EXHIBIT 4.3
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GREEN TREE RECREATIONAL, EQUIPMENT & CONSUMER TRUST 1997-D
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INDENTURE
Dated as of December 1, 1997
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FIRST TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
Trustee
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CROSS REFERENCE TABLE
TIA Indenture
Section Section
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310(a)(1).................................................. 6.11
(a)(2)................................................... 6.11
(a)(3)................................................... 6.10
(a)(4)................................................... N.A.
(a)(5)................................................... 6.11
(b)...................................................... 6.08; 6.11
(c)...................................................... N.A.
311(a)..................................................... 6.12
(b)...................................................... 6.12
(c)...................................................... N.A.
312(a)..................................................... 7.01
(b)...................................................... 7.02
(c)...................................................... 7.02
313(a)..................................................... 7.04
(b)(1)................................................... 7.04
(b)(2)................................................... 7.04
(c)...................................................... 11.05
(d)...................................................... 7.04
314(a)..................................................... 7.03
(b)...................................................... 3.06
11.15
(c)(1)................................................... 11.01
(c)(2)................................................... 11.01
(c)(3)................................................... 11.01
(d)...................................................... 11.01
(e)...................................................... 11.01
(f)...................................................... 11.01
315(a)..................................................... 6.01
(b)...................................................... 6.05
11.05
(c)...................................................... 6.01
(d)...................................................... 6.01
(e)...................................................... 5.14
316(a)(last sentence)...................................... 1.01
(a)(1)(A)................................................ 5.12
(a)(1)(B)................................................ 5.13
(a)(2)................................................... N.A.
(b)...................................................... 5.08
(c)...................................................... N.A.
317(a)(1).................................................. 5.03
(a)(2)................................................... 5.03
(b)...................................................... 3.03
318(a)..................................................... 11.07
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Note: This Cross Reference Table shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be
part of this Indenture. N.A. means Not Applicable.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I - Definitions and Incorporation by Reference......................... 1-1
SECTION 1.01. Definitions................................................... 1-1
SECTION 1.02. Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act............. 1-9
SECTION 1.03. Rules of Construction......................................... 1-10
ARTICLE II - The Notes......................................................... 2-1
SECTION 2.01. Form.......................................................... 2-1
SECTION 2.02. Execution, Authentication and Delivery........................ 2-1
SECTION 2.03. Temporary Notes............................................... 2-2
SECTION 2.04. Registration; Registration of Transfer and Exchange........... 2-2
SECTION 2.05. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes.................... 2-4
SECTION 2.06. Person Deemed Owner........................................... 2-5
SECTION 2.07. Payment of Principal and Interest; Defaulted Interest......... 2-5
SECTION 2.08. Cancellation.................................................. 2-6
SECTION 2.09. Book-Entry Notes.............................................. 2-6
SECTION 2.10. Notices to Depository......................................... 2-7
SECTION 2.11. Definitive Notes.............................................. 2-7
ARTICLE III - Covenants........................................................ 3-1
SECTION 3.01. Payment of Principal, Interest and Premium.................... 3-1
SECTION 3.02. Maintenance of Office or Agency............................... 3-1
SECTION 3.03. Money for Payments To Be Held in Trust........................ 3-1
SECTION 3.04. Existence..................................................... 3-3
SECTION 3.05. Protection of Trust Estate.................................... 3-3
SECTION 3.06. Opinions as to Trust Estate................................... 3-4
SECTION 3.07. Performance of Obligations; Servicing of Contracts............ 3-4
SECTION 3.08. Negative Covenants............................................ 3-5
SECTION 3.09. Annual Statement as to Compliance............................. 3-6
SECTION 3.10. Issuer May Consolidate, etc. Only on Certain Terms............ 3-6
SECTION 3.11. Successor or Transferee....................................... 3-8
SECTION 3.12. No Other Business............................................. 3-9
SECTION 3.13. No Borrowing.................................................. 3-9
SECTION 3.14. Servicer's Obligations........................................ 3-9
SECTION 3.15. Guarantees, Loans, Advances and Other Liabilities............. 3-9
SECTION 3.16. Capital Expenditures.......................................... 3-9
SECTION 3.17. Restricted Payments........................................... 3-9
SECTION 3.18. Notice of Events of Default................................... 3-10
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SECTION 3.19. Further Instruments and Acts.................................. 3-10
SECTION 3.20. Compliance with Laws.......................................... 3-10
SECTION 3.21. Amendments of Sale and Servicing Agreement and Trust
Agreement.................................................... 3-10
SECTION 3.22. Removal of Administrator...................................... 3-10
SECTION 3.23. Income Tax Characterization................................... 3-10
ARTICLE IV - Satisfaction and Discharge...................................... 4-1
SECTION 4.01. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture....................... 4-1
SECTION 4.02. Application of Trust Money.................................... 4-2
SECTION 4.03. Repayment of Moneys Held by Paying Agent...................... 4-2
SECTION 4.04. Release of Trust Estate....................................... 4-2
ARTICLE V - Remedies......................................................... 5-1
SECTION 5.01. Events of Default............................................. 5-1
SECTION 5.02. Rights upon Event of Default.................................. 5-2
SECTION 5.03. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by
Trustee; Authority of Trustee................................ 5-2
SECTION 5.04. Remedies...................................................... 5-4
SECTION 5.05. Optional Preservation of the Contracts........................ 5-5
SECTION 5.06. Priorities.................................................... 5-5
SECTION 5.07. Limitation of Suits........................................... 5-6
SECTION 5.08. Unconditional Rights of Noteholders To Receive Principal
and Interest................................................. 5-6
SECTION 5.09. Restoration of Rights and Remedies............................ 5-7
SECTION 5.10. Rights and Remedies Cumulative................................ 5-7
SECTION 5.11. Delay or Omission Not a Waiver................................ 5-7
SECTION 5.12. Control by Noteholders........................................ 5-7
SECTION 5.13. Waiver of Past Defaults....................................... 5-8
SECTION 5.14. Undertaking for Costs......................................... 5-8
SECTION 5.15. Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws.............................. 5-8
SECTION 5.16. Action on Notes............................................... 5-9
SECTION 5.17. Performance and Enforcement of Certain Obligations............ 5-9
ARTICLE VI - The Trustee....................................................... 6-1
SECTION 6.01. Duties of Trustee............................................. 6-1
SECTION 6.02. Rights of Trustee............................................. 6-3
SECTION 6.03. Individual Rights of Trustee.................................. 6-4
SECTION 6.04. Trustee's Disclaimer.......................................... 6-4
SECTION 6.05. Notice of Defaults............................................ 6-4
SECTION 6.06. Reports by Trustee to Holders................................. 6-4
SECTION 6.07. Compensation and Indemnity.................................... 6-4
SECTION 6.08. Replacement of Trustee........................................ 6-5
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SECTION 6.09. Successor Trustee by Merger................................... 6-7
SECTION 6.10. Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee................. 6-7
SECTION 6.11. Eligibility; Disqualification................................. 6-8
SECTION 6.12. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Issuer.............. 6-8
SECTION 6.13. Trustee to Cooperate.......................................... 6-9
SECTION 6.14. Certain Matters Relating to FHA Insurance...................... 6-10
ARTICLE VII - Noteholders' Lists and Reports................................... 7-1
SECTION 7.01. Issuer To Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses to Noteholders.. 7-1
SECTION 7.02. Preservation of Information; Communications to Noteholders.... 7-1
SECTION 7.03. Reports by Issuer............................................. 7-1
SECTION 7.04. Reports by Trustee............................................ 7-2
ARTICLE VIII - Accounts, Disbursements and Releases............................ 8-1
SECTION 8.01. Collection of Money........................................... 8-1
SECTION 8.02. Trust Accounts................................................ 8-1
SECTION 8.03. Pre-Funding Account........................................... 8-6
SECTION 8.04. General Provisions Regarding Accounts......................... 8-6
ARTICLE IX - Supplemental Indentures........................................... 9-1
SECTION 9.01. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Noteholders........ 9-1
SECTION 9.02. Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Noteholders........... 9-2
SECTION 9.03. Execution of Supplemental Indentures.......................... 9-4
SECTION 9.04. Effect of Supplemental Indenture.............................. 9-4
SECTION 9.05. Conformity With Trust Indenture Act........................... 9-4
SECTION 9.06. Reference in Notes to Supplemental Indentures................. 9-4
ARTICLE X - Redemption of Notes................................................ 10-1
SECTION 10.01. Redemption................................................... 10-1
SECTION 10.02. Form of Redemption Notice.................................... 10-1
SECTION 10.03. Notes Payable on Redemption Date............................. 10-2
ARTICLE XI - Miscellaneous..................................................... 11-1
SECTION 11.01. Compliance Certificates and Opinions, etc.................... 11-1
SECTION 11.02. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee....................... 11-3
SECTION 11.03. Acts of Noteholders.......................................... 11-3
SECTION 11.04. Notices, etc., to Trustee, Issuer and Rating Agencies........ 11-4
SECTION 11.05. Notices to Noteholders; Waiver............................... 11-5
SECTION 11.06. Alternate Payment and Notice Provisions...................... 11-5
SECTION 11.07. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act............................ 11-5
SECTION 11.08. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents..................... 11-6
SECTION 11.09. Successors and Assigns....................................... 11-6
SECTION 11.10. Severability................................................. 11-6
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SECTION 11.11. Benefits of Indenture........................................ 11-6
SECTION 11.12. Legal Holidays............................................... 11-6
SECTION 11.13. Governing Law................................................ 11-6
SECTION 11.14. Counterparts................................................. 11-6
SECTION 11.15. Recording of Indenture....................................... 11-6
SECTION 11.16. Trust Obligation............................................. 11-7
SECTION 11.17. No Petition.................................................. 11-7
SECTION 11.18. Inspection................................................... 11-7
Exhibit A-1 Form of Class A-1:HE/HI, Class A-2, Class A-3 and Class A-4 Note
Exhibit A-2 Form of Class A-1 Note
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INDENTURE, dated as of December 1, 1997, between Green Tree
Recreational, Equipment & Consumer Trust 1997-D, a Delaware business trust (the
"Issuer"), and First Trust National Association, a national banking association
organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America, in its
capacity as trustee (the "Trustee") and not in its individual capacity.
Each party agrees as follows for the benefit of the other party and
for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders of the Issuer's Class A-1:HE/HI
Fixed Rate Asset-Backed Notes (the "Class A-1:HE/HI Notes"), Class A-1 Floating
Rate Asset-Backed Notes (the "Class A-1 Notes"), Class A-2 Fixed Rate Asset-
Backed Notes (the "Class A-2 Notes"), Class A-3 Fixed Rate Asset-Backed Notes
(the "Class A-3 Notes"), and Class A-4 Fixed Rate Asset-Backed Notes (the "Class
A-4 Notes") (the Class A-1:HE/HI Notes, Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes,
the Class A-3 Notes and the Class A-4 Notes are referred to collectively as the
"Notes"):
As security for the payment and performance by the Issuer of its
obligations under this Indenture and the Notes, the Issuer has agreed to assign
the Indenture Collateral (as defined below) as collateral for the benefit of the
Trustee on behalf of the Noteholders.
GRANTING CLAUSE
The Issuer hereby Grants, transfers and assigns to the Trustee on the
Closing Date, on behalf of and for the benefit of the Noteholders, without
recourse, all of the Issuer's right, title and interest in and to: (a) the
Contracts (including but not limited to the Subsequent Contracts and the
Collateral Security), any and all rights to receive payments on or in respect of
the Contracts, excluding any payments due pursuant thereto prior to the Cutoff
Date, or Subsequent Cut-off Date in respect of the Subsequent Contracts; (b) the
Insurance Policies on any Products or real property securing a Contract for the
benefit of the creditor of such Contract and all blanket insurance policies to
the extent they relate to the Contracts; (c) all rights the Issuer or the Seller
may have against the originating dealer, contractor or lender with respect to
the Contracts not originated by the Seller; (d) the Errors and Omissions
Protection Policy as such policy relates to the Contracts; (e) all items
contained in the Contract Files; (f) the Trust Accounts (other than the
Certificate Distribution Account) and all funds on deposit therein from time to
time, and all investments and proceeds thereof (including all income thereon);
(g) the Sale and Servicing Agreement; (h) the Interest Rate Cap Agreement,
including all rights to payments thereunder; and (i) all present and future
claims, demands, causes and choses in action in respect of any or all of the
foregoing and all payments on or under and all proceeds of every kind and nature
whatsoever in respect of any or all of the foregoing, including all proceeds of
the conversion, voluntary or involuntary, into cash or other liquid property,
all cash proceeds, accounts, accounts receivable, notes, drafts, acceptances,
chattel paper, checks, deposit accounts, insurance proceeds, condemnation
awards, rights to payment of any and every kind and other forms of obligations
and Contracts, instruments and other property which at any time constitute all
or part of or are included in the proceeds of any of the foregoing
(collectively, the "Indenture Collateral").
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The foregoing Grant is made in trust to secure the payment of
principal of and interest on, and any other amounts owing in respect of, the
Notes, equally and ratably without prejudice, priority or distinction, and to
secure compliance with the provisions of this Indenture, all as provided in this
Indenture.
The Trustee, for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes acknowledges
such Grant. The Trustee on behalf of the Holders of the Notes accepts the
trusts under this Indenture in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture
and agrees to perform its duties required in this Indenture to the best of its
ability to the end that the interests of the Holders of the Notes may be
adequately and effectively protected.
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ARTICLE I
Definitions and Incorporation by Reference
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SECTION 1.01. Definitions.
Except as otherwise specified herein or as the context may otherwise
require, the following terms have the respective meanings set forth below for
all purposes of this Indenture. Except as otherwise defined herein, all terms
defined in any Related Document and not otherwise defined in this Indenture
shall have the meanings given them in such Related Document.
"Act" has the meaning specified in Section 11.03(a).
"Administration Agreement" means the Administration Agreement, dated as of
December 1, 1997, among the Administrator, the Issuer and the Trustee, as the
same may be amended and supplemented from time to time.
"Administrator" means Green Tree Financial Servicing Corporation, a
Delaware corporation, or any successor Administrator under the Administration
Agreement.
"Affiliate" means, with respect to any specified Person, any other Person
controlling or controlled by or under common control with such specified Person.
For the purposes of this definition, "control" when used with respect to any
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.
"Authorized Officer" means, with respect to the Issuer, any officer of the
Owner Trustee who is authorized to act for the Owner Trustee in matters relating
to the Issuer and who is identified on the list of Authorized Officers delivered
by the Owner Trustee to the Trustee on the Closing Date (as such list may be
modified or supplemented from time to time thereafter).
"Book-Entry Note" means any Note registered in the name of the Depository
or its nominee, ownership of which is reflected on the books of the Depository
or on the books of a person maintaining an account with such Depository
(directly or as an indirect participant in accordance with the rules of such
Depository).
"Business Day" means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday, legal holiday
or other day on which commercial banking institutions in Minneapolis, Minnesota,
New York, New York, Wilmington, Delaware or any other location of any successor
Servicer, successor Owner Trustee or successor Trustee are authorized or
obligated by law, executive order or governmental decree to remain closed.
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"Calculation Agent" means the Person who establishes LIBOR with respect to
each Interest Reset Period. The Calculation Agent shall be the Trustee unless
the Trustee is unable or unwilling so to act, in which case the Calculation
Agent shall be a financial institution appointed by the Issuer.
"Certificate of Trust" means the Certificate of Trust of the Issuer
substantially in the form of Exhibit A to the Trust Agreement.
"Certificates" means the 7.25% Asset-Backed Certificates issued under the
Trust Agreement.
"Class A-1 Notes" means the Class A-1 Floating Rate Asset-Backed Notes
substantially in the form of Exhibit A-2.
"Class A-1:HE/HI Notes" means the Class A-1:HE/HI Fixed Rate Asset-Backed
Notes substantially in the form of Exhibit A-1.
"Class A-2 Notes" means the Class A-2 Fixed Rate Asset-Backed Notes
substantially in the form of Exhibit A-1.
"Class A-3 Notes" means the Class A-3 Fixed Rate Asset-Backed Notes
substantially in the form of Exhibit A-1.
"Class A-4 Notes" means the Class A-4 Fixed Rate Asset-Backed Notes
substantially in the form of Exhibit A-1.
"Closing Date" means December 15, 1997.
"Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to
time, and Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder.
"Collection Account" means the account established and maintained pursuant
to Section 6.01(a) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
"Company" means Green Tree Financial Corporation.
"Corporate Trust Office" means the principal office of the Trustee at which
at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be administered which
office at date of the execution of this Indenture is located at ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇. ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, Attention: Corporate Trust Administration,
Structured Finance; or at such other address as the Trustee may designate from
time to time by notice to the Noteholders and the Issuer, or the principal
corporate trust office of any successor Trustee (and such successor Trustee will
notify the Noteholders and the Issuer of its address).
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"Custodian" means at any time an Eligible Institution, or a financial
institution organized under the laws of the United States or any State, which is
not an Affiliate of the Company, which is subject to supervision and examination
by Federal or State authorities and whose commercial paper or unsecured long-
term debt (or, in the case of a member of a bank holding company system, the
commercial paper or unsecured long-term debt of such bank holding company) has
been rated A-1 by Standard & Poor's and F-1 by Fitch in the case of commercial
paper, or BBB+ or higher by both Standard & Poor's and Fitch in the case of
unsecured long-term debt, as is acting at such time as Custodian of the Contract
Files pursuant to Section 6.01(k).
"Default" means any occurrence that is, or with notice or the lapse of time
or both would become, an Event of Default.
"Definitive Notes" has the meaning specified in Section 2.09.
"Depository" means the initial Depository, The Depository Trust Company,
the nominee of which is Cede & Co., as the registered Holder of $167,923,639 in
aggregate principal amount of the Class A-1:HE/HI Notes, $284,990,000 in
aggregate principal amount of the Class A-1 Notes, $46,850,000 in aggregate
principal amount of the Class A-2 Notes, $22,720,000 in aggregate principal
amount of the Class A-3 Notes, and $17,040,000 in aggregate principal amount of
the Class A-4 Notes, as of the Closing Date, and any permitted successor
depository. The Depository shall at all times be a "clearing corporation" as
defined in the UCC of the State of New York.
"Depository Agreement" means the agreement among the Issuer, the Trustee,
the Administrator, and The Depository Trust Company, as the initial Depository,
dated as of the Closing Date, relating to the Notes, as it may be amended or
supplemented from time to time.
"Depository Participant" means a broker, dealer, bank or other financial
institution or other Person for whom from time to time a Depository effects
book-entry transfers and pledges of securities deposited with the Depository.
"Distribution Date" means the fifteenth day of each calendar month during
the term of this Indenture or if such day is not a Business Day, the next
succeeding Business Day, commencing in January 1998.
"Event of Default" has the meaning specified in Section 5.01.
"Exchange Act" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
"Executive Officer" means, with respect to any corporation, the Chief
Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer, President,
Executive Vice President, any Vice President, any Responsible Officer, the
Secretary or the Treasurer of such corporation; and with respect to any
partnership, any general partner thereof.
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"Final Scheduled Distribution Date" means March 15, 2029 (or, if such day
is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day).
"General Partner" means each Certificateholder obligated to pay the
expenses of the Issuer pursuant to Section 2.7 of the Trust Agreement.
"Grant" means mortgage, pledge, bargain, sell, warrant, alienate, remise,
release, convey, assign, transfer, create, and ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇ ▇▇▇▇ upon and a security
interest in and right of set-off against, deposit, set over and confirm pursuant
to this Indenture. A Grant of the Indenture Collateral or of any other
agreement or instrument shall include all rights, powers and options (but none
of the obligations) of the Granting party thereunder, including the immediate
and continuing right to claim for, collect, receive and give receipt for
principal and interest payments in respect of the Indenture Collateral and all
other moneys payable thereunder, to give and receive notices and other
communications, to make waivers or other agreements, to exercise all rights and
options, to bring Proceedings in the name of the Granting party or otherwise and
generally to do and receive anything that the Granting party is or may be
entitled to do or receive thereunder or with respect thereto.
"Holder" or "Noteholder" means the Person in whose name a Note is
registered on the Note Register.
"Indebtedness" means, with respect to any Person at any time, (a)
indebtedness or liability of such Person for borrowed money whether or not
evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or other instruments, or for the deferred
purchase price of property or services (including trade obligations); (b)
obligations of such Person as lessee under leases which should have been or
should be, in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, recorded
as capital leases; (c) current liabilities of such Person in respect of unfunded
vested benefits under plans covered by Title IV of ERISA; (d) obligations issued
for or liabilities incurred on the account of such Person; (e) obligations or
liabilities of such Person arising under acceptance facilities; (f) obligations
of such Person under any guarantees, endorsements (other than for collection or
deposit in the ordinary course of business) and other contingent obligations to
purchase, to provide funds for payment, to supply funds to invest in any Person
or otherwise to assure a creditor against loss; (g) obligations of such Person
secured by any lien on property or assets of such Person, whether or not the
obligations have been assumed by such Person; or (h) obligations of such Person
under any interest rate or currency exchange agreement.
"Indenture" means this Indenture as amended or supplemented from time to
time.
"Indenture Collateral" has the meaning specified in the Granting Clause of
this Indenture.
