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Exhibit 4(a)
WORTHINGTON INDUSTRIES, INC.
and
PNC BANK, OHIO, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
as Trustee
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Indenture
Dated as of May 15, 1996
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Debt Securities
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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RECITALS OF THE COMPANY............................................................................... l
ARTICLE I
Definitions
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SECTION 1.01. Certain Terms Defined................................................... 1
SECTION 1.02. Incorporation by Reference of Trust
Indenture Act .......................................................... 18
SECTION 1.03. Rules of Construction................................................... 18
ARTICLE II
Debt Securities
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SECTION 2.01. Forms Generally......................................................... 19
SECTION 2.02. Form of Trustee's Certificate of
Authentication.......................................................... 19
SECTION 2.03. Principal Amount; Issuable in
Series.................................................................. 20
SECTION 2.04. Execution of Debt Securities............................................ 23
SECTION 2.05. Authentication and Delivery of Debt
Securities.............................................................. 24
SECTION 2.06. Denomination of Debt Securities......................................... 26
SECTION 2.07. Registration of Transfer and Exchange................................... 26
SECTION 2.08. Temporary Debt Securities............................................... 27
SECTION 2.09. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen
Debt Securities......................................................... 28
SECTION 2.10. Cancellation of Surrendered Debt
Securities.............................................................. 29
SECTION 2.11. Provisions of the Indenture and Debt
Securities for the Sole Benefit of
the Parties and the Holders............................................. 30
SECTION 2.12. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights
Preserved............................................................... 30
SECTION 2.13. Securities Denominated in Foreign
Currencies.............................................................. 31
SECTION 2.14. Wire Transfers.......................................................... 31
SECTION 2.15. Securities Issuable in the Form of a
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Global Security......................................................... 31
SECTION 2.16. Medium Term Securities.................................................. 34
SECTION 2.17. Defaulted Interest...................................................... 35
SECTION 2.18. Judgments............................................................... 36
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ARTICLE III
Redemption of Debt Securities
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SECTION 3.01. Applicability of Article................................................ 37
SECTION 3.02. Notice of Redemption; Selection of
Debt Securities......................................................... 37
SECTION 3.03. Payment of Debt Securities Called for
Redemption.............................................................. 39
SECTION 3.04. Mandatory and Optional Sinking
Funds................................................................... 40
SECTION 3.05. Redemption of Debt Securities for
Sinking Fund............................................................ 40
ARTICLE IV
Particular Covenants of the Company
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SECTION 4.01. Payment of Principal of, and Premium,
If Any, and Interest on, Debt
Securities ............................................................ 43
SECTION 4.02. Maintenance of Offices or Agencies
for Registration of Transfer,
Exchange and Payment of Debt
Securities.............................................................. 43
SECTION 4.03. Appointment to Fill a Vacancy in the
Office of Trustee....................................................... 44
SECTION 4.04. Duties of Paying Agents, etc............................................ 44
SECTION 4.05. Statement by Officers as to Default..................................... 45
SECTION 4.06. Further Instruments and Acts............................................ 45
SECTION 4.07. Existence............................................................... 45
SECTION 4.08. Maintenance of Properties............................................... 46
SECTION 4.09. Payment of Taxes and Other Claims ....................................... 46
SECTION 4.10. Limitation on Liens..................................................... 46
SECTION 4.11. Limitation on Sale/Leaseback
Transactions............................................................ 47
SECTION 4.12. Limitation on Indebtedness of
Restricted Subsidiaries................................................. 47
SECTION 4.13. Limitation on Issuance of Preferred
Stock by Restricted Subsidiaries........................................ 48
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ARTICLE V
Holders' Lists and Reports by the Company and the Trustee
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SECTION 5.01. Company to Furnish Trustee
information as to Names and
Addresses of Holders; Preservation
of Information.......................................................... 48
SECTION 5.02. Communications to Holders............................................... 49
SECTION 5.03. Reports by Company...................................................... 49
SECTION 5.04. Reports by Trustee...................................................... 50
SECTION 5.05. Record Dates for Action by Holders...................................... 50
ARTICLE VI
Remedies of the Trustee and Holders in Event of Default
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SECTION 6.01. Events of Default....................................................... 51
SECTION 6.02. Collection of Indebtedness by
Trustee, etc............................................................ 55
SECTION 6.03. Application of Moneys Collected by
Trustee................................................................. 56
SECTION 6.04. Limitation on Suits by Holders.......................................... 57
SECTION 6.05. Remedies Cumulative; Delay or
Omission in Exercise of Rights Not
a Waiver of Default..................................................... 58
SECTION 6.06. Rights of Holders of Majority in
Principal Amount of Debt Securities
to Direct Trustee and to Waive
Default................................................................. 59
SECTION 6.07. Trustee to Give Notice of Defaults
Known to It, but May Withhold Such
Notice in Certain Circumstances......................................... 60
SECTION 6.08. Requirement of an Undertaking to Pay
Costs in Certain Suits Under the
Indenture or Against the Trustee........................................ 60
ARTICLE VII
Concerning the Trustee
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SECTION 7.01. Certain Duties and Responsibilities..................................... 60
SECTION 7.02. Certain Rights of Trustee............................................... 62
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SECTION 7.03. Trustee Not Liable for Recitals in
Indenture or in Debt Securities......................................... 64
SECTION 7.04. Trustee, Paying Agent or Registrar
May Own Debt Securities ................................................ 64
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SECTION 7.05. Moneys Received by Trustee to be Held
in Trust................................................................ 64
SECTION 7.06. Compensation and Reimbursement.......................................... 64
SECTION 7.07. Right of Trustee to Rely on an
Officers' Certificate Where No Other
Evidence Specifically Prescribed........................................ 65
SECTION 7.08. Separate Trustee; Replacement of
Trustee................................................................. 65
SECTION 7.09. Successor Trustee by Merger............................................. 67
SECTION 7.10. Eligibility; Disqualification........................................... 67
SECTION 7.11. Preferential Collection of Claims
Against Company......................................................... 68
SECTION 7.12. Compliance with Tax Laws................................................ 68
ARTICLE VIII
Concerning the Holders
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SECTION 8.01. Evidence of Action by Holders........................................... 68
SECTION 8.02. Proof of Execution of Instruments and
of Holding of Debt Securities........................................... 69
SECTION 8.03. Who May Be Deemed Owner of Debt
Securities.............................................................. 69
SECTION 8.04. Instruments Executed by Holders Bind
Future Holders.......................................................... 69
ARTICLE IX
Supplemental Indentures
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SECTION 9.01. Purposes for Which Supplemental
Indenture May Be Entered into
Without Consent of Holders.............................................. 70
SECTION 9.02. Modification of Indenture with
Consent of Holders of Debt
Securities.............................................................. 73
SECTION 9.03. Effect of Supplemental Indentures....................................... 74
SECTION 9.04. Debt Securities May Bear Notation
of Changes by Supplemental
Indentures.............................................................. 74
SECTION 9.05. Payment for Consent..................................................... 75
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ARTICLE X
Consolidation of, Merger, Sale or Conveyance
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SECTION 10.01. Consolidations and Mergers of the
Company................................................................. 75
SECTION 10.02. Rights and Duties of Successor
Corporation............................................................. 75
ARTICLE XI
Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture;
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Defeasance; Unclaimed Moneys
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SECTION 11.01. Applicability of Article................................................ 76
SECTION 11.02. Satisfaction and Discharge of
Indenture............................................................... 76
SECTION 11.03. Conditions to Defeasance................................................ 78
SECTION 11.04. Application of Trust Money.............................................. 79
SECTION 11.05. Repayment to Company.................................................... 79
SECTION 11.06. Indemnity for U.S. Government
Obligations............................................................. 80
SECTION 11.07. Reinstatement........................................................... 80
ARTICLE XII
Miscellaneous Provisions
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SECTION 12.01. Successors and Assigns of Company
Bound by Indenture...................................................... 80
SECTION 12.02. Acts of Board, Committee or Officer
of Successor Company Valid.............................................. 80
SECTION 12.03. Required Notices or Demands............................................. 80
SECTION 12.04. Indenture and Debt Securities to Be
Construed in Accordance with the
Laws of the State of New York........................................... 81
SECTION 12.05. Officers' Certificate and Opinion of
Counsel to Be Furnished upon
Application or Demand by the
Company................................................................. 81
SECTION 12.06. Payments Due on Legal Holidays.......................................... 82
SECTION 12.07. Provisions Required by Trust
Indenture Act to Control................................................ 82
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SECTION 12.08. Indenture May Be Executed in
Counterparts............................................................ 82
SECTION 12.09. Computation of Interest on Debt
Securities.............................................................. 83
SECTION 12.10. Effect of Headings...................................................... 83
SECTION 12.11. Rules by Trustee, Paying Agent and
Registrar............................................................... 83
SECTION 12.12. No Recourse Against Others.............................................. 83
SECTION 12.13. Severability............................................................ 83
SIGNATURES ........................................................................ 83
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WORTHINGTON INDUSTRIES, INC.
Debt Securities
CROSS REFERENCE SHEET *
This Cross Reference Sheet shows the location in the Indenture of the provisions
inserted pursuant to Sections 310-318(a), inclusive of the Trust Indenture Act
of 1939.
Indenture
TIA Section Section
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310(a)(1) .................................................................. 7.10
(a)(2) .................................................................. 7.10
(a)(3) .................................................................. 7.10
(a)(4) .................................................................. 7.10
(a)(5) .................................................................. 7.10
(b) .................................................................. 7.10
(c) .................................................................. N.A. **
311(a) .................................................................. 7.11
(b) .................................................................. 7.11
(c) .................................................................. N.A.
312(a) .................................................................. 5.01
(b) .................................................................. 5.02
(c) .................................................................. 5.02
313(a) .................................................................. 5.04
(b)(1) .................................................................. 5.04
(b)(2) .................................................................. 5.04
(c) ..................................................................12.03
(d) .................................................................. 5.04
314(a)(1) ..................................................................5.03(a)
(a)(2) ..................................................................5.03(b)
(a)(3) ..................................................................5.03(a) & (b)
& 12.03
(a)(4) ..................................................................4.05
* The Cross Reference Sheet is not part of the Indenture.
** N.A means "Not Applicable."
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Indenture
TIA Section Section
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(b) ..................................................................N.A.
(c)(1) ..................................................................12.05
(c)(2) ..................................................................12.05
(c)(3) ..................................................................N.A.
(d) ..................................................................N.A.
(e) ..................................................................12.05
(f) ..................................................................4.06
315(a) ..................................................................7.01(a)
(b) ..................................................................6.07 & 12.03
(c) ..................................................................7.01
(d) ..................................................................7.01
(e) ..................................................................6.08
316(a)(last sentence) ..................................................................1.01
(a)(1)(A) ..................................................................6.06
(a)(1)(B) ..................................................................6.06
(a)(2) ..................................................................9.01(d)
(b) ..................................................................6.04
(c) ..................................................................5.05
317(a)(1) ..................................................................6.02
(a)(2) ..................................................................6.02
(b) ..................................................................4.04
318(a) ..................................................................12.07
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INDENTURE dated as of May 15, 1996, between WORTHINGTON
INDUSTRIES, INC., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of
the State of Delaware (hereinafter sometimes called the "Company"), and PNC
Bank, Ohio, National Association, an association duly incorporated and existing
under the Federal laws of the United States (hereinafter sometimes called the
"Trustee").
RECITALS OF THE COMPANY
The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of
this Indenture to provide for the issuance from time to time of its debentures,
notes, bonds or other evidences of indebtedness to be issued in one or more
series unlimited as to principal amount (herein called the "Debt Securities"),
as in this Indenture provided.
All things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement
of the Company, in accordance with its terms, have been done.
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH
That in order to declare the terms and conditions upon which
the Debt Securities are authenticated, issued and delivered, and in
consideration of the premises, and of the purchase and acceptance of the Debt
Securities by the holders thereof, the Company and the Trustee covenant and
agree with each other, for the benefit of the respective Holders from time to
time of the Debt Securities or any series thereof, as follows:
ARTICLE I
Definitions
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SECTION 1.01. CERTAIN TERMS DEFINED. The terms defined in this
Section 1.01 (except as herein otherwise
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expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires) for all purposes of
this Indenture and of any Indenture supplemental hereto shall have the
respective meanings specified in this Section 1.01. All other terms used in this
Indenture which are defined in the Trust Indenture Act or which are by reference
therein defined in the Securities Act (except as herein otherwise expressly
provided or unless the context otherwise requires), shall have the meanings
assigned to such terms in the Trust Indenture Act and in the Securities Act as
in force as of the date of original execution of this Indenture.
"AFFILIATE" of any specified Person means any other Person,
directly or indirectly, controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect
common control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition,
"control" when used with respect to any 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 NEWSPAPER" means a newspaper in an official
language of the country of publication customarily published at least once a
day, and customarily published for at least five days in each calendar week, and
of general circulation in such city or cities specified pursuant to Section 2.03
with respect to the Debt Securities of any series. Where successive publications
are required to be made in Authorized Newspapers, the successive publications
may be made in the same or in different newspapers in the same city meeting the
foregoing requirements and in each case on any business day in such city.
"ATTRIBUTABLE INDEBTEDNESS" in respect of a Sale/Leaseback
Transaction means, as of the time of determination, (i) if the obligation in
respect of such Sale/Leaseback Transaction is a Capitalized Lease Obligation,
the amount of such obligation determined in accordance with GAAP and included in
the financial statements of the lessee or (ii) if the obligation in respect of
such Sale/Leaseback Transaction is not a Capitalized Lease Obligation, the total
Net Amount of Rent required to be paid by the lessee under such lease during the
remaining term thereof (including any period for which the lease has been
extended), discounted from the respective due dates thereof to such
determination date at the rate per annum borne by the Debt Securities compounded
semi-annually.
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"BANK INDEBTEDNESS" means any and all amounts payable under or
in respect of the Credit Agreement, as supplemented amended or modified from
time to time, including principal, premium (if any), interest (including
interest accruing on or after the filing of any petition in bankruptcy or for
reorganization relating to the Company whether or not a claim for post-filing
interest is allowed in such proceedings), fees, charges, expenses, reimbursement
obligations, guarantees and all other amounts payable thereunder or in respect
thereof.
"BANKS" means the Lenders, as such term is defined in the
Credit Agreement.
"BOARD OF DIRECTORS" means either the Board of Directors of
the Company or any duly authorized committee or subcommittee of such Board,
except as the context may otherwise require.
"BUSINESS DAY" means, when used with respect to any Place of
Payment specified pursuant to Section 2.03, any day that is not a Saturday, a
Sunday or a legal holiday or a day on which banking institutions or trust
companies in such Place of Payment are authorized or obligated by law to close,
except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 2.03.
"CAPITALIZED LEASE OBLIGATION" means an obligation that is
required to be classified and accounted for as a capitalized lease for financial
reporting purposes in accordance with GAAP; and the amount of Indebtedness
represented by such obligation shall be the capitalized amount of such
obligation determined in accordance with GAAP; and the Stated Maturity thereof
shall be the date of the last payment of rent or any other amount due under such
lease prior to the first date upon which such lease may be terminated by the
lessee without payment of a penalty.
"CAPITAL STOCK" of any Person means any and all shares,
interests, rights to purchase, warrants, options, participations or other
equivalents of or interests (including partnership interests) in (however
designated) equity of such Person, including any Preferred Stock, but excluding
any debt securities convertible into such equity.
"COMMODITY PRICE PROTECTION AGREEMENT" means, in respect of
any Person, any forward contract, commodity swap
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agreement, commodity option agreement or other similar agreement or arrangement
designed to protect such Person against fluctuations in commodity prices.
"COMMON STOCK" means the common shares, $.01 par value per
share, of the Company, which shares are currently traded over-the-counter on the
NASDAQ National Market.
"COMPANY" means Worthington Industries, Inc., a Delaware
corporation, and, subject to the provisions of Article X, shall also include its
successors and assigns.
"COMPANY ORDER" means a written order of the Company, signed
by its Chairman of the Board, Vice Chairman, President or any Vice President and
by its Treasurer, Secretary, any Assistant Treasurer or any Assistant Secretary.
"CONSOLIDATED NET TANGIBLE ASSETS" means, as of any date of
determination, the sum of the amounts that would appear on a consolidated
balance sheet of the Company and its Subsidiaries for the total assets (less
accumulated depletion, depreciation or amortization, allowances for doubtful
receivables, other applicable reserves and other properly deductible items) of
the Company and its Subsidiaries, determined on a consolidated basis in
accordance with GAAP, after giving effect to purchase accounting and after
deducting therefrom, to the extent included in total assets, in each case as
determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP (without
duplication): (i) the aggregate amount of liabilities of the Company and its
Subsidiaries which may properly be classified as current liabilities (including
taxes accrued as estimated); (ii) current Indebtedness and current maturities of
long-term Indebtedness; (iii) minority interests in the Company's subsidiaries
held by Persons other than the Company or a wholly owned Subsidiary of the
Company; and (iv) unamortized debt discount and expenses and other unamortized
deferred charges, goodwill, patents, trademarks, service marks, trade names,
copyrights, licenses, organization or developmental expenses and other
intangible items.
"CONSOLIDATED NET WORTH" means the total of the amount shown
on the balance sheet of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries,
determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, as of the end of the
most recent fiscal quarter of the Company ending at least 45 days prior to the
taking of any action
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for the purpose of which the determination is being made, as (i) the par or
stated value of all outstanding Capital Stock of the Company plus (ii) paid-in
capital or capital surplus relating to such Capital Stock plus (iii) any
retained earnings or earned surplus less (A) any accumulated deficit and (B) any
amounts attributable to Disqualified Stock.
"CORPORATE TRUST OFFICE OF THE TRUSTEE" or other similar term
means the office of the Trustee at which the corporate trust business of the
Trustee shall, at any particular time, be principally administered in the United
States of America, except that with respect to the presentation of Debt
Securities for payment or for registration of transfer and exchange, such term
shall also mean the office of the Trustee or the Trustee's agent in the Borough
of Manhattan, the city and state of New York, at which at any particular time
its corporate agency business shall be conducted.
"CREDIT AGREEMENT" means the Credit Facility Agreement dated
as of April 28, 1995, among the Company and certain of its subsidiaries, each as
a Borrower, and the Lenders party thereto, as supplemented, amended or modified
from time to time.
"CURRENCY" means Dollars or Foreign Currency.
"CURRENCY EXCHANGE PROTECTION AGREEMENT" means, in respect of
any Person, any foreign exchange contract, currency swap agreement, currency
option or other similar agreement or arrangement designed to protect such Person
against fluctuations in currency exchange rates.
"DEBT SECURITY" or "DEBT SECURITIES" has the meaning stated in
the first recital of this Indenture and more particularly means any debt
security or debt securities, as the case may be of any series authenticated and
delivered under this Indenture.
"DEFAULT" means any event which is, or after notice or passage
of time or both would be, an Event of Default.
"DEPOSITARY" means, unless otherwise specified by the Company
pursuant to either Section 2.03 or 2.15, with respect to registered Debt
Securities of any series issuable or issued in whole or in part in the form of
one or more Global Securities, The Depository Trust Company, New York, New York,
or any
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successor thereto registered as a clearing agency under the Exchange Act or
other applicable statute or regulations.
"DISQUALIFIED STOCK" of a Person means Redeemable Stock of
such Person as to which the maturity, mandatory redemption, conversion or
exchange or redemption at the option of the holder thereof occurs, or may occur,
on or prior to the first anniversary of the Stated Maturity of the Debt
Securities.
"DOLLAR" or "$" means such currency of the United States as at
the time of payment is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts.
"DOLLAR EQUIVALENT" means, with respect to any monetary amount
in a Foreign Currency, at any time for the determination thereof, the amount of
Dollars obtained by converting such Foreign Currency involved in such
computation into Dollars at the spot rate for the purchase of Dollars with the
applicable Foreign Currency as quoted by Bankers Trust Company (unless another
comparable financial institution is designated by the Company) in New York, New
York at approximately 11:00 a.m. (New York time) on the date two business days
prior to such determination.
"EUROPEAN CURRENCY UNITS" has the meaning assigned to it from
time to time by the Council of the European Communities.
"EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES" means the European Economic Community,
the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Atomic Energy Community.
"EVENT OF DEFAULT" has the meaning specified in Section 6.01.
"EXCHANGE ACT" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended.
"FLOATING RATE SECURITY" means a Debt Security that provides
for the payment of interest at a variable rate determined periodically by
reference to an interest rate index specified pursuant to Section 2.03.
"FOREIGN CURRENCY" means a currency issued by the government
of any country other than the United States or a composite currency the value of
which is determined by reference to the values of the currencies of any group of
countries.
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"GAAP" means generally accepted accounting principles in the
United States as in effect as of the date on which the Debt Securities of the
applicable series are issued, including those set forth in the opinions and
pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board of the American Institute of
Certified Public Accountants and statements and pronouncements of the Financial
Accounting Standards Board or in such other statements by such other entity as
approved by a significant segment of the accounting profession. All ratios and
computations based on GAAP contained in this Indenture shall be computed in
conformity with GAAP consistently applied.
