EXECUTION COPY
INDENTURE
between
BMW VEHICLE OWNER TRUST 2001-A,
as Issuer
and
THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK,
as Indenture Trustee
Dated as of May 1, 2001
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Article I. DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE................................................2
SECTION 1.01. Definitions.....................................................................2
SECTION 1.02. Rules of Construction...........................................................8
SECTION 1.03. Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act...............................9
Article II. THE NOTES.................................................................................9
SECTION 2.01. Form............................................................................9
SECTION 2.02. Execution, Authentication and Delivery.........................................10
SECTION 2.03. Temporary Notes................................................................10
SECTION 2.04. Registration; Registration of Transfer and Exchange............................11
SECTION 2.05. [Reserved].....................................................................12
SECTION 2.06. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes.....................................12
SECTION 2.07. Persons Deemed Owners..........................................................13
SECTION 2.08. Payment of Principal and Interest; Defaulted Interest..........................13
SECTION 2.09. Cancellation...................................................................14
SECTION 2.10. Book-Entry Notes...............................................................15
SECTION 2.11. Notices to Clearing Agency.....................................................15
SECTION 2.12. Definitive Notes...............................................................16
SECTION 2.13. Tax Treatment..................................................................16
Article III. COVENANTS................................................................................16
SECTION 3.01. Payment of Principal and Interest..............................................16
SECTION 3.02. Maintenance of Office or Agency................................................17
SECTION 3.03. Money for Payments To Be Held in Trust.........................................17
SECTION 3.04. Existence......................................................................18
SECTION 3.05. Protection of Trust Estate.....................................................18
SECTION 3.06. Opinions as to Trust Estate....................................................19
SECTION 3.07. Performance of Obligations; Servicing of Receivables...........................19
SECTION 3.08. Negative Covenants.............................................................21
SECTION 3.09. Annual Statement as to Compliance..............................................21
SECTION 3.10. Issuer May Consolidate, etc., Only on Certain Terms............................22
SECTION 3.11. Successor or Transferee........................................................23
SECTION 3.12. No Other Business..............................................................23
SECTION 3.13. No Borrowing...................................................................23
SECTION 3.14. Servicer's Obligations.........................................................24
SECTION 3.15. Guarantees, Loans, Advances and Other Liabilities..............................24
SECTION 3.16. Capital Expenditures...........................................................24
SECTION 3.17. Removal of Administrator.......................................................24
SECTION 3.18. Restricted Payments............................................................24
SECTION 3.19. Notice of Events of Default....................................................24
SECTION 3.20. Further Instruments and Acts...................................................24
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Article IV. SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE...............................................................24
SECTION 4.01. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture........................................25
SECTION 4.02. Application of Trust Money.....................................................26
SECTION 4.03. Repayment of Moneys Held by Paying Agent.......................................26
SECTION 4.04. Release of Collateral..........................................................26
Article V. REMEDIES.................................................................................26
SECTION 5.01. Events of Default..............................................................26
SECTION 5.02. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment.............................27
SECTION 5.03. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Indenture Trustee......28
SECTION 5.04. Remedies; Priorities...........................................................31
SECTION 5.05. Optional Preservation of the Receivables.......................................33
SECTION 5.06. Limitation of Suits............................................................33
SECTION 5.07. Unconditional Rights of Noteholders To Receive Principal and Interest..........34
SECTION 5.08. Restoration of Rights and Remedies.............................................34
SECTION 5.09. Rights and Remedies Cumulative.................................................34
SECTION 5.10. Delay or Omission Not a Waiver.................................................34
SECTION 5.11. Control by the Controlling Class of Noteholders................................34
SECTION 5.12. Waiver of Past Defaults........................................................35
SECTION 5.13. Undertaking for Costs..........................................................35
SECTION 5.14. Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws...............................................36
SECTION 5.15. Action on Notes................................................................36
SECTION 5.16. Performance and Enforcement of Certain Obligations.............................36
Article VI. THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE....................................................................37
SECTION 6.01. Duties of Indenture Trustee....................................................37
SECTION 6.02. Rights of Indenture Trustee....................................................39
SECTION 6.03. Individual Rights of Indenture Trustee.........................................40
SECTION 6.04. Indenture Trustee's Disclaimer.................................................40
SECTION 6.05. Notice of Defaults.............................................................40
SECTION 6.06. Reports by Indenture Trustee to Holders........................................40
SECTION 6.07. Compensation and Indemnity.....................................................40
SECTION 6.08. Replacement of Indenture Trustee...............................................41
SECTION 6.09. Successor Indenture Trustee by Merger..........................................42
SECTION 6.10. Appointment of Co-Indenture Trustee or Separate Indenture Trustee..............42
SECTION 6.11. Eligibility; Disqualification..................................................43
SECTION 6.12. [Reserved].....................................................................44
SECTION 6.13. Preferential Collection of Claims AgainstIssuer................................44
SECTION 6.14. Waiver of Setoffs..............................................................44
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Article VII. NOTEHOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS...........................................................44
SECTION 7.01. Issuer To Furnish Indenture Trustee Names and Addresses of Noteholders.........44
SECTION 7.02. Preservation of Information; Communications to Noteholders.....................44
SECTION 7.03. Reports by Issuer..............................................................45
SECTION 7.04. Reports by Indenture Trustee...................................................45
Article VIII. ACCOUNTS, DISBURSEMENTS AND RELEASES.....................................................45
SECTION 8.01. Collection of Money............................................................45
SECTION 8.02. Trust Accounts.................................................................46
SECTION 8.03. General Provisions Regarding Accounts..........................................48
SECTION 8.04. Release of Trust Estate........................................................48
SECTION 8.05. Opinion of Counsel.............................................................48
Article IX. SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES..................................................................49
SECTION 9.01. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Noteholders.........................49
SECTION 9.02. Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Noteholders............................50
SECTION 9.03. Execution of Supplemental Indentures...........................................52
SECTION 9.04. Effect of Supplemental Indenture...............................................52
SECTION 9.05. Reference in Notes to Supplemental Indentures..................................52
SECTION 9.06. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act............................................52
Article X. REDEMPTION OF NOTES......................................................................52
SECTION 10.01. Redemption.....................................................................52
SECTION 10.02. Form of Redemption Notice......................................................53
SECTION 10.03. Notes Payable on Redemption Date...............................................53
Article XI. MISCELLANEOUS............................................................................53
SECTION 11.01. Compliance Certificates and Opinions, etc......................................53
SECTION 11.02. Form of Documents Delivered to Indenture Trustee...............................55
SECTION 11.03. Acts of Noteholders............................................................56
SECTION 11.04. Notices, etc., to Indenture Trustee, Issuer and Rating Agencies................56
SECTION 11.05. Notices to Noteholders; Waiver.................................................57
SECTION 11.06. Alternate Payment and Notice Provisions........................................58
SECTION 11.07. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents.......................................58
SECTION 11.08. Successors and Assigns.........................................................58
SECTION 11.09. Separability...................................................................58
SECTION 11.10. Benefits of Indenture..........................................................58
SECTION 11.11. Legal Holidays.................................................................58
SECTION 11.12. GOVERNINGLAW...................................................................58
SECTION 11.13. Counterparts...................................................................58
SECTION 11.14. Recording of Indenture.........................................................58
SECTION 11.15. Trust Obligation...............................................................59
SECTION 11.16. No Petition....................................................................59
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SECTION 11.17. Inspection.....................................................................59
SECTION 11.18. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act..............................................59
SECTION 11.19. Limitation of Liability........................................................60
EXHIBITS
SCHEDULE A Schedule of Receivables
EXHIBIT A-1 Form of Class A-1 Note
EXHIBIT A-2 Form of Class A-2 Note
EXHIBIT A-3 Form of Class A-3 Note
EXHIBIT A-4 Form of Class A-4 Note
EXHIBIT B Form of the Note Depository Agreement
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THIS INDENTURE, dated as of May 1, 2001, is between BMW VEHICLE OWNER
TRUST 2001-A, a Delaware business trust (the "Issuer"), and THE CHASE MANHATTAN
BANK, a New York banking corporation, as trustee and not in its individual
capacity (the "Indenture Trustee").
Each party agrees as follows for the benefit of the other party and
for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders of the Issuer's 3.98875% Asset
Backed Notes, Class A-1 (the "Class A-1 Notes"), 4.26% Asset Backed Notes, Class
A-2 (the "Class A-2 Notes"), 4.70% Asset Backed Notes, Class A-3 (the "Class A-3
Notes"), 5.11% Asset Backed Notes, Class A-4 (the "Class A-4 Notes") and 5.46%
Asset Backed Notes, Class B (the "Class B Notes" and, together with the Class
A-1 Notes, Class A-2 Notes, Class A-3 Notes and the Class A-4 Notes, the
"Notes"):
GRANTING CLAUSE
The Issuer hereby Grants to the Indenture Trustee at the Closing
Date, as Indenture Trustee for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes, all of
the Issuer's right, title and interest in and to (a) the Receivables listed on
Schedule A and all moneys received thereon on or after the close of business on
Xxxxx 00, 0000, (x) the Subsequent Receivables listed on Schedule A on each
Subsequent Transfer Agreement and all moneys received thereon on or after the
close of business on the related Subsequent Cutoff Date; (c) the security
interests in the Financed Vehicles and any accessions thereto granted by
Obligors pursuant to the Receivables and any other interest of the Issuer in
such Financed Vehicles; (d) any Liquidation Proceeds and any other proceeds with
respect to the Receivables from claims on any physical damage, credit life or
disability insurance policies covering Financed Vehicles or Obligors, including
any vendor's single interest or other collateral protection insurance policy;
(e) any property that shall have secured a Receivable and that shall have been
acquired by or on behalf of the Seller, the Servicer, or the Issuer; (f) all
documents and other items contained in the Receivable Files; (g) all funds on
deposit from time to time in the Trust Accounts and in all investments and
proceeds thereof (including all income thereon); (h) the Issuer's rights and
benefits, but none of its obligations, under the Sale and Servicing Agreement
(including the Issuer's right to cause the Seller, or the Servicer, as the case
may be, to repurchase Receivables from the Issuer under the circumstances
described therein); (i) the Issuer's rights and benefits under the Receivables
Purchase Agreement, including the representations and warranties and the cure
and repurchase obligations of the Seller under the Receivables Purchase
Agreement; (j) the Issuer's rights and benefits under the Subsequent Purchase
Agreement, including the representations and warranties and the cure and
repurchase obligations of the Seller under the Subsequent Purchase Agreement;
(k) all right, title and interest in all funds on deposit from time to time in
the Trust Accounts and all investments and proceeds thereof (including all
investment earnings therein); and (l) all present and future claims, demands,
causes of action and choses in action in respect of any or all of the foregoing
and all payments on or under and all proceeds of every kind and nature
whatsoever in respect of any or all of the foregoing, including all proceeds of
the conversion thereof, voluntary or involuntary, into cash or other liquid
property, all cash proceeds, accounts, accounts receivable, notes, drafts,
acceptances, chattel paper, checks, deposit accounts, insurance proceeds,
condemnation awards, rights to payment of any and every kind and other forms of
obligations and receivables, instruments and other property that at any time
constitute all or part of or are included in the proceeds of any of the
foregoing (collectively, the "Collateral").
The foregoing Grant is made in trust to secure the payment of
principal of and interest on, and any other amounts owing in respect of, the
Notes, equally and ratably without prejudice, priority or distinction, and to
secure compliance with the provisions of this Indenture, all as provided in this
Indenture.
The Indenture Trustee, on behalf of the Holders of the Notes,
acknowledges such Grant, accepts the trusts under this Indenture in accordance
with the provisions of this Indenture and agrees to perform its duties required
in this Indenture to the best of its ability to the end that the interests of
the Holders of the Notes may be adequately and effectively protected.
ARTICLE I.
DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
SECTION 1.01. Definitions.
(a) Definitions. Except as otherwise specified herein or as the
context may otherwise require, the following terms have the respective meanings
set forth below for all purposes of this Indenture.
"Act" has the meaning specified in Section 11.03(a).
"Administration Agreement" means the Owner Trust Administration
Agreement, dated as of May 1, 2001, among the Administrator, the Issuer and the
Indenture Trustee.
"Administrator" means BMW FS, or any successor Administrator under
the Administration Agreement.
"Affiliate" means, with respect to any specified Person, any other
Person controlling or controlled by or under common control with such specified
Person. For the purposes of this definition, "control" when used with respect to
any 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.
"Authorized Officer" means, with respect to the Issuer, any officer
of the Owner Trustee who is authorized to act for the Owner Trustee in matters
relating to the Issuer and who is identified on the list of Authorized Officers
delivered by the Owner Trustee to the Indenture Trustee on the Closing Date (as
such list may be modified or supplemented from time to time thereafter) and, so
long as the Administration Agreement is in effect, any Vice President or more
senior officer of the Administrator who is authorized to act for the
Administrator in matters relating to the Issuer and to be acted upon by the
Administrator pursuant to the Administration Agreement and who is identified on
the list of Authorized Officers delivered by the Administrator to the Indenture
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Trustee on the Closing Date (as such list may be modified or supplemented from
time to time thereafter).
"BMW FS" means BMW Financial Services NA, LLC, a Delaware
corporation, and its successors.
"Book-Entry Notes" means a beneficial interest in the Notes,
ownership and transfers of which shall be made through book entries by a
Clearing Agency as described in Section 2.10.
"Business Day" shall have the meaning assigned thereto in the Sale
and Servicing Agreement.
"Certificate of Trust" means the certificate of trust of the Issuer
substantially in the form of Exhibit A to the Trust Agreement.
"Class A Notes" means collectively the Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2
Notes, the Class A-3 Notes and the Class A-4 Notes, as the context may require.
"Class A-1 Notes" means the 3.98875% Asset Backed Notes, Class A-1,
substantially in the form of Exhibit A-1.
"Class A-1 Rate" means 3.98875% per annum, computed on the basis of
the actual number of days elapsed in the related Interest Accrual Period.
"Class A-2 Notes" means the 4.26% Asset Backed Notes, Class A-2,
substantially in the form of Exhibit A-2.
"Class A-2 Rate" means a 4.26% per annum computed on the basis of a
360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months.
"Class A-3 Notes" means the 4.70% Asset Backed Notes, Class A-3,
substantially in the form of Exhibit A-3.
"Class A-3 Rate" means 4.70% per annum, computed on the basis of a
360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months.
"Class A-4 Notes" means the 5.11% Asset Backed Notes, Class A-4,
substantially in the form of Exhibit A-4.
"Class A-4 Rate" means 5.11% per annum, computed on the basis of a
360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months.
"Class B Notes" means the 5.46% Asset Backed Notes, Class B,
substantially in the form of Exhibit A-5.
"Class B Rate" means 5.46% per annum, computed on the basis of a
360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months.
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"Clearing Agency" means an organization registered as a "clearing
agency" pursuant to Section 17A of the Exchange Act.
"Clearing Agency Participant" means a broker, dealer, bank, other
financial institution or other Person for whom from time to time a Clearing
Agency effects book-entry transfers and pledges of securities deposited with the
Clearing Agency.
"Closing Date" means May 18, 2001.
"Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time
to time, and Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder.
"Collateral" has the meaning specified in the Granting Clause of this
Indenture.
"Controlling Class" means with respect to any Notes Outstanding, the
Class A Notes (voting together as a single class) so long as any Class A Notes
are Outstanding, and thereafter the Class B Notes so long as any Class B Notes
are Outstanding.
"Corporate Trust Office" means the principal office of the Indenture
Trustee at which at any particular time its corporate trust business is
administered, which office at the date of execution of this Agreement is located
at The Chase Manhattan Bank, 000 Xxxx 00xx Xxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx
Xxxx 00000 (facsimile number (000) 000-0000); Attention: Capital Markets
Fiduciary Services/BMW Vehicle Owner Trust 2001-A, or at such other address as
the Indenture Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the
Noteholders and the Issuer, or the principal corporate trust office of any
successor Indenture Trustee at the address designated by such successor
Indenture Trustee by notice to the Noteholders and the Issuer.
"Default" means any occurrence that is, or with notice or the lapse
of time or both would become, an Event of Default.
"Definitive Notes" has the meaning specified in Section 2.10.
"Depositor" means BMW FS Securities LLC, its successors and assigns.
"Event of Default" has the meaning specified in Section 5.01.
"Exchange Act" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
"Executive Officer" means, with respect to any corporation, the Chief
Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer, President,
any Executive Vice President, any Senior Vice President, any Vice President, the
Secretary, the Controller or the Treasurer of such corporation; and with respect
to any partnership, any general partner thereof.
"Grant" means mortgage, pledge, bargain, sell, warrant, alienate,
remise, release, convey, assign, transfer, create, and xxxxx x xxxx upon and a
security interest in and a right of set-off against, deposit, set over and
confirm pursuant to this Indenture. A Grant of the Collateral or of any other
agreement or instrument shall include all rights, powers and options (but none
of the obligations) of the granting party thereunder, including the immediate
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and continuing right to claim for, collect, receive and give receipt for
principal and interest payments in respect of the Collateral and all other
moneys payable thereunder, to give and receive notices and other communications,
to make waivers or other agreements, to exercise all rights and options, to
bring Proceedings in the name of the granting party or otherwise, and generally
to do and receive anything that the granting party is or may be entitled to do
or receive thereunder or with respect thereto.
"Holder" or "Noteholder" means a Person in whose name a Note is
registered on the Note Register.
"Indenture Trustee" means The Chase Manhattan Bank, a New York
banking corporation, not in its individual capacity, but as Indenture Trustee
under this Indenture, or any successor Indenture Trustee under this Indenture.
"Independent" means, when used with respect to any specified Person,
that such Person (a) is in fact independent of the Issuer, any other obligor on
the Notes, the Seller and any Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons, (b)
does not have any direct financial interest or any material indirect financial
interest in the Issuer, any such other obligor, the Seller or any Affiliate of
any of the foregoing Persons and (c) is not connected with the Issuer, any such
other obligor, the Seller or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons as an
officer, employee, promoter, underwriter, trustee, partner, director or person
performing similar functions.
"Independent Certificate" means a certificate or opinion to be
delivered to the Indenture Trustee under the circumstances described in, and
otherwise complying with, the applicable requirements of Section 11.01, made by
an Independent appraiser or other expert appointed by an Issuer Order and
approved by the Indenture Trustee in the exercise of reasonable care, and such
opinion or certificate shall state that the signer has read the definition of
"Independent" in this Indenture and that the signer is Independent within the
meaning thereof.
"Interest Rate" means the Class A-1 Rate, the Class A-2 Rate, the
Class A-3 Rate, the Class A-4 Rate or the Class B Rate, as the context may
require.
"Issuer" means BMW Vehicle Owner Trust 2001-A until a successor
replaces it and, thereafter, means the successor and, for purposes of any
provision contained herein and required by the TIA, each other obligor on the
Notes.
"Issuer Order" or "Issuer Request" means a written order or request
signed in the name of the Issuer by any one of its Authorized Officers and
delivered to the Indenture Trustee.
"Note" means a Class A Note or a Class B Note, as the context may
require.
"Note Depository Agreement" means the agreement dated May 18, 2001,
among the Issuer, the Administrator, the Indenture Trustee and The Depository
Trust Company, as the initial Clearing Agency, relating to the Class A Notes and
the Class B Notes, substantially in the form of Exhibit B.
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"Note Owner" means, with respect to a Book-Entry Note, the Person who
is the beneficial owner of such Book-Entry Note, as reflected on the books of
the Clearing Agency or on the books of a Person maintaining an account with such
Clearing Agency (directly as a Clearing Agency Participant or as an indirect
participant, in each case in accordance with the rules of such Clearing Agency).
"Note Register" and "Note Registrar" have the respective meanings
specified in Section 2.04.
"Officer's Certificate" means a certificate signed by any Authorized
Officer of the Issuer, under the circumstances described in, and otherwise
complying with, the applicable requirements of Section 11.01, and delivered to
the Indenture Trustee. Unless otherwise specified, any reference in this
Indenture to an Officer's Certificate shall be to an Officer's Certificate of
any Authorized Officer of the Issuer.
"Opinion of Counsel" means one or more written opinions of counsel
who may, except as otherwise expressly provided in this Indenture, be an
employee of or counsel to the Issuer and who shall be satisfactory to the
Indenture Trustee, and which opinion or opinions shall be addressed to the
Indenture Trustee, shall comply with any applicable requirements of Section
11.01 and shall be in form and substance satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee.
"Outstanding" means, as of any date of determination, all Notes
theretofore authenticated and delivered under this Indenture except:
(i) Notes theretofore cancelled by the Note Registrar or delivered to
the Note Registrar for cancellation;
(ii) Notes or portions thereof the payment for which money in the
necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the Indenture Trustee or
any Paying Agent in trust for the Holders of such Notes (provided, however, that
if such Notes are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly given
pursuant to this Indenture or provision for such notice has been made,
satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee); and
(iii) Notes in exchange for or in lieu of which other Notes have been
authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture unless proof satisfactory
to the Indenture Trustee is presented that any such Notes are held by a bona
fide purchaser;
provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite
Outstanding Amount of the Notes have given any request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder or under any Basic Document,
Notes owned by the Issuer, any other obligor on the Notes, the Depositor, the
Seller or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons shall be disregarded and
deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining whether the Indenture
Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Notes that a
Responsible Officer of the Indenture Trustee knows to be so owned shall be so
disregarded. Notes so owned that have been pledged in good faith may be regarded
as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Indenture
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Trustee the pledgee's right so to act with respect to such Notes and that the
pledgee is not the Issuer, any other obligor on the Notes, the Depositor, the
Seller or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons.
"Outstanding Amount" means, as of any date of determination and as to
any Notes, the aggregate principal amount of such Notes Outstanding as of such
date of determination.
"Owner Trustee" means Wilmington Trust Company, not in its individual
capacity but solely as Owner Trustee under the Trust Agreement, or any successor
Owner Trustee under the Trust Agreement.
"Paying Agent" means the Indenture Trustee or any other Person that
meets the eligibility standards for the Indenture Trustee specified in Section
6.11 and is authorized by the Issuer to make payments to and distributions from
the Collection Account, the Note Distribution Account and the Reserve Account,
including payments of principal of or interest on the Notes on behalf of the
Issuer.
"Payment Date" means the twenty-fifth day of each month, or if any
such date is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day, commencing
June 25, 2001.
"Person" means any individual, corporation, estate, partnership,
limited liability company, joint venture, association, joint stock company,
trust or business trust (including any beneficiary thereof), unincorporated
organization or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.
"Predecessor Note" means, with respect to any particular Note, every
previous Note evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by
such particular Note; and, for the purpose of this definition, any Note
authenticated and delivered under Section 2.06 in lieu of a mutilated, lost,
destroyed or stolen Note shall be deemed to evidence the same debt as the
mutilated, lost, destroyed or stolen Note.
"Proceeding" means any suit in equity, action at law or other
judicial or administrative proceeding.
"Record Date" means, with respect to a Payment Date or Redemption
Date, the close of business on the day immediately preceding such Payment Date
or Redemption Date.
"Redemption Date" means, as the context requires, in the case of a
redemption of the Notes pursuant to Section 10.01, the Payment Date specified by
the Servicer or the Issuer pursuant to Section 10.01.
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"Redemption Price" means in the case of a redemption of the Notes
pursuant to Section 10.01, an amount equal to the unpaid principal amount of the
Notes redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon at the Interest Rate for
each Note being so redeemed to but excluding the Redemption Date.
"Registered Holder" means the Person in whose name a Note is
registered on the Note Register on the applicable Record Date.
"Responsible Officer" means, with respect to the Indenture Trustee or
Owner Trustee, as applicable, any officer within the Corporate Trust Office of
the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee, including any Vice President,
Assistant Vice President, Assistant Treasurer, Assistant Secretary or any other
officer of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee customarily performing
functions similar to those performed by any of the above designated officers and
also, with respect to a particular matter, any other officer to whom such matter
is referred because of such officer's knowledge of and familiarity with the
particular subject, in each case having direct responsibility for the
administration of the Basic Documents.
"Sale and Servicing Agreement" means the Sale and Servicing
Agreement, dated as of May 1, 2001, among the Issuer, the Depositor, BMW FS, as
Seller, Servicer, Custodian and Administrator, and the Indenture Trustee.
"Schedule of Receivables" means the list of Receivables set forth in
Schedule A (which Schedule may be in the form of microfiche).
"Securities Act" means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
"Seller" means BMW FS in its capacity as seller under the Receivables
Purchase Agreement and the Sale and Servicing Agreement, and its successor in
interest.
"Servicer" means BMW FS, in its capacity as servicer under the Sale
and Servicing Agreement, and any Successor Servicer thereunder.
"State" means any one of the 50 states of the United States of
America, or the District of Columbia.
"Successor Servicer" has the meaning specified in Section 3.07(f).
"Trust Estate" means all money, instruments, rights and other
property that are subject or intended to be subject to the lien and security
interest of this Indenture for the benefit of the Noteholders (including,
without limitation, all property and interests Granted to the Indenture
Trustee), including all proceeds thereof.
"Trust Indenture Act" or "TIA" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939
as in force on the date hereof, unless otherwise specifically provided.
"UCC" means, unless the context otherwise requires, the Uniform
Commercial Code as in effect in the relevant jurisdiction, as amended from time
to time.
(b) Except as otherwise specified herein or as the context may
otherwise require, capitalized terms used herein but not otherwise defined shall
have the meanings ascribed thereto in the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
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SECTION 1.02. Rules of Construction. Unless the context otherwise
requires:
(i) a term has the meaning assigned to it;
(ii) an accounting term not otherwise defined has the meaning
assigned to it in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles as in
effect from time to time;
(iii) "or" is not exclusive;
(iv) "including" means including without limitation;
(v) definitions are applicable to the singular and plural forms of
such terms and to the masculine, feminine and neuter genders of such terms; and
(vi) any agreement, instrument or statute defined or referred to
herein or in any instrument or certificate delivered in connection herewith
means such agreement, instrument or statute as from time to time amended,
modified or supplemented and includes (in the case of agreements or instruments)
references to all attachments thereto and instruments incorporated therein;
references to a Person are also to its permitted successors and assigns.
