable, and is
punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall be
paid to the Person in whose name that Registered Security (or one or more
Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular
Record Date for such interest. In case an Unregistered Security of any series
is surrendered in exchange for a Registered Security of such series after the
close of business (at an office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment
for such series) on any Regular Record Date and before the opening of business
(at such office or agency) on the next succeeding Interest Payment Date, such
Unregistered Security shall be surrendered without the coupon relating to such
Interest Payment Date and interest will not be payable on such Interest Payment
Date in respect of the Registered Security issued in exchange for such
Unregistered Security, but will be payable only to the Holder of such coupon
when due in accordance with provisions of this Indenture.
Any interest on any Registered Security of any series which is
payable, but is not punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest
Payment Date (herein called "Defaulted Interest") shall forthwith cease to be
payable to the Holder on the relevant Regular Record Date by virtue of having
been such Holder, and such Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Company, at
its election in each case, as provided in Clause (1) or (2) below:
(1) The Company may elect to make payment of any
Defaulted Interest to the Persons in whose names the Registered
Securities of such series (or their respective Predecessor Securities)
are registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for
the payment of such Defaulted Interest, which shall be fixed in the
following manner. The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of
the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each
Registered Security of such series and the date of the proposed
payment, and at the same time the Company shall deposit with the
Trustee an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount proposed to
be paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest or shall make
arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit prior to
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the date of the proposed payment, such money when deposited to be held
in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted
Interest as in this Clause provided. Thereupon the Trustee shall fix
a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest which
shall be not more than 15 days and not less than 10 days prior to the
date of the proposed payment and not less than 10 days after the
receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the proposed payment. The
Trustee shall promptly notify the Company of such Special Record Date
and, in the name and at the expense of the Company, shall cause notice
of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special
Record Date therefor to be mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to
each Holder of Registered Securities of such series at his address as
it appears in the Security Register, not less than 10 days prior to
such Special Record Date. Notice of the proposed payment of such
Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor having been so
mailed, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Persons in whose
names the Registered Securities of such series (or their respective
Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business on
such Special Record Date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the
following Clause (2). In case an Unregistered Security of any series
is surrendered at the office or agency of the Company in a Place of
Payment for such series in exchange for a Registered Security of such
series after the close of business at such office or agency on any
Special Record Date and before the opening of business at such office
or agency on the related proposed date for payment of Defaulted
Interest, such Unregistered Security shall be surrendered without the
coupon relating to such proposed date of payment and Defaulted
Interest will not be payable on such proposed date of payment in
respect of the Registered Security issued in exchange for such
Unregistered Security, but will be payable only to the Holder of such
coupon when due in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.
(2) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted
Interest on the Registered Securities of any series in any other
lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities
exchange on which such Securities may be listed, and upon such notice
as may be required by such exchange, if, after notice given by the
Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to this
Clause, such manner of payment shall be deemed practicable by the
Trustee.
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section, each Registered
Security delivered under this Indenture upon registration of transfer of or in
exchange for or in lieu of any other Registered Security shall carry the rights
to interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other
Registered Security.
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Subject to the limitations set forth in Section 1002, the Holder of
any coupon appertaining to in Unregistered Security shall be entitled to
receive the interest payable on such coupon upon presentation and surrender of
such coupon on or after the Interest Payment Date of such coupon at an office
or agency maintained for such purpose pursuant to Section 1002.
SECTION 308. Persons Deemed Owners.
Prior to due presentment of a Registered Security for registration of
transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee
may treat the Person in whose name such Registered Security is registered as
the owner of such Registered Security for the purpose of receiving payment of
principal of (and premium, if any) and (subject to Section 307) interest on
such Registered Security and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not
such Registered Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor
any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the
contrary.
Ownership of Registered Securities of a series shall be proved by the
computerized book-entry system of the Depository in the case of Registered
Securities issued in the form of a Global Security. Ownership of Unregistered
Securities may be proved by the production of such Unregistered Securities or
by a certificate or affidavit executed by the person holding such Unregistered
Securities or by a depository with whom such Unregistered Securities were
deposited, if the certificate or affidavit is satisfactory to the Trustee and
the Company. The Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company may treat
the bearer of any Unregistered Security or coupon and the person in whose name
a Registered Security is registered as the absolute owner thereof for all
purposes.
None of the Company, the Trustee, any Paying Agent or the Security
Registrar will have any responsibility or liability for any aspect of the
records relating to or payments made on account of beneficial ownership
interests of a Global Security or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any
records relating to such beneficial ownership interests.
SECTION 309. Cancellation.
Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for
Securities of any series, all Securities and coupons surrendered for payment,
redemption, registration of transfer or exchange or for credit against any
sinking fund
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payment shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee, be
delivered to the Trustee and shall be promptly cancelled by it. Except as
otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for Securities of any
series, the Company may at any time deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any
Securities or coupons previously authenticated and delivered hereunder which
the Company may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and all Securities or
coupons so delivered shall be promptly cancelled by the Trustee. No Securities
shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Securities or coupons
cancelled as provided in this Section, except as expressly permitted by this
Indenture (including, without limitation, as contemplated by Section 301(9)).
All cancelled Securities or coupons held by the Trustee shall be destroyed and
the Trustee shall furnish an affidavit to the Company (setting forth the serial
numbers of such Securities) attesting to such destruction unless by a Company
Order the Company shall direct that the cancelled Securities or coupons be
returned to it.
SECTION 310. Computation of Interest.
Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for
Securities of any series, interest on the Securities of each series shall be
computed on the basis of a year of twelve 30-day months.
SECTION 311. Global Securities; Exchanges; Registration and Registration of
Transfer.
If specified as contemplated by Section 301, the Securities may be
issued in the form of one or more Global Securities, which shall be deposited
with the Depository, and, unless otherwise specified in the form of Global
Security adopted pursuant to Section 301. be registered in the name of the
Depository's nominee.
Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301, any
permanent Global Security shall be exchangeable only as provided in this
paragraph. If the beneficial owners of interests in a permanent Global
Security are entitled to exchange such interests for Securities of such series
of like tenor and principal amount of another authorized form, as specified as
contemplated by Section 301, then without unnecessary delay but in any event
not later than the earliest date on which such interests may be so exchanged,
the Company shall deliver to the Trustee definitive Securities of that series
in aggregate
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principal amount equal to the principal amount of such permanent Global
Security, executed by the Company. On or after the earliest date on which such
interests may be so exchanged, such permanent Global Security shall be
surrendered from time to time in accordance with instructions given to the
Trustee and the Depository (which instructions shall be in writing but need not
comply with Section 102 or be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel) by the
Depository or such other depository as shall be specified in the Company Order
with respect thereto to the Trustee, as the Company's agent for such purpose,
to be exchanged, in whole or in part, for definitive Securities of the same
series without charge and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in
exchange for each portion of such permanent Global Security, a like aggregate
principal amount of definitive Securities of the same series of authorized
denominations and of like tenor as the portion of such permanent Global Security
to be exchanged which, unless the Securities of the series are not issuable
both as Unregistered Securities and as Registered Securities, as specified as
contemplated by Section 301, shall be in the form of Unregistered Securities or
Registered Securities, or any combination thereof, as shall be specified by the
beneficial owner thereof, provided, however, that no such exchanges may occur
during the periods specified by Section 305; and provided, further, that no
Unregistered Security delivered in exchange for a portion of a permanent Global
Security shall be mailed or otherwise delivered to any location in the United
States unless the Company has complied with the fourth paragraph of Section
305. Promptly following any such exchange in part, such permanent Global
Security shall be returned by the Trustee, to the Depository or such other
depository referred to above, in accordance with the instructions of the
Company referred to above.
The Global Security may be transferred to another nominee of the
Depository, or to a successor Depository selected by the Company, and upon
surrender for registration of transfer of the Global Security to the Trustee,
the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in
the name of the designated transferee, a new Global Security in the same
aggregate principal amount. If at any time the Depository notifies the Company
that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depository and a successor
Depository satisfactory to the Company is not appointed within 90 days after
the Company receives such notice, the Company will execute, and the Trustee
will authenticate and deliver, Securities in definitive form to the Depository
in exchange for the Global Security. In addition, if at any time the Company
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determines that it is not in the best interest of the Company or the beneficial
owners of Securities to continue to have a Global Security representing all of
the Securities held by a Depository, the Company may, at its option, execute,
and the Trustee will authenticate and deliver, Securities in definitive form to
the Depository in exchange for all or a portion of the Global Security.
Promptly after any such exchange of Securities in definitive form for all or a
portion of the Global Security pursuant to this paragraph, the Company shall
promulgate regulations governing registration of transfers and exchanges of
Securities in definitive form, which regulations shall be reasonably
satisfactory to the Trustee and shall thereafter bind every Holder of such
Securities.
ARTICLE FOUR
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
SECTION 401. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture.
This Indenture shall upon Company Request cease to be of further
effect (except as to any surviving rights of registration of transfer or
exchange of Securities herein expressly provided for), and the Trustee, at the
expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, when
(1) either
(A) all Securities theretofore authenticated and
delivered (other than (i) Securities which have been destroyed, lost
or stolen and which have been replaced or paid as provided in Section
306 and (ii) Securities for whose payment money has theretofore been
deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust by the Company and
thereafter repaid to the Company or discharged from such trust, as
provided in Section 1003) have been delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation; or
(B) all such Securities not theretofore delivered to the
Trustee for cancellation
(i) have become due and payable, or
(ii) will become due and payable at their Stated
Maturity within one year, or
(iii) are to be called for redemption within one
year under arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the
giving of notice of redemption by the Trustee in the name, and
at the expense, of the Company, or
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(iv) are deemed paid and discharged Pursuant to
Section 403, as applicable,
and the Company, in the case of (i), (ii) or (iii) above, has
deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust
funds in trust for the purpose an amount of (a) money, or (b)
in the case of (ii) or (iii) above and if no Securities of any
series Outstanding are subject to repayment at the option of
Holders, (I) U.S. Government Obligations which through the
payment of interest and principal in respect thereof in
accordance with their terms will provide not later than one
day before the Stated Maturity or Redemption Date, as the case
may be, money in an amount, or (II) a combination of money or
U.S. Government Obligations as provided in (I) above, in each
case sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally recognized
firm of independent certified public accountants expressed in
a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to
pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on such Securities
not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, for
principal (and premium, if any) and interest to the date of
such deposit (in the case of Securities which have become due
and payable) or to the Stated Maturity or Redemption Date, as
the case may be;
(2) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other
sums payable hereunder by the Company; and
(3) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all
conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction
and discharge of this Indenture have been met.
Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the
obligations of the Company to the Trustee under Section 607, the obligations of
the Trustee to any Authenticating Agent under Section 614 and, if money or U.S.
Government Obligations shall have been deposited with the Trustee pursuant to
subclause (B) of clause (1) of this Section or if money or U.S. Government
Obligations shall have been deposited with or received by the Trustee pursuant
to Section 403, the obligations of the Trustee under Section 402 and the last
paragraph of Section 1003 shall survive.
SECTION 402. Application of Trust Money.
(a) Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section
1003, all money or U.S. Government Obligations deposited with the Trustee
pursuant to Section 401, 403 or 1007 and all money received by the Trustee in
respect
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of U.S. Government Obligations deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section
401, 403 or 1007, shall be held in trust and applied by it, in accordance with
the provisions of the Securities and this Indenture, to the payment, either
directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own
Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Persons entitled thereto, of
the principal (and premium, if any) and interest for whose payment such money
has been deposited with or received by the Trustee or to make mandatory sinking
fund payments or analogous payments as contemplated by Section 401, 403 or
1007.
(b) The Company shall pay and shall indemnify the Trustee against
any tax, fee or other charge imposed on or assessed against U.S. Government
Obligations deposited pursuant to Section 401, 403 or 1007 or the interest and
principal received in respect of such obligations other than any payable by or
on behalf of Holders.
(c) The Trustee shall deliver or pay to the Company from time to
time upon Company Request any U.S. Government Obligations or money held by it
as provided in Section 401, 403 or 1007 which, in the opinion of a nationally
recognized firm of independent certified public accountants expressed in a
written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, are then in excess of
the amount thereof which then would have been required to be deposited for the
purpose for which such U.S. Government Obligations or money was deposited or
received. This provision shall not authorize the sale by the Trustee of any
U.S. Government Obligations held under this Indenture.
SECTION 403. Satisfaction, Discharge and Defeasance of Securities of Any
Series.
The Company shall be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire
indebtedness on all the Outstanding Securities of any series on the 91st day
after the date of the deposit referred to in subparagraph (e) hereof, and the
provisions of this Indenture, as it relates to such Outstanding Securities of
such series, shall no longer be in effect (and the Trustee, at the expense of
the Company, shall at Company Request execute proper instruments acknowledging
the same), except as to:
(a) the rights of Holders of Securities of such series to
receive, from the trust funds described in subparagraph (e) hereof,
(i) payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and each
installment of principal of
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(and premium, if any) or interest on the Outstanding Securities of
such series on the Stated Maturity of such principal or installment of
principal or interest or to and including the Redemption Date
irrevocably designated by the Company pursuant to subparagraph (k)
hereof and (ii) the benefit of any mandatory sinking fund payments
applicable to the Securities of such series on the day on which such
payments are due and payable in accordance with the terms of this
Indenture and the Securities of such series;
(b) the Company's obligations with respect to such
Securities of such series under Sections 305, 306, 1002 and 1003 and,
if the Company shall have irrevocably designated a Redemption Date
pursuant to subparagraph (k) hereof, Sections 1101, 1104 and 1106;
(c) the Company's obligations with respect to the Trustee
under Section 607; and
(d) the rights, powers, trust and immunities of the
Trustee hereunder and the duties of the Trustee under Section 402 and,
if the Company shall have irrevocably designated a Redemption Date
pursuant to subparagraph (k) hereof, Article Eleven and the duty of
the Trustee to authenticate Securities of such series issued on
registration of transfer or exchange;
provided that, the following conditions shall have been satisfied:
(e) the Company has deposited or caused to be irrevocably
deposited (except as provided in Section 402) with the Trustee as
trust funds in trust, specifically pledged as security for, and
dedicated solely to, the benefit of the Holders of the Securities of
such series, (i) money in an amount, or (ii) if Securities of such
series are not subject to repayment at the option of Holders, (A) U.S.
