EXHIBIT 4.6
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DYNEGY INC.
and
BANK ONE TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Trustee
SUBORDINATED DEBT INDENTURE
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Dated as of ______________, _____
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS
OF GENERAL APPLICATION
Section 101 Definitions............................................... 1
Section 102 Compliance Certificates and Opinions...................... 9
Section 103 Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee.................... 10
Section 104 Acts of Holders........................................... 10
Section 105 Notices, etc., to Trustee and Company..................... 12
Section 106 Notice to Holders of Securities; Waiver................... 13
Section 107 Language of Notices, etc.................................. 13
Section 108 Conflict with Trust Indenture Act......................... 14
Section 109 Effect of Headings and Table of Contents.................. 14
Section 110 Successors and Assigns.................................... 14
Section 111 Separability Clause....................................... 14
Section 112 Benefits of Indenture..................................... 14
Section 113 Governing Law............................................. 14
Section 114 Legal Holidays............................................ 14
ARTICLE II
SECURITY FORMS
Section 201 Forms Generally........................................... 15
Section 202 Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication........... 15
Section 203 Securities in Global Form................................. 16
Section 204 Form of Legend for Book-Entry Securities.................. 16
ARTICLE III
THE SECURITIES
Section 301 Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series...................... 17
Section 302 Denominations............................................. 20
Section 303 Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating............ 20
Section 304 Temporary Securities...................................... 22
Section 305 Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange....... 24
Section 306 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities and
Coupons.................................................. 27
Section 307 Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved............ 28
Section 308 Persons Deemed Owners..................................... 29
Section 309 Cancellation.............................................. 30
Section 310 Computation of Interest................................... 30
ARTICLE IV
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
Section 401 Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture................... 30
Section 402 Application of Trust Money................................ 32
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ARTICLE V
REMEDIES
Section 501 Events of Default......................................... 32
Section 502 Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment........ 33
Section 503 Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by
Trustee.................................................. 34
Section 504 Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.......................... 35
Section 505 Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of
Securities or Coupons.................................... 35
Section 506 Application of Money Collected............................ 35
Section 507 Limitation on Suits....................................... 37
Section 508 Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal,
Premium and Interest..................................... 37
Section 509 Restoration of Rights and Remedies........................ 37
Section 510 Rights and Remedies Cumulative............................ 38
Section 511 Delay or Omission Not Waiver.............................. 38
Section 512 Control by Holders of Securities.......................... 38
Section 513 Waiver of Past Defaults................................... 38
Section 514 Undertaking for Costs..................................... 39
Section 515 Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws.......................... 39
ARTICLE VI
THE TRUSTEE
Section 601 Certain Duties and Responsibilities....................... 39
Section 602 Notice of Defaults........................................ 39
Section 603 Certain Rights of Trustee................................. 40
Section 604 Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities.... 41
Section 605 May Hold Securities....................................... 41
Section 606 Money Held in Trust....................................... 41
Section 607 Compensation and Reimbursement............................ 41
Section 608 Disqualification; Conflicting Interests................... 42
Section 609 Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility................... 42
Section 610 Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor......... 42
Section 611 Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.................... 44
Section 612 Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to
Business................................................. 45
Section 613 Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company......... 45
Section 614 Appointment of Authenticating Agent....................... 45
ARTICLE VII
HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY
Section 701 Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders. 47
Section 702 Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders.... 47
Section 703 Reports by Trustee........................................ 48
Section 704 Reports by Company........................................ 48
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ARTICLE VIII
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE
Section 801 Company May Consolidate, etc., Only on Certain Terms...... 48
Section 802 Successor Substituted..................................... 49
ARTICLE IX
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
Section 901 Supplemental Indentures without Consent of Holders........ 49
Section 902 Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders........... 50
Section 903 Execution of Supplemental Indentures...................... 51
Section 904 Effect of Supplemental Indentures......................... 51
Section 905 Conformity with Trust Indenture Act....................... 52
Section 906 Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures........ 52
Section 907 Subordinated Unimpaired................................... 52
ARTICLE X
COVENANTS
Section 1001 Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest................ 52
Section 1002 Corporate Existence and Maintenance of Office or Agency... 52
Section 1003 Money for Securities Payments to be Held in Trust......... 54
Section 1004 Additional Amounts........................................ 55
Section 1005 Purchase of Securities by Company or Subsidiary........... 56
Section 1006 Appointment to Fill Vacancies in Trustee's Office......... 56
Section 1007 Statement by Officer as to Default........................ 56
Section 1008 Waiver of Certain Covenants............................... 56
ARTICLE XI
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
Section 1101 Applicability of Article.................................. 57
Section 1102 Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee..................... 57
Section 1103 Selection of Securities to be Redeemed.................... 57
Section 1104 Notice of Redemption...................................... 58
Section 1105 Deposit of Redemption Price............................... 59
Section 1106 Securities Payable on Redemption Date..................... 59
Section 1107 Securities Redeemed in Part............................... 60
ARTICLE XII
SINKING FUNDS
Section 1201 Applicability of Article.................................. 60
Section 1202 Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities..... 60
Section 1203 Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund................. 61
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ARTICLE XIII
DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE
Section 1301 Company's Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant
Defeasance............................................... 61
Section 1302 Defeasance and Discharge.................................. 61
Section 1303 Covenant Defeasance....................................... 61
Section 1304 Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance........... 62
Section 1305 Deposited Money and U.S. Government Obligations to be
Held in Trust; Other Miscellaneous Provisions............ 63
Section 1306 Reinstatement............................................. 64
ARTICLE XIV
MEETINGS OF HOLDERS OF BEARER SECURITIES
Section 1401 Purposes for Which Meetings May be Called................. 64
Section 1402 Call, Notice and Place of Meetings........................ 64
Section 1403 Persons Entitled to Vote at Meetings...................... 65
Section 1404 Quorum; Action............................................ 65
Section 1405 Determination of Voting Rights; Conduct and Adjournment
of Meetings.............................................. 66
Section 1406 Counting Votes and Recording Action of Meetings........... 67
ARTICLE XV
SUBORDINATION
Section 1501 Securities Subordinated to Senior Indebtedness............ 67
Section 1502 Reliance on Certificate of Liquidating Agent; Further
Evidence as to Ownership of Senior Indebtedness.......... 70
Section 1503 Application by Trustee of Assets Deposited with It........ 70
Section 1504 Disputes with Holders of Certain Senior Indebtedness...... 70
Section 1505 Trustee Not Charged with Knowledge of Prohibition......... 71
Section 1506 Trustee to Effectuate Subordination....................... 72
Section 1507 Rights of Trustee as Holder of Senior Indebtedness........ 72
Section 1508 Article Applicable to Paying Agents....................... 72
Section 1509 Subordination Rights Not Impaired by Acts or Omissions
of the Company or Holders of Senior Indebtedness......... 72
Section 1510 Trustee Not Fiduciary for Holders of Senior Indebtedness.. 73
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THIS SUBORDINATED DEBT INDENTURE, dated as of _______, ____, between
Dynegy Inc., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the
State of Illinois (herein called the "Company"), having its principal office at
0000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxx 00000, and Bank One Trust
Company, National Association, a national banking association, as trustee
(herein called the "Trustee").
RECITALS OF THE COMPANY
The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this
Indenture to provide for the issuance from time to time of its subordinated
debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness (herein called the
"Securities"), to be issued in one or more series as provided in this Indenture.
This Indenture is subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act
of 1939, as amended, that are required to be part of this Indenture and shall,
to the extent applicable, be governed by such provisions.
All things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement of the
Company, in accordance with its terms, have been done.
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the
Securities by the Holders thereof, it is mutually agreed, for the equal and
proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Securities or of a series thereof,
as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS
OF GENERAL APPLICATION
Section 101 Definitions.
For all purposes of this Indenture, except as otherwise expressly
provided or unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) the terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned
to them in this Article and include the plural as well as the singular;
(2) all other terms used herein which are defined in the Trust
Indenture Act, either directly or by reference therein, have the meanings
assigned to them therein;
(3) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the
meanings assigned to them in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles in the United States of America, and, except as otherwise herein
expressly provided, the term "generally accepted accounting principles" with
respect to any computation required or permitted hereunder shall mean such
accounting principles as are generally accepted in the United States of America
at the date of this Indenture; and
(4) the words "herein," "hereof" and "hereunder" and other words
of similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular
Article, Section or other subdivision, and the words "date of this Indenture"
and "date hereof" and other words of similar import refer to the effective date
of the original execution and delivery of this Indenture, viz. ________________.
"Act," when used with respect to any Holder of a Security, has the
meaning specified in Section 104.
"Affiliate" of any specified Person means any other Person directly or
indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common
control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition
"control," when used with respect to any specified Person, means the power to
direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly,
whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise;
and the terms "controlling" and "controlled" have meanings correlative to the
foregoing.
"Authenticating Agent" means any Person authorized by the Trustee
pursuant to Section 614 to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate
Securities of one or more series.
"Authorized Newspaper" means a newspaper, in the English language or in
an official language of the country of publication, customarily published on
each Business Day, whether or not published on Saturdays, Sundays or holidays,
and of general circulation in the place in connection with which the term is
used or in the financial community of such place. Where successive publications
are required to be made in Authorized Newspapers, the successive publications
may be made in the same or in different newspapers in the same city meeting the
foregoing requirements and in each case on any Business Day.
"Bearer Security" means any Security in the form established pursuant
to Section 201 which is payable to bearer, including, without limitation, a
Security in temporary or permanent global form.
"Board of Directors" means, with respect to the Company, either the
board of directors of the Company or any duly authorized committee of that
board, and, with respect to any Subsidiary of the Company, either the board of
directors of such Subsidiary or any duly authorized committee of that board or,
if the Subsidiary is not a corporation, the group of Persons having authority to
manage the Subsidiary or any duly authorized committee of that group.
"Board Resolution" means a copy of a resolution certified by the
Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company or a Subsidiary of the
Company to have been duly adopted by the Board of Directors of the Company or
such Subsidiary, as the case may be, and to be in full force and effect on the
date of such certification, and delivered to the Trustee.
"Book-Entry Security" means a Security bearing the legend specified in
Section 204, evidencing all or part of a series of Securities, issued to the
Depository for such series or its nominee, and registered in the name of such
Depository or nominee. Book-Entry Securities shall not be deemed to be
Securities in global form for purposes of Sections 201 and 203 and Article Three
of this Indenture.
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"Business Day," when used with respect to any Place of Payment or any
other particular location referred to in this Indenture or in the Securities,
means each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday which is not a day on
which banking institutions in that Place of Payment or other location are
authorized or obligated by law or executive order to close.
"Capitalized Lease Obligation" means rental obligations under a lease
that are required to be capitalized for financial reporting purposes in
accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and the amount of
Indebtedness represented by such obligations shall be the capitalized amount of
such obligations, as determined in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles.
"Capital Stock" means, with respect to any corporation, any and all
shares, interests, rights to purchase (other than convertible or exchangeable
Indebtedness), warrants, options, participations or other equivalents of or
interests (however designated) in stock issued by that corporation.
"Certification Date" means with respect to Securities of any series
(i), if Bearer Securities of such series are not to be initially represented by
a temporary global Security, the date of delivery of the definitive Bearer
Security and (ii), if Bearer Securities of such series are initially represented
by a temporary global Security, the earlier of (A) the Exchange Date with
respect to Securities of such series and (B), if the first Interest Payment Date
with respect to Securities of such series is prior to such Exchange Date, such
Interest Payment Date.
"Clearstream" means Clearstream Banking, societe anonyme, or its
successors.
"Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from time
to time constituted, created under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended, or, if at any time after the execution of this instrument such
Commission is not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under
the Trust Indenture Act, then the body performing such duties at such time.
"Common Depositary" has the meaning specified in Section 304.
"Common Stock" means the Common Stock, no par value, of the Company as
the same exists at the date of execution and delivery of this Indenture or other
Capital Stock of the Company into which such Common Stock is converted,
reclassified or changed from time to time.
"Company" means the Person named as the "Company" in the first
paragraph of this instrument until a successor Person shall have become such
pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter
"Company" shall mean such successor Person.
"Company Request" or "Company Order" means a written request or order
signed in the name of the Company by its Chairman of the Board, its President or
a Vice President, and by its Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, its Secretary or
an Assistant Secretary, and delivered to the Trustee.
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"Conversion Agent" means any Person authorized by the Company to
convert any Securities on behalf of the Company.
"Corporate Trust Office" means the principal office of the Trustee in
Chicago, Illinois, at which at any particular time its corporate trust business
shall be administered.
The term "corporation" means a corporation, association, limited
liability company, joint-stock company, business trust or similar organization.
The term "coupon" means any interest coupon appertaining to a Bearer
Security.
"Defaulted Interest" has the meaning specified in Section 307.
"Depository" means, with respect to the Securities of any series
issuable or issued in whole or in part in the form of one or more Book-Entry
Securities, the clearing agency registered under the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended, specified for that purpose as contemplated by Section 301.
"Disqualified Capital Stock" means (a) except as set forth in (b), with
respect to any Person, Capital Stock of such Person that, by its terms or by the
terms of any security into which it is convertible, exercisable or exchangeable,
is, or upon the happening of an event or the passage of time would be, required
to be redeemed or repurchased (including at the option of the holder thereof) by
such Person or any of its Subsidiaries, in whole or in part, on or prior to the
latest Stated Maturity of the principal of any Outstanding Securities and (b)
with respect to any Subsidiary of such Person (including with respect to any
Subsidiary of the Company), any Capital Stock other than any common stock with
no preference, privileges, or redemption or repayment provisions.
"Dollar" or "$" means a dollar or other equivalent unit in such coin or
currency of the United States of America as at the time shall be legal tender
for the payment of public and private debts.
"Euro-clear" means the operator of the Euro-clear System.
"Event of Default" has the meaning specified in Section 501.
"Exchange Date" has the meaning specified in Section 304.
"Funded Indebtedness" means all outstanding indebtedness (including
indebtedness incurred under any revolving credit, letter of credit or working
capital facility) that matures by its terms, or that is renewable at the option
of any obligor thereon to a date, more than one year after the date on which
such indebtedness is originally incurred.
"Holder," when used with respect to any Security, means in the case of
a Registered Security the Person in whose name the Security is registered in the
Security Register and in the case of a Bearer Security the bearer thereof and,
when used with respect to any coupon, means the bearer thereof.
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"Indebtedness" means, with respect to any Person, without duplication,
(a) all liabilities and obligations, contingent or otherwise, of any such
Person, (i) in respect of borrowed money (whether or not the recourse of the
lender is to the whole of the assets of such Person or only to a portion
thereof), (ii) evidenced by bonds, notes, debentures or similar instruments,
(iii) representing the balance deferred and unpaid of the purchase price of any
property or services, except such as would constitute trade payables to trade
creditors in the ordinary course of business, (iv) evidenced by bankers'
acceptances or similar instruments issued or accepted by banks, (v) for the
payment of money relating to a Capitalized Lease Obligation, or (vi) evidenced
by a letter of credit or a reimbursement obligation of such Person with respect
to any letter of credit; (b) all net obligations of such Person under Interest
Swap and Hedging Obligations; (c) all liabilities of others of the kind
described in the preceding clause (a) or (b) that such Person has guaranteed or
that is otherwise its legal liability and all obligations to purchase, redeem or
acquire any Capital Stock; and (d) any and all deferrals, renewals, extensions,
refinancings, refundings (whether direct or indirect) of any liability of the
kind described in any of the preceding clause (a), (b) or (c), or this clause
(d), whether or not between or among the same parties.
"Indenture" means this instrument as originally executed or as it may
from time to time be (i) supplemented or amended by one or more indentures
supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof or
(ii) restated to cumulate the terms of such supplemental indentures, and shall
include the terms of a particular series of Securities established as
contemplated by Section 301 and the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act that
are deemed to be a part of and govern this instrument.
The term "interest," when used with respect to an Original Issue
Discount Security which by its terms bears interest only after Maturity, means
interest payable after Maturity.
"Interest Payment Date," when used with respect to any Security, means
the Stated Maturity of an installment of interest on such Security.
"Interest Swap and Hedging Obligation" means any obligation of any
Person pursuant to any interest rate swap agreement, interest rate cap
agreement, interest rate collar agreement, interest rate exchange agreement,
currency exchange agreement or any other agreement or arrangement designed to
protect against fluctuations in interest rates or currency values, including,
without limitation, any arrangement whereby, directly or indirectly, such Person
is entitled to receive from time to time periodic payments calculated by
applying either a fixed or floating rate of interest on a stated notional amount
in exchange for periodic payments made by such Person calculated by applying a
fixed or floating rate of interest on the same notional amount.
"Issue Date" means the Date on which Securities are originally issued
under this Indenture.
"Junior Security" of any Person means any Qualified Capital Stock and
any Indebtedness of such Person that is subordinated in right of payment to the
Securities of each series then Outstanding and has no scheduled installment of
principal due, by redemption, sinking fund
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payment or otherwise, on or prior to the latest Stated Maturity of the principal
of any Outstanding Securities.
"Maturity," when used with respect to any Security, means the date on
which the principal of such Security or an installment of principal becomes due
and payable as therein or herein provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by
declaration of acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise.
"Net Tangible Assets" means the total amount of assets appearing on a
consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its Subsidiaries less, without
duplication: (a) total current liabilities (excluding current maturities of
long-term debt and preferred stock); (b) all reserves for depreciation and other
asset valuation reserves but excluding reserves for deferred federal and state
income taxes; (c) all intangible assets such as goodwill, trademarks, trade
names, patents and unamortized debt discount and expense carried as an asset;
and (d) all appropriate adjustments on account of minority interests of other
Persons holding common stock in any Subsidiary.
"Officers' Certificate" means a certificate complying with the
provisions of Section 102 signed by the Chairman of the Board, the President or
a Vice President, and by the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or
an Assistant Secretary, of the Company, and delivered to the Trustee.
"Opinion of Counsel" means a written opinion of counsel, who may be an
employee of or counsel for the Company, and who shall be reasonably acceptable
to the Trustee.
"Original Issue Discount Security" means any Security which is issued
at a price lower than the principal amount payable upon the Stated Maturity
thereof and which provides for an amount less than the principal amount thereof
to be due and payable upon redemption thereof or upon a declaration of
acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502.
"Outstanding," when used with respect to Securities, means, as of the
date of determination, all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered
under this Indenture, except:
(i) Securities theretofore cancelled by the
Trustee or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation;
(ii) Securities for whose payment or redemption
money in the necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the Trustee or
any Paying Agent (other than the Company) in trust or set aside and segregated
in trust by the Company (if the Company shall act as its own Paying Agent) for
the Holders of such Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto, provided
that, if such Securities are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been
duly given pursuant to this Indenture or provision therefor satisfactory to the
Trustee has been made;
(iii) Securities which have been paid pursuant to
Section 306 or in exchange for or in lieu of which other Securities have been
authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture, other than any such
Securities in respect of which there shall have
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been presented to the Trustee proof satisfactory to it that such Securities are
held by a bona fide purchaser in whose hands such Securities are valid
obligations of the Company; and
(iv) Securities converted into Common Stock
pursuant hereto and, for purposes of selection for redemption, Securities not
deemed Outstanding pursuant to Section 1103;
provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities have given any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder or whether a
quorum is present at a meeting of Holders of Securities (a) the principal amount
of an Original Issue Discount Security that shall be deemed to be Outstanding
shall be the amount of the principal thereof that would be due and payable as of
the date of such determination upon acceleration of the Maturity thereof
pursuant to Section 502, (b) the principal amount of a Security denominated in a
foreign currency or currencies, including composite currencies, shall be the
Dollar equivalent, determined on the date of original issuance of such Security
in the manner provided as contemplated by Section 301, of the principal amount
(or, in the case of an Original Issue Discount Security, the Dollar equivalent
on the date of original issuance of such Security of the amount determined as
provided in (i) above) of such Security, and (c) Securities owned by the Company
or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company, or of
such other obligor shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except
that, in determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any
such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, or
upon any such determination as to the presence of a quorum, only Securities
which the Trustee knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded. Securities so
owned which have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if
the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee's right
so to act with respect to such Securities and that the pledgee is not the
Company, or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the
Company or of such other obligor.
"Paying Agent" means any Person authorized by the Company to pay the
principal of or any premium or interest on any Securities on behalf of the
Company.
"Payment Blockage Period" has the meaning specified in Section 1501.
"Payment Default" has the meaning specified in Section 1501.
"Payment Notice" has the meaning specified in Section 1501.
"Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture,
limited liability company, trust, unincorporated organization or government or
any agency or political subdivision thereof.
"Place of Payment," when used with respect to the Securities of any
series, means the place or places as specified in accordance with Section 301
where, subject to the provisions of Section 1002, the principal of and any
premium and interest on the Securities of that series are payable.