"GLOBAL SECURITY" means with respect to any series of Debt
Securities issued hereunder, a Debt Security which is executed by the Company
and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee to the Depositary or pursuant to
the Depositary's instruction, all in accordance with this Indenture and any
Indentures supplemental hereto, or resolution of the Board of Directors and set
forth in an Officers' Certificate, which shall be registered in the name of the
Depositary or its nominee and which shall represent, and shall be denominated in
an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of, all the Outstanding Debt
Securities of such series or any portion thereof, in either case having the same
terms, including, without limitation, the same original issue date, date or
dates on which principal is due and interest rate or method of determining
interest.
"GOVERNMENT CONTRACT LIEN" means any Lien required by any
contract, statute, regulation or order in order to permit the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries to perform any contract or subcontract made by it with or at
the request of the United States or any State thereof or any department, agency
or instrumentality of either or to secure partial, progress, advance or other
payments by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to the United States or any
State thereof or any department agency or instrumentality of either pursuant to
the provisions of any contract, statute, regulation or order.
"GUARANTEE" means any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of
any Person directly or indirectly guaranteeing any Indebtedness or other
obligation of any other Person and any obligation, direct or indirect,
contingent or otherwise, of such Person (i) to purchase or pay (or advance or
supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Indebtedness or other
obligation of
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such other Person (whether arising by virtue of partnership arrangements, or by
agreement to keep-well, to purchase assets, goods, securities or services, to
take-or-pay, or to maintain financial statement conditions or otherwise) or (ii)
entered into for purposes of assuring in any other manner the obligee of such
Indebtedness or other obligation of the payment thereof or to protect such
obligee against loss in respect thereof (in whole or in part); PROVIDED,
HOWEVER, that the term "Guarantee" shall not include endorsements for collection
or deposit in the ordinary course of business. The term "Guarantee" used as a
verb has a corresponding meaning.
"HEDGING OBLIGATIONS" of any Person means the obligations of
such Person pursuant to any Interest Rate Protection Agreement, Currency
Exchange Protection Agreement or Commodity Price Protection Agreement or other
similar agreement.
"HOLDER," "HOLDER OF DEBT SECURITIES" or other similar terms
means, with respect to a Registered Security, the Registered Holder.
"INCUR" means issue, assume, Guarantee, incur or otherwise
become liable for; PROVIDED, however, that any Indebtedness or Capital Stock of
a Person existing at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary (whether by
merger, consolidation, acquisition or otherwise) shall be deemed to be incurred
by such Subsidiary at the time it becomes a Subsidiary. The terms "Incurred",
"Incurrence" and "Incurring" shall each have a correlative meaning.
"INDEBTEDNESS" means, with respect to any Person on any date
of determination (without duplication),
(i) the principal of Indebtedness of such Person for borrowed
money;
(ii) the principal of obligations of such Person evidenced by
bonds, debentures, notes or other similar instruments;
(iii) all Capitalized Lease Obligations of such Person;
(iv) all obligations of such Person to pay the deferred and
unpaid purchase price of property or services (except Trade Payables);
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(v) all obligations of such Person in respect of letters of
credit, banker's acceptances or other similar instruments or credit
transactions (including reimbursement obligations with respect
thereto), other than obligations with respect to letters of credit
securing obligations (other than obligations described in (i) through
(iv) above) entered into in the ordinary course of business of such
Person to the extent such letters of credit are not drawn upon or, if
and to the extent drawn upon, such drawing is reimbursed no later than
the third business day following receipt by such Person of a demand for
reimbursement following payment on the letter of credit;
(vi) the amount of all obligations of such Person with respect
to the redemption, repayment or other repurchase of any Disqualified
Stock or, with respect to any Subsidiary of the Company, any Preferred
Stock (but excluding, in each case, any accrued dividends);
(vii) all Indebtedness of other Persons secured by a Lien on
any asset of such Person, whether or not such Indebtedness is assumed
by such Person; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the amount of such Indebtedness
shall be the lesser of (A) the fair market value of such asset at such
date of determination and (B) the amount of such Indebtedness of such
other Persons;
(viii) all Indebtedness of other Persons to the extent
Guaranteed by such Person; and
(ix) to the extent not otherwise included in this definition,
obligations in respect of Hedging Obligations except those secured by
Permitted Liens.
For purposes of this definition, the maximum fixed redemption, repayment or
repurchase price of any Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock that does not have
a fixed redemption, repayment or repurchase price shall be calculated in
accordance with the terms of such Stock as if such Stock were redeemed, repaid
or repurchased on any date on which Indebtedness shall be required to be
determined pursuant to this Indenture; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that if such Stock is
not then permitted to be redeemed, repaid or repurchased, the redemption,
repayment or repurchase price shall be the book value of such Stock as reflected
in the most
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recent financial statements of such Person. The amount of Indebtedness of any
Person at any date shall be the outstanding balance at such date of all
unconditional obligations as described above and the maximum liability, upon the
occurrence of the contingency giving rise to the obligation, of any contingent
obligations at such date.
"INDENTURE" means this instrument as originally executed, or,
if amended or supplemented as herein provided, as so amended or supplemented and
shall include the form and terms of particular series of Debt Securities as
contemplated hereunder, whether or not a supplemental Indenture is entered into
with respect thereto.
"INTEREST RATE PROTECTION AGREEMENT" means, in respect of any
Person, any interest rate swap agreement, interest rate option agreement,
interest rate cap agreement, interest rate collar agreement, interest rate floor
agreement or other similar agreement or arrangement designed to protect such
Person against fluctuations in interest rate.
"LIEN" means any mortgage, pledge, security interest,
encumbrance, lien or charge of any kind (including any conditional sale or other
title retention agreement or lease in the nature thereof).
"NET AMOUNT OF RENT" as to any lease for any period means the
aggregate amount of rent payable by the lessee with respect to such period after
excluding amounts required to be paid on account of maintenance and repairs,
insurance, taxes, assessments, water rates and similar charges. In the case of
any lease that is terminable by the lessee upon the payment of a penalty, such
net amount shall also include the amount of such penalty, but no rent shall be
considered as payable under such lease subsequent to the first date upon which
it may be so terminated.
"OFFICERS' CERTIFICATE" means a certificate signed by the
Chairman of the Board, the Vice Chairman, the President or any Vice President
and by the Treasurer, the Secretary or any Assistant Treasurer or Assistant
Secretary of the Company each such certificate shall include the statements
provided for in Section 12.05, if applicable.
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"OPINION OF COUNSEL" means an opinion in writing signed by
legal counsel for the Company (which counsel may be an employee of the Company),
or outside counsel for the Company. Each such opinion shall include the
statements provided for in Section 12.05, if applicable.
"ORIGINAL ISSUE DISCOUNT DEBT SECURITY" means any Debt
Security which provides for an amount less than the principal amount thereof to
be due and payable upon a declaration or acceleration of the maturity thereof
pursuant to Section 6.01.
OUTSTANDING" when used with respect to any series of Debt
Securities, means, as of the date of determination, all Debt Securities of that
series theretofore authenticated and delivered under this Indenture, except:
(i) Debt Securities of that series theretofore canceled by the
Trustee or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation;
(ii) Debt Securities of that series for whose payment or
redemption money in the necessary amount has been theretofore deposited
with the Trustee or any paying agent (other than the Company) in trust
or set aside and segregated in trust by the Company (if the Company
shall act as its own paying agent) for the holders of such Debt
Securities; PROVIDED, that, if such Debt Securities are to be redeemed,
notice of such redemption has been duly given pursuant to this
Indenture or provision therefor satisfactory to the Trustee has been
made; and
(iii) Debt Securities of that series which have been paid
pursuant to Section 2.09 or in exchange for or in lieu of which other
Debt Securities have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to this
Indenture, other than any such Debt Securities in respect of which
there shall have been presented to the Trustee proof satisfactory to it
that such Debt Securities are held by a bona fide purchaser in whose
hands such Debt Securities are valid obligations of the Company;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite
principal amount of the Outstanding Debt Securities of any series have given any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder,
Debt Securities
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owned by the Company or any other obligor upon the Debt Securities or any
Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor shall be disregarded and
deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining whether the Trustee
shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Debt Securities which the Trustee
knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded. Debt Securities so owned which
have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee
establishes to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee's right so to act
with respect to such Debt Securities and that the pledgee is not the Company or
any other obligor upon the Debt Securities or an Affiliate of the Company or of
such other obligor. In determining whether the Holders of the requisite
principal amount of Outstanding Debt Securities have given any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, the principal
amount of an Original Issue Discount Debt Security that shall be deemed to be
Outstanding for such purposes shall be the amount of the principal thereof that
would be due and payable as of the date of such determination upon a declaration
of acceleration of the maturity thereof pursuant to Section 6.01. In determining
whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of the Outstanding Debt
Securities of any series have given any request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, the principal amount of a Debt
Security denominated in one or more foreign currencies or currency units that
shall be deemed to be Outstanding for such purposes shall be the Dollar
Equivalent, determined in the manner provided as contemplated by Section 2.03 on
the date of original issuance of such Debt Security, of the principal amount
(or, in the case of any Original Issue Discount Security, the Dollar Equivalent
on the date of original issuance of such Security of the amount determined as
provided in the preceding sentence above) of such Debt Security.
"PARI PASSU", as applied to the ranking of any Indebtedness of
a Person in relation to other Indebtedness of such Person, means that each such
Indebtedness either (i) is not subordinate in right of payment to any
Indebtedness or (ii) is subordinate in right of payment to the same Indebtedness
as is the other, and is so subordinate to the same extent, and is not
subordinate in right of payment to each other or to any Indebtedness as to which
the other is not so subordinate.
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"PERMITTED LIENS" means, with respect to any Person, (a)
pledges or deposits by such Person under worker's compensation laws,
unemployment insurance laws, social security laws or similar legislation, or
good faith deposits in connection with bids, tenders, contracts (other than for
the payment of Indebtedness) or leases to which such Person is a party, or
deposits to secure public or statutory obligations of such Person or deposits of
cash or bonds to secure performance, surety or appeal bonds to which such Person
is a party or which are otherwise required of such Person, or deposits as
security for contested taxes or import duties or for the payment of rent or
other obligations of like nature, in each case Incurred in the ordinary course
of business; (b) Liens imposed by law, such as carriers', warehousemen's,
laborers', materialmen's, landlords', vendors', workmen's, operators', factors
and mechanics liens, in each case for sums not yet due or being contested in
good faith by appropriate proceedings; (c) Liens for taxes, assessments and
other governmental charges or levies not yet delinquent or which are being
contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings; (d) survey exceptions,
encumbrances, easements or reservations of or with respect to, or rights of
others for or with respect to, licenses, rights-of-way, sewers, electric and
other utility lines and usages, telegraph and telephone lines, pipelines,
surface use, operation of equipment, permits, servitudes and other similar
matters, or zoning or other restrictions as to the use of real property or Liens
incidental to the conduct of the business of such Person or to the ownership of
its properties which were not Incurred in connection with Indebtedness and which
do not in the aggregate materially adversely affect the value of said properties
or materially impair their use in the operation of the business of such Person;
(e) Liens existing on or provided for under the terms of agreements existing on
the Issue Date (including, without limitation, under the Credit Agreement); (f)
Liens on property at the time the Company or any of its Subsidiaries acquired
the property or the entity owning such property, including any acquisition by
means of a merger or consolidation with or into the Company; PROVIDED, HOWEVER,
that any such Lien may not extend to any other property owned by the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries, (g) Liens securing a Hedging Obligation so long as such
Hedging Obligation is of the type customarily entered into for the purpose of
limiting risk; (h) Purchase Money Liens; (i) Liens securing only Indebtedness of
a Subsidiary of the Company to the Company or one or more wholly owned
Subsidiaries of the Company; (j) Liens on any property to secure Indebtedness
Incurred in connection with the construction,
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installation or financing of pollution control or abatement facilities or other
forms of industrial revenue bond financing or Indebtedness issued or Guaranteed
by the United States, any state or any department, agency or instrumentality
thereof; (k) Government Contract Liens; (l) Liens securing Indebtedness of joint
ventures in which the Company or a Subsidiary has an interest to the extent such
Liens are on property or assets of, such joint ventures; (m) Liens resulting
from the deposit of funds or evidences of Indebtedness in trust for the purpose
of defeasing Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; (n) legal
or equitable encumbrances deemed to exist by reason of negative pledges or the
existence of any litigation or other legal proceeding and any related lis
pendens filing (excluding any attachment prior to judgment lien or attachment
lien in aid of execution on a judgment); (o) any attachment Lien being contested
in good faith and by proceedings promptly initiated and diligently conducted,
unless the attachment giving rise thereto will not, within sixty days after the
entry thereof, have been discharged or fully bonded or will not have been
discharged within sixty days after the termination of any such bond; (p) any
judgment Lien, unless the judgment it secures will not, within sixty days after
the entry thereof, have been discharged or execution thereof stayed pending
appeal, or will not have been discharged within sixty days after the expiration
of any such stay; (q) Liens to banks arising from the issuance of letters of
credit issued by such banks ("issuing banks") on the following: (i) any and all
shipping documents, warehouse receipts, policies or certificates of insurance
and other document accompanying or relative to drafts drawn under any credit,
and any draft drawn thereunder (whether or not such documents, goods or other
property be released to or upon the order of the Company or any Subsidiary under
a security agreement or trust or bailee receipt or otherwise), and the proceeds
of each and all of the foregoing; (ii) the balance of every deposit account, now
or at the time hereafter existing, of the Company or any Subsidiary with the
issuing banks, and any other claims of the Company or any Subsidiary against the
issuing banks; and all property claims and demands and all rights and interests
therein of the Company or any Subsidiary and all evidences thereof and all
proceeds thereof which have been or at any time will be delivered to or
otherwise come into the issuing bank's possession, custody or control, or into
the possession, custody or control of any bailee for the issuing bank or of any
of its agents or correspondents for the account of the issuing bank, for any
purpose, whether or not the express purpose of being used by the issuing bank as
collateral
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security or for the safekeeping or for any other or different purpose, the
issuing bank being deemed to have possession or control of all of such property
actually in transit to or from or set apart for the issuing bank, any bailee for
the issuing bank or any of its correspondents for other acting in its behalf, it
being understood that the receipt at any time by the issuing bank, or any of its
bailees, agents or correspondents, or other security, of whatever nature,
including cash, will not be deemed a waiver of any of the issuing bank's rights
or power hereunder; (iii) all property shipped under or pursuant to or in
connection with any credit or drafts drawn thereunder or in any way related
thereto, and all proceeds thereof; (iv) all additions to and substitutions for
any of the property enumerated above in this subsection; (r) rights of a common
owner of any interest in property held by such Person; (s) farmout, carried
working interest, joint operating, unitization, royalty, overriding royalty,
sales and similar agreements relating to the exploration or development of, or
production from, oil and gas properties entered into the ordinary course of
business; (t) any defects, irregularities or deficiencies in title to easements,
rights-of-way or other properties which do not in the aggregate materially
adversely affect the value of such properties or materially impair their use in
the operation of the business of such Person; and (u) Liens to secure any
refinancing, refunding, extension, renewal or replacement (or successive
refinancings. refundings, extensions, renewals or replacements), as a whole, or
in part, of any indebtedness secured by any Lien referred to in the foregoing
clauses (e) through (l); PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that (i) such new Lien shall be
limited to all or part of the same property that secured the original Lien (plus
improvements on such property) and (ii) the Indebtedness secured by such Lien at
such time is not increased to any amount greater than the sum of (A) the
outstanding principal amount or, if greater, committed amount of the
Indebtedness described under clauses (e) through (l) at the time the original
Lien became a Permitted Lien under this Indenture and (B) an amount necessary to
pay any fees and expenses, including premiums, related to such refinancing,
refunding, extension, renewal or replacement.
"PERSON" means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint
venture, association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization,
government or any agency or political subdivision thereof or any other entity.
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"PLACE OF PAYMENT" mean, when used with respect to the Debt
Securities of any series, the place or places where the principal of, and
premium, if any, and interest on, the Debt Securities of that series are payable
as specified pursuant to Section 2.03.
"PREFERRED STOCK" as applied to the Capital Stock of any
corporation, means Capital Stock of any class or classes (however designated)
which is preferred as to the payment of dividends, or as to the distribution of
assets upon any voluntary or involuntary liquidation or dissolution of such
corporation, over shares of Capital Stock of any other class of such
corporation.
"PRINCIPAL PROPERTY" means any manufacturing plant or other
similar facility (including production machinery and equipment located thereon)
or warehouse, owned or leased by the Company or any Subsidiary, which is located
within the United States other than (a) any such plant or facility which the
Board of Directors determines in good faith by board resolution is not of
material importance to the total business conducted, or assets owned, by the
Company and its Subsidiaries as an entirety, or (b) any portion of any such
plant or facility which the Board of Directors determines by Board Resolution in
good faith not to be of material importance to the use or operation thereof.
"Production machinery and equipment" means production machinery and equipment in
such manufacturing plants used directly in the production of the Company's or
any Subsidiary's products.
"PURCHASE MONEY LIEN" means a Lien on property securing
Indebtedness Incurred by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to provide funds
for all or any portion of the cost of acquiring, constructing, altering,
expanding, improving or repairing such property or assets used in connection
with such property.
"REDEEMABLE STOCKS" means, with respect to any Person, any
Capital Stock which by its terms (or by the terms of any security into which it
is convertible or for which it is exchangeable) or upon the happening of any
event (i) matures or is mandatorily redeemable pursuant to a sinking fund
obligation or otherwise, (ii) is convertible or exchangeable for Indebtedness
(other than Preferred Stock) or Disqualified Stock or (iii) is redeemable at the
option of the holder thereof, in whole or in part.
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"REGISTERED HOLDER" means the Person in whose name a
Registered Security is registered in the Debt Security Register (as defined in
Section 2.07(a)).
"REGISTERED SECURITY" means any Debt Security registered as to
principal and interest in the Debt Security Register (as defined in Section
2.07(a)).
"REGISTRAR" has the meaning set forth in Section 2.07(a).
"REPRESENTATIVE" means the trustee, agent or representative
(if any) for an issue of Indebtedness.
"RESPONSIBLE OFFICER" when used with respect to the Trustee,
means any officer within the Trustee, including any Vice President, any Second
Vice President, any trust officer or any other officer of the Trustee performing
functions similar to those performed by the persons who at the time shall be
such officers, and any other officer of the Trustee to whom corporate trust
matters are referred because of his knowledge of and familiarity with the
particular subject.
"RESTRICTED SUBSIDIARY" means a subsidiary of the Company
which shall at the time, directly or indirectly, through one or more
subsidiaries or in combination with one or more subsidiaries or the Company,
owns or leases a Principal Property.
"SALE/LEASEBACK TRANSACTION" means an arrangement relating to
property owned on the Issue Date or thereafter acquired whereby the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries transfers such property to a Person and the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries leases it from such Person.
"SECURED INDEBTEDNESS" means any Indebtedness of the Company
secured by a Lien.
"SECURITIES ACT" means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
"STATED MATURITY" means, with respect to any security, the
date specified in such security as the fixed date on which the payment of
principal of such security is due and payable, including pursuant to any
mandatory redemption provision (but excluding any provision providing for the
repurchase of such
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security at the option of the holder thereof upon the happening of any
contingency beyond the control of the issuer unless such contingency has
occurred).
"SUBSIDIARY" of any Person means any corporation, association,
partnership or other business entity of which more than 50% of the total voting
power of shares of Capital Stock entitled (without regard to the occurrence of
any contingency) to vote in the election of directors, managers or trustees
thereof is at the time owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by (i) such
Person, (ii) such Person and one or more Subsidiaries of such Person or (iii)
one or more Subsidiaries of such Person.
"TEMPORARY CASH INVESTMENTS" means any of the following: (i)
investments in U.S. Government Obligations maturing within 90 days of the date
of acquisition thereof, (ii) investments in time deposit accounts, certificates
of deposit and money market deposits maturing within 90 days of the date of
acquisition thereof issued by a bank or trust company which is organized under
the laws of the United States, any State thereof or any foreign country
recognized by the United States having capital, surplus and undivided profits
aggregating in excess of $500,000,000 (or the Dollar Equivalent thereof) and
whose long-term debt is rated "A" or higher according to Xxxxx'x Investors
Service, Inc. (or such similar equivalent rating by at least one "nationally
recognized statistical rating organization" (as defined in Rule 436 under the
Securities Act)), (iii) repurchase obligations with a term of not more than 7
days for underlying securities of the types described in clause (i) above
entered into with a bank meeting the qualifications described in clause (ii)
above and (iv) investments in commercial paper, maturing not more than 90 days
after the date of acquisition, issued by a corporation (other than an Affiliate
of the Company) organized and in existence under the laws of the United States
or any foreign country recognized by the United States with a rating at the time
as of which any investment therein is made of "P-1" (or higher) according to
Xxxxx'x Investors Service, Inc. or "A-1" (or higher) according to Standard and
Poor's Corporation.
"TRADE PAYABLES" means, with respect to any Person, any
accounts payable or any Indebtedness or monetary obligation to trade creditors
created, assumed or Guaranteed by such Person arising in the ordinary course of
business of such Person in connection with the acquisition of goods or services.
