EXHIBIT 4(ax)
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FPL GROUP, INC.
ISSUER
TO
THE BANK OF NEW YORK,
TRUSTEE
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INDENTURE
(FOR UNSECURED SUBORDINATED DEBT SECURITIES
RELATING TO TRUST SECURITIES)
DATED AS OF _______, 20__
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
RECITAL OF THE COMPANY.........................................................1
ARTICLE One Definitions And Other Provisions Of General Application............1
SECTION 101. Definitions.................................................1
"Act,"......................................................2
"Additional Interest".......................................2
"Affiliate".................................................2
"Authenticating Agent"......................................2
"Authorized Officer"........................................2
"Board of Directors"........................................2
"Board Resolution"..........................................2
"Business Day,".............................................2
"Commission"................................................2
"Common Securities".........................................2
"Company"...................................................3
"Company Request" or "Company Order"........................3
"Corporate Trust Office"....................................3
"Corporation"...............................................3
"Defaulted Interest"........................................3
"Discount Security".........................................3
"Dollar" or "$".............................................3
"Eligible Obligations"......................................3
"Event of Default"..........................................3
"Exchange Act"..............................................3
"Governmental Authority"....................................3
"Government Obligations"....................................3
"Holder"....................................................4
"Indenture".................................................4
"Interest Payment Date,"....................................4
"Maturity,".................................................4
"Notice of Default,"........................................4
"Officer's Certificate".....................................4
"Opinion of Counsel"........................................4
"Outstanding,"..............................................4
"Paying Agent"..............................................5
"Periodic Offering".........................................5
"Person"....................................................6
"Place of Payment,".........................................6
"Predecessor Security"......................................6
"Preferred Securities"......................................6
"Redemption Date,"..........................................6
"Redemption Price,".........................................6
"Regular Record Date".......................................6
"Required Currency".........................................6
"Responsible Officer,"......................................6
"Securities"................................................6
"Securities Act"............................................6
"Security Register" and "Security Registrar"................6
"Senior Indebtedness".......................................7
"Special Record Date".......................................7
"Stated Interest Rate"......................................7
"Stated Maturity,"..........................................7
"Tranche"...................................................7
"Trust".....................................................7
"Trust Agreement"...........................................7
"Trust Indenture Act".......................................8
"Trust Securities Guarantee"................................8
"Trustee"...................................................8
"United States".............................................8
SECTION 102. Compliance Certificates and Opinions........................8
SECTION 103. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee......................8
SECTION 104. Acts of Holders.............................................9
SECTION 105. Notices, etc. to Trustee and Company.......................11
SECTION 106. Notice to Holders of Securities; Waiver....................12
SECTION 107. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act..........................12
SECTION 108. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents...................12
SECTION 109. Successors and Assigns.....................................12
SECTION 110. Separability Clause........................................12
SECTION 111. Benefits of Indenture......................................12
SECTION 112. Governing Law..............................................13
SECTION 113. Legal Holidays.............................................13
ARTICLE Two Security Forms................................................. 13
SECTION 201. Forms Generally............................................13
SECTION 202. Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication............14
ARTICLE Three The Securities 14
SECTION 301. Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series.......................14
SECTION 302. Denominations..............................................17
SECTION 303. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating.............17
SECTION 304. Temporary Securities.......................................20
SECTION 305. Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange........20
SECTION 306. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities...........21
SECTION 307. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved.............22
SECTION 308. Persons Deemed Owners......................................23
SECTION 309. Cancellation by Security Registrar.........................23
SECTION 310. Computation of Interest....................................23
SECTION 311. Payment to Be in Proper Currency...........................23
SECTION 312. Extension of Interest Payment..............................24
SECTION 313. Additional Interest........................................24
ARTICLE Four Redemption Of Securities.........................................24
SECTION 401. Applicability of Article...................................24
SECTION 402. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee......................24
SECTION 403. Selection of Securities to Be Redeemed.....................25
SECTION 404. Notice of Redemption.......................................25
SECTION 405. Securities Payable on Redemption Date......................26
SECTION 406. Securities Redeemed in Part................................27
ARTICLE Five Sinking Funds....................................................27
SECTION 501. Applicability of Article...................................27
SECTION 502. Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with
Securities...............................................27
SECTION 503. Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund..................27
ARTICLE Six Covenants.........................................................28
SECTION 601. Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest.................28
SECTION 602. Maintenance of Office or Agency............................28
SECTION 603. Money for Securities Payments to Be Held in Trust..........29
SECTION 604. Corporate Existence........................................30
SECTION 605. Maintenance of Properties..................................30
SECTION 606. Annual Officer's Certificate as to Compliance..............30
SECTION 607. Waiver of Certain Covenants................................30
SECTION 608. Restrictions on Dividends and Debt Payments................31
SECTION 609. Maintenance of Trust Existence.............................32
SECTION 610. Rights of Holders of Preferred Securities..................32
ARTICLE Seven Satisfaction And Discharge......................................32
SECTION 701. Satisfaction and Discharge of Securities...................32
SECTION 702. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture....................34
SECTION 703. Application of Trust Money.................................35
ARTICLE Eight Events Of Default; Remedies.....................................35
SECTION 801. Events of Default..........................................35
SECTION 802. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment........ 37
SECTION 803. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement
by Trustee...............................................38
SECTION 804. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim...........................38
SECTION 805. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession
of Securities............................................39
SECTION 806. Application of Money Collected.............................39
SECTION 807. Limitation on Suits........................................39
SECTION 808. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal,
Premium and Interest.....................................40
SECTION 809. Restoration of Rights and Remedies.........................40
SECTION 810. Rights and Remedies Cumulative.............................40
SECTION 811. Delay or Omission Not Waiver...............................40
SECTION 812. Control by Holders of Securities...........................41
SECTION 813. Waiver of Past Defaults....................................41
SECTION 814. Undertaking for Costs......................................41
SECTION 815. Waiver of Usury, Stay or Extension Laws....................42
ARTICLE Nine The Trustee......................................................42
SECTION 901. Certain Duties and Responsibilities........................42
SECTION 902. Notice of Defaults.........................................43
SECTION 903. Certain Rights of Trustee..................................43
SECTION 904. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of
Securities...............................................44
SECTION 905. May Hold Securities........................................45
SECTION 906. Money Held in Trust........................................45
SECTION 907. Compensation and Reimbursement.............................45
SECTION 908. Disqualification; Conflicting Interests....................46
SECTION 909. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility....................46
SECTION 910. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor..........47
SECTION 911. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.....................48
SECTION 912. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession
to Business..............................................49
SECTION 913. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company..........49
SECTION 914. Co-trustees and Separate Trustees..........................50
SECTION 915. Appointment of Authenticating Agent........................51
ARTICLE Ten Holders' Lists And Reports By Trustee and Company.................52
SECTION 1001. Lists of Holders...........................................52
SECTION 1002. Reports by Trustee and Company.............................53
ARTICLE Eleven Consolidation, Merger, Conveyance Or Other Transfer............53
SECTION 1101. Company May Consolidate, etc., Only on Certain
Terms....................................................53
SECTION 1102. Successor Entity Substituted...............................53
SECTION 1103. Limitation.................................................54
ARTICLE Twelve Supplemental Indentures........................................54
SECTION 1201. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders.........54
SECTION 1202. Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Holders............56
SECTION 1203. Execution of Supplemental Indentures.......................57
SECTION 1204. Effect of Supplemental Indentures..........................57
SECTION 1205. Conformity With Trust Indenture Act........................57
SECTION 1206. Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures.........57
SECTION 1207. Modification Without Supplemental Indenture................58
ARTICLE Thirteen Meetings Of Holders; Action Without Meeting..................58
SECTION 1301. Purposes for Which Meetings May Be Called..................58
SECTION 1302. Call, Notice and Place of Meetings.........................58
SECTION 1303. Persons Entitled to Vote at Meetings.......................59
SECTION 1304. Quorum; Action.............................................59
SECTION 1305. Attendance at Meetings; Determination of Voting
Rights; Conduct and Adjournment of Meetings..............60
SECTION 1306. Counting Votes and Recording Action of Meetings............60
SECTION 1307. Action Without Meeting.....................................61
ARTICLE Fourteen Subordination Of Securities..................................61
SECTION 1401. Securities Subordinate to Senior Indebtedness of the
Company..................................................61
SECTION 1402. Payment Over of Proceeds of Securities.....................61
SECTION 1403. Disputes with Holders of Certain Senior Indebtedness.......63
SECTION 1404. Subrogation................................................63
SECTION 1405. Obligation of the Company Unconditional....................63
SECTION 1406. Priority of Senior Indebtedness Upon Maturity..............64
SECTION 1407. Trustee as Holder of Senior Indebtedness...................64
SECTION 1408. Notice to Trustee to Effectuate Subordination..............64
SECTION 1409. Modification, Extension, etc. of Senior Indebtedness.......65
SECTION 1410. Trustee Has No Fiduciary Duty to Holders of Senior
Indebtedness.............................................65
SECTION 1411. Paying Agents Other Than the Trustee.......................65
SECTION 1412. Rights of Holders of Senior Indebtedness Not Impaired......65
SECTION 1413. Effect of Subordination Provisions; Termination............65
ARTICLE Fifteen Immunity Of Incorporators, Stockholders,
Officers And Directors...................................................66
SECTION 1501. Liability Solely Corporate.................................66
FPL GROUP, INC.
RECONCILIATION AND TIE BETWEEN TRUST INDENTURE ACT OF 1939
AND INDENTURE, DATED AS OF ________, 20__
TRUST INDENTURE ACT SECTION INDENTURE SECTION
ss.310 (a)(1)........................................... 909
(a)(2)........................................... 909
(a)(3)........................................... 914(b)
(a)(4)........................................... Not Applicable
(b) ............................................ 908
............................................ 910
ss.311 (a) ............................................ 913
(b) ............................................ 913
(c) ............................................ 913
ss.312 (a) ............................................ 1001
(b) ............................................ 1001
(c) ............................................ 1001
ss.313 (a) ............................................ 1002
(b) ............................................ 1002
(c) ............................................ 1002
(d) ............................................ 1002
ss.314 (a) ............................................ 1002
(a)(4)........................................... 606
(b) ............................................ Not Applicable
(c)(1)........................................... 102
(c)(2)........................................... 102
(c)(3)........................................... Not Applicable
(d) ............................................ Not Applicable
(e) ............................................ 102
ss.315 (a) ............................................ 901
............................................ 903
(b) ............................................ 902
(c) ............................................ 901
(d) ............................................ 901
(e) ............................................ 814
ss.316 (a) ............................................ 812
............................................ 813
(a)(1)(A)........................................ 802
............................................ 812
(a)(1)(B)........................................ 813
(a)(2)........................................... Not Applicable
(b) ............................................ 808
ss.317 (a)(1)........................................... 803
(a)(2)........................................... 804
(b) ............................................ 603
ss.318 (a) ............................................ 107
Note: This reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be
a part of the Indenture.
SUBORDINATED INDENTURE, dated as of _______, 20__, among FPL GROUP,
INC., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of
Florida (herein called the "Company"), having its principal office at ▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, and THE BANK OF NEW YORK, a New
York banking corporation having its principal corporate trust office at ▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, as Trustee (herein called
the "Trustee").
RECITAL OF THE COMPANY
The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this
Indenture to provide for the issuance from time to time of its unsecured
subordinated debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness (herein called
the "Securities"), in an unlimited aggregate principal amount to be issued in
one or more series as contemplated herein; and all acts necessary to make this
Indenture a valid agreement of the Company, in accordance with its terms, have
been performed.
For all purposes of this Indenture, except as otherwise expressly
provided or unless the context otherwise requires, capitalized terms used herein
shall have the meanings assigned to them in Article One of this Indenture.
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the
Securities by the Holders thereof, it is mutually covenanted and agreed, for the
equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Securities or of any
series thereof, as follows:
ARTICLE ONE
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION
SECTION 101. DEFINITIONS.
For all purposes of this Indenture, except as otherwise expressly
provided or unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) the terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to
them in this Article and include the plural as well as the singular;
(b) all terms used herein without definition which are defined in the
Trust Indenture Act, either directly or by reference therein, have the
meanings assigned to them therein;
(c) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the
meanings assigned to them in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles in the United States, and, except as otherwise herein expressly
provided, the term "generally accepted accounting principles" with respect
to any computation required or permitted hereunder shall mean such
accounting principles as are generally accepted in the United States at the
date of such computation or, at the election of the Company from time to
time, at the date of the execution and delivery of this Indenture;
provided, however, that in determining generally accepted accounting
principles applicable to the Company, the Company shall, to the extent
required, conform to any order, rule or regulation of any administrative
agency, regulatory authority or other governmental body having jurisdiction
over the Company;
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(d) the words "herein", "hereof" and "hereunder" and other words of
similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular
Article, Section or other subdivision; and
(e) unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to an
"Article" or a "Section" refers to an Article or a Section, as the case may
be, of this Indenture.
Certain terms, used principally in Article Nine, are defined in that
Article.
"ACT," when used with respect to any Holder of a Security, has
the meaning specified in Section 104.
"ADDITIONAL INTEREST" has the meaning specified in Section 313.
"AFFILIATE" of any specified Person means any other Person directly or
indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common
control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition,
"CONTROL" when used with respect to any specified Person means the power to
direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly,
whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise;
and the terms "CONTROLLING" and "CONTROLLED" have meanings correlative to the
foregoing.
"AUTHENTICATING AGENT" means any Person (other than the Company or an
Affiliate of the Company) authorized by the Trustee pursuant to Section 915 to
act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate one or more series of Securities.
"AUTHORIZED OFFICER" means the Chairman of the Board, the President,
any Vice President, the Treasurer, any Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary, any
Assistant Secretary or any other officer or agent of the Company duly authorized
by their respective Board of Directors to act in respect of matters relating to
this Indenture.
"BOARD OF DIRECTORS" means either the board of directors of the
Company or any committee of that board duly authorized to act in respect of
matters relating to this Indenture.
"BOARD RESOLUTION" means a copy of a resolution certified by the
Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted by
the Board of Directors and to be in full force and effect on the date of such
certification, and delivered to the Trustee.
"BUSINESS DAY," when used with respect to a Place of Payment or any
other particular location specified in the Securities or this Indenture, means
any day, other than a Saturday or Sunday, which is not a day on which banking
institutions or trust companies in such Place of Payment or other location are
generally authorized or required by law, regulation or executive order to remain
closed, except as may be otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301.
"COMMISSION" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from
time to time constituted, created under the Exchange Act, or, if at any time
after the date of execution and delivery of this Indenture such Commission is
not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under the Trust
Indenture Act, then the body, if any, performing such duties at such time.
"COMMON SECURITIES" means any common trust interests issued by a Trust
or similar securities issued by permitted successors to such Trust in accordance
with the Trust Agreement pertaining to such Trust.
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"COMPANY" means the Person named as the "Company" in the first
paragraph of this Indenture until a successor Person shall have become such
pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter
"Company" shall mean such successor Person.
"COMPANY REQUEST" OR "COMPANY ORDER" means a written request or order
signed in the name of the Company by an Authorized Officer and delivered to the
Trustee.
"CORPORATE TRUST OFFICE" means the corporate trust office of the
Trustee at which, at any particular time, its corporate trust business shall be
principally administered, which office at the date hereof is located at ▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇.
"CORPORATION" means a corporation, association, bank, company, limited
liability company, joint stock company, or statutory trust.
"DEFAULTED INTEREST" has the meaning specified in Section 307.
"DISCOUNT SECURITY" means any Security which provides for an amount
less than the principal amount thereof to be due and payable upon a declaration
of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 802. The term
"INTEREST" with respect to a Discount Security means interest, if any, borne by
such Security at a Stated Interest Rate.
"DOLLAR" OR "$" means a dollar or other equivalent unit in such coin
or currency of the United States as at the time shall be legal tender for the
payment of public and private debts.
"ELIGIBLE OBLIGATIONS" means:
(a) with respect to Securities denominated in Dollars, Government
Obligations; or
(b) with respect to Securities denominated in a currency other than
Dollars or in a composite currency, such other obligations or instruments
as shall be specified with respect to such Securities, as contemplated by
Section 301.
"EVENT OF DEFAULT" has the meaning specified in Section 801.
"EXCHANGE ACT" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules
and regulations promulgated thereunder, as amended from time to time, or any
successor legislation.
"GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORITY" means the government of the United States or
of any State or Territory thereof or of the District of Columbia or of any
county, municipality or other political subdivision of any of the foregoing, or
any department, agency, authority or other instrumentality of any of the
foregoing.
"GOVERNMENT OBLIGATIONS" means:
(a) direct obligations of, or obligations the principal of and
interest on which are unconditionally guaranteed by, the United States and
entitled to the benefit of the full faith and credit thereof; and
(b) certificates, depositary receipts or other instruments which
evidence a direct ownership interest in obligations described in clause (a)
above or in any specific interest or principal payments due in respect
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thereof; provided, however, that the custodian of such obligations or
specific interest or principal payments shall be a bank or trust company
(which may include the Trustee or any Paying Agent) subject to Federal or
state supervision or examination with a combined capital and surplus of at
least $50,000,000; and provided, further, that except as may be otherwise
required by law, such custodian shall be obligated to pay to the holders of
such certificates, depositary receipts or other instruments the full amount
received by such custodian in respect of such obligations or specific
payments and shall not be permitted to make any deduction therefrom.
"HOLDER" means a Person in whose name a Security is registered in the
Security Register.
"INDENTURE" means this instrument as originally executed and delivered
and as it may from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more
indentures or other instruments supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the
applicable provisions hereof, including, for all purposes of this instrument and
any such supplemental indenture or other instrument, the provisions of the Trust
Indenture Act that are deemed to be a part of and govern this Indenture and any
such supplemental indenture or such other instrument, respectively. The term
"Indenture" shall also include the terms of particular series of Securities
established as contemplated by Section 301.
"INTEREST PAYMENT DATE," when used with respect to any Security, means
the Stated Maturity of an installment of interest on such Security.
"MATURITY," when used with respect to any Security, means the date on
which the principal of such Security or an installment of principal becomes due
and payable as provided in such Security or in this Indenture, whether at the
Stated Maturity, by declaration of acceleration, upon call for redemption or
otherwise.
"NOTICE OF DEFAULT,"means a written notice of the kind specified in
Section 801(c).
"OFFICER'S CERTIFICATE" means a certificate signed by an Authorized
Officer, and delivered to the Trustee.
"OPINION OF COUNSEL" means a written opinion of counsel, who may be
counsel for the Company or an Affiliate of the Company, or an employee thereof,
and who shall be reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.
"OUTSTANDING," when used with respect to Securities, means, as of the
date of determination, all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered
under this Indenture, except:
(a) Securities theretofore canceled or delivered to the Security
Registrar for cancellation;
(b) Securities deemed to have been paid for all purposes of this
Indenture in accordance with Section 701 (whether or not the Company's
indebtedness in respect thereof shall be satisfied and discharged for any
other purpose); and
(c) Securities which have been paid pursuant to Section 306 or in
exchange for or in lieu of which other Securities have been authenticated
and delivered pursuant to this Indenture, other than any such Securities in
respect of which there shall have been presented to the Trustee proof
satisfactory to it and the Company that such Securities are held by a bona
fide purchaser or purchasers in whose hands such Securities are valid
obligations of the Company;
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provided, however, that in determining whether or not the Holders of the
requisite principal amount of the Securities Outstanding under this Indenture,
or the Outstanding Securities of any series or Tranche, have given any request,
demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder or whether
or not a quorum is present at a meeting of Holders of Securities,
(x) Securities owned by the Company or any other obligor upon the
Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor
(unless the Company, such Affiliate or such obligor owns all
Securities Outstanding under this Indenture, or all Outstanding
Securities of each such series and each such Tranche, as the case may
be, determined without regard to this clause (x)) shall be disregarded
and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining whether
the Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such request,
demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver or upon
any such determination as to the presence of a quorum, only Securities
which the Trustee knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded;
provided, however, that Securities so owned which have been pledged in
good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes
to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee's right so to act with
respect to such Securities and that the pledgee is not the Company or
any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company
or of such other obligor;
(y) the principal amount of a Discount Security that shall be
deemed to be Outstanding for such purposes shall be the amount of the
principal thereof that would be due and payable as of the date of such
determination upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity
thereof pursuant to Section 802; and
(z) the principal amount of any Security which is denominated in
a currency other than Dollars or in a composite currency that shall be
deemed to be Outstanding for such purposes shall be the amount of
Dollars which could have been purchased by the principal amount (or,
in the case of a Discount Security, the Dollar equivalent on the date
determined as set forth below of the amount determined as provided in
(y) above) of such currency or composite currency evidenced by such
Security, in each such case certified to the Trustee in an Officer's
Certificate, based (i) on the average of the mean of the buying and
selling spot rates quoted by three banks which are members of the New
York Clearing House Association selected by the Company in effect at
11:00 A.M. (New York time) in The City of New York on the fifth
Business Day preceding any such determination or (ii) if on such fifth
Business Day it shall not be possible or practicable to obtain such
quotations from such three banks, on such other quotations or
alternative methods of determination which shall be as consistent as
practicable with the method set forth in (i) above;
provided, further, that, in the case of any Security the principal of which is
payable from time to time without presentment or surrender, the principal amount
of such Security that shall be deemed to be Outstanding at any time for all
purposes of this Indenture shall be the original principal amount thereof less
the aggregate amount of principal thereof theretofore paid.
"PAYING AGENT" means any Person, including the Company, authorized by
the Company to pay the principal of and premium, if any, or interest, if any, on
any Securities on behalf of the Company.
"PERIODIC OFFERING" means an offering of Securities of a series from
time to time any or all of the specific terms of which Securities, including
without limitation the rate or rates of interest or formula for determining the
rate or rates of interest, if any, thereon, the Stated Maturity or Maturities
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thereof and the redemption provisions, if any, with respect thereto, are to be
determined by the Company or its agents upon the issuance of such Securities.
