EXHIBIT 4
CROWN CENTRAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION
FIRST RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT
Dated as of August 1, 1997
NATIONSBANK OF TEXAS, N.A.,
as Administrative Agent and
Letter of Credit Agent
and
BANKBOSTON, N.A.,
as Documentation Agent
and
THE BANKS NAMED HEREIN
TABLE OF CONTENTS
This Table of Contents is not part of the Agreement to which it
is attached but is inserted for convenience only.
Page
SECTION 1. Definitions and Accounting Matters 1
1.1 Certain Defined Terms 1
1.2 Accounting Terms and Determinations 23
1.3 Certain References and Terms 25
SECTION 2. Commitments 25
2.1 Loans 25
2.2 Borrowings 26
2.3 Letters of Credit 26
2.4 Changes of Commitments 31
2.5 Fees 32
2.6 Lending Offices 33
2.7 Several Obligations; Remedies Independent 33
2.8 Notes 33
2.9 Voluntary Prepayments 34
2.10 Clean-ups 34
SECTION 3. Payments of Principal and Interest 35
3.1 Repayment of Loans 35
3.2 Interest 35
SECTION 4. Payments; Pro Rata Treatment; Computations; Etc 36
4.1 Payments 36
4.2 Pro Rata Treatment 37
4.3 Computations 37
4.4 Non-Receipt of Funds by the Administrative Agent 37
4.5 Sharing of Payments, Etc. 38
SECTION 5. Yield Protection and Illegality 39
5.1 Additional Costs 39
5.2 Limitation on Eurodollar Loans 41
5.3 Illegality 42
5.4 Treatment of Eurodollar Loans 42
5.5 Compensation 42
5.6 Additional Costs in Respect of Letters of Credit 43
5.7 No Duplication 43
SECTION 6. Conditions Precedent 43
6.1 Initial Extension of Credit 43
6.2 Initial and Subsequent Extensions of Credit 44
SECTION 7. Representations and Warranties 45
7.1 Corporate Existence 45
7.2 Financial Condition 45
7.3 Litigation 46
7.4 No Breach 46
7.5 Corporate Action 46
7.6 Approvals 46
7.7 Use of Proceeds 46
7.8 ERISA 46
7.9 Taxes 46
7.10 Investment Company Act 47
7.11 Environmental Conditions 47
7.12 Indebtedness 48
7.13 Operation of Business 48
7.14 No Defaults on Outstanding Judgments or Orders 48
7.15 No Defaults under Other Agreements, Etc 49
7.16 Labor Disputes and Acts of God 49
7.17 Subsidiaries, Etc 49
SECTION 8. Covenants of the Company 49
8.1 Maintenance of Existence 49
8.2 Conduct of Business 50
8.3 Maintenance of Properties 50
8.4 Maintenance of Records 50
8.5 Maintenance of Insurance 50
8.6 Compliance with Laws and Agreements 50
8.7 Right of Inspection 50
8.8 Reporting Requirements 51
8.9 Liens 54
8.10 Indebtedness 56
8.11 Guaranties, Etc 56
8.12 Mergers, Etc 57
8.13 Investments 57
8.14 Sale of Assets 57
8.15 Stock of Subsidiaries, Etc 58
8.16 Transactions with Affiliates 58
8.17 Line of Business 58
8.18 Accounts Payable; Senior Notes 59
8.19 FIFO Tangible Net North 59
8.20 CFD/Capital Ratio 59
8.21 Net Adjusted Working Capital 59
8.22 Adjusted Current Ratio 59
8.23 Short-Term FIFO Net Income (Loss). 59
8.24 Mid-Term FIFO Net Income (Loss). 59
8.25 Unrestricted Subsidiaries. 59
8.26 Restricted Subsidiaries. 60
SECTION 9. Events of Default 60
9.1 Events of Default 60
9.2 Cash Collateral Account 63
9.3 Indemnity 64
SECTION 10. The Administrative Agent and the Letter of Credit Agent
64
10.1 Appointment, Powers and Immunities 64
10.2 Reliance 65
10.3 Defaults 65
10.4 Rights as a Bank 65
10.5 Indemnification 66
10.6 Non-Reliance on other Bank Parties 66
10.7 Failure to Act 66
10.8 Resignation or Removal 67
10.9 Documents 67
SECTION 11. Miscellaneous 67
11.1 No Waiver 67
11.2 Notices 67
11.3 Expenses, Etc 68
11.4 Whole Agreements, Amendments, Etc 68
11.5 Survival After Closing; Severability 69
11.6 Assignments and Participations 69
11.7 Termination; Limited Survival 70
11.8 Acknowledgements and Admissions 71
11.9 Counterparts 71
11.10 Governing Law; Submission to Jurisdiction 71
11.11 WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL 72
11.12 Confidentiality 72
11.13 Replacement of Banks 72
11.14 Limitation on Interest 73
11.15 Restatement 74
FIRST RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT
THIS FIRST RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT, dated as of August 1, 1997,
is among: Crown Central Petroleum Corporation, a corporation duly
organized and validly existing under the laws of the State of Maryland
(the "Company"); each of the banks that is a signatory hereto
(individually, a "Bank" and, collectively, the "Banks"); BankBoston,
N.A., as documentation agent for the Banks (in such capacity, and
together with its successors in such capacity, the "Documentation
Agent"), and NationsBank of Texas, N.A., as administrative agent and
as letter of credit agent for the Banks (in such respective
capacities, together with its successors in such respective
capacities, the "Administrative Agent" and the "Letter of Credit
Agent").
W I T N E S S E T H
WHEREAS, the Company, NationsBank of Texas, N.A., as
administrative agent and letter of credit agent, certain Banks and
other lenders entered into that certain Credit Agreement dated
September 25, 1995 (as amended, the "Original Agreement"), providing
for extensions of credit to the Company by such lenders and the
issuance of letters of credit on behalf of the Company; and
WHEREAS, as of the date hereof there are no outstanding "Loans",
but there are outstanding "Letters of Credit" (as such terms are
defined in the Original Agreement"); and
WHEREAS, the Company has requested that the Banks restate the
Original Agreement to renew and extend such line of credit and to
continue such letter of credit facility; and
WHEREAS, the Banks are prepared to restate the Original Agreement
and renew and extend such line of credit and letter of credit facility
upon the terms hereof. Accordingly, the parties hereto agree as
follows:
SECTION 1. Definitions and Accounting Matters
1 1 Certain Defined Terms. As used herein, the following terms
shall have the following meanings:
"Adjusted Current Assets" shall mean, as of March 31, 1997 and as
of the end of each calendar month thereafter (each a "Determination
Date" in this definition), the sum (without duplication) of:
(a) the Company's Consolidated current assets at such
Determination Date, plus
(b) an amount equal to (1) the Company's Consolidated inventory
LIFO reserve at such Determination Date, times (2) the Tax Adjustment
Factor in effect at such Determination Date.
"Adjusted Current Ratio" shall mean, as of March 31, 1997 and as
of the end of each calendar month thereafter, the ratio of Adjusted
Current Assets to Adjusted Liabilities, provided, that for this
purpose only clause (b) in the definition of "Adjusted Current Assets"
shall be deemed to read as follows: "(b) an amount equal to the
Company's Consolidated inventory LIFO reserve at such Determination
Date."
"Adjusted Liabilities" shall mean, as of March 31, 1997 and as of
the end of each calendar month thereafter (each a "Determination Date"
in this definition), the sum (without duplication) of:
(a) the Company's Consolidated current liabilities at such
Determination Date, plus
(b) Loans outstanding under this Agreement at such Determination
Date (to the extent not included in the Company's Consolidated current
liabilities), plus
(c) Letter of Credit Liabilities in respect of Insurance Letters
of Credit or Miscellaneous Letters of Credit at such Determination
Date (to the extent the liabilities supported by such Letters of
Credit are not included in the Company's Consolidated current
liabilities), plus
(d) all of the Company's Consolidated liabilities with respect
to (1) letters of credit issued other than under this Agreement, or
(2) Guarantees.
"Adjusted Net Income (Loss)" shall mean, for any period, the
Company's Consolidated net income (or loss) for such period as
adjusted (to the extent otherwise included in calculating such net
income or loss) by excluding, without duplication:
(a) all extraordinary gains or losses (less all fees and
expenses relating thereto),
(b) Consolidated Non-Cash Charges of $55,000,000 recognized
pursuant to the FAS 121 Writedown,
(c) the portion of such net income (or loss) allocable to
minority interests owned by the Company and the Consolidated
Subsidiaries in unconsolidated Persons, to the extent that cash
dividends or distributions have not actually been received by the
Company or one of the Consolidated Subsidiaries during such period
(provided that, after June 30, 1995, if any such exclusion is made for
dividends or distributions accrued but not received, net income for
any subsequent period shall be deemed increased by the amount of any
such previously excluded accrued dividends or distributions which are
actually received during such subsequent period),
(d) net income (or loss) of any Person combined with the Company
and the Consolidated Subsidiaries on a "pooling of interests" basis
attributable to any period prior to the date of combination,
(e) any gain or loss, net of taxes, realized upon the
termination of any employee pension benefit plan,
(f) net gains (but not losses) (less all fees and expenses
relating thereto) in respect of dispositions of assets other than in
the ordinary course of business, and
(g) the net income of any Consolidated Subsidiary of the Company
to the extent that the transfer by such Consolidated Subsidiary to the
Company of funds equal to such income (by dividends, payments upon
liquidation, or some other similar form of distribution) is not at the
time permitted, directly or indirectly, by operation of the terms of
such Subsidiary's charter or any agreement, instrument, judgment,
decree, order, statute, rule or governmental regulations applicable to
such Subsidiary or its stockholders (provided that, after June 30,
1995, if any such exclusion is made for net income not permitted to be
so transferred, net income for any subsequent period shall be deemed
increased by the amount of any such previously excluded net income (to
the extent not reduced by subsequent losses or other events) which
becomes permitted to be so transferred during such subsequent period).
"Administrative/LC Agents" shall have the meaning given to that
term in Section 10.1 hereof.
"Affiliate" shall mean, as to any Person, any other Person which
directly or indirectly controls, or is under common control with, or
is controlled by, such Person. As used in this definition, "control"
(including, with its correlative meanings, "controlled by" and "under
common control with") shall mean possession, directly or indirectly,
of power to direct or cause the direction of management or policies
(whether through ownership of securities or partnership or other
ownership interests, by contract or otherwise), provided that, in any
event, any Person which owns directly or indirectly 5% or more of the
securities having ordinary voting power for the election of directors
or other governing body of a corporation or 5% or more of the
partnership or other ownership interests of any other Person (other
than as a limited partner of such other Person) will be deemed to
control such corporation or other Person. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, no individual shall be deemed to be an Affiliate of a
corporation solely by reason of his or her being an officer or
director of such corporation.
"Applicable Commitment Fee Rate" shall mean, on any day, the rate
per annum (expressed in Basis Points) set forth in the Pricing Grid in
the row headed "Commitment Fee" and in the column headed by the ratio
of Debt/Cash Flow which is in effect or deemed to be in effect on such
day.
"Applicable Lending Office" shall mean, for each Bank and for
each type of Loan, the Lending Office of such Bank (or of an affiliate
of such Bank) designated for such type of Loan on the signature pages
hereof or such other office of such Bank (or of an affiliate of such
Bank) as such Bank may from time to time specify to the Administrative
Agent and the Company as the office by which its Loans of such type
are to be made and maintained.
"Applicable Letter of Credit Rate" shall mean (a) with respect to
any Insurance Letter of Credit, Miscellaneous Letter of Credit or any
Inventory Letter of Credit that is a Standby Letter of Credit, on any
day, the rate per annum (expressed in Basis Points) set forth in the
Pricing Grid in the row headed "Standby LCs" and in the column headed
by the ratio of Debt/Cash Flow which is in effect or deemed to be in
effect on such day, and (b) with respect to any Inventory Letter of
Credit that is a Commercial Letter of Credit on any day, the rate per
annum (expressed in Basis Points) set forth in the Pricing Grid in the
row headed "Commercial LCs" and in the column headed by the ratio of
Debt/Cash Flow which is in effect or deemed to be in effect on such
day.
"Applicable LIBOR Margin" shall mean the rate per annum
(expressed in Basis Points) set forth in the Pricing Grid in the row
headed "LIBOR Margin" and in the column headed by the ratio of
Debt/Cash Flow which is in effect or deemed to be in effect on such
day.
"Asset Sale" shall mean any sale, lease, assignment, transfer or
other disposition by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (including
by way of merger, consolidation or any sale and leaseback transaction)
(collectively a "transfer" in this definition), directly or
indirectly, in one or a series of related transactions:
(a) at any time, of either or both of the Company's directly or
indirectly owned refineries in Pasadena and Tyler, Texas, or of any
undivided interest in any substantial part thereof, or of any interest
in a Subsidiary which directly or indirectly owns such assets,
(b) during any fiscal year of the Company, of service stations,
convenience stores, or other retail establishments, if the remainder
of (i) the aggregate price received during such fiscal year for all
such transfers (on an accrual basis, taking into account all forms of
consideration received), less (ii) the aggregate price paid by the
Company and its Subsidiaries during such fiscal year (on an accrual
basis, taking into account all forms of consideration paid) for all
service stations, convenience stores, and other retail establishments
purchased, is $25,000,000 or more,
(c) at any time, of any stock or other equity interest in any of
the Company's Subsidiaries (other than directors' qualifying shares
and shares required to be owned by foreign nationals, to the extent
mandated by applicable law), provided that the transfer by the Company
of all of its stock in any particular Subsidiary (excluding any
Subsidiary described in clause (a) of this definition) shall not be
deemed to be an Asset Sale under this clause (c) if the transfer by
such Subsidiary of all of its assets would not constitute an Asset
Sale (either alone or in aggregation with any other transactions
described in clause (b) above) under clause (b) or clause (d) of this
definition, and
(d) at any time, of (i) all or substantially all of the
properties and assets of any division or line of business of the
Company and its Subsidiaries (it being agreed that the only business
activities of the Company and its Subsidiaries that constitute lines
of business, for the purposes of this Agreement and for no other
purpose, are (y) refining and (z) retail sales), or (ii) any other
properties or assets if the transfer thereof is other than in the
ordinary course of business, provided that "Asset Sales" pursuant to
this clause (d) shall not include (1) any transfer of inventory in the
ordinary course of business, (2) any transfer of hydrodesulphurization
equipment originally purchased by the Company to manufacture low
sulphur distillate in its Pasadena refinery, and (3) any transfer of
properties and assets in any fiscal year with an aggregate fair market
value of less than $500,000.
"Authorized Representative" shall mean any officer of the Company
theretofore specified by the Company to the Administrative Agent as
authorized to give notices as provided herein on behalf of the
Company. The Bank Parties may conclusively assume that any officer so
specified is authorized until notified by the Company to the contrary.
"Bank Parties" shall mean the Administrative Agent, the Letter of
Credit Agent, the Documentation Agent, and the Banks.
"Base Rate" shall mean, with respect to any Base Rate Loan, for
any day, the higher of (a) the Federal Funds Rate for such day plus
fifty (50) Basis Points per annum or (b) the Prime Rate for such day.
Each change in any interest rate provided for herein based upon the
Base Rate resulting from a change in the Base Rate shall take effect
at the time of such change in the Base Rate.
"Base Rate Loans" shall mean Loans which bear interest at rates
based upon the Base Rate.
"Basis Point" shall mean one one-hundredth of one percent (.01%).
"Business Day" shall mean any day except Saturdays, Sundays, and
those other days on which commercial banks are authorized or required
to close in Dallas, provided that, if such day relates to the giving
of notices in connection with a borrowing of, a payment or prepayment
of principal of or interest on, or the Interest Period for, a
Eurodollar Loan or a notice by the Company with respect to any such
borrowing, payment, prepayment or Interest Period, such day must also
be a day on which dealings in Dollar deposits are carried out in the
London interbank market.
"Capital Expenditures" shall mean, for any period, all of the
Company's Consolidated expenditures during such period (including the
aggregate amount of Capital Lease Obligations incurred during such
period) to acquire or construct fixed assets, plant and equipment
(including renewals, improvements and replacements, but excluding
repairs), or for deferred maintenance turnarounds.
"Capitalized Lease Obligations" shall mean, as to any Person, the
obligations of such Person to pay rent or other amounts under a lease
of (or other agreement conveying the right to use) real or personal
property which obligations are required to be classified and accounted
for as a capital lease on a balance sheet of such Person under GAAP
(including Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 13 of the
Financial Accounting Standards Board) and, for purposes of this
Agreement, the amount of such obligations shall be the capitalized
amount thereof, determined in accordance with GAAP (including such
Statement No. 13).
"CERCLA" and "CERCLIS" shall have the meanings given to those
terms in Section 7.11(e) hereof.
"CFD/Capital Ratio" shall mean, at any time, the ratio of (a)
Consolidated Funded Debt, to (b) the sum of Consolidated Funded Debt
plus Net Worth.
"Closing Date" shall mean the date specified by the
Administrative Agent to all parties hereto as the date on which the
conditions precedent set forth in Section 6.1 have been satisfied.
"Code" shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended
from time to time.
"Collateral Account" shall have the meaning given to that term in
Section 9.2 hereof.
"Commercial Letter of Credit" shall mean a Letter of Credit
determined by the Letter of Credit Agent to be a "commercial letter of
credit" within the meaning of that term as set forth in the applicable
rulings and interpretations of the Comptroller of the Currency as in
effect from time to time.
"Commitment" shall mean, as to each Bank, the obligation of such
Bank to make Loans pursuant to Section 2.1 hereof and to issue (in the
case of the Bank serving as Letter of Credit Agent) or acquire (in the
case of each Participant Bank) participations in Letters of Credit
pursuant to Section 2.3 hereof in an aggregate amount at any one time
outstanding up to but not exceeding the amount set opposite such
Bank's name on the signature pages hereof under the caption
"Commitment" (as the same may be reduced at any time or from time to
time pursuant to Section 2.4 hereof). The original aggregate amount
of the Commitments is $110,000,000.
"Commitment Termination Date" shall mean September 30, 1999, or
such later date as shall apply with respect to any Bank pursuant to
Section 2.4(d) hereof.
"Consolidated" refers to the consolidation, in accordance with
GAAP, of the Company and the Consolidated Subsidiaries. References
herein to the Company's Consolidated financial statements,
Consolidated current assets, Consolidated financial condition,
Consolidated Funded Long-Term Indebtedness etc. refer to the
consolidated financial statements, consolidated current assets,
consolidated financial condition, consolidated Funded Long-Term
Indebtedness, etc. of the Company and the Consolidated Subsidiaries.
"Consolidated Funded Debt" shall mean the Company's Consolidated
Funded Long-Term Indebtedness excluding, at the time in question, the
current portion of such Consolidated Funded Long-Term Indebtedness
(i.e., any portion of such Consolidated Funded Long-Term Indebtedness
which in accordance with its terms is scheduled to be permanently
repaid or retired within one year from such time).
"Consolidated Income Tax Expense" shall mean, for any period, the
Company's Consolidated provision for Federal, state, local and foreign
income and franchise taxes for such period.
"Consolidated Interest Expense" shall mean, for any period, the
sum, without duplication, of (a) the Company's Consolidated interest
expense for such period, including (i) amortization of debt discount,
(ii) cost of or payments under Rate Hedging Obligations (including
fees and amortization of discounts and any increases in any reserve
established for Rate Hedging Obligations, but net of any reductions in
such a reserve and any payments received under agreements evidencing
Rate Hedging Obligations), (iii) the interest portion of any deferred
payment obligation, (iv) payments or fees with respect to letters of
credit, bankers' acceptances or similar facilities, and (v) accrued
interest, plus (b) (i) the interest component of the Company's
Consolidated Capitalized Lease Obligations paid, accrued or scheduled
to be paid or accrued during such period and (ii) the Company's
Consolidated capitalized interest during such period.
"Consolidated Non-Cash Charges" shall mean, for any period, the
Company's Consolidated depreciation, amortization and other non-cash
charges deducted in the determination of Adjusted Net Income for such
period.
"Consolidated Subsidiary" shall mean each Subsidiary of the
Company (whether now existing or hereafter created or acquired) the
financial statements of which shall be (or should have been)
consolidated with the financial statements of the Company in
accordance with GAAP, provided that no Unrestricted Subsidiary shall
be deemed to be a Consolidated Subsidiary for so long as it is an
Unrestricted Subsidiary.
"Credit Certificate" shall mean a certificate of the Company in
the form of Exhibit B hereto, appropriately completed, pursuant to
which (among other things) the Company confirms that the conditions
for an Extension of Credit have been met.
"Cumulative Adjusted Liquidity Capacity" shall mean, as of June
30, 1995 and as of the end of each calendar month thereafter (each a
"Determination Date" in this definition):
(a) $28,000,000; plus (minus)
the cumulative amount (without duplication) of the following as
determined for the Company on a Consolidated basis for the period (a
"Determination Period" in this definition) beginning on and including
July 1, 1995, and ending on and including such Determination Date:
(b) Adjusted Net Income (Loss) for such Determination Period,
plus (minus)
(c) an amount equal to the LIFO provision (recovery) for such
Determination Period times the Tax Adjustment Factor in effect at such
Determination Date, plus
(d) Consolidated Non-Cash Charges deducted in determining such
Adjusted Net Income (Loss), minus
(e) Capital Expenditures (other than ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Capital
Expenditures) during such Determination Period (less the net book
value of fixed assets, plant or equipment sold in the ordinary course
of business during such Determination Period), plus (minus)
(f) decreases (increases) during such Determination Period in
Deferred Assets, plus (minus)
(g) increases (decreases) during such Determination Period in
Deferred Liabilities, excluding the decrease of $13,800,000 incurred
as of September 30, 1995, plus (minus)
(h) increases (decreases) in Consolidated Funded Debt during
such Determination Period (excluding up to $10,000,000 of outstanding
Indebtedness under the ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Credit Facility incurred between the
date hereof and June 30, 1998, and used to purchase or improve new
service stations), but only up to the level at which the CFD/Capital
Ratio equals 40% (provided, however, that in no event will increases
in Consolidated Funded Debt be added in determining Cumulative
Adjusted Liquidity Capacity unless FIFO Tangible Net Worth exceeds
$215,000,000 at such Determination Date), minus
(i) the dollar amount by which Consolidated Funded Debt
(including outstanding Indebtedness under the ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Credit Facility)
at such Determination Date exceeds 40% of the sum of (1) Net Worth at
such date plus (2) such Consolidated Funded Debt, minus
(j) dividends declared by the Company during such Determination
Period, minus
(k) Restricted Payments (other than dividends declared by the
Company) which are made during such Determination Period, minus
(l) the sum at such Determination Date of (i) the Company's
Consolidated Funded Short-Term Indebtedness other than under this
Agreement plus (ii) the Company's Consolidated Indebtedness for
letters of credit (regardless of the term thereof), issued other than
under this Agreement, minus
(m) the amount (measured at book value) of the Company's
Permitted Investments during such Determination Period in any
Unrestricted Subsidiaries (net of any Consolidated liabilities of the
Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries from which they are released
in all respects due to the assumption of such liabilities by an
Unrestricted Subsidiary),
PROVIDED, upon the occurrence of a Material Adverse Change,
"Cumulative Adjusted Liquidity Capacity" shall be deemed to be less
than zero until such time, if any, as such Material Adverse Change is
corrected or ceases to exist.
As used above, "▇▇▇▇▇▇ Credit Facility" means a commitment by
▇▇▇▇▇▇ Financial, Inc. to lend up to $10,000,000 to the Company
between the date hereof and December 31, 1998, for retail service
station-related expenditures, to be wholly or partially secured by
Purchase Money Liens, and "▇▇▇▇▇▇ Capital Expenditures" means capital
expenditures funded by proceeds of the ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Credit Facility.
"Default" shall mean an Event of Default or an event which with
notice or lapse of time or both would become an Event of Default.
"Deferred Assets" means the Company's Consolidated assets other
than (a) current assets, and (b) fixed assets, plant and equipment
(including renewals, improvements and replacements, and assets
attributed to deferred maintenance turnarounds).
