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EXHIBIT 4.2
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SUBORDINATED INDENTURE
between
NATIONWIDE FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC.
and
WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
as Trustee
Dated as of October 19, 1998
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I
Definitions and Other Provisions
of General Application
SECTION 1.01. Definitions ............................................................................. 1
SECTION 1.02. Compliance Certificate and Opinions...................................................... 8
SECTION 1.03. Forms of Documents Delivered to Trustee.................................................. 9
SECTION 1.04. Acts of Holders.......................................................................... 9
SECTION 1.05. Notices, etc., to Trustee and Company.................................................... 10
SECTION 1.06. Notice to Holders; Waiver................................................................ 11
SECTION 1.07. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act........................................................ 11
SECTION 1.08. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents................................................. 11
SECTION 1.09. Successors and Assigns................................................................... 11
SECTION 1.10. Separability Clause...................................................................... 11
SECTION 1.11. Benefits of Indenture.................................................................... 11
SECTION 1.12. Governing Law............................................................................ 12
SECTION 1.13. Nonbusiness Days......................................................................... 12
ARTICLE II
Security Forms
SECTION 2.01. Forms Generally.......................................................................... 12
SECTION 2.02. Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication.......................................... 12
ARTICLE III
The Securities
SECTION 3.01. Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series..................................................... 13
SECTION 3.02. Denominations............................................................................ 15
SECTION 3.03. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating........................................... 15
SECTION 3.04. Temporary Securities..................................................................... 17
SECTION 3.05. Registration, Transfer and Exchange...................................................... 17
SECTION 3.06. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities......................................... 18
SECTION 3.07. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved........................................... 19
SECTION 3.08. Persons Deemed Owners.................................................................... 21
SECTION 3.09. Cancellation............................................................................. 21
SECTION 3.10. Computation of Interest.................................................................. 21
SECTION 3.11. CUSIP Numbers............................................................................ 21
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ARTICLE IV
Satisfaction and Discharge
SECTION 4.01. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture.................................................. 21
SECTION 4.02. Application of Trust Money............................................................... 22
SECTION 4.03. Applicability of Defeasance Provisions; Company's
Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.............................. 22
SECTION 4.04. Defeasance and Discharge................................................................. 23
SECTION 4.05. Covenant Defeasance...................................................................... 23
SECTION 4.06. Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.......................................... 24
SECTION 4.08. Repayment to Company..................................................................... 26
SECTION 4.09. Indemnity For Government Obligations..................................................... 26
SECTION 4.10. Reimbursement............................................................................ 26
ARTICLE V
Remedies
SECTION 5.01. Events of Default........................................................................ 26
SECTION 5.02. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment....................................... 28
SECTION 5.03. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee.......................... 30
SECTION 5.04. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim......................................................... 30
SECTION 5.05. Trustee May Enforce Claim Without Possession of Securities............................... 31
SECTION 5.06. Application of Money Collected........................................................... 31
SECTION 5.07. Limitation on Suits...................................................................... 32
SECTION 5.08. Unconditional Right of Holders To Receive Principal,
Premium and Interest............................................................ 33
SECTION 5.09. Restoration of Rights and Remedies....................................................... 33
SECTION 5.10. Rights and Remedies Cumulative........................................................... 33
SECTION 5.11. Delay or Omission Not Waiver............................................................. 33
SECTION 5.12. Control by Holders....................................................................... 33
SECTION 5.13. Waiver of Past Defaults.................................................................. 34
SECTION 5.14. Undertaking for Costs.................................................................... 35
SECTION 5.15. Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws......................................................... 35
ARTICLE VI
The Trustee
SECTION 6.01. Certain Duties and Responsibilities...................................................... 35
SECTION 6.02. Notice of Defaults....................................................................... 36
SECTION 6.03. Certain Rights of Trustee................................................................ 37
SECTION 6.04. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities................................... 38
SECTION 6.05. May Hold Securities...................................................................... 38
SECTION 6.06. Money Held In Trust...................................................................... 38
SECTION 6.07. Compensation and Reimbursement........................................................... 38
SECTION 6.08. Disqualification; Conflicting Interest................................................... 39
SECTION 6.09. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility.................................................. 39
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SECTION 6.10. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor........................................ 39
SECTION 6.11. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor................................................... 41
SECTION 6.12. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.............................. 42
SECTION 6.13. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company........................................ 42
SECTION 6.14. Appointment of Authenticating Agent...................................................... 42
SECTION 6.15. Trustee's Application for Instructions from the Company.................................. 44
ARTICLE VII
Holders' Lists and Reports by Trustee and Company
SECTION 7.01. Company To Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders................................ 44
SECTION 7.02. Preservation of Information, Communications to Holders................................... 45
SECTION 7.03. Reports by Trustee....................................................................... 46
SECTION 7.04. Reports by Company....................................................................... 46
ARTICLE VIII
Consolidation, Merger, Conveyance, Transfer or Lease
SECTION 8.01. Company May Consolidate, etc., Only on Certain Terms..................................... 47
SECTION 8.02. Successor Corporation Substituted........................................................ 47
ARTICLE IX
Supplemental Indentures
SECTION 9.01. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders....................................... 48
SECTION 9.02. Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders.......................................... 49
SECTION 9.03. Execution of Supplemental Indentures..................................................... 50
SECTION 9.04. Effect of Supplemental Indentures........................................................ 50
SECTION 9.05. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act...................................................... 50
SECTION 9.06. Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures....................................... 51
ARTICLE X
Covenants
SECTION 10.01. Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest.............................................. 51
SECTION 10.02. Maintenance of Office or Agency......................................................... 51
SECTION 10.03. Money for Security Payments To Be Held in Trust......................................... 51
SECTION 10.04. Payment of Taxes and Other Claims....................................................... 53
SECTION 10.05. Statement as to Compliance.............................................................. 53
SECTION 10.06. Waiver of Certain Covenants............................................................. 53
SECTION 10.07. Calculation of Original Issue Discount.................................................. 53
ARTICLE XI
Redemption of Securities
SECTION 11.01. Applicability of This Article........................................................... 54
SECTION 11.02. Election To Redeem; Notice to Trustee................................................... 54
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SECTION 11.03. Selection of Securities To Be Redeemed.................................................. 54
SECTION 11.04. Notice of Redemption.................................................................... 54
SECTION 11.05. Deposit of Redemption Price............................................................. 55
SECTION 11.06. Payment of Securities Called for Redemption............................................. 55
ARTICLE XII
Sinking Funds
SECTION 12.01. Applicability of Article................................................................ 56
SECTION 12.02. Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities................................... 56
SECTION 12.03. Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund............................................... 56
ARTICLE XIII
Subordination
SECTION 13.01. Agreement of Securityholders that Securities Subordinated
to Extent Provided............................................................. 58
SECTION 13.02. Rights of Holders of Senior Indebtedness................................................ 58
SECTION 13.03. Securities Subordinated to Prior Payment of all Senior
Indebtedness on Dissolution, Liquidation or Reorganization
of Company..................................................................... 59
SECTION 13.04. Obligation of the Company Unconditional................................................. 60
SECTION 13.05. Trustee Entitled to Assume Payments Not Prohibited in
Absence of Notice.............................................................. 60
SECTION 13.06. Application by Trustee of Monies Deposited With It...................................... 60
SECTION 13.07. Subordination Rights not Impaired by Acts or Omissions
of Company or Holders of Senior Indebtedness................................... 61
SECTION 13.08. Securityholders Authorize Trustee to Effectuate
Subordination of Securities.................................................... 61
SECTION 13.09. Right of Trustee to Hold Senior Indebtedness............................................ 61
SECTION 13.10. Article XIII Not to Prevent Events of Default........................................... 61
SECTION 13.11. Subrogation............................................................................. 61
ARTICLE XIV
Miscellaneous
SECTION 14.01. Miscellaneous........................................................................... 62
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CROSS-REFERENCE TABLE*
Section of Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended Section of Indenture
Section 310 (a)(1)............................................ 6.09
(a)(2)............................................ 6.09
(a)(3)............................................ Not Applicable
(a)(4)............................................ Not Applicable
(a)(5)............................................ 6.09
(b)............................................... 6.08, 6.10
Section 311 (a)............................................... 6.13
(b)............................................... 6.13
Section 312 (a)............................................... 7.01, 7.02(a)
(b)............................................... 7.02(b)
(c)............................................... 7.02(c)
Section 313 (a)............................................... 7.03(a)
(b)............................................... Not Applicable
(c)............................................... 7.03(a)
(d)............................................... 7.03(b)
Section 314 (a)............................................... 7.04
(b)............................................... Not Applicable
(c)(1)............................................ 1.02
(c)(2)............................................ 1.02
(c)(3)............................................ Not Applicable
(d)............................................... Not Applicable
(e)............................................... 1.02
Section 315 (a)............................................... 6.01(a)
(b)............................................... 6.02
(c)............................................... 6.01(b)
(d)............................................... 6.01(c)
(d)(1)............................................ 6.01(a), 6.01(c)
(d)(2)............................................ 6.01(c)
(d)(3)............................................ 6.01(c)
(e)............................................... 5.14
Section 316 (a)(last sentence)................................ 1.01
(a)(1)(A)......................................... 5.12
(a)(1)(B)......................................... 5.02, 5.13
(a)(2)............................................ Not Applicable
(b)............................................... 5.08
Section 317 (a)(1)............................................ 5.03
(a)(2)............................................ 5.04
(b)............................................... 10.03
Section 318 (a)............................................... 1.07
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* This cross-reference table does not constitute part of the Indenture and
shall not affect the interpretation of any of its terms or provisions.
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SUBORDINATED INDENTURE (this "Indenture"), dated as of October
19, 1998, between NATIONWIDE FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC., a Delaware corporation
(hereinafter called the "Company"), having its principal office at ▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, and WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, a banking
corporation duly incorporated and existing under the laws of the State of
Delaware, as Trustee (hereinafter called the "Trustee").
RECITALS OF THE COMPANY
WHEREAS the Company has duly authorized the execution and
delivery of this Indenture to provide for the issuance from time to time of its
unsecured subordinated debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness
(hereinafter called the "Securities") to be issued in one or more series,
authenticated and delivered in accordance with this Indenture.
WHEREAS the Company has duly authorized the execution and
delivery of this Indenture to provide, among other things, for the
authentication, delivery and administration of the Securities.
WHEREAS all things necessary to make this Indenture a valid
agreement of the Company, in accordance with its terms, have been done.
NOW, THEREFORE:
For and in consideration of the premises and the purchases of
the Securities by the Holders (as defined below) thereof, the Company and the
Trustee mutually covenant and agree for the equal and proportionate benefit of
all Holders of the Securities or of any series thereof, as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS
OF GENERAL APPLICATION
SECTION 1.01. Definitions. For all purposes of this Indenture,
except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) the terms defined in this Article have the meanings
assigned to them in this Article, and include the plural as well as the
singular;
(b) all other terms used herein which are defined in the Trust
Indenture Act, either directly or by reference therein, have the meanings
assigned to them therein;
(c) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the
meanings assigned to them in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles, and the term
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"generally accepted accounting principles" with respect to any computation
required or permitted hereunder shall mean such accounting principles which are
generally accepted at the date or time of such computation; provided that when
two or more principles are so generally accepted, it shall mean that set of
principles consistent with those in use by the Company; and
(d) the words "therein", "hereof" and "hereunder" and other
words of similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any
particular Article, Section or other subdivision.
Certain terms, used principally in Article VI, are defined in
that Article.
"Act" when used with respect to any Holder has the meaning
specified in Section 1.04.
"Affiliate" of any specified Person means any other Person
directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect
common control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition,
"control" when used with respect to any specified Person means the power to
direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly,
whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise;
and the terms "controlling" and "controlled" have meanings correlative to the
foregoing.
"Authenticating Agent" means any Person authorized by the
Trustee pursuant to Section 6.14 to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate
Securities of one or more series.
"Board of Directors" means either the board of directors of
the Company or any committee of that board duly authorized to act hereunder.
"Board Resolution" means a copy of a resolution certified by
the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted
by the Board of Directors, or such committee of the Board of Directors or
officers of the Company to which authority to act on behalf of the Board of
Directors has been delegated, and to be in full force and effect on the date of
such certification, and delivered to the Trustee.
"Business Day" means every day except a Saturday, Sunday or a
day on which banking institutions in the City of New York, New York or the City
of Wilmington, Delaware, are permitted or required by any applicable law or
executive order to close.
"Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as
from time to time constituted, created under the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended, or if at any time after the execution of this instrument such
Commission is not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under
the Trust Indenture Act, then the body performing such duties on such date.
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"Company" means the Person named as the "Company" in the first
paragraph of this instrument until a successor corporation shall have become
such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter
"Company" shall mean such successor corporation.
"Company Request" and "Company Order" mean, respectively, the
written request or order signed in the name of the Company by the President or a
Vice President, and by the Treasurer, an Associate Treasurer, an Assistant
Treasurer, the Controller, the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the
Company, and delivered to the Trustee.
"Consolidated Total Assets" means, in respect of the Company,
as of any date of determination, the amount of total assets shown on the
consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries
contained in the most recent annual or quarterly report filed with the
Commission.
"Corporate Trust Office" means the principal office of the
Trustee in the City of Wilmington, Delaware, at which at any particular time its
corporate trust business shall be administered, which office at the date of
initial execution of this Indenture is ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Square North, ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇, Attention: Corporate Trust Administration.
"Corporation" includes corporations, associations, companies
and business trusts.
"Defaulted Interest" has the meaning specified in Section
3.07.
"Depositary" means, with respect to the Securities of any
series issuable or issued in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global
Securities, the Person designated as Depositary by the Company pursuant to
Section 3.01 with respect to such series (or any successor thereto).
"Dollar" means the currency of the United States of America as
at the time of payment is legal tender for the payment of public and private
debts.
"Event of Default" unless otherwise specified in the
supplemental indenture creating a series of Securities, has the meaning
specified in Article V.
"Foreign Currency" means any currency issued by the government
of one or more countries other than the United States of America or by any
recognized confederation or association of such governments.
"Global Security" means a Security in the form prescribed
herein evidencing all or part of a series of Securities, issued to the
Depositary or its nominee for such series, and registered in the name of such
Depositary or its nominee.
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"Government Obligations" means, with respect to the Securities
of any series, securities which are (i) direct obligations of the United States
of America or (ii) obligations of a Person controlled or supervised by and
acting as an agency or instrumentality of the United States of America the
payment of which is unconditionally guaranteed by the United States of America
and which, in either case, are full faith and credit obligations of the United
States of America and are not callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer
thereof and shall also include a depository receipt issued by a bank (as defined
in Section 3(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended) as custodian with
respect to any such Government Obligation or a specific payment of interest on
or principal of any such Government Obligation held by such custodian for the
account of the holder of such depository receipt; provided that (except as
required by law) such custodian is not authorized to make any deduction from the
amount payable to the holder of such depository receipt from any amount received
by the custodian in respect of the Government Obligation or the specific payment
of interest on or principal of the Government Obligation evidenced by such
depository receipt.
"Holder", "Securityholder" or other similar terms mean a
Person in whose name a Security is registered in the Securities Register.
"Indenture" means this instrument as originally executed or as
it may from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more indentures
supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof
and shall include the terms of each particular series of Securities established
as contemplated by Section 3.01.
"Interest Payment Date" means as to each series of Securities
the Stated Maturity of an installment of interest on such Securities.
"Interest Rate" means the rate of interest specified or
determined as specified in each Security as being the rate of interest payable
on such Security.
"Maturity" when used with respect to any Security means the
date on which the principal of such Security becomes due and payable as therein
or herein provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by declaration of
acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise.
"Nationwide Trust" means a Delaware statutory business trust
created by the Company for the purpose of issuing trust securities and to use
the proceeds of the sale thereof to purchase one or more series of securities.
"Notice of Default" has the meaning specified in Section
5.01(d).
"Officers' Certificate" means a certificate signed by the
President or a Vice President, and by the Treasurer, an Associate Treasurer, an
Assistant Treasurer, the Controller, the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of
the Company, and delivered to the Trustee.