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"TRUSTEE" initially means PNC Bank, Ohio, National
Association, Cincinnati, Ohio and any other Person or Persons appointed as such
from time to time pursuant to Section 7.08, and, subject to the provisions of
Article VII, includes its or their successors and assigns. If at any time there
is more than one such Person, "Trustee" as used with respect to the Debt
Securities of any series shall mean the Trustee with respect to the Debt
Securities of that series.
"TRUST INDENTURE ACT" (except as herein otherwise expressly
provided) means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in force at the date of this
indenture as originally executed and, to the extent required by law, as amended.
"UNITED STATES" means the United States of America (including
the States and the District of Columbia), its territories, its possessions and
other areas subject to its jurisdiction.
"UNITED STATES ALIEN" means any Person who, for United States
Federal income tax purposes, is a foreign corporation, a nonresident alien
individual, a nonresident alien fiduciary of a foreign estate or trust, or a
foreign partnership one or more members of which is, for United States Federal
income tax purposes, a foreign corporation, a nonresident alien individual or a
nonresident alien fiduciary of a foreign estate or trust.
"U.S. GOVERNMENT OBLIGATIONS" means securities that are (x)
direct obligations of the United States for the payment of which its full faith
and credit is pledged or (y) obligations of a Person controlled or supervised by
and acting as an agency or instrumentality of the United States, the payment of
which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation by the
United States, which, in either case, are not callable or redeemable at the
option of the issuer thereof.
"YIELD TO MATURITY" means the yield to maturity, calculated at
the time of issuance of a series of Debt Securities, or, if applicable, at the
most recent redetermination of interest on such series and calculated in
accordance with accepted financial practice.
SECTION 1.02. INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE OF TRUST INDENTURE
ACT. This Indenture is subject to the mandatory
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provisions of the Trust Indenture Act which are incorporated by reference in and
made a part of this indenture. The following Trust Indenture Act terms have the
following meanings:
"indenture securities" means the Debt Securities.
"indenture security holder" means a Holder.
"indenture to be qualified" means this Indenture.
"indenture trustee" or "institutional trustee" means the
Trustee.
"obligor" on the indenture securities means the Company and
any other obligor on the Debt Securities.
All other Trust Indenture Act terms used in this Indenture
that are defined by the Trust Indenture Act, reference to another statute or
defined by rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission have the meanings
assigned to them by such definitions.
SECTION 1.03. RULES OF CONSTRUCTION. Unless the context
otherwise requires:
(1) a term has the meaning assigned to it;
(2) an accounting term not otherwise defined has the meaning
assigned to it in accordance with GAAP;
(3) "or" is not exclusive;
(4) "including" means including without limitation;
(5) words in the singular include the plural and words in the
plural include the singular;
(6) the principal amount of any noninterest bearing or other
discount security at any date shall be the principal amount thereof
that would be shown on a balance sheet of the issuer dated such date
prepared in accordance with GAAP; and
(7) the principal amount of any Preferred Stock shall be the
greater of (i) the maximum liquidation value of such Preferred Stock or
(ii) the maximum mandatory redemption or
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mandatory repurchase price with respect to such Preferred Stock.
ARTICLE II
Debt Securities
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SECTION 2.01. FORMS GENERALLY. The Debt Securities of each
series shall be in substantially the form established without the approval of
any Holder by or pursuant to a resolution of the Board of Directors or in one or
more Indentures supplemental hereto, in each case with such appropriate
insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or
permitted by this Indenture, and may have such letters, numbers or other marks
of identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as the Company
may deem appropriate (and, if not contained in a Supplemental Indenture entered
into in accordance with Article IX, as are not prohibited by the provisions of
this Indenture) or as may be required or appropriate to comply with any law or
with any rules made pursuant thereto or with any rules of any securities
exchange on which such series of Debt Securities may be listed, or to conform to
general usage, or as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the officers
executing such Debt Securities as evidenced by their execution of the Debt
Securities.
The definitive Debt Securities of each series shall be
printed, lithographed or engraved on steel engraved borders or may be produced
in any other manner, all as determined by the officers executing such Debt
Securities, as evidenced by their execution of such Debt Securities.
SECTION 2.02. FORM OF TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION.
The Trustee's Certificate of Authentication on all Debt Securities authenticated
by the Trustee shall be in substantially the following form:
TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Debt Securities of the series designated
therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
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PNC Bank, Ohio, National Association
As Trustee
By
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Authorized Signature
SECTION 2.03. PRINCIPAL AMOUNT; ISSUABLE IN SERIES. The
aggregate principal amount of Debt Securities which may be issued, executed,
authenticated, delivered and outstanding under this Indenture is unlimited.
The Debt Securities may be issued in one or more series. There
shall be established, without the approval of any Holders, in or pursuant to a
resolution of the Board of Directors and set forth in an Officers' Certificate,
or established in one or more Indentures supplemental hereto, prior to the
issuance of Debt Securities of any series any or all of the following:
(l) the title of the Debt Securities of the series (which
shall distinguish the Debt Securities of the series from all other Debt
Securities);
(2) any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the Debt
Securities of the series which may be authenticated and delivered under
this Indenture (except for Debt Securities authenticated and delivered
upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of,
other Debt Securities of the series pursuant to this Article II);
(3) the date or dates on which the principal and premium, if
any, of the Debt Securities of the series are payable;
(4) the rate or rates (which may be fixed or variable) at
which the Debt Securities of the series shall bear interest, if any, or
the method of determining such rate or rates, the date or dates from
which such interest shall accrue, the interest payment dates on which
such interest shall be payable, or the method by which such date will
be determined, in the case of Registered Securities, the record dates
for the determination of Holders thereof to whom such interest is
payable; and the basis upon which interest will
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be calculated if other than that of a 360-day year of twelve thirty-day
months;
(5) the place or places, if any, in addition to or instead of
the corporate trust office of the Trustee where the principal of, and
interest on, Debt Securities of the series shall be payable;
(6) the price or prices at which, the period or periods within
which and the terms and conditions upon which Debt Securities of the
series may be redeemed, in whole or in part, at the option of the
Company or otherwise;
(7) the obligation, if any, of the Company to redeem, purchase
or repay Debt Securities of the series pursuant to any sinking fund or
analogous provisions or at the option of a Holder thereof, and the
price or prices to which and the period or periods within which and the
terms and conditions upon which Debt Securities of the series shall be
redeemed, purchased or repaid, in whole or in part, pursuant to such
obligations;
(8) the terms, if any, upon which the Debt Securities of the
series may be convertible into or exchanged for Common Stock, Preferred
Stock (which may be represented by depositary shares), other Debt
Securities or warrants for Common Stock, Preferred Stock or
Indebtedness or other securities of any kind of the Company or any
other obligor and the terms and conditions upon which such conversion
or exchange shall be effected, including the initial conversion or
exchange price or rate, the conversion or exchange period and any other
provision in addition to or in lieu of those described herein;
(9) if other than denominations of $1,000 and any integral
multiple thereof, the denominations in which Debt Securities of the
series shall be issuable;
(10) if the amount of principal of interest on Debt Securities
of the series may be determined with reference to an index or pursuant
to a formula, the manner in which such amounts will be determined;
(11) if the principal amount payable at the Stated Maturity of
Debt Securities of the series will not be
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determinable as of any one or more dated prior to such Stated Maturity,
the amount which will be deemed to be such principal amount as of any
such date for any purpose, including the principal amount thereof which
will be due and payable upon any maturity other than the Stated
Maturity or which will be deemed to be Outstanding as of any such date
(or, in any such case, the manner in which such deemed principal amount
is to be determined); and the manner of determining the equivalent
thereof in the currency of the United States of America for purposes of
the definition of Dollar Equivalent;
(12) any changes or additions to Article XI, including the
addition of additional covenants that may be subject to the covenant
defeasance option pursuant to Section l1.02(b)(ii);
(13) if other than such coin or Currency of the United States
as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and
private debts, the coin or Currency or Currencies or units of two or
more Currencies in which payment of the principal of and premium, if
any, and interest on, Debt Securities of the series shall be payable;
(14) if other than the principal amount thereof, the portion
of the principal amount of Debt Securities of the series which shall be
payable upon declaration of acceleration of the maturity thereof
pursuant to Section 6.01 or provable in bankruptcy pursuant to Section
6.02;
(15) the terms, if any, of the transfer, mortgage, pledge or
assignment as security for the Debt Securities of the series of any
properties, assets, moneys, proceeds, securities or other collateral,
including whether certain provisions of the Trust Indenture Act are
applicable and any corresponding changes to provisions of this
Indenture as currently in effect;
(16) any addition to or change in the Events of Default with
respect to the Debt Securities of the series and any change in the
right of the Trustee or the Holders to declare the principal of and
interest on, such Debt Securities due and payable;
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(17) if the Debt Securities of the series shall be issued in
whole or in part in the form of a Global Security or Securities, the
terms and conditions, if any, upon which such Global Security or
Securities may be exchanged in whole or in part for other individual
Debt Securities in definitive registered form; and the Depositary for
such Global Security or Securities and the form of any legend or
legends to be borne by any such Global Security or Securities in
addition to or in lieu of the legend referred to in Section 2.15;
(18) any trustees, authenticating or paying agents, transfer
agents or registrars;
(19) the applicability of, and any addition to or change in
the covenants and definitions currently set forth in this Indenture or
in the terms currently set forth in Article X, including conditioning
any merger, conveyance, transfer or lease permitted by Article X upon
the satisfaction of an Indebtedness coverage standard by the Company
and Successor Company (as defined in Article X);
(20) the terms, if any, of any Guarantee of the payment of
principal of and interest on, Debt Securities of the series and any
corresponding changes to the provisions of this Indenture as currently
in effect;
(21) with regard to Debt Securities of the series that do not
bear interest the dates for certain required reports to the Trustee;
and
(22) any other terms of the Debt Securities of the series
(which terms shall not be prohibited by the provisions of this
Indenture).
All Debt Securities of any one series appertaining thereto
shall be substantially identical except as to denomination and except as may
otherwise be provided in or pursuant to such resolution of the Board of
Directors and as set forth in such Officers' Certificate or in any such
Indenture supplemental hereto.
SECTION 2.04. EXECUTION OF DEBT SECURITIES. The Debt
Securities shall be signed on behalf of the Company by its Chairman of the
Board, its Vice Chairman, its President or a Vice
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President and by its Secretary, an Assistant Secretary, a Treasurer or an
Assistant Treasurer. Such signatures upon the Debt Securities may be the manual
or facsimile signatures of the present or any future such authorized officers
and may be imprinted or otherwise reproduced on the Debt Securities. The seal of
the Company, if any, may be in the form of a facsimile thereof and may be
impressed, affixed, imprinted or otherwise reproduced on the Debt Securities.
Only such Debt Securities as shall bear thereon a certificate
of authentication substantially in the form hereinbefore recited, signed
manually by the Trustee, shall be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture or
be valid or obligatory for any purpose. Such certificate by the Trustee upon any
Debt Security executed by the Company shall be conclusive evidence that the Debt
Security so authenticated has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder.
In case any officer of the Company who shall have signed any
of the Debt Securities shall cease to be such officer before the Debt Securities
so signed shall have been authenticated and delivered by the Trustee, or
disposed of by the Company, such Debt Securities nevertheless may be
authenticated and delivered or disposed of as though the Person who signed such
Debt Securities had not ceased to be such officer of the Company; and any Debt
Security may be signed on behalf of the Company by such Persons as, at the
actual date of the execution of such Debt Security, shall be the proper officers
of the Company, although at the date of such Debt Security or of the execution
of this Indenture any such Person was not such officer.
SECTION 2.05. AUTHENTICATION AND DELIVERY OF DEBT SECURITIES.
At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this
Indenture, the Company may deliver Debt Securities of any series executed by the
Company to the Trustee for authentication, and the Trustee shall thereupon
authenticate and deliver said Debt Securities to or upon a Company Order. In
authenticating such Debt Securities and accepting the additional
responsibilities under this Indenture in relation to such Debt Securities, the
Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to Section 7.0l) shall be
fully protected in relying upon:
(l) a copy of any resolution or resolutions of the Board of
Directors, certified by the Secretary or Assistant
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Secretary of the Company, authorizing the terms of issuance of any
series of Debt Securities;
(2) an executed supplemental Indenture, if any;
(3) an Officers' Certificate; and
(4) an Opinion of Counsel prepared in accordance with Section
12.05 which shall also state:
(a) that the form of such Debt Securities has been
established by or pursuant to a resolution of the Board of
Directors or by a supplemental Indenture as permitted by
Section 2.01 in conformity with the provisions of this
Indenture;
(b) that the terms of such Debt Securities have been
established by or pursuant to a resolution of the Board of
Directors or by a supplemental Indenture as permitted by
Section 2.03 in conformity with the provisions of this
Indenture;
(c) that such Debt Securities, when authenticated and
delivered by the Trustee and issued by the Company in the
manner and subject to any conditions specified in such Opinion
of Counsel, will constitute valid and legally binding
obligations of the Company, enforceable in accordance with
their terms except as (i) the enforceability thereof may be
limited by bankruptcy, insolvency or similar laws affecting
the enforcement of creditors' rights generally and (ii) rights
of acceleration and the availability of equitable remedies may
be limited by equitable principles of general applicability;
(d) that the Company has the corporate power to issue
such Debt Securities and has duly taken all necessary
corporate action with respect to such issuance;
(e) that the issuance of such Debt Securities will
not contravene the charter or by-laws of the Company or result
in any material violation of any of the terms or provisions of
any law or regulation or of any
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indenture, mortgage or other agreement known to such counsel
by which the Company is bound;
(f) that authentication and delivery of such Debt
Securities and the execution and delivery of any supplemental
Indenture will not violate the terms of this Indenture; and
(g) such other matters as the Trustee may reasonably
request.
Such Opinion of Counsel need express no opinion as to whether
a court in the United States would render a money judgment in a currency other
than that of the United States.
The Trustee shall have the right to decline to authenticate
and deliver any Debt Securities under this Section 2.05 if the Trustee, being
advised by counsel, determines that such action may not lawfully be taken or if
the Trustee in good faith by its board of directors or trustees, executive
committee or a trust committee of directors, trustees or vice presidents shall
determine that such action would expose the Trustee to personal liability to
existing Holders.
The Trustee may appoint an authenticating agent reasonably
acceptable to the Company to authenticate Debt Securities of any series. Unless
limited by the terms of such appointment, an authenticating agent may
authenticate Debt Securities whenever the Trustee may do so. Each reference in
this Indenture to authentication by the Trustee includes authentication by such
agent. An authenticating agent has the same rights as any Registrar, paying
agent or agent for service of notices and demands.
Unless otherwise provided in the form of Debt Security for any
series, each Debt Security shall be dated the date of its authentication.
SECTION 2.06. DENOMINATION OF DEBT SECURITIES. Unless
otherwise provided in the form of Debt Security for any series, the Debt
Securities of each series shall be issuable only as Registered Securities in
such denominations as shall be specified or contemplated by Section 2.03. In the
absence of any such specification with respect to the Debt Securities of any
series,
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the Debt Securities of such series shall be issuable in denominations of $1,000
and any integral multiple thereof.
SECTION 2.07. REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER AND EXCHANGE. (a) The
Company shall keep or cause to be kept a register for each series of Registered
Securities issued hereunder (hereinafter collectively referred to as the "Debt
Security Register"), in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may
prescribe, the Company shall provide for the registration of Registered
Securities and the transfer of Registered Securities as in this Article II
provided. At all reasonable times the Debt Security Register shall be open for
inspection by the Trustee. Subject to Section 2.15, upon due presentment for
registration of transfer of any Registered Security at any office or agency to
be maintained by the Company in accordance with the provisions of Section 4.02,
the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in the
name of the transferee or transferees a new Registered Security or Registered
Securities of authorized denominations for a like aggregate principal amount.
Unless and until otherwise determined by the Company by
resolution of the Board of Directors, the register of the Company for the
purpose of registration, exchange or registration of transfer of the Registered
Securities shall be kept at the corporate trust office of the Trustee and, for
this purpose, the Trustee shall be designated "Registrar".
Registered Securities of any series (other than a Global
Security) may be exchanged for a like aggregate principal amount of Registered
Securities of the same series of other authorized denominations. Subject to
Section 2.15, Registered Securities to be exchanged shall be surrendered at the
office or agency to be maintained by the Company as provided in Section 4.02,
and the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in
exchange therefor the Registered Security or Registered Securities which the
Holder making the exchange shall be entitled to receive.
(b) All Registered Securities presented or surrendered for
registration of transfer, exchange or payment shall (if so required by the
Company, the Trustee or the Registrar) be duly endorsed or be accompanied by a
written instrument or instruments of transfer, in form satisfactory to the
Company, the Trustee and
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the Registrar, duly executed by the Registered Holder or his attorney duly
authorized in writing.
All Debt Securities issued in exchange for or upon transfer of
Debt Securities shall be the valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the
same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as the Debt
Securities surrendered for such exchange or transfer.
No service charge shall be made for any exchange or
registration of transfer of Debt Securities (except as provided by Section
2.09), but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax
or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto, other than
those expressly provided in this Indenture to be made at the Company's own
expense or without expense or without charge to the Holders.
The Company shall not be required (a) to issue, register the
transfer of or exchange any Debt Securities for a period of 15 days next
preceding any mailing of notice of redemption of Debt Securities of such series
or (b) to register the transfer of or exchange any Debt Securities selected,
called or being called for redemption.
Prior to the due presentation for registration of transfer of
any Debt Security, the Company, the Trustee, any paying agent or any Registrar
may deem and treat the Person in whose name a Debt Security is registered as the
absolute owner of such Debt Security for the purpose of receiving payment of
principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on, such Debt Security and for
all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Debt Security is overdue, and
none of the Company, the Trustee, any paying agent or Registrar shall be
affected by notice to the contrary.
None of the Company, the Trustee, any agent of the Trustee,
any paying agent or any Registrar will have any responsibility or liability for
any aspect of the records relating to, or payments made on account of,
beneficial ownership interests of a Global Security or for maintaining,
supervising or reviewing any records relating to such beneficial ownership
interests.
SECTION 2.08. TEMPORARY DEBT SECURITIES. Pending the
preparation of definitive Debt Securities of any series, the
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Company may execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver temporary
Debt Securities (printed, lithographed, photocopied, typewritten or otherwise
produced) of any authorized denomination, and substantially in the form of the
definitive Debt Securities in lieu of which they are issued, in registered form
and with such omissions, insertions and variations as may be appropriate for
temporary Debt Securities, all as may be determined by the Company with the
concurrence of the Trustee. Temporary Debt Securities may contain such reference
to any provisions of this Indenture as may be appropriate. Every temporary Debt
Security shall be executed by the Company and be authenticated by the Trustee
upon the same conditions and in substantially the same manner, and with like
effect, as the definitive Debt Securities.
If temporary Debt Securities of any series are issued, the
Company will cause definitive Debt Securities of such series to be prepared
without unreasonable delay. (a) After the preparation of definitive Debt
Securities of such series, the temporary Debt Securities of such series shall be
exchangeable for definitive Debt Securities of such series upon surrender of the
temporary Debt Securities of such series at the office or agency of the Company
at a Place of Payment for such series, without charge to the Holder thereof,
except as provided in Section 2.07 in connection with a transfer, and (b) upon
surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Debt Securities of any
series, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver
in exchange therefor a like principal amount of definitive Debt Securities of
the same series of authorized denominations and of like tenor. Until so
exchanged, temporary Debt Securities of any series shall in all respects be
entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as definitive Debt Securities
of such series, except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section
2.03(17) with respect to the payment of interest on Global Securities in
temporary form.
Upon any exchange of a portion of a temporary Global Security
for a definitive Global Security or for the individual Debt Securities
represented thereby pursuant to Section 2.07 or this Section 2.08, the temporary
Global Security shall be endorsed by the Trustee to reflect the reduction of the
principal amount evidenced thereby, whereupon the principal amount of such
temporary Global Security shall be reduced for all purposes by the amount to
exchanged and endorsed.
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SECTION 2.09. MUTILATED, DESTROYED, LOST OR STOLEN DEBT
SECURITIES. If (i) any mutilated Debt Security is surrendered to the Trustee at
its corporate trust office (in the case of Registered Securities) or (ii) the
Company and the Trustee receive evidence to their satisfaction of the
destruction, loss or theft of any Debt Security, and there is delivered to the
Company and the Trustee such security or indemnity as may be required by them to
save each of them and any paying agent harmless, and neither the Company nor the
Trustee receives notice that such Debt Security has been acquired by a bona fide
purchaser, then the Company shall execute and, upon a Company Order, the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange for or in lieu of any such
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Debt Security, a new Debt Security of the
same series of like tenor, form, terms and principal amount, bearing a number
not contemporaneously Outstanding. Upon the issuance of any substituted Debt
Security, the Company may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any
tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any
other expenses connected therewith. In case any Debt Security which has matured
or is about to mature or which has been called for redemption shall become
mutilated or be destroyed, lost or stolen, the Company may, instead of issuing a
substituted Debt Security, pay or authorize the payment of the same (without
surrender thereof except in the case of a mutilated Debt Security) if the
applicant for such payment shall furnish the Company and the Trustee with such
security or indemnity as either may require to save it harmless from all risk,
however remote, and, in case of destruction, loss or theft, evidence to the
satisfaction of the Company and the Trustee of the destruction, loss or theft of
such Debt Security and of the ownership thereof.
