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EXHIBIT 4.1
INDENTURE
between
IMC HOME EQUITY LOAN OWNER TRUST 1997-6,
as Issuer
and
THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK,
as Indenture Trustee
Dated as of October 1, 1997
IMC HOME EQUITY LOAN OWNER TRUST 1997-6
Adjustable Rate Home Equity Loan Asset Backed Notes, Series 1997-6
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
SECTION 1.1 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
SECTION 1.2 Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
ARTICLE II
THE NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
SECTION 2.1 Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
SECTION 2.2 Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
SECTION 2.3 Registration; Registration of Transfer and Exchange. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
SECTION 2.4 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
SECTION 2.5 Persons Deemed Owners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
SECTION 2.6 Payment of Principal and Interest; Defaulted Interest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
SECTION 2.7 Cancellation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
SECTION 2.8 Authentication of Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
SECTION 2.9 Release of Collateral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
SECTION 2.10 Book-Entry Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
SECTION 2.11 Notices to Clearing Agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
SECTION 2.12 Definitive Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
SECTION 2.13 Tax Treatment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
ARTICLE III
COVENANTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
SECTION 3.1 Payment of Principal and Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
SECTION 3.2 Maintenance of Office or Agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
SECTION 3.3 Money for Payments To Be Held in Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
SECTION 3.4 Existence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
SECTION 3.5 Protection of Collateral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
SECTION 3.6 Annual Opinions as to Collateral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
SECTION 3.7 Performance of Obligations; Servicing of Home Equity Loans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
SECTION 3.8 Negative Covenants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
SECTION 3.9 Annual Statement as to Compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
SECTION 3.10 Covenants of the Issuer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
SECTION 3.11 Reserved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
SECTION 3.12 Restricted Payments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
SECTION 3.13 Treatment of Notes as Debt for Tax Purposes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
SECTION 3.14 Notice of Events of Default . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
SECTION 3.15 Further Instruments and Acts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
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ARTICLE IV
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
SECTION 4.1 Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
SECTION 4.2 Application of Trust Money . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
SECTION 4.3 Repayment of Moneys Held by Paying Agent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
ARTICLE V
REMEDIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
SECTION 5.1 Events of Default. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
SECTION 5.2 Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
SECTION 5.3 Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Indenture Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
SECTION 5.4 Remedies; Priorities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
SECTION 5.5 Optional Preservation of the Collateral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
SECTION 5.6 Limitation of Suits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
SECTION 5.7 Unconditional Rights of Owners To Receive Principal and Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
SECTION 5.8 Restoration of Rights and Remedies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
SECTION 5.9 Rights and Remedies Cumulative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
SECTION 5.10 Delay or Omission Not a Waiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
SECTION 5.11 Control by Owners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
SECTION 5.12 Waiver of Past Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
SECTION 5.13 Undertaking for Costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
SECTION 5.14 Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
SECTION 5.15 Action on Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
SECTION 5.16 Performance and Enforcement of Certain Obligations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
ARTICLE VI
THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
SECTION 6.1 Duties of Indenture Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
SECTION 6.2 Rights of Indenture Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
SECTION 6.3 Individual Rights of Indenture Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
SECTION 6.4 Indenture Trustee's Disclaimer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
SECTION 6.5 Notice of Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
SECTION 6.6 Reports by Indenture Trustee to Owners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
SECTION 6.7 Compensation and Indemnity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
SECTION 6.8 Replacement of Indenture Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
SECTION 6.9 Successor Indenture Trustee by Merger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
SECTION 6.10 Appointment of Co-Indenture Trustee or Separate Indenture Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
SECTION 6.11 Eligibility; Disqualification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
SECTION 6.12 Preferential Collection of Claims Against Issuer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
ARTICLE VII
OWNERS' LISTS AND REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
SECTION 7.1 Issuer To Furnish Indenture Trustee Names and Addresses of Owners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
SECTION 7.2 Preservation of Information; Communications to Owners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
SECTION 7.3 Reports by Issuer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
SECTION 7.4 Reports by Indenture Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
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ARTICLE VIII
ACCOUNTS, DISBURSEMENTS AND RELEASES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
SECTION 8.1 Collection of Money . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
SECTION 8.2 Accounts; Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
SECTION 8.3 General Provisions Regarding Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
SECTION 8.4 Servicer's Monthly Statements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
SECTION 8.5 Release of Collateral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
SECTION 8.6 Opinion of Counsel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
ARTICLE IX
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
SECTION 9.1 Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Owners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
SECTION 9.2 Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Owners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
SECTION 9.3 Execution of Supplemental Indentures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
SECTION 9.4 Effect of Supplemental Indenture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
SECTION 9.5 Conformity with Trust Indenture Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
SECTION 9.6 Reference in Notes to Supplemental Indentures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
SECTION 9.7 Amendments to Trust Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
ARTICLE X
REDEMPTION OF NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
SECTION 10.1 Redemption. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
SECTION 10.2 Form of Redemption Notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
SECTION 10.3 Notes Payable on Redemption Date; Provision for Payment of Indenture
Trustee and Note Insurer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
ARTICLE XI
MISCELLANEOUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
SECTION 11.1 Compliance Certificates and Opinions, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
SECTION 11.2 Form of Documents Delivered to Indenture Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
SECTION 11.3 Acts of Owners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
SECTION 11.4 Notices, etc., to Indenture Trustee, Issuer, Rating Agencies and Note Insurer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
SECTION 11.5 Notices to Owners; Waiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
SECTION 11.6 [RESERVED] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
SECTION 11.7 Conflict with Trust Indenture Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
SECTION 11.8 Effect of Headings and Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
SECTION 11.9 Successors and Assigns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
SECTION 11.10 Separability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
SECTION 11.11 Benefits of Indenture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
SECTION 11.12 Legal Holidays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
SECTION 11.13 Governing Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
SECTION 11.14 Counterparts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
SECTION 11.15 Recording of Indenture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
SECTION 11.16 Trust Obligation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
SECTION 11.17 No Petition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
SECTION 11.18 Inspection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
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SECTION 11.19 Grant of Owner Rights to Note Insurer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
SECTION 11.20 Third Party Beneficiary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
SECTION 11.21 Suspension and Termination of Note Insurer's Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
EXHIBITS:
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SCHEDULE A - Schedule of Home Equity Loans
EXHIBIT A - Form of Note
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INDENTURE (this "Indenture" or this "Agreement") dated as of October
1, 1997, between IMC HOME EQUITY LOAN OWNER TRUST 1997-6, a Delaware business
trust (the "Issuer"), and THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK, a New York banking
corporation, as trustee and not in its individual capacity (the "Indenture
Trustee").
Each party agrees as follows for the benefit of the other party and
for the equal and ratable benefit of the Owners of the Notes and the Note
Insurer.
GRANTING CLAUSE
Subject to the terms of this Indenture, the Issuer hereby Grants to
the Indenture Trustee on the Closing Date, as Indenture Trustee for the benefit
of the Owners of the Notes and the Note Insurer, all of the Issuer's right,
title and interest in and to: (i) the Trust Estate; (ii) all right, title and
interest of the Issuer in the Sale and Servicing Agreement (including the
Issuer's right to cause the Seller to repurchase Home Equity Loans from the
Issuer under certain circumstances described therein); (iii) all present and
future claims, demands, causes of action and choses in action in respect of any
or all of the foregoing and all payments on or under and all proceeds of every
kind and nature whatsoever in respect of any or all of the foregoing, including
all proceeds of the conversion thereof, voluntary or involuntary, into cash or
other liquid property, all cash proceeds, accounts, accounts receivable, notes,
drafts, acceptances, chattel paper, checks, deposit accounts, insurance
proceeds, condemnation awards, rights to payment of any and every kind and
other forms of obligations and receivables, instruments and other property
which at any time constitute all or part of or are included in the proceeds of
any of the foregoing; (iv) all funds on deposit from time to time in the
Accounts (including the Note Account) and (v) all other property of the Trust
from time to time (collectively, the "Collateral").
The foregoing Grant is made in trust to secure the payment of
principal of and interest on, and any other amounts owing in respect of, the
Notes, equally and ratably without prejudice, priority or distinction, and to
secure compliance with the provisions of this Indenture, all as provided in
this Indenture.
The Indenture Trustee, as Indenture Trustee on behalf of the Owners of
the Notes and the Note Insurer, acknowledges such Grant, accepts the trusts
hereunder and agrees to perform its duties required in this Indenture to the
best of its ability to the end that the interests of the Owners of the Notes
and the Note Insurer may be adequately and effectively protected. The
Indenture Trustee agrees and acknowledges that the Files will be held by the
Custodian, as agent of the Indenture Trustee, in trust, for the use and benefit
of the Issuer, the Note Insurer and all present and future Owners of the Notes
in Tampa, Florida. The Indenture Trustee further agrees and acknowledges that
each other item of Collateral that is physically delivered to the Indenture
Trustee will be held by the Indenture Trustee in New York, New York.
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
SECTION 1.1 (a) Definitions. Except as otherwise specified herein or
as the context may otherwise require, the following terms have the respective
meanings set forth below for all purposes of this Indenture.
"Act": The meaning specified in Section 11.3(a) hereof.
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"Affiliate": With respect to any specified Person, any other Person
controlling or controlled by or under common control with such specified
Person. For the purposes of this definition, "control" when used with respect
to any Person means the power to direct the management and policies of such
Person, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting
securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms "controlling" and
"controlled" have meanings correlative to the foregoing.
"Authorized Officer": With respect to the Issuer, any officer of the
Owner Trustee who is authorized to act for the Owner Trustee in matters
relating to the Issuer and who is identified on the list of Authorized Officers
delivered by the Owner Trustee to the Indenture Trustee on the Closing Date (as
such list may be modified or supplemented from time to time thereafter).
"Book-Entry Notes": A beneficial interest in the Notes, the ownership
and transfer of which shall be made through book entries by a Clearing Agency
as described in Section 2.10.
"Book-Entry Owner": With respect to a Book-Entry Note, the Person who
is the beneficial owner of such Book-Entry Note, as reflected on the books of
the Clearing Agency or on the books of a Person maintaining an account with
such Clearing Agency (directly as a Clearing Agency Participant or as an
indirect participant, in each case in accordance with the rules of such
Clearing Agency).
"Business Day": Any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or a day on
which commercial banking institutions in The City of New York, Tampa, Florida,
the city in which the Corporate Trust Office is located or the city in which
the principal office of the Note Insurer is located are authorized or obligated
by law or executive order to be closed.
"Certificate of Trust": The certificate of trust of the Issuer
substantially in the form of Exhibit A to the Trust Agreement.
"Clearing Agency": An organization registered as a "clearing agency"
pursuant to Section 17A of the Exchange Act.
"Clearing Agency Participant": A broker, dealer, bank, other
financial institution or other Person for whom from time to time a Clearing
Agency effects book-entry transfers and pledges of securities deposited with
the Clearing Agency.
"Closing Date": October 23, 1997.
"Code": The Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to
time, and the Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder.
"Collateral": The meaning specified in the Granting Clause of this
Indenture.
"Corporate Trust Office": The principal office of the Indenture
Trustee at which at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be
administered, which office at date of execution of this Agreement is located at
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Structured Financial Services, or at such other address as the Indenture
Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Owners and the Issuer,
or the principal corporate trust office of any successor Indenture Trustee at
the
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address designated by such successor Indenture Trustee by notice to the Owners,
the Note Insurer and the Issuer.
"Default": Any occurrence that is, or with notice or the lapse of
time or both would become, an Event of Default.
"Definitive Notes": The meaning specified in Section 2.12.
"Depositor": IMC Securities, Inc., a Delaware corporation.
"Event of Default": The meaning specified in Section 5.1 hereof.
"Exchange Act": The Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
"Final Payment Date": January 20, 2028
"Grant": To mortgage, pledge, bargain, sell, warrant, alienate,
remise, release, convey, assign, transfer, create, and ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇ ▇▇▇▇ upon and a
security interest in and right of set-off against, deposit, set over and
confirm pursuant to this Indenture. A Grant of the Collateral or of any other
agreement or instrument shall include all rights, powers and options (but none
of the obligations) of the granting party thereunder, including the immediate
and continuing right to claim for, collect, receive and give receipt for
principal and interest payments in respect of the Collateral and all other
moneys payable thereunder, to give and receive notices and other
communications, to make waivers or other agreements, to exercise all rights and
options, to bring Proceedings in the name of the granting party or otherwise,
and generally to do and receive anything that the granting party is or may be
entitled to do or receive thereunder or with respect thereto.
"Indenture Trustee": The Chase Manhattan Bank, a New York banking
corporation, as Indenture Trustee under this Indenture, or any successor
Indenture Trustee under this Indenture.
"Independent": When used with respect to any specified Person, that
the Person (a) is in fact independent of the Issuer, any other obligor on the
Notes, the Depositor, the Seller and any Affiliate of any of the foregoing
Persons, (b) does not have any direct financial interest or any material
indirect financial interest in the Issuer, any such other obligor, the
Depositor, the Seller or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons and (c)
is not connected with the Issuer, any such other obligor, the Depositor, the
Seller or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons as an officer,
employee, promoter, underwriter, trustee, partner, director or person
performing similar functions.
"Independent Certificate": A certificate or opinion to be delivered
to the Indenture Trustee under the circumstances described in, and otherwise
complying with, the applicable requirements of Section 11.1, made by an
Independent appraiser or other expert appointed by an Issuer Order and
approved by the Indenture Trustee in the exercise of reasonable care, and such
opinion or certificate shall state that the signer has read the definition of
"Independent" in this Indenture and that the signer is Independent within the
meaning thereof.
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"Issuer": IMC Home Equity Loan Owner Trust 1997-6 until a successor
replaces it and, thereafter, means the successor and, for purposes of any
provision contained herein and required by the TIA, each other obligor on the
Notes.
"Issuer Order" and "Issuer Request": A written order or request
signed in the name of the Issuer by any one of its Authorized Officers and
delivered to the Indenture Trustee.
"Moody's": ▇▇▇▇▇'▇ Investor Service, Inc., or any successor thereto.
"Note": The Issuer's Adjustable Rate Home Equity Loan Asset Backed
Notes, Series 1997-6, substantially in the Form of Exhibit A hereto.
"Note Register" and "Note Registrar": The respective meanings
specified in Section 2.3.
"Officer's Certificate": A certificate signed by any Authorized
Officer of the Issuer, under the circumstances described in, and otherwise
complying with, the applicable requirements of Section 11.1, and delivered to
the Indenture Trustee.
"Opinion of Counsel": One or more written opinions of counsel who
may, except as otherwise expressly provided in this Indenture, be employees of
or counsel to the Issuer and who shall be satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee
and the Note Insurer, and which opinion or opinions shall be addressed to the
Indenture Trustee, as Indenture Trustee, and the Note Insurer and shall comply
with any applicable requirements of Section 11.1 and shall be in form and
substance satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee and the Note Insurer.
"Outstanding": With respect to any Note and as of the date of
determination, any Note theretofore authenticated and delivered under this
Indenture except:
(i) Notes theretofore canceled by the Note Registrar or
delivered to the Note Registrar for cancellation;
(ii) Notes or portions thereof the payment for which money in
the necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the Indenture
Trustee or any Paying Agent in trust for the Owners of such Notes
(provided, however, that if such Notes are to be redeemed, notice of
such redemption has been duly given pursuant to this Indenture or
provision for such notice has been made, satisfactory to the Indenture
Trustee);
(iii) Notes in exchange for or in lieu of which other Notes
have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture
unless proof satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee is presented that
any such Notes are held by a bona fide purchaser; provided, that in
determining whether the Owners of the requisite Outstanding Amount of
the Notes have given any request, demand, authorization, direction,
notice, consent, or waiver hereunder or under any Operative Document,
Notes owned by the Issuer, any other obligor upon the Notes, the
Depositor, the Seller or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons
shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in
determining whether the Indenture Trustee shall be protected in
relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction,
notice, consent, or waiver, only Notes that the
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Indenture Trustee knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded. Notes
so owned that have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as
Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the
Indenture Trustee the pledgee's right so to act with respect to such
Notes and that the pledgee is not the Issuer, any other obligor upon
the Notes, the Depositor, the Seller or any Affiliate of any of the
foregoing Persons;
(iv) Notes alleged to have been destroyed, lost or stolen for
which replacement Notes have been issued as provided for in Section
2.4 thereof; and
(v) Notes as to which the Indenture Trustee has made the
final distribution thereon, whether or not such Notes are ever
returned to the Indenture Trustee.
"Outstanding Amount": The aggregate principal amount of all Notes
that are Outstanding at the date of determination.
"Owner": The Person in whose name a Note is registered on the Note
Register; provided that the exercise of any rights of such Owner under this
Indenture shall at all times be subject to Section 11.19 hereto.
"Owner Trustee": Wilmington Trust Company, not in its individual
capacity but solely as Owner Trustee under the Trust Agreement, or any
successor Owner Trustee under the Trust Agreement.