"PERSON" means a legal person, including any individual, Corporation,
estate, partnership, joint venture, unincorporated association or government, or
any agency or political subdivision thereof or any other entity of whatever
nature.
"PLACE OF PAYMENT," when used with respect to the Securities of any
series, or any Tranche thereof, means the place or places, specified as
contemplated by Section 301, at which, subject to Section 602, principal of and
premium, if any, and interest, if any, on the Securities of such series or
Tranche are payable.
"PREDECESSOR SECURITY" of any particular Security means every previous
Security evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such
particular Security; and, for the purposes of this definition, any Security
authenticated and delivered under Section 306 in exchange for or in lieu of a
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be deemed (to the extent
lawful) to evidence the same debt as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen
Security.
"PREFERRED SECURITIES" means any preferred trust interests issued by a
Trust or similar securities issued by permitted successors to such Trust in
accordance with the Trust Agreement pertaining to such Trust.
"REDEMPTION DATE," when used with respect to any Security to be
redeemed, means the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this
Indenture.
"REDEMPTION PRICE," when used with respect to any Security to be
redeemed, means the price at which it is to be redeemed pursuant to this
Indenture.
"REGULAR RECORD DATE" for the interest payable on any Interest Payment
Date on the Securities of any series means the date specified for that purpose
as contemplated by Section 301.
"REQUIRED CURRENCY" has the meaning specified in Section 311.
"RESPONSIBLE OFFICER," when used with respect to the Trustee, means
any vice-president, any assistant vice-president, any assistant secretary, any
assistant treasurer, any trust officer or any other officer of the Trustee
customarily performing functions similar to those performed by any of the above
designated officers and also means, with respect to a particular corporate trust
matter, any other officer to whom such matter is referred because of that
officer's knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject and who shall
have direct responsibility for the administration of this Indenture.
"SECURITIES" has the meaning stated in the first recital of this
Indenture and more particularly means any securities authenticated and delivered
under this Indenture.
"SECURITIES ACT" means the Securities Act of 1933, and the rules and
regulations promulgated thereunder, as amended from time to time, or any
successor legislation.
"SECURITY REGISTER" AND "SECURITY REGISTRAR" have the respective
meanings specified in Section 305.
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"SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS" means all of the Company's obligations, whether
presently existing or from time to time hereafter incurred, created, assumed or
existing, to pay principal, premium, interest, penalties, fees and any other
payment in respect of any of the following:
(a) obligations for borrowed money, including without limitation, such
obligations as are evidenced by credit agreements, notes, debentures, bonds
or other securities or instruments;
(b) capitalized lease obligations;
(c) all obligations of the types referred to in clauses (a) and (b)
above of others which the Company has assumed, endorsed, guaranteed,
contingently agreed to purchase or provide funds for the payment of, or
otherwise becomes liable for, under any agreement; or
(d) all renewals, extensions or refundings of obligations of the kinds
described in any of the preceding categories.
unless, in the case of any particular obligation, indebtedness,
renewal, extension or refunding, the instrument creating or evidencing the same
or the assumption or guarantee of the same expressly provides that such
obligation, indebtedness, renewal, extension or refunding is not superior in
right of payment to or is pari passu with the Securities; and provided further
that trade accounts payable or long-term purchase obligations shall not be
deemed to be Senior Indebtedness.
"SPECIAL RECORD DATE" for the payment of any Defaulted Interest on the
Securities of any series means a date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section
307.
"STATED INTEREST RATE" means a rate (whether fixed or variable) at
which an obligation by its terms is stated to bear simple interest. Any
calculation or other determination to be made under this Indenture by reference
to the Stated Interest Rate on a Security shall be made without regard to the
effective interest cost to the Company of such Security and without regard to
the Stated Interest Rate on, or the effective cost to the Company of, any other
indebtedness in respect of which the Company's obligations are evidenced or
secured in whole or in part by such Security.
"STATED MATURITY," when used with respect to any Security or any
obligation or any installment of principal thereof or interest thereon, means
the date on which the principal of such obligation or such installment of
principal or interest is stated in such Security to be due and payable (without
regard to any provisions for redemption, prepayment, acceleration, purchase or
extension).
"TRANCHE" means a group of Securities which (a) are of the same series
and (b) have identical terms except as to principal amount and/or date of
issuance.
"TRUST" means FPL Group Trust I, a statutory trust formed under the
laws of the State of Delaware, or any other trust designated pursuant to Section
301 hereof or any permitted successor under the Trust Agreement pertaining to
such Trust.
"TRUST AGREEMENT" means the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement,
dated as of _________, 20__, relating to FPL Group Trust I, or an Amended and
Restated Trust Agreement relating to a Trust designated pursuant to Section 301
hereof, in each case, among FPL Group, Inc., as Depositor, the trustees named
therein and the several holders referred to therein, as such agreement or
agreements, as the case may be, may be amended from time to time.
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"TRUST INDENTURE ACT" means, as of any time, the Trust Indenture Act
of 1939, as amended, or any successor statute, as in effect at such time.
"TRUST SECURITIES GUARANTEE" means the Preferred Trust Securities
Guarantee Agreement between FPL Group, Inc., as guarantor, and a guarantee
trustee for the benefit of the holders of Preferred Securities issued by such
Trust.
"TRUSTEE" means the Person named as the "Trustee" in the first
paragraph of this Indenture until a successor Trustee shall have become such
with respect to one or more series of Securities pursuant to the applicable
provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter "Trustee" shall mean or include
each Person who is then a Trustee hereunder, and if at any time there is more
than one such Person, "Trustee" as used with respect to the Securities of any
series shall mean the Trustee with respect to Securities of that series.
"UNITED STATES" means the United States of America, its Territories,
its possessions and other areas subject to its political jurisdiction.
SECTION 102. COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATES AND OPINIONS.
Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Indenture, upon
any application or request by the Company to the Trustee to take any action
under any provision of this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee
an Officer's Certificate stating that all conditions precedent, if any, provided
for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with
and an Opinion of Counsel stating that in the opinion of such counsel all such
conditions precedent, if any, have been complied with, except that in the case
of any such application or request as to which the furnishing of such documents
is specifically required by any provision of this Indenture relating to such
particular application or request, no additional certificate or opinion need be
furnished.
Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a
condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture shall include:
(a) a statement that each Person signing such certificate or opinion
has read such covenant or condition and the definitions herein relating
thereto;
(b) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or
investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in such
certificate or opinion are based;
(c) a statement that, in the opinion of each such Person, such Person
has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable such
Person to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or
condition has been complied with; and
(d) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such Person,
such condition or covenant has been complied with.
SECTION 103. FORM OF DOCUMENTS DELIVERED TO TRUSTEE.
In any case where several matters are required to be certified by, or
covered by an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all
such matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such
Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one
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such Person may certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one
or more other such Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify
or give an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents.
Any certificate or opinion of an officer of the Company may be based,
insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or
representations by, counsel, unless such officer knows, or in the exercise of
reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations
with respect to the matters upon which such Officer's Certificate or opinion are
based are erroneous. Any such certificate or Opinion of Counsel may be based,
insofar as it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or
representations by, an officer or officers of the Company stating that the
information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the
Company, unless such counsel knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should
know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to such
matters are erroneous.
Where (i) any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more
applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other
instruments under this Indenture, or (ii) two or more Persons are each required
to make, give or execute any such application, request, consent, certificate,
statement, opinion or other instrument under this Indenture, any such
applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other
instruments may, but need not, be consolidated and form one instrument.
Whenever, subsequent to the receipt by the Trustee of any Board
Resolution, Officer's Certificate, Opinion of Counsel or other document or
instrument, a clerical, typographical or other inadvertent or unintentional
error or omission shall be discovered therein, a new document or instrument may
be substituted therefor in corrected form with the same force and effect as if
originally filed in the corrected form and, irrespective of the date or dates of
the actual execution and/or delivery thereof, such substitute document or
instrument shall be deemed to have been executed and/or delivered as of the date
or dates required with respect to the document or instrument for which it is
substituted. Anything in this Indenture to the contrary notwithstanding, if any
such corrective document or instrument indicates that action has been taken by
or at the request of the Company which could not have been taken had the
original document or instrument not contained such error or omission, the action
so taken shall not be invalidated or otherwise rendered ineffective but shall be
and remain in full force and effect, except to the extent that such action was a
result of willful misconduct or bad faith. Without limiting the generality of
the foregoing, any Securities issued under the authority of such defective
document or instrument shall nevertheless be the valid obligations of the
Company entitled to the benefits of this Indenture equally and ratably with all
other Outstanding Securities, except as aforesaid.
SECTION 104. ACTS OF HOLDERS.
(a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
election, waiver or other action provided by this Indenture to be made,
given or taken by Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more
instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person
or by an agent duly appointed in writing or, alternatively, may be embodied
in and evidenced by the record of Holders voting in favor thereof, either
in person or by proxies duly appointed in writing, at any meeting of
Holders duly called and held in accordance with the provisions of Article
Thirteen, or a combination of such instruments and any such record. Except
as herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall become effective
when such instrument or instruments or record or both are delivered to the
Trustee and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the Company. Such
instrument or instruments and any such record (and the action embodied
therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the
"Act" of the Holders signing such instrument or instruments and so voting
at any such meeting. Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a
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writing appointing any such agent, or of the holding by any Person of a
Security, shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and
(subject to Section 901) conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the
Company, if made in the manner provided in this Section. The record of any
meeting of Holders shall be proved in the manner provided in Section 1306.
(b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such
instrument or writing may be proved by the affidavit of a witness of such
execution or by a certificate of a notary public or other officer
authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the
individual signing such instrument or writing acknowledged to him the
execution thereof or may be proved in any other manner which the Trustee
and the Company deem sufficient. Where such execution is by a signer acting
in a capacity other than his individual capacity, such certificate or
affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof of his authority.
(c) The principal amount (except as otherwise contemplated in clause
(y) of the first proviso to the definition of Outstanding) and serial
numbers of Securities held by any Person, and the date of holding the same,
shall be proved by the Security Register;
(d) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
election, waiver or other Act of a Holder of any Security shall bind every
future Holder of the same Security and the Holder of every Security issued
upon the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in
lieu thereof in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by
the Trustee or the Company in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of
such action is made upon such Security.
(e) Until such time as written instruments shall have been delivered
to the Trustee with respect to the requisite percentage of principal amount
of Securities for the action contemplated by such instruments, any such
instrument executed and delivered by or on behalf of a Holder may be
revoked with respect to any or all of such Securities by written notice by
such Holder or any subsequent Holder, proven in the manner in which such
instrument was proven.
(f) Securities of any series, or any Tranche thereof, authenticated
and delivered after any Act of Holders may, and shall if required by the
Trustee, bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee as to any action
taken by such Act of Holders. If the Company shall so determine, new
Securities of any series, or any Tranche thereof, so modified as to
conform, in the opinion of the Trustee and the Company, to such action may
be prepared and executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by
the Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Securities of such series or
Tranche.
(g) If the Company shall solicit from Holders any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act, the Company
may, at its option, by Company Order, fix in advance a record date for the
determination of Holders entitled to give such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act, but the
Company shall have no obligation to do so. If such a record date is fixed,
such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or
other Act may be given before or after such record date, but only the
Holders of record at the close of business on the record date shall be
deemed to be Holders for the purposes of determining whether Holders of the
requisite proportion of the Outstanding Securities have authorized or
agreed or consented to such request, demand, authorization, direction,
notice, consent, waiver or other Act, and for that purpose the Outstanding
Securities shall be computed as of the record date. Any such Act, given as
aforesaid, shall be effective whether or not the Holders which authorized
or agreed or consented to such Act remain Holders after such record date
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and whether or not the Securities held by such Holders remain Outstanding
after such record date.
SECTION 105. NOTICES, ETC. TO TRUSTEE AND COMPANY.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
election, waiver or Act of Holders or other document provided or permitted by
this Indenture to be made upon, given or furnished to, or filed with, the
Trustee by any Holder or by the Company, or the Company by the Trustee or by any
Holder, shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein
expressly provided) if in writing and delivered personally to an officer or
other responsible employee of the addressee, or transmitted by facsimile
transmission or other direct written electronic means to such telephone number
or other electronic communications address as the parties hereto shall from time
to time designate, or transmitted by registered mail, charges prepaid, to the
applicable address set opposite such party's name below or to such other address
as such party hereto may from time to time designate:
If to the Trustee, to:
The Bank of New York
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With a copy to:
The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A.
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FPL Group, Inc.
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Any communication contemplated herein shall be deemed to have been
made, given, furnished and filed if personally delivered, on the date of
delivery, if transmitted by facsimile transmission or other direct written
electronic means, on the date of transmission, and if transmitted by registered
mail, on the date of receipt.
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SECTION 106. NOTICE TO HOLDERS OF SECURITIES; WAIVER.
Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, where this Indenture
provides for notice to Holders of any event, such notice shall be sufficiently
given, and shall be deemed given, to Holders if in writing and mailed,
first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder affected by such event, at the
address of such Holder as it appears in the Security Register, not later than
the latest date, and not earlier than the earliest date, prescribed for the
giving of such notice.
In case by reason of the suspension of regular mail service or by
reason of any other cause it shall be impracticable to give such notice to
Holders by mail, then such notification as shall be made with the approval of
the Trustee shall constitute a sufficient notification for every purpose
hereunder. In any case where notice to Holders is given by mail, neither the
failure to mail such notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed, to any
particular Holder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to
other Holders.
Any notice required by this Indenture may be waived in writing by the
Person entitled to receive such notice, either before or after the event
otherwise to be specified therein, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of
such notice. Waivers of notice by Holders shall be filed with the Trustee, but
such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action
taken in reliance upon such waiver.
SECTION 107. CONFLICT WITH TRUST INDENTURE ACT.
If any provision of this Indenture limits, qualifies or conflicts with
another provision hereof which is required or deemed to be included in this
Indenture by, or is otherwise governed by, any of the provisions of the Trust
Indenture Act, such other provision shall control; and if any provision hereof
otherwise conflicts with the Trust Indenture Act, the Trust Indenture Act shall
control.
SECTION 108. EFFECT OF HEADINGS AND TABLE OF CONTENTS.
The Article and Section headings in this Indenture and the Table of
Contents are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.
SECTION 109. SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS.
All covenants and agreements in this Indenture by the Company and
Trustee shall bind their respective successors and assigns, whether so expressed
or not.
SECTION 110. SEPARABILITY CLAUSE.
In case any provision in this Indenture or the Securities shall be
held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and
enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or
impaired thereby.
SECTION 111. BENEFITS OF INDENTURE.
Nothing in this Indenture or the Securities, express or implied, shall
give to any Person, other than the parties hereto, their successors hereunder,
the Holders and, so long as the notice described in Section 1413 hereof has not
been given, the holders of Senior Indebtedness, any benefit or any legal or
equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture, provided, however, that
for so long as any Preferred Securities remain outstanding, the holders of such
Preferred Securities, subject to certain limitations set forth in this
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Indenture, may enforce the Company's obligations hereunder, directly against the
Company, as third party beneficiaries of this Indenture without proceeding
against the Trust issuing such Preferred Securities.
SECTION 112. GOVERNING LAW.
This Indenture and the Securities shall be governed by and construed
in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, without regard to conflict
of laws principles thereunder, except to the extent that the law of any other
jurisdiction shall be mandatorily applicable.
SECTION 113. LEGAL HOLIDAYS.
In any case where any Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated
Maturity of any Security shall not be a Business Day at any Place of Payment,
then (notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or of the Securities
other than a provision in Securities of any series, or any Tranche thereof, or
in an indenture supplemental hereto, or in the Board Resolution or Officer's
Certificate which establishes the terms of the Securities of such series or
Tranche, which specifically states that such provision shall apply in lieu of
this Section) payment of interest or principal and premium, if any, need not be
made at such Place of Payment on such date, but may be made on the next
succeeding Business Day at such Place of Payment, except that if such Business
Day is in the next succeeding calendar year, such payment shall be made on the
immediately preceding Business Day, in each case with the same force and effect,
and in the same amount, as if made on the Interest Payment Date or Redemption
Date, or at the Stated Maturity, as the case may be, and, if such payment is
made or duly provided for on such Business Day, no interest shall accrue on the
amount so payable for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date,
Redemption Date or Stated Maturity, as the case may be, to such Business Day.
ARTICLE TWO
SECURITY FORMS
SECTION 201. FORMS GENERALLY.
The definitive Securities of each series shall be in substantially the
form or forms thereof established in the indenture supplemental hereto
establishing such series or in a Board Resolution establishing such series, or
in an Officer's Certificate pursuant to such supplemental indenture or Board
Resolution, in each case with such appropriate terms, insertions, omissions,
substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by this
Indenture, and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification
and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may be required to comply
with the rules of any securities exchange or as may, consistently herewith, be
determined by the officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their
execution thereof. If the form or forms of Securities of any series are
established in a Board Resolution or in an Officer's Certificate pursuant to a
Board Resolution, such Board Resolution and Officer's Certificate, if any, shall
be delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Company Order
contemplated by Section 303 for the authentication and delivery of such
Securities.
Unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Sections 301 or 1201(g),
the Securities of each series shall be issuable in registered form without
coupons. The definitive Securities shall be produced in such manner as shall be
determined by the officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their
execution thereof.
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SECTION 202. FORM OF TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION.
The Trustee's certificate of authentication shall be in substantially
the form set forth below:
This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein
referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
THE BANK OF NEW YORK, as Trustee
By:____________________________________
Authorized Signatory
ARTICLE THREE
THE SECURITIES
SECTION 301. AMOUNT UNLIMITED; ISSUABLE IN SERIES.
The aggregate principal amount of Securities which may be
authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is unlimited; provided,
however, that all Securities shall be issued to a Trust to evidence the
acquisition of Securities by a Trust with the proceeds of the issuance of
Preferred Securities and Common Securities of such Trust.
The Securities may be issued in one or more series. Subject to the
last paragraph of this Section, prior to the authentication and delivery of
Securities of any series there shall be established by specification in a
supplemental indenture or in a Board Resolution, or in an Officer's Certificate
(which need not comply with Section 102) pursuant to a supplemental indenture or
a Board Resolution:
(a) the title of the Securities of such series (which shall
distinguish the Securities of such series from Securities of all other
series);
(b) any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of
such series which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture
(except for Securities authenticated and delivered upon registration of
transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Securities of such
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Securities which, pursuant to Section 303, are deemed never to have been
authenticated and delivered hereunder);
(c) the Person or Persons (without specific identification) to whom
interest on Securities of such series, or any Tranche thereof, shall be
payable on any Interest Payment Date, if other than the Persons in whose
names such Securities (or one or more Predecessor Securities) are
registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such
interest;
(d) the date or dates on which the principal of the Securities of such
series or any Tranche thereof, is payable or any formulary or other method
or other means by which such date or dates shall be determined, by
reference to an index or other fact or event ascertainable outside of this
Indenture or otherwise (without regard to any provisions for redemption,
prepayment, acceleration, purchase or extension);
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(e) the rate or rates at which the Securities of such series, or any
Tranche thereof, shall bear interest, if any (including the rate or rates
at which overdue principal shall bear interest, if different from the rate
or rates at which such Securities shall bear interest prior to Maturity,
and, if applicable, the rate or rates at which overdue premium or interest
shall bear interest, if any), or any formulary or other method or other
means by which such rate or rates shall be determined, by reference to an
index or other fact or event ascertainable outside of this Indenture or
otherwise; the date or dates from which such interest shall accrue; the
Interest Payment Dates on which such interest shall be payable and the
Regular Record Date, if any, for the interest payable on such Securities on
any Interest Payment Date; the right of the Company, if any, to extend the
interest payment periods and the duration of any such extension as
contemplated by Section 312; and the basis of computation of interest, if
other than as provided in Section 310;
(f) the place or places at which or methods (if other than as provided
elsewhere in this Indenture) by which (1) the principal of and premium, if
any, and interest, if any, on Securities of such series, or any Tranche
thereof, shall be payable, (2) registration of transfer of Securities of
such series, or any Tranche thereof, may be effected, (3) exchanges of
Securities of such series, or any Tranche thereof, may be effected and (4)
notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities of
such series, or any Tranche thereof, and this Indenture may be served; the
Security Registrar and any Paying Agent or Agents for such series or
Tranche; and if such is the case, that the principal of such Securities
shall be payable without presentment or surrender thereof;
(g) the period or periods within which, or the date or dates on which,
the price or prices at which and the terms and conditions upon which the
Securities of such series, or any Tranche thereof, may be redeemed, in
whole or in part, at the option of the Company and any restrictions on such
redemptions, including but not limited to a restriction on a partial
redemption by the Company of the Securities of any series, or any Tranche
thereof, resulting in delisting of such Securities from any national
exchange, the Nasdaq national market or such other interdealer quotation
system or self-regulatory organization upon which Securities are listed or
traded;
(h) the obligation or obligations, if any, of the Company to redeem or
purchase or repay the Securities of such series, or any Tranche thereof,
pursuant to any sinking fund or other mandatory redemption provisions or at
the option of a Holder thereof and the period or periods within which or
the date or dates on which, the price or prices at which and the terms and
conditions upon which such Securities shall be redeemed or purchased or
repaid, in whole or in part, pursuant to such obligation, and applicable
exceptions to the requirements of Section 404 in the case of mandatory
redemption or redemption or repayment at the option of the Holder;
(i) the denominations in which Securities of such series, or any
Tranche thereof, shall be issuable if other than denominations of $25 and
any integral multiple thereof;
(j) the currency or currencies, including composite currencies, in
which payment of the principal of and premium, if any, and interest, if
any, on the Securities of such series, or any Tranche thereof, shall be
payable (if other than in Dollars) and the manner in which the equivalent
of the principal amount thereof in Dollars is to be determined for any
purpose, including for the purpose of determining the principal amount
deemed to be Outstanding at any time;
(k) if the principal of or premium, if any, or interest, if any, on
the Securities of such series, or any Tranche thereof, are to be payable,
at the election of the Company or a Holder thereof, in a coin or currency
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other than that in which the Securities are stated to be payable, the
period or periods within which, and the terms and conditions upon which,
such election may be made;
(l) if the principal of or premium, if any, or interest, if any, on
the Securities of such series, or any Tranche thereof, are to be payable,
or are to be payable at the election of the Company or a Holder thereof, in
securities or other property, the type and amount of such securities or
other property, or the formulary or other method or other means by which
such amount shall be determined, and the period or periods within which,
and the terms and conditions upon which, any such election may be made;
(m) if the amount payable in respect of principal of or premium, if
any, or interest, if any, on the Securities of such series, or any Tranche
thereof, may be determined with reference to an index or other fact or
event ascertainable outside of this Indenture, the manner in which such
amounts shall be determined to the extent not established pursuant to
clause (e) of this paragraph;
(n) if other than the entire principal amount thereof, the portion of
the principal amount of Securities of such series, or any Tranche thereof,
which shall be payable upon declaration of acceleration of the Maturity
thereof pursuant to Section 802;
(o) any Events of Default, in addition to those specified in Section
801, or any exceptions to those specified in Section 801 with respect to
the Securities of such series, and any covenants of the Company for the
benefit of the Holders of the Securities of such series, or any Tranche
thereof, in addition to those set forth in Article Six, or any exceptions
to those set forth in Article Six;
(p) the terms, if any, pursuant to which the Securities of such
series, or any Tranche thereof, may be converted into or exchanged for
shares of capital stock or other securities of the Company or any other
Person;
(q) the obligations or instruments, if any, which shall be considered
to be Eligible Obligations in respect of the Securities of such series, or
any Tranche thereof, denominated in a currency other than Dollars or in a
composite currency, and any additional or alternative provisions for the
reinstatement of the Company's indebtedness in respect of such Securities
after the satisfaction and discharge thereof as provided in Sections 701
and 702 (or any exceptions to those set forth in Sections 701 and 702);
(r) if the Securities of such series, or any Tranche thereof, are to
be issued in global form, (i) any limitations on the rights of the Holder
or Holders of such Securities to transfer or exchange the same or to obtain
the registration of transfer thereof, (ii) any limitations on the rights of
the Holder or Holders thereof to obtain certificates therefor in definitive
form in lieu of global form and (iii) any and all other matters incidental
to such Securities;
(s) if the Securities of such series, or any Tranche thereof, are to
be issuable as bearer securities, any and all matters incidental thereto
which are not specifically addressed in a supplemental indenture as
contemplated by clause (g) of Section 1201;
(t) to the extent not established pursuant to clause (r) of this
paragraph, any limitations on the rights of the Holders of the Securities
of such Series, or any Tranche thereof, to transfer or exchange such
Securities or to obtain the registration of transfer thereof; and if a
service charge will be made for the registration of transfer or exchange of
Securities of such series, or any Tranche thereof, the amount or terms
thereof;
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(u) any exceptions to Section 113, or variation in the definition of
Business Day, with respect to the Securities of such series, or any Tranche
thereof;
(v) any collateral security, assurance or guarantee for the Securities
of such series, or any Tranche thereof;
(w) the designation of the Trust to which Securities of such series
are to be issued;
(x) the terms, if any, relating to any Additional Interest that may
limit or restrict payments of Additional Interest; and
(y) any other terms of the Securities of such series, or any Tranche
thereof, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture.