Every substituted Debt Security of any series issued pursuant
to the provisions of this Section 2.09 by virtue of the fact that any Debt
Security is destroyed, lost or stolen shall constitute an original additional
contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or
stolen Debt Security shall be found at any time, and shall be entitled to all
the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all
other Debt Securities of that series duly issued hereunder. All Debt Securities
shall be held and owned upon the express condition that the foregoing provisions
are exclusive with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Debt Securities, and shall preclude any and all other
rights or remedies, notwithstanding any law or
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statute existing or hereafter enacted to the contrary with respect to the
replacement or payment of negotiable instruments or other securities without
their surrender.
SECTION 2.10. CANCELLATION OF SURRENDERED DEBT SECURITIES. All
Debt Securities surrendered for payment, redemption, registration of transfer or
exchange shall, if surrendered to the Company or any paying agent or a
Registrar, be delivered to the Trustee for cancellation by it, or if surrendered
to the Trustee, shall be canceled by it, and no Debt Securities shall be issued
in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this
Indenture. All canceled Debt Securities held by the Trustee shall be destroyed
(subject to the record retention requirements of the Exchange Act) and
certification of their destruction delivered to the Company, unless otherwise
directed. On request of the Company, the Trustee shall deliver to the Company
canceled Debt Securities held by the Trustee. If the Company shall acquire any
of the Debt Securities, however, such acquisition shall not operate as a
redemption or satisfaction of the indebtedness represented thereby unless and
until the same are delivered or surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation. The
Company may not issue new Debt Securities to replace Debt Securities it has
redeemed, paid or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation.
SECTION 2.l1. PROVISIONS OF THE INDENTURE AND DEBT SECURITIES
FOR THE SOLE BENEFIT OF THE PARTIES AND THE HOLDERS. Nothing in this Indenture
or in the Debt Securities, expressed or implied, shall give or be construed to
give to any Person, other than the parties hereto, the Holders or any Registrar
or paying agent, any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or in
respect of this Indenture, or under any covenant, condition or provision herein
contained; all its covenants, conditions and provisions being for the sole
benefit of the parties hereto, the Holders and any Registrar and paying agents.
SECTION 2.12. PAYMENT OF INTEREST; RIGHTS PRESERVED. (a)
Interest on any Registered Security that is payable and is punctually paid or
duly provided for on any interest payment date shall be paid to the Person in
whose name such Registered Security is registered at the close of business on
the regular record date for such interest notwithstanding the cancellation of
such Registered Security upon any transfer or exchange subsequent to the regular
record date. Payment of interest on Registered Securities shall be made at the
corporate trust office of the
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Trustee (except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 2.03), or at the
option of the Company, by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled
thereto as such address shall appear in the Debt Security Register or, if
provided pursuant to Section 2.03 and in accordance with arrangements
satisfactory to the Trustee, at the option of the Registered Holder by wire
transfer to an account designated by the Registered Holder.
(b) Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.12
and Section 2.17, each Debt Security of a particular series delivered under this
Indenture upon registration of transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of any
other Debt Security of the same series shall carry the rights to interest
accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other Debt
Security.
SECTION 2.13. SECURITIES DENOMINATED IN FOREIGN CURRENCIES.
(a) Except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 2.03 for
Registered Securities of any series, payment of the principal of, and premium,
if any, and interest on, Registered Securities of such series will be made in
Dollars.
(b) For the purposes of calculating the principal amount of
Debt Securities of any series denominated in a Foreign Currency or in units of
two or more Foreign Currencies (including European Currency Units) for any
purpose under this Indenture, the principal amount of such Debt Securities at
any time Outstanding shall be deemed to be the Dollar Equivalent of such
principal amount as of the date of any such calculation.
In the event any Foreign Currency or currencies or units of
two or more Currencies in which any payment with respect to any series of Debt
Securities may be made ceases to be a freely convertible Currency on United
States Currency markets, for any date thereafter on which payment of principal
of, or premium, if any, or interest on, the Debt Securities of a series is due,
the Company shall select the Currency of payment for use on such date, all as
provided in the Debt Securities of such series. In such event, the Company
shall, as provided in the Debt Securities of such series, notify the Trustee of
the Currency which it has selected to constitute the funds necessary to meet the
Company's obligations or such payment date and of the amount of such Currency to
be paid. Such amount shall be
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determined as provided in the Debt Securities of such series. The payment to the
Trustee with respect to such payment date shall be made by the Company solely in
the Currency so selected.
SECTION 2.14. WIRE TRANSFERS. Notwithstanding any other
provision to the contrary in this Indenture, the Company may make any payment of
monies required to be deposited with the Trustee on account of principal of, or
premium, if any, or interest on, the Debt Securities (whether pursuant to
optional or mandatory redemption payments, interest payments or otherwise) by
wire transfer immediately available funds to an account designated by the
trustee on or before the date such moneys are to be paid to the Holders of the
Debt Securities in accordance with the terms hereof.
SECTION 2.15. SECURITIES ISSUABLE IN THE FORM OF A GLOBAL
SECURITY. (a) If the Company shall establish pursuant to Sections 2.01 and 2.03
that the Debt Securities of a particular series are to be issued in whole or in
part in the form of one or more Global Securities, then the Company shall
execute and the Trustee or its agent shall, in accordance with Section 2.05,
authenticate and deliver, such Global Security or Securities, which (i) shall
represent, and shall be denominated in an amount equal to the aggregate
principal amount of, the Outstanding Debt Securities of such series to be
represented by such Global Security or Securities, or such portion thereof as
the Company shall specify in an Officers' Certificate, (ii) shall be registered
in the name of the Depositary for such Global Security or Securities or its
nominee, (iii) shall be delivered by the Trustee or its agent to the Depositary
or pursuant to the Depositary's instruction and (iv) shall bear a legend
substantially to the following effect: 'Unless and until it is exchanged in
whole or in part for the individual Debt Securities represented hereby, this
Global Security may not be transferred except as a whole by the Depositary to a
nominee of the Depositary or by a nominee of the Depositary to the Depositary or
another nominee of the Depositary or by the Depositary or any such nominee to a
successor Depositary or a nominee of such successor Depositary', or such other
legend as may then be required by the Depositary for such Global Security or
Securities.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section
2.15 or of Section 2.07 to the contrary, and subject to the provisions of
paragraph (c) below, unless the terms of a
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Global Security expressly permit such Global Security to be exchanged in whole
or in part for definitive Debt Securities in registered form, a Global Security
may be transferred, in whole but not in part and in the manner provided in
Section 2.07, only by the Depositary to a nominee of the Depositary for such
Global Security, or by a nominee of the Depositary to the Depositary or another
nominee of the Depositary, or by the Depositary or a nominee of the Depositary
to a successor Depositary for such Global Security selected or approved by the
Company, or to a nominee of such successor Depositary.
(c) (i) If at any time the Depositary for a Global Security or
Securities notifies the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as
Depositary for such Global Security or Securities or if at any time the
Depositary for the Debt Securities for such series shall no longer be eligible
or in good standing under the Exchange Act or other applicable statute, rule or
regulation, the Company shall appoint a successor Depositary with respect to
such Global Security or Securities. If a successor Depositary for such Global
Security or Securities is not appointed by the Company within 90 days after the
Company receives such notice or becomes aware of such ineligibility, the Company
shall execute, and the Trustee or its agent, upon receipt of a Company Order for
the authentication and delivery of such individual Debt Securities of such
series in exchange for such Global Security, will authenticate and deliver,
individual Debt Securities of such series of like tenor and terms in definitive
form in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of the
Global Security in exchange for such Global Security or Securities.
(ii) The Company may at any time and in its sole discretion
determine that the Debt Securities of any series or portion thereof issued or
issuable in the form of one or more Global Securities shall no longer be
represented by such Global Security or Securities. In such event the Company
will execute, and the Trustee, upon receipt of a Company Order for the
authentication and delivery of individual Debt Securities of such series in
exchange in whole or in part for such Global Security, will authenticate and
deliver individual Debt Securities of such series of like tenor and terms in
definitive form in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount
of such series or portion thereof in exchange for such Global Security or
Securities.
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(iii) If specified by the Company pursuant to Sections 2.01
and 2.03 with respect to Debt Securities issued or issuable in the form of a
Global Security, the Depositary for such Global Security may surrender such
Global Security in exchange in whole or in part for individual Debt Securities
of such series of like tenor and terms in definitive form on such terms as are
acceptable to the Company, the Trustee and such Depositary. Thereupon the
Company shall execute, and the Trustee or its agent upon receipt of a Company
Order for the authentication and delivery of definitive Debt Securities of such
series shall authenticate and deliver, without service charge, (1) to each
Person specified by such Depositary a new Debt Security or Securities of the
same series of like tenor and terms and of any authorized denomination as
requested by such Person in aggregate principal amount equal to and in exchange
for such Persons beneficial interest in the Global Security; and (2) to such
Depositary a new Global Security of like tenor and terms and in an authorized
denomination equal to the difference, if any, between the principal amount of
the surrendered Global Security and the aggregate principal amount of Debt
Securities delivered to Holders thereof.
(iv) In any exchange provided for in any of the preceding
three paragraphs, the Company will execute and the Trustee or its agent will
authenticate and deliver individual Debt Securities. Upon the exchange of the
entire principal amount of a Global Security for individual Debt Securities,
such Global Security shall be canceled by the Trustee or its agent. Except as
provided in the preceding paragraph, Registered Securities issued in exchange
for a Global Security pursuant to this Section 2.15 shall be registered in such
names and in such authorized denominations as the Depositary for such Global
Security, pursuant to instructions from its direct or indirect participants or
otherwise, shall instruct the Trustee or the Registrar. The Trustee or the
Registrar shall deliver such Registered Securities to the Persons in whose names
such Registered Securities are so registered.
(v) Payments in respect of the principal of and interest on
any Debt Securities registered in the name of the Depositary or its nominee will
be payable to the Depositary or such nominee in its capacity as the registered
owner of such Global Security. The Company and the Trustee may treat the Person
in whose name the Debt Securities, including the Global Security, are registered
as the owner thereof for the purpose of
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receiving such payments and for any and all other purposes whatsoever. None of
the Company, the Trustee, any Registrar, the paying agent or any agent of the
Company or the Trustee will have any responsibility or liability for (a) any
aspect of the records relating to or payments made on account of the beneficial
ownership interests of the Global Security by the Depositary or its nominee or
any of the Depositary's direct or indirect participants, or for maintaining,
supervising or reviewing any records of the Depositary, its nominee or any of
its direct or indirect participants relating to the beneficial ownership
interests of the Global Security, (b) the payments to the beneficial owners of
the Global Security of amounts paid to the Depositary or its nominee, or (c) any
other matter relating to the actions and practices of the Depositary, its
nominee or any of its direct or indirect participants. None of the Company, the
Trustee or any such agent will be liable for any delay by the Depositary, its
nominee, or any of its direct or indirect participants in identifying the
beneficial owners of the Debt Securities, and the Company and the Trustee may
conclusively rely on, and will be protected in relying on, instructions from the
Depositary or its nominee for all purposes (including with respect to the
registration and delivery, and the respective principal amounts, of the Debt
Securities to be issued).
SECTION 2.16. MEDIUM TERM SECURITIES. Notwithstanding any
contrary provision herein, if all Debt Securities of a series are not to be
originally issued at one time, it shall not be necessary for the Company to
deliver to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate, resolutions of the Board of
Directors, supplemental Indenture, Opinion of Counsel or written order or any
other document otherwise required pursuant to Section 2.01, 2.03, 2.05 or l2.05
at or prior to the time of authentication of each Debt Security of such series
if such documents are delivered to the Trustee or its agent at or prior to the
authentication upon original issuance of the first such Debt Security of such
series to be issued; PROVIDED, that any subsequent request by the Company to the
Trustee to authenticate Debt Securities of such series upon original issuance
shall constitute a representation and warranty by the Company that, as of the
date of such request, the statements made in the Officers' Certificate delivered
pursuant to Section 2.05 or 12.05 shall be true and correct as if made on such
date and that the Opinion of Counsel delivered at or prior to such time of
authentication of an original issuance of Debt Securities shall specifically
state that it shall relate to all subsequent issuances of Debt Securities of
such series that
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are identical to the Debt Securities issued in the first issuance of Debt
Securities of such series.
A Company Order delivered by the Company to the Trustee in the
circumstances set forth in the preceding paragraph, may provide that Debt
Securities which are the subject thereof will be authenticated and delivered by
the Trustee or its agent on original issue from time to time upon the telephonic
or written order of Persons designated in such written order (any such
telephonic instructions to be promptly confirmed in writing by such Person) and
that such Persons are authorized to determine, consistent with the Officers'
Certificate, supplemental Indenture or resolution of the Board of Directors
relating to such written order, such terms and conditions of such Debt
Securities as are specified in such Officers' Certificate, supplemental
Indenture or such resolution.
SECTION 2.17. DEFAULTED INTEREST. Any interest on any Debt
Security of a particular series which is payable, but is not punctually paid or
duly provided for, on the dates and in the manner provided in the Debt
Securities of such series and in this Indenture (herein called "Defaulted
Interest") shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Registered Holder thereof
on the relevant record date by virtue of having been such Registered Holder, and
such Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Company, at its election in each
case, as provided in clause (i) or (ii) below:
(i) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted
Interest to the Persons in whose names the Registered Securities of
such series are registered at the close of business on a special record
date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest, which shall be fixed
in the following manner: The Company shall notify the Trustee in
writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each
such Registered Security of such series and the date of the proposed
payment, and at the same time the Company shall deposit with the
Trustee an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount proposed to be
paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest or shall make arrangements
satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit prior to the date of the
proposed payment, such money when deposited to be held in trust for the
benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted Interest as in this
clause provided. Thereupon the Trustee shall fix a special record date
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the payment of such Defaulted Interest which shall be not more than 15
days and not less than 10 days prior to the date of the proposed
payment and not less than 10 days after the receipt by the Trustee of
the notice of the proposed payment. The Trustee shall promptly notify
the Company of such special record date and, in the name and at the
expense of the Company, shall cause notice of the proposed payment of
such Defaulted Interest and the special record date therefor to be
mailed, first class postage pre-paid, to each Holder thereof at its
address as it appears in the Security Register, not less than 10 days
prior to such special record date. Notice of the proposed payment of
such Defaulted Interest and the special record date therefor having
been so mailed, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Persons in
whose names the Registered Securities of such series are registered at
the close of business on such special record date.
(ii) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest on
the Registered Securities of such series in any other lawful manner not
inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which
the Registered Securities of such series may be listed, and upon such
notice as may be required by such exchange, if, after notice given by
the Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to this
clause, such manner of payment shall be deemed practicable by the
Trustee.
SECTION 2.18. JUDGMENTS. The Company may provide pursuant to
Section 2.03 for Debt Securities of any series that (a) the obligation, if any,
of the Company to pay the principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on,
the Debt Securities of any series in a Foreign Currency or Dollars (the
"Designated Currency") as may be specified pursuant to Section 2.03 is of the
essence and agrees that, to the fullest extent possible under applicable law,
judgments in respect of Debt Securities of such series shall be given in the
Designated Currency; (b) the obligation of the Company to make payments in the
Designated Currency of the principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on,
such Debt Securities shall, notwithstanding any payment in any other Currency
(whether pursuant to a judgment or otherwise), be discharged only to the extent
of the amount in the Designated Currency that the Holder receiving such payment
may, in accordance with normal banking procedures, purchase with the sum paid in
such other Currency (after any premium and cost of
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exchange) on the business day in the country of issue of the Designated Currency
or in the international banking community (in the case of a composite currency)
immediately following the day on which such Holder receives such payment; (c) if
the amount in the Designated Currency that may be so purchased for any reason
falls short of the amount originally due, the Company shall pay such additional
amounts as may be necessary to compensate for such shortfall; and (d) any
obligation of the Company not discharged by such payment shall be due as a
separate and independent obligation and, until discharged as provided herein,
shall continue in full force and effect.
ARTICLE III
Redemption of Debt Securities
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SECTION 3.01. APPLICABILITY OF ARTICLE. The provisions of this
Article shall be applicable to the Debt Securities of any series which are
redeemable before their Stated Maturity except as otherwise specified as
contemplated by Section 2.03 for Debt Securities of such series.
SECTION 3.02. NOTICE OF REDEMPTION; SELECTION OF DEBT
SECURITIES. In case the Company shall desire to exercise the right to redeem all
or, as the case may be, any part of the Debt Securities of any series in
accordance with their terms, a resolution of the Board of Directors of the
Company or a supplemental Indenture, the Company shall fix a date for redemption
and shall give notice of such redemption at least 30 and not more than 60 days
prior to the date fixed for redemption to the Holders of Debt Securities of such
series so to be redeemed as a whole or in part, in the manner provided in
Section 12.03. The notice if given in the manner herein provided shall be
conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether or not the Holder
receives such notice. In any case, failure to give such notice or any defect in
the notice to the Holder of any Debt Security of a series designated for
redemption as a whole or in part shall not affect the validity of the
proceedings for the redemption of any other Debt Security of such series.
Each such notice of redemption shall specify the date fixed
for redemption, the redemption price at which Debt Securities of such series are
to be redeemed, the Place or Places of Payment that payment will be made upon
presentation and
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surrender of such Debt Securities, that any interest accrued to the date fixed
for redemption will be paid as specified in said notice, that the redemption is
for a sinking fund payment (if applicable), that on and after said date any
interest thereon or on the portions thereof to be redeemed will cease to accrue,
that in the case of Original Issue Discount Securities original issue discount
accrued after the date fixed for redemption will cease to accrue, the terms of
the Debt Securities of that series pursuant to which the Debt Securities of that
series are being redeemed and that no representation is made as to the
correctness or accuracy of the CUSIP number, if any, listed in such notice or
printed on the Debt Securities of that series. If less than all the Debt
Securities of a series are to be redeemed the notice of redemption shall specify
the CUSIP numbers of the Debt Securities of that series to be redeemed. In case
any Debt Security of a series is to be redeemed in part only, the notice of
redemption shall state the portion of the principal amount thereof to be
redeemed and shall state that on and after the date fixed for redemption, upon
surrender of such Debt Security, a new Debt Security or Debt Securities of that
series in principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion thereof.
At least 60 days before the redemption date unless the Trustee
consents to a shorter period, the Company shall give notice to the Trustee of
the redemption date, the principal amount of Debt Securities to be redeemed and
the series and terms of the Debt Securities pursuant to which such redemption
will occur. Such notice shall be accompanied by an Officers' Certificate and an
Opinion of Counsel from the Company to the effect that such redemption will
comply with the conditions herein. If fewer than all the Debt Securities of a
series are to be redeemed, the record date relating to such redemption shall be
selected by the Company and given to the Trustee, which record date shall be not
less than 15 days after the date of notice to the Trustee.
On or prior to the redemption date for any Registered
Securities, the Company shall deposit with the Trustee or with a paying agent
(or, if the Company is acting as its own paying agent, segregate and hold in
trust) an amount of money in the Currency in which such Debt Securities are
denominated (except as provided pursuant to Section 2.03) sufficient to pay the
redemption price of such Registered Securities or any portions thereof that are
to be redeemed on that date.
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If less than all the Debt Securities of like tenor and terms
of a series are to be redeemed (other than pursuant to mandatory sinking fund
redemptions) the Trustee shall select, in such manner as in its sole discretion
it shall deem appropriate and fair, the Debt Securities of that series or
portions thereof (in multiples of $1,000) to be redeemed. In any case where more
than one Registered Security of such series is registered in the same name, the
Trustee in its discretion may treat the aggregate principal amount so registered
as if it were represented by one Registered Security of such series. The Trustee
shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the Debt Securities selected for
redemption and, in the case of any Debt Securities selected for partial
redemption, the principal amount thereof to be redeemed. If any Debt Security
called for redemption shall not be so paid upon surrender thereof on such
redemption date, the principal, premium, if any, and interest shall bear
interest until paid from the redemption date at the rate borne by the Debt
Securities of that series. If less than all the Debt Securities of unlike tenor
and terms of a series are to be redeemed, the particular Debt Securities to be
redeemed shall be selected by the Company. Provisions of this Indenture that
apply to Debt Securities called for redemption also apply to portions of Debt
Securities called for redemption.
SECTION 3.03. PAYMENT OF DEBT SECURITIES CALLED FOR
REDEMPTION. If notice of redemption has been given as provided in Section 3.02,
the Debt Securities or portions of Debt Securities of the series with respect to
which such notice has been given shall become due and payable on the date and at
the Place or Places of Payment stated in such notice at the applicable
redemption price, together with any interest accrued to the date fixed for
redemption, and on and after said date (unless the Company shall default in the
payment of such Debt Securities at the applicable redemption price, together
with any interest accrued to said date) any interest on the Debt Securities or
portions of Debt Securities of any series so called for redemption shall cease
to accrue and any original issue discount in the case of Original Issue Discount
Securities shall cease to accrue. On presentation and surrender of such Debt
Securities at the Place or Places of Payment in said notice specified, the said
Debt Securities or the specified portions thereof shall be paid and redeemed by
the Company at the applicable redemption price, together with any interest
accrued thereon to the date fixed for redemption.