"Predecessor Security" of any particular Security means every previous
Security evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such
particular Security; and for
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the purposes of this definition, any Security authenticated and delivered under
Section 306 in exchange for or in lieu of a mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen
Security or a Security to which a mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen coupon
appertains shall be deemed to evidence the same debt as the mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Security or the Security to which the mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen coupon appertains, as the case may be.
"Qualified Capital Stock" means any Capital Stock of the Company that
is not Disqualified Capital Stock.
"Redemption Date," when used with respect to any Security to be
redeemed, means the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this
Indenture.
"Redemption Price," when used with respect to any Security to be
redeemed, means the price at which it is to be redeemed pursuant to this
Indenture.
"Registered Security" means any Security in the form established
pursuant to Section 201 which is registered in the Security Register.
"Regular Record Date" for the interest payable on any Interest Payment
Date on the Registered Securities of any series means the date specified for
that purpose as contemplated by Section 301.
"Responsible Officer," when used with respect to the Trustee, shall
mean any officer in the corporate trust department (or any successor group) of
the Trustee, including any Vice President, any Trust Officer, or any other
officer of the Trustee customarily performing functions similar to those
performed by the persons who at the time shall be such officers, respectively,
or to whom any corporate trust matter is referred at the Corporate Trust Office
because of his or her knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject.
"Securities" has the meaning stated in the first recital of this
Indenture and more particularly means any Securities authenticated and delivered
under this Indenture.
"Security Register" and "Security Registrar" have the respective
meanings specified in Section 305.
"Senior Indebtedness" means Indebtedness of the Company, whether
outstanding on the date of this Indenture or thereafter created, incurred,
assumed, guaranteed or in effect guaranteed by the Company, unless the
instrument creating or evidencing such Indebtedness provides that such
Indebtedness is not senior or superior, in right of payment, to the Securities
or to other Indebtedness which is pari passu with, or subordinated to, the
Securities; provided, however, that in no event shall Senior Indebtedness
include (a) Indebtedness of the Company owed or owing to any Subsidiary of the
Company or any officer, director or employee of the Company or any Subsidiary of
the Company except in respect of deferred compensation in an amount not to
exceed $10,000,000 at any one time, (b) Indebtedness to trade creditors, (c) any
liability for taxes owed or owing by the Company and (d) the Securities.
"Special Record Date" for the payment of any Defaulted Interest on the
Registered Securities of any series means a date fixed by the Trustee pursuant
to Section 307.
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"Stated Maturity," when used with respect to any Security or any
installment of principal thereof or interest thereon, means the date specified
in such Security or a coupon representing such installment of interest as the
fixed date on which the principal of such Security or such installment of
principal or interest is due and payable.
"Subsidiary" of a Person means (i) any corporation more than 50% of the
outstanding securities having ordinary voting power of which is owned, directly
or indirectly, by such Person or by one or more of its Subsidiaries, or by such
Person and one or more of its Subsidiaries, or (ii) any partnership or similar
business organization more than 50% of the ownership interests having ordinary
voting power of which shall at the time be so owned. For the purposes of this
definition, "securities having ordinary voting power" means securities or other
equity interests which ordinarily have voting power for the election of
directors, or persons having management power with respect to the Person,
whether at all times or only so long as no senior class of securities has such
voting power by reason of any contingency.
"Trustee" means the Person named as the "Trustee" in the first
paragraph of this Indenture until a successor Trustee shall have become such
pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter
"Trustee" shall mean or include each Person who is then a Trustee hereunder, and
if at any time there is more than one such Person, "Trustee" as used with
respect to the Securities of any series shall mean the Trustee with respect to
Securities of that series.
"Trust Indenture Act" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in force
at the date as of which this Indenture was executed, except as provided in
Section 905; provided, however, that in the event the Trust Indenture Act of
1939 is amended after such date, "Trust Indenture Act" means, to the extent
required by any such amendment, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as so amended.
"United States" means the United States of America (including the
States and the District of Columbia), its territories, its possessions and other
areas subject to its jurisdiction.
"United States Alien" means any Person who, for United States Federal
income tax purposes, is a foreign corporation, a non-resident alien individual,
a non- resident alien fiduciary of a foreign estate or trust, or a foreign
partnership one or more of the members of which is, for United States Federal
income tax purposes, a foreign corporation, a non-resident alien individual or a
non- resident alien fiduciary of a foreign estate or trust.
"U.S. Government Obligations" has the meaning specified in Section
1304.
"Vice President," when used with respect to the Company or the Trustee,
means any vice president, whether or not designated by a number or a word or
words added before or after the title "vice president."
Section 102 Compliance Certificates and Opinions.
Upon any application or request by the Company to the Trustee to take
any action under any provision of this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to
the Trustee such certificates and opinions as may be required under the Trust
Indenture Act. Each such certificate or opinion shall
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be given in the form of an Officers' Certificate, if to be given by an officer
of the Company, or an Opinion of Counsel, if to be given by counsel, and shall
comply with the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act and any other
requirements set forth in this Indenture.
Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a
condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture shall include:
(1) a statement that each Person signing such certificate or
opinion has read such covenant or condition and the definitions herein relating
thereto;
(2) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the
examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in
such certificate or opinion are based;
(3) a statement that, in the opinion of each such Person, such
Person has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable such
Person to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or
condition has been complied with; and
(4) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such Person,
such condition or covenant has been complied with.
Section 103 Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee.
In any case where several matters are required to be certified by, or
covered by an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all
such matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such
Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one
such Person may certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one
or more other such Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify
or give an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents.
Any certificate or opinion of an officer of the Company may be based,
insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or
representations by, counsel, unless such officer knows, or in the exercise of
reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations
with respect to the matters upon which his certificate or opinion is based are
erroneous. Any such certificate or Opinion of Counsel may be based, insofar as
it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or
representations by, an officer or officers of the Company stating that the
information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the
Company, unless such counsel knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should
know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to such
matters are erroneous.
Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more
applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other
instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated and
form one instrument.
Section 104 Acts of Holders.
(a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by
Holders may be embodied in and
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evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by
such Holders in person or by an agent duly appointed in writing. If Securities
of a series are issuable as Bearer Securities, any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided by
this Indenture to be given or taken by Holders of such series may,
alternatively, be embodied in and evidenced by the record of Holders of
Securities of such series voting in favor thereof, either in person or by
proxies duly appointed in writing, at any meeting of Holders of Securities of
such series duly called and held in accordance with the provisions of Article
Fourteen, or a combination of such instruments and any such record. Except as
herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall become effective when
such instrument or instruments or record or both are delivered to the Trustee
and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the Company. Such instrument or
instruments and any such record (and the action embodied therein and evidenced
thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the "Act" of the Holders signing
such instrument or instruments and so voting at any such meeting. Proof of
execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent or
proxy or of the holding by any Person of a Security, shall be sufficient for any
purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Section 601) conclusive in favor of
the Trustee and the Company, if made in the manner provided in this Section. The
record of any meeting of Holders of Securities shall be proved in the manner
provided in Section 1406.
(b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such
instrument or writing may be proved by the affidavit of a witness of such
execution or by a certificate of a notary public or other officer authorized by
law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the individual signing
such instrument or writing acknowledged to him the execution thereof. Where such
execution is by a signer acting in a capacity other than his individual
capacity, such certificate or affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof
of his authority. The fact and date of the execution of any such instrument or
writing, or the authority of the Person executing the same, may also be proved
in any other manner which the Trustee deems sufficient.
(c) The Company may, in the circumstances permitted by the Trust
Indenture Act, fix any day as the record date for the purpose of determining the
Holders of Registered Securities of any series entitled to give or take any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other
action, or to vote on any action, authorized or permitted to be given or taken
by Holders of Securities of such series. If not set by the Company prior to the
first solicitation of a Holder of Securities of such series made by any Person
in respect of any such action, or, in the case of any such vote, prior to such
vote, the record date for any such action or vote shall be the 30th day (or, if
later, the date of the most recent list of Holders required to be provided
pursuant to Section 701) prior to such first solicitation or vote, as the case
may be. With regard to any record date for action to be taken by the Holders of
one or more series of Securities, only the Holders of Securities of such series
on such date (or their duly designated proxies) shall be entitled to give or
take, or vote on, the relevant action.
(d) The principal amount and serial numbers of Registered Securities
held by any Person, and the date of holding the same, shall be proved by the
Security Register.
(e) The principal amount and serial numbers of Bearer Securities held
by any Person, and the date of holding the same, may be proved by the production
of such Bearer Securities or by a certificate executed, as depositary, by any
trust company, bank, banker or other depositary,
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wherever situated, if such certificate shall be deemed by the Trustee to be
satisfactory, showing that at the date therein mentioned such Person had on
deposit with such depositary, or exhibited to it, the Bearer Securities therein
described; or such facts may be proved by the certificate or affidavit of the
Person holding such Bearer Securities, if such certificate or affidavit is
deemed by the Trustee to be satisfactory. The Trustee and the Company may assume
that such ownership of any Bearer Security continues until (1) another
certificate or affidavit bearing a later date issued in respect of the same
Bearer Security is produced, or (2) such Bearer Security is produced to the
Trustee by some other Person, or (3) such Bearer Security is surrendered in
exchange for a Registered Security, or (4) such Bearer Security is no longer
Outstanding. The principal amount and serial numbers of Bearer Securities held
by any Person, and the date of holding the same, may also be proved in any other
manner which the Trustee deems sufficient.
(f) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other Act of the Holder of any Security shall bind every future Holder
of the same Security and the Holder of every Security issued upon the
registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in
respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Trustee or the
Company in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon
such Security. Any Holder or subsequent Holder may revoke the request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act as to his
Security or portion of his Security; provided, however, that such revocation
shall be effective only if the Trustee receives notice of such revocation before
the date the Act becomes effective.
(g) Without limiting the foregoing, a Holder entitled hereunder to give
or take any action hereunder with regard to any particular Security may do so
with regard to all or any part of the principal amount of such Security or by
one or more duly appointed agents each of which may do so pursuant to such
appointment with regard to all or any different part of such principal amount.
Section 105 Notices, etc., to Trustee and Company.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver
or Act of Holders or other document provided or permitted by this Indenture to
be made upon, given or furnished to, or filed with,
(1) the Trustee by any Holder or by the Company shall be
sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed in
writing to or with the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office, Attention:
Corporate Trust Department, or
(2) the Company by the Trustee or by any Holder shall be
sufficient for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein expressly
provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to the Company
addressed to it at the address of its principal office specified in the first
paragraph of this Indenture, to the attention of its Treasurer, or at any other
address previously furnished in writing to the Trustee by the Company; and in
the case of Bearer Securities, at the address of an office or agency located
outside the United States maintained by the Company in accordance with Section
1002.
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Section 106 Notice to Holders of Securities; Waiver.
Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, where this Indenture
provides for notice to Holders of Securities of any event,
(1) such notice shall be sufficiently given to Holders of
Registered Securities if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to
each Holder of a Registered Security affected by such event, at the address of
such Holder as it appears in the Security Register, not later than the latest
date, and not earlier than the earliest date, prescribed for the giving of such
notice; and
(2) such notice shall be sufficiently given to Holders of Bearer
Securities if published in an Authorized Newspaper in The City of New York and
in such other city or cities as may be specified in such Securities on a
Business Day at least twice, the first such publication to be not earlier than
the earliest date, and not later than the latest date, prescribed for the giving
of such notice.
In case by reason of the suspension of regular mail service or by
reason of any other cause it shall be impracticable to give such notice to
Holders of Registered Securities by mail, then such notification as shall be
made with the approval of the Trustee shall constitute sufficient notice to such
Holders for every purpose hereunder. In any case where notice to Holders of
Registered Securities is given by mail, neither the failure to mail such notice,
nor any defect in any notice so mailed, to any particular Holder of a Registered
Security shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other
Holders of Registered Securities or the sufficiency of any notice to Holders of
Bearer Securities given as provided herein.
In case by the reason of the suspension of publication of any
Authorized Newspaper or Authorized Newspapers or by reason of any other cause it
shall be impracticable to publish any notice to Holders of Bearer Securities as
provided above, then such notification to Holders of Bearer Securities as shall
be given with the approval of the Trustee shall constitute sufficient notice to
such Holders for every purpose hereunder. Neither the failure to give notice by
publication to Holders of Bearer Securities as provided above, nor any defect in
any notice so published, shall affect the sufficiency of any notice to Holders
of Registered Securities given as provided herein.
Where this Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice may
be waived in writing by the Person entitled to receive such notice, either
before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of such
notice. Waivers of notice by Holders of Securities shall be filed with the
Trustee, but such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of
any action taken in reliance upon such waiver.
Section 107 Language of Notices, etc.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or
waiver required or permitted under this Indenture shall be in the English
language, except that any published notice may be in an official language of the
country of publication.
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Section 108 Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.
If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with a provision
of the Trust Indenture Act that is required under the Trust Indenture Act to be
a part of and govern this Indenture or any other provision of this Indenture
that is required to be in this Indenture by the Trust Indenture Act, such
required provision shall control. If any provision of this Indenture modifies or
excludes any provision of the Trust Indenture Act that may be so modified or
excluded, the latter provision shall be deemed to apply to this Indenture as so
modified or to be excluded, as the case may be.
Section 109 Effect of Headings and Table of Contents.
The Article and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are
for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.
Section 110 Successors and Assigns.
All covenants and agreements in this Indenture by the Company shall
bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.
Section 111 Separability Clause.
In case any provision in this Indenture or the Securities or coupons
shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and
enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or
impaired thereby.
Section 112 Benefits of Indenture.
Nothing in this Indenture or the Securities or coupons, express or
implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto, their
successors hereunder, the holders of Senior Indebtedness and the Holders of
Securities and coupons, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or
claim under this Indenture.
Section 113 Governing Law.
This Indenture and the Securities and coupons shall be governed by and
construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.
Section 114 Legal Holidays.
In any case where any Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated
Maturity of any Security or the last day for conversion of any Security, if
applicable, shall not be a Business Day at any Place of Payment, then
(notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or of the Securities or
coupons other than a provision in the Securities of any series which
specifically states that such provision shall apply in lieu of this Section)
payment of interest or principal (and premium, if any) need not be made at such
Place of Payment on such date, and such conversion need not be made at such
Place of Payment on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business
Day at such Place of Payment with the same force and effect as if made on
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the Interest Payment Date or Redemption Date, or at the Stated Maturity, or on
the last date for conversion, as the case may be, provided that no interest
shall accrue on the amount so payable for the period from and after such date.
ARTICLE II
SECURITY FORMS
Section 201 Forms Generally.
The Registered Securities, if any, of each series and the Bearer
Securities, if any, of each series and related coupons shall be in substantially
the form (including temporary or permanent global form) as shall be established
by or pursuant to a Board Resolution of the Company or in one or more indentures
supplemental hereto, in each case with such appropriate insertions, omissions,
substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by this
Indenture, and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification
and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may be required to comply
with law, or with the rules of any securities exchange or to conform to general
usage, all as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the officers
executing such Securities or coupons, as evidenced by their execution of the
Securities or coupons. If temporary Securities of any series are issued in
global form as permitted by Section 304, the form thereof shall be established
as provided in the preceding sentence. A copy of the Board Resolution of the
Company establishing the forms of Securities or coupons of any series (or any
such temporary global Security) shall be certified by the Secretary or an
Assistant Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to
the delivery of the Company Order contemplated by Section 303 for the
authentication and delivery of such Securities (or any such temporary global
Security) or coupons.
Unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301, Securities in bearer
form shall have interest coupons attached.
The definitive Securities and coupons, if any, shall be printed,
lithographed or engraved on steel engraved borders or may be produced in any
other manner, all as determined by the officers executing such Securities as
evidenced by their execution of such Securities or coupons.
Section 202 Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication.
The Trustee's certificate of authentication shall be in substantially
the following form:
"This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein
referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
BANK ONE TRUST COMPANY,
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Trustee
By:______________________________________
Authorized Officer."
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Section 203 Securities in Global Form.
If Securities of a series are issuable in global form, as contemplated
by Section 301, then, notwithstanding clause (10) of Section 301 and the
provisions of Section 302, any such Security shall represent such of the
Outstanding Securities of such series as shall be specified therein and may
provide that it shall represent the aggregate amount of Outstanding Securities
from time to time endorsed thereon and that the aggregate amount of Outstanding
Securities represented thereby may be reduced to reflect exchanges. Any
endorsement of a Security in global form to reflect the amount, or any increase
or decrease in the amount, of Outstanding Securities represented thereby shall
be made by the Trustee in such manner and upon instructions given by such Person
or Persons as shall be specified therein or in the Company Order to be delivered
to the Trustee pursuant to Section 303 or Section 304. Subject to the provisions
of Section 303 and, if applicable, Section 304, the Trustee shall deliver and
redeliver any Security in permanent global form in the manner and upon
instructions given by the Person or Persons specified therein or in the
applicable Company Order. If a Company Order pursuant to Section 303 or 304 has
been, or simultaneously is, delivered, any instructions by the Company with
respect to endorsement or delivery or redelivery of a Security in global form
shall be in writing but need not comply with Section 102 and need not be
accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel.
The provisions of the last sentence of Section 303 shall apply to any
Security represented by a Security in global form if such Security was never
issued and sold by the Company and the Company delivers to the Trustee the
Security in global form together with written instructions (which need not
comply with Section 102 and need not be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel)
with regard to the reduction in the principal amount of Securities represented
thereby, together with the written statement contemplated by the last sentence
of Section 303.
Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 201 and 307, unless
otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301, payment of principal of and
any premium and interest on any Security in permanent global form shall be made
to the Person or Persons specified therein.
Section 204 Form of Legend for Book-Entry Securities.
Any Book-Entry Security authenticated and delivered hereunder shall
bear a legend in substantially the following form:
"This Security is a Book-Entry Security within the meaning of the
Indenture hereinafter referred to and is registered in the name of a Depository
or a nominee of a Depository. This Security is exchangeable for Securities
registered in the name of a Person other than the Depository or its nominee only
in the limited circumstances described in the Indenture, and no transfer of this
Security (other than a transfer of this Security as a whole by the Depository to
a nominee of the Depository or by a nominee of the Depository to the Depository
or another nominee of the Depository) may be registered except in such limited
circumstances."
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ARTICLE III
THE SECURITIES
Section 301 Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series.
The aggregate principal amount of Securities which may be authenticated
and delivered under this Indenture is unlimited.