SECTION 1.03. Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act.
Whenever this Indenture refers to a provision of the TIA, such provision is
incorporated by reference in and made a part of this Indenture. The following
TIA terms used in this Indenture have the following meanings:
"Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission.
"indenture securities" means the Notes.
"indenture security holder" means a Noteholder.
"indenture to be qualified" means this Indenture.
"indenture trustee" or "institutional trustee" means the Indenture
Trustee.
"obligor" on the indenture securities means the Issuer and any other
obligor on the indenture securities.
All other TIA terms used in this Indenture that are defined by the
TIA, defined by TIA reference to another statute or defined by Commission rule
have the meaning assigned to them by such definitions.
ARTICLE II.
THE NOTES
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SECTION 2.01. Form. The Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes, the
Class A-3 Notes, the Class A-4 Notes and the Class B Notes, in each case
together with the Indenture Trustee's certificate of authentication, shall be in
substantially the form set forth in Exhibit X-0, Xxxxxxx X-0, Exhibit X-0,
Xxxxxxx X-0 and Exhibit A-5, respectively, with such appropriate insertions,
omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by
this Indenture, and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of
identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may,
consistently herewith, be determined by the officers executing the Notes, as
evidenced by their execution of the Notes. Any portion of the text of any Note
may be set forth on the reverse thereof, with an appropriate reference thereto
on the face of such Note.
The Definitive Notes shall be typewritten, printed, lithographed or
engraved or produced by any combination of these methods (with or without steel
engraved borders), all as determined by the officers executing such Notes, as
evidenced by their execution of such Notes.
Each Note shall be dated the date of its authentication. The terms of
the Notes set forth in Exhibit X-0, Xxxxxxx X-0, Exhibit X-0, Xxxxxxx X-0 and
Exhibit A-5 are part of the terms of this Indenture.
SECTION 2.02. Execution, Authentication and Delivery. The Notes shall
be executed on behalf of the Issuer by any of its Authorized Officers. The
signature of any such Authorized Officer on the Notes may be manual or
facsimile.
Notes bearing the manual or facsimile signature of individuals who
were at any time Authorized Officers of the Issuer shall bind the Issuer,
notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such
offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Notes or did not hold
such offices at the date of such Notes.
The Indenture Trustee shall upon Issuer Order authenticate and
deliver Class A-1 Notes for original issue in an aggregate principal amount of
$329,000,000, Class A-2 Notes for original issue in an aggregate principal
amount of $448,000,000, Class A-3 Notes for original issue in an aggregate
principal amount of $499,000,000, Class A-4 Notes for original issue in an
aggregate principal amount of $274,000,000 and Class B Notes for original issue
in an aggregate principal amount $31,800,000. The aggregate principal amount of
Class A-1 Notes, Class A-2 Notes, Class A-3 Notes, Class A-4 Notes and Class B
Notes outstanding at any time may not exceed such respective amounts except as
provided in Section 2.06.
The Notes shall be issuable as registered Notes in minimum
denominations of $1,000 and in integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof
(except for one Note of each class which may be issued in a denomination other
than an integral multiple of $1,000).
No Note shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be
valid or obligatory for any purpose, unless there appears on such Note a
certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein
executed by the Indenture Trustee by the manual signature of one of its
authorized signatories, and such certificate upon any Note shall be conclusive
evidence, and the only evidence, that such Note has been duly authenticated and
delivered hereunder.
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SECTION 2.03. Temporary Notes. Pending the preparation of Definitive
Notes, the Issuer may execute, and upon receipt of an Issuer Order the Indenture
Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, temporary Notes that are printed,
lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise produced, of the tenor of
the Definitive Notes in lieu of which they are issued and with such variations
not inconsistent with the terms of this Indenture as the officers executing such
Notes may determine, as evidenced by their execution of such Notes.
If temporary Notes are issued, the Issuer shall cause Definitive
Notes to be prepared without unreasonable delay. After the preparation of
Definitive Notes, the temporary Notes shall be exchangeable for Definitive Notes
upon surrender of the temporary Notes at the office or agency of the Issuer to
be maintained as provided in Section 3.02, without charge to the Holder. Upon
surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Notes, the Issuer shall
execute, and the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange
therefor, a like principal amount of Definitive Notes of authorized
denominations. Until so exchanged, the temporary Notes shall in all respects be
entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as Definitive Notes.
SECTION 2.04. Registration; Registration of Transfer and Exchange.
The Issuer shall cause to be kept a register (the "Note Register") in which,
subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Note Registrar
shall provide for the registration of Notes and the registration of transfers of
Notes. The Indenture Trustee initially shall be the "Note Registrar" for the
purpose of registering Notes and transfers of Notes as herein provided. Upon any
resignation of any Note Registrar, the Issuer shall promptly appoint a successor
or, if it elects not to make such an appointment, assume the duties of Note
Registrar. If a Person other than the Indenture Trustee is appointed by the
Issuer as Note Registrar, the Issuer will give the Indenture Trustee prompt
written notice of the appointment of such Note Registrar and of the location,
and any change in the location, of the Note Register, and the Indenture Trustee
shall have the right to inspect the Note Register at all reasonable times and to
obtain copies thereof, and the Indenture Trustee shall have the right to
conclusively rely upon a certificate executed on behalf of the Note Registrar by
an Executive Officer thereof as to the names and addresses of the Holders of the
Notes and the principal amounts and number of such Notes.
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the office
or agency of the Issuer to be maintained as provided in Section 3.02, if the
requirements of Section 8-401(1) of the UCC are met, the Issuer shall execute,
and the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and the Noteholder shall obtain
from the Indenture Trustee, in the name of the designated transferee or
transferees, one or more new Notes of the same Class in any authorized
denominations, of a like aggregate principal amount.
At the option of the Holder, Notes may be exchanged for other Notes
of the same Class in any authorized denominations, of a like aggregate principal
amount, upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at such office or agency.
Whenever any Notes are so surrendered for exchange, if the requirements of
Section 8-401(1) of the UCC are met, the Issuer shall execute, and the Indenture
Trustee, without having to verify that the requirements of 8-401(1) have been
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met, shall authenticate and the Noteholder shall obtain from the Indenture
Trustee, the Notes that the Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to
receive.
All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of
Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Issuer, evidencing the same debt,
and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Notes surrendered
upon such registration of transfer or exchange.
Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or
exchange shall be duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of
transfer in form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee duly executed by, the
Holder thereof or such Holder's attorney duly authorized in writing, with such
signature guaranteed by an "eligible guarantor institution" meeting the
requirements of the Note Registrar, which requirements include membership or
participation in the Securities Transfer Agent's Medallion Program ("STAMP") or
such other "signature guarantee program" as may be determined by the Note
Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with
the Exchange Act.
No service charge shall be made to a Holder for any registration of
transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Issuer may require payment of a sum
sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in
connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, other than
exchanges pursuant to Section 2.03 or 9.05 not involving any transfer.
The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Issuer
shall not be required to make and the Note Registrar need not register transfers
or exchanges of Notes selected for redemption or of any Note for a period of 15
days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Note.
No Note, or any interest therein, may be transferred to an "employee
benefit plan" within the meaning of Section 3(3) of ERISA that is subject to
ERISA, a "plan" described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code, any entity that is
deemed to hold "plan assets" of any of the foregoing by reason of an employee
benefit plan's or other plan's investment in such entity, or any governmental
plan subject to applicable law that is substantially similar to the fiduciary
responsibility provisions of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, unless such
transferee represents, warrants and covenants that its purchase and holding of
such note is and will be eligible for, and satisfies and will satisfy all the
requirements of, Department of Labor prohibited transaction class exemption
("PTE") 90-1; PTE 96-23; PTE 95-60; PTE 91-38; PTE 84-14 or another applicable
prohibited transaction exemption (or in the case of a governmental plan, will
not violate any applicable law that is substantially similar to ERISA or Section
4975 of the Code). By its acquisition of a Note in book-entry form or any
interest therein, each transferee will be deemed to have represented, warranted
and covenanted that it satisfies the foregoing requirements and the Indenture
Trustee may relay conclusively on the same for purposes hereof.
The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to
the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the transfer of
Notes.
SECTION 2.05. [Reserved].
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SECTION 2.06. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes. If (i) any
mutilated Note is surrendered to the Indenture Trustee, or the Indenture Trustee
receives evidence to its satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any
Note, and (ii) there is delivered to the Indenture Trustee such security or
indemnity as may be required by it to hold the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee
harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Issuer, the Note Registrar or
the Indenture Trustee that such Note has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser,
and provided that the requirements of Section 8-405 of the UCC are met, the
Issuer shall execute, and upon an Issuer Order the Indenture Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver, in exchange for or in lieu of any such mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Note, a replacement Note of the same Class; provided,
however, that if any such destroyed, lost or stolen Note, but not a mutilated
Note, shall have become or within 15 days shall be due and payable, or shall
have been called for redemption, instead of issuing a replacement Note, the
Issuer may pay such destroyed, lost or stolen Note when so due or payable or
upon the Redemption Date without surrender thereof. If, after the delivery of
such replacement Note or payment of a destroyed, lost or stolen Note, a bona
fide purchaser of the original Note in lieu of which such replacement Note was
issued presents for payment such original Note, the Issuer and the Indenture
Trustee shall be entitled to recover such replacement Note (or such payment)
from the Person to whom it was delivered or any Person taking such replacement
Note from such Person to whom such replacement Note was delivered or any
assignee of such Person, except a bona fide purchaser, and shall be entitled to
recover upon the security or indemnity provided therefor to the extent of any
loss, damage, cost or expense incurred by the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee in
connection therewith.
Upon the issuance of any replacement Note under this Section, the
Issuer may require the payment by the Holder of such Note of a sum sufficient to
cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation
thereto and any other reasonable expenses (including the fees and expenses of
the Indenture Trustee) connected therewith.
Every replacement Note issued pursuant to this Section in replacement
of any mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall constitute an original
additional contractual obligation of the Issuer, whether or not the mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Note 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 Notes duly issued hereunder.
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 Notes.
SECTION 2.07. Persons Deemed Owners. Prior to due presentment for
registration of transfer of any Note, the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and any
agent of the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in whose name
any Note is registered (as of the day of determination) as the owner of such
Note for the purpose of receiving payments of principal of and interest, if any,
on such Note and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Note be
overdue, and none of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee or any agent of the
Issuer or the Indenture Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
SECTION 2.08. Payment of Principal and Interest; Defaulted Interest.
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(a) The Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes, the Class A-3 Notes,
the Class A-4 Notes and the Class B Notes shall accrue interest at the Class A-1
Rate, the Class A-2 Rate, the Class A-3 Rate, the Class A-4 Rate and the Class B
Rate, respectively, as set forth in Exhibit X-0, Xxxxxxx X-0, Exhibit X-0,
Xxxxxxx X-0 and Exhibit A-5, respectively, and such interest shall be payable on
each Payment Date as specified therein, subject to Section 3.01. Any installment
of interest or principal payable on a Note that is punctually paid or duly
provided for by the Issuer on the applicable Payment Date shall be paid to the
Person in whose name such Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is registered
on the Record Date by check mailed first-class postage prepaid to such Person's
address as it appears on the Note Register on such Record Date, except that,
unless Definitive Notes have been issued pursuant to Section 2.12, with respect
to Notes registered on the Record Date in the name of the nominee of the
Clearing Agency (initially, such nominee to be Cede & Co.), payment shall be
made by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the account designated
by such nominee; provided, however, that the final installment of principal
payable with respect to such Note on a Payment Date or on the related Final
Scheduled Payment Date (including the Redemption Price for any Note called for
redemption pursuant to Section 10.01) shall be payable as provided in paragraph
(b) below. The funds represented by any such checks returned undelivered shall
be held in accordance with Section 3.03.
(b) The principal of each Note shall be payable in installments on
each Payment Date as provided in Section 3.01 hereof and the forms of the Notes
set forth in Exhibit X-0, Xxxxxxx X-0, Exhibit X-0, Xxxxxxx X-0 and Exhibit A-5.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the entire unpaid principal amount of the Notes
may be declared immediately due and payable, if not previously paid, in the
manner provided in Section 5.02 on any date on which an Event of Default shall
have occurred and be continuing by the Indenture Trustee or the Indenture
Trustee acting at the direction of the Holders of Notes representing not less
than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class. All
principal payments on each Class of Notes shall be made pro rata to the
Noteholders of the related Class entitled thereto. Upon written notice thereof,
the Indenture Trustee shall notify the Person in whose name a Note is registered
at the close of business on the Record Date preceding the Payment Date on which
the Issuer expects the final installment of principal of and interest on such
Note to be paid. Such notice shall specify that such final installment will be
payable only upon presentation and surrender of such Note and shall specify the
place where such Note may be presented and surrendered for payment of such
installment. Notices in connection with redemptions of Notes shall be mailed to
Noteholders as provided in Section 10.02.
(c) If the Issuer defaults in a payment of interest on the Notes, the
Issuer shall pay defaulted interest (plus interest on such defaulted interest to
the extent lawful) at the applicable Interest Rate in any lawful manner on the
next Payment Date.
SECTION 2.09. Cancellation. All Notes surrendered for payment,
registration of transfer, exchange or redemption shall, if surrendered to any
Person other than the Indenture Trustee, be delivered to the Indenture Trustee
and shall be promptly cancelled by the Indenture Trustee. The Issuer may at any
time deliver to the Indenture Trustee for cancellation any Notes previously
authenticated and delivered hereunder that the Issuer may have acquired in any
manner whatsoever, and all Notes so delivered shall be promptly cancelled by the
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Indenture Trustee. No Notes shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for
any Notes cancelled as provided in this Section, except as expressly permitted
by this Indenture. All cancelled Notes may be held or disposed of by the
Indenture Trustee in accordance with its standard retention or disposal policy
as in effect at the time unless the Issuer shall direct by an Issuer Order that
they be destroyed or returned to it; provided, that such Issuer Order is timely
and the Notes have not been previously disposed of by the Indenture Trustee.
SECTION 2.10. Book-Entry Notes. The Notes, upon original issuance,
will be issued in the form of typewritten Notes representing the Book-Entry
Notes, to be delivered to The Depository Trust Company, the initial Clearing
Agency, by, or on behalf of, the Issuer. The Book-Entry Notes shall be
registered initially on the Note Register in the name of Cede & Co., the nominee
of the initial Clearing Agency, and no Owner thereof will receive a Definitive
Note representing such Note Owner's interest in such Note, except as provided in
Section 2.12. Unless and until definitive, fully registered Notes (the
"Definitive Notes") have been issued to such Note Owners pursuant to Section
2.12:
(i) the provisions of this Section shall be in full force and effect;
(ii) the Note Registrar and the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled
to deal with the Clearing Agency for all purposes of this Indenture (including
the payment of principal of and interest on the Notes and the giving of
instructions or directions hereunder) as the sole holder of the Notes, and shall
have no obligation to the Note Owners;
(iii) to the extent that the provisions of this Section conflict with
any other provisions of this Indenture, the provisions of this Section shall
control;
(iv) the rights of Note Owners shall be exercised only through the
Clearing Agency and shall be limited to those established by law and agreements
between such Note Owners and the Clearing Agency or the Clearing Agency
Participants pursuant to the Note Depository Agreement. Unless and until
Definitive Notes are issued pursuant to Section 2.12, the initial Clearing
Agency will make book-entry transfers among the Clearing Agency Participants and
receive and transmit payments of principal of and interest on the Notes to such
Clearing Agency Participants; and
(v) whenever this Indenture requires or permits actions to be taken
based upon instructions or directions of Holders of Notes evidencing a specified
percentage of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class of Notes, the
Clearing Agency shall be deemed to represent such percentage only to the extent
that it has received instructions to such effect from Note Owners or Clearing
Agency Participants owning or representing, respectively, such required
percentage of the beneficial interest in the Notes and has delivered such
instructions to the Indenture Trustee.
SECTION 2.11. Notices to Clearing Agency. Whenever a notice or other
communication to the Noteholders is required under this Indenture, unless and
until Definitive Notes shall have been issued to such Note Owners pursuant to
Section 2.12, the Indenture Trustee shall give all such notices and
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communications specified herein to be given to Holders of the Notes to the
Clearing Agency, and shall have no obligation to such Note Owners.
SECTION 2.12. Definitive Notes. If (i) the Administrator advises the
Indenture Trustee in writing that the Clearing Agency is no longer willing or
able to properly discharge its responsibilities with respect to the Book-Entry
Notes and the Administrator is unable to locate a qualified successor or (ii)
after the occurrence of an Event of Default or a Servicer Termination Event,
Owners of the Book-Entry Notes representing beneficial interests aggregating at
least a majority of the Outstanding Amount of such Notes advise the Clearing
Agency in writing that the continuation of a book-entry system through the
Clearing Agency is no longer in the best interests of such Note Owners, then the
Clearing Agency shall notify all Note Owners, the Administrator and the
Indenture Trustee of the occurrence of any such event and of the availability of
Definitive Notes to Note Owners requesting the same. Upon surrender to the
Indenture Trustee of the typewritten Notes representing the Book-Entry Notes by
the Clearing Agency, accompanied by registration instructions, the Issuer shall
execute and the Indenture Trustee upon an Issuer Order shall authenticate the
Definitive Notes in accordance with the written instructions of the Clearing
Agency. None of the Issuer, the Note Registrar, the Administrator or the
Indenture Trustee shall be liable for any delay in delivery of such instructions
and may conclusively rely on, and shall be protected in relying on, such
instructions. Upon the issuance of Definitive Notes, the Indenture Trustee shall
recognize the Holders of the Definitive Notes as Noteholders.
SECTION 2.13. Tax Treatment. The Issuer has entered into this
Indenture, and the Notes will be issued, with the intention that, for purposes
of federal and state income tax, franchise tax and any other tax measure in
whole or in part by income, the Notes will qualify as indebtedness secured by
the Trust Estate. The Issuer, by entering into this Indenture, and each
Noteholder, by its acceptance of a Note (and each Note Owner by its acceptance
of an interest in the applicable Book-Entry Note), agree to treat the Notes for
such purposes as indebtedness.
ARTICLE III.
COVENANTS
SECTION 3.01. Payment of Principal and Interest. The Issuer will duly
and punctually pay the principal of and interest, if any, on the Notes in
accordance with the terms of the Notes and this Indenture. Without limiting the
foregoing, subject to Section 8.02(c), on each Payment Date, the Issuer will
cause to be distributed all amounts deposited pursuant to the Sale and Servicing
Agreement into the Note Distribution Account (i) for the benefit of the Class
A-1 Notes, to the Class A-1 Noteholders, (ii) for the benefit of the Class A-2
Notes, to the Class A-2 Noteholders, (iii) for the benefit of the Class A-3
Notes, to the Class A-3 Noteholders (iv) for the benefit of the Class A-4 Notes,
to the Class A-4 Noteholders and (v) for the benefit of the Class B Notes, to
the Class B Noteholders. Amounts properly withheld under the Code by any Person
from a payment to any Noteholder of interest and/or principal shall be
considered as having been paid by the Issuer to such Noteholder for all purposes
of this Indenture.
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SECTION 3.02. Maintenance of Office or Agency. The Issuer will
maintain in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, an office or agency
where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, and
where notices and demands to or upon the Issuer in respect of the Notes and this
Indenture may be served. Such office will initially be located at 000 Xxxx 00xx
Xxxxxx, 00xx floor, Attention: Capital Markets Fiduciary Services, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx
Xxxx 00000. The Issuer will give prompt written notice to the Indenture Trustee
of the location, and of any change in the location, of any such office or
agency. If at any time the Issuer shall fail to maintain any such office or
agency or shall fail to furnish the Indenture Trustee with the address thereof,
such surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate
Trust Office, and the Issuer hereby appoints the Indenture Trustee as its agent
to receive all such surrenders, notices and demands.
SECTION 3.03. Money for Payments To Be Held in Trust. All payments of
amounts due and payable with respect to any Notes that are to be made from
amounts withdrawn from the Collection Account, the Note Distribution Account and
the Reserve Account shall be made on behalf of the Issuer by the Indenture
Trustee or by another Paying Agent, and no amounts so withdrawn from the
Collection Account, the Note Distribution Account or the Reserve Account for
payments of Notes shall be paid over to the Issuer except as provided in this
Section.
On or before the Business Day preceding each Payment Date and
Redemption Date, the Issuer shall deposit or cause to be deposited in the Note
Distribution Account an aggregate sum sufficient to pay the amounts then
becoming due under the Notes, such sum to be held in trust for the benefit of
the Persons entitled thereto, and (unless the Paying Agent is the Indenture
Trustee) shall promptly notify the Indenture Trustee of its action or failure so
to act.
The Issuer will cause each Paying Agent other than the Indenture
Trustee to execute and deliver to the Indenture Trustee an instrument in which
such Paying Agent shall agree with the Indenture Trustee (and if the Indenture
Trustee acts as Paying Agent, it hereby so agrees), subject to the provisions of
this Section, that such Paying Agent will:
(i) hold all sums held by it for the payment of amounts due with
respect to the Notes 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 and pay such sums to such Persons as herein provided;
(ii) give the Indenture Trustee notice of any default by the Issuer
(or any other obligor on the Notes) of which it has actual knowledge in the
making of any payment required to be made with respect to the Notes;
(iii) at any time during the continuance of any such default, upon
the written request of the Indenture Trustee, forthwith pay to the Indenture
Trustee all sums so held in trust by such Paying Agent;
(iv) immediately resign as a Paying Agent and forthwith pay to the
Indenture Trustee all sums held by it in trust for the payment of Notes if at
any time it ceases to meet the standards required to be met by a Paying Agent at
the time of its appointment; and
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(v) comply with all requirements of the Code with respect to the
withholding from any payments made by it on any Notes of any applicable
withholding taxes imposed thereon and with respect to any applicable reporting
requirements in connection therewith.
The Issuer may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, by Issuer
Order direct any Paying Agent to pay to the Indenture Trustee all sums held in
trust by such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the Indenture Trustee upon
the same trusts as those upon which the sums were held by such Paying Agent; and
upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the Indenture Trustee, such Paying
Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such money.
Subject to applicable laws with respect to escheat of funds, any
money held by the Indenture Trustee or any Paying Agent in trust for the payment
of any amount due with respect to any Note and remaining unclaimed for two years
after such amount has become due and payable shall be discharged from such trust
and be paid upon Issuer Request to the Issuer; and the Holder of such Note shall
thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Issuer for
payment thereof (but only to the extent of the amounts so paid to the Issuer),
and all liability of the Indenture Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to
such trust money shall thereupon cease; provided, however, that the Indenture
Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment,
shall at the expense and direction of the Issuer 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 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 Issuer. The Indenture
Trustee shall also adopt and employ, at the expense and direction of the Issuer,
any other reasonable means of notification of such repayment (including, but not
limited to, mailing notice of such repayment to Holders whose Notes have been
called but have not been surrendered for redemption or whose right to or
interest in moneys due and payable but not claimed is determinable from the
records of the Indenture Trustee or of any Paying Agent, at the last address of
record for each such Holder).
SECTION 3.04. Existence. Except as otherwise permitted by the
provisions of Section 3.10, the Issuer will keep in full effect its existence,
rights and franchises as a business trust under the laws of the State of
Delaware (unless it becomes, or any successor Issuer hereunder is or becomes,
organized under the laws of any other State or of the United States of America,
in which case the Issuer will keep in full effect its existence, rights and
franchises under the laws of such other jurisdiction) and will obtain and
preserve its qualification to do business in each jurisdiction in which such
qualification is or shall be necessary to protect the validity and
enforceability of this Indenture, the Notes, the Collateral and each other
instrument or agreement included in the Trust Estate.
SECTION 3.05. Protection of Trust Estate. The Issuer will from time
to time execute and deliver all such supplements and amendments hereto and all
such financing statements, continuation statements, instruments of further
assurance and other instruments, and will take such other action necessary or
advisable to:
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(i) maintain or preserve the lien and security interest (and the
priority thereof) of this Indenture or carry out more effectively the purposes
hereof;
(ii) perfect, publish notice of or protect the validity of any Grant
made or to be made by this Indenture;
(iii) enforce any of the Collateral; or
(iv) preserve and defend title to the Trust Estate and the rights of
the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders in such Trust Estate against the
claims of all persons and parties.
The Issuer hereby designates the Indenture Trustee, as its agent and
attorney-in-fact, to execute upon an Issuer Order any financing statement,
continuation statement or other instrument required to be executed pursuant to
this Section 3.05.
SECTION 3.06. Opinions as to Trust Estate.
(a) On the Closing Date, the Issuer shall cause to be furnished to
the Indenture Trustee an Opinion of Counsel either stating that, in the opinion
of such counsel, such action has been taken with respect to the recording and
filing of this Indenture, any indentures supplemental hereto, and any other
requisite documents, and with respect to the execution and filing of any
financing statements and continuation statements, as are necessary to perfect
and make effective the lien and security interest of this Indenture and reciting
the details of such action, or stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, no
such action is necessary to make such lien and security interest effective.
(b) On or before April 30, in each calendar year, beginning in 2002,
the Issuer shall furnish to the Indenture Trustee and the Rating Agencies an
Opinion of Counsel either stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, such
action has been taken with respect to the recording, filing, re-recording and
refiling of this Indenture, any indentures supplemental hereto and any other
requisite documents and with respect to the execution and filing of any
financing statements and continuation statements as is necessary to maintain the
lien and security interest created by this Indenture and reciting the details of
such action, or stating that in the opinion of such counsel no such action is
necessary to maintain such lien and security interest. Such Opinion of Counsel
shall also describe the recording, filing, re-recording and refiling of this
Indenture, any indentures supplemental hereto and any other requisite documents
and the execution and filing of any financing statements and continuation
statements that will, in the opinion of such counsel, be required to maintain
the lien and security interest of this Indenture until April 30 in the following
calendar year.
SECTION 3.07. Performance of Obligations; Servicing of Receivables.
