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OWNER TRUST AGREEMENT
between
IMC SECURITIES, INC.,
as Depositor
and
WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
as Owner Trustee
Dated as of December 1, 1997
IMC HOME EQUITY LOAN OWNER TRUST 1997-8
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CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE.............................1
SECTION 1.1 Capitalized Terms..........................................1
SECTION 1.2 Other Definitional Provisions..............................3
ARTICLE II
ORGANIZATION...........................................................5
SECTION 2.1 Name.......................................................5
SECTION 2.2 Office.....................................................5
SECTION 2.3 Purpose and Powers.........................................5
SECTION 2.4 Appointment of Owner Trustee...............................6
SECTION 2.5 Initial Capital Contribution of the Owner Trust Estate.....6
SECTION 2.6 Declaration of Trust.......................................6
SECTION 2.7 Liability of the Holders...................................6
SECTION 2.8.Title to Trust Property....................................6
SECTION 2.9 Situs of Trust.............................................7
SECTION 2.10 Representations and Warranties of the Depositor...........7
SECTION 2.11 Covenant of the Depositor.................................8
SECTION 2.12 Federal Income Tax Allocations............................8
ARTICLE III
THE CERTIFICATES.......................................................9
SECTION 3.1 Initial Certificate Ownership..............................9
SECTION 3.2 Form of the Certificates...................................9
SECTION 3.3 Execution, Authentication and Delivery.....................9
SECTION 3.4 Registration; Registration of Transfer and Exchange of
Certificates...............................................9
SECTION 3.5 Mutilated; Destroyed; Lost or Stolen Certificates.........10
SECTION 3.6 Persons Deemed Owners.....................................11
SECTION 3.7 Access to List of Holders' Names and Addresses............11
SECTION 3.8 Maintenance of Office For Surrenders......................11
SECTION 3.9 Appointment of Trust Paying Agent.........................12
SECTION 3.10 Ownership by Depositor of the Depositor's Certificate....12
SECTION 3.11 Restriction on Transfers of Certificate..................12
ARTICLE IV
ACTIONS BY OWNER TRUSTEE..............................................15
SECTION 4.1 Prior Notice to Owners with Respect to Certain Matters....15
SECTION 4.2 Action by Holders with Respect to Certain Matters.........16
SECTION 4.3 Action by Holders with Respect to Bankruptcy..............17
SECTION 4.4 Restrictions on Holders' Power............................17
SECTION 4.5 Majority Control..........................................17
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ARTICLE V
APPLICATION OF OWNER TRUST ESTATE; CERTAIN DUTIES.....................18
SECTION 5.1 Establishment of Certificate Distribution Account.........18
SECTION 5.2 Application of Trust Funds................................18
SECTION 5.3 Method of Payment.........................................19
SECTION 5.4 Segregation of Moneys; No Interest........................19
SECTION 5.5 Accounting and Reports to the Certificateholders, the
Internal Revenue Service and Others.......................19
SECTION 5.6 Signature on Returns; Tax Matters Partner.................19
ARTICLE VI
AUTHORITY AND DUTIES OF THE OWNER TRUSTEE.............................20
SECTION 6.1 General Authority.........................................20
SECTION 6.2.General Duties............................................20
SECTION 6.3 Action upon Instruction by Owners.........................20
SECTION 6.4 No Duties Except as Specified in this Agreement, the
Documents or in Instructions..............................21
SECTION 6.5 No Action Except Under Specified Documents or
Instructions..............................................21
SECTION 6.6 Restrictions..............................................22
ARTICLE VII
CONCERNING THE OWNER TRUSTEE..........................................23
SECTION 7.1 Acceptance of Trusts and Duties...........................23
SECTION 7.2 Furnishing of Documents...................................24
SECTION 7.3 Representations and Warranties of Owner Trustee...........25
SECTION 7.4 Reliance; Advice of Counsel...............................25
SECTION 7.5 Owner Trustee May Own Certificates and Notes..............26
SECTION 7.6 Licenses..................................................26
ARTICLE VIII
COMPENSATION OF OWNER TRUSTEE.........................................27
SECTION 8.1 Owner Trustee's Fee and Expenses..........................27
SECTION 8.2 Indemnification...........................................27
SECTION 8.3 Payments to the Owner Trustee.............................27
ARTICLE IX
TERMINATION OF TRUST AGREEMENT........................................28
SECTION 9.1 Termination of Trust Agreement............................28
SECTION 9.2 Reserved..................................................29
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ARTICLE X
SUCCESSOR OWNER TRUSTEES AND ADDITIONAL OWNER TRUSTEES................29
SECTION 10.1 Eligibility Requirements for Owner Trustee...............29
SECTION 10.2 Resignation or Removal of Owner Trustee..................29
SECTION 10.3 Successor Owner Trustee..................................30
SECTION 10.4 Merger or Consolidation of Owner Trustee.................30
SECTION 10.5 Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee............30
ARTICLE XI
MISCELLANEOUS.........................................................33
SECTION 11.1 Amendments Without Consent of Certificateholders or
Owners of the Notes......................................33
SECTION 11.2 Amendments With Consent of Certificateholders............33
SECTION 11.3 Form of Amendments.......................................33
SECTION 11.4 No Legal Title to Owner Trust Estate.....................34
SECTION 11.5 Limitations on Rights of Others..........................34
SECTION 11.6 Notices..................................................34
SECTION 11.7 Severability.............................................35
SECTION 11.8 Counterparts.............................................35
SECTION 11.9 Successors and Assigns...................................35
SECTION 11.10 No Petition Covenant....................................35
SECTION 11.11 No Recourse.............................................35
SECTION 11.12 Headings................................................35
SECTION 11.13 Governing Law...........................................36
SECTION 11.14 Reserved................................................36
SECTION 11.15 Third-Party Beneficiary.................................36
SECTION 11.16 Suspension and Termination of Note Insurer's Rights.....36
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OWNER TRUST AGREEMENT, dated as of December 1, 1997, between IMC
SECURITIES, INC., a Delaware corporation (the "Depositor") and WILMINGTON TRUST
COMPANY, a Delaware banking corporation, not in its individual capacity but
solely as Owner Trustee (the "Owner Trustee").
The Depositor and the Owner Trustee hereby agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
SECTION 1.1 Capitalized Terms. For all purposes of this Agreement, the
following terms shall have the meanings set forth below:
"Agreement" shall mean this Owner Trust Agreement, as the same may
be amended and supplemented from time to time.
"Bankruptcy Action" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 4.1 hereof.
"Business Trust Statute" shall mean Chapter 38 of Title 12 of I the
Delaware Code, 12 Del. Code Section 3801 et seq., as the same may be amended
from time to time.
"Certificate" shall mean a certificate evidencing the beneficial
interest of a Certificateholder in the Trust, substantially in the form attached
hereto as Exhibit B-1.
"Certificate Distribution Account" shall have the meaning assigned
to such term in Section 5.1.
"Certificate of Trust" shall mean the Certificate of Trust in the
form of Exhibit A to be filed for the Trust pursuant to Section 3810(a) of the
Business Trust Statute.
"Certificate Register" and "Certificate Registrar" shall mean the
register mentioned and the registrar appointed pursuant to Section 3.4.
"Certificateholder" or "Holder" shall mean a Person in whose name a
Certificate is registered.
"Code" shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and
Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder.
"Corporate Trust Office" shall mean, with respect to the Owner
Trustee, the principal corporate trust office of the Owner Trustee located at
▇▇▇▇▇▇ Square North, ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇; or at
such other address in the State of Delaware as the Owner
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Trustee may designate by notice to the Owners and the Depositor, or the
principal corporate trust office of any successor Owner Trustee (the address
(which shall be in the State of Delaware) of which the successor owner trustee
will notify the Owners, the Holders and the Depositor).
"Depositor" shall mean IMC Securities, Inc., a Delaware Corporation.
"Depositor's Certificate" shall mean the Certificate in
substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit B-2 representing a 1%
Percentage Interest of the Certificates that the Depositor is receiving pursuant
to Section 3.10.
"Expenses" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section
8.2.
"Indenture" shall mean the Indenture, dated as of December 1, 1997,
between the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee.
"Indenture Trustee" means The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Indenture
Trustee under the Indenture.
"Insurance Agreement" shall mean the Insurance Agreement, dated as
of December 1, 1997, among the Depositor, the Seller, the Servicer, the
Indenture Trustee and the Note Insurer.
"Issuer" shall mean IMC Home Equity Loan Owner Trust 1997-8, the
Delaware business trust created pursuant to this Agreement.
"Non-permitted Foreign Holder" shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 3.11.
"Non-U.S. Person" shall mean an individual, corporation, partnership
or other person other than a citizen or resident of the United States, a
corporation, partnership or other entity created or organized in or under the
laws of the United States or any political subdivision thereof, or an estate or
trust that is subject to U.S. federal income tax regardless of the source of its
income.
"Note Insurer" shall mean MBIA Insurance Corporation and its
successors and assigns.
"Operative Documents" shall mean this Agreement, the Custodial
Agreement, the Indenture, the Insurance Agreement, the Loan Sale Agreement, the
Sale and Servicing Agreement and the other documents and certificates delivered
in connection therewith.
"Owner" shall mean each holder of a Note.
"Owner Trust Estate" shall mean the Trust Estate (as defined in the
Indenture), including the contribution of $1 referred to in Section 2.5 hereof.
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"Owner Trustee" shall mean Wilmington Trust Company, a Delaware
banking corporation, not in its individual capacity but solely as owner trustee
under this Agreement, and any successor owner trustee hereunder.
"Percentage Interest" shall mean with respect to each Certificate,
the percentage portion of all of the Certificates evidenced thereby as stated on
the face of such Certificate.
"Prospective Holder" shall have the meaning set forth in Section
3.11(a).
"Rating Agency Condition" means, 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
Seller, the Servicer, the Note Insurer, the Owner Trustee and the Issuer in
writing that such action will not result in a reduction or withdrawal of the
then current rating of the Notes.
"Record Date" shall mean as to each Payment Date the last Business
Day of the month immediately preceding the month in which such Payment Date
occurs.
"Sale and Servicing Agreement" shall mean the Sale and Servicing
Agreement dated as of the date hereof, among the Issuer, the Depositor, the
Seller, the Servicer and the Indenture Trustee.
"Secretary of State" shall mean the Secretary of State of the State
of Delaware.
"Treasury Regulations" shall mean regulations, including proposed or
temporary regulations, promulgated under the Code. References herein to specific
provisions of proposed or temporary regulations shall include analogous
provisions of final Treasury Regulations or other successor Treasury
Regulations.
"Trust" shall mean the trust established by this Agreement.
"Trust Paying Agent" shall mean the Indenture Trustee or any
successor in interest thereto or any other paying agent or co-paying agent
appointed pursuant to Section 3.9 and authorized by the Issuer to make payments
to and distributions from the Certificate Distribution Account, including
payment of principal of or interest on the Certificates on behalf of the Issuer.
SECTION 1.2 Other Definitional Provisions.
(a) Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein
have the meanings assigned to them in the Sale and Servicing Agreement or, if
not defined therein, in the Indenture.
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(b) All terms defined in this Agreement shall have the defined
meanings when used in any certificate or other document made or delivered
pursuant hereto unless otherwise defined therein.
(c) As used in this Agreement and in any certificate or other
document made or delivered pursuant hereto or thereto, accounting terms not
defined in this Agreement or in any such certificate or other document, and
accounting terms partly defined in this Agreement or in any such certificate or
other document to the extent not defined, shall have the respective meanings
given to them under generally accepted accounting principles. To the extent that
the definitions of accounting terms in this Agreement or in any such certificate
or other document are inconsistent with the meanings of such terms under
generally accepted accounting principles, the definitions contained in this
Agreement or in any such certificate or other document shall control.
(d) The words "hereof", "herein", "hereunder" and words of similar
import when used in this Agreement shall refer to this Agreement as a whole and
not to any particular provision of this Agreement; Section and Exhibit
references contained in this Agreement are references to Sections and Exhibits
in or to this Agreement unless otherwise specified; and the term "including"
shall mean "including without limitation".