Government Obligations which through the payment of interest and
principal in respect thereof in accordance with their terms will
provide not later than one day before the due date of any payment
referred to in clause (x) or (y) of this subparagraph (e) money in an
amount or (B) a combination thereof, sufficient, in the opinion of a
nationally recognized firm of independent certified public accountants
expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee,
to pay and discharge (x) the principal of (and premium, if any) and
each installment of principal (and premium, if any) and interest on
the Outstanding Securities of such series on the Stated Maturity of
such principal or installment of principal or interest or to and
including the Redemption Date irrevocably designated by the Company
pursuant to subparagraph (k) hereof and (y) any mandatory sinking fund
payments applicable to the Securities of such series on the day on
which such payments are due and payable in accordance with the terms
of this Indenture and of the Securities of such series;
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(f) such deposit will not result in a breach or violation
of, or constitute a default under, this Indenture or any other
agreement or instrument to which the Company is a party or by which it
is bound;
(g) such provision would not cause any Outstanding
Securities of such series then listed on the New York Stock Exchange
or other securities exchange to be delisted as a result thereof;
(h) no Event of Default or event which with notice or
lapse of time would become an Event of Default with respect to the
Securities of such series shall have occurred and be continuing on the
date of such deposit or during the period ending on the 91st day after
such date;
(i) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Company
has received from, or there has been published by, the Internal
Revenue Service a ruling to the effect that Holders of the Securities
of such series will not recognize income, gain or loss for Federal
income tax purposes as a result of such deposit, defeasance and
discharge and will be subject to Federal income tax on the same amount
and in the same manner and at the same times, as would have been the
case if such deposit, defeasance and discharge had not occurred;
(j) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all
conditions precedent provided for relating to the defeasance
contemplated by this Section have been complied with; and
(k) if the Company has deposited or caused to be
deposited money or U.S. Government Obligations to pay or discharge the
principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Outstanding
Securities of a series to and including a Redemption Date pursuant to
subparagraph (e) hereof, such Redemption Date shall be irrevocably
designated by a Board Resolution delivered to the Trustee on or prior
to the date of deposit of such money or U.S. Government Obligations,
and such Board Resolution shall be accompanied by an irrevocable
Company Request that the Trustee give notice of such redemption in the
name and at the expense of the Company not less than 30 nor more than
60 days prior to such Redemption Date in accordance with Section 1104.
ARTICLE FIVE
REMEDIES
SECTION 501. Events of Default.
"Event of Default", wherever used herein with respect to Securities of
any series, means any one of the following events (whatever the reason for such
Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be
effected
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by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any Court
or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body):
(1) default in the payment of any interest upon any
Security of that series when it becomes due and payable, and
continuance of such default for a period of 30 days; or
(2) default in the payment of the principal of (or
premium, if any, on) any Security of that series at its Maturity; or
(3) default in the deposit of any sinking fund payment,
when and as due by the terms of a Security of that series; or
(4) default in the performance, or breach, of any
covenant or warranty of the Company in this Indenture (other than a
covenant or warranty a default in whose performance or whose breach is
elsewhere in this Section specifically dealt with or which has
expressly been included in this Indenture solely for the benefit of
series of Securities other than that series), and continuance of such
default or breach for a period of 60 days after there has been given,
by registered or certified mail, to the Company by the Trustee or to
the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in
aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that
series a written notice specifying such default or breach and
requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a "Notice
of Default" hereunder; or
(5) the entry by a court having jurisdiction in the
premises of (A) a decree or order for relief in respect of the Company
in an involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable Federal or
State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or
(B) a decree or order adjudging the Company a bankrupt or insolvent,
or approving as properly filed a petition seeking reorganization,
arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in respect of the Company
under any applicable Federal or State law, or appointing a custodian,
receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar
official of the Company or of any substantial part of its property, or
ordering the winding up or liquidation of its affairs, and the
continuance of any such decree or order for relief or any such other
decree or order unstayed and in effect for a period of 60 consecutive
days; or
(6) the commencement by the Company of a voluntary case
or proceeding under any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or of any other case
or proceeding to be adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent, or the
consent by it to the entry of a decree or order for relief in respect
of the Company in an involuntary case or proceeding under any
applicable Federal or State bankruptcy,
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insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or to the commencement
of any bankruptcy or insolvency case or proceeding against it, or the
filing by it of a petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization
or relief under any applicable Federal or State law, or the consent by
it to the filing of such petition or to the appointment of or taking
possession by a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee,
sequestrator or similar official of the Company or of any substantial
part of its property, or the making by it of an assignment for the
benefit of creditors, or the admission by it in writing of its
inability to pay its debts generally as they become due, or the taking
of corporate action by the Company in furtherance of any such action;
or
(7) any other Event of Default provided with respect to
Securities of that series.
SECTION 502. Acceleration of Maturity Rescission and Annulment.
If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series at the
time Outstanding occurs and is continuing, then in every such case the Trustee
or the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of that series may declare the principal amount of all
of the Securities of that series to be due and payable immediately, by a notice
in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by Holders), and upon
any such declaration such principal amount shall become immediately due and
payable.
In the case of any declaration of acceleration of the Stated Maturity
of any Original Issue Discount Securities of a series, the Company shall
furnish the Trustee with an Officers' Certificate stating the amount of
principal to be paid to a Holder of $1,000 principal amount of such Securities.
At any time after such a declaration of acceleration with respect to
Securities of any series has been made and before a judgment or decree for
payment of the money due has been obtained by the Trustee as hereinafter in
this Article provided, the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount
of the Outstanding Securities of that series, by written notice to the Company
and the Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if
(1) the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a
sum sufficient to pay
(A) all overdue interest on all Securities of
that series,
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(B) the principal of (and premium, if any, on)
any Securities of that series which have become due otherwise
than by such declaration of acceleration and interest thereon
at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities,
(C) to the extent that payment of such interest
is lawful, interest upon overdue interest at the rate or rates
prescribed therefor in such Securities, and
(D) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee
hereunder and the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and
counsel;
and
(2) all Events of Default with respect to Securities of
that series, other than the non-payment of the principal of Securities
of that series which have become due solely by such declaration of
acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in Section 513.
No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right
consequent thereon.
SECTION 503. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee.
The Company covenants that if
(1) default is made in the payment of any interest on any
Security when such interest becomes due and payable and such default
continues for a period of 30 days, or
(2) default is made in the payment of the principal of
(or premium, if any, on) any Security at the Maturity thereof,
the Company will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the
Holders of such Securities, the whole amount then due and payable on such
Securities for principal (and premium, if any) and interest and, to the extent
that payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable, interest on any
overdue principal (and premium, if any) and on any overdue interest, at the
rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities, and, in addition thereto,
such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of
collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and
advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel.
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If the Company fails to pay such amounts forthwith upon such demand,
the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, may institute
a judicial proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, may
prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree and may enforce the same
against the Company or any other obligor upon such Securities and collect the
moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable in the manner provided by law out of
the property of the Company or any other obligor upon such Securities, wherever
situated.
If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series occurs
and is continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and
enforce its rights and the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series
by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most
effectual to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific
enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the
exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy.
SECTION 504. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.
In case of the pendency of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation,
bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other
judicial proceeding relative to the Company or any other obligor upon the
Securities or the property of the Company or of such other obligor or their
creditors, the Trustee (irrespective of whether the principal of the Securities
shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or
otherwise and irrespective of whether the Trustee shall have made any demand on
the Company for the payment of overdue principal or interest) shall be entitled
and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise,
(i) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of
principal (and premium, if any) and interest owing and unpaid in
respect of the Securities and to file such other papers or documents
as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the
Trustee (including any claim for the reasonable compensation,
expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and
counsel) and of the Holders allowed in such judicial proceeding, and
(ii) to collect and receive any moneys or other property
payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same;
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and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or
other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by
each Holder to make such payments to the Trustee and, in the event that the
Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders,
to pay to the Trustee any amount due it for the reasonable compensation,
expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel,
and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 607.
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to
authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Securities
or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the Trustee to vote in
respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding.
SECTION 505. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities or
Coupons.
All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the Securities
or coupons may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the possession
of any of the Securities or coupons or the production thereof in any proceeding
relating thereto, and any such proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be
brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of
judgment shall, after provision for the payment of the reasonable compensation,
expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, be
for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities and coupons in respect
of which such judgment has been recovered.
SECTION 506. Application of Money Collected.
Any money collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article shall be
applied in the following order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee, and,
in case of the distribution of such money on account of principal (or premium,
if any) or interest, upon presentation of the Securities and the notation
thereon of the payment if only partially paid and upon surrender thereof if
fully paid:
FIRST: To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee under
Section 607;
SECOND: To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid for
principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Securities in
respect of which or for the benefit of which such money has been
collected,
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ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to the
amounts due and payable on such Securities for principal (and premium,
if any) and interest, respectively; and
THIRD: The balance, if any, to the Company.
The Trustee may fix a record date (with respect to Registered
Securities) and payment date for any such payment to Holders of Securities.
SECTION 507. Limitation on Suits.
No Holder of any Security of any series shall have any right to
institute any proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this
Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other
remedy hereunder, unless
(1) such Holder has previously given written notice to
the Trustee of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the
Securities of that series;
(2) the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series shall
have made written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in
respect of such Event of Default in its own name as Trustee hereunder;
(3) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee
indemnity against the reasonable costs, expenses and liabilities to be
incurred in compliance with such request in such amount and for such
person or persons as shall be reasonably acceptable to the Trustee;
(4) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such
notice, request and offer of indemnity has failed to institute any
such proceeding; and
(5) no direction inconsistent with such written request
has been given to the Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders
of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of that series;
it being understood and intended that no one or more of such Holders shall have
any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision
of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other of
such Holders, or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any
other of such Holders or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in
the manner herein provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all of such
Holders.
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SECTION 508. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and
Interest.
Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the Holder of
any Security shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to
receive payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and (subject to
Section 307) interest on such Security on the Stated Maturity or Maturities
expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption, on the Redemption
Date, or, in the case of repayment at the option of the Holder, on the
Repayment Date) and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment,
and such rights shall not be impaired without the consent of such Holder.
SECTION 509. Restoration of Rights and Remedies.
If the Trustee or any Holder has instituted any proceeding to enforce
any right or remedy under this Indenture and such proceeding has been
discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or has been determined adversely to
the Trustee or to such Holder, then and in every such case, subject to any
determination in such proceeding, the Company, the Trustee and the Holders
shall be restored severally and respectively to their former positions
hereunder and thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee and the Holders
shall continue as though no such proceeding had been instituted.
SECTION 510. Rights and Remedies Cumulative.
Except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or
payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities in the last
paragraph of Section 306, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved
to the Trustee or to the Holders is intended to be exclusive of any other right
or remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be
cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or
now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or
employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent
the concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or
remedy.
SECTION 511. Delay or Omission Not Waiver.
No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any Securities
to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default shall impair
any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default
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or an acquiescence therein. Every right and remedy given by this Article or by
law to the Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as
often as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders, as the case
may be.
SECTION 512. Control by Holders.
The Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount
of the Outstanding Securities of any series shall have the right to direct the
time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to
the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee, with
respect to the Securities of such series, provided that
(1) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule
of law or with this Indenture, and
(2) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper
by the Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction.
SECTION 513. Waiver of Past Defaults.
The Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount
of the Outstanding Securities of any series may on behalf of the Holders of all
the Securities of such series waive any past default hereunder with respect to
such series and its consequences, except a default
(1) in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if
any) or interest on any Security of such series, or
(2) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which
under Article Nine cannot be modified or amended without the consent
of the Holder of each Outstanding Security of such series affected.
Upon any such waiver, such default shall cease to exist, and any Event
of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every
purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or
other default or impair any right consequent thereon.
SECTION 514. Undertaking for Costs.
All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Security
by his acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in
its discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy
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under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken,
suffered or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such
suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that such court may
in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys'
fees, against any party litigant in such suit, having due regard to the merits
and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; but the
provisions of this Section shall not apply to any suit instituted by the
Company, to any suit instituted by the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any
Holder, or group of Holders, holding in the aggregate more than 10% in
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series, or to any suit
instituted by any Holder for the enforcement of the payment of the principal of
(or premium, if any) or interest on any Security on or after the Stated
Maturity or Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in the case of
redemption, on or after the Redemption Date, or, in the case of repayment at
the option of the Holder, on or after the Repayment Date).
SECTION 515. Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws.
The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that
it will not at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever
claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law wherever
enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the covenants
or the performance of this Indenture; and the Company (to the extent that it
may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any
such law and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or impede the execution
of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the
execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted.
ARTICLE SIX
THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 601. Certain Duties and Responsibilities.
(a) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default,
(1) the Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and
only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture, and
no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture
against the Trustee; and
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(2) in the absence of bad faith on its part, the Trustee
may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the
correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon certificates or
opinions furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the requirements
of this Indenture; but in the case of any such certificates or
opinions which by any provision hereof are specifically required to be
furnished to the Trustee, the Trustee shall be under a duty to examine
the same to determine whether or not they conform to the requirements
of this Indenture.
(b) In case an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing,
the Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this
Indenture, and use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise, as a
prudent man would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his
own affairs.
(c) No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to relieve
the Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent
failure to act, or its own wilful misconduct, except that
(1) this subsection shall not be construed to limit the
effect of subsection (a) of this Section;
(2) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of
judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer, unless it shall
be proved that the Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent
facts;
(3) the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any
action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance
with the direction of the Holders of not less than a majority in
aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any
series, relating to the time, method and place of conducting any
proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any
trust or power conferred upon the Trustee, under this Indenture with
respect to the Securities of such series; and
(4) no provision of this Indenture shall require the
Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any
financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder,
or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it shall have
reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or
adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably
assured to it.
(d) Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision
of this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or
affording protection to the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this
Section.
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SECTION 602. Notice of Defaults.