(a) The Issuer will not take any action and will use its reasonable
best efforts not to permit any action to be taken by others that would release
any Person from any of such Person's material covenants or obligations under any
instrument or agreement included in the Trust Estate or that would result in the
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amendment, hypothecation, subordination, termination or discharge of, or impair
the validity or effectiveness of, any such instrument or agreement, except as
expressly provided in this Indenture, the Sale and Servicing Agreement or such
other instrument or agreement.
(b) The Issuer may contract with other Persons with notification to
the Rating Agencies to assist it in performing its duties under this Indenture,
and any performance of such duties by a Person identified to the Indenture
Trustee in an Officer's Certificate of the Issuer shall be deemed to be action
taken by the Issuer. Initially, the Issuer has contracted with the Servicer and
the Administrator to assist the Issuer in performing its duties under this
Indenture.
(c) The Issuer will punctually perform and observe all of its
obligations and agreements contained in this Indenture, the Basic Documents and
in the instruments and agreements included in the Trust Estate, including but
not limited to filing or causing to be filed all UCC financing statements and
continuation statements required to be filed by the terms of this Indenture and
the Sale and Servicing Agreement in accordance with and within the time periods
provided for herein and therein. Except as otherwise expressly provided therein,
the Issuer shall not waive, amend, modify, supplement or terminate any Basic
Document or any provision thereof without the consent of either the Indenture
Trustee or the Holders of at least a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the
Notes.
(d) If the Issuer shall have knowledge of the occurrence of a
Servicer Termination Event under the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Issuer
shall promptly notify the Indenture Trustee and the Rating Agencies thereof, and
shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Issuer is taking with
respect to such default.
(e) [Reserved]
(f) Upon any termination of the Servicer's rights and powers pursuant
to the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Issuer shall promptly notify the
Indenture Trustee thereof. As soon as a successor servicer (a "Successor
Servicer") is appointed, the Issuer shall notify the Indenture Trustee in
writing of such appointment, specifying in such notice the name and address of
such Successor Servicer.
(g) Without limitation of the absolute nature of the assignment
granted to the Indenture Trustee under this Indenture or the rights of the
Indenture Trustee hereunder, the Issuer agrees (i) except to extent otherwise
provided in any Basic Documents, that it will not, without the prior written
consent of either the Indenture Trustee acting at the direction of the Holders
of at least a majority in Outstanding Amount of the Notes, amend, modify, waive,
supplement, terminate or surrender, or agree to any amendment, modification,
supplement, termination, waiver or surrender of, the terms of any Collateral
(except to the extent otherwise provided in the Sale and Servicing Agreement) or
the Basic Documents, or waive timely performance or observance by the Servicer
or the Seller under the Sale and Servicing Agreement; and (ii) that any such
amendment shall not (A) increase or reduce in any manner the amount of, or
accelerate or delay the timing of, distributions that are required to be made
for the benefit of the Noteholders or (B) reduce the aforesaid percentage of the
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Notes that is required to consent to any such amendment, without the consent of
the Holders of all Outstanding Notes. If the Indenture Trustee acting at the
direction of such Holders agrees to any such amendment, modification, supplement
or waiver, the Indenture Trustee agrees, promptly following a request by the
Issuer to do so, to execute and deliver, at the Issuer's own expense, such
agreements, instruments, consents and other documents as the Issuer may deem
necessary or appropriate in the circumstances.
SECTION 3.08. Negative Covenants. So long as any Notes are
Outstanding, the Issuer shall not:
(i) except as expressly permitted by this Indenture, the Receivables
Purchase Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement, sell, transfer, exchange
or otherwise dispose of any of the properties or assets of the Issuer, including
those included in the Trust Estate, unless directed to do so by the Indenture
Trustee acting on direction of at least a majority in Outstanding Amount of the
Controlling Class given pursuant to this Agreement;
(ii) claim any credit on, or make any deduction from the principal or
interest payable in respect of, the Notes (other than amounts properly withheld
from such payments under the Code) or assert any claim against any present or
former Noteholder by reason of the payment of the taxes levied or assessed upon
any part of the Trust Estate; or
(iii) (A) permit the validity or effectiveness of this Indenture to
be impaired, or permit the lien of this Indenture to be amended, hypothecated,
subordinated, terminated or discharged, or permit any Person to be released from
any covenants or obligations with respect to the Notes under this Indenture
except as may be expressly permitted hereby, (B) permit any lien, charge,
excise, claim, security interest, mortgage or other encumbrance (other than the
lien of this Indenture) to be created on or extend to or otherwise arise upon or
burden the Trust Estate or any part thereof or any interest therein or the
proceeds thereof (other than tax liens, mechanics' liens and other liens that
arise by operation of law, in each case on any of the Financed Vehicles and
arising solely as a result of an action or omission of the related Obligor) or
(C) permit the lien of this Indenture not to constitute a valid first priority
(other than with respect to any such tax, mechanics' or other lien) security
interest in the Trust Estate.
SECTION 3.09. Annual Statement as to Compliance. The Issuer will
deliver to the Indenture Trustee and the Rating Agencies, within 120 days after
the end of each fiscal year of the Issuer (commencing with the fiscal year
2001), an Officer's Certificate stating, as to the Authorized Officer signing
such Officer's Certificate, that:
(i) a review of the activities of the Issuer during such year and of
its performance under this Indenture has been made under such Authorized
Officer's supervision; and
(ii) to the best of such Authorized Officer's knowledge, based on
such review, the Issuer has complied with all conditions and covenants under
this Indenture throughout such year or, if there has been a default in its
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compliance with any such condition or covenant, specifying each such default
known to such Authorized Officer and the nature and status thereof.
SECTION 3.10. Issuer May Consolidate, etc., Only on Certain Terms.
(a) The Issuer shall not consolidate or merge with or into any other
Person, unless:
(i) the Person (if other than the Issuer) formed by or surviving such
consolidation or merger shall be a Person organized and existing under the laws
of the United States of America or any State and shall expressly assume, by an
indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the Indenture Trustee,
in form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, the due and punctual payment of
the principal of and interest on all Notes and the performance or observance of
every agreement and covenant of this Indenture on the part of the Issuer to be
performed or observed, all as provided herein;
(ii) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Default
or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing;
(iii) the Rating Agency Condition shall have been satisfied with
respect to such transaction;
(iv) the Issuer shall have received an Opinion of Counsel (and shall
have delivered copies thereof to the Indenture Trustee) to the effect that such
transaction will not have any material adverse federal income tax consequences
to the Issuer, any Noteholder or any Certificateholder;
(v) any action that is necessary to maintain the lien and security
interest created by this Indenture shall have been taken; and
(vi) the Issuer shall have delivered to the Indenture Trustee an
Officer's Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each stating that such
consolidation or merger and such supplemental indenture comply with this Article
III and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such
transaction have been complied with (including any filing required by the
Exchange Act) in all material respects.
(b) The Issuer shall not convey or transfer any of its properties or
assets, including those included in the Trust Estate, to any Person, unless:
(i) the Person that acquires by conveyance or transfer the properties
and assets of the Issuer the conveyance or transfer of which is hereby
restricted (A) shall be a United States citizen or a Person organized and
existing under the laws of the United States of America or any State, (B)
expressly assumes, by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered
to the Indenture Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, the due
and punctual payment of the principal of and interest on all Notes and the
performance or observance of every agreement and covenant of this Indenture on
the part of the Issuer to be performed or observed, all as provided herein, (C)
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expressly agrees by means of such supplemental indenture that all right, title
and interest so conveyed or transferred shall be subject and subordinate to the
rights of Holders of the Notes, (D) unless otherwise provided in such
supplemental indenture, expressly agrees to indemnify, defend and hold harmless
the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee against and from any loss, liability or
expense arising under or related to this Indenture and the Notes and (E)
expressly agrees by means of such supplemental indenture that such Person (or,
if a group of Persons, one specified Person) shall make all filings with the
Commission (and any other appropriate Person) required by the Exchange Act in
connection with the Notes;
(ii) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Default
or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing;
(iii) the Rating Agency Condition shall have been satisfied with
respect to such transaction;
(iv) the Issuer shall have received an Opinion of Counsel (and shall
have delivered copies thereof to the Indenture Trustee) to the effect that such
transaction will not have any material adverse federal income tax consequences
to the Issuer, any Noteholder or any Certificateholder;
(v) any action that is necessary to maintain the lien and security
interest created by this Indenture shall have been taken; and
(vi) the Issuer shall have delivered to the Indenture Trustee an
Officer's Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each stating that such
conveyance or transfer and such supplemental indenture comply with this Article
III and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such
transaction have been complied with (including any filing required by the
Exchange Act) in all material respects.
SECTION 3.11. Successor or Transferee.
(a) Upon any consolidation or merger of the Issuer in accordance with
Section 3.10(a), the Person formed by or surviving such consolidation or merger
(if other than the Issuer) shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may
exercise every right and power of, the Issuer under this Indenture with the same
effect as if such Person had been named as the Issuer herein.
(b) Upon a conveyance or transfer of all the assets and properties of
the Issuer pursuant to Section 3.10(b), BMW Vehicle Owner Trust 2001-A will be
released from every covenant and agreement of this Indenture to be observed by
or performed on the part of the Issuer with respect to the Notes immediately
upon the delivery of written notice to the Indenture Trustee stating that BMW
Vehicle Owner Trust 2001-A is to be so released.
SECTION 3.12. No Other Business. The Issuer shall not engage in any
business other than financing, purchasing, owning, selling and managing the
Receivables in the manner contemplated by this Indenture and the Basic Documents
and any activities incidental thereto.
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SECTION 3.13. No Borrowing. The Issuer shall not issue, incur,
assume, guarantee or otherwise become liable, directly or indirectly, for any
indebtedness except for the Notes.
SECTION 3.14. Servicer's Obligations. The Issuer shall cause the
Servicer to comply with Sections 4.09, 4.10, 4.11 and Article VII of the Sale
and Servicing Agreement.
SECTION 3.15. Guarantees, Loans, Advances and Other Liabilities.
Except as contemplated by the Trust Agreement, the Sale and Servicing Agreement
or this Indenture, the Issuer shall not make any loan or advance or credit to,
or guarantee (directly or indirectly or by an instrument having the effect of
assuring another's payment or performance on any obligation or capability of so
doing or otherwise), endorse or otherwise become contingently liable, directly
or indirectly, in connection with the obligations, stocks or dividends of, or
own, purchase, repurchase or acquire (or agree contingently to do so) any stock,
obligations, assets or securities of, or any other interest in, or make any
capital contribution to, any Person.
SECTION 3.16. Capital Expenditures. The Issuer shall not make any
expenditure (by long-term or operating lease or otherwise) for capital assets
(either realty or personalty).
SECTION 3.17. Removal of Administrator. So long as any Notes are
Outstanding, the Issuer shall not remove the Administrator unless the Rating
Agency Condition shall have been satisfied in connection with such removal and
the Indenture Trustee receives written notice of the foregoing and consents
thereto.
SECTION 3.18. Restricted Payments. Except with respect to the
proceeds from issuance of the Notes, the Issuer shall not, directly or
indirectly, (i) pay any dividend or make any distribution (by reduction of
capital or otherwise), whether in cash, property, securities or a combination
thereof, to the Owner Trustee or any owner of a beneficial interest in the
Issuer or otherwise with respect to any ownership or equity interest or security
in or of the Issuer or to the Servicer, (ii) redeem, purchase, retire or
otherwise acquire for value any such ownership or equity interest or security or
(iii) set aside or otherwise segregate any amounts for any such purpose;
provided, however, that the Issuer may make, or cause to be made, distributions
as contemplated by, and to the extent funds are available for such purpose
under, the Sale and Servicing Agreement, this Indenture or the Trust Agreement.
The Issuer will not, directly or indirectly, make payments to or distributions
from the Note Distribution Account, the Collection Account, the Pre-Funding
Account, the Capitalized Interest Account or the Reserve Account except in
accordance with this Indenture and the Basic Documents.
SECTION 3.19. Notice of Events of Default. The Issuer shall give the
Indenture Trustee and the Rating Agencies prompt written notice of each Event of
Default hereunder, and of each default on the part of the Servicer or the Seller
of its obligations under the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
SECTION 3.20. Further Instruments and Acts. Upon request of the
Indenture Trustee, the Issuer will execute and deliver such further instruments
and do such further acts as may be reasonably necessary or proper to carry out
more effectively the purpose of this Indenture.
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ARTICLE IV.
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
SECTION 4.01. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture. This Indenture
shall cease to be of further effect with respect to the Notes except as to (i)
rights of registration of transfer and exchange, (ii) substitution of mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Notes, (iii) rights of Noteholders to receive payments
of principal thereof and interest thereon, (iv) Sections 3.03, 3.04, 3.05, 3.08,
3.10, 3.11, 3.12, 3.13, 3.15, 3.16 and 3.18, (v) the rights, obligations and
immunities of the Indenture Trustee hereunder (including the rights of the
Indenture Trustee under Section 6.07 and the obligations of the Indenture
Trustee under Section 4.02) and (vi) the rights of Noteholders as beneficiaries
hereof with respect to the property so deposited with the Indenture Trustee
payable to all or any of them, and the Indenture Trustee, on demand of and at
the expense of the Issuer, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect to the Notes, when
(A) either:
1. all Notes theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than (i)
Notes that have been destroyed, lost or stolen and that have been replaced or
paid as provided in Section 2.06 and (ii) Notes for the payment of which money
has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust by the
Issuer and thereafter repaid to the Issuer or discharged from such trust, as
provided in Section 3.03, have been delivered to the Indenture Trustee for
cancellation; or
2. all Notes not theretofore delivered to the Indenture Trustee for
cancellation
a. have become due and payable,
b. will become due and payable at the Class B Final Scheduled Payment
Date within one year or
c. are to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements
satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption by
the Indenture Trustee in the name, and at the expense, of the Issuer;
and the Issuer, in the case of a, b, or c above, has irrevocably
deposited or caused to be irrevocably deposited with the Indenture
Trustee cash or direct obligations of or obligations guaranteed by
the United States of America (that will mature prior to the date such
amounts are payable), in trust for such purpose, in an amount
sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on such Notes
not theretofore delivered to the Indenture Trustee for cancellation
when due to the applicable Final Scheduled Payment Date or Redemption
Date (if Notes shall have been called for redemption pursuant to
Section 10.01), as the case may be;
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(B) the Issuer has paid or caused to be paid all other
sums payable hereunder by the Issuer including, but
not limited to, fees and expenses due to the
Indenture Trustee; and
(C) the Issuer has delivered to the Indenture Trustee an
Officer's Certificate, an Opinion of Counsel and (if
required by the TIA or the Indenture Trustee) an
Independent Certificate from a firm of certified
public accountants, each meeting the applicable
requirements of Section 11.01(a) and, subject to
Section 11.02, each stating that all conditions
precedent herein provided for relating to the
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have
been complied with.
SECTION 4.02. Application of Trust Money. All moneys deposited with
the Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section 4.01 hereof shall be held in trust and
applied by it in accordance with the provisions of the Notes and this Indenture
to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent, as the Indenture
Trustee may determine, to the Holders of the particular Notes for the payment or
redemption of which such moneys have been deposited with the Indenture Trustee,
of all sums due and to become due thereon for principal and interest; but such
moneys need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required
herein, in the Sale and Servicing Agreement or by law.
SECTION 4.03. Repayment of Moneys Held by Paying Agent. In connection
with the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect to the Notes,
all moneys then held by any Paying Agent other than the Indenture Trustee under
the provisions of this Indenture with respect to such Notes shall, upon written
demand of the Issuer, be paid to the Indenture Trustee to be held and applied
according to Section 3.03; and thereupon, such Paying Agent shall be released
from all further liability with respect to such moneys.
SECTION 4.04. Release of Collateral. Subject to Section 11.01 and the
terms of the Basic Documents, the Indenture Trustee shall release property from
the lien of this Indenture only upon receipt by it of an Issuer Request
accompanied by an Officer's Certificate, an Opinion of Counsel and Independent
Certificates in accordance with TIA xx.xx. 314(c) and 314(d)(1) or an Opinion of
Counsel in lieu of such Independent Certificates to the effect that the TIA does
not require any such Independent Certificates.
ARTICLE V.
REMEDIES
SECTION 5.01. Events of Default. "Event of Default", wherever used
herein, 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
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):
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(i) default in the payment of any interest on any Note of the
Controlling Class when the same becomes due and payable, and such default shall
continue for a period of five days;
(ii) default in the payment of the principal of or any installment of
the principal of any Note when the same becomes due and payable;
(iii) default in the observance or performance of any representation,
warranty, covenant or agreement of the Issuer made in this Indenture (other than
a covenant or agreement, a default in the observance or performance of which is
elsewhere in this Section specifically dealt with) or in any certificate or
other writing delivered pursuant hereto or in connection herewith proving to
have been incorrect in any material respect as of the time when the same shall
have been made, and such default shall continue or not be cured, or the
circumstance or condition in respect of which such misrepresentation or warranty
was incorrect shall not have been eliminated or otherwise cured, for a period of
30 days after there shall have been given, by registered or certified mail, to
the Issuer by the Indenture Trustee or to the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee
by the Holders of at least 25% of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling
Class of Notes, a written notice specifying such default or incorrect
representation or warranty and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such
notice is a notice of Default hereunder;
(iv) the filing of a decree or order for relief by a court having
jurisdiction in the premises in respect of the Issuer or any substantial part of
the Trust Estate in an involuntary case under any applicable federal or state
bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect, or the
appointment of a receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee,
sequestrator or similar official of the Issuer or for any substantial part of
the Trust Estate, or the ordering of the winding-up or liquidation of the
Issuer's affairs, and such decree or order shall remain unstayed and in effect
for a period of 60 consecutive days; or
(v) the commencement by the Issuer of a voluntary case under any
applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or
hereafter in effect, or the consent by the Issuer to the entry of an order for
relief in an involuntary case under any such law, or the consent by the Issuer
to the appointment of or taking of possession by a receiver, liquidator,
assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator or similar official of the Issuer or
for any substantial part of the Trust Estate, or the making by the Issuer of any
general assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the failure by the Issuer
generally to pay its debts as such debts become due, or the taking of any action
by the Issuer in furtherance of any of the foregoing.
The Issuer shall promptly deliver to the Indenture Trustee written notice in the
form of an Officer's Certificate of any event that with the giving of notice and
the lapse of time would become an Event of Default under clause (iii), its
status and what action the Issuer is taking or proposes to take with respect
thereto.
SECTION 5.02. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment.
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(a) If an Event of Default shall occur and be continuing, then and in
every such case the Indenture Trustee may or the Indenture Trustee as directed
in writing by the Holders of Notes representing not less than a majority of the
Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class of Notes shall declare all the Notes
to be then immediately due and payable, by a notice in writing to the Issuer
(and to the Indenture Trustee if given by Noteholders), and upon any such
declaration the Outstanding Amount of such Notes, together with accrued and
unpaid interest thereon through the date of acceleration, shall become
immediately due and payable.
(b) If an Event of Default under this Indenture shall have occurred,
the Indenture Trustee in its discretion may, or if so requested in writing by
Holders of Notes representing at least a majority of the Outstanding Amount of
the Controlling Class of Notes, shall, declare by written notice to the Issuer
all of the Notes to be immediately due and payable, and upon any such
declaration, the Outstanding Amount of the Notes, together with accrued interest
thereon through the date of acceleration, shall become immediately due and
payable as provided in the Notes set forth in Exhibit X-0, Xxxxxxx X-0, Exhibit
X-0, Xxxxxxx X-0 and Exhibit A-5. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in
this paragraph (b), if an Event of Default specified in clauses (iv) or (v) of
Section 5.01 shall have occurred and be continuing the Notes shall become
immediately due and payable at par, together with accrued interest thereon.
(c) At any time after such declaration of acceleration of maturity
has been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due has
been obtained by the Indenture Trustee as hereinafter in this Article V
provided, the Holders of Notes representing a majority of the Outstanding Amount
of the Controlling Class of Notes, by written notice to the Issuer and the
Indenture Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences
if:
(i) the Issuer has paid or deposited with the Indenture Trustee a sum
sufficient to pay:
A. all payments of principal of and interest on the Notes and all
other amounts that would then be due hereunder or upon such Notes if the Event
of Default giving rise to such acceleration had not occurred; and
B. all sums paid by the Indenture Trustee hereunder and the
reasonable compensation, expenses and disbursements of the Indenture Trustee and
its agents and counsel and the reasonable compensation, expenses and
disbursements of the Owner Trustee and its agents and counsel; and
(ii) all Events of Default, other than the nonpayment of the
principal of the Notes that has become due solely by such acceleration, have
been cured or waived as provided in Section 5.12.
No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right
consequent thereto.
SECTION 5.03. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by
Indenture Trustee.
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(a) The Issuer covenants that if (i) a default is made in the payment
of any interest on any Note when the same becomes due and payable, and such
default continues for a period of five days or, (ii) default is made in the
payment of the principal of or any installment of the principal of any Note when
the same becomes due and payable, the Issuer will, upon demand of the Indenture
Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes, the entire
amount then due and payable on such Notes in respect of principal and interest,
with interest on the overdue principal and, to the extent payment at such rate
of interest shall be legally enforceable, on overdue installments of interest at
the related Interest Rate and, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall
be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the
reasonable compensation, expenses and disbursements of the Indenture Trustee and
its agents and counsel.
(b) In case the Issuer shall fail forthwith to pay such amounts upon
such demand, the Indenture Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express
trust, may institute a Proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and
unpaid, and may prosecute such Proceeding to judgment or final decree, and may
enforce the same against the Issuer or other obligor on such Notes and collect
in the manner provided by law out of the Trust Estate or the property of any
other obligor on such Notes, wherever situated, the moneys adjudged or decreed
to be payable.
(c) If an Event of Default occurs, the Indenture Trustee may, as more
particularly provided in Section 5.04, in its discretion or shall at the
directions of the Holders of at least a majority of the Outstanding Amount of
the Controlling Class of Notes proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the
rights of the Noteholders, by such appropriate Proceedings as the Indenture
Trustee or the Indenture Trustee at the direction of the Holders of at least a
majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class of Notes shall
reasonably deem most effective 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 or legal or equitable right vested in the Indenture Trustee by
this Indenture or by law.
(d) In case there shall be pending, relative to the Issuer or any
other obligor on the Notes or any Person having or claiming an ownership
interest in the Trust Estate, Proceedings under Title 11 of the United States
Code or any other applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other
similar law, or in case a receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or
reorganization, or liquidator, sequestrator or similar official shall have been
appointed for or taken possession of the Issuer or its property or such other
obligor or Person, or in case of any other comparable Proceedings relative to
the Issuer or other obligor on the Notes, or to the creditors or property of the
Issuer or such other obligor, the Indenture Trustee, irrespective of whether the
principal of any Notes shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by
declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Indenture Trustee shall
have made any demand pursuant to the provisions of this Section, shall be
entitled and empowered, by intervention in such Proceedings or otherwise:
(i) to file and prove a claim or claims for the entire amount of
principal and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the Notes and to file such
other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the
claims of the Indenture Trustee (including any claim for reasonable compensation
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to the Indenture Trustee and each predecessor Indenture Trustee, and their
respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and for reimbursement of reasonable
out-of-pocket expenses and liabilities incurred, by the Indenture Trustee and
each predecessor Indenture Trustee, except as a result of negligence or bad
faith) and of the Noteholders allowed in such Proceedings;
(ii) unless prohibited by applicable law or regulation, to vote on
behalf of the Holders of Notes in any election of a trustee, a standby trustee
or a Person performing similar functions in any such Proceedings;
(iii) to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or
deliverable on any such claims and to distribute all amounts received with
respect to the claims of the Noteholders and of the Indenture Trustee on their
behalf; and
(iv) to file such proofs of claim and other papers or documents as
may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Indenture
Trustee or the Holders of Notes allowed in any Proceedings relative to the
Issuer, its creditors or its property;
and any trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official in
any such Proceeding is hereby authorized by each of such Noteholders to make
payments to the Indenture Trustee and, in the event that the Indenture Trustee
shall consent to the making of payments directly to such Noteholders, to pay to
the Indenture Trustee such amounts as shall be sufficient to cover reasonable
compensation to the Indenture Trustee, each predecessor Indenture Trustee and
their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and all other expenses and
liabilities incurred by the Indenture Trustee and each predecessor Indenture
Trustee except as a result of negligence or bad faith.
(e) Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the
Indenture Trustee to authorize or consent to or vote for or accept or adopt on
behalf of any Noteholder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or
composition affecting the Notes or the rights of any Holder thereof or to
authorize the Indenture Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any
Noteholder in any such proceeding except, as aforesaid, to vote for the election
of a trustee in bankruptcy or similar Person.
(f) All rights of action and of asserting claims under this
Indenture, or under any of the Notes, may be enforced by the Indenture Trustee
without the possession of any of the Notes or the production thereof in any
Proceedings relative thereto, and any such Proceedings instituted by the
Indenture Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express
trust, and any recovery of judgment, subject to the payment of the expenses,
disbursements and compensation of the Indenture Trustee, each predecessor
Indenture Trustee and their respective agents and attorneys, shall be for the
ratable benefit of the Holders of the Notes.
(g) In any Proceedings brought by the Indenture Trustee (and also any
Proceedings involving the interpretation of any provision of this Indenture to
which the Indenture Trustee shall be a party), the Indenture Trustee shall be
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held to represent all the Holders of the Notes, and it shall not be necessary to
make any Noteholder a party to any such Proceedings.
SECTION 5.04. Remedies; Priorities.