The Securities may be issued in one or more series, and each such
series shall rank equally and pari passu with each other series, but all
Securities issued hereunder shall be subordinate and junior in right of payment,
to the extent and in the manner set forth in Article Fifteen, to all Senior
Indebtedness. There shall be established in or pursuant to a Board Resolution of
the Company and, subject to Section 303, set forth, or determined in the manner
provided, in an Officers' Certificate, or established in one or more indentures
supplemental hereto, prior to the issuance of Securities of any series:
(1) the title of the Securities of the series (which shall
distinguish the Securities of the series from all other Securities);
(2) any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the
Securities of the series which may be authenticated and delivered under this
Indenture (except for Securities authenticated and delivered upon registration
of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Securities of the
series pursuant to Section 304, 305, 306, 906 or 1107 and except for any
Securities which, pursuant to Section 303, are deemed never to have been
authenticated and delivered hereunder);
(3) whether Securities of the series are to be issuable as
Registered Securities, Bearer Securities or both, whether any Securities of the
series are to be issuable initially in temporary global form and whether any
Securities of the series are to be issuable in permanent global form, as Book
Entry Securities, or otherwise, with or without coupons and, if so, whether
beneficial owners of interests in any such permanent global Security may
exchange such interests for Securities of such series and of like tenor of any
authorized form and denomination and the circumstances under which any such
exchanges may occur, if other than in the manner provided in Section 305;
(4) the Person to whom any interest on any Registered Security of
the series shall be payable, if other than the Person in whose name that
Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of
business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, the manner in which, or
the Person to whom, any interest on any Bearer Security of the series shall be
payable, if otherwise than upon presentation and surrender of the coupons
appertaining thereto as they severally mature and the extent to which, or the
manner in which, any interest payable on a temporary global Security on an
Interest Payment Date will be paid if other than in the manner provided in
Section 304;
(5) the date or dates on which the principal of (and premium, if
any, on) the Securities of the series is payable or the method of determination
thereof;
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(6) the rate or rates at which the Securities of the series shall
bear interest, if any, or the method by which such rate shall be determined, the
date or dates from which any such interest shall accrue, the Interest Payment
Dates on which any such interest shall be payable, the Regular Record Date for
any interest payable on any Registered Securities on any Interest Payment Date
and whether, and under what circumstances, additional amounts with respect to
such Securities shall be payable as set forth in Section 1004;
(7) the place or places where, subject to the provisions of
Section 1002, the principal of and any premium and interest on Securities of the
series shall be payable, any Registered Securities of the series may be
surrendered for registration of transfer, Securities of the series may be
surrendered for exchange or conversion and notices and demands to or upon the
Company in respect of the Securities of the series and this Indenture may be
served;
(8) the right, if any, of the Company to redeem, purchase or repay
Securities of the series, in whole or in part, at its option and the period or
periods within which, the price or prices (or the method by which such price or
prices shall be determined or both) at which, the form or method of payment
therefor if other than in cash and any terms and conditions upon which and the
manner in which (if different from the provisions of Article Twelve) Securities
of the series may be so redeemed, purchased or repaid, in whole or in part,
pursuant to any sinking fund or otherwise;
(9) the obligation, if any, of the Company to redeem, purchase or
repay Securities of the series in whole or in part pursuant to any mandatory
redemption, sinking fund or analogous provisions or at the option of a Holder
thereof and the period or periods within which the price or prices (or the
method by which such price or prices shall be determined or both) at which, the
form or method of payment therefor if other than in cash and any terms and
conditions upon which and the manner in which (if different from the provisions
of Article Twelve) Securities of the series shall be redeemed, purchased or
repaid, in whole or in part, pursuant to such obligation;
(10) the denominations in which any Registered Securities of the
series shall be issuable, if other than denominations of $1,000 and any integral
multiple thereof, and the denomination or denominations in which any Bearer
Securities of the series shall be issuable, if other than the denomination of
$5,000;
(11) the currency or currencies, including composite currencies, in
which payment of the principal of and any premium and interest on any Securities
of the series shall be payable if other than the currency of the United States
and the manner of determining the equivalent thereof in the currency of the
United States for purposes of the definition of "Outstanding" in Section 101;
(12) if the amount of payments of principal of and any premium or
interest on any Securities of the series may be determined with reference to an
index, the manner in which such amounts shall be determined;
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(13) if other than the principal amount thereof, the portion of the
principal amount of any Securities of the series which shall be payable upon
declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502;
(14) if the principal of and any premium or interest on the
Securities of the series are to be payable, at the election of the Company or a
Holder thereof, in a currency or currencies, including composite currencies,
other than that or those in which the Securities are stated to be payable, the
currency or currencies in which payment of the principal of and any premium and
interest on Securities of such series as to which such election is made shall be
payable, and the periods within which and the terms and conditions upon which
such election is to be made;
(15) whether the Securities of the series shall be issued upon
original issuance in whole or in part in the form of one or more Book-Entry
Securities and, in such case, (a) the Depository with respect to such Book-
Entry Security or Securities and (b) the circumstances under which any such
Book-Entry Security may be exchanged for Securities registered in the name of,
and any transfer of such Book-Entry Security may be registered to, a Person
other than such Depository or its nominee, if other than as set forth in Section
305;
(16) if either or both of the provisions of Section 1302 or 1303
are applicable to the Securities of such series and any additional means of
discharge pursuant to Section 1302 or 1303 and any additional conditions to the
provisions of Section 1302 or 1303;
(17) any other Events of Default or covenants with respect to the
Securities of such series;
(18) any right or obligation of Holders of Securities of such
series to convert or exchange such Securities into or for Common Stock or other
securities or property and the terms and conditions governing such conversion or
exchange;
(19) any subordination provisions with respect to the Securities of
such series in addition to or in lieu of those set forth in Article Fifteen
hereof;
(20) the terms of any repurchase or remarketing rights of third
parties with respect to the Securities of such series; and
(21) any other terms of the series (which terms shall not be
inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture except as permitted by
Section 901(5)).
All Securities of any one series and the coupons appertaining to any
Bearer Securities of such series shall be substantially identical except, in the
case of Registered Securities, as to denomination and except as may otherwise be
provided in or pursuant to the Board Resolution referred to above and (subject
to Section 303) set forth, or determined in the manner provided, in the
Officers' Certificate referred to above or in any such indenture supplemental
hereto.
If any of the terms of the series are established by action taken
pursuant to a Board Resolution, a copy of an appropriate record of such action
shall be certified by the Secretary or
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an Assistant Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior
to the delivery of the Officers' Certificate setting forth the terms of the
series.
Section 302 Denominations.
Unless otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 301 with respect
to any series of Securities, any Registered Securities of a series shall be
issuable in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof and any
Bearer Securities of a series shall be issuable in the denomination of $5,000.
Section 303 Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating.
The Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its
Chairman of the Board, its President, its Treasurer or its Chief Financial
Officer, under its corporate seal reproduced thereon attested by its Secretary
or one of its Assistant Secretaries. The signature of any of these officers on
the Securities may be manual or facsimile. Coupons shall bear the facsimile
signature of the Treasurer or any Assistant Treasurer of the Company.
Securities and coupons bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of
individuals who were at any time the proper officers of the Company shall bind
the Company, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to
hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Securities or
did not hold such offices at the date of such Securities or coupons.
At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of
this Indenture, the Company may deliver Securities of any series, together with
any coupons appertaining thereto, executed by the Company to the Trustee for
authentication, together with a Company Order for the authentication and
delivery of such Securities, and the Trustee in accordance with the Company
Order shall authenticate and deliver such Securities; provided, however, that,
unless otherwise provided with respect to such series, in connection with its
original issuance, during the "restricted period" (as defined in Section 1.163-
5(c)(2)(i)(D)(7) of the United States Treasury Regulations) (the "restricted
period") no Bearer Security shall be mailed or otherwise delivered to any
location in the United States; and provided, further, that, unless otherwise
provided with respect to such series, a Bearer Security may be delivered in
connection with its original issuance only if the Person entitled to receive
such Bearer Security shall have furnished a certificate in the form set forth in
Exhibit A to this Indenture, dated no earlier than the Certification Date. If
any Security shall be represented by a permanent global Bearer Security, then,
for purposes of this Section and Section 304, the notation of a beneficial
owner's interest therein upon original issuance of such Security or upon
exchange of a portion of a temporary global Security shall be deemed to be
delivery in connection with its original issuance during the restricted period
of such beneficial owner's interest in such permanent global Security. Except as
permitted by Section 306, the Trustee shall not authenticate and deliver any
Bearer Security unless all appurtenant coupons for interest then matured have
been detached and cancelled.
In authenticating Securities, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive,
and (subject to Section 601) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an
Opinion of Counsel stating:
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(a) that the forms of such Securities and coupons established by or
pursuant to a Board Resolution of the Company as contemplated by Section 201
have been established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture;
(b) if the terms of such Securities and any coupons have been
established by or pursuant to a Board Resolution of the Company as permitted by
Section 301, that such terms have been established in conformity with the
provisions of this Indenture; and
(c) that such Securities, together with any coupons appertaining
thereto, when authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and issued by the
Company in the manner and subject to any conditions specified in such Opinion of
Counsel, will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company
enforceable in accordance with their terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency,
fraudulent transfer, reorganization and other laws of general applicability
relating to or affecting creditors' rights and to general equity principles.
Such Opinion of Counsel shall also cover such other matters as the
Trustee may reasonably request.
The Trustee shall not be required to authenticate such Securities the
forms or terms of which have been established by or pursuant to a Board
Resolution of the Company if the issue of such Securities pursuant to this
Indenture will affect the Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under the
Securities and this Indenture or otherwise in a manner which is not reasonably
acceptable to the Trustee.
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 301 and of the two preceding
paragraphs, if all Securities of a series are not to be originally issued at one
time, it shall not be necessary to deliver the Officers' Certificate otherwise
required pursuant to Section 301 or the Company Order and Opinion of Counsel
otherwise required pursuant to such preceding paragraphs at or prior to the time
of authentication of each Security of such series if such documents are
delivered at or prior to the authentication upon issuance of the first Security
of such series to be issued.
After the original issuance of the first Security of such series to be
issued, any separate request by the Company that the Trustee authenticate
Securities of such series for original issuance will be deemed to be a
certification by the Company (which, subject to Section 601, the Trustee shall
be fully protected in relying on) that it is in compliance with all conditions
precedent provided for in this Indenture relating to the authentication and
delivery of such Securities.
Each Registered Security shall be dated the date of its authentication;
and each Bearer Security shall be dated as of the date of original issuance of
the first Security of such series to be issued.
No Security or coupon shall be entitled to any benefit under this
Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on such
Security, or the Security to which such coupon appertains, a certificate of
authentication substantially in the form provided for herein executed by the
Trustee by manual signature, and such certificate upon any Security shall be
conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Security has been duly
authenticated and delivered hereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any
Security shall have been
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authenticated and delivered hereunder but never issued and sold by the Company,
and the Company shall deliver such Security to the Trustee for cancellation as
provided in Section 309 together with a written statement (which need not comply
with Section 102 and need not be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel) stating
that such Security has never been issued and sold by the Company, for all
purposes of this Indenture such Security shall be deemed never to have been
authenticated and delivered hereunder and shall never be entitled to the
benefits of this Indenture.
Section 304 Temporary Securities.
Pending the preparation of definitive Securities of any series, the
Company may execute, and upon Company Order the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver, temporary Securities which are printed, lithographed, typewritten or
otherwise produced, in any authorized denomination, substantially of the tenor
of the definitive Securities in lieu of which they are issued, in registered
form or, if authorized, in bearer form with one or more coupons or without
coupons, and with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and
other variations as the officers executing such Securities may determine, as
evidenced by their execution of such Securities. In the case of any series
issuable as Bearer Securities, such temporary Securities may be in global form.
A temporary Bearer Security shall be delivered only in compliance with the
conditions set forth in Section 303.
Except in the case of temporary Securities in global form (which shall
be exchanged in accordance with the provisions of the following paragraphs), if
temporary Securities of any series are issued, the Company will cause definitive
Securities of that series to be prepared without unreasonable delay. After the
preparation of definitive Securities of such series, the temporary Securities of
such series shall be exchangeable for definitive Securities of such series upon
surrender of the temporary Securities of such series at the office or agency of
the Company maintained pursuant to Section 1002 in a Place of Payment for such
series for the purpose of exchanges of Securities of such series without charge
to the Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary
Securities of any series (accompanied by any unmatured coupons appertaining
thereto) the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver in exchange therefor a like aggregate principal amount of definitive
Securities of the same series and of like tenor of authorized denominations;
provided, however, that no definitive Bearer Security shall be issued in
exchange for a temporary Registered Security.
If temporary Securities of any series are issued in global form, any
such temporary global Security shall, unless otherwise provided therein, be
delivered to the London office of a depositary or common depositary (the "Common
Depositary"), for the benefit of Euro clear and Clearstream, for credit to the
respective accounts of the beneficial owners of such Securities (or to such
other accounts as they may direct).
Without unnecessary delay but in any event not later than the date
specified in, or determined pursuant to the terms of, any such temporary global
Security of a series (the "Exchange Date"), the Company shall deliver to the
Trustee definitive Securities of that series in aggregate principal amount equal
to the principal amount of such temporary global Security, executed by the
Company. On or after the Exchange Date such temporary global Security shall
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be surrendered by the Common Depositary to the Trustee, as the Company's agent
for such purpose, to be exchanged, in whole or from time to time in part, for
definitive Securities of that series without charge and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver, in exchange for each portion of such temporary global
Security, a like aggregate principal amount of definitive Securities of the same
series of authorized denominations and of like tenor as the portion of such
temporary global Security to be exchanged; provided, however, that, unless
otherwise specified in such temporary global Security, upon such presentation by
the Common Depositary, such temporary global Security is accompanied by a
certificate dated the Exchange
Date or a subsequent date and signed by Euro-clear as to the portion of
such temporary global Security held for its account then to be exchanged and a
certificate dated the Exchange Date or a subsequent date and signed by
Clearstream as to the portion of such temporary global Security held for its
account then to be exchanged, each in the form set forth in Exhibit B to this
Indenture. The definitive Securities to be delivered in exchange for any such
temporary global Security shall be in bearer form, registered form, permanent
global bearer form or permanent global registered form, or any combination
thereof, as specified as contemplated by Section 301, and if any combination
thereof is so specified, as requested by the beneficial owner thereof; provided,
however, that no definitive Bearer Security or permanent global Security shall
be delivered in exchange for a temporary Bearer Security except in compliance
with the conditions set forth in Section 303.
Unless otherwise specified in the temporary global Security, the
interest of a beneficial owner of Securities of a series in a temporary global
Security shall be exchanged on the Exchange Date for definitive Securities (and
where the form of the definitive Securities is not specified by the Holder for
an interest in a permanent global Security) of the same series and of like tenor
unless, on or prior to the Exchange Date, such beneficial owner has not
delivered to Euro- clear or Clearstream, as the case may be, a certificate in
the form set forth in Exhibit A to this Indenture dated no earlier than the
Certification Date, copies of which certificate shall be available from the
offices of Euro-clear and Clearstream, the Trustee, any Authenticating Agent
appointed for such series of Securities and each Paying Agent and after the
Exchange Date, the interest of a beneficial owner of Securities of a series in a
temporary global Security shall be exchanged for definitive Securities (and
where the form of the definitive Securities is not specified by the Holder for
an interest in a permanent global Security) of the same series and of like tenor
following such beneficial owner's delivery to Euro-clear or Clearstream, as the
case may be, of a certificate in the form set forth in Exhibit A to this
Indenture dated no earlier than the Certification Date. Unless otherwise
specified in such temporary global Security, any exchange shall be made free of
charge to the beneficial owners of such temporary global Security, except that a
Person receiving definitive Securities must bear the cost of insurance, postage,
transportation and the like in the event that such Person does not take delivery
of such definitive Securities in person at the offices of Euro-clear or
Clearstream Definitive Securities in bearer form to be delivered in exchange for
any portion of a temporary global Security shall be delivered only outside the
United States.
Until exchanged in full as hereinabove provided, the temporary
Securities of any series shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits
under this Indenture as definitive Securities of the same series and of like
tenor authenticated and delivered hereunder, except that, unless otherwise
specified as contemplated by Section 301, interest payable on a temporary global
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Security on an Interest Payment Date for Securities of such series shall be
payable to Euro-clear and Clearstream on such Interest Payment Date upon
delivery by Euro- clear and Clearstream to the Trustee of a certificate or
certificates in the form set forth in Exhibit B to this Indenture, for credit
without further interest on or after such Interest Payment Date to the
respective accounts of the Persons who are the beneficial owners of such
temporary global Security on such Interest Payment Date and who have each
delivered to Euro-clear or Clearstream, as the case may be, a certificate in the
form set forth in Exhibit A to this Indenture. Any interest so received by
Euro-clear and Clearstream and not paid as herein provided shall be returned to
the Trustee immediately prior to the expiration of two years after such Interest
Payment Date in order to be repaid to the Company in accordance with Section
1003.
Section 305 Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange.
The Company shall cause to be kept at an office or agency to be
maintained by the Company in accordance with Section 1002 a register (being the
combined register of the Security Registrar and all transfer agents designated
pursuant to Section 1002 for the purpose of registration of transfer of
Securities and sometimes collectively referred to as the "Security Register") in
which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company
shall provide for the registration of each series of Registered Securities and
the registration of transfers of such Registered Securities. The Company shall
serve initially as "Security Registrar" for the purpose of registering
Registered Securities and transfers of Registered Securities as herein provided.
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Registered Security
of any series at the office or agency of the Company maintained pursuant to
Section 1002 for such purpose in a Place of Payment for such series, the Company
shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of
the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Registered Securities
of the same series of any authorized denominations and of a like aggregate
principal amount and tenor.
At the option of the Holder, Registered Securities of any series may be
exchanged for other Registered Securities of the same series of any authorized
denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount and tenor, upon surrender
of the Securities to be exchanged at any such office or agency. Whenever any
Securities are so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute, and the
Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Securities which the Holder making
the exchange is entitled to receive. Unless otherwise provided with respect to
any series of Securities, Bearer Securities may not be issued in exchange for
Registered Securities.
At the option of the Holder, Bearer Securities of any series may be
exchanged for Registered Securities of the same series of any authorized
denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount and tenor, upon surrender
of the Bearer Securities to be exchanged at any such office or agency, with all
unmatured coupons and all matured coupons in default thereto appertaining. If
the Holder of a Bearer Security is unable to produce any such unmatured coupon
or coupons or matured coupon or coupons in default, such exchange may be
effected if the Bearer Securities are accompanied by payment in funds acceptable
to the Company in an amount equal to the face amount of such missing coupon or
coupons, or the surrender of such missing coupon or coupons may be waived by the
Company and the Trustee if there is furnished to them
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such security or indemnity as they may require to save each of them and any
Paying Agent harmless. If thereafter the Holder of such Security shall surrender
to any Paying Agent any such missing coupon in respect of which such a payment
shall have been made, such Holder shall be entitled to receive the amount of
such payment; provided, however, that, except as otherwise provided in Section
1002, interest represented by coupons shall be payable only upon presentation
and surrender of those coupons at an office or agency located outside the United
States. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in case a Bearer Security of any series
is surrendered at any such office or agency in exchange for a Registered
Security of the same series and like tenor after the close of business at such
office or agency on (i) any Regular Record Date and before the opening of
business at such office or agency on the relevant Interest Payment Date, or (ii)
any Special Record Date and before the opening of business at such office or
agency on the related proposed date for payment of Defaulted Interest, such
Bearer Security shall be surrendered without the coupon relating to such
Interest Payment Date or proposed date for payment, as the case may be, and
interest or Defaulted Interest, as the case may be, will not be payable on such
Interest Payment Date or proposed date for payment, as the case may be, in
respect of the Registered Security issued in exchange for such Bearer Security
but will be payable only to the Holder of such coupon when due in accordance
with the provisions of this Indenture.
Whenever any Securities are so surrendered for exchange, the Company
shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Securities
which the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, except as otherwise specified as
contemplated by Section 301, any permanent global Security shall be exchangeable
only as provided in this paragraph. If the beneficial owners of interests in a
permanent global Security are entitled to exchange such interests for Securities
of such series and of like tenor and principal amount of another authorized form
and denomination, as specified as contemplated by Section 301, then without
unnecessary delay but in any event not later than the earliest date on which
such interests may be so exchanged, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee
definitive Securities of that series in an aggregate principal amount equal to
the principal amount of such permanent global Security, executed by the Company.
On or after the earliest date on which such interests may be so exchanged, such
permanent global Security shall be surrendered from time to time in accordance
with instructions given to the Trustee and the Common Depositary (which
instructions shall be in writing but need not comply with Section 102 or be
accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel) by the Common Depositary or such other
depositary or Common Depositary as shall be specified in the Company Order with
respect thereto to the Trustee, as the
Company's agent for such purpose, to be exchanged, in whole or in part,
for definitive Securities of the same series without charge and the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange for each portion of such permanent
global Security, a like aggregate principal amount of definitive Securities of
the same series of authorized denominations and of like tenor as the portion of
such permanent global Security to be exchanged which, unless the Securities of
the series are not issuable both as Bearer Securities and as Registered
Securities, as specified as contemplated by Section 301, shall be in the form of
Bearer Securities or Registered Securities, or any combination thereof, as shall
be specified by the beneficial owner thereof; provided, however, that no such
exchanges may occur during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days
before any selection of Securities of that series is to be redeemed and ending
on the
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relevant Redemption Date; and provided, further, that no Bearer Security
delivered in exchange for a portion of a permanent global Security shall be
mailed or otherwise delivered to any location in the United States. Promptly
following any such exchange in part, such permanent global Security shall be
returned by the Trustee to the Common Depositary or such other depositary or
Common Depositary referred to above in accordance with the instructions of the
Company referred to above. If a Registered Security is issued in exchange for
any portion of a permanent global Security after the close of business at the
office or agency where such exchange occurs on (i) any Regular Record Date and
before the opening of business at such office or agency on the relevant Interest
Payment Date, or (ii) any Special Record Date and before the opening of business
at such office or agency on the related proposed date for payment of Defaulted
Interest, interest or Defaulted Interest, as the case may be, will not be
payable on such Interest Payment Date or proposed date for payment, as the case
may be, in respect of such Registered Security, but will be payable on such
Interest Payment Date or proposed date for payment, as the case may be, only to
the Person to whom interest in respect of such portion of such permanent global
Security is payable in accordance with provisions of this Indenture.
All Securities issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of
Securities shall be the valid obligations of the Company evidencing the same
debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Securities
surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.
Every Registered Security presented or surrendered for registration of
transfer or exchange shall (if so required by the Company or the Trustee or any
transfer agent) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of
transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar or any
transfer agent duly executed, by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly
authorized in writing.
No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or
exchange of Securities, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient
to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection
with any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, other than
exchanges pursuant to Section 304, 906 or 1107 not involving any transfer.
The Company shall not be required (i) to issue, register the transfer
of or exchange Securities of any series during a period beginning at the opening
of business 15 days before any selection of Securities of that series to be
redeemed and ending at the close of business on (A) if Securities of the series
are issuable only as Registered Securities, the day of the mailing of the
relevant notice of redemption and (B) if Securities of the series are issuable
as Bearer Securities, the day of the first publication of the relevant notice of
redemption, or if Securities of the series are also issuable as Registered
Securities and there is no publication, the mailing of the relevant notice of
redemption, or (ii) to register the transfer of or exchange any Registered
Security so selected for redemption, in whole or in part, except the unredeemed
portion of any Registered Security being redeemed in part, or (iii) to exchange
any Bearer Security so selected for redemption except that such a Bearer
Security may be exchanged for a Registered Security of that series and like
tenor, provided that such Registered Security shall be simultaneously
surrendered for redemption.