Within 90 days after the occurrence of any default hereunder with
respect to the Securities of any series, the Trustee shall transmit by mail to
all Holders of Securities of such series entitled to receive reports pursuant to
Section 704(3) (and, if Unregistered Securities of that series are outstanding,
shall cause to be published at least once in an Authorized Newspaper in each of
The City of New York, London and, if Securities of that series are listed on
any stock exchange outside of the United States, in the city in which such
stock exchange is located (if other than London)) notice of such default
hereunder known to the Trustee, unless such default shall have been cured or
waived; provided, however, that, except in the case of a default in the payment
of the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on any Security of such
series or in the payment of any sinking fund installment with respect to
Securities of such series, the Trustee shall be protected in withholding such
notice if and so long as the board of directors, the executive committee or a
trust committee of directors or Responsible Officers of the Trustee in good
faith determine that the withholding of such notice is in the interest of the
Holders of Securities of such series; and provided, further, that in the case
of any default of the character specified in Section 501(4) with respect to
Securities of such series, no such notice to Holders shall be given until at
least 30 days after the occurrence thereof. For the purpose of this Section,
the term "default" means any event which is, or after notice or lapse of time
or both would become, an Event of Default with respect to Securities of such
series.
SECTION 603. Certain Rights of Trustee.
Subject to the provisions of Section 601:
(a) the Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting
or refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement,
instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent,
order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other
paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed
or presented by the proper party or parties;
(b) any request or direction of the Company mentioned
herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Company Request or Company
Order and any resolution of the Board of Directors may be sufficiently
evidenced by a Board Resolution;
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(c) whenever in the administration of this Indenture the
Trustee shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established
prior to taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the
Trustee (unless other evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may,
in the absence of bad faith on its part, rely upon an Officers'
Certificate or a certificate of an officer or officers delivered
pursuant to Section 301 and such Officers' Certificate or certificate
of an officer or officers, in the absence or negligence or bad faith
on the part of the Trustee, shall be full warrant to the Trustee for
any action taken, suffered or omitted by it under the provisions of
this Indenture upon the faith thereof;
(d) the Trustee may consult with counsel and the written
advice of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and
complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken,
suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance
thereon;
(e) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise
any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the
request or direction of any of the Holders pursuant to this Indenture,
unless such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee reasonable
security or indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities
which might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or
direction;
(f) the Trustee shall not be bound to make any
investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution,
certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request,
direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of
indebtedness or other paper or document, but the Trustee, in its
discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation into such
facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the Trustee shall
determine to make such further inquiry or investigation, it shall be
entitled to examine the books, records and premises of the Company,
personally or by agent or attorney; and
(g) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers
hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or
through agents or attorneys and the Trustee shall not be responsible
for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent or attorney
appointed with due care by it hereunder; no Depository or Paying
Agent shall be deemed an agent of the Trustee and the Trustee shall
not be responsible for any act or omission by any of them.
SECTION 604. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities.
The recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except the
Trustee's certificate of authentication, shall be taken as the statements of
the Company, and the Trustee or any Authenticating Agent assumes no
responsibility for
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their correctness. The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or
sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Securities of any series or any
coupons. The Trustee or any Authenticating Agent shall not be accountable for
the use or application by the Company of Securities or the proceeds thereof.
The Trustee shall not be responsible for and makes no representations as to the
Company's ability or authority to issue the Unregistered Securities or the
lawfulness thereof.
SECTION 605. May Hold Securities.
The Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, any Paying Agent, any Security
Registrar or any other agent of the Company or the Trustee, in its individual
or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities and,
subject to Sections 608 and 613, may otherwise deal with the Company with the
same rights it would have if it were not Trustee, Authenticating Agent, Paying
Agent, Security Registrar or such other agent.
SECTION 606. Money Held in Trust.
Money held by the Trustee or by any Paying Agent (other than the
Company if the Company shall act as Paying Agent) in trust hereunder need not
be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law. Neither
the Trustee nor any Paying Agent shall be liable for interest on any money
received by it hereunder except as otherwise agreed with the Company.
SECTION 607. Compensation and Reimbursement.
The Company agrees
(1) to pay to the Trustee from time to time reasonable
compensation for all services rendered by it hereunder (which
compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to
the compensation of a trustee of an express trust);
(2) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to
reimburse the Trustee upon its request for all reasonable expenses,
disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Trustee in
accordance with any provision of this Indenture (including the
reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its
agents and counsel), except any such expense, disbursement or advance
as may be attributable to its negligence or bad faith; and
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(3) to indemnify the Trustee for, and to hold it harmless
against, any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or
bad faith on its part, arising out of or in connection with the
acceptance or administration of the trust or trusts hereunder or
performance of its duties hereunder, including the costs and expenses
of defending itself against any claim or liability in connection with
the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder.
As security for the performance of the obligations of the Company
under this Section the Trustee shall have a claim prior to the Securities and
any coupons upon all property and funds held or collected by the Trustee as
such, except funds held in trust for the payment of principal of (and premium,
if any) or interest on particular Securities or any coupons.
SECTION 608. Disqualification; Conflicting Interests.
(a) If the Trustee has or shall acquire any conflicting interest,
as defined in this Section, with respect to the Securities of any series, then,
within 90 days after ascertaining that it has such conflicting interest and if
the default (as provided in subsection (d)) to which such conflicting interest
relates has not been cured or duly waived or otherwise eliminated before the
end of such 90-day period, the Trustee shall either eliminate such conflicting
interest or, except as otherwise provided below in this Section, resign with
respect to the Securities of that series in the manner and with the effect
hereinafter specified in this Article and the Company shall take prompt steps
to have a successor appointed in the manner provided herein.
(b) In the event that the Trustee shall fail to comply with the
provisions of subsection (a) of this Section with respect to the Securities of
any series, the Trustee shall, within 10 days after the expiration of such
90-day period, transmit by mail to all Holders of Securities of that series
entitled to receive reports pursuant to Section 704(3) (and, if Unregistered
Securities of that series are outstanding, shall cause to be published at least
once in an Authorized Newspaper in each of The City of New York, London and, if
Securities of that series are listed on any stock exchange outside of the
United States, in the city in which such stock exchange is located (if other
than London)), notice of such failure.
(c) Subject to Section 514, unless the Trustee's duty to resign is
stayed, as provided below in this Section, any Holder of Securities of that
series who has been a bona fide Holder of Securities of any series referred to
in subsection (a)
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of this Section for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all other
Holders of Securities of that series similarly situated, petition any court of
competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee, and the appointment of a
successor, if the Trustee fails, after written request by such Holder to comply
with the provisions of subsection (a) of this Section.
(d) For the purposes of this Section, the Trustee shall be deemed
to have a conflicting interest with respect to the Securities of any series if
the Securities of such series are in default (exclusive of any period of grace
or requirement of notice) as provided in Section 501 and
(1) the Trustee is trustee under this Indenture with
respect to the Outstanding Securities of any series other than that
series or is trustee under another indenture under which any other
securities, or certificates of interest or participation in any other
securities, of the Company are outstanding, unless such other
indenture is a collateral trust indenture under which the only
collateral consists of Securities issued under this Indenture,
provided that there shall be excluded from the operation of this
paragraph this Indenture with respect to the Securities of any series
other than that series, that certain indenture dated as of April 1,
1986 between the Company and the Trustee and any indenture or
indentures under which other securities, or certificates of interest
or participation in other securities, of the Company are outstanding,
if
(i) this Indenture and such other indenture or
indentures (and all series of Securities issuable thereunder)
are wholly unsecured and rank equally, and such other
indenture or indentures (and such series) are hereafter
qualified under the Trust Indenture Act, unless the Commission
shall have found and declared by order pursuant to Section
305(b) or Section 307(c) of the Trust Indenture Act that
differences exist between the provisions of this Indenture
with respect to Securities of that series and one or more
other series or the provisions of such other indenture or
indentures (or such series) which are so likely to involve a
material conflict of interest as to make it necessary in the
public interest or for the protection of investors to
disqualify the Trustee from acting as such under this
Indenture with respect to the Securities of that series and
such other series or under such other indenture or indentures,
or
(ii) the Company shall have sustained the burden
of proving, on application to the Commission and after
opportunity for hearing thereon, that trusteeship under this
Indenture with respect to the Securities of that series and
such other series or such other indenture or indentures is not
so likely to involve a material conflict of interest as to
make it necessary in the public interest or for the protection
of investors to disqualify the Trustee from acting as such
under this Indenture with
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respect to the Securities of that series and such other series
or under such other indenture or indentures;
(2) the Trustee or any of its directors or executives
officers is an underwriter for the Company;
(3) the Trustee directly or indirectly controls or is
directly or indirectly controlled by or is under direct or indirect
common control with an underwriter for the Company;
(4) the Trustee or any of its directors or executive
officers is a director, officer, partner, employee, appointee or
representative of the Company, or of an underwriter (other than the
Trustee itself) for the Company who is currently engaged in the
business of underwriting, except that (i) one individual may be a
director or an executive officer, or both, of the Trustee and a
director or an executive officer, or both, of the Company but may not
be at the same time an executive officer of both the Trustee and the
Company; (ii) if and so long as the number of directors of the Trustee
in office is more than nine, one additional individual may be a
director or an executive officer, or both, of the Trustee and a
director of the Company; and (iii) the Trustee may be designated by
the Company or by any underwriter for the Company to act in the
capacity of transfer agent, registrar, custodian, paying agent, fiscal
agent, escrow agent or depositary, or in any other similar capacity,
or, subject to the provisions of paragraph (1) of this subsection, to
act as trustee, whether under an indenture or otherwise;
(5) 10% or more of the voting securities of the Trustee
is beneficially owned either by the Company or by any director,
partner or executive officer thereof, or 20% or more of such voting
securities is beneficially owned, collectively by any two or more of
such persons; or 10% or more of the voting securities of the Trustee
is beneficially owned either by an underwriter for the Company or by
any director, partner or executive officer thereof, or is beneficially
owned, collectively, by any two or more such persons;
(6) the Trustee is the beneficial owner of, or holds as
collateral security for an obligation which is in default (as
hereinafter in this subsection defined), (i) 5% or more of the voting
securities, or 10% or more of any other class of security, of the
Company, not including the Securities issued under this Indenture and
securities issued under any other indenture under which the Trustee is
also trustee, or (ii) 10% or more of any class of security of an
underwriter for the Company;
(7) the Trustee is the beneficial owner of, or holds as
collateral security for an obligation which is in default (as
hereinafter in this subsection defined), 5% or more of the voting
securities of any person who, to the
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knowledge of the Trustee, owns 10% or more of the voting securities
of, or controls directly or indirectly or is under direct or indirect
common control with, the Company;
(8) the Trustee is the beneficial owner of, or holds as
collateral security for an obligation which is in default (as
hereinafter in this subsection defined), 10% or more of any class of
security of any person who, to the knowledge of the Trustee, owns 50%
or more of the voting securities of the Company;
(9) the Trustee owns, on the date of default upon the
Securities of such series (exclusive of any period of grace or
requirement of notice) as provided in Section 501 or any anniversary
of such default while such default remains outstanding, in the
capacity of executor, administrator, testamentary or inter vivos
trustee, guardian, committee or conservator, or in any other similar
capacity, an aggregate of 25% or more of the voting securities, or of
any class of security, of any person, the beneficial ownership of a
specified percentage of which would have constituted a conflicting
interest under paragraph (6), (7) or (8) of this subsection. As to
any such securities of which the Trustee acquired ownership through
becoming executor, administrator or testamentary trustee of an estate
which included them, the provisions of the preceding sentence shall
not apply for a period of not more than two years from the date of
such acquisition, to the extent that such securities included in such
estate do not exceed 25% of such voting securities or 25% of any such
class of security. Promptly after the dates of any such default and
annually in each succeeding year that the Securities of that series
remain in default, the Trustee shall make a check of its holdings of
such securities in any of the above-mentioned capacities as of such
dates. If the Company fails to make payment in full of the principal
of (or premium, if any) or interest on any of the Securities when and
as the same becomes due and payable, and such failure continues for 30
days thereafter, the Trustee shall make a prompt check of its holdings
of such securities in any of the above-mentioned capacities as of the
date of the expiration of such 30-day period, and after such date,
notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this paragraph, all such
securities so held by the Trustee, with sole or joint control over
such securities vested in it, shall, but only so long as such failure
shall continue, be considered as though beneficially owned by the
Trustee for the purposes of paragraphs (6), (7) and (8) of this
subsection; or
(10) except under the circumstances described in
paragraphs (1), (3), (4), (5) or (6) of subsection (b) of Section 613,
the Trustee shall be or shall become a creditor of the Company.
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For the purposes of paragraph (1) of this subsection, and of Sections
512 and 513, the term "series of securities" or "series" means a series, class
or group of securities issuable under an indenture pursuant to whose terms
holders of one such series may vote to direct the indenture trustee, or
otherwise take action pursuant to a vote of such holders separately from
holders of another such series; provided, that "series of securities" or
"series" shall not include any series of securities issuable under an indenture
if all such series rank equally and are wholly unsecured.
The specification of percentages in paragraphs (5) to (9), inclusive,
of this subsection shall not be construed as indicating that the ownership of
such percentages of the securities of a person is or is not necessary or
sufficient to constitute direct or indirect control for the purposes of
paragraph (3) or (7) of this subsection.
For the purposes of paragraphs (6), (7), (8) and (9) of this
subsection only, (i) the terms "security" and "securities" shall include only
such securities as are generally known as corporate securities, but shall not
include any note or other evidence of indebtedness issued to evidence an
obligation to repay moneys lent to a person by one or more banks, trust
companies or banking firms, or any certificate of interest or participation in
any such note or evidence of indebtedness; (ii) an obligation shall be deemed
to be "in default" when a default in payment of principal shall have continued
for 30 days or more and shall not have been cured; and (iii) the Trustee shall
not be deemed to be the owner or holder of (A) any security which it holds as
collateral security, as trustee or otherwise, for an obligation which is not in
default as defined in clause (ii) above, or (B) any security which it holds as
collateral security under this Indenture, irrespective of any default
hereunder, or (C) any security which it holds as agent for collection, or as
custodian, escrow agent or depositary, or in any similar representative
capacity.