(a) If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the
Indenture Trustee may do one or more of the following (subject to Section 5.05):
(i) institute Proceedings in its own name and as trustee of an
express trust for the collection of all amounts then payable on the Notes or
under this Indenture with respect thereto, whether by declaration or otherwise,
enforce any judgment obtained and collect from the Issuer and any other obligor
on such Notes moneys adjudged due;
(ii) institute Proceedings from time to time for the complete or
partial foreclosure of this Indenture with respect to the Trust Estate;
(iii) exercise any remedies of a secured party under the UCC and take
any other appropriate action to protect and enforce the rights and remedies of
the Indenture Trustee and the Holders of the Notes; and
(iv) sell the Trust Estate or any portion thereof or rights or
interest therein, at one or more public or private sales called and conducted in
any manner permitted by law;
provided that Indenture Trustee may not sell or otherwise liquidate the Trust
Estate following an Event of Default unless:
(A) the Event of Default is of the type described in Section 5.01(i)
or (ii); or
(B) with respect to an Event of Default described in Section 5.01
(iii);
(i) the Noteholders of all Outstanding Notes consent thereto; or
(ii) the proceeds of such sale or liquidation are sufficient to pay
in full the principal of and accrued interest on the Outstanding Notes.
(C) with respect to any Event of Default described in Section 5.01
(iv) and (v):
(i) the Noteholders of Notes evidencing 100% of the principal amount
of the Controlling Class consent thereto; or
(ii) the proceeds of such sale or liquidation are sufficient to pay
in full the principal of and the accrued interest on the Outstanding Notes; or
(iii) the Indenture Trustee
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(x) determines (but shall have no obligation to make such
determination) that the Trust Estate will not continue to
provide sufficient funds for the payment of principal of and
interest on the Notes as they would have become due if the
Notes had not been declared due and payable; and
(y) the Indenture Trustee obtains the consent of Noteholders
of Notes evidencing not less than 66 2/3% of the principal
amount of the Controlling Class; or
In determining such sufficiency or insufficiency with respect to clause (B)(ii)
and (C)(ii) or (C)(iii)(x), Indenture Trustee may, but need not, obtain at the
Issuer's expense, and rely upon an opinion of an Independent investment banking
or accounting firm of national reputation as to the feasibility of such proposed
action and as to the sufficiency of the Trust Estate for such purpose.
(b) (i) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 8.02, following the
occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default specified in
Section 5.01(i), 5.01(ii), 5.01(iv), 5.01(v) which has resulted in an
acceleration of the Notes (or following the occurrence of any such event after
an Event of Default specified in Section 5.01(iii) has occurred and the Trust
Estate has been liquidated), if Indenture Trustee collects any money or
property, it shall pay out such money or property (and other amounts including
amounts held on deposit in the Reserve Account) held as Collateral for the
benefit of the Noteholders, net of liquidation costs associated with the sale of
the Trust Estate (inclusive of any amount owing to the Indenture Trustee under
Section 6.07), in the following order:
FIRST: to the Servicer for due and unpaid Servicing Fees;
SECOND: to Class A Noteholders for amounts due and unpaid on
the Class A Notes in respect of interest, ratably, without
preference or priority of any kind, according to the amounts
due and payable on the Class A Notes in respect of interest;
THIRD: to Holders of the Class A-1 Notes for amounts due and
unpaid on the Class A-1 Notes in respect of principal,
ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according
to the amounts due and payable on the Class A-1 Notes in
respect of principal, until the Outstanding Amount of the
Class A-1 Notes is reduced to zero;
FOURTH: to Holders of the Class A-2 Notes, Class A-3 Notes and
Class A-4 Notes for amounts due and unpaid on the Class A-2
Notes, Class A-3 Notes and Class A-4 Notes in respect of
principal, ratably, without preference or priority of any
kind, according to the amounts due and payable on the Class
A-2 Notes, Class A-3 Notes and Class A-4 Notes in respect of
principal, until the Outstanding Amount of the Class A-2
Notes, Class A-3 Notes and Class A-4 Notes is reduced to zero;
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FIFTH: to Holders of the Class B Notes for amounts due and
unpaid on the Class B Notes in respect of interest, ratably,
without preference or priority of any kind, according to the
amounts due and payable on the Class B Notes in respect of
interest;
SIXTH: to Holders of the Class B Notes for amounts due and
unpaid on the Class B Notes in respect of principal, ratably,
without preference or priority of any kind, according to the
amounts due and payable on the Class B Notes in respect of
principal, until the Outstanding Amount of the Class B Notes
is reduced to zero;
SEVENTH: to the Indenture Trustee, any amounts due under
Section 6.07; and
EIGHTH: to the Certificate Distribution Account, for
distribution to the Certificateholders.
The Indenture Trustee may fix a record date and payment date for any payment to
Noteholders pursuant to this Section. At least 15 days before such record date,
the Issuer shall mail to each Noteholder and the Indenture Trustee a notice that
states the record date, the payment date and the amount to be paid.
(ii) Except as provided in Section 5.04(b)(i), the Indenture Trustee
shall make all payments and distributions of the Trust Estate in accordance with
Section 8.02.
SECTION 5.05. Optional Preservation of the Receivables. If the Notes
have been declared to be due and payable under Section 5.02 following an Event
of Default, and such declaration and its consequences have not been rescinded
and annulled, the Indenture Trustee may, but need not, elect to maintain
possession of the Trust Estate. It is the desire of the parties hereto and the
Noteholders that there be at all times sufficient funds for the payment of
principal of and interest on the Notes, and the Indenture Trustee shall take
such desire into account when determining whether or not to maintain possession
of the Trust Estate. In determining whether or not to maintain possession of the
Trust Estate, the Indenture Trustee may, at the expense of the Issuer and paid
in the priority set forth in Section 5.06(b) of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement, but need not, obtain and conclusively rely upon an opinion of an
Independent investment banking or accounting firm of national reputation as to
the feasibility of such proposed action and as to the sufficiency of the Trust
Estate for such purpose.
SECTION 5.06. Limitation of Suits. No Holder of any Note 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:
(i) such Holder has previously given written notice to the Indenture
Trustee of a continuing Event of Default;
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(ii) the Holders of not less than 25% of the Outstanding Amount of
the Controlling Class of Notes have made written request to the Indenture
Trustee to institute such Proceeding in respect of such Event of Default in its
own name as Indenture Trustee hereunder;
(iii) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Indenture Trustee
reasonable indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities that may be
incurred in complying with such request;
(iv) the Indenture Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such
notice, request and offer of indemnity has failed to institute such Proceedings;
and
(v) no direction inconsistent with such written request has been
given to the Indenture Trustee during such 60 day period by the Holders of a
majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class of Notes.
It is understood and intended that no one or more Holders of Notes shall have
any right in any manner whatsoever by virtue of, or by availing of, any
provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any
other Holders of Notes or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference
over any other Holders or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in
the manner herein provided.
In the event the Indenture Trustee shall receive conflicting or
inconsistent requests and indemnity from two or more groups of Holders of Notes
pursuant to this Section, each representing less than a majority of the
Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class of Notes, the Indenture Trustee
shall act at the direction of the group representing the greater percentage of
the Outstanding Amount of Notes and if there is no such group then in its sole
discretion may determine what action, if any, shall be taken, notwithstanding
any other provisions of this Indenture.
SECTION 5.07. Unconditional Rights of Noteholders To Receive
Principal and Interest. Notwithstanding any other provisions in this Indenture,
the Holder of any Note shall have the right, which is absolute and
unconditional, to receive payment of the principal of and interest, if any, on
such Note on or after the respective due dates thereof expressed in such Note or
in this Indenture (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption
Date) and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, and such
right shall not be impaired without the consent of such Holder.
SECTION 5.08. Restoration of Rights and Remedies. If the Indenture
Trustee or any Noteholder 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 Indenture
Trustee or to such Noteholder, then and in every such case the Issuer, the
Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders shall, subject to any determination in
such Proceeding, be restored severally and respectively to their former
positions hereunder, and thereafter all rights and remedies of the Indenture
Trustee and the Noteholders shall continue as though no such Proceeding had been
instituted.
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SECTION 5.09. Rights and Remedies Cumulative. No right or remedy
herein conferred upon or reserved to the Indenture Trustee or to the Noteholders
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 5.10. Delay or Omission Not a Waiver. No delay or omission of
the Indenture Trustee, or any Holder of any Note to exercise any right or remedy
accruing upon any Default or Event of Default shall impair any such right or
remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Default or Event of Default or an
acquiescence therein. Every right and remedy given by this Article V or by law
to the Indenture Trustee or to the Noteholders may be exercised from time to
time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Indenture Trustee or the
Noteholders, as the case may be.
SECTION 5.11. Control by the Controlling Class of Noteholders. The
Holders of a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class of
Notes shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting
any Proceeding for any remedy available to the Indenture Trustee with respect to
the Notes or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Indenture Trustee;
provided that:
(i) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or
with this Indenture;
(ii) subject to the express terms of Section 5.04, any direction to
the Indenture Trustee to sell or liquidate the Trust Estate shall be by Holders
of Notes representing not less than 100% of the Outstanding Amount of the
Controlling Class of Notes;
(iii) if the conditions set forth in Section 5.05 have been satisfied
and the Indenture Trustee elects to retain the Trust Estate pursuant to such
Section, then any written direction to the Indenture Trustee by Holders of Notes
representing less than 100% of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes to sell or
liquidate the Trust Estate shall be of no force and effect; and
(iv) the Indenture Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by
the Indenture Trustee that is not inconsistent with such direction.
Notwithstanding the rights of Noteholders set forth in this Section, subject to
Section 6.01, the Indenture Trustee need not take any action that it determines
might involve it in liability or might materially adversely affect the rights of
any Noteholders not consenting to such action.
SECTION 5.12. Waiver of Past Defaults. Prior to the declaration of
the acceleration of the maturity of the Notes as provided in Section 5.02, the
Holders of Notes of not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the
Controlling Class of Notes may, waive any past Default or Event of Default and
its consequences except a Default (a) in payment of principal of or interest on
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any of the Notes or (b) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof that cannot
be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each Note. In the
case of any such waiver, the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Holders of
the Notes shall be restored to their former positions and rights hereunder,
respectively; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default
or impair any right consequent thereto.
Upon any such waiver, such Default shall cease to exist and be deemed
to have been cured and not to have occurred, and any Event of Default arising
therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured and not to have occurred, for every
purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or
other Default or Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereto.
SECTION 5.13. Undertaking for Costs. All parties to this Indenture
agree, and each Holder of a Note by such Holder's acceptance thereof shall be
deemed to have agreed, that any court may in its discretion require, in any suit
for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit
against the Indenture Trustee for any action taken, suffered or omitted by it as
Indenture 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 (a) any suit instituted by the
Indenture Trustee, (b) any suit instituted by any Noteholder, or group of
Noteholders, in each case holding in the aggregate more than 10% of the
Outstanding Amount of the Notes (or in the case of a right or remedy under this
Indenture which is instituted by the Controlling Class, more than 10% of the
Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class) or (c) any suit instituted by any
Noteholder for the enforcement of the payment of principal of or interest on any
Note on or after the respective due dates expressed in such Note and in this
Indenture (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date).
SECTION 5.14. Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws. The Issuer 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, that may affect the covenants or the performance of this
Indenture; and the Issuer (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 Indenture Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such
power as though no such law had been enacted.
SECTION 5.15. Action on Notes. The Indenture Trustee's right to seek
and recover judgment on the Notes or under this Indenture shall not be affected
by the seeking, obtaining or application of any other relief under or with
respect to this Indenture. Neither the lien of this Indenture nor any rights or
remedies of the Indenture Trustee or the Noteholders shall be impaired by the
recovery of any judgment by the Indenture Trustee against the Issuer or by the
levy of any execution under such judgment upon any portion of the Trust Estate
or upon any of the assets of the Issuer. Any money or property collected by the
Indenture Trustee shall be applied in accordance with Section 5.04(b).
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SECTION 5.16. Performance and Enforcement of Certain Obligations.
(a) Promptly following a request from the Indenture Trustee to do so
and at the Administrator's expense, the Issuer shall take all such lawful action
as the Indenture Trustee may request to compel or secure the performance and
observance by the Seller or the Servicer, as applicable, of each of their
obligations to the Issuer under or in connection with the Sale and Servicing
Agreement or the Receivables Purchase Agreement, as applicable, and to exercise
any and all rights, remedies, powers and privileges lawfully available to the
Issuer under or in connection with the Sale and Servicing Agreement or the
Receivables Purchase Agreement to the extent and in the manner directed by the
Indenture Trustee, including the transmission of notices of default on the part
of either Seller or the Servicer thereunder and the institution of legal or
administrative actions or proceedings to compel or secure performance by the
Seller or the Servicer of each of their obligations under the Sale and Servicing
Agreement or the Receivables Purchase Agreement; provided, however, nothing
herein shall in any way impose on the Indenture Trustee the duty to monitor the
performance of the Seller or the Servicer of any of their liabilities, duties or
obligations under any Basic Document.
(b) If an Event of Default has occurred, the Indenture Trustee may,
and at the direction (which direction shall be in writing) of the Holders of not
less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class of Notes
shall, exercise all rights, remedies, powers, privileges and claims of the
Issuer against the Seller or the Servicer under or in connection with the Sale
and Servicing Agreement and the Receivables Purchase Agreement including the
right or power to take any action to compel or secure performance or observance
by the Seller or the Servicer, as the case may be, of each of their obligations
to the Issuer thereunder and to give any consent, request, notice, direction,
approval, extension or waiver under the Sale and Servicing Agreement and the
Receivables Purchase Agreement, as the case may be, and any right of the Issuer
to take such action shall be suspended.
ARTICLE VI.
THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE
SECTION 6.01. Duties of Indenture Trustee.
(a) If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing of which a
Responsible Officer of the Indenture Trustee has actual knowledge, the Indenture
Trustee shall exercise 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 person
would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of such person's
own affairs.
(b) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default:
(i) the Indenture 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 Indenture
Trustee; and
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(ii) in the absence of bad faith or negligence on its part, the
Indenture Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and
the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon the face value of the
certificates, reports, resolutions, documents, orders, opinions or other
instruments furnished to the Indenture Trustee and conforming to the
requirements of this Indenture; provided, however, that the Indenture Trustee
shall not be responsible for the accuracy or content of any such resolution,
certificate, statement, opinion, report, document, order or other instrument;
however, the Indenture Trustee shall examine the certificates and opinions to
determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of this Indenture. If
any such instrument is found not to conform in any material respect to the
requirements of this Agreement, the Indenture Trustee shall notify the
Noteholders of such instrument in the event that the Indenture Trustee, after so
requesting, does not receive a satisfactorily corrected instrument.
(c) The Indenture Trustee may not be relieved from liability for its
own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act or its own willful
misconduct, except that:
(i) this paragraph does not limit the effect of paragraph (b) of this
Section;
(ii) the Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for any error of
judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer unless it is proved that
the Indenture Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts; and
(iii) the Indenture Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any
action it takes or omits to take in good faith in accordance with a direction
received by it pursuant to the terms of this Indenture or any other Basic
Documents.
(d) Every provision of this Indenture that in any way relates to the
Indenture Trustee is subject to paragraphs (a), (b), (c) and (g) of this
Section.
(e) The Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for indebtedness
evidenced by or arising under any of the Basic Documents, including principal of
or interest on the Notes, or interest on any money received by it except as the
Indenture Trustee may agree in writing with the Issuer.
(f) Money held in trust by the Indenture Trustee need not be
segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law or the terms of
this Indenture or the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
(g) No provision of this Indenture shall require the Indenture
Trustee to advance, expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur 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 to believe
that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or
liability is not reasonably assured to it.
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(h) Every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct or
affecting the liability of or affording protection to the Indenture Trustee
shall be subject to the provisions of this Section and to the provisions of the
TIA. (i) In no event shall the Indenture Trustee be required to perform, or be
responsible for the manner of performance of, any of the obligations of the
Servicer or any other party under the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
(j) The Indenture Trustee shall have no duty (A) to see to any
recording, filing, or depositing of this Indenture or any agreement referred to
herein or any financing statement or continuation statement evidencing a
security interest, or to see to the maintenance of any such recording or filing
or depositing or to any rerecording, refiling or redepositing of any thereof,
(B) to see to any insurance, or (C) to see to the payment or discharge of any
tax, assessment, or other governmental charge or any lien or encumbrance of any
kind owing with respect to, assessed or levied against, any part of the Trust
Fund.
For purposes of this Section 6.01 and Section 8.03(c), the Indenture
Trustee, or a Responsible Officer thereof, shall be charged with actual
knowledge of any default or an Event of Default if a Responsible Officer
actually knows of such default or Event of Default or the Indenture Trustee
receives written notice of such default or Event of Default from the Issuer, the
Servicer or Noteholders owning Notes aggregating not less than 10% of the
Outstanding Amount of the Notes. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Indenture
Trustee shall not be required to take notice and in the absence of such actual
notice and knowledge, the Indenture Trustee may conclusively assume that there
is no such default or Event of Default.
SECTION 6.02. Rights of Indenture Trustee.
(a) The Indenture Trustee may conclusively rely on the face value of
any document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented
by the proper person. The Indenture Trustee need not investigate any fact or
matter stated in the document.
(b) Before the Indenture Trustee acts or refrains from acting, it may
require an Officer's Certificate or an Opinion of Counsel from the appropriate
party. The Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or
omits to take in good faith in reliance on an Officer's Certificate or Opinion
of Counsel from the appropriate party. The right of the Indenture Trustee to
perform any discretionary act enumerated in this Indenture or in any Basic
Document shall not be construed as a duty of the Indenture Trustee and the
Indenture Trustee shall not be answerable for other than its negligence or
willful misconduct in the performance of such discretionary act.
(c) The Indenture Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers
hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through
agents or attorneys or a custodian or nominee and the Indenture Trustee shall
not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any such
agent, attorney or custodian appointed by the Indenture Trustee with due care.
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(d) The Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes
or omits to take in good faith that it believes to be authorized or within its
rights or powers; provided, that the Indenture Trustee's conduct does not
constitute willful misconduct, negligence or bad faith.
(e) The Indenture Trustee may consult, at the Issuer's expense and
paid in the priority set forth in Section 5.06(b) of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement, with counsel, and the written advice or opinion of counsel with
respect to legal matters relating to this Indenture and the Notes shall be full
and complete authorization and protection from liability in respect to any
action taken, omitted or suffered by it hereunder in good faith and in
accordance with the advice or opinion of such counsel.
(f) In the event that the Indenture Trustee is also acting as Paying
Agent, Note Registrar or collateral agent, the rights and protections afforded
to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Article 6 shall be afforded to such
Paying Agent, Note Registrar or collateral agent.
(g) The Indenture Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise
any of the trusts or powers vested in it by this Indenture or to institute,
conduct or defend any litigation hereunder or in relation hereto at the request,
order or direction of any of the Noteholders, pursuant to the provisions of this
Indenture, unless such Noteholders shall have offered to the Indenture Trustee
reasonable security or indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities
which may be incurred therein or thereby;
(h) The right of the Indenture Trustee to perform any discretionary
act enumerated in this Indenture shall not be construed as a duty, and the
Indenture Trustee shall not be answerable for other than its negligence or
willful misconduct in the performance of such act; and
(i) The Indenture Trustee shall not be required to give any bond or
surety in respect of the powers granted hereunder.
SECTION 6.03. Individual Rights of Indenture Trustee. The Indenture
Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee
of Notes and may otherwise deal with the Issuer or its Affiliates with the same
rights it would have if it were not Indenture Trustee. Any Paying Agent, Note
Registrar, co-registrar or co-paying agent may do the same with like rights.
However, the Indenture Trustee must comply with Sections 6.11 and 6.12.
SECTION 6.04. Indenture Trustee's Disclaimer. The Indenture Trustee
shall not be responsible for and makes no representation as to the validity or
adequacy of this Indenture, the Trust Estate or the Notes, it shall not be
accountable for the Issuer's use of the proceeds from the Notes, and it shall
not be responsible for any statement of the Issuer in the Indenture, any Basic
Document or in any document issued in connection with the sale of the Notes or
in the Notes other than the Indenture Trustee's certificate of authentication.
SECTION 6.05. Notice of Defaults. If a Default occurs and is
continuing and if it is actually known to a Responsible Officer of the Indenture
Trustee, the Indenture Trustee shall mail to each Noteholder notice of the
Default within 30 days after it occurs. Except in the case of a Default in
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payment of principal of or interest on any Note (including payments pursuant to
the mandatory redemption provisions of such Note), the Indenture Trustee may
withhold the notice to Noteholders if and so long as a committee of its
Responsible Officers in good faith determines that withholding the notice is in
the interests of Noteholders.
SECTION 6.06. Reports by Indenture Trustee to Holders. The Indenture
Trustee shall deliver to each Noteholder such information as may be required to
enable such holder to prepare its federal and state income tax returns.
SECTION 6.07. Compensation and Indemnity. The Issuer shall cause the
Servicer to pay to the Indenture Trustee from time to time reasonable
compensation for its services. The Indenture Trustee's compensation shall not be
limited by any law on compensation of a trustee of an express trust. The Issuer
shall cause the Administrator to reimburse the Indenture Trustee for all
reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred or made by it, including costs of
collection, in addition to the compensation for its services. Such expenses
shall include the reasonable out-of-pocket compensation and expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Indenture Trustee's agents, counsel,
accountants and experts. The Issuer shall cause the Administrator to indemnify
the Indenture Trustee against any and all loss, liability or expense (including
attorneys' fees and expenses) incurred by it in connection with the
administration of this trust and the performance of its duties hereunder or
under the Sale and Servicing Agreement or under any other Basic Document. The
Indenture Trustee shall notify the Issuer and the Administrator promptly of any
claim for which it may seek indemnity. Failure by the Indenture Trustee to so
notify the Issuer and the Administrator shall not relieve the Issuer or the
Administrator of its obligations hereunder if no prejudice to the Issuer or the
Administrator shall have resulted from such failure. The Issuer shall, or shall
cause the Administrator to, defend any such claim, and the Indenture Trustee may
have separate counsel and the Issuer shall, or shall cause the Administrator to,
pay the fees and expenses of such counsel. Neither the Issuer nor the
Administrator need reimburse any expense or indemnify against any loss,
liability or expense incurred by the Indenture Trustee through the Indenture
Trustee's own willful misconduct, negligence or bad faith.
The Issuer's payment obligations to the Indenture Trustee and the
Administrator's indemnities to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Section
shall survive the discharge of this Indenture or the earlier resignation or
removal of the Indenture Trustee. When the Indenture Trustee incurs expenses
after the occurrence of a Default specified in Section 5.01(iv) or (v) with
respect to the Issuer, the expenses are intended to constitute expenses of
administration under Title 11 of the United States Code or any other applicable
federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law.
SECTION 6.08. Replacement of Indenture Trustee. No resignation or
removal of the Indenture Trustee and no appointment of a successor Indenture
Trustee shall become effective until the acceptance of appointment by the
successor Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Section 6.08. The Indenture Trustee
may resign at any time by so notifying the Issuer and each Rating Agency. The
Holders of a majority in Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class of Notes
may remove the Indenture Trustee by notifying the Indenture Trustee if:
(i) the Indenture Trustee fails to comply with Section 6.11;
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(ii) the Indenture Trustee is adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent;
(iii) a receiver or other public officer takes charge of the
Indenture Trustee or its property;
(iv) the Indenture Trustee otherwise becomes incapable of acting; or
(v) the Indenture Trustee breaches any representation, warranty or
covenant made by it under any Basic Document.
If the Indenture Trustee resigns or is removed or if a vacancy exists in the
office of Indenture Trustee for any reason (the Indenture Trustee in such event
being referred to herein as the retiring Indenture Trustee), the Issuer shall
promptly appoint a successor Indenture Trustee.
A successor Indenture Trustee shall deliver a written acceptance of
its appointment to the retiring Indenture Trustee and to the Issuer. Thereupon
the resignation or removal of the retiring Indenture Trustee shall become
effective, and the successor Indenture Trustee shall have all the rights, powers
and duties of the Indenture Trustee under this Indenture. The retiring Indenture
Trustee shall be paid all amounts owed to it upon its resignation or removal.
The successor Indenture Trustee shall mail a notice of its succession to
Noteholders. The retiring Indenture Trustee shall promptly transfer all property
held by it as Indenture Trustee to the successor Indenture Trustee. The retiring
Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for the acts or omissions of any Successor
Indenture Trustee.
If a successor Indenture Trustee does not take office within 60 days
after the retiring Indenture Trustee resigns or is removed, the retiring
Indenture Trustee, the Issuer or the Holders of a majority in Outstanding Amount
of the Controlling Class of Notes may petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Indenture Trustee.
If the Indenture Trustee fails to comply with Section 6.11, any
Noteholder may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of
the Indenture Trustee and the appointment of a successor Indenture Trustee.
Notwithstanding the replacement of the Indenture Trustee pursuant to
this Section, the Issuer's and the Administrator's obligations under Section
6.07 shall continue for the benefit of the retiring Indenture Trustee.
SECTION 6.09. Successor Indenture Trustee by Merger. If the Indenture
Trustee consolidates with, merges or converts into, or transfers all or
substantially all its corporate trust business or assets to, another corporation
or banking association, the resulting, surviving or transferee corporation
without any further act shall be the successor Indenture Trustee; provided, that
such corporation or banking association shall be qualified and eligible under
Section 6.11. The Indenture Trustee shall provide the Rating Agencies notice of
any such transaction.
In case at the time such successor or successors by merger,
conversion or consolidation to the Indenture Trustee shall succeed to the trusts
created by this Indenture any of the Notes shall have been authenticated but not
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delivered, any such successor to the Indenture Trustee may adopt the certificate
of authentication of any predecessor trustee and deliver such Notes so
authenticated; and in case at that time any of the Notes shall not have been
authenticated, any successor to the Indenture Trustee may authenticate such
Notes either in the name of any predecessor hereunder or in the name of the
successor to the Indenture Trustee; and in all such cases such certificates
shall have the full force that it is anywhere in the Notes or in this Indenture
provided that the certificate of the Indenture Trustee shall have.
SECTION 6.10. Appointment of Co-Indenture Trustee or Separate
Indenture Trustee.
(a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture, at any
time, for the purpose of meeting any legal requirement of any jurisdiction in
which any part of the Trust Estate may at the time be located, the Indenture
Trustee shall have the power and may execute and deliver all instruments to
appoint one or more Persons to act as a co-trustee or co-trustees, or separate
trustee or separate trustees, of all or any part of the Trust, and to vest in
such Person or Persons, in such capacity and for the benefit of the Noteholders,
such title to the Trust Estate, or any part thereof, and, subject to the other
provisions of this Section, such powers, duties, obligations, rights and trusts
as the Indenture Trustee may consider necessary or desirable. No co-trustee or
separate trustee hereunder shall be required to meet the terms of eligibility as
a successor trustee under Section 6.11 and no notice to Noteholders of the
appointment of any co-trustee or separate trustee shall be required under
Section 6.08 hereof.