"Deferred Liabilities" means the Company's Consolidated
liabilities other than (a) current liabilities, and (b) Consolidated
Funded Debt.
"Disclosure Letter" means the letter of even date herewith from
the Company to the Banks, in which the Company describes certain
matters relating to the representations and warranties in Sections
7.3, 7.11 or 7.16 hereof, together with any Disclosure Supplements.
"Disclosure Supplement" means a letter after the date hereof from
the Company to the Banks, which (i) expressly states that it is a
Disclosure Supplement hereunder, (ii) supplements the Disclosure
Letter, and (iii) is approved in writing by Majority Banks in the
exercise of their discretion.
"Dollars" and "$" shall mean lawful money of the United States of
America.
"Environment" shall mean any environmental medium the condition
or use of which is regulated by any government or agency thereof,
including soil, surface waters, groundwaters, land, storm water run
off, stream and pond sediments, surface or subsurface strata, and
ambient air.
"Environmental Condition" shall mean any condition with respect
to the Environment whether or not yet discovered, which could or does
result in any damage, loss, cost, or expense being incurred by, claim
or demand on, order to, or liability of, the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries by or to any government entity or other third party,
including any condition resulting from any operations by the Company
or any of its Subsidiaries.
"Environmental Law" shall mean any statute, law, regulation,
code, plan, judgment, injunction, rule, ordinance, order, decree,
court decision, or bylaw by any government or agency of any government
(whether federal, state or local), existing at any time prior to and
including the Closing Date, which in any way regulates or pertains to
the use or condition of the Environment.
"Environmental Permit" shall mean any permit, license, approval,
consent or authorization issued pursuant to or required to be issued
under any Environmental Law.
"Environmental Release" shall mean any releasing, spilling,
leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting,
escaping, leaching, disposing, or dumping into the Environment,
including any abandonment or discarding of barrels, containers, or
other receptacles containing any Hazardous Material.
"Environmental Report" shall mean any final written
investigation, study, audit, test, review, or other analysis of
Environmental Conditions at any property now or previously owned or
leased by the Company or its Subsidiaries or of compliance with any
Environmental Permit or Environmental Law by the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries, except for any such final written document which the
Company or its Subsidiaries treats as confidential and which would be
privileged from disclosure under applicable rules of evidence.
"ERISA" shall mean the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of
1974, as amended from time to time.
"ERISA Affiliate" shall mean any corporation or trade or business
which is a member of the same controlled group of corporations (within
the meaning of Section 414(b) of the Code) as the Company or is under
common control (within the meaning of Section 414(c) of the Code) with
the Company.
"Eurodollar Loans" shall mean Loans the interest rates on which
are determined on the basis of a Eurodollar Rate.
"Eurodollar Rate" shall mean, with respect to any Eurodollar
Loan, the arithmetic mean (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the
nearest 1/16 of 1%), as determined by the Administrative Agent, of the
rates per annum quoted by the respective Reference Banks at
approximately 11:00 a.m. London time (or as soon thereafter as
practicable) on the date two Business Days prior to the first day of
the Interest Period for such Eurodollar Loan for the offering by the
respective Reference Banks to leading banks in the London interbank
market of Dollar deposits having a term comparable to such Interest
Period and in an amount comparable to the principal amount of the
Eurodollar Loans to be made by the respective Reference Banks for such
Interest Period. If any Reference Bank is not participating in any
Eurodollar Loan, the Eurodollar Rate for such Eurodollar Loan shall be
determined by reference to the amount of the Eurodollar Loan which
such Reference Bank would have made had it been participating in such
Eurodollar Loan. If any Reference Bank does not timely furnish such
information for determination of any Eurodollar Rate, the
Administrative Agent shall determine such Eurodollar Rate on the basis
of information timely furnished by the remaining Reference Banks.
"Event of Default" shall have the meaning assigned to such term
in Section 9.1 hereof.
"Extension of Credit" shall mean either the making by any Bank or
Banks of Loans hereunder or the issuance by the Letter of Credit Agent
of a Letter of Credit pursuant to Section 2.3(a) hereof.
"FAS 121 Writedown" shall mean the recognition by the Company of
Consolidated Non-Cash Charges in the amount of $55,000,000 as
reflected in the Company's 1995 year-end financial statements for an
impairment loss in accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting
Standards No. 121 - "Accounting for the Impairment of Long-Lived
Assets and for Long-Lived Assets to Be Disposed Of".
"Federal Funds Rate" shall mean, for any day, the rate per annum
(rounded upwards, if necessary, to the nearest Basis Point) equal to
the weighted average of the rates on overnight Federal funds
transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by
Federal funds brokers on such day, as published by the Federal Reserve
Bank of New York on the Business Day next succeeding such day,
provided that (i) if the day for which such rate is to be determined
is not a Business Day, the Federal Funds Rate for such day shall be
such rate on such transactions on the next preceding Business Day as
so published on the next succeeding Business Day, and (ii) if such
rate is not so published for any day, the Federal Funds Rate for such
day shall be the average rate charged to NationsBank on such day on
such transactions as determined by NationsBank.
"FIFO Net Income (Loss)" shall mean, for any period, the sum of:
(a) Adjusted Net Income (Loss) for such period, plus (minus)
(b) an amount equal to (i) the Company's Consolidated LIFO
provision (recovery) for such period, times (ii) the Tax Adjustment
Factor in effect at the end of such period.
"FIFO Tangible Net Worth" shall mean, as at any date of
determination thereof, the sum of:
(a) Net Worth at such date, minus
(b) the excess, if any, of (i) all Intangible Assets of the
Company on a Consolidated basis, over (ii) $20,000,000, plus
(c) an amount equal to the product of (i) the Company's
Consolidated LIFO reserve at such date, times (ii) the Tax Adjustment
Factor in effect at such date.
"Financial Compliance", and the Company's being "in Financial
Compliance", shall mean, at any date, that the Company and the
Consolidated Subsidiaries: (a) are (with respect to any such date
which is the last day of a calendar month), or were (with respect to
any other date) on the last day of the calendar month immediately
preceding such date, in compliance with the financial covenants set
out in Sections 8.19, 8.20, 8.21, 8.22, 8.23, 8.24, 8.25 and 8.26
hereof, and (b) have (with respect to any such date which is the last
day of a calendar month), or had (with respect to any other date) on
the last day of the calendar month immediately preceding such date,
Cumulative Adjusted Liquidity Capacity greater than zero. To the
extent that any provisions hereof refer to the Company's being (or not
being) in Financial Compliance before or after a specified event (e.g.
an incurrence of Indebtedness referred to in Section 8.10, an
Investment referred to in Section 8.13 or 8.25, or a sale referred to
in Section 8.14) and such event occurs on a date which is not the last
day of a calendar month, then such Financial Compliance shall be
determined as of the end of the calendar month immediately preceding
such event, giving effect to such event on a pro-forma basis as of the
end of such preceding calendar month.
"Funded Indebtedness" shall mean, as to any Person, the sum of
(i) all Indebtedness of such Person described in clause (a) of the
definition herein of "Indebtedness" and (ii) all other Indebtedness of
such Person which bears or accrues interest (whether such interest is
stated, or imputed, or otherwise accrues in accordance with GAAP)
during any portion of the period when such Indebtedness is outstanding
(without regard to whether such interest is ever actually paid or is
ever deferred, terminated or forgiven pursuant to a workout or
settlement or otherwise).
"Funded Long-Term Indebtedness" shall mean, as to any Person, all
Funded Indebtedness of such Person which, by its terms or by the terms
of any instrument or agreement relating thereto, either (a) matures,
or is otherwise payable or unpaid, one year or more from the date of
the creation thereof, or (b) is directly or indirectly renewable or
extendable at the option of such Person (whether under a revolving
credit agreement or otherwise) to a date one year or more from the
date of creation thereof; provided that Indebtedness of the Company
under this Agreement shall constitute Funded Short-Term Indebtedness
of the Company rather than Funded Long-Term Indebtedness of the
Company.
"Funded Short-Term Indebtedness" shall mean, as to any Person,
all Funded Indebtedness of such Person which, by its terms or by the
terms of any instrument or agreement relating thereto, (a) is payable
on demand, or (b) matures or is otherwise required to be permanently
repaid or retired less than one year from the date of the creation
thereof and is not directly or indirectly renewable or extendable at
the option of such Person to a date one year or more from the date of
creation thereof. "Funded Short-Term Indebtedness" of a Person does
not include any current portion of such Person's Funded Long-Term
Indebtedness.
"GAAP" shall mean generally accepted accounting principles
applied on a basis consistent with those which, in accordance with the
last sentence of Section 1.2(a) hereof, are to be used in making the
calculations for purposes of determining compliance with the terms of
this Agreement.
"Guarantee" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 8.11 hereof.
"Hazardous Material" shall mean any pollutant, toxic substance,
hazardous waste, hazardous material, or hazardous substance as defined
in or pursuant to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, as
amended, CERCLA, the Federal Clean Water Act, as amended, or any other
Environmental Law.
"Hazardous Waste" shall refer to any Hazardous Material which has
ever been or at the time of the Closing Date would be listed or
characterized as a hazardous waste within the meaning of the Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act, as amended, and any regulations,
guidances, or other interpretations issued pursuant to such Act any
time prior to and including the Closing Date.
"Hedging Obligation" shall mean the obligation of any Person
pursuant to (a) any rate swap agreement, basis swap agreement, forward
rate agreement, commodity swap agreement, interest rate option,
forward foreign exchange agreement, cap agreement, floor agreement,
collar agreement, cross-currency rate swap agreement, or currency
option, (b) any option, futures or forward contract traded on an
exchange, or (c) any other derivative agreement or other similar
agreement or arrangement.
"incur" shall have the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 8.10
hereof; provided that (a) with respect to any Indebtedness of any
Consolidated Subsidiary that is owing to the Company or to another
Consolidated Subsidiary, any disposition, pledge or transfer of such
Indebtedness by the payee of such Indebtedness to any Person (other
than the Company or a Consolidated Subsidiary) shall be deemed to be
an incurrence of such Indebtedness by the payor Consolidated
Subsidiary, (b) with respect to any Indebtedness of the Company or any
Consolidated Subsidiary that is owing to a Consolidated Subsidiary,
any transaction pursuant to which the payee of such Indebtedness
ceases to be a Consolidated Subsidiary shall be deemed to be an
incurrence of such Indebtedness by the Company or the payor
Consolidated Subsidiary, and (c) with respect to all Indebtedness owed
to any Person by an Unrestricted Subsidiary which is converted to a
Restricted Subsidiary as provided herein, such Indebtedness shall be
deemed to be incurred by such Restricted Subsidiary at the time of
such conversion.
"Indebtedness" shall mean, as to any Person:
(a) indebtedness created, issued or incurred by such Person for
borrowed money (whether by loan or the issuance and sale of notes or
other debt securities);
(b) obligations of such Person to pay the deferred purchase or
acquisition price of property or services, other than trade accounts
payable (other than for borrowed money) arising, and accrued expenses
incurred, in the ordinary course of business so long as such trade
accounts payable are payable within 90 days of the date the respective
goods are delivered or respective services rendered;
(c) the excess of all Unfunded Vested Liabilities of such Person
over the amount by which all Plans are overfunded;
(d) Indebtedness of others secured by a Lien on the property of
such Person, whether or not the respective Indebtedness so secured has
been assumed by such Person;
(e) obligations of such Person in respect of letters of credit,
surety bonds (other than worker's compensation bonds and fuel
distributor's bonds) or similar instruments issued or accepted by
banks and other financial institutions for the account of such Person;
(f) all obligations of such Person arising under acceptance
facilities;
(g) Capitalized Lease Obligations of such Person;
(h) all Guarantees of such Person (other than Guarantees
permitted to be incurred by the Company or a Subsidiary pursuant to
Section 8.11 hereof);
(i) the unearned balance of any advance payment received by such
Person under any contract to be performed; and
(j) all Hedging Obligations of such Person.
As used herein, Indebtedness with respect to any Hedging Obligation
shall mean, with respect to any specified Person on any date, the net
amount (if any) that would be payable by such specified Person upon
the liquidation, close-out or early termination of a Hedging
Obligation and will be calculated by the Company in good faith and in
a commercially reasonable manner on the basis that such liquidation,
close-out or early termination results from an event of default or
other similar event with respect to such specified Person.
"Indemnified Parties" shall mean each Bank Party, each Affiliate
of any Bank Party, and each director, officer, agent, employee, or
representative of any Bank Party or any Affiliate of any Bank Party.
"Insurance Letter of Credit" shall mean a Standby Letter of
Credit which is used to satisfy bonding requirements which are
applicable to the Company and the Consolidated Subsidiaries in the
ordinary course of their business, or which is used to support
performance obligations relating to insurance which are incurred by
the Company and the Consolidated Subsidiaries in the ordinary course
of their business.
"Intangible Assets" shall mean, on any date of determination
thereof, with respect to any Person, the book value of all property
held by such Person that would be treated as intangibles under GAAP,
including goodwill, patents, trademarks and other such intangibles.
"Interest Period" shall mean:
(a) With respect to any Eurodollar Loan, the period commencing
on the date such Eurodollar Loan is made and ending on the numerically
corresponding day in the first, second, third or sixth calendar month
thereafter, as the Company may select as provided in Section 2.2
hereof, except that each such Interest Period which commences on the
last Business Day of a calendar month (or on any day for which there
is no numerically corresponding day in the appropriate subsequent
calendar month) shall end on the last Business Day of the appropriate
subsequent calendar month;
(b) With respect to any Base Rate Loan, the period commencing on
the date such Base Rate Loan is made and ending on the date 30 days
thereafter.
Notwithstanding the foregoing: (i) no Interest Period may commence
before and end after the Commitment Termination Date; (ii) each
Interest Period which would otherwise end on a day which is not a
Business Day shall end on the next succeeding Business Day (or, in the
case of an Interest Period for Eurodollar Loans, if such next
succeeding Business Day falls in the next succeeding calendar month,
on the next preceding Business Day); and (iii) notwithstanding clause
(i) above, no Interest Period for any Eurodollar Loans shall have a
duration of less than one month (in the case of Eurodollar Loans) and,
if the Interest Period for any Eurodollar Loans would otherwise be a
shorter period, such Eurodollar Loans shall not be available
hereunder.
"Inventory Letter of Credit" shall mean either (a) a Standby
Letter of Credit used to finance the purchase of crude oil, refined
products, or other inventory by the Company and the Consolidated
Subsidiaries, or (b) a Commercial Letter of Credit used by the Company
and the Consolidated Subsidiaries for any purpose in the ordinary
course of their business.
"Investment" shall mean, with respect to any Person, directly or
indirectly, any advance, loan (including Guarantees) or other
extension of credit or capital contribution to any other Person (by
means of any transfer of cash or other property to others or any
payment for property or services for the account or use of others, but
excluding any such advance, loan or extension of credit having a term
not exceeding 60 days representing the purchase price of inventory or
supplies purchased in the ordinary course of business), or any
purchase, acquisition or ownership by such Person of any stock, bonds,
notes, debentures or other securities issued by any other Person and
all other items that would be classified as investments on a balance
sheet prepared in accordance with GAAP.
"Letter of Credit" shall have the meaning given to such term in
Section 2.3(a) hereof.
"Letter of Credit Documents" shall mean, with respect to any
Letter of Credit, collectively, such Letter of Credit, any amendments
thereto, any documents delivered thereunder, any application therefor,
and any other agreements, instruments, guaranties or other documents
(whether general in application or applicable solely to such Letter of
Credit) governing or providing for (a) the rights and obligations of
the parties concerned or at risk or (b) any collateral security for
such obligations.
"Letter of Credit Liabilities" shall mean, at any time and in
respect of any Letter of Credit, the sum of (a) the undrawn face
amount of such Letter of Credit, plus (b) the aggregate unpaid amount
of all Reimbursement Obligations at the time due and payable in
respect of drawings made under such Letter of Credit. For purposes
hereof, each Bank (including the Bank acting as Letter of Credit
Agent) shall be deemed to hold Letter of Credit Liabilities in respect
of each Letter of Credit in an amount equal to its Percentage of the
amount of each Letter of Credit and any related Reimbursement
Obligations.
"Lien" shall mean, with respect to any asset, any mortgage, lien,
pledge, charge, security interest or encumbrance of any kind in
respect of such asset. For purposes of this Agreement, the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries shall be deemed to own subject to a Lien any
asset which it has acquired or holds subject to the interest of a
vendor or lessor under any conditional sale agreement, capital lease
or other title retention agreement relating to such asset.
"Loan Documents" shall mean (a) this Agreement, (b) the Notes,
(c) all Letter of Credit Documents, (d) all certificates of the
Company's officers furnished under this Agreement or any Letter of
Credit Documents, and (e) all other documents of any kind which are
now or hereafter executed by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries
and which state that they are Loan Documents as defined in this
Agreement, as all of the foregoing are amended, supplemented, or
restated from time to time.
"Loans" shall mean the loans provided for in Section 2.1 hereof.
"Majority Banks" shall mean, at any time, Banks having at least
66-2/3% of the aggregate amount of the Commitments in effect at such
time; provided that, if the Commitments shall have been terminated or
reduced to zero, Majority Banks shall mean Banks holding at least 66-
2/3% of the aggregate unpaid principal amount of the Loans and the
Letter of Credit Liabilities outstanding at such time, and for
purposes hereof, a Bank (other than the Bank acting as Letter of
Credit Agent) shall be deemed to hold a Letter of Credit Liability
hereunder in an amount equal to its participation interest in the
related Letter of Credit under Section 2.3 hereof, and the Bank acting
as Letter of Credit Agent shall be deemed to hold a Letter of Credit
Liability hereunder in an amount equal to its retained interest in the
related Letter of Credit after giving effect to the acquisition by the
other Banks of their participation interests under such Section 2.3.
"Margin Stock" shall mean margin stock within the meaning of
Regulations U and X.
"Material Adverse Change" means a material adverse change in the
Company's Consolidated financial position from that set forth in the
Company's audited annual financial statements for the fiscal year
ending December 31, 1996, or a material adverse change after such date
in the Company's Consolidated operations, business or prospects as
they existed on such date.
"Miscellaneous Letter of Credit" shall mean a Standby Letter of
Credit which is used by the Company and the Consolidated Subsidiaries
for working capital or other short term purposes in the ordinary
course of their business but which is neither an Insurance Letter of
Credit nor an Inventory Letter of Credit. For the purposes of this
definition, use of a Letter of Credit to support obligations for
Funded Indebtedness or obligations in connection with the sale of
accounts receivable shall not be considered to be in the ordinary
course of business.
"Moody's" shall mean ▇▇▇▇▇'▇ Investors Service, Inc., or any
successor rating agency.
"Multiemployer Plan" shall mean a multiemployer plan defined as
such in Section 3(37) of ERISA to which contributions have been made
by the Company or any ERISA Affiliate and which is covered by Title IV
of ERISA.
"NationsBank" shall mean NationsBank of Texas, N.A. (or any
successor thereto).
"Net Worth" shall mean, as at any date of determination thereof,
the Company's Consolidated stockholders' equity, excluding any portion
thereof consisting of preferred stock which has mandatory sinking fund
or redemption provisions which could require payments to be made by
the Company or any Consolidated Subsidiary prior to the 91st day after
the Commitment Termination Date.
"Nonrecourse Indebtedness" shall mean Indebtedness owed by an
Unrestricted Subsidiary, provided that neither the Company nor any
Restricted Subsidiary may have any liability or obligation in
connection with such Indebtedness (including any liability or
obligation as a co-maker, under any Guarantee, or under any indemnity
or undertaking given to the holder of such Indebtedness, to such
Unrestricted Subsidiary or to any other Person).
"Notes" shall mean the promissory notes provided for by Section
2.8 hereof.
"Obligations" shall mean, collectively: (a) the obligations of
the Company hereunder in respect of the principal of and interest on
the Loans; (b) the Letter of Credit Liabilities and all interest on
the Letter of Credit Liabilities; (c) the obligations of the Company
in respect of fees, reimbursements, indemnities, and all other amounts
payable by the Company to the Bank Parties or the Indemnified Parties
under any of the Loan Documents; and (d) to the extent that any
Subsidiaries of the Company ever become liable to any Bank Party under
any Loan Document, the obligations of such Subsidiaries under the Loan
Documents.
"Participants" shall have the meaning given to such term in
Section 11.6(d) hereof.
"Participant Bank" shall mean, with respect to each Letter of
Credit, each Bank other than the Letter of Credit Agent.
"PBGC" shall mean the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation or any
entity succeeding to any or all of its functions under ERISA.
"Percentage" shall mean, as to any Bank at the time in question,
the quotient of (a) such Bank's Commitment at such time, divided by
(b) the aggregate amount of the Commitments at such time.
"Permitted Investments" shall mean:
(a) purchases of Senior Notes required under the Senior Notes
Indenture;
(b) Temporary Cash Investments;
(c) Investments in existence on the date of this Agreement (but
not any increases thereof unless such increases otherwise constitute
Permitted Investments);
(d) advances of Indebtedness permitted to be incurred under
Section 8.10(f);
(e) Investments in any Consolidated Subsidiary or any Person
which, as a result of such Investment, becomes a wholly owned
Consolidated Subsidiary; provided that such Subsidiary is engaged in a
business that is reasonably related to the business of the Company and
the Consolidated Subsidiaries on the date of this Agreement;
(f) capital contributions to Unrestricted Subsidiaries to the
extent permitted under Section 8.25 hereof; and
(g) other investments that do not exceed $15,000,000 in the
aggregate at any one time outstanding in joint ventures, corporations,
limited liability companies or partnerships engaged in a business that
is reasonably related to the business of the Company and the
Consolidated Subsidiaries on the date of this Agreement.
"Person" shall mean any individual, corporation, company,
voluntary association, partnership, joint venture, trust,
unincorporated organization or government (or any agency,
instrumentality or political subdivision thereof).
"Plan" shall mean an employee benefit or other plan established
or maintained by the Company or any ERISA Affiliate and which is
covered by Title IV of ERISA, excluding any Multiemployer Plan but
including any such employee benefit or other plan covered by Title IV
of ERISA which is maintained by a former ERISA Affiliate and for which
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has any actual or contingent
liability.
"Post-Default Rate" shall mean, in respect of any principal of
any Loan or any other amount payable by the Company under this
Agreement or any Note that is not paid when due (whether at stated
maturity, by acceleration or otherwise), a rate per annum during the
period from and including the due date to but excluding the date on
which such amount is paid in full equal to 2% per annum above the Base
Rate as in effect from time to time (provided that, if the amount so
in default is principal of a Eurodollar Loan and the due date thereof
is a day other than the last day of the Interest Period therefor, the
"Post-Default Rate" for such principal shall be, for the period from
and including the due date to but excluding the last day of the
Interest Period therefor, 2% per annum above the interest rate for
such Loan as provided in Section 3.2 hereof and, thereafter, the rate
provided for above in this definition).
"Pricing Grid" shall mean the Pricing Grid Table in Schedule 1
hereto.
"Prime Rate" shall mean the rate of interest established by
NationsBank from time to time as its "prime rate". Such rate is set
by NationsBank as a general reference rate of interest, taking into
account such factors as it may deem appropriate, it being understood
that many of NationsBank's commercial or other loans are priced in
relation to such rate, that it is not necessarily the lowest or the
best rate actually charged to any customer, that it may not correspond
with further increases or decreases in interest rates charged by other
lenders or market rates in general, and that NationsBank may make
various commercial or other loans at rates of interest having no
relationship to such rate. If NationsBank's "prime rate" changes
after the date hereof, the Prime Rate shall be automatically increased
or decreased, as the case may be, without notice to the Company from
time to time as of the effective time of each change in NationsBank's
"prime rate".
"Principal Office" shall mean the principal office of the
Administrative Agent, the Letter of Credit Agent, or NationsBank, as
the case may be, all of which principal offices are presently located
at ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇.
"Process Agent" shall mean Corporation Service Company, or such
other Person which, from time to time, shall be nominated by the
Company and approved by the Administrative Agent to serve as Process
Agent hereunder and which shall consent in writing so to serve.