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Any Debt Security that is to be redeemed only in part shall be
surrendered at the corporate trust office or such other office or agency of the
Company as is specified pursuant to Section 2.03 (in the case of Registered
Securities) and at the principal London office of the Trustee or such other
office or agency of the Company outside the United States as is specified
pursuant to Section 2.03 (in the case of Bearer Securities) with, if the
Company, the Registrar or the Trustee so requires, due endorsement by, or a
written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company, the
Registrar and the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or his attorney
duly authorized in writing, and the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such Debt Security without service
charge, a new Debt Security or Debt Securities of the same series, of like tenor
and form, of any authorized denomination as requested by such Holder in
aggregate principal amount equal to and in exchange for the unredeemed portion
of the principal of the Debt Security so surrendered; except that if a Global
Security is so surrendered, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver to the Depositary for such Global Security, without
service charge, a new Global Security in a denomination equal to and in exchange
for the unredeemed portion of the principal of the Global Security so
surrendered. In the case of a Debt Security providing appropriate space for such
notation, at the option of the Holder thereof, the Trustee, in lieu of
delivering a new Debt Security or Debt Securities as aforesaid, may make a
notation on such Debt Security of the payment of the redeemed portion thereof.
SECTION 3.04. MANDATORY AND OPTIONAL SINKING FUNDS. The
minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by the terms of Debt
Securities of any series, resolution of the Board of Directors or a supplemental
Indenture is herein referred to as a "mandatory sinking fund payment", and any
payment in excess of such minimum amount provided for by the terms of Debt
Securities of any series, resolution of the Board of Directors or a supplemental
Indenture is herein referred to as an "optional sinking fund payment".
In lieu of making all or any part of any mandatory sinking
fund payment with respect to any Debt Securities of a series in cash, the
Company may at its option (a) deliver to the Trustee Debt Securities of that
series (together with the unmatured Coupons, if any, appertaining thereto)
theretofore purchased or otherwise acquired by the Company or (b) receive
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credit for the principal amount of Debt Securities of that series which have
been redeemed either at the election of the Company pursuant to the terms of
such Debt Securities or through the application of permitted optional sinking
fund payments pursuant to the terms of such Debt Securities, resolution or
supplemental Indenture; PROVIDED, that such Debt Securities have not been
previously so credited. Such Debt Securities shall be received and credited for
such purpose by the Trustee at the redemption price specified in such Debt
Securities, resolution or supplemental Indenture for redemption through
operation of the sinking fund and the amount of such mandatory sinking fund
payment shall be reduced accordingly.
SECTION 3.05. REDEMPTION OF DEBT SECURITIES FOR SINKING FUND.
Not less than 60 days prior to each sinking fund payment date for any series of
Debt Securities, the Company will deliver to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate specifying the amount of the next ensuing sinking fund payment for
that series pursuant to the terms of that series, any resolution or supplemental
Indenture, the portion thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by payment of
cash in the Currency in which the Debt Securities of such series are denominated
(except as provided pursuant to Section 2.03) and the portion thereof, if any,
which is to be satisfied by delivering and crediting Debt Securities of that
series pursuant to this Section 3.05 (which Debt Securities, if not previously
redeemed, will accompany such certificate) and whether the Company intends to
exercise its right to make any permitted optional sinking fund payment with
respect to such series. Such certificate shall also state that no Event of
Default has occurred and is continuing with respect to such series. Such
certificate shall be irrevocable and upon its delivery the Company shall be
obligated to make the cash payment or payments therein referred to, if any, on
or before the next succeeding sinking fund payment date. Failure of the Company
to deliver such certificate (or to deliver the Debt Securities specified in this
paragraph) shall not constitute a Default, but such failure shall require that
the sinking fund payment due on the next succeeding sinking fund payment date
for that series shall be paid entirely in cash and shall be sufficient to redeem
the principal amount of such Debt Securities subject to a mandatory sinking fund
payment without the option to deliver or credit Debt Securities as provided in
this Section 3.05 and without the right to make any optional sinking fund
payment, if any, with respect to such series.
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Any sinking fund payment or payments (mandatory or optional)
made in cash plus any unused balance of any preceding sinking fund payments made
in cash which shall equal or exceed $100,000 (or a lesser sum if the Company
shall so request) with respect to the Debt Securities of any particular series
shall be applied by the Trustee on the sinking fund payment date on which such
payment is made (or, if such payment is made before a sinking fund payment date,
on the sinking fund payment date following the date of such payment) to the
redemption of such Debt Securities at the Redemption Price specified in such
Debt Securities, resolution or supplemental Indenture for operation of the
sinking fund together with any accrued interest to the date fixed for
redemption. Any sinking fund moneys not so applied or allocated by the Trustee
to the redemption of Debt Securities shall be added to the next cash sinking
fund payment received by the Trustee for such series and, together with such
payment, shall be applied in accordance with the provisions of this Section
3.05. Any and all sinking fund moneys with respect to the Debt Securities of any
particular series held by the Trustee on the last sinking fund payment date with
respect to Debt Securities of such series and not held for the payment or
redemption of particular Debt Securities shall be applied by the Trustee,
together with other moneys, if necessary, to be deposited sufficient for the
purpose, to the payment of the principal of the Debt Securities of that series
at its Stated Maturity.
The Trustee shall select the Debt Securities to be redeemed
upon such sinking fund payment date in the manner specified in the last
paragraph of Section 3.02 and the Company shall cause notice of the redemption
thereof to be given in the manner provided in Section 3.02 except that the
notice of redemption shall also state that the Debt Securities are being
redeemed by operation of the sinking fund. Such notice having been duly given,
the redemption of such Debt Securities shall be made upon the terms and in the
manner stated in Section 3.O3.
At least one business day before each sinking fund payment
date, the Company shall pay to the Trustee (or, if the Company is acting as its
own paying agent, the Company shall segregate and hold in trust) in cash a sum
in the Currency in which the Debt Securities of such series are denominated
(except as provided pursuant to Section 2.03) equal to any interest accrued to
the date fixed for redemption of Debt Securities or
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portions thereof to be redeemed on such sinking fund payment date pursuant to
this Section 3.05.
The Trustee shall not redeem any Debt Securities of a series
with sinking fund moneys or mail any notice of redemption of such Debt
Securities by operation of the sinking fund for such series during the
continuance of a Default in payment of interest on such Debt Securities or of
any Event of Default (other than an Event of Default occurring as a consequence
of this paragraph) with respect to such Debt Securities, except that if the
notice of redemption of any such Debt Securities shall theretofore have been
mailed in accordance with the provisions hereof, the Trustee shall redeem such
Debt Securities if cash sufficient for that purpose shall be deposited with the
Trustee for that purpose in accordance with the terms of this Article III.
Except as aforesaid, any moneys in the sinking fund for such series at the time
when any such Default or Event of Default shall occur and any moneys thereafter
paid into such sinking fund shall, during the continuance of such Default or
Event of Default, be held as security for the payment of such Debt Securities;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that in case such Event of Default or Default shall have been
cured or waived as provided herein, such moneys shall thereafter be applied on
the next sinking fund payment date for such Debt Securities on which such moneys
may be applied pursuant to the provisions of this Section 3.05.
ARTICLE IV
Particular Covenants of the Company
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SECTION 4.01. PAYMENT OF PRINCIPAL OF, AND PREMIUM, IF ANY,
AND INTEREST ON, DEBT SECURITIES. The Company, for the benefit of each series of
Debt Securities, will duly and punctually pay or cause to be paid the principal
of, and premium, if any, and interest on, each of the Debt Securities at the
place, at the respective times and in the manner provided herein and in the Debt
Securities. Each installment of interest on the Debt Securities may at the
Company's option be paid by mailing checks for such interest payable to the
Person entitled thereto pursuant to Section 2.07(a) to the address of such
Person as it appears on the Debt Security Register.
Principal, premium and interest of Debt Securities of any
series shall be considered paid on the date due if on such
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date the Trustee or any paying agent holds in accordance with this Indenture
money sufficient to pay in the Currency in which the Debt Securities of such
series are denominated (except as provided pursuant to Section 2.03) all
principal, premium and interest then due.
The Company shall pay interest on overdue principal at the
rate specified therefor in the Debt Securities and it shall pay interest on
overdue installments of interest at the same rate to the extent lawful.
SECTION 4.02. MAINTENANCE OF OFFICES OR AGENCIES FOR
REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE AND PAYMENT OF DEBT SECURITIES. The Company
will maintain in each Place of Payment for any series of Debt Securities, an
office or agency where Debt Securities of such series may be presented or
surrendered for payment, where Debt Securities of such series may be surrendered
for transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in
respect of the Debt Securities of such series and this Indenture may be served.
The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and
any change in the location, of such office or agency. If at any time the Company
shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to
furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders,
notices and demands may be made or served at the corporate trust office of the
Trustee, and the Company hereby appoints the Trustee as its agent to receive all
presentations, surrenders, notices and demands.
The Company may also from time to time designate different or
additional offices or agencies to be maintained for such purposes (in or outside
of such Place of Payment), and may from time to time rescind any such
designation; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that no such designation or rescission shall in
any manner relieve the Company of its obligations described in the preceding
paragraph. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any
such additional designation or rescission of designation and any change in the
location of any such different or additional office or agency.
SECTION 4.03. APPOINTMENT TO FILL A VACANCY IN THE OFFICE OF
TRUSTEE. The Company, whenever necessary to avoid or fill a vacancy in the
office of Trustee, will appoint, in the manner provided in Section 7.10, a
Trustee, so that there shall
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at all times be a Trustee hereunder with respect to each series of Debt
Securities.
SECTION 4.04. DUTIES OF PAYING AGENTS, ETC. (a) The Company
shall cause each paying agent, if any, other than the Trustee, to execute and
deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such agent shall agree with the
Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section 4.04,
(i) that it will hold all sums held by it as such agent for
the payment of the principal of, and premium, if any, or interest on,
the Debt Securities of any series (whether such sums have been paid to
it by the Company or by any other obligor on the Debt Securities of
such series) in trust for the benefit of the Holders of the Debt
Securities of such series;
(ii) that it will give the Trustee notice of any failure by
the Company (or by any other obligor on the Debt Securities of such
series) to make any payment of the principal of and premium, if any, or
interest on, the Debt Securities of such series when the same shall be
due and payable; and
(iii) that it will at any time during the continuance of an
Event of Default, upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith
pay to the Trustee all sums so held by it as such agent.
(b) If the Company shall act as its own paying agent, it will,
on or before each due date of the principal of, and premium, if any, or interest
on, the Debt Securities if any, of any series, set aside, segregate and hold in
trust for the benefit of the Holders of the Debt Securities of such series a sum
sufficient to pay such principal, premium, if any, or interest so becoming due.
The Company will promptly notify the Trustee of any failure by the Company to
take such action or the failure by any other obligor on such Debt Securities to
make any payment of the principal of, and premium, if any, or interest on, such
Debt Securities when the same shall be due and payable.
(c) Anything in this Section 4.04 to the contrary
notwithstanding, the Company may, at any time, for the purpose of obtaining a
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, or for any other reason, pay or
cause to be paid to the Trustee all sums
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held in trust by it or any paying agent, as required by this Section 4.04, such
sums to be held by the Trustee upon the same trusts as those upon which such
sums were held by the Company or such paying agent.
(d) Whenever the Company shall have one or more paying agents
with respect to any series of Debt Securities, it will, prior to each due date
of the principal of, and premium, if any, or interest on, any Debt Securities of
such series, deposit with any such paying agent a sum sufficient to pay the
principal, premium or interest so becoming due, such sum to be held in trust for
the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto, and (unless any such paying agent
is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or
failure so to act.
(e) Anything in this Section 4.04 to the contrary
notwithstanding, the agreement to hold sums in trust as provided in this Section
4.04 is subject to the provisions of Section 11.05.
SECTION 4.05. STATEMENT BY OFFICERS AS TO DEFAULT. The Company
will deliver to the Trustee, on or before a date not more than four months after
the end of each fiscal year of the Company (currently ending May 31) ending
after the date hereof, an Officers' Certificate stating, as to each officer
signing such certificate, that (i) in the course of his performance of his
duties as an officer of the Company he would normally have knowledge of any
Default, (ii) whether or not to the best of his knowledge any Default occurred
during such year and (iii) if to the best of his knowledge the Company is in
Default, specifying all such Defaults and what action the Company is taking or
proposes to take with respect thereto. The Company also shall comply with
Section 3l4(a)(4) of the Trust Indenture Act.
Section 4.06. FURTHER INSTRUMENTS AND ACTS. The Company will,
upon request of the Trustee, execute and deliver such further instrument and do
such further acts as may reasonably be necessary or proper to carry out more
effectually the purposes of this Indenture.
Section 4.07. EXISTENCE. Subject to Article X, the Company
will do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full
force and effect its existence, rights (charter and statutory) and franchises;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the Company shall not be required to preserve any such
right or
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franchise if the Company shall determine that the preservation thereof is no
longer desirable in the conduct of the business of the Company and that the loss
thereof is not disadvantageous in any material respect to the Holders.
Section 4.08. MAINTENANCE OF PROPERTIES. The Company will
cause all properties used or useful in the conduct of its business or the
business of any Subsidiary to be maintained and kept in good condition, repair
and working order and will cause to be made all necessary repairs, renewals,
replacements, betterments and improvements thereof, all as in the judgment of
the Company may be necessary so that the business carried on by the Company and
its Subsidiaries may be properly and advantageously conducted at all times;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that nothing in this Section shall prevent the Company or a
Subsidiary from discontinuing the operation or maintenance of any of such
properties if such discontinuance is, in the judgment of the Company, not
materially detrimental to the conduct of the business of the Company and its
Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, and not disadvantageous in any material respect
to the Holders.
SECTION 4.09. PAYMENT OF TAXES AND OTHER CLAIMS. The Company
will pay or discharge or cause to be paid or discharged, before the same shall
become delinquent, (1) all taxes, assessments and governmental charges levied or
imposed upon the Company or any Subsidiary or upon the income, profits or
property of the Company or any Subsidiary, and (2) all lawful claims for labor,
materials and supplies which, if unpaid, might by law become a lien upon the
property of the Company or any Subsidiary, PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the Company
shall not be required to pay or discharge or cause to be paid or discharged any
such tax, assessment, charge or claim whose amount, applicability or validity is
being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings.
SECTION 4.10. LIMITATION ON LIENS. Unless the Company
contemporaneously secures the Debt Securities equally and ratably with (or prior
to) such obligation, the Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its
Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create or permit to exist any Lien on
any Principal Property, or any shares of Capital Stock or any Indebtedness of
any Restricted Subsidiary whether owned on the Issue Date or thereafter
acquired, securing any obligation except for:
(i) Permitted Liens; or
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(ii) Liens other than those referred to in Section 4.10(i)
above securing Indebtedness if, after giving pro forma effect to the
Incurrence of such Indebtedness (and the receipt and application of the
proceeds thereof) or the securing of outstanding Indebtedness, the sum
of (without duplication) (A) all Indebtedness of the Company and its
Subsidiaries secured by Liens (other than Permitted Liens) and (B) all
Attributable Indebtedness in respect of Sale/Leaseback Transactions
with respect to any Principal Property, at the time of determination
does not exceed 10% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets.
SECTION 4.11. LIMITATION ON SALE/LEASEBACK TRANSACTIONS. The
Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, enter into
any Sale/Leaseback Transaction with respect to any Principal Property unless (i)
the Company or such Subsidiary would be entitled to create a Lien on such
Principal Property securing Indebtedness in an amount equal to the Attributable
Indebtedness with respect to such Sale/Leaseback Transaction without securing
the Debt Securities pursuant to Section 4.10 or (ii) the Company, within six
months from the effective date of such Sale/Leaseback Transaction, applies to
the voluntary defeasance or retirement (excluding retirements of Debt Securities
and other Indebtedness ranking PARI PASSU with the Debt Securities as a result
of conversions or pursuant to mandatory sinking fund or mandatory prepayment
provisions or by payment at maturity) of Debt Securities or other Indebtedness
ranking PARI PASSU with the Debt Securities an amount equal to the Attributable
Indebtedness in respect of such Sale/Leaseback Transaction.
SECTION 4.12. LIMITATION ON INDEBTEDNESS OF RESTRICTED
SUBSIDIARIES. The Company will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to issue,
assume or guarantee any Indebtedness for borrowed money other than (1)
Indebtedness secured by a lien which such Restricted Subsidiary is permitted to
create or assume pursuant to Section 4.10 without securing the Securities, (2)
Indebtedness to the Company or another Restricted Subsidiary, (3) Indebtedness
of any corporation that exists at the time such corporation becomes a Restricted
Subsidiary, PROVIDED that, such indebtedness is not incurred in anticipation of
such corporation becoming a Restricted Subsidiary, (4) Indebtedness of a
corporation that exists at the time such corporation is merged with or into or
consolidated with a Restricted Subsidiary or at
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the time of a sale, lease or other disposition of all or substantially all the
properties of a corporation to a Restricted Subsidiary, PROVIDED that, such
Indebtedness is not incurred in anticipation of such merger, consolidation or
sale, lease or other disposition, (5) Indebtedness incurred in connection with
any industrial development bond financing, (6) Indebtedness incurred by such
Restricted Subsidiary in the ordinary course of the business of such Restricted
Subsidiary and which matures not more than, and is not renewable or executable
at the option of the obligor to a date more than, twelve months after the date
such Indebtedness is incurred, and (7) Indebtedness incurred by any Restricted
Subsidiary to extend, renew or replace, in whole or in part, any Indebtedness
referred to in the foregoing clauses (3) or (4) or Indebtedness of any
Restricted Subsidiary existing at the date hereof, PROVIDED that the principal
amount of Indebtedness so incurred shall not exceed the principal amount of
indebtedness outstanding at the time of such extension, renewal or replacement.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may permit one or
more Restricted Subsidiaries to issue, assume or guarantee any Indebtedness for
borrowed money which is not secured by a Lien upon any Principal Property or
shares of Capital Stock or Indebtedness of any Restricted Subsidiary, PROVIDED
that, the aggregate amount of all such Indebtedness permitted by this paragraph
(together with all Liens created, assumed or incurred by the Company and its
Subsidiaries (as measured by all Indebtedness secured by all such Liens then
outstanding or to be so created or assumed) and all Sale/Leaseback Transactions
entered into (as measured by the Attributable Indebtedness of all such
Sale/Leaseback Transactions then outstanding or to be so entered into)) at any
time outstanding shall not exceed 10% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets.
SECTION 4.13. LIMITATION ON ISSUANCE OF PREFERRED STOCK BY
RESTRICTED SUBSIDIARIES. The Company will not permit any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries to issue any Preferred or preference Stock (except to the Company
or any wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary) or permit any person other than the
Company or any wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary to hold any such Preferred or
preference Stock.
ARTICLE V
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Holders' Lists and Reports
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by the Company and the Trustee
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SECTION 5.01. COMPANY TO FURNISH TRUSTEE INFORMATION AS TO
NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF HOLDERS; PRESERVATION OF INFORMATION. The Company
covenants and agrees that it will furnish or cause to be furnished to the
Trustee with respect to the Registered Securities of each series:
(a) not more than 15 days after each record date with respect
to the payment of interest, if any, a list, in such form as the Trustee
may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Registered
Holders as of such record date, and
(b) at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing,
within 30 days after the receipt by the Company of any such request, a
list as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the time such list is
furnished;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that so long as the Trustee shall be the Registrar, such
lists shall not be required to be furnished.
The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is
reasonably practicable, all information as to the names and addresses of the
Holders (l) contained in the most recent list furnished to it as provided in
this Section 5.01 or (2) received by it in the capacity of paying agent or
Registrar (if so acting) hereunder.
The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided
in this Section 5.01 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.
SECTION 5.02. COMMUNICATIONS TO HOLDERS. Holders may
communicate pursuant to Section 312(b) of the Trust Indenture Act with other
Holders with respect to their rights under this Indenture or the Debt
Securities. The Company, the Trustee, the Registrar and anyone else shall have
the protection of Section 312(c) of the Trust Indenture Act.
SECTION 5.03. REPORTS BY COMPANY. (a) The Company covenants
and agrees, and any obligor hereunder shall covenant and agree, to file with the
Trustee and the Holders (in the manner and to the extent provided in Section
5.04), within 15
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days after the Company or such obligor, as the case may be, is required to file
the same with the Securities and Exchange 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 said Commission may from time to time by
rules and regulations prescribe) which the Company or such obligor, as the case
may be, may be required to file with said Commission pursuant to Section 13 or
Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act; or, if the Company or such obligor, as the
case may be, is not required to file information, documents or reports pursuant
to either of such Sections, then to file with the Trustee, the Holders (in the
manner and to the extent provided in Section 5.04) and said Commission, in
accordance with rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by said
Commission, such of the supplementary and periodic information, documents and
reports which may be required pursuant to Section 13 of the Exchange Act in
respect of a security listed and registered on a national securities exchange as
may be prescribed from time to time in such rules and regulations.