With respect to Securities of a series subject to a Periodic Offering,
the indenture supplemental hereto or the Board Resolution which establishes such
series, or the Officer's Certificate pursuant to such supplemental indenture or
Board Resolution, as the case may be, may provide general terms or parameters
for Securities of such series and provide either that the specific terms of
Securities of such series, or any Tranche thereof, shall be specified in a
Company Order or that such terms shall be determined by the Company or its
agents in accordance with procedures specified in a Company Order as
contemplated by clause (b) of Section 303.
All Securities of any one series shall be substantially identical,
except as to principal amount and date of issue and except as may be set forth
in the terms of such series as contemplated above. The Securities of each series
shall be subordinated in right of payment to Senior Indebtedness as provided in
Article Fourteen.
Unless otherwise provided with respect to a series of Securities as
contemplated in Section 301(b), the aggregate principal amount of a series of
Securities may be increased and additional Securities of such series may be
issued up to the maximum aggregate principal amount authorized with respect to
such series as increased.
SECTION 302. DENOMINATIONS.
Unless otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 301 with respect
to any series of Securities, or any Tranche thereof, the Securities of each
series shall be issuable in denominations of $25 and any integral multiple
thereof.
SECTION 303. EXECUTION, AUTHENTICATION, DELIVERY AND DATING.
Unless otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 301 with respect
to any series of Securities, or any Tranche thereof, the Securities shall be
executed on behalf of the Company by an Authorized Officer and may have the
corporate seal of the Company affixed thereto or reproduced thereon and attested
by any other Authorized Officer. The signature of any or all of these officers
on the Securities may be manual or facsimile.
Securities bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals
who were at the time of execution Authorized Officers shall bind the Company,
notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such
offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Securities or did not
hold such offices at the date of such Securities.
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The Trustee shall authenticate and deliver Securities of a series, for
original issue, at one time or from time to time in accordance with the Company
Order referred to below, upon receipt by the Trustee of:
(a) the instrument or instruments establishing the form or forms and
terms of the Securities of such series, as provided in Sections 201 and
301;
(b) a Company Order requesting the authentication and delivery of such
Securities and to the extent that the terms of such Securities shall not
have been established in an indenture supplemental hereto or in a Board
Resolution, or in an Officer's Certificate pursuant to a supplemental
indenture or Board Resolution, all as contemplated by Sections 201 and 301,
either (i) establishing such terms or (ii) in the case of Securities of a
series subject to a Periodic Offering, specifying procedures, acceptable to
the Trustee, by which such terms are to be established (which procedures
may provide, to the extent acceptable to the Trustee, for authentication
and delivery pursuant to oral or electronic instructions from the Company
or any agent or agents thereof, which oral instructions are to be promptly
confirmed electronically or in writing), in either case in accordance with
the instrument or instruments delivered pursuant to clause (a) above;
(c) the Securities of such series, each executed on behalf of the
Company by an Authorized Officer;
(d) an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that:
(i) (A) the form or forms of such Securities have been duly
authorized by the Company, and (B) the form or forms of the Securities
have been established in conformity with the provisions of this
Indenture;
(ii) (A) the terms of such Securities have been duly authorized
by the Company, and (B) the terms of the Securities have been
established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture; and
(iii) such Securities, when authenticated and delivered by the
Trustee and issued and delivered by the Company in the manner and
subject to any conditions specified in such Opinion of Counsel, will
have been duly issued under this Indenture and will constitute valid
and legally binding obligations of the Company, entitled to the
benefits provided by this Indenture, and enforceable in accordance
with their terms, subject, as to enforcement, to laws relating to or
affecting generally the enforcement of creditors' rights, including,
without limitation, bankruptcy and insolvency laws and to general
principles of equity (regardless of whether such enforceability is
considered in a proceeding in equity or at law);
provided, however, that, with respect to Securities of a series subject to a
Periodic Offering, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive such Opinion of
Counsel only once at or prior to the time of the first authentication and
delivery of Securities of such series, and that in lieu of the opinions
described in clauses (ii) and (iii) above such Opinion of Counsel may,
alternatively, state, respectively,
(x) that, when the terms of such Securities shall have been
established pursuant to a Company Order or Orders, or pursuant to such
procedures (acceptable to the Trustee) as may be specified from time
to time by a Company Order or Orders, all as contemplated by and in
accordance with the instrument or instruments delivered pursuant to
clause (a) above, such terms will have been duly authorized by the
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Company, and will have been established in conformity with the
provisions of this Indenture; and
(y) that such Securities when (1) executed by the Company, (2)
authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in accordance with this
Indenture, (3) issued and delivered by the Company in the manner and
subject to any conditions specified in such Opinion of Counsel and (4)
in the case of Securities, paid for, all as contemplated by and in
accordance with the aforesaid Company Order or Orders or specified
procedures referred to in paragraph (x) above, as the case may be,
will have been duly issued under this Indenture and will constitute
valid and legally binding obligations of the Company, entitled to the
benefits provided by the Indenture, and enforceable in accordance with
their terms, subject, as to enforcement, to laws relating to or
affecting generally the enforcement of creditors' rights, including,
without limitation, bankruptcy and insolvency laws and to general
principles of equity (regardless of whether such enforceability is
considered in a proceeding in equity or at law).
With respect to Securities of a series subject to a Periodic Offering,
the Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the authorization by the Company of any
of such Securities, the forms and terms thereof and the legality, validity,
binding effect and enforceability thereof, upon the Opinion of Counsel and other
documents delivered pursuant to Sections 201 and 301 and this Section, as
applicable, at or prior to the time of the first authentication of Securities of
such series, unless and until such opinion or other documents have been
superseded or revoked or expire by their terms. In connection with the
authentication and delivery of Securities of a series pursuant to a Periodic
Offering, the Trustee shall be entitled to assume that the Company's
instructions to authenticate and deliver such Securities do not violate any
applicable law or any applicable rule, regulation or order of any Governmental
Authority having jurisdiction over the Company.
If the forms or terms of the Securities of any series have
been established by or pursuant to a Board Resolution or an Officer's
Certificate as permitted by Sections 201 or 301, the Trustee shall not be
required to authenticate such Securities if the issuance of such Securities
pursuant to this Indenture will materially or adversely affect the Trustee's own
rights, duties or immunities under the Securities and this Indenture or
otherwise in a manner which is not reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.
Unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 with respect
to any series of Securities, or any Tranche thereof, each Security shall be
dated the date of its authentication.
Unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 with respect
to any series of Securities, or any Tranche thereof, no Security shall be
entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any
purpose unless there appears on such Security a certificate of authentication
substantially in the form provided for herein executed by the Trustee or an
Authenticating Agent by manual signature of an authorized officer hereof, and
such certificate upon any Security shall be conclusive evidence, and the only
evidence, that such Security has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder
and is entitled to the benefits of this Indenture. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, if any Security shall have been authenticated and delivered hereunder
to the Company, or any Person acting on its behalf, but shall never have been
issued and sold by the Company, and the Company shall deliver such Security to
the Security Registrar for cancellation as provided in Section 309 together with
a written statement (which need not comply with Section 102 and need not be
accompanied by an Officer's Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel) stating that
such Security has never been issued and sold by the Company, for all purposes of
this Indenture such Security shall be deemed never to have been authenticated
and delivered hereunder and shall never be entitled to the benefits hereof.
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SECTION 304. TEMPORARY SECURITIES.
Pending the preparation of definitive Securities of any series, or any
Tranche thereof, the Company may execute, and upon Company Order the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver, temporary Securities which are printed,
lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise produced, in any authorized
denomination, substantially of the tenor of the definitive Securities in lieu of
which they are issued with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions
and other variations as the officers executing such Securities may determine, as
evidenced by their execution of such Securities; provided, however, that
temporary Securities need not recite specific redemption, sinking fund,
conversion or exchange provisions.
Unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 with respect
to the Securities of any series, or any Tranche thereof, after the preparation
of definitive Securities of such series or Tranche, the temporary Securities of
such series or Tranche shall be exchangeable, without charge to the Holder
thereof, for definitive Securities of such series or Tranche upon surrender of
such temporary Securities at the office or agency of the Company maintained
pursuant to Section 602 in a Place of Payment for such Securities. Upon such
surrender of temporary Securities, the Company shall, except as aforesaid,
execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor
definitive Securities of the same series and Tranche, of authorized
denominations and of like tenor and aggregate principal amount.
Until exchanged in full as hereinabove provided, temporary Securities
shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as
definitive Securities of the same series and Tranche and of like tenor
authenticated and delivered hereunder.
SECTION 305. REGISTRATION, REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER AND EXCHANGE.
The Company shall cause to be kept in each office designated pursuant
to Section 602, with respect to the Securities of each series or any Tranche
thereof, a register (all registers kept in accordance with this Section being
collectively referred to as the "Security Register") in which, subject to such
reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the
registration of Securities of such series or Tranche and the registration of
transfer thereof. The Company shall designate one Person to maintain the
Security Register for the Securities of each series on a consolidated basis, and
such Person is referred to herein, with respect to such series, as the "Security
Registrar." Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, the Company may
designate one or more of its offices or an office of any Affiliate as an office
in which a register with respect to the Securities of one or more series, or any
Tranche or Tranches thereof, shall be maintained, and the Company may designate
itself or any Affiliate as the Security Registrar with respect to one or more of
such series. The Security Register shall be open for inspection by the Trustee
and the Company at all reasonable times.
Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 with
respect to the Securities of any series, or any Tranche thereof, upon surrender
for registration of transfer of any Security of such series or Tranche at the
office or agency of the Company maintained pursuant to Section 602 in a Place of
Payment for such series or Tranche, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or
transferees, one or more new Securities of the same series and Tranche, of
authorized denominations and of like tenor and aggregate principal amount.
Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 with
respect to the Securities of any series, or any Tranche thereof, any Security of
such series or Tranche may be exchanged at the option of the Holder, for one or
more new Securities of the same series and Tranche, of authorized denominations
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and of like tenor and aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the
Securities to be exchanged at any such office or agency. Whenever any Securities
are so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver, the Securities which the Holder making the
exchange is entitled to receive.
All Securities delivered upon any registration of transfer or exchange
of Securities shall be valid obligations of the Company evidencing the same
obligation, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the
Securities surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.
Every Security presented or surrendered for registration of transfer
or for exchange shall (if so required by the Company, the Trustee or the
Security Registrar) be duly endorsed or shall be accompanied by a written
instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company, the Trustee or the
Security Registrar, as the case may be, duly executed by the Holder thereof or
his attorney duly authorized in writing.
Unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 with respect
to Securities of any series, or any Tranche thereof, no service charge shall be
made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, but the Company
may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental
charge that may be imposed in connection with any registration of transfer or
exchange of Securities, other than exchanges pursuant to Section 304, 406 or
1206 not involving any transfer.
The Company shall not be required to execute or to provide for the
registration of transfer of or the exchange of (a) Securities of any series, or
any Tranche thereof, during a period of 15 days immediately preceding the date
notice is to be given identifying the serial numbers of the Securities of such
series or Tranche called for redemption or (b) any Security so selected for
redemption in whole or in part, except the unredeemed portion of any Security
being redeemed in part.
SECTION 306. MUTILATED, DESTROYED, LOST AND STOLEN SECURITIES.
If any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee, the Company
shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange
therefor a new Security of the same series and Tranche, and of like tenor and
principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.
If there shall be delivered to the Company and the Trustee (a)
evidence to their satisfaction of the ownership of and the destruction, loss or
theft of any Security and (b) such security or indemnity as may be reasonably
required by them to save each of them and any agent of either of them harmless,
then, in the absence of notice to the Company or the Trustee that such Security
is held by a Person purporting to be the owner of such Security, the Company
shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in lieu of any
such destroyed, lost or stolen Security, a new Security of the same series and
Tranche, and of like tenor and principal amount and bearing a number not
contemporaneously outstanding.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, in case any such mutilated, destroyed,
lost or stolen Security has become or is about to become due and payable, the
Company in its discretion may, instead of issuing a new Security, pay such
Security.
Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section, the Company
may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
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governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other
reasonable expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee) in
connection therewith.
Every new Security of any series issued pursuant to this Section in
lieu of any destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall constitute an original
additional contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the destroyed,
lost or stolen Security shall be at any time enforceable by anyone other than
the Holder of such new Security, and any such new Security shall be entitled to
all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all
other Securities of such series duly issued hereunder.
The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to
the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement
or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities.
SECTION 307. PAYMENT OF INTEREST; INTEREST RIGHTS PRESERVED.
Unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 with respect
to the Securities of any series, or any Tranche thereof, interest on any
Security which is payable, and is punctually paid or duly provided for, on any
Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the Person in whose name that Security
(or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business
on the Regular Record Date for such interest.
Subject to Section 312, any interest on any Security of any series
which is payable, but is not punctually paid or duly provided for, on any
Interest Payment Date (herein called "Defaulted Interest") shall forthwith cease
to be payable to the Holder on the related Regular Record Date by virtue of
having been such Holder, and such Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Company,
at its election in each case, as provided in clause (a) or (b) below:
(a) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest to
the Persons in whose names the Securities of such series (or their
respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business
on a date (herein called a "Special Record Date") for the payment of such
Defaulted Interest, which shall be fixed in the following manner. The
Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of Defaulted
Interest proposed to be paid on each Security of such series and the date
of the proposed payment, and at the same time the Company shall deposit
with the Trustee an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount proposed
to be paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest or shall make arrangements
satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit prior to the date of the
proposed payment, such money when deposited to be held in trust for the
benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted Interest as in this
clause provided. Thereupon the Trustee shall fix a Special Record Date for
the payment of such Defaulted Interest which shall be not more than 15 days
and not less than 10 days prior to the date of the proposed payment and not
less than 10 days after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the
proposed payment. The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company of such
Special Record Date and, in the name and at the expense of the Company,
shall promptly cause notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted
Interest and the Special Record Date therefor to be mailed, first-class
postage prepaid, to each Holder of Securities of such series at the address
of such Holder as it appears in the Security Register, not less than 10
days prior to such Special Record Date. Notice of the proposed payment of
such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor having been so
mailed, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Persons in whose names
the Securities of such series (or their respective Predecessor Securities)
are registered at the close of business on such Special Record Date.
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(b) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest on the
Securities of any series in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with
the requirements of any securities exchange on which such Securities may be
listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, if, after
notice given by the Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant
to this clause, such manner of payment shall be deemed practicable by the
Trustee.
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section and Section 305,
each Security delivered under this Indenture upon registration of transfer of or
in exchange for or in lieu of any other Security shall carry the rights to
interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other
Security.
SECTION 308. PERSONS DEEMED OWNERS.
Prior to the due presentment of a Security for registration of
transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee
may treat the Person in whose name such Security is registered as the absolute
owner of such Security for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of and
premium, if any, and (subject to Sections 305 and 307) interest, if any, on such
Security and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Security be
overdue, and none of the Company, the Trustee or any agent of the Company or the
Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
SECTION 309. CANCELLATION BY SECURITY REGISTRAR.
All Securities surrendered for payment, redemption, registration of
transfer or exchange or credit against any sinking fund payment shall, if
surrendered to any Person other than the Security Registrar, be delivered to the
Security Registrar and, if not theretofore canceled, shall be promptly canceled
by the Security Registrar. The Company may at any time deliver to the Security
Registrar for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated and delivered
hereunder which the Company may have acquired in any manner whatsoever or which
the Company shall not have issued and sold, and all Securities so delivered
shall be promptly canceled by the Security Registrar. No Securities shall be
authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Securities canceled as provided
in this Section, except as expressly permitted by this Indenture. All canceled
Securities held by the Security Registrar shall be disposed of in accordance
with the customary procedures of the Security Registrar as at the time of
disposition shall be in effect, and the Security Registrar shall promptly
deliver a certificate of disposition to the Trustee and the Company unless, by a
Company Order delivered to the Security Registrar and the Trustee, the Company
shall direct that canceled Securities be returned to it. The Security Registrar
shall promptly deliver evidence of any cancellation of a Security in accordance
with this Section 309 to the Trustee and the Company.
SECTION 310. COMPUTATION OF INTEREST.
Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for
Securities of any series, or any Tranche thereof, interest on the Securities of
each series shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of
twelve 30-day months and for any period shorter than a full calendar month, on
the basis of the actual number of days elapsed during such period.
SECTION 311. PAYMENT TO BE IN PROPER CURRENCY.
In the case of the Securities of any series, or any Tranche thereof,
denominated in any currency other than Dollars or in a composite currency (the
"Required Currency"), except as otherwise specified with respect to such
Securities as contemplated by Section 301, the obligation of the Company to make
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any payment of the principal thereof, or the premium, if any, or interest, if
any, thereon, shall not be discharged or satisfied by any tender by the Company,
or recovery by the Trustee, in any currency other than the Required Currency,
except to the extent that such tender or recovery shall result in the Trustee
timely holding the full amount of the Required Currency then due and payable. If
any such tender or recovery is in a currency other than the Required Currency,
the Trustee may take such actions as it considers appropriate to exchange such
currency for the Required Currency. The costs and risks of any such exchange,
including without limitation the risks of delay and exchange rate fluctuation,
shall be borne by the Company, the Company shall remain fully liable for any
shortfall or delinquency in the full amount of Required Currency then due and
payable, and in no circumstances shall the Trustee be liable therefor except in
the case of its negligence or willful misconduct.
SECTION 312. EXTENSION OF INTEREST PAYMENT.
The Company shall have the right at any time, so long as no Event of
Default hereunder has occurred and is continuing with respect to the Securities
of any series, to extend interest payment periods from time to time on all
Securities of such series, if so specified as contemplated by Section 301 with
respect to such Securities and upon such terms as may be specified as
contemplated by Section 301 with respect to such Securities.
SECTION 313. ADDITIONAL INTEREST.
So long as any Preferred Securities remain outstanding, if the Trust
which issued such Preferred Securities shall be required to pay, with respect to
its income derived from the interest payments on the Securities of any series,
any amounts for or on account of any taxes, duties, assessments or governmental
charges of whatever nature imposed by the United States, or any other taxing
authority, then, in any such case, the Company will pay as interest on such
series such additional interest ("Additional Interest") as may be necessary in
order that the net amounts received and retained by such Trust after the payment
of such taxes, duties, assessments or governmental charges shall result in such
Trust's having such funds as it would have had in the absence of any such
payments.