"Product Hedging Obligation" shall mean any Hedging Obligation
relating to the prices applicable to the existing or reasonably
anticipated requirements (for the reasonable operations of the two
lines of business of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries) of
the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries of crude oil, other
feedstocks, other petroleum products, or additives thereto or
components thereof or their reasonably anticipated requirements for
energy supplies.
"Purchase Money Indebtedness" shall mean (a) Indebtedness of the
Company or a Consolidated Subsidiary incurred to finance the cost
(including the cost of improvement) of the acquisition or construction
in the ordinary course of business of real or tangible personal
property constituting fixed assets, plant or equipment, provided that
such Indebtedness is incurred no later than 90 days after such
acquisition or construction is completed, and (b) Indebtedness of the
Company or a Consolidated Subsidiary incurred to refinance
Indebtedness described in clause (a) of this definition, provided that
the Indebtedness so incurred is less than or equal to the outstanding
balance, at the time of refinancing, of the Indebtedness being
refinanced.
"Purchase Money Lien" means (a) any Lien on real or tangible
personal property constituting fixed assets, plant or equipment of the
Company or a Consolidated Subsidiary which Lien secures only Purchase
Money Indebtedness (and associated interest, fees and costs) incurred
to finance or refinance the cost of acquiring or constructing such
property, (b) any Lien on any such acquired property of the Company or
a Consolidated Subsidiary which already burdens such property at the
time of such acquisition, (c) any Lien incurred in connection with the
acquisition of any such property by the Company or a Consolidated
Subsidiary pursuant to any conditional sale or other title retention
agreement, or (d) the rights of the lessor pursuant to any lease of
any such property under which the lessee is the Company or a
Consolidated Subsidiary and the lessee's payments are Capitalized
Lease Obligations, provided that:
(1) any property subject to any such Lien is acquired or
constructed by the Company or a Consolidated Subsidiary in the
ordinary course of its business and such Lien is created or assumed
contemporaneously with such acquisition or construction or within 90
days after the completion thereof (provided that any such Lien
securing Purchase Money Indebtedness incurred in a refinancing
described in clause (b) of the definition herein of "Purchase Money
Indebtedness" may also be created contemporaneously with such
refinancing);
(2) the obligations secured by any such Lien do not exceed 100%
of the lesser of the cost or fair market value of the property subject
thereto as of the time such acquisition or construction is completed;
(3) any such Lien burdens only the property so acquired or
constructed and fixed improvements thereon or accessions thereto;
(4) the Indebtedness secured by all such Liens does not exceed
$25,000,000 at any time outstanding in the aggregate; and
(5) the obligations secured by each such Lien are permitted to
be incurred under Section 8.10(d) hereof.
"Quarterly Payment Dates" shall mean the last day of March, June,
September, and December in each year, the first of which shall be the
first such day after the date of this Agreement; provided that if any
such day is not a Business Day, then such Quarterly Payment Date shall
be the next succeeding Business Day.
"Rate Hedging Obligation" shall mean any Hedging Obligation
relating to interest rates.
"Reference Banks" shall mean NationsBank and the Documentation
Agent (or their Applicable Lending Offices, as the case may be).
"Regulation D", "Regulation U" and "Regulation X" shall mean,
respectively, Regulations D, U and X of the Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System (or any successor), as the same may be amended
or supplemented from time to time.
"Regulatory Change" shall mean, with respect to any Bank, any
change after the date of this Agreement in United States Federal,
state or foreign law or regulations (including Regulation D) or the
adoption or making after such date of any interpretation, directive or
request applying to a class of banks including such Bank of or under
any United States Federal, state or foreign law or regulations
(whether or not having the force of law) by any court or governmental
or monetary authority charged with the interpretation or
administration thereof.
"Reimbursement Obligations" shall mean, at any time,
collectively, the obligations of the Company then outstanding, or
which may thereafter arise in respect of Letters of Credit then
outstanding, to reimburse the Letter of Credit Agent and the Banks
under Section 2.3(b)(v) hereof for the amounts paid by them in respect
of drawings under Letters of Credit.
"Reimbursement Payment" shall have the meaning given to that term
in Section 2.3(b)(v) hereof.
"Restricted Payments" shall mean, during any "Determination
Period" (as defined in the definition herein of "Cumulative Adjusted
Liquidity Capacity"), all dividends (in cash, property, obligations or
other securities) on, or other payments or distributions on account
of, or payments for, or the setting apart of money for a sinking or
other analogous fund for, the purchase, redemption, retirement or
other acquisition of, any shares of any class of stock of the Company,
but excluding dividends payable solely in shares of common stock of
the Company and newly issued shares of common stock of the Company
sold by the Company pursuant to any stock option or benefit plan
maintained for its employees, officers or directors. To the extent
that, in any such "Determination Period", the Company repurchases
shares of its common stock and then resells such shares pursuant to
any such stock option or benefit plan, such transactions shall
increase the amount of "Restricted Payments" during such Determination
Period only to the extent that the price paid by the Company in making
such repurchase (including any commissions and other costs) exceeds
the price received by the Company in making such resale (net of any
commissions and other costs).
"Restricted Subsidiary" shall mean any Subsidiary of the Company
which is not an Unrestricted Subsidiary. On the date hereof, all
Subsidiaries of the Company are Restricted Subsidiaries.
"Senior Notes" shall mean the Company's 10-7/8% Senior Notes due
2005 which are issued under the Senior Notes Indenture.
"Senior Notes Indenture" shall mean that certain Indenture dated
as of January 24, 1995, between the Company, as Issuer, and
BankBoston, N.A. (f/k/a The First National Bank of Boston), as
Trustee, as such Indenture is from time to time supplemented, amended
or restated.
"Standby Letter of Credit" shall mean any Letter of Credit other
than a Commercial Letter of Credit.
"S&P" shall mean Standard & Poor's Ratings Group, a division of
McGraw Hill Inc., or any successor rating agency.
"Subsidiary" shall mean, as to any Person, any corporation of
which at least a majority of the outstanding shares of stock having by
the terms thereof ordinary voting power to elect a majority of the
board of directors of such corporation (irrespective of whether or not
at the time stock of any other class or classes of such corporation
shall have or might have voting power by reason of the happening of
any contingency) is at the time directly or indirectly owned or
controlled by such Person or one or more of its Subsidiaries or by
such Person and one or more of its Subsidiaries. Unless otherwise
specified herein, references to "Subsidiary" or "Subsidiaries" shall
refer to a Subsidiary or Subsidiaries of the Company.
"Tax Adjustment Factor" shall mean, during any calendar year, the
remainder, expressed as a percentage, of 1 minus the highest federal
corporate income tax rate for such year.
"Temporary Cash Investments" shall mean:
(a) direct obligations of the United States of America or any
agency thereof with maturities of one year or less from the date of
acquisition;
(b) commercial paper (or other instruments with an original
maturity of one year or less) of a domestic issuer rated at least A-2
by S&P or P-2 by ▇▇▇▇▇'▇;
(c) eurodollar time deposits rated at least A-2 by S&P or P-2 by
▇▇▇▇▇'▇ in an amount not exceeding $10,000,000;
(d) municipal bonds or notes with maturities of six months or
less rated A or better by S&P or ▇▇▇▇▇'▇ or guaranteed by a Bank or by
one or more banks rated AAA by S&P or Aaa by ▇▇▇▇▇'▇;
(e) certificates of deposit with maturities of one year or less
from the date of acquisition issued either by any commercial bank
operating within the United States of America having capital and
surplus in excess of $100,000,000 or by a Bank;
(f) participations in or notes evidencing loans made by any Bank
to any corporation organized under the laws of the United States of
America or any state thereof having a commercial paper rating of at
least A-2 by S&P or P-2 by ▇▇▇▇▇'▇ or a bond rating of at least BBB by
S&P or Baa2 by ▇▇▇▇▇'▇; and
(g) any shares in an open-end mutual fund organized by a bank or
financial institution with a combined capital and surplus of at least
$100,000,000 investing solely in Investments permitted by the
foregoing clauses (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) and (f).
"Trading Policy" shall mean a written trading policy, designed by
the management of the Company and adopted by the Company's board of
directors prior to the date hereof, regarding purchases and sales of
crude oil, refined products, and refinery feedstocks and Product
Hedging Obligations of the Company related to the foregoing.
"UCP" shall mean the Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary
Credits (1993 revision), International Chamber of Commerce Publication
No. 500 (or any successor publication of the International Chamber of
Commerce), as amended and in effect from time to time.
"Unfunded Vested Liabilities" shall mean, with respect to any
Plan, the amount (if any) by which the present value of all vested
benefits under such Plan exceeds the fair market value of all Plan
assets allocable to such benefits, as determined on the most recent
valuation date of such Plan. The "present value of all vested
benefits" as used in the preceding sentence shall equal the actuarial
present value of accumulated vested plan benefits as calculated under
Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 35, as reported in
such Plan's financial statements.
"Unrestricted Subsidiary" shall mean any Subsidiary of the
Company which is designated as such by the Company to the Bank
Parties, provided that:
(a) no such designation may be made by the Company during the
continuance of any Default or when the Company is not in Financial
Compliance;
(b) no such designation may be made by the Company with respect
to any Subsidiary of the Company which has engaged in business prior
to the time of designation; and
(c) no Subsidiary of the Company may be designated as an
Unrestricted Subsidiary if it has at any time received capital
contributions or other transfers of assets from the Company or any
Restricted Subsidiary other than (i) the minimum amount required by
law upon the initial issuance of stock by such Unrestricted
Subsidiary, and (ii) a single capital contribution prior to or at the
time such Unrestricted Subsidiary first engages in business, so long
as (A) the making of such capital contribution does not cause a
Default to occur or cause the Company not to be in Financial
Compliance immediately thereafter, and (B) such capital contribution
does not constitute an "Asset Sale" under clauses (a) or (b) of the
definition herein of such term.
1.2 Accounting Terms and Determinations
(a) Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, all
accounting terms used herein shall be interpreted, and all financial
statements and certificates and reports as to financial matters
required to be delivered to the Bank Parties hereunder shall (unless
otherwise disclosed in writing at the time of delivery thereof in the
manner described in subsection (b) below) be prepared, in accordance
with generally accepted accounting principles applied on a basis
consistent with those used in the preparation of the annual financial
statements referred to in Section 7.2 hereof or, if financial
statements have theretofore been furnished to the Banks under Section
8.8(a) or (b) hereof, the latest such financial statements. All
calculations made for the purposes of determining compliance with the
terms of this Agreement shall (except as otherwise expressly provided
herein) be made by application of generally accepted accounting
principles applied on a basis consistent with those used in the
preparation of the annual financial statements referred to in Section
7.2 hereof or, if financial statements have theretofore been furnished
to the Bank under Section 8.8(a) or (b) hereof, the latest such
financial statements, unless (i) the Company shall have objected in
writing to determining such compliance on such basis at the time of
delivery of such financial statements furnished to the Banks pursuant
to Section 8.8(a) or (b) hereof or (ii) the Majority Banks shall have
objected in writing to so determining such compliance within 30 days
after delivery of such financial statements, in either of which events
such calculations shall be made on a basis consistent with those used
in the preparation of the latest financial statements as to which such
objection shall not have been made (which, if objection is made in
respect of the first financial statements delivered under Section
8.8(a) or (b) hereof, shall mean the annual financial statements
referred to in Section 7.2 hereof).
(b) The Company shall deliver to the Banks at the same time as
the delivery of any annual or quarterly financial statements under
Section 8.8(a) or (b) hereof a description in reasonable detail of any
material variation between the accounting principles employed in the
preparation of such statement and the accounting principles employed
in the preparation of the next preceding annual or quarterly financial
statements as to which no objection has been made in accordance with
the last sentence of subsection (a) above, and reasonable estimates of
the difference between such statements arising as a consequence
thereof.
(c) To enable the ready and consistent determination of
compliance with the provisions of this Agreement, the Company will not
change the last day of its fiscal year from December 31, or the last
day of the first three fiscal quarters in each of its fiscal years
from March 31, June 30 and September 30, respectively.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in subsection (a)
of this Section 1.2 or in generally accepted accounting principles,
whenever any Subsidiary of the Company is an Unrestricted Subsidiary
such Unrestricted Subsidiary shall be excluded from all calculations
made for the purposes of determining compliance with the terms of this
Agreement and the Company's Investments therein (and share of the
earnings thereof) shall be deemed to be zero for the purposes of
determining Cumulative Adjusted Liquidity Capacity and the Company's
compliance with Sections 8.19 through and including 8.24 hereof. If
any Unrestricted Subsidiary is converted to a Restricted Subsidiary,
however, then for the purposes of all calculations which are to be
made under this Agreement with respect to the time of such conversion
or any time thereafter (including the calculations which are to be
made under Section 8.25 hereof to determine whether the Company is in
Financial Compliance immediately after giving effect to such
conversion) such new Restricted Subsidiary shall be deemed to have
been Consolidated with the Company throughout the entire period during
which such Subsidiary shall have been in existence as a Subsidiary of
the Company.
(e) To the extent that two or more of the Company and its
Consolidated Subsidiaries are liable for the same item of Indebtedness
or other obligation (whether as co-makers, principal and guarantor, or
otherwise), such item of Indebtedness or other obligation shall be
calculated without duplication in determining (i) compliance with the
financial covenants set out in Sections 8.19, 8.20, 8.21, 8.22, 8.23,
and 8.24 hereof, (ii) Cumulative Adjusted Liquidity Capacity, and
(iii) the factors taken into account in determining "Debt/Cash Flow"
as defined in Schedule 1 hereto.
(f) Set out on Schedule 4 hereto are calculations as of March
31, 1997, of Cumulative Adjusted Liquidity Capacity, of "Debt/Cash
Flow" as defined in Schedule 1 hereto, and of the matters addressed in
Sections 8.19 through and including 8.24 hereof, which calculations
illustrate how all of such matters are to be calculated in accordance
with this Agreement. The Company hereby represents and warrants that
the information used in making such calculations is true and correct
in all material respects as of March 31, 1997.
1.3 Certain References and Terms. All references in this
Agreement to Exhibits, Schedules, articles, sections, subsections and
other subdivisions refer to the Exhibits, Schedules, articles,
sections, subsections and other subdivisions of this Agreement unless
expressly provided otherwise. Titles appearing at the beginning of
any subdivisions are for convenience only and do not constitute any
part of such subdivisions and shall be disregarded in construing the
language contained in such subdivisions. The words "this Agreement",
"this instrument", "herein", "hereof", "hereby", "hereunder" and words
of similar import refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any
particular subdivision unless expressly so limited. The phrases "this
section" and "this subsection" and similar phrases refer only to the
sections or subsections hereof in which such phrases occur. The word
"or" is not exclusive, and the word "including" (in its various forms)
means "including without limitation". Pronouns in masculine, feminine
and neuter genders shall be construed to include any other gender, and
words in the singular form shall be construed to include the plural
and vice versa, unless the context otherwise requires.
SECTION 2. Commitments.
2.1 Loans. Each Bank severally agrees, on the terms of this
Agreement, to make loans to the Company in Dollars (herein called the
"Loans") during the period from and including the date hereof to but
not including the Commitment Termination Date in an aggregate
principal amount at any one time outstanding up to but not exceeding
the amount of such Bank's Commitment as then in effect. Subject to the
terms of this Agreement, during such period the Company may borrow,
repay and reborrow Loans, provided that:
(a) after giving effect to such Loans, the aggregate outstanding
principal amount of Loans and the aggregate outstanding amount of all
Letter of Credit Liabilities must not exceed the aggregate amount of
the Commitments,
(b) Cumulative Adjusted Liquidity Capacity must exceed zero
after giving effect to such Loans on a pro-forma basis as of the end
of the immediately preceding calendar month,
(c) at the time of any borrowing or reborrowing of Loans, the
Company must reasonably expect that Cumulative Adjusted Liquidity
Capacity will exceed zero at the end of the fiscal quarter in which
such Loans are made,
(d) there may be no more than ten different Interest Periods for
Loans outstanding at the same time (for which purpose Interest Periods
described in different lettered clauses of the definition herein of
the term "Interest Period" shall be deemed to be different Interest
Periods even if they are coterminous),
(e) the borrowing of such Loans by the Company must then be
permitted under the Senior Notes Indenture, and
(f) the various conditions in Section 6 hereof must be
satisfied.
The Loans may be Base Rate Loans or Eurodollar Loans (each a "type" of
Loan).
2.2 Borrowings. The Company shall give the Administrative Agent
(which shall promptly notify the Banks) written notice (or telephonic
notice immediately confirmed in writing) of each borrowing of Loans
hereunder, which notice shall be irrevocable and effective only upon
receipt by the Administrative Agent, shall specify (i) the aggregate
amount thereof (which shall be $1,000,000 or a higher integral
multiple of $500,000), (ii) the type and date thereof (which shall be
a Business Day) and (iii) (in the case of Eurodollar Loans) the
duration of the Interest Period therefor and shall be given not later
than 9:30 a.m. Dallas time (in the case of Base Rate Loans) or 10:00
a.m. Dallas time (in the case of Eurodollar Loans) on the day which is
not less than the number of Business Days prior to the date of such
borrowing specified below opposite the type of such Loans:
Type Number of Business Days
Base Rate Loans same day
Eurodollar Loans 3
Each such written notice or confirmation shall be in the form of a
Credit Certificate; each such telephonic notice shall constitute a
representation and warranty of the Company as described in 6.2 hereof.
Not later than noon Dallas time on the date specified for each
borrowing, each Bank shall make available the amount of the Loan to be
made by it on such date to the Administrative Agent at an account from
time to time specified by the Administrative Agent at its Principal
Office, in immediately available funds, for the account of the
Company. The amount so received by the Administrative Agent shall,
subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, be made
available to the Company by depositing the same, in immediately
available funds, in an account of the Company maintained with the
Administrative Agent at its Principal Office, such account to be
designated by the Company.
2.3 Letters of Credit.
(a) Letters of Credit. The Letter of Credit Agent agrees, on
the terms of this Agreement, to issue letters of credit (such letters
of credit, as amended and in effect from time to time, being herein
called "Letters of Credit") for the account of the Company during the
period from and including the Closing Date to and including the date
five Business Days preceding the Commitment Termination Date, provided
that:
(i) after giving effect to the issuance of such Letters of
Credit, the aggregate outstanding principal amount of Loans and the
aggregate outstanding amount of all Letter of Credit Liabilities must
not exceed the aggregate amount of the Commitments,
(ii) Cumulative Adjusted Liquidity Capacity must exceed
zero after giving effect to the issuance of such Letters of Credit on
a pro-forma basis as of the end of the immediately preceding calendar
month,
(iii) at the time of the issuance of such Letters of
Credit, the Company must reasonably expect that Cumulative Adjusted
Liquidity Capacity will exceed zero at the end of the fiscal quarter
in which such Letters of Credit are issued,
(iv) the aggregate outstanding amount of all Letter of
Credit Liabilities with respect to Insurance Letters of Credit or
Miscellaneous Letters of Credit shall not exceed $30,000,000 after
giving effect to the issuance of such Letters of Credit,
(v) the incurrence by the Company of Reimbursement
Obligations with respect to such Letters of Credit must then be
permitted under the Senior Notes Indenture, and
(vi) the various conditions in Section 6 hereof must be
satisfied.
Furthermore, upon the execution and delivery of this Agreement by each
of the parties hereto, any letters of credit issued under the Original
Agreement and outstanding as of the date hereof, including without
limitation those letters of credit listed on Schedule 5 hereto, shall
be deemed Letters of Credit issued hereunder as of the date hereof,
and shall be subject to the terms and conditions hereof.
Each Participant Bank severally agrees with the Letter of Credit Agent
that, upon the issuance by the Letter of Credit Agent of any Letter of
Credit, each Participant Bank shall automatically acquire a
participation in the Letter of Credit Agent's liability under such
Letter of Credit in an amount equal to such Participant Bank's
Percentage of the face amount of such Letter of Credit. By such
acquisition of a participation in a Letter of Credit, each Participant
Bank shall automatically (and absolutely, unconditionally and
irrevocably) assume, as primary obligor and not as a surety, and shall
be unconditionally obligated to the Letter of Credit Agent to pay and
discharge when due, its Percentage of the Letter of Credit Agent's
liability under such Letter of Credit, and, in that connection, each
Participant Bank hereby unconditionally agrees to pay (except to the
extent credited under 2.3(b)(v) hereof) to the Letter of Credit Agent,
at its Principal Office, in immediately available funds, not later
than 2:00 p.m. Dallas time on the day specified in each notice from
the Letter of Credit Agent to the Participant Banks pursuant to
Section 2.3(b)(iv) hereof as the payment date of a drawing under a
Letter of Credit issued by the Letter of Credit Agent, the amount of
such Participant Bank's Percentage of the amount of such drawing
specified in such notice. Each Participant Bank acknowledges and
agrees that its obligation to make such payments to the Letter of
Credit Agent, and the Letter of Credit Agent's right to receive the
same, are absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any
circumstance whatsoever, including, without limiting the effect of the
foregoing, the failure to satisfy any condition precedent set forth in
Section 6 hereof or any termination or reduction of the Commitments or
the failure of any other Participant Bank to make its payment under
this Section 2.3(a), and further agrees that each such payment to the
Letter of Credit Agent shall be made without any offset, abatement,
withholding or reduction whatsoever; provided that, notwithstanding
the foregoing, no such payment shall be required to be made to the
extent that such payment arises from the gross negligence or willful
misconduct of the Letter of Credit Agent. In the event any
Participant Bank shall fail to make any such payment on the date when
due, such Participant Bank shall pay interest to the Letter of Credit
Agent on the amount of such payment in respect of each day during the
period commencing on the due date and ending on the date such payment
is in fact made at a rate per annum equal to the Federal Funds Rate
for such day.
(b) Other Provisions Relating to Letters of Credit. The
following additional provisions shall apply to the Letters of Credit:
(i) Notice of Proposed Issuance. The Company shall give
the Letter of Credit Agent irrevocable notice prior to 10:00 a.m.
Dallas time on the same day (but subject to clause (vi) of this
Section 2.3(b)) any Letter of Credit is proposed to be issued
(effective upon receipt) specifying the date (which shall not be later
than the date five Business Days preceding the Commitment Termination
Date) each Letter of Credit is to be issued, the proposed beneficiary
thereof, and whether such Letter of Credit will be an Inventory Letter
of Credit, an Insurance Letter of Credit or a Miscellaneous Letter of
Credit, and describing the proposed terms of such Letter of Credit and
the nature of the transactions proposed to be supported thereby.
Concurrently with such notice, the Company will give the
Administrative Agent a Credit Certificate with respect to such Letter
of Credit. Upon receipt of such notice the Letter of Credit Agent
shall promptly notify each Participant Bank of the contents thereof
and of such Participant Bank's share of the amount of such proposed
Letter of Credit (equal to its Percentage of such amount).
(ii) Use of Commitments. On each day during the period
commencing with the issuance by the Letter of Credit Agent of any
Letter of Credit and until such Letter of Credit shall have expired or
been terminated, the Commitment of each Bank shall be deemed to be
utilized for all purposes hereof in an amount equal to such Bank's
Percentage of the then undrawn face amount of such Letter of Credit.
(iii) Amendments. The Letter of Credit Agent may amend any
Letter of Credit as requested by the Company without the consent of
the Participant Banks, provided that (1) after giving effect to such
amendment, such Letter of Credit meets the requirements for Letters of
Credit specified in clause (vii) of this Section 2.3(b), (2) if any
such amendment increases the amount or extends the expiry date of any
Letter of Credit or otherwise changes the terms of such Letter of
Credit in a manner which the Letter of Credit Agent reasonably deems
(in its sole discretion) to be material to the Banks, the provisions
of clause (vi) of this Section 2.3(b) shall apply to the issuance of
such amendment as if such issuance constituted the issuance of a new
Letter of Credit and the provisions of Section 6.2 hereof shall apply
to such issuance as if such issuance constituted an Extension of
Credit, and (3) the Letter of Credit Agent shall promptly notify each
Participant Bank of its issuance of each such amendment or consent.