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Notwithstanding the foregoing and except as otherwise specified or
contemplated by Section 301, any Book-Entry Security shall be exchangeable
pursuant to this Section 305 or Sections 304, 906 and 1107 for Securities
registered in the name of, and a transfer of a Book-Entry Security of any series
may be registered to, any Person other than the Depository for such Security or
its nominee only if (i) such Depository notifies the Company that it is
unwilling or unable to continue as Depository for such Book-Entry Security or if
at any time such Depository ceases to be a clearing agency registered under the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, (ii) the Company executes and
delivers to the Trustee a Company Order that such Book-Entry Security shall be
so exchangeable and the transfer thereof so registrable or (iii) there shall
have occurred and be continuing an Event of Default, with respect to the
Securities of such series. Upon the occurrence in respect of any Book-Entry
Security of any series of any one or more of the conditions specified in clause
(i), (ii) or (iii) of the preceding sentence or such other conditions as may be
specified, such Book- Entry Security may be exchanged for Securities registered
in the names of, and the transfer of such Book-Entry Security may be registered
to, such Persons (including Persons other than the Depository with respect to
such series and its nominees) as such Depository shall direct. Notwithstanding
any other provision of this Indenture, any Security authenticated and delivered
upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, any
Book-Entry Security shall also be a Book-Entry Security and shall bear the
legend specified in Section 204 except for any Security authenticated and
delivered in exchange for, or upon registration of transfer of, a Book-Entry
Security pursuant to the preceding sentence.
Section 306 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities and Coupons.
If any mutilated Security or a Security with a mutilated coupon
appertaining thereto is surrendered to the Trustee, the Company shall execute
and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a new
Security of the same series and of like tenor and principal amount and bearing a
number not contemporaneously outstanding, with coupons corresponding to the
coupons, if any, appertaining to the surrendered Security.
If there shall be delivered to the Company and the Trustee (i) evidence
to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Security or
coupon and (ii) such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save
each of them and any agent of either of them harmless, then, in the absence of
notice to the Company or the Trustee that such Security or coupon has been
acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Company shall execute and the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver, in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen
Security or in exchange for the Security to which a destroyed, lost or stolen
coupon appertains (with all appurtenant coupons not destroyed, lost or stolen),
a new Security of the same series and of like tenor and principal amount and
bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding, with coupons corresponding
to the coupons, if any, appertaining to such destroyed, lost or stolen Security
or to the Security to which such destroyed, lost or stolen coupon appertains.
In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security or
coupon has become or is about to become due and payable, or is being surrendered
for conversion in full, if applicable, the Company in its discretion may,
instead of issuing a new Security, pay such Security or coupon or authorize the
conversion thereof (without surrender thereof except in the case of a mutilated
Security or coupon); provided, however, that the principal of and any premium
and interest on
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Bearer Securities shall, except as otherwise provided in Section 1002, be
payable only at an office or agency located outside the United States.
Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section, the Company
may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental
charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other expenses (including
the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith.
Every new Security of any series with its coupons, if any, issued
pursuant to this Section in lieu of any destroyed, lost or stolen Security or in
exchange for a Security to which a destroyed, lost or stolen coupon appertains,
shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the Company,
whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Security and its coupons, if any,
or the destroyed, lost or stolen coupon shall be at any time enforceable by
anyone, and any such new Security and coupons, if any, shall be entitled to all
the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all
other Securities of that series and their coupons, if any, duly issued
hereunder.
The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to the
extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement,
payment or conversion of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities or
coupons.
Section 307 Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved.
Unless otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 301 with respect
to any series of Securities, interest on any Registered Security which is
payable, and is punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment
Date shall be paid to the Person in whose name that Security (or one or more
Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular
Record Date for such interest. Unless otherwise so provided, at the option of
the Company, payment of interest on any Registered Security may be made by check
mailed on or before the due date to the address of the Person entitled thereto
as such address shall appear in the Security Register.
Any interest on any Registered Security of any series which is payable,
but is not punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date
(herein called "Defaulted Interest") shall forthwith cease to be payable to the
Holder on the relevant Regular Record Date by virtue of having been such Holder,
and such Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Company, at its election in each
case, as provided in clause (1) or (2) below:
(1) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted
Interest to the Persons in whose names the Registered Securities of such series
(or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of
business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest,
which shall be fixed in the following manner. The Company shall notify the
Trustee in writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on
each Registered Security of such series and the date of the proposed payment,
and at the same time the Company shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of
money equal to the aggregate amount proposed to be paid in respect of such
Defaulted Interest or shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for
such deposit prior to the date of the proposed payment, such money when
deposited to be
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held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted Interest
as in this Clause provided. Thereupon the Trustee shall fix a Special Record
Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest which shall be not more than 15
days and not less than 10 days prior to the date of the proposed payment and not
less than 10 days after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the proposed
payment. The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company of such Special Record
Date and, in the name and at the expense of the Company, shall cause notice of
the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date
therefor to be mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder of Registered
Securities of such series at the address of such Holder as it appears in the
Security Register, not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date. The
Trustee may, in its discretion, in the name and at the expense of the Company,
cause a similar notice to be published at least once in an Authorized Newspaper,
provided such publication shall not be a condition precedent to the
establishment of such Special Record Date. Notice of the proposed payment of
such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor having been so
mailed, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Persons in whose names the
Registered Securities of such series (or their respective Predecessor
Securities) are registered at the close of business on such Special Record Date
and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the following clause (2).
(2) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest on the
Registered Securities of any series in any other lawful manner not inconsistent
with the requirements of any securities exchange on which such Securities may be
then listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, if, after
notice given by the Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to
this Clause, such manner of payment shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section and Section 305,
each Security delivered under this Indenture upon registration of transfer of or
in exchange for or in lieu of any other Security shall carry the rights to
interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other
Security.
Section 308 Persons Deemed Owners.
Prior to due presentment of a Registered Security for registration of
transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee
may treat the Person in whose name such Registered Security is registered as the
owner of such Registered Security for the purpose of receiving payment of
principal of (and premium, if any) and (subject to Sections 305 and 307) any
interest on such Registered Security and for all other purposes whatsoever,
whether or not such Security be overdue, and none of the Company, the Trustee
nor any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the
contrary.
Title to any Bearer Security and any coupons appertaining thereto shall
pass by delivery. The Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the
Trustee may treat the bearer of any Bearer Security and the bearer of any coupon
as the owner of such Bearer Security or coupon for the purpose of receiving
payment thereof or on account thereof and for all other purposes whatsoever,
whether or not such Security or coupon be overdue, and neither the Company, the
Trustee nor any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be affected by notice
to the contrary.
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Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to any Book-Entry Security,
nothing herein shall prevent the Company, the Trustee, or any agent of the
Company or the Trustee, from giving effect to any written certification, proxy
or other authorization furnished by a Depository or impair, as between a
Depository and holders of beneficial interests in any Book-Entry Security, the
operation of customary practices governing the exercise of the rights of the
Depository (or its nominee) as Holder of such Book-Entry Security.
Section 309 Cancellation.
All Securities and coupons surrendered for payment, redemption,
registration of transfer, conversion, if applicable, or exchange or for credit
against any sinking fund payment shall, if surrendered to any Person other than
the Trustee, be delivered to the Trustee. All Registered Securities and matured
coupons so delivered shall be promptly cancelled by the Trustee. All Bearer
Securities and unmatured coupons so delivered shall be held by the Trustee and,
upon instruction by a Company Order, shall be cancelled or held for reissuance.
Bearer Securities and unmatured coupons held for reissuance may be reissued only
in replacement of mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed Bearer Securities of the
same series and like tenor or the related coupons pursuant to Section 306. All
Bearer Securities and unmatured coupons held by the Trustee pending such
cancellation or reissuance shall be deemed to be delivered for all purposes of
this Indenture and the Securities. The Company may at any time deliver to the
Trustee for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated and delivered
hereunder which the Company may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and may
deliver to the Trustee (or to any other Person for delivery to the Trustee) for
cancellation any Securities previously authenticated hereunder which the Company
has not issued and sold, and all Securities so delivered shall be promptly
cancelled by the Trustee. No Securities shall be authenticated in lieu of or in
exchange for any Securities cancelled as provided in this Section, except as
expressly permitted by this Indenture. All cancelled Securities and coupons held
by the Trustee shall be disposed of in accordance with its customary practice.
Section 310 Computation of Interest.
Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for
Securities of any series, interest on the Securities of each series shall be
computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.
ARTICLE IV
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
Section 401 Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture.
This Indenture shall upon Company Request cease to be of further effect
with respect to Securities of a Series (except as to any surviving rights of
registration of transfer or exchange of Securities herein expressly provided
for, and any right to receive additional amounts, as provided in Section 1004),
and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments
acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect to
Securities of a Series, when
(1) either
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(A) all Securities of such Series theretofore
authenticated and delivered and all coupons, if any, appertaining thereto (other
than (i) coupons appertaining to Bearer Securities surrendered for exchange for
Registered Securities and maturing after such exchange, whose surrender is not
required or has been waived as provided in Xxxxxxx 000, (xx) Securities and
coupons which have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced,
converted, if applicable, or paid as provided in Xxxxxxx 000, (xxx) coupons
appertaining to Securities called for redemption and maturing after the relevant
Redemption Date, whose surrender has been waived as provided in Section 1106,
and (iv) Securities and coupons for whose payment money has theretofore been
deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust by the Company and thereafter
repaid to the Company or discharged from such trust, as provided in Section
1003) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or
(B) with respect to all such Securities and, in the case
of (i) or (ii) below, any coupons appertaining thereto not theretofore delivered
to the Trustee for cancellation
(i) have become due and payable, or
(ii) will become due and payable at their Stated
Maturity within one year, or
(iii) are to be called for redemption within one
year under arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of
redemption by the Trustee in the name, and at the expense, of the Company;
and the Company, in the case of (i), (ii) or (iii) above, has deposited or
caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust for the purpose
an amount sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on such
Securities and coupons not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation, for principal (and premium, if any) and any interest to the date
of such deposit (in the case of Securities which have become due and payable) or
to the Stated Maturity or Redemption Date, as the case may be;
(2) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums
payable hereunder by the Company; and
(3) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions
precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this
Indenture have been complied with.
Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the
obligations of the Company to the Trustee under Section 607, the obligations of
the Trustee to any Authenticating Agent under Section 614 and, if money shall
have been deposited with the Trustee pursuant to clause (1)(B) of this Section,
the obligations of the Company under Sections 306, 610(e) and 701 and the
obligations of the Trustee under Section 402 and the last paragraph of Section
1003 shall survive.
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Section 402 Application of Trust Money.
Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 1003, all
money deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 401 shall be held in trust
and applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the Securities, the
coupons and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any
Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the
Trustee may determine, to the Persons entitled thereto, of the principal and any
premium and interest for whose payment such money has been deposited.
ARTICLE V
REMEDIES
Section 501 Events of Default.
"Event of Default," wherever used herein with respect to Securities of
any series, means any one of the following events (whatever the reason for such
Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected
by the provisions of Article Fifteen hereof or by operation of law or pursuant
to any judgment, decree or order, rule or regulation of any administrative or
governmental body), unless it is either inapplicable to a particular series of
Securities or it is specifically deleted or modified in or pursuant to the terms
of such series or in the form of Security of such series:
(1) default in the payment of any interest upon any Security of
that series when it becomes due and payable, and continuance of such default for
a period of 30 days; or
(2) default in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if
any, on) any Security of that series at its Maturity; or
(3) default in the deposit of any sinking fund payment, when and
as due by the terms of a Security of that series; or
(4) INTENTIONALLY OMITTED;
(5) default in the performance, or breach, of any covenant or
warranty of the Company in this Indenture (other than a covenant or warranty a
default in whose performance or whose breach is elsewhere in this Section
specifically dealt with or which has expressly been included in this Indenture
solely for the benefit of series of Securities other than that series), and
continuance of such default or breach for a period of 90 days after there has
been given, by registered or certified mail, to the Company by the Trustee or to
the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount
of the Outstanding Securities of that series a written notice specifying such
default or breach and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice
is a "Notice of Default" hereunder; or
(6) the entry by a court having jurisdiction in the premises of
(A) a decree or order for relief in respect of the Company in an involuntary
case or proceeding under any applicable Federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization or other similar law or (B) a decree or order adjudging the
Company as bankrupt or insolvent, or approving as properly filed a petition
seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in respect
of the
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Company under any applicable Federal or state law, or appointing a custodian,
receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar official
of the Company or of any substantial part of the property of the Company, or
ordering the winding up or liquidation of its affairs, and the continuance of
any such decree or order for relief or any such other decree or order unstayed
and in effect for a period of 90 consecutive days; or
(7) the commencement by the Company of a voluntary case or
proceeding under any applicable Federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization or other similar law or of any other case or proceeding to be
adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent, or the consent by it to the entry of a
decree or order for relief in respect of the Company in an involuntary case or
proceeding under any applicable Federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization or other similar law or the commencement of any bankruptcy or
insolvency case or proceeding against the Company, or the filing by the Company
of a petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization or relief under any
applicable Federal or state law, or the consent by the Company to the filing of
such petition or to the appointment of or taking possession by a custodian,
receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or similar official of the
Company or of any substantial part of the property of the Company, or the making
by the Company of an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the admission
by the Company in writing of its inability to pay its debts generally as they
become due, or the taking of corporate action by the Company in furtherance of
any such action; or
(8) any other Event of Default provided with respect to Securities
of that series.
Section 502 Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment.
If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series at the
time Outstanding occurs and is continuing, then in every such case the Trustee
or the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of that series may declare the principal amount (or, if any of the
Securities of that series are Original Issue Discount Securities, such portion
of the principal amount of such Securities as may be specified in the terms
thereof) of all of the Securities of that series to be due and payable
immediately, by a notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given
by Holders), and upon any such declaration such principal amount (or specified
amount) shall become immediately due and payable.
At any time after such a declaration of acceleration with respect to
Securities of any series has been made and before a judgment or decree for
payment of the money due has been obtained by the Trustee as hereinafter in this
Article provided, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of that series, by written notice to the Company and the
Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if
(1) the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum
sufficient to pay
(A) all overdue interest on, and any additional amounts
payable as set forth in Section 1004 on, all Securities of that series and any
coupons appertaining thereto,
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(B) the principal of (and premium, if any, on) any
Securities of that series which have become due otherwise than by such
declaration of acceleration and any interest thereon at the rate or rates
prescribed therefor in such Securities,
(C) to the extent that payment of such interest is
lawful, interest upon overdue interest, and any additional amounts payable as
set forth in Section 1004 on, at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such
Securities, and
(D) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder
and the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the
Trustee, its agents and counsel;
and
(2) all Events of Default with respect to Securities of that
series, other than the non-payment of the principal of Securities of that series
which have become due solely by such declaration of acceleration, have been
cured or waived as provided in Section 513.
No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any
right consequent thereon.
Section 503 Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by
Trustee.
The Company covenants that if
(1) default is made in the payment of any interest on any Security
when such interest becomes due and payable and such default continues for a
period of 30 days, or
(2) default is made in the payment of the principal of (or
premium, if any, on) any Security at the Maturity thereof,
the Company will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the
Holders of such Securities and coupons, the whole amount then due and payable on
such Securities and coupons for principal and any premium and interest and, to
the extent that payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable, interest
on any overdue principal and premium and on any overdue interest, at the rate or
rates prescribed therefor in such Securities (or, in the case of Original Issue
Discount Securities, the Securities' yield to maturity) and, in addition
thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and
expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel.
If the Company fails to pay such amounts forthwith upon such demand,
the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, may institute a
judicial proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, may
prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree and may enforce the same
against the Company or any other obligor upon such Securities and collect the
moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable in the manner provided by law out of
the property of the Company or any other obligor upon such Securities, wherever
situated.
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If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series occurs
and is continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and
enforce its rights and the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series
and any related coupons by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee
shall deem most effectual to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for
the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in
aid of the exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce any other proper
remedy.
Section 504 Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.
In case of any judicial proceeding relative to the Company (or any
other obligor upon the Securities), or the property or the creditors of the
Company, the Trustee shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such
proceeding or otherwise, to take any and all actions authorized under the Trust
Indenture Act in order to have claims of the Holders and the Trustee allowed in
any such proceeding. In particular, subject to Article Fifteen hereof, the
Trustee shall be authorized to collect and receive any moneys or other property
payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same; and any
custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other
similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each
Holder to make such payments to the Trustee and, in the event that the Trustee
shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to
the Trustee any amount due it for the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other
amounts due the Trustee under Section 607.
No provision of this Indenture shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee
to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan
of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the
Securities or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the Trustee to
vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding; provided,
however, that the Trustee may, on behalf of Holders, vote for the election of a
trustee of bankruptcy or similar official and be a member of a creditors' or
other similar committee.
Section 505 Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities or
Coupons.
All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the Securities
or coupons may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the possession
of any of the Securities or coupons or the production thereof in any proceeding
relating thereto, and any such proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be
brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of
judgment shall, after provision for the payment of reasonable compensation,
expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, be
for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities and coupons in respect
of which such judgment has been recovered.
Section 506 Application of Money Collected.
Any money collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article shall be
applied in the following order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee and,
in case of the distribution of such money on account of principal or any premium
or interest, upon presentation of the Securities or
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coupons, or both as the case may be, and the notation thereon of the payment if
only partially paid and upon surrender thereof if fully paid:
FIRST: To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee under Section
607; and
SECOND: Subject to Article Fifteen hereof, to the payment of the
amounts then due and unpaid for principal of and any premium and interest on the
Securities and coupons in respect of which or for the benefit of which such
money has been collected, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind,
according to the amounts due and payable on such Securities and coupons for
principal and any premium and interest, respectively.
THIRD: The balance, if any, to the Person or Persons entitled
thereto.
In any case in which Securities are Outstanding that are denominated in
more than one currency and the Trustee is directed to make ratable payments
under this Section to Holders of such Securities, unless otherwise provided with
respect to any series of Securities, the Trustee shall calculate the amount of
such payments as follows: (i) as of the day the Trustee collects an amount under
this Article, the Trustee shall, as to each Holder of a Security to whom an
amount is due and payable under this Section that is denominated in a foreign
currency, determine that amount in Dollars that would be obtained for the amount
owing such Holder, using the rate of exchange at which in accordance with normal
banking procedures the Trustee could purchase in The City of New York Dollars
with such amount owing; (ii) calculate the sum of all Dollar amounts determined
under (i) and add thereto any amounts due and payable in Dollars; and (iii)
using the individual amounts determined in (i) or any individual amounts due and
payable in Dollars, as the case may be, as a numerator, and the sum calculated
in (ii) as a denominator, calculate as to each Holder of a Security to whom an
amount is owed under this Section the fraction of the amount collected under
this Article payable to such Holder. Any expenses incurred by the Trustee in
actually converting amounts owing Holders of Securities denominated in a
currency other than that in which any amount is collected under this Article
shall be likewise (in accordance with this paragraph) borne ratably by all
Holders of Securities to whom amounts are payable under this Section.
To the fullest extent allowed under applicable law, if for the purpose
of obtaining judgment against the Company in any court it is necessary to
convert the sum due in respect of the principal of, or premium, if any, or
interest on, the Securities of any series (the "Required Currency") into a
currency in which a judgment will be rendered (the "Judgment Currency"), the
rate of exchange used shall be the rate at which in accordance with normal
banking procedures the Trustee could purchase in The City of New York the
Required Currency with the Judgment Currency on the Business Day in the City of
New York next preceding that on which final judgment is given. Neither the
Company nor the Trustee shall be liable for any shortfall nor shall it benefit
from any windfall in payments to Holders of Securities under this Section caused
by a change in exchange rates between the time the amount of a judgment against
the Company is calculated as above and the time the Trustee converts the
Judgment Currency into the Required Currency to make payments under this Section
to Holders of Securities, but payment of such judgment shall discharge all
amounts owed by the Company on the claim or claims underlying such judgment.
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Section 507 Limitation on Suits.
No Holder of any Security of any series or any related coupons shall
have any right to institute any proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect
to this Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any
other remedy hereunder, unless:
(1) such Holder has previously given written notice to the Trustee
of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities of that series;
(2) the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of that series shall have made written request to the
Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default in its own
name as Trustee hereunder;
(3) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee reasonable
indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred in
compliance with such request;
(4) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice,
request and offer of indemnity has failed to institute any such proceeding; and
(5) no direction inconsistent with such written request has been
given to the Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders of a majority in
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series;
it being understood and intended that no one or more of such Holders shall have
any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision
of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other of
such Holders, or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any
other of such Holders or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in
the manner herein provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all such
Holders.
Section 508 Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium
and Interest.
Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture (but subject to
Article Fifteen hereof), the Holder of any Security or coupon shall have the
right, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive payment of the principal
of and any premium and (subject to Sections 305 and 307) any interest on such
Security or payment of such coupon on the Stated Maturity or Maturities
expressed in such Security or coupon (or, in the case of redemption, on the
Redemption Date) and, if applicable, to convert such Security as provided herein
and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment or conversion
right, and such rights shall not be impaired without the consent of such Holder.
Section 509 Restoration of Rights and Remedies.
If the Trustee or any Holder of a Security or coupon has instituted any
proceeding to enforce any right or remedy under this Indenture and such
proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or has been
determined adversely to the Trustee or to such Holder, then and in every such
case, subject to any determination in such proceeding, the Company, the Trustee
and the Holders of Securities and coupons shall be restored severally and
respectively to
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their former positions hereunder and thereafter all rights and remedies of the
Trustee and the Holders shall continue as though no such proceeding had been
instituted.
Section 510 Rights and Remedies Cumulative.
Except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or payment
of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities or coupons in the last
paragraph of Section 306, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved
to the Trustee or to the Holders of Securities or coupons is intended to be
exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to the
extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to every other right and
remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or
otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or
otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other
appropriate right or remedy.
Section 511 Delay or Omission Not Waiver.
No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any Security or
coupon to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default shall
impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event of
Default or an acquiescence therein. Every right and remedy given by this Article
or by law to the Trustee or to the Holders of Securities or coupons may be
exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the
Trustee or by the Holders of Securities or coupons, as the case may be.
Section 512 Control by Holders of Securities.
The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of any series shall have the right to direct the time, method and
place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or
exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee, with respect to the
Securities of such series, provided that
(1) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law
or with this Indenture;
(2) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the
Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction; and
(3) the Trustee shall not be obligated to take any action unduly
prejudicial to Holders not joining in such direction or involving the Trustee in
personal liability.
Section 513 Waiver of Past Defaults.
The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of any series may on behalf of the Holders of all the Securities of
such series waive any past default hereunder with respect to the Securities of
such series and its consequences, except a default
(1) in the payment of the principal of or any premium or interest
on any Security of such series, or
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(2) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under
Article Nine cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of
each Outstanding Security of such series affected.
Upon any such waiver, such default shall cease to exist, and any Event
of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every
purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or
other default or impair any right consequent thereon.
Section 514 Undertaking for Costs.
In any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this
Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken, suffered or
omitted by it as Trustee, a court may require any party litigant in such suit to
file an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and may assess costs against
any such party litigant, in the manner and to the extent provided in the Trust
Indenture Act; provided that neither this Section nor the Trust Indenture Act
shall be deemed to authorize any court to require such an undertaking or to make
such an assessment in any suit instituted by the Company.
Section 515 Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws.
The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that
it will not at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim
to take the benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law wherever enacted,
now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the covenants or the
performance of this Indenture; and the Company (to the extent that it may
lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law
and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or impede the execution of any
power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of
every such power as though no such law had been enacted.
ARTICLE VI
THE TRUSTEE
Section 601 Certain Duties and Responsibilities.
The duties and responsibilities of the Trustee shall be as provided by
the Trust Indenture Act. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no provision of this
Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise
incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder,
or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable
grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against
such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it. Whether or not therein
expressly so provided, every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct
or affecting the liability of or affording protection to the Trustee shall be
subject to the provisions of this Section.
Section 602 Notice of Defaults.
If a default occurs hereunder with respect to Securities of any series,
the Trustee shall give the Holders of Securities of such series notice of such
default as and to the extent provided by the Trust Indenture Act; provided,
however, that in the case of any default of the character
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specified in Section 501(5) with respect to Securities of such series, no such
notice to Holders shall be given until at least 30 days after the occurrence
thereof. For the purpose of this Section, the term "default" means any event
which is, or after notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of
Default with respect to Securities of such series.
Section 603 Certain Rights of Trustee.
Subject to the provisions of Section 601:
(1) the Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or
refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument,
opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture,
note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document believed by it
to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or
parties;
(2) any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein shall
be sufficiently evidenced by a Company Request or Company Order and any
resolution of the Board of Directors of the Company shall be sufficiently
evidenced by a Board Resolution of the Company;
(3) whenever in the administration of this Indenture the Trustee
shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking,
suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Trustee (unless other evidence
be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part,
rely upon an Officers' Certificate;
(4) the Trustee may consult with counsel and the written advice of
such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization
and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it
hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon;
(5) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of
the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or direction
of any of the Holders pursuant to this Indenture, unless such Holders shall have
offered to the Trustee reasonable security or indemnity against the costs,
expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance with such
request or direction;
(6) the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into
the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement,
instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond,
debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document, but
the Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation
into such facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the Trustee shall
determine to make such further inquiry or investigation, it shall be entitled to
examine the books, records and premises of the Company, personally or by agent
or attorney; and
(7) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder
or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents or
attorneys and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or
negligence on the part of any agent or attorney appointed with due care by it
hereunder.
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Section 604 Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities.
The recitals contained herein and in the Securities (except the
Trustee's certificates of authentication) and in any coupons shall be taken as
the statements of the Company and the Trustee or any Authenticating Agent
assumes no responsibility for their correctness. The Trustee makes no
representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the
Securities or coupons. The Trustee or any Authenticating Agent shall not be
accountable for the use or application by the Company of Securities or the
proceeds thereof.
Section 605 May Hold Securities.
The Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, any Paying Agent, any Security
Registrar or any other agent of the Company, in its individual or any other
capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities and coupons and, subject
to Sections 608 and 613, may otherwise deal with the Company with the same
rights it would have if it were not Trustee, Authenticating Agent, Paying Agent,
Security Registrar or such other agent.
Section 606 Money Held in Trust.
Money held by the Trustee in trust hereunder need not be segregated
from other funds except to the extent required by law. The Trustee shall be
under no liability for interest on any money received by it hereunder except as
otherwise agreed with the Company.
Section 607 Compensation and Reimbursement.
The Company agrees
(1) to pay to the Trustee from time to time reasonable
compensation for all services rendered by it hereunder (which compensation shall
not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a
trustee of an express trust);
(2) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse
the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee upon its request for all reasonable
expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Trustee in
accordance with any provision of this Indenture (including the reasonable
compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its agents and counsel),
except any such expense, disbursement or advance as may be attributable to its
negligence or bad faith; and
(3) to indemnify the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee for, and
to hold it harmless against, any loss, liability or expense incurred without
negligence or bad faith on its part, arising out of or in connection with the
acceptance or administration of the trust or trusts hereunder, including the
costs and expenses of defending itself against any claim or liability in
connection with the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties
hereunder.
The obligations of the Company under this Section shall not be
subordinated to the payment of Senior Indebtedness pursuant to Article Fifteen
hereof, and as security for the performance of such obligations, the Trustee
shall have a lien prior to the Securities upon all
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property and funds held or collected by the Trustee as such, except funds held
in trust for the benefit of the Holders of particular Securities.
Any expenses and compensation for any services rendered by the Trustee
after the occurrence of an Event of Default specified in clause (6) or (7) of
Section 501 shall constitute expenses and compensation for services of
administration under all applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization or other similar laws.
The provisions of this Section shall survive the termination of this
Indenture.
Section 608 Disqualification; Conflicting Interests.
If the Trustee has or shall acquire a conflicting interest within the
meaning of the Trust Indenture Act, the Trustee shall either eliminate such
interest or resign, to the extent and in the manner provided by, and subject to
the provisions of, the Trust Indenture Act and this Indenture.
Section 609 Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility.
There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder which shall be a
corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the United States,
any State thereof or the District of Columbia, authorized under such laws to
exercise corporate trust powers, having a combined capital and surplus of at
least $50,000,000, subject to supervision or examination by Federal or State
authority. If such corporation publishes reports of condition at least annually,
pursuant to law or to the requirements of said supervising or examining
authority, then for the purposes of this Section, the combined capital and
surplus of such corporation shall be deemed to be its combined capital and
surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at
any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the
provisions of this Section, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with
the effect hereinafter specified in this Article. No obligor upon any Security
issued under this Indenture or a person directly or indirectly controlling,
controlled by or under common control with such obligor shall serve as Trustee
under this Indenture.
Section 610 Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.
(a) No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a
successor Trustee pursuant to this Article shall become effective until the
acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee in accordance with the
applicable requirements of Section 611.
(b) The Trustee may resign at any time with respect to the Securities
of one or more series by giving written notice thereof to the Company. If the
instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee required by Section 611 shall
not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such
notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee may petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the
Securities of such series.
(c) The Trustee may be removed at any time with respect to the
Securities of any series by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount
of the Outstanding Securities of such series delivered to the Trustee and to the
Company.
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(d) If at any time:
(1) the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section 608 after
written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder of a Security who has
been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months, or
(2) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 609 and
shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company or by any
such Holder, or
(3) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be
adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the Trustee or of its property
shall be appointed or a 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, in any case, (i) the Company by a Board
Resolution may remove the Trustee with respect to all Securities, or (ii)
subject to Section 514, any Holder of a Security who has been a bona fide Holder
of a Security for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all others
similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal
of the Trustee with respect to all Securities and the appointment of a successor
Trustee or Trustees.
(e) If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of
acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of the Trustee for any cause,
with respect to the Securities of one or more series, the Company, by a Board
Resolution, shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee or Trustees with respect
to the Securities of that or those series (it being understood that any such
successor Trustee may be appointed with respect to the Securities of one or more
or all series and that at any time there shall be only one Trustee with respect
to the Securities of any particular series) and shall comply with the applicable
requirements of Section 611. If, within one year after such resignation, removal
or incapability, or the occurrence of such vacancy, a successor Trustee with
respect to the Securities of any series shall be appointed by Act of the Holders
of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series
delivered to the Company and the retiring Trustee, the successor Trustee so
appointed shall, forthwith upon its acceptance of such appointment in accordance
with the applicable requirements of Section 611, become the successor Trustee
with respect to the Securities of such series and to that extent supersede the
successor Trustee appointed by the Company. If no successor Trustee with respect
to the Securities of any series shall have been so appointed by the Company or
the Holders of Securities of such series and accepted appointment in the manner
required by Section 611, any Holder of a Security who has been a bona fide
Holder of a Security of such series for at least six months may, on behalf of
himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the
Securities of such series. Such court may thereupon, after such notice, if any,
as it may deem proper, appoint a successor Trustee.
(f) The Company shall give notice of each resignation and each removal
of the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series and each appointment
of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series in the
manner provided in Section 106. Each notice shall include the name of the
successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series and the address
of its Corporate Trust Office.
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Section 611 Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.
(a) In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with
respect to all Securities, every such successor Trustee so appointed shall
execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Company and to the retiring Trustee an
instrument accepting such appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal
of the retiring Trustee shall become effective and such successor Trustee,
without further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the
rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee, with like effect as
if originally named Trustee hereunder; but on the request of the Company or the
successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall, upon payment of its charges,
execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor Trustee all the
rights, powers and trusts of the retiring Trustee and shall duly assign,
transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money held by
such retiring Trustee hereunder. Any Trustee ceasing to act shall, nevertheless,
retain a prior lien upon all property or funds held or collected by such Trustee
to secure any amounts then due it pursuant to the provisions of Section 607.
(b) In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with
respect to the Securities of one or more (but not all) series, the Company, the
retiring Trustee and each successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of
one or more series shall execute and deliver an indenture supplemental hereto
wherein each successor Trustee shall accept such appointment and which (1) shall
contain such provisions as shall be necessary or desirable to transfer and
confirm to, and to vest in, each successor Trustee all the rights, powers,
trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that
or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates, (2)
if the retiring Trustee is not retiring with respect to all Securities, shall
contain such provisions as shall be deemed necessary or desirable to confirm
that all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with
respect to the Securities of that or those series as to which the retiring
Trustee is not retiring shall continue to be vested in the retiring Trustee, and
(3) shall add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be
necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts
hereunder by more than one Trustee, it being understood that nothing herein or
in such supplemental indenture shall constitute such Trustees as co-trustees of
the same trust and that each such Trustee shall be trustee of a trust or trusts
hereunder separate and apart from any trust or trusts hereunder administered by
any other such Trustee; and upon the execution and delivery of such supplemental
indenture the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become
effective to the extent provided therein and each such successor Trustee,
without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all
rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the
Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor
Trustee relates; but, on request of the Company or any successor Trustee, such
retiring Trustee shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor
Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder with
respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of
such successor Trustee relates.
(c) Upon request of any successor Trustee, the Company shall execute
any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming
to such successor Trustee all such rights, powers and trusts referred to in
paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section, as the case may be.
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(d) No successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at the
time of such acceptance such successor Trustee shall be qualified and eligible
under this Article.
Section 612 Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.
Any corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or
with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger,
conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any
corporation succeeding to all or substantially all the corporate trust business
of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder, provided such
corporation shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article,
without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of
any of the parties hereto. In case any Securities shall have been authenticated,
but not delivered, by the Trustee then in office, any successor by merger,
conversion or consolidation to such authenticating Trustee may adopt such
authentication and deliver the Securities so authenticated with the same effect
as if such successor Trustee had itself authenticated such Securities.
Section 613 Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company.
If and when the Trustee shall be or become a creditor of the Company
(or any other obligor upon the Securities), the Trustee shall be subject to the
provisions of the Trust Indenture Act regarding the collection of claims against
the Company (or any such other obligor).
Section 614 Appointment of Authenticating Agent.
The Trustee may, by an instrument in writing, appoint an Authenticating
Agent or Agents with respect to one or more series of Securities which may be
authorized to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Securities of such
series issued upon original issue or upon exchange, registration of transfer or
partial redemption thereof or pursuant to Section 306, and Securities so
authenticated shall be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture and shall be
valid and obligatory for all purposes as if authenticated by the Trustee
hereunder. Wherever reference is made in this Indenture to the authentication
and delivery of Securities by the Trustee or the Trustee's certificate of
authentication, such reference shall be deemed to include authentication and
delivery on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent. Each
Authenticating Agent shall be acceptable to the Company and shall at all times
be a corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the United
States, any State thereof or the District of Columbia (or, if Bearer Securities,
organized and doing business under the laws of the country in which the Bearer
Securities are eligible), authorized under such laws to act as Authenticating
Agent, having a combined capital and surplus of not less than $50,000,000 and
subject to supervision or examination by Federal or State authority (or, if
Bearer Securities, an authority of the country in which the Bearer Securities
are eligible). If such Authenticating Agent publishes reports of condition at
least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of said supervising or
examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section, the combined capital
and surplus of such Authenticating Agent shall be deemed to be its combined
capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so
published. If at any time an Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in
accordance with the provisions of this Section, such Authenticating Agent shall
resign immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in this Section.
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Any corporation into which an Authenticating Agent may be merged or
converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting
from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which such Authenticating Agent
shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to the corporate agency or
corporate trust business of such Authenticating Agent, shall continue to be an
Authenticating Agent, provided such corporation shall be otherwise eligible
under this Section, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further
act on the part of the Trustee or such Authenticating Agent.
An Authenticating Agent may, and if it shall cease to be eligible
shall, resign at any time by giving written notice thereof to the Trustee and to
the Company. The Trustee may at any time terminate the agency of an
Authenticating Agent by giving written notice thereof to such Authenticating
Agent and to the Company. Upon receiving such notice of resignation or upon such
termination, or in case at any time such Authenticating Agent shall cease to be
eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, the Trustee may
appoint a successor Authenticating Agent which shall be acceptable to the
Company and shall mail written notice of such appointment by first-class mail,
postage prepaid, to all Holders of Registered Securities, if any, of the series
with respect to which such Authenticating Agent will serve, as their names and
addresses appear in the Security Register. Any successor Authenticating Agent
upon acceptance of its appointment hereunder shall become vested with all the
rights, powers, and duties of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if
originally named as an Authenticating Agent. No successor Authenticating Agent
shall be appointed unless eligible under the provisions of this Section.
The Trustee agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from time to
time reasonable compensation for its services under this Section, and the
Trustee shall be entitled to be reimbursed for such payment, subject to the
provisions of Section 607.
If an appointment with respect to one or more series is made pursuant
to this Section, the Securities of such series may have been endorsed thereon,
in addition to the Trustee's certificate of authentication, an alternative
certificate of authentication in the following form:
"This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein
referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
BANK ONE TRUST COMPANY,
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Trustee
By:______________________________________
as Authenticating Agent
By:______________________________________
Authorized Officer
If all the Securities of a series may not be originally issued at one
time, and if the Company has an Affiliate eligible to be appointed as an
Authenticating Agent hereunder or the
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Trustee does not have an office capable of authenticating Securities upon
original issuance located in a Place of Payment where the Company wishes to have
Securities of such series authenticated upon original issuance, the Trustee, if
so requested by the Company in writing (which writing need not comply with
Section 102 and need not be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel), shall appoint
in accordance with this Section an Authenticating Agent (which, if so requested
by the Company, shall be such Affiliate of the Company) having an office in a
Place of Payment designated by the Company with respect to such series of
Securities.
ARTICLE VII
HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY
Section 701 Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders.
With respect to each series of Securities, the Company will furnish or
cause to be furnished to the Trustee:
(a) semi-annually, not later than 15 days after a Regular Record Date,
a list, in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require, containing all the
information in the possession or control of the Company, or any of its Paying
Agents other than the Trustee, as to the names and addresses of the Holders of
Securities as of the immediately preceding Regular Record Date, and
(b) at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, within
30 days after the receipt by the Company of any such request, a list of similar
form and content as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the time such list
is furnished;
excluding from any such list names and addresses received by the Trustee in its
capacity as Security Registrar.
Section 702 Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders.
(a) The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably
practicable, the names and addresses of Holders contained in the most recent
list furnished to the Trustee as provided in Section 701, and the names and
addresses of Holders received by the Trustee in its capacity as Security
Registrar. The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in
Section 701 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.
(b) The rights of the Holders to communicate with other Holders with
respect to their rights under this Indenture or under the Securities, and the
corresponding rights and privileges of the Trustee, shall be as provided by the
Trust Indenture Act.
(c) Every Holder of Securities or coupons, by receiving and holding the
same, agrees with the Company and the Trustee that neither the Company nor the
Trustee nor any agent of any of them shall be held accountable by reason of any
disclosure of information as to names and addresses of Holders made pursuant to
the Trust Indenture Act and that the Trustee shall not be held accountable by
reason of mailing any material pursuant to a request made under Section 702(b).
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Section 703 Reports by Trustee.
(a) on or before July 15 in each year following the date hereof, the
Trustee shall transmit to Holders such reports concerning the Trustee and its
actions under this Indenture as may be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture
Act at the times and in the manner provided pursuant thereto.
(b) A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such transmission
to Holders, be filed by the Trustee with each stock exchange upon which any
Securities are listed, with the Commission and with the Company. The Company
will notify the Trustee when any Securities are listed (or delisted) on any
stock exchange.
Section 704 Reports by Company.
In addition to the certificates delivered to the Trustee pursuant to
Section 1007, the Company shall file with the Trustee and the Commission, and
transmit to Holders, such information, documents and other reports, and such
summaries thereof, as may be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act at the
times and in the manner provided pursuant to such Act; provided that any such
information, documents or reports required to be filed with the Commission
pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended, shall be filed with the Trustee within 15 days after the same is so
required to be filed with the Commission.
ARTICLE VIII
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE
Section 801 Company May Consolidate, etc., Only on Certain Terms.
The Company shall not consolidate with or merge into any other Person
or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an
entirety to any other Person, unless:
(1) the Person formed by such consolidation or into which the
Company is merged or the Person which acquires by conveyance or transfer, or
which leases, the properties and assets of the Company substantially as an
entirety shall be a corporation, partnership or trust, shall be organized and
validly existing under the laws of the United States, any state thereof or the
District of Columbia and shall expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental
hereto, executed and delivered to the Trustee, in form satisfactory to the
Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the principal of and any premium and
interest (including all additional amounts, if any, payable pursuant to Section
1004) on all the Securities and the performance or observance of every other
covenant of this Indenture on the part of the Company to be performed or
observed;
(2) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Event
of Default, and no event which, after notice or lapse of time or both, would
become an Event of Default, shall have occurred and be continuing; and
(3) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such consolidation,
merger, conveyance, transfer or lease
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and such supplemental indenture comply with this Article and that all conditions
precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction have been complied
with.
Section 802 Successor Substituted.
Upon any consolidation of the Company with, or merger of the Company
into, any other Person or any conveyance, transfer or lease of the properties
and assets of the Company substantially as an entirety in accordance with
Section 801, the successor Person formed by such consolidation or into which the
Company is merged or to which such conveyance, transfer or lease is made shall
succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of,
the Company under this Indenture with the same effect as if such successor
Person had been named as the Company herein, and thereafter, except in the case
of a lease, the predecessor Person shall be relieved of all obligations and
covenants under this Indenture and the Securities and coupons and may liquidate
and dissolve.