(e) For the purposes of this Section:
(1) The term "underwriter", when used with reference to
the Company, means every person who, within one year prior to the time
as of which the determination is made, has purchased from the Company
with a view to, or has offered or sold for the Company in connection
with, the distribution of any security of the Company outstanding at
such time, or has participated or has had a direct or indirect
participation in any such undertaking, or has participated or has had
a participation in the direct
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or indirect underwriting of any such undertaking, but such term shall
not include a person whose interest was limited to a commission from
an underwriter or dealer not in excess of the usual and customary
distributors' or sellers' commission.
(2) The term "director" means any director of a
corporation or any individual performing similar functions with
respect to any organization, whether incorporated or unincorporated.
(3) The term "person" means an individual, a corporation,
a partnership, an association, a joint-stock company, a trust, an
unincorporated organization or a government or political subdivision
thereof. As used in this paragraph, the term "trust" shall include
only a trust where the interest or interests of the beneficiary or
beneficiaries are evidenced by a security.
(4) The term "voting security" means any security
presently entitling the owner or holder thereof to vote in the
direction or management of the affairs of a person, or any security
issued under or pursuant to any trust, agreement or arrangement
whereby a trustee or trustees or agent or agents for the owner or
holder of such security are presently entitled to vote in the
direction or management of the affairs of a person.
(5) The term "Company" means any obligor upon the
Securities.
(6) The term "executive officer, means the president,
every vice president, every trust officer, the cashier, the secretary
and the treasurer of a corporation, and any individual customarily
performing similar functions with respect to any organization whether
incorporated or unincorporated, but shall not include the chairman of
the board of directors.
(f) The percentages of voting securities and other securities
specified in this Section shall be calculated in accordance with the following
provisions:
(1) A specified percentage of the voting securities of
the Trustee, the Company or any other person referred to in this
Section (each of whom is referred to as a "person" in this paragraph)
means such amount of the outstanding voting securities of such person
as entities the holder or holders thereof to cast such specified
percentage of the aggregate votes which the holders of all the
outstanding voting securities of such person are entitled to cast in
the direction or management of the affairs of such person.
(2) A specified percentage of a class of securities of a
person means such percentage of the aggregate amount of securities of
the class outstanding.
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(3) The term "amount", when used in regard to securities,
means the principal amount if relating to evidences of indebtedness,
the number of shares if relating to capital shares and the number of
units if relating to any other kind of security.
(4) The term "outstanding" means issued and not held by
or for the account of the issuer. The following securities shall not
be deemed outstanding within the meaning of this definition:
(i) securities of an issuer held in a sinking
fund relating to securities of the issuer of the same class;
(ii) securities of an issuer held in a sinking
fund relating to another class of securities of the issuer, if
the obligation evidenced by such other class of securities is
not in default as to principal or interest or otherwise;
(iii) securities pledged by the issuer thereof as
security for an obligation of the issuer not in default as to
principal or interest or otherwise; and
(iv) securities held in escrow if placed in escrow
by the issuer thereof;
provided, however, that any voting securities of an issuer shall be
deemed outstanding if any person other than the issuer is entitled to
exercise the voting rights thereof.
(5) A security shall be deemed to be of the same class as
another security if both securities confer upon the holder or holders
thereof substantially the same rights and privileges; provided,
however, that, in the case of secured evidences of indebtedness, all
of which are issued under a single indenture, differences in the
interest rates or maturity dates of various series thereof shall not
be deemed sufficient to constitute such series different classes and
provided. further, that, in the case of unsecured evidences of
indebtedness, differences in the interest rates or maturity dates
thereof shall not be deemed sufficient to constitute them securities
of different classes, whether or not they are issued under a single
indenture.
(g) Except in the case of a default in the payment of the
principal (or premium, if any) or interest on the Securities of any series, or
in the payment of any sinking or purchase fund installment, the Trustee shall
not be required to resign as provided in this Section if the Trustee has
sustained the burden of
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proving, on application to the Commission and after opportunity for hearing
thereon, that
(1) the default under this Indenture may be cured
or waived during a reasonable period and under the procedures
described in such application, and
(2) a stay of the Trustee's duty to resign will
not be inconsistent with the interests of the Holders of
Securities of the series.
The filing of such an application will automatically stay the
performance of the duty to resign until the Commission orders otherwise.
(h) The resignation of the Trustee shall become effective only
upon the appointment of a successor trustee and the acceptance by the successor
trustee of such appointment.
(i) If Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act is amended at any
time after the date of this Indenture to change the circumstances under which a
Trustee shall be deemed to have a conflicting interest with respect to the
Securities of any series or to change any of the definitions in connection
therewith, this Section 608 shall be automatically amended to incorporate such
changes, unless such changes would cause any Trustee then acting as Trustee
hereunder with respect to any Outstanding Securities to be deemed to have a
conflicting interest, in which case such changes shall be incorporated herein
only to the extent that such changes (i) would not cause the Trustee to be
deemed to have a conflicting interest or (ii) are required by law.
SECTION 609. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility.
There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder which shall be a
corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the United States of
America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia (or such other Person as
may be permitted to act as Trustee by the Commission), authorized under such
laws to exercise corporate trust powers, having a combined capital and surplus
of at least $50,000,000, and subject to supervision or examination by Federal
or State authority, provided that, neither the Company nor any Affiliate of the
Company may serve as Trustee of any Securities. If such corporation publishes
reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements
of said supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this
Section, the combined capital and surplus of such corporation shall be deemed
to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent
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report of condition so published. If at any time the Trustee shall cease to be
eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, it shall resign
immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this
Article.
SECTION 610. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.
(a) No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of
a successor Trustee pursuant to this Article shall become effective until the
acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee in accordance with the
applicable requirements of Section 611.
(b) The Trustee may resign at any time with respect to the
Securities of one or more series by giving written notice thereof to the
Company. If the instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee required by
Section 611 shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after
the giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee may petition
any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee
with respect to the Securities of such series.
(c) The Trustee may be removed at any time with respect to the
Securities of any series by Act of the Holders of a majority in aggregate
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series, delivered to the
Trustee and to the Company.
(d) If at any time:
(1) the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section 608(a)
with respect to the Securities of any series, after written request
therefor by the Company or by any Holder who has been a bona fide
Holder of a Security of such series for at least six months, unless
the Trustee's duty to resign has been stayed as provided in Section
608(g), or
(2) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section
609 and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the
Company or by any such Holder, or
(3) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall
be adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the Trustee or of
its property shall be appointed or any public officer shall take
charge or control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the
purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation,
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then, in any such case, (i) the Company by a Board Resolution may remove the
Trustee with respect to all Securities, or (ii) subject to Section 514, any
Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months
may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court
of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee with respect to all
Securities and the appointment of a successor Trustee or Trustees.
(e) If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of
acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee for any cause,
with respect to the Securities of one or more series, the Company, by a Board
Resolution, shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee or Trustees with respect
to the Securities of that or those series (it being understood that any such
successor Trustee may be appointed with respect to the Securities of one or
more or all of such series and that at any time there shall be only one Trustee
with respect to the Securities of any particular series) and shall comply with
the applicable requirements of Section 611. If, within one year after such
resignation, removal or incapability, or the occurrence of such vacancy, a
successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall be
appointed by Act of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of
the Outstanding Securities of such series delivered to the Company and the
retiring Trustee, the successor Trustee so appointed shall, forthwith upon its
acceptance of such appointment in accordance with the applicable requirements
of Section 611, become the successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of
such series and to that extent supersede the successor Trustee appointed by the
Company. If no successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series
shall have been so appointed by the Company or the Holders and accepted
appointment in the manner required by Section 611, any Holder who has been a
bona fide Holder of a Security of such series for at least six months may, on
behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of
competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect
to the Securities of such series.
(f) The Company shall give notice of each resignation and each
removal of the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series and each
appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series
by mailing written notice of such event by first-class mad, postage prepaid, to
all Holders of Securities of such series entitled to receive reports pursuant
to Section 704(3) and, if any Unregistered Securities are outstanding, by
publishing notice of such event once in an Authorized Newspaper in each of The
City of New
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York, London, and, if any Unregistered Securities are listed on any stock
exchange outside of the United States, in the city in which such stock exchange
is located (if other than London). Each notice shall include the name of the
successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series and the address
of its Corporate Trust Office.
(g) All provisions of this Section 610 except subparagraph (c) and
Section 611(b) (except for the last clause, after omitting the words "after
deducting all amounts owed to the retiring Trustee pursuant to Section 607,"
which shall apply) shall apply also to any Paying Agent located outside the
United States and its possessions.
SECTION 611. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.
(a) In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee
with respect to a Securities, every such successor Trustee so appointed shall
execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Company and to the retiring Trustee an
instrument accepting such appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal
of the retiring Trustee shall become effective and such successor Trustee,
without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the
rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee; but, on the request
of the Company or the successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall, upon
payment of its charges, execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such
successor Trustee a the rights, powers and trusts of the retiring Trustee and
shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property
and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder, subject nevertheless to its
lien provided for in Section 607.
(b) In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee
with respect to the Securities of one or more (but not all) series, the
Company, the retiring Trustee and each successor Trustee with respect to the
Securities of one or more series shall execute and deliver an indenture
supplemental hereto wherein each successor Trustee shall accept such
appointment and which (1) shall contain such provisions as shall be necessary
or desirable to transfer and confirm to, and to vest in, each successor Trustee
all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect
to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such
successor Trustee relates, (2) if the retiring Trustee is not retiring with
respect to all Securities, shall contain such
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provisions as shall be deemed necessary or desirable to confirm that all the
rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the
Securities of that or those series as to which the retiring Trustee is not
retiring shall continue to be vested in the retiring Trustee, and (3) shall add
to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to
provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more
than one Trustee, it being understood that nothing herein or in such
supplemental indenture shall constitute such Trustees co-trustees of the same
trust and that each such Trustee shall be trustee of a trust or trusts
hereunder separate and apart from any trust or trusts hereunder administered by
any other such Trustee; and upon the execution and delivery of such
supplemental indenture the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall
become effective to the extent provided therein and each such successor
Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with
all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect
to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such
successor Trustee relates; but, on request of the Company or any successor
Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such
successor Trustee, after deducting all amounts owed to the retiring Trustee
pursuant to Section 607, all property and money held by such retiring Trustee
hereunder with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the
appointment of such successor Trustee relates.
(c) Upon request of any such successor Trustee, the Company shall
execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and
confirming to such successor Trustee all such rights, powers and trusts
referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section, as the case may be.
(d) No successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at
the time of such acceptance such successor Trustee shall be qualified and
eligible under this Article.
SECTION 612. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.
Any corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or
with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any
merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or
any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all the corporate trust
business of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder,
provided
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such corporation shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article,
without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of
any of the parties hereto. In case any Securities shall have been
authenticated, but not delivered, by the Trustee then in office, any successor
by merger, conversion or consolidation to such authenticating Trustee may adopt
such authentication and deliver the Securities so authenticated with the same
effect as if such successor Trustee had itself authenticated such Securities.
In case any Securities shall not have been authenticated by such predecessor
Trustee, any such successor Trustee may authenticate and deliver such
Securities, in either its own name or that of its predecessor Trustee, with the
full force and effect which this Indenture provides for the certificate of
authentication of the Trustee.
SECTION 613. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company.
(a) Subject to subsection (b) of this Section, if the Trustee
shall be or shall become a creditor, directly or indirectly, secured or
unsecured, of the Company within three months prior to a default, as defined in
subsection (c) of this Section, or subsequent to such a default, then, unless
and until such default shall be cured, the Trustee shall set apart and hold in
a special account for the benefit of the Trustee individually, the Holders of
the Securities and the holders of other indenture securities, as defined in
subsection (c) of this Section:
(1) an amount equal to any and all reductions in the
amount due and owing upon any claim as such creditor in respect of
principal or interest, effected after the beginning of such three
months' period and valid as against the Company and its other
creditors, except any such reduction resulting from the receipt or
disposition of any property described in paragraph (2) of this
subsection, or from the exercise of any right of set-off which the
Trustee could have exercised if a petition in bankruptcy had been
filed by or against the Company upon the date of such default; and
(2) all property received by the Trustee in respect of
any claims as such creditor, either as security therefor, or in
satisfaction or composition thereof, or otherwise, after the beginning
of such three months' period, or an amount equal to the proceeds of
any such property, if disposed of, subject, however, to the rights, if
any, of the Company and its other creditors in such property or such
proceeds.
Nothing herein contained, however, shall affect the right of the Trustee:
(A) to retain for its own account (i) payments made on
account of any such claim by any Person (other than the Company) who
is liable thereon, and (ii) the proceeds of the bona fide sale of any
such claim by
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the Trustee to a third Person, and (iii) distributions made in cash,
securities or other property in respect of claims filed against the
Company in bankruptcy or receivership or in proceedings for
reorganization pursuant to the Federal Bankruptcy Act or applicable
State law;
(B) to realize, for its own account, upon any property
held by it as security for any such claim, if such property was so
held prior to the beginning of such three months' period;
(C) to realize, for its own account, but only to the
extent of the claim, hereinafter mentioned, upon any property held by
it as security for any such claim, if such claim was created after the
beginning of such three months' period and such property was received
as security therefor simultaneously with the creation thereof, and if
the Trustee shall sustain the burden of proving that at the time such
property was so received the Trustee had no reasonable cause to
believe that a default, as defined in subsection (c) of this Section,
would occur within three months; or
(D) to receive payment on any claim referred to in
paragraph (B) or (C), against the release of any property held as
security for such claim as provided in paragraph (B) or (C), as the
case may be, to the extent of the fair value of such property.
For the purposes of paragraphs (B), (C) and (D), property substituted
after the beginning of such three months' period for property held as security
at the time of such substitution shall, to the extent of the fair value of the
property released, have the same status as the property released, and, to the
extent that any claim referred to in any of such paragraphs is created in
renewal of or in substitution for or for the purpose of repaying or refunding
any pre-existing claim of the Trustee as such creditor, such claim shall have
the same status as such pre-existing claim.