If any such amendment shall increase or decrease the amount of any
Letter of Credit, then on each day during the period commencing with
the issuance of such amendment and until such Letter of Credit shall
have expired or been terminated the amount by which the Commitment of
each Bank shall be deemed pursuant to clause (ii) of this Section
2.3(b) to be utilized shall be increased or decreased by an amount
equal to such Bank's Percentage of the amount of such increase or
decrease.
(iv) Notice of Drawing. Upon receipt from the beneficiary
of any Letter of Credit of any draft or demand for payment under such
Letter of Credit, the Letter of Credit Agent shall promptly notify the
Company and each Participant Bank of the amount to be paid pursuant to
such demand and the respective payment date.
(v) Reimbursement Payments. At or prior to the time the
Letter of Credit Agent makes any payment under a Letter of Credit, the
Company shall make a payment (each such payment being herein called a
"Reimbursement Payment") to the Letter of Credit Agent, at its
Principal Office in immediately available funds, for the account of
the Banks in their respective Percentages and in an amount equal to
the amount of such payment by the Letter of Credit Agent. The Letter
of Credit Agent shall forthwith credit each Participant Bank's
respective Percentage of the amount of such Reimbursement Payment
against any payment required to be made by such Participant Bank
pursuant to Section 2.3(a) or, if a Participant Bank has made a
payment pursuant to Section 2.3(a) hereof, remit to such Participant
Bank its respective Percentage of the amount of such Reimbursement
Payment. The Company's obligation to make Reimbursement Payments
under this Section 2.3(b)(v), and the right of each Bank to receive
the same from the Company, are absolute and unconditional and shall
not be affected by any circumstance whatsoever, including without
limiting the effect of the foregoing or clauses (viii) and (ix) of
this Section 2.3(b), the existence or assertion of any claim or
defense on the part of the Company against any Person or the failure
of any Participant Bank to make any payment to be made by it under
Section 2.3(a) hereof, and the Company further agrees that each
Reimbursement Payment required to be made under this Section 2.3(b)(v)
shall be made without any offset, abatement, withholding or reduction
whatsoever.
(vi) Conditions to Issuance. The issuance by the Letter of
Credit Agent of each Letter of Credit shall, in addition to the
conditions precedent set forth in Section 6 hereof, be subject to the
conditions precedent that such Letter of Credit shall be in such form
and contain such terms as shall be satisfactory to the Letter of
Credit Agent and (if so determined to be appropriate by the Letter of
Credit Agent or if so specified with respect to a particular Letter of
Credit by the Majority Banks to the Letter of Credit Agent prior to
the date one Business Day preceding the issuance thereof) the Majority
Banks and that the Company shall have executed and delivered such
other instruments and agreements relating to such Letter of Credit as
the Letter of Credit Agent or (if so specified with respect to a
particular Letter of Credit by the Majority Banks to the Letter of
Credit Agent prior to the date one Business Day preceding the issuance
thereof) the Majority Banks may reasonably request (including an
application therefor satisfactory in form and substance to the Letter
of Credit Agent). In addition, in no event shall the Letter of Credit
Agent be required to issue any Letter of Credit in violation of any
law, rule, regulation or directive of any governmental authority.
(vii) Required Terms. Each Letter of Credit shall:
(1) be either an Inventory Letter of Credit, an
Insurance Letter of Credit, or a Miscellaneous Letter of Credit,
(2) be payable solely in Dollars;
(3) not be transferable without the consent of the
Letter of Credit Agent,
(4) if it is an Insurance Letter of Credit or a
Miscellaneous Letter of Credit, have a term that neither exceeds one
year nor extends past the 90th day after the Commitment Termination
Date,
(5) if it is an Inventory Letter of Credit which is a
Standby Letter of Credit, have a term that neither exceeds 120 days
nor extends past the Commitment Termination Date, and
(6) if it is an Inventory Letter of Credit which is a
Commercial Letter of Credit, have a term that neither exceeds 90 days
nor extends past the Commitment Termination Date.
(viii) UCP; Right to Pay. Each of the Company and the
Participant Banks agrees with the Letter of Credit Agent that the UCP
shall be binding on the Company, the Letter of Credit Agent and the
Participant Banks with respect to Letters of Credit, except to the
extent otherwise expressly agreed. To the extent that the UCP is
silent on the proper interpretation of a Letter of Credit or is
otherwise inapplicable to any Letter of Credit, the provisions of the
Uniform Commercial Code as adopted in the State of Texas shall apply.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, but without limiting the effect of
Section 2.3(b)(ix) and Section 10 hereof: (1) the Letter of Credit
Agent is authorized to make payments under Letters of Credit upon the
presentation of the documents provided for therein and without regard
to whether the Company has failed to fulfill any of its obligations
under this Agreement or any other Default has occurred; (2) the Letter
of Credit Agent shall be entitled to rely upon any certificate,
notice, demand or other communication (whether by cable, telegram,
telex or otherwise), believed by it to be genuine and to have been
signed or sent by the proper Person or Persons, and upon advice of
legal counsel selected by the Letter of Credit Agent (and no such
reliance or failure shall place the Letter of Credit Agent under any
liability to the Company or any Participant Bank or limit or otherwise
affect the Company's or any Participant Bank's obligations under this
Agreement); (3) any action, inaction or omission on the part of the
Letter of Credit Agent under or in connection with any Letter of
Credit or the related instruments or documents, if in good faith and
in conformity with such laws, regulations or customs as the Letter of
Credit Agent may reasonably deem to be applicable, shall be binding
upon the Company and each Participant Bank (and shall not place the
Letter of Credit Agent under any liability to the Company or any
Participant Bank or limit or otherwise affect the Company's or any
Participant Bank's obligations under this Agreement); and (4)
notwithstanding any change or modification in any Letter of Credit or
any instruments or documents called for thereunder, including waiver
of noncompliance of any such instruments or documents with the terms
of any Letter of Credit, this Agreement shall be binding on the
Company with regard to such Letter of Credit as so changed or
modified, and to any action taken by the Letter of Credit Agent
relative hereto.
(ix) No Responsibility for Use; etc. Without affecting any
rights that any of the Bank Parties may have under applicable law
(including under the UCP), the Company agrees that no Indemnified
Party shall be liable or responsible for, and the obligations of the
Company to the Banks and the Letter of Credit Agent hereunder shall
not in any manner be affected by: (1) the use which may be made of any
Letter of Credit or the proceeds thereof by the beneficiary or any
other Person; (2) the validity, sufficiency or genuineness of
documents other than the Letter of Credit, or of any endorsements
thereon, even if such documents should, in fact, prove to be in any or
all respects, invalid, insufficient, fraudulent or forged or any
statement therein proves to be untrue or inaccurate in any respect
whatsoever; or (3) any other circumstances whatsoever in making or
failing to make payment under any Letter of Credit, except that the
Company shall have a claim against the Letter of Credit Agent, and the
Letter of Credit Agent shall be liable to the Company, to the extent,
but only to the extent, of any direct, as opposed to consequential,
damages suffered by the Company which the Company proves are caused by
the Letter of Credit Agent's willful misconduct or gross negligence in
determining whether documents presented under any Letter of Credit
complied with the terms of such Letter of Credit or the Letter of
Credit Agent's willful failure to pay under such Letter of Credit
after the presentation to it of documents strictly complying with the
terms and conditions of such Letter of Credit. In furtherance and not
in limitation of the foregoing, the Letter of Credit Agent may accept
documents that appear on their face to be in order, without
responsibility of further investigation.
(x) Notice of Desired Extension. The Company shall notify
the Letter of Credit Agent of any Letter of Credit that it wishes to
be extended, at least 30 days prior to (but not more than 60 days
prior to) any date by which such Letter of Credit Agent is required to
notify any beneficiary of any Letter of Credit that such Letter of
Credit shall terminate, if in the absence of such a notification to
such beneficiary the term of such Letter of Credit would automatically
be extended.
2.4 Changes of Commitments.
(a) The aggregate amount of the Commitments shall be
automatically reduced to zero on the Commitment Termination Date.
(b) The Company shall have the right to terminate or reduce the
aggregate unused amount of the Commitments at any time or from time to
time upon not less than three Business Days prior notice to the
Administrative Agent (which shall promptly notify the Banks) of each
such termination or reduction, which notice shall specify the
effective date thereof and the amount of any such reduction (which
shall be $5,000,000 or any higher integral multiple of $1,000,000) and
shall be irrevocable and effective only upon receipt by the
Administrative Agent, provided that (i) after giving effect to each
such reduction, the aggregate amount of the Commitments shall be at
least equal to the sum of the aggregate outstanding principal amount
of the Loans and the aggregate outstanding amount of Letters of Credit
Liabilities; (ii) no such termination of the Commitments may be
effected while any Loans are outstanding; and (iii) no such
termination may be effected while any Letters of Credit are
outstanding unless concurrently with notice of such termination the
Company shall pay the Administrative Agent an amount in immediately
available funds equal to the aggregate Letter of Credit Liabilities
with respect to all such Letters of Credit plus any accrued fees
payable under Section 2.5 hereof plus (without duplication) any letter
of credit fees payable thereafter with respect to such Letters of
Credit. Any amount so paid to the Administrative Agent shall be
deposited in a cash collateral account and invested, reinvested and
used and applied by the Administrative Agent as a Collateral Account
pursuant to Section 9.2 hereof. No Bank's participation in any such
Letter of Credit shall be affected by the termination of its
Commitment in such circumstances.
(c) The Commitments once terminated or reduced may not be
reinstated.
(d) The Company may, by giving written notice to the
Administrative Agent not less than 90 nor more than 120 days prior to
the date occurring one year prior to the then Commitment Termination
Date, request that the Commitment Termination Date, be extended for
one year (provided that not more than one such one-year extension
shall be permitted hereunder). Each Bank may, in its sole discretion,
agree to such extension or reject such extension (and the failure of a
Bank to respond to such request within 60 days shall be deemed to
signify that such Bank has rejected such request). In the case of any
Bank that agrees to such extension, but not any Bank not agreeing to
such extension, the Commitment Termination Date shall be the date one
year after the Commitment Termination Date previously in effect, so
long as Banks holding Commitments in an aggregate amount equal to at
least two-thirds of the total Commitments at such time have agreed to
such extension.
2.5 Fees.
(a) The Company shall pay to the Administrative Agent for
account of each Bank a commitment fee on the daily unused amount of
such Bank's Commitment for the period from and including the date of
this Agreement to but not including the earlier of the date such
Commitment is terminated or the Commitment Termination Date, at a
daily rate equal to 1/360th of the Applicable Commitment Fee Rate as
in effect on each such day. Accrued commitment fees payable under the
preceding sentence shall be payable on each Quarterly Payment Date and
on the earlier of the date the Commitments are terminated or the
Commitment Termination Date.
(b) The Company shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the
account of each Bank a letter of credit fee on such Bank's Percentage
of the outstanding amount of each Standby Letter of Credit during the
period from and including the date such Letter of Credit is issued to
and including the date such Letter of Credit is fully drawn,
terminated or expires, at a daily rate equal to 1/360th of the
Applicable Letter of Credit Rate in effect on each day in such period.
Accrued letter of credit fees in respect of Standby Letters of Credit
shall be payable in arrears on each Quarterly Payment Date and on the
earlier of the date the Commitments are terminated or on the
Commitment Termination Date. The Company shall pay to the
Administrative Agent for the account of each Bank, pro rata according
to their respective Percentages, in advance on the date of issuance of
each Letter of Credit that is a Commercial Letter of Credit, a letter
of credit fee equal to the face amount of such Letter of Credit, times
the Applicable Letter of Credit Rate in effect on such date of
issuance, times the stated term of such Letter of Credit (expressed in
days), divided by 360.
(c) The Company agrees to pay an annual fee to the
Administrative Agent for its own account and a Letter of Credit
fronting fee to the Letter of Credit Agent for its own account, each
in the amounts specified in a previously delivered letter agreement
between the Company, the Administrative Agent and the Letter of Credit
Agent.
(d) The Company shall also pay to each Bank, on the Closing
Date, the front-end participation fee which has previously been agreed
upon by the Company and such Bank.
2.6 Lending Offices. The Loans of each type made by each Bank
shall be made and maintained at such Bank's Applicable Lending Office
for Loans of such type.
2.7 Several Obligations; Remedies Independent. The failure of
any Bank to make any Loan to be made by it on the date specified
therefor shall not relieve any other Bank of its obligation to make
its Loan on such date, but neither any Bank nor the Administrative
Agent shall be responsible for the failure of any other Bank to make a
Loan to be made by such other Bank. The amounts payable to each Bank
by the Company at any time hereunder or under the Note of such Bank
shall be a separate and independent debt and each Bank shall be
entitled to protect and enforce its rights arising out of this
Agreement and its Note, and it shall not be necessary for any other
Bank or the Administrative Agent to consent to, or be joined as an
additional party in, any proceedings for such purposes.
2.8 Notes.
(a) The Loans made by each Bank shall be evidenced by a single
promissory note of the Company in substantially the form of Exhibit A
hereto, dated the date of the delivery of such Note to the
Administrative Agent under this Agreement, payable to such Bank in a
principal amount equal to the amount of its Commitment as originally
in effect and otherwise duly completed. The date, amount, type,
interest rate and maturity date of each Loan made by each Bank to the
Company, and each payment made on account of the principal thereof,
shall be recorded by such Bank on its books and, prior to any transfer
of such Note held by it, endorsed by such Bank on the schedule
attached to such Note or any continuation thereof. Any failure to
make any such endorsement shall not affect the Company's obligations
under any Note.
(b) No Bank shall be entitled to have its Note subdivided, by
exchange for promissory notes of lesser denominations or otherwise,
except in connection with a permitted assignment of all or any portion
of such Bank's Commitment, Loans and Note pursuant to Section 11.6(c)
hereof.
2.9 Voluntary Prepayments The Company may prepay Base Rate
Loans upon prior notice to the Administrative Agent (which shall
promptly notify the Banks), which notice shall be given not later than
10:00 a.m. (Dallas time) on the day of such prepayment and shall
specify the prepayment date (which shall be a Business Day) and the
amount of the prepayment (which shall be $1,000,000 or a higher
integral multiple of $500,000) and shall be irrevocable and effective
only upon receipt by the Administrative Agent, provided that interest
on the principal prepaid, accrued to the prepayment date, shall be
paid on the prepayment date. The Company may not prepay any
Eurodollar Loans pursuant to this Section 2.9 (provided that this
sentence shall not affect the Company's obligation to prepay Loans
pursuant to Section 2.10 or the obligations of the Company pursuant to
Section 9 hereof).
2.10 Clean-ups.
(a) Cash in Excess of $25,000,000. If at any time the Company
and the Consolidated Subsidiaries have cash (or cash equivalents,
including Temporary Cash Investments) in excess of $25,000,000, the
Company will within three Business Days thereafter apply such excess
to reduce the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Loans
(until such amount has been reduced to zero).
(b) Annual Clean-up. The Company will from time to time prepay
the Loans in such amounts (or not borrow Loans hereunder) as shall be
necessary so that, for a period of at least 30 consecutive days at any
time during the 12-month period commencing on the Closing Date and
during each 12-month period commencing on an anniversary of the
Closing Date, the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Loans
shall be zero.
(c) Intermittent Clean-ups. If Cumulative Adjusted Liquidity
Capacity is less than zero as of the end of any calendar month (e.g.,
February 28), the Company will either (i)cause Cumulative Adjusted
Capacity to exceed zero at the end of the next following month (e.g.,
March 31), or (ii) reduce the aggregate outstanding principal amount
of the Loans to zero by the third Business Day following the end of
the next following month (e.g., April 3). In such event, the Letter
of Credit Agent may, at its option, and shall, upon request by the
Majority Banks, by notice to the Company also require the Company to
pay to the Letter of Credit Agent for the ratable account of itself
and the Participant Banks, and there shall be immediately due and
payable hereunder in immediately available funds, an amount (in this
subsection called the "LC Liquidated Fund") equal to the maximum
amount which might be drawn on all Letters of Credit then issued and
outstanding (in this subsection called the "Outstanding Letters of
Credit"). Such payment shall represent liquidated damages resulting
from Cumulative Adjusted Liquidity Capacity being less than zero at a
time when there are Outstanding Letters of Credit, shall not represent
a penalty, and when made shall thereby discharge the Company from its
obligation to make Reimbursement Payments to the Letter of Credit
Agent and the Participant Banks under Section 2.3(b)(v) hereof for any
future payments made by the Letter of Credit Agent or the Participant
Banks under Outstanding Letters of Credit. All of the LC Liquidated
Fund shall be retained by the Letter of Credit Agent for its own
benefit and the benefit of the Participant Banks and applied, as
Outstanding Letters of Credit are drawn upon, to pay or provide
payment for the obligations of the Letter of Credit Agent and the
Participant Banks with respect to such Letters of Credit and such
drawings. Pending such applications, all of the LC Liquidated Fund
shall be invested by the Letter of Credit Agent (in its own name, but
for the benefit of itself and the Participant Banks) in interest
bearing time deposits with NationsBank with terms of three months or
less (freely withdrawable with no penalty other than the forfeiture of
interest), and all interest paid thereon shall be considered part of
the LC Liquidated Fund. Three months after the full and final
termination of all obligations of the Letter of Credit Agent and the
Participant Banks with respect to all Outstanding Letters of Credit,
the Letter of Credit Agent shall pay to the Company as an adjustment
to the LC Liquidated Fund an amount equal to (I) the full amount of
the LC Liquidated Fund minus (ii) all amounts drawn under the
Outstanding Letters of Credit which were the basis for the LC
Liquidated Fund on or prior to the date of such adjustment, provided,
however, that if (1) any Obligations are then due and owing and
unpaid, the Letter of Credit Agent shall instead deliver such
remaining LC Liquidated Fund to the Administrative Agent to be applied
to such Obligations pursuant to Section 4.1 hereof, and (2) any Event
of Default then exists and funds are required to be paid to the
Administrative Agent under Section 9.2 hereof, the Letter of Credit
Agent shall instead deliver such remaining LC Liquidated Fund to the
Administrative Agent to be dealt with as provided in Section 9.2
hereof.
(d) Miscellaneous. Notwithstanding that any clean-up or other
payment may be required under this Section 2.10, the Company shall pay
all amounts required under Section 5 of this Agreement which result
from any such clean-up or other payment. No such clean-up or other
payment shall have the effect of terminating or reducing the
Commitments of the Banks or any fees payable hereunder to the Bank
Parties.
SECTION 3. Payments of Principal and Interest.
3.1 Repayment of Loans. The Company will pay to the
Administrative Agent for the account of each Bank the principal of
each Loan made by such Bank, and each Loan shall mature, on the last
day of the Interest Period therefor.
3.2 Interest. The Company will pay to the Administrative Agent
for the account of each Bank interest on the unpaid principal amount
of each Loan made by such Bank for the period from and including the
date of such Loan to but excluding the date such Loan shall be paid in
full, at the following rates per annum:
(a) if such Loan is a Base Rate Loan, the Base Rate (as in
effect from time to time); and
(b) if such Loan is a Eurodollar Loan, the Eurodollar Rate for
such Eurodollar Loan for the Interest Period therefor plus the
Applicable LIBOR Margin.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company will pay to the
Administrative Agent for the account of each Bank interest at the
applicable Post-Default Rate on any principal of any Loan made by such
Bank, and (to the fullest extent permitted by law) on any other amount
payable by the Company under this Agreement or under the Note held by
such Bank to or for account of such Bank, which shall not be paid in
full when due (whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or
otherwise), for the period from and including the due date thereof to
but excluding the date the same is paid in full. Accrued interest on
each Loan shall be payable on the last day of the Interest Period
therefor and, if such Interest Period is longer than three months (in
the case of a Eurodollar Loan), at three-month intervals following the
first day of such Interest Period, except that interest payable at the
Post-Default Rate shall be payable from time to time on demand and
interest on any Eurodollar Loan that is converted into a Base Rate
Loan (pursuant to Section 5.4 hereof) shall be payable on the date of
conversion (but only to the extent so converted). Promptly after the
determination of any interest rate provided for herein or any change
therein, the Administrative Agent shall give notice thereof to the
Banks to which such interest is payable and the Company.
SECTION 4 Payments; Pro Rata Treatment; Computations; Etc
4.1 Payments.
(a) Except to the extent otherwise provided herein, all payments
of principal, interest and other amounts to be made by the Company
under this Agreement and the Notes shall be made in Dollars, in
immediately available funds, without deduction, set-off or
counterclaim, to the Administrative Agent at an account (as from time
to time specified by the Administrative Agent) maintained by the
Administrative Agent at its Principal Office, not later than noon
Dallas time on the date on which such payment shall become due (each
such payment made after such time on such due date to be deemed to
have been made on the next succeeding Business Day), provided that, if
a new Loan is to be made by any Bank on a date the Company is to repay
any principal of an outstanding Loan of such Bank, such Bank shall
apply the proceeds of such new Loan to the payment of the principal to
be repaid and only an amount equal to the excess of the principal to
be borrowed over the principal to be repaid shall be made available by
such Bank to the Administrative Agent as provided in Section 2.2
hereof or only an amount equal to the excess of the principal to be
repaid over the principal to be borrowed shall be paid by the Company
to the Administrative Agent pursuant to this Section 4.1(a), as the
case may be.
(b) Any Bank for whose account any such payment is to be made
may (but shall not be obligated to) debit the amount of any such
payment which is not made by such time to any ordinary deposit account
of the Company with such Bank (with notice to the Company).
(c) The Company shall, at the time of making each payment under
this Agreement or any Note, specify to the Administrative Agent the
Loans or other amounts payable by the Company hereunder to which such
payment is to be applied (and in the event that it fails to so
specify, or if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the
Administrative Agent may distribute such payment to the Banks in such
manner as it or the Majority Banks may determine to be appropriate,
subject to Section 4.2 hereof).
(d) Each payment received by the Administrative Agent under this
Agreement or any Note for account of a Bank shall be paid promptly to
such Bank, in immediately available funds, for account of such Bank's
Applicable Lending Office for the Loan in respect of which such
payment is made. Each payment received by the Letter of Credit Agent
hereunder for the account of a Bank shall be paid promptly to such
Bank (with prompt notice to such Bank of such payment), in immediately
available funds, for the account of such Bank's Lending Office for the
Letter of Credit in respect of which payment is made.
(e) If the due date of any payment under this Agreement or any
Note would otherwise fall on a day which is not a Business Day such
date shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day and
interest shall be payable for any principal so extended for the period
of such extension.
4.2 Pro Rata Treatment. Except to the extent otherwise provided
herein: (a) each borrowing from the Banks under Section 2.1 hereof
shall be made from the Banks, each payment of commitment fee under
Section 2.5 hereof shall be made for the account of the Banks, and
each termination or reduction of the amount of the Commitments under
Section 2.4 hereof shall be applied to the Commitments of the Banks,
pro rata according to the amounts of their respective Commitments; (b)
each payment of principal of Loans by the Company shall be made for
the account of the Banks pro rata in accordance with the respective
unpaid principal amounts of the Loans held by the Banks; (c) each
payment of interest on Loans by the Company shall be made for the
account of the Banks pro rata in accordance with the amounts of
interest on Loans due and payable to the respective Banks; and (d)
each payment of letter of credit fees under Section 2.5 hereof (other
than fees to be retained by the Letter of Credit Agent for its own
account pursuant to such Section 2.5) shall be made to the
Administrative Agent for the account of the Banks pro rata according
to their respective Percentages.
4.3 Computations. Interest on Eurodollar Loans, commitment fees
and Letter of Credit fees shall be computed on the basis of a year of
360 days and actual days elapsed (including the first day but
excluding the last day) occurring in the period for which payable and
interest on Base Rate Loans shall be computed on the basis of a year
of 365 or 366 days, as the case may be, and actual days elapsed
(including the first day but excluding the last day) occurring in the
period for which payable.