ARTICLE IX
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
Section 901 Supplemental Indentures without Consent of Holders.
Without the consent of any Holders of Securities or coupons, the
Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee, at any time and
from time to time, may enter into one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in
form satisfactory to the Trustee, for any of the following purposes:
(1) to evidence the succession of another Person to the Company
and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the Company herein
and in the Securities pursuant to Article Eight; or
(2) to add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit of the
Holders of all or any series of Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto
(and if such covenants are to be for the benefit of less than all series of
Securities, stating that such covenants are expressly being included solely for
the benefit of such series), to convey, transfer, assign, mortgage or pledge any
property to or with the Trustee or otherwise secure any series of the Securities
or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the Company; or
(3) to add any additional Events of Default with respect to all or
any series of the Securities (and, if such Event of Default is applicable to
less than all series of Securities, specifying the series to which such Event of
Default is applicable); or
(4) to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture to
provide that Bearer Securities may be registrable as to principal, to change or
eliminate any restrictions on the payment of principal of or any premium or
interest on Bearer Securities, to permit Bearer Securities to be issued in
exchange for Registered Securities, to permit Bearer Securities to be issued in
exchange for Bearer Securities of other authorized denominations or to permit or
facilitate the issuance of Securities in uncertificated form, provided that any
such action shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of
Securities of any series or any related coupons in any material respect; or
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(5) to add to, change or eliminate any of the provisions of this
Indenture in respect of one or more series of Securities, provided that any such
addition, change or elimination (A) shall neither (i) apply to any Security of
any series created prior to the execution of such supplemental indenture and
entitled to the benefit of such provision nor (ii) modify the rights of the
Holder of any such Security with respect to such provision or (B) shall become
effective only when there is no such Security Outstanding; or
(6) provide for adjustment of conversion rights to secure the
Securities pursuant to the requirements of Section 1006 or otherwise; or
(7) to establish the form or terms of Securities of any series and
any related coupons as permitted by Sections 201 and 301; or
(8) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment
hereunder by a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more
series and to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall
be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts
hereunder by more than one Trustee, pursuant to the requirements of Section
611(b); or
(9) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision
herein or in any supplemental indenture which may be defective or inconsistent
with any other provision herein or in any supplemental indenture, or to make any
other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this
Indenture; provided, however, that such action shall not adversely affect the
interests of the Holders of Securities of any series or any related coupons in
any material respect.
Section 902 Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders.
With the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of
the Outstanding Securities of each series affected by such supplemental
indenture, by Act of said Holders delivered to the Company and the Trustee, the
Company, when authorized by Board Resolution, and the Trustee may enter into an
indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any
provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of
this Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of
Securities of such series and any related coupons under this Indenture;
provided, however, that no such supplemental indenture shall, without the
consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby,
(1) change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or any
installment of principal of or interest on, any Security, or reduce the
principal amount thereof or the rate of interest thereon or any premium payable
upon the redemption thereof, or change the Redemption Date thereof, or change
any obligation of the Company to pay additional amounts pursuant to Section 1004
(except as contemplated by Section 801(1) and permitted by Section 901(1)), or
reduce the amount of the principal of an Original Issue Discount Security that
would be due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity
thereof pursuant to Section 502 or change the coin or currency in which any
Security or any premium or interest thereon is payable, or change any right of
redemption, purchase or repayment by the Company at the option of the Holder, or
adversely affect the right to convert Securities, if applicable, or impair the
right to
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institute suit for the enforcement of (x) any such payment on or after the
Stated Maturity thereof (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the
Redemption Date), or (y) any conversion right with respect to any Security, if
applicable, or
(2) reduce the percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of any series, the consent of whose Holders is required for any such
supplemental indenture, or the consent of whose Holders is required for any
waiver (of compliance with certain provisions of this Indenture or certain
defaults hereunder and their consequences) provided for in this Indenture, or
reduce the requirements of Section 1404 for quorum or voting, or
(3) change any obligation of the Company to maintain an office or
agency in the places and for the purposes specified in Section 1002, or
(4) modify any of the provisions of this Section, Section 513 or
Section 1008 except to increase any such percentage or to provide that certain
other provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified or waived without the
consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby; provided,
however, that this clause shall not be deemed to require the consent of any
Holder of a Security or coupon with respect to changes in the references to "the
Trustee" and concomitant changes in this Section and Section 1008 or the
deletion of this provision, in accordance with the requirements of Sections
611(b) and 901(8).
A supplemental indenture which changes or eliminates any covenant or
other provision of this Indenture which has expressly been included solely for
the benefit of one or more particular series of Securities, or which modifies
the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series with respect to such
covenant or other provision, shall be deemed not to affect the rights under this
Indenture of the Holders of Securities of any other series.
It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders of Securities under
this Section to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental
indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance
thereof.
Section 903 Execution of Supplemental Indentures.
In executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by, any
supplemental indenture permitted by this Article or the modifications thereby of
the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive
and (subject to Section 601) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an
Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture is
authorized or permitted by this Indenture. The Trustee may, but shall not be
obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture which affects the
Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.
Section 904 Effect of Supplemental Indentures.
Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture under this Article,
this Indenture shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such supplemental
indenture shall form a part of this Indenture for all purposes; and every Holder
of Securities theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder
and of any coupons appertaining thereto shall be bound thereby.
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Section 905 Conformity with Trust Indenture Act.
Every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article shall
conform to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect.
Section 906 Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures.
Securities of any series authenticated and delivered after the
execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article may, and shall
if required by the Trustee, bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee as
to any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Company shall
so determine, new Securities of any series so modified as to conform, in the
opinion of the Trustee and the Company, to any such supplemental indenture may
be prepared and executed by the Company, and authenticated and delivered by the
Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Securities of such series and of like tenor.
Section 907 Subordinated Unimpaired.
This Indenture may not be amended to alter the subordination of any
Outstanding Securities without the written consent of each holder of Senior
Indebtedness then outstanding that would be adversely affected thereby.
ARTICLE X
COVENANTS
Section 1001 Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest.
The Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of each series of
Securities that it will duly and punctually pay the principal of and any premium
and interest on the Securities of that series in accordance with the terms of
the Securities, any coupons appertaining thereto and this Indenture. Unless
otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 with respect to any series of
Securities, any interest due on Bearer Securities on or before Maturity shall be
payable only upon presentation and surrender of the several coupons for such
interest installments as are evidenced thereby as they severally mature.
Section 1002 Corporate Existence and Maintenance of Office or Agency.
Except as expressly permitted by this Indenture, the Company will do or
cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and
effect the corporate existence of the Company.
If Securities of a series are issuable only as Registered Securities,
the Company will maintain in each Place of Payment for such series an office or
agency where Securities of that series may be presented or surrendered for
payment, or, if applicable, for conversion, where Securities of that series may
be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and where notices and
demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities of that series and
this Indenture may be served. If Securities of a series are issuable as Bearer
Securities, the Company will maintain (A) in the Borough of Manhattan, The City
of New York, an office or agency where any Registered Securities of that series
may be presented or surrendered for payment, or,
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if applicable, for conversion, where any Registered Securities of that series
may be surrendered for registration of transfer, where Securities of that series
may be surrendered for exchange, where notices and demands to or upon the
Company in respect of the Securities of that series and this Indenture may be
served and where Bearer Securities of that series and related coupons may be
presented or surrendered for payment in the circumstances described in the
following paragraph (and not otherwise), (B) subject to any laws or regulations
applicable thereto, in a Place of Payment for that series which is located
outside the United States, an office or agency where Securities of that series
and related coupons may be presented and surrendered for payment (including
payment of any additional amounts payable on Securities of that series pursuant
to Section 1004) or, if applicable, for conversion; provided, however, that if
the Securities of that series are listed on The International Stock Exchange of
the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland Limited, the Luxembourg Stock
Exchange or any other stock exchange located outside the United States and such
stock exchange shall so require, the Company will maintain a Paying Agent for
the Securities of that series in London, Luxembourg or any other required city
located outside the United States, as the case may be, so long as the Securities
of that series are listed on such exchange, and (C) subject to any laws or
regulations applicable thereto, in a Place of Payment for that series which is
located outside the United States an office or agency where any Registered
Securities of that series may be surrendered for registration of transfer, where
Securities of that series may be surrendered for exchange and where notices and
demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities of that series, and
this Indenture may be served. The Company will give prompt written notice to the
Trustee and prompt notices to the Holders as provided in Section 106 of the
location, and any change in the location, of any such office or agency. If at
any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency
in respect of any series of Securities or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with
the address thereof, such presentations and surrenders of Securities of that
series may be made and notices and demands may be made or served at the
Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, except that Bearer Securities of that
series and the related coupons may be presented and surrendered for payment
(including payment of any additional amounts payable on Bearer Securities of
that series pursuant to Section 1004) or, if applicable, for conversion, at any
Paying Agent for such series located outside the United States, and the Company
hereby appoints the same as its agents to receive such respective presentations,
surrenders, notices and demands.
No payment of principal, premium or interest on Bearer Securities shall
be made at any office or agency of the Company in the United States or by check
mailed to any address in the United States or by transfer to an account
maintained with a bank located in the United States; provided, however, that, if
the Securities of a series are denominated and payable in Dollars, payment of
principal of and any premium and interest on any Bearer Security (including any
additional amounts payable on Securities of such series pursuant to Section
1004) shall be made at the office of the Company's Paying Agent in the Borough
of Manhattan, The City of New York, if (but only if) payment in Dollars of the
full amount of such principal, premium, interest or additional amounts, as the
case may be, at all offices or agencies outside the United States maintained for
the purpose by the Company in accordance with this Indenture is illegal or
effectively precluded by exchange controls or other similar restrictions.
The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other
offices or agencies where Securities of one or more series may be presented or
surrendered for any or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind such
designations; provided, however, that no such
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designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the Company of its
obligation to maintain an office or agency in accordance with the requirements
set forth above for Securities of any series for such purposes. The Company will
give prompt written notice to the Trustee and the Holders of any such
designation or rescission and of any other change in the location of any such
other office or agency.
Section 1003 Money for Securities Payments to be Held in Trust.
If the Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent with
respect to any series of Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto, it
will, on or before each due date of the principal of and any premium or interest
on any of the Securities of that series, segregate and hold in trust for the
benefit of the Persons entitled thereto a sum sufficient to pay the principal
and any premium or interest so becoming due until such sums shall be paid to
such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided and will promptly
notify the Trustee of its action or failure to so act.
Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents for any
series of Securities, it will, on or prior to each due date of the principal of
and any premium or interest on any Securities of that series, deposit with a
Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay the principal and any premium or interest
so becoming due, such sum to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons
entitled to such principal, premium or interest, and (unless such Paying Agent
is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or
failure to so act.
The Company will cause each Paying Agent for any series of Securities
(other than the Company or the Trustee) to execute and deliver to the Trustee an
instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to
the provisions of this Section, that such Paying Agent will (i) comply with the
provisions of the Trust Indenture Act applicable to it as a Paying Agent and
(ii) during the continuance of any default by the Company (or any other obligor
upon the Securities of that series) in the making of any payment in respect of
the Securities of that series, and upon the written request of the Trustee,
forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums held in trust by such Paying Agent for
payment in respect of the Securities of that series.
The Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay, or
by Company Order direct any Paying Agent to pay, to the Trustee all sums held in
trust by the Company or such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the Trustee
upon the same trusts as those upon which such sums were held by the Company or
such Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the Trustee,
such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to
such money.
Any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then held
by the Company, in trust for the payment of the principal of and any premium or
interest on any Security of any series and remaining unclaimed for two years
after such principal and any premium or interest has become due and payable
shall be paid to the Company on Company Request (unless otherwise required by
mandatory provisions of applicable escheat or abandoned or unclaimed property
law), or (if then held by the Company) shall be discharged from such trust; and
the Holder of such Security or any coupon appertaining thereto shall (unless
otherwise
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required by mandatory provisions of applicable escheat or abandoned or unclaimed
property law) thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the
Company for payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying
Agent with respect to such trust money, and all liability of the Company as
trustee thereof, shall thereupon cease; provided, however, that the Trustee or
such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment, may at the
expense of the Company cause to be published once, in an Authorized Newspaper in
each Place of Payment, notice that such money remains unclaimed and that, after
a date specified therein, which shall not be less than 30 days from the date of
such publication, any unclaimed balance of such money then remaining will be
repaid to the Company.
Section 1004 Additional Amounts.
If the Securities of a series provide for the payment of additional
amounts, the Company will pay to the Holder of any Security of such series or
any coupon appertaining thereto additional amounts as provided therein. Whenever
in this Indenture there is mentioned, in any context, the payment of the
principal of or any premium or interest on, or in respect of, any Security of
any series or payment of any related coupon or the net proceeds received on the
sale or exchange of any Security of any series, such mention shall be deemed to
include mention of the payment of additional amounts provided for in this
Section to the extent that, in such context, additional amounts are, were or
would be payable in respect thereof pursuant to the provisions of this Section
and express mention of the payment of additional amounts (if applicable) in any
provisions hereof shall not be construed as excluding additional amounts in
those provisions hereof where such express mention is not made.
If the Securities of a series provide for the payment of additional
amounts, at least 10 days prior to the first Interest Payment Date with respect
to that series of Securities (or if the Securities of that series will not bear
interest prior to Maturity, the first day on which a payment of principal and
any premium is made), and at least 10 days prior to each date of payment of
principal and any premium or interest if there has been any change with respect
to the matters set forth in the below-mentioned Officers' Certificate, the
Company will furnish the Trustee and the Company's principal Paying Agent or
Paying Agents, if other than the Trustee, with an Officers' Certificate
instructing the Trustee and such Paying Agent or Paying Agents whether such
payment of principal of and any premium or interest on the Securities of that
series shall be made to Holders of Securities of that series or any related
coupons who are United States Aliens without withholding for or on account of
any tax, assessment or other governmental charge described in the Securities of
that series. If any such withholding shall be required, then such Officers'
Certificate shall specify by country the amount, if any, required to be withheld
on such payments to such Holders of Securities or coupons and the Company will
pay to the Trustee or such Paying Agent the additional amounts required by this
Section. The Company covenants to indemnify the Trustee and any Paying Agent
for, and to hold them harmless against, any loss, liability or expense
reasonably incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of
or in connection with actions taken or omitted by any of them in reliance on any
Officers' Certificate furnished pursuant to this Section.
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Section 1005 Purchase of Securities by Company or Subsidiary.
If and so long as the Securities of a series are listed on The
International Stock Exchange of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland
Limited and such stock exchange shall so require, the Company will not, and will
not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, purchase any Securities of that series by
private treaty at a price (exclusive of expenses and accrued interest) which
exceeds 120% of the mean of the nominal quotations of the Securities of that
series as shown in The Stock Exchange Daily Official List for the last trading
day preceding the date of purchase.
Section 1006 Appointment to Fill Vacancies in Trustee's Office.
The Company, whenever necessary to avoid or fill a vacancy in the
office of the Trustee, will appoint, in the manner provided in Section 610, a
Trustee, so that there shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder.
Section 1007 Statement by Officer as to Default.
(a) The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after the
end of each fiscal year of the Company ending after the date hereof, a brief
certificate from the principal executive officer, principal financial officer or
principal accounting officer as to his or her knowledge of the Company's
compliance with all conditions and covenants under this Indenture. For purposes
of this Section 1007, such compliance shall be determined without regard to any
period of grace or requirement of notice under this Indenture. Such certificate
shall comply with Section 314(a)(4) of the Trust Indenture Act.
(b) The Company shall, so long as any of the Securities are
outstanding, deliver to the Trustee forthwith upon any Officer becoming aware of
any Event of Default or event which, after notice or lapse of time or both,
would become an Event of Default, an Officers' Certificate specifying such Event
of Default or event and what action the Company proposes to take with respect
thereto.
Section 1008 Waiver of Certain Covenants.
The Company may omit in any particular instance to comply with any
term, provision or condition set forth in Section 1005, or Article Fifteen with
respect to the Securities of any series if before the time for such compliance
the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of
such series shall, by Act of such Holders, either waive such compliance in such
instance or generally waive compliance with such term, provision or condition,
but no such waiver shall extend to or affect such term, provision or condition
except to the extent so expressly waived, and, until such waiver shall become
effective, the obligations of the Company and the duties of the Trustee in
respect of any such term, provision or condition shall remain in full force and
effect.
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ARTICLE XI
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
Section 1101 Applicability of Article.
Securities of any series which are redeemable before their Stated
Maturity shall be redeemable in accordance with their terms and (except as
otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for Securities of any series)
in accordance with this Article.
Section 1102 Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee.
The election of the Company to redeem any Securities shall be evidenced
by a Board Resolution. In the case of any redemption at the election of the
Company of less than all the Securities of any series, the Company shall, at
least 45 days prior to the Redemption Date fixed by the Company (unless a
shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the Trustee), notify the Trustee of such
Redemption Date, of the principal amount of Securities of such series to be
redeemed and, if applicable, of the tenor of the Securities of such series to be
redeemed. In the case of any redemption of Securities (i) prior to the
expiration of any restriction on such redemption provided in the terms of such
Securities or elsewhere in this Indenture, or (ii) pursuant to an election of
the Company which is subject to a condition specified in the terms of such
Securities, the Company shall furnish the Trustee with an Officers' Certificate
evidencing compliance with such restriction or condition.
Section 1103 Selection of Securities to be Redeemed.
If less than all the Securities of any series are to be redeemed
(unless all of the Securities of such series of a specified tenor are to be
redeemed) the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not more
than 45 days prior to the Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the Outstanding
Securities of such series not previously called for redemption, by such method
as the Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate and which may provide for the
selection for redemption of portions (equal to the minimum authorized
denomination for Securities of that series or any integral multiple thereof) of
the principal amount of Registered Securities of such series of a denomination
larger than the minimum authorized denomination for Securities of that series or
of the principal amount of global Securities of such series. If less than all of
the Securities of such series and of a specified tenor are to be redeemed, the
particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not more than 45 days
prior to the Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the Outstanding Securities of
such series and specified tenor not previously called for redemption in
accordance with the preceding sentence.
The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the
Securities selected for redemption and, in the case of any Securities selected
for partial redemption, the principal amount thereof to be redeemed.
For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise
requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of Securities shall relate,
in the case of any Securities redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the
portion of the principal amount of such Securities which has been or is to be
redeemed. If any Security selected for partial redemption is surrendered for
conversion after such selection, the converted portion of such Security shall be
deemed (so far as
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may be) to be the portion selected for redemption. Upon any redemption of less
than all the Securities of a series, for purposes of selection for redemption
the Company and the Trustee may treat as Outstanding Securities surrendered for
conversion during the period of 15 days next preceding the mailing of a notice
of redemption, and need not treat as Outstanding any Security authenticated and
delivered during such period in exchange for the unconverted portion of any
Security converted in part during such period.
Section 1104 Notice of Redemption.
Notice of redemption shall be given in the manner provided in Section
106 to the Holders of Securities to be redeemed not less than 30 nor more than
60 days prior to the Redemption Date.
All notices of redemption shall state:
(1) the Redemption Date,
(2) the Redemption Price,
(3) if less than all the Outstanding Securities of any series are
to be redeemed, the identification (and, in the case of partial redemption of
any Securities, the principal amounts) of the particular Securities to be
redeemed, and that on and after the Redemption Date, upon surrender of the
Securities, new Securities of such series in principal amount equal to the
unredeemed part thereof will be issued,
(4) that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price will become
due and payable upon each such Security to be redeemed and, if applicable, that
interest thereon will cease to accrue on and after said date,
(5) the place or places where such Securities, together in the
case of Bearer Securities with all coupons appertaining thereto, if any,
maturing after the Redemption Date, are to be surrendered for payment of the
Redemption Price,
(6) that the redemption is for a sinking fund, if such is the
case, and
(7) if applicable, the conversion price or rate then in effect and
the date on which the right to convert the Securities or portions thereof to be
redeemed will expire.
A notice of redemption published as contemplated by Section 106 need
not identify particular Registered Securities to be redeemed.
Notice of redemption of Securities to be redeemed at the election of
the Company shall be given by the Company or, at the Company's request, by the
Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company.
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Section 1105 Deposit of Redemption Price.
On or prior to any Redemption Date, the Company shall deposit with the
Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if the Company is acting as its own Paying
Agent, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 1003) an amount of
money sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of, and (except if the Redemption
Date shall be an Interest Payment Date) accrued interest on, all the Securities
which are to be redeemed on that date. If any Security called for redemption is
converted pursuant hereto, any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying
Agent or so segregated and held in trust for the redemption of such Security
shall be paid to the Company upon delivery of a Company Request to the Trustee
or such Paying Agent, or, if then held by the Company, shall be discharged from
such trust.
Section 1106 Securities Payable on Redemption Date.