"Independent" means, when used with respect to any specified Person, that
the Person (a) is in fact independent of the Issuer, any other obligor upon the
Notes, the Company and any Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons, (b) does
not have any direct financial interest
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or any material indirect financial interest in the Issuer, any such other
obligor, the Company or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons and (c) is
not connected with the Issuer, any such other obligor, the Company or any
Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons as an officer, employee, promoter,
underwriter, trustee, partner, director or person performing similar functions.
"Independent Certificate" means a certificate or opinion to be delivered to
the Trustee under the circumstances described in, and otherwise complying with,
the applicable requirements of Section 11.01, made by an Independent appraiser
or other expert appointed by an Issuer Order and approved by the Trustee in the
exercise of reasonable care, and such opinion or certificate shall state that
the signer has read the definition of "Independent" in this Indenture and that
the signer is Independent within the meaning thereof.
"Interest Rate" means the Class A-1:HE/HI Interest Rate, the Class A-1
Interest Rate, the Class A-2 Interest Rate, the Class A-3 Interest Rate or the
Class A-4 Interest Rate, as applicable.
"Issuer" means the party named as such in this Indenture until a successor
replaces it and, thereafter, means the successor and, for purposes of any
provision contained herein and required by the TIA, each other obligor on the
Notes.
"Issuer Order" and "Issuer Request" means a written order or request signed
in the name of the Issuer by any one of its Authorized Officers and delivered to
the Trustee.
"Note" means a Class A-1:HE/HI Note, Class A-1 Note, Class A-2 Note, Class
A-3 Note or Class A-4 Note.
"Note Distribution Account" means the account designated as such,
established and maintained pursuant to Section 6.01(a) of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement.
"Note Owner" means, with respect to a Book-Entry Note, the Person who is
the owner of such Book-Entry Note, as reflected on the books of the Depository,
or on the books of a Person maintaining an account with such Depository
(directly as a Depository participant or as an indirect participant, in each
case in accordance with the rules of such Depository) and with respect to any
Definitive Notes, the Holder.
"Note Register" and "Note Registrar" have the respective meanings specified
in Section 2.04.
"Officer's Certificate" means a certificate signed by any Authorized
Officer of the Issuer, under the circumstances described in, and otherwise
complying with, the applicable requirements of Section 11.01, and delivered to,
the Trustee. Unless otherwise specified, any reference in this Indenture to an
Officer's Certificate shall be to an Officer's Certificate of any Authorized
Officer of the Issuer.
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"Opinion of Counsel" means one or more written opinions of counsel who may,
except as otherwise expressly provided in this Indenture, be employees of or
counsel to the Issuer and who shall be satisfactory to the Trustee and which
shall comply with any applicable requirements of Section 11.01, and shall be in
form and substance satisfactory to the Trustee.
"Original Class A-1:HE/HI Principal Balance" means $167,923,639.
"Original Class A-1 Principal Balance" means $284,990,000.
"Original Class A-2 Principal Balance" means $46,850,000.
"Original Class A-3 Principal Balance" means $22,720,000.
"Original Class A-4 Principal Balance" means $17,040,000.
"Original Note Principal Balance" means the sum of the Class A-1:HE/HI,
Class A-1, Class A-2,Class A-3, and Class A-4 Original Class Principal Balance.
"Outstanding" means, as of the date of determination, all Notes theretofore
authenticated and delivered under this Indenture except:
(i) Notes theretofore canceled by the Note Registrar or delivered to
the Note Registrar for cancellation;
(ii) Notes or portions thereof the payment for which money in the
necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the Trustee or any
Paying Agent in trust for the Holders of such Notes (provided, however,
that if such Notes are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been
duly given pursuant to this Indenture or provision therefor, satisfactory
to the Trustee, has been made); and
(iii) Notes in exchange for or in lieu of other Notes which have been
authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture unless proof
satisfactory to the Trustee is presented that any such Notes are held by a
bona fide purchaser;
provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite
Outstanding Amount of the Notes have given any request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder or under any Related Document,
Notes owned by the Issuer, any other obligor upon the Notes, the Company or any
Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons 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, only Notes that the Trustee knows to be so owned
shall be so disregarded. Notes so owned that have been pledged in good faith
may
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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 Notes and that the
pledgee is not the Issuer, any other obligor upon the Notes, the Company or any
Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons.
"Outstanding Amount" means the aggregate principal amount of all Notes, or
class of Notes, as applicable, Outstanding at the date of determination.
"Owner Trustee" means Wilmington Trust Company, not in its individual
capacity but solely as Owner Trustee under the Trust Agreement, or any successor
owner trustee under the Trust Agreement.
"Paying Agent" means the Trustee or any other Person that meets the
eligibility standards for the Trustee specified in Section 6.11 and is
authorized by the Issuer to make the distributions from the Note Distribution
Account, including payment of principal of or interest on the Notes on behalf of
the Issuer.
"Person" means any individual, corporation, estate, partnership, limited
liability company, joint venture, association, joint stock company, trust
(including any beneficiary thereof), unincorporated organization or government
or any agency or political subdivision thereof.
"Predecessor Note" means, with respect to any particular Note, every
previous Note evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by
such particular Note; and, for the purpose of this definition, any Note
authenticated and delivered under Section 2.05 in lieu of a mutilated, lost,
destroyed or stolen Note shall be deemed to evidence the same debt as the
mutilated, lost, destroyed or stolen Note.
"Proceeding" means any suit in equity, action at law or other judicial or
administrative proceeding.
"Rating Agency" means each of Fitch and Standard & Poor's, so long as such
Persons maintain a rating on the Notes; and if either Fitch or Standard & Poor's
no longer maintains a rating on the Notes, such other nationally recognized
statistical rating organization selected by the Company.
"Rating Agency Condition" means, with respect to any action, that each
Rating Agency shall have been given 10 days (or such shorter period as is
acceptable to each Rating Agency) prior notice thereof and that each of the
Rating Agencies shall have notified the Company, the Servicer, the Trustee, the
Owner Trustee and the Issuer in writing that such action will not result in a
reduction or withdrawal of the then current rating of the Notes.
"Record Date" means, with respect to a Distribution Date or Redemption
Date, the close of business on the last Business Day immediately preceding such
Distribution Date or Redemption Date.
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"Redemption Date" means in the case of a redemption of the Notes pursuant
to Section 10.01(a) or a payment to Noteholders pursuant to Section 10.01(b),
the Distribution Date specified by the Servicer or the Issuer pursuant to
Section 10.01(a) or 10.01(b), as applicable.
"Redemption Price" means (a) in the case of a redemption of the Notes
pursuant to Section 10.01(a), an amount equal to the principal amount of the
Notes redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest on the principal amount of each
class of Notes at the respective Interest Rate for each such class of Notes
being so redeemed to but excluding the Redemption Date, or (b) in the case of a
payment made to Noteholders pursuant to Section 10.01(b), the amount on deposit
in the Note Distribution Account, but not in excess of the amount specified in
clause (a) above.
"Registered Holder" means the Person in whose name a Note is registered on
the Note Register on the applicable Record Date.
"Related Documents" means the Trust Agreement, the Certificates, the Notes,
the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Administration Agreement, the Note
Depository Agreement, the Interest Rate Cap Agreement and the Underwriting
Agreement. The Related Documents executed by any party are referred to herein
as "such party's Related Documents," "its Related Documents" or by a similar
expression.
"Responsible Officer" means, with respect to the Trustee, any officer of
the Trustee assigned by the Trustee to administer its corporate trust affairs
relating to the Trust Estate.
"Sale and Servicing Agreement" means the Sale and Servicing Agreement,
dated as of December 1, 1997, among the Issuer, the Company and the Servicer as
the same may be amended or supplemented from time to time.
"Secured Obligations" means all amounts and obligations which the Issuer
may at any time owe to or on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the
Noteholders under this Indenture or the Notes.
"State" means any one of the 50 states of the United States of America or
the District of Columbia.
"Termination Date" means the date on which the Trustee shall have received
payment and performance of all Secured Obligations.
"Trust Estate" means all money, instruments, rights and other property that
are subject or intended to be subject to the lien and security interest of this
Indenture for the benefit of the Noteholders (including, without limitation, the
Indenture Collateral Granted to the Trustee), including all proceeds thereof.
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"Trust Indenture Act" or "TIA" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in
force on the date hereof, unless otherwise specifically provided.
"Trustee" means First Trust National Association, a national banking
association organized under the laws of the United States, as Trustee under this
Indenture, or any successor Trustee under this Indenture.
"UCC" means, unless the context otherwise requires, the Uniform Commercial
Code, as in effect in the relevant jurisdiction, as amended from time to time.
SECTION 1.02. Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act. Whenever
this Indenture refers to a provision of the TIA, the provision is incorporated
by reference in and made a part of this Indenture. The following TIA terms used
in this Indenture have the following meanings:
"Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission.
"indenture securities" means the Notes.
"indenture security holder" means a Noteholder.
"indenture to be qualified" means this Indenture.
"indenture trustee" or "institutional trustee" means the Trustee.
"obligor" on the indenture securities means the Issuer and any other
obligor on the indenture securities.
All other TIA terms used in this Indenture that are defined by the TIA,
defined by TIA reference to another statute or defined by Commission rule have
the meaning assigned to them by such definitions.
SECTION 1.03. Rules of Construction. Unless otherwise specified:
(i) a term has the meaning assigned to it;
(ii) an accounting term not otherwise defined has the meaning
assigned to it in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles
as in effect from time to time;
(iii) "or" is not exclusive;
(iv) "including" means including without limitation;
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(v) words in the singular include the plural and words in the plural
include the singular; and
(vi) references to Sections, Subsections, Schedules and Exhibits
shall refer to such portions of this Indenture.
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ARTICLE II
The Notes
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SECTION 2.01. Form. The Class A-1:HE/HI Notes, the Class A-1 Notes, the
Class A-2 Notes, the Class A-3 Notes and the Class A-4 Notes, in each case
together with the Trustee's certificate of authentication, shall be in
substantially the forms set forth in Exhibits A-1 and A-2 with such appropriate
insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or
permitted by this Indenture and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of
identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may,
consistently herewith, be determined by the officers executing such Notes, as
evidenced by their execution of the Notes. Any portion of the text of any Note
may be set forth on the reverse thereof, with an appropriate reference thereto
on the face of the Note.
The Notes shall be typewritten, printed, lithographed or engraved or
produced by any combination of these methods all as determined by the officers
executing such Notes, as evidenced by their execution of such Notes.
Each Note shall be dated the date of its authentication. The terms of the
Notes set forth in Exhibits A-1 and A-2 are part of the terms of this Indenture.
SECTION 2.02. Execution, Authentication and Delivery. The Notes shall be
executed on behalf of the Issuer by any of its Authorized Officers. The
signature of any such Authorized Officer on the Notes may be manual or
facsimile. Notes bearing the manual or facsimile signature of individuals who
were at any time Authorized Officers of the Issuer shall bind the Issuer,
notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such
offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Notes or did not hold
such offices at the date of such Notes.
The Trustee shall, upon receipt of an Issuer Order, authenticate and
deliver Class A-1:HE/HI Notes in an aggregate principal amount of $167,923,639,
Class A-1 Notes in an aggregate principal amount of $284,990,000, Class A-2
Notes in an aggregate principal amount of $46,850,000, Class A-3 Notes in an
aggregate principal amount of $22,720,000, and Class A-4 Notes in an aggregate
principal amount of $17,040,000. The aggregate principal amount of Class A-
1:HE/HI Notes, Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes, the Class A-3 Notes and the
Class A-4 Notes outstanding at any time may not exceed that amount except as
provided in Section 2.05.
Each Note shall be dated the date of its authentication. The Notes shall
be issuable as registered Notes in the minimum denomination of $1,000 and in
integral multiples thereof.
No Note shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be valid
or obligatory for any purpose, unless there appears on such Note a certificate
of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein executed by the
Trustee by the manual signature of one of its authorized signatories, and such
certificate upon any Note shall be conclusive
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evidence, and the only evidence, that such Note has been duly authenticated and
delivered hereunder.
SECTION 2.03. Temporary Notes. Pending the preparation of Definitive
Notes, the Issuer may execute, and upon receipt of an Issuer Order the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver, temporary Notes which are printed, lithographed,
typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise produced, of the tenor of the Definitive
Notes in lieu of which they are issued and with such variations not inconsistent
with the terms of this Indenture as the officers executing such Notes may
determine, as evidenced by their execution of such Notes.
If temporary Notes are issued, the Issuer will cause Definitive Notes to be
prepared without unreasonable delay. After the preparation of Definitive Notes,
the temporary Notes shall be exchangeable for Definitive Notes upon surrender of
the temporary Notes at the office or agency of the Issuer to be maintained as
provided in Section 3.02, without charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for
cancellation of any one or more temporary Notes, the Issuer shall execute and
the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a like principal
amount of Definitive Notes of authorized denominations. Until so exchanged, the
temporary Notes shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under
this Indenture as Definitive Notes.
SECTION 2.04. Registration; Registration of Transfer and Exchange. The
Issuer shall cause to be kept a register (the "Note Register") in which, subject
to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer shall provide for
the registration of Notes and the registration of transfers of Notes. The
Trustee shall be "Note Registrar" for the purpose of registering Notes and
transfers of Notes as herein provided. Upon any resignation of any Note
Registrar, the Issuer shall promptly appoint a successor or, if it elects not to
make such an appointment, assume the duties of Note Registrar.
If a Person other than the Trustee is appointed by the Issuer as Note
Registrar, the Issuer will give the Trustee prompt written notice of the
appointment of such Note Registrar and of the location, and any change in the
location, of the Note Register, and the Trustee shall have the right to inspect
the Note Register at all reasonable times and to obtain copies thereof, and the
Trustee shall have the right to rely upon a certificate executed on behalf of
the Note Registrar by an Executive Officer thereof as to the names and addresses
of the Holders of the Notes and the principal amounts and number of such Notes.
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the office or
agency of the Issuer to be maintained as provided in Section 3.02, the Issuer
shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and the Noteholder shall
obtain from the Trustee, in the name of the designated transferee or
transferees, one or more new Notes in any authorized denominations, of a like
aggregate principal amount.
At the option of the Holder, Notes may be exchanged for other Notes in any
authorized denominations, of a like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender
of the Notes to be exchanged at such office or agency. Whenever any Notes are
so surrendered for
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exchange, the Issuer shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and the
Noteholder shall obtain from the Trustee, the Notes which the Noteholder making
the exchange is entitled to receive.
All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes
shall be the valid obligations of the Issuer, evidencing the same debt, and
entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Notes surrendered
upon such registration of transfer or exchange.
Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or
exchange shall be duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of
transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder
thereof or such Holder's attorney duly authorized in writing, with such
signature guaranteed by a commercial bank or trust company located, or having a
correspondent located, in The City of New York or the city in which the
Corporate Trust Office is located, or by a member firm of a national securities
exchange, and such other documents as the Trustee may require.
No service charge shall be made to a Holder for any registration of
transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Issuer or the Trustee may require payment
of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be
imposed in connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes,
other than exchanges pursuant to Section 2.03 or 9.06 not involving any
transfer.
The preceding provisions of this section notwithstanding, the Issuer shall
not be required to make and the Note Registrar need not register transfers or
exchanges of Notes selected for redemption or of any Note for a period of 15
days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Note.
SECTION 2.05. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes. If (i) any
mutilated Note is surrendered to the Trustee, or the Trustee receives evidence
to its satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Note, and (ii)
there is delivered to the Trustee and such security or indemnity as may be
required by them to hold the Issuer and the Trustee harmless, then, in the
absence of notice to the Issuer, the Note Registrar or the Trustee that such
Note has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Issuer shall execute and
upon its request the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange for or
in lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note, a replacement
Note; provided, however, that if any such destroyed, lost or stolen Note, but
not a mutilated Note, shall have become or within seven days shall be due and
payable, or shall have been called for redemption, instead of issuing a
replacement Note, the Issuer may pay such destroyed, lost or stolen Note when so
due or payable or upon the Redemption Date without surrender thereof. If, after
the delivery of such replacement Note or payment of a destroyed, lost or stolen
Note pursuant to the proviso to the preceding sentence, a bona fide purchaser of
the original Note in lieu of which such replacement Note was issued presents for
payment such original Note, the Issuer and the Trustee shall be entitled to
recover such replacement Note (or such payment) from the Person to whom it was
delivered or any Person taking such replacement Note from such
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Person to whom such replacement Note was delivered or any assignee of such
Person, except a bona fide purchaser, and shall be entitled to recover upon the
security or indemnity provided therefor to the extent of any loss, damage, cost
or expense incurred by the Issuer or the Trustee in connection therewith.
Upon the issuance of any replacement Note under this Section, the Issuer or
the Trustee may require the payment by the Holder of such Note of a sum
sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in
relation thereto and any other reasonable expenses (including the fees and
expenses of the Trustee or the Note Registrar) connected therewith.
Every replacement Note issued pursuant to this Section in replacement of
any mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall constitute an original
additional contractual obligation of the Issuer, whether or not the mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and
shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and
proportionately with any and all other Notes duly issued hereunder.
The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to the
extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement or
payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Notes.
SECTION 2.06. Person Deemed Owner. Prior to due presentment for
registration of transfer of any Note, the Issuer, the Trustee and any agent of
the Issuer or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name any Note is
registered (as of the day of determination) as the owner of such Note for the
purpose of receiving payments of principal of and interest, if any, on such Note
and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Note be overdue, and
none of the Issuer, the Trustee nor any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee shall
be affected by notice to the contrary.
SECTION 2.07. Payment of Principal and Interest; Defaulted Interest.
(a) The Notes shall accrue interest as provided in the forms of the Class
A-1:HE/HI Note, the Class A-2 Note, the Class A-3 Note and the Class A-4 Note
set forth in Exhibit A-1 and the Class A-1 Note set forth in Exhibit A-2, and
such interest shall be payable on each Distribution Date as specified therein,
subject to Section 3.01. Any installment of interest or principal, if any,
payable on any Note which is punctually paid or duly provided for by the Issuer
on the applicable Distribution Date shall be paid to the Person in whose name
such Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is registered on the Record Date,
by check mailed first-class, postage prepaid to such Person's address as it
appears on the Note Register on such Record Date, except that, unless Definitive
Notes have been issued pursuant to Section 2.11, with respect to Notes
registered on the Record Date in the name of the nominee of the Depository,
payment will be made by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the
account designated by such nominee and except for (i) the final installment of
principal payable with respect to such Note on a Distribution Date and (ii) the
Redemption Price for any Note called for redemption pursuant to Section
10.01(a),
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which shall be payable as provided below. The funds represented by any such
checks returned undelivered shall be held in accordance with Section 3.03.
(b) The principal of each Note shall be payable in installments on each
Distribution Date as provided in the form of the Class A-1:HE/HI Note, the Class
A-2 Note, the Class A-3 Note and the Class A-4 Note set forth in Exhibit A-1 and
the Class A-1 Note set forth in Exhibit A-2. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the
entire unpaid principal amount of the Notes shall be due and payable, if not
previously paid, on the date on which an Event of Default shall have occurred
and be continuing and the Trustee or a Note Majority have declared the Notes to
be immediately due and payable in the manner provided in Section 5.02. All
principal payments on a class of Notes shall be made pro rata to the Noteholders
of such class entitled thereto. The Trustee shall notify the Person in whose
name a Note is registered at the close of business on the Record Date preceding
the Distribution Date on which the Issuer expects that the final installment of
principal of and interest on such Note will be paid. Such notice shall be
mailed no later than five days prior to such final Distribution Date and shall
specify that such final installment will be payable only upon presentation and
surrender of such Note and shall specify the place where such Note may be
presented and surrendered for payment of such installment. Notices in
connection with redemptions of Notes shall be mailed to Noteholders as provided
in Section 10.02.
SECTION 2.08. Cancellation. All Notes surrendered for payment,
registration of transfer, exchange or redemption shall, if surrendered to any
Person other than the Trustee, be delivered to the Trustee and shall be promptly
canceled by the Trustee. The Issuer may at any time deliver to the Trustee for
cancellation any Notes previously authenticated and delivered hereunder which
the Issuer may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and all Notes so
delivered shall be promptly canceled by the Trustee. No Notes shall be
authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Notes canceled as provided in
this Section, except as expressly permitted by this Indenture. All canceled
Notes may be held or disposed of by the Trustee in accordance with its standard
retention or disposal policy as in effect at the time unless the Issuer shall
direct by an Issuer Order that they be destroyed or returned to it, provided
that such Issuer Order is timely and the Notes have not been previously disposed
of by the Trustee.