4.4 Non-Receipt of Funds by the Administrative Agent. Unless
the Administrative Agent shall have been notified by a Bank or the
Company (in this section called the "Payor") prior to the date on
which the Payor is to make payment to the Administrative Agent of (in
the case of a Bank) the proceeds of a Loan to be made by it hereunder
or a payment to be made by it pursuant to Section 2.3(a) hereof or (in
the case of the Company) a payment to the Administrative Agent for
account of one or more of the Banks hereunder (such payment being in
this section called the "Required Payment"), which notice shall be
effective upon receipt, that the Payor does not intend to make the
Required Payment to the Administrative Agent, the Administrative Agent
may assume that the Required Payment has been made and may, in
reliance upon such assumption (but shall not be required to), make the
amount thereof available to the intended recipients on such date and,
if the Payor has not in fact made the Required Payment to the
Administrative Agent, the recipients of such payment shall, on demand,
repay to the Administrative Agent the amount so made available
together with interest thereon in respect of each day during the
period commencing on the date such amount was so made available by the
Administrative Agent until the date the Administrative Agent recovers
such amount at a rate per annum equal to the Federal Funds Rate for
such day and, if such recipient(s) shall fail promptly to make such
payment, the Administrative Agent shall be entitled to recover such
amount, on demand, from the Payor, together with interest as
aforesaid.
4.5 Sharing of Payments, Etc.
(a) The Company agrees that, in addition to (and without
limitation of) any right of set-off, banker's lien or counterclaim a
Bank may otherwise have, each Bank shall be entitled, at its option,
to offset balances held by it for the account of the Company at any of
its offices, in Dollars or any other currency, against any principal
of or interest on any of such Bank's Loans, or any other amount
payable to such Bank hereunder, which is not paid when due (regardless
of whether balances are then due to the Company), in which case it
shall promptly notify the Company and the Administrative Agent
thereof, provided that such Bank's failure to give such notice shall
not affect the validity thereof.
(b) If any Bank shall obtain payment of any Loan or
Reimbursement Obligation due and owing to it, or any interest thereon,
through the exercise of any right of set-off, lien or counterclaim or
similar right or otherwise, and, as a result of such payment, such
Bank shall have received a greater percentage of the Loans or
Reimbursement Obligations or interest thereon then due and owing by
the Company to such Bank than the percentage received by any other
Banks, it shall promptly purchase from such other Banks participations
in (or, if and to the extent specified by such Bank, direct interests
in) the Loans or Reimbursement Obligations held by such other Banks or
in the interest thereon (as the case may be) in such amounts, and make
such other adjustments from time to time as shall be equitable, to the
end that all the Banks shall share the benefit of such excess payment
(net of any expenses which may be incurred by such Bank in obtaining
or preserving such excess payment) pro rata in accordance with the
unpaid Loans or Reimbursement Obligations or interest held by each of
the Banks or interest thereon (as the case may be). To such end all
the Banks shall make appropriate adjustments among themselves (by the
resale of participations sold or otherwise) if such payment is
rescinded or must otherwise be restored.
(c) The Company agrees that any Bank so purchasing a
participation (or direct interest) in the Loans made, or Reimbursement
Obligations held, by other Banks (or in interest due thereon, as the
case may be) may exercise all rights of setoff, banker's lien,
counterclaim or similar rights with respect to such participation as
fully as if such Bank were a direct holder of Loans and Reimbursement
Obligations in the amount of such participation. The provisions of
Section 11.6(c) and (d) hereof shall not apply to participations and
direct interests purchased pursuant to this Section 4.5.
(d) Nothing contained herein shall require any Bank to exercise
any such right or shall affect the right of any Bank to exercise, and
retain the benefits of exercising, any such right with respect to any
other indebtedness or obligation of the Company.
(e) If, under any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or other
similar law, any Bank receives a secured claim in lieu of a set-off to
which this Section 4.5 applies, such Bank shall, to the extent
practicable, exercise its rights in respect of such secured claim in a
manner consistent with the rights of the Banks entitled under this
Section 4.5 to share in the benefits of any recovery on such secured
claim.
SECTION 5 Yield Protection and Illegality.
5.1 Additional Costs.
(a) The Company shall pay directly to each Bank from time to
time such amounts as such Bank may determine to be necessary to
compensate it for any costs which such Bank determines are
attributable to its making or maintaining of any Eurodollar Loans or
its obligation to make any Eurodollar Loans hereunder, or any
reduction in any amount receivable by such Bank hereunder in respect
of any of such Eurodollar Loans or such obligation (such increases in
costs and reductions in amounts receivable being herein called
"Additional Costs"), resulting from any Regulatory Change which:
(i) changes the basis of taxation of any amounts payable to
such Bank under this Agreement or its Note in respect of any of such
Eurodollar Loans (other than taxes imposed on or measured by the
overall net income of such Bank or of its Applicable Lending Office
for any of such Eurodollar Loans by the jurisdiction in which such
Bank has its principal office or such Applicable Lending Office); or
(ii) imposes or modifies any reserve, special deposit or
similar requirements (other than in the case of any Bank for any
period as to which the Company is required to pay any amount under
paragraph (e) below, the reserves against "Eurocurrency liabilities"
under Regulation D therein referred to) relating to any extensions of
credit or other assets of, or any deposits with or other liabilities
of, such Bank (including any of such Eurodollar Loans or any deposits
referred to in the definition herein of "Eurodollar Rate"), or any
commitment of such Bank (including the Commitment of such Bank
hereunder); or
(iii) imposes any other condition affecting this Agreement
or its Note (or any of such extensions of credit or liabilities) or
Commitment.
If any Bank requests compensation from the Company under this Section
5.1(a), the Company may, by notice to such Bank (with a copy to the
Administrative Agent), suspend the obligation of such Bank to make
additional Eurodollar Loans until the Regulatory Change giving rise to
such request ceases to be in effect (in which case the provisions of
Section 5.4 hereof shall be applicable).
(b) Without limiting the effect of the provisions of Section
5.1(a) hereof, in the event that, by reason of any Regulatory Change,
any Bank either (i) incurs Additional Costs based on or measured by
the excess above a specified level of the amount of a category of
deposits or other liabilities of such Bank which includes deposits by
reference to which the interest rate on Eurodollar Loans is determined
as provided in this Agreement or a category of extensions of credit or
other assets of such Bank which includes Eurodollar Loans or (ii)
becomes subject to restrictions on the amount of such a category of
liabilities or assets which it may hold, then, if such Bank so elects
by notice to the Company (with a copy to the Administrative Agent),
the obligation of such Bank to make additional Eurodollar Loans
hereunder shall be suspended until such Regulatory Change ceases to be
in effect (in which case the provisions of Section 5.4 hereof shall be
applicable).
(c) Without limiting the effect of the foregoing provisions of
this Section 5.1 (but without duplication), the Company shall pay
directly to each Bank from time to time on request such amounts as
such Bank may determine to be necessary to compensate such Bank (or,
without duplication, the bank holding company of which such Bank is a
subsidiary) for any costs which it determines are attributable to the
maintenance by such Bank (or any Applicable Lending Office or such
bank holding company), pursuant to any law or regulation or any
interpretation, directive or request (whether or not having the force
of law) of any court or governmental or monetary authority following
any Regulatory Change, or pursuant to any risk-based capital guideline
or other requirement (whether or not having the force of law and
whether or not the failure to comply therewith would be unlawful)
issued after the date hereof by any government or governmental or
supervisory authority, including any implementation at the Federal
level of the Basle Accord (including the Final Risk-Based Capital
Guidelines of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (12
CFR Part 208, Appendix A; ▇▇ ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇) and the Final
Risk-Based Capital Guidelines of the Office of the Comptroller of the
Currency (12 CFR Part 3, Appendix A), of capital in respect of its
Commitment, Loans or obligations to issue Letters of Credit or acquire
participations hereunder (such compensation to include, without
limitation, an amount equal to any reduction of the rate of return on
assets or equity of such Bank (or any Applicable Lending Office or
such bank holding company) to a level below that which such Bank (or
any Applicable Lending Office or such bank holding company) could have
achieved but for such law, regulation, interpretation, directive or
request). For the purposes of this Section 5.1(c), "Basle Accord"
shall mean the proposals for a risk-based capital framework described
by the Basle Committee on Banking Regulations and Supervisory
Practices in its paper entitled "International Convergence of Capital
Measurement and Capital Standards" dated July 1988, as modified and
supplemented and in effect from time to time.
(d) Each Bank will notify the Company of any event occurring
after the date of this Agreement that will entitle such Bank to
compensation under paragraph (a) or (c) of this Section 5.1 as
promptly as practicable, but in any event within 45 days, after such
Bank obtains actual knowledge thereof; provided that (i) if any Bank
fails to give such notice within 45 days after it obtains actual
knowledge of such an event, such Bank shall, with respect to
compensation payable pursuant to this Section 5.1 in respect of any
costs resulting from such event, only be entitled to payment under
this Section 5.1 for costs incurred from and after the date 45 days
prior to the date that such Bank does give such notice; and (ii) each
Bank will designate a different Applicable Lending Office for the
Loans of such Bank affected by such event if such designation will
avoid the need for, or reduce the amount of, such compensation and
will not, in the sole opinion of such Bank, be disadvantageous to such
Bank, except that such Bank shall have no obligation to designate an
Applicable Lending Office located in the United States of America.
Each Bank will furnish to the Company a certificate setting forth the
basis and amount of each request by such Bank for compensation under
paragraph (a) or (c) of this Section 5.1. Determinations and
allocating by any Bank for purposes of this Section 5.1 of the effect
of any Regulatory Change pursuant to Section 5.1(a) or (b) hereof, or
of the effect of capital maintained pursuant to Section 5.1(c) hereof,
on its costs or rate of return of maintaining Loans or its obligation
to make Loans, or on amounts receivable by it in respect of Loans, and
of the amounts required to compensate such Bank under this Section
5.1, shall be conclusive, provided that such determinations and
allocations are made on a reasonable basis.
(e) Without limiting the effect of the foregoing, the Company
shall pay to the Administrative Agent for account of each Bank on the
last day of each Interest Period so long as such Bank is maintaining
reserves against "Eurocurrency liabilities" under Regulation D (or,
unless the provisions of paragraph (b) above are applicable, so long
as such Bank is, by reason of any Regulatory Change, maintaining
reserves against any other category of liabilities which includes
deposits by reference to which the interest rate on Eurodollar Loans
is determined as provided in this Agreement or against any category of
extensions of credit or other assets of such Bank which includes any
Eurodollar Loans) an additional amount (determined by such Bank and
notified to the Company through the Administrative Agent) equal to the
product of the following for each Eurodollar Loan for each day during
such Interest Period:
(i) the principal amount of such Eurodollar Loan
outstanding on such day; times
(ii) the remainder of (1) a fraction the numerator of which
is the rate (expressed as a decimal) at which interest accrues on such
Eurodollar Loan for such Interest Period as provided in this Agreement
(less the Applicable LIBOR Margin) and the denominator of which is one
minus the effective rate (expressed as a decimal) at which such
reserve requirements are imposed on such Bank on such day minus (2)
such numerator; times
(iii) 1/360.
5.2 Limitation on Eurodollar Loans. Anything herein to the
contrary notwithstanding, if, on or prior to the determination of any
Eurodollar Rate for any Interest Period:
(a) the Administrative Agent determines (which determination
shall be conclusive) that quotations of interest rates for the
relevant deposits referred to in the definition herein of "Eurodollar
Rate" are not being provided in the relevant amounts or for the
relevant maturities for purposes of determining Eurodollar Rates as
provided herein; or
(b) the Majority Banks determine, which determination shall be
conclusive, and notify the Administrative Agent that the relevant
rates of interest referred to in the definition herein of "Eurodollar
Rate" upon the basis of which the rate of interest for Eurodollar
Loans for such Interest Period is to be determined are not likely
adequately to cover the cost to such Banks of making or maintaining
such Eurodollar Loans;
then the Administrative Agent shall give the Company and each Bank
prompt notice thereof, and so long as such condition remains in
effect, the Banks (or such quoting Bank) shall be under no obligation
to make additional Eurodollar Loans.
5.3 Illegality. Notwithstanding any other provision of this
Agreement, in the event that it becomes unlawful for any Bank or its
Applicable Lending Office to honor its obligation to make or maintain
Eurodollar Loans hereunder, then such Bank shall promptly notify the
Company thereof (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) and such
Bank's obligation to make such Eurodollar Loans shall be suspended
until such time as such Bank may again make and maintain such
Eurodollar Loans (in which case the provisions of Section 5.4 hereof
shall be applicable with respect to Eurodollar Loans).
5.4 Treatment of Eurodollar Loans. If the obligation of any
Bank to make Eurodollar Loans shall be suspended pursuant to Section
5.1 or 5.3 hereof, then, until such Bank notifies the Company (with a
copy to the Administrative Agent) that the circumstances which gave
rise to such suspension no longer exist (which such Bank agrees to do
promptly upon such circumstances ceasing to exist) all Loans which
would otherwise be made by such Bank as Eurodollar Loans shall be made
instead as Base Rate Loans, and, if an event referred to in Section
5.1(b) or 5.3 hereof has occurred and such Bank so requests by notice
to the Company with a copy to the Administrative Agent, all Eurodollar
Loans of such Bank then outstanding shall be automatically converted
into Base Rate Loans on the date specified by such Bank in such notice
and, to the extent that Eurodollar Loans are so made (or converted),
all payments of principal which would otherwise be applied to such
Bank's Eurodollar Loans shall be applied instead to such Base Rate
Loans.
5.5 Compensation. The Company shall pay to the Administrative
Agent for account of each Bank, upon the request of such Bank through
the Administrative Agent, such amount or amounts as shall be
sufficient (in the reasonable opinion of such Bank) to compensate it
for any loss, cost or expense which such Bank determines is
attributable to:
(a) any payment, clean-up, or conversion of a Eurodollar Loan
made by such Bank for any reason (including the acceleration of the
Loans pursuant to Section 9 hereof) on a date other than the last day
of the Interest Period for such Eurodollar Loan; or
(b) any failure by the Company for any reason (including the
failure of any of the conditions precedent specified in Section 6
hereof to be satisfied) to borrow a Eurodollar Loan from such Bank on
the date for such borrowing specified in the relevant notice of
borrowing given pursuant to Section 2.2 hereof.
Without limiting the effect of the preceding sentence, such
compensation shall include an amount equal to the excess, if any, of
(i) the amount of interest which otherwise would have accrued on the
principal amount so paid or converted or not borrowed for the period
from the date of such payment, conversion or failure to borrow to the
last day of the Interest Period for such Eurodollar Loan (or, in the
case of a failure to borrow, the Interest Period for such Eurodollar
Loan which would have commenced on the date specified for such
borrowing) at the applicable rate of interest for such Eurodollar Loan
provided for herein over (ii) the interest component of the amount
such Bank would have bid in the London interbank market for Dollar
deposits of leading banks in amounts comparable to such principal
amount and with maturities comparable to such period (the calculations
in this clause (ii) being reasonably determined by such Bank).
5.6 Additional Costs in Respect of Letters of Credit. If as a
result of any Regulatory Change there shall be imposed, modified or
deemed applicable any tax, reserve, special deposit, deposit insurance
assessment or similar requirement against or with respect to or
measured by reference to Letters of Credit (or participations in
Letters of Credit) and the result shall be to increase the cost to any
Bank of issuing or maintaining any Letter of Credit or acquiring or
maintaining any participation in any Letter of Credit hereunder or
maintaining its obligation hereunder to issue, or to acquire a
participation in, any Letter of Credit hereunder or reduce any amount
receivable by such Bank hereunder in respect of any Letter of Credit
or participation (which increase in cost, or reduction in amount
receivable, shall be the result of such Bank's reasonable allocation
of the aggregate of such increases or reductions resulting from such
event), then, upon demand by such Bank, the Company agrees to pay
immediately to such Bank, from time to time as specified by such Bank,
such additional amounts as shall be sufficient to compensate such Bank
for such increased costs or reductions in amount. A statement as to
such increased costs or reductions in amount incurred by any such
Bank, submitted by such Bank to the Company in good faith, shall be
conclusive as to the amount thereof absent manifest error.
5.7 No Duplication. There shall be no duplication in amounts
payable pursuant to Section 5.1 through Section 5.6 hereof.
SECTION 6 Conditions Precedent.
6.1 Initial Extension of Credit. The obligation of each Bank to
make its initial Loan hereunder and the obligation of the Letter of
Credit Agent to issue the initial Letter of Credit hereunder is
subject to the receipt by the Administrative Agent of the following
documents, each of which shall be satisfactory to the Administrative
Agent in form and substance:
(a) Corporate Action. A copy, certified by the appropriate
Maryland official, of the Company's articles or certificate of
incorporation, and copies, certified by the Company's Secretary or
Assistant Secretary, of the Company's by-laws and of resolutions of
the Board of Directors (or Executive Committee of the Board of
Directors) of the Company authorizing the execution and delivery of
this Agreement, the Notes, and the Letter of Credit Documents and the
consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby and
the formal adoption of the Trading Policy.
(b) Incumbency. A certificate of the Company's Secretary or
Assistant Secretary in respect of each of the officers of the Company
(i) who is authorized to sign Loan Documents on its behalf and (ii)
who will, until replaced by another officer or officers duly
authorized for that purpose, act as its representative for the
purposes of signing documents and giving notices and other
communications in connection with this Agreement and the transactions
contemplated hereby (and the Administrative Agent and each Bank may
conclusively rely on such certificate until it receives notice in
writing from the Company to the contrary).
(c) Compliance Certificate. A certificate of a senior officer
of the Company to the effect set forth in the first sentence of
Section 6.2 hereof.
(d) Opinion of Counsel to the Company. An opinion of Messrs.
McGuire, Woods, Battle & ▇▇▇▇▇▇, L.L.P., counsel to the Company,
substantially in the form of Exhibit C hereto.
(e) Notes. The Notes, duly completed and executed.
(f) Process Agent. A letter from the Process Agent accepting
its appointment pursuant to Section 11.10 hereof.
(g) Trading Policy. (i) A copy of the Trading Policy, certified
by a senior officer of the Company, in form and substance reasonably
acceptable to Administrative Agent, and (ii) a favorable report of
Muse, Stancil & Co. (or other independent third-party advisor to the
Company reasonably acceptable to Administrative Agent) confirming that
the portion of the Trading Policy dealing with crude oil and refinery
feedstocks is acceptable to them.
(h) Other Documents. Such other documents relating to the
transactions contemplated hereby as the Administrative Agent or any
Bank may reasonably request.
The Company shall deliver, or cause to be delivered, to the
Administrative Agent sufficient copies of each document to be received
by the Administrative Agent under this Section 6 to permit the
Administrative Agent to distribute a copy of each such document to
each Bank.
6.2 Initial and Subsequent Extensions of Credit. The obligation
of each Bank to make any Loan hereunder and the obligation of the
Letter of Credit Agent to issue any Letter of Credit hereunder
(including the initial Extension of Credit) is subject to the further
conditions precedent that, both immediately prior to such Extension of
Credit and also after giving effect thereto:
(a) no Default shall have occurred and be continuing (unless the
same shall have been waived in accordance with Section 11.4 hereof);
(b) if such Extension of Credit consists of Loans, the
conditions set out in Section 2.1 hereof have been satisfied, and, if
such Extension of Credit consists of a Letter of Credit, the
conditions set out in Section 2.3 hereof have been satisfied;
(c) unless such Extension of Credit consists of Loans that will
not result in an increase in the aggregate principal amount of the
Loans outstanding hereunder (in which case the condition in this
clause (c) shall not apply), the representations and warranties made
by the Company in Section 7 hereof shall be true on and as of the date
of the making of such Extension of Credit with the same force and
effect as if made on and (unless such representation specifically
states that it is made as of an earlier date) as of such date;
(d) unless such Extension of Credit consists of Loans that will
not result in an increase in the aggregate principal amount of the
Loans outstanding hereunder (in which case the condition in this
clause (d) shall not apply), since December 31, 1996, there shall have
been no Material Adverse Change.
Each notice requesting an Extension of Credit hereunder by the Company
hereunder shall be deemed to constitute a representation by the
Company to the effect set forth in clauses (a), (b), (c) and (d) of
the preceding sentence both as of the date of such notice and, unless
the Company otherwise notifies the Administrative Agent, as of the
date of such Extension of Credit.
SECTION 7 Representations and Warranties. The Company
represents and warrants to the Banks that:
7.1 Corporate Existence. Each of the Company and its
Subsidiaries: (a) is a corporation duly organized and, validly
existing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation; (b)
has all requisite corporate power, and has all material governmental
licenses, authorizations, consents and approvals necessary to own its
assets and carry on its business as now being or as proposed to be
conducted; and (c) is qualified to do business in all jurisdictions in
which the nature of the business conducted by it makes such
qualification necessary and where failure so to qualify would present
a material probability of causing a Material Adverse Change.
7.2 Financial Condition. The consolidated balance sheets of the
Company and the Consolidated Subsidiaries as at December 31, 1996 and
the related consolidated statements of operations, of changes in
stockholders' equity and of cash flows of the Company and the
Consolidated Subsidiaries for the fiscal year ended on such date, with
the opinion thereon of Ernst & Young LLP, and the unaudited
consolidated balance sheets of the Company and the Consolidated
Subsidiaries as at March 31, 1997, and the related consolidated
statements of operations and of cash flows of the Company and the
Consolidated Subsidiaries for the three-month period ended on such
date, heretofore furnished to each of the Banks, are complete and
correct and fairly present the consolidated financial condition of the
Company and the Consolidated Subsidiaries as at such dates and the
consolidated results, as the case may be, of their operations for the
fiscal year and three-month period ended on such dates (subject, in
the case of such financial statements as at March 31, 1997, to normal
year-end audit adjustments), all in accordance with generally accepted
accounting principles and practices applied on a consistent basis.
Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries had on such dates any
material contingent liabilities, material unusual forward or long-term
commitments or material unrealized or anticipated losses from any
unfavorable commitments, except as referred to or reflected or
provided for in such balance sheets or as disclosed in footnotes to
such financial statements. Since December 31, 1996, there has been no
Material Adverse Change.
7.3 Litigation. Except as disclosed in the Disclosure Letter,
there are no legal or arbitral proceedings or any proceedings by or
before any governmental or regulatory authority or agency, now pending
or (to the knowledge of the Company) threatened against the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries in which there is a material probability of an
adverse decision which would cause a Material Adverse Change.
7.4 No Breach. None of the execution and delivery of the Loan
Documents, the consummation of the transactions hereby and thereby
contemplated, and compliance with the terms and provisions hereof and
thereof will conflict with or result in a breach of, or require any
consent under, the charter or by-laws of the Company, or any
applicable law or regulation, or any order, writ, injunction or decree
of any court or governmental authority or agency, or any agreement or
instrument to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party
or by which any of them is bound or to which any of them is subject,
or constitute a default under any such agreement or instrument, or
result in the creation or imposition of any Lien upon any of the
revenues or assets of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries pursuant
to the terms of any such agreement or instrument.
7.5 Corporate Action. The Company has all necessary corporate
power and authority to execute, deliver and perform its obligations
under the Loan Documents; the execution, delivery and performance by
the Company of the Loan Documents have been duly authorized by all
necessary corporate action on its part; and this Agreement has been
duly and validly executed and delivered by the Company and
constitutes, and each of the Notes and the other Loan Documents when
executed and delivered for value will constitute, its legal, valid and
binding obligation, enforceable in accordance with their respective
terms.
7.6 Approvals. No authorizations, approvals or consents of, and
no filings or registrations with, any governmental or regulatory
authority or agency are necessary for the execution, delivery or
performance by the Company of the Loan Documents or for the validity
or enforceability hereof and thereof.
7.7 Use of Proceeds. The Company will use the proceeds of the
Extensions of Credit for working capital and general corporate
purposes. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is engaged
principally, or as one of its important activities, in the business of
extending credit for the purpose, whether immediate, incidental or
ultimate, of buying or carrying Margin Stock and no part of the
proceeds of any Loan hereunder will be used to buy or carry any Margin
Stock or to extend credit for such purposes.
7.8 ERISA. The Company and the ERISA Affiliates have fulfilled
their respective obligations under the minimum funding standards of
ERISA and the Code with respect to each Plan, are in compliance in all
material respects with the presently applicable provisions of ERISA
and the Code, and have not incurred any liability to the PBGC (other
than for premiums that are not past due) or to any Plan or
Multiemployer Plan (other than to make contributions in the ordinary
course of business).