(b) The Company covenants and agrees, and any obligor
hereunder shall covenant and agree, to file with the Trustee, the Holders (in
the manner and to the extent provided in Section 5.04) and the Securities and
Exchange Commission, in accordance with the rules and regulations prescribed
from time to time by said Commission, such additional information, documents,
and reports with respect to compliance by the Company or such obligor, as the
case may be, with the conditions and covenants provided for in this Indenture as
may be required from time to time by such rules and regulations.
SECTION 5.04. REPORTS BY TRUSTEE. As promptly as practicable
after each January 1 beginning with the January 1 following the date of this
Indenture, and in any event prior to February 15 in each year, the Trustee shall
mail to each Holder a brief report dated as of the previous December 31 that
complies with Section 313(a) of the Trust Indenture Act. The Trustee also shall
comply with Section 313(b) of the Trust Indenture Act.
Reports pursuant to this Section 5.04 shall be transmitted by
mail:
(1) to all Registered Holders, as the names and addresses of
such Holders appear in the Debt Security Register;
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(2) except in the cases of reports under Section 313(b)(2) of
the Trust Indenture Act, to each holder of a Debt Security of any
series whose name and address appear in the information preserved at
the time by the Trustee in accordance with Section 5.02.
A copy of each report at the time of its mailing to Holders
shall be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and each stock
exchange (if any) on which the Debt Securities of any series are listed. The
Company agrees to notify promptly the Trustee whenever the Debt Securities of
any series become listed on any stock exchange and of any delisting thereof.
SECTION 5.05. RECORD DATES FOR ACTION BY HOLDERS. If the
Company shall solicit from the Holders of Debt Securities of any series any
action (including the making of any demand or request, the giving of any
direction, notice, consent or waiver or the taking of any other action), the
Company may, at its option, by resolution of the Board of Directors, fix in
advance a record date for the determination of Holders of Debt Securities
entitled to take such action, but the Company shall have no obligation to do so.
Any such record date shall be fixed at the Company's discretion. If such a
record date is fixed, such action may be sought or given before or after the
record date, but only the Holders of Debt Securities of record at the close of
business on such record date shall be deemed to be Holders of Debt Securities
for the purpose of determining whether Holders of the requisite proportion of
Debt Securities of such series Outstanding have authorized or agreed or
consented to such action, and for that purpose the Debt Securities of such
series Outstanding shall be computed as of such record date.
ARTICLE VI
Remedies of the Trustee and Holders in Event of Default
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SECTION 6.01. EVENTS OF DEFAULT. If any one or more of the
following shall have occurred and be continuing with respect to Debt Securities
of any series (each of the following, an "Event of Default"):
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(a) default in the payment of any installment of interest upon
any Debt Securities of that series as and when the same shall become
due and payable, and continuance of such default for a period of 30
days; or
(b) default in the payment of the principal of or premium, if
any, on any Debt Securities of that series as and when the same shall
become due and payable, whether at maturity, upon redemption, by
declaration, upon required repurchase or otherwise; or
(c) default in the payment of any sinking fund payment with
respect to any Debt Securities of that series as and when the same
shall become due and payable; or
(d) failure on the part of the Company to comply with Article
X; or
(e) failure on the part of the Company duly to observe or
perform any other of the covenants or agreements on the part of the
Company in the Debt Securities of that series, in any resolution of the
Board of Directors authorizing the issuance of that series of Debt
Securities, in this Indenture with respect to such series or in any
supplemental Indenture with respect to such series (other than a
covenant a default in the performance of which is elsewhere in this
Section specifically dealt with), continuing for a period of 60 days
after the date on which written notice specifying such failure and
requiring the Company to remedy the same shall have been given, by
registered or certified mail, to the Company by the Trustee or to the
Company and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate
principal amount of the Debt Securities of that series at the time
Outstanding; or
(f) Indebtedness of the Company or any Subsidiary of the
Company is not paid within any applicable grace period after final
maturity or is accelerated by the holders thereof because of a default,
the total amount of such Indebtedness unpaid or accelerated exceeds
$20,000,000 or its Dollar Equivalent at the time and such default
remains uncured or such acceleration is not rescinded for 10 days after
the date on which written notice specifying such failure and requiring
the Company to remedy the same shall have been given, by registered or
certified mail, to the
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Company by the Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by the Holders
of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Debt Securities of
that series at the time Outstanding; or
(g) the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries shall
(i) voluntarily commence any proceeding or file any petition seeking
relief under Title 11 of the United States Code or any other Federal or
State bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law, (ii) consent to the
institution of, or fail to controvert within the time and in the manner
prescribed by law, any such proceeding or the filing of any such
petition, (iii) apply for or consent to the appointment of a receiver,
trustee, custodian, sequestrator or similar official for the Company or
any such Restricted Subsidiary or for a substantial part of its
property, (iv) file an answer admitting the material allegations of a
petition filed against it in any such proceeding, (v) make a general
assignment for the benefit of creditors, (vi) admit in writing its
inability or fail generally to pay its debts as they become due, (vii)
take corporate action for the purpose of effecting any of the
foregoing, or (viii) take any comparable action under any foreign laws
relating to insolvency; or
(h) the entry of an order or decree by a court having
competent jurisdiction in the premises for (i) relief in respect of the
Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries or a substantial part of
any of their property under Title 11 or the United States Code or any
other Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law, (ii) the
appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian, sequestrator or similar
official for the Company or any such Restricted Subsidiary or for a
substantial part of any of their property (except any decree or order
appointing such official of any Restricted Subsidiary pursuant to a
plan under which the assets and operations of such Restricted
Subsidiary are transferred to or combined with another Subsidiary or
Subsidiaries of the Company or to the Company) or (iii) the winding-up
or liquidation of the Company or any such Restricted Subsidiary (except
any decree or order approving or ordering the winding up or liquidation
of the affairs of a Restricted Subsidiary pursuant to a plan under
which the assets and operations of such Restricted Subsidiary are
transferred to or combined with another Subsidiary or
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Subsidiaries of the Company or to the Company); and such order or
decree shall continue unstayed and in effect for 60 consecutive days;
or any similar relief is granted under any foreign laws and the order
or decree stays in effect for 60 consecutive days; or
(i) any judgment or decree for the payment of money in excess
of $20,000,000 or its Dollar Equivalent at the time is entered against
the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company by a court or courts of
competent jurisdiction, which judgment is not covered by insurance, and
is not discharged and either (A) an enforcement proceeding has been
commenced by any creditor upon such judgment or decree or (B) there is
a period of 60 days following the entry of such judgment or decree
during which such judgment or decree is not discharged, waived or the
execution thereof stayed and, in the case of (A) or (B), such default
continues for 10 days after the date on which written notice specifying
such failure and requiring the Company to remedy the same shall have
been given, by registered or certified mail, to the Company by the
Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of at least
25% in aggregate principal amount of the Debt Securities of that series
at the time Outstanding; or
(j) any other Event of Default provided with respect to Debt
Securities of that series;
then and in each and every case that an Event of Default described in clause
(a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (i) or (j) with respect to Debt Securities of that
series at the time Outstanding occurs and is continuing, unless the principal of
and interest on all the Debt Securities of that series shall have already become
due and payable, either the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in
aggregate principal amount of the Debt Securities of that series then
Outstanding hereunder, by notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee
if given by Holders), may declare the principal of (or, if the Debt Securities
of that series are Original Issue Discount Debt Securities, such portion of the
principal amount as may be specified in the terms of that series) and interest
on all the Debt Securities of that series to be due and payable immediately, and
upon any such declaration the same shall become and shall be immediately due and
payable, anything in this Indenture or in the Debt Securities of that series
contained to the contrary notwithstanding. If an Event of
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Default described in clause (g) or (h) occurs, then and in each and every such
case, unless the principal of and interest on all the Debt Securities shall have
become due and payable, the principal of (or, if any Debt Securities are
Original Issue Discount Debt Securities, such portion of the principal amount as
may be specified in the terms thereto) and interest on all the Debt Securities
then Outstanding hereunder shall IPSO FACTO become and be immediately due and
payable without any declaration or other act on the part of the Trustee or any
Holders, anything in this Indenture or in the Debt Securities contained to the
contrary notwithstanding.
The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Debt
Securities of a particular series by notice to the Trustee may rescind an
acceleration and its consequences if the rescission would not conflict with any
judgment or decree already rendered and if all existing Events of Default have
been cured or waived except nonpayment of principal or interest that has become
due solely because of acceleration. Upon any such rescission, the parties hereto
shall be restored respectively to their several positions and rights hereunder,
and all rights, remedies and powers of the parties hereto shall continue as
though no proceeding had been taken.
In case the Trustee or any Holder shall have proceeded to
enforce any right under this Indenture and such proceedings shall have been
discontinued or abandoned because of such rescission or annulment or for any
other reason or shall have been determined adversely to the Trustee or such
Holder, then and in every such case the parties hereto shall be restored
respectively to their several positions and rights hereunder and all rights,
remedies and powers of the parties hereto shall continue as though no such
proceeding had been taken.
The foregoing Events of Default shall constitute Events of
Default whatever the reason for any such Event of Default and whether is
voluntary or involuntary or is 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.
The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, within 30 days after
the occurrence thereof, written notice in the form of an Officers' Certificate
of any event which with the giving of notice and the lapse of time would become
an Event of Default
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under clause (c), (d), (e), (f), (i) or (j), its status and what action the
Company is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto.
SECTION 6.02. COLLECTION OF INDEBTEDNESS BY TRUSTEE, ETC. If
an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee, in its own name and
as trustee of an express trust, shall be entitled and empowered to institute any
action or proceedings at law or in equity for the collection of the sums so due
and unpaid or enforce the performance of any provision of the Debt Securities of
the affected series or this Indenture, and may prosecute any such action or
proceedings to judgment or final decree, and may enforce any such judgment or
final decree against the Company or any other obligor upon the Debt Securities,
and the Coupons, if any, appertaining thereto, of such series (and collect in
the manner provided by law out of the property of the Company or any other
obligor upon the Debt Securities of such series wherever situated the moneys
adjudged or decreed to be payable).
In case there shall be pending proceedings for the bankruptcy
or for the reorganization of the Company or any other obligor upon the Debt
Securities of any series under Title 11 of the United States Code or any other
Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law, or in case a receiver,
trustee or other similar official shall have been appointed for its property, or
in case of any other similar judicial proceedings relative to the Company or any
other obligor upon the Debt Securities of any series, its creditors or its
property, the Trustee, irrespective of whether the principal of Debt Securities
of any series shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by
declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Trustee shall have made
any demand pursuant to the provisions of this Section 6.O2, shall be entitled
and empowered, by intervention in such proceedings or otherwise, to file and
prove a claim or claims for the whole amount of principal, premium, if any, and
interest (or, if the Debt Securities of such series are Original Issue Discount
Debt Securities, such portion of the principal amount as may be specified in the
terms of such series) owing and unpaid in respect of the Debt Securities of such
series, and to file such other papers or documents as may be necessary or
advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee (including any claim for
reasonable compensation to the Trustee, its agents, attorneys and counsel, and
for reimbursement of all expenses and liabilities Incurred, and all advances
made, by the
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Trustee except as a result of its negligence or bad faith) and of the Holders
thereof allowed in any such judicial proceedings relative to the Company, or any
other obligor upon the Debt Securities of such series, its creditors or its
property, and 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 such Holders and of the Trustee on their behalf, and
any receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or reorganization is hereby
authorized by each of such Holders to make payments to the Trustee, and, in the
event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of payments directly to such
Holders, to pay to the Trustee such amount as shall be sufficient to cover
reasonable compensation to the Trustee, its agents, attorneys and counsel, and
all other reasonable expenses and liabilities Incurred, and all advances made,
by the Trustee except as a result of its negligence or bad faith.
All rights of action and of asserting claims under this
Indenture, or under any of the Debt Securities appertaining thereto, of any
series, may be enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any such Debt
Securities or the production thereof in any trial or other proceedings relative
thereto, and any such action or proceedings instituted by the Trustee shall be
brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of
judgment (except for any amounts payable to the Trustee pursuant to Section
7.06) shall be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of all the Debt Securities
in respect of which such action was taken.
In case of an Event of Default hereunder the Trustee may in
its discretion proceed to protect and enforce the rights vested in it by this
Indenture by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem
most effectual to protect and enforce any of such rights, either at law or in
equity or in bankruptcy or otherwise, whether for the specific enforcement of
any covenant or agreement contained in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise
of any power granted in this Indenture, or to enforce any other legal or
equitable right vested in the Trustee by this Indenture or by law.
SECTION 6.03. APPLICATION OF MONEYS COLLECTED BY TRUSTEE. Any
moneys or other property collected by the Trustee pursuant to Section 6.02 with
respect to Debt Securities of any series shall be applied in the order
following, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee for the distribution of
such moneys or
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other property, upon presentation of the several Debt Securities of such series
in respect of which moneys or other property have been collected, and the
notation thereon of the payment, if only partially paid, and upon surrender
thereof if fully paid:
FIRST: To the payment of all money due the Trustee pursuant to
Section 7.06;
SECOND: In case the principal of the Outstanding Debt
Securities in respect of which such moneys have been collected shall
not have become due, to the payment of interest on the Debt Securities
of such series in the order of the maturity of the installments of such
interest, with interest (to the extent that such interest has been
collected by the Trustee) upon the overdue installments of interest at
the rate or Yield to Maturity (in the case of Original Issue Discount
Debt Securities) borne by the Debt Securities of such series, such
payments to be made ratably to the Persons entitled thereto, without
discrimination or preference;
THIRD: In case the principal of the Outstanding Debt
Securities in respect of which such moneys have been collected shall
have become due, by declaration or otherwise, to the payment of the
whole amount then owing and unpaid upon the Debt Securities of such
series for principal and premium, if any, and interest, with interest
on the overdue principal and premium, if any, and (to the extent that
such interest has been collected by the Trustee) upon overdue
installments of interest at the rate or Yield to Maturity (in the case
of Original Issue Discount Debt Securities) borne by the Debt
Securities of such series; and, in case such moneys shall be
insufficient to pay in full the whole amount so due and unpaid upon the
Debt Securities of such series, then to the payment of such principal
and premium, if any, and interest, without preference or priority of
principal and premium, if any, over interest, or of interest over
principal and premium, if any, or of any installment of interest over
any other installment of interest, or of any Debt Security of such
series over any Debt Security of such series, ratably to the aggregate
of such principal and premium, if any, and interest; and
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FOURTH: The remainder, if any, shall be paid to the Company,
its successors or assigns, or to whomsoever may be lawfully entitled to
receive the same, or as a court of competent jurisdiction may direct.
The Trustee may fix a record date and payment date for any
payment to Holders pursuant to this Section 6.03. At least 15 days before such
record date, the Company shall mail to each Holder and the Trustee a notice that
states the record date, the payment date and amount to be paid.
SECTION 6.04. LIMITATION ON SUITS BY HOLDERS. No Holder of any
Debt Security of any series shall have any right by virtue or by availing of any
provision of this Indenture to institute any action or proceeding at law or in
equity or in bankruptcy or otherwise, upon or under or with respect to this
Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other
remedy hereunder, unless such Holder previously shall have given to the Trustee
written notice of an Event of Default with respect to Debt Securities of that
same series and of the continuance thereof and unless the Holders of not less
than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Debt Securities of
that series shall have made written request upon the Trustee to institute such
action or proceedings in respect of such Event of Default in its own name as
Trustee hereunder and shall have offered to the Trustee such reasonable
indemnity as it may require against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be
Incurred therein or thereby, and the Trustee, for 60 days after its receipt of
such notice, request and offer of indemnity shall have failed to institute any
such action or proceedings and no direction inconsistent with such written
request shall have been given to the Trustee pursuant to Section 6.06; it being
understood and intended, and being expressly covenanted by the Holder of every
Debt Security with every other Holder and the Trustee, that no one or more
Holders shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue or by availing of
any provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of
any Holders, or to obtain or seek to obtain priority over or preference to any
other such Holder, or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the
manner herein provided and for the equal, ratable and common benefit of all such
Holders. For the protection and enforcement of the provisions of this Section
6.04, each and every Holder and the Trustee shall be entitled to such relief as
can be given either at law or in equity.
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Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture,
however, the right of any Holder of any Debt Security to receive payment of the
principal of, and premium, if any, and (subject to Section 2.12) interest on,
such Debt Security on or after the respective due dates expressed in such Debt
Security, and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or
after such respective dates, shall not be impaired or affected without the
consent of such Holder.
SECTION 6.05. REMEDIES CUMULATIVE; DELAY OR OMISSION IN
EXERCISE OF RIGHTS NOT A WAIVER OF DEFAULT. All powers and remedies given by
this Article VI to the Trustee or to the Holders shall, to the extent permitted
by law, be deemed cumulative and not exclusive of any thereof or of any other
powers and remedies available to the Trustee or the Holders, by judicial
proceedings or otherwise, to enforce the performance or observance of the
covenants and agreements contained in this Indenture, and no delay or omission
of the Trustee or of any Holder to exercise any right or power accruing upon any
Default occurring and continuing as aforesaid, shall impair any such right or
power, or shall be construed to be a waiver of any such Default or an
acquiescence therein; and, subject to the provisions of Section 6.04, every
power and remedy given by this Article VI or by law to the Trustee or to the
Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as shall be deemed
expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders.
SECTION 6.06. RIGHTS OF HOLDERS OF MAJORITY IN PRINCIPAL
AMOUNT OF DEBT SECURITIES TO DIRECT TRUSTEE AND TO WAIVE DEFAULT. The Holders of
a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Debt Securities of any series at
the time Outstanding shall have the right to direct the time, method, and place
of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or
exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee, with respect to the Debt
Securities of such series; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that such direction shall not be
otherwise than in accordance with law and the provisions of this Indenture, and
that subject to the provisions of Section 7.01, the Trustee shall have the right
to decline to follow any such direction if the Trustee being advised by counsel
shall determine that the action so directed may not lawfully be taken, or if the
Trustee shall by a responsible officer or officers determine that the action so
directed would involve it in personal liability or would be unjustly prejudicial
to Holders of Debt Securities of
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such series not taking part in such direction; and PROVIDED, FURTHER, HOWEVER,
that nothing in this Indenture contained shall impair the right of the Trustee
to take any action deemed proper by the Trustee and which is not inconsistent
with such direction by such Holders. Prior to the acceleration of the maturity
of the Debt Securities of any series, as provided in Section 6.01, the Holders
of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Debt Securities of that
series at the time Outstanding may on behalf of the Holders of all the Debt
Securities of that series waive any past Default or Event of Default and its
consequences for that series specified in the terms thereof as contemplated by
Section 2.03, except (i) a Default in the payment of the principal of, and
premium, if any, or interest on, any of the Debt Securities and (ii) a Default
in respect of a provision that under Section 9.02 cannot be amended without the
consent of each Holder affected thereby. In case of any such waiver, such
Default shall cease to exist, any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be
deemed to have been cured for every purpose of this Indenture, and the Company,
the Trustee and the Holders of the Debt Securities of that series shall be
restored to their former positions and rights hereunder, respectively; but no
such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or impair any right
consequent thereon.
SECTION 6.07. TRUSTEE TO GIVE NOTICE OF DEFAULTS KNOWN TO IT,
BUT MAY WITHHOLD SUCH NOTICE IN CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES. The Trustee shall, within
90 days after the occurrence of a Default known to it with respect to a series
of Debt Securities give to the Holders thereof, in the manner provided in
Section 12.03, notice of all Defaults with respect to such series known to the
Trustee, unless such Defaults shall have been cured or waived before the giving
of such notice; PROVIDED, that, except in the case of Default in the payment of
the principal of, or premium, if any, or interest on, any of the Debt Securities
of such series or in the making of any sinking fund payment with respect to the
Debt Securities of such series, the Trustee shall be protected in withholding
such notice if and so long as the board of directors, the executive committee or
a committee of directors or responsible officers of the Trustee in good faith
determine that the withholding of such notice is in the interests of the Holders
thereof.
SECTION 6.08. REQUIREMENT OF AN UNDERTAKING TO PAY COSTS IN
CERTAIN SUITS UNDER THE INDENTURE OR AGAINST THE TRUSTEE. All parties to this
Indenture agree, and each Holder of
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any Debt Security by his acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that
any court may in its discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement of any
right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any
action taken or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in
such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit in the manner and to
the extent provided in the Trust Indenture Act, 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 6.08 shall not apply to any suit instituted by the
Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Holder, or group of Holders, holding in
the aggregate more than ten percent in principal amount of the Outstanding Debt
Securities of that series or to any suit instituted by any Holder for the
enforcement of the payment of the principal of, or premium, if any, or interest
on, any Debt Security on or after the due date for such payment expressed in
such Debt Security.
ARTICLE VII
Concerning the Trustee
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SECTION 7.01. CERTAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES. The
Trustee, prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default and after the curing or
waiving of all Events of Default which may have occurred, undertakes to perform
such duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth in this
Indenture. In case an Event of Default has occurred (which has not been cured or
waived), the Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it
by this Indenture, and use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise,
as a prudent man would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of
his own affairs.