SECTION 2.09. Book-Entry Notes. The Notes, upon original issuance, will
be issued in the form of a typewritten Note or Notes representing the Book-Entry
Notes, to be delivered to The Depository Trust Company, the initial Depository,
by, or on behalf of, the Issuer. Each such Note shall initially be registered
on the Note Register in the name of Cede & Co., the nominee of the initial
Depository, and no Note Owner will receive a Definitive Note representing such
Note Owner's interest in such Note, except as provided in Section 2.11. Unless
and until definitive, fully registered Notes (the "Definitive Notes") have been
issued to Note Owners pursuant to Section 2.11:
(i) the provisions of this Section shall be in full force and effect;
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(ii) the Note Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to deal
with the Depository for all purposes of this Indenture (including the
payment of principal of and interest on the Notes and the giving of
instructions or directions hereunder) as the sole Holder of the Notes, and
shall have no obligation to the Note Owners;
(iii) to the extent that the provisions of this Section conflict with
any other provisions of this Indenture, the provisions of this Section
shall control;
(iv) the rights of Note Owners shall be exercised only through the
Depository and shall be limited to those established by law and agreements
between such Note Owners and the Depository and/or the Depository
Participants. Pursuant to the Depository Agreement, unless and until
Definitive Notes are issued pursuant to Section 2.11, the initial
Depository will make book-entry transfers among the Depository Participants
and receive and transmit payments of principal of and interest on the Notes
to such Depository Participants; and
(v) whenever this Indenture requires or permits actions to be taken
based upon instructions or directions of Holders of Notes evidencing a
specified percentage of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes, the Depository
shall be deemed to represent such percentage only to the extent that it has
received instructions to such effect from Note Owners and/or Depository
Participants owning or representing, respectively, such required percentage
of the beneficial interest in the Notes and has delivered such instructions
to the Trustee.
SECTION 2.10. Notices to Depository. Whenever a notice or other
communication to the Noteholders is required under this Indenture, unless and
until Definitive Notes shall have been issued to Note Owners pursuant to Section
2.11, the Trustee shall give all such notices and communications specified
herein to be given to Holders of the Notes to the Depository and shall have no
obligation to the Note Owners.
SECTION 2.11. Definitive Notes. If (i) the Administrator advises the
Trustee in writing that the Depository is no longer willing or able properly to
discharge its responsibilities with respect to the Notes, and the Administrator
is unable to locate a qualified successor, (ii) the Administrator at its option
advises the Trustee in writing that it elects to terminate the book-entry system
through the Depository or (iii) after the occurrence of an Event of Default, a
Note Majority advises the Depository in writing that the continuation of a book-
entry system through the Depository is no longer in the best interests of the
Note Owners, then the Depository shall notify all Note Owners and the Trustee of
the occurrence of any such event and of the availability of Definitive Notes to
Note Owners requesting the same. Upon surrender to the Trustee of the Note or
Notes representing the Book-Entry Notes by the Depository, accompanied by
registration instructions, the Issuer shall execute and the Trustee shall
authenticate the Definitive Notes in accordance with the
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instructions of the Depository. None of the Issuer, the Note Registrar or the
Trustee shall be liable for any delay in delivery of such instructions and may
conclusively rely on, and shall be protected in relying on, such instructions.
Upon the issuance of Definitive Notes, the Trustee shall recognize the Holders
of the Definitive Notes as Noteholders.
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ARTICLE III
Covenants
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SECTION 3.01. Payment of Principal, Interest and Premium. The Issuer will
duly and punctually pay the principal and interest on the Notes in accordance
with the terms of the Notes and this Indenture. Without limiting the foregoing,
the Issuer will cause to be distributed all amounts on deposit in the Note
Distribution Account on a Distribution Date in accordance with Section 8.02(c).
Amounts properly withheld under the Code by any Person from a payment to any
Noteholder of interest and/or principal shall be considered as having been paid
by the Issuer to such Noteholder for all purposes of this Indenture.
SECTION 3.02. Maintenance of Office or Agency. The Issuer will maintain
in St. ▇▇▇▇, Minnesota, an office or agency where Notes may be surrendered for
registration of transfer or exchange, and where notices and demands to or upon
the Issuer in respect of the Notes and this Indenture may be served. The Issuer
hereby initially appoints the Trustee to serve as its agent for the foregoing
purposes. The Issuer will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the
location, and of any change in the location, of any such office or agency. If
at any time the Issuer shall fail to maintain any such office or agency or shall
fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such surrenders, notices
and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office, and the Issuer
hereby appoints the Trustee as its agent to receive all such surrenders, notices
and demands.
SECTION 3.03. Money for Payments To Be Held in Trust. As provided in
Section 8.02, all payments of amounts due and payable with respect to any Notes
that are to be made pursuant to Section 8.02(c) from amounts withdrawn from the
Trust Accounts shall be made on behalf of the Issuer by the Trustee or by
another Paying Agent, and no amounts so withdrawn shall be paid over to the
Issuer.
On or before each Distribution Date and Redemption Date, the Issuer shall
deposit or cause to be deposited in the Note Distribution Account an aggregate
sum sufficient to pay the amounts then becoming due, such sum to be held in
trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto and (unless the Paying
Agent is the Trustee) shall promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure
so to act.
The Issuer will cause each Paying Agent other than the Trustee to execute
and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree
with the Trustee (and if the Trustee acts as Paying Agent, it hereby so agrees),
subject to the provisions of this Section, that such Paying Agent will:
(i) hold all sums held by it for the payment of amounts due with
respect to the Notes in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled
thereto until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed
of as herein provided and pay such sums to such Persons as herein provided;
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(ii) give the Trustee notice of any default (of which it has actual
knowledge) by the Issuer (or any other obligor upon the Notes) in the
making of any payment required to be made with respect to the Notes;
(iii) at any time during the continuance of any such default, upon
the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums
so held in trust by such Paying Agent;
(iv) immediately resign as a Paying Agent and forthwith pay to the
Trustee all sums held by it in trust for the payment of Notes if at any
time it ceases to meet the standards required to be met by a Paying Agent
at the time of its appointment; and
(v) comply with all requirements of the Code with respect to the
withholding from any payments made by it on any Notes of any applicable
withholding taxes imposed thereon and with respect to any applicable
reporting requirements in connection therewith.
The Issuer may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the satisfaction
and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, by Issuer Order direct
any Paying Agent to pay to the Trustee all sums held in trust by such Paying
Agent, such sums to be held by the Trustee upon the same trusts as those upon
which the sums were held by such Paying Agent; and upon such payment by any
Paying Agent to the Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be released from all
further liability with respect to such money.
Subject to applicable laws with respect to escheat of funds, any money held
by the Trustee or any Paying Agent in trust for the payment of any amount due
with respect to any Note and remaining unclaimed for two years after such amount
has become due and payable shall be discharged from such trust and upon Issuer
Request shall be deposited by the Trustee in the Collection Account; and the
Holder of such Note shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look
only to the Issuer for payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee or such
Paying Agent with respect to such trust money shall thereupon cease; provided,
however, that the Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make
any such repayment, may at the expense of the Issuer cause to be published once,
in a newspaper published in the English language, customarily published on each
Business Day and of general circulation in The City of New York, notice that
such money remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified therein, which
shall not be less than 30 days from the date of such publication, any unclaimed
balance of such money then remaining will be repaid to or for the account of the
Issuer. The Trustee may also adopt and employ, at the expense of the Issuer,
any other reasonable means of notification of such repayment (including, but not
limited to, mailing notice of such repayment to Holders whose Notes have been
called but have not been surrendered for redemption or whose right to or
interest in moneys due and payable but not claimed is determinable from the
records of the Trustee or of any Paying Agent, at the last address of record for
each such Holder).
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SECTION 3.04. Existence. The Issuer will keep in full effect its
existence, rights and franchises as a business trust under the laws of the State
of Delaware (unless it becomes, or any successor Issuer hereunder is or becomes,
organized under the laws of any other state or of the United States of America,
in which case the Issuer will keep in full effect its existence, rights and
franchises under the laws of such other jurisdiction) and will obtain and
preserve its qualification to do business in each jurisdiction in which such
qualification is or shall be necessary to protect the validity and
enforceability of this Indenture, the Notes, the Indenture Collateral and each
other instrument or agreement included in the Trust Estate.
SECTION 3.05. Protection of Trust Estate. The Issuer intends the security
interest Granted pursuant to this Indenture in favor of the Trustee to be prior
to all other liens in respect of the Trust Estate, and the Issuer shall take all
actions necessary to obtain and maintain, in favor of the Trustee, for the
benefit of the Noteholders, a first lien on and a first priority, perfected
security interest in the Trust Estate. The Issuer will from time to time
execute and deliver all such supplements and amendments hereto and all such
financing statements, continuation statements, instruments of further assurance
and other instruments, all as prepared by the Servicer and delivered to the
Issuer, and will take such other action necessary or advisable to:
(i) grant more effectively all or any portion of the Trust Estate;
(ii) maintain or preserve the lien and security interest (and the
priority thereof) created by this Indenture or carry out more effectively
the purposes hereof;
(iii) perfect, publish notice of or protect the validity of any Grant
made or to be made by this Indenture;
(iv) enforce any of the Indenture Collateral;
(v) preserve and defend title to the Trust Estate and the rights of
the Trustee in such Trust Estate against the claims of all persons and
parties; or
(vi) pay all taxes or assessments levied or assessed upon the Trust
Estate when due.
The Issuer hereby designates the Trustee its agent and attorney-in-fact to
execute any financing statement, continuation statement or other instrument
required by the Trustee pursuant to this Section.
SECTION 3.06. Opinions as to Trust Estate.
(a) Promptly after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the
Issuer shall furnish to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that, in
the opinion of such counsel, either (i) all financing statements and
continuation statements have been executed
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and filed that are necessary to create and continue the Trustee's first priority
perfected security interest in the collateral for the benefit of the
Noteholders, and reciting the details of such filings or referring to prior
Opinions of Counsel in which such details are given, or (ii) no such action
shall be necessary to perfect such security interest; and
(b) Within 90 days after the beginning of each calendar year beginning
with the first calendar year beginning more than three months after the Cutoff
Date, the Issuer shall furnish to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel, dated as of
a date during such 90-day period, to the effect that, in the opinion of such
counsel, either (i) all financing statements and continuation statements have
been executed and filed that are necessary to create and continue the Trustee's
first priority perfected security interest in the collateral for the benefit of
the Noteholders, and reciting the details of such filing or referring to prior
Opinions of Counsel in which such details are given, or (ii) no such action
shall be necessary to perfect such security interest.
SECTION 3.07. Performance of Obligations; Servicing of Contracts.
(a) The Issuer will not take any action and will use its best efforts not
to permit any action to be taken by others that would release any Person from
any of such Person's material covenants or obligations under any instrument or
agreement included in the Trust Estate or that would result in the amendment,
hypothecation, subordination, termination or discharge of, or impair the
validity or effectiveness of, any such instrument or agreement, except as
expressly provided in this Indenture, the Sale and Servicing Agreement or such
other instrument or agreement.
(b) The Issuer may contract with other Persons to assist it in performing
its duties under this Indenture, and any performance of such duties by a Person
identified to the Trustee in an Officer's Certificate of the Issuer shall be
deemed to be action taken by the Issuer. Initially, the Issuer has contracted
with the Servicer and the Administrator to assist the Issuer in performing its
duties under this Indenture.
(c) The Issuer will punctually perform and observe all of its obligations
and agreements contained in this Indenture, the Related Documents and in the
instruments and agreements included in the Trust Estate, including but not
limited to filing or causing to be filed all UCC financing statements and
continuation statements required to be filed by the terms of this Indenture and
the Sale and Servicing Agreement in accordance with and within the time periods
provided for herein and therein.
(d) If the Issuer shall have knowledge of the occurrence of an "Event of
Termination" under the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Issuer shall promptly
notify the Trustee and the Rating Agencies thereof, and shall specify in such
notice the action, if any, the Issuer is taking with respect of such default.
If an "Event of Termination" shall arise from the failure of the Servicer to
perform any of its duties or obligations under the Sale and Servicing Agreement
with respect to the Contracts, the Issuer shall take all reasonable steps
available to it to remedy such failure.
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(e) If the Issuer has given notice of termination to the Servicer of the
Servicer's rights and powers pursuant to Section 7.02 of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement, as promptly as possible thereafter, a successor servicer shall be
appointed in accordance with Section 7.03 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
(f) Upon any termination of the Servicer's rights and powers pursuant to
the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Issuer shall promptly notify the Trustee.
As soon as a successor Servicer is appointed, the Issuer shall notify the
Trustee of such appointment, specifying in such notice the name and address of
such successor Servicer.
(g) The Issuer agrees that it will not waive timely performance or
observance by the Servicer, the Trustee or the Company of their respective
duties under the Related Documents if the effect thereof would adversely affect
the Holders of the Notes.
SECTION 3.08. Negative Covenants. Until the Termination Date, the Issuer
shall not:
(i) except as expressly permitted by this Indenture or the Sale and
Servicing Agreement, sell, transfer, exchange or otherwise dispose of any
of the properties or assets of the Issuer, including those included in the
Trust Estate, unless directed to do so by the Trustee;
(ii) claim any credit on, or make any deduction from the principal,
interest or premium payable in respect of, the Notes (other than amounts
properly withheld from such payments under the Code) or assert any claim
against any present or former Noteholder by reason of the payment of the
taxes levied or assessed upon any part of the Trust Estate; or
(iii) (A) permit the validity or effectiveness of this Indenture to
be impaired, or permit the lien in favor of the Trustee created by this
Indenture to be amended, hypothecated, subordinated, terminated or
discharged, or permit any Person to be released from any covenants or
obligations with respect to the Notes under this Indenture except as may be
expressly permitted hereby, (B) permit any lien, charge, excise, claim,
security interest, mortgage or other encumbrance (other than the lien in
favor of the Trustee created by this Indenture) to be created on or extend
to or otherwise arise upon or burden the Trust Estate or any part thereof
or any interest therein or the proceeds thereof (other than tax liens,
mechanics' liens and other liens that arise by operation of law, in each
case on a Financed Product and arising solely as a result of an action or
omission of the related Obligor), (C) permit the lien in favor of the
Trustee created by this Indenture not to constitute a valid first priority
(other than with respect to any such tax, mechanics' or other lien)
security interest in the Trust Estate, or (D) amend, modify or fail to
comply with the provisions of the Related Documents without the prior
written consent of the Trustee.
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SECTION 3.09. Annual Statement as to Compliance. The Issuer will deliver
to the Trustee, within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Issuer
(commencing with the fiscal year ended December 31, 1998), an Officer's
Certificate stating, as to the Authorized Officer signing such Officer's
Certificate, that
(i) a review of the activities of the Issuer during such year and of
performance under this Indenture has been made under such Authorized
Officer's supervision; and
(ii) to the best of such Authorized Officer's knowledge, based on
such review, the Issuer has complied with all conditions and covenants
under this Indenture throughout such year, or, if there has been a default
in the compliance of any such condition or covenant, specifying each such
default known to such Authorized Officer and the nature and status thereof.
SECTION 3.10. Issuer May Consolidate, etc. Only on Certain Terms.
(a) The Issuer shall not consolidate or merge with or into any other
Person, unless
(i) the Person (if other than the Issuer) formed by or surviving such
consolidation or merger shall be a Person organized and existing under the
laws of the United States of America or any State and shall expressly
assume, by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the
Trustee, in form and substance satisfactory to the Trustee, the due and
punctual payment of the principal of and interest on all Notes and the
performance or observance of every agreement and covenant of this Indenture
and each other Related Document on the part of the Issuer to be performed
or observed, all as provided herein;
(ii) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Default
or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing;
(iii) the Rating Agency Condition shall have been satisfied with
respect to such transaction;
(iv) the Issuer shall have received an Opinion of Counsel which shall
be delivered to and shall be satisfactory to the Trustee to the effect that
such transaction will not have any material adverse tax consequence to the
Trust, any Noteholder or any Certificateholder;
(v) any action as is necessary to maintain the lien and security
interest created in favor of the Trustee by this Indenture shall have been
taken;
(vi) the Issuer shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer's
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel (which shall describe the actions
taken
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as required by clause (a)(v) of this Section 3.10 or that no such actions
will be taken) each stating that such consolidation or merger and such
supplemental indenture comply with this Article III and that all conditions
precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction have been
compiled with (including any filing required by the Exchange Act); and
(vii) the Issuer or the Person (if other than the Issuer) formed by
or surviving such consolidation or merger has a net worth, immediately
after such consolidation or merger, that is (a) greater than zero and (b)
not less than the net worth of the Issuer immediately prior to giving
effect to such consolidation or merger.
(b) The Issuer shall not convey or transfer all or substantially all of its
properties or assets, including those included in the Trust Estate, to any
Person (except as expressly permitted by the Indenture or the Sale and Servicing
Agreement), unless
(i) the Person that acquires by conveyance or transfer the properties
and assets of the Issuer shall (A) be a United States citizen or a Person
organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America or
any State, (B) expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental hereto,
executed and delivered to the Trustee, in form and substance satisfactory
to the Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the principal of and
interest on all Notes and the performance or observance of every agreement
and covenant of this Indenture and each Related Document on the part of the
Issuer to be performed or observed, all as provided herein, (C) expressly
agree by means of such supplemental indenture that all right, title and
interest so conveyed or transferred shall be subject and subordinate to the
rights of Holders of the Notes, (D) unless otherwise provided in such
supplemental indenture, expressly agree to indemnify, defend and hold
harmless the Issuer against and from any loss, liability or expense arising
under or related to this Indenture and the Notes and (E) expressly agree by
means of such supplemental indenture that such Person (or if a group of
Persons, then one specified Person) shall make all filings with the
Commission (and any other appropriate Person) required by the Exchange Act
in connection with the Notes;
(ii) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Default
or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing;
(iii) the Rating Agency Condition shall have been satisfied with
respect to such transaction;
(iv) the Issuer shall have received an Opinion of Counsel which shall
be delivered to and shall be satisfactory to the Trustee to the effect that
such transaction will not have any material adverse tax consequence to the
Trust, any Noteholder or any Certificateholder;
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(v) any action as is necessary to maintain the lien and security
interest created in favor of the Trustee by this Indenture shall have been
taken;
(vi) the Issuer shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer's
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel (which shall describe the actions
taken as required by clause (b)(v) of this Section 3.10 or that no such
actions will be taken) each stating that such conveyance or transfer and
such supplemental indenture comply with this Article III and that all
conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction have
been complied with (including any filing required by the Exchange Act); and
(vii) the Person acquiring by conveyance or transfer the properties
or assets of the Issuer has a net worth, immediately after such conveyance
or transfer, that is (a) greater than zero and (b) not less than the net
worth of the Issuer immediately prior to giving effect to such conveyance
or transfer.
SECTION 3.11. Successor or Transferee.
(a) Upon any consolidation or merger of the Issuer in accordance with
Section 3.10(a), the Person formed by or surviving such consolidation or merger
(if other than the Issuer) shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may
exercise every right and power of, the Issuer under this Indenture with the same
effect as if such Person had been named as the Issuer herein.
(b) Upon a conveyance or transfer of all the assets and properties of the
Issuer pursuant to Section 3.10(b), the Issuer will be released from every
covenant and agreement of this Indenture to be observed or performed on the part
of the Issuer with respect to the Notes immediately upon the delivery of written
notice to the Trustee stating that the Issuer is to be so released.
SECTION 3.12. No Other Business. The Issuer shall not engage in any
business other than financing, purchasing, owning, selling and managing the
Contracts in the manner contemplated by this Indenture and the Related Documents
and activities incidental thereto.
SECTION 3.13. No Borrowing. The Issuer shall not issue, incur, assume,
guarantee or otherwise become liable, directly or indirectly, for any
Indebtedness except for (i) the Notes and (ii) any other Indebtedness permitted
by or arising under the Related Documents. The proceeds of the Notes and the
Certificates shall be used exclusively to fund the Issuer's purchase of the
Contracts and the other assets specified in the Sale and Servicing Agreement, to
fund the Spread Account and to pay the Issuer's organizational, transactional
and start-up expenses.
SECTION 3.14. Servicer's Obligations. The Issuer shall cause the Servicer
to fulfill its obligations under the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
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SECTION 3.15. Guarantees, Loans, Advances and Other Liabilities. Except
as contemplated by the Sale and Servicing Agreement or this Indenture, the
Issuer shall not make any loan or advance or credit to, or guarantee (directly
or indirectly or by an instrument having the effect of assuming another's
payment or performance on any obligation or capability of so doing or
otherwise), endorse or otherwise become contingently liable, directly or
indirectly, in connection with the obligations, stocks or dividends of, or own,
purchase, repurchase or acquire (or agree contingently to do so) any stock,
obligations, assets or securities of, any other interest in, or make any capital
contribution to, any other Person.
SECTION 3.16. Capital Expenditures. The Issuer shall not make any
expenditure (by long-term or operating lease or otherwise) for capital assets
(either realty or personalty).
SECTION 3.17. Restricted Payments. Except as expressly permitted by this
Indenture or the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Issuer shall not, directly or
indirectly, (i) make any distribution (by reduction of capital or otherwise),
whether in cash, property, securities or a combination thereof, to the Owner
Trustee or any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer or otherwise with
respect to any ownership or equity interest or security in or of the Issuer or
to the Servicer, (ii) redeem, purchase, retire or otherwise acquire for value
any such ownership or equity interest or security or (iii) set aside or
otherwise segregate any amounts for any such purpose. The Issuer will not,
directly or indirectly, make payments to or distributions from the Collection
Account except in accordance with this Indenture and the Related Documents.