(e) The definitions contained in this Agreement are applicable to
the singular as well as the plural forms of such terms and to the masculine as
well as the feminine and neuter genders of such terms.
(f) 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 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.
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ARTICLE II
ORGANIZATION
SECTION 2.1 Name. The Trust created hereby shall be known as "IMC Home
Equity Loan Owner Trust 1997-8", in which name the Owner Trustee may conduct the
business of the Trust, make and execute contracts and other instruments on
behalf of the Trust and ▇▇▇ and be sued on behalf of the Trust.
SECTION 2.2 Office. The office of the Trust shall be in care of the Owner
Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office or at such other address in Delaware as
the Owner Trustee may designate by written notice to the Certificateholders, the
Note Insurer, the Owners and the Depositor.
SECTION 2.3 Purpose and Powers. The purpose of the Trust is to engage in
the following activities:
(i) to issue the Notes pursuant to the Indenture and the
Certificates pursuant to this Agreement;
(ii) with the proceeds of the sale of the Notes and the
Certificates, to pay the organizational, start-up and transactional
expenses of the Trust and to pay the balance to the Depositor and the
Seller, as their interests may appear pursuant to the Sale and Servicing
Agreement;
(iii) to assign, grant, transfer, pledge, mortgage and convey
the Owner Trust Estate pursuant to the terms of the Indenture and to hold,
manage and distribute to the Certificateholders pursuant to the terms of
the Sale and Servicing Agreement any portion of the Owner Trust Estate
released from the lien of, and remitted to the Trust pursuant to, the
Indenture;
(iv) to enter into and perform its obligations under the
Operative Documents to which it is to be a party;
(v) to engage in those activities, including entering into
agreements, that are necessary, suitable or convenient to accomplish the
foregoing or are incidental thereto or connected therewith; and
(vi) subject to compliance with the Operative Documents, to
engage in such other activities as may be required in connection with
conservation of the assets of the Trust and the making of distributions to
the Certificateholders and the Owners of the Notes.
The Trust is hereby authorized to engage in the foregoing activities and
shall not engage in any activity other than in connection with the foregoing or
other than as required or authorized by the terms of this Agreement or the
Operative Documents.
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SECTION 2.4 Appointment of Owner Trustee. The Depositor hereby appoints
the Owner Trustee as trustee of the Trust effective as of the date hereof, to
have all the rights, powers and duties set forth herein. The Owner Trustee
hereby accepts its appointment subject to the terms and conditions hereof.
SECTION 2.5 Initial Capital Contribution of the Owner Trust Estate. The
Depositor hereby sells, assigns, transfers, conveys and sets over to the Owner
Trustee, as of the date hereof, the sum of $1. The Owner Trustee hereby
acknowledges receipt in trust from the Depositor, as of the date hereof, of the
foregoing contribution which shall constitute the initial Owner Trust Estate and
shall be deposited in the Certificate Distribution Account. The Depositor or the
Seller shall pay the organizational expenses of the Trust as they may arise or
shall, upon the request of the Owner Trustee, promptly reimburse the Owner
Trustee for any such expenses paid by the Owner Trustee.
SECTION 2.6 Declaration of Trust. The Owner Trustee hereby declares that
it shall hold the Owner Trust Estate in trust upon and subject to the conditions
set forth herein for the use and benefit of the Certificateholders, subject to
the obligations of the Trust under the Operative Documents. It is the intention
of the parties hereto that the Trust shall constitute a business trust under the
Business Trust Statute and that this Agreement shall constitute the governing
instrument of such business trust. Effective as of the date hereof, the Owner
Trustee shall have the rights, powers and duties set forth herein and in the
Business Trust Statute with respect to accomplishing the purposes of the Trust.
The Owner Trustee shall file the Certificate of Trust pursuant to the Business
Trust Statute with the Secretary of State.
SECTION 2.7 Liability of the Holders. No Certificateholder shall have any
personal liability for any liability or obligation of the Trust.
SECTION 2.8. Title to Trust Property.
(a) Subject to the Indenture, legal title to all of the Owner Trust
Estate shall be vested at all times in the Trust as a separate legal entity
except where applicable law in any jurisdiction requires title to any part of
the Owner Trust Estate to be vested in a trustee or trustees, in which case
title shall be deemed to be vested in the Owner Trustee, a co-trustee and/or a
separate trustee, as the case may be.
(b) The Certificateholders shall not have legal title to any part of
the Owner Trust Estate. No transfer by operation of law or otherwise of any
interest of the Certificateholders shall operate to terminate this Agreement or
the trusts hereunder or entitle any transferee to an accounting or to the
transfer to it of any part of the Owner Trust Estate.
SECTION 2.9 Situs of Trust. The Trust shall be located and administered in
the State of Delaware. All bank accounts maintained by the Owner Trustee on
behalf of the Trust shall be located in the State of Delaware or the State of
New York. The Trust shall not have any employees; provided, however, that
nothing herein shall restrict or prohibit the Owner Trustee from having
employees within or without the State of Delaware. Payments shall be received by
the Trust only
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in Delaware or New York, and payments will be made by the Trust only from
Delaware or New York. The only office of the Trust shall be the Corporate Trust
Office in Delaware.
SECTION 2.10 Representations and Warranties of the Depositor. The
Depositor hereby represents and warrants to the Owner Trustee and the Note
Insurer that:
(a) The Depositor has been duly organized and is validly existing as
a corporation in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware,
with power and authority to own its properties and to conduct its business
as such properties are presently owned and such business is presently
conducted.
(b) The Depositor is duly qualified to do business as a foreign
corporation in good standing, and has obtained all necessary licenses and
approvals in all jurisdictions in which the ownership or lease of property
or the conduct of its business requires such qualifications.
(c) The Depositor has the power and authority to execute and deliver
this Agreement and to carry out its terms; the Depositor has full power
and authority to sell and assign the property to be sold and assigned to
and deposited with the Trust, and the Depositor has duly authorized such
sale and assignment to the Trust by all necessary corporate action; and
the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement have been duly
authorized by the Depositor by all necessary corporate action.
(d) The consummation of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement and the fulfillment of the terms of this Agreement do not
conflict with, result in any breach of any of the terms and provisions of
or constitute (with or without notice or lapse of time) a default under,
the certificate of incorporation or by-laws of the Depositor, or any
indenture, agreement or other instrument to which the Depositor is a party
or by which it is bound; nor result in the creation or imposition of any
lien upon any of its properties pursuant to the terms of any such
indenture, agreement or other instrument (other than pursuant to the
Operative Documents); nor violate any law or, to the best of the
Depositor's knowledge, any order, rule or regulation applicable to the
Depositor of any court or of any federal or state regulatory body,
administrative agency or other governmental instrumentality having
jurisdiction over the Depositor or any of its properties.
(e) There are no proceedings or investigations pending or notice of
which has been received in writing before any court, regulatory body,
administrative agency or other governmental instrumentality having
jurisdiction over the Depositor or its properties: (i) asserting the
invalidity of this Agreement, (ii) seeking to prevent the consummation of
any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or (iii) seeking
any determination or ruling that might materially and adversely affect the
performance by the Depositor of its obligations under, or the validity or
enforceability of, this Agreement.
(f) The representations and warranties of the Depositor in Section
2.01 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement are true and correct.
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SECTION 2.11 Covenant of the Depositor. The Depositor covenants with the
Owner Trustee and the Note Insurer that during the continuance of this Agreement
it will comply in all respects with the provisions of its Certificate of
Incorporation in effect from time to time.
SECTION 2.12 Federal Income Tax Allocations. Net income of the Trust for
any month, as determined for Federal income tax purposes (and each item of
income, gain, loss and deduction entering into the computation thereof), shall
be allocated to the Certificateholders, pro rata.
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ARTICLE III
THE CERTIFICATES
SECTION 3.1 Initial Certificate Ownership. Upon the formation of the Trust
by the contribution by the Depositor pursuant to Section 2.5 and until the
issuance of the Certificates, the Depositor shall be the sole owner of the
Trust.
SECTION 3.2 Form of the Certificates.
(a) The Certificates shall be issued without a principal amount. The
Certificates shall be executed on behalf of the Trust by manual or facsimile
signature of an authorized signatory of the Owner Trustee. Certificates bearing
the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were, at the time when
such signatures shall have been affixed, authorized to sign on behalf of the
Trust shall be valid, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them shall
have ceased to be so authorized prior to the authentication and delivery of such
Certificates or did not hold such offices at the date of authentication and
delivery of such Certificates.
(b) The Certificates shall be typewritten, printed, lithographed or
engraved or produced by any combination of these methods (with or without steel
engraved borders) all as determined by the authorized signatory of the Owner
Trustee or the Owner Trustee's authenticating agent executing such Certificates,
as evidenced by their execution of such Certificates.
(c) A transferee of a Certificate shall become a Certificateholder,
and shall be entitled to the rights and subject to the obligations of a
Certificateholder hereunder, upon such transferee's acceptance of a Certificate
duly registered in such transferee's name pursuant to Section 3.4.
SECTION 3.3 Execution, Authentication and Delivery. Concurrently with the
initial sale of the Home Equity Loans by the Depositor to the Trust pursuant to
the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Owner Trustee shall execute, or cause its
authenticating agent to execute the Certificates representing 100% of the
Percentage Interests of the Trust to be executed on behalf of the Trust,
authenticated and delivered to or upon the written order of the Depositor,
signed by an Authorized Officer of the Depositor, without further corporate
action by the Depositor. No Certificate shall entitle its Holder to any benefit
under this Agreement, or shall be valid for any purpose, unless there shall
appear on such Certificate a certificate of authentication substantially in the
form set forth in Exhibit B-1, executed by the Owner Trustee or the Owner
Trustee's authenticating agent, by manual or facsimile signature. Such
authentication shall constitute conclusive evidence that such Certificate shall
have been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder. All Certificates shall be
dated the date of their authentication.
SECTION 3.4 Registration; Registration of Transfer and Exchange of
Certificates.
The Certificate Registrar shall cause to be kept at its office or agency
in New York, New York, or at its designated agent, a Certificate Register in
which, subject to such reasonable
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regulations as it may prescribe, it shall provide for the registration of
Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided.
Upon any resignation of a Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall
promptly appoint a successor or, if it elects not to make such an appointment,
assume the duties of the Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee shall be the
initial Certificate Registrar.
Subject to Section 3.11, upon surrender for registration of transfer of
any Certificate at the office or agency of the Owner Trustee maintained pursuant
to Section 3.8, the Owner Trustee shall execute, and the Owner Trustee or its
authenticating agent shall authenticate and deliver in the name of the
designated transferee or transferees, a new Certificate or Certificates of the
same Percentage Interest and dated the date of authentication by the Owner
Trustee or such authenticating agent.
At the option of a Certificateholder, Certificates may be exchanged for
other Certificates of a like aggregate Percentage Interest, upon surrender of
the Certificates to be exchanged at such office. Whenever any Certificates are
so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee or its authenticating agent shall
execute, authenticate and deliver the Certificates which the Certificateholder
making the exchange is entitled to receive.
No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or
exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may
require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that
may be imposed in connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of
Certificates.
All Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange
shall be marked "canceled" by the Owner Trustee.
The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner
Trustee shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register
transfers or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due
date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
SECTION 3.5 Mutilated; Destroyed; Lost or Stolen Certificates.
(a) If (i) any mutilated Certificate is surrendered to the
Certificate Registrar, or the Certificate Registrar receives evidence to its
satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Certificate, and (ii)
there is delivered to the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Trust
such security or indemnity as may be required by them to hold each of them
harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Certificate Registrar or the
Owner Trustee that such Certificate has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser,
the Owner Trustee shall execute on behalf of the Trust and the Owner Trustee or
the Owner Trustee's authenticating agent shall authenticate and deliver, in
exchange for or in lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen
Certificate, a replacement Certificate of a like Percentage Interest; provided,
however, that if any such destroyed, lost or stolen Certificate, but not a
mutilated Certificate, shall have become or within seven days shall be due and
payable, then instead of issuing a replacement Certificate the Owner Trustee may
pay such destroyed, lost or stolen Certificate when so due or payable.