7.9 Taxes. United States Federal income tax returns of the
Company and its Subsidiaries have been examined and closed through the
fiscal year of the Company ended December 31, 1989. The Company and
its Subsidiaries have filed all United States Federal income tax
returns and all other material tax returns which are required to be
filed by them and have paid all taxes due pursuant to such returns or
pursuant to any assessment received by the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries, except for any such assessments being contested
reasonably and in good faith and for which adequate reserves have been
set aside. The charges, accruals and reserves on the books of the
Company and its Subsidiaries in respect of taxes and other
governmental charges are, in the opinion of the Company, adequate.
7.10 Investment Company Act. Neither the Company nor any of its
Subsidiaries is an "investment company", or a company "controlled" by
an "investment company", within the meaning of the Investment Company
Act of 1940, as amended.
7.11 Environmental Conditions. Except for those matters that
present no material probability of causing a Material Adverse Change,
or as otherwise disclosed in the Disclosure Letter:
(a) the Company and each of its Subsidiaries have obtained or
applied for (and not been denied) all Environmental Permits which are
required under all Environmental Laws; and the Company and each of its
Subsidiaries are in compliance with the terms and conditions of all
such Environmental Permits and all Environmental Laws.
(b) no notice, notification, demand, request for information,
citation, summons or order has been issued, no complaint has been
filed, no penalty has been assessed, and, to the best of the Company's
knowledge (after due inquiry) no investigation or review is pending or
threatened by any governmental or other entity with respect to any
alleged failure by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to have any
Environmental Permit required in connection with the conduct of the
business of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or with respect to
failure by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to comply with any
Environmental Law; and
(c) to the best of the Company's knowledge (after due inquiry)
neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has stored, treated,
disposed of, or otherwise handled any Hazardous Waste, other than as a
generator, on any property now or previously owned or leased by the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries in violation of any Environmental
Permit or Environmental Law; and
(d) to the best of the Company's knowledge (after due inquiry)
no Hazardous Waste generated by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries
has been recycled, treated, stored, disposed of, or resulted in an
Environmental Release by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries at any
location in violation of any Environmental Permit or Environmental
Law; and
(e) no notice has been provided to the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries that the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has
transported or arranged for the transportation of any Hazardous Waste
to any location which is listed on the National Priorities List under
the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability
Act of 1980, as amended ("CERCLA"), listed for possible inclusion on
the National Priorities List by the Environmental Protection Agency in
its Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability
Information System List ("CERCLIS") or on any similar state list or,
to the best of the Company's knowledge (after due inquiry), which is
the subject of federal, state or local enforcement actions or other
investigations which may lead to claims against the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries for clean-up costs, remedial work, damages to natural
resources or for personal injury claims, including, but not limited
to, claims under CERCLA; and
(f) no oral or written notification of an Environmental Release
of a Hazardous Waste has been filed by or on behalf of the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries with any governmental authority, and no notice
has been provided to the Company or its Subsidiaries that any property
now or previously owned or leased by the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries is listed or proposed for listing on the National
Priority list promulgated pursuant to CERCLA, on CERCLIS or on any
similar state list of sites requiring investigation or clean-up as a
result of any Environmental Conditions on such property caused in
whole or in part by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; and
(g) there are no Liens arising under or pursuant to any
Environmental Laws on any of the real property or properties now owned
or leased by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, and, to the best
of the Company's knowledge (after due inquiry), no government actions
have been taken or are in process which could subject any of such
properties to such Liens and neither the Company nor any of its
Subsidiaries would be required to place any notice or restriction
relating to the presence of Hazardous Materials at any property owned
by it in any deed to such property.
7.12 Indebtedness. Schedule 2 hereto is a complete and correct
list, as of June 30, 1997, of all Indebtedness of $100,000 or more
existing under credit agreements, indentures, purchase agreements,
guaranties, Capitalized Lease Obligations and other agreements,
arrangements and instruments presently in effect providing for or
relating to extensions of credit (including agreements and
arrangements for the issuance of letters of credit or for acceptance
financing) in respect of which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries
is in any manner directly or contingently obligated; and the maximum
principal or face amounts of the credit in question, outstanding and
which may be outstanding, are correctly stated in, and all Liens of
any nature given or agreed to be given as security therefor are
correctly described in, such Schedule 2. The amounts of such
Indebtedness have not changed materially since June 30, 1997.
7.13 Operation of Business. Each of the Company and its
Subsidiaries possesses all licenses, permits, franchises, patents,
copyrights, trademarks and trade names, or rights thereto, necessary
to conduct its business substantially as now conducted and as
presently proposed to be conducted, and neither the Company nor any of
its Subsidiaries is in violation of any material valid rights of
others with respect to any of the foregoing.
7.14 No Defaults on Outstanding Judgments or Orders. Neither
the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is in default with respect to
any judgment, writ, injunction, decree, rule or regulation of any
court, arbitrator or governmental or regulatory agency or authority,
except for defaults (if any) which present no material probability of
causing a Material Adverse Change.
7.15 No Defaults under Other Agreements, Etc. Neither the
Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is a party to any indenture, loan
or credit agreement or any lease or other agreement or instrument or
subject to any charter or corporate restriction which could reasonably
be expected to cause a Material Adverse Change or to have a material
adverse effect on the ability of the Company to perform or observe any
of its obligations under the Loan Documents. Neither the Company nor
any of its Subsidiaries is in default in any material respect in the
performance or observance of any of the obligations, covenants or
conditions contained in any agreement or instrument material to its
business to which it is a party.
7.16 Labor Disputes and Acts of God. Except as disclosed in the
Disclosure Letter, neither the business nor the properties of the
Company or of any of its Subsidiaries has been affected by any fire,
explosion, accident, strike, lockout or other labor dispute, drought,
storm, hail, earthquake, embargo, act of God or of the public enemy or
other casualty (whether or not covered by insurance) which presents a
material probability of causing a Material Adverse Change.
7.17 Subsidiaries, Etc. Set forth in Schedule 3 hereto is a
complete and correct list, as of the date of this Agreement, of all
Subsidiaries of the Company (and the respective jurisdiction of
incorporation of each such Subsidiary) and of all Investments (other
than Temporary Cash Investments) held by the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries in any joint venture or other Person. Except as
disclosed in Schedule 3 hereto, as of the date of this Agreement, the
Company owns, free and clear of Liens, all outstanding shares of such
Subsidiaries (and each such Subsidiary owns, free and clear of Liens,
all outstanding shares of its Subsidiaries) and all such shares are
validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable and the Company (or the
respective Subsidiary) also owns, free and clear of Liens, all such
Investments.
SECTION 8 Covenants of the Company.
The Company agrees that, unless the Majority Banks otherwise
consent, until the termination of this Agreement as provided in
Section 11.7:
8.1 Maintenance of Existence. The Company shall preserve and
maintain, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to preserve and maintain,
its corporate existence and good standing in the jurisdiction of its
incorporation, and qualify and remain qualified, and cause each such
Subsidiary to qualify and remain qualified, as a foreign corporation
in each jurisdiction in which such qualification is required provided
that nothing in this Section 8.1 shall prevent the abandonment or
termination of the corporate existence, rights and franchises of any
Subsidiary if, in the opinion of the Company, such abandonment or
termination is in the best interests of the Company and does not in
any material respect adversely affect the Banks.
8.2 Conduct of Business. The Company shall continue, either
directly or indirectly through its Subsidiaries, to engage in an
efficient and economical manner in the businesses of the same general
type as conducted by it on the Closing Date.
8.3 Maintenance of Properties. The Company shall maintain, keep
and preserve, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to maintain, keep and
preserve, all of its properties (tangible and intangible) necessary or
useful in the proper conduct of its business in good working order and
condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted.
8.4 Maintenance of Records. The Company shall keep, and cause
each of its Subsidiaries to keep, adequate records and books of
account, in which complete entries will be made in accordance with
GAAP consistently applied, reflecting all financial transactions of
the Company and its Subsidiaries.
8.5 Maintenance of Insurance. The Company shall maintain, and
cause each of its Subsidiaries to maintain, insurance with financially
sound and reputable insurance companies or associations in such
amounts and covering such risks as are usually carried by companies
engaged in the same or a similar business and similarly situated,
which insurance may provide for reasonable deductibles from the
coverage thereof.
8.6 Compliance with Laws and Agreements. The Company shall
comply, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to comply, in all respects
with all applicable laws, rules, regulations, and orders (including
all applicable Environmental Laws), such compliance to include,
without limitation, paying before the same become delinquent all
taxes, assessments and governmental charges imposed upon it or upon
its property except as to such taxes, assessments and governmental
charges as are being contested in good faith. Each of the Company and
its Subsidiaries will perform all of its obligations under the Loan
Documents and all material obligations it is required to perform under
the terms of each indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, security
agreement, lease, franchise, agreement, contract or other instrument
or obligation to which it is a party or by which it or any of its
properties is bound. The Company shall comply in all respects with
the Trading Policy, and the Company shall, by December 1, 1997,
develop (and obtain the approval of its Board of Directors and an
independent third-party advisor to the Company reasonably acceptable
to Administrative Agent) the comprehensive measurements and analysis
of its refining and trading activities which are referred to in the
Trading Policy. All purchases and sales of crude oil, refined
products and refinery feedstocks by the Company, and related Product
Hedging Obligations undertaken by the Company, shall be made in
compliance with the Trading Policy. The Company shall not amend the
Trading Policy without the prior written consent of the Administrative
Agent; the Administrative Agent agrees to promptly take under
advisement any request by the Company for any such amendment to the
Trading Policy.
8.7 Right of Inspection. The Company shall, at any reasonable
time and from time to time, permit the Administrative Agent or any
Bank or any agent or representative thereof to examine and make copies
of any abstracts from the records and books of account, and visit the
properties of, the Company and any of its Subsidiaries, and to discuss
the affairs, finances and accounts of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries with any of their respective officers and directors and
independent accountants.
8.8 Reporting Requirements. The Company shall furnish directly
to each of the Banks:
(a) Annual Financial Statements. As soon as available and in
any event within 90 days after the end of each fiscal year of the
Company, the Company's Consolidated balance sheet as of the end of
such fiscal year and the Company's Consolidated statements of
operations, changes in stockholders' equity and cash flows for such
fiscal year, all in reasonable detail and stating in comparative form
the respective Consolidated figures for the corresponding date and
period in the prior fiscal year, and accompanied by an opinion thereon
of independent certified public accountants of recognized national
standing, which opinion shall state that such financial statements
fairly present the financial condition, results of operations, and
cash flows of the Company and the Consolidated Subsidiaries for such
fiscal year.
(b) Quarterly Financial Statements. As soon as available and in
any event within 45 days after the end of each fiscal quarter of the
Company, the Company's quarterly Consolidated balance sheets as at the
end of the immediately preceding fiscal quarter and the Company's
Consolidated statements of operations and of cash flows for the
portion of the fiscal year ended with the last day of such fiscal
quarter, all in reasonable detail and certified by a senior financial
officer of the Company (subject to year-end audit adjustments). To
the extent that any Unconsolidated Subsidiaries exist during any such
fiscal quarter, the Company will with such quarterly Consolidated
financial statements provide a separate balance sheet as of the same
date, and separate statements of operations and of cash flows for the
same period, for each Unrestricted Subsidiary.
(c) Accountants' Report. Simultaneously with the delivery of
the annual financial statements referred to in Section 8.8(a) hereof,
(i) a certificate of the independent public accountants who audited
such statements to the effect that, in making the examination
necessary for the audit of such statements, they have obtained no
knowledge of any Default, or if such accountants shall have obtained
knowledge of any such Default, specifying in such certificate each
such Default of which they have knowledge and the nature and status
thereof, and (ii) a calculation in reasonable detail of the financial
ratios required to be maintained by the Company pursuant to this
Section 8 and pursuant to Section 9.1(l) hereof as of the last day of
the immediately preceding fiscal year.
(d) Calculations and Reports of Financial Compliance. On or
before:
(i) the last day of each calendar month (or if such day is
not a Business Day, on the next succeeding Business Day), a
certificate of a senior financial officer of the Company (A) stating
that the Company was in Financial Compliance on the last day of the
immediately preceding calendar month (or specifying how the Company
was not in Financial Compliance), (B) specifying the Company's
Cumulative Adjusted Liquidity Capacity on the last day of the
immediately preceding calendar month, and (C) stating that during such
calendar month the Company complied in all respects with the Trading
Policy, and that all purchases and sales of crude oil, refined
products and refinery feedstocks by the Company, and all related
Product Hedging Obligations undertaken by the Company, during such
calendar month were made in compliance with the Trading Policy, and
(ii) the last day of each January, April, July, and October
(or if such day is not a Business Day, on the next succeeding Business
Day), calculations in reasonable detail showing (A) that the Company
was in Financial Compliance on the last day of each month in the
immediately preceding fiscal quarter (or specifying how the Company
was not in Financial Compliance) and (B) the Company's Cumulative
Adjusted Liquidity Capacity on the last day of each month in the
immediately preceding fiscal quarter, and (C) a report, in form and
substance satisfactory to Administrative Agent, regarding purchases
and sales of crude oil and refined products inventory and refinery
feedstocks of the Company in the immediately preceding fiscal quarter
and related Product Hedging Obligations of the Company in the
immediately preceding fiscal quarter (including such information as
Administrative Agent may from time to time request concerning
benchmarks, margin requirements, cash gains and losses,
reconciliations to quarterly financial statements, compliance with
various aspects of the Trading Policy, and other matters from time to
time specified by Administrative Agent), certified by a senior
financial officer of the Company, and a certificate of such an officer
to the effect that no Default has occurred and is continuing (or, if
any Default has occurred and is continuing, describing the same in
reasonable detail and describing the action that the Company has taken
and proposes to take with respect thereto).
(iii) within two Business Days after obtaining knowledge
thereof, notice of the occurrence of aggregate margin calls referred
to in Section 8.9(m) in an aggregate amount in excess of $15,000,000,
and weekly notices thereafter so long as such aggregate amount
continues to exceed $15,000,000, all of which notices shall specify
the actual amount of such aggregate margin calls.
(e) Notice of Litigation. Promptly after obtaining knowledge
thereof, notice of: (i) all actions, suits, and proceedings commenced
or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened, against or affecting
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries before any court, arbitrator or
governmental or regulatory authority or agency in which, individually
or in the aggregate, there is a material probability of an adverse
decision which would cause a Material Adverse Change and (ii) any
material and adverse development in any such action, suit or
proceeding.
(f) Notice of Defaults. As soon as possible and in any event
within ten days after the occurrence of any Default of which the
Company is aware or in the exercise of reasonable diligence should
have been aware, a notice setting forth the details of such Default
and the action which the Company proposes to take with respect
thereto.
(g) ERISA Reports.
(i) Within fifteen days after the annual report (Form 5500)
for each Plan is filed with the Internal Revenue Service, and in any
event by September 30 of each year, a schedule prepared as of the end
of the prior year for all Plans, separately showing the funding status
of each Plan (i.e. the amount by which such Plan was overfunded or the
amount of any Unfunded Vested Liabilities with respect to such Plan)
and the sum by which the aggregate Unfunded Vested Liabilities of the
Company and the ERISA Affiliates with respect to all Plans exceeds, or
is exceeded by, the aggregate amount by which all Plans are
overfunded;
(ii) Simultaneously with the delivery of the schedule
referred to in clause (i) above, a schedule prepared as of the end of
the prior year for all Multiemployer Plans, separately showing all
contributions and other payments by the Company and its Subsidiaries
during such year with respect to each Multiemployer Plan and, if
requested by the Administrative Agent, the approximate amounts which
the Company expects it and its Subsidiaries will pay with respect to
each Multiemployer Plan during the then current fiscal year;
(iii) Promptly after the receiving thereof, copies of all
notices which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries receives from the
PBGC or the U.S. Department of Labor under ERISA with respect to any
Plan or any Multiemployer Plan and copies of all notices which the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries receives from the sponsor of any
Multiemployer Plan claiming or otherwise indicating that the Company
or any of its Subsidiaries has any liability with respect to such
Multiemployer Plan beyond the obligation to make normal contributions
as specified in the applicable contract; and
(iv) As soon as possible, and in any event within 10 days
after the Company or any of its Subsidiaries knows or has reason to
know that (1) any "reportable event" (as defined in Section 4043 of
ERISA) has occurred with respect to any Plan, or (2) any transaction
prohibited under Section 406 of ERISA (and not exempted under Section
408 of ERISA) has occurred with respect to any Plan, or (3) that the
PBGC or the Company or such Subsidiary or any sponsor of any
Multiemployer Plan has instituted or will institute proceedings under
Title IV of ERISA to terminate any Plan or any Multiemployer Plan, a
certificate of the chief financial officer of the Company setting
forth details as to such reportable event, prohibited transaction, or
termination and the action, if any, which the Company proposes to take
with respect thereto.
(h) Environmental Reports. Promptly after obtaining knowledge
thereof, notice of any event or change in circumstances (including any
material and adverse development in any litigation, arbitral or
regulatory proceeding) which would cause any of the Company's
representations and warranties in Section 7.11 hereof to be incorrect
if such representations and warranties were to be made as of the date
of such occurrence and after giving effect thereto.
(i) Reports to Other Creditors. Promptly after the furnishing
thereof, copies of any statement or report furnished to any Person
pursuant to the terms of the Senior Notes Indenture or of any
indenture, loan or credit or similar agreement other than this
Agreement and not otherwise required to be furnished to the Banks
pursuant to any other provision of this Section 8.8.
(j) Proxy Statements, Etc. Promptly after the sending or filing
thereof, copies of all proxy statements, financial statements and
reports which the Company sends to its stockholders, and copies of all
regular, periodic and special reports, and all registration statements
which the Company files with the Securities and Exchange Commission or
any governmental authority which may be substituted therefor, or with
any national securities exchange.
(k) Projections. On or before February 28 of each fiscal year,
projections by the Company, in reasonable detail for each quarter in
such fiscal year, of anticipated (i) Consolidated Capital
Expenditures, (ii) throughput volumes for each of the Pasadena and
Tyler refineries, (iii) petroleum volumes and merchandise sales for
the retail facilities, (iv) operating expenses by operating division,
and (v) Consolidated administrative expense.
(l) Other Information. Promptly, such other information with
respect to the business, condition or operations (financial,
environmental, or otherwise) of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries
as any Bank Party may from time to time reasonably request.
8.9 Liens. The Company shall not create, incur, assume or
suffer to exist, or permit any of its Subsidiaries to create, incur,
assume or suffer to exist, any Lien upon or with respect to any of its
properties, now owned or hereafter acquired, except for the following:
(a) Liens for taxes or assessments or other governmental charges
or levies if not yet due and payable or, if due and payable, if they
are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and for
which appropriate reserves are maintained.
(b) Liens imposed by law, such as mechanic's, materialmen's,
landlord's, warehousemen's and carrier's Liens, and other similar
Liens, securing obligations incurred in the ordinary course of
business which are not past due for more than 30 days or which are
being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and for which
appropriate reserves have been established.
(c) Liens under workmen's compensation, unemployment insurance,
social security or similar legislation.
(d) Liens, deposits or pledges to secure the performance of
bids, tenders, leases (to the extent permitted under the terms of this
Agreement), public or statutory obligations, surety, stay, appeal,
indemnity, performance or other similar bonds, or other similar
obligations arising in the ordinary course of business and not
constituting Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness with respect to
surety bonds and instruments similar thereto which are described in
clause (e) of the definition herein of "Indebtedness").
(e) Judgment and other similar Liens arising in connection with
court proceedings; provided that the execution or other enforcement of
such Liens is effectively stayed and the claims secured thereby are
being actively contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings.
(f) Easements, rights-of-way, restrictions and other similar
encumbrances which, in the aggregate, do not materially interfere with
the occupation, use and enjoyment by the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries of the property or assets encumbered thereby in the
normal course of its business or materially impair the value of the
property subject thereto.
(g) Liens securing obligations of a Restricted Subsidiary to the
Company or another Restricted Subsidiary.
(h) Liens in existence on the Closing Date and described in
Schedule 2 but not the extension of any such Lien to some other
Indebtedness or obligation.
(i) Purchase Money Liens on any property acquired after January
1, 1997 or hereafter constructed by the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries.
(j) Liens securing reimbursement obligations with respect to
commercial letters of credit permitted under Section 8.10 hereof, but
only on goods being financed by such letters of credit or on title
documents related thereto.
(k) Liens granted in connection with the sale by the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries of credit card receivables, to the extent and
only to the extent that (i) such Liens burden only the receivables
sold and are given as a precautionary measure in the event that such
sales are recharacterized as grants of security interests, and (ii)
the Company is in Financial Compliance both immediately before and
immediately after the granting of such Liens.
(l) Liens on assets of Unrestricted Subsidiaries to secure
Nonrecourse Indebtedness.
(m) Liens on cash and Temporary Cash Investments to secure
margin calls under contracts traded on the Chicago Mercantile
Exchange, the New York Mercantile Exchange, or other major commodities
exchanges (or similar contracts), which contracts are (i) entered into
in the ordinary course of business with firms which are members of
such exchanges and (ii) constitute Product Hedging Obligations entered
into in compliance with both Section 8.10(b) hereof and the Trading
Policy.
8.10 Indebtedness. The Company shall not create, issue, assume,
guarantee, or otherwise in any manner become directly or indirectly
liable for or with respect to or otherwise incur (collectively,
"incur") any Indebtedness, and the Company shall not permit any of its
Subsidiaries to incur any Indebtedness, except that:
(a) the Company may incur Indebtedness to the Banks or the
Letter of Credit Agent hereunder, in accordance with the terms hereof;
(b) the Company may incur Indebtedness to any Person other than
one of its Subsidiaries (excluding liabilities and obligations
prohibited under Section 8.25 hereof), provided that the Company is in
Financial Compliance both immediately before and immediately after
such incurrence and further provided, if such Indebtedness is for
Hedging Obligations, that such Hedging Obligations are Product Hedging
Obligations or Rate Hedging Obligations incurred for hedging purposes
(and not speculation) in order to protect the Company or a Restricted
Subsidiary against fluctuations in the interest rates applicable to
their existing or reasonably anticipated floating rate indebtedness or
against fluctuations in the prices applicable to their existing or
reasonably anticipated requirements (for the reasonable operations of
the Company's two lines of business) of crude oil, other feedstocks,
retail petroleum products, or additives thereto or components thereof
or their existing or reasonably anticipated requirements for energy
supplies.
(c) the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries may incur
Indebtedness in respect of commercial letters of credit, provided that
the Company is in Financial Compliance both immediately before and
immediately after such incurrence;
(d) the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries may incur
Indebtedness secured by Purchase Money Liens, provided that the
Company is in Financial Compliance both immediately before and
immediately after such incurrence;
(e) the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries may incur
Indebtedness under Guarantees permitted by Section 8.11 hereof;
(f) any Restricted Subsidiary may incur Indebtedness to the
Company or to any other Restricted Subsidiary, and the Company may
incur Indebtedness to any Restricted Subsidiary so long as the
aggregate amount of such Indebtedness of the Company to the Restricted
Subsidiaries does not exceed $15,000,000 at any one time outstanding;
and
(g) any Unrestricted Subsidiary may incur Nonrecourse
Indebtedness to Persons other than the Company and the Restricted
Subsidiaries.
8.11 Guaranties, Etc. The Company shall not assume, guarantee,
endorse or otherwise be or become directly or contingently responsible
or liable, or permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to assume,
guarantee, endorse or otherwise be or become directly or indirectly
responsible or liable (including by means of an agreement to purchase
any obligation, stock, assets, goods or services, or to supply or
advance any funds, assets, goods or services, or to maintain or cause
any Person to maintain a minimum working capital or net worth or
otherwise to assure the creditors of such Person against loss) for
obligations of any Person (each such obligation herein referred to as
a "Guarantee") other than the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary,
except:
(a) guaranties by endorsement of negotiable instruments for
deposit or collection or similar transactions in the ordinary course
of business;
(b) a Guarantee of an obligation of any Person to the extent,
but only to the extent, that a payment by the Company or a Restricted
Subsidiary pursuant to such Guarantee shall reduce by the same amount
any obligation of the Company or such Subsidiary which the Company or
such Subsidiary is permitted to incur pursuant to the provisions of
this Agreement, other than this Section 8.11; and
(c) liabilities imposed by law on the Company or a Restricted
Subsidiary for acts by Persons other than the Company or such
Subsidiary.