SECTION 3.18. Notice of Events of Default. The Issuer agrees to give the
Trustee and the Rating Agencies prompt written notice of each Event of Default
hereunder and each default on the part of the Servicer or the Company of its
obligations under the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
SECTION 3.19. Further Instruments and Acts. Upon request of the Trustee,
the Issuer will execute and deliver such further instruments and do such further
acts as may be reasonably necessary or proper to carry out more effectively the
purpose of this Indenture.
SECTION 3.20. Compliance with Laws. The Issuer shall comply with the
requirements of all applicable laws, the noncompliance with which would,
individually or in the aggregate, materially and adversely affect the ability of
the Issuer to perform its obligations under the Notes, this Indenture or any
Related Document.
SECTION 3.21. Amendments of Sale and Servicing Agreement and Trust
Agreement. The Issuer shall not agree to any amendment to Section 10.03 of the
Sale and Servicing Agreement or Section 11.1 of the Trust Agreement to eliminate
the requirements thereunder that the Trustee or the Holders of the Notes consent
to amendments thereto as provided therein.
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SECTION 3.22. Removal of Administrator. So long as any Notes are issued
and outstanding, the Issuer shall not remove the Administrator without cause
unless the Rating Agency Condition shall have been satisfied in connection with
such removal.
SECTION 3.23. Income Tax Characterization. For purposes of federal
income, state and local income and franchise and any other income taxes, the
Issuer will treat the Notes as indebtedness of the Issuer. The Issuer, by
entering into this Indenture, and each Noteholder, by its acceptance of its Note
(and each Note Owner by its acceptance of an interest in the applicable Book-
Entry Note), agree to treat the Notes for federal, state and local income,
single business and franchise tax purposes as indebtedness of the Issuer.
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ARTICLE IV
Satisfaction and Discharge
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SECTION 4.01. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture. This Indenture
shall cease to be of further effect with respect to the Notes except as to (i)
rights of registration of transfer and exchange, (ii) substitution of mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Notes, (iii) rights of Noteholders to receive payments
of principal, interest and premium, if any, thereon, (iv) Sections 3.03, 3.04,
3.05, 3.07, 3.08, 3.10, 3.12, 3.13, 3.20, 3.21 and 3.23, (v) the rights,
obligations and immunities of the Trustee hereunder (including the rights of the
Trustee under Section 6.07 and the obligations of the Trustee under Section
4.02) and (vi) the rights of Noteholders as beneficiaries hereof with respect to
the property so deposited with the Trustee payable to all or any of them, and
the Trustee, on demand of and at the expense of the Issuer, shall execute proper
instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with
respect to the Notes, when
(A) either
(1) all Notes theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than (i)
Notes that have been destroyed, lost or stolen and that have been replaced
or paid as provided in Section 2.05 and (ii) Notes for whose payment money
has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust by
the Issuer and thereafter repaid to the Issuer or discharged from such
trust, as provided in Section 3.03) have been delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation; or
(2) all Notes not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation
(i) have become due and payable, or
(ii) will become due and payable at the Final Scheduled
Distribution Date within one year, or
(iii) are to be called for redemption within one year under
arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of
redemption by the Trustee in the name, and at the expense, of the
Issuer,
and the Issuer, in the case of (i), (ii) or (iii) above, has irrevocably
deposited or caused to be irrevocably deposited with the Trustee as part of
the Trust Estate cash or direct obligations
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of or obligations guaranteed by the United States of America (which will
mature prior to the date such amounts are payable), in trust in an Eligible
Account in the name of the Trustee for such purpose, in an amount
sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on such Notes not
theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation when due to the Final
Scheduled Distribution Date or Redemption Date (if Notes shall have been
called for redemption pursuant to Section 10.01(a)), as the case may be;
(B) the Issuer has paid or caused to be paid all Secured Obligations; and
(C) the Issuer has delivered to the Trustee an Officer's Certificate, an
Opinion of Counsel and (if required by the TIA or the Trustee) an
Independent Certificate from a firm of certified public accountants,
each meeting the applicable requirements of Section 11.01(a) and each
stating that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to
the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have been complied
with and the Rating Agency Condition has been satisfied .
SECTION 4.02. Application of Trust Money. All moneys deposited with the
Trustee pursuant to Section 4.01 hereof shall be held in trust and applied by
it, in accordance with the provisions of the Notes and this Indenture, to the
payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent, as the Trustee may
determine, to the Holders of the particular Notes for the payment or redemption
of which such moneys have been deposited with the Trustee, of all sums due and
to become due thereon for principal and interest; but such moneys need not be
segregated from other funds except to the extent required herein or in the Sale
and Servicing Agreement or required by law.
SECTION 4.03. Repayment of Moneys Held by Paying Agent. In connection
with the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect to the Notes,
all moneys then held by any Paying Agent other than the Trustee under the
provisions of this Indenture with respect to such Notes shall, upon demand of
the Issuer, be paid to the Trustee to be held and applied according to Section
3.03 and thereupon such Paying Agent shall be released from all further
liability with respect to such moneys.
SECTION 4.04. Release of Trust Estate. The Trustee shall, on or after the
Termination Date, release any remaining portion of the Trust Estate from the
lien created by this Indenture, assign to the Issuer by instruments in
recordable form the Trustee's interest of record in any mortgage, deed of trust
or security deed securing any Home Equity Contract or Home Improvement Contract,
and deposit in the Collection Account any funds then on deposit in any other
Trust Account. The Trustee shall release property from the lien created by this
Indenture pursuant to this Section 4.04 only upon receipt of an Issuer Request
accompanied by an Officer's Certificate, an Opinion of Counsel and (if required
by the TIA)
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Independent Certificates in accordance with TIA (S)(S) 314(c) and 314(d)(1)
meeting the applicable requirements of Section 11.01.
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ARTICLE V
Remedies
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SECTION 5.01. Events of Default. "Event of Default," wherever used
herein, means any one of the following events (whatever the reason for such
Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected
by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or
any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body):
(i) default in the payment of any interest on any Note when the same
becomes due and payable, and such default shall continue for a period of
five days; or
(ii) default in the payment of the principal of or any installment of
the principal of any Note when the same becomes due and payable; or
(iii) default in the observance or performance of any covenant or
agreement of the Issuer made in this Indenture (other than a covenant or
agreement, a default in the observance or performance of which is elsewhere
in this Section specifically dealt with), or any representation or warranty
of the Issuer made in this Indenture or in any certificate or other writing
delivered pursuant hereto or in connection herewith proving to have been
incorrect in any material respect as of the time when the same shall have
been made, and such default shall continue or not be cured, or the
circumstance or condition in respect of which such misrepresentation or
warranty was incorrect shall not have been eliminated or otherwise cured,
for a period of 30 days after there shall have been given, by registered or
certified mail, to the Issuer by the Trustee or to the Issuer and the
Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% of the Outstanding Amount of the
Notes, a written notice specifying such default or incorrect representation
or warranty and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is
a "Notice of Default" hereunder; or
(iv) the commencement of an involuntary case against the Issuer under
any applicable Federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law
now or hereafter in effect, and such case is not dismissed within 60 days;
or
(v) the commencement by the Issuer of a voluntary case under any
applicable Federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now
or hereafter in effect, the entry of an order for relief in an involuntary
case against the Issuer under any such law, the consent by the Issuer to
the entry of any such order for relief, the consent by the Issuer to the
appointment or taking possession by a receiver, liquidator, assignee,
custodian, trustee, sequestrator or similar official of the Issuer or for
any substantial part of the
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Trust Estate, the making by the Issuer of any general assignment for the
benefit of creditors, the failure by the Issuer generally to pay its debts
as such debts become due, or the taking of action by the Issuer in
furtherance of any of the foregoing.
The Issuer shall deliver to the Trustee, within five days after obtaining
knowledge of the occurrence thereof, written notice in the form of an Officer's
Certificate of any event which with the giving of notice and the lapse of time
would become an Event of Default under clause (iii), its status and what action
the Issuer is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto.
SECTION 5.02. Rights upon Event of Default.
If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Trustee
in its discretion may, or if so requested in writing by Holders holding Notes
representing at least 66-2/3% of the aggregate outstanding principal amount each
class of Notes shall, upon prior written notice to the Rating Agencies, declare
by written notice to the Issuer that the Notes become, whereupon they shall
become, immediately due and payable at par, together with accrued interest
thereon. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section, if an Event
of Default specified in Section 5.01(iv) or (v) shall occur and be continuing
the Notes shall become immediately due and payable at par, together with accrued
interest thereon. If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing,
the Trustee may exercise any of the remedies specified in Section 5.04(a).
SECTION 5.03. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by
Trustee; Authority of Trustee.
(a) The Issuer covenants that if any Notes are accelerated following the
occurrence of an Event of Default, the Issuer will, upon demand of the Trustee,
pay to it, for the benefit of the Holders of such Notes, the whole amount then
due and payable on such Notes for principal and interest, with interest upon the
overdue principal, and, to the extent payment at such rate of interest shall be
legally enforceable, upon overdue installments of interest, at the applicable
Interest Rate and in addition thereto such further amount as shall be sufficient
to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the reasonable
compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee and its agents
and counsel.
(b) If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may, in
its discretion, proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the
Noteholders, by such appropriate Proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most
effective to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific
enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the
exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy or
legal or equitable right vested in the Trustee by this Indenture or by law.
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(c) In case there shall be pending, relative to the Issuer or any other
obligor upon the Notes or any Person having or claiming an ownership interest in
the Trust Estate, Proceedings under Title 11 of the United States Code or any
other applicable Federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law,
or in case a receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or reorganization,
liquidator, sequestrator or similar official shall have been appointed for or
taken possession of the Issuer or its property or such other obligor or Person,
or in case of any other comparable judicial Proceedings relative to the Issuer
or other obligor upon the Notes, or to the creditors or property of the Issuer
or such other obligor, the Trustee, irrespective of whether the principal of any
Notes shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or
otherwise and irrespective of whether the Trustee shall have made any demand
pursuant to the provisions of this Section, shall be entitled and empowered, by
intervention in such Proceedings or otherwise:
(i) to file and prove a claim or claims for the whole amount of
principal, interest and premium, if any, owing and unpaid in respect of the
Notes and to file such other papers or documents as may be necessary or
advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee (including any claim
for reasonable compensation to the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee,
and their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and for reimbursement
of all expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the
Trustee and each predecessor Trustee, except as a result of negligence or
bad faith) and of the Noteholders allowed in such Proceedings;
(ii) unless prohibited by applicable law and regulations, to vote on
behalf of the Holders of Notes in any election of a trustee, a standby
trustee or Person performing similar functions in any such Proceedings;
(iii) to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or
deliverable on any such claims and to distribute all amounts received with
respect to the claims of the Noteholders and of the Trustee on their
behalf; and
(iv) to file such proofs of claim and other papers or documents as
may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee or
the Holders of Notes allowed in any judicial proceedings relative to the
Issuer, its creditors and its property;
and any trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official in
any such Proceeding is hereby authorized by each of such Noteholders to make
payments to the Trustee, and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the
making of payments directly to such Noteholders, to pay to the Trustee such
amounts as shall be sufficient to cover reasonable compensation to the Trustee,
each predecessor Trustee and their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and
all other expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the
Trustee and each predecessor Trustee except as a result of negligence or bad
faith.
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(d) Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to
authorize or consent to or vote for or accept or adopt on behalf of any
Noteholder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition
affecting the Notes or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the
Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Noteholder in any such proceeding
except, as aforesaid, to vote for the election of a trustee in bankruptcy or
similar Person.
(e) All rights of action and of asserting claims under this Indenture or
under any of the Notes, may be enforced by the Trustee without the possession of
any of the Notes or the production thereof in any trial or other Proceedings
relative thereto, and any such action or Proceedings instituted by the Trustee
shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any
recovery of judgment, subject to the payment of the expenses, disbursements and
compensation of the Trustee, each predecessor Trustee and their respective
agents and attorneys, shall be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the
Notes.
(f) In any Proceedings brought by the Trustee (including any Proceedings
involving the interpretation of any provision of this Indenture), the Trustee
shall be held to represent all the Holders of the Notes, and it shall not be
necessary to make any Noteholder a party to any such Proceedings.
SECTION 5.04. Remedies. (a) If an Event of Default shall have occurred
and be continuing, the Trustee may (subject to Section 5.05):
(i) institute Proceedings in its own name and as or on behalf of a
trustee of an express trust for the collection of all amounts then payable
on the Notes or under this Indenture with respect thereto, whether by
declaration or otherwise, enforce any judgment obtained, and collect from
the Issuer and any other obligor upon such Notes moneys adjudged due;
(ii) institute Proceedings from time to time for the complete or
partial foreclosure of this Indenture with respect to the Trust Estate;
(iii) exercise any remedies of a secured party under the UCC and any
other remedy available to the Trustee and take any other appropriate action
to protect and enforce the rights and remedies of the Trustee on behalf of
the Noteholders; and
(iv) sell the Trust Estate or any portion thereof or rights or
interest therein, at one or more public or private sales called and
conducted in any manner permitted by law; provided, however, that the
Trustee may not sell or otherwise liquidate the Trust Estate following an
Event of Default unless (A) such Event of Default is of the type described
in Section 5.01(i) or (ii), or (B) either (I) the Holders of 100% of the
Outstanding Amount of the Notes consent thereto, (II) the proceeds of such
sale or liquidation distributable to the Noteholders will be sufficient to
discharge in full all amounts then due and
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unpaid upon such Notes for principal and interest, or (III) the Trustee
determines that the Trust Estate will not continue to provide sufficient
funds for the payment of principal of and interest on the Notes as they
would have become due if the Notes had not been declared due and payable,
and the Trustee provides prior written notice to the Rating Agencies and
obtains the consent of Holders of 66-2/3% of the Outstanding Amount of each
class of Notes. In determining such sufficiency or insufficiency with
respect to clause (II) or (III), the Trustee may, but need not, obtain and
rely upon an opinion of an Independent investment banking or accounting
firm of national reputation as to the feasibility of such proposed action
and as to the sufficiency of the Trust Estate for such purpose.
SECTION 5.05. Optional Preservation of the Contracts. If any Notes have
been declared to be due and payable under Section 5.02 following an Event of
Default and such declaration and its consequences have not been rescinded and
annulled, the Trustee may, but need not, elect to maintain possession of the
Trust Estate. It is the desire of the parties hereto and the Noteholders that
there be at all times sufficient funds for the payment of principal of and
interest on the Notes, and the Trustee shall take such desire into account when
determining whether or not to maintain possession of the Trust Estate. In
determining whether to maintain possession of the Trust Estate, the Trustee may,
but need not, obtain and rely upon an opinion of an Independent investment
banking or accounting firm of national reputation as to the feasibility of such
proposed action and as to the sufficiency of the Trust Estate for such purpose.
SECTION 5.06. Priorities.
If the Trustee collects any money or property pursuant to this Article V,
including any money or property in respect of liquidation of the Trust Estate
pursuant to Section 5.04(a)(iv), the Trustee shall pay out the money or property
as promptly as practicable in the following order:
(i) amounts due and owing and required to be distributed to the
Servicer, pursuant to priorities (i) and (ii) of Section 6.06(a) of the
Sale and Servicing Agreement and not previously distributed, in the order
of such priorities and without preference or priority of any kind within
such priorities;
(ii) to the Holders of the Notes in accordance with Section 8.02(c)
(other than any deposits into the Spread Account or Reserve Account
required by Section 8.02(c)(3), (5), (7) and (8));
(iii) amounts due and unpaid on the Certificates for interest and
principal, to the Owner Trustee for distribution to Certificateholders in
accordance with Section 5.2(d) of the Trust Agreement;
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provided that any amounts collected from the Capitalized Interest Account, Class
A-2 Subaccount, Class A-3 Subaccount, Class A-4 Subaccount, or Reserve Account,
all Interest Rate Cap Payments, and the Pre-Funded Amount shall be applied in
accordance with Section 8.02(e).
SECTION 5.07. Limitation of Suits. No Holder of any Note shall have any
right to institute any Proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this
Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other
remedy hereunder, unless:
(i) such Holder has previously given written notice to the Trustee of
a continuing Event of Default;
(ii) the Holders of not less than 25% of the Outstanding Amount of
the Notes have made written request to the Trustee to institute such
Proceeding in respect of such Event of Default in its own name as Trustee
hereunder;
(iii) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee reasonable
indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred in
complying with such request;
(iv) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice,
request and offer of indemnity has failed to institute such Proceedings;
and
(v) no direction inconsistent with such written request has been
given to the Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders of a majority
of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes;
it being understood and intended that no one or more Holders of Notes shall have
any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision
of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other
Holders of Notes or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over
any other Holders or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the
manner herein provided.
In the event the Trustee shall receive conflicting or inconsistent requests
and indemnity from two or more groups of Holders of Notes, each representing
less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes, the Trustee in its
sole discretion may determine what action, if any, shall be taken,
notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture.
SECTION 5.08. Unconditional Rights of Noteholders To Receive Principal and
Interest. Notwithstanding any other provisions in this Indenture, the Holder of
any Note shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive
payment of the principal of and interest on such Note on or after the respective
due dates thereof expressed in such Note or in this Indenture (or, in the case
of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date)
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and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, and such right
shall not be impaired without the consent of such Holder.
SECTION 5.09. Restoration of Rights and Remedies. If the Trustee or any
Noteholder has instituted any Proceeding to enforce any right or remedy under
this Indenture and such Proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any
reason or has been determined adversely to the Trustee or to such Noteholder,
then and in every such case the Issuer, the Trustee and the Noteholders shall,
subject to any determination in such Proceeding, be restored severally and
respectively to their former positions hereunder, and thereafter all rights and
remedies of the Trustee and the Noteholders shall continue as though no such
Proceeding had been instituted.
SECTION 5.10. Rights and Remedies Cumulative. No right or remedy herein
conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Noteholders is intended to
be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to
the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to every other right
and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or
otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or
otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other
appropriate right or remedy.
SECTION 5.11. Delay or Omission Not a Waiver. No delay or omission of the
Trustee or any Holder of any Note to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon
any Default or Event of Default shall impair any such right or remedy or
constitute a waiver of any such Default or Event of Default or an acquiescence
therein. Every right and remedy given by this Article V or by law to the
Trustee or to the Noteholders may be exercised from time to time, and as often
as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Noteholders, as the case
may be.
SECTION 5.12. Control by Noteholders. The Holders of a majority of the
Outstanding Amount of the Notes shall have the right to direct the time, method
and place of conducting any Proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee
with respect to the Notes or exercising any trust or power conferred on the
Trustee; provided that
(i) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or
with this Indenture;
(ii) subject to the express terms of Section 5.04, any direction to
the Trustee to sell or liquidate all or any portion of the Trust Estate
shall be by the Holders of Notes representing not less than 100% of the
Outstanding Amount of the Notes;
(iii) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the
Trustee that is not inconsistent with such direction; provided, however,
that, subject to Section 6.01, the Trustee need not take any action that it
determines
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might involve it in liability or might materially adversely affect the
rights of any Noteholders not consenting to such action.
SECTION 5.13. Waiver of Past Defaults. The Holders of Notes of not less
than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes may waive any past
Default or Event of Default and its consequences except a Default (a) in payment
of principal of or interest on any of the Notes or (b) in respect of a covenant
or provision hereof which cannot be modified or amended without the consent of
the Holder of each Note. In the case of any such waiver, the Issuer, the
Trustee and the Holders of the Notes shall be restored to their former positions
and rights hereunder, respectively; but no such waiver shall extend to any
subsequent or other Default or impair any right consequent thereto. Upon any
such waiver, such Default shall cease to exist and be deemed to have been cured
and not to have occurred, and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be
deemed to have been cured and not to have occurred, for every purpose of this
Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or
Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereto.
SECTION 5.14. Undertaking for Costs. All parties to this Indenture agree,
and each Holder of any Note by such Holder's acceptance thereof shall be deemed
to have agreed, that any court may in its discretion require, in any suit for
the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit
against the 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 (a)
any suit instituted by the Trustee, (b) any suit instituted by any Noteholder,
or group of Noteholders, in each case holding in the aggregate more than 10% of
the Outstanding Amount of the Notes or (c) any suit instituted by any Noteholder
for the enforcement of the payment of principal of or interest on any Note on or
after the respective due dates expressed in such Note and in this Indenture (or,
in the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date).
SECTION 5.15. Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws. The Issuer covenants (to
the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will not at any time insist upon,
or plead or in any manner whatsoever, claim or take the benefit or advantage of,
any stay or extension law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in
force, that may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and
the Issuer (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives
all benefit or advantages 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.
SECTION 5.16. Action on Notes. The Trustee's right to seek and recover
judgment on the Notes or under this Indenture shall not be affected by the
seeking, obtaining or application of any other relief under or with respect to
this Indenture. Neither the lien of this Indenture nor any rights or remedies
of the Trustee or the Noteholders shall be impaired by the recovery of any
judgment by the Trustee against the Issuer or by the levy of any
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execution under such judgment upon any portion of the Trust Estate or upon any
of the assets of the Issuer.
SECTION 5.17. Performance and Enforcement of Certain Obligations.