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(b) In connection with the issuance of any replacement Certificate
under this Section 3.5, the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may
require the payment by the Holder of such Certificate 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 Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar) connected therewith.
(c) Any duplicate Certificate issued pursuant to this Section 3.5 in
replacement of any mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Certificate shall
constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the Trust, whether
or not the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Certificate shall be found at
any time or be enforced by anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of
this Agreement equally and proportionately with any and all other Certificates
duly issued hereunder.
(d) The provisions of this Section 3.5 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 Certificates.
SECTION 3.6 Persons Deemed Owners. Prior to due presentation of a
Certificate for registration of transfer, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate
Registrar or any Paying Agent may treat the Person in whose name any Certificate
shall be registered in the Certificate Registrar as the owner of such
Certificate for the purpose of receiving distributions pursuant to Article V and
for all other purposes whatsoever, and neither the Owner Trustee, nor the
Certificate Registrar nor the Trust Paying Agent shall be affected by any notice
to the contrary.
SECTION 3.7 Access to List of Holders' Names and Addresses. The Owner
Trustee shall furnish or cause to be furnished to the Servicer and the
Depositor, within 15 days after receipt by the Owner Trustee of a request
therefor from the Servicer or the Depositor in writing, a list, in such form as
the Servicer or the Depositor may reasonably require, of the names and addresses
of the Certificateholders as of the most recent Record Date. If three or more
Certificateholders or one or more Holders of Certificates together evidencing a
Percentage Interest totaling not less than 25% apply in writing to the Owner
Trustee, and such application states that the applicants desire to communicate
with other Certificateholders with respect to their rights under this Agreement
or under the Certificates and such application is accompanied by a copy of the
communication that such applicants propose to transmit, then the Owner Trustee
shall, within five Business Days after the receipt of such application, afford
such applicants access during normal business hours to the current list of
Certificateholders. Each Certificateholder, by receiving and holding a
Certificate, shall be deemed to have agreed not to hold any of the Servicer, the
Depositor, the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee accountable by reason
of the disclosure of its name and address, regardless of the source from which
information was derived.
SECTION 3.8 Maintenance of Office For Surrenders. The Owner Trustee shall
maintain an office or offices or agency or agencies where Certificates may be
surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and where notices and
demands to or upon the Owner Trustee in respect of the Certificates and the
Operative Documents may be served. The Owner Trustee initially designates
Wilmington Trust Company as its principal office for such purposes. The Owner
Trustee shall give
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prompt written notice to the Depositor and to the Certificateholders and Owners
of any change in the location of the Certificate Register or any such office or
agency.
SECTION 3.9 Appointment of Trust Paying Agent. The Owner Trustee hereby
appoints The Chase Manhattan Bank as the Trust Paying Agent under this
Agreement. The Trust Paying Agent shall make distributions to Certificateholders
from the Certificate Distribution Account pursuant to Section 5.2 and shall
report the amounts of such distributions to the Owner Trustee and the Servicer.
The Trust Paying Agent shall have the revocable power to withdraw funds from the
Certificate Distribution Account for the purpose of making the distributions
referred to above. The Owner Trustee may revoke such power and remove the Trust
Paying Agent if the Owner Trustee determines in its sole discretion that the
Trust Paying Agent shall have failed to perform its obligations under this
Agreement in any material respect. If The Chase Manhattan Bank shall no longer
be the Trust Paying Agent, the Owner Trustee shall appoint a successor to act as
Trust Paying Agent (which shall be a bank or trust company acceptable to the
Depositor, the Note Insurer and the Rating Agencies). The Owner Trustee shall
cause such successor Trust Paying Agent or any additional Trust Paying Agent
appointed by the Owner Trustee to execute and deliver to the Owner Trustee an
instrument in which such successor Trust Paying Agent or additional Trust Paying
Agent shall agree with the Owner Trustee that as Trust Paying Agent, such
successor Trust Paying Agent or additional Trust Paying Agent shall hold all
sums, if any, held by it for payment to the Certificateholders in trust for the
benefit of the Certificateholders entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid
to such Holders. The Trust Paying Agent shall return all unclaimed funds to the
Owner Trustee and upon removal of a Trust Paying Agent such Trust Paying Agent
shall also return all funds in its possession to the Owner Trustee. The
provisions of Article VI shall apply to the Owner Trustee also in its role as
Trust Paying Agent, for so long as the Owner Trustee shall act as Trust Paying
Agent and, to the extent applicable, to any other Trust Paying Agent (including
The Chase Manhattan Bank) appointed hereunder. Any reference in this Agreement
to the Trust Paying Agent shall include any co-paying agent unless the context
requires otherwise.
SECTION 3.10 Ownership by Depositor of the Depositor's Certificate. On the
Closing Date, the Depositor shall receive from the Trust and thereafter shall
retain beneficial and record ownership of the Depositor's Certificate
representing at least a 1% Percentage Interest of the Certificates. The
Depositor's Certificate shall be non-transferable. Any attempted transfer of any
Depositor's Certificate shall be null and void. The Owner Trustee shall cause
the Depositor's Certificate issued to the Depositor to contain a legend
substantially to such effect.
SECTION 3.11 Restriction on Transfers of Certificate.
(a) Each prospective purchaser and any subsequent transferee of a
Certificate (each, a "Prospective Holder"), other than the Depositor or the
Seller, shall represent and warrant, in writing, to the Owner Trustee and the
Certificate Registrar and any of their respective successors that:
(i) Such Person is (A) a "qualified institutional buyer" as
defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended
(the "Securities Act"), and is aware that the seller of the
Certificate may be relying on the exemption from the
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registration requirements of the Securities Act provided by Rule
144A and is acquiring such Certificate for its own account or for
the account of one or more qualified institutional buyers for whom
it is authorized to act, or (B) a Person involved in the
organization or operation of the Trust or an affiliate of such
Person within the meaning of Rule 3a-7 of the Investment Company Act
of 1940, as amended (including, but not limited to, the Depositor or
the Seller).
(ii) Such Person understands that the Certificate has not been
and will not be registered under the Securities Act and may be
offered, sold, pledged or otherwise transferred only to a person
whom the seller reasonably believes is (A) a qualified institutional
buyer or (B) a Person involved in the organization or operation of
the Trust or an affiliate of such Person, in a transaction meeting
the requirements of Rule 144A under the Securities Act and in
accordance with any applicable securities laws of any state of the
United States.
(iii) Such Person understands that the Certificate bears a
legend to the following effect:
"THIS CERTIFICATE HAS NOT BEEN AND WILL NOT BE REGISTERED
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE "ACT"), OR
ANY STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THIS CERTIFICATE MAY BE DIRECTLY OR
INDIRECTLY OFFERED OR SOLD OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF (INCLUDING
PLEDGED) BY THE HOLDER HEREOF ONLY TO (I) A "QUALIFIED
INSTITUTIONAL BUYER" AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE ACT, IN
A TRANSACTION THAT IS REGISTERED UNDER THE ACT AND APPLICABLE
STATE SECURITIES LAWS OR THAT IS EXEMPT FROM THE REGISTRATION
REQUIREMENTS OF THE ACT PURSUANT TO RULE 144A OR (II) A PERSON
INVOLVED IN THE ORGANIZATION OR OPERATION OF THE TRUST OR AN
AFFILIATE OF SUCH A PERSON WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 3a-7 OF
THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940, AS AMENDED (INCLUDING, BUT
NOT LIMITED TO, IMC SECURITIES, INC.) IN A TRANSACTION THAT IS
REGISTERED UNDER THE ACT AND APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS
OR THAT IS EXEMPT FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE
ACT AND SUCH LAWS. NO PERSON IS OBLIGATED TO REGISTER THIS
CERTIFICATE UNDER THE ACT OR ANY STATE SECURITIES LAWS."
(b) Each Prospective Holder, other than the Depositor or the Seller,
shall either:
(i) represent and warrant, in writing, to the Owner Trustee
and the Certificate Registrar and any of their respective successors
that (1) the Prospective Holder is not an "employee benefit plan"
within the meaning of Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income
Security Act of 1974, as amended ("ERISA"), or a
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"plan" within the meaning of Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code (any
such plan or employee benefit plan, a "Plan") and is not directly or
indirectly purchasing such Certificate on behalf of, as investment
manager of, as named fiduciary of, as trustee of, or with assets of
a Plan, or (2) either (I) the Prospective Holder is acquiring such
Certificate for its own account and no part of the assets used to
acquire such Certificate constitutes assets of a Plan, or (II) the
source of funds to be used to acquire such Certificate is an
"insurance company general account," within the meaning of
Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption 95-60, 60 Fed. Reg. 35925
(July 12, 1995) (the "Exemption"), and there is no Plan with respect
to which the amount of such general account's reserves for the
contract(s) held by or on behalf of such Plan (determined under
Section 807(d) of the Code), together with the amount of the
reserves of the contract(s) held by or on behalf of any other Plans
(determined under section 807(d) of the Code) maintained by the same
employer (or an affiliate thereof as defined in Section V(a)(1) of
the Exemption) or by the same employee organization, exceed 10% of
the total of all liabilities of such general account; or
(ii) furnish to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar and
any of their respective successors an opinion of counsel acceptable to
such persons that (A) the proposed issuance or transfer of the Certificate
to such Prospective Holder will not cause any assets of the Trust to be
deemed assets of a Plan, or (B) the proposed issuance or transfer of the
Certificate will not cause the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar
or any of their respective successors to be a fiduciary of a Plan within
the meaning of Section 3(21) of ERISA and will not give rise to a
transaction described in Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975(c)(1) of the
Code for which a statutory or administrative exemption is unavailable.
(c) By its acceptance of a Certificate, each Prospective Holder
agrees and acknowledges that no legal or beneficial interest in all or any
portion of any Certificate may be transferred directly or indirectly to (i) an
entity that holds residual securities as nominee to facilitate the clearance and
settlement of such securities through electronic book-entry changes in accounts
of participating organizations (a "Book-Entry Nominee"), or (ii) an individual,
corporation, partnership or other person unless such transferee is not a
Non-U.S. Person (any such person being referred to herein as a "Non-permitted
Foreign Holder"), and any such purported transfer shall be void and have no
effect.
(d) The Owner Trustee shall not execute, and shall not countersign
and deliver, a Certificate in connection with any transfer thereof unless the
transferor shall have provided to the Owner Trustee a certificate, signed by the
transferee, that it is not a Book-Entry Nominee or a Non-permitted Foreign
Holder, which certificate shall contain the consent of the transferee to any
amendments of this Agreement as may be required to effectuate further the
foregoing restrictions on transfer of the Certificate to Book-Entry Nominees or
Non-permitted Foreign Holders, and an agreement by the transferee that it will
not transfer a Certificate without providing to the Owner Trustee a certificate
in the form provided above.
(e) The Certificates shall bear an additional legend referring to
the restrictions contained in paragraph (b) above.
