RESIDENTIAL ASSET MORTGAGE PRODUCTS, INC.,
Depositor,
RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION,
Master Servicer,
and
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK
Trustee
POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT
Dated as of November 1, 2003
Mortgage-Backed Pass-Through Certificates
Series 2003-SL1
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
Section 1.01. Definitions.....................................................................................5
Accrued Certificate Interest....................................................................5
Adjusted Mortgage Rate..........................................................................6
Advance.........................................................................................6
Affiliate.......................................................................................6
Agreement.......................................................................................6
Amount Held for Future Distribution.............................................................6
Appraised Value.................................................................................6
Assignment......................................................................................7
Assignment Agreement............................................................................7
Assignment of Proprietary Lease.................................................................7
Available Distribution Amount...................................................................7
Bankruptcy Amount...............................................................................7
Bankruptcy Code.................................................................................8
Bankruptcy Loss.................................................................................8
Book-Entry Certificate..........................................................................8
Business Day....................................................................................8
Calendar Quarter................................................................................8
Cash Liquidation................................................................................8
Certificate.....................................................................................8
Certificate Account.............................................................................9
Certificate Account Deposit Date................................................................9
Certificateholder or Holder.....................................................................9
Certificate Owner...............................................................................9
Certificate Principal Balance...................................................................9
Certificate Register and Certificate Registrar.................................................10
Class..........................................................................................10
Class A Certificates...........................................................................10
Class A-I Certificates.........................................................................10
Class A-II Certificates........................................................................10
Class A-III Certificates.......................................................................10
Class A-IV Certificates........................................................................10
Class A-I-PO Collection Shortfall..............................................................10
Class A-I-PO Principal Distribution Amount.....................................................10
Class A-PO Collection Shortfall................................................................10
Class A-PO Principal Distribution Amount.......................................................10
Class B Certificates...........................................................................10
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Class B-1 Certificate..........................................................................10
Class B-2 Certificate..........................................................................11
Class B-3 Certificate..........................................................................11
Class M Certificates...........................................................................11
Class M-1 Certificate..........................................................................11
Class M-2 Certificate..........................................................................11
Class M-3 Certificate..........................................................................11
Class R Certificate............................................................................11
Class R-I Certificate..........................................................................11
Class R-II Certificate.........................................................................11
Closing Date...................................................................................11
Code...........................................................................................12
Commission.....................................................................................12
Compensating Interest..........................................................................12
Cooperative....................................................................................12
Cooperative Apartment..........................................................................12
Cooperative Lease..............................................................................12
Cooperative Loans..............................................................................12
Cooperative Stock..............................................................................12
Cooperative Stock Certificate..................................................................12
Corporate Trust Office.........................................................................12
Credit Support Depletion Date..................................................................13
Curtailment....................................................................................13
Custodial Account..............................................................................13
Custodial Agreement............................................................................13
Custodian......................................................................................13
Cut-off Date...................................................................................13
Cut-off Date Balance...........................................................................13
Cut-off Date Principal Balance.................................................................13
Debt Service Reduction.........................................................................13
Deficient Valuation............................................................................13
Definitive Certificate.........................................................................13
Deleted Mortgage Loan..........................................................................13
Delinquent.....................................................................................14
Depository.....................................................................................14
Depository Participant.........................................................................14
Destroyed Mortgage Note........................................................................14
Determination Date.............................................................................14
Discount Fraction..............................................................................14
Discount Mortgage Loan.........................................................................14
Discount Net Mortgage Rate.....................................................................14
Disqualified Organization......................................................................14
Distribution Date..............................................................................15
Due Date.......................................................................................15
Due Period.....................................................................................15
Eligible Account...............................................................................15
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Eligible Funds.................................................................................16
ERISA..........................................................................................16
Event of Default...............................................................................16
Excess Bankruptcy Loss.........................................................................16
Excess Fraud Loss..............................................................................16
Excess Loss....................................................................................16
Excess Special Hazard Loss.....................................................................16
Extraordinary Losses...........................................................................16
Excess Subordinate Principal Amount............................................................16
Extraordinary Events...........................................................................17
Xxxxxx Xxx.....................................................................................17
FASIT..........................................................................................17
FDIC...........................................................................................17
FHA............................................................................................17
Final Distribution Date........................................................................17
Fitch..........................................................................................18
Foreclosure Profits............................................................................18
Fraud Losses...................................................................................18
Fraud Loss Amount..............................................................................18
Xxxxxxx Mac....................................................................................18
Group I Cut-off Date Balance...................................................................18
Group II Cut-off Date Balance..................................................................19
Group III Cut-off Date Balance.................................................................19
Group IV Cut-off Date Balance..................................................................19
Group I Loan...................................................................................19
Group II Loan..................................................................................19
Group III Loan.................................................................................19
Group IV Loan..................................................................................19
Group I Pool Stated Principal Balance..........................................................19
Group II Pool Stated Principal Balance.........................................................19
Group III Pool Stated Principal Balance........................................................19
Group IV Pool Stated Principal Balance.........................................................19
Group I Senior Certificates....................................................................19
Group II Senior Certificates...................................................................19
Group III Senior Certificates..................................................................19
Group IV Senior Certificates...................................................................19
Hazardous Materials............................................................................19
Highest Priority...............................................................................20
Independent....................................................................................20
Index..........................................................................................20
Initial Certificate Principal Balance..........................................................20
Initial Notional Amount........................................................................20
Initial Subordinate Class Percentage...........................................................20
Insurance Proceeds.............................................................................20
Interest Accrual Period........................................................................21
Interest Only Certificate......................................................................21
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Interim Certification..........................................................................21
Interested Person..............................................................................21
Late Collections...............................................................................21
Liquidation Proceeds...........................................................................21
Loan Group.....................................................................................21
Loan-to-Value Ratio............................................................................21
Lower Priority.................................................................................21
Lowest Priority................................................................................21
Maturity Date..................................................................................22
MERS...........................................................................................22
MERS(R)System...................................................................................22
MIN............................................................................................22
Modified Mortgage Loan.........................................................................22
Modified Net Mortgage Rate.....................................................................22
MOM Loan.......................................................................................22
Monthly Payment................................................................................22
Xxxxx'x........................................................................................22
Mortgage.......................................................................................22
Mortgage File..................................................................................22
Mortgage Loan Schedule.........................................................................22
Mortgage Loans.................................................................................23
Mortgage Note..................................................................................24
Mortgage Rate..................................................................................24
Mortgaged Property.............................................................................24
Mortgagor......................................................................................24
Net Mortgage Rate..............................................................................24
Non-Discount Mortgage Loan.....................................................................24
Non-Primary Residence Loans....................................................................24
Non-United States Person.......................................................................24
Nonrecoverable Advance.........................................................................24
Nonsubserviced Mortgage Loan...................................................................25
Notice.........................................................................................25
Notional Amount................................................................................25
Officers' Certificate..........................................................................25
Opinion of Counsel.............................................................................25
Optional Termination Date......................................................................25
Outstanding Mortgage Loan......................................................................25
Ownership Interest.............................................................................25
Pass-Through Rate..............................................................................25
Paying Agent...................................................................................26
Percentage Interest............................................................................26
Permitted Investments..........................................................................26
Permitted Transferee...........................................................................27
Person.........................................................................................27
Pool Strip Rate................................................................................28
Prepayment Assumption..........................................................................28
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Prepayment Distribution Percentage.............................................................28
Prepayment Distribution Trigger................................................................29
Prepayment Interest Shortfall..................................................................29
Prepayment Period..............................................................................29
Primary Insurance Policy.......................................................................29
Principal Prepayment...........................................................................30
Principal Prepayment in Full...................................................................30
Program Guide..................................................................................30
Purchase Price.................................................................................30
Qualified Insurer..............................................................................30
Qualified Substitute Mortgage Loan.............................................................30
Rating Agency..................................................................................31
Realized Loss..................................................................................31
Record Date....................................................................................32
Regular Certificates...........................................................................32
Regular Interest...............................................................................32
Related Classes................................................................................32
Relief Act.....................................................................................32
REMIC..........................................................................................32
REMIC Administrator............................................................................32
REMIC I........................................................................................32
REMIC II.......................................................................................34
REMIC Provisions...............................................................................34
REO Acquisition................................................................................34
REO Disposition................................................................................34
REO Imputed Interest...........................................................................34
REO Proceeds...................................................................................34
REO Property...................................................................................35
Repurchase Event...............................................................................35
Repurchase Price...............................................................................35
Request for Release............................................................................35
Required Insurance Policy......................................................................35
Residential Funding............................................................................35
Responsible Officer............................................................................36
Schedule of Discount Fractions.................................................................36
Security Agreement.............................................................................36
Senior Accelerated Distribution Percentage.....................................................36
Senior Certificates............................................................................37
Senior Percentage..............................................................................37
Senior Principal Distribution Amount...........................................................37
Servicing Accounts.............................................................................37
Servicing Advances.............................................................................37
Servicing Fee..................................................................................38
Servicing Fee Rate.............................................................................38
Servicing Modification.........................................................................38
Servicing Officer..............................................................................38
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Special Hazard Amount..........................................................................38
Special Hazard Loss............................................................................39
Standard & Poor's..............................................................................39
Startup Date...................................................................................39
Stated Principal Balance.......................................................................39
Subclass.......................................................................................39
Subordination..................................................................................40
Subordinate Certificate........................................................................40
Subordinate Class Percentage...................................................................40
Subordinate Percentage.........................................................................40
Subordinate Principal Distribution Amount......................................................40
Subserviced Mortgage Loan......................................................................41
Subservicer....................................................................................41
Subservicer Advance............................................................................41
Subservicing Account...........................................................................41
Subservicing Agreement.........................................................................41
Subservicing Fee...............................................................................41
Subservicing Fee Rate..........................................................................41
Tax Returns....................................................................................41
Transfer.......................................................................................42
Transferee.....................................................................................42
Transferor.....................................................................................42
Trust Fund.....................................................................................42
Uniform Single Attestation Program for Mortgage Bankers........................................42
Uncertificated Accrued Interest................................................................42
Uncertificated Class A-I-IO REMIC II Regular Interests.........................................42
Uncertificated Class A-IO REMIC II Regular Interests...........................................42
Uncertificated Notional Amount.................................................................43
Uncertificated Pass-Through Rate...............................................................43
Uncertificated REMIC Regular Interest Distribution Amount......................................43
Uncertificated REMIC Regular Interests.........................................................43
Uninsured Cause................................................................................43
United States Person...........................................................................43
VA.............................................................................................44
Voting Rights..................................................................................44
ARTICLE II
CONVEYANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS;
ORIGINAL ISSUANCE OF CERTIFICATES
Section 2.01. Conveyance of Mortgage Loans..........................................................45
Section 2.02. Acceptance by Trustee.................................................................50
Section 2.03. Representations, Warranties and Covenants of the Master Servicer
and the Depositor.....................................................................51
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Section 2.04. Representations and Warranties of Residential Funding.................................54
Section 2.05. Execution and Authentication of Certificates; Conveyance of
Uncertificated REMIC Regular Interests................................................56
ARTICLE III
ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS
Section 3.01. Master Servicer to Act as Servicer....................................................57
Section 3.02. Subservicing Agreements Between Master Servicer and
Subservicers; Enforcement of Subservicers' Obligations................................58
Section 3.03. Successor Subservicers................................................................59
Section 3.04. Liability of the Master Servicer......................................................60
Section 3.05. No Contractual Relationship Between Subservicer and Trustee]
or Certificateholders.................................................................60
Section 3.06. Assumption or Termination of Subservicing Agreements by Trustee.......................60
Section 3.07. Collection of Certain Mortgage Loan Payments; Deposits to
Custodial Account.....................................................................61
Section 3.08. Subservicing Accounts; Servicing Accounts.............................................63
Section 3.09. Access to Certain Documentation and Information Regarding the
Mortgage Loans........................................................................64
Section 3.10. Permitted Withdrawals from the Custodial Account......................................65
Section 3.11. Maintenance of Primary Insurance Coverage.............................................67
Section 3.12. Maintenance of Fire Insurance and Omissions and Fidelity Coverage.....................67
Section 3.13. Enforcement of Due-on-Sale Clauses; Assumption and
Modification Agreements; Certain Assignments..........................................69
Section 3.14. Realization Upon Defaulted Mortgage Loans.............................................70
Section 3.15. Trustee to Cooperate; Release of Mortgage Files.......................................73
Section 3.16. Servicing and Other Compensation; Compensating Interest...............................75
Section 3.17. Reports to the Trustee and the Depositor..............................................76
Section 3.18. Annual Statement as to Compliance.....................................................76
Section 3.19. Annual Independent Public Accountants' Servicing Report...............................76
Section 3.20. Right of the Depositor in Respect of the Master Servicer..............................77
ARTICLE IV
PAYMENTS TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
Section 4.01. Certificate Account...................................................................78
Section 4.02. Distributions.........................................................................78
Section 4.03. Statements to Certificateholders; Statements to Rating Agencies;
Exchange Act Reporting................................................................88
Section 4.04. Distribution of Reports to the Trustee and the Depositor; Advances
by the Master Servicer................................................................90
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Section 4.05. Allocation of Realized Losses.........................................................91
Section 4.06. Reports of Foreclosures and Abandonment of Mortgaged Property.........................93
Section 4.07. Optional Purchase of Defaulted Mortgage Loans.........................................93
ARTICLE V
THE CERTIFICATES
Section 5.01. The Certificates......................................................................95
Section 5.02. Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates.................................97
Section 5.03. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Certificates....................................102
Section 5.04. Persons Deemed Owners................................................................102
Section 5.05. Appointment of Paying Agent..........................................................103
ARTICLE VI
THE DEPOSITOR AND THE MASTER SERVICER
Section 6.01. Respective Liabilities of the Depositor and the Master Servicer......................104
Section 6.02. Merger or Consolidation of the Depositor or the Master Servicer;
Assignment of Rights and Delegation of Duties by Master Servicer.....................104
Section 6.03. Limitation on Liability of the Depositor, the Master Servicer and
Others...............................................................................105
Section 6.04. Depositor and Master Servicer Not to Resign..........................................105
ARTICLE VII
DEFAULT
Section 7.01. Events of Default....................................................................107
Section 7.02. Trustee or Depositor to Act; Appointment of Successor................................108
Section 7.03. Notification to Certificateholders...................................................110
Section 7.04. Waiver of Events of Default..........................................................110
ARTICLE VIII
CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE
Section 8.01. Duties of Trustee....................................................................111
Section 8.02. Certain Matters Affecting the Trustee................................................112
Section 8.03. Trustee Not Liable for Certificates or Mortgage Loans................................114
Section 8.04. Trustee May Own Certificates.........................................................114
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Section 8.05. Master Servicer to Pay Trustee's Fees and Expenses; Indemnification..................114
Section 8.06. Eligibility Requirements for Trustee.................................................115
Section 8.07. Resignation and Removal of the Trustee...............................................115
Section 8.08. Successor Trustee....................................................................116
Section 8.09. Merger or Consolidation of Trustee...................................................117
Section 8.10. Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee........................................117
Section 8.11. Appointment of Custodians............................................................118
ARTICLE IX
TERMINATION
Section 9.01. Termination Upon Purchase by the Master Servicer or Liquidation
of All Mortgage Loans................................................................119
Section 9.02. Additional Termination Requirements..................................................121
ARTICLE X
REMIC PROVISIONS
Section 10.01. REMIC Administration.................................................................123
Section 10.02. Master Servicer, REMIC Administrator and Trustee Indemnification.....................126
Section 10.05. .....................................................................................128
ARTICLE XI
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Section 11.01. Amendment............................................................................129
Section 11.02. Recordation of Agreement; Counterparts...............................................131
Section 11.03. Limitation on Rights of Certificateholders...........................................132
Section 11.04. Governing Law........................................................................132
Section 11.05. Notices..............................................................................132
Section 11.06. Notices to Rating Agencies...........................................................133
Section 11.07. Severability of Provisions...........................................................134
Section 11.08. Supplemental Provisions for Resecuritization.........................................134
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Exhibit A Form of Class A Certificate
Exhibit B Form of Class M Certificate
Exhibit C Form of Class B Certificate
Exhibit D Form of Class R Certificate
Exhibit E Form of Custodial Agreement
Exhibit F-1 Group I Loan Schedule
Exhibit F-2 Group II Loan Schedule
Exhibit F-3 Group III Loan Schedule
Exhibit F-4 Group IV Loan Schedule
Exhibit G Forms of Request for Release
Exhibit H-1 Form of Transfer Affidavit and Agreement
Exhibit H-2 Form of Transferor Certificate
Exhibit I Form of Investor Representation Letter
Exhibit J Form of Transferor Representation Letter
Exhibit K Text of Amendment to Pooling and Servicing Agreement Pursuant to Section
11.01(e) for a Limited Guaranty
Exhibit L Form of Limited Guaranty
Exhibit M Form of Lender Certification for Assignment of Mortgage Loan
Exhibit N Form of Rule 144A Investment Representation
Exhibit O [Reserved]
Exhibit P Schedule of Discount Fractions
Exhibit Q Form of Request for Exchange
Exhibit R-1: Form of Form 10-K Certification
Exhibit R-2: Form of Back-Up Certification to Form 10-K Certificate
Exhibit S: Information to be Provided by the Master Servicer to the Rating Agencies Relating
to Reportable Modified Mortgage Loans
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This Pooling and Servicing Agreement, effective as of November 1, 2003,
among RESIDENTIAL ASSET MORTGAGE PRODUCTS, INC., as the depositor (together with
its permitted successors and assigns, the "Depositor"), RESIDENTIAL FUNDING
CORPORATION, as master servicer (together with its permitted successors and
assigns, the "Master Servicer"), and JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, a New York banking
corporation, as trustee (together with its permitted successors and assigns, the
"Trustee").
PRELIMINARY STATEMENT:
The Depositor intends to sell mortgage-backed pass-through certificates
(collectively, the "Certificates"), to be issued hereunder in sixteen classes,
which in the aggregate will evidence the entire beneficial ownership interest in
the Mortgage Loans (as defined herein).
REMIC I
As provided herein, the REMIC Administrator will make an election to
treat the segregated pool of assets consisting of the Group I Loans, Group II
Loans, Group III Loans and Group IV Loans and certain other related assets
subject to this Agreement as a real estate mortgage investment conduit (a
"REMIC") for federal income tax purposes, and such segregated pool of assets
will be designated as "REMIC I." The Class R-I Certificates will represent the
sole class of "residual interests" in REMIC I for purposes of the REMIC
Provisions (as defined herein) under federal income tax law. The following table
irrevocably sets forth the designation, remittance rate (the "REMIC I
Pass-Through Rate") and initial Uncertificated Principal Balance for each of the
"regular interests" in REMIC I (the "REMIC I Regular Interests"). The "latest
possible maturity date" (determined solely for purposes of satisfying Treasury
regulation Section 1.860G-1(a)(4)(iii)) for each REMIC I Regular Interest shall
be the date set forth below. None of the REMIC I Regular Interests will be
certificated.
UNCERTIFICATED REMIC I LATEST POSSIBLE
DESIGNATION PASS-THROUGH RATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE MATURITY DATE
----------- ----------------- ----------------- -------------
A-I-PO 0.00% $1,409,743.03 April 25, 2031
I-SUB 7.125% $145.97 April 25, 2031
I-ZZZ 7.125% $50,723,667.62 April 25, 2031
II-SUB 6.50% $64.46 April 25, 2031
II-ZZZ 6.50% $22,801,235.60 April 25, 2031
III-SUB 4.50% $978.22 April 25, 2031
III-ZZZ 5.00% $345,853,444.33 April 25, 2031
IV-SUB 5.00% $396.72 April 25, 2031
IV-ZZZ 0.00% $139,516,528.37 April 25, 2031
A-PO 0.00% $5,899,830.87 April 25, 2031
REMIC I IO-I Regular (1) (2) April 25, 2031
Interests
REMIC I IO Regular (1) (2) April 25, 2031
Interests
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(1) Calculated as provided in the definition of REMIC I Pass-Through Rate.
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(2) The REMIC I IO-I Regular Interests and the REMIC I IO Regular Interests
will not have an Uncertificated Principal Balance.
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REMIC II
As provided herein, the REMIC Administrator will elect to treat the
segregated pool of assets consisting of the REMIC I Regular Interests as a REMIC
for federal income tax purposes, and such segregated pool of assets will be
designated as REMIC II. The Class R-II Certificates will represent the sole
class of "residual interests" in REMIC II for purposes of the REMIC Provisions
under federal income tax law. The following table irrevocably sets forth the
designation, Pass-Through Rate, aggregate Initial Certificate Principal Balance,
certain features, Maturity Date and initial ratings for each Class of
Certificates comprising the interests representing "regular interests" in REMIC
II and the Class R Certificates. The "latest possible maturity date" (determined
solely for purposes of satisfying Treasury Regulation Section
1.860G-1(a)(4)(iii)) for each Class of REMIC II Regular Certificates shall be
the date set forth below.
GGREGATE INITIAL
CERTIFICATE
PASS-THROUGH- A PRINCIPAL
DESIGNATION TYPE RATE BALANCE FEATURES MATURITY DATE INITIAL RATINGS(7)
S&P FITCH
Class A-I-1 Senior 7.125% $49,264,022.00 Senior March 25, 2016 AAA AAA
Class A-II-1 Senior 6.500% $22,156,674.00 Senior April 25, 2031 AAA AAA
Class A-III-1 Senior 7.125% $336,072,199.00 Senior April 25, 2031 AAA AAA
Class A-IV-1 Senior 8.000% $135,549,743.00 Senior April 25, 2031 AAA AAA
Senior/Principal
Class A-I-PO Senior 0.00% $1,409,743.03 Only March 25, 2016 AAA AAA
Senior/Interest
Only/Variable
Class A-I-IO Senior 7.125% $0.00 Strip March 25, 2016 AAA AAA
Senior/Principal
Class A-PO Senior 0.00% $5,899,830.87 Only April 25, 2031 AAA AAA
Senior/Interest
Only/Variable
Class A-IO Senior 7.00% $0.00 Strip April 25, 2031 AAA AAA
Class M-1 Mezzanine Variable Rate(1) $12,173,433.00 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxx 00, 0000 XX N/R
Class M-2 Mezzanine Variable Rate(1) $1,132,412.00 Mezzanine April 25, 2031 A N/R
Class M-3 Mezzanine Variable Rate(1) $849,309.00 Mezzanine April 25, 2031 BBB N/R
Class B-1 Subordinate Variable Rate(1) $849,309.00 Subordinate April 25, 2031 BB N/R
Class B-2 Subordinate Variable Rate(1) $283,103.00 Subordinate April 25, 2031 B N/R
Class B-3 Subordinate Variable Rate(1) $566,207.29 Subordinate April 25, 2031 N/R N/R
Class R-I Residual 7.125% $50.00 Residual April 25, 2031 AAA AAA
Class R-II Residual 7.125% $50.00 Residual April 25, 2031 AAA AAA
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(1) Calculated in accordance with the definition of "Pass-Through Rate" herein.
The Group I Loans have an aggregate Cut-off Date Principal Balance
equal to $52,133,606.62. The Group I Loans are fixed-rate, fully amortizing,
first lien mortgage loans having terms to maturity at origination or
modification of generally not more than 15 years. The Group II Loans have an
aggregate Cut-off Date Principal Balance equal to $23,022,338.84. The Group II
Loans are fixed-rate, fully amortizing, first lien mortgage loans having terms
to maturity at origination or modification of generally not more than 30 years.
The Group III Loans have an
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aggregate Cut-off Date Principal Balance equal to $349,365,095.34. The Group III
Loans are fixed- rate, fully amortizing, first lien mortgage loans having terms
to maturity at origination or modification of generally not more than 30 years.
The Group IV Loans have an aggregate Cut-off Date Principal Balance equal to
$141,685,044.39. The Group IV Loans are fixed-rate, fully amortizing, first lien
mortgage loans having terms to maturity at origination or modification of
generally not more than 30 years. The Mortgage Loans have an aggregate Cut-off
Date Principal Balance equal to $566,206,085.19.
In consideration of the mutual agreements herein contained, the
Depositor, the Master Servicer and the Trustee agree as follows:
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ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
Section 1.01. Definitions.
Whenever used in this Agreement, the following words and phrases,
unless the context otherwise requires, shall have the meanings specified in this
Article.
Accrued Certificate Interest: With respect to each Distribution Date,
as to any Class of Certificates (other than the Principal Only Certificates), an
amount equal to interest accrued during the related Interest Accrual Period at
the related Pass-Through Rate on the Certificate Principal Balance or Notional
Amount thereof immediately prior to such Distribution Date. Accrued Certificate
Interest will be calculated on the basis of a 360-day year, consisting of twelve
30-day months. In each case Accrued Certificate Interest on any Class of
Certificates will be reduced by interest shortfalls from the Mortgage Loans in
the related Loan Group, if any, allocated to such Class of Certificates for such
Distribution Date, to the extent not covered with respect to the Senior
Certificates by the Subordination provided by the Class B Certificates and Class
M Certificates and, with respect to each Class of Subordinate Certificates to
the extent not covered by the Subordination provided by each Subordinate
Certificate with a Lower Priority, including in each case:
(i) Prepayment Interest Shortfalls on the Mortgage Loans in the
related Loan Group (to the extent not offset by the Master
Servicer with a payment of Compensating Interest as provided
in Section 4.01), allocated among the Certificates on a pro
rata basis,
(ii) the interest portion (adjusted to the Net Mortgage Rate (or
the Modified Net Mortgage Rate in the case of a Modified
Mortgage Loan)) of Realized Losses on the Mortgage Loans in
the related Loan Group (including Excess Losses from the
related Loan Group) not allocated solely to one or more
specific Classes of Certificates pursuant to Section 4.05,
(iii) the interest portion of Advances that were (A) previously made
with respect to a Mortgage Loan or REO Property on the
Mortgage Loans in the related Loan Group, which remained
unreimbursed following the Cash Liquidation or REO Disposition
of such Mortgage Loan or REO Property or (B) made with respect
to delinquencies that were ultimately determined to be Excess
Losses from the related Loan Group, and
(iv) any other interest shortfalls not covered by the subordination
provided by the Class M Certificates and Class B Certificates,
including interest that is not collectible from the Mortgagor
pursuant to the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of
1940, as amended, or similar legislation or regulations as in
effect from time to time,
with all such reductions allocated among all of the related Certificates in
proportion to their respective amounts of Accrued Certificate Interest payable
on such Distribution Date absent such reductions. In addition to that portion of
the reductions described in the preceding sentence that are
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allocated to any Class of Class B Certificates or any Class of Class M
Certificates, Accrued Certificate Interest on such Class of Class B Certificates
or such Class of Class M Certificates will be reduced by the interest portion
(adjusted to the Net Mortgage Rate) of Realized Losses that are allocated solely
to such Class of Class B Certificates or such Class of Class M Certificates
pursuant to Section 4.05.
Adjusted Mortgage Rate: With respect to any Mortgage Loan and any date
of determination, the Mortgage Rate borne by the related Mortgage Note, less the
rate at which the related Subservicing Fee accrues.
Advance: As to any Mortgage Loan, any advance made by the Master
Servicer, pursuant to Section 4.04.
Affiliate: With respect to any Person, any other Person controlling,
controlled by or under common control with such first Person. For the purposes
of this definition, "control" 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.
Agreement: This Pooling and Servicing Agreement and all amendments
hereof and supplements hereto.
Ambac: Ambac Assurance Corporation (formerly known as AMBAC Indemnity
Corporation).
Amount Held for Future Distribution: As to any Distribution Date, the
total of the amounts held in the Custodial Account at the close of business on
the preceding Determination Date on account of (i) Liquidation Proceeds,
Subsequent Recoveries, REO Proceeds, Insurance Proceeds, Principal Prepayments,
Mortgage Loan purchases made pursuant to Section 2.02, 2.03, 2.04 or 4.07 and
Mortgage Loan substitutions made pursuant to Section 2.03 or 2.04 received or
made in the month of such Distribution Date (other than such Liquidation
Proceeds, Subsequent Recoveries, REO Proceeds, Insurance Proceeds and purchases
of Mortgage Loans that the Master Servicer has deemed to have been received in
the preceding month in accordance with Section 3.07(b)) and (ii) payments which
represent early receipt of scheduled payments of principal and interest due on a
date or dates subsequent to the Due Date in the related Due Period.
Appraised Value: As to any Mortgaged Property, one of the following:
(i) the lesser of (a) the appraised value of such Mortgaged Property based upon
the appraisal made at the time of the origination of the related Mortgage Loan,
and (b) the sales price of the Mortgaged Property at such time of origination or
(ii) in the case of a Mortgaged Property securing a refinanced or modified
Mortgage Loan, one of (1) the appraised value based upon the appraisal made at
the time of origination of the loan which was refinanced or modified, (2) the
appraised value determined in an appraisal made at the time of refinancing or
modification or (3) the sales price of the Mortgaged Property.
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Assigned Contracts: With respect to any Pledged Asset Loan: the Credit
Support Pledge Agreement; the Funding and Pledge Agreement, among GMAC Mortgage
Corporation, National Financial Services Corporation and the Mortgagor or other
person pledging the related Pledged Assets; or the Additional Collateral
Agreement, between GMAC Mortgage Corporation and the Mortgagor or other person
pledging the related Pledged Assets.
Assignment: An assignment of the Mortgage, notice of transfer or
equivalent instrument, in recordable form, sufficient under the laws of the
jurisdiction wherein the related Mortgaged Property is located to reflect of
record the sale of the Mortgage Loan to the Trustee for the benefit of
Certificateholders, which assignment, notice of transfer or equivalent
instrument may be in the form of one or more blanket assignments covering
Mortgages secured by Mortgaged Properties located in the same county, if
permitted by law and accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel to that effect.
Assignment Agreement: The Assignment and Assumption Agreement, dated
the Closing Date, between Residential Funding and the Depositor relating to the
transfer and assignment of the Mortgage Loans.
Assignment of Proprietary Lease: With respect to a Cooperative Loan,
the assignment of the related Cooperative Lease from the Mortgagor to the
originator of the Cooperative Loan.
Available Distribution Amount: As to any Distribution Date and each
Loan Group, an amount equal to (a) the sum of (i) the amount relating to the
related Mortgage Loans on deposit in the Custodial Account as of the close of
business on the immediately preceding Determination Date and amounts deposited
in the Custodial Account in connection with the substitution of Qualified
Substitute Mortgage Loans that are related Mortgage Loans, (ii) the amount of
any Advance made on the immediately preceding Certificate Account Deposit Date
with respect to the related Mortgage Loans, (iii) any amount deposited in the
Certificate Account on the related Certificate Account Deposit Date pursuant to
Section 3.12(a) in respect of the related Mortgage Loans, (iv) any amount that
the Master Servicer is not permitted to withdraw from the Custodial Account
pursuant to Section 3.16(e) in respect of the related Mortgage Loans, (v) any
amount deposited in the Certificate Account pursuant to Section 4.07 or 9.01 in
respect of the related Mortgage Loans and (vi) the proceeds of any Pledged
Assets received by the Master Servicer, reduced by (b) the sum as of the close
of business on the immediately preceding Determination Date of (x) the Amount
Held for Future Distribution with respect to the related Mortgage Loans and (y)
amounts permitted to be withdrawn by the Master Servicer from the Custodial
Account in respect of the related Mortgage Loans pursuant to clauses (ii)-(x),
inclusive, of Section 3.10(a).
Bankruptcy Amount: As of any date of determination, an amount equal to
$100,000, less the sum of any amounts allocated through Section 4.05 for
Bankruptcy Losses on the Mortgage Loans up to such date of determination. The
Bankruptcy Amount may be further reduced by the Master Servicer (including
accelerating the manner in which such coverage is reduced) provided that prior
to any such reduction, the Master Servicer shall (i) obtain written confirmation
from each Rating Agency that such reduction shall not reduce the rating assigned
to the Class A, Class M and Class B Certificates by such Rating Agency below the
lower of the then-current rating or the rating assigned to such Certificates as
of the Closing Date by such Rating Agency and (ii) provide a copy of such
written confirmation to the Trustee.
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Bankruptcy Code: The Bankruptcy Code of 1978, as amended.
Bankruptcy Loss: With respect to any Mortgage Loan, a Deficient
Valuation or Debt Service Reduction; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that neither a Deficient
Valuation nor a Debt Service Reduction shall be deemed a Bankruptcy Loss
hereunder so long as the Master Servicer has notified the Trustee in writing
that the Master Servicer is diligently pursuing any remedies that may exist in
connection with the representations and warranties made regarding the related
Mortgage Loan and either (A) the related Mortgage Loan is not in default with
regard to payments due thereunder or (B) delinquent payments of principal and
interest under the related Mortgage Loan and any premiums on any applicable
primary hazard insurance policy and any related escrow payments in respect of
such Mortgage Loan are being advanced on a current basis by the Master Servicer
or a Subservicer, in either case without giving effect to any Debt Service
Reduction.
Book-Entry Certificate: Any Certificate registered in the name of the
Depository or its nominee.
Business Day: Any day other than (i) a Saturday or a Sunday or (ii) a
day on which banking institutions in the States of New York, Minnesota,
Illinois, Texas or Michigan (and such other state or states in which the
Custodial Account or the Certificate Account are at the time located) are
required or authorized by law or executive order to be closed.
Calendar Quarter: A Calendar Quarter shall consist of one of the
following time periods in any given year: January 1 through March 31, April 1
through June 30, July 1 though September 30, and October 1 through December 31.
Capitalization Reimbursement Amount: As to any Distribution Date, the
amount of Advances or Servicing Advances that were added to the Stated Principal
Balance of the related Mortgage Loans during the prior calendar month and
reimbursed to the Master Servicer or Subservicer on or prior to such
Distribution Date pursuant to Section 3.10(a)(vii), plus the Capitalization
Reimbursement Shortfall Amount remaining unreimbursed from any prior
Distribution Date and reimbursed to the Master Servicer or Subservicer on or
prior to such Distribution Date.
Capitalization Reimbursement Shortfall Amount: As to any Distribution
Date, the amount, if any, by which the amount of Advances or Servicing Advances
that were added to the Stated Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans during the
preceding calendar month exceeds the amount of principal payments on the
Mortgage Loans included in the Available Distribution Amount for that
Distribution Date.
Cash Liquidation: As to any defaulted Mortgage Loan other than a
Mortgage Loan as to which an REO Acquisition occurred, a determination by the
Master Servicer that it has received all Insurance Proceeds, Liquidation
Proceeds and other payments or cash recoveries which the Master Servicer
reasonably and in good faith expects to be finally recoverable with respect to
such Mortgage Loan.
Certificate: Any Class A Certificate, Class M Certificate, Class B
Certificate or Class R Certificate.
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Certificate Account: The account or accounts created and maintained
pursuant to Section 4.01, which shall be entitled "JPMorgan Chase Bank, as
trustee, in trust for the registered holders of Residential Asset Mortgage
Products, Inc., Mortgage-Backed Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2003-SL1" and
which must be an Eligible Account.
Certificate Account Deposit Date: As to any Distribution Date, the
Business Day prior thereto.
Certificateholder or Holder: The Person in whose name a Certificate is
registered in the Certificate Register, except that neither a Disqualified
Organization nor a Non-United States Person shall be a holder of a Class R
Certificate for any purpose hereof. Solely for the purpose of giving any consent
or direction pursuant to this Agreement, any Certificate, other than a Class R
Certificate, registered in the name of the Depositor, the Master Servicer or any
Subservicer or any Affiliate thereof shall be deemed not to be outstanding and
the Percentage Interest or Voting Rights evidenced thereby shall not be taken
into account in determining whether the requisite amount of Percentage Interests
or Voting Rights necessary to effect any such consent or direction has been
obtained. All references herein to "Holders" or "Certificateholders" shall
reflect the rights of Certificate Owners as they may indirectly exercise such
rights through the Depository and participating members thereof, except as
otherwise specified herein; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the Trustee shall be
required to recognize as a "Holder" or "Certificateholder" only the Person in
whose name a Certificate is registered in the Certificate Register.
Certificate Owner: With respect to a Book-Entry Certificate, the Person
who is the beneficial owner of such Certificate, as reflected on the books of an
indirect participating brokerage firm for which a Depository Participant acts as
agent, if any, and otherwise on the books of a Depository Participant, if any,
and otherwise on the books of the Depository.
Certificate Principal Balance: With respect to each Certificate (other
than any Interest Only Certificate), on any date of determination, an amount
equal to:
(i) the Initial Certificate Principal Balance of such Certificate
as specified on the face thereof, plus
(ii) any Subsequent Recoveries added to the Certificate Principal
Balance of such Certificate pursuant to Section 4.02, minus
(ii) the sum of (x) the aggregate of all amounts previously
distributed with respect to such Certificate (or any
predecessor Certificate) and applied to reduce the Certificate
Principal Balance thereof pursuant to Section 4.02(a) and (y)
the aggregate of all reductions in Certificate Principal
Balance deemed to have occurred in connection with Realized
Losses which were previously allocated to such Certificate (or
any predecessor Certificate) pursuant to Section 4.05;
provided, that the Certificate Principal Balance of the Class of Subordinate
Certificates with the Lowest Priority at any given time shall be further reduced
by an amount equal to the Percentage Interest evidenced by such Certificate
multiplied by the excess, if any, of (A) the then aggregate
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Certificate Principal Balance of all Classes of Certificates then outstanding
over (B) the then aggregate Stated Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans.
Certificate Register and Certificate Registrar: The register maintained
and the registrar appointed pursuant to Section 5.02.
Class: Collectively, all of the Certificates or uncertificated
interests bearing the same designation.
Class A Certificates: Any one of the Class A-I-1, Class A-II-1, Class
A-III-1, Class A-IV-1, Class A-I-IO, Class A-I-PO, Class A-IO or Class A-PO
Certificates executed by the Trustee and authenticated by the Certificate
Registrar substantially in the form annexed hereto as Exhibit A, senior to the
Class M Certificates and Class B Certificates with respect to distributions and
the allocation of Realized Losses in respect of the Mortgage Loans as set forth
in Section 4.05, and evidencing an interest designated as a "regular interest"
in REMIC II for purposes of the REMIC Provisions.
Class A-I Certificates: Any one of the Class A-I-1, Class A-I-IO or
Class A-I-PO Certificates.
Class A-II Certificates: Any one of the Class A-II-1 Certificates.
Class A-III Certificates: Any one of the Class A-III-1 Certificates.
Class A-IV Certificates: Any one of the Class A-IV-1 Certificates.
Class A-I-PO Collection Shortfall: With respect to the Cash Liquidation
or REO Disposition of a Discount Mortgage Loan in Loan Group I and any
Distribution Date, the excess of the amount described in Section
4.02(b)(i)(C)(1) in respect of the Class A-I-PO Certificates over the amount
described in Section 4.02(b)(i)(C)(2) in respect of the Class A-I-PO
Certificates .
Class A-I-PO Principal Distribution Amount: As defined in Section
4.02(b)(i).
Class A-PO Collection Shortfall: With respect to the Cash Liquidation
or REO Disposition of a Discount Mortgage Loan in Loan Groups II, III and IV and
any Distribution Date, the excess of the amount described in Section
4.02(b)(i)(C)(1) in respect of the Class A-PO Certificates over the amount
described in Section 4.02(b)(i)(C)(2) in respect of the Class A-PO Certificates.
Class A-PO Principal Distribution Amount: As defined in Section
4.02(b)(i).
Class B Certificates: Any one of the Class B-1, Class B-2 or Class B-3
Certificates.
Class B-1 Certificate: Any one of the Class B-1 Certificates executed
by the Trustee and authenticated by the Certificate Registrar substantially in
the form annexed hereto as Exhibit C, senior to the Class B-2 and Class B-3
Certificates with respect to distributions and the allocation of Realized Losses
in respect of the Mortgage Loans as set forth in Section 4.05, and evidencing an
interest designated as a "regular interest" in REMIC II for purposes of the
REMIC Provisions.
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Class B-2 Certificate: Any one of the Class B-2 Certificates executed
by the Trustee and authenticated by the Certificate Registrar substantially in
the form annexed hereto as Exhibit C, senior to the Class B-3 Certificates with
respect to distributions and the allocation of Realized Losses in respect of the
Mortgage Loans as set forth in Section 4.05, and evidencing an interest
designated as a "regular interest" in REMIC II for purposes of the REMIC
Provisions.
Class B-3 Certificate: Any one of the Class B-3 Certificates executed
by the Trustee and authenticated by the Certificate Registrar substantially in
the form annexed hereto as Exhibit C, and evidencing an interest designated as a
"regular interest" in REMIC II for purposes of the REMIC Provisions.
Class M Certificates: Any one of the Class M-1, Class M-2 or Class M-3
Certificates.
Class M-1 Certificate: Any one of the Class M-1 Certificates executed
by the Trustee and authenticated by the Certificate Registrar substantially in
the form annexed hereto as Exhibit B, senior to the Class M-2, Class M-3 and
Class B Certificates with respect to distributions and the allocation of
Realized Losses in respect of the Mortgage Loans as set forth in Section 4.05,
and evidencing an interest designated as a "regular interest" in REMIC II for
purposes of the REMIC Provisions.
Class M-2 Certificate: Any one of the Class M-2 Certificates executed
by the Trustee and authenticated by the Certificate Registrar substantially in
the form annexed hereto as Exhibit B, senior to the Class M-3 and Class B
Certificates with respect to distributions and the allocation of Realized Losses
in respect of the Mortgage Loans as set forth in Section 4.05, and evidencing an
interest designated as a "regular interest" in REMIC II for purposes of the
REMIC Provisions.
Class M-3 Certificate: Any one of the Class M-3 Certificates executed
by the Trustee and authenticated by the Certificate Registrar substantially in
the form annexed hereto as Exhibit B, senior to the Class B Certificates with
respect to distributions and the allocation of Realized Losses in respect of the
Mortgage Loans as set forth in Section 4.05, and evidencing an interest
designated as a "regular interest" in REMIC II for purposes of the REMIC
Provisions.
Class R Certificate: Any one of the Class R-I Certificates or Class
R-II Certificates.
Class R-I Certificate: Any one of the Class R-I Certificates executed
by the Trustee and authenticated by the Certificate Registrar substantially in
the form annexed hereto as Exhibit D and evidencing an interest designated as a
"residual interest" in REMIC I for purposes of the REMIC Provisions.
Class R-II Certificate: Any one of the Class R-II Certificates executed
by the Trustee and authenticated by the Certificate Registrar substantially in
the form annexed hereto as Exhibit D and evidencing an interest designated as a
"residual interest" in REMIC II for purposes of the REMIC Provisions.
Closing Date: November 25, 2003.
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Code: The Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
Commission: The Securities and Exchange Commission.
Compensating Interest: As determined with respect to each Loan Group,
with respect to any Distribution Date, an amount equal to Prepayment Interest
Shortfalls resulting from Principal Prepayments in Full during the related
Prepayment Period and Curtailments during the prior calendar month and included
in the related Available Distribution Amount for such Distribution Date, but not
more than the lesser of (a) one-twelfth of 0.125% of the Stated Principal
Balance of the Mortgage Loans in the related Loan Group immediately preceding
such Distribution Date and (b) the sum of the Servicing Fee and all income and
gain on amounts held in the Custodial Account and the Certificate Account and
payable to the Certificateholders with respect to such Distribution Date;
provided that for purposes of this definition the amount of the Servicing Fee
will not be reduced pursuant to Section 7.02 except as may be required pursuant
to the last sentence of Section 7.02(a).
Cooperative: A private, cooperative housing corporation which owns or
leases land and all or part of a building or buildings, including apartments,
spaces used for commercial purposes and common areas therein and whose board of
directors authorizes, among other things, the sale of Cooperative Stock.
Cooperative Apartment: A dwelling unit in a multi-dwelling building
owned or leased by a Cooperative, which unit the Mortgagor has an exclusive
right to occupy pursuant to the terms of a proprietary lease or occupancy
agreement.
Cooperative Lease: With respect to a Cooperative Loan, the proprietary
lease or occupancy agreement with respect to the Cooperative Apartment occupied
by the Mortgagor and relating to the related Cooperative Stock, which lease or
agreement confers an exclusive right to the holder of such Cooperative Stock to
occupy such apartment.
Cooperative Loans: Any of the Mortgage Loans made in respect of a
Cooperative Apartment, evidenced by a Mortgage Note and secured by (i) a
Security Agreement, (ii) the related Cooperative Stock Certificate, (iii) an
assignment of the Cooperative Lease, (iv) financing statements and (v) a stock
power (or other similar instrument), and ancillary thereto, a recognition
agreement between the Cooperative and the originator of the Cooperative Loan,
each of which was transferred and assigned to the Trustee pursuant to Section
2.01 and are from time to time held as part of the Trust Fund.
Cooperative Stock: With respect to a Cooperative Loan, the single
outstanding class of stock, partnership interest or other ownership instrument
in the related Cooperative.
Cooperative Stock Certificate: With respect to a Cooperative Loan, the
stock certificate or other instrument evidencing the related Cooperative Stock.
Corporate Trust Office: The principal office of the Trustee at which at
any particular time its corporate trust business with respect to this Agreement
shall be administered, which office at the
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date of the execution of this instrument is located at 0 Xxx Xxxx Xxxxx, 0xx
Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, Attention: Institutional Trust Services/Global
Debt, RAMP, Series 2003-SL1.
Credit Support Depletion Date: The first Distribution Date on which the
Certificate Principal Balances of the Subordinate Certificates have been reduced
to zero.
Curtailment: Any Principal Prepayment made by a Mortgagor which is not
a Principal Prepayment in Full.
Custodial Account: The custodial account or accounts created and
maintained pursuant to Section 3.07 in the name of a depository institution, as
custodian for the holders of the Certificates, for the holders of certain other
interests in mortgage loans serviced or sold by the Master Servicer and for the
Master Servicer, into which the amounts set forth in Section 3.07 shall be
deposited directly. Any such account or accounts shall be an Eligible Account.
Custodial Agreement: An agreement that may be entered into among the
Depositor, the Master Servicer, the Trustee and a Custodian in substantially the
form of Exhibit E hereto.
Custodian: A custodian appointed pursuant to a Custodial Agreement.
Cut-off Date: November 1, 2003.
Cut-off Date Balance: The Group I Cut-off Date Balance, Group II
Cut-off Date Balance, Group III Cut-off Date Balance or Group IV Cut-off Date
Balance, as the case may be.
Cut-off Date Principal Balance: As to any Mortgage Loan, the unpaid
principal balance thereof at the Cut-off Date after giving effect to all
installments of principal due on or prior thereto (or due during the month of
November 2003), whether or not received.
Debt Service Reduction: With respect to any Mortgage Loan, a reduction
in the scheduled Monthly Payment for such Mortgage Loan by a court of competent
jurisdiction in a proceeding under the Bankruptcy Code, except such a reduction
constituting a Deficient Valuation or any reduction that results in a permanent
forgiveness of principal.
Deficient Valuation: With respect to any Mortgage Loan, a valuation by
a court of competent jurisdiction of the Mortgaged Property in an amount less
than the then outstanding indebtedness under the Mortgage Loan, or any reduction
in the amount of principal to be paid in connection with any scheduled Monthly
Payment that constitutes a permanent forgiveness of principal, which valuation
or reduction results from a proceeding under the Bankruptcy Code.
Definitive Certificate: Any definitive, fully registered Certificate.
Deleted Mortgage Loan: A Mortgage Loan replaced or to be replaced with
a Qualified Substitute Mortgage Loan.
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Delinquent: As used herein, a Mortgage Loan is considered to be: "30 to
59 days" or "30 or more days" delinquent when a payment due on any scheduled due
date remains unpaid as of the close of business on the next following monthly
scheduled due date; "60 to 89 days" or "60 or more days" delinquent when a
payment due on any scheduled due date remains unpaid as of the close of business
on the second following monthly scheduled due date; and so on. The determination
as to whether a Mortgage Loan falls into these categories is made as of the
close of business on the last business day of each month. For example, a
Mortgage Loan with a payment due on July 1 that remained unpaid as of the close
of business on August 31 would then be considered to be 30 to 59 days
delinquent. Delinquency information as of the Cut-off Date is determined and
prepared as of the close of business on the last business day immediately prior
to the Cut-off Date.
Depository: The Depository Trust Company, or any successor Depository
hereafter named. The nominee of the initial Depository for purposes of
registering those Certificates that are to be Book-Entry Certificates is Cede &
Co. The Depository shall at all times be a "clearing corporation" as defined in
Section 8-102(5) of the Uniform Commercial Code of the State of New York and a
"clearing agency" registered pursuant to the provisions of Section 17A of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
Depository Participant: A broker, dealer, bank or other financial
institution or other Person for whom from time to time a Depository effects
book-entry transfers and pledges of securities deposited with the Depository.
Destroyed Mortgage Note: A Mortgage Note the original of which was
permanently lost or destroyed and has not been replaced.
Determination Date: With respect to any Distribution Date, the second
Business Day prior to such Distribution Date.
Discount Fraction: With respect to each Discount Mortgage Loan, the
fraction expressed as a percentage, the numerator of which is the related
Discount Net Mortgage Rate minus the Net Mortgage Rate (or the initial Net
Mortgage Rate with respect to any Discount Mortgage Loans as to which the
Mortgage Rate is modified pursuant to 3.07(a)) for such Mortgage Loan and the
denominator of which is the related Discount Net Mortgage Rate. The Discount
Fraction with respect to each Discount Mortgage Loan is set forth as Exhibit P
hereto.
Discount Mortgage Loan: Any Mortgage Loan having a Net Mortgage Rate
(or the initial Net Mortgage Rate) of less than the related Discount Net
Mortgage Rate per annum and any Mortgage Loan deemed to be a Discount Mortgage
Loan pursuant to the definition of Qualified Substitute Mortgage Loan.
Discount Net Mortgage Rate: With respect to Loan Group I, 7.125% per
annum, with respect to Loan Group II, 6.500% per annum, with respect to Loan
Group III, 7.125% per annum, and with respect to Loan Group IV, 8.000% per
annum.
Disqualified Organization: Any organization defined as a "disqualified
organization" under Section 860E(e)(5) of the Code, which includes any of the
following: (i) the United States, any State
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or political subdivision thereof, any possession of the United States, or any
agency or instrumentality of any of the foregoing (other than an instrumentality
which is a corporation if all of its activities are subject to tax and, except
for Xxxxxxx Mac, a majority of its board of directors is not selected by such
governmental unit), (ii) a foreign government, any international organization,
or any agency or instrumentality of any of the foregoing, (iii) any organization
(other than certain farmers' cooperatives described in Section 521 of the Code)
which is exempt from the tax imposed by Chapter 1 of the Code (including the tax
imposed by Section 511 of the Code on unrelated business taxable income) and
(iv) rural electric and telephone cooperatives described in Section
1381(a)(2)(C) of the Code. A Disqualified Organization also includes any
"electing large partnership," as defined in Section 775(a) of the Code and any
other Person so designated by the Trustee based upon an Opinion of Counsel that
the holding of an Ownership Interest in a Class R Certificate by such Person may
cause any REMIC or any Person having an Ownership Interest in any Class of
Certificates (other than such Person) to incur a liability for any federal tax
imposed under the Code that would not otherwise be imposed but for the Transfer
of an Ownership Interest in a Class R Certificate to such Person. The terms
"United States", "State" and "international organization" shall have the
meanings set forth in Section 7701 of the Code or successor provisions.
Distribution Date: The 25th day of any month beginning in the month
immediately following the month of the initial issuance of the Certificates or,
if such 25th day is not a Business Day, the Business Day immediately following
such 25th day.
Due Date: With respect to any Distribution Date and any Mortgage Loan,
the day during the related Due Period on which the Monthly Payment is due.
Due Period: With respect to any Distribution Date, the calendar month
of such Distribution Date.
Eligible Account: An account that is any of the following: (i)
maintained with a depository institution the debt obligations of which have been
rated by each Rating Agency in its highest rating available, or (ii) an account
or accounts in a depository institution in which such accounts are fully insured
to the limits established by the FDIC, provided that any deposits not so insured
shall, to the extent acceptable to each Rating Agency, as evidenced in writing,
be maintained such that (as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel delivered to the
Trustee and each Rating Agency) the registered Holders of Certificates have a
claim with respect to the funds in such account or a perfected first security
interest against any collateral (which shall be limited to Permitted
Investments) securing such funds that is superior to claims of any other
depositors or creditors of the depository institution with which such account is
maintained, or (iii) in the case of the Custodial Account, either (A) a trust
account or accounts maintained in the corporate trust department of Bank One,
National Association, or (B) an account or accounts maintained in the corporate
asset services department of Bank One, National Association as long as its short
term debt obligations are rated P-1 (or the equivalent) or better by each Rating
Agency, and its long term debt obligations are rated A2 (or the equivalent) or
better, by each Rating Agency, or (iv) in the case of the Certificate Account, a
trust account or accounts maintained in the corporate trust division of JPMorgan
Chase Bank, or (v) an account or accounts of a depository institution acceptable
to each Rating Agency (as evidenced in writing by each Rating Agency that use of
any such account as the Custodial Account or the Certificate Account will not
reduce the rating assigned to any Class of Certificates by such Rating Agency
below the
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lower of the then-current rating or the rating assigned to such Certificates as
of the Closing Date by such Rating Agency).
Eligible Funds: With respect to Loan Group I, on any Distribution Date,
the portion, if any, of the related Available Distribution Amount remaining
after reduction by the sum of (i) the aggregate amount of Accrued Certificate
Interest on the Group I Senior Certificates, (ii) the Group I Senior Principal
Distribution Amount (determined without regard to Section 4.02(a)(ii)(Y)(D)
hereof), (iii) the Class A-I-PO Principal Distribution Amount (determined
without regard to Section 4.02(b)(i)(E) hereof) and (iv) the aggregate amount of
Accrued Certificate Interest on the Class M, Class B-1 and Class B-2
Certificates payable from the related Available Distribution Amount. With
respect to Loan Group II, Loan Group III and Loan Group IV, on any Distribution
Date, the portion, if any, of the related Available Distribution Amount
remaining after reduction by the sum of (i) the aggregate amount of Accrued
Certificate Interest on the related Senior Certificates, (ii) the related Senior
Principal Distribution Amount (determined without regard to Section
4.02(a)(ii)(Y)(D) hereof), (iii) the Class A-PO Principal Distribution Amount
(determined without regard to Section 4.02(b)(i)(E) hereof) and (iv) the
aggregate amount of Accrued Certificate Interest on the Class M, Class B-1 and
Class B-2 Certificates payable from the related Available Distribution Amount.
ERISA: The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended.
Event of Default: As defined in Section 7.01.
Excess Bankruptcy Loss: Any Bankruptcy Loss on the Mortgage Loans, or
portion thereof, which exceeds the then-applicable Bankruptcy Amount.
Excess Fraud Loss: Any Fraud Loss on the Mortgage Loans, or portion
thereof, which exceeds the then-applicable Fraud Loss Amount.
Excess Loss: Any Excess Fraud Loss, Excess Special Hazard Loss, Excess
Bankruptcy Loss or Extraordinary Loss.
Excess Special Hazard Loss: Any Special Hazard Loss on the Mortgage
Loans, or portion thereof, that exceeds the then-applicable Special Hazard
Amount.
Extraordinary Losses: Any loss incurred on a Mortgage Loan caused by or
resulting from an Extraordinary Event.
Excess Subordinate Principal Amount: With respect to any Distribution
Date on which the aggregate Certificate Principal Balance of the Class of
Subordinate Certificates then outstanding with the Lowest Priority is to be
reduced to zero and on which Realized Losses are to be allocated to such class
or classes, the excess, if any, of (i) the amount that would otherwise be
distributable in respect of principal on such Class or Classes of Certificates
on such Distribution Date over (ii) the excess, if any, of the aggregate
Certificate Principal Balance of such class or classes of Certificates
immediately prior to such Distribution Date over the aggregate amount of
Realized Losses to be allocated to such classes of Certificates on such
Distribution Date as reduced by any amount calculated pursuant to Section
4.02(b)(i)(E).
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Extraordinary Events: Any of the following conditions with respect to a
Mortgaged Property (or, with respect to a Cooperative Loan, the Cooperative
Apartment) or Mortgage Loan causing or resulting in a loss which causes the
liquidation of such Mortgage Loan:
(a) losses that are of the type that would be covered by the
fidelity bond and the errors and omissions insurance policy required to
be maintained pursuant to Section 3.12(b) but are in excess of the
coverage maintained thereunder;
(b) nuclear reaction or nuclear radiation or radioactive
contamination, all whether controlled or uncontrolled, and whether such
loss be direct or indirect, proximate or remote or be in whole or in
part caused by, contributed to or aggravated by a peril covered by the
definition of the term "Special Hazard Loss";
(c) hostile or warlike action in time of peace or war,
including action in hindering, combatting or defending against an
actual, impending or expected attack;
1. by any government or sovereign power, de jure or
defacto, or by any authority maintaining or using military,
naval or air forces; or
2. by military, naval or air forces; or
3. by an agent of any such government, power,
authority or forces; or
4. any weapon of war employing atomic fission or
radioactive force whether in time of peace or war; or
5. insurrection, rebellion, revolution, civil war,
usurped power or action taken by governmental authority in
hindering, combatting or defending against such an occurrence,
seizure or destruction under quarantine or customs
regulations, confiscation by order of any government or public
authority; or risks of contraband or illegal transportation or
trade.
Xxxxxx Xxx: Xxxxxx Xxx, a federally chartered and privately owned
corporation organized and existing under the Federal National Mortgage
Association Charter Act, or any successor thereto.
FASIT: A "financial asset securitization investment trust" within the
meaning of Section 860L of the Code.
FDIC: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any successor thereto.
FHA: The Federal Housing Administration, or its successor.
Final Distribution Date: The Distribution Date on which the final
distribution in respect of the Certificates will be made pursuant to Section
9.01, which Final Distribution Date shall in no event be later than the end of
the 90-day liquidation period described in Section 9.02.
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Fitch: Fitch, Inc., or its successor in interest.
Foreclosure Profits: As to any Distribution Date or related
Determination Date and any Mortgage Loan, the excess, if any, of Liquidation
Proceeds, Insurance Proceeds and REO Proceeds (net of all amounts reimbursable
therefrom pursuant to Section 3.10(a)(ii)) in respect of each Mortgage Loan or
REO Property for which a Cash Liquidation or REO Disposition occurred in the
related Prepayment Period over the sum of the unpaid principal balance of such
Mortgage Loan or REO Property (determined, in the case of an REO Disposition, in
accordance with Section 3.14) plus accrued and unpaid interest at the Mortgage
Rate on such unpaid principal balance from the Due Date to which interest was
last paid by the Mortgagor to the first day of the month following the month in
which such Cash Liquidation or REO Disposition occurred.
Fraud Losses: Losses on Mortgage Loans as to which there was fraud in
the origination of such Mortgage Loan.
Fraud Loss Amount: As of any date of determination after the Cut-off
Date, an amount equal to (X) prior to the first anniversary of the Cut-off Date
an amount equal to 1.00% of the aggregate outstanding principal balance of all
of the Group I Loans as of the Cut-off Date minus the aggregate amount of Fraud
Losses on the Mortgage Loans allocated through Subordination, in accordance with
Section 4.05 since the Cut-off Date up to such date of determination, (Y) from
the first to the third anniversary of the Cut-off Date, an amount equal to (1)
the lesser of (a) the Fraud Loss Amount as of the most recent anniversary of the
Cut-off Date and (b) 1.00% of the aggregate outstanding principal balance of all
of the Mortgage Loans as of the most recent anniversary of the Cut-off Date
minus (2) the Fraud Losses on the Mortgage Loans allocated through
Subordination, in accordance with Section 4.05 since the most recent anniversary
of the Cut-off Date up to such date of determination, and (Z) from the third to
the fifth anniversary of the Cut-off Date, an amount equal to (1) the lesser of
(a) the Fraud Loss Amount as of the most recent anniversary of the Cut-off Date
and (b) 0.50% of the aggregate outstanding principal balance of all of the
Mortgage Loans as of the most recent anniversary of the Cut-off Date minus (2)
the Fraud Losses on the Mortgage Loans allocated through Subordination, in
accordance with Section 4.05 since the most recent anniversary of the Cut-off
Date up to such date of determination. On and after the fifth anniversary of the
Cut-off Date the Fraud Loss Amount shall be zero.
The Fraud Loss Amount may be further reduced by the Master Servicer
(including accelerating the manner in which such coverage is reduced) provided
that prior to any such reduction, the Master Servicer shall obtain written
confirmation from each Rating Agency that such reduction shall not reduce the
rating assigned to the Class A, Class M and Class B Certificates by such Rating
Agency below the lower of the then-current rating or the rating assigned to such
Certificates as of the Closing Date by such Rating Agency.
Xxxxxxx Mac: The Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, a corporate
instrumentality of the United States created and existing under Title III of the
Emergency Home Finance Act of 1970, as amended, or any successor thereto.
Group I Cut-off Date Balance: $52,133,606.62.
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Group II Cut-off Date Balance: $23,022,338.84.
Group III Cut-off Date Balance: $349,365,095.34.
Group IV Cut-off Date Balance: $141,685,044.39.
Group I Loan: The Mortgage Loans designated on the Mortgage Loan
Schedule attached hereto as Exhibit F-1.
Group II Loan: The Mortgage Loans designated on the Mortgage Loan
Schedule attached hereto as Exhibit F-2.
Group III Loan: The Mortgage Loans designated on the Mortgage Loan
Schedule attached hereto as Exhibit F-3.
Group IV Loan: The Mortgage Loans designated on the Mortgage Loan
Schedule attached hereto as Exhibit F-4.
Group I Pool Stated Principal Balance: As to any date of determination,
the aggregate of the Stated Principal Balances of each Group I Loan that was an
Outstanding Mortgage Loan on the Due Date immediately preceding the Due Period
preceding such date of determination.
Group II Pool Stated Principal Balance: As to any date of
determination, the aggregate of the Stated Principal Balances of each Group II
Loan that was an Outstanding Mortgage Loan on the Due Date immediately preceding
the Due Period preceding such date of determination.
Group III Pool Stated Principal Balance: As to any date of
determination, the aggregate of the Stated Principal Balances of each Group III
Loan that was an Outstanding Mortgage Loan on the Due Date immediately preceding
the Due Period preceding such date of determination.
Group IV Pool Stated Principal Balance: As to any date of
determination, the aggregate of the Stated Principal Balances of each Group IV
Loan that was an Outstanding Mortgage Loan on the Due Date immediately preceding
the Due Period preceding such date of determination.
Group I Senior Certificates: Any of the Class A-I, Class R-I and Class
R-II Certificates.
Group II Senior Certificates: Any of the Class A-II Certificates.
Group III Senior Certificates: Any of the Class A-III Certificates.
Group IV Senior Certificates: Any of the Class A-IV Certificates.
Hazardous Materials: Any dangerous, toxic or hazardous pollutants,
chemicals, wastes, or substances, including, without limitation, those so
identified pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation
and Liability Act, 42 U.S.C. Section 9601 et seq., or any other environmental
laws now existing, and specifically including, without limitation, asbestos and
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asbestos-containing materials, polychlorinated biphenyls, radon gas, petroleum
and petroleum products, urea formaldehyde and any substances classified as being
"in inventory", "usable work in progress" or similar classification which would,
if classified unusable, be included in the foregoing definition.
Highest Priority: As of any date of determination and any Loan Group,
the Class of Subordinate Certificates then outstanding with the earliest
priority for payments pursuant to Section 4.02(a), in the following order: Class
M-1, Class M-2, Class M-3, Class B-1, Class B-2 and Class B-3 Certificates.
Independent: When used with respect to any specified Person, means such
a Person who (i) is in fact independent of the Depositor, the Master Servicer
and the Trustee, or any Affiliate thereof, (ii) does not have any direct
financial interest or any material indirect financial interest in the Depositor,
the Master Servicer or the Trustee or in an Affiliate thereof, and (iii) is not
connected with the Depositor, the Master Servicer or the Trustee as an officer,
employee, promoter, underwriter, trustee, partner, director or person performing
similar functions.
Index: With respect to any adjustable rate Mortgage Loan and as to any
Adjustment Date therefor, the related index as stated in the related Mortgage
Note.
Initial Certificate Principal Balance: With respect to each Class of
Certificates (other than the Interest Only Certificates and the Class R
Certificates), the Certificate Principal Balance of such Class of Certificates
as of the Cut-off Date as set forth in the Preliminary Statement hereto.
Initial Notional Amount: With respect to any Class A-I-IO Certificates
or Subclass thereof issued pursuant to Section 5.01(c), the aggregate Cut-off
Date Principal Balance of the Group I Loans corresponding to the Uncertificated
Class A-I-IO REMIC II Regular Interests represented by such Class or Subclass on
such date. With respect to any Class A-IO Certificates or Subclass thereof
issued pursuant to Section 5.01(c), the aggregate Cut-off Date Principal Balance
of the Group II Loans, Group III Loans and Group IV Loans corresponding to the
Uncertificated Class A-IO REMIC II Regular Interests represented by such Class
or Subclass on such date.
Initial Subordinate Class Percentage: With respect to each Class of
Subordinate Certificates, an amount which is equal to the initial aggregate
Certificate Principal Balance of such Class of Subordinate Certificates divided
by the aggregate Stated Principal Balance of all the Mortgage Loans as of the
Cut-off Date as follows:
Class M-1: 2.15% Class B-1: 0.15%
Class M-2: 0.20% Class B-2: 0.05%
Class M-3: 0.15% Class B-3: 0.10%
Insurance Proceeds: Proceeds paid in respect of the Mortgage Loans
pursuant to any Primary Insurance Policy or any other related insurance policy
covering a Mortgage Loan, to the extent such proceeds are payable to the
mortgagee under the Mortgage, any Subservicer, the Master Servicer or the
Trustee and are not applied to the restoration of the related Mortgaged Property
(or, with respect to a Cooperative Loan, the related Cooperative Apartment) or
released to the Mortgagor in
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accordance with the procedures that the Master Servicer would follow in
servicing mortgage loans held for its own account.