"Paying Agent": The Indenture Trustee or any other Person that meets
the eligibility standards for the Indenture Trustee specified in Section 6.1
and is authorized by the Issuer to make payments to and distributions from the
Note Account, including payment of principal of or interest on the Notes on
behalf of the Issuer.
"Payment Date": The 20th day of any month or if such day is not a
Business Day, the next Business Day thereafter, commencing in November 1997.
"Predecessor Note": With respect to any particular Note, every
previous Note evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by
such particular Note; and, for the purpose of this definition, any Note
authenticated and delivered under Section 2.4 in lieu of a mutilated, lost,
destroyed or stolen Note shall be deemed to evidence the same debt as the
mutilated, lost, destroyed or stolen Note.
"Proceeding": Any suit in equity, action at law or other judicial or
administrative proceeding.
"Rating Agency": Either or both of (i) Standard & Poor's or (ii)
Moody's. If no such organization or successor is any longer in existence,
"Rating Agency" shall be a nationally recognized statistical rating
organization or other comparable Person designated by the Note Insurer, notice
of which designation shall be given to the Issuer, the Depositor, the Indenture
Trustee, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer.
"Rating Agency Condition": With respect to any action to which a
Rating Agency Condition applies, that each Rating Agency shall have been given
10 days (or such shorter period as is acceptable to each Rating Agency) prior
notice thereof and that each of the Rating Agencies shall have notified the
Depositor, the Seller, the Servicer, the Note Insurer and the Issuer in writing
that such action will not result in a reduction or withdrawal of the then
current rating of the Notes.
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"Record Date": With respect to any Payment Date, the last Business
Day immediately preceding such Payment Date.
"Redemption Price": In the case of a redemption of the Notes pursuant
to Section 10.1, an amount equal to the unpaid principal amount of the Notes
redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon at the Note Rate to but
excluding the Redemption Date, plus any unpaid Trust Fees and Expenses and all
other amounts owed to the Note Insurer pursuant to the Insurance Agreement.
"Registered Owner": The Person in whose name a Note is registered on
the Note Register on the applicable Record Date.
"Responsible Officer": With respect to the Indenture Trustee, any
officer within the Corporate Trust Office of the Indenture Trustee, including
any Vice President, Assistant Vice President, Assistant Treasurer, Assistant
Secretary or any other officer of the Indenture Trustee customarily performing
functions similar to those performed by any of the above designated officers
and also, with respect to a particular matter, any other officer to whom such
matter is referred because of such officer's knowledge of and familiarity with
the particular subject.
"Sale and Servicing Agreement": The Sale and Servicing Agreement
dated as of October 1, 1997, among the Issuer, IMC Securities, Inc., as
Depositor, IMC Mortgage Company, as Seller and Servicer, and the Indenture
Trustee, as Indenture Trustee.
"Securities Act": The Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
"Seller": IMC Mortgage Company, in its capacity as seller under the
Sale and Servicing Agreement, and its successor in interest.
"Servicer": IMC Mortgage Company, in its capacity as servicer under
the Sale and Servicing Agreement, and any Successor Servicer thereunder.
"Standard & Poor's": Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, a division
of The ▇▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇ Companies, Inc.
"State": Any one of the ▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇ ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ or
the District of Columbia.
"Successor Servicer": The meaning specified in Section 3.7(e).
"Trust Estate": The assets subject to this Agreement, the Sale and
Servicing Agreement, any Subsequent Transfer Agreement and the Trust Agreement
and assigned to the Trust, which assets consist of (a) the Initial Home Equity
Loans listed in Schedule I to the Sale and Servicing Agreement, including the
related Files that the Seller and the Depositor cause to be delivered to the
Indenture Trustee, all payments of principal received, collected or otherwise
recovered after the Cut-Off Date for each Initial Home Equity Loan (other than
any principal payments due thereon on or prior to the Cut-Off Date), all
payments of interest accruing on each Initial Home Equity Loan after the
Cut-Off Date therefor (other than any interest payments due thereon on or prior
to the Cut-Off Date) and all other proceeds received in respect of such Initial
Home Equity Loans, (b) the Subsequent Home Equity Loans, including the related
Files that the Seller and the Depositor cause to be delivered to the Indenture
Trustee, all payments of principal received, collected
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or otherwise recovered after the related Subsequent Cut-Off Date for each
Subsequent Home Equity Loan (other than principal payments due thereon on or
prior to the related Subsequent Cut-Off Date), all payments of interest
accruing on each Subsequent Home Equity Loan after the related Subsequent
Cut-Off Date therefor (other than any interest payments due thereon on or prior
to the related Subsequent Cut-Off Date) and all other proceeds received in
respect of such Subsequent Home Equity Loans, (c) the Note Insurance Policy,
(d) any Insurance Policies, (e) all cash, instruments or other property held or
required to be deposited in the Principal and Interest Account, the Note
Account, the Pre-Funding Account, the Capitalized Interest Account, the
Available Funds Cap Carry Forward Amount Account, and the Policy Payments
Account, including all investments made with funds in such accounts (but not
including any income on funds deposited in, or investments made with funds
deposited in, the Principal and Interest Account, which income shall belong to
and be for the account of the Servicer, and not including any income on funds
deposited in, or investments made with funds deposited in, the Note Account,
Available Funds Cap Carry-Forward Amount Account, the Pre-Funding Account or
the Capitalized Interest Account, which income shall belong to and be for the
account of the Issuer), (f) the Issuer's rights under the Sale and Servicing
Agreement, and (g) all proceeds of the conversion, voluntary or involuntary, of
any of the foregoing into cash or other liquid assets, including, without
limitation, all insurance proceeds and condemnation awards.
"Trust Indenture Act" or "TIA": The Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as
amended, as in force on the date hereof, unless otherwise specifically
provided.
"UCC": Unless the context otherwise requires, the Uniform Commercial
Code, as in effect in the relevant jurisdiction, as amended from time to time.
(b) Except as otherwise specified herein or as the context may
otherwise require, for all purposes of this Indenture capitalized terms used
but not otherwise defined herein have the respective meanings set forth in the
Sale and Servicing Agreement or, if not defined therein, in the Trust
Agreement.
SECTION 1.2 Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act.
Whenever this Indenture refers to a provision of the TIA, the provision is
incorporated by reference in and made a part of this Indenture. The following
TIA terms used in this Indenture have the following meanings:
"Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission.
"indenture securities" means the Notes.
"indenture security Owner" means an Owner.
"indenture to be qualified" means this Indenture.
"indenture trustee" or "institutional trustee" means the Indenture
Trustee.
"obligor" on the Indenture securities means the Issuer and any other
obligor on the Indenture securities.
All other TIA terms used in this Indenture that are defined in the
TIA, defined by TIA reference to another statute or defined by Commission rule
have the meaning assigned to them by such definitions.
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SECTION 1.3 Rules of Construction. Unless the context otherwise
requires:
(i) a term has the meaning assigned to it;
(ii) an accounting term not otherwise defined has the meaning
assigned to it in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles as in effect from time to time;
(iii) "or" is not exclusive;
(iv) "including" means including without limitation;
(v) words in the singular include the plural and words in
the plural include the singular; and
(vi) any agreement, instrument or statute defined or referred
to herein or in any instrument or certificate delivered in connection
herewith means such agreement, instrument or statute as from time to
time amended, modified or supplemented (as provided in such
agreements) and includes (in the case of agreements or instruments)
references to all attachments thereto and instruments incorporated
therein; references to a Person are also to its permitted successors
and assigns.
ARTICLE II
THE NOTES
SECTION 2.1 Form. The Notes shall be designated as the "IMC
Adjustable Rate Home Equity Loan Asset Backed Notes, Series 1997-6" and,
together with the Indenture Trustee's certificate of authentication, shall be
in substantially the form set forth in Exhibit A hereto, with such appropriate
insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or
permitted by this Indenture, and may have such letters, numbers or other marks
of identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may,
consistently herewith, be determined by the officers executing such Notes, as
evidenced by their execution thereof. Any portion of the text of any Note may
be set forth on the reverse thereof, with an appropriate reference thereto on
the face of the Note.
The Definitive Notes shall be typewritten, printed, lithographed or
engraved or produced by any combination of these methods, all as determined by
the officers executing such Notes, as evidenced by their execution of such
Notes.
The terms of the Notes set forth in Exhibit A are part of the terms of
this Indenture.
The Notes may be marked as temporary, and any Note being so marked may
be cancelled and destroyed for substitution by a replacement Note, subject to
the provisions of Section 2.2.
SECTION 2.2 Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating. The
Notes shall be executed on behalf of the Issuer by an Authorized Officer of the
Owner Trustee. The signature of any such Authorized Officer on the Notes may
be manual or facsimile.
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Notes bearing the manual or facsimile signature of individuals who
were at any time Authorized Officers of the Owner Trustee shall bind the
Issuer, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to
hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Notes or
did not hold such offices at the date of such Notes.
Subject to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section
2.8, the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and deliver Notes for original
issue in an aggregate principal amount of $700,000,000. The aggregate
principal amount of Notes Outstanding at any time may not exceed such amount.
The Notes that are authenticated and delivered by the Indenture
Trustee to or upon the order of the Issuer on the Closing Date shall be dated
October 23, 1997. All other Notes that are authenticated after the Closing
Date for any other purpose under this Indenture shall be dated the date of
their authentication. The Notes shall be issuable as registered Notes in the
minimum denomination of $25,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess
thereof.
No Note shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be
valid or obligatory for any purpose, unless there appears on such Note a
certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein
executed by the Indenture Trustee by the manual signature of one of its
authorized signatories, and such certificate upon any Note shall be conclusive
evidence, and the only evidence, that such Note has been duly authenticated and
delivered hereunder.
SECTION 2.3 Registration; Registration of Transfer and Exchange.
The Issuer shall cause to be kept a register (the "Note Register") in which,
subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer shall
provide for the registration of Notes and the registration of transfers of
Notes. The Indenture Trustee initially shall be the "Note Registrar" for the
purpose of registering Notes and transfers of Notes as herein provided. Upon
any resignation of any Note Registrar, the Issuer shall promptly appoint a
successor or, if it elects not to make such an appointment, assume the duties
of Note Registrar.
If a Person other than the Indenture Trustee is appointed by the
Issuer as Note Registrar with the consent of the Note Insurer, the Issuer will
give the Indenture Trustee prompt written notice of the appointment of such
Note Registrar and of the location, and any change in the location, of the Note
Register, and the Indenture Trustee shall have the right to inspect the Note
Register at all reasonable times and to obtain copies thereof, and the
Indenture Trustee and the Note Insurer shall have the right to rely upon a
certificate executed on behalf of the Note Registrar by an Authorized Officer
thereof as to the names and addresses of the Owners of the Notes and the
principal amounts and number of such Notes.
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the office
or agency of the Issuer to be maintained as provided in Section 3.2, the Issuer
shall execute, and the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and the Owner shall
obtain from the Indenture Trustee, in the name of the designated transferee or
transferees, one or more new Notes in any authorized denominations, of a like
aggregate principal amount.
At the option of any Owner, Notes owned by such Owner may be exchanged
for other Notes in any authorized denominations, of a like aggregate principal
amount, upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at such office or agency.
Whenever any Notes are so surrendered for exchange, the Issuer shall execute,
and the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and the Owner shall obtain from
the Indenture Trustee, the Notes which the Owner making the exchange is
entitled to receive.
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All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of
Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Issuer, evidencing the same debt,
and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Notes
surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.
Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or
exchange shall be duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument
of transfer in form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee duly executed by the
Owner thereof or such Owner's attorney duly authorized in writing, with such
signature guaranteed by an "eligible guarantor institution" meeting the
requirements of the Note Registrar, which requirements include membership or
participation in the Securities Transfer Agent's Medallion Program ("STAMP") or
such other "signature guarantee program" as may be determined by the Note
Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with
the Exchange Act.
No service charge shall be made to an Owner for any registration of
transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Issuer may require payment of a sum
sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in
connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, other than
exchanges pursuant to Section 2.4 or Section 9.6 not involving any transfer.
The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Issuer
shall not be required to make and the Note Registrar need not register
transfers or exchanges of Notes selected for redemption or of any Note for a
period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to such
Note.
SECTION 2.4 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes. If (i) any
mutilated Note is surrendered to the Indenture Trustee, or the Indenture
Trustee receives evidence to its satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft
of any Note, and (ii) there is delivered to the Indenture Trustee such security
or indemnity as may be required by it to hold the Issuer, the Note Insurer and
the Indenture Trustee harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Issuer,
the Note Registrar or the Indenture Trustee that such Note has been acquired by
a bona fide purchaser, the Issuer shall execute, and upon its request the
Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange for or in lieu of
any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note, a replacement Note;
provided, however, that if any such destroyed, lost or stolen Note, but not a
mutilated Note, shall have become or within seven days shall be due and
payable, or shall have been called for redemption, instead of issuing a
replacement Note, the Issuer may pay such destroyed, lost or stolen Note when
so due or payable or upon the Redemption Date without surrender thereof. If,
after the delivery of such replacement Note or payment of a destroyed, lost or
stolen Note pursuant to the proviso to the preceding sentence, a bona fide
purchaser of the original Note in lieu of which such replacement Note was
issued presents for payment such original Note, the Issuer, the Note Insurer
and the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to recover such replacement Note
(or such payment) from the Person to whom it was delivered or any Person taking
such replacement Note from such Person to whom such replacement Note was
delivered or any assignee of such Person, except a bona fide purchaser, and
shall be entitled to recover upon the security or indemnity provided therefor
to the extent of any loss, damage, cost or expense incurred by the Issuer, the
Note Insurer or the Indenture Trustee in connection therewith.
Upon the issuance of any replacement Note under this Section, the
Issuer may require the payment by the Owner of such Note, other than the Note
Insurer, of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that
may be imposed in relation thereto and any other reasonable expenses (including
the fees and expenses of the Indenture Trustee) connected therewith.
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Every replacement Note issued pursuant to this Section in replacement
of any mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall constitute an original
additional contractual obligation of the Issuer, whether or not the mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and
shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and
proportionately with any and all other Notes duly issued hereunder.
The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to
the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the
replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Notes.
SECTION 2.5 Persons Deemed Owners. Prior to due presentment for
registration of transfer of any Note, the Issuer, the Note Insurer, the
Indenture Trustee and any agent of the Issuer, the Note Insurer or the
Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in whose name any Note is registered (as
of the day of determination) as the owner of such Note for the purpose of
receiving payments of principal of and interest, if any, on such Note and for
all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Note be overdue, and none of
the Issuer, the Note Insurer, the Indenture Trustee or any agent of the Issuer
or the Indenture Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
SECTION 2.6 Payment of Principal and Interest; Defaulted Interest.
(a) The Notes shall accrue interest at the Note Rate as set forth
in the Sale and Servicing Agreement, and such interest shall be payable on each
Payment Date as specified therein, subject to Section 3.1 hereof. Any
installment of interest or principal, if any, payable on any Note that is
punctually paid or duly provided for by the Issuer on the applicable Payment
Date shall be paid to the Person in whose name such Note (or one or more
Predecessor Notes) is registered on the Record Date by check mailed first-class
postage prepaid to such Person's address as it appears on the Note Register on
such Record Date, except that, unless Definitive Notes have been issued
pursuant to Section 2.12, with respect to Notes registered on the Record Date
in the name of the nominee of the Clearing Agency (initially, such nominee to
be Cede & Co.), payment will be made by wire transfer in immediately available
funds to the account designated by such nominee and except for the final
installment of principal payable with respect to such Note on a Payment Date or
on the applicable Final Payment Date (and except for the Redemption Price for
any Note called for redemption pursuant to Section 10.1), which shall be
payable as provided below. The funds represented by any such checks returned
undelivered shall be held in accordance with Section 3.3.
(b) The principal of each Note shall be payable in installments on
each Payment Date as provided in the Sale and Servicing Agreement and the form
of the Notes set forth in Exhibit A. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the entire
unpaid principal amount of the Notes shall be due and payable, if not
previously paid, on the earlier of (i) the Final Payment Date, (ii) the
Redemption Date or (iii) the date on which an Event of Default shall have
occurred and be continuing, if the Indenture Trustee or the Owners of Notes
representing not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes
have declared the Notes to be immediately due and payable in the manner
provided in Section 5.2. All principal payments on the Notes shall be made pro
rata to the Owners. The Indenture Trustee shall notify the Person in whose
name a Note is registered at the close of business on the Record Date preceding
the Payment Date on which the Issuer expects that the final installment of
principal of and interest on such Note will be paid. Such notice shall be
mailed or transmitted by facsimile prior to such final Payment Date and shall
specify that such final installment will be payable only upon presentation and
surrender of such Note and shall specify the place where such Note may be
presented and surrendered for payment of such installment. A copy of such form
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of notice shall be sent to the Note Insurer by the Indenture Trustee. Notices
in connection with redemptions of Notes shall be mailed to Owners as provided
in Section 10.2.