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"Opinion of Counsel" means a written opinion of counsel, who
may be counsel for the Company.
"Original Issue Date" means the date of issuance specified as
such in each Security.
"Original Issue Discount Security" means any security which
provides for an amount less than the principal amount thereof to be due and
payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to
Section 5.02.
"Outstanding" means, as of the date of determination, all
Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered under this Indenture, except:
(i) securities theretofore canceled by the Trustee or
delivered to the Trustee for cancellation;
(ii) securities for whose payment money in the necessary
amount has been theretofore deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent in
trust for the Holders of such Securities; and
(iii) securities in substitution for or in lieu of which other
Securities have been authenticated and delivered or which have been paid
pursuant to Section 3.06, unless proof satisfactory to the Trustee is presented
that any such Securities are held by Holders in whose hands such Securities are
valid, binding and legal obligations of the Company;
provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite
principal amount of Outstanding Securities have given any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, Securities owned
by the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the
Company or such other obligor 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 Securities which a Responsible Officer of the Trustee
actually knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded. Securities so owned which
have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee
establishes to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee's right so to act
with respect to such Securities and that the pledgee is not the Company or any
other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or such other
obligor. Upon request of the Trustee, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee
promptly an Officers' Certificate listing and identifying all Securities, if
any, known by the Company to be owned or held by or for the account of the
Company, or any other obligor on the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company
or such obligor, and, subject to the provisions of Section 6.01, the Trustee
shall be entitled to accept such Officers' Certificate as conclusive evidence of
the facts therein set forth and of the fact that all Securities not listed
therein are Outstanding for the purpose of any such determination.
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"Paying Agent" means the Trustee or any Person authorized by
the Company to pay the principal of or interest on any Securities on behalf of
the Company.
"Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint
venture, association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization or
government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.
"Place of Payment" means, with respect to the Securities of
any series, the place or places where the principal of (and premium, if any) and
interest on the Securities of such series are payable pursuant to Section 3.01
or 10.02.
"Predecessor Security" of any particular Security means every
previous Security evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced
by such particular Security; and, for the purposes of this definition, any
security authenticated and delivered under Section 3.06 in lieu of a lost,
destroyed or stolen Security shall be deemed to evidence the same debt as the
lost, destroyed or stolen Security.
"Preferred Securities" means preferred undivided beneficial
interests in the assets of a Nationwide Trust.
"Regular Record Date" for the interest payable on any Interest
Payment Date with respect to the Securities of a series means, unless otherwise
provided pursuant to Section 3.01 with respect to Securities of a series, the
date which is 15 days next preceding such Interest Payment Date (whether or not
a Business Day).
"Responsible Officer", when used with respect to the Trustee,
means any officer within the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, including
any vice president, any assistant vice president, any assistant secretary, the
treasurer, any assistant treasurer or other officer of the Corporate Trust
Office of the Trustee customarily performing functions similar to those
performed by any of the above designated officers and also means, with respect
to a particular corporate trust matter, any other officer to whom such matter is
referred because of that officer's knowledge of and familiarity with the
particular subject.
"Restricted Subsidiary" means (a) so long as they are
Subsidiaries of the Company, Nationwide Life Insurance Company and Nationwide
Life and Annuity Insurance Company, (b) any other present or future Subsidiary
which is incorporated in any state of the United States or in the District of
Columbia and which is a regulated insurance company principally engaged in one
or more of the property, casualty and life insurance businesses; provided that
no such Subsidiary shall be a Restricted Subsidiary if (i) the Consolidated
Total Assets of such Subsidiary are less than 20% of the Consolidated Total
Assets of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries (including such
Subsidiary), in each case as set forth on the most recent fiscal year-end
balance sheets of such Subsidiary and the Company and its consolidated
Subsidiaries, respectively, and computed in accordance with generally accepted
accounting principles, or (ii) in the judgment of the Board of Directors, as
evidenced by a Board Resolution, such Subsidiary is not material to the
financial condition of the Company
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and its consolidated Subsidiaries taken as a whole, and (c) any Subsidiary which
is a successor, by merger or otherwise, to substantially all of the business or
properties of any Subsidiary referred to or described in clause (a) or (b).
"Securities" or "Security" means any debt securities or debt
security, as the case may be, authenticated and delivered under this Indenture.
"Securities Register" and "Securities Registrar" have the
respective meanings specified in Section 3.05.
"Senior Indebtedness" means, with respect to the Company, the
principal of and premium, if any, and interest on (a) all indebtedness of the
Company, whether outstanding on the date of this Indenture or thereafter
created, (i) for money borrowed by the Company, (ii) for money borrowed by, or
obligations of, others and either assumed or guaranteed, directly or indirectly,
by the Company, (iii) in respect of letters of credit and acceptances issued or
made by banks, or (iv) constituting purchase money indebtedness, or indebtedness
secured by property included in the property, plant and equipment accounts of
the Company at the time of the acquisition of such property by the Company, for
the payment of which the Company is directly liable, and (b) all deferrals,
renewals, extensions and refunding of, and amendments, modifications and
supplements to, any such indebtedness. As used in the preceding sentence, the
term "purchase money indebtedness" means indebtedness evidenced by a note,
debenture, bond or other instrument (whether or not secured by any lien or other
security interest) issued or assumed as all or part of the consideration for the
acquisition of property, whether by purchase, merger, consolidation or
otherwise, unless by its terms such indebtedness is subordinate to other
indebtedness of the Company. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this
Indenture or the Securities, Senior Indebtedness shall not include, (i) any
indebtedness of the Company which, by its terms or the terms of the instrument
creating or evidencing it, is subordinate in right of payment to or pari passu
with the Securities (including the Company's outstanding 7.899% Junior
Subordinated Deferrable Interest Debentures due March 1, 2037 issued by the
Company to Nationwide Financial Services Capital Trust) or (ii) any indebtedness
of the Company to a Subsidiary of the Company.
"Special Record Date" for the payment of any Defaulted
Interest means a date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 3.07.
"Stated Maturity" when used with respect to any Security or
any installment of principal thereof or interest thereon means the date
specified in such Security as the fixed date on which the principal of such
Security or such installment of interest is due and payable.
"Subsidiary" means any corporation, partnership or entity of
which, at the time of determination, the Company owns or controls directly or
indirectly more than 50% of the outstanding shares of Voting Stock.
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"Trustee" means the Person named as the "Trustee" in the first
paragraph of this instrument until a successor Trustee shall have become such
pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter
"Trustee" shall mean or include each Person who is then a Trustee hereunder and,
if at any time there is more than one such Person, "Trustee" as used with
respect to the Securities of any series shall mean the Trustee with respect to
Securities of that series.
"Trust Indenture Act" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939
(15 U.S.C. Sections 77aaa-77bbb), as amended and as in effect on the date as of
this Indenture, except as provided in Section 9.05.
"Vice President" when used with respect to the Company, means
any vice president, whether or not designated by a number or a word or words
added before or after the title "vice president".
"Voting Stock" means stock of any class or classes having
general voting power under ordinary circumstances to elect a majority of the
board of directors, managers or trustees of the entity in question, provided
that, for the purposes hereof, stock which carries only the right to vote
conditionally on the happening of an event shall not be considered Voting Stock
whether or not such event shall have happened.
SECTION 1.02. Compliance Certificate and Opinions. Upon any
application or request by the Company to the Trustee to take any action under
any provision of this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee an
Officers' Certificate stating that all conditions precedent (including
covenants, compliance with which constitutes a condition precedent), if any,
provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been
complied with and an Opinion of Counsel stating that in the opinion of such
counsel all such conditions precedent (including covenants compliance with which
constitute a condition precedent), if any, have been complied with, except that
in the case of any such application or request as to which the furnishing of
such documents is specifically required by any provision of this Indenture
relating to such particular application or request, no additional certificate or
opinion need be furnished.
Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a
condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture (other than the
certificates provided pursuant to Section 10.05) shall include:
(a) a statement that each individual signing such certificate
or opinion has read such covenant or condition and the definitions
herein relating thereto;
(b) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the
examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions
contained in such certificate or opinion are based;
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(c) a statement that, in the opinion of each such individual,
he or she has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to
enable him or her to express an informed opinion as to whether or not
such covenant or condition has been complied with; and
(d) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such
individual, such condition or covenant has been complied with.
SECTION 1.03. Forms 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 officer of the Company may be
based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of,
or representations by, counsel, unless such officer knows, or in the exercise of
reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations
with respect to matters upon which his or her certificate or opinion is based
are erroneous. Any such certificate or Opinion of Counsel may be based, insofar
as it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or
representations by, an officer or officers of the Company stating that the
information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the
Company, unless such counsel knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should
know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to such
matters are erroneous.
Where 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.
SECTION 1.04. Acts of Holders. (a) Any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided by
this Indenture to be given to or taken by Holders may be embodied in and
evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by
such Holders in person or by an agent duly appointed in writing; and, except as
herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall become effective when
such instrument or instruments is or are delivered to the Trustee, and, where it
is hereby expressly required, to the Company. Such instrument or instruments
(and the action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes
referred to as the "Act" of the Holders signing such instrument or instruments.
Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such
agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to
Section 6.01) conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the Company and any agent
of the Trustee or the Company, if made in the manner provided in this Section.
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(b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any
such instrument or writing may be proved by the affidavit of a witness of such
execution or by the certificate of any notary public or other officer authorized
by law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the individual signing
such instrument or writing acknowledged to him or her the execution thereof.
Where such execution is by a Person acting in other than his or her individual
capacity, such certificate or affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof
of his or her authority.
(c) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any
such instrument or writing, or the authority of the Person executing the same,
may also be proved in any other manner which the Trustee deems sufficient and in
accordance with such reasonable rules as the Trustee may determine.
(d) The ownership of Securities shall be proved by the
Securities Register.
(e) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or other action by the Holder of any Security shall bind every
future Holder of the same Security and the Holder of every Security issued upon
the transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in respect of
anything done or suffered to be done by the Trustee or the Company in reliance
thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Security.
(f) The Company may, but shall not be obligated to, fix a
record date for the purpose of determining the Holders entitled to take any
action under this Indenture by vote or consent. Except as otherwise provided
herein, such record date shall be the later of 30 days prior to the first
solicitation of such consent or vote or the date of the most recent list of
Holders furnished to the Trustee pursuant to Section 7.01 prior to such
solicitation. If a record date is fixed, those persons who were Holders at such
record date (or their duly designated proxies), and only those persons, shall be
entitled to take such action by vote or consent or to revoke any vote or consent
previously given, whether or not such persons continue to be Holders after such
record date; provided, however, that unless such vote or consent is obtained
from the Holders (or their duly designated proxies) of the requisite principal
amount of Outstanding Securities prior to the date which is the 120th day after
such record date, any such vote or consent previously given shall automatically
and without further action by any Holder be canceled and of no further effect.
SECTION 1.05. Notices, etc., to Trustee and Company. Any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of
Holders or other document provided or permitted by this Indenture to be made
upon, given or furnished to, or filed with,
(a) the Trustee by any Holder or by the Company 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; or
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(b) the Company by the Trustee or by any Holder shall be
sufficient for every purpose (except as otherwise provided in Section 5.01
hereof) hereunder if in writing and mailed, first class, postage prepaid, to the
Company addressed to it at the address of its principal office specified in the
first paragraph of this instrument or at any other address previously furnished
in writing to the Trustee by the Company.
SECTION 1.06. Notice to Holders; Waiver. Where this Indenture
provides for notice to Holders 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 Holder affected by such event, at the
address of such Holder as it appears in the Securities 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 Holders is given by mail,
neither the failure to mail such notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed,
to any particular Holder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with
respect to other Holders. Where this Indenture provides for notice in any
manner, such notice may be waived in writing by the 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 Holders shall be filed with the
Trustee upon its receipt thereof, but such filing shall not be a condition
precedent to the validity of any action taken in reliance upon such waiver.
In case by reason of the suspension of regular mail service or by
reason of any other cause it shall be impracticable to give such notice by mail,
then such notification as shall be made with the approval of the Trustee shall
constitute a sufficient notification for every purpose hereunder.
SECTION 1.07. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act. If any
provision of this Indenture limits, qualifies or conflicts with the duties
imposed by any of Sections 310 to 317, inclusive, of the Trust Indenture Act
through operation of Section 318(c) thereof, such imposed duties shall control.
SECTION 1.08. 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 1.09. Successors and Assigns. All covenants and
agreements in this Indenture by the Company shall bind its successors and
assigns, whether so expressed or not.
SECTION 1.10. Separability Clause. In case any provision in
this Indenture or in the Securities 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 1.11. Benefits of Indenture. Nothing in this Indenture
or in the Securities, express or implied, shall give to any Person, other than
the parties hereto, any
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Paying Agent and their successors and assigns and the Holders of the Securities,
any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this
Indenture.
SECTION 1.12. Governing Law. This Indenture and the Securities
shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of
New York, except as may otherwise be required by mandatory provisions of law.
SECTION 1.13. Nonbusiness Days. In any case where any Interest
Payment Date or Stated Maturity of any Security shall not be a Business Day,
then (notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or the Securities)
payment of interest or principal 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 Interest Payment Date or at the Stated Maturity, except that, if such
Business Day is in the next succeeding calendar year, such payment shall be made
on the immediately preceding Business Day, in each case with the same force and
effect as if made on such date, and no interest shall accrue for the period from
and after such Interest Payment Date or Stated Maturity, as the case may be,
until the next succeeding Business Day.
ARTICLE II
SECURITY FORMS
SECTION 2.01. Forms Generally. The definitive Securities of
each series shall be in substantially such form or forms as shall be established
pursuant to Section 3.01, 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 the Company may deem
appropriate and as are not contrary to the provisions of this Indenture, or as
may be required to comply with the rules of any securities exchange or of any
automated quotation or book-entry system, or to conform to usage, all as may be
determined by the officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their
execution of the Securities.
The Securities of each series shall be issuable in registered
form without coupons. The definitive Securities shall be produced in such manner
as shall be determined by the officers executing such Securities, as evidenced
by their execution thereof.
SECTION 2.02. Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication.
The Trustee's certificate of authentication shall be in substantially the form
set forth below:
This is one of the Securities referred to in the within-
mentioned Indenture.
Dated: ______________________ Wilmington Trust Company, as Trustee,
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By:______________________________________
Authorized Signatory
ARTICLE III
THE SECURITIES
SECTION 3.01. Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series. The
aggregate principal amount of Securities which may be authenticated and
delivered under this Indenture is unlimited.
The Securities may be issued in one or more series. There
shall be established in or pursuant to a Board Resolution, and set forth in an
Officers' Certificate, or established in one or more indentures supplemental
hereto, prior to the issuance of Securities of a series:
(a) the title or designation of the securities of such series,
which shall distinguish the Securities of the series from all other Securities;
(b) the limit, if any, upon the aggregate principal amount of
the Securities of such series which may be authenticated and delivered under
this Indenture (except for Securities authenticated and delivered upon
registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Securities
of the series pursuant to Section 3.04, 3.05, 3.06, 9.06 or 11.06); provided,
however, that the authorized aggregate principal amount of such series may be
increased above such amount by a Board Resolution to such effect;
(c) the Stated Maturity or Maturities on which the principal
of the Securities of such series is payable or the method of determination
thereof;
(d) the rate or rates, if any, at which the Securities of such
series shall bear interest, the Interest Payment Dates on which such interest
shall be payable, the right, if any, of the Company to defer or extend an
Interest Payment Date and the minimum length of any such deferral period, and
the Regular Record Date for the interest payable on any Interest Payment Date or
the method by which any of the foregoing shall be determined;
(e) the place or places where the principal of (and premium,
if any) and interest on the Securities of such series shall be payable, the
place or places where the Securities of such series may be presented for
registration of transfer or exchange, and the place or places where notices and
demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities of such series may
be made;
(f) the period or periods within or the date or dates on
which, if any, the price or prices at which and the terms and conditions upon
which the Securities of such series may be redeemed, in whole or in part, at the
option of the Company, pursuant to any sinking fund or otherwise;
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(g) the obligation or the right, if any, of the Company to
redeem, repay or purchase the Securities of such series pursuant to any sinking
fund, amortization or analogous provisions or at the option of a Holder thereof
and the period or periods within which, the price or prices at which, the
currency or currencies (including currency unit or units) in which and the other
terms and conditions upon which Securities of the series shall be redeemed,
repaid or purchased, in whole or in part, pursuant to such obligation;
(h) the denominations in which any Securities of such series
shall be issuable, if other than denominations of $1,000 and any integral
multiple thereof;
(i) if other than Dollars, the currency or currencies
(including currency unit or units) in which the principal of (and premium, if
any) and interest, if any, on the Securities of the series shall be payable, or
in which the Securities of the series shall be denominated;
(j) the additions, modifications or deletions, if any, in the
Events of Default or covenants of the Company set forth herein with respect to
the Securities of such series;
(k) if other than the principal amount thereof, the portion of
the principal amount of Securities of such series that shall be payable upon
declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof;
(l) the additions or changes, if any, to this Indenture with
respect to the Securities of such series as shall be necessary to permit or
facilitate the issuance of the Securities of such series in bearer form,
registrable or not registrable as to principal, and with or without interest
coupons;
(m) any index or indices used to determine the amount of
payments of principal of and premium, if any, on the Securities of such series
or the manner in which such amounts will be determined;
(n) the issuance of a temporary Global Security representing
all of the Securities of such series and exchange of such temporary Global
Security for definitive Securities of such series;
(o) whether the Securities of the series shall be issued in
whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities and, in such case,
the Depositary for such Global Securities, which Depositary shall be a clearing
agency registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 as amended;
(p) the appointment of any Paying Agent or Agents for the
Securities of such series; and
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(q) any other terms of the Securities of such series (which
terms shall not be inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture).
