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Exhibit 4.4
VORNADO REALTY L.P.
TO
THE BANK OF NEW YORK
Trustee
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INDENTURE
Dated as of , 1997
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SENIOR DEBT SECURITIES
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CERTAIN SECTIONS OF THIS INDENTURE RELATING TO SECTIONS 310 THROUGH 318,
INCLUSIVE, OF THE TRUST INDENTURE ACT OF 1939:
TRUST INDENTURE
ACT SECTION INDENTURE SECTION
Section 310(a)(1) ...................................... 609
(a)(2) ...................................... 609
(a)(3) ...................................... Not Applicable
(a)(4) ...................................... Not Applicable
(b) ...................................... 608
610
Section 311(a) ...................................... 613
(b) ...................................... 613
Section 312(a) ...................................... 701
702
(b) ...................................... 702
(c) ...................................... 702
Section 313(a) ...................................... 703
(b) ...................................... 703
(c) ...................................... 703
(d) ...................................... 703
Section 314(a) ...................................... 704
(a)(4) ...................................... 101
1004
(b) ...................................... Not Applicable
(c)(1) ...................................... 102
(c)(2) ...................................... 102
(c)(3) ...................................... Not Applicable
(d) ...................................... Not Applicable
(e) ...................................... 102
Section 315(a) ...................................... 601
(b) ...................................... 602
(c) ...................................... 601
(d) ...................................... 601
(e) ...................................... 514
Section 316(a) ...................................... 101
(a)(1)(A)...................................... 502
512
(a)(1)(B)...................................... 513
(a)(2) ...................................... Not Applicable
(b) ...................................... 508
(c) ...................................... 104
Section 317(a)(1) ...................................... 503
(a)(2) ...................................... 504
(b) ...................................... 1003
Section 318(a) ...................................... 107
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NOTE: This reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a
part of the Indenture.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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PARTIES........................................................ 1
RECITALS OF THE OPERATING PARTNERSHIP.......................... 1
ARTICLE ONE
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION
SECTION 101. Definitions:
Act............................................... 2
Affiliate; control................................ 2
Authenticating Agent.............................. 2
Board of Trustees................................. 2
Board Resolution.................................. 2
Business Day...................................... 2
Commission........................................ 2
Common Shares..................................... 2
Corporate Trust Office............................ 3
corporation....................................... 3
Covenant Defeasance............................... 3
Defaulted Interest................................ 3
Defeasance........................................ 3
Depositary........................................ 3
Event of Default.................................. 3
Exchange Act...................................... 3
Expiration Date................................... 3
Global Security................................... 3
Holder............................................ 3
Indenture......................................... 3
interest.......................................... 4
Interest Payment Date............................. 4
Investment Company Act............................ 4
Maturity.......................................... 4
Notice of Default................................. 4
Operating Partnership............................. 4
Operating Partnership Request; Operating
Partnership Order................................. 4
Officers' Certificate............................. 4
Opinion of Counsel................................ 4
Original Issue Discount Security.................. 4
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NOTE: This table of contents shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a
part of the Indenture.
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Outstanding....................................... 4
Paying Agent...................................... 5
Person............................................ 5
Place of Payment.................................. 5
Predecessor Security.............................. 6
Redemption Date................................... 6
Redemption Price.................................. 6
Regular Record Date............................... 6
Responsible Officer............................... 6
Securities........................................ 6
Securities Act.................................... 6
Security Register and Security Registrar.......... 6
Special Record Date............................... 6
Stated Maturity................................... 6
Subsidiary........................................ 7
Trust Indenture Act............................... 7
Trustee........................................... 7
U.S. Government Obligations....................... 7
Vice President.................................... 7
SECTION 102. Compliance Certificates and Opinions.............. 7
SECTION 103. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee............ 8
SECTION 104. Acts of Holders; Record Dates..................... 8
SECTION 105. Notices, Etc., to Trustee and Operating
Partnership....................................... 10
SECTION 106. Notice to Holders; Waiver......................... 11
SECTION 107. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act................. 11
SECTION 108. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents.......... 12
SECTION 109. Successors and Assigns............................ 12
SECTION 110. Separability Clause............................... 12
SECTION 111. Benefits of Indenture............................. 12
SECTION 112. Governing Law..................................... 12
SECTION 113. Legal Holidays.................................... 12
ARTICLE TWO
SECURITY FORMS
SECTION 201. Forms Generally................................... 13
SECTION 202. Form of Face of Security.......................... 13
SECTION 203. Form of Reverse of Security....................... 15
SECTION 204. Form of Legend for Global Securities.............. 18
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SECTION 205. Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication... 19
ARTICLE THREE
THE SECURITIES
SECTION 301. Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series.............. 19
SECTION 302. Denominations..................................... 22
SECTION 303. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating.... 22
SECTION 304. Temporary Securities.............................. 23
SECTION 305. Registration, Registration of Transfer and
Exchange.......................................... 24
SECTION 306. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities.. 26
SECTION 307. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved.... 27
SECTION 308. Persons Deemed Owners............................. 28
SECTION 309. Cancellation...................................... 28
SECTION 310. Computation of Interest........................... 28
SECTION 311. CUSIP Numbers..................................... 28
ARTICLE FOUR
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
SECTION 401. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture........... 29
SECTION 402. Application of Trust Money........................ 30
ARTICLE FIVE
REMEDIES
SECTION 501. Events of Default................................. 30
SECTION 502. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment 32
SECTION 503. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for
Enforcement by Trustee........................ 33
SECTION 504. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.................. 34
SECTION 505. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession
of Securities................................. 34
SECTION 506. Application of Money Collected.................... 35
SECTION 507. Limitation on Suits............................... 35
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SECTION 508. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive
Principal, Premium and Interest............... 36
SECTION 509. Restoration of Rights and Remedies................ 36
SECTION 510. Rights and Remedies Cumulative.................... 36
SECTION 511. Delay or Omission Not Waiver...................... 36
SECTION 512. Control by Holders................................ 37
SECTION 513. Waiver of Past Defaults........................... 37
SECTION 514. Undertaking for Costs............................. 37
SECTION 515. Waiver of Usury, Stay or Extension Laws........... 38
ARTICLE SIX
THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 601. Certain Duties and Responsibilities............... 38
SECTION 602. Notice of Defaults................................ 38
SECTION 603. Certain Rights of Trustee......................... 39
SECTION 604. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of
Securities................................... 40
SECTION 605. May Hold Securities............................... 40
SECTION 606. Money Held in Trust............................... 40
SECTION 607. Compensation and Reimbursement.................... 40
SECTION 608. Disqualification; Conflicting Interests........... 41
SECTION 609. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility........... 41
SECTION 610. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor. 41
SECTION 611. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor............ 43
SECTION 612. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession
to Business................................... 44
SECTION 613. Preferential Collection of Claims Against
Operating Partnership......................... 44
SECTION 614. Appointment of Authenticating Agent............... 45
ARTICLE SEVEN
HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND OPERATING PARTNERSHIP
SECTION 701. Operating Partnership to Furnish Trustee Names and
Addresses of Holders.......................... 46
SECTION 702. Preservation of Information; Communications
to Holders.................................... 47
SECTION 703. Reports by Trustee................................ 47
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SECTION 704. Reports by Operating Partnership.................. 47
SECTION 705. Notice of Default................................. 48
ARTICLE EIGHT
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE
SECTION 801. Operating Partnership May Consolidate, Etc., Only
on Certain Terms.............................. 48
SECTION 802. Successor Substituted............................. 49
ARTICLE NINE
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.............. 52
SECTION 904. Effect of Supplemental Indentures................. 52
SECTION 905. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act............... 52
SECTION 906. Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures 52
ARTICLE TEN
COVENANTS
SECTION 1001.Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest........ 53
SECTION 1002.Maintenance of Office or Agency................... 53
SECTION 0000.Xxxxx for Securities Payments to Be Held in Trust. 53
SECTION 1004.Statement by Officers as to Default............... 54
SECTION 1005.Existence......................................... 55
SECTION 1006.Maintenance of Properties......................... 55
SECTION 1007.Payment of Taxes and Other Claims................. 55
SECTION 0000.Xxxxxxxxx......................................... 56
SECTION 1009.Provision of Financial Information................ 56
SECTION 1010.Waiver of Certain Covenants....................... 56
SECTION 1011.Calculation of Original Issue Discount............ 56
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ARTICLE ELEVEN
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 1101.Applicability of Article.......................... 56
SECTION 1102.Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee............. 56
SECTION 1103.Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed. 57
SECTION 1104.Notice of Redemption.............................. 57
SECTION 1105.Deposit of Redemption Price....................... 58
SECTION 1106.Securities Payable on Redemption Date............. 58
SECTION 1107.Securities Redeemed in Part....................... 59
ARTICLE TWELVE
SINKING FUNDS
SECTION 1201.Applicability of Article.......................... 59
SECTION 1202.Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with
Securities................................... 59
SECTION 1203.Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund......... 60
ARTICLE THIRTEEN
DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE
SECTION 1301.Operating Partnership's Option to Effect
Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance............. 60
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; Miscellaneous Provisions. 63
SECTION 1306.Reinstatement..................................... 65
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TESTIMONIUM.................................................... 65
SIGNATURES AND SEALS........................................... 65
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS............................................... 66
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INDENTURE, dated as of _____________, 199_, between Vornado Realty L.P., a
Delaware limited partnership duly organized and existing under the laws of the
State of Delaware (herein called the "Operating Partnership") and managed by
Vornado Realty Trust as its general partner, having its principal office at Park
00 Xxxx, Xxxxx XX, Xxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxxxx 00000, and The Bank of New York, a
New York banking corporation, as Trustee (herein called the "Trustee").
RECITALS OF THE OPERATING PARTNERSHIP
The Operating Partnership has duly authorized the execution and delivery of
this Indenture to provide for the issuance from time to time of its unsecured
debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness (herein called the
"Securities") to be issued in one or more series as in this Indenture provided.
All things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement of the
Operating Partnership, 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 series thereof, as follows:
ARTICLE ONE
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS
OF GENERAL APPLICATION
SECTION 101. Definitions.
For all purposes of this Indenture, except as otherwise expressly provided
or unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) the terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to them
in this Article and include the plural as well as the singular;
(2) all other terms used herein which are defined in the Trust Indenture
Act, either directly or by reference therein, have the meanings assigned to
them therein;
(3) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings
assigned to them in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles,
and, except as otherwise herein expressly provided, the term "generally
accepted accounting principles" with respect to any computation required or
permitted hereunder shall mean
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such accounting principles as are generally accepted in the United States of
America at the date of such computation;
(4) unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to an "Article"
or a "Section" refers to an Article or a Section, as the case may be, of this
Indenture; and
(5) 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.
"Act", when used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning specified in
Section 104.
"Affiliate" of any specified Person means any other Person directly or
indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common
control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition,
"control" when used with respect to any specified Person means the power to
direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly,
whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise;
and the terms "controlling" and "controlled" have meanings correlative to the
foregoing.
"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.
"Board of Trustees" means either the board of trustees of Vornado Realty
Trust or any duly authorized committee of that board.
"Board Resolution" means a copy of a resolution certified by the Secretary
or an Assistant Secretary of Vornado Realty Trust to have been duly adopted by
the Board of Trustees and to be in full force and effect on the date of such
certification, and delivered to the Trustee.
"Business Day", when used with respect to any Place of Payment, means each
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday which is not a day on which
banking institutions in that Place of Payment are authorized or obligated by law
or executive order to close.
"Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, from time to time
constituted, created under the Exchange Act, 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.
"Corporate Trust Office" means the principal office of the Trustee in The
City of New York at which at any particular time its corporate trust business
shall be administered, which office at the date hereof is located at 000 Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 21 West, New York, New York 10286, Attention: Corporate Trust
Trustee Administration.
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"corporation" means a corporation, association, company, joint-stock company
or business trust.
"Covenant Defeasance" has the meaning specified in Section 1303.
"Defaulted Interest" has the meaning specified in Section 307.