SECTION 2.7 Cancellation. All Notes surrendered for payment,
registration of transfer, exchange or redemption shall, if surrendered to any
Person other than the Indenture Trustee, be delivered to the Indenture Trustee
and shall be promptly canceled by the Indenture Trustee. The Issuer may at any
time deliver to the Indenture Trustee for cancellation any Notes previously
authenticated and delivered hereunder which the Issuer may have acquired in any
manner whatsoever, and all Notes so delivered shall be promptly canceled by the
Indenture Trustee. No Notes shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange
for any Notes canceled as provided in this Section, except as expressly
permitted by this Indenture. All canceled Notes may be held or disposed of by
the Indenture Trustee in accordance with its standard retention or disposal
policy as in effect at the time, unless the Issuer shall direct by an Issuer
Order that they be destroyed or returned to it; provided, that such Issuer
Order is timely and the Notes have not been previously disposed of by the
Indenture Trustee.
SECTION 2.8 Authentication of Notes. The Notes may be authenticated
by the Indenture Trustee upon Issuer Request.
SECTION 2.9 Release of Collateral.
(a) Subject to subsections (b) and (c) hereof, Section 11.1 hereof
and the terms of the Operative Documents, the Indenture Trustee shall release
property from the lien of this Indenture only upon receipt of an Issuer
Request accompanied by an Officer's Certificate, an Opinion of Counsel and
Independent Certificates in accordance with TIA Sections 314(c) and 314(d)(l)
or an Opinion of Counsel in lieu of such Independent Certificates to the
effect that the TIA does not require any such Independent Certificates.
(b) The Servicer, on behalf of the Issuer, shall be entitled to
obtain a release from the lien of this Indenture for any Home Equity Loan and
the related Property at any time (i) after a payment by the Seller or the
Issuer of the Loan Purchase Price of the Home Equity Loan, (ii) after a
Qualified Replacement Mortgage is substituted for such Home Equity Loan and
payment of the Substitution Amount if any, (iii) after liquidation of the Home
Equity Loan in accordance with Section 4.13 of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement and the deposit of all Liquidation Proceeds thereon in the Principal
and Interest Account, or (iv) upon the termination of a Home Equity Loan (due
to, among other causes, a prepayment in full of the Home Equity Loan and sale
or other disposition of the related Property), if the Issuer delivers to the
Indenture Trustee and the Note Insurer an Issuer Request (A) identifying the
Home Equity Loan and the related Property to be released, (B) requesting the
release thereof, (C) setting forth the amount deposited in the Principal and
Interest Account with respect thereto, and (D) certifying that the amount
deposited in the Principal and Interest Account (x) equals the Loan Purchase
Price of the Home Equity Loan, in the event a Home Equity Loan and the related
Property are being released from the lien of this Indenture pursuant to item
(i) above, (y) equals the Substitution Amount related to the Qualified
Replacement Mortgage and the Home Equity Loan being released from the lien of
this Indenture pursuant to item (ii) above, or (z) equals the entire amount of
recoveries received with respect to such Home Equity Loan and the related
Property in the event of a release from the lien of this Indenture pursuant to
items (iii) or (iv) above.
(c) The Indenture Trustee shall, if requested in writing by the
Servicer, temporarily release or cause the Custodian to temporarily release to
the Servicer the File pursuant to the provisions of Section 4.14 of the Sale
and Servicing Agreement upon compliance by the Servicer of the provisions
thereof provided
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that the Indenture Trustee's File shall have been stamped to signify the
Issuer's pledge to the Indenture Trustee under this Indenture.
SECTION 2.10 Book-Entry Notes. The Notes, upon original issuance,
will be issued in the form of typewritten Notes representing the Book-Entry
Notes, to be delivered to The Depository Trust Company, the initial Clearing
Agency, by, or on behalf of, the Issuer. The Book-Entry Notes shall be
registered initially on the Note Register in the name of Cede & Co., the
nominee of the initial Clearing Agency, and no Owner of any Note will receive a
definitive Note representing such Book-Entry Owner's interest in such Note,
except as provided in Section 2.12. Unless and until definitive, fully
registered Notes (the "Definitive Notes") have been issued to such Book-Entry
Owners pursuant to Section 2.12:
(i) the provisions of this Section shall be in full force
and effect;
(ii) the Note Registrar, the Note Insurer and the Indenture
Trustee shall be entitled to deal with the Clearing Agency for
all purposes of this Indenture (including the payment of
principal of and interest on the Notes and the giving of
instructions or directions hereunder) as the sole Owner of the
Notes, and shall have no obligation to the Book-Entry Owners;
(iii) to the extent that the provisions of this Section
conflict with any other provisions of this Indenture, the
provisions of this Section shall control;
(iv) the rights of Book-Entry Owners shall be exercised only
through the Clearing Agency and shall be limited to those
established by law and agreements between such Book-Entry
Owners and the Clearing Agency and/or the Clearing Agency
Participants. Unless and until Definitive Notes are issued
pursuant to Section 2.12, the initial Clearing Agency will
make book-entry transfers among the Clearing Agency
Participants and receive and transmit payments of principal of
and interest on the Notes to such Clearing Agency
Participants; and
(v) whenever this Indenture requires or permits actions to
be taken based upon instructions or directions of Owners of
Notes evidencing a specified percentage of the Outstanding
Amount of the Notes, the Clearing Agency shall be deemed to
represent such percentage only to the extent that it has
received instructions to such effect from Book-Entry Owners
and/or Clearing Agency Participants owning or representing,
respectively, such required percentage of the beneficial
interest in the Notes and has delivered such instructions to
the Indenture Trustee.
SECTION 2.11 Notices to Clearing Agency. Whenever a notice or other
communication to the Owners is required under this Indenture, unless and until
Definitive Notes shall have been issued to such Book-Entry Owners pursuant to
Section 2.12, the Indenture Trustee shall give all such notices and
communications specified herein to be given to Owners of the Notes to the
Clearing Agency, and shall have no obligation to such Book-Entry Owners.
SECTION 2.12 Definitive Notes. If (i) the Clearing Agency is no
longer willing or able to properly discharge its responsibilities with respect
to the Book-Entry Notes and the Issuer is unable to locate a qualified
successor, (ii) the Issuer at its option advises the Indenture Trustee in
writing that it elects to terminate the book-entry system through the Clearing
Agency or (iii) after the occurrence of an Event of
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Default, Owners of the Book-Entry Notes representing beneficial interests
aggregating at least a majority of the Outstanding Amount of such Notes advise
the Clearing Agency in writing that the continuation of a book-entry system
through the Clearing Agency is no longer in the best interests of such
Book-Entry Owners, then the Clearing Agency shall notify all Book-Entry Owners
and the Indenture Trustee of the occurrence of such event and of the
availability of Definitive Notes to Book-Entry Owners requesting the same.
Upon surrender to the Indenture Trustee of the typewritten Notes representing
the Book-Entry Notes by the Clearing Agency, accompanied by registration
instructions, the Issuer shall execute and the Indenture Trustee shall
authenticate the Definitive Notes in accordance with the instructions of the
Clearing Agency. None of the Issuer, the Note Registrar, the Note Insurer or
the Indenture Trustee shall be liable for any delay in delivery of such
instructions and may conclusively rely on, and shall be protected in relying
on, such instructions. Upon the issuance of Definitive Notes, the Indenture
Trustee shall recognize the Owners of the Definitive Notes as Owners.
SECTION 2.13 Tax Treatment. The Issuer has entered into this
Indenture, and the Notes will be issued, with the intention that, for federal,
state and local income, single business and franchise tax purposes, the Notes
will qualify as indebtedness of the Issuer secured by the Collateral. The
Issuer, by entering into this Indenture, and each Owner, by its acceptance of a
Note (and each Book-Entry Owner by its acceptance of an interest in the
applicable Book-Entry Note), agree to treat the Notes for federal, state and
local income, single business and franchise tax purposes as indebtedness of the
Issuer.
ARTICLE III
COVENANTS
SECTION 3.1 Payment of Principal and Interest. The Issuer will duly
and punctually pay (or will cause to be duly and punctually paid) the principal
of and interest, if any, on the Notes in accordance with the terms of the Notes
and this Indenture. Without limiting the foregoing, subject to and in
accordance with Section 8.2(c), on each Payment Date the Issuer will cause to
be distributed all amounts on deposit in the Note Account deposited or retained
therein pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement for the benefit of the
Owners of the Notes and the Note Insurer. Amounts properly withheld under the
Code by any Person from a payment to any Owner of interest and/or principal
shall be considered as having been paid by the Issuer to such Owner for all
purposes of this Indenture.
The Notes shall be non-recourse obligations of the Issuer and shall be
limited in right of payment to amounts available from the Collateral and any
amounts received by the Indenture Trustee under the Note Insurance Policy in
respect of the Notes, as provided in this Indenture and the Sale and Servicing
Agreement. The Issuer shall not otherwise be liable for payments on the Notes.
If any other provision of this Indenture shall be deemed to conflict with the
provisions of this Section 3.1, the provisions of this Section 3.1 shall
control.
SECTION 3.2 Maintenance of Office or Agency. The Issuer will
maintain in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, an office or agency
where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, and
where notices and demands to or upon the Issuer in respect of the Notes and
this Indenture may be served. The Issuer will give prompt written notice to
the Indenture Trustee and the Note Insurer of the location, and of any change
in the location, of any such office or agency. If at any time the Issuer shall
fail to maintain any such office or agency or shall fail to furnish the
Indenture Trustee with the address thereof, such surrenders, notices and
demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office,
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and the Issuer hereby appoints the Indenture Trustee as its agent to receive
all such surrenders, notices and demands.
SECTION 3.3 Money for Payments To Be Held in Trust. As provided in
Section 8.2 (a ) and (b), all payments of amounts due and payable with respect
to any Notes that are to be made from amounts withdrawn from the Principal and
Interest Account or retained in the Note Account pursuant to Section 8.2(c)
shall be made on behalf of the Issuer by the Indenture Trustee or by the Paying
Agent, and no amounts so withdrawn from the Principal and Interest Account or
retained in the Note Account for payments of Notes shall be paid over to the
Issuer except as provided in this Section.
On or before the third Business Day preceding each Payment Date and
Redemption Date, the Indenture Trustee shall deposit or cause to be deposited
in the Note Account an aggregate sum sufficient to pay the amounts due on such
Payment Date under the Notes, such sum to be held in trust for the benefit of
the Persons entitled thereto.
Subject to the prior consent of the Note Insurer, any Paying Agent
shall be appointed by Issuer Order with written notice thereof to the Indenture
Trustee and the Note Insurer. Any Paying Agent appointed by the Issuer shall
be a Person who would be eligible to be Indenture Trustee hereunder as provided
in Section 6.11. The Issuer shall not appoint any Paying Agent (other than the
Indenture Trustee) which is not, at the time of such appointment, a Designated
Depository Institution.
The Issuer will cause each Paying Agent to execute and deliver to the
Indenture Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree with the
Indenture Trustee (and if the Indenture Trustee acts as Paying Agent, it hereby
so agrees), subject to the provisions of this Section, that such Paying Agent
will:
(i) hold all sums held by it for the payment of amounts due
with respect to the Notes in trust for the benefit of the
Owners entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to such
Owners or otherwise disposed of as herein provided and pay
such sums to such Owners as herein provided;
(ii) give the Indenture Trustee and the Note Insurer notice
of any default by the Issuer (or any other obligor upon the
Notes) of which it has actual knowledge in the making of any
payment required to be made with respect to the Notes;
(iii) at any time during the continuance of any such default,
upon the written request of the Indenture Trustee, forthwith
pay to the Indenture Trustee all sums so held in trust by such
Paying Agent;
(iv) immediately resign as a Paying Agent and forthwith pay
to the Indenture Trustee all sums held by it in trust for the
payment of Notes if at any time it ceases to meet the
standards required to be met by a Paying Agent at the time of
its appointment; and
(v) comply with all requirements of the Code with respect to
the withholding from any payments made by it on any Notes of
any applicable withholding taxes imposed thereon and with
respect to any applicable reporting requirements in connection
therewith; provided, however, that with respect to withholding
and reporting requirements applicable to original
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issue discount (if any) on the Notes, the Issuer shall have
first provided the calculations pertaining thereto to the
Indenture Trustee.
The Issuer may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, by
Issuer Order direct any Paying Agent to pay to the Indenture Trustee all sums
held in trust by such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the Indenture
Trustee upon the same trusts as those upon which the sums were held by such
Paying Agent; and upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the Indenture
Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with
respect to such money.
Subject to applicable laws with respect to escheat of funds or
abandoned property, any money held by the Indenture Trustee or any Paying Agent
in trust for the payment of any amount due with respect to any Note and
remaining unclaimed for two years after such amount has become due and payable
shall be discharged from such trust and be paid to the Issuer on Issuer
Request; and the Owner of such Note shall thereafter, as an unsecured general
creditor, look only to the Issuer for payment thereof (but only to the extent
of the amounts so paid to the Issuer), and all liability of the Indenture
Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money shall thereupon
cease; provided, however, that the Indenture Trustee or such Paying Agent,
before being required to make any such repayment, shall at the expense and
direction of the Issuer cause to be published once, in a newspaper published in
the English language, customarily published on each Business Day and of general
circulation in The City of New York, notice that such money remains unclaimed
and that, after a date specified therein, which shall not be less than 30 days
from the date of such publication, any unclaimed balance of such money then
remaining will be repaid to the Issuer. The Indenture Trustee shall also adopt
and employ, at the expense and direction of the Issuer, any other reasonable
means of notification of such repayment (including, but not limited to, mailing
notice of such repayment to Owners whose Notes have been called but have not
been surrendered for redemption or whose right to or interest in moneys due and
payable but not claimed is determinable from the records of the Indenture
Trustee or of any Paying Agent, at the last address of record for each such
Owner).
SECTION 3.4 Existence.
(a) Subject to subsection (b) of this Section 3.4, the Issuer will
keep in full effect its existence, rights and franchises as a business trust
under the laws of the State of Delaware (unless it becomes, or any successor
Issuer hereunder is or becomes, organized under the laws of any other State or
of the United States of America, in which case the Issuer will keep in full
effect its existence, rights and franchises under the laws of such other
jurisdiction) and will obtain and preserve its qualification to do business in
each jurisdiction in which such qualification is or shall be necessary to
protect the validity and enforceability of this Indenture, the Notes and the
Collateral.
(b) Any successor to the Owner Trustee appointed pursuant to
Section 10.2 of the Trust Agreement shall be the successor Owner Trustee under
this Indenture without the execution or filing of any paper, instrument or
further act to be done on the part of the parties hereto.
(c) Upon any consolidation or merger of or other succession to the
Owner Trustee, the Person succeeding to the Owner Trustee under the Trust
Agreement may exercise every right and power of the Owner Trustee under this
Indenture with the same effect as if such Person had been named as the Owner
Trustee herein.
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SECTION 3.5 Protection of Collateral. The Issuer will from time to
time and upon the direction of the Note Insurer execute and deliver all such
supplements and amendments hereto and all such financing statements,
continuation statements, instruments of further assurance and other
instruments, and will take such other action necessary or advisable to:
(i) provide further assurance with respect to the Grant of
all or any portion of the Collateral;
(ii) maintain or preserve the lien and security interest (and
the priority thereof) of this Indenture or carry out more
effectively the purposes hereof;
(iii) perfect, publish notice of or protect the validity of
any Grant made or to be made by this Indenture;
(iv) enforce any rights with respect to the Collateral; or
(v) preserve and defend title to the Collateral and the
rights of the Indenture Trustee, the Owners and the Note
Insurer in such Collateral against the claims of all persons
and parties.
SECTION 3.6 Annual Opinions as to Collateral. On or before October
15 in each calendar year, beginning in 1998, the Issuer shall furnish to the
Indenture Trustee and the Note Insurer an Opinion of Counsel either stating
that, in the opinion of such counsel, such action has been taken with respect
to the recording, filing, re-recording and refiling of this Indenture, any
indentures supplemental hereto and any other requisite documents and with
respect to the execution and filing of any financing statements and
continuation statements as is necessary to maintain the lien and security
interest created by this Indenture and reciting the details of such action or
stating that in the opinion of such counsel no such action is necessary to
maintain such lien and security interest. Such Opinion of Counsel shall also
describe the recording, filing, re-recording and refiling of this Indenture,
any indentures supplemental hereto and any other requisite documents and the
execution and filing of any financing statements and continuation statements
that will, in the opinion of such counsel, be required to maintain the lien and
security interest of this Indenture until October 15 of the following calendar
year.
SECTION 3.7 Performance of Obligations; Servicing of Home Equity
Loans.
(a) The Issuer will not take any action and will use its best
efforts not to permit any action to be taken by others that would release any
Person from any of such Person's material covenants or obligations under any
instrument or agreement included in the Collateral or that would result in the
amendment, hypothecation, subordination, termination or discharge of, or impair
the validity or effectiveness of, any such instrument or agreement, except as
expressly provided in this Indenture, the Sale and Servicing Agreement or such
other instrument or agreement.