(a) Promptly following a request from the Trustee to do so and at the
Company's expense, the Issuer agrees to take all such lawful action as the
Trustee may request to compel or secure the performance and observance by the
Company or the Servicer, as applicable, of each of their obligations to the
Issuer under or in connection with the Sale and Servicing Agreement in
accordance with the terms thereof, and to exercise any and all rights, remedies,
powers and privileges lawfully available to the Issuer under or in connection
with the Sale and Servicing Agreement to the extent and in the manner directed
by the Trustee, including the transmission of notices of default on the part of
the Company or the Servicer thereunder and the institution of legal or
administrative actions or proceedings to compel or secure performance by the
Company or the Servicer of each of their obligations under the Sale and
Servicing Agreement.
(b) If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Trustee
may, and at the direction (which direction shall be in writing, including
facsimile) of the Holders of 66-2/3% of the Outstanding Amount of each class of
Notes shall, exercise all rights, remedies, powers, privileges and claims of the
Issuer against the Company or the Servicer under or in connection with the Sale
and Servicing Agreement, including the right or power to take any action to
compel or secure performance or observance by the Company or the Servicer of
each of their obligations to the Issuer thereunder and to give any consent,
request, notice, direction, approval, extension or waiver under the Sale and
Servicing Agreement, and any right of the Issuer to take such action shall be
suspended.
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ARTICLE VI
The Trustee
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SECTION 6.01. Duties of Trustee.
(a) If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Trustee
shall exercise the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture with the
same degree of care and skill in their exercise as a prudent person would
exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of such person's own
affairs.
(b) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default:
(i) the Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and only such
duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture and no implied
covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the
Trustee; and
(ii) in the absence of bad faith on its part, the Trustee may
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; however,
the Trustee shall examine the certificates and opinions to determine
whether or not they conform to the requirements of this Indenture and, if
applicable, the Trustee's other Related Documents.
(c) The Trustee may not be relieved from liability for its own negligent
action, its own negligent failure to act or its own willful misconduct, except
that:
(i) this paragraph does not limit the effect of paragraph (b) of this
Section;
(ii) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made
in good faith by a Responsible Officer unless it is proved that the Trustee
was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts; and
(iii) the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action it
takes or omits to take in good faith in accordance with a direction
received by it pursuant to Section 5.12.
(d) Every provision of this Indenture that in any way relates to the
Trustee is subject to paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of this Section.
(e) The Trustee shall not be liable for interest on any money received by
it except as the Trustee may agree in writing with the Issuer.
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(f) Money held in trust by the Trustee need not be segregated from other
funds except to the extent required by law or the terms of this Indenture or the
Sale and Servicing Agreement.
(g) No provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend or
risk its own funds or otherwise incur financial liability in the performance of
any of its duties hereunder or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers,
if it shall have reasonable grounds to believe that repayments of such funds or
adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to
it.
(h) 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 and to the provisions of the TIA.
(i) In no event shall the Trustee be required to perform, or be responsible
for the manner of performance of, any of the obligations of the Servicer, or any
other party, under the Sale and Servicing Agreement unless and until appointed
successor Servicer in accordance with Section 7.03 thereof.
(j) The Trustee shall, and hereby agrees that it will, perform all of the
obligations and duties required of it under the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
(k) The Trustee shall maintain the Contract Files for the Home Equity
Contracts and Home Improvement Contracts at its office or with a duly appointed
Custodian, who shall act as the agent of the Trustee on behalf of the
Noteholders. The Trustee may release a Contract File for a Home Equity Contract
or Home Improvement Contract pursuant to Section 6.13.
(l) Without limiting the generality of this Section 6.01, the Trustee shall
have no duty (i) to see to any recording, filing or depositing of this Indenture
or any agreement referred to herein or any financing statement evidencing a
security interest in the Products, or to see to the maintenance of any such
recording or filing or depositing or to any recording, refiling or redepositing
of any thereof, (ii) to see to any insurance of the Products or Obligors or to
effect or maintain any such insurance, (iii) to see to the payment or discharge
of any tax, assessment or other governmental charge or any lien or encumbrance
of any kind owing with respect to, assessed or levied against any part of the
Trust, (iv) to confirm or verify the contents of any reports or certificates
delivered to the Trustee pursuant to this Indenture or the Sale and Servicing
Agreement believed by the Trustee to be genuine and to have been signed or
presented by the proper party or parties, or (v) to inspect the Products at any
time or ascertain or inquire as to the performance of observance of any of the
Issuer's, the Company's or the Servicer's representations, warranties or
covenants or the Servicer's duties and obligations as Servicer and as custodian
of the Contract Files under the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
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(m) The Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or refraining
from taking any action in reliance on the advice of the Servicer in all matters
with respect to FHA Insurance. The Trustee shall not be liable for any actions
taken by the Servicer with respect to FHA Insurance, including but not limited
to the maintenance of such insurance and the submission of claims to FHA.
SECTION 6.02. Rights of Trustee.
(a) The Trustee may rely on any document believed by it to be genuine and
to have been signed or presented by the proper person. The Trustee need not
investigate any fact or matter stated in the document.
(b) Before the Trustee acts or refrains from acting, it may require an
Officer's Certificate (with respect to factual matters) or an Opinion of
Counsel, as applicable. The Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes
or omits to take in good faith in reliance on the Officer's Certificate or
Opinion of Counsel, as applicable, or as directed by the requisite amount of
Note Owners as provided herein.
(c) 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 or a custodian or nominee, and the Trustee shall not be responsible
for any misconduct or negligence on the part of, or for the supervision of, any
such agent, attorney, custodian or nominee appointed with due care by it
hereunder.
(d) The Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to
take in good faith which it believes to be authorized or within its rights or
powers; provided, however, that the Trustee's conduct does not constitute
willful misconduct, negligence or bad faith.
(e) The Trustee may consult with counsel, and the advice or opinion of
counsel with respect to legal matters relating to this Indenture and the Notes
shall be full and complete authorization and protection from liability in
respect to any action taken, omitted or suffered by it hereunder in good faith
and in accordance with the advice or opinion of such counsel.
(f) The Trustee shall be under no obligation to institute, conduct or
defend any litigation under this Indenture or in relation to this Indenture, at
the request, order or direction of any of the Holders of Notes, pursuant to the
provisions of this Indenture, unless such Holders of Notes shall have offered to
the Trustee reasonable security or indemnity against the costs, expenses and
liabilities that may be incurred therein or thereby; provided, however, that the
Trustee shall, upon the occurrence of an Event of Default (that has not been
cured), exercise the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture with
reasonable care and skill.
(g) 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,
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request, consent, order, approval, bond or other paper or document, unless
requested in writing to do so by the Holders of Notes evidencing not less than
25% of the Outstanding Amount thereof; provided, however, that if the payment
within a reasonable time to the Trustee of the costs, expenses or liabilities
likely to be incurred by it in the making of such investigation is, in the
opinion of the Trustee, not reasonably assured to the Trustee by the security
afforded to it by the terms of this Indenture or the Sale and Servicing
Agreement, the Trustee may require reasonable indemnity against such cost,
expense or liability as a condition to so proceeding; the reasonable expense of
every such examination shall be paid by the Person making such request, or, if
paid by the Trustee, shall be reimbursed by the Person making such request upon
demand.
SECTION 6.03. Individual Rights of Trustee. The Trustee in its individual
or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee of Notes and may otherwise
deal with the Issuer or its Affiliates with the same rights it would have if it
were not Trustee. Any Paying Agent, Note Registrar, co-registrar or co-paying
agent may do the same with like rights. However, the Trustee is required to
comply with Sections 6.11 and 6.12.
SECTION 6.04. Trustee's Disclaimer. The Trustee shall not be responsible
for and makes no representation as to the validity or adequacy of this
Indenture, the Trust Estate or the Notes, it shall not be accountable for the
Issuer's use of the proceeds from the Notes, and it shall not be responsible for
any statement of the Issuer in the Indenture or in any document issued in
connection with the sale of the Notes or in the Notes other than the Trustee's
certificate of authentication.
SECTION 6.05. Notice of Defaults. If a Default occurs and is continuing
and if it is known to a Responsible Officer of the Trustee, the Trustee shall
mail to each Noteholder notice of the Default within 90 days after it occurs.
Except in the case of a Default in payment of principal of or interest on any
Note (including payments pursuant to the mandatory redemption provisions of such
Note), the Trustee may withhold the notice if and so long as a committee of its
Responsible Officers in good faith determines that withholding the notice is in
the interests of Noteholders.
SECTION 6.06. Reports by Trustee to Holders. The Trustee shall deliver to
each Noteholder such information as may be required to enable such holder to
prepare its federal and state income tax returns.
SECTION 6.07. Compensation and Indemnity. The Issuer shall or shall cause
the Administrator to pay to the Trustee from time to time reasonable
compensation for its services. The Trustee's compensation shall not be limited
by any law on compensation of a trustee of an express trust. The Issuer shall
or shall cause the Administrator to reimburse the Trustee for all reasonable
out-of-pocket expenses incurred or made by it, including the costs of
collection, in addition to the compensation for its services. Such expenses
shall include the reasonable compensation and expenses, disbursements and
advances of the Trustee's agents, counsel, accountants and experts. The Issuer
shall or shall cause the Administrator to indemnify the Trustee against any and
all loss, liability or expense (including attorneys'
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fees) incurred by it in connection with the administration of this trust and the
performance of its duties hereunder. The Trustee shall notify the Issuer and
the Administrator promptly of any claim for which it may seek indemnity.
Failure by the Trustee to so notify the Issuer and the Administrator shall not
relieve the Issuer or the Administrator of its obligations hereunder. The
Issuer shall or shall cause the Administrator to defend any such claim, and the
Trustee may have separate counsel and the Issuer shall or shall cause the
Administrator to pay the fees and expenses of such counsel. Neither the Issuer
not the Administrator need reimburse any expense or indemnify against any loss,
liability or expense incurred by the Trustee through the Trustee's own wilful
misconduct, negligence or bad faith.
The Issuer's payment obligations to the Trustee pursuant to this Section
shall survive the discharge of this Indenture. When the Trustee incurs expenses
after the occurrence of a Default specified in Section 5.01(iv) or (v) with
respect to the Issuer, the expenses are intended to constitute expenses of
administration under Title 11 of the United States Code or any other applicable
federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law.
SECTION 6.08. Replacement of Trustee. The Trustee may resign at any time
by so notifying the Issuer. The Issuer may remove the Trustee if:
(i) the Trustee fails to comply with Section 6.11;
(ii) a court having jurisdiction in the premises in respect of the
Trustee in an involuntary case or proceeding under federal or state banking
or bankruptcy laws, as now or hereafter constituted, or any other
applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law,
shall have entered a decree or order granting relief or appointing a
receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee, conservator,
sequestrator (or similar official) for the Trustee or for any substantial
part of the Trustee's property, or ordering the winding-up or liquidation
of the Trustee's affairs;
(iii) an involuntary case under the federal bankruptcy laws, as now
or hereafter in effect, or another present or future federal or state
bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law is commenced with respect to the
Trustee and such case is not dismissed within 60 days;
(iv) the Trustee commences a voluntary case under any federal or
state banking or bankruptcy laws, as now or hereafter constituted, or any
other applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar
law, or consents to the appointment of or taking possession by a receiver,
liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee, conservator, sequestrator (or
other similar official) for the Trustee or for any substantial part of the
Trustee's property, or makes any assignment for the benefit of creditors or
fails generally to pay its debts as such debts become due or takes any
corporate action in furtherance of any of the foregoing; or
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(v) the Trustee otherwise becomes incapable of acting.
If the Trustee resigns or is removed or if a vacancy exists in the office
of Trustee for any reason (the Trustee in such event being referred to herein as
the retiring Trustee), the Issuer shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee.
A successor Trustee shall deliver a written acceptance of its appointment
to the retiring Trustee and to the Issuer. Thereupon the resignation or removal
of the retiring Trustee shall become effective, and the successor Trustee shall
have all the rights, powers and duties of the Trustee under this Indenture. The
successor Trustee shall mail a notice of its succession to Noteholders. The
retiring Trustee shall promptly transfer to the successor Trustee all property
held by it as Trustee, including any Contracts and Contract Files. If the
Contracts are then held by a Custodian pursuant to a custodial agreement, the
predecessor Trustee and the Custodian shall amend such custodial agreement to
make the successor Trustee the successor to the predecessor Trustee thereunder;
and the Servicer, the Company and the predecessor Trustee shall execute and
deliver such instruments and do such other things as may reasonably be required
for fully and certainly vesting and confirming in the successor Trustee all such
rights, powers, duties and obligations. If the predecessor Trustee is then the
lender of record for purposes of FHA Insurance (due to an Event of Termination),
the predecessor Trustee shall submit a report to FHA describing the transfer of
the FHA-Insured Contracts without recourse, in such form as is then required
under FHA Regulations to cause HUD to transfer to the successor Trustee the FHA
insurance reserves applicable to the FHA-Insured Contracts.
If a successor Trustee does not take office within 60 days after the
retiring Trustee resigns or is removed, the retiring Trustee, the Issuer or the
Holders of a majority in Outstanding Amount of the Notes may petition any court
of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee.
If the Trustee fails to comply with Section 6.11, any Noteholder may
petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee and
the appointment of a successor Trustee.
Any resignation or removal of the Trustee and appointment of a successor
Trustee pursuant to any of the provisions of this Section shall not become
effective until acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee pursuant to
this Section and payment of all fees and expenses owed to the outgoing Trustee.
Notwithstanding the replacement of the Trustee pursuant to this Section, the
retiring Trustee shall be entitled to payment or reimbursement of such amounts
as such Person is entitled pursuant to Section 6.07.
SECTION 6.09. Successor Trustee by Merger. If the Trustee consolidates
with, merges or converts into, or transfers all or substantially all its
corporate trust business or assets to, another corporation or banking
association, the resulting, surviving or transferee corporation without any
further act shall be the successor Trustee; provided that such
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corporation or banking association shall be otherwise qualified and eligible
under Section 6.11. The Trustee shall provide the Rating Agencies prompt notice
of any such transaction.
In case at the time such successor or successors by merger, conversion or
consolidation to the Trustee shall succeed to the trusts created by this
Indenture any of the Notes shall have been authenticated but not delivered, any
such successor to the Trustee may adopt the certificate of authentication of any
predecessor trustee, and deliver such Notes so authenticated; and in case at
that time any of the Notes shall not have been authenticated, any successor to
the Trustee may authenticate such Notes either in the name of any predecessor
hereunder or in the name of the successor to the Trustee; and in all such cases
such certificates shall have the full force which it is anywhere in the Notes or
in this Indenture provided that the certificate of the Trustee shall have.
SECTION 6.10. Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee.
(a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture, at any time,
for the purpose of meeting any legal requirement of any jurisdiction in which
any part of the Trust may at the time be located, the Trustee shall have the
power and may execute and deliver all instruments to appoint one or more Persons
to act as a co-trustee or co-trustees, or separate trustee or separate trustees,
of all or any part of the Trust, and to vest in such Person or Persons, in such
capacity and for the benefit of the Noteholders, such title to the Trust Estate,
or any part hereof, and, subject to the other provisions of this Section, such
powers, duties, obligations, rights and trusts as the Trustee may consider
necessary or desirable. No co-trustee or separate trustee hereunder shall be
required to meet the terms of eligibility as a successor Trustee under Section
6.11 and no notice to Noteholders of the appointment of any co-trustee or
separate trustee shall be required under Section 6.08 hereof.
(b) Every separate trustee and co-trustee shall, to the extent permitted by
law, be appointed and act subject to the following provisions and conditions:
(i) all rights, powers, duties and obligations conferred or imposed
upon the Trustee shall be conferred or imposed upon and exercised or
performed by the Trustee and such separate trustee or co-trustee jointly
(it being understood that such separate trustee or co-trustee is not
authorized to act separately without the Trustee joining in such act),
except to the extent that under any law of any jurisdiction in which any
particular act or acts are to be performed the Trustee shall be incompetent
or unqualified to perform such act or acts, in which event such rights,
powers, duties and obligations (including the holding of title to the Trust
or any portion thereof in any such jurisdiction) shall be exercised and
performed singly by such separate trustee or co-trustee, but solely at the
direction of the Trustee;
(ii) no trustee hereunder shall be personally liable by reason of any
act or omission of any other trustee hereunder; and
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(iii) the Trustee may at any time accept the resignation of or remove
any separate trustee or co-trustee.
(c) Any notice, request or other writing given to the Trustee shall be
deemed to have been given to each of the then separate trustees and co-trustees,
as effectively as if given to each of them. Every instrument appointing any
separate trustee or co-trustee shall refer to this Agreement and the conditions
of this Article VI. Each separate trustee and co-trustee, upon its acceptance
of the trusts conferred, shall be vested with the estates or property specified
in its instrument of appointment, either jointly with the Trustee or separately,
as may be provided therein, subject to all the provisions of this Indenture,
specifically including every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct
of, affecting the liability of, or affording protection to, the Trustee. Every
such instrument shall be filed with the Trustee.
(d) Any separate trustee or co-trustee may at any time constitute the
Trustee, its agent or attorney-in-fact with full power and authority, to the
extent not prohibited by law, to do any lawful act under or in respect of this
Agreement on its behalf and in its name. If any separate trustee or co-trustee
shall die, become incapable of acting, resign or be removed, all of its estates,
properties, rights, remedies and trusts shall vest in and be exercised by the
Trustee, to the extent permitted by law, without the appointment of a new or
successor trustee. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Indenture,
the appointment of any separate trustee or co-trustee shall not relieve the
Trustee of its obligations and duties under this Indenture.
SECTION 6.11. Eligibility; Disqualification. The Trustee shall at all
times satisfy the requirements of TIA (S) 310(a). The Trustee shall have a
combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 as set forth in its most
recent published annual report of condition and shall not be an Affiliate of the
Company. The Trustee shall comply with TIA (S) 310(b), including the optional
provision permitted by the second sentence of TIA (S) 310(b)(9); provided,
however, that there shall be excluded from the operation of TIA (S) 310(b)(1)
any indenture or indentures under which other securities of the Issuer are
outstanding if the requirements for such exclusion set forth in TIA (S)
310(b)(1) are met. The Trustee shall at all times be a Title I approved lender
pursuant to FHA Regulations.
SECTION 6.12. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Issuer. The
Trustee shall comply with TIA (S) 311(a), excluding any creditor relationship
listed in TIA (S) 311(b). A Trustee who has resigned or been removed shall be
subject to TIA (S) 311(a) to the extent indicated.
SECTION 6.13. Trustee to Cooperate.
a. Upon payment in full on any Contract, the Servicer will notify the
Trustee and the Company (if the Company is not the Servicer) on the next
succeeding Distribution Date by certification of a Servicing Officer (which
certification shall include a statement to the effect that all amounts received
in connection with such payments which are required to be
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deposited in the Collection Account pursuant to Section 5.05 of the Sale and
Servicing Agreement have been so deposited) and shall request delivery of the
Contract and Contract File to the Servicer. Upon receipt of such delivery and
request, the Trustee shall promptly release or cause to be released such
Contract and Contract File to the Servicer. Upon receipt of such Contract and
Contract File, each of the Company (if different from the Servicer) and the
Servicer is authorized to execute an instrument in satisfaction of such Contract
and to do such other acts and execute such other documents as the Servicer deems
necessary to discharge the Obligor thereunder and eliminate any lien on the
related real estate. The Servicer shall determine when a Contract has been paid
in full; provided that, to the extent that insufficient payments are received on
a Contract credited by the Servicer as prepaid or paid in full and satisfied,
the shortfall shall be paid by the Servicer out of its own funds, without any
right of reimbursement therefor (except from additional amounts recovered from
the related Obligor or otherwise in respect of such Contract), and deposited in
the Collection Account.
b. If the Servicer elects to submit a claim to FHA under the FHA
Insurance in respect of an FHA-Insured Contract and payment is received from
FHA, the Servicer shall notify the Trustee and the Company (if the Company is
not the Servicer) on the next succeeding Distribution Date by certification of a
Servicing Officer (which certification shall include a statement to the effect
that all amounts received in connection with such payments which are required to
be deposited in the Collection Account pursuant to Section 5.05 of the Sale and
Servicing Agreement have been so deposited) and shall request delivery of the
Contract and Contract File to the Servicer. Upon receipt of such delivery and
request, the Trustee shall promptly release or cause to be released such
Contract and Contract File to the Servicer.
c. From time to time as appropriate for servicing, foreclosing, and
making a claim for FHA Insurance coverage in connection with an FHA-Insured
Contract, the Trustee shall, upon written request of a Servicing Officer and
delivery to the Trustee of a receipt signed by such Servicing Officer, cause the
original Contract and the related Contract File to be released to the Servicer
and shall execute such documents as the Servicer shall deem necessary to the
prosecution of any such proceedings. Upon request of a Servicing Officer, the
Trustee shall perform such other acts as reasonably requested by the Servicer
and otherwise cooperate with the Servicer in enforcement of the Noteholders'
rights and remedies with respect to Contracts.
d. The Servicer's receipt of a Contract and/or Contract File shall
obligate the Servicer to return the original Contract and the related Contract
File to the Trustee when its need by the Servicer has ceased unless the Contract
shall be liquidated or repurchased as described in Section 3.05 or 8.06 of the
Sale and Servicing Agreement.