If the Trustee shall be required to account, the funds and property
held in such special account and the proceeds thereof shall be apportioned
among the Trustee, the Holders and the holders of other indenture securities in
such manner that the Trustee, the Holders and the holders of other indenture
securities realize, as a result of payments from such special account and
payments of dividends on claims filed against the Company in bankruptcy or
receivership or in proceedings for reorganization pursuant to the Federal
Bankruptcy Act or applicable State law, the same percentage of their respective
claims, figured before crediting to the claim of the Trustee anything on
account of the receipt by it from the Company of the funds and property in such
special account and before crediting to the respective claims of the
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Trustee and the Holders and the holders of other indenture securities dividends
on claims filed against the Company in bankruptcy or receivership or in
proceedings for reorganization pursuant to the Federal Bankruptcy Act or
applicable State law, but after crediting thereon receipts on account of the
indebtedness represented by their respective claims from all sources other than
from such dividends and from the funds and property so held in such special
account. As used in this paragraph, with respect to any claim, the term
"dividends" shall include any distribution with respect to such claim, in
bankruptcy or receivership or proceedings for reorganization pursuant to the
Federal Bankruptcy Act or applicable State law, whether such distribution is
made in cash, securities or other property, but shall not include any such
distribution with respect to the secured portion, if any, of such claim. The
court in which such bankruptcy, receivership or proceedings for reorganization
is pending shall have jurisdiction (i) to apportion between the Trustee, the
Holders and the holders of other indenture securities, in accordance with the
provisions of this paragraph, the funds and property held in such special
account and proceeds thereof, or (ii) in lieu of such apportionment, in whole
or in part, to give to the provisions of this paragraph due consideration in
determining the fairness of the distributions to be made to the Trustee and the
Holders and the holders of other indenture securities with respect to their
respective claims, in which event it shall not be necessary to liquidate or to
appraise the value of any securities or other property held in such special
account or as security for any such claim, or to make a specific allocation of
such distributions as between the secured and unsecured portions of such
claims, or otherwise to apply the provisions of this paragraph as a
mathematical formula.
Any Trustee that has resigned or been removed after the beginning of
such three months' period shall be subject to the provisions of this subsection
as though such resignation or removal had not occurred. If any Trustee has
resigned or been removed prior to the beginning of such three months' period,
it shall be subject to the provisions of this subsection if and only if the
following conditions exist:
(i) the receipt of property or reduction of claim, which
would have given rise to the obligation to account, if such Trustee
had continued as Trustee, occurred after the beginning of such three
months' period; and
(ii) such receipt of property or reduction of claim
occurred within three months after such resignation or removal.
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(b) There shall be excluded from the operation of subsection (a)
of this Section a creditor relationship arising from:
(1) the ownership or acquisition of securities issued
under any indenture, or any security or securities having a maturity
of one year or more at the time of acquisition by the Trustee;
(2) advances authorized by a receivership or bankruptcy
court of competent jurisdiction or by this Indenture, for the purpose
of preserving any property which shall at any time be subject to the
Hen of this Indenture or of discharging tax hens or other prior liens
or encumbrances thereon, if notice of such advances and of the
circumstances surrounding the making thereof is given to the Holders
at the time and in the manner provided in this Indenture;
(3) disbursements made in the ordinary course of business
in the capacity of trustee under an indenture, transfer agent,
registrar, custodian, paying agent, fiscal agent or depositary, or
other similar capacity;
(4) an indebtedness created as a result of services
rendered or premises rented; or an indebtedness created as a result of
goods or securities sold in a cash transaction, as defined in
subsection (c) of this Section;
(5) the ownership of stock or of other securities of a
corporation organized under the provisions of Section 25(a) of the
Federal Reserve Act, as amended, which is directly or indirectly a
creditor of the Company; and
(6) the acquisition, ownership, acceptance or negotiation
of any drafts, bills of exchange, acceptances or obligations which
fall within the classification of self-liquidating paper, as defined
in subsection (c) of this Section.
(c) For the purposes of this Section only:
(1) the term "default" means any failure to make payment
in full of the principal of or interest on any of the Securities or
upon the other indenture securities when and as such principal or
interest becomes due and payable;
(2) the term "other indenture securities" means
securities upon which the Company is an obligor outstanding under any
other indenture (i) under which the Trustee is also trustee, (ii)
which contains provisions substantially similar to the provisions of
this Section, and (iii) under which a default exists at the time of
the apportionment of the funds and property held in such special
account;
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(3) the term "cash transaction" means any transaction in
which full payment for goods or securities sold is made within seven
days after delivery of the goods or securities in currency or in
checks or other orders drawn upon banks or bankers and payable upon
demand;
(4) the term "self-liquidating paper" means any draft,
xxxx of exchange, acceptance or obligation which is made, drawn,
negotiated or incurred by the Company for the purpose of financing the
purchase, processing, manufacturing, shipment, storage or sale of
goods, wares or merchandise and which is secured by documents
evidencing title to, possession of, or a lien upon, the goods, wares
or merchandise or the receivables or proceeds arising from the sale of
the goods, wares or merchandise previously constituting the security,
provided the security is received by the Trustee simultaneously with
the creation of the creditor relationship with the Company arising
from the making, drawing, negotiating or incurring of the draft, xxxx
of exchange, acceptance or obligation;
(5) the term "Company" means any obligor upon the
Securities; and
(6) the term "Federal Bankruptcy Act" means the
Bankruptcy Act or Title 11 of the United States Code.
SECTION 614. Appointment of Authenticating Agent
At any time when any of the Securities remain Outstanding the Trustee
may appoint an Authenticating Agent or Agents (which may include the parent of
the Trustee or a corporation that is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Trustee
or of the parent of the Trustee) with respect to one or more series of
Securities which shall be authorized to act on behalf of the Trustee to
authenticate Securities of such series issued upon exchange, registration of
transfer or partial redemption thereof or pursuant to Section 306, and
Securities so authenticated shall be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture
and shall be valid and obligatory for all purposes as if authenticated by the
Trustee hereunder. The Trustee shall mail written notice of such appointment
by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to all Holders of Securities of the series
with respect to which such Authenticating Agent will serve, and which are
entitled to receive reports pursuant to Section 704(3) and, if any Unregistered
Securities are outstanding, by publishing notice of such event once in an
Authorized Newspaper in each of The City of New York, London, and, if any
Unregistered Securities are listed on any stock exchange outside of the United
States, in the city in which such stock exchange is located (if other than
London). Wherever reference is made in this Indenture to the authentication
and delivery of Securities by the Trustee or the Trustee's certificate of
authentication,
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such reference shall be deemed to include authentication and delivery on behalf
of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent and a certificate of authentication
executed on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent. Each
Authenticating Agent shall be acceptable to the Company and shall at a times be
a corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the United States
of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia, authorized under
such laws to act as Authenticating Agent, having a combined capital and surplus
of not less than $1,000,000 and subject to supervision or examination by
Federal or State authority. If such Authenticating Agent publishes reports of
condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of said
supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section, the
combined capital and surplus of such Authenticating Agent 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 an Authenticating Agent shall cease to
be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, such
Authenticating Agent shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect
specified in this Section.
Any corporation into which an Authenticating Agent may be merged or
converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting
from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which such Authenticating Agent
shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to the corporate agency or
corporate trust business of an Authenticating Agent, shall continue to be an
Authenticating Agent, provided such corporation shall be otherwise eligible
under this Section, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further
act on the part of the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent.
An Authenticating Agent may resign with respect to one or more series
of Securities at any time by giving written notice thereof to the Trustee and
to the Company. The Trustee may at any time terminate the agency of an
Authenticating Agent with respect to one or more series of Securities by giving
written notice thereof to such Authenticating Agent and to the Company. Upon
receiving such a notice of resignation or upon such a termination, or in case
at any time such Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance
with the provisions of this Section, the Trustee may appoint a successor
Authenticating Agent which shall be acceptable to the Company and shall mail
written notice of such appointment by first-class mail, postage prepaid,
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to all Holders of Securities of the series with respect to which such
Authenticating Agent will serve, as their names and addresses appear in the
Security Register. Any successor Authenticating Agent upon acceptance of its
appointment hereunder shall become vested with all the rights, powers and
duties of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as
an Authenticating Agent. No successor Authenticating Agent shall be appointed
unless eligible under the provisions of this Section. An Authenticating Agent
appointed pursuant to this Section shall be entitled to rely on Sections 104,
111, 308, 603, 604 and 605 hereunder.
The Trustee agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from time to
time reasonable compensation for its services under this Section, and the
Trustee shall be entitled to be reimbursed for such payments, subject to the
provisions of Section 607.
If an appointment with respect to one or more series is made pursuant
to this Section, the Securities of such series may have endorsed thereon, in
addition to the Trustee's certificate of authentication, an alternate
certificate of authentication in the following form:
This is one of the Securities of the series designated pursuant to and
issued under the within-mentioned Indenture.
BANKERS TRUST COMPANY OF
CALIFORNIA,
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
As Trustee
By ___________________________________
As Authenticating Agent on
behalf of the Trustee
By ___________________________________
Authorized Officer of
Authenticating Agent
Dated: _______________________________
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ARTICLE SEVEN
HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY
SECTION 701. Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders.
The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee
(a) semi-annually, not later than the 15th day after each
Regular Record Date for each series of Registered Securities at the
time Outstanding or on June 30 and December 31 of each year with
respect to each series of Securities for which there are no Regular
Record Dates, a list, in such form as the Trustee may reasonably
require, of the names and addresses of the Holders of Registered
Securities of such series, including Holders of interests in Global
Securities, as of such preceding Regular Record Date or on June 15 or
December 15, as the case may be, or, in the case of a series of
non-interest bearing Securities, on a date to be determined as
contemplated pursuant to Section 301, and
(b) at such other times as the Trustee may request in
writing, within 30 days after the receipt by the Company of any such
request, a list of similar form and content as of a date not more than
15 days prior to the time such list is furnished;
excluding from any such list names and addresses received by the Trustee in its
capacity as Security Registrar for Registered Securities other than Global
Securities.
SECTION 702. Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders.
(a) The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is
reasonably practicable, the names and addresses of Holders of Registered
Securities contained in the most recent list furnished to the Trustee as
provided in Section 701 and the names and addresses of Holders of Registered
Securities received by the Trustee in its capacity as Security Registrar or
Paying Agent. The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in
Section 701 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.
(b) If three or more Holders (herein referred to as "applicants")
apply in writing to the Trustee, and furnish to the Trustee reasonable proof
that each such applicant has owned a Security for a period of at least six
months preceding the date of such application, and such application states that
the appli-
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cants desire to communicate with other Holders with respect to their rights
under this Indenture or under the Securities and is accompanied by a copy of
the form of proxy or other communication which such applicants propose to
transmit, then the Trustee shall, within five business days after the receipt
of such application, at its election, either
(i) afford such applicants access to the information
preserved at the time by the Trustee in accordance with Section
702(a), or
(ii) inform such applicants as to the approximate number
of Holders whose names and addresses appear in the information
preserved at the time by the Trustee in accordance with Section
702(a), and as to the approximate cost of mailing to such Holders the
form of proxy or other communication, if any, specified in such
application.
If the Trustee shall elect not to afford such applicants access to
such information, the Trustee shall, upon the written request of such
applicants, mail to each Holder whose name and address appear in the
information preserved at the time by the Trustee in accordance with Section
702(a) a copy of the form of proxy or other communication which is specified in
such request, with reasonable promptness after a tender to the Trustee of the
material to be mailed and of payment, or provision for the payment, of the
reasonable expenses of mailing, unless within five days after such tender the
Trustee shall mail to such applicants and file with the Commission, together
with a copy of the material to be mailed, a written statement to the effect
that, in the opinion of the Trustee, such mailing would be contrary to the best
interest of the Holders or would be in violation of applicable law. Such
written statement shall specify the basis of such opinion. If the Commission,
after opportunity for a hearing upon the objections specified in the written
statement so filed, shall enter an order refusing to sustain any of such
objections or if, after the entry of an order sustaining one or more of such
objections, the Commission shall find, after notice and opportunity for
hearing, that all the objections so sustained have been met and shall enter an
order so declaring, the Trustee shall mail copies of such material to all such
Holders with reasonable promptness after the entry of such order and the
renewal of such tender, otherwise the Trustee shall be relieved of any
obligation or duty to such applicants respecting their application.
(c) Every Holder of Securities or coupons, by receiving and
holding the same, agrees with the Company and the Trustee that neither the
Company nor
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the Trustee nor any agent of either of them shall be held accountable by reason
of the disclosure of any such information as to the names and addresses of the
Holders in accordance with Section 702(b), regardless of the source from which
such information was derived, and that the Trustee shall not be held
accountable by reason of mailing any material pursuant to a request made under
Section 702(b).
SECTION 703. Reports by Trustee.
(a) Within 60 days after May 15 of each year commencing with the
year 1991, the Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Holders of Registered
Securities of any series, as their names and addresses appear in the Security
Register and to all other Holders who are entitled to receive reports pursuant
to Section 704(3), a brief report dated as of such May 15 with respect to any
of the following events which may have occurred within the previous 12 months
(but if no such event has occurred within such period no report need be
transmitted):
(1) any change to its eligibility under Section 609 and
its qualifications under Section 608;
(2) the creation of or any material change to a
relationship specified in paragraphs (1) through (10) of Section
608(d);
(3) the character and amount of any advances (and if the
Trustee elects so to state, the circumstances surrounding the making
thereof) made by the Trustee (as such) which remain unpaid on the date
of such report, and for the reimbursement of which it claims or may
claim a lien or charge, prior to that of the Securities of such series
or any related coupons, on any property or funds held or collected by
it as Trustee, except that the Trustee shall not be required (but may
elect) to report such advances if such advances so remaining unpaid
aggregate not more than 1/2 of 1% of the principal amount of the
Securities of such series Outstanding on the date of such report;
(4) the amount, interest rate and maturity date of all
other indebtedness owing by the Company (or by any other obligor on
the Securities of such series) to the Trustee in its individual
capacity, on the date of such report, with a brief description of any
property held as collateral security therefor, except an indebtedness
based upon a creditor relationship arising in any manner described in
Section 613(b)(2), (3), (4) or (6);
(5) any change to the property and funds, if any,
physically in the possession of the Trustee as such on the date of
such report;
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(6) any additional issue of Securities which the Trustee
has not previously reported; and
(7) any action taken by the Trustee in the performance of
its duties hereunder which it has not previously reported and which in
its opinion materially affects the Securities of such series, except
action in respect of a default, notice of which has been or is to be
withheld by the Trustee in accordance with Section 602.
(b) The Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Holders of
Securities of any series, as their names and addresses appear in the Security
Register and to all Holders who are entitled to receive reports pursuant to
Section 704(3), a brief report with respect to the character and amount of any
advances (and if the Trustee elects so to state, the circumstances surrounding
the making thereof) made by the Trustee (as such) since the date of the last
report transmitted pursuant to Subsection (a) of this Section (or if no such
report has yet been so transmitted, since the date of execution of this
instrument) for the reimbursement of which it claims or may claim a lien or
charge, prior to that of the Securities of such series, on property or funds
held or collected by it as Trustee and which it has not previously reported
pursuant to this subsection, except that the Trustee shall not be required (but
may elect) to report such advances if such advances remaining unpaid at any
time aggregate 10% or less of the principal amount of the Securities of such
series Outstanding at such time, such report to be transmitted within 90 days
after such time.
(c) A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such
transmission to Holders, be filed by the Trustee with each stock exchange upon
which any Securities are listed, with the Commission and with the Company. The
Company will notify the Trustee in writing when any Securities are listed on
any stock exchange.
SECTION 704. Reports by Company.
The Company shall:
(1) file with the Trustee, within 15 days after the
Company is required to file the same with the Commission, copies of
the annual reports and of the information, documents and other reports
(or copies of such portions of any of the foregoing as the Commission
may from time to time
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by rules and regulations prescribe) which the Company may be required
to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; or, if the Company is not
required to file information, documents or reports pursuant to either
of said Sections, then it shall file with the Trustee and the
Commission, in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed from
time to time by the Commission, such of the supplementary and periodic
information, documents and reports which may be required pursuant to
Section 13 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 in respect of a
security listed and registered on a national securities exchange as
may be prescribed from time to time in such rules and regulations;
(2) file with the Trustee and the Commission, in
accordance with rules and regulations prescribed by the Commission,
such additional information, documents and reports with respect to
compliance by the Company with the conditions and covenants of this
Indenture as may be required from time to time by such rules and
regulations;
(3) transmit by mail to all Holders, as their names and
addresses appear in the Security Register, to such Holders of
Unregistered Securities as have, within the two years preceding such
transmission, filed their names and addresses with the Trustee for
that purpose and to each Holder whose name and address is then
preserved on the Trustee's list pursuant to the first sentence of
Section 702(a), within 30 days after the filing thereof with the
Trustee, such summaries of any information, documents and reports
required to be filed by the Company pursuant to paragraphs (1) and (2)
of this Section as may be required by rules and regulations prescribed
from time to time by the Commission; and
(4) furnish to the Trustee, not less often than annually,
a brief certificate from the Company's principal executive officer,
principal financial officer or principal accounting officer as to his
or her knowledge of the Company's compliance with all conditions and
covenants hereunder; such compliance shall be determined without
regard to any period of grace or requirement of notice provided
hereunder. Such certificate shall be provided concurrently with, but
may be separate from, the certificate provided pursuant to Section
1008.
ARTICLE EIGHT
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE OR TRANSFER
SECTION 801. Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms.
The Company shall not consolidate with or merge into any other
corporation or convey or transfer its properties and assets substantially as an
entirety to any Person, unless:
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(1) the corporation formed by such consolidation or into
which the Company is merged or the Person which acquires by conveyance
or transfer the properties and assets of the Company substantially as
an entirety shall be a corporation organized and existing under the
laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the
District of Columbia and shall expressly assume, by an indenture
supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the Trustee, in form
satisfactory to the Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the
principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on all the Securities
and the performance of every covenant of this Indenture on the part of
the Company to be performed or observed;
(2) immediately after giving effect to such transaction,
no Event of Default and no event which, after notice or lapse of time
or both, would become an Event of Default, shall have occurred and be
continuing;
(3) if, as a result of any such consolidation or merger
or such conveyance or transfer, properties or assets of the Company
would become subject to a mortgage, pledge, lien, security interest or
other encumbrance which would not be permitted by this Indenture, the
Company or such successor corporation or Person, as the case may be,
shall take such steps as shall be necessary effectively to secure the
Securities equally and ratably with (or, at the option of the Company,
prior to) all indebtedness secured thereby; and
(4) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such
consolidation, merger, conveyance or transfer and such supplemental
indenture comply with this Article and that all conditions precedent
herein provided for relating to such transaction have been met.
SECTION 802. Successor Corporation Substituted.
Upon any consolidation or merger or any conveyance or transfer of the
properties and assets of the Company substantially as an entirety in accordance
with Section 801, the successor corporation formed by such consolidation or
into which the Company is merged or to which such conveyance or transfer is
made shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and
power of, the Company under this Indenture with the same effect as if such
successor corporation had been named as the Company herein; provided, however,
that no such conveyance or transfer shall have the effect of releasing the
Person named as the "Company" in the first paragraph of this instrument or any
successor corporation which shall theretofore have become such in the manner
prescribed in this Article from its liability as obligor and maker on any of
the Securities.
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SECTION 803. Limitation on Lease of Properties as Entirety.
The Company shall not lease its properties and assets substantially as
an entirety to any Person.
ARTICLE NINE
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
SECTION 901. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders.
Without the consent of any Holders, the Company, when authorized by a
Board Resolution, and the Trustee, at any time and from time to time, may
enter into one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in form satisfactory to
the Trustee, for any of the following purposes:
(1) to evidence the succession of another corporation to
the Company and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants
of the Company herein and in the Securities; or
(2) to add to the covenants of the Company for the
benefit of the Holders of all or any series of Securities (and if such
covenants are to be for the benefit of less than all series of
Securities, stating that such covenants are expressly being included
solely for the benefit of such series) or to surrender any right or
power herein conferred upon the Company; or
(3) to add any additional Events of Default; or
(4) to add to or change any of the provisions of this
Indenture to such extent as shall be necessary to permit or facilitate
the issuance of Securities in bearer form, registrable or not
registrable as to principal, and with or without interest coupons; or
(5) to change or eliminate any of the provisions of this
Indenture, provided that any such change or elimination shall become
effective only when there is no Security Outstanding of any series
created prior to the execution of such supplemental indenture which is
entitled to the benefit of such provision; or
(6) to secure the Securities pursuant to the requirements
of Section 1005 or otherwise; or
(7) to establish for the issuance of and establish the
form or terms and conditions of Securities of any series as permitted
by Section 301, and to establish the form of any certificates required
to be furnished pursuant to the terms of this Indenture or any series
of Securities; or
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(8) to provide for uncertificated Securities in addition
to or in place of certificated Securities; or
(9) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of
appointment hereunder by a successor Trustee with respect to the
Securities of one or more series and to add to or change any of the
provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or
facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one
Trustee, pursuant to the requirements of Section 611(b); or
(10) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any
provision herein which may be inconsistent with any other provision
herein, to make any amendment required by Section 608(i) or to make
any other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising
under this Indenture, provided such action shall not adversely affect
the interests of the Holders of Securities of any series in any
material respect.
The Trustee shall give notice to the Holders of Securities of all
series affected by any such supplemental indenture as provided in Section 106.
Such notice shall describe the changes effected by such supplemental indenture.
SECTION 902. Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Holders.
With the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in
aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of each series
affected by such supplemental indenture, by Act of said Holders delivered to
the Company and the Trustee, the Company, when authorized by a Board
Resolution, and the Trustee may enter into an indenture or indentures
supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in
any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture or of
modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series
under this Indenture. The Holders of not less than a majority in principal
amount of the outstanding Securities of each series affected by such waiver
(with each series voting as a class), by notice to the Trustee, may waive
compliance by the Company with any provision of this Indenture, any
supplemental indenture or the Securities of any such series except a Default in
the payment of the principal of or interest on any Security. However, no such
supplemental indenture or waiver shall, without the consent of the Holder of
each Outstanding Security affected thereby,
(1) change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or
any installment of principal of or interest on, any Security, or
reduce the principal amount thereof or the rate of interest thereon or
any premium payable upon the redemption thereof, or reduce the amount
of the principal of an Original
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Issue Discount Security that would be due and payable upon a
declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to
Section 502, or change any Place of Payment where, or the coin or
currency in which, any Security or any premium or the interest thereon
is payable, or impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement
of any such payment on or after the Stated Maturity thereof (or, in
the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date, or, in the
case of repayment at the option of the Holders, on or after the
Repayment Date), or
(2) reduce the percentage in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of any series, the consent of whose Holders is
required for any such supplemental indenture, or the consent of whose
Holders is required for any waiver (of compliance with certain
provisions of this Indenture or certain defaults hereunder and their
consequences) provided for in this Indenture, or
(3) modify any of the provisions of this Section, Section
513 or Section 1009, except to increase any such percentage or to
provide that certain other provisions of this Indenture cannot be
modified or waived without the consent of the Holder of each
Outstanding Security affected thereby, provided, however, that this
clause shall not be deemed to require the consent of any Holder with
respect to changes in the references to "the Trustee" and concomitant
changes in this Section and Section 1009, or the deletion of this
proviso, in accordance with the requirements of Sections 611(b) and
901(9).
A supplemental indenture which changes or eliminates any covenant or other
provision of this Indenture which has expressly been included solely for the
benefit of one or more particular series of Securities, or which modifies the
rights of the Holders of Securities of such series with respect to such
covenant or other provision, shall be deemed not to affect the rights under
this Indenture of the Holders of Securities of any other series.
It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this Section to
approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it
shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.
SECTION 903. Execution of Supplemental Indentures.
In executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by, any
supplemental indenture permitted by this Article or the modifications thereby
of the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to
receive, and (subject to Section 601) shall be fully protected in relying upon,
an Opinion of
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Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture is authorized
or permitted by this Indenture and that such supplemental indenture will
constitute a valid and legally binding obligation of the Company, enforceable
in accordance with its terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization
and other laws of general applicability relating to or affecting the
enforcement of creditors' rights and to general equity principles. The Trustee
may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture
which affects the Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under this
Indenture or otherwise.
SECTION 904. Effect of Supplemental Indentures.
Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture under this Article,
this Indenture shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such supplemental
indenture shall form a part of this Indenture for a purposes; and every Holder
of Securities theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder
shall be bound thereby.
SECTION 905. Conformity With Trust Indenture Act.
Every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article shall
conform to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect.
SECTION 906. Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures.
Securities of any series authenticated and delivered after the
execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article may, and shall
if required by the Trustee, bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee as
to any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Company
shall so determine, new Securities of any series and any appertaining coupons
so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Trustee and the Company, to
any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed by the Company and
authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in exchange for Outstanding
Securities of such series and any appertaining coupons.
SECTION 907. Revocation and Effect of Consents.
Until an amendment or waiver becomes effective, a consent to it by a
Holder of a Security is a continuing consent by the Holder and every subse-
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xxxxx Xxxxxx of a Security or portion of a Security that evidences the same
debt as the consenting Holder's Security, even if notation of the consent is
not made on any Security. However, any such Holder or subsequent Holder may
revoke the consent as to his Security or portion of a Security if the Trustee
receives the notice of revocation before the date on which the Trustee receives
an Officers' Certificate certifying that the Holders of the requisite principal
amount of Securities have consented to the amendment or waiver. After an
amendment or waiver becomes effective, it shall bind every Holder of each
series of Securities affected by such amendment or waiver.
The Company may, but shall not be obligated to, fix a record date for
the purpose of determining the Holders entitled to consent to any amendment or
waiver. If a record date is fixed, then notwithstanding the provisions of the
immediately preceding paragraph, those persons who were Holders at such record
date (or their duly designated proxies), and only those persons, shall be
entitled to consent to such amendment or waiver or to revoke any consent
previously given, whether or not such persons continue to be Holders after such
record date.
After an amendment or waiver becomes effective it shall bind every
Holder, unless it is of the type described in any of clauses (1) through (3) of
Section 902. In such case the amendment or waiver shall bind each Holder of a
Security who has consented to it and every subsequent Holder of a Security that
evidences the same debt as the consenting Holder's Security.
ARTICLE TEN
COVENANTS
SECTION 1001. Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest.
Subject to the following provisions, the Company will pay to the
Trustee the amounts, in such coin or currency as is at the time legal tender
for the payment of public or private debt, in the manner, at the times and for
the purposes set forth herein and in the text of the Securities for each
series, and the Company hereby authorizes and directs the Trustee from funds so
paid to it to make or cause to be made payment of the principal of and
interest, if any, on the Securities and coupons of each series as set forth
herein and in the text of such Securities and coupons. Unless otherwise
provided in the Securities of
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a series, the Trustee will arrange directly with any Paying Agents for the
payment, or the Trustee will make payment, from funds furnished by the Company,
of the principal of and interest, if any, on the Securities and coupons of each
series by check or draft.
Unless otherwise provided in the Securities of a series, interest, if
any, on Registered Securities of a series shall be paid by check or draft on
each Interest Payment Date for such series to the Holder thereof at the close
of business on the relevant record dates specified in the Securities of such
series. The Company may pay such interest by check or draft mailed to such
Holder's address as it appears on the register for Securities of such series.
Unless otherwise provided in the Securities of a series, principal of
Registered Securities shall be payable by check or draft and only against
presentation and surrender of such Registered Securities at the office of the
Paying Agent, unless the Company shall have otherwise instructed the Trustee in
writing.
Unless otherwise provided in the Securities of a series, (i) interest,
if any, on Unregistered Securities shall be paid by check or draft and only
against presentation and surrender of the coupons for such interest
installments as are evidenced thereby as they mature and (ii) original issue
discount (as defined in Section 1273 of the Code), if any, on Unregistered
Securities shall be paid by check or draft and only against presentation and
surrender of such Securities, in either case at the office of a Paying Agent
located outside of the United States and its possessions, unless the Company
shall have otherwise instructed the Trustee in an Officers' Certificate.
Unless otherwise provided in the Securities of a series, principal of
Unregistered Securities shall be paid by check or draft and only against
presentation and surrender of such Securities as provided in the Securities of
a series. If at the time a payment of principal of or interest, if any, or
original issue discount, if any, on an Unregistered Security or coupon shall
become due and the payment of the full amount so payable at the office or
offices of all the Paying Agents outside the United States and its possessions
is illegal or effectively precluded because of the imposition of exchange
controls or other similar restrictions on the payment of such amount in United
States currency, then the Company may instruct the Trustee in an Officers'
Certificate to make such payments at the office of a Paying Agent located in
the United States. The Company hereby covenants and agrees that it shall not
so instruct the Trustee with respect to payment in the United States
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if such payment would cause such Unregistered Security to be treated as a
"registration-required obligation" under United States law and regulations.
At the election of the Company, any payments by the Company provided
for in this Indenture or in any of the Securities may be made by electronic
funds transfer.
SECTION 1002. Maintenance of Office or Agency.
The Company will maintain in each Place of Payment for any series of
Securities an office or agency where Registered Securities of that series may
be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and a Place of Payment
where (subject to Sections 305 and 307) Securities may be presented for payment
or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of
the Securities of that series and this Indenture may be served. If required by
the rules of any securities exchange upon which a series of Registered
Securities may, from time to time, be listed, the Company shall maintain such
offices and/or agencies in connection with such series in the Borough of
Manhattan, The City of New York, State of New York. With respect to any series
of Securities issued in whole or in part as Unregistered Securities, the
Company shall maintain one or more Paying Agents located outside the United
States and its possessions and shall maintain such Paying Agents for a period
of one year after the principal of such Unregistered Securities has become due
and payable. During any period thereafter for which it is necessary in order
to conform, to United States tax law or regulations, the Company will maintain
a Paying Agent outside the United States and its possessions to which the
Unregistered Securities or coupons appertaining thereto may be presented for
payment and will provide the necessary funds therefor to such Paying Agent upon
reasonable notice The Security Registrar shall keep a register with respect to
each series of Securities issued in whole or in part as Registered Securities
and to their transfer and exchange. The Company may appoint one or more
co-Security Registrars acceptable to the Trustee and one or more additional
Paying Agents for each series of Securities, and the Company may terminate the
appointment of any co-Security Registrar or Paying Agent at any time upon
written notice. The term "Security Registrar" includes any co-Security
Registrar. The term "Paying Agent" includes any additional Paying Agent. The
Company shall notify the Trustee of the name and address of any Agent not a
party to this Indenture. Subject to Section 305, if the Company
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fails to maintain a Security Registrar or Paying Agent, the Trustee shall act
as such. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the
location, and any change in the location, of such office or agency. If at any
time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency or
shall fad to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations,
surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust
Office of the Trustee, and the Company hereby appoints the Trustee as its agent
to receive all such presentations. surrenders notices and demands.
The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other
offices or agencies where the Securities of one or more series may be presented
or surrendered for any or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind
such designations; provided, however, that no such designation or rescission
shall in any manner relieve the Company of its obligation to maintain an office
or agency in each Place of Payment for Securities of any series for such
purposes. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any
such designation or rescission and of any change in the location of any such
other office or agency.
In the case of Original Issue Discount Securities of a series, the
Company shall, prior to any Redemption Date or any Repayment Date applicable
thereto, furnish the Trustee with an Officers' Certificate stating the amount
of principal to be paid to a Holder of $1,000 principal amount of such
Securities.
SECTION 1003. Money for Securities Payments to Be Held in Trust.
If the Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent with
respect to any series of Securities, it will, on or before each due date of the
principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on any of the Securities of that
series, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled
thereto a sum sufficient to pay the principal (and premium, if any) or interest
so becoming due until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise
disposed of as herein provided and will promptly notify the Trustee of its
action or failure so to act.
Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents for any
series of Securities, it will, on or prior to (and if on, then before 11:00
a.m. (New York City time)) each due date of the principal of (and premium, if
any)
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or interest on any Securities of that series, deposit with a Paying Agent a sum
sufficient (in immediately available funds, if payment is made on the due date)
to pay the principal (and premium, if any) or interest so becoming due, such
sum to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such
principal, premium or interest, and (unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee)
the Company will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to
act.
The Company will cause each Paying Agent for any series of Securities
other than the Trustee to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in
which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions
of this Section, that such Paying Agent will:
(1) hold all sums held by it for the payment of the
principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on Securities of that
series in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto until
such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as
herein provided;
(2) give the Trustee notice of any default by the Company
(or any other obligor upon the Securities of that series) in the
making of any payment of principal (and premium, if any) or interest
on the Securities of that series; and
(3) at any time during the continuance of any such
default, upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the
Trustee all sums so held in trust by such Paying Agent.
The Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay, or
by Company Order direct any Paying Agent to pay, to the Trustee all sums held
in trust by the Company or such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the
Trustee upon the same trusts as those upon which such sums were held by the
Company or such Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the
Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with
respect to such money.
Any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or received
by the Trustee in respect of U.S. Government Obligations deposited with the
Trustee pursuant to Section 401, 403 or 1007, or then held by the Company, in
trust for the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on
any Security of any series and remaining unclaimed for two years (less a day)
after such principal (and premium, if any) or interest has become due and
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payable shall be paid to the Company on Company Request, or (if then held by
the Company) shall be discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such
Security shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the
Company for payment thereof, and a liability of the Trustee or such Paying
Agent with respect to such trust money, and all liability of the Company as
trustee thereof, shall thereupon cease; provided, however, that the Trustee or
such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment, may at the
expense of the Company cause to be published once, in a newspaper published in
the English language, customarily published on each Business Day and of general
circulation in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, notice that such
money remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified therein, which shall
not be less than 30 days from the date of such publication, any unclaimed
balance of such money then remaining will be repaid to the Company.
SECTION 1004. Corporate Existence.
Subject to Article Eight, the Company will do or cause to be done all
things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate
existence, rights (charter and statutory) and franchises; provided, however,
that the Company shall not be required to preserve any such right or franchise
if the Board of Directors shall determine that the preservation thereof is no
longer desirable in the conduct of the business of the Company and that the
loss thereof is not disadvantageous in any material respect to the Holders.
SECTION 1005. Limitations on Liens and Encumbrances.
So long as there are Securities of any series Outstanding:
(a) The Company will not itself, nor will it permit any Subsidiary
to, create, assume or incur any Lien (except any existing on the date hereof)
upon any of its or their Principal Properties, or any interest it or they may
have therein, whether owned at the date hereof or hereafter acquired (unless,
in the case of any Lien upon any Principal Property of any Subsidiary, all
obligations and indebtedness thereby secured are held by the Company or a
wholly-owned Subsidiary) as security for any indebtedness without making
effective provision, and the Company covenants that in any such case effective
provision will be made, whereby the Securities (either alone or together with
all or any part of any other indebtedness of the Company) shall be secured by
such Lien
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equally and ratably (or, at the option of the Company, prior to) with any and
all other obligations and indebtedness thereby secured; provided, however, that
the foregoing restriction shall not apply to:
(1) Liens upon any property or assets owned by any
Subsidiary existing on the date on which such Subsidiary became a
Subsidiary;
(2) Liens on any property or assets existing at the time
of their acquisition and Liens on any property or assets acquired,
constructed or improved which are created contemporaneously with or
within 180 days after (or created pursuant to financing arrangements,
a firm commitment for which is obtained within 180 days after) the
completion of such acquisition, improvement or construction to secure
or provide for payment of the purchase price of property or &&sets
acquired or the cost of such construction or improvement, including
Liens arising in connection with cross-border or defeased lease
arrangements; if (i) such Lien shall be limited to the property so
acquired or constructed or to the improvements so made, (ii) the
amount of the obligations or indebtedness secured by such Lien shall
not be increased after the date of the acquisition of such property or
the completion of such improvements or construction except to the
extent additional construction or improvements shall be made to such
property after the date of such acquisition or the making of such
improvements or construction, and (iii) in each instance where the
obligation or indebtedness secured by such Lien shall constitute an
obligation or indebtedness of, or is assumed by, the Company or such
Subsidiary, the principal amount of the obligation or indebtedness
secured by such Lien shall not exceed 100% of the cost or fair value
(as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors), whichever
shall be lower, of the property, construction or improvements at the
time of the acquisition or completion thereof;
(3) Liens for taxes or assessments or governmental
charges or levies not then due and delinquent or the validity of which
shall be contested in good faith; and materialmen's, mechanics',
carriers', workmen's, repairmen's, landlords' or other like Liens
securing obligations not overdue or which shall be contested in good
faith, or deposits to obtain the release of such Liens;
(4) pledges or deposits to secure public or statutory
obligations or to secure payment of workmen's compensation or to
secure performance in connection with tenders, leases of real
property, bids or contracts or to secure (or in Xxxx of) surety or
appeal bonds and pledges or deposits made in the ordinary course of
business for similar purposes;
(5) any lease, regardless of the manner in which such
lease shall be treated for accounting or tax purposes or any other
purpose or any filing
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of or agreement to file any financing statement under the Uniform
Commercial Code of any jurisdiction in respect of such lease;
(6) Liens in favor of a governmental unit to secure
payments under any contract or statute, or to secure any indebtedness
incurred in financing the acquisition, construction or improvement of
property subject thereto, including Liens on, and created or arising
in connection with the financing of the acquisition, construction or
improvement of, any facility used or to be used in the business of the
Company or any Subsidiary through the issuance of obligations defined
in Section 103(b)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended,
(or any subsequently adopted provisions thereof defining similar
obligations) the income from which shall be excludable from gross
income by virtue of Sections 103(a) and (b)(4), (b)(5) and (b)(6) of
such Code (or any subsequently adopted provisions thereof providing
for a specific exclusion from gross income);
(7) easements or similar encumbrances, the existence of
which do not materially impair the use of the Principal Property
subject thereto for the purposes for which it is held or was acquired,
(8) Liens arising out of any final judgment for the
payment of money aggregating not in excess of $10,000,000; or Liens
arising out of any final judgment for the payment of money provided
such judgment is being contested in good faith;
(9) Liens on timberlands in connection with an
arrangement under which the Company or a Subsidiary is obligated to
cut or pay for timber in order to provide the Lienholder with a
specified amount of money, however determined;
(10) Liens created or assumed in the ordinary course of
the business of exploring for, developing or producing oil, gas or
other minerals (including borrowings in connection therewith) on, or
any interest in, or on any proceeds from the sale of, property
acquired for such purposes, production therefrom (including the
proceeds thereof), or material or equipment located thereon; and
(11) Liens to extend, renew or replace any Liens referred
to in clauses (1) through (10) or this clause (11) of this Subsection
1005(a) or any Lien existing on the date hereof.
(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of Subsection (a) above, the
Company or any Subsidiary may create, assume or incur, or suffer to be created,
assumed or incurred any Lien which would otherwise be subject to the foregoing
restriction, provided that at no time shall the aggregate amount of all
outstanding obligations and indebtedness secured by Liens which, but for this
subsection (b), would be prohibited by this Section 1005, plus the aggregate
amount of
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Attributable Debt in respect of any then existing leases described in Section
1006 (other than any such leases of property to the extent that the cash
portion of the net proceeds of the sale of such property shall have been
applied in compliance with Section 1006(b)), exceed 10% of Consolidated Net
Tangible Assets at the end of the next preceding fiscal year of the Company.
SECTION 1006. Limitations on Sale and Leaseback Transactions.
So long as there are Securities of any series Outstanding, the Company
will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, sell
or transfer (other than to the Company or a Subsidiary) any Principal Property
(other than a Principal Property sold or transferred to an industrial
development corporation or governmental instrumentality in connection with a
revenue or pollution control financing) now owned or hereafter acquired with
the intention that the Company or any Subsidiary shall take back a lease
thereof (other than a lease for a term of not more than three years, a lease
entered into solely for tax purposes or a cross-border or defeased lease
arrangement) (herein referred to as a sale and leaseback transaction) unless
(a) the proceeds of such sale shall at least be equal to the fair value (as
determined in good faith by the Board of Directors) of such Principal Property,
and either (b) an amount equal to the cash portion of the net proceeds of such
sale shall be applied within 180 days either before or after the effective date
of any such transaction (i) to the retirement of Funded Indebtedness (other
than any thereof owed to the Company or any Subsidiary) or (ii) to the
retirement of Securities or (iii) to the purchase of property, facilities or
equipment (other than the property, facilities or equipment involved in such
sale) having a value at least equal to the cash portion of the net proceeds of
such sale, or (c) the property, facilities or equipment involved in such sale
could have been subjected to a Lien to secure indebtedness in a principal
amount equal to the aggregate amount of Attributable Debt in respect of such
sale without equally and ratably securing the Securities pursuant to Section
1005.
SECTION 1007. Defeasance of Certain Obligations.
The Company may omit to comply with any term, provision or condition
set forth in Section 1005 or 1006 with respect to the Securities of any series,
provided that the following conditions shall have been satisfied:
(1) With reference to this Section 1007, the Company has
deposited or caused to be irrevocably deposited (except as provided in
Section 402)
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with the Trustee as trust funds in trust, specifically pledged as
security for, and dedicated solely to, the benefit of the Holders of
the Securities of such series, (i) money in an amount, or (ii) if
Securities of such series are not subject to repayment at the option
of Holders, (A) U.S. Government Obligations which through the payment
of interest and principal in respect thereof in accordance with their
terms will provide not later than one day before the due date of any
payment referred to in clause (x) or (y) of this subparagraph (1)
money in an amount, or (B) a combination thereof, sufficient, in the
opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent certified
public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof
delivered to the Trustee, to pay and discharge (x) the principal of
(and premium, if any) and each installment of principal (and premium,
if any) and interest on the Outstanding Securities of such series on
the Stated Maturity of such principal or installment of principal or
interest or to and including the Redemption Date irrevocably
designated by the Company pursuant to subparagraph (7) of this Section
and (y) any mandatory sinking fund payments applicable to the
Securities of such series on the day on which such payments are due
and payable in accordance with the terms of the Indenture and of the
Securities of such series;
(2) Such deposit shall not, as specified in an Opinion of
Counsel, cause the Trustee with respect to the Securities of such
series to have a conflicting interest as defined in Section 608 and
for purposes of the Trust Indenture Act with respect to the Securities
of such series;
(3) Such deposit will not result in a breach or violation
of, or constitute a default under, this Indenture or any other
agreement or instrument to which the Company is a party or by which it
is bound;
(4) No Event of Default or event which with notice or
lapse of time would become an Event of Default with respect to the
Securities of such series shall have occurred and be continuing on the
date of such deposit;
(5) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an
Opinion of Counsel to the effect that Holders of the Securities of
such series will not recognize income, gain or loss for Federal income
tax purposes as a result of such deposit and defeasance of certain
obligations and will be subject to Federal income tax on the same
amount and in the same manner and at the same times, as would have
been the case if such deposit and defeasance had not occurred;
(6) The Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all
conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the defeasance
contemplated by this Section have been met; and
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(7) If the Company has deposited or caused to be
deposited money or U.S. Government Obligations to pay or discharge the
principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Outstanding
Securities of a series to and including a Redemption Date pursuant to
subparagraph (1) of this Section, such Redemption Date shall be
irrevocably designated by a Board Resolution delivered to the Trustee
on or prior to the date of deposit of such money or U.S. Government
Obligations, and such Board Resolution shall be accompanied by an
irrevocable Company Request that the Trustee give notice of such
redemption in the name and at the expense of the Company not less than
30 nor more than 60 days prior to such Redemption Date in accordance
with Section 1104.