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ARTICLE IV
ACTIONS BY OWNER TRUSTEE
SECTION 4.1 Prior Notice to Owners with Respect to Certain Matters. The
Owner Trustee shall not take action with respect to the following matters,
unless (i) the Owner Trustee shall have notified the Certificateholders and the
Note Insurer in writing of the proposed action at least 30 days before the
taking of such action, and (ii) neither the Certificateholders nor the Note
Insurer shall have notified the Owner Trustee in writing prior to the 30th day
after such notice is given that such Certificateholders or the Note Insurer have
withheld consent or provided alternative direction (any directions by the
Certificateholders shall require the prior consent of the Note Insurer):
(a) the initiation of any claim or lawsuit by the Trust (except
claims and law suits brought in connection with the collection of the Home
Equity Loans) or the compromise of any action, claim or lawsuit brought by or
against the Trust (except claims and law suits brought in connection with the
collection of the Home Equity Loans);
(b) the election by the Trust to file an amendment to the
Certificate of Trust, (except to the extent such amendment is required under the
Business Trust Statute);
(c) the amendment or other change to this Agreement or any Operative
Documents in circumstances where the consent of any Owner of a Note or the Note
Insurer is required;
(d) the amendment or other change to this Agreement or any Operative
Documents in circumstances where the consent of any Owner of a Note or the Note
Insurer is not required and such amendment materially adversely affects the
interest of the Certificateholders;
(e) the appointment pursuant to the Indenture of a successor Note
Registrar, Paying Agent or Indenture Trustee or pursuant to this Agreement of a
successor Certificate Registrar or Trust Paying Agent, or the consent to the
assignment by the Note Registrar, Paying Agent or Indenture Trustee or
Certificate Registrar or Trust Paying Agent of its obligations under the
Indenture or this Agreement, as applicable;
(f) the consent to the calling or waiver of any default of any
Operative Document;
(g) the consent to the assignment of the Indenture Trustee or
Servicer of their respective obligations under the Operative Document;
(h) except as provided in Article IX hereof, dissolve, terminate or
liquidate the Trust in whole or in part;
(i) merge or consolidate the Trust with or into any other entity, or
convey or transfer all or substantially all of the Trust's assets to any other
entity;
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(j) cause the Trust to incur, assume or guaranty any indebtedness
other than as set forth in this Agreement;
(k) do any act that conflicts with any other Operative Document;
(l) do any act which would make it impossible to carry on the
ordinary business of the Trust as described in Section 2.3 hereof;
(m) confess a judgment against the Trust;
(n) possess Trust assets, or assign the Trust's right to property,
for other than a Trust purpose;
(o) cause the Trust to lend any funds to any entity; or
(p) change the Trust's purpose and powers from those set forth in
this Agreement.
In addition the Trust shall not commingle its assets with those of any
other entity. The Trust shall maintain its financial and accounting books and
records separate from those of any other entity. Except as expressly set forth
herein, the Trust shall pay its indebtedness and any operating expenses from its
own funds, and the Trust shall not pay the indebtedness, operating expenses or
liabilities of any other entity. The Trust shall maintain appropriate minutes or
other records of all appropriate actions and shall maintain its office separate
from the offices of the Depositor, the Seller and the Servicer.
The Owner Trustee shall not have the power, except upon the direction of
the Certificateholders with the consent of the Note Insurer, and to the extent
otherwise consistent with the Operative Documents, to (i) remove or replace the
Servicer or the Indenture Trustee, (ii) institute proceedings to have the Trust
declared or adjudicated a bankruptcy or insolvent, (iii) consent to the
institution of bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings against the Trust, (iv) file
a petition or consent to a petition seeking reorganization or relief on behalf
of the Trust under any applicable federal or state law relating to bankruptcy,
(v) consent to the appointment of a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee,
sequestrator (or any similar official) of the Trust or a substantial portion of
the property of the Trust, (vi) make any assignment for the benefit of the
Trust's creditors, (vii) cause the Trust to admit in writing its inability to
pay its debts generally as they become due, (viii) take any action, or cause the
Trust to take any action, in furtherance of any of the foregoing (any of the
above, a "Bankruptcy Action"). So long as the Indenture remains in effect and no
Note Insurer Default exists, no Certificateholder shall have the power to take,
and shall not take, any Bankruptcy Action with respect to the Trust or the
Depositor or direct the Owner Trustee to take any Bankruptcy Action with respect
to the Trust or the Depositor.
SECTION 4.2 Action by Holders with Respect to Certain Matters. The Owner
Trustee shall not have the power, except upon the direction of the
Certificateholders and with the consent of the Note Insurer, to remove the
Servicer under the Sale and Servicing Agreement. The Owner Trustee
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shall take the actions referred to in the preceding sentence only upon written
instructions signed by the Certificateholders and only after obtaining the
consent of the Note Insurer.
SECTION 4.3 Action by Holders with Respect to Bankruptcy. The Owner
Trustee shall not have the power to commence a voluntary proceeding in
bankruptcy relating to the Trust without the consent and approval of the Note
Insurer, the unanimous prior approval of all Certificateholders and the delivery
to the Owner Trustee by each such Certificateholder of a certificate certifying
that such Certificateholder reasonably believes that the Trust is insolvent.
SECTION 4.4 Restrictions on Holders' Power. The Certificateholders shall
not direct the Owner Trustee to take or refrain from taking any action if such
action or inaction would be contrary to any obligation of the Trust or the Owner
Trustee under this Agreement or any of the Operative Documents or would be
contrary to Section 2.3, nor shall the Owner Trustee be obligated to follow any
such direction, if given.
SECTION 4.5 Majority Control. Except as expressly provided herein any
action that may be taken or consent that may be given or withheld or written
notice delivered by the Certificateholders under this Agreement may be taken by
Holders of Certificates representing more than a majority of the Certificates.
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ARTICLE V
APPLICATION OF OWNER TRUST ESTATE; CERTAIN DUTIES
SECTION 5.1 Establishment of Certificate Distribution Account. The Owner
Trustee shall cause the Servicer, for the benefit of the Certificateholders, to
establish and maintain with The Chase Manhattan Bank for the benefit of the
Owner Trustee a Trust Account which while the Trust Paying Agent holds such
Account shall be entitled "CERTIFICATE DISTRIBUTION ACCOUNT, THE CHASE MANHATTAN
BANK AS TRUST PAYING AGENT, IN TRUST FOR THE IMC ADJUSTABLE RATE HOME EQUITY
LOAN ASSET BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 1997-8." Funds shall be deposited in the
Certificate Distribution Account as required by the Sale and Servicing
Agreement.
All of the right, title and interest of the Owner Trustee in all funds on
deposit from time to time in the Certificate Distribution Account and in all
proceeds thereof shall be held for the benefit of the Certificateholders. Except
as otherwise expressly provided herein or in the Sale and Servicing Agreement,
the Certificate Distribution Account shall be under the sole dominion and
control of the Owner Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders.
SECTION 5.2 Application of Trust Funds.
(a) On each Payment Date, the Owner Trustee shall direct the Trust Paying
Agent to distribute to the Certificateholders from amounts on deposit in the
Certificate Distribution Account the distributions as provided in Section
3.03(b)(v) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement with respect to such Payment
Date.
(b) Reserved.
(c) In the event that any withholding tax is imposed on the Trust's
payment (or allocations of income) to a Certificateholder, such tax shall reduce
the amount otherwise distributable to the Certificateholder in accordance with
this Section. The Owner Trustee is hereby authorized and directed to retain from
amounts otherwise distributable to the Certificateholders sufficient funds for
the payment of any tax that is legally owed by the Trust (but such authorization
shall not prevent the Owner Trustee from contesting any such tax in appropriate
proceedings, and withholding payment of such tax, if permitted by law, pending
the outcome of such proceedings). The amount of any withholding tax imposed with
respect to a Certificateholder shall be treated as cash distributed to such
Holder at the time it is withheld by the Trust and remitted to the appropriate
taxing authority. If there is a possibility that withholding tax is payable with
respect to a distribution (such as a distribution to a non-U.S. Holder), the
Owner Trustee may in its sole discretion withhold such amounts in accordance
with this paragraph (c). In the event that a Certificateholder wishes to apply
for a refund of any such withholding tax, the Owner Trustee shall reasonably
cooperate with such Certificateholder in making such claim so long as such
Certificateholder agrees to reimburse the Owner Trustee for any out-of-pocket
expenses incurred.
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SECTION 5.3 Method of Payment. Distributions required to be made to
Certificateholders on any Payment Date shall be made to each Certificateholder
of record on the immediately preceding Record Date either by wire transfer, in
immediately available funds, to the account of such Certificateholder at a bank
or other entity having appropriate facilities therefor, if such
Certificateholder shall have provided to the Certificate Registrar appropriate
written instructions at least five Business Days prior to such Payment Date, or,
if not, by check mailed to such Certificateholder at the address of such
Certificateholder appearing in the Certificate Register.
SECTION 5.4 Segregation of Moneys; No Interest. Subject to Sections 5.1
and 5.2, moneys received by the Trust Paying Agent hereunder and deposited into
the Certificate Distribution Account will be segregated except to the extent
required otherwise by law and shall be invested in Eligible Investments maturing
no later than one Business Day prior to the related Payment Date at the
direction of the Depositor. The Trust Paying Agent shall not be liable for
payment of any interest or losses in respect of such moneys. Investment gains
shall be for the account of and paid to the Certificateholders.
SECTION 5.5 Accounting and Reports to the Certificateholders, the Internal
Revenue Service and Others. The Owner Trustee shall (a) maintain (or cause to be
maintained) the books of the Trust on a calendar year basis on the accrual
method of accounting, and such books shall be maintained separately from those
of any other entity and reflect the separate interest of the Trust, (b) deliver
to each Certificateholder, as may be required by the Code and applicable
Treasury Regulations, such information as may be required (including Schedule
K-1) to enable such Certificateholder to prepare its federal and state income
tax returns, (c) file such tax returns relating to the Trust (including a
partnership information return, IRS Form 1065), and make such elections as may
from time to time be required or appropriate under any applicable state or
federal statute or rule or regulation thereunder so as to maintain the Trust's
characterization as a partnership for federal income tax purposes, (d) cause
such tax returns to be signed in the manner required by law and (e) collect or
cause to be collected any withholding tax with respect to income or
distributions to Certificateholders. The Owner Trustee shall elect under Section
1278 of the Code to include in income currently any market discount that accrues
with respect to the Home Equity Loans. The Owner Trustee shall not make the
election provided under Section 754 of the Code.
SECTION 5.6 Signature on Returns; Tax Matters Partner.
(a) The Owner Trustee shall sign on behalf of the Trust the tax
returns of the Trust, unless applicable law requires a Certificateholder to sign
such documents, in which case such documents shall be signed by the Depositor.
(b) The Depositor shall be designated the "tax matters partner" of
the Trust pursuant to Section 6231(a)(7)(A) of the Code and applicable Treasury
Regulations.
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ARTICLE VI
AUTHORITY AND DUTIES OF THE OWNER TRUSTEE
SECTION 6.1 General Authority. The Owner Trustee is authorized and
directed to execute and deliver or cause to be executed and delivered the
Certificates and the Operative Documents to which the Trust is to be a party and
each certificate or other document attached as an exhibit to or contemplated by
the Operative Documents to which the Trust is to be a party and any amendment or
other agreement or instrument described in Article III, in each case, in such
form as the Depositor shall approve, as evidenced conclusively by the Owner
Trustee's execution thereof, and, on behalf of the Trust, to direct the
Indenture Trustee to authenticate and deliver the Notes in the aggregate
principal amount of $307,785,257. In addition to the foregoing, the Owner
Trustee is authorized, but shall not be obligated, to take all actions required
of the Trust, pursuant to the Operative Documents.
SECTION 6.2. General Duties. It shall be the duty of the Owner Trustee:
(a) to discharge (or cause to be discharged) all of its
responsibilities pursuant to the terms of this Agreement and the Operative
Documents to which the Trust is a party and to administer the Trust in the
interest of the Certificateholders, and in accordance with the provisions of
this Agreement; and
(b) to obtain and preserve, the Trust's qualification to do business
in each jurisdiction in which such qualification is or shall be necessary to
protect the validity and enforceability of the Indenture, the Notes, and each
other instrument and agreement included in the Owner Trust Estate.
SECTION 6.3 Action upon Instruction by Owners.
(a) Subject to Article IV, the Certificateholders may by written
instruction direct the Owner Trustee in the management of the Trust. Such
direction may be exercised at any time by written instruction of the
Certificateholders pursuant to Article IV.
(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Owner Trustee shall not be
required to take any action hereunder or under any Operative Document if the
Owner Trustee shall have reasonably determined, or shall have been advised by
counsel, that such action is likely to result in liability on the part of the
Owner Trustee or is contrary to the terms hereof or of any Operative Document or
is otherwise contrary to law.