SECTION 6.14. Certain Matters Relating to FHA Insurance.
a. In the event the Company and the successor Servicer, if any, shall
fail to pay all FHA Insurance premiums with respect to the FHA-Insured Contracts
required by FHA
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Regulations, the Trustee shall pay such FHA Insurance premiums and shall be
entitled to reimbursement for such amounts pursuant to Section 6.06 of the Sale
and Servicing Agreement.
b. If, following the Termination Date, HUD demands reimbursement from the
Trustee of an FHA Insurance claim paid on an FHA-Insured Contract prior to the
termination of the Trust, the Trustee agrees that it will not seek to recover
any such amount from any Person other than the Servicer that submitted such
claim.
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ARTICLE VII
Noteholders' Lists and Reports
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SECTION 7.01. Issuer To Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses to
Noteholders. The Issuer will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee
(a) not more than five days after the earlier of (i) each Record Date and (ii)
three months after the last Record Date, a list, in such form as the Trustee may
reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Holders of Notes as of
such Record Date, (b) at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing,
within 30 days after receipt by the Issuer of any such request, a list of
similar form and content as of a date not more than 10 days prior to the time
such list is furnished; provided, however, that so long as the Trustee is the
Note Registrar, no such list shall be required to be furnished.
SECTION 7.02. Preservation of Information; Communications to Noteholders.
(a) The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably
practicable, the names and addresses of the Holders of Notes contained in the
most recent list furnished to the Trustee as provided in Section 7.01 and the
names and addresses of Holders of Notes received by the Trustee in its capacity
as Note Registrar. The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided
in such Section 7.01 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.
(b) Noteholders may communicate pursuant to TIA (S) 312(b) with other
Noteholders with respect to their rights under this Indenture or under the
Notes.
(c) The Issuer, the Trustee and the Note Registrar shall have the
protection of TIA (S) 312(c).
SECTION 7.03. Reports by Issuer.
(a) The Issuer shall:
(i) file with the Trustee, within 15 days after the Issuer is
required to file the same with the Commission, copies of the annual reports
and of the information, documents and other reports (or copies of such
portions of any of the foregoing as the Commission may from time to time by
rules and regulations prescribe) which the Issuer may be required to file
with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act;
(ii) file with the Trustee and the Commission in accordance with
rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission such
additional information, documents and reports with respect to compliance by
the Issuer with the conditions and covenants of this Indenture as may be
required from time to time by such rules and regulations; and
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(iii) supply to the Trustee (and the Trustee shall transmit by mail
to all Noteholders described in TIA (S) 313(c)) such summaries of any
information, documents and reports required to be filed by the Issuer
pursuant to clauses (i) and (ii) of this Section 7.03(a) as may be required
by rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission.
(b) Unless the Issuer otherwise determines, the fiscal year of the Issuer
shall end on December 31 of each year.
SECTION 7.04. Reports by Trustee. If required by TIA (S) 313(a), within
60 days after each March 31 beginning with March 31, 1998, the Trustee shall
mail to each Noteholder as required by TIA (S) 313(c) a brief report dated as of
such date that complies with TIA (S) 313(a). The Trustee also shall comply with
TIA (S) 313(b).
A copy of each report at the time of its mailing to Noteholders shall
be filed by the Trustee with the Commission and each stock exchange, if any, on
which the Notes are listed. The Issuer shall notify the Trustee if and when the
Notes are listed on any stock exchange.
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ARTICLE VIII
Accounts, Disbursements and Releases
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SECTION 8.01. Collection of Money. Except as otherwise expressly provided
herein, the Trustee may demand payment or delivery of, and shall receive and
collect, directly and without intervention or assistance of any fiscal agent or
other intermediary, all money and other property payable to or receivable by the
Trustee pursuant to this Indenture. The Trustee shall apply all such money
received by it as provided in this Indenture. Except as otherwise expressly
provided in this Indenture, if any default occurs in the making of any payment
or performance under any agreement or instrument that is part of this Indenture
or the Notes, the Trustee may take such action as may be appropriate to enforce
such payment or performance, including the institution and prosecution of
appropriate Proceedings. Any such action shall be without prejudice to any
right to claim a Default or Event of Default under this Indenture and any right
to proceed thereafter as provided in Article V.
SECTION 8.02. Trust Accounts.
(a) On or prior to the Closing Date, the Issuer shall cause the Servicer to
establish and maintain, in the name of the Trustee, for the benefit of the
Noteholders and/or the Certificateholders, the Trust Accounts (other than the
Certificate Distribution Account) as provided in Section 6.01(a) of the Sale and
Servicing Agreement.
(b) All collections in respect of the Contracts will be deposited in the
Collection Account as provided in Section 6.02 of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement. The Trustee shall pay into the Collection Account as promptly as
practicable all proceeds of FHA Insurance claims with respect to FHA-Insured
Contracts received by the Trustee. On or before each Distribution Date, all
amounts, if any, required to be deposited in the Note Distribution Account
pursuant to Section 6.04 or 6.06 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement or Section
8.03 of this Indenture will be transferred from the Collection Account,
Capitalized Interest Account, Pre-Funding Account, Spread Account, or Reserve
Account, as applicable, to the Note Distribution Account.
(c) On each Distribution Date, the Trustee shall distribute all amounts on
deposit in the Note Distribution Account to Noteholders in respect of the Notes
to the extent of amounts due and unpaid on the Notes for principal and interest,
to the Class A-2 Subaccount, the Class A-3 Subaccount and the Class A-4
Subaccount, and to the Reserve Account, in accordance with the instructions of
the Servicer in the following order of priority (but subject to the limitations
imposed by Section 8.02(e):
1. Class A-1:HE/HI and Class A-1. To the Holders of the Class A-
1:HE/HI Notes and Class A-1 Notes the amounts, and in the priority, set
forth below:
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(i) the Class A-1:HE/HI Interest Amount and the Class A-1 Interest
Amount, or if the amount available is less than the sum of the
amounts specified in this clause (i), pro rata to the Holders of
the Class A-1:HE/HI Notes and the Class A-1 Notes based on the
amount payable to each Class pursuant to this clause (i);
(ii) any Unpaid Class A-1:HE/HI Interest Shortfall and any Unpaid
Class A-1 Interest Shortfall, or if the amount available is less
than the sum of the amounts specified in this clause (ii), pro
rata to the Holders of the Class A-1:HE/HI Notes and the
Class A-1 Notes based on the amount payable to each Class
pursuant to this clause (ii);
(iii) the Class A-1:HE/HI Formula Principal Distribution Amount, to be
applied to the Class A-1:HE/HI Principal Balance, but in no
event more than the outstanding Class A-1:HE/HI Principal
Balance, and the Class A-1 Percentage of the Formula Principal
Distribution Amount, to be applied to the Class A-1 Principal
Balance, but in no event more than the outstanding Class A-1
Principal Balance, or if the amount available is less than the
sum of the amounts specified in this clause (iii), pro rata to
the Holders of the Class A-1:HE/HI Notes and the Class A-1 Notes
based on the amount payable to each Class pursuant to this
clause (iii);
(iv) any Unpaid Class A-1:HE/HI Principal Shortfall and any Unpaid
Class A-1 Principal Shortfall, or if the amount available is
less than the sum of the amounts specified in this clause (iv),
pro rata to the Holders of the Class A-1:HE/HI Notes and the
Class A-1 Notes based on the amount payable to each Class
pursuant to this clause (iv).
2. Class A-2. After payment of the amounts specified in clause (1)
above, to the Holders of the Class A-2 Notes the amounts, and in the
priority, set forth below:
(i) the Class A-2 Interest Amount;
(ii) any Unpaid Class A-2 Interest Shortfall;
(iii) the Class A-2 Percentage of the Formula Principal
Distribution Amount, to be applied to the Class A-2
Principal Balance, but in no event more than the
outstanding Class A-2 Principal Balance;
(iv) any Unpaid Class A-2 Principal Shortfall;
(v) any Class A-2 Liquidation Loss Interest Amount;
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(vi) any Unpaid Class A-2 Liquidation Loss Interest Shortfall;
and
(vii) any Unpaid Class A-2 Principal Liquidation Loss.
3. Class A-2 Subaccount. After payment of the amounts specified in
clauses (1) and (2) above, if any amount has been withdrawn from the Class
A-2 Subaccount pursuant to Section 6.04 of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement, to the Class A-2 Subaccount the difference, if any, between the
aggregate amount of such withdrawals and the aggregate amounts deposited in
the Class A-2 Subaccount pursuant to this Section 8.02(c)(3) prior to such
Distribution Date (but in no event more than the amount necessary to cause
the amount on deposit in the Class A-2 Subaccount to equal the Class A-2
Subaccount Required Amount).
4. Class A-3. After payment of the amounts specified in clauses (1)
through (3) above, to the Holders of the Class A-3 Notes the amounts, and
in the priority, set forth below:
(i) the Class A-3 Interest Amount;
(ii) any Unpaid Class A-3 Interest Shortfall;
(iii) the Class A-3 Percentage of the Formula Principal Distribution
Amount, to be applied to the Class A-3 Principal Balance, but in
no event more than the outstanding Class A-3 Principal Balance;
(iv) any Unpaid Class A-3 Principal Shortfall;
(v) any Class A-3 Liquidation Loss Interest Amount;
(vi) any Unpaid Class A-3 Liquidation Loss Interest Shortfall; and
(vii) any Unpaid Class A-3 Principal Liquidation Loss.
5. Class A-3 Subaccount. After payment of the amounts specified in
clauses (1) through (4) above, if any amount has been withdrawn from the
Class A-3 Subaccount pursuant to Section 6.04 of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement, to the Class A-3 Subaccount the difference, if any, between the
aggregate amount of such withdrawals and the aggregate amounts deposited in
the Class A-3 Subaccount pursuant to this Section 8.02(c)(5) prior to such
Distribution Date (but in no event more than the amount necessary to cause
the amount on deposit in the Class A-3 Subaccount to equal the Class A-3
Subaccount Required Amount).
6. Class A-4. After payment of the amounts specified in clauses (1)
through (5) above, to the Holders of the Class A-4 Notes the amounts, and
in the priority, set forth below:
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(i) the Class A-4 Interest Amount;
(ii) any Unpaid Class A-4 Interest Shortfall;
(iii) the Class A-4 Percentage of the Formula Principal
Distribution Amount, to be applied to the Class A-4
Principal Balance, but in no event more than the
outstanding Class A-4 Principal Balance;
(iv) any Unpaid Class A-4 Principal Shortfall;
(v) any Class A-4 Liquidation Loss Interest Amount;
(vi) any Unpaid Class A-4 Liquidation Loss Interest Shortfall;
and
(vii) any Unpaid Class A-4 Principal Liquidation Loss.
7. Class A-4 Subaccount. After payment of the amounts specified in
clauses (1) through (6) above, if any amount has been withdrawn from the
Class A-4 Subaccount pursuant to Section 6.04 of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement, to the Class A-4 Subaccount the difference, if any, between the
aggregate amount of such withdrawals and the aggregate amounts deposited in
the Class A-4 Subaccount pursuant to this Section 8.02(c)(7) prior to such
Distribution Date (but in no event more than the amount necessary to cause
the amount on deposit in the Class A-4 Subaccount to equal the Class A-4
Subaccount Required Amount).
8. Reserve Account. After payment on any Distribution Date of the
amounts specified in clauses (1) through (7) above, if any amount has been
withdrawn from the Reserve Account pursuant to Section 6.04 of the Sale and
Servicing Agreement, to the Reserve Account the difference, if any, between
the aggregate amount of such withdrawals and the aggregate amounts
deposited in the Reserve Account pursuant to this Section 8.02(c) (8) prior
to such Distribution Date (but in no event more than the amount necessary
to cause the amount on deposit in the Reserve Account to equal the Reserve
Account Required Amount).
(d) If the Trustee shall not have received the applicable Monthly Report by
any Distribution Date, the Trustee shall distribute all funds then in the Note
Distribution Account to Noteholders in accordance with Section 8.02(c), to the
extent of such funds, on such Distribution Date.
(e) Notwithstanding the order of priority of payment set out in subsection
8.02(c):
(i) amounts transferred to the Note Distribution Account from the
Class A-2 Subaccount may only be used to pay the amounts
specified in Section 8.02(c)(2)(i), (ii), (v) and (vi);
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(ii) amounts transferred to the Note Distribution Account from the
Class A-3 Subaccount may only be used to pay the amounts
specified in Section 8.02(c)(4)(i), (ii), (v) and (vi);
(iii) amounts transferred to the Note Distribution Account from the
Class A-4 Subaccount may only be used to pay the amounts
specified in Section 8.02(c)(6)(i), (ii), (v) and (vi);
(iv) Interest Rate Cap Payments may only be used to pay the Class A-1
Interest Amount;
(v) the Pre-Funded Amount may be applied only to payment of the Class
A-1, Class A-2, Class A-3, and Class A-4 Principal Balance;
(vi) amounts transferred to the Note Distribution Account from the
Reserve Account may only be used to pay the amounts specified in
Section 8.02(c), excluding amounts described in clauses (3), (5),
(7) and (8) thereof; and
(vii) amounts transferred to the Note Distribution Account from the
Capitalized Interest Account may only be used to pay the amounts
specified in Sections 8.02(c)(1)(i) and (ii), 8.02(c)(2)(i) and
(ii), 8.02(c)(4)(i) and (ii) and 8.02(c)(6)(i) and (ii).
Since the Noteholders' entitlement to amounts withdrawn from the Note
Distribution Account may be limited by the preceding sentence depending on the
source of such amounts in the Note Distribution Account, the Trustee shall keep
and maintain a separate account of amounts deposited in the Note Distribution
Account, and described in the preceding sentence, for the purpose of justifying
any withdrawal of such amounts from the Note Distribution Account.
(h) The Trustee agrees, to the extent required by the Code, to withhold
from each payment due hereunder or under any Note, United States withholding
taxes at the appropriate rate, and, on a timely basis, to deposit such amounts
with an authorized depository and make such returns, filings and other reports
in connection therewith as are required of it under the Code. Any Noteholder
which is eligible for an exemption from or reduction of withholding of United
States federal income taxes shall, from time to time, provide to the Trustee in
a timely manner all appropriate and properly completed forms indicating such
eligibility, as may be necessary to permit the Trustee not to withhold taxes
from payments due to such Noteholder. In connection with the foregoing, the
Trustee shall promptly furnish to each Noteholder in a timely fashion such U.S.
Treasury forms as are required by the Code to be furnished to such Noteholder
indicating payment of any taxes withheld from any payments by the Trustee to
such Noteholder. The Trustee shall be fully protected in relying upon, and each
Noteholder by its acceptance of a Note hereunder agrees to indemnify and hold
the Trustee harmless against all claims or liability of any kind arising in
connection with or
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related to the Trustee's reliance upon any documents, forms or information
provided by any Noteholder to the Trustee. In addition, if the Trustee has not
withheld taxes on any payment made to any Noteholder, and the Trustee is
subsequently required to remit to any taxing authority any such amount not
withheld, such Noteholder shall return such amount to the Trustee upon written
demand by the Trustee. In no event shall the Trustee be liable for
consequential damages to any Noteholder.
SECTION 8.03. Pre-Funding Account. Amounts on deposit in the Pre-Funding
Account shall be withdrawn by the Trustee as follows:
(a) On any Subsequent Transfer Date, the Trustee shall withdraw an amount
equal to 100% of the Cut-off Date Principal Balance of each Subsequent Contract
transferred to the Trust on such Subsequent Transfer Date and pay such amount to
or upon the order of the Company upon satisfaction of the conditions set forth
in Section 2.03(b) with respect to such transfer and assignment.
(b) On the Post-Funding Distribution Date, the Trustee shall deposit into
the Note Distribution Account the Pre-Funded Amount, if any, for distribution on
such Distribution Date in accordance with Section 8.02. On the Post-Funding
Distribution Date, the Trustee shall release to the Company all investment
earnings in the Pre-Funding Account.
SECTION 8.04. General Provisions Regarding Accounts.
(a) So long as no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing, all or a portion of the funds in the Trust Accounts (other than the
Certificate Distribution Account) shall be invested and reinvested in Eligible
Investments in accordance with the provisions of Section 6.01 of the Sale and
Servicing Agreement. All income or other gain from investments of moneys
deposited in such Trust Accounts (other than the Certificate Distribution
Account) shall be deposited by the Trustee in the Collection Account, and any
loss resulting from such investments shall be charged to the related Trust
Account. The Issuer will not direct the Trustee to make any investment of any
funds or to sell any investment held in any of the Trust Accounts (other than
the Certificate Distribution Account) unless the security interest Granted and
perfected in such account will continue to be perfected in such investment or
the proceeds of such sale, in either case without any further action by any
Person, and, in connection with any direction to the Trustee to make any such
investment or sale, if requested by the Trustee, the Issuer shall deliver to the
Trustee an Opinion of Counsel, acceptable to the Trustee, to such effect.
(b) Subject to Section 6.01(c), the Trustee shall not in any way be held
liable by reason of any insufficiency in any of the Trust Accounts resulting
from any loss on any Eligible Investment included therein except for losses
attributable to the Trustee's failure to make payments on such Eligible
Investments issued by the Trustee, in its commercial capacity as principal
obligor and not as Trustee, in accordance with their terms.
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(c) If (i) the Issuer shall have failed to give investment directions for
any funds on deposit in the Trust Accounts (other than the Certificate
Distribution Account) to the Trustee by 11:00 a.m., New York City time (or such
other time as may be agreed by the Issuer and Trustee), on any Business Day or
(ii) a Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing with
respect to the Notes but the Notes shall not have been declared due and payable
pursuant to Section 5.02 or (iii) if such Notes shall have been declared due and
payable following an Event of Default, amounts collected or receivable from the
Trust Estate are being applied in accordance with Section 5.05 as if there had
not been such a declaration, then the Trustee shall, to the fullest extent
practicable, invest and reinvest funds in the Trust Accounts (other than the
Certificate Distribution Account) in one or more Eligible Investments.
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ARTICLE IX
Supplemental Indentures
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SECTION 9.01. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Noteholders.
(a) Without the consent of the Holders of any Notes but with prior notice
to the Rating Agencies, the Issuer and the Trustee, when authorized by an Issuer
Order, at any time and from time to time, may enter into one or more indentures
supplemental hereto (which shall conform to the provisions of the Trust
Indenture Act as in force at the date of the execution thereof), in form
satisfactory to the Trustee, for any of the following purposes:
(i) to correct or amplify the description of any property at any time
subject to the lien of this Indenture, or better to assure, convey and
confirm unto the Trustee any property subject or required to be subjected
to the lien created by this Indenture, or to subject to the lien created by
this Indenture additional property;
(ii) to evidence the succession, in compliance with the applicable
provisions hereof, of another Person to the Issuer, and the assumption by
any such successor of the covenants of the Issuer herein and in the Notes
contained;
(iii) to add to the covenants of the Issuer, for the benefit of the
Holders of the Notes, or to surrender any right or power herein conferred
upon the Issuer;
(iv) to convey, transfer, assign, mortgage or pledge any property to
or with the Trustee;
(v) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision
herein or in any supplemental indenture which may be inconsistent with any
other provision herein or in any supplemental indenture or to make any
other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this
Indenture or in any supplemental indenture; provided that such action shall
not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of the Notes;
(vi) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of the appointment
hereunder by a successor Trustee with respect to the Notes and to add to or
change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to
facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one
trustee, pursuant to the requirements of Article VI; or
(vii) to modify, eliminate or add to the provisions of this Indenture
to such extent as shall be necessary to effect the qualification of this
Indenture
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under the TIA or under any similar federal statute hereafter enacted and to
add to this Indenture such other provisions as may be expressly required by
the TIA.
The Trustee is hereby authorized to join in the execution of any such
supplemental indenture and to make any further appropriate agreements and
stipulations that may be therein contained.
(b) The Issuer and the Trustee, when authorized by an Issuer Order, may,
also without the consent of any of the Holders of the Notes but with prior
notice to the Rating Agencies, enter into an indenture or indentures
supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to, or changing in
any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of, this Indenture or of
modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of the Notes under this
Indenture; provided, however, that such action shall not, as evidenced by an
Opinion of Counsel, adversely affect in any material respect the interests of
any Noteholder.