(b) Subject to the prior consent of the Note Insurer, the Issuer
may contract with or otherwise obtain the assistance of other Persons to assist
it in performing its duties under this Indenture, and any performance of such
duties by a Person identified to the Indenture Trustee and the Note Insurer in
an Officer's Certificate of the Issuer shall be deemed to be action taken by
the Issuer. Initially, the Issuer has contracted with the Servicer to assist
the Issuer in performing its duties under this Indenture.
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(c) The Issuer will punctually perform and observe all of its
obligations and agreements contained in this Indenture, the Operative Documents
and in the instruments and agreements included in the Collateral, including but
not limited to (i) filing or causing to be filed all UCC financing statements
and continuation statements required to be filed by the terms of this Indenture
and the Sale and Servicing Agreement and (ii) recording or causing to be
recorded all Mortgages, Assignments of Mortgage, all intervening Assignments of
Mortgage and all assumption and modification agreements required to be recorded
by the terms of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, in accordance with and within
the time periods provided for in this Indenture and/or the Sale and Servicing
Agreement, as applicable. Except as otherwise expressly provided therein, the
Issuer shall not waive, amend, modify, supplement or terminate any Operative
Document or any provision thereof without the consent of the Indenture Trustee,
the Note Insurer, and the Owners of at least a majority of the Outstanding
Amount of the Notes.
(d) If the Issuer shall have knowledge of the occurrence of a
Servicer Termination Event under the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Issuer
shall promptly notify the Indenture Trustee, the Note Insurer and the Rating
Agencies thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the
Issuer is taking with respect of such default. If such Servicer Termination
Event shall arise from the failure of the Servicer to perform any of its duties
or obligations under the Sale and Servicing Agreement with respect to the Home
Equity Loans, the Issuer shall take all reasonable steps available to it to
remedy such failure.
(e) As promptly as possible after the giving of notice of
termination to the Servicer of the Servicer's rights and powers pursuant to
Section 4.20 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Issuer, upon the prior
written consent of or upon the direction of the Note Insurer, shall appoint a
successor servicer (the "Successor Servicer") in accordance with the provisions
of Section 4.20 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
(f) Upon any termination of the Servicer's rights and powers
pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Issuer shall promptly notify
the Indenture Trustee and the Note Insurer. As soon as a Successor Servicer is
appointed pursuant to Section 4.20 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the
Issuer shall notify the Indenture Trustee of such appointment, specifying in
such notice the name and address of such Successor Servicer.
(g) Without derogating from the absolute nature of the assignment
granted to the Indenture Trustee under this Indenture or the rights of the
Indenture Trustee hereunder, the Issuer agrees (i) that it will not, without
the prior written consent of the Indenture Trustee and the Note Insurer, or, if
a Note Insurer Default has occurred and is continuing, the Owners of at least a
majority in Outstanding Amount of the Notes, amend, modify, waive, supplement,
terminate or surrender, or agree to any amendment, modification, supplement,
termination, waiver or surrender of, the terms of any Collateral (except to the
extent otherwise provided in the Sale and Servicing Agreement) or the Operative
Documents, or waive timely performance or observance by the Servicer or the
Seller under the Sale and Servicing Agreement; and (ii) that any such amendment
shall not (A) increase or reduce in any manner the amount of, or accelerate or
delay the timing of, distributions that are required to be made for the benefit
of the Owners or (B) reduce the aforesaid percentage of the Notes that is
required to consent to any such amendment, without the consent of the Owners of
all the outstanding Notes. If any such amendment, modification, supplement or
waiver shall be so consented to by the Indenture Trustee and the Note Insurer,
the Issuer agrees, promptly following a request by the Indenture Trustee or the
Note Insurer to do so, to execute and deliver, in its own name and at its own
expense, such agreements, instruments, consents and other documents as the
Indenture Trustee or the Note Insurer may deem necessary or appropriate in the
circumstances.
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SECTION 3.8 Negative Covenants. So long as any Notes are
Outstanding, the Issuer shall not:
(i) except as expressly permitted by this Indenture, the
Loan Sale Agreement, any Subsequent Transfer Agreement
or the Sale and Servicing Agreement, sell, transfer,
exchange or otherwise dispose of any of the properties
or assets of the Issuer, including those included in the
Collateral, unless directed to do so by the Indenture
Trustee or the Note Insurer;
(ii) claim any credit on, or make any deduction from the
principal or interest payable in respect of, the Notes
(other than amounts properly withheld from such payments
under the Code) or assert any claim against any present
or former Owner by reason of the payment of the taxes
levied or assessed upon any part of the Collateral;
(iii) engage in any business or activity other than as
permitted by the Trust Agreement or other than in
connection with, or relating to, the issuance of Notes
pursuant to this Indenture, or amend the Trust Agreement
as in effect on the Closing Date other than in
accordance with Section 11.1 thereof,
(iv) issue debt obligations under any other indenture;
(v) incur or assume any indebtedness or guaranty any
indebtedness of any Person, except for such indebtedness
as may be incurred by the Issuer in connection with the
issuance of the Notes pursuant to this Indenture;
(vi) dissolve or liquidate in whole or in part or merge or
consolidate with any other Person;
(vii) (A) permit the validity or effectiveness of this
Indenture to be impaired, or permit the lien of this
Indenture to be amended, hypothecated, subordinated,
terminated or discharged, or permit any Person to be
released from any covenants or obligations with respect
to the Notes under this Indenture except as may be
expressly permitted hereby, (B) permit any lien, charge,
excise, claim, security interest, mortgage or other
encumbrance (other than the lien of this Indenture) to
be created on or extend to or otherwise arise upon or
burden the Collateral or any part thereof or any
interest therein or the proceeds thereof (other than tax
liens, mechanics' liens and other liens that arise by
operation of law, in each case on any of the Properties
and arising solely as a result of an action or omission
of the related Mortgagor) or (C) permit the lien of this
Indenture not to constitute a valid first priority
(other than with respect to any such tax, mechanics' or
other lien) security interest in the Collateral;
(viii) take any other action or fail to take any action which
may cause the Issuer to be taxable as (a) an association
pursuant to Section 7701 of the Code and the
corresponding regulations or (b) as a taxable mortgage
pool pursuant to Section 7701(i) of the Code and the
corresponding regulations.
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SECTION 3.9 Annual Statement as to Compliance. The Issuer will
deliver to the Indenture Trustee and the Note Insurer, within 120 days after
the end of each fiscal year of the Issuer (commencing with the fiscal year
1997), an Officer's Certificate stating, as to the Authorized Officer signing
such Officer's Certificate, that:
(i) a review of the activities of the Issuer during such year
and of its performance under this Indenture has been made
under such Authorized Officer's supervision; and
(ii) to the best of such Authorized Officer's knowledge,
based on such review, the Issuer has complied with all
conditions and covenants under the Indenture throughout
such year, or, if there has been a default in its
compliance with any such condition or covenant,
specifying each such default known to such Authorized
Officer and the nature and status thereof.
SECTION 3.10 Covenants of the Issuer. All covenants of the Issuer in
the Indenture are covenants of the Issuer and are not covenants of the Owner
Trustee. The Owner Trustee is, and any successor Owner Trustee under the Trust
Agreement will be, entering into this Indenture solely as Owner Trustee under
the Trust Agreement and not in its respective individual capacity, and in no
case whatsoever shall the Owner Trustee or any such successor Owner Trustee be
personally liable on, or for any loss in respect of, any of the statements,
representations, warranties or obligations of the Issuer hereunder, as to all
of which the parties hereto agree to look solely to the property of the Issuer.
SECTION 3.11 Reserved.
SECTION 3.12 Restricted Payments. The Issuer shall not, directly or
indirectly, (i) pay any dividend or make any distribution (by reduction of
capital or otherwise), whether in cash, property, securities or a combination
thereof, to the Owner Trustee or any owner of a beneficial interest in the
Issuer or otherwise with respect to any ownership or equity interest or
security in or of the Issuer or to the Servicer, (ii) redeem, purchase, retire
or otherwise acquire for value any such ownership or equity interest or
security or (iii) set aside or otherwise segregate any amounts for any such
purpose; provided, however, that the Issuer may make, or cause to be made,
distributions to the Servicer, the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee, the
Note Insurer, the Owners and the Certificateholders as contemplated by, and to
the extent funds are available for such purpose under, the Sale and Servicing
Agreement or the Trust Agreement. The Issuer will not, directly or indirectly,
make or cause to be made payments to or distributions from the Principal and
Interest Account except in accordance with this Indenture and the Operative
Documents.
SECTION 3.13 Treatment of Notes as Debt for Tax Purposes. The Issuer
shall treat the Notes as indebtedness for all federal, state and local income
and franchise tax purposes.
SECTION 3.14 Notice of Events of Default. The Issuer shall give the
Indenture Trustee, the Note Insurer and the Rating Agencies prompt written
notice of each Event of Default hereunder, each default on the part of the
Servicer or the Seller of its obligations under the Sale and Servicing
Agreement and each default on the part of the Depositor or the Seller of its
obligations under the Loan Sale Agreement.
SECTION 3.15 Further Instruments and Acts. Upon request of the
Indenture Trustee or the Note Insurer, the Issuer will execute and deliver such
further instruments and do such further acts as may be reasonably necessary or
proper to carry out more effectively the purpose of this Indenture.
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ARTICLE IV
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
SECTION 4.1 Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture. This Indenture
shall cease to be of further effect with respect to the Notes (except as to (i)
rights of registration of transfer and exchange, (ii) substitution of
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Notes, (iii) rights of Owners to receive
payments of principal thereof and interest thereon, (iv) Sections 3.3, 3.4,
3.5, 3.8 and 3.10 hereof, (v) the rights, obligations and immunities of the
Indenture Trustee hereunder (including the rights of the Indenture Trustee
under Section 6.7 and the obligations of the Indenture Trustee under Section
4.2) and (vi) the rights of Owners as beneficiaries hereof with respect to the
property so deposited with the Indenture Trustee payable to all or any of
them), and the Indenture Trustee, on demand of and at the expense of the
Issuer, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and
discharge of this Indenture with respect to the Notes, when all of the
following have occurred:
(A) either
(1) all Notes theretofore authenticated and delivered (other
than (i) Notes that have been destroyed, lost or stolen and that have been
replaced or paid as provided in Section 2.4 and (ii) Notes for whose payment
money has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust
by the Issuer and thereafter repaid to the Issuer or discharged from such
trust, as provided in Section 3.3) have been delivered to the Indenture Trustee
for cancellation; or
(2) all Notes not theretofore delivered to the Indenture
Trustee for cancellation
a. have become due and payable,
b. are to be called for redemption within one year
under arrangements satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee for the giving of
notice of redemption by the Indenture Trustee in the name, and at the expense,
of the Issuer, and the Issuer, in the case of a. or b. above, has irrevocably
deposited or caused to be irrevocably deposited with the Indenture Trustee cash
or direct obligations of or obligations guaranteed by the United States of
America (which will mature prior to the date such amounts are payable), in trust
for such purpose, in an amount sufficient to pay and discharge the entire
indebtedness on such Notes not theretofore delivered to the Indenture Trustee
for cancellation when due to the Final Payment Date or Redemption Date (if Notes
shall have been called for redemption pursuant to Section 10.1), as the case may
be;
(B) the later of (a) eighteen months after payment in full of all
outstanding obligations under the Notes, (b) the payment in full of all unpaid
Trust Fees and Expenses and all sums owing to the Note Insurer under the
Insurance Agreement and (c) the date on which the Issuer has paid or caused to
be paid all other sums payable hereunder by the Issuer; and
(C) the Issuer has delivered to the Indenture Trustee an Officer's
Certificate, an Opinion of Counsel and (if required by the TIA or the
Indenture Trustee) an Independent Certificate from a firm of certified public
accountants, each meeting the applicable requirements of Section 11.1 and,
subject to Section 11.2, each stating that all conditions precedent herein
provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with
respect to the Notes have been complied with.
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SECTION 4.2 Application of Trust Money. All moneys deposited with
the Indenture Trustee pursuant to Sections 3.3 and 4.3 hereof shall be held in
trust and applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the Notes and
this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent, as
the Indenture Trustee may determine, to the Owners of the Notes for the payment
or redemption of which such moneys have been deposited with the Indenture
Trustee, of all sums due and to become due thereon for principal and interest;
but such moneys need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent
required herein or in the Sale and Servicing Agreement or required by law.
SECTION 4.3 Repayment of Moneys Held by Paying Agent. In connection
with the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect to the
Notes, all moneys then held by any Paying Agent other than the Indenture
Trustee under the provisions of this Indenture with respect to such Notes
shall, upon demand of the Issuer, be paid to the Indenture Trustee to be held
and applied according to Section 3.3 and thereupon such Paying Agent shall be
released from all further liability with respect to such moneys.
ARTICLE V
REMEDIES
SECTION 5.1 Events of Default. "Event of Default,"wherever used
herein, means any one of the following events (whatever the reason for such
Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be
effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of
any court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or
governmental body):
(a) default in the payment of any interest on any Note when the same
becomes due and payable (it being understood that any Available Funds Cap Carry
Forward Amount does not constitute interest due and payable); or
(b) default in the payment of the principal of or any installment
of the principal of any Note when the same becomes due and payable; or
(c) default in the observance or performance of any covenant or
agreement of the Issuer made in this Indenture (other than a covenant or
agreement, a default in the observance or performance of which is elsewhere in
this Section specifically dealt with), or any representation or warranty of the
Issuer made in this Indenture, the Insurance Agreement, the Sale and Servicing
Agreement or in any certificate or other writing delivered pursuant hereto or
in connection herewith proving to have been incorrect in any material respect
as of the time when the same shall have been made, and such default shall
continue or not be cured, or the circumstance or condition in respect of which
such misrepresentation or warranty was incorrect shall not have been eliminated
or otherwise cured, for a period of 30 days after there shall have been given,
by registered or certified mail, to the Issuer by the Indenture Trustee or to
the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee by the Owners of at least 25% of the
Outstanding Amount of the Notes, a written notice specifying such default or
incorrect representation or warranty and requiring it to be remedied and
stating that such notice is a notice of Default hereunder; or
(d) default in the observance or performance of any covenant or
agreement of the Depositor made in the Trust Agreement or any representation
or warranty of the Depositor made in the Trust Agreement, proving to have been
incorrect in any material respect as of the time when the same shall have been
made, and such default shall continue or not be cured, or the circumstance or
condition in respect of which such misrepresentation or warranty was incorrect
shall not have been eliminated or otherwise cured,
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for a period of 30 days after there shall have been given, by registered or
certified mail, to the Issuer by the Indenture Trustee or to the Issuer and the
Indenture Trustee by the Owners of at least 25% of the Outstanding Amount of
the Notes, a written notice specifying such default or incorrect representation
or warranty and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a
notice of Default hereunder;
(e) the filing of a decree or order for relief by a court having
jurisdiction in the premises in respect of the Issuer or any substantial part
of the Collateral in an involuntary case under any applicable federal or state
bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect, or
appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator
or similar official of the Issuer or for any substantial part of the
Collateral, or ordering the winding-up or liquidation of the Issuer's affairs,
and such decree or order shall remain unstayed and in effect for a period of 60
consecutive days; or
(f) the commencement by the Issuer of a voluntary case under any
applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or
hereafter in effect, or the consent by the Issuer to the entry of an order for
relief in an involuntary case under any such law, or the consent by the Issuer
to the appointment or taking possession by a receiver, liquidator, assignee,
custodian, trustee, sequestrator or similar official of the Issuer or for any
substantial part of the Collateral, or the making by the Issuer of any general
assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the failure by the Issuer generally
to pay its debts as such debts become due, or the taking of any action by the
Issuer in furtherance of any of the foregoing.
The Issuer shall deliver to the Indenture Trustee and the Note
Insurer, within five days after the occurrence thereof, written notice in the
form of an Officer's Certificate of any event which with the giving of notice
and the lapse of time would become an Event of Default under clauses (c) and
(d) above, its status and what action the Issuer is taking or proposes to take
with respect thereto.
SECTION 5.2 Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment. If
an Event of Default should occur and be continuing, then and in every such case
the Indenture Trustee, at the direction or upon the prior written consent of
the Note Insurer or the Owners of Notes representing not less than a majority
of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes may, with the prior written consent of
the Note Insurer, declare all the Notes to be immediately due and payable, by a
notice in writing to the Issuer (and to the Indenture Trustee if given by
Owners), and upon any such declaration the unpaid principal amount of such
Notes, together with accrued and unpaid interest thereon through the date of
acceleration, shall become immediately due and payable.
At any time after such declaration of acceleration of maturity has
been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due has been
obtained by the Indenture Trustee as hereinafter in this Article V provided,
the Note Insurer or the Owners of Notes representing a majority of the
Outstanding Amount of the Notes, with the prior written consent of the Note
Insurer, by written notice to the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee, may rescind
and annul such declaration and its consequences if:
(a) the Issuer has paid or deposited with the Indenture Trustee a
sum sufficient to pay:
(i) all payments of principal of and interest on all Notes
and all other amounts that would then be due hereunder or
upon such Notes if the Event of Default giving rise to
such acceleration had not occurred; and
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(ii) all sums paid or advanced by the Indenture Trustee
hereunder and the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Indenture Trustee and
its agents and counsel; and
(iii) all Events of Default, other than the nonpayment of the
principal of the Notes that has become due solely by such
acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in
Section 5.12.
No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any
right consequent thereto.
SECTION 5.3 Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by
Indenture Trustee.
(a) The Issuer covenants that if (i) default is made in the payment
of any interest on any Note when the same becomes due and payable, and such
default continues for a period of five days, or (ii) default is made in the
payment of the principal of or any installment of the principal of any Note
when the same becomes due and payable, the Issuer will, upon demand of the
Indenture Trustee and at the direction of the Note Insurer, pay to the
Indenture Trustee, for the benefit of the Owners of the Notes and the Note
Insurer, the whole amount then due and payable on such Notes for principal and
interest, with interest upon the overdue principal and, to the extent payment
at such rate of interest shall be legally enforceable, upon overdue
installments of interest at the rate borne by the Notes and in addition thereto
such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of
collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and
advances of the Indenture Trustee and the Note Insurer and their respective
agents and counsel.
(b) In case the Issuer shall fail forthwith to pay such amounts upon
such demand, the Indenture Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an
express trust, shall at the direction of the Note Insurer, and if a Note
Insurer Default has occurred and is continuing, the Indenture Trustee may, in
its discretion, and shall at the direction of the Owners of the Notes
representing a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes, institute a
Proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, and may prosecute
such Proceeding to judgment or final decree, and may enforce the same against
the Issuer or other obligor upon such Notes and collect in the manner provided
by law out of the property of the Issuer or other obligor upon such Notes,
wherever situated, the moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable.
(c) If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Indenture
Trustee shall, at the direction of the Note Insurer, and if a Note Insurer
Default has occurred and is continuing, the Indenture Trustee may and shall at
the direction of the Owners of the Notes representing a majority of the
Outstanding Amount of the Notes, as more particularly provided in Section 5.4,
in its discretion, proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of
the Note Insurer and the Owners, by such appropriate Proceedings as the
Indenture Trustee shall deem most effective to protect and enforce any such
rights, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement in
this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted herein, or to
enforce any other proper remedy or legal or equitable right vested in the
Indenture Trustee by this Indenture or by law.
(d) In case there shall be pending, relative to the Issuer or any
other obligor upon the Notes or any Person having or claiming an ownership
interest in the Collateral, Proceedings under Title 11 of the United States
Code or any other applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other
similar law, or
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in case a receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or reorganization,
liquidator, sequestrator or similar official shall have been appointed for or
taken possession of the Issuer or its property or such other obligor or Person,
or in case of any other comparable judicial Proceedings relative to the Issuer
or other obligor upon the Notes, or to the creditors or property of the Issuer
or such other obligor, the Indenture Trustee, irrespective of whether the
principal of any Notes shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by
declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Indenture Trustee
shall have made any demand pursuant to the provisions of this Section, shall be
entitled and empowered, upon the direction of the Note Insurer, by intervention
in such Proceedings or otherwise:
(i) to file and prove a claim or claims for the whole amount
of principal and interest owing and unpaid in respect of
the Notes and to file such other papers or documents as
may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims
of the Indenture Trustee (including any claim for
reasonable compensation to the Indenture Trustee, each
predecessor Indenture Trustee and the Note Insurer, and
their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and for
reimbursement of all expenses and liabilities incurred,
and all advances made, by the Indenture Trustee and each
predecessor Indenture Trustee (except as a result of
negligence or bad faith), the Note Insurer and of the
Owners allowed in such Proceedings;
(ii) unless prohibited by applicable law and regulations, to
vote on behalf of the Owners of Notes in any election of
a trustee, a standby trustee or Person performing similar
functions in any such Proceedings;
(iii) to collect and receive any moneys or other property
payable or deliverable on any such claims and to
distribute all amounts received with respect to the
claims of the Owners, the Note Insurer and the Indenture
Trustee on their behalf; and
(iv) to file such proofs of claim and other papers or
documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to
have the claims of the Indenture Trustee, the Note
Insurer or the Owners of Notes allowed in any judicial
proceedings relative to the Issuer, its creditors and its
property; and any trustee, receiver, liquidator,
custodian or other similar official in any such
Proceeding is hereby authorized by each of such Owners
and the Note Insurer to make payments to the Indenture
Trustee and, in the event that the Indenture Trustee
shall consent to the making of payments directly to such
Owners and the Note Insurer, to pay to the Indenture
Trustee such amounts as shall be sufficient to cover
reasonable compensation to the Indenture Trustee, each
predecessor Indenture Trustee and their respective
agents, attorneys and counsel, and all other expenses and
liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the
Indenture Trustee and each predecessor Indenture Trustee
except as a result of negligence or bad faith.
(e) Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the
Indenture Trustee to authorize or consent to or vote for or accept or adopt on
behalf of any Owner or the Note Insurer any plan of reorganization,
arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Notes or the rights of any
Owner thereof or the Note Insurer or to authorize the Indenture Trustee to vote
in respect of the claim of any Owner in any such proceeding except, as
aforesaid, to vote for the election of a trustee in bankruptcy or similar
Person.
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(f) All rights of action and of asserting claims under this
Indenture, or under any of the Notes, may be enforced by the Indenture Trustee
without the possession of any of the Notes or the production thereof in any
trial or other Proceedings relative thereto, and any such action or Proceedings
instituted by the Indenture Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee
of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment, subject to the payment of
the expenses, disbursements and compensation of the Indenture Trustee, each
predecessor Indenture Trustee and their respective agents and attorneys, shall
be for the ratable benefit of the Owners of the Notes and the Note Insurer.
(g) In any Proceedings brought by the Indenture Trustee (and also
any Proceedings involving the interpretation of any provision of this Indenture
to which the Indenture Trustee shall be a party), the Indenture Trustee shall
be held to represent all the Owners, and it shall not be necessary to make any
Owner a party to any such Proceedings.
SECTION 5.4 Remedies; Priorities.
(a) If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing,
the Indenture Trustee shall, at the direction of the Note Insurer, and if a
Note Insurer Default has occurred and is continuing, the Indenture Trustee may
and at the direction of the Owners of the Notes representing a majority of the
Outstanding Amount of the Notes shall, upon receipt of satisfactory indemnity
and assurances, do one or more of the following (subject to Section 5.5):
(i) institute Proceedings in its own name and as trustee of
an express trust for the collection of all amounts then
payable on the Notes or under this Indenture with respect
thereto, whether by declaration or otherwise, enforce any
judgment obtained, and collect from the Issuer and any
other obligor upon such Notes moneys adjudged due;
(ii) institute Proceedings from time to time for the complete
or partial foreclosure of this Indenture with respect to
the Collateral;
(iii) exercise any remedies of a secured party under the UCC
and take any other appropriate action to protect and
enforce the rights and remedies of the Indenture Trustee,
the Note Insurer or the Owners; and
(iv) sell the Collateral or any portion thereof or rights or
interest therein in a commercially reasonable manner, at
one or more public or private sales called and conducted
in any manner permitted by law; provided, however, that
the Indenture Trustee may not sell or otherwise liquidate
the Collateral following an Event of Default, unless (A)
the Owners of 100% of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes
consent thereto, (B) the proceeds of such sale or
liquidation distributable to the Owners are sufficient to
discharge in full all amounts then due and unpaid upon
such Notes for principal and interest or (C) the
Indenture Trustee determines that the Collateral will not
continue to provide sufficient funds for the payment of
principal of and interest on the Notes as they would have
become due if the Notes had not been declared due and
payable, and the Indenture Trustee obtains the consent of
Owners of 66-2/3% of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes.
In determining such sufficiency or insufficiency with
respect to clauses (B) and (C),
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the Indenture Trustee may, but need not, obtain and rely
upon an opinion of an Independent investment banking or
accounting firm of national reputation as to the
feasibility of such proposed action and as to the
sufficiency of the Collateral for such purpose.
(b) If the Indenture Trustee collects any money or property pursuant
to this Article V, it shall pay out the money or property in the following
order:
FIRST: to the Indenture Trustee for the Indenture Trustee Fee
then due and any costs or expenses incurred by it in connection with the
enforcement of the remedies provided for in this Article V and to the Owner
Trustee for the Owner Trustee Fee then due;
SECOND: to the Note Insurer for the Premium Amount then due and
unpaid;
THIRD: to the Servicer for the Servicing Fee then due and
unpaid;
FOURTH: to Owners for amounts due and unpaid on the Notes for
Current Interest (including any premium), pro rata, according to the amounts
due and payable on the Notes for interest (including any premium);
FIFTH: to Owners of the Notes for amounts due and unpaid on the
Notes for principal, pro rata;
SIXTH: to the Note Insurer for any amounts then due and payable
under the Insurance Agreement; and
SEVENTH: to Owners of the Notes for any Available Funds Cap Carry
Forward Amount then unpaid; and
EIGHT: to the Owner Trustee, for any amounts to be distributed,
pro rata, to the Certificateholders.
The Indenture Trustee may fix a record date and payment date for any
payment to be made to the Owners pursuant to this Section. At least 15 days
before such record date, the Indenture Trustee shall mail to each Owner, the
Note Insurer and the Issuer a notice that states the record date, the payment
date and the amount to be paid.
SECTION 5.5 Optional Preservation of the Collateral. If the Notes
have been declared to be due and payable under Section 5.2 following an Event
of Default and such declaration and its consequences have not been rescinded
and annulled, the Indenture Trustee may, but need not, elect to maintain
possession of the Collateral. It is the desire of the parties hereto and the
Owners that there be at all times sufficient funds for the payment of principal
of and interest on the Notes, and the Indenture Trustee shall take such desire
into account when determining whether or not to maintain possession of the
Collateral. In determining whether to maintain possession of the Collateral,
the Indenture Trustee may, but need not, obtain and rely upon an opinion of an
Independent investment banking or accounting firm of national reputation as to
the feasibility of such proposed action and as to the sufficiency of the
Collateral for such purpose.
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SECTION 5.6 Limitation of Suits. No Owner of any Note shall have any
right to institute any Proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this
Indenture or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other
remedy hereunder for so long as a Note Insurer Default has not occurred or is
not continuing and if a Note Insurer Default has occurred and is continuing,
unless:
(a) such Owner has previously given written notice to the Indenture
Trustee of a continuing Event of Default;
(b) the Owners of not less than 25% of the Outstanding Amount of the
Notes have made written request to the Indenture Trustee to institute such
Proceeding in respect of such Event of Default in its own name as Indenture
Trustee hereunder;
(c) such Owner or Owners have offered to the Indenture Trustee
reasonable indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred
in complying with such request;
(d) the Indenture Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such
notice, request and offer of indemnity has failed to institute such
Proceedings; and
(e) no direction inconsistent with such written request has been
given to the Indenture Trustee during such 60-day period by the Owners of a
majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes.
It is understood and intended that no one or more Owners of Notes
shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of,
any provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of
any other Owners of Notes or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or
preference over any other Owners or to enforce any right under this Indenture,
except in the manner herein provided.
In the event the Indenture Trustee shall receive conflicting or
inconsistent requests and indemnity from two or more groups of Owners of Notes,
each representing less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes,
the Indenture Trustee in its sole discretion may determine what action, if any,
shall be taken, notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture.
SECTION 5.7 Unconditional Rights of Owners To Receive Principal and
Interest. Notwithstanding any other provisions in this Indenture, the Owner of
any Note shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive
payment of the principal of and interest, if any, on such Note on or after the
respective Final Payment Date thereof expressed in such Note or in this
Indenture (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date) and
to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, and such right shall
not be impaired without the consent of such Owner.
SECTION 5.8 Restoration of Rights and Remedies. If the Indenture
Trustee, the Note Insurer or any Owner has instituted any Proceeding to enforce
any right or remedy under this Indenture and such Proceeding has been
discontinued or abandoned for any reason or has been determined adversely to
the Indenture Trustee, the Note Insurer or to such Owner, then and in every
such case the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee, the Note Insurer and the Owners
shall, subject to any determination in such Proceeding, be restored severally
and respectively to their former positions hereunder, and thereafter all rights
and remedies of the Indenture Trustee and the Owners shall continue as though
no such Proceeding had been instituted.
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SECTION 5.9 Rights and Remedies Cumulative. No right or remedy
herein conferred upon or reserved to the Indenture Trustee, the Note Insurer or
to the Owners is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and
every right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and
in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter
existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any
right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent
assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.
SECTION 5.10 Delay or Omission Not a Waiver. No delay or omission of
the Indenture Trustee, the Note Insurer or any Owner of any Note to exercise
any right or remedy accruing upon any Default or Event of Default shall impair
any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Default or Event of
Default or an acquiescence therein. Every right and remedy given by this
Article V or by law to the Indenture Trustee, the Note Insurer or to the Owners
may be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by
the Indenture Trustee, the Note Insurer or by the Owners, as the case may be,
subject, in each case, however, to the right of the Note Insurer to control any
such right and remedy, except as provided in Section 11.21.
SECTION 5.11 Control by Owners. The Owners of a majority of the
Outstanding Amount of the Notes shall have the right to direct the time, method
and place of conducting any Proceeding for any remedy available to the
Indenture Trustee with respect to the Notes or exercising any trust or power
conferred on the Indenture Trustee; provided that:
(a) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or
with this Indenture;
(b) subject to the express terms of Section 5.4, any direction to
the Indenture Trustee to sell or liquidate the Collateral shall be by Owners of
Notes representing not less than 100% of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes;
(c) if the conditions set forth in Section 5.5 have been satisfied
and the Indenture Trustee elects to retain the Collateral pursuant to such
Section, then any direction to the Indenture Trustee by Owners of Notes
representing less than 100% of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes to sell or
liquidate the Collateral shall be of no force and effect; and
(d) the Indenture Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by
the Indenture Trustee that is not inconsistent with such direction.
Notwithstanding the rights of the Note Insurer and the Owners set
forth in this Section, subject to Section 6.1, the Indenture Trustee need not
take any action that it determines might involve it in liability or might
materially adversely affect the rights of any Owners not consenting to such
action.
SECTION 5.12 Waiver of Past Defaults. Prior to the declaration of the
acceleration of the maturity of the Notes as provided in Section 5.2, the
Owners of Notes representing not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount
of the Notes may waive any past Default or Event of Default and its
consequences except a Default (a) in the payment of principal of or interest on
any of the Notes or (b) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof that
cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Note Insurer or the
Owner of each Note, as applicable. In the case of any such waiver, the Issuer,
the Indenture Trustee, the Note Insurer and the Owners of the Notes shall be
restored to their former positions and rights hereunder,
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respectively; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other
Default or impair any right consequent thereto.
Upon any such waiver, such Default shall cease to exist and be deemed
to have been cured and not to have occurred, and any Event of Default arising
therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured and not to have occurred, for
every purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any
subsequent or other Default or Event of Default or impair any right consequent
thereto.
SECTION 5.13 Undertaking for Costs. All parties to this Indenture
agree, and each Owner of any Note by such Owner's acceptance thereof shall be
deemed to have agreed, that any court may in its discretion require, in any
suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any
suit against the Indenture Trustee for any action taken, suffered or omitted by
it as Indenture Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit of an
undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that such court may in its
discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys' fees,
against any party litigant in such suit, having due regard to the merits and
good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; but the
provisions of this Section shall not apply to (a) any suit instituted by the
Indenture Trustee or the Note Insurer, (b) any suit instituted by any Owner, or
group of Owners, in each case holding in the aggregate more than 10% of the
Outstanding Amount of the Notes or (c) any suit instituted by any Owner for the
enforcement of the payment of principal of or interest on any Note on or after
the respective due dates expressed in such Note and in this Indenture (or, in
the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date).
SECTION 5.14 Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws. The Issuer covenants
(to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will not at any time insist
upon, or plead or in any manner whatsoever, claim or take the benefit or
advantage of, any stay or extension law wherever enacted, now or at any time
hereafter in force, that may affect the covenants or the performance of this
Indenture; and the Issuer (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) hereby
expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law, and covenants that
it will not hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted
to the Indenture Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of every
such power as though no such law had been enacted.
SECTION 5.15 Action on Notes. The Indenture Trustee's right to seek
and recover judgment on the Notes or under this Indenture shall not be affected
by the seeking, obtaining or application of any other relief under or with
respect to this Indenture. Neither the lien of this Indenture nor any rights or
remedies of the Indenture Trustee or the Owners shall be impaired by the
recovery of any judgment by the Indenture Trustee against the Issuer or by the
levy of any execution under such judgment upon any portion of the Collateral or
upon any of the assets of the Issuer. Any money or property collected by the
Indenture Trustee shall be applied in accordance with Section 5.4(b).
SECTION 5.16 Performance and Enforcement of Certain Obligations.
(a) Promptly following a request from the Indenture Trustee to do
so, the Issuer shall take all such lawful action as the Indenture Trustee may
request to compel or secure the performance and observance by the Depositor,
the Seller and the Servicer, as applicable, of each of their obligations to the
Issuer under or in connection with the Sale and Servicing Agreement or by the
Depositor or the Seller of their respective obligations under or in connection
with the Loan Sale Agreement, and to exercise any and all rights, remedies,
powers and privileges lawfully available to the Issuer under or in connection
with the Sale and Servicing Agreement to the extent and in the manner directed
by the Indenture Trustee, including the transmission of notices of default on
the part of the Depositor, the Seller or the Servicer thereunder and the
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institution of legal or administrative actions or proceedings to compel or
secure performance by the Depositor, the Seller or the Servicer of each of
their obligations under the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
(b) If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the
Indenture Trustee may, and at the written direction (which direction shall be
in writing or by telephone, confirmed in writing promptly thereafter) of the
Owners of 66-2/3% of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes shall, exercise all
rights, remedies, powers, privileges and claims of the Issuer against the
Depositor, the Seller or the Servicer under or in connection with the Sale and
Servicing Agreement, or against the Depositor or the Seller under or in
connection with the Loan Sale Agreement, including the right or power to take
any action to compel or secure performance or observance by the Depositor, the
Seller or the Servicer, as the case may be, of each of their obligations to the
Issuer thereunder and to give any consent, request, notice, direction,
approval, extension, or waiver under the Sale and Servicing Agreement or the
Loan Sale Agreement, as the case may be, and any right of the Issuer to take
such action shall be suspended.
ARTICLE VI
THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE
SECTION 6.1 Duties of Indenture Trustee.
(a) If an Event of Default of which a Responsible Officer of the
Indenture Trustee shall have actual knowledge has occurred and is continuing,
the Indenture Trustee shall exercise the rights and powers vested in it by this
Indenture and use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise as a
prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of
such person's own affairs.
(b) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default:
(i) the Indenture Trustee undertakes to perform such duties
and only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture
and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this
Indenture against the Indenture Trustee; and
(ii) in the absence of bad faith on its part, the Indenture
Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and
the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon certificates
(or similar documents) or opinions furnished to the Indenture Trustee
and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture; however, the
Indenture Trustee shall examine the certificates (or similar
documents) and opinions to determine whether or not they conform to
the requirements of this Indenture; provided that the Indenture
Trustee shall not be responsible for the accuracy or content of any
certificate (or similar document) or opinion furnished to it pursuant
to the terms of this Indenture.
(c) The Indenture Trustee may not be relieved from liability for its
own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act or its own willful
misconduct, except that:
(i) this paragraph does not limit the effect of paragraph (b)
of this Section;
(ii) the Indenture Trustee shall not be personally liable for
any error of judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer
unless it is proved that the Indenture Trustee was negligent in
ascertaining the pertinent facts; and
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(iii) the Indenture Trustee shall not be personally liable with
respect to any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in
accordance with a direction received by it pursuant to Section 5.11 or
for exercising or omitting to exercise any trust or power conferred
upon the Indenture Trustee under this Indenture.
(d) Every provision of this Indenture that in any way relates to the
Indenture Trustee is subject to paragraphs (a), (b), (c) and (g) of this
Section.
(e) The Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for interest on any
money received by it except as the Indenture Trustee may agree in writing with
the Issuer and except to the extent of income or other gain on investments
which are deposits in or certificates of deposit of the Indenture Trustee in
its commercial capacity.
(f) Money held in trust by the Indenture Trustee shall be segregated
from other funds except to the extent permitted by law or the terms of this
Indenture or the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
(g) No provision of this Indenture shall require the Indenture
Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur financial liability
in the performance of any of its duties hereunder or in the exercise of any of
its rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds to believe that
repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is
not reasonably assured to it; provided, however, that the Indenture Trustee
shall not refuse or fail to perform any of its duties hereunder solely as a
result of nonpayment of its normal fees and expenses and further provided that
nothing in this Section 6.1(g) shall be construed to limit the exercise by the
Indenture Trustee of any right or remedy permitted under this Indenture or
otherwise in the event of the Issuer's failure to pay the Indenture Trustee's
fees and expenses pursuant to Section 6.7. In determining that such repayment
or indemnity is not reasonably assured to it, the Indenture Trustee must
consider not only the likelihood of repayment or indemnity by or on behalf of
the Issuer but also the likelihood of repayment or indemnity from amounts
payable to it from the Collateral pursuant to Section 6.7.
(h) Every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct of,
affecting the liability of or affording protection to the Indenture Trustee
shall be subject to the provisions of this Section and to the provisions of the
TIA.
SECTION 6.2 Rights of Indenture Trustee.
(a) The Indenture Trustee may rely on any document believed by it to
be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper person. The
Indenture Trustee need not investigate any fact or matter stated in the
document.
(b) Before the Indenture Trustee acts or refrains from acting, it
may require an Officer's Certificate or an Opinion of Counsel, which shall not
be at the expense of the Indenture Trustee. The Indenture Trustee shall not be
liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in reliance on an
Officer's Certificate or Opinion of Counsel.
(c) The Indenture Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers
hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through
agents or attorneys or a custodian or nominee and the
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Indenture Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on
the part of any such agent or attorney or custodian appointed by the Indenture
Trustee with due care.
(d) The Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for (i) any action it
takes or omits to take in good faith which it believes to be authorized or
within its rights or powers; provided, however, that such action or omission by
the Indenture Trustee does not constitute willful misconduct, negligence or bad
faith; or (ii) any willful misconduct or gross negligence on the part of the
Custodian.
SECTION 6.3 Individual Rights of Indenture Trustee. The Indenture
Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or
pledgee of Notes and may otherwise deal with the Issuer or its Affiliates with
the same rights it would have if it were not Indenture Trustee. Any Paying
Agent, Note Registrar, co-registrar or co-paying agent may do the same with
like rights. However, the Indenture Trustee must comply with Sections 6.11 and
6.12.
SECTION 6.4 Indenture Trustee's Disclaimer. The Indenture Trustee
shall not be responsible for and makes no representation as to the validity or
adequacy of this Indenture or the Notes, shall not be accountable for the
Issuer's use of the proceeds from the Notes, or responsible for any statement
of the Issuer in this Indenture or in any document issued in connection with
the sale of the Notes or in the Notes other than the Indenture Trustee's
certificate of authentication.
SECTION 6.5 Notice of Defaults. If a Default occurs and is continuing
and if it is known to a Responsible Officer of the Indenture Trustee, the
Indenture Trustee shall mail to the Note Insurer and each Owner notice of the
Default within 90 days after it occurs. Except in the case of a Default in
payment of principal of or interest on any Note, the Indenture Trustee may
withhold the notice if and so long as a committee of its Responsible Officers
in good faith determines that withholding the notice is in the interests of
Owners.
SECTION 6.6 Reports by Indenture Trustee to Owners. The Indenture
Trustee shall deliver to each Owner such information as may be required to
enable such Owner to prepare its federal and state income tax returns.
SECTION 6.7 Compensation and Indemnity. The Indenture Trustee shall
receive compensation for fees and reimbursement for expenses pursuant to
Section 3.03(b)(i) and Section 3.03(b)(iv)(D) of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement. The Indenture Trustee and any director, officer, employee or agent
of the Indenture Trustee shall be indemnified by the Trust and held harmless
against any loss, liability, or "unanticipated out-of-pocket" expense incurred
or paid to third parties (which expenses shall not include salaries paid to
employees, or allocable overhead, of the Indenture Trustee) in connection with
the acceptance or administration of its trusts hereunder or the Notes, other
than any loss, liability or expense incurred by reason of willful misfeasance,
bad faith or negligence in the performance of duties hereunder or by reason of
reckless disregard of obligations and duties hereunder. All such amounts
described in the preceding sentence shall be payable as provided in (A) Section
3.03(b)(i) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement with respect to such amounts
that are Indenture Trustee Reimbursable Expenses and (B) Section 3.03(b)(iv)(D)
with respect to the remainder of such amounts, subject in the case of clause
(B), to Section 6.1(g) of this Indenture. The provisions of this Section 6.7
shall survive the termination of this Indenture.
The Issuer's payment obligations to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to
this Section shall survive the discharge of this Indenture. When the Indenture
Trustee incurs expenses after the occurrence of a Default
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specified in Section 5.1(e) or (f) with respect to the Issuer, the expenses are
intended to constitute expenses of administration under Title 11 of the United
States Code or any other applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or
similar law.
SECTION 6.8 Replacement of Indenture Trustee. No resignation or
removal of the Indenture Trustee and no appointment of a successor Indenture
Trustee shall become effective until the acceptance of appointment by the
successor Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Section. The Indenture Trustee may
resign at any time by so notifying the Issuer and the Note Insurer. The Owners
of a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes (with the consent of the
Note Insurer) may remove the Indenture Trustee by so notifying the Indenture
Trustee and may appoint a successor Indenture Trustee. The Note Insurer (or the
Issuer upon the prior written consent of the Note Insurer) shall remove the
Indenture Trustee if:
(a) the Indenture Trustee fails to comply with Section 6.11;
(b) the Indenture Trustee is adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent;
(c) a receiver or other public officer takes charge of the Indenture
Trustee or its property; or
(d) the Indenture Trustee otherwise becomes incapable of acting.
If the Indenture Trustee resigns or is removed, or if a vacancy exists
in the office of Indenture Trustee for any reason (the Indenture Trustee in
such event being referred to herein as the retiring Indenture Trustee), the
Issuer shall promptly appoint a successor Indenture Trustee acceptable to the
Note Insurer. A successor Indenture Trustee shall deliver a written acceptance
of its appointment to the retiring Indenture Trustee, the Note Insurer and to
the Issuer. Thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring Indenture
Trustee shall become effective, and the successor Indenture Trustee shall have
all the rights, powers and duties of the Indenture Trustee under this
Indenture. The successor Indenture Trustee shall mail a notice of its
succession to the Owners. The retiring Indenture Trustee shall promptly
transfer all property held by it as Indenture Trustee to the successor
Indenture Trustee.
If a successor Indenture Trustee does not take office within 60 days
after the retiring Indenture Trustee resigns or is removed, the retiring
Indenture Trustee, the Issuer or the Owners of a majority of the Outstanding
Amount of the Notes may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the
appointment of a successor Indenture Trustee.
If the Indenture Trustee fails to comply with Section 6.11, any Owner
may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the
Indenture Trustee and the appointment of a successor Indenture Trustee.
Notwithstanding the replacement of the Indenture Trustee pursuant to
this Section, the Issuer's obligations under Section 6.7 shall continue for the
benefit of the retiring Indenture Trustee.
SECTION 6.9 Successor Indenture Trustee by Merger. If the Indenture
Trustee consolidates with, merges or converts into, or transfers all or
substantially all its corporate trust business or assets to, another
corporation or banking association, the resulting, surviving or transferee
corporation without any further act shall be the successor Indenture Trustee;
provided, that such corporation or banking association shall be
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otherwise qualified and eligible under Section 6.11. The Indenture Trustee
shall provide the Note Insurer and the Rating Agencies prior written notice of
any such transaction.
In case at the time such successor or successors by merger, conversion
or consolidation to the Indenture Trustee shall succeed to the trusts created
by this Indenture any of the Notes shall have been authenticated but not
delivered, any such successor to the Indenture Trustee may adopt the
certificate of authentication of any predecessor trustee, and deliver such
Notes so authenticated; and in case at that time any of the Notes shall not
have been authenticated, any successor to the Indenture Trustee may
authenticate such Notes either in the name of any predecessor hereunder or in
the name of the successor to the Indenture Trustee; and in all such cases such
certificates shall have the full force which it is anywhere in the Notes or in
this Indenture provided that the certificate of the Indenture Trustee shall
have.
SECTION 6.10 Appointment of Co-Indenture Trustee or Separate Indenture
Trustee.
(a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture, at any
time, for the purpose of meeting any legal requirement of any jurisdiction in
which any part of the Collateral may at the time be located, the Indenture
Trustee shall have the power, with the prior written consent of the Note
Insurer, and may execute and deliver all instruments to appoint one or more
Persons to act as a co-trustee or co-trustees, or separate trustee or separate
trustees, of all or any part of the Trust, and to vest in such Person or
Persons, in such capacity and for the benefit of the Owners, such title to the
Collateral, or any part hereof, and, subject to the other provisions of this
Section, such powers, duties, obligations, rights and trusts as the Indenture
Trustee may consider necessary or desirable. No co-trustee or separate trustee
hereunder shall be required to meet the terms of eligibility as a successor
trustee under Section 6.11 and no notice to Owners of the appointment of any
co-trustee or separate trustee shall be required under Section 6.8 hereof;
provided that the Indenture Trustee shall deliver notice of any such
co-trustee or separate trustee to the Note Insurer.
(b) Every separate trustee and co-trustee shall, to the extent
permitted by law, be appointed and act subject to the following provisions and
conditions:
(i) all rights, powers, duties and obligations conferred or imposed
upon the Indenture Trustee shall be conferred or imposed upon and exercised or
performed by the Indenture Trustee and such separate trustee or co-trustee
jointly (it being understood that such separate trustee or co-trustee is not
authorized to act separately without the Indenture Trustee joining in such
act), except to the extent that under any law of any jurisdiction in which any
particular act or acts are to be performed the Indenture Trustee shall be
incompetent or unqualified to perform such act or acts, in which event such
rights, powers, duties and obligations (including the holding of title to the
Collateral or any portion thereof in any such jurisdiction) shall be exercised
and performed singly by such separate trustee or co-trustee, but solely at the
direction of the Indenture Trustee;
(ii) no trustee hereunder shall be personally liable by
reason of any act or omission of any other trustee
hereunder; and
(iii) the Indenture Trustee may at any time accept the
resignation of or remove any separate trustee or
co-trustee.
(c) Any notice, request or other writing given to the Indenture
Trustee shall be deemed to have been given to each of the then separate
trustees and co-trustees, as effectively as if given to each of them.
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Every instrument appointing any separate trustee or co-trustee shall refer to
this Indenture and the conditions of this Article VI. Each separate trustee
and co-trustee, upon its acceptance of the trusts conferred, shall be vested
with the estates or property specified in its instrument of appointment,
jointly with the Indenture Trustee, subject to all the provisions of this
Indenture, specifically including every provision of this Indenture relating to
the conduct of, affecting the liability of, or affording protection to, the
Indenture Trustee. Every such instrument shall be filed with the Indenture
Trustee.
(d) Any separate trustee or co-trustee may at any time constitute
the Indenture Trustee its agent or attorney-in-fact with full power and
authority, to the extent not prohibited by law, to do any lawful act under or
in respect of this Indenture on its behalf and in its name. If any separate
trustee or co-trustee shall die, become incapable of acting, resign or be
removed, all of its estates, properties, rights, remedies and trusts shall vest
in and be exercised by the Indenture Trustee, to the extent permitted by law,
without the appointment of a new or successor trustee.
SECTION 6.11 Eligibility; Disqualification. The Indenture Trustee
shall at all times satisfy the requirements of TIA Section 310(a). The
Indenture Trustee shall have a combined capital and surplus of at least
$50,000,000 as set forth in its most recent published annual report of
condition and it or its parent shall have a long-term debt rating of A3 or
better by Moody's or shall otherwise be acceptable to Moody's. The Indenture
Trustee shall comply with TIA Section 310(b), including the optional provision
permitted by the second sentence of TIA Section 310(b)(9); provided, however,
that there shall be excluded from the operation of TIA Section 310(b)(1) any
indenture or indentures under which other securities of the Issuer are
outstanding if the requirements for such exclusion set forth in TIA Section
310(b)(1) are met.
SECTION 6.12 Preferential Collection of Claims Against Issuer. The
Indenture Trustee shall comply with TIA Section 311(a), excluding any creditor
relationship listed in TIA Section 311(b). An Indenture Trustee who has
resigned or been removed shall be subject to TIA Section 311(a) to the extent
indicated.
ARTICLE VII
OWNERS' LISTS AND REPORTS
SECTION 7.1 Issuer To Furnish Indenture Trustee Names and Addresses
of Owners. The Issuer will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Indenture
Trustee (a) not more than five days after each Record Date, a list, in such
form as the Indenture Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and
addresses of the Owners as of such Record Date, (b) at such other times as the
Indenture Trustee may request in writing, within 30 days after receipt by the
Issuer of any such request, a list of similar form and content as of a date not
more than 10 days prior to the time such list is furnished; provided, however,
that so long as the Indenture Trustee is the Note Registrar, no such list shall
be required to be furnished.
SECTION 7.2 Preservation of Information; Communications to Owners.
(a) The Indenture Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as
is reasonably practicable, the names and addresses of the Owners contained in
the most recent list furnished to the Indenture Trustee as provided in Section
7.1 and the names and addresses of Owners received by the Indenture Trustee in
its capacity as Note Registrar. The Indenture Trustee may destroy any list
furnished to it as provided in such Section 7.1 upon receipt of a new list so
furnished.
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(b) Owners may communicate pursuant to TIA Section 312(b) with other
Owners with respect to their rights under this Indenture or under the Notes.
(c) The Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Note Registrar shall
have the protection of TIA Section 312(c).
SECTION 7.3 Reports by Issuer. The Issuer shall:
(a) file with the Indenture Trustee and the Note Insurer, within 15
days after the Issuer is required to file the same with the Commission, copies
of the annual reports and of the information, documents and other reports (or
copies of such portions of any of the foregoing as the Commission may from time
to time by rules and regulations prescribe) that the Issuer may be required to
file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act;
(b) file with the Indenture Trustee and the Note Insurer and the
Commission in accordance with the rules and regulations prescribed from time to
time by the Commission such additional information, documents and reports with
respect to compliance by the Issuer with the conditions and covenants of this
Indenture as may be required from time to time by such rules and regulations;
and
(c) supply to the Indenture Trustee (and the Indenture Trustee shall
transmit by mail to all Owners described in TIA Section 313(c)) such summaries
of any information, documents and reports required to be filed by the Issuer
pursuant to clauses (i) and (ii) of this Section 7.3(a) and by rules and
regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission.
SECTION 7.4 Reports by Indenture Trustee. If required by TIA Section
313(a), within 60 days after each October 1, beginning with October 1, 1998,
the Indenture Trustee shall mail to the Note Insurer and to each Owner as
required by TIA Section 313(c) a brief report dated as of such date that
complies with TIA Section 313(a). The Indenture Trustee also shall comply with
TIA Section 313(b).
A copy of each report at the time of its mailing to Owners shall be
filed by the Indenture Trustee with the Commission and each securities
exchange, if any, on which the Notes are listed. The Issuer shall notify the
Indenture Trustee if and when the Notes are listed on any securities exchange.
ARTICLE VIII
ACCOUNTS, DISBURSEMENTS AND RELEASES
SECTION 8.1 Collection of Money.
(a) General. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, the
Indenture Trustee may demand payment or delivery of, and shall receive and
collect, directly and without intervention or assistance of any fiscal agent or
other intermediary, all money and other property payable to or receivable by
the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Indenture. The Indenture Trustee shall
apply all such money received by it as provided in this Indenture. Except as
otherwise expressly provided in this Indenture, if any default occurs in the
making of any payment or performance under any agreement or instrument that is
part of the Collateral, the Indenture Trustee may, and upon written request of
the Note Insurer shall, take such action as may be appropriate to enforce such
payment or performance, including the institution and prosecution of
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appropriate Proceedings. Any such action shall be without prejudice to any
right to claim a Default or Event of Default under this Indenture and any right
to proceed thereafter as provided in Article V.
(b) Claims Under Note Insurance Policy. The Notes will be insured
by the Note Insurance Policy pursuant to the terms set forth therein,
notwithstanding any provisions to the contrary contained in this Indenture or
the Sale and Servicing Agreement. All amounts received under the Note Insurance
Policy shall be used solely for the payment to Owners of Insured Payments.
SECTION 8.2 Accounts; Distributions.
(a) On or prior to the Closing Date, the Issuer shall cause the
Servicer to establish and maintain, in the name of the Indenture Trustee for
the benefit of the Owners and the Note Insurer, the Accounts as provided in the
Sale and Servicing Agreement. The Indenture Trustee shall deposit amounts into
the Accounts in accordance with the terms hereof and the Sale and Servicing
Agreement.
(b) On or before the third Business Day prior to each Payment Date,
the Indenture Trustee shall withdraw from the Principal and Interest Account
the amounts specified in Section 3.03(a) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement
and will deposit such amount into the Note Account. No later than the Business
Day prior to each Payment Date, to the extent funds are available in the Note
Account, the Indenture Trustee shall either retain funds in the Note Account or
make the withdrawals from the Note Account and deposits into the other Accounts
for distribution on such Payment Date as required pursuant to Section 3.03(b)
of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
(c) On each Payment Date and the Redemption Date, to the extent
funds are available in the Note Account, the Indenture Trustee shall make the
following distributions from the amounts on deposit in the Note Account in the
following order of priority (except as otherwise provided in Section 5.4(b)):
(i) to the Owners of the Notes, the Current Interest for such
Payment Date; provided, that if there are not sufficient
funds in the Note Account to pay the entire amount of
accrued and unpaid interest then due on the Notes, the
amount in the Note Account shall be applied to the
payment of such interest on the Notes pro rata on the
basis of the total such interest due on the Notes; and
(ii) to the Owners of the Notes, the Principal Distribution
Amount for such Payment Date.
(d) The Indenture Trustee shall make claims under the Note Insurance
Policy pursuant to Section 7.02 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement and in
accordance with the Note Insurance Policy. The Indenture Trustee shall deposit
any Insured Payment received from the Note Insurer in the Note Account. All
amounts received under the Note Insurance Policy shall be used solely for the
payment to Owners of principal and interest on the Notes.
SECTION 8.3 General Provisions Regarding Accounts.
(a) So long as no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred
and be continuing, all or a portion of the funds in the Accounts shall be
invested in Eligible Investments and reinvested by the Indenture Trustee at the
direction of the Seller in accordance with the provisions of Section 3.05 of
the Sale and
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Servicing Agreement. The Issuer will not direct the Indenture Trustee to make
any investment of any funds or to sell any investment held in any of the
Accounts unless the security interest Granted and perfected in such Account
will continue to be perfected in such investment or the proceeds of such sale,
in either case without any further action by any Person, and, in connection
with any direction to the Indenture Trustee to make any such investment or
sale.
(b) Subject to Section 6.1(c), the Indenture Trustee shall not in
any way be held liable by reason of any insufficiency in any of the Accounts
resulting from any loss on any Eligible Investment included therein except for
losses attributable to the Indenture Trustee's failure to make payments on such
Eligible Investments issued by the Indenture Trustee, in its commercial
capacity as principal obligor and not as trustee, in accordance with their
terms.
(c) If (i) the Seller shall have failed to give investment
directions for any funds on deposit in the Accounts to the Indenture Trustee by
11:00 a.m. Eastern Time (or such other time as may be agreed by the Issuer and
Indenture Trustee) on any Business Day or (ii) a Default or Event of Default
shall have occurred and be continuing with respect to the Notes but the Notes
shall not have been declared due and payable pursuant to Section 5.2 or (iii)
if such Notes shall been declared due and payable following an Event of
Default, amounts collected or receivable from the Collateral are being applied
in accordance with Section 5.5 as if there had not been such a declaration,
then the Indenture Trustee shall, to the fullest extent practicable, invest and
reinvest funds in the Accounts in one or more Eligible Investments.
SECTION 8.4 Servicer's Monthly Statements. On each Payment Date (to
the extent it receives the supporting documentation from the Servicer on a
timely basis), the Indenture Trustee shall deliver the report required by
Section 3.09 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement with respect to such Payment
Date to the Depositor, the Rating Agencies, and the Note Insurer.
SECTION 8.5 Release of Collateral.
(a) Subject to the payment of its fees and expenses pursuant to
Section 6.7, the Indenture Trustee may, and when required by the provisions of
this Indenture and the Sale and Servicing Agreement shall, execute instruments
to release property from the lien of this Indenture, or convey the Indenture
Trustee's interest in the same, in a manner and under circumstances that are
not inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture. No party relying upon
an instrument executed by the Indenture Trustee as provided in this Article
VIII shall be bound to ascertain the Indenture Trustee's authority, inquire
into the satisfaction of any conditions precedent or see to the application of
any moneys.
(b) The Indenture Trustee shall, at such time as there are no Notes
Outstanding and all sums due to the Note Insurer, the Indenture Trustee and
the Owner Trustee have been paid, release any remaining portion of the
Collateral that secured the Notes from the lien of this Indenture and release
to the Issuer or any other Person entitled thereto any funds then on deposit
in the Accounts. The Indenture Trustee shall release property from the lien of
this Indenture pursuant to this Subsection (b) only upon receipt of an Issuer
Request accompanied by an Officer's Certificate, an Opinion of Counsel and (if
required by the TIA) Independent Certificates in accordance with TIA Sections
314(c) and 314(d)(1) meeting the applicable requirements of Section 11.1.
SECTION 8.6 Opinion of Counsel. The Indenture Trustee and the Note
Insurer shall receive at least seven Business Days notice when requested by the
Issuer to take any action pursuant to Section 8.5(a),
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accompanied by copies of any instruments involved, and the Indenture Trustee
shall also require, as a condition to such action, an Opinion of Counsel, in
form and substance satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, stating the legal
effect of any such action, outlining the steps required to complete the same,
and concluding that all conditions precedent to the taking of such action have
been complied with and such action will not materially and adversely impair the
security for the Notes or the rights of the Owners in contravention of the
provisions of this Indenture; provided, however, that such Opinion of Counsel
shall not be required to express an opinion as to the fair value of the
Collateral. Counsel rendering any such opinion may rely, without independent
investigation, on the accuracy and validity of any certificate or other
instrument delivered to the Indenture Trustee in connection with any such
action.
ARTICLE IX
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
SECTION 9.1 Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Owners.
(a) Without the consent of the Owners of any Notes but with prior
notice to the Rating Agencies and with the prior written consent of the Note
Insurer, the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee, when authorized by an Issuer
Order, at any time and from time to time, may enter into one or more indentures
supplemental hereto (which shall conform to the provisions of the Trust
Indenture Act as in force at the date of the execution thereof), in form
satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, for any of the following purposes:
(i) to correct or amplify the description of any property at
any time subject to the lien of this Indenture, or better
to assure, convey and confirm unto the Indenture Trustee
any property subject or required to be subjected to the
lien of this Indenture, or to subject to the lien of this
Indenture additional property;
(ii) to evidence the succession, in compliance with the
applicable provisions hereof, of another person to the
Issuer, and the assumption by any such successor of the
covenants of the Issuer herein and in the Notes
contained;
(iii) to add to the covenants of the Issuer, for the benefit
of the Owners of the Notes, or to surrender any right or
power herein conferred upon the Issuer;
(iv) to convey, transfer, assign, mortgage or pledge any
property to or with the Indenture Trustee;
(v) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any
provision herein or in any supplemental indenture that
may be inconsistent with any other provision herein or in
any supplemental indenture or to make any other
provisions with respect to matters or questions arising
under this Indenture or in any supplemental indenture;
provided, that such action shall not adversely affect the
interests of the Owners of the Notes;
(vi) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of the
appointment hereunder by a successor trustee with respect
to the Notes and to add to or change any of the
provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to
facilitate the administration of
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the trusts hereunder by more than one trustee, pursuant to
the requirements of Article VI;
(vii) to modify, eliminate or add to the provisions of this
Indenture to such extent as shall be necessary to effect
the qualification of the Indenture under the TIA or under
any similar federal statute hereafter enacted and to add
to the Indenture such other provisions as may be
expressly required by the TIA; or
(viii) to modify or alter the provisions of the definition of
the term "Outstanding".
The Indenture Trustee is hereby authorized to join in the execution of
any such supplemental indenture and to make any further appropriate agreements
and stipulations that may be therein contained.
(b) The Issuer and the Indenture Trustee, with the prior written
consent of the Note Insurer, when authorized by an Issuer Order, may, upon
satisfaction of the Rating Agency Condition but without the consent of any of
the Owners, enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the
purpose of adding any provisions to, or changing in any manner or eliminating
any of the provisions of, this Indenture or of modifying in any manner the
rights of the Owners of the Notes under this Indenture; provided, however, that
such action shall not, as evidenced by (i) an Opinion of Counsel or (ii)
satisfaction of the Rating Agency Condition, adversely affect in any material
respect the interests of any Owner.
SECTION 9.2 Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Owners. The
Issuer and the Indenture Trustee, when authorized by an Issuer Order, also may,
with the prior consent of the Note Insurer and with the consent of the Owners
of not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes, by Act of
such Owners delivered to the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee, enter into an
indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any
provisions to, or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions
of, this Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Owners of
the Notes under this Indenture; provided, however, that no such supplemental
indenture shall, without the consent of the Owner of each Note affected thereby
and the Note Insurer if affected thereby:
(a) change the date of payment of any installment of principal of or
interest on any Note, or reduce the principal amount thereof or, the Note Rate,
change the provisions of this Indenture relating to the application of
collections on, or the proceeds of the sale of, the Collateral to payment of
principal of or interest on the Notes, or change any place of payment where, or
the coin or currency in which, any Note or the interest thereon is payable, or
impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of the provisions of
this Indenture requiring the application of funds available therefor, as
provided in Article V, to the payment of any such amount due on the Notes on or
after the respective due dates thereof (or, in the case of redemption, on or
after the Redemption Date);
(b) reduce the percentage of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes,
the consent of the Owners of which is required for any such supplemental
indenture, or the consent of the Owners of which is required for any waiver of
compliance with certain provisions of this Indenture or certain defaults
hereunder and their consequences provided for in this Indenture;
(c) reduce the percentage of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes
required to direct the Indenture Trustee to direct the Issuer to sell or
liquidate the Collateral pursuant to Section 5.4;
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(d) modify any provision of this Section except to increase any
percentage specified herein or to provide that certain additional provisions of
this Indenture or the Operative Documents cannot be modified or waived without
the consent of the Owner of each Note affected thereby;
(e) modify any of the provisions of this Indenture in such manner as
to affect the calculation of the amount of any payment of interest or principal
due on any Note on any Payment Date (including the calculation of any of the
individual components of such calculation) or to affect the rights of the
Owners of Notes to the benefit of any provisions for the mandatory redemption
of the Notes contained herein; or
(f) permit the creation of any lien ranking prior to or on a parity
with the lien of this Indenture with respect to any part of the Collateral or,
except as otherwise permitted or contemplated herein, terminate the lien of
this Indenture on any property at any time subject hereto or deprive the Owner
of any Note of the security provided by the lien of this Indenture.
The Indenture Trustee may in its discretion determine whether or not
any Notes would be affected by any supplemental indenture and any such
determination shall be conclusive upon the Owners of all Notes, whether
theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder. The Indenture
Trustee shall not be liable for any such determination made in good faith.
In connection with requesting the consent of the Owners pursuant to
this Section, the Indenture Trustee shall mail to the Owners of the Notes to
which such amendment or supplemental indenture relates a notice setting forth
in general terms the substance of such supplemental indenture. It shall not be
necessary for any Act of Owners under this Section to approve the particular
form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it shall be sufficient if
such Act shall approve the substance thereof.
SECTION 9.3 Execution of Supplemental Indentures. In executing, or
permitting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental indenture
permitted by this Article IX or the modification thereby of the trusts created
by this Indenture, the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and
subject to Sections 6.1 and 6.2, shall be fully protected in relying upon, an
Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture is
authorized or permitted by this Indenture. The Indenture Trustee may, but shall
not be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture that affects
the Indenture Trustee's own rights, duties, liabilities or immunities under
this Indenture or otherwise.
SECTION 9.4 Effect of Supplemental Indenture. Upon the execution of
any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions hereof, this Indenture
shall be and shall be deemed to be modified and amended in accordance therewith
with respect to the Notes affected thereby, and the respective rights,
limitations of rights, obligations, duties, liabilities and immunities under
this Indenture of the Indenture Trustee, the Issuer and the Owners of the Notes
shall thereafter be determined, exercised and enforced hereunder subject in all
respects to such modifications and amendments, and all the terms and conditions
of any such supplemental indenture shall be and be deemed to be part of the
terms and conditions of this Indenture for any and all purposes.
SECTION 9.5 Conformity with Trust Indenture Act. Every amendment of
this Indenture and every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this
Article IX shall conform to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act as then
in effect so long as this Indenture shall then be qualified under the Trust
Indenture Act.
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SECTION 9.6 Reference in Notes to Supplemental Indentures. Notes
authenticated and delivered after the execution of any supplemental indenture
pursuant to this Article IX may, and if required by the Indenture Trustee
shall, bear a notation in form approved by the Indenture Trustee as to any
matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Issuer or the
Indenture Trustee shall so determine, new Notes so modified as to conform, in
the opinion of the Indenture Trustee and the Issuer, to any such supplemental
indenture may be prepared and executed by the Issuer and authenticated and
delivered by the Indenture Trustee in exchange for Notes.
SECTION 9.7 Amendments to Trust Agreement. Subject to Section 11.1 of
the Trust Agreement, the Indenture Trustee shall, upon Issuer Order, consent to
any proposed amendment to the Trust Agreement or an amendment to or waiver of
any provision of any other document relating to the Trust Agreement, such
consent to be given without the necessity of obtaining the consent of the
Owners of any Notes upon satisfaction of the requirements under Section 11.1 of
the Trust Agreement.
Nothing in this Section shall be construed to require that any Person
obtain the consent of the Indenture Trustee to any amendment or waiver or any
provision of any document where the making of such amendment or the giving of
such waiver without obtaining the consent of the Indenture Trustee is not
prohibited by this Indenture or by the terms of the document that is the
subject of the proposed amendment or waiver.