Interest Accrual Period: With respect to any Certificates and any
Distribution Date, the calendar month preceding the month in which such
Distribution Date occurs.
Interest Only Certificate: Any of the Class A-I-IO Certificates and
Class A-IO Certificates.
Interim Certification: As defined in Section 2.02.
Interested Person: As of any date of determination, the Depositor, the
Master Servicer, the Trustee, any Mortgagor, any Manager of a Mortgaged
Property, or any Person known to a Responsible Officer of the Trustee to be an
Affiliate of any of them.
Late Collections: With respect to any Mortgage Loan, all amounts
received during any Due Period, whether as late payments of Monthly Payments or
as Insurance Proceeds, Liquidation Proceeds or otherwise, which represent late
payments or collections of Monthly Payments due but delinquent for a previous
Due Period and not previously recovered.
Liquidation Proceeds: Amounts (other than Insurance Proceeds) received
by the Master Servicer in connection with the taking of an entire Mortgaged
Property by exercise of the power of eminent domain or condemnation or in
connection with the liquidation of a defaulted Loan through trustee's sale,
foreclosure sale or otherwise, other than REO Proceeds and Subsequent
Recoveries.
Loan Group: With respect to the Class A-I Certificates, Class R
Certificates and REMIC I Regular Interests I-SUB and I-ZZZ, the Group I Loans;
with respect to the Class A-II Certificates and REMIC I Regular Interests II-SUB
and II-ZZZ, the Group II Loans; with respect to the Class A- III Certificates
and REMIC I Regular Interests III-SUB and III-ZZZ, the Group III Loans; with
respect to the Class A-IV Certificates and REMIC I Regular Interests IV-SUB and
IV-ZZZ, the Group IV Loans; with respect to the Class A-IO Certificates and
Class A-PO Certificates, the Group II Loans, Group III Loans and Group IV Loans;
with respect to the Class M Certificates and Class B Certificates, the Group I
Loans, Group II Loans, Group III Loans and Group IV Loans.
Loan-to-Value Ratio: As of any date, the fraction, expressed as a
percentage, the numerator of which is the current principal balance of the
related Mortgage Loan at the date of determination and the denominator of which
is the Appraised Value of the related Mortgaged Property.
Lower Priority: As of any date of determination and any Class of
Subordinate Certificates, any other Class of Subordinate Certificates then
outstanding with a later priority for payments pursuant to Section 4.02(a).
Lowest Priority: As of any date of determination, the Class of
Subordinate Certificates then outstanding with the latest priority for payments
pursuant to Section 4.02(a), in the following order: Class B-3, Class B-2, Class
B-1, Class M-3, Class M-2 and Class M-1 Certificates.
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Maturity Date: With respect to each Class of Certificates of regular
interest or Uncertificated Regular Interest issued by each of REMIC I and REMIC
II, the latest possible maturity date, solely for purposes of Section
1.860G-1(a)(4)(iii) of the Treasury Regulations, by which the Certificate
Principal Balance of each such Class of Certificates representing a regular
interest in the Trust Fund would be reduced to zero, which is the date set forth
in the Preliminary Statement.
MERS: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., a corporation
organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware, or any successor
thereto.
MERS(R) System: The system of recording transfers of Mortgages
electronically maintained by MERS.
MIN: The Mortgage Identification Number for Mortgage Loans registered
with MERS on the MERS(R)System.
Modified Mortgage Loan: Any Mortgage Loan that has been the subject of
a Servicing Modification.
Modified Net Mortgage Rate: As to any Mortgage Loan that is the subject
of a Servicing Modification, the Net Mortgage Rate, minus the rate per annum by
which the Mortgage Rate on such Mortgage Loan was reduced.
MOM Loan: With respect to any Mortgage Loan, MERS acting as the
mortgagee of such Mortgage Loan, solely as nominee for the originator of such
Mortgage Loan and its successors and assigns, at the origination thereof.
Monthly Payment: With respect to any Mortgage Loan (including any REO
Property) and the Due Date in any Due Period, the payment of principal and
interest due thereon in accordance with the amortization schedule at the time
applicable thereto (after adjustment, if any, for Curtailments and for Deficient
Valuations occurring prior to such Due Date but before any adjustment to such
amortization schedule by reason of any bankruptcy, other than a Deficient
Valuation, or similar proceeding or any moratorium or similar waiver or grace
period and before any Servicing Modification that constitutes a reduction of the
interest rate on such Mortgage Loan).
Moody's: Xxxxx'x Investors Service, Inc., or its successor in interest.
Mortgage: With respect to each Mortgage Note related to a Mortgage Loan
which is not a Cooperative Loan, the mortgage, deed of trust or other comparable
instrument creating a first or junior lien on an estate in fee simple interest
in real property securing a Mortgage Note.
Mortgage File: The mortgage documents listed in Section 2.01 pertaining
to a particular Mortgage Loan and any additional documents required to be added
to the Mortgage File pursuant to this Agreement.
Mortgage Loan Schedule: The lists of the Mortgage Loans attached hereto
as Exhibit F-1, Exhibit F-2, Exhibit F-3 and Exhibit F-4 (as amended from time
to time to reflect the addition of
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Qualified Substitute Mortgage Loans), which lists shall set forth at a minimum
the following information as to each Mortgage Loan:
(i) the Mortgage Loan identifying number ("RFC LOAN #");
(ii) [reserved];
(iii) the maturity of the Mortgage Note ("MATURITY DATE", or "MATURITY
DT" for Mortgage Loans;
(iv) the Mortgage Rate as of the Cut-off Date ("ORIG RATE")
(v) the Mortgage Rate as of the Cut-off Date for an adjustable rate
Mortgage Loan ("CURR RATE");
(vi) the Net Mortgage Rate as of the Cut-off Date ("CURR NET");
(vii) the scheduled monthly payment of principal, if any, and interest
as of the Cut-off Date ("ORIGINAL P & I" or "CURRENT P & I" for the
adjustable rate Mortgage Loans);
(viii) the Cut-off Date Principal Balance ("PRINCIPAL BAL");
(ix) the Loan-to-Value Ratio at origination ("LTV");
(x) a code "T", "BT" or "CT" under the column "LN FEATURE," indicating
that the Mortgage Loan is secured by a second or vacation residence
(the absence of any such code means the Mortgage Loan is secured by a
primary residence); and
(xi) a code "N" under the column "OCCP CODE", indicating that the
Mortgage Loan is secured by a non-owner occupied residence (the absence
of any such code means the Mortgage Loan is secured by an owner
occupied residence).
Such schedules may consist of multiple reports that collectively set
forth all of the information required.
Mortgage Loans: Such of the mortgage loans transferred and assigned to
the Trustee pursuant to Section 2.01 as from time to time are held or deemed to
be held as a part of the Trust Fund, the Mortgage Loans originally so held being
identified in the initial Mortgage Loan Schedule, and Qualified Substitute
Mortgage Loans held or deemed held as part of the Trust Fund including, without
limitation, (i) with respect to each Cooperative Loan, the related Mortgage
Note, Security Agreement, Assignment of Proprietary Lease, Cooperative Stock
Certificate, Cooperative Lease and Mortgage File and all rights appertaining
thereto, and (ii) with respect to each Mortgage Loan other than a Cooperative
Loan, each related Mortgage Note, Mortgage and Mortgage File and all rights
appertaining thereto.
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Mortgage Note: The originally executed note or other evidence of
indebtedness evidencing the indebtedness of a Mortgagor under a Mortgage Loan,
together with any modification thereto.
Mortgage Rate: As to any Mortgage Loan, the interest rate borne by the
related Mortgage Note, or any modification thereto other than a Servicing
Modification. The Mortgage Rate on the adjustable rate Mortgage Loans will
adjust on each Adjustment Date to equal the sum (rounded to the nearest multiple
of one-eighth of one percent (0.125%) or up to the nearest one-eighth of one
percent, which are indicated by a "U" on Exhibit F-1, F-2, F-3 or F-4 hereto.
Mortgaged Property: The underlying real property securing a Mortgage
Loan or, with respect to a Cooperative Loan, the related Cooperative Lease and
Cooperative Stock.
Mortgagor: The obligor on a Mortgage Note.
Net Mortgage Rate: With respect to any Mortgage Loan as of any date of
determination, a per annum rate equal to the Adjusted Mortgage Rate for such
Mortgage Loan as of such date minus the Servicing Fee Rate.
Non-Discount Mortgage Loan: With respect to each Loan Group, a Mortgage
Loan that is not a Discount Mortgage Loan from such Loan Group.
Non-Primary Residence Loans: The Mortgage Loans designated as secured
by second or vacation residences, or by non-owner occupied residences, on the
Mortgage Loan Schedule.
Non-United States Person: Any Person other than a United States Person.
Nonrecoverable Advance: Any Advance previously made or proposed to be
made by the Master Servicer in respect of a Mortgage Loan (other than a Deleted
Mortgage Loan) which, in the good faith judgment of the Master Servicer, will
not, or, in the case of a proposed Advance, would not, be ultimately recoverable
by the Master Servicer from related Late Collections, Insurance Proceeds,
Liquidation Proceeds or REO Proceeds. To the extent that any Mortgagor is not
obligated under the related Mortgage documents to pay or reimburse any portion
of any Advances that are outstanding with respect to the related Mortgage Loan
as a result of a modification of such Mortgage Loan by the Master Servicer,
which forgives unpaid Monthly Payments or other amounts which the Master
Servicer had previously advanced, and the Master Servicer determines that no
other source of payment or reimbursement for such advances is available to it,
such Advances shall be deemed to be nonrecoverable; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that in
connection with the foregoing, the Master Servicer shall provide an Officers'
Certificate as described below. The determination by the Master Servicer that it
has made a Nonrecoverable Advance shall be evidenced by a certificate of a
Servicing Officer, Responsible Officer or Vice President or its equivalent or
senior officer of the Master Servicer, delivered to the Depositor, the Trustee
and the Master Servicer setting forth such determination, which shall include
any other information or reports obtained by the Master Servicer such as
property operating statements, rent rolls, property inspection reports and
engineering reports, which may support such determinations. Notwithstanding the
above, the Trustee shall be entitled to rely upon any determination by the
Master Servicer that any Advance previously made is a
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Nonrecoverable Advance or that any proposed Advance, if made, would constitute a
Nonrecoverable Advance.
Nonsubserviced Mortgage Loan: Any Mortgage Loan that, at the time of
reference thereto, is not subject to a Subservicing Agreement.
Notice: As defined in Section 4.04.
Notional Amount: As of any Distribution Date, with respect to any Class
A-I-IO Certificates or Subclass thereof issued pursuant to Section 5.01(d), the
aggregate Stated Principal Balance of the Group I Loans corresponding to the
Uncertificated Class A-I-IO REMIC II Regular Interests represented by such Class
or Subclass as of the day immediately preceding such Distribution Date (or, with
respect to the initial Distribution Date, at the close of business on the
Cut-off Date). As of any Distribution Date, with respect to any Class A-IO
Certificates or Subclass thereof issued pursuant to Section 5.01(d), the
aggregate Stated Principal Balance of the Group II Loans, Group III Loans and
Group IV Loans corresponding to the Uncertificated Class A-IO REMIC II Regular
Interests represented by such Class or Subclass as of the day immediately
preceding such Distribution Date (or, with respect to the initial Distribution
Date, at the close of business on the Cut- off Date).
Officers' Certificate: A certificate signed by the Chairman of the
Board, the President, a Vice President, Assistant Vice President, Director,
Managing Director, the Treasurer, the Secretary, an Assistant Treasurer or an
Assistant Secretary of the Depositor or the Master Servicer, as the case may be,
and delivered to the Trustee, as required by this Agreement.
Opinion of Counsel: A written opinion of counsel acceptable to the
Trustee and the Master Servicer, who may be counsel for the Depositor or the
Master Servicer, provided that any opinion of counsel (i) referred to in the
definition of "Disqualified Organization" or (ii) relating to the qualification
of REMIC I or REMIC II as REMICs or compliance with the REMIC Provisions must,
unless otherwise specified, be an opinion of Independent counsel.
Optional Termination Date: Any Distribution Date on or after which the
Stated Principal Balance (before giving effect to distributions to be made on
such Distribution Date) of the Mortgage Loans is less than 1.00% of the Cut-off
Date Principal Balance.
Outstanding Mortgage Loan: As to the Due Date in any Due Period, a
Mortgage Loan (including an REO Property) that was not the subject of a
Principal Prepayment in Full, Cash Liquidation or REO Disposition and that was
not purchased, deleted or substituted for prior to such Due Date pursuant to
Section 2.02, 2.03, 2.04 or 4.07.
Ownership Interest: As to any Certificate, any ownership or security
interest in such Certificate, including any interest in such Certificate as the
Holder thereof and any other interest therein, whether direct or indirect, legal
or beneficial, as owner or as pledgee.
Pass-Through Rate: With respect to the Class A-I Certificates (other
than Class A-I-PO Certificates) Class A-II, Class A-III, Class A-IV, Class A-IO
and Class R Certificates and any
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Distribution Date, the per annum rates set forth in the Preliminary Statement
hereto. The Class A-I- PO Certificates and Class A-PO Certificates have no
Pass-Through Rate and are not entitled to Accrued Certificate Interest. With
respect to the Class M Certificates and Class B Certificates and any
Distribution Date, the weighted average of the Pass-Through Rates of the Class
A-I-1, Class A- II-1, Class A-III-1 and Class A-IV-1 Certificates, weighted in
proportion to the results of subtracting from each Loan Group (other than the
portion attributable to the Class A-I-P Certificates and Class A-P Certificates)
(to an amount not less than zero), the aggregate Certificate Principal Balance
of the related Senior Certificates (other than the Class A-I-PO Certificates and
Class A-PO Certificates).
Paying Agent: JPMorgan Chase Bank or any successor Paying Agent
appointed by the Trustee.
Percentage Interest: With respect to any Certificate (other than a
Class R Certificate), the undivided percentage ownership interest in the related
Class evidenced by such Certificate, which percentage ownership interest shall
be equal to the Initial Certificate Principal Balance thereof or Initial
Notional Amount (in the case of any Interest Only Certificate) thereof divided
by the aggregate Initial Certificate Principal Balance or the aggregate of the
Initial Notional Amounts, as applicable, of all the Certificates of the same
Class. With respect to a Class R Certificate, the interest in distributions to
be made with respect to such Class evidenced thereby, expressed as a percentage,
as stated on the face of each such Certificate.
Permitted Investments: One or more of the following:
(i) obligations of or guaranteed as to principal and interest by the
United States or any agency or instrumentality thereof when such
obligations are backed by the full faith and credit of the United
States;
(ii) repurchase agreements on obligations specified in clause (i)
maturing not more than one month from the date of acquisition thereof,
provided that the unsecured obligations of the party agreeing to
repurchase such obligations are at the time rated by each Rating Agency
in its highest short-term rating available;
(iii) federal funds, certificates of deposit, demand deposits, time
deposits and bankers' acceptances (which shall each have an original
maturity of not more than 90 days and, in the case of bankers'
acceptances, shall in no event have an original maturity of more than
365 days or a remaining maturity of more than 30 days) denominated in
United States dollars of any U.S. depository institution or trust
company incorporated under the laws of the United States or any state
thereof or of any domestic branch of a foreign depository institution
or trust company; provided that the debt obligations of such depository
institution or trust company (or, if the only Rating Agency is Standard
& Poor's, in the case of the principal depository institution in a
depository institution holding company, debt obligations of the
depository institution holding company) at the date of acquisition
thereof have been rated by each Rating Agency in its highest short-term
rating available; and provided further that, if the only Rating Agency
is Standard & Poor's and if the depository or trust company is a
principal subsidiary of a bank holding company and the debt obligations
of such subsidiary
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are not separately rated, the applicable rating shall be that of the
bank holding company; and, provided further that, if the original
maturity of such short-term obligations of a domestic branch of a
foreign depository institution or trust company shall exceed 30 days,
the short- term rating of such institution shall be A-1+ in the case of
Standard & Poor's if Standard & Poor's is a Rating Agency;
(iv) commercial paper and demand notes (having original maturities of
not more than 365 days) of any corporation incorporated under the laws
of the United States or any state thereof which on the date of
acquisition has been rated by each Rating Agency in its highest short-
term rating available; provided that such commercial paper and demand
notes shall have a remaining maturity of not more than 30 days;
(v) a money market fund or a qualified investment fund rated by each
Rating Agency in its highest long-term rating available; and
(vi) other obligations or securities that are acceptable to each Rating
Agency as a Permitted Investment hereunder and will not reduce the
rating assigned to any Class of Certificates by such Rating Agency
below the lower of the then-current rating or the rating assigned to
such Certificates as of the Closing Date by such Rating Agency, as
evidenced in writing;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that no instrument shall be a Permitted Investment if it
represents, either (1) the right to receive only interest payments with respect
to the underlying debt instrument or (2) the right to receive both principal and
interest payments derived from obligations underlying such instrument and the
principal and interest payments with respect to such instrument provide a yield
to maturity greater than 120% of the yield to maturity at par of such underlying
obligations. References herein to the highest rating available on unsecured
long-term debt shall mean AAA in the case of Standard & Poor's and Fitch and Aaa
in the case of Moody's, and references herein to the highest rating available on
unsecured commercial paper and short-term debt obligations shall mean the
following: A-1 in the case of Standard & Poor's, P-1 in the case of Moody's and
F-1 in the case of Fitch.
Permitted Transferee: Any Transferee of a Class R Certificate, other
than a Disqualified Organization or Non-United States Person.
Person: Any individual, corporation, limited liability company,
partnership, joint venture, association, joint-stock company, trust,
unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political subdivision
thereof.
Pledged Amount: With respect to any Pledged Asset Loan, the amount of
money remitted to Combined Collateral LLC, at the direction of or for the
benefit of the related Mortgagor.
Pledged Asset Loan: Any Mortgage Loan supported by Pledged Assets or
such other collateral, other than the related Mortgaged Property, set forth in
the Series Supplement.
Pledged Assets: With respect to any Mortgage Loan, all money,
securities, security entitlements, accounts, general intangibles, instruments,
documents, certificates of deposit,
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commodities contracts and other investment property and other property of
whatever kind or description pledged by Combined Collateral LLC as security in
respect of any Realized Losses in connection with such Mortgage Loan up to the
Pledged Amount for such Mortgage Loan, and any related collateral, or such other
collateral as may be set forth in the Series Supplement.
Pool Strip Rate: With respect to each Mortgage Loan, a per annum rate
equal to the excess of (a) the Net Mortgage Rate of such Mortgage Loan over (b)
the related Discount Net Mortgage Rate (but not less than 0.00%) per annum.
Prepayment Assumption: With respect to the Class A, Class M and Class B
Certificates, the prepayment assumption to be used for determining the accrual
of original issue discount and premium and market discount on such Certificates
for federal income tax purposes, which assumes a constant prepayment rate of 65%
CPR with respect to the Group I Loans, 80% CPR with respect to the Group II
Loans, 75% CPR with respect to the Group III Loans and 70% CPR with respect to
the Group IV Loans.
Prepayment Distribution Percentage: With respect to any Distribution
Date and each Class of Subordinate Certificates, under the applicable
circumstances set forth below, the respective percentages set forth below:
(i) For any Distribution Date for which the related Senior
Accelerated Distribution Percentage is equal to 100%, 0%.
(ii) For any Distribution Date for which clause (i) above does
not apply, and on which any Class of Subordinate Certificates are
outstanding:
(a) in the case of the Class of Subordinate
Certificates then outstanding with the Highest Priority and
each other Class of Subordinate Certificates for which the
related Prepayment Distribution Trigger has been satisfied, a
fraction, expressed as a percentage, the numerator of which is
the Certificate Principal Balance of such Class immediately
prior to such date and the denominator of which is the sum of
the Certificate Principal Balances immediately prior to such
date of (1) the Class of Subordinate Certificates then
outstanding with the Highest Priority and (2) all other
Classes of Subordinate Certificates for which the respective
Prepayment Distribution Triggers have been satisfied; and
(b) in the case of each other Class of Subordinate
Certificates for which the Prepayment Distribution Triggers
have not been satisfied, 0%; and
(iii) Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the application of the
foregoing percentages on any Distribution Date as provided in Section
4.02 of this Agreement (determined without regard to the proviso to the
definition of "Subordinate Principal Distribution Amount") would result
in a distribution in respect of principal of any Class or Classes of
Subordinate Certificates in an amount greater than the remaining
Certificate Principal Balance thereof (any such class, a "Maturing
Class"), then: (a) the Prepayment Distribution Percentage of each
Maturing Class shall be reduced to a level that, when applied as
described above, would
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exactly reduce the Certificate Principal Balance of such Class to zero;
(b) the Prepayment Distribution Percentage of each other Class of
Subordinate Certificates (any such Class, a "Non-Maturing Class") shall
be recalculated in accordance with the provisions in paragraph (ii)
above, as if the Certificate Principal Balance of each Maturing Class
had been reduced to zero (such percentage as recalculated, the
"Recalculated Percentage"); (c) the total amount of the reductions in
the Prepayment Distribution Percentages of the related Maturing Class
or Classes pursuant to clause (a) of this sentence, expressed as an
aggregate percentage, shall be allocated among the related Non-Maturing
Classes in proportion to their respective Recalculated Percentages (the
portion of such aggregate reduction so allocated to any Non- Maturing
Class, the "Adjustment Percentage"); and (d) for purposes of such
Distribution Date, the Prepayment Distribution Percentage of each
related Non-Maturing Class shall be equal to the sum of (1) the
Prepayment Distribution Percentage thereof, calculated in accordance
with the provisions in paragraph (ii) above as if the Certificate
Principal Balance of each related Maturing Class had not been reduced
to zero, plus (2) the related Adjustment Percentage.
Prepayment Distribution Trigger: With respect to any Distribution Date
and any Class of Subordinate Certificates (other than the Class M-1
Certificates), a test that shall be satisfied if the fraction (expressed as a
percentage) equal to the sum of the Certificate Principal Balances of such Class
and each Class of Subordinate Certificates with a Lower Priority than such Class
immediately prior to such Distribution Date divided by the aggregate Stated
Principal Balance of all of the related Mortgage Loans (or related REO
Properties) immediately prior to such Distribution Date is greater than or equal
to the sum of the related Initial Subordinate Class Percentages of such Classes
of Subordinate Certificates.
Prepayment Interest Shortfall: As to any Distribution Date and any
Mortgage Loan (other than a Mortgage Loan relating to an REO Property) that was
the subject of (a) a Principal Prepayment in Full during the portion of the
related Prepayment Period that falls during the prior calendar month, an amount
equal to the excess of one month's interest at the Net Mortgage Rate (or
Modified Net Mortgage Rate in the case of a Modified Mortgage Loan) on the
Stated Principal Balance of such Mortgage Loan over the amount of interest
(adjusted to the Net Mortgage Rate (or Modified Net Mortgage Rate in the case of
a Modified Mortgage Loan)) paid by the Mortgagor for such month to the date of
such Principal Prepayment in Full or (b) a Curtailment during the prior calendar
month, an amount equal to one month's interest at the Net Mortgage Rate (or
Modified Net Mortgage Rate in the case of a Modified Mortgage Loan) on the
amount of such Curtailment.
Prepayment Period: As to any Distribution Date and Principal Prepayment
in Full, the period commencing on the 16th day of the month prior to the month
prior to the month in which that Distribution Date occurs and ending on the 15th
day of the month in which such Distribution Date occurs.
Primary Insurance Policy: Each primary policy of mortgage guaranty
insurance as indicated on Exhibit F-1, Exhibit F-2, Exhibit F-3 or Exhibit F-4
with the exception of either code "23" or "96" under the column "MI CO CODE".
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Principal Prepayment: Any payment of principal or other recovery on a
Mortgage Loan, including a recovery that takes the form of Liquidation Proceeds
or Insurance Proceeds, which is received in advance of its scheduled Due Date
and is not accompanied by an amount as to interest representing scheduled
interest on such payment due on any date or dates in any month or months
subsequent to the month of prepayment.
Principal Prepayment in Full: Any Principal Prepayment of the entire
principal balance of a Mortgage Loan that is made by the Mortgagor.
Program Guide: The Residential Funding Seller Guide for mortgage
collateral sellers that participate in Residential Funding's standard mortgage
programs, and Residential Funding's Servicing Guide and any other subservicing
arrangements which Residential Funding has arranged to accommodate the servicing
of the Mortgage Loans.
Purchase Price: With respect to any Mortgage Loan (or REO Property)
required to be or otherwise purchased on any date pursuant to Section 2.02,
2.03, 2.04 or 4.07, an amount equal to the sum of (i) 100% of the Stated
Principal Balance thereof plus the principal portion of any related unreimbursed
Advances and (ii) unpaid accrued interest at the Adjusted Mortgage Rate (or
Modified Net Mortgage Rate plus the rate per annum at which the Servicing Fee is
calculated in the case of a Modified Mortgage Loan) (or at the Net Mortgage Rate
(or Modified Net Mortgage Rate in the case of a Modified Mortgage Loan)), in the
case of a purchase made by the Master Servicer) on the Stated Principal Balance
thereof to, but not including, the first day of the month following the month of
purchase from the Due Date to which interest was last paid by the Mortgagor.
Qualified Insurer: A mortgage guaranty insurance company duly qualified
as such under the laws of the state of its principal place of business and each
state having jurisdiction over such insurer in connection with the insurance
policy issued by such insurer, duly authorized and licensed in such states to
transact a mortgage guaranty insurance business in such states and to write the
insurance provided by the insurance policy issued by it, approved as a FNMA- or
FHLMC-approved mortgage insurer or having a claims paying ability rating of at
least "AA" or equivalent rating by a nationally recognized statistical rating
organization. Any replacement insurer with respect to a Mortgage Loan must have
at least as high a claims paying ability rating as the insurer it replaces had
on the Closing Date.
Qualified Substitute Mortgage Loan: A Mortgage Loan substituted by
Residential Funding or the Depositor for a Deleted Mortgage Loan which must, on
the date of such substitution, as confirmed in an Officers' Certificate
delivered to the Trustee, (i) have an outstanding principal balance, after
deduction of the principal portion of the monthly payment due in the month of
substitution (or in the case of a substitution of more than one Mortgage Loan
for a Deleted Mortgage Loan, an aggregate outstanding principal balance, after
such deduction), not in excess of the Stated Principal Balance of the Deleted
Mortgage Loan (the amount of any shortfall to be deposited by Residential
Funding, in the Custodial Account in the month of substitution); (ii) have a
Mortgage Rate and a Net Mortgage Rate no lower than and not more than 1% per
annum higher than the Mortgage Rate and Net Mortgage Rate, respectively, of the
Deleted Mortgage Loan as of the date of substitution; (iii) have a Loan-to-Value
Ratio at the time of substitution no higher than that of the Deleted Mortgage
Loan at the time of substitution; (iv) have a remaining term to stated maturity
not
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greater than (and not more than one year less than) that of the Deleted Mortgage
Loan; and (v) comply with each representation and warranty set forth in Sections
2.03 and 2.04 hereof and Section 4 of the Assignment Agreement.
Notwithstanding any other provisions herein, (x) with respect to any
Qualified Substitute Mortgage Loan substituted for a Deleted Mortgage Loan which
was a Discount Mortgage Loan, such Qualified Substitute Mortgage Loan shall be
deemed to be a Discount Mortgage Loan and to have a Discount Fraction equal to
the Discount Fraction of the Deleted Mortgage Loan and (y) in the event that the
"Pool Strip Rate" of any Qualified Substitute Mortgage Loan as calculated
pursuant to the definition of "Pool Strip Rate" is greater than the Pool Strip
Rate of the related Deleted Mortgage Loan
(i) the Pool Strip Rate of such Qualified Substitute Mortgage Loan
shall be equal to the Pool Strip Rate of the related Deleted
Mortgage Loan for purposes of calculating the Pass-Through
Rate on the Class A-I-IO Certificates and Class A-IO
Certificates and
(ii) the excess of the Pool Strip Rate on such Qualified Substitute
Mortgage Loan as calculated pursuant to the definition of
"Pool Strip Rate" over the Pool Strip Rate on the related
Deleted Mortgage Loan shall be payable to the Class R
Certificates pursuant to Section 4.02 hereof.
Rating Agency: Standard & Poor's and Fitch. If any agency or a
successor is no longer in existence, "Rating Agency" shall be such statistical
credit rating agency, or other comparable Person, designated by the Depositor,
notice of which designation shall be given to the Trustee and the Master
Servicer.
Realized Loss: With respect to each Mortgage Loan (or REO Property) as
to which a Cash Liquidation or REO Disposition has occurred, an amount (not less
than zero) equal to (i) the Stated Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loan (or
REO Property) as of the date of Cash Liquidation or REO Disposition, plus (ii)
interest (and REO Imputed Interest, if any) at the Net Mortgage Rate, from the
Due Date as to which interest was last paid or advanced to Certificateholders up
to the last day of the month in which the Cash Liquidation (or REO Disposition)
occurred on the Stated Principal Balance of such Mortgage Loan (or REO Property)
outstanding during each Due Period that such interest was not paid or advanced,
minus (iii) the proceeds, if any, received during the month in which such Cash
Liquidation (or REO Disposition) occurred, to the extent applied as recoveries
of interest at the Net Mortgage Rate, and to principal of the Mortgage Loan, net
of the portion thereof reimbursable to the Master Servicer or any Subservicer
with respect to related Advances or expenses as to which the Master Servicer or
Subservicer is entitled to reimbursement thereunder but which have not been
previously reimbursed. With respect to each Mortgage Loan which is the subject
of a Servicing Modification, (a) the amount by which the interest portion of a
Monthly Payment or the principal balance of such Mortgage Loan was reduced, and
(b) any such amount with respect to a Monthly Payment that was or would have
been due in the month immediately following the month in which a Principal
Prepayment or the Purchase Price of such Mortgage Loan is received or is deemed
to have been received. With respect to each Mortgage Loan which has become the
subject of a Deficient Valuation, the difference between the principal balance
of the Mortgage Loan outstanding immediately prior to such Deficient Valuation
and the principal
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balance of the Mortgage Loan as reduced by the Deficient Valuation. With respect
to each Mortgage Loan which has become the object of a Debt Service Reduction,
the amount of such Debt Service Reduction. Notwithstanding the above, neither a
Deficient Valuation nor a Debt Service Reduction shall be deemed a Realized Loss
hereunder so long as the Master Servicer has notified the Trustee in writing
that the Master Servicer is diligently pursuing any remedies that may exist in
connection with the representations and warranties made regarding the related
Mortgage Loan and either (A) the related Mortgage Loan is not in default with
regard to payments due thereunder or (B) delinquent payments of principal and
interest under the related Mortgage Loan and any premiums on any applicable
primary hazard insurance policy and any related escrow payments in respect of
such Mortgage Loan are being advanced on a current basis by the Master Servicer
or a Subservicer, in either case without giving effect to any Debt Service
Reduction.
Record Date: With respect to each Distribution Date and each Class of
Certificates, the close of business on the last Business Day of the month next
preceding the month in which the related Distribution Date occurs.
Regular Certificates: The Class A Certificates, Class M Certificates
and Class B Certificates.
Regular Interest: Any one of the regular interests in the Trust Fund.
Related Classes: As to any Uncertificated REMIC Regular Interest, those
classes of Certificates identified as Related Classes of Certificates to such
Uncertificated REMIC Regular Interest in the definition of Uncertificated REMIC
Regular Interest.
Relief Act: The Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940, as
amended.
REMIC: A "real estate mortgage investment conduit" within the meaning
of Section 860D of the Code.
REMIC Administrator: Residential Funding Corporation. If Residential
Funding Corporation is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to no longer
be able to fulfill its obligations as REMIC Administrator under this Agreement
the Master Servicer or Trustee acting as Master Servicer shall appoint a
successor REMIC Administrator, subject to assumption of the REMIC Administrator
obligations under this Agreement.
REMIC I: The segregated pool of assets subject hereto, constituting a
portion of the primary trust created hereby and to be administered hereunder,
with respect to which a separate REMIC election is to be made (other than with
respect to the items in clause (v) and the proceeds thereof), consisting of: (i)
the Mortgage Loans and the related Mortgage Files; (ii) all payments on and
collections in respect of the Mortgage Loans due after the Cut-off Date as shall
be on deposit in the Custodial Account or in the Certificate Account and
identified as belonging to the Trust Fund, including the proceeds from the
liquidation of Pledged Assets for any Pledged Asset Loan; (iii) property which
secured a Mortgage Loans and which has been acquired for the benefit of the
Certificateholders by foreclosure or deed in lieu of foreclosure; (iv) the
hazard insurance policies and Primary Insurance Policy pertaining to the
Mortgage Loans, if any, and the Pledged Assets with respect to each Pledged
Asset Loan; and (v) all proceeds of clauses (i) through (iv) above.
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REMIC I Accrued Interest: With respect to each Distribution Date, as to
any REMIC I Regular Interest, interest accrued during the related Interest
Accrual Period at the related REMIC I Pass-Through Rate on the Uncertificated
Principal Balance or Uncertificated Notional Amount thereof immediately prior to
such Distribution Date. REMIC I Accrued Interest will be calculated on the basis
of a 360-day year, consisting of twelve 30-day months. In each case REMIC I
Accrued Interest on any REMIC I Regular Interest will be reduced by the amount
of: (i) Prepayment Interest Shortfalls on all Mortgage Loans (to the extent not
offset by the Master Servicer with a payment of Compensating Interest as
provided in Section 4.02), (ii) the interest portion (adjusted to the Net
Mortgage Rate) of Realized Losses on all Mortgage Loans (including Excess
Special Hazard Losses, Excess Fraud Losses, Excess Bankruptcy Losses and
Extraordinary Losses), (iii) the interest portion of Advances that were (A)
previously made with respect to a Mortgage Loan or REO Property on all Mortgage
Loans which remained unreimbursed following the Cash Liquidation or REO
Disposition of such Mortgage Loan or REO Property or (B) made with respect to
delinquencies that were ultimately determined to be Excess Special Hazard
Losses, Excess Fraud Losses, Excess Bankruptcy Losses or Extraordinary Losses,
and (iv) any other interest shortfalls, including interest that is not
collectible from the Mortgagor pursuant to the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil
Relief Act of 1940, as amended, or similar legislation or regulations as in
effect from time to time, with all such reductions allocated among all of the
REMIC I Regular Interests in proportion to their respective amounts of REMIC I
Accrued Interest payable on such Distribution Date absent such reductions.
REMIC I Pass-Through Rate: With respect to REMIC I Regular Interest
I-SUB, I-ZZZ, III- SUB and III-ZZZ, 7.125%; with respect to REMIC I Regular
Interest II-SUB and II-ZZZ, 6.500%; with respect to REMIC I Regular Interest
IV-SUB and IV-ZZZ, 8.000%; with respect to REMIC I Regular Interest A-I-PO and
A-PO, 0.000%; with respect to each REMIC I IO-I Regular Interest, the Pool Strip
Rate for the related Non-Discount Mortgage Loan in Loan Group I; and with
respect to each REMIC I IO Regular Interest, the Pool Strip Rate for the related
Non-Discount Mortgage Loan in each of Loan Group II, Loan Group III and Loan
Group IV.
REMIC I Regular Interests: Any of the separate non-certificated
beneficial ownership interests in REMIC I issued hereunder and designated as a
"regular interest" in REMIC I. Each such REMIC I Regular Interest shall accrue
interest at the related REMIC I Pass-Through Rate in effect from time to time,
and shall be entitled to distributions of principal, subject to the terms and
conditions hereof, in an aggregate amount equal to its initial Uncertificated
Principal Balance as set forth in the Preliminary Statement hereto. The
following is a list of the REMIC I Regular Interests: REMIC I Regular Interest
A-I-PO, REMIC I Regular Interest I-SUB, REMIC I Regular Interest I- ZZZ, REMIC I
Regular Interest II-SUB, REMIC I Regular Interest II-ZZZ, REMIC I Regular
Interest III-SUB, REMIC I Regular Interest III-ZZZ, REMIC I Regular Interest
IV-SUB, REMIC I Regular Interest IV-ZZZ, REMIC I Regular Interest A-PO, REMIC I
IO-I Regular Interests and REMIC I IO Regular Interests.
REMIC I Subordinated Balance Ratio: The ratio among the Uncertificated
Principal Balances of each of the REMIC I Regular Interests ending with the
designation "SUB" equal to the ratio among:
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(1) the excess of (x) the aggregate of the Group I Pool Stated Principal Balance
over (y) the aggregate Certificate Principal Balance of the Class A-I-1, Class
A-I-PO, Class R-I and Class R-II Certificates;
(2) the excess of (x) the aggregate of the Group II Pool Stated Principal
Balance over (y) the aggregate of the Certificate Principal Balance of the Class
A-II-1 Certificates and the portion of the Certificate Principal Balance of the
Class A-PO Certificates that relates to the Group II Loans;
(3) the excess of (x) the aggregate of the Group III Pool Stated Principal
Balance over (y) the aggregate of the Certificate Principal Balance of the Class
A-III-1 Certificates and the portion of the Certificate Principal Balance of the
Class A-PO Certificates that relates to the Group III Loans; and
(4) the excess of (x) the aggregate of the Group IV Pool Stated Principal
Balance over (y) the aggregate of the Certificate Principal Balance of the Class
A-IV-1 Certificates and the portion of the Certificate Principal Balance of the
Class A-PO Certificates that relates to the Group IV Loans.
REMIC II: The segregated pool of assets subject hereto, constituting a
portion of the primary trust created hereby and to be administered hereunder,
with respect to which a separate REMIC election is to be made, consisting of the
REMIC I Regular Interests.
REMIC Provisions: Provisions of the federal income tax law relating to
real estate mortgage investment conduits, which appear at Sections 860A through
860G of Subchapter M of Chapter 1 of the Code, and related provisions, and
temporary and final regulations (or, to the extent not inconsistent with such
temporary or final regulations, proposed regulations) and published rulings,
notices and announcements promulgated thereunder, as the foregoing may be in
effect from time to time.
REO Acquisition: The acquisition by the Master Servicer on behalf of
the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders of any REO Property
pursuant to Section 3.14.
REO Disposition: As to any REO Property, a determination by the Master
Servicer that it has received substantially all Insurance Proceeds, Liquidation
Proceeds, REO Proceeds and other payments and recoveries (including proceeds of
a final sale) which the Master Servicer expects to be finally recoverable from
the sale or other disposition of the REO Property.
REO Imputed Interest: As to any REO Property, for any period, an amount
equivalent to interest (at a rate equal to the sum of the Net Mortgage Rate,
that would have been applicable to the related Mortgage Loan had it been
outstanding) on the unpaid principal balance of the Mortgage Loan as of the date
of acquisition thereof for such period.
REO Proceeds: Proceeds, net of expenses, received in respect of any REO
Property (including, without limitation, proceeds from the rental of the related
Mortgaged Property or, with respect to a Cooperative Loan, the related
Cooperative Apartment) which proceeds are required to be deposited into the
Custodial Account only upon the related REO Disposition.
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REO Property: A Mortgaged Property acquired by the Master Servicer
through foreclosure or deed in lieu of foreclosure in connection with a
defaulted Mortgage Loan.
Reportable Modified Mortgage Loan: Any Mortgage Loan that (i) has been
subject to an interest rate reduction, (ii) has been subject to a term extension
or (iii) has had amounts owing on such Mortgage Loan capitalized by adding such
amount to the Stated Principal Balance of such Mortgage Loan; provided, however,
that a Mortgage Loan modified in accordance with clause (i) above for a
temporary period shall not be a Reportable Modified Mortgage Loan if such
Mortgage Loan has not been delinquent in payments of principal and interest for
six months since the date of such modification if that interest rate reduction
is not made permanent thereafter.
Repurchase Event: As defined in the Assignment Agreement.
Repurchase Price: With respect to any Deleted Mortgage Loan to be
replaced by the substitution of one or more Qualified Substitute Mortgage Loans
pursuant to Section 2.03, an amount, calculated by the Master Servicer equal
to:(a) the unpaid principal balance of such Mortgage Loan (or, in the case of
any REO Property, the related Mortgage Loan) (after application of all principal
payments (including prepayments) collected and other principal amounts recovered
on such Mortgage Loan) as of the date of receipt of the Repurchase Price or the
date of substitution, as the case may be, hereunder; plus(b) unpaid interest
accrued on such Mortgage Loan or Mortgage Loan related to an REO Property, as
applicable, at the related Mortgage Rate (after application of all interest
payments collected and other amounts recovered (and applied to accrued interest)
on such Mortgage Loan) to, but not including, the Due Date in the Due Period
during which the applicable purchase or substitution occurs; plus(c) any
unreimbursed Servicing Advances, all accrued and unpaid interest on Advances,
any unpaid servicing compensation (other than Master Servicer fees), and any
unpaid or unreimbursed expenses of the Trust Fund allocable to such Mortgage
Loan or Mortgage Loan related to an REO Property, as applicable, as of the date
of receipt of such Repurchase Price or the date of substitution, as the case may
be, hereunder; plus(d) in the event that such Mortgage Loan or Mortgage Loan
related to an REO Property, as applicable, is required to be repurchased or
replaced pursuant to Section 2.03, expenses reasonably incurred or to be
incurred by the Master Servicer or the Trustee in respect of the breach or
defect giving rise to the repurchase or replacement obligation, including any
expenses arising out of the enforcement of the repurchase or replacement
obligation.
Request for Release: A request for release, the forms of which are
attached as Exhibit G hereto, or an electronic request in a form acceptable to
the Custodian.
Required Insurance Policy: With respect to any Mortgage Loan, any
insurance policy which is required to be maintained from time to time under this
Agreement, the Program Guide or the related Subservicing Agreement in respect of
such Mortgage Loan.
Residential Funding: Residential Funding Corporation, a Delaware
corporation, in its capacity as seller of the Mortgage Loans to the Depositor
and any successor thereto.
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Responsible Officer: When used with respect to the Trustee, any officer
of the Corporate Trust Department of the Trustee, including any Senior Vice
President, any Vice President, any Assistant Vice President, any Assistant
Secretary, any Trust Officer or Assistant Trust Officer, or any other officer of
the Trustee with direct responsibility for the administration of this Agreement.
Schedule of Discount Fractions: The schedule setting forth the Discount
Fractions with respect to the Discount Mortgage Loans, attached as Exhibit P
hereof.
Security Agreement: With respect to a Cooperative Loan, the agreement
creating a security interest in favor of the originator in the related
Cooperative Stock.
Senior Accelerated Distribution Percentage: With respect to each Loan
Group and any Distribution Date occurring during the first five years after the
Closing Date, 100%. With respect to any Distribution Date thereafter and each
Loan Group, as follows:
(i) for any Distribution Date during the sixth year after the
Closing Date, the related Senior Percentage for such
Distribution Date plus 70% of the related Subordinate
Percentage for such Distribution Date;
(ii) for any Distribution Date during the seventh year after the
Closing Date, the related Senior Percentage for such
Distribution Date plus 60% of the related Subordinate
Percentage for such Distribution Date;
(iii) for any Distribution Date during the eighth year after the
Closing Date, the related Senior Percentage for such
Distribution Date plus 40% of the related Subordinate
Percentage for such Distribution Date;
(iv) for any Distribution Date during the ninth year after the
Closing Date, the related Senior Percentage for such
Distribution Date plus 20% of the related Subordinate
Percentage for such Distribution Date; and
(v) for any Distribution Date thereafter, the Senior Percentage
for such Distribution Date;
provided, however,
(i) that any scheduled reduction to the related Senior Accelerated
Distribution Percentage described above shall not occur as of
any Distribution Date unless either
(a)(1)(X) the outstanding principal balance of the Mortgage
Loans delinquent 60 days or more averaged over the last six months, as
a percentage of the aggregate outstanding Certificate Principal Balance
of the Subordinate Certificates, is less than 50% or (Y) the
outstanding principal balance of the Mortgage Loans delinquent 60 days
or more averaged over the last six months, as a percentage of the
aggregate outstanding principal balance of all Mortgage Loans averaged
over the last six months, does not exceed 2% and (2) Realized Losses on
the Mortgage Loans to date for such Distribution Date if occurring
during the sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth or tenth year (or any year
thereafter) after the Closing
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Date are less than 30%, 35%, 40%, 45% or 50%, respectively, of the sum
of the Initial Certificate Principal Balances of the Subordinate
Certificates or
(b)(1) the outstanding principal balance of the Mortgage Loans
delinquent 60 days or more averaged over the last six months, as a
percentage of the aggregate outstanding principal balance of all
Mortgage Loans averaged over the last six months, does not exceed 4%
and (2) Realized Losses on the Mortgage Loans to date for such
Distribution Date, if occurring during the sixth, seventh, eighth,
ninth or tenth year (or any year thereafter) after the Closing Date are
less than 10%, 15%, 20%, 25% or 30%, respectively, of the sum of the
Initial Certificate Principal Balances of the Subordinate Certificates,
and
(ii) that for any Distribution Date on which the weighted average
of the Senior Percentages for each Loan Group, weighted on the
basis of the Stated Principal Balances of the Mortgage Loans
in the related Loan Group, exceeds the weighted average of the
initial Senior Percentages (calculated on such basis) for each
Loan Group, each of the Senior Accelerated Distribution
Percentages for such Distribution Date will equal 100%.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, upon the reduction of the Certificate Principal
Balances of the related Senior Certificates (other than the Principal Only
Certificates, if any) to zero, the related Senior Accelerated Distribution
Percentage shall thereafter be 0%.
Senior Certificates: Any of the Group I Senior Certificates, the Group
II Senior Certificates, Group III Senior Certificates or the Group IV Senior
Certificates as the context requires.
Senior Percentage: As of any Distribution Date, the lesser of 100% and
a fraction, expressed as a percentage, the numerator of which is the aggregate
Certificate Principal Balance of (a) the Group I Senior Certificates (other than
the Class A-I-PO Certificates), (b) the Class A-II-1 Certificates, (c) the Class
A-III-1 Certificates, or (d) the Class A-IV-1 Certificates, in each case
immediately prior to such Distribution Date and the denominator of which is the
aggregate Stated Principal Balance of all of the Mortgage Loans (or related REO
Properties) (other than the related Discount Fraction of the Stated Principal
Balance of each related Discount Mortgage Loan) in the related Loan Group
immediately prior to such Distribution Date.
Senior Principal Distribution Amount: As to any Distribution Date, the
lesser of (a) the balance of the related Available Distribution Amount remaining
after the distribution of all amounts required to be distributed pursuant to
Section 4.02(a)(i) and Section 4.02(a)(ii)(X) of this Agreement, and (b) the sum
of the amounts required to be distributed to the related Senior
Certificateholders on such Distribution Date pursuant to Section 4.02(a)(ii)(Y)
of this Agreement.
Servicing Accounts: The account or accounts created and maintained
pursuant to Section 3.08.
Servicing Advances: All customary, reasonable and necessary "out of
pocket" costs and expenses incurred in connection with a default, delinquency or
other unanticipated event by the Master Servicer in the performance of its
servicing obligations, including, but not limited to, the cost
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of (i) the preservation, restoration and protection of a Mortgaged Property or,
with respect to a Cooperative Loan, the related Cooperative Apartment, (ii) any
enforcement or judicial proceedings, including foreclosures, including any
expenses incurred in relation to any such proceedings that result from the
Mortgage Loan being registered on the MERS System, (iii) the management and
liquidation of any REO Property, (iv) any mitigation procedures implemented in
accordance with Section 3.07 and (v) compliance with the obligations under
Sections 3.01, 3.08, 3.12(a) and 3.14, including, if the Master Servicer or any
Affiliate of the Master Servicer provides services such as appraisals and
brokerage services that are customarily provided by Persons other than servicers
of mortgage loans, reasonable compensation for such services.
Servicing Fee: With respect to any Mortgage Loan and Distribution Date,
the fee payable monthly to the Master Servicer in respect of master servicing
compensation that accrues at an annual rate equal to the Servicing Fee Rate
multiplied by the Stated Principal Balance of such Mortgage Loan as of the
related Due Date in the related Due Period, as may be adjusted pursuant to
Section 3.16(e).
Servicing Fee Rate: The sum of the per annum rates designated on the
Mortgage Loan Schedule as the "MSTR SERV FEE" as may be adjusted with respect to
successor Master Servicers as provided in Section 7.02.
Servicing Modification: Any reduction of the interest rate on or the
outstanding principal balance of a Mortgage Loan, any extension of the final
maturity date of a Mortgage Loan, and any increase to the Stated Principal
Balance of a Mortgage Loan by adding to the Stated Principal Balance unpaid
principal and interest and other amounts owing under the Mortgage Loan, in each
case pursuant to a modification of a Mortgage Loan that is in default or, in the
judgment of the Master Servicer, default is reasonably foreseeable in accordance
with Section 3.07(a).
Servicing Officer: Any officer of the Master Servicer involved in, or
responsible for, the administration and servicing of the Mortgage Loans whose
name and specimen signature appear on a list of servicing officers furnished to
the Trustee by the Master Servicer, as such list may from time to time be
amended.
Special Hazard Amount: As of any Distribution Date, an amount equal to
$5,662,061 minus the sum of (i) the aggregate amount of Special Hazard Losses
allocated to the Mortgage Loans through Subordination in accordance with Section
4.05 and (ii) the Adjustment Amount (as defined below) as most recently
calculated. For each anniversary of the Cut-off Date, the "Adjustment Amount"
shall be equal to the amount, if any, by which the amount calculated in
accordance with the preceding sentence (without giving effect to the deduction
of the Adjustment Amount for such anniversary) exceeds the greater of (A) the
greatest of (i) twice the outstanding principal balance of the Mortgage Loan
that has the largest outstanding principal balance on the Distribution Date
immediately preceding such anniversary, (ii) the product of 1.00% multiplied by
the outstanding principal balance of all Mortgage Loans on the Distribution Date
immediately preceding such anniversary and (iii) the aggregate outstanding
principal balance (as of the immediately preceding Distribution Date) of the
Mortgage Loans in any single five-digit California zip code area with the
largest amount of Mortgage Loans by aggregate principal balance as of such
anniversary and (B) the greater of (i) the product of 0.50% multiplied by the
outstanding principal balance of all Mortgage
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Loans on the Distribution Date immediately preceding such anniversary multiplied
by a fraction, the numerator of which is equal to the aggregate outstanding
principal balance (as of the immediately preceding Distribution Date) of all of
the Mortgage Loans secured by Mortgaged Properties located in the State of
California divided by the aggregate outstanding principal balance (as of the
immediately preceding Distribution Date) of all of the Mortgage Loans, expressed
as a percentage, and the denominator of which is equal to 31.42% (which
percentage is equal to the percentage of Mortgage Loans initially secured by
Mortgaged Properties located in the State of California) and (ii) the aggregate
outstanding principal balance (as of the immediately preceding Distribution
Date) of the largest Mortgage Loan secured by a Mortgaged Property located in
the State of California. The Special Hazard Amount may be further reduced by the
Master Servicer (including accelerating the manner in which coverage is reduced)
provided that prior to any such reduction, the Master Servicer shall obtain the
written confirmation from each Rating Agency that such reduction shall not
reduce the rating assigned to the Class A, Class M and Class B Certificates by
such Rating Agency below the lower of the then-current rating or the rating
assigned to such Certificates as of the Closing Date by such Rating Agency.
Special Hazard Loss: Any Realized Loss not in excess of the lesser of
the cost of repair or the cost of replacement of a Mortgaged Property (or, with
respect to a Cooperative Loan, the related Cooperative Apartment) suffered by
such Mortgaged Property (or Cooperative Apartment) on account of direct physical
loss, exclusive of (i) any loss of a type covered by a hazard policy or a flood
insurance policy required to be maintained in respect of such Mortgaged Property
pursuant to Section 3.12(a), except to the extent of the portion of such loss
not covered as a result of any coinsurance provision and (ii) any Extraordinary
Loss.
Standard & Poor's: Standard & Poor's, a division of The XxXxxx-Xxxx
Companies, Inc., or its successor in interest.
Startup Date: The day designated as such pursuant to Article X hereof.
Stated Principal Balance: With respect to any Mortgage Loan or related
REO Property, at any given time, (i) the sum of (a) Cut-off Date Principal
Balance of the Mortgage Loan, plus (b) any amount by which the Stated Principal
Balance of the Mortgage Loan has been increased pursuant to a Servicing
Modification, minus (ii) the sum of (x) the principal portion of the Monthly
Payments due with respect to such Mortgage Loan or REO Property during each Due
Period commencing on the first Due Period after the Cut-Off Date and ending with
the Due Period related to the most recent Distribution Date which were received
or with respect to which an Advance was made, (y) all Principal Prepayments with
respect to such Mortgage Loan or REO Property, and all Insurance Proceeds,
Liquidation Proceeds and REO Proceeds, to the extent applied by the Master
Servicer as recoveries of principal in accordance with Section 3.14 with respect
to such Mortgage Loan or REO Property, in each case which were distributed
pursuant to Section 4.02 or 4.03 on any previous Distribution Date, and (z) any
Realized Loss allocated to Certificateholders with respect thereto for any
previous Distribution Date.
Subclass: With respect to the Class A-I-IO Certificates, any Subclass
thereof issued pursuant to Section 5.01(c). Any such Subclass will represent the
Uncertificated Class A-I-IO REMIC II Regular Interest or Interests specified by
the initial Holder of the Class A-I-IO Certificates pursuant
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to Section 5.01(c). With respect to the Class A-IO Certificates, any Subclass
thereof issued pursuant to Section 5.01(c). Any such Subclass will represent the
Uncertificated Class A-IO REMIC II Regular Interest or Interests specified by
the initial Holder of the Class A-IO Certificates pursuant to Section 5.01(c).
Subordination: The provisions described in Section 4.05 relating to the
allocation of Realized Losses.
Subordinate Certificate: Any one of the Class M Certificates or Class B
Certificates, executed by the Trustee and authenticated by the Certificate
Registrar substantially in the form annexed hereto as Exhibit B and Exhibit C,
respectively.
Subordinate Class Percentage: With respect to any Distribution Date and
any Class of Subordinate Certificates, a fraction, expressed as a percentage,
the numerator of which is the aggregate Certificate Principal Balance of such
Class of Subordinate Certificates immediately prior to such Distribution Date
and the denominator of which is the aggregate Stated Principal Balance of all of
the Mortgage Loans (or related REO Properties) (other than the related Discount
Fraction of the Stated Principal Balance of each Discount Mortgage Loan)
immediately prior to such Distribution Date.
Subordinate Percentage: As of any Distribution Date, 100% minus the
related Senior Percentage as of such Distribution Date.
Subordinate Principal Distribution Amount: With respect to any
Distribution Date and each Class of Subordinate Certificates, (a) the sum of (i)
the product of (x) the related Subordinate Class Percentage for such Class and
(y) the aggregate of the amounts calculated for such Distribution Date under
clauses (1), (2) and (3) of Section 4.02(a)(ii)(Y)(A) of this Agreement (without
giving effect to the related Senior Percentage), to the extent not payable to
the related Senior Certificates; (ii) such Class's pro rata share, based on the
Certificate Principal Balance of each Class of Subordinate Certificates then
outstanding, of the principal collections described in Section
4.02(a)(ii)(Y)(B)(b) of this Agreement (without giving effect to the related
Senior Accelerated Distribution Percentage) to the extent such collections are
not otherwise distributed to the related Senior Certificates; (iii) the product
of (x) the related Prepayment Distribution Percentage and (y) the aggregate of
all Principal Prepayments in Full received in the related Prepayment Period and
Curtailments received in the preceding calendar month (other than the related
Discount Fraction of such Principal Prepayments in Full and Curtailments with
respect to a Discount Mortgage Loan) to the extent not payable to the related
Senior Certificates; (iv) if such Class is the Class of Subordinate Certificates
with the Highest Priority, any Excess Subordinate Principal Amount for such
Distribution Date; and (v) any amounts described in clauses (i), (ii) and (iii)
as determined for any previous Distribution Date, that remain undistributed to
the extent that such amounts are not attributable to Realized Losses which have
been allocated to a Class of Subordinate Certificates minus (b) the sum of (i)
with respect to the Class of Subordinate Certificates with the Lowest Priority,
any Excess Subordinate Principal Amount for such Distribution Date; provided,
however, that the Subordinate Principal Distribution Amount for any Class of
Subordinate Certificates on any Distribution Date shall in no event exceed the
outstanding Certificate Principal Balance of such Class of Certificates
immediately prior to such date; and (ii) the Capitalization Reimbursement Amount
for such Distribution Date, other than the
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related Discount Fraction of any portion of that amount related to each Discount
Mortgage Loan, multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the
Subordinate Principal Distribution Amount for such Class of Subordinate
Certificates, without giving effect to this clause (b)(ii), and the denominator
of which is the sum of the principal distribution amounts for all Classes of
Certificates other than the Class A-P Certificates, without giving effect to any
reductions for the Capitalization Reimbursement Amount.
Subserviced Mortgage Loan: Any Mortgage Loan that, at the time of
reference thereto, is subject to a Subservicing Agreement.
Subservicer: Any Person with whom the Master Servicer has entered into
a Subservicing Agreement and who generally satisfied the requirements set forth
in the Program Guide in respect of the qualification of a Subservicer as of the
date of its approval as a Subservicer by the Master Servicer.
Subservicer Advance: Any delinquent installment of principal and
interest on a Mortgage Loan which is advanced by the related Subservicer (net of
its Subservicing Fee) pursuant to the Subservicing Agreement.
Subservicing Account: An account established by a Subservicer in
accordance with Section 3.08.
Subservicing Agreement: The written contract between the Master
Servicer and any Subservicer relating to servicing and administration of certain
Mortgage Loans as provided in Section 3.02, generally in the form of the
servicer contract referred to or contained in the Program Guide or in such other
form as has been approved by the Master Servicer and the Depositor. With respect
to any Pledged Asset Loan subserviced by GMAC Mortgage Corporation, the Addendum
and Assignment Agreement, dated as of November 24, 1998, between the Master
Servicer and GMAC Mortgage Corporation, as such agreement may be amended from
time to time.
Subservicing Fee: As to any Mortgage Loan, the fee payable monthly to
the related Subservicer (or, in the case of a Nonsubserviced Mortgage Loan, to
the Master Servicer) in respect of subservicing and other compensation that
accrues with respect to each Distribution Date at an annual rate equal to the
Subservicing Fee Rate multiplied by the Stated Principal Balance of such
Mortgage Loan as of the related Due Date in the related Due Period.
Subservicing Fee Rate: The per annum rate designated on the Mortgage
Loan Schedule as the "SUBSERV FEE".
Surety: Ambac, or its successors in interest, or such other surety as
may be identified in the Series Supplement.
Tax Returns: The federal income tax return on Internal Revenue Service
Form 1066, U.S. Real Estate Mortgage Investment Conduit Income Tax Return,
including Schedule Q thereto, Quarterly Notice to Residual Interest Holders of
REMIC Taxable Income or Net Loss Allocation,
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or any successor forms, to be filed on behalf of REMIC I and REMIC II due to
their classification as REMICs under the REMIC Provisions, together with any and
all other information, reports or returns that may be required to be furnished
to the Certificateholders or filed with the Internal Revenue Service or any
other governmental taxing authority under any applicable provisions of federal,
state or local tax laws.
Transfer: Any direct or indirect transfer, sale, pledge, hypothecation
or other form of assignment of any Ownership Interest in a Certificate.
Transferee: Any Person who is acquiring by Transfer any Ownership
Interest in a Certificate.
Transferor: Any Person who is disposing by Transfer of any Ownership
Interest in a Certificate.
Trust Fund: Collectively, the assets of REMIC I and REMIC II.
Uniform Single Attestation Program for Mortgage Bankers: The Uniform
Single Attestation Program for Mortgage Bankers, as published by the Mortgage
Bankers Association of America and effective with respect to fiscal periods
ending on or after December 15, 1995.
Uncertificated Accrued Interest: With respect to each Distribution
Date, as to each Uncertificated Class A-I-IO REMIC II Regular Interest or
Uncertificated Class A-IO REMIC II Regular Interest, an amount equal to the
aggregate amount of Accrued Certificate Interest that would result under the
terms of the definition thereof with respect to the Class A-I-IO Certificates or
Class A-IO Certificates, as the case may be, or the related Subclass, if the
Pass-Through Rate on such Certificate or Subclass were equal to the related
Uncertificated Pass-Through Rate and the notional amount of such Certificate or
Subclass were equal to the related Uncertificated Notional Amount, and any
reduction in the amount of Accrued Certificate Interest resulting from the
allocation of Prepayment Interest Shortfalls, Realized Losses or other amounts
to the Class A-I-IO Certificates or Class A-IO Certificates, as the case may be,
pursuant to Section 4.05 hereof shall be allocated to the Uncertificated Class
A-I-IO REMIC II Regular Interests or Uncertificated Class A-IO REMIC II Regular
Interests, respectively, in each case pro rata in accordance with the amount of
interest accrued with respect to each related Uncertificated Class A-I-IO REMIC
II Regular Interest or Uncertificated Class A-IO REMIC II Regular Interest, as
the case may be, and such Distribution Date.
Uncertificated Class A-I-IO REMIC II Regular Interests: The 115
uncertificated partial undivided beneficial ownership interests in the Trust
Fund, relating to each Non-Discount Mortgage Loan in Loan Group I having a Net
Mortgage Rate greater than 7.125%, identified on the related Mortgage Loan
Schedule, each having no principal balance, and each bearing interest at a per
annum rate equal to the related Pool Strip Rate on a notional balance equal to
the Stated Principal Balance of the related Non-Discount Mortgage Loan.
Uncertificated Class A-IO REMIC II Regular Interests: The 654
uncertificated partial undivided beneficial ownership interests in the Trust
Fund, relating to each Non-Discount Mortgage Loan in Loan Group II, Loan Group
III and Loan Group IV having a Net Mortgage Rate greater than
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6.500%, 7.125% and 8.000%, respectively, identified on the related Mortgage Loan
Schedule, each having no principal balance, and each bearing interest at a per
annum rate equal to the related Pool Strip Rate on a notional balance equal to
the Stated Principal Balance of the related Non-Discount Mortgage Loan.
Uncertificated Notional Amount: With respect to each REMIC I IO-I
Regular Interest, an amount equal to the aggregate Stated Principal Balance of
the related Non-Discount Mortgage Loan in Loan Group I. With respect to each
REMIC I IO Regular Interest, an amount equal to the aggregate Stated Principal
Balance of the related Non-Discount Mortgage Loan in Loan Group II, Loan Group
III and Loan Group IV. With respect to each Uncertificated Class A-I-IO REMIC II
Regular Interest, the Uncertificated Notional Amount of the related REMIC I IO-I
Regular Interest.. With respect to each Uncertificated Class A-IO REMIC II
Regular Interest, the Uncertificated Notional Amount of the related REMIC I IO
Regular Interest.
Uncertificated Pass-Through Rate: With respect to each Uncertificated
Class A-I-IO REMIC II Regular Interest or Uncertificated Class A-IO REMIC II
Regular Interest, a per annum rate equal to the Pool Strip Rate with respect to
the related Mortgage Loan.
Uncertificated Principal Balance: With respect to each REMIC I Regular
Interest on any date of determination, the amount set forth in the Preliminary
Statement hereto minus the sum of (x) the aggregate of all amounts previously
deemed distributed with respect to such interest and applied to reduce the
Uncertificated Principal Balance thereof pursuant to Section 10.04 and (y) the
aggregate of all reductions in Certificate Principal Balance deemed to have
occurred in connection with Realized Losses that were previously deemed
allocated to the Uncertificated Principal Balance of such REMIC I Regular
Interest pursuant to Section 10.04.
Uncertificated REMIC Regular Interest Distribution Amount: With respect
to any Distribution Date, the sum of the amounts deemed to be distributed on the
Uncertificated REMIC Regular Interest for such Distribution Date pursuant to
Section 10.05(a).
Uncertificated REMIC Regular Interests: The Uncertificated Class A-I-IO
REMIC II Regular Interests and the Uncertificated Class A-IO REMIC II Regular
Interests.
Uninsured Cause: Any cause of damage to property subject to a Mortgage
such that the complete restoration of such property is not fully reimbursable by
the hazard insurance policies.
United States Person: A citizen or resident of the United States, a
corporation, partnership or other entity (treated as a corporation or
partnership for United States federal income tax purposes) created or organized
in, or under the laws of, the United States, any state thereof, or the District
of Columbia (except in the case of a partnership, to the extent provided in
Treasury regulations) provided that, for purposes solely of the restrictions on
the transfer of Class R Certificates, no partnership or other entity treated as
a partnership for United States federal income tax purposes shall be treated as
a United States Person unless all persons that own an interest in such
partnership either directly or through any entity that is not a corporation for
United States federal income tax purposes are required by the applicable
operative agreement to be United States Persons, or an estate that is
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described in Section 7701(a)(30)(D) of the Code, or a trust that is described in
Section 7701(a)(30)(E) of the Code.
VA: The Veterans Administration, or its successor.
Voting Rights: The portion of the voting rights of all of the
Certificates which is allocated to any Certificate. 97.00% of all of the Voting
Rights shall be allocated among Holders of the Class A Certificates (other than
the Interest Only Certificates), the Class M Certificates and the Class B
Certificates, in proportion to the outstanding Certificate Principal Balances of
their respective Certificates; 1% of all of the Voting Rights shall be allocated
among Holders of the Class A-I-IO Certificates; 1% of all of the Voting Rights
shall be allocated among Holders of the Class A-IO Certificates; and 0.5% and
0.5% of all of the Voting Rights shall be allocated among the Holders of the
Class R-I Certificates and Class R-II Certificates, respectively, in each case
to be allocated among the Certificates of such Class in accordance with their
respective Percentage Interest.