SECTION 9.02. Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Noteholders. The
Issuer and the Trustee, when authorized by an Issuer Order, also may, with prior
notice to the Rating Agencies, and with the consent of the Holders of not less
than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes, by Act of such Holders
delivered to the Issuer and the Trustee, enter into an indenture or indentures
supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to, or changing in
any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of, this Indenture or of
modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of the Notes under this
Indenture; provided, however, that, no such supplemental indenture shall,
without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Note affected thereby:
(i) change the date of payment of any installment of principal of or
interest on any Note, or reduce the principal amount thereof, the interest
rate thereon or the Redemption Price with respect thereto, change the
provision of this Indenture relating to the application of collections on,
or the proceeds of the sale of, the Trust Estate to payment of principal of
or interest on the Notes, or change any place of payment where, or the coin
or currency in which, any Note or the interest thereon is payable, or
impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of the provisions of
this Indenture requiring the application of funds available therefor, as
provided in Article V, to the payment of any such amount due on the Notes
on or after the respective due dates thereof (or, in the case of
redemption, on or after the Redemption Date);
(ii) reduce the percentage of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes,
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 certain provisions of this Indenture or certain
defaults hereunder and their consequences provided for in this Indenture;
(iii) modify or alter the provisions of the proviso to the definition
of the term "Outstanding";
(iv) reduce the percentage of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes
required to direct the Trustee to direct the Issuer to sell or liquidate
the Trust Estate pursuant to Section 5.04;
(v) modify any provision of this Section except to increase any
percentage specified herein or to provide that certain additional
provisions of this Indenture or the Related Documents cannot be modified or
waived without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Note affected
thereby;
(vi) modify any of the provisions of this Indenture in such manner as
to affect the calculation of the amount of any payment of interest or
principal due on any Note on any Distribution Date (including the
calculation of any of the individual components of such calculation) or to
affect the rights of the Holders of Notes to the benefit of any provisions
for the mandatory redemption of the Notes contained herein; or
(vii) permit the creation of any lien ranking prior to or on a parity
with the lien created by this Indenture with respect to any part of the
Trust Estate or, except as otherwise permitted or contemplated herein,
terminate the lien created by this Indenture on any property at any time
subject hereto or deprive the Holder of any Note of the security provided
by the lien created by this Indenture.
The Trustee may in its discretion determine whether or not any Notes would
be affected by any supplemental indenture, and any such determination shall be
conclusive upon the Holders of all Notes, whether theretofore or thereafter
authenticated and delivered hereunder. The Trustee shall not be liable for any
such determination made in good faith.
It shall not be necessary for any Act of Noteholders 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.
Promptly after the execution by the Issuer and the Trustee of any
supplemental indenture pursuant to this Section, the Trustee shall mail to the
Holders of the Notes to which such amendment or supplemental indenture relates a
notice setting forth in general terms the substance of such supplemental
indenture. Any failure of the Trustee to mail such notice, or any defect
therein, shall not, however, in any way impair or affect the validity of any
such supplemental indenture.
SECTION 9.03. Execution of Supplemental Indentures. In executing, or
permitting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental indenture
permitted by this Article IX or the modifications thereby of the trusts created
by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled
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to receive, and subject to Sections 6.01 and 6.02 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 that affects the Trustee's own rights, duties, liabilities or
immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.
SECTION 9.04. Effect of Supplemental Indenture. Upon the execution of any
supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions hereof, this Indenture shall
be and be deemed to be modified and amended in accordance therewith with respect
to the Notes affected thereby, and the respective rights, limitations of rights,
obligations, duties, liabilities and immunities under this Indenture of the
Trustee, the Issuer and the Holders of the Notes shall thereafter be determined,
exercised and enforced hereunder subject in all respects to such modifications
and amendments, and all the terms and conditions of any such supplemental
indenture shall be and be deemed to be part of the terms and conditions of this
Indenture for any and all purposes.
SECTION 9.05. Conformity With Trust Indenture Act. Every amendment of
this Indenture and every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this
Article IX shall conform to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act as then
in effect so long as this Indenture shall then be qualified under the Trust
Indenture Act.
SECTION 9.06. Reference in Notes to Supplemental Indentures. Notes
authenticated and delivered after the execution of any supplemental indenture
pursuant to this Article IX may, and if required by the Trustee shall, bear a
notation in form approved by the Trustee as to any matter provided for in such
supplemental indenture. If the Issuer or the Trustee shall so determine, new
notes so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Trustee and the Issuer,
to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed by the Issuer
and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in exchange for Outstanding
Notes.
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ARTICLE X
Redemption of Notes
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SECTION 10.01. Redemption.
(a) In the event that the Company or the Servicer pursuant to Article VIII
of the Sale and Servicing Agreement purchases the corpus of the Trust, the Notes
are subject to redemption in whole, but not in part, on the Distribution Date on
which such repurchase occurs, for a purchase price equal to the Redemption
Price; provided, however, that the Issuer has available funds sufficient to pay
the Redemption Price. The Company, the Servicer or the Issuer shall furnish the
Rating Agencies notice of such redemption. If the Notes are to be redeemed
pursuant to this Section 10.01(a), the Servicer or the Issuer shall furnish
notice of such election to the Trustee not later than 25 days prior to the
Redemption Date, and the Issuer shall deposit with the Trustee in the Note
Distribution Account the Redemption Price of the Notes to be redeemed, whereupon
all such Notes shall be due and payable on the Redemption Date upon the
furnishing of a notice complying with Section 10.02 to each Holder of the Notes.
(b) In the event that the assets of the Trust are sold pursuant to Section
9.2 of the Trust Agreement, the proceeds of such sale shall be distributed as
provided in Section 5.06. If amounts are to be paid to Noteholders pursuant to
this Section 10.01(b), the Servicer or the Issuer shall, to the extent
practicable, furnish notice of such event to the Trustee not later than 25 days
prior to the Redemption Date whereupon all such amounts shall be payable on the
Redemption Date.
SECTION 10.02. Form of Redemption Notice.
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(a) Notice of redemption under Section 10.01(a) shall be given by the
Trustee by first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not less than five days
prior to the applicable Redemption Date to each Holder of Notes, as of the close
of business on the Record Date with respect to the Distribution Date immediately
preceding the applicable Redemption Date, at such Holder's address appearing in
the Note Register.
All notices of redemption shall state:
(i) the Redemption Date;
(ii) the Redemption Price; and
(iii) the place where such Notes are to be surrendered for payment of
the Redemption Price (which shall be the office or agency of the Issuer to
be maintained as provided in Section 3.02).
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Notice of redemption of the Notes shall be given by the Trustee in the name
and at the expense of the Issuer. Failure to give notice of redemption, or any
defect therein, to any Holder of any Note shall not impair or affect the
validity of the redemption of any other Note.
(b) Prior notice of redemption under Section 10.01(b) is not required to be
given to Noteholders.
SECTION 10.03. Notes Payable on Redemption Date. The Notes or portions
thereof to be redeemed shall, following notice of redemption (if any) as
required by Section 10.02, on the Redemption Date become due and payable at the
Redemption Price and (unless the Issuer shall default in the payment of the
Redemption Price) no interest shall accrue on the Redemption Price for any
period after the date to which accrued interest is calculated for purposes of
calculating the Redemption Price.
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ARTICLE XI
Miscellaneous
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SECTION 11.01. Compliance Certificates and Opinions, etc.
(a) Upon any application or request by the Issuer to the Trustee to take
any action under any provision of this Indenture, the Issuer shall furnish to
the Trustee (i) an Officer's Certificate stating that all conditions precedent,
if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been
complied with, (ii) an Opinion of Counsel stating that in the opinion of such
counsel all such conditions precedent, if any, have been complied with and (iii)
(if required by the TIA) an Independent Certificate from a firm of certified
public accountants meeting the applicable requirements of this Section, except
that, in the case of any such application or request as to which the furnishing
of such documents is specifically required by any provision of this Indenture,
no additional certificate or opinion need be furnished.
Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition or
covenant provided for in this Indenture shall include:
(i) a statement that each signatory of such certificate or opinion
has read or has caused to be read such covenant or condition and the
definitions herein relating thereto;
(ii) 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;
(iii) a statement that, in the opinion of each such signatory, such
signatory has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to
enable such signatory to express an informed opinion as to whether or not
such covenant or condition has been complied with; and
(iv) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such
signatory, such condition or covenant has been complied with.
(b) (i) Prior to the deposit of any Indenture Collateral or other property
or securities with the Trustee that is to be made the basis for the release
of any property subject to the lien created by this Indenture, the Issuer
shall, in addition to any obligation imposed in Section 11.01(a) or
elsewhere in this Indenture, furnish to the Trustee an Officer's
Certificate certifying or stating the opinion of each person signing such
certificate as to the fair value (within 90 days of such deposit) to the
Issuer of the Indenture Collateral or other property or securities to be so
deposited.
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(ii) Whenever the Issuer is required to furnish to the Trustee an
Officer's Certificate certifying or stating the opinion of any signer
thereof as to the matters described in clause (i) above, the Issuer shall
also deliver to the Trustee an Independent Certificate as to the same
matters, if the fair value to the Issuer of the property to be so deposited
and of all other such property made the basis of any such withdrawal or
release since the commencement of the then-current fiscal year of the
Issuer, as set forth in the certificates delivered pursuant to clause (i)
above and this clause (ii), is 10% or more of the Outstanding Amount of the
Notes, but such a certificate need not be furnished with respect to any
property so deposited, if the fair value thereof to the Issuer as set forth
in the related Officer's Certificate is less than $25,000 or less than one
percent of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes.
(iii) Other than with respect to any release described in clause (A)
or (B) of Section 11.01(b)(v), whenever any property or securities are to
be released from the lien created by this Indenture, the Issuer shall also
furnish to the Trustee an Officer's Certificate certifying or stating the
opinion of each person signing such certificate as to the fair value
(within 90 days of such release) of the property or securities proposed to
be released and stating that in the opinion of such person the proposed
release will not impair the security created by this Indenture in
contravention of the provisions hereof.
(iv) Whenever the Issuer is required to furnish to the Trustee an
Officer's Certificate certifying or stating the opinion of any signer
thereof as to the matters described in clause (iii) above, the Issuer shall
also furnish to the Trustee an Independent Certificate as to the same
matters if the fair value of the property or securities and of all other
property or securities (other than property described in clauses (A) or (B)
of Section 11.01(b)(v)) released from the lien created by this Indenture
since the commencement of the then current fiscal year, as set forth in the
certificates required by clause (iii) above and this clause (iv), equals
10% or more of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes, but such certificate
need not be furnished in the case of any release of property or securities
if the fair value thereof as set forth in the related Officer's Certificate
is less than $25,000 or less than one percent of the then Outstanding
Amount of the Notes.
(v) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section, the Issuer
may, without compliance with the other provisions of this Section, (A)
collect, liquidate, sell or otherwise dispose of Contracts as and to the
extent permitted or required by the Related Documents (including as
provided in Section 5.06 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement) and (B) make
cash payments out of the Trust Accounts as and to the extent permitted or
required by the Related Documents.
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SECTION 11.02. 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 such Person may certify or give an
opinion with respect to some matters and one or more other such Persons as to
other matters, and any such Person may certify or give an opinion as to such
matters in one or several documents.
Any certificate or opinion of an Authorized Officer of the Issuer may be
based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of,
or representations by, counsel, unless such officer knows, or in the exercise of
reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations
with respect to the matters upon which his certificate or opinion is based are
erroneous. Any such certificate of an Authorized Officer or Opinion of Counsel
may be based, insofar as it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or
opinion of, or representations by, an officer or officers of the Servicer, the
Company or the Issuer, stating that the information with respect to such factual
matters is in the possession of the Servicer, the Company or the Issuer, unless
such counsel knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the
certificate or opinion or representations with respect to such matters are
erroneous.
Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more
applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other
instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated and
form one instrument.
Whenever in this Indenture, in connection with any application or
certificate or report to the Trustee, it is provided that the Issuer shall
deliver any document as a condition of the granting of such application, or as
evidence of the Issuer's compliance with any term hereof, it is intended that
the truth and accuracy, at the time of the granting of such application or at
the effective date of such certificate or report (as the case may be), of the
facts and opinions stated in such document shall in such case be conditions
precedent to the right of the Issuer to have such application granted or to the
sufficiency of such certificate or report. The foregoing shall not, however, be
construed to affect the Trustee's right to rely upon the truth and accuracy of
any statement or opinion contained in any such document as provided in Article
VI.
SECTION 11.03. Acts of Noteholders.
(a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver
or other action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by Noteholders
may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially
similar tenor signed by such Noteholders in person or by agents duly appointed
in writing; and except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall
become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to the
Trustee, and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the Issuer. Such
instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and evidenced
thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the "Act" of the Noteholders
signing such
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instrument or instruments. Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a
writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this
Indenture and (subject to Section 6.01) conclusive in favor of the Trustee and
the Issuer, if made in the manner provided in this Section.
(b) The fact and date of the execution by any person of any such instrument
or writing may be proved in any manner that the Trustee deems sufficient.
(c) The ownership of Notes shall be proved by the Note Register.
(d) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver
or other action by the Holder of any Notes shall bind the Holder of every Note
issued upon the registration thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof,
in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Trustee or
the Issuer in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made
upon such Note.
SECTION 11.04. Notices, etc., to Trustee, Issuer and Rating Agencies. Any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of
Noteholders or other documents provided or permitted by this Indenture to be
made upon, given or furnished to or filed with:
(a) the Trustee by any Noteholder or by the Issuer shall be sufficient for
every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed in writing to or with
the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office,
(b) the Issuer by the Trustee or by any Noteholder shall be sufficient for
every purpose hereunder if made in writing and mailed, first-class, postage
prepaid, to the Issuer addressed to: Green Tree Recreational, Equipment &
Consumer Trust 1997-D, in care of Wilmington Trust Company, as Owner Trustee,
▇▇▇▇▇▇ Square North, ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇,
Attention: Corporate Trust Administration or at any other address previously
furnished in writing to the Trustee by Issuer. The Issuer shall promptly
transmit any notice received by it from the Noteholders to the Trustee, or
(c) the Rating Agencies by the Issuer, the Trustee or the Owner Trustee
shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made in writing, personally
delivered or mailed by certified mail, return receipt requested to (i) in the
case of Fitch I.B.C.A. Inc., at the following address: ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇,
▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, Attention: ABS Surveillance Group and (ii) in the case
of Standard & Poor's, at the following address: Standard & Poor's Ratings
Services, ▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ (▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇), ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, Attention of Asset
Backed Surveillance Department; or as to each of the foregoing, at such other
address as shall be designated by written notice to the other parties.
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SECTION 11.05. Notices to Noteholders; Waiver. Where this Indenture
provides for notice to Noteholders of any event, such notice shall be
sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing
and mailed, first-class, postage prepaid to each Noteholder affected by such
event, at his address as it appears on the Note Register, not later than the
latest date, and not earlier than the earliest date, prescribed for the giving
of such notice. In any case where notice to Noteholders is given by mail,
neither the failure to mail such notice nor any defect in any notice so mailed
to any particular Noteholder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with
respect to other Noteholders, and any notice that is mailed in the manner herein
provided shall conclusively be presumed to have been duly given.
Where this Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice may be
waived in writing by any Person entitled to receive such notice, either before
or after the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of such notice.
Waivers of notice by Noteholders 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 a waiver.
In case, by reason of the suspension of regular mail service as a result of
a strike, work stoppage or similar activity, it shall be impractical to mail
notice of any event of Noteholders when such notice is required to be given
pursuant to any provision of this Indenture, then any manner of giving such
notice as shall be satisfactory to the Trustee shall be deemed to be a
sufficient giving of such notice.
Where this Indenture provides for notice to the Rating Agencies, failure to
give such notice shall not affect any other rights or obligations created
hereunder, and shall not under any circumstance constitute a Default or Event of
Default.
SECTION 11.06. Alternate Payment and Notice Provisions. Notwithstanding
any provision of this Indenture or any of the Notes to the contrary, the Issuer
may enter into any agreement with any Holder of a Note providing for a method of
payment, or notice by the Trustee or any Paying Agent to such Holder, that is
different from the methods provided for in this Indenture for such payments or
notices. The Issuer will furnish to the Trustee a copy of each such agreement
and the Trustee will cause payments to be made and notices to be given in
accordance with such agreements.
SECTION 11.07. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act. If any provision hereof
limits, qualifies or conflicts with another provision hereof that is required to
be included in this indenture by any of the provisions of the Trust Indenture
Act, such required provision shall control.
The provisions of TIA (S)(S) 310 through 317 that impose duties on any
Person (including the provisions automatically deemed included herein unless
expressly excluded by this Indenture) are a part of and govern this Indenture,
whether or not physically contained herein.
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SECTION 11.08. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents. The Article and
Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are for convenience only and
shall not affect the construction hereof.
SECTION 11.09. Successors and Assigns. All covenants and agreements in
this Indenture and the Notes by the Issuer shall bind its successors and
assigns, whether so expressed or not. All agreements of the Trustee in this
Indenture shall bind its successors.
SECTION 11.10. Severability. In case any provision in this Indenture or
in the Notes shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality,
and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected
or impaired thereby.
SECTION 11.11. Benefits of Indenture. Nothing in this Indenture or in the
Notes, express or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties
hereto and their successors hereunder, and the Noteholders, and any other party
secured hereunder, and any other Person with an ownership interest in any part
of the Trust Estate, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or
claim under this Indenture.
SECTION 11.12. Legal Holidays. In any case where the date on which any
payment is due shall not be a Business Day, then (notwithstanding any other
provision of the Notes or this Indenture) payment need not be made on such date,
but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and
effect as if made on the date on which nominally due, and no interest shall
accrue for the period from and after any such nominal date.
SECTION 11.13. Governing Law. THIS INDENTURE SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS
CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISIONS, AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE
PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.
SECTION 11.14. Counterparts. This Indenture may be executed in any number
of counterparts, each of which so executed shall be deemed to be an original,
but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same
instrument.
SECTION 11.15. Recording of Indenture. If this Indenture is subject to
recording in any appropriate public recording offices, such recording is to be
effected by the Issuer and at its expense accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel
(which may be counsel to the Trustee or any other counsel reasonably acceptable
to the Trustee,) to the effect that such recording is necessary either for the
protection of the Noteholders or any other Person secured hereunder or for the
enforcement of any right or remedy granted to the Trustee under this Indenture.
SECTION 11.16. Trust Obligation. No recourse may be taken, directly or
indirectly, with respect to the obligations of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or
the Trustee on the Notes or under this Indenture or any certificate or other
writing delivered in connection
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herewith or therewith, against (i) the Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its
individual capacity, (ii) any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer or
(iii) any partner, owner, beneficiary, agent, officer, director, employee or
agent of the Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity, any holder
of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Trustee or of
any successor or assign of the Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual
capacity, except as any such Person may have expressly agreed (it being
understood that the Trustee and the Owner Trustee have no such obligations in
their individual capacity) and except that any such partner, owner or
beneficiary shall be fully liable, to the extent provided by applicable law, for
any unpaid consideration for stock, unpaid capital contribution or failure to
pay any installment or call owing to such entity. For all purposes of this
Indenture, in the performance of any duties or obligations of the Issuer
hereunder, the Owner Trustee shall be subject to, and entitled to the benefits
of, the terms and provisions of Articles VI, VII and VIII of the Trust
Agreement.
SECTION 11.17. No Petition. The Trustee, by entering into this Indenture,
and each Noteholder, by accepting a Note, hereby covenant and agree that they
will not at any time institute against the Company, the Issuer or any General
Partner, or join in any institution against the Company, the Issuer or any
General Partner of, any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or
liquidation proceedings, or other proceedings under any United States federal or
state bankruptcy or similar law in connection with any obligations relating to
the Notes, this Indenture or any of the Related Documents.
SECTION 11.18. Inspection. The Issuer agrees that, on reasonable prior
notice, it will permit any representative of the Trustee, during the Issuer's
normal business hours, to examine all the books of account, records, reports,
and other papers of the Issuer, to make copies and extracts therefrom, to cause
such books to be audited by independent certified public accountants, and to
discuss the Issuer's affairs, finances and accounts with the Issuer's officers,
employees, and independent certified public accountants, all at such reasonable
times and as often as may be reasonably requested. The Trustee shall and shall
cause its representatives to hold in confidence all such information except to
the extent disclosure may be required by law (and all reasonable applications
for confidential treatment are unavailing) and except to the extent that the
Trustee may reasonably determine that such disclosure is consistent with its
obligations hereunder.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer and the Trustee have caused this Indenture
to be duly executed by their respective officers, thereunto duly authorized, all
as of the day and year first above written.
GREEN TREE RECREATIONAL, EQUIPMENT &
CONSUMER TRUST, 1997-D
By WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, not in its
individual capacity but solely on
behalf of the Issuer as Owner Trustee
under the Trust Agreement
By
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Name:
Title:
FIRST TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, not in
its individual capacity but solely as
Trustee
By
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Name:
Title:
EXHIBIT A-1
Unless this Note is presented by an authorized representative of The Depository
Trust Company, a New York corporation ("DTC"), to the issuer or its agent for
registration of transfer, exchange or payment, and any Note issued is registered
in the name of Cede & Co. or in such other name as is requested by an authorized
representative of DTC (and any payment is made to Cede & Co. or to such other
entity as is requested by an authorized representative of DTC), ANY TRANSFER,
PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS
WRONGFUL inasmuch as the registered owner hereof, Cede & Co., has an interest
herein.
THE PRINCIPAL OF THIS NOTE IS PAYABLE IN INSTALLMENTS AS SET FORTH HEREIN.
ACCORDINGLY, THE OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THIS NOTE AT ANY TIME MAY BE
LESS THAN THE AMOUNT SHOWN ON THE FACE HEREOF.