Notice of redemption having been given as aforesaid, the Securities so
to be redeemed shall, on the Redemption Date, become due and payable at the
Redemption Price therein specified, and from and after such date (unless the
Company shall default in the payment of the Redemption Price and accrued
interest) such Securities shall cease to bear interest and the coupons for such
interest appertaining to any Bearer Securities so to be redeemed, except to the
extent provided below, shall be void. Upon surrender of any such Security for
redemption in accordance with said notice, together with all coupons, if any,
appertaining thereto maturing after the Redemption Date, such Security shall be
paid by the Company at the Redemption Price, together with accrued interest to
the Redemption Date; provided, however, that installments of interest on Bearer
Securities whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption Date shall be
payable only at an office or agency located outside the United States (except as
otherwise provided in Section 1002) and, unless otherwise specified as
contemplated by Section 301, only upon presentation and surrender of coupons for
such interest, and provided, further, that, unless otherwise specified as
contemplated by Section 301, installments of interest on Registered Securities
whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption Date shall be payable to
the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities,
registered as such at the close of business on the relevant Record Dates
according to their terms and the provisions of Section 307.
If any Bearer Security surrendered for redemption shall not be
accompanied by all appurtenant coupons maturing after the Redemption Date, such
Security may be paid after deducting from the Redemption Price an amount equal
to the face amount of all such missing coupons, or the surrender of such missing
coupon or coupons may be waived by the Company and the Trustee if there be
furnished to them such security or indemnity as they may require to save each of
them and any Paying Agent harmless. If thereafter the Holder of such Security
shall surrender to the Trustee or any Paying Agent any such missing coupon in
respect of which a deduction shall have been made from the Redemption Price,
such Holder shall be entitled to receive the amount so deducted; provided,
however, that interest represented by coupons shall be payable only at an office
or agency located outside the United States (except as otherwise provided in
Section 1002) and, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301,
only upon presentation and surrender of those coupons.
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If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon
surrender thereof for redemption, the principal and any premium shall, until
paid, bear interest from the Redemption Date at the rate prescribed therefor in
the Security or, in the case of Original Issue Discount Securities, the
Securities' yield to maturity.
Section 1107 Securities Redeemed in Part.
Any Registered Security which is to be redeemed only in part shall be
surrendered at a Place of Payment thereof (with, if the Company or the Trustee
so requires, due endorsement by, or a written instrument of transfer in form
satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof
or his attorney duly authorized in writing), and the Company shall execute, and
the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such Security
without service charge, a new Registered Security or Securities of the same
series and of like tenor, of any authorized denomination as requested by such
Holder, in aggregate principal amount equal to and in exchange for the
unredeemed portion of the principal of the Security so surrendered.
ARTICLE XII
SINKING FUNDS
Section 1201 Applicability of Article.
The provisions of this Article shall be applicable to any sinking fund for the
retirement of Securities of a series except as otherwise specified as
contemplated by Section 301 for Securities of such series.
The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by the
terms of Securities of any series is herein referred to as a "mandatory sinking
fund payment," and any payment in excess of such minimum amount provided for by
the terms of Securities of any series is herein referred to as an "optional
sinking fund payment." If provided for by the terms of Securities of any series,
the cash amount of any sinking fund payment may be subject to reduction as
provided in Section 1202. Each sinking fund payment shall be applied to the
redemption of Securities of any series as provided for by the terms of
Securities of such series.
Section 1202 Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities.
The Company (1) may deliver Outstanding Securities of a series (other
than any previously called for redemption), together in the case of any Bearer
Securities of such series with all unmatured coupons appertaining thereto, and
(2) may apply as a credit Securities of a series which have been (x) converted
into Common Stock, if applicable, or (y) redeemed either at the election of the
Company pursuant to the terms of such Securities or through the application of
permitted optional sinking fund payments pursuant to the terms of such
Securities, in each case in satisfaction of all or any part of any sinking fund
payment with respect to the Securities of such series required to be made
pursuant to the terms of such Securities as provided for by the terms of such
series; provided that such Securities have not been previously so credited. Such
Securities shall be received and credited for such purpose by the Trustee at the
Redemption Price specified in such Securities for redemption through operation
of the sinking fund and the amount of such sinking fund payment shall be reduced
accordingly.
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Section 1203 Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund.
Not less than 60 days prior to each sinking fund payment date for any
series of Securities, the Company will deliver to the Trustee a Company Order
specifying the amount of the next ensuing sinking fund payment for that series
pursuant to the terms of that series, the portion thereof, if any, which is to
be satisfied by payment of cash and the portion thereof, if any, which is to be
satisfied by delivering and crediting Securities of that series pursuant to
Section 1202 and will also deliver to the Trustee any Securities to be so
credited. Not less than 45 days before each such sinking fund payment date the
Trustee shall select the Securities to be redeemed upon such sinking fund
payment date in the manner specified in Section 1103 and cause notice of the
redemption thereof to be given in the name of and at the expense of the Company
in the manner provided in Section 1104. Such notice having been duly given, the
redemption of such Securities shall be made upon the terms and in the manner
stated in Sections 1106 and 1107.
ARTICLE XIII
DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE
Section 1301 Company's Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.
The Company may at its option by Board Resolution, at any time, elect
to have either Section 1302 or Section 1303 applied to the Outstanding
Securities of any series upon compliance with the conditions set forth below in
this Article Thirteen.
Section 1302 Defeasance and Discharge.
Upon the Company's exercise of the option provided in Section 1301
applicable to this Section, the Company shall be deemed to have been discharged
from its obligations with respect to the Outstanding Securities of any series
(other than any convertible series) on the date the conditions set forth below
are satisfied (hereinafter, "defeasance"). For this purpose, such defeasance
means that the Company shall be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire
indebtedness represented by the Outstanding Securities of such series and to
have satisfied all its other obligations under the Securities of such series and
this Indenture insofar as the Securities of such series are concerned (and the
Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments
acknowledging the same), except for the following which shall survive until
otherwise terminated or discharged hereunder: (A) the rights of Holders of the
Securities of such series to receive, solely from the trust fund described in
Section 1304 and as more fully set forth in such Section, payments in respect of
the principal of and any premium and interest on the Securities of such series
when such payments are due, (B) the Company's obligations with respect to such
Securities under Sections 304, 305, 306, 1002, 1003 and 1004, (C) the rights,
powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the Trustee hereunder and (D) this
Article Thirteen. Subject to compliance with this Article Thirteen, the Company
may exercise its option under this Section 1302 notwithstanding the prior
exercise of its option under Section 1303.
Section 1303 Covenant Defeasance.
Upon the Company's exercise of the option provided in Section 1301
applicable to this Section, (i) the Company shall be released from its
obligations with respect to the Securities of such series under Sections 801,
and 1005 and (ii) the occurrence of an event specified in Sections
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501(3) or (5) shall not be deemed to be an Event of Default on and after the
date the conditions set forth below are satisfied (hereinafter, "covenant
defeasance"), but the remainder of this Indenture and such Securities shall be
unaffected thereby. For this purpose, such covenant defeasance means that the
Company may omit to comply with and shall have no liability in respect of any
term, condition or limitation set forth in any such Section or clause whether
directly or indirectly by reason of any reference elsewhere herein to any such
Section or clause or by reason of any reference in any such Section or clause to
any other provision herein or in any such Section or clause to any other
provision herein or in any other document, but the remainder of this Indenture
and such Securities shall be unaffected thereby.
Section 1304 Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.
The following shall be the conditions to application of either Section
1302 or Section 1303 to the then Outstanding Securities of any series:
(1) The Company shall irrevocably have deposited or caused to be
deposited with the Trustee (or another trustee satisfying the requirements of
Section 609 who shall agree to comply with the provisions of this Article
Thirteen applicable to it) as trust funds in trust for the purpose of making the
following payments specifically pledged as security for, and dedicated solely
to, the benefit of the Holders of the Securities of such series, (A) money in an
amount, or (B) U.S. Government Obligations which through the scheduled payment
of principal and interest in respect thereof in accordance with their terms will
provide, not later than one day before the due date of any payment, money in an
amount, or (C) a combination thereof, sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally
recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written
certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay and discharge, and which
shall be applied by the Trustee (or other qualifying trustee) to pay and
discharge, the principal of (and premium, if any) and each installment of
interest on the Securities and any coupons pertaining thereto on the Stated
Maturity of such principal (and premium, if any) or installment of interest in
accordance with the terms of this Indenture and of the Securities of such
series. For this purpose, "U.S. Government Obligations" means securities that
are (x) direct obligations of the United States for the payment of which its
full faith and credit is pledged or (y) obligations of a Person controlled or
supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality of the United States
the payment of which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit
obligation by the United States, which, in either case, are not callable or
redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof, and shall also include a
depository receipt issued by a bank (as defined in Section 3(a)(2) of the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended) as custodian with respect to any such U.S.
Government Obligation or a specific payment of principal of or interest on any
such U.S. Government Obligation held by such custodian for the account of the
holder of such depository receipt, provided that (except as required by law)
such custodian is not authorized to make any deduction from the amount payable
to the holder of such depository receipt from any amount received by the
custodian in respect of the U.S. Government Obligation or the specific payment
of principal of or interest on the U.S. Government Obligation evidenced by such
depository receipt.
(2) In the case of an election under Section 1302, the Company
shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel stating that (x) the
Company has received from, or there has been published by, the Internal Revenue
Service a ruling, or (y) since the date of this Indenture there has been a
change in the applicable United States Federal income tax law, in
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either case to the effect that, and based thereon such opinion shall confirm
that, the Holders of the Outstanding Securities of such series will not
recognize income, gain or loss for United States Federal income tax purposes as
a result of such deposit, defeasance and discharge and will be subject to United
States Federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the
same times as would have been the case if such deposit, defeasance and discharge
had not occurred.
(3) In the case of an election under Section 1303, the Company
shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the
Holders of the Outstanding Securities of such series will not recognize gain or
loss for United States Federal income tax purposes as a result of such deposit
and covenant defeasance and will be subject to United States Federal income tax
on the same amount, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been
the case if such deposit and covenant defeasance had not occurred.
(4) No Event of Default or event which with notice or lapse of
time or both would become an Event of Default with respect to the Securities of
such series shall have occurred and be continuing on the date of such deposit
or, insofar as subsections 501(6) and (7) are concerned, at any time during the
period ending on the 121st day after the date of such deposit (it being
understood that this condition shall not be deemed satisfied until the
expiration of such period).
(5) Such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall not cause the
Trustee to have a conflicting interest within the meaning of the Trust Indenture
Act with respect to any securities of the Company.
(6) Such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall not result in a
breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, any other agreement or
instrument to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound.
(7) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions
precedent provided for relating to either the defeasance under Section 1302 or
the covenant defeasance under Section 1303 (as the case may be) have been
complied with.
(8) Such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall not result in the
trust arising from such deposit constituting an investment company as defined in
the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, or such trust shall be qualified
under such Act or exempt from regulation thereunder.
Section 1305 Deposited Money and U.S. Government Obligations to be Held in
Trust; Other Miscellaneous Provisions.
Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 1003, all
money and U.S. Government Obligations (including the proceeds thereof) deposited
with the Trustee (or other qualifying trustee -- collectively, for purposes of
this Section 1305, the "Trustee") pursuant to Section 1304 in respect of the
Securities of such series shall be held in trust and applied by the Trustee, in
accordance with the provisions of such Securities of such series and this
Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent
(including the Company acting as its
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own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Holders of the Securities
of such series, of all sums due and to become due thereon in respect of
principal (and premium, if any) and interest, but such money need not be
segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.
The Company shall pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or
other charge imposed on or assessed against the U.S. Government Obligations
deposited pursuant to Section 1304 or the principal and interest received in
respect thereof other than any such tax, fee or other charge which by law is for
the account of the Holders of the Outstanding Securities.
Anything in this Article Thirteen to the contrary notwithstanding, the
Trustee shall deliver or pay to the Company from time to time upon Company
Request any money or U.S. Government Obligations held by it as provided in
Section 1304 which, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of
independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof
delivered to the Trustee, are in excess of the amount thereof which would then
be required to be deposited to effect an equivalent defeasance or covenant
defeasance.
Section 1306 Reinstatement.
If the Trustee or the Paying Agent is unable to apply any money in
accordance with Section 1302 or 1303 by reason of any order or judgment of any
court or governmental authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting
such application, then the Company's obligations under this Indenture and the
Securities of such series shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit
had occurred pursuant to this Article Thirteen until such time as the Trustee or
Paying Agent is permitted to apply all such money in accordance with Section
1302 or 1303; provided, however, that if the Company makes any payment of
principal of or any premium or interest on any Security following the
reinstatement of its obligations, the Company shall be subrogated to the rights
of the Holders of the Securities of such series to receive such payment from the
money held by the Trustee or the Paying Agent.
ARTICLE XIV
MEETINGS OF HOLDERS OF BEARER SECURITIES
Section 1401 Purposes for Which Meetings May be Called.
If Securities of a series are issuable as Bearer Securities, a meeting
of Holders of Securities of such series may be called at any time and from time
to time pursuant to this Article to make, give or take any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided by
this Indenture to be made, given or taken by Holders of Securities of such
series.
Section 1402 Call, Notice and Place of Meetings.
(a) The Trustee may at any time call a meeting of Holders of Bearer
Securities of any series for any purpose specified in Section 1401, to be held
at such time and at such place in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New
York, or in London or such other location as the Trustee shall determine. Notice
of every meeting of Holders of Bearer Securities of any series, setting forth
the time and the place of such meeting and in general terms the action proposed
to
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be taken at such meeting, shall be given, in the manner provided in Section 106,
not less than 21 nor more than 120 days prior to the date fixed for the meeting.
(b) In case at any time the Company, pursuant to a Board Resolution, or
the Holders of at least 10% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding
Bearer Securities of any series shall have requested the Trustee to call a
meeting of the Holders of Securities of such series for any purpose specified in
Section 1401, by written request setting forth in reasonable detail the action
proposed to be taken at the meeting, and the Trustee shall not have made the
first publication of the notice of such meeting within 21 days after receipt of
such request or shall not thereafter proceed to cause the meeting to be held as
provided herein, then the Company or the Holders of Securities of such series in
the amount above specified, as the case may be, may determine the time and the
place in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, or in London or such
other location as the Trustee shall determine for such meeting and may call such
meeting for such purposes by giving notice thereof as provided in subsection (a)
of this Section.
Section 1403 Persons Entitled to Vote at Meetings.
To be entitled to vote at any meeting of Holders of Bearer Securities a
Person shall (a) be a Holder of one or more Bearer Securities or (b) be a Person
appointed by an instrument in writing as proxy by a Holder of one or more Bearer
Securities. The only Persons who shall be entitled to be present or to speak at
any meeting of Holders of Bearer Securities shall be the Persons entitled to
vote at such meeting and their counsel and any representatives of the Trustee
and its counsel and any representatives of the Company and its counsel.
Section 1404 Quorum; Action.
The Persons entitled to vote a majority in aggregate principal amount
of the Outstanding Bearer Securities of a series shall constitute a quorum for a
meeting of Holders of Securities of such series. In the absence of a quorum
within 30 minutes of the time appointed for any such meeting, the meeting shall,
if convened at the request of Holders of Securities of such series, be
dissolved. In any other case the meeting may be adjourned for a period of not
less than 10 days as determined by the chairman of the meeting prior to the
adjournment of such meeting. In the absence of a quorum at any such adjourned
meeting, such adjourned meeting may be further adjourned for a period of not
less than 10 days as determined by the chairman of the meeting prior to the
adjournment of such adjourned meeting. Notice of the reconvening of any
adjourned meeting shall be given as provided in Section 1402(a), except that
such notice need be given only once not less than five days prior to the date on
which the meeting is scheduled to be reconvened. Notice of the reconvening of an
adjourned meeting shall state expressly the percentage, as provided above, of
the aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series
which shall constitute a quorum.
Except as limited by Section 512 or the proviso to the first paragraph
of Section 902, any resolution presented to a meeting (or adjourned meeting duly
reconvened at which a quorum is present as aforesaid) may be adopted by the
affirmative vote of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Bearer Securities of that series; provided, however, that any
resolution with respect to any request, demand, authorization, direction,
notice, consent, waiver or other action which this Indenture expressly provides
may be made, given or taken by the
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Holders of a specified percentage, which is less than a majority, in aggregate
principal amount of the Outstanding Bearer Securities of a series may be adopted
at a meeting (or an adjourned meeting duly reconvened and at which a quorum is
present as aforesaid) by the affirmative vote of the Holders of such specified
percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding Bearer Securities of that
series.
To the extent consistent with the terms of this Indenture, any
resolution passed or decision taken at any meeting of Holders of Bearer
Securities of any series duly held in accordance with this Section shall be
binding on all the Holders of Securities of such series and the related coupons,
whether or not present or represented at the meeting.
Section 1405 Determination of Voting Rights; Conduct and Adjournment of
Meetings.
(a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture, the Trustee
may make such reasonable regulations as it may deem advisable for any meeting of
Holders of Bearer Securities of a series in regard to proof of the holding of
Securities of such series and of the appointment of proxies and in regard to the
appointment and duties of inspectors of votes, the submission and examination of
proxies, certificates and other evidence of the right to vote, and such other
matters concerning the conduct of the meeting as it shall deem appropriate.
Except as otherwise permitted or required by any such regulations, the holding
of Bearer Securities shall be proved in the manner specified in Section 104 and
the appointment of any proxy shall be proved in the manner specified in Section
104 or by having the signature of the Person executing the proxy witnessed or
guaranteed by any trust company, bank or banker authorized by Section 104 to
certify to the holding of Bearer Securities. Such regulations may provide that
written instruments appointing proxies, regular on their face, may be presumed
valid and genuine without the proof specified in Section 104 or other proof.
(b) The Trustee shall, by an instrument in writing, appoint a temporary
chairman of the meeting, unless the meeting shall have been called by the
Company or by Holders of Bearer Securities as provided in Section 1402(b), in
which case the Company or the Holders of Bearer Securities of the series calling
the meeting, as the case may be, shall in like manner appoint a temporary
chairman. A permanent chairman and a permanent secretary of the meeting shall be
elected by vote of the Persons entitled to vote a majority in aggregate
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series represented at the
meeting.
(c) At any meeting each Holder of a Security of such series or proxy
shall be entitled to one vote for each $1,000 principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of such series held or represented by him; provided,
however, that no vote shall be cast or counted at any meeting in respect of any
Bearer Security challenged as not Outstanding and ruled by the chairman of the
meeting to be not Outstanding. The chairman of the meeting shall have no right
to vote, except as a Holder of a Security of such series or proxy.
(d) Any meeting of Holders of Bearer Securities of any series duly
called pursuant to Section 1402 at which a quorum is present may be adjourned
from time to time by Persons entitled to vote a majority in principal amount of
the Outstanding Securities of such series represented at the meeting; and the
meeting may be held as so adjourned without further notice.
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Section 1406 Counting Votes and Recording Action of Meetings.
The vote upon any resolution submitted to any meeting of Holders of
Bearer Securities of any series shall be by written ballots on which shall be
subscribed the signatures of the Holders of Securities of such series or of
their representatives by proxy and the principal amounts and serial numbers of
the Outstanding Securities of such series held or represented by them. The
permanent chairman of the meeting shall appoint two inspectors of votes who
shall count all votes cast at the meeting for or against any resolution and who
shall make and file with the secretary of the meeting their verified written
reports in duplicate of all votes cast at the meeting. A record, at least in
duplicate, of the proceedings of each meeting of Holders of Bearer Securities of
any series shall be prepared by the secretary of the meeting and there shall be
attached to said record the original reports of the inspectors of votes on any
vote by ballot taken thereat and affidavits by one or more persons having
knowledge of the facts setting forth a copy of the notice of the meeting and
showing that said notice was given as provided in Section 1402 and, if
applicable, Section 1404. Each copy shall be signed and verified by the
affidavits of the permanent chairman and secretary of the meeting and one such
copy shall be delivered to the Company, and another to the Trustee to be
preserved by the Trustee, the latter to have attached thereto the ballots voted
at the meeting. Any record so signed and verified shall be conclusive evidence
of the matters therein stated.
ARTICLE XV
SUBORDINATION
Section 1501 Securities Subordinated to Senior Indebtedness.
The Company covenants and agrees that anything in this Indenture to the
contrary notwithstanding, the indebtedness evidenced by the Securities of each
series is subordinate and junior in right of payment to all Senior Indebtedness
to the extent provided herein or, if so provided in a Board Resolution,
Officers' Certificate or executed supplemental indenture referred to in Sections
201 and 301 by or pursuant to which the form and terms of the Securities of such
series were established, as and to the extent provided by the terms of the
Securities of such series, and each Holder of Securities of each series, by his
acceptance thereof, likewise covenants and agrees to the subordination herein or
therein provided and shall be bound by the provisions hereof or thereof.
This Article Fifteen shall constitute a continuing offer to all Persons
who, in reliance upon such provisions, become holders of, or continue to hold,
Senior Indebtedness, and such provisions are made for the benefit of the holders
of Senior Indebtedness, and such holders are made obligees hereunder and any one
or more of them may enforce such provisions.