8.12 Mergers, Etc. The Company shall not merge or consolidate
with any Person, or acquire all or any substantial part (in one
transaction or a series of related transactions) of the business or,
except in the ordinary course of business, the assets of any Person,
or permit any of its Subsidiaries to do so, except that: (a) any
Restricted Subsidiary may merge into or transfer assets to the
Company; (b) any Restricted Subsidiary may merge into or consolidate
with or transfer assets to any other Restricted Subsidiary; and (c)
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries may acquire the capital or
fixed assets or business of any Person pursuant to an Investment
permitted under Section 8.13 hereof.
8.13 Investments. The Company shall not make, or permit any of
its Subsidiaries to make, any Investments except:
(a) Temporary Cash Investments; and
(b) provided that the Company is in Financial Compliance
both immediately before and immediately after making such Investments,
other Permitted Investments.
8.14 Sale of Assets. The Company shall not, and shall not permit
any of its Subsidiaries to, make any Asset Sale except for:
(a) transfers by any Subsidiary of the Company of assets to the
Company or to a Restricted Subsidiary;
(b) the substantially contemporaneous exchange of assets for
assets of the same type and of substantially the same value;
(c) the sale of undivided interests of 25% or less in either or
both of the Company's refineries in Pasadena and Tyler, Texas,
provided that (i) the Company (or one or more of its wholly-owned
Subsidiaries) must retain operating control of both such refineries
after any such sale, (ii) the Company must be in Financial Compliance
both before and immediately after any such sale, and (iii) FIFO Net
Worth must exceed $231,000,000 immediately after such sale, without
giving effect to any gain recognized upon such sale; and
(d) Asset Sales other than those described in clauses (a) or (b)
of the definition herein of "Asset Sales", provided that (i) the
Company must be in Financial Compliance both before and immediately
after any such Asset Sale and (ii) to the extent the proceeds of any
such permitted Asset Sale constitute "Excess Proceeds" under Section
1011 of the Senior Notes Indenture (or would, if not applied to pay
the Loans, similarly be required to be used to prepay or purchase
other Indebtedness under any other indenture, loan agreement, note
purchase agreement, or similar agreement), the Company will prepay the
Loans (to the extent thereof) and permanently reduce the Commitments
by the amount of such prepayment.
The Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries
to, sell its or their credit card receivables unless the Company is in
Financial Compliance both immediately before and immediately after
such sale.
8.15 Stock of Subsidiaries, Etc. The Company shall not sell or
otherwise dispose of, or permit any of its Subsidiaries to sell or
otherwise dispose of, any shares of capital stock of or any
Indebtedness or other obligation of any of such Subsidiaries, except
to the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary, or permit any such
Subsidiary to issue any additional shares of its capital stock (except
directors' qualifying shares) to any Person other than the Company or
a Restricted Subsidiary.
8.16 Transactions with Affiliates. The Company shall not enter
into any transaction (including the purchase, sale or exchange of
property or the rendering of any service) with any Affiliate or permit
any of its Subsidiaries to enter into any such transaction, except in
the ordinary course of, and pursuant to the reasonable requirements
of, the Company's or such Subsidiary's business and upon terms not
less favorable to the Company or such Subsidiary than would obtain in
a comparable arm's length transaction with a Person not an Affiliate;
provided that the foregoing restrictions shall not be deemed to
prevent (a) any Subsidiary of the Company (or the Company) from
entering into any transaction with the Company or a Restricted
Subsidiary on terms no less favorable to the Company or such
Restricted Subsidiary than those that would obtain in an arm's length
transaction, and (b) the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company from
entering from time to time into isolated transactions with Affiliates
(not material to the Company's Consolidated financial condition)
pursuant to which such Affiliates are allowed to temporarily use
assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries and to reimburse the
Company and such Subsidiaries for the allocable costs thereof without
any additional payment for profit.
8.17 Line of Business. The Company shall not enter into, or
permit any of its Subsidiaries to enter into, any material line of
business other than businesses of the same general type it is engaged
in on the Closing Date.
8.18 Accounts Payable; Senior Notes. The Company shall not
permit accounts payable of the Company and its Subsidiaries to trade
creditors for goods or services to age more than 60 days from the
later of the due date thereof or the date of receipt of the invoice
therefor, or permit other current operating liabilities (other than
for borrowed money) to be more than 30 days past due; provided that
the 60 and 30 day limitations referred to above shall not apply to
accounts or operating liabilities which are being contested on a
reasonable basis in good faith by appropriate proceedings. The
Company shall make all required payments on the Senior Notes when due
but shall not make any optional prepayment or redemption of the Senior
Notes unless no Default then exists and the Company is in Financial
Compliance both before and after such optional prepayment or
redemption.
8.19 FIFO Tangible Net North. The Company shall cause FIFO
Tangible Net Worth to be at least $185,000,000 at the end of each
calendar month.
8.20 CFD/Capital Ratio. The Company shall cause the CFD/Capital
Ratio to be less than .45 to 1.0 at the end of each calendar month.
8.21 Net Adjusted Working Capital. The Company shall cause
Adjusted Current Assets to exceed Adjusted Liabilities by $40,000,000
or more at the end of each calendar month.
8.22 Adjusted Current Ratio. The Company shall cause the
Adjusted Current Ratio to equal or exceed 1.2 to 1.0 at the end of
each calendar month.
8.23 Short-Term FIFO Net Income (Loss). The Company shall cause
FIFO Net Income (Loss) to be greater than ($15,200,000) for each short-
term measurement period commencing on or after August 1, 1996 (i.e.,
either to be positive or, if a loss, not to be a loss of more than
$15,200,000). As used in this Section 8.23, "short-term measurement
period" means any period of twelve consecutive calendar months.
8.24 Mid-Term FIFO Net Income (Loss). The Company shall cause
FIFO Net Income (Loss) to be greater than ($25,200,000) for each mid-
term measurement period commencing on or after August 1, 1995 (i.e.,
either to be positive or, if a loss, not to be a loss of more than
$25,200,000). As used in this Section 8.24, "mid-term measurement
period" means any period of twenty-four consecutive calendar months.
8.25 Unrestricted Subsidiaries. The Company may from time to
time form new Subsidiaries and designate such Subsidiaries as
Unrestricted Subsidiaries, subject to the terms and provisions set out
in the definition herein of "Unrestricted Subsidiary". The Company
shall not (and shall not allow any of its Subsidiaries to) make any
Investment in an Unrestricted Subsidiary except for:
(a) Investments which are contemplated in clause (c) of the
definition herein of "Unrestricted Subsidiary" and which are made at
or about the time any Subsidiary of the Company is designated as an
Unrestricted Subsidiary; and
(b) other capital contributions or loans thereafter made to
such Unrestricted Subsidiary, provided that (i) neither the Company
nor any Consolidated Subsidiary may make any advance commitment to any
Person to make any such capital contribution or loan, and (ii) the
making of such capital contribution or loan does not cause a Default
to occur and the Company is in Financial Compliance immediately after
such capital contribution or loan is made.
Neither the Company nor any Restricted Subsidiary shall otherwise
transfer assets to any Unrestricted Subsidiary, or have or incur any
liability or obligation to or for the benefit of any Unrestricted
Subsidiary (or to or for the benefit of any other Person in connection
with any Nonrecourse Indebtedness of any Unrestricted Subsidiary,
including any liability or obligation as a co-maker of such
Nonrecourse Indebtedness, under any Guarantee thereof, or under any
indemnity or undertaking given to the holder thereof, to such
Unrestricted Subsidiary or to any other Person), except that the
Company and its other Subsidiaries may make payments to an
Unrestricted Subsidiary if such payments are made in compliance with
Section 8.16 hereof and are made for goods or services received by the
payor from such Unrestricted Subsidiary. An Unrestricted Subsidiary
can be converted by the Company into a Restricted Subsidiary if (and
only if):
(1) the Company gives the Administrative Agent at least ten
days' advance written notice redesignating such Unrestricted
Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary, specifying the date on which
such conversion is to occur and containing calculations showing that
the Company will be in Financial Compliance on such date after giving
effect to such conversion and to the consequent treatment of such
Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary and a Consolidated Subsidiary
for the purposes of determining Cumulative Adjusted Liquidity Capacity
and the Company's compliance with Section 8.18 through and including
Section 8.26 hereof,
(2) the Company is in fact in Financial Compliance on such
date, after giving effect to such conversion, and
(3) no Default otherwise exists on such date, after giving
effect to such conversion.
8.26 Restricted Subsidiaries. No Restricted Subsidiary shall
enter into or consent to any agreement with any creditor which
prohibits it, either directly or indirectly, from paying dividends or
making other distributions to the Company without such creditor's
consent.
SECTION 9 Events of Default.
9.1 Events of Default. If one or more of the following events
(herein called "Events of Default") shall occur and be continuing (and
shall not have been waived pursuant to Section 11.4 hereof):
(a) The Company shall default in the payment when due of any
principal of or interest on any Loan, Letter of Credit Liability or
any other amount payable by it hereunder, and such payment shall not
be made in full within one Business Day thereafter; or
(b) The Company or any of its Subsidiaries shall default in the
payment when due of any principal of or interest on any of its other
Indebtedness aggregating $5,000,000 or more; or any event (including
any "Change of Control" as defined in the Senior Notes Indenture)
specified in any note, agreement, indenture or other document
evidencing or relating to any such Indebtedness shall occur if the
effect of such event is to cause, or (with the giving of any notice or
the lapse of time or both) to permit the holder or holders of such
Indebtedness (or a trustee or agent on behalf of such holder or
holders) to cause, such Indebtedness to become due, or to be prepaid
in full (whether by redemption, purchase or otherwise), prior to its
stated maturity; or
(c) Any representation, warranty or certification made or deemed
made in any Loan Document shall prove to have been false or misleading
in any material respect as of the time made or deemed made; or
(d) The Company shall default in the performance of any of its
obligations under Section 2.10 hereof or Sections 8.8 through and
including 8.26 hereof; or
(e) The Company shall default in the performance of any of its
other obligations in any Loan Document and such default shall continue
unremedied for a period of 30 consecutive days after notice thereof to
the Company by the Administrative Agent; or
(f) The Company or any of its Subsidiaries shall admit in
writing its inability to, or be generally unable to, pay its debts as
such debts become due; or
(g) The Company or any of its Subsidiaries shall (i) apply for
or consent to the appointment of, or the taking of possession by, a
receiver, custodian, trustee or liquidator of itself or of all or a
substantial part of its property, (ii) make a general assignment for
the benefit of its creditors, (iii) commence a voluntary case under
the Bankruptcy Code (as now or hereafter in effect), (iv) file a
petition seeking to take advantage of any other law relating to
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, winding-up, composition or
readjustment of debts, (v) fail to controvert in a timely and
appropriate manner, or acquiesce in writing to, any petition filed
against it in an involuntary case under the Bankruptcy Code, or (vi)
take any corporate action for the purpose of effecting any of the
foregoing; or
(h) A proceeding or case shall be commenced, without the
application or consent of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, in
any court of competent jurisdiction, seeking (i) its liquidation,
reorganization, dissolution or winding-up, or the composition or
readjustment of its debts, (ii) the appointment of a trustee,
receiver, custodian, liquidator or the like of the Company or such
Subsidiary or of all or any substantial part of its assets, or (iii)
similar relief in respect of the Company or such Subsidiary under any
law relating to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, winding-up, or
composition or adjustment of debts, and such proceeding or case shall
continue undismissed, or an order, judgment or decree approving or
ordering any of the foregoing shall be entered and continue unstayed
and in effect, for a period of 60 or more days; or an order for relief
against the Company or such Subsidiary shall be entered in an
involuntary case under the Bankruptcy Code; or
(i) A final judgment or judgments for the payment of money in
excess of $5,000,000 in the aggregate shall be rendered by a court or
courts against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries and the same
shall not be discharged (or provision shall not be made for such
discharge), or a stay of execution thereof shall not be procured,
within 30 days from the date of entry thereof and the Company or the
relevant Subsidiary shall not, within such period of 30 days, or such
longer period during which execution of the same shall have been
stayed, appeal therefrom and cause the execution thereof to be stayed
during such appeal; or
(j) An event or condition specified in Section 8.8(g)(iii) or
(iv) hereof shall occur or exist with respect to any Plan or
Multiemployer Plan and, as a result of such event or condition,
together with all other such events or conditions, the Company or any
ERISA Affiliate shall incur or in the reasonable opinion of the
Majority Banks shall be reasonably likely to incur a liability (other
than a liability to make contributions in the ordinary course of
business) to a Plan, a Multiemployer Plan or the PBGC (or any
combination of the foregoing) which is, in the determination of the
Majority Banks, material in relation to the Consolidated financial
condition, operations, business or prospects taken as a whole of the
Company and the Consolidated Subsidiaries; or
(k) During any period of 25 consecutive calendar months, (i)
individuals who were directors of the Company on the first day of such
period, (ii) individuals who were elected or nominated to replace
directors who have retired, and (iii) other individuals whose election
or nomination by the Board of Directors of the Company was approved by
at least a majority of the Board of Directors of the Company who
either (x) were directors on the first day of such period, (y) whose
election or nomination was previously so approved, or (z) who were
elected or nominated to replace directors who had retired, shall no
longer constitute a majority of the Board of Directors of the Company;
or
(l) the aggregate Unfunded Vested Liabilities of the Company and
the ERISA Affiliates with respect to all Plans exceed the sum of (i)
the aggregate amounts by which all Plans are overfunded, plus (ii)
$8,000,000;
THEREUPON: (i) in the case of an Event of Default other than one
referred to in clause (g) or (h) of this Section 9.1 with respect to
the Company, the Administrative Agent may and, upon request of the
Majority Banks, shall, by notice to the Company, cancel the
Commitments or declare any or all of the Obligations (including any
amounts payable under Section 5.5 hereof) to be forthwith due and
payable, whereupon such amounts shall be immediately due and payable
without presentment, demand, protest, notice of demand or of dishonor,
notice of intention to accelerate, notice of acceleration, or any
other notice or other formalities of any kind, all of which are hereby
expressly waived by the Company; and (ii) in the case of the
occurrence of an Event of Default referred to in clause (g) or (h) of
this Section 9.1 with respect to the Company, the Commitments shall
automatically be cancelled and all of the Obligations (including any
amounts payable under Section 5.5 hereof) shall automatically become
immediately due and payable without presentment, demand, protest,
notice of demand or of dishonor, notice of intention to accelerate,
notice of acceleration, or any other notice or other formalities of
any kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived by the Company.
9.2 Cash Collateral Account. Without limiting its obligations
under Section 9.1 hereof, the Company hereby agrees that upon the
occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default it
shall, upon demand by the Majority Banks through the Administrative
Agent, pay (and in the case of any Event of Default specified in
paragraph (g) or (h) of Section 9.1 hereof with respect to the
Company, forthwith, without any demand or the taking of any other
action by any of the Bank Parties, pay) to the Administrative Agent an
amount in immediately available funds equal to the then aggregate
undrawn face amount of all Letters of Credit. All amounts received by
the Administrative Agent pursuant to this Section 9.2 (and all
investments of such amounts and earnings therein and proceeds thereof)
shall be held by the Administrative Agent in a cash collateral account
in the name of the Administrative Agent entitled "Crown Central
Petroleum Letter of Credit Cash Collateral Account" (the "Collateral
Account") as collateral for the prompt payment and performance when
due of all Letter of Credit Liabilities, and following the
satisfaction of all Letter of Credit Liabilities, as collateral for
all other Obligations. The balance in the Collateral Account from
time to time (including all earnings thereon and proceeds thereof)
shall be invested and reinvested by the Administrative Agent in the
name of the Administrative Agent in Temporary Cash Investments
(maturing not later than 15 days after the date acquired) as the
Company shall from time to time specify to the Administrative Agent
(failure by the Company to make any such specification being deemed a
specification to make an investment with NationsBank of a type
described in clause (e) of the definition herein of "Temporary Cash
Investments"), and the Company hereby authorizes and directs the
Administrative Agent to collect and receive any earnings and proceeds
of any such obligations and to credit the net amount of all such
receipts to the Collateral Account. If and to the extent so requested
by the Company from time to time, the Administrative Agent will debit
the Collateral Account (and liquidate any investments therein to the
extent necessary) in an amount equal to the excess, if any, of the
then outstanding balance in the Collateral Account over the then
aggregate outstanding amount of Letter of Credit Liabilities, and pay
such amount to the Company (by depositing the same in an account of
the Company maintained with NationsBank and designated by the
Company), provided that no such debit or payment shall be made if a
Default has occurred and is continuing or would result
therefrom.
When all of the Obligations shall have been paid in full and the
Commitments and all Letter of Credit Liabilities and all Letters of
Credit shall have expired or been terminated, the Administrative Agent
shall transfer to the Company (by depositing the same in an account of
the Company maintained with NationsBank and designated by the Company)
the then outstanding balance in the Collateral Account.
9.3 Indemnity. The Company agrees to indemnify each Indemnified
Party, upon demand, from and against any and all liabilities,
obligations, claims, losses, damages, penalties, fines, actions,
judgments, suits, settlements, costs, expenses or disbursements
(including reasonable fees of attorneys, accountants, experts and
advisors) of any kind or nature whatsoever (in this section
collectively called "liabilities and costs") which to any extent (in
whole or in part) may be imposed on, incurred by, or asserted against
such Indemnified Party growing out of, resulting from or in any other
way associated with any of the Loan Documents and the transactions and
events (including the enforcement or defense thereof) at any time
associated therewith or contemplated therein (including any violation
or noncompliance with any Environmental Laws by the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries or any liabilities or duties of the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries or of any Indemnified Party with respect to Hazardous
Materials found in or released into the environment).
THE FOREGOING INDEMNIFICATION SHALL APPLY WHETHER OR NOT SUCH
LIABILITIES AND COSTS ARE IN ANY WAY OR TO ANY EXTENT CAUSED, IN WHOLE
OR IN PART, BY ANY NEGLIGENT ACT OR OMISSION OF ANY KIND BY ANY
INDEMNIFIED PARTY, PROVIDED THAT NO INDEMNIFIED PARTY SHALL BE
ENTITLED UNDER THIS SECTION TO RECEIVE INDEMNIFICATION FOR THAT
PORTION, IF ANY, OF ANY LIABILITIES AND COSTS WHICH IS PROXIMATELY
CAUSED BY ITS OWN INDIVIDUAL GROSS NEGLIGENCE OR WILLFUL MISCONDUCT.
SECTION 10 The Administrative Agent and the Letter of Credit
Agent.
10.1 Appointment, Powers and Immunities. Each Bank hereby
irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the
Letter of Credit Agent to act as its agents hereunder and under the
Letter of Credit Documents with such powers as are specifically
delegated to each by the terms of this Agreement the Letter of Credit
Documents, and the other Loan Documents, together with such other
powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. The "Administrative/LC
Agents" (which term as used herein shall include the Administrative
Agent, the Letter of Credit Agent, their respective Affiliates, and
their own and their respective Affiliates' officers, directors,
employees, representatives and agents) and the Documentation Agent
(and its Affiliates and its own and its respective Affiliates'
officers, directors, employees, representatives and agents): (a) shall
have no duties or responsibilities except those expressly set forth in
this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and shall not by reason of
this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents be or be deemed a
fiduciary or trustee for any Bank; (b) shall not be responsible to the
Banks for any recitals, statements, representations or warranties
contained in this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, or in
any certificate or other document referred to or provided for in, or
received by any of them under, this Agreement or any other Loan
Document, or for the value, validity, effectiveness, genuineness,
enforceability or sufficiency of this Agreement, any other Loan
Document or any other document referred to or provided for herein or
for any failure by the Company or any other Person to perform any of
its obligations hereunder or thereunder; (c) shall not be required to
initiate or conduct any litigation or collection proceedings
hereunder; and (d) shall not be responsible for any action taken or
omitted to be taken by it hereunder or under any other document or
instrument referred to or provided for herein or in connection
herewith, except for its own gross negligence or willful misconduct.
Each of the Administrative Agent and the Letter of Credit Agent may
employ agents and attorneys-in-fact and shall not be responsible for
the negligence or misconduct of any such agents or attorneys-in-fact
selected by it in good faith. Each of the Administrative Agent and
the Letter of Credit Agent may deem and treat each Bank as the
beneficial holder of the Extensions of Credit made by it for all
purposes hereof unless and until a written notice of the assignment or
transfer thereof shall have been filed with it by such Bank, together
with the written consent of the Company to such assignment or
transfer.
10.2 Reliance. The Administrative Agent and the Letter of
Credit Agent shall be entitled to rely upon any certification, notice
or other communication (including any thereof by telephone, telex,
telegram or cable) believed by it to be genuine and correct and to
have been signed or sent by or on behalf of the proper Person or
Persons, and upon advice and statements of its legal counsel,
independent accountants and other experts selected by it. As to any
matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Loan
Documents, the Administrative Agent and the Letter of Credit Agent
shall in all cases be fully protected in acting, or in refraining from
acting, hereunder in accordance with instructions signed by the
Majority Banks, and such instructions of the Majority Banks and any
action taken or failure to act pursuant thereto shall be binding on
all of the Banks.
10.3 Defaults. Neither the Administrative Agent nor the Letter
of Credit Agent shall be deemed to have knowledge or notice of the
occurrence of a Default (other than the non-payment of any obligation
to the extent the same is required to be paid to it for the account of
the Banks) unless it has received notice from a Bank or the Company
specifying such Default and stating that such notice is a "Notice of
Default". In the event that either the Administrative Agent or the
Letter of Credit Agent receives such a notice of the occurrence of a
Default, it shall give prompt notice thereof to the Banks (and shall
give each Bank prompt notice of each such non-payment) and shall
(subject to Section 10.7 hereof) take such action with respect to such
Default as shall be directed by the Majority Banks, provided that,
unless and until it shall have received such directions, it may (but
shall not be obligated to) take such action, or refrain from taking
such action, with respect to such Default as it shall deem advisable
in the best interest of the Bank Parties.
10.4 Rights as a Bank. With respect to its Commitment and the
Extensions of Credit made by it, each Administrative/LC Agent and the
Documentation Agent shall, in its capacity as a Bank hereunder, have
the same rights and powers hereunder as any other Bank and may
exercise the same as though it were not acting as an Administrative/LC
Agent or the Documentation Agent, and the term "Bank" or "Banks"
shall, unless the context otherwise indicates, include each
Administrative/LC Agent and the Documentation Agent in its individual
capacity. Each Bank Party (and any successor thereto) and its
Affiliates may (without having to account therefor to any Bank) accept
deposits from, lend money to and generally engage in any kind of
banking, trust or other business with the Company (and any of its
Subsidiaries or Affiliates) as if it were not acting as an
Administrative/LC Agent, the Documentation Agent or a Bank, and each
Bank Party and its Subsidiaries or Affiliates may accept fees and
other consideration from the Company for services in connection with
this Agreement or otherwise without having to account for the same to
the Banks.
10.5 Indemnification. The Banks agree to indemnify the
Administrative/LC Agents (to the extent not reimbursed under Section
11.3 hereof, but without limiting the obligations of the Company under
such Section 11.3), ratably in accordance with their respective
Commitments, for any and all liabilities, obligations, losses,
damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or
disbursements of any kind and nature whatsoever which may be imposed
on, incurred by or asserted against either Administrative/LC Agent in
any way relating to or arising out of this Agreement or any Loan
Documents or other documents contemplated by or referred to herein or
the transactions contemplated hereby (including the costs and expenses
which the Company is obligated to pay under Section 11.3 hereof but
excluding, unless a Default has occurred and is continuing, normal
administrative costs and expenses incident to the performance of their
agency duties hereunder) or the enforcement of any of the terms hereof
or of any such other documents, provided that no Bank shall be liable
for any of the foregoing to the extent they arise from the gross
negligence or willful misconduct of the party to be indemnified.