(b) Every separate trustee and co-trustee shall, to the extent
permitted by law, be appointed and act subject to the following provisions and
conditions:
(i) all rights, powers, duties and obligations conferred or imposed
upon the Indenture Trustee shall be conferred or imposed upon and exercised or
performed by the Indenture Trustee and such separate trustee or co-trustee
jointly (it being understood that such separate trustee or co-trustee is not
authorized to act separately without the Indenture Trustee joining in such act),
except to the extent that under any law of any jurisdiction in which any
particular act or acts are to be performed the Indenture Trustee shall be
incompetent or unqualified to perform such act or acts, in which event such
rights, powers, duties and obligations (including the holding of title to the
Trust Estate or any portion thereof in any such jurisdiction) shall be exercised
and performed singly by such separate trustee or co-trustee, but solely at the
direction of the Indenture Trustee;
(ii) no trustee hereunder shall be personally liable by reason of any
act or omission of any other trustee hereunder; and
(iii) the Indenture Trustee may at any time accept the resignation of
or remove any separate trustee or co-trustee.
(c) Any notice, request or other writing given to the Indenture
Trustee shall be deemed to have been given to each of the then separate trustees
and co-trustees, as effectively as if given to each of them. Every instrument
appointing any separate trustee or co-trustee shall refer to this Agreement and
the conditions of this Article VI. Each separate trustee and co-trustee, upon
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its acceptance of the trusts conferred, shall be vested with the estates or
property specified in its instrument of appointment, either jointly with the
Indenture Trustee or separately, as may be provided therein, subject to all the
provisions of this Indenture, specifically including every provision of this
Indenture relating to the conduct of, affecting the liability of, or affording
protection to, the Indenture Trustee. Every such instrument shall be filed with
the Indenture Trustee.
(d) Any separate trustee or co-trustee may at any time constitute the
Indenture Trustee, its agent or attorney-in-fact with full power and authority,
to the extent not prohibited by law, to do any lawful act under or in respect of
this Agreement on its behalf and in its name. If any separate trustee or
co-trustee shall die, become incapable of acting, resign or be removed, all of
its estates, properties, rights, remedies and trusts shall vest in and be
exercised by the Indenture Trustee, to the extent permitted by law, without the
appointment of a new or successor trustee.
SECTION 6.11. Eligibility; Disqualification. The Indenture Trustee
shall at all times satisfy the requirements of TIA ss. 310(a). The Indenture
Trustee shall have a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 as set
forth in its most recent published annual report of condition, and the time
deposits of the Indenture Trustee shall be rated at least A-1 by Standard &
Poor's and P-1 by Moody's. The Indenture Trustee shall comply with TIA ss.
310(b), including the optional provision permitted by the second sentence of TIA
ss. 310(b)(9); provided, however, that there shall be excluded from the
operation of TIA ss. 310(b)(1) any indenture or indentures under which other
securities of the Issuer are outstanding if the requirements for such exclusion
set forth in TIA ss. 310(b)(1) are met.
SECTION 6.12. [Reserved].
SECTION 6.13. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Issuer. The
Indenture Trustee shall comply with TIA ss. 311(a), excluding any creditor
relationship listed in TIA ss. 311(b). An Indenture Trustee who has resigned or
been removed shall be subject to TIA ss. 311(a) to the extent indicated.
SECTION 6.14. Waiver of Setoffs. The Indenture Trustee hereby
expressly waives any and all rights of setoff that the Indenture Trustee may
otherwise at any time have under applicable law with respect to any Trust
Account and agrees that amounts in the Trust Accounts shall at all times be held
and applied solely in accordance with the provisions hereof and of the other
Basic Documents.
ARTICLE VII.
NOTEHOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS
SECTION 7.01. Issuer To Furnish Indenture Trustee Names and Addresses
of Noteholders. The Issuer will furnish or cause to be furnished to the
Indenture Trustee (a) not more than five days after the earlier of (i) each
Record Date and (ii) three months after the last Record Date, a list, in such
form as the Indenture Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses
of the Holders of Notes as of such Record Date, and (b) at such other times as
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the Indenture Trustee may request in writing, within 30 days after receipt by
the Issuer of any such request, a list of similar form and content as of a date
not more than 10 days prior to the time such list is furnished; provided,
however, that so long as the Indenture Trustee is the Note Registrar, no such
list shall be required to be furnished.
SECTION 7.02. Preservation of Information; Communications to
Noteholders.
(a) The Indenture Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is
reasonably practicable, the names and addresses of the Holders of Notes
contained in the most recent list furnished to the Indenture Trustee as provided
in Section 7.01 and the names and addresses of Holders of Notes received by the
Indenture Trustee in its capacity as Note Registrar. The Indenture Trustee may
destroy any list furnished to it as provided in such Section 7.01 upon receipt
of a new list so furnished. The Indenture Trustee shall make such list available
to the Owner Trustee on written request, and to the Noteholders upon written
request of three or more Noteholders or one or more Noteholders evidencing not
less than 25% of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes. Upon receipt by the
Indenture Trustee of any request by a Noteholder to receive a copy of the
current list of Noteholders, the Indenture Trustee shall promptly notify the
Administrator thereof by providing to the Administrator a copy of such request
and a copy of the list of Noteholders in response thereto.
(b) Noteholders may communicate pursuant to TIA ss. 312(b) with other
Noteholders with respect to their rights under this Indenture or under the
Notes.
(c) The Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Note Registrar shall
have the protection of TIAss. 312(c).
SECTION 7.03. Reports by Issuer.
(a) The Issuer shall:
(i) file with the Indenture Trustee, within 15 days after the Issuer
is required (if at all) to file the same with the Commission, copies of the
annual reports and of the information, documents and other reports (or copies of
such portions of any of the foregoing as the Commission may from time to time by
rules and regulations prescribe) that the Issuer may be required to file with
the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act;
(ii) file with the Indenture Trustee and the Commission in accordance
with rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission such
additional information, documents and reports with respect to compliance by the
Issuer with the conditions and covenants of this Indenture as may be required
from time to time by such rules and regulations; and
(iii) supply to the Indenture Trustee (and the Indenture Trustee
shall transmit by mail to all Noteholders described in TIA ss. 313(c)) such
summaries of any information, documents and reports required to be filed by the
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Issuer pursuant to clauses (i) and (ii) of this Section 7.03(a) and by rules and
regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission.
(b) Unless the Issuer otherwise determines, the fiscal year of the
Issuer shall end on December 31 of each year.
SECTION 7.04. Reports by Indenture Trustee. If required by TIA ss.
313(a), within 60 days after each March 31 beginning with March 31, 2002, the
Indenture Trustee shall mail to each Noteholder as required by TIA ss. 313(c) a
brief report dated as of such date that complies with TIA ss. 313(a). The
Indenture Trustee also shall comply with TIA ss. 313(b).
A copy of each report at the time of its mailing to Noteholders shall
be filed by the Indenture Trustee with the Commission and each stock exchange,
if any, on which the Notes are listed. The Issuer shall notify the Indenture
Trustee if and when the Notes are listed on any stock exchange.
ARTICLE VIII.
ACCOUNTS, DISBURSEMENTS AND RELEASES
SECTION 8.01. Collection of Money. Except as otherwise expressly
provided herein, the Indenture Trustee may demand payment or delivery of, and
shall receive and collect, directly and without intervention or assistance of
any fiscal agent or other intermediary, all money and other property payable to
or receivable by the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Indenture. The Indenture
Trustee shall apply all such money received by it as provided in this Indenture.
Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Indenture, if any default occurs
in the making of any payment or performance under any agreement or instrument
that is part of the Trust Estate, the Indenture Trustee may take such action as
may be appropriate to enforce such payment or performance, including the
institution and prosecution of appropriate Proceedings. Any such action shall be
without prejudice to any right to claim a Default or Event of Default under this
Indenture and any right to proceed thereafter as provided in Article V.
SECTION 8.02. Trust Accounts.
(a) On or prior to the Closing Date, the Issuer shall cause the
Servicer to establish and maintain, in the name of the Indenture Trustee, for
the benefit of the Noteholders and, in the case of the Collection Account and
the Reserve Account, the Certificateholders, the Trust Accounts as provided in
Section 5.01 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
(b) On or before each Payment Date, the Issuer shall cause the
Servicer to deposit all Available Amounts with respect to the Collection Period
preceding such Payment Date in the Collection Account as provided in Section
5.02 and 5.04 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement. On or before each Deposit
Date, all amounts required to be withdrawn from the Reserve Account and
deposited in the Collection Account pursuant to Section 5.06 of the Sale and
Servicing Agreement shall be withdrawn by the Indenture Trustee from the Reserve
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Account and deposited to the Collection Account as provided therein, as to which
Issuer shall cause Servicer to timely provide the related instructions.
(c) On each Payment Date, the Indenture Trustee (based on the
information contained in the Servicer's report delivered on or before the
related Determination Date pursuant to Section 4.09 of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement) shall make the withdrawals from the Collection Account and make
deposits, distributions and payments, to the extent of funds on deposit in the
Collection Account with respect to the Collection Period preceding such Payment
Date (including funds, if any, deposited therein from the Reserve Account), in
accordance with the provisions of Section 5.06(b) of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement (as to which Issuer shall cause Servicer to timely provide the related
instructions).
(i) On each Payment Date, the Indenture Trustee (based on the
information contained in the Servicer's report delivered on or before the
related Determination Date pursuant to Section 4.09 of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement) shall withdraw the funds on deposit in the Interest Distribution
Account with respect to the Collection Period preceding such Distribution Date
and make distributions and payments in the following order of priority:
(A) first, to the Noteholders of Class A Notes, the accrued
and unpaid interest on the Class A Notes; provided that if
there are not sufficient funds available to pay the entire
amount of the accrued and unpaid interest on the Class A
Notes, the amounts available shall be applied to the payment
of such interest on the Class A Notes on a pro rata basis
based upon the amount of interest due on each Class of Class A
Notes; and
(B) second, to the Noteholders of Class B Notes, the accrued
and unpaid interest on the Class B Notes; provided that if
there are not sufficient funds available to pay the entire
amount of the accrued and unpaid interest on the Class B
Notes, the amounts available shall be applied to the payment
of such interest on the Class B Notes on a pro rata basis.
(d) On each Distribution Date, the Indenture Trustee (based on the
information contained in the Servicer's report delivered on or before the
related Determination Date pursuant to Section 4.09 of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement) shall withdraw the funds on deposit on the Principal Distribution
Account with respect to the Collection Period preceding such Distribution Date
and make distributions and payments in the following order of priority:
(i) first, to the Noteholders of the Class A-1 Notes in reduction of
principal until the principal amount of the Outstanding Class A-1 Notes has been
paid in full; provided that if there are not sufficient funds available to pay
the principal amount of the Outstanding Class A-1 Notes in full, the amounts
available shall be applied to the payment of principal on the Class A-1 Notes on
a pro rata basis;
(ii) second, to the Noteholders of the Class A-2 Notes in reduction
of principal until the principal amount of the Outstanding Class A-2 Notes has
been paid in full; provided that if there are not sufficient funds available to
pay the principal amount of the Outstanding Class A-2 Notes in full, the amounts
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available shall be applied to the payment of principal on the Class A-2 Notes on
a pro rata basis;
(iii) third, to the Noteholders of the Class A-3 Notes in reduction
of principal until the principal amount of the Outstanding Class A-3 Notes has
been paid in full; provided that if there are not sufficient funds available to
pay the principal amount of the Outstanding Class A-3 Notes in full, the amounts
available shall be applied to the payment of principal on the Class A-3 Notes on
a pro rata basis;
(iv) fourth, to the Noteholders of the Class A-4 Notes in reduction
of principal until the principal amount of the Outstanding Class A-4 Notes has
been paid in full; provided that if there are not sufficient funds available to
pay the principal amount of the Outstanding Class A-4 Notes in full, the amounts
available shall be applied to the payment of principal on the Class A-4 Notes on
a pro rata basis;
(v) fifth, to the Noteholders of the Class B Notes in reduction of
principal until the principal amount of the Outstanding Class B Notes has been
paid in full; provided that if there are not sufficient funds available to pay
the principal amount of the Outstanding Class B Notes in full, the amounts
available shall be applied to the payment of principal on the Class B Notes on a
pro rata basis; and
(vi) sixth, any remaining amounts, to the Certificate Distribution
Account.
SECTION 8.03. General Provisions Regarding Accounts. The Indenture
Trustee shall not in any way be held liable by reason of any insufficiency in
any of the Trust Accounts resulting from any loss on any Eligible Investment
included therein except for losses attributable to the Indenture Trustee's
failure to make payments on such Eligible Investments issued by the Indenture
Trustee, in its commercial capacity as principal obligor and not as trustee, in
accordance with their terms.
SECTION 8.04. Release of Trust Estate.
(a) Subject to the payment of its fees and expenses pursuant to
Section 6.07, the Indenture Trustee may, and when required by the provisions of
this Indenture shall, execute instruments to release property from the lien of
this Indenture, or convey the Indenture Trustee's interest in the same, in a
manner and under circumstances that are not inconsistent with the provisions of
this Indenture. No party relying upon an instrument executed by the Indenture
Trustee as provided in this Article VIII shall be bound to ascertain the
Indenture Trustee's authority, inquire into the satisfaction of any conditions
precedent or see to the application of any moneys.
(b) The Indenture Trustee shall, at such time as there are no Notes
Outstanding and all sums due the Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section 6.07 have
been paid in full, release any remaining portion of the Trust Estate that
secured the Notes from the lien of this Indenture and release to the Issuer or
any other Person entitled thereto any funds then on deposit in the Trust
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Accounts. The Indenture Trustee shall release property from the lien of this
Indenture pursuant to this Section 8.04(b) only upon receipt by it of an Issuer
Request accompanied by an Officer's Certificate, an Opinion of Counsel and (if
required by the TIA) Independent Certificates in accordance with TIA xx.xx.
314(c) and 314(d)(1) meeting the applicable requirements of Section 11.01.
(c) The Issuer agrees, upon request by the Servicer and
representation by the Servicer that it has complied with the procedure in
Section 9.01 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, to render the Issuer Request
to the Indenture Trustee in accordance with Section 4.04, and take such other
actions as are required in that Section.
SECTION 8.05. Opinion of Counsel. The Indenture Trustee shall receive
at least seven days prior written notice when requested by the Issuer to take
any action pursuant to Section 8.04(b), accompanied by copies of any instruments
involved, and the Indenture Trustee shall also require, as a condition to such
action, an Opinion of Counsel, in form and substance satisfactory to the
Indenture Trustee, stating the legal effect of any such action, outlining the
steps required to complete the same, and concluding that all conditions
precedent to the taking of such action have been complied with and such action
will not materially and adversely impair the security for the Notes or the
rights of the Noteholders in contravention of the provisions of this Indenture;
provided, however, that such Opinion of Counsel shall not be required to express
an opinion as to the fair value of the Trust Estate. Counsel rendering any such
opinion may rely, without independent investigation, on the accuracy and
validity of any certificate or other instrument delivered to the Indenture
Trustee in connection with any such action.
ARTICLE IX.
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
SECTION 9.01. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Noteholders.
(a) Without the consent of the Holders of any Notes but with prior
written notice to the Rating Agencies (with copy to the Indenture Trustee), the
Issuer and the Indenture Trustee, when authorized by an Issuer Order, at any
time and from time to time, may enter into one or more supplemental indentures
hereto (which shall conform to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act as in
force at the date of the execution thereof), in form satisfactory to the
Indenture Trustee, for any of the following purposes:
(i) to correct or amplify the description of any property at any time
subject to the lien of this Indenture, or better to assure, convey and confirm
unto the Indenture Trustee any property subject or required to be subjected to
the lien of this Indenture, or to subject to the lien of this Indenture
additional property;
(ii) to evidence the succession, in compliance with the applicable
provisions hereof, of another person to the Issuer, and the assumption by any
such successor of the covenants of the Issuer herein and in the Notes contained;
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(iii) to add to the covenants of the Issuer, for the benefit of the
Holders of the Notes, or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon
the Issuer; (iv) to convey, transfer, assign, mortgage or pledge any property to
or with the Indenture Trustee;
(v) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision
herein or in any supplemental indenture that may be inconsistent with any other
provision herein or in any supplemental indenture or to make any other
provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this Indenture or
in any supplemental indenture; provided, that such action shall not adversely
affect the interests of the Holders of the Notes;
(vi) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of the appointment
hereunder by a successor trustee with respect to the Notes and to add to or
change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to
facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one trustee,
pursuant to the requirements of Article VI; or
(vii) to modify, eliminate or add to the provisions of this Indenture
to such extent as shall be necessary to effect the qualification of this
Indenture under the TIA or under any similar federal statute hereafter enacted
and to add to this Indenture such other provisions as may be expressly required
by the TIA.
The Indenture Trustee is hereby authorized to join in the execution of any such
supplemental indenture and to make any further appropriate agreements and
stipulations that may be therein contained.
(b) The Issuer and the Indenture Trustee, when authorized by an
Issuer Order, may, also without the consent of any of the Holders of the Notes
but with prior notice to the Rating Agencies, 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 the Notes under this
Indenture; provided, however, that such action shall not, as evidenced by an
Opinion of Counsel, adversely affect in any material respect the interests of
any Noteholder provided further that such action shall not be deemed to
adversely affect in any material respect the interests of any Noteholder and no
Opinion of Counsel to that effect shall be required if the person requesting
such amendment obtains a letter from the Rating Agencies stating that the
amendment would not result in the downgrading or withdrawal of the ratings then
assigned to the Notes.
SECTION 9.02. Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Noteholders.
The Issuer and the Indenture Trustee, when authorized by an Issuer Order, also
may, with prior notice to the Rating Agencies and with the consent of the
Holders of not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes, by
Act of such Holders delivered to the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee, 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
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Holders of the Notes under this Indenture; provided, however, that no such
supplemental indenture shall, without the consent of the Holder of each
Outstanding Note affected thereby:
(i) change the date of payment of any installment of principal of or
interest on any Note, or reduce the principal amount thereof, the interest rate
thereon or the Redemption Price with respect thereto, change the provisions of
this Indenture relating to the application of collections on, or the proceeds of
the sale of, the Trust Estate to payment of principal of or interest on the
Notes, or change any place of payment where, or the coin or currency in which,
any Note or the interest thereon is payable, or impair the right to institute
suit for the enforcement of the provisions of this Indenture requiring the
application of funds available therefor, as provided in Article V, to the
payment of any such amount due on the Notes on or after the respective due dates
thereof (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date);
(ii) reduce the percentage of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes or
the Controlling Class, the consent of the Holders of which is required for any
such supplemental indenture, or the consent of the Holders of which 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;
(iii) modify or after (x) the provisions of the proviso as to the
definition of the term "Outstanding" or (y) the definition of Controlling Class;
(iv) reduce the percentage of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes or
the Controlling Class of Notes, as applicable, required to direct the Indenture
Trustee to direct the Issuer to sell or liquidate the Trust Estate pursuant to
Section 5.04;
(v) modify any provision of this Section except to increase any
percentage specified herein or to provide that certain additional provisions of
this Indenture or the Basic Documents cannot be modified or waived without the
consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Note affected thereby;
(vi) modify any of the provisions of this Indenture in such manner as
to affect the calculation of the amount of any payment of interest or principal
due on any Note on any Payment Date (including the calculation of any of the
individual components of such calculation) or to affect the rights of the
Holders of Notes to the benefit of any provisions for the mandatory redemption
of the Notes contained herein; or
(vii) permit the creation of any lien ranking prior to or on a parity
with the lien of this Indenture with respect to any part of the Trust Estate or,
except as otherwise permitted or contemplated herein, terminate the lien of this
Indenture on any property at any time subject hereto or deprive the Holder of
any Note of the security provided by the lien of this Indenture.
The Indenture Trustee may in its discretion or at the advice of counsel
determine whether or not any Notes would be affected by any supplemental
indenture and any such determination shall be conclusive upon the Holders of all
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Notes, whether theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder.
The Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for any such determination made in
good faith.
It shall not be necessary for any Act of Noteholders 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.
Promptly after the execution by the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee
of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Section, the Indenture Trustee
shall mail to the Holders of the Notes to which such amendment or supplemental
indenture relates a notice setting forth in general terms the substance of such
supplemental indenture. Any failure of the Indenture Trustee to mail such
notice, or any defect therein, shall not, however, in any way impair or affect
the validity of any such supplemental indenture.
SECTION 9.03. Execution of Supplemental Indentures. In executing, or
permitting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental indenture
permitted by this Article IX or the modification thereby of the trusts created
by this Indenture, the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and
subject to Sections 6.01 and 6.02, shall be fully protected in relying upon, an
Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture is
authorized or permitted by this Indenture. The Indenture Trustee may, but shall
not be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture that affects the
Indenture Trustee's own rights, duties, liabilities or immunities under this
Indenture or otherwise. The Administrator shall provide a fully executed copy of
any supplemental indentures to this Indenture to each Rating Agency.
SECTION 9.04. Effect of Supplemental Indenture. Upon the execution of
any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions hereof, this Indenture
shall be and shall be deemed to be modified and amended in accordance therewith
with respect to the Notes affected thereby, and the respective rights,
limitations of rights, obligations, duties, liabilities and immunities under
this Indenture of the Indenture Trustee, the Issuer and the Holders of the Notes
shall thereafter be determined, exercised and enforced hereunder subject in all
respects to such modifications and amendments, and all the terms and conditions
of any such supplemental indenture shall be and be deemed to be part of the
terms and conditions of this Indenture for any and all purposes.
SECTION 9.05. Reference in Notes to Supplemental Indentures. Notes
authenticated and delivered after the execution of any supplemental indenture
pursuant to this Article IX may, and if required by the Indenture Trustee shall,
bear a notation in form approved by the Indenture Trustee as to any matter
provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Issuer or the Indenture
Trustee shall so determine, new Notes so modified as to conform, in the opinion
of the Indenture Trustee and the Issuer, to any such supplemental indenture may
be prepared and executed by the Issuer and authenticated and delivered by the
Indenture Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Notes.
SECTION 9.06. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act. Every amendment of
this Indenture and every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this
Article IX shall conform to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act as then
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in effect so long as this Indenture shall then be qualified under the Trust
Indenture Act.
ARTICLE X.
REDEMPTION OF NOTES
SECTION 10.01. Redemption. The Notes are subject to redemption in
whole, but not in part, at the direction of the Servicer pursuant to Section
9.01 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, on any Payment Date on which the
Servicer exercises its option to purchase the Trust Estate pursuant to said
Section 9.01, for a purchase price equal to the Redemption Price; provided, that
the Issuer has available funds sufficient to pay the Redemption Price. The
Servicer or the Issuer shall furnish the Rating Agencies and the Indenture
Trustee notice of such redemption. If the Notes are to be redeemed pursuant to
this Section 10.01, the Servicer shall furnish notice of such election to the
Indenture Trustee not later than 20 days prior to the Redemption Date and shall
deposit the Business Day prior to the Redemption Date with the Indenture Trustee
in the Note Distribution Account the Redemption Price of the Notes to be
redeemed, whereupon all such Notes shall be due and payable on the Redemption
Date upon the furnishing of a notice complying with Section 10.02 to each Holder
of the Notes.
SECTION 10.02. Form of Redemption Notice. Notice of redemption under
Section 10.01 shall be given by the Indenture Trustee by first-class mail,
postage prepaid, or by facsimile mailed or transmitted not later than 10 days
prior to the applicable Redemption Date to each Holder of Notes, as of the close
of business on the Record Date preceding the applicable Redemption Date, at such
Holder's address or facsimile number appearing in the Note Register.
All notices of redemption shall state:
(i) the Redemption Date;
(ii) the Redemption Price;
(iii) the place where such Notes are to be surrendered for payment of
the Redemption Price (which shall be the office or agency of the Issuer to be
maintained as provided in Section 3.02); and
(iv) that interest on the Notes shall cease to accrue on the
Redemption Date.
Notice of redemption of the Notes shall be given by the Indenture Trustee in the
name and at the expense of the Issuer. Failure to give notice of redemption, or
any defect therein, to any Holder of any Note shall not impair or affect the
validity of the redemption of any other Note.
SECTION 10.03. Notes Payable on Redemption Date. The Notes or
portions thereof to be redeemed shall, following notice of redemption as
required by Section 10.02 (in the case of redemption pursuant to Section 10.01),
on the Redemption Date become due and payable at the Redemption Price and
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(unless the Issuer shall default in the payment of the Redemption Price) no
interest shall accrue on the Redemption Price for any period after the date to
which accrued interest is calculated for purposes of calculating the Redemption
Price.
ARTICLE XI.
MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 11.01. Compliance Certificates and Opinions, etc.
(a) Upon any application or request by the Issuer to the Indenture
Trustee to take any action under any provision of this Indenture, the Issuer
shall furnish to the Indenture Trustee (i) an Officer's Certificate stating that
all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the
proposed action have been complied with and (ii) an Opinion of Counsel stating
that in the opinion of such counsel all such conditions precedent, if any, have
been complied with and (iii) (if required by the TIA) an Independent Certificate
from a firm of certified public accountants meeting the applicable requirements
of this Section, 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, 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 shall include:
(i) a statement that each signatory of such certificate or opinion
has read or has caused to be read such covenant or condition and the definitions
herein relating thereto;
(ii) 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;
(iii) a statement that, in the opinion of each such signatory, such
signatory has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable
such signatory to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant
or condition has been complied with; and
(iv) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such
signatory, such condition or covenant has been complied with.