No payment may be made by the Company on account of the principal of or
any premium or interest on the Securities, or to acquire any of the Securities
(including repurchases of Securities at the option of the Holders) for cash or
property (other than Junior Securities), or on account of any redemption
provisions of the Securities, (i) upon the maturity of any Senior Indebtedness
of the Company by lapse of time, acceleration (unless waived) or otherwise,
unless and until all principal of and any premium and interest on such Senior
Indebtedness are first paid in full (or such payment is duly provided for) or
(ii) in the event of default in the payment of any
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principal of or any premium or interest on any Senior Indebtedness when it
becomes due and payable, whether at stated maturity or at a date fixed for
prepayment or by declaration or otherwise (a "Payment Default"), unless and
until such Payment Default has been cured or waived or otherwise has ceased to
exist.
Upon (i) the happening of an event of default (other than a Payment
Default) that permits the holders of Senior Indebtedness or their representative
immediately to accelerate its maturity and (ii) written notice of such event of
default given to the Company and the Trustee by the holders of at least 25% in
aggregate principal amount outstanding of such Senior Indebtedness or their
representative (a "Payment Notice"), then, unless and until such event of
default has been cured or waived or otherwise has ceased to exist, no payment
(by set off or otherwise) may be made by or on behalf of the Company on account
of the principal of or any premium or interest on the Securities, or to acquire
or repurchase any of the Securities for cash or property, or on account of any
redemption provisions of the Securities, in any such case other than payments
made with Junior
Securities of the Company. Notwithstanding the foregoing, unless (i)
the Senior Indebtedness in respect of which such event of default exists has
been declared due and payable in its entirety within 179 days after the Payment
Notice is delivered as set forth above (the "Payment Blockage Period"), and (ii)
such declaration has not been rescinded or waived, at the end of the Payment
Blockage Period, the Company shall be required to pay all sums not paid to the
Holders of the Securities during the Payment Blockage Period due to the
foregoing prohibitions and to resume all other payments as and when due on the
Securities. Any number of Payment Notices may be given; provided, however, that
(i) not more than one Payment Notice shall be given within a period of any 360
consecutive days and (ii) no event of default that existed upon the date of such
Payment Notice or the commencement of such Payment Blockage Period (whether or
not such event of default is on the same issue of Senior Indebtedness) shall be
made the basis for the commencement of any other Payment Blockage Period.
Upon any distribution of assets of the Company upon any dissolution,
winding-up, liquidation or reorganization of the Company, whether voluntary of
involuntary, in bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or a similar proceeding or
upon assignment for the benefit of creditors or any marshaling of assets or
liabilities: (i) the holders of all Senior Indebtedness shall first be entitled
to receive payments in full (or have such payment duly provided for) before the
Holders are entitled to receive any payment on account of the principal of or
any premium or interest on the Securities (other than Junior Securities); and
(ii) any payment or distribution of assets of the Company of any kind or
character, whether in cash, property or securities (other than Junior
Securities), to which the Holders or the Trustee on behalf of the Holders would
be entitled (by set off or otherwise), except for the provisions of this Article
Fifteen, shall be paid by the liquidating trustee or agent or other Person
making such a payment or distribution directly to the holders of Senior
Indebtedness or their representative to the extent necessary to make payment in
full of all such Senior Indebtedness remaining unpaid, after giving effect to
any concurrent payment or distribution to the holders of such Senior
Indebtedness.
In the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this
Section 1601, any payment or distribution of assets of the Company (other than
Junior Securities) shall be received by the Trustee or the Holders at a time
when such payment or distribution is prohibited by the
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provisions of this Section 1501, then such payment or distribution (subject to
the provisions of Section 1503 shall be received and held in trust by the
Trustee or such Holders for the benefit of the holders of Senior Indebtedness,
and shall be paid or delivered by the Trustee or such Holders, as the case may
be, to the holders of Senior Indebtedness remaining unpaid or unprovided for or
their representative or representatives, or to the trustee or trustees under any
indenture pursuant to which any instruments evidencing any of such Senior
Indebtedness may have been issued, ratably according to the aggregate amounts
remaining unpaid on account of the Senior Indebtedness held or represented by
each, for application to the payment of all Senior Indebtedness remaining unpaid
to the extent necessary to pay or to provide for the payment of all such Senior
Indebtedness in full after giving effect to any concurrent payment and
distribution to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness.
The failure to make a payment on account of principal of or any premium
or interest on the Securities of any series by reason of any provision of this
Article Fifteen shall not be construed as preventing the occurrence of an Event
of Default. Nothing contained herein shall impair, as between the Company and
the Holders of Securities of each series, the obligation of the Company, which
is absolute and unconditional, to pay to such Holders the principal of and any
premium and interest on such Securities as and when the same shall become due
and payable in accordance with their terms or prevent the Trustee or any Holder
from exercising all rights, powers and remedies otherwise permitted by
applicable law or hereunder upon a default or Event of Default hereunder, all
subject to the rights of the holders of the Senior Indebtedness to receive cash,
securities or other property otherwise payable or deliverable to the Holders.
Senior Indebtedness shall not be deemed to have been paid in full
unless the holders thereof shall have received cash, securities or other
property equal to the amount of such Senior Indebtedness then outstanding. Upon
the payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness, the Holders of Securities of
each series shall be subrogated to all rights of any holders of Senior
Indebtedness to receive any further payments or distributions applicable to the
Senior Indebtedness until the indebtedness evidenced by the Securities of such
series shall have been paid in full, and such payments or distributions received
by such Holders, by reason of such subrogation, of cash, securities or other
property which otherwise would be paid or distributed to the holders of Senior
Indebtedness, shall, as between the Company and its creditors other than the
holders of Senior Indebtedness, on the one hand, and such Holders, on the other
hand, be deemed to be a payment by the Company on account of Senior
Indebtedness, and not on account of the Securities of such series.
The provisions of this Section 1501 shall not impair any rights,
interests, remedies or powers of any secured creditor of the Company in respect
of any security interest the creation of which is not prohibited by the
provisions of this Indenture.
The securing of any obligations of the Company, otherwise ranking on a
parity with the Securities or ranking junior to the Securities, shall not be
deemed to prevent such obligations from constituting, respectively, obligations
ranking on a parity with the Securities or ranking junior to the Securities.
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Section 1502 Reliance on Certificate of Liquidating Agent; Further Evidence
as to Ownership of Senior Indebtedness.
Upon any payment or distribution of assets of the Company, the Trustee
and the Holders shall be entitled to rely upon an order or decree issued by any
court of competent jurisdiction in which such dissolution or winding-up or
liquidation or reorganization proceedings are pending or upon a certificate of
the trustee in bankruptcy, receiver, assignee for the benefit of creditors or
other Person making such payment or distribution, delivered to the Trustee or to
the Holders, for the purpose of ascertaining the Persons entitled to participate
in such distribution, the holders of the Senior Indebtedness and other
indebtedness of the Company, the amount thereof or payable thereon, the amount
or amounts paid or distributed thereon and all other facts pertinent thereto or
to this Article Fifteen. In the absence of any such bankruptcy trustee,
receiver, assignee or other Person, the Trustee shall be entitled to rely upon a
written notice by a Person representing himself to be a holder of Senior
Indebtedness (or a trustee or representative on behalf of such holder) as
evidence that such Person is a holder of Senior Indebtedness (or is such a
trustee or representative). If the Trustee determines, in good faith, that
further evidence is required with respect to the right of any Person as a holder
of Senior Indebtedness to participate in any payment or distribution pursuant to
this Article Fifteen, the Trustee may request such Person to furnish evidence to
the reasonable satisfaction of the Trustee as to the amount of Senior
Indebtedness held by such Person, as to the extent to which such Person is
entitled to participate in such payment or distribution, and as to other facts
pertinent to the rights of such Person under this Article Fifteen, and if such
evidence is not furnished, the Trustee may defer any payment to such Person
pending judicial determination as to the right of such Person to receive such
payment.
Section 1503 Application by Trustee of Assets Deposited with It.
Amounts deposited in trust with the Trustee pursuant to and in
accordance with Article Thirteen shall be for the sole benefit of Holders of
Securities of each series subject thereto and, to the extent allocated for the
payment of such Securities, shall not be subject to the subordination provisions
of this Article Fifteen. Otherwise, any deposit of assets with the Trustee
(whether or not in trust) for the payment of the principal of or any premium or
interest on any Securities shall be subject to the provisions of this Article
Fifteen; provided, however, if prior to one Business Day preceding the date on
which by the terms of this Indenture any such assets may become distributable
for any purpose (including, without limitation, the payment of the principal of
or any premium or interest on any Security) the Trustee shall not have received
with respect to such assets the Officers' Certificate or written notice provided
for in Section 1505, then the Trustee shall have full power and authority to
receive such assets and to apply the same to the purpose for which they were
received.
Section 1504 Disputes with Holders of Certain Senior Indebtedness.
Any failure by the Company to make any payment on or under any Senior
Indebtedness, other than any Senior Indebtedness as to which the provisions of
this Section 1504 shall have been waived by the Company in the instrument or
instruments by which the Company incurred, assumed, guaranteed or otherwise
created such Senior Indebtedness, shall not be deemed a default under Section
1501 if (i) the Company shall be disputing its obligation to make such
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payment or perform such obligation, and (ii) either (A) no final judgment
relating to such dispute shall have been issued against the Company which is in
full force and effect and is not subject to further review, including a judgment
that has become final by reason of the expiration of the time within which a
party may seek further appeal or review, or (B) in the event of a judgment that
is subject to further review or appeal has been issued, the Company shall in
good faith be prosecuting an appeal or other proceeding for review, and a stay
of execution shall have been obtained pending such appeal or review.
Section 1505 Trustee Not Charged with Knowledge of Prohibition.
Anything in this Article Fifteen or elsewhere in this Indenture
contained to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall not at any time be
charged with knowledge of the existence of any facts which would prohibit the
making of any payment of moneys to or by Trustee and shall be entitled to assume
conclusively that no such facts exist, unless and until the Trustee shall have
received an Officers' Certificate to that effect or notice in writing to that
effect signed by or on behalf of the holder or holders, or their
representatives, of Senior Indebtedness who shall have been certified by the
Company or otherwise established to the reasonable satisfaction of the Trustee
to be such holder or holders or representatives or from any trustee under any
indenture pursuant to which such Senior Indebtedness shall be outstanding;
provided, however, that, if the Trustee shall not have received the Officers'
Certificate or notice provided for in this Section 1505 at least one Business
Day preceding the date upon which by the terms hereof any such moneys may become
payable for any purpose (including, without limitation, the payment of the
principal of or any premium or interest on any Security), then, anything herein
contained to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall have full power and
authority to receive such moneys and apply the same to the purpose for which
they were received and shall not be affected by any notice to the contrary which
may be received by it within one Business Day preceding such date. The Company
shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee and to each Paying Agent of any
facts which would prohibit any payment of moneys to or by the Trustee or any
Paying Agent, and the Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of the curing
of any default or the elimination of any other fact or condition preventing such
payment or distribution unless and until the Trustee shall have received an
Officers' Certificate to such effect.
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Section 1506 Trustee to Effectuate Subordination.
Each Holder of Securities by his acceptance thereof authorizes and
directs the Trustee on his behalf to take such action as may be necessary or
appropriate to effectuate the subordination as between such Holder and holders
of Senior Indebtedness as provided in this Article Fifteen and appoints the
Trustee its attorney-in-fact for any and all such purposes, including, in the
event of any dissolution, winding-up, liquidation or reorganization of the
Company (whether in bankruptcy, insolvency or receivership proceedings or upon
an assignment for the benefit of creditors of the Company), the immediate filing
of a claim for the unpaid balance of his Securities in the form required in said
proceedings and cause said claim to be approved. If the Trustee does not file a
proper claim or proof of debt in the form required in such proceeding prior to
30 days before the expiration of the time to file such claim or claims, then the
holders of the Senior Indebtedness or their representative is hereby authorized
to have the right to file and is hereby authorized to file an appropriate claim
for and on behalf of the Holders of said Securities. Nothing herein contained
shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee or the holders of Senior Indebtedness
or their representative to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf
of any Security holder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or
composition affecting the Securities or the rights of any Holder thereof, or to
authorize the Trustee or the holders of Senior Indebtedness or their
representative to vote in respect of the claim of any Security holder in any
such proceeding.
Section 1507 Rights of Trustee as Holder of Senior Indebtedness.
The Trustee shall be entitled to all the rights set forth in this
Article Fifteen with respect to any Senior Indebtedness which may at the time be
held by it, to the same extent as any other holder of Senior Indebtedness and
nothing in this Indenture shall deprive the Trustee of any of its rights as such
holder. Nothing in this Article Fifteen shall apply to claims of, or payments
to, the Trustee under or pursuant to Section 607.
Section 1508 Article Applicable to Paying Agents.
In case at any time any Paying Agent other than the Trustee shall have
been appointed by the Company and be then acting hereunder, the term "Trustee"
as used in this Article Fifteen shall in such case (unless the context shall
otherwise require) be construed as extending to and including such Paying Agent
within its meaning as fully for all intents and purposes as if the Paying Agent
were named in this Article Fifteen in addition to or in place of the Trustee;
provided, however, that Sections 1505 and 1507 shall not apply to the Company if
its acts as Paying Agent.
Section 1509 Subordination Rights Not Impaired by Acts or Omissions of the
Company or Holders of Senior Indebtedness.
No right of any present or future holders of any Senior Indebtedness to
enforce subordination as herein provided shall at any time in any way be
prejudiced or impaired by any act or failure to act on the part of the Company
or by any act or failure to act, in good faith, by any such holder, or by any
noncompliance by the Company with the terms, provisions and covenants of this
Indenture, regardless of any knowledge thereof which any such holder may
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have or be otherwise charged with. The holders of Senior Indebtedness may, at
any time or from time to time and in their absolute discretion, change the
manner, place or terms of payment, change or extend the time of payment of, or
renew or alter, any such Senior Indebtedness, or amend or supplement any
instrument pursuant to which any such Senior Indebtedness is issued or by which
it may be secured, or release any security therefor, or exercise or refrain from
exercising any other of their rights under the Senior Indebtedness, including,
without limitation, the waiver of default thereunder, all without notice to or
assent from the Holders of the Securities or the Trustee and without affecting
the obligations of the Company, the Trustee or the Holders of Securities under
this Article Fifteen.
Section 1510 Trustee Not Fiduciary for Holders of Senior Indebtedness.
The Trustee shall not be deemed to owe any fiduciary duty to the
holders of the Senior Indebtedness, and shall not be liable to any such holders
if it shall mistakenly pay over or distribute money or assets to Security
holders or the Company.
This instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of
which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts
shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be
duly executed, all as of the day and year first above written.
COMPANY
DYNEGY INC.
By:________________________________
Name:______________________________
Title:_____________________________
TRUSTEE
BANK ONE TRUST COMPANY,
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
By:________________________________
Name:______________________________
Title:_____________________________
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EXHIBIT A
FORM OF CERTIFICATE TO BE GIVEN BY
BENEFICIAL OWNER OF
INTEREST IN A TEMPORARY GLOBAL SECURITY
DYNEGY INC.
[Title of Securities]
(the "Securities")
This is to certify that as of the date hereof, and except as set forth
below, the above-captioned Securities held by you for our account (i) are owned
by person(s) that are not citizens or residents of the United States, domestic
partnerships, domestic corporations or any estate or trust the income of which
is subject to United States Federal income taxation regardless of its source
("United States persons"), (ii) are owned by United States person(s) that are
(A) foreign branches of United States financial institutions (as defined in U.S.
Treasury Regulations Section 1.165-12(c)(1)(v)) ("financial institutions")
purchasing for their own account or for resale, or (B) United States person(s)
who acquired Securities through the foreign branches of the United States
financial institutions and who hold the Securities through such United States
financial institutions on the date hereof (and in either case (A) or (B), each
such United States financial institution hereby agrees, on its own behalf or
through its agent, to comply with the requirements of Section 165(j)(3)(A), (B)
or (C) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 as amended, and the regulations
thereunder), or (iii) are owned by United States or foreign financial
institution(s) for purposes of resale during the restricted period (as defined
in U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.163-5(c)(2)(i)(D)(7)), and in addition if
the owner of the Securities is a United States or foreign financial institution
described in clause (iii) above (whether or not also described in clause (i) or
(ii)), this is to further certify that such financial institution has not
acquired the Securities for purposes of resale directly or indirectly to a
United States person or to a person within the United States or its possessions.
If the Securities are of the category contemplated in Section
230.903(c)(3) of Regulation S under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the
"Act"), then this is also to certify that, except as set forth below, the
Securities are beneficially owned by (a) non-U.S. person(s) or (b) U.S.
person(s) who purchased the Securities in transactions which did not require
registration under the Act.
As used herein, "United States" or "U.S." means the United States
(including the States and District of Columbia); and its "possessions" include
Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, Wake Island and the
Northern Mariana Islands.
We undertake to advise you promptly by tested telex or electronic
transmission on or prior to the date on which you intend to submit your
certification relating to the Securities held by you for our account in
accordance with your Operating Procedures if any applicable statement
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herein is not correct on such date, and in the absence of any such notification
it may be assumed that this certification applies as of such date.
This certification excepts and does not relate to $________ of such
interest in the above Securities in respect of which we are not able to certify
and as to which we understand exchange and delivery of definitive Securities
(or, if relevant, exercise of any rights or collection of any interest) cannot
be made until we do so certify.
We understand that this certification is required in connection with
certain tax laws and, if applicable, certain securities laws of the United
States. In connection therewith, if administrative or legal proceedings are
commenced or threatened in connection with which this certification is or would
be relevant, we irrevocably authorize you to produce this certification to any
interested party in such proceedings.
*Dated: ______________, ____.
NAME OF PERSON MAKING CERTIFICATION
By: ______________________________
* To be dated no earlier than the Certification Date.
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EXHIBIT B
FORM OF CERTIFICATION TO BE GIVEN BY THE
EURO-CLEAR OPERATOR OR CLEARSTREAM
DYNEGY INC.
[Title of Securities]
(the "Securities")
This is to certify that, based solely on certifications we have
received in writing, by tested telex or by electronic transmission from member
organizations appearing in our records as persons being entitled to a portion of
the principal amount set forth below (our "Member Organizations") substantially
to the effect set forth in the Indenture, dated as of ____ __, ____, among
Dynegy Inc., and Bank One Trust Company, National Association, as supplemented,
amended or restated, [ ] principal amount of the above-captioned Securities (i)
is owned by persons that are not citizens or residents of the United States,
domestic partnerships, domestic corporations or any estate or trust the income
of which is subject to United States Federal income taxation regardless of its
source ("United States persons"), (ii) is owned by United States persons that
are (A) foreign branches of United States financial institutions (as defined in
U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.165-12(c)(1)(v)) ("financial institutions")
purchasing for their own account or for resale, or (B) United States persons who
acquired the Securities through foreign branches of United States financial
institutions and who hold the Securities through such United States financial
institutions on the date hereof (and in either case (A) or (B), each such United
States financial institution has agreed, on its own behalf or through its agent,
that it will comply with the requirements of Section 165(j)(3)(A), (B) or (C) of
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the regulations thereunder),
or (iii) is owned by United States or foreign financial institutions for
purposes of resale during the restricted period (as defined in U.S. Treasury
Regulations Section 1.163-5(c)(2)(i)(D)(7)), and to the further effect that the
United States or foreign financial institutions described in clause (iii) above
(whether or not also described in clause (i) or (ii)) have certified that they
have not acquired the Securities for purposes of resale directly or indirectly
to a United States person or to a person within the United States or its
possessions.
If the Securities are of the category contemplated in Section
230.903(c)(3) of Regulation S under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, then
this is also to certify with respect to such principal amount of Securities set
forth above that, except as set forth below, we have received in writing, by
tested telex or by electronic transmission, from our Member Organizations
entitled to a portion of such principal amount, certifications with respect to
such portion, substantially to the effect set forth in the Indenture.
We further certify (i) that we are not making available herewith for
exchange (or, if relevant, exercise of any rights or collection of any interest)
any portion of the temporary global Security excepted in such certifications and
(ii) that as of the date hereof we have not received any notification from any
of our Member Organizations to the effect that the statements made by such
Member Organizations with respect to any portion of the part submitted herewith
for
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exchange (or, if relevant, exercise of any rights or collection of any interest)
are no longer true and cannot be relied upon as of the date hereof.
We understand that this certification is required in connection with certain tax
laws and, if applicable, certain securities laws of the United States. In
connection therewith, if administrative or legal proceedings are
commenced or threatened in connection with which this certification is
or would be relevant, we irrevocably authorize you to produce this certification
or a copy hereof to any interested party in such proceedings.
Dated: _______________, ____.
(dated the Exchange Date or the Interest Payment Date)
[Xxxxxx Guaranty Trust Company of New York, as operator of the Euro-clear
System]
or
[Clearstream]
By: ______________________________
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