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ARTICLE II
CONVEYANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS;
ORIGINAL ISSUANCE OF CERTIFICATES
Section 2.01. Conveyance of Mortgage Loans.
(a) The Depositor, concurrently with the execution and delivery hereof,
does hereby assign to the Trustee without recourse all the right, title and
interest of the Depositor in and to (i) the Mortgage Loans, including all
interest and principal received on or with respect to the Mortgage Loans after
the Cut-off Date; and (ii) all proceeds of the foregoing.
(b) In connection with such assignment, and contemporaneously with the
delivery of this Agreement, and except as set forth in Section 2.01(c) below,
the Depositor does hereby deliver to, and deposit with, the Trustee, or to and
with one or more Custodians, as the duly appointed agent or agents of the
Trustee for such purpose, the following documents or instruments (or copies
thereof as permitted by this Section)
(I) with respect to each Mortgage Loan so assigned (other than a
Cooperative Loan):
(i) The original Mortgage Note, endorsed without recourse to
the order of the Trustee and showing an unbroken chain of endorsements
from the originator thereof to the Person endorsing it to the Trustee,
or with respect to any Destroyed Mortgage Note, an original lost note
affidavit from the related Seller or Residential Funding stating that
the original Mortgage Note was lost, misplaced or destroyed, together
with a copy of the related Mortgage Note;
(ii) The original Mortgage, noting the presence of the MIN of
the Mortgage Loan and language indicating that the Mortgage Loan is a
MOM Loan if the Mortgage Loan is a MOM Loan, with evidence of recording
thereon or, if the original Mortgage has not yet been returned from the
public recording office, a copy of the original Mortgage with evidence
of recording indicated thereon;
(iii) Unless the Mortgage Loan is registered on the MERS(R)
System, the Assignment (which may be included in one or more blanket
assignments if permitted by applicable law) of the Mortgage to the
Trustee with evidence of recording indicated thereon or a copy of such
assignment with evidence of recording indicated thereon;
(iv) The original recorded assignment or assignments of the
Mortgage showing an unbroken chain of title from the originator to the
Person assigning it to the Trustee (or to MERS, if the Mortgage Loan is
registered on the MERS(R) System and noting the presence of a MIN) with
evidence of recordation noted thereon or attached thereto, or a copy of
such assignment or assignments of the Mortgage with evidence of
recording indicated thereon;
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(v) The original of each modification, assumption agreement or
preferred loan agreement, if any, relating to such Mortgage Loan, or a
copy of each modification, assumption agreement or preferred loan
agreement; and
and (II) with respect to each Cooperative Loan so assigned:
(i) The original Mortgage Note, endorsed without recourse to
the order of the Trustee and showing an unbroken chain of endorsements
from the originator thereof to the Person endorsing it to the Trustee,
or with respect to any Destroyed Mortgage Note, an original lost note
affidavit from the related Seller or Residential Funding stating that
the original Mortgage Note was lost, misplaced or destroyed, together
with a copy of the related Mortgage Note;
(ii) A counterpart of the Cooperative Lease and the Assignment
of Proprietary Lease to the originator of the Cooperative Loan with
intervening assignments showing an unbroken chain of title from such
originator to the Trustee;
(iii) The related Cooperative Stock Certificate, representing
the related Cooperative Stock pledged with respect to such Cooperative
Loan, together with an undated stock power (or other similar
instrument) executed in blank;
(iv) The original recognition agreement by the Cooperative of
the interests of the mortgagee with respect to the related Cooperative
Loan;
(v) The Security Agreement;
(vi) Copies of the original UCC-1 financing statement, and any
continuation statements, filed by the originator of such Cooperative
Loan as secured party, each with evidence of recording thereof,
evidencing the interest of the originator under the Security Agreement
and the Assignment of Proprietary Lease;
(vii) Copies of the filed UCC-3 assignments of the security
interest referenced in clause (vi) above showing an unbroken chain of
title from the originator to the Trustee, each with evidence of
recording thereof, evidencing the interest of the originator under the
Security Agreement and the Assignment of Proprietary Lease;
(viii) An executed assignment of the interest of the
originator in the Security Agreement, Assignment of Proprietary Lease
and the recognition agreement referenced in clause (iv) above, showing
an unbroken chain of title from the originator to the Trustee;
(ix) The original of each modification, assumption agreement
or preferred loan agreement, if any, relating to such Cooperative Loan;
and
(x) A duly completed UCC-1 financing statement showing
Residential Funding as debtor, the Depositor as secured party and the
Trustee as assignee and a duly completed UCC-1 financing statement
showing the Depositor as debtor and the Trustee as secured
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party, each in a form sufficient for filing, evidencing the interest of
such debtors in the Cooperative Loans.
The Depositor may, in lieu of delivering the original of the documents
set forth in Section 2.01(b)(I)(ii), (iii), (iv) and (v) and Section
(b)(II)(ii), (iv), (vii), (ix) and (x) (or copies thereof as permitted by
Section 2.01(b)) to the Trustee or the Custodian or Custodians, deliver such
documents to the Master Servicer, and the Master Servicer shall hold such
documents in trust for the use and benefit of all present and future
Certificateholders until such time as is set forth in the next sentence. Within
thirty Business Days following the earlier of (i) the receipt of the original of
all of the documents or instruments set forth in Section 2.01(b)(I)(ii), (iii),
(iv) and (v) and Section (b)(II)(ii), (iv), (vii), (ix) and (x) (or copies
thereof as permitted by such Section) for any Mortgage Loan and (ii) a written
request by the Trustee to deliver those documents with respect to any or all of
the Mortgage Loans then being held by the Master Servicer, the Master Servicer
shall deliver a complete set of such documents to the Trustee or the Custodian
or Custodians that are the duly appointed agent or agents of the Trustee.
(c) In connection with any Mortgage Loan, if the Depositor cannot
deliver the original of the Mortgage, any assignment, modification, assumption
agreement or preferred loan agreement (or copy thereof as permitted by Section
2.01(b)) with evidence of recording thereon concurrently with the execution and
delivery of this Agreement because of (i) a delay caused by the public recording
office where such Mortgage, assignment, modification, assumption agreement or
preferred loan agreement as the case may be, has been delivered for recordation,
or (ii) a delay in the receipt of certain information necessary to prepare the
related assignments, the Depositor shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the
Trustee or the respective Custodian a copy of such Mortgage, assignment,
modification, assumption agreement or preferred loan agreement.
The Depositor shall promptly cause to be recorded in the appropriate
public office for real property records the Assignment referred to in clause
(I)(iii) of Section 2.01(b), except (a) in states where, in the opinion of
counsel acceptable to the Trustee and the Master Servicer, such recording is not
required to protect the Trustee's interests in the Mortgage Loan or (b) if MERS
is identified on the Mortgage or on a properly recorded assignment of the
Mortgage as the mortgagee of record solely as nominee for Residential Funding
and its successors and assigns, and shall promptly cause to be filed the Form
UCC-3 assignment and UCC-1 financing statement referred to in clause (II)(vii)
and (x), respectively, of Section 2.01(b). If any Assignment, Form UCC-3 or Form
UCC-1, as applicable, is lost or returned unrecorded to the Depositor because of
any defect therein, the Depositor shall prepare a substitute Assignment, Form
UCC-3 or Form UCC-1, as applicable, or cure such defect, as the case may be, and
cause such Assignment, Form UCC-3 or Form UCC-1, as applicable, to be recorded
in accordance with this paragraph. The Depositor shall promptly deliver or cause
to be delivered to the Trustee or the respective Custodian such Mortgage or
Assignment, Form UCC-3 or Form UCC-1, as applicable (or copy thereof as
permitted by Section 2.01(b)), with evidence of recording indicated thereon upon
receipt thereof from the public recording office or from the related
Subservicer. In connection with its servicing of Cooperative Loans, the Master
Servicer will use its best efforts to file timely continuation statements with
regard to each financing statement and assignment relating to Cooperative Loans
as to which the related Cooperative Apartment is located outside of the State of
New York.
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If the Depositor delivers to the Trustee or Custodian any Mortgage Note
or Assignment of Mortgage in blank, the Depositor shall, or shall cause the
Custodian to, complete the endorsement of the Mortgage Note and the Assignment
of Mortgage in the name of the Trustee in conjunction with the Interim
Certification issued by the Custodian, as contemplated by Section 2.02.
Any of the items set forth in Sections 2.01(b)(I)(ii), (iii), (iv) and
(v) and (II)(vi) and (vii) and that may be delivered as a copy rather than the
original may be delivered to the Trustee or the Custodian.
In connection with the assignment of any Mortgage Loan registered on
the MERS(R) System, the Depositor further agrees that it will cause, at the
Depositor's own expense, within 30 days after the Closing Date, the MERS(R)
System to indicate that such Mortgage Loans have been assigned by the Depositor
to the Trustee in accordance with this Agreement for the benefit of the
Certificateholders by including (or deleting, in the case of Mortgage Loans
which are repurchased in accordance with this Agreement) in such computer files
(a) the code in the field which identifies the specific Trustee and (b) the code
in the field "Pool Field" which identifies the series of the Certificates issued
in connection with such Mortgage Loans. The Depositor further agrees that it
will not, and will not permit the Master Servicer to, and the Master Servicer
agrees that it will not, alter the codes referenced in this paragraph with
respect to any Mortgage Loan during the term of this Agreement unless and until
such Mortgage Loan is repurchased in accordance with the terms of this
Agreement.
(d) Residential Funding hereby assigns to the Trustee its security
interest in and to any Pledged Assets, its right to receive amounts due or to
become due in respect of any Pledged Assets pursuant to the related Subservicing
Agreement. With respect to any Pledged Asset Loan, Residential Funding shall
cause to be filed in the appropriate recording office a UCC-3 statement giving
notice of the assignment of the related security interest to the Trust Fund and
shall thereafter cause the timely filing of all necessary continuation
statements with regard to such financing statements.
(e) It is intended that the conveyances by the Depositor to the Trustee
of the Mortgage Loans as provided for in this Section 2.01 be construed as a
sale by the Depositor to the Trustee of the Mortgage Loans for the benefit of
the Certificateholders. Further, it is not intended that any such conveyance be
deemed to be a pledge of the Mortgage Loans by the Depositor to the Trustee to
secure a debt or other obligation of the Depositor. However, in the event that
the Mortgage Loans are held to be property of the Depositor or of Residential
Funding, or if for any reason this Agreement is held or deemed to create a
security interest in the Mortgage Loans, then it is intended that (a) this
Agreement shall also be deemed to be a security agreement within the meaning of
Articles 8 and 9 of the New York Uniform Commercial Code and the Uniform
Commercial Code of any other applicable jurisdiction; (b) the conveyances
provided for in this Section 2.01 shall be deemed to be (1) a grant by the
Depositor to the Trustee of a security interest in all of the Depositor's right
(including the power to convey title thereto), title and interest, whether now
owned or hereafter acquired, in and to (A) the Mortgage Loans, including (i)
with respect to each Cooperative Loan, the related Mortgage Note, Security
Agreement, Assignment of Proprietary Lease, Cooperative Stock Certificate and
Cooperative Lease, (ii) with respect to each Mortgage Loan other than a
Cooperative Loan, the related Mortgage Note and Mortgage, and (iii) any
insurance policies and all other
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documents in the related Mortgage File, (B) all amounts payable pursuant to the
Mortgage Loans in accordance with the terms thereof and (C) any and all general
intangibles consisting of, arising from or relating to any of the foregoing, and
all proceeds of the conversion, voluntary or involuntary, of the foregoing into
cash, instruments, securities or other property, including without limitation
all amounts from time to time held or invested in the Certificate Account or the
Custodial Account, whether in the form of cash, instruments, securities or other
property and (2) an assignment by the Depositor to the Trustee of any security
interest in any and all of Residential Funding's right (including the power to
convey title thereto), title and interest, whether now owned or hereafter
acquired, in and to the property described in the foregoing clauses (1)(A), (B)
and (C) granted by Residential Funding to the Depositor pursuant to the
Assignment Agreement; (c) the possession by the Trustee, the Custodian or any
other agent of the Trustee of Mortgage Notes or such other items of property as
constitute instruments, money, negotiable documents or chattel paper shall be
deemed to be "possession by the secured party," or possession by a purchaser or
a person designated by such secured party, for purposes of perfecting the
security interest pursuant to the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in the
States of New York and Minnesota and any other applicable jurisdiction; and (d)
notifications to persons holding such property, and acknowledgments, receipts or
confirmations from persons holding such property, shall be deemed notifications
to, or acknowledgments, receipts or confirmations from, financial
intermediaries, bailees or agents (as applicable) of the Trustee for the purpose
of perfecting such security interest under applicable law.
The Depositor and, at the Depositor's direction, Residential Funding
and the Trustee shall, to the extent consistent with this Agreement, take such
reasonable actions as may be necessary to ensure that, if this Agreement were
deemed to create a security interest in the Mortgage Loans and the other
property described above, such security interest would be deemed to be a
perfected security interest of first priority under applicable law and will be
maintained as such throughout the term of this Agreement. Without limiting the
generality of the foregoing, the Depositor shall prepare and deliver to the
Trustee not less than 15 days prior to any filing date and, the Trustee shall
forward for filing, or shall cause to be forwarded for filing, at the expense of
the Depositor, all filings necessary to maintain the effectiveness of any
original filings necessary under the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in any
jurisdiction to perfect the Trustee's security interest in or lien on the
Mortgage Loans as evidenced by an Officers' Certificate of the Depositor,
including without limitation (x) continuation statements, and (y) such other
statements as may be occasioned by (1) any change of name of Residential
Funding, the Depositor or the Trustee (such preparation and filing shall be at
the expense of the Trustee, if occasioned by a change in the Trustee's name),
(2) any change of location of the place of business or the chief executive
office of Residential Funding or the Depositor or (3) any transfer of any
interest of Residential Funding or the Depositor in any Mortgage Loan.
(f) The Depositor agrees that the sale of each Pledged Asset Loan
pursuant to this Agreement will also constitute the assignment, sale,
setting-over, transfer and conveyance to the Trustee, without recourse (but
subject to the Depositor's covenants, representations and warranties
specifically provided herein), of all of the Depositor's obligations and all of
the Depositor's right, title and interest in, to and under, whether now existing
or hereafter acquired as owner of the Mortgage Loan with respect to all money,
securities, security entitlements, accounts, general intangibles, instruments,
documents, certificates of deposit, commodities contracts, and other investment
property and other property of whatever kind or description consisting of,
arising from or related to (i) the Assigned Contracts, (ii) all rights, powers
and remedies of the Depositor as owner
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of such Mortgage Loan under or in connection with the Assigned Contracts,
whether arising under the terms of such Assigned Contracts, by statute, at law
or in equity, or otherwise arising out of any default by the Mortgagor under or
in connection with the Assigned Contracts, including all rights to exercise any
election or option or to make any decision or determination or to give or
receive any notice, consent, approval or waiver thereunder, (iii) all security
interests in and lien of the Depositor as owner of such Mortgage Loan in the
Pledged Amounts and all money, securities, security entitlements, accounts,
general intangibles, instruments, documents, certificates of deposit,
commodities contracts, and other investment property and other property of
whatever kind or description and all cash and non-cash proceeds of the sale,
exchange, or redemption of, and all stock or conversion rights, rights to
subscribe, liquidation dividends or preferences, stock dividends, rights to
interest, dividends, earnings, income, rents, issues, profits, interest payments
or other distributions of cash or other property that is credited to the
Custodial Account, (iv) all documents, books and records concerning the
foregoing (including all computer programs, tapes, disks and related items
containing any such information) and (v) all insurance proceeds (including
proceeds from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or the Securities
Investor Protection Corporation or any other insurance company) of any of the
foregoing or replacements thereof or substitutions therefor, proceeds of
proceeds and the conversion, voluntary or involuntary, of any thereof. The
foregoing transfer, sale, assignment and conveyance does not constitute and is
not intended to result in the creation, or an assumption by the Trustee, of any
obligation of the Depositor, or any other person in connection with the Pledged
Assets or under any agreement or instrument relating thereto, including any
obligation to the Mortgagor, other than as owner of the Mortgage Loan.
Section 2.02. Acceptance by Trustee.
The Trustee acknowledges receipt (or, with respect to Mortgage Loans
subject to a Custodial Agreement, and based solely upon a receipt or
certification executed by the Custodian, receipt by the respective Custodian as
the duly appointed agent of the Trustee) of the documents referred to in Section
2.01(b)(I)(i) and Section 2.01(b)(II)(i), (iii), (v), (vi) and (viii) above
(except that for purposes of such acknowledgment only, a Mortgage Note may be
endorsed in blank and an Assignment of Mortgage may be in blank) and declares
that it, or a Custodian as its agent, and the rights of Residential Funding with
respect to any Pledged Assets assigned to the Trustee pursuant to Section 2.01,
holds and will hold such documents and the other documents constituting a part
of the Mortgage Files delivered to it, or a Custodian as its agent, in trust for
the use and benefit of all present and future Certificateholders. The Trustee or
Custodian (such Custodian being so obligated under a Custodial Agreement)
agrees, for the benefit of Certificateholders, to review each Mortgage File
delivered to it pursuant to Section 2.01(b) within 45 days after the Closing
Date to ascertain that all required documents (specifically as set forth in
Section 2.01(b)), have been executed and received, and that such documents
relate to the Mortgage Loans identified on the Mortgage Loan Schedule, as
supplemented, that have been conveyed to it, and to deliver to the Trustee a
certificate (the "Interim Certification") to the effect that all documents
required to be delivered pursuant to Section 2.01(b) above have been executed
and received and that such documents relate to the Mortgage Loans identified on
the Mortgage Loan Schedule, except for any exceptions listed on Schedule A
attached to such Interim Certification. Upon delivery of the Mortgage Files by
the Depositor or the Master Servicer, the Trustee shall acknowledge receipt (or,
with respect to Mortgage Loans subject to a Custodial Agreement, and based
solely upon a receipt or certification executed by the Custodian, receipt by the
respective Custodian as the duly appointed agent of the
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Trustee) of the documents referred to in Section 2.01(c) above. If the
Custodian, as the Trustee's agent, finds any document or documents constituting
a part of a Mortgage File to be missing or defective, the Trustee shall promptly
so notify the Master Servicer and the Depositor; provided, that if the Mortgage
Loan related to such Mortgage File is listed on Schedule A of the Assignment
Agreement, no notification shall be necessary. Pursuant to Section 2.3 of the
Custodial Agreement, the Custodian will notify the Master Servicer, the
Depositor and the Trustee of any such omission or defect found by it in respect
of any Mortgage File held by it. If such omission or defect materially and
adversely affects the interests in the related Mortgage Loan of the
Certificateholders, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the related
Subservicer of such omission or defect and request that such Subservicer correct
or cure such omission or defect within 60 days from the date the Master Servicer
was notified of such omission or defect and, if such Subservicer does not
correct or cure such omission or defect within such period, that such
Subservicer purchase such Mortgage Loan from the Trust Fund at its Purchase
Price, in either case within 90 days from the date the Master Servicer was
notified of such omission or defect; provided that if the omission or defect
would cause the Mortgage Loan to be other than a "qualified mortgage" as defined
in Section 860G(a)(3) of the Code, any such cure or repurchase must occur within
90 days from the date such breach was discovered; and provided further, that no
cure, substitution or repurchase shall be required if such omission or defect is
in respect of a Mortgage Loan listed on Schedule A of the Assignment Agreement.
The Purchase Price for any such Mortgage Loan shall be deposited or caused to be
deposited by the Master Servicer in the Custodial Account maintained by it
pursuant to Section 3.07 and, upon receipt by the Trustee of written
notification of such deposit signed by a Servicing Officer, the Trustee or any
Custodian, as the case may be, shall release to the Master Servicer the related
Mortgage File and the Trustee shall execute and deliver such instruments of
transfer or assignment prepared by the Master Servicer, in each case without
recourse, as shall be necessary to vest in the Subservicer or its designee, as
the case may be, any Mortgage Loan released pursuant hereto and thereafter such
Mortgage Loan shall not be part of the Trust Fund. In furtherance of the
foregoing, if the Subservicer or Residential Funding that repurchases the
Mortgage Loan is not a member of MERS and the Mortgage is registered on the
MERS(R) System, the Master Servicer, at its own expense and without any right of
reimbursement, shall cause MERS to execute and deliver an assignment of the
Mortgage in recordable form to transfer the Mortgage from MERS to such
Subservicer or Residential Funding and shall cause such Mortgage to be removed
from registration on the MERS(R) System in accordance with MERS' rules and
regulations. It is understood and agreed that the obligation of the Subservicer,
to so cure or purchase any Mortgage Loan as to which a material and adverse
defect in or omission of a constituent document exists shall constitute the sole
remedy respecting such defect or omission available to Certificateholders or the
Trustee on behalf of Certificateholders.
Section 2.03. Representations, Warranties and Covenants of the Master
Servicer and the Depositor.
(a) The Master Servicer hereby represents and warrants to the Trustee
for the benefit of the Certificateholders that:
(i) The Master Servicer is a corporation duly organized,
validly existing and in good standing under the laws governing its
creation and existence and is or will be in compliance with the laws of
each state in which any Mortgaged Property is located to the extent
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necessary to ensure the enforceability of each Mortgage Loan in
accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(ii) The execution and delivery of this Agreement by the
Master Servicer and its performance and compliance with the terms of
this Agreement will not violate the Master Servicer's Certificate of
Incorporation or Bylaws or constitute a material default (or an event
which, with notice or lapse of time, or both, would constitute a
material default) under, or result in the material breach of, any
material contract, agreement or other instrument to which the Master
Servicer is a party or which may be applicable to the Master Servicer
or any of its assets;
(iii) This Agreement, assuming due authorization, execution
and delivery by the Trustee and the Depositor, constitutes a valid,
legal and binding obligation of the Master Servicer, enforceable
against it in accordance with the terms hereof subject to applicable
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and other laws
affecting the enforcement of creditors' rights generally and to general
principles of equity, regardless of whether such enforcement is
considered in a proceeding in equity or at law;
(iv) The Master Servicer is not in default with respect to any
order or decree of any court or any order, regulation or demand of any
federal, state, municipal or governmental agency, which default might
have consequences that would materially and adversely affect the
condition (financial or other) or operations of the Master Servicer or
its properties or might have consequences that would materially
adversely affect its performance hereunder;
(v) No litigation is pending or, to the best of the Master
Servicer's knowledge, threatened against the Master Servicer which
would prohibit its entering into this Agreement or performing its
obligations under this Agreement;
(vi) The Master Servicer will comply in all material respects
in the performance of this Agreement with all reasonable rules and
requirements of each insurer under each Required Insurance Policy;
(vii) No information, certificate of an officer, statement
furnished in writing or report delivered to the Depositor, any
Affiliate of the Depositor or the Trustee by the Master Servicer will,
to the knowledge of the Master Servicer, contain any untrue statement
of a material fact or omit a material fact necessary to make the
information, certificate, statement or report not misleading;
(viii) The Master Servicer has examined each existing, and
will examine each new, Subservicing Agreement and is or will be
familiar with the terms thereof. The terms of each existing
Subservicing Agreement and each designated Subservicer are acceptable
to the Master Servicer and any new Subservicing Agreements will comply
with the provisions of Section 3.02; and
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(ix) The Master Servicer is a member of MERS in good standing,
and will comply in all material respects with the rules and procedures
of MERS in connection with the servicing of the Mortgage Loans that are
registered with MERS.
It is understood and agreed that the representations and warranties set
forth in this Section 2.03(a) shall survive delivery of the respective Mortgage
Files to the Trustee or any Custodian. Upon discovery by either the Depositor,
the Master Servicer, the Trustee or any Custodian of a breach of any
representation or warranty set forth in this Section 2.03(a) which materially
and adversely affects the interests of the Certificateholders in any Mortgage
Loan, the party discovering such breach shall give prompt written notice to the
other parties (any Custodian being so obligated under a Custodial Agreement).
Within 90 days of its discovery or its receipt of notice of such breach, the
Master Servicer shall either (i) cure such breach in all material respects or
(ii) to the extent that such breach is with respect to a Mortgage Loan or a
related document, purchase such Mortgage Loan from the Trust Fund at the
Purchase Price and in the manner set forth in Section 2.02; provided that if the
omission or defect would cause the Mortgage Loan to be other than a "qualified
mortgage" as defined in Section 860G(a)(3) of the Code, any such cure or
repurchase must occur within 90 days from the date such breach was discovered.
The obligation of the Master Servicer to cure such breach or to so purchase such
Mortgage Loan shall constitute the sole remedy in respect of a breach of a
representation and warranty set forth in this Section 2.03(a) available to the
Certificateholders or the Trustee on behalf of the Certificateholders.
(b) The Depositor hereby represents and warrants to the Trustee for the
benefit of the Certificateholders that as of the Closing Date (or, if otherwise
specified below, as of the date so specified): (i) The information set forth in
Exhibits F-1, F-2, F-3 and F-4 hereto with respect to each Mortgage Loan or the
Mortgage Loans, as the case may be, is true and correct in all material respects
at the respective date or dates which such information is furnished; (ii)
Immediately prior to the conveyance of the Mortgage Loans to the Trustee, the
Depositor had good title to, and was the sole owner of, each Mortgage Loan free
and clear of any pledge, lien, encumbrance or security interest (other than
rights to servicing and related compensation) and such conveyance validly
transfers ownership of the Mortgage Loans to the Trustee free and clear of any
pledge, lien, encumbrance or security interest; and (iii) Each Mortgage Loan
constitutes a qualified mortgage under Section 860G(a)(3)(A) of the Code and
Treasury Regulations Section 1.860G-2(a)(1). It is understood and agreed that
the representations and warranties set forth in this Section 2.03(b) shall
survive delivery of the respective Mortgage Files to the Trustee or any
Custodian. Upon discovery by any of the Depositor, the Master Servicer, the
Trustee or any Custodian of a breach of any of the representations and
warranties set forth in this Section 2.03(b) which materially and adversely
affects the interests of the Certificateholders in any Mortgage Loan, the party
discovering such breach shall give prompt written notice to the other parties
(any Custodian being so obligated under a Custodial Agreement); PROVIDED,
HOWEVER, that in the event of a breach of the representation and warranty set
forth in Section 2.03(b)(iii), the party discovering such breach shall give such
notice within five days of discovery. Within 90 days of its discovery or its
receipt of notice of breach, the Depositor shall either (i) cure such breach in
all material respects or (ii) purchase such Mortgage Loan from the Trust Fund at
the Purchase Price and in the manner set forth in Section 2.02; provided that
the Depositor shall have the option to substitute a Qualified Substitute
Mortgage Loan or Loans for such Mortgage Loan if such substitution occurs within
two years following the Closing Date; provided that if the omission or defect
would cause the Mortgage Loan to be other than a "qualified mortgage" as defined
in
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Section 860G(a)(3) of the Code, any such cure, substitution or repurchase must
occur within 90 days from the date such breach was discovered. Any such
substitution shall be effected by the Depositor under the same terms and
conditions as provided in Section 2.04 for substitutions by Residential Funding.
It is understood and agreed that the obligation of the Depositor to cure such
breach or to so purchase or substitute for any Mortgage Loan as to which such a
breach has occurred and is continuing shall constitute the sole remedy
respecting such breach available to the Certificateholders or the Trustee on
behalf of the Certificateholders. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Depositor
shall not be required to cure breaches or purchase or substitute for Mortgage
Loans as provided in this Section 2.03(b) if the substance of the breach of a
representation set forth above also constitutes fraud in the origination of the
Mortgage Loan.
Section 2.04. Representations and Warranties of Residential Funding.
The Depositor, as assignee of Residential Funding under the Assignment
Agreement, hereby assigns to the Trustee for the benefit of the
Certificateholders all of its right, title and interest in respect of the
Assignment Agreement applicable to a Mortgage Loan. Insofar as the Assignment
Agreement relates to the representations and warranties made by Residential
Funding in respect of such Mortgage Loan and any remedies provided thereunder
for any breach of such representations and warranties, such right, title and
interest may be enforced by the Master Servicer on behalf of the Trustee and the
Certificateholders.
Upon the discovery by the Depositor, the Master Servicer, the Trustee
or any Custodian of a breach of any of the representations and warranties made
in the Assignment Agreement in respect of any Mortgage Loan or of any Repurchase
Event which materially and adversely affects the interests of the
Certificateholders in such Mortgage Loan, the party discovering such breach
shall give prompt written notice to the other parties (any Custodian being so
obligated under a Custodial Agreement). The Master Servicer shall promptly
notify Residential Funding of such breach or Repurchase Event and request that
Residential Funding either (i) cure such breach or Repurchase Event in all
material respects within 90 days from the date the Master Servicer was notified
of such breach or Repurchase Event or (ii) purchase such Mortgage Loan from the
Trust Fund at the Purchase Price and in the manner set forth in Section 2.02;
provided that, in the case of a breach or Repurchase Event under the Assignment
Agreement, Residential Funding shall have the option to substitute a Qualified
Substitute Mortgage Loan or Loans for such Mortgage Loan if such substitution
occurs within two years following the Closing Date; provided that if the breach
would cause the Mortgage Loan to be other than a "qualified mortgage" as defined
in Section 860G(a)(3) of the Code, any such cure or substitution must occur
within 90 days from the date the breach was discovered. If the breach of
representation and warranty that gave rise to the obligation to repurchase or
substitute a Mortgage Loan pursuant to Section 5 of the Assignment Agreement was
the representation and warranty set forth in Section 5(B) thereof, then the
Master Servicer shall request that Residential Funding pay to the Trust Fund,
concurrently with and in addition to the remedies provided in the preceding
sentence, an amount equal to any liability, penalty or expense that was actually
incurred and paid out of or on behalf of the Trust Fund, and that directly
resulted from such breach, or if incurred and paid by the Trust Fund thereafter,
concurrently with such payment. In the event that Residential Funding elects to
substitute a Qualified Substitute Mortgage Loan or Loans for a Deleted Mortgage
Loan pursuant to this Section 2.04, Residential Funding shall deliver to the
Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders with respect to such Qualified
Substitute Mortgage
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Loan or Loans, the original Mortgage Note, the Mortgage, an Assignment of the
Mortgage in recordable form, and such other documents and agreements as are
required by Section 2.01, with the Mortgage Note endorsed as required by Section
2.01. No substitution will be made in any calendar month after the Determination
Date for such month. Monthly Payments due with respect to Qualified Substitute
Mortgage Loans in the month of substitution shall not be part of the Trust Fund
and will be retained by the Master Servicer and remitted by the Master Servicer
to Residential Funding on the next succeeding Distribution Date. For the month
of substitution, distributions to the Certificateholders will include the
Monthly Payment due on a Deleted Mortgage Loan for such month and thereafter
Residential Funding shall be entitled to retain all amounts received in respect
of such Deleted Mortgage Loan. The Master Servicer shall amend or cause to be
amended the Mortgage Loan Schedule for the benefit of the Certificateholders to
reflect the removal of such Deleted Mortgage Loan and the substitution of the
Qualified Substitute Mortgage Loan or Loans and the Master Servicer shall
deliver the amended Mortgage Loan Schedule to the Trustee and the Custodian.
Upon such substitution, the Qualified Substitute Mortgage Loan or Loans shall be
subject to the terms of this Agreement and the related Subservicing Agreement in
all respects, and Residential Funding shall be deemed to have made the
representations and warranties with respect to the Qualified Substitute Mortgage
Loan contained in Section 4 of the Assignment Agreement, as of the date of
substitution, and the covenants, representations and warranties set forth in
this Section 2.04, and in Section 2.03 hereof and in Section 4 of the Assignment
Agreement, and the Master Servicer shall be obligated to repurchase or
substitute for any Qualified Substitute Mortgage Loan as to which a Repurchase
Event (as defined in the Assignment Agreement) has occurred pursuant to Section
4 of the Assignment Agreement.
In connection with the substitution of one or more Qualified Substitute
Mortgage Loans for one or more Deleted Mortgage Loans, the Master Servicer will
determine the amount (if any) by which the aggregate principal balance of all
such Qualified Substitute Mortgage Loans as of the date of substitution is less
than the aggregate Stated Principal Balance of all such Deleted Mortgage Loans
(in each case after application of the principal portion of the Monthly Payments
due in the month of substitution that are to be distributed to the
Certificateholders in the month of substitution). Residential Funding shall
deposit the amount of such shortfall into the Custodial Account on the day of
substitution, without any reimbursement therefor. Residential Funding shall give
notice in writing to the Trustee of such event, which notice shall be
accompanied by an Officers' Certificate as to the calculation of such shortfall
and by an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such substitution will not cause
(a) any federal tax to be imposed on the Trust Fund, including without
limitation, any federal tax imposed on "prohibited transactions" under Section
860F(a)(1) of the Code or on "contributions after the startup date" under
Section 860G(d)(1) of the Code or (b) any portion of REMIC I or REMIC II to fail
to qualify as a REMIC at any time that any Certificate is outstanding.
It is understood and agreed that the obligation of the Residential
Funding to cure such breach or purchase (or in the case of Residential Funding
to substitute for) such Mortgage Loan as to which such a breach has occurred and
is continuing and to make any additional payments required under the Assignment
Agreement in connection with a breach of the representation and warranty in
Section 5(B) thereof shall constitute the sole remedy respecting such breach
available to the Certificateholders or the Trustee on behalf of the
Certificateholders. If the Master Servicer is Residential Funding, then the
Trustee shall also have the right to give the notification and require the
purchase or substitution provided for in the second preceding paragraph in the
event of such a
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breach of a representation or warranty made by Residential Funding in the
Assignment Agreement. In connection with the purchase of or substitution for any
such Mortgage Loan by Residential Funding, the Trustee shall assign to
Residential Funding all of the right, title and interest in respect of the
Assignment Agreement applicable to such Mortgage Loan.
Section 2.05. Execution and Authentication of Certificates; Conveyance
of Uncertificated REMIC Regular Interests.
(a) The Trustee acknowledges the assignment to it of the Mortgage Loans
and the delivery of the Mortgage Files to it, or any Custodian on its behalf,
subject to any exceptions noted, together with the assignment to it of all other
assets included in the Trust Fund, receipt of which is hereby acknowledged.
Concurrently with such delivery and in exchange therefor, the Trustee, pursuant
to the written request of the Depositor executed by an officer of the Depositor,
has executed and caused to be authenticated and delivered to or upon the order
of the Depositor the Certificates in authorized denominations which evidence
ownership of the entire Trust Fund.
(b) In exchange for the REMIC I Regular Interests and, concurrently
with the assignment to the Trustee thereof, pursuant to the written request of
the Depositor executed by an officer of the Depositor, the Trustee has executed,
authenticated and delivered to or upon the order of the Depositor, the Regular
Certificates in authorized denominations evidencing (together with the Class
R-II Certificates) the entire beneficial ownership interest in REMIC II.
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ARTICLE III
ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS
Section 3.01. Master Servicer to Act as Servicer.
(a) The Master Servicer shall service and administer the Mortgage Loans
in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the respective Mortgage
Loans, following such procedures as it would employ in its good faith business
judgment and which are normal and usual in its general mortgage servicing
activities, and shall have full power and authority, acting alone or through
Subservicers as provided in Section 3.02, to do any and all things which it may
deem necessary or desirable in connection with such servicing and
administration. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Master
Servicer in its own name or in the name of a Subservicer is hereby authorized
and empowered by the Trustee when the Master Servicer or the Subservicer, as the
case may be, believes it appropriate in its best judgment, to execute and
deliver, on behalf of the Certificateholders and the Trustee or any of them, any
and all instruments of satisfaction or cancellation, or of partial or full
release or discharge, or of consent to assumption or modification in connection
with a proposed conveyance, or of assignment of any Mortgage and Mortgage Note
in connection with the repurchase of a Mortgage Loan and all other comparable
instruments, or with respect to the modification or re-recording of a Mortgage
for the purpose of correcting the Mortgage, the subordination of the lien of the
Mortgage in favor of a public utility company or government agency or unit with
powers of eminent domain, the taking of a deed in lieu of foreclosure, the
completion of judicial or non-judicial foreclosure, the conveyance of a
Mortgaged Property to the related insurer, the acquisition of any property
acquired by foreclosure or deed in lieu of foreclosure, or the management,
marketing and conveyance of any property acquired by foreclosure or deed in lieu
of foreclosure with respect to the Mortgage Loans and with respect to the
Mortgaged Properties.
The Master Servicer further is authorized and empowered by the Trustee,
on behalf of the Certificateholders and the Trustee, in its own name or in the
name of the Subservicer, when the Master Servicer or the Subservicer, as the
case may be, believes it is appropriate in its best judgment to register any
Mortgage Loan on the MERS(R) System, or cause the removal from the registration
of any Mortgage Loan on the MERS(R) System, to execute and deliver, on behalf of
the Trustee and the Certificateholders or any of them, any and all instruments
of assignment and other comparable instruments with respect to such assignment
or re-recording of a Mortgage in the name of MERS, solely as nominee for the
Trustee and its successors and assigns. Any expenses incurred in connection with
the actions described in the preceding sentence shall be borne by the Master
Servicer in accordance with Section 3.16(c), with no right of reimbursement;
provided, that if, as a result of MERS discontinuing or becoming unable to
continue operations in connection with the MERS(R) System, it becomes necessary
to remove any Mortgage Loan from registration on the MERS(R) System and to
arrange for the assignment of the related Mortgages to the Trustee, then any
related expenses shall be reimbursable to the Master Servicer. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, subject to Section 3.07(a), the Master Servicer shall not permit
any modification with respect to any Mortgage Loan that would both constitute a
sale or exchange of such Mortgage Loan within the meaning of Section 1001 of the
Code and any proposed, temporary or final regulations promulgated thereunder
(other than in connection with a proposed conveyance or assumption of such
Mortgage Loan that is
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treated as a Principal Prepayment in Full pursuant to Section 3.13(d) hereof)
and cause any of REMIC I or REMIC II to fail to qualify as a REMIC under the
Code.
The Trustee shall furnish the Master Servicer with any powers of
attorney and other documents necessary or appropriate to enable the Master
Servicer to service and administer the Mortgage Loans. The Trustee shall not be
liable for any action taken by the Master Servicer or any Subservicer pursuant
to such powers of attorney. In servicing and administering any Nonsubserviced
Mortgage Loan, the Master Servicer shall, to the extent not inconsistent with
this Agreement, comply with the Program Guide as if it were the originator of
such Mortgage Loan and had retained the servicing rights and obligations in
respect thereof. In connection with servicing and administering the Mortgage
Loans, the Master Servicer and any Affiliate of the Master Servicer (i) may
perform services such as appraisals and brokerage services that are customarily
provided by Persons other than servicers of mortgage loans, and shall be
entitled to reasonable compensation therefor in accordance with Section 3.10 and
(ii) may, at its own discretion and on behalf of the Trustee, obtain credit
information in the form of a "credit score" from a credit repository.
(b) All costs incurred by the Master Servicer or by Subservicers in
effecting the timely payment of taxes and assessments on the properties subject
to the Mortgage Loans shall not, for the purpose of calculating monthly
distributions to the Certificateholders, be added to the amount owing under the
related Mortgage Loans, notwithstanding that the terms of such Mortgage Loan so
permit, and such costs shall be recoverable to the extent permitted by Section
3.10(a)(ii).
(c) The Master Servicer may enter into one or more agreements in
connection with the offering of pass-through certificates evidencing interests
in one or more of the Certificates providing for the payment by the Master
Servicer of amounts received by the Master Servicer as servicing compensation
hereunder and required to cover certain Prepayment Interest Shortfalls on the
Mortgage Loans, which payment obligation will thereafter be an obligation of the
Master Servicer hereunder.
Section 3.02. Subservicing Agreements Between Master Servicer and
Subservicers; Enforcement of Subservicers' Obligations.
(a) The Master Servicer may continue in effect Subservicing Agreements
entered into by Residential Funding and Subservicers prior to the execution and
delivery of this Agreement, and may enter into new Subservicing Agreements with
Subservicers, for the servicing and administration of all or some of the
Mortgage Loans. Each Subservicer shall be either (i) an institution the accounts
of which are insured by the FDIC or (ii) another entity that engages in the
business of originating or servicing mortgage loans, and in either case shall be
authorized to transact business in the state or states in which the related
Mortgaged Properties it is to service are situated, if and to the extent
required by applicable law to enable the Subservicer to perform its obligations
hereunder and under the Subservicing Agreement, and in either case shall be a
Xxxxxxx Mac, Xxxxxx Xxx or HUD approved mortgage servicer. In addition, any
Subservicer of a Mortgage Loan insured by the FHA must be an FHA-approved
servicer, and any Subservicer of a Mortgage Loan guaranteed by the VA must be a
VA-approved servicer. Each Subservicer of a Mortgage Loan shall be entitled to
receive and retain, as provided in the related Subservicing Agreement and in
Section 3.07, the related Subservicing Fee from payments of interest received on
such Mortgage Loan after payment of all
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amounts required to be remitted to the Master Servicer in respect of such
Mortgage Loan. For any Mortgage Loan that is a Nonsubserviced Mortgage Loan, the
Master Servicer shall be entitled to receive and retain an amount equal to the
Subservicing Fee from payments of interest. Unless the context otherwise
requires, references in this Agreement to actions taken or to be taken by the
Master Servicer in servicing the Mortgage Loans include actions taken or to be
taken by a Subservicer on behalf of the Master Servicer. Each Subservicing
Agreement will be upon such terms and conditions as are generally required by,
permitted by or consistent with the Program Guide and are not inconsistent with
this Agreement and as the Master Servicer and the Subservicer have agreed. With
the approval of the Master Servicer, a Subservicer may delegate its servicing
obligations to third- party servicers, but such Subservicer will remain
obligated under the related Subservicing Agreement. The Master Servicer and a
Subservicer may enter into amendments thereto or a different form of
Subservicing Agreement, and the form referred to or included in the Program
Guide is merely provided for information and shall not be deemed to limit in any
respect the discretion of the Master Servicer to modify or enter into different
Subservicing Agreements; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that any such amendments or
different forms shall be consistent with and not violate the provisions of
either this Agreement or the Program Guide in a manner which would materially
and adversely affect the interests of the Certificateholders.
(b) As part of its servicing activities hereunder, the Master Servicer,
for the benefit of the Trustee and the Certificateholders, shall use its best
reasonable efforts to enforce the obligations of each Subservicer under the
related Subservicing Agreement, to the extent that the non-performance of any
such obligation would have a material and adverse effect on a Mortgage Loan,
including, without limitation, the obligation to purchase a Mortgage Loan on
account of defective documentation, as described in Section 2.02, or on account
of a breach of a representation or warranty, as described in Section 2.04. Such
enforcement, including, without limitation, the legal prosecution of claims,
termination of Subservicing Agreements, as appropriate, and the pursuit of other
appropriate remedies, shall be in such form and carried out to such an extent
and at such time as the Master Servicer would employ in its good faith business
judgment and which are normal and usual in its general mortgage servicing
activities. The Master Servicer shall pay the costs of such enforcement at its
own expense, and shall be reimbursed therefor only (i) from a general recovery
resulting from such enforcement to the extent, if any, that such recovery
exceeds all amounts due in respect of the related Mortgage Loan or (ii) from a
specific recovery of costs, expenses or attorneys fees against the party against
whom such enforcement is directed.
Section 3.03. Successor Subservicers.
The Master Servicer shall be entitled to terminate any Subservicing
Agreement that may exist in accordance with the terms and conditions of such
Subservicing Agreement and without any limitation by virtue of this Agreement;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that in the event of termination of any Subservicing
Agreement by the Master Servicer or the Subservicer, the Master Servicer shall
either act as servicer of the related Mortgage Loan or enter into a Subservicing
Agreement with a successor Subservicer which will be bound by the terms of the
related Subservicing Agreement. If the Master Servicer or any Affiliate of
Residential Funding acts as servicer, it will not assume liability for the
representations and warranties of the Subservicer which it replaces. If the
Master Servicer enters into a Subservicing Agreement with a successor
Subservicer, the Master Servicer shall use reasonable efforts to have the
successor Subservicer assume liability for the representations and warranties
made
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by the terminated Subservicer in respect of the related Mortgage Loans and, in
the event of any such assumption by the successor Subservicer, the Master
Servicer may, in the exercise of its business judgment, release the terminated
Subservicer from liability for such representations and warranties.
Section 3.04. Liability of the Master Servicer.
Notwithstanding any Subservicing Agreement, any of the provisions of
this Agreement relating to agreements or arrangements between the Master
Servicer or a Subservicer or reference to actions taken through a Subservicer or
otherwise, the Master Servicer shall remain obligated and liable to the Trustee
and Certificateholders for the servicing and administering of the Mortgage Loans
in accordance with the provisions of Section 3.01 without diminution of such
obligation or liability by virtue of such Subservicing Agreements or
arrangements or by virtue of indemnification from the Subservicer or the
Depositor and to the same extent and under the same terms and conditions as if
the Master Servicer alone were servicing and administering the Mortgage Loans.
The Master Servicer shall be entitled to enter into any agreement with a
Subservicer for indemnification of the Master Servicer and nothing contained in
this Agreement shall be deemed to limit or modify such indemnification.
Section 3.05. No Contractual Relationship Between Subservicer and
Trustee or Certificateholders.
Any Subservicing Agreement that may be entered into and any other
transactions or services relating to the Mortgage Loans involving a Subservicer
in its capacity as such and not as an originator shall be deemed to be between
the Subservicer and the Master Servicer alone and the Trustee and
Certificateholders shall not be deemed parties thereto and shall have no claims,
rights, obligations, duties or liabilities with respect to the Subservicer in
its capacity as such except as set forth in Section 3.06. The foregoing
provision shall not in any way limit a Subservicer's obligation to cure an
omission or defect or to repurchase a Mortgage Loan as referred to in Section
2.02 hereof.
Section 3.06. Assumption or Termination of Subservicing Agreements by
Trustee.
(a) In the event the Master Servicer shall for any reason no longer be
the master servicer (including by reason of an Event of Default), the Trustee,
its designee or its successor shall thereupon assume all of the rights and
obligations of the Master Servicer under each Subservicing Agreement that may
have been entered into. The Trustee, its designee or the successor servicer for
the Trustee shall be deemed to have assumed all of the Master Servicer's
interest therein and to have replaced the Master Servicer as a party to the
Subservicing Agreement to the same extent as if the Subservicing Agreement had
been assigned to the assuming party except that the Master Servicer shall not
thereby be relieved of any liability or obligations under the Subservicing
Agreement.
(b) The Master Servicer shall, upon request of the Trustee but at the
expense of the Master Servicer, deliver to the assuming party all documents and
records relating to each Subservicing Agreement and the Mortgage Loans then
being serviced and an accounting of amounts collected and held by it and
otherwise use its best efforts to effect the orderly and efficient transfer of
each Subservicing Agreement to the assuming party.
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Section 3.07. Collection of Certain Mortgage Loan Payments; Deposits to
Custodial Account.
(a) The Master Servicer shall make reasonable efforts to collect all
payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans, and
shall, to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and
the terms and provisions of any related Primary Insurance Policy, follow such
collection procedures as it would employ in its good faith business judgment and
which are normal and usual in its general mortgage servicing activities.
Consistent with the foregoing, the Master Servicer may in its discretion (i)
waive any late payment charge or any prepayment charge or penalty interest in
connection with the prepayment of a Mortgage Loan and (ii) extend the Due Date
for payments due on a Mortgage Loan in accordance with the Program Guide,
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the Master Servicer shall first determine that any such
waiver or extension will not impair the coverage of any related Primary
Insurance Policy or materially adversely affect the lien of the related
Mortgage. In the event of any such arrangement, the Master Servicer shall make
timely advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in
accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without
modification thereof by reason of such arrangements unless otherwise agreed to
by the Holders of the Classes of Certificates affected thereby; PROVIDED,
HOWEVER, that no such extension shall be made if any advance would be a
Nonrecoverable Advance. Consistent with the terms of this Agreement, the Master
Servicer may also waive, modify or vary any term of any Mortgage Loan or consent
to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or in any manner
grant indulgence to any Mortgagor if in the Master Servicer's determination such
waiver, modification, postponement or indulgence is not materially adverse to
the interests of the Certificateholders (taking into account any estimated
Realized Loss that might result absent such action), PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the
Master Servicer may not modify materially or permit any Subservicer to modify
any Mortgage Loan, including without limitation any modification that would
change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of any principal or interest
(unless in connection with the liquidation of the related Mortgage Loan or
except in connection with prepayments to the extent that such reamortization is
not inconsistent with the terms of the Mortgage Loan), capitalize any amounts
owing on the Mortgage Loan by adding such amount to the outstanding principal
balance of the Mortgage Loan, or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage
Loan, unless such Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Master
Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable. For purposes of delinquency
calculations, any capitalized Mortgage Loan shall be deemed to be current as of
the date of the related Servicing Modification. No such modification shall
reduce the Mortgage Rate (A) below one-half of the Mortgage Rate as in effect on
the Cut-off Date or (B) below the sum of the rates at which the Servicing Fee,
the Subservicing Fee with respect to such Mortgage Loan accrue. The final
maturity date for any Mortgage Loan shall not be extended beyond the Maturity
Date. Also, the Stated Principal Balance of all Reportable Modified Mortgage
Loans subject to Servicing Modifications (measured at the time of the Servicing
Modification and after giving effect to any Servicing Modification) can be no
more than five percent of the aggregate Cut-off Date Principal Balance of the
Mortgage Loans, unless such limit is increased from time to time with the
consent of the Rating Agencies. In addition, any amounts owing on a Mortgage
Loan added to the outstanding principal balance of such Mortgage Loan must be
fully amortized over the term of such Mortgage Loan, and such amounts may be
added to the outstanding principal balance of a Mortgage Loan only once during
the life of such Mortgage Loan. Also, the addition of such amounts described in
the preceding sentence shall be implemented in accordance with the Program Guide
and may be implemented only by Subservicers that have been
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approved by the Master Servicer for such purpose. In connection with any
Curtailment of a Mortgage Loan, the Master Servicer, to the extent not
inconsistent with the terms of the Mortgage Note and local law and practice, may
permit the Mortgage Loan to be re-amortized such that the Monthly Payment is
recalculated as an amount that will fully amortize the remaining Stated
Principal Amount thereof by the original Maturity Date based on the original
Mortgage Rate; provided, that such reamortization shall not be permitted if it
would constitute a reissuance of the Mortgage Loan for federal income tax
purposes.
(b) The Master Servicer shall establish and maintain a Custodial
Account in which the Master Servicer shall deposit or cause to be deposited on a
daily basis, except as otherwise specifically provided herein, the following
payments and collections remitted by Subservicers or received by it in respect
of the Mortgage Loans subsequent to the Cut-off Date (other than in respect of
principal and interest on the Mortgage Loans due on or before the Cut-off Date):
(i) All payments on account of principal, including Principal
Prepayments made by Mortgagors on the Mortgage Loans and the principal component
of any Subservicer Advance or of any REO Proceeds received in connection with an
REO Property for which an REO Disposition has occurred;
(ii) All payments on account of interest at the Adjusted Mortgage Rate
on the Mortgage Loans, including the interest component of any Subservicer
Advance or of any REO Proceeds received in connection with an REO Property for
which an REO Disposition has occurred;
(iii) Insurance Proceeds, Subsequent Recoveries and Liquidation
Proceeds (net of any related expenses of the Subservicer);
(iv) All proceeds of any Mortgage Loans purchased pursuant to Section
2.02, 2.03, 2.04 or 4.07 and all amounts required to be deposited in connection
with the substitution of a Qualified Substitute Mortgage Loan pursuant to
Section 2.03 or 2.04;
(v) Any amounts received by the Master Servicer in respect of Pledged
Assets; and
(vi) Any amounts required to be deposited pursuant to Section 3.07(c)
or 3.21.
The foregoing requirements for deposit in the Custodial Account shall
be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the
generality of the foregoing, payments on the Mortgage Loans which are not part
of the Trust Fund (consisting of payments in respect of principal and interest
on the Mortgage Loans due on or before the Cut-off Date) and payments or
collections consisting of prepayment charges or late payment charges or
assumption fees may but need not be deposited by the Master Servicer in the
Custodial Account. In the event any amount not required to be deposited in the
Custodial Account is so deposited, the Master Servicer may at any time withdraw
such amount from the Custodial Account, any provision herein to the contrary
notwithstanding. The Custodial Account may contain funds that belong to one or
more trust funds created for mortgage pass-through certificates of other series
and may contain other funds respecting payments on mortgage loans belonging to
the Master Servicer or serviced or master serviced by it on behalf of others.
Notwithstanding such commingling of funds, the Master Servicer shall keep
records that
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accurately reflect the funds on deposit in the Custodial Account that have been
identified by it as being attributable to the Mortgage Loans. With respect to
Insurance Proceeds, Liquidation Proceeds, REO Proceeds, Subsequent Recoveries
and the proceeds of the purchase of any Mortgage Loan pursuant to Sections 2.02,
2.03, 2.04 and 4.07 received in any calendar month, the Master Servicer may
elect to treat such amounts as included in the related Available Distribution
Amount for the Distribution Date in the month of receipt, but is not obligated
to do so. If the Master Servicer so elects, such amounts will be deemed to have
been received (and any related Realized Loss shall be deemed to have occurred)
on the last day of the month prior to the receipt thereof.
(c) The Master Servicer shall use its best efforts to cause the
institution maintaining the Custodial Account to invest the funds in the
Custodial Account attributable to the Mortgage Loans in Permitted Investments
which shall mature not later than the Certificate Account Deposit Date next
following the date of such investment (with the exception of the Amount Held for
Future Distribution) and which shall not be sold or disposed of prior to their
maturities. All income and gain realized from any such investment shall be for
the benefit of the Master Servicer as additional servicing compensation and
shall be subject to its withdrawal or order from time to time. The amount of any
losses incurred in respect of any such investments attributable to the
investment of amounts in respect of the Mortgage Loans shall be deposited in the
Custodial Account by the Master Servicer out of its own funds immediately as
realized.
(d) The Master Servicer shall give written notice to the Trustee and
the Depositor of any change in the location of the Custodial Account and the
location of the Certificate Account prior to the use thereof.
Section 3.08. Subservicing Accounts; Servicing Accounts.
(a) In those cases where a Subservicer is servicing a Mortgage Loan
pursuant to a Subservicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall cause the
Subservicer, pursuant to the Subservicing Agreement, to establish and maintain
one or more Subservicing Accounts which shall be an Eligible Account or, if such
account is not an Eligible Account, shall generally satisfy the requirements of
the Program Guide and be otherwise acceptable to the Master Servicer and each
Rating Agency. The Subservicer will be required thereby to deposit into the
Subservicing Account on a daily basis all proceeds of Mortgage Loans received by
the Subservicer, less its Subservicing Fees and unreimbursed advances and
expenses, to the extent permitted by the Subservicing Agreement. If the
Subservicing Account is not an Eligible Account, the Master Servicer shall be
deemed to have received such monies upon receipt thereof by the Subservicer. The
Subservicer shall not be required to deposit in the Subservicing Account
payments or collections consisting of prepayment charges or late charges or
assumption fees. On or before the date specified in the Program Guide, but in no
event later than the Determination Date, the Master Servicer shall cause the
Subservicer, pursuant to the Subservicing Agreement, to remit to the Master
Servicer for deposit in the Custodial Account all funds held in the Subservicing
Account with respect to each Mortgage Loan serviced by such Subservicer that are
required to be remitted to the Master Servicer. The Subservicer will also be
required, pursuant to the Subservicing Agreement, to advance on such scheduled
date of remittance amounts equal to any scheduled monthly installments of
principal and interest less its Subservicing Fees on any Mortgage Loans for
which payment was not received by the Subservicer. This obligation to advance
with respect to each Mortgage Loan will continue up to
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and including the first of the month following the date on which the related
Mortgaged Property is sold at a foreclosure sale or is acquired by the Trust
Fund by deed in lieu of foreclosure or otherwise. All such advances received by
the Master Servicer shall be deposited promptly by it in the Custodial Account.
(b) The Subservicer may also be required, pursuant to the Subservicing
Agreement, to remit to the Master Servicer for deposit in the Custodial Account
interest at the Adjusted Mortgage Rate (or Modified Net Mortgage Rate plus the
rate per annum at which the Servicing Fee accrues in the case of a Modified
Mortgage Loan) on any Curtailment received by such Subservicer in respect of a
Mortgage Loan from the related Mortgagor during any month that is to be applied
by the Subservicer to reduce the unpaid principal balance of the related
Mortgage Loan as of the first day of such month, from the date of application of
such Curtailment to the first day of the following month. Any amounts paid by a
Subservicer pursuant to the preceding sentence shall be for the benefit of the
Master Servicer as additional servicing compensation and shall be subject to its
withdrawal or order from time to time pursuant to Sections 3.10(a)(iv) and (v).
(c) In addition to the Custodial Account and the Certificate Account,
the Master Servicer shall for any Nonsubserviced Mortgage Loan, and shall cause
the Subservicers for Subserviced Mortgage Loans to, establish and maintain one
or more Servicing Accounts and deposit and retain therein all collections from
the Mortgagors (or advances from Subservicers) for the payment of taxes,
assessments, hazard insurance premiums, Primary Insurance Policy premiums, if
applicable, or comparable items for the account of the Mortgagors. Each
Servicing Account shall satisfy the requirements for a Subservicing Account and,
to the extent permitted by the Program Guide or as is otherwise acceptable to
the Master Servicer, may also function as a Subservicing Account. Withdrawals of
amounts related to the Mortgage Loans from the Servicing Accounts may be made
only to effect timely payment of taxes, assessments, hazard insurance premiums,
Primary Insurance Policy premiums, if applicable, or comparable items, to
reimburse the Master Servicer or Subservicer out of related collections for any
payments made pursuant to Sections 3.11 (with respect to the Primary Insurance
Policy) and 3.12(a) (with respect to hazard insurance), to refund to any
Mortgagors any sums as may be determined to be overages, to pay interest, if
required, to Mortgagors on balances in the Servicing Account or to clear and
terminate the Servicing Account at the termination of this Agreement in
accordance with Section 9.01 or in accordance with the Program Guide. As part of
its servicing duties, the Master Servicer shall, and the Subservicers will,
pursuant to the Subservicing Agreements, be required to pay to the Mortgagors
interest on funds in this account to the extent required by law.
(d) The Master Servicer shall advance the payments referred to in the
preceding subsection that are not timely paid by the Mortgagors or advanced by
the Subservicers on the date when the tax, premium or other cost for which such
payment is intended is due, but the Master Servicer shall be required so to
advance only to the extent that such advances, in the good faith judgment of the
Master Servicer, will be recoverable by the Master Servicer out of Insurance
Proceeds, Liquidation Proceeds or otherwise.
Section 3.09. Access to Certain Documentation and Information Regarding
the Mortgage Loans.
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In the event that compliance with this Section 3.09 shall make any
Class of Certificates legal for investment by federally insured savings and loan
associations, the Master Servicer shall provide, or cause the Subservicers to
provide, to the Trustee, the Office of Thrift Supervision or the FDIC and the
supervisory agents and examiners thereof access to the documentation regarding
the Mortgage Loans required by applicable regulations of the Office of Thrift
Supervision, such access being afforded without charge but only upon reasonable
request and during normal business hours at the offices designated by the Master
Servicer. The Master Servicer shall permit such representatives to photocopy any
such documentation and shall provide equipment for that purpose at a charge
reasonably approximating the cost of such photocopying to the Master Servicer.
Section 3.10. Permitted Withdrawals from the Custodial Account.
(a) The Master Servicer may, from time to time as provided herein, make
withdrawals from the Custodial Account of amounts on deposit therein pursuant to
Section 3.07 that are attributable to the Mortgage Loans for the following
purposes:
(i) to remit to the Trustee for deposit into the Certificate
Account the amounts and in the manner provided for in Section 4.01;
(ii) to reimburse itself or the related Subservicer for
previously unreimbursed Advances, Servicing Advances or expenses made
pursuant to Sections 3.01, 3.08, 3.12(a), 3.14 and 4.04 or otherwise
reimbursable pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, such withdrawal
right being limited to amounts received on particular Mortgage Loans
(including, for this purpose, REO Proceeds, Insurance Proceeds,
Liquidation Proceeds and proceeds from the purchase of a Mortgage Loan
pursuant to Section 2.02, 2.03, 2.04 or 4.07) which represent (A) Late
Collections of Monthly Payments for which any such advance was made in
the case of Subservicer Advances or Advances pursuant to Section 4.04
and (B) late recoveries of the payments for which such advances were
made in the case of Servicing Advances;
(iii) to pay to itself or the related Subservicer (if not
previously retained by such Subservicer) out of each payment received
by the Master Servicer on account of interest on a Mortgage Loan as
contemplated by Sections 3.14 and 3.16, an amount equal to that
remaining portion of any such payment as to interest (but not in excess
of the Servicing Fee and the Subservicing Fee, if not previously
retained) which, when deducted, will result in the remaining amount of
such interest being interest at a rate per annum equal to the Net
Mortgage Rate (or Modified Net Mortgage Rate in the case of a Modified
Mortgage Loan) on the amount specified in the amortization schedule of
the related Mortgage Loan as the principal balance thereof at the
beginning of the period respecting which such interest was paid after
giving effect to any previous Curtailments;
(iv) to pay to itself as additional servicing compensation any
interest or investment income earned on funds deposited in the
Custodial Account that it is entitled to withdraw pursuant to Section
3.07(c);
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(v) to pay to itself as additional servicing compensation any
Foreclosure Profits, and any amounts remitted by Subservicers as
interest in respect of Curtailments pursuant to Section 3.08(b);
(vi) to pay to itself, a Subservicer, Residential Funding, the
Depositor or any other appropriate Person, as the case may be, with
respect to each Mortgage Loan or property acquired in respect thereof
that has been purchased or otherwise transferred pursuant to Section
2.02, 2.03, 2.04, 3.23, 4.07 or 9.01, all amounts received thereon and
not required to be distributed to Certificateholders as of the date on
which the related Stated Principal Balance or Purchase Price is
determined;
(vii) to reimburse itself or the related Subservicer for any
Nonrecoverable Advance or Advances in the manner and to the extent
provided in subsection (c) below, any Advance or Servicing Advance made
in connection with a modification of a Mortgage Loan that is in default
or, in the judgment of the Master Servicer, default is reasonably
foreseeable pursuant to Section 3.07(a), to the extent the amount of
the Advance or Servicing Advance was added to the Stated Principal
Balance of the Mortgage Loan in the preceding calendar month;
(viii) to reimburse itself or the Depositor for expenses
incurred by and reimbursable to it or the Depositor pursuant to Section
3.14(c), 6.03, 10.01 or otherwise;
(ix) to reimburse itself for amounts expended by it (a)
pursuant to Section 3.14 in good faith in connection with the
restoration of property damaged by an Uninsured Cause, and (b) in
connection with the liquidation of a Mortgage Loan or disposition of an
REO Property to the extent not otherwise reimbursed pursuant to clause
(ii) or (viii) above; and
(x) to withdraw any amount deposited in the Custodial Account
that was not required to be deposited therein pursuant to Section 3.07,
including any payoff fees or penalties or any other additional amounts
payable to the Master Servicer or Subservicer pursuant to the terms of
the Mortgage Note.
(b) Since, in connection with withdrawals pursuant to clauses (ii),
(iii), (v) and (vi), the Master Servicer's entitlement thereto is limited to
collections or other recoveries on the related Mortgage Loan, the Master
Servicer shall keep and maintain separate accounting, on a Mortgage Loan by
Mortgage Loan basis, for the purpose of justifying any withdrawal from the
Custodial Account pursuant to such clauses.
(c) The Master Servicer shall be entitled to reimburse itself or the
related Subservicer for any advance made in respect of a Mortgage Loan that the
Master Servicer determines to be a Nonrecoverable Advance by withdrawal from the
Custodial Account of amounts on deposit therein attributable to the Mortgage
Loans on any Certificate Account Deposit Date succeeding the date of such
determination. Such right of reimbursement in respect of a Nonrecoverable
Advance relating to an Advance pursuant to Section 4.04 on any such Certificate
Account Deposit Date shall be limited to an amount not exceeding the portion of
such advance previously paid to Certificateholders (and not theretofore
reimbursed to the Master Servicer or the related Subservicer).
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Section 3.11. Maintenance of Primary Insurance Coverage.
(a) The Master Servicer shall not take, or permit any Subservicer to
take, any action which would result in noncoverage under any applicable Primary
Insurance Policy of any loss which, but for the actions of the Master Servicer
or Subservicer, would have been covered thereunder. To the extent coverage is
available, the Master Servicer shall keep or cause to be kept in full force and
effect each such Primary Insurance Policy until the principal balance of the
related Mortgage Loan secured by a Mortgaged Property is reduced to 80% or less
of the Appraised Value at origination in the case of such a Mortgage Loan having
a Loan-to-Value Ratio at origination in excess of 80%, provided that such
Primary Insurance Policy was in place as of the Cut-off Date and the Master
Servicer had knowledge of such Primary Insurance Policy. The Master Servicer
shall not cancel or refuse to renew any such Primary Insurance Policy applicable
to a Nonsubserviced Mortgage Loan, or consent to any Subservicer canceling or
refusing to renew any such Primary Insurance Policy applicable to a Mortgage
Loan subserviced by it, that is in effect at the date of the initial issuance of
the Certificates and is required to be kept in force hereunder unless the
replacement Primary Insurance Policy for such canceled or non-renewed policy is
maintained with an insurer whose claims-paying ability is acceptable to each
Rating Agency for mortgage pass-through certificates having a rating equal to or
better than the lower of the then-current rating or the rating assigned to the
Certificates as of the Closing Date by such Rating Agency.