All Securities of any one series shall be substantially
identical except as to denomination and except as may otherwise be provided
herein or in or pursuant to such Board Resolution and set forth in such
Officers' Certificate or in any such indenture supplemental hereto.
If any of the terms of the series are established by action
taken pursuant to a Board Resolution, a copy of an appropriate record of such
action shall be certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the
Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the
Officers' Certificate setting forth the terms of the series.
SECTION 3.02. Denominations. The Securities of each series
shall be in registered form without coupons and shall be issuable in
denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof, unless otherwise
specified as contemplated by Section 3.01.
SECTION 3.03. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating.
The Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its President or
one of its Vice Presidents under its corporate seal reproduced or impressed
thereon and attested by its Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries. The
signature of any of these officers on the Securities may be manual or facsimile.
Securities bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of
individuals who were at any time the proper officers of the Company shall bind
the Company, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to
hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Securities or
did not hold such offices at the date of such Securities. At any time and from
time to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the Company may
deliver Securities executed by the Company to the Trustee for authentication.
Securities may be authenticated on original issuance from time to time and
delivered pursuant to such procedures acceptable to the Trustee ("Procedures")
as may be specified from time to time by Company Order. Procedures may authorize
authentication and delivery pursuant to written or electronic instructions of
the Company or a duly authorized agent.
Prior to the delivery of a Security in any such form to the
Trustee for authentication, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee the
following:
(a) a Company Order requesting the Trustee's authentication
and delivery of all or a portion of the Securities of such series, and, if less
than all, setting forth procedures for such authentication;
(b) the Board Resolution by or pursuant to which such form of
Security has been approved, and the Board Resolution, if any, by or pursuant to
which the terms of the Securities of such series have been approved, and, if
pursuant to a Board Resolution, an Officers' Certificate describing the action
taken;
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(c) an Officers' Certificate dated the date such certificate
is delivered to the Trustee, stating that all conditions precedent provided for
in this Indenture relating to the authentication and delivery of Securities in
such form and with such terms have been complied with; and
(d) an Opinion of Counsel stating that (i) the form of such
Securities has been duly authorized and approved in conformity with the
provisions of this Indenture; (ii) the terms of such Securities have been duly
authorized and determined in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture,
or, if such terms are to be determined pursuant to Procedures, when so
determined such terms shall have been duly authorized and determined in
conformity with the provisions of this Indenture; and (iii) Securities in such
form when completed by appropriate insertions and executed and delivered by the
Company to the Trustee for authentication in accordance with this Indenture,
authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in accordance with this Indenture
within the authorization as to aggregate principal amount established from time
to time by the Board of Directors and sold in the manner specified in such
Opinion of Counsel, will be the legal, valid and binding obligations of the
Company entitled to the benefits of this Indenture, subject to applicable
bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency and similar laws generally affecting
creditors' rights, and subject to general equitable principles except as
enforcement thereof may be limited by (A) requirements that a claim with respect
to any Securities denominated other than in Dollars (or a Foreign Currency or
currency unit judgment in respect of such claim) be converted into Dollars at a
rate of exchange prevailing on a date determined pursuant to applicable law or
(B) governmental authority to limit, delay or prohibit the making of payments in
Foreign Currencies or currency units or payments outside the United States and
subject to such other qualifications as such counsel shall conclude do not
materially affect the rights of Holders of such Securities;
provided, however, that the Trustee shall be entitled to receive the documents
referred to in clauses (b), (c) and (d) above only at or prior to the first
request of the Company to the Trustee to authenticate Securities of such series.
The Trustee shall have the right to decline to authenticate and deliver any
Securities under this Section if the Trustee, being advised in writing by
counsel, determines within a reasonable amount of time that such action may not
lawfully be taken or if the Trustee in good faith determines within a reasonable
amount of time that such action would expose the Trustee to personal liability
to existing Holders.
Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication.
No Security shall be entitled to any benefit under this
Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose, unless there appears on
such Security a certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided
for herein executed by the Trustee by the manual signature of one of its
authorized signatories, and such certificate upon any Security shall be
conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Security has been duly
authenticated and delivered hereunder.
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SECTION 3.04. Temporary Securities. Pending the preparation of
definitive Securities of any series, the Company may execute, and upon Company
Order the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, temporary Securities which are
printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise produced, in any
denomination, substantially of the tenor of the definitive Securities of such
series in lieu of which they are issued and with such appropriate insertions,
omissions, substitutions and other variations as the officers executing such
Securities may determine, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities.
If temporary Securities of any series are issued, the Company
will cause definitive Securities of such series to be prepared without
unreasonable delay. After the preparation of definitive Securities, the
temporary Securities shall be exchangeable for definitive Securities upon
surrender of the temporary Securities at the office or agency of the Company
designated for that purpose without charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for
cancellation of any one or more temporary Securities, the Company shall execute
and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a like
principal amount of definitive Securities of the same series of authorized
denominations having the same Original Issue Date and Stated Maturity and having
the same terms as such temporary Securities. Until so exchanged, the temporary
Securities shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this
Indenture as definitive Securities.
SECTION 3.05. Registration, Transfer and Exchange. The Company
shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee a register
in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the
Company shall provide for the registration of Securities and of transfers of
Securities. Such register is herein sometimes referred to as the "Securities
Register". The Trustee is hereby appointed "Securities Registrar" for the
purpose of registering Securities and transfers of Securities as herein
provided.
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Security at
the office or agency of the Company designated for that purpose, the Company
shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of
the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Securities of the same
series of any authorized denominations, of a like aggregate principal amount, of
the same Original Issue Date and Stated Maturity and having the same terms.
At the option of the Holder, Securities may be exchanged for
other Securities of the same series of any authorized denominations, of a like
aggregate principal amount, of the same Original Issue Date and Stated Maturity
and having the same terms, upon surrender of the Securities to be exchanged at
such office or agency. Whenever any securities are so surrendered for exchange,
the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the
Securities which the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.
All Securities issued upon any transfer or exchange of
Securities shall be the valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same
debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Securities
surrendered upon such transfer or exchange.
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Every Security presented or surrendered for transfer or
exchange shall (if so required by the Company or the Securities Registrar) be
duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form
satisfactory to the Company and the Securities Registrar, duly executed by the
Holder thereof or his or her attorney duly authorized in writing.
No service charge shall be made to a Holder for any transfer
or exchange of Securities, but the Company may require payment of a sum
sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in
connection with any transfer or exchange of Securities.
Notwithstanding any of the foregoing, any Global Security of a
series shall be exchangeable pursuant to this Section 3.05 for Securities
registered in the names of Persons other than the Depositary for such Security
or its nominee only if (i) such Depositary notifies the Company that it is
unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for such Global Security or if at
any time such Depositary ceases to be a clearing agency registered under the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and a successor Depositary
registered as a clearing agency under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended, is not appointed by the Company within 90 days of such notice, (ii) the
Company executes and delivers to the Trustee a Company Order that such Global
Security shall be so exchangeable or (iii) there shall have occurred and be
continuing an Event of Default with respect to the Securities of such series.
Any Global Security that is exchangeable pursuant to the preceding sentence
shall be exchangeable for Securities registered in such names as such Depositary
shall direct.
Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, a
Global Security may not be transferred except as a whole by the Depositary with
respect to such Global Security to a nominee of such Depositary or by a nominee
of such Depositary to such Depositary or another nominee of such Depositary.
Neither the Company nor the Trustee shall be required,
pursuant to the provisions of this Section, (a) to issue, transfer or exchange
any Security of any series during a period beginning at the opening of 15
business days before the day of selection for redemption of Securities pursuant
to Article XI and ending at the close of business on the day of mailing of
notice of redemption or (b) to transfer or exchange any Security so selected for
redemption in whole or in part, except, in the case of any Security to be
redeemed in part, any portion thereof not to be redeemed.
SECTION 3.06. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen
Securities. If any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee together
with such security or indemnity as may be required by the Company or the Trustee
to save each of them harmless, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a new Security of the same issue
and series of like tenor and principal amount, having the same Original Issue
Date and Stated Maturity and bearing the same Interest Rate as such mutilated
Security, and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.
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If there be delivered to the Company and to the Trustee (i)
evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Security
and (ii) such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of
them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Company or the Trustee that
such Security has been acquired by a Protected Purchaser, as such term is used
in Section 8-405(a)(1) of the UCC as in effect in the State of Delaware (1994
Rev), the issuing Company shall execute and upon its request the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver, in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen
Security, a new Security of the same issue and series of like tenor and
principal amount, having the same Original Issue Date and Stated Maturity and
bearing the same Interest Rate as such destroyed, lost or stolen Security, and
bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.
In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security
has become or is about to become due and payable, the Company in its discretion
may, instead of issuing a new Security, pay such Security.
Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section, the
Company may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other
expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith.
Every new Security issued pursuant to this Section in lieu of
any destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall constitute an original additional
contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or
stolen Security shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be
entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with
any and all other Securities duly issued hereunder.
The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall
preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to
the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities.
SECTION 3.07. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved.
Interest on any Security of any series which is payable, and is punctually paid
or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date, shall be paid to the Person
in whose name that Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is
registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest
in respect of Securities of such series, except that, unless otherwise provided
in the Securities of such series, interest payable on the Stated Maturity of a
Security shall be paid to the Person to whom principal is paid. The initial
payment of interest on any Security of any series which is issued between a
Regular Record Date and the related Interest Payment Date shall be payable as
provided in such Security or in the Board Resolution pursuant to Section 3.01
with respect to the related series of Securities.
Any interest on any Security which is payable, but is not
timely paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date for Securities of
such series (herein called "Defaulted Interest"), shall forthwith cease to be
payable to the registered Holder on the relevant Regular Record Date by virtue
of having been such Holder, and such Defaulted
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Interest may be paid by the Company, at its election in each case, as provided
in clause (a) or (b) below.
(a) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted
Interest to the Persons in whose names the Securities of such series in respect
of which interest is in default (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are
registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of
such Defaulted Interest, which shall be fixed in the following manner: The
Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest
proposed to be paid on each Security and the date of the proposed payment, and
at the same time the Company shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of money
equal to the aggregate amount proposed to be paid in respect of such Defaulted
Interest or shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit
prior to the date of the proposed payment, such money when deposited to be held
in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted Interest as
in this clause provided. Thereupon the Trustee shall fix a Special Record Date
for the payment of such Defaulted Interest which shall be not more than 15 days
and not less than 10 days prior to the date of the proposed payment and not less
than 10 days after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the proposed
payment. The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company of such Special Record
Date and, in the name and at the expense of the Company, shall cause notice of
the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date
therefor to be mailed, first class, postage prepaid, to each Holder of a
Security of such series at the address of such Holder as it appears in the
Securities Register not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date. The
Trustee may, in its discretion, in the name and at the expense of the Company,
cause a similar notice to be published at least once in a newspaper, customarily
published in the English language on each Business Day and of general
circulation in the City of Wilmington, Delaware, but such publication shall not
be a condition precedent to the establishment of such Special Record Date.
Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record
Date therefor having been mailed as aforesaid, such Defaulted Interest shall be
paid to the Persons in whose names the Securities of such series (or their
respective Predecessor Securities) are registered on such Special Record Date
and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the following clause (b).
(b) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest in
any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities
exchange on which the Securities of the series in respect of which interest is
in default may be listed and, upon such notice as may be required by such
exchange (or by the Trustee if the Securities are not listed), if, after notice
given by the Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to this
clause, such payment shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section, each
Security delivered under this Indenture upon transfer of or in exchange for or
in lieu of any other Security shall carry the rights to interest accrued and
unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other Security.
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SECTION 3.08. Persons Deemed Owners. The Company, the Trustee
and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name
any Security is registered as the owner of such Security for the purpose of
receiving payment of principal of and (subject to Section 3.07) interest on such
Security and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Security be
overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any agent of the Company or
the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
SECTION 3.09. Cancellation. All Securities surrendered for
payment, redemption, transfer or exchange shall, if surrendered to any Person
other than the Trustee, be delivered to the Trustee, and any such Securities and
Securities surrendered directly to the Trustee for any such purpose shall be
promptly canceled by it. The Company may at any time deliver to the Trustee for
cancellation any Securities previously authenticated and delivered hereunder
which the Company may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and all Securities
so delivered shall be promptly canceled by the Trustee. No Securities shall be
authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Securities canceled as provided
in this Section, except as expressly permitted by this Indenture. All canceled
Securities shall be destroyed or otherwise disposed of by the Trustee in
accordance with its usual practices and the Trustee shall, upon request, deliver
to the Company a certificate of such destruction.
SECTION 3.10. Computation of Interest. Except as otherwise
specified as contemplated by Section 3.01 for Securities of any series, interest
on the Securities of each series shall be computed on the basis of a year of
twelve 30-day months and, with respect to any period less than a full calendar
month, on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed during such period in
relation to the deemed 30 days of such month.
SECTION 3.11. CUSIP Numbers. The Company in issuing the
Securities may use "CUSIP" numbers (if then generally in use) and, if so, the
Trustee shall use "CUSIP" numbers in notices of redemption as a convenience to
Holders; provided that any such notice may state that no representation is made
as to the correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Securities or as
contained in any notice of a redemption and that reliance may be placed only on
the other identification numbers printed on the Securities, and any such
redemption shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of such numbers.
The Company will promptly notify the Trustee of any change in the CUSIP numbers.
ARTICLE IV
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
SECTION 4.01. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture. (1)
This Indenture shall cease to be of further effect (except as to (i) any
surviving rights of transfer, substitution and exchange of Securities, (ii)
rights hereunder of Holders to receive payments of principal of (and premium, if
any) and interest on the Securities and other rights, duties and obligations of
the Holders as beneficiaries hereof with respect to the amounts, if any, so
deposited with the Trustee and (iii) the rights and obligations of the Trustee
hereunder), and the Trustee, upon a Company Request specifying such action to be
taken and at the expense
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of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and
discharge of this Indenture, when (a) either (i) all Securities theretofore
authenticated and delivered (other than (A) Securities which have been
destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced or paid as provided in
Section 3.06 and (B) Securities for whose payment money has theretofore been
deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust by the Company and thereafter
repaid to the Company or discharged from such trust, as provided in Section
10.03) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or (ii) all such
Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation (x) have
become due and payable, or (y) will become due and payable at their Stated
Maturity (or scheduled for redemption) within one year of the date of deposit,
and the Company, in the case of (x) or (y) above, has deposited or caused to be
deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust for such purpose an amount in
the currency or currencies in which the Securities of such series are payable
sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on such Securities not
theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, for principal (and
premium, if any) and interest to the date of such deposit (in the case of
Securities which have become due and payable) or to the Stated Maturity; (b) the
Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable hereunder by the
Company (including any amounts due to the Trustee in respect of its compensation
and expense reimbursement); and (c) the Company has delivered to the Trustee a
Company Request specifying such action to be taken and an Officers' Certificate
and an Opinion of Counsel each stating that all conditions precedent herein
provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have
been complied with.