(c) Whenever the Owner Trustee is unable to decide between
alternative courses of action permitted or required by the terms of this
Agreement or any Operative Document, or is unsure as to the application, intent,
interpretation or meaning of any provision of this agreement or the Operative
Documents, the Owner Trustee shall promptly give notice (in such form as shall
be appropriate under the circumstances) to the Note Insurer and the
Certificateholders requesting instruction as to the course of action to be
adopted, and, to the extent the Owner Trustee acts in good
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faith in accordance with any such instruction received, the Owner Trustee shall
not be liable on account of such action to any Person. If the Owner Trustee
shall not have received appropriate instructions within ten days of such notice
(or within such shorter period of time as reasonably may be specified in such
notice or may be necessary under the circumstances) it may, but shall be under
no duty to, take or refrain from taking such action which is consistent, in its
view, with this Agreement or the Operative Documents, and as it shall deem to be
the best interests of the Certificateholders, and the Owner Trustee shall have
no liability to any Person for any such action or inaction.
(d) In the event that the Owner Trustee is unsure as to the
application of any provision of this Agreement or any Operative Document or any
such provision is ambiguous as to its application, or is, or appears to be, in
conflict with any other applicable provision, or in the event that this
Agreement permits any determination by the Owner Trustee or is silent or is
incomplete as to the course of action that the Owner Trustee is required to take
with respect to a particular set of facts, the Owner Trustee may give notice (in
such form as shall be appropriate under the circumstances) to the
Certificateholders requesting instruction and, to the extent that the Owner
Trustee acts or refrains from acting in good faith in accordance with any such
instruction received, the Owner Trustee shall not be liable, on account of such
action or inaction, to any Person. If the Owner Trustee shall not have received
appropriate instruction within 10 days of such notice (or within such shorter
period of time as reasonably may be specified in such notice or may be necessary
under the circumstances) it may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain
from taking such action, not inconsistent with this Agreement or the Operative
Documents, as it shall deem to be in the best interest of the
Certificateholders, and shall have no liability to any Person for such action or
inaction.
SECTION 6.4 No Duties Except as Specified in this Agreement, the Documents
or in Instructions. The Owner Trustee shall not have any duty or obligation to
manage, make any payment with respect to, register, record, sell, dispose of, or
otherwise deal with the Owner Trust Estate, or to otherwise take or refrain from
taking any action under, or in connection with, any document contemplated hereby
to which the Owner Trustee is a party, except as expressly provided by the terms
of this Agreement, any Operative Document or in any document or written
instruction received by the Owner Trustee pursuant to Section 6.3; and no
implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or any Operative
Document against the Owner Trustee. The Owner Trustee shall have no
responsibility for filing any financing or continuation statement in any public
office at any time or to otherwise perfect or maintain the perfection of any
security interest or lien granted to it hereunder or to prepare or file any
Securities and Exchange Commission filing for the Trust or to record this
Agreement or any Operative Document. The Owner Trustee nevertheless agrees that
it will, at its own cost and expense, promptly take all action as may be
necessary to discharge any liens on any part of the Owner Trust Estate that
result from actions by, or claims against, the Owner Trustee that are not
related to the ownership or the administration of the Owner Trust Estate.
SECTION 6.5 No Action Except Under Specified Documents or Instructions.
The Owner Trustee shall not manage, control, use, sell, dispose of or otherwise
deal with any part of the Owner Trust Estate except (i) in accordance with the
powers granted to and the authority conferred upon
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the Owner Trustee pursuant to this Agreement, (ii) in accordance with the
Operative Documents and (iii) in accordance with any document or instruction
delivered to the Owner Trustee pursuant to Section 6.3.
SECTION 6.6 Restrictions. The Owner Trustee shall not take any action (a)
that is inconsistent with the purposes of the Trust set forth in Section 2.3 or
(b) that, to the actual knowledge of the Owner Trustee, would result in the
Trust's becoming taxable as a corporation for Federal income tax purposes. The
Certificateholders shall not direct the Owner Trustee to take action that would
violate the provisions of this Section.
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ARTICLE VII
CONCERNING THE OWNER TRUSTEE
SECTION 7.1 Acceptance of Trusts and Duties. Except as otherwise provided
in this Article VII, in accepting the trusts hereby created Wilmington Trust
Company acts solely as Owner Trustee hereunder and not in its individual
capacity and all Persons having any claim against the Owner Trustee by reason of
the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any Operative Document shall
look only to the assets of the Trust for payment or satisfaction thereof. The
Owner Trustee accepts the trusts hereby created and agrees to perform its duties
hereunder with respect to such trusts but only upon the terms of this Agreement.
The Owner Trustee also agrees to disburse all moneys actually received by it
constituting part of the assets of the Trust upon the terms of the Operative
Documents and this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall not be liable or
accountable hereunder or under any Operative Document under any circumstances,
except (i) for its own gross negligent action, its own gross negligent failure
to act or its own willful misconduct or (ii) in the case of the inaccuracy of
any representation or warranty contained in Section 7.3 and expressly made by
the Owner Trustee. In particular, but not by way of limitation (and subject to
the exceptions set forth in the preceding sentence):
(a) the Owner Trustee shall at no time have any responsibility or
liability for or with respect to the legality, validity and enforceability of
any Home Equity Loan, or the perfection and priority of any security interest
created by any Home Equity Loan in any Property or the maintenance of any such
perfection and priority, or for or with respect to the sufficiency of the assets
of the Trust or their ability to generate the payments to be distributed to
Certificateholders under this Agreement or the Owners of the Notes under the
Indenture, including, without limitation: the existence, condition and ownership
of any Property; the existence and enforceability of any insurance thereon; the
existence and contents of any Home Equity Loan on any computer or other record
thereof; the validity of the assignment of any Home Equity Loan to the Trust or
of any intervening assignment; the completeness of any Home Equity Loan; the
performance or enforcement of any Home Equity Loan; the compliance by the
Depositor or the Servicer with any warranty or representation made under any
Operative Document or in any related document or the accuracy of any such
warranty or representation or any action of the Indenture Trustee, the Custodian
or the Servicer or any subservicer taken in the name of the Owner Trustee.
(b) the Owner Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action
taken or omitted to be taken by it in accordance with the instructions of the
Note Insurer or any Certificateholder;
(c) no provision of this Agreement or any Operative Document shall
require the Owner Trustee to expend or risk funds or otherwise incur any
financial liability in the performance of any of its rights or powers hereunder
or under any Operative Document, if the Owner Trustee shall have reasonable
grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against
such risk or liability is not reasonably assured or provided to it;
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(d) under no circumstances shall the Owner Trustee be liable for
indebtedness evidenced by or arising under any of the Operative Documents,
including the Note Principal Balance and the interest on the Notes;
(e) the Owner Trustee shall not be responsible for or in respect of
and makes no representation as to the validity or sufficiency of any provision
of this Agreement or for the due execution hereof by the Depositor or for the
form, character, genuineness, sufficiency, value or validity of any of the Owner
Trust Estate or for or in respect of the validity or sufficiency of the
Operative Documents, the Underwriting Agreement, the Notes, the Certificates
(other than the certificate of authentication on the Certificates) or of any
Home Equity Loans or any related documents, and the Owner Trustee shall in no
event assume or incur any liability, duty or obligation to any Owner of a Note
or to any Certificateholder, other than as expressly provided for herein and in
the Operative Documents;
(f) the Owner Trustee shall not be liable for the default or
misconduct of the Indenture Trustee, the Custodian, the Depositor or the
Servicer under any of the Operative Documents or otherwise and the Owner Trustee
shall have no obligation or liability to perform the obligations of the Trust
under this Agreement or the Operative Documents that are required to be
performed by the Indenture Trustee under the Indenture, the Custodian under the
Custodial Agreement or the Servicer under the Sale and Servicing Agreement;
(g) the Owner Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any
of the rights or powers vested in it by this Agreement, or to institute, conduct
or defend any litigation under this Agreement or otherwise or in relation to
this Agreement, the Underwriting Agreement or any Operative Document, at the
request, order or direction of any of the Note Insurer or any of the
Certificateholders, unless the Note Insurer or such Certificateholders have
offered to the Owner Trustee security or indemnity satisfactory to it against
the costs, expenses and liabilities that may be incurred by the Owner Trustee
therein or thereby. The right of the Owner Trustee to perform any discretionary
act enumerated in this Agreement or in any Operative Document shall not be
construed as a duty, and the Owner Trustee shall not be answerable for other
than its negligence or willful misconduct in the performance of any such act;
(h) The Owner Trustee shall have no responsibility for filing any
financing or continuation statement in any public office at any time or to
otherwise perfect or maintain the perfection of any security interest or lien
granted to it hereunder or to prepare, execute or file any Securities and
Exchange Commission filing or tax return for the Trust or to record this
Agreement or any Operative Document.
SECTION 7.2 Furnishing of Documents. The Owner Trustee shall furnish (a)
to the Certificateholders, promptly upon receipt of a written request therefor,
duplicate or copies of all reports, notices, requests, demands, certificates,
financial statements and any other instruments furnished to the Owner Trustee
under the Operative Documents, and (b) to the Note Insurer, copies of any
reports, notices, requests, demands, certificates, financial statements, and any
other instruments relating to the Trust, the Certificates or the Notes in the
possession of the Owner Trustee, that the Note Insurer shall request in writing.
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SECTION 7.3 Representations and Warranties of Owner Trustee. Wilmington
Trust Company hereby represents and warrants to the Depositor, for the benefit
of the Certificateholders and the Note Insurer, that:
(a) It is a banking corporation duly organized, validly existing and
in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware.
(b) It has full power, authority and legal right to execute, deliver
and perform its obligations under this Agreement, and has taken all necessary
action to authorize the execution, delivery and performance by it of this
Agreement.
(c) The execution, delivery and performance by it of this Agreement
(i) shall not violate any provision of any law or regulation governing the
banking and trust powers of Wilmington Trust Company or any order, writ,
judgment or decree of any court, arbitrator or governmental authority applicable
to the Wilmington Trust Company or any of its assets, (ii) shall not violate any
provision of the corporate charter or by-laws of Wilmington Trust Company, or
(iii) shall not violate any provision of, or constitute, with or without notice
or lapse of time, a default under, or result in the creation or imposition of
any lien on any properties included in the Trust pursuant to the provisions of
any mortgage, indenture, contract, agreement or other undertaking to which it is
a party, which violation, default or lien could reasonably be expected to have a
materially adverse effect on Wilmington Trust Company's performance or ability
to perform its duties as Owner Trustee under this Agreement or on the
transactions contemplated in this Agreement.
(d) This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by
Wilmington Trust Company and constitutes the legal, valid and binding agreement
of Wilmington Trust Company, enforceable in accordance with its terms, except as
enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, or
other similar law affecting the enforcement of creditors' rights in general and
by general principles of equity, regardless of whether such enforceability is
considered in a proceeding in equity or at law.
SECTION 7.4 Reliance; Advice of Counsel.
(a) The Owner Trustee shall incur no liability to anyone in acting
upon any signature, instrument, notice, resolution, request, consent, order,
certificate, report, opinion, note or other document or paper believed by it to
be genuine and believed by it to be signed by the proper party or parties and
need not investigate any fact or matter in any such document. The Owner Trustee
may accept a certified copy of a resolution of the board of directors or other
governing body of any corporate party as conclusive evidence that such
resolution has been duly adopted by such body and that the same is in full force
and effect. As to any fact or matter the method of the determination of which is
not specifically prescribed herein, the Owner Trustee may for all purposes
hereof rely on a certificate, signed by the president or any vice president or
by the treasurer or other authorized officers of the relevant party, as to such
fact or matter, and such certificate shall constitute full protection to the
Owner Trustee for any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in
reliance thereon.
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(b) In the exercise or administration of the trusts hereunder and in
the performance of its duties and obligations under this Agreement or the
Operative Documents, the Owner Trustee: (i) may act directly or through its
agents, attorneys, custodians or nominees, and the Owner Trustee shall not be
liable for the conduct or misconduct of such agents, attorneys, custodians or
nominees if such agents, attorneys, custodians or nominees shall have been
selected by the Owner Trustee with reasonable care and (ii) may consult with
counsel, accountants and other skilled professionals to be selected with
reasonable care and employed by it. The Owner Trustee shall not be liable for
anything done, suffered or omitted in good faith by it in accordance with the
opinion or advice of any such counsel, accountants or other such Persons and not
contrary to this Agreement or any of the Operative Documents.