10.6 Non-Reliance on other Bank Parties. Each Bank agrees that
it has, independently and without reliance on the Administrative/LC
Agents or any other Bank Party, and based on such documents and
information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit analysis
of the Company and its Subsidiaries and decision to enter into this
Agreement and that it will, independently and without reliance upon
the Administrative/LC Agents or any other Bank Party, and based on
such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the
time, continue to make its own analysis and decisions in taking or not
taking action under this Agreement. Neither Administrative/LC Agent
shall be required to keep itself informed as to the performance or
observance by the Company of this Agreement or any Loan Document or
other document referred to or provided for herein or to inspect the
properties or books of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries. Except
for notices, reports and other documents and information or expressly
required to be furnished to the Banks by either Administrative/LC
Agent hereunder, neither Administrative/LC Agent shall have any duty
or responsibility to provide any Bank with any credit or other
information concerning the affairs, financial condition or business of
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (or any of their affiliates)
which may come into the possession of such Administrative/LC Agent or
any of its Affiliates.
10.7 Failure to Act. Except for specific actions expressly
required of it hereunder or under any Letter of Credit Document, each
of the Administrative Agent, the Letter of Credit Agent and the
Documentation Agent shall in all cases be fully justified in failing
or refusing to act hereunder unless it shall receive further
assurances to its satisfaction from the Banks of their indemnification
obligations under Section 10.5 hereof against any and all liability
and expense which may be incurred by it by reason of taking or
continuing to take any such action.
10.8 Resignation or Removal. Subject to the appointment and
acceptance of a successor as provided below, either or both of the
Administrative Agent and the Letter of Credit Agent may resign at any
time by giving notice thereof to the Banks and the Company, and either
may be removed at any time with or without cause by the Majority
Banks, provided that the Letter of Credit Agent shall not be removed
as Letter of Credit Agent with respect to Letters of Credit issued by
it. Upon any such resignation or removal, the Majority Banks shall
have the right to appoint a successor Administrative Agent or Letter
of Credit Agent. If no successor shall have been so appointed by the
Majority Banks and shall have accepted such appointment within 30 days
after the retiring Administrative Agent or Letter of Credit Agent has
given its notice of resignation or after the Majority Banks have
removed such Administrative Agent or Letter of Credit Agent, then the
retiring or removed Administrative Agent or Letter of Credit Agent
may, on behalf of the Banks, appoint a successor, which shall be a
bank which has an office in the United States of America and which has
a combined capital and surplus of at least $500,000,000. Upon the
acceptance of any appointment as Administrative Agent or Letter of
Credit Agent hereunder by such a successor, such successor shall
thereupon succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers,
privileges and duties of the retiring Administrative Agent or Letter
of Credit Agent, and the retiring Administrative Agent or Letter of
Credit Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations
hereunder. After any retiring Administrative Agent or Letter of
Credit Agent's resignation or removal hereunder, the provisions of
this Section 10 shall continue in effect for its benefit in respect of
any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it while it was acting as
Administrative Agent or Letter of Credit Agent.
Notwithstanding the foregoing the same entity shall act as
Administrative Agent and Letter of Credit Agent. However, the
Company, the Administrative Agent and the Majority Banks may designate
a Bank or Banks to serve as co-Letter of Credit Agent which shall be
entitled to all of the rights and obligations of the Letter of Credit
Agent hereunder.
10.9 Documents. Each of the Administrative Agent and the Letter
of Credit Agent will forward to each Bank, promptly after its receipt
thereof, a copy of each report, notice or other document required by
this Agreement to be delivered to it for each Bank.
SECTION 11 Miscellaneous.
11.1 No Waiver. No failure on the part of any Bank Party to
exercise and no delay in exercising, and no course of dealing with
respect to, any right, power or privilege under this Agreement or any
other Loan Document shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any
single or partial exercise of any right, power or privilege under this
Agreement or any other Loan Document preclude any other or further
exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or
privilege. The remedies provided herein are cumulative and not
exclusive of any remedies provided by law.
11.2 Notices. All notices and other communications provided for
herein (including any modifications of, or waivers or consents under,
this Agreement) shall be given or made in writing (including by
telecopy or other facsimile transmission) and telecopied, mailed or
otherwise delivered (or telephoned, as the case may be) to the
intended recipient at the "Address for Notices" specified below its
name on the signature pages hereof; or, as to any party, at such other
address as shall be designated by such party in a notice to each other
party. Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, all such
communications shall be deemed to have been duly given when
transmitted by telecopier, personally delivered, or, in the case of a
notice sent by certified or registered United States mail, three days
after deposit in the mails, and in each case given or addressed as
aforesaid.
11.3 Expenses, Etc. The Company agrees to pay (or reimburse
each of the Bank Parties for paying): (a) all reasonable out-of-pocket
costs and expenses of the Administrative Agent or the Letter of Credit
Agent (including the reasonable fees and expenses of ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ &
▇▇▇▇▇▇, P.C., their counsel, as contemplated in a letter agreement of
even date herewith between the Company and the Administrative Agent)
in connection with (i) the negotiation, preparation, execution and
delivery of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and the making
of the Extensions of Credit hereunder and (ii) any amendment,
modification or waiver of any of the terms of this Agreement or any of
the other Loan Documents; (b) all reasonable costs and expenses of the
Bank Parties (including reasonable attorneys' fees) in connection with
the enforcement or defense of the Loan Documents and their rights and
remedies thereunder (including any determination of whether or how to
carry out such enforcement or defense) or in connection with any
workout or restructuring or any bankruptcy proceeding relating to the
Company, any Default, or any Loan Document; and (c) all transfer,
stamp, documentary or other similar taxes, assessments or charges
levied by any governmental or revenue authority in respect of this
Agreement, any of the other Loan Documents or any other document
referred to herein. If the Company fails to pay any expenses,
attorneys' fees or other amounts it is required to pay under any Loan
Document, the Administrative Agent may pay the same. The Company
shall immediately reimburse the Administrative Agent for any such
payments and each amount paid by the Administrative Agent shall
constitute an Obligation owed hereunder which is due and payable on
the date such amount is paid by the Administrative Agent. The Company
hereby promises to the Bank Parties to pay interest at the applicable
Post-Default Rate on all Obligations which the Company has in this
Agreement promised to pay (including Obligations to pay fees or to
reimburse or indemnify any Indemnified Party) and which are not paid
when due. Such interest shall accrue from the date such Obligations
become due until they are paid.
11.4 Whole Agreements, Amendments, Etc. The Loan Documents, and
the other agreements referred to in Section 2.5(d) hereof for the sole
purpose of determining the fees payable under such section and in no
other respect, set forth the entire agreement of the parties with
respect to the subject matter hereof and thereof and supersede all
previous understandings, written or oral, in respect thereof. Except
as otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement, any provision of
this Agreement may be amended, waived or otherwise modified only by an
instrument in writing signed by the Company, the Administrative Agent,
the Letter of Credit Agent, and the Majority Banks, or by the Company,
the Administrative Agent and the Letter of Credit Agent acting with
the consent of the Majority Banks; provided that no amendment, waiver
or modification shall, unless by an instrument signed by all of the
Banks or by the Administrative Agent acting with the consent of all of
the Banks: (i) except to the extent contemplated in Section 2.4(d)
hereof, increase the amount of the Commitments or extend the term of
the Commitments, or extend the time or waive any requirement for the
reduction or termination of the Commitments, (ii) extend the date
fixed for the payment or prepayment of principal of any Loan or
Reimbursement Obligation or interest on any Loan or Reimbursement
Obligation or any fees provided for herein, (iii) reduce the amount of
any payment or prepayment of principal of any Loan or Reimbursement
Obligation or the rate at which interest is payable thereon or any fee
is payable hereunder other than any fee payable to the Administrative
Agent or the Letter of Credit Agent for its own account, (iv) alter
the terms of this Section 11.4, (v) amend the definition herein of the
term "Majority Banks", or (vi) release any collateral which the
Administrative Agent or the Letter of Credit Agent may from time to
time hold on behalf of the Banks, except to the extent such release is
required under the Loan Documents under which such Collateral is held;
and provided, further, that any amendment, waiver or modification of
Section 10 hereof, or which affects the rights or obligations of the
Administrative Agent or the Letter of Credit Agent, shall require the
consent of such Person.
11.5 Survival After Closing; Severability. All of the Company's
(and any of its Subsidiaries') representations, warranties, covenants
and agreements in the Loan Documents shall survive the execution and
delivery of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and the
performance hereof and thereof, including the making of the Loans and
the delivery of the Notes and the other Loan Documents, and shall
further survive until all of the Obligations are paid in full to the
Bank Parties and this Agreement is terminated as provided in Section
11.7 hereof. If any term or provision of any Loan Document is ever
determined to be illegal or unenforceable, all other terms and
provisions of the Loan Documents shall nevertheless remain effective
and shall be enforced to the fullest extent permitted by applicable
law.
11.6 Assignments and Participations.
(a) This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the
benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and
permitted assigns.
(b) The Company may not assign its rights or obligations
hereunder or under the other Loan Documents without the prior consent
of all of the Bank Parties.
(c) A Bank may assign its Loans, its Notes, its rights or
obligations in respect of Letters of Credit or its Commitment but only
with the prior consent of the Company, the Administrative Agent and
the Letter of Credit Agent, provided that no such consent of the
Company shall be required after the Obligations have become due and
payable in full (by acceleration or otherwise) and further provided,
unless the Administrative Agent otherwise consents, each partial
assignment of a Bank's Loans, Notes, rights or obligations in respect
of Letters of Credit or Commitments shall (i) be in the amount of
$5,000,000 or a higher integral multiple of $1,000,000 and (ii)
consist of a ratable proportion of each of its Loans, Notes, rights
and obligations in respect of Letters of Credit and Commitments. The
Company shall not unreasonably withhold its consent to any request by
a Bank to make an assignment pursuant to the foregoing sentence. Upon
notice to the Company and the Administrative Agent of an assignment
permitted by the preceding sentence (which notice shall identify the
assignee, the amount of the assignor's Loans and Commitments and
obligations in respect of Letters of Credit assigned in detail
reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent), and upon the
effectiveness of any other assignment consented to by the Company, the
Administrative Agent and the Letter of Credit Agent, the assignee
shall have, to the extent of such assignment (unless otherwise
provided in such assignment with the consent of the Company, the
Administrative Agent and the Letter of Credit Agent), the obligations,
rights and benefits of a Bank hereunder holding the Loans and
Commitments and obligations in respect of Letters of Credit (or
portions thereof) assigned to it (in addition to the Loans and
Commitments and obligations in respect of Letters of Credit, if any,
theretofore held by such assignee) and the assigning Bank shall, to
the extent of such assignment, be released from the Commitments and
obligations in respect of Letters of Credit (or portions thereof) so
assigned. The assignor Bank shall pay an assignment fee of $3,500 to
the Administrative Agent at the time of each assignment or partial
assignment under this subsection (c).
(d) A Bank may sell to one or more other Persons (herein called
"Participants") a participation in all or any part of any Loans or
Letter of Credit Liabilities held by it, provided that no Participant
shall have any rights under or with respect to this Agreement, any
other Loan Document or any Reimbursement Obligation of the Company (a
Participant's rights against such Bank in respect of such
participation to be those set forth in the agreement (in this section
the "Participation Agreement") executed by such Bank in favor of the
Participant), and such Bank shall not be relieved of any of its
obligations hereunder to the other parties hereto. All amounts
payable by the Company to any Bank hereunder (including under Section
5 hereof) shall be determined as if such Bank had not sold any
participations and as if such Bank were funding each Loan and Letter
of Credit Liability in which participations have been sold in the same
way that it is funding the portion of such Loan in which no
participations have been sold. In no event shall a Bank that sells a
participation be or become obligated to the Participant under the
Participation Agreement to take or refrain from taking any action
hereunder or under any other Loan Document (including granting
approval of any amendment or waiver) except that such Bank may agree
in the Participation Agreement that it will not, without the consent
of the Participant, agree to (i) the extension of any date fixed for
the payment of principal of or interest on or other amount payable
with respect to such Bank's Loans or Letter of Credit Liabilities,
(ii) the reduction of any such payment, or (iii) the reduction of the
rate at which either interest is payable thereon or (if the
Participant is entitled to any part thereof) fees are payable
hereunder to a level below the rate at which the Participant is
entitled to receive interest or fees in respect of such participation.
(e) In addition to the assignments and participations permitted
under the foregoing provisions of this Section 11.6, any Bank may
assign and pledge all or any portion of its Loans and its Notes to any
Federal Reserve Bank as collateral security pursuant to Regulation A
and any Operating Circular issued by such Federal Reserve Bank. No
such assignment shall release the assigning Bank from its obligations
hereunder.
11.7 Termination; Limited Survival. In its sole and absolute
discretion the Company may -- at any time when all of the Commitments
have been terminated, no Letters of Credit are in effect, and all
Obligations have been paid in full -- elect in a written notice
delivered to the Administrative Agent to terminate this Agreement.
Upon receipt by the Administrative Agent of such a notice at such a
time, this Agreement and all other Loan Documents shall thereupon be
terminated and the parties hereto and thereto released from all
prospective obligations thereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing or
anything herein to the contrary, any waivers or admissions made by the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries in any Loan Document, any
Obligations under Sections 5.1, 5.5, 5.6, 9.3, 10.5, or 11.3 hereof,
and any other obligations which any Person may have to indemnify or
compensate any Bank Party or any Indemnified Party shall survive any
termination of this Agreement or any other Loan Document. At the
request and expense of the Company, the Administrative Agent shall
prepare and execute all necessary instruments to reflect and effect
such termination of the Loan Documents. The Administrative Agent is
hereby authorized to execute all such instruments on behalf of all
Banks, without the joinder of or further action by any Bank.
11.8 Acknowledgements and Admissions. The Company hereby
represents, warrants, acknowledges and admits that (a) it has made an
independent decision to enter into this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents to which it is a party, without reliance on any
representation, warranty, covenant or undertaking by any Bank Party,
whether written, oral or implicit, other than as expressly set out in
this Agreement or in another Loan Document, (b) there are no
representations, warranties, covenants, undertakings or agreements by
any Bank Party as to the Loan Documents except as expressly set out in
this Agreement or in another Loan Document, (c) no Bank Party has any
fiduciary obligation toward the Company with respect to any Loan
Document or the transactions contemplated thereby, and the
Administrative Agent, the Letter of Credit Agent and the Documentation
Agent are not the Company's agents but are agents for the Banks, and
(d) no partnership or joint venture exists with respect to the Loan
Documents between the Company and any of the Bank Parties.
11.9 Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number
of counterparts, all of which taken together shall constitute one and
the same instrument and any of the parties hereto may execute this
Agreement by signing any such counterpart.
11.10 Governing Law; Submission to Jurisdiction. This Agreement
and the Notes shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with,
the law of the State of Texas. The Company hereby submits to the
nonexclusive jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the
Northern District of Texas and of any Texas State Court sitting in
Dallas, for the purposes of all legal proceedings arising out of or
relating to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby.
The Company irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by
law, any objection which it may now or hereafter have to the laying of
the venue of any such proceeding brought in such a court and any claim
that any such proceeding brought in such a court has been brought in
an inconvenient forum. The Company hereby irrevocably appoints the
Process Agent as its agent to receive on behalf of the Company and its
property service of copies of the summons and complaint and any other
process which may be served in any such action or proceeding. Such
service may be made by mailing or delivering a copy of such process to
the Company in care of the Process Agent at the Process Agent's
address specified below, and the Company hereby irrevocably authorizes
and directs the Process Agent to accept such service on its behalf.
As an alternative method of service, the Company also irrevocably
consents to the service of any and all process in any such action or
proceeding by the mailing of copies of such process to the Company at
its address specified in Section 11.2 hereof. For the purpose of this
Agreement, the Process Agent's address is c/o CSC-Lawyers
Incorporating Service Company, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇., ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇,
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11.11 WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. EACH OF THE COMPANY AND THE BANK
PARTIES HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY
LAW, ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING
ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS
CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.
11.12 Confidentiality. Each Bank Party agrees (on behalf of
itself and each of its Affiliates, directors, officers, employees and
representatives) to use reasonable precautions to keep confidential,
in accordance with their customary procedures for handling
confidential information of this nature and in accordance with safe
and sound banking practices, any non-public information supplied to it
by the Company pursuant to this Agreement which is identified by the
Company as being confidential at the time the same is delivered to the
Bank Parties, provided that nothing herein shall limit the disclosure
of any such information (i) to the extent required by statute, rule,
regulation or judicial process, (ii) to counsel for any of the Bank
Parties, (iii) to bank examiners, auditors or accountants, (iv) to any
other Bank Party or any Affiliate of any Bank Party, (v) in connection
with any litigation in connection with this Agreement or the
transaction contemplated hereby to which any one or more of the Bank
Parties is a party, (vi) to any assignee or Participant (or
prospective assignee or Participant) so long as such assignee or
Participant (or prospective assignee or Participant) first executes
and delivers to the respective Bank a confidentiality agreement having
substantially the same terms as this Section 11.12 or (vii) to the
extent that such information is obtained from a source other than the
Company (whether before or after receipt of such information from the
Company) on a non-confidential basis; provided, further, that, unless
specifically prohibited by applicable law or court order, each Bank
shall, prior to disclosure thereof, notify the Company of any request
for disclosure of any such non-public information (1) by any
governmental agency or representative thereof (other than any such
request in connection with an examination of the financial condition
of such Bank by such governmental agency) or (2) pursuant to legal
process; and provided, finally, that in no event shall any Bank Party
be obligated or required to return any materials furnished by the
Company. The provisions this Section 11.12 shall survive the
repayment of the Obligations and the termination of the Commitments.
11.13 Replacement of Banks. If any Bank (a) requests
compensation pursuant to Section 5.1 or Section 5.6 hereof, or such
Bank's obligation to make Eurodollar Loans shall be suspended pursuant
to Section 5.2 or 5.3 hereof, or (b) does not agree to extend its
Commitment Termination Date pursuant to request by the Company as
contemplated by Section 2.4(d) hereof, the Company, upon not less than
three Business Days prior notice to such Bank (with a copy to the
Administrative Agent), may require that such Bank assign (in which
case such Bank shall assign) as provided in Section 11.6(b) hereof,
all (but not less than all) of its Loans and Commitment to another
bank or banks (which may be "Banks" hereunder) specified in such
notice that are willing to accept such assignment (and are acceptable
to the Administrative Agent and the Letter of Credit Agent) for an
amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such Bank's Loans
then outstanding and interest thereon accrued to the date of the
consummation of such assignment and pursuant to documentation
reasonably acceptable to such Bank, provided that the Company shall
pay to such Bank upon consummation of such assignment (i) such amounts
(if any) as are then payable to such Bank under Section 5 hereof
including the amounts (if any) the Company would be required to pay to
such Bank under Section 5.5 hereof if the Loans assigned by it were
being prepaid by the Company, (ii) the commitment fee payable for the
account of such Bank pursuant to Section 2.5 hereof accrued to the
date such Bank's Commitment is assigned in full pursuant to this
Section 11.13, and (iii) all other amounts then payable by the Company
to or for the account of such Bank hereunder (other than the principal
of and interest on its Loans).
11.14 Limitation on Interest. Bank Parties, the Company and any
other parties to the Loan Documents intend to contract in strict
compliance with applicable usury law from time to time in effect. In
furtherance thereof such Persons stipulate and agree that none of the
terms and provisions contained in the Loan Documents shall ever be
construed to create a contract to pay, for the use, forbearance or
detention of money, interest in excess of the maximum amount of
interest permitted to be charged by applicable law from time to time
in effect. Neither the Company nor any present or future guarantors,
endorsers, or other Persons hereafter becoming liable for payment of
any Obligation shall ever be liable for unearned interest thereon or
shall ever be required to pay interest thereon in excess of the
maximum amount that may be lawfully charged under applicable law from
time to time in effect, and the provisions of this section shall
control over all other provisions of the Loan Documents which may be
in conflict or apparent conflict herewith. Bank Parties expressly
disavow any intention to charge or collect excessive unearned interest
or finance charges in the event the maturity of any Obligation is
accelerated. If (a) the maturity of any Obligation is accelerated for
any reason, (b) any Obligation is prepaid and as a result any amounts
held to constitute interest are determined to be in excess of the
legal maximum, or (c) any Bank Party or any other holder of any or all
of the Obligations shall otherwise collect moneys which are determined
to constitute interest which would otherwise increase the interest on
any or all of the Obligations to an amount in excess of that permitted
to be charged by applicable law then in effect, then all sums
determined to constitute interest in excess of such legal limit shall,
without penalty, be promptly applied to reduce the then outstanding
principal of the related Obligations or, at such Bank Party's or
holder's option, promptly returned to the Company or the other payor
thereof upon such determination. In determining whether or not the
interest paid or payable, under any specific circumstance, exceeds the
maximum amount permitted under applicable law, Bank Parties and the
Company (and any other payors thereof) shall to the greatest extent
permitted under applicable law, (a) characterize any non-principal
payment as an expense, fee or premium rather than as interest, (b)
exclude voluntary prepayments and the effects thereof, and (c)
amortize, prorate, allocate, and spread the total amount of interest
throughout the entire contemplated term of the instruments evidencing
the Obligations in accordance with the amounts outstanding from time
to time thereunder and the maximum legal rate of interest from time to
time in effect under applicable law in order to lawfully charge the
maximum amount of interest permitted under applicable law. In the
event applicable law provides for an interest ceiling under Texas
Revised Civil Statutes Annotated article 5069-1.04, that ceiling shall
be the indicated rate ceiling and shall be used when appropriate in
determining the Highest Lawful Rate. As used in this section the term
"applicable Law" means the Laws of the State of Texas or the Laws of
the United States of America, whichever Laws allow the greater
interest, as such Laws now exist or may be changed or amended or come
into effect in the future.
11.15 Restatement. This Agreement restates and amends the
Original Agreement in its entirety effective as of the date hereof,
and all terms and provisions hereof shall supersede the terms and
provisions thereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement
to be duly executed as of the day and year first above written.
CROWN CENTRAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION
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Executive Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer
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Commitment
$16,750,000 NATIONSBANK OF TEXAS, N.A.,
as Administrative Agent, Letter of Credit Agent
and a Bank
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Senior Vice President
Lending Office for all Loans
and Address for all Notices:
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with a copy to:
NationsBank Center
Energy Finance Division
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with a copy (for all matters in respect of
Letters of Credit) to the attention of:
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Commitment
$16,750,000 BANKBOSTON, N.A.,
as Documentation Agent and a Bank
By: /s/--J. R. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, Jr.
Name: J. R. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, Jr.
Title: Director
Energy and Utilities
Lending Office for All Loans
and Address for Notices:
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Mail Code 01-08-04
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Commitment
$16,500,000 FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF MARYLAND, as a Bank
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Name: ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: Vice President
Lending Office for All Loans
and Address for Notices:
Maryland Division
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18th Floor, 101-744
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Commitment
$15,000,000 SIGNET BANK, as a Bank
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Name: ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: Vice President
Lending Office for All Loans
and Address for Notices:
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Commitment
$15,000,000 DEN NORSKE BANK ASA, as a Bank
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Title: Senior Vice President
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Title: First Vice President
Lending Office for All Loans
and Address for Notices:
Attn: Customer Services
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Commitment
$10,000,000 HIBERNIA NATIONAL BANK, as a Bank
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Name: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇
Title: Vice President
Lending Office for All Loans
and Address for Notices:
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Commitment
$10,000,000 CRESTAR BANK, as a Bank
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Name: ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: Vice President
Lending Office for All Loans
and Address for Notices:
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Commitment
$10,000,000 PNC BANK, N.A., as a Bank
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Name: ▇▇▇▇ ▇. Way
Title: Commercial Banking Officer
Lending Office for All Loans
and Address for Notices:
One PNC Plaza 3-3
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