(2) Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this
Indenture, the obligations of the Company to the Trustee under Section 6.07 and,
if money shall have been deposited with the Trustee pursuant to this Section,
the obligations of the Trustee under Section 4.02 and the last paragraph of
Section 10.03 shall survive.
SECTION 4.02. Application of Trust Money. Subject to the
provisions of the last paragraph of Section 10.03, all money deposited with the
Trustee pursuant to Section 4.01 or money or Government Obligations deposited
with the Trustee pursuant to Section 4.03, or received by the Trustee in respect
of Government Obligations deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 4.03,
shall be held in trust and applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of
the Securities and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through
any Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the
Trustee may determine, to the Persons entitled thereto, of the principal (and
premium, if any) and interest for whose payment such money or obligations have
been deposited with or received by the Trustee; provided, however, such moneys
need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.
SECTION 4.03. Applicability of Defeasance Provisions;
Company's Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance. If pursuant to
Section 3.01 provision is made for either both of (i) defeasance of the
Securities of any series under Section 4.04 or (ii) covenant defeasance of the
Securities of any series under Section 4.05, then the provisions of such Section
or Sections, as the case may be, together with the provisions of Sections 4.06
through 4.09 inclusive, with such modifications thereto as may be specified
pursuant to
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Section 3.01 with respect to any Securities, shall be applicable to such
Securities, and the Company may at its option by or pursuant to Board
Resolution, at any time, with respect to such Securities, elect to have Section
4.04 (if applicable) or Section 4.05 (if applicable) be applied to such
Outstanding Securities upon compliance with the conditions set forth below in
this Article IV.
SECTION 4.04. Defeasance and Discharge. Upon the Company's
exercise of the option specified in Section 4.03 applicable to this Section with
respect to the Securities of any series, the Company shall be deemed to have
been discharged from its obligations with respect to such Securities on and
after the date the conditions set forth in Section 4.06 are satisfied
(hereinafter "defeasance"). For this purpose, such defeasance means that the
Company shall be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire indebtedness
represented by such Securities which shall thereafter be deemed to be
"Outstanding" only for the purposes of Section 4.07 and the other Sections of
this Indenture referred to in clause (ii) of this Section, and to have satisfied
all its other obligations under such Securities and this Indenture insofar as
such Securities are concerned (and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company,
shall on a Company Order execute proper instruments acknowledging the same),
except the following which shall survive until otherwise terminated or
discharged hereunder: (i) the rights of Holders of such Securities to receive,
solely from the trust funds described in Section 4.06(a) and as more fully set
forth in such Section, payments in respect of the principal of, premium, if any,
and interest, if any, on such Securities when such payments are due; (ii) the
Company's obligations with respect to such Securities under Sections 3.05, 3.06,
10.02 and 10.03 and with respect to the payment of additional amounts, if any,
payable with respect to such Securities as specified pursuant to Section 3.01;
(iii) the rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the Trustee hereunder
and (iv) this Article IV. Subject to compliance with this Article IV, the
Company may exercise its option under this Section notwithstanding the prior
exercise of its option under Section 4.05 with respect to such Securities.
Following a defeasance, payment of such Securities may not be accelerated
because of an Event of Default.
SECTION 4.05. Covenant Defeasance. Upon the Company's exercise
of the option specified in Section 4.03 applicable to this Section with respect
to any Securities of any series, the Company shall be released from its
obligations under Section 8.01 and, if specified pursuant to Section 3.01, its
obligations under any other covenant with respect to such Securities on and
after the date the conditions set forth in Section 4.06 are satisfied
(hereinafter, "covenant defeasance"), and such Securities shall thereafter be
deemed to be not "Outstanding" for the purposes of any direction, waiver,
consent or declaration or Act of Holders (and the consequences of any thereof)
in connection with Section 8.01 or such other covenant, but shall continue to be
deemed "Outstanding" for all other purposes hereunder. For this purpose, such
covenant defeasance means that, with respect to such Securities, the Company may
omit to comply with and shall have no liability in respect of any term,
condition or limitation set forth in any such Section or such other covenant,
whether directly or indirectly, by reason of any reference elsewhere herein to
any such Section or such other covenant or by reason of reference in any such
Section or such other covenant to any other provision herein or in any other
document and such omission to comply shall not constitute a
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default or an Event of Default under Section 5.01(d) or otherwise, as the case
may be, but, except as specified above, the remainder of this Indenture and such
Securities shall be unaffected thereby.
SECTION 4.06. Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.
The following shall be the conditions to application of Section 4.04 or Section
4.05 to any Securities of a series:
(a) The Company shall have deposited or caused to be deposited
irrevocably with the Trustee (or another Trustee satisfying the requirements of
Section 6.09 who shall agree to comply with, and shall be entitled to the
benefits of, the provisions of Sections 4.03 through 4.09 inclusive and the last
paragraph of Section 10.03 applicable to the Trustee, for purposes of such
Sections also a "Trustee") as trust funds in trust for the purpose of making the
payments referred to in clauses (X) and (Y) of this Section 4.06(a),
specifically pledged as security for, and dedicated solely to, the benefit of
the Holders of such Securities, with instructions to the Trustee as to the
application thereof, (i) money in an amount (in such currency, currencies or
currency unit or units in which such Securities are then specified as payable at
maturity), or (ii) if Securities of such Series are not subject to repayment at
the option of Holders, Government Obligations which through the payment of
interest and principal in respect thereof in accordance with their terms will
provide, not later than one day before the due date of any payment referred to
in clause (X) or (Y) of this Section 4.06(a), money in an amount or (iii) a
combination thereof in an amount sufficient, without reinvestment, in the
opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent certified public
accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the
Trustee, to pay and discharge, and which shall be applied by the Trustee to pay
and discharge, (X) the principal of, premium, if any, and interest, if any, on
Securities on the maturity (or redemption) of such principal or installment of
principal or interest and (Y) any mandatory sinking fund payments applicable to
such Securities on the day on which such payments are due and payable in
accordance with the terms of this Indenture and such Securities. Before such a
deposit the Company may make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the
redemption of Securities at a future date or dates in accordance with Article XI
which shall be given effect in applying the foregoing.
(b) Such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall not result in
a breach or violation of, or constitute a default or Event of Default under,
this Indenture or result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default
under, any other material agreement or instrument to which the Issuer is a party
or by which it is bound.
(c) In the case of an election under Section 4.04, the Company
shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of
Counsel to the effect that (i) the Company has received from, or there has been
published by, the Internal Revenue Service a ruling, or (ii) since the date of
execution of this Indenture, there has been a change in the applicable Federal
income tax law, in either case to the effect that, and based thereon such
opinion shall confirm that, the Holders of such Securities will not recognize
income, gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result of such
defeasance and will be
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subject to Federal income tax on the same amounts and in the same manner and at
the same times, as would have been the case if such deposit, defeasance and
discharge had not occurred.
(d) In the case of an election under Section 4.05, the Company
shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the
Holders of such Securities will not recognize income, gain or loss for Federal
income tax purposes as a result of such covenant defeasance and will be subject
to Federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same
times as would have been the case if such covenant defeasance had not occurred.
(e) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an
Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all
conditions precedent to the defeasance under Section 4.04 or the covenant
defeasance under Section 4.05 (as the case may be), including those contained in
this Section 4.06 other than the 90 day period specified in Section 4.06(g),
have been complied with.
(f) This Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an
Officer's Certificate to the effect that neither such Securities nor any other
Securities of the same series, if then listed on any securities exchange, will
be delisted as a result of such deposit.
(g) No event which is, or after notice or lapse of time or
both would become, an Event of Default with respect to such Securities or any
other Securities shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of such
deposit or, with regard to any such event specified in Sections 5.01(e) and (f),
at any time on or prior to the 90th day after the date of such deposit (it being
understood that this condition shall not be deemed satisfied until after such
90th day).
(h) Such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall not result in
the trust arising from such deposit constituting an investment company within
the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940 unless such trust shall be
registered under such Act or exempt from registration thereunder.
(i) Such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall be effected
in compliance with any additional or substitute terms, conditions or limitations
which may be imposed on the Company in connection therewith as contemplated by
Section 3.01.
SECTION 4.07. Deposited Money and Government Obligations to be
Held in Trust. Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 10.03,
all money and Government Obligations (or other property as may be provided
pursuant to Section 3.01) (including the proceeds thereof) deposited with the
Trustee pursuant to Section 4.06 in respect of any Securities of any series
shall be held in trust and applied by the Trustee, in accordance with the
provisions of such Securities and this Indenture, to the payment, either
directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own
paying agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Holders of such Securities of
all sums due and to
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become due thereon in respect of principal, premium, if any, and interest, if
any, but such money need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent
required by law.
SECTION 4.08. Repayment to Company. The Trustee (or any paying
agent) shall promptly pay to the Company upon Company Order any excess money or
securities held by them at any time.
SECTION 4.09. Indemnity For Government Obligations. The
Company shall pay, and shall indemnify the Trustee against, any tax, fee or
other charge imposed on or assessed against Government Obligations deposited
pursuant to this Article IV or the principal and interest and any other amount
received on such Government Obligations.
SECTION 4.10. Reimbursement. If the Trustee or the paying
agent is unable to apply any money in accordance with this Article IV with
respect to any Securities by reason of any order or judgment of any court or
government authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such
application, then the obligations under this Indenture and such Securities from
which the Company has been discharged or released pursuant to Section 4.04 or
4.05 shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant
to this Article IV with respect to such Securities, until such time as the
Trustee or paying agent is permitted to apply all money held in trust pursuant
to Section 4.07 with respect to such Securities in accordance with this Article;
provided, however, that if the Company makes any payment of principal of or any
premium or interest on any such Security following such reinstatement of its
obligations, the Company shall be subrogated to the rights (if any) of the
Holders of such Securities to receive such payment from the money so held in
trust.
ARTICLE V
REMEDIES
SECTION 5.01. Events of Default. "Event of Default", wherever
used herein with respect to the Securities of any series, means each one of the
following events which shall have occurred and be continuing (whatever the
reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or
involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment,
decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any
administrative or governmental body):
(a) default in the payment of all or any part of the principal
of (or premium, if any, on) any Security of that series when due, either at its
Maturity (or upon any redemption), by declaration or otherwise;
(b) default in the payment of any interest upon any Security
of that series when it becomes due and payable, and continuance of such default
for a period of 30 days; provided, however that if the Company is permitted by
the terms of the Securities of the applicable series to defer the payment in
question, the date on which such payment is due and payable shall be the date on
which the Company is required to make payment following such
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deferral, if such deferral has been elected pursuant to the terms of the
Securities of that series;
(c) default in the payment of any sinking fund installment as
and when the same shall become due and payable by the terms of the Securities of
such series;
(d) failure on the part of the Company duly to observe or
perform any other of the covenants or agreements on the part of the Company in
the Securities of such series (other than a covenant or agreement in respect of
the Securities of such series a default in the performance or breach of which is
elsewhere in this Section specifically dealt with) or contained in this
Indenture (other than a covenant or agreement included in this Indenture solely
for the benefit of a series of Securities other than such series) for a period
of 60 days after the date on which written notice specifying such failure,
stating that such notice is a "Notice of Default" hereunder and demanding that
the Company remedy the same, shall have been given by registered or certified
mail, return receipt requested, to the Company by the Trustee, or to the Company
and the Trustee by the holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of
the Outstanding Securities of all series affected thereby; or
(e) the entry of a decree or order by a court having
jurisdiction in the premises adjudging the Company a bankrupt or insolvent, or
approving as properly filed a petition seeking reorganization, arrangement,
adjustment or composition of or in respect of the Company under any applicable
Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law, or
appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or other
similar official) of the Company or of any substantial part of its property or
ordering the winding up or liquidation of its affairs, and the continuance of
any such decree or order unstayed and in effect for a period of 60 consecutive
days;
(f) the institution by the Company of proceedings to be
adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent, or the consent by it to the institution of
bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings against it, or the filing by it of a
petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization or relief under any
applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other
similar law, or the consent by it to the filing of any such petition or to the
appointment of a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or other
similar official) of the Company or of any substantial part of its property, or
the making by it of an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the admission
by it in writing of its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due
and its willingness to be adjudicated a bankrupt, or the taking of corporate
action by the Company in furtherance of any such action;
(g) an event of default, as defined in any one or more
mortgages, indentures, instruments, bonds, debentures, notes or other similar
instruments under which there may be issued, or by which there may be secured or
evidenced, any indebtedness (other than the Securities of such series or
nonrecourse obligations) ("Indebtedness") in excess of $50,000,000 for money
borrowed by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary shall occur, if such event of
default shall result in the acceleration of such Indebtedness prior to its
expressed maturity unless such Indebtedness is discharged or such acceleration
is cured, waived, rescinded or annulled
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within 10 days after written notice thereof shall have been given by registered
or certified mail, return receipt requested, to the Company by the Trustee or to
the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities (treated as one class) which
notice shall state that it is a "Notice of Default" hereunder; or
(h) any other Event of Default with respect to that Series,
including an Event of Default provided in the supplemental indenture under which
such series of Securities is issued or in the form of Security for such series;
provided, that if any such default or acceleration referred to in clause (g)
above shall cease or be cured, waived, rescinded or annulled, then the Event of
Default hereunder by reason thereof shall be deemed likewise to have been
thereupon cured.
If an Event of Default described in clauses (a), (b), (c), (d)
or (h) (if the Event of Default under clause (d) or (h), as the case may be, is
with respect to less than all series of Securities then Outstanding) occurs and
is continuing, then, and in each and every such case, except for any series of
Securities the principal of which shall have already become due and payable,
either the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal
amount of the Securities of each such affected series then Outstanding hereunder
(treated as a single class) by notice in writing to the Company (and to the
Trustee if given by Securityholders), may declare the entire principal (or, if
the Securities of any such affected series are Original Issue Discount
Securities, such portion of the principal amount as may be specified in the
terms of such series) of all Securities of all such affected series, and the
interest accrued thereon, if any, to be due and payable immediately, and upon
any such declaration, the same shall become immediately due and payable. If an
Event of Default described in clause (d) or (h) (if the Event of Default under
clause (d) or (h), as the case may be, is with respect to all series of
Securities then Outstanding) or (g) occurs and is continuing, then and in each
and every such case, unless the principal of all the Securities shall have
already become due and payable, either the Trustee or the Holders of not less
than 25% in aggregate principal amount of all the Securities then Outstanding
hereunder (treated as one class), by notice in writing to the Company (and to
the Trustee if given by Securityholders), may declare the entire principal (or,
if any Securities are Original Issue Discount Securities, such portion of the
principal as may be specified in the terms thereof) of all the Securities then
Outstanding, and interest accrued thereon, if any, to be due and payable
immediately, and upon any such declaration the same shall become immediately due
and payable. If an Event of Default specified in clause (e) or (f) occurs, all
unpaid principal (or, if any Securities are Original Issue Discount Securities,
such portion of the principal as may be specified in the terms thereof) of all
the Securities then Outstanding, and interest accrued thereon, if any, shall be
due and payable immediately, without any declaration or other act on the part of
the Trustee or any Securityholder.
SECTION 5.02. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and
Annulment. If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series at
the time Outstanding occurs and is continuing, then and in every such case the
Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of that series may declare the principal amount (or, if
the Securities of that series are Original Issue Discount Securities, such
portion of the principal amount as may be specified in the terms of that series)
of all the Securities of that
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series to be due and payable immediately, by a notice in writing to the Company
(and to the Trustee if given by Holders), and upon any such declaration such
principal amount (or specified amount) shall become immediately due and payable.