"Defeasance" has the meaning specified in Section 1302.
"Depositary" means, with respect to Securities of any series issuable in
whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities, a clearing agency
registered under the Exchange Act that is designated to act as Depositary for
such Securities as contemplated by Section 301.
"Event of Default" has the meaning specified in Section 501.
"Exchange Act" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and any statute
successor thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.
"Expiration Date" has the meaning specified in Section 104.
"Global Security" means a Security that evidences all or part of the
Securities of any series and bears the legend set forth in Section 204 (or such
legend as may be specified as contemplated by Section 301 for such Securities).
"Holder" means a Person in whose name a Security is registered in the
Security Register.
"Indenture" means this instrument as originally executed and as it may from
time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more indentures supplemental
hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof, including, for
all purposes of this instrument and any such supplemental indenture, the
provisions of the Trust Indenture Act that are deemed to be a part of and govern
this instrument and any such supplemental indenture, respectively. The term
"Indenture" shall also include the terms of particular series of Securities
established as contemplated by Section 301.
"interest", when used with respect to an Original Issue Discount Security
which by its terms bears interest only after Maturity, means interest payable
after Maturity.
"Interest Payment Date", when used with respect to any Security, means the
Stated Maturity of an instalment of interest on such Security.
"Investment Company Act" means the Investment Company Act of 1940 and any
statute successor thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.
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"Maturity", when used with respect to any Security, means the date on which
the principal of such Security or an instalment 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.
"Notice of Default" means a written notice of the kind specified in Section
501(4) or 501(5).
"Officers' Certificate" means a certificate signed by the Chairman of the
Board, a Vice Chairman of the Board, the President or a Vice President, and by
the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary,
of Vornado Realty Trust, and delivered to the Trustee. One of the officers
signing an Officers' Certificate given pursuant to Section 1004 shall be the
principal executive, financial or accounting officer of Vornado Realty Trust.
"Operating Partnership" means the Person named as the "Operating
Partnership" 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 "Operating Partnership" shall mean such successor Person.
"Operating Partnership Request" or "Operating Partnership Order" means a
written request or order signed in the name of the Operating Partnership by the
Chairman of the Board, the Vice Chairman of the Board, the President or a Vice
President, and by the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or an
Assistant Secretary of Vornado Realty Trust, and delivered to the Trustee.
"Opinion of Counsel" means a written opinion of counsel, who may be counsel
for the Operating Partnership, and who shall be acceptable to the Trustee.
"Original Issue Discount Security" means any Security which provides for an
amount less than the principal amount thereof to be due and payable upon a
declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502.
"Outstanding", when used with respect to Securities, means, as of the date
of determination, all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered under
this Indenture, except:
(1) Securities theretofore cancelled by the Trustee or delivered to the
Trustee for cancellation;
(2) 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 Operating Partnership) in trust or set aside and segregated in
trust by the Operating Partnership (if the Operating Partnership shall act as
its own Paying Agent) for the Holders of such Securities; provided that, if
such Securities are to be redeemed, notice
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of such redemption has been duly given pursuant to this Indenture or provision
therefor satisfactory to the Trustee has been made;
(3) Securities as to which Defeasance has been effected pursuant to
Section 1302; and
(4) 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 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 Operating Partnership;
provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities have given, made or taken any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other
action hereunder as of any date, (A) the principal amount of an Original Issue
Discount Security which shall be deemed to be Outstanding shall be the amount of
the principal thereof which would be due and payable as of such date upon
acceleration of the Maturity thereof to such date pursuant to Section 502, (B)
if, as of such date, the principal amount payable at the Stated Maturity of a
Security is not determinable, the principal amount of such Security which shall
be deemed to be Outstanding shall be the amount as specified or determined as
contemplated by Section 301, (C) the principal amount of a Security denominated
in one or more foreign currencies or currency units which shall be deemed to be
Outstanding shall be the U.S. dollar equivalent, determined as of such date in
the manner provided as contemplated by Section 301, of the principal amount of
such Security (or, in the case of a Security described in Clause (A) or (B)
above, of the amount determined as provided in such Clause), and (D) Securities
owned by the Operating Partnership or any other obligor upon the Securities or
any Affiliate of the Operating Partnership 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, waiver or other action, 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 Operating Partnership or any other obligor upon the Securities or any
Affiliate of the Operating Partnership or of such other obligor.
"Paying Agent" means any Person authorized by the Operating Partnership to
pay the principal of or any premium or interest on any Securities on behalf of
the Operating Partnership.
"Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture,
trust, unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political
subdivision thereof.
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"Place of Payment", when used with respect to the Securities of any series,
means the place or places where the principal of and any premium and interest on
the Securities of that series are payable as specified as contemplated by
Section 301.
"Predecessor Security" of any particular Security means every previous
Security evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such
particular Security; and, for the purposes of this definition, any Security
authenticated and delivered under Section 306 in exchange for or in lieu of a
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be deemed to evidence the
same debt as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security.
"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.
"Regular Record Date" for the interest payable on any Interest Payment Date
on the Securities of any series means the date specified for that purpose as
contemplated by Section 301.
"Responsible Officer", when used with respect to the Trustee, means the
chairman or any vice-chairman of the board of directors, the chairman or any
vice-chairman of the executive committee of the board of directors, the chairman
of the trust committee, the president, any vice president, the secretary, any
assistant secretary, the treasurer, any assistant treasurer, the cashier, any
assistant cashier, any trust officer or assistant trust officer, the controller
or any assistant controller or any other officer of the Trustee customarily
performing functions similar to those performed by any of the above designated
officers and also means, with respect to a particular corporate trust matter,
any other officer to whom such matter is referred because of his 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.
"Securities Act" means the Securities Act of 1933 and any statute successor
thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.
"Security Register" and "Security Registrar" have the respective meanings
specified in Section 305.
"Special Record Date" for the payment of any Defaulted Interest means a date
fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 307.
"Stated Maturity", when used with respect to any Security or any instalment
of principal thereof or interest thereon, means the date specified in such
Security as the fixed
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date on which the principal of such Security or such instalment of principal or
interest is due and payable.
"Subsidiary" means a corporation more than 50% of the outstanding voting
stock of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by the Operating Partnership or
by one or more other Subsidiaries, or by the Operating Partnership and one or
more other Subsidiaries. For the purposes of this definition, "voting stock"
means stock which ordinarily has voting power for the election of directors or
trustees, whether at all times or only so long as no senior class of stock has
such voting power by reason of any contingency.
"Trust Indenture Act" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in force at
the date as of which this instrument was executed; 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.
"Trustee" means the Person named as the "Trustee" in the first paragraph of
this instrument 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.
"U.S. Government Obligation" has the meaning specified in Section 1304.
"Vice President", when used with respect to the Operating Partnership 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 Operating Partnership to the Trustee
to take any action under any provision of this Indenture, the Operating
Partnership shall furnish to the Trustee such certificates and opinions as may
be required under the Trust Indenture Act. Each such certificate or opinion
shall be given in the form of an Officers' Certificate, if to be given by an
officer of Vornado Realty Trust on behalf of the Operating Partnership, 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 (except for certificates provided for in
Section 1004) shall include,
(1) a statement that each individual signing such certificate or opinion
has read such covenant or condition and the definitions herein relating
thereto;
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(2) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or
investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in such
certificate or opinion are based;
(3) a statement that, in the opinion of each such individual, he has made
such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him to express an
informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been
complied with; and
(4) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such individual,
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 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 stating that the information with respect to such factual matters is in
the possession of the Operating Partnership, 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; Record Dates.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or
other action provided or permitted by this Indenture to be given, made or taken
by Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of
substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by agent duly
appointed in writing; and, except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such
action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered
to the Trustee and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the Operating
Partnership. Such instrument or instruments (and the action
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embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the
"Act" of the Holders signing such instrument or instruments. Proof of execution
of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be
sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Section 601)
conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the Operating Partnership, if made in the
manner provided in this Section.
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.
The ownership of Securities shall be proved by the Security Register.
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 Operating
Partnership in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made
upon such Security.
The Operating Partnership may, in the circumstances permitted by the Trust
Indenture Act, set any day as a record date for the purpose of determining the
Holders of Outstanding Securities of any series entitled to give, make or take
any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other
action provided or permitted by this Indenture to be given, made or taken by
Holders of Securities of such series, provided that the Operating Partnership
may not set a record date for, and the provisions of this paragraph shall not
apply with respect to, the giving or making of any notice, declaration, request
or direction referred to in the next paragraph. If any record date is set
pursuant to this paragraph, the Holders of Outstanding Securities of the
relevant series on such record date, and no other Holders, shall be entitled to
take the relevant action, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such
record date; provided that no such action shall be effective hereunder unless
taken on or prior to the applicable Expiration Date by Holders of the requisite
principal amount of Outstanding Securities of such series on such record date.
Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to prevent the Operating
Partnership from setting a new record date for any action for which a record
date has previously been set pursuant to this paragraph (whereupon the record
date previously set shall automatically and with no action by any Person be
cancelled and of no effect), and nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to
render ineffective any action taken by Holders of the requisite principal amount
of Outstanding Securities of the relevant series on the date such action is
taken. Promptly after any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the
Operating Partnership, at its own expense, shall cause notice of such record
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date, the proposed action by Holders and the applicable Expiration Date to be
given to the Trustee in writing and to each Holder of Securities of the relevant
series in the manner set forth in Section 106.
The Trustee may set any day as a record date for the purpose of determining
the Holders of Outstanding Securities of any series entitled to join in the
giving or making of (i) any Notice of Default, (ii) any declaration of
acceleration referred to in Xxxxxxx 000, (xxx) any request to institute
proceedings referred to in Section 507(2) or (iv) any direction referred to in
Section 512, in each case with respect to Securities of such series. If any
record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Holders of Outstanding
Securities of such series on such record date, and no other Holders, shall be
entitled to join in such notice, declaration, request or direction, whether or
not such Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided that no such
action shall be effective hereunder unless taken on or prior to the applicable
Expiration Date by Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding
Securities of such series on such record date. Nothing in this paragraph shall
be construed to prevent the Trustee from setting a new record date for any
action for which a record date has previously been set pursuant to this
paragraph (whereupon the record date previously set shall automatically and with
no action by any Person be cancelled and of no effect), and nothing in this
paragraph shall be construed to render ineffective any action taken by Holders
of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities of the relevant
series on the date such action is taken. Promptly after any record date is set
pursuant to this paragraph, the Trustee, at the Operating Partnership's expense,
shall cause notice of such record date, the proposed action by Holders and the
applicable Expiration Date to be given to the Operating Partnership in writing
and to each Holder of Securities of the relevant series in the manner set forth
in Section 106.
With respect to any record date set pursuant to this Section, the party
hereto which sets such record dates may designate any day as the "Expiration
Date" and from time to time may change the Expiration Date to any earlier or
later day; provided that no such change shall be effective unless notice of the
proposed new Expiration Date is given to the other party hereto in writing, and
to each Holder of Securities of the relevant series in the manner set forth in
Section 106, on or prior to the existing Expiration Date. If an Expiration Date
is not designated with respect to any record date set pursuant to this Section,
the party hereto which set such record date shall be deemed to have initially
designated the 180th day after such record date as the Expiration Date with
respect thereto, subject to its right to change the Expiration Date as provided
in this paragraph. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Expiration Date shall be
later than the 180th day after the applicable record date.
Without limiting the foregoing, a Holder entitled hereunder to 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 part of such principal amount.
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SECTION 105. Notices, Etc., to Trustee and Operating Partnership.
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 Operating Partnership 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 Trustee Administration, or
(2) the Operating Partnership 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
Operating Partnership addressed to it at the address of its principal office
specified in the first paragraph of this instrument, Attention: .............,
or at any other address previously furnished in writing to the Trustee by the
Operating Partnership.
SECTION 106. Notice to Holders; Waiver.
