Procedure for Revolving Credit Borrowing The Borrower may borrow under the Revolving Credit Commitments during the Commitment Period on any Business Day, provided that the Borrower shall give the Administrative Agent irrevocable notice (which notice must be received by the Administrative Agent prior to 10:00 A.M., New York City time, (a) three Business Days prior to the requested Borrowing Date, if all or any part of the requested Revolving Credit Loans are to be initially Eurodollar Loans or (b) on the requested Borrowing Date, otherwise), in each case specifying (i) the amount to be borrowed, (ii) the requested Borrowing Date, (iii) whether the borrowing is to be of Eurodollar Loans, ABR Loans or a combination thereof and (iv) if the borrowing is to be entirely or partly of Eurodollar Loans, the amount of such Type of Loan and the length of the initial Interest Period therefor. Each borrowing under the Revolving Credit Commitments (other than a borrowing under subsections 2.4, 2.16 and 5.5) shall be in an amount equal to (x) in the case of ABR Loans, $5,000,000 or a whole multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof (or, if the Aggregate Available Revolving Credit Commitments are less than $1,000,000, such lesser amount) and (y) in the case of Eurodollar Loans, $5,000,000 or a whole multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof. Upon receipt of any such notice from the Borrower, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Lender thereof. Prior to 11:00 A.M., New York City time, on the Borrowing Date requested by the Borrower, each Lender will make an amount equal to its Funding Commitment Percentage of the principal amount of the Revolving Credit Loans requested to be made on such Borrowing Date available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Borrower at the New York office of the Administrative Agent specified in subsection 13.2 in funds immediately available to the Administrative Agent. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2.16, such borrowing will then be made available to the Borrower by the Administrative Agent crediting the account of the Borrower on the books of such office with the aggregate of the amounts made available to the Administrative Agent by the Lenders and in like funds as received by the Administrative Agent.
Amount of Borrowing Tranche Each Borrowing Tranche of Loans under the LIBOR Rate Option shall be in integral multiples of $500,000 and not less than $1,000,000; and
Each Borrowing The obligation of each Lender to make a Loan on the occasion of any Borrowing is subject to the satisfaction of the following conditions:
(a) The representations and warranties of the Obligors set forth in Article III of this Agreement (other than Section 3.04, Section 3.05(a)(i) or (b), or Section 3.09) or any other Loan Document, or which are contained in any certificate or notice delivered at any time by any Obligor under or in connection herewith or therewith, shall be true and correct in all material respects on and as of the date of such Borrowing, before and after giving effect to such Borrowing, or if any such representation or warranty was made as of a specific date, such representation and warranty was true and correct in all material respects on and as of such date.
(b) At the time of and immediately after giving effect to such Borrowing, no Default shall have occurred and be continuing.
(c) The Borrower shall have delivered a Borrowing Request in accordance with Section 2.03.
(d) With respect to any Allocated Existing Indenture Debt to be repaid or redeemed with the proceeds of such Borrowing (other than pursuant to a Special Repayment), the Administrative Agent shall have received evidence reasonably satisfactory to it that the conditions to the tender offers commenced for the repurchase or redemption of such Allocated Existing Indenture Debt shall have been satisfied pursuant to the terms of the Repurchase Documentation, in such form as provided to the Administrative Agent on or before the date of this Agreement (and with such subsequent amendments, modifications or waivers as may be approved by the Administrative Agent (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed)), and that all amounts payable to the holders of such Allocated Existing Indenture Debt pursuant to the terms of the Repurchase Documentation have been paid in full or are being paid in full in cash through a direct disbursement of the proceeds of such Borrowing.
(e) With respect to any Borrowing the proceeds of which are being utilized to make a Special Repayment, the Administrative Agent shall have received evidence reasonably satisfactory to it that the Allocated Existing Indenture Debt which is being redeemed or otherwise repaid from such Special Repayment is (x) due and payable, (y) permitted to be prepaid or (z) being irrevocably called for redemption in connection with such Borrowing, and is being paid in cash (i) through a direct disbursement of the proceeds of such Borrowing or (ii) with money irrevocably deposited with the trustee, paying agent or fiscal agent for such Existing Indenture Debt (through a direct disbursement of the proceeds of such Borrowing) for payment of such Existing Indenture Debt upon expiration of the relevant notice period for such redemption. Each Borrowing Request shall be deemed to constitute a representation and warranty by the Obligors on the date of such Borrowing Request and the date of the Borrowing requested thereunder as to the matters specified in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Section.
Initial Borrowing Before or concurrently with the initial Borrowing:
(a) The Administrative Agent shall have received the favorable written opinion of L▇▇▇▇▇ & W▇▇▇▇▇▇, counsel to Borrower;
(b) The Administrative Agent shall have received copies of the Borrower’s (i) Articles of Incorporation, together with all amendments and (ii) bylaws (or comparable constituent documents) and any amendments thereto, certified in each instance by its Secretary or an Assistant Secretary;
(c) The Administrative Agent shall have received copies of resolutions of the Borrower’s Board of Directors authorizing the execution and delivery of the Credit Documents and the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby together with specimen signatures of the persons authorized to execute such documents on the Borrower’s behalf, all certified in each instance by its Secretary or Assistant Secretary;
(d) The Administrative Agent shall have received for each Lender that requests a Note, such Lender’s duly executed Note of the Borrower dated the date hereof and otherwise in compliance with the provisions of Section 2.9(a) hereof;
(e) The Administrative Agent shall have received a duly executed counterpart of this Agreement from each of the Lenders and the Borrower;
(f) The Administrative Agent shall have received a duly executed Compliance Certificate containing financial information as of March 31, 2009;
(g) Except as set forth on Schedule 6.1, neither the Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries shall have, during the period from March 31, 2009 to the Closing Date, issued, incurred, assumed, created, become liable for, contingently or otherwise, any material Indebtedness other than the issuance of commercial paper consistent with past practices;
(h) The Borrower shall have paid to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of each Lender the applicable fees for providing its Commitment under this Agreement;
(i) The Borrower shall have delivered the SEC Disclosure Documents which Nicor or the Borrower shall have filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (or any governmental agency substituted therefore) or any national securities exchange on or after January 1, 2009;
(j) The Credit Agreement, dated as of August 11, 2008, among the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the other financial institutions party thereto has terminated (upon maturity or otherwise) in accordance with its terms; and
(k) The Administrative Agent shall have received such other documents and information as it may reasonably request. By executing this Agreement, the Administrative Agent and each of the Lenders agrees that each condition set forth in this Section 6.1 has been satisfied.
Minimum Amount of Each Borrowing The aggregate principal amount of each Borrowing of Loans shall not be less than the Minimum Borrowing Amount. More than one Borrowing may occur on the same date, but at no time shall there be outstanding more than 15 Borrowings of Euro Rate Loans.