At any time after such a declaration of acceleration with
respect to Securities of any series has been made and before a judgment or
decree for payment of the money due has been obtained by the Trustee as
hereinafter in this Article provided, the Holders of a majority in principal
amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series (subject to, in the case of
any series of Securities held as trust assets of a Nationwide Trust, obtaining
the consent of the holders of the Trust Securities of such Nationwide Trust as
may be required by the applicable declaration of such Nationwide Trust), by
written notice to the Company and the Trustee, may rescind and annul such
declaration and its consequences if:
(a) the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum
sufficient to pay:
(i) all overdue installments of interest on all
Securities of that series;
(ii) the principal of (and premium, if any, on) any
Securities of that series which have become due otherwise than
by such declaration of acceleration and interest thereon at
the rate borne by the Securities;
(iii) to the extent that payment of such interest is
lawful, interest upon overdue installments of interest at the
rate borne by the Securities;
(iv) sums paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder and
the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and
advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel; and
(b) all Events of Default with respect to Securities of that
series, other than the nonpayment of the principal of Securities of
that series which has become due solely by such acceleration, have been
cured or waived as provided in Section 5.13.
No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or
impair any right consequent thereon. Upon receipt by the Trustee of written
notice declaring such an acceleration, or rescission and annulment thereof, with
respect to Securities of a series all or part of which is represented by a
Global Security, a record date shall be established for determining Holders of
Outstanding Securities of such series entitled to join in such notice, which
record date shall be at the close of business on the day the Trustee receives
such notice. The Holders on such record date, or their duly designated proxies,
and only such Persons, shall be entitled to join in such notice, whether or not
such Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided that, unless such
declaration of acceleration, or rescission and annulment, as the case may be,
shall have become effective by virtue of the requisite percentage having joined
in such notice prior to the day which is 60 days after such record date, such
notice of declaration of acceleration, or rescission and annulment, as the case
may
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be, shall automatically and without further action by any Holder be canceled and
of no further effect. Nothing in this paragraph shall prevent a Holder, or a
proxy of a Holder, from giving, after expiration of such 60-day period, a new
written notice of declaration of acceleration, or rescission and annulment
thereof, as the case may be, that is identical to a written notice which has
been canceled pursuant to the proviso to the preceding sentence, in which event
a new record date shall be established pursuant to the provisions of this
Section 5.02.
SECTION 5.03. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for
Enforcement by Trustee. The Company covenants that if:
(a) default is made in the payment of any installment of
interest on any Security when such interest becomes due and payable and
such default continues for a period of 30 days; or
(b) default is made in the payment of the principal of (and
premium, if any, on) any Security at the Maturity thereof; the Company
will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the
Holders of such Securities, the whole amount then due and payable on
such Securities for principal, including any sinking fund payment or
analogous obligations (and premium, if any) and interest, including, to
the extent that payment of such interest shall be lawful, interest on
any overdue principal (and premium if any) and on any overdue
installments of interest at the rate borne by the Securities; and, in
addition thereto, all amounts owing the Trustee under Section 6.07.
If the Company fails to pay such amounts forthwith upon such
demand, the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, may
institute a judicial proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and
unpaid, and may prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree, and may
enforce the same against the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities
and collect the moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable in the manner provided
by law out of the property of the Company or any other obligor upon the
Securities, wherever situated.
If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any
series occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to
protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the Holders of Securities of
such series by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem
most effectual to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific
enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the
exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy.
SECTION 5.04. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim. In case of the
pendency of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy,
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other judicial
proceeding relative to the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or
the property of the Company or of such other obligor or their creditors;
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(a) the Trustee (irrespective of whether the principal of the
Securities of any series shall then be due and payable as therein
expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether
the Trustee shall have made any demand on the Company for the payment
of overdue principal (and premium, if any) or interest) shall be
entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or
otherwise:
(i) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount
of principal (and premium, if any) and interest owing and
unpaid in respect to the Securities and to file such other
papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable and to
take any and all actions as are authorized under the Trust
Indenture Act in order to have the claims of the Holders and
any predecessor to the Trustee under Section 6.07 and of the
Holders allowed in any such judicial proceedings;
(ii) and in particular, the Trustee shall be authorized
to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or
deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same in
accordance with Section 5.06; and
(b) any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator,
sequestrator (or other similar official) in any such judicial
proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make such payments to
the Trustee for distribution in accordance with Section 5.06, and in
the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments
directly to the Holders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due to it and
any predecessor Trustee under Section 6.07.
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize or
require the Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of
any Holder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition
affecting the Securities or the rights of any Holder thereof, or to authorize or
require the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such
proceeding.
SECTION 5.05. Trustee May Enforce Claim Without Possession of
Securities. All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the
Securities may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the possession
of any of the Securities or the production thereof in any proceeding relating
thereto, and any such proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in
its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall,
after provision for the payment of all the amounts owing the Trustee and any
predecessor Trustee under Section 6.07, its agents and counsel, be for the
ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities in respect of which such
judgment has been recovered.
SECTION 5.06. Application of Money Collected. Any money or
property collected or to be applied by the Trustee with respect to a series of
Securities pursuant to this Article shall be applied in the following order, at
the date or dates fixed by the Trustee and, in case of the distribution of such
money or property on account of principal (or premium, if
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any) or interest, upon presentation of the Securities and the notation thereon
of the payment if only partially paid and upon surrender thereof if fully paid:
first, to the payment of all amounts due the Trustee and any
predecessor Trustee under Section 6.07;
second, to the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid upon
such series of Securities for principal (and premium, if any) and interest, in
respect of which or for the benefit of which such money has been collected,
ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to the amounts
due and payable on such series of Securities for principal (and premium, if any)
and interest, respectively; and
third, the balance, if any, to the Person or Persons entitled
thereto.
SECTION 5.07. Limitation on Suits. No Holder of any Securities
of any series shall have any right to institute, against the Company, any
proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this Indenture or for the
appointment of a receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator (or other
similar official) or for any other remedy hereunder, unless:
(a) such Holder has previously given written notice to the
Trustee of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities of that
series;
(b) the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of
the Outstanding Securities of each affected series (treated as one class) shall
have made written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of
such Event of Default in its own name as Trustee hereunder;
(c) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee
reasonable indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred
in compliance with such request;
(d) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice,
request and offer of indemnity has failed to institute any such proceeding; and
(e) no direction inconsistent with such written request has
been given to the Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders of a majority
in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of each affected series
(treated as one class);
it being understood and intended that no one or more of such Holders shall have
any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision
of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other
Holders of Securities, or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference
over any other of such Holders or to enforce any right under this Indenture,
except in the manner herein provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of
all such Holders.
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SECTION 5.08. Unconditional Right of Holders To Receive
Principal, Premium and Interest. Notwithstanding any other provision in this
Indenture, the Holder of any Security shall have the right which is absolute and
unconditional to receive payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and
(subject to Section 3.07) interest on such Security on the respective Stated
Maturities expressed in such Security and to institute suit for the enforcement
of any such payment, and such right shall not be impaired without the consent of
such Holder. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, if the
Securities of a series are then held by a Nationwide Trust, while an Event of
Default described in Section 5.01(a) or (b) hereof has occurred and is
continuing, each holder of Preferred Securities of such Nationwide Trust shall
have the right to bring suit directly against the Company for the enforcement of
payment to such holder in respect of Securities of such series in a principal
amount equal to the aggregate liquidation amount of the Preferred Securities of
such holder.
SECTION 5.09. Restoration of Rights and Remedies. If the
Trustee or any Holder has instituted any proceeding to enforce any right or
remedy under this Indenture and such proceeding has been discontinued or
abandoned for any reason, or has been determined adversely to the Trustee or to
such Holder, then and in every such case the Company, the Trustee and the
Holders 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 Holders shall continue as though
no such proceeding had been instituted.
SECTION 5.10. Rights and Remedies Cumulative. Except as
otherwise provided in the last paragraph of Section 3.06, no right or remedy
herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders is intended
to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and remedy shall,
to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to every other
right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in
equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy
hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or
employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.
SECTION 5.11. Delay or Omission Not Waiver. Except as
otherwise provided in the last paragraph of Section 3.06, no delay or omission
of the Trustee or of any Holder of any Security to exercise any right or remedy
accruing upon any Event of Default shall impair any such right or remedy or
constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default or an acquiescence therein.
Every right and remedy given by this Article or by law to the
Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as
may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders, as the case may be.
SECTION 5.12. Control by Holders. The Holders of a majority in
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series shall have the
right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any
remedy available to the Trustee or
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exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee, with respect to the
Securities of such series; provided that:
(a) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of
law or with this Indenture;
(b) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the
Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction; and
(c) subject to the provisions of Section 6.01, the Trustee
shall have the right to decline to follow such direction if the Trustee
in good faith shall, by a Responsible Officer or Officers of the
Trustee, determine that the proceeding so directed would be unjustly
prejudicial to the Holders not joining in any such direction or would
involve the Trustee in personal liability.
Upon receipt by the Trustee of any written notice directing
the time, method or place of conducting any such proceeding or exercising any
such trust or power, with respect to Securities of a series all or part of which
is represented by a Global Security, a record date shall be established for
determining Holders of Outstanding Securities of such series entitled to join in
such notice, which record date shall be at the close of business on the day the
Trustee receives such notice. The Holders on such record date, or their duly
designated proxies, and only such Persons, shall be entitled to join in such
notice, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date;
provided that, unless the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of such series shall have joined in such notice prior to
the day which is 90 days after such record date, such notice shall automatically
and without further action by any Holder be canceled and of no further effect.
Nothing in this paragraph shall prevent a Holder, or a proxy of a Holder, from
giving, after expiration of such 90-day period, a new notice identical to a
notice which has been canceled pursuant to the proviso to the preceding
sentence, in which event a new record date shall be established pursuant to the
provisions of this Section 5.12.
SECTION 5.13. Waiver of Past Defaults. The Holders of not less
than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series
may on behalf of the Holders of all the Securities of such series waive any past
default hereunder with respect to such series and its consequences, except a
default:
(a) in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or
interest on any Security of such series, or
(b) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under
Article IX cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the
Holder of each Outstanding Security of such series affected.
Upon any such waiver, such default shall cease to exist, and
any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for
every purpose of this
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Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other default or
impair any right consequent thereon.
SECTION 5.14. Undertaking for Costs. All parties to this
Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Security by his or her 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 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 and expenses, against any
party litigant in such suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of
the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; but the provisions of this
Section shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Trustee, to any suit
instituted by any Holder, or group of Holders, holding in the aggregate more
than 10% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series, or to
any suit instituted by any Holder for the enforcement of the payment of the
principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on any Security on or after the
respective Stated Maturities expressed in such Security (or in the case of
redemption, on or after the date of such redemption).
SECTION 5.15. Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws. The Company
covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will not at any
time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the
benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law wherever enacted, now or at
any time hereafter in force, which may affect the covenants or the performance
of this Indenture; and the Company (to the extent that it may lawfully do so)
hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law, and covenants
that it will not hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein
granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such
power as though no such law had been enacted.
ARTICLE VI
THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 6.01. Certain Duties and Responsibilities. (a) 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;
but in the case of any such certificates or opinions which by
any provisions hereof are specifically required to be
furnished to the Trustee, the Trustee shall be under
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a duty to examine the same to determine whether or not they
conform to the requirements of this Indenture (but need not
confirm or investigate the accuracy of mathematical
calculations or other facts stated therein).
(b) In case an Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing, the Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers
vested in it by this Indenture, and use the same degree of care and
skill in their exercise, as a prudent man would exercise or use under
the circumstances in the conduct of his or her own affairs.
(c) No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to
relieve the Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its
own negligent failure to act, or its own wilful misconduct except that:
(i) this Subsection shall not be construed to limit
the effect of Subsection (a) of this Section;
(ii) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error
of judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer,
unless it shall be proved that the Trustee was negligent in
ascertaining the pertinent facts; and
(iii) the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to
any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in
accordance with the direction of Holders pursuant to Section
5.12 relating to the time, method and place of conducting any
proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or
exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee,
under this Indenture with respect to the Securities of such
series.
(d) No provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee
to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial
liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the
exercise of any of its rights or powers.
(e) Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every
provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability
of or affording protection to the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of
this Section.
SECTION 6.02. Notice of Defaults. Within 60 days after actual
knowledge of the occurrence of any default hereunder with respect to the
Securities of any series, the Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Holders of
Securities of such series, as their names and addresses appear in the Securities
Register, notice of such default hereunder known to the Trustee, unless such
default shall have been cured or waived; provided, however, that, except in the
case of a default in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or
interest on any Security of such series, the Trustee shall be protected in
withholding such notice if and so long as the board of directors, the executive
committee or a trust committee of directors and/or Responsible Officers of the
Trustee in good faith determines that the withholding of such notice is in the
interests of the Holders of Securities of such series; and
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provided further that, in the case of any default of the character specified in
Section 5.01(d), no such notice to Holders of Securities of such series shall be
given until at least 30 days after the occurrence thereof. For the purpose of
this Section, the term "default" means any event which is, or after notice or
lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default with respect to
Securities of such series.
SECTION 6.03. Certain Rights of Trustee. Subject to the
provisions of Section 6.01:
(a) the Trustee may conclusively rely and shall be protected
in acting or refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate,
statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction,
consent, order, bond, debenture or other evidence of indebtedness,
Security or other paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to
have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties;
(b) any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein
shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Company Request or Company Order
and any resolution of the Board of Directors may be sufficiently
evidenced by a Board Resolution;
(c) whenever in the administration of this Indenture the
Trustee shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established
prior to taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the
Trustee (unless other evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may,
in the absence of bad faith on its part, rely upon an Officers'
Certificate;
(d) the Trustee may consult with counsel of its selection and
the advice of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and
complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken,
suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance
thereon;
(e) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any
of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request
or direction of any of the Holders pursuant to this Indenture, unless
such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee reasonable security or
indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be
incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction;
(f) the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation
into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate,
statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction,
consent, order, bond, indenture, Security or other paper or document,
but the Trustee in its discretion may make such inquiry or
investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the
Trustee shall determine to make such inquiry or investigation, it shall
be entitled to examine the books, records and premises of the Company,
personally or by agent or attorney, at the sole cost of the Company,
and shall incur no liability or additional liability of any kind by
reason of such inquiry or investigation;
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(g) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers
hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or
through agents or attorneys and the Trustee shall not be responsible
for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent or attorney
appointed with due care by it hereunder;
(h) the Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken,
suffered, or omitted to be taken by it in good faith and reasonably
believed by it to be authorized or within the discretion or rights or
powers conferred upon it by this Indenture; and
(i) the Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice of any
default or Event of Default unless a Responsible Officer of the Trustee
has actual knowledge thereof or unless written notice of any event
which is in fact such a default is received by the Trustee at the
Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and such notice references the
Securities and this Indenture.
SECTION 6.04. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of
Securities. The recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except the
Trustee's certificates of authentication, shall be taken as the statements of
the Company, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for their correctness.
The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this
Indenture or of the Securities. Neither the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent
shall be accountable for the use or application by the Company of the Securities
or the proceeds thereof.
SECTION 6.05. May Hold Securities. The Trustee, any
Authenticating Agent, any Paying Agent, Securities Registrar or any other agent
of the Company, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or
pledgee of Securities and, subject to Sections 6.08 and 6.13, may otherwise deal
with the Company with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee,
Paying Agent, Securities Registrar or such other agent.
SECTION 6.06. Money Held In Trust. Money held by the Trustee
in trust hereunder need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent
required by law. The Trustee shall be under no liability for interest on any
money received by it hereunder except as otherwise agreed in writing with the
Company.
SECTION 6.07. Compensation and Reimbursement. The Company
agrees:
(a) to pay to the Trustee from time to time such compensation
as shall be agreed to in writing between the Company and the Trustee
for all services rendered by it hereunder (which compensation shall not
be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a
trustee of an express trust);
(b) to reimburse the Trustee upon its request for all
reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by the
Trustee in accordance with any provision of this Indenture (including
the reasonable compensation and the expenses
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and disbursements of its agents and counsel), except any such expense,
disbursement or advance as may be attributable to its negligence or bad
faith; and
(c) to indemnify each of the Trustee and any Predecessor
Trustee and their respective officers, directors, stockholders,
employees and agents for, and to hold each of them harmless against,
any loss, liability or expense (including the reasonable compensation
and the expenses and disbursements of its agents and counsel) to the
extent incurred without negligence or bad faith, arising out of or in
connection with the acceptance or administration of this trust or the
performance of its duties hereunder, including the costs and expenses
of defending itself against any claim or liability in connection with
the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder.
When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services after an
Event of Default specified in Section 5.01(e) or (f) occurs, the expenses and
the compensation for the services are intended to constitute expenses of
administration under the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 or a successor statute.
The provisions of this Section 6.07 shall survive the
termination of this Indenture.
SECTION 6.08. Disqualification; Conflicting Interest. The
Trustee for the Securities of any series issued hereunder shall be subject to
the provisions of Section 3.10(b) of the Trust Indenture Act. Nothing herein
shall prevent the Trustee from filing with the Commission the application
referred to in the second to last paragraph of Section 3.10(b) of the Trust
Indenture Act.
SECTION 6.09. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility. There
shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder which shall be a corporation organized
and doing business under the laws of the United States of America or of any
state, territory or the District of Columbia, authorized under such laws to
exercise corporate trust powers and subject to supervision or examination by
Federal, state, territorial or District of Columbia authority, having a combined
capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000, subject to supervision or
examination by Federal or state authority. If such corporation publishes reports
of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of the
aforesaid supervising or examining authority, then, for the purpose of this
Section, the combined capital and surplus of such corporation shall be deemed to
be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of
condition so published. If at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in
accordance with the provisions of this Section, it shall resign immediately in
the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article. Neither
the Company nor any Person directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by or
under common control with the Company shall serve as Trustee for the Securities
of any series issued hereunder.
SECTION 6.10. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of
Successor. (a) No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a
successor Trustee pursuant
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to this Article shall become effective until the acceptance of appointment by
the successor Trustee under Section 6.11.
(b) The Trustee may resign at any time with respect to the
Securities of one or more series by giving written notice thereof to the
Company. If an instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee shall not have
been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such notice of
resignation, the resigning Trustee may petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the
Securities of such series.
(c) The Trustee may be removed at any time with respect to
the Securities of any series by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal
amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series, delivered to the Trustee
and to the Company.
(d) If at any time:
(i) the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section
6.08 after written request therefor by the Company or by any
Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at
least six months; or
(ii) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under
Section 6.09 and shall fail to resign after written request
therefor by the Company or by any such Holder; or
(iii) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or
shall be adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the
Trustee or of its property shall be appointed or any public
officer shall take charge or control of the Trustee or of its
property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation,
conservation or liquidation;
then, in any such case, (A) the Company by Board Resolution may remove the
Trustee, or (B) subject to Section 5.14, any Holder who has been a bona fide
Holder of a Security for at least six months may, on behalf of himself or
herself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee and the appointment of a successor
Trustee.
(e) If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become
incapable of acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee for
any cause with respect to the Securities of one or more series, the Company, by
a Board Resolution, shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee with respect to
the Securities of that or those series. If, within one year after such
resignation, removal or incapability, or the occurrence of such vacancy, a
successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall not have
been appointed by the Company, a successor Trustee shall be appointed by Act of
the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of
such series delivered to the Company and the retiring Trustee, and the successor
Trustee so appointed shall, forthwith upon its
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acceptance of such appointment, become the successor Trustee with respect to the
Securities of such series and supersede the successor Trustee appointed by the
Company. If no successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series
shall have been so appointed by the Company or the Holders and accepted
appointment in the manner hereinafter provided, any Holder who has been a bona
fide Holder of a Security for at least six months may, subject to Section 5.14,
on behalf of himself or herself and all others similarly situated, petition any
court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with
respect to the Securities of such series.
(f) The Company shall give notice of each resignation and each
removal of the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series and each
appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series
by mailing written notice of such event by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to
the Holders of Securities of such series as their names and addresses appear in
the Securities Register. Each notice shall include the name of the successor
Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series and the address of its
Corporate Trust Office.
SECTION 6.11. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor. (a) In
case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to all
Securities, every such successor Trustee so appointed shall execute, acknowledge
and deliver to the Company and to the retiring Trustee an instrument accepting
such appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring
Trustee shall become effective and such successor Trustee, without any further
act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts
and duties of the retiring Trustee and the resigning or removed Trustee shall be
therefrom deemed released and discharged of the trusts and duties hereunder;
but, on the request of the Company or the successor Trustee, such retiring
Trustee shall, upon payment of its charges, execute and deliver an instrument
transferring to such successor Trustee all the rights, powers and trusts of the
retiring Trustee and shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor
Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder.
(b) In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor
Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more (but not all) series, the
Company, the retiring Trustee and each successor Trustee with respect to the
Securities of one or more series shall execute and deliver an indenture
supplemental hereto wherein each successor Trustee shall accept such appointment
and which (i) shall contain such provisions as shall be necessary or desirable
to transfer and confirm to, and to vest in, each successor Trustee all the
rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the
Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor
Trustee relates, (ii) if the retiring Trustee is not retiring with respect to
all Securities, shall contain such provisions as shall be deemed necessary or
desirable to confirm that all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the
retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series as to
which the retiring Trustee is not retiring shall continue to be vested in the
retiring Trustee, and (iii) shall add to or change any of the provisions of this
Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration
of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, it being understood that
nothing herein or in such supplemental indenture shall constitute such Trustees
co-trustees of
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the same trust and that each such Trustee shall be trustee of a trust or trusts
hereunder separate and apart from any trust or trusts hereunder administered by
any other such Trustee and upon the execution and delivery of such supplemental
indenture the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become
effective to the extent provided therein and each such successor Trustee,
without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the
rights, powers, trusts, and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the
Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor
Trustee relates; but, on request of the Company or any successor Trustee, such
retiring Trustee shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor
Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder with
respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of
such successor Trustee relates.
(c) Upon request of any such successor Trustee, the Company
shall execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in
and confirming to such successor Trustee all rights, powers and trusts referred
to in paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section, as the case may be.
(d) No successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless
at the time of such acceptance such successor Trustee shall be qualified and
eligible under this Article.
SECTION 6.12. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession
to Business. Any corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or converted
or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any
merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or
any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust
business of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder,
provided such corporation shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this
Article, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the
part of any of the parties hereto. In case any Securities shall have been
authenticated, but not delivered, by the Trustee then in office, any successor
by merger, conversion or consolidation to such authenticating Trustee may adopt
such authentication and deliver the Securities so authenticated, and in case any
Securities shall not have been authenticated, any successor to the Trustee may
authenticate such Securities either in the name of any predecessor Trustee or in
the name of such successor Trustee, and in all cases the certificate of
authentication shall have the full force which it is provided anywhere in the
Securities or in this Indenture that the certificate of the Trustee shall have.
SECTION 6.13. Preferential Collection of Claims Against
Company. If and when the Trustee shall be or become a creditor of the Company
(or any other obligor upon the Securities), the Trustee shall be subject to the
provisions of the Trust Indenture Act regarding the collection of claims against
the Company (or any such other obligor).
SECTION 6.14. Appointment of Authenticating Agent. The Trustee
may appoint an Authenticating Agent or Agents with respect to one or more series
of Securities which shall be authorized to act on behalf of the Trustee to
authenticate Securities of such series issued upon original issue and upon
exchange, registration of transfer or partial
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redemption thereof, and Securities so authenticated shall be entitled to the
benefits of this Indenture and shall be valid and obligatory for all purposes as
if authenticated by the Trustee hereunder. Wherever reference is made in this
Indenture to the authentication and delivery of Securities by the Trustee or the
Trustee's certificate of authentication, such reference shall be deemed to
include authentication and delivery on behalf of the Trustee by an
Authenticating Agent. Each Authenticating Agent shall be acceptable to the
Company and shall at all times be a corporation organized and doing business
under the laws of the United States of America, or of any state, territory or
the District of Columbia, authorized under such laws to act as Authenticating
Agent, having a combined capital and surplus of not less than $50,000,000 and
subject to supervision or examination by Federal or state authority. If such
Authenticating Agent publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant
to law or to the requirements of said supervising or examining authority, then
for the purposes of this Section the combined capital and surplus of such
Authenticating Agent shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as
set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at any time an
Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the
provisions of this Section, such Authenticating Agent shall resign immediately
in the manner and with the effect specified in this Section.
Any corporation into which an Authenticating Agent may be
merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation
resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which such
Authenticating Agent shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to all or
substantially all of the corporate trust business of an Authenticating Agent
shall be the successor Authenticating Agent hereunder, provided such corporation
shall be otherwise eligible under this Section, without the execution or filing
of any paper or any further act on the part of the Trustee or the Authenticating
Agent.
An Authenticating Agent may resign at any time by giving
written notice thereof to the Trustee and to the Company. The Trustee may at any
time terminate the agency of an Authenticating Agent by giving written notice
thereof to such Authenticating Agent and to the Company. Upon receiving such a
notice of resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at any time such
Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the
provisions of this Section, the Trustee may appoint a successor Authenticating
Agent which shall be acceptable to the Company and shall give notice of such
appointment in the manner provided in Section 1.06 to all Holders of Securities
of the series with respect to which such Authenticating Agent will serve. Any
successor Authenticating Agent upon acceptance of its appointment hereunder
shall become vested with all the rights, powers and duties of its predecessor
hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as an Authenticating Agent.
No successor Authenticating Agent shall be appointed unless eligible under the
provision of this Section.
The Company agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from
time to time reasonable compensation for its services under this Section.
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If an appointment with respect to one or more series is made
pursuant to this Section, the Securities of such series may have endorsed
thereon, in addition to the Trustee's certificate of authentication, an
alternative certificate of authentication in the following form:
This is one of the Securities referred to in the within
mentioned Indenture.
Dated:
_________________________, as Trustee,
By:______________________________________
As Authenticating Agent
By:______________________________________
As Authenticating Agent
SECTION 6.15. Trustee's Application for Instructions from the
Company. Any application by the Trustee for written instructions from the
Company may, at the option of the Trustee, set forth in writing any action
proposed to be taken or omitted by the Trustee under this Indenture and the date
on and/or after which such action shall be taken or such omission shall be
effective. The Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken by, or omission
of, the Trustee in accordance with a proposal included in such application on or
after the date specified in such application (which date shall not be less than
five Business Days after the date any officer of the Company actually receives
such application, unless any such officer shall have consented in writing to any
earlier date) unless prior to taking any such action (or the effective date in
the case of an omission), the Trustee shall have received written instructions
in response to such application specifying the action to be taken or omitted.
ARTICLE VII
HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY
SECTION 7.01. Company To Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses
of Holders. The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee:
(a) semiannually, not more than 15 days after June 1 and
December 1, a list, in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require,
of the names and addresses of the Holders as of such June 1 and
December 1; and
(b) at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing,
within 30 days after the receipt by the Company of any such request, a
list of similar form and content as of a date not more than 15 days
prior to the time such list is furnished;
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excluding from any such list names and addresses received by the Trustee in its
capacity as Securities Registrar.
SECTION 7.02. Preservation of Information, Communications to
Holders. (a) The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably
practicable, the names and addresses of Holders contained in the most recent
list furnished to the Trustee as provided in Section 7.01 and the names and
addresses of Holders received by the Trustee in its capacity as Securities
Registrar. The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in
Section 7.01 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.
(b) If three or more Holders of Securities of the same series
(herein referred to as "applicants") apply in writing to the Trustee, and
furnish to the Trustee reasonable proof that each such applicant has owned a
Security of such series for a period of at least six months preceding the date
of such application, and such application states that the applicants' desire to
communicate with other Holders of such series with respect to their rights under
this Indenture or under the Securities of such series and is accompanied by a
copy of the form of proxy or other communication which such applicants propose
to transmit, then the Trustee shall, within five business days after the receipt
of such application, at its election, either
(i) afford such applicants access to the information
with respect to the Holders of such series preserved at the time by the
Trustee in accordance with paragraph (a) of this Section, or
(ii) inform such applicants as to the approximate
number of Holders of such series whose names and addresses appear in
the information preserved at the time by the Trustee in accordance with
paragraph (a) of this Section, and as to the approximate cost of
mailing to such Holders the form of proxy or other communication, if
any, specified in such application.
If the Trustee shall elect not to afford such
applicants access to such information, the Trustee shall, upon the
written request of such applicants, mail to each Holder of such series
whose name and address appear in the information preserved at the time
by the Trustee in accordance with paragraph (a) of this Section a copy
of the form of proxy or other communication which is specified in such
request, with reasonable promptness after a tender to the Trustee of
the material to be mailed and of payment, or provision for the payment,
of the reasonable expenses of mailing, unless within five days after
such tender the Trustee shall mail to such applicants and file with the
Commission, together with a copy of the material to be mailed, a
written statement to the effect that, in the opinion of the Trustee,
such mailing would be contrary to the best interest of the Holders of
such series or would be in violation of applicable law. Such written
statement shall specify the basis of such opinion. If the Commission,
after opportunity for a hearing upon the objections specified in the
written statement so filed, shall enter an order refusing to sustain
any of such objections or if, after the entry of an order sustaining
one or more of such objections,
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the Commission shall find, after notice and opportunity for hearing,
that all the objections so sustained have been met and shall enter an
order so declaring, the Trustee shall mail copies of such material to
all such Holders with reasonable promptness after the entry of such
order and the renewal of such tender; otherwise the Trustee shall be
relieved of any obligation or duty to such applicants respecting their
application.
(c) Every Holder of Securities, by receiving and holding the
same, agrees with the Company and the Trustee that neither the Company nor the
Trustee nor any agent of either of them shall be held accountable by reason of
the disclosure of information as to the names and addresses of the Holders made
pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act.
SECTION 7.03. Reports by Trustee. (a) The Trustee shall
transmit to Holders such reports concerning the Trustee and its actions under
this Indenture as may be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act, at the
times and in the manner provided pursuant thereto.
(b) Within 60 days after May 15 of each year commencing with
the year 1999, the Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Holders of Securities
as provided in Section 313(c) of the Trust Indenture Act, a brief report dated
as of May 15, if required by and in compliance with Section 313(a) of the Trust
Indenture Act.
(c) A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such
transmission to Holders, be filed by the Trustee with each stock exchange upon
which the Securities are listed and also with the Commission. The Company will
promptly notify the Trustee whenever the Securities are listed on any stock
exchange.
SECTION 7.04. Reports by Company. The Company shall file with
the Trustee and with the Commission, and transmit to Holders, such information,
documents and other reports, and such summaries thereof, as may be required
pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act at the times and in the manner provided in
the Trust Indenture Act; provided that any such information, documents or
reports required to be filed with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or
Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, shall be filed
with the Trustee within 15 days after the same is required to be filed with the
Commission. Notwithstanding that the Company may not be required to remain
subject to the reporting requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the Company shall continue to file with the
Commission and provide the Trustee and Holders with the annual reports and the
information, documents and other reports which are specified in Sections 13 and
15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. The Company also shall
comply with the other provisions of Trust Indenture Act Section 3.14(a).
Delivery of such reports, information and documents to the
Trustee is for informational purposes only and the Trustee's receipt of such
shall not constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein or
determinable from information contained
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therein, including the Company's compliance with any of its covenants hereunder
(as to which the Trustee is entitled to rely exclusively on Officers'
Certificates).