(b) In connection with its activities as administrator and servicer of
the Mortgage Loans, the Master Servicer agrees to present or to cause the
related Subservicer to present, on behalf of the Master Servicer, the
Subservicer, if any, the Trustee and Certificateholders, claims to the insurer
under any Primary Insurance Policies, in a timely manner in accordance with such
policies, and, in this regard, to take or cause to be taken such reasonable
action as shall be necessary to permit recovery under any Primary Insurance
Policies respecting defaulted Mortgage Loans. Pursuant to Section 3.07, any
Insurance Proceeds collected by or remitted to the Master Servicer under any
Primary Insurance Policies shall be deposited in the Custodial Account, subject
to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.10.
Section 3.12. Maintenance of Fire Insurance and Omissions and
Fidelity Coverage.
(a) The Master Servicer shall cause to be maintained for each Mortgage
Loan (other than a Cooperative Loan) fire insurance with extended coverage in an
amount which is equal to the lesser of the principal balance owing on such
Mortgage Loan (together with the principal balance of any mortgage loan secured
by a lien that is senior to the Mortgage Loan) or 100 percent of the insurable
value of the improvements; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that such coverage may not be less
than the minimum amount required to fully compensate for any loss or damage on a
replacement cost basis. To the extent it may do so without breaching the related
Subservicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall replace any Subservicer that
does not cause such insurance, to the extent it is available, to be maintained.
The Master Servicer shall also cause to be maintained on property acquired upon
foreclosure, or deed in lieu of foreclosure, of any Mortgage Loan (other than a
Cooperative Loan), fire insurance with extended coverage in an amount which is
at least equal to the amount necessary to avoid the application of any
co-insurance clause contained in the related hazard insurance policy. Pursuant
to Section 3.07, any amounts collected by the Master Servicer under any such
policies (other than amounts to be applied to the restoration or repair of the
related Mortgaged Property or
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property thus acquired or amounts released to the Mortgagor in accordance with
the Master Servicer's normal servicing procedures) shall be deposited in the
Custodial Account, subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.10. Any cost
incurred by the Master Servicer in maintaining any such insurance shall not, for
the purpose of calculating monthly distributions to Certificateholders, be added
to the amount owing under the Mortgage Loan, notwithstanding that the terms of
the Mortgage Loan so permit. Such costs shall be recoverable by the Master
Servicer out of related late payments by the Mortgagor or out of Insurance
Proceeds and Liquidation Proceeds to the extent permitted by Section 3.10. It is
understood and agreed that no earthquake or other additional insurance is to be
required of any Mortgagor or maintained on property acquired in respect of a
Mortgage Loan other than pursuant to such applicable laws and regulations as
shall at any time be in force and as shall require such additional insurance.
Whenever the improvements securing a Mortgage Loan (other than a Cooperative
Loan) are located at the time of origination of such Mortgage Loan in a
federally designated special flood hazard area, the Master Servicer shall cause
flood insurance (to the extent available) to be maintained in respect thereof.
Such flood insurance shall be in an amount equal to the lesser of (i) the amount
required to compensate for any loss or damage to the Mortgaged Property on a
replacement cost basis and (ii) the maximum amount of such insurance available
for the related Mortgaged Property under the national flood insurance program
(assuming that the area in which such Mortgaged Property is located is
participating in such program).In the event that the Master Servicer shall
obtain and maintain a blanket fire insurance policy with extended coverage
insuring against hazard losses on all of the Mortgage Loans, it shall
conclusively be deemed to have satisfied its obligations as set forth in the
first sentence of this Section 3.12(a), it being understood and agreed that such
policy may contain a deductible clause, in which case the Master Servicer shall,
in the event that there shall not have been maintained on the related Mortgaged
Property a policy complying with the first sentence of this Section 3.12(a) and
there shall have been a loss which would have been covered by such policy,
deposit in the Certificate Account the amount not otherwise payable under the
blanket policy because of such deductible clause. Any such deposit by the Master
Servicer shall be made on the Certificate Account Deposit Date next preceding
the Distribution Date which occurs in the month following the month in which
payments under any such policy would have been deposited in the Custodial
Account. In connection with its activities as administrator and servicer of the
Mortgage Loans, the Master Servicer agrees to present, on behalf of itself, the
Trustee and Certificateholders, claims under any such blanket policy.
(b) The Master Servicer shall obtain and maintain at its own expense
and keep in full force and effect throughout the term of this Agreement a
blanket fidelity bond and an errors and omissions insurance policy covering the
Master Servicer's officers and employees and other persons acting on behalf of
the Master Servicer in connection with its activities under this Agreement. The
amount of coverage shall be at least equal to the coverage that would be
required by Xxxxxx Xxx or Xxxxxxx Mac, whichever is greater, with respect to the
Master Servicer if the Master Servicer were servicing and administering the
Mortgage Loans for Xxxxxx Mae or Xxxxxxx Mac. In the event that any such bond or
policy ceases to be in effect, the Master Servicer shall obtain a comparable
replacement bond or policy from an issuer or insurer, as the case may be,
meeting the requirements, if any, of the Program Guide and acceptable to the
Depositor. Coverage of the Master Servicer under a policy or bond obtained by an
Affiliate of the Master Servicer and providing the coverage required by this
Section 3.12(b) shall satisfy the requirements of this Section 3.12(b).
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Section 3.13. Enforcement of Due-on-Sale Clauses; Assumption and
Modification Agreements; Certain Assignments.
(a) When any Mortgaged Property is conveyed by the Mortgagor, the
Master Servicer or Subservicer, to the extent it has knowledge of such
conveyance, shall enforce any due-on-sale clause contained in any Mortgage Note
or Mortgage, to the extent permitted under applicable law and governmental
regulations, but only to the extent that such enforcement will not adversely
affect or jeopardize coverage under any Required Insurance Policy.
Notwithstanding the foregoing: (i) the Master Servicer shall not be deemed to be
in default under this Section 3.13(a) by reason of any transfer or assumption
which the Master Servicer is restricted by law from preventing; and (ii) if the
Master Servicer determines that it is reasonably likely that any Mortgagor will
bring, or if any Mortgagor does bring, legal action to declare invalid or
otherwise avoid enforcement of a due-on- sale clause contained in any Mortgage
Note or Mortgage, the Master Servicer shall not be required to enforce the
due-on-sale clause or to contest such action.
(b) Subject to the Master Servicer's duty to enforce any due-on-sale
clause to the extent set forth in Section 3.13(a), in any case in which a
Mortgaged Property is to be conveyed to a Person by a Mortgagor, and such Person
is to enter into an assumption or modification agreement or supplement to the
Mortgage Note or Mortgage which requires the signature of the Trustee, or if an
instrument of release signed by the Trustee is required releasing the Mortgagor
from liability on the Mortgage Loan, the Master Servicer is authorized, subject
to the requirements of the sentence next following, to execute and deliver, on
behalf of the Trustee, the assumption agreement with the Person to whom the
Mortgaged Property is to be conveyed and such modification agreement or
supplement to the Mortgage Note or Mortgage or other instruments as are
reasonable or necessary to carry out the terms of the Mortgage Note or Mortgage
or otherwise to comply with any applicable laws regarding assumptions or the
transfer of the Mortgaged Property to such Person; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, none of
such terms and requirements shall both constitute a "significant modification"
effecting an exchange or reissuance of such Mortgage Loan under the Code (or
final, temporary or proposed Treasury regulations promulgated thereunder) and
cause any of REMIC I or REMIC II to fail to qualify as REMICs under the Code or
the imposition of any tax on "prohibited transactions" or "contributions" after
the startup date under the REMIC Provisions. The Master Servicer shall execute
and deliver such documents only if it reasonably determines that (i) its
execution and delivery thereof will not conflict with or violate any terms of
this Agreement or cause the unpaid balance and interest on the Mortgage Loan to
be uncollectible in whole or in part, (ii) any required consents of insurers
under any Required Insurance Policies have been obtained and (iii) subsequent to
the closing of the transaction involving the assumption or transfer (A) the
Mortgage Loan will continue to be secured by a first mortgage lien (or junior
lien of the same priority in relation to any senior mortgage loan, with respect
to any Mortgage Loan secured by a junior Mortgage) pursuant to the terms of the
Mortgage, (B) such transaction will not adversely affect the coverage under any
Required Insurance Policies, (C) the Mortgage Loan will fully amortize over the
remaining term thereof, (D) no material term of the Mortgage Loan (including the
interest rate on the Mortgage Loan) will be altered nor will the term of the
Mortgage Loan be changed and (E) if the seller/transferor of the Mortgaged
Property is to be released from liability on the Mortgage Loan, the
buyer/transferee of the Mortgaged Property would be qualified to assume the
Mortgage Loan based on generally comparable credit quality and such release will
not (based on the Master Servicer's or Subservicer's good faith determination)
adversely affect the collectability of the Mortgage Loan.
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Upon receipt of appropriate instructions from the Master Servicer in accordance
with the foregoing, the Trustee shall execute any necessary instruments for such
assumption or substitution of liability as directed by the Master Servicer. Upon
the closing of the transactions contemplated by such documents, the Master
Servicer shall cause the originals or true and correct copies of the assumption
agreement, the release (if any), or the modification or supplement to the
Mortgage Note or Mortgage to be delivered to the Trustee or the Custodian and
deposited with the Mortgage File for such Mortgage Loan. Any fee collected by
the Master Servicer or such related Subservicer for entering into an assumption
or substitution of liability agreement will be retained by the Master Servicer
or such Subservicer as additional servicing compensation.
(c) The Master Servicer or the related Subservicer, as the case may be,
shall be entitled to approve a request from a Mortgagor for a partial release of
the related Mortgaged Property, the granting of an easement thereon in favor of
another Person, any alteration or demolition of the related Mortgaged Property
(or, with respect to a Cooperative Loan, the related Cooperative Apartment)
without any right of reimbursement or other similar matters if it has
determined, exercising its good faith business judgment in the same manner as it
would if it were the owner of the related Mortgage Loan, that the security for,
and the timely and full collectability of, such Mortgage Loan would not be
adversely affected thereby and that each of REMIC I or REMIC II would continue
to qualify as a REMIC under the Code as a result thereof and that no tax on
"prohibited transactions" or "contributions" after the startup day would be
imposed on any of REMIC I or REMIC II as a result thereof. Any fee collected by
the Master Servicer or the related Subservicer for processing such a request
will be retained by the Master Servicer or such Subservicer as additional
servicing compensation.
(d) Subject to any other applicable terms and conditions of this
Agreement, the Trustee and Master Servicer shall be entitled to approve an
assignment in lieu of satisfaction with respect to any Mortgage Loan, provided
the obligee with respect to such Mortgage Loan following such proposed
assignment provides the Trustee and Master Servicer with a "Lender Certification
for Assignment of Mortgage Loan" in the form attached hereto as Exhibit M, in
form and substance satisfactory to the Trustee and Master Servicer, providing
the following: (i) that the Mortgage Loan is secured by Mortgaged Property
located in a jurisdiction in which an assignment in lieu of satisfaction is
required to preserve lien priority, minimize or avoid mortgage recording taxes
or otherwise comply with, or facilitate a refinancing under, the laws of such
jurisdiction; (ii) that the substance of the assignment is, and is intended to
be, a refinancing of such Mortgage Loan and that the form of the transaction is
solely to comply with, or facilitate the transaction under, such local laws;
(iii) that the Mortgage Loan following the proposed assignment will have a rate
of interest at least 0.25 percent below or above the rate of interest on such
Mortgage Loan prior to such proposed assignment; and (iv) that such assignment
is at the request of the borrower under the related Mortgage Loan. Upon approval
of an assignment in lieu of satisfaction with respect to any Mortgage Loan, the
Master Servicer shall receive cash in an amount equal to the unpaid principal
balance of and accrued interest on such Mortgage Loan and the Master Servicer
shall treat such amount as a Principal Prepayment in Full with respect to such
Mortgage Loan for all purposes hereof.
Section 3.14. Realization Upon Defaulted Mortgage Loans.
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(a) The Master Servicer shall foreclose upon or otherwise comparably
convert (which may include an REO Acquisition) the ownership of properties
securing such of the Mortgage Loans as come into and continue in default and as
to which no satisfactory arrangements can be made for collection of delinquent
payments pursuant to Section 3.07. Alternatively, the Master Servicer may take
other actions in respect of a defaulted Mortgage Loan, which may include (i)
accepting a short sale (a payoff of the Mortgage Loan for an amount less than
the total amount contractually owed in order to facilitate a sale of the
Mortgaged Property by the Mortgagor) or permitting a short refinancing (a payoff
of the Mortgage Loan for an amount less than the total amount contractually owed
in order to facilitate refinancing transactions by the Mortgagor not involving a
sale of the Mortgaged Property), (ii) arranging for a repayment plan or (iii)
agreeing to a modification in accordance with Section 3.07. In connection with
such foreclosure or other conversion or action, the Master Servicer shall,
consistent with Section 3.11, follow such practices and procedures as it shall
deem necessary or advisable, as shall be normal and usual in its general
mortgage servicing activities and as shall be required or permitted by the
Program Guide; provided that the Master Servicer shall not be liable in any
respect hereunder if the Master Servicer is acting in connection with any such
foreclosure or other conversion or action in a manner that is consistent with
the provisions of this Agreement. The Master Servicer, however, shall not be
required to expend its own funds or incur other reimbursable charges in
connection with any foreclosure, or attempted foreclosure which is not
completed, or towards the correction of any default on a related senior mortgage
loan, or towards the restoration of any property unless it shall determine (i)
that such restoration and/or foreclosure will increase the proceeds of
liquidation of the Mortgage Loan to Holders of Certificates of one or more
Classes after reimbursement to itself for such expenses or charges and (ii) that
such expenses and charges will be recoverable to it through Liquidation
Proceeds, Insurance Proceeds, or REO Proceeds (respecting which it shall have
priority for purposes of withdrawals from the Custodial Account pursuant to
Section 3.10, whether or not such expenses and charges are actually recoverable
from related Liquidation Proceeds, Insurance Proceeds or REO Proceeds). In the
event of such a determination by the Master Servicer pursuant to this Section
3.14(a), the Master Servicer shall be entitled to reimbursement of its funds so
expended pursuant to Section 3.10. In addition, the Master Servicer may pursue
any remedies that may be available in connection with a breach of a
representation and warranty with respect to any such Mortgage Loan in accordance
with Sections 2.03 and 2.04. However, the Master Servicer is not required to
continue to pursue both foreclosure (or similar remedies) with respect to the
Mortgage Loans and remedies in connection with a breach of a representation and
warranty if the Master Servicer determines in its reasonable discretion that one
such remedy is more likely to result in a greater recovery as to the Mortgage
Loan. Upon the occurrence of a Cash Liquidation or REO Disposition, following
the deposit in the Custodial Account of all Insurance Proceeds, Liquidation
Proceeds and other payments and recoveries referred to in the definition of
"Cash Liquidation" or "REO Disposition," as applicable, upon receipt by the
Trustee of written notification of such deposit signed by a Servicing Officer,
the Trustee or any Custodian, as the case may be, shall release to the Master
Servicer the related Mortgage File and the Trustee shall execute and deliver
such instruments of transfer or assignment prepared by the Master Servicer, in
each case without recourse, as shall be necessary to vest in the Master Servicer
or its designee, as the case may be, the related Mortgage Loan, and thereafter
such Mortgage Loan shall not be part of the Trust Fund. Notwithstanding the
foregoing or any other provision of this Agreement, in the Master Servicer's
sole discretion with respect to any defaulted Mortgage Loan or REO Property as
to either of the following provisions, (i) a Cash Liquidation or REO Disposition
may be deemed to have occurred if substantially all amounts expected by the
Master Servicer to be
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received in connection with the related defaulted Mortgage Loan or REO Property
have been received, and (ii) for purposes of determining the amount of any
Liquidation Proceeds, Insurance Proceeds, REO Proceeds or other unscheduled
collections or the amount of any Realized Loss, the Master Servicer may take
into account minimal amounts of additional receipts expected to be received or
any estimated additional liquidation expenses expected to be incurred in
connection with the related defaulted Mortgage Loan or REO Property.
For so long as the Master Servicer is the Master Servicer under the
Credit Support Pledge Agreement, the Master Servicer shall perform its
obligations under the Credit Support Pledge Agreement in accordance with such
Agreement and in a manner that is in the best interests of the
Certificateholders. Further, the Master Servicer shall use its best reasonable
efforts to realize upon any Pledged Assets for such of the Pledged Asset Loans
as come into and continue in default and as to which no satisfactory
arrangements can be made for collection of delinquent payments pursuant to
Section 3.07; provided that the Master Servicer shall not, on behalf of the
Trustee, obtain title to any such Pledged Assets as a result of or in lieu of
the disposition thereof or otherwise; and provided further that (i) the Master
Servicer shall not proceed with respect to such Pledged Assets in any manner
that would impair the ability to recover against the related Mortgaged Property,
and (ii) the Master Servicer shall proceed with any REO Acquisition in a manner
that preserves the ability to apply the proceeds of such Pledged Assets against
amounts owed under the defaulted Mortgage Loan. Any proceeds realized from such
Pledged Assets (other than amounts to be released to the Mortgagor or the
related guarantor in accordance with procedures that the Master Servicer would
follow in servicing loans held for its own account, subject to the terms and
conditions of the related Mortgage and Mortgage Note and to the terms and
conditions of any security agreement, guarantee agreement, mortgage or other
agreement governing the disposition of the proceeds of such Pledged Assets)
shall be deposited in the Custodial Account, subject to withdrawal pursuant to
Section 3.10. Any other payment received by the Master Servicer in respect of
such Pledged Assets shall be deposited in the Custodial Account subject to
withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.10.
(b) In the event that title to any Mortgaged Property is acquired by
the Trust Fund as an REO Property by foreclosure or by deed in lieu of
foreclosure, the deed or certificate of sale shall be issued to the Trustee or
to its nominee on behalf of Certificateholders. Notwithstanding any such
acquisition of title and cancellation of the related Mortgage Loan, such REO
Property shall (except as otherwise expressly provided herein) be considered to
be an Outstanding Mortgage Loan held in the Trust Fund until such time as the
REO Property shall be sold. Consistent with the foregoing for purposes of all
calculations hereunder so long as such REO Property shall be considered to be an
Outstanding Mortgage Loan it shall be assumed that, notwithstanding that the
indebtedness evidenced by the related Mortgage Note shall have been discharged,
such Mortgage Note and the related amortization schedule in effect at the time
of any such acquisition of title (after giving effect to any previous
Curtailments and before any adjustment thereto by reason of any bankruptcy or
similar proceeding or any moratorium or similar waiver or grace period) remain
in effect.
(c) In the event that the Trust Fund acquires any REO Property as
aforesaid or otherwise in connection with a default or imminent default on a
Mortgage Loan, the Master Servicer on behalf of the Trust Fund shall dispose of
such REO Property within three full years after the taxable year of its
acquisition by the Trust Fund for purposes of Section 860G(a)(8) of the Code (or
such shorter period as may be necessary under applicable state (including any
state in which such property is
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located) law to maintain the status of each of REMIC I or REMIC II as a REMIC
under applicable state law and avoid taxes resulting from such property failing
to be foreclosure property under applicable state law) or, at the expense of the
Trust Fund, request, more than 60 days before the day on which such grace period
would otherwise expire, an extension of such grace period unless the Master
Servicer obtains for the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel, addressed to the Trustee
and the Master Servicer, to the effect that the holding by the Trust Fund of
such REO Property subsequent to such period will not result in the imposition of
taxes on "prohibited transactions" as defined in Section 860F of the Code or
cause any of REMIC I or REMIC II to fail to qualify as a REMIC (for federal (or
any applicable State or local) income tax purposes) at any time that any
Certificates are outstanding, in which case the Trust Fund may continue to hold
such REO Property (subject to any conditions contained in such Opinion of
Counsel). The Master Servicer shall be entitled to be reimbursed from the
Custodial Account for any costs incurred in obtaining such Opinion of Counsel,
as provided in Section 3.10. Notwithstanding any other provision of this
Agreement, no REO Property acquired by the Trust Fund shall be rented (or
allowed to continue to be rented) or otherwise used by or on behalf of the Trust
Fund in such a manner or pursuant to any terms that would (i) cause such REO
Property to fail to qualify as "foreclosure property" within the meaning of
Section 860G(a)(8) of the Code or (ii) subject REMIC I or REMIC II to the
imposition of any federal income taxes on the income earned from such REO
Property, including any taxes imposed by reason of Section 860G(c) of the Code,
unless the Master Servicer has agreed to indemnify and hold harmless the Trust
Fund with respect to the imposition of any such taxes.
(d) The proceeds of any Cash Liquidation, REO Disposition or purchase
or repurchase of any Mortgage Loan pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, as
well as any recovery (other than Subsequent Recoveries) resulting from a
collection of Liquidation Proceeds, Insurance Proceeds or REO Proceeds, will be
applied in the following order of priority: FIRST, to reimburse the Master
Servicer or the related Subservicer in accordance with Section 3.10(a)(ii);
SECOND, to the Certificateholders to the extent of accrued and unpaid interest
on the Mortgage Loan, and any related REO Imputed Interest, at the Net Mortgage
Rate (or the Modified Net Mortgage Rate in the case of a Modified Mortgage
Loan), to the Due Date in the related Due Period prior to the Distribution Date
on which such amounts are to be distributed; THIRD, to the Certificateholders as
a recovery of principal on the Mortgage Loan (or REO Property) (provided that if
any such Class of Certificates to which such Realized Loss was allocated is no
longer outstanding, such subsequent recovery shall be distributed to the persons
who were the Holders of such Class of Certificates when it was retired); FOURTH,
to all Servicing Fees and Subservicing Fees payable therefrom (and the Master
Servicer and the Subservicer shall have no claims for any deficiencies with
respect to such fees which result from the foregoing allocation); and FIFTH, to
Foreclosure Profits.
Section 3.15. Trustee to Cooperate; Release of Mortgage Files.
(a) Upon becoming aware of the payment in full of any Mortgage Loan, or
upon the receipt by the Master Servicer of a notification that payment in full
will be escrowed in a manner customary for such purposes, the Master Servicer
will immediately notify the Trustee (if it holds the related Mortgage File) or
the Custodian by a certification of a Servicing Officer (which certification
shall include a statement to the effect that all amounts received or to be
received in connection with such payment which are required to be deposited in
the Custodial Account pursuant to Section 3.07 have been or will be so
deposited), substantially in one of the forms attached hereto as Exhibit G
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requesting delivery to it of the Mortgage File. Upon receipt of such
certification and request, the Trustee shall promptly release, or cause the
Custodian to release, the related Mortgage File to the Master Servicer. The
Master Servicer is authorized to execute and deliver to the Mortgagor the
request for reconveyance, deed of reconveyance or release or satisfaction of
mortgage or such instrument releasing the lien of the Mortgage, together with
the Mortgage Note with, as appropriate, written evidence of cancellation thereon
and to cause the removal from the registration on the MERS(R) System of such
Mortgage and to execute and deliver, on behalf of the Trustee and the
Certificateholders or any of them, any and all instruments of satisfaction or
cancellation or of partial or full release, including any applicable UCC
termination statements. No expenses incurred in connection with any instrument
of satisfaction or deed of reconveyance shall be chargeable to the Custodial
Account or the Certificate Account.
(b) From time to time as is appropriate for the servicing or
foreclosure of any Mortgage Loan, the Master Servicer shall deliver to the
Custodian, with a copy to the Trustee, a certificate of a Servicing Officer
substantially in one of the forms attached as Exhibit G hereto, requesting that
possession of all, or any document constituting part of, the Mortgage File be
released to the Master Servicer and certifying as to the reason for such release
and that such release will not invalidate any insurance coverage provided in
respect of the Mortgage Loan under any Required Insurance Policy. Upon receipt
of the foregoing, the Trustee shall deliver, or cause the Custodian to deliver,
the Mortgage File or any document therein to the Master Servicer. The Master
Servicer shall cause each Mortgage File or any document therein so released to
be returned to the Trustee, or the Custodian as agent for the Trustee when the
need therefor by the Master Servicer no longer exists, unless (i) the Mortgage
Loan has been liquidated and the Liquidation Proceeds relating to the Mortgage
Loan have been deposited in the Custodial Account or (ii) the Mortgage File or
such document has been delivered directly or through a Subservicer to an
attorney, or to a public trustee or other public official as required by law,
for purposes of initiating or pursuing legal action or other proceedings for the
foreclosure of the Mortgaged Property either judicially or non-judicially, and
the Master Servicer has delivered directly or through a Subservicer to the
Trustee a certificate of a Servicing Officer certifying as to the name and
address of the Person to which such Mortgage File or such document was delivered
and the purpose or purposes of such delivery. In the event of the liquidation of
a Mortgage Loan, the Trustee shall deliver the Request for Release with respect
thereto to the Master Servicer upon deposit of the related Liquidation Proceeds
in the Custodial Account.
(c) The Trustee or the Master Servicer on the Trustee's behalf shall
execute and deliver to the Master Servicer, if necessary, any court pleadings,
requests for trustee's sale or other documents necessary to the foreclosure or
trustee's sale in respect of a Mortgaged Property or to any legal action brought
to obtain judgment against any Mortgagor on the Mortgage Note or Mortgage or to
obtain a deficiency judgment, or to enforce any other remedies or rights
provided by the Mortgage Note or Mortgage or otherwise available at law or in
equity. Together with such documents or pleadings (if signed by the Trustee),
the Master Servicer shall deliver to the Trustee a certificate of a Servicing
Officer requesting that such pleadings or documents be executed by the Trustee
and certifying as to the reason such documents or pleadings are required and
that the execution and delivery thereof by the Trustee will not invalidate any
insurance coverage under any Required Insurance Policy or invalidate or
otherwise affect the lien of the Mortgage, except for the termination of such a
lien upon completion of the foreclosure or trustee's sale.
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Section 3.16. Servicing and Other Compensation; Compensating
Interest.
(a) The Master Servicer, as compensation for its activities hereunder,
shall be entitled to receive on each Distribution Date the amounts provided for
by clauses (iii), (iv), (v) and (vi) of Section 3.10(a), subject to clause (e)
below. The amount of servicing compensation provided for in such clauses shall
be accounted for on a Mortgage Loan-by-Mortgage Loan basis. In the event that
Liquidation Proceeds, Insurance Proceeds and REO Proceeds (net of amounts
reimbursable therefrom pursuant to Section 3.10(a)(ii)) in respect of a Cash
Liquidation or REO Disposition exceed the unpaid principal balance of such
Mortgage Loan plus unpaid interest accrued thereon (including REO Imputed
Interest) at a per annum rate equal to the related Net Mortgage Rate (or the
Modified Net Mortgage Rate in the case of a Modified Mortgage Loan), the Master
Servicer shall be entitled to retain therefrom and to pay to itself and/or the
related Subservicer, any Foreclosure Profits and any Servicing Fee or
Subservicing Fee considered to be accrued but unpaid.
(b) Additional servicing compensation in the form of prepayment
charges, assumption fees, late payment charges, investment income on amounts in
the Custodial Account or the Certificate Account or otherwise shall be retained
by the Master Servicer or the Subservicer to the extent provided herein, subject
to clause (e) below.
(c) The Master Servicer shall be required to pay, or cause to be paid,
all expenses incurred by it in connection with its servicing activities
hereunder (including payment of premiums for the Primary Insurance Policies, if
any, to the extent such premiums are not required to be paid by the related
Mortgagors, and the fees and expenses of the Trustee and any Custodian) and
shall not be entitled to reimbursement therefor except as specifically provided
in Sections 3.10 and 3.14.
(d) The Master Servicer's right to receive servicing compensation may
not be transferred in whole or in part except in connection with the transfer of
all of its responsibilities and obligations of the Master Servicer under this
Agreement.
(e) Notwithstanding clauses (a) and (b) above, the amount of servicing
compensation that the Master Servicer shall be entitled to receive for its
activities hereunder for the period ending on each Distribution Date shall be
reduced (but not below zero) by an amount equal to Compensating Interest (if
any) for such Distribution Date, which amount shall be deposited by the Master
Servicer into the Certificate Account to be included in the Available
Distribution Amount for such Distribution Date. Such reduction shall be applied
during such period as follows: FIRST, to any Servicing Fee or Subservicing Fee
to which the Master Servicer is entitled pursuant to Section 3.10(a)(iii);
SECOND, to any income or gain realized from any investment of funds held in the
Custodial Account or the Certificate Account to which the Master Servicer is
entitled pursuant to Sections 3.07(c) or 4.01(b), respectively; and THIRD, to
any amounts of servicing compensation to which the Master Servicer is entitled
pursuant to Section 3.10(a)(v) or (vi). In making such reduction, the Master
Servicer shall not withdraw from the Custodial Account any such amount
representing all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to which it is entitled
pursuant to Section 3.10(a)(iii); (ii) shall not withdraw from the Custodial
Account or Certificate Account any such amount to which it is entitled pursuant
to Section 3.07(c) or 4.01(b) and (iii) shall not withdraw from the Custodial
Account any such amount of servicing compensation to which it is entitled
pursuant to Section 3.10(a)(v) or (vi). With respect to any Distribution Date,
Compensating Interest derived
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from Loan Group I shall be used on such Distribution Date (i) to cover any
Prepayment Interest Shortfalls on the Group I Loans and (ii) to cover any
Prepayment Interest Shortfalls on the Group II Loans, but only to the extent not
covered by Compensating Interest derived from Loan Group II. With respect to any
Distribution Date, Compensating Interest derived from Loan Group II shall be
used on such Distribution Date (i) to cover any Prepayment Interest Shortfalls
on the Group II Loans and (ii) to cover any Prepayment Interest Shortfalls on
the Group I Loans, but only to the extent not covered by Compensating Interest
derived from Loan Group I.
Section 3.17. Reports to the Trustee and the Depositor.
Not later than fifteen days after each Distribution Date, the Master
Servicer shall forward to the Trustee and the Depositor a statement, certified
by a Servicing Officer, setting forth the status of the Custodial Account as of
the close of business on such Distribution Date as it relates to the Mortgage
Loans and showing, for the period covered by such statement, the aggregate of
deposits in or withdrawals from the Custodial Account in respect of the Mortgage
Loans for each category of deposit specified in Section 3.07 and each category
of withdrawal specified in Section 3.10.
Section 3.18. Annual Statement as to Compliance.
The Master Servicer will deliver to the Depositor and the Trustee on or
before the earlier of (a) March 31 of each year, beginning with the first March
31 that occurs at least six months after the Cut-off Date, or (b) with respect
to any calendar year during which the Depositor's annual report on Form 10-K is
required to be filed in accordance with the Exchange Act and the rules and
regulations of the Commission, the date on which the Depositor's annual report
on Form 10-K is required to be filed in accordance with the Exchange Act and the
rules and regulations of the Commission (or, in each case, if such day is not a
Business Day, the immediately preceding Business Day), an Officers' Certificate
stating, as to each signer thereof, that (i) a review of the activities of the
Master Servicer during the preceding calendar year related to its servicing of
mortgage loans and of its performance under the pooling and servicing
agreements, including this Agreement, has been made under such officers'
supervision, (ii) to the best of such officers' knowledge, based on such review,
the Master Servicer has complied in all material respects with the minimum
servicing standards set forth in the Uniform Single Attestation Program for
Mortgage Bankers and has fulfilled all of its material obligations in all
material respects throughout such year, or, if there has been material
noncompliance with such servicing standards or a default in the fulfillment in
all material respects of any such obligation relating to this Agreement, such
statement shall include a description of such noncompliance or specify each such
default, as the case may be, known to such officer and the nature and status
thereof and (iii) to the best of such officers' knowledge, each Subservicer has
complied in all material respects with the minimum servicing standards set forth
in the Uniform Single Attestation Program for Mortgage Bankers and has fulfilled
all of its material obligations under its Subservicing Agreement in all material
respects throughout such year, or if there has been material noncompliance with
such servicing standards or a material default in the fulfillment of such
obligations relating to this Agreement, specifying such statement shall include
a description of such noncompliance or specify each such default, as the case
may be, known to such officer and the nature and status thereof.
Section 3.19. Annual Independent Public Accountants' Servicing
Report.
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On or before the earlier of (a) March 31 of each year, beginning with
the first March 31 that occurs at least six months after the Cut-off Date, or
(b) with respect to any calendar year during which the Depositor's annual report
on Form 10-K is required to be filed in accordance with the Exchange Act and the
rules and regulations of the Commission, the date on which the Depositor's
annual report on Form 10-K is required to be filed in accordance with the
Exchange Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission (or, in each case,
if such day is not a Business Day, the immediately preceding Business Day), the
Master Servicer at its expense shall cause a firm of independent public
accountants which shall be members of the American Institute of Certified Public
Accountants to furnish a report to the Depositor and the Trustee stating its
opinion that, on the basis of an examination conducted by such firm
substantially in accordance with standards established by the American Institute
of Certified Public Accountants, the assertions made pursuant to Section 3.18
regarding compliance with the minimum servicing standards set forth in the
Uniform Single Attestation Program for Mortgage Bankers during the preceding
calendar year are fairly stated in all material respects, subject to such
exceptions and other qualifications that, in the opinion of such firm, such
accounting standards require it to report. In rendering such statement, such
firm may rely, as to matters relating to the direct servicing of mortgage loans
by Subservicers, upon comparable statements for examinations conducted by
independent public accountants substantially in accordance with standards
established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (rendered
within one year of such statement) with respect to such Subservicers.
Section 3.20. Right of the Depositor in Respect of the Master
Servicer.
The Master Servicer shall afford the Depositor, upon reasonable notice,
during normal business hours access to all records maintained by the Master
Servicer in respect of its rights and obligations hereunder and access to
officers of the Master Servicer responsible for such obligations. Upon request,
the Master Servicer shall furnish the Depositor and the Trustee with its most
recent financial statements and such other information as the Master Servicer
possesses regarding its business, affairs, property and condition, financial or
otherwise. The Master Servicer shall also cooperate with all reasonable requests
for information including, but not limited to, notices, tapes and copies of
files, regarding itself, the Mortgage Loans or the Certificates from any Person
or Persons identified by the Depositor or Residential Funding. The Depositor
may, but is not obligated to perform, or cause a designee to perform, any
defaulted obligation of the Master Servicer hereunder or exercise the rights of
the Master Servicer hereunder; provided that the Master Servicer shall not be
relieved of any of its obligations hereunder by virtue of such performance by
the Depositor or its designee. The Depositor shall not have the responsibility
or liability for any action or failure to act by the Master Servicer and is not
obligated to supervise the performance of the Master Servicer under this
Agreement or otherwise.
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ARTICLE IV
PAYMENTS TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
Section 4.01. Certificate Account.
(a) The Master Servicer acting as agent of the Trustee shall establish
and maintain a Certificate Account in which the Master Servicer shall deposit or
cause to be deposited on behalf of the Trustee on or before 2:00 P.M. New York
time on each Certificate Account Deposit Date by wire transfer of immediately
available funds an amount equal to the sum of (i) any Advance for the
immediately succeeding Distribution Date, (ii) any amount required to be
deposited in the Certificate Account pursuant to Section 3.12(a), (iii) any
amount required to be deposited in the Certificate Account pursuant to Section
3.16(e) or Section 4.07, (iv) any amount required to be paid pursuant to Section
9.01, and all other amounts constituting the Available Distribution Amounts for
the immediately succeeding Distribution Date.
(b) [reserved]
(c) The Trustee shall, upon written request from the Master Servicer,
invest or cause the institution maintaining the Certificate Account to invest
the funds in the Certificate Account in Permitted Investments designated in the
name of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, which shall
mature not later than the Business Day next preceding the Distribution Date next
following the date of such investment (except that (i) if such Permitted
Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such account or a
fund for which such institution serves as custodian, then such Permitted
Investment may mature on such Distribution Date and (ii) any other investment
may mature on such Distribution Date if the Trustee shall advance funds on such
Distribution Date to the Certificate Account in the amount payable on such
investment on such Distribution Date, pending receipt thereof to the extent
necessary to make distributions on the Certificates) and shall not be sold or
disposed of prior to maturity. All income and gain realized from any such
investment shall be for the benefit of the Master Servicer and shall be subject
to its withdrawal or order from time to time. The amount of any losses incurred
in respect of any such investments shall be deposited in the Certificate Account
by the Master Servicer out of its own funds immediately as realized.
Section 4.02. Distributions.
(a) On each Distribution Date (x) the Master Servicer on
behalf of the Trustee or (y) the Paying Agent appointed by the Trustee,
shall distribute the amount required to be distributed to the Master
Servicer or a Sub-Servicer pursuant to Section 4.02(a)(iii) below, and
to each Certificateholder of record on the next preceding Record Date
(other than as provided in Section 9.01 respecting the final
distribution) either in immediately available funds (by wire transfer
or otherwise) to the account of such Certificateholder at a bank or
other entity having appropriate facilities therefor, if such
Certificateholder has so notified the Master Servicer or the Paying
Agent, as the case may be, or, if such Certificateholder has not so
notified the Master Servicer or the Paying Agent by the Record Date, by
check mailed to such Certificateholder at the address of such Holder
appearing in the Certificate Register such Certificateholder's share
(which share (A) with respect to each Class of Certificates
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(other than any Subclass of the Interest Only Certificates), shall be
based on the aggregate of the Percentage Interests represented by
Certificates of the applicable Class held by such Holder or (B) with
respect to any Subclass of the Interest Only Certificates, shall be
equal to the amount (if any) distributed pursuant to Section 4.02(a)(i)
below to each Holder of a Subclass thereof) of the following amounts,
in the following order of priority (subject to the provisions of
Section 4.02(b) below), in each case to the extent of the related
Available Distribution Amount:
(i) to the related Senior Certificates (other than
the Principal Only Certificates) on a pro rata basis based on
Accrued Certificate Interest payable on such Certificates with
respect to such Distribution Date, Accrued Certificate
Interest on such Classes of Certificates (or Subclasses, if
any, with respect to the Interest Only Certificates) for such
Distribution Date, plus any Accrued Certificate Interest
thereon remaining unpaid from any previous Distribution Date
except as provided in the last paragraph of this Section
4.02(a) (the related "Senior Interest Distribution Amount");
and
(ii) (X) to the Class A-I-PO Certificates, the Class
A-I-PO Principal Distribution Amount (as defined in Section
4.02(b)(i) herein) and to the Class A-PO Certificates, the
Class A-PO Principal Distribution Amount (as defined in
Section 4.02(b)(i) herein); and
(Y) to the related Senior Certificates
(other than the Principal Only Certificates), in the
priorities and amounts set forth in Section 4.02(b)(ii)
through (f), the sum of the following (applied to reduce the
Certificate Principal Balances of such Senior Certificates, as
applicable):
(A) the related Senior Percentage for such
Distribution Date times the sum of the following:
(1) the principal portion of each
Monthly Payment due during the related Due
Period on each related Outstanding Mortgage
Loan (other than the related Discount
Fraction of the principal portion of such
payment with respect to a Discount Mortgage
Loan in the related Loan Group), whether or
not received on or prior to the related
Determination Date, minus the principal
portion of any Debt Service Reduction (other
than the related Discount Fraction of the
principal portion of such Debt Service
Reductions with respect to each Discount
Mortgage Loan in the related Loan Group)
which together with other Bankruptcy Losses
exceeds the Bankruptcy Amount;
(2) the Stated Principal Balance of
any related Mortgage Loan repurchased during
the preceding calendar month (or deemed to
have been so repurchased in accordance with
Section 3.07(b) of this Agreement) pursuant
to Sections 2.02, 2.04 or 4.07 of this
Agreement and Section 2.03 of this
Agreement, and the amount of
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any shortfall deposited in the Custodial
Account in respect of such Loan Group in
connection with the substitution of a
Deleted Mortgage Loan pursuant to Section
2.03 or Section 2.04 of this Agreement,
during the preceding calendar month (other
than the related Discount Fraction of such
Stated Principal Balance or shortfall with
respect to each Discount Mortgage Loan in
the related Loan Group); and
(3) the principal portion of all
other unscheduled collections (other than
Principal Prepayments in Full and
Curtailments and amounts received in
connection with a Cash Liquidation or REO
Disposition of a related Mortgage Loan
described in Section 4.02(a)(ii)(Y)(B) of
this Agreement, including without limitation
Insurance Proceeds, Liquidation Proceeds and
REO Proceeds) received during the preceding
calendar month (or deemed to have been so
received in accordance with Section 3.07(b)
of this Agreement) to the extent applied by
the Master Servicer as recoveries of
principal of the related Mortgage Loan
pursuant to Section 3.14 of this Agreement
(other than the related Discount Fraction of
the principal portion of such unscheduled
collections, with respect to each Discount
Mortgage Loan in the related Loan Group);
(B) with respect to each related Mortgage
Loan for which a Cash Liquidation or a REO
Disposition occurred during the preceding calendar
month (or was deemed to have occurred during such
period in accordance with Section 3.07(b)) and did
not result in any Excess Losses, an amount equal to
the lesser of (a) the related Senior Percentage for
such Distribution Date times the Stated Principal
Balance of such Mortgage Loan (other than the related
Discount Fraction of such Stated Principal Balance,
with respect to each Discount Mortgage Loan in the
related Loan Group) and (b) the related Senior
Accelerated Distribution Percentage for such
Distribution Date times the related unscheduled
collections (including without limitation Insurance
Proceeds, Liquidation Proceeds and REO Proceeds) to
the extent applied by the Master Servicer as
recoveries of principal of the related Mortgage Loan
pursuant to Section 3.14 (in each case other than the
portion of such unscheduled collections, with respect
to a Discount Mortgage Loan in the related Loan
Group, included in Section 4.02(b)(i)(C));
(C) the related Senior Accelerated
Distribution Percentage for such Distribution Date
times the aggregate of all related Principal
Prepayments in Full received in the related
Prepayment Period and Curtailments received in the
preceding calendar month (other than the related
Discount Fraction of such Principal Prepayments in
Full and Curtailments, with respect to each Discount
Mortgage Loan in the related Loan Group);
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(D) any Excess Subordinate Principal Amount
for such Distribution Date; and
(E) any amounts described in subsection
(ii)(Y), clauses (A), (B) and (C) of this Section
4.02(a), as determined for any previous Distribution
Date, which remain unpaid after application of
amounts previously distributed pursuant to this
clause (E) to the extent that such amounts are not
attributable to Realized Losses which have been
allocated to the Subordinate Certificates; minus
(F) the Capitalization Reimbursement Amount
for such Distribution Date, other than the related
Discount Fraction of any portion of that amount
related to each Discount Mortgage Loan, multiplied by
a fraction, the numerator of which is the Senior
Principal Distribution Amount, without giving effect
to this clause (F), and the denominator of which is
the sum of the principal distribution amounts for all
Classes of Certificates (other than the Class A-P
Certificates), without giving effect to any
reductions for the Capitalization Reimbursement
Amount;
(iii) if the Certificate Principal Balances of the
Subordinate Certificates have not been reduced to zero, to the
Master Servicer or a Sub-Servicer, by remitting for deposit to
the Custodial Account, to the extent of and in reimbursement
for any Advances or Sub-Servicer Advances previously made with
respect to any Mortgage Loan or REO Property which remain
unreimbursed in whole or in part following the Cash
Liquidation or REO Disposition of such Mortgage Loan or REO
Property, minus any such Advances that were made with respect
to delinquencies that ultimately constituted Excess Losses;
(iv) to the Holders of the Class M-1 Certificates,
the Accrued Certificate Interest thereon for such Distribution
Date, plus any Accrued Certificate Interest thereon remaining
unpaid from any previous Distribution Date, except as provided
below;
(v) to the Holders of the Class M-1 Certificates, an
amount equal to (x) the related Subordinate Principal
Distribution Amount for such Class of Certificates for such
Distribution Date, minus (y) the amount of any Class A-I-PO
Collection Shortfalls or Class A-PO Collection Shortfalls for
such Distribution Date or remaining unpaid for all previous
Distribution Dates, to the extent the amounts available
pursuant to clause (x) of Sections 4.02(a)(vii), (ix), (xi),
(xiii), (xiv) and (xv) of this Agreement are insufficient
therefor, applied in reduction of the Certificate Principal
Balance of the Class M-1 Certificates;
(vi) to the Holders of the Class M-2 Certificates,
the Accrued Certificate Interest thereon for such Distribution
Date, plus any Accrued Certificate Interest thereon remaining
unpaid from any previous Distribution Date, except as provided
below;
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(vii) to the Holders of the Class M-2 Certificates,
an amount equal to (x) the related Subordinate Principal
Distribution Amount for such Class of Certificates for such
Distribution Date, minus (y) the amount of any Class A-I-PO
Collection Shortfalls or Class A-PO Collection Shortfalls for
such Distribution Date or remaining unpaid for all previous
Distribution Dates, to the extent the amounts available
pursuant to clause (x) of Sections 4.02(a)(ix), (xi), (xiii),
(xiv) and (xv) of this Agreement are insufficient therefor,
applied in reduction of the Certificate Principal Balance of
the Class M-2 Certificates;
(viii) to the Holders of the Class M-3 Certificates,
the Accrued Certificate Interest thereon for such Distribution
Date, plus any Accrued Certificate Interest thereon remaining
unpaid from any previous Distribution Date, except as provided
below;
(ix) to the Holders of the Class M-3 Certificates, an
amount equal to (x) the related Subordinate Principal
Distribution Amount for such Class of Certificates for such
Distribution Date minus (y) the amount of any Class A-I-PO
Collection Shortfalls or Class A-PO Collection Shortfalls for
such Distribution Date or remaining unpaid for all previous
Distribution Dates, to the extent the amounts available
pursuant to clause (x) of Sections 4.02(a)(xi), (xiii), (xiv)
and (xv) of this Agreement are insufficient therefor, applied
in reduction of the Certificate Principal Balance of the Class
M-3 Certificates;
(x) to the Holders of the Class B-1 Certificates, the
Accrued Certificate Interest thereon for such Distribution
Date, plus any Accrued Certificate Interest thereon remaining
unpaid from any previous Distribution Date, except as provided
below;
(xi) to the Holders of the Class B-1 Certificates, an
amount equal to (x) the related Subordinate Principal
Distribution Amount for such Class of Certificates for such
Distribution Date minus (y) the amount of any Class A-I-PO
Collection Shortfalls or Class A-PO Collection Shortfalls for
such Distribution Date or remaining unpaid for all previous
Distribution Dates, to the extent the amounts available
pursuant to clause (x) of Sections 4.02(a)(xiii), (xiv) and
(xv) of this Agreement are insufficient therefor, applied in
reduction of the Certificate Principal Balance of the Class
B-1 Certificates;
(xii) to the Holders of the Class B-2 Certificates,
the Accrued Certificate Interest thereon for such Distribution
Date, plus any Accrued Certificate Interest thereon remaining
unpaid from any previous Distribution Date, except as provided
below;
(xiii) to the Holders of the Class B-2 Certificates,
an amount equal to (x) the related Subordinate Principal
Distribution Amount for such Class of Certificates for such
Distribution Date minus (y) the amount of any Class A-I-PO
Collection
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Shortfalls or Class A-PO Collection Shortfalls for such
Distribution Date or remaining unpaid for all previous
Distribution Dates, to the extent the amounts available
pursuant to clause (x) of Sections 4.02(a)(xiv) and (xv) of
this Agreement are insufficient therefor, applied in reduction
of the Certificate Principal Balance of the Class B-2
Certificates;
(xiv) to the Holders of the Class B-3 Certificates,
an amount equal to (x) the Accrued Certificate Interest
thereon for such Distribution Date, plus any Accrued
Certificate Interest thereon remaining unpaid from any
previous Distribution Date, except as provided below, minus
(y) the amount of any Class A-I-PO Collection Shortfalls or
Class A-PO Collection Shortfalls for such Distribution Date or
remaining unpaid for all previous Distribution Dates, to the
extent the amounts available pursuant to clause (x) of Section
4.02(a)(xv) of this Agreement are insufficient therefor;
(xv) to the Holders of the Class B-3 Certificates, an
amount equal to (x) the related Subordinate Principal
Distribution Amount for such Class of Certificates for such
Distribution Date minus (y) the amount of any Class A-I-PO
Collection Shortfalls or Class A-PO Collection Shortfalls for
such Distribution Date or remaining unpaid for all previous
Distribution Dates applied in reduction of the Certificate
Principal Balance of the Class B-3 Certificates;
(xvi) to the related Senior Certificates, in the
priority set forth in Section 4.02(b) of this Agreement, the
portion, if any, of the related Available Distribution Amount
remaining after the foregoing distributions, applied to reduce
the Certificate Principal Balances of such Senior
Certificates, but in no event more than the aggregate of the
outstanding Certificate Principal Balances of each such Class
of Senior Certificates, and thereafter, to each Class of
Subordinate Certificates then outstanding beginning with such
Class with the Highest Priority, any portion of the related
Available Distribution Amount remaining after the related
Senior Certificates have been retired, applied to reduce the
Certificate Principal Balance of each such Class of
Subordinate Certificates, but in no event more than the
outstanding Certificate Principal Balance of each such Class
of Subordinate Certificates; and
(xvii) to the Class R-II Certificates, the balance,
if any, of the related Available Distribution Amount.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, on any Distribution Date, with respect
to the Class of Subordinate Certificates outstanding on such Distribution Date
with the Lowest Priority, or in the event the Subordinate Certificates are no
longer outstanding, the related Senior Certificates, Accrued Certificate
Interest thereon remaining unpaid from any previous Distribution Date will be
distributable only to the extent that such unpaid Accrued Certificate Interest
was attributable to interest shortfalls relating to the failure of the Master
Servicer to make any required Advance, or the determination by the Master
Servicer that any proposed Advance would be a Nonrecoverable Advance with
respect to the related Mortgage Loan where such Mortgage Loan has not yet been
the
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subject of a Cash Liquidation or REO Disposition or the related Liquidation
Proceeds, Insurance Proceeds and REO Proceeds have not yet been distributed to
the Certificateholders.
(b) Distributions of principal on the Senior Certificates on
each Distribution Date occurring prior to the Credit Support Depletion
Date will be made as follows:
(i) to the Class A-I-PO Certificates and Class A-PO
Certificates from the related Available Distribution Amounts,
until the Certificate Principal Balance thereof is reduced to
zero, an amount (the "Class A-I-PO Principal Distribution
Amount" and "Class A-PO Principal Distribution Amount", as
applicable) equal to the aggregate of:
(A) the related Discount Fraction of the
principal portion of each Monthly Payment on each
Discount Mortgage Loan in the related Loan Group due
during the related Due Period, whether or not
received on or prior to the related Determination
Date, minus the Discount Fraction of the principal
portion of any related Debt Service Reduction which
together with other Bankruptcy Losses exceeds the
Bankruptcy Amount;
(B) the related Discount Fraction of the
principal portion of all unscheduled collections on
each Discount Mortgage Loan in the related Loan Group
received during the preceding calendar month or, in
the case of Principal Prepayments in Full, during the
related Prepayment Period (other than amounts
received in connection with a Cash Liquidation or REO
Disposition of a Discount Mortgage Loan described in
clause (C) below), including Principal Prepayments in
Full, Curtailments and repurchases (including deemed
repurchases under Section 3.07(b)) of such Discount
Mortgage Loans (or, in the case of a substitution of
a Deleted Mortgage Loan, the related Discount
Fraction of the amount of any shortfall deposited in
the Custodial Account in connection with such
substitution);
(C) in connection with the Cash Liquidation
or REO Disposition of a Discount Mortgage Loan in the
related Loan Group that did not result in any Excess
Losses, an amount equal to the lesser of (1) the
applicable Discount Fraction of the Stated Principal
Balance of such Discount Mortgage Loan immediately
prior to such Distribution Date and (2) the aggregate
amount of the collections on such Discount Mortgage
Loan to the extent applied as recoveries of
principal;
(D) any amounts allocable to principal for
any previous Distribution Date (calculated pursuant
to clauses (A) through (C) above) that remain
undistributed; and
(E) the amount of any Class A-I-PO
Collection Shortfalls or Class A-PO Collection
Shortfalls for such Distribution Date and the amount
of any Class A-I-PO Collection Shortfalls or Class
A-PO Collection Shortfalls
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remaining unpaid for all previous Distribution Dates,
but only to the extent of the Eligible Funds for such
Distribution Date; minus
(F) the related Discount Fraction of the
portion of the Capitalization Reimbursement Amount
for such Distribution Date, if any, related to each
Discount Mortgage Loan; and
(ii) (A) the Senior Principal Distribution Amount
related to Loan Group I will be distributed in the following
order of priority:
(1) first, to the Class R-I
Certificates and Class R-II Certificates,
concurrently on a pro rata basis, until the
Certificate Principal Balance thereof has
been reduced to zero; and
(2) second, to the A-I-1
Certificates, until the Certificate
Principal Balance thereof has been reduced
to zero;
(B) the Senior Principal Distribution Amount
related to Loan Group II will be distributed to the
Class A-II-1 Certificates, until the Certificate
Principal Balance thereof has been reduced to zero;
(C) the Senior Principal Distribution Amount
related to Loan Group III will be distributed to the
Class A-III-1 Certificates, until the Certificate
Principal Balance thereof has been reduced to zero;
and
(D) the Senior Principal Distribution Amount
related to Loan Group IV will be distributed to the
Class A-IV-1 Certificates, until the Certificate
Principal Balance thereof has been reduced to zero;
(c) On any Distribution Date prior to the Credit Support
Depletion Date on which the aggregate Certificate Principal Balance of
the Group I, Group II, Group III or Group IV Certificates, as
applicable, is greater than the aggregate Stated Principal Balance of
the Mortgage Loans in the related Loan Group in each case after giving
effect to distributions to be made on such Distribution Date, (1) 100%
of the Principal Prepayments in Full and Curtailments allocable to the
Class M Certificates and Class B Certificates on the Mortgage Loans in
the other Loan Group will be distributed to such Class or Classes of
Group I, Group II, Group III or Group IV Certificates, as applicable,
and in accordance with the priorities set forth in clause 4.02(b)
above, and in reduction of the Certificate Principal Balances thereof,
until the aggregate Certificate Principal Balance of such Class or
Classes of Certificates equals the aggregate Stated Principal Balance
of the Mortgage Loans in the related Loan Group, and (2) an amount
equal to one month's interest at the applicable Pass-Through Rate for
such Class or Classes of Certificates on the amount of such difference
will be distributed from the Available Distribution Amount for the
other Loan Group allocable to the Class M Certificates and Class B
Certificates first to pay any unpaid interest on such Class or Classes
of Certificates and then to pay principal on such Classes in the manner
described in (1) above. In addition, prior to the occurrence of the
Credit Support Depletion Date but after the
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reduction of the Certificate Principal Balances of any of the Group I,
Group II, Group III or Group IV Senior Certificates to zero, the
remaining Group I, Group II, Group III or Group IV Senior Certificates,
as applicable, will be entitled to receive, in addition to any
Principal Prepayments in Full and Curtailments related to such
Certificates' respective Loan Group, 100% of the Principal Prepayments
in Full and Curtailments on the Mortgage Loans in the other Loan Groups
exclusive of the related Discount Fraction, on a pro rata basis, and in
accordance with the priorities set forth in clause 4.02(b) above, in
reduction of the Certificate Principal Balances thereof, on any
Distribution Date unless (i) the weighted average of the initial
Subordinate Percentages, weighted on the basis of the Stated Principal
Balances of the Mortgage Loans in the related Loan Group, is at least
two times the weighted average of the initial Subordinate Percentages
for each Loan Group (calculated on such basis) and (ii) the outstanding
principal balance of the Mortgage Loans in each Loan Group delinquent
60 days or more averaged over the last six months, as a percentage of
the aggregate outstanding Certificate Principal Balance of the Class M
Certificates and Class B Certificates, is less than 50%.
(d) On or after the related Credit Support Depletion Date, all
priorities relating to distributions as described in Section 4.02(b)
above in respect of principal among the various classes of Senior
Certificates (other than the Principal Only Certificates) will be
disregarded, and (i) an amount equal to the Discount Fraction of the
principal portion of scheduled payments and unscheduled collections
received or advanced in respect of the Discount Mortgage Loans in each
Loan Group will be distributed to the related Class of Principal Only
Certificates, (ii) the related Senior Principal Distribution Amount
will be distributed to the related Classes of remaining Senior
Certificates (other than the Principal Only Certificates) pro rata in
accordance with their respective outstanding Certificate Principal
Balances, and (iii) the amount set forth in Section 4.02(a)(i) will be
distributed as set forth therein. Notwithstanding the foregoing, on or
after the Credit Support Depletion Date and after the reduction of the
Certificate Principal Balances of any of the Group I, Group II, Group
III or Group IV Senior Certificates to zero, (i) the remaining Senior
Principal Distribution Amount for such group of Senior Certificates
will be distributed to the remaining Senior Certificates (other than
the Principal Only Certificates) pro rata in accordance with their
respective outstanding Certificate Principal Balances, and (ii) the
amount of Accrued Certificate Interest on such group of Senior
Certificates shall be distributed to the remaining Senior Certificates
(other than the Principal Only Certificates) on a pro rata basis based
on Accrued Certificate Interest payable on such Certificates with
respect to such Distribution Date.
(e) After the reduction of the Certificate Principal Balances
of the Senior Certificates (other than the Principal Only Certificates)
to zero but prior to the related Credit Support Depletion Date, the
Senior Certificates (other than the Principal Only Certificates) will
be entitled to no further distributions of principal thereon and the
related Available Distribution Amount will be paid solely to the
holders of the Principal Only Certificates, Interest Only Certificates,
Class M Certificates and Class B Certificates, in each case as
described herein.
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(f) In addition to the foregoing distributions, with respect
to any Subsequent Recoveries, the Master Servicer shall deposit such
funds into the Custodial Account pursuant to Section 3.07(b)(iii). If,
after taking into account such Subsequent Recoveries, the amount of a
Realized Loss is reduced, the amount of such Subsequent Recoveries will
be applied to increase the Certificate Principal Balance of the Class
of Subordinate Certificates with the Highest Priority to which Realized
Losses, other than Excess Bankruptcy Losses, Excess Fraud Losses,
Excess Special Hazard Losses and Extraordinary Losses, have been
allocated, but not by more than the amount of Realized Losses
previously allocated to that Class of Certificates pursuant to Section
4.05. The amount of any remaining Subsequent Recoveries will be applied
to increase the Certificate Principal Balance of the Class of
Certificates with the next Lower Priority, up to the amount of such
Realized Losses previously allocated to that Class of Certificates
pursuant to Section 4.05. Any remaining Subsequent Recoveries will in
turn be applied to increase the Certificate Principal Balance of the
Class of Certificates with the next Lower Priority up to the amount of
such Realized Losses previously allocated to that Class of Certificates
pursuant to Section 4.05, and so on. Holders of such Certificates will
not be entitled to any payment in respect of Accrued Certificate
Interest on the amount of such increases for any Interest Accrual
Period preceding the Distribution Date on which such increase occurs.
Any such increases shall be applied to the Certificate Principal
Balance of each Certificate of such Class in accordance with its
respective Percentage Interest.
(g) Each distribution with respect to a Book-Entry Certificate
shall be paid to the Depository, as Holder thereof, and the Depository
shall be responsible for crediting the amount of such distribution to
the accounts of its Depository Participants in accordance with its
normal procedures. Each Depository Participant shall be responsible for
disbursing such distribution to the Certificate Owners that it
represents and to each indirect participating brokerage firm (a
"brokerage firm" or "indirect participating firm") for which it acts as
agent. Each brokerage firm shall be responsible for disbursing funds to
the Certificate Owners that it represents. None of the Trustee, the
Certificate Registrar, the Depositor or the Master Servicer shall have
any responsibility therefor except as otherwise provided by this
Agreement or applicable law.
(h) Except as otherwise provided in Section 9.01, if the
Master Servicer anticipates that a final distribution with respect to
any Class of Certificates will be made on the next Distribution Date,
the Master Servicer shall, no later than the Determination Date in the
month of such final distribution, notify the Trustee and the Trustee
shall, no later than two (2) Business Days after such Determination
Date, mail on such date to each Holder of such Class of Certificates a
notice to the effect that: (i) the Trustee anticipates that the final
distribution with respect to such Class of Certificates will be made on
such Distribution Date but only upon presentation and surrender of such
Certificates at the office of the Trustee or as otherwise specified
therein, and (ii) no interest shall accrue on such Certificates from
and after the end of the related Interest Accrual Period. In the event
that Certificateholders required to surrender their Certificates
pursuant to Section 9.01(c) do not surrender their Certificates for
final cancellation, the Trustee shall cause funds distributable with
respect to such Certificates to be withdrawn from the Certificate
Account and credited to a separate escrow account for the benefit of
such Certificateholders as provided in Section 9.01(d).
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Section 4.03. Statements to Certificateholders; Statements to Rating
Agencies; Exchange Act Reporting.
(a) Concurrently with each distribution charged to the Certificate
Account and with respect to each Distribution Date the Master Servicer shall
forward to the Trustee and the Trustee shall forward by mail or otherwise make
available electronically on its website (which may be obtained by any
Certificateholder by telephoning the Trustee at (000) 000-0000) and the
Depositor a statement setting forth the following information as to each Class
of Certificates, in each case to the extent applicable:
(i) (A) the amount of such distribution to the
Certificateholders of such Class applied to reduce the Certificate
Principal Balance thereof, and (B) the aggregate amount included
therein representing Principal Prepayments;
(ii) the amount of such distribution to Holders of such Class
of Certificates allocable to interest;
(iii) if the distribution to the Holders of such Class of
Certificates is less than the full amount that would be distributable
to such Holders if there were sufficient funds available therefor, the
amount of the shortfall;
(iv) the amount of any Advance by the Master Servicer with
respect to the Group I Loans, Group II Loans, Group III Loans and Group
IV Loans pursuant to Section 4.04;
(v) the number of Group I Loans, Group II Loans, Group III
Loans and Group IV Loans and the Stated Principal Balance after giving
effect to the distribution of principal on such Distribution Date;
(vi) the aggregate Certificate Principal Balance or Notional
Amount, as applicable, of each Class of the Certificates, after giving
effect to the amounts distributed on such Distribution Date, separately
identifying any reduction thereof due to Realized Losses other than
pursuant to an actual distribution of principal;
(vii) on the basis of the most recent reports furnished to it
by Subservicers, the number and aggregate principal balances of Group I
Loans, Group II Loans, Group III Loans and Group IV Loans that are
Delinquent (A) one month, (B) two months and (C) three or more months
and the number and aggregate principal balance of Group I Loans, Group
II Loans, Group III Loans and Group IV Loans that are in foreclosure;
(viii) the number, aggregate principal balance and book value
of any REO Properties;
(ix) the aggregate Accrued Certificate Interest remaining
unpaid, if any, for each Class of Certificates, after giving effect to
the distribution made on such Distribution Date;
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(x) the aggregate amount of Realized Losses for such
Distribution Date and the aggregate amount of Realized Losses on the
Group I Loans, Group II Loans, Group III Loans and Group IV Loans
incurred since the Cut-off Date;
(xi) the Special Hazard Amount, Fraud Loss Amount and
Bankruptcy Amount as of the close of business on such Distribution Date
and a description of any change in the calculation of such amounts;
(xii) the Pass-Through Rate on each Class of Certificates;
(xiii) the number and aggregate principal balance of Group I
Loans, Group II Loans, Group III Loans and Group IV Loans repurchased
under Section 4.07;
(xiv) the aggregate amount of any recoveries on previously
foreclosed loans from Residential Funding due to a breach of
representation or warranty;
(xv) the weighted average remaining term to maturity of the
Group I Loans, Group II Loans, Group III Loans and Group IV Loans after
giving effect to the amounts distributed on such Distribution Date; and
(xvi) the weighted average Mortgage Rates of the Group I
Loans, Group II Loans, Group III Loans and Group IV Loans after giving
effect to the amounts distributed on such Distribution Date.
In the case of information furnished pursuant to clauses (i) and (ii)
above, the amounts shall be expressed as a dollar amount per Certificate with a
$1,000 denomination. In addition to the statement provided to the Trustee as set
forth in this Section 4.03(a), the Master Servicer shall provide to any manager
of a trust fund consisting of some or all of the Certificates, upon reasonable
request, such additional information as is reasonably obtainable by the Master
Servicer at no additional expense to the Master Servicer. Also, at the request
of a Rating Agency, the Master Servicer shall provide the information relating
to the Reportable Modified Mortgage Loans substantially in the form attached
hereto as Exhibit S to such Rating Agency within a reasonable period of time;
provided, however, that the Master Servicer shall not be required to provide
such information more than four times in a calendar year to any Rating Agency.
(b) Within a reasonable period of time after the end of each calendar
year, the Master Servicer shall prepare, or cause to be prepared, and the
Trustee shall forward, or cause to be forwarded, to each Person who at any time
during the calendar year was the Holder of a Certificate, other than a Class R
Certificate, a statement containing the information set forth in clauses (i) and
(ii) of subsection (a) above aggregated for such calendar year or applicable
portion thereof during which such Person was a Certificateholder. Such
obligation of the Master Servicer and Trustee shall be deemed to have been
satisfied to the extent that substantially comparable information shall be
provided by the Master Servicer and Trustee pursuant to any requirements of the
Code.
(c) As soon as reasonably practicable, upon the written request of any
Certificateholder, the Master Servicer shall provide the requesting
Certificateholder with such information as is
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necessary and appropriate, in the Master Servicer's sole discretion, for
purposes of satisfying applicable reporting requirements under Rule 144A.