GREEN TREE RECREATIONAL, EQUIPMENT & CONSUMER TRUST 1997-D
CLASS [A-1:HE/HI][A-2][A-3][A-4] FIXED RATE ASSET-BACKED NOTE
REGISTERED $______________________
NO. R-_________________ CUSIP NO. ____________
Green Tree Recreational, Equipment & Consumer Trust 1997-D, a business
trust organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein
referred to as the "Issuer"), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede
& Co., or registered assigns, the principal sum of [
] payable on each Distribution Date in an amount equal to the result obtained by
multiplying (i) a fraction the numerator of which is $[INSERT INITIAL PRINCIPAL
AMOUNT OF NOTE] and the denominator of which is $167,923,639 by (ii) the
aggregate amount, if any, payable from the Note Distribution Account in respect
of principal on the Class [A-1:HE/HI][A-2][A-3][A-4] Notes pursuant to Section
3.01 of the Indenture; provided, however, that the entire unpaid principal
amount of this Note shall be due and payable on the earlier of the
__________________ Distribution Date (the "Final Scheduled Distribution Date")
and the Redemption Date, if any, pursuant to Section 10.01(a) or (b) of the
Indenture referred to on the reverse hereof.
The Issuer will pay interest on this Note at the Class [A-1:HE/HI][A-2][A-
3][A-4] Interest Rate on each Distribution Date until the principal of this Note
is paid or made available for payment, on the principal amount of this Note
outstanding on the preceding Distribution Date (after giving effect to all
payments of principal made on the preceding Distribution Date). Interest on
this Note will accrue for each Distribution Date from the most recent
Distribution Date on which interest has been paid to but excluding such
Distribution Date or, if no interest has yet been paid, from December __, 1997.
Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve
30-day months. Such
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principal of and interest and premium, if any, on this Note shall be paid in the
manner specified on the reverse hereof.
The principal of and interest on this Note are payable in such coin or
currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal
tender for payment of public and private debts. All payments made by the Issuer
with respect to this Note shall be applied first to interest due and payable on
this Note as provided above and then to the unpaid principal of this Note.
Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the
reverse hereof, which shall have the same effect as though fully set forth on
the face of this Note.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the
Trustee whose name appears below by manual signature, this Note shall not be
entitled to any benefit under the Indenture referred to on the reverse hereof,
or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer has caused this instrument to be signed,
manually or in facsimile, by its Authorized Officer.
Date: _____________
GREEN TREE RECREATIONAL, EQUIPMENT &
CONSUMER TRUST 1997-D
By WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY not in its
individual capacity but solely on
behalf of the Issuer as Owner Trustee
under the Trust Agreement
By
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Name:
Title:
TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Notes designated above and referred to in the within-
mentioned Indenture.
FIRST TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, not in
its individual capacity but solely as
Trustee
By
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Authorized Signatory
[REVERSE OF NOTE]
This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Issuer,
designated as its Class [A-1:HE/HI][A-2][A-3][A-4] Fixed Rate Asset-Backed Notes
(herein called the "Notes"), all issued under an Indenture dated as of December
1, 1997 (such indenture, as supplemented or amended, herein called the
"Indenture"), between the Issuer and First Trust National Association, as
trustee (the "Trustee," which term includes any successor Trustee under the
Indenture) to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference
is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights and obligations
thereunder of the Issuer, the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes. The Notes
are subject to all terms of the Indenture. All terms used in this Note that are
defined in the Indenture, as supplemented or amended, shall have the meanings
assigned to them in or pursuant to the Indenture, as so supplemented or amended.
The Class A-1:HE/HI Notes, Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes, the Class
A-3 Notes and the Class A-4 Notes (collectively, the "Notes") are and will be
equally and ratably secured by the collateral pledged as security therefor as
provided in the Indenture.
Principal of the Class [A-1:HE/HI][A-2][A-3][A-4] Notes will be payable on
each Distribution Date in an amount described on the face hereof. "Distribution
Date" means the fifteenth day of each month, or, if any such date is not a
Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day, commencing January 15, 1998.
As described above, the entire unpaid principal amount of this Note shall
be due and payable on the earlier of the Final Scheduled Distribution Date and
the Redemption Date, if any, pursuant to Section 10.01(a) or 10.01(b) of the
Indenture. All principal payments on the Class [A-1:HE/HI][A-2][A-3][A-4] Notes
shall be made pro rata to the Class [A-1:HE/HI][A-2][A-3][A-4] Noteholders
entitled thereto.
Payments of interest on this Note due and payable on each Distribution
Date, together with the installment of principal, if any, to the extent not in
full payment of this Note, shall be made by check mailed to the Person whose
name appears as the Registered Holder of this Note (or one or more Predecessor
Notes) on the Note Register as of the close of business on each Record Date,
except that with respect to Notes registered on the Record Date in the name of
the nominee of the Depository (initially, such nominee to be Cede & Co.),
payments will be made by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the
account designated by such nominee. Such checks shall be mailed to the Person
entitled thereto at the address of such Person as it appears on the Note
Register as of the applicable Record Date without requiring that this Note be
submitted for notation of payment. Any reduction in the principal amount of
this Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) affected by any payments made
on any Distribution Date shall be binding upon all future Holders of this Note
and of any Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange
hereof or in lieu hereof, whether or not noted hereon. If funds are expected to
be available, as provided in the Indenture, for payment in full of the then
remaining unpaid principal amount of this Note on a Distribution Date, then the
Trustee, in the name of and on behalf of the Issuer, will notify
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the Person who was the Registered Holder hereof as of the Record Date with
respect to the Distribution Date immediately preceding such Redemption Date by
notice mailed within five days of such Redemption Date and the amount then due
and payable shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of this Note
at the Trustee's principal Corporate Trust Office or at the office of the
Trustee's agent appointed for such purposes located in The City of New York.
The Issuer shall pay interest on overdue installments of interest at the
Class [A-1:HE/HI][A-2][A-3][A-4] Interest Rate to the extent lawful.
As provided in the Indenture, the Notes may be redeemed pursuant to Section
10.01(a) of the Indenture, in whole, but not in part, at the option of the
Company or the Servicer on any Distribution Date on or after the date on which
the Pool Scheduled Principal Balance is less than or equal to 10% of the Cutoff
Date Pool Principal Balance.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations set forth
therein, the transfer of this Note may be registered on the Note Register upon
surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the office or agency
designated by the Issuer pursuant to the Indenture, duly endorsed by, or
accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the
Trustee duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in
writing, with such signature guaranteed by a commercial bank or trust company
located, or having a correspondent located, in the city in which the Corporate
Trust Office is located, or a member firm of a national securities exchange, and
such other documents as the Trustee may require, and thereupon one or more new
Notes of authorized denominations and in the same aggregate principal amount
will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees. No service charge
will be charged for any registration of transfer or exchange of this Note, but
the transferor may be required to pay a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any such registration
of transfer or exchange.
Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by acceptance of a Note or, in the case of a
Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a Note, covenants and agrees that no
recourse may be taken, directly or indirectly, with respect to the obligations
of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Trustee on the Notes or under the
Indenture or any certificate or other writing delivered in connection therewith,
against (i) the Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity, (ii)
any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer or (iii) any partner, owner,
beneficiary, agent, officer, director or employee of the Trustee or the Owner
Trustee in its individual capacity, any holder of a beneficial interest in the
Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Trustee or of any successor or assign of the
Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity, except as any such
Person may have expressly agreed and except that any such partner, owner or
beneficiary shall be fully liable, to the extent provided by applicable law, for
any unpaid consideration for stock, unpaid capital contribution or failure to
pay any installment or call owing to such entity.
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Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by acceptance of a Note or, in the case of a
Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a Note, covenants and agrees that by
accepting the benefits of the Indenture and such Note that such Noteholder or
Note Owner will not at any time institute against the Company, the Issuer or any
General Partner, or join in any institution against the Company, the Issuer or
any General Partner of, any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency
or liquidation proceedings under any United States Federal or state bankruptcy
or similar law in connection with any obligations relating to the Notes, the
Indenture or the Related Documents.
It is the intent and agreement of the Issuer, the Trustee, the Noteholders
and Note Owners that, for purposes of federal income, state and local income and
franchise and any other income taxes, the Notes will be treated as indebtedness
of the Issuer. Each Noteholder and Note Owner, by acceptance of this Note or,
in the case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest in this Note, covenants and
agrees to treat this Note as indebtedness for such tax purposes and to take no
action inconsistent with such treatment.
Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer of this Note, the
Issuer, the Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee may treat the
Person in whose name this Note (as of the day of determination or as of such
other date as may be specified in the Indenture) is registered as the owner
hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be overdue, and neither the
Issuer, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the
contrary.
The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the
amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the
Issuer and the rights of the Holders of the Notes under the Indenture at any
time by the Issuer with the consent of the Holders of Notes representing a
majority of the Outstanding Amount of each class of Notes at the time
Outstanding. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of
Notes representing specified percentages of the Outstanding Amount of each class
of Notes, on behalf of the Holders of all the Notes, to waive compliance by the
Issuer with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under
the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder
of this Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) shall be conclusive and
binding upon such Holders and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any
Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in
lieu hereof whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this
Note. The Indenture also permits the Trustee to amend or waive certain terms
and conditions set forth in the Indenture without the consent of Holders of the
Notes issued thereunder.
The term "Issuer" as used in this Note includes any successor to the Issuer
under the Indenture.
The Issuer is permitted by the Indenture, under certain circumstances, to
merge or consolidate, subject to the rights of the Trustee and the Holder of
Notes under the Indenture.
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The Notes are issuable only in registered form in denominations as provided
in the Indenture, subject to certain limitations therein set forth.
This Note and the Indenture shall be construed in accordance with the laws
of the State of Minnesota, without reference to its conflict of law provisions,
and the obligations, rights and remedies of the parties hereunder and thereunder
shall be determined in accordance with such laws.
No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of
the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Issuer, which is
absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and interest on this Note at
the times, place, and rate, and in the coin or currency herein prescribed.
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ASSIGNMENT
Social Security or taxpayer I.D. or other identifying number of assignee:
-------------------------------
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and
transfers unto
---------------------------------------------------------
(name and address of assignee)
the within Note and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably constitutes
and appoints attorney, to transfer said Note on the books kept for registration
thereof, with full power of substitution in the premises.
Dated:
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**
Signature Guaranteed:
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**NOTE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name of
the registered owner as it appears on the face of the within Note in every
particular, without alteration, enlargement or any change whatsoever.
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▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇-▇
Unless this Note is presented by an authorized representative of The Depository
Trust Company, a New York corporation ("DTC"), to the issuer or its agent for
registration of transfer, exchange or payment, and any Note issued is registered
in the name of Cede & Co. or in such other name as is requested by an authorized
representative of DTC (and any payment is made to Cede & Co. or to such other
entity as is requested by an authorized representative of DTC), ANY TRANSFER,
PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS
WRONGFUL inasmuch as the registered owner hereof, Cede & Co., has an interest
herein.
THE PRINCIPAL OF THIS NOTE IS PAYABLE IN INSTALLMENTS AS SET FORTH HEREIN.
ACCORDINGLY, THE OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THIS NOTE AT ANY TIME MAY BE
LESS THAN THE AMOUNT SHOWN ON THE FACE HEREOF.
GREEN TREE RECREATIONAL, EQUIPMENT & CONSUMER TRUST 1997-D
CLASS A-1 FLOATING RATE ASSET-BACKED NOTE
REGISTERED $____________________
NO. R-_________________ CUSIP NO. __________
Green Tree Recreational, Equipment & Consumer Trust 1997-D, a business
trust organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein
referred to as the "Issuer"), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede
& Co., or registered assigns, the principal sum of [
] payable on each Distribution Date in an amount equal to the result obtained by
multiplying (i) a fraction the numerator of which is $[INSERT INITIAL PRINCIPAL
AMOUNT OF NOTE] and the denominator of which is $__________ by (ii) the
aggregate amount, if any, payable from the Note Distribution Account in respect
of principal on the Class A-1 Notes pursuant to Section 3.01 of the Indenture;
provided, however, that the entire unpaid principal amount of this Note shall be
due and payable on the earlier of the __________________ Distribution Date (the
"Final Scheduled Distribution Date") and the Redemption Date, if any, pursuant
to Section 10.01(a) or (b) of the Indenture referred to on the reverse hereof.
The Issuer will pay interest on this Note at the Class A-[1] Interest Rate
on each Distribution Date until the principal of this Note is paid or made
available for payment, on the principal amount of this Note outstanding on the
preceding Distribution Date (after giving effect to all payments of principal
made on the preceding Distribution Date). Interest on this Note will accrue for
each Distribution Date from the most recent Distribution Date on which interest
has been paid to but excluding such Distribution Date or, if no interest has yet
been paid, from December __, 1997. Interest will be computed on the basis of
actual days
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elapsed and a year of 360 days. Such principal of and interest and premium, if
any, on this Note shall be paid in the manner specified on the reverse hereof.
The principal of and interest on this Note are payable in such coin or
currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal
tender for payment of public and private debts. All payments made by the Issuer
with respect to this Note shall be applied first to interest due and payable on
this Note as provided above and then to the unpaid principal of this Note.
Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the
reverse hereof, which shall have the same effect as though fully set forth on
the face of this Note.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the
Trustee whose name appears below by manual signature, this Note shall not be
entitled to any benefit under the Indenture referred to on the reverse hereof,
or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer has caused this instrument to be signed,
manually or in facsimile, by its Authorized Officer.
Date:
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GREEN TREE RECREATIONAL, EQUIPMENT &
CONSUMER TRUST 1997-D
By WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY not in its
individual capacity but solely on
behalf of the Issuer as Owner Trustee
under the Trust Agreement
By
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Name:
Title:
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TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Notes designated above and referred to in the within-
mentioned Indenture.
FIRST TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
not in its individual capacity but solely as
Trustee
By
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Authorized Signatory
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[REVERSE OF NOTE]
This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Issuer,
designated as its Class A-1 Floating Rate Asset-Backed Notes (herein called the
"Notes"), all issued under an Indenture dated as of December 1, 1997 (such
indenture, as supplemented or amended, herein called the "Indenture"), between
the Issuer and First Trust National Association, as trustee (the "Trustee,"
which term includes any successor Trustee under the Indenture) to which
Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a
statement of the respective rights and obligations thereunder of the Issuer, the
Trustee and the Holders of the Notes. The Notes are subject to all terms of the
Indenture. All terms used in this Note that are defined in the Indenture, as
supplemented or amended, shall have the meanings assigned to them in or pursuant
to the Indenture, as so supplemented or amended.
The Class A-1:HE/HI Notes, the Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes, the
Class A-3 Notes and the Class A-4 Notes (collectively, the "Notes") are and will
be equally and ratably secured by the collateral pledged as security therefor as
provided in the Indenture.
Principal of the Class A-1 Notes will be payable on each Distribution Date
in an amount described on the face hereof. "Distribution Date" means the
fifteenth day of each month, or, if any such date is not a Business Day, the
next succeeding Business Day, commencing January 15, 1998.
As described above, the entire unpaid principal amount of this Note shall
be due and payable on the earlier of the Final Scheduled Distribution Date and
the Redemption Date, if any, pursuant to Section 10.01(a) or 10.01(b) of the
Indenture. All principal payments on the Class A-1 Notes shall be made pro rata
to the Class A-1 Noteholders entitled thereto.
Payments of interest on this Note due and payable on each Distribution
Date, together with the installment of principal, if any, to the extent not in
full payment of this Note, shall be made by check mailed to the Person whose
name appears as the Registered Holder of this Note (or one or more Predecessor
Notes) on the Note Register as of the close of business on each Record Date,
except that with respect to Notes registered on the Record Date in the name of
the nominee of the Depository (initially, such nominee to be Cede & Co.),
payments will be made by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the
account designated by such nominee. Such checks shall be mailed to the Person
entitled thereto at the address of such Person as it appears on the Note
Register as of the applicable Record Date without requiring that this Note be
submitted for notation of payment. Any reduction in the principal amount of
this Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) affected by any payments made
on any Distribution Date shall be binding upon all future Holders of this Note
and of any Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange
hereof or in lieu hereof, whether or not noted hereon. If funds are expected to
be available, as provided in the Indenture, for payment in full of the then
remaining unpaid principal amount of this Note on a Distribution Date, then the
Trustee, in the name of and on behalf of the Issuer, will notify the Person who
was the Registered Holder hereof as of the Record Date with respect to the
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Distribution Date immediately preceding such Redemption Date by notice mailed
within five days of such Redemption Date and the amount then due and payable
shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of this Note at the
Trustee's principal Corporate Trust Office or at the office of the Trustee's
agent appointed for such purposes located in The City of New York.
The Issuer shall pay interest on overdue installments of interest at the
Class A-1 Interest Rate to the extent lawful.
As provided in the Indenture, the Notes may be redeemed pursuant to Section
10.01(a) of the Indenture, in whole, but not in part, at the option of the
Company or the Servicer on any Distribution Date on or after the date on which
the Pool Scheduled Principal Balance is less than or equal to 10% of the Cutoff
Date Pool Principal Balance.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations set forth
therein, the transfer of this Note may be registered on the Note Register upon
surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the office or agency
designated by the Issuer pursuant to the Indenture, duly endorsed by, or
accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the
Trustee duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in
writing, with such signature guaranteed by a commercial bank or trust company
located, or having a correspondent located, in the city in which the Corporate
Trust Office is located, or a member firm of a national securities exchange, and
such other documents as the Trustee may require, and thereupon one or more new
Notes of authorized denominations and in the same aggregate principal amount
will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees. No service charge
will be charged for any registration of transfer or exchange of this Note, but
the transferor may be required to pay a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any such registration
of transfer or exchange.
Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by acceptance of a Note or, in the case of a
Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a Note, covenants and agrees that no
recourse may be taken, directly or indirectly, with respect to the obligations
of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Trustee on the Notes or under the
Indenture or any certificate or other writing delivered in connection therewith,
against (i) the Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity, (ii)
any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer or (iii) any partner, owner,
beneficiary, agent, officer, director or employee of the Trustee or the Owner
Trustee in its individual capacity, any holder of a beneficial interest in the
Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Trustee or of any successor or assign of the
Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity, except as any such
Person may have expressly agreed and except that any such partner, owner or
beneficiary shall be fully liable, to the extent provided by applicable law, for
any unpaid consideration for stock, unpaid capital contribution or failure to
pay any installment or call owing to such entity.
Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by acceptance of a Note or, in the case of a
Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a Note, covenants and agrees that by
accepting the benefits of
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the Indenture and such Note that such Noteholder or Note Owner will not at any
time institute against the Company, the Issuer or any General Partner, or join
in any institution against the Company, the Issuer or any General Partner of,
any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation
proceedings under any United States Federal or state bankruptcy or similar law
in connection with any obligations relating to the Notes, the Indenture or the
Related Documents.
It is the intent and agreement of the Issuer, the Trustee, the Noteholders
and Note Owners that, for purposes of federal income, state and local income and
franchise and any other income taxes, the Notes will be treated as indebtedness
of the Issuer. Each Noteholder and Note Owner, by acceptance of this Note or,
in the case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest in this Note, covenants and
agrees to treat this Note as indebtedness for such tax purposes and to take no
action inconsistent with such treatment.
Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer of this Note, the
Issuer, the Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee may treat the
Person in whose name this Note (as of the day of determination or as of such
other date as may be specified in the Indenture) is registered as the owner
hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be overdue, and neither the
Issuer, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the
contrary.
The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the
amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the
Issuer and the rights of the Holders of the Notes under the Indenture at any
time by the Issuer with the consent of the Holders of Notes representing a
majority of the Outstanding Amount of each class of Notes at the time
Outstanding. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of
Notes representing specified percentages of the Outstanding Amount of each class
of Notes, on behalf of the Holders of all the Notes, to waive compliance by the
Issuer with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under
the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder
of this Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) shall be conclusive and
binding upon such Holders and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any
Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in
lieu hereof whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this
Note. The Indenture also permits the Trustee to amend or waive certain terms
and conditions set forth in the Indenture without the consent of Holders of the
Notes issued thereunder.
The term "Issuer" as used in this Note includes any successor to the Issuer
under the Indenture.
The Issuer is permitted by the Indenture, under certain circumstances, to
merge or consolidate, subject to the rights of the Trustee and the Holder of
Notes under the Indenture.
The Notes are issuable only in registered form in denominations as provided
in the Indenture, subject to certain limitations therein set forth.
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This Note and the Indenture shall be construed in accordance with the laws
of the State of Minnesota, without reference to its conflict of law provisions,
and the obligations, rights and remedies of the parties hereunder and thereunder
shall be determined in accordance with such laws.
No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of
the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Issuer, which is
absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and interest on this Note at
the times, place, and rate, and in the coin or currency herein prescribed.
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ASSIGNMENT
Social Security or taxpayer I.D. or other identifying number of assignee:
--------------------------
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and
transfers unto
--------------------------------------------------------
(name and address of assignee)
the within Note and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably constitutes
and appoints attorney, to transfer said Note on the books kept for registration
thereof, with full power of substitution in the premises.
Dated: _________________
**
Signature Guaranteed:
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**NOTE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name of
the registered owner as it appears on the face of the within Note in every
particular, without alteration, enlargement or any change whatsoever.
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