Whenever in this Indenture there is mentioned, in any context, the
payment of interest on the Securities, such mention shall be deemed to include
the payment of Additional Interest to the extent that, in such context,
Additional Interest is, was or would be payable in respect thereof.
ARTICLE FOUR
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 401. APPLICABILITY OF ARTICLE.
Securities of any series, or any Tranche thereof, which are redeemable
before their Stated Maturity shall be redeemable in accordance with their terms
and (except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for Securities
of such series or Tranche) in accordance with this Article.
SECTION 402. ELECTION TO REDEEM; NOTICE TO TRUSTEE.
The election of the Company to redeem any Securities shall be
evidenced by a Board Resolution or an Officer's Certificate. The Company shall,
at least 45 days prior to the Redemption Date fixed by the Company (unless a
shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the Trustee), notify the Trustee and in
the case of Securities of a series held by a Trust, the Property Trustee under
the related Trust Agreement, in writing of such Redemption Date and of the
principal amount of such Securities to be redeemed. In the case of any
redemption of Securities (a) prior to the expiration of any restriction on such
redemption provided in the terms of such Securities or elsewhere in this
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Indenture or (b) pursuant to an election of the Company which is subject to a
condition specified in the terms of such Securities or elsewhere in this
Indenture, the Company shall furnish the Trustee with an Officer's Certificate
evidencing compliance with such restriction or condition.
SECTION 403. SELECTION OF SECURITIES TO BE REDEEMED.
If less than all the Securities of any series, or any Tranche thereof,
are to be redeemed, the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected
by the Trustee from the Outstanding Securities of such series or Tranche not
previously called for redemption, by such method as shall be provided for any
particular series or Tranche, or, in the absence of any such provision, by such
method as the Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate and which may, in any
case, provide for the selection for redemption of portions (equal to the minimum
authorized denomination for Securities of such series or Tranche or any integral
multiple thereof) of the principal amount of Securities of such series or
Tranche of a denomination larger than the minimum authorized denomination for
Securities of such series or Tranche; provided, however, that if, as indicated
in an Officer's Certificate, the Company shall have offered to purchase all or
any principal amount of the Securities then Outstanding of any series, or any
Tranche thereof, and less than all of such Securities as to which such offer was
made shall have been tendered to the Company for such purchase, the Trustee, if
so directed by Company Order, shall select for redemption all or any principal
amount of such Securities which have not been so tendered.
The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company and the Security
Registrar in writing of the Securities selected for redemption and, in the case
of any Securities selected to be redeemed in part, the principal amount thereof
to be redeemed.
For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise
requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of Securities shall relate,
in the case of any Securities redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the
portion of the principal amount of such Securities which has been or is to be
redeemed.
SECTION 404. NOTICE OF REDEMPTION.
Notice of redemption shall be given in the manner provided in Section
106 to the Holders of the Securities to be redeemed not less than 30 nor more
than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date.
Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for
Securities of any series, or any Tranche thereof, all notices of redemption
shall state:
(a) the Redemption Date,
(b) the Redemption Price, or the formula pursuant to which the
Redemption Price is to be determined if the Redemption Price cannot be
determined at the time the notice is given,
(c) if less than all the Outstanding Securities of any series or
Tranche are to be redeemed, the identification of the particular Securities
to be redeemed and the portion of the principal amount of any Security to
be redeemed in part,
(d) that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price, together with
accrued interest, if any, to the Redemption Date, will become due and
payable upon each such Security to be redeemed and, if applicable, that
interest thereon will cease to accrue on and after said date,
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(e) the place or places where such Securities are to be surrendered
for payment of the Redemption Price and accrued interest, if any, unless it
shall have been specified as contemplated by Section 301 with respect to
such Securities that such surrender shall not be required,
(f) that the redemption is for a sinking or other fund, if such is the
case,
(g) the CUSIP numbers, if any, assigned to such Securities; provided
however, that such notice may state that no representation is made as to
the correctness of CUSIP numbers, and the redemption of such Securities
shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of such numbers, and
(h) such other matters as the Company shall deem desirable or
appropriate.
Unless otherwise specified with respect to any Securities in
accordance with Section 301, with respect to any notice of redemption of
Securities at the election of the Company, unless, upon the giving of such
notice, such Securities shall be deemed to have been paid in accordance with
Section 701, such notice may state that such redemption shall be conditional
upon the receipt by the Paying Agent or Agents for such Securities, on or prior
to the date fixed for such redemption, of money sufficient to pay the principal
of and premium, if any, and interest, if any, on such Securities and that if
such money shall not have been so received such notice shall be of no force or
effect and the Company shall not be required to redeem such Securities. In the
event that such notice of redemption contains such a condition and such money is
not so received, the redemption shall not be made and within a reasonable time
thereafter notice shall be given, in the manner in which the notice of
redemption was given, that such money was not so received and such redemption
was not required to be made, and the Paying Agent or Agents for the Securities
otherwise to have been redeemed shall promptly return to the Holders thereof any
of such Securities which had been surrendered for payment upon such redemption.
Notice of redemption of Securities to be redeemed at the election of
the Company, and any notice of non-satisfaction of a condition for redemption as
aforesaid, shall be given by the Company or, at the Company's request, by the
Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company. Notice of mandatory
redemption of Securities shall be given by the Trustee in the name and at the
expense of the Company.
SECTION 405. SECURITIES PAYABLE ON REDEMPTION DATE.
Notice of redemption having been given as aforesaid, and the
conditions, if any, set forth in such notice having been satisfied, the
Securities or portions thereof so to be redeemed shall, on the Redemption Date,
become due and payable at the Redemption Price therein specified, and from and
after such date (unless, in the case of an unconditional notice of redemption,
the Company shall default in the payment of the Redemption Price and accrued
interest, if any) such Securities or portions thereof, if interest-bearing,
shall cease to bear interest. Upon surrender of any such Security for redemption
in accordance with such notice, such Security or portion thereof shall be paid
by the Company at the Redemption Price, together with accrued interest, if any,
to the Redemption Date; provided, however, that no such surrender shall be a
condition to such payment if so specified as contemplated by Section 301 with
respect to such Security; and provided, further, that except as otherwise
specified as contemplated by Section 301 with respect to such Security, any
installment of interest on any Security the Stated Maturity of which installment
is on or prior to the Redemption Date shall be payable to the Holder of such
Security, or one or more Predecessor Securities, registered as such at the close
of business on the related Regular Record Date according to the terms of such
Security and subject to the provisions of Section 307.
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SECTION 406. SECURITIES REDEEMED IN PART.
Upon the surrender of any Security which is to be redeemed only in
part at a Place of Payment therefor (with, if the Company or the Trustee so
requires, due endorsement by, or a written instrument of transfer in form
satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof
or his attorney duly authorized in writing), the Company shall execute, and the
Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such Security, without
service charge, a new Security or Securities of the same series and Tranche, of
any authorized denomination requested by such Holder and of like tenor and in
aggregate principal amount equal to and in exchange for the unredeemed portion
of the principal of the Security so surrendered.
ARTICLE FIVE
SINKING FUNDS
SECTION 501. APPLICABILITY OF ARTICLE.
The provisions of this Article shall be applicable to any sinking fund
for the retirement of the Securities of any series, or any Tranche thereof,
except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for Securities of
such series or Tranche.
The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by the
terms of Securities of any series, or any Tranche thereof, is herein referred to
as a "mandatory sinking fund payment", and any payment in excess of such minimum
amount provided for by the terms of Securities of any series, or any Tranche
thereof, is herein referred to as an "optional sinking fund payment". If
provided for by the terms of Securities of any series, or any Tranche thereof,
the cash amount of any sinking fund payment may be subject to reduction as
provided in Section 502. Each sinking fund payment shall be applied to the
redemption of Securities of the series or Tranche in respect of which it was
made as provided for by the terms of such Securities.
SECTION 502. SATISFACTION OF SINKING FUND PAYMENTS WITH SECURITIES.
The Company (a) may deliver to the Trustee Outstanding Securities
(other than any previously called for redemption) of a series or Tranche in
respect of which a mandatory sinking fund payment is to be made and (b) may
apply as a credit Securities of such series or Tranche which have been (i)
redeemed either at the election of the Company pursuant to the terms of such
Securities or through the application of permitted optional sinking fund
payments pursuant to the terms of such Securities or (ii) repurchased by the
Company in the open market, by tender offer or otherwise, in each case in
satisfaction of all or any part of such mandatory sinking fund payment;
provided, however, that no Securities shall be applied in satisfaction of a
mandatory sinking fund payment if such Securities shall have been previously so
applied. Securities so applied shall be received and credited for such purpose
by the Trustee at the Redemption Price specified in such Securities for
redemption through operation of the sinking fund and the amount of such
mandatory sinking fund payment shall be reduced accordingly.
SECTION 503. REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES FOR SINKING FUND.
Not less than 45 days prior to each sinking fund payment date for the
Securities of any series, or any Tranche thereof, the Company shall deliver to
the Trustee an Officer's Certificate specifying:
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(a) the amount of the next succeeding mandatory sinking fund payment
for such series or Tranche;
(b) the amount, if any, of the optional sinking fund payment to be
made together with such mandatory sinking fund payment;
(c) the aggregate sinking fund payment;
(d) the portion, if any, of such aggregate sinking fund payment which
is to be satisfied by the payment of cash; and
(e) the portion, if any, of such aggregate sinking fund payment which
is to be satisfied by delivering and crediting Securities of such series or
Tranche pursuant to Section 502 and stating the basis for such credit and
that such Securities have not previously been so credited, and the Company
shall also deliver to the Trustee not later than 45 days prior to such
sinking fund payment date, any Securities to be so delivered.
If the Company shall not deliver such Officer's Certificate, the next
succeeding sinking fund payment for such series or Tranche shall be made
entirely in cash in the amount of the mandatory sinking fund payment. Not less
than 40 days before each such sinking fund payment date, the Trustee shall
select the Securities to be redeemed upon such sinking fund payment date in the
manner specified in Section 403 and cause notice of the redemption thereof to be
given in the name of and at the expense of the Company in the manner provided in
Section 404. Such notice having been duly given, the redemption of such
Securities shall be made upon the terms and in the manner stated in Sections 405
and 406.
ARTICLE SIX
COVENANTS
SECTION 601. PAYMENT OF PRINCIPAL, PREMIUM AND INTEREST.
The Company shall pay the principal of and premium, if any, and
interest, if any (including Additional Interest), on the Securities of each
series in accordance with the terms of such Securities and this Indenture.
SECTION 602. MAINTENANCE OF OFFICE OR AGENCY.
The Company shall maintain in each Place of Payment for the Securities
of each series, or any Tranche thereof, an office or agency where payment of
such Securities shall be made or such Securities shall be surrendered for
payment, where the registration of transfer or exchange of such Securities may
be effected and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of
such Securities and this Indenture may be served. The Company shall give prompt
written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any change in the location,
of each such office or agency and prompt notice to the Holders of any such
change in the manner specified in Section 106. If at any time the Company shall
fail to maintain any such required office or agency in respect of Securities of
any series, or any Tranche thereof, or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with
the address thereof, payment of such Securities may be made, registration of
transfer or exchange thereof may be effected and notices and demands in respect
thereof may be served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and the
Company hereby appoints the Trustee as its agent for all such purposes in any
such event.
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The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other
offices or agencies with respect to the Securities of one or more series, or any
Tranche thereof, for any or all of the foregoing purposes and may from time to
time rescind such designations; provided, however, that, unless otherwise
specified as contemplated by Section 301 with respect to the Securities of such
series or Tranche, no such designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve
the Company of its obligation to maintain an office or agency for such purposes
in each Place of Payment for such Securities in accordance with the requirements
set forth above. The Company shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee,
and prompt notice to the Holders in the manner specified in Section 106, of any
such designation or rescission and of any change in the location of any such
other office or agency.
Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, any office or agency
required by this Section may be maintained at an office of the Company or any
Affiliate of the Company, in which event the Company or such Affiliate, as the
case may be, shall perform all functions to be performed at such office or
agency.
SECTION 603. MONEY FOR SECURITIES PAYMENTS TO BE HELD IN TRUST.
If the Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent with
respect to the Securities of any series, or any Tranche thereof, it shall, on or
before each due date of the principal of and premium, if any, and interest, if
any, on any of such Securities, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of
the Persons entitled thereto a sum sufficient to pay the principal and premium,
if any, or interest so becoming due until such sums shall be paid to such
Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided. The Company shall promptly
notify the Trustee of any failure by the Company (or any other obligor on such
Securities) to make any payment of principal of or premium, if any, or interest,
if any, on such Securities.
Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents for the
Securities of any series, or any Tranche thereof, it shall, on or before each
due date of the principal of and premium, if any, and interest, if any, on such
Securities, deposit with such Paying Agents sums sufficient (without
duplication) to pay the principal and premium or interest so becoming due, such
sums to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such
principal, premium or interest, and (unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee)
the Company shall promptly notify the Trustee of any failure by it so to act.
The Company shall cause each Paying Agent for the Securities of any
series, or any Tranche thereof, other than the Company or the Trustee, to
execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent
shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section, that
such Paying Agent shall:
(a) hold all sums held by it for the payment of the principal of and
premium, if any, or interest, if any, on such Securities in trust for the
benefit of the Persons entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to
such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided;
(b) give the Trustee notice of any failure by the Company (or any
other obligor upon such Securities) to make any payment of principal of or
premium, if any, or interest, if any, on such Securities; and
(c) at any time during the continuance of any such failure, upon the
written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums so
held in trust by such Paying Agent and furnish to the Trustee such
information as it possesses regarding the names and addresses of the
Persons entitled to such sums.
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The Company may at any time pay, or by Company Order direct any Paying
Agent to pay, to the Trustee all sums held in trust by the Company or such
Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the Trustee upon the same trusts as those
upon which such sums were held by the Company or such Paying Agent and, if so
stated in a Company Order delivered to the Trustee, in accordance with the
provisions of Article Seven; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the
Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with
respect to such money.
Any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then held
by the Company, in trust for the payment of the principal of and premium, if
any, or interest, if any, on any Security and remaining unclaimed for two years
after such principal and premium, if any, or interest, if any, has become due
and payable shall be paid to the Company on Company Request, or, if then held by
the Company, shall be discharged from such trust; and, upon such payment or
discharge, the Holder of such Security shall, as an unsecured general creditor
and not as a Holder of an Outstanding Security, look only to the Company for
payment of the amount so due and payable and remaining unpaid, and all liability
of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money, and all
liability of the Company as trustee thereof, shall thereupon cease; provided,
however, that the Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make
any such payment to the Company, may at the expense of the Company cause to be
mailed, on one occasion only, notice to such Holder that such money remains
unclaimed and that, after a date specified therein, which shall not be less than
30 days from the date of such mailing, any unclaimed balance of such money then
remaining will be paid to the Company.
SECTION 604. CORPORATE EXISTENCE.
Subject to the rights of the Company under Article Eleven, the Company
shall do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full
force and effect its corporate existence.
SECTION 605. MAINTENANCE OF PROPERTIES.
The Company shall cause (or, with respect to property owned in common
with others, make reasonable effort to cause) all its properties used or useful
in the conduct of its business to be maintained and kept in good condition,
repair and working order and shall cause (or, with respect to property owned in
common with others, make reasonable effort to cause) to be made all necessary
repairs, renewals, replacements, betterments and improvements thereof, all as,
in the judgment of the Company, may be necessary so that the business carried on
in connection therewith may be properly conducted; provided, however, that
nothing in this Section shall prevent the Company from discontinuing, or causing
the discontinuance of, the operation and maintenance of any of its properties if
such discontinuance is, in the judgment of the Company, desirable in the conduct
of its business.
SECTION 606. ANNUAL OFFICER'S CERTIFICATE AS TO COMPLIANCE.
Not later than April 1 in each year, commencing April 1, ____, the
Company shall deliver to the Trustee an Officer's Certificate which need not
comply with Section 102, executed by the principal executive officer, principal
financial officer or the principal accounting officer of the Company, as to such
officer's knowledge of the Company's compliance with all conditions and
covenants under this Indenture, such compliance to be determined without regard
to any period of grace or requirement of notice under this Indenture.
SECTION 607. WAIVER OF CERTAIN COVENANTS.
The Company may omit in any particular instance to comply with any
term, provision or condition set forth in (a) Sections 602, 608, 609 or any
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additional covenant or restriction specified with respect to the Securities of
any series, or any Tranche thereof, as contemplated by Section 301 or by clause
(b) of Section 1201 if before the time for such compliance the Holders of a
majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of all
series and Tranches with respect to which compliance with Section 602, 608, 609
or such additional covenant or restriction is to be omitted, considered as one
class, shall, by Act of such Holders, either waive such compliance in such
instance or generally waive compliance with such term, provision or condition
and (b) Section 604, 605 or Article Eleven if before the time for such
compliance the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of Securities
Outstanding under this Indenture shall, by Act of such Holders, either waive
such compliance in such instance or generally waive compliance with such term,
provision or condition; but, in the case of (a) or (b), no such waiver shall
extend to or affect such term, provision or condition except to the extent so
expressly waived, and, until such waiver shall become effective, the obligations
of the Company and the duties of the Trustee in respect of any such term,
provision or condition shall remain in full force and effect; provided, however,
so long as a Trust holds Securities of any series, such Trust may not waive
compliance or waive any default in compliance by the Company with any covenant
or other term contained in this Indenture or the Securities of such series
without the approval of the holders of a majority (or such greater percentage as
shall be required by the Trust Agreement pertaining to such Trust) in aggregate
liquidation preference of the outstanding Preferred Securities issued by such
Trust affected, obtained as provided in the Trust Agreement pertaining to such
Trust.
SECTION 608. RESTRICTIONS ON DIVIDENDS AND DEBT PAYMENTS.
So long as any Preferred Securities of any series remain outstanding,
if at such time (a) there shall have occurred and be continuing an Event of
Default (whether before or after expiration of any period of grace) resulting
from a payment default hereunder or (b) the Company shall have elected to extend
any interest payment period as provided in Section 312, and any such period, or
any extension thereof, shall be continuing, then the Company shall not (i)
declare or pay any dividends or distributions on its capital stock, (ii) redeem,
purchase, acquire or make a liquidation payment with respect to any of its
capital stock, (iii) pay any principal, interest or premium on, or repay,
repurchase or redeem any debt securities that are equal or junior in right of
payment to the Securities, or (iv) make any payments with respect to any
guarantee of debt securities if such guarantee is equal or junior in right of
payment to the Securities.
The foregoing provisions do not prevent or restrict the Company from
making: (1) purchases, redemptions or other acquisitions of its capital stock in
connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar
arrangement with or for the benefit of employees, officers, directors or agents
or a stock purchase or dividend reinvestment plan, or the satisfaction of its
obligations pursuant to any contract or security outstanding on the date that
the interest payment period is extended requiring it to purchase, redeem or
acquire its capital stock, (2) any payment, repayment, redemption, purchase,
acquisition or declaration of dividend described in clauses (i) and (ii) above
as a result of a reclassification of its capital stock, or the exchange or
conversion of all or a portion of one class or series of its capital stock for
another class or series of its capital stock, (3) the purchase of fractional
interests in shares of its capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange
provisions of its capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged, or
in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts, (4) dividends or
distributions paid or made in its capital stock (or rights to acquire its
capital stock), or repurchases, redemptions or acquisitions of capital stock in
connection with the issuance or exchange of capital stock (or of securities
convertible into or exchangeable for shares of its capital stock and
distributions in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts),
(5) redemptions, exchanges or repurchases of, or with respect to, any rights
outstanding under a shareholder rights plan or the declaration or payment
thereunder of a dividend or distribution of or with respect to rights in the
future, (6) payments under any preferred trust securities guarantee or guarantee
of junior subordinated debentures executed and delivered by the Company
concurrently with the issuance by a trust of any preferred trust securities, so
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long as the amount of payments made on any preferred trust securities or junior
subordinated debentures (as the case may be) is paid on all preferred trust
securities or junior subordinated debentures (as the case may be) then
outstanding on a pro rata basis in proportion to the full distributions to which
each series of preferred trust securities or junior subordinated debentures (as
the case may be) is then entitled if paid in full.
SECTION 609. MAINTENANCE OF TRUST EXISTENCE.
So long as Preferred Securities of any series remain outstanding, the
Company shall (i) maintain direct or indirect ownership of all interests in the
Trust which issued such Preferred Securities, other than such Preferred
Securities, (ii) not voluntarily (to the extent permitted by law) dissolve,
liquidate or wind up such Trust, except in connection with a distribution of the
Securities to the holders of the Preferred Securities in liquidation of such
Trust, (iii) remain the sole Depositor under the Trust Agreement (the
"Depositor") of such Trust and timely perform in all material respects all of
its duties as Depositor of such Trust, and (iv) use reasonable efforts to cause
such Trust to remain a statutory trust and otherwise continue to be treated as a
grantor trust for Federal income tax purposes, provided that any permitted
successor to the Company under this Indenture may succeed to the Company as
Depositor of such Trust; and provided further that the Company may permit such
Trust to consolidate or merge with or into another statutory or business trust
or other permitted successor under the Trust Agreement pertaining to such Trust
so long as the Company (or such permitted successor) agrees to comply with this
Section 609 with respect to such successor statutory or business trust or other
permitted successor.
SECTION 610. RIGHTS OF HOLDERS OF PREFERRED SECURITIES.
The Company agrees that, for so long as any Preferred Securities
remain outstanding, its obligations under this Indenture will also be for the
benefit of the holders from time to time of Preferred Securities, and the
Company acknowledges and agrees that such holders will be entitled to enforce
this Indenture, as third party beneficiaries, directly against the Company to
the same extent as if such holders of Preferred Securities held a principal
amount of Securities equal to the stated liquidation amount of the Preferred
Securities held by such holders.