(d) The Master Servicer shall, on behalf of the Depositor and in
respect of the Trust Fund, sign and cause to be filed with the Commission any
periodic reports required to be filed under the provisions of the Exchange Act,
and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder. In connection with
the preparation and filing of such periodic reports, the Trustee shall timely
provide to the Master Servicer (I) a list of Certificateholders as shown on the
Certificate Register as of the end of each calendar year, (II) copies of all
pleadings, other legal process and any other documents relating to any claims,
charges or complaints involving the Trustee, as trustee hereunder, or the Trust
Fund that are received by the Trustee, (III) notice of all matters that, to the
actual knowledge of a Responsible Officer of the Trustee, have been submitted to
a vote of the Certificateholders, other than those matters that have been
submitted to a vote of the Certificateholders at the request of the Depositor or
the Master Servicer, and (IV) notice of any failure of the Trustee to make any
distribution to the Certificateholders as required pursuant to this Agreement.
Neither the Master Servicer nor the Trustee shall have any liability with
respect to the Master Servicer's failure to properly prepare or file such
periodic reports resulting from or relating to the Master Servicer's inability
or failure to obtain any information not resulting from the Master Servicer's
own negligence or willful misconduct. Any Form 10-K filed with the Commission in
connection with this clause (d) shall include a certification, signed by the
senior officer in charge of the servicing functions of the Master Servicer, in
the form attached as Exhibit R-1 hereto or such other form as may be required or
permitted by the Commission (the "Form 10-K Certification"), in compliance with
Rule 13a-14 and 15d-14 under the Exchange Act and any additional directives of
the Commission. In connection with the Form 10-K Certification, the Trustee
shall provide the Master Servicer with a back-up certification substantially in
the form attached hereto as Exhibit R-2. This Section 4.03(d) may be amended in
accordance with this Agreement without the consent of the Certificateholders.
Section 4.04. Distribution of Reports to the Trustee and the
Depositor; Advances by the Master Servicer.
(a) Prior to the close of business on the Business Day next succeeding
each Determination Date, the Master Servicer shall furnish a written statement
(which may be in a mutually agreeable electronic format) to the Trustee, any
Paying Agent and the Depositor (the information in such statement to be made
available to Certificateholders by the Master Servicer on request) (provided
that the Master Servicer will use its best efforts to deliver such written
statement not later than 12:00 p.m. New York time on the second Business Day
prior to the Distribution Date) setting forth (i) the Available Distribution
Amounts, (ii) the amounts required to be withdrawn from the Custodial Account
and deposited into the Certificate Account and Certificate Insurance Account on
the immediately succeeding Certificate Account Deposit Date pursuant to clause
(iii) of Section 4.01(a), (iii) the amount of Prepayment Interest Shortfalls,
and (iv) to the extent required, a report detailing the Stated Principal
Balance, Mortgage Rate, Modified Mortgage Rate, remaining term to maturity and
Monthly Payment for any Modified Mortgage Loan pursuant to Section 3.13. The
determination by the Master Servicer of such amounts shall, in the absence of
obvious error, be presumptively deemed to be correct for all purposes hereunder
and the Trustee shall be protected in relying upon the same without any
independent check or verification.
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(b) On or before 2:00 P.M. New York time on each Certificate Account
Deposit Date, the Master Servicer shall either (i) remit to the Trustee for
deposit in the Certificate Account from its own funds, or funds received
therefor from the Subservicers, an amount equal to the Advances to be made by
the Master Servicer in respect of the related Distribution Date, which shall be
in an aggregate amount equal to the sum of (A) the aggregate amount of Monthly
Payments (with each interest portion thereof adjusted to a per annum rate equal
to the Net Mortgage Rate), less the amount of any related Servicing
Modifications, Debt Service Reductions or reductions in the amount of interest
collectable from the Mortgagor pursuant to the Relief Act or similar legislation
or regulations then in effect, on the Outstanding Mortgage Loans as of the
related Due Date in the related Due Period, which Monthly Payments were due
during the related Due Period and not received as of the close of business as of
the related Determination Date; provided that no Advance shall be made if it
would be a Nonrecoverable Advance, (ii) withdraw from amounts on deposit in the
Custodial Account and deposit in the Certificate Account all or a portion of the
Amount Held for Future Distribution in discharge of any such Advance, or (iii)
make advances in the form of any combination of (i) and (ii) aggregating the
amount of such Advance. Any portion of the Amount Held for Future Distribution
so used shall be replaced by the Master Servicer by deposit in the Certificate
Account on or before 11:00 A.M. New York time on any future Certificate Account
Deposit Date to the extent that funds attributable to the Mortgage Loans that
are available in the Custodial Account for deposit in the Certificate Account on
such Certificate Account Deposit Date shall be less than payments to
Certificateholders required to be made on the following Distribution Date. The
Master Servicer shall be entitled to use any Advance made by a Subservicer as
described in Section 3.07(b) that has been deposited in the Custodial Account on
or before such Distribution Date as part of the Advance made by the Master
Servicer pursuant to this Section 4.04.
The determination by the Master Servicer that it has made a
Nonrecoverable Advance or that any proposed Advance, if made, would constitute a
Nonrecoverable Advance, shall be evidenced by a certificate of a Servicing
Officer delivered to the Depositor and the Trustee. In the event that the Master
Servicer determines as of the Business Day preceding any Certificate Account
Deposit Date that it will be unable to deposit in the Certificate Account an
amount equal to the Advance required to be made for the immediately succeeding
Distribution Date, it shall give notice to the Trustee of its inability to
advance (such notice may be given by telecopy), not later than 3:00 P.M., New
York time, on such Business Day, specifying the portion of such amount that it
will be unable to deposit. Not later than 3:00 P.M., New York time, on the
Certificate Account Deposit Date the Trustee shall, unless by 12:00 Noon, New
York time, on such day the Trustee shall have been notified in writing (by
telecopy) that the Master Servicer shall have directly or indirectly deposited
in the Certificate Account such portion of the amount of the Advance as to which
the Master Servicer shall have given notice pursuant to the preceding sentence,
pursuant to Section 7.01, (a) terminate all of the rights and obligations of the
Master Servicer under this Agreement in accordance with Section 7.01 and (b)
assume the rights and obligations of the Master Servicer hereunder, including
the obligation to deposit in the Certificate Account an amount equal to the
Advance for the immediately succeeding Distribution Date. In connection with the
preceding sentence, the Trustee shall deposit all funds it receives pursuant to
this Section 4.04 into the Certificate Account.
Section 4.05. Allocation of Realized Losses.
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(a) Prior to each Distribution Date, the Master Servicer shall
determine the total amount of Realized Losses, if any, that resulted from any
Cash Liquidation, Servicing Modification, Debt Service Reduction, Deficient
Valuation or REO Disposition that occurred during the related Prepayment Period
or, in the case of a Servicing Modification that constitutes a reduction of the
interest rate on a Mortgage Loan, the amount of the reduction in the interest
portion of the Monthly Payment due during the related Due Period. The amount of
each Realized Loss shall be evidenced by an Officers' Certificate. All Realized
Losses, other than Excess Losses or Cross-Collateralized Special Hazard Losses,
shall be allocated as follows: first, to the Class B-3 Certificates until the
Certificate Principal Balance thereof has been reduced to zero; second, to the
Class B-2 Certificates until the Certificate Principal Balance thereof has been
reduced to zero; third, to the Class B-1 Certificates until the Certificate
Principal Balance thereof has been reduced to zero; fourth, to the Class M-3
Certificates until the Certificate Principal Balance thereof has been reduced to
zero; fifth, to the Class M-2 Certificates until the Certificate Principal
Balance thereof has been reduced to zero; sixth, to the Class M-1 Certificates
until the Certificate Principal Balance thereof has been reduced to zero; and,
thereafter, (i) in the case of the Group I Loans, if any such Realized Losses
are on a Discount Mortgage Loan in Loan Group I, to the Class A-I-PO
Certificates in an amount equal to the related Discount Fraction of the
principal portion thereof until the Certificate Principal Balance thereof has
been reduced to zero, and the remainder of such Realized Losses on the Discount
Mortgage Loans in Loan Group I and the entire amount of such Realized Losses on
Non-Discount Mortgage Loans in Loan Group I will be allocated among all the
remaining Group I Senior Certificates (other than the Class A-I-PO Certificates)
on a pro rata basis, as described in paragraph (c) below and (ii) in the case of
the Group II Loans, Group III Loans and Group IV Loans, if any such Realized
Losses are on a Discount Mortgage Loan in Loan Group II, Loan Group III or Loan
Group IV, to the Class A-PO Certificates in an amount equal to the related
Discount Fraction of the principal portion thereof until the Certificate
Principal Balance thereof has been reduced to zero, and the remainder of such
Realized Losses on such Discount Mortgage Loans and the entire amount of such
Realized Losses on Non-Discount Mortgage Loans in the related Loan Group will be
allocated among all the remaining Classes of related Senior Certificates (other
than the Class A-PO Certificates) on a pro rata basis, as described in paragraph
(c) below.
(b) Any Excess Losses on Non-Discount Mortgage Loans in a Loan Group
will be allocated among the related Senior Certificates (other than the
Principal Only Certificates) and the Subordinate Certificates, on a pro rata
basis, as described below. The principal portion of such Realized Losses on the
Discount Mortgage Loans in Loan Group I will be allocated to the Class A-I- PO
Certificates in an amount equal to the related Discount Fraction thereof and the
remainder of such Realized Losses on the Discount Mortgage Loans in such Loan
Group and the entire amount of such Realized Losses on Non-Discount Mortgage
Loans in the related Loan Group will be allocated among the Group I Senior
Certificates (other than the Class A-I-PO Certificates) and Subordinate
Certificates, on a pro rata basis, as described in paragraph (c) below. The
principal portion of such Realized Losses on the Discount Mortgage Loans in Loan
Group II, Loan Group III or Loan Group IV will be allocated to the Class A-PO
Certificates in an amount equal to the related Discount Fraction thereof and the
remainder of such Realized Losses on the Discount Mortgage Loans in such Loan
Group and the entire amount of such Realized Losses on Non-Discount Mortgage
Loans in the related Loan Group will be allocated among the remaining Classes of
related Senior Certificates (other than the Class A-PO Certificates) and
Subordinate Certificates, on a pro rata basis, as described in paragraph (c)
below.
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(c) As used herein, an allocation of a Realized Loss on a "pro rata
basis" among two or more specified Classes of Certificates means an allocation
among the various Classes so specified, to each such Class of Certificates on
the basis of their then outstanding Certificate Principal Balances prior to
giving effect to distributions to be made on such Distribution Date in the case
of the principal portion of a Realized Loss or based on the Accrued Certificate
Interest thereon payable on such Distribution Date (without regard to any
Compensating Interest for such Distribution Date) in the case of an interest
portion of a Realized Loss. Except as provided in the following sentence, any
allocation of the principal portion of Realized Losses (other than Debt Service
Reductions) to a Class of Certificates shall be made by reducing the Certificate
Principal Balance thereof by the amount so allocated, which allocation shall be
deemed to have occurred on such Distribution Date. Any allocation of the
principal portion of Realized Losses (other than Debt Service Reductions) to the
Subordinate Certificates then outstanding with the Lowest Priority shall be made
by operation of the definition of "Certificate Principal Balance" and by
operation of the provisions of Section 4.02(a). Allocations of the interest
portions of Realized Losses to the Subordinate Certificates then outstanding
with the Lowest Priority shall be made in proportion to the amount of Accrued
Certificate Interest and by operation of the definition of "Accrued Certificate
Interest" and by operation of the provisions of Section 4.02(a). Allocations of
the principal portion of Debt Service Reductions shall be made by operation of
the provisions of Section 4.02(a). All Realized Losses and all other losses
allocated to a Class of Certificates hereunder will be allocated among the
Certificates of such Class in proportion to the Percentage Interests evidenced
thereby; provided that if any Subclasses of the Interest Only Certificates have
been issued pursuant to Section 5.01(c), such Realized Losses and other losses
allocated to the Interest Only Certificates shall be allocated among such
Subclasses in proportion to the respective amounts of Accrued Certificate
Interest payable on such Distribution Date that would have resulted absent such
reductions.
Section 4.06. Reports of Foreclosures and Abandonment of Mortgaged
Property.
The Master Servicer or the Subservicers shall file information returns
with respect to the receipt of mortgage interest received in a trade or
business, the reports of foreclosures and abandonments of any Mortgaged Property
and the informational returns relating to cancellation of indebtedness income
with respect to any Mortgaged Property required by Sections 6050H, 6050J and
6050P of the Code, respectively, and deliver to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate on or before March 31 of each year stating that such reports have
been filed. Such reports shall be in form and substance sufficient to meet the
reporting requirements imposed by such Sections 6050H, 6050J and 6050P of the
Code.
Section 4.07. Optional Purchase of Defaulted Mortgage Loans.
As to any Mortgage Loan which is delinquent in payment by 90 days or
more, the Master Servicer may, at its option, purchase such Mortgage Loan from
the Trustee at the Purchase Price therefor; provided, that any such Mortgage
Loan that becomes 90 days or more delinquent during any given Calendar Quarter
shall only be eligible for purchase pursuant to this Section during the period
beginning on the first Business Day of the following Calendar Quarter, and
ending at the close of business on the second-to-last Business Day of such
following Calendar Quarter. Such option if not exercised shall not thereafter be
reinstated as to any Mortgage Loan, unless the delinquency is cured and the
Mortgage Loan thereafter again becomes delinquent in payment by 90 days or more
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in a subsequent Calendar Quarter. If at any time the Master Servicer makes a
payment to the Certificate Account covering the amount of the Purchase Price for
such a Mortgage Loan, and the Master Servicer provides to the Trustee a
certification signed by a Servicing Officer stating that the amount of such
payment has been deposited in the Certificate Account, then the Trustee shall
execute the assignment of such Mortgage Loan at the request of the Master
Servicer without recourse to the Master Servicer which shall succeed to all the
Trustee's right, title and interest in and to such Mortgage Loan, and all
security and documents relative thereto. Such assignment shall be an assignment
outright and not for security. The Master Servicer will thereupon own such
Mortgage, and all such security and documents, free of any further obligation to
the Trustee or the Certificateholders with respect thereto.
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ARTICLE V
THE CERTIFICATES
Section 5.01. The Certificates.
(a) The Class A, Class M, Class B and Class R Certificates shall be
substantially in the forms set forth in Exhibits A, B, C and D, respectively,
and shall, on original issue, be executed and delivered by the Trustee to the
Certificate Registrar for authentication and delivery to or upon the order of
the Depositor upon receipt by the Trustee or one or more Custodians of the
documents specified in Section 2.01. The Class A and Class M-1 Certificates
shall be issuable in minimum dollar denominations of $25,000 and integral
multiples of $1 in excess thereof. The Class M-2 and Class M-3 Certificates
shall be issuable in minimum dollar denominations of $250,000 and integral
multiples of $1 in excess thereof. The Class B Certificates shall be issuable in
minimum denominations of $100,000 and integral multiples of $1 in excess
thereof, except that one of each of the Class B Certificates will be issued
evidencing the sum of an authorized denomination thereof plus the remainder of
the aggregate initial Certificate Principal Balance of such class. Each Class of
Class R Certificates shall be issued in registered, certificated form in minimum
percentage interests of 20.00% and integral multiples of 0.01% in excess
thereof; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that one Class R Certificate of each Class will be
issuable to the REMIC Administrator as "tax matters person" pursuant to Section
10.01(c) in a minimum denomination representing a Percentage Interest of not
less than 0.01%.The Certificates shall be executed by manual or facsimile
signature on behalf of an authorized officer of the Trustee. Certificates
bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were at any time
the proper officers of the Trustee shall bind the Trustee, notwithstanding that
such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such offices prior to the
authentication and delivery of such Certificate or did not hold such offices at
the date of such Certificates. No Certificate shall be entitled to any benefit
under this Agreement, or be valid for any purpose, unless there appears on such
Certificate a certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided
for herein executed by the Certificate Registrar by manual signature, and such
certificate upon any Certificate shall be conclusive evidence, and the only
evidence, that such Certificate has been duly authenticated and delivered
hereunder. All Certificates shall be dated the date of their authentication.
(b) The Class A Certificates and Class M Certificates shall initially
be issued as one or more Certificates registered in the name of the Depository
or its nominee and, except as provided below, registration of such Certificates
may not be transferred by the Trustee except to another Depository that agrees
to hold such Certificates for the respective Certificate Owners with Ownership
Interests therein. The Certificate Owners shall hold their respective Ownership
Interests in and to each Class A Certificate and Class M Certificate, through
the book-entry facilities of the Depository and, except as provided below, shall
not be entitled to Definitive Certificates in respect of such Ownership
Interests. All transfers by Certificate Owners of their respective Ownership
Interests in the Book-Entry Certificates shall be made in accordance with the
procedures established by the Depository Participant or brokerage firm
representing such Certificate Owner. Each Depository Participant shall transfer
the Ownership Interests only in the Book-Entry Certificates of Certificate
Owners it represents or of brokerage firms for which it acts as agent in
accordance with the Depository's normal procedures.
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The Trustee, the Master Servicer and the Depositor may for all purposes
(including the making of payments due on the respective Classes of Book-Entry
Certificates) deal with the Depository as the authorized representative of the
Certificate Owners with respect to the respective Classes of Book-Entry
Certificates for the purposes of exercising the rights of Certificateholders
hereunder. The rights of Certificate Owners with respect to the respective
Classes of Book-Entry Certificates shall be limited to those established by law
and agreements between such Certificate Owners and the Depository Participants
and brokerage firms representing such Certificate Owners. Multiple requests and
directions from, and votes of, the Depository as Holder of any Class of Book-
Entry Certificates with respect to any particular matter shall not be deemed
inconsistent if they are made with respect to different Certificate Owners. The
Trustee may establish a reasonable record date in connection with solicitations
of consents from or voting by Certificateholders and shall give notice to the
Depository of such record date. If (i)(A) the Depositor advises the Trustee in
writing that the Depository is no longer willing or able to properly discharge
its responsibilities as Depository and (B) the Depositor is unable to locate a
qualified successor or (ii) the Depositor at its option advises the Trustee in
writing that it elects to terminate the book-entry system through the
Depository, the Trustee shall notify all Certificate Owners, through the
Depository, of the occurrence of any such event and of the availability of
Definitive Certificates to Certificate Owners requesting the same. Upon
surrender to the Trustee of the Book-Entry Certificates by the Depository,
accompanied by registration instructions from the Depository for registration of
transfer, the Trustee shall issue the Definitive Certificates. Neither the
Depositor, the Master Servicer nor the Trustee shall be liable for any actions
taken by the Depository or its nominee, including, without limitation, any delay
in delivery of such instructions and may conclusively rely on, and shall be
protected in relying on, such instructions. Upon the issuance of Definitive
Certificates all references herein to obligations imposed upon or to be
performed by the Depositor in connection with the issuance of the Definitive
Certificates pursuant to this Section 5.01 shall be deemed to be imposed upon
and performed by the Trustee, and the Trustee and the Master Servicer shall
recognize the Holders of the Definitive Certificates as Certificateholders
hereunder.
(c) Each of the Certificates is intended to be a "security" governed by
Article 8 of the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in the State of New York
and any other applicable jurisdiction, to the extent that any of such laws may
be applicable.
(d) From time to time the initial Holder of the Interest Only
Certificates, may exchange such Holder's Interest Only Certificates for
Subclasses of Interest Only Certificates to be issued under this Agreement by
delivering a "Request for Exchange" substantially in the form attached hereto as
Exhibit Q executed by an authorized officer, which Subclasses, in the aggregate,
will represent the Uncertificated Class A-I-IO REMIC II Regular Interests
corresponding to the Class A-I-IO Certificates and the Uncertificated Class A-IO
REMIC II Regular Interests corresponding to the Class A-IO Certificates so
surrendered for exchange. Any Subclass so issued shall bear a numerical
designation commencing with Class A-I-IO-1 or Class A-IO-1, as the case may be,
and continuing sequentially thereafter, and will evidence ownership of the
Uncertificated REMIC Regular Interest or Interests specified in writing by such
initial Holder to the Trustee. The Trustee may conclusively, without any
independent verification, rely on, and shall be protected in relying on, the
Holder's determinations of the Uncertificated Class A-I-IO REMIC II Regular
Interests or Uncertificated Class A-IO REMIC II Regular Interests corresponding
to any Subclass, the Initial Notional Amount and the initial Pass-Through Rate
on a Subclass as set forth in such Request for
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Exchange and the Trustee shall have no duty to determine if any Uncertificated
Class A-I-IO REMIC II Regular Interest or Uncertificated Class A-IO REMIC II
Regular Interest designated on a Request for Exchange corresponds to a Subclass
which has previously been issued. Each Subclass so issued shall be substantially
in the form set forth in Exhibit A and shall, on original issue, be executed and
delivered by the Trustee to the Certificate Registrar for authentication and
delivery in accordance with Section 5.01(a). Every Certificate presented or
surrendered for exchange by the initial Holder shall (if so required by the
Trustee or the Certificate Registrar) be duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by
a written instrument of transfer attached to such Certificate and shall be
completed to the satisfaction of the Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly
executed by, the initial Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in
writing. The Certificates of any Subclass of Class A-I-IO Certificates or Class
A-IO Certificates may be transferred in whole, but not in part, in accordance
with the provisions of Section 5.02.
Section 5.02. Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates.
(a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at one of the offices or
agencies to be appointed by the Trustee in accordance with the provisions of
Section 8.11 a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable
regulations as it may prescribe, the Trustee shall provide for the registration
of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein
provided. The Trustee is initially appointed Certificate Registrar for the
purpose of registering Certificates and transfers and exchanges of Certificates
as herein provided. The Certificate Registrar, or the Trustee, shall provide the
Master Servicer with a certified list of Certificateholders as of each Record
Date prior to the related Determination Date.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at
any office or agency of the Trustee maintained for such purpose pursuant to
Section 8.11 and, in the case of any Class M, Class B or Class R Certificate,
upon satisfaction of the conditions set forth below, the Trustee shall execute
and the Certificate Registrar shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the
designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates of a like
Class and aggregate Percentage Interest.
(c) At the option of the Certificateholders, Certificates may be
exchanged for other Certificates of authorized denominations of a like Class and
aggregate Percentage Interest, upon surrender of the Certificates to be
exchanged at any such office or agency. Whenever any Certificates are so
surrendered for exchange the Trustee shall execute and the Certificate Registrar
shall authenticate and deliver the Certificates of such Class which the
Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Certificate
presented or surrendered for transfer or exchange shall (if so required by the
Trustee or the Certificate Registrar) be duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by
a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee and the
Certificate Registrar duly executed by, the Holder thereof or his attorney duly
authorized in writing.
(d) No transfer, sale, pledge or other disposition of a Class B
Certificate shall be made unless such transfer, sale, pledge or other
disposition is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act
of 1933, as amended (the "1933 Act"), and any applicable state securities laws
or is made in accordance with said Act and laws. Except as otherwise provided in
this Section 5.02(d), in the event that a transfer of a Class B Certificate is
to be made, (i) unless the Depositor
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directs the Trustee otherwise, the Trustee shall require a written Opinion of
Counsel acceptable to and in form and substance satisfactory to the Trustee and
the Depositor that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption,
describing the applicable exemption and the basis therefor, from said Act and
laws or is being made pursuant to said Act and laws, which Opinion of Counsel
shall not be an expense of the Trustee, the Trust Fund, the Depositor or the
Master Servicer, and (ii) the Trustee shall require the transferee to execute a
representation letter, substantially in the form of Exhibit I hereto, and the
Trustee shall require the transferor to execute a representation letter,
substantially in the form of Exhibit J hereto, each acceptable to and in form
and substance satisfactory to the Depositor and the Trustee certifying to the
Depositor and the Trustee the facts surrounding such transfer, which
representation letters shall not be an expense of the Trustee, the Trust Fund,
the Depositor or the Master Servicer. In lieu of the requirements set forth in
the preceding sentence, transfers of Class B Certificates may be made in
accordance with this Section 5.02(d) if the prospective transferee of such a
Certificate provides the Trustee and the Master Servicer with an investment
letter substantially in the form of Exhibit N attached hereto, which investment
letter shall not be an expense of the Trustee, the Depositor, or the Master
Servicer, and which investment letter states that, among other things, such
transferee (i) is a "qualified institutional buyer" as defined under Rule 144A,
acting for its own account or the accounts of other "qualified institutional
buyers" as defined under Rule 144A, and (ii) is aware that the proposed
transferor intends to rely on the exemption from registration requirements under
the 1933 Act provided by Rule 144A. The Holder of a Class B Certificate desiring
to effect any transfer, sale, pledge or other disposition shall, and does hereby
agree to, indemnify the Trustee, the Depositor, the Master Servicer and the
Certificate Registrar against any liability that may result if the transfer,
sale, pledge or other disposition is not so exempt or is not made in accordance
with such federal and state laws and this Agreement.
(e) (i) In the case of any Class B or Class R Certificate presented for
registration in the name of any Person, either (i) the Trustee shall require an
Opinion of Counsel acceptable to and in form and substance satisfactory to the
Trustee, the Depositor and the Master Servicer to the effect that the purchase
or holding of such Class B or Class R Certificate is permissible under
applicable law, will not constitute or result in any non-exempt prohibited
transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (or
comparable provisions of any subsequent enactments), and will not subject the
Trustee, the Depositor or the Master Servicer to any obligation or liability
(including obligations or liabilities under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code)
in addition to those undertaken in this Agreement, which Opinion of Counsel
shall not be an expense of the Trustee, the Trust Fund, the Depositor or the
Master Servicer or (ii) the prospective transferee shall be required to provide
the Trustee, the Depositor and the Master Servicer with a certification to the
effect set forth in paragraph six of Exhibit I or paragraph three of Exhibit N
(with respect to a Class B Certificate) or in paragraph fourteen of Exhibit H-1
(with respect to a Class R Certificate), which the Trustee may rely upon without
further inquiry or investigation, or such other certifications as the Trustee
may deem desirable or necessary in order to establish that such transferee or
the Person in whose name such registration is requested either (a) is not an
employee benefit plan or other plan subject to the prohibited transaction
provisions of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, or any Person (including an
insurance company investing its general accounts, an investment manager, a named
fiduciary or a trustee of any such plan) who is using "plan assets" of any such
plan to effect such acquisition (a "Plan Investor") or (b) in the case of a
Class B Certificate, the following conditions are satisfied: (i) such Transferee
is an insurance company, (ii) the source of funds used to purchase
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or hold such Certificate (or interest therein) is an "insurance company general
account" (as defined in U.S. Department of Labor Prohibited Transaction Class
Exemption ("PTCE") 95-60, and (iii) the conditions set forth in Sections I and
III of PTCE 95-60 have been satisfied (each entity that satisfies this clause
(b), a "Complying Insurance Company").
(ii) Any Transferee of a Class M Certificate will be deemed to
have represented by virtue of its purchase or holding of such Certificate (or
interest therein) that either (a) such Transferee is not a Plan Investor, (b) it
has acquired and is holding such Certificate in reliance on Prohibited
Transaction Exemption ("PTE") 94-29, 59 Fed. Reg. 14674 (March 29, 1994), as
amended by PTE 97-34, 62 Fed. Reg. 39021 (July 21, 1997), PTE 2000-58, 65 Fed.
Reg. 67765 (November 13, 2000), and PTE 2002-41, 67 Fed. Reg. 54487 (August 22,
2002) (the "RFC Exemption"), and that it understands that there are certain
conditions to the availability of the RFC Exemption including that such
Certificate must be rated, at the time of purchase, not lower than "BBB-" (or
its equivalent) by Standard & Poor's, Fitch or Moody's or (c) such Transferee is
a Complying Insurance Company.
(iii) (A) If any Class M Certificate (or any interest therein)
is acquired or held by any Person that does not satisfy the conditions described
in paragraph (ii) above, then the last preceding Transferee that either (i) is
not a Plan Investor, (ii) acquired such Certificate in compliance with the RFC
Exemption, or (iii) is a Complying Insurance Company shall be restored, to the
extent permitted by law, to all rights and obligations as Certificate Owner
thereof retroactive to the date of such Transfer of such Class M Certificate.
The Trustee shall be under no liability to any Person for making any payments
due on such Certificate to such preceding Transferee.
(B) Any purported Certificate Owner whose acquisition or
holding of any Class M Certificate (or interest therein) was effected in
violation of the restrictions in this Section 5.02(e) shall indemnify and hold
harmless the Depositor, the Trustee, the Master Servicer, any Subservicer, and
the Trust Fund from and against any and all liabilities, claims, costs or
expenses incurred by such parties as a result of such acquisition or holding.
(f) (i) Each Person who has or who acquires any Ownership Interest in a
Class R Certificate shall be deemed by the acceptance or acquisition of such
Ownership Interest to have agreed to be bound by the following provisions and to
have irrevocably authorized the Trustee or its designee under clause (iii)(A)
below to deliver payments to a Person other than such Person and to negotiate
the terms of any mandatory sale under clause (iii)(B) below and to execute all
instruments of transfer and to do all other things necessary in connection with
any such sale. The rights of each Person acquiring any Ownership Interest in a
Class R Certificate are expressly subject to the following provisions:
(A) Each Person holding or acquiring any Ownership Interest in
a Class R Certificate shall be a Permitted Transferee and shall
promptly notify the Trustee of any change or impending change in its
status as a Permitted Transferee.
(B) In connection with any proposed Transfer of any Ownership
Interest in a Class R Certificate, the Trustee shall require delivery
to it, and shall not register the Transfer of any Class R Certificate
until its receipt of,
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(I) an affidavit and agreement (a "Transfer Affidavit
and Agreement," in the form attached hereto as
Exhibit H-1) from the proposed Transferee, in form
and substance satisfactory to the Master Servicer,
representing and warranting, among other things, that
it is a Permitted Transferee, that it is not
acquiring its Ownership Interest in the Class R
Certificate that is the subject of the proposed
Transfer as a nominee, trustee or agent for any
Person who is not a Permitted Transferee, that for so
long as it retains its Ownership Interest in a Class
R Certificate, it will endeavor to remain a Permitted
Transferee, and that it has reviewed the provisions
of this Section 5.02(f) and agrees to be bound by
them, and
(II) a certificate, in the form attached hereto as
Exhibit H-2, from the Holder wishing to transfer the
Class R Certificate, in form and substance
satisfactory to the Master Servicer, representing and
warranting, among other things, that no purpose of
the proposed Transfer is to impede the assessment or
collection of tax.
(C) Notwithstanding the delivery of a Transfer Affidavit and
Agreement by a proposed Transferee under clause (B) above, if a
Responsible Officer of the Trustee who is assigned to this Agreement
has actual knowledge that the proposed Transferee is not a Permitted
Transferee, no Transfer of an Ownership Interest in a Class R
Certificate to such proposed Transferee shall be effected.
(D) Each Person holding or acquiring any Ownership Interest in
a Class R Certificate shall agree (x) to require a Transfer Affidavit
and Agreement from any other Person to whom such Person attempts to
transfer its Ownership Interest in a Class R Certificate and (y) not to
transfer its Ownership Interest unless it provides a certificate to the
Trustee in the form attached hereto as Exhibit H-2.
(E) Each Person holding or acquiring an Ownership Interest in
a Class R Certificate, by purchasing an Ownership Interest in such
Certificate, agrees to give the Trustee written notice that it is a
"pass-through interest holder" within the meaning of Temporary Treasury
Regulations Section 1.67-3T(a)(2)(i)(A) immediately upon acquiring an
Ownership Interest in a Class R Certificate, if it is, or is holding an
Ownership Interest in a Class R Certificate on behalf of, a
"pass-through interest holder."
(ii) The Trustee will register the Transfer of any Class R Certificate
only if it shall have received the Transfer Affidavit and Agreement, a
certificate of the Holder requesting such transfer in the form attached hereto
as Exhibit H-2 and all of such other documents as shall have been reasonably
required by the Trustee as a condition to such registration. Transfers of the
Class R Certificates to Non-United States Persons and Disqualified Organizations
(as defined in Section 860E(e)(5) of the Code) are prohibited.
(A) If any Disqualified Organization shall become a holder of
a Class R Certificate, then the last preceding Permitted Transferee
shall be restored, to the extent permitted by law, to all rights and
obligations as Holder thereof retroactive to the date of
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registration of such Transfer of such Class R Certificate. If a
Non-United States Person shall become a holder of a Class R
Certificate, then the last preceding United States Person shall be
restored, to the extent permitted by law, to all rights and obligations
as Holder thereof retroactive to the date of registration of such
Transfer of such Class R Certificate. If a transfer of a Class R
Certificate is disregarded pursuant to the provisions of Treasury
Regulations Section 1.860E-1 or Section 1.860G-3, then the last
preceding Permitted Transferee shall be restored, to the extent
permitted by law, to all rights and obligations as Holder thereof
retroactive to the date of registration of such Transfer of such Class
R Certificate. The Trustee shall be under no liability to any Person
for any registration of Transfer of a Class R Certificate that is in
fact not permitted by this Section 5.02(f) or for making any payments
due on such Certificate to the holder thereof or for taking any other
action with respect to such holder under the provisions of this
Agreement.
(B) If any purported Transferee shall become a Holder of a
Class R Certificate in violation of the restrictions in this Section
5.02(f) and to the extent that the retroactive restoration of the
rights of the Holder of such Class R Certificate as described in clause
(iii)(A) above shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, then the
Master Servicer shall have the right, without notice to the holder or
any prior holder of such Class R Certificate, to sell such Class R
Certificate to a purchaser selected by the Master Servicer on such
terms as the Master Servicer may choose. Such purported Transferee
shall promptly endorse and deliver each Class R Certificate in
accordance with the instructions of the Master Servicer. Such purchaser
may be the Master Servicer itself or any Affiliate of the Master
Servicer. The proceeds of such sale, net of the commissions (which may
include commissions payable to the Master Servicer or its Affiliates),
expenses and taxes due, if any, will be remitted by the Master Servicer
to such purported Transferee. The terms and conditions of any sale
under this clause (iii)(B) shall be determined in the sole discretion
of the Master Servicer, and the Master Servicer shall not be liable to
any Person having an Ownership Interest in a Class R Certificate as a
result of its exercise of such discretion.
(iv) The Master Servicer, on behalf of the Trustee, shall make
available, upon written request from the Trustee, all information necessary to
compute any tax imposed
(A) as a result of the Transfer of an Ownership Interest in a
Class R Certificate to any Person who is a Disqualified
Organization, including the information regarding "excess
inclusions" of such Class R Certificates required to be
provided to the Internal Revenue Service and certain Persons
as described in Treasury Regulations Sections 1.860D-1(b)(5)
and 1.860E-2(a)(5), and
(B) as a result of any regulated investment company, real
estate investment trust, common trust fund, partnership,
trust, estate or organization described in Section 1381 of the
Code that holds an Ownership Interest in a Class R Certificate
having as among its record holders at any time any Person who
is a Disqualified Organization. Reasonable compensation for
providing such information may be required by the Master
Servicer from such Person.
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(v) The provisions of this Section 5.02(f) set forth prior to this
clause (v) may be modified, added to or eliminated, provided that there shall
have been delivered to the Trustee the following:
(A) Written notification from each Rating Agency to the effect
that the modification, addition to or elimination of such
provisions will not cause such Rating Agency to downgrade its
then-current ratings, if any, of the Class A Certificates
below the lower of the then-current rating or the rating
assigned to such Certificates as of the Closing Date by such
Rating Agency; and
(B) a certificate of the Master Servicer stating that the
Master Servicer has received an Opinion of Counsel, in form
and substance satisfactory to the Master Servicer, to the
effect that such modification, addition to or absence of such
provisions will not cause any of REMIC I or REMIC II to cease
to qualify as a REMIC and will not cause (x) any of REMIC I or
REMIC II to be subject to an entity-level tax caused by the
Transfer of any Class R Certificate to a Person that is a
Disqualified Organization or (y) a Certificateholder or
another Person to be subject to a REMIC-related tax caused by
the Transfer of a Class R Certificate to a Person that is not
a Permitted Transferee.
(g) No service charge shall be made for any transfer or exchange of
Certificates of any Class, but the Trustee may require payment of a sum
sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in
connection with any transfer or exchange of Certificates.
(h) All Certificates surrendered for transfer and exchange shall be
destroyed by the Certificate Registrar.
Section 5.03. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Certificates.
If (i) any mutilated Certificate is surrendered to the Certificate
Registrar, or the Trustee and the Certificate Registrar receive evidence to
their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Certificate, and
(ii) there is delivered to the Trustee and the Certificate Registrar such
security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them harmless,
then, in the absence of notice to the Trustee or the Certificate Registrar that
such Certificate has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Trustee shall
execute and the Certificate Registrar shall authenticate and deliver, in
exchange for or in lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen
Certificate, a new Certificate of like tenor, Class and Percentage Interest but
bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding. Upon the issuance of any new
Certificate under this Section, the Trustee may require the payment of a sum
sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in
relation thereto and any other expenses (including the fees and expenses of the
Trustee and the Certificate Registrar) connected therewith. Any duplicate
Certificate issued pursuant to this Section shall constitute complete and
indefeasible evidence of ownership in the Trust Fund, as if originally issued,
whether or not the lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate shall be found at any
time.
Section 5.04. Persons Deemed Owners.
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Prior to due presentation of a Certificate for registration of
transfer, the Depositor, the Master Servicer, the Trustee, the Certificate
Registrar and any agent of the Depositor, the Master Servicer, the Trustee or
the Certificate Registrar may treat the Person in whose name any Certificate is
registered as the owner of such Certificate for the purpose of receiving
distributions pursuant to Section 4.02 and for all other purposes whatsoever,
except as and to the extent provided in the definition of "Certificateholder",
and neither the Depositor, the Master Servicer, the Trustee, the Certificate
Registrar nor any agent of the Depositor, the Master Servicer, the Trustee or
the Certificate Registrar shall be affected by notice to the contrary except as
provided in Section 5.02(f).
Section 5.05. Appointment of Paying Agent.
The Trustee may appoint a Paying Agent for the purpose of making
distributions to Certificateholders pursuant to Section 4.02. In the event of
any such appointment, on or prior to each Distribution Date the Master Servicer
on behalf of the Trustee shall deposit or cause to be deposited with the Paying
Agent a sum sufficient to make the payments to Certificateholders in the amounts
and in the manner provided for in Section 4.02 and 4.03, such sum to be held in
trust for the benefit of Certificateholders. The Trustee shall cause each Paying
Agent to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such Paying
Agent shall agree with the Trustee that such Paying Agent will hold all sums
held by it for the payment to Certificateholders in trust for the benefit of the
Certificateholders entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to such
Certificateholders. Any sums so held by such Paying Agent shall be held only in
Eligible Accounts to the extent such sums are not distributed to the
Certificateholders on the date of receipt by such Paying Agent.
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ARTICLE VI
THE DEPOSITOR AND THE MASTER SERVICER
Section 6.01. Respective Liabilities of the Depositor and the
Master Servicer.
The Depositor and the Master Servicer shall each be liable in
accordance herewith only to the extent of the obligations specifically and
respectively imposed upon and undertaken by the Depositor and the Master
Servicer herein. By way of illustration and not limitation, the Depositor is not
liable for the servicing and administration of the Mortgage Loans, nor is it
obligated by Section 7.01 or 10.01 to assume any obligations of the Master
Servicer or to appoint a designee to assume such obligations, nor is it liable
for any other obligation hereunder that it may, but is not obligated to, assume
unless it elects to assume such obligation in accordance herewith.
Section 6.02. Merger or Consolidation of the Depositor or the
Master Servicer; Assignment of Rights and Delegation
of Duties by Master Servicer.
(a) The Depositor and the Master Servicer will each keep in full effect
its existence, rights and franchises as a corporation under the laws of the
state of its incorporation, and will each obtain and preserve its qualification
to do business as a foreign corporation in each jurisdiction in which such
qualification is or shall be necessary to protect the validity and
enforceability of this Agreement, the Certificates or any of the Mortgage Loans
and to perform its respective duties under this Agreement.
(b) Any Person into which the Depositor or the Master Servicer may be
merged or consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger or
consolidation to which the Depositor or the Master Servicer shall be a party, or
any Person succeeding to the business of the Depositor or the Master Servicer,
shall be the successor of the Depositor or the Master Servicer, as the case may
be, hereunder, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act
on the part of any of the parties hereto, anything herein to the contrary
notwithstanding; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the successor or surviving Person to
the Master Servicer shall be qualified to service mortgage loans on behalf of
Xxxxxx Mae or Xxxxxxx Mac; and provided further that each Rating Agency's
ratings, if any, of the Class A Certificates and Class M Certificates in effect
immediately prior to such merger or consolidation will not be qualified, reduced
or withdrawn as a result thereof (as evidenced by a letter to such effect from
each Rating Agency).
(c) Notwithstanding anything else in this Section 6.02 and Section 6.04
to the contrary, the Master Servicer may assign its rights and delegate its
duties and obligations under this Agreement; provided that the Person accepting
such assignment or delegation shall be a Person which is qualified to service
mortgage loans on behalf of Xxxxxx Mae or Xxxxxxx Mac, is reasonably
satisfactory to the Trustee and the Depositor, is willing to service the
Mortgage Loans and executes and delivers to the Depositor and the Trustee an
agreement, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Depositor and
the Trustee, which contains an assumption by such Person of the due and punctual
performance and observance of each covenant and condition to be performed or
observed by the Master Servicer under this Agreement; provided further that each
Rating Agency's rating of the Classes of Certificates that have been rated in
effect immediately prior to such
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assignment and delegation will not be qualified, reduced or withdrawn as a
result of such assignment and delegation (as evidenced by a letter to such
effect from each Rating Agency). In the case of any such assignment and
delegation, the Master Servicer shall be released from its obligations under
this Agreement, except that the Master Servicer shall remain liable for all
liabilities and obligations incurred by it as Master Servicer hereunder prior to
the satisfaction of the conditions to such assignment and delegation set forth
in the next preceding sentence.
Section 6.03. Limitation on Liability of the Depositor, the Master
Servicer and Others.
Neither the Depositor, the Master Servicer nor any of the directors,
officers, employees or agents of the Depositor or the Master Servicer shall be
under any liability to the Trust Fund or the Certificateholders for any action
taken or for refraining from the taking of any action in good faith pursuant to
this Agreement, or for errors in judgment; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that this
provision shall not protect the Depositor, the Master Servicer or any such
Person against any breach of warranties or representations made herein or any
liability which would otherwise be imposed by reason of willful misfeasance, bad
faith or gross negligence in the performance of duties or by reason of reckless
disregard of obligations and duties hereunder. The Depositor, the Master
Servicer and any director, officer, employee or agent of the Depositor or the
Master Servicer may rely in good faith on any document of any kind prima facie
properly executed and submitted by any Person respecting any matters arising
hereunder. The Depositor, the Master Servicer and any director, officer,
employee or agent of the Depositor or the Master Servicer shall be indemnified
by the Trust Fund and held harmless against any loss, liability or expense
incurred in connection with any legal action relating to this Agreement or the
Certificates, other than any loss, liability or expense related to any specific
Mortgage Loan or Mortgage Loans (except as any such loss, liability or expense
shall be otherwise reimbursable pursuant to this Agreement) and any loss,
liability or expense incurred by reason of willful misfeasance, bad faith or
gross negligence in the performance of duties hereunder or by reason of reckless
disregard of obligations and duties hereunder. Neither the Depositor nor the
Master Servicer shall be under any obligation to appear in, prosecute or defend
any legal or administrative action, proceeding, hearing or examination that is
not incidental to its respective duties under this Agreement and which in its
opinion may involve it in any expense or liability; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the
Depositor or the Master Servicer may in its discretion undertake any such
action, proceeding, hearing or examination that it may deem necessary or
desirable in respect to this Agreement and the rights and duties of the parties
hereto and the interests of the Certificateholders hereunder. In such event, the
legal expenses and costs of such action, proceeding, hearing or examination and
any liability resulting therefrom shall be expenses, costs and liabilities of
the Trust Fund, and the Depositor and the Master Servicer shall be entitled to
be reimbursed therefor out of amounts attributable to the Mortgage Loans on
deposit in the Custodial Account as provided by Section 3.10 and, on the
Distribution Date(s) following such reimbursement, the aggregate of such
expenses and costs shall be allocated in reduction of the Accrued Certificate
Interest on each Class entitled thereto in the same manner as if such expenses
and costs constituted a Prepayment Interest Shortfall.
Section 6.04. Depositor and Master Servicer Not to Resign.
Subject to the provisions of Section 6.02, neither the Depositor nor
the Master Servicer shall resign from its respective obligations and duties
hereby imposed on it except upon determination that
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its duties hereunder are no longer permissible under applicable law. Any such
determination permitting the resignation of the Depositor or the Master Servicer
shall be evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel (at the expense of the resigning
party) to such effect delivered to the Trustee. No such resignation by the
Master Servicer shall become effective until the Trustee or a successor servicer
shall have assumed the Master Servicer's responsibilities and obligations in
accordance with Section 7.02.
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ARTICLE VII
DEFAULT
Section 7.01. Events of Default.
Event of Default, wherever used herein, means any one of the following
events (whatever reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be
voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any
judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any
administrative or governmental body):
(i) the Master Servicer shall fail to distribute or cause to be
distributed to Holders of Certificates of any Class any distribution required to
be made under the terms of the Certificates of such Class and this Agreement
and, in either case, such failure shall continue unremedied for a period of 5
days after the date upon which written notice of such failure, requiring such
failure to be remedied, shall have been given to the Master Servicer by the
Trustee or the Depositor or to the Master Servicer, the Depositor and the
Trustee by the Holders of Certificates of such Class evidencing Percentage
Interests aggregating not less than 25%; or
(ii) the Master Servicer shall fail to observe or perform in any
material respect any other of the covenants or agreements on the part of the
Master Servicer contained in the Certificates of any Class or in this Agreement
and such failure shall continue unremedied for a period of 30 days (except that
such number of days shall be 15 in the case of a failure to pay the premium for
any Required Insurance Policy) after the date on which written notice of such
failure, requiring the same to be remedied, shall have been given to the Master
Servicer by the Trustee or the Depositor, or to the Master Servicer, the
Depositor and the Trustee by the Holders of Certificates of any Class
evidencing, as to such Class, Percentage Interests aggregating not less than
25%; or
(iii) a decree or order of a court or agency or supervisory authority
having jurisdiction in the premises in an involuntary case under any present or
future federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law or appointing a
conservator or receiver or liquidator in any insolvency, readjustment of debt,
marshalling of assets and liabilities or similar proceedings, or for the
winding- up or liquidation of its affairs, shall have been entered against the
Master Servicer and such decree or order shall have remained in force
undischarged or unstayed for a period of 60 days; or
(iv) the Master Servicer shall consent to the appointment of a
conservator or receiver or liquidator in any insolvency, readjustment of debt,
marshalling of assets and liabilities, or similar proceedings of, or relating
to, the Master Servicer or of, or relating to, all or substantially all of the
property of the Master Servicer; or
(v) the Master Servicer shall admit in writing its inability to pay its
debts generally as they become due, file a petition to take advantage of, or
commence a voluntary case under, any applicable insolvency or reorganization
statute, make an assignment for the benefit of its creditors, or voluntarily
suspend payment of its obligations; or
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(vi) the Master Servicer shall notify the Trustee pursuant to Section
4.04(b) that it is unable to deposit in the Certificate Account an amount equal
to the Advance.
If an Event of Default described in clauses (i)-(v) of this Section
shall occur, then, and in each and every such case, so long as such Event of
Default shall not have been remedied, either the Depositor or the Trustee shall
at the direction of Holders of Certificates entitled to at least 51% of the
Voting Rights, by notice in writing to the Master Servicer (and to the Depositor
if given by the Trustee or to the Trustee if given by the Depositor), terminate
all of the rights and obligations of the Master Servicer under this Agreement
and in and to the Mortgage Loans and the proceeds thereof, other than its rights
as a Certificateholder hereunder. If an Event of Default described in clause
(vi) hereof shall occur, the Trustee shall, by notice to the Master Servicer and
the Depositor, immediately terminate all of the rights and obligations of the
Master Servicer under this Agreement and in and to the Mortgage Loans and the
proceeds thereof, other than its rights as a Certificateholder hereunder as
provided in Section 4.04(b). On or after the receipt by the Master Servicer of
such written notice, all authority and power of the Master Servicer under this
Agreement, whether with respect to the Certificates (other than as a Holder
thereof) or the Mortgage Loans or otherwise, shall subject to Section 7.02 pass
to and be vested in the Trustee or the Trustee's designee appointed pursuant to
Section 7.02; and, without limitation, the Trustee is hereby authorized and
empowered to execute and deliver, on behalf of the Master Servicer, as
attorney-in-fact or otherwise, any and all documents and other instruments, and
to do or accomplish all other acts or things necessary or appropriate to effect
the purposes of such notice of termination, whether to complete the transfer and
endorsement or assignment of the Mortgage Loans and related documents, or
otherwise. The Master Servicer agrees to cooperate with the Trustee in effecting
the termination of the Master Servicer's responsibilities and rights hereunder,
including, without limitation, the transfer to the Trustee or its designee for
administration by it of all cash amounts which shall at the time be credited to
the Custodial Account or the Certificate Account or thereafter be received with
respect to the Mortgage Loans. No such termination shall release the Master
Servicer for any liability that it would otherwise have hereunder for any act or
omission prior to the effective time of such termination. Notwithstanding any
termination of the activities of Residential Funding in its capacity as Master
Servicer hereunder, Residential Funding shall be entitled to receive, out of any
late collection of a Monthly Payment on a Mortgage Loan which was due prior to
the notice terminating Residential Funding's rights and obligations as Master
Servicer hereunder and received after such notice, that portion to which
Residential Funding would have been entitled pursuant to Sections 3.10(a)(ii),
(vi) and (vii) as well as its Servicing Fee in respect thereof, and any other
amounts payable to Residential Funding hereunder the entitlement to which arose
prior to the termination of its activities hereunder. Upon the termination of
Residential Funding as Master Servicer hereunder the Depositor shall deliver to
the Trustee as successor Master Servicer a copy of the Program Guide.
Section 7.02. Trustee or Depositor to Act; Appointment of Successor.
(a) On and after the time the Master Servicer receives a notice of
termination pursuant to Section 7.01 or resigns in accordance with Section 6.04,
the Trustee or, upon notice to the Depositor and with the Depositor's consent
(which shall not be unreasonably withheld) a designee (which meets the standards
set forth below) of the Trustee, shall be the successor in all respects to the
Master Servicer in its capacity as servicer under this Agreement and the
transactions set forth or provided for herein and shall be subject to all the
responsibilities, duties and liabilities relating
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thereto placed on the Master Servicer (except for the responsibilities, duties
and liabilities contained in Sections 2.02 and 2.03(a), excluding the duty to
notify related Subservicers as set forth in such Sections, and its obligations
to deposit amounts in respect of losses incurred prior to such notice or
termination on the investment of funds in the Custodial Account or the
Certificate Account pursuant to Sections 3.07(c) and 4.01(c) by the terms and
provisions hereof); PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that any failure to perform such duties
or responsibilities caused by the preceding Master Servicer's failure to provide
information required by Section 4.04 shall not be considered a default by the
Trustee hereunder as successor Master Servicer. As compensation therefor, the
Trustee as successor Master Servicer shall be entitled to all funds relating to
the Mortgage Loans which the Master Servicer would have been entitled to charge
to the Custodial Account or the Certificate Account if the Master Servicer had
continued to act hereunder and, in addition, shall be entitled to the income
from any Permitted Investments made with amounts attributable to the Mortgage
Loans held in the Custodial Account or the Certificate Account. If the Trustee
has become the successor to the Master Servicer in accordance with Section 6.04
or Section 7.01, then notwithstanding the above, the Trustee may, if it shall be
unwilling to so act, or shall, if it is unable to so act, appoint, or petition a
court of competent jurisdiction to appoint, any established housing and home
finance institution, which is also a Xxxxxx Xxx or Xxxxxxx Mac-approved mortgage
servicing institution, having a net worth of not less than $10,000,000 as the
successor to the Master Servicer hereunder in the assumption of all or any part
of the responsibilities, duties or liabilities of the Master Servicer hereunder.
Pending appointment of a successor to the Master Servicer hereunder, the Trustee
shall become successor to the Master Servicer and shall act in such capacity as
hereinabove provided. In connection with such appointment and assumption, the
Trustee may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor out of
payments on Mortgage Loans as it and such successor shall agree; PROVIDED,
HOWEVER, that no such compensation shall be in excess of that permitted the
initial Master Servicer hereunder. The Depositor, the Trustee, the Custodian and
such successor shall take such action, consistent with this Agreement, as shall
be necessary to effectuate any such succession. The Servicing Fee for any
successor Master Servicer appointed pursuant to this Section 7.02 will be
lowered with respect to those Mortgage Loans, if any, where the Subservicing Fee
accrues at a rate of less than 0.50% per annum in the event that the successor
Master Servicer is not servicing such Mortgage Loans directly and it is
necessary to raise the related Subservicing Fee to a rate of 0.50% per annum in
order to hire a Subservicer with respect to such Mortgage Loans.
(b) In connection with the termination or resignation of the Master
Servicer hereunder, either (i) the successor Master Servicer, including the
Trustee if the Trustee is acting as successor Master Servicer, shall represent
and warrant that it is a member of MERS in good standing and shall agree to
comply in all material respects with the rules and procedures of MERS in
connection with the servicing of the Mortgage Loans that are registered with
MERS, in which case the predecessor Master Servicer shall cooperate with the
successor Master Servicer in causing MERS to revise its records to reflect the
transfer of servicing to the successor Master Servicer as necessary under MERS'
rules and regulations, or (ii) the predecessor Master Servicer shall cooperate
with the successor Master Servicer in causing MERS to execute and deliver an
assignment of Mortgage in recordable form to transfer the Mortgage from MERS to
the Trustee and to execute and deliver such other notices, documents and other
instruments as may be necessary or desirable to effect a transfer of such
Mortgage Loan or servicing of such Mortgage Loan on the MERS(R) System to the
successor Master Servicer. The predecessor Master Servicer shall file or cause
to be filed any such assignment in the appropriate recording office. The
predecessor Master Servicer shall bear any and all fees of
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MERS, costs of preparing any assignments of Mortgage, and fees and costs of
filing any assignments of Mortgage that may be required under this subsection
(b). The successor Master Servicer shall cause such assignment to be delivered
to the Trustee or the Custodian promptly upon receipt of the original with
evidence of recording thereon or a copy certified by the public recording office
in which such assignment was recorded.
Section 7.03. Notification to Certificateholders.
(a) Upon any such termination or appointment of a successor to the
Master Servicer, the Trustee shall give prompt written notice thereof to the
Certificateholders at their respective addresses appearing in the Certificate
Register.
(b) Within 60 days after the occurrence of any Event of Default, the
Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Holders of Certificates notice of each
such Event of Default hereunder known to the Trustee, unless such Event of
Default shall have been cured or waived as provided in Section 7.04 hereof.
Section 7.04. Waiver of Events of Default.
The Holders representing at least 66% of the Voting Rights of
Certificates affected by a default or Event of Default hereunder may waive any
default or Event of Default; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that (a) a default or Event of
Default under clause (i) of Section 7.01 may be waived only by all of the
Holders of Certificates affected by such default or Event of Default and (b) no
waiver pursuant to this Section 7.04 shall affect the Holders of Certificates in
the manner set forth in Section 11.01(b)(i), (ii) or (iii). Upon any such waiver
of a default or Event of Default by the Holders representing the requisite
percentage of Voting Rights of Certificates affected by such default or Event of
Default, such default or Event of Default shall cease to exist and shall be
deemed to have been remedied for every purpose hereunder. No such waiver shall
extend to any subsequent or other default or Event of Default or impair any
right consequent thereon except to the extent expressly so waived.
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ARTICLE VIII
CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE
Section 8.01. Duties of Trustee.
(a) The Trustee, prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default and
after the curing 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
Agreement. 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 Agreement, and use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise
as a prudent investor would exercise or use under the circumstances in the
conduct of such investor's own affairs.
(b) The Trustee, upon receipt of all resolutions, certificates,
statements, opinions, reports, documents, orders or other instruments furnished
to the Trustee which are specifically required to be furnished pursuant to any
provision of this Agreement, shall examine them to determine whether they
conform to the requirements of this Agreement. The Trustee shall notify the
Certificateholders of any such documents which do not materially conform to the
requirements of this Agreement in the event that the Trustee, after so
requesting, does not receive satisfactorily corrected documents in a timely
fashion. The Trustee shall forward, cause to be forwarded or make available
electronically on its website in a timely fashion the notices, reports and
statements required to be forwarded by the Trustee pursuant to Sections 4.03,
7.03, and 10.01. The Trustee shall furnish in a timely fashion to the Master
Servicer such information as the Master Servicer may reasonably request from
time to time for the Master Servicer to fulfill its duties as set forth in this
Agreement. The Trustee covenants and agrees that it shall perform its
obligations hereunder in a manner so as to maintain the status of each of REMIC
I and REMIC II as a REMIC under the REMIC Provisions and to prevent the
imposition of any federal, state or local income, prohibited transaction (except
as provided in Section 2.04 herein), contribution or other tax on the Trust Fund
to the extent that maintaining such status and avoiding such taxes are
reasonably within the control of the Trustee and are reasonably within the scope
of its duties under this Agreement.
(c) No provision of this Agreement 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; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that:
(i) Prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default, and after
the curing or waiver of all such Events of Default which may have
occurred, the duties and obligations of the Trustee shall be determined
solely by the express provisions of this Agreement, the Trustee shall
not be liable except for the performance of such duties and obligations
as are specifically set forth in this Agreement, no implied covenants
or obligations shall be read into this Agreement against the Trustee
and, 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 by the Depositor or
the Master Servicer and which on their face, do not contradict the
requirements of this Agreement;
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(ii) The Trustee shall not be personally liable for an error
of judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer or Responsible
Officers of the Trustee, unless it shall be proved that the Trustee was
negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts;
(iii) The Trustee shall not be personally liable with respect
to any action taken, suffered or omitted to be taken by it in good
faith in accordance with the direction of the Certificateholders
holding Certificates which evidence, Percentage Interests aggregating
not less than 25% of the affected classes as to the time, method and
place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the
Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee,
under this Agreement;
(iv) The Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of any
default (other than a default in payment to the Trustee) specified in
clauses (i) and (ii) of Section 7.01 or an Event of Default under
clauses (iii), (iv) and (v) of Section 7.01 unless a Responsible
Officer of the Trustee assigned to and working in the Corporate Trust
Office obtains actual knowledge of such failure or event or the Trustee
receives written notice of such failure or event at its Corporate Trust
Office from the Master Servicer, the Depositor or any
Certificateholder; and
(v) Except to the extent provided in Section 7.02, no
provision in this Agreement shall require the Trustee to expend or risk
its own funds (including, without limitation, the making of any
Advance) or otherwise incur any personal financial liability in the
performance of any of its duties as Trustee hereunder, or in the
exercise of any of its rights or powers, if the Trustee shall have
reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of funds or adequate
indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to
it.
(d) The Trustee shall timely pay, from its own funds, the amount of any
and all federal, state and local taxes imposed on the Trust Fund or its assets
or transactions including, without limitation, (A) "prohibited transaction"
penalty taxes as defined in Section 860F of the Code, if, when and as the same
shall be due and payable, (B) any tax on contributions to a REMIC after the
Closing Date imposed by Section 860G(d) of the Code and (C) any tax on "net
income from foreclosure property" as defined in Section 860G(c) of the Code, but
only if such taxes arise out of a breach by the Trustee of its obligations
hereunder, which breach constitutes negligence or willful misconduct of the
Trustee.
Section 8.02. Certain Matters Affecting the Trustee.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in Section 8.01:
(i) The Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or
refraining from acting upon any resolution, Officers' Certificate,
certificate of auditors or any other certificate, statement,
instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, consent, order,
appraisal, bond or other paper or document believed by it to be genuine
and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties;
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(ii) The Trustee may consult with counsel and 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 Opinion of Counsel;
(iii) The Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any
of the trusts or powers vested in it by this Agreement or to institute,
conduct or defend any litigation hereunder or in relation hereto at the
request, order or direction of any of the Certificateholders, pursuant
to the provisions of this Agreement, unless such Certificateholders
shall have offered to the Trustee reasonable security or indemnity
against the costs, expenses and liabilities which may be incurred
therein or thereby; nothing contained herein shall, however, relieve
the Trustee of the obligation, upon the occurrence of an Event of
Default (which has not been cured), to exercise such of the rights and
powers vested in it by this Agreement, and to use the same degree of
care and skill in their exercise as a prudent investor would exercise
or use under the circumstances in the conduct of such investor's own
affairs;
(iv) The Trustee shall not be personally liable for any action
taken, suffered or omitted by it in good faith and believed by it to be
authorized or within the discretion or rights or powers conferred upon
it by this Agreement;
(v) Prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default hereunder
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, consent, order, approval,
bond or other paper or document, unless requested in writing so to do
by the Holders of Certificates of any Class evidencing, as to such
Class, Percentage Interests, aggregating not less than 50%; 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, in the opinion of the Trustee, not
reasonably assured to the Trustee by the security afforded to it by the
terms of this Agreement, the Trustee may require reasonable indemnity
against such expense or liability as a condition to so proceeding. The
reasonable expense of every such examination shall be paid by the
Master Servicer, if an Event of Default shall have occurred and is
continuing, and otherwise by the Certificateholder requesting the
investigation;
(vi) 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 provided that the Trustee shall remain
liable for any acts of such agents or attorneys; and
(vii) To the extent authorized under the Code and the
regulations promulgated thereunder, each Holder of a Class R
Certificate hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Trustee to
be its attorney-in-fact for purposes of signing any Tax Returns
required to be filed on behalf of the Trust Fund. The Trustee shall
sign on behalf of the Trust Fund and deliver to the Master Servicer in
a timely manner any Tax Returns prepared by or on behalf of the Master
Servicer that the Trustee is required to sign as determined by the
Master Servicer pursuant to applicable federal, state or local tax
laws, provided that the Master
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Servicer shall indemnify the Trustee for signing any such Tax Returns
that contain errors or omissions.
(b) Following the issuance of the Certificates (and except as provided
for in Section 2.04), the Trustee shall not accept any contribution of assets to
the Trust Fund unless it shall have obtained or been furnished with an Opinion
of Counsel to the effect that such contribution will not (i) cause any of REMIC
I or REMIC II to fail to qualify as a REMIC at any time that any Certificates
are outstanding or (ii) cause the Trust Fund to be subject to any federal tax as
a result of such contribution (including the imposition of any federal tax on
"prohibited transactions" imposed under Section 860F(a) of the Code).
Section 8.03. Trustee Not Liable for Certificates or Mortgage Loans.
The recitals contained herein and in the Certificates (other than the
execution of the Certificates and relating to the acceptance and receipt of the
Mortgage Loans) shall be taken as the statements of the Depositor or the Master
Servicer as the case may be, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for their
correctness. The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or
sufficiency of this Agreement or of the Certificates (except that the
Certificates shall be duly and validly executed and authenticated by it as
Certificate Registrar) or of any Mortgage Loan or related document, or of MERS
or the MERS(R) System. Except as otherwise provided herein, the Trustee shall
not be accountable for the use or application by the Depositor or the Master
Servicer of any of the Certificates or of the proceeds of such Certificates, or
for the use or application of any funds paid to the Depositor or the Master
Servicer in respect of the Mortgage Loans or deposited in or withdrawn from the
Custodial Account or the Certificate Account by the Depositor or the Master
Servicer.
Section 8.04. Trustee May Own Certificates.
The Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the
owner or pledgee of Certificates with the same rights it would have if it were
not Trustee.
Section 8.05. Master Servicer to Pay Trustee's Fees and Expenses;
Indemnification.
(a) The Master Servicer covenants and agrees to pay to the Trustee and
any co-trustee from time to time, and the Trustee and any co-trustee shall be
entitled to, reasonable compensation (which shall not be limited by any
provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust)
for all services rendered by each of them in the execution of the trusts hereby
created and in the exercise and performance of any of the powers and duties
hereunder of the Trustee and any co-trustee, and the Master Servicer will pay or
reimburse the Trustee and any co-trustee upon request for all reasonable
expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Trustee or any
co-trustee in accordance with any of the provisions of this Agreement (including
the reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its counsel
and of all persons not regularly in its employ, and the expenses incurred by the
Trustee or any co-trustee in connection with the appointment of an office or
agency pursuant to Section 8.12) except any such expense, disbursement or
advance as may arise from its negligence or bad faith.
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(b) The Master Servicer agrees to indemnify the Trustee for, and to
hold the Trustee harmless against, any loss, liability or expense incurred
without negligence or willful misconduct on its part, arising out of, or in
connection with, the acceptance and administration of the Trust Fund, including
the costs and expenses (including reasonable legal fees and expenses) of
defending itself against any claim in connection with the exercise or
performance of any of its powers or duties under this Agreement, provided that:
(i) with respect to any such claim, the Trustee shall have
given the Master Servicer written notice thereof promptly after the
Trustee shall have actual knowledge thereof;
(ii) while maintaining control over its own defense, the
Trustee shall cooperate and consult fully with the Master Servicer in
preparing such defense; and
(iii) notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the
contrary, the Master Servicer shall not be liable for settlement of any
claim by the Trustee entered into without the prior consent of the
Master Servicer which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.