SECTION 1008. Statement by Officers as to Default.
The Company will deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after each
December 31 following the date hereof, a written statement signed by the
Chairman of the Board, a Vice Chairman, the President or a Vice President and
by the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Controller or an Assistant
Controller of the Company stating, as to each signer thereof, that
(1) a review of the activities of the Company during such
year and of performance under this Indenture has been made under his
supervision, and
(2) to the best of his knowledge, based on such review,
the Company has fulfilled all its obligations under this Indenture
throughout such year, or, if there has been a default in the
fulfillment of any such obligation, specifying each such default known
to him and the nature and status thereof.
SECTION 1009. Waiver of Certain Covenants.
The Company may omit in any particular instance to comply with any
term, provision or condition set forth in Sections 1005 and 1006, with respect
to the Securities of any series if before the time for such compliance the
Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of such series shall, by Act of such Holders, either
waive such compliance in such instance or generally waive compliance with such
term, provision or condition, but no such waiver shall extend to or affect such
term, provision or condition except to the extent so expressly waived, and,
until such waiver shall become effective, the obligations of the Company and
the duties of the Trustee in respect of any such term, provision or condition
shall remain in full force and effect.
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ARTICLE ELEVEN
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 1101. Applicability of Article.
Securities of any series which are redeemable before their Stated
Maturity shall be redeemable in accordance with their terms and (except as
otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for Securities of any
series) in accordance with this Article.
SECTION 1102. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee.
The election of the Company to redeem any Securities shall be
evidenced by a Board Resolution. In case of any redemption at the election of
the Company of less than all the Securities of any series, the Company shall,
at least 60 days prior to the Redemption Date fixed by the Company (unless a
shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the Trustee), notify the Trustee of
such Redemption Date and of the principal amount of Securities of such series
to be redeemed. In the case of any redemption of Securities prior to the
expiration of any restriction on such redemption provided in the terms of such
Securities or elsewhere in this Indenture, the Company shall furnish the
Trustee with an Officers' Certificate and, where reasonably required by the
Trustee, an Opinion of Counsel evidencing compliance with such restriction.
SECTION 1103. Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed.
If less than all the Securities of any series are to be redeemed, the
particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not more than 60 days
prior to the Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the Outstanding Securities of
such series not previously called for redemption, by such method as the Trustee
shall deem fair and appropriate and which may provide for the selection for
redemption of portions (equal to the minimum authorized denomination for
Securities of that series or any integral multiple thereof) of the principal
amount of Securities of such series of a denomination larger than the minimum
authorized denomination for Securities of that series.
The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company and the Security
Registrar in writing of the Securities selected for redemption and, in the case
of any Securities selected for partial redemption, the principal amount thereof
to be redeemed.
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For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise
requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of Securities shall relate,
in the case of any Securities redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the
portion of the principal amount of such Securities which has been or is to be
redeemed.
SECTION 1104. Notice of Redemption.
Notice of redemption shall be given by first-class mail, postage
prepaid, mailed not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the Redemption
Date, to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed, at his address appearing in
the Security Register.
If Unregistered Securities are to be redeemed, notice of redemption
shall be published in an Authorized Newspaper in each of The City of New York,
London and, if such Securities to be redeemed are listed on any stock exchange
outside of the United States, in the city in which such stock exchange is
located (if other than London), or in such other city or cities as may be
specified in the Securities, once in each of two different calendar weeks, the
first publication to be not less than 30 nor more than 90 days before the
redemption date.
All notices of redemption shall state:
(1) the Redemption Date,
(2) the Redemption Price,
(3) if less than all the Outstanding Securities of any
series are to be redeemed, the identification (and, in the case of
partial redemption, the principal amounts) of the particular
Securities to be redeemed,
(4) that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price will
become due and payable upon each such Security to be redeemed and, if
applicable, that interest thereon will cease to accrue on and after
said date,
(5) the place or places where such Securities and all
unmatured coupons are to be surrendered for payment of the Redemption
Price, and
(6) that the redemption is for a sinking fund, if such is
the case.
Notice of redemption of Securities to be redeemed at the election of
the Company shall be given by the Company or, at the Company's request, by the
Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company.
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SECTION 1105. Deposit of Redemption Price.
On or prior to the Redemption Date (and if on, then before 11:00 a.m.
(New York City time)), the Company shall deposit with the Trustee or with a
Paying Agent (or, if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregate
and hold in trust as provided in Section 1003) an amount of money sufficient
(in immediately available funds if payment is made on the Redemption Date) to
pay the Redemption Price of, and (except if the Redemption Date shall be an
Interest Payment Date) accrued interest on, all the Securities which are to be
redeemed on that date.
SECTION 1106. Securities Payable on Redemption Date.
Notice of redemption having been given as aforesaid, the Securities so
to be redeemed shall, on the Redemption Date, become due and payable at the
Redemption Price therein specified, and from and after such date (unless the
Company shall default in the payment of the Redemption Price and accrued
interest) such Securities shall cease to bear interest. Upon surrender of any
such Security for redemption in accordance with said notice, such Security
together with all unmatured coupons, if any, shall be paid by the Company at
the Redemption Price, together with accrued interest to the Redemption Date but
in the case of Unregistered Securities installments of interest due on or prior
to the Redemption Date will be payable to the bearers of the coupons for such
interest by check or draft upon surrender of such coupons; provided, however,
that installments of interest whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the
Redemption Date shall be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or
more Predecessor Securities, registered as such at the close of business on the
relevant Record Dates according to their terms and the provisions of Section
307.
If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon
surrender thereof for redemption, the principal (and premium, if any) shall,
until paid, bear interest from the Redemption Date at the rate prescribed
therefor in the Security.
SECTION 1107. Securities Redeemed in Part.
Any Security which is to be redeemed only in part shall be surrendered
at a Place of Payment therefor (with, if the Company or the Trustee so re-
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quires, due endorsement by, or a written instrument of transfer in form
satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder
thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing), and the Company shall
execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such
Security without service charge, a new Security or Securities of the same
series, of any authorized denomination as requested by such Holder, in
aggregate principal amount equal to and in exchange for the unredeemed portion
of the principal of the Security so surrendered.
ARTICLE TWELVE
SINKING FUNDS
SECTION 1201. Applicability of Article.
The provisions of this Article shall be applicable to any sinking fund
for the retirement of Securities of a series except as otherwise specified as
contemplated by Section 301 for Securities of such series.
The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by the
terms of Securities of any series is herein referred to as a "mandatory sinking
fund payment", and any payment in excess of such minimum amount provided for by
the terms of Securities of any series is herein referred to as an "optional
sinking fund payment". If provided for by the terms of Securities of any
series, the cash amount of any sinking fund payment may be subject to reduction
as provided in Section 1202. Each sinking fund payment shall be applied to the
redemption of Securities of any series as provided for by the terms of
Securities of such series.
SECTION 1202. Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments With Securities.
The Company (1) may deliver Outstanding Securities of a series (other
than any previously called for redemption) together, in the case of
Unregistered Securities, with all unmatured coupons appertaining thereto, and
(2) may apply as a credit Securities of a series which have been redeemed
either at the election of the Company pursuant to the terms of such Securities
or through the application of permitted optional sinking fund payments pursuant
to the terms of such Securities, in each case in satisfaction of all or any
part of any sinking fund payment with respect to the Securities of such series
required to
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be made pursuant to the terms of such Securities as provided for by the terms
of such series; provided that such Securities have not been previously so
credited. Such Securities shall be received and credited for such purpose by
the Trustee at the Redemption Price specified in such Securities for redemption
through operation of the sinking fund and the amount of such sinking fund
payment shall be reduced accordingly.
SECTION 1203. Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund,
Not less than 60 days prior to each sinking fund payment date for any
series of Securities, the Company will deliver to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate specifying the amount of the next ensuing sinking fund payment for
that series pursuant to the terms of that series, the portion thereof, if any,
which is to be satisfied by payment of cash and the portion thereof, if any,
which is to be satisfied by delivering and crediting Securities of that series
pursuant to Section 1202 and will also deliver to the Trustee any Securities to
be so delivered. Not less than 30 days before each such sinking fund payment
date the Trustee shall select the Securities to be redeemed upon such sinking
fund payment date in the manner specified in Section 1103 and cause notice of
the redemption thereof to be given in the name of and at the expense of the
Company in the manner provided in Section 1104. Such notice having been duly
given, the redemption of such Securities shall be made upon the terms and in
the manner stated in Sections 1106 and 1107.
ARTICLE THIRTEEN
REPAYMENT OF SECURITIES AT OPTION OF HOLDERS
SECTION 1301. Applicability of Article.
Securities of any series which are repayable before their Stated
Maturity at the option of the Holders shall be repayable in accordance with
their terms and (except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301
for Securities of any series) in accordance with this Article.
SECTION 1302. Notice of Repayment Date.
Notice of any Repayment Date with respect to Securities of any series
shall be given by the Company not less than 45 nor more than 60 days prior
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to such Repayment Date to each Holder of Securities of such series in
accordance with Section 106.
The notice as to the Repayment Date shall state:
(1) the Repayment Date;
(2) the Repayment Price;
(3) the place or places where such Securities are to be
surrendered for payment of the Repayment Price and the date by which
Securities must be so surrendered in order to be repaid;
(4) that exercise of the option to elect repayment is
irrevocable; and
(5) any change or modification to the Securities of such
series remaining outstanding following the Repayment Date.
SECTION 1303. Deposit of Repayment Price.
On or prior to the Repayment Date (and if on, then before 11:00 a.m.
(New York City time)), the Company shall deposit with the Trustee or with a
Paying Agent (or, if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregate
and hold in trust as provided in Section 1003) an amount of money sufficient
(in immediately available funds if payment is made on the Repayment Date) to
pay the Repayment Price of and (unless the Repayment Date shall be an Interest
Payment Date) accrued interest, if any, on all of the Securities of such series
which are to be repaid on that date.
SECTION 1304. Securities Payable on Repayment Date.
The form of option to elect repayment having been delivered as
specified in the form of Security for such series, the Securities of such
series so to be repaid shall, on the Repayment Date, become due and payable at
the Repayment Price applicable thereto and from and after such date (unless the
Company shall default in the payment of the Repayment Price and accrued
interest) such Securities shall cease to bear interest. Upon surrender of any
such Security for repayment in accordance with said notice, such Security shall
be paid by the Company at the Repayment Price together with accrued interest to
the Repayment Date; provided, however, that installments of interest whose
Stated Maturity is on or prior to such Repayment Date shall be payable to the
Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities, registered
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as such at the close of business on the relevant Record Dates according to
their terms and the provisions of Section 307.
If any Security shall not be paid upon surrender thereof for
repayment, the principal (and premium, if any) shall, until paid, bear interest
from the Repayment Date at the rate prescribed therefor in such Security.
SECTION 1305. Securities Repaid in Part.
Any Security which by its terms may be repaid in part at the option of
the Holder and which is to be repaid only in part shall be surrendered at any
office or agency of the Company designated for that purpose pursuant to Section
1002 (with, if the Company or the Trustee so requires, due endorsement by, or a
written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the
Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in
writing), and the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver to the Holder of such Security without service charge, a new Security
or Securities of the same series, as provided in Section 305, of any authorized
denomination as requested by such Holder, in aggregate principal amount equal
to and in exchange for the unrepaid portion of the principal of the Security so
surrendered.
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This instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of
which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts
shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.
99
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to
be duly executed, and their respective corporate seals to be hereunto affixed
and attested, all as of the date first above written.
POTLATCH CORPORATION
[CORPORATE SEAL]
By /s/ XXXXXX XXXXXXXX
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Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Senior Vice President,
Finance
Attest:
/s/ XXXXX X. XXXXX
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Xxxxx X. Xxxxx
Secretary
BANKERS TRUST COMPANY
OF CALIFORNIA,
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
[CORPORATE SEAL]
By /s/ XXXXXXXX X. XXXX
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Assistant Vice President
Attest
/s/ L.L. XXXXX
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Assistant Secretary
000
XXXXX XX XXXXXXXXXX )
) ss:
CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO)
On the 24th day of January 1991, before me personally came Xxxxx X.
Xxxxx, to me known, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that he is
Secretary of POTLATCH CORPORATION, one of the corporations described in and
which executed the foregoing instrument; that he knows the seal of said
corporation; that the seal affixed to said instruments is such corporate seal;
that it was so affixed by authority of the By-Laws of said corporation, and
that he signed his name thereto by authority of the Board of actors of said
corporation.
[NOTARY SEAL] /s/ XXXXXX XXXXXX
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
) ss:
CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO)
On the 24th day of January before me personally came XXXXXXXX X. XXXX,
to me known who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that he is an
Assistant Vice President of BANKERS TRUST COMPANY OF; CALIFORNIA, NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION described in and which executed the foregoing instrument; that he
knows the seal of said association; that the seal affixed to said instrument is
such corporate SW; that it was so affixed by authority of the Board of
Directors of said association, and that he signed his name thereto by like
authority.
/s/ XXXXX XX XXXX
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[NOTARY SEAL]