ARTICLE SEVEN
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
SECTION 701. SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF SECURITIES.
Any Security or Securities, or any portion of the principal amount
thereof, shall be deemed to have been paid for all purposes of this Indenture,
and the entire indebtedness of the Company in respect thereof shall be deemed to
have been satisfied and discharged, if there shall have been irrevocably
deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent (other than the Company), in
trust:
(a) money in an amount which shall be sufficient, or
(b) in the case of a deposit made prior to the Maturity of such
Securities or portions thereof, Eligible Obligations, which shall not
contain provisions permitting the redemption or other prepayment thereof at
the option of the issuer thereof, the principal of and the interest on
which when due, without any regard to reinvestment thereof, will provide
moneys which, together with the money, if any, deposited with or held by
the Trustee or such Paying Agent, shall be sufficient, or
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(c) a combination of (a) or (b) which shall be sufficient,
to pay when due the principal of and premium, if any, and interest (including
any Additional Interest), if any, due and to become due on such Securities or
portions thereof on or prior to Maturity; provided, however, that in the case of
the provision for payment or redemption of less than all the Securities of any
series or Tranche, such Securities or portions thereof shall have been selected
by the Trustee as provided herein and, in the case of a redemption, the notice
requisite to the validity of such redemption shall have been given or
irrevocable authority shall have been given by the Company to the Trustee to
give such notice, under arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee; and provided,
further, that the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee and such Paying
Agent:
(x) if such deposit shall have been made prior to the Maturity of
such Securities, a Company Order stating that the money and Eligible
Obligations deposited in accordance with this Section shall be held in
trust, as provided in Section 703;
(y) if Eligible Obligations shall have been deposited, an Opinion
of Counsel that the obligations so deposited constitute Eligible
Obligations and do not contain provisions permitting the redemption or
other prepayment at the option of the issuer thereof, and an opinion
of an independent public accountant of nationally recognized standing,
selected by the Company, to the effect that the requirements set forth
in clause (b) above have been satisfied; and
(z) if such deposit shall have been made prior to the Maturity of
such Securities, an Officer's Certificate stating the Company's
intention that, upon delivery of such Officer's Certificate, its
indebtedness in respect of such Securities or portions thereof will
have been satisfied and discharged as contemplated in this Section.
Upon the deposit of money or Eligible Obligations, or both, in
accordance with this Section, together with the documents required by clauses
(x), (y) and (z) above, the Trustee shall, upon receipt of a Company Request,
acknowledge in writing that the Security or Securities or portions thereof with
respect to which such deposit was made are deemed to have been paid for all
purposes of this Indenture and that the entire indebtedness of the Company in
respect thereof has been satisfied and discharged as contemplated in this
Section. In the event that all of the conditions set forth in the preceding
paragraph shall have been satisfied in respect of any Securities or portions
thereof except that, for any reason, the Officer's Certificate specified in
clause (z) (if otherwise required) shall not have been delivered, such
Securities or portions thereof shall nevertheless be deemed to have been paid
for all purposes of this Indenture, and the Holders of such Securities or
portions thereof shall nevertheless be no longer entitled to the benefits of
this Indenture or of any of the covenants of the Company under Article Six
(except the covenants contained in Sections 602 and 603) or any other covenants
made in respect of such Securities or portions thereof as contemplated by
Section 301 or Section 1201(b), but the indebtedness of the Company in respect
of such Securities or portions thereof shall not be deemed to have been
satisfied and discharged prior to Maturity for any other purpose, and the
Holders of such Securities or portions thereof shall continue to be entitled to
look to the Company for payment of the indebtedness represented thereby; and,
upon Company Request, the Trustee shall acknowledge in writing that such
Securities or portions thereof are deemed to have been paid for all purposes of
this Indenture.
If payment at Stated Maturity of less than all of the Securities of
any series, or any Tranche thereof, is to be provided for in the manner and with
the effect provided in this Section, the Trustee shall select such Securities,
or portions of principal amount thereof, in the manner specified by Section 403
for selection for redemption of less than all the Securities of a series or
Tranche.
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In the event that Securities which shall be deemed to have been paid
for purposes of this Indenture, and, if such is the case, the Company's
indebtedness in respect thereof shall have been satisfied and discharged, all as
provided in this Section do not mature and are not to be redeemed within the 60
day period commencing with the date of the deposit of moneys or Eligible
Obligations, as aforesaid, the Company shall, as promptly as practicable, give a
notice, in the same manner as a notice of redemption with respect to such
Securities, to the Holders of such Securities to the effect that such deposit
has been made and the effect thereof.
Notwithstanding that any Securities shall be deemed to have been paid
for purposes of this Indenture, as aforesaid, the obligations of the Company and
the Trustee in respect of such Securities under Sections 304, 305, 306, 403,
404, 406, 503 (as to notice of redemption), 602, 603, 907, 909, 910 and 915 and
this Article Seven shall survive.
The Company shall pay, and shall indemnify the Trustee or any Paying
Agent with which Eligible Obligations shall have been deposited as provided in
this Section against, any tax, fee or other charge imposed on or assessed
against such Eligible Obligations or the principal or interest received in
respect of such Eligible Obligations, including, but not limited to, any such
tax payable by any entity deemed, for tax purposes, to have been created as a
result of such deposit.
Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, (a) if, at any time
after a Security would be deemed to have been paid for purposes of this
Indenture, and, if such is the case, the Company's indebtedness in respect
thereof would be deemed to have been satisfied or discharged, pursuant to this
Section (without regard to the provisions of this paragraph), the Trustee or any
Paying Agent, as the case may be, (i) shall be required to return the money or
Eligible Obligations, or combination thereof, deposited with it as aforesaid to
the Company or its representative under any applicable Federal or State
bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law, or (ii) are unable to apply any
money in accordance with this Article with respect to any Securities by reason
of any order or judgment of any court or governmental authority enjoining,
restraining or otherwise prohibiting such application, such Security shall
thereupon be deemed retroactively not to have been paid and any satisfaction and
discharge of the Company's indebtedness in respect thereof shall retroactively
be deemed not to have been effected, and such Security shall be deemed to remain
Outstanding and (b) any satisfaction and discharge of the Company's indebtedness
in respect of any Security shall be subject to the provisions of the last
paragraph of Section 603.
SECTION 702. SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE.
This Indenture shall upon Company Request cease to be of further
effect (except as hereinafter expressly provided), and the Trustee, at the
expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, when
(a) no Securities remain Outstanding hereunder; and
(b) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable
hereunder by the Company;
provided, however, that if, in accordance with the last paragraph of Section
701, any Security, previously deemed to have been paid for purposes of this
Indenture, shall be deemed retroactively not to have been so paid, this
Indenture shall thereupon be deemed retroactively not to have been satisfied and
discharged, as aforesaid, and to remain in full force and effect, and the
Company shall execute and deliver such instruments as the Trustee shall
reasonably request to evidence and acknowledge the same.
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Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture as
aforesaid, the obligations of the Company and the Trustee under Sections ▇▇▇,
▇▇▇, ▇▇▇, ▇▇▇, ▇▇▇, ▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ (▇▇ to notice of redemption), 602, 603, 907, 909,
910 and 915 and this Article Seven shall survive.
Upon satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture as provided in this
Section, the Trustee shall assign, transfer and turn over to the Company or to
the order of the Company, subject to the lien provided by Section 907, any and
all money, securities and other property then held by the Trustee for the
benefit of the Holders of the Securities other than money and Eligible
Obligations held by the Trustee pursuant to Section 703 and shall execute and
deliver to the Company such instruments as, in the judgment of the Company,
shall be necessary, desirable or appropriate to effect or evidence the
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture.
SECTION 703. APPLICATION OF TRUST MONEY.
Neither the Eligible Obligations nor the money deposited pursuant to
Section 701, nor the principal or interest payments on any such Eligible
Obligations, shall be withdrawn or used for any purpose other than, and such
Eligible Obligations and money deposited and the principal and interest payments
on any such Eligible Obligations shall be held in trust for, the payment of the
principal of and premium, if any, and interest, if any, on the Securities or
portions of principal amount thereof in respect of which such deposit was made,
all subject, however, to the provisions of Section 603; provided, however, that,
so long as there shall not have occurred and be continuing an Event of Default,
any cash received from such principal or interest payments on such Eligible
Obligations, if not then needed for such purpose, shall, to the extent
practicable, be invested in Eligible Obligations of the type described in clause
(b) in the first paragraph of Section 701 maturing at such times and in such
amounts as shall be sufficient, together with any other moneys and the proceeds
of any other Eligible Obligations then held by the Trustee, to pay when due the
principal of and premium, if any, and interest, if any, due and to become due on
such Securities or portions thereof on and prior to the Maturity thereof, and
interest earned from such reinvestment shall be paid over to the Company or to
the order of the Company as received, free and clear of any trust, lien or
pledge under this Indenture except the lien provided by Section 907; and
provided, further, that, so long as there shall not have occurred and be
continuing an Event of Default, any moneys held in accordance with this Section
on the Maturity of all such Securities in excess of the amount required to pay
the principal of and premium, if any, and interest, if any, then due on such
Securities shall be paid over to the Company or to the order of the Company free
and clear of any trust, lien or pledge under this Indenture except the lien
provided by Section 907; and provided, further, that if an Event of Default
shall have occurred and be continuing, moneys to be paid over to the Company or
to the order of the Company pursuant to this Section shall be held until such
Event of Default shall have been waived or cured.
ARTICLE EIGHT
EVENTS OF DEFAULT; REMEDIES
SECTION 801. EVENTS OF DEFAULT.
"Event of Default," wherever used herein with respect to Securities of
any series, means any one of the following events, subject to such additions and
exceptions as may be provided pursuant to Section 301:
(a) failure to pay interest, including any Additional Interest, if
any, on any Security of such series within 30 days after the same becomes
due and payable (whether or not payment is prohibited by the subordination
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provisions of Article Fourteen hereof); provided, however, that a valid
extension of the interest payment period by the Company as contemplated in
Section 312 of this Indenture shall not constitute a default in the payment
of interest for this purpose; or
(b) failure to pay the principal of or premium, if any, on any
Security of such series when it becomes due and payable (whether or not
payment is prohibited by the subordination provisions of Article Fourteen
hereof); or
(c) failure to perform, or breach of, any covenant or warranty of the
Company in this Indenture (other than a covenant or warranty a default in
the performance of which or breach of which is elsewhere in this Section
specifically dealt with or which has expressly been included in this
Indenture solely for the benefit of one or more series of Securities other
than such series) and the continuance of such default or breach for a
period of 90 days after there has been given, by registered or certified
mail, to the Company by the Trustee, or to the Company and the Trustee by
the Holders of at least 33% in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of such series, a written notice specifying such default or
breach and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a
"Notice of Default" hereunder, unless the Trustee, or the Trustee and the
Holders of a principal amount of Securities of such series not less than
the principal amount of Securities the Holders of which gave such notice,
as the case may be, shall agree in writing to an extension of such period
prior to its expiration; provided, however, that the Trustee, or the
Trustee and the Holders of such principal amount of Securities of such
series, as the case may be, shall be deemed to have agreed to an extension
of such period if corrective action is initiated by the Company within such
period and is being diligently pursued in good faith; or
(d) the entry by a court having jurisdiction in the premises of (1) a
decree or order for relief in respect of the Company in an involuntary case
or proceeding under any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization or other similar law or (2) a decree or order adjudging the
Company a bankrupt or insolvent, or approving as properly filed a petition
by one or more Persons other than the Company seeking reorganization,
arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in respect of the Company
under any applicable Federal or State law, or appointing a custodian,
receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar
official for the Company or for any substantial part of its property, or
ordering the winding up or liquidation of its affairs, and any such decree
or order for relief or any such other decree or order shall have remained
unstayed and in effect for a period of 90 consecutive days; or
(e) the commencement by the Company of a voluntary case or proceeding
under any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization or other similar law or of any other case or proceeding to
be adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent, or the consent by the Company to
the entry of a decree or order for relief in respect of the Company in a
case or proceeding under any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or to the commencement of
any bankruptcy or insolvency case or proceeding against the Company, or the
filing by the Company of a petition or answer or consent seeking
reorganization or relief under any applicable Federal or State law, or the
consent by the Company to the filing of such petition or to the appointment
of or taking possession by a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee,
trustee, sequestrator or similar official of the Company or of any
substantial part of its property, or the making by the Company of an
assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the admission by the Company in
writing of its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due, or
the authorization of such action by the Board of Directors; or
(f) any other Event of Default specified with respect to Securities of
such series.
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SECTION 802. ACCELERATION OF MATURITY; RESCISSION AND ANNULMENT.
If an Event of Default applicable to the Securities of one or more
series, but not applicable to all Outstanding Securities, shall have occurred
and be continuing, either the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 33% in
aggregate principal amount of the Securities of each such series may then
declare the principal amount of all Securities of such series (or, if any of the
Securities of such series are Discount Securities, such portion of the principal
amount of such Securities as may be specified in the terms thereof as
contemplated by Section 301) and interest accrued thereon to be due and payable
immediately (provided that the payment of principal and interest on such
Securities shall remain subordinated to the extent provided in this Indenture),
by a notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by Holders),
and, upon receipt by the Company of notice of such declaration of acceleration,
such principal amount (or specified amount) and interest accrued thereon shall
become immediately due and payable. If an Event of Default applicable to all
Outstanding Securities shall have occurred and be continuing, either the Trustee
or the Holders of not less than 33% in principal amount of all Securities then
Outstanding (considered as one class), and not the Holders of the Securities of
any one of such series, may declare the principal of all Securities (or, if any
of the Securities of such series are Discount Securities, such portion of the
principal amount of such Securities as may be specified in the terms thereof as
contemplated by Section 301) and interest accrued thereon to be due and payable
immediately (provided that the payment of principal and interest on such
Securities shall remain subordinated to the extent provided in this Indenture),
by a notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by Holders),
and, upon receipt by the Company of notice of such declaration of acceleration,
such principal amount (or specified amount) and interest accrued thereon shall
become immediately due and payable.
At any time after such a declaration of acceleration with respect to
Securities of any series shall have been made and before a judgment or decree
for payment of the money due shall have been obtained by the Trustee as
hereinafter in this Article provided, the Event or Events of Default giving rise
to such declaration of acceleration shall, without further act, be deemed to
have been waived, and such declaration and its consequences shall, without
further act, be deemed to have been rescinded and annulled, if
(a) the Company shall have paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum
sufficient to pay
(1) all overdue interest (including Additional Interest), if any,
on all Securities of such series then Outstanding;
(2) the principal of and premium, if any, on any Securities of
such series then Outstanding which have become due otherwise than by
such declaration of acceleration and interest thereon at the rate or
rates prescribed therefor in such Securities;
(3) to the extent that payment of such interest is lawful,
interest upon overdue interest at the rate or rates prescribed
therefor in such Securities;
(4) all amounts due to the Trustee under Section 907;
and
(b) if, after application of money paid or deposited in accordance
with clause (a) of this Section 802, Securities of such series would remain
Outstanding, any other Event or Events of Default with respect to
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Securities of such series, other than the non-payment of the principal of
Securities of such series which shall have become due solely by such
declaration of acceleration, shall have been cured or waived as provided in
Section 813.
No such rescission shall affect any subsequent Event of Default or impair any
right consequent thereon.
SECTION 803. COLLECTION OF INDEBTEDNESS AND SUITS FOR ENFORCEMENT BY TRUSTEE.
If an Event of Default described in clause (a) or (b) of Section 801
shall have occurred and be continuing, the Company shall, upon demand of the
Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the Holders of the Securities of the
series with respect to which such Event of Default shall have occurred, the
whole amount then due and payable on such Securities for principal and premium,
if any, and interest, if any, and, to the extent permitted by law, interest on
premium, if any, and on any overdue principal and interest, at the rate or rates
prescribed therefor in such Securities, and, in addition thereto, such further
amount as shall be sufficient to cover any amounts due to the Trustee under
Section 907. Unless otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301 with respect to
any series of Securities, the rate or rates at which Securities shall bear
interest on overdue principal, premium, interest and Additional Interest, if
any, shall be, to the extent permitted by law, the same rate or rates at which
such Securities shall bear interest prior to Maturity.
If the Company shall fail to pay such amounts forthwith upon such
demand, the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, may
institute a judicial proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and
unpaid, may prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree and may
enforce the same against the Company or any other obligor upon such Securities
and collect the moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable in the manner provided
by law out of the property of the Company or any other obligor upon such
Securities, wherever situated.
If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series shall
have occurred and be continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to
protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the Holders of Securities of
such series by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem
most effectual to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific
enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the
exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy.
SECTION 804. TRUSTEE MAY FILE PROOFS OF CLAIM.
In case of the pendency of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation,
bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other
judicial proceeding relative to the Company or any other obligor upon the
Securities or the property of the Company or of such other obligor or their
creditors, the Trustee (irrespective of whether the principal of the Securities
shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or
otherwise and irrespective of whether the Trustee shall have made any demand on
the Company for the payment of overdue principal or interest) shall be entitled
and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise,
(a) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of principal,
premium, if any, and interest, if any, owing and unpaid in respect of the
Securities and to file such other papers or documents as may be necessary
or advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee (including any
claim for amounts due to the Trustee under Section 907) and of the Holders
allowed in such judicial proceeding, and
(b) to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or
deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same;
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and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or
other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by
each Holder to make such payments to the Trustee and, in the event that the
Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to
pay to the Trustee any amounts due it under Section 907.
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to
authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Securities
or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the Trustee to vote in
respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding.
SECTION 805. TRUSTEE MAY ENFORCE CLAIMS WITHOUT POSSESSION OF SECURITIES.
All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the Securities
may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of
the Securities or the production thereof in any proceeding relating thereto, and
any such proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name
as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall, after
provision for the payment of the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, be for the
ratable benefit of the Holders in respect of which such judgment has been
recovered.
SECTION 806. APPLICATION OF MONEY COLLECTED.
Any money collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article shall be
applied in the following order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee and,
in case of the distribution of such money on account of principal or premium, if
any, or interest, if any, upon presentation of the Securities in respect of
which or for the benefit of which such money shall have been collected and the
notation thereon of the payment if only partially paid and upon surrender
thereof if fully paid:
FIRST: To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee under Section
907;
SECOND: Subject to the provisions of Articles Fourteen, the payment of
the amounts then due and unpaid upon the Securities for principal of and
premium, if any, and interest (including Additional Interest), if any, in
respect of which or for the benefit of which such money has been collected,
ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to the
amounts due and payable on such Securities for principal, premium, if any,
and interest, if any, respectively; and
THIRD: To the Company.
SECTION 807. LIMITATION ON SUITS.
No Holder shall have any right to institute any proceeding, judicial
or otherwise, with respect to this Indenture, or for the appointment of a
receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy hereunder, unless:
(a) such Holder shall have previously given written notice to the
Trustee of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities of
such series;
(b) the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of all series in respect of which an Event of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing, considered as one class,
shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in
respect of such Event of Default in its own name as Trustee hereunder;
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(c) such Holder or Holders shall have offered to the Trustee
reasonable indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be
incurred in compliance with such request;
(d) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request
and offer of indemnity shall have failed to institute any such proceeding;
and
(e) no direction inconsistent with such written request shall have
been given to the Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders of a
majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of all
series in respect of which an Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing, considered as one class;
it being understood and intended that no one or more of such Holders shall have
any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision
of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other of
such Holders or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any
other of such Holders or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in
the manner herein provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all of such
Holders.
SECTION 808. UNCONDITIONAL RIGHT OF HOLDERS TO RECEIVE PRINCIPAL, PREMIUM
AND INTEREST.
Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the Holder of
any Security shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to
receive payment of the principal of and premium, if any, and (subject to Section
307 and 312) interest (including Additional Interest), if any, on such Security
on the Stated Maturity or Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in the case
of redemption, on the Redemption Date) and to institute suit for the enforcement
of any such payment, and such rights shall not be impaired without the consent
of such Holder.
SECTION 809. RESTORATION OF RIGHTS AND REMEDIES.
If the Trustee or any Holder has instituted any proceeding to enforce
any right or remedy under this Indenture and such proceeding shall have been
discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or shall have been determined
adversely to the Trustee or to such Holder, then and in every such case, subject
to any determination in such proceeding, the Company and Trustee and such Holder
shall be restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder
and thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee and such Holder shall
continue as though no such proceeding had been instituted.
SECTION 810. RIGHTS AND REMEDIES CUMULATIVE.
Except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or
payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities in the last paragraph
of Section 306, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the
Trustee or to the Holders is intended to be exclusive of any other right or
remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be
cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or
now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or
employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the
concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.
SECTION 811. DELAY OR OMISSION NOT WAIVER.
No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder to exercise any
right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default shall impair any such right
or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default or an acquiescence
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therein. Every right and remedy given by this Article or by law to the Trustee
or to the Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be
deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders, as the case may be.
SECTION 812. CONTROL BY HOLDERS OF SECURITIES.
If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing in
respect of a series of Securities, the Holders of a majority in principal amount
of the Outstanding Securities of such series shall have the right to direct the
time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to
the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee, with
respect to the Securities of such series; provided, however, that if an Event of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing with respect to more than one
series of Securities, the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of
the Outstanding Securities of all such series, considered as one class, shall
have the right to make such direction, and not the Holders of the Securities of
any one of such series; and provided, further, that
(a) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or
with this Indenture, and could not involve the Trustee in personal
liability in circumstances where indemnity would not, in the Trustee's sole
discretion, be adequate, and
(b) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee
which is not inconsistent with such direction.
SECTION 813. WAIVER OF PAST DEFAULTS.