No termination of this Agreement shall affect the obligations created
by this Section 8.05(b) of the Master Servicer to indemnify the Trustee under
the conditions and to the extent set forth herein. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, the indemnification provided by the Master Servicer in this Section
8.05(b) shall not pertain to any loss, liability or expense of the Trustee,
including the costs and expenses of defending itself against any claim, incurred
in connection with any actions taken by the Trustee at the direction of
Certificateholders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement.
Section 8.06. Eligibility Requirements for Trustee.
The Trustee hereunder shall at all times be a national banking
association or a New York banking corporation having its principal office in a
state and city acceptable to the Depositor and organized and doing business
under the laws of such state or the United States of America, authorized under
such laws to exercise corporate trust powers, having a combined capital and
surplus of at least $50,000,000 and subject to supervision or examination by
federal or state authority. If such corporation or national banking association
publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the
requirements of the aforesaid supervising or examining authority, then for the
purposes of this Section the combined capital and surplus of such corporation
shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most
recent report of condition so published. In case at any time the Trustee shall
cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, the
Trustee shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in
Section 8.07.
Section 8.07. Resignation and Removal of the Trustee.
(a) The Trustee may at any time resign and be discharged from the
trusts hereby created by giving written notice thereof to the Depositor and the
Master Servicer. Upon receiving such notice of resignation, the Depositor shall
promptly appoint a successor trustee by written instrument, in duplicate, one
copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the resigning Trustee and one
copy to
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the successor trustee. If no successor trustee shall have been so appointed and
have accepted appointment within 30 days after the giving of such notice of
resignation then the resigning Trustee may petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor trustee.
(b) If at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance
with the provisions of Section 8.06 and shall fail to resign after written
request therefor by the Depositor, or if at any time the Trustee shall become
incapable of acting, or shall be adjudged bankrupt or insolvent, or a receiver
of the Trustee or of its property shall be appointed, or any public officer
shall take charge or control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for
the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation, then the Depositor
may remove the Trustee and appoint a successor trustee by written instrument, in
duplicate, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the Trustee so
removed and one copy to the successor trustee. In addition, in the event that
the Depositor determines that the Trustee has failed (i) to distribute or cause
to be distributed to Certificateholders any amount required to be distributed
hereunder, if such amount is held by the Trustee or its Paying Agent (other than
the Master Servicer or the Depositor) for distribution or (ii) to otherwise
observe or perform in any material respect any of its covenants, agreements or
obligations hereunder, and such failure shall continue unremedied for a period
of 5 days (in respect of clause (i) above) or 30 days (in respect of clause (ii)
above) after the date on which written notice of such failure, requiring that
the same be remedied, shall have been given to the Trustee by the Depositor,
then the Depositor may remove the Trustee and appoint a successor trustee by
written instrument delivered as provided in the preceding sentence. In
connection with the appointment of a successor trustee pursuant to the preceding
sentence, the Depositor shall, on or before the date on which any such
appointment becomes effective, obtain from each Rating Agency written
confirmation that the appointment of any such successor trustee will not result
in the reduction of the ratings on any class of the Certificates below the
lesser of the then current or original ratings on such Certificates.
(c) The Holders of Certificates entitled to at least 51% of the Voting
Rights may at any time remove the Trustee and appoint a successor trustee by
written instrument or instruments, in triplicate, signed by such Holders or
their attorneys-in-fact duly authorized, one complete set of which instruments
shall be delivered to the Depositor, one complete set to the Trustee so removed
and one complete set to the successor so appointed.
(d) Any resignation or removal of the Trustee and appointment of a
successor trustee pursuant to any of the provisions of this Section shall become
effective upon acceptance of appointment by the successor trustee as provided in
Section 8.08.
Section 8.08. Successor Trustee.
(a) Any successor trustee appointed as provided in Section 8.07 shall
execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Depositor and to its predecessor trustee
an instrument accepting such appointment hereunder, and thereupon the
resignation or removal of the predecessor trustee shall become effective and
such successor trustee shall become effective and such successor trustee,
without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become fully vested with all
the rights, powers, duties and obligations of its predecessor hereunder, with
the like effect as if originally named as trustee herein. The predecessor
trustee shall deliver to the successor trustee all Mortgage Files and related
documents and statements held by it hereunder (other than any Mortgage Files at
the time
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held by a Custodian, which shall become the agent of any successor trustee
hereunder), and the Depositor, the Master Servicer and the predecessor trustee
shall execute and deliver such instruments and do such other things as may
reasonably be required for more fully and certainly vesting and confirming in
the successor trustee all such rights, powers, duties and obligations.
(b) No successor trustee shall accept appointment as provided in this
Section unless at the time of such acceptance such successor trustee shall be
eligible under the provisions of Section 8.06.
(c) Upon acceptance of appointment by a successor trustee as provided
in this Section, the Depositor shall mail notice of the succession of such
trustee hereunder to all Holders of Certificates at their addresses as shown in
the Certificate Register. If the Depositor fails to mail such notice within 10
days after acceptance of appointment by the successor trustee, the successor
trustee shall cause such notice to be mailed at the expense of the Depositor.
Section 8.09. Merger or Consolidation of Trustee.
Any corporation or national banking association into which the Trustee
may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated or any
corporation or national banking association resulting from any merger,
conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any
corporation or national banking association succeeding to the business of the
Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder, provided such
corporation or national banking association shall be eligible under the
provisions of Section 8.06, without the execution or filing of any paper or any
further act on the part of any of the parties hereto, anything herein to the
contrary notwithstanding. The Trustee shall mail notice of any such merger or
consolidation to the Certificateholders at their address as shown in the
Certificate Register.
Section 8.10. Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee.
(a) Notwithstanding any other provisions hereof, at any time, for the
purpose of meeting any legal requirements of any jurisdiction in which any part
of the Trust Fund or property securing the same may at the time be located, the
Master Servicer and the Trustee acting jointly shall have the power and shall
execute and deliver all instruments to appoint one or more Persons approved by
the Trustee to act as co-trustee or co-trustees, jointly with the Trustee, or
separate trustee or separate trustees, of all or any part of the Trust Fund, and
to vest in such Person or Persons, in such capacity, such title to the Trust
Fund, or any part thereof, and, subject to the other provisions of this Section
8.10, such powers, duties, obligations, rights and trusts as the Master Servicer
and the Trustee may consider necessary or desirable. If the Master Servicer
shall not have joined in such appointment within 15 days after the receipt by it
of a request so to do, or in case an Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing, the Trustee alone shall have the power to make such appointment. No
co-trustee or separate trustee hereunder shall be required to meet the terms of
eligibility as a successor trustee under Section 8.06 hereunder and no notice to
Holders of Certificates of the appointment of co-trustee(s) or separate
trustee(s) shall be required under Section 8.08 hereof.
(b) In the case of any appointment of a co-trustee or separate trustee
pursuant to this Section 8.10 all rights, powers, duties and obligations
conferred or imposed upon the Trustee shall
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be conferred or imposed upon and exercised or performed by the Trustee, and such
separate trustee or co-trustee jointly, except to the extent that under any law
of any jurisdiction in which any particular act or acts are to be performed
(whether as Trustee hereunder or as successor to the Master Servicer hereunder),
the Trustee shall be incompetent or unqualified to perform such act or acts, in
which event such rights, powers, duties and obligations (including the holding
of title to the Trust Fund or any portion thereof in any such jurisdiction)
shall be exercised and performed by such separate trustee or co-trustee at the
direction of the Trustee.
(c) Any notice, request or other writing given to the Trustee shall be
deemed to have been given to each of the then separate trustees and co-trustees,
as effectively as if given to each of them. Every instrument appointing any
separate trustee or co-trustee shall refer to this Agreement and the conditions
of this Article VIII. Each separate trustee and co-trustee, upon its acceptance
of the trusts conferred, shall be vested with the estates or property specified
in its instrument of appointment, either jointly with the Trustee or separately,
as may be provided therein, subject to all the provisions of this Agreement,
specifically including every provision of this Agreement relating to the conduct
of, affecting the liability of, or affording protection to, the Trustee. Every
such instrument shall be filed with the Trustee.
(d) Any separate trustee or co-trustee may, at any time, constitute the
Trustee, its agent or attorney-in-fact, with full power and authority, to the
extent not prohibited by law, to do any lawful act under or in respect of this
Agreement on its behalf and in its name. If any separate trustee or co-trustee
shall die, become incapable of acting, resign or be removed, all of its estates,
properties, rights, remedies and trusts shall vest in and be exercised by the
Trustee, to the extent permitted by law, without the appointment of a new or
successor trustee.
Section 8.11. Appointment of Custodians.
The Trustee may, with the consent of the Master Servicer and the
Depositor, appoint one or more Custodians who are not Affiliates of the
Depositor or the Master Servicer to hold all or a portion of the Mortgage Files
as agent for the Trustee, by entering into a Custodial Agreement. Subject to
Article VIII, the Trustee agrees to comply with the terms of each Custodial
Agreement and to enforce the terms and provisions thereof against the Custodian
for the benefit of the Certificateholders. Each Custodian shall be a depository
institution subject to supervision by federal or state authority, shall have a
combined capital and surplus of at least $15,000,000 and shall be qualified to
do business in the jurisdiction in which it holds any Mortgage File. Each
Custodial Agreement may be amended only as provided in Section 11.01. The
Trustee shall notify the Certificateholders of the appointment of any Custodian
(other than the Custodian appointed as of the Closing Date) pursuant to this
Section 8.11. The Trustee will maintain an office or agency which is located at
0000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, 0xx Xxxxx, Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 00000, Attention: ITS Transfer
Services - RAMP Series 2003-SL1 where Certificates may be surrendered for
registration of transfer or exchange. The Trustee initially designates its
offices located at 0000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, 0xx Xxxxx, Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 00000, Attention:
ITS Transfer Services - RAMP Series 2003-SL1, for the purpose of keeping the
Certificate Register. The Trustee will maintain an office at the address stated
in Section 11.05(c) hereof where notices and demands to or upon the Trustee in
respect of this Agreement may be served.
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ARTICLE IX
TERMINATION
Section 9.01. Termination Upon Purchase by the Master Servicer or
Liquidation of All Mortgage Loans.
(a) Subject to Section 9.02, the respective obligations and
responsibilities of the Depositor, the Master Servicer and the Trustee created
hereby in respect of the Certificates (other than the obligation of the Trustee
to make certain payments after the Final Distribution Date to Certificateholders
and the obligation of the Depositor to send certain notices as hereinafter set
forth) shall terminate upon the last action required to be taken by the Trustee
on the Final Distribution Date pursuant to this Article IX following the earlier
of:
(i) the later of the final payment or other liquidation (or
any Advance with respect thereto) of the last Mortgage Loan remaining
in the Trust Fund or the disposition of all property acquired upon
foreclosure or deed in lieu of foreclosure of any Mortgage Loan, or
(ii) the purchase by the Master Servicer of all Mortgage Loans
and all property acquired in respect of any Mortgage Loan remaining in
the Trust Fund at a price equal to 100% of the unpaid principal balance
of each Mortgage Loan (or, if less than such unpaid principal balance,
the fair market value of the related underlying property of such
Mortgage Loan with respect to Mortgage Loans as to which title has been
acquired if such fair market value is less than such unpaid principal
balance) (net of any unreimbursed Advances attributable to principal)
on the day of repurchase, plus accrued interest thereon at the Net
Mortgage Rate (or Modified Net Mortgage Rate in the case of any
Modified Mortgage Loan), to, but not including, the first day of the
month in which such repurchase price is distributed; PROVIDED, HOWEVER,
that in no event shall the trust created hereby continue beyond the
expiration of 21 years from the death of the last survivor of the
descendants of Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx, the late ambassador of the United
States to the Court of St. Xxxxx, living on the date hereof; provided
further, that, if the amount due under any Certificate shall not have
been reduced to zero prior to the Maturity Date, the Master Servicer
shall be required to terminate this Agreement in accordance with this
clause (ii); and provided further, that the purchase price set forth
above shall be increased as is necessary, as determined by the Master
Servicer, to avoid disqualification of any of REMIC I or REMIC II as a
REMIC. The purchase price paid by the Master Servicer shall also
include any amounts owed by Residential Funding pursuant to the Section
5 of the Assignment Agreement in respect of any liability, penalty or
expense that resulted from a covenant set forth in Section 5(B) that
remain unpaid on the date of such purchase.
The right of the Master Servicer to purchase all the assets of the
Trust Fund relating to the Mortgage Loans, pursuant to clause (ii) above is
conditioned upon the date of such purchase occurring on or after the Optional
Termination Date. If such right is exercised by the Master Servicer, the Master
Servicer shall be deemed to have been reimbursed for the full amount of any
unreimbursed Advances theretofore made by it with respect to the Mortgage Loans
being purchased.
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In addition, the Master Servicer shall provide to the Trustee the certification
required by Section 3.15 and the Trustee and any Custodian shall, promptly
following payment of the purchase price, release to the Master Servicer the
Mortgage Files pertaining to the Mortgage Loans being purchased.
In addition to the foregoing, on any Distribution Date on or after the
Optional Termination Date, the Master Servicer shall have the right, at its
option, to purchase the Certificates in whole, but not in part, at a price equal
to the sum of the outstanding Certificate Principal Balance of such Certificates
plus the sum of one month's Accrued Certificate Interest thereon, or, with
respect to the Interest Only Certificates, on their Notional Amount, any
previously unpaid Accrued Certificate Interest, and any unpaid Prepayment
Interest Shortfall previously allocated thereto. If the Master Servicer
exercises this right to purchase the outstanding Certificates, the Master
Servicer will promptly terminate the respective obligations and responsibilities
created hereby in respect of these Certificates pursuant to this Article IX.
(b) The Master Servicer shall give the Trustee not less than 60 days'
prior notice of the Distribution Date on which the Master Servicer anticipates
that the final distribution will be made to Certificateholders (whether as a
result of the exercise by the Master Servicer of its right to purchase the
assets of the Trust Fund or otherwise). Notice of any termination, specifying
the anticipated Final Distribution Date (which shall be a date that would
otherwise be a Distribution Date) upon which the Certificateholders may
surrender their Certificates to the Trustee for payment of the final
distribution and cancellation, shall be given promptly by the Master Servicer
(if it is exercising its right to purchase the assets of the Trust Fund), or by
the Trustee (in any other case) by letter to Certificateholders mailed not
earlier than the 15th day and not later than the 25th day of the month next
preceding the month of such final distribution specifying:
(i) the anticipated Final Distribution Date upon which final
payment of the Certificates is anticipated to be made upon presentation
and surrender of Certificates at the office or agency of the Trustee
therein designated,
(ii) the amount of any such final payment, if known, and
(iii) that the Record Date otherwise applicable to such
Distribution Date is not applicable, and that payment will be made only
upon presentation and surrender of the Certificates at the office or
agency of the Trustee therein specified.
If the Master Servicer is obligated to give notice to
Certificateholders as aforesaid, it shall give such notice to the Certificate
Registrar at the time such notice is given to Certificateholders. In the event
such notice is given by the Master Servicer, the Master Servicer shall deposit
in the Certificate Account before the Final Distribution Date in immediately
available funds an amount equal to the purchase price for the assets of the
Trust Fund computed as above provided. The Master Servicer shall provide to the
Trustee written notification of any change to the anticipated Final Distribution
Date as soon as practicable. If the Trust Fund is not terminated on the
anticipated Final Distribution Date, for any reason, the Trustee shall promptly
mail notice thereof to each affected Certificateholder.
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(c) Upon presentation and surrender of the Certificates by the
Certificateholders, the Trustee shall distribute to the Certificateholders (i)
the amount otherwise distributable on such Distribution Date, if not in
connection with the Master Servicer's election to repurchase, or (ii) if the
Master Servicer elected to so repurchase, an amount equal to the outstanding
Certificate Principal Balance thereof, plus Accrued Certificate Interest thereon
for the related Interest Accrual Period and any previously unpaid Accrued
Certificate Interest.
(d) In the event that any Certificateholders shall not surrender their
Certificates for final payment and cancellation on or before the Final
Distribution Date, the Trustee shall on such date cause all funds in the
Certificate Account not distributed in final distribution to Certificateholders
to be withdrawn therefrom and credited to the remaining Certificateholders by
depositing such funds in a separate escrow account for the benefit of such
Certificateholders, and the Master Servicer (if it exercised its right to
purchase the assets of the Trust Fund), or the Trustee (in any other case) shall
give a second written notice to the remaining Certificateholders to surrender
their Certificates for cancellation and receive the final distribution with
respect thereto. If within six months after the second notice any Certificate
shall not have been surrendered for cancellation, the Trustee shall take
appropriate steps as directed by the Master Servicer to contact the remaining
Certificateholders concerning surrender of their Certificates. The costs and
expenses of maintaining the escrow account and of contacting Certificateholders
shall be paid out of the assets which remain in the escrow account. If within
nine months after the second notice any Certificates shall not have been
surrendered for cancellation, the Trustee shall pay to the Master Servicer all
amounts distributable to the holders thereof and the Master Servicer shall
thereafter hold such amounts until distributed to such holders. No interest
shall accrue or be payable to any Certificateholder on any amount held in the
escrow account or by the Master Servicer as a result of such Certificateholder's
failure to surrender its Certificate(s) for final payment thereof in accordance
with this Section 9.01 and the Certificateholders shall look only to the Master
Servicer for such payment.
Section 9.02. Additional Termination Requirements.
(a) Each of REMIC I and REMIC II, as the case may be, shall be
terminated in accordance with the following additional requirements, unless the
Trustee and the Master Servicer have received an Opinion of Counsel (which
Opinion of Counsel shall not be an expense of the Trustee) to the effect that
the failure of any of REMIC I and REMIC II, as the case may be, to comply with
the requirements of this Section 9.02 will not (i) result in the imposition on
the Trust Fund of taxes on "prohibited transactions," as described in Section
860F of the Code, or (ii) cause any of REMIC I or REMIC II to fail to qualify as
a REMIC at any time that any Certificate is outstanding:
(i) The Master Servicer shall establish a 90-day liquidation
period for each of REMIC I and REMIC II, and specify the first day of
such period in a statement attached to the Trust Fund's final Tax
Return pursuant to Treasury regulations Section 1.860F-1. The Master
Servicer also shall satisfy all of the requirements of a qualified
liquidation for each of REMIC I and REMIC II, under Section 860F of the
Code and the regulations thereunder;
(ii) The Master Servicer shall notify the Trustee at the
commencement of such 90-day liquidation period and, at or prior to the
time of making of the final payment on the
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Certificates, the Trustee shall sell or otherwise dispose of all of the
remaining assets of the Trust Fund in accordance with the terms hereof;
and
(iii) If the Master Servicer is exercising its right to
purchase the assets of the Trust Fund, the Master Servicer shall,
during the 90-day liquidation period and at or prior to the Final
Distribution Date, purchase all of the assets of the Trust Fund for
cash;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that in the event that a calendar quarter ends after the
commencement of the 90- day liquidation period but prior to the Final
Distribution Date, the Master Servicer shall not purchase any of the assets of
the Trust Fund prior to the close of that calendar quarter.
(b) Each Holder of a Certificate and the Trustee hereby irrevocably
approves and appoints the Master Servicer as its attorney-in-fact to adopt a
plan of complete liquidation for each of REMIC I and REMIC II at the expense of
the Trust Fund in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
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ARTICLE X
REMIC PROVISIONS
Section 10.01. REMIC Administration.
(a) The REMIC Administrator shall make an election to treat each of
REMIC I and REMIC II as a REMIC under the Code and, if necessary, under
applicable state law. Such election will be made on Form 1066 or other
appropriate federal tax or information return (including Form 8811) or any
appropriate state return for the taxable year ending on the last day of the
calendar year in which the Certificates are issued. The REMIC I Regular
Interests shall be designated as the "regular interests" and the Class R-I
Certificates shall be designated as the sole class of "residual interests" in
REMIC I. The Class A-I, Class A-II, Class A-III, Class A-IV, Class A-IO, Class
A-PO, Class M and Class B Certificates shall be designated as the "regular
interests" in REMIC II and the Class R-II Certificates shall be designated the
sole class of "residual interests" in REMIC II. The REMIC Administrator and the
Trustee shall not permit the creation of any "interests" (within the meaning of
Section 860G of the Code) in the REMIC other than the Certificates.
(b) The Closing Date is hereby designated as the "startup day" of each
of REMIC I and REMIC II within the meaning of Section 860G(a)(9) of the Code.
(c) The REMIC Administrator shall hold a Class R Certificate in each
REMIC representing a 0.01% Percentage Interest of the Class R Certificates in
each REMIC and shall be designated as the "tax matters person" with respect to
each of REMIC I and REMIC II in the manner provided under Treasury regulations
section 1.860F-4(d) and Treasury regulations section 301.6231(a)(7)-1. The REMIC
Administrator, as tax matters person, shall (i) act on behalf of each of REMIC I
and REMIC II in relation to any tax matter or controversy involving the Trust
Fund and (ii) represent the Trust Fund in any administrative or judicial
proceeding relating to an examination or audit by any governmental taxing
authority with respect thereto. The legal expenses, including without limitation
attorneys' or accountants' fees, and costs of any such proceeding and any
liability resulting therefrom shall be expenses of the Trust Fund and the REMIC
Administrator shall be entitled to reimbursement therefor out of amounts
attributable to the Mortgage Loans on deposit in the Custodial Account as
provided by Section 3.10 unless such legal expenses and costs are incurred by
reason of the REMIC Administrator's willful misfeasance, bad faith or gross
negligence. If the REMIC Administrator is no longer the Master Servicer
hereunder, at its option the REMIC Administrator may continue its duties as
REMIC Administrator and shall be paid reasonable compensation not to exceed
$3,000 per year by any successor Master Servicer hereunder for so acting as the
REMIC Administrator.
(d) The REMIC Administrator shall prepare or cause to be prepared all
of the Tax Returns that it determines are required with respect to the REMIC
created hereunder and deliver such Tax Returns in a timely manner to the Trustee
and the Trustee shall sign and file such Tax Returns in a timely manner. The
expenses of preparing such returns shall be borne by the REMIC Administrator
without any right of reimbursement therefor. The REMIC Administrator agrees to
indemnify and hold harmless the Trustee with respect to any tax or liability
arising from the Trustee's signing of Tax Returns that contain errors or
omissions. The Trustee and Master Servicer
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shall promptly provide the REMIC Administrator with such information as the
REMIC Administrator may from time to time request for the purpose of enabling
the REMIC Administrator to prepare Tax Returns.
(e) The REMIC Administrator shall provide (i) to any Transferor of a
Class R Certificate such information as is necessary for the application of any
tax relating to the transfer of a Class R Certificate to any Person who is not a
Permitted Transferee, (ii) to the Trustee and the Trustee shall forward to the
Certificateholders such information or reports as are required by the Code or
the REMIC Provisions including reports relating to interest, original issue
discount, if any, and market discount or premium (using the Prepayment
Assumption) and (iii) to the Internal Revenue Service the name, title, address
and telephone number of the person who will serve as the representative of each
REMIC created hereunder.
(f) The Master Servicer and the REMIC Administrator shall take such
actions and shall cause each REMIC created hereunder to take such actions as are
reasonably within the Master Servicer's or the REMIC Administrator's control and
the scope of its duties more specifically set forth herein as shall be necessary
or desirable to maintain the status thereof as a REMIC under the REMIC
Provisions (and the Trustee shall assist the Master Servicer and the REMIC
Administrator, to the extent reasonably requested by the Master Servicer and the
REMIC Administrator to do so). In performing their duties as more specifically
set forth herein, the Master Servicer and the REMIC Administrator shall not
knowingly or intentionally take any action, cause the Trust Fund to take any
action or fail to take (or fail to cause to be taken) any action reasonably
within their respective control and the scope of duties more specifically set
forth herein, that, under the REMIC Provisions, if taken or not taken, as the
case may be, could (i) endanger the status of any of REMIC I or REMIC II as a
REMIC or (ii) result in the imposition of a tax upon any of REMIC I or REMIC II
(including but not limited to the tax on prohibited transactions as defined in
Section 860F(a)(2) of the Code (except as provided in Section 2.04) and the tax
on contributions to a REMIC set forth in Section 860G(d) of the Code) (either
such event, in the absence of an Opinion of Counsel or the indemnification
referred to in this sentence, an "Adverse REMIC Event") unless the Master
Servicer or the REMIC Administrator, as applicable, has received an Opinion of
Counsel (at the expense of the party seeking to take such action or, if such
party fails to pay such expense, and the Master Servicer or the REMIC
Administrator, as applicable, determines that taking such action is in the best
interest of the Trust Fund and the Certificateholders, at the expense of the
Trust Fund, but in no event at the expense of the Master Servicer, the REMIC
Administrator or the Trustee) to the effect that the contemplated action will
not, with respect to the Trust Fund created hereunder, endanger such status or,
unless the Master Servicer or the REMIC Administrator or both, as applicable,
determine in its or their sole discretion to indemnify the Trust Fund against
the imposition of such a tax, result in the imposition of such a tax. Wherever
in this Agreement a contemplated action may not be taken because the timing of
such action might result in the imposition of a tax on the Trust Fund, or may
only be taken pursuant to an Opinion of Counsel that such action would not
impose a tax on the Trust Fund, such action may nonetheless be taken provided
that the indemnity given in the preceding sentence with respect to any taxes
that might be imposed on the Trust Fund has been given and that all other
preconditions to the taking of such action have been satisfied. The Trustee
shall not take or fail to take any action (whether or not authorized hereunder)
as to which the Master Servicer or the REMIC Administrator, as applicable, has
advised it in writing that it has received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect
that an Adverse REMIC Event could occur with respect to such
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action. In addition, prior to taking any action with respect to the Trust Fund
or its assets, or causing the Trust Fund to take any action, which is not
expressly permitted under the terms of this Agreement, the Trustee will consult
with the Master Servicer or the REMIC Administrator, as applicable, or its
designee, in writing, with respect to whether such action could cause an Adverse
REMIC Event to occur with respect to the Trust Fund and the Trustee shall not
take any such action or cause the Trust Fund to take any such action as to which
the Master Servicer or the REMIC Administrator, as applicable, has advised it in
writing that an Adverse REMIC Event could occur. The Master Servicer or the
REMIC Administrator, as applicable, may consult with counsel to make such
written advice, and the cost of same shall be borne by the party seeking to take
the action not expressly permitted by this Agreement, but in no event at the
expense of the Master Servicer or the REMIC Administrator. At all times as may
be required by the Code, the Master Servicer or the REMIC Administrator, as
applicable, will to the extent within its control and the scope of its duties
more specifically set forth herein, maintain substantially all of the assets of
the REMIC as "qualified mortgages" as defined in Section 860G(a)(3) of the Code
and "permitted investments" as defined in Section 860G(a)(5) of the Code.
(g) In the event that any tax is imposed on "prohibited transactions"
of any REMIC created hereunder as defined in Section 860F(a)(2) of the Code, on
"net income from foreclosure property" of any REMIC as defined in Section
860G(c) of the Code, on any contributions to any REMIC after the startup day
therefor pursuant to Section 860G(d) of the Code, or any other tax imposed by
the Code or any applicable provisions of state or local tax laws, such tax shall
be charged (i) to the Master Servicer, if such tax arises out of or results from
a breach by the Master Servicer of any of its obligations under this Agreement
or the Master Servicer has in its sole discretion determined to indemnify the
Trust Fund against such tax, (ii) to the Trustee, if such tax arises out of or
results from a breach by the Trustee of any of its obligations under this
Article X, or (iii) otherwise against amounts on deposit in the Custodial
Account as provided by Section 3.10 and on the Distribution Date(s) following
such reimbursement the aggregate of such taxes shall be allocated in reduction
of the Accrued Certificate Interest on each Class entitled thereto in the same
manner as if such taxes constituted a Prepayment Interest Shortfall.
(h) The Trustee and the Master Servicer shall, for federal income tax
purposes, maintain books and records with respect to each REMIC on a calendar
year and on an accrual basis or as otherwise may be required by the REMIC
Provisions.
(i) Following the startup day, neither the Master Servicer nor the
Trustee shall accept any contributions of assets to any REMIC unless (subject to
Section 10.01(f)) the Master Servicer and the Trustee shall have received an
Opinion of Counsel (at the expense of the party seeking to make such
contribution) to the effect that the inclusion of such assets in any REMIC will
not cause any of REMIC I or REMIC II to fail to qualify as a REMIC at any time
that any Certificates are outstanding or subject any such REMIC to any tax under
the REMIC Provisions or other applicable provisions of federal, state and local
law or ordinances.
(j) Neither the Master Servicer nor the Trustee shall (subject to
Section 10.01(f)) enter into any arrangement by which any of REMIC I or REMIC II
will receive a fee or other compensation for services nor permit any of REMIC I
or REMIC II to receive any income from
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assets other than "qualified mortgages" as defined in Section 860G(a)(3) of the
Code or "permitted investments" as defined in Section 860G(a)(5) of the Code.
(k) Solely for the purposes of Section 1.860G-1(a)(4)(iii) of the
Treasury Regulations, the "latest possible maturity date" by which the principal
balance of each regular interest in each REMIC would be reduced to zero is April
25, 2031.
(l) Within 30 days after the Closing Date, the REMIC Administrator
shall prepare and file with the Internal Revenue Service Form 8811, "Information
Return for Real Estate Mortgage Investment Conduits (REMIC) and Issuers of
Collateralized Debt Obligations" for the Trust Fund.
(m) Neither the Trustee nor the Master Servicer shall sell, dispose of
or substitute for any of the Mortgage Loans (except in connection with (i) the
default, imminent default or foreclosure of a Mortgage Loan, including but not
limited to, the acquisition or sale of a Mortgaged Property acquired by deed in
lieu of foreclosure, (ii) the bankruptcy of the Trust Fund, (iii) the
termination of any REMIC pursuant to Article IX of this Agreement or (iv) a
purchase of Mortgage Loans pursuant to Article II or III of this Agreement) or
acquire any assets for any REMIC or sell or dispose of any investments in the
Custodial Account or the Certificate Account for gain, or accept any
contributions to any REMIC after the Closing Date unless it has received an
Opinion of Counsel that such sale, disposition, substitution or acquisition will
not (a) affect adversely the status of any of REMIC I or REMIC II as a REMIC or
(b) unless the Master Servicer has determined in its sole discretion to
indemnify the Trust Fund against such tax, cause any REMIC to be subject to a
tax on "prohibited transactions" or "contributions" pursuant to the REMIC
Provisions.
Section 10.02. Master Servicer, REMIC Administrator and Trustee
Indemnification.
(a) The Trustee agrees to indemnify the Trust Fund, the Depositor, the
REMIC Administrator and the Master Servicer for any taxes and costs including,
without limitation, any reasonable attorneys fees imposed on or incurred by the
Trust Fund, the Depositor or the Master Servicer, as a result of a breach of the
Trustee's covenants set forth in Article VIII or this Article X. In the event
that Residential Funding is no longer the Master Servicer, the Trustee shall
indemnify Residential Funding for any taxes and costs including, without
limitation, any reasonable attorneys fees imposed on or incurred by Residential
Funding as a result of a breach of the Trustee's covenants set forth in Article
VIII or this Article X.
(b) The REMIC Administrator agrees to indemnify the Trust Fund, the
Depositor, the Master Servicer and the Trustee for any taxes and costs
(including, without limitation, any reasonable attorneys' fees) imposed on or
incurred by the Trust Fund, the Depositor, the Master Servicer or the Trustee,
as a result of a breach of the REMIC Administrator's covenants set forth in this
Article X with respect to compliance with the REMIC Provisions, including
without limitation, any penalties arising from the Trustee's execution of Tax
Returns prepared by the REMIC Administrator that contain errors or omissions;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that such liability will not be imposed to the extent such
breach is a result of an error or omission in information provided to the REMIC
Administrator by the Master Servicer in which case Section 10.02(c) will apply.
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(c) The Master Servicer agrees to indemnify the Trust Fund, the
Depositor, the REMIC Administrator and the Trustee for any taxes and costs
(including, without limitation, any reasonable attorneys' fees) imposed on or
incurred by the Trust Fund, the Depositor or the Trustee, as a result of a
breach of the Master Servicer's covenants set forth in this Article X or in
Article III with respect to compliance with the REMIC Provisions, including
without limitation, any penalties arising from the Trustee's execution of Tax
Returns prepared by the Master Servicer that contain errors or omissions.
Section 10.04 Distributions on the REMIC I Regular Interests.
(a) On each Distribution Date the Trustee shall be deemed to distribute
to itself, as the holder of the REMIC I Regular Interests, REMIC I Accrued
Interest on the REMIC I Regular Interests for such Distribution Date, plus any
REMIC I Accrued Interest thereon remaining unpaid from any previous Distribution
Date.
(b) On each Distribution Date, distributions of principal shall be
deemed to be made to the REMIC I Regular Interests, in each case from the
related Loan Group, first, to each REMIC I Regular Interest ending with the
designation "SUB," so that the Uncertificated Principal Balance of each such
REMIC I Regular Interest is equal to 0.01% of the excess of (x) the aggregate
Stated Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans in the related Loan Group over
(y) the Certificate Principal Amount of the related Senior Certificates (except
that if any such excess is a larger number than in the preceding distribution
period, the least amount of principal shall be distributed to such REMIC I
Regular Interests such that the REMIC I Subordinated Balance Ratio is
maintained); and second, any remaining principal in each Loan Group to the
related REMIC I Regular Interest ending with the designation "ZZZ" (provided
that a portion of the remaining principal equal to the Class A-I-PO Principal
Distribution Amount will be distributed to REMIC I Regular Interest A-I-PO and a
portion of the remaining principal equal to the Class A-PO Principal
Distribution Amount will be distributed to REMIC I Regular Interest A-PO).
Realized Losses from each Loan Group shall be applied after all distributions
have been made on each Distribution Date first, to the related REMIC I Regular
Interest ending with the designation "SUB," so that the Uncertificated Principal
Balance of each such REMIC I Regular Interest is equal to 0.01% of the excess of
(x) the aggregate Stated Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans in the related
Loan Group over (y) the Certificate Principal Amount of the related Senior
Certificates (except that if any such excess is a larger number than in the
preceding distribution period, the least amount of Realized Losses shall be
applied to such REMIC I Regular Interests such that the REMIC I Subordinated
Balance Ratio is maintained); and second, any remaining Realized Losses from
each Loan Group shall be allocated to the related REMIC I Regular Interests
ending with the designation "ZZZ" (except that if a Realized Loss is recognized
with respect to a Discount Mortgage Loan that is a Group I Loan, the applicable
portion of such Realized Loss will be allocated to REMIC I Regular Interest
A-I-PO and that if a Realized Loss is recognized with respect to a Discount
Mortgage Loan that is a Group II Loan, Group III Loan or Group IV Loan, the
applicable portion of such Realized Loss will be allocated to REMIC I Regular
Interest A-PO).
(c) Notwithstanding the deemed distributions on the REMIC I Regular
Interests described in this Section 10.04, distributions of funds from the
Certificate Account shall be made only in accordance with Section 4.02.
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Section 10.05. Distributions on the Uncertificated REMIC Regular
Interests.
(a) On each Distribution Date the Trustee shall be deemed to distribute
to itself, as the holder of the Uncertificated REMIC Regular Interests,
Uncertificated Accrued Interest on the Uncertificated REMIC Regular Interests
for such Distribution Date, plus any Uncertificated Accrued Interest thereon
remaining unpaid from any previous Distribution Date.
(b) In determining from time to time the Uncertificated REMIC Regular
Interest Distribution Amounts, Realized Losses allocated to the Class A-I-IO
Certificates and Class A-IO Certificates under Section 4.05 shall be deemed
allocated to related Uncertificated REMIC Regular Interests on a pro rata basis
based on the related Uncertificated Accrued Interest for the related
Distribution Date.
(c) On each Distribution Date, the Trustee shall be deemed to
distribute from the Trust Fund, in the priority set forth in Section 4.02(a), to
the Class A-I-IO Certificates and Class A-IO Certificates, the amounts
distributable thereon from the related Uncertificated REMIC Regular Interest
Distribution Amounts deemed to have been received by the Trustee from the Trust
Fund under this Section 10.05. The amount deemed distributable hereunder with
respect to the Class A-I- IO Certificates and Class A-IO Certificates shall
equal 100% of the amounts payable with respect to the related Uncertificated
REMIC Regular Interests.
(d) Notwithstanding the deemed distributions on the REMIC I Regular
Interests described in this Section 10.05, distributions of funds from the
Certificate Account shall be made only in accordance with Section 4.02.
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ARTICLE XI
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Section 11.01. Amendment.
(a) This Agreement or any Custodial Agreement may be amended from time
to time by the Depositor, the Master Servicer and the Trustee, without the
consent of any of the Certificateholders:
(i) to cure any ambiguity,
(ii) to correct or supplement any provisions herein or
therein, which may be inconsistent with any other provisions herein or
therein or to correct any error,
(iii) to modify, eliminate or add to any of its provisions to
such extent as shall be necessary or desirable to maintain the
qualification of REMIC I or REMIC II as REMICs at all times that any
Certificate is outstanding or to avoid or minimize the risk of the
imposition of any tax on the Trust Fund pursuant to the Code that would
be a claim against the Trust Fund, provided that the Trustee has
received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that (A) such action is
necessary or desirable to maintain such qualification or to avoid or
minimize the risk of the imposition of any such tax and (B) such action
will not adversely affect in any material respect the interests of any
Certificateholder,
(iv) to change the timing and/or nature of deposits into the
Custodial Account or the Certificate Account or to change the name in
which the Custodial Account is maintained, provided that (A) the
Certificate Account Deposit Date shall in no event be later than the
related Distribution Date, (B) such change shall not, as evidenced by
an Opinion of Counsel, adversely affect in any material respect the
interests of any Certificateholder and (C) such change shall not result
in a reduction of the rating assigned to any Class of Certificates
below the lower of the then-current rating or the rating assigned to
such Certificates as of the Closing Date, as evidenced by a letter from
each Rating Agency to such effect,
(v) to modify, eliminate or add to the provisions of Section
5.02(f) or any other provision hereof restricting transfer of the Class
R Certificates by virtue of their being the "residual interests" in the
Trust Fund provided that (A) such change shall not result in reduction
of the rating assigned to any such Class of Certificates below the
lower of the then- current rating or the rating assigned to such
Certificates as of the Closing Date, as evidenced by a letter from each
Rating Agency to such effect, and (B) such change shall not, as
evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel (at the expense of the party seeking
so to modify, eliminate or add such provisions), cause the Trust Fund
or any of the Certificateholders (other than the transferor) to be
subject to a federal tax caused by a transfer to a Person that is not a
Permitted Transferee, or
(vi) to make any other provisions with respect to matters or
questions arising under this Agreement or such Custodial Agreement
which shall not be materially
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inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement, provided that such
action shall not, as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel, adversely
affect in any material respect the interests of any Certificateholder.
(b) This Agreement or any Custodial Agreement may also be amended from
time to time by the Depositor, the Master Servicer, the Trustee and the Holders
of Certificates evidencing in the aggregate not less than 66% of the Percentage
Interests of each Class of Certificates affected thereby for the purpose of
adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the
provisions of this Agreement or such Custodial Agreement or of modifying in any
manner the rights of the Holders of Certificates of such Class; PROVIDED,
HOWEVER, that no such amendment shall:
(i) reduce in any manner the amount of, or delay the timing
of, payments which are required to be distributed on any Certificate
without the consent of the Holder of such Certificate,
(ii) adversely affect in any material respect the interest of
the Holders of Certificates of any Class in a manner other than as
described in clause (i) hereof without the consent of Holders of
Certificates of such Class evidencing, as to such Class, Percentage
Interests aggregating not less than 66%, or
(iii) reduce the aforesaid percentage of Certificates of any
Class the Holders of which are required to consent to any such
amendment, in any such case without the consent of the Holders of all
Certificates of such Class then outstanding.
(c) Notwithstanding any contrary provision of this Agreement, the
Trustee shall not consent to any amendment to this Agreement unless it shall
have first received an Opinion of Counsel (at the expense of the party seeking
such amendment) to the effect that such amendment is permitted under this
Agreement and that such amendment or the exercise of any power granted to the
Master Servicer, the Depositor or the Trustee in accordance with such amendment
will not result in the imposition of a federal tax on the Trust Fund or cause
REMIC I or REMIC II to fail to qualify as REMICs at any time that any
Certificate is outstanding. The Trustee may but shall not be obligated to enter
into any amendment pursuant to this Section that affects its rights, duties and
immunities and this agreement or otherwise; PROVIDED HOWEVER, such consent shall
not be unreasonably withheld.
(d) Promptly after the execution of any such amendment the Trustee
shall furnish written notification of the substance of such amendment to each
Certificateholder. It shall not be necessary for the consent of
Certificateholders under this Section 11.01 to approve the particular form of
any proposed amendment, but it shall be sufficient if such consent shall approve
the substance thereof. The manner of obtaining such consents and of evidencing
the authorization of the execution thereof by Certificateholders shall be
subject to such reasonable regulations as the Trustee may prescribe.
(e) The Depositor shall have the option, in its sole discretion, to
obtain and deliver to the Trustee any corporate guaranty, payment obligation,
irrevocable letter of credit, surety bond, insurance policy or similar
instrument or a reserve fund, or any combination of the foregoing, for the
purpose of protecting the Holders of the Class R Certificates against any or all
Realized Losses or
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other shortfalls. Any such instrument or fund shall be held by the Trustee for
the benefit of the Class R Certificateholders, but shall not be and shall not be
deemed to be under any circumstances included in the REMIC. To the extent that
any such instrument or fund constitutes a reserve fund for federal income tax
purposes, (i) any reserve fund so established shall be an outside reserve fund
and not an asset of the REMIC, (ii) any such reserve fund shall be owned by the
Depositor, and (iii) amounts transferred by the REMIC to any such reserve fund
shall be treated as amounts distributed by the REMIC to the Depositor or any
successor, all within the meaning of Treasury regulations Section 1.860G-2(h).
In connection with the provision of any such instrument or fund, this Agreement
and any provision hereof may be modified, added to, deleted or otherwise amended
in any manner that is related or incidental to such instrument or fund or the
establishment or administration thereof, such amendment to be made by written
instrument executed or consented to by the Depositor and such related insurer
but without the consent of any Certificateholder and without the consent of the
Master Servicer or the Trustee being required unless any such amendment would
impose any additional obligation on, or otherwise adversely affect the interests
of the Certificateholders, the Master Servicer or the Trustee, as applicable;
provided that the Depositor obtains an Opinion of Counsel (which need not be an
opinion of Independent counsel) to the effect that any such amendment will not
cause (a) any federal tax to be imposed on the Trust Fund, including without
limitation, any federal tax imposed on "prohibited transactions" under Section
860F(a)(1) of the Code or on "contributions after the startup date" under
Section 860G(d)(1) of the Code and (b) any of REMIC I or REMIC II to fail to
qualify as a REMIC at any time that any Certificate is outstanding. In the event
that the Depositor elects to provide such coverage in the form of a limited
guaranty provided by General Motors Acceptance Corporation, the Depositor may
elect that the text of such amendment to this Agreement shall be substantially
in the form attached hereto as Exhibit K (in which case Residential Funding's
Subordinate Certificate Loss Obligation as described in such exhibit shall be
established by Residential Funding's consent to such amendment) and that the
limited guaranty shall be executed in the form attached hereto as Exhibit L,
with such changes as the Depositor shall deem to be appropriate; it being
understood that the Trustee has reviewed and approved the content of such forms
and that the Trustee's consent or approval to the use thereof is not required.
Section 11.02. Recordation of Agreement; Counterparts.
(a) To the extent permitted by applicable law, this Agreement is
subject to recordation in all appropriate public offices for real property
records in all the counties or other comparable jurisdictions in which any or
all of the properties subject to the Mortgages are situated, and in any other
appropriate public recording office or elsewhere, such recordation to be
effected by the Master Servicer and at its expense on direction by the Trustee
(pursuant to the request of the Holders of Certificates entitled to at least 25%
of the Voting Rights), but only upon direction accompanied by an Opinion of
Counsel to the effect that such recordation materially and beneficially affects
the interests of the Certificateholders.
(b) For the purpose of facilitating the recordation of this Agreement
as herein provided and for other purposes, this Agreement may be executed
simultaneously in any number of counterparts, each of which counterparts shall
be deemed to be an original, and such counterparts shall constitute but one and
the same instrument.
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Section 11.03. Limitation on Rights of Certificateholders.
(a) The death or incapacity of any Certificateholder shall not operate
to terminate this Agreement or the Trust Fund, nor entitle such
Certificateholder's legal representatives or heirs to claim an accounting or to
take any action or proceeding in any court for a partition or winding up of the
Trust Fund, nor otherwise affect the rights, obligations and liabilities of any
of the parties hereto.
(b) No Certificateholder shall have any right to vote (except as
expressly provided herein) or in any manner otherwise control the operation and
management of the Trust Fund, or the obligations of the parties hereto, nor
shall anything herein set forth, or contained in the terms of the Certificates,
be construed so as to constitute the Certificateholders from time to time as
partners or members of an association; nor shall any Certificateholder be under
any liability to any third person by reason of any action taken by the parties
to this Agreement pursuant to any provision hereof.
(c) No Certificateholder shall have any right by virtue of any
provision of this Agreement to institute any suit, action or proceeding in
equity or at law upon or under or with respect to this Agreement, unless such
Holder previously shall have given to the Trustee a written notice of default
and of the continuance thereof, as hereinbefore provided, and unless also the
Holders of Certificates of any Class evidencing in the aggregate not less than
25% of the related Percentage Interests of such Class, shall have made written
request upon the Trustee to institute such action, suit or proceeding in its own
name as Trustee hereunder and shall have offered to the Trustee such reasonable
indemnity as it may require against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be
incurred therein or thereby, for 60 days after its receipt of such notice,
request and offer of indemnity, shall have neglected or refused to institute any
such action, suit or proceeding it being understood and intended, and being
expressly covenanted by each Certificateholder with every other
Certificateholder and the Trustee, that no one or more Holders of Certificates
of any Class shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of any
provision of this Agreement to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of the
Holders of any other of such Certificates of such Class or any other Class, or
to obtain or seek to obtain priority over or preference to any other such
Holder, or to enforce any right under this Agreement, except in the manner
herein provided and for the common benefit of Certificateholders of such Class
or all Classes, as the case may be. For the protection and enforcement of the
provisions of this Section 11.03, each and every Certificateholder and the
Trustee shall be entitled to such relief as can be given either at law or in
equity.
Section 11.04. Governing Law.
This agreement and the Certificates shall be governed by and construed
in accordance with the laws of the State of New York and the obligations, rights
and remedies of the parties hereunder shall be determined in accordance with
such laws.
Section 11.05. Notices.
All demands and notices hereunder shall be in writing and shall be
deemed to have been duly given if personally delivered at or mailed by
registered mail, postage prepaid (except for notices to the Trustee which shall
be deemed to have been duly given only when received), to (a) in the case of the
Depositor, 0000 Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxx 000, Xxxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx
00000,
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Attention: President (RAMP), or such other address as may hereafter be furnished
to the Master Servicer and the Trustee in writing by the Depositor; (b) in the
case of the Master Servicer, 0000 Xxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx
00000-0000, Attention: Bond Administration or such other address as may be
hereafter furnished to the Depositor and the Trustee by the Master Servicer in
writing; (c) in the case of the Trustee, 0 Xxx Xxxx Xxxxx, 0xx Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxx,
Xxx Xxxx 00000, Attention: Residential Asset Mortgage Products Inc. Series
2003-SL1 or such other address as may hereafter be furnished to the Depositor
and the Master Servicer in writing by the Trustee; (d) in the case of Standard &
Poor's, 00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000 Attention: Mortgage
Surveillance or such other address as may be hereafter furnished to the
Depositor, Trustee and Master Servicer by Standard & Poor's; and (e) in the case
of Fitch, Xxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, Attention: ABS
Monitoring Department, or such other address as may be hereafter furnished to
the Depositor, the Trustee and the Master Servicer in writing by Fitch. Any
notice required or permitted to be mailed to a Certificateholder shall be given
by first class mail, postage prepaid, at the address of such holder as shown in
the Certificate Register. Any notice so mailed within the time prescribed in
this Agreement shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether
or not the Certificateholder receives such notice.
Section 11.06. Notices to Rating Agencies.
The Depositor, the Master Servicer or the Trustee, as applicable, shall
notify each Rating Agency and each Subservicer at such time as it is otherwise
required pursuant to this Agreement to give notice of the occurrence of, any of
the events described in clause (a), (b), (c), (d), (g), (h), (i) or (j) below or
provide a copy to each Rating Agency at such time as otherwise required to be
delivered pursuant to this Agreement of any of the statements described in
clauses (e) and (f) below:
(a) a material change or amendment to this Agreement,
(b) the occurrence of an Event of Default,
(c) the termination or appointment of a successor Master Servicer or
Trustee or a change in the majority ownership of the Trustee,
(d) the filing of any claim under the Master Servicer's blanket
fidelity bond and the errors and omissions insurance policy required by Section
3.12 or the cancellation or modification of coverage under 152 any such
instrument,
(e) the statement required to be delivered to the Holders of each Class
of Certificates pursuant to Section 4.03,
(f) the statements required to be delivered pursuant to Sections 3.18
and 3.19,
(g) a change in the location of the Custodial Account or the
Certificate Account,
(h) the occurrence of any monthly cash flow shortfall to the Holders of
any Class of Certificates resulting from the failure by the Master Servicer to
make an Advance pursuant to Section 4.04,
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(i) the occurrence of the Final Distribution Date, and
(j) the repurchase of or substitution for any Mortgage Loan, PROVIDED,
HOWEVER, that with respect to notice of the occurrence of the events described
in clauses (d), (g) or (h) above, the Master Servicer shall provide prompt
written notice to each Rating Agency and the Subservicer of any such event known
to the Master Servicer.
Section 11.07. Severability of Provisions.
If any one or more of the covenants, agreements, provisions or terms of
this Agreement shall be for any reason whatsoever held invalid, then such
covenants, agreements, provisions or terms shall be deemed severable from the
remaining covenants, agreements, provisions or terms of this Agreement and shall
in no way affect the validity or enforceability of the other provisions of this
Agreement or of the Certificates or the rights of the Holders thereof.
Section 11.08. Supplemental Provisions for Resecuritization.
(a) This Agreement may be supplemented by means of the addition of a
separate Article hereto (a "Supplemental Article") for the purpose of
resecuritizing any of the Certificates issued hereunder, under the following
circumstances. With respect to any Class or Classes of Certificates issued
hereunder, or any portion of any such Class, as to which the Depositor or any of
its Affiliates (or any designee thereof) is the registered Holder (the
"Resecuritized Certificates"), the Depositor may deposit such Resecuritized
Certificates into a new REMIC, grantor trust, FASIT or custodial arrangement (a
"Restructuring Vehicle") to be held by the Trustee pursuant to a Supplemental
Article. The instrument adopting such Supplemental Article shall be executed by
the Depositor, the Master Servicer and the Trustee; provided, that neither the
Master Servicer nor the Trustee shall withhold their consent thereto if their
respective interests would not be materially adversely affected thereby. To the
extent that the terms of the Supplemental Article do not in any way affect any
provisions of this Agreement as to any of the Certificates initially issued
hereunder, the adoption of the Supplemental Article shall not constitute an
"amendment" of this Agreement. Each Supplemental Article shall set forth all
necessary provisions relating to the holding of the Resecuritized Certificates
by the Trustee, the establishment of the Restructuring Vehicle, the issuing of
various classes of new certificates by the Restructuring Vehicle and the
distributions to be made thereon, and any other provisions necessary to the
purposes thereof. In connection with each Supplemental Article, the Depositor
shall deliver to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that (i) the
Restructuring Vehicle will qualify as a REMIC, grantor trust, FASIT or other
entity not subject to taxation for federal income tax purposes and (ii) the
adoption of the Supplemental Article will not endanger the status of any of
REMIC I or REMIC II as a REMIC or result in the imposition of a tax upon the
Trust Fund (including but not limited to the tax on prohibited transaction as
defined in Section 860F(a)(2) of the Code and the tax on contributions to a
REMIC as set forth in Section 860G(d) of the Code.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Depositor, the Master Servicer and the
Trustee have caused their names to be signed hereto by their respective officers
thereunto duly authorized and their respective seals, duly attested, to be
hereunto affixed, all as of the day and year first above written.
[Seal] RESIDENTIAL ASSET
MORTGAGE PRODUCTS, INC.
Attest: By:
-------------------------- ----------------------------------
Name: Xxxx Xxxxxxxx Name:
Title: Vice President Title: Vice President
[Seal]
RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION
Attest: By:
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Name: Name:
Title: Director Title: Managing Director
[Seal] JPMORGAN CHASE BANK
as Trustee
Attest: By:
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Name: Name:
Title: Title:
000
XXXXX XX XXXXXXXXX )
) ss.:
COUNTY OF HENNEPIN )
On the 25th day of November, 2003 before me, a notary public
in and for said State, personally appeared [______________], known to me to be a
Vice President of Residential Asset Mortgage Products, Inc., one of the
corporations that executed the within instrument, and also known to me to be the
person who executed it on behalf of said corporation, and acknowledged to me
that such corporation executed the within instrument.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my
official seal the day and year in this certificate first above written.
--------------------------
Notary Public
[Notarial Seal]
000
XXXXX XX XXXXXXXXX )
) ss.:
COUNTY OF HENNEPIN )
On the 25th day of November, 2003 before me, a notary public
in and for said State, personally appeared [___________], known to me to be a
Managing Director of Residential Funding Corporation, one of the corporations
that executed the within instrument, and also known to me to be the person who
executed it on behalf of said corporation, and acknowledged to me that such
corporation executed the within instrument.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my
official seal the day and year in this certificate first above written.
--------------------------
Notary Public
[Notarial Seal]
000
XXXXX XX XXX XXXX )
) ss.:
COUNTY OF NEW YORK )
On the 25th day of November, 2003 before me, a notary public
in and for said State, personally appeared ____________________, known to me to
be a _________________ of JPMorgan Chase Bank, a New York banking corporation
that executed the within instrument, and also known to me to be the person who
executed it on behalf of said banking corporation and acknowledged to me that
such banking corporation executed the within instrument.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my
official seal the day and year in this certificate first above written.
--------------------------
Notary Public
[Notarial Seal]
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EXHIBIT A
FORM OF CLASS A CERTIFICATE, [CLASS A-I-PO/CLASS A-PO] CERTIFICATE
AND [CLASS A-I-IO/CLASS A-IO] CERTIFICATE
SOLELY FOR U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX PURPOSES, THIS CERTIFICATE IS A
"REGULAR INTEREST" IN A "REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE INVESTMENT CONDUIT," AS THOSE
TERMS ARE DEFINED, RESPECTIVELY, IN SECTIONS 860G AND 860D OF THE INTERNAL
REVENUE CODE OF 1986.
UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF
THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION ("DTC"), TO ISSUER OR ITS
AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE, OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE
ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS
REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO
CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED
REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE, OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR
OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER
HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.
Certificate No. [____] [____]% Pass-Through Rate
Class [A-___] Senior Percentage Interest: ____%
Date of Pooling and Servicing Agreement and Aggregate Initial [Certificate Principal
Cut-off Date: Balance] [Notional Amount] of the Class [A-
November 1, 2003 ___] Certificates: $________
First Distribution Date: [Initial] [Certificate Principal Balance]
December 26, 2003 [Notional Amount] of this Certificate:
$[______________]
Master Servicer:
Residential Funding Corporation
Assumed Final Distribution Date: CUSIP
[April 25, 2031][March 25, 2016] [______________]
MORTGAGE-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATE
SERIES 2003-SL1
evidencing a percentage interest in the distributions
allocable to the Class A-__ Certificates with respect to a
Trust Fund consisting primarily of a pool of conventional one-
to four-family fixed interest rate first mortgage loans sold
by RESIDENTIAL ASSET MORTGAGE PRODUCTS, INC.
This Certificate is payable solely from the assets of the Trust Fund,
and does not represent an obligation of or interest in Residential Asset
Mortgage Products, Inc., the Master Servicer, the Trustee referred to below or
GMAC Mortgage Group, Inc. or any of their affiliates. Neither this Certificate
nor the underlying Mortgage Loans are guaranteed or insured by any governmental
agency or instrumentality or by Residential Asset Mortgage Products, Inc., the
Master Servicer, the Trustee or GMAC Mortgage Group, Inc. or any of their
affiliates. None of the Company, the Master Servicer, GMAC Mortgage Group, Inc.
or any of their affiliates will have any obligation with respect to any
certificate or other obligation secured by or payable from payments on the
Certificates.
This certifies that ______________ is the registered owner of the
Percentage Interest evidenced by this Certificate [(obtained by dividing the
[Initial Certificate Principal Balance] [Initial Notional Amount] of this
Certificate by the aggregate [Initial Certificate Principal Balance of all Class
A-__ Certificates] [Initial Notional Amount of all [Class A-I-IO][Class A-IO]
Certificates], both as specified above)] in certain distributions with respect
to the Trust Fund consisting primarily of an interest in a pool of conventional
one- to four-family fixed interest rate first mortgage loans (the "Mortgage
Loans"), sold by Residential Asset Mortgage Products, Inc. (hereinafter called
the
A-2
"Company," which term includes any successor entity under the Agreement referred
to below). The Trust Fund was created pursuant to a Pooling and Servicing
Agreement dated as of November 1, 2003 (the "Pooling and Servicing Agreement" or
the "Agreement") among the Company, the Master Servicer and JPMorgan Chase Bank,
as Trustee (the "Trustee"), a summary of certain of the pertinent provisions of
which is set forth hereafter. To the extent not defined herein, the capitalized
terms used herein have the meanings assigned in the Agreement. This Certificate
is issued under and is subject to the terms, provisions and conditions of the
Agreement, to which Agreement the Holder of this Certificate by virtue of the
acceptance hereof assents and by which such Holder is bound.
Pursuant to the terms of the Agreement, a distribution will be made on
the 25th day of each month or, if such 25th day is not a Business Day, the
Business Day immediately following (the "Distribution Date"), commencing as
described in the Agreement, to the Person in whose name this Certificate is
registered at the close of business on the last day (or if such last day is not
a Business Day, the Business Day immediately preceding such last day) of the
month immediately preceding the month of such distribution (the "Record Date"),
from the related Available Distribution Amount in an amount equal to the product
of the Percentage Interest evidenced by this Certificate and the amount (of
[interest][and][principal], if any) required to be distributed to Holders of
Class A-__ Certificates on such Distribution Date. [The Notional Amount of the
[Class A-I-IO][Class A-IO] Certificates as of any date of determination is equal
to the aggregate stated principal balance of the Mortgage Loans corresponding to
the uncertificated REMIC regular interests represented by such [Class
A-I-IO][Class A-IO] Certificates.]
Distributions on this Certificate will be made either by the Master
Servicer acting on behalf of the Trustee or by a Paying Agent appointed by the
Trustee in immediately available funds (by wire transfer or otherwise) for the
account of the Person entitled thereto if such Person shall have so notified the
Master Servicer or such Paying Agent, or by check mailed to the address of the
Person entitled thereto, as such name and address shall appear on the
Certificate Register.
Notwithstanding the above, the final distribution on this Certificate
will be made after due notice of the pendency of such distribution and only upon
presentation and surrender of this Certificate at the office or agency appointed
by the Trustee for that purpose in the City and State of New York. The [Initial
Certificate Principal Balance] [Initial Notional Amount] of this Certificate is
set forth above.] [The Certificate Principal Balance hereof will be reduced to
the extent of distributions allocable to principal and any Realized Losses
allocable hereto.]
This Certificate is one of a duly authorized issue of Certificates
issued in several Classes designated as Mortgage-Backed Pass-Through
Certificates of the Series specified hereon (herein collectively called the
"Certificates").
The Certificates are limited in right of payment to certain collections
and recoveries respecting the related Mortgage Loans, all as more specifically
set forth herein and in the Agreement. In the event Master Servicer funds are
advanced with respect to any Mortgage Loan, such advance is reimbursable to the
Master Servicer, to the extent provided in the Agreement, from related
recoveries on such Mortgage Loan or from other cash that would have been
distributable to Certificateholders.
A-3
As provided in the Agreement, withdrawals from the Custodial Account
and/or the Certificate Account created for the benefit of Certificateholders may
be made by the Master Servicer from time to time for purposes other than
distributions to Certificateholders, such purposes including without limitation
reimbursement to the Company and the Master Servicer of advances made, or
certain expenses incurred, by either of them.
The Agreement permits, with certain exceptions therein provided, the
amendment of the Agreement and the modification of the rights and obligations of
the Company, the Master Servicer and the Trustee and the rights of the
Certificateholders under the Agreement at any time by the Company, the Master
Servicer and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of certificates
evidencing in the aggregate not less than 66% of the Percentage Interests of
each Class of Certificates affected thereby. Any such consent by the Holder of
this Certificate shall be conclusive and binding on such Holder and upon all
future Holders of this Certificate and of any Certificate issued upon the
transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof whether or not notation
of such consent is made upon the Certificate. The Agreement also permits the
amendment thereof in certain circumstances without the consent of the Holders of
any of the Certificates and, in certain additional circumstances, without the
consent of the Holders of certain Classes of Certificates. As provided in the
Agreement and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of
this Certificate is registrable in the Certificate Register upon surrender of
this Certificate for registration of transfer at the offices or agencies
appointed by the Trustee in the City and State of New York, duly endorsed by, or
accompanied by an assignment in the form below or other written instrument of
transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly
executed by the Holder hereof or such Holder's attorney duly authorized in
writing, and thereupon one or more new certificates of authorized denominations
evidencing the same class and aggregate percentage interest will be issued to
the designated transferee or transferees.
The Certificates are issuable only as registered Certificates without
coupons in Classes and in denominations specified in the Agreement. As provided
in the Agreement and subject to certain limitations therein set forth,
Certificates are exchangeable for new Certificates of authorized denominations
evidencing the same Class and aggregate Percentage Interest, as requested by the
Holder surrendering the same.
No service charge will be made for any such registration of transfer or
exchange, but the Trustee may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any
tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.
The Company, the Master Servicer, the Trustee and the Certificate
Registrar and any agent of the Company, the Master Servicer, the Trustee or the
Certificate Registrar may treat the Person in whose name this Certificate is
registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, and neither the Company, the
Master Servicer, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to
the contrary.
This Certificate shall be governed by and construed in accordance with
the laws of the State of New York.
A-4
The obligations created by the Agreement in respect of the Certificates
and the Trust Fund created thereby shall terminate upon the payment to
Certificateholders of all amounts held by or on behalf of the Trustee and
required to be paid to them pursuant to the Agreement following the earlier of
(i) the maturity or other liquidation of the last Mortgage Loan subject thereto
or the disposition of all property acquired upon foreclosure or deed in lieu of
foreclosure of any Mortgage Loan and (ii) the purchase by the Master Servicer
from the Trust Fund of all remaining Mortgage Loans and all property acquired in
respect of such Mortgage Loans, thereby effecting early retirement of the
Certificates. The Agreement permits, but does not require, the Master Servicer
to (i) purchase at a price determined as provided in the Agreement all remaining
Mortgage Loans and all property acquired in respect of any Mortgage Loan in a
loan group or (ii) purchase in whole, but not in part, all of the Certificates
related to a loan group from the Holders thereof; provided, that any such option
may only be exercised if the pool Stated Principal Balance of the related
Mortgage Loans as of the Distribution Date upon which the proceeds of any such
purchase are distributed is less than one percent of the Cut-off Date Principal
Balance of the related Mortgage Loans.
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Certificate
set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes
have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by
the Certificate Registrar, by manual signature, this Certificate shall not be
entitled to any benefit under the Agreement or be valid for any purpose.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Trustee has caused this Certificate to be duly
executed.
Dated: November 25, 2003 JPMORGAN CHASE BANK,
as Trustee
By:
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Authorized Signatory
CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Class [A-] Certificates referred to in the
within-mentioned Agreement.
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK,
as Certificate Registrar
By:
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Authorized Signatory
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ASSIGNMENT
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s), assign(s) and
transfer(s) unto (Please print or typewrite name and address including postal
zip code of assignee) a Percentage Interest evidenced by the within
Mortgage-Backed Pass- Through Certificate and hereby authorizes the transfer of
registration of such interest to assignee on the Certificate Register of the
Trust Fund.
I (We) further direct the Certificate Registrar to issue a new
Certificate of a like denomination and Class, to the above named assignee and
deliver such Certificate to the following address:
Dated:
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Signature by or on behalf of assignor
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Signature Guaranteed
DISTRIBUTION INSTRUCTIONS
The assignee should include the following for purposes of distribution:
Distributions shall be made, by wire transfer or otherwise, in
immediately available funds to _______________________for the account of
__________________ account number ______________-, or, if mailed by check, to
____________________________. Applicable statements should be mailed to
________________________.
This information is provided by _____________________, the assignee
named above, or ________________, as its agent.
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EXHIBIT B
FORM OF CLASS M CERTIFICATE
THIS CERTIFICATE IS SUBORDINATED IN RIGHT OF PAYMENT TO THE SENIOR
CERTIFICATES [CLASS M-[ ] CERTIFICATES] AS DESCRIBED IN THE AGREEMENT (AS
DEFINED BELOW).
SOLELY FOR U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX PURPOSES, THIS CERTIFICATE IS A
"REGULAR INTEREST" IN A "REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE INVESTMENT CONDUIT," AS THOSE
TERMS ARE DEFINED, RESPECTIVELY, IN SECTIONS 860G AND 860D OF THE INTERNAL
REVENUE CODE OF 1986 (THE "CODE").
UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF
THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION ("DTC"), TO ISSUER OR ITS
AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE, OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE
ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS
REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO
CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED
REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE, OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR
OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER
HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.
ANY TRANSFEREE OF THIS CERTIFICATE WILL BE DEEMED TO HAVE (INCLUDING
REPRESENTED BY VIRTUE OF ITS PURCHASE OR HOLDING OF THIS CERTIFICATE (OR
INTEREST HEREIN)) THAT EITHER (A) SUCH TRANSFEREE IS NOT A PERSON, AN INVESTMENT
MANAGER, A NAMED FIDUCIARY OR A TRUSTEE OF ANY PLAN) ACTING, DIRECTLY OR
INDIRECTLY, ON BEHALF OF OR PURCHASING ANY CERTIFICATE WITH "PLAN ASSETS" OF ANY
PLAN (A "PLAN INVESTOR"), (B) IT HAS ACQUIRED AND IS HOLDING SUCH CERTIFICATE IN
RELIANCE ON PROHIBITED TRANSACTION EXEMPTION ("PTE") 94-29, 59 FED. REG. 14674
(MARCH 29, 1994), AS AMENDED BY PTE 97-34, 62 FED. REG. 39021 (JULY 21, 1997),
PTE 2000-58, 65 FED. REG. 67765 (NOVEMBER 13, 2000), AND PTE 2002-41, 67 FED.
REG. 54487 (AUGUST 22, 2002) (THE "RFC EXEMPTION"), AND THAT IT UNDERSTANDS THAT
THERE ARE CERTAIN CONDITIONS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF THE RFC EXEMPTION INCLUDING
THAT SUCH CERTIFICATE MUST BE RATED, AT THE TIME OF PURCHASE, NOT LOWER THAN
"BBB- " (OR ITS EQUIVALENT) BY STANDARD & POOR'S, FITCH OR XXXXX'X OR (C)(I) THE
TRANSFEREE IS AN INSURANCE COMPANY, (II) THE SOURCE OF FUNDS TO BE USED BY IT TO
PURCHASE THE CERTIFICATE IS AN "INSURANCE COMPANY GENERAL ACCOUNT" (WITHIN THE
MEANING OF U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR PROHIBITED TRANSACTION CLASS EXEMPTION
("PTCE") 95-60), AND (III) THE CONDITIONS SET FORTH IN SECTIONS I AND III OF
PTCE 95-60 HAVE BEEN SATISFIED (EACH ENTITY THAT SATISFIES THIS CLAUSE (C), A
"COMPLYING INSURANCE COMPANY").
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IF THIS CERTIFICATE (OR ANY INTEREST HEREIN) IS ACQUIRED OR HELD IN
VIOLATION OF THE PROVISIONS OF THE PRECEDING PARAGRAPH, THEN THE LAST PRECEDING
TRANSFEREE THAT EITHER (I) IS NOT A PLAN INVESTOR, (II) ACQUIRED SUCH
CERTIFICATE IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE RFC EXEMPTION OR (III) IS A COMPLYING
INSURANCE COMPANY SHALL BE RESTORED, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, TO ALL
RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS AS CERTIFICATE OWNER THEREOF RETROACTIVE TO THE DATE OF
SUCH TRANSFER OF THIS CERTIFICATE. THE TRUSTEE SHALL BE UNDER NO LIABILITY TO
ANY PERSON FOR MAKING ANY PAYMENTS DUE ON THIS CERTIFICATE TO SUCH PRECEDING
TRANSFEREE.
ANY PURPORTED CERTIFICATE OWNER WHOSE ACQUISITION OR HOLDING OF THIS
CERTIFICATE (OR INTEREST HEREIN) WAS EFFECTED IN VIOLATION OF THE RESTRICTIONS
IN SECTION 5.02(E) OF THE POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT SHALL INDEMNIFY AND
HOLD HARMLESS THE DEPOSITOR, THE TRUSTEE, THE MASTER SERVICER, ANY SUBSERVICER,
AND THE TRUST FUND FROM AND AGAINST ANY AND ALL LIABILITIES, CLAIMS, COSTS OR
EXPENSES INCURRED BY SUCH PARTIES AS A RESULT OF SUCH ACQUISITION OR HOLDING.
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Certificate No. [____] Variable Pass-Through Rate
Class M-[___] Subordinate
Date of Pooling and Servicing Agreement and Aggregate Certificate Principal Balance of the
Cut-off Date: Class M Certificates: $_______________
November 1, 2003
First Distribution Date: Initial Certificate Principal Balance of this
December 26, 2003 Certificate:
$[______________]
Master Servicer:
Residential Funding Corporation
Assumed Final Distribution Date: CUSIP
April 25, 2031 [______________]
MORTGAGE-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATE,
SERIES 2003-SL1
evidencing a percentage interest in any distributions
allocable to the Class M-___ Certificates with respect to the
Trust Fund consisting primarily of a pool of conventional one-
to four-family fixed interest rate first mortgage loans sold
by RESIDENTIAL ASSET MORTGAGE PRODUCTS, INC.
This Certificate is payable solely from the assets of the Trust Fund,
and does not represent an obligation of or interest in Residential Asset
Mortgage Products, Inc., the Master Servicer, the Trustee referred to below or
GMAC Mortgage Group, Inc. or any of their affiliates. Neither this Certificate
nor the underlying Mortgage Loans are guaranteed or insured by any governmental
agency or instrumentality or by Residential Asset Mortgage Products, Inc., the
Master Servicer, the Trustee or GMAC Mortgage Group, Inc. or any of their
affiliates. None of the Depositor, the Master Servicer, GMAC Mortgage Group,
Inc. or any of their affiliates will have any obligation with respect to any
certificate or other obligation secured by or payable from payments on the
Certificates.
This certifies that _______________ is the registered owner of the
Percentage Interest evidenced by this Certificate (obtained by dividing the
Certificate Principal Balance of this Certificate by the aggregate Certificate
Principal Balance of all Class M-___ Certificates, both as specified above) in
certain distributions with respect to a Trust Fund consisting primarily of a
pool of conventional one- to four-family fixed interest rate first mortgage
loans (the "Mortgage Loans"), formed and sold by Residential Asset Mortgage
Products, Inc. (hereinafter called the "Depositor," which term includes any
successor entity under the Agreement referred to below). The Trust Fund was
created pursuant to a Pooling and Servicing Agreement dated as of November 1,
2003, (the
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"Pooling and Servicing Agreement" or the "Agreement") among the Depositor, the
Master Servicer and JPMorgan Chase Bank, as trustee (the "Trustee"), a summary
of certain of the pertinent provisions of which is set forth hereafter. To the
extent not defined herein, the capitalized terms used herein have the meanings
assigned in the Agreement. This Certificate is issued under and is subject to
the terms, provisions and conditions of the Agreement, to which Agreement the
Holder of this Certificate by virtue of the acceptance hereof assents and by
which such Holder is bound.
Pursuant to the terms of the Agreement, a distribution will be made on
the 25th day of each month or, if such 25th day is not a Business Day, the
Business Day immediately following (the "Distribution Date"), commencing as
described in the Agreement, to the Person in whose name this Certificate is
registered at the close of business on the last day (or if such last day is not
a Business Day, the Business Day immediately preceding such last day) of the
month immediately preceding the month of such distribution (the "Record Date"),
from the related Available Distribution Amount in an amount equal to the product
of the Percentage Interest evidenced by this Certificate and the amount (of
interest and principal, if any) required to be distributed to Holders of Class
M-___ Certificates on such Distribution Date.
Distributions on this Certificate will be made either by the Master
Servicer acting on behalf of the Trustee or by a Paying Agent appointed by the
Trustee in immediately available funds (by wire transfer or otherwise) for the
account of the Person entitled thereto if such Person shall have so notified the
Master Servicer or such Paying Agent, or by check mailed to the address of the
Person entitled thereto, as such name and address shall appear on the
Certificate Register.
Notwithstanding the above, the final distribution on this Certificate
will be made after due notice of the pendency of such distribution and only upon
presentation and surrender of this Certificate at the office or agency appointed
by the Trustee for that purpose in the City and State of New York. The Initial
Certificate Principal Balance of this Certificate is set forth above. The
Certificate Principal Balance hereof will be reduced to the extent of the
distributions allocable to principal and any Realized Losses allocable hereto.
As described above, any transferee of this Certificate will be deemed
to have represented by virtue of its purchase or holding of this Certificate (or
interest herein) that either (A) such transferee is not a Plan Investor, (B) it
has acquired and is holding this Certificate in reliance on the RFC Exemption
and that it understands that there are certain conditions to the availability of
the RFC Exemption including that this Certificate must be rated, at the time of
purchase, not lower than "BBB-" (or its equivalent) by Standard & Poor's, Fitch
or Xxxxx'x or (C) the transferee is a Complying Insurance Company. In addition,
any purported Certificate Owner whose acquisition or holding of this Certificate
(or interest herein) was effected in violation of the restrictions in Section
5.02(e) of the Agreement shall indemnify and hold harmless the Depositor, the
Trustee, the Master Servicer, any Subservicer, and the Trust Fund from and
against any and all liabilities, claims, costs or expenses incurred by such
parties as a result of such acquisition or holding.
This Certificate is one of a duly authorized issue of Certificates
issued in several Classes designated as Mortgage-Backed Pass-Through
Certificates of the Series specified hereon (herein collectively called the
"Certificates").
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The Certificates are limited in right of payment to certain collections
and recoveries respecting the related Mortgage Loans, all as more specifically
set forth herein and in the Agreement. In the event Master Servicer funds are
advanced with respect to any Mortgage Loan, such advance is reimbursable to the
Master Servicer, to the extent provided in the Agreement, from related
recoveries on such Mortgage Loan or from other cash that would have been
distributable to Certificateholders.
As provided in the Agreement, withdrawals from the Custodial Account
and/or the Certificate Account created for the benefit of Certificateholders may
be made by the Master Servicer from time to time for purposes other than
distributions to Certificateholders, such purposes including without limitation
reimbursement to the Depositor and the Master Servicer of advances made, or
certain expenses incurred, by either of them.
The Agreement permits, with certain exceptions therein provided, the
amendment of the Agreement and the modification of the rights and obligations of
the Depositor , the Master Servicer and the Trustee and the rights of the
Certificateholders under the Agreement at any time by the Depositor, the Master
Servicer and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of Certificates
evidencing in the aggregate not less than 66% of the Percentage Interests of
each Class of Certificates affected thereby. Any such consent by the Holder of
this Certificate shall be conclusive and binding on such Holder and upon all
future holders of this Certificate and of any Certificate issued upon the
transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof whether or not notation
of such consent is made upon the Certificate. The Agreement also permits the
amendment thereof in certain circumstances without the consent of the Holders of
any of the Certificates and, in certain additional circumstances, without the
consent of the Holders of certain Classes of Certificates.
As provided in the Agreement and subject to certain limitations therein
set forth, the transfer of this Certificate is registrable in the Certificate
Register upon surrender of this Certificate for registration of transfer at the
offices or agencies appointed by the Trustee in the City and State of New York,
duly endorsed by, or accompanied by an assignment in the form below or other
written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee and the
Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Holder hereof or such Holder's
attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Certificates
of authorized denominations evidencing the same Class and aggregate Percentage
Interest will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.
The Certificates are issuable only as registered Certificates without
coupons in Classes and in denominations specified in the Agreement. As provided
in the Agreement and subject to certain limitations therein set forth,
Certificates are exchangeable for new Certificates of authorized denominations
evidencing the same Class and aggregate Percentage Interest, as requested by the
Holder surrendering the same.
No service charge will be made for any such registration of transfer or
exchange, but the Trustee may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any
tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.
The Depositor, the Master Servicer, the Trustee and the Certificate
Registrar and any agent of the Depositor, the Master Servicer, the Trustee or
the Certificate Registrar may treat the Person
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in whose name this Certificate is registered as the owner hereof for all
purposes, and neither the Depositor, the Master Servicer, the Trustee nor any
such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
This Certificate shall be governed by and construed in accordance with
the laws of the State of New York.
The obligations created by the Agreement in respect of the Certificates
and the Trust Fund created thereby shall terminate upon the payment to
Certificateholders of all amounts held by or on behalf of the Trustee and
required to be paid to them pursuant to the Agreement following the earlier of
(i) the maturity or other liquidation of the last Mortgage Loan subject thereto
or the disposition of all property acquired upon foreclosure or deed in lieu of
foreclosure of any Mortgage Loan and (ii) the purchase by the Master Servicer
from the Trust Fund of all remaining Mortgage Loans and all property acquired in
respect of such Mortgage Loans, thereby effecting early retirement of the
Certificates. The Agreement permits, but does not require, the Master Servicer
to (i) purchase at a price determined as provided in the Agreement all remaining
Mortgage Loans and all property acquired in respect of any Mortgage Loan in a
loan group or (ii) purchase in whole, but not in part, all of the Certificates
related to a loan group from the Holders thereof; provided, that any such option
may only be exercised if the pool Stated Principal Balance of the related
Mortgage Loans as of the Distribution Date upon which the proceeds of any such
purchase are distributed is less than one percent of the Cut-off Date Principal
Balance of the related Mortgage Loans.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by
the Certificate Registrar, by manual signature, this Certificate shall not be
entitled to any benefit under the Agreement or be valid for any purpose.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Trustee has caused this Certificate to be duly
executed.
Dated: November 25, 2003 JPMORGAN CHASE BANK,
as Trustee
By:
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Authorized Signatory
CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Class [M- ] Certificates referred to in the
within-mentioned Agreement.
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK,
as Certificate Registrar
By:
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Authorized Signatory
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ASSIGNMENT
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s), assign(s) and
transfer(s) unto (Please print or typewrite name and address including postal
zip code of assignee) a Percentage Interest evidenced by the within
Mortgage-Backed Pass- Through Certificate and hereby authorizes the transfer of
registration of such interest to assignee on the Certificate Register of the
Trust Fund.
I (We) further direct the Certificate Registrar to issue a new
Certificate of a like denomination and Class, to the above named assignee and
deliver such Certificate to the following address:
Dated:
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Signature by or on behalf of assignor
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Signature Guaranteed
DISTRIBUTION INSTRUCTIONS
The assignee should include the following for purposes of distribution:
Distributions shall be made, by wire transfer or otherwise, in
immediately available funds to _______________________for the account of
__________________ account number ______________-, or, if mailed by check, to
____________________________. Applicable statements should be mailed to
________________________.
This information is provided by _____________________, the assignee
named above, or ________________, as its agent.
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EXHIBIT C
FORM OF CLASS B CERTIFICATE
THIS CERTIFICATE IS SUBORDINATED IN RIGHT OF PAYMENT TO THE SENIOR
CERTIFICATES [AND] CLASS M CERTIFICATES [AND CLASS B-_] DESCRIBED IN THE
AGREEMENT (AS DEFINED HEREIN).
THIS CERTIFICATE HAS NOT BEEN AND WILL NOT BE REGISTERED UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE AND MAY
NOT BE RESOLD OR TRANSFERRED UNLESS IT IS REGISTERED PURSUANT TO SUCH ACT AND
LAWS OR IS SOLD OR TRANSFERRED IN TRANSACTIONS WHICH ARE EXEMPT FROM
REGISTRATION UNDER SUCH ACT AND UNDER APPLICABLE STATE LAW AND IS TRANSFERRED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5.02 OF THE AGREEMENT.
NO TRANSFER OF THIS CERTIFICATE MAY BE MADE TO ANY PERSON UNLESS THE
TRANSFEREE PROVIDES EITHER: (A) A CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO SECTION 5.02(E) OF
THE AGREEMENT, AN OPINION OF COUNSEL SATISFACTORY TO THE MASTER SERVICER, THE
DEPOSITOR AND THE TRUSTEE THAT THE PURCHASE OF THIS CERTIFICATE WILL NOT
CONSTITUTE OR RESULT IN A NON-EXEMPT PROHIBITED TRANSACTION UNDER SECTION 406 OF
THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED ("ERISA"), OR
SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE AND WILL NOT SUBJECT THE MASTER SERVICER, THE DEPOSITOR
OR THE TRUSTEE TO ANY OBLIGATION OR LIABILITY IN ADDITION TO THOSE UNDERTAKEN IN
THE AGREEMENT, OR (C) AN OPINION OF COUNSEL STATING THAT: (I) THE TRANSFEREE IS
AN INSURANCE COMPANY, (II) THE SOURCE OF FUNDS USED TO PURCHASE OR HOLD THIS
CERTIFICATE IS AN "INSURANCE COMPANY GENERAL ACCOUNT" (WITHIN THE MEANING OF
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR PROHIBITED TRANSACTION CLASS EXEMPTION ("PTCE") 95-60), AND
(III) THE CONDITIONS SET FORTH IN SECTIONS I AND III OF PTCE 95-60 HAVE BEEN
SATISFIED.
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Certificate No. [____] Variable Pass-Through Rate
Class B-[___] Subordinate
Date of Pooling and Servicing Agreement and Aggregate Certificate Principal Balance of the
Cut-off Date: Class B-___ Certificates as of the Cut-off Date:
November 1, 2003 $________
First Distribution Date: Initial Certificate Principal Balance of this
December 26, 2003 Certificate:
$[______________]
Master Servicer:
Residential Funding Corporation
Assumed Final Distribution Date: CUSIP
April 25, 2031 [______________]
MORTGAGE-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATE,
SERIES 2003-SL1
evidencing a percentage interest in any distributions
allocable to the Class B-___ Certificates with respect to the
Trust Fund consisting primarily of a pool of conventional one-
to four-family fixed interest rate first mortgage loans sold
by RESIDENTIAL ASSET MORTGAGE PRODUCTS, INC.
This Certificate is payable solely from the assets of the Trust Fund,
and does not represent an obligation of or interest in Residential Asset
Mortgage Products, Inc., the Master Servicer, the Trustee referred to below or
GMAC Mortgage Group, Inc. or any of their affiliates. Neither this Certificate
nor the underlying Mortgage Loans are guaranteed or insured by any governmental
agency or instrumentality or by Residential Asset Mortgage Products, Inc., the
Master Servicer, the Trustee or GMAC Mortgage Group, Inc. or any of their
affiliates. None of the Depositor , the Master Servicer, GMAC Mortgage Group,
Inc. or any of their affiliates will have any obligation with respect to any
certificate or other obligation secured by or payable from payments on the
Certificates.
This certifies that _______________________ is the registered owner of
the Percentage Interest evidenced by this Certificate (obtained by dividing the
Certificate Principal Balance of this Certificate by the aggregate Certificate
Principal Balance of all Class B-___ Certificates, both as specified above) in
certain distributions with respect to a Trust Fund consisting primarily of a
pool of conventional one- to four-family fixed interest rate first mortgage
loans (the "Mortgage Loans"), sold by Residential Asset Mortgage Products, Inc.
(hereinafter called the "Depositor," which term includes any successor entity
under the Agreement referred to below). The Trust Fund was created pursuant to a
Pooling and Servicing Agreement dated as of November 1, 2003 (the "Pooling and
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Servicing Agreement" or the "Agreement") among the Depositor, the Master
Servicer and JPMorgan Chase Bank, as trustee (the "Trustee"), a summary of
certain of the pertinent provisions of which is set forth hereafter. To the
extent not defined herein, the capitalized terms used herein have the meanings
assigned in the Agreement. This Certificate is issued under and is subject to
the terms, provisions and conditions of the Agreement, to which Agreement the
Holder of this Certificate by virtue of the acceptance hereof assents and by
which such Holder is bound.
Pursuant to the terms of the Agreement, a distribution will be made on
the 25th day of each month or, if such 25th day is not a Business Day, the
Business Day immediately following (the "Distribution Date"), commencing on the
first Distribution Date specified above, to the Person in whose name this
Certificate is registered at the close of business on the last day (or if such
last day is not a Business Day, the Business Day immediately preceding such last
day) of the month next preceding the month of such distribution (the "Record
Date"), from the Available Distribution Amount in an amount equal to the product
of the Percentage Interest evidenced by this Certificate and the amount (of
interest and principal, if any) required to be distributed to Holders of Class
B-__ Certificates on such Distribution Date.
Distributions on this Certificate will be made either by the Master
Servicer acting on behalf of the Trustee or by a Paying Agent appointed by the
Trustee in immediately available funds (by wire transfer or otherwise) for the
account of the Person entitled thereto if such Person shall have so notified the
Master Servicer or such Paying Agent, or by check mailed to the address of the
Person entitled thereto, as such name and address shall appear on the
Certificate Register.
Notwithstanding the above, the final distribution on this Certificate
will be made after due notice of the pendency of such distribution and only upon
presentation and surrender of this Certificate at the office or agency appointed
by the Trustee for that purpose in the City and State of New York. The Initial
Certificate Principal Balance of this Certificate is set forth above. The
Certificate Principal Balance hereof will be reduced to the extent of the
distributions allocable to principal and any Realized Losses allocable hereto.
No transfer of this Class B Certificate will be made unless such
transfer is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of
1933, as amended, and any applicable state securities laws or is made in
accordance with said Act and laws. In the event that such a transfer is to be
made, (i) the Trustee or the Depositor may require an opinion of counsel
acceptable to and in form and substance satisfactory to the Trustee and the
Depositor that such transfer is exempt (describing the applicable exemption and
the basis therefor) from or is being made pursuant to the registration
requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and of any applicable
statute of any state and (ii) the transferee shall execute an investment letter
in the form described by Section 5.02(e) of the Agreement. The Holder hereof
desiring to effect such transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the
Trustee, the Depositor or the Master Servicer and the Certificate Registrar
acting on behalf of the Trustee against any liability that may result if the
transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with such Federal and
state laws. In connection with any such transfer, the Trustee will also require
either (i) an opinion of counsel acceptable to and in form and substance
satisfactory to the Trustee, the Depositor or the Master Servicer with respect
to the permissibility of such transfer under the Employee Retirement Income
Security Act of 1974, as amended ("ERISA"), and Section 4975 of the Internal
Revenue Code (the "Code") and stating, among other things, that
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the transferee's acquisition of a Class B Certificate will not constitute or
result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or
Section 4975 of the Code or (ii) a representation letter, in the form as
described by the Agreement, either stating that the transferee is not an
employee benefit or other plan subject to the prohibited transaction provisions
of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (a "Plan"), or any other person (including
an investment manager, a named fiduciary or a trustee of any Plan) acting,
directly or indirectly, on behalf of or purchasing any Certificate with "plan
assets" of any Plan, or stating that the transferee is an insurance company, the
source of funds to be used by it to purchase the Certificate is an "insurance
company general account" (within the meaning of Department of Labor Prohibited
Transaction Class Exemption ("PTCE") 95-60), and the conditions set forth have
been satisfied.
This Certificate is one of a duly authorized issue of Certificates
issued in several Classes designated as Mortgage-Backed Pass-Through
Certificates of the Series specified hereon (herein collectively called the
"Certificates").
The Certificates are limited in right of payment to certain collections
and recoveries respecting the Mortgage Loans, all as more specifically set forth
herein and in the Agreement. In the event Master Servicer funds are advanced
with respect to any Mortgage Loan, such advance is reimbursable to the Master
Servicer, to the extent provided in the Agreement, from related recoveries on
such Mortgage Loan or from other cash that would have been distributable to
Certificateholders.
As provided in the Agreement, withdrawals from the Custodial Account
and/or the Certificate Account created for the benefit of Certificateholders may
be made by the Master Servicer from time to time for purposes other than
distributions to Certificateholders, such purposes including without limitation
reimbursement to the Depositor and the Master Servicer of advances made, or
certain expenses incurred, by either of them.
The Agreement permits, with certain exceptions therein provided, the
amendment of the Agreement and the modification of the rights and obligations of
the Depositor , the Master Servicer and the Trustee and the rights of the
Certificateholders under the Agreement at any time by the Depositor, the Master
Servicer and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of Certificates
evidencing in the aggregate not less than 66% of the Percentage Interests of
each Class of Certificates affected thereby. Any such consent by the Holder of
this Certificate shall be conclusive and binding on such Holder and upon all
future holders of this Certificate and of any Certificate issued upon the
transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof whether or not notation
of such consent is made upon the Certificate. The Agreement also permits the
amendment thereof in certain circumstances without the consent of the Holders of
any of the Certificates and, in certain additional circumstances, without the
consent of the Holders of certain Classes of Certificates.
As provided in the Agreement and subject to certain limitations therein
set forth, the transfer of this Certificate is registrable in the Certificate
Register upon surrender of this Certificate for registration of transfer at the
offices or agencies appointed by the Trustee in the City and State of New York,
duly endorsed by, or accompanied by an assignment in the form below or other
written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee and the
Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Holder hereof or such Holder's
attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more
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new Certificates of authorized denominations evidencing the same Class and
aggregate Percentage Interest will be issued to the designated transferee or
transferees.
The Certificates are issuable only as registered Certificates without
coupons in Classes and in denominations specified in the Agreement. As provided
in the Agreement and subject to certain limitations therein set forth,
Certificates are exchangeable for new Certificates of authorized denominations
evidencing the same Class and aggregate Percentage Interest, as requested by the
Holder surrendering the same.
No service charge will be made for any such registration of transfer or
exchange, but the Trustee may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any
tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.
The Depositor, the Master Servicer, the Trustee and the Certificate
Registrar and any agent of the Depositor, the Master Servicer, the Trustee or
the Certificate Registrar may treat the Person in whose name this Certificate is
registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, and neither the Depositor, the
Master Servicer, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to
the contrary.
This Certificate shall be governed by and construed in accordance with
the laws of the State of New York.
The obligations created by the Agreement in respect of the Certificates
and the Trust Fund created thereby shall terminate upon the payment to
Certificateholders of all amounts held by or on behalf of the Trustee and
required to be paid to them pursuant to the Agreement following the earlier of
(i) the maturity or other liquidation of the last Mortgage Loan subject thereto
or the disposition of all property acquired upon foreclosure or deed in lieu of
foreclosure of any Mortgage Loan and (ii) the purchase by the Master Servicer
from the Trust Fund of all remaining Mortgage Loans and all property acquired in
respect of such Mortgage Loans, thereby effecting early retirement of the
Certificates. The Agreement permits, but does not require, the Master Servicer
to (i) purchase at a price determined as provided in the Agreement all remaining
Mortgage Loans and all property acquired in respect of any Mortgage Loan in a
loan group or (ii) purchase in whole, but not in part, all of the Certificates
related to a loan group from the Holders thereof; provided, that any such option
may only be exercised if the pool Stated Principal Balance of the related
Mortgage Loans as of the Distribution Date upon which the proceeds of any such
purchase are distributed is less than one
percent of the Cut-off Date Principal Balance of the related Mortgage Loans.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by
the Certificate Registrar, by manual signature, this Certificate shall not be
entitled to any benefit under the Agreement or be valid for any purpose.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Trustee has caused this Certificate to be duly
executed.
Dated: November 25, 2003 JPMORGAN CHASE BANK,
as Trustee
By:
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Authorized Signatory
CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Class B-__ Certificates referred to in the
within-mentioned Agreement.
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK,
as Certificate Registrar
By:
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Authorized Signatory
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ASSIGNMENT
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s), assign(s) and
transfer(s) unto (Please print or typewrite name and address including postal
zip code of assignee) a Percentage Interest evidenced by the within
Mortgage-Backed Pass- Through Certificate and hereby authorizes the transfer of
registration of such interest to assignee on the Certificate Register of the
Trust Fund.
I (We) further direct the Certificate Registrar to issue a new
Certificate of a like denomination and Class, to the above named assignee and
deliver such Certificate to the following address:
Dated:
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Signature by or on behalf of assignor
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Signature Guaranteed
DISTRIBUTION INSTRUCTIONS
The assignee should include the following for purposes of distribution:
Distributions shall be made, by wire transfer or otherwise, in
immediately available funds to _______________________for the account of
__________________ account number ______________-, or, if mailed by check, to
____________________________. Applicable statements should be mailed to
________________________.
This information is provided by _____________________, the assignee
named above, or ________________, as its agent.
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EXHIBIT D
FORM OF CLASS R CERTIFICATE
THIS CERTIFICATE MAY NOT BE HELD BY OR TRANSFERRED TO A NON- UNITED
STATES PERSON OR A DISQUALIFIED ORGANIZATION (AS DEFINED BELOW).
SOLELY FOR U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX PURPOSES, THIS CERTIFICATE IS A
"RESIDUAL INTEREST" IN A "REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE INVESTMENT CONDUIT" AS THOSE
TERMS ARE DEFINED, RESPECTIVELY, IN SECTIONS 860G AND 860D OF THE INTERNAL
REVENUE CODE OF 1986 (THE "CODE"). THIS CERTIFICATE HAS NOT BEEN AND WILL NOT BE
REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR THE SECURITIES LAWS
OF ANY STATE AND MAY NOT BE RESOLD OR TRANSFERRED UNLESS IT IS REGISTERED
PURSUANT TO SUCH ACT AND LAWS OR IS SOLD OR TRANSFERRED IN TRANSACTIONS WHICH
ARE EXEMPT FROM REGISTRATION UNDER SUCH ACT AND UNDER APPLICABLE STATE LAW AND
IS TRANSFERRED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5.02 OF THE
AGREEMENT.
THIS CERTIFICATE HAS NOT BEEN AND WILL NOT BE REGISTERED UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE AND MAY
NOT BE RESOLD OR TRANSFERRED UNLESS IT IS REGISTERED PURSUANT TO SUCH ACT AND
LAWS OR IS SOLD OR TRANSFERRED IN TRANSACTIONS WHICH ARE EXEMPT FROM
REGISTRATION UNDER SUCH ACT AND UNDER APPLICABLE STATE LAW AND IS TRANSFERRED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5.02 OF THE AGREEMENT.
NO TRANSFER OF THIS CERTIFICATE MAY BE MADE TO ANY PERSON, UNLESS THE
TRANSFEREE PROVIDES EITHER A CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO SECTION 5.02(E) OF THE
AGREEMENT OR AN OPINION OF COUNSEL SATISFACTORY TO THE MASTER SERVICER, THE
DEPOSITOR OR THE TRUSTEE THAT THE PURCHASE OF THIS CERTIFICATE WILL NOT
CONSTITUTE OR RESULT IN A NON-EXEMPT PROHIBITED TRANSACTION UNDER SECTION 406 OF
THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED ("ERISA"), OR
SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE AND WILL NOT SUBJECT THE MASTER SERVICER, THE DEPOSITOR
OR THE TRUSTEE TO ANY OBLIGATION OR LIABILITY IN ADDITION TO THOSE UNDERTAKEN IN
THE AGREEMENT.
ANY RESALE, TRANSFER OR OTHER DISPOSITION OF THIS CERTIFICATE MAY BE
MADE ONLY IF THE PROPOSED TRANSFEREE PROVIDES A TRANSFER AFFIDAVIT TO THE MASTER
SERVICER AND THE TRUSTEE THAT (1) SUCH TRANSFEREE IS NOT (A) THE UNITED STATES,
ANY STATE OR POLITICAL SUBDIVISION THEREOF, ANY POSSESSION OF THE UNITED STATES,
OR ANY AGENCY OR INSTRUMENTALITY OF ANY OF THE FOREGOING (OTHER THAN AN
INSTRUMENTALITY WHICH IS A CORPORATION IF ALL OF ITS ACTIVITIES ARE SUBJECT TO
TAX AND EXCEPT FOR XXXXXXX MAC, A MAJORITY OF ITS BOARD OF DIRECTORS IS NOT
SELECTED BY
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SUCH GOVERNMENTAL UNIT), (B) A FOREIGN GOVERNMENT, ANY INTERNATIONAL
ORGANIZATION, OR ANY AGENCY OR INSTRUMENTALITY OF EITHER OF THE FOREGOING, (C)
ANY ORGANIZATION (OTHER THAN CERTAIN FARMERS' COOPERATIVES DESCRIBED IN SECTION
521 OF THE CODE) WHICH IS EXEMPT FROM THE TAX IMPOSED BY CHAPTER 1 OF THE CODE
UNLESS SUCH ORGANIZATION IS SUBJECT TO THE TAX IMPOSED BY SECTION 511 OF THE
CODE (INCLUDING THE TAX IMPOSED BY SECTION 511 OF THE CODE ON UNRELATED BUSINESS
TAXABLE INCOME), (D) RURAL ELECTRIC AND TELEPHONE COOPERATIVES DESCRIBED IN
SECTION 1381(A)(2)(C) OF THE CODE, (E) AN ELECTING LARGE PARTNERSHIP UNDER
SECTION 775(A) OF THE CODE (ANY SUCH PERSON DESCRIBED IN THE FOREGOING CLAUSES
(A), (B), (C), (D) OR (E) BEING HEREIN REFERRED TO AS A "DISQUALIFIED
ORGANIZATION"), OR (F) AN AGENT OF A DISQUALIFIED ORGANIZATION, (2) NO PURPOSE
OF SUCH TRANSFER IS TO IMPEDE THE ASSESSMENT OR COLLECTION OF TAX AND (3) SUCH
TRANSFEREE SATISFIES CERTAIN ADDITIONAL CONDITIONS RELATING TO THE FINANCIAL
CONDITION OF THE PROPOSED TRANSFEREE. NOTWITHSTANDING THE REGISTRATION IN THE
CERTIFICATE REGISTER OR ANY TRANSFER, SALE OR OTHER DISPOSITION OF THIS
CERTIFICATE TO A DISQUALIFIED ORGANIZATION OR AN AGENT OF A DISQUALIFIED
ORGANIZATION, SUCH REGISTRATION SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE OF NO LEGAL FORCE OR
EFFECT WHATSOEVER AND SUCH PERSON SHALL NOT BE DEEMED TO BE A CERTIFICATEHOLDER
FOR ANY PURPOSE HEREUNDER, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE RECEIPT OF
DISTRIBUTIONS ON THIS CERTIFICATE. EACH HOLDER OF THIS CERTIFICATE BY ACCEPTANCE
OF THIS CERTIFICATE SHALL BE DEEMED TO HAVE CONSENTED TO THE PROVISIONS OF THIS
PARAGRAPH.
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Certificate No. [____] [____]% Pass-Through Rate
Class [R-___] Subordinate
Date of Pooling and Servicing Agreement and Aggregate Initial Certificate Principal Balance
Cut-off Date: of the Class R-___ Certificates: [$50 .00]
November 1, 2003
First Distribution Date: Initial Certificate Principal Balance of this
December 26, 2003 Certificate:
$[______________]
Master Servicer: Percentage Interest: _____%
Residential Funding Corporation
Assumed Final Distribution Date: CUSIP
April 25, 2031 [______________]
MORTGAGE-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATE,
SERIES 2003-SL1
evidencing a percentage interest in any distributions
allocable to the Class R[-__] Certificates with respect to the
Trust Fund consisting primarily of a pool of conventional one-
to four-family fixed interest rate first mortgage loans sold
by RESIDENTIAL ASSET MORTGAGE PRODUCTS, INC.
This Certificate is payable solely from the assets of the Trust Fund,
and does not represent an obligation of or interest in Residential Asset
Mortgage Products, Inc., the Master Servicer, the Trustee referred to below or
GMAC Mortgage Group, Inc. or any of their affiliates. Neither this Certificate
nor the underlying Mortgage Loans are guaranteed or insured by any governmental
agency or instrumentality or by Residential Asset Mortgage Products, Inc., the
Master Servicer, the Trustee or GMAC Mortgage Group, Inc. or any of their
affiliates. None of the Depositor, the Master Servicer, GMAC Mortgage Group,
Inc. or any of their affiliates will have any obligation with respect to any
certificate or other obligation secured by or payable from payments on the
Certificates.
This certifies that is ____________________ the registered owner of the
Percentage Interest evidenced by this Certificate (obtained by dividing the
Initial Certificate Principal Balance of this Certificate by the aggregate
Initial Certificate Principal Balance of all Class R[-__] Certificates, both as
specified above) in certain distributions with respect to the Trust Fund
consisting primarily of a pool of conventional one- to four-family fixed
interest rate first mortgage loans (the "Mortgage Loans"), sold by Residential
Asset Mortgage Products, Inc. (hereinafter called the "Depositor," which term
includes any successor entity under the Agreement referred to below). The Trust
Fund was created pursuant to a Pooling and Servicing Agreement dated as of
November 1, 2003, (the
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"Pooling and Servicing Agreement" or the "Agreement") among the Depositor, the
Master Servicer and JPMorgan Chase Bank, as trustee (the "Trustee"), a summary
of certain of the pertinent provisions of which is set forth hereafter. To the
extent not defined herein, the capitalized terms used herein have the meanings
assigned in the Agreement. This Certificate is issued under and is subject to
the terms, provisions and conditions of the Agreement, to which Agreement the
Holder of this Certificate by virtue of the acceptance hereof assents and by
which such Holder is bound.
Pursuant to the terms of the Agreement, a distribution will be made on
the 25th day of each month or, if such 25th day is not a Business Day, the
Business Day immediately following (the "Distribution Date"), commencing as
described in the Agreement, to the Person in whose name this Certificate is
registered at the close of business on the last day (or if such last day is not
a Business Day, the Business Day immediately preceding such last day) of the
month immediately preceding the month of such distribution (the "Record Date"),
from the Available Distribution Amount in an amount equal to the product of the
Percentage Interest evidenced by this Certificate and the amount (of interest
and principal, if any) required to be distributed to Holders of Class R-__
Certificates on such Distribution Date.
Each Holder of this Certificate will be deemed to have agreed to be
bound by the restrictions set forth in the Agreement to the effect that (i) each
person holding or acquiring any Ownership Interest in this Certificate must be a
United States Person and a Permitted Transferee, (ii) the transfer of any
Ownership Interest in this Certificate will be conditioned upon the delivery to
the Trustee of, among other things, an affidavit to the effect that it is a
United States Person and Permitted Transferee, (iii) any attempted or purported
transfer of any Ownership Interest in this Certificate in violation of such
restrictions will be absolutely null and void and will vest no rights in the
purported transferee, and (iv) if any person other than a United States Person
and a Permitted Transferee acquires any Ownership Interest in this Certificate
in violation of such restrictions, then the Depositor will have the right, in
its sole discretion and without notice to the Holder of this Certificate, to
sell this Certificate to a purchaser selected by the Depositor, which purchaser
may be the Depositor, or any affiliate of the Depositor, on such terms and
conditions as the Depositor may choose.
Notwithstanding the above, the final distribution on this Certificate
will be made after due notice of the pendency of such distribution and only upon
presentation and surrender of this Certificate at the office or agency appointed
by the Trustee for that purpose in the City and State of New York. The Initial
Certificate Principal Balance of this Certificate is set forth above. The
Certificate Principal Balance hereof will be reduced to the extent of
distributions allocable to principal and any Realized Losses allocable hereto.
Notwithstanding the reduction of the Certificate Principal Balance hereof to
zero, this Certificate will remain outstanding under the Agreement and the
Holder hereof may have additional obligations with respect to this Certificate,
including tax liabilities, and may be entitled to certain additional
distributions hereon, in accordance with the terms and provisions of the
Agreement.
No transfer of this Class R-__ Certificate will be made unless such
transfer is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of
1933, as amended, and any applicable state securities laws or is made in
accordance with said Act and laws. In the event that such a transfer is to be
made, (i) the Trustee or the Depositor may require an opinion of counsel
acceptable to and in
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form and substance satisfactory to the Trustee and the Depositor that such
transfer is exempt (describing the applicable exemption and the basis therefor)
from or is being made pursuant to the registration requirements of the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and of any applicable statute of any state
and (ii) the transferee shall execute an investment letter in the form described
by Section 5.02(e) of the Agreement. The Holder hereof desiring to effect such
transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Trustee, the Depositor,
the Master Servicer and the Certificate Registrar acting on behalf of the
Trustee against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt
or is not made in accordance with such Federal and state laws. In connection
with any such transfer, the Trustee will also require either (i) an opinion of
counsel acceptable to and in form and substance satisfactory to the Trustee, the
Depositor and the Master Servicer with respect to the permissibility of such
transfer under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended
("ERISA"), and Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code (the "Code") and
stating, among other things, that the transferee's acquisition of a Class R
Certificate will not constitute or result in a non- exempt prohibited
transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code or (ii) a
representation letter, in the form as described by the Agreement, stating that
the transferee is not an employee benefit or other plan subject to the
prohibited transaction provisions of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (a
"Plan"), or any other Person (including an investment manager, a named fiduciary
or a trustee of any Plan) acting, directly or indirectly, on behalf of or
purchasing any Certificate with "plan assets" of any Plan.
This Certificate is one of a duly authorized issue of Certificates
issued in several Classes designated as Mortgage-Backed Pass-Through
Certificates of the Series specified hereon (herein collectively called the
"Certificates").
The Certificates are limited in right of payment to certain collections
and recoveries respecting the Mortgage Loans, all as more specifically set forth
herein and in the Agreement. In the event Master Servicer funds are advanced
with respect to any Mortgage Loan, such advance is reimbursable to the Master
Servicer, to the extent provided in the Agreement, from related recoveries on
such Mortgage Loan or from other cash that would have been distributable to
Certificateholders.
As provided in the Agreement, withdrawals from the Custodial Account
and/or the Certificate Account created for the benefit of Certificateholders may
be made by the Master Servicer from time to time for purposes other than
distributions to Certificateholders, such purposes including without limitation
reimbursement to the Depositor and the Master Servicer of advances made, or
certain expenses incurred, by either of them.
The Agreement permits, with certain exceptions therein provided, the
amendment of the Agreement and the modification of the rights and obligations of
the Depositor , the Master Servicer and the Trustee and the rights of the
Certificateholders under the Agreement at any time by the Depositor, the Master
Servicer and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of Certificates
evidencing in the aggregate not less than 66% of the Percentage Interests of
each Class of Certificates affected thereby. Any such consent by the Holder of
this Certificate shall be conclusive and binding on such Holder and upon all
future holders of this Certificate and of any Certificate issued upon the
transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof whether or not notation
of such consent is made upon the Certificate. The Agreement also permits the
amendment thereof in
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certain circumstances without the consent of the Holders of any of the
Certificates and, in certain additional circumstances, without the consent of
the Holders of certain Classes of Certificates.
As provided in the Agreement and subject to certain limitations therein
set forth, the transfer of this Certificate is registrable in the Certificate
Register upon surrender of this Certificate for registration of transfer at the
offices or agencies appointed by the Trustee in the City and State of New York,
duly endorsed by, or accompanied by an assignment in the form below or other
written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee and the
Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Holder hereof or such Holder's
attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Certificates
of authorized denominations evidencing the same Class and aggregate Percentage
Interest will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.
The Certificates are issuable only as registered Certificates without
coupons in Classes and in denominations specified in the Agreement. As provided
in the Agreement and subject to certain limitations therein set forth,
Certificates are exchangeable for new Certificates of authorized denominations
evidencing the same class and aggregate Percentage Interest, as requested by the
Holder surrendering the same.
No service charge will be made for any such registration of transfer or
exchange, but the Trustee may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any
tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.
The Depositor, the Master Servicer, the Trustee and the Certificate
Registrar and any agent of the Depositor, the Master Servicer, the Trustee or
the Certificate Registrar may treat the Person in whose name this Certificate is
registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, and neither the Depositor, the
Master Servicer, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to
the contrary.
This Certificate shall be governed by and construed in accordance with
the laws of the State of New York.
The obligations created by the Agreement in respect of the Certificates
and the Trust Fund created thereby shall terminate upon the payment to
Certificateholders of all amounts held by or on behalf of the Trustee and
required to be paid to them pursuant to the Agreement following the earlier of
(i) the maturity or other liquidation of the last Mortgage Loan subject thereto
or the disposition of all property acquired upon foreclosure or deed in lieu of
foreclosure of any Mortgage Loan and (ii) the purchase by the Master Servicer
from the Trust Fund of all remaining Mortgage Loans and all property acquired in
respect of such Mortgage Loans, thereby effecting early retirement of the
Certificates. The Agreement permits, but does not require, the Master Servicer
to (i) purchase at a price determined as provided in the Agreement all remaining
Mortgage Loans and all property acquired in respect of any Mortgage Loan in a
loan group or (ii) purchase in whole, but not in part, all of the Certificates
related to a loan group from the Holders thereof; provided, that any such option
may only be exercised if the pool Stated Principal Balance of the related
Mortgage Loans as of the Distribution Date upon which the proceeds of any such
purchase are distributed is less than one percent of the Cut-off Date Principal
Balance of the related Mortgage Loans.
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Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Certificate
set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purpose
have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by
the Certificate Registrar, by manual signature, this Certificate shall not be
entitled to any benefit under the Agreement or be valid for any purpose.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Trustee has caused this Certificate to be duly
executed.
Dated: November 25, 2003 JPMORGAN CHASE BANK,
as Trustee
By:
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Authorized Signatory
CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Class [R- ] Certificates referred to in the
within-mentioned Agreement.
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK,
as Certificate Registrar
By:
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Authorized Signatory
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ASSIGNMENT
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s), assign(s) and
transfer(s) unto (Please print or typewrite name and address including postal
zip code of assignee) a Percentage Interest evidenced by the within
Mortgage-Backed Pass- Through Certificate and hereby authorizes the transfer of
registration of such interest to assignee on the Certificate Register of the
Trust Fund.
I (We) further direct the Certificate Registrar to issue a new
Certificate of a like denomination and Class, to the above named assignee and
deliver such Certificate to the following address:
Dated:
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Signature by or on behalf of assignor
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Signature Guaranteed
DISTRIBUTION INSTRUCTIONS
The assignee should include the following for purposes of distribution:
Distributions shall be made, by wire transfer or otherwise, in
immediately available funds to _______________________for the account of
__________________ account number ______________-, or, if mailed by check, to
____________________________. Applicable statements should be mailed to
________________________.
This information is provided by _____________________, the assignee
named above, or ________________, as its agent.
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EXHIBIT E
CUSTODIAL AGREEMENT
THIS CUSTODIAL AGREEMENT (as amended and supplemented from
time to time, the "Agreement"), dated as of November 1, 2003, by and among
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, as trustee (including its successors under the Pooling
Agreement defined below, the "Trustee"), RESIDENTIAL ASSET MORTGAGE PRODUCTS,
INC., as Depositor (together with any successor in interest, the "Depositor"),
RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION, as master servicer (together with any successor
in interest or successor under the Pooling Agreement referred to below, the
"Master Servicer") and XXXXX FARGO BANK MINNESOTA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as
custodian (together with any successor in interest or any successor appointed
hereunder, the "Custodian").
W I T N E S S E T H T H A T :
WHEREAS, the Depositor, the Master Servicer, and the Trustee
have entered into a Pooling and Servicing Agreement, dated as of November 1,
2003, relating to the issuance of Residential Asset Mortgage Products, Inc.,
Mortgage-Backed Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2003-SL1 (as in effect on the
date of this Agreement, the "Original Pooling Agreement," and as amended and
supplemented from time to time, the "Pooling Agreement"); and
WHEREAS, the Custodian has agreed to act as agent for the
Trustee for the purposes of receiving and holding certain documents and other
instruments delivered by the Depositor and the Master Servicer under the Pooling
Agreement, all upon the terms and conditions and subject to the limitations
hereinafter set forth;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the
mutual covenants and agreements hereinafter set forth, the Trustee, the
Depositor, the Master Servicer and the Custodian hereby agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
Definitions
Capitalized terms used in this Agreement and not defined
herein shall have the meanings assigned in the Original Pooling Agreement,
unless otherwise required by the context herein.
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ARTICLE II
Custody of Mortgage Documents
Section 2.1. Custodian to Act as Agent; Acceptance of Mortgage
Files. The Custodian, as the duly appointed agent of the Trustee for these
purposes, acknowledges receipt of the Mortgage Files relating to the Mortgage
Loans identified on the schedule attached hereto (the "Mortgage Files") and
declares that it holds and will hold the Mortgage Files as agent for the
Trustee, in trust, for the use and benefit of all present and future
Certificateholders.
Section 2.2. Recordation of Assignments. If any Mortgage File
includes one or more assignments to the Trustee of Mortgage Notes and related
Mortgages that have not been recorded, each such assignment shall be delivered
by the Custodian to the Depositor for the purpose of recording it in the
appropriate public office for real property records, and the Depositor, at no
expense to the Custodian, shall promptly cause to be recorded in the appropriate
public office for real property records each such assignment and, upon receipt
thereof from such public office, shall return each such assignment to the
Custodian.
Section 2.3. Review of Mortgage Files.
(a) On or prior to the Closing Date, the Custodian shall
deliver to the Trustee an Initial Certification in the form annexed hereto as
Exhibit One evidencing receipt of a Mortgage File for each Mortgage Loan listed
on the Schedule attached hereto (the "Mortgage Loan Schedule").
(b) Within 45 days after the closing date, the Custodian
agrees, for the benefit of Certificateholders, to review, in accordance with the
provisions of Section 2.02 of the Pooling Agreement, each Mortgage File, and
shall deliver to the Trustee an Interim Certification in the form annexed hereto
as Exhibit Two to the effect that all documents required to be delivered
pursuant to Section 2.01(b) of the Pooling Agreement have been executed and
received and that such documents relate to the Mortgage Loans identified on the
Mortgage Loan Schedule, except for any exceptions listed on Schedule A attached
to such Interim Certification. Within 45 days of receipt of the documents
required to be delivered pursuant to Section 2.01(c) of the Pooling Agreement,
the Custodian agrees, for the benefit of Certificateholders, to review, in
accordance with the provisions of Section 2.02 of the Pooling Agreement, each
such document, and shall deliver to the Trustee either (i) an Interim
Certification in the form attached hereto as Exhibit Two to the effect that all
such documents relate to the Mortgage Loans identified on the Mortgage Loan
Schedule, except for any exceptions listed on Schedule A attached to such
Interim Certification or (ii) a Final Certification as set forth in subsection
(c) below. The Custodian shall be under no duty or obligation to inspect, review
or examine said documents, instruments, certificates or other papers to
determine that the same are genuine, enforceable, or appropriate for the
represented purpose or that they have actually been recorded or that they are
other than what they purport to be on their face. If in performing the review
required by this Section 2.3 the Custodian finds any document or documents
constituting a part of a Mortgage File to be defective in any material respect,
the Custodian shall promptly so notify the Depositor, the Master Servicer and
the Trustee.
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(c) Upon receipt of all documents required to be in the
Mortgage Files the Custodian shall deliver to the Trustee a Final Certification
in the form annexed hereto as Exhibit Three evidencing the completeness of the
Mortgage Files.
Upon receipt of written request from the Trustee, the
Custodian shall as soon as practicable supply the Trustee with a list of all of
the documents relating to the Mortgage Loans then contained in the Mortgage
Files.
Section 2.4. Notification of Breaches of Representations and
Warranties. Upon discovery by the Custodian of a breach of any representation or
warranty made by the Master Servicer or the Depositor as set forth in the
Pooling Agreement or by a Seller in a Seller's Agreement or by Residential
Funding or the Depositor in the Assignment Agreement with respect to a Mortgage
Loan relating to a Mortgage File, the Custodian shall give prompt written notice
to the Depositor, the Master Servicer and the Trustee.
Section 2.5. Custodian to Cooperate; Release of Mortgage
Files. Upon the repurchase or substitution of any Mortgage Loan pursuant to
Article II of the Pooling Agreement or payment in full of any Mortgage Loan, or
the receipt by the Master Servicer of a notification that payment in full will
be escrowed in a manner customary for such purposes, the Master Servicer shall
immediately notify the Custodian by a certification (which certification shall
include a statement to the effect that all amounts received or to be received in
connection with such payment which are required to be deposited in the Custodial
Account pursuant to Section 3.07 of the Pooling Agreement have been or will be
so deposited) of a Servicing Officer and shall request delivery to it of the
Mortgage File. The Custodian agrees, upon receipt of such certification and
request, promptly to release to the Master Servicer the related Mortgage File.
The Master Servicer shall deliver to the Custodian and the Custodian agrees to
accept the Mortgage Note and other documents constituting the Mortgage File with
respect to any Qualified Substitute Mortgage Loan.
Upon receipt of written notification from the Master Servicer,
signed by a Servicing Officer, that the Master Servicer or a Subservicer, as the
case may be, has made a deposit into the Certificate Account in payment for the
purchase of the related Mortgage Loan in an amount equal to the Purchase Price
for such Mortgage Loan, the Custodian shall release to the Master Servicer the
related Mortgage File.
From time to time as is appropriate for the servicing or
foreclosures of any Mortgage Loan, including, for this purpose, collection under
any Primary Insurance Policy or any Mortgage Pool Insurance Policy, the Master
Servicer shall deliver to the Custodian a certificate of a Servicing Officer
requesting that possession of all, or any document constituting part, of the
Mortgage File be released to the Master Servicer and certifying as to the reason
for such release and that such release will not invalidate any insurance
coverage provided in respect of the Mortgage Loan under any of the Required
Insurance Policies. With such certificate, the Master Servicer shall deliver to
the Custodian a trust receipt signed by a Servicing Officer on behalf of the
Master Servicer, and upon receipt of the foregoing, the Custodian shall deliver
the Mortgage File or such document to the Master Servicer. The Master Servicer
shall cause each Mortgage File or any document therein so released to be
returned to the Custodian when the need therefor by the Master Servicer no
longer exists, unless (i) the Mortgage Loan has been liquidated and the
Liquidation Proceeds relating to the
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Mortgage Loan have been deposited in the Custodial Account or (ii) the Mortgage
File or such document has been delivered to an attorney, or to a public trustee
or other public official as required by law, for purposes of initiating or
pursuing legal action or other proceedings for the foreclosure of the Mortgaged
Property either judicially or non-judicially, and the Master Servicer has
delivered to the Custodian a certificate of a Servicing Officer certifying as to
the name and address of the Person to which such Mortgage File or such document
was delivered and the purpose or purposes of such delivery. In the event of the
liquidation of a Mortgage Loan, the Custodian shall deliver the Trust Receipt
with respect thereto to the Master Servicer upon deposit of the related
Liquidation Proceeds in the Custodial Account as provided in the Pooling
Agreement.
Section 2.6. Assumption Agreements. In the event that any
assumption agreement or substitution of liability agreement is entered into with
respect to any Mortgage Loan subject to this Agreement in accordance with the
terms and provisions of the Pooling Agreement, the Master Servicer shall notify
the Custodian that such assumption or substitution agreement has been completed
by forwarding to the Custodian the original of such assumption or substitution
agreement, which shall be added to the related Mortgage File and, for all
purposes, shall be considered a part of such Mortgage File to the same extent as
all other documents and instruments constituting parts thereof.
ARTICLE III
Concerning the Custodian
Section 3.1. Custodian a Bailee and Agent of the Trustee. With
respect to each Mortgage Note, Mortgage and other documents constituting each
Mortgage File which are delivered to the Custodian, the Custodian is exclusively
the bailee and agent of the Trustee and has no instructions to hold any Mortgage
Note or Mortgage for the benefit of any person other than the Trustee, holds
such documents for the benefit of Certificateholders and undertakes to perform
such duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth in this
Agreement. Except upon compliance with the provisions of Section 2.5 of this
Agreement, no Mortgage Note, Mortgage or other document constituting a part of a
Mortgage File shall be delivered by the Custodian to the Depositor or the Master
Servicer or otherwise released from the possession of the Custodian.
Section 3.2. Indemnification. The Depositor hereby agrees to
indemnify and hold the Custodian harmless from and against all claims,
liabilities, losses, actions, suits or proceedings at law or in equity, or any
other expenses, fees or charges of any character or nature, which the Custodian
may incur or with which the Custodian may be threatened by reason of its acting
as custodian under this Agreement, including indemnification of the Custodian
against any and all expenses, including attorney's fees if counsel for the
Custodian has been approved by the Depositor, and the cost of defending any
action, suit or proceedings or resisting any claim. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, it is specifically understood and agreed that in the event any such
claim, liability, loss, action, suit or proceeding or other expense, fee or
charge shall have been caused by reason of any negligent act, negligent failure
to act or willful misconduct on the part of the Custodian, or which shall
constitute a willful breach of its duties hereunder, the indemnification
provisions of this Agreement shall not apply.
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Section 3.3. Custodian May Own Certificates. The Custodian in
its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee of
Certificates with the same rights it would have if it were not Custodian.
Section 3.4. Master Servicer to Pay Custodian's Fees and
Expenses. The Master Servicer covenants and agrees to pay to the Custodian from
time to time, and the Custodian shall be entitled to, reasonable compensation
for all services rendered by it in the exercise and performance of any of the
powers and duties hereunder of the Custodian, and the Master Servicer will pay
or reimburse the Custodian upon its request for all reasonable expenses,
disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Custodian in accordance with
any of the provisions of this Agreement (including the reasonable compensation
and the expenses and disbursements of its counsel and of all persons not
regularly in its employ), except any such expense, disbursement or advance as
may arise from its negligence or bad faith.
Section 3.5. Custodian May Resign; Trustee May Remove
Custodian. The Custodian may resign from the obligations and duties hereby
imposed upon it as such obligations and duties relate to its acting as Custodian
of the Mortgage Loans. Upon receiving such notice of resignation, the Trustee
shall either take custody of the Mortgage Files itself and give prompt notice
thereof to the Depositor, the Master Servicer and the Custodian, or promptly
appoint a successor Custodian by written instrument, in duplicate, one copy of
which instrument shall be delivered to the resigning Custodian and one copy to
the successor Custodian. If the Trustee shall not have taken custody of the
Mortgage Files and no successor Custodian shall have been so appointed and have
accepted appointment within 30 days after the giving of such notice of
resignation, the resigning Custodian may petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Custodian.
The Trustee may remove the Custodian at any time. In such
event, the Trustee shall appoint, or petition a court of competent jurisdiction
to appoint, a successor Custodian hereunder. Any successor Custodian shall be a
depository institution subject to supervision or examination by federal or state
authority and shall be able to satisfy the other requirements contained in
Section 3.7 and shall be unaffiliated with the Master Servicer or the Depositor
..
Any resignation or removal of the Custodian and appointment of
a successor Custodian pursuant to any of the provisions of this Section 3.5
shall become effective upon acceptance of appointment by the successor
Custodian. The Trustee shall give prompt notice to the Depositor and the Master
Servicer of the appointment of any successor Custodian. No successor Custodian
shall be appointed by the Trustee without the prior approval of the Depositor
and the Master Servicer.
Section 3.6. Merger or Consolidation of Custodian. Any Person
into which the Custodian may be merged or converted or with which it may be
consolidated, or any Person resulting from any merger, conversion or
consolidation to which the Custodian shall be a party, or any Person succeeding
to the business of the Custodian, shall be the successor of the Custodian
hereunder, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on
the part of any of the parties hereto, anything herein to the contrary
notwithstanding.
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Section 3.7. Representations of the Custodian. The Custodian
hereby represents that it is a depository institution subject to supervision or
examination by a federal or state authority, has a combined capital and surplus
of at least $15,000,000 and is qualified to do business in the jurisdictions in
which it will hold any Mortgage File.
ARTICLE IV
Miscellaneous Provisions
Section 4.1. Notices. All notices, requests, consents and
demands and other communications required under this Agreement or pursuant to
any other instrument or document delivered hereunder shall be in writing and,
unless otherwise specifically provided, may be delivered personally, by telegram
or telex, or by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, return receipt
requested, at the addresses specified on the signature page hereof (unless
changed by the particular party whose address is stated herein by similar notice
in writing), in which case the notice will be deemed delivered when received.
Section 4.2. Amendments. No modification or amendment of or
supplement to this Agreement shall be valid or effective unless the same is in
writing and signed by all parties hereto, and neither the Depositor, the Master
Servicer nor the Trustee shall enter into any amendment hereof except as
permitted by the Pooling Agreement. The Trustee shall give prompt notice to the
Custodian of any amendment or supplement to the Pooling Agreement and furnish
the Custodian with written copies thereof.
SECTION 4.3. GOVERNING LAW. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE DEEMED A
CONTRACT MADE UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK AND SHALL BE CONSTRUED AND
ENFORCED IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
Section 4.4. Recordation of Agreement. To the extent permitted
by applicable law, this Agreement is subject to recordation in all appropriate
public offices for real property records in all the counties or other comparable
jurisdictions in which any or all of the properties subject to the Mortgages are
situated, and in any other appropriate public recording office or elsewhere,
such recordation to be effected by the Master Servicer and at its expense on
direction by the Trustee (pursuant to the request of holders of Certificates
evidencing undivided interests in the aggregate of not less than 25% of the
Trust Fund), but only upon direction accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel
reasonably satisfactory to the Master Servicer to the effect that the failure to
effect such recordation is likely to materially and adversely affect the
interests of the Certificateholders.
For the purpose of facilitating the recordation of this
Agreement as herein provided and for other purposes, this Agreement may be
executed simultaneously in any number of counterparts, each of which
counterparts shall be deemed to be an original, and such counterparts shall
constitute but one and the same instrument.
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Section 4.5. Severability of Provisions. If any one or more of
the covenants, agreements, provisions or terms of this Agreement shall be for
any reason whatsoever held invalid, then such covenants, agreements, provisions
or terms shall be deemed severable from the remaining covenants, agreements,
provisions or terms of this Agreement and shall in no way affect the validity or
enforceability of the other provisions of this Agreement or of the Certificates
or the rights of the holders thereof.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Agreement is executed as of the date
first above written.
Address: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK,
as Trustee
0 Xxx Xxxx Xxxxx, 0xx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000 By:_________________________________
Name:
Title:
Address: RESIDENTIAL ASSET MORTGAGE
PRODUCTS, INC.
0000 Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx 00000
By:_________________________________
Name:
Title:
Address: RESIDENTIAL FUNDING
CORPORATION, as Master Servicer
0000 Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx 00000
By:_________________________________
Name:
Title:
Address: XXXXX FARGO BANK MINNESOTA,
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
Mortgage Document Custody
One Meridian Crossings - 3rd Floor
Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx 00000
By:_________________________________
Name:
Title:
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STATE OF NEW YORK )
)ss.:
COUNTY OF NEW YORK )
On the ____ day of November, 2003, before me, a notary public
in and for said State, personally appeared _____________, known to me to be a
_______________ of JPMorgan Chase Bank, that executed the within instrument, and
also known to me to be the person who executed it on behalf of said corporation
and acknowledged to me that such corporation executed the within instrument.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my
official seal the day and year in this certificate first above written.
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Notary Public
[SEAL]
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STATE OF MINNESOTA )
) ss.:
COUNTY OF HENNEPIN )
On the ___ day of November, 2003, before me, a notary public
in and for said State, personally appeared ____________, known to me to be a
____________ of Residential Asset Mortgage Products, Inc., one of the
corporations that executed the within instrument, and also known to me to be the
person who executed it on behalf of said corporation, and acknowledged to me
that such corporation executed the within instrument.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my
official seal the day and year in this certificate first above written.
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Notary Public
[Notarial Seal]
STATE OF MINNESOTA )
) ss.:
COUNTY OF HENNEPIN )
On the ____ day of November, 2003, before me, a notary public
in and for said State, personally appeared, ____________, known to me to be a
_____________ of Residential Funding Corporation, one of the corporations that
executed the within instrument, and also known to me to be the person who
executed it on behalf of said corporation, and acknowledged to me that such
corporation executed the within instrument.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my
official seal the day and year in this certificate first above written.
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Notary Public
[Notarial Seal]
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STATE OF MINNESOTA )
) ss.:
COUNTY OF HENNEPIN )
On the ____ day of November, 2003, before me, a notary public
in and for said State, personally appeared ___________, known to me to be an
______________ of Xxxxx Fargo Bank Minnesota, National Association, one of the
corporations that executed the within instrument, and also known to me to be the
person who executed it on behalf of said national banking association, and
acknowledged to me that such national banking association executed the within
instrument.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my
official seal the day and year in this certificate first above written.
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Notary Public
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EXHIBIT ONE
FORM OF CUSTODIAN
INITIAL CERTIFICATION
November 25, 2003
JPMorgan Chase Bank
0 Xxx Xxxx Xxxxx, 0xx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attention: Residential Asset Mortgage Products, Inc., Series 2003-SL1
Re: Custodial Agreement, dated as of November 1, 2003, by and among
JPMorgan Chase Bank, Residential Asset Mortgage Products, Inc.,
Residential Funding Corporation and Xxxxx Fargo Bank Minnesota,
National Association, relating to Mortgage-Backed Pass-Through
Certificates, Series 2003-SL1
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Ladies and Gentlemen:
In accordance with Section 2.3 of the above-captioned
Custodial Agreement, and subject to Section 2.02 of the Pooling Agreement, the
undersigned, as Custodian, hereby certifies that it has received a Mortgage File
(which contains an original Mortgage Note or an original Lost Note Affidavit
with a copy of the related Mortgage Note) to the extent required in Section
2.01(b) of the Pooling Agreement with respect to each Mortgage Loan listed in
the Mortgage Loan Schedule, with any exceptions listed on Schedule A attached
hereto.
Capitalized words and phrases used herein shall have the
respective meanings assigned to them in the above-captioned Custodial Agreement.
XXXXX FARGO BANK MINNESOTA,
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
By:________________________________
Name:______________________________
Title:_____________________________
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EXHIBIT TWO
FORM OF CUSTODIAN INTERIM CERTIFICATION
_____________ __, 2003
JPMorgan Chase Bank
0 Xxx Xxxx Xxxxx, 0xx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attention: Residential Asset Mortgage Products, Inc., Series 2003-SL1
Re: Custodial Agreement, dated as of November 1, 2003, by and among
JPMorgan Chase Bank, Residential Asset Mortgage Products, Inc.,
Residential Funding Corporation and Xxxxx Fargo Bank Minnesota,
National Association, relating to Mortgage-Backed Pass-Through
Certificates, Series 2003-SL1
Ladies and Gentlemen:
In accordance with Section 2.3 of the above-captioned
Custodial Agreement, the undersigned, as Custodian, hereby certifies that it has
received a Mortgage File to the extent required pursuant to Section 2.01(b) of
the Pooling Agreement with respect to each Mortgage Loan listed in the Mortgage
Loan Schedule, and it has reviewed the Mortgage File and the Mortgage Loan
Schedule and has determined that: all required documents have been executed and
received and that such documents relate to the Mortgage Loans identified on the
Mortgage Loan Schedule, with any exceptions listed on Schedule A attached
hereto.