No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to relieve
the Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent
failure to act, or its own willful misconduct, except that:
(a) this subsection shall not be construed to limit the effect
of the first paragraph of this Section 7.01;
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(b) prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default with
respect to the Debt Securities of a series and after the curing or
waiving of all Events of Default with respect to such series which may
have occurred:
(1) the duties and obligations of the Trustee with
respect to Debt Securities of any series shall be determined
solely by the express provisions of this Indenture, and the
Trustee shall not be liable except for the performance of such
duties and obligations with respect to such series as are
specifically set forth in this Indenture, and no implied
covenants or obligations with respect to such series shall be
read into this Indenture against the Trustee; and
(2) in the absence of bad faith on the part of the
Trustee, the Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of
the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed
therein, upon any certificates or opinions furnished to the
Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture;
but in the case of any such certificates or opinions which by
any provision hereof are specifically required to be furnished
to the Trustee, the Trustee shall be under a duty to examine
the same to determine whether or not they conform to the
requirements of this Indenture; but the Trustee shall examine
the evidence furnished to it pursuant to Section 5.03 to
determine whether or not such evidence conforms to the
requirement of this Indenture;
(c) the Trustee shall not be liable for an error of
judgment made in good faith by a responsible officer, unless
it shall be proved that the Trustee was negligent in
ascertaining the pertinent facts; and
(d) the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to
any action taken or omitted to be taken by it with respect to
Debt Securities of any series in good faith in accordance with
the direction of the Holders of not less than a majority in
aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Debt Securities
of that series relating to the time, method and place of
conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the
Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the
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Trustee, under this Indenture with respect to Debt Securities
of such series.
None of the provisions of this Indenture shall require the
Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any personal
financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the
exercise of any of its rights or powers, if there shall be reasonable grounds
for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such
risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it.
Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision
of this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or
affording protection to the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this
Section.
SECTION 7.02. CERTAIN RIGHTS OF TRUSTEE. Except as otherwise
provided in Section 7.01:
(a) the Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or
refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement,
instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent,
order, bond, debenture, note or other paper or document believed by it
to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party
or parties;
(b) any request, direction, order or demand of the company
mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Company Order
(unless other evidence in respect thereof be herein specifically
prescribed); and any resolution of the Board of Directors may be
evidenced to the Trustee by a copy thereof certified by the Secretary
or an Assistant Secretary of the Company;
(c) the Trustee may consult with counsel, and the advice of
such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete
authorization and protection in respect of any action taken or suffered
or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in accordance with such
advice or Opinion of Counsel;
(d) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any
of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request,
order or direction of any of the
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Holders of Debt Securities of any series pursuant to the provisions of
this Indenture, unless such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee
reasonable security or indemnity against the costs, expenses and
liabilities which may be Incurred therein or thereby;
(e) the Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken or
omitted by it in good faith and reasonably believed by it to be
authorized or within the discretion or rights or powers conferred upon
it by this Indenture;
(f) prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default and after
the curing of all Events of Default which may have occurred, the
Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or
matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument,
opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, approval
or other paper or document, unless requested in writing to do so by the
Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the then
outstanding Debt Securities of a series affected by such matter;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that if the payment within a reasonable time to the
Trustee of the costs, expenses or liabilities likely to be incurred by
it in the making of such investigation is not, in the opinion of the
Trustee, reasonably assured to the Trustee by the security afforded to
it by the terms of this Indenture, the Trustee may require reasonable
indemnity against such costs, expenses or liabilities as a condition to
so proceeding. The reasonable expense of every such investigation shall
be paid by the Company or, if paid by the Trustee, shall be repaid by
the Company upon demand;
(g) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers
hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or
through agents or attorneys and the Trustee shall not be responsible
for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent or attorney
appointed by it with due care hereunder; and
(h) if any property other than cash shall at any time be
subject to a Lien in favor of the Holders, the Trustee, if and to the
extent authorized by a receivership or bankruptcy court of competent
jurisdiction or by the supplemental instrument subjecting such property
to such lien, shall be entitled to make advances for the purpose of
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preserving such property or of discharging tax Liens or other prior
Liens or encumbrances thereon.
SECTION 7.03. TRUSTEE NOT LIABLE FOR RECITALS IN INDENTURE OR
IN DEBT SECURITIES. The recitals contained herein, in the Debt Securities
(except the Trustee's certificate of authentication) shall be taken as the
statements of the Company, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for the
correctness of the same. The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity
or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Debt Securities of any series, except
that the Trustee represents that it is duly authorized to execute and deliver
this Indenture, authenticate the Debt Securities and perform its obligations
hereunder, and that the statements made by it or to be made by it in a Statement
of Eligibility and Qualification on Form T-l supplied to the Company are true
and accurate. The Trustee shall not be accountable for the use or application by
the Company of any of the Debt Securities or of the proceeds thereof.
SECTION 7.04. TRUSTEE, PAYING AGENT OR REGISTRAR MAY OWN DEBT
SECURITIES. The Trustee or any paying agent or Registrar, in its individual or
any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Debt Securities and
subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act relating to conflicts of
interest and preferential claims may otherwise deal with the Company with the
same rights it would have if it were not Trustee, paying agent or Registrar.
SECTION 7.05. MONEYS RECEIVED BY TRUSTEE TO BE HELD IN TRUST.
Subject to the provisions of Section 11.05, all moneys received by the Trustee
shall, until used or applied as herein provided, be held in trust for the
purposes for which they were received, but need not be segregated from other
funds except to the extent required by law. The Trustee shall be under no
liability for interest on any moneys received by it hereunder. So long as no
Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, all interest allowed on
any such moneys shall be paid from time to time to the Company upon a Company
Order.
SECTION 7.06. COMPENSATION AND REIMBURSEMENT. The Company
covenants and agrees to pay in Dollars to the Trustee from time to time, and the
Trustee shall be entitled to, reasonable compensation for all services rendered
by it hereunder (which shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to
the compensation of a trustee of an express trust), and, except
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as otherwise expressly provided herein, the Company will pay or reimburse in
Dollars the Trustee upon its request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements
and advances incurred or made by the Trustee in accordance with any of the
provisions of this Indenture (including the reasonable compensation and the
expenses and disbursements of its agents, attorneys and counsel and of all
Persons not regularly in its employ) except any such expense, disbursement or
advances as may arise from its negligence or bad faith. The Company also
covenants to indemnify in Dollars the Trustee for, and to hold it harmless
against, any loss, liability or expense Incurred without negligence, willful
misconduct or bad faith on the part of the Trustee, arising out of or in
connection with the acceptance or administration of this trust or trusts
hereunder, including the reasonable costs and expenses of defending itself
against any claim of liability in connection with the exercise or performance of
any of its powers or duties hereunder. The obligations of the Company under this
Section 7.06 to compensate and indemnify the Trustee and to pay or reimburse the
Trustee for expenses, disbursements and advances shall constitute additional
Indebtedness hereunder and shall survive the satisfaction and discharge of this
Indenture. The Company and the Holders agree that such additional Indebtedness
shall be secured by a Lien prior to that of the Debt Securities upon all
property and funds held or collected by the Trustee, as such, except funds held
in trust for the payment of principal of, and premium, if any, or interest on,
particular Debt Securities.
When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services after an
Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(g) or (h) occurs, the expenses and
the compensation for the services are intended to constitute expenses of
administration under any bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar
law.
SECTION 7.07. RIGHT OF TRUSTEE TO RELY ON AN OFFICERS'
CERTIFICATE WHERE NO OTHER EVIDENCE SPECIFICALLY PRESCRIBED. Except as otherwise
provided in Section 7.01, whenever in the administration of the provisions of
this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it necessary or desirable that a matter be
proved or established prior to taking or suffering or omitting any action
hereunder, such matter (unless other evidence in respect thereof be herein
specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of negligence or bad faith on the
part of the Trustee, be deemed to be conclusively proved and established by an
Officers' Certificate delivered to the Trustee and such certificate, in the
absence of negligence or bad faith on the part of the Trustee,
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shall be full warrant to the Trustee for any action taken, suffered or omitted
by it under the provisions of this Indenture upon the faith thereof.
SECTION 7.08. SEPARATE TRUSTEE; REPLACEMENT OF TRUSTEE. The
Company may, but need not, appoint a separate Trustee for any one or more series
of Debt Securities. The Trustee may resign with respect to one or more or all
series of Debt Securities at any time by giving notice to the Company. The
Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Debt Securities of a particular
series may remove the Trustee for such series and only such series by so
notifying the Trustee and may appoint a successor Trustee. The Company shall
remove the Trustee if:
(1) the Trustee fails to comply with Section 7.10;
(2) the Trustee is adjudged bankrupt or insolvent;
(3) a receiver or other public officer takes charge of the
Trustee or its property; or
(4) the Trustee otherwise becomes incapable of acting.
If the Trustee resigns, is removed by the Company or by the
Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Debt Securities of a particular
series and such Holders do not reasonably promptly appoint a successor Trustee,
or if a vacancy exists in the office of Trustee for any reason (the Trustee in
such event being referred to herein as the retiring Trustee), the Company shall
promptly appoint a successor Trustee. No resignation or removal of the Trustee
and no appointment of a successor Trustee shall become effective until the
acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee in accordance with the
applicable requirements of this Section 7.08.
A successor Trustee shall deliver a written acceptance of its
appointment to the retiring Trustee and to the Company. Thereupon the
resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective, and the
successor Trustee shall have all the rights, powers and duties of the Trustee
under this Indenture. The successor Trustee shall mail a notice of its
succession to Holders of Debt Securities of each applicable series. The retiring
Trustee shall promptly transfer all property held by it as Trustee to the
successor Trustee, subject to the Lien provided for in section 7.06.
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If a successor Trustee does not take office within 60 days
after the retiring Trustee gives notice of resignation or is removed, the
retiring Trustee or the Holders of 25% in principal amount of the Debt
Securities of any applicable series may petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee for the Debt Securities
of such series.
If the Trustee fails to comply with Section 7.10, any Holder
of Debt Securities of any applicable series may petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee and the appointment of a successor
Trustee for the Debt Securities of such series.
Notwithstanding the replacement of the Trustee pursuant to
this Section 7.08, the Company's obligations under Section 7.06 shall continue
for the benefit of the retiring Trustee.
In the case of the appointment hereunder of a separate or
successor trustee with respect to the Debt Securities of one or more series, the
Company, any retiring Trustee and each successor or separate Trustee with
respect to the Debt Securities of any applicable series shall execute and
deliver an Indenture supplemental hereto (1) which shall contain such provisions
as shall be deemed necessary or desirable to confirm that all the rights,
powers, trusts and duties of any retiring trustee with respect to the Debt
Securities of any series as to which any such retiring Trustee is not retiring
shall continue to be vested in such retiring Trustee and (2) that shall add to
or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to
provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more
than one trustee, it being understood that nothing herein or in such
supplemental Indenture shall constitute such Trustees co-trustees of the same
trust and that each such separate, retiring or successor Trustee shall be
Trustee of a trust or trusts hereunder separate and apart from any trust or
trusts hereunder administered by any other such Trustee.
SECTION 7.09. SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE BY MERGER. If the 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 or banking
association without any further act shall be the successor Trustee.
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In case at the time such successor or successors by merger,
conversion or consolidation to the Trustee shall succeed to the trusts created
by this Indenture any of the Debt Securities shall have been authenticated but
not delivered, any such successor to the Trustee may adopt the certificate of
authentication of any predecessor trustee, and deliver such Debt Securities so
authenticated; and in case at that time any of the Debt Securities shall not
have been authenticated, any successor to the Trustee may authenticate such Debt
Securities either in the name of any predecessor hereunder or in the name of the
successor to the Trustee; and in all such cases such certificates shall have the
full force which it is anywhere in the Debt Securities or in this Indenture
provided that the certificate of the Trustee shall have.
SECTION 7.10. ELIGIBILITY; DISQUALIFICATION. The Trustee shall
at all times satisfy the requirements of Section 310(a) of the Trust Indenture
Act. The 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. No obligor upon the Debt Securities of a particular series or Person
directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by or under common control with
such obligor shall serve as Trustee upon the Debt Securities of such series. The
Trustee shall comply with Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act; PROVIDED,
HOWEVER, that there shall be excluded from the operation of Section 310(b)(l) of
the Trust Indenture Act this Indenture or any indenture or indentures under
which other securities or certificates of interest or participation in other
securities of the Company are outstanding if the requirements for such exclusion
set forth in Section 310(b)(l) of the Trust Indenture Act are met.
SECTION 7.11. PREFERENTIAL COLLECTION OF CLAIMS AGAINST
COMPANY. The Trustee shall comply with Section 311(a) of the Trust Indenture
Act, excluding any creditor relationship listed in Section 311(b) of the Trust
Indenture Act. A Trustee who has resigned or been removed shall be subject to
Section 311(a) of the Trust Indenture Act to the extent indicated therein.
SECTION 7.l2. COMPLIANCE WITH TAX LAWS. The Trustee hereby
agrees to comply with all U.S. Federal income tax information reporting and
withholding requirements applicable to it with respect to payments of premium
(if any) and interest on the Debt Securities, whether acting as Trustee,
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Registrar, paying agent or otherwise with respect to the Debt Securities.
ARTICLE VIII
Concerning the Holders
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SECTION 8.01. EVIDENCE OF ACTION BY HOLDERS. Whenever in this
Indenture it is provided that the Holders of a specified percentage in aggregate
principal amount of the Debt Securities of any or all series may take action
(including the making of any demand or request, the giving of any direction,
notice, consent or waiver or the taking of any other action) the fact that at
the time of taking any such action the Holders of such specified percentage have
joined therein may be evidenced (a) by any instrument or any number of
instruments of similar tenor executed by Holders in person or by agent or proxy
appointed in writing, (b) by the record of the Holders voting in favor thereof
at any meeting of Holders duly called and held in accordance with the provisions
of Section 5.02 or (c) by a combination of such instrument or instruments and
any such record of such a meeting of Holders.
SECTION 8.02. PROOF OF EXECUTION OF INSTRUMENTS AND OF HOLDING
OF DEBT SECURITIES. Subject to the provisions of Sections 7.01, 7.O2 and 12.11,
proof of the execution of any instrument by a Holder or his agent or proxy shall
be sufficient if made in accordance with such reasonable rules and regulations
as may be prescribed by the Trustee or in such manner as shall be satisfactory
to the Trustee.
The ownership of Registered Securities of any series shall be
proved by the Debt Security Register or by a certificate of the Registrar for
such series.
The Trustee may require such additional proof of any matter
referred to in this Section 8.02 as it shall deem necessary.
SECTION 8.03. WHO MAY BE DEEMED OWNER OF DEBT SECURITIES.
Prior to due presentment for registration of transfer of any Registered
Security, the Company, the Trustee, any paying agent and any Registrar may deem
and treat the Person in whose name any Registered Security shall be registered
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the books of the Company as the absolute owner of such Registered Security
(whether or not such Registered Security shall be overdue and notwithstanding
any notation of ownership or other writing thereon) for the purpose of receiving
payment of or on account of the principal of and premium, if any, and (subject
to Section 2.03) interest on such Registered Security and for all other
purposes, and neither the Company nor the Trustee nor any paying agent nor any
Registrar shall be affected by any notice to the contrary; and all such payments
so made to any such Holder for the time being, or upon his order, shall be valid
and, to the extent of the sum or sums so paid, effectual to satisfy and
discharge the liability for moneys payable upon any such Registered Security.
None of the Company, the Trustee, any paying agent or the
Registrar will have any responsibility or liability for any aspect of the
records relating to or payments made on account of beneficial ownership
interests in a Global Security or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any
records relating to such beneficial ownership interests.
SECTION 8.04. INSTRUMENTS EXECUTED BY HOLDERS BIND FUTURE
HOLDERS. At any time prior to (but not after) the evidencing to the Trustee, as
provided in Section 8.01, of the taking of any action by the Holders of the
percentage in aggregate principal amount of the Debt Securities of any series
specified in this Indenture in connection with such action and subject to the
following paragraph, any Holder of a Debt Security which is shown by the
evidence to be included in the Debt Securities the Holders of which have
consented to such action may, by filing written notice with the Trustee at its
corporate trust office and upon proof of holding as provided in Section 8.02,
revoke such action so far as concerns such Debt Security. Except as aforesaid
any such action taken by the Holder of any Debt Security shall be conclusive and
binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders and owners of such Debt
Security and of any Debt Security issued upon transfer thereof or in exchange or
substitution therefor, irrespective of whether or not any notation in regard
thereto is made upon such Debt Security or such other Debt Securities. Any
action taken by the Holders of the percentage in aggregate principal amount of
the Debt Securities of any series specified in this Indenture in connection with
such action shall be conclusively binding upon the Company, the Trustee and the
Holders of all the Debt Securities of such series.
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The Company may, but shall not be obligated to, fix a record
date for the purpose of determining the Holders of Registered Securities
entitled to give their consent or take any other action required or permitted to
be taken pursuant to this Indenture. If a record date is fixed, then
notwithstanding the immediately preceding paragraph, those Persons who were
Holders of Registered Securities at such record date (or their duly designated
proxies), and only those Persons, shall be entitled to give such consent or to
revoke any consent previously given or to take any such action, whether or not
such Persons continue to be Holders of Registered Securities after such record
date. No such consent shall be valid or effective for more than 120 days after
such record date unless the consent of the Holders of the percentage in
aggregate principal amount of the Debt Securities of such series specified in
this Indenture shall have been received within such 120-day period.
ARTICLE IX
Supplemental Indentures
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SECTION 9.01. PURPOSES FOR WHICH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE MAY BE
ENTERED INTO WITHOUT CONSENT OF HOLDERS. The Company, when authorized by a
resolution of the Board of Directors, and the Trustee may from time to time and
at any time, without the consent of Holders, enter into an Indenture or
Indentures supplemental hereto (which shall conform to the provisions of the
Trust Indenture Act as in force at the date of the execution thereof) for one or
more of the following purposes:
(a) to evidence the succession pursuant to Article X of
another Person to the Company, or successive successions, and the
assumption by the Successor Company (as defined in Section 10.01) of
the covenants, agreements and obligations of the Company in this
Indenture and in the Debt Securities;
(b) to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the
Company, to add to the covenants of the Company such further covenants,
restrictions, conditions or provisions for the protection of the
Holders of all or any series of Debt Securities (and if such covenants
are to be for the benefit of less than all series of Debt Securities,
stating that such covenants are expressly being included
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solely for the benefit of such series) as the Board of Directors shall
consider to be for the protection of the Holders of such Debt
Securities, and to make the occurrence, or the occurrence and
continuance, of a Default in any of such additional covenants,
restrictions, conditions or provisions a Default or an Event of Default
permitting the enforcement of all or any of the several remedies
provided in this Indenture; PROVIDED, that in respect of any such
additional covenant, restriction, condition or provision such
supplemental Indenture may provide for a particular period of grace
after Default (which period may be shorter or longer than that allowed
in the case of other Defaults) or may provide for an immediate
enforcement upon such Default or may limit the remedies available to
the Trustee upon such Default or may limit the right of the Holders of
a majority in aggregate principal amount of any or all series of Debt
Securities to waive such default;
(c) to cure any ambiguity or to correct or supplement any
provision contained herein, in any supplemental Indenture or in any
Debt Securities of any series that may be defective or inconsistent
with any other provision contained herein, in any supplemental
Indenture or in the Debt Securities of such series; to convey,
transfer, assign, mortgage or pledge any property to or with the
Trustee, or to make such other provisions in regard to matters or
questions arising under this Indenture as shall not adversely affect
the interests of any Holders of Debt Securities of any series;
(d) to modify or amend this Indenture in such a manner as to
permit the qualification of this Indenture or any Indenture
supplemental hereto under the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect,
except that nothing herein contained shall permit or authorize the
inclusion in any Indenture supplemental hereto of the provisions
referred to in Section 316(a)(2) of the Trust Indenture Act;
(e) to add to or change any of the provisions of this
Indenture to change or eliminate any restrictions on the payment of
principal of, or premium, if any, or interest on, Registered
Securities; PROVIDED, that any such action shall not adversely affect
the interests of the Holders of Debt Securities of any series in any
material respect or permit
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or facilitate the issuance of Debt Securities of any series in
uncertificated form;
(f) to evidence the succession of another corporation to the
Company and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of
the Company herein and in the Debt Securities;
(g) to add Guarantees with respect to the Debt Securities or
to secure the Debt Securities;
(h) to add to, change or eliminate any of the provisions of
this Indenture in respect of one or more series of Debt Securities;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that any such addition, change or elimination not
otherwise permitted under this Section 9.01 shall (i) neither (A) apply
to any Debt Security of any series created prior to the execution of
such supplemental Indenture and entitled to the benefit of such
provision nor (B) modify the rights of the Holder of any such Debt
Security with respect to such provision or (ii) shall become effective
only when there is no such Debt Security Outstanding;
(i) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment
hereunder by a successor or separate Trustee with respect to the Debt
Securities of one or more series and to add to or change any of the
provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or
facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one
Trustee; and
(j) to establish the form or terms of Debt Securities of any
series as permitted by Sections 2.01 and 2.03.