SECTION 7.5 Owner Trustee May Own Certificates and Notes. The Owner
Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee
of Certificates or Notes and may deal with the Depositor, the Indenture Trustee
and the Servicer in transactions in the same manner and with the same rights as
it would have if it were not the Owner Trustee.
SECTION 7.6 Licenses. The Owner Trustee shall cause the Trust to use its
best efforts to obtain and maintain the effectiveness of any licenses required
in connection with this Agreement and the Operative Documents and the
transactions contemplated hereby and thereby until such time as the Trust shall
terminate in accordance with the terms hereof.
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ARTICLE VIII
COMPENSATION OF OWNER TRUSTEE
SECTION 8.1 Owner Trustee's Fee and Expenses. The Owner Trustee shall
receive from the Depositor as compensation for its services hereunder such fees
as have been separately agreed upon before the date hereof between the Depositor
and the Owner Trustee, and the Owner Trustee shall be entitled to be reimbursed
by the Depositor for its other reasonable expenses hereunder, including the
reasonable compensation, expenses and disbursements of such agents, custodians,
nominees, representatives, experts and counsel as the Owner Trustee may employ
in connection with the exercise and performance of its rights and its duties
hereunder.
SECTION 8.2 Indemnification. The Depositor shall be liable as primary
obligor, and the Seller shall be liable as secondary obligor pursuant to the
Sale and Servicing Agreement for, and shall indemnify the Owner Trustee and its
successors, assigns, agents and servants (collectively, the "Indemnified
Parties") from and against, any and all liabilities, obligations, losses,
damages, taxes, claims, actions and suits, and any and all reasonable costs,
expenses and disbursements (including reasonable legal fees and expenses) of any
kind and nature whatsoever (collectively, "Expenses") which may at any time be
imposed on, incurred by, or asserted against the Owner Trustee or any
Indemnified Party in any way relating to or arising out of this Agreement, the
Operative Documents, the Owner Trust Estate, the administration of the Trust or
the action or inaction of the Owner Trustee hereunder, except only that the
Depositor shall not be liable for or required to indemnify the Owner Trustee
from and against Expenses arising or resulting from the gross negligence, bad
faith or willful misconduct of the Owner Trustee. The indemnities contained in
this Section 8.2 shall survive the resignation of the Owner Trustee, termination
of the Trust or the termination of this Agreement.
SECTION 8.3 Payments to the Owner Trustee. Any amounts paid to the Owner
Trustee pursuant to this Article VIII shall be deemed not to be a part of the
Owner Trust Estate immediately after such payment.
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ARTICLE IX
TERMINATION OF TRUST AGREEMENT
SECTION 9.1 Termination of Trust Agreement.
(a) This Agreement (other than Article VIII) and the Trust shall
terminate and be of no further force or effect on the earlier of: (i) the final
distribution by the Indenture Trustee of all moneys or other property or
proceeds of the assets of the Trust in accordance with the terms of the
Indenture and (ii) the expiration of 21 years from the death of the last
survivor of the descendants of ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ (the late ambassador of the
United States to the Court of St. James's). The bankruptcy, liquidation,
dissolution, death or incapacity of any Certificateholder shall not (x) operate
to terminate this Agreement or the Trust, nor (y) entitle such
Certificateholder's legal representatives or heirs to claim an accounting or to
take any action or proceeding in any court for a partition or winding up of all
or any part of the Trust or the Owner Trust Estate or (z) otherwise affect the
rights, obligations and liabilities of the parties hereto.
(b) The Certificates shall be subject to an early redemption or
termination at the option of the majority of Certificateholders, and in certain
instances the Note Insurer, in the manner and subject to the provisions of
Section 5.02 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
(c) Except as provided in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Section
9.1, none of the Depositor, the Servicer, the Note Insurer or any
Certificateholder shall be entitled to revoke or terminate the Trust.
(d) Notice of any termination of the Trust, specifying the Payment
Date upon which the Certificateholders shall surrender their Certificates to the
Owner Trustee for payment of the final distribution and cancellation, shall be
given by the Owner Trustee by letter to the Note Insurer, the Rating Agencies
and the Trust Paying Agent mailed within five Business Days of receipt of notice
of such termination, stating: (i) the Payment Date upon or with respect to which
final payment of the Certificates shall be made upon presentation and surrender
of the Certificates at the office of the Owner Trustee therein designated; (ii)
the amount of any such final payment; and (iii) that the Record Date otherwise
applicable to such Payment Date is not applicable, payments being made only upon
presentation and surrender of the Certificates at the office of the Owner
Trustee therein specified. The Owner Trustee shall give such notice to the
Certificate Registrar (if other than the Owner Trustee) and the Trust Paying
Agent at the time such notice is given to Certificateholders. The Owner Trustee
will give notice to the Trust Paying Agent of each presentation and surrender of
the Certificates and the Trust Paying Agent shall cause to be distributed to
Certificateholders amounts distributable on such Payment Date pursuant to
Section 5.03 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
(e) Upon the winding up of the Trust and its termination, the Owner
Trustee shall cause the Certificate of Trust to be canceled by filing a
certificate of cancellation with the Secretary of State in accordance with the
provisions of Section 3820 of the Business Trust Statute.
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SECTION 9.2 Reserved.
ARTICLE X
SUCCESSOR OWNER TRUSTEES AND ADDITIONAL OWNER TRUSTEES
SECTION 10.1 Eligibility Requirements for Owner Trustee. The Owner Trustee
shall at all times be a corporation satisfying the provisions of Section 3807(a)
of the Business Trust Statute; authorized to exercise corporate powers; having a
combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 and subject to supervision
or examination by Federal or state authorities; and having (or having a parent
which has) a rating of at least "Baa3" by ▇▇▇▇▇'▇ and "A-1" by Standard & Poor's
and being acceptable to the Note Insurer. If such corporation shall publish
reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements
of the aforesaid supervising or examining authority, then for the purpose of
this Section, the combined capital and surplus of such corporation shall be
deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent
report of condition so published. In case at any time the Owner Trustee shall
cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, the
Owner Trustee shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect
specified in Section 10.2.
SECTION 10.2 Resignation or Removal of Owner Trustee. The Owner Trustee
may at any time resign and be discharged from the trusts hereby created by
giving written notice thereof to the Depositor, the Indenture Trustee and the
Note Insurer. Upon receiving such notice of resignation, the Depositor shall
promptly appoint a successor Owner Trustee (acceptable to the Note Insurer) by
written instrument, in duplicate, one copy of which instrument shall be
delivered to the resigning Owner Trustee and one copy to the successor Owner
Trustee. If no successor Owner Trustee shall have been so appointed and have
accepted appointment within 30 days after the giving of such notice of
resignation, the resigning Owner Trustee or the Note Insurer may petition any
court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Owner
Trustee.
If at any time the Owner Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance
with the provisions of Section 10.1 and shall fail to resign after written
request therefor by the Indenture Trustee, or if at any time the Owner Trustee
shall be legally unable to act, or shall be adjudged bankrupt or insolvent, or a
receiver of the Owner Trustee or of its property shall be appointed, or any
public officer shall take charge or control of the Owner Trustee or of its
property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or
liquidation, then the Note Insurer, or the Indenture Trustee with the consent of
the Note Insurer, may remove the Owner Trustee. If the Indenture Trustee or the
Note Insurer shall remove the Owner Trustee under the authority of the
immediately preceding sentence, the Note Insurer, or the Servicer with the
consent of the Note Insurer, shall promptly appoint a successor Owner Trustee by
written instrument in duplicate, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered
to the outgoing Owner Trustee so removed and one copy to the successor Owner
Trustee and payment of all fees owed to the outgoing Owner Trustee.
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Any resignation or removal of the Owner Trustee and appointment of a
successor Owner Trustee pursuant to any of the provisions of this Section shall
not become effective until acceptance of appointment by the successor Owner
Trustee pursuant to Section 10.3, written approval by the Note Insurer and
payment of all fees and expenses owed to the outgoing Owner Trustee. The
Depositor shall provide notice of such resignation or removal of the Owner
Trustee to each of the Rating Agencies and the Note Insurer.
SECTION 10.3 Successor Owner Trustee. Any successor Owner Trustee
appointed pursuant to Section 10.2 shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the
Depositor, the Indenture Trustee, the Note Insurer and to its predecessor Owner
Trustee an instrument accepting such appointment under this Agreement, and
thereupon the resignation or removal of the predecessor Owner Trustee shall
become effective and such successor Owner Trustee (if acceptable to the Note
Insurer), without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become fully vested
with all the rights, powers, duties, and obligations of its predecessor under
this Agreement, with like effect as if originally named as Owner Trustee. The
predecessor Owner Trustee shall upon payment of its fees and expenses deliver to
the successor Owner Trustee all documents and statements and monies held by it
under this Agreement; and the Depositor and the predecessor Owner Trustee shall
execute and deliver such instruments and do such other things as may reasonably
be required for fully and certainly vesting and confirming in the successor
Owner Trustee all such rights, powers, duties, and obligations.
No successor Owner Trustee shall accept appointment as provided in this
Section unless at the time of such acceptance such successor Owner Trustee shall
be eligible pursuant to Section 10.1.
Upon acceptance of appointment by a successor Owner Trustee pursuant to
this Section, the Depositor shall mail notice of the successor of such Owner
Trustee to all Certificateholders, the Indenture Trustee, the Owners, the Note
Insurer and the Rating Agencies. If the Depositor fails to mail such notice
within 10 days after acceptance of appointment by the successor Owner Trustee,
the successor Owner Trustee shall cause such notice to be mailed at the expense
of the Depositor.
SECTION 10.4 Merger or Consolidation of Owner Trustee. Any corporation
into which the Owner Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may be
consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion or
consolidation to which the Owner Trustee shall be a party, or any corporation
succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of the
Owner Trustee, shall be the successor of the Owner Trustee hereunder, provided
such corporation shall be eligible pursuant to Section 10.1, and without the
execution or filing of any instrument or any further act on the part of any of
the parties hereto; provided, however, that the Owner Trustee shall mail notice
of such merger or consolidation to the Note Insurer and each of the Rating
Agencies.
SECTION 10.5 Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee.
(a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement, at any
time, for the purpose of meeting any legal requirement of any jurisdiction in
which any part of the Owner Trust
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Estate or any Property may at the time be located, the Owner Trustee (with the
consent of the Note Insurer) shall have the power and shall execute and deliver
all instruments to appoint one or more Persons approved by the Owner Trustee and
the Note Insurer to act as co-trustee, jointly with the Owner Trustee, or as
separate trustee or trustees, of all or any part of the assets of the Trust, and
to vest in such Person, in such capacity, such title to the Trust, or any part
thereof, and, subject to the other provisions of this Section, such powers,
duties, obligations, rights and trusts as the Note Insurer and the Owner Trustee
may consider necessary or desirable. No co-trustee or separate trustee under
this Agreement shall be required to meet the terms of eligibility as a successor
trustee pursuant to Section 10.1 and no notice of the appointment of any
co-trustee or separate trustee shall be required pursuant to Section 10.3.
(b) Each 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 Owner Trustee shall be conferred upon and exercised
or performed by the Owner 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 Owner
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 Owner 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 Trust
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 Owner Trustee;
(ii) no trustee under this Agreement shall be personally
liable by reason of any act or omission of any other trustee under
this Agreement; and
(iii) the Owner 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 Owner 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. Every instrument
appointing any separate trustee or co-trustee shall refer to this Agreement and
the conditions of this Article. 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, either jointly with the Owner
Trustee or separately, as may be provided therein, subject to all the provisions
of this Agreement, specifically including every provision of this Agreement
relating to the conduct of, affecting the liability of, or affording protection
to, the Owner Trustee. Each such instrument shall be filed with the Owner
Trustee and a copy thereof given to the Note Insurer.