(b) (i) Prior to the deposit of any Collateral or other property or
securities with the Indenture Trustee that is to be made the basis for the
release of any property or securities subject to the lien of this Indenture, the
Issuer shall, in addition to any obligation imposed in Section 11.01(a) or
elsewhere in this Indenture, furnish to the Indenture Trustee an Officer's
Certificate certifying or stating the opinion of each person signing such
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certificate as to the fair value (within 90 days of such deposit) to the Issuer
of the Collateral or other property or securities to be so deposited.
(ii) Whenever the Issuer is required to furnish to the Indenture
Trustee an Officer's Certificate certifying or stating the opinion of any signer
thereof as to the matters described in clause (i) above, the Issuer shall also
deliver to the Indenture Trustee an Independent Certificate as to the same
matters, if the fair value to the Issuer of the securities to be so deposited
and of all other such securities made the basis of any such withdrawal or
release since the commencement of the then-current fiscal year of the Issuer, as
set forth in the certificates delivered pursuant to clause (i) above and this
clause (ii), is 10% or more of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes, but such a
certificate need not be furnished with respect to any securities so deposited,
if the fair value thereof to the Issuer as set forth in the related Officer's
Certificate is less than $25,000 or less than one percent of the Outstanding
Amount of the Notes.
(iii) Whenever any property or securities are to be released from the
lien of this Indenture, the Issuer shall also furnish to the Indenture Trustee
an Officer's Certificate certifying or stating the opinion of each person
signing such certificate as to the fair value (within 90 days of such release)
of the property or securities proposed to be released and stating that in the
opinion of such person the proposed release will not impair the security under
this Indenture in contravention of the provisions hereof.
(iv) Other than with respect to the release of any Purchased
Receivable, the Issuer is required to furnish to the Indenture Trustee an
Officer's Certificate certifying or stating the opinion of any signer thereof as
to the matters described in clause (iii) above, the Issuer shall also furnish to
the Indenture Trustee an Independent Certificate as to the same matters if the
fair value of the property or securities and of all other property, other than
property as contemplated by clause (v) below, or securities released from the
lien of this Indenture since the commencement of the then-current calendar year,
as set forth in the certificates required by clause (iii) above and this clause
(iv), equals 10% or more of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes, but such
certificate need not be furnished in the case of any release of property or
securities if the fair value thereof as set forth in the related Officer's
Certificate is less than $25,000 or less than one percent of the then
Outstanding Amount of the Notes.
(v) Notwithstanding Section 4.04 or any other provision of this
Section, the Issuer may, without compliance with the requirements of the other
provisions of this Section, (A) collect, liquidate, sell or otherwise dispose of
Receivables and Financed Vehicles as and to the extent permitted or required by
the Basic Documents and (B) make cash payments out of the Trust Accounts as and
to the extent permitted or required by the Basic Documents.
SECTION 11.02. Form of Documents Delivered to Indenture 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 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
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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 Authorized Officer of the Issuer may
be based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion
of, or representations by, counsel, unless such officer knows, or in the
exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or
representations with respect to the matters upon which such officer's
certificate or opinion is based are erroneous. Any such certificate of an
Authorized Officer or 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 Servicer, either Seller, the Issuer or the
Administrator, stating that the information with respect to such factual matters
is in the possession of the Servicer, the applicable Seller, the Issuer or the
Administrator, 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.
Whenever in this Indenture, in connection with any application or
certificate or report to the Indenture Trustee, it is provided that the Issuer
shall deliver any document as a condition of the granting of such application,
or as evidence of the Issuer's compliance with any term hereof, it is intended
that the truth and accuracy, at the time of the granting of such application or
at the effective date of such certificate or report (as the case may be), of the
facts and opinions stated in such document shall in such case be conditions
precedent to the right of the Issuer to have such application granted or to the
sufficiency of such certificate or report. The foregoing shall not, however, be
construed to affect the Indenture Trustee's right to rely upon the truth and
accuracy of any statement or opinion contained in any such document as provided
in Article VI.
SECTION 11.03. Acts of Noteholders.
(a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by
Noteholders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of
substantially similar tenor signed by such Noteholders in person or by agents
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 Indenture Trustee and, where it is hereby expressly required,
to the Issuer. Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein
and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the "Act" of the
Noteholders signing such instrument or instruments. Proof of execution of any
such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient
for any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Section 6.01) conclusive in
favor of the Indenture Trustee and the Issuer, if made in the manner provided in
this Section.
(b) The fact and date of the execution by any person of any such
instrument or writing may be proved in any manner that the Indenture Trustee
deems sufficient.
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(c) The ownership of Notes shall be proved by the Note Register.
(d) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other action by the Holder of any Notes shall bind the Holder of every
Note issued upon the registration thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu
thereof, in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the
Indenture Trustee or the Issuer in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of
such action is made upon such Note.
SECTION 11.04. Notices, etc., to Indenture Trustee, Issuer and Rating
Agencies. Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver
or Act of Noteholders or other documents provided or permitted by this Indenture
shall be in writing and, if such request, demand, authorization, direction,
notice, consent, waiver or act of Noteholders is to be made upon, given or
furnished to or filed with:
(i) the Indenture Trustee by any Noteholder or by the Issuer, shall
be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed in
writing to or with the Indenture Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office; or
(ii) the Issuer by the Indenture Trustee or by any Noteholder, shall
be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if in writing and mailed first-class,
postage prepaid to the Issuer addressed to: BMW Vehicle Owner Trust 2001-A, in
care of Wilmington Trust Company, as Owner Trustee, Xxxxxx Square North, 0000
Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000-0000, Attention: Corporate Trust
Administration, or at any other address previously furnished in writing to the
Indenture Trustee by the Issuer or the Administrator. The Issuer shall promptly
transmit any notice received by it from the Noteholders to the Indenture
Trustee.
Notices required to be given to the Rating Agencies by the Issuer,
the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee shall be in writing, personally
delivered or mailed by certified mail, return receipt requested, to (i) in the
case of Moody's, at the following address: Xxxxx'x Investors Service, Inc., ABS
Monitoring Department, 00 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000; (ii) in the
case of Standard & Poor's, at the following address: Standard & Poor's, a
division of The XxXxxx-Xxxx Companies, Inc., 00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx
00000, Attention of Asset Backed Surveillance Department; (iii) if to Fitch,
Fitch Inc., Xxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000 (telecopier no.
(000) 000-0000) Attention: Asset Backed Surveillance; or as to each of the
foregoing, at such other address as shall be designated by written notice to the
other parties.
SECTION 11.05. Notices to Noteholders; Waiver. Where this Indenture
provides for notice to Noteholders of any event, such notice shall be
sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing
and mailed, first-class, postage prepaid to each Noteholder affected by such
event, at such Holder's address as it appears on the Note Register, not later
than the latest date, and not earlier than the earliest date, prescribed for the
giving of such notice. In any case where notice to Noteholders is given by mail,
neither the failure to mail such notice nor any defect in any notice so mailed
to any particular Noteholder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with
respect to other Noteholders, and any notice that is mailed in the manner herein
provided shall conclusively be presumed to have been duly given.
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Where this Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice
may be waived in writing by any 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 Noteholders shall be filed with the Indenture
Trustee but such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of
any action taken in reliance upon such a waiver.
In case, by reason of the suspension of regular mail service as a
result of a strike, work stoppage or similar activity, it shall be impractical
to mail notice of any event to Noteholders when such notice is required to be
given pursuant to any provision of this Indenture, then any manner of giving
such notice as shall be satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee shall be deemed to
be a sufficient giving of such notice.
Where this Indenture provides for notice to the Rating Agencies,
failure to give such notice shall not affect any other rights or obligations
created hereunder, and shall not under any circumstance constitute a Default or
Event of Default.
SECTION 11.06. Alternate Payment and Notice Provisions.
Notwithstanding any provision of this Indenture or any of the Notes to the
contrary, the Issuer may enter into any agreement with any Holder of a Note
providing for a method of payment, or notice by the Indenture Trustee or any
Paying Agent to such Holder, that is different from the methods provided for in
this Indenture for such payments or notices. The Issuer will furnish to the
Indenture Trustee a copy of each such agreement and the Indenture Trustee will
cause payments to be made and notices to be given in accordance with such
agreements. The Indenture Trustee shall provide a copy of any request made
pursuant to this Section 11.06 to the Owner Trustee.
SECTION 11.07. 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.
SECTION 11.08. Successors and Assigns. All covenants and agreements
in this Indenture and the Notes by the Issuer shall bind its successors and
assigns, whether so expressed or not. All agreements of the Indenture Trustee in
this Indenture shall bind its successors, co-trustees and agents.
SECTION 11.09. Separability. In case any provision in this Indenture
or in the Notes 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 11.10. Benefits of Indenture. Nothing in this Indenture or in
the Notes, express or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties
hereto and their successors hereunder, and the Noteholders, and any other party
secured hereunder, and any other Person with an ownership interest in any part
of the Trust Estate, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or
claim under this Indenture.
SECTION 11.11. Legal Holidays. In any case where the date on which
any payment is due shall not be a Business Day, then (notwithstanding any other
provision of the Notes or this Indenture) payment need not be made on such date,
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but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and
effect as if made on the date on which nominally due, and no interest shall
accrue for the period from and after any such nominal date.
SECTION 11.12. GOVERNING LAW. THIS INDENTURE SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS
CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISIONS, AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE
PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.
SECTION 11.13. Counterparts. This Indenture 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.
SECTION 11.14. Recording of Indenture. If this Indenture is subject
to recording in any appropriate public recording offices, such recording is to
be effected by the Issuer and at the expense of the Servicer accompanied by an
Opinion of Counsel (which may be counsel to the Indenture Trustee or any other
counsel reasonably acceptable to the Indenture Trustee) to the effect that such
recording is necessary either for the protection of the Noteholders or any other
Person secured hereunder or for the enforcement of any right or remedy granted
to the Indenture Trustee under this Indenture.
SECTION 11.15. Trust Obligation. No recourse may be taken, directly
or indirectly, with respect to the obligations of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee
or the Indenture Trustee on the Notes or under this Indenture or any certificate
or other writing delivered in connection herewith or therewith, against (i) the
Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity, (ii) any
owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, including the Seller, or (iii) any
partner, owner, beneficiary, agent, officer, director, employee or agent of the
Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity, any holder of
a beneficial interest in the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee
or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in
its individual capacity, except as any such Person may have expressly agreed (it
being understood that the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee have no such
obligations in their individual capacity). For all purposes of this Indenture,
in the performance of any duties or obligations of the Issuer hereunder, the
Owner Trustee shall be subject to, and entitled to the benefits of, the terms
and provisions of Article VI, VII and VIII of the Trust Agreement.
SECTION 11.16. No Petition. The Indenture Trustee, by entering into
this Indenture, and each Noteholder, by accepting a Note, hereby covenant and
agree that they will not at any time institute against the Issuer or the
Depositor, or join in any institution against the Issuer or the Depositor, of
any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation
proceedings, or other proceedings under any United States federal or state
bankruptcy or similar law in connection with any obligations relating to the
Notes, this Indenture or any of the Basic Documents.
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SECTION 11.17. Inspection. The Issuer agrees that, on reasonable
prior notice, it will permit any representative of the Indenture Trustee, during
the Issuer's normal business hours, to examine all the books of account,
records, reports and other papers of the Issuer, to make copies and extracts
therefrom, to cause such books to be audited by Independent certified public
accountants, and to discuss the Issuer's affairs, finances and accounts with the
Issuer's officers, employees and Independent certified public accountants, all
at such reasonable times and as often as may be reasonably requested; provided,
however, that the Indenture Trustee may only cause the books of the Issuer to be
audited on an annual basis, unless there occurs an Event of Default hereunder.
The Indenture Trustee shall, and shall cause its representatives to, hold in
confidence all such information except to the extent such information is
publicly available or such disclosure may be required by law (and all reasonable
applications for confidential treatment are unavailing) and except to the extent
that the Indenture Trustee may reasonably determine with the advice of counsel
and after consultation with the Issuer that such disclosure is consistent with
its obligations hereunder.
SECTION 11.18. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act. If any provision
hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with another provision hereof that is
required to be included in this Indenture by any of the provisions of the Trust
Indenture Act, such required provision shall control.
The provisions of TIA xx.xx. 310 through 317 that impose duties on
any person (including the provisions automatically deemed included herein unless
expressly excluded by this Indenture) are a part of and govern this Indenture,
whether or not physically contained herein.
SECTION 11.19. Limitation of Liability. It is expressly understood
and agreed by the parties hereto that (a) this Indenture is executed and
delivered by Wilmington Trust Company, not individually or personally but solely
as Owner Trustee of BMW Vehicle Owner Trust 2001-A, in the exercise of the
powers and authority conferred and vested in it, (b) each of the
representations, undertakings and agreements herein made on the part of the
Issuer is made and intended not as personal representations, undertakings and
agreements by Wilmington Trust Company but is made and intended for the purpose
for binding only the Issuer, (c) nothing herein contained shall be construed as
creating any liability on Wilmington Trust Company, individually or personally,
to perform any covenant either expressed or implied contained herein, all such
liability, if any, being expressly waived by the parties hereto and by any
Person claiming by, through or under the parties hereto and (d) under no
circumstances shall Wilmington Trust Company be personally liable for the
payment of any indebtedness or expenses of the Issuer or be liable for the
breach or failure of any obligation, representation, warranty or covenant made
or undertaken by the Issuer under this Indenture or any other related documents.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee have caused
this Indenture to be duly executed by their respective officers, thereunto duly
authorized and duly attested, all as of the day and year first above written.
BMW VEHICLE OWNER TRUST 2001-A,
By: WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, not in its
individual capacity but solely as Owner
Trustee,
By: /s/ Xxx Xxxxx
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Name: Xxx Xxxxx
Title: Senior Financial Services Officer
THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK, not in its individual
capacity but solely as Indenture Trustee,
By: /s/ Xxxxxxxx X.X. Xxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxxxx X.X. Xxxxx
Title: Vice President
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STATE OF NEW YORK }
} ss.:
COUNTY OF NEW YORK }
BEFORE ME, the undersigned authority, a Notary Public in and for said
county and state, on this day personally appeared _________________, a
_________________ of Wilmington Trust Company, not in its individual capacity
but solely as Owner Trustee of BMW Vehicle Owner Trust 2001-A, a Delaware
Business Trust (the "Trust") known to me to be the person and officer whose name
is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that the same
was the act of the said Trust, and that s/he executed the same as the act of
said business trust for the purpose and consideration therein expressed, and in
the capacities therein stated.
GIVEN UNDER MY HAND AND SEAL OF OFFICE, this ___ day of May, 2001.
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Notary Public in and for the State of New York.
My commission expires:
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STATE OF NEW YORK }
} ss.:
COUNTY OF NEW YORK }
BEFORE ME, the undersigned authority, a Notary Public in and for said
county and state, on this day personally appeared _________________, known to me
to be the person and officer whose name is subscribed to the foregoing
instrument and acknowledged to me that the same was the act of THE CHASE
MANHATTAN BANK, a New York banking corporation, and that s/he executed the same
as the act of said corporation for the purpose and consideration therein stated.
GIVEN UNDER MY HAND AND SEAL OF OFFICE, this ___ day of May, 2001.
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Notary Public in and for the State of New York.
My commission expires:
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SCHEDULE A
[To be Provided on the Closing Date]
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EXHIBIT A-1
[FORM OF CLASS A-1 NOTE]
UNLESS THIS NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION ("DTC"), NEW YORK, NEW YORK, TO
THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND
ANY NOTE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS
REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO
CEDE & CO., OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED
REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC) ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR
OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER
HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.
THE PRINCIPAL OF THIS NOTE IS PAYABLE IN INSTALLMENTS AS SET FORTH
HEREIN. ACCORDINGLY, THE OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THIS NOTE AT ANY TIME
MAY BE LESS THAN THE AMOUNT SHOWN ON THE FACE HEREOF.
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REGISTERED $ (1)
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No. R-_____ CUSIP NO. _________
BMW VEHICLE OWNER TRUST 2001-A
3.98875% ASSET BACKED NOTE, CLASS A-1
BMW VEHICLE OWNER TRUST 2001-A, a business trust organized and
existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein referred to as the
"Issuer"), for value received, hereby promises to pay to ___________________, or
registered assigns, the principal sum of __________ DOLLARS, payable on each
Payment Date in an amount equal to the result obtained by multiplying (i) a
fraction the numerator of which is $ [INSERT INITIAL PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF NOTE]
and the denominator of which is $329,000,000 by (ii) the aggregate amount, if
any, payable from the Note Distribution Account in respect of principal on the
Class A-1 Notes pursuant to Section 3.01 of the Indenture dated as of May 1,
2001 (the "Indenture"), between the Issuer and The Chase Manhattan Bank, a New
York banking corporation, as Indenture Trustee (the "Indenture Trustee");
provided, however, that the entire unpaid principal amount of this Note shall be
due and payable on May 2002 (the "Class A-1 Final Scheduled Payment Date").
Capitalized terms used but not defined herein are defined in the Indenture,
which also contains rules as to construction that shall be applicable herein.
The Issuer will pay interest on this Note at the rate per annum set
forth above, on each Payment Date until the principal of this Note is paid or
made available for payment, on the principal amount of this Note outstanding on
the preceding Payment Date (after giving effect to all payments of principal
made on the preceding Payment Date), subject to certain limitations contained in
Section 3.01 of the Indenture. Interest on this Note will accrue for each
Payment Date from and including the prior Payment Date (in the case of the first
Payment Date, from the Closing Date) to the next Payment Date. Interest will be
computed on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed in the related
Interest Accrual Period and a 360-day year. Such principal of and interest on
this Note shall be paid in the manner specified on the reverse hereof.
The principal of and interest on this Note are payable in such coin
or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal
tender for payment of public and private debts. All payments made by the Issuer
with respect to this Note shall be applied first to interest due and payable on
this Note as provided above and then to the unpaid principal of this Note.
Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on
the reverse hereof, which shall have the same effect as though fully set forth
on the face of this Note.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by
the Indenture Trustee whose name appears below by manual signature, this Note
shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture, or be valid or
obligatory for any purpose.
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(1) Denominations of $1,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer has caused this instrument to be
signed, manually or in facsimile, by its Authorized Officer, as of the date set
forth below.
Date: BMW VEHICLE OWNER TRUST 2001-A
By: WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, not in its
individual capacity but solely as Owner
Trustee under the Trust Agreement,
By: _________________________________
Authorized Signatory
TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Notes designated above and referred to in the
within-mentioned Indenture.
Date: THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK, not in its individual
capacity but solely as Indenture Trustee,
By: _________________________________
Authorized Signatory
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REVERSE OF CLASS A-1 NOTE
This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Issuer,
designated as its 3.98875% Asset Backed Notes, Class A-1 (herein called the
"Class A-1 Notes"), all issued under the Indenture, to which Indenture and all
indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the
respective rights and obligations thereunder of the Issuer, the Indenture
Trustee and the Holders of the Notes. The Class A-1 Notes are subject to all
terms of the Indenture.
The Class A-1 Notes, Class A-2 Notes, Class A-3 Notes and Class A-4
Notes (collectively, the "Class A Notes" and together with the Class B Notes,
the "Notes") are and will be secured by the collateral pledged as security
therefor as provided in the Indenture.
Principal of the Class A-1 Notes will be payable on each Payment Date
in an amount described on the face hereof. "Payment Date" means the 25th day of
each month, or, if any such date is not a Business Day, the next succeeding
Business Day, commencing June 25, 2001.
As described above, the entire unpaid principal amount of this Note
shall be due and payable on the Class A-1 Final Scheduled Payment Date.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if an Event of Default occurs, the Indenture
Trustee or the Holders of Notes representing not less than a majority of the
Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class of Notes have declared the Notes to
be immediately due and payable in the manner provided in Section 5.02 of the
Indenture. All principal payments on the Class A-1 Notes shall be made pro rata
to the Class A-1 Noteholders entitled thereto.
Payments of interest on this Note due and payable on each Payment
Date, together with the installment of principal, if any, to the extent not in
full payment of this Note, shall be made by check mailed to the Person whose
name appears as the Registered Holder of this Note (or one or more Predecessor
Notes) on the Note Register as of the close of business on each Record Date,
except that with respect to Notes registered on the Record Date in the name of
the nominee of the Clearing Agency (initially, such nominee to be Cede & Co.),
payments will be made by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the
account designated by such nominee. Such checks shall be mailed to the Person
entitled thereto at the address of such Person as it appears on the Note
Register as of the applicable Record Date without requiring that this Note be
submitted for notation of payment. Any reduction in the principal amount of this
Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) effected by any payments made on any
Payment Date shall be binding upon all future Holders of this Note and of any
Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in
lieu hereof, whether or not noted hereon. If funds are expected to be available,
as provided in the Indenture, for payment in full of the then remaining unpaid
principal amount of this Note on a Payment Date, then the Indenture Trustee, in
the name of and on behalf of the Issuer, will notify the Person who was the
Registered Holder hereof as of the Record Date preceding such Payment Date by
notice mailed or transmitted by facsimile prior to such Payment Date, and the
amount then due and payable shall be payable only upon presentation and
surrender of this Note at the Indenture Trustee's principal Corporate Trust
Office or at the office of the Indenture Trustee's agent appointed for such
purposes located in The City of New York.
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The Issuer shall pay interest on overdue installments of interest at
the Class A-1 Rate to the extent lawful.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to the limitations set forth
therein and on the face hereof, the transfer of this Note may be registered on
the Note Register upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at
the office or agency designated by the Issuer pursuant to the Indenture, duly
endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form
satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee duly executed by, the Holder hereof or
such Holder's attorney duly authorized in writing, with such signature
guaranteed by an "eligible guarantor institution" meeting the requirements of
the Note Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in
the Securities Transfer Agent's Medallion Program ("STAMP") or such other
"signature guarantee program" as may be determined by the Note Registrar in
addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and thereupon one or more new Notes
of authorized denominations and in the same aggregate principal amount will be
issued to the designated transferee or transferees. No service charge will be
charged for any registration of transfer or exchange of this Note, but the
transferor may be required to pay a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any such registration
of transfer or exchange subject to certain exceptions set forth in the
Indenture.
Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by acceptance of a Note or, in the
case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a Note, covenants and agrees that
no recourse may be taken, directly or indirectly, with respect to the
obligations of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee on the
Notes or under the Indenture or any certificate or other writing delivered in
connection therewith, against (i) the Seller, the Servicer, the Indenture
Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity, (ii) any owner of a
beneficial interest in the Issuer, including the Seller or (iii) any partner,
owner, beneficiary, agent, officer, director or employee of the Seller, the
Servicer, the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity,
any holder of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, the Seller, the Servicer, the
Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee or of any successor or assign of the
Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity, except as any
such Person may have expressly agreed and except that any such partner, owner or
beneficiary shall be fully liable, to the extent provided by applicable law, for
any unpaid consideration for stock, unpaid capital contribution or failure to
pay any installment or call owing to such entity.
Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by acceptance of a Note or, in the
case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a Note, covenants and agrees by
accepting the benefits of the Indenture that such Noteholder or Note Owner will
not at any time institute against the Issuer, or join in any institution against
the Issuer of, any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or
liquidation proceedings under any United States federal or state bankruptcy or
similar law in connection with any obligations relating to the Notes, the
Indenture or the other Basic Documents.
The Issuer has entered into the Indenture and this Note is issued
with the intention that, for purposes of federal and state income tax, franchise
tax and any other tax measured in whole or in part by income, the Notes will
qualify as indebtedness secured by the Trust Estate. Each Noteholder, by
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acceptance of a Note (and each Note Owner by acceptance of a beneficial interest
in a Note), agrees to treat the Notes for such purposes as indebtedness.
This Note, or any interest therein, may not be transferred to an
"employee benefit plan" within the meaning of Section 3(3) of ERISA that is
subject to ERISA, a "plan" described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code, any
entity that is deemed to hold "plan assets" of any of the foregoing by reason of
an employee benefit plan's or other plan's investment in such entity, or any
governmental plan subject to applicable law that is substantially similar to the
fiduciary responsibility provisions of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, unless
such transferee represents, warrants and covenants that its purchase and holding
of this note is and will be eligible for, and satisfies and will satisfy all the
requirements of, Department of Labor prohibited transaction class exemption
("PTE") 90-1; PTE 96-23; PTE 95-60; PTE 91-38; PTE 84-14 or another applicable
prohibited transaction exemption (or in the case of a governmental plan, will
not violate any applicable law that is substantially similar to ERISA or Section
4975 of the Code). By its acquisition of this Note in book-entry form or any
interest therein, each transferee will be deemed to have represented, warranted
and covenanted that it satisfies the foregoing requirements and the Indenture
Trustee may relay conclusively on the same for purposes hereof.
Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer of this
Note, the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the
Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Note (as of the day of
determination or as of such other date as may be specified in the Indenture) is
registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be
overdue, and none of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee or any such agent shall
be affected by notice to the contrary.
The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided,
the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the
Issuer and the rights of the Holders of the Notes under the Indenture at any
time by the Issuer with the consent of the Holders of Notes or the Controlling
Class of Notes, as applicable, representing a majority of the Outstanding Amount
of all Notes or Controlling Class of Notes at the time Outstanding. The
Indenture also contains provisions permitting Holders of Notes representing
specified percentages of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class of
Notes, on behalf of the Holders of all the Notes, to waive compliance by the
Issuer with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under
the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder
of this Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) shall be conclusive and
binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any
Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in
lieu hereof whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this
Note. The Indenture also permits the Indenture Trustee to amend or waive certain
terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture without the consent of Holders
of the Notes issued thereunder.
The term "Issuer" as used in this Note includes any successor to the
Issuer under the Indenture.
The Notes are issuable only in registered form in denominations as
provided in the Indenture, subject to certain limitations therein set forth.
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This Note and the Indenture shall be construed in accordance with the
laws of the State of New York, without reference to its conflict of law
provisions, and the obligations, rights and remedies of the parties hereunder
and thereunder shall be determined in accordance with such laws.
No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or
of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Issuer, which is
absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and interest on this Note at
the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency herein prescribed.
Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, except as expressly
provided in the Basic Documents, none of Wilmington Trust Company in its
individual capacity, The Chase Manhattan Bank in its individual capacity, any
owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, the Seller, the Servicer, or any
of their respective partners, beneficiaries, agents, officers, directors,
employees or successors or assigns shall be personally liable for, nor shall
recourse be had to any of them for, the payment of principal of or interest on
this Note or performance of, or omission to perform, any of the covenants,
obligations or indemnifications contained in the Indenture. The Holder of this
Note by its acceptance hereof agrees that, except as expressly provided in the
Basic Documents, in the case of an Event of Default under the Indenture, the
Holder shall have no claim against any of the foregoing for any deficiency, loss
or claim therefrom; provided, however, that nothing contained herein shall be
taken to prevent recourse to, and enforcement against, the assets of the Issuer
for any and all liabilities, obligations and undertakings contained in the
Indenture or in this Note.
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ASSIGNMENT
Social Security or taxpayer I.D. or other identifying number of assignee:
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FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and
transfers unto:
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(name and address of assignee)
the within Note and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably constitutes
and appoints ____________________________________________, attorney, to transfer
said Note on the books kept for registration thereof, with full power of
substitution in the premises.
Dated: */
Signature Guaranteed:
*/
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*/ NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name
of the registered owner as it appears on the face of the within Note in
every particular, without alteration, enlargement or any change
whatsoever. Such signature must be guaranteed by an "eligible guarantor
institution" meeting the requirements of the Note Registrar, which
requirements include membership or participation in STAMP or such other
"signature guarantee program" as may be determined by the Note Registrar
in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
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EXHIBIT A-2
[FORM OF CLASS A-2 NOTE]
UNLESS THIS NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION ("DTC"), NEW YORK, NEW YORK, TO
THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND
ANY NOTE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS
REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO
CEDE & CO., OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED
REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC) ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR
OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER
HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.
THE PRINCIPAL OF THIS NOTE IS PAYABLE IN INSTALLMENTS AS SET FORTH
HEREIN. ACCORDINGLY, THE OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THIS NOTE AT ANY TIME
MAY BE LESS THAN THE AMOUNT SHOWN ON THE FACE HEREOF.
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REGISTERED $_____________ (2)
No. R-________ CUSIP NO. _________
BMW VEHICLE OWNER TRUST 2001-A
4.26% ASSET BACKED NOTE, CLASS A-2
BMW VEHICLE OWNER TRUST 2001-A, a business trust organized and
existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein referred to as the
"Issuer"), for value received, hereby promises to pay to ____________________,
or registered assigns, the principal sum of __________ DOLLARS, payable on each
Payment Date in an amount equal to the result obtained by multiplying (i) a
fraction the numerator of which is $ [INSERT INITIAL PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF NOTE]
and the denominator of which is $448,000,000 by (ii) the aggregate amount, if
any, payable from the Note Distribution Account in respect of principal on the
Class A-2 Notes pursuant to Section 3.01 of the Indenture dated as of May 1,
2001 (the "Indenture"), between the Issuer and The Chase Manhattan Bank, a New
York banking corporation, as Indenture Trustee (the "Indenture Trustee");
provided, however, that the entire unpaid principal amount of this Note shall be
due and payable on November 2003 (the "Class A-2 Final Scheduled Payment Date").
No payments of principal of the Class A-2 Notes shall be made until the Class
A-1 Notes have been paid in full. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein
are defined in the Indenture, which also contains rules as to construction that
shall be applicable herein.
The Issuer will pay interest on this Note at the rate per annum set
forth above, on each Payment Date until the principal of this Note is paid or
made available for payment, on the principal amount of this Note outstanding on
the preceding Payment Date (after giving effect to all payments of principal
made on the preceding Payment Date), subject to certain limitations contained in
the last sentence of Section 3.01 of the Indenture. Interest on this Note will
accrue for each Payment Date from and including the 25th day of the month
preceding the month of such Payment Date (or, in the case of the first Payment
Date, from the Closing Date) to but excluding the 25th day of the month of such
Payment Date. Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve
30-day months. Such principal of and interest on this Note shall be paid in the
manner specified on the reverse hereof.
The principal of and interest on this Note are payable in such coin
or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal
tender for payment of public and private debts. All payments made by the Issuer
with respect to this Note shall be applied first to interest due and payable on
this Note as provided above and then to the unpaid principal of this Note.
Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on
the reverse hereof, which shall have the same effect as though fully set forth
on the face of this Note.
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(2) Denominations of $1,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.
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Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by
the Indenture Trustee whose name appears below by manual signature, this Note
shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture, or be valid or
obligatory for any purpose.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer has caused this instrument to be
signed, manually or in facsimile, by its Authorized Officer, as of the date set
forth below.
Date: BMW VEHICLE OWNER TRUST 2001-A
By: WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, not in its individual
capacity but solely as Owner Trustee under the
Trust Agreement,
By: _________________________________
Authorized Signatory
TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Notes designated above and referred to in the
within-mentioned Indenture.
Date: THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK, not in its individual capacity
but solely as Indenture Trustee,
By: _________________________________
Authorized Signatory
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REVERSE OF CLASS A-2 NOTE
This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Issuer,
designated as its 4.26% Asset Backed Notes, Class A-2 (herein called the "Class
A-2 Notes"), all issued under the Indenture, to which Indenture and all
indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the
respective rights and obligations thereunder of the Issuer, the Indenture
Trustee and the Holders of the Notes. The Class A-2 Notes are subject to all
terms of the Indenture.
The Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes, the Class A-3 Notes and the
Class A-4 Notes (collectively, the "Class A Notes" and together with the Class B
Notes, the "Notes") are and will be secured by the collateral pledged as
security therefor as provided in the Indenture.
Principal of the Class A-2 Notes will be payable on each Payment Date
in an amount described on the face hereof only after the Class A-1 Notes are
paid in full and have no Principal Balance. "Payment Date" means the 25th day of
each month, or, if any such date is not a Business Day, the next succeeding
Business Day, commencing June 25, 2001.
As described above, the entire unpaid principal amount of this Note
shall be due and payable on the Class A-2 Final Scheduled Payment Date.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if an Event of Default occurs, the Indenture
Trustee or the Holders of Notes representing not less than a majority of the
Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class of Notes have declared the Notes to
be immediately due and payable in the manner provided in Section 5.02 of the
Indenture. All principal payments on the Class A-2 Notes shall be made pro rata
to the Class A-2 Noteholders entitled thereto.
Payments of interest on this Note due and payable on each Payment
Date, together with the installment of principal, if any, to the extent not in
full payment of this Note, shall be made by check mailed to the Person whose
name appears as the Registered Holder of this Note (or one or more Predecessor
Notes) on the Note Register as of the close of business on each Record Date,
except that with respect to Notes registered on the Record Date in the name of
the nominee of the Clearing Agency (initially, such nominee to be Cede & Co.),
payments will be made by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the
account designated by such nominee. Such checks shall be mailed to the Person
entitled thereto at the address of such Person as it appears on the Note
Register as of the applicable Record Date without requiring that this Note be
submitted for notation of payment. Any reduction in the principal amount of this
Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) effected by any payments made on any
Payment Date shall be binding upon all future Holders of this Note and of any
Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in
lieu hereof, whether or not noted hereon. If funds are expected to be available,
as provided in the Indenture, for payment in full of the then remaining unpaid
principal amount of this Note on a Payment Date, then the Indenture Trustee, in
the name of and on behalf of the Issuer, will notify the Person who was the
Registered Holder hereof as of the Record Date preceding such Payment Date by
notice mailed or transmitted by facsimile prior to such Payment Date, and the
amount then due and payable shall be payable only upon presentation and
surrender of this Note at the Indenture Trustee's principal Corporate Trust
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Office or at the office of the Indenture Trustee's agent appointed for such
purposes located in The City of New York.
The Issuer shall pay interest on overdue installments of interest at
the Class A-2 Rate to the extent lawful.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to the limitations set forth
therein and on the face hereof, the transfer of this Note may be registered on
the Note Register upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at
the office or agency designated by the Issuer pursuant to the Indenture, duly
endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form
satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee duly executed by, the Holder hereof or
such Holder's attorney duly authorized in writing, with such signature
guaranteed by an "eligible guarantor institution" meeting the requirements of
the Note Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in
the Securities Transfer Agent's Medallion Program ("STAMP") or such other
"signature guarantee program" as may be determined by the Note Registrar in
addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and thereupon one or more new Notes
of authorized denominations and in the same aggregate principal amount will be
issued to the designated transferee or transferees. No service charge will be
charged for any registration of transfer or exchange of this Note, but the
transferor may be required to pay a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any such registration
of transfer or exchange subject to certain exceptions set forth in the
Indenture.
Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by acceptance of a Note or, in the
case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a Note, covenants and agrees that
no recourse may be taken, directly or indirectly, with respect to the
obligations of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee on the
Notes or under the Indenture or any certificate or other writing delivered in
connection therewith, against (i) the Seller, the Servicer, the Indenture
Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity, (ii) any owner of a
beneficial interest in the Issuer, including the Seller or (iii) any partner,
owner, beneficiary, agent, officer, director or employee of the Seller, the
Servicer, Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity, any
holder of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, the Seller, the Servicer, the
Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee or of any successor or assign of the
Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity, except as any
such Person may have expressly agreed and except that any such partner, owner or
beneficiary shall be fully liable, to the extent provided by applicable law, for
any unpaid consideration for stock, unpaid capital contribution or failure to
pay any installment or call owing to such entity.
Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by acceptance of a Note or, in the
case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a Note, covenants and agrees by
accepting the benefits of the Indenture that such Noteholder or Note Owner will
not at any time institute against the Issuer, or join in any institution against
the Issuer of, any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or
liquidation proceedings under any United States federal or state bankruptcy or
similar law in connection with any obligations relating to the Notes, the
Indenture or the other Basic Documents.
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The Issuer has entered into the Indenture and this Note is issued
with the intention that, for purposes of federal and state income tax, franchise
tax and any other tax measured in whole or in part by income, the Notes will
qualify as indebtedness secured by the Trust Estate. Each Noteholder, by
acceptance of a Note (and each Note Owner by acceptance of a beneficial interest
in a Note), agrees to treat the Notes for such purposes as indebtedness.
This Note, or any interest therein, may not be transferred to an
"employee benefit plan" within the meaning of Section 3(3) of ERISA that is
subject to ERISA, a "plan" described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code, any
entity that is deemed to hold "plan assets" of any of the foregoing by reason of
an employee benefit plan's or other plan's investment in such entity, or any
governmental plan subject to applicable law that is substantially similar to the
fiduciary responsibility provisions of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, unless
such transferee represents, warrants and covenants that its purchase and holding
of this note is and will be eligible for, and satisfies and will satisfy all the
requirements of, Department of Labor prohibited transaction class exemption
("PTE") 90-1; PTE 96-23; PTE 95-60; PTE 91-38; PTE 84-14 or another applicable
prohibited transaction exemption (or in the case of a governmental plan, will
not violate any applicable law that is substantially similar to ERISA or Section
4975 of the Code). By its acquisition of this Note in book-entry form or any
interest therein, each transferee will be deemed to have represented, warranted
and covenanted that it satisfies the foregoing requirements and the Indenture
Trustee may relay conclusively on the same for purposes hereof.
Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer of this
Note, the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the
Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Note (as of the day of
determination or as of such other date as may be specified in the Indenture) is
registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be
overdue, and none of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee or any such agent shall
be affected by notice to the contrary.
The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided,
the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the
Issuer and the rights of the Holders of the Notes under the Indenture at any
time by the Issuer with the consent of the Holders of Notes or the Controlling
Class of Notes, as applicable, representing a majority of the Outstanding Amount
of all Notes or Controlling Class of Notes at the time Outstanding. The
Indenture also contains provisions permitting Holders of Notes representing
specified percentages of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class of
Notes, on behalf of the Holders of all the Notes, to waive compliance by the
Issuer with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under
the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder
of this Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) shall be conclusive and
binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any
Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in
lieu hereof whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this
Note. The Indenture also permits the Indenture Trustee to amend or waive certain
terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture without the consent of Holders
of the Notes issued thereunder.
The term "Issuer" as used in this Note includes any successor to the
Issuer under the Indenture.
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The Notes are issuable only in registered form in denominations as
provided in the Indenture, subject to certain limitations therein set forth.
This Note and the Indenture shall be construed in accordance with the
laws of the State of New York, without reference to its conflict of law
provisions, and the obligations, rights and remedies of the parties hereunder
and thereunder shall be determined in accordance with such laws.
No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or
of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Issuer, which is
absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and interest on this Note at
the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency herein prescribed.
Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, except as expressly
provided in the Basic Documents, none of Wilmington Trust Company in its
individual capacity, The Chase Manhattan Bank in its individual capacity, any
owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, the Seller, the Servicer, or any
of their respective partners, beneficiaries, agents, officers, directors,
employees or successors or assigns shall be personally liable for, nor shall
recourse be had to any of them for, the payment of principal of or interest on
this Note or performance of, or omission to perform, any of the covenants,
obligations or indemnifications contained in the Indenture. The Holder of this
Note by its acceptance hereof agrees that, except as expressly provided in the
Basic Documents, in the case of an Event of Default under the Indenture, the
Holder shall have no claim against any of the foregoing for any deficiency, loss
or claim therefrom; provided, however, that nothing contained herein shall be
taken to prevent recourse to, and enforcement against, the assets of the Issuer
for any and all liabilities, obligations and undertakings contained in the
Indenture or in this Note.
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ASSIGNMENT
Social Security or taxpayer I.D. or other identifying number of assignee:
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FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and
transfers unto:
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(name and address of assignee)
the within Note and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably constitutes
and appoints ____________________________________________, attorney, to transfer
said Note on the books kept for registration thereof, with full power of
substitution in the premises.
Dated: */
Signature Guaranteed:
*/
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*/ NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name
of the registered owner as it appears on the face of the within Note in
every particular, without alteration, enlargement or any change
whatsoever. Such signature must be guaranteed by an "eligible guarantor
institution" meeting the requirements of the Note Registrar, which
requirements include membership or participation in STAMP or such other
"signature guarantee program" as may be determined by the Note
Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in
accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
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EXHIBIT A-3
[FORM OF CLASS A-3 NOTE]
UNLESS THIS NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION ("DTC"), NEW YORK, NEW YORK, TO
THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND
ANY NOTE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS
REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO
CEDE & CO., OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED
REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC) ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR
OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER
HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.
THE PRINCIPAL OF THIS NOTE IS PAYABLE IN INSTALLMENTS AS SET FORTH
HEREIN. ACCORDINGLY, THE OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THIS NOTE AT ANY TIME
MAY BE LESS THAN THE AMOUNT SHOWN ON THE FACE HEREOF.
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REGISTERED $_____________ (3)
No. R-________ CUSIP NO. _________
BMW VEHICLE OWNER TRUST 2001-A
4.70% ASSET BACKED NOTE, CLASS A-3
BMW VEHICLE OWNER TRUST 2001-A, a business trust organized and
existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein referred to as the
"Issuer"), for value received, hereby promises to pay to ____________________,
or registered assigns, the principal sum of __________ DOLLARS, payable on each
Payment Date in an amount equal to the result obtained by multiplying (i) a
fraction the numerator of which is $ [INSERT INITIAL PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF NOTE]
and the denominator of which is $499,000,000 by (ii) the aggregate amount, if
any, payable from the Note Distribution Account in respect of principal on the
Class A-3 Notes pursuant to Section 3.01 of the Indenture dated as of May 1,
2001 (the "Indenture"), between the Issuer and The Chase Manhattan Bank, a New
York banking corporation, as Indenture Trustee (the "Indenture Trustee");
provided, however, that the entire unpaid principal amount of this Note shall be
due and payable on March 2005 (the "Class A-3 Final Scheduled Payment Date"). No
payments of principal of the Class A-3 Notes shall be made until the Class A-1
Notes and the Class A-2 Notes have been paid in full. Capitalized terms used but
not defined herein are defined in the Indenture, which also contains rules as to
construction that shall be applicable herein.
The Issuer will pay interest on this Note at the rate per annum set
forth above, on each Payment Date until the principal of this Note is paid or
made available for payment, on the principal amount of this Note outstanding on
the preceding Payment Date (after giving effect to all payments of principal
made on the preceding Payment Date), subject to certain limitations contained in
Section 3.01 of the Indenture. Interest on this Note will accrue for each
Payment Date from and including the 25th day of the month preceding the month of
such Payment Date (in the case of the first Payment Date, from the Closing Date)
to but excluding the 25th day of the month of such Payment Date. Interest will
be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Such
principal of and interest on this Note shall be paid in the manner specified on
the reverse hereof.
The principal of and interest on this Note are payable in such coin
or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal
tender for payment of public and private debts. All payments made by the Issuer
with respect to this Note shall be applied first to interest due and payable on
this Note as provided above and then to the unpaid principal of this Note.
Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on
the reverse hereof, which shall have the same effect as though fully set forth
on the face of this Note.
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(3) Denominations of $1,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.
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Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by
the Indenture Trustee whose name appears below by manual signature, this Note
shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture, or be valid or
obligatory for any purpose.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer has caused this instrument to be
signed, manually or in facsimile, by its Authorized Officer, as of the date set
forth below.
Date: BMW VEHICLE OWNER TRUST 2001-A
By: WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, not in its individual
capacity but solely as Owner Trustee under the
Trust Agreement,
By: _________________________________
Authorized Signatory
TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Notes designated above and referred to in the
within-mentioned Indenture.
Date: [THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK], not in its individual
capacity but solely as Indenture Trustee,
By: _________________________________
Authorized Signatory
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REVERSE OF CLASS A-3 NOTE
This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Issuer,
designated as its 4.70% Asset Backed Notes, Class A-3 (herein called the "Class
A-3 Notes"), all issued under the Indenture, to which Indenture and all
indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the
respective rights and obligations thereunder of the Issuer, the Indenture
Trustee and the Holders of the Notes. The Class A-3 Notes are subject to all
terms of the Indenture.
The Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes, the Class A-3 Notes and the
Class A-4 Notes (collectively, the "Class A Notes" and together with the Class B
Notes, the "Notes") are and will be secured by the collateral pledged as
security therefor as provided in the Indenture.
Principal of the Class A-3 Notes will be payable on each Payment Date
in an amount described on the face hereof only after the Class A-1 Notes and the
Class A-2 Notes are paid in full and have no Principal Balance. "Payment Date"
means the 25th day of each month, or, if any such date is not a Business Day,
the next succeeding Business Day, commencing June 25, 2001.
As described above, the entire unpaid principal amount of this Note
shall be due and payable on the Class A-3 Final Scheduled Payment Date.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if an Event of Default occurs, the Indenture
Trustee or the Holders of Notes representing not less than a majority of the
Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class of Notes have declared the Notes to
be immediately due and payable in the manner provided in Section 5.02 of the
Indenture. All principal payments on the Class A-3 Notes shall be made pro rata
to the Class A-3 Noteholders entitled thereto.
Payments of interest on this Note due and payable on each Payment
Date, together with the installment of principal, if any, to the extent not in
full payment of this Note, shall be made by check mailed to the Person whose
name appears as the Registered Holder of this Note (or one or more Predecessor
Notes) on the Note Register as of the close of business on each Record Date,
except that with respect to Notes registered on the Record Date in the name of
the nominee of the Clearing Agency (initially, such nominee to be Cede & Co.),
payments will be made by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the
account designated by such nominee. Such checks shall be mailed to the Person
entitled thereto at the address of such Person as it appears on the Note
Register as of the applicable Record Date without requiring that this Note be
submitted for notation of payment. Any reduction in the principal amount of this
Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) effected by any payments made on any
Payment Date shall be binding upon all future Holders of this Note and of any
Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in
lieu hereof, whether or not noted hereon. If funds are expected to be available,
as provided in the Indenture, for payment in full of the then remaining unpaid
principal amount of this Note on a Payment Date, then the Indenture Trustee, in
the name of and on behalf of the Issuer, will notify the Person who was the
Registered Holder hereof as of the Record Date preceding such Payment Date by
notice mailed or transmitted by facsimile prior to such Payment Date, and the
amount then due and payable shall be payable only upon presentation and
surrender of this Note at the Indenture Trustee's principal Corporate Trust
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Office or at the office of the Indenture Trustee's agent appointed for such
purposes located in The City of New York.
The Issuer shall pay interest on overdue installments of interest at
the Class A-3 Rate to the extent lawful.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to the limitations set forth
therein and on the face hereof, the transfer of this Note may be registered on
the Note Register upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at
the office or agency designated by the Issuer pursuant to the Indenture, duly
endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form
satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee duly executed by, the Holder hereof or
such Holder's attorney duly authorized in writing, with such signature
guaranteed by an "eligible guarantor institution" meeting the requirements of
the Note Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in
the Securities Transfer Agent's Medallion Program ("STAMP") or such other
"signature guarantee program" as may be determined by the Note Registrar in
addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and thereupon one or more new Notes
of authorized denominations and in the same aggregate principal amount will be
issued to the designated transferee or transferees. No service charge will be
charged for any registration of transfer or exchange of this Note, but the
transferor may be required to pay a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any such registration
of transfer or exchange subject to certain exceptions set forth in the
Indenture.
Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by acceptance of a Note or, in the
case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a Note, covenants and agrees that
no recourse may be taken, directly or indirectly, with respect to the
obligations of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee on the
Notes or under the Indenture or any certificate or other writing delivered in
connection therewith, against (i) the Seller, the Servicer, the Indenture
Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity, (ii) any owner of a
beneficial interest in the Issuer, including the Seller or (iii) any partner,
owner, beneficiary, agent, officer, director or employee of the Seller, the
Servicer, Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity, any
holder of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, the Seller, the Servicer, the
Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee or of any successor or assign of the
Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity, except as any
such Person may have expressly agreed and except that any such partner, owner or
beneficiary shall be fully liable, to the extent provided by applicable law, for
any unpaid consideration for stock, unpaid capital contribution or failure to
pay any installment or call owing to such entity.
Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by acceptance of a Note or, in the
case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a Note, covenants and agrees by
accepting the benefits of the Indenture that such Noteholder or Note Owner will
not at any time institute against the Issuer, or join in any institution against
the Issuer of, any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or
liquidation proceedings under any United States federal or state bankruptcy or
similar law in connection with any obligations relating to the Notes, the
Indenture or the other Basic Documents.
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The Issuer has entered into the Indenture and this Note is issued
with the intention that, for purposes of federal and state income tax, franchise
tax and any other tax measured in whole or in part by income, the Notes will
qualify as indebtedness secured by the Trust Estate. Each Noteholder, by
acceptance of a Note (and each Note Owner by acceptance of a beneficial interest
in a Note), agrees to treat the Notes for such purposes as indebtedness.
This Note, or any interest therein, may not be transferred to an
"employee benefit plan" within the meaning of Section 3(3) of ERISA that is
subject to ERISA, a "plan" described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code, any
entity that is deemed to hold "plan assets" of any of the foregoing by reason of
an employee benefit plan's or other plan's investment in such entity, or any
governmental plan subject to applicable law that is substantially similar to the
fiduciary responsibility provisions of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, unless
such transferee represents, warrants and covenants that its purchase and holding
of this note is and will be eligible for, and satisfies and will satisfy all the
requirements of, Department of Labor prohibited transaction class exemption
("PTE") 90-1; PTE 96-23; PTE 95-60; PTE 91-38; PTE 84-14 or another applicable
prohibited transaction exemption (or in the case of a governmental plan, will
not violate any applicable law that is substantially similar to ERISA or Section
4975 of the Code). By its acquisition of this Note in book-entry form or any
interest therein, each transferee will be deemed to have represented, warranted
and covenanted that it satisfies the foregoing requirements and the Indenture
Trustee may relay conclusively on the same for purposes hereof.
Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer of this
Note, the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the
Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Note (as of the day of
determination or as of such other date as may be specified in the Indenture) is
registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be
overdue, and none of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee or any such agent shall
be affected by notice to the contrary.
The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided,
the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the
Issuer and the rights of the Holders of the Notes under the Indenture at any
time by the Issuer with the consent of the Holders of Notes or the Controlling
Class of Notes, as applicable, representing a majority of the Outstanding Amount
of all Notes or Controlling Class of Notes at the time Outstanding. The
Indenture also contains provisions permitting Holders of Notes representing
specified percentages of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class of
Notes, on behalf of the Holders of all the Notes, to waive compliance by the
Issuer with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under
the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder
of this Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) shall be conclusive and
binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any
Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in
lieu hereof whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this
Note. The Indenture also permits the Indenture Trustee to amend or waive certain
terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture without the consent of Holders
of the Notes issued thereunder.
The term "Issuer" as used in this Note includes any successor to the
Issuer under the Indenture.
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The Notes are issuable only in registered form in denominations as
provided in the Indenture, subject to certain limitations therein set forth.
This Note and the Indenture shall be construed in accordance with the
laws of the State of New York, without reference to its conflict of law
provisions, and the obligations, rights and remedies of the parties hereunder
and thereunder shall be determined in accordance with such laws.
No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or
of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Issuer, which is
absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and interest on this Note at
the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency herein prescribed.
Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, except as expressly
provided in the Basic Documents, none of Wilmington Trust Company in its
individual capacity, The Chase Manhattan Bank in its individual capacity, any
owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, the Seller, the Servicer, or any
of their respective partners, beneficiaries, agents, officers, directors,
employees or successors or assigns shall be personally liable for, nor shall
recourse be had to any of them for, the payment of principal of or interest on
this Note or performance of, or omission to perform, any of the covenants,
obligations or indemnifications contained in the Indenture. The Holder of this
Note by its acceptance hereof agrees that, except as expressly provided in the
Basic Documents, in the case of an Event of Default under the Indenture, the
Holder shall have no claim against any of the foregoing for any deficiency, loss
or claim therefrom; provided, however, that nothing contained herein shall be
taken to prevent recourse to, and enforcement against, the assets of the Issuer
for any and all liabilities, obligations and undertakings contained in the
Indenture or in this Note.