The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of any series may on behalf of the Holders of all the
Securities of such series waive any past default hereunder with respect to such
series and its consequences, except a default
(a) in the payment of the principal of or premium, if any, or interest
(including Additional Interest), if any, on any Security of such series, or
(b) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under Section
1202 cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of
each Outstanding Security of such series affected;
provided, however, that so long as a Trust holds the Securities of any series,
such Trust may not waive any past default without the consent of a majority (or
such greater percentage as shall be required by the Trust Agreement pertaining
to such Trust) in aggregate liquidation preference of the outstanding Preferred
Securities issued by such Trust affected, obtained as provided in the Trust
Agreement pertaining to such Trust. Any such waiver by holders of a majority in
aggregate liquidation preference of outstanding Preferred Securities issued by
any such Trust shall be deemed to be on behalf of all holders of Preferred
Securities issued by any such Trust.
Upon any such waiver, such default shall cease to exist, and any and
all Events of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for
every purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any
subsequent or other default or impair any right consequent thereon.
SECTION 814. UNDERTAKING FOR COSTS.
The Company and the Trustee agree, and each Holder by his acceptance
thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in its discretion
require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this
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Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken, suffered or
omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit of an
undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that such court may in its
discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys' fees,
against any party litigant in such suit, having due regard to the merits and
good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; but the
provisions of this Section shall not apply to any suit instituted by the
Company, to any suit instituted by the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any
Holder, or group of Holders, holding in the aggregate more than 10% in aggregate
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of all series in respect of which
such suit may be brought, considered as one class, or to any suit instituted by
any Holder for the enforcement of the payment of the principal of or premium, if
any, or interest, if any, on any Security on or after the Stated Maturity or
Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption, on or
after the Redemption Date).
SECTION 815. WAIVER OF USURY, STAY OR EXTENSION LAWS.
The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that
it will not at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim
or take the benefit or advantage of, any usury, stay or extension law wherever
enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the covenants
or the performance of this Indenture; and the Company (to the extent that it may
lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law
and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or impede the execution of any
power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of
every such power as though no such law had been enacted.
ARTICLE NINE
THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 901. CERTAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.
(a) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default with respect
to Securities of any series,
(i) the Trustee undertakes to perform, with respect to Securities
of such series, such duties and only such duties as are specifically
set forth in this Indenture, and no implied covenants or obligations
shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee; and
(ii) in the absence of bad faith on its part, the Trustee may,
with respect to Securities of such series, conclusively rely, as to
the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions
expressed therein, upon certificates or opinions furnished to the
Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture; but in
the case of any such certificates or opinions which by any provisions
hereof are specifically required to be furnished to the Trustee, the
Trustee shall be under a duty to examine the same to determine whether
or not they conform to the requirements of this Indenture.
(b) In case an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any
series shall have occurred and be continuing, the Trustee shall exercise,
with respect to the Securities of such series, such of the rights and
powers vested in it by this Indenture, and use the same degree of care and
skill in their exercise, as a prudent person would exercise or use under
the circumstances in the conduct of his or her own affairs.
(c) No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to relieve the
Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent
failure to act, or its own willful misconduct, except that:
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(i) this subsection shall not be construed to limit the effect of
subsection (a) of this Section;
(ii) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment
made in good faith by a Responsible Officer, unless it shall be proved
that the Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts;
(iii) the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action
taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with
the direction of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of any one or more series, as provided herein,
relating to the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding
for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or
power conferred upon the Trustee, under this Indenture with respect to
the Securities of such series; and
(iv) no provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to
expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial
liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the
exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable
grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate
indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to
it.
(d) Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of
this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or
affording protection to the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of
this Section.
SECTION 902. NOTICE OF DEFAULTS.
The Trustee shall give notice of any default hereunder with respect to
the Securities of any series to the Holders of Securities of such series in the
manner and to the extent required to do so by the Trust Indenture Act, unless
such default shall have been cured or waived; provided, however, that in the
case of any default of the character specified in Section 801(c), no such notice
to Holders shall be given until at least 45 days after the occurrence thereof.
For the purpose of this Section, the term "default" means any event which is, or
after notice or lapse of time, or both, would become, an Event of Default with
respect to the Securities of such series.
SECTION 903. CERTAIN RIGHTS OF TRUSTEE.
Subject to the provisions of Section 901 and to the applicable
provisions of the Trust Indenture Act:
(a) the Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or
refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement,
instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order,
bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or
document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented
by the proper party or parties;
(b) any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein shall be
sufficiently evidenced by a Company Request or Company Order, or as
otherwise expressly provided herein, and any resolution of the Board of
Directors may be sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution thereof;
(c) whenever in the administration of this Indenture the Trustee shall
deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking,
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suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Trustee (unless other
evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad
faith on its part, conclusively rely upon an Officer's Certificate;
(d) the Trustee may consult with counsel of its selection and the
written advice of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and
complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken,
suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon;
(e) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the
rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or direction
of any Holder pursuant to this Indenture, unless such Holder shall have
offered to the Trustee reasonable security or indemnity against the costs,
expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance with
such request or direction;
(f) the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the
facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement,
instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order,
bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or
document, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further inquiry
or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the
Trustee shall determine to make such further inquiry or investigation, it
shall (subject to applicable legal requirements) with prior notice to the
Company be entitled to examine, during normal business hours, the books,
records and premises of the Company, personally or by agent or attorney;
(g) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or
perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents or
attorneys and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or
negligence on the part of any agent or attorney appointed with due care by
it hereunder;
(h) except as otherwise provided in Section 801, the Trustee shall not
be charged with knowledge of any Event of Default with respect to the
Securities of any series for which it is acting as Trustee unless either
(1) a Responsible Officer of the Trustee shall have actual knowledge of the
Event of Default or (2) written notice of such Event of Default shall have
been given to the Trustee by the Company or any other obligor on such
Securities or by any Holder of such Securities;
(i) the Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken, suffered, or
omitted to be taken by it in good faith and reasonably believed by it to be
authorized or within the discretion or rights or powers conferred upon it
by this Indenture; and
(j) the rights, privileges, protections, immunities and benefits given
to the Trustee, including, without limitation, its right to be indemnified,
are extended to, and shall be enforceable by, the Trustee in each of its
capacities hereunder.
SECTION 904. NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR RECITALS OR ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES.
The recitals contained herein and in the Securities (except the
Trustee's certificates of authentication) shall be taken as the statements of
the Company and neither the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent assumes
responsibility for their correctness. The Trustee makes no representations as to
the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Securities. Neither the
Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent shall be accountable for the use or
application by the Company of Securities or the proceeds thereof.
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SECTION 905. MAY HOLD SECURITIES.
Each of the Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, any Paying Agent, any
Security Registrar or any other agent of the Company or the Trustee, in its
individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities
and/or Preferred Securities and, subject to Sections 908 and 913, may otherwise
deal with the Company with the same rights it would have if it were not the
Trustee, Authenticating Agent, Paying Agent, Security Registrar or such other
agent.
SECTION 906. MONEY HELD IN TRUST.
Money held by the Trustee in trust hereunder need not be
segregated from other funds, except to the extent required by law. The Trustee
shall be under no liability for interest on or investment of any money received
by it hereunder except as expressly provided herein or otherwise agreed with,
and for the sole benefit of, the Company.
SECTION 907. COMPENSATION AND REIMBURSEMENT.
The Company agrees
(a) to pay to the Trustee from time to time such compensation for all
services rendered by it hereunder as the Company and the Trustee shall from
time to time agree in writing (which compensation shall not be limited by
any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an
express trust);
(b) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse the
Trustee upon its request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and
advances reasonably incurred or made by the Trustee in accordance with any
provision of this Indenture (including the reasonable compensation and the
expenses and disbursements of its agents and counsel), except to the extent
that any such expense, disbursement or advance may be attributable to the
Trustee's negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith; and
(c) to indemnify the Trustee and hold it harmless from and against,
any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on
its part, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or
administration of the trust or trusts hereunder or the performance of its
duties hereunder, including the costs and expenses of defending itself
against any claim or liability in connection with the exercise or
performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder, except to the extent
any such loss, liability or expense may be attributable to its negligence,
willful misconduct or bad faith.
As security for the performance of the obligations of the Company
under this Section, the Trustee shall have a lien prior to the Securities upon
all property and funds held or collected by the Trustee as such other than
property and funds held in trust under Section 703 (except as otherwise provided
in Section 703). "Trustee" for purposes of this Section shall include any
predecessor Trustee; provided, however, that the negligence, willful misconduct
or bad faith of any Trustee hereunder shall not affect the rights of any other
Trustee hereunder.
When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services in
connection with an Event of Default specified in Section 801(d) or Section
801(e), the expenses (including the reasonable charges and expenses of its
counsel) and the compensation for the services are intended to constitute
expenses of administration under any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy,
insolvency or other similar law.
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The provisions of this Section 907 shall survive the termination of
this Indenture.
SECTION 908. DISQUALIFICATION; CONFLICTING INTERESTS.
If the Trustee shall have or acquire any conflicting interest within
the meaning of the Trust Indenture Act, it shall either eliminate such
conflicting interest or resign to the extent, in the manner and with the effect,
and subject to the conditions, provided in the Trust Indenture Act and this
Indenture. To the extent permitted by the Trust Indenture Act, the Trustee shall
not be deemed to have a conflicting interest by virtue of being a trustee under
Indenture, dated as of June 1, 1999, between FPL Group Capital Inc and The Bank
of New York, as trustee, the Guarantee Agreement, dated as of June 1, 1999,
between the Company, as guarantor and The Bank of New York, as guarantee
trustee, the Purchase Contract Agreement, dated as of February 1, 2002, between
the Company and The Bank of New York, as purchase contract agent,
attorney-in-fact and trustee, the Purchase Contract Agreement, dated as of June
1, 2002, between the Company and The Bank of New York, as purchase contract
agent, attorney-in-fact and trustee, the Indenture (For Unsecured Subordinated
Debt Securities relating to Trust Securities), dated as of March 1, 2004, among
FPL Group Capital Inc, the Company, as guarantor and The Bank of New York, as
indenture trustee, the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, dated as of March
15, 2004, among the Company, as depositor, The Bank of New York, as property
trustee, The Bank of New York (Delaware), as Delaware trustee, the
administrative trustees named therein and several holders of trust securities,
the Preferred Trust Securities Guarantee Agreement, dated as of March 15, 2004,
between the Company, as guarantor and The Bank of New York, as guarantee
trustee, the Trust Agreement and the Preferred Trust Securities Guarantee
Agreement and such agreements, guarantees and the Securities of any other series
shall be deemed to be specifically described in this Indenture for the purposes
of clause (i) of the first proviso contained in Section 310(b) of the Trust
Indenture Act.
SECTION 909. CORPORATE TRUSTEE REQUIRED; ELIGIBILITY.
There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder which shall be
(a) a Corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the
United States, any State or Territory thereof or the District of Columbia,
authorized under such laws to exercise corporate trust powers, having a
combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 and subject to
supervision or examination by Federal or State authority, or
(b) if and to the extent permitted by the Commission by rule,
regulation or order upon application, a Corporation or other Person
organized and doing business under the laws of a foreign government,
authorized under such laws to exercise corporate trust powers, having a
combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 or the Dollar
equivalent of the applicable foreign currency and subject to supervision or
examination by authority of such foreign government or a political
subdivision thereof substantially equivalent to supervision or examination
applicable to United States institutional trustees,
and, in either case, qualified and eligible under this Article and the Trust
Indenture Act. If such Corporation publishes reports of condition at least
annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of such supervising or
examining authority, then for the purposes 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. If at
any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the
provisions of this Section and the Trust Indenture Act, it shall resign
immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this
Article.
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SECTION 910. RESIGNATION AND REMOVAL; APPOINTMENT OF SUCCESSOR.
(a) No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a
successor Trustee pursuant to this Article shall become effective until the
acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee in accordance with the
applicable requirements of Section 911.
(b) The Trustee may resign at any time with respect to the Securities
of one or more series by giving written notice thereof to the Company. If
the instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee required by Section 911
shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the
giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee may petition
any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor
Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series.
(c) The Trustee may be removed at any time with respect to the
Securities of any series by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal
amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series delivered to the
Trustee and to the Company; provided that so long as any Preferred
Securities remain outstanding, the Trust which issued such Preferred
Securities shall not execute any Act to remove the Trustee without the
consent of the holders of a majority in aggregate liquidation preference of
Preferred Securities issued by such Trust outstanding, obtained as provided
in the Trust Agreement pertaining to such Trust.
(d) If at any time:
(1) the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section 908 after
written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder who has been
a bona fide Holder for at least six months, or
(2) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 909 or
Section 310(a) of the Trust Indenture Act and shall fail to resign
after written request therefor by the Company or by any such Holder,
or
(3) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be
adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the Trustee or of
its property shall be appointed or any public officer shall take
charge or control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the
purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation,
then, in any such case, (x) the Company by Board Resolutions may remove the
Trustee with respect to all Securities or (y) subject to Section 814, any Holder
who has been a bona fide Holder for at least six months may, on behalf of
himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee with respect to all Securities and
the appointment of a successor Trustee or Trustees.
(e) If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of
acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee for any cause
(other than as contemplated in clause (y) in subsection (d) of this
Section), with respect to the Securities of one or more series, the
Company, by Board Resolutions, shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee
or Trustees with respect to the Securities of that or those series (it
being understood that any such successor Trustee may be appointed with
respect to the Securities of one or more or all of such series and that at
any time (subject to Section 914) there shall be only one Trustee with
respect to the Securities of any particular series) and shall comply with
the applicable requirements of Section 911. If, within one year after such
resignation, removal or incapability, or the occurrence of such vacancy, a
successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall be
appointed by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of such series delivered to the Company and the
retiring Trustee, the successor Trustee so appointed shall, forthwith upon
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its acceptance of such appointment in accordance with the applicable
requirements of Section 911, become the successor Trustee with respect to
the Securities of such series and to that extent supersede the successor
Trustee appointed by the Company. If no successor Trustee with respect to
the Securities of any series shall have been so appointed by the Company or
the Holders and accepted appointment in the manner required by Section 911,
any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security of such series for
at least six months may, on behalf of itself and all others similarly
situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment
of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series.
(f) So long as no event which is, or after notice or lapse of time, or
both, would become, an Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing, and except with respect to a Trustee appointed by Act of the
Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities
pursuant to subsection (e) of this Section, if the Company shall have
delivered to the Trustee (i) Board Resolutions appointing a successor
Trustee, effective as of a date specified therein, and (ii) an instrument
of acceptance of such appointment, effective as of such date, by such
successor Trustee in accordance with Section 911, the Trustee shall be
deemed to have resigned as contemplated in subsection (b) of this Section,
the successor Trustee shall be deemed to have been appointed by the Company
pursuant to subsection (e) of this Section and such appointment shall be
deemed to have been accepted as contemplated in Section 911, all as of such
date, and all other provisions of this Section and Section 911 shall be
applicable to such resignation, appointment and acceptance except to the
extent inconsistent with this subsection (f).
(g) The Company shall give notice of each resignation and each removal
of the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series and each
appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any
series by mailing written notice of such event by first-class mail, postage
prepaid, to all Holders of Securities of such series as their names and
addresses appear in the Security Register. Each notice shall include the
name of the successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series
and the address of its Corporate Trust Office.
SECTION 911. ACCEPTANCE OF APPOINTMENT BY SUCCESSOR.
(a) In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with
respect to the Securities of all series, every such successor Trustee so
appointed shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Company and to the
retiring Trustee an instrument accepting such appointment, and thereupon
the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective
and such successor Trustee, without any further act, shall become vested
with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee;
but, on the request of the Company or the successor Trustee, such retiring
Trustee shall, upon payment of all sums owed to it, execute and deliver an
instrument transferring to such successor Trustee all the rights, powers
and trusts of the retiring Trustee and shall duly assign, transfer and
deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money held by such
retiring Trustee hereunder.
(b) In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with
respect to the Securities of one or more (but not all) series, the Company,
the retiring Trustee and each successor Trustee with respect to the
Securities of such series shall execute and deliver an indenture
supplemental hereto wherein each successor Trustee shall accept such
appointment and which (1) shall contain such provisions as shall be
necessary or desirable to transfer and confirm to, and to vest in, each
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successor Trustee all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring
Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the
appointment of such successor Trustee relates, (2) if the retiring Trustee
is not retiring with respect to all Securities, shall contain such
provisions as shall be deemed necessary or desirable to confirm that all
the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect
to the Securities of that or those series as to which the retiring Trustee
is not retiring shall continue to be vested in the retiring Trustee and (3)
shall add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be
necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts
hereunder by more than one Trustee, it being understood that nothing herein
or in such supplemental indenture shall constitute such Trustees
co-trustees of the same trust and that each such Trustee shall be trustee
of a trust or trusts hereunder separate and apart from any trust or trusts
hereunder administered by any other such Trustee; and upon the execution
and delivery of such supplemental indenture the resignation or removal of
the retiring Trustee shall become effective to the extent provided therein
and each such successor Trustee, without any further act, shall become
vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring
Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the
appointment of such successor Trustee relates; but, on request of the
Company or any successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee, upon payment of
all sums owed to it, shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such
successor Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee
hereunder with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which
the appointment of such successor Trustee relates.
(c) Upon request of any such successor Trustee, the Company shall
execute any instruments which fully vest in and confirm to such successor
Trustee all such rights, powers and trusts referred to in subsection (a) or
(b) of this Section, as the case may be.
(d) No successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at the
time of such acceptance such successor Trustee shall be qualified and
eligible under this Article.
SECTION 912. MERGER, CONVERSION, CONSOLIDATION OR SUCCESSION TO BUSINESS.
Any Corporation or other Person into which the Trustee may be merged
or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any Corporation resulting
from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a
party, or any Corporation succeeding to all or substantially all the corporate
trust business of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder,
provided such Corporation shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this
Article, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the
part of any of the parties hereto. In case any Securities shall have been
authenticated, but not delivered, by the Trustee then in office, any successor
by merger, conversion or consolidation to such authenticating Trustee may adopt
such authentication and deliver the Securities so authenticated with the same
effect as if such successor Trustee had itself authenticated such Securities.
SECTION 913. PREFERENTIAL COLLECTION OF CLAIMS AGAINST COMPANY.
If the Trustee shall be or become a creditor of the Company or any
other obligor upon the Securities (other than by reason of a relationship
described in Section 311(b) of the Trust Indenture Act), the Trustee shall be
subject to any and all applicable provisions of the Trust Indenture Act
regarding the collection of claims against the Company, or such other obligor.
For purposes of Section 311(b) of the Trust Indenture Act:
(a) the term "cash transaction" means any transaction in which full
payment for goods or securities sold is made within seven days after
delivery of the goods or securities in currency or in checks or other
orders drawn upon banks or bankers and payable upon demand;
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(b) the term "self-liquidating paper" means any draft, ▇▇▇▇ of
exchange, acceptance or obligation which is made, drawn, negotiated or
incurred by the Company or such obligor for the purpose of financing the
purchase, processing, manufacturing, shipment, storage or sale of goods,
wares or merchandise and which is secured by documents evidencing title to,
possession of, or a lien upon, the goods, wares or merchandise or the
receivables or proceeds arising from the sale of the goods, wares or
merchandise previously constituting the security, provided the security is
received by the Trustee simultaneously with the creation of the creditor
relationship with the Company, or such obligor arising from the making,
drawing, negotiating or incurring of the draft, ▇▇▇▇ of exchange,
acceptance or obligation.
SECTION 914. CO-TRUSTEES AND SEPARATE TRUSTEES.
At any time or times, for the purpose of meeting the legal
requirements of any applicable jurisdiction, the Company and the Trustee shall
have power to appoint, and, upon the written request of the Trustee or of the
Holders of at least 33% in principal amount of the Securities then Outstanding,
the Company shall for such purpose join with the Trustee in the execution and
delivery of all instruments and agreements necessary or proper to appoint, one
or more Persons approved by the Trustee either to act as co-trustee, jointly
with the Trustee, or to act as separate trustee, in either case with such powers
as may be provided in the instrument of appointment, and to vest in such Person
or Persons, in the capacity aforesaid, any property, title, right or power
deemed necessary or desirable, subject to the other provisions of this Section.
If the Company does not join in such appointment within 15 days after the
receipt by it of a request so to do, or if an Event of Default shall have
occurred and be continuing, the Trustee alone shall have power to make such
appointment.
Should any written instrument or instruments from the Company be
required by any co-trustee or separate trustee to more fully confirm to such
co-trustee or separate trustee such property, title, right or power, any and all
such instruments shall, on request, be executed, acknowledged and delivered by
the Company.
Every co-trustee or separate trustee shall, to the extent permitted by
law, but to such extent only, be appointed subject to the following conditions:
(a) the Securities shall be authenticated and delivered, and all
rights, powers, duties and obligations hereunder in respect of the custody
of securities, cash and other personal property held by, or required to be
deposited or pledged with, the Trustee hereunder, shall be exercised
solely, by the Trustee;
(b) the rights, powers, duties and obligations hereby conferred or
imposed upon the Trustee in respect of any property covered by such
appointment shall be conferred or imposed upon and exercised or performed
either by the Trustee or by the Trustee and such co-trustee or separate
trustee jointly, as shall be provided in the instrument appointing such
co-trustee or separate trustee, except to the extent that under any law of
any jurisdiction in which any particular act is to be performed, the
Trustee shall be incompetent or unqualified to perform such act, in which
event such rights, powers, duties and obligations shall be exercised and
performed by such co-trustee or separate trustee.