Where this Indenture provides for notice to Holders of any event, such
notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided)
if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder affected
by such event, at his address as it appears in the Security Register, not later
than the latest date (if any), and not earlier than the earliest date (if any),
prescribed for the giving of such notice. In any case where notice to Holders is
given by mail, neither the failure to mail such notice, nor any defect in any
notice so mailed, to any particular Holder shall affect the sufficiency of such
notice with respect to other Holders. 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 shall be filed with
the Trustee, but such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity
of any action taken in reliance upon such waiver.
In case by reason of the suspension of regular mail service or by reason of
any other cause it shall be impracticable to give such notice by mail, then such
notification as shall be made with the approval of the Trustee shall constitute
a sufficient notification for every purpose hereunder.
SECTION 107. 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 such Act to be a part of and
govern this Indenture, the latter 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
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provision shall be deemed to apply to this Indenture as so modified or to be
excluded, as the case may be.
SECTION 108. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents.
The Article and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are for
convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.
SECTION 109. Successors and Assigns.
All covenants and agreements in this Indenture by the Operating Partnership
shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.
SECTION 110. Separability Clause.
In case any provision in this Indenture or in the Securities shall be
invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of
the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
SECTION 111. Benefits of Indenture.
Nothing in this Indenture or in the Securities, express or implied, shall
give to any Person, other than the parties hereto and their successors hereunder
and the Holders, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim
under this Indenture.
SECTION 112. Governing Law.
This Indenture and the Securities shall be governed by and construed in
accordance with the law of the State of New York, without regard to principles
of conflicts of law.
SECTION 113. Legal Holidays.
In any case where any Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated
Maturity of any Security shall not be a Business Day at any Place of Payment,
then (notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or of the Securities
(other than a provision of any Security 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,
but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day at such Place of Payment
with the same force and effect as if made on the Interest Payment Date or
Redemption Date, or at the Stated Maturity, provided that no interest shall
accrue
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with respect to such payment for the period from and after such Interest Payment
Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity, as the case may be.
ARTICLE TWO
SECURITY FORMS
SECTION 201. Forms Generally.
The Securities of each series shall be in substantially the form set forth
in this Article, or in such other form as shall be established by or pursuant to
a Board Resolution or in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in each
case with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other
variations as are required or permitted by this Indenture, and may have such
letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such legends or
endorsements placed thereon as may be required to comply with the rules of any
securities exchange or Depositary therefor or as may, consistently herewith, be
determined by the officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their
execution thereof. If the form of Securities of any series is established by
action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution, a copy of an appropriate record of
such action shall be certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of
Vornado Realty Trust and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of
the Operating Partnership Order contemplated by Section 303 for the
authentication and delivery of such Securities.
The definitive Securities 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.
SECTION 202. Form of Face of Security.
[Insert any legend required by the Internal Revenue Code and the regulations
thereunder.]
VORNADO REALTY L.P.
..........................................................................
No. ......... $ ........
CUSIP No. ________
VORNADO REALTY L.P., a Delaware limited partnership duly organized and
existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein called the "Operating
Partnership", which term includes any successor Person under the Indenture
hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to
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..............................................., or registered assigns, the
principal sum of ...................................... Dollars on
........................................................, and to pay interest
thereon from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been
paid or duly provided for, semi-annually on ............ and ............ in
each year, commencing as of the date, at the rate of [__%] per annum, until the
principal hereof is paid or made available for payment, provided that any
principal and premium, and any such instalment of interest, which is overdue
shall bear interest at the rate of [____%] per annum (to the extent that the
payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable), from the dates such
amounts are due until they are paid or made available for payment, and such
interest shall be payable on demand. The interest so payable, and punctually
paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in
such Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or
more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the
Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be the ....... or .......
(whether or not a Business Day), as the case may be, next preceding such
Interest Payment Date. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided
for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date
and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more
Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on a Special
Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the
Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities of this series
not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time
in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any
securities exchange on which the Securities of this series may be listed, and
upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided
in said Indenture.
[If the Security is not to bear interest prior to Maturity, insert -- The
principal of this Security shall not bear interest except in the case of a
default in payment of principal upon acceleration, upon redemption or at Stated
Maturity and in such case the overdue principal and any overdue premium shall
bear interest at the rate of _____% per annum (to the extent that the payment of
such interest shall be legally enforceable), from the dates such amounts are due
until they are paid or made available for payment. Interest on any overdue
principal or premium shall be payable on demand. Any such interest on any
overdue principal or premium which is not so paid on demand shall bear interest
at the rate of _____% per annum (to the extent that the payment of such interest
shall be legally enforceable), from the dates such amounts are due until they
are paid or made available for payment. Interest on any overdue interest shall
be payable on demand.]
Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and [if applicable, insert
-- any such] interest on this Security will be made at the office or agency of
the Operating Partnership maintained for that purpose in [ ], in such coin or
currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal
tender for payment of public and private debts; provided, however, that at the
option of the Operating Partnership payment of interest may be made by check
mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall
appear in the Security Register.
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Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Security set
forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes
have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the
Trustee referred to on the reverse hereof by manual signature, this Security
shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or
obligatory for any purpose.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Operating Partnership has caused this instrument to
be duly executed under its corporate seal.
VORNADO REALTY L.P.
By...................................................
Attest:
.........................................
SECTION 203. Form of Reverse of Security.
This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the
Operating Partnership (herein called the "Securities"), issued and to be issued
in one or more series under an Indenture, dated as of .......... (herein called
the "Indenture", which term shall have the meaning assigned to it in such
instrument), between the Operating Partnership and The Bank of New York, as
Trustee (herein called the "Trustee", which term includes any successor trustee
under the Indenture), and reference is hereby made to the Indenture and all
indentures supplemental thereto for a statement of the respective rights,
limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Operating
Partnership, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities and of the terms upon
which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. This
Security is one of the series designated on the face hereof [if applicable,
insert -- limited or aggregate principal amount to $________].
[If applicable, insert -- The Securities of this series are subject to
redemption upon not less than 30 days' nor more than 60 days' notice by mail,
[if applicable, insert -- (1) on ........... in any year commencing with the
year ...... and ending with the year ...... through operation of the sinking
fund for this series at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of the principal
amount, and (2)] at any time [if applicable, insert -- on or after .........,
19..], as a whole or in part, at the election of the Operating Partnership, at
the following
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Redemption Prices (expressed as percentages of the principal amount): If
redeemed during the 12-month period beginning ............. of the years
indicated,
Redemption Redemption
Year Price Year Price
---- ---------- ---- ----------
and thereafter at a Redemption Price equal to .....% of the principal amount,
together in the case of any such redemption [(whether through operation of the
sinking fund or otherwise)] with accrued interest to the Redemption Date, but
interest installments whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to such Redemption
Date will be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more
Predecessor Securities, of record at the close of business on the relevant
Record Dates referred to on the face hereof, all as provided in the Indenture.
[If applicable, insert -- The sinking fund for this series provides for the
redemption on ............ in each year beginning with the year ....... and
ending with the year ...... of [if applicable, insert -- not less than
$.......... ("mandatory sinking fund") and not more than] $......... aggregate
principal amount of Securities of this series. Securities of this series
acquired or redeemed by the Operating Partnership otherwise than through [if
applicable, insert -- mandatory] sinking fund payments may be credited against
subsequent [if applicable, insert -- mandatory] sinking fund payments otherwise
required to be made [if applicable, insert -- , in the inverse order in which
they become due].]
[If the Security is subject to redemption of any kind, insert -- In the
event of redemption of this Security in part only, a new Security or Securities
of this series and of like tenor for the unredeemed portion hereof will be
issued in the name of the Holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof.]
[If applicable, insert -- The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance
at any time of the entire indebtedness of this Security and Events of Default
with respect to this Security, in each case upon compliance with certain
conditions set forth in the Indenture.]
[If the Security is not an Original Issue Discount Security, insert -- If an
Event of Default with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and be
continuing, the principal of the Securities of this series may be declared due
and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.]
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[If the Security is an Original Issue Discount Security, insert -- If an
Event of Default with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and be
continuing, an amount of principal of the Securities of this series may be
declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the
Indenture. Such amount shall be equal to -- insert formula for determining the
amount. Upon payment (i) of the amount of principal so declared due and payable
and (ii) of interest on any overdue principal, premium and inter est (in each
case to the extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally
enforceable), all of the Operating Partnership's obligations in respect of the
payment of the principal of and premium and interest, if any, on the Securities
of this series shall terminate.]
The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the
amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the
Operating Partnership and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each
series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Operating
Partnership and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in
principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding of each series to be
affected. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of
specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities of each series at
the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series,
to waive compliance by the Operating Partnership with certain provisions of the
Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences.
Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive
and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of
any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange
herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is
made upon this Security.
As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Holder of
this Security shall not have the right to institute any proceeding with respect
to the Indenture or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee or for any
other remedy thereunder, unless such Holder shall have previously given the
Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the
Securities of this series, the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount
of the Securities of this series at the time Outstanding shall have made written
request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of
Default as Trustee and offered the Trustee reasonable indemnity, and the Trustee
shall not have received from the Holders of a majority in principal amount of
Securities of this series at the time Outstanding a direction inconsistent with
such request, and shall have failed to institute any such proceeding, for 60
days after receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity. The foregoing
shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Holder of this Security for the
enforcement of any payment of principal hereof or any premium or interest hereon
on or after the respective due dates expressed herein.
No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security or of
the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Operating Partnership,
which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and any premium and
interest on this Security at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or
currency, herein prescribed.
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As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set
forth, the transfer of this Security is registrable in the Security Register,
upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the office or
agency of the Operating Partnership in any place where the principal of and any
premium and interest on this Security are payable, duly endorsed by, or
accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the
Operating Partnership and the Security Registrar duly executed by, the Holder
hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new
Securities of this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for
the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee
or transferees.
The Securities of this series are issuable only in registered form without
coupons in denominations of $....... and any integral multiple thereof. As
provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth,
Securities of this series are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount
of Securities of this series and of like tenor of a different authorized
denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.
No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or
exchange, but the Operating Partnership may require payment of a sum sufficient
to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.
Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of transfer, the
Operating Partnership, the Trustee and any agent of the Operating Partnership or
the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Security is registered as
the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Security be overdue, and
neither the Operating Partnership, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be
affected by notice to the contrary.
[If applicable, insert -- Interest on the principal balance of this Security
shall be calculated on the basis of a [365- or 366-day year, as appropriate, for
the actual number of days elapsed] [360-day year of twelve 30-day months]]
THIS SECURITY SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS
OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS LAWS.
All terms used in this Security which are defined in the Indenture shall
have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.
SECTION 204. Form of Legend for Global Securities.
Unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for the Securities
evidenced thereby, every Global Security authenticated and delivered hereunder
shall bear a legend in substantially the following form:
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THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE
HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A
NOMINEE THEREOF. THIS SECURITY MAY NOT BE EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR A
SECURITY REGISTERED, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY IN WHOLE OR IN PART MAY BE
REGISTERED, IN THE NAME OF ANY PERSON OTHER THAN SUCH DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE
THEREOF, EXCEPT IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE.
SECTION 205. Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication.
The Trustee's certificates 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.
Dated: THE BANK OF NEW YORK,
As Trustee
By.........................................
Authorized Signatory
ARTICLE THREE
THE SECURITIES
SECTION 301. Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series.
The aggregate principal amount of Securities which may be authenticated and
delivered under this Indenture is unlimited.