(d) Any separate trustee or co-trustee may at any time appoint the
Owner Trustee as its agent or attorney-in-fact with full power and authority, to
the extent not prohibited by law, to
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do any lawful act under or in respect of this Agreement 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 Owner Trustee, to the extent
permitted by law, without the appointment of a new or successor trustee.
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ARTICLE XI
MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 11.1 Amendments Without Consent of Certificateholders or Owners of
the Notes. This Agreement may be amended by the Depositor and the Owner Trustee
without the consent of any of the Certificateholders (but with the prior written
consent of the Note Insurer and prior notice to each of the Rating Agencies), to
(i) cure any ambiguity, (ii) correct or supplement any provision in this
Agreement that may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision in this
Agreement, (iii) add or supplement any credit enhancement for the benefit of the
Owners of the Notes or the Certificateholders, (iv) add to the covenants,
restrictions or obligations of the Depositor or the Owner Trustee and (v) add,
change or eliminate any other provision of this Agreement in any manner that
shall not, adversely affect in any material respect the interests of the Owners
of the Notes or the Certificateholders. An amendment described above shall be
deemed not to adversely affect in any material respect the interests of any
Certificateholder or Owner of a Note if (i) an opinion of counsel is obtained to
such effect or (ii) the party requesting the amendment satisfies the Rating
Agency Condition with respect to such amendment.
SECTION 11.2 Amendments With Consent of Certificateholders. This Agreement
may be amended from time to time by the Depositor and the Owner Trustee with the
consent of the Note Insurer and more than a majority in Percentage Interests of
the Certificates for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any
manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Agreement, or of modifying
in any manner the rights of the Certificateholders; provided, however, that no
such amendment shall (a) increase or reduce in any manner the amount of, or
accelerate or delay the timing of, collections of payments on Home Equity Loans
or distributions that shall be made for the benefit of the Certificateholders or
(b) reduce the aforesaid percentage required to consent to any such amendment,
without the consent of the Holders of all of the Certificates then outstanding.
SECTION 11.3 Form of Amendments.
(a) Promptly after the execution of any amendment, supplement or
consent pursuant to Section 11.1 or 11.2, The Owner Trustee shall furnish
written notification of the substance of such amendment or consent to each
Certificateholder, the Indenture Trustee, the Note Insurer and each Rating
Agency.
(b) It shall not be necessary for the consent of the
Certificateholders, pursuant to Section 11.2 to approve the particular form of
any proposed amendment or consent, but it shall be sufficient if such consent
shall approve the substance thereof. The manner of obtaining such consents (and
any other consents of Certificateholders provided for in this Agreement or in
any other Operative Document) and of evidencing the authorization of the
execution thereof by Certificateholders shall be subject to such reasonable
requirements as the Owner Trustee may prescribe.
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(c) Promptly after the execution of any amendment to the Certificate
of Trust, the Owner Trustee shall cause the filing of such amendment with the
Secretary of State.
(d) Prior to the execution of any amendment to this Agreement or the
Certificate of Trust, the Owner Trustee shall be entitled to receive and rely
upon an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such amendment is
authorized or permitted by this Agreement and that all conditions precedent to
the execution and delivery of such amendment have been satisfied. The Owner
Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such amendment which
affects the Owner Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under this
Agreement or otherwise.
SECTION 11.4 No Legal Title to Owner Trust Estate. The Certificateholders
shall not have legal title to any part of the assets of the Owner Trust Estate.
The Certificateholders shall be entitled to receive distributions with respect
to their undivided ownership interest therein only in accordance with Articles V
and IX. No transfer, by operation of law or otherwise, of any right, title, and
interest of the Certificateholders to and in their ownership interest in the
assets of the Trust shall operate to terminate this Agreement or the trusts
hereunder or entitle any transferee to an accounting or to the transfer to it of
legal title to any part of the assets of the Trust.
SECTION 11.5 Limitations on Rights of Others. The provisions of this
Agreement are solely for the benefit of the Note Insurer, the Owner Trustee, the
Depositor, the Certificateholders and, to the extent expressly provided herein,
the Indenture Trustee and the Owners of the Notes, and nothing in this
Agreement, whether express or implied, shall be construed to give to any other
Person any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim in the assets of the Trust
or under or in respect of this Agreement or any covenants, conditions or
provisions contained herein.
SECTION 11.6 Notices.
(a) All demands, notices and communications hereunder shall be in
writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given if personally delivered at
or mailed by overnight mail, certified mail or registered mail, postage prepaid,
to (i) in the case of the Servicer, IMC Mortgage Company, ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇.,
▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇, Attention: ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, or such other addresses
as may hereafter be furnished to the Certificateholders in writing by the
Servicer, (ii) in the case of the Depositor, IMC Securities, Inc. ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇., ▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇, Attention: ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, or such
other addresses as may hereafter be furnished to the Certificateholders in
writing by the Depositor, (iii) in the case of the Owner Trustee, Wilmington
Trust Company, ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Square North, ▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇, Attention: IMC Home Equity Loan Owner Trust 1997-8, (iv) in the case of
the Certificateholders, as set forth in the Certificate Register, (v) in the
case of the Indenture Trustee, The Chase Manhattan Bank, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇,
▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, Attention: IMC Home Equity Loan Owner Trust 1997-8,
(vi) in the case of ▇▇▇▇▇'▇, ▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇,
Attention: Home Equity Monitoring Group, (vii) in the case of Standard & Poor's,
▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, Attention: Residential Mortgage Group,
and (viii) in the case of the Note Insurer, MBIA Insurance Corporation ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇.▇. ▇▇▇▇▇, Attention: IMC Home Equity Loan Owner Trust 1997-8.
Any such notices shall be deemed to be effective with
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respect to any party hereto upon the receipt of such notice by such party,
except that notices to the Certificateholders shall be effective upon mailing or
personal delivery.
(b) Any notice required or permitted to be given to a
Certificateholder shall be given by first-class mail, postage prepaid, at the
address of such Holder as shown in the Certificate Register. Any notice so
mailed within the time prescribed in this Agreement shall be conclusively
presumed to have been duly given, whether or not the Certificateholder receives
such notice.
SECTION 11.7 Severability. If any one or more of the covenants,
agreements, provisions or terms of this Agreement shall be for any reason
whatsoever held invalid, then such covenants, agreements, provisions or terms
shall be deemed severable from the remaining covenants, agreements, provisions
or terms of this Agreement and shall in no way affect the validity or
enforceability of the other provisions of this Agreement or of the Certificates
or the rights of the Holders thereof.
SECTION 11.8 Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed by the parties
hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed and delivered
shall be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute one
and the same instrument.
SECTION 11.9 Successors and Assigns. All covenants and agreements
contained herein shall be binding upon, and inure to the benefit of, the
Depositor, the Owner Trustee, the Note Insurer and each Certificateholder and
their respective successors and permitted assigns, all as herein provided. Any
request, notice, direction, consent, waiver or other instrument or action by a
Certificateholder shall bind the successors and assigns of such
Certificateholder.
SECTION 11.10 No Petition Covenant. Notwithstanding any prior termination
of this Agreement, the Trust (or the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Trust), each
Certificateholder and the Indenture Trustee shall not acquiesce, petition or
otherwise invoke or cause the Depositor or the Trust to invoke the process of
any court or governmental authority for the purpose of commencing or sustaining
a case against the Depositor or the Trust under any federal or state bankruptcy,
insolvency or similar law or appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee,
trustee, custodian, sequestrator or other similar official of the Depositor or
the Trust or any substantial part of its property, or ordering the winding up or
liquidation of the affairs of the Depositor or the Trust.
SECTION 11.11 No Recourse. Each Certificateholder by accepting a
Certificate acknowledges that such Certificateholder's Certificates represent
beneficial interests in the Trust only and do not represent interests in or
obligations of the Depositor, the Servicer, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture
Trustee or any affiliate thereof and no recourse may be had against such parties
or their assets, except as may be expressly set forth or contemplated in this
Agreement, the Certificates or the Operative Documents.
SECTION 11.12 Headings. The headings of the various Articles and Sections
herein are for convenience of reference only and shall not define or limit any
of the terms or provisions hereof.
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SECTION 11.13 Governing Law. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS
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 Reserved.
SECTION 11.15 Third-Party Beneficiary. The parties hereto acknowledge that
the Note Insurer is an express third party beneficiary hereof entitled to
enforce the provisions hereunder as if it were actually a party hereto. Nothing
in this section, however, shall be construed to mitigate in any way, the
fiduciary responsibilities of the Owner Trustee to the Certificateholders nor to
create a fiduciary responsibility of the Owner Trustee to the Note Insurer.
SECTION 11.16 Suspension and Termination of Note Insurer's Rights. During
the continuation of a Note Insurer Default, rights granted or reserved to the
Note Insurer hereunder shall vest instead in the Certificateholders; provided
that the Note Insurer shall be entitled to any distributions in reimbursement of
the Note Insurer Reimbursement Amount, and the Note Insurer shall retain those
rights under Section 11.1 to consent to any amendment of this Agreement.
At such time as either (i) the Note Principal Balance has been
reduced to zero or (ii) the Insurance Policy has been terminated 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 Insurance Policy and the Insurance
Agreement (and the Note Insurer no longer has any obligation under the 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
Certificateholders 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 Certificateholders.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Trust Agreement to
be duly executed by their respective officers hereunto duly authorized, as of
the day and year first above written.
WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
as Owner Trustee
By:/s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
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Name: ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: Assistant Vice President
IMC SECURITIES, INC.,
as Depositor
By:/s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
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Name: ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: President
Acknowledged and Accepted:
IMC MORTGAGE COMPANY,
as Servicer
By:/s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
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Name: ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: President
THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK,
as Indenture Trustee
By:/s/ ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇
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Name: ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇
Title: Trust Officer
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EXHIBIT A
CERTIFICATE OF TRUST OF
IMC Home Equity Loan Trust 1997-8
THIS Certificate of Trust of IMC Home Equity Loan Owner Trust 1997-8 (the
"Trust") dated as of December 1, 1997, is being duly executed and filed by
Wilmington Trust Company, a Delaware banking corporation, as trustee, to form a
business trust under the Delaware Business Trust Act (12 Del. Code, Section 3801
et seq.).
1. Name. The name of the business trust formed hereby is IMC Home Equity Loan
Owner Trust 1997-8.
2. Delaware Trustee. The name and business address of the trustee of the Trust
in the State of Delaware is Wilmington Trust Company, ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Square North, ▇▇▇▇
▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇, Attention: Corporate Trust
Administration.
3. This Certificate of Trust shall be effective as of its filing.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, being the sole trustee of the Trust, has
executed this Certificate of Trust as of the date first above written.
Wilmington Trust Company,
not in its individual capacity
but solely as Owner Trustee
By: ____________________________
Name:
Title:
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EXHIBIT B-1
TO THE TRUST AGREEMENT
(FORM OF CERTIFICATE)
THE EQUITY INTEREST IN THE TRUST REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE HAS NOT BEEN
AND WILL NOT BE REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE
"ACT"), OR ANY STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THIS CERTIFICATE MAY BE DIRECTLY OR
INDIRECTLY OFFERED OR SOLD OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OR (INCLUDING PLEDGED) BY THE
HOLDER HEREOF ONLY TO (I) A "QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER" AS DEFINED IN RULE
144A UNDER THE ACT, IN A TRANSACTION THAT IS REGISTERED UNDER THE ACT AND
APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS OR THAT IS EXEMPT FROM THE REGISTRATION
REQUIREMENTS OF THE ACT PURSUANT TO RULE 144A OR (II) A PERSON INVOLVED IN THE
ORGANIZATION OR OPERATION OF THE TRUST OR AN AFFILIATE OF SUCH A PERSON WITHIN
THE MEANING OR RULE 3A-7 OF THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940, AS AMENDED
(INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMC MORTGAGE COMPANY AND IMC SECURITIES, INC.) IN
A TRANSACTION THAT IS REGISTERED UNDER THE ACT AND APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES
LAWS OR THAT IS EXEMPT FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE ACT AND SUCH
LAWS. NO PERSON IS OBLIGATED TO REGISTER THIS EQUITY INTEREST UNDER THE ACT OR
ANY STATE SECURITIES LAWS.