(c) the Trustee at any time, by an instrument in writing executed by
it, with the concurrence of the Company, may accept the resignation of or
remove any co-trustee or separate trustee appointed under this Section,
and, if an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the
Trustee shall have power to accept the resignation of, or remove, any such
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co-trustee or separate trustee without the concurrence of the Company. Upon
the written request of the Trustee, the Company shall join with the Trustee
in the execution and delivery of all instruments and agreements necessary
or proper to effectuate such resignation or removal. A successor to any
co-trustee or separate trustee so resigned or removed may be appointed in
the manner provided in this Section;
(d) no co-trustee or separate trustee hereunder shall be personally
liable by reason of any act or omission of the Trustee, or any other such
trustee hereunder, and the Trustee shall not be personally liable by reason
of any act or omission of any such co-trustee or separate trustee; and
(e) any Act of Holders delivered to the Trustee shall be deemed to
have been delivered to each such co-trustee and separate trustee.
SECTION 915. APPOINTMENT OF AUTHENTICATING AGENT.
The Trustee may appoint an Authenticating Agent or Agents acceptable
to the Company with respect to the Securities of one or more series, or any
Tranche thereof, which shall be authorized to act on behalf of the Trustee to
authenticate Securities of such series or Tranche, issued upon original
issuance, exchange, registration of transfer or partial redemption thereof or
pursuant to Section 306, and Securities so authenticated shall be entitled to
the benefits of this Indenture and shall be valid and obligatory for all
purposes as if authenticated by the Trustee hereunder. Wherever reference is
made in this Indenture to the authentication and delivery of Securities by the
Trustee or the Trustee's certificate of authentication, such reference shall be
deemed to include authentication and delivery on behalf of the Trustee by an
Authenticating Agent and a certificate of authentication executed on behalf of
the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent. Each Authenticating Agent shall be
acceptable to the Company and shall at all times be a Corporation organized and
doing business under the laws of the United States, any State or Territory
thereof or the District of Columbia or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico,
authorized under such laws to act as Authenticating Agent, having a combined
capital and surplus of not less than $50,000,000 and subject to supervision or
examination by Federal or State authority. If such Authenticating Agent
publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the
requirements of said supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes
of this Section, the combined capital and surplus of such Authenticating Agent
shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most
recent report of condition so published. If at any time an Authenticating Agent
shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section,
such Authenticating Agent shall resign immediately in the manner and with the
effect specified in this Section.
Any Corporation into which an Authenticating Agent may be merged or
converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any Corporation resulting
from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which such Authenticating Agent
shall be a party, or any Corporation succeeding to the corporate agency or
corporate trust business of an Authenticating Agent, shall continue to be an
Authenticating Agent, provided such Corporation shall be otherwise eligible
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under this Section, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further
act on the part of the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent.
An Authenticating Agent may resign at any time by giving written
notice thereof to the Trustee and the Company. The Trustee may at any time
terminate the agency of an Authenticating Agent by giving written notice thereof
to such Authenticating Agent and the Company. Upon receiving such a notice of
resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at any time such
Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the
provisions of this Section, the Trustee may appoint a successor Authenticating
Agent which shall be acceptable to the Company. Any successor Authenticating
Agent upon acceptance of its appointment hereunder shall become vested with all
the rights, powers and duties of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as
if originally named as an Authenticating Agent. No successor Authenticating
Agent shall be appointed unless eligible under the provisions of this Section.
The Company agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from time to
time reasonable compensation for its services under this Section.
The provisions of Sections 308, 904 and 905 shall be applicable to
each Authenticating Agent.
If an appointment with respect to the Securities of one or more
series, or any Tranche thereof, shall be made pursuant to this Section, the
Securities of such series or Tranche may have endorsed thereon, in addition to
the Trustee's certificate of authentication, an alternative certificate of
authentication substantially in the following form:
This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein
referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
THE BANK OF NEW YORK, as Trustee
By:____________________________________
As Authenticating Agent
By:____________________________________
Authorized Signatory
If all of the Securities of a series may not be originally issued at
one time, and if the Trustee does not have an office capable of authenticating
Securities upon original issuance located in a Place of Payment where the
Company wishes to have Securities of such series authenticated upon original
issuance, the Trustee, if so requested by the Company in writing (which writing
need not comply with Section 102 and need not be accompanied by an Opinion of
Counsel), shall appoint, in accordance with this Section and in accordance with
such procedures as shall be acceptable to the Trustee, an Authenticating Agent
having an office in a Place of Payment designated by the Company with respect to
such series of Securities.
ARTICLE TEN
HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY
SECTION 1001. LISTS OF HOLDERS.
Semiannually, not later than June 1 and December 1 in each year,
commencing ______, 20__, and at such other times as the Trustee may request in
writing, the Company shall furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee
information as to the names and addresses of the Holders, and the Trustee shall
preserve such information and similar information received by it in any other
capacity and afford to the Holders access to information so preserved by it, all
to such extent, if any, and in such manner as shall be required by the Trust
Indenture Act; provided, however, that no such list need be furnished so long as
the Trustee shall be the Security Registrar.
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SECTION 1002. REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY.
Not later than July 15 in each year, commencing July 15, 20__, the
Trustee shall transmit to the Holders, the Commission and each securities
exchange upon which any Securities are listed, a report, dated as of the next
preceding April 15, with respect to any events and other matters described in
Section 313(a) of the Trust Indenture Act, in such manner and to the extent
required by the Trust Indenture Act. The Trustee shall transmit to the Holders,
the Commission and each securities exchange upon which any Securities are
listed, and the Company shall file with the Trustee (within 30 days after filing
with the Commission in the case of reports which pursuant to the Trust Indenture
Act must be filed with the Commission and furnished to the Trustee) and transmit
to the Holders, such other information, reports and other documents, if any, at
such times and in such manner, as shall be required by the Trust Indenture Act.
The Company shall notify the Trustee of the listing of any Securities on any
securities exchange or of the delisting thereof.
ARTICLE ELEVEN
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE OR OTHER TRANSFER
SECTION 1101. COMPANY MAY CONSOLIDATE, ETC., ONLY ON CERTAIN TERMS.
The Company shall not consolidate with or merge into any other entity,
or convey or otherwise transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially
as an entirety to any Person, unless
(a) the Person formed by such consolidation or into which the Company
is merged or the Person which acquires by conveyance or transfer, or which
leases, the properties and assets of the Company substantially as an
entirety shall be a Person organized and existing under the laws of the
United States, any State thereof or the District of Columbia, and shall
expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and
delivered to the Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, the due and
punctual payment of the principal of and premium, if any, and interest, if
any, on all Outstanding Securities and the performance of every covenant of
this Indenture on the part of the Company to be performed or observed;
(b) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Event of
Default and no event which, after notice or lapse of time or both, would
become an Event of Default, shall have occurred and be continuing; and
(c) the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer's
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such
consolidation, merger, conveyance, or other transfer or lease and such
supplemental indenture comply with this Article and that all conditions
precedent herein provided for relating to such transactions have been
complied with.
SECTION 1102. SUCCESSOR ENTITY SUBSTITUTED.
Upon any consolidation by the Company with or merger by the Company
into any other Person or any conveyance, or other transfer or lease of the
properties and assets of the Company substantially as an entirety in accordance
with Section 1101, the successor Person formed by such consolidation or into
which the Company is merged or the Person to which such conveyance, transfer or
lease is made shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every
right and power of, the Company under this Indenture with the same effect as if
such successor Person had been named as the Company herein, and thereafter,
except in the case of a lease, the predecessor Person shall be relieved of all
obligations and covenants under this Indenture and the Securities Outstanding
hereunder.
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SECTION 1103. LIMITATION.
Nothing in this Indenture shall be deemed to prevent or restrict:
(a) any consolidation or merger after the consummation of which the
Company would be the surviving or resulting entity,
(b) any consolidation of the Company with any other Person all of the
outstanding voting securities of which are owned, directly or indirectly,
by the Company; or any merger of any of such Persons into any other of such
Persons; or any conveyance or other transfer, or lease, of its properties
substantially as an entirety by any thereof to any other thereof,
(c) any conveyance or other transfer, or lease, of any part of the
properties and/or assets of the Company which does not constitute the
entirety, or substantially the entirety, of its properties and assets,
(d) the approval by the Company of, or the consent by the Company to,
any consolidation or merger to which any direct or indirect subsidiary or
affiliate of the Company may be a party or any conveyance, transfer or
lease by any such subsidiary or affiliate of any of its properties or
assets, or
(e) any other transaction not contemplated by Section 1101.
ARTICLE TWELVE
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
SECTION 1201. SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES WITHOUT CONSENT OF HOLDERS.
Without the consent of any Holders, the Company and the Trustee, at
any time and from time to time, may enter into one or more indentures
supplemental hereto, in form reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, for any of
the following purposes:
(a) to evidence the succession of another Person to the Company and
the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the Company herein
and in the Securities, all as provided in Article Eleven; or
(b) to add one or more covenants of the Company or other provisions
for the benefit of all Holders or for the benefit of the Holders of, or to
remain in effect only so long as there shall be Outstanding, Securities of
one or more specified series, or one or more specified Tranches thereof, or
to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the Company; or
(c) to add any additional Events of Default with respect to all or any
series of Securities Outstanding hereunder; or
(d) to change or eliminate any provision of this Indenture or to add
any new provision to this Indenture; provided, however, that if such
change, elimination or addition shall adversely affect the interests of the
Holders of Securities of any series or Tranche Outstanding on the date of
such indenture supplemental hereto in any material respect, such change,
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elimination or addition shall become effective (i) with respect to such
series or Tranche only pursuant to the provisions of Section 1202 hereof or
(ii) when no Security of such series or Tranche remains Outstanding; or
(e) to provide collateral security for all but not part of the
Securities; or
(f) to establish the form or terms of Securities of any series or
Tranche as contemplated by Sections 201 and 301; or
(g) to provide for the authentication and delivery of bearer
securities and coupons appertaining thereto representing interest, if any,
thereon and for the procedures for the registration, exchange and
replacement thereof and for the giving of notice to, and the solicitation
of the vote or consent of, the holders thereof, and for any and all other
matters incidental thereto; or
(h) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment
hereunder by a separate or successor Trustee or co-trustee with respect to
the Securities of one or more series and to add to or change any of the
provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or
facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one
Trustee, pursuant to the requirements of Section 911(b); or
(i) to provide for the procedures required to permit the Company to
utilize, at its option, a non-certificated system of registration for all,
or any series or Tranche of, the Securities; or
(j) to change any place or places where (1) the principal of and
premium, if any, and interest, if any, on all or any series of Securities,
or any Tranche thereof, shall be payable, (2) all or any series of
Securities, or any Tranche thereof, may be surrendered for registration of
transfer, (3) all or any series of Securities, or any Tranche thereof, may
be surrendered for exchange and (4) notices and demands to or upon the
Company in respect of all or any series of Securities, or any Tranche
thereof, and this Indenture may be served; or
(k) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision
herein which may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision
herein, or to make any other changes to the provisions hereof or to add
other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this
Indenture, provided that such other changes or additions shall not
adversely affect the interests of the Holders of Securities of any series
or Tranche in any material respect.
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, if the Trust
Indenture Act as in effect at the date of the execution and delivery of this
Indenture or at any time thereafter shall be amended and
(x) if any such amendment shall require one or more changes to
any provisions hereof or the inclusion herein of any additional
provisions, or shall by operation of law be deemed to effect such
changes or incorporate such provisions by reference or otherwise, this
Indenture shall be deemed to have been amended so as to conform to
such amendment to the Trust Indenture Act, and the Company and the
Trustee may, without the consent of any Holders, enter into an
indenture supplemental hereto to effect or evidence such changes or
additional provisions; or
(y) if any such amendment shall permit one or more changes to, or
the elimination of, any provisions hereof which, at the date of the
execution and delivery hereof or at any time thereafter, are required
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by the Trust Indenture Act to be contained herein, this Indenture
shall be deemed to have been amended to effect such changes or
elimination, and the Company and the Trustee may, without the consent
of any Holders, enter into an indenture supplemental hereto to
evidence such amendment hereof.
SECTION 1202. SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES WITH CONSENT OF HOLDERS.
With the consent of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal
amount of the Securities of all series then Outstanding under this Indenture,
considered as one class, by Act of said Holders delivered to the Company and the
Trustee, the Company, when authorized by Board Resolutions, and the Trustee may
enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of
adding any provisions to, or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the
provisions of, this Indenture or modifying in any manner the rights of the
Holders of Securities of such series under the Indenture; provided, however,
that if there shall be Securities of more than one series Outstanding hereunder
and if a proposed supplemental indenture shall directly affect the rights of the
Holders of Securities of one or more, but less than all, of such series, then
the consent only of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of
the Outstanding Securities of all series so directly affected, considered as one
class, shall be required; and provided, further, that if the Securities of any
series shall have been issued in more than one Tranche and if the proposed
supplemental indenture shall directly affect the rights of the Holders of
Securities of one or more, but less than all, of such Tranches, then the consent
only of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of all Tranches so directly affected, considered as one
class, shall be required; and provided, further, that no such supplemental
indenture shall:
(a) change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or any installment
of principal of or interest on (except as provided in Section 312 hereof),
any Security, or reduce the principal amount thereof or the rate of
interest thereon (or the amount of any installment of interest thereon) or
change the method of calculating such rate or reduce any premium payable
upon the redemption thereof, or reduce the amount of the principal of a
Discount Security that would be due and payable upon a declaration of
acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 802, or change the
coin or currency (or other property), in which any Security or any premium
or the interest thereon is payable, or impair the right to institute suit
for the enforcement of any such payment on or after the Stated Maturity of
any Security (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption
Date), without, in any such case, the consent of the Holder of such
Security, or
(b) reduce the percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of any series or any Tranche thereof, the consent of the Holders
of which is required for any such supplemental indenture, or the consent of
the Holders of which is required for any waiver of compliance with any
provision of this Indenture or of any default hereunder and its
consequences, or reduce the requirements of Section 1304 for quorum or
voting, without, in any such case, the consent of the Holders of each
Outstanding Security of such series or Tranche, or
(c) modify any of the provisions of this Section, Section 607 or
Section 813 with respect to the Securities of any series, or any Tranche
thereof, or except to increase the percentages in principal amount referred
to in this Section or such other Sections or to provide that other
provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified or waived without the
consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby;
provided, however, that this clause shall not be deemed to require the
consent of any Holder with respect to changes in the references to "the
Trustee" and concomitant changes in this Section, or the deletion of this
proviso, in accordance with the requirements of Sections 911(b), 914 and
1201(h).
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Notwithstanding the foregoing, so long as any of the Preferred
Securities remain outstanding, the Trustee may not consent to a supplemental
indenture under this Section 1202 without the prior consent, obtained as
provided in a Trust Agreement pertaining to a Trust which issued such Preferred
Securities, of the holders of a majority in aggregate liquidation preference of
all Preferred Securities issued by such Trust affected, considered as one class,
or, in the case of changes described in clauses (a), (b) and (c) above, 100% in
aggregate liquidation preference of all such Preferred Securities then
outstanding which would be affected thereby, considered as one class.
A supplemental indenture which changes or eliminates any covenant or
other provision of this Indenture which has expressly been included solely for
the benefit of one or more particular series of Securities, or of one or more
Tranches thereof, or which modifies the rights of the Holders of Securities of
such series or Tranches with respect to such covenant or other provision, shall
be deemed not to affect the rights under this Indenture of the Holders of
Securities of any other series or Tranche. It shall not be necessary for any Act
of Holders under this Section to approve the particular form of any proposed
supplemental indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve the
substance thereof. A waiver by a Holder of such Holder's right to consent under
this Section shall be deemed to be a consent of such Holder.
SECTION 1203. EXECUTION OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES.
In executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by, any
supplemental indenture permitted by this Article or the modifications thereby of
the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive,
and (subject to Section 901) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an
Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture is
authorized or permitted by this Indenture. The Trustee may, but shall not be
obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture which affects the
Trustee's own rights, duties, immunities or liabilities under this Indenture or
otherwise.
SECTION 1204. EFFECT OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES.
Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture under this Article
this Indenture shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such supplemental
indenture shall form a part of this Indenture for all purposes; and every Holder
of Securities theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder
shall be bound thereby. Any supplemental indenture permitted by this Article may
restate this Indenture in its entirety, and, upon the execution and delivery
thereof, any such restatement shall supersede this Indenture as theretofore in
effect for all purposes.
SECTION 1205. CONFORMITY WITH TRUST INDENTURE ACT.
Every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article shall
conform to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect.
SECTION 1206. REFERENCE IN SECURITIES TO SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES.
Securities of any series, or any Tranche thereof, authenticated and
delivered after the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this
Article may, and shall if required by the Trustee, bear a notation in form
approved by the Trustee as to any matter provided for in such supplemental
indenture. If the Company shall so determine, new Securities of any series, or
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any Tranche thereof, so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Trustee
and the Company, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed
by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in exchange for
Outstanding Securities of such series or Tranche.
SECTION 1207. MODIFICATION WITHOUT SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE.
If the terms of any particular series of Securities shall have been
established in a Board Resolution or an Officer's Certificate pursuant to a
Board Resolution as contemplated by Section 301, and not in an indenture
supplemental hereto, additions to, changes in or the elimination of any of such
terms may be effected by means of a supplemental Board Resolution or Officer's
Certificate, as the case may be, delivered to, and accepted in writing by, the
Trustee; provided, however, that such supplemental Board Resolution or Officer's
Certificate shall not be accepted by the Trustee or otherwise be effective
unless all conditions set forth in this Indenture which would be required to be
satisfied if such additions, changes or elimination were contained in a
supplemental indenture shall have been appropriately satisfied. Upon the
acceptance thereof by the Trustee, any such supplemental Board Resolution or
Officer's Certificate shall be deemed to be a "supplemental indenture" for
purposes of Sections 1204 and 1206.
ARTICLE THIRTEEN
MEETINGS OF HOLDERS; ACTION WITHOUT MEETING
SECTION 1301. PURPOSES FOR WHICH MEETINGS MAY BE CALLED.
A meeting of Holders of Securities of one or more, or all, series, or
any Tranche or Tranches thereof, may be called at any time and from time to time
pursuant to this Article to make, give or take any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided by
this Indenture to be made, given or taken by Holders of Securities of such
series or Tranches.
SECTION 1302. CALL, NOTICE AND PLACE OF MEETINGS.
(a) The Trustee may at any time call a meeting of Holders of
Securities of one or more, or all, series, or any Tranche or Tranches
thereof, for any purpose specified in Section 1301, to be held at such time
and at such place in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, New
York as the Trustee shall determine, or, with the approval of the Company,
at any other place. Notice of every such meeting, setting forth the time
and the place of such meeting and in general terms the action proposed to
be taken at such meeting, shall be given, in the manner provided in Section
106, not less than 21 nor more than 180 days prior to the date fixed for
the meeting.
(b) If the Trustee shall have been requested to call a meeting of the
Holders of Securities of one or more, or all, series, or any Tranche or
Tranches thereof, by the Company or by the Holders of 33% in aggregate
principal amount of all of such series and Tranches, considered as one
class, for any purpose specified in Section 1301, by written request
setting forth in reasonable detail the action proposed to be taken at the
meeting, and the Trustee shall not have given the notice of such meeting
within 21 days after receipt of such request or shall not thereafter
proceed to cause the meeting to be held as provided herein, then the
Company or the Holders of Securities of such series and Tranches in the
amount above specified, as the case may be, may determine the time and the
place in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, or in such other
place as shall be determined or approved by the Company, for such meeting
and may call such meeting for such purposes by giving notice thereof as
provided in subsection (a) of this Section.
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(c) Any meeting of Holders of Securities of one or more, or all,
series, or any Tranche or Tranches thereof, shall be valid without notice
if the Holders of all Outstanding Securities of such series or Tranches are
present in person or by proxy and if representatives of the Company and the
Trustee are present, or if notice is waived in writing before or after the
meeting by the Holders of all Outstanding Securities of such series, or any
Tranche or Tranches thereof, or by such of them as are not present at the
meeting in person or by proxy, and by the Company and the Trustee.
SECTION 1303. PERSONS ENTITLED TO VOTE AT MEETINGS.
To be entitled to vote at any meeting of Holders of Securities of one
or more, or all, series, or any Tranche or Tranches thereof, a Person shall be
(a) a Holder of one or more Outstanding Securities of such series or Tranches,
or (b) a Person appointed by an instrument in writing as proxy for a Holder or
Holders of one or more Outstanding Securities of such series or Tranches by such
Holder or Holders. The only Persons who shall be entitled to attend any meeting
of Holders of Securities of any series or Tranche shall be the Persons entitled
to vote at such meeting and their counsel, any representatives of the Trustee
and its counsel and any representatives of the Company and their counsel.
SECTION 1304. QUORUM; ACTION.
The Persons entitled to vote a majority in aggregate principal amount
of the Outstanding Securities of the series and Tranches with respect to which a
meeting shall have been called as hereinbefore provided, considered as one
class, shall constitute a quorum for a meeting of Holders of Securities of such
series and Tranches; provided, however, that if any action is to be taken at
such meeting which this Indenture expressly provides may be taken by the Holders
of a specified percentage, which is less than a majority, in principal amount of
the Outstanding Securities of such series and Tranches, considered as one class,
the Persons entitled to vote such specified percentage in principal amount of
the Outstanding Securities of such series and Tranches, considered as one class,
shall constitute a quorum. In the absence of a quorum within one hour of the
time appointed for any such meeting, the meeting shall, if convened at the
request of Holders of Securities of such series and Tranches, be dissolved. In
any other case the meeting may be adjourned for such period as may be determined
by the chairman of the meeting prior to the adjournment of such meeting. In the
absence of a quorum at any such adjourned meeting, such adjourned meeting may be
further adjourned for such period as may be determined by the chairman of the
meeting prior to the adjournment of such adjourned meeting. Except as provided
by Section 1305(e), notice of the reconvening of any meeting adjourned for more
than 30 days shall be given as provided in Section 1302(a) not less than 10 days
prior to the date on which the meeting is scheduled to be reconvened. Notice of
the reconvening of an adjourned meeting shall state expressly the percentage, as
provided above, of the principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such
series and Tranches which shall constitute a quorum.