The Securities may be issued in one or more series. There shall be
established in or pursuant to a Board Resolution 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 Securities of any other series);
(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
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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) the Person to whom any interest on a 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;
(4) the date or dates on which the principal of any Securities of the series
is payable;
(5) the rate or rates at which any Securities of the series shall bear
interest, if any, the date or dates from which any such interest shall accrue,
the Interest Payment Dates on which any such interest shall be payable and the
Regular Record Date for any such interest payable on any Interest Payment
Date;
(6) the place or places where the principal of and any premium and interest
on any Securities of the series shall be payable;
(7) the period or periods within which, the price or prices at which and the
terms and conditions upon which any Securities of the series may be redeemed,
in whole or in part, at the option of the Operating Partnership and, if other
than by a Board Resolution, the manner in which any election by the Operating
Partnership to redeem the Securities shall be evidenced;
(8) the obligation, if any, of the Operating Partnership to redeem or
purchase any Securities of the series pursuant to any sinking fund or
analogous provisions or at the option of the Holder thereof and the period or
periods within which, the price or prices at which and the terms and
conditions upon which any Securities of the series shall be redeemed or
purchased, in whole or in part, pursuant to such obligation;
(9) if other than denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof,
the denominations in which any Securities of the series shall be issuable;
(10)if the amount of principal of or any premium or interest on any
Securities of the series may be determined with reference to an index or
pursuant to a formula, the manner in which such amounts shall be determined;
(11)if other than the currency of the United States of America, the
currency, currencies or currency units in which the principal of or any
premium or interest on any Securities of the series shall be payable and the
manner of determining the equivalent thereof in the currency of the United
States of America for any purpose, including for purposes of the definition of
"Outstanding" in Section 101;
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(12)if the principal of or any premium or interest on any Securities of the
series is to be payable, at the election of the Operating Partnership or the
Holder thereof, in one or more currencies or currency units other than that or
those in which such Securities are stated to be payable, the currency,
currencies or currency units in which the principal of or any premium or
interest on such Securities as to which such election is made shall be
payable, the periods within which and the terms and conditions upon which such
election is to be made and the amount so payable (or the manner in which such
amount shall be determined);
(13)if other than the entire 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 amount payable at the Stated Maturity of any Securities
of the series will not be determinable as of any one or more dates prior to
the Stated Maturity, the amount which shall be deemed to be the principal
amount of such Securities as of any such date for any purpose thereunder or
hereunder, including the principal amount thereof which shall be due and
payable upon any Maturity other than the Stated Maturity or which shall be
deemed to be Outstanding as of any date prior to the Stated Maturity (or, in
any such case, the manner in which such amount deemed to be the principal
amount shall be determined);
(15)if applicable, that the Securities of the series, shall be subject to
either or both of Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance as provided in Article
Thirteen;
(16)if applicable, that any Securities of the series shall be issuable in
whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities and, in such
case, the respective Depositaries for such Global Securities, the form of any
legend or legends which shall be borne by any such Global Security in addition
to or in lieu of that set forth in Section 204 and any circumstances in
addition to or in lieu of those set forth in Clause (2) of the last paragraph
of Section 305 in which any such Global Security may be exchanged in whole or
in part for Securities registered, and any transfer of such Global Security in
whole or in part may be registered, in the name or names of Persons other than
the Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof;
(17)any addition to or change in the Events of Default which applies to any
Securities of the series and any change in the right of the Trustee or the
requisite Holders of such Securities to declare the principal amount thereof
due and payable pursuant to Section 502;
(18)any addition to or change in the covenants set forth in Article Ten
which applies to Securities of the series;
(19)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)).
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All Securities of any one series shall be substantially identical except 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 an Assistant Secretary of Vornado Realty Trust 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.
The Securities of each series shall be issuable only in registered form
without coupons and only in such denominations as shall be specified as
contemplated by Section 301. In the absence of any such specified denomination
with respect to the Securities of any series, the Securities of such series
shall be issuable in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof.
SECTION 303. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating.
The Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Operating Partnership by
the Chairman of the Board, the Vice Chairman of the Board, the President or one
of the Vice Presidents, under the corporate seal reproduced thereon attested by
the Secretary or one of the Assistant Secretaries of Vornado Realty Trust. The
signature of any of these officers on the Securities may be manual or facsimile.
Securities bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who
were at any time the proper officers of Vornado Realty Trust shall bind the
Operating Partnership, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have
ceased to hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such
Securities or did not hold such offices at the date of such Securities.
At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this
Indenture, the Operating Partnership may deliver Securities of any series
executed by the Operating Partnership to the Trustee for authentication,
together with a Operating Partnership Order for the authentication and delivery
of such Securities, and the Trustee in accordance with the Operating Partnership
Order shall authenticate and deliver such Securities. If the form or terms of
the Securities of the series have been established by or pursuant to one or more
Board Resolutions as permitted by Sections 201 and 301, in authenticating such
Securities, and accepting the additional responsibilities under this Indenture
in relation to such Securities, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and
(subject to Section 601) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of
Counsel stating,
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(1) if the form of such Securities has been established by or pursuant to
Board Resolution as permitted by Section 201, that such form has been
established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture;
(2) if the terms of such Securities have been established by or pursuant to
Board Resolution as permitted by Section 301, that such terms have been
established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture; and
(3) that such Securities, when authenticated and delivered by the Trustee
and issued by the Operating Partnership in the manner and subject to any
conditions specified in such Opinion of Counsel, will constitute valid and
legally binding obligations of the Operating Partnership enforceable in
accordance with their terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent
transfer, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of general applicability
relating to or affecting creditors' rights and to general equity principles.
If such form or terms have been so established, the Trustee shall not be
required to authenticate such Securities 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 preceding
paragraph, 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 Operating Partnership Order and Opinion
of Counsel otherwise required pursuant to such preceding paragraph at or prior
to the authentication of each Security of such series if such documents are
delivered at or prior to the authentication upon original issuance of the first
Security of such series to be issued.
Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication.
No Security shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be
valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on such Security a
certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein
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 authenticated and delivered hereunder
but never issued and sold by the Operating Partnership, and the Operating
Partnership shall deliver such Security to the Trustee for cancellation as
provided in Section 309, 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.
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SECTION 304. Temporary Securities.
Pending the preparation of definitive Securities of any series, the
Operating Partnership may execute, and upon Operating Partnership Order the
Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, temporary Securities which are printed,
lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise produced, in any authorized
denomination, substantially of the tenor of the definitive Securities in lieu of
which they are issued and with such appropriate insertions, omissions,
substitutions and other variations as the officers executing such Securities
may determine, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities.
If temporary Securities of any series are issued, the Operating Partnership
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 Operating Partnership in a Place
of Payment for that series, without charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for
cancellation of any one or more temporary Securities of any series, the
Operating Partnership shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver in exchange therefor one or more definitive Securities of the same
series, of any authorized denominations and of like tenor and aggregate
principal amount. Until so exchanged, the temporary Securities of any series
shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as
definitive Securities of such series and tenor.
SECTION 305. Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange.
The Operating Partnership shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust
Office of the Trustee a register (the register maintained in such office and in
any other office or agency of the Operating Partnership in a Place of Payment
being herein sometimes collectively referred to as the "Security Register") in
which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Operating
Partnership shall provide for the registration of Securities and of transfers of
Securities. The Trustee is hereby appointed "Security Registrar" for the purpose
of registering Securities and transfers of Securities as herein provided.
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Security of a series at
the office or agency of the Operating Partnership in a Place of Payment for that
series, the Operating Partnership shall execute, and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or
transferees, one or more new Securities of the same series, of any authorized
denominations and of like tenor and aggregate principal amount.
At the option of the Holder, Securities of any series may be exchanged for
other Securities of the same series, of any authorized denominations and of like
tenor and aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Securities to be
exchanged at such office or agency. Whenever any Securities are so surrendered
for exchange, the Operating
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Partnership shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the
Securities which the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.
All Securities issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of
Securities shall be the valid obligations of the Operating Partnership,
evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this
Indenture, as the Securities surrendered upon such registration of transfer or
exchange.
Every Security presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or for
exchange shall (if so required by the Operating Partnership or the Trustee) be
duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form
satisfactory to the Operating Partnership and the Security Registrar 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 Operating Partnership 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.
If the Securities of any series (or of any series and specified tenor) are
to be redeemed in part, the Operating Partnership shall not be required (A) to
issue, register the transfer of or exchange any Securities of that series (or of
that series and specified tenor, as the case may be) during a period beginning
at the opening of business 15 days before the day of the mailing of a notice of
redemption of any such Securities selected for redemption under Section 1103 and
ending at the close of business on the day of such mailing, or (B) to register
the transfer of or exchange any Security so selected for redemption in whole or
in part, except the unredeemed portion of any Security being redeemed in part.
The provisions of Clauses (1), (2), (3) and (4) below shall apply only to
Global Securities:
(1) Each Global Security authenticated under this Indenture shall be
registered in the name of the Depositary designated for such Global Security
or a nominee thereof and delivered to such Depositary or a nominee thereof or
custodian therefor, and each such Global Security shall constitute a single
Security for all purposes of this Indenture.
(2) Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, no Global
Security may be exchanged in whole or in part for Securities registered, and
no transfer of a Global Security in whole or in part may be registered, in the
name of any Person other than the Depositary for such Global Security or a
nominee thereof unless (A) such Depositary (i) has notified the Operating
Partnership that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for such
Global Security or (ii) has ceased to be a clearing agency registered under
the Exchange Act, and in either case a successor Depositary is not appointed
within 90 days by the Operating Partnership, (B) there shall have
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occurred and be continuing an Event of Default with respect to such Global
Security or (C) there shall exist such circumstances, if any, in addition to
or in lieu of the foregoing as have been specified for this purpose as
contemplated by Section 301.
(3) Subject to Clause (2) above, any exchange of a Global Security for other
Securities may be made in whole or in part, and all Securities issued in
exchange for a Global Security or any portion thereof shall be registered in
such names as the Depositary for such Global Security shall direct.
(4) Every Security authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer
of, or in exchange for or in lieu of, a Global Security or any portion
thereof, whether pursuant to this Section, Section 304, 306, 906 or 1107 or
otherwise, shall be authenticated and delivered in the form of, and shall be,
a Global Security, unless such Security is registered in the name of a Person
other than the Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof.
SECTION 306. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities.
If any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee, the Operating
Partnership 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.
If there shall be delivered to the Operating Partnership and the Trustee (i)
evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Security
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 Operating Partnership or the Trustee that such Security has been acquired by
a bona fide purchaser, the Operating Partnership shall execute and the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver, in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen
Security, a new Security of the same series and of like tenor and principal
amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.
In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security has become or
is about to become due and payable, the Operating Partnership in its discretion
may, instead of issuing a new Security, pay such Security.
Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section, the Operating
Partnership may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or
other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other
expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith.
Every new Security of any series issued pursuant to this Section in lieu of
any destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall constitute an original additional
contractual obligation of the Operating Partnership, whether or not the
destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be at any time enforceable by anyone,
and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this
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Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Securities of that
series duly issued hereunder.
The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to the
extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement or
payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities.
SECTION 307. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved.
Except as otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 301 with respect to
any series of Securities, interest on any 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.
Any interest on any 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 Operating Partnership, at its
election in each case, as provided in Clause (1) or (2) below:
(1) The Operating Partnership may elect to make payment of any Defaulted
Interest to the Persons in whose names the 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 Operating
Partnership shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of Defaulted
Interest proposed to be paid on each Security of such series and the date of
the proposed payment, and at the same time the Operating Partnership shall
deposit with the Trustee an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount
proposed to be paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest or shall make
arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit prior to the date
of the proposed payment, such money when deposited to be held in trust for
the benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted Interest as in this
Clause provided. Thereupon the Trustee shall fix a Special Record Date 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 Operating
Partnership of such Special Record Date and, in the name and at the expense
of the Operating Partnership, shall cause notice of the proposed payment of
such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor to be given to
each Holder of Securities of such series in the manner set forth in Section
106, not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date. Notice of the
proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date
therefor having been so mailed, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the
Persons in whose names the Securities
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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 Operating Partnership may make payment of any Defaulted Interest
on the Securities of any series in any other lawful manner not inconsistent
with the requirements of any securities exchange on which such Securities
may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, if,
after notice given by the Operating Partnership to the Trustee of the
proposed payment pursuant to this Clause, such manner of payment shall be
deemed practicable by the Trustee.
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section, each 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 Security for registration of transfer, the
Operating Partnership, the Trustee and any agent of the Operating Partnership or
the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name such Security is registered as
the owner of such Security for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of
and any premium and (subject to Section 307) any interest on such Security and
for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Security be overdue, and
neither the Operating Partnership, the Trustee nor any agent of the Operating
Partnership or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
SECTION 309. Cancellation.
All Securities surrendered for payment, redemption, registration of transfer
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 and shall be
promptly cancelled by it. The Operating Partnership may at any time deliver to
the Trustee for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated and
delivered hereunder which the Operating Partnership 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 Operating Partnership 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 held by the Trustee shall be disposed of in
a manner customary to the Trustee as directed by a Operating Partnership Order.
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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.
SECTION 311. CUSIP Numbers.
The Operating Partnership in issuing the Securities may use "CUSIP" numbers
(if then generally in use), and, if so, the Trustee shall us "CUSIP" numbers in
notices of redemption as a convenience to Holders; provided that any such notice
may state that no representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers
either as printed on the Securities or as contained in any notice of a
redemption and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification
numbers printed on the Securities, and any such redemption shall not be affected
by any defect in or omission of such numbers.
ARTICLE FOUR
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
SECTION 401. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture.
This Indenture shall upon Operating Partnership Request cease to be of
further effect (except as to any surviving rights of registration of transfer or
exchange of Securities herein expressly provided for), and the Trustee, at the
expense of the Operating Partnership, shall execute proper instruments
acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, when
(1) either
(A) all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than (i)
Securities which have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been
replaced or paid as provided in Section 306 and (ii) Securities for whose
payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and held
in trust by the Operating Partnership and thereafter repaid to the Operating
Partnership or discharged from such trust, as provided in Section 1003) have
been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or
(B) all such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation
(i) have become due and payable, or
(ii)will become due and payable at their Stated Maturity within one
year, or
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(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
Operating Partnership,
and the Operating Partnership, 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 money in an amount sufficient to pay and discharge
the entire indebtedness on such Securities not theretofore delivered to
the Trustee for cancellation, for principal and any premium and interest
to the date of such deposit (in the case of Securities which have become
due and payable) or to the Stated Maturity or Redemption Date, as the case
may be;
(2) the Operating Partnership has paid or caused to be paid all other sums
payable hereunder by the Operating Partnership; and
(3) the Operating Partnership 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 Operating Partnership 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 subclause (B) of
Clause (1) of this Section, the obligations of the Trustee under Section 402 and
the last paragraph of Section 1003 shall survive.
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 and this
Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent
(including the Operating Partnership 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 with the
Trustee.
ARTICLE FIVE
REMEDIES
SECTION 501. Events of Default.
"Event of Default", wherever used herein with respect to Securities of any
series, means any one of the following events (whatever the reason for such
Event of Default and
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whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law
or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or
regulation of any administrative or governmental body):
(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 any premium, if any, on
any Security of that series; or
(3) default in the deposit of any sinking fund payment, when and as due by
the terms of a Security of that series; or
(4) default in the performance, or breach, of any covenant or warranty of
the Operating Partnership in this Indenture (other than a covenant or
warranty a default in whose performance or whose breach is elsewhere in this
Section specifically dealt with or which has expressly been included in this
Indenture solely for the benefit of series of Securities other than that
series), and continuance of such default or breach for a period of 60 days
after there has been given, by registered or certified mail, to the Operating
Partnership by the Trustee or to the Operating Partnership and the Trustee by
the Holders of at least 10% 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
(5) a default under any bond, debenture, note or other evidence of
indebtedness for money borrowed by the Operating Partnership (including a
default with respect to Securities of any series other than that series)
having an aggregate principal amount outstanding of at least $50,000,000, or
under any mortgage, indenture or instrument (including this Indenture) under
which there may be issued or by which there may be secured or evidenced any
indebtedness for money borrowed by the Operating Partnership having an
aggregate principal amount outstanding of at least $50,000,000, whether such
indebtedness now exists or shall hereafter be created, which default (A)
shall constitute a failure to pay any portion of the principal of such
indebtedness when due and payable after the expiration of any applicable
grace period with respect thereto or (B) shall have resulted in such
indebtedness becoming or being declared due and payable prior to the date on
which it would otherwise have become due and payable, without, in the case of
Clause (A), such indebtedness having been discharged or without, in the case
of Clause (B), such indebtedness having been discharged or such acceleration
having been rescinded or annulled, in each such case within a period of 10
days after there shall have been given, by registered or certified mail, to
the Operating Partnership by the Trustee or to the Operating Partnership and
the Trustee by the Holders of at least 10% in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of that series a written notice specifying such
default and requiring the Operating Partnership to cause such indebtedness to
be discharged or cause such acceleration to be rescinded or annulled, as the
case may be, and stating that such notice is a "Notice of Default" hereunder;
provided, however, that, subject to the provisions of Sections 601 and 602,
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the Trustee shall not be deemed to have knowledge of such default unless
either (A) a Responsible Officer of the Trustee shall have knowledge of such
default or (B) the Trustee shall have received written notice thereof from
the Operating Partnership, from any Holder, from the holder of any such
indebtedness or from the trustee under any such mortgage, indenture or other
instrument; or
(6) the entry by a court having jurisdiction in the premises of (A) a
decree or order for relief in respect of the Operating Partnership 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 Operating Partnership a bankrupt or insolvent, or
approving as properly filed a petition seeking reorganization, arrangement,
adjustment or composition of or in respect of the Operating Partnership under
any applicable Federal or State law, or appointing a custodian, receiver,
liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar official of the
Operating Partnership or of any substantial part of its property, or ordering
the winding up or liquidation of its affairs, and the continuance of any such
decree or order for relief or any such other decree or order unstayed and in
effect for a period of 60 consecutive days; or
(7) the commencement by the Operating Partnership 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 Operating Partnership in an
involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable Federal or State
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or to the
commencement of any bankruptcy or insolvency case or proceeding against it,
or the filing by it of a petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization
or relief under any applicable Federal or State law, or the consent by it to
the filing of such petition or to the appointment of or taking possession by
a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other
similar official of the Operating Partnership or of any substantial part of
its property, or the making by it of an assignment for the benefit of
creditors, or the admission by it in writing of its inability to pay its
debts generally as they become due, or the taking of corporate action by the
Operating Partnership 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 (other than an Event of Default specified in
Section 501(6) or 501(7)) with respect to Securities of any series at the time
Outstanding occurs and is continuing, then in every such case the Trustee, upon
receipt of a request from the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount
of the Outstanding Securities of that series, shall, or the Holders of not less
than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series may,
declare the principal amount of all the Securities of that
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series (or, if any Securities of that series are Original Issue Discount
Securities, such portion of the principal amount of such Securities as may be
specified by the terms thereof) to be due and payable immediately, by a notice
in writing to the Operating Partnership (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. If an Event of Default
specified in Section 501(6) or 501 (7) with respect to Securities of any series
at the time Outstanding occurs, the principal amount of all the Securities of
that series (or, if any Securities of that series are Original Issue Discount
Securities, such portion of the principal amount of such Securities as may be
specified by the terms thereof) shall automatically, and without any declaration
or other action on the part of the Trustee or any Holder, 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 Operating
Partnership and the Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its
consequences if
(1) the Operating Partnership has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum
sufficient to pay
(A) all overdue interest on all Securities of that series,
(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 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.
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SECTION 503. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee.
The Operating Partnership 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 Operating Partnership will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to it, for the
benefit of the Holders of such Securities, the whole amount then due and payable
on such Securities for principal and 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, 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 an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series occurs and
is continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce
its rights and the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series by such
appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most effectual to
protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific enforcement of any
covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power
granted herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy.
SECTION 504. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.
In case of any judicial proceeding relative to the Operating Partnership
(or any other obligor upon the Securities), its property or its creditors, 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, 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,
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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 the Holders, vote for the election of a trustee in 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.
All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the Securities may be
prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of the
Securities or the production thereof in any proceeding relating thereto, and any
such proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name as
trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall, after provision
for the payment of the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and
advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, be for the ratable benefit of
the Holders of the Securities 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 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: To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid for principal of
and any premium and interest on the Securities 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 for principal and any premium and interest, respectively.
SECTION 507. Limitation on Suits.
No Holder of any Security of any series shall have any right to institute
any proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this Indenture, or for
the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy hereunder,
unless
(1) such Holder has previously given written notice to the Trustee of a
continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities of that series;
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(2) the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securi ties 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 of such
Holders.
SECTION 508. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal,
Premium and Interest.
Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the Holder of any
Security shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive
payment of the principal of and any premium and (subject to Section 307)
interest on such Security on the respective Stated Maturities expressed in such
Security (or, in the case of redemption, on the Redemption Date) and to
institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, and such rights shall
not be impaired without the consent of such Holder.
SECTION 509. Restoration of Rights and Remedies.
If the Trustee or any Holder has instituted any proceeding to enforce any
right or remedy under this Indenture and such proceeding has been discontinued
or abandoned for any reason, or has been determined adversely to the Trustee or
to such Holder, then and in every such case, subject to any determination in
such proceeding, the Operating Partnership, the Trustee and the Holders shall be
restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder and
thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee and the Holders shall continue
as though no such proceeding had been instituted.
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SECTION 510. Rights and Remedies Cumulative.
Except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or payment of
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities in the last paragraph of Section
306, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to
the Holders is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every
right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in
addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter
existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any
right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent
assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.
SECTION 511. Delay or Omission Not Waiver.
No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any Securities to
exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default shall impair any
such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default or an
acquiescence therein. Every right and remedy given by this Article or by law to
the Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as often
as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders, as the case may
be.
SECTION 512. Control by Holders.
The Holders of 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, and
(2) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee
which is not inconsistent with such direction.
SECTION 513. Waiver of Past Defaults.
The Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of any series may on behalf of the Holders of all the
Securities of such series waive any past default hereunder with respect to such
series and its consequences, except a default
(1) in the payment of the principal of or 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. The provisions of this Section shall not apply to any suit instituted by
the Trustee, to any suit instituted by the Operating Partnership, to any suit
instituted by any Holder, or group of Holders of an aggregate more than 10
percent in principal amount of the Securities then outstanding, or to any suit
instituted by any Holder for the enforcement of the payment of the principal of
or interest on any Security, on or after the respective due dates expressed in
such Security.
SECTION 515. Waiver of Usury, Stay or Extension Laws.
The Operating Partnership covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do
so) that it will not at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner
whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any usury, 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 Operating
Partnership (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.
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ARTICLE SIX
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 specified in Section
501(4) with respect to Securities of such series, no such notice to Holders
shall be given until at least 30 days after the occurrence thereof. For the
purpose of this Section, the term "default" means any event which is, or after
notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default with respect
to Securities of such series.
SECTION 603. Certain Rights of Trustee.
Subject to the provisions of Section 601:
(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 Operating Partnership mentioned herein
shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Operating Partnership Request or
Operating Partnership Order, and any resolution of the Board of Trustees
shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution;
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(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 of its selection and the advice
of such counsel (to be confirmed in writing) 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 Operating
Partnership, personally or by agent or attorney;
(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; and
(8) the Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken, suffered, or
omitted to be taken by it in good faith and reasonably believed by it to be
authorized or within the discretion or rights or powers conferred upon it by
this Indenture.
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, shall be taken as the statements of the
Operating Partnership, and neither the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent
assumes any responsibility for their correctness. The Trustee makes no
representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the
Securities. Neither the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent shall be
accountable for the use or application by the Operating Partnership of
Securities or the proceeds thereof.
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SECTION 605. May Hold Securities.
The Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, any Paying Agent, any Security
Registrar or any other agent of the Operating Partnership, in its individual or
any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities and, subject
to Sections 608 and 613, may otherwise deal with the Operating Partnership 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 in writing with the Operating Partnership.
SECTION 607. Compensation and Reimbursement.
The Operating Partnership agrees
(1) to pay to the Trustee from time to time such reasonable compensation
as the Operating Partnership and the Trustee shall from time to time agree in
writing for all services rendered by it hereunder (which compensation shall
not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a
trustee of an express trust);
(2) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse the
Trustee upon its request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and
advances incurred or made by the Trustee in accordance with any provision of
this Indenture (including the reason able 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 any 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 Trustee shall have a lien prior to the Securities as to all property
and funds held by it hereunder for any amount owing it or any predecessor
Trustee pursuant to this Section 607 except with respect to funds held in trust
for the benefit of the Holders of particular Securities. When the Trustee incurs
expenses or renders services in connection with an Event of Default specified in
Section 501(6) or Section 501(7), the expenses (including the reasonable charges
and expenses of its counsel) and the compensation for
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the services are intended to constitute expenses of administration under any
applicable Federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law.
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. To the extent
permitted by such Act, the Trustee shall not be deemed to have a conflicting
interest by virtue of being a trustee under this Indenture with respect to
Securities of more than one series.
SECTION 609. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility.
There shall at all times be one (and only one) Trustee hereunder with
respect to the Securities of each series, which may be Trustee hereunder for
Securities of one or more other series. Each Trustee shall be a Person that is
eligible pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act to act as such and has a combined
capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000. If any such Person publishes
reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements
of its supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section
and to the extent permitted by the Trust Indenture Act, the combined capital and
surplus of such Person 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 with respect to the Securities of any series shall cease to be
eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, it shall resign
immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this
Article.
SECTION 610. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.
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.
The Trustee may resign at any time with respect to the Securities of one
or more series by giving written notice thereof to the Operating Partnership.
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
Operating Partnership.
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If at any time:
(1) the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section 608 after written
request therefor by the Operating Partnership or by any Holder 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 Operating Partnership or
by any such Holder, or
(3) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be adjudged a
bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the Trustee or of its property shall
be appointed or any public officer shall take charge or control of the
Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation,
conservation or liquidation,
then, in any such case, (A) the Operating Partnership by a Board Resolution may
remove the Trustee with respect to all Securities, or (B) subject to Section
514, any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six
months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any
court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee with respect to
all Securities and the appointment of a successor Trustee or Trustees.
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 or removal, the Trustee resigning or being removed
may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a
successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series.
If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of acting, or
if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee for any cause, with respect to
the Securities of one or more series, the Operating Partnership, by a Board
Resolution, shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee or Trustees with respect
to the Securities of that or those series (it being understood that any such
successor Trustee may be appointed with respect to the Securities of one or more
or all of such series and that at any time there shall be only one Trustee with
respect to the Securities of any particular series) and shall comply with the
applicable requirements of Section 611. If, within one year after such
resignation, removal or incapability, or the occurrence of such vacancy, a
successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall be
appointed by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of such series delivered to the Operating Partnership 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 Operating Partnership. If no successor Trustee with respect to
the Securities of any series shall have been so appointed by the Operating
Partnership or the Holders and accepted appointment in the manner required by
Section 611, the retiring Trustee or any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder
of a Security of such series for at least six months may, on behalf of himself
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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.
The Operating Partnership 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
to all Holders of Securities of such 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.
SECTION 611. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.
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 Operating Partnership and to the retiring Trustee
an instrument accepting such appointment, and thereupon the resignation or
removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective and such successor
Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with
all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee; but, on the
request of the Operating Partnership 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.
In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect
to the Securities of one or more (but not all) series, the Operating
Partnership, 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
co-trustees of the same trust and that each such Trustee shall be trustee of a
trust or trusts hereunder separate and apart from any trust or trusts hereunder
administered by any other such Trustee; and upon the execution and delivery of
such supplemental indenture the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee
shall become effective to the extent provided therein and each such successor
Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with
all the rights,
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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 Operating Partnership 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.
Upon request of any such successor Trustee, the Operating Partnership
shall execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in
and confirming to such suc cessor Trustee all such rights, powers and trusts
referred to in the first or second preceding paragraph, as the case may be.
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 Operating Partnership.
If and when the Trustee shall be or become a creditor of the Operating
Partnership (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 Operating Partnership (or any such other obligor).
SECTION 614. Appointment of Authenticating Agent.
The Trustee may appoint an Authenticating Agent or Agents with respect to
one or more series of Securities which shall be authorized to act on behalf of
the Trustee to authenticate Securities of such series issued upon original issue
and 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
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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 and a certificate
of authentication executed on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent.
Each Authenticating Agent shall be acceptable to the Operating Partnership and
shall at all times be a corporation organized and doing business under the laws
of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia,
authorized under such laws to act as Authenticating Agent, having a combined
capital and surplus of not less than $50,000,000 and subject to supervision or
examination by Federal or State authority. If such Authenticating Agent
publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the
requirements of said supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes
of this Section, the combined capital and surplus of such Authenticating Agent
shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most
recent report of condition so published. If at any time an Authenticating Agent
shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section,
such Authenticating Agent shall resign immediately in the manner and with the
effect specified in this Section.
Any corporation into which an Authenticating Agent may be merged or
converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting
from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which such Authenticating Agent
shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to the corporate agency or
corporate trust business of an Authenticating Agent, shall continue to be an
Authenticating Agent, provided such corporation shall be otherwise eligible
under this Section, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further
act on the part of the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent.
An Authenticating Agent may resign at any time by giving written notice
thereof to the Trustee and to the Operating Partnership. 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 Operating Partnership. Upon
receiving such a notice of resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at
any time such Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with
the provisions of this Section, the Trustee may appoint a successor
Authenticating Agent which shall be acceptable to the Operating Partnership and
shall give notice of such appointment in the manner provided in Section 106 to
all Holders of Securities of the series with respect to which such
Authenticating Agent will serve. 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 payments, subject to the provisions
of Section 607.
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If an appointment with respect to one or more series is made pursuant to
this Section, the Securities of such series may have endorsed thereon, in
addition to the Trustee's certificate of authentication, an 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.
THE BANK OF NEW YORK,
As Trustee
By......................................,
As Authenticating Agent
By.......................................
Authorized Officer
ARTICLE SEVEN
HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND OPERATING PARTNERSHIP
SECTION 701. Operating Partnership to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of
Holders.
The Operating Partnership will furnish or cause to be furnished to the
Trustee
(1) semi-annually, not later than March 15 and September 15 in each year,
a list, in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and
addresses of the Holders of Securities of each series as of the preceding
March 1 or September 1, as the case may be, and
(2) at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, within 30
days after the receipt by the Operating Partnership 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.
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SECTION 702. Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders.
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.
The rights of 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.
Every Holder of Securities, by receiving and holding the same, agrees with
the Operating Partnership and the Trustee that neither the Operating Partnership
nor the Trustee nor any agent of either 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.
SECTION 703. Reports by Trustee.
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. Reports
so required to be transmitted at stated intervals of not more than 12 months
shall be transmitted within 60 days after the first date of issuance of
Securities and on each anniversary of such date.
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 Operating Partnership.
The Operating Partnership will promptly notify the Trustee when any Securities
are listed on any stock exchange.
SECTION 704. Reports by Operating Partnership.
The Operating Partnership 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 Exchange Act shall be filed with the
Trustee within 15 days after the same is so required to be filed with the
Commission.
Delivery of such reports, information and documents to the Trustee is for
informational purposes only and the Trustee's receipt of such shall not
constitute
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constructive notice of any information contained therein or determinable form
information contained therein, including the Operating Partnership's compliance
with any of its covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is entitled to rely
exclusively on Officers' Certificates).
SECTION 705. Notice of Default.
The Operating Partnership shall file with the Trustee written notice of
the occurrence of any Event of Default within five Business Days of its becoming
aware of any such Event of Default.
ARTICLE EIGHT
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE
SECTION 801. Operating Partnership May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms.
The Operating Partnership 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 Person, and the Operating Partnership shall
not permit any Person to consolidate with or merge into the Operating
Partnership or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially
as an entirety to the Operating Partnership, unless:
(1) in case the Operating Partnership shall consolidate with or merge into
another Person or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets
substantially as an entirety to any Person, the Person formed by such
consolidation or into which the Operating Partnership is merged or the Person
which acquires by conveyance or transfer, or which leases, the properties and
assets of the Operating Partnership substantially as an entirety shall be a
corporation, partnership or trust, shall be organized and validly existing
under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the
District of Columbia and shall expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental
hereto, executed and delivered to the Trustee, in form satisfactory to the
Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the principal of and any premium and
interest on all the Securities and the performance or observance of every
covenant of this Indenture on the part of the Operating Partnership to be
performed or observed;
(2) immediately after giving effect to such transaction and treating any
indebtedness which becomes an obligation of the Operating Partnership or any
Subsidiary as a result of such transaction as having been incurred by the
Operating Partnership or such Subsidiary at the time of 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 happened and be continuing;
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(3) if, as a result of any such consolidation or merger or such
conveyance, transfer or lease, properties or assets of the Operating
Partnership would become subject to a mortgage, pledge, lien, security
interest or other encumbrance which would not be permitted by this
Indenture, the Operating Partnership or such successor Person, as the case
may be, shall take such steps as shall be necessary effectively to secure the
Securities equally and ratably with (or prior to) all indebtedness secured
thereby; and
(4) the Operating Partnership has delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such consolidation,
merger, conveyance, transfer or lease and, if a supplemental indenture is
required in connection with such transaction, 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 Operating Partnership with, or merger of the
Operating Partnership into, any other Person or any conveyance, transfer or
lease of the properties and assets of the Operating Partnership substantially as
an entirety in accordance with Section 801, the successor Person formed by such
consolidation or into which the Operating Partnership 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 Operating Partnership under this
Indenture with the same effect as if such successor Person had been named as the
Operating Partnership 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.
ARTICLE NINE
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
SECTION 901. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders.
Without the consent of any Holders, the Operating Partnership, 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 Operating
Partnership and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the
Operating Partnership herein and in the Securities; or
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(2) to add to the covenants of the Operating Partnership for the benefit
of the Holders of all or any series of Securities (and if such covenants are
to be for the benefit of less than all series of Securities, stating that
such covenants are expressly being included solely for the benefit of such
series) or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the
Operating Partnership; or
(3) to add any additional Events of Default for the benefit of the Holders
of all or any series of Securities (and if such additional Events of Default
are to be for the benefit of less than all series of Securities, stating that
such additional Events of Default are expressly being included solely for the
benefit of such series); or
(4) to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture to such
extent as shall be necessary to permit or facilitate the issuance of
Securities in bearer form, registrable or not registrable as to principal,
and with or without interest coupons, or to permit or facilitate the issuance
of Securities in uncertificated form; or
(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 provi sion or (B) shall
become effective only when there is no such Security Outstanding; or
(6) to secure the Securities; or
(7) to establish the form or terms of Securities of any series 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; or
(9) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision herein
which may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision herein, or to
make any other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under
this Indenture, provided that such action pursuant to this Clause (9) shall
not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of Securities of any series
in any material respect.
SECTION 902. Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Holders.
With the consent of the Holders of not less than 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 Operating
Partnership and the Trustee, the Operating
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Partnership, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee may enter
into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding
any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions
of this Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of
Securities of such series under this Indenture; 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 instalment of
principal of or interest on, any Security, or reduce the principal amount
thereof or the rate of interest thereon or any premium payable upon the
redemption thereof, or reduce the amount of the principal of an Original
Issue Discount Security or any other Security which would be due and payable
upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to
Section 502, or change any Place of Payment where, or the coin or currency in
which, any Security or any premium or interest thereon is payable, or impair
the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or
after the Stated Maturity thereof (or, in the case of redemption, on or after
the Redemption Date), or
(2) reduce the percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of any series, the consent of whose Holders is required for any
such supplemental indenture, or the consent of whose Holders is required for
any waiver (of compliance with certain provisions of this Indenture or
certain defaults hereunder and their consequences) provided for in this
Indenture, or
(3) modify any of the provisions of this Section, Section 513 or Section
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 with respect to changes in the references to "the Trustee" and
concomitant changes in this Section and Section 1008, or the deletion of this
proviso, in accordance with the requirements of Sections 611 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 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.
The Operating Partnership may, but shall not be obligated to, fix a record
date for the purpose of determining the Persons entitled to consent to any
indenture supplemental hereto. If a record date is fixed, the Holders on such
record date, or their duly designated
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proxies, and only such Persons, shall be entitled to consent to such
supplemental indenture, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such
record date; provided, that unless such consent shall have become effective by
virtue of the requisite percentage having been obtained prior to the date which
is 90 days after such record date, any such consent previously given shall
automatically and without further action by any Holder be cancelled and of no
further effect.
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
shall be bound thereby.
SECTION 905. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act.
Every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article shall
conform to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act.
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 Operating
Partnership shall so determine, new Securities of any series so modified as to
conform, in the opinion of the Trustee and the Operating Partnership, to any
such supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed by the Operating
Partnership and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in exchange for
Outstanding Securities of such series.
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ARTICLE TEN
COVENANTS
SECTION 1001. Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest.
The Operating Partnership 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 and this Indenture.
SECTION 1002. Maintenance of Office or Agency.
The Operating Partnership will maintain in each Place of Payment for any
series of Securities an office or agency where Securities of that series may be
presented or surrendered for payment, where Securities of that series may be
surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and where notices and
demands to or upon the Operating Partnership in respect of the Securities of
that series and this Indenture may be served. The Operating Partnership will
give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any change in the
location, of such office or agency. If at any time the Operating Partnership
shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to
furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders,
notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the
Trustee, and the Operating Partnership hereby appoints the Trustee as its agent
to receive all such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands.
The Operating Partnership may also from time to time designate one or more
other offices or agencies where the Securities of one or more series may be
presented or surrendered for any or all such purposes and may from time to time
rescind such designations; provided, however, that no such designation or
rescission shall in any manner relieve the Operating Partnership of its
obligation to maintain an office or agency in each Place of Payment for
Securities of any series for such purposes. The Operating Partnership will give
prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and
of any change in the location of any such other office or agency.
SECTION 1003. Money for Securities Payments to Be Held in Trust.
If the Operating Partnership shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent
with respect to any series of Securities, it will, on or before each due date of
the principal of or 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 and interest so
becoming due until such sums shall be paid to such Persons
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or otherwise disposed of as herein provided and will promptly notify the Trustee
of its action or failure so to act.
Whenever the Operating Partnership shall have one or more Paying Agents
for any series of Securities, it will, prior to each due date of the principal
of or any premium or interest on any Securities of that series, deposit with a
Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay such amount, such sum to be held as
provided by the Trust Indenture Act, and (unless such Paying Agent is the
Trustee) the Operating Partnership will promptly notify the Trustee of its
action or failure so to act.
The Operating Partnership will cause each Paying Agent for any series of
Securities other than the Trustee to execute and deliver to the Trustee an
instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to
the provisions of this Section, that such Paying Agent will (1) comply with the
provisions of the Trust Indenture Act applicable to it as a Paying Agent and (2)
during the continuance of any default by the Operating Partnership (or any other
obligor upon the Securities of that series) in the making of any payment in
respect of the Securities of that series, 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 Operating Partnership may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining
the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay,
or by Operating Partnership Order direct any Paying Agent to pay, to the Trustee
all sums held in trust by the Operating Partnership 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 Operating Partnership 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 Operating Partnership, in trust for the payment of the principal of or any
premium or interest on any Security of any series and remaining unclaimed for
two years after such principal, premium or interest has become due and payable
shall be paid to the Operating Partnership on Operating Partnership Request, or
(if then held by the Operating Partnership) shall be discharged from such trust;
and the Holder of such Security shall thereafter, as an unsecured general
creditor, look only to the Operating Partnership for payment thereof, and all
liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money,
and all liability of the Operating Partnership 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
Operating Partnership cause to be published once, in a newspaper published in
the English language, customarily published on each Business Day and of general
circulation in New York, New York, notice that such money remains unclaimed and
that, after a date specified therein, which shall not be less than 30 days from
the date of such publication, any unclaimed balance of such money then remaining
will be repaid to the Operating Partnership.
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SECTION 1004. Statement by Officers as to Default.
The Operating Partnership will deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days
after the end of each fiscal year of the Operating Partnership ending after the
date hereof, an Officers' Certificate, stating whether or not to the best
knowledge of the signers thereof the Operating Partnership is in default in the
performance and observance of any of the terms, provisions and conditions of
this Indenture (without regard to any period of grace or requirement of notice
provided hereunder) and, if the Operating Partnership shall be in default,
specifying all such defaults and the nature and status thereof of which they may
have knowledge.
SECTION 1005. Existence.
Subject to Article Eight, the Operating Partnership will do or cause to be
done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its
existence, rights (charter and statutory) and franchises; provided, however,
that the Operating Partnership shall not be required to preserve any such right
or franchise if the Board of Trustees shall determine that the preservation
thereof is no longer desirable in the conduct of the business of the Operating
Partnership and that the loss thereof is not disadvantageous in any material
respect to the Holders.
SECTION 1006. Maintenance of Properties.
The Operating Partnership will cause all properties used or useful in the
conduct of its business or the business of any Subsidiary to be maintained and
kept in good condition, repair and working order and supplied with all necessary
equipment and will cause to be made all necessary repairs, renewals,
replacements, betterments and improvements thereof, all as in the judgment of
the Operating Partnership may be necessary so that the business carried on in
connection therewith may be properly and advantageously conducted at all times;
provided, however, that nothing in this Section shall prevent the Operating
Partnership from discontinuing the operation or maintenance of any of such
properties if such discontinuance is, in the judgment of the Operating
Partnership, desirable in the conduct of its business or the business of any
Subsidiary and not disadvantageous in any material respect to the Holders.
SECTION 1007. Payment of Taxes and Other Claims.
The Operating Partnership will pay or discharge or cause to be paid or
discharged, before the same shall become delinquent, (1) all taxes, assessments
and governmental charges levied or imposed upon the Operating Partnership or any
Subsidiary or upon the income, profits or property of the Operating Partnership
or any Subsidiary, and (2) all lawful claims for labor, materials and supplies
which, if unpaid, might by law become a lien upon the property of the Operating
Partnership or any Subsidiary; provided, however,
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that the Operating Partnership shall not be required to pay or discharge or
cause to be paid or discharged any such tax, assessment, charge or claim whose
amount, applicability or validity is being contested in good faith by
appropriate proceedings.
SECTION 1008. Insurance.
The Operating Partnership will cause each of its properties and each of
the properties of its Subsidiaries which are of an insurable nature to be
insured against loss of damage with insurers of recognized responsibility, in
commercially reasonable amounts and types.
SECTION 1009. Provision of Financial Information.
Whether or not the Operating Partnership is subject to Section 13 or
Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act, the Operating Partnership will, to the
extent permitted under the Exchange Act, file with the Commission the annual
reports, quarterly reports and other documents that the Operating Partnership
would have been required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or
Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act (the "Financial Statements") if the Operating
Partnership were so subject, such documents to be filed with the Commission on
or prior to the respective dates (the "Required Filing Dates") by which the
Operating Partnership would have been required so to file such documents if the
Operating Partnership were so subject.
The Operating Partnership will also in any event (x) within 15 days of
each Required Filing Date (i) transmit by mail to all Holders, as their names
and addresses appear in the Security Register, without cost to such Holders,
copies of the annual reports and quarterly reports that the Operating
Partnership would have been required to file with the Commission pursuant to
Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act if the Operating Partnership
were subject to such Sections, and (ii) file with the Trustee copies of the
annual reports, quarterly reports and other documents that the Operating
Partnership would have been required to file with the Commission pursuant to
Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act if the Operating Partnership
were subject to such Sections and (y) if filing such documents by the Operating
Partnership with the Commission is not permitted under the Exchange Act,
promptly upon written request and payment of the reasonable cost of duplication
and delivery, supply copies of such documents to any prospective Holder.
SECTION 1010. Waiver of Certain Covenants.
Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for Securities
of such series, the Operating Partnership may, with respect to the Securities of
any series, omit in any particular instance to comply with any term, provision
or condition set forth in any covenant provided pursuant to Section 301(18),
901(2) or 901(7) for the benefit of the Holders of such series or in any of
Sections 1005 through 1009, inclusive, if before the time for such compliance
the Holders of at least 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 Operating Partnership and
the duties of the Trustee in respect of any such term, provision or condition
shall remain in full force and effect.
SECTION 1011. Calculation of Original Issue Discount.
The Operating Partnership shall file with the Trustee promptly at the end
of each calendar year a written notice specifying the amount of original issue
discount (including daily rates and accrual periods) accrued on Outstanding
Securities as of the end of such year.
ARTICLE ELEVEN
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 1101. Applicability of Article.
Securities of any series which are redeemable before their Stated Maturity
shall be redeemable in accordance with their terms and (except as otherwise
specified as contemplated by Section 301 for such Securities) in accordance with
this Article.
SECTION 1102. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee.
The election of the Operating Partnership to redeem any Securities shall
be evidenced by a Board Resolution or in another manner specified as
contemplated by Section 301 for such Securities. In case of any redemption at
the election of the Operating Partnership of less than all the Securities of any
series (including any such redemption affecting only a
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single Security), the Operating Partnership shall, at least 60 days prior to the
Redemption Date fixed by the Operating Partnership (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 to be redeemed. In the case of any
redemption of Securities prior to the expiration of any restriction on such
redemption provided in the terms of such Securities or elsewhere in this
Indenture, the Operating Partnership shall furnish the Trustee with an Officers'
Certificate evidencing compliance with such restriction.
SECTION 1103. Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed.
If less than all the Securities of any series are to be redeemed (unless
all the Securities of such series and of a specified tenor are to be redeemed or
unless such redemption affects only a single Security), the particular
Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not more than 60 days prior to the
Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the Outstanding Securities of such series
not previously called for redemption, by such method as the Trustee shall deem
fair and appropriate and which may provide for the selection for redemption of a
portion of the principal amount of any Security of such series, provided that
the unredeemed portion of the principal amount of any Security shall be in an
authorized denomination (which shall not be less than the minimum authorized
denomination) for such Security. If less than all the Securities of such series
and of a specified tenor are to be redeemed (unless such redemption affects only
a single Security), the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected
not more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the
Outstanding Securities of such series and specified tenor not previously called
for redemption in accordance with the preceding sentence.
The Trustee shall promptly notify the Operating Partnership in writing of
the Securities selected for redemption as aforesaid and, in case of any
Securities selected for partial redemption as aforesaid, the principal amount
thereof to be redeemed.
The provisions of the two preceding paragraphs shall not apply with
respect to any redemption affecting only a single Security, whether such
Security is to be redeemed in whole or in part. In the case of any such
redemption in part, the unredeemed portion of the principal amount of the
Security shall be in an authorized denomination (which shall not be less than
the minimum authorized denomination) for such Security.
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.
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SECTION 1104. Notice of Redemption.
Notice of redemption shall be given by first-class mail, postage prepaid,
mailed not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date, to
each Holder of Securities to be redeemed, at his address appearing in the
Security Register.
All notices of redemption shall state, including CUSIP number, if any:
(1) the Redemption Date,
(2) the Redemption Price,
(3) if less than all the Outstanding Securities of any series consisting
of more than a single Security are to be redeemed, the identification (and,
in the case of partial redemption of any such Securities, the principal
amounts) of the particular Securities to be redeemed and, if less than all
the Outstanding Securities of any series consisting of a single Security are
to be redeemed, the principal amount of the particular Security to be
redeemed,
(4) that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price will become due and
payable upon each such Security to be redeemed and, if applicable, that
interest thereon will cease to accrue on and after said date,
(5) the place or places where each such Security is to be surrendered for
payment of the Redemption Price, and
(6) that the redemption is for a sinking fund, if such is the case.
Notice of redemption of Securities to be redeemed at the election of the
Operating Partnership shall be given by the Operating Partnership or, at the
Operating Partnership's request, by the Trustee in the name and at the expense
of the Operating Partnership and shall be irrevocable.
SECTION 1105. Deposit of Redemption Price.
Prior to any Redemption Date, the Operating Partnership shall deposit with
the Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if the Operating Partnership 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.
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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
Operating Partnership shall default in the payment of the Redemption Price and
accrued interest) such Securities shall cease to bear interest. Upon surrender
of any such Security for redemption in accordance with said notice, such
Security shall be paid by the Operating Partnership at the Redemption Price,
together with accrued interest to the Redemption Date; provided, however, that,
unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301, installments of
interest whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption Date will be
payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor
Securities, registered as such at the close of business on the relevant Record
Dates according to their terms and the provisions of Section 307.
If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon surrender
thereof for redemption, the principal and any premium shall, until paid, bear
interest from the Redemption Date at the rate prescribed therefor in the
Security.
SECTION 1107. Securities Redeemed in Part.
Any Security which is to be redeemed only in part shall be surrendered at
a Place of Payment therefor (with, if the Operating Partnership or the Trustee
so requires, due endorsement by, or a written instrument of transfer in form
satisfactory to the Operating Partnership and the Trustee duly executed by, the
Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing), and the Operating
Partnership shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the
Holder of such Security without service charge, a new Security or Securities of
the same series 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 TWELVE
SINKING FUNDS
SECTION 1201. Applicability of Article.
The provisions of this Article shall be applicable to any sinking fund for
the retirement of Securities of any series except as otherwise specified as
contemplated by Section 301 for such Securities.
The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by the terms
of any Securities is herein referred to as a "mandatory sinking fund payment",
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in excess of such minimum amount provided for by the terms of such Securities is
herein referred to as an "optional sinking fund payment". If provided for by the
terms of any Securities, 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 as provided for by the terms of
such Securities.
SECTION 1202. Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities.
The Operating Partnership (1) may deliver Outstanding Securities of a
series (other than any previously called for redemption) and (2) may apply as a
credit Securities of a series which have been redeemed either at the election of
the Operating Partnership 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 any Securities of such series required to
be made pursuant to the terms of such Securities as and to the extent provided
for by the terms of such Securities; provided that the Securities to be so
credited have not been previously so credited. The Securities to be so credited
shall be received and credited for such purpose by the Trustee at the Redemption
Price, as specified in the Securities so to be redeemed, for redemption through
operation of the sinking fund and the amount of such sinking fund payment shall
be reduced accordingly.
SECTION 1203. Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund.
Not less than 60 days prior to each sinking fund payment date for any
Securities, the Operating Partnership will deliver to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate specifying the amount of the next ensuing sinking fund payment for
such Securities pursuant to the terms of such Securities, 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 pursuant to
Section 1202 and will also deliver to the Trustee any Securities to be so
delivered. Not less than 30 nor more than 45 days prior to 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 Operating Partnership 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.
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ARTICLE THIRTEEN
DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE
SECTION 1301. Operating Partnership's Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant
Defeasance.
If applicable to a particular series of Securities, the Operating
Partnership may elect, at its option at any time, to have Section 1302 or
Section 1303 applied to any such series of Securities or any Securities of such
series, as the case may be, designated pursuant to Section 301 as being
defeasible pursuant to such Section 1302 or 1303, in accordance with any
applicable requirements provided pursuant to Section 301 and upon compliance
with the conditions set forth below in this Article. Any such election shall be
evidenced by a Board Resolution or in another manner specified as contemplated
by Section 301 for such Securities.
SECTION 1302. Defeasance and Discharge.
Upon the Operating Partnership's exercise of its option (if any) to have
this Section applied to any applicable series of Securities or any Securities of
such series, as the case may be, the Operating Partnership shall be deemed to
have been discharged from its obligations with respect to such Securities as
provided in this Section on and after the date the conditions set forth in
Section 1304 are satisfied (hereinafter called "Defeasance"). For this purpose,
such Defeasance means that the Operating Partnership shall be deemed to have
paid and discharged the entire indebtedness represented by such Securities and
to have satisfied all its other obligations under such Securities and this
Indenture insofar as such Securities are concerned (and the Trustee, at the
expense of the Operating Partnership, shall execute proper instruments
acknowledging the same), subject to the following which shall survive until
otherwise terminated or discharged hereunder: (1) the rights of Holders of such
Securities 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 such Securities when payments are due, (2) the
Operating Partnership's obligations with respect to such Securities under
Sections 304, 305, 306, 1002 and 1003, (3) the rights, powers, trusts, duties
and immunities of the Trustee hereunder and (4) this Article. Subject to
compliance with this Article, the Operating Partnership may exercise its option
(if any) to have this Section applied to any applicable Securities
notwithstanding the prior exercise of its option (if any) to have Section 1303
applied to such Securities.
SECTION 1303. Covenant Defeasance.
Upon the Operating Partnership's exercise of its option (if any) to have
this Section applied to any applicable series of Securities or any Securities of
such series, as the case
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may be, (1) the Operating Partnership shall be released from its obligations
under Section 801(3), Sections 1005 through 1007, inclusive, and any covenants
provided pursuant to Section 301(18), 901(2) or 901(7) for the benefit of the
Holders of such Securities and (2) the occurrence of any event specified in
Sections 501(4) (with respect to any of Section 801(3), Sections 1005 through
1007, inclusive, and any such covenants provided pursuant to Section 301(18),
901(2) or 901(7)), 501(5) and 501(8) shall be deemed not to be or result in an
Event of Default, in each case with respect to such Securities as provided in
this Section on and after the date the conditions set forth in Section 1304 are
satisfied (hereinafter called "Covenant Defeasance"). For this purpose, such
Covenant Defeasance means that, with respect to such Securities, the Operating
Partnership may omit to comply with and shall have no liability in respect of
any term, condition or limitation set forth in any such specified Section (to
the extent so specified in the case of Section 501(4)), whether directly or
indirectly by reason of any reference elsewhere herein to any such Section or by
reason of any reference in any such Section 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 the application of Section 1302
or Section 1303 to any applicable series of Securities or any Securities of such
series, as the case may be:
(1) The Operating Partnership shall irrevocably have deposited or caused
to be deposited with the Trustee (or another trustee which satisfies the
requirements contemplated by Section 609 and agrees to comply with the
provisions of this Article 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 benefits of the Holders of such Securities,
(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, in each case
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 any such other qualifying trustee) to pay and discharge, the principal of
and any premium and interest on such Securities on the respective Stated
Maturities, in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and such
Securities. As used herein, "U.S. Government Obligation" means (x) any
security which is (i) a direct obligation of the United States of America for
the payment of which the full faith and credit of the United States of
America is pledged or (ii) an obligation of a Person controlled or supervised
by and acting as an agency or instrumentality of the United States of America
the payment of which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit
obligation by the United States of America, which, in either case (i) or
(ii), is not callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof, and
(y) any depositary receipt issued by a bank (as defined in Section 3(a)(2) of
the
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Securities Act) as custodian with respect to any U.S. Government Obligation
which is specified in Clause (x) above and held by such bank for the account
of the holder of such depositary receipt, or with respect to any specific
payment of principal of or interest on any U.S. Government Obligation which
is so specified and held, 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 depositary receipt from any amount received by the
custodian in respect of the U.S. Government Obligation or the specific
payment of principal or interest evidenced by such depositary receipt.
(2) In the event of an election to have Section 1302 apply to any
applicable series of Securities or any Securities of such series, as the case
may be, the Operating Partnership shall have delivered to the Trustee an
Opinion of Counsel stating that (A) the Operating Partnership has received
from, or there has been published by, the Internal Revenue Service a ruling
or (B) since the date of this instrument, there has been a change in the
applicable Federal income tax law, in either case (A) or (B) to the effect
that, and based thereon such opinion shall confirm that, the Holders of such
Securities will not recognize gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as
a result of the deposit, Defeasance and discharge to be effected with respect
to such Securities and will be subject to Federal income tax on the same
amount, in the same manner and at the same times as would be the case if such
deposit, Defeasance and discharge were not to occur.
(3) In the event of an election to have Section 1303 apply to any
applicable series of Securities or any Securities of such series, as the case
may be, the Operating Partnership shall have delivered to the Trustee an
Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Holders of such Securities will not
recognize gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result of the
deposit and Covenant Defeasance to be effected with respect to such
Securities and will be subject to Federal income tax on the same amount, in
the same manner and at the same times as would be the case if such deposit
and Covenant Defeasance were not to occur.
(4) The Operating Partnership shall have delivered to the Trustee an
Officer's Certificate to the effect that neither such Securities nor any
other Securities of the same series, if then listed on any securities
exchange, will be delisted as a result of such deposit.
(5) No event which is, or after notice or lapse of time or both would
become, an Event of Default with respect to such Securities or any other
Securities shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of such deposit
or, with regard to any such event specified in Sections 501(6) and (7), at
any time on or prior to the 90th day after the date of such deposit (it being
understood that this condition shall not be deemed satisfied until after such
90th day).
(6) Such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not cause the Trustee to
have a conflicting interest within the meaning of the Trust Indenture Act
(assuming all Securities are in default within the meaning of such Act).
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(7) 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 Operating Partnership is a party or by which it is
bound.
(8) Such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not result in the trust
arising from such deposit constituting an investment company within the
meaning of the Investment Company Act unless such trust shall be registered
under such Act or exempt from registration thereunder.
(9) The Operating Partnership shall have delivered to the Trustee an
Officer's Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all
conditions precedent with respect to such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance
have been complied with.
SECTION 1305. Deposited Money and U.S. Government Obligations to Be
Held in Trust; 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 (solely for purposes of this Section and
Section 1306, the Trustee and any such other trustee are referred to
collectively as the "Trustee") pursuant to Section 1304 in respect of any
Securities shall be held in trust and applied by the Trustee, in accordance with
the provisions of such Securities and this Indenture, to the payment, either
directly or through any such Paying Agent (including the Operating Partnership
acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Holders of
such Securities, of all sums due and to become due thereon in respect of
principal and any premium and interest, but money so held in trust need not be
segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.
The Operating Partnership 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 Outstanding Securities.
Anything in this Article to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee
shall deliver or pay to the Operating Partnership from time to time upon
Operating Partnership Request any money or U.S. Government Obligations held by
it as provided in Section 1304 with respect to any Securities 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 the Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance, as the case may be, with respect
to such Securities.
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SECTION 1306. Reinstatement.
If the Trustee or the Paying Agent is unable to apply any money in
accordance with this Article with respect to any Securities by reason of any
order or judgment of any court or governmental authority enjoining, restraining
or otherwise prohibiting such application, then the obligations under this
Indenture and such Securities from which the Operating Partnership has been
discharged or released pursuant to Section 1302 or 1303 shall be revived and
reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to this Article with
respect to such Securities, until such time as the Trustee or Paying Agent is
permitted to apply all money held in trust pursuant to Section 1305 with respect
to such Securities in accordance with this Article; provided, however, that if
the Operating Partnership makes any payment of principal of or any premium or
interest on any such Security following such reinstatement of its obligations,
the Operating Partnership shall be subrogated to the rights (if any) of the
Holders of such Securities to receive such payment from the money so held in
trust.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be
duly executed, and their respective corporate seals to be hereunto affixed and
attested, all as of the day and year first above written.
VORNADO REALTY L.P.
By...........................................
Attest:
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THE BANK OF NEW YORK
Trustee:
By...........................................
Attest:
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XXXXX XX XXX XXXX )
) ss.:
COUNTY OF NEW YORK )
On the .... day of ..........., ...., before me personally came
..........................., to me known, who, being by me duly sworn, did
depose and say that he is .................... of ..........................,
one of the corporations described in and which executed the foregoing
instrument; that he knows the seal of said corporation; that the seal affixed
to said instrument is such corporate seal; that it was so affixed by authority
of the Board of Trustees of said corporation; and that he signed his name
thereto by like authority.
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STATE OF NEW YORK )
) ss.:
COUNTY OF NEW YORK )
On the .... day of ..........., ...., before me personally came
..........................., to me known, who, being by me duly sworn, did
depose and say that he is .................... of ..........................,
one of the corporations described in and which executed the foregoing
instrument; that he knows the seal of said corporation; that the seal affixed
to said instrument is such corporate seal; that it was so affixed by authority
of the Board of Trustees of said corporation; and that he signed his name
thereto by like authority.
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