ARTICLE VIII
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE
SECTION 8.01. Company May Consolidate, etc., Only on Certain
Terms. The Company shall not consolidate with or merge into any other
corporation or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets in entirety
or substantially as an entirety to any Person, and no Person shall consolidate
with or merge into the Company or convey, sell, transfer or lease its properties
and assets in entirety or substantially as an entirety to the Company, unless:
(a) in case the Company shall consolidate with or merge into
another corporation or convey, sell, transfer or lease its properties
and assets in entirety or substantially as an entirety to any Person,
the corporation formed by such consolidation or into which the Company
is merged or the Person which acquires by conveyance, sale or transfer,
or which leases, the properties and assets of the Company in entirety
or substantially as an entirety shall be a corporation organized and
existing under the laws of the United States of America or any State or
the District of Columbia, and shall expressly assume, by an indenture
supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the Trustee, in form
satisfactory to the Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the
principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on all the Securities
and the performance of every covenant of this Indenture on the part of
the Company to be performed or observed;
(b) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no
Event of Default, and no event which, after notice or lapse of time, or
both, would become an Event of Default, shall have happened and be
continuing; and
(c) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each stating that such
consolidation, merger, conveyance, sale, transfer or lease and any such
supplemental indenture complies with this Article and that all
conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction
have been complied with; and the Trustee, subject to Section 6.01, may
rely upon such Officers' Certificate and Opinion of Counsel as
conclusive evidence that such transaction complies with this Section
8.01.
SECTION 8.02. Successor Corporation Substituted. Upon any
consolidation or merger by the Company with or into any other corporation, or
any conveyance, sale, transfer or lease by the Company of its properties and
assets in entirety or substantially as an entirety to any Person in accordance
with Section 8.01, the successor corporation formed by such consolidation or
into which the Company is merged or to which such conveyance, sale, transfer or
lease is made shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every
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right and power of, the Company under this Indenture with the same effect as if
such successor corporation had been named as the Company herein; and in the
event of any such conveyance, sale, transfer or lease the Company shall be
discharged from all obligations and covenants under the Indenture and the
Securities and may be dissolved and liquidated.
Such successor corporation may cause to be signed, and may
issue either in its own name or in the name of the Company, any or all of the
Securities issuable hereunder which theretofore shall not have been signed by
the Company and delivered to the Trustee; and, upon the order of such successor
corporation instead of the Company and subject to all the terms, conditions and
limitations in this Indenture prescribed, the Trustee shall authenticate and
shall deliver any Securities which previously shall have been signed and
delivered by the officers of the Company to the Trustee for authentication
pursuant to such provisions and any Securities which such successor corporation
thereafter shall cause to be signed and delivered to the Trustee on its behalf
for the purpose pursuant to such provisions. All the Securities so issued shall
in all respects have the same legal rank and benefit under this Indenture as the
Securities theretofore or thereafter issued in accordance with the terms of this
Indenture as though all of such Securities had been issued at the date of the
execution hereof.
In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance or
lease, such changes in phraseology and form may be made in the Securities
thereafter to be issued as may be appropriate.
ARTICLE IX
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
SECTION 9.01. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of
Holders. Without the consent of any Holders, the Company, when authorized by a
Board Resolution, and the Trustee, at any time and from time to time, may enter
into one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in form satisfactory to the
Trustee, for any of the following purposes:
(a) to evidence the succession of another corporation to the
Company, and the assumption by any such successor corporation of the
covenants of the Company herein and in the Securities contained;
(b) to provide for the issuance under this Indenture of
Securities in bearer form (including securities registrable as to
principal only) and to provide for exchangeability of such Securities
for Securities issued hereunder in fully registered form, and to make
all appropriate changes for such purpose;
(c) to add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit of
the Holders of all or one or more specified series of Securities (and
if such covenants are to be for the benefit of fewer than all series of
Securities or fewer than all Securities of a Series, stating that such
covenants are expressly being included solely for the benefit
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of such series) or to surrender any right or power herein conferred
upon the Company;
(d) to secure the Securities;
(e) to establish the form or terms of Securities of any series
as permitted by Sections 2.01 and 3.01;
(f) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any
provision herein which may be inconsistent with any other provision
herein, or to make any other provisions with respect to matters or
questions arising under this Indenture, provided such action shall not
adversely affect the interest of the Holders of Securities of any
series; or
(g) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment
hereunder by a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one
or more series and to add to or change any of the provisions of this
Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the
administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee,
pursuant to the requirements of Section 6.11(b).
SECTION 9.02. Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders.
With the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount
of the Outstanding Securities of each series affected (voting as one class) by
such supplemental indenture (or, if the affected series of the Securities are
held by a Nationwide Trust, the holders of at least a majority in aggregate
liquidation amount of the Preferred Securities of such Nationwide Trust), by Act
of said Holders delivered to the Company and the Trustee, the Company, when
authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee may enter into an indenture or
indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to or
changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture or
of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of Securities of such
series under this Indenture; provided, however, that no such supplemental
indenture shall, without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security
affected thereby:
(a) extend the Stated Maturity of the principal of any
Outstanding Security, or reduce the principal amount thereof or reduce the rate
or extend the time of payment of interest thereon, or reduce any amount payable
on redemption thereof or change currency in which the principal thereof
(including any amount in respect of Original Issue Discount Security), premium,
if any, or interest thereon is payable or reduce the amount of any Original
Issue Discount Security that is payable upon acceleration or provable in
bankruptcy or impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any such
payment on or after the Stated Maturity thereof;
(b) reduce the percentage in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of any series, the consent of whose Holders is required
for any such supplemental indenture, or the consent of whose Holders is required
for any waiver (of compliance with certain
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provisions of this Indenture or certain defaults hereunder and their
consequences) provided for in this Indenture; or
(c) modify any of the provisions of this Section, Section 5.13
or Section 10.06, except to increase any such percentage or to provide that
certain other provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified or waived without
the consent of the Holder of each Security affected thereby, provided that, in
the case of any Outstanding Securities of a series then held by a Nationwide
Trust, no such supplemental indenture shall be entered into unless approved by
holders of the Preferred Securities of such Nationwide Trust as provided in any
applicable declaration of trust or similar instrument with respect to such
Nationwide Trust.
A supplemental indenture which changes or eliminates any
covenant or other provision of this Indenture which has expressly been included
solely for the benefit of one or more particular series of Securities, or which
modifies the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series with respect to
such covenant or other provision, shall be deemed not to affect the rights under
this Indenture of the Holders of Securities of any other series.
It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this
Section to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture,
but it shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.
This Indenture may not be amended to alter the subordination
provisions contained in Article XIII hereof without the consent of each holder
of Senior Indebtedness outstanding that would be adversely affected by such
amendment or alteration.
SECTION 9.03. Execution of Supplemental Indentures. In
executing or accepting the additional trusts created by any supplemental
indenture permitted by this Article or the modifications thereby of the trusts
created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and
(subject to Section 6.01) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such
supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this Indenture, and that
all conditions precedent have been complied with. The Trustee may, but shall not
be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture which affects the
Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.
SECTION 9.04. Effect of Supplemental Indentures. Upon the
execution of any supplemental indenture under this Article, this Indenture shall
be modified in accordance therewith, and such supplemental indenture shall form
a part of this Indenture for all purposes; and every Holder of Securities
theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder shall be bound
thereby.
SECTION 9.05. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act. Every
supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article shall conform to the
requirements of the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect.
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SECTION 9.06. Reference in Securities to Supplemental
Indentures. Securities authenticated and delivered after the execution of any
supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article may, and shall if required by
the Trustee, bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee as to any matter
provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Company shall so determine,
new Securities of any series so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the
Trustee and the Board of Directors, to any such supplemental indenture may be
prepared and executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the
Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Securities of such series.
ARTICLE X
COVENANTS
SECTION 10.01. Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest. The
Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of each series of Securities that
it will duly and punctually pay the principal of (and premium, if any) and
interest on the Securities of that series in accordance with the terms of such
Securities and this Indenture.
SECTION 10.02. Maintenance of Office or Agency. The Company
will maintain in each Place of Payment for any series, an office or agency where
Securities of that series may be presented or surrendered for payment and an
office or agency where Securities may be surrendered for transfer or exchange
and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the
Securities and this Indenture may be served. The Company initially appoints the
Trustee, acting through its Corporate Trust Office, as its agent for said
purposes. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any
change in the location of any such office or agency. If at any time the Company
shall fail to maintain such office or agency or shall fail to furnish the
Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and
demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and
the Company hereby appoints the Trustee as its agent to receive all such
presentations, surrenders, notices and demands.
The Company may also from time to time designate one or more
other offices or agencies where the Securities may be presented or surrendered
for any or all of such purposes, and may from time to time rescind such
designations; provided, however, that no such designation or rescission shall in
any manner relieve the Company of its obligation to maintain an office or agency
in each Place of Payment for Securities of any series for such purposes. The
Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation
and any change in the location of any such office or agency.
SECTION 10.03. Money for Security Payments To Be Held in
Trust. If the Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent with respect
to any series of Securities, it will, on or before each due date of the
principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on any of the Securities of such
series, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled
thereto a sum sufficient to pay the principal (and premium, if any) or
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interest so becoming due until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or
otherwise disposed of as herein provided, and will promptly notify the Trustee
of its failure so to act.
Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents, it
will, prior to each due date of the principal of or interest on any Securities,
deposit with a Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay the principal (and premium,
if any) or interest so becoming due, such sum to be held in trust for the
benefit of the Persons entitled to such principal and premium (if any) or
interest, and (unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Company will
promptly notify the Trustee of its failure so to act.
The Company 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, subject to the provisions of this Section,
that such Paying Agent will:
(a) hold all sums held by it for the payment of the principal
of (and premium, if any) or interest on Securities in trust for the
benefit of the Persons entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid
to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided;
(b) give the Trustee notice of any default by the Company (or
any other obligor upon the Securities) in the making of any payment of
principal (and premium, if any) or interest; and
(c) 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.
The Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay, or
by Company Order direct any Paying Agent to pay, to the Trustee all sums held in
trust by the Company or such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the Trustee
upon the same trusts as those upon which such sums were held by the Company or
such Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by the Company or any Paying Agent to
the Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with
respect to such money.
Any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or
then held by the Company, in trust for the payment of the principal of (and
premium, if any) or interest on any Security and remaining unclaimed for two
years after such principal (and premium, if any) or interest has become due and
payable shall (unless otherwise required by mandatory provision of applicable
escheat or abandoned or unclaimed property law) be paid on Company Request to
the Company, or (if then held by the Company) shall (unless otherwise required
by mandatory provision of applicable escheat or abandoned or unclaimed property
law) be discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Security shall
thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Company for
payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with
respect to such trust money, and all liability of the
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Company as trustee thereof, 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 Company 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 Wilmington, Delaware, 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 the Company.
SECTION 10.04. Payment of Taxes and Other Claims. The Company
will pay or discharge or cause to be paid or discharged, before the same shall
become delinquent, (a) all taxes, assessments and governmental charges levied or
imposed upon the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary or upon the income,
profits or property of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, and (b) all
lawful claims for labor, materials and supplies which, if unpaid, might by law
become a lien upon the property of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary;
provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to pay or discharge or
cause to be paid or discharged any such tax, assessment, charge or claim whose
amount, applicability or validity is being contested in good faith by
appropriate proceedings.
SECTION 10.05. Statement as to Compliance. The Company shall
deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the
Company ending after the date hereof, an Officers' Certificate, signed by at
least one of the principal executive officer, principal financial officer and
principal accounting officer of the Company, covering the preceding calendar
year, stating whether or not to the best knowledge of the signers thereof the
Company is in default in the performance, observance or fulfillment of or
compliance with any of the terms, provisions, covenants and conditions of this
Indenture, and if the Company shall be in default, specifying all such defaults
and the nature and status thereof of which they may have knowledge. For the
purpose of this Section 10.05, compliance shall be determined without regard to
any grace period or requirement of notice provided pursuant to the terms of this
Indenture.
SECTION 10.06. Waiver of Certain Covenants. The Company may
omit in any particular instance to comply with any covenant or condition set
forth in Section 10.04, with respect to the Securities of any series if before
or after the time for such compliance the Holders of at least a majority in
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series shall, by Act of
such Holders, either waive such compliance in such instance or generally waive
compliance with such covenant or condition, but no such waiver shall extend to
or affect such covenant or condition except to the extent so expressly waived,
and, until such waiver shall become effective, the obligations of the Company in
respect of any such covenant or condition shall remain in full force and effect.
SECTION 10.07. Calculation of Original Issue Discount. The
Company shall file with the Trustee promptly at the end of each calendar year
(i) a written notice specifying the amount of original issue discount (including
daily rates and accrual periods) accrued on Outstanding Securities as of the end
of such year and (ii) such other specific information
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relating to such original issue discount as may then be relevant under the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time.
ARTICLE XI
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 11.01. Applicability of This Article. Redemption of
Securities (whether by operation of a sinking fund or otherwise) as permitted or
required by any form of Security issued pursuant to this Indenture shall be made
in accordance with such form of Security and this Article; provided, however,
that if any provision of any such form of Security shall conflict with any
provision of this Article, the provision of such form of Security shall govern.
Except as otherwise set forth in the form of Security for such series, each
Security shall be subject to partial redemption only in the amount of $1,000 or
integral multiples of $1,000.
SECTION 11.02. Election To Redeem; Notice to Trustee. The
election of the Company to redeem any Securities shall be evidenced by or
pursuant to a Board Resolution. In case of any redemption at the election of the
Company, the Company shall, at least 60 days prior to the date fixed for
redemption (unless a shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the Trustee),
notify the Trustee (by Company Request) of such date and of the principal amount
of Securities of that series to be redeemed. In the case of any redemption of
Securities prior to the expiration of any restriction on such redemption
provided in the terms of such Securities, the Company shall furnish the Trustee
with an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel evidencing compliance
with such restriction.
SECTION 11.03. Selection of Securities To Be Redeemed. If less
than all the Securities of a particular series and having the same terms are to
be redeemed, the Trustee shall select, not more than 60 days prior to the date
fixed for redemption, in such manner as in its sole discretion it shall deem
appropriate and fair, the Securities or portions thereof of such series to be
redeemed. The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the
Securities selected for partial redemption and the principal amount thereof to
be redeemed. For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise
requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of Securities shall relate,
in the case of any Security redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the
portion of the principal amount of such Security which has been or is to be
redeemed. If the Company shall so direct, Securities registered in the name of
the Company, any Affiliate or any Subsidiary thereof shall not be included in
the Securities selected for redemption.
SECTION 11.04. Notice of Redemption. Notice of redemption
shall be given by first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not later than the
30th day, and not earlier than the 60th day, prior to the date fixed for
redemption, to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed, at the address of such
Holder as it appears in the Securities Register.
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With respect to Securities of each series to be redeemed, each
notice of redemption shall identify the Securities to be redeemed (including
CUSIP number(s), if any) and shall state:
(a) the date fixed for redemption for Securities of such
series;
(b) the redemption price at which Securities of such series
are to be redeemed;
(c) if less than all Outstanding Securities of such particular
series and having the same terms are to be redeemed, the identification
(and, in the case of partial redemption, the respective principal
amounts) of the particular Securities to be redeemed;
(d) that on the date fixed for redemption, the redemption
price at which such Securities are to be redeemed will become due and
payable upon each such Security or portion thereof, and that interest
thereon, if any, shall cease to accrue on and after said date;
(e) the place or places where such Securities are to be
surrendered for payment of the redemption price at which such
Securities are to be redeemed; and
(f) that the redemption is for a sinking fund, if such is the
case.
Notice of redemption of Securities to be redeemed at the
election of the Company shall be given by the Company or, at the Company's
written request, by the Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company.
The notice if mailed in the manner herein provided shall be conclusively
presumed to have been duly given, whether or not the Holder receives such
notice. In any case, a failure to give such notice by mail or any defect in the
notice to the Holder of any Security designated for redemption as a whole or in
part shall not affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption of any
other Security.
SECTION 11.05. Deposit of Redemption Price. Prior to the
redemption date specified in the notice of redemption given as provided in
Section 11.04, the Company will deposit with the Trustee or with one or more
paying agents an amount of money sufficient to redeem on the redemption date all
the Securities so called for redemption at the applicable redemption price.
SECTION 11.06. Payment of Securities Called for Redemption. If
any notice of redemption has been given as provided in Section 11.04, the
Securities or portion of Securities with respect to which such notice has been
given shall become due and payable on the date and at the place or places stated
in such notice at the applicable redemption price. On presentation and surrender
of such Securities at a place of payment in said notice specified, the said
securities or the specified portions thereof shall be paid and redeemed by the
Company at the applicable redemption price.