The Trustee is hereby authorized to join with the Company in
the execution of any such supplemental Indenture, to make any further
appropriate agreements and stipulations which may be therein contained and to
accept the conveyance, transfer, assignment, mortgage or pledge of any property
thereunder, but the Trustee shall not be obligated to enter into any such
supplemental Indenture which affects the Trustee's own rights, duties or
immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.
Any supplemental Indenture authorized by the provisions of
this Section 9.01 may be executed by the Company and the
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Trustee without the consent of the Holders of any of the Debt Securities
appertaining thereto at the time Outstanding, notwithstanding any of the
provisions of Section 9.02.
After an amendment under this Section 9.01 becomes effective,
the Company shall mail to Holders of Debt Securities of each series affected
thereby a notice briefly describing such amendment. The failure to give such
notice to all such Holders, or any defect therein, shall not impair or affect
the validity of an amendment under this Section 9.01.
SECTION 9.02. MODIFICATION OF INDENTURE WITH CONSENT OF
HOLDERS OF DEBT SECURITIES. Without notice to any Holder but with the consent
(evidenced as provided in Section 8.01) of the Holders of not less than a
majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Debt Securities of
each series affected by such supplemental Indenture, the Company, when
authorized by a resolution of the Board of Directors, and the Trustee may from
time to time and at any time enter into an Indenture or Indentures supplemental
hereto (which shall conform to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act as in
force at the date of execution thereof) for the purpose of adding any provisions
to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this
Indenture or of any supplemental Indenture or of modifying in any manner the
rights of the Holders of the Debt Securities of such series; PROVIDED, that no
such supplemental Indenture, without the consent of the Holders of each Debt
Security so affected, shall (i) reduce the percentage in principal amount of
Debt Securities of any series whose Holders must consent to an amendment; (ii)
reduce the rate of or extend the time for payment of interest on any Debt
Security; (iii) reduce the principal of or extend the Stated maturity of any
Debt Security; (iv) reduce the premium payable upon the redemption of any Debt
Security or change the time at which any Debt Security may or shall be redeemed
in accordance with Article III; (v) make any Debt Security payable in Currency
other than that stated in the Debt Security; (vi) release any security that may
have been granted in respect of the Debt Securities; or (vii) make any change in
Section 6.06 or this Section 9.02.
A supplemental Indenture which changes or eliminates any
covenant or other provision of this Indenture which has been expressly included
solely for the benefit of one or more particular series of Debt Securities or
which modifies the rights of the Holders of Debt Securities of such series with
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such covenant or other provision, shall be deemed not to affect the rights under
this Indenture of the Holders of Debt Securities of any other series.
Upon the request of the Company, accompanied by a copy of a
resolution of the Board of Directors authorizing the execution of any such
supplemental Indenture, and upon the filing with the Trustee of evidence of the
consent of Holders as aforesaid, the Trustee shall join with the Company in the
execution of such supplemental Indenture unless such supplemental Indenture
affects the Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or
otherwise, in which case the Trustee may in its discretion but shall not be
obligated to enter into such supplemental Indenture.
It shall not be necessary for the consent of the Holders under
this Section 9.02 to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental
Indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such consent shall approve the
substance thereof.
After an amendment under this Section 9.02 becomes effective,
the Company shall mail to Holders of Debt Securities of each series affected
thereby a notice briefly describing such amendment. The failure to give such
notice to all such Holders, or any defect therein, shall not impair or affect
the validity of an amendment under this Section 9.02.
SECTION 9.03. EFFECT OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES. Upon the
execution of any supplemental Indenture pursuant to the provisions of this
Article IX, this Indenture shall be and be deemed to be modified and amended in
accordance therewith and the respective rights, limitations of rights,
obligations, duties and immunities under this Indenture of the Trustee, the
Company and the Holders 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.
The Trustee, subject to the provisions of Sections 7.01 and
7.02, may receive an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel as
conclusive evidence that any such supplemental Indenture complies with the
provisions of this Article IX.
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SECTION 9.04. DEBT SECURITIES MAY BEAR NOTATION OF CHANGES BY
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES. Debt Securities of any series authenticated and
delivered after the execution of any supplemental Indenture pursuant to the
provisions of this Article IX may, and shall if required by the Trustee, bear a
notation in form approved by the Trustee as to any matter provided for in such
supplemental Indenture. New Debt Securities of any series so modified as to
conform, in the opinion of the Trustee and the Board of Directors, to any
modification of this Indenture contained in any such supplemental Indenture may
be prepared and executed by the Company, authenticated by the Trustee and
delivered in exchange for the Debt Securities of such series then Outstanding.
Failure to make the appropriate notation or to issue a new Debt Security of such
series shall not affect the validity of such amendment.
SECTION 9.05. PAYMENT FOR CONSENT. Neither the Company nor any
Affiliate of the Company shall, directly or indirectly, pay or cause to be paid
any consideration, whether by way of interest, fee or otherwise, to any Holder
for or as an inducement to any consent, waiver or amendment of any of the terms
or provisions of this Indenture or the Debt Securities unless such consideration
is offered to be paid to all Holders that so consent, waive or agree to amend in
the time frame set forth in solicitation documents relating to such consent,
waiver or agreement.
ARTICLE X
Consolidation, Merger, Sale or Conveyance
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SECTION 10.01. CONSOLIDATIONS AND MERGERS OF THE COMPANY. The
Company shall not consolidate with or merge with or into any Person, or convey,
transfer or lease all or substantially all its assets, unless: (i) either (a)
the Company shall be the continuing Person in the case of a merger or (b) the
resulting, surviving or transferee Person if other than the Company (the
"Successor Company") shall be a corporation organized and existing under the
laws of the United States, any State thereof or the District of Columbia and the
Successor Company shall expressly assume, by an Indenture supplemental hereto,
executed and delivered to the Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, all
the obligations of the Company under the Debt Securities according to their
tenor, and this
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Indenture; (ii) immediately after giving effect to such transaction (and
treating any Indebtedness which becomes an obligation of the Successor Company
or any Subsidiary of the Company as a result of such transaction as having been
Incurred by the Successor Company or such Subsidiary at the time of such
transaction), no Default or Event of Default would occur or be continuing; and
(iii) the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate
and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such consolidation, merger or
transfer and such supplemental Indenture (if any) comply with this Indenture.
SECTION 10.02. RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF SUCCESSOR CORPORATION. In
case of any consolidation or merger, or conveyance or transfer of the assets of
the Company as an entirety or virtually as an entirety in accordance with
Section 10.01, the Successor Company shall succeed to and be substituted for the
Company, with the same effect as if it had been named herein as the party of the
first part, and the predecessor corporation shall be relieved of any further
obligation under the Indenture and the Securities. The Successor Company
thereupon may cause to be signed, and may issue either in its own name or in the
name of the Company, any or all the Debt Securities issuable hereunder which
theretofore shall not have been signed by the Company and delivered to the
Trustee; and, upon the order of the Successor Company, instead of the Company,
and subject to all the terms, conditions and limitations in this Indenture
prescribed, the Trustee shall authenticate and shall deliver any Debt Securities
which previously shall have been signed and delivered by the officers of the
Company to the Trustee for authentication, and any Debt Securities which the
Successor Company thereafter shall cause to be signed and delivered to the
Trustee for that purpose. All the Debt Securities so issued shall in all
respects have the same legal rank and benefit under this Indenture as the Debt
Securities theretofore or thereafter issued in accordance with the terms of this
Indenture as though all such Debt Securities had been issued at the date of the
execution hereof.
In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale or conveyance
such changes in phraseology and form (but not in substance) may be made in the
Debt Securities appertaining thereto thereafter to be issued as may be
appropriate.
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ARTICLE XI
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE; DEFEASANCE;
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SECTION 11.01. APPLICABILITY OF ARTICLE. If, pursuant to Section
2.03, provision is made for the defeasance of Debt Securities of a series, then
the provisions of this Article XI relating to defeasance of Debt Securities
shall be applicable except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 2.03 for
Debt Securities of such series.
SECTION l1.02. SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE;
DEFEASANCE. (a) If at any time (i) the Company shall have delivered to the
Trustee for cancellation all Debt Securities of any series theretofore
authenticated and delivered (other than (1) any Debt Securities of such series
which shall have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which shall have been
replaced or paid as provided in Section 2.09 and (2) Debt Securities for whose
payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust and thereafter repaid to
the Company as provided in Section 11.05) or (ii) all Debt Securities of such
series not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation shall have
become due and payable, or are by their terms to become due and payable within
one year or are to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements
satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption, and the
Company shall deposit with the Trustee as trust funds the entire amount in the
Currency in which such Debt Securities are denominated (except as otherwise
provided pursuant to Section 2.03) sufficient to pay at maturity or upon
redemption all Debt Securities of such series not theretofore delivered to the
Trustee for cancellation, including principal and premium, if any, and interest
due or to become due on such date of maturity or redemption date, as the case
may be, and if in either case the Company shall also pay or cause to be paid all
other sums payable hereunder by the Company, then this Indenture shall cease to
be of further effect (except as to any surviving rights of registration of
transfer or exchange of such Debt Securities herein expressly provided for and
rights to receive payments of principal of, and premium, if any, and interest
on, such Debt Securities with respect to the Debt Securities of such series, and
the Trustee, on demand of the Company accompanied by an Officers' Certificate
and an Opinion of Counsel and at the cost and expense of the Company, shall
execute
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proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction of and discharging this Indenture.
(b) Subject to Sections 11.02(c), 11.03 and 11.07, the Company at
any time may terminate, with respect to Debt Securities of a particular series,
(i) all its obligations under the Debt Securities of such series and this
Indenture with respect to the Debt Securities of such series ("legal defeasance
option") or (ii) its obligations with respect to the Debt Securities of such
series under clause (iii) of Section 10.01 and the related operation of Section
6.01(d) and the operation of Sections 6.01(e), (f), (i) and (j) ("covenant
defeasance option"). The Company may exercise its legal defeasance option
notwithstanding its prior exercise of its covenant defeasance option.
If the Company exercises its legal defeasance option, payment of
the Debt Securities of the defeased series may not be accelerated because of an
Event of Default. If the Company exercises its covenant defeasance option,
payment of the Debt Securities of the defeased series may not be accelerated
because of an Event of Default specified in Sections 6.01(d), (e), (f), (i) and
(j) (except to the extent covenants or agreements referenced in such Sections
remain applicable).
Upon satisfaction of the conditions set forth herein and upon
request of the Company, the Trustee shall acknowledge in writing the discharge
of those obligations that the Company terminates.
(c) Notwithstanding clauses (a) and (b) above, the Company's
obligations in Sections 2.07, 2.09, 4.02, 4.04, 5.01, 7.06, 7.10, 11.05, 11.06
and 11.07 shall survive until the Debt Securities of the defeased series have
been paid in full. Thereafter, the Company's obligations in Sections 7.06, 11.05
and 11.06 shall survive.
SECTION 11.03. CONDITIONS OF DEFEASANCE. The Company may exercise
its legal defeasance option or its covenant defeasance option with respect to
Debt Securities of a particular series only if:
(l) the Company irrevocably deposits in trust with the Trustee
money or U.S. Government Obligations for the payment of principal of, and
premium, if any, and interest on, the
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Debt Securities of such series to maturity or redemption, as the case may
be;
(2) the Company delivers to the Trustee a certificate from a
nationally recognized firm of independent accountants expressing their
opinion that the payments of principal and interest when due and without
reinvestment on the deposited U.S. Government Obligations plus any
deposited money without investment will provide cash at such times and in
such amounts as will be sufficient to pay the principal, premium and
interest when due on all the Debt Securities of such series to maturity
or redemption, as the case may be;
(3) 123 days pass after the deposit is made and during the 123-day
period no Default specified in Section 6.01(g) or (h) with respect to the
Company occurs which is continuing at the end of the period;
(4) no Default has occurred and is continuing on the date of such
deposit and after giving effect thereto;
(5) the deposit does not constitute a default under any other
agreement binding on the Company;
(6) the Company delivers to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to
the effect that the trust resulting from the deposit does not constitute,
or is qualified as, a regulated investment company under the Investment
Company Act of 1940;
(7) in the event of the legal defeasance option, the Company shall
have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel stating that (i) the
Company has received from the Internal Revenue Service a ruling, or (ii)
since the date of this Indenture there has been a change in the
applicable Federal income tax law, in either case of the effect that, and
based thereon such Opinion of Counsel shall confirm that, the Holders of
Debt Securities of such series will not recognize income, gain or loss
for Federal income tax purposes as a result of such defeasance and will
be subject to Federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner
and at the same times as would have been the case if such defeasance had
not occurred;
(8) in the event of the covenant defeasance option, the Company
shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion
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of Counsel to the effect that the Holders of Debt Securities of such
series will not recognize income, gain or loss for Federal income tax
purposes as a result of such covenant defeasance and will be subject to
Federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the
same times as would have been the case if such covenant defeasance had
not occurred; and
(9) the Company delivers to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate
and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent to
the defeasance and discharge of the Debt Securities of such series as
contemplated by this Article XI have been compiled with.
Before or after a deposit, the Company may make arrangements
satisfactory to the Trustee for the redemption of Debt Securities of such series
at a future date in accordance with Article III.
SECTION 11.04. APPLICATION OF TRUST MONEY. The Trustee shall hold
in trust money or U.S. Government Obligations deposited with it pursuant to this
Article XI. It shall apply the deposited money and the money from U.S.
Government Obligations through any paying agent and in accordance with this
Indenture to the payment of principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on,
the Debt Securities of the defeased series.
SECTION 11.05. REPAYMENT TO COMPANY. The Trustee and any paying
agent shall promptly turn over to the Company upon request any excess money or
securities held by them at any time.
Subject to any applicable abandoned property law, the Trustee and
any paying agent shall pay to the Company upon request any money held by them
for the payment of principal, premium or interest that remains unclaimed for two
years, and, thereafter, Holders entitled to such money must look to the Company
for payment as general creditors.
SECTION 11.06. INDEMNITY FOR U.S. GOVERNMENT OBLIGATIONS. The
Company shall pay and shall indemnify the Trustee and the Holders against any
tax, fee or other change imposed on or assessed against deposited U.S.
Government Obligations or the principal and interest received on such U.S.
Government Obligations.
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SECTION 11.07 REINSTATEMENT. If the Trustee or any paying agent
is unable to apply any money or U.S. Government Obligations in accordance with
this Article XI by reason of any legal proceeding or by reason of any order or
judgment of any court or government authority enjoining, restraining or
otherwise prohibiting such application, the Company's obligations under this
Indenture and the Debt Securities of the defeased series shall be revived and
reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to this Article XI until
such time as the Trustee or any paying agent is permitted to apply all such
money or U.S. Government Obligations in accordance with this Article XI.
ARTICLE XII
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
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SECTION 12.01. SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS OF COMPANY BOUND BY
INDENTURE. All the covenants, stipulations, promises and agreements in this
Indenture contained by or in behalf of the Company or the Trustee shall bind its
successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.
SECTION 12.02. ACTS OF BOARD, COMMITTEE OR OFFICER OF SUCCESSOR
COMPANY VALID. Any act or proceeding by any provision of this Indenture
authorized or required to be done or performed by any board, committee or
officer of the Company shall and may be done and performed with like force and
effect by the like board, committee or officer of any Successor Company.
SECTION 12.03. REQUIRED NOTICES OR DEMANDS. Except as otherwise
expressly provided in this Indenture, any notice or demand which by any
provision of this Indenture is required or permitted to be given or served by
the Trustee or by the Holders to or on the Company may be given or served by
being deposited postage prepaid in a post office letter box in the United States
addressed (until another address is filed by the Company with the Trustee) as
follows: Worthington Industries, Inc., 0000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxx, Xxxx
00000, Attention: Chief Financial Officer. Except as otherwise expressly
provided in this Indenture, any notice, direction, request or demand by the
Company or by any Holder to or upon the Trustee may be given or made, for all
purposes, by being deposited postage prepaid in a post office letter box in the
United States addressed to the corporate trust office of the Trustee initially
at X.X. Xxx 0000,
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Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxx 00000. The Company or the Trustee by notice to the other may
designate additional or different addresses for subsequent notices or
communications.
Any notice required or permitted to a Registered Holder by the
Company or the Trustee pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture shall be
deemed to be properly mailed by being deposited postage prepaid in a post office
letter box in the United States addressed to such Holder at the address of such
Holder as shown on the Debt Security Register. Any report pursuant to Section
313 of the Trust Indenture Act shall be transmitted in compliance with
subsection (c) therein.
In the event of suspension of regular mail service or by reason
of any other cause it shall be impracticable to give notice by mail, then such
notification as shall be given with the approval of the Trustee shall constitute
sufficient notice for every purpose thereunder.
In the event of suspension of publication of any Authorized
Newspaper or by reason of any other cause it shall be impracticable to give
notice by publication, then such notification as shall be given with the
approval of the Trustee shall constitute sufficient notice for every purpose
hereunder.
Failure to mail a notice or communication to a Holder or any
defect in it or any defect in any notice by publication as to a Holder shall not
affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Holders. If a notice
or communication is mailed or published in the manner provided above, it is
conclusively presumed duly given.
SECTION 12.04. INDENTURE AND DEBT SECURITIES TO BE CONSTRUED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. This Indenture, each Debt
Security and each Coupon shall be deemed to be New York contracts, and for all
purposes shall be construed in accordance with the laws of said State (without
reference to principles of conflicts of law).
SECTION 12.05. OFFICERS' CERTIFICATE AND OPINION OF COUNSEL TO BE
FURNISHED UPON APPLICATION OR DEMAND BY THE COMPANY. Upon any application or
demand by the Company to the Trustee to take any action under any of the
provisions of this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee an
Officers' Certificate stating that all conditions precedent provided for in
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this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with and an
Opinion of Counsel stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, all such
conditions precedent have been complied with, except that in the case of any
such application or demand as to which the furnishing of such document is
specifically required by any provision of this Indenture relating to such
particular application or demand, no additional certificate or opinion need be
furnished.
Each certificate or opinion provided for in this Indenture and
delivered to the Trustee with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant
provided for in this Indenture shall include (1) a statement that the Person
making such certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition, (2) a
brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or investigation
upon which the statements or opinions contained in such certificate or opinion
are based, (3) a statement that, in the opinion of such Person, he has made such
examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him to express an
informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been
complied with and (4) a statement as to whether or not, in the opinion of such
Person, such condition or covenant has been complied with.
SECTION 12.06. PAYMENTS DUE ON LEGAL HOLIDAYS. In any case where
the date of maturity of interest on or principal of and premium, if any, on the
Debt Securities of a series or the date fixed for redemption or repayment of any
Debt Security or the making of any sinking fund payment shall not be a business
day at any Place of Payment for the Debt Securities of such series, then payment
of interest or principal and premium, if any, or the making of such sinking fund
payment need not be made on such date at such Place of Payment, but may be made
on the next succeeding business day at such Place of Payment with the same force
and effect as if made on the date of maturity or the date fixed for redemption,
and no interest shall accrue for the period after such date. If a record date is
not a business day, the record date shall not be affected.
SECTION 12.07. PROVISIONS REQUIRED BY TRUST INDENTURE ACT TO
CONTROL. If and to the extent that any provision of this Indenture limits,
qualifies or conflicts with another provision included in this Indenture which
is required to be included in this Indenture by any of Sections 310 to 318,
inclusive, of the Trust Indenture Act, such required provision shall control.
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SECTION 12.08. COMPUTATION OF INTEREST ON DEBT SECURITIES.
Interest, if any, on the Debt Securities shall be computed on the basis of a
360-day year of twelve 30-day months, except as may otherwise be provided
pursuant to Section 2.03.
SECTION 12.09. RULES BY TRUSTEE, PAYING AGENT AND REGISTRAR. The
Trustee may make reasonable rules for action by or a meeting of Holders. The
Registrar and any paying agent may make reasonable rules for their functions.
SECTION 12.10. NO RECOURSE AGAINST OTHERS. An incorporator or any
past, present or future director, officer, employee or stockholder, as such, of
the Company shall not have any liability for any obligations of the Company
under the Debt Securities or this Indenture or for any claim based on, in
respect of or by reason of such obligations or their creation. By accepting a
Debt Security, each Holder shall waive and release all such liability. The
waiver and release shall be part of the consideration for the issue of the Debt
Securities.
SECTION 12.11. SEVERABILITY. In case any provision in this
Indenture, the Debt Securities shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the
validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in
any way be affected or impaired thereby.
SECTION 12.12. EFFECT OF HEADINGS. The article and section
headings herein and in the Table of Contents are for convenience only and shall
not affect the construction hereof.
SECTION 12.13. INDENTURE MAY BE EXECUTED IN COUNTERPARTS. This
Indenture may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be
an original; but such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the
same instrument.
The Trustee hereby accepts the trusts in this Indenture upon the
terms and conditions herein set forth.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture
to be duly signed as of the date first written above.
WORTHINGTON INDUSTRIES, INC.
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Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx, Xx.
Title: Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer
PNC BANK, OHIO, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
By:
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