ARTICLE X
REDEMPTION OF NOTES
SECTION 10.1 Redemption. The holders of a majority of the Percentage
Interests represented by the Certificates then outstanding may effect an early
redemption of the Notes on or after any Monthly Remittance Date after the
Redemption Date pursuant to Section 5.02 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
If the holders of the Certificates decline to exercise such option to purchase
the Collateral and redeem the Notes, the Note Insurer may do so as provided in
Section 5.02(c) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement. If the holders of the
Certificates decline to exercise such option to purchase the Collateral and
redeem the Notes, the Note Insurer may do so as provided in Section 5.02(c) of
the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
Any such redemption by the Holders of the Certificates or the Note
Insurer, as applicable, shall be accomplished by the Holders of the
Certificates or the Note Insurer, as applicable, depositing or causing to be
deposited into the Principal and Interest Account by 10:00 A.M. New York City
time on the on the Monthly Remittance Date prior to the Redemption Date the
amount of the Redemption Price. On the Payment Date after the date that the
Redemption Price is deposited into the Principal and Interest Account, the
Redemption Price shall be transferred to the Note Account for distribution to
the Owners on the Redemption Date; and any amounts received with respect to the
Home Equity Loans and REO Properties subsequent to such transfer shall belong
to the Servicer or the Note Insurer, as applicable.
The Servicer or the Issuer shall furnish the Indenture Trustee, the
Rating Agencies and the Note Insurer notice of any such redemption in
accordance with Section 10.2 no later than 15 days prior to the Redemption
Date.
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SECTION 10.2 Form of Redemption Notice
(a) Notice of redemption under Section 10.1 shall be given by the
Indenture Trustee by first-class mail, postage prepaid, or by facsimile mailed
or transmitted not later than 10 days prior to the applicable Redemption Date
to each Owner of Notes, as of the close of business on the Record Date
preceding the applicable Redemption Date, at such Owner's address or facsimile
number appearing in the Note Register.
All notices of redemption shall state:
(i) the Redemption Date;
(ii) the Redemption Price; and
(iii) the place where such Notes are to be surrendered for
payment of the Redemption Price (which shall be the
office or agency of the Issuer to be maintained as
provided in Section 3.2).
Notice of redemption of the Notes shall be given by the Indenture
Trustee in the name of the Issuer and at the expense of the Servicer. Failure
to give notice of redemption, or any defect therein, to any Owner of any Note
shall not impair or affect the validity of the redemption of any other Note
SECTION 10.3 Notes Payable on Redemption Date; Provision for Payment
of Indenture Trustee and Note Insurer. The Notes or portions thereof to be
redeemed shall, following notice of redemption as required by Section 10.2 (in
the case of redemption pursuant to Section 10.1), on the Redemption Date become
due and payable at the Redemption Price and (unless the Issuer shall default in
the payment of the Redemption Price) no interest shall accrue on the Redemption
Price for any period after the date to which accrued interest is calculated for
purposes of calculating the Redemption Price. The Issuer may not redeem the
Notes unless, (i) all outstanding obligations under the Notes have been paid in
full and (ii) the Indenture Trustee has been paid all amounts to which it is
entitled hereunder and the Note Insurer has been paid all Reimbursement Amounts
to which it is entitled as of the applicable Redemption Date.
ARTICLE XI
MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 11.1 Compliance Certificates and Opinions, etc.
Upon any application or request by the Issuer to the Indenture
Trustee to take any action under any provision of this Indenture, the Issuer
shall furnish to the Indenture Trustee (i) an Officer's Certificate stating
that all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture relating
to the proposed action have been complied with, and (ii) (if required by the
TIA) an Independent Certificate from a firm of certified public accountants
meeting the applicable requirements of this Section, except that, in the case
of any such application or request as to which the furnishing of such documents
is specifically required by any provision of this Indenture, no additional
certificate or opinion need be furnished.
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Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a
condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture shall include:
(1) a statement that each individual signing such certificate or
opinion has read or has caused to be read such covenant or condition and the
definitions herein relating thereto;
(2) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination
or investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in such
certificate or opinion are based; and
(3) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such
signatory, such condition or covenant has been complied with.
SECTION 11.2 Form of Documents Delivered to Indenture Trustee. In any
case where several matters are required to be certified by, or covered by an
opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all such matters be
certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such Person, or that they
be so certified or covered by only one document, but one such Person may
certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one or more other
such Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify or give an
opinion as to such matters in one or several documents.
Any certificate or opinion of an Authorized Officer of the Issuer may
be based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion
of, or representations by, counsel, unless such officer knows, or in the
exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or
representations with respect to the matters upon which such officer's
certificate or opinion is based are erroneous. Any such certificate of an
Authorized Officer or Opinion of Counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to
factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, an
officer or officers of the Servicer, the Seller, the Issuer or the Depositor,
stating that the information with respect to such factual matters is in the
possession of the Servicer, the Seller, the Issuer or the Depositor, unless
such counsel knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the
certificate or opinion or representations with respect to such matters are
erroneous.
Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more
applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other
instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated and
form one instrument.
Whenever in this Indenture, in connection with any application or
certificate or report to the Indenture Trustee, it is provided that the Issuer
shall deliver any document as a condition of the granting of such application,
or as evidence of the Issuer's compliance with any term hereof, it is intended
that the truth and accuracy, at the time of the granting of such application or
at the effective date of such certificate or report (as the case may be), of
the facts and opinions stated in such document shall in such case be conditions
precedent to the right of the Issuer to have such application granted or to the
sufficiency of such certificate or report. The foregoing shall not, however, be
construed to affect the Indenture Trustee's right to rely upon the truth and
accuracy of any statement or opinion contained in any such document as provided
in Article VI.
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SECTION 11.3 Acts of Owners.
(a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by
Owners may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of
substantially similar tenor signed by such Owners in person or by agents duly
appointed in writing; and except as herein otherwise expressly provided such
action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered
in writing to the Indenture Trustee, and, where it is hereby expressly
required, to the Issuer. Such instrument or instruments (and the action
embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the
"Act" of the Owners signing such instrument or instruments. Proof of execution
of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be
sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Section 6.1)
conclusive in favor of the Indenture Trustee and the Issuer, if made in the
manner provided in this Section.
(b) The fact and date of the execution by any person of any such
instrument or writing may be proved in any manner that the Indenture Trustee
deems sufficient.
(c) The ownership of Notes shall be proved by the Note Register.
(d) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other action by the Owner of any Notes shall bind the Owner of every
Note issued upon the registration thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu
thereof, in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the
Indenture Trustee or the Issuer in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of
such action is made upon such Note.
SECTION 11.4 Notices, etc., to Indenture Trustee, Issuer, Rating
Agencies and Note Insurer. Any request, demand, authorization, direction,
notice, consent, waiver or Act of Owners or other documents provided or
permitted by this Indenture shall be in writing and if such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or act of Owners is to be
made upon, given or furnished to or filed with:
(a) the Indenture Trustee by any Owner or by the Issuer shall be
sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed in
writing to or with the Indenture Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office, or
(b) in the case of the Issuer, Rating Agencies or Note Insurer as
provided in Section 6.12 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
SECTION 11.5 Notices to Owners; Waiver. Where this Indenture provides
for notice to Owners of any event, such notice shall be sufficiently given
(unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed,
first-class, postage prepaid to each Owner affected by such event, at his
address as it appears on the Note Register, not later than the latest date, and
not earlier than the earliest date, prescribed for the giving of such notice.
In any case where notice to Owners is given by mail ,neither the failure to
mail such notice nor any defect in any notice so mailed to any particular Owner
shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Owners, and
any notice that is mailed in the manner herein provided shall conclusively be
presumed to have been duly given.
Where this Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice
may be waived in writing by any Person entitled to receive such notice, either
before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the
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equivalent of such notice. Waivers of notice by Owners shall be filed with the
Indenture Trustee but such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the
validity of any action taken in reliance upon such a waiver.
In case, by reason of the suspension of regular mail service as a
result of a strike, work stoppage or similar activity, it shall be impractical
to mail notice of any event to Owners when such notice is required to be given
pursuant to any provision of this Indenture, then any manner of giving such
notice as shall be satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee shall be deemed to be
a sufficient giving of such notice.
Where this Indenture provides for notice to the Rating Agencies,
failure to give such notice shall not affect any other rights or obligations
created hereunder, and shall not under any circumstance constitute a Default or
Event of Default.
SECTION 11.6 [RESERVED].
SECTION 11.7 Conflict with Trust Indenture Act. If any provision
hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with another provision hereof that is
required to be included in this Indenture by any of the provisions of the Trust
Indenture Act, such required provision shall control.
The provisions of TIA Sections 310 through 317 that impose duties on
any person (including the provisions automatically deemed included herein
unless expressly excluded by this Indenture) are a part of and govern this
Indenture, whether or not physically contained herein.
SECTION 11.8 Effect of Headings and Table of Contents. The Article and
Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are for convenience only and
shall not affect the construction hereof.
SECTION 11.9 Successors and Assigns. All covenants and agreements in
this Indenture and the Notes by the Issuer shall bind its successors and
assigns, whether so expressed or not. All agreements of the Indenture Trustee
in this Indenture shall bind its successors, co-trustees and agents.
SECTION 11.10 Separability. In case any provision in this
Indenture or in the Notes shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the
validity, legality, and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in
any way be affected or impaired thereby.
SECTION 11.11 Benefits of Indenture. Nothing in this
Indenture or in the Notes, express or implied, shall give to any Person, other
than the parties hereto and their successors hereunder, and the Owners, and any
other party secured hereunder, and any other Person with an ownership interest
in any part of the Collateral, any benefit or any legal or equitable right,
remedy or claim under this Indenture, except that the Note Insurer is an
express third party beneficiary to this Indenture as provided in Section 11.20.
SECTION 11.12 Legal Holidays. In any case where the date on
which any payment is due shall not be a Business Day, then (notwithstanding any
other provision of the Notes or this Indenture) payment need not be made on
such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day with the same
force and effect as if made on the date on which nominally due, and no interest
shall accrue for the period from and after any such nominal date.
SECTION 11.13 Governing Law. THIS INDENTURE SHALL BE
CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT
REFERENCE TO ITS
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CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISIONS, AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE
PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.
SECTION 11.14 Counterparts. This Indenture may be executed
in any number of counterparts, each of which so executed shall be deemed to be
an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and
the same instrument.
SECTION 11.15 Recording of Indenture. If this Indenture is
subject to recording in any appropriate public recording offices, such
recording is to be effected by the Issuer and at its expense accompanied by an
Opinion of Counsel (which may be counsel to the Indenture Trustee or any other
counsel reasonably acceptable to the Indenture Trustee) to the effect that such
recording is necessary either for the protection of the Owners or any other
Person secured hereunder or for the enforcement of any right or remedy granted
to the Indenture Trustee under this Indenture.
SECTION 11.16 Trust Obligation. No recourse may be taken,
directly or indirectly, with respect to the obligations of the Issuer, the
Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee on the Notes or under this Indenture or
any certificate or other writing delivered in connection herewith or therewith,
against (i) the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual
capacity, (ii) any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer or (iii) any
partner, owner, beneficiary, agent, officer, director, employee or agent of the
Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity, any Owner of
a beneficial interest in the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee
or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in
its individual capacity, except as any such Person may have expressly agreed
(it being understood that the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee have no
such obligations in their individual capacity) and except that any such
partner, owner or beneficiary shall be fully liable, to the extent provided by
applicable law, for any unpaid consideration for stock, unpaid capital
contribution or failure to pay any installment or call owing to such entity.
For all purposes of this Indenture, in the performance of any duties or
obligations of the Issuer hereunder, the Owner Trustee shall be subject to, and
entitled to the benefits of, the terms and provisions of Article VI, VII and
VIII of the Trust Agreement.
SECTION 11.17 No Petition. The Indenture Trustee, by
entering into this Indenture, and each Owner, by accepting a Note, hereby
covenant and agree that they will not at any time institute against the Seller,
the Servicer, the Depositor or the Issuer, or join in any institution against
the Seller, the Servicer, the Depositor or the Issuer of, any bankruptcy,
reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings, or other
proceedings under any United States federal or state bankruptcy or similar law
in connection with any obligations relating to the Notes, this Indenture or any
of the Operative Documents.
SECTION 11.18 Inspection. The Issuer agrees that, on
reasonable prior notice, it will permit any representative of the Indenture
Trustee or the Note Insurer, during the Issuer's normal business hours, to
examine all the books of account, records, reports and other papers of the
Issuer, to make copies and extracts therefrom, to cause such books to be
audited by Independent certified public accountants, and to discuss the
Issuer's affairs, finances and accounts with the Issuer's officers, employees,
and Independent certified public accountants, all at such reasonable times and
as often as may be reasonably requested. The Indenture Trustee shall and shall
cause its representatives to hold in confidence all such information except to
the extent disclosure may be required by law (and all reasonable applications
for confidential treatment are unavailing) and except to the extent that the
Indenture Trustee may reasonably determine that such disclosure is consistent
with its obligations hereunder.
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SECTION 11.19 Grant of Owner Rights to Note Insurer. In
consideration for the guarantee of the Notes by the Note Insurer pursuant to
the Note Insurance Policy, the Owners hereby grant to the Note Insurer the
right to act as the Owner of 100% of the outstanding Notes for the purpose of
exercising the rights of the Owners of the Notes hereunder, including the
voting rights of such Owners, but excluding those rights requiring the consent
of all such Owners under Section 9.2 and any rights of such Owners to
distributions under Section 8.2 hereof; provided that the preceding grant of
rights to the Note Insurer by the Owners shall be subject to Section 11.21
hereof. The rights of the Note Insurer to direct certain actions and consent to
certain actions of the Owners hereunder will terminate at such time as the
Principal Balance has been reduced to zero and the Note Insurer has been
reimbursed for all Insured Payments and any other amounts owed under the Note
Insurance Policy and the Insurance Agreement and the Note Insurer has no
further obligation under the Note Insurance Policy.
SECTION 11.20 Third Party Beneficiary. The parties hereto
acknowledge that the Note Insurer is an express third party beneficiary hereof
entitled to enforce any rights reserved to it hereunder as if it were actually
a party hereto.
SECTION 11.21 Suspension and Termination of Note Insurer's
Rights.
(a) During the continuation of a Note Insurer Default, rights granted
or reserved to the Note Insurer hereunder shall vest instead in the Owners;
provided that the Note Insurer shall be entitled to any distributions in
reimbursement of the Reimbursement Amount, and the Note Insurer shall retain
those rights under Section 9.2 hereof to consent to any supplement to this
Indenture.
(b) At such time as either (i) the Note Principal Balance has been
reduced to zero or (ii) following a Note Insurer Default, and in either case of
(i) or (ii) the Note Insurer has been reimbursed for all Insured Payments and
any other amounts owed under the Note Insurance Policy and the Insurance
Agreement (and the Note Insurer no longer has any obligation under the Note
Insurance Policy, except for breach thereof by the Note Insurer), then the
rights and benefits granted or reserved to the Note Insurer hereunder
(including the rights to direct certain actions and receive certain notices)
shall terminate and the Owners shall be entitled to the exercise of such rights
and to receive such benefits of the Note Insurer following such termination to
the extent that such rights and benefits are applicable to the Owners.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee have caused this
Indenture to be duly executed by their respective officers, thereunto duly
authorized and duly attested, all as of the day and year first above written.
IMC HOME EQUITY LOAN OWNER TRUST 1997-6
By: Wilmington Trust Company
not in its individual capacity but solely as Owner Trustee
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇
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Name: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇
Title: Financial Services Officer
THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK
as Indenture Trustee
By: /s/ ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇
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Name: ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇
Title: Trust Officer
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STATE OF Delaware
COUNTY OF New Castle
BEFORE ME, the undersigned authority, a Notary Public in and for said
county and state, on this day personally appeared ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇, known to me
to be the person and officer whose name is subscribed to the foregoing
instrument and acknowledged to me that the same was the act of the said
WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, not in its individual capacity, but solely as Owner
Trustee on behalf of IMC HOME EQUITY LOAN OWNER TRUST 1997-6, a Delaware
business trust, and that such person executed the same as the act of said
business trust for the purpose and consideration therein expressed, and in the
capacities therein stated.
GIVEN UNDER MY HAND AND SEAL OF OFFICE, this 21st day of October, 1997.
/s/ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇
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Notary Public in and for the State of Delaware
(Seal)
My commission expires:
December 13, 1998
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STATE OF NEW YORK
COUNTY OF NEW YORK
BEFORE ME, the undersigned authority, a Notary Public in and for said county
and state, on this day personally appeared ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, known to me to be
the person and officer whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and
acknowledged to me that the same was the act of THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK, a
national banking association, and that such person executed the same as the act
of said corporation for the purpose and consideration therein stated.
GIVEN UNDER MY HAND AND SEAL OF OFFICE, this 23rd day of October, 1997.
/s/ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇
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Notary Public in and for the State of New York
(Seal)
My commission expires:
March 30, 1999
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SCHEDULE A
Available Upon Request to the Indenture Trustee
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EXHIBIT A - Form of Note
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