Capitalized words and phrases used herein shall have the
respective meanings assigned to them in the above-captioned Custodial Agreement.
XXXXX FARGO BANK MINNESOTA,
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
By:________________________________
Name:______________________________
Title:_____________________________
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EXHIBIT THREE
FORM OF CUSTODIAN FINAL CERTIFICATION
_____________ __, 2003
JPMorgan Chase Bank
0 Xxx Xxxx Xxxxx, 0xx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attention: Residential Asset Mortgage Products, Inc., Series 2003-SL1
Re: Custodial Agreement, dated as of November 1, 2003, by and among
JPMorgan Chase Bank, Residential Asset Mortgage Products, Inc.,
Residential Funding Corporation and Xxxxx Fargo Bank Minnesota,
National Association, relating to Mortgage-Backed Pass-Through
Certificates, Series 2003-SL1
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Ladies and Gentlemen:
In accordance with Section 2.3 of the above-captioned
Custodial Agreement, the undersigned, as Custodian, hereby certifies that it has
received a Mortgage File with respect to each Mortgage Loan listed in the
Mortgage Loan Schedule and it has reviewed the Mortgage File and the Mortgage
Loan Schedule and has determined that: all required documents referred to in
Section 2.01(b) of the Pooling Agreement have been executed and received and
that such documents relate to the Mortgage Loans identified on the Mortgage Loan
Schedule.
Capitalized words and phrases used herein shall have the
respective meanings assigned to them in the above-captioned Custodial Agreement.
XXXXX FARGO BANK MINNESOTA,
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
By:_______________________________
Name:_____________________________
Title:____________________________
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EXHIBIT F-1
GROUP I LOAN SCHEDULE
(Filed Manually)
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EXHIBIT F-2
GROUP II LOAN SCHEDULE
(Filed Manually)
F-2-1
EXHIBIT F-3
GROUP III LOAN SCHEDULE
(Filed Manually)
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EXHIBIT F-4
GROUP IV LOAN SCHEDULE
(Filed Manually)
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EXHIBIT G
FORMS OF REQUEST FOR RELEASE
DATE:
TO:
RE: REQUEST FOR RELEASE OF DOCUMENTS
In connection with the administration of the pool of Mortgage Loans held by you
for the referenced pool, we request the release of the Mortgage Loan File
described below.
Pooling and Servicing Agreement Dated:
Series#:
Account#:
Pool#:
Loan#:
Borrower Name(s):
Reason for Document Request: (circle one) Mortgage Loan Prepaid in Full
Mortgage Loan Repurchased
"We hereby certify that all amounts received or to be received in connection
with such payments which are required to be deposited have been or will be so
deposited as provided in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement."
Residential Funding Corporation
Authorized Signature
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TO CUSTODIAN/TRUSTEE: Please acknowledge this request, and check off documents
being enclosed with a copy of this form. You should retain this form for your
files in accordance with the terms of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.
Enclosed Documents: [ ] Promissory Note
[ ] Primary Insurance Policy
[ ] Mortgage or Deed of Trust
[ ] Assignment(s) of Mortgage or Deed
of Trust
[ ] Title Insurance Policy
[ ] Other:
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Name
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Title
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Date
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EXHIBIT H-1
FORM OF TRANSFER AFFIDAVIT AND AGREEMENT
STATE OF )
) ss.:
COUNTY OF )
[NAME OF OFFICER], being first duly sworn, deposes
and says:
1. That he is [Title of Officer] of [Name of Owner] (record or
beneficial owner of the Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series _______,
Class R[-__] (the "Owner")), a [savings institution] [corporation] duly
organized and existing under the laws of [the State of ] [the United States], on
behalf of which he makes this affidavit and agreement.
2. That the Owner (i) is not and will not be a "disqualified
organization" or an electing large partnership as of [date of transfer] within
the meaning of Sections 860E(e)(5) and 775, respectively, of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code") or an electing large partnership
under Section 775(a) of the Code, (ii) will endeavor to remain other than a
disqualified organization for so long as it retains its ownership interest in
the Class R[-__] Certificates, and (iii) is acquiring the Class R[-__]
Certificates for its own account or for the account of another Owner from which
it has received an affidavit and agreement in substantially the same form as
this affidavit and agreement. (For this purpose, a "disqualified organization"
means an electing large partnership under Section 775 of the Code, the United
States, any state or political subdivision thereof, any agency or
instrumentality of any of the foregoing (other than an instrumentality all of
the activities of which are subject to tax and, except for the Federal Home Loan
Mortgage Corporation, a majority of whose board of directors is not selected by
any such governmental entity) or any foreign government, international
organization or any agency or instrumentality of such foreign government or
organization, any rural electric or telephone cooperative, or any organization
(other than certain farmers' cooperatives) that is generally exempt from federal
income tax unless such organization is subject to the tax on unrelated business
taxable income).
3. That the Owner is aware (i) of the tax that would be imposed on
transfers of Class R[-__] Certificates to disqualified organizations or electing
large partnerships, under the Code, that applies to all transfers of Class
R[-__] Certificates after March 31, 1988; (ii) that such tax would be on the
transferor (or, with respect to transfers to electing large partnerships, on
each such partnership), or, if such transfer is through an agent (which person
includes a broker, nominee or middleman) for a disqualified organization, on the
agent; (iii) that the person (other than with respect to transfers to electing
large partnerships) otherwise liable for the tax shall be relieved of liability
for the tax if the transferee furnishes to such person an affidavit that the
transferee is not a disqualified organization and, at the time of transfer, such
person does not have actual knowledge that the affidavit is false; and (iv) that
the Class R[-__] Certificates may be "noneconomic residual interests" within the
meaning of Treasury regulations promulgated pursuant to the Code and that the
transferor of a noneconomic residual interest will remain liable
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for any taxes due with respect to the income on such residual interest, unless
no significant purpose of the transfer was to impede the assessment or
collection of tax.
4. That the Owner is aware of the tax imposed on a "pass-through
entity" holding Class R[-__] Certificates if either the pass-through entity is
an electing large partnership under Section 775 of the Code or if at any time
during the taxable year of the pass-through entity a disqualified organization
is the record holder of an interest in such entity. (For this purpose, a "pass
through entity" includes a regulated investment Depositor, a real estate
investment trust or common trust fund, a partnership, trust or estate, and
certain cooperatives.)
5. The Owner is either (i) a citizen or resident of the United States,
(ii) a corporation, partnership or other entity treated as a corporation or a
partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes and created or organized in or
under the laws of the United States, any state thereof or the District of
Columbia (other than a partnership that is not treated as a United States person
under any applicable Treasury regulations), (iii) an estate that is described in
Section 7701(a)(30)(D) of the Code, or (iv) a trust that is described in Section
7701(a)(30)(E) of the Code.
6. The Owner hereby agrees that it will not cause income from the Class
R[-__] Certificates to be attributable to a foreign permanent establishment or
fixed base (within the meaning of an applicable income tax treaty) of the Owner
of another United States taxpayer.
7. That the Owner is aware that the Trustee will not register the
transfer of any Class R[- __] Certificates unless the transferee, or the
transferee's agent, delivers to it an affidavit and agreement, among other
things, in substantially the same form as this affidavit and agreement. The
Owner expressly agrees that it will not consummate any such transfer if it knows
or believes that any of the representations contained in such affidavit and
agreement are false.
8. That the Owner has reviewed the restrictions set forth on the face
of the Class R[-__] Certificates and the provisions of Section 5.02(f) of the
Pooling and Servicing Agreement under which the Class R[-__] Certificates were
issued (in particular, clause (iii)(A) and (iii)(B) of Section 5.02(f) which
authorize the Trustee to deliver payments to a person other than the Owner and
negotiate a mandatory sale by the Trustee in the event the Owner holds such
Certificates in violation of Section 5.02(f)). The Owner expressly agrees to be
bound by and to comply with such restrictions and provisions.
9. That the Owner consents to any additional restrictions or
arrangements that shall be deemed necessary upon advice of counsel to constitute
a reasonable arrangement to ensure that the Class R[-__] Certificates will only
be owned, directly or indirectly, by an Owner that is not a disqualified
organization.
10. The Owner's Taxpayer Identification Number is _______________.
11. This affidavit and agreement relates only to the Class R[-__]
Certificates held by the Owner and not to any other holder of the Class R[-__]
Certificates. The Owner understands that the liabilities described herein relate
only to the Class R[-__] Certificates.
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12. That no purpose of the Owner relating to the transfer of any of the
Class R[-__] Certificates by the Owner is or will be to impede the assessment or
collection of any tax; in making this representation, the Owner warrants that
the Owner is familiar with (i) Treasury Regulation Section 1.860E-1(c) and
recent amendments thereto, effective as of July 19, 2002, and (ii) the preamble
describing the adoption of the amendments to such regulation, which is attached
hereto as Exhibit 1.
13. That the Owner has no present knowledge or expectation that it will
be unable to pay any United States taxes owed by it so long as any of the
Certificates remain outstanding. In this regard, the Owner hereby represents to
and for the benefit of the person from whom it acquired the Class R[-__]
Certificate that the Owner intends to pay taxes associated with holding such
Class R[- __] Certificate as they become due, fully understanding that it may
incur tax liabilities in excess of any cash flows generated by the Class R[-__]
Certificate.
14. That the Owner has no present knowledge or expectation that it will
become insolvent or subject to a bankruptcy proceeding for so long as any of the
Class R[-__] Certificates remain outstanding.
15. (a) The Owner is not an employee benefit plan or other plan subject
to the prohibited transaction provisions of the Employee Retirement Income
Security Act of 1974, as amended ("ERISA"), or Section 4975 of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code"), or an investment manager, named
fiduciary or a trustee of any such plan, or any other Person acting, directly or
indirectly, on behalf of or purchasing any Certificate with "plan assets" of any
such plan; or
(b) The Owner has provided the Trustee, the Depositor and the
Master Servicer with an opinion of counsel acceptable to and in form and
substance satisfactory to the Trustee, the Depositor and the Master Servicer to
the effect that the purchase of Certificates is permissible under applicable
law, will not constitute or result in any non-exempt prohibited transaction
under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code and will not subject the Trustee, the
Depositor or the Master Servicer to any obligation or liability (including
obligations or liabilities under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code) in addition
to those undertaken in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.
In addition, the Owner hereby certifies, represents and warrants to,
and covenants with, the Depositor, the Trustee and the Master Servicer that the
Purchaser will not transfer such Certificates to any Plan or person unless
either such Plan or person meets the requirements set forth in either (a) or (b)
above.
Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings
assigned in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Owner has caused this instrument to be executed
on its behalf, pursuant to the authority of its Board of Directors, by its
[Title of Officer] and its corporate seal to be hereunto attached, attested by
its [Assistant] Secretary, this day of _____,___ 200__.
[NAME OF OWNER]
By:
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[Name of Officer]
[Title of Officer]
[Corporate Seal]
ATTEST:
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[Assistant] Secretary
Personally appeared before me the above-named [Name of Officer], known
or proved to me to be the same person who executed the foregoing instrument and
to be the [Title of Officer] of the Owner, and acknowledged to me that he
executed the same as his free act and deed and the free act and deed of the
Owner.
Subscribed and sworn before me this ___ day of ________, 200 __.
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NOTARY PUBLIC
COUNTY OF
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STATE OF
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My Commission expires the ____ day of
_____, 20__ .
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EXHIBIT 1
DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Internal Revenue Service
26 CFR Parts 1 and 602
[TD 9004]
RIN 1545-AW98
Real Estate Mortgage Investment Conduits
AGENCY: Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Treasury.
ACTION: Final regulations.
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SUMMARY: This document contains final regulations relating to safe harbor
transfers of noneconomic residual interests in real estate mortgage investment
conduits (REMICs). The final regulations provide additional limitations on the
circumstances under which transferors may claim safe harbor treatment.
DATES: Effective Date: These regulations are effective July 19, 2002.
Applicability Date: For dates of applicability, see Sec. 1.860E-(1)(c)(10).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx at (000) 000-0000
(not a toll-free number).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Paperwork Reduction Act
The collection of information in this final rule has been reviewed and, pending
receipt and evaluation of public comments, approved by the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) under 44 U.S.C. 3507 and assigned control number 1545-1675.
The collection of information in this regulation is in Sec. 1.860E -
1(c)(5)(ii). This information is required to enable the IRS to verify
that a taxpayer is complying with the conditions of this regulation.
The collection of information is mandatory and is required. Otherwise,
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the taxpayer will not receive the benefit of safe harbor treatment as provided
in the regulation. The likely respondents are businesses and other for-profit
institutions.
Comments on the collection of information should be sent to the Office of
Management and Budget, Attn: Desk Officer for the Department of the Treasury,
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Xxxxxxxxxx, XX, 00000, with copies
to the Internal Revenue Service, Attn: IRS Reports Clearance Officer,
W:CAR:MP:FP:S, Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000. Comments on the collection of information
should be received by October 17, 2002. Comments are specifically requested
concerning:
Whether the collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of
the functions of the Internal Revenue Service, including whether the information
will have practical utility;
The accuracy of the estimated burden associated with the collection of
information (see below);
How the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be
collected may be enhanced;
How the burden of complying with the collection of information may be minimized,
including through the application of automated collection techniques or other
forms of information technology; and
Estimates of capital or start-up costs and costs of operation, maintenance, and
purchase of service to provide information.
An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond
to, a collection of information unless it displays a valid control number
assigned by the Office of Management and Budget.
The estimated total annual reporting burden is 470 hours, based on an estimated
number of respondents of 470 and an estimated average annual burden hours per
respondent of one hour.
Books or records relating to a collection of information must be retained as
long as their contents may become material in the administration of any internal
revenue law. Generally, tax returns and tax return information are confidential,
as required by 26 U.S.C. 6103.
Background
This document contains final regulations regarding the proposed amendments to 26
CFR part 1 under section 860E of the Internal Revenue
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Code (Code). The regulations provide the circumstances under which a transferor
of a noneconomic REMIC residual interest meeting the investigation and
representation requirements may avail itself of the safe harbor by satisfying
either the formula test or the asset test.
Final regulations governing REMICs, issued in 1992, contain rules governing the
transfer of noneconomic REMIC residual interests. In general, a transfer of a
noneconomic residual interest is disregarded for all tax purposes if a
significant purpose of the transfer is to
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enable the transferor to impede the assessment or collection of tax. A purpose
to impede the assessment or collection of tax (a wrongful purpose) exists if the
transferor, at the time of the transfer, either knew or should have known that
the transferee would be unwilling or unable to pay taxes due on its share of the
REMIC's taxable income.
Under a safe harbor, the transferor of a REMIC noneconomic residual interest is
presumed not to have a wrongful purpose if two requirements are satisfied: (1)
the transferor conducts a reasonable investigation of the transferee's financial
condition (the investigation requirement); and (2) the transferor secures a
representation from the transferee to the effect that the transferee understands
the tax obligations associated with holding a residual interest and intends to
pay those taxes (the representation requirement).
The IRS and Treasury have been concerned that some transferors of noneconomic
residual interests claim they satisfy the safe harbor even in situations where
the economics of the transfer clearly indicate the transferee is unwilling or
unable to pay the tax associated with holding the interest. For this reason, on
February 7, 2000, the IRS published in the Federal Register (65 FR 5807) a
notice of proposed rulemaking (REG-100276-97; REG-122450-98) designed to clarify
the safe harbor by adding the "formula test," an economic test. The proposed
regulation provides that the safe harbor is unavailable unless the present value
of the anticipated tax liabilities associated with holding the residual interest
does not exceed the sum of: (1) The present value of any consideration given to
the transferee to acquire the interest; (2) the present value of the expected
future distributions on the interest; and (3) the present value of the
anticipated tax savings associated with holding the interest as the REMIC
generates losses.
The notice of proposed rulemaking also contained rules for FASITs. Section
1.860H-6(g) of the proposed regulations provides requirements
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for transfers of FASIT ownership interests and adopts a safe harbor by reference
to the safe harbor provisions of the REMIC regulations.
In January 2001, the IRS published Rev. Proc. 2001-12 (2001-3 I.R.B. 335) to set
forth an alternative safe harbor that taxpayers could use while the IRS and the
Treasury considered comments on the proposed regulations. Under the alternative
safe harbor, if a transferor meets the investigation requirement and the
representation requirement but the transfer fails to meet the formula test, the
transferor may invoke the safe harbor if the transferee meets a two- prong test
(the asset test). A transferee generally meets the first prong of this test if,
at the time of the transfer, and in each of the two years preceding the year of
transfer, the transferee's gross assets exceed $100 million and its net assets
exceed $10 million. A transferee generally meets the second prong of this test
if it is a domestic, taxable corporation and agrees in writing not to transfer
the interest to any person other than another domestic, taxable corporation that
also satisfies the requirements of the asset test. A transferor cannot rely on
the asset test if the transferor knows, or has reason to know, that the
transferee will not comply with its written agreement to limit the restrictions
on subsequent transfers of the residual interest.
Rev. Proc. 2001-12 provides that the asset test fails to be satisfied in the
case of a transfer or assignment of a noneconomic residual interest to a foreign
branch of an otherwise eligible transferee. If such a transfer or assignment
were permitted, a corporate taxpayer might seek to claim that the provisions of
an applicable income tax treaty would resource excess inclusion income as
foreign source income, and that, as a consequence, any U.S. tax liability
attributable to the excess inclusion income could be offset by foreign tax
credits. Such a claim would impede the assessment or collection of U.S. tax on
excess inclusion income, contrary to the congressional purpose of assuring that
such income will be taxable in all events. See, e.g., sections 860E(a)(1), (b),
(e) and 860G(b) of the Code.
The Treasury and the IRS have learned that certain taxpayers transferring
noneconomic residual interests to foreign branches have attempted to rely on the
formula test to obtain safe harbor treatment in an effort to impede the
assessment or collection of U.S. tax on excess inclusion income. Accordingly,
the final regulations provide that if a noneconomic residual interest is
transferred to a foreign permanent establishment or fixed base of a U.S.
taxpayer, the transfer is not eligible for safe harbor treatment under either
the asset test or the formula test. The final regulations also require a
transferee to represent that it will not cause income from the noneconomic
residual interest to be attributable to a foreign permanent establishment or
fixed base.
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Section 1.860E -1(c)(8) provides computational rules that a taxpayer may use
to qualify for safe harbor status under the formula test. Section
1.860E-1(c)(8)(i) provides that the transferee is presumed to pay tax at a rate
equal to the highest rate of tax specified in section 11(b). Some commentators
were concerned that this presumed rate of taxation was too high because it does
not take into consideration taxpayers subject to the alternative minimum tax
rate. In light of the comments received, this provision has been amended in the
final regulations to allow certain transferees that compute their taxable income
using the alternative minimum tax rate to use the alternative minimum tax rate
applicable to corporations.
Additionally, Sec. 1.860E-1(c)(8)(iii) provides that the present
values in the formula test are to be computed using a discount rate equal to the
applicable Federal short-term rate prescribed by section 1274(d). This is a
change from the proposed regulation and Rev. Proc. 2001-12. In those
publications the provision stated that "present values are computed using a
discount rate equal to the applicable Federal rate prescribed in section 1274(d)
compounded semiannually" and that "[a] lower discount rate may be used if the
transferee can demonstrate that it regularly borrows, in the course of its trade
or business, substantial funds at such lower rate from an unrelated third
party." The IRS and the Treasury Department have learned that, based on this
provision, certain taxpayers have been attempting to use unrealistically low or
zero interest rates to satisfy the formula test, frustrating the intent of the
test. Furthermore, the Treasury Department and the IRS believe that a rule
allowing for a rate other than a rate based on an objective index would add
unnecessary complexity to the safe harbor. As a result, the rule in the proposed
regulations that permits a transferee to use a lower discount rate, if the
transferee can demonstrate that it regularly borrows substantial funds at such
lower rate, is not included in the final regulations; and the Federal short-term
rate has been substituted for the applicable Federal rate. To simplify
taxpayers' computations, the final regulations allow use of any of the published
short-term rates, provided that the present values are computed with a
corresponding period of compounding. With the exception of the provisions
relating to transfers to foreign branches, these changes generally have the
proposed applicability date of February 4, 2000, but taxpayers may choose to
apply the interest rate formula set forth in the proposed regulation and Rev.
Proc. 2001-12 for transfers occurring before August 19, 2002.
It is anticipated that when final regulations are adopted with respect to
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FASITs, Sec. 1.860H-6(g) of the proposed regulations will be adopted in
substantially its present form, with the result that the final regulations
contained in this document will also govern transfers of FASIT ownership
interests with substantially the same applicability date as is contained in this
document.
Effect on Other Documents
Rev. Proc. 2001-12 (2001-3 I.R.B. 335) is obsolete for transfers of
noneconomic residual interests in REMICs occurring on or after August 19, 2002.
Special Analyses
It is hereby certified that these regulations will not have a significant
economic impact on a substantial number of small entities. This certification is
based on the fact that it is unlikely that a substantial number of small
entities will hold REMIC residual interests. Therefore, a Regulatory Flexibility
Analysis under the Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. chapter 6) is not
required. It has been determined that this Treasury decision is not a
significant regulatory action as defined in Executive Order 12866. Therefore, a
regulatory assessment is not required. It also has been determined that sections
553(b) and 553(d) of the Administrative Procedure Act (5 U.S.C. chapter 5) do
not apply to these regulations.
Drafting Information
The principal author of these regulations is Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx. However,
other personnel from the IRS and Treasury Department participated in their
development.
List of Subjects
26 CFR Part 1
Income taxes, Reporting and record keeping requirements.
26 CFR Part 602
Reporting and record keeping requirements.
Adoption of Amendments to the Regulations
Accordingly, 26 CFR parts 1 and 602 are amended as follows:
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PART 1--INCOME TAXES
Paragraph 1. The authority citation for part 1 continues to read in part as
follows:
Authority: 26 U.S.C. 7805 * * *
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XXXXXXX X-0
FORM OF TRANSFEROR CERTIFICATE
__________________, 200__
Residential Asset Mortgage Products, Inc.
0000 Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx 00000
JPMorgan Chase Bank
0 Xxx Xxxx Xxxxx, 0xx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attention: Residential Funding Corporation Series 2003-SL1
Re: Mortgage Asset-Backed Pass-Through Certificates,
Series 2003-SL1, Class R-[ ]
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Ladies and Gentlemen:
This letter is delivered to you in connection with the
transfer by _______________________________ (the "Seller") to
_______________________________ (the "Purchaser") of $_____________ Initial
Certificate Principal Balance of Mortgage Asset- Backed Pass-Through
Certificates, Series 2003-SL1, Class R-[__] (the "Certificates"), pursuant to
Section 5.02 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement (the "Pooling and Servicing
Agreement"), dated as of November 1, 2003 among Residential Asset Mortgage
Products, Inc., as seller (the "Depositor"), Residential Funding Corporation, as
master servicer, and JPMorgan Chase Bank, as trustee (the "Trustee"). All terms
used herein and not otherwise defined shall have the meanings set forth in the
Pooling and Servicing Agreement. The Seller hereby certifies, represents and
warrants to, and covenants with, the Depositor and the Trustee that:
1. No purpose of the Seller relating to the transfer of the
Certificate by the Seller to the Purchaser is or will be to impede the
assessment or collection of any tax.
2. The Seller understands that the Purchaser has delivered to
the Trustee and the Master Servicer a transfer affidavit and agreement in the
form attached to the Pooling and Servicing Agreement as Exhibit H-1. The Seller
does not know or believe that any representation contained therein is false.
3. The Seller has at the time of the transfer conducted a
reasonable investigation of the financial condition of the Purchaser as
contemplated by Treasury Regulations Section 1.860E-1(c)(4)(i) and, as a result
of that investigation, the Seller has determined that the
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Purchaser has historically paid its debts as they become due and has found no
significant evidence to indicate that the Purchaser will not continue to pay its
debts as they become due in the future. The Seller understands that the transfer
of a Class R Certificate may not be respected for United States income tax
purposes (and the Seller may continue to be liable for United States income
taxes associated therewith) unless the Seller has conducted such an
investigation.
4. The Seller has no actual knowledge that the proposed
Transferee is not both a United States Person and a Permitted Transferee.
Very truly yours,
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(Seller)
By:
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Name:
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Title:
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EXHIBIT I
FORM OF INVESTOR REPRESENTATION LETTER
______________, 20__
Residential Asset Mortgage Products, Inc
0000 Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
JPMorgan Chase Bank
0 Xxx Xxxx Xxxxx, 0xx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Residential Funding Corporation
0000 Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Attention: Residential Asset Mortgage Products, Inc., Series 2003-SL1
Re: Mortgage-Backed Pass-Through Certificates,
Series 2003-SL1, Class [B-__]
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Ladies and Gentlemen:
_________________________ (the "Purchaser") intends to
purchase from ___________________________ (the "Seller") $_____________ Initial
Certificate Principal Balance of Mortgage-Backed Pass-Through Certificates,
Series 2003-SL1, Class [B-__] (the "Certificates"), issued pursuant to the
Pooling and Servicing Agreement (the "Pooling and Servicing Agreement"), dated
as of November 1, 2003, among Residential Asset Mortgage Products, Inc., as
seller (the "Depositor"), Residential Funding Corporation, as master servicer
(the "Master Servicer"), and JPMorgan Chase Bank, as trustee (the "Trustee").
All terms used herein and not otherwise defined shall have the meanings set
forth in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement. The Purchaser hereby certifies,
represents and warrants to, and covenants with, the Depositor, the Trustee and
the Master Servicer that:
1. The Purchaser understands that (a) the
Certificates have not been and will not be registered or
qualified under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the
"Act") or any state securities law, (b) the Depositor is not
required to so register or qualify the Certificates, (c) the
Certificates may be resold only if registered and qualified
pursuant to the provisions of the Act or any state securities
law, or if an exemption from such registration and
qualification is available, (d) the Pooling and Servicing
Agreement contains restrictions regarding
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the transfer of the Certificates and (e) the Certificates
will bear a legend to the foregoing effect.
2. The Purchaser is acquiring the Certificates for
its own account for investment only and not with a view to or
for sale in connection with any distribution thereof in any
manner that would violate the Act or any applicable state
securities laws.
3. The Purchaser is (a) a substantial, sophisticated
institutional investor having such knowledge and experience in
financial and business matters, and, in particular, in such
matters related to securities similar to the Certificates,
such that it is capable of evaluating the merits and risks of
investment in the Certificates, (b) able to bear the economic
risks of such an investment and (c) an "accredited investor"
within the meaning of Rule 501(a) promulgated pursuant to the
Act.
4. The Purchaser has been furnished with, and has had
an opportunity to review (a) [a copy of the Private Placement
Memorandum, dated ___________________, 20__, relating to the
Certificates (b)] a copy of the Pooling and Servicing
Agreement and [b] [c] such other information concerning the
Certificates, the Mortgage Loans and the Depositor as has been
requested by the Purchaser from the Depositor or the Seller
and is relevant to the Purchaser's decision to purchase the
Certificates. The Purchaser has had any questions arising from
such review answered by the Depositor or the Seller to the
satisfaction of the Purchaser. [If the Purchaser did not
purchase the Certificates from the Seller in connection with
the initial distribution of the Certificates and was provided
with a copy of the Private Placement Memorandum (the
"Memorandum") relating to the original sale (the "Original
Sale") of the Certificates by the Depositor, the Purchaser
acknowledges that such Memorandum was provided to it by the
Seller, that the Memorandum was prepared by the Depositor
solely for use in connection with the Original Sale and the
Depositor did not participate in or facilitate in any way the
purchase of the Certificates by the Purchaser from the Seller,
and the Purchaser agrees that it will look solely to the
Seller and not to the Depositor with respect to any damage,
liability, claim or expense arising out of, resulting from or
in connection with (a) error or omission, or alleged error or
omission, contained in the Memorandum, or (b) any information,
development or event arising after the date of the
Memorandum.]
5. The Purchaser has not and will not nor has it
authorized or will it authorize any person to (a) offer,
pledge, sell, dispose of or otherwise transfer any
Certificate, any interest in any Certificate or any other
similar security to any person in any manner, (b) solicit any
offer to buy or to accept a pledge, disposition of other
transfer of any Certificate, any interest in any Certificate
or any other similar security from any person in any manner,
(c) otherwise approach or negotiate with respect to any
Certificate, any interest in any Certificate or any other
similar security with any person in any manner, (d) make any
general
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solicitation by means of general advertising or in any other
manner or (e) take any other action, that (as to any of (a)
through (e) above) would constitute a distribution of any
Certificate under the Act, that would render the disposition
of any Certificate a violation of Section 5 of the Act or any
state securities law, or that would require registration or
qualification pursuant thereto. The Purchaser will not sell or
otherwise transfer any of the Certificates, except in
compliance with the provisions of the Pooling and Servicing
Agreement.
6. The Purchaser hereby certifies, represents and warrants to,
and covenants with the Depositor, the Trustee and the Master
Servicer that the following statements in (a), (b) or (c) are
correct:
(a) The Purchaser is not an employee benefit or other
plan subject to the prohibited transaction provisions of the
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended
("ERISA"), or Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of
1986, as amended (the "Code") (a "Plan"), or any other person
(including an investment manager, a named fiduciary or a
trustee of any Plan) acting, directly or indirectly, on behalf
of or purchasing any Certificate with "plan assets" of any
Plan within the meaning of the Department of Labor ("DOL")
regulation at 29 C.F.R. ss.2510.3-101; or
(b) The Purchaser is an insurance Depositor; the
source of the funds being used by the Purchaser to acquire the
Certificates is assets of the Purchaser's "insurance company
general account"(within the meaning of DOL Prohibited
Transaction Class Exemption ("PTCE"); the conditions set forth
in Sections I and III (PTCE) 95-60 have been satisfied and the
purchase, holding and transfer of Certificates by or on behalf
of the Purchaser are exempt under PTCE 95-60; or
(c) has provided the Trustee, the Depositor and the
Master Servicer with an opinion of counsel acceptable to and
in form and substance satisfactory to the Trustee, the
Depositor and the Master Servicer to the effect that the
purchase of Certificates is permissible under applicable law,
will not constitute or result in any non-exempt prohibited
transaction under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code and will
not subject the Trustee, the Depositor or the Master Servicer
to any obligation or liability (including obligations or
liabilities under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code) in
addition to those undertaken in the Pooling and Servicing
Agreement.
In addition, the Purchaser hereby certifies,
represents and warrants to, and covenants with, the , the
Trustee and the Master Servicer that the Purchaser will not
transfer such Certificates to any Plan or person unless either
such Plan or person meets the requirements set forth in either
(a), (b) or (c) above.]
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Very truly yours,
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(Purchaser)
By:
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Name:
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Title:
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EXHIBIT J
FORM OF TRANSFEROR REPRESENTATION LETTER
___, 20 _
Residential Asset Mortgage Products, Inc
0000 Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
JPMorgan Chase Bank
0 Xxx Xxxx Xxxxx, 0xx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attention: Residential Asset Mortgage Products, Inc., Series 2003-SL1
Re: Mortgage-Backed Pass-Through Certificates,
Series 2003-SL1, Class [B-__]
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Ladies and Gentlemen:
In connection with the sale by (the "Seller") to (the
"Purchaser") of $ Initial Certificate Principal Balance of Mortgage-Backed
Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2003-SL1, Class [R-__][B-__] (the
"Certificates"), issued pursuant to the Pooling and Servicing Agreement (the
"Pooling and Servicing Agreement"), dated as of November 1, 2003, among
Residential Asset Mortgage Products, Inc., as seller (the "Depositor"),
Residential Funding Corporation, as master servicer, and JPMorgan Chase Bank, as
trustee (the "Trustee"). The Seller hereby certifies, represents and warrants
to, and covenants with, the Depositor and the Trustee that:
Neither the Seller nor anyone acting on its behalf has (a)
offered, pledged, sold, disposed of or otherwise transferred any Certificate,
any interest in any Certificate or any other similar security to any person in
any manner, (b) has solicited any offer to buy or to accept a pledge,
disposition or other transfer of any Certificate, any interest in any
Certificate or any other similar security from any person in any manner, (c) has
otherwise approached or negotiated with respect to any Certificate, any interest
in any Certificate or any other similar security with any person in any manner,
(d) has made any general solicitation by means of general advertising or in any
other manner, or (e) has taken any other action, that (as to any of (a) through
(e) above) would constitute a distribution of the Certificates under the
Securities Act of 1933 (the "Act"), that would render the disposition of any
Certificate a violation of Section 5 of the Act or any state securities law, or
that would require registration or qualification pursuant thereto. The Seller
will
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not act, in any manner set forth in the foregoing sentence with respect to any
Certificate. The Seller has not and will not sell or otherwise transfer any of
the Certificates, except in compliance with the provisions of the Pooling and
Servicing Agreement.
Very truly yours,
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(Seller)
By:
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Name:
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Title:
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EXHIBIT K
TEXT OF AMENDMENT TO POOLING AND SERVICING
AGREEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 11.01(E) FOR A
LIMITED GUARANTY
ARTICLE XII
Subordinate Certificate Loss Coverage; Limited Guaranty
Section 12.01. Subordinate Certificate Loss Coverage; Limited
Guaranty. (a) Subject to subsection (c) below, prior to the later of the third
Business Day prior to each Distribution Date or the related Determination Date,
the Master Servicer shall determine whether it or any Subservicer will be
entitled to any reimbursement pursuant to Section 4.02(a) on such Distribution
Date for Advances or Subservicer Advances previously made, (which will not be
Advances or Subservicer Advances that were made with respect to delinquencies
which were subsequently determined to be Excess Special Hazard Losses, Excess
Fraud Losses, Excess Bankruptcy Losses or Extraordinary Losses) and, if so, the
Master Servicer shall demand payment from Residential Funding of an amount equal
to the amount of any Advances or Subservicer Advances reimbursed pursuant to
Section 4.02(a), to the extent such Advances or Subservicer Advances have not
been included in the amount of the Realized Loss in the related Mortgage Loan,
and shall distribute the same to the Class B Certificateholders in the same
manner as if such amount were to be distributed pursuant to Section 4.02(a).
(b) Subject to subsection (c) below, prior to the later of the
third Business Day prior to each Distribution Date or the related Determination
Date, the Master Servicer shall determine whether any Realized Losses (other
than Excess Special Hazard Losses, Excess Bankruptcy Losses, Excess Fraud Losses
and Extraordinary Losses) will be allocated to the Class B Certificates on such
Distribution Date pursuant to Section 4.05, and, if so, the Master Servicer
shall demand payment from Residential Funding of the amount of such Realized
Loss and shall distribute the same to the Class B Certificateholders in the same
manner as if such amount were to be distributed pursuant to Section 4.02(a);
provided, however, that the amount of such demand in respect of any Distribution
Date shall in no event be greater than the sum of (i) the additional amount of
Accrued Certificate Interest that would have been paid for the Class B
Certificateholders on such Distribution Date had such Realized Loss or Losses
not occurred plus (ii) the amount of the reduction in the Certificate Principal
Balances of the Class B Certificates on such Distribution Date due to such
Realized Loss or Losses. Notwithstanding such payment, such Realized Losses
shall be deemed to have been borne by the Certificateholders for purposes of
Section 4.05. Excess Special Hazard Losses, Excess Fraud Losses, Excess
Bankruptcy Losses and Extraordinary Losses allocated to the Class B Certificates
will not be covered by the Subordinate Certificate Loss Obligation.
(c) Demands for payments pursuant to this Section shall be
made prior to the later of the third Business Day prior to each Distribution
Date or the related Determination Date by the Master Servicer with written
notice thereof to the Trustee. The maximum amount that
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Residential Funding shall be required to pay pursuant to this Section on any
Distribution Date (the "Amount Available") shall be equal to the lesser of (X)
minus the sum of (i) all previous payments made under subsections (a) and (b)
hereof and (ii) all draws under the Limited Guaranty made in lieu of such
payments as described below in subsection (d) and (Y) the then outstanding
Certificate Principal Balances of the Class B Certificates, or such lower amount
as may be established pursuant to Section 12.02. Residential Funding's
obligations as described in this Section are referred to herein as the
"Subordinate Certificate Loss Obligation."
(d) The Trustee will promptly notify General Motors Acceptance
Corporation of any failure of Residential Funding to make any payments hereunder
and shall demand payment pursuant to the limited guaranty (the "Limited
Guaranty"), executed by General Motors Acceptance Corporation, of Residential
Funding's obligation to make payments pursuant to this Section, in an amount
equal to the lesser of (i) the Amount Available and (ii) such required payments,
by delivering to General Motors Acceptance Corporation a written demand for
payment by wire transfer, not later than the second Business Day prior to the
Distribution Date for such month, with a copy to the Master Servicer.
(e) All payments made by Residential Funding pursuant to this
Section or amounts paid under the Limited Guaranty shall be deposited directly
in the Certificate Account, for distribution on the Distribution Date for such
month to the Class B Certificateholders.
(f) The Depositor shall have the option, in its sole
discretion, to substitute for either or both of the Limited Guaranty or the
Subordinate Certificate Loss Obligation another instrument in the form of a
corporate guaranty, an irrevocable letter of credit, a surety bond, insurance
policy or similar instrument or a reserve fund; provided that (i) the Depositor
obtains (subject to the provisions of Section 10.01(f) as if the Depositor was
substituted for the Master Servicer solely for the purposes of such provision)
an Opinion of Counsel (which need not be an opinion of Independent counsel) to
the effect that obtaining such substitute corporate guaranty, irrevocable letter
of credit, surety bond, insurance policy or similar instrument or reserve fund
will not cause either (a) any federal tax to be imposed on the Trust Fund,
including without limitation, any federal tax imposed on "prohibited
transactions" under Section 860(F)(a)(1) of the Code or on "contributions after
the startup date" under Section 860(G)(d)(1) of the Code or (b) the Trust Fund
to fail to qualify as a REMIC at any time that any Certificate is outstanding,
and (ii) no such substitution shall be made unless (A) the substitute Limited
Guaranty or Subordinate Certificate Loss Obligation is for an initial amount not
less than the then current Amount Available and contains provisions that are in
all material respects equivalent to the original Limited Guaranty or Subordinate
Certificate Loss Obligation (including that no portion of the fees,
reimbursements or other obligations under any such instrument will be borne by
the Trust Fund), (B) the long term debt obligations of any obligor of any
substitute Limited Guaranty or Subordinate Certificate Loss Obligation (if not
supported by the Limited Guaranty) shall be rated at least the lesser of (a) the
rating of the long term debt obligations of General Motors Acceptance
Corporation as of the date of issuance of the Limited Guaranty and (b) the
rating of the long term debt obligations of General Motors Acceptance
Corporation at the date of such substitution and (C) the Depositor obtains
written confirmation from each nationally recognized credit rating agency that
rated the Class B Certificates at the request of the Depositor that such
substitution shall not lower the rating on the Class B Certificates below the
lesser of (a) the then-
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current rating assigned to the Class B Certificates by such rating agency and
(b) the original rating assigned to the Class B Certificates by such rating
agency. Any replacement of the Limited Guaranty or Subordinate Certificate Loss
Obligation pursuant to this Section shall be accompanied by a written Opinion of
Counsel to the substitute guarantor or obligor, addressed to the Master Servicer
and the Trustee, that such substitute instrument constitutes a legal, valid and
binding obligation of the substitute guarantor or obligor, enforceable in
accordance with its terms, and concerning such other matters as the Master
Servicer and the Trustee shall reasonably request. Neither the Depositor, the
Master Servicer nor the Trustee shall be obligated to substitute for or replace
the Limited Guaranty or Subordinate Certificate Loss Obligation under any
circumstance.
Section 12.02. Amendments Relating to the Limited Guaranty.
Notwithstanding Sections 11.01 or 12.01: (i) the provisions of this Article XII
may be amended, superseded or deleted, (ii) the Limited Guaranty or Subordinate
Certificate Loss Obligation may be amended, reduced or canceled, and (iii) any
other provision of this Agreement which is related or incidental to the matters
described in this Article XII may be amended in any manner; in each case by
written instrument executed or consented to by the Depositor and Residential
Funding but without the consent of any Certificateholder and without the consent
of the Master Servicer or the Trustee being required unless any such amendment
would impose any additional obligation on, or otherwise adversely affect the
interests of, the Master Servicer or the Trustee, as applicable; provided that
the Depositor shall also obtain a letter from each nationally recognized credit
rating agency that rated the Class B Certificates at the request of the
Depositor to the effect that such amendment, reduction, deletion or cancellation
will not lower the rating on the Class B Certificates below the lesser of (a)
the then-current rating assigned to the Class B Certificates by such rating
agency and (b) the original rating assigned to the Class B Certificates by such
rating agency, unless (A) the Holder of 100% of the Class B Certificates is
Residential Funding or an Affiliate of Residential Funding, or (B) such
amendment, reduction, deletion or cancellation is made in accordance with
Section 11.01(e) and, provided further that the Depositor obtains (subject to
the provisions of Section 10.01(f) as if the Depositor was substituted for the
Master Servicer solely for the purposes of such provision), in the case of a
material amendment or supersession (but not a reduction, cancellation or
deletion of the Limited Guaranty or the Subordinate Certificate Loss
Obligation), an Opinion of Counsel (which need not be an opinion of Independent
counsel) to the effect that any such amendment or supersession will not cause
either (a) any federal tax to be imposed on the Trust Fund, including without
limitation, any federal tax imposed on "prohibited transactions" under Section
860F(a)(1) of the Code or on "contributions after the startup date" under
Section 860G(d)(1) of the Code or (b) the Trust Fund to fail to qualify as a
REMIC at any time that any Certificate is outstanding. A copy of any such
instrument shall be provided to the Trustee and the Master Servicer together
with an Opinion of Counsel that such amendment complies with this Section 12.02.
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EXHIBIT L
FORM OF LIMITED GUARANTY
RESIDENTIAL ASSET MORTGAGE PRODUCTS, INC.
Mortgage-Backed Pass-Through Certificates
Series 2003-SL1
, 200__
JPMorgan Chase Bank
0 Xxx Xxxx Xxxxx, 0xx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attention: Residential Asset Mortgage Products, Inc., Series 2003-SL1
Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, Residential Funding Corporation, a Delaware
corporation ("Residential Funding"), an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of
General Motors Acceptance Corporation, a New York corporation ("GMAC"), plans to
incur certain obligations as described under Section 12.01 of the Pooling and
Servicing Agreement dated as of November 1, 2003, (the "Servicing Agreement"),
among Residential Asset Mortgage Products, Inc. (the "Depositor"), Residential
Funding and JPMorgan Chase Bank (the "Trustee") as amended by Amendment No. ___
thereto, dated as of ________, with respect to the Mortgage-Backed Pass-Through
Certificates, Series 2003-SL1 (the "Certificates"); and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 12.01 of the Servicing Agreement,
Residential Funding agrees to make payments to the Holders of the Class B
Certificates with respect to certain losses on the Mortgage Loans as described
in the Servicing Agreement; and
WHEREAS, GMAC desires to provide certain assurances with
respect to the ability of Residential Funding to secure sufficient funds and
faithfully to perform its Subordinate Certificate Loss Obligation;
NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises herein
contained and certain other good and valuable consideration, the receipt of
which is hereby acknowledged, GMAC agrees as follows:
1. Provision of Funds. (a) GMAC agrees to contribute and
deposit in the Certificate Account on behalf of Residential Funding (or
otherwise provide to Residential Funding, or to cause to be made available to
Residential Funding), either directly or through a subsidiary, in any case prior
to the related Distribution Date, such moneys as may be required by
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Residential Funding to perform its Subordinate Certificate Loss Obligation when
and as the same arises from time to time upon the demand of the Trustee in
accordance with Section 12.01 of the Servicing Agreement.
(b) The agreement set forth in the preceding clause (a) shall
be absolute, irrevocable and unconditional and shall not be affected by the
transfer by GMAC or any other person of all or any part of its or their interest
in Residential Funding, by any insolvency, bankruptcy, dissolution or other
proceeding affecting Residential Funding or any other person, by any defense or
right of counterclaim, set-off or recoupment that GMAC may have against
Residential Funding or any other person or by any other fact or circumstance.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, GMAC's obligations under clause (a) shall
terminate upon the earlier of (x) substitution for this Limited Guaranty
pursuant to Section 12.01(f) of the Servicing Agreement, or (y) the termination
of the Trust Fund pursuant to the Servicing Agreement.
2. Waiver. GMAC hereby waives any failure or delay on the part
of Residential Funding, the Trustee or any other person in asserting or
enforcing any rights or in making any claims or demands hereunder. Any defective
or partial exercise of any such rights shall not preclude any other or further
exercise of that or any other such right. GMAC further waives demand,
presentment, notice of default, protest, notice of acceptance and any other
notices with respect to this Limited Guaranty, including, without limitation,
those of action or nonaction on the part of Residential Funding or the Trustee.
3. Modification, Amendment and Termination. This Limited
Guaranty may be modified, amended or terminated only by the written agreement of
GMAC and the Trustee and only if such modification, amendment or termination is
permitted under Section 12.02 of the Servicing Agreement. The obligations of
GMAC under this Limited Guaranty shall continue and remain in effect so long as
the Servicing Agreement is not modified or amended in any way that might affect
the obligations of GMAC under this Limited Guaranty without the prior written
consent of GMAC.
4. Successor. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein,
the guarantee herein set forth shall be binding upon GMAC and its respective
successors.
5. Governing Law. This Limited Guaranty shall be governed by
the laws of the State of New York.
6. Authorization and Reliance. GMAC understands that a copy of
this Limited Guaranty shall be delivered to the Trustee in connection with the
execution of Amendment No. 1 to the Servicing Agreement and GMAC hereby
authorizes the Depositor and the Trustee to rely on the covenants and agreements
set forth herein.
7. Definitions. Capitalized terms used but not otherwise
defined herein shall have the meaning given them in the Servicing Agreement.
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8. Counterparts. This Limited Guaranty may be executed in any
number of counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original and such
counterparts shall constitute but one and the same instrument.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, GMAC has caused this Limited Guaranty to
be executed and delivered by its respective officers thereunto duly authorized
as of the day and year first above written.
GENERAL MOTORS ACCEPTANCE
CORPORATION
By:
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Name:
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Title:
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Acknowledged by:
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK,
as Trustee
By:
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Name:
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Title:
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RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION
By:
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Name:
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Title:
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EXHIBIT M
FORM OF LENDER CERTIFICATION FOR ASSIGNMENT OF MORTGAGE LOAN
__________________, 20____
Residential Asset Mortgage
Products, Inc.
0000 Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx 00000
JPMorgan Chase Bank
0 Xxx Xxxx Xxxxx, 0xx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attention: Residential Asset Mortgage Products, Inc., Series 2003-SL1
Re: Mortgage-Backed Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2003-SL1
Assignment of Mortgage Loan
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Ladies and Gentlemen:
This letter is delivered to you in connection with the
assignment by _________________ (the "Trustee") to _______________________ (the
"Lender") of _______________ (the "Mortgage Loan") pursuant to Section 3.13(d)
of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement (the "Pooling and Servicing Agreement"),
dated as of November 1, 2003, among Residential Asset Mortgage Products, Inc.,
as seller (the "Depositor"), Residential Funding Corporation, as master
servicer, and the Trustee. All terms used herein and not otherwise defined shall
have the meanings set forth in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement. The Lender
hereby certifies, represents and warrants to, and covenants with, the Master
Servicer and the Trustee that:
(i) the Mortgage Loan is secured by Mortgaged Property located in a
jurisdiction in which an assignment in lieu of satisfaction is required to
preserve lien priority, minimize or avoid mortgage recording taxes or otherwise
comply with, or facilitate a refinancing under, the laws of such jurisdiction;
(ii) the substance of the assignment is, and is intended to be, a
refinancing of such Mortgage Loan and the form of the transaction is solely to
comply with, or facilitate the transaction under, such local laws;
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(iii) the Mortgage Loan following the proposed assignment will be
modified to have a rate of interest at least 0.25 percent below or above the
rate of interest on such Mortgage Loan prior to such proposed assignment; and
(iv) such assignment is at the request of the borrower under the
related Mortgage Loan.
Very truly yours,
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(Lender)
By:
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Name:
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Title:
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EXHIBIT N
FORM OF RULE 144A INVESTMENT REPRESENTATION
Description of Rule 144A Securities, including numbers:
_______________________________________________
_______________________________________________
_______________________________________________
_______________________________________________
The undersigned seller, as registered holder (the "Seller"),
intends to transfer the Rule 144A Securities described above to the undersigned
buyer (the "Buyer").
1. In connection with such transfer and in accordance with the
agreements pursuant to which the Rule 144A Securities were issued, the Seller
hereby certifies the following facts: Neither the Seller nor anyone acting on
its behalf has offered, transferred, pledged, sold or otherwise disposed of the
Rule 144A Securities, any interest in the Rule 144A Securities or any other
similar security to, or solicited any offer to buy or accept a transfer, pledge
or other disposition of the Rule 144A Securities, any interest in the Rule 144A
Securities or any other similar security from, or otherwise approached or
negotiated with respect to the Rule 144A Securities, any interest in the Rule
144A Securities or any other similar security with, any person in any manner, or
made any general solicitation by means of general advertising or in any other
manner, or taken any other action, that would constitute a distribution of the
Rule 144A Securities under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "1933
Act"), or that would render the disposition of the Rule 144A Securities a
violation of Section 5 of the 1933 Act or require registration pursuant thereto,
and that the Seller has not offered the Rule 144A Securities to any person other
than the Buyer or another "qualified institutional buyer" as defined in Rule
144A under the 0000 Xxx.
2. The Buyer warrants and represents to, and covenants with,
the Seller, the Trustee and the Master Servicer (as defined in the Pooling and
Servicing Agreement (the "Agreement"), dated as of November 1, 2003, among
Residential Funding Corporation as Master Servicer, Residential Asset Mortgage
Products, Inc. as depositor pursuant to Section 5.02 of the Agreement and
JPMorgan Chase Bank, as trustee, as follows:
a. The Buyer understands that the Rule 144A
Securities have not been registered under the 1933 Act or the
securities laws of any state.
b. The Buyer considers itself a substantial,
sophisticated institutional investor having such knowledge and
experience in financial and business matters that it is capable of
evaluating the merits and risks of investment in the Rule 144A
Securities.
c. The Buyer has been furnished with all information
regarding the Rule 144A Securities that it has requested from the
Seller, the Trustee or the Servicer.
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d. Neither the Buyer nor anyone acting on its behalf
has offered, transferred, pledged, sold or otherwise disposed of the
Rule 144A Securities, any interest in the Rule 144A Securities or any
other similar security to, or solicited any offer to buy or accept a
transfer, pledge or other disposition of the Rule 144A Securities, any
interest in the Rule 144A Securities or any other similar security
from, or otherwise approached or negotiated with respect to the Rule
144A Securities, any interest in the Rule 144A Securities or any other
similar security with, any person in any manner, or made any general
solicitation by means of general advertising or in any other manner, or
taken any other action, that would constitute a distribution of the
Rule 144A Securities under the 1933 Act or that would render the
disposition of the Rule 144A Securities a violation of Section 5 of the
1933 Act or require registration pursuant thereto, nor will it act, nor
has it authorized or will it authorize any person to act, in such
manner with respect to the Rule 144A Securities.
e. The Buyer is a "qualified institutional buyer" as
that term is defined in Rule 144A under the 1933 Act and has completed
either of the forms of certification to that effect attached hereto as
Annex 1 or Annex 2. The Buyer is aware that the sale to it is being
made in reliance on Rule 144A. The Buyer is acquiring the Rule 144A
Securities for its own account or the accounts of other qualified
institutional buyers, understands that such Rule 144A Securities may be
resold, pledged or transferred only (i) to a person reasonably believed
to be a qualified institutional buyer that purchases for its own
account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom
notice is given that the resale, pledge or transfer is being made in
reliance on Rule 144A, or (ii) pursuant to another exemption from
registration under the 1933 Act.
3. The Buyer
a. is not an employee benefit or other plan subject
to the prohibited transaction provisions of the Employee Retirement
Income Security Act of 1974, as amended ("ERISA"), or Section 4975 of
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code") (a "Plan"),
or any other person (including an investment manager, a named fiduciary
or a trustee of any Plan) acting, directly or indirectly, on behalf of
or purchasing any Certificate with "plan assets" of any Plan; or
b. is an insurance company, the source of funds to be
used by it to purchase the Certificates is an "insurance company
general account" (within the meaning of DOL Prohibited Transaction
Class Exemption ("PTCE") 95-60), and the conditions set forth in PTCE
95-60 have been satisfied; or
c. has provided the Trustee, the Depositor and the
Master Servicer with an opinion of counsel acceptable to and in form
and substance satisfactory to the Trustee, the Depositor and the Master
Servicer to the effect that the purchase of Certificates is permissible
under applicable law, will not constitute or result in any non-exempt
prohibited transaction under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code and will
not subject the Trustee, the Depositor or the Master Servicer to any
obligation or liability (including
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obligations or liabilities under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code) in
addition to those undertaken in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.]
4. This document may be executed in one or more counterparts
and by the different parties hereto on separate counterparts, each of which,
when so executed, shall be deemed to be an original; such counterparts,
together, shall constitute one and the same document.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the parties has executed this
document as of the date set forth below.
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Print Name of Seller Print Name of Buyer
By: By:
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Name: Name:
Title: Title:
Taxpayer Identification: Taxpayer Identification:
No. No.
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Date: Date:
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ANNEX 1 TO EXHIBIT N
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QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER STATUS UNDER SEC RULE 144A
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[For Buyers Other Than Registered Investment Companies]
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The undersigned hereby certifies as follows in connection with the Rule
144A Investment Representation to which this Certification is attached:
1. As indicated below, the undersigned is the President, Chief
Financial Officer, Senior Vice President or other executive officer of the
Buyer.
2. In connection with purchases by the Buyer, the Buyer is a
"qualified institutional buyer" as that term is defined in Rule 144A under the
Securities Act of 1933 ("Rule 144A") because (i) the Buyer owned and/or invested
on a discretionary basis $______________________ in securities (except for the
excluded securities referred to below) as of the end of the Buyer's most recent
fiscal year (such amount being calculated in accordance with Rule 144A) and (ii)
the Buyer satisfies the criteria in the category marked below.
___ Corporation, etc. The Buyer is a corporation (other than a bank,
savings and loan association or similar institution), Massachusetts
or similar business trust, partnership, or charitable organization
described in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
___ Bank. The Buyer (a) is a national bank or banking institution
organized under the laws of any State, territory or the District of
Columbia, the business of which is substantially confined to
banking and is supervised by the State or territorial banking
commission or similar official or is a foreign bank or equivalent
institution, and (b) has an audited net worth of at least
$25,000,000 as demonstrated in its latest annual financial
statements, a copy of which is attached hereto.
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___ Savings and Loan. The Buyer (a) is a savings and loan association,
building and loan association, cooperative bank, homestead
association or similar institution, which is supervised and
examined by a State or Federal authority having supervision over
any such institutions or is a foreign savings and loan association
or equivalent institution and (b) has an audited net worth of at
least $25,000,000 as demonstrated in its latest annual financial
statements.
___ Broker-Dealer. The Buyer is a dealer registered pursuant to
Section 15 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
___ Insurance Company. The Buyer is an insurance company whose primary
and predominant business activity is the writing of insurance or
the reinsuring of risks underwritten by insurance companies and
which is subject to supervision by the insurance commissioner or a
similar official or agency of a State or territory or the District
of Columbia.
___ State or Local Plan. The Buyer is a plan established and maintained
by a State, its political subdivisions, or any agency or
instrumentality of the State or its political subdivisions, for the
benefit of its employees.
___ ERISA Plan. The Buyer is an employee benefit plan within the
meaning of Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act
of 1974.
___ Investment Adviser. The Buyer is an investment adviser registered
under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940.
___ SBIC. The Buyer is a Small Business Investment Company licensed by
the U.S. Small Business Administration under Section 301(c) or
(d) of the Small Business Investment Act of 1958.
___ Business Development Company. The Buyer is a business development
company as defined in Section 202(a)(22) of the Investment
Advisers Act of 1940.
___ Trust Fund. The Buyer is a trust fund whose trustee is a bank or
trust company and whose participants are exclusively (a) plans
established and maintained by a State, its political subdivisions,
or any agency or instrumentality of the State or its political
subdivisions, for the benefit of its employees, or (b) employee
benefit plans within the meaning of Title I of the Employee
Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, but is not a trust fund
that includes as participants individual retirement accounts or
H.R. 10 plans.
3. The term "securities" as used herein does not include (i)
securities of issuers that are affiliated with the Buyer, (ii) securities that
are part of an unsold allotment to or subscription by the Buyer, if the Buyer is
a dealer, (iii) bank deposit notes and certificates of deposit, (iv) loan
participations, (v) repurchase agreements, (vi) securities owned but subject to
a repurchase agreement and (vii) currency, interest rate and commodity swaps.
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4. For purposes of determining the aggregate amount of securities
owned and/or invested on a discretionary basis by the Buyer, the Buyer used the
cost of such securities to the Buyer and did not include any of the securities
referred to in the preceding paragraph. Further, in determining such aggregate
amount, the Buyer may have included securities owned by subsidiaries of the
Buyer, but only if such subsidiaries are consolidated with the Buyer in its
financial statements prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles and if the investments of such subsidiaries are managed under the
Buyer's direction. However, such securities were not included if the Buyer is a
majority-owned, consolidated subsidiary of another enterprise and the Buyer is
not itself a reporting company under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
5. The Buyer acknowledges that it is familiar with Rule 144A and
understands that the seller to it and other parties related to the Certificates
are relying and will continue to rely on the statements made herein because one
or more sales to the Buyer may be in reliance on Rule 144A.
___ ___ Will the Buyer be purchasing the Rule 144A
Yes No Securities only for the Buyer's own account?
6. If the answer to the foregoing question is "no", the Buyer
agrees that, in connection with any purchase of securities sold to the Buyer for
the account of a third party (including any separate account) in reliance on
Rule 144A, the Buyer will only purchase for the account of a third party that at
the time is a "qualified institutional buyer" within the meaning of Rule 144A.
In addition, the Buyer agrees that the Buyer will not purchase securities for a
third party unless the Buyer has obtained a current representation letter from
such third party or taken other appropriate steps contemplated by Rule 144A to
conclude that such third party independently meets the definition of "qualified
institutional buyer" set forth in Rule 144A.
7. The Buyer will notify each of the parties to which this
certification is made of any changes in the information and conclusions herein.
Until such notice is given, the Buyer's purchase of Rule 144A Securities will
constitute a reaffirmation of this certification as of the date of such
purchase.
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Print Name of Buyer
By:
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Name:
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Title:
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Date:
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ANNEX 2 TO EXHIBIT N
QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER STATUS UNDER SEC RULE 144A
[For Buyers That Are Registered Investment Companies]
The undersigned hereby certifies as follows in connection with
the Rule 144A Investment Representation to which this Certification is attached:
1. As indicated below, the undersigned is the President,
Chief Financial Officer or Senior Vice President of the Buyer or, if the Buyer
is a "qualified institutional buyer" as that term is defined in Rule 144A under
the Securities Act of 1933 ("Rule 144A") because Buyer is part of a Family of
Investment Companies (as defined below), is such an officer of the Adviser.
2. In connection with purchases by Buyer, the Buyer is a
"qualified institutional buyer" as defined in SEC Rule 144A because (i) the
Buyer is an investment company registered under the Investment Company Act of
1940, and (ii) as marked below, the Buyer alone, or the Buyer's Family of
Investment Companies, owned at least $100,000,000 in securities (other than the
excluded securities referred to below) as of the end of the Buyer's most recent
fiscal year. For purposes of determining the amount of securities owned by the
Buyer or the Buyer's Family of Investment Companies, the cost of such securities
was used.
____ The Buyer owned $___________________ in securities (other than the excluded
securities referred to below) as of the end of the Buyer's most recent
fiscal year (such amount being calculated in accordance with Rule 144A).
____ The Buyer is part of a Family of Investment Companies which owned in the
aggregate $______________ in securities (other than the excluded securities
referred to below) as of the end of the Buyer's most recent fiscal year
(such amount being calculated in accordance with Rule 144A).
3. The term "Family of Investment Companies" as used herein
means two or more registered investment companies (or series thereof) that have
the same investment adviser or investment advisers that are affiliated (by
virtue of being majority owned subsidiaries of the same parent or because one
investment adviser is a majority owned subsidiary of the other).
4. The term "securities" as used herein does not include (i)
securities of issuers that are affiliated with the Buyer or are part of the
Buyer's Family of Investment Companies, (ii) bank deposit notes and certificates
of deposit, (iii) loan participations, (iv) repurchase agreements, (v)
securities owned but subject to a repurchase agreement and (vi) currency,
interest rate and commodity swaps.
5. The Buyer is familiar with Rule 144A and understands that
each of the parties to which this certification is made are relying and will
continue to rely on the statements
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made herein because one or more sales to the Buyer will be in reliance on Rule
144A. In addition, the Buyer will only purchase for the Buyer's own account.
6. The undersigned will notify each of the parties to which
this certification is made of any changes in the information and conclusions
herein. Until such notice, the Buyer's purchase of Rule 144A Securities will
constitute a reaffirmation of this certification by the undersigned as of the
date of such purchase.
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Print Name of Buyer
By:
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Name:
Title:
IF AN ADVISER:
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Print Name of Buyer
Date:
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EXHIBIT O
[RESERVED]
X-0
XXXXXXX X-0
FORM OF FORM 10-K CERTIFICATE
I, [identify the certifying individual], certify that:
1. I have reviewed the annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year
[___], and all reports on Form 8-K containing distribution or servicing reports
filed in respect of periods included in the year covered by that annual report,
of the trust (the "Trust") created pursuant to the Pooling and Servicing
Agreement dated __________ (the "Agreement") among Residential Asset Mortgage
Products, Inc. (the "Depositor"), Residential Funding Corporation (the "Master
Servicer") and JPMorgan Chase Bank (the "Trustee");
2. Based on my knowledge, the information in these reports, taken as a
whole, does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state
a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the
circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading as of the
last day of the period covered by this annual report;
3. Based on my knowledge, the servicing information required to be
provided to the Trustee by the Master Servicer under the Agreement for inclusion
in these reports is included in these reports;
4. I am responsible for reviewing the activities performed by the
Master Servicer under the Agreement and based upon my knowledge and the annual
compliance review required under the Agreement, and except as disclosed in the
report, the Master Servicer has fulfilled its obligations under the Agreement;
and
5. The reports disclose all significant deficiencies relating to the
Master Servicer's compliance with the minimum servicing standards based upon the
report provided by an independent public accountant, after conducting a review
in compliance with the Uniform Single Attestation Program for Mortgage Bankers
as set forth in the Agreement, that is included in these reports.
In giving the certifications above, I have reasonably relied on the
information provided to me by the following unaffiliated parties: [the Trustee].
Date:____________
_________________________________*
[Signature]
Name:
Title:
* - to be signed by the senior officer in charge of the servicing functions of
the Master Servicer
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FORM OF BACK-UP CERTIFICATION TO FORM 10-K CERTIFICATE
The undersigned, a Responsible Officer of JPMorgan Chase Bank (the
"Trustee") certifies that:
1. The Trustee has performed all of the duties specifically required to
be performed by it pursuant to the provisions of the Pooling and Servicing
Agreement dated _________ (the "Agreement") by and among Residential Funding
Mortgage Securities I, Inc. (the "Depositor"), Residential Funding Corporation
(the "Master Servicer") and the Trustee in accordance with the standards set
forth therein.
2. Based on my knowledge, the list of Certificateholders as shown on
the Certificate Register as of the end of each calendar year that is provided by
the Trustee pursuant to Section 4.03(d) of the Agreement is accurate as of the
last day of the 20___ calendar year.
Capitalized terms used and not defined herein shall have the meanings
given such terms in the Agreement.
IN WITNESS THEREOF, I have duly executed this certificate as of
____________, 20___
By:
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Name:
Title:
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EXHIBIT S
INFORMATION TO BE PROVIDED BY THE MASTER SERVICER TO THE RATING
AGENCIES RELATING TO REPORTABLE MODIFIED MORTGAGE LOANS
Account number
Transaction Identifier
Unpaid Principal Balance prior to Modification Next Due Date Monthly Principal
and Interest Payment Total Servicing Advances Current Interest Rate Original
Maturity Date Original Term to Maturity (Months) Remaining Term to Maturity
(Months) Trial Modification Indicator Mortgagor Equity Contribution Total
Servicer Advances Trial Modification Terms (Months) Trial Modification Start
Date Trial Modification End Date Trial Modification Period Principal and
Interest Payment Trial Modification Interest Rate Trial Modification Term Rate
Reduction Indicator Interest Rate Post Modification Rate Reduction Start Date
Rate Reduction End Date Rate Reduction Term Term Modified Indicator Modified
Amortization Period Modified Final Maturity Date Total Advances Written Off
Unpaid Principal Balance Written Off Other Past Due Amounts Written Off Write
Off Date Unpaid Principal Balance Post Write Off Capitalization Indicator
Mortgagor Contribution Total Capitalized Amount Modification Close Date Unpaid
Principal Balance Post Capitalization Modification Next Payment Due Date per
Modification Plan Principal and Interest Payment Post Modification Interest Rate
Post Modification Payment Made Post Capitalization
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Delinquency Status to Modification Plan
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