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ASSIGNMENT
Social Security or taxpayer I.D. or other identifying number of assignee:
--------------------------------------------------
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and
transfers unto:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(name and address of assignee)
the within Note and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably constitutes
and appoints ____________________________________________, attorney, to transfer
said Note on the books kept for registration thereof, with full power of
substitution in the premises.
Dated: */
Signature Guaranteed:
*/
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*/ NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name
of the registered owner as it appears on the face of the within Note in
every particular, without alteration, enlargement or any change
whatsoever. Such signature must be guaranteed by an "eligible guarantor
institution" meeting the requirements of the Note Registrar, which
requirements include membership or participation in STAMP or such other
"signature guarantee program" as may be determined by the Note Registrar
in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
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EXHIBIT A-4
[FORM OF CLASS A-4 NOTE]
UNLESS THIS NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION ("DTC"), NEW YORK, NEW YORK, TO
THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND
ANY NOTE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS
REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO
CEDE & CO., OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED
REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC) ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR
OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER
HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.
THE PRINCIPAL OF THIS NOTE IS PAYABLE IN INSTALLMENTS AS SET FORTH
HEREIN. ACCORDINGLY, THE OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THIS NOTE AT ANY TIME
MAY BE LESS THAN THE AMOUNT SHOWN ON THE FACE HEREOF.
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REGISTERED $_____________ (4)
No. R-________ CUSIP NO. _________
BMW VEHICLE OWNER TRUST 2001-A
5.11% ASSET BACKED NOTE, CLASS A-4
BMW VEHICLE OWNER TRUST 2001-A, a business trust organized and
existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein referred to as the
"Issuer"), for value received, hereby promises to pay to ____________________,
or registered assigns, the principal sum of __________ DOLLARS, payable on each
Payment Date in an amount equal to the result obtained by multiplying (i) a
fraction the numerator of which is $ [INSERT INITIAL PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF NOTE]
and the denominator of which is $274,000,000 by (ii) the aggregate amount, if
any, payable from the Note Distribution Account in respect of principal on the
Class A-4 Notes pursuant to Section 3.01 of the Indenture dated as of May 1,
2001 (the "Indenture"), between the Issuer and The Chase Manhattan Bank, a New
York banking corporation, as Indenture Trustee (the "Indenture Trustee");
provided, however, that the entire unpaid principal amount of this Note shall be
due and payable on the earlier of May 2006 (the "Class A-4 Final Scheduled
Payment Date") and the Redemption Date, if any, pursuant to Section 10.01 of the
Indenture. No payments of principal of the Class A-4 Notes shall be made until
the Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes and the Class A-3 Notes have been paid
in full. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein are defined in the
Indenture, which also contains rules as to construction that shall be applicable
herein.
The Issuer will pay interest on this Note at the rate per annum set
forth above, on each Payment Date until the principal of this Note is paid or
made available for payment, on the principal amount of this Note outstanding on
the preceding Payment Date (after giving effect to all payments of principal
made on the preceding Payment Date), subject to certain limitations contained in
Section 3.01 of the Indenture. Interest on this Note will accrue for each
Payment Date from and including the 25th day of the month preceding the month of
such Payment Date (in the case of the first Payment Date, from the Closing Date)
to but excluding the 25th day of the month of such Payment Date. Interest will
be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Such
principal of and interest on this Note shall be paid in the manner specified on
the reverse hereof.
The principal of and interest on this Note are payable in such coin
or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal
tender for payment of public and private debts. All payments made by the Issuer
with respect to this Note shall be applied first to interest due and payable on
this Note as provided above and then to the unpaid principal of this Note.
Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on
the reverse hereof, which shall have the same effect as though fully set forth
on the face of this Note.
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(4) Denominations of $1,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.
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Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by
the Indenture Trustee whose name appears below by manual signature, this Note
shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture, or be valid or
obligatory for any purpose.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer has caused this instrument to be
signed, manually or in facsimile, by its Authorized Officer, as of the date set
forth below.
Date: BMW VEHICLE OWNER TRUST 2001-A
By: WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, not in its individual
capacity but solely as Owner Trustee under the
Trust Agreement,
By: _________________________________
Authorized Signatory
TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Notes designated above and referred to in the
within-mentioned Indenture.
Date: THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK, not in its individual
capacity but solely as Indenture Trustee,
By: _________________________________
Authorized Signatory
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REVERSE OF CLASS A-4 NOTE
This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Issuer,
designated as its 5.11% Asset Backed Notes, Class A-4 (herein called the "Class
A-4 Notes"), all issued under the Indenture, to which Indenture and all
indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the
respective rights and obligations thereunder of the Issuer, the Indenture
Trustee and the Holders of the Notes. The Class A-4 Notes are subject to all
terms of the Indenture.
The Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes, the Class A-3 Notes and the
Class A-4 Notes (collectively, the "Class A Notes" and together with the Class B
Notes, the "Notes") are and will be secured by the collateral pledged as
security therefor as provided in the Indenture.
Principal of the Class A-4 Notes will be payable on each Payment Date
in an amount described on the face hereof only after the Class A-1 Notes and the
Class A-2 Notes and the Class A-3 Notes are paid in full and have no Principal
Balance. "Payment Date" means the 25th day of each month, or, if any such date
is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day, commencing June 25,
2001.
As described above, the entire unpaid principal amount of this Note
shall be due and payable on the Class A-4 Final Scheduled Payment Date.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if an Event of Default occurs, the Indenture
Trustee or the Holders of Notes representing not less than a majority of the
Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class of Notes have declared the Notes to
be immediately due and payable in the manner provided in Section 5.02 of the
Indenture. All principal payments on the Class A-4 Notes shall be made pro rata
to the Class A-4 Noteholders entitled thereto.
Payments of interest on this Note due and payable on each Payment
Date, together with the installment of principal, if any, to the extent not in
full payment of this Note, shall be made by check mailed to the Person whose
name appears as the Registered Holder of this Note (or one or more Predecessor
Notes) on the Note Register as of the close of business on each Record Date,
except that with respect to Notes registered on the Record Date in the name of
the nominee of the Clearing Agency (initially, such nominee to be Cede & Co.),
payments will be made by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the
account designated by such nominee. Such checks shall be mailed to the Person
entitled thereto at the address of such Person as it appears on the Note
Register as of the applicable Record Date without requiring that this Note be
submitted for notation of payment. Any reduction in the principal amount of this
Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) effected by any payments made on any
Payment Date shall be binding upon all future Holders of this Note and of any
Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in
lieu hereof, whether or not noted hereon. If funds are expected to be available,
as provided in the Indenture, for payment in full of the then remaining unpaid
principal amount of this Note on a Payment Date, then the Indenture Trustee, in
the name of and on behalf of the Issuer, will notify the Person who was the
Registered Holder hereof as of the Record Date preceding such Payment Date by
notice mailed or transmitted by facsimile prior to such Payment Date, and the
amount then due and payable shall be payable only upon presentation and
surrender of this Note at the Indenture Trustee's principal Corporate Trust
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Office or at the office of the Indenture Trustee's agent appointed for such
purposes located in The City of New York.
The Issuer shall pay interest on overdue installments of interest at
the Class A-4 Rate to the extent lawful.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to the limitations set forth
therein and on the face hereof, the transfer of this Note may be registered on
the Note Register upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at
the office or agency designated by the Issuer pursuant to the Indenture, duly
endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form
satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee duly executed by, the Holder hereof or
such Holder's attorney duly authorized in writing, with such signature
guaranteed by an "eligible guarantor institution" meeting the requirements of
the Note Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in
the Securities Transfer Agent's Medallion Program ("STAMP") or such other
"signature guarantee program" as may be determined by the Note Registrar in
addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and thereupon one or more new Notes
of authorized denominations and in the same aggregate principal amount will be
issued to the designated transferee or transferees. No service charge will be
charged for any registration of transfer or exchange of this Note, but the
transferor may be required to pay a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any such registration
of transfer or exchange subject to certain exceptions set forth in the
Indenture.
Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by acceptance of a Note or, in the
case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a Note, covenants and agrees that
no recourse may be taken, directly or indirectly, with respect to the
obligations of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee on the
Notes or under the Indenture or any certificate or other writing delivered in
connection therewith, against (i) the Seller, the Servicer, the Indenture
Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity, (ii) any owner of a
beneficial interest in the Issuer, including the Seller or (iii) any partner,
owner, beneficiary, agent, officer, director or employee of the Seller, the
Servicer, Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity, any
holder of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, the Seller, the Servicer, the
Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee or of any successor or assign of the
Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity, except as any
such Person may have expressly agreed and except that any such partner, owner or
beneficiary shall be fully liable, to the extent provided by applicable law, for
any unpaid consideration for stock, unpaid capital contribution or failure to
pay any installment or call owing to such entity.
Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by acceptance of a Note or, in the
case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a Note, covenants and agrees by
accepting the benefits of the Indenture that such Noteholder or Note Owner will
not at any time institute against the Issuer, or join in any institution against
the Issuer of, any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or
liquidation proceedings under any United States federal or state bankruptcy or
similar law in connection with any obligations relating to the Notes, the
Indenture or the other Basic Documents.
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The Issuer has entered into the Indenture and this Note is issued
with the intention that, for purposes of federal and state income tax, franchise
tax and any other tax measured in whole or in part by income, the Notes will
qualify as indebtedness secured by the Trust Estate. Each Noteholder, by
acceptance of a Note (and each Note Owner by acceptance of a beneficial interest
in a Note), agrees to treat the Notes for such purposes as indebtedness.
This Note, or any interest therein, may not be transferred to an
"employee benefit plan" within the meaning of Section 3(3) of ERISA that is
subject to ERISA, a "plan" described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code, any
entity that is deemed to hold "plan assets" of any of the foregoing by reason of
an employee benefit plan's or other plan's investment in such entity, or any
governmental plan subject to applicable law that is substantially similar to the
fiduciary responsibility provisions of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, unless
such transferee represents, warrants and covenants that its purchase and holding
of this note is and will be eligible for, and satisfies and will satisfy all the
requirements of, Department of Labor prohibited transaction class exemption
("PTE") 90-1; PTE 96-23; PTE 95-60; PTE 91-38; PTE 84-14 or another applicable
prohibited transaction exemption (or in the case of a governmental plan, will
not violate any applicable law that is substantially similar to ERISA or Section
4975 of the Code). By its acquisition of this Note in book-entry form or any
interest therein, each transferee will be deemed to have represented, warranted
and covenanted that it satisfies the foregoing requirements and the Indenture
Trustee may relay conclusively on the same for purposes hereof.
Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer of this
Note, the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the
Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Note (as of the day of
determination or as of such other date as may be specified in the Indenture) is
registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be
overdue, and none of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee or any such agent shall
be affected by notice to the contrary.
The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided,
the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the
Issuer and the rights of the Holders of the Notes under the Indenture at any
time by the Issuer with the consent of the Holders of Notes or the Controlling
Class of Notes, as applicable, representing a majority of the Outstanding Amount
of all Notes or Controlling Class of Notes at the time Outstanding. The
Indenture also contains provisions permitting Holders of Notes representing
specified percentages of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class of
Notes, on behalf of the Holders of all the Notes, to waive compliance by the
Issuer with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under
the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder
of this Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) shall be conclusive and
binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any
Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in
lieu hereof whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this
Note. The Indenture also permits the Indenture Trustee to amend or waive certain
terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture without the consent of Holders
of the Notes issued thereunder.
The term "Issuer" as used in this Note includes any successor to the
Issuer under the Indenture.
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The Notes are issuable only in registered form in denominations as
provided in the Indenture, subject to certain limitations therein set forth.
This Note and the Indenture shall be construed in accordance with the
laws of the State of New York, without reference to its conflict of law
provisions, and the obligations, rights and remedies of the parties hereunder
and thereunder shall be determined in accordance with such laws.
No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or
of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Issuer, which is
absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and interest on this Note at
the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency herein prescribed.
Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, except as expressly
provided in the Basic Documents, none of Wilmington Trust Company in its
individual capacity, The Chase Manhattan Bank in its individual capacity, any
owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, the Seller, the Servicer, or any
of their respective partners, beneficiaries, agents, officers, directors,
employees or successors or assigns shall be personally liable for, nor shall
recourse be had to any of them for, the payment of principal of or interest on
this Note or performance of, or omission to perform, any of the covenants,
obligations or indemnifications contained in the Indenture. The Holder of this
Note by its acceptance hereof agrees that, except as expressly provided in the
Basic Documents, in the case of an Event of Default under the Indenture, the
Holder shall have no claim against any of the foregoing for any deficiency, loss
or claim therefrom; provided, however, that nothing contained herein shall be
taken to prevent recourse to, and enforcement against, the assets of the Issuer
for any and all liabilities, obligations and undertakings contained in the
Indenture or in this Note.
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ASSIGNMENT
Social Security or taxpayer I.D. or other identifying number of assignee:
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FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and
transfers unto:
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(name and address of assignee)
the within Note and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably constitutes
and appoints ____________________________________________, attorney, to transfer
said Note on the books kept for registration thereof, with full power of
substitution in the premises.
Dated: */
Signature Guaranteed:
*/
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*/ NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name
of the registered owner as it appears on the face of the within Note in
every particular, without alteration, enlargement or any change
whatsoever. Such signature must be guaranteed by an "eligible guarantor
institution" meeting the requirements of the Note Registrar, which
requirements include membership or participation in STAMP or such other
"signature guarantee program" as may be determined by the Note Registrar
in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
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EXHIBIT A-5
[FORM OF CLASS B NOTE]
UNLESS THIS NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION ("DTC"), NEW YORK, NEW YORK, TO
THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND
ANY NOTE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS
REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO
CEDE & CO., OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED
REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC) ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR
OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER
HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.
THE PRINCIPAL OF THIS NOTE IS PAYABLE IN INSTALLMENTS AS SET FORTH
HEREIN. ACCORDINGLY, THE OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THIS NOTE AT ANY TIME
MAY BE LESS THAN THE AMOUNT SHOWN ON THE FACE HEREOF.
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REGISTERED $_____________ (5)
No. R-________ CUSIP NO. _________
BMW VEHICLE OWNER TRUST 2001-A
5.46% ASSET BACKED NOTE, CLASS B
BMW VEHICLE OWNER TRUST 2001-A, a business trust organized and
existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein referred to as the
"Issuer"), for value received, hereby promises to pay to ____________________,
or registered assigns, the principal sum of __________ DOLLARS, payable on each
Payment Date in an amount equal to the result obtained by multiplying (i) a
fraction the numerator of which is $ [INSERT INITIAL PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF NOTE]
and the denominator of which is $31,800,000 by (ii) the aggregate amount, if
any, payable from the Note Distribution Account in respect of principal on the
Class B Notes pursuant to Section 3.01 of the Indenture dated as of May 1, 2001
(the "Indenture"), between the Issuer and The Chase Manhattan Bank, a New York
banking corporation, as Indenture Trustee (the "Indenture Trustee"); provided,
however, that the entire unpaid principal amount of this Note shall be due and
payable on the earlier of November 2007 (the "Class B Final Scheduled Payment
Date") and the Redemption Date, if any, pursuant to Section 10.01 of the
Indenture. No payments of principal of the Class B Notes shall be made until the
Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes, the Class A-3 Notes and Class A-4 Notes
have been paid in full. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein are
defined in the Indenture, which also contains rules as to construction that
shall be applicable herein.
The Issuer will pay interest on this Note at the rate per annum set
forth above, on each Payment Date until the principal of this Note is paid or
made available for payment, on the principal amount of this Note outstanding on
the preceding Payment Date (after giving effect to all payments of principal
made on the preceding Payment Date), subject to certain limitations contained in
Section 3.01 of the Indenture. Interest on this Note will accrue for each
Payment Date from and including the 25th day of the month preceding the month of
such Payment Date (in the case of the first Payment Date, from the Closing Date)
to but excluding the 25th day of the month of such Payment Date. Interest will
be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Such
principal of and interest on this Note shall be paid in the manner specified on
the reverse hereof.
The principal of and interest on this Note are payable in such coin
or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal
tender for payment of public and private debts. All payments made by the Issuer
with respect to this Note shall be applied first to interest due and payable on
this Note as provided above and then to the unpaid principal of this Note.
Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on
the reverse hereof, which shall have the same effect as though fully set forth
on the face of this Note.
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(5) Denominations of $1,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.
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Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by
the Indenture Trustee whose name appears below by manual signature, this Note
shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture, or be valid or
obligatory for any purpose.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer has caused this instrument to be
signed, manually or in facsimile, by its Authorized Officer, as of the date set
forth below.
Date: BMW VEHICLE OWNER TRUST 2001-A
By: WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, not in its individual
capacity but solely as Owner Trustee under the
Trust Agreement,
By: _________________________________
Authorized Signatory
TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Notes designated above and referred to in the
within-mentioned Indenture.
Date: THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK, not in its individual
capacity but solely as Indenture Trustee,
By: _________________________________
Authorized Signatory
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REVERSE OF CLASS B NOTE
This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Issuer,
designated as its 5.46% Asset Backed Notes, Class B (herein called the "Class B
Notes"), all issued under the Indenture, to which Indenture and all indentures
supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective
rights and obligations thereunder of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the
Holders of the Notes. The Class B Notes are subject to all terms of the
Indenture.
The Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes, the Class A-3 Notes, the
Class A-4 Notes (collectively, the "Class A Notes") and the Class B Notes (the
"Class B Notes" and together with the Class A Notes, the "Notes") are and will
be secured by the collateral pledged as security therefor as provided in the
Indenture. The Class B Notes are subordinated in right of payment to the Class A
Notes, to the extent provided in the Indenture.
Principal of the Class B Notes will be payable on each Payment Date
in an amount described on the face hereof only after the Class A Notes are paid
in full and have no Principal Balance. "Payment Date" means the 25th day of each
month, or, if any such date is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business
Day, commencing June 25, 2001.
As described above, the entire unpaid principal amount of this Note
shall be due and payable on the earlier of the Class B Final Scheduled Payment
Date and the Redemption Date, if any, pursuant to Section 10.01 of the
Indenture. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if an Event of Default occurs, the
Indenture Trustee or the Holders of Notes representing not less than a majority
of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class of Notes have declared the
Notes to be immediately due and payable in the manner provided in Section 5.02
of the Indenture. All principal payments on the Class B Notes shall be made pro
rata to the Class B Noteholders entitled thereto.
Payments of interest on this Note due and payable on each Payment
Date, together with the installment of principal, if any, to the extent not in
full payment of this Note, shall be made by check mailed to the Person whose
name appears as the Registered Holder of this Note (or one or more Predecessor
Notes) on the Note Register as of the close of business on each Record Date,
except that with respect to Notes registered on the Record Date in the name of
the nominee of the Clearing Agency (initially, such nominee to be Cede & Co.),
payments will be made by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the
account designated by such nominee. Such checks shall be mailed to the Person
entitled thereto at the address of such Person as it appears on the Note
Register as of the applicable Record Date without requiring that this Note be
submitted for notation of payment. Any reduction in the principal amount of this
Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) effected by any payments made on any
Payment Date shall be binding upon all future Holders of this Note and of any
Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in
lieu hereof, whether or not noted hereon. If funds are expected to be available,
as provided in the Indenture, for payment in full of the then remaining unpaid
principal amount of this Note on a Payment Date, then the Indenture Trustee, in
the name of and on behalf of the Issuer, will notify the Person who was the
Registered Holder hereof as of the Record Date preceding such Payment Date by
notice mailed or transmitted by facsimile prior to such Payment Date, and the
amount then due and payable shall be payable only upon presentation and
surrender of this Note at the Indenture Trustee's principal Corporate Trust
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Office or at the office of the Indenture Trustee's agent appointed for such
purposes located in The City of New York.
The Issuer shall pay interest on overdue installments of interest at
the Class B Rate to the extent lawful.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to the limitations set forth
therein and on the face hereof, the transfer of this Note may be registered on
the Note Register upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at
the office or agency designated by the Issuer pursuant to the Indenture, duly
endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form
satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee duly executed by, the Holder hereof or
such Holder's attorney duly authorized in writing, with such signature
guaranteed by an "eligible guarantor institution" meeting the requirements of
the Note Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in
the Securities Transfer Agent's Medallion Program ("STAMP") or such other
"signature guarantee program" as may be determined by the Note Registrar in
addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and thereupon one or more new Notes
of authorized denominations and in the same aggregate principal amount will be
issued to the designated transferee or transferees. No service charge will be
charged for any registration of transfer or exchange of this Note, but the
transferor may be required to pay a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any such registration
of transfer or exchange subject to certain exceptions set forth in the
Indenture.
Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by acceptance of a Note or, in the
case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a Note, covenants and agrees that
no recourse may be taken, directly or indirectly, with respect to the
obligations of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee on the
Notes or under the Indenture or any certificate or other writing delivered in
connection therewith, against (i) the Seller, the Servicer, the Indenture
Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity, (ii) any owner of a
beneficial interest in the Issuer, including the Seller or (iii) any partner,
owner, beneficiary, agent, officer, director or employee of the Seller, the
Servicer, Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity, any
holder of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, the Seller, the Servicer, the
Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee or of any successor or assign of the
Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity, except as any
such Person may have expressly agreed and except that any such partner, owner or
beneficiary shall be fully liable, to the extent provided by applicable law, for
any unpaid consideration for stock, unpaid capital contribution or failure to
pay any installment or call owing to such entity.
Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by acceptance of a Note or, in the
case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a Note, covenants and agrees by
accepting the benefits of the Indenture that such Noteholder or Note Owner will
not at any time institute against the Issuer, or join in any institution against
the Issuer of, any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or
liquidation proceedings under any United States federal or state bankruptcy or
similar law in connection with any obligations relating to the Notes, the
Indenture or the other Basic Documents.
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The Issuer has entered into the Indenture and this Note is issued
with the intention that, for purposes of federal and state income tax, franchise
tax and any other tax measured in whole or in part by income, the Notes will
qualify as indebtedness secured by the Trust Estate. Each Noteholder, by
acceptance of a Note (and each Note Owner by acceptance of a beneficial interest
in a Note), agrees to treat the Notes for such purposes as indebtedness.
This Note, or any interest therein, may not be transferred to an
"employee benefit plan" within the meaning of Section 3(3) of ERISA that is
subject to ERISA, a "plan" described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code, any
entity that is deemed to hold "plan assets" of any of the foregoing by reason of
an employee benefit plan's or other plan's investment in such entity, or any
governmental plan subject to applicable law that is substantially similar to the
fiduciary responsibility provisions of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, unless
such transferee represents, warrants and covenants that its purchase and holding
of this note is and will be eligible for, and satisfies and will satisfy all the
requirements of, Department of Labor prohibited transaction class exemption
("PTE") 90-1; PTE 96-23; PTE 95-60; PTE 91-38; PTE 84-14 or another applicable
prohibited transaction exemption (or in the case of a governmental plan, will
not violate any applicable law that is substantially similar to ERISA or Section
4975 of the Code). By its acquisition of this Note in book-entry form or any
interest therein, each transferee will be deemed to have represented, warranted
and covenanted that it satisfies the foregoing requirements and the Indenture
Trustee may relay conclusively on the same for purposes hereof.
Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer of this
Note, the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the
Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Note (as of the day of
determination or as of such other date as may be specified in the Indenture) is
registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be
overdue, and none of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee or any such agent shall
be affected by notice to the contrary.
The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided,
the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the
Issuer and the rights of the Holders of the Notes under the Indenture at any
time by the Issuer with the consent of the Holders of Notes or the Controlling
Class of Notes, as applicable, representing a majority of the Outstanding Amount
of all Notes or Controlling Class of Notes at the time Outstanding. The
Indenture also contains provisions permitting Holders of Notes representing
specified percentages of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class of
Notes, on behalf of the Holders of all the Notes, to waive compliance by the
Issuer with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under
the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder
of this Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) shall be conclusive and
binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any
Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in
lieu hereof whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this
Note. The Indenture also permits the Indenture Trustee to amend or waive certain
terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture without the consent of Holders
of the Notes issued thereunder.
The term "Issuer" as used in this Note includes any successor to the
Issuer under the Indenture.
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The Notes are issuable only in registered form in denominations as
provided in the Indenture, subject to certain limitations therein set forth.
This Note and the Indenture shall be construed in accordance with the
laws of the State of New York, without reference to its conflict of law
provisions, and the obligations, rights and remedies of the parties hereunder
and thereunder shall be determined in accordance with such laws.
No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or
of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Issuer, which is
absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and interest on this Note at
the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency herein prescribed.
Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, except as expressly
provided in the Basic Documents, none of Wilmington Trust Company in its
individual capacity, The Chase Manhattan Bank in its individual capacity, any
owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, the Seller, the Servicer, or any
of their respective partners, beneficiaries, agents, officers, directors,
employees or successors or assigns shall be personally liable for, nor shall
recourse be had to any of them for, the payment of principal of or interest on
this Note or performance of, or omission to perform, any of the covenants,
obligations or indemnifications contained in the Indenture. The Holder of this
Note by its acceptance hereof agrees that, except as expressly provided in the
Basic Documents, in the case of an Event of Default under the Indenture, the
Holder shall have no claim against any of the foregoing for any deficiency, loss
or claim therefrom; provided, however, that nothing contained herein shall be
taken to prevent recourse to, and enforcement against, the assets of the Issuer
for any and all liabilities, obligations and undertakings contained in the
Indenture or in this Note.
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ASSIGNMENT
Social Security or taxpayer I.D. or other identifying number of assignee:
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FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and
transfers unto:
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(name and address of assignee)
the within Note and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably constitutes
and appoints ____________________________________________, attorney, to transfer
said Note on the books kept for registration thereof, with full power of
substitution in the premises.
Dated: */
Signature Guaranteed:
*/
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*/ NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name
of the registered owner as it appears on the face of the within Note in
every particular, without alteration, enlargement or any change
whatsoever. Such signature must be guaranteed by an "eligible guarantor
institution" meeting the requirements of the Note Registrar, which
requirements include membership or participation in STAMP or such other
"signature guarantee program" as may be determined by the Note Registrar
in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
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EXHIBIT B
FORM OF NOTE DEPOSITORY AGREEMENT
[See tab 10]
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