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Upon presentation of any Security redeemed in part only, the
Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the
Holder thereof, at the expense of the Company, a new Security or Securities of
the same series, of authorized denominations, in aggregate principal amount
equal to the unredeemed portion of the Security so presented and having the same
Original Issue Date, Stated Maturity and terms. If a Global Security is so
surrendered, such new Security will also be a new Global Security.
ARTICLE XII
SINKING FUNDS
SECTION 12.01. Applicability of Article. The provisions of
this Article shall be applicable to any sinking fund for the retirement of
Securities of any series except as otherwise specified as contemplated by
Section 3.01 for such Securities.
The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by
the terms of any Securities of any series is herein referred to as a "mandatory
sinking fund payment", and any sinking fund payment in excess of such minimum
amount which is permitted to be made by the terms of such Securities of any
series is herein referred to as an "optional sinking fund payment". If provided
for by the term of any Securities of any series, the cash amount of any sinking
fund payment may be subject to reduction as provided in Section 12.02. Each
sinking fund payment shall be applied to the redemption of Securities of any
series as provided for by the terms of such Securities.
SECTION 12.02. Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with
Securities. In lieu of making all or any part of a mandatory sinking fund
payment with respect to any Securities of a series in cash, the Company may at
its option, at any time no more than 16 months and no less than 30 days prior to
the date on which such sinking fund payment is due, deliver to the Trustee
Securities of such series theretofore purchased or otherwise acquired by the
Company, except Securities of such series that have been redeemed through the
application of mandatory or optional sinking fund payments pursuant to the terms
of the Securities of such series, accompanied by a Company Order instructing the
Trustee to credit such obligations and stating that the Securities of such
series were originally issued by the Company by way of bona fide sale or other
negotiation for value; provided that the Securities to be so credited have not
been previously so credited. The Securities to be so credited shall be received
and credited for such purpose by the Trustee at the redemption price for such
Securities, as specified in the Securities so to be redeemed, for redemption
through operation of the sinking fund and the amount of such sinking fund
payment shall be reduced accordingly.
SECTION 12.03. Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund. Not
less than 60 days prior to each sinking fund payment date for any series of
Securities, the Company will deliver to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate
specifying the amount of the next ensuing sinking fund payment for such
Securities pursuant to the terms of such Securities, the portion thereof, if
any, which is to be satisfied by payment of cash in the currency in which the
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Securities of such series are payable (except as provided pursuant to Section
3.01) and the portion thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by delivering
and crediting Securities pursuant to Section 12.02 and will also deliver to the
Trustee any Securities to be so delivered. Such Certificate shall be irrevocable
and upon its delivery the Company shall be obligated to make the cash payment or
payments therein referred to, if any, on or before the succeeding sinking fund
payment date. In the case of the failure of the Company to deliver such
Certificate (or, as required by this Indenture and the Securities specified in
such Certificate), the sinking fund payment due on the succeeding sinking fund
payment date for such series shall be paid entirely in cash and shall be
sufficient to redeem the principal amount of the Securities of such series
subject to a mandatory sinking fund payment without the right to deliver or
credit securities as provided in Section 12.02 and without the right to make the
optional sinking fund payment with respect to such series at such time.
Any sinking fund payment or payments (mandatory or optional)
made in cash plus any unused balance of any preceding sinking fund payments made
with respect to the Securities of any particular series shall be applied by the
Trustee (or by the Company if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent) on
the sinking fund payment date on which such payment is made (or, if such payment
is made before a sinking fund payment date, on the sinking fund payment date
immediately following the date of such payment) to the redemption of Securities
of such series at the redemption price specified in such Securities with respect
to the sinking fund. Any sinking fund moneys not so applied or allocated by the
Trustee (or by the Company if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent,
segregated and held in trust as provided in Section 10.03) for such series and
together with such payment (or such amount so segregated) shall be applied in
accordance with the provisions of this Section 12.03. Any and all sinking fund
moneys with respect to the Securities of any particular series held by the
Trustee (or if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregated and
held in trust as provided in Section 10.03) on the last sinking fund payment
date with respect to Securities of such series and not held for the payment or
redemption of particular Securities of such series shall be applied by the
Trustee (or by the Company if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent),
together with other moneys, if necessary, to be deposited (or segregated)
sufficient for the purpose, to the payment of the principal of the Securities of
such series at Maturity. The Trustee shall select the Securities to be redeemed
upon such sinking fund payment date in the manner specified in Section 11.03 and
cause notice of the redemption thereof to be given in the name of and at the
expense of the Company in the manner provided in Section 11.04. Such notice
having been duly given, the redemption of such Securities shall be made upon the
terms and in the manner stated in Section 11.06. On or before each sinking fund
payment date, the Company shall pay to the Trustee (or, if the Company is acting
as its own Paying Agent, the Company shall segregate and hold in trust as
provided in Section 10.03) in cash a sum in the currency in which Securities of
such series are payable (except as provided pursuant to Section 3.01) equal to
the principal and any interest accrued to the redemption date for Securities or
portions thereof to be redeemed on such sinking fund payment date pursuant to
this Section 12.03.
Neither the Trustee nor the Company shall redeem any
Securities of a series with sinking fund moneys or mail any notice of redemption
of Securities of such series by
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operation of the sinking fund for such series during the continuance of a
default in payment of interest, if any, on any Securities of such series or of
any Event of Default (other than an Event of Default occurring as a consequence
of this paragraph) with respect to the securities of such series, except that if
the notice of redemption shall have been provided in accordance with the
provisions hereof, the Trustee (or the Company if the Company is then acting as
its own Paying Agent) shall redeem such Securities if cash sufficient for that
purpose shall be deposited with the Trustee (or segregated by the Company) for
that purpose in accordance with the terms of this Article XII. Except as
aforesaid, any moneys in the sinking fund for such series at the time when any
such default or Event of Default shall occur and any moneys thereafter paid into
such sinking fund shall, during the continuance of such default or Event of
Default, be held as security for the payment of the Securities of such series;
provided, however, that in case such default or Event of Default shall have been
cured or waived herein, such moneys shall thereafter be applied on the next
sinking fund payment date for the Securities of such series on which such moneys
may be applied pursuant to the provisions of this Section 12.03.
ARTICLE XIII
SUBORDINATION
SECTION 13.01. Agreement of Securityholders that Securities
Subordinated to Extent Provided. The Company, for itself, its successors and
assigns, covenants and agrees and each Holder of the Securities by his
acceptance thereof likewise covenants and agrees that the payment of the
principal of, premium, if any, and interest, if any, on each and all of the
Securities (other than Securities discharged or defeased pursuant to Article IV)
is hereby expressly subordinated and junior in right of payment, to the extent
and in the manner hereinafter set forth, to the prior payment in full, in cash
or cash equivalents, of all Senior Indebtedness. The provisions of this Article
shall constitute a continuing offer to all persons who, in reliance upon such
provisions, become holders of, or continue to hold, Senior Indebtedness, and
such provisions are made for the benefit of the holders of Senior Indebtedness,
and such holders are hereby made obligees hereunder the same as if their names
were written herein as such, and they and/or each of them may proceed to enforce
such provisions.
SECTION 13.02. Rights of Holders of Senior Indebtedness.
(a) If Senior Indebtedness has not been paid when due and any
applicable grace period with respect to such default has ended and such default
has not been cured or waived or ceased to exist, then no payment of the
principal of (including redemption payments), premium, if any, or interest on
the Securities shall be made;
(b) If the maturity of any Senior Indebtedness is accelerated
because of an event of default, no payment of the principal of (including
redemption payments) premium, if any, or interest on the Securities shall be
made until such Senior Indebtedness is paid in full or such acceleration has
been rescinded; and
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(c) No holder of Senior Indebtedness shall be prejudiced in
his or her right to enforce subordination of the Securities by any act or
failure to act on the part of the Company.
SECTION 13.03. Securities Subordinated to Prior Payment of all
Senior Indebtedness on Dissolution, Liquidation or Reorganization of Company.
Upon any distribution of assets of the Company, to creditors upon any
dissolution, winding up, liquidation or reorganization, whether voluntary or
involuntary, or in bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or other proceedings of
the Company:
(a) the holders of all Senior Indebtedness shall first be
entitled to receive payment in full in cash or cash equivalents of the
principal thereof, premium, if any, and interest (including any
interest accrued on such Senior Indebtedness subsequent to the
commencement of a bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or similar
proceeding), if any, due thereon before the Holders of the Securities
are entitled to receive any payment on account of the principal of,
premium, if any, or interest, if any, on the Securities or any
distribution of any assets or securities;
(b) any payment or distribution of assets of the Company of
any kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities, to
which the Holders of the Securities or the Trustees would be entitled
except for the provisions of this Article Fourteen, shall be paid by
the trustee in bankruptcy, receiver, liquidating trustee, custodian,
assignee, agent or other person making such payment or distribution
directly to the holders of Senior Indebtedness or their representative
or representatives, or to the trustee or trustees under any indenture
under which any instruments evidencing any of such Senior Indebtedness
may have been issued, to the extent necessary to make payment in full
of all Senior Indebtedness remaining unpaid, after giving effect to any
concurrent payment or distribution or provision therefor to the holders
of such Senior Indebtedness;
(c) in the event that notwithstanding the foregoing provisions
of this Section 13.03, the Company shall make any payment to the
Trustee on account of the principal of or premium, if any, or interest,
if any, on the Securities, or on account of any sinking fund, or the
Holders of the Securities shall receive any such payment when such
payment is prohibited by this Section 13.03 and before all amounts
payable on, under or in connection with Senior Indebtedness are paid in
full in cash or cash equivalents, then and in such event, such payment
(subject to the provisions of Sections 13.06 and 13.07) shall be held
by the Trustee or the Holders of the Securities, as the case may be, in
trust for the benefit of, and shall be paid over and delivered
forthwith to the trustee in bankruptcy, receiver, liquidating trustee,
custodian, assignee, agent or other person making payment or
distribution of assets of the Company for application to the payment of
all Senior Indebtedness remaining unpaid to the extent necessary to pay
all Senior Indebtedness in full in accordance with the terms of such
Senior Indebtedness, after giving effect to any concurrent
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payment or distribution or provision therefor to the holders of such
Senior Indebtedness.
SECTION 13.04. Obligation of the Company Unconditional.
Nothing contained in this Article XIII or elsewhere in this Indenture or in the
Securities is intended to or shall impair as between the Company and the Holders
of the Securities, the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and
unconditional, to pay to the Holders of the Securities the principal of,
premium, if any, and interest, if any, on the Securities as and when the same
shall become due and payable in accordance with their terms, or is intended to
or shall affect the relative rights of the Holders of the Securities and
creditors of the Company other than the holders of the Senior Indebtedness, nor
shall anything herein or therein prevent the Trustee or the Holder of any
Security from exercising all remedies otherwise permitted by applicable law upon
default under this Indenture, subject to the rights, if any, under this Article
XIII of the holders of Senior Indebtedness in respect of cash, property, or
securities of the Company received upon the exercise of any such remedy. Upon
any distribution of assets of the Company referred to in this Article XIII, the
Trustee, subject to the provisions of Section 6.01, and the Holders of the
Securities shall be entitled to rely upon any order or decree made by any court
of competent jurisdiction in which such liquidation, dissolution, winding up, or
reorganization proceedings are pending, or a certificate of the liquidating
trustee or agent or other person making any distribution to the Trustee or to
the Holders of the Securities, for the purpose of ascertaining the persons
entitled to participate in such distribution, the holders of the Senior
Indebtedness and other indebtedness of the Company, the amount thereof or
payable thereon, the amount or amounts paid or distributed thereon and all other
facts pertinent thereto or to this Article XIII.
SECTION 13.05. Trustee Entitled to Assume Payments Not
Prohibited in Absence of Notice. The Trustee shall not at any time be charged
with knowledge of the existence of any facts which would prohibit the making of
any payment of monies to or by the Trustee, unless and until a Responsible
Officer of the Trustee shall have received written notice thereof from the
Company or from one or more holders of Senior Indebtedness or from any trustee
therefor; and, prior to the receipt of any such written notice, the Trustee,
subject to the provisions of Section 6.01, shall be entitled to assume
conclusively that no such facts exist.
SECTION 13.06. Application by Trustee of Monies Deposited With
It. Anything in this Indenture to the contrary notwithstanding, any deposit of
monies by the Company with the Trustee or any paying agent (whether or not in
trust) for the payment of the principal of or premium, if any, or interest, if
any, on any Securities shall be subject to the provisions of Sections 13.01,
13.02 and 13.03 except that, if prior to the date on which by the terms of this
Indenture any such monies may become payable for any purpose (including, without
limitation, the payment of either the principal of or the interest or premium,
if any, on any Security) a Responsible Officer of the Trustee shall not have
received with respect to such monies the notice provided for in Section 13.05,
then, anything herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee
shall have full power and authority to receive such monies and to apply the same
to the purpose for which they were
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received, and shall not be affected by any notice to the contrary which may be
received by it on or after such date.
SECTION 13.07. Subordination Rights not Impaired by Acts or
Omissions of Company or Holders of Senior Indebtedness. No right of any present
or future holders of any Senior Indebtedness to enforce subordination as herein
provided shall at any time in any way be prejudiced or impaired by any act or
failure to act on the part of the Company or by any act or failure to act, in
good faith, by any such holder, or by any noncompliance by the Company with the
terms, provisions and covenants of this Indenture, regardless of any knowledge
thereof which any such holder may have or be otherwise charged with.
SECTION 13.08. Securityholders Authorize Trustee to Effectuate
Subordination of Securities. Each Holder of the Securities by his acceptance
thereof authorizes and expressly directs the Trustee on his behalf to take such
action as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate the subordination
provided in this Article XIII and appoints the Trustee his attorney-in-fact for
such purpose, including, in the event of any dissolution, winding up,
liquidation or reorganization of the Company (whether in bankruptcy, insolvency
or receivership proceedings or upon an assignment for the benefit of creditors
or otherwise) tending towards liquidation of the business and assets of the
Company, the immediate filing of a claim for the unpaid balance of its or his
Securities in the form required in said proceedings and cause said claim to be
approved.
SECTION 13.09. Right of Trustee to Hold Senior Indebtedness.
The Trustee shall be entitled to all of the rights set forth in this Article
XIII in respect of any Senior Indebtedness at any time held by it to the same
extent as any other holder of Senior Indebtedness, and nothing in Section 6.13
or elsewhere in this Indenture shall be construed to deprive the Trustee of any
of its rights as such Holder.
SECTION 13.10. Article XIII Not to Prevent Events of Default.
The failure to make a payment on account of principal, interest or sinking fund
by reason of any provision in this Article XIII shall not be construed as
preventing the occurrence of an Event of Default under Section 5.01.
SECTION 13.11. Subrogation. Subject to the payment in full of
all amounts due in respect of Senior Indebtedness, the rights of the Holders
shall be subrogated to the rights of the holders of such Senior Indebtedness to
receive payments or distributions of cash, property or securities of the
Company, as the case may be, applicable to such Senior Indebtedness until the
principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Securities shall be paid
in full; and, for the purposes of such subrogation, no payments or distributions
to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness of any cash, property or securities
to which the Holders or the Trustee would be entitled except for the provisions
of this Article XIII, and no payment over pursuant to the provisions of this
Article XIII to or for the benefit of the holders of such Senior Indebtedness by
Holders or the Trustee, shall, as between the Company, its creditors other than
holders of Senior Indebtedness of the Company, and the Holders, be deemed to be
a payment by the Company to or on account of such Senior
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Indebtedness. It is understood that the provisions of this Article XIII are and
are intended solely for the purposes of defining the relative rights of the
Holders, on the one hand, and the holders of such Senior Indebtedness, on the
other hand.
ARTICLE XIV
MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 14.01. Miscellaneous. This instrument may be executed
in any number of counterparts, each of which so executed shall be deemed to be
an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the
same instrument.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this
Indenture to be duly executed, and their respective corporate seals to be
hereunto affixed and attested, all as of the day and year first above written.
NATIONWIDE FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC.
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇
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Name: ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: President, Chief Operating Officer
and Director
Seal
Attest:
/s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇
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Secretary
WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
as Trustee
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇
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Name: ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: Administrative Account Manager
Seal
Attest:
/s/ W. ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
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Assistant Secretary
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