NO TRANSFER OF THIS CERTIFICATE OR ANY BENEFICIAL INTEREST THEREIN SHALL BE MADE
TO ANY PERSON UNLESS THE OWNER TRUSTEE HAS RECEIVED EITHER
(A) A CERTIFICATE FROM THE TRANSFEREE TO THE EFFECT THAT
SUCH TRANSFEREE (1) IS NOT AN "EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN"
WITHIN THE MEANING OF SECTION 3(3) OF THE EMPLOYEE
RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED
("ERISA"), OR A "PLAN" WITHIN THE MEANING OF SECTION
4975(e)(1) OF THE CODE (ANY SUCH PLAN OR EMPLOYEE BENEFIT
PLAN, A "PLAN") AND IS NOT DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY
PURCHASING SUCH CERTIFICATE ON BEHALF OF, AS INVESTMENT
MANAGER OF, AS NAMED FIDUCIARY OF, AS TRUSTEE OF, OR WITH
ASSETS OF A PLAN, OR (2) EITHER (I) SUCH TRANSFEREE IS
ACQUIRING THE CERTIFICATE FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT AND NO
PART OF THE ASSETS USED TO ACQUIRE THE CERTIFICATE
CONSTITUTES ASSETS OF A PLAN, OR (II) THE SOURCE OF FUNDS TO
BE USED TO ACQUIRE SUCH CERTIFICATE IS AN "INSURANCE
COMPANY GENERAL ACCOUNT," WITHIN THE MEANING OF
PROHIBITED TRANSACTION CLASS EXEMPTION 95-60, 60 FED. REG.
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35925 (JULY 12, 1995) (THE "EXEMPTION"), AND THERE IS NO PLAN WITH
RESPECT TO WHICH THE AMOUNT OF SUCH GENERAL ACCOUNT'S RESERVES FOR
THE CONTRACT(S) HELD BY OR ON BEHALF OF SUCH PLAN (DETERMINED UNDER
SECTION 807(d) OF THE CODE), TOGETHER WITH THE AMOUNT OF THE
RESERVES OF THE CONTRACT(S) HELD BY OR ON BEHALF OF ANY OTHER PLANS
(DETERMINED UNDER SECTION 807(d) OF THE CODE) MAINTAINED BY THE SAME
EMPLOYER (OR AN AFFILIATE THEREOF AS DEFINED IN SECTION V(a)(1) OF
THE EXEMPTION) OR BY THE SAME EMPLOYEE ORGANIZATION, EXCEED 10% OF
THE TOTAL OF ALL LIABILITIES OF SUCH GENERAL ACCOUNT; OR
(B) AN OPINION OF COUNSEL ACCEPTABLE TO SUCH PERSONS THAT (A) THE
PROPOSED ISSUANCE OR TRANSFER OF THE CERTIFICATE TO SUCH TRANSFEREE
WILL NOT CAUSE ANY ASSETS OF THE TRUST TO BE DEEMED ASSETS OF A
PLAN, OR (B) THE PROPOSED ISSUANCE OR TRANSFER OF THE CERTIFICATE
WILL NOT CAUSE THE OWNER TRUSTEE OR THE CERTIFICATE REGISTRAR OR ANY
OF THEIR RESPECTIVE SUCCESSORS TO BE A FIDUCIARY OF A PLAN WITHIN
THE MEANING OF SECTION 3(21) OF ERISA AND WILL NOT GIVE RISE TO A
TRANSACTION DESCRIBED IN SECTION 406 OF ERISA OR SECTION 4975(c)(1)
OF THE CODE FOR WHICH A STATUTORY OR ADMINISTRATIVE EXEMPTION IS
UNAVAILABLE.
THIS CERTIFICATE MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED, SOLD OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF UNLESS,
PRIOR TO SUCH DISPOSITION, THE PROPOSED TRANSFEREE DELIVERS TO THE OWNER TRUSTEE
AND THE CERTIFICATE REGISTRAR A CERTIFICATE STATING THAT SUCH TRANSFEREE (A)
AGREES TO BE BOUND BY AND TO ABIDE BY THE TRANSFER RESTRICTIONS APPLICABLE TO
THIS CERTIFICATE; (B) IS NOT AN ENTITY THAT WILL HOLD THIS CERTIFICATE AS
NOMINEE TO FACILITATE THE CLEARANCE AND SETTLEMENT OF SUCH SECURITY THROUGH THIS
CERTIFICATE MAY NOT BE PURCHASED BY OR TRANSFERRED TO ANY PERSON THAT IS A
NON-U.S. PERSON. THE TERM "NON-U.S. PERSON" MEANS A PERSON WHO IS NOT ONE OF THE
FOLLOWING: A CITIZEN OR RESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, A CORPORATION,
PARTNERSHIP OR OTHER ENTITY CREATED OR ORGANIZED IN OR UNDER THE LAWS OF THE
UNITED STATES OR ANY POLITICAL SUBDIVISION THEREOF, AN ESTATE THAT IS SUBJECT TO
U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX REGARDLESS OF THE SOURCE OF ITS INCOME OR A TRUST IF (I)
A COURT IN THE UNITED STATES IS ABLE TO EXERCISE PRIMARY SUPERVISION OVER THE
ADMINISTRATION OF THE TRUST AND (II) ONE OR MORE UNITED STATES FIDUCIARIES HAVE
THE AUTHORITY TO CONTROL ALL SUBSTANTIAL DECISIONS OF THE TRUST.
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IMC HOME EQUITY LOAN OWNER TRUST 1997-8
CERTIFICATE
No. 0001
THIS CERTIFIES THAT IMC Mortgage Company (the "Owner") is the registered
owner of a 99% Percentage Interest in IMC Home Equity Loan Owner Trust 1997-8
(the "Trust") existing under the laws of the State of Delaware and created
pursuant to the Owner Trust Agreement, dated as of December 1, 1997 (the "Trust
Agreement"), between IMC Securities, Inc., as Depositor, and Wilmington Trust
Company, in its individual capacity and in its fiduciary capacity as owner
trustee under the Trust Agreement (the "Owner Trustee"). Capitalized terms used
but not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to such terms in the
Trust Agreement. The Owner Trustee, on behalf of the Issuer and not in its
individual capacity, has executed this Certificate by one of its duly authorized
signatories as set forth below. This Certificate is one of the Certificates
referred to in the Trust Agreement and is issued under and is subject to the
terms, provisions and conditions of the Trust Agreement to which the holder of
this Certificate by virtue of the acceptance hereof agrees and by which the
holder hereof is bound. Reference is hereby made to the Trust Agreement for the
rights of the holder of this Certificate, as well as for the terms and
conditions of the Trust created by the Trust Agreement.
The holder, by its acceptance hereof, agrees not to transfer this
Certificate except in accordance with terms and provisions of the Agreement.
THIS CERTIFICATE SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE
STATE OF DELAWARE, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISIONS, AND THE
OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE DETERMINED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Owner Trustee, on behalf of the Trust and not in
its individual capacity, has caused this Certificate to be duly executed.
IMC HOME EQUITY LOAN OWNER TRUST
1997-8
By: Wilmington Trust Company, not in its
individual capacity but solely as Owner
Trustee under the Trust Agreement
By: ____________________________________
Authorized Signatory
DATED: December 30, 1997
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CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Certificates referred to in the within-mentioned
Agreement.
WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY
as Owner Trustee
By: ____________________________________
Authorized Signatory
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ASSIGNMENT
FOR VALUE RECEIVED the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfers
unto
PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY
OR OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER
OF ASSIGNEE
_______________________________________________________________________________
(Please print or type name and address, including postal zip code, of assignee)
_______________________________________________________________________________
the within Instrument, and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably
constituting and appointing
______________________________________________________________ Attorney to
transfer said Instrument on the books of the Certificate Registrar, with full
power of substitution in the premises.
Dated: _____________________
__________________________________________*/
Signature Guaranteed:
__________________________________________*/
NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as it
appears upon the face of the within Instrument in every particular,
without alteration, enlargement or any change whatever. Such
signature must be guaranteed by a member firm of the New York Stock
Exchange or a commercial bank or trust company.
▇-▇-▇
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▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇-▇
TO THE TRUST AGREEMENT
(FORM OF CERTIFICATE ISSUED TO THE DEPOSITOR)
THE EQUITY INTEREST IN THE TRUST REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE HAS NOT BEEN
AND WILL NOT BE REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE
"ACT"), OR ANY STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THIS CERTIFICATE MAY BE DIRECTLY OR
INDIRECTLY OFFERED OR SOLD OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF (INCLUDING PLEDGED) BY THE
HOLDER HEREOF ONLY TO (I) A "QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER" AS DEFINED IN RULE
144A UNDER THE ACT, IN A TRANSACTION THAT IS REGISTERED UNDER THE ACT AND
APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS OR THAT IS EXEMPT FROM THE REGISTRATION
REQUIREMENTS OF THE ACT PURSUANT TO RULE 144A OR (II) A PERSON INVOLVED IN THE
ORGANIZATION OR OPERATION OF THE TRUST OR AN AFFILIATE OF SUCH A PERSON WITHIN
THE MEANING OF RULE 3A-7 OF THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940, AS AMENDED
(INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMC MORTGAGE COMPANY AND IMC SECURITIES, INC.)
IN A TRANSACTION THAT IS REGISTERED UNDER THE ACT AND APPLICABLE STATE
SECURITIES LAWS OR THAT IS EXEMPT FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE ACT
AND SUCH LAWS. NO PERSON IS OBLIGATED TO REGISTER THIS RESIDUAL INTEREST UNDER
THE ACT OR ANY STATE SECURITIES LAWS.
THIS CERTIFICATE IS NONTRANSFERABLE. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING HEREIN OR IN THE
TRUST AGREEMENT TO THE CONTRARY, ANY ATTEMPTED TRANSFER OF THIS CERTIFICATE
SHALL BE NULL AND VOID FOR ALL PURPOSES.
IMC HOME EQUITY LOAN OWNER TRUST 1997-8
CERTIFICATE
No. 0002
THIS CERTIFIES THAT IMC SECURITIES, INC. (the "Owner") is the registered
owner of a 1% Percentage Interest of the IMC Home Equity Loan Owner Trust 1997-8
(the "Trust") existing under the laws of the State of Delaware and created
pursuant to the Trust Agreement, dated as of December 1, 1997 (the "Trust
Agreement") between IMC Securities, inc., as Depositor and Wilmington Trust
Company, not in its individual capacity but solely in its fiduciary capacity as
owner trustee under the Trust Agreement (the "Owner Trustee"). Capitalized terms
used but not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in the
Trust Agreement. The Owner Trustee, on behalf of the Issuer and not in its
individual capacity, has executed this Certificate by
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one of its duly authorized signatories as set forth below. This Certificate is
one of the Certificates referred to in the Trust Agreement and is issued under
and is subject to the terms, provisions and conditions of the Trust Agreement to
which the holder of this Certificate by virtue of acceptance hereof agrees and
by which the holder hereof is bound. Reference is hereby made to the trust
Agreement for the rights of the holder of this Certificate, as well as for the
terms and conditions of the Trust created by the Trust Agreement.
The holder, by its acceptance Certificate hereof, agrees not to transfer
this Certificate.
THIS CERTIFICATE SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE
STATE OF DELAWARE, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISIONS, AND THE
OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE DETERMINED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Owner Trustee, on behalf of the trust and not in
its individual capacity, has caused this Certificate to be duly executed.
IMC HOME EQUITY LOAN OWNER TRUST
1997-8
By: Wilmington Trust Company, not in its
individual capacity but solely as Owner
Trustee under the Trust Agreement
By: ____________________________________
Authorized Signatory
DATED: December 30, 1997
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CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Certificates referred to in the within-mentioned
Agreement.
By: ____________________________________
Authenticating Agent
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