Except as limited by Section 1202, any resolution presented to a
meeting or adjourned meeting duly reconvened at which a quorum is present as
aforesaid may be adopted only by the affirmative vote of the Holders of a
majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of the
series and Tranches with respect to which such meeting shall have been called,
considered as one class; provided, however, that, except as so limited, any
resolution with respect to any action which this Indenture expressly provides
may be taken by the Holders of a specified percentage, which is less than a
majority, in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series and
Tranches, considered as one class, may be adopted at a meeting or an adjourned
meeting duly reconvened and at which a quorum is present as aforesaid by the
affirmative vote of the Holders of such specified percentage in principal amount
of the Outstanding Securities of such series and Tranches, considered as one
class.
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Any resolution passed or decision taken at any meeting of Holders of
Securities duly held in accordance with this Section shall be binding on all the
Holders of Securities of the series and Tranches with respect to which such
meeting shall have been held, whether or not present or represented at the
meeting.
SECTION 1305. ATTENDANCE AT MEETINGS; DETERMINATION OF VOTING RIGHTS;
CONDUCT AND ADJOURNMENT OF MEETINGS.
(a) Attendance at meetings of Holders of Securities may be in person
or by proxy; and, to the extent permitted by law, any such proxy shall
remain in effect and be binding upon any future Holder of the Securities
with respect to which it was given unless and until specifically revoked by
the Holder or future Holder of such Securities before being voted.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture, the
Trustee may make such reasonable regulations as it may deem advisable for
any meeting of Holders of Securities in regard to proof of the holding of
such Securities and of the appointment of proxies and in regard to the
appointment and duties of inspectors of votes, the submission and
examination of proxies, certificates and other evidence of the right to
vote, and such other matters concerning the conduct of the meeting as it
shall deem appropriate. Except as otherwise permitted or required by any
such regulations, the holding of Securities shall be proved in the manner
specified in Section 104 and the appointment of any proxy shall be proved
in the manner specified in Section 104. Such regulations may provide that
written instruments appointing proxies, regular on their face, may be
presumed valid and genuine without the proof specified in Section 104 or
other proof.
(c) The Trustee shall, by an instrument in writing, appoint a
temporary chairman of the meeting, unless the meeting shall have been
called by the Company or by Holders as provided in Section 1302(b), in
which case the Company or the Holders of Securities of the series and
Tranches calling the meeting, as the case may be, shall in like manner
appoint a temporary chairman. A permanent chairman and a permanent
secretary of the meeting shall be elected by vote of the Persons entitled
to vote a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of all series and Tranches represented at the meeting,
considered as one class.
(d) At any meeting each Holder or proxy shall be entitled to one vote
for each $1 principal amount of Securities held or represented by him;
provided, however, that no vote shall be cast or counted at any meeting in
respect of any Security challenged as not Outstanding and ruled by the
chairman of the meeting to be not Outstanding. The chairman of the meeting
shall have no right to vote, except as a Holder of a Security or proxy.
(e) Any meeting duly called pursuant to Section 1302 at which a quorum
is present may be adjourned from time to time by Persons entitled to vote a
majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of all
series and Tranches represented at the meeting, considered as one class;
and the meeting may be held as so adjourned without further notice.
SECTION 1306. COUNTING VOTES AND RECORDING ACTION OF MEETINGS.
The vote upon any resolution submitted to any meeting of Holders shall
be by written ballots on which shall be subscribed the signatures of the Holders
or of their representatives by proxy and the principal amounts and serial
numbers of the Outstanding Securities, of the series and Tranches with respect
to which the meeting shall have been called, held or represented by them. The
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permanent chairman of the meeting shall appoint two inspectors of votes who
shall count all votes cast at the meeting for or against any resolution and who
shall make and file with the secretary of the meeting their verified written
reports of all votes cast at the meeting. A record in triplicate of the
proceedings of each meeting of Holders shall be prepared by the secretary of the
meeting and there shall be attached to said record the original reports of the
inspectors of votes on any vote by ballot taken thereat and affidavits by one or
more persons having knowledge of the facts setting forth a copy of the notice of
the meeting and showing that said notice was given as provided in Section 1302
and, if applicable, Section 1304. Each copy shall be signed and verified by the
affidavits of the permanent chairman and secretary of the meeting and one such
copy shall be delivered to each of the Company and the Trustee to be preserved
by the Trustee, the latter to have attached thereto the ballots voted at the
meeting. Any record so signed and verified shall be conclusive evidence of the
matters therein stated.
SECTION 1307. ACTION WITHOUT MEETING.
In lieu of a vote of Holders at a meeting as hereinbefore contemplated
in this Article, any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other action may be made, given or taken by Holders by written
instruments as provided in Section 104.
ARTICLE FOURTEEN
SUBORDINATION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 1401. SECURITIES SUBORDINATE TO SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS OF THE COMPANY.
The Company, for itself, its successors and assigns, covenants and
agrees, and each Holder of the Securities of each series, by its acceptance
thereof, likewise covenants and agrees, that the payment of the principal of and
premium, if any, and interest ( including any Additional Interest), if any, on
each and all of the Securities is hereby expressly subordinated and junior in
right of payment, and subject, to the extent and in the manner set forth in this
Article, in right of payment to the prior payment in full of all Senior
Indebtedness of the Company.
Each Holder of the Securities of each series, by its acceptance
thereof, authorizes and directs the Trustee on its behalf to take such action as
may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate the subordination as provided in
this Article, and appoints the Trustee its attorney-in-fact for any and all such
purposes.
SECTION 1402. PAYMENT OVER OF PROCEEDS OF SECURITIES.
In the event (a) of any insolvency or bankruptcy proceedings or any
receivership, liquidation, reorganization or other similar proceedings in
respect of the Company or a substantial part of its property and assets, or of
any proceedings for liquidation, dissolution or other winding up of the Company,
whether or not involving insolvency or bankruptcy, or (b) subject to the
provisions of Section 1403, that (i) a default shall have occurred with respect
to the payment of principal of or interest on or other monetary amounts due and
payable on any Senior Indebtedness, or (ii) there shall have occurred a default
(other than a default in the payment of principal or interest or other monetary
amounts due and payable) in respect of any Senior Indebtedness, as defined
therein or in the instrument under which the same is outstanding, permitting the
holder or holders thereof, or any other Person on its or their behalf to
accelerate the maturity thereof (with notice or lapse of time, or both), and
such default shall have continued beyond the period of grace, if any, in respect
thereof, and, in the cases of subclauses (i) and (ii) of this clause (b), such
default shall not have been cured or waived or shall not have ceased to exist,
or (c) that the principal of and/or premium, if any, and/or accrued interest
(including Additional Interest), if any, on the Securities of any series shall
have been declared due and payable pursuant to Section 801 and such declaration
shall not have been rescinded and annulled as provided in Section 802, then:
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(1) the holders of all Senior Indebtedness shall first be entitled to
receive payment of the full amount due thereon, or provision shall be made
for such payment in money or money's worth, before the Holders of any of
the Securities are entitled to receive a payment on account of the
principal of, premium if any, or interest on the indebtedness evidenced by
the Securities, including, without limitation, any payments made pursuant
to Articles Four and Five;
(2) any payment by, or distribution of property or assets of, the
Company of any kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities,
to which any Holder or the Trustee would be entitled except for the
provisions of this Article, shall be paid or delivered by the Person making
such payment or distribution, whether a trustee in bankruptcy, a receiver
or liquidating trustee or otherwise, directly to the holders of such Senior
Indebtedness or their representative or representatives or to the trustee
or trustees under any indenture under which any instruments evidencing any
of such Senior Indebtedness may have been issued, ratably according to the
aggregate amounts remaining unpaid on account of such Senior Indebtedness
held or represented by each, to the extent necessary to make payment in
full of all Senior Indebtedness remaining unpaid after giving effect to any
concurrent payment or distribution (or provision therefor) to the holders
of such Senior Indebtedness, before any payment or distribution is made to
the Holders of the indebtedness evidenced by the Securities or to the
Trustee under this Indenture; and
(3) in the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing, any payment by,
or distribution of property or assets of, the Company of any kind or
character, whether in cash, property or securities, in respect of principal
of, or premium, if any, or interest on the Securities or in connection with
any repurchase by the Company of the Securities, shall be received by the
Trustee or any Holder before all Senior Indebtedness is paid in full, or
provision is made for such payment in money or money's worth, such payment
or distribution in respect of principal of, or premium, if any, or interest
on the Securities or in connection with any repurchase by the Company of
the Securities shall be paid over to the holders of such Senior
Indebtedness or their representative or representatives or to the trustee
or trustees under any indenture under which any instruments evidencing any
such Senior Indebtedness may have been issued, ratably as aforesaid, for
application to the payment of all Senior Indebtedness remaining unpaid
until all such Senior Indebtedness shall have been paid in full, after
giving effect to any concurrent payment or distribution (or provision
therefor) to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, at any time after the 123rd day
following the date of deposit of cash or Eligible Obligations pursuant to
Section 701 or 702 (provided all conditions set out in such Section shall have
been satisfied), the funds so deposited and any interest thereon will not be
subject to any rights of holders of Senior Indebtedness including, without
limitation, those arising under this Article Fourteen; provided that no event
described in clauses (d) and (e) of Section 801 with respect to the Company has
occurred during such 123-day period.
For purposes of this Article only, the words "cash, property or
securities" shall not be deemed to include shares of stock of the Company as
reorganized or readjusted, or securities of the Company or any other Person
provided for by a plan of reorganization or readjustment which are subordinate
in right of payment to all Senior Indebtedness which may at the time be
outstanding to the same extent as, or to a greater extent than, the Securities
are so subordinated as provided in this Article. The consolidation of the
Company with, or the merger of the Company into, another Person or the
liquidation or dissolution of the Company following the conveyance or transfer
of its property and assets as an entirety, or substantially as an entirety, to
another Person upon the terms and conditions provided for in Article Eleven
hereof shall not be deemed a dissolution, winding-up, liquidation or
reorganization for the purposes of this Section 1402 if such other Person shall,
as a part of such consolidation, merger, conveyance or transfer, comply with the
conditions stated in Article Eleven hereof. Nothing in Section 1401 or in this
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Section 1402 shall apply to claims of, or payments to, the Trustee under or
pursuant to Section 907.
SECTION 1403. DISPUTES WITH HOLDERS OF CERTAIN SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS.
Any failure by the Company to make any payment on or perform any other
obligation in respect of Senior Indebtedness, other than any indebtedness
incurred by the Company or assumed or guaranteed, directly or indirectly, by the
Company for money borrowed (or any deferral, renewal, extension or refunding
thereof) or any other obligation as to which the provisions of this Section
shall have been waived by the Company in the instrument or instruments by which
the Company incurred, assumed, guaranteed or otherwise created such indebtedness
or obligation, shall not be deemed a default under clause (b) of Section 1402 if
(i) the Company shall be disputing its obligation to make such payment or
perform such obligation and (ii) either (A) no final judgment relating to such
dispute shall have been issued against the Company which is in full force and
effect and is not subject to further review, including a judgment that has
become final by reason of the expiration of the time within which a party may
seek further appeal or review, or (B) in the event that a judgment that is
subject to further review or appeal has been issued, the Company shall in good
faith be prosecuting an appeal or other proceeding for review and a stay or
execution shall have been obtained pending such appeal or review.
SECTION 1404. SUBROGATION.
Senior Indebtedness shall not be deemed to have been paid in full
unless the holders thereof shall have received cash (or securities or other
property satisfactory to such holders) in full payment of such Senior
Indebtedness then outstanding. Upon the payment in full of all Senior
Indebtedness, the rights of the Holders of the Securities shall be subrogated to
the rights of the holders of Senior Indebtedness to receive any further payments
or distributions of cash, property or securities of the Company applicable to
the holders of the Senior Indebtedness until all amounts owing on the Securities
shall be paid in full; and such payments or distributions of cash, property or
securities received by the Holders of the Securities, by reason of such
subrogation, which otherwise would be paid or distributed to the holders of such
Senior Indebtedness shall, as between the Company, its creditors other than the
holders of Senior Indebtedness, and the Holders, be deemed to be a payment by
the Company to or on account of Senior Indebtedness, it being understood that
the provisions of this Article are and are intended solely for the purpose of
defining the relative rights of the Holders, on the one hand, and the holders of
the Senior Indebtedness, on the other hand.
SECTION 1405. OBLIGATION OF THE COMPANY UNCONDITIONAL.
Nothing contained in this Article or elsewhere in this Indenture or in
the Securities is intended to or shall impair, as among the Company, its
creditors other than the holders of Senior Indebtedness and the Holders, the
obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay to the
Holders the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Securities as and
when the same shall become due and payable in accordance with their terms, or is
intended to or shall affect the relative rights of the Holders and creditors of
the Company other than the holders of Senior Indebtedness, nor shall anything
herein or therein prevent the Trustee or any Holder from exercising all remedies
otherwise permitted by applicable law upon default under this Indenture, subject
to the rights, if any, under this Article of the holders of Senior Indebtedness
in respect of cash, property or securities of the Company received upon the
exercise of any such remedy.
Upon any payment or distribution of assets, cash or property or
securities of the Company referred to in this Article, the Trustee and the
Holders shall be entitled to rely upon any order or decree of a court of
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competent jurisdiction in which such dissolution, winding up, liquidation or
reorganization proceedings are pending for the purpose of ascertaining the
Persons entitled to participate in such distribution, the holders of the Senior
Indebtedness and other indebtedness of the Company, the amount thereof or
payable thereon, the amount or amounts paid or distributed thereon, and all
other facts pertinent thereto or to this Article.
The Trustee shall be entitled to rely on the delivery to it of a
written notice by a Person representing himself to be a holder of Senior
Indebtedness (or a representative of such holder or a trustee under any
indenture under which any instruments evidencing any such Senior Indebtedness
may have been issued) to establish that such notice has been given by a holder
of such Senior Indebtedness or such representative or trustee on behalf of such
holder. In the event that the Trustee determines in good faith that further
evidence is required with respect to the right of any Person as a holder of
Senior Indebtedness, or its representative or representatives or trustee or
trustees under any indenture under which any instruments evidencing any such
Senior Indebtedness may have been issued, to participate in any payment or
distribution pursuant to this Article, the Trustee may request such Person to
furnish evidence to the reasonable satisfaction of the Trustee as to the amount
of Senior Indebtedness held by such Person, the extent to which such Person is
entitled to participate in such payment or distribution and any other facts
pertinent to the right of such Person under this Article, and, if such evidence
is not furnished, the Trustee may defer any payment to such Person pending
judicial determination as to the right of such Person to receive such payment or
distribution.
SECTION 1406. PRIORITY OF SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS UPON MATURITY.
Upon the maturity of the principal of any Senior Indebtedness by lapse
of time, acceleration or otherwise, all matured principal of Senior Indebtedness
and interest, premium and other payment obligation, if any, thereon shall first
be paid in full before any payment of principal or premium, if any, or interest,
if any, is made upon the Securities or before any Securities can be acquired by
the Company or any sinking fund payment is made with respect to the Securities
(except that required sinking fund payments may be reduced by Securities
acquired before such maturity of such Senior Indebtedness).
SECTION 1407. TRUSTEE AS HOLDER OF SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS.
The Trustee shall be entitled to all rights set forth in this Article
with respect to any Senior Indebtedness at any time held by it, to the same
extent as any other holder of Senior Indebtedness. Nothing in this Article shall
deprive the Trustee of any of its rights as such holder.
SECTION 1408. NOTICE TO TRUSTEE TO EFFECTUATE SUBORDINATION.
Notwithstanding the provisions of this Article or any other provision
of this Indenture, the Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of the
existence of any facts which would prohibit the making of any payment of moneys
to or by the Trustee unless and until the Trustee shall have received written
notice thereof from the Company, from a Holder or from a holder of any Senior
Indebtedness or from any representative or representatives of such holder or any
trustee or trustees under any indenture under which any instruments evidencing
any such Senior Indebtedness may have been issued and, prior to the receipt of
any such written notice, the Trustee shall be entitled, subject to Section 901,
in all respects to assume that no such facts exist; provided, however, that, if
prior to the fifth Business Day preceding the date upon which by the terms of
this Indenture any such moneys may become payable for any purpose, or in the
event of the execution of an instrument pursuant to Section 701 or 702
acknowledging that Securities or portions thereof are deemed to have been paid
for all purposes of this Indenture, acknowledging that the entire indebtedness
of the Company in respect thereof has been satisfied and discharged or
acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, then if prior to the
second Business Day preceding the date of such execution, the Trustee shall not
have received with respect to such moneys the notice provided for in this
Section, then, anything herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding, the
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Trustee may, in its discretion, receive such moneys and/or apply the same to the
purpose for which they were received, and shall not be affected by any notice to
the contrary, which may be received by it on or after such date; provided,
however, that no such application shall affect the obligations under this
Article of the persons receiving such moneys from the Trustee.
SECTION 1409. MODIFICATION, EXTENSION, ETC. OF SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS.
The holders of Senior Indebtedness or their representative or
representatives or the trustee or trustees under any indenture under which any
instruments evidencing any such Senior Indebtedness may have been issued may,
without affecting in any manner the subordination of the payment of the
principal of and premium, if any, and interest, if any, on the Securities, at
any time or from time to time and in their absolute discretion, agree with the
Company to change the manner, place or terms of payment, change or extend the
time of payment of, or renew or alter, any Senior Indebtedness, or amend or
supplement any instrument pursuant to which any Senior Indebtedness is issued,
or exercise or refrain from exercising any other of their rights under the
Senior Indebtedness including, without limitation, the waiver of default
thereunder, all without notice to or assent from the Holders or the Trustee.
SECTION 1410. TRUSTEE HAS NO FIDUCIARY DUTY TO HOLDERS OF SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS.
With respect to the holders of Senior Indebtedness, the Trustee
undertakes to perform or to observe only such of its covenants and objectives as
are specifically set forth in this Indenture, and no implied covenants or
obligations with respect to the holders of Senior Indebtedness shall be read
into this Indenture against the Trustee. The Trustee shall not be deemed to owe
any fiduciary duty to the holders of Senior Indebtedness, and shall not be
liable to any such holders if it shall mistakenly pay over or deliver to the
Holders or the Company or any other Person, money or assets to which any holders
of Senior Indebtedness shall be entitled by virtue of this Article or otherwise.
SECTION 1411. PAYING AGENTS OTHER THAN THE TRUSTEE.
In case at any time any Paying Agent other than the Trustee shall have
been appointed by the Company and be then acting hereunder, the term "Trustee"
as used in this Article shall in such case (unless the context shall otherwise
require) be construed as extending to and including such Paying Agent within its
meaning as fully for all intents and purposes as if such Paying Agent were named
in this Article in addition to or in place of the Trustee; provided, however,
that Sections 1407, 1408 and 1410 shall not apply to the Company if it acts as
Paying Agent.
SECTION 1412. RIGHTS OF HOLDERS OF SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS NOT IMPAIRED.
No right of any present or future holder of Senior Indebtedness to
enforce the subordination herein shall at any time or in any way be prejudiced
or impaired by any act or failure to act on the part of the Company or by any
noncompliance by the Company with the terms, provisions and covenants of this
Indenture, regardless of any knowledge thereof any such holder may have or be
otherwise charged with.
SECTION 1413. EFFECT OF SUBORDINATION PROVISIONS; TERMINATION.
Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, other than
as provided in the immediately succeeding sentence, all the provisions of this
Indenture shall be subject to the provisions of this Article, so far as the same
may be applicable thereto.
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Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, the
provisions of this Article Fourteen shall be of no further effect, and the
Securities shall no longer be subordinated in right of payment to the prior
payment of Senior Indebtedness, if, and to the extent, the Company shall have
delivered to the Trustee a notice to such effect. Any such notice delivered by
the Company shall not be deemed to be a supplemental indenture for purposes of
Article Twelve.
ARTICLE FIFTEEN
IMMUNITY OF INCORPORATORS, STOCKHOLDERS, OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS
SECTION 1501. LIABILITY SOLELY CORPORATE.
No recourse shall be had for the payment of the principal of or
premium, if any, or interest (including Additional Interest), if any, on any
Securities, or any part thereof, or for any claim based thereon or otherwise in
respect thereof, or of the indebtedness represented thereby, or upon any
obligation, covenant or agreement under this Indenture, against any
incorporator, stockholder, officer or director, as such, past, present or future
of the Company or of any predecessor or successor of the Company (either
directly or through the Company, or a predecessor or successor of the Company),
whether by virtue of any constitutional provision, statute or rule of law, or by
the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise; it being expressly
agreed and understood that this Indenture and all the Securities are solely
corporate obligations, and that, except as otherwise provided as contemplated by
Section 301, no personal liability whatsoever shall attach to, or be incurred
by, any incorporator, stockholder, officer or director, past, present or future,
of the Company or of any predecessor or successor of the Company, either
directly or indirectly through the Company or any predecessor or successor of
the Company, because of the indebtedness hereby authorized or under or by reason
of any of the obligations, covenants or agreements contained in this Indenture
or in any of the Securities or to be implied herefrom or therefrom, and that any
such personal liability is hereby expressly waived and released as a condition
of, and as part of the consideration for, the execution of this Indenture and
the issuance of the Securities.
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This instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of
which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts
shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to
be duly executed, in New York, New York, as of the day and year first above
written.
FPL GROUP, INC.,
as Issuer
By:____________________________________
Name:
Title:
THE BANK OF NEW YORK,
as Trustee
By:____________